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I'd love to be wrong, but I have a hard time seeing this succeed. However I feel somebody can/should disrupt Google by obsoleting search.

Search:Information retrieval as steering wheel: automobiles

With autonomy the steering wheel can be dispensed with. Hopefully someone invents something that can do the same with search, as we know it.

Here is a related thread discussing this very topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25628729

Clawbacks of vested shares are rare, but happen when the firing is "with cause" or due to criminal activity/conviction etc. Not sure what the situation is here, but it might be headed to court.

My 2c opinion: this might have been true pre-k8s. With k8s, it's become a cinch for anyone to run a scalable system in the cloud. I think you need something more differentiated.

How's this different from Milvus?

This reminds me of the scene from the Godfather:

- "but Michael senators and presidents don't have men killed"

- "Now who is being naive Kay"

>Good search is no longer a matter of indexing everything; it's a matter of indexing enough high quality information.

and I would add ability to digest that information into something usable would be next.

I think it's quixotic to compete with Google/Bing on the index size. A good bet would be to try to compete on search flexibility i.e. allowing for various ways of slicing/dicing results, recombinance etc. IMHO Search needs a paradigm shift from the 10 blue links to a knowledge engine (a la Wolfram alpha).

The vast majority of searches can be satisfied by some of the open source indexes. For the "long tail", there is always Google.

Armenians are a very enterprising, hard-working lot, I live in predominantly Armenian-American, Belmont Mass. and love them for their work-ethic and spirit.

I think Armenia's best bet for future is its brainpower - it should invest in education, technology and become an economic powerhouse - like a Taiwan or Singapore of the caucasus. I know it's easier said than done, but knowing the Armenian mind, it is feasible and perhaps its best bet given the complex geopolitics over there.

Personally, I find Evan Williams' quote a lot more insightful to identify what a "problem" is: take a process that people/organization already do, and remove a step, or make it extremely easy.

This seems to be an exemplar of "what we wish were true" conclusion.

Technically, this doesn't seem to be a nose per se, but more creating a sensor to detect molecules for which the mammalian nose has evolved to detect. If we have an excitatory pattern, then most AI techniques should be able to detect it easily.

Instead of creating a single modality i.e. artificial noses or ears, medicine would benefit from a multimodal sensory system that uses vision, smell, auditory and perhaps even taste, _in conjunction_, as the human body is rich with signals through all these modalities.

boston fios here, having intermittent issues, mostly slow connection.

> Pagerduty is a rules engine based alerting system

erm that's AI too.

tbf ""feed me your raw data and I will..." is any space is a bunch of hooey. Nothing special about the monitoring space.

I think the author is painting with too broad a brush here, companies like Pagerduty, Datadog et al have done very well.

Yeah there are many me-too businesses in this space - just like any other, and they are probably doomed. I feel the author is being too harsh here.

> With limited exceptions, a tech worker's location has zero affect on their value to the company.

Disagree. In most teams 1+1 = 11 happens only with f2f interactions and physically next to each other. AFAIK there is no substitute for human interactions. Managing remote teams is hard. Maybe some day we will get there, but thus far our preference is to have a blend of home + office work.

I thought "there is no shortage if you pay enough" shibboleth is universally applicable. H1b/housing/healthcare ?

Tony Hsieh. founder of Zappos. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/28/us/tony-hsieh-zappos-dies/ind...

Her pronunciation and accent is perfect. Couldn't tell her apart from a native speaker.

My point exactly. Weakly/self-supervised learning is "very hard" because it's still an active area of research and breakthroughs are needed. I feel those a pre-requisite before we can credibly approach the promise of "doing everything"

I am very skeptical of the current approaches (supervised learning) making the quantum leaps being promised. This needs a paradigm shift of weakly-supervised learning and fine-tuning for specific tasks (a la human learning).

Related: is there a surviving fork that only extracts non-copyrighted content (e.g metadata) ?

And to add to that, there is this presumption that phones are purely for entertainment aka "time wasting". They are also very useful devices for business, work, education, etc. Let those individuals decide what's good/bad - who are we to lecture?

tl;dr: There are no solutions, just trade-offs

icymi, i was trying to be rhetorical. Please take your holier-than-thou sanctimony somewhere productive.

why just Indian youth? This is a global phenomenon and I am not sure this is such a bad thing. Very similar things were said about books, movies & TV, humanity adapts and moves on.

I feel that is a false dichotomy: programming ability is strongly correlated with work ethic.

The "cheap labor"/"greedy company" epithet is such a knee-jerk response to "H1b" on HN, is a testament to the very successful demonization of H1b by some entitled and spoiled bunch of Americans who feel tech jobs are just owed to them at $ whatever-number-i-state.

Businesses need not be apologetic about h1b - there is of course some fraud, but vast majority are very valuable contributors to the US. Instead we should highlight these "american programmer" groups are shakedown artists and often outright racist and should not be countenanced.

I would invite open-minded HN-ers to read Anna Lee-Saxenian's work at UC Berkeley.

Isn't that true for pretty much everything in life?

"Hell is someone else's code" (to rephrase Sartre)