Attention Googlers on HN. Please help this great channel re-gain control of their YouTube account. This probably the most useful educational account about crypto on the Internet and it's a shame what's happening to them.
Inoreader. Has all the features of Feedly (that I care about) at half the price. I switched recently after using Feedly for years and so far I'm very happy with it. Migration process was very painless.
On mobile, it has a killer feature. For the feeds that only give a short snippet and then require you to go to the site (i.e. ArsTechnica), you can just pull the page down and release. Inoreader will load the full article without requiring you to go to the website.
I also use it to subscribe to all the newsletters to keep my mailbox clean and Twitter users that I want to monitor but not follow on Twitter itself.
I'm sorry but I disagree. What I see here is a massive multibillion dollar company undergoing a tremendous technological transformation in front of our eyes.
Machine Learning is being embedded into most of their products to make those products increasingly capable and useful that is not easy for other companies to replicate.
Those products are becoming personal and learn about you to the point that they will know more about you than you... I realize that this can lead to a scary future, but lots of useful things do.
These capabilities might look underwhelming but they are simply mind blowing given type of problems being solved.
More importantly, this technology and infrastructure are being put in the hands of developers outside of Google, so more fascinating things are yet to come.
The call with Chinese restaurant was simply jaw dropping. Sundar says that it was real and I have no grounds not to believe him.
This is as close of a demo of technology passing the Turing test as I have ever seen. Sure, it's not a fully free form conversation on any subject, but incredibly impressive nevertheless.
Oh yes, and the voice synthesis is just simply amazing. I don't think I'd be able to tell that I was talking to a bot either.
So far, it's been the most impressive Google I/O keynote that I've ever seen and it's not over yet.
I'm really trying not to be another "dystopian" commentor, but I can't help but feel sad for the restaurant. The call was awkward. Restaurants are busy. The AI would pause too long and leave her guessing, and respond with the wrong type of emotion (e.g. a dejected sounding "oh, gotcha... thanks..." after she had answered his question with the positive "you can come for four people, ok?". I can't help but think this sort of "corporate lying" (yes it is a lie to robo-call and pretend to be a live human voice) has an external cost of frustration and emotional drainage to be borne by society's ordinary people.
Maybe I'm a robot but i feel like I would have answered similarly to Duplex. I expected to be able to make a reservation but got told I have to walk-in instead.
I'm actually quite surprised it asked for the wait time afterwards, I'm not sure I'd remember do such a thing.
AI assistant calls could start with a modem style handshake to determine whether they can conduct the transaction much more quickly with an Internet API. I'm sure it could be much shorter these days, but hearing the same noisy handshake today would be amusing.
To the conversation of making it easier for enterprises to support open source projects.
Would it make sense to create a legal entity whose only goal would be to "sell" enterprise subscriptions to open source products and then channel all the funds to those projects, after taking a reasonable cut for administrative expenses - such as invoicing, collection, production of physical media when required and etc?
That would make support of open source projects fit much easier into standard enterprise procurement process.
Each project would define different levels of subscription with different price tags. Token licenses would be generated and physical media created and mailed out.
Pretty sure something like this was already discussed on HN?
