skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know how it is in the US, but Android users in Europe should not need an Internet connection for sending text messages - the phone is capable of doing it by itself.

On iOS, I'm fairly certain it's not possible for an app to send a text message from the phone by itself, without user intervention. This is probably a good thing; Candy Crush can't text me about my wife's latest achievements, etc.

So it's probably more of an operating system limitation than a US vs Europe thing.
I think it's a fair comment given his quote "I know everything there is to know" and the headline of the article claiming he's "building a self-driving car by himself". I've always thought the "hacker" community attributed value to sharing and building off other's work, but maybe times have changed.
While npm and semver are far from perfect, I've personally found them to make dependency management a lot less of a headache in node than, for example, python which is an absolute nightmare to deal with. You still have to make sure you're using fairly stable, well written packages by people who actually understand semver and best practices but the same applies everywhere and I've found the node community's to this kind of detail better than most other ecosystems.
How about "إيقاف/تر"?
A similar phenomenon is the professional bodyguards typically have their hands close to the centerline of their bodies and at or above their waist.

https://cryptome.org/info/usss-hands/usss-hands.htm
FWIW, In the clip with both Bush and Putin, Bush is not doing it.
So, given that it seems that neither you nor I have used these things, lemmy float you a hypothetical:

> A few months later, your system starts acting wonky.

What if "your system starts acting wonky" means "Only the non-Phillips bulbs stop behaving correctly."?

Growing up, I knew of many, many people who would only stick with brand-name things because of quality or compatibility concerns. I would expect that many affected users would be able to recognize that their non-Phillips bulbs were acting up and their Phillips bulbs were not.
> If you tell me to call you Lord Joseph, is it really so wrong for me to ask you for your credentials?

If you tell me to call you "Lord Joseph", I'll say sure, and oblige, as I would for "foobar", "zeveb", or any reasonably pronounceable nickname without obviously undesirable connotations. Which kinds of credentials would be relevant for me to accept to call you the way you want to be called?

> If I refer to you as 'him,' not 'His Lordship,' am I really the one in the wrong?

"His Lordship" would arguably be quite a mouthful... But certainly, for the much less convoluted case of people asking to be called by their favorite single-syllable gender or genderless pronoun, I would think that it would not be courteous to use one that you don't like. How exactly would my perception of your gender be more relevant than your own?
I wonder if this had anything to do with the flood of negative comments to their Amazon product pages?

3/5 stars: http://www.amazon.com/Philips-455303-White-Starter-Generatio...

4/5 stars (previously 4.5/5): http://www.amazon.com/Philips-456210-Ambiance-Starter-Genera...
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It doesn't make them an expert, but it does reduce the likelihood that the losses they take on a given investment are likely to impact their retirement.
Those are jobs for the CERN facility alone (which also probably includes services like HR, translation, janitorial, etc). But thousands more work essentially full time as "CERN users". These scientists and engineers are typically paid by member organizations around the world, i.e. universities (think professors, postdocs, grad students) and national labs (LBNL/Brookhaven/Fermilab etc in the US, in2p3 in France, DESY in Germany).

The ATLAS and CMS author lists are about 3000 each (generally all physicists), but all told there are over 10,000 scientists, technicians, and engineers who basically work full time running the LHC and its associated detectors.

That's not to mention all the people working on any of CERN's many other projects that have nothing to do with the LHC.
There's nothing wrong with making suggestions. The author doesn't have to implement them. Being demanding is bad, but merely making a suggestion is perfectly fine.
Probably there is no other possible diagnosis if your thyroid is ok. You can go do tests, but also the treatment probably remains the same (statins, etc.).
With Neural Nets, training the AI to handle emergencies will be all about exposing as many emergency situations as possible.

What's better about an AI powered by neural nets is that you could train an AI to go offroading.

Get enough data and you've got a model for dealing with a given situation. Google's biggest strides with OCR, Voice recognition, Spam filters and other AI tech early on came from its ability to gather a huge corpus of data.

The real challenge is two fold. Gathering data, and feeding the AI with inputs with data actually matters. This is the secret sauce that Hotz refers to in the article as the information he's not willing to disclose. That information will become commoditized in due time (like low-latency optimization for HFT), but it will take plenty of institutional money & experience (Google, Apple, Tesla, Ford, etc) to get it there.
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There are certain restrictions on illicit drugs too, but they don't work very well in practice. Everyone involved in such transactions has every incentive to do what they wanna do anyway.

What this landlord is doing is the equivalent of saying, "People are going to do drugs. OK. You can sell drugs and you can consume drugs, I'm not going to stop you. I only demand to test their purity first. And if you hurt unrelated parties I'm going to hold the guilty party accountable."

Now everyone has something to gain by playing by the rules. Sure, they have to give up something, but they get more than they give if they're honest. Once someone in a legal position of authority can get the parties to agree to play by the rules, that authority can do a lot to reduce, if not completely mitigate, the negative side effects.
I don't know what's going to happen with this project of his, but this certainly is an interesting article:

>Sitting cross-legged on a dirty, formerly cream-colored couch in his garage, Hotz philosophizes about AI and the advancement of humanity. “Slavery did not end because everyone became moral,” he says. “The reason slavery ended is because we had an industrial revolution that made man’s muscles obsolete. For the last 150 years, the economy has been based on man’s mind. Capitalism, it turns out, works better when people are chasing a carrot rather than being hit with a stick. We’re on the brink of another industrial revolution now. The entire Internet at the moment has about 10 brains’ worth of computing power, but that won’t always be the case.
>Prototypical case of the 80/20 rule.

Could you explain on what basis you claim this? Do you have intimate knowledge of his prototype, the amount of work he put in, or the novel ideas that he brought to the project in addition to integrating pre-existing tech?

From what I can understand, your argument seems to be "lets see if I can guess what he did". If you're an authority in this field, then your guess could be very accurate I suppose.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this! To give you some insight into my behavior--I have an intuition about who is naughty or nice (maybe I'm Santa!), and I don't spend any time on awful folks unless I'm learning from the experience. That means I can put more wood behind fewer arrows so to speak.

It absolutely seems creepy to read about my behavior, but I promise that with the people I reach out to, my batting average for them responding positively is probably around 0.600. I need to crunch those numbers--that'll be a neat piece of data to use to demonstrate that I'm effective at communicating with new people, which means my fat butt is worth it's weight in gold to companies who want to reach new clients and partners.

I think you might find that high touch sales is much more like what I've described above, than not. I love when someone treats me like I've described, because it demonstrates listening and understanding! Which is equivalent to them demonstrating that they respect me and my time.

I absolutely respect your space and won't stalk you (mostly because I don't think it'll be a mutually beneficial relationship). I would say though that if you met me on the street, you'd find that I radiate a positive aura and leave nearly every human interaction with both of us better off. I know what I'm doing is Right because of the evidence of the reactions in my life to what in putting out. And to quote the song Forrest Whitaker, "You ain't gotta love me!" :)

Have a great day, and best of luck to you!!
Actually, I can recall reading about a few double-blind medical studies that were terminated early, because of this very reason. The efficacy of the treatment was so overwhelmingly positive in the variable group, that it was deemed unethical to not give the treatment to the control group. I don't have a citation right this second, but if you want one, I can do some searching. If anyone remembers a particular case of this happening, I would appreciate a citation.
:)

Just as long as part of your glorious future is a fully open and Libre protocol, federated servers, and -at a minimum- feature parity with email I'm 100% okay with it. :D
Extremely well done. Good job guys.
He is hiring: http://comma.ai/hiring.html
ah, the Chrome Data Saver proxy, thanks
It's more of a lane-assist in good conditions, but not expected to navigate city streets or handle unexpected conditions.

So yes, it's an amazing project for a single person, but it's not really a self-driving car.
I've heard several mentions of this over the years as one of the better use cases for devices. Sometimes it takes having a problem really close to your life to drive that devotion - I'm glad someone spent the time and effort to solving this.
No, I think it just reflects that Facebook put the average post in front of a tiny percentage of fans of a page, and of those only a small percentage will like, comment or share.

If a larger than usual proportion of users interact with the post, Facebook will start showing it to more people - possibly starting a snowball to full-fledged virality.
QOD. James Altutcher and Steven Dubner (freakonomics). They have one question each day they talk about. Both have GREAT perspectives. It's almost always a paradigm shifter.
I don't know as a very heavy user of node I absolutely hate the hundreds and thousands of dependencies. A vast, vast majority of modules never maintain an LTS version of their module so when one module has a security update you better have the latest of everything (especially if it's a very common dependency) otherwise now you're stuck back porting security patches.

I've had to back port security patches far more than I would ever like to admit.

The node community is still pretty immature. Sure it's nice to rush ahead releasing version after version without having a LTS version but when I want to build something serious with it it can be downright frustrating.
AMD tessellation performance is a joke compared to nVidia's. And that's only the beginning.

Benchmarks are useless for most things because they are always fabricated or don't refer to real world scenarios. For example, Firefox JS engine is always very fast in benchmarks, but in the real world we know how it goes. Same with everything.
TBH, since it's a training based system it's "just" a matter of making sure the training set is large enough, including the situations you mentioned (assuming the training method is robust, generalizes well, etc). I would love someone knowledgeable to give an estimate, but I would guess you need at least a handful (10+?1000+?) of examples of each edge case (involving bicycles, pedestrians, weird road designs, street signs, and so on) -- and there are many of them I suspect (at least 100s?). Estimating you'd take about 1 hour between experiencing a tricky scenario while driving around, this should put the number of hours at something like 100,000+ -- not easy to come up with by himself (that's about 50+ years of driving 6 hours a day).

Mobileye is doing something interesting by curating the reliable parts of the dataset (e.g. they have curated databases of traffic signs for each region) -- again not something you could do own your own, and seemingly archaic (hence GeoHot's criticism), but if you can afford it can speed up the training significantly.

Tesla is a massive resource here because they already have a huge fleet of internet connected cars proving enough data to fill the aforementioned training set in a matter of days or months: let's estimate their fleet at 40,000 cars -- then they could fill that minimum dataset in less than a day, and in a month they might have a 100x safety margin. Of course, there's a big technical problem of relaying all that video (maybe they just relay prediction failures), but the data is there.

Another fundamental problem with exclusively hands-off training (and little optimal control theory, etc) is picking up bad habits from drivers -- even the best algorithms will have a hard time and be only about as good as a good driver in each scenario, in the best case -- since the training data is acting as a ground truth.
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I can think of a few more...

Operating Systems. Games. Deterministic soft and hard real-time systems (there's a reason you wouldn't be able to certify a control system for a fighter jet written in Javascript). Scientific stacks. Multi-media (do you think Renderman is written in Ruby?).

I'd even argue against using GC'd languages in desktop applications. It's getting to a point where these run-times are gobbling up a few gigs worth of pages from the OS and they still hang or crash when the OS decides to start paging them to disk. Or another process gets priority from the scheduler. The fact is while processor speeds have increased memory hasn't and that's the big bottle-neck on current hardware. Despite popular beliefs I think users do care about performance. They don't notice good performance but as soon as that beachball/whitescreen/whatever comes up and the UI is unresponsive you can bet their face is scrunching up like a walnut. Does that happen only to 1 or 2 users? 10%? We don't measure things like that enough when our happy little GC will take care of it for us.

Tuning GCs for workloads is probably as much or more work, in my limited experience, as designing your program from the bottom up around its specific data patterns. You'll get better performance from the latter approach more often than tuning a GC to your workloads after profiling. The wins in that case are incremental (we tuned our JVM after some profiling and shaved off 1.8% from our inner loop!). Where they can be dramatic with the right data structures and careful attention to locality (we saw an 800x reduction in cycles due to cutting unnecessary allocations and a 300% speed increase -- sweet!).

Even tuning your allocation strategy can net you bigger gains than trying to structure your code around a JIT.

All that being said -- GC's are incredibly useful in many situations. You just have to measure and be thoughtful. Memory is still an issue GC or not.
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Because creating a self-driving car is an extremely creativity-intensive exercise that demands "smartness"... but smartness doesn't add linearly (or, I could posit even monotonically). If 1 smart guy can produce 1 self-driving car in say 6 months, it doesn't mean 2 smart guys can produce a self-driving in 3 months. Once you have a bunch of people, 2nd order and third order interactions between us get complicated and managing that becomes its own time/money-sink.

As for money, yes, it can accelerate growth in its first-order effect; but it also induces stress and so threatens early exhaustion of your other precious resource: personal motivation.

So, as a crack-shot programmer, if you know with 90% certainty you can crank out a self-driving car in 6 months by yourself or fail, but only 20% certainty you can arrange a cohesive team with someone else's money to crank out a car in 1 month or fail (and alienate your team, and ruin your credit)... I would advise taking the 6 months route. Patience is a virtue and sometimes it's better not buying into every pot of snake-oil the SV hype machine wants to sell us.
It was just a joke. Just saying that most of the Node developers have probably long since moved to Go.
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Why can't it just be different outcomes for different markets?

Whatever happened to American exceptionalism? :)
> Wasn't the first main Wii hack (trucha bug) actually a bad implementation of RSA signature verification (strncmp instead of memcmp)?

Yes; with that bug, you could select a signature to collide with that had an early NUL and brute-force a signature that matched up to that NUL.

> I don't know about the other ones, but I thought they were all pretty much game-local.

No, at least two other exploitable issues occurred in the system software: Bannerbomb (http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Bannerbomb) exploited the parsing of banners for data stored on an SD card (running arbitrary code when accessing the SD data management menu), and LetterBomb (http://wiibrew.org/wiki/LetterBomb) exploited the parsing of Wii Message Board "letters".
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No, because that breaks the signature.
Which is why I never cared about Node and rather work with native UIs instead of web ones when given the option.
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Well, the rich are mathematically favored to get richer, almost no matter what public policy decisions we make, short of tax rates that even Scandinavians would call confiscatory.

But that aside: do you honestly think that the opportunity to invest in small "private" companies is likely to make non-rich people rich? I don't think so. Angel investing is a notorious trap for flush cashed-out startup people, because it's hard to make angel portfolios work. And those are people with relatively huge financial resources to draw on!

Normal people have many more liabilities than just lack of accreditation in competing with rich people in venture capital.
Yeah I see that, but the problem is that we don't know how humans are conscious, i.e. where meaning rises. If you believe that brains are just atoms, then meaning arises from "dumb physics" somewhere.

Another way to think of it is: a fetus, or a sperm, or ova is not conscious. Some might argue that a newborn isn't really conscious. Somewhere along the line it becomes conscious. How does that happen? Where is the line? We have no idea.

You can't assert that meaning can't arise from "dumb symbol manipulation" without understanding how meaning arises in the former case. We simply don't know enough to make any sort of judgement. The Chinese room argument is trying to make something out of nothing. We don't know.
Either but originally I meant the recreation.
Why unethical? The control group isn't being harmed.
I agree for what it's worth.

If you read Stephenson for character or environment description, or even a coherent story, you will have a bad time. If you want to read about strange ideas from a guy who spent way too much time thinking about submarine cables, you may have a good time, if that's your thing and you like the topic he is currently interested in. I am (usually) in the latter category.

Reynolds is a different guy. Better story teller, more conventional ideas to me. (I like and have read about all his books too).

If you like Reynolds, try Peter Hamiltons series, especially the Nights Dawn trilogy.
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Circumcision to prevent HIV infection is one example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_and_HIV

This strongly anti-circumcision site has some more info, but the ranting gets a bit much: http://www.circumstitions.com/HIV-SA.html
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email me (profile) if you need a simulated driver ;)
Right, that's what I thought. Thanks!
"Associated with" means correlation, not causation. They're being quite careful in how they word it.
> There must be more going on, otherwise staff would make random picks of whatever they're into and fail to sell them - which is what happens to a lot of indies.

This was actually described in the article:

"Next came the staff. Daunt shrunk Waterstones’ central office and fired half of the store managers. He gave those booksellers who remained almost complete autonomy over how to arrange their stores—from the windows to the signage to the display tables—but controlled the stock with a dictatorial zeal. Out went books you wouldn’t want to browse: reference, technical guides, legal textbooks."

The choice and local culture from the on-the-ground booksellers comes from the layout of the store, but what could ever make it into the hands of the bookseller is centrally managed which is probably the biggest difference to an indie. Reducing the stock to things that are more likely going to be impulse buys probably has a lot to do with it, since it is really impossible to keep a wonderful reference book selection that is fun to browse and easy to take home. The only time I see that work is if it is extremely close to a university or it is a used bookseller. In the used bookseller case they get the reference books for a fraction of the cost and can list them online as well but they don't have to worry about the day to day events.
They're at about a 90% confidence level. They prefer to have better than that by several orders of magnitude, but it's probably worth talking about it a bit publicly at this point.

There are lots of theoreticians writing papers right now trying to figure out what it could be. Most likely seems to be a second higgs (lots of theories predicted several flavors of higgs).
I work on a fairly large node.js project with over 100k LOC, and I rarely run into issues where a minor update to a dependency breaks the application.

thrift is the only module where I've locked the version number in package.json.

Maybe it's easier because I don't shrinkwrap, I also get the latest version when CI runs and that allows me to make sure that my application is always compatible with the up-to-date releases of all the dependencies. Shrink wrapping has the downside of actually making it harder to upgrade dependencies because you can get further and further behind on updates.
Are ranges essentially the IEnumerable<T> from c# for c++?
AMD is very badly mismanaged. Ever since K8 engineering is again perceived as a source of cost. They lost $400mil on failed ARM servers idea without blinking an eye, but plain refuse to fund proper software support for their products because that would cost like 30-40 engineer salaries! :(.

AMD is Commodore of this decade.
How smart was your boss and how did it go with your company ?
Back in the days when Borders was still around, I constantly found myself wishing there was some way to scan my member card or use an app to send books to my Kindle. There were so many times I'd find an interesting book while browsing, but avoid purchasing because I didn't want another book taking up space. Sometimes I'd make a note and buy it on Amazon later, but other times I would just forget.
What more would a plane need to be "self-flying" beyond taking off, navigating, and landing?
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