skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll be a 30-50 year process. I don't even think that's a question. Look at the phase-out of leaded gasoline, it wasn't fully banned from sale for on-road vehicles in the US until 1996. The phase-out began in 1976.

And that was a lot more clear-cut "this is terrible!" to the average person.

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Personally, I expect most countries will never fully ban or need to ban ICE-powered vehicles, just as we don't ban you from driving a Model T or horse & buggy around today.

New sales will be required to meet strict efficiency and safety standards and once electric becomes a cheaper option (perhaps with taxes/subsidies to hurry that), new ICE-powered vehicles will become a specialized niche rather than mainstream. They'll probably retain various niches for a long time, but that'll be a tiny fraction compared with current use.

Already on the road average ICE-powered vehicles will rapidly taper off in demand as they cycle into wearing out and winding up in the junkyard.
> What evidence do we have that there is no correlation between ML consumable physical characteristics and our sexuality?

Because then we'd have to admit that there's some real science behind physiognomy. From there it's just a hop, skip, and a jump away to realizing that race isn't just a social construct. This sort of thing leads down a road that most on the left don't want to go down.
Nobody gets a PhD for the damned paycheck, because there basically isn't one.
Define equivalent? I'm sure they had competition in their day.
If nuclear is one of my options, I can probably afford more than $100 for a flywheel.
/me raises hand that I'd rather have Mark than Hillary. It's not so much that I agree with everything he says or stands for and I most certainly appreciate but don't idolize him. I'd rather have nearly any tech-savvy outsider than at least half the major party primary candidates last year.
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Based on my own observations, there's probably a big difference between operating as a taxi in Berlin and Rome, and another between operating in Rome and Mumbai. This only factors in other human drivers and infrastructure design/signage, not weather conditions (a different can of worms).

I suspect that we'll see a progression like:

1) Well-regulated urban and highway environments

2) Well-regulated rural environments

3) Moderately regulated urban and rural environments

4) Poorly regulated rural environments

5) Poorly regulated urban environments

And I think we'll probably be stuck on #1 for a while. I would also venture that most companies claiming to "be there" or "almost there" are referring to #1 as well.

I also think that it's possible that politicians may try to legislate a transition up that list as that first case starts taking off (greater traffic enforcement, better signage/infrastructure, more rigorous driver training, etc).
Wow. FYI - This is how you mess up content marketing. If the author genuinely wanted me to read the article and get to know the brand, he shouldn't have used such a scummy title. Yes, the article is /technically/ true. But they are only talking about the hardware, and acknowledge in the second paragraph that they don't have the software. So while the title implies self-driving cars are a solved problem, they are really only making claims about hardware. Cool I guess? But tesla probably already beat you to it?

Titles like these are what happen when marketers optimize everything towards clicks, and don't care about actual impact on the brand itself.
Saying 70-80% is bad for a neural network is like saying that $1000 is too high a price without specifying what's for sale. The paper was peer-reviewed and accepted by a leading psychology journal. The lead author is an associate professor, not a student. At my first read, nothing unscientific stands out - claims that you don't think it's sound science, clickbait, and balderdash don't do anything to change the facts or advance the debate. That's not how science works.
Once they actually have cars driving empty we will actually learn how close or how far are they. I've seen a lot of PR muscle flexing from big companies before and no longer believe any such stuff. They do that to impress investors and the public, but this has nothing to do with reality.
I mean, I am certainly given pause by this tidy argument. If private actors not subject to the rules control the means of transmission (or if speaking out in the wrong way threatens your livelihood) then freedom of speech starts to look mostly theoretical. I'm not sure I have an easy answer to the problem myself.
It's an opinion piece, on their blog. Does it seem propagandistic because you have to accept their summary of the proposed legislation? (I see they have now added a link to the text of the proposal, so they heard you). Looking at some other sources[1][2], it does seem to be at odds with their manifesto[3], for example.

1: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/11/scientists_free_sof...
2: https://torrentfreak.com/mandatory-piracy-filters-could-brea...
3: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
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Oh, to be clear, Reddit can do whatever they want on their site. I was speaking to the larger.

And, yes, I believe in freedom of expression. Even ideas that are hateful.

No, no I'm not white. So, I'm not saying this because I want to say hateful things. In fact, I don't hate anyone. I don't even have anything controversial to say, except to support the liberty of free speech.
I liked it in the beginning, but one time there was a post of a fat dude working out in the gym, and everyone was mocking him relentlessly. I posted "hold on, I thought we were making fun of fat people doing nothing about their condition, this guy is making an effort."

The response was downvotes and "nope, all fat people are human garbage and should be mocked."

Was done with the subreddit after that. It started as a activist subreddit challenging the "love your body" movement that was trying to propagate unhealthy fat acceptance, it ended as a hate subreddit. Shame.
The EU is the very reason we see this sort of legislation. Everything has positive and negative sides, and for the EU the negative side is giving lobbyists a 28-for-1 offer: lobby a single parliament, and have your legislation implemented in 28 different countries! The mileage of a European lobbyist has never been greater than it is now.
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If this is the first time you've heard of CAA records, note that the "dig" command isn't yet aware of these records types, so you need to tell it to use "type257" as the record type:

$ dig empty.basic.caatestsuite.com type257

More resources here:

https://support.dnsimple.com/articles/caa-record/

https://caatestsuite.com/
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I'd suggest showing your offer letter to a lawyer and discussing it with him/her.

I understand your desire for privacy, and it sucks that BigCo is asking for this person info. But if you didn't lie about previous salaries and they've already offered you a certain amount, I think your risk is lower if you just give them the info.

HR departments can be pretty rigid and unforgiving if you try to deviate from their prescribed processes...
Or maybe you could read "I, pencil"...
I'm not getting defensive, my friend. I was merely challenging you to think through the logical implications of hypercomputation. What many people miss is this: hypercomputation leads to living paradoxes. They might then have to bend over backwards to explain why these paradoxes are not possible, but that leaves the question of why some things are hypercomputable, and some are not.
Making a broad claim about the usual accuracy of deep nets is extremely misleading; the bounding factor is the task, not the model.

You don't even have to take issue with the modeling or any other part of the methodology to debunk this study; it's the interpretation that is plainly ridiculous. As you said, these are pictures from a dating site; awfully likely that people choose to present themselves differently based on who they want to attract. Also no appropriate statistical test applied to differences in faces picked up by the model. See this for more: http://callingbullshit.org/case_studies/case_study_ml_sexual...
Not that I am supporting this other UI here. But there is something to say about using different fonts, spacing, colors, etc.. You might not agree but it makes a difference to many people.
It can be accessed by anyone and linked to directly via URL.
This inspired me to add a CAA record for my domain - but https://www.namecheap.com doesn't support that record type. Has anyone had better luck other places?
Indeed I'd think that being primarily associated with the communities Reddit found too loathsome to keep around would not encourage a wider user base.
Censorship works. Propaganda works. That's why people use it.
the power to 'purge' actors exhibiting what in practice can be arbitrarily and fluidly defined (eg, cultural appropriation) is not a power i want anybody to have.
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See my response to wolco above.
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Once again I want to make it clear I'm just an interested layman, not a historian and claim no expertise on all this. I think the problem is you are picking and choosing what you think is true from a given text, and then offering up an explanation that you can neither prove nor falsify. To use a less touchy example let's say I wanted to come up with a Euhemeristic explanation for the Minotaur. Well obviously Pasiphaë didn't really get pregnant from a bull, so maybe instead she just gives birth to a deformed child. And the child can't literally have horns, so maybe he just had gigantism and some sort of weird growths on his head. And Athen's presumably wasn't really sacrificing 14 youths to be eaten by this person so maybe the king just demanded Athens supply a bride for his deformed child. And the Minotaur couldn't have really lived in an elaborate maze so maybe Theseus just sneaked into the palace and stabbed the dude.

Well now I have a reasonablish explanation of the "real story" behind the myth, a deformed child is born to a king who rejects him, an unwilling bride is almost forced to marry him, and then Theseus sneaks in and stabs him. But someone else could come up with a fairly different "real story" for all of this based on what they picked and chose from. And neither of our stories would have any real proof, or provide any real insight in the lives of the ancient Greeks.
The story itself does provide insight on what the people who told it thought about the world, what they thought was moral and immoral, heroic and cowardly etc. So the myth/religious text on it's own does have historical value.
An interesting observation on the wisdom of crowds for me is para-mutual horse track betting. The odds given for each horse, which determine the payout for a bet are determined by how many people make that bet. Very roughly, in para-mutual betting (the most common kind) there is a single pool of money bet on a race. If 200 people have placed the same bet on a horse that wins, the pool is divided amongst the 200 (less the say 10% held back as profits for the track) .

My initial thoughts were that there must be some inefficiency in the odds as people either avoid or engage in betting at certain posted payout ratios. To my surprise, it appears that the actual odds reflect the actual probabilities that the horses will win. Somehow, the crowd at the track is able to bet on race after race and correctly, as a group, determine the probability of winning for all of the horses running. At least they predict it well enough that given the vig (slang for the percent held back by the track) there is no simple mathematical strategy that works to achieve winnings above chance.

I'm not a gambler, but I have read a few academic papers on race-track betting[1]. It surprised me that the odds (which determine the payout on a bet--horses with high odds pay out more while being believed to have more remote chances of winning) so accurately predict the chances of a horse winning that there is no simple mathematical strategy that is worth pursuing.

[1] This was back around 1975 so there is likely to be much more research available now. I remember one paper published in an operations research journal around that year that covered harness racing, but I can't seem to find it now.
I browsed understanding that I was not welcome and worthy of ridicule. I was not a former fatty, I was then and am currently a fatty.

I think it's absolutely ridiculous that our society sets up the conditions for people to literally (slowly) kill themselves, knowing full well that I do that myself. Yes, my behavior is absolutely worthy of ridicule and should be.
> People will be saying that their 7 year old has a propensity to be gay or straight based on the length of their nose?

What's the big deal? We've already got people thinking their toddlers are transgendered because they picked up a doll one time...
> You genuinely think the type of people who subscribe to subreddits like coontown and fatpeoplehate are going to have their mind changed by people on the internet?

Yes, because I've personally met such people.

> I've had no success changing the minds of people who think that being trans is a mental illness despite citing numerous peer reviewed articles. Maybe I'm going about it wrong, but I'm not sure it gets more clear than pointing to a bunch of scientists that directly contradict their understanding.

Changing minds takes a lot of empathy and skill (and usually time) to pull off consistently in person, much less online; I'm not surprised that a strategy of throwing scientific articles in people's faces (which they will probably never read) would be unsuccessful. Regardless, even if you are successful, you will probably never know unless you have a long term relationship with the individual.
Nit: "everyone" pays taxes - you get healthcare even if you don't pay any taxes (eg: college student without taxable income, unemployed not receiving benefits (yes, there's income tax on unemployment benefits)).
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XGBoost recently added GPU support for training. As far as I'm aware one of the reasons the speedup is relatively small (vs say deep learning on CPU vs GPU) is that it spends a significant amount of time sorting which is not particularly fast on the GPU.
Isn't that about the Red Cross? (which has its own issues around funding efficiency)

Or the Civil Air Patrol? Or (less military, not non-military) US Coast Guard?
'self driving' really means the vehicle is being controlled by outside entities who have created technology that enables navigation.

This article is very opaque on how mature this is. The vehicles are the 'last mile' and from everything I've read we are a long way from Level 5 mass market maturity. everything else seems to require you to be able to reflexively grab the wheel and use the pedals at any moment if something goes wrong...

Useful article about Toyota's Gill Pratt on realities https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...
I largely (hah) agree with you. This "love your body" movement is complete crap.
Doesn't that risk exist for many emergent AI scenarios?

"Bad actors" using AI to influence debate, or writing "fake news" then promoting it with social media ads, etc?
You would supply supporting documentation? Why on earth would you do that?

I'd write $1 for previous salaries, let the human figure out that it is obviously an error, and say "That's confidential." when asked, in the unlikely event that was asked. Your new employer is not performing the background check to get permission to hire you. They've already made the decision to hire you. If a blip pops up in the background check, that's going to be HR's minor emergency, not yours.

(Why do employers do background checks? In most cases, so that they never have to say in the future "No, we don't do background checks." Consider the case where an employee embezzles a large amount of money from the firm. One of the first questions they'll be asked by various aggrieved parties is "Did you do minimal due diligence when hiring like background checks?" and if that answer is "No." then regardless of the contents of the hypothetical background check on that employee they're in a bad way.)

Your old employers will generally verify employment in the most minimal manner possible. You'd have to pull teeth to get anything more than dates and titles from a lot of firms; anything more than that a) gets them absolutely nothing to provide and b) exposes them to liability.

bend the rules of allowable characters in the salary field to provide a null value

DO NOT HACK THE WEBSITE OF THE BACKGROUND CHECK COMPANY YES I AM SHOUTING.
Why are you using CQRS for logins? Nothing says derp like "we rolled our own security system"
Today's hate speech is the same culture that could enable totalitarianism today. In fact much of it was enablers of totalitarianism; people are still circulating Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion, for example.

(also, we fought the "never 'censor' anything, ever" war on USENET decades ago over spam. You have to have the power to 'censor' spam if you want to have a forum that isn't mostly spam. How few genuinely unmoderated spaces are left? Would the moderators of fatpeoplehate have deleted spam or off-topic content?)
If developers are doing all this work just to get a feature back, I wish some people at Apple will wonder why it's not directly included.

I've contacted Safari devs and even created a bug report (marked as a duplicate a few days later) about that issue. The lack of an option to display favicons in Safari is incomprehensible, this small feature makes me unable to consider this browser as something else than the one I use to watch Apple keynotes.
Tribalism is harder to avoid than just recognizing it, much harder. I think you underappreciate how incredibly emotional irrational creatures we all are, and how much how we behave is informed by cognitive biases.
Trespassing is an "implicit threat" that justifies initiation of violence to you?

That's fine if they want to attack anyone they perceive as being intruders. But once they do, retaliation is fair game as well. Live by the sword, die by the sword, and all that.
18 year olds fight in Iraq and Afghanistan right now. In fact, children who weren't even alive during 9/11 will soon be eligible to fight in one of your glorious wars
More like that was a fig leaf and it just became clear to you at some point the true meaning of all that rhetoric.
Here is a relatively tiny swamp cooler. It consumes 65 watts: https://thelashop.com/products/65w-portable-evaporative-air-...

I would have concerns with a 100 watt DC panel being able to handle a 65 watts AC swamp cooler. Conversion loss, motor startup current draw, etc.

Big alternating current fans that can move air do use lots of power. Especially a current surge at startup.

It sounds like in this space, people are making their own direct DC powered swamp coolers that are using less power, with relatively low flow fans. That's what I was missing.
Being tech savvy is a poor qualification for leading the free world. He should get his own kingdom in order first.
I don't think it makes sense to deny that it's both. One can hold abhorrent political views -- that doesn't make them not political. What were the Nazis if not a political movement based on white supremacy?
> I've had no success changing the minds of people who think that being trans is a mental illness despite citing numerous peer reviewed articles.

It was considered so until 2013, when Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders dropped it as a mental illness:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-transgender... Not that I think this has any relevance: many things once considered mental disorders are now considered personal traits. The point is that it's not an outlandish thing to believe, just an outdated one.
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Saying that self driving car hardware problem is solved and all we need is software is like saying that one solved the problem of building interstellar space ship. All they need now is the warp drive. Otherwise it is all solved...
They only report scores up to 800, so adding 50 to my 920 isn't really doing anything for me.
There is mounting evidence that being fat isn't necessarily a choice. It is in some cases, but see http://abcnews.go.com/Health/fecal-transplant-linked-womans-...

A woman became obese after a fecal transplant -- hinting at the complexity of how obesity works in the body, experts say.

The unnamed woman weighed 136 pounds -- but gained 34 pounds over the next 16 months -- going from a healthy body mass index to an obese one, according to a case study published in an Oxford Journal called Open Forum for Infectious Diseases.

"The patient actually said this: 'From the moment I had the fecal transplant, I felt like a switch flipped in my body,'" said. Dr. Colleen Kelly, a gastroenterology at the Warren Alpert School of Brown University. "She felt like prior to the fecal transplant, she had never had to worry about weight."
Waymo and Uber are more likely to have beat them to it (lidar) than Tesla, but point very much taken.
Ummm, because the sub is a public forum.

If you are chatting among friends in real life they can see your body language and hear your tone of voice. If someone takes offense you can immediately back-peddle.

Submitting a comment to a webpage (either public or protected) is more like writing graffiti on a public wall. Nobody knows or cares what your intentions were.
They've got some damn impressive videos on YouTube. I think they're either neck and neck with, or possibly ahead of, Tesla.
A good accuracy for any solution is based far more on the problem than the model trying to solve it. 70-80% for one problem space might be horrible, but be a dream for others.
I agree with you on this. We need dense cities that don't depend on cars.

I will say that self-driving cars help a bit in getting people to bike, though. The biggest barrier to biking in San Francisco is people's fear of getting killed by cars (the SF Bike Coalition has done surveys on this). Self-driving cars should pose less of a risk to cyclists - they don't run red lights or speed, etc.

Another potential benefit would be reducing the need for parking. The biggest obstacle to physically separated bike lanes is the space they take up - typically that requires removing parking. If self-driving taxis are super cheap, that should lead to less car ownership, and possibly less demand for parking.

That's all very speculative though.
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I'd prefer someone less complicit in establishing the surveillance state.
I posted this as a reply elsewhere, but I think anyone inclined to believe this model/study supports the prenatal hormone theory should read this from Calling Bullshit: http://callingbullshit.org/case_studies/case_study_ml_sexual...

The setup and modeling may be perfectly sound, but the conclusions are a big stretch: they didn't control for intentional differences in presentation (the data was dating site photos), nor did they appropriately test for significance of the supposedly subtle facial differences picked up by the model (gay men having more feminine faces, gay women more masculine ones).
Yikes, this feels so cult-y and creepy. I suppose the comments on 'snake oil prophets' and 'prosperity theology' bring that out in words better.
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he was a sociopath. if you've ever lived in Utah county, you'll find out that many people have a superiority complex towards anyone who isn't 'pure like them'.

you just have to experience it. I have friends who are gay, no issue with them. I have friends who are ex-mormon and active mormon, no issue with them.
Reads like a GM PR press piece.