skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's little external information about how map dependent their implementation is.

They certainly have meticulous maps available in areas they operate, but it is easy to imagine other reasons for that. Like they could be using the map to separately process their sensor data, producing a reliable diff and evaluating the sensor only scene based on that.
Yeah but that's like saying antibiotics are casting out ill health demons for techies. Some similarities but important differences also.
I much prefer SC2, but I agree League of Legends is really designed to be watched in a way that StarCraft 2 is not.

A StarCraft 2 game can last anywhere from 5 minutes to 2+ hours. And they tend to stack so a series might take 20 minutes or 5 hours. Games often snowball from minor advantages so only a seconds of that may be really important.

League of Legends games on the other hand have some back a forth and are bound fairly closely to 25 minutes at top play. Allowing for more bite sized games, you can also jump into the middle of a match and understand what's going on more easily. Even better, lower level games tend to more closely match top play like other sports.
That's basically what it is, except with less Middle Earth and more sexual violence, incest and pedophilia. At least the first couple of books are; I never bothered reading past the second book or watching the series.
That sounds like the opposite direction: ctypes is for when you have a Python program which wants to call a C library, not when you want C code to call Python. As a concrete example, I work with JPEG 2000 imagery. I use ctypes so Python programs can load an image using a JP2 codec such as OpenJPEG to decode the image and save image tiles. Given the complexity of OpenJPEG, it would be a major project to port it to any other language and since it does a massive amount of computation the overhead of ctypes calling it is a small rounding error in the total processing time.

Unless the PyO3 documentation is completely leaving out a major application, it doesn't support this scenario.
Yep. Kurzweil has been banging this drum for a long time. I read Spiritual Machines a long time ago and found it to be a simple rehash of 90s-Extropian tropes - utility fog, uploads, all the goodies needed to glue science-fiction nerdbait to a thin rehash of Christian rebirth millenarianism.

The book went away in one of my periodic purges, or I'd check to see if he changed his dates.
The full 360 street view imagery is probably not easy to contribute to since you need a specialized camera and GPS orientation information. But I think Google Maps does accept normal still images from members of the public, at least for businesses.
Exploring the short-term bear case for the cryptocurrency market
For a company that has aspirations for a streaming service, they sure are digging in their heels with the traditional theater/award model.
This article from Dec 2016 seems to suggest that's still the case [0]. However, it also looks like those maps can be built by the cars themselves, which should simplify expansion.

[0]: https://medium.com/waymo/building-maps-for-a-self-driving-ca...
Recently many bitcoin transactions are P2SH (addresses starting with 3) and it that case the address is not directly linked to any public key at all (1-addresses are hashes of ECDSA public keys, 3-addresses are hashes of arbitrary bytecode which validates the signature and is supplied together with the signature)
Template Literal Revision [1] is a welcome change, but still falls way short, as there's still no way to easily include the backtick itself inside raw text.

I wish ES would adopt python-style triple-quotes, so you could do things like:

String.raw```Look, this is a backtick: "`"```

(The inability to do this is a pain point when you want to embed a language in ES and that language itself makes use of backticks.)

[1] http://2ality.com/2016/09/template-literal-revision.html
How the “King of Fake News” built his empire
The Process of Urban Change
The article says that most of the footage was taken by humans. The sheep are apparently not the best photographers.
I'd like to see successful rain/night/snow/road construction/fog condition tests before I get in one
I'd only add that it's another way to manufacture hope for people who have been left behind by how unbelievable most religions are.

I've been trying for years (and will continue trying) to switch my parents hope for an afterlife with a hope that cryo will work. There is definitely no afterlife, but cryo might eventually work. That's how I see most of these "living forever" positions. It's just a more intellectual hope to have, where you at least break reality into possible and impossible before choosing something to believe.
One thing about sheep (versus people) is that you don't need to worry about them being griefers who want to pollute your data for the lulz.
Yes, we know that OpenBSD is famous for ignoring performance. A syscall for every tiny malloc, where in normal systems the threshold is 128K.
Of course there is, this is what tax evasion is about. There's a decent case to be made that the Apple and Ireland were wrong in Apple following Ireland's tax code, we'll see how the case turns out on appeal.

I would say that when the sovereign is in agreement the payment of taxes that it can't be construed as evasion, however, I'm not super well versed on how much of a sovereign Ireland really is given it's membership in the EU. Perhaps the EU is the real sovereign in this case and Apple has erred in consulting with the Irish government who lacks authority to set tax policy in its territory.
Did we forget how Emacs used to mean "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping?"

Saying that as an Emacs User for almost 20 years now. Even today there are things that can bring Emacs crawling to its knees. The moment you start adding auto-complete to a big project, or if you have your files hosted in some NFS server, you're SOL.
So crazy to see this video shot in the neighborhood I lived in the summers as a kid. Chandler's got a lot of good things going for it as eggpy mentioned -- well marked roads, wide, very little rain. On the downside, the entire Phoenix area has some terrible drivers, which I suppose is good training for the Waymo cars. It will be interesting to see if they park the cars during monsoon season; conditions can get pretty treacherous on the first rainy days of the season -- roads get very slick, drainage isn't always the best so you can end up with large puddles of water on the road that cause hydroplaning, etc.
Why Waiting for Perfect Autonomous Vehicles May Cost Lives
Another day, another despicable act by our political elites.
I'm a bit Lord-ed out. A Bored of the Rings[1] adaptation could be fun, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bored_of_the_Rings
This is really cool. You can also detect a debugger on windows by using one of the apis provided, such as IsDebuggerAttached, or is debuggerpresent.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...
According to wiki:

"TK Maxx (Australia, Austria, United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TJX_Companies#Store_formats
haha, wrong thread, but it kind of fits...
Please don't give your data away for free to a data company. Much better to donate using OpenStreetCam.
My understanding is that LOTR is a mythology and not allegory. Any reading of allegory is in the interpretation of the reader and not the intent of the author.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/411971-i-cordially-dislike-...
People who have had their corpus callosum (the connection between the left and right hemispheres of the brain) are shown to have actions which contradict themselves (the left hand, controlled by the right hemisphere) will pick things up, and the right hand (controlled by the left hemisphere) will knock it down or choose something different from what the left brain wanted.

I'm not sure this is much different.
Not with THAT attitude!
re 1: Slow - compared to google docs? Are you serious?

I can't speak for the poster above yours, but I would be serious. In my experience, on the startup time, google docs way out performs open office. It's open in single digit seconds, open office is 10s+

I still prefer offline software, but the bloat can be awful. At least web tech is designed with web browsing latency expectation. I find most desktop software these days has a much larger start and use latency by far.
People who own other robots.
But as clearly indicated in the text, dr. Tannenbaum does not have a problem with how things worked out:

> I don't mind, of course, and was not expecting any kind of payment since that is not required. There isn't even any suggestion in the license that it would be appreciated.

> The only thing that would have been nice is that after the project had been finished and the chip deployed, that someone from Intel would have told me, just as a courtesy, that MINIX 3 was now probably the most widely used operating system in the world on x86 computers. That certainly wasn't required in any way, but I think it would have been polite to give me a heads up, that's all.

> If nothing else, this bit of news reaffirms my view that the Berkeley license provides the maximum amount of freedom to potential users. If they want to publicize what they have done, fine. By all means, do so. If there are good reasons not to release the modfied code, that's fine with me, too.
pybind11 is the nicest foreign function interface I've encountered:

https://github.com/pybind/pybind11
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I know what you meant and I agree, i just read you as (alao) saying that he single lines could be norm. There are situations where you wouldn’t simplify, like if this expression was the result of some function applications and then in the next step you simplify it.

R can definitely be seen as a vector space, just like R^3 for example, but then you wouldn’t also have absolute valley.

It wouldn’t be ambiguous in ASCII either because c would be defined earlier, you’d know what it is.
Maps would be littered with advertisements.
Using copyright laws to force a person to release the fruits of their labor is not a definition of freedom that is widely agreed upon.
Pyo3 support both. You can expose rust to python, and would look to python as native functions and classes or you can call python code from rust

Pyo3 uses rust refs ownership to enforce proper Gil usage. You code won’t compile if you use Gil in wrong way
You are right, but unfortunately, the de-facto bug bounty for unethical hackers is way beyond anything that could be offered to well-intentioned researchers. This makes your suggestion of professional auditing the highest priority.
> re 1: Slow - compared to google docs? Are you serious?

Slow compared to decent standards of what a word processor needs. For reference, WordPad perceptually opens instantly for me, and has felt like it opened instantly since Windows 95, I'm pretty sure. I am saying that both LibreOffice and Google Docs are examples of software that take way too long to do simple things because they're busy doing complicated things that I don't actually care for. (And arguably this isn't really their fault per se, they're both designed to compete with / follow the expectations set by Microsoft Office of what an office suite is, and those expectations are that all the complicated things are available).

> Local - as in not making connections on the network - in my opinion, will always have a speed advantage though.

Depends what you're doing with the network. I do just about all of my work in the terminal with a mosh connection to a cheap server a couple hundred miles away, and I never feel perceptual slowness from my machine not being local, unless I am literally in the subway or in an elevator. And I actually gain a lot of perceptual speed because I can close my laptop and switch to my phone instantly and see the exact screen where I was.

If you're streaming binaries from the network or trying to pump animations on a 2048-by-1536 true-color retina display, yes, remote is going to be slow. Half the tweetstorm's point is that you shouldn't be designing software to need that in the first place.
I'm sure the Gmail Android app is nice and light. I'm guessing the RAM bloat in the browser is from the JIT keeping lots of profiling data and cached compiled code, which looks good in benchmarks but does get a little "heavy".
OpenStreetCam is actually a project by Telenav, not part of OSM per se. However, as Telenav built their business on top of OSM data and their staff are real OSM anoraks, it was envisioned as a way to contribute more data to OSM.
I guess BigInt (i.e. native integer support) is only stage 3:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint

It's the feature I'd most like to see added.
if you think large, write large.
Your left and right brain would probably identify as different people if your non-dominant hemisphere could talk.
I am right there with you! My favorite part of the books. Although, I can understand why it was cut. It doesn't work in the context of a movie to have an epic world encompassing battle followed by a minor skirmish.

I feel like this story would be a good mini-series or standalone movie.
http://www.arrl.org/news/switching-power-supplies-a-more-com...

The issue isn't that the components in these supplies are cheap, it's that necessary filtering components are not in there at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor#Switched-mode_pow...
First attempt to formalize the concept of a Dyson Sphere by Freeman Dyson (1960)
I seem to remember a rumor about Jackson doing a film adaptation of Beren and Luthien but I don't know if there was any substance to it.
This is awesome! Such a cool tool
Advanced React Router concepts: recursive path, code splitting, etc.
Which is not a bad thing.

Religion developed to cope with the unavoidable misery of human existence through a coordinated belief in an imaginary afterlife free of that misery.

Enlightenment, science and technology showed us that most of this misery could be alleviated by advancing our technologies and social structures, while also revealing the imaginary nature of ideas of an afterlife.

The tragic thing is that we might live in the worst time of all: religion is obsolete, yet the transformative changes possible through technology might very well stay out of reach during our lifetimes.
Nice idea - should be moved to the top to avoid confusion. However, all post are approved by the author before they go live so it's really down to the writer to structure the post how they wish.
To me, the thing that gives the game away is that every time a company talks about "AI" both current and near future in general terms it's blue-sky, the-future-is-robots glorious (not really) automated future. Then when they talk specifics it's "language translation" which is still pretty awful and "image processing" which has been the purview of AI for many many years with no indication it'll be breaking out of that box anytime soon.

Yes I know there's massive advancements in using ML to make things seem more advanced than they are. But at the end of the day consumer AI today is: Language recognition and translation and photo recognition and manipulation. Everything else is snake oil.

So pardon me if I don't start portending Apple's doom because they may have to spend a little more of their untold billions to buy an AI startup to make photo enhancements slightly more cool for the next version of IOS. I don't think there's a game-changing AI breakthrough waiting to happen that the big companies are all going to have to fight for market space with because I can't find any evidence of it anywhere.
Why not? Jetty is pretty lightweight as far as JVM http servers go...
Back in the mid eighties rendering very simple three dimensional scenes using ray tracing took a great deal of time.

"...images generated
using some of the above improvements to ray
tracing. They all took approximately 50 minutes
each to compute on a VAX 780." - From http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~amana/research/cones.pdf

Example image found here: http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~amana/research/images/spheres.jpg

A DEC VAX 780 cost over a hundred thousand dollars - http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mainframe-computer...
My 10-yr old daughter described the current form of "wireless charging" as using the shortest possible cord.
The problem with games like League & DotA is they're nearly impossible to understand what's going on as a spectator unless you already play the games. They're a victim of their own complexity - over 100 characters each with a minimum of 4 unique abilities. It makes major fights practically impossible to follow as a person who doesn't play the game.

SC2, on the other hand, is much easier to grok as a spectator. It's 1v1, so you know each army is controlled by 1 player, and the capabilities of the units are far more obvious as well, since a lot of them are based on pre-existing science fiction concepts.

League & Dota get far more viewers because the games are far more popular, however, as a spectator sport, they fall short because of their complexity.
I once had a similar problem with a Mini-DP to DVI adapter.

I bought a cheap 3rd party one, when I used it I could not use WiFi. When I replaced the cheap one with an Apple one everything worked perfectly.
Yes I guess mine is broken. There are severe limitations on my filemanager too, it might be related.
Re actual problems he has done a lot on reading machines for the blind.
Faroe Islands Translate is also another stunt by them to get their language into google translate
https://www.faroeislandstranslate.com/
Personally I don't use macro/micro to describe the bytecode footprint, but rather the API/conceptual footprint. If Jetty is secure and performant, and Javalin keeps it encapsulated, I think micro is a fair descriptor still.
I believe Chrome on mobile is the default (only?) browser. So it is opt-out, and a very painful opt-out that requires technical knowledge.

You ship an experience like that, you end up not only breaking old websites but shift the emphasis on regularly updated websites that work on mobile. That was the intent! But it is not the web we know and love.
Something like that. The article may be technically correct, but it's putting the cart way in front of the horse. We shouldn't be using "points" to specify type face size in the first place. Because obviously we don't want type to be the same physical size on all display devices.
> still loss of screen space

Loss of screen space from what? The imaginary phone that doesn't have the notch? The X has got much more screen space than the 7 in the same form factor. Literally the opposite of a loss!
I've been thinking about porting from sparkjava (another jvm jetty based microframework) to this. Cool. My problem with Sparkjava is the slow development time.
That's a pursuit in the wrong direction.....

Hidden underneath the quest for immortality is the eternal quest of freedom from all known and unknown bounds. Unfortunately enough, this quest, when expressed from the confines of the apparatus called "mind" shows up as ego which is limiting, self serving and divisive. To experience the real singularity and immortality one needs an instrument which at its very core is limitless and that my friend is "consciousness". The reason current scientists have not been able to understand the limitless and eternal nature of consciousness is their fundamental assumption which is "matter gives rise to consciousness". Unless this assumption is turned around to "consciousness gives rise to matter" until then this quest for immortality will remain just that, a quest and never a realized goal.

At an individual level, we don't have to wait for the Ray's or Singularity of the world, this quest can be completed by each and everyone of us, by focusing our attention within. Attention is the expression of our consciousness in our physical being, and by focusing it within we can break free from the limitations of our 5 senses and the endless maze of thoughts. It is at point of liberation we will realize that we are all immortal beings who where focused in the limited dimensions created by the illusory mind and are all interconnected by the inherent Singularity of cosmic/unity consciousness.

Meditation or focusing within is the first step towards a successful quest of Singularity and Immortality.
By "we", what percentage of the 1% top richest people are we talking about? Indians are dying because of heatwaves, Bangladeshis dying because of floods, Californians because of forest fires... Maybe if the elite build their Elysium-like fortress they'll make it, but my feeling is the vast majority of humans will be killed by climate change. And not within he next 50-100 years, more like 10-20.
Have they fallen in popularity or have you aged out of the target market?

Same "single data point" disclaimer, but most of my peers lost interest in them mid-college when they began dressing more mature. The high schoolers I know still wear graphic tees but for whatever reason Threadless never connected with the next generation.
Do you also remember that the Word that you installed from 10 floppies was a lot more responsive than the Word you subscribe to now?

You are saying hardware is a lot faster now. And you are correct. What he is saying is that applications are a lot slower, in spite of the faster hardware. And he is also correct.
Tables were/are never wrong for displaying actual tabular content.
I'm curious, what's the plan for food supply, housing, waste/pollution, etc. in a world that accumulates non-dying human beings?
The laws governing self-driving cars in Arizona are extremely lenient, perhaps the most in the nation. Additionally, it appears as if each ride is being monitored in real time remotely by a Waymo employee, who can intervene if something goes wrong, or if the riders request.
I'm pretty sure Prof Winston himself uses a grading scheme like this. At least, he did in his 2010 Artifical Intelligence course on MIT OCW. Beyond that I have no clue.
Can't you just do `Look, this is a backtick: ${'`'}`? Or are you not counting that as "easy" because it's horrible.
How Are Operating System Developed?
I actually think that not wanting to become sick and die are quite universal human desires. It really is the latent driver behind lots of human activity, and certainly behind most religious belief systems.
>>> "Waymo will be operating a fully autonomous ride hailing service without any humans at the wheel ... Waymo wants to broaden the geographic scope of its trial, starting with expansion in the near-term to cover the entire Phoenix metro area, which represents more acreage than the whole of the Greater London area, he noted"

My family is mostly in Tempe / Mesa area (near Chandler, AZ) and during my last few visits I've seen an increasing number of these autonomous (driver-at-the-wheel) cars on the streets. Note that Uber / Lyft also are very popular in the area.

Waymo's transition to a general-public/driverless service in the whole Phoenix area will be the first time that automated ride-hailing services go up against human-driven ride-hailing services. This will be a very interesting and perhaps disturbing experiment. I predict Waymo will price their service competitively, will ramp up to a large fleet, and that after a few months Uber / Lyft will be in trouble. The public will accept the perceived risks in driverless rides.

Over a longer term it will be interesting to see what impact there is on car-buying, congestion ... I wonder whether Waymo will provide ride-sharing as well.

EDIT: clarification; ride-sharing; car market; traffic congestion. ( Hmmm, also adding that "... after a few months Uber / Lyft will be in trouble" is probably too compressed, it realistically will take a longer time. )
Kurzgesagt just did a video on potential life extension developments

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MjdpR-TY6QU
Aren't BIOS updates (which contain the ME code) considered binary distributions? me_cleaner woudn't work otherwise.

I suppose you could make the argument that the OEMs are the ones distributing the binaries, but they are out there.