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A few (potentially useful) additional points:

a) The ability to address more difficult cases is increased with robot-assisted surgery

b) Ergonomics of the situation should be considered as well for someone who can go from standing, leaning, or otherwise "on their feet" all the time to being able to sit and having an armrest.

c) While autonomous robots for complex procedures like this are likely many decades away for a variety of reasons, it's not unlikely that we'll see assistive technology for repetitive tasks in the future. In that sense, we are really at the early stages of the surgical robotics field! (In fact, depending on what who you talk to, the field is as young as 30 years old)

d) I partially disagree with the notion that a procedure done with the robot could be done without it

e) Some competitors are emerging onto the scene, such as Senhance by TransEnterix or Verb Surgical's product, which will progress this technology even further (if not out of the pure competitiveness of it all).

For those interested in reading more, I would suggest the following articles:

[0] Vitiello V, Lee SL, Cundy TP, Yang GZ. Emerging robotic platforms for minimally invasive surgery. IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering. 2013;6:111-26.

[1] Lee SL, Lerotic M, Vitiello V, Giannarou S, Kwok KW, Visentini-Scarzanella M, Yang GZ. From medical images to minimally invasive intervention: Computer assistance for robotic surgery. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. 2010 Jan 31;34(1):33-45.

[2] Marcus H, Nandi D, Darzi A, Yang GZ. Surgical robotics through a keyhole: From today's translational barriers to tomorrow's “disappearing” robots. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2013 Mar;60(3):674-81.

Disclaimer 1: Have done a few years of research with a surgical robot, so am biased towards advocating it's use.

Disclaimer 2: I am not from the institutions of the articles I mention.
Either way, this seems like an appeal to authority.
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The problem is that even if you have benevolent leaders in charge of the major players in a market, all it does is create opportunity for some immoral actor to enter the market to realize the profit opportunity.

I can't think of an example that a modern corporation has done something against their benefit for purely for moral reasons.

This is the responsibility of effective government regulation and consumer choice. If we leave it up to the market, we will be continually disappointed.
Ideally you'd want 2 zoom factors, one for visuals and one for touch. But then you'd potentially have buttons that couldn't hold their labels anymore. I think one zoom factor should be sufficient.

Given that we can't support actual-size rulers today, I think we've demonstrated that we can live without them.

P.S. for low resolution displays it's obvious that clear text and graphics is more important than absolute size.
That's exactly my point. You don't get access to those tools in school unless you are in an excellent graduate program AFAIK if that.

The simulation I can do in Vivado is apparently nothing compared to the scale those tools take it to. I've talked to someone in the industry that they told me Vivado's simulation is only okay for beginner projects.
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They mention Google Cloud Spanner as being slow due to locking during the two-phase commit. However would distributed transactions be possible without locks?

If I’m not mistaken, CRDTs cannot provide distributed transactions.
Indeed! From what I know of prior research, the latency issues with regards to remote control of these robotic systems was unlikely to ever reach clinical use but has been explored to a small degree.
Saudi Oil Fuels Our cars and Industry. It’s Time to Ask Why.

At least we're getting some of the money back in investment.

But yeah, a major investor, especially in hard times can have clout and can influence a lot of things. With one suggestion...
Why this story, and why right now?

Think!
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For a moment I thought you were describing the article itself.
But which definition of "Point" should be used? It's ambiguous (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)#Varying_sta... ). At this point, if you demand length equality, use well defined absolute units (i.e. mm, cm, in). However, you've going to have to make some difficult decisions between using absolute units and small-screen support. Relative units permit dynamic rescaling but in so doing one has to give up the explicit length equality demand. If you really want to, you can use device/media queries and varying stylesheets to get around this; but for all that is holy, please don't demand 12pt be 12pt everywhere -- we can't even all agree on what a point is without (implicit and unreliable) context.
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I believe that's essentially how the Flat Earth Society started, and then spiralled out of control as people actually started believing it.
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^I get that error with just `tangent.grad(np.sin)`.

So, it's not a nested differentiation problem, so much as a problem with "ufuncs". If you wrap np.sin in your own function then it takes the gradient just fine.

def sin(x):
return np.sin(x)

negative_sin = tangent.grad(tangent.grad(sin))
They lost me at “I’m not a lawyer and don’t understand the relevant intricacies...”
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So, not respecting human rights is a cultural difference we should accept?

And if I want free markets, and I notice that free markets lead to people being murdered, then I should be proud when people do get murdered? Otherwise I would necessarily have to reject free markets? Or what exactly is your point?
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Yes, that is a typo (I had 100$ in my mind ...).

Since these machines are fixed odds games each result of a spin is completely exclusive of the result from the other spin. So a 97% avg payout for a spin or over a billion spins (a game cycle) is the same.

The problem is that a player cannot take a hit a continue playing while a casino can keep doing it theoretically forever.

The problem with slots as with most games is to know when to quit. When a player who has lost 5 pennies coming back to bet 95 pennies is not the problem. The problem is for a player who has put in a thousand pounds over a year, wins a jackpot of 4000 pounds, does not cash out put again goes back to betting those 4000 pounds - that keeps losing.

Correct, as you said, know how much I want to spend on entertainment, spend it and return back. I've actually seen that in land-based casinos, people go out with a fixed moolah in hand, play and lose that and come back. In online casinos, though, there's no stopping them.
Idea sucks. It just sucks less than everything else.
>How do we account for that?

Don't forget which one gets to vote in your elections.
The values I heard some years ago (~10) was that there were well over 1000 years of known lithium reserves even when assuming some truly impressive rates of electric vehicle production and zero recycling.
> We must be using different definitions of subjectivity. I'm just referring to whatever one experiences at some point in time. Do you experience anything? Then you have subjectivity.

We are, because an ontology that takes subjectivity as primitive/irreducible is different than an ontology that reduces apparent subjectivity via third-party objective facts. You subscribe to the former, I subscribe to the latter. It is precisely this distinction that differentiates materialists and dualists in the philosophy of mind.
Can you give details/ressources on how it is difficult to obtain identical FPU results on x86 and ARM?

Not personally -- having already run into problems getting reproducible results on a single x86 machine with different compilers, I haven't even tried getting ARM to match!

Here's a long list of links on various issues: https://gafferongames.com/post/floating_point_determinism/

And here's a blog post that goes into detail on how to get reproducible results on x86: http://yosefk.com/blog/consistency-how-to-defeat-the-purpose... It's not too bad, but it sounds a bit fragile and I have no idea how well it would translate to other architectures. [Edit to add: hmm, actually, that post does say this is mostly just an x86 problem, or rather x87]

using "identical" implementations of more complex functions

That's a rather onerous requirement! Especially for multi-platform work. In almost all cases I'd like to be able to use the platform's math library, which is presumably well-optimized. Is there a good, reasonably efficient, highly portable implementation of math.h that gives fully reproducible results?

It seems to me (but I'd love to be convinced otherwise!) that if you really want reproducible results, fixed-point is a much better road to go down. Ints are just a lot more consistent than floats on pretty much every platform with a C compiler.
Is it fair/unfair to chalk this down to plain objectivism? That the source of money isnt that important as long as it gives me a chance to Change The World™..?
Exactly, cars will become what horses became. Things for enthusiasts to enjoy.
Nah, I bet asking her to resign was for not having to give severance pay or UI benefits.
That is the wrong interpretation - atleat the math says so.

The 97% payout is a payout over millions (billions) of 1$ bets made on the machine - called the game cycle. You have to remember that players win and lose too.

Theoretically, if I were to wager 1$ over a million spins, I should be left with 970K$. That is what happens too if we consider the payout of the machine over the full lifecycle of the slot game.

The problem is that a player's funds are always limited. So when they hit a losing streak, they would lose all money by the time a winning streak can come their way. The house however has theoretically infinite funds at their disposal.
I have watched so many hours of Dan's videos because he inspires a fervency of the acquisition of knowledge. I absolutely wish that I had his videos whenever I was first starting to program. His attitude is so endearing as it is clear that he simply can't contain his excitement about programming.

His Youtube channel used to be called "Coding Rainbow", but he was unfortunately forced to change it. He really does a great job at capturing the sense of wonder that "Reading Rainbow" inspired in me as a kid.
WTF, who is this?
Selling weapons to Saudis has been going on for decades, Trump, Obama, Clinton, Bush... all have been selling them weapons for billions of dollars.

It's pretty big hypocrisy of US, on one hand you consider Iran the most evil nation state in the world (or at least ME region) and have been sanctioning them for decades (with slight easing of that approach recently), on the other hand nobody bats an eye for selling weapons to SA and treating them as a great ally and friend.

I never could understand this big glaring hypocrisy from my European point of view. Perhaps it has something to do with politics in US but even then it's hard for me to understand why the one is ally and the other enemy.
Not really. The graph for payout would be jumping up and down. With an exponential decay, you would mean no player would make any money.

You should remember, the industry would not have been so lucrative or addictive if there were no wins at all!
You make a good point. I'm going to try scaling up the screen for a while and see how it goes. I can already see that the title bars, buttons, etc. are bigger than they need to be, but maybe not as bad as I originally thought.
Does the trench coat make it sound better, or is he in a melting Fortress of Solitude?
That was an interesting talk.
> (in other words, it would be assuming your conclusion in your argument).

To be convincing, it's not necessary to claim that any particular position is definitely true, I should only need to demonstrate that said position solves open problems that have not or cannot be solved by other positions while being of comparable complexity, conceptually.

This is indeed the case for something like the mathematical universe over naturalism. There may yet be a comprehensive, unproblematic account for mathematics in naturalism, but we certainly don't have it yet. That's a huge, gaping wound in our fundamental knowledge.

The mathematical universe, by contrast, easily grounds mathematics and matter by encompassing both in the former.
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How does this compare/relate to the AWS "enhanced networking"?
Medical robotics is a growing industry, led by growth in laparoscopic and cardiac surgeries. There are many types of robotics in that term but focusing on surgical settings, the applications are broad and include cardiac, gastrointestinal, orthopedic, neuro, ear-nose-throat, urology, and probably more I've missed. The latest market estimate I've read was estimating a $2.71B market in 2015, expected to grow to $5.4B in 2021.

Some companies in this field would be Intuitive Surgical, Think Surgical, Titan Medical, Mazor Robotics, Medtronic, Siemens, etc. Needless to say, it is my opinion this is a growing and persistent industry.

It won't be as rapid growth as the smartphone or web development, given the regulatory and heavy capital investment requirements for a new hospital or clinic to get a system, but it will be growing. The lag between an innovative feature to clinically acceptable product is multiple years after all!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/16/aaa-ca...

As of 2103 the average yearly cost of ownership was $9000. I doubt it's gone done since.
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Actually it's a very misleading analogy. In biology, that's precisely what is happening: The "kernel code" i.e. our genome in fact does have all the instructions on how to build a cell, how to build tissues, how everything communicates, etc. (my education: BA in math, PhD in Biology)
It is highly regulated. The software has to go through stringent gaming reviews every year, the RNG has to be re-certified, the software cannot be updated without prior regulatory approval, the game math has to be certified.

You cannot change rules based on prior winning strategy. Theoretically two spins can payout the jackpot (but the probability is very very low), and the casino has to pay them out as long as they were valid spins.
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> [google] intent is very different from Microsoft in the 90s with Internet Explorer as Google are not trying to control the web

How very wrong you are on this one point, your argument was going on the right line but here it took an unexpected turn. Microsoft was the one truly not trying to control the web. The web was a causality for something else (killing java). Now, Google. Google is the one that must control the web. Chrome and android and AMP serve the exactly same goal!
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> All but the weather.

And the food I guess? :)
I have no doubt mobygames is banking on links from Wikipedia, they are like the only commercial site that seems to be allowed to have links on Wikipedia en masse. A link from Wikipedia is very good for seo and they have tons.
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Firefox would have given you an option. Which someone would have made an extension to control it for each site. In fact, that is exactly what happens there.

Now, Google shoves on you their preference (which is a coin-toss to align or not) and you shout that this is protecting your freedom of choice.
One of the NYTimes largest investor is carlos slim who made his money in not the most ethical ways.
Yes^2. Protesting has inconsistent, disproportionate costs to the "tall blade of grass." Regardless of customer image issues making her radioactive to government contractors, from a management perspective, her behaviors signaled impulsivity, pettiness and naïveté. They fired her for all these reasons and more perhaps. I hope she uses this wake-up call to self-select a more ethical line of work that isn't contingent on the government-industrial complex.
Adventure, bravery, friendship, loyalty, love, life, and death.

All these, plus another component I personally enjoy in adventure books -- flawed characters who complement each other, and so become collectively stronger than they stand as individuals. For example, Bigwig has an amazing character arc, where he learns to subordinate his strength to Fiver's vision and Hazel's leadership.

Other examples include the foursome in "The Three Musketeers" (who explicitly arrange their affairs to contribute equitably from among their talents, money, and time), and "Kidnapped" (where David Balfour and Alan Breck have to learn to trust each other in order to negotiate the dangers they face on each other's behalf).
My parents have given up driving. The cost of the occasional Lyft is less than what they would have paid for insurance, gas and the car payments.
Why don't AWS people actively contribute in HN discussions about their achievements?

There're 8 comments on this thread and 3 of them are from GCP people giving less marketing-y insights. Thanks @jsolson and @boulos (it's always interesting to read your comments).
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> Somewhat ironic is that KDE3 splashscreen showed low-levelish looking messages that had nothing to do with what was really happening in order to cater to users with this approach to computing.

"Reticulating splines"
They are still trying to destroy their economy by imposing meaningless taxes for expats. Their strategy is going to fail.
That's a terrible idea. You need stable tax regulations in order to make a business plan, get a loan etc. If you kill or drive away the taxpayer you're going to be left without taxes to collect.
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It goes back further than that, all the way back to 1940's and the meeting between FDR and the King of Saud:

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...

> They eventually came to an agreement that centered around U.S. support and military training for Saudi Arabia, then a fledgling country surrounded by stronger nations, in return for oil and political support in the region.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/01/27...
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This translates to arbitrary legislation.
> Remove the colors and how would you know about shape, extension, mass?

The same way that blind people do?

> Colors, smells, pains, etc. are not part of the mathematical or physical description, so you can't simply dismiss the problem of qualia by labeling it as dualism. Where do the colors, tastes, feels come from?

I'm curious: what is a concrete answer that you would find satisfying? Even if it's unrealistic, or would only work in a different universe, what sort of answer are you looking for?
In Iran, the government is more conservative than the populace. In Saudi Arabia, the populace is even more conservative than the government.
This article is quite hypocritical. If you are going to single out Saudi money as immoral or let's say unethical, you have to apply the same meter to all countries. And this isn't just Russia which is currently being sanctioned hard but also notably China or some other ME and African countries.

Now, if you want to know my personal opinion, I am very critical of Saudi Arabia and if Russia and Iran are treated as enemies and sanctioned I think the treatment of SA should be the same.
Even on wall TV? Flagging.
Seriously!?!
Israel, the racist state, also fuels the tech industry. I don't hear any complaints from the new york times?
SV is not particularly moral in relationship to the rest of the society, neither should it be - there's no reason why knowing how to program or assemble electronic gadgets makes one more morally advanced.

However, when all that stuff in Saudia happens, I don't see too many articles in the Big Press worrying about it day and night. But when they buy some AAPL stock suddenly NYT wakes up and cries out for the inhumanity of the Saudi regime. Where were you all the time before?!

I wouldn't expect any particular moral advancedness from SV and Wall Street. But I would expect that the same people who slept through decades of Saudis being around, doing what they do, sending money into the US and buying all kind of stuff won't wake up now and start crying "but how can SV accept money from evil Saudis!"

I mean it's good we're talking morals. But it is very questionable that we are only talking morals in very isolated cases. It is good to have principles, but when principles are taken out of the pocket when it's convenient and hidden back what that is more convenient, those aren't principles one can respect.
Just curious, what's the moral problem with Yuri Milner? I don't know much about him except that he's Russian, which I sure hope isn't considered a moral problem in its own right.
Bitter Lake (by Adam Curtis) is a good documentary on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRbq63r7rys
Right. So the one with filename i_129.jpg.
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classic whatabout-ism that doesn't hold up to scrutiny, and more importantly doesn't matter.

"America is also bad!" would not be a defense to selling chemical weapons to Hussein. It's not a defense to helping build the Great Firewall. Your actions' consequences are your fault.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-faceboo...
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Note, you're getting downvoted not because of your actual point, but because of the needlessly inflammatory "Israel, the racist state".
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Google leaving China may be such an exemple, although it's always possible that there were other reasons.
why they should’t?
There is animated serial that's less voilent than the movie. There are differences in comparative to the book but I liked it anyway.
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Not that many actually, the estimations about people being made of more non self stuff than selfstuff were based on no serious measurement and its more of an urban legend than a fact.
I know it is a little off topic, but it has to be said: Ronco's cameo in Katy Perry's "This is How We Do" was brilliant [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RMQksXpQSk
I would expect an article with that kind of title to be published in the Op-Ed section of the New York Times, not the technology section. I'm wondering whether this might be motivated by the Times's financial interests.
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