skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Logically, there is no reason I can give why in 10 minutes, my consciousness and yours will not switch places. If it happened in the past, neither of us would know. Yet I still experience being me right now, just "because".

Really, what we have here is a quasi-religio-philosophical argument for reincarnation. I'm somewhat sympathetic to the idea of reincarnation after death, in fact, but I think people who believe in uploading minds are implicitly pretending to have knowledge about the process that nobody has.

Any rules for where your consciousness ends up in the next instant in the event of a discontinuity are made up based on your preferences and prejudices. One may wish to believe that a computer that stores the patterns of your living brain captures your mind after you die, but it's no more or less valid (i.e. probable, provable) that the cliche that you are reincarnated into some particular living entity as reward or punishment for how you lived your life.

Reincarnation is, in my opinion, outside the realm of science, so I don't disbelieve in it, I merely doubt it is possible to know anything about it due to the impossibility of investigating scientifically.

...and "mind-uploading" is merely a subset of human invented systems of reincarnation.
Yes, there are two big giveaways in the article. The first is how the word LaTeX is typeset. This has a command that produces a much fancier typesetting in most LaTeX documents. The second big giveaway is a bit deeper into the paper

> It turns out there is an alternative that satisfies my economist mindset—FaKe LaTeX documents created in Microsoft Word. That is exactly how I produced this note.
Useful tips for writing future-proof code
Seconded, they look absolutely gorgeous. Photogrammetry scenes are comparable but are still a touch behind these in realism.
Agree completely. Siri works near perfectly for my basic uses: Alarms, timers, reminders, weather, stock prices, music, calls, texts etc. I concede that Google and Amazon's assistants are more advanced, if the measure of advanced is the number of gimmicky joke responses and Easter eggs they can say during a social gathering.
>Old stuff here. As time went on, it became more and more clear that @snowden was actively working against American interests via military document leaks that were completely unrelated to domestic surveillance.

Define "american interests". And define "completely unrelated to domestic surveillance".
Low margin would be if they made $5. A $150 profit is pretty good since there are 200+ people in the plane. That's $30,000 a flight.

And remember, we're talking profit here, not income. I can't think of a scenario where a business with millions of paying customers would sneer at merely making a profit of $150 off of each one.
Oh yeah of course, I’m working on latitude longitude but for some reason it’s not showing...
Why podcasters love lipstick and pajamas
For the people worrying about GPU usage, it also says
"Foveated driving logic for VR and AR applications was implemented".
You can't "emulate lenses on a screen" unless it's a lightfield display (which it's not).

With higher resolution you could correct for more lens distortion, but you still need lenses, and you won't be able to fix lens flare on fresnel lenses.
Yeah, this.
I've argued with lots of people about this, how self driving cars are never going to happen because solving all the problems is too hard.

And yet over the last years we've had improved cruise control, steering assist, emergency stopping, lane following. And now we're getting technology that can't drive in a lot of places but looks useful you a quick routine drive to a local shop on a quiet simple road for example.

It will gradually get more and more useful. One day you'll be thinking why don't we have driverless cars, only driver assist and then realize that you've not actually had to drive yourself for 2 years...

AI is the same. We'll not suddenly invent a general purpose AI like in the movies and books. Instead we'll slowly add features to the tools we have today one by one, until one day we realize that the accumulation of years of small enhancements has made something indistinguishable from AI
That doesn't make sense: how can the federal government (whose power is only that granted by the Constitution) agree to & be bound by a treaty which is unconstitutional?

The treaty isn't unconstitutional, though.

The existing standard for constitutional review of treaties is that the things called for by a treaty are allowed unless the Constitution specifically forbids them. This is a much lower standard than the "forbidden unless the Constitution specifically authorizes it" applied to other acts of the federal government.

And since the original case revolved around states wanting to regulate in preference to Congress, and Article VI says treaties have supremacy over state law, the treaty-based bird regulations stood up to scrutiny, because the treaty itself was held to be permitted by the Constitution.

Also, in the modern day the original bird law might not have been struck down at all. The theoretical support for the law was in Congress' (specifically-enumerated) power to regulate interstate commerce, and rooted in the inherently state-line-crossing nature of the migrations. Interpretation of the interstate commerce power has swung back and forth like a pendulum several times over the history of the US. At the time of the original bird law it was being interpreted extremely narrowly; today it is typically read more broadly.
I don't think the concept of a species is well defined. Tiger and lions can interbreed, as can donkeys and horses. And then there are ring species. Biology does whatever it does and then humans try to fit words around it.

Edit: correct mules to horses
amusing that a comment designed to mock the irrationality and simple-mindedness of "Americans", itself provides a strong example of overgeneralizing entire populations, society and culture into simple, easy-to-understand tropes suitable for simpletons.
I would also add that the price of the panel is one thing, the price of the systems needed to drive those resolutions is another. I wonder how they'll pull off appropriate frame rates at that resolution per panel.
I've always thought of ambivalent as meaning no strong feelings either way, but I see that it can also mean mixed feelings (even strong ones). Is there a word that doesn't also include the first part, where it means solely having strong mixed feelings?
What was required to achieve this result ? That is, what did these folks have to break in order to gain control of the wifi chip in this way ?

How does this work compare to gaining (similar) access to the baseband processor on a phone ?

There should be a bounty for that ...
Even so, the actual interview have some sensible advices, and both those guys' profiles support the claim that they know what they are talking about, so what's the harm?
I haven't used Coral Common Lisp, but I've used SBCL. It does have much of what you're describing, and I do have to wonder why it didn't catch on with a wider audience.

There's a general belief in the tech community that better tech wins. When something works better, hackers will start using it, and if there are incidental barriers, they get solved. None of the explanations I've seen have been satisfactory; I reject the both the idea that Lisp isn't really that big an advantage and that the average hacker isn't smart enough to see it.
Just commenting about the "one crash will kill the industry" part - I've heard this repeated many times over the last 20 years (way before self-driving cars were close to viable). I've repeated it myself.

But it looks like we're wrong. First of all, there have been crashes with even Tesla's autopilot, and it didn't seem to affect anything.

For another, this same logic would've probably meant that driving itself would never have become popular in the first place, or would've been set back many decades because of car crashes. That doesn't seem to have been the case.

I'm not saying these things can't kill an industry, but I think people are pretty tolerant of even unthinkable dangers beforehand, if the incentive is high enough.
How does this compare to SAL, out of interest? Somewhat competing aims, no?
They actually built cars without steering wheels previously, but then decided they shouldn't be in the car manufacturing businesses. Now they are just repurposing the Pacifica mini-vans.
That conclusion doesn't logically follow.
> Japan’s antitrust law prohibits a firm from abusing a superior bargaining position to illicitly make a business partner accept unprofitable trade conditions

If the trade conditions are really so unprofitable, why would the partner do business with you? This seems like ridiculously broad regulatory overreach. It sounds like it's illegal to be good at business in Japan.
That's not how sentencing works. Unless the judge is up against a mandatory minimum, s/he has ranges to work within. Intent and attitude (lack of remorse, etc.) absolutely factor into that sentence.
It might be the case that countries that invest in the study of curling will also produce better curlers. It might also be the case that a country that is mad about curling will produce good curlers, and have scientists who are interested in studying it.

It's a great video from SmartEveryDay though.
That's fair. I suspect we're both nutpicking at this point, facilitated by the abundance of nuts on both sides.

I do think it's a little disingenuous to try to limit the mandate to just those four words. If both sides of the referendum campaign made it clear that a Leave win would entail X (e.g. leaving the Customs Union) then it's tough to deny that the result constituted a mandate for X. In the same way, a government that breaks its manifesto promises can't just turn around and say, "Well, we didn't write that promise on the ballot paper itself, so what are you complaining about?"
Sure, you can do it with a couple of analog electrical wires running from each valve and gauge to a central computer... You still have a computer and software (and a thick cable routing mess) and you only took some network protocol out of the attack surface (and you still need one to connect the workstations...)
What difference does it make what kind of stack they're using?
Quad 1080Ti cards... Oh wait, even if you were able to afford it, they don't support it anymore do they? It's simply not possible to drive those with the current tech, I guess?
I think the answer is probably a little bit of both. Since this is a promotional video, it seems likely that this is in specific areas/times that were less complicated. I mean, take for example the self driving video Tesla made a few years ago [1] remove the legal need for someone in the diver seat, put some passengers in it while driving that specific route, cut it with some upbeat music, and you now have the Waymo video. On the other hand, if it's good enough for specific times and areas, that's still self-driving and still useful, even if not as useful as it could be.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
Sounds like the good old Matthew Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
> Waymo just clicked its way past its 5 millionth self-driven mile a few days ago.

5 million miles and no fatal accidents. Just 5% of the way to when a _human_ driver (in the us) would expect a fatal accident. Fingers crossed!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
If you defined it that way, not even human translators would meet the standard. Treaties and other official documents published in multiple languages always specify one as the "official" one for purposes of legal interpretation and that, in the event of conflict or confusion, the translations are subservient to it. Setting a bar for AI performance so high that even humans don't reach it seems unhelpful.
The staging area was a mistake because it's hidden in the repo where I can't build and test it. I should be stashing changes I don't want to commit, and then committing the known-good workspace.
>Get a degree in something that can make money instead of a BS in Ancient Chinese Art History.

I know plenty of places that are looking for intelligent people they can train up. The roles are often non technical but "BS" degree is often a good way for them to get their foot in the door.
Interesting, I wonder whether dynamically adjustable lenses can be used to treat vision problems.
Oh yes, it is. My teeth hurt while reading it. There is much, much more to TeX typesetting than just the Computer Modern fonts (which many find unattractive, by the way).
It also probably didn't help that Jazelle was locked behind an NDA.
I think this data is great and there's a lot to learn from it. It just seems like reporting annual salaries might not be appropriately normalized, though. Hourly wages would be much clearer, IMO.

Women are not the same as men, and many women rank their role in family activities higher than their professional development. If they choose to spend less time at work, then they would likely earn a lower annual salary.

Since the problem that we want to focus on is whether and when women earn less due to discrimination, that issue is confounded by this data. Though I sympathize that the ACS data that's readily available probably doesn't track that. Maybe it should.

EDIT: I thought I was fair in my criticism but I have attracted downvotes. Let's discuss: what do you think about what I said?
Show HN: Open-Source Collaborative AR with Carrot
What I'd like to see is a deep-learning project which uses a brain sensor like an EEG. It could learn what kind of music the listener likes (and under what circumstances). This could be the first step, and a useful tool in itself. Then in the next step it could learn to generate new music which the listener likes, using the previously generated model and/or using a feedback loop involving the user.
It would be cheaper, and also lighter, which means even cheaper. It would not be safer; the reason windowed planes are heavier and more expensive is because they must meet full safety standards while also having windows.

This concept has been brought up numerous times and has never taken off (ha). I don’t think passengers would react well unless it was literally indistinguishable from a window, and we’re a long way from that.
The finance workforce of the future is going to look very different
> So no, I wouldn't say the conclusion is foregone.

With the distribution of people and events over space and the distribution of talent the end result was a given because its more likely for an arbitrary person to trigger multiple good events than for very specific "talented" people to trigger multiple good events even if their factor means they don't need as many good events to be "even".
Same way that if you had more events then people then the outcome would completely change because then "talent" would become a bigger factor than "finding an event".

Its just about what they decided to make scarce (events) in the model.
Yes at-least Big Platforms needs to be made responsible for content they host (a law that is better than DMCA).

Here is a Proof of how platforms are hurting everyone (i.e Everyone who lives by law):

https://imgur.com/a/qYWGj

Notice 4 of top 6 Entertainment apps (In US) launched in last 30 days on Google Play are pirating Movies? This not only hurts Movie Studio, it hurts every developer on the platform because they are taking those downloads away from Developers who abide by rules.
Given the crypto mining price inflation of the kind of GPU's needed to power something like this, it's doubly dead.
Thank you for taking the time to respond! It's quite an honor to receive an answer from you, as your book has been a valuable resource whenever I worked with Prolog.
Even at galactic scales the correction is not that great. I don't thing the OP's claim is that they are exact to say 3 sig figs but more like exact to within an order of magnitude
Whatever the price crypto currency cultists will buy them all.
2 & 3, though, are encouraging inefficiency, not awesomeness.

The practice of high-end law is, to an unreasonable degree, about typesetting and formatting. You pay your lawyers to sweat the local judges’ preferences for margins and Arabic numerals; I’ve seen five lawyers quibbling about curly quotes and footnote placement. And the law says the lawyer is, ultimately, responsible for getting this right - the typesetting part of the brief is the practice of law, just as much as developing the legal argument.

As much as possible, I do my drafting in markdown, to separate content from typesetting. If I don’t, I find typesetting can eat up an unreasonable proportion of the overall time.

But the sooner the courts figure out a way to format the lawyers’ text according to the courts’ own preference(s), the better. Style sheets aren’t quite there, but we’re close.
I use Blue Apron sporadically; it can be a good thing on a busier week because it removes both menu planning and shopping while still letting you make home-cooked meals (take-out more than once a week or so gets really old).

It can also be a great break when your go-to recipes feel too repetitive.

But often one of the three recipes ends up being a dud, and if you forget to skip a week and get a bunch of stuff you don't feel like cooking it's an expensive and annoying obligation to prepare meals you didn't really want or make an ersatz recipe out of the ingredients they sent.

There is absolutely zero chance I would go to a store to buy a Blue Apron box. Without the convenience of home delivery, it really loses its appeal.
I've never found the framerate of my Rift to be a problem however I'd gladly trade it for something with better resolution and improved contrast and brigtness.

That being said my high-end gaming PC (using a GTX1080) struggles to maintain native framerate in demanding games without reprojection on the Rift, I can't imagine what kind of futuristic computer you'll need to drive 5500x3000@120Hz in VR. Let's hope the cryptocurrency mining gold rush will have subdued by then.
How about this:

Taxes, Incentives, and Economic Growth: Assessing the Impact of Pro-business Taxes on U.S. State Economies
Soledad Artiz Prillaman and Kenneth J. Meier
The Journal of Politics 2014 76:2, 364-379

> The empirical effect of business tax policy on
economic development clearly diverges from economic
theory. In a majority of cases, the impact of
business taxation is negligible at best. Controlling for
other factors, business-targeted tax cuts either have
no effect or result in economic decline.

The full paper is available via Sci-Hub's latest incarnation.
You're thinking donkeys and horses. I believe a mule is the sterile result of that interbreeding.
I had to google foveated driving logic: It means tracking the user’s eye movements and only rendering the most central area to the eye in high-definition.

Source: https://www.roadtovr.com/google-shares-new-research-foveated...
To be clear, is this per-eye? It's got to be, right?

A single 4.3 inch isn't big enough for VR, right?
A less sensationalistic look at this: https://lawfareblog.com/cloud-act-welcome-legislative-fix-cr...
> If the trade conditions are really so unprofitable, why would the partner do business with you?

Because you have no choice. Because they are a monopoly. Which is the basic point of antitrust law.
Auctus and Prudential: Industry feedback – a crucial element when innovating
Not objective at all. There are a lot of values and politics embedded in the things you chose and the implicit direction that is healthy for infrastructure. And it should be, because “objective” metrics are inevitable gamed and their value is gone.
You'll have to give me more details about that, because that seems physically impossible to me (at least with the common definition of "screen").
Does anyone here think that a group other than Waymo is in the lead when it comes to short, medium, and long term deliverables on delivering actual SDC as a product?

Whether we think of taxi services or privately owned vehicles, I don't see Tesla, Cruise/GM, Intel/Mobileye, or indeed any other venture which is running actual rides with no one in the driver's seat. Not to mention the disengagement data from California, which Waymo was doing very well on. Granted, overall, all of these teams are being secretive, so it's tough to know where they truly stand. Still, based on what we've seen, I say Waymo is out in front by at least 6-12 months.

When it comes to delivering SDC to the entire globe, obviously there will be a geo-spatial distribution of roll-outs, with sunny/dry/well planned out places (i.e. Arizona, California) getting SDC first, and snowy/wet/poorly organized (i.e. Boston's cowpaths) cities getting them much later. Not to mention, there need to be lax regulations that remove obstacles to local adoption, and super long term we'll see SDC-specific infrastructure improvements to utilize their inherent advantages/disadvantages.

But, for now, it seems to me that Waymo is in the lead and that the SW USA and California will get all of these Waymo tech in Chrysler/other vehicles first.
Treasury Sanctions Russian Actors for Interference with Elections, Cyber-Attacks
This seems similar to the Magnus effect:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect

(Spinning a pen fast enough can turn it into a wing, causing it to behave strangely when tossed upward)
I figured it out. It's the spyware/firewall that my work installs on our laptops.
Goodbad
At one time, it was valued at $10 billion and being called a dekacorn based on valuation.
Not just GPU but display bandwidth too, 5500x3000x120Hz requires a monstrous 59.40 Gbps according to this calculator:
https://k.kramerav.com/support/bwcalculator.asp

For that you'd need multiple displayport cables.
>"Someone will win it if they ever make an observation that... shows conclusively that dark matter ... cannot remain compatible with this new observation."

This requirement is impossible to meet for sufficiently flexible theories. Eg no one will ever "win" over "God did it" according to your metric.

Also, if you see how many people in high academic positions are obviously wrong about simple stuff they use every day like p-values, nothing will surprise you any more.
Nvidia doesn't support it, but they don't have to.

Vulkan allows game developers to spread the load across all GPUs, if they wish to. You can do SLI with 8 1080Tis, an intel iGPU and an RX VEGA all together without issues
It doesn't sound crazy at all -- lots of people have a fear of flying/planes.

I'm working on a program that uses VR to help people overcome their fear of flying. Would you mind filling out this short fear of flying survey, so I can get in touch with you when it's ready?

https://goo.gl/forms/RA8RfTUebvZUM3Un2
LaTeX isn't that hard, Microsoft equation editor is slow, and don't even get me started on how much more time consuming it is to put in references, tables of content, etc.

The first equation in the paper is

$$\Delta P_t = \mu + \sum_{j=1}^J \lambda^j S^j_t + \sum_{p=1}^P \delta_p \Delta P_{t-p} + \varepsilon_t$$

Yes, it's a bit of a mouthful but clicking all of those symbols in equation editor is much slower once you know the syntax.
nslookup and ping work fine. It's the corporate firewall installed in my laptop that's blocking the website, probably based on an IP blacklist.
Personally, I don't want Iran to develop its nuclear progam; however, there are legitimate concerns that such cyber attacks set precedent, or even could expose security flaws, that might instigate retaliatory attacks towards the US and its allies.
The Art and Science of Image Discovery at Netflix
I didn't know about it, but you're absolutely right. Newsbeuter has a notice on their README file to that effect and they recommend newsboat[1].

Newsbeuter works fine for me for now, but it's good knowing that. I'm glad I saved your comment in the morning so I could reply later at work :D

[1] https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/blob/master/README....