skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to be a very American thing to drink bottled water when there's perfectly fine water in the tap (unless you live in Flint, MI).

I buy bottled water maybe once a fortnight, if that. The only time I buy it is if I'm out and about and don't have a ready supply of water. I buy the cheapest water I can get, which I'm fairly sure is bottled in the city straight from municipal supply.

I find the concept of buying water like San Pellegrino to be so absurd. There's all this perfectly fine water to drink here, and you ship it from the other side of the world? It's the highest form of wastefulness.
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I disagree.

I can name 10 Black American actors and actresses that have leading roles in movies and TV.

I can barely think of 3 Asian American actors in leading roles. And the ones that do act are often forced to do an accent, despite being fluent in English.

Asians are routinely discriminated against in sports: "“He lit up our model,” said [the Rockets GM, Daryl] Morey. “Our model said take him with, like, the 15th pick in the draft.” The objective measurement of Jeremy Lin didn’t square with what the experts saw when they watched him play; a not terribly athletic Asian kid. Morey hadn’t completely trusted his model - and so had chickened out and not drafted Lin." [1]

Asians are also seen as perpetual foreigners. Look at all the falsely accused Asian scientists like Wen Ho Lee, Bo Jiang, Sherry Chen, and Xiaoxing Xi. Or the current FBI director saying we need to be careful of all Chinese people. [2]

It should also be noted that the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Japanese Internment were the only times the US had policies against specific races.

1. https://www.netsdaily.com/2017/3/14/14925994/morey-bias-play...

2. http://www.businessinsider.com/china-threat-to-america-fbi-d...
Is there a name for the pattern recognition section? I'd be interested in reading more about it and how you use it as a measurement/how the results correlate with the decision process. Does it tie in with the behavioral aspect at all or are they completely independent?
The main idea behind UBI is that the government doesn't know exactly what each individual needs at any given time, but does know that those things can probably be bought for money. One person might need diapers, another socks, and yet another a car payment to take their child to school. Given money increases flexibility, as opposed to a fixed list of items that may or may not be needed.
Even getting reliable and useful output from the brain is still much much harder than you think it is.

> Now imagine an integrated set of circuits directly connected to my brain. It wouldn't have to be many. Let's say 10.

10 circuits connect to what, exactly? How? Where? Attaching electrodes to existing cells is invasive and uncomfortable (to say the least), and temporary because scar tissue forms and severs the connection in time.

But suppose you developed some way of reliably, durably, and non-invasively attaching external artificial neurons into your brain (to be sure, a huge jump). Where would you put these neurons, exactly? What would they synapse to? Just one or two particular neurons? How would you locate them during "install time"? How would the user access them during "run time"? Most brain-machine interfaces use motor neurons because they're easy to access. Maybe that'd be a good route, but again, doing this reliably and non-invasively is really hard, especially if there isn't a clear feedback loop.

I don't know why, but a lot of people seem to think that neuroscience is a lot closer to being "solved" than it actually is. Truth is, we barely have any idea how the brain works, let alone how we can meaningfully augment and interact with it.
advertorial? I mean, it happens all the time, right? e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/weekinreview/13goodman.ht... (although that article is from 7 years ago...) Sorry, I read more articles about this recently... blogs doing paid mentioning/sponsorships and not disclosing it.
Good. :) The touch bar would be why - as opposed to price, right?
Your saying illustrates what I'm saying perfectly: if you miss even a single fingerprinted word, it might uniquely identify you. So you need to change every single word, and even that isn't enough in case eg. adjectives were added or omitted.
Buckminster Fuller was the architect who envisioned a new kind of house, called the Dymaxion House. Fortunately it didn’t pick up. It was a great engineering exercise, as the house was quite simple and efficient, but on the other hand it had no soul. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house
Yup, on Android this is handled by a service called SurfaceFlinger which you can easily inspect from the shell(adb shell dumpsys SurfaceFlinger).

Not sure if it's still the case but back in the ICS days your status bar, wallpaper and launcher/app were all separate surfaces that were scanned out from different frame buffers.
You don't even need to use exotic materials with negative thermal expansion: instead, you can use a combination of materials with different coefficients of thermal expansion pointed in opposite directions. This was one of the innovations that John Harrison made that allowed him to make precision timepieces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridiron_pendulum
> These people might be allowed to do what they do, if they were upfront about what they are doing, but in most cases they plug-in is fronting as something else and unbeknownst to most users, it's doing something else beside the stated purpose.

And where extensions were really just mining cryptocurrency, they were often clearly made to be deployed on systems the user wasn't authorized to use that way. For example, from the description of one Monero miner extension:

> The extension is anonymous and untraceable [ghost emoji] and you can use it on any amount of computers [personal computer emoji] The more processing power, the more money you get.
Install the extension at home/work/school and win Bitcoins [money bag emoji]"

-- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bitcoin-monero-min...
I think it's actually pretty reasonable to expect a company based on doing mass mailouts to accept "do not call" requests from individuals.
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cat /dev/graphics/fb0 in my android (oreo) phone. But showing 'No such device' error.
Could anyone guide me on how to make it work so that I could take screenshot directly and do some graphics stuff on my phone directly.
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Holy shit that’s a good idea, we should just fucking do it ourselves.

This reminds me when I was living in the Midwest and there was this one spot where I had to do a u turn in my commute which was very dangerous because of some tree branches obstructing view of oncoming traffic. One day I almost got into an accident and since it shook me quite a lot, I wrote an email to the city that the tree branch needed to be trimmed so I could see better. Sure enough I got an email back a few days later from a woman saying they “understand my frustrations” or something like that. I thought I did my part and went on with my day. Fast forward about a month, and I almost get in an accident at the same spot, man I was fucking furious that my communication with city was just “ohh we understand” —- instead of employing a sea of men and women telling me that they “understand” why could they have just not just trimmed the tree and improved safety.

If I was still living there I think I would have just gone with my chainsaw and done it myself.
This has been done in the past, e.g. government cheese.

It turns out that letting the market deliver necessities based off of demand is far more efficient than the alternative. That would be a government anticipates how much a community will use, what styles of diapers they'll want, etc.
No real excuse for Tesla, but seriously why are our roads so bad. This is one of the wealthiest areas in the world and a busy stretch of road.
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3D Touch is a great way to move a cursor around in text you're writing. Just push in anywhere on the keyboard until it pops, then slide you finger to move the cursor.

I use this all the time; it's much more precise than the old direct touch way to move the cursor.
There certainly do appear to be some similarities. But without the car's logs, it isn't possible for anyone reading this forum to know for sure.

That's what the NTSB is for.
> It's a simple matter of survival to equip yourself as best you can to defend yourself.

And when was the last time the US actually defended its own territory instead of invading somone elses?
There's a debate to be had over the "good" or "evil" that results in government/intelligence/military involvement in tech companies. In order to have a reasoned debate, people have to be aware of the facts. As evidenced in this thread (and elsewhere), many people are unaware of just how entwined our sprawling government and tax-payer funded quasi-government agencies are with "private" tech companies and others in SV.
But the car should still detect

(i) That there is an obstacle fast approaching.

(ii) That all cars in front of it is doing something else -- time to slow down.
The facts subsumed by Newton's laws. Laws themselves are not the facts they are identifications of facts.
So by that definition, should an ideal dictator stand by and watch if there is an invasion? Because resisting it would be likely be killing the invaders?

So I think there is always an Idea of the subset of people you are meant to serve, and their well being being your highest priority. In your example, the "proletariat" were that subset, so it is only their duty to protect them from oppression.
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Reminds me of the decision for DOS to use backslashes for path separators because some dufus had chosen front slash for cmdline switches.

Instead of a temporary pain for perhaps a thousand users, ~40 years later millions are still suffering from it.
Agreed. That was in Chicago. It also was reproduced exactly in CA crash location in https://electrek.co/2018/04/03/tesla-autopilot-crash-barrier...
> but seriously why are our roads so bad.

Degraded paint does not a bad road make. Roads are optimized for human drivers that can leverage additional context to make their decisions. Many countries don't even bother to stripe their roads at all.
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I have an 8 month old and just the other day was thinking how are they able to make these things so cheaply? Seriously for 80 cents a day I can avoid the nightmare of cloth diapers (sorry planet). All the estimates in the post are soooo far off the mark. They are done with the cost of premium diapers for 4 year olds at the rate of use of a sub 2 month old. I’d say 350 bucks Canadian a year if I extrapolate out our costs to complete our kids first year.
Agree. Note, this is a different gore point (92/880) than the one from the 85/101 crash.
To truly set up a Java application in a production-ready way (not just running something quickly), you need to be sure of all these things:

1. A compatible JVM is installed somewhere.

2. When you run your application, it uses that JVM and not some other JVM.

3. You have the right flags passed to the JVM. For example, max heap size matching your application's actual usage, garbage collector tuning, thread stack size, and any properties that are set via -D.

4. Your jar file is there.

5. There is a place to write log files, and your application's logging system knows to write them there.

6. If you are using any native libraries through JNI, they need to be installed, and the JVM must be able to find them and use them.

7. If you listen on port, an available port number is found, your application knows what it is, and the rest of the world knows where to find you.

I believe Docker addresses all these points.
where are you line drying them? In your bathroom, most people are lucky if they have an outside space to do this when living paycheck to paycheck
unfortunately, it's not really the same as with proper message passing/late binding like in smalltalk.
Can anyone here remember wearing diapers as a baby/toddler?
Yupe, and you can start building your own in as short as 4min and 40 lines of code - https://scrimba.com/c/c2gBgt4 (interactive coding tutorial, meant to go along with this article - https://hackernoon.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-p2p-twitter-wi... )!
It depends on whether your boss is competent or not.

Generally, yes. You should be able to discuss this with your immediate manager and they should (1) understand or (2) educate themselves.

This evening I had a long conversation with a direct report about problems he is having with his girlfriend. It’s impacting his work and his health. I can help him and direct him to additional resources that help him more. It also provides context to the time off he needs.

If you are uncomfortable discussing these kinds of issues with your boss, find a new boss. Understanding you, your motivation and challenges is literally what they are paid for.
Both Tesla and Waymo are at too low an abstraction level for resilience. Cars need to understand roads/walls as concepts and make common sense inferences.
We did replace it, almost 10 years ago. It was called Diaspora[1], no one cared about privacy then. No one really cares about privacy now, at least not enough to do anything about it.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)
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I think you actually have the relationships reversed. Military power paves the way for projecting culture, not the other way around.

Realpolitik is meaningful; and everyone on the left seems to have forgotten about it (I say this as an unabashed progressive liberal).

The US’ prime advantage in the 20th century was the fact that basically the rest of the industrialized world was completely destroyed twice — and then they paid the United States to help them rebuild. It wasn’t until the 70s that the US’ reliance on oil became heavy enough to exploit strategically, but by then we had built an entire post-industrial economy a decade ahead of Europe and two decades ahead of the rest of the world. We helped Japan do the same because they were basically a puppet state and gave us a foothold in Asia to serve as a buffer with Russia.

Does that sound like cultural expansion driving the military, or the military goals driving the cultural expansion?
Please don't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how nonsensical some other comment is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They're not comparable at all. Google/Waymo uses lidar and has been at it since 2009 and per https://waymo.com/faq they are "fully automated vehicle" but alas not for sale yet.

Tesla's self-driving vaporware being sold since Oct'16 is camera only and should be activated any day now ?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/823632597284691969 "
Yes, safety should improve significantly due to autonomy features, even if regs disallow no driver present
23 Jan 2017"

3 months maybe, 6 months definitely
23 Jan 2017
Didn’t read the contract, but it might be payment to fund just one phase of long-term development.
Why doesn't this exist already? Sounds very feasible. Your "friends" are people in a given mailing-list, and even a minute action such as "like" could also just be an email sent to that mailing-list, with some proper tagging in the subject header, so that the email client knows not to display the email but rather act on it as an event handler.
Well, two layers of factory classes, one calling the other, plus a big xml blob is pretty Java specific. I'm open to to common counter examples in some other language.

There's inheritance, and there's overindulgence.
Perfect example of the Sam Vimes Boot Theory (https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Sam_Vimes_Theory_of_Econom...) at work.

Nothing is more expensive than being poor.
Sorry for being out of the loop - it was night time in India, and i had gone to sleep.

You are right that the title says 2003 - i looked at the scale below which ended at 1998. I was not so much doubling down, but rather talking of a slightly different point that the ones you and jpollock were making. When I said democracies were in retreat, there are two or three different phenomena.

First - the western democracies seem to be internally weaker, and unable to arrive at consensus even for important national priorities. This may be because of the rise of social media echo chambers. In Europe there is a growth of right-wing parties in all countries, even Germany. As an Indian this worries me, because for all their warts, the liberal democracies of US and the European countries are the model of governance I would like to have succeed across the world.

Second - there seems to be no answer to the salami-slicing tactics of the autocratic regimes in Africa and Asia. You have to see the bullying of countries like Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Phillipines, even Vietnam and wonder. As the western democracies look to be in retreat, countries are surrendering their interests to the regional bullies. This will ultimately hurt all democracies in the long run.

Thirdly - there is the increasingly blatant and surprisingly successful interference in open societies from the closed ones. The US election is only the most advertised one. But similar interference has happened in Australia, in UK, in various part of Europe. There are at last signs of response to this - Australia has passed a law against foreign interference, and the Skripal episode has led to (some) concerted effort. But the response still seems much weaker than the provocation.

In summary, by "retreat of democracies" my focus was on their will and ability to stand up to autocratic forces, not a retreat of democracy itself (which i think is what jpollock and your responses were about). That may be why we were talking at cross purposes. I fervently wish i am wrong - and I hope i never try to avoid rational discourse.
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What does Musk have to do for him to be investigated for misleading consumers or fraud?
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I have now talked with two people who have autopilot in their model S's and both said the problem with autopilot is that it is "too good". Specifically it works completely correctly like 80 - 90% of the time and as a result, if you use it a lot, you start to expect it to be working and not fail. If it beeps then to tell you to take over, you have to mentally get back into the situational awareness of the road and then decide what to do about it. If that lag time is longer then the time the car has given you to respond, you would likely crash.

Makes me wonder how this gets resolved without jumping through the gap to 'perfect' autopilot.
Physics and its development is not the sole, nor the primary, reference for man's means and acquisition of knowledge. Ohm's Law is valid within certain limits, and these limits are also facts. (I misstated something earlier -- Ohm's Law itself is not a fact, it is conceptual framework, an identification of facts.) Just as our understanding of blood groups and their compatibility has improved over time -- the underlying facts did not change, the knowledge and theories changed to take into account the expanded knowledge of facts. Science is a systematic body of knowledge, that is: knowledge of nature -- nature being the facts.
Waymo’s approach is also brittle, e.g. to changes in the road since the last map pass.

Tesla also uses radar and ultrasonic. Lidar isn’t necessary, just makes depth measurement easier. It’s lower res than cameras, low range, power-inefficient, conflicts with other lidar. Humans drive fine in sunlight, without a coherent IR scanning beam.
Correct. In your bathroom.

Honestly, there is an epidemic of self defeatist in our day and age.
Ideas aren't grown, they arrive all-at-once.
I remember reading about the Minecraft generation algorithm years ago but can't find the link now. The worlds of minecraft are certainly beautiful in a similar sense.
I think you missed the part of the article where they talked about never having enough cash to buy in bulk, instead buying at 2 or 3x the unit cost in 5s and 10s from the corner shop.
Yep, it degrades badly, like digital cellular calls which drop out suddenly.
I love Elon, but this notion of a “bandwidth problem” in UI is what happens when someone with no training in UI whatsoever tries to extrapolate.

Imagine the neural lace already existed. Close your eyes, and picture what you would experience. Would it be 3D? Probably. Our brains have spatial hardware. Would it be auditory? Probably, our brains have hardware for that too. Would there be language? Ya, that’s part of our hardware too.

So it’s an experience of sights and sounds and language...

But think about an iPad... that already had sights and sounds and language. Actually it’s capable of beaming far more of all three to you than it does. And it’s capable of taking in far more input than you generally use. It can do 10 finger multitouch, plus sound recording. Newer devices will have full body tracking.

And yet... we don’t use all that available bandwidth. For the most part we stare at a few words, some boxes and lines... why?

If Elon is right that more bandwidth is the problem, why aren’t there more high bandwidth user interfaces on existing devices?

The answer is: we don’t have a bandwidth bottleneck. We have a design bottleneck. And if I dropped a fully functional neural lace at Elon’s office, he’d have exactly the same design bottleneck. And he’d realize that if he wants to solve his problem, he needs to hire 10 really good UI designers, and then 10 more, and then 10 more, and it’s going to be decades before they max out even the bandwidth of an iPhone.
When I lived in California, I was shocked at how bad the roads are and how poor the signage was (since many of the signs get stolen and are not replaced for months or years). A moderate thunderstorm knocked out power in some parts of LA for weeks. It really seems like there are some parts of the government and utilities that are sclerotic.
Huh? Which developed countries don't have road markings on highways?
Paint is just one aspect. There are also plenty of cracks and uneven pavement as you can see from the street view.
You don’t need an app, a timer, or anything whatsoever; that’s the point:

Follow your breath, count each breath from 1-10, repeat.

Start over if you lose count.

Continue for 2-200 minutes.

You’re meditating.

If you need more help try the Urban Dharma podcast, Kusala is a great guy.
East Coast and Texas metros had the most H-1B visas from 2010 to 2016
This article was from Tampa Bay, Florida. Different states have very different social services nets. And it also varies by metro area. Also, prices are often (perversely) cheaper for basics like food, gas, and diapers in wealthy areas vs poor areas.
This is really bazaar and interesting story.
Embedded use cases including ARM Cortex-M and AVR support seems to be in the focus on the Rust 2018 roadmap: "We want embedded programming to reach first-class status this year." https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/03/12/roadmap.html
Who in their right mind would have sex in a public restroom? That's just disgusting. I very much doubt it has anything with reducing privacy.