skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but for identity purposes that account is not verified to a human just by what some kid posted on a piece of paper.

It is verified by 25 years of history.
Tens of thousands of transactions.
Bundles of other accumulated data from every linked account,
and every change of address.

It is a whole lot easier to fake most government ID,
than it is to fake 25 years of history.
> without knowing about the hardware guts or theory.

And so it should be (for the vast majority of the HW's users). The better the work done by the people below, the more hermetically with which the abstraction can be interacted from above.
Google blasts its chrome ads on the most visited site on the planet purporting to be very fast. Firefox happens to be a default browser for many linux distributions. Which one do you think attracts the less tech savvy people?
I think if you have a predictable accident, that's called negligence, and we have courts to deal with that.
I think what is clear is that virtually no one is okay with large-scale public deployment of self-driving cars that aren’t clearly statistically safer than human drivers, so when we’re talking about public deployment of self-driving cars, it’s implied that we’re talking about when (if) they reach that level of safety.
You can only "afford" so much house until your wages increase or your equity affords a refinance/sale... unless you can generate side income some way.

I am not actually positive on wages increasing. I feel like there is enough information asymmetry in the market that wages will stay depressed.
That just isn't true. It was widely believed through the seventies and eighties that chess inherently required creativity, and a machine could never beat a grandmaster.

Rather, I suspect, tasks which computers start outperforming humans in we reanalyse as "completely procedural". Nobody called chess procedural in the middle of last century.
I feel a bit foolish having bought a yearly subscription in March......

But then again I have seen more than enough movies to break even on that yearly price so perhaps I was not so foolish after all!
I am not a TRON fan or investor but you have done some fine mental gymnastics there. They did bought BitTorrent. Source and legitimacy of their funds are questionable
Does not compute.

I agree with the author's sentiment, but also note that it is precisely that--personal preferences masked as universal truths (aka business as usual).

"shopping carts and web forms and pretty pictures" versus "mak(ing) a tiny little difference in the industry and chang(ing) the world just a little bit"?

One could argue that certain "pretty pictures" have changed the world far more than any bits and bytes ever could, when considering the long history of art and visual expression.

(Besides the notion of anything in this industry accomplishing that representing human vanity--we're more of a minor irritant to the world, to be shrugged off and forgotten in the course of time.)
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not...
Context is key here. The comment you’re replying to was made in the specific context of the volume of long-haul truck traffic on I-40.
I've been burned multiple times by this; the worst was a pair of remote control off-road trucks for my sons' Christmas presents. They had hundreds of 5-star reviews and both units worked for maybe 5 minutes each. Within days of Christmas, the listing was flooded with 1-star reviews from other conned parents with very similar stories.

The number of products impacted must be far over the 1% claimed. There are whole categories that have been ruined by Fake China and kids' toys is probably the worst. Headphones, as mentioned by another commenter here, are another.

This problem is quickly destroying Amazon's credibility with a lot of customers. I went to a Best Buy for the first time in a decade to buy a pair of iPhone headphones, just so I'd be assured a genuine product. I now buy my kids' toys at Target, just so I can be assured that there's a reasonable chance that they aren't crap.
There are three possible scenarios.

1. Amazon uses good ML techniques, and they don't work.

2. Amazon is doing something else to detect fraud, and it doesn't work.

3. Amazon is lying about the issue.
I agree with you. I think it's a bit dangerous to start splitting boomers out though. All it's going to do is create division between young and old resulting in defunding for both groups.
Frankly, that's not clear to me. A lot of people seem quite eager to put the first vaguely plausible thing all over the road because of an exaggerated idea of the incompetence of human drivers (which is understandable, but harmful in this context)
You vet the source, you corroborate with other sources, you check against unclassified info available, etc.

In many cases, you can ask the government if they want to comment before you publish. Sometimes they will (and sometimes it'll be "on background" or "an anonymous source"), other times they'll ask you not to publish, sometimes they'll just shrug their shoulders.

National security reporters do this pretty much daily.
And Julia's tuples, named tuples, and structs are value-types without pointers.
I used to be involved in car audio in the late 90's, and the people involved came up with many of these solutions via trial & error.

- Have a central grounding point - a steel car body has higher resistance than copper wire so using multiple ground locations will introduce voltage differences.

- Use a large gauge stranded wire for your ground.

- Use the same gauge wire for the ground as you did for the power wire.

- Keep wire runs short.

- Use twisted-pair wire for audio connections.

So for a multi-amp system, you'd run a large gauge wire from the battery positive to a distribution block, and from there to the head unit and amps. The ground from the head unit & amps would use the same diameter wire and be run to a central point. The ground strap from the car body to the battery negative post would perhaps be upgraded to the same diameter as the positive wire.
I'm all for self-driving trucks. Well, I don't like any tech that takes away a human job, but that's irreverent now.

I don't think truck drivers get the respect they deserve.

Driving a truck on I-5, in CA, seems pretty straight foreword, but their are so many roads in varying states of disrepair that I think self-driving trucks will be a ways off.

I can't imagine a self driving going from Sacramento to Reno on highway 80.

What happens when the brakes heat up, and the computer needs to decide when it's prudent to barrel into the gravel stop?

Or, that split second where the truck driver needs to decide; do I swerve around the Prius filled with people, hit the rig in front of him, or drive the truck off the road--oh yea, it just started to snow, and there's black ice on the road.

I've been on a lot of highways, and it's a symphony. I'm shocked their isn't more accidents.

My point is driving a truck, on our decaying roads, is a very complex task.

There's judgement calls that take years of wisdom that go into driving a truck.

There's a human element involved in driving that I don't think software will ever be able to emulate.

We all see people driving who should have a licence, but they are not the ones usually driving commercial rigs.
Why Beauty junkies put on Snail slime
> Toba released between 2000 and 3000 cubic kilometers of ejecta (800 cubic kilometers being ashfall), killed a significant portion of humans alive at the time, created a genetic bottleneck responsible for the current genetic makeup of billions of people, lowered the temperature as much as 27F in places (5.4-9F globally).

The Toba genetic bottleneck theory is generally considered discredited in modern scientific circles. There is evidence of an ash layer as far as Lake Malawi, but there is no evidence of any significant disruption to flora and fauna. It failed to even show a major cooling event in that region.

> at some point you likely have massive fires burning through entire cities adding more smoke and ash to the atmosphere, some of these will move into forests unchecked

At this point in your little rant, I broke down laughing. You're clearly someone who has bought into the nuclear winter theories, and the most outlandishly over-the-top ones at that. We've been able to observe out-of-control boreal forest fires in recent decades (such as the McMurray fire not two years ago), and the effects of such fires are extremely short-lived. Even setting an entire country's oil fields on fire failed to produce any significant regional effect, much to the chagrin of the nuclear winter fear-mongers.

> Toba was 100x more powerful than Tambora that I think I saw mentioned elsewhere in this comment chain. tambora happened in 1815 and cooled global temperatures by 0.95F / 0.53C, per wiki

Tambora is the strongest eruption in recorded history. It is also the strongest link we have to a volcanic winter, the effects of which were so devastating that you have to go read books on Tambora to discover that it happened. The only other eruption posited to have had enough of an impact to cause political repercussions is Huaynaputina in 1600, which may have caused the Russian famine during the Time of Troubles.

There is a significant gap between "measurable drop in global temperature" (which is well-attested) and "significant population drop due to crop failures" (which is not), and an even more significant gap to "extinction of several species as a result of major climactic changes."

To believe that a supervolcano is capable of making the human race extinct, you'd have to believe either that >99% of species are less susceptible to extinction than humans, or that extinction-level events happen every few million years, the latter of which is contradicted by fossil evidence.
I’m 22. I’m seeing everyone I respect get TC over $180k and on. I don’t come close while working harder and being judged more harshly.

I can’t even leave. Everyone thinks I’m a joke because of my background and lack of pedigree. I’m never going to make up for my prior failures at this rate.
The ramifications of this trend -- and the likely political responses, considering the current responses -- will be interesting (to say the least). My rough prognostication (tuned for the U.S.):

* Western leaders (the U.S. in particular) will see this as a threat to their technological/economic dominance.

* In response, the number of educational visas will be severely limited at some point.

* Universities dependent on foreign students paying full tuition, especially smaller ones, will find themselves suddenly (or not-so-suddenly) strapped for cash.

* These colleges will lobby against visa restrictions, prompting further criticism from nationalist/populist entities/organizations, who will seek additional restrictions on loans/funding for such universities.

* Within 10-30 years, the capital crunch will eventually force smaller universities to merge (if possible) or close altogether.

* The wave of closures further damages technological innovation, harming overall economic output.

* The economic downturn results in even further cuts to university/college funding, creating a vicious cycle that ends only when most small universities are gone, leaving only massive state universities and a few small niche/boutique universities catering to elites.

I'm sure it won't turn out exactly like that -- and besides, closing some of the more expensive universities may help bring tuitions down in general -- but given the current political climate, I see the situation only getting worse before it gets better.
RISC-V is designed to be universal. That means you have to support everything that is now dominated by MIPS, ARM, x86 and so on. There are lots of markets and even today we use lots of ISA.

Lets remember that there BILLIONS of chips that are internal to companies doing other hardware and all of those should be RISC-V as well.

So if you have that ambition you need to have a way to balance standardization and fragmentation. Profiles are way to find standards for specific use type primary in order to do software standardization on these profiles.
> It turns out you can’t fix noisy data by intersecting it with a different-but-related noise source.

No you actually can; it's called "soft combining": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_automatic_repeat_reques... and it's a crucially important feature in high-performance air interfaces (like LTE).
I've found that it's more useful to sort by negative reviews. It's reasonable to assume that the product is what it appears to be at face value, but customers tend to speak up if they feel like they got cheated.

On the other hand, I believe I read that some fake reviews are actually negative, as a means to funnel users to competing products. So who knows?

Can't trust anything I read on the internet concerning a product or service.
Easy 1st amendment win for Defense Distributed. Also, the states in the suit will need to show they've been harmed (unlikely)
Rail is the other options and if trucking becomes more expensive, then the flow will shift back to rail.
Upon reconsideration I felt that for some readers it should be doomed, while for others it was probably a worthwhile purchase, and I made that clear in my review. Book recommendation is not as straightforward as people think.
I'm going to guess this: https://odditymall.com/credit-card-wallet-phone
I'd say it's no worse than Ruby or Python. Async-everything is what makes it better, imo. No need for Twisted/EventMachine fragmentation.

This is how people end up using it on the back-end when they do have a choice.

Though "respect" is a corny word to use for any language. I don't respect my screwdriver either.
Not surprised to see such things created with Unreal because they have loads of money and man power to throw at problems. But then again the 2 examples you show does not really fairly represent anything, because the raytracing demo uses super expensive Nvidia hardware that not many people can touch, the second demo also requires specific mocap hardware and there's only one character active in the whole scene. Data oriented is still relatively new, give it some time. But I would say if Unreal 4 was written with data oriented design in the first place, it would have been much better, at least performance wise. Even if it is a mixture of OOP and DOD, no one says you cannot do that. It was a lost opportunity. Working with it right now is a pain, really. After all, if the engine's performance is already so great, why did they need to spend so much time fixing performance problems in their latest releases?

If you want to see what data oriented design can do, with regards to games, you can check out Unity's lastest show of their beta ECS and Job systems. And their custom C# compiler called Burst. Essentially sidestepping the Garbage collector, compile away many of C# safety features, like bounds check, under specific conditions. While processing entities in straight array iteration fashion. All in the name of performance, undoing the damages caused in the past. I guess you know that newer generations of CPUs require effective use of the cache as well as multithreading to extract the full power out. At least Unity technologies should be applauded for trying to do that, and for trying to bring it to the mass.

I'm pretty sure that many game engines do use data oriented design to some capacity, especially those that used to run on PS3. But just because they are not available off-the-shelf, no source code to look at, doesn't mean they don't exist. Off the top of my head is Insomniac Games, arguably successful studio which is also a strong advocate of DOD.

All this is to say that there are times when even the legends hold questionable beliefs, which we should take with a grain of salt.
Honest question: In the video, it looks like it works, but performs worse than about 90% of humans at the task of rotating a cube.

On the other hand, Alpha Go or even a rudimentary chess program does better than 99.99% of all humans.

So is it fair to say that deep learning is fundamentally missing something that humans do? Or that chess and Go are "easy" problems in some sense?

(It seems like with "unlimited" training hours it could eventually be better than a human? Or is that a hardware issue?)
We've banned this account for violating the site guidelines. You can't attack others this way on HN regardless of how strongly you feel about an issue.

Abusing the site this way will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

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I can handle getting some crappy set of headphones but a big let down for a child's Christmas is just so upsetting to a point that maybe I've got unaddressed issues. I have a toddler and I think I'll gladly pay the premium to buy Toys R Us stuff I can touch and play with in the store.
This is total FUD. What about developer edition? WebIDE? The grid tool works great, the network tab has been better than chrome’s for at least as long as I can remember; and unlike Chrome, I don’t have to sideload add-ons that challenge Google’s business model (AdNauseam for instance). You’ve said a lot in your comments but it’s hard to figure out what specifically you’re referring to in any complaint.
Questioning assumptions is hardly what Plato conveys - rather the opposite. Most of his arguments are constructed of blank suppositions which we're meant to take at face value, usually because the social burden of contravening them in the back-and-forth flow of dialog is so difficult - Thrasymachus was right, Socrates is simply a bully. This is how the Republic is able to take us to such, frankly, asinine places (like a ban on fast-tempo'd music) - because Plato doesn't even attempt to unpack most of his (rather conservative) assumptions.
It didn't use to be this way.
They need to give customers a way to sort by review counts in a time-weighted fashion. In other words, a product with 1,000 reviews and a 4.5 average that had been sold for five years would rank higher than a product with 1,500 reviews and a 4.8 average that had been sold for three months. This would help identify the quality products from stable manufacturers.
Yes but you also get to automate way way less trucks than cars if we look at the current ratio.
First do no harm: Fly-by Architecture Reviews and How to avoid them?
Actually very few people think you're a joke, and none of the people who matter do. Mercifully, for most of us and for most of the time, most people don't think about us at all. But again: this sounds like pathological anxiety, not something a message board can help you with. There's no good reason to suffer; I think you would benefit from talking to someone who specializes in this stuff.
I speculated recently that TypeScript might _de facto_ help V8 optimizations, and the post seems to confirm that. https://clipperhouse.com/does-typescript-make-for-more-perfo...
> No, I'm actually saying that everything is QM

I assumed that's what you're saying. I'm familiar with the viewpoint that classical physics is a pragmatic approximation to QM for macro phenomena.

> About the pilot wave theory, well it came after the standard formulation of QM, so people didn't choose between them

Of course. I was posing a hypothetical to demonstrate an error the argument you were making (assuming the conclusion as part of your argument).

> ignoring that you put by hand the actual QM wavefunction to make it work, then you fix things to get the old stuff back. I find all that weirder than standard QM.

I may be missing something here, and I haven't looked into the calculational details of pilot wave theory, but my understanding is that the same probabilities you ordinarily deal with in QM exist, but they are used to signify lack of knowledge of the observer of the state of the system (rather than saying that the system is literally in an indefinite state), so it makes sense that the wavefunction machinery would still be present, but used in a different way.
Some argue that IPFS is a rip off of BitTorrent, and thus, the circle is complete: BT -> IPFS -> TRON -> BT
Yes! That's half of it. They've made it really fast for running JS web apps and safe for people who don't know not to do dangerous things.

The other have is removing functionality like the user customization of XUL and jetpack style extensions (killing off a giant ecosystem that has yet to recover). And there's also the anti-freedom (pro-security) changes like the removal of the ability to install (or modify) your own extensions without Mozilla's approval and signing. And no, using a beta (developer/etc) manually installed does not count.
Wall of Worry Builds Around the US Tech Sector
The New Google Material Redesign 2018
"Say “Firefox” and most people think of a web browser on their laptop or phone, period.... from easy screen-shotting and file sharing to innovative ways to access the internet using voice and virtual reality, these tools will help people be more efficient, safer, and in control of their time online."

Translation: They want to overload the Firefox name to the point where it's totally meaningless. The success of the Firefox name is no doubt the reason but this fails to recognize that's not how names work. This direction is exactly the reason why Nintendo called their console "WiiU" and that turned out about as well as this ultimately will.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Firefox being the name of a single product. The entire underlying premise of this redesign is flawed.

"Firefox is where purpose meets performance."

The marketing direction here could not be less inspiring.
Not sure how the context of what I said changes this? Yes, trains already exist and have existed much longer, and yet have obviously lost out to the truck.
Nationalistic flamewar will get your account banned here. Can you please not post like this to HN? You did it elsewhere recently as well, which is a problem.

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The code is at https://github.com/kaiostech

But note that KaiOS itself doesn't ship devices, so we can't publish some of the code used by OEMs to do full builds.

While I agree that we took too long to publish this code, we were not legally infringing any license contrary to what some (even at Mozilla, lol) pretend.
I wonder if the HDD the author used to store those bits is also having read errors, which the drive is correcting on the fly.
It seems like MSFT is trying to carve out a space between traditional PCs and mobile tablets/phones. You own it, but you don't. Take it a step further and if we see anything from OEM pc manufactures like we do with OEM android device manufactures and their lack of application updates, this new platform would be the worst of both worlds.
Some large factories are already connected to the rails system (at least in France) but I don't know how often this is the case.

For the other cases, automated trucks would make a lot of sense, even just for the last miles.

I often wonder how much of the push to automated cars is due to an US centric vision of the world.
But this is a cliche in the AI field: that AI is defined as the things that computers can’t do as well as humans right now. As soon as computers match human ability, well, clearly that doesn’t count as “intelligence.”

And I don’t think the problems computers have proven themselves useful in solving have been what most people expected. Chess, Go, facial recognition, Jeopardy, image classification (hot dog or not), captchas (clearly, since they’re designed specifically to resist computer solutions), etc. seem to me to be things that, before computers proved to be decent at, would have been widely considered to require intelligence on the level of humans.
This kind of obsessiveness was used to create the best values of Oink's pink palace - until that modern library of alexandria was burned down.