skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily against lowering the barrier to flying quadcopters for recreational use (commercial use different story-and I say that as someone who took and passed the FAA Part 107 test).

I'm chiefly curious how/if this system allows operators to adjust or control things like trim-for example and what that mechanism looks like using one's torso as an input source.

Furthermore with a joystick, the resistance of the sticks counts as it's own input mechanism; less about fine-tuned control for its own sake but more about that fine tuned control as an input mechanism of its own.

I think that speaks to your statement here:

An intuitive interface is not necessarily the best interface for skilled users.

Absolutely.

That being said, being able to control yaw by turning one's head-similar to how the AAIH works for AH-64 pilots is something I would welcome-or at least play around with. The rest--possibly, but with reservation.
Once this happens once... for one country, is it too far off to be available to any other country, regardless of it's interpretation or practice of politics?
“What do you tell your kid about borders?”
Agreed! A good reason not to like capitalism.
> the parents can do the enforcing

Why should the parents do the enforcing?

If I goof off and get bad grades I would likely pay for it in my future career opportunities.

/s
Thats unions, but such thing also reduces the amount of housing and construction you can make.
I wonder how Google determines that an attack is government-backed? They must have some incredible intel.
>Elon is stalling because he knows that "Autopilot" isn't capable of making the trip.

I can only assume then that you have some kind of insider info to support your claim?
NO.

China is NOT merely acting like anyone else in regards to international territories.

China very aggressively uses every social, political and military means to change the maps in their favor and extend their political control. This ranges from building military bases by expanding islands in international waters and putting air bases on it and threatening others, to denying that they invaded Tibet, to getting foreigners fired for liking a tweet that might hint that Taiwan is independent.

The US regularly needs to put naval vessels & aircraft in harm's way to frequently reassert Freedom Of Navigation in international waters -- the potential harm is from China's false assertion that these are Chinese territorial waters. This needs to be done ONLY against China in this region -- no other players try to pull the same nonsense.

Please stop trying to act as if China is not an outlier in this regard. Their egregious and even bellicose behavior needs to be called out and halted before it gets more violent. This only serves to normalize and encourage China's egregious behavior.
In some ways we are, but in other ways we aren’t rich at all.

In our ability to procure food and entertainment and travel, even a very poor person is pretty rich compared to the historical average. But if you consider our ability to have leisure time, walk away from an employer, or get other people to do stuff for us, the moderately wealthy of the distant past were still much richer than today’s middle class, let alone today’s poor.
I think at that point "wealth" becomes "capital".
I went the Victron route on my setup, primarily because they make whole systems that can talk with each other. I had originally been looking at the Magnum, though.
> What's a linear transformation?
> I get that it's f(x + y) = f(x) + f(y) and f(cx) = c * f(x)...
> but what does that really mean?

That's a really good question!

Essentially, when some function (synonym for transformation) is linear, what this tells you is that it has "linear structure," which in turns out to be a very useful property to know about that function.

You can combine the two facts you mentioned above to obtain the equation

f(a*x + b*y) = a*f(x) + b*f(y)

for which the interpretation is that the linear combination of inputs ax + by is transformed into the SAME linear combination of outputs af(x) + bf(y).

Suppose now that the input space of f can be characterized by some finite set of "directions" e.g. the x- and y-directions in case f is a 2D transformation, or perhaps the x-, y-, and z-directions if f is a 3D transformation. If f is a 3D transformation, using the linear property of f, it is possible to completely understand what f does by "probing" it with three "test inputs," one along each direction. Just input x, y, and z, and record the three output f(x), f(y), and f(z). Since you know f is linear, this probing with three vectors is enough to determine the output of f for any other input ax + by + cz --- the output will be af(x) + bf(y) + cf(z).

See the same explanations as above but in more details here: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide2LA_previ...

So why is this important? Well this "probing with a few input directions" turns out to be really useful. Basically, if f is non-linear, it means it super complicated and would be no simple way to describe what its outputs are for different inputs, but if it is linear then the "probing procedure" works. Furthermore, since both the inputs and outputs have the form of a linear combination (a constant times something + another constant times another thing + a third constant times a third thing), you can arrange these "things" into an array called a matrix and define an operation called "matrix multiplication" which performs the constant-times-something operation of outputs, when you give the constants as an array (vector) of inputs.

In summary, linear algebra is a bunch of machinery for expressing various transformations in terms of vectors and matrices in order to help with modelling various real-world phenomena ranging from computer graphics, biology, chemistry, graphs, crypto, etc. Even ML ;)
That is impressive, though, in the case of cars, is the minimum prediction not determined by the physics of steering and braking?
As Medicare is not a universal healthcare system, it is not an exception to a generality about what universal healthcare systems do.
Rarely find bugs via unit tests, apart from in complex logic
First regular cell phone use is already banned in a lot of places, and everywhere has a general distracted driving law on the books. It's pretty tough to surf facebook or instagram hands-free.

Second, your essentially saying I'll support a ban that students don't like when drivers stop putting everyone a risk on our roads - why the linkage? You could support both today, or either independently. This sort of linear-justification derails a lot of necessary change with artificial preconditions.
> downtown A2 is very expensive already, but you can live in the nearby areas for considerably less

A big part of the August 7th primary will be about building more housing. Taylor wants more, Eaton wants to freeze Ann Arbor in amber so that no one else can move in and change the town.
Yes, Musk said that on the earnings call. But the hardware upgrade is not the hard part of self driving. At least they have stopped claiming that their current hardware is powerful enough for full self driving already, which was a ridiculous and worrying position for them to take.
Interested. What timezones are allowed for the remote position?
The original iPhone pricing was really baffling. Had it not been a really revolutionary device it would have flopped IMHO.

You paid $600 for the phone, and then AT&T added the phone subsidy to your bill anyway (and never took it off), so it was just stupendously expensive. Apple lowered the price pretty soon after launch.

It was worth it to have a browser on a phone that wasn't total dogshit.
oh freak!
I am interested in knowing more about how you think FloydHub can better serve the market. FloydHub does have metrics support for later reviewing: https://docs.floydhub.com/guides/jobs/metrics. Are you only interested in using tensorboard for graph viewing?
The article explains it was the name of a 19th-century grading project in the area.
This was recently covered in the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636624 by coincidence.
LongTail Keywords, What It Is and Why It Matters
It really depends on how susceptible the particular user is to the cost of being a part Google's ad network. If Google's ad network intelligently informs you to make better consumer decisions, then you can argue that you get paid to use Google's services. But unfortunately, too many people derive extreme negative value from being a part of it by being manipulated into making decisions that harm their lives. Even poorer people could easily be paying thousands of dollars in cost to their health (sugary drink and alcohol ads), bank account (financial scam ads), and community destruction (political misinformation ads).
Elm is still implemented in Haskell. Self-hosting isn't a goal.
Introducing Square Reader SDK
I’m interested in background as to why, specifically, government-backed attacks are reported differently. In my experience who funds the attack is anecdotal to the triage, midigation, and reporting of an attack; be it from government, corporate espionage, or an independent group.
Your emotions are just another part of your body that you can control. It's an extremely important part of countless careers such as investment banker, fighter, lawyer, judge, doctor, clinical scientist or researcher, or even things such as an air traffic controller. It's not that the people in these fields do not have emotions, but that they consciously work to control them. I've achieved as much thanks to a career long in my past as well, and it changed me radically for the better.

I think we are quick to discount things that we cannot visibly see. For instance, if somebody of normal health told you that it was just physically impossible for them to bench press more than 100 pounds, you'd probably find their statement quite ridiculous. Of course the reason is that we can see our muscles and how they change and develop (or atrophy) in response to how we train them, and we can precisely measure changes in our ability to lift. With emotions you cannot so easily measure them, and it's not really clear how to train them. But that certainly does not mean it's out of your control.

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But on point here, consider the notion of trying to prohibit emotionally manipulative advertisements. The first question would be why? Apple's 1984 [1] is one of the most famous and effective bits of marketing. It's also almost entirely an emotional piece. You're certainly not excited about the specs there! I don't see why such things should not be allowed. And if you're going to try to ban emotionally exploitative marketing, why stop there? What of news, or even media in general? Politicians? Even individuals in our ever connected world? And on top of this how do you define what is emotionally exploitative?

It's just not a realistic solution, and sounds quite dystopic in any case. By contrast starting to help people learn to control and manage their emotions is something that seems entirely practical. Of course not everybody will achieve the same results, as in anything, but today we make absolutely 0 effort to teach this in any sort of way. For that matter, at times we even seem to be going in the opposite direction and, at least implicitly, encouraging emotional response.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
Its name is misleading. It's word2vec based on Wikipedia words, not - vectors for Wikipedia pages (cf node2vec, food2vec, game2vec, etc).
That's a good reason for why the city shouldn't arbitrarily change its official definitions of neighborhood boundaries without also changing budget allocations.

Why shouldn't everyone else define neighborhoods however they feel is most useful to them?
I believe Saudi Aramco and PetroChina have passed the $1T mark.

Historically, adjusting for inflation there are also some really big ones: https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/08/22/a-history-...
Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years in Siberian Permafrost Wriggle to Life
I bought some at about the same time. With splits, my cost basis is less than $1/share, and my % return is well north of 20,000%.

Apple stock was the downpayment on my house.
Is Samsung Electronics ridiculously undervalued or what? It generates more profit than Apple https://wccftech.com/samsung-posted-higher-profit-than-apple... yet is valued at only $290 billion instead of $1000 billion. What the heck.
> Linux has had a hard time with end users despite decades of "surely this year is the year of linux on the desktop". Never happened. A lot of that has to do with software installation, package managers and upgrades being a convoluted mess that always ends up in somebody doing stuff in a command line terminal to fix.

I couldn't agree more, and am glad to see that there are others who recognize this issue. Personally, I'm a fan of AppImage because it doesn't require any of the complicated runtime Snap and Flatpak do, meaning it is about as close as you can get to a universal Linux application today (*NixOS notably breaks them, but other than that...).
Proposed Car Efficiency Rollback Will Not Halt Electric Vehicles
That's simply not possible. The IRS themselves state that "tax evasion" is illegal, but "tax avoidance" isn't. A "loophole" is the use of deductibles to lower the amount you pay in taxes, that you choose to try to get.

For example, you could get lower taxes by "getting married", even if you're just friends you can get lower tax rates, etc. That's a "loophole". Are we supposed to prove they "really wanted to get married"? Now apply that to potentially all deductables.....
In France, they solve that for Drugs with downward pressure by the government. Basically a company that wants to put out a drug has 2 options:

- 1. Sell a whatever price they want. But then they don't get a patent and anybody is free to legally copy it.

- 2. Get a patent. But then they must enter the cost negotiation process with the government and prove why they require a particular cost. This is the option that is almost always chosen.

Sitting in the US, it's then sickening to see the same drug developped in France go for 5x the price, just because they can sell it here for whatever the market will bear.
Without PhDs work, you have no clue where to look. Pushing the idea to market not only requires a market fit, but also requires BS everywhere to educate customers. Building a product are efforts, but it is as equal as the efforts of creating the idea.
Things like medical supplies that, in the U.S. are significantly more expensive than elsewhere

Yes, because a single buyer has enormous purchasing power. The insurance-based system is the reason these costs are so high in the US and lower elsewhere.

Would a universal healthcare system only further subsidize that kind of exploitative pricing?

It has not in any other country which offers universal healthcare. I have no idea why people in the US are so averse to this idea - you can still have great private healthcare if you wish and can afford it, but public healthcare provides far better healthcare to the poor, lifts people out of poverty, and it's cheaper for everyone too (public expenditure per capita is dramatically lower). Everybody wins.
If you don't feel like you know less and less every year that you are doing something then you are not gaining any wisdom and will likely never be truly great at it.
He was right. Hardly anyone did buy a $600 phone. Apple had to reduce the price within 6 months, the next year Apple and AT&T did the standard subsidization model.

Now even Apple offers a payment plan.
FWIW I think the screenshots look great.

If someone’s going to use this tool every day, you want to emphasize the videos and faces that change every day—not the buttons and links.
> Healthcare is expensive largely because the decision-maker does not foot most of the bill.

No, it's not, at least that's not the reason it's uniquely high cost in the US compared to the rest of the developed world, because that's not a differentiating factor.
> But what's important to keep in mind is that commenters are expected to explain the reason for their position, it's not just a +1/-1 system. If several people raised an important issue or found some serious problem with the way you've contributed recently, that's more important than the raw numbers.

I've read a lot of talk pages. Mainly about articles that had been deleted, I admit. But anyway, "explain the reason for their position" seems to all-too-often devolve into legalistic debates over rules, procedures and so on. And "several people raised an important issue or found some serious problem with the way you've contributed recently" seems to mostly be about gang warfare, not about the merits.

So basically, people who don't play the game well, and don't go along, tend to get banned.

It'd be far better if those who disagree with the consensus could stand aside, and have their own dissenting fork.
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Linux Desktop evangelists have been saying that for decades. Rather than fix any of the problems people are actually complaining about and that they can actually fix, they prefer to believe the real problem is one they have no power over so they don't have to take any responsibility for the terrible platform they promote.
> It appears backpage, at least in part, was working with law enforcement and human trafficking activists.

But it was not doing this. Backpage was in fact doing things that made it harder for law enforcement to take action.

When people describe Backpage's actions as really fucking evil it's not because no-one is steel-manning backpage. It's because Backpage genuinely was really fucking evil.

When someone posts an ad saying something like "16 year old escort" a non-evil company would have alerted law enforcement. Backpage didn't. Backpage returned an error message saying "Oops! Sorry, the ad poster must be over 18 years of age." (This is the real error message). It would then allow the poster to make an ammendment to the ad and re-submit it. Backpage would not keep this information.

Please read this report, because it clearly details what Backpage did. And don't forget, this document just lists the things that Backpage have said they did.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...
They should have learned that lesson from the iPod - “No wireless, less space than a Nomad, Lame”
Here you go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFa6NhLgeL0&list=PLTWFMbPFsv...

https://gitlab.com/lucasrthompson/Sonic-Bot-In-OpenAI-and-NE...
Are you sure that your approach would cancel out the higher costs of electricity on the people living there?
That is true, best-case scenario (a process storing no data whatsoever) hibernating can remove the 233 words minimal heap (and stack) preallocated, yielding 76 words without hipe or smp, or 103 with them, for 304 / 608 / 412 / 824 bytes (nothing/32, nothing/64, hipe+smp/32, hipe+smp/64).
And yesterday a paper explaining the process of creating Cividis, an even more CVD friendly iteration, was published on plos.org[0]. It's already in Matplotlib, and available for R[1].

(I submitted it yesterday but it didn't get much traction[2], which makes sense given how specific it is)

[0] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjourna...

[1] https://github.com/marcosci/cividis

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17667572
ITU Launches Network2030 Initiative Supporting Emerging Technologies
Google's San Francisco office is in "East Cut". The idea of divorcing "Google" from "Locals" is utterly ridiculous in our neighbourhood. This is one of the few places I'd expect Maps to actually be up-to-date with changes on the ground.

San Francisco says it's a liberal city of immigrants, but unless you're born here and have lived here all your life somehow you're part of the evil "other" that is ruining the city and changing the names of neighborhoods.
San Francisco also puts out an official map, but like many other official maps, it lacks many of the neighborhoods people expect to find: Sunnyside, Japantown, the Tenderloin, Dogpatch, Hunters Point, Mission Bay, Hayes Valley, Miraloma, Cow Hollow... and so in order to give users what they want and expect, Google has to gather data from other sources.

http://sfplanninggis.org/NeighborhoodOrganizations/
That's a nice looking site!

Minor bug: When viewing from the home page to About on Safari at 1080p, your profile picture is squished horizontally. Refreshing fixes it.
Doesn't clear up anything. A person who does not abstain from wine is not an alcohol abstainer.

Among alcohol abstainers, there is no special category of those who abstain from wine; logically, they all must.

A: "I don't play sports"

B: "Which ones don't you play in particular?"

A: "Tennis."

B: "Ah too bad; the one I particularly don't play is soccer."

A: "I guess we won't be enjoying our non-play of sports together then. Your avoidance of soccer requires the lack of a big field and complete absence of half a dozen other players so that a team is not accidentally formed; whereas my aversion toward tennis requires that there be no court or racquets."
absolutely - teaching my kids how to entertain themselves for a couple of hours has been one of the major challenges in raising them. A combination of parents scheduling the entire life of a kid and always-available media has made it very hard for a tween to just "find something to do" for an afternoon.
Again with the LIDAR argument... Humans drive using only eyes (computer vision) and having a sense of location (localization/3D maps).

As has been discussed in some depth here before you commented, computer vision hooked up to some ML doesn’t come close to human eyes controlled by a human brain trained for many years.

Early autonomous test vehicles used LIDARS because camera and compute tech are not at the same level they are today. It's a legacy system and more of a shortcut. In essence, Object recognition > LIDAR judging distances.

Waymo is the cutting edge if you believe what people here say on thread after thread about them, and the raw stats. I’m sure they’ll be interested to hear your view of their “legacy” tech.

Yeah it's true that a vision based system is much harder to solve. However if Tesla cracks it, it will pay dividends.

Finally, reality. Yes, if they do something they’re yet to do, and their cars stop ramming stationary objects, then maybe something else will happen. No one is contesting that, there are just doubts given the state of Autopilot vs. leaders in the field, not to mention Tesla’s dodgy PR in general, and in the face of fatal incidents in particular.
I'm an Apple fan - congratulations to Apple - but on the other hand Apple being the biggest company in the world is pretty uninspiring. After seeing Tesla build a mass market electric car factory, or SpaceX launching a Roadster into space, a company with hundreds of billions of dollars in the bank making phones and headphones feels like a wasted opportunity.
Kind of arbitrary to exclude a company because it uses slave labor or other immoral practices. Your list of giant multinationals would be very short indeed. No textile producers for example except for some tiny boutique shops. No petrochemcial companies at all. No agribusiness. Modern society is built on the suffering of the poor and disenfranchised.
Wait, how did you fetch my profile picture on entering the email id?
The real problem is licensing for the RTOS. "Officially-supported" modding/hacking is probably not going to happen, best you will get is community-driven hacks like Magic Lantern and CHDK.
> The insurance-based system is the reason these costs are so high in the US and lower elsewhere.

No, that can't explain it, because it's also lower in other places that use a mixed public/private system with mandatory insurance purchase and public fallback for the medically indigent, instead of a single buyer.
As derefr notes, it might have been the size of a hibernating (rather than live) process. It's 0.3~0.4k on 32b systems, though 0.6~0.8 on 64b ones.