skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question of will power glosses over the cause/event resulting in the desire to cut off your own hand. Will power is merely a representation of all the preceding events with starting variables at birth, factoring into if the person will do the action of cutting off their own right hand.
I doubt that it's human drivers that are the issue. Cars are nice big easy to identify predictable things, and even if you screw up and hit one the cost is relatively low.

The challenging cases are probably things like children playing on the side of the road, pedestrians, bicyclists, construction workers, cops standing in the street, people working in manholes, and so on. Relatively small, easily obscured, unpredictable, hard for computers to figure out how they are moving, and very high cost to hit.
Right, but that's my point. Wasm is tenuously connected with JavaScript because both are web technologies, so people link the talk.

But they couldn't be more different technically, and if wasm does indeed become the lingua franca of future computing it will be much more boring than the craziness of js doing the same.

The talk was great because it was about an insane yet plausible future. We now have a boring and probable future.
> How much did they spend on this multi decade long campaign?

I would bet they had to pay no more than 10 people full time, lets say at $20/hr. That is an order of magnitude cheaper than advertising.
gp is asking abt rocket inside lambda.
The Zune desktop software music player was, hands down, the best desktop music playing experience I've ever had.
This is an important point.

Inferencing means “to predict” (I’m not sure when this terminology became popular; a few years ago most of us were just using the word predict)

Once trained, a model no longer requires derivatives. It’s more or less a function evaluation, which can be done on plain CPUs.
I suspect there's no definition of free will that isn't at least implicitly religious. It seems to me that what most people want free will to be is supernatural - something like a soul that would exempt their identity from being bound to a purely physical universe.
> benefits rocket (at least seems to) bring feels obvious

Sorry I am not a webdev. Curious what these are compared to something like RoR.
I was curious about OSC before but couldn't find much good info on getting started with it (from C++). Any pointers appreciated.
There was consideration of a wide range of timelines. Given the information we have, it seems like this range was most probably within the stated 18-36 months. A decision was ultimately made to choose an earlier timeline over a later one. Again, this is an irrefutable statement, a fundamental fact of reality.

The only thing that we can discuss and try to figure out from that then, is whether this choice of an earlier IPO over a later one means something. In my opinion, it does. Is this a basis with which we can at least agree on? A discussion without some kind of common foundation to derive from is meaningless otherwise.
We've turned down clients for ethical reasons before. It's not that weird. People do it all the time; they just don't make a lot of noise about it. If the Aryan Nation tried to sign up with us, we'd probably tweet a bit about it. But otherwise we'd just declare ourselves incompatible and get on with our lives and let whoever they are get on with theirs.

So, the assessment you need to make is:

a. How important to your company is the bloc of employees with this client conflict?

b. How much of a dealbreaker to that bloc is the conflict?

c. How much of a dealbreaker to your company is the other side of the conflict?

Pro-choice/pro-life isn't my particular red line (I was raised and still sort of consider myself Catholic, though I'm not pro-life --- but there are certainly pro-life organizations I'd refuse to work with). But there are other red lines, and they do come up, and your principles are usually more important than your customer pipeline, and it's usually just not a big deal to say "no" to people.

Ask your lawyer --- not a message board! --- about the legality of refusing to work with pro-life advocacy organizations, but I'd happily bet money that you're just fine on this. The bigger issue is how you want to handle your relationship with your team.

You might come up with a compromise, if you don't want to publicly take a stand that will attract attention that could harm the company (and that is a possibility); you could, for instance, make a countervailing donation (at some multiple of revenue) to NARAL.
Police and ‘Yellow Vests’ Clash in Paris Protests
I'm grappling with what to do about this law. I develop software in Australia, for a company, separately as a private software vendor and separately again as an open source contributor. From what I can understand, this law can compel me to silently insert malware into any of these. Morally I feel like I need to modify the licenses, READMEs and terms of conditions for products I sell and the contracts under which I do commercial work to clearly state that I may at any time include malware into the software I supply, if directed to by my government.

However unlikely, the idea that I could be commandeered at any moment to betray the users of my software and ship malware to them sickens me. But I also know that the reality of this happening is almost vanishingly small. I genuinely don't know what to do.
Don't know why more people aren't talking about this?
So much for rot13 :(
There are exceptions to this, including for seeking legal advice.

If you think the law effects you then I highly recommend reading the entire text, as passed by parliament: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display....
You were fated to fall into that belief by all the preceding events and variables assigned to you at birth. Full awareness in a sense makes you the perfect you. Yet, you became who you are by destiny. Evil does not exist in the sense of understanding everything is metaphorically mechanical. You have to blame the complete system when you view something as evil and which nobody every seems to do.
Except self driving cars don’t exist.
Although the video is short and may not reveal everything about the chip, the chip appears anything but tricky or complex. Seems like it would be fun to optimize for.
It does not surprise me. They've been extremely active on reddit and HN for years. You cannot say anything bad about Monsanto without at least a dozen of people coming at you with bullshit studies defending Monsanto products/ techs. This is a confirmation that indeed, Monsanto paid shills to systematically answer comments on internet forums to counter any criticism of that company.

This is obviously not the only company engaged in this, but the scale is insane, each time I left a comment regarding the latest Monsanto VS a farmer that got cancer due to Monsanto's product case, at least 30/50 comments were left as an answer. It happened only on Monsanto threads.
If every otherwise healthy man went to their doctor for a checkup today, how many would have their Afib detected? EKGs are not routinely given during checkups, and Afib is not necessarily constant enough that a doctor will catch it during those few moments he has the stethoscope on your chest. And even if it is happening he may not pick up on it.

Afib is relatively common (2% to 9% depending on age), and so is outwardly healthy people dropping dead with no prior warning. The premise that a 24x7 Afib detector on your wrist will save lives is quite plausible.

Now, what you may get from this post is that you should get an EKG once in a while, and not buy an Apple Watch or other gizmo for that purpose, but to suggest that merely visiting the doctor will achieve a similar result is obviously incorrect.
Still damn near 4 dollars here in California.
I would content that it does, but the effect is pretty minor.
Not just an image file. A spreadsheet. A database extract. A genealogical record.

The tagging problem is constant across all formats.
Anti-asian garbage.
I use it for as few things as possible and it does them very well. I only want notifications for things that may be immediately relevant (phone call, text msg, calendar event reminders) so when I walk away from my phone I'm not worried about missing something important. It works with Smart Lock on Android so my phone stays unlocked when I'm close and locked when I'm not. Vibrating alarm clock that won't wake the whole house, sleep & exercise tracker without needing to carry my phone. I don't actually "use" it very often, but it is a very passive yet essential part of my routine and keeping myself on track. I am very forgetful and used to have entire weekends pass by where I forget to check my phone unless something reminds me to and the Pebble helps make sure I get only the essential information when I need it without unnecessary interruption. It also shows time and weather at a glance ;)
The main counter is you're not choosing when everything is based on the proceeding event with the variables assigned at birth. Nothing is chance when understanding the universe is mechanical in a sense like a clock. Hard work is just a psychological pattern adapted from how you were conditioned with the mindset you developed by fate.
the socioeconomic situation and religion was way too different in the 1900s to compare. The shift in attitudes since the 90s on the other hand is remarkably large

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex...
Project Gotham Racing 1-4
I've been using captainduckduck in production for a while now.

It might be a little finniky for you to wrap your head around at first, but it does work well once you do that.

https://captainduckduck.com
I don't personally think that there's anything inherently specific to Rocket that makes it better for lambdas than any other Rust web framework.

That's just my opinion, of course.
I guess I feel like I don't have a screen time problem because for me my phone is (in order):

1) A communication device
2) A music player
3) A glorified search engine when I'm not at a computer

I think because I never really dived head-first into social media I don't have a strong desire to use my phone beyond when I need it for the above functions.
"Please only download fonts for which you have the rights."

Doesn't really seem like "safe harbor" to me if the host is the one who curated the selection of downloads...
TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangerous Direction
I don't understand how they apparently managed to monitor every single forum on FB.

I was discussing something entirely tangential in a FB forum about something irrelevant once, Roundup was mentioned, and two posters immediately appeared to aggressively push the corporate line.

Does FB make private monitoring APIs available to corporates? If so, that's questionably legal in a number of countries.

Or did Monsanto really build/hire a firehose barrel to monitor everything in real time?
Why not just start with freeways/ring roads?
I thought I’d miss those things too, now I get all confused when I drive with a dashboard in front of me. The only sorta inconvenience is the glovebox, but honestly, there’s so much space in the middle storage that the only use of the glovebox is keeping stuff you don’t access all the time “safe” (if someone breaks in the car, they will have to break it too to grab whatever’s inside)
What if companies that want to expand globally actually want to be forbidden to show any 'objectionable' content. They don't really want to do it themselves, so they work to get it mandated?

Seems like it could increase the barrier of entry significantly while simultaneously giving access to new, less saturated markets?

Sounds like crazy talk, but why has porn suddenly become such a big deal?

Even before internet, porn has been readily accessible for decades, so why does it suddenly become a problem big enough that companies seems willing to loose their entire business to filter out a specific class of content?

The only reasonable explanation is that they are seizing the opportunity, one possibly created on purpose, to enact realignment to new markets without getting all the flak themselves.
Even for American oil consumers, doesn’t fewer imports imply an expectation of greater stability going forward, since the price is more dependent upon just this country’s happenings, and less dependent on the happenings inside other countries?

Or can it be argued either way, e.g. that if the production was spread over more countries the prices would be less dependent on any one country in isolation?
The cloud wars of 2017 [2016]
No. The problem is that road systems (even really easy ones like in America) are designed for humans, and humans are requires some human abilities that AI isn't even close to, like anticipating what people are going to do.

Also I think the actual hardware is not good enough yet. LIDAR is great but humans can see really far in really good detail and can work out what is happening even in really bad conditions (rain, looking into the sun, etc).

Non-motorway driving is just too varied. I still think the first real application of autonomous vehicles will be driverless lorries that drive between depots that are connected by motorways. It's way way easier because the environment is so restricted, there's a clear commercial need, and people would be a lot more comfortable about the safety aspect - who hasn't seen a lorry drift into the hard shoulder? Plus lorries are super expensive so it wouldn't increase the cost too much, and they're huge so there is plenty of space for hardware.
"Counterfeit Monkey" by Emily Short expands the T-remover puzzle into a full game full of wordplay. For example, you turn a fossil into foil and then oil to fix a car.

Retrospective: https://emshort.blog/2013/01/24/making-of-counterfeit-monkey...
Ok, it's just that was the entire point of the post.
We don't? Sure we do. We boycott all sorts of things. Economics and market relationships are one of the most potent tools people in our capitalist society have for effecting change.
Sorry, but no: Don't keep cats indoors or on a leash.

Cats are predators. And they need freedom. If you're concerned for birds et al. don't get a cat.

Don't be cruel to cats to satisfy your need for a pet by forcing your view of how nature should work onto them.
I think he means PalmOS, which has nothing to do with web or webos.
Types and Implicity
9:05 is my favorite introduction to IF: http://adamcadre.ac/if/905.html
There is no "American diet" as far as I have experienced. Once you travel around the country you find vastly different eating habits and diets.
Ah yes. The pictures I found made it look like it didn't have a proper display but it actually does. Definitely not e-ink though.
> But I also know that the reality of this happening is almost vanishingly small.

Why do you think it’s vanishingly small?

You could somewhat trust the the current govt but you can’t trust the future. I’ve lived in Australia for a long time and the trend is clear. More surveillance is to come. Australia is very much a police state as it is.
I imagine what's next is that the next time a pro-life advocacy organization tries to sign up, they will again say "no".
No, it makes more sense to fix the broken system that resulted in the faulty machinery and to fix the faulty person as well. If one cannot fix the person, it doesn't make sense to scrap them if we put humanity at the highest regard with understanding free will is an illusion. We would just have to prevent the person from being able to do the wrong and understand punishment is against humanity in the equation with handling the person.
> "Lane changes appear to be a problem for the cars," Randazzo says in the video. When trying to move into a crowded lane, a Waymo car seemed to lack a human driver's ability to anticipate other drivers' actions and squeeze into an open spot. Instead, the vehicle would turn on its turn signal and wait for a few seconds for an opening to appear. If one didn't appear, it would turn the turn signal off and wait for a while before trying again.

This makes sense, because a lot of times merging into a lane is a game of chicken. You've got to make the drivers in that lane believe that you're going to merge anyway and that they'll need to slow down to avoid hitting you.
Or it won't, and you'll fail, but at least you'll have stood by your own principle of disregarding the political beliefs of your team in the service of your customers, and maybe that's what'll make you happiest!
When Answering the Phone Exposes You to Fraud
People don't want to be picked up and dropped off at freeway exit ramps or Cracker Barrels.
That seems very anecdotal. For some people the first symptom of their Afib will be sudden death. That it doesn't present for everyone that way does not make it trivial.

Also, an electrophysiologist IS a cardiologist, with an additional couple years of specialization. Ablations are still considered invasive surgery and they do carry some risks.

Now if you told me PVCs are not scary, I'd probably agree. I get 5K-30K of them every day, depending on some factors. Definitely not up there with Afib.
I often go on walks with my cat without a leash up the mountain that I live at the base of. She just follows me; occasionally she'll lag behind if something interests her, but she catches up eventually if I just keep walking.
Layoff all Australian employees. That just looks weak.

Apple is only pro privacy when it makes them more money. They already do business in China. They have a fiduciary duty to their investors to not jump the gun like that.
This. I thought everybody for sure in the USA got A grades for everything. If you were not then you get extra credit to let you get the A Grade.

In England, A Levels have gotten to the point where each year more people get an A for a subject than the previous year. This is analogous to the Soviet harvests beating each preceding years. Not they have A* grades or some such derivative to say that it's a "real" A grade.
I've always wanted to write an grown-ups disney musical about her. A few years ago I even called up the IPO and said that if I had the money and the right team, he'd consider it. I have neither. Alas.
No. It's that humans are remarkably adaptive and can convey intention through body language -- even through a "puppet body" like a motor vehicle. Humans can, by and large, adapt to "terrible" drivers -- swerving to avoid the aggro asshats, honking at phone addicts to signalboost green lights, changing lanes to avoid grandpa's leaden brake foot, etc.

Speaking as somebody who owns a classic car, drives carefully to baby said classic and often rides shotgun... I gotta say: most drivers are pretty decent. The people I hear complain about how awful everybody else is... they're either old and drive dangerously slow, or they're super entitled and drive aggressively. Since we're on HN, I'm gonna guess you're of the latter camp. Do the world a favor: take Uber and don't write AI.
Scientists Reprogrammed Human Skin Cells into Immune Cells to Fight Cancer
Would it be considered a boycott? I believe US companies are no longer allowed to boycott another country without authorization from the US government.
It’s like we’re crippling our own future workforce and phenotype expression legacy sigh lol
It's also about accelerating into the lane when half an opening appears so the drivers behind you don't have to slow down as much.

A lot of city driving, especially rush hour city driving, is about creating an opening. Not about waiting for one.

But yeah if your turn signal is on and you're not moving into my lane within 1 second, I'm assuming you forgot to turn it off.
The is an excellent 3 min deconstruction of Adam Curtis' work on YouTube [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
In the video you can actually see the waymo car do that. Faking to move in, then stopping, then faking, ...
This is a series of good points. Near where I live (Australia), we had some roadworks on the freeway, causing the lanes to be temporarily moved. The "new" lines where yellow, instead of the normal white, and much harder to see. Further, this happened several times, so you just followed the "most yellow" line, and hoped that nobody rammed into the side of you.

If, instead, we have a set of local sensors setup that identified the new "safe" path, an automated car could easily go through this new section. As marked, however, it would be very dangerous to rely on an automated driver.
The Victorian discussion of sexuality was paired with a great deal of licentious behavior.
I think he's talking specifically about NSFW subreddits, where many do say "no self generated content" specifically to avoid tumblr-style underage problems.
Jansenism emphasized on predestination and is unique in being contrary to all the religions using free will for an alternative expression. Thought it might be worth mentioning because someone might find it interesting.
> If you assume free will is an illusion, then it would make more sense to treat those who threaten society as faulty machinery and scrap them.

If you have a system that produces defects, you could continuously scrap them, but you could also just fix the system so it doesn't produce defects.
Come on guys, Monsanto isn’t that bad. They single handedly saved my entire family from a burning building.
Written in December [2016]. Should have a [2016] tag
Node.js 10 (N|Solid) available for free on AWS Lambda
I was mentioning that is a common criticism of the BB's, yes
I don't understand something from the the reddit thread. He said his heart rate was finally down from 120-140. If that's your non-exertion heart rate, isn't that a pretty good sign that you should see a doctor? Apart from any more sophisticated diagnosis?
This is the United States’ third biggest housing boom in the modern era
That's happened to me, too. Worst episode I ever had was in India earlier this year, while dealing with jet lag and a significant case of gastrointestinal poisoning, my PVCs stepped up to once every two-three beats. For a short time, they spiraled into some form of SVT (not formally diagnosed as this was before I started carrying an EKG on me) that resulted in visible chest movement (as in you could stand in front of me and watch my chest shaking) and a 240 bpm reading on my Apple Watch. Good times. Between being absolutely run-over-by-train tired and having (likely) electrolyte imbalances due to the impossibly large amount of liquid going in one end and out the other, my heart was not at all pleased.

Now that I'm back on my routine schedule, I find that everything is mostly okay if I get a full night's sleep and take my meds. Even with the meds, though, if I get woken up by the kids or something and get a half-night of sleep, the PVCs ramp up quite a bit. As does the temptation to find some caffeine, which would be completely counterproductive.

Sorry for the wall of text.
Prepping might give you an advantage during a small interruption in services. Any prolonged disruption and it does you little good, unless you’re far removed from everyone and no one knows you have some dedirable goods. Maybe if you live in decommed silo. Otherwise, unless you have a militia with you, who will needs lots of food and other things, no matter how well you’re armed and stocked, you’ll be overwhelmed by others you’re not sharing with. So it may help in minor cases, but definitely not in catastrophic cases, except it may help delay the inevitable a little bit.
I am not paying 1000 for an iPhone. Period. Well start looking for budget but good enough Chinese phones as replacement, after all 1k can buy me 2 of those