skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK, people are rarely caught simply for texting and driving. to actually catch someone in the act, a cop has to drive by at the right moment and see the driver texting. more often, sms records will be examined in a crash postmortem. if texts were sent right before the time of the crash, it's good evidence that the driver was illegally texting. I guess if the police really care, they can do the same thing after pulling you over for erratic driving.

eating food doesn't leave the same digital trail. if a person crashes or gets pulled over for driving erratically and there's half a sandwich in the passenger seat, there's no way to know whether they were eating while driving or whether they just ate half of it in a parking lot 30 minutes ago.
Anytime you are writing a product where the first version you ship will be the last manual testing is going to be cheaper/faster than automated testing. Only when you are making changes over several years do automated tests really pay off (in a few cases this can be some core libraries to a product that otherwise is ship and forget).
There's at least an option for events now: https://gettogether.community/

It uses ActivityPub, but I don't know of any primetime-ready messengers that use AP yet. This is all I could find: https://github.com/fedimos
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Correct. By the author's logic, the article should _also_ be considered harmful because it is quite vague. In fact, it does not even go remotely into the detail about vagueness. Moreover, it omits the fact that Asimov actually plays with these laws in all his books (I think this has been mentioned already in another comment), showing exactly the interesting consequences of the wording...

While I like AI policy discussions a lot, this article does not help unfortunately. :-/
That's the entire point of the real wages statistic: the price of goods has remained relatively pinned to wages since that point.
Smoking is an interesting example because the negative effects aren't just confined to the individual. Smoking a cigarette is the atmospheric equivalent of peeing in the pool except it also causes cancer and other health issues. Maybe it's actually an important example because it's an undeniable illustration of 2nd order effects, which are less pronounced in other cases but probably still exist.

And "any room for personal responsibility"? There are plenty of domains of behavior that aren't regulated; there's a whole world of choices individuals are responsible for alone.

Various forms of regulation regarding smoking, seat belts, and yes, even raw milk are all working in areas where limited human capacity for evaluating risk meets deadly consequences. Privacy is arguably different since it's unlikely to be directly deadly, but it does meet risk evaluation limits and adds in that incentives of 3rd parties are against individual incentives, and many of those 3rd parties have incredible resources available to them in order to obscure behavior and subvert protections. A collective response is a reasonable one.
I was onstage at Google IO one year (Urs and I launched Google Compute Engine). ALl our practice sessions were preempted by Vic Gundotra (launching G+ Events) and Sergey Brin (launching Google Glass with the most epic tech demo I've ever seen). But now, the first two are dead products while GCE makes $$$ for Google. It was a real FU to me and my coworkers, and even then it was obvious that social and glass weren't billion-dollar products.
Apple Is a Hypocrite on Data Privacy
Speaking of complacency around giant spinning blades, I was putting on cedar shingles last year, and wondered how they were made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3HBfj423cc
This is why I only buy disks and rip them. My Plex server will never close down or tell me I can't watch a movie anymore.
Definitely agree.

I know good people working for Facebook, but it does make me think "After everything you know about Facebook, the fact you would still work there, makes me respect you a lot less"
Hm, that’s fair but I don’t think it’s an excuse for an easy reference to not exist. All you need to do is then provide context with the example. There are many languages with hard an fast rules about usage or formation of words that are products of their context.
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Someone was working on an alternative where they switch the motor to DC current, which causes the magnetic fields to stop rotating and hence the blade as well. That gets around the patent and has the potential to not require repairs after triggering.

Edit: and it looks like Bosch has a cheaper system involving tech from airbag firing hardware that’s $50 per charge, that retracts the blade instead of catching it.
Half my country of billion ppl will be in USA if they have open borders :D .
> Humans do not care about the value of a robot "life", because we generally feel it has none.

Hasn't Atheism been on the rise? I wonder how people will feel about this subject of life by the time AGI is achieved.
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the same thing could be said about molecular dynamics.
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You've pretty much covered my views.

What was illegal should already have been banned but the removal of non illegal but objectionable (to many) content stuck at the heart of what Reddit was, of course it's their platform and they can do as they please but I often enjoyed debating with people holding diametrically opposite views.

I mean I entirely get why they would do it from a business point of view but it was a stark sea change from what they'd done up to that point.

Throw in all the other odds and ends and Reddit just feels different.

The constant nagging to install their app, the hilariously bad redesign and handling of the redesign etc it just adds up.
My personal experience working with visa workers at multiple organizations is that many organizations do indeed use them as de-facto indentured servants. One visa worker got paid only once every 6 months. He tolerated it because complaining could get him sent back home. (It did cover his full pay, though.)

The claim H1B's are being used to "relieve labor shortages" is mostly untrue.

I disagree with a good many policies of the current administration, but they got this mostly right. I have to give them kudos.
Yeah, pretty much. I get email receipts for everything, so nothing is a surprise, but quarterly I'll go through my automated bills and say "do I really use this?" and cut them out.

As for how to automate, I basically just have AutoPay on every service that allows it
And adding mandatory, recorded, voice commands for a subset of functionality.
Apple should offer an alternative way to load apps onto the phones that Facebook paid for that can't be revoked.
Absolutely, and on a totally unrelated note, in case anyone asks, the reason that spy satellite happens to contain a nuclear warhead is for self destruction purposes only. Consider it a safety feature ;)
An enormous dentist would help here.
Correct me if I'm wrong here but wouldn't tech like this also sap signal strength like nothing else?

This seems like it would be a potentially nice to have first layer in a secured room/building. Recoup some energy then actually go about blocking unwanted signal leakage.

From a wild speculation side: if a tour bus of the elderly with pacemakers powered by this goes by are they just a traveling dead zone?
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Are consumer products a good metric for innovation? (for some conceptions of innovation -- innovation is very vague) Or more for commercialization?
> Most high-dollar industries have clients that are referred to as whales (gambling, forex, stock exchanges, crypto markets).

And that makes it OK to refer to people (often those with addiction problems) spending money they don't have on videogames as whales? To target them explicitly with psychological tactics to get them to spend even more money?

I disagree. It's dehumanization. It's morally wrong. Am I in a bubble for thinking such actions are wrong, or are others justifying their own immoral behavior in thinking "well, it's their fault for playing the games and spending the money"?
Do I need to go through 500 pages of convoluted legal bullshit to understand smoking kills me?
Considering how so many awards and lists and rankings are politically driven rather than based on facts or reality, I'll take this with a grain of salt. Just like the two best universities are now british nonsense according to a british run "Times Higher Education".

I'm sure there are a lot of great innovation going on in south korea and sweden, but there is no way to measure "innovation". Is US patents really a criteria for innovation ( Samsung has the most US patents after IBM according to the article ). And I'm sure the world economic forum doesn't have an agenda either.
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Yes, people do take them seriously in AI ethics. Read almost any "layperson" discussion, or go to any lecture and they'll be brought up.

I wrote this after attending a discussion at Oxford University on AI Ethics.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/31/micropla...
The authors of the "debunking" study suggest that the use of specific (complex?) programming language features might account for a greater number of bugs.

Too many uncontrolled factors (programmer's experience level with a given language, etc).
> people can sell their property for as much or as little as they want

This is correct, and when you figure out a way for people to sell only their data to FB/whoever, I will be right onboard, but while companies like FB are sucking in as much data about me as they can, in ways I can't control, I will have to disagree with you strongly.
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Actually, a lot of Asimov's stories are intended to call into question whether sufficiently advanced robots should be treated differently than humans. It's sort of like he sets up the Three Laws in order to knock them down.
Do you have a daily exercise routine?

Terrific recent podcast discussion here on this very subject with Dr. John Ratey. Authored “Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain,” > https://findingmastery.net/john-ratey/
I think HN User reader500's material point is that while you and I may believe that poor people procreating is "reckless and socially destructive behavior", Mother Nature does not. She's going to go to great lengths to ensure that poor people have a desire to procreate that is, at once, urgent and overpowering. She really doesn't care about anything other than getting the genes propagated. (Basically, in human terms, she just wants more kids. Nothing else matters to Mother Nature.)

She's also going to go to great lengths to instill the same urge in the wealthy, and everyone in between for that matter. She really does just want the genes propagated. The rest she doesn't care about. Ideology, money, whether or not one human has any power over another, social morés, and any other human construct... none of it matters to her.
I was expecting an article about Ross Ulbricht. Although this other story is even more fascinating!
> [JAM] Snipers would also shoot at the crane cable or the lone soldier that was forced to climb a ladder to unhook each concrete wall. Special operations forces snipers were extremely useful in a counter-sniper role. Nevertheless, there were situations where confirmed snipers and fighters that could not be engaged by US snipers had to be targeted with air-delivered, precision-guided bombs or Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rounds that could penetrate the buildings’ layers of concrete. One instance that required a concrete-penetrating option was when a JAM sniper occupied and fortified one of the few five-story buildings north of the Gold Wall was being constructed and at a key intersection where he was able to engage the wall-building team. Direct fire placed on the building did not affect the sniper’s fortified position. 1-68 CAB’s solution was to drop the building using the GMLRS. But for the duration of the Battle of Sadr City, coalition forces used fewer than three mortar or artillery fire missions because of the risk of collateral damage, the prospect of injuring civilians, and the potential political ramifications both locally for the government of Iraq and internationally for political support to the coalition forces.

Don't bring a sniper rifle to a combined-arms fight, I suppose. It's interesting & typical of modern war that the politics of the fight constrain the weapons choice much more than the tactical situation.
> iPhone users pay a premium to have a third party evaluate apps before they’re out on the App Store.

And I appreciate that they provide that service and happily pay premium for it.

But I'd still like a way to load apps that they don't approve.
I'm really confused... You criticized him for not wearing gloves, then when someone suggested that gloves could be sucked in, you countered by saying that gloves would simply fall apart against a machine going "3450 RPM."

So either the gloves are pointless, and your original critique was wrong, or gloves are worthwhile and could get pulled into the machine. Pick one position or the other.
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Do you have any references for this? Because it doesn't make any sense to me.

Considering that chemotherapy is chemical, I'm not sure what it would have to do with radiation at all. Presuming you meant radiation treatments, those do not leave the patient radioactive at all.

In general, to the best of my knowledge, detecting items with radioactivity levels mildly above background inside a moving vehicle from the street is not practical, even theoretically, based on the probable lack of difference in radiation level outside the vehicle.
If Facebook is detrimental to your mental health you're probably a snowflake and should delete facebook.
1-2 hours (per week) of cooking (plus 1-2 hours of shopping) can make you enough for the week (depending on the size of your pot). Not all that time is spent actively either.

Then it takes 2-5 minutes every day to put on a plate and reheat in microwave. Orders of magnitude less time than going out and maybe even ordering in. Make a big pot of soup for dinner and big pot of something less liquid to take with you in a lunch box and you are set.

Learning to cook is one time investment that will save you huge amount of time.
seconded - storage is cheap, and with ZFS, mirrors can be grown, wheras arrays can't. i recently grew a mirror from 3 TB to 8 TB. strongly recommend using a three-way mirror though. don't be cheap.
I'm not saying they'll starve, but I'm giving up nothing by avoiding adtech.

That's not true for everyone. They may not starve, but they may make much less or give up the resume boost.
I just want to point out that, as of 2012, there was only 6.5% of the population in China living in poverty according to World Bank.

http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/china/overview#3
Apple only allows/signs one cert per company. And the process to get one requires an annoying amount of paperwork about your business
Except they restrict all browsers to use Webkit, which is rather limited.

To see the differences between iOS Safari/webkit and Chrome on Android:

https://caniuse.com/#compare=ios_saf+12.0-12.1,and_chr+71

I haven't had an Android phone in almost a decade using just iPhones. iOS's web browser game is actually the most frustrating part about Apple's walled garden for me.
I don't think anybody's suggesting that Facebook should be an exception - rather, it would be good if Apple allowed everybody to sideload iphone apps (other than enterprise and developer keys, which are both great for their niche but not general-purpose)
Yeah it's crazy, just went to their site.

"Jobsite Saw" at $1299. Otherwise known as "exactly like something you can buy at home depot for $299" but without their protection.

About $1000 more for their stuff.. most people can't afford that. I can barely get myself to spend the $300 on a table saw as it is.
Every family I know has a "family iPad".
I'm planning to create one , perhaps more of an "information engine" rather .
But it's pretty much the only way to get a work visa in the US. What are the alternatives?

L-1? Not much good for US companies that want to hire at the US HQ locations.

O-1? Even the average master's degree holder doesn't qualify for this. Also, not eligible for a green card.

TN? Only really applicable to Canadians, not eligible for a green card.

Waiting for a green card outside the country? De facto discriminatory against Chinese & Indian applicants, the two biggest pools of high tech workers because the green card queue times are insanely long.

Americans don't seem to realize that it's really, really hard to get into the country legally to work and the H1-B is one of the few avenues to get a green card for a skilled worker.
That's good to know. I actually have some other things that are possibly rare and/or unique that he might be interested in too, that I wasn't sure what to do with, but didn't want them to just sit in my basement until they stop working. They're on flash cards for consoles though, not hard drives.
I applaud Colombia for this. I really hope international pressure does its job and gets Venezuela back on track. I understand Russian and China wanting to secure their investments in the country, but the cost is taking its toll. I dont know how someone like Maduro can really live with himself and his lifestyle when so many are suffering.I also have read that U.S. sanctions are to blame, i dont know if this is true or just government corruption.

I wish the US would do a fast track for Venezuelan migrants, or at least i hope we provide aide to Colombia to help with expenses.

And if Argentina is helping too they get massive kudos as well.
You seem to have misunderstood the spirit of the comment and then projected your own notions onto it.
Disney did spin Movies Anywhere off into it's own company, and my understanding is that the five major studios more or less have equal authority over it. Of course, that five major studios is about to become four, and it does seem like they're gatekeeping out smaller players from participating at this juncture.
Not having my parents on the platform was one of the things I liked about Facebook when I first started up my edu account in college. MySpace was still more popular, but Facebook was where all of my college friends could be found. For me, it all gets back to what people use social media for. I liked when it was more about how to connect with people to do something in real life, not when it was the only place that people were communicating.
You really just have to assume that the writer of the article is completely ignorant in this case. I hardly think that MIT is claiming to have invented the worlds first antenna connected to a diode but that's the claim that seems to be made in the article. The state of technical reporting is rather sad.
Yeah, I ended up with something similar, where I only had Facebook friends if I thought I had a chance of talking to them directly sometime soon. It's been way better for me since then (although occasionally people that don't understand this policy seem to be confused / unhappy that I'm not their Facebook friend).
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The market has no alternative is the real story here
This was my approach as well, and I can highly vouch for it. I found myself checking facebook at a party, or with friends. And caught myself doing it and felt really, really stupid because of it. But I have a lot of friends that schedule events purely on facebook or only contact me on messenger. So I unfollowed everyone

I sometimes check specific pages of my friends, but I am more prone to just contacting them and asking them how they are doing specifically. As a result, some people have been pushed away, others have been pulled closer, and I've found who I genuinely wanted to hear from and communicate with.

Though this plus restricting who can see my profile in the first place does sometimes make it a bit difficult for people who I've casually met to reconnect with me. Maybe I'll loosen that up a bit.
Once again, having a massive personal archive drive (with backups) proves to be the better strategy.
My question was whether it was made clear that you took 20 percent of the donations.
Whoops! Fooled by the edit
It was fantastic before 2012 when it had a small focused audience (similar to HN) and simple site before all the spam started.
I wonder how pervasive the abuse of the EDC for customer-facing apps actually is. If this got through FB / Google's legal teams, they might know of others who have done this without consequence.
I'm a Venezuelan myself and while I haven't migrated yet, I have tons of friends who have.

The claim is probably true but the timelines I've heard are more around the 3 weeks mark. I feel the point still stands though.

Migration in latin america has some advantages akin to the eurozone. You can even travel without a passport through land and most countries will issue working permits in a few weeks.
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I don't think anybody is forcing you to avoid the app store? Your love of curated app-stores and other people's love of side-loading aren't mutually exclusive...
I know. That's which I specifically linked to the rebuttal of the "considered harmful" trope.

The very first link in my post points to a discussion of the lecture I attended. There the 3 laws were discussed and, I felt, some of the audience hadn't quite understood that they were a literary device.

But go along to any AI discussion group in person, or read the popular press, and I promise it won't be too long before you find a human citing them.
Do you mind if I ask what service you're using to host your hobby projects?
The article is full of technical terms for warfighting. It's only misleading in the sense that technical writing is sometimes misleading to outsiders.
Yeah...that was kind of the point...
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No, just a "flake".

A "snowflake" (slang much newer than "flake") is someone who has an inflated sense of entitlement and uniqueness.

Though it does seem that "snowflake" has recently evolved in a way that there is some overlap with "flake" (emotionally sheltered, easily distressed by ideas running contrary to one's world view).
I agree.

Regardless of my productivity during the week, there are times during weekend where I wanted to continue working on a work project just because I genuinely enjoyed it or because there was something small I could do that would save a lot to the project/company and I did not mind at all.

IMO bringing work into your personal life does not necessarily indicate a poor work/life balance, being invested in your work either.
The Soviets spent a lot of time and effort with their premiere intelligence agents to steal a missile invented in an American garage. Amazing.
> any particular DFSM has bounded memory use (based on the number of states) and bounded running time (based on the length of the input string).

This is wrong. This DFSM does not halt: node with arrow pointing back to the node on empty input.
Who else thinks Lunduke should double down and change his by-line from former Linux Marketing Guy (tm) to former Linucs Marketing Guy (tm)?
This. I'd rather like the advertising model turned inside out - like the old days if you will. Instead of targeting me, target the content. If I'm looking at an article about sleep show me a few limited mattress ads. It doesn't have to track me after/before. Nothing goes into my account that says I have a sleep disorder.

I hate ads in general and so provide me an option to pay for and remove it as well.
A good start, but it's not enough. DRM schemes are designed to take away your fair and lawful rights as a participant in the media ecosystem. Every single one of them should be shut down.