skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What in that video suggests sensor and/or stereo fusion to you?

I notice that the temporal coherence is pretty bad-- Pedestrians pop out of recognition when they go behind trees; lane/exit boundaries wiggle all over the place and occasionally frame-pop into different configurations. A kalman filter, for example, is a state estimator which maintains temporal coherence, and makes heavy use of previous estimates/sensor inference when computing the most updated estimate. It doesn't look to me like that kind of strategy is being used to maintain the vehicle's world model. IMO a good estimator wouldn't treat "a pedestrian popping out of existence" as the most likely estimate for any circumstance, let alone one where they were clearly present in the previous 50 frames. I don't doubt they're using KF on the vehicle's inertial movement, but based on the failures and this video, it sure doesn't look like it's using a fusion technique for the world model.

There are left and right-looking cameras, but the FOV overlap between them is not very substantial, and there can't be stereopsis where there is no overlap. Per the Tesla website, there are three forward-looking cameras, and they each have a different FOV. The parallax baseline between them is only a few centimeters, too, so the depth sensitivity isn't going to be spectacular. It's certainly possible that there could be some narrow-baseline stereo fusion, but it could only really happen inside the narrowest field of view, where the coverage overlaps with more than one camera. That's the circumstance where having a narrow baseline would hurt the most. Based on that it doesn't really seem like the system is well set-up for stereopsis; if it's there it seems like an afterthought.

I could certainly be wrong, as I don't have access to the code. Are you going by some other secondary source/information?
Yeah. It's rare in every category you put people in whether it's nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or whatever.
People's honor and integrity. :) There are anti-cheating counter-measures but they would be trivial to defeat for someone who knows a little bit about how computer chess works. For example, Lichess is a free chess site and all the source code is open, except for the anti-cheating heuristics.

However, getting a computer to play realistically like a good eight-year old wouldn't be to easy. The computer-generated moves would stand out much more due to the skill differential than, say, if a grand master cheated using a chess engine.
I found it odd that the day the NTSB(FAA?) followed the rest of the wotld in grounding the MAX is the same day the NTSB posted the black box details on Amazon's plane. The nose going back down after pilots reversed initial nosedive sounds somewhat spurious.
> Wouldn't breaking up Google into companies with complete control over their respective markets not really achieve the desired goal?

As I understand, the desired goal is to stop the dominant player in one domain (search) from getting an unfair competitive advantage in another (advertising backends). It might also be true that allowing one company to have complete dominance in a particular domain stifles competition within that domain, but that's a seperate problem.

> Admittedly, I wasn't around at the time, but what use was breaking up Ma-bell into the sub companies, from a choice perspective? I certainly understand that from a telephony devices perspective, consumer choice drastically increased, since third parties could now make telephones, but you still ended up with local monopolies for all of the fractured components.

I know nothing at all about this particular topic, but I have two immediate thoughts:

1. It would be easier to break a monopoly held by a company that made just one component, because once you finished your replacement for that component, you'd be able to ship a product, whereas if one company had a monopoly on every component, you'd need to make replacements for every component.

2. I don't find "It might stay just as bad as it is now" to be a very strong criticism if the alternative is doing nothing.

> Also, how is search's integration into other products harmful in all circumstances? It's extremely convenient that typing the name of a restaurant into Google search gives me reviews, the menu, directions, etc.

Sure, but Duckduckgo does those things as well and doesn't own any products that do those things. Whereas there are some google products that seem really tightly coupled, like Drive and Docs that I can't really imagine working as well if they came from different companies. As for harming consumers, I was mostly thinking about search data → advertising.
Please note that there are errors in this text. All imports were banned due to the external debt crises. What was special about the computer industry is that foreign companies were not allowed to make mini computers or smaller locally unlike in other industries.

The lack of original designs were something that worried a lot of people at the time, but it turned out that PC clones killed everything else world wide so it wouldn't have mattered in the end.

While it was easy to find examples of inflated prices (the first PC clone was launched at US$15K for a configuration for which IBM charged US$5K, for example) there were a few cases where the local copy cost less than the original (like the TK3000 compared to the Apple //e).

I lobbied against the "reserved market policy" at the time and still wish that Brazil had taken Taiwan's path instead, but people remember things wrong and don't learn what they should from it.

An Atari 2600 clone was mentioned in another comment, for example. Videogames were not subject to the policy. Atari and Polyvox/Gradiente had a joint venture for the 2600 and Philips made its Odyssey 2, both things which the policy prohibited. Yet people remember the policy as being to blame for the late and expensive games even though the situation persisted for decades after its end in 1992.
I mean that agnosticism operates on a different level, kind of like a syntax error in an expression versus that expression being false.
TIL:

profess

/prəˈfɛs/

verb

1.
claim that one has (a quality or feeling), especially when this is not the case.

"he had professed his love for her only to walk away"
synonyms: declare, announce, proclaim, assert, state, affirm, avow, maintain,
protest, aver, vow;

2.
affirm one's faith in or allegiance to (a religion or set of beliefs).

"a people professing Christianity"
synonyms: state/affirm one's faith in, affirm one's allegiance to, make a public declaration of, declare publicly, avow, confess, acknowledge publicly
"in 325 the Emperor himself professed Christianity"
More importantly, it's not facebook.
> How likey is it that people will develop content if the possible install base is only people with high-end headsets?

This isn't how tech goes mainstream. Facebook is trying to eat its cake before its ready. There's a lot of influencers in tech who, while bullish on VR's future, basically write off current VR. In its current state, isn't worth it for them, and they're the ones who can afford to have real VR setups and are passionate about tech in general. They're not going to recommend it to their followers either, since they themselves aren't impressed. Current content is limited by the capabilities of the VR hardware, not the other way around.
Sadly that is wrong kind of thinking. What make other Nigerians "his people" or his responsibility ? I feel humanity's interests are best served if an individual is able to move to the place where his talents are best used. World and consequently Nigeria is a better place because this little kid is in NY and not in a child grave in Nigeria.

Of course there is a valid argument for Americans to say we can not take infinite people in anymore for various reasons and that is a fine argument. I think however it is unfair to force identities on people that they themselves are not interested in.

We can extend similar arguments and say no black kid should move out of harlem and travel to pursue career in tech in Silicon valley instead she should stay back in Harlem and help "her" people.
Cooperative Multitasking may have been a massive hack but boy was it ever responsive when you selected a menu back in System 7
Sound like Air Bus A330 nose dive problem, they had with the software 3 years back, sounds a lot like the Boeing 737 MAX 8 problem that is burning up the news channels. Did AIR BUS ground their A330 world wide fleet when this happened? How did Air Bus handle this?
On-prem spark seems kind of anachronistic now.
The fundamental problem here seems to be, that you cannot get around the need for a statistician (or someone from another field who has a similarly deep understanding of statistics) to look at the data. There is no shortcut for this, but we simply do not, as a society, have enough people with statistical knowledge sufficient to the task.

There is not, I suspect, any other solution but that we must train a whole lot more statisticians. This means we will need to give more credit, and authority, and probably pay, to people who choose to pursue this field of study.
P values don't talk about the result, they only talk about the probably of the null hypothesis being correct.

You're only allowed to say either nothing happened or it's unlikely nothing happened, but it doesn't say what the "unlikely nothing happened" means.
Factors external to the product that could impact Stadia

- Adoption will depend based on Internet speeds

- Cable companies and their data caps could result in a demand for high speed and unlimited data but not sure whether the tyranny of Comcast can be broken. Maybe a new lease of life to Google fiber? Just own everything from network to server to platform

Good things about Stadia besides no console, multiple devices

- Sharing state, youtube shortcut to get you a walkthrough video from youtube is god sent, lobby feature is also epic

Some really amazing things about this

- People working on the engine or 'hidden' console do not need to care about packaging it in a sleek way or ensure it weighs less. E.g. the hidden console could be ugly, and occupy a lot for space

- Google can build it in a way that is scale-able from a hardware perspective without worrying for form - just pure focus on function and performance

- For consoles, the constraints are form, power consumed, heat management and yet they are required to deliver high performance

- Add a VR device and unleash power of version 2 or 3 of the hidden console on it and you swallow the VR market as well -> Streaming VR games is the future

Speculation of the future landscape of gaming (2030) if everything goes well for streaming based gaming

- Microsoft and Google leverage their cloud infrastructure to capture significant chunk of the market

- NVIDIA also enters the market but either exits or ends up having a very small % of the market, because existing server and cloud infrastructure will play a big role in determining the winner and no one can beat Google and Microsoft in this regard. Doubt whether that gap can be closed by newcomers

- Sony is a little late to the market and grapple, they realize that their strengths lie in good narrative games and yet delivering great graphics, good gameplay and go back to that.

- There are a lot of multiplayer games ranging from high graphics to small games developed by Indies (making this industry literally the youtube of games), and most of the people gravitate to streaming games slowly

- There is still a set of console loyal gamers who buy the PS4 and they join Nintendo in a niche category

- Microsoft dabbles in both console and stream, doesn't capture the people's imagination with its work but still comes out with solid content in both places. They hold the 2nd place in market for both styles of gaming.

Stadia is not just targeting consoles, it is also looking at freeing up some developers from being forced to tie up with massive publishers. It will also result in smaller dev shops working on simple games where Google compete with Steam
I remember reading about the Sega arcade game Daytona USA. Instead of back to front or front to back rendering, it was a mixture of most important (your car, race track) to least important (background stands, trees, etc). It included a hardware watchdog that would trigger the next frame even if the current frame was not finished rendering, to guarantee a constant 60fps always. For an immersive experience, it was more important to keep the frame rate constant than it was to render every polygon.
It's because -in general- marketing material doesn't tell the whole truth, just the selected bit that sounds impressive.
Even that is overly car oriented, because community infrastructure accounting for electric bikes or scooters might handle an even better quality of life than cars.
Hi folks,

SuperVoc is a weekend project (well a few weekends really).

I built it because I needed it for another project (which I'm still working on), that needs text to speech.

I started building it as part of that other project, but then I thought really it could be a standalone site.

Let me know if any problems as I threw it together and launched as quick as possible.

Enjoy!
> late 2020 for sleep while the car drives

Musk is often overly optimistic and he keeps underestimating the problem at hand. I call BS on this, it won't be ready in 5 or even 10 years. And then there is a regulatory approval.
I do love those. They have YouTube, though. Don't they?
Classism is America's dirty secret. What makes these colleges "elite?" Rich kids attend them because their rich parents attended them (or donated to them).
If your concern is lock-in, then DXR is currently your best option: DXR works for both AMD (with Microsoft's fallback path) and Nvidia, while the only existing Vulkan extension is Nvidia proprietary.

What kind of collaboration do you expect? AMD hasn't been paying a lot of attention to its GPU business the past years.
> They simply say that if rerunning the experiment again, it would be surprising to get a different result.

Not really. A low p-value says that it was surprising to get the result that you got, assuming that the null hypothesis is true. And if the null hypothesis is true it would be surprising to get again the same result (i.e. a result as extreme). If the null hypothesis is not true, the result would not be so surprising (or maybe more, if the true effect is in the “wrong” direction).

The result we got gives some evidence for the null hypothesis being false, but if the null hypothesis was very very likely to be true before it may still be very likely to be true afterwards. In that case it wouldn’t be surprising to get a different result if the experiment is performed again.

Illustration: I roll a die three times. I get three ones. P<0.01 (for the null hypothesis of a fair die and the two-tailed test on the average). This is not simply saying that if I roll the die three times again it would be surprising to get something other than ones.
> Musk is more optimistic than you

Indeed.

What Musk says and what Tesla delivers are two completely separate things.
You're either really mentally disciplined or have your gitconfig and scripts setup
If you don't monetise it then someone else will, and presumably Google will prefer them (in listings, etc.) because they're playing the game and giving advertiser's an opportunity to spend [more] on the platform.
I have seen people crippled from lack of experience to all devices.

I agree just a smart phone is probably not worth a lot. Along with many devices, though, it can add up.
Tierra Whack is on a quest to make hip hop weird again
It’s saying there are zero remote programming jobs. Seems a bit low, no? :)

Love the site!
Keyword being lawful?
This is true. I lived near a wasabi field for a time and the farmer used to give me a few roots once in awhile. If you grate it yourself it's green but not that green.
I feel sorry for the people who are going to have to die for this to happen.

I try to explain this to friends who are far too optimistic on self-crashing car technology. Self-driving cars (SDC) ultimately trade one class of problems that result in death (human-attention deficit) for another class of growing issues (sensor malfunctions/incapabilities, software defects).

Ultimately SDC deaths end up as bugs/features on some random devteam's backlog, and I have no desire to have a JIRA ticket named in my honor.

In my opinion, by the time all the money and effort is spent making SDC's capable of successfully driving from point-A to point-B in the near infinite possible conditions they could encounter, it would have been 50x cheaper to simply build a fully modernized high-speed rail network over existing highways and roads.
There is (or was) open hardware and software out there; software has long been "open source" in the VR realm (ahem - REND386, for instance), and honestly Oculus and the Rift came out of the DIY VR realm.

You can homebrew everything you want today, assuming you have or can acquire the skills, materials, and tools.

If your skills are more on the software side, then it'll be harder. I don't know if it still exists (to purchase at least), but there is OSVR:

http://www.osvr.org/

Now - I know it looks "Windows Only" - but at one time, it did have Linux support, and the code is open source, supposedly:

https://github.com/OSVR/OSVR-HDK

But you can see that repo is somewhat old - I'm not sure what if anything is going on. But anyhow:

https://osvr.github.io/doc/installing/linux/

But then this:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/razer-abandoned-osvr-joine...

Yeah - you'll probably have better luck homebrewing everything again. Dig out those old back issues of PCVR magazine, dust off your old copies of various DIY VR books, power up the 3D printer...
I tried the Oculus Rift at Facebook HQ with all of the fancy dongles, including things I'm not allowed to talk about.

I've also tried the regular HTC Vive.

Both felt like a gimmick, and the Vive made my girlfriend nauseous after a few minutes.

I'm a big believer in the potential of VR, but the current options do not impress me. I think it's still a few years away for someone like me, and still another 5+ years where it starts to become mainstream (largely due to cost and lack of content).
The market for a high end HMD is pretty much anyone that already has no problem spending $1,000 on a video card. That is a lot of us but it isn't big enough for a company like Facebook or HTC. My fear is pushing crap at $500 instead of gold at $900 will leave a stigma on VR that will take another decade or more to wash off.

The reverb actually looks great but the tracking is a flop.
Ah, maybe you're right.
I imagine that it takes longer for your vision system to generate a useful output than whatever is responsible for telling you that you just stubbed your toe.

If signals like touch, smell, sight, etc. arrived at the input to your perceptual system immediately, you'd get a bunch of inputs for the same event at different times, and it would probably be difficult for your perceptual system to make sense of of them.

I think the only thing the spinning wheel experiment shows is that the brain has some sort of perceptual delay/compensation mechanism that's probably there to account for these differences in input processing times. And it probably backdates the "timestamp" of the event so that things that rely on short time intervals (e.g. control tasks like balancing) still work reliably.

I don't know why anybody would think this says anything about free will. Philosophers are weird.
So is most truffle oil. Canned reindeer meat in the Nordic countries can be up to 40% pork. Budget-brand soy sauce might actually be "soy sauce powder" mixed with water, as opposed to something straightforwardly brewed. If you travel the developing world, you may find that what is sold as chocolate actually has no cacao in it. Lots and lots of disappointments out there in the food world. I find reading labels carefully and doing research online revelatory.
Correct: http://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/language/api.html#rest
http://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/language/api.html#first
This is how I learn new tech. If I’m using docker for the first time you can bet I’m doing an echo “hello world” first then incrementally building up from there.
> The daycare owner didn't want $10, he wanted to go home at 4pm.

Then he should have set the late fee to as much as the amount he wanted to go home earlier. Which would still be the same amount for every parent regardless of how much money they had, because which parent is late has nothing to do with how much he values not being able to go home on time.
Is this not the definition of "confidence interval"? The first few Google results all define it this way...
Talent is highly distributed, Opportunity is not. Fixed it for you.
Maintaining a circle of friends is a pretty weak justification for social media use. Many of my friends and I don't use social media at all and we have zero issues coordinating events. It sounds like the real issue is that you didn't value the connection to your friend enough to reach out to them. SMS and phone calls are still a thing.
Because church membership is voluntary there are no mandatory tithing. The closest you can come to mandatory tithing is if you are in the LDS church and want to go to one of the big white Temples. But even then you self-attest that you are tithing fully. Because there are many different types of churches with different peoples are beliefs you can pick one you like. When the dot com crash happened and I lost my job word got out and someone gave us $500 for Christmas. My children had a blow-out Christmas that year. We could have leaned on the church more but due to my self-pride we endured hardship instead. There is a benefit to hardship my children, now grown, do not take anything for granted they are entirely self-sufficient.
How is being an agent capable of making choices without outside influence compatible with determinism? My understanding is nobody can ever be an agent capable of making choices without outside influence. A person is fundamentally influenced at birth by external forces and moulding the person by deterministic process without the person having any real control. Furthermore one could only say they had free will if before life one agreed to take role of birth as a specific person and with knowing how life will play out till the end. Compatibilists are people who don't understand determinism because free will doesn't work with determinism. /hard determinist.
But these are wikipedia's crazy mashup of definitions coming straight out of the authors' butts.

The original definition, and defined by those that coined it, to be positively "there is no god" was

"To deny the Gods/god". Ref Encyclopdia Brittannica which goes in to the history of this issue.

Anything else is just atheists trying to get around the logical fallacy it represents, of an unprovable assertion.

Wikipedia definitions better fit the Huxlien idea of an agnostic. The fact is that there are only three concrete states in terms of belief/certainty:

Belief that there is no god.
Lack of belief in a god.
Belief in a god.

And there are three words that cover these states (four if you include an impersonal god as a valid god, deist).

Atheist
Agnostic
Theist

Anything else is just confusing terms and definitions and causes unnecessary argument that is unhelpful to debate.

Wikipedia needs to repent.
That's fated to happen by the external forces making it happen.
re: managing deer populations. There will always be some harm. We can strive for outcomes with the least harm.

Hunting is as not much the issue as the billion-plus animals we kill everyday for food. If more people had to look an animal in the eye as some hunters do, perhaps more people would connect the animal flesh they eat with the sentient beings the flesh came from.

https://sentientmedia.org/how-many-animals-are-killed-for-fo...
I'm replying to you because I don't know why you're bringing up USB power requirements as an issue.
Easy solution: stop doing that.