skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It has recently occured to me to ask why we have decided to try solve autonomous driving before solving any other seemingly easier robotics problems. Other than robo-vacuums, which aren't particularly complex, we have jumped straight to trying to solve one of the hardest unconstrained robotics and AI challenges in automotive environments.

I'd say it's because other problems are actually difficult in hidden ways or lack much of a value proposition given existing mechanical aids. Cars are in some ways simple because they have plenty of space for electronics and have an easy to automate set of controls. That's not even getting into industrial robotics which is very popular.
How does quantum behavior affect computability?
This is a great UX improvement. I have always disliked the visual and cognitive load of the old layout.
That, along with it feeling sloooow, is why I switched to Pinafore (pinafore.social) a pretty long time ago.
> It happened when Bouraoui went to a busy restaurant one evening with a group of family and friends. As they waited outside for a table, a white waiter approached Bouraoui and asked for her name along with the number of people in her party.

> "Yasmina, party of six," she said.

> "I need something easier to pronounce," he said.

> She repeated her name but he didn't want to try to pronounce it. And then she was no longer there.

> "He looks at a 12-year-old in our party and he says, 'What's your name?' '' says Bouraoui, a manager with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. "Now he's just ignoring me."

That’s some terrible customer service. I’ve heard many people give aliases or single syllable westernized names by choice to simplify things, but having the employee you’re dealing with insist on it is particularly insulting.
What is the use-case?

Why is static not better?

What are the edges?
Yeah shared worker are awesome. I love having a single instance of the core of my app running in a worker, and then each tab the user opens is just a UI view of that one instance. It greatly simplifies keeping things in sync across tabs.

But it's just not possible for Safari... you either have to make your code much more complicated, or add some hack to prevent users from opening your app in multiple tabs at the same time :(
Second point is not exactly strong: loads of apps used IE integration internally. It was one of the stronger points by MS during antitrust investigation.
Crypto for FB is an elaborate tracking system that could contribute to FB ad revenue.

For smaller companies it would be hard to gain any traction.
Looks awesome, and thanks for the insight!
Every smartphone has access some sort of assistant whether its Siri, Google, Alexa or even Cortana. Some of those come out of the box with annoying defaults.
> they should be defining and leading the technical strategy of the company.

At most companies (small to medium and a large number of industries), that isn't a fulltime job. Most companies have IT as support or are a very small segment of the total business.
The more cautionary tale is don’t lose focus of your goals. If you can grow slowly, without outside investment and just have a “lifestyle” business, you can to some extent decide your own fate.
I don't like how the browser has to structured clone objects sent between threads. Seems like on low end devices, that could tie up tons of ram and have out of memory failure modes not seen on beefier phones. Reading the article, the author seems to advocate sending js events over from Dom thread to worker, doing all event processing on the worker, and sending commands from the worker back to the Dom that get processed into Dom mutations. It strikes me that OP's approach will offload the bulk of the CPU time spent doing clones onto workers, so at least we got that.

Short of the experimental OffscreenCanvas API[1], I don't see any way to avoid the structured clone memory tie-ups when communicating from worker to dom. Are there any other patterns or approaches that can help limit the memory consumption when employing workers?

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OffscreenCa...
Got it. I think the paper actually makes a reference to 'Chinese rooms.'
If you really care about the performance of your site on the mobiles that poor people use then render server-side as much as you can.
I can also recommend reading R Inferno:

https://www.burns-stat.com/documents/books/the-r-inferno/

It lists a lot exceptions and gotchas but it motivates them and it definitely made me a better R programmer. It’s a quick read too!
Industrial robotics are very well constrained and the environment can be adapted to them which is why they're successful. Was thinking more about consumer robotics of which robo vacuum is the only real autonomous product right now.

IMO the answer is that it's very hard to build reliable robots + AI even in simple environments and AVs are still very dependant on the driver. The size of the potential market if it pays off is huge but removing the driver completely is going to take a long time.
An extra chip on a bare board would stand out quite a bit.
It's not reliable enough to be treated as memory, i.e. fast unlimited endurance temporary storage, but reliable enough to be treated as persistent storage.
Goodbye, ngrok
flips out in safari
The only way I see this being done is by running computer simulations. Knowing how complex our gut is, I'd say this can easily take another 100 years or so to get to the point where we can understand it in full.
Wow, I kinda work in a legacy (3-4 years old), not very easy codebase, where new releases affect other parts and bring new bugs, but I cannot imagine the state of yours. Not being able to do an update?
https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/28fa74680f4a3d2c...

I think they're using skia all the time since 2016.
I wonder how much China's ban on ivory has had an effect on illegal poaching.
According to an article last year[0], demand went down significantly over 2018, and it seems possible that there was a "snowball" effect on consumers.

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/09/wildlife-...
Yeah - that's been pretty much our guidance (I'm on Surma's team) - but we know you can build interactive experiences on the client on these low end devices too, but it has to be off main thread.... In the end, it's a blend .
I think you missed JP Coin, by JP Morgan Chase.

Also, they are BS and unnecessary for the most part
Thanks. My assumptions are imprecise, because as I mentioned I am no academic. So I appreciate your correction. To make the post stronger, replace assumption 3 with "All of the mathematical rules which underlie physics are computable." IMO, this doesn't materially affect the plausibility of these assumptions.
> That’s some terrible customer service.

If true, yes.
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Overwatch is an entirely new game that wasn't spun from another, existing IP. everything in that game is original.

a better comparison would be how DOTA spawned from Warcratft 3, or how Hearthstone spawned from WOW.

a failed comparison would be how valve released Artifact off of DoTA2. but DOTA auto chess is now a thing. that may take off.
Two promising technologies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization

Heat and pressure turn plastic back into oil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_oxidation

Oxidize plastic in a molten salt bath, exothermic reaction, produces synthesis gas. "... destroys all organic materials while simultaneously retaining inorganic and hazardous components in the melt."
Why do you expect a scam? Stable Coin on a permissioned blockchain is what it looks to be
If you happen to be part of a two person team without any money you're CTO is going to need to code. At a team of 4/5 the handoff begins by employee 11 they shouldn't be coding perhaps firefighting if necessary.
Donating used clothing and other things to Goodwill, Salvation Army, etc. has been a thing for many decades in the US. These days you also see a fair number of collection bins in parking lots for either clothing/shoes or books/videos. I don't know how much of what's donated just gets thrown out though; I suspect a fair bit.
I also found the following sentence strange:

> That belief is partly why many Irish, Italian and Polish immigrants who came to America in the early 20th century whitened their children's names to avoid persecution and increase their chances of social mobility.

> Tim Machuga is a software engineer who also knows what it's like to be black for a minute. He is a white man with an African name.

A typical Eastern European last name to me.

I wonder what does my first name (Oleksii) sound like to folks in the US?
Aircraft go through many tests, including various electromagnetic interference tests. They should know exactly how it responds in such a scenario.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-461
>Optimists in the comments here have hope for advances in mathematics that would give us a new method for modeling that could be applied. Maybe their hope isn't unfounded. I'm just a dude who read an academic paper. But I did enjoy it.

I'd say most of the arguments in the comments boil down to "human brains do it so the paper's argument requires human brains to work on mechanisms other than non-quantum physics, which is mathematically model-able, which is a strong assumption."
I have always been a slow reader. My younger siblings would often finish books or articles a lot faster than me. Turns out, I'm a more careful reader than them - I would spot spelling mistakes in text where they would miss them. They'd also misinterpret texts due to speed, where I wouldn't. Not sure what's better, but I do personally prefer the slow and considered approach to reading.
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I think the "by law" is mistaken, but there is at least a U.S. government opinion on the subject. From https://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html:

>White – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.
Who HR gets to count in various categories for EEOC reporting, for instance.
It does not. Quantum effects are a smokescreen for clinging onto the idea that "only humans can be human". BQP is quite easily contained in PSPACE, and more generally adding quantum operations does not move one beyond Turing machines (realistically - only something like a halting problem oracle does).
> Your issue seems to be with copyright itself and not with the GPL.

Copyrighted code is fairly simple to understand - you make something, you own it. Alice makes something, Alice owns it.

I don't really have a problem with this kind of code existing, and I think that we have very clearly seen that open source with a permissive license is capable of "beating" secret or copyrighted code.
Your assumptions are disputed by information in the linked search warrant we are discussing (see, e.g., paragraph 32).
Unless this work disproves the Church–Turing thesis, I suppose it can safely be disregarded.

Well, unless you 1) want to ascribe supernatural powers to the human brain, or 2) assert that human intelligence is not general. The little cynic in me is gleefully considering option 2 right now...
Agree, getting a pay button on the FB platform will lower friction. Calling it crypto will likely boost adoption, though fortunately it looks to be a stable coin
Interestingly, rich people who want to hunt African wildlife help bolster and reduce poaching in these giant wildlife reserves. Providing locals an economic incentive to stop poachers actually works really well.

Here’s the site for if you want to help Niassa protect elephants.
http://niassahunter.com/
And how does the company get money?
I mean, not secretly. Amazon is very explicit that it saves recordings of all commands for training and personalization -- you can even manually review and delete them, or disable them completely.

And obviously if you have your children speak to Alexa, it will record them too. Same with visitors in your home. It's not a secret... it's how it works.

Alexa does support voice profiles. But it's certainly not perfect -- voice identification can be hard even for people to do (depending on similarity), and there's a huge leap from distinguishing between pre-identified voices, versus determining if a voice is one of those and not one of billions of other people. And there's certainly no magic way to analyze a voice a determine that it's 12 (not allowed) or 13 (allowed).

So I'm not exactly sure what this lawsuit intends to change?

The only thing I can imagine is perhaps to allow disabling voice recordings per voice profile, so you can create a voice profile of your child and then do that -- but intriguingly, Amazon says voice profiles can only be created for users 13+, so there's presumably something legal here.

But really, if you don't want your kids (or visitors) using Alexa, either tell them not to use it, or don't have one in the first place. I really can't see how this is up to anyone other than the parents?
Probably so good that it would be unsustainable. The police, military, government and public officers needs some privacy so they can be corrupt without their superiors noticing and taking a cut. There would be too much control.

We will see how North Korea turns out in the future?
Non-paywalled version: https://zmding.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/how-to-get-a-real-ed...
Census, university admissions (which is controversial and repeatedly in a legal grey area), and maybe a few other things I'm missing. It's always optional to choose one, obviously.
That kind of reporting is done for quota purposes mostly.
How many particles make up a human, and how many transistors does it take to simulate the behavior and interactions of all those particles? How much energy does it take to power that many transistors? How does that compare to the Sun’s output? There are a few of the questions we need to answer before confidently predicting that we will ever be able to make a physics-based human simulator.
It would be difficult to measure racial discrimination without the law defining race. And since the US federal and state governments stacked the deck against non-whites for more than a century, we can't just declare that we're color-blind and assume racial discrimination is now over.
As an American, I found most of this article strange and difficult to believe.
Like it or not, you have to really respect the product execution with Fortnite. Even with hiccups (and there have been and continue to be hiccups) the speed and execution is honestly nothing short of breathtaking.

IMHO there have been 9 key factors to Fortnite's success:

1. They didn't go for a "military" motif (think Call of Duty, PUBG, etc). Instead they chose whimsy, basically. This gives almost limitless possibilities for skins and in-game themes. Instead of just changing the colour of weapons and combat fatigues, you can be a banana (the article mentions this), John Wick, Marshmello, a chicken (the Tender Defender, which is just an amazing name) and so on. This provides an endless supply of skins people can buy. They also (wisely) chose to have limited customization slots (from memory, glider, trails, skin, back bling, harvester and weapons rather than, say, left boot, right boot, left leg, right leg, etc).

2. Further to (1), this means pretty much anything can be put in the game and it "fits". Earlier this year, Sea of Thieves kind of blew up on Twitch for a couple of months. Next Fortnite season there were pirates, a pirate ship, cannons you could shoot yourself across the map with, etc. Coincidence? I think not.

3. There is only one map. I saw PUBG added new maps. Huge mistake. HUGE. This just splits the player base. It meant (in PUBG at least) people would back out if they didn't get on the map they wanted. The alternative of selecting map still splits the player base. Instead, Fortnite has one map that constantly changes.

4. Another way to keep things fresh: LTMs. The Floor is Lava is a relatively recent example of this.

5. The first FPSs had static maps. Think CSGO or Rainbow 6 as recent(ish) examples. This leads to players who know the map camping a spot where they can kill you with a pixel shot to the big toe when you walk by. Then came destructible environments, which seem like a good idea, but they quickly devolve into static maps as the environment is destroyed. Fortnite has both destructible elements and the ability to build. The parallels to Minecraft are apt. This was a real innovation in a shooter.

6. It being free-to-play with purchases being purely cosmetic so it's not a pay-to-win game ("pay-to-flex" is probably a good way to describe what Fortnite is).

7. You can't just log on and buy "everything". There are challenges. Items are available only for a limited time. Certain items are thus rare (eg the original Skull Trooper). It really encourages constant play.

8. The creator code program so people (ie streamers) would push the item shop.

9. It's a game that's entertaining to watch and isn't too short. Personally I've watched a lot on Twitch and I don't even play the game. How nuts is that?

Something will eventually come along to replace Fortnite. I'm not sure this will happen anytime soon. I also suspect you won't see something that so singularly occupies mindshare like Fortnite so a long time to come.
I agree with what you are saying but I would also add that it will become harder to change as times goes by as more private interests are involved with it.

Chrome is business for google and obviously will not want to change the situation, but also people with business on the Internet what want is a friendly and easy environtment which is what google is offering.
I wonder if this strategy has anything to do with H&M's noticeable drop in clothing quality over the last decade. I have H&M shirts from the late-90s and they are still holding up fine, meanwhile H&M shirts I bought 3 years ago are already getting holes and worn out, for wearing the two shirts roughly equally.

Perhaps this has to do with the "fast fashion" push to always be churning out new clothing. Sell something that loses significant value in a few years, Get the customer to return it to you for (basically) free, and the Customer buys more clothes (more profit).

Forever21, Zara, Express, and H&M are all in the "fast-fashion" store bucket now.
> Unfortunately people have taken the wrong idea from the Turing Test and decided to attack the "faking human communication" thing directly. Which is fun! But anyone who in 2019 thinks that better chatbots will eventually develop general AI are delusional.

Absolutely. It’s Goodhart's law in action, targeting the behaviour that wins the prize money rather than the intelligence that the test was about. That said, I don’t think the targeting was very good last time I looked (a few years ago now), as the chatbots mostly didn’t have any long-term memory and would have conversations along the lines of “Where do you live?” “Paris” “What city do you live in?” “Newark” “What country do you live in?” “The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”. If we build something intelligent, it should pass the Turing test, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that something which passes the Turing test is intelligent.
This is actually super annoying to me, I love single player games, story driven fps or rpg or whatever, but everyone just keeps on churning out multiplayer or (even worse) co-op games. I don't have any gamer friends and I don't wanna play co-op with some random person but I do wanna have fun and experience some cool content.
Sounds Russian or Slavic to me.
Does Oleksii sound like Alexy?
As part of a two person team, there are no CEO/COO/CTO/CFO roles...you're just two people building something.

It's a joke to give yourself a management title when there's nothing to manage.
Your takeaway was "I don't care about the poor" from a comment where I literally talk about how important it is to help people who didn't have the same opportunities I had.

It's _the opposite_ of what I said.

All I want is to control for age, or use some other technique to improve the data.

Sorry if I laid out that point in a confusing way, maybe this is on me. But saying someone has no empathy is calling them a sociopath. If you're going to lean into personal attacks, don't you at least owe them the common courtesy of re-reading their comment in full to make sure you understand their point?
If you're a business, the license effectively says "you can't use this software" though, because as discussed previously it makes all the software that it touches into GPL software so you can't sell it, which is the point of a business.
Static _is_ better for a good bunch of performance metrics. But what about interactive content like https://proxx.app?

The article is mostly aimed at use-cases where some sort of logic in JavaScript is required.
I feel like this could also be used in the hiring process to discriminate against women who are pregnant or are trying for a baby
Dunno, but I guess there needs to be a formal definition that's used for official population statistics and the like.
This would be a very good paper if it were titled, "What makes general AI hard", and it didn't try to make any claims about uncomputability.

Beyond the somewhat useful collection of some of the prickly points of whatever it is that humans do that we call Intelligence, this particular discussion isn't bringing much to the table in support of its incredibly strong claims. It is functionally an extended application of Searle's Chinese Room argument to these hard points, usually built on question-begging premises (for example, regarding "biography" as a component of dialogue, quote, "Because machines lack an inner mental life – as we do not know how to engineer such a thing – they also lack those capabilities".)

The paper addresses the traditional response to Searle thus: "How, then, do humans pass the Turing test? By using language, as humans do. Language is a unique human ability that evolved over millions of years of evolutionary selection pressure... machines cannot use language in this sense because they lack any framework of intentions". This is even blunter than Searle's actual counter, that there's something specific about biological machinery that makes it more capable in this regard than digital machinery. Instead, we're simply told that language is a special Human thing, Humans are not Turing-computable, and thus it's probably something computers can't do.

I am a big proponent of anti-hype in AI technology and of the idea that language cannot be separated from the general human experience of Intelligence. I'm very frustrated when people assume we've solved a given problem in AI because we've been able to tackle some toy examples. And I'm a big fan of proving what can't be done. But this is not a particularly valuable exercise in any of those things, perhaps beyond prodding some of the hubris of the current cult of "we're almost there".
No you can use software with an MIT license etc. Because that doesn't cause problems.
A different experience from the UK: my uncle is known by a Ghanian name as my grandmother lived there for many years. He is Caucasian.

He's not once mentioned any discrimination he has experienced because of his name.

I'm not saying there's no prejudice here but I think it is less extreme.
A local school system is dealing with this issue. Who is what?

Nobody wants to make a call and change anything that is wrong...let alone questions of what happens to progress reports of someone was X and now Y....
So lets be as paranoid as North Korea ? national self-sufficiency ? every country that tried it went bankrupt.
People turned a lot of Z's into S's and things like that.

That's a big reason why there are so many similar spelled surnames. They'd write it down 'wrong' at Ellis Island, and that's what you were stuck with. Oleksii, Oleksy, etc.

I agree with you that Machuga doesn't sound black at all. Maybe Hispanic if you're pronouncing it 'Mah-choo-gah'