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There's no doubt that Musk has a knack for high risk entrepreneurship and he definitely very well how to repackage and promote things, but Neuralink wants to invent devices that come straight out of the science fiction realm.

Not only do we not have the AI required for natural language processing of the sort Elon is after, we also don't really have the neuroscience that explains how information is stored in the brain or let alone how we "write" to it. That's a different beast.
I have no info on whether using such a list is legal, but it could be helpful and (as a white male) I'm not offended.

A small software team I know of ran a job ad on stack overflow with over a hundred applicants completing a preliminary ~8 question typeform-powered questionnaire. Not a single woman among them.

You could say that there was something about the job posting or the questionnaire that didn't speak to or even alienated women, and you might well be right, but if you're that team and you'd like to have a decent chance of hiring women, just hearing "hey, you're doing it wrong" isn't as helpful as having someplace specific to look for candidates.
Well in "The Entire History of You" (s01e03) its used by police in the airport before letting you into the airport as a security screening.
I know it's very big brother-like or big government-like but why not require people on SNAP to take a nutrition class periodically as well as restrict what kinds of things can be purchased with SNAP? Would peddlers of junk-food erupt in protest overt that?
Yes but can I remove the ladder from the swimming pool while people are swimming?
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So corporate censorship (Google search outside of China) is fine but government censorship (Google search inside China) isn't. Also, government censorship by Western governments (UK, etc.) is fine but government censorship by non western governments (China) is not. I don't see much difference myself but it seems others do.
Why does it need to be either/or? The way I look at it, every single hobbyist, retropie, dust collector, etc is just enabling the scale that allows them to deliver the hardware at the price point.

If 100% of Pi went into schools, the foundation would likely have dried up 4 years ago. We might not be the target market, but we enable it. We enable the development, the third-party/after-market, we provide the community. The foundation provide the "noble goal", and we provide the cashflow.
I'm heartened by the response, though. Shares fell 14%, the government announced an investigation, and Baidu set aside $150m USD equivalent for people harmed by promoted results. Especially considering that the ad buyer was a government military hospital, that seems.. more just than I'd expect.

I guess it could be all for show, but I've seen worse behavior from Facebook here
i myself get that feeling of being full faster from eating carbs. a glass of soda can effectively kill my appetite before a meal
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Worth noting that processed foods also provide far more calories per dollar. So in a way, they're maximizing their limited funds, albeit with long term consequences.
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>> Nobody's asking them to be able to drive at 70 MPH through a fog bank in Alaska with ice on the road, even if that is technically part of the requirements for Level 5 that even humans can't obtain.

What is required is a vehicle that can decide not to drive at 70 MPH when it's going though a fog bank in Alaska. Humans can drive that fast in such low visibility, but we (often) have enough brains not to.
Yeah, in fact they've launched a password manager app. https://lockwise.firefox.com/
What if you are eating processed food because you don't have the time, place, ability, or necessary tools to cook? What if you live in a food desert and you do not have reliable transportation to take you to a grocery with fresh foods? What if you have Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder and are also poor? Should you then just starve?
Yes but when we think about the difficulty of developing self driving cars we need way more powerful incentives.
You need to have an economic payoff to justify the AI development/training. Sorting trash perfectly in trash cans? That's a consumer $50 appliance with robotic arms, sensors, and software? No way

Drones flying around killing invasive plants? Capitalistic economics doesn't give a shit about the environment, because bank accounts are rarely affected by environmental problems, and certainly not in the next fiscal quarter. There's no funding for that.

- Landscaper robots need to beat immigrant labor in the US. That's tough.

- Dishwasher unloading to cabinets with robotic arms? The gain here is maybe 20 minutes a day. Payoff isn't as good as with driving which can be hours on a commute, or much more on long trips, and there isn't the safety improvement since dishwashers don't kill you in their use.
A byte you will certainly use is much more expensive than a byte you are unlikely to use. If we mandated a single price it would get more expensive for non-tetherers.
The boom of white-label, or retailer-brand products was definitely fueled by sales data.

What may have started as a simple analysis to evaluate share of shelf, easily could turn to "what if we sold these"?

The main difference vs Amazon is the Reviews data (that's worth what's worth with all of the fake reviews), and you can't buy on Amazon without using your account so every sale is bound to an specific person. In that regard no retailer has this data.

Even those who have loyalty programs that end up being a tracking card, people can still buy without using cards.
Please don't react to the most provocative thing in an article by bringing it in here to have an off topic flamewar. That just starts a different kind of fire.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20457706.
And neither is Amazon.
One should not underestimate the extent to which stress, depression, and anxiety can make us crave comfort food, and rob the energy to do things like cook your own meals. Especially if you're a working poor and already tired when you get home.
Instead of individual cars we need a highly dense network of rail cars that can merge and split and allow u to travel from any one block in the city to another. Should be able to ship moving trucks via this system where it would deliver them to the near address from where an operator autonomous or otherwise takes over
Is it really any more "big brother" than the government literally giving you an allowance to purchase food with?

I think at that point things like prohibiting junk food, or having to take a nutrition class, is barely moving the needle any further.
I know I can’t assume that which is why I said there are people without cars.

The parent post listed foods like rice, beans, and frozen veg all of which have long shelf life. If you swap canned veg for the frozen, you don’t even need refrigeration. That means you don’t need more than a weekly trip to the grocery store. If you do have a car, the extra 10 minutes of travel time isn’t that much.

Once you bring time and overworked parents into the picture things look different. It’s certainly a lot easier from a time perspective to grab food from McDonald’s or other unhealthy ultraprocessed foods that don’t need any cooking or prep work at all. But that has little to do with the “food desert” concept since it affects you no matter how close the grocery store is.
Here's the rub: it's much easier to overeat with carbs and sugar than with protein, fiber and fat. A lot of people wouldn't blink at 80g of carbs from fries or desert but eating four apples in one sitting is much more difficult.
Fuck poor people for wanting to eat things I don't want them to eat. How dare they have even a little bit of luxury.
In 1991 the Army unit I was assigned to was getting modernized -- instead of paper maps, transparencies and grease pencils we were going the way of digital terrain data and maps via some custom software running on SPARCstations. I was particularly blown away by the large hard drive one of the contractors showed me -- a 20+ pound behemoth that had a whopping 1 Gigabyte of storage. At the time I had an Amiga 500 with two floppy drives, which paled in comparison.

Seeing a commercially-available 1Tb SD card amazes me in the same manner.
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you know how much fruit/vegetables cost right? stop policing what people buy with their food stamps.

what's the #1 item people on SNAP buy? Soda. what's the #2 item people not on SNAP buy? Soda. What's the #2 item on SNAP? Milk #1 on non-SNAP buyers? Milk

It's not much difference between what people on SNAP and not on SNAP buy. It's just people not minding their own business because they think people don't deserve food stamps.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/food-stamps-diet_n_582f4bd7e4...

You want to force people to buy healthier food? Provide more for food stamps.
You say that "to them it maybe very well be the moral thing to do", is that actually the case?
Where are you shopping? Most US supermarkets have lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as a meat counter and often recently-thawed fish. ("Fresh" fish can't actually be distributed without days of delay unless you live very nearby to where it's caught.) There's also always fresh high-quality bread, though there may be some excessively processed carbs as well Deli's usually don't provide very healthy food -- it's all processed. When I was in Italy a few years ago, supermarkets were very similar to those in the US.
Part of me is wondering if that's why they disabled the 60C soft temperature limit for the pi 4...
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Sometimes I stay at "apart'hotels" in Europe. At least at the chain I've used a number of times, it's really just a hotel with 1.) Some cooking facilities like an extended stay place in the US and 2.) Cleaning is just weekly. They also tend not to have features like bars and gyms that many hotels do. But, really, at least for my uses it's pretty much a hotel with a 24-hour front desk.
Repeat interrupters have the mental capacity to figure this out. This is coddling people who don't deserve it.
I can see self driving cars and trucks on long haul freeways, but to me it seems like self driving in city centers is going to be the hardest, not first problem that is solved. Even if other drivers are taken out of the equation, there are still so many variables in a city to account for. Pedestrians, bicyclists, Lime scooters (I guess these will be self driving too?), dogs, construction, etc...

The only way I see self driving cars dealing with all this in the near future is if the roads were totally fenced off from everything else so that only self driving cars were on them more like trains. However, this seems like such a big infrastructure investment (and just a big change overall) that I just don't see it happening within the next few years.

Our cities (at least in America) can't even put in bike lanes, or provide reliable trains, which is a 200 year old technology, so how are we to expect them to completely overhaul our infrastructure to help a technology that barely even exists?
As always it's important to /s sarcastic comments online because text does not convey sarcasm well without something like /s or the new cAmEl CaSe which does really well.
As for the current holy grail of geology...

I'm not sure that there is one. Researchers in every subdiscipline have their own, and plate tectonics has tied everything together enough that there aren't as many huge overarching questions that everyone is waiting for an answer to.

Some big ones:

How and why does magma travel through the crust and how does it accumulate in enormous bodies? Does it do so in small batches, displacing the rocks outside? Does it do so in huge batches, melting and incorporating the rock that it takes the place of? Why does (more dense) basalt magma rise through (less dense) continental crust?

Are tectonic plate velocities constant over 10 to 100,000 year timescales? Do the faults that are the boundaries between these moving blocks of crust slip at a constant rate (i.e. do the rocks on either side of a fault move at a constant relative velocity)? This relative movement produces earthquakes, so we also want to know if the rate of earthquake production is constant, and if big earthquakes are quasi-periodic (happening regularly spaced in time, with a similar magnitude) or if they are random (happening randomly but with a constant mean rate, like a Poisson process). Observational evidence suggests that big earthquakes on nearby faults are clustered in time, but we don't have good statistics for it because the data are sparse and a lot of data get erased by geologic processes, and we don't have good mechanical models for why this would happen in the first place.

How and why do huge plateaus such as Tibet and the Altiplano form? Do they pop up in a broad swath, or do they form like a narrow mountain range and then grow outward? What controls this?

How does the development of topography affect weather and climate, and how do weather and climate affect topography? For example at a local scale, concentrated erosion due to landsliding from topography-induced precipitation can impact where and how fast faulting and earthquakes occur by altering the force balance in the upper crust. On a more broad scale, the development of mountain ranges increases the rate of weathering and erosion of minerals which alters the CO2 budget of the atmosphere and sea, which changes climate.

How do geological events affect the ecology of an area and the world, and how do changes in ecology affect geology? Grasslands erode very differently than forests. The development of land bridges between continents causes exchanges in flora and fauna that can radically alter ecosystems.

So many of these questions aren't like we think of physics in the 20th century, where a singe discovery alters the field and everyone wants to do that thing. It's more like complex systems science where affects everything else and we want to see how.
I believe you misspelled "small."

The US does actually have railroads, but it's so huge that it's utterly unreasonable to build enough railways to be a major contender for general transit.

At least, that's my perspective as a US citizen who commutes by train daily.
The idea that exercise cannot prevent obesity without a proper diet is very misleading. Yes, if someone eats 7k calories and does not train like an olympian, they are going to gain weight. However, you can consume 5k calories a day whilst exercising(properly) 5 days a week, and remain very trim and "cut" as the term goes. Proper exercise is not popular though, because if it was easy....well everyone would do it.

The idea that "you have to burn more calories exercising than you eat" is 100% false. The calories you burn while exercising make up less than half of the calories you burn because of exercising. Lean muscle mass maintenance caloric requirements exceed adipose tissue requirements by an order of magnitude. Simplified: the more lean muscle mass you have, the more calories your body will burn with zero effort to support that muscle mass.

That said, a proper diet is a great idea for a ton of reasons. I replied only to point out that proper exercise carries a lot of weight(no pun intended).
And Walmart is bigger than Amazon in the United States. I don't have numbers at hand of the EU as a whole to compare but I would be surprised if Amazon were bigger than leading grocery store chains.
How is the cheeseburger unhealthy?
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>people nowadays is using IR cameras without any calibration or understanding of the physics behind the measurement

The four factors are Emissivity (ε), Absorptivity (α), reflectivity (ρ) and transmissivity (t). Emissivity is only one facet. Ideal is high Emissivity and low reflectivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_properties
> It's not quite as extreme as you say: Fujifilm's X-T3, Sony's A7III and Panaonic's GH5 for example all have two slots

And they're all $1200+ cameras (with no lenses). That's a substantial price for a feature that has become cheaper to add over the years. An SD-Card bay is under $2, the plastic bespoke door that covers both bays likely costs more than adding the second bay would.

Strikes of artificial price segregation, the whole "prosumer" tier didn't even exist back in the mid to early 2000s.

> The only people who need extra reliability are professionals who lose a great deal of money in that 1 in 1000 case where an SD card dies.

Almost all photos are once in a lifetime. That wedding, birth, or even vacation likely won't happen again (and if it did it would be different anyway). Arguing that nobody "needs" reliability until profits are on the line isn't a particularly compelling argument in my opinion.
Also, ethanol has no storage form, but it's definitely calories in. Of course most people don't drink ethanol in a fasted state without any other macronutrients, so they still get fat since the body preferentially metabolizes the ethanol and stores the other stuff.
You're also assuming that people know how to make tasty meals out of lentils, or have the energy to do so. The idea of quality food encompasses not looking and tasting like grue.
Reality has a pesky way of interfering with our simple, elegant models...

As for the timestamp, this is probably the easiest solution no? OSM keeps track of all modifications.
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That's not my point though. It's not contradictory to say "intense exercising can cause starving if you don't eat enough" and "exercising cannot prevent overweight without a proper diet".
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I'm putting together a public list of all the angels, seed funds and VCs that invest in frontier science & technology startups before their Series C (at which point I assume they're just raising from generalist funds with money vs trained specialists).

- Name of person or firm
- Ideal Investment Stage (Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A/ B)
- avg check size
I don’t know what a social contract means, but in some cases you are breaking condo/apartment contracts and in other municipalities the owner is breaking the law.

As far as I’ve ever heard, as a guest, the worst that is going to happen is you are going to be thrown out. Municipalities in general don’t want to scare away tourists or visitors, so I would be surprised to see any fines or penalties in that directions.

Some municipalities have very large and escalating fines for listing on AirBnb. Miami Beach is $20,000 for first offense and I believe doubles on the second. Search “Airbnb Miami Beach” on google, and it is going to take you a while to figure that one out. I doubt most visitors have any idea.
Maximizing calorie per dollar almost certainly means boxes of pasta, jars of peanut butter, and bags of rice and beans. I think comfort, habit, and convenience have more to do with it than calories.
That's super weird, T-Mobile is supposed to have simplified their plans to just the one like 65$ one with no restrictions. It's a big part of their pitch - "we're the no bullshit, no contract company," so I'm pretty disappointed to hear they're moving away from that.
Yup. That's why copyright laws ended up being a total dumpster fire. They're a desperate attempt at making digital data behave as if it were Gutenberg-era books. Not only they fight uphill against the medium, but by refusing to be grounded in reality, they opened themselves to abuse - and thus became captured by the rent-seekers from various industries.
Good list. A lot of folks go into environmental remediation as well. Unfortunately in practice a lot of this is 'helping companies pollute to the maximum extent allowed by law' but it's better than nothing.
I'm really surprise that this is a title on a news story.

When I was growing up as a little child, I saw a very poor obese person. I asked my mom how could this be. She told me when you eat trash, you get fat, but since you don't get nutrition, you stay hungry. It was the third world, so instead of fast food it was rice and lard, but the same concept.

This was 30~ years ago.

Recently, I started volunteering at a food pantry.

I was shocked at how many grown men and women say: 'but I see a ton of fat poor kids... they don't need food'.

I mean, there's a remarkable level of ignorance and lack of empathy you need to have to use such an observational to jump to such a conclusion.

The fact that such a well known fact is a title on bloomberg news piece is a sad statement to the status of our society.
because packages are signed, which gives the same level of trust as a https certificate against tampering (or even better, think how weak a guarantee is a let's encrypt certificate) but allows to delegate hosting to infinite untrusted mirrors.
I fully agree. If everyone knows that self-driving cars are the future, why would we not just retrofit our roads to use some fixed transportation scheme like trams or street cars? Self-driving cars seem extremely wasteful, like some bad idea of public transit
I dropped a microSD in my car once and despite looking around for 10 minutes with a flashlight eventually gave up (I think it probably fell through a crack into the inside of the car.)

At least a lot of DSLR or mirrorless ILCs still use full size compactflash or SD cards which are easier to handle and not drop.
I'm well aware of the differences between the different grades of sugar. You're still not getting the OP's joke. Purities aside, all sucrose is just as good or bad for you health-wise as any other sucrose.

As you almost certainly know, organic and fair trade refers to farming and labor practices, which is independent of chemical content. This is why fair trade sugar isn't any better for you than non-fair trade sugar. The substance you're eating is the same.
Perhaps you live in a bubble of remarkable people.

Try listening to conversations between coworkers, people in coffee shops, and at the grocery checkout.

Most people operate their lives like a smartphone has conditioned them to: never pull relevant information, only receive what's pushed.
Boil white potatoes, then refrigerate them, to cause retrogradation of the starch?

This causes the starch to become more resistant to digestion and lowers the glycemic index of the food. Potatoes are already pretty good for satiety, and retrogradated potatoes are filling and slower to digest.
Yes and yes again. This is so key for people to understand. And this is why google should have never touched this fucking project in the first place. Many continue to push this logic that somehow we should continue to engage with the PRC. I’ve spent a decent amount of time in China, have relatives there...etc, and I’m convinced that this approach is 100% FLAWED. The CCP derives its authority from economic growth--next year will be better than this year, so don't challenge us. At this point in their development, for this growth to continue, it now requires science/tech innovation (see “middle income trap” theory / many of my acquaintances have moved factories elsewhere due to cost in PRC). Any work we do with them in those are areas only make the oppression problem worse, both for Chinese people and for us now/eventually (e.g. Hollywood will never criticize China; not the same with Russia).

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It's not ok to cross into personal attack here, regardless of how annoying you find a comment. If we all did that, that's all we'd do.

It's also not ok to take threads on generic ideological tangents, because those have all been repeated so often as to have become predictable, and lead to boring discussions if not flamewars.

Would you mind reviewing the HN guidelines and taking the spirit of this site to heart when commenting here? We're trying for something a bit better than internet default.

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