skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. What is rarely mentioned is his exact quote on the reasoning for radar vs. lidar:

“If you’re going to use active photon generation, don’t use visible wavelength, because with passive optical you’ve taken care of all visible wavelength stuff. You want to use a wavelength that’s occlusion-penetrating like radar. LIDAR is just active photon generation in the visible spectrum.”

This article is still missing the point when talking about redundancies. LIDAR only works in essentially perfect weather ("not occlusion-penetrating"). Even if it serves only as a "redundancy" there's no advantage in relying on a sensor suite that operates in a less-safe mode in the most adverse road conditions. So basically if you are driving in snow or fog, your LIDAR-based AV has to fall back to Radar+Cameras. If that system can pass all the safety tests in the worst-case road condition then there is no value in the additional sensors that add expense but no safety margin.

What's even more overlooked is power consumption. LIDAR is far more power intensive, especially when we're talking about multiple packages per vehicle. In the future world of Autonomous Electric Vehicle Fleets, the vehicles using LIDAR will get significantly less range efficiency than their radar counterparts and cost significantly more to build. In a fleet scenario where every margin counts this will result in a significant economic pressure to ditch LIDAR.

So in the end I think Elon will be proved right. Those currently investing in LIDAR-based systems will eventually ditch it for purely practical economic reasons. Those that don't will be completely destroyed in the open market.

The real competitive advantage for AEV's is in the software, not hardware. LIDAR is a crutch for bad software that reaches a theoretical maximum far short of what is needed for economically-viable LVL5 autonomy.

I'll restate this clearly: there's simply no economic or technological advantage to using LIDAR for AEV's.
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Seems like a good thing for mini-PCs and laptops.

I am really into mini-PCs. Like the Mini-STX DeskMini GTX/RX is my favorite thing at the moment even though I don't really need it. It uses MXM (laptop) graphics cards such as even a 1080.

I am wondering, with an external power brick like the DeskMini GTX/RX uses, could you make the systems even smaller than Mini-STX? Maybe there could be a way to separate out the components package from a cooling solution that would be attached.

I like the combination of portability, easily plug-able components, and power.
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The contrast between the Seattle experience (build more and see prices stabilize or fall) and the SF/SV experience is notable.
Right, and that choice of axiom is how two reasonable people can come to wildly different conclusions about a subject even after spending time resolving reconcilable differences.

But empirically speaking, almost all people would agree at a high-level that minimizing suffering is an agreeable axiom.
I bought a case in India for my Kindle Paperwhite which came with a stylus [1]. That stylus works, and works quite well with my 2015 MBP.

[1] - http://www.proelite.co.in/Amazon-Kindle/All-Amazon-Kindle-10...
There is definitely an argument to be made. Discovery of these bugs improves software. If not for Blaster/Welchia years ago, Microsoft would not have empathized security or quality in their products for years.
There is a list of possible restrictions (when the PIN is asked) which are different per countries.
Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207435
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NK has a habit of abducting people with skills they want.
I'm in the middle of work and lost interest after doing a cursory dig through the links. If she actually has a counterargument you can boil down for me I'd be happy to consider it.
This study was done on anesthetized rodents. In conversation I've heard support for sleeping on one's side (laterally).

This doesn't suit me physically. My shoulders are too wide. I twist into horrible positions and hurt the following morning.
Pure brilliance. While many commenters seem to focus on computer applications this could be very viable solution for industrial environments for touch controls.
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> I do not read a lot of (any) period African-American literature

Guess you answered your own question, a hole in your reading preferences is a reflection of you, not society. For the record I read The Bluest Eye in college and it was pretty eye-opening.
Not really, they've been public for many years. Investors were "paid back" (i.e. had a chance to sell stock) a long time ago.
I stopped reading at "single-celled protein", which indicates to me that the author does not understand basic biology. Does anyone have a better take on this?
> So you are (at least partially) defining ethics by the consensus of people (in your case professional philosophers).

I am not. I'm saying that people on HN make some very hasty assumptions about ethics (e.g. the claim made in the parent comment) that ethicists broadly agree are deeply misguided. I'm hoping to encourage a little more caution. Ethics are not defined by what professional philosophers agree on, but professional philosophers are in a good position to point out when lay comments are making simple mistakes in their reasoning. This is such a case.
Even if that is his point, that's making a lot of assumptions.

I don't know why Tesla autopilot keeps missing obvious impervious occlusive surfaces, and detecting obvious impervious occlusive surfaces is what Lidar excels at, it's kinda making the point for the other side.
> Then the 2010s happened and almost all software, even Windows, became near unassailable fortresses

Maybe from remote attacks, but nothing can defend against a good ol' keylogger, not even 2FA.
Chromecasts don't support MPEG-TS. Suddenly had to care about that the other day.
yes so if you can make almost all people would agree that eating octopus is bad or eating octopus is good then that will be the outcome.
>not for the purpose of collecting data.

That just sounds like skirting the fact that they likely are collecting data.
> Anyway, what happens when there are no competitors because the margins are too slim to be profitable without being at Amazon scale? If they are not a charity these margins will get fattier as much as their hearts desires.

If Amazon significantly raises their prices, then suddenly their prices aren't particularly hard to compete against.

> Amazon will be able to do all kinds of anti-competative things

I think we can cross this bridge when Amazon starts doing anti-competitive things.
Not only fascist.

Authoritarian regime is more accurate.
Ah, finally. So how do I use the 3 seashells?
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Creator here. This is a Google Sheets add-on that allows you to perform some basic arithmetic on numbers with units (like "2 lbf / in") along with automatic unit tracking, errors for mismatched units and conversions. I have always thought that this is a sorely missing part of the spreadsheet eco-system. I hope that trying it out might convince you of the same. Although this is a paid app, there is a like to a survey you can take for free lifetime access. I will be keeping this open for a few more days so if you like it (or don't) fill out the survey!
I think "game theory" applies to more situations than the name might imply..
Where are they getting their "nutrients and vitamins"?
I love this idea and concept, and I hope it will work well and expand. But if such a concept were to work and expand to big cities, I wonder what will happen to people living outside big cities...

While I don't know anything about the US market, I also wonder what is the motivation to make this project at home instead of mobile-based. Since we all have super-powerful computers in our pockets, it seems to me that we could have an easier similar solution using a smartphone mesh, especially in big and crowded cities?
If it has a wikipedia page does that change things?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-cell_protein
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The same term is all over their actual webpage. I don’t know what it means either but perhaps it’s referring to the process somehow.
Racket will never be a practical language, but not because it is a lisp. Clojure is a lisp and is plenty practical.

Racket was designed to teach programming to young students, which unfortunately isn't a killer app for a language even though I learned a great deal from HTDP and Racket/PLTScheme.

There have been other languages that were not lisps like Dart that utterly failed or like Coffeescript, which faded away because the space that they were trying to overtake (Javascript) was already deeply entrenched.

If you can't appreciate Racket beyond it's syntax, it's unlikely that you'd appreciate it with a new syntax. Racket is academic niche in the same ways Haskell is.

If parentheses and lack of infix symbols are sufficient to keep you away from Racket and you want much of the same level of metaprogramming and macros I suggest trying out Julia, which is considerably more practical where infix expressions and operators make sense within the numerical context: Every infix operator is a function call and has a dual syntax.

But don't please don't lie to yourself that you'd ever adopt Racket if it had infix expressions. I love Racket and I still don't use it for many practical projects because the demands of work are different than academia, which I believe are the true barriers to adoption.
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Nearly every mass killer in the last 10 years has posted an angry rant on Facebook or Twitter.

A couple may have posted on 8chan.

Guess which platform is being criticized for allowing hate?
My mother in law (may she RIP) once called for help, saying her computer had stopped working. Partway through the series of troubleshooting questions, she started laughing hysterically -- having realized her hand was on a stapler next to the mouse.
<<To create Solein, Solar Foods starts by using renewable energy to split water cells into hydrogen and oxygen. Then it combines the hydrogen with CO2, and adds potassium, sodium, and other nutrients.

Then the company feeds the concoction to microbes, which in turn create an edible ingredient Solar Foods says is roughly 20 to 25 percent carbohydrates, 5 to 10 percent fat, and 50 percent protein.>>

Sounds like they make sugar out of CO2 and Hydrogen using renewable energy. They feed that sugar to "microbes" - either bacteria or (probably) yeast and get protein.
"and then combines it with water, nutrients and vitamins" - uhhhhh, wait a second....
This is pretty nice and I was considering subscribing because of them lifting the paywall but it doesn’t seem like they show the subscription cost until after you’ve given them your email address and created a password? I always assume if you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it. It just seems when you click the “subscribe now” button it would tell you the price of the subscription on the next page.
In what way was that a strawman? Honestly.

I’m not defending the design, I’m defending Apple’s prioritization of portability in their laptop lineup. The fact Apple is retreating on the keyboard design is evidence enough that that particular design choice was a failure. Doesn’t mean their priorities are wrong though even if you _personally_ disagree with it.
It seems rather unfair to make the statement that "Microsoft silently patched the vulnerability during last month's update Tuesday" where the phrase "patched the vulnerability" links to Microsoft's CVE article on the problem.
I mean, it is being used to access the internet......
I always thought that some of the bad reviews must be from ex-employees.
If I sleep anywhere but my side, my throat tries it’s darndest to choke me to death, on behalf of the sleep apnea. So it works great for me!
A great essay on the topic: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
I strongly suspect that any roadmap would mostly consist of features present in other existing OSes, removing the mystique.

It will probably be like any other modern OS, but designed to be a modern OS from the beginning.

Which might save Google 0.1% in electricity costs.
Father in law (verbatim quote, deadpan):

"I went on the internet, and I downloaded so fast I blew out my printer."
That's not the same. This is more along the lines of examining what is causing the negative CP. The margin is impacted by several factors that determine the cost, but then you can go a step further and look at the net impact on profit based on the items it was purchased with. Much of what is sold on Amazon is not stocked by Amazon. Therefore the symbiotic relationship that is best is to maximize vendor profit AND Amazon profit. This means being competitive on the Amazon marketplace as well as against other retailers and that can be best achieved by Amazon lowering the net margins to be profitable, but not uncompetitive. These are things from the quality of images and detail about the product to the shipping options, to the damage incurred during storage/shipping. The end goal is to optimize for the customer propensity to checkout and not return the items which is also a good sign of customer satisfaction. Most people who walk into a grocery are going to walk out with whatever they put in their cart. Cart abandonment is much higher in e-commerce and so there's a good deal of effort understanding what lowers the propensity to complete the order.
Right. "Not our purpose" != "We aren't doing it"
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That's not the question. It's natural not to want to go back to somewhere something bad happened. The question is why anybody else would care about bad luck that someone had, as opposed to a bad experience that was representative.
I eat Children because they are delicious, not because I think they are dumb. I know they are very smart, but this fact doesn’t makes them less delicious to me. Also, the fact that I —and millions of other people— don’t feel any affection towards these small humans makes the argument of “farming children is unethical […]” less agreeable.
Many people in America eat cows, while they are considered sacred in Hinduism.
> […] Numerous videos on the internet of children escaping from their cells or stealing guards lunches have fuelled a human fascination with the only subset of people that the 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness considers sentient alongside mammals and birds.
Mammals and birds, I hope everyone read that.
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People are going against my comment thinking I am on the wrong side of the argument. And I feel like explaining my point of view even further will just increase the anger in the people that already expressed their counter arguments below. We will see if the public agrees with the thesis in this article and changes their eating habits to protect one of the hundreds of animals that are also considered sentient.
The "single-cell protein" phrase is straight from the parent company's home page.

https://solarfoods.fi/
>That is not intolerance.

It is according to the definition you gave. That much seems clear.

>How is your example being flawed irrelevant?

I was referring to your desired immigration system. Regardless, I explained why it was irrelevant immediately after the line you quoted.

>No, it doesn't.

Yes, it does.

>There are all kinds of legitimate reasons to not allow a person into a country.

Relevance? The word "legitimate" did not show up in your definition. No exception for being unwilling to grant or share social, political, or professional rights was carved out for those with "legitimate reasons" for doing so.

>You're (I think deliberately) clouding the difference between legitimate reasons to deny entry and intolerance.

According to your definition, the two are orthogonal.

>Your right to express a belief ends in my mind where said belief intends harm, be it physical, economic, mental or whatever form of harm, on another person.

What exactly do you mean by "intends"? If I advocate for, say, deporting illegal immigrants, and I do so because I think it's in my self-interest for that to be done (whether or not I'm correct), but I hold no ill-will toward said illegal immigrants, and maybe even consider it unfortunate that our interests are in opposition, would you say that I "intend" them harm, simply because I know that economic harm will come to them if the policy for which I advocate is adopted?

Do I need to harbor some sort of malice in my mind in order to intend them harm, or is it enough to merely know it will happen as a (perhaps unfortunate and undesired) consequence?

>Nobody is killing anyone.

Then why ban people from saying what they want?

>You and people who think like you will be outvoted

Maybe. Let's hope not.

>and dragged to a prosperous future whether you want it or not.

Why should anyone trust you to ensure that prosperity rains upon them when you talk about them like that?
They probably just don't want to say "bacteria" because that sounds unhealthy.
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Again, the hostility is that users are forced to use the mobile app. Forcing someone to do something that is (granted for the sake of argument) a net positive that they do not believe is a net positive is user hostile.

The question is not whether mobile apps are good things. (Everyone is free to have their own opinion about that.) The question is whether or not it's a good thing to force someone who does not want to use your mobile app to use it for your own reasons / or for your own benefit.
Breaking Amazon apart into a retail business and a cloud computing business to address monopoly concerns is about the most pointless idea possible. If you think that Amazon exerts a monopoly influence over retail and cloud computing, splitting off AWS does nothing to address that.
A proper 2FA implementation would surely defend against keyloggers? Unless your concern is leaking information?
Dammit Neo, shut up and eat your glop! It has everything a growing body needs.
Pretty much everyone is light skinned, except for some southerners who are not prominently featured, but mentioned a few times. The descriptions of them are not exactly positive http://www.henneth-annun.net/bios_view.cfm?SCID=194
Another interesting project on a ".ht" domain, huh. (Thinking of "source hut / sir hat" -- sr.ht)
It seems they have invented plants
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> "I think we must be at the point where it's arguably irresponsible journalism for The Information to broadcast a claim like that from Facebook without immediately pointing out the occasions in the past when identical claims about data collection have turned out to be barefaced lies."

I am struggling to recall any unambiguous instances like you suggest, especially anything rising to the level of "barefaced lies". What would be the best examples?

I agree that journalists should give sufficient context about Facebook's history around data and privacy, but I also expect anyone that is subscribing to The Information doesn't need it rehashed for them.
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All of the benefits they talk about also apply to growing plants... how is this better than the old way of turning sunlight, CO2, nutrients, and water into food?
Way back in the idealistic days of the internet you could apply for and reserve a port for your protocol.

I don't think you can do this anymore..., or if you can it's not easy.
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I don't see anything wrong with that. Photosynthesis procedure within plants is essentially what is taking co2 out of the atmosphere
This goes for all professions. If only $x-person was more highly credentialed then they wouldn't have made $y-mistake.

That's fine until $z-cost-of-service is > $some-number. I think we've reached that point in the United States where we can discuss reducing professional barriers to entry in order to bring down costs.
The only ones 'turning conventional meat
industry on its head' are going to be researchers in private R&D turning up synthetic meat products from animal cultures or plant cultures. This article is silly, imo it reminds me of the hipster side of vegetarianism/veganism rather than the philosophical side; Convictions are a convenient aesthetic.
Besides in the case of free-range, well that's out the window even faster because of climate change.
Edit: I looked into this briefly, but now I think the sibling comments are more helpful than mine here.
That one's a minefield with lots of issues that _still_ aren't worked out in shipping products: https://www.mic.com/articles/124899/the-reason-this-racist-s...
Single-cell protein is a thing. Single-celled protein isn't. The website has the former; the article, the latter.
That’s lazy.

The paragraph immediately before that term is used talks about a natural fermentation process similar to the one that produces yeast and lactic acid bacteria which provides context for the single-cell protein concept.
Haven't dug into it yet, but quick Q: does this allow the use case of using a local IDE to interactively develop/run code against a docker environment running in a remote server? (so two "jumps")
That's funny my Grandpa invented the same thing, who do I call for a press release?
How are these anti-tech, anti-innovation comments from this account withstanding scrutiny? This is an account that appears driven by hate (given the last 3 comments; which is as far as I could make it). I am sorry for anyone experiencing pain in their lives, but attributing malice to strangers is perverse.

HN has gotten some weird sickness somewhat recently, and I wish someone (i.e. dang) could explain it.
In his book "Small Is Beautiful" E F Schumacher made the point that energy is fungible for almost everything else, and therefore energy is the starting point of the economy. It's worth keeping that in mind any time you see a headline with the words "It could feed billions." We have many, many technologies that could feed billions, given enough energy. With enough energy, we could grow food in a greenhouse, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, which means the growing "season" would suddenly be 400% longer (an extra 6 months of the year, an extra 12 hours of the day). Therefore, all questions of growing food are really questions of acquiring energy.
Would the Chinese government send it's "LulzSec" types to cyber work farms in NK? Or is something else more plausible?
Was this headline written by an AI that knows how to farm upvotes? Because it's a seriously great way to advertise something extremely banal.
Lidar doesn't use visible spectrum light. They're usually infrared, so Musk's quote makes no sense.

You're making a lot of strong assumptions to draw your conclusions: that commodity cameras and radar can compete on measurement accuracy with lidar systems, and that lidar costs won't decrease with additional investment (we've already seen costs decrease, by like a factor of 10x in less than a decade). The power questions also aren't cut and dry: if you need extra in-vehicle GPUs to support the radar+camera approach, you may well be using more power than a lidar based approach.

There's also no real requirement that AVs operate in snow or dense fog. Those are only considerations in certain climates in certain seasons. You don't actually need the safety system to pass the safety tests (that don't currently exist) in worst case conditions if the vehicle works anyway. Why optimize for the worst case first?

I'll respond clearly: We're multiple computer vision leaps forward away from what Elon needs for success. They're easily half a decade behind Lidar based systems. And people die as a consequence of putting those systems on the road.
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