skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat related: I often say that CLIs are GUIs. Letters are pictures to which we've assigned meaning, just like icons. They are just simpler and less ambiguous, and we're all taught a standardized usage from a very early age to the point that it becomes embedded in our brains for highly efficient processing.
Hideo Kojima Talks About the Challenges He Experienced After Leaving Konami
1) A decade? It's happening right now.

2) Check Alphabets/Googles bank balance. They have a few bucks they can invest for now.
Sure it can. Especially since Tibet is a separate country; invasion is no longer recognized as a way for a country to increase its area.
or run on an emulator
Not sure there is enough evidence in support of those claims about Tesla. Tesla doesn't collect anywhere near enough data from its customer fleet to support the kind of massive training being claimed. In contrast Waymo and Cruise vehicles are regularly in the depot where each car offloads terabytes of data. Who has the bigger training set?
Agreed.

FTA:

> "are on the way"

> "soon you may experience"

Vague promises without any concrete dates attached make this seem like output from PR rather than engineering
I did this in college to hack the digital sign on the Purnell Center at CMU. Did not get expelled. Also good times.
I have never seen another TACC implementation that doesn’t ping from side to side.

Which cars have you drive with a superior cruise control implementation?
Russian cyber criminals offer fake news campaigns to companies worldwide
MSVC uses a completely different ABI from Itanium, and you shouldn't rely on the Itanium ABI to inform you what it might look like.

vtable layout in the most basic situations is going to be accidentally portable because those situations boil down to "it's a struct of function pointers," and there's only so many ways you can order the fields of a struct. But even here, MSVC uses a quite different ABI: the order of the vtable entries can change if you overload a virtual method with a non-virtual method.
Like editorial cartoons have done for over a century, changing the context lets the viewer observe whether their surface beliefs are consistent with their intuitions and principles.

I tend to find the degree of depth in South Park is entirely a function of whether you agree with their editorial position and/or whether you've already engaged with that line of thinking elsewhere. (And like every TV show ever, some episodes are good, some are stinkers.)
So, basically, 3 people walked out? If they're anything like most corporations the majority of their workers are contractors.
Since it lets you fall asleep as long as your hand (or something) is on the wheel, I'm not sure it's the best thing you can get. Cadillac SuperCruise seems better from a driver awareness standpoint, given that this is "predictable abuse" otherwise.
the whole time I just kept thinking, "but... when they put up their money in 2002 it was invested right?? The charity got something more like $2880? why aren't they telling us!?"
Toptal is a big offender with this. I asked them before to do this and they declined. I understand there are some evergreen content out there, but anything related to technology does not fall into that category and having a date is important to understand if the content is likely out of date.
it is hard to comment in this limited space without attracting a ton of downvotes. I am a futurist, and looking into 100-year from now, won't there be a united government just like what we saw in Star Trek?

The rule-based global system is a relatively new thing. if you look back pass WW2, it is obvious without the United States as the solo superpower, it is barbarian politics between countries, not so much for "rule-based system".

Thus, what many really expect to see, when they think about national self-determination, it is envisioned as many smaller countries with one superpower, that is the United States, with globally projected military power.

That is certainly possible, but there are many questions left, for example, how that many smaller countries counter-balance the desire of the United States?

Alternatively, can the E.U. be an example? It is certainly possible as well, but we have to ask, at which point, the E.U. will act more like one nation, where is the boundary?

All these discussions are orthogonal to the authoritarian discussions. I am certainly sad to see people view the Chinese as unable to pursuit their own democratic process without breaking the whole country.
What other vehicle will change lanes by itself, and take on/off ramps through interchanges to take you where your navigation is routed, without you touching a single thing?
If you don't put a launch date on it, it's not real.
How to predict:

1) Say what but don't say when.

2) Say when but don't say what.

Never, ever, ever bet tempted to say something specific will happen in a bounded time range.

Flying cars are on the way! That disease you hate, a cure is coming! Next year will be a big year for other breakthroughs not mentioned here.
Ok. Cheers.

For the record, I wasn't assuming anything about your exposure to various ideas. Just didn't want to belabor the points. I was snarking the one-sidedness of the board a little bit.

If you wanted to hear what I was thinking:

1) Installing western-friendly government in HK achieves full naval encirclement of China (SK, JP, Phillipines, Taiwan, HK).

2) As you say, there's the history of colonialism, which gets compounded by the importance of 1).

3) We consistently ignore these things from our allies and then get all moralizing when it's strategically advantageous for us. 12 hours ago we let Erdogan invade kurdish syria, and that's just today. I could list another dozen countries/disasters that we're enabling right now.

4) Almost every time we have gotten involved in 'liberating' countries because our values are so great, it's not only had ulterior motivations but it's also been an absolute humanitarian disaster. We did this on their borders twice in the latter 20th century.

When you add all of that up, and mix in the post-colonial resentment.. I can see a reaction of "America in particular can kindly shut up about it". It's not that they can't comprehend democracy, it's that they specifically don't want any American involvement whatsoever.

I'm not saying you have to agree with them -- feel free to join a divestment movement or something -- but they do have their reasons, the issue isn't completely one-sided.
On top of this, Waymo has the full force of Google’s CAPTCHA behind it.

It is already full self driving in some cities, whereas my Tesla cannot even detect stop signs.

I love my Tesla but I harbor no illusions about the eventual victor of this self-driving race.
Stellar Air Drop
My head is spinning about how much they are giving away!!!
it's inaccessible for somebody who is poor in montana to travel to new york city and speak on a soap box in central park.

Should that be an argument against new york having free speech because its not accessible to some people?

Your last sentence confuses me because it sounds like you are arguing that if it's possible for somebody to be too poor to use a platform then that platform should never have free speech, and i'm not sure how those two concepts link.

Anywho. The ideological and moral principles of free speech exist in tandem with other ideological and moral principles. I run a forum for a game server to an open source game (I also run the game and the game server, but that's besides the point). This forum has sections with various names and the section names all spell out what type of discussions that section is intended to hold

If somebody wants to post about how badly they hate how I run the site or the game server, and post it on the role playing and table top rpg board, it will get removed, as its off topic, and nobody in the community would care. If they instead post that in any one of 5 sections that it would be on topic for, and i remove it, as I technically have to right to do, I will have trampled on that posters free speech, and everybody has the right to tell me to fuck off for doing so.

What you are failing to understand is that the principle of free speech is akin to the principle of not being a dick, its enforced by society in the same fuzzy matter where conflicting interests are concerned
Right after finishing Electronics vocational school I spent the next year working as an intern at Unicamp (Campinas University in Brazil). The job was at the computer lab of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering[1]. This was before ethernet (yeah, I' that old), so dumb terminals were linked to the CPUs through RS-232 cables - when I was not burning my fingertips soldering DB-25 connectors I was tinkering with every computer I could get my hands on.

I saw /etc/passwd and asked my boss how to decrypt the passwords. He told me it was a one-way encryption, so the login program would just encrypt the password you provided and compare to the encrypted value. He went on explaining the old crypt algorithm and even made a bet I could not guess his password. He said it was related to a movie.

So at 17 I was hooked and started studying the sources. In the end I just patched and recompiled the passwd binary to store clean text passwords in a hidden file. Later I learned this was called a trojan horse.

And even now, 30 years later, I remember his face when I told the movie was Citizen Kane and his password was "rosebud".

Thank you Miguel and Gorgonio for teaching me about C and Unix! This knowledge paid my rent for 3 decades and I still love the job.

[1] http://www.internationaloffice.unicamp.br/english/teaching/g...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-232
Where were I trolling?
Tesla will "ping" you straight into a concrete wall at full speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z8v9he74po
GNU Readline is really quite a remarkable piece of technology that everyone uses and yet hardly anyone has any idea how to actually use it efficiently.

Along the same lines of the article, these things have served me well:

This one is great for just getting the quick commands to help you get around the command line more efficiently

https://readline.kablamo.org/emacs.html

This one gives you all the exhaustive options around how you can tweak readline via your inputrc file

https://linux.die.net/man/3/readline

Its sounds really dumb, but after getting to know the bash and readline man pages I have stopped using fish and zsh and just started using more vanilla bash and built in linux tools and its been fantastic. I don't feel like I have lost any productivity and my terminal is a lot more responsive.
I know that material fatigues over time, but 225,000 tons of turbine blades annually sounds excessive. Why so much waste?

Couldn't older ones be retro-fitted with newer rotating internal components to extend the life of the structural components and the blades? I just can't see such a massive structure being discarded just to be replaced with a unit which is probably very similar.
Apple hid the flag of Taiwan/ROC flag for users in Macau and Hong Kong, and changed the name of Taiwan in Siri to 「中國台灣」 (Taiwan, China).

This is a new change with iOS 13.1.x and 13.2.
I think it's the other way around: Direct mapping of inputs to outputs will work great for a subset of conditions, but the last N% is infeasible without explicit logical programming.
That said, seems like Tesla will still benefit from Waymo being the first out of the gate. While Tesla plays catchup in technology, Waymo will take all the early criticism, while ostensibly making driverless cars more palatable to mainstream society. Similar to how Lyft benefitted from Uber being the first to bully local governments into legalizing non-taxi app-driven car service.
Not above any foreign currency. Transactions below $200 would be exempt from capital gains. When they made that decision, the implication was that it cannot be used for liquid payments, i.e. be a "currency".
I'm surprised that business is so keen on China. Obviously they are a massive market, but they are also so fickle and nationalistic. Its so easy for a non-Chinese business to make an innocent mistake or just different view and have the government or citizens actively boycott you. I'd be hesitant to put any business reliance or investment in China these days.
That's great, but if it's only true until it isn't. The moments when that idea is false (however rare) are the life altering, permanent moments that result in irrevocable ruin for whomsoever might dare trust the promises and honor of [faceless corporation].

The truth is twofold.

One: if the barrier can be melted according to magic rules, then it is no real barrier. It is a sweet candy coating that melts in your mouth, not in your hands.

Two: if a corporation is made of many incidental strangers who happen to share an employer for overlapping moments in time, and the system has at least one authorization bypass, then so does the audit trail.

If you don't think corporations implode, suffer from disgruntled criminal employees, sell out to rivals, go completely bankrupt, or land themselves in jail, then bet all of your secrets on the idea that what they tell you is 100% truth.
I think that you overlook the fact that a tremendous amount of evolution went on before humans came onto the scene ~200k years ago.
Doesn't this sound like a really good reason to work with a smaller private provider?

Don't do sensitive work on free services...
Thanks for a thorough answer. You do make a convincing argument for Go's simplicity.
It goes back to the very beginning:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/introducing-stackoverflow-com/

> Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming) meets wikipedia meets programming reddit. It is by programmers, for programmers, with the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum total of good programming knowledge in the world.

The key part is "minus the nausea-inducing sleaze" except that their behavior of late is exactly nausea-inducing sleaze.

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/stackoverflow-jeff-atwood/

>Atwood was bothered that the community doing all the work wasn't getting paid...

Yet, the contributors to the stacks don't get paid either. Now the creators and VC are trying to sell the stacks and make money -- exactly what he said his competitor was doing and shouldn't be.

> He and Spolsky decided to create an ad-supported free alternative, and released all answers under a Creative Commons license, so that the users could use the content elsewhere if Stack Overflow ever shut down or started charging for subscriptions.

Now they've decided to retroactively change content users created for them to their benefit.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchan...

> we will continue forward under version 4.0 of the CC BY-SA license. This change encompasses all Subscriber Content as described in our ToS including data dumps as well as any content previously made available by Stack Exchange under the terms of version 3.0 of the CC BY-SA license.
You don’t think Singapore and Malaysia are part of China too, do you?
> Google Analytics was also full of strange decisions and unnecessary complexity.

Presumably, Google Analytics would be big on dogfooding… which is probably a sign that analytics-driven development isn't quite as useful as it's been touted to be. It's probably got great engagement metrics though!
Actually, a smaller provider with effective canary policies....
Thank you. This is just like YouTuber economics. Sure the top creators in various categories do pretty well, but the vast majority of creators don’t even come close to making a living (and probably not even minimum wage factoring total content creation time). On top of this, sustaining a passion as a business is a fantastic way to burn out. Just look at creators like Every Frame a Painting. Keeping up with audience demands enough to maintain view counts / subscribers / patrons / whatever is hard.
Sure, with some copious assumptions about the environment, you can prove without great difficulty that many real world programs do terminate. But it has really nothing to do with the Halting Problem, and saying that "halting problem is easily solved in practice" is extremely misleading.
I have very mixed feelings about autonomous cars. One side of me is so excited about the prospect and finds it all amazing and futuristic. I love reading about how Tesla and Waymo approach it differently.

The other side of me is absolutely not ready to trust my life to a machine - even though I know I do that all the time in other ways in modern life.

I think it will be people's emotional evaluation that will matter more than anything else and it will be a bumpy road to acceptance.

Driverless cara will probably be safer statistically but they’ll simultaneously make errors a human wouldn’t, so some people are going to die in what will seem like really dumb ways. This will be hard to accept even though that already happens with human drivers. Probably because their mistakes will be easier to identify with and explain.
The article says it's paying customers.

Sorry you felt that was disingenuous! You're right, it's not public in that anyone can take a ride, your account has to be approved.
How is anyone being 'fucked over' by Tim Sweeney? He is a legendary programmer who built his company up using his own significant programming abilities.
>From where I'm sitting, at this moment, this all seems like an elaborate disinformation campaign to both prop up morale of the domestic masses believing the USA has magic China doesn't, while trying to instill FUD in the enemy.

Maybe... I could actually buy that the military has some kind of top secret fusion technology, but this being a disinformation campaign doesn't make a lot of sense. This story doesn't really prop up domestic morale - the masses for the most part don't know about this, nor do they care (that notwithstanding the fraction who already believe the Area 51/UFO stuff anyway.) And I would expect China or any modern country to be capable of differentiating between a description of legitimate science and magical woo-woo nonsense.

My personal take on this is that there is legitimate, purely terrestrial but advanced technology at work here, but still nothing involving anti-gravity or anything ridiculous like that. I'm assuming people's pop-cultural bias towards UFO conspiracy theories are causing people to jump the gun.

But even then it's weird. It's weird any way you look at it, unless the whole thing is a hoax from top to bottom.
As a long-time antagonist of Kaku and string theory / supersymmetry, Peter Woit naturally has a blog entry[1] on this that's worth a look.

He points out Prof Gordon Kane upped[2] the ante:

> By 2020 there will be a Nobel Prize for a string- or unification- or supersymmetry-based theory or explanation or experimental discovery.

And goes on to give us some insight into Kaku's current point of view. Spoiler: he thinks string theory will give us the "God Equation" when it reaches its final form!

1: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/

2: http://longbets.org/12/#comment-166313625
I am not sure what you are talking about. Tesla autopilot regularly makes you either tug at the steering wheel or press one of the buttons on the steering wheel. Having your hand on it isn’t enough.
And also at the results and the intermediate steps. Visualize everything. Don't just look at the final evaluation metric but dive in and see where things go wrong.

Do just a few bad predictions skew your score? What does the best prediction look like? What does the worst look like?

Are all your results just shifted by 2 pixels to the left due to some bug? Are there mislabeled examples in the test set? Etc. etc.
I used this weakness whilst working at British Telecom to legally break into some NT boxes on behalf of a FTSE 100 company whos system my team got asked to take over.

They had had a bad break up with another supplier and had lost access.

I used our Art directors MAC to break in - I did consider setting up a diy cracking farm using all our suns and running it over night but I suspect that the security department might not have approved.
Yes, even if autonomous vehicles are on average exactly as safe as human drivers, they're still worth the effort. Here are some reasons:

1. They're cheaper. This sounds crude, until you realize that this makes things like buses and shared rides far more viable. Meaning millions of people have a better commute and collectively save many lifetimes worth of time. It can also mean less air pollution, due to less traffic congestion (this only applies if congestion pricing is done), which will also save lives.

2. They can always get better over time. Humans can't.

3. Fewer parking lots are needed, which makes cities far more pleasant to live in.

4. Disabled, elderly people and children have better mobility, and aren't dependent on others to drive them everywhere.
There's even a machine intelligence agent that will critique your logo online ;)

https://brandmark.io/logo-rank/

Some of my favorite posts online are of the sub-genre: company rebrands all design elements, and a well-respected design professional offers genuine critique. I also love reading about process at elite design firms like Pentagram, and how much thought (or emotion) goes into work.

I think a trusted online channel where you could solicit critique for UI / UX experiments online, perhaps through synchronous live video, would be cool. It would probably be invite-only, heavily moderated, etc. But the benefit is input from use cases you yourself would never dream of. Naturally, double edged sword.
FWIW, I just bought a 2015 MBP and it's brilliant. It has the retina screen, old school keyboard, great trackpad "old USB", magsafe, SD card slot and HDMI. It will run the latest macOS no problem.

If it ever dies, I might just get another one.
Seriously, this.

At the end of the day, you want to trust that your provider isn't out to get you, otherwise why are you even a customer (Oracle gets a free pass, because reasons). However, you want to know that they're serious about their claims, and transparency in their tools and processes is a big part of that.
I imported a 70k item library into mylio and it ingested it fairly well, along with the xmp sidecar files. I try to avoid doing edits on my images, so I haven't tested how well it imports throughly although.
>Tesla uses machine learning to map inputs to control outputs. Google is using it just to build a model of the world and then use program logic to decide the control action to take.

I suspect that isn't true in so far that engineers will build what works. Building a complicated system like an autonomous car will necessarily involve a messy combination of a bunch of different strategies and with the result converging on a common solution.
"This idea persists in part because Americans cannot resist the allure of “progress”

i think the UK was a huge part of the information revolution in the 20th century, not to mention centuries of European technologies that had little to do with current American culture. I also suspect there will be new countries jumping in soon and contributing hugely to upcoming IT innovations. I don't think there's much doubt about technological progress at least in info-tech, the singularity is a different conversation that actually includes philosophical questions of consciousness.
IANAL and I know next to nothing about patents, but is that possible if the patents are assigned to the US Navy? I mean, I'm sure it's possible, but is the Navy known for profit-driven patent trolling?
Are the deaths of child detainees linear?
Are the days children spend in detention linear?
Are the separations from parents linear?
Is the explicit targeting of long-time residents with no criminal history linear?

Why is it important for you to dismiss changes that the current administration explicitly campaigned to enact, and that is clearly manifest? Does it make you feel better about not trying to change anything for the better?