skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Autonomous robots sound cool, but there are so many problems that could benefit from robotic automation that don’t require full autonomy. In controlled environments where we know the entire state of the (local) world including the position of our robotic swarm we can deterministically plan a motion and leave the world in an expected end state. Maybe use a bit CV to make sure our assumptions are right, if not hit the break else continue.

Construction, mining, infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing, logistics all contain problems spaces that could use non- or semi-autonomous robotic automation. Still a difficult problem, but how can we expect full autonomy without controlled robotic environments first?

Yes we use robots in manufacturing and a few warehouses, but that’s it..?
Happy to hear you find it useful!
I'll have to test it with my Pinephone. I thought I had it lying next to me in standby for multiple days, so more than 40h at least.
It does have a Zettelkasten mode but it's not enabled by default. Out of the box Obsidian is more like a wiki with markdown syntax.
The British wouldn't think it odd to mix ballistics with tea:

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

> A boiling vessel is a water heating system fitted to British armoured fighting vehicles that permits the crew to heat water and cook food by drawing power from the vehicle electrical supply.[1] It is often referred to by crewmembers (not entirely in jest) as the most important piece of equipment in a British armoured vehicle
Smart Glass Is the Upcoming Trendy Gadget
Will a blockchain contract block FB from committing the code in the Occulus software that requires to login in Facebook?

I guess it won't, so...
> And I think that's a pretty good choice, since there's no reason to arbitrarily exclude languages

There is a reason, which is akin to why balanced corpus are used for capturing various aspects of a language: language features are unevenly distributed between languages but quite consistent within a family.

Let's take the example of word order [1]. The SVO order is very common on the raw number of languages, but actually represented by a small number of families (4 times less families than SOV for about the same number of languages). Which mean if the so-called "agnostic" model is trained mainly on languages of the same family (spoiler: it is), the raw number of languages used can be high, yet the difference between them is minor so the task is made easier.

In ML term the model is kind of overfitting the feature from the language that are the most represented, yet the result can pass as good when tested on languages similar to those used for learning. This is clearly what could be happening here, from the previous example I gave. Also Catalan: 75% accuracy for a language that is linguitically very close to French and Spanish (themselves close together) which are the top 5th and 9th language in number of data in the training set. The first two best non constructed languages are the closest to the 4th language in the training set...

Besides, I don't think anyone really on lang tag as it often missing or simply wrong. Besides, taking Cantonese from Standard Chinese is a very easy task as their is a few words that appears very frequently in Cantonese and never in SM (係, 嘅, 冇 for instance).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_order#Distribution_of_wor...
And TiddlyWiki has a Stroll plugin that provides backlinks and auto-complete suggestions for linking: https://giffmex.org/stroll/stroll.html
Yeah. Turns out people don't just pack up their lives and leave without reason. ️

Transit/zoning/policing is only half the story though IMO. The other half is just how toxic a lot of the discourse here is. There seems to be an especially strong preference here for private reason over public reason that I think underpins much of the social issues here between rose tinted nostalgia for bygone area, strong nativism and exclusionary localism that IMO is quite MAGA-esque.
5 Million cases for a something we are trying to get rid of. Something which has now killed 3times more people than the flu.

Something which should have 'gone away' in summer.

Isn't the issue not what numbers we currently have (which is bad) but numbers which we would have if we would NOT do what we do?

We could have had New York, Italy or Spain globally everywhere...
Build it. There is a global market of parents who will buy it.

But on the other hand, why not accept the toys on the floor? You are fighting entropy for no reason. You sleep at night, you will work tomorrow during the day, and when you look again, the toys are in an equally dispersed state. Why not let them stay in that state for days until you need to hover?
So how does this stop malicious apps from using the same workaround that Google proposes, as mentioned in the article:

"The documentation advises explicitly checking for installed camera apps by their package names — meaning developers would have to pick preferred apps up front — and sending users to those apps directly. Of course, there are other ways to get options without identifying all package names, like getting a list of all apps and then manually searching for intent filters, but this seems like an over-complication."
The pesticide that caused bee colonies to collapse is killing birds now
My understanding is that Roman concrete recipe/technique is considered uneconomical for most uses today because it uses very little water and must be mixed onsite and packed into place, which makes it much stronger even without rebar. But that doesn't work so well for mixing in a truck and driving to job-site, so modern industry prefers a much wetter mix even though it means our structures crumble in decades rather than millenia.

Where the similar recipe/technique has been applied is in the construction of some large dams, where they call it roller compacted concrete.

see romanconcrete.com
But this wasn't put in every apple device... THey just made several special ones
A single mention of the word "subscription" in the text versus a multitude of times mentioning "SaaS business model" and "SaaS revenue model" indicates that the post is, at the very least, seriously inconsistent from the terminology perspective.
Purely in the space of geometry and simple motion planning, there are reasonable methods with guaranteed correct solutions, provided their sensor data is correct. Of course, combining correctness (the solution is actually safe), completeness (a solution will be found if it exists), and bounded computation time (get a solution in actually useful time) is a much harder combination to achieve.
If you want to dig into VTK, try out ParaView (https://www.paraview.org/) or VisIt (https://wci.llnl.gov/simulation/computer-codes/visit), both open source and scriptable with Python.

VTK is a mature industry standard for 3D data serialization and visualization. That's much more heavy then mplot3d (matplotlib 3d) or gnuplot 3d.
Archive copy for people blocked due to GDPR:

http://archive.is/Va3MA
I do think furries - or really, anyone wearing something that hides or shields them from the world - can "come out their shell" more easily.

I've heard similar with people wearing face masks nowadays, and personally I had something like an "out of body" experience when I first started wearing glasses. There was a barrier between me and the world.
This posting doesn't address the compelling argument that people will go out-of-state and do whatever they can to avoid this tax, especially in our tech industry which is very rapidly become a remote-first one, even for startup founders (many YC companies of yesteryear were remote/distributed even!).

Raise taxes on earned income, don't steal from peoples' pockets. And prove to us that the tax revenue will be utilized efficiently first.

California needs affordable housing, functioning public transit, reasonably priced healthcare and pharmaceuticals, competitive public education, etc. I'm not convinced that we necessarily need to raise our already-high taxes in order to have these either (we should scrutinize and hold people accountable for current budget inefficiencies). Even still, a lot of these issues can be tackled via changes in policy, or can be better implemented in the private sector.

Footnote: I'm far from having any kind of wealth.
The scifi novel "The Hab Theory" by Eckert goes into some interesting debate about whether there were unknown previous advanced civilizations or not. It sounds almost plausible, but not quite.

"Inherit the Stars" by Hogan is another interesting take on it.
Eukaryote life did not appear until after the Oxygen Catastrophe though.
Add a hunched back and you've got Clark Kent.
> they should be harshing on Facebook right now.

“Do not anthropomorphize the lawnmower”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc#t=38m34s
Would a wormhole enable escaping our local group, in theory? From what I understand the current assumption is that we will never be able to travel beyond our local group because of the accelerated universe expansion.
I'm a type 1 diabetic and I get real time glucose information from a Dexcom CGM to my Garmin watch. This is extremely useful, but maybe we're a bit too small group to be counted as masses...
>>That correlation is disputed, to say the least.

By whom?
The first electromechanical computers weren't cheap either.
As long as you can connect the id to one single client / user, it is PII. It does not matter, where this id comes from, a random hash, an encrypted IP adress. If it's unique, it's PII.

If you only save it on the server, not on the client side, it's not PII. But then it's almost useless for analytics. Because next time the user comes around, you create another hash and therefore another user.
First: USE YOUR MASK. Don't argue about this shit. Researchers will do their job and will TELL YOU if it makes sense or not when the data is out.

Its absolutly a no brainer and no issue at all to wear a mask. Its a no brainer on an discussion base as well.

And don't bring Sweden in here. They are quite informed and took a lot of precaution and still have bad numbers but nonethless there is probably 10x or 100x less Karens in Sweden then in USA.
> But that draft was allowed to expire and I’m not sure why.

Because the current status quo is good enough.

Like in theory, sure, removing 418 makes sense for cleanup purposes. Or barring that, officially registering it.

In practice, it completely does not matter whatsoever. Keeping pointless things out of the registry is fine. And they're not stupid, they're never going to assign 418 to something else, so having 418 in libraries is not going to be an issue. At the end of the day, the current situation is ideal.
Yes, this is exactly my point. NLP is about processing language (which have a century old field dedicated to it) yet the new trend is to totally discard that as a minor details. It's not. It's also fine if people mostly focus on English but then they should be clear about it and not claim to address language in general when they are in fact doing English processing in particular.
Obligatory Tom Scott https://youtu.be/nAsrsMPftOI
sorry for sidetracking your answer but what actually does convex mean in the context of optimization. I remember looking at a book called convex optimization.

Your statement that
> Motion planning is very much non-convex,

suggests to me that you are very much talking about the same thing. I understand convexity as in a shape. Why is convex good and concave bad in terms of optimization?

I don't want you to dumb down the answer too much as I am a trained Mechanical Engineer but then my major isn't math. Hope you understand :)
I don't know if I've ever read such a long piece filled with so many interconnected details, but ultimately telling no coherent story.

It's like a modern crackpot conspiracy theory, but told in iPhone land.
Did a double-take seeing Maldacena's name on this. He's better known for discovering AdS/CFT, which is the foundation of a lot of modern work on quantum gravity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS/CFT_correspondence
Congrats, looks great and quite useful for the cases you've mentioned.

Only thing is that I initially thought the pricing was a bit high, but that was because I thought there was no trial option. On the second visit found it at the bottom of the page. Maybe an idea for an A/B test in the future to put the trial option right below the pricing?
States across U.S. still cling to outdated gay marriage bans
If you get it, regardless of your age, there's a relatively high probability that you will directly and indirectly infect enough people to kill at least one person. I don't want that responsibility on my conscience.

Also, while the data on this for for COVID-19 is obviously limited at this point, the long-term impacts of SARS and MERS on cardiovascular health [0] are concerning. I wouldn't be surprised if getting it knocks a couple years off of life expectancy for a 25 year old.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000629522...
But we don't need optimality or even analytic solutions for practical robot motion. Do we?
No. Jonesforth is originally written for i386 Linux. Porting to x86-64 didn't really change a lot about the environment.
Arguably that should be a 5xx response though; there's nothing wrong with the requests, the server just doesn't want to (doesn't have enough resources to) handle them as quickly as they're being issued.
In Swedish 90s, there was a public information campaign series with vigilante kids putting a snail on the eye of people who don't pay their TV license.

I think everyone who was around then recognize the reference "Do you want a snail on your eye?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK0R-N0w8-Q
I personally do not trust humans.

However, we do have inertia with humans running such situations, and until there is something provably/demonstrably better, I don't see the current situation changing.
Well in defense of the European countries, the wealth might be unequally distributed here as well, but you also don't need wealth/money for education, health care, child care and/or pension.
that generally requires high cost or temperature catalysts and even then it's not that efficient for short-medium term
I watched the bill gates documentary on Netflix about his investing in waste management. Very interesting but makes you realise that even in the first world or waste management is so inefficient and wasteful.
Fun fact: most of the people need neither Facebook nor Oculus.
Diane Greene SM ’78 Elected Chair of the MIT Corporation (ExCEO of Google Cloud)
Aren’t waste disposal sites effectively non-renewable uses of natural space?
Surely you can't be using WhatsApp as an example of strong encryption.... that app is hardly auditable.
Visual Basic was ok from what I remember.
If only I had known you were writing the article ;) I am curious to hear what you'll have to say about it.
> But that only works for an outside observer. I can't be tricked into thinking I'm conscious, because it's recursive: who, then, is getting tricked? I know that I'm conscious because I'm the one experiencing things. You know that you're conscious for the same reason.

Again, seriously, how can I tell? There are people who can't visualise things in their head, and largely don't realise there's anything strange about them. I can certainly introspect my thoughts, but I can talk about the results of that, so presumably a p-zombie is also able to do that. I don't think there's any part of my experience that doesn't affect my actions, so I don't think this notion of qualia is valid.
Slasher isn't and never will be a trusted source.
I find the inverse surprising: that many algorithms that work on real-life robots _do_ _provide_ error bounds and their optimality / convergence properties are proven in the papers that introduce them.

A great example of this is motion planning, where papers both on sample-based methods (such as SST), and on search based (descendants of the A* family) argue at length the theoretical optimality and convergence properties.

On another note, I think requiring more theoretical analysis as a guarantee of safety could partially be an AI-winter meme rather than practical solution. Point in case: do people run a quick check of aerodynamics maths before boarding a flight? No - they rely mostly on the engineering and regulatory process that gradually made passenger flights safer.
Several countries have a mandated tariff on any kind of digital media storage (HDDs, memory cards, etc) and yes, there have been lobbying and talks on imposing this on cloud services as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
As I recall, this came out right on the cusp of TLS 1.3; so TLS 1.2 was what was currently deployed. Timing was awful for me, because I was working on a TLS 1.3 project, and this would have been super useful, but wasn't yet available.
I have, that's how I know. The 99% might be excessive but not by much.
Think of numerical optimization (e.g. gradient decent) as if you're letting a marble run down a hill. Only for some hill shapes can you be sure that the marble will reach the bottom. For other shapes, it'll get stuck on a small flat or in a small hole. Those would be called zero gradient or local minima failures.

If your hill has a convex shape, then the marble will always roll up the bottom eventually.
>>>I don't follow. The countries with the highest GDP growth rates are the ones seeing standard of living and poverty rates improve the fastest.

Right, because they have a lot of low hanging fruit to pick. I'd rather live in a advanced economy with a high standard of living than a developing one with a high growth rate.

>>>Look at the Scandinavian countries..

They still have excellent outcomes and high rankings in the HDI and Satisfaction with Life index. Hong Kong and Singapore are also doing excellent work, especially on the HDI. The Scandinavian nations are doing a lot better lowering poverty and wealth inequality though.

>>>The labor productivity and wage growth rates clearly show a stagnation since the high-social-welfare-spending policies were instituted.

Are you sure of the direction of that causation? Did welfare policies lead to low labour productivity/wage growth? Or were they introduced to address some of that stagnation?

>>>What if that means 99% tax rate? Do you really think that is better for the population in the long run? Where do you think opportunity comes from anyway? Your assumptions on what leads to societal progress contradicts the findings of a century of economic scholarship, and with all due respect, are every bit as ignorant as anti-vaxxerism.

A 99% tax rate on marginal incomes above, say, $10 million, or marginal wealth above $1 billion, would probably not be disastrous, no. I'm not suggesting it, I think ~60% max on marginal income and ~5% max on marginal wealth would be high enough. Please, lay out the harm for me there - what would befall us if we established even the 99% rates? What societal progress do you think is driven by high net worth individuals hoarding wealth? The growth of the middle class has been the overwhelming source of wealth and standard of living increases over the last century.

>>>Wait, you think it's unlikely that there is a point at which higher tax rates for more social welfare programs would do more harm than good?

Oh, sure, you could sabotage society easily enough if you had the highest marginal rates start at too low an income or wealth. But fundamentally, we could probably have a fully functional (better than the current) society where no one has more than $1 billion of wealth or $10 million/year income or something. But that's not really not what we're talking about - the question is if our richest 1% had slightly less money and our poorest 10% had slightly more, would society not be better off?
Miles driven is a useless metric. Stick your vehicle on a treadmill and have it drive a billion miles. What does that tell you?

Edit to add: a better metric would be something like "billions of decisions made where human life was at stake".
Well, almost everyone who starts a sentence with "I guarantee that" is bound to turn up as a failure.
This statement seems braindead and markety:

I have a 5G phone, and I’ve had it since the end of last year. I suddenly realized that something was different about it. The operator didn’t tell me they had just enabled 5G. I just noticed, especially when I was sending messages, that it was lightning fast.

If no one else has 5G phone, what's that, no contention? Despite the fact that 5G is about tackling contention, this was going to be true anyway. No way that in China everyone has gotten a 5G phone already, and won't be the case for some time either. Remember people need to be able to afford them too.

Based on the title though, the thing about China and 5G is that China has masses of dense cities that aren't so prevalent elsewhere. So tackling contention is going to be a major driver.
Depth estimation

I wish it were as solved as vendors would like to believe it is. If you want a sensor for medium-range applications, say order 0.5m to 10m depth with better than 1cm accuracy, that works indoors and outdoors, with reflective and untextured objects, doesn't interfere with other sensors of its kind, it simply does not exist. Traditional active and passive stereo is OK provided you have texture, ToF so long as the surfaces aren't reflective and you don't have sunlight to worry about, structured light if you can control lighting and can otherwise control/avoid interference from other sensors. There's some promise in learned stereo matching, but collecting enough data and running fast enough inference are big challenges to practical use.

Existing depth sensors for manipulation tasks, even indoors in reasonably controlled lighting, are still mostly insufficient given that the objects they struggle to see are often the objects you want to manipulate.
This is what's happening in Australia to the ABC right now.
Humans are capable of generating and understanding creativity and complexity that are simply impossible for non-AGI automation. Even then, we don't just let people figure things out for themselves. We put them through training, and then test them. Even after that, we make them liable for negligence.

I don't think it's an obvious conclusion that error bounds aren't important for automation because they aren't calculable for a human. They are just very different beasts.
1. Wouldn't that dodge the wealth tax too?

2. They use the public services, but so does everyone else. Should a gallon of water cost me $1 but the wealthy $10? That seems fair/right to you?

3. What's walmart? Regardless, don't punish them (Amazon) for being successful, punish the anti-competitive behaviors.

4. This is true, and unfortunate. Though a wealth tax doesn't solve this.

Minorities have rights. In regards to this topic, the wealthy are the minority.

I'd argue our education system should be teaching people how to build businesses, not just be an employee at them. Most wealth is built by owning a business (no source here, just personal observation). It can then be passed down generation to generation if it's big enough. But let's focus on making it easier for people to obtain wealth instead of trying to take wealth from those who've earned it.

It's funny, Rob Bonta keeps saying that they're "asking" the wealthy to help and that it's the right thing to do. I couldn't agree more, asking is the right thing to do. If you're in a position to give, then giving is the right thing to do. Taking prevents asking and giving from occurring.