skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My jaw dropped when I read `ad libitum`. The single biggest impact that restricting the number of meals had for me was to decrease my appetite and increase my resilience to a baseline level of hunger. Telling chronically overweight/obese people to eat as much as they want during this kind of a trial subverts a golden opportunity to accustom the body to actually eating less food.
I 100% agree with this. A much better endeavor would have been to built a robot highway and only allow autonomous vehicles on it. Like trains but using 4 wheeled vehicles.
Instead he was forced to buy stock, that later shot up in price making him millions.
Judge in Apple 'Fortnite' case slams Epic's tactics, hints at July trial date
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100%. I disagree with the article in that there’s nothing inherently mysterious or “hard” (like the “hard” problem of consciousness) in the inner machinations of a smartphone. In the inner machinations of a mind, yes, but not in a smartphone. Everything that goes on within it is designed and controlled and can be explained by a human.

Large networks, e.g. the brain or the Internet, on the other hand, are exponentially more complex and so offer the possibility of being unexplainable when looking at certain behaviors. A recursive problem in a sense.
California is a socialistic shithole of gigantic proportions.

Do not come here. The dream has finally been murdered by fascist assholes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial
>"And often what developers are vocal about wanting is anti-consumer e.g. most people like a single point for all subscriptions/payments."

And then they get into dispute with Google and get their account terminated as the result along with their only email etc etc. Thanks but no thanks. I do not know about most but personally I prefer freedom of choice.
the issue is that randomly requiring non-professional drivers to take over during a trip is an underestimated danger. people get accustomed to it working 99% of the time and get lazy - then the 1% it fails and the driver is asleep or distracted or watching a movie and becomes a major safety issue.

ex all the horror stories of distracted Tesla drivers using autopilot like full autonomous driving today.
> creating and training a machine learning model to upscale the image in order to better discern details

Contrary to popular myth, no AI upscaling was used as it turned out to be too inaccurate. Instead, they manually upscaled some simple image parts after they realized the pixel colors of the cloud edges were produced by 2x "box"-style downsampling.
I'd like to highlight a phrase in the summary here that really stuck out to me. As with some other commenters, it does seem that the judge is not particularly inclined in this argument to side with Epic because it is in the mobile gaming arena, but...

> Fortnite aside, though, Judge Rogers also said she was inclined to agree with Epic's assertion that "there is an uproar in the marketplace about the lack of competition for [distribution of] iPhone apps. You read the papers, I read the papers, it's there." That said, Judge Rogers also suggested this specific case might not be the right one to make that argument, "given the amount of competition for mobile games."

While it looks like this is going to a jury trial, it does leave open a hole for a different kind of app (lets say spotify or tinder (match group)) to try and take a similar argument to court within a different market sector.
I'd offer Kurzweil's (I believe?) observation that the futurist predictions that come true are those that substantially improve peoples' needs.

Even substantially expanded rail will never solve the problem of "I want to get from point A to point B, as quickly as possible, whenever I'm ready to leave" in a fundamentally different way. The transit to the starting station might be shorter, and the transit from the ending station will be shorter, but it's still the same experience.

Autonomous cars solve that in the same way an personal automobile currently does, albeit removing the inconvenience of actually driving.

The former is like-in-kind. The latter is fundamentally-different. Consequently, if I am a consumer, how much would I be willing to pay for the former vs the latter?

Cell phones became ubiquitous because they were a fundamentally-different communication experience ("Call a person instead of a location"). Transit will be the same way, if it changes.
so uber's entire self driving program cost the same as laying down new rail for one new major route. that is definitely not the same cost.
Very interesting. It's pretty good with song structure, formatting, themes, etc... The one major thing it seems to be missing is rhythm and rhyme.

I can imagine decorating the data with a pronunciation dictionary, so that you can coerce some better phonology from the model... There's a pretty good dataset from Carnegie Mellon here:

http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict
This is a logical fallacy. They didn’t test against “eat whenever you want” as a baseline, so you can’t draw any conclusions about effectiveness. Also, as you point out, there was no significant weight loss in either cohort, meaning NEITHER is effective for weight loss, though that may be against a baseline of weight gain (we don’t know without the zero-intervention control).
I should have been more specific. Rural, or cities below a certain tier, in general, often means very poor in China. The ethnic minority areas are very rural and far away from places that generate wealth.

It's not because they're minorities in an American sense, the government there actually gives ethnic minorities a lot of extra privileges, they get to have more kids, etc. There's a form of affirmative action where they're "bussed" to other areas, which of course gets reported in the west as yet another form of repression. Not speaking Chinese is going to be an obstacle to getting ahead in general.

I don't have a cite, this is all based on conversations I've had and what I've seen of rural reality in China (haven't been to Tibet, Xinjiang or Inner Mongolia, but I've seen some really crappy lifestyles for rural poor Han Chinese. And they thought things were going great! Much better than in past decades).
> That's really bad. While there are no uniform standards for what a "bad experience" entails, my general sense is that Waymo and Cruise (widely considered first and second) are doing 10-100x better by that metric.

For for that matter, ever 3 or 30 miles would also be really bad in my book.
A moonshot isn't something that you need to figure out how to achieve, it's something you already know you can do as long as you dedicate a lot of operational and material resources to it.
Great read, I've been digging into it the last two hours. It was analysis I figured was out there but had trouble finding. Perhaps I'm a Jim-like reluctant sociopath s/
Even in Streaming TV, Advertisers Are Dealing with Fraud
There is really nothing to back that claim. There are plenty of other companies in similar sectors (ridesharing, transportation, food delivery) in the US and beyond with similar valuations and no self driving ambitions or technology. Uber's self driving research has been seen from day 1 as an expensive hobby, nothing more.

A company which can achieve level 5 automation and has the capability to roll it out worldwide is worth a hell of a lot more than $60 billion.
No, CA is very aggressive in going after this kind of thing. Now with the proposed wealth tax mentioned in the article, no one would dare do this.
Another article on the same here:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/billionaire-gundlach-leave-cal...
A good employee finds work
Garbage in, garbage out. The iron law of nutrition has been conclusively proven to apply to nutritional science itself.
It's no slander.
>I feel as though paywalled links should be heavily downweighted as most of the discussion will uninformed.

Incredibly frustrating to read comments like this. We can't rely on ad funded and corporate funded journalism forever. Downweighting actual attempts to fund real journalism is completely misguided.
Waymo almost predates the current deep learning fad.

While I'm sure they have deep learning somewhere in the stack, the core of their algorithm appears to be based on more traditional techniques, with kalman filters being the core.
I'm uncertain, something like 20 billion dollars (maybe on par with the amount of funding for self driving cars?). wouldn't really go all that far unfortunately for American transport prices.
Something to consider: many of the apps affected are given away rather than sold. Imagine if brick and mortar stores were run like that ...

Now Google has several different ways to respond:

- Accept that this will happen and try to generate revenues based on other services. These services may be for developers, publishers, or consumers.

- Charge higher rates, perhaps differentiating the rates based upon the amount of exposure an app receives.

- Find a means to charge publishers based upon the revenues generated by the app. Using their own billing system is likely the best way of doing this.

Each approach has its own benefits and drawbacks, but I would be hard pressed to call any of them a racket.
There's a crucial difference in that Android allows sideloading and the use of other app stores. Given this I feel like a lot of things that are not okay for Apple are fine for them to do as you have alternatives.
Or is that that their AI/ML is good enough that they don't need to crowd source captioning now?
That's actually kind of a fair point. Another thing to consider is that if you consider only the military (which wouldn't have been that weird for a pre-enlightenment democracy), there are quite a few times during the empire that approached democracy (relative to the time period).

I guess, really, I meant to imply some sort of a modern interpretation of democracy, wherein a single city (or military) voting for the entire empire wouldn't exactly cut it.
I wouldn't mind paying something like $2 to read the single article, but $40 for a subscription that I have to cancel is just asking for too much, for a site that I will likely never come back to.
Freeway driving would generally be much simpler than city driving, wouldn't it?
If the US companies can't do it just hire Chinese or Japanese ones who have enormous experience to build the infrastructure way cheaper.
der8auer is basically the patron saint of PC overclocking, highly recommend his coverage of new hardware because he goes straight to doing interesting stuff and skips the usual review stuff that everyone else repeats.
I think you've mixed up some names, given Waymo is an Alphabet company.
People are the virus
How does one fund such a terribly designed study in the first place? I too, have got a few bridges to sell...
I wish they'd care more about people with foreign accents. I still find any type of google voice recognition unusable, unless I lay on a really bad fake texan accent.
> can afford to under cut their competitors.

Undercutting is good though. It lowers prices. Undercutting should be encouraged.
Uh, it's pretty clear there's a board level leaker here. This kind of leak is how the board forces action onto the CEO.
This is really depressing. How do we stop this cynical game ? is they example of successful companies promoting the right people ?
You probably mean an F1 visa. H1Bs are for non-immigrant workers, F1s for non-immigrant students.
Americans learned about 20 to 30 years ago that tax and spend Democrats don't get anything done so then they imported voters from a country that was about 50 years behind and they are trying it all over again with them.
Nowadays I use memtest86 that supports UEFI. On Windows, "RAM Test" paidware works well.
> Autonomous cars solve that in the same way an personal automobile currently does, albeit removing the inconvenience of actually driving.

The problem with autonomous cars as compared to rail is that autonomy doesn't solve the other fundamental problem of cars: congestion. If I waved my magic wand and replaced every car in the bay area with a self-driving one overnight, roads would still clog at rush hour.
Upon reading the story again, I realize they literally tell you he paid over four million dollars despite only owing about 1500 bucks. I don't know why people are so upset when he literally paid 2000x more tax than he owed.
>>> Philosophically, if I modify a google doc my computer is asking Google for permission to edit the file. (You can tell because if google’s servers say no, I lose my changes.) In comparison, if I git push to github, I’m only notifying github about the change to my code. My repository is mine. I own all the bits, and all the hardware that houses them. This is how I want all my software to work.

I also long for this future. I want all software to work in this manner.

Interesting to know how CRDTs are enabling this, or how the limitations of OTs have restricted development of these tools (although git and GitHub exist regardless)
I bought an iRobot and I really think if they incorporated a camera it could be significantly better. There are obvious things it picks up and gets stuck in like shoelaces and power cables. Obviously a vacuum is not self driving but it’s a similar problem and at least my casual observation is that proximity sensors along won’t solve real world navigation because we need some kind of inference to understand what the impact of an objects presence would be if we ran over it or not... I believe there has to be a solution with many sensors visual and lidar mapping makes sense too
In 2018 911 outages were caused by CenturyLink outage

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/articl...
There are plenty of text adv emus before scumm or dosbox even exists.
I'm not sure exactly what their rules are - it sounds to me like this is only for if you process payments in the Android app itself.
What does "young" have to do with it?
That's a great point. There is a fair bit of encouragement leading towards behaving as one's authentic self.... but suddenly in the private sector arena, which really matters for life quality, it suddenly is the wrong advice. I've had some trouble navigating that turn as well, fwiw.
It's almost certain several people did, but either didn't get a response, or - infinitely more likely - that the seed used for the icon was simply never recorded.

Found the timeline. Yes several people asked, and no, Mojang did not have any records.
I feel like we're arguing for the same thing.
My understanding is that the costs are low enough to be done by a single country unilaterally.

At least at first. If we start doing it, and don't reform our ways, it gets progressively more expensive.

Probably a nice stop gap if we ever get our shit together, but are staring down some really bad after effects.
They didn’t know apparently, the photo was taken years ago with a random seed just for the purpose of using it in the menu IIRC.
My father's a civil engineer, and has told me they've been trying to do this since the 70s. The original plans were to put a magnetic strip beneath one lane of our freeways that could allow simple lane-keeping and some basic communication to keep the cars properly spaced, then raise the speed limit up 100+ mph for those lanes.

The problem is, once you ask anything of government infrastructure, it may take forever. I could maybe see it eventually happening if these companies lobby heavily for toll lanes, where autonomous zero-passenger vehicles pay the bulk of the fees.
The goal is not to never encounter a car, but that the encounter is mediated with very robust and proven technology that is compatible with both human and current level AI, like a V2X enabled trafic light or a steel bollard. A car can still hit the pod if it disobeys the red light, but the driver would be culpable and the incident itself would be similar to a car hitting, say, a bike - not the fault of the bike.

As for the density of such infrastructure, you don't need it on every street, just within a short walking distance to be practical, a few hundred meters maybe. Once you can reach the hail point, it can take you non-stop to any other in the area served, so something like 30 Km/h top speed can go a long way.
I wonder if they couldn't have solved that in some technical manner too. For example have the autogen transcripts first by default, but allow the opportunity for community contributions to first curate the autogen transcripts and correct any devations where the autogen is wrong. So we start with preclassified speech and correct that small fraction of the time the autogen is mistaken. I figured they could have even used those delta transcripts to improve training on. Videos with huge error rates could flag the contribution for human review, and even with those ones that faithfully correct have some human review them quickly since it may be a word or two. I usually catch at least one discrepancy every video I watch with captions that's longer than say 10 minutes. More frequently on technical subject matter too.
I've been leaning towards Colemak mod DH with the Moonlander. I'll be new to touch typing and ortholinear + split, so why not add Colemak to the mix?

My concern is vim bindings, which is another thing on my to-list. The vim bindings designed with Qwerty in mind, and I'm unsure how Colemak messes with that.
Julia mixed precision GEMM codegen meets and exceeds CUBLAS
Exactly this -- plenty of other countries have figured out how to build rail systems without massive cost overruns.
I think they mean the green bits there are the part where the car can be relied on to drive by itself (with the blue bits requiring constant attention).

Arguing about what to call it is boring. Is Tesla close to having a system that can drive without attention, decide it isn't sure what to do and safely request driver attention? Or does it just have the bit that can successfully navigate a lot of situations?
Yeah, but humans.
Shouldn't the Risk Factors section include a paragraph about the risk, nay certainty, that the eponymous founder will tarnish the company's brand by expounding on his outlandish activities (e.g. https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/106741539427993600...)?
I personally believe that level 3 is completely useless. It requires the driver to be completely aware and ready to take over the driving with a second notice whenever the car gets in over it's head.

It seems like level 3 is more dangerous than a 100% manual car.

Even high-end level 2 seems dangerous.

Until we get self driving cars to level 4, were they don't require the driver to play attention, I don't think self driving cars should be on the road.
OpenStreetMap State of the Map conf 2020 – a few thoughts on the experiment
Scrupulous? Nobody is going to disallow / on Google's user-agent.

I'd suggest respecting Google's robots.txt as much as Google respects our DNT settings.
Why are you getting down voted? The same could be said about a 20 year old cancer survivor. Have we lost our senses here?
Yes, there were cases of Pinephone burning people's fingers, due to modem being used as a heatsink, and distros not doing any testing about thermal regulation working. You can easily get the modem to heat up to 70-80 deg C in that case. With regulation on, it would not get over 60, which while not pleasant is not at least hurtful.
Either sftp/ssh with key-only logins (ie. no passwords), or Syncthing (depending on the volume of data, rate of changes, speed and costs of your network transits)

I now keep my primary 'work' and 'private' collections (10-30g each) and a large shared set (350g) synced across desktop & laptop, and also 3 off-site archive servers, using Syncthing. This includes a literal satellite connection for one site.

[0] https://syncthing.net/
Freeway driving is much, much easier than in-town roads - there's been successful autonomous freeway driving since the 90s.

When you drive on the freeway, everyone's going the same way (or at least you'd hope), the configuration of the road is well known, lines are consistent, etc. It's all the little things that need to be accounted for - opposing traffic, pedestrians, parked cars, random obstacles, and any number of other road, traffic and obstacle configurations that exist, that make consistently and safely driving elsewhere difficult for autonomous systems.
You are able to drive home and you are camera only. I don’t think it’s too far-fetched
Like ones that help track how much you walk, your heart rate, your blood sugar, or other functions?

Any other good advice?
yep, seen some machine generated profanity before, it's always humorous. That bot has a filthy mouth!
It's fine if you can recognize all corruption but I doubt in this situation.
If anything, self-driving cars would make congestion a lot worse. If I had a self-driving mini-RV, I would live further from the city, and do my morning routine during my commute. Maybe take a small nap or get some work done.
Well good ideas from capitalism does not apply to public projects did you not know?
Put a note at the top "Please respond with 'reply all' as those copied are important to this email."
No way it handles all languages with the same effectiveness.
Haven't bricked emacs yet :-)
for $40 CCC is beautifully cheap software for the peace of mind.

I've been using it for many years and every single time it's worked brilliantly.
As a non-english speaker (writer actually, since I cannot fluently speak) who routinely watches popsci/math/etc videos on youtube, I assure you that machine-generated subtitles are completely useless. It may "parse" the usual speech, but not specific terms, and when it fails often (it does), a text becomes a mess. By disabling user-generated content they basically pin everyone with hearing issues to funny cat videos and amazing pop star interviews. I don't think they can scale beyond that right now.
For a different point of view: I can't imagine being able to sustain restriction to 8 hours for more than a day. I've struggled with gaining weight my entire life, which is certainly not the norm, so I'm not really a central example of anything.

The point about growth hormone is interesting. Im not sure if I'd be able to eat enough Calories in that time to survive, but if I were able to fit them all in to 8 hours, do you think someone who is under weight but doing consistent weight training would actually gain weight?
Very unpopular opinion, please engage with it on the facts, not their popular perception on HN:

After a decade and flipping from Apple services & DDG-only to Google over time: I'm really annoyed by DDG's histrionics about Google, from the silly domain fight they imagined, to having blinkered arguments about how they just need a free spot in the Android setup wizard and their market share would be 20%, and they should be the one blessed search engine who doesn't have to pay.
TLDR; (quoted)

Since at least the 1980s, many leading aerospace laboratories have explored the concept of "energy deposition" in order to reduce drag. This concept involves beaming energy in the form of laser filaments, electric arcs, or microwave radiation along the leading edges or just in front of an aircraft in order to condition the air to be more conducive to high-speed flight.
Yes, according to Karpathy. The cars upload data (typically still images) which are then labeled by humans and used as training data to improve the models.