skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Victoria, Australia has done maybe 5-15k tests per day and had zero cases in I think 61 days now.

They do get false positives, about one in ten or twenty thousand it seems, but most of them had the virus at some point in the past and the test was still detecting dead virus fragments, so the "completely false" positive rate is even lower.

The false positives are re- tested, and it's almost always concluded that they're false. Hence 61 days with no cases - any false positives in that time have been identified as such, so the process taken as a whole has a very low false positive rate indeed.

But even the raw "one in 10k" false positive rate they see is low enough that almost all positive tests anywhere with an active COVID outbreak are true positives.
One actual use-case of DARPA ("The Military") is to deploy such robots in disaster-stricken areas instead of risking human.
For example, emergency maintenance in a power plant that has suffered a nuclear meltdown accident.
Not particularly, no. I think there's a world of difference between an established part of the FBI's history and (what would be) mostly speculation on my part.
> but our universe uses one

Oh really.
Austin as a larger metro area has an order of magnitude the amount of land that all of the peninsula has, with no water in the way.

Supporting housing growth through suburban sprawl is a story of most cities in the midwest & south in the US, and has completely different problems. I don't think the comparison will hold up.

The amount of livable land in a city like Mountain View is 12 square miles in city limits, Palo Alto is a massive 26! Austin is 271 square miles.

I agree the tax situation for private housing is nuts in the bay, but we should not pretend the bay and Austin face the same housing problems.
Bonus: No need to set foot: most have drive-thru windows
Isn't it just 1 parameter: cheaper?
This kind of work is outsourcing anyway. So I think all the things you mention there have no impact, since it all wouldn't matter when the price would be the same.
> the way libertarians tend to imagine them

I don't know where your information is coming from, but it isn't libertarianism. Under libertarianism, your rights are inalienable, and supersede contractual rights. Hence, you cannot sell yourself into slavery, because your right to liberty supersedes any contract. You can agree to work more than X hours per week, but you cannot be forced to stick to that agreement. Libertarianism only applies to legally consenting adults. Others (like children) have additional legal rights, such as not being bound by contracts.

There are many different meanings of "free". Common misunderstandings of libertarianism come from conflating different meanings of "free". The free in free markets generally means free from force or fraud.

As for "hasty collapse", the US was a reasonable approximation to a free market in its first century, excluding the slave south, and went from subsistence farming to superpower. This also saw the greatest mass rise from poverty to wealth the world has ever seen.

As for other countries, the more they embraced free markets, the more they prospered.
It's all about context. The symbol has legitimate uses. I do not care that white supremacists use it, as I have no intention of letting white supremacists dictate what symbols I use.
California migration is going to turn the whole country blue by sheer population alone. The sparsely populated red counties do not have a chance. But at least there is space for the incomplete and perverse incentives to not be noticeable for a long time.
I interpreted this as referring to masks? The immediately preceding point included the phrase "new respiratory disease". For that, masks worn in healthcare are more effective than a vaccine could possibly be, and have been for the entire year.
I agree it would not be OK for people to be forced to leave their home because they cannot afford to pay their property tax.

But there are simple solutions to this problem which do not create even worse problems, unlike prop 13. For example, Texas allows taxpayers 65 years of age or older to defer their property tax payments. In other words, the tax is still due, but not until the property is sold.

Why did California voters not implement this much simpler approach to preventing displacement? Because the goal was never to prevent displacement - it was to lock in massive tax subsidies for established homeowners, at the expense of everyone else.
Nitpick: they didn’t overturn AB5. They just added gig workers to the list of exceptions. Essentially nullifying the whole thing.

I’d say that it’s not a direct comparison because of the immense lobbying effort by Uber, Lyft, etc. that convinced many that the companies would disappear overnight if Prop 22 didn’t pass. An uninformed populace is easier to sway (hence the whole representative democracy part) and they (the companies) took advantage of that for their own gain.
I have no doubt that people with violent tendencies are attracted to violent games, I believe that's probably the only correlation. I think regular people can separate fantasy from video games so these games are fine for them. It's a like enjoys like problem not X causes Y. I always tried to explain this to people but parents rarely seem to get it when they complain to me about their kids playing COD and headshotting people.
flagged? because humor is illegal. everything you say or do can and will be taken literally.
What do you think of Cameo?
It's a cool product, easily monetizable. I'm currently in the market for new job, do you think Cameo will be a good startup bet to join?
Same thing happened to me in the B.C. interior north of Kamloops. I stopped when the “road” became a dry stream bed blocked by a cow that seemed as confused as I was by my presence in that particular place.
Well sure, but all the potential choices have serious problems. American corporations have participated in weakening the government to the point where it's not capable, nor trusted, to do it. The EU may not have the cohesion, and they may not be able to get buy-in, since (I suspect) this will have to be a thing the Germans push hard for. The UK leaving the Union only throws another wrench in Europe being a solution to the problem. China and Russia's interests are aligned with preventing such a thing from happening globally.
Here's the Associated Press's story on about the Colorado case.

https://apnews.com/article/public-health-united-kingdom-jare...

"The vaccines being given now are thought to be effective against the variant, Colorado health officials said in a news release."
What always surprises me in discussions on this topic is that many (seemingly) Chinese-origin commenters are bewildered that anyone opposes China's behavior. They've fully bought into the CCP narrative that the Govt is merely making the best decision for a lazy and unproductive people. Stripping people of the ability to choose their identity, stripping them of freedom of thought, stripping them of language and culture, stripping them of choice itself because their primary purpose is industrial output is wrong. I have no illusions that outside forces will change China's practices, but I don't see how they build a harmonious and prosperous society long term while doing what they're doing to large chunks of their population. So much of western innovation is based on immigrants ability to leave repressive govts for freedom of thought and practice. Will China ever be able to move from copying IP and manufacturing for others into inventing for itself?
If you believe that supremacy is a good thing, this is absolutely wonderful news.
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More like solarpunk to me.
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Is she still trying to cancel stephen pinker? I found it ironic that she associated a jewish scientist with neo-nazism.
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IMO Prop 13 is at the root of nearly all of California's woes. It stifles housing development, causing high housing prices, homelessness, and property crime. It drives up the costs of offering government services. It increases inequality by disproportionately enriching a small group of landowners who had the good fortune to buy in the Bay Area or LA county 20-30 years ago, and impoverishes everyone else.
This is pretty amazing stuff. For now it may only run for a second at a time, but for so much incorporated into such a small thing and using completely externally harvested power, its quite a marvel of engineering.
They are still trying to figure out their market. They are essentially selling a product the world isn’t quite ready for.

If it was dirt cheap I would buy one, attach a vacuum to it and have it clean my place. But they are super expensive, so fat chance of that.

Spot, the yellow dog, seems to be targeted at the notion of human safety. Think something like a building demo job gone wrong, send in the robot to pull out the dynamite.

In Norway they are being tested on oil platforms. If this robot can be used to fix one single problem on a platform that would otherwise have required a production shutdown...it’ll pay for itself several (hundred?) times over. This is especially the case for older platforms where you need to be more hands on and less can be done remotely.

We had a mountain side in Norway that was near collapsing and all the residents below it were evacuated every two weeks. The geologists wanted to use dynamite to dislodge it, but it was too dangerous for humans. In the future we might send a versatile robot like Spot up in a drone and have him plant the explosives. If he blows up in the process that would obviously suck, but still fairly cheap for what he would have accomplished.
The whole point of my post was trying to answer why such approaches won't dominate (at least short and mid term, who knows long term!). :)
We know "costs" of such a change - rewriting every single existing system, tool, offline software like Maya, retraining artists, figuring out from scratch how to do things like open world this new way...
At the same time, do you know the benefits? Do you know if it's better, faster, have you measured it? I haven't and MM's goal also wasn't to be better or faster, IIUC the main drive was user editing content in new ways + painterly style of rendering.

And btw. artists absolutely hate modeling with nurbs, splines and anything similar. :) They love sculpting in ZBrush, or editing polys directly (for man-made and city objects). SDFs are +/- compatible with it (but come at huge memory and disk space costs - think of it this way, with meshes you encode "surface", so O(N^2) complexity, with SDFs volume, O(N^3), implicit representations not really...
Hydroplaning means you have a layer of water between your tires and the road surface. Regardless of whether you have two driven wheels or four, if they aren't making contact with the road you aren't putting any power down and your wheels are just spinning. The only thing that can help you is better tires that can move more water out from under them, hopefully giving you a contact patch with the surface.
Seems like this is being downvoted, but I’d be interested in hearing more from both sides on this. I’ve only played around with trivial Clojure programs and don’t know anything about the pains (or joys) of “real world” applications. Any good discussions on this somewhere?
coca-cola also has covid19:

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/292952
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Indeed. Without the outsourcing, they would still be in those same conditions, but earning less. Now there is external money coming into their economy.
Is the same true of Tesla? I know of plenty of people who work or would like to work for Tesla. Another group of companies that haven't received as much attention in the recent "SF exodus" narrative are Google and FB. Google has been opening large offices outside of SF for years and is slowly contributing to the growing of tech hubs around the country. Google's Boulder office comes to mind as a good example.

I'm not aware of any large FB spokes, but FB remote work allowance might end up having a similar effect. Not to mention the many startups that have realized that the distributed model works fairly well if you know how to do it, and opens up a large talent pool. I currently work for such a startup and we don't plan on going to back to a central SF office model post pandemic.
A "cartographer" is someone who makes maps for a living. So the word "cartographer" is a job title, similar to how "programmer" is a job title for someone who programs computers.

I don't think that there is an English word for someone who likes maps. The best thing to say is what you already said: that they are "passionate about maps".
Yep I sniped a lot of people with my wooden gun when growing up playing military games in the woods. I've never so much as been in a fist fight and have talked others out of it on a few occasions (mostly in college). These video games cause violent people is the same sort of ludditery we saw when novels became popular, when comic books became popular, when rated R movies became a regular thing, and on down through the annals of history.
> Sure you're not thinking of threads?

No I'm thinking of actors - stateful, non-determinstic, racey actors. A minefield of classic concurrency bugs!

> Actor's can have race conditions, same as any other concurrent system

Deterministic systems like fork-join don't ever have race-conditions.

> is always deterministic in itself and doesn't share data

But the global state of all the actors is shared. If an actor you send a message to responds differently due to its state then let's be honest you're implicitly sharing that state.

> It also maps nicely onto multicore.

It maps directly to multicore, right. Don't we want something higher level and safer than directly mapping to our hardware?
Sounds like a great way to crush third world countries deeper into poverty. I love it!
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Any chance you'd like to take a stab at convincing me I shouldn't worry about my (young) kids getting hit by cars? I feel like it's an unfortunately rational anxiety.
Moreso: does ">>" mean "go to the end" or "skip 10 pages ahead?"
Found a relevant link: https://akerbp.com/exploring-the-potential-of-robotics-in-th...
This stuff is just a cold religious war, between the believers and non-believers. The sooner we recognize it as such, and properly cap the blast radius as we have with prior religious differences, the better. Until then this category error will plague us all.

https://newdiscourses.com/2020/09/first-amendment-case-freed...
> you can realize they're just large puppets. We've had dancing puppets like Walt Disney's Small World.

This is hugely understating just how difficult it is for a biped/quadruped robot to move around in the world without continuously falling, getting stuck, etc. Like seriously, seriously underestimates it.

Watch this video to see spot walk over some terrain that even people struggle with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7s1sr4JdlI

Doing it without a tether for a reasonable timeframe (30+ minutes) is insane! Disney animatronics don't even come close to the complexity of these robots (even though what Disney has done is for sure impressive).

> robots still generally can't interact with humans or the environment in an unstructured way.

I think this is pretty short sighted, and you're going to have your mind changed quite rapidly in the next couple of years. This style of robot has definitely hit a threshold of price and usefulness, not unlike what happened for drones just ten years ago.

I could be wrong, but I hope I'm not! It really feels like things are moving at a crazy speed in the robotics field right now.
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Thanks for the effort, but I think I really would like to stick with 'tyrannical dictatorship'. For me, it just fits better.
The Mini 2 manages 31 minutes at 249g and it features a 3 axis gimbal for the camera. This military drone doesn't appear to have any gimbal.
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HN downvoters can handle humor in small doses. A wall of text like TFA is certain to contain several phrases about which they'll have to think really hard in order to exclude the possibility of wrongthink. Humor is tough! Want to go shopping?
Could somebody tell me what's wrong with threads, e.g.

require "open-uri"
require "json"

results = []

(0..100).each_slice(10) do |slice|
slice.map do |i|
Thread.new do
results << JSON.parse(URI.open("https://httpbin.org/get?i=#{i}").read)["args"]
end
end.each(&:join)
end

p results
More on the attempt at cancelling Steven Pinker can be read at https://reason.com/2020/09/06/steven-pinker-survives-attempt... (titled "Steven Pinker Survives Attempted Cancellation "). This article includes the transcript of an interview of Pinker himself.
I think its a dumb ass idea, and i thought that about twitter, twitch, and bitcoin. So you should join.
>I think most sane drivers would have bailed at the first turn off of the pavement.

Well-maintained gravel road seems pretty reasonable in that area of the country. But I'd probably consult my paper map at that point which I would also always have for that area of the country (had I not done so already).

I'll mostly put my trust in Google etc. to find my hotel in Silicon Valley. Not so much to get me somewhere in the rural West.
It absolutely can be though. Obviously you keep an eye on your kids with other kids, sometimes even being sneaky about it. I know that I am, but generally I let them try to work it out.
Last straw for me was when it led me down a very bizarre route through parts of a city that were extremely busy and then over a toll bridge when I could have taken a much shorter, more direct route, and avoided the toll all together. I wouldn't delete an app over business info, I would when it does that.
Should you leave SF? Data shows 'bang for your buck' in different U.S. cities
"For those looking to maximize what they can get, Houston will give you the most, with Dallas and Las Vegas also ranking high."
To be fair Tesla hasn't moved as of yet
It could, but it's not showing up in the correlated data that way.

If our rate of tests produced the rate of false positives you claim are possible, what is the reason for the excess deaths across the globe? That occurred simultaneously, and in a delayed rate right along with positive test rates?
"Join us on the dancefloor, human."

"No, I don't …"

"You have 20 seconds to comply."
It doesn't help and may accelerate feelings of having no way out, but you also can't be seen as "violence is sometimes okay" when its literally a crime as an adult.

There's always enough kids from abusive or neglectful households to make lots of conflict in schools. It used to be (I have heard) that schools and teachers were extremely well respected such that a parent wouldn't go against something a teacher said. So in a way the teacher could help actually parent the kid. Nowadays school is more like having a personal childcare service and parents act like they're paying customers and control every aspect of their kids interactions with it.
Yeah, well... I think the U.S. has some massive problems, but that's on another page and although I'd love to talk about these problems, let's stick with China for now. That a big enough pig.
Indeed.

We can see here that deaths in Sweden, where "safety" was very relaxed, are around the same or less than previous years ie. there is no new emergency:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...
> So wouldn't this be a case where the government didn't act consistently with the will of the voters?

Not necessarily. To illustrate I will give you an even more confounding example from my own stage of Washington. Here, voters passed by referendum a transit proposal to build extensive light rail in the Puget Sound region.

The referendum was a very well put together one. It clearly stated the rail projects planned, how they would be funded and the tax implications involved.

All in all it was a good government wet dream. Responsible legislation, necessary for our growing traffic issues without bloat and funded with short term debt paid through clear taxes all passed by direct democracy.

Two years later another referendum passed by the voters left the transit projects in place but gutted one of the main taxes that was planned to pay for the project. The transit authority is now spending a good deal of time reorienting its project planning to account for this (on top of COVID concerns).

Why? Why would this happen? Honestly because voters are fickle, contradictory and inconsistent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy#False_positi...
While it's catchy and hip to say that nobody wants to work for these companies, the reality is hundreds of thousands do. Both your example companies may not be popular with the cool kids and have their own controversies, but they offer great pay, benefits and consist of a lot of smart people.
These small drones are hard to hear and see when they fly high enough (say 200m)
I keep a baseball bat by the bed and a shotgun in the corner. That's my plan on resolving a burglary. Somewhere in there it would be nice to call the police. But they are a good 15-20 minutes away and would only be coming to see if I made it out alive or not.
A Prop 65 sign is what I used to give my quarterpanel window some rigidity when I "replaced" it with copious amounts of clear Gorilla Tape. It shall forever commemorate that San Francisco (the location where said window got broken, all for a defective jump starter) is known to the State of California to cause cancer.
We're talking about graphics though, and those games are nothing special graphics wise. They look like something released 5-10 years ago, definitely not top end. This is not to slight the developers, they look good! It's always easier to make something of of the quality of 5-10 years ago. I disagree with the grandest-parent... top-tier will always be hard, for the foreseeable future.
One pretty obvious way is how they treat workers. Despite being a customer for more than 20 years, this year I canceled my Amazon Prime membership and now avoid using them. If you're unfamiliar, you can find an ocean of material by googling "Amazon labor exploitation".
For context, this is a second hit piece by NYT on Coinbase. The first one was almost exactly a month ago [0]. They started after Coinbase specifically took a stance to separate political activism from work [1] and offered the employees who were not happy with it to take a severance package.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/coinbase-crypt...

[1] https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-comp...
Yeah, and Google's HQ remains in Mountain View.
Is that not the road used by Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman in Long Way Round? Because if yes then that road was passable, but even in the summer they had to cross several streams and it looked like the only people driving it were locals in old 6x6 Kamaz Trucks.
> The difference is that the TV can not be used to harm anyone else

So what happens if I drop that TV on top of someone else's head?
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Yes? I think you covered the main points which don’t seem to disagree with what I was saying although from your response it seems like you think they do?

The caveat about the sample size and area is valid, but it did cover 9 million people which is a significant proportion of the population.
I wonder if future historians will look back at this time in physics and use the chemistry analogy of phlogiston.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory

Then, as now, there was a large body of entrenched individuals who would not budge until some ingenious experiments by the British and French (et al.) to entirely destroy the theory.