skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Why not just drop a bomb from an airplane? That's already pretty well established technology. I'm pretty sure I've read about various places throwing hand grenades or dynamite from helicopters by hand to do that. Or let the nearest friendly air force drop a few of their lightest bombs on it for practice.
I am surprised by today's lack of ethics discernment - there is big a difference.

Prison labor is compensating for crimes committed against society and other people, while uyghur labor is direct discrimination against an entire minority without probable cause.

If they happen to commit terrorism, then yes, those specific individuals' forced labor is justified as debt, but right now they are just labeled as "enemies of the state" because they threaten CCP's interests. This is much like what happened with Nazi Germany or the USSR, even the controversial US Japanese internment camps.

In the original thread it was mentioned that Apple fans are brainwashed by the brand, it is obvious from the responses here that this is clearly working...
Some would say, by supporting great public services today, funded by debt paid for by future generations (i.e. not them) that the voters voted in a way precisely aligned with their own best interests.
Can you accurately call something that’s well sourced and provides evidence a hit piece?
A fair amount of what is left is in the cheese and ketchup btw. What really surprised me is the amount of sugar in salad dressing... I will usually use a ranch dip cup (or two, much lower carb count) for my salads.
I'm religiously agnostic, and I'm in the habit of trying to understand these conflicts from both an atheistic and Christian perspective. Based on that, your recognition that this issue somewhat breaks down along worldview lines makes sense to me.

[Disclaimer: The following is a description of my current thoughts on the topic. I could very well be wrong, but I thought sharing them might make for an interesting discussion.]

That said, I have an anti-PC view on this topic that AFAICT is somewhat a-religious. My perception (i.e., I very well may be wrong) has been that the pro-PC arguments I've heard contain some logical inconsistencies that I've been unable to resolve. And that some organizations with pro-PC policies use ad baculum or ad hominem attacks to avoid serious debate about their position's weaknesses. I think it's obnoxious to force others to obey their moralizing while refusing to submit their views to serious debate.
>The scientist saw BS, he called BS, and then 20 years later, the field he criticized turned out to be mostly BS.

I don't think it is possible to make such a determination yet.
Parent meant to say that practice makes perfect.
Machine-assisted translation is deceptively bad, especially for fiction content like manga. The machine TL might mix up the order of a sentence like 'bob verbed alice', fundamentally changing the meaning, alter context, or omit implied information. All of these errors will produce english sentences that appear sensical and valid and will get past most editors and quality checkers unless they're familiar with the source language or very familiar with the work. This sort of error even creeps into official human translations of anime/manga in some cases when the translators are working quickly without a good editor (i.e. simulcasts where they have tight deadlines and low budgets)

In practice if you look at the fan translation community for manga machine-assisted translation is not given much more respect than machine translation - they both produce bad results and in many cases the people who normally welcome even a clumsy translation will reject machine TL and attempt to have it removed, because it often causes people to fundamentally misunderstand the work. The worst cases of machine-assisted TL in manga become infamous to the point of becoming shared memes - try googling "abaj" or "duwang" sometime.

For a very simple pervasive example: Japanese frequently uses gender-neutral pronouns and when translating to English you'll need to appropriately select the right gendered pronoun (or proper name) for each one, if you can. This is something a human can do pretty accurately if they have enough context and knowledge of the material, but it is nearly impossible for a computer to do it accurately without a ton of assistance. In a novel this would be an easier problem because all the necessary context is in the text instead of in the art and panel layouts. You'll note this arxiv paper intentionally cheats on the gender problem.
The UK variant was discovered and monitored since September [0]. It would be surprising not see it already circulating in broad population.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/health/new-covid-strain-u...
,,As many tech leaders publicly voiced support for Black Lives Matter protests, Black employees at Coinbase said on the Slack messaging platform that they were hurt by the silence of Mr. Armstrong and other executives about the matter. ''

Underpaying for the same job based on race is a very serious allegation, just like racism. But if being silent is caregorized as bullying / hurting in the same article, it's hard to take the article seriously. It should stay strictly within the potential legal issues.
It is an opinion piece from Bloomberg.
It is because you are actually mistaken. There are BDSM simulators online. I don’t want to create an account to see how exactly the game goes but you can if you like: NSFW and this link seems to hijack the back button https://www.kink.game
Oh yeah, I can deny it. It do pseudoscience and bullshit with numbers slapped on.
They don't really have great pay, though, do they? They can't afford to pay what qualified employees demand in California. So they move to a state where the average expected salary is lower.

Oracle's reputation was of abysmal pay for senior employees, for decades. I'm willing to bet that economically they should have moved a long time ago, but Larry Ellison's pride kept them in the Bay Area. He designed the campus buildings to look like database icons, that's not something you give up easily.
Well when elected officials misspend tax money, it's only an inevitability that propositions like prop 13 pass. People on here talk about prop 13 without having actually lived in CA before Prop 13. Before prop 13, there was still lots of bad governance, so voters decided to at least cap the amount they were going to spend on stupid policies.

Surprised no one on here has mentioned the obvious gorilla in the room: leftist "progressive" policies that make business impossible.
If you're fighting an opponent whose drones can only handle 40 mph winds, you might try to do as much combat at 50 mph as possible.
You can’t have a thread per http request.
Nitpick: plural of vortex should be vortices.

It actually appears both spellings are currently accepted in dictionaries, but in the fluid dynamics literature you will essentially only find "vortices", so that's a much better (more searchable) word to use.
You write about a system that doesn't exist (everyone earning the same), then point out that wealth inequality is not surprising and that articles like this "makes for good clickbait", but what's your point?

Is it that we should simply ignore wealth inequality and the societal issues it generates?
I'm still a bit confused, yes, those are two possible concerns. I didn't deny that. You seem to imply that there's some kind of purity test here, and I'm missing the kind of logical connection between the 7 potential categories of broader impacts listed in that list, each with multiple subcategories, and your claim

>it's asking researchers speculate on the future ramifications of their research as it pertains to progressive ideals - in practice this means, "How could this negatively affect minorities or the environment?"

The framing appears to be far broader than just that, and the "ritualistic" concern you note appears to be unsubstantiated given the other areas for broad impact, and in practice given that for a lot of concrete ML applications, the broader impact statements appeared to be mostly focused on things like efficiency (or just platitudinal), as noted by other commenters.
Refusing to read (in spite of my genuine interest) based on the click-baity title.
What is it ?
> After all, people with a lot of free time, guaranteed "income" and a lack of driving goals seems the perfect candidate pool for cults.

I think there's a pretty decent argument to be made that most people who are working don't have time for real personal goals. The realities of life often take priority over personal pursuits.

In a world without mandatory work to survive, people would be free to pursue frivolous interests. If everybody who wanted to play guitar could just play guitar all the time, the world would be full of music.
One possible approach here could also be dual-licensing under both something like the GPLv3 and offering commercial licenses. That way you get the advantages of being FOSS, but also become able to sell the application to system builders.
I think it’s a reflection that we have not a general framework worked out. We also don’t seem to entirely want to know “the truth”.

For example the entertainment media on the one hand say that entertainment does not influence people via depictions of violence, etc., to emulate such things. On the other hand they say that how people are portrayed for positive role models “I could be that person” they are necessary and instrumental and thus the need for representing a cross section of the population. Yet on the other hand they would (with good reason) resist showing only positive plots (ala modified 1950s but contemporary).

I agree though. If sexual violence is a non starter then so should lethal violence be a non starter. Else there is a non sequitur in reason.
Buckshot is designed for killing "medium to large game" like... bucks. Maybe you mean birdshot?
And the $29 DVD player often had more features than the $200 ones, especially the ability to play other regions discs.
But can you say that newspapers don't have agendas?
Yes, these are the kind of modern aids I mentioned. You're still likely to miss your first one.

Mortar is not a precision weapon, it's a Monte Carlo prop.
Everything you said it true, but why isn't it such a big percentage in other developed countries?
I can't exactly exchange iphone for Healthcare.
The Rat Thing has stopped. Which they never do. It's part of their mystery that you never get to see them, they move so fast. No one knows what they look like.
Physics today is not a scientific journal. I highly doubt that they get a lot of submissions. In my experience with similar publications in a different subfield it's typically more that the journalists/editors at those magazines think that some topic is interesting and talk to some of the more famous researchers in the field to write an article. Sometimes it's also a bit the other way around and the researchers suggest articles to editors they know. Not to publish a letter to the editor seems a very strange decision, these are very short letters and sometimes really cover some quite niche topics. Also not getting back to the author after asking him to rewrite in a different format is just bad form.
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I agree with the GP that letting your mind wander in those situations is often better for creativity than trying to fill every minute with activity.
I didn’t say you shouldn’t worry. I said that ignoring evidence showing a downwards trend is irrational and used airplanes as an example. I haven’t looked at the stats about children getting hit by cars.

Please don’t read words from me that aren’t there.
> Terry A. Davis (1969–2018) began experiencing regular manic episodes in 1996, leading him to numerous stays at mental hospitals. Initially diagnosed with bipolar disorder, he was later declared schizophrenic and remained unemployed for the rest of his life. He suffered from delusions of space aliens and government agents that left him briefly hospitalized for his mental health issues. After experiencing a self-described "revelation", he proclaimed that he was in direct communication with God, and that God told him the operating system was for God's third temple.

Now that's a founder's story.
Google is not part of any California exodus, but the opposite. In addition to building and buying outside the state, they have been aggressively expanding, not contracting, their square footage within California.
WOW! I would not have expected that be the car used on the "Highway of Bones" with insane levels of cold! I hope they were running it with chains at a minimum.

If you dress right, have a good thermal sleeping bag, have calories in your system, you can do pretty well. A fair number of sleeping bags have survival temps as low as negative -40. I've done OK once or twice at surprising levels of cold (sleeping in the back of car / SUV on a ski trip other winter trek is not end of world, even without cars heater).

Not totally clear still why this is a story about google.
I know Gav a little but hired Will maybe 10 years ago for a programming job when they were working on this in his shed.

And yeah small world!
The subtext of the letter is not clear to me. There have been two recent controversies among machine learning people: 1) Gebru getting fired/resigning from Google (depending on who you ask), and 2) Anandkumar fighting with Domingos on Twitter and Tweeting a list of a bunch of people she had blocked and encouraging her followers to try and change their minds. My perception is that this letter is about 2), not 1), given the closing statement that

> challenging and debating ideas is always acceptable and ought to be encouraged. Marginalizing, intimidating, or attacking the holders of those ideas is not.

If anything, that statement reads as supportive of Gebru. But I don't know.
> If there is funding, there is apparently a need for research.

This is very close to "There must be a pony in there somewhere". [1] If the question is whether the field is worth continuing to fund, the answer can't be, "Well since people are still funding it, it must be worth funding." By the same logic, we should just keep putting billions into WeWork.

Research is hard to value, and fundamental research especially so. The logic of "if people buy it, it must be good" only patchily applies to normal commerce, where results are relatively easy to measure and feedback loops are short. It's wholly inadequate for feedback loops on the scale of decades.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=the...
I found the example given very contrived and the whole article slightly disingenuous because of it.

Brooks was talking about building long-living applications serving complex business requirements. The article talks about a one off script with no ongoing life. It's not even really "software" at all in the terms Brooks was describing.

It's like someone describing absolute limits on fuel efficiency for vehicles and then I get on a scooter and coast down a hill and jump off at the end so that it crashes into a wall and explodes, and using this example to claim they are wrong.
It has like 3-5 grams of sugar in a loaf. A Coke is 60. Somehow, I think you will survive. And if you don't like it, get a wrap instead.

It's bread. Would I get it without sugar? Sure. Is it a real problem? No.
I means it's always good to reduce reliance on anything, so I won't argue against that, but I won't agree much with your reasoning.

The cost we were actually paying on the Google Maps API was hidden. The cost was mostly paid using user data and advertising. As a matter of fact, the API is still free on smartphone ;). They just realized that it wasn't worth it to get that data on the web and thus increased the cost to the true price. The fact that there was already some competition to Google Maps which was much more expensive tells a lot.

That's not something that's going to happen on the cloud though. You pay the real cost, they aren't monetizing it from a side channel (though they may profit a tiny bit on the side by lowering their infrastructure cost, it's not the goal and I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't used their own cloud offering that much). The profit come from the price, not the user data.

It wouldn't be a good idea for them to increased theses prices, as competition exist/can exist, and they would just hurt themselves on the long term.
In my country ( nordics with mask mandates ) the single layer mask is explicitly forbidden and is scientifically proven be worse than no mask at all, as single layer cloth disperses droplets making spread worse.
I would be kicked out of any store if I wore a single layer mask.

In other countries the same scientific dogma states that single layer is not only allowed but even recommended as better than nothing.

Sigh...
That map puts too many values in the "black" category. Check this one out:

https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/#37.26178563229...

Notice how there are a few outliers in red, making almost all the rest black. But look at the black ones. It ranges from $3000 to $25,000. And if you look at a row of roughly equal houses, you will see most of them are around $10K, while a few are $20K. ALL of them should be $20K+, if not for prop 13.
Some things are un-falsifiable due to logic, some are un-falsifiable due to the limits of technology. String theory may just be the latter, but all un-falsifiable theories have the same problem.
They're claiming flight time - in the battery section of the infographic it claims "flight times of more than 40 minutes".

Tri-blade props are not the most efficient - we use them in racing applications because we want to generate maximum thrust and we don't need more than around 2-3 minutes per battery but we wouldn't use them in an aerial photo rig where we want long flight times - 2 blade props would be the go to. Also the pitch of those blades in the photo are quite aggressive.

I wonder if they have different configurations - as photographed I can easily believe the 50mph top speed with small but high kv (fast but inefficient) motors but I'd expect a different configuration for longer flight times.

From the photo it looks like the battery compartment is shaped for 2 cylinders, its about the right dimensions for 2x 18650 cells but it's impossible to say for sure. That would give up to 8000mah of 3.7v (1S2P configuration) or 4000mah at 7.4v (2s1p). They could be using different chemistry though, e.g. I usually fly LiHV cells which have a higher nominal voltage in the same pack size & weight - you do get very slightly more watt hours out of those packs (not as much as the numbers would suggest).

The given all up weight looks plausible based on the size of what's shown and the weight of 2 cells.
Are there not gun companies that would want to advertise on these gun channels? Seems like a lot of YouTube's problems would go away if they just allowed advertisers to choose which channels to show ads on.
As I read the discussion, one interesting question came to mind. There are so many cities that want to be the next "tech hubs", and many of them have been promoting that label (with or without merit) for years. I can't tell you how many articles like this one [0] I've read.

But in reality, many of these cities are making an honest effort to live up to that label by attracting talent, corporate HQs and investment to make these claims real. Texas' tax policies are one example [1]

In contrast, I see SF and the broader Bay Area making moves in the opposite direction. One such example is the new CEO wealth tax [2], along with others that make SF seem hostile rather than welcoming. It's no surprise that companies want to leave.

Do other people see it this way too? Has SF or the Bay Area enacted policies to attract or retain tech talent, investment and innovation? Or is the valley's success due to a strong network effect that has been self reinforcing (more talent means more investment means more talent, etc). Have California, SF or Bay Area policies in the last 20 years truly encouraged the flourishing of the tech industry, or has it happened despite these governments? Really curious to hear what people think.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/jpmc-2018/are-these-ci...

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/10141...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-approves-taxes-on-c...
The same argument is true for push notifications in native apps. For both you can accept or deny them, and some apps (like chat, email, todo) that primarily display text and give you a notification when something happens could just aswell be a web app instead.

Web push notifications does not mean any random site can spam you just because you visited it once. You have to explicitly accept it.
I don’t understand your final point. Are you saying that generics on futures are bad? I don’t see the alternative.
One could argue that this is somewhat due to selection bias, as string theory has been given the most research time/funding historically, thus it's had the longest time to mature. If the other contenders had the same research effort it's very possible that at least one might be found to actually be more relevant to empiricism.