skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you mean by "industrially".

In actual factories, which are highly controlled environments, the things called robots are much simpler and more specialized. So you're "Is it just that anything worth automating is worth specializing, and there are better robots for different specific tasks?" point is more or less it.

But also consider, while these bipedal, quadrupedal and wheeled robots can do all sorts of these in isolation, their ability to accomplish things autonomously in the chaotic, unstructured world outside the factory is little-to-none, accent on none. The Darpa Robitics challenge was essentially considered a failure, all entrant failed. Most could not do the "walk to a door and open it" challenge.

Similarly, Boston Dynamics sells their "big dog" walking robot to the military but it is seldom if ever deployed. It's strong and faster than a horse with basically the use case as a pack horse. But well trained pack horse won't injure if you get in front of it and will walk along with the troops on it's own without a guy with joy stick directing it. And the Big Dog needs constant direction.

Basically, robots don't have even the "animal intelligence" needed for real world activity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Robotics_Challenge
That's quite strange given what they have been doing with repair:

http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-airpods-repair-recycling-imposs...

https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-sues-canadian-recyc...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18144489
Historical Reassessments of Economic Progress [pdf]
>them being able to just silence you

A protest is ordinarily not a story. The police suppressing a protest is a story. Protestors understand this, and there's a whole romanticism around getting arrested on camera.
Qualcomm is another major player who designs both.
Yes. Hoover was a criminal in the literal sense of the word: he repeatedly and brazenly violated US laws, and fostered a culture of illegality in the FBI. His crimes are well attested by both his own records and the official records of the FBI. The FBI is a law enforcement organization; anybody who knows this history of LEOs in the US shouldn't be particularly surprised that they defend their own.

Many Americans do hate him. But it's important to note that Hoover's criminality did not extend to the average White American: his efforts focused on Black Americans, gays, and anybody sufficiently "radical" by the standards of cold war America.

Ronald Reagan also has buildings named after him, mind you.
Diet is the biggest part of it, no question, but calories are misleading. The number of calories you burn by running for an hour doesn't take into consideration the increase in metabolism that will follow for up to 48 hours or the calories that will be burned in the future by the extra muscle you build even while at rest.
ZeroPi – $9.99 SBC with 512MB and Gigabit Ethernet
Anecdote: One side of my family were smokers and drinkers. died in their 60's. The other were a bunch of RLDS Latter day Saints, never smoked, never drank, ate plain meals, all died in their late eighties or older. Tellingly they were healthy and active for their first 80 years. I early on decided to follow their example without the RLDS part.
Only if we can't shift society to accomodate the changing job market and take care of people who have been made obsolete. Ideally by enjoying the fruits of our collective labor and ditching the "everyone must spend more than half their lives working" obsession. Call your senator before it's your head on the guillotine, rich HN readers.
Graph Toy, an interactive graph visualizer using mathematical functions
Cruise control is exactly that, simple. It errs on the side of safety and makes fail-safe mistakes.

FSD is a completely separate system with different tolerances. One does not have any relation to the other
Who needs dancing robots? What I mean this video does not show that useful work has been implemented. Probably flexibility of tasks might be a problem. Or there is no problem and we see rollout in the next few years.
Yeah based on my anecdotal European experience, they tend to have healthier lifestyles along many facets from food portions to attitude towards walking places. They probably are more keen to taking walks rather than grabbing an Uber for 3 blocks because the walkability of places in America is straight up garbage but that’s another issue, a digression.

But all those factors mean that it’s likely in spite of the drinking that they’re healthier.
It's the same people but FSD was a rewrite of the system.

The rewrite was to do image recognition and inference not from individual still images (pre-FSD) but from video feed from all cameras. This was enabled by the FSD chip Tesla started putting in cars about a year ago.

Plus the improvements that come simply from gathering more data from cars and using it to improve the training of neural network.

It's documented in Musk's tweets and Karpathy's talks.
Have anybody noticed how this topic mysterious lost few hundred points, sank to second page, and then came back to front?

There is a noticable tendency for any China related topics, whether good, or bad to mysteriously disappear from the front page right at the start of the workday Pacific time, and after lunch hours.
I wouldn't take either the word of one of the parties with obvious bias or a dramatization of events that was primarily sourced to the person with obvious bias at face value on a topic this controversial.

Proof or it didn't happen.
Is x86 likely to stay as the dominant cloud architecture though? My understanding of ARM on AWS is that if your stuff supports it then it’s better performance per dollar and basically a no brainer. I don’t see why x86 would continue to be the dominant deployment target long term, especially with Apple moving their line to ARM meaning that developers will increasingly demand compatibility with it across the stack.
Notably it was a very small proportion of MPs, the large majority backed Remain, including ex-PM May.

The current PM was one of the relatively few political voices supporting Brexit.

Seems that with enough money from oligarchs you can make enough lies stick to swing a simple majority.

We have to try and move on from this; the next decade is going to make some rich people incredibly wealthy at the expensive of many, many people becoming poorer in the UK - not just by financial measures, but in terms of opportunity, health, quality of life. It's grim.
Would showing added lead in baby formula help?

Kind of shocked how in the US an issue that is obviously a health issue is treated as a personal failing.

If you want sugar in your food you're free to add some after the fact, or buy it from a non-food store. Warning people that all the food they have access to is poison is not a solution to anything.
The amount of batteries soldiers need to carry is ridiculous; a 72 hour patrol load out includes up to 25 lbs of batteries already!
I disagree that there isn’t much demand for healthy food services. I think the real problem is that healthy food just doesn’t have as high of profit margins as unhealthy food.

A satisfying healthy meal will be primarily meat based, which is expensive.

A satisfying unhealthy meal will contain lots of carbs and fat, which is cheap.
Yeah, maybe something with differential geometry and ML would be fun. I’ve also built a system for composing relations and generating gradients from a computational graph...(for CAD design generation) Maybe I should look at working on a framework project. Whatever the theano folks are doing nowadays - or the like.
amen. unless you watch users with your app in person, you,ll never know. the ,,fine hotel,, analogy is apt.
I agree it is diet, I disagree that it "fried foods" that are the source

High Fructose based drinks like Soda, Mass produced Tea's, etc combined with decades of government "education" around the high carb diet is the main source of the Mid Wests Obesity problem

When you are drinking 1500-2000 calories a day, and eating mainly pasta / potato heavy meals that is going to kill your weight.

Fried Chicken is not the problem...
The apples to oranges bit is using the cruise control software to make guesses about FSD. I'm not certain but it would be very surprising if the software that provides basic cruise control shares much of the underlying algorithms and models as FSD, and if it does I'd be surprised if it's using models that aren't quite a bit older.
I don't think it's naive; I think you have correctly interpreted their goals and the ends those goals are structured to achieve.

Total information awareness, to be used in circumstances where it's necessary for national security. Pull the scare quotes off and it's directly in line with the NSA's mission "to gain a decision advantage for the Nation and our allies under all circumstances."
This is based on the original work by Inigo Quilez [1], but adds support for time and custom constants.

[1] http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/graphtoy/
He supported it and signed it into law. It's very unlikely Congress would have passed it if Regan had opposed it.
Something I've realized in recent months is that restaurant portions are insane.

Even if you're not eating a cheeseburger - heck, even if you're eating a salad (assuming it has more than just lettuce) - the sheer amount of food you get in a single entree at most restaurants means that even a reasonable type of meal will end up being two or three times the calories it would be if you made it at home. The alternative of course is to stop halfway (or earlier), but that's really hard to do when it's right in front of you.

The only workaround I know of (beyond just not eating out) is to order it to go, and then immediately put half in the refrigerator.
Option 4, lobby for favorable government contracts under DoD, NASA, etc. with the rationale of protecting American strategic advantage.
Seconded. My go-to for site archival is HTTRACK but there may be more modern tools that handle active content better.
It also doesn't a good job of modeling ideal weight for short or tall people. BMI models a human in only two dimensions.
> Writing this on an iPad keyboard just now sucked—light years less efficient than on my computer keyboard. And my phone is even worse! But I often want to journal in bed or write fiction away from my desk. Are there better ways to input lots of text quickly?

I hate to suggest you buy things to improve your experience, but I had the same issue earlier this year. The Magic Keyboard really is just that, delivers a 95% equivalent of a computer keyboard that allows me to enter long-form text comfortably on an iPad Pro. My n of 1 and all that but I've found it to be a suitable quick-boot alternative when I just want to write a couple paragraphs down instantly.
My modest endorsement:

This is more interesting and more entertaining than most articles linked to in Hacker News. And no paywall.
What does HFCS contain? (High Fructose Corn Syrup)

What does an apple contain?

HFCS comes in mostly two forms HFCS 42 and HFCS 55. The number denotes the dry fructose content. The rest is glucose. This means that 100g of dry HFCS contains 55g of fructose and 45g of sucrose.[0]

100g of raw apples contains 10.39 g of sugars. 2.07g of sucrose, 2.43g of glucose, 5.9g of fructose.[1] Sucrose is fructose and glucose connected by a single oxygen atom. Sucrase in your small intestine splits sucrose into equal parts glucose and fructose. Effectively you're getting 6.935g of fructose and 3.465g of glucose or 66.7% and 33.3% respectively. Even if you want to keep sucrose separate

If you press these raw apples into juice then you'll get a sugar profile that's not too dissimilar from the soft drink that's sweetened with HFCS. It really shouldn't matter which you drink. Blaming all of these issues on HFCS specifically just means that these companies will switch to something like "All Natural Apple Syrup" that has even more fructose than HFCS did.

I do want to mention that eating an apple is different from drinking juice made from that apple. The fruit itself contains fiber, which will slow the absorption of sugar and will mitigate some effects of it. When you press a fruit into juice you tend to lose the fiber.

[0] https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/high-fruct...

[1] https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/171688/n...
I think the gentlemen's agreement would be to give a fair amount of time to rebuff. If someone says something that isn't true it takes time to respond because (1) the responder doesn't know what was claimed since it is a fabrication and (2) responder can't necessarily grasp the damage or interpretation of the claim until some polling data comes in.

Smears unleashed in the last week of the campaign are a bit below the belt. Doubt that is ever going to stop anyone though.
I just find it strange that Tesla is criticized for relying on visual self-driving systems when most humans rely primarily on vision to navigate.
I'd love to see more specific studies around video game use. There's just so many variables to account for. How does duration, solo/team play, or player skill (win/loss rate) affect the findings?

In my experience, there's definitely negative and positive correlations to my mood, curiosity, patience, and productivity.
A Burger King Whopper with cheese, for example, has 710 calories. You would need to run 10km. Running and exercise is worthless. Don't eat the Whopper. Cancel the gym membership. Workouts cause calorie cravings - and most Americans will just eat processed garbage [ or unless you are super healthy - then you drink the "Mocha Mojo" from jamba juice 680 calories ].
Based on the info sheet "A quick change battery" would suggest they went for the non-rechargeable route.
For the same amount of taste healthy food is incredibly more expensive. I have eaten vegetables as good as any meat.
"If I send you a series of electrical pulses and that causes your systems to do something stupid, that's your problem."

That depends on your intent. If you purposefully send the pulses in order to cause damage, that would generally be considered a crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
After Apple's ongoing keyboard debacle and that stupid strip, I don't see how you have much credibility.
> I am the CEO of Kolide.

That seems like an important detail to have disclosed.

I would recommend changing the title of that post to be less provocative and to add supporting data to it with the caveats about the selection bias behind it. It sounds like there was a regression at some point and ⅓ is definitely high enough to warrant attention but as written it sounds like clickbait to say that storage isn't encrypted when the storage encryption system is disabled. Since FileVault has always been the answer to that question, this is really more about understanding that it is still necessary and should be checked.
Your height puts you at the 99.986 percentile [1]. You are an extreme outlier, so can't possibly expect general metrics to fit well.

[1] https://tall.life/height-percentile-calculator-age-country/
What are you doing that cruby is faster?

I've run both Rubinius and jruby (with rails), both gave me significant performance gains.
It's a modest and pretty easily manageable problem now, but it will become pretty non-trivial in the future if not properly handled. However, all signs point to it being properly handled (it's in everyone's interest), so my advice to laymen is to not worry about it.

It's true that even near-Earth space is crazy, crazy big so that the amount of volume occupied by debris is extremely tiny, but what's also true is that debris is moving fantastically fast so that the volume "effectively occupied" by debris is only small rather than extremely tiny. This cashes out in the empirical facts (which fit perfectly with our models) that there have been four unintended collisions between satellites and debris:

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

These have all taken place in the past 25 year (despite > 50 years of spaceflight) because the density is increasing. If the density keeps increasing without the forthcoming mitigation efforts, the rate of unintentional collisions would keep rising to bad levels.
I haven't looked into this drone in depth, but I think it may be feasible. The DJI Mini2, which any civilian can buy for $449, has a similar size, weighs 249g, and advertises a flight time of 30 minutes. (In my experience with the Mini 1, it's plausible).

Side note: the DJI Mini 1 is an excellent drone -- stable flight, great camera, and great range. I wouldn't be surprised if it outperforms this 'Bug' drone by most metrics, except for the critical (at least for military purposes) "not being made by a Chinese company" metric.
Eventbrite Cracks Down on San Francisco Bay Area New Year's Eve Parties
Our firmware back from the ape era contains instructions to enjoy anything sweet and/or fatty.

Of course, this worked back in the Paleolithic, when you found something sweet and/or fatty several times a year.

It becomes a bad loophole for metabolic diseases when sweet and fatty things are everywhere and cheap.
> A new report has also revealed that 19.3% of children and young people, aged between two and 19, had obesity, with 6.1% of kids identified as being severely obesity.

Small point but I found it interesting that 'obesity' is used here as a condition one can have, rather than be. Maybe that's the norm in science writing but first time I've seen it.
Early is an understatement. They clawed it out of Lucent and catapulted into mass production.

Oral History of Arthur "Art" Astrin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj5NNxVwNwQ "Supreme Commander of Wireless Engineering for Apple Computer"
There is certainly bias, however it is worth pointing out that the cited research is not rejecting the null hypothesis. Issues around sample size, methodology and study design are much more serious when a study claims to reject the null hypothesis where the burden of proof is considerably high.
Furthermore, it was an almost universally accepted truth in the 90's that violent video games would lead to the total collapse of civil society (a claim that was asserted with no real evidence). The fact that a large number of people grew up with violent video games as children and now lead totally peaceful lives means that the result of this study is really not that shocking in light of people's priors.
Because processed food yields the most profit. It’s cheap and quick to cook. It’s the economy of profit, with 8h of work and the same food budget you cook more and make more profit ...
An SMTP server capable of responding to a forward would also be capable of responding to the original message, and would be accessible via the MX record. The only reason I see to introduce the additional server in the middle would be because the final destination is not always online or otherwise unreliable, and even then only if the forwarding server is more forgiving than typical mail senders.
I was so productive writing VB apps. I miss those days. Everything in one application, no browser -> server communication delay. You just assumed a minimum screen size of 640x480 and made sure it fit into that. No mobile responsive bullshit, no CSS malarky to deal with. What you drew in Visual Studio is exactly what the user got.

But there was also a lot of boilerplate involved. No handy-dandy open-source libraries sitting around on the internet that could just be pulled in to deal with a task. You could buy a COM object or a commercial visual control, but it was rare and expensive. If you were doing tricky things you had to work it out yourself the hard way, and make mistakes doing it.

Now... most programmers I know are plumbers wiring up different ready-made product APIs using a script language.

Yeah, I think jasode is right - we're 10x as productive now, and I think that's because of the popularity of Open Source and Stack Overflow rather than IDE's (if anything modern IDE's are less productive than 1990's era Visual Studio). However the business tasks have got 10x more complex. And I don't think that's unconnected - things that were previously too complex/difficult/expensive are now routine, and we're now expected to do more.
I suppose the daily coffee on its own won't derail people but it usually is a signifier of how little people think about their finances. But yeah you're right, not on its own.

I find that the people who are the best with money don't take even the little expenses so lightly and try to find good deals wherever possible.

When it comes to coffee, sure, they might buy the occasional drink but it won't be a daily thing guaranteed. They'll usually brew their own coffee.

My point being, that when you're savvy about not wasting money then you're all in most of the time.

Actually, now that I think about it, the new proverbial overpriced coffee or avocado toeast is starting to become online subscriptions.

This is a place where people should really consider if they're worth the $5-10 per month that they pay and hardly ever think about after signing up.
Ask HN: How would you design a proof-of-vaccination protocol?
In the USA, when you receive certain vaccinations, you are given a piece of paper to carry in your passport for countries that require proof of immunization (at least, that's how it was done in 2013, the last time I had a round of boosters).

Today, as people receive COVID vaccinations, we are faced with a world politically divided on all aspects of the virus: is it a hoax? do masks work? etc. Since we did a poor job convincing people to wear masks (at least in the USA), how do we handle people claiming they have been vaccinated?

This issue is probably merely weeks away: some unscrupulous souls might claim they have been vaccinated and refuse to obey distancing requirements. Some may even forge proof should the CDC or WTO decide to issue papers. Would police need to check them in a dispute? I haven't heard of a protocol, just a vague recommendation claiming we can start taking off our masks after herd immunity is achieved. (Which at 90% vaccination in the USA could take 2-3 years).

What aspects of 'proof-of-X' from our programming world could we deploy (soon!) to combat this coming battle?
Probably not, but we're talking about Tesla here, not Waymo.
>> I doubt the exterior door would be weaker than the interior one. It's simply not logical.

Maybe you're referring to the locks in which case you have a point. But exterior doors in my area tend to have big glass panels on them.

>> If you can smash it down, why not up?

Are they bringing a ladder as well?

>>Who said you wouldn't need to notice?

Because then you would know exactly where they are and you could escape more easily.
It's not even a question of being swayed. I don't know about the process in the UK, but regulation writing is so slow in the US that being FIPS compliant usually means you're actually less secure since you're behind the latest in security.
I don't see how this solves the "coloring" problem. "Colored" functions have a different return type; a future of some sort. If you want to return a future to a caller, or have a method that blocks until the work is done, you still need a way to differentiate that.

Golang does essentially the same thing and uses channels instead of "futures". However, some APIs will have functions that return a channel that you receive a message on later.. Which is a lot like a future. And if you provide a more simple non-channel API along side(instead of making the consumer wrap your calls in a Go routine or always use a channel), you now have "colored" functions.

I believe this is just a solution to a scheduling problem(pre-emptive vs cooperative).
Time will tell, but this could be beneficial for existing libraries like concurrent-rb.

And, maybe it becomes more useful for using ruby in smaller services outside of the Rails context, especially when the go-to solution for a bunch of problems is to run a separate copy of your server in 'worker mode'. Even with Rails, not relying on Delayed Job or Sidekiq by default would be nice. Of course, I'm thinking about Ractor there too.