skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even prior to the pandemic, real wages were stagnant for decades. Wealth inequality has been a growing problem since before many of us have been alive, at this point.

We are definitely making progress in absolute terms, but there is plenty of good reason to be concerned about the benefits spreading in general, and particularly when we're talking about technologies to replace labor.
Have you tried Stadia Maps? It sounds like precisely what you're looking for.
The problems with big tech on the internet have NOTHING to do with section 230. If anything, 230 protects the little guys and disruptive startups.
That's the part I understood that GP was asking about. I know the math is way over my head, but I'm interested in the concepts, to the extent that I can be. I love popular science that tries to explain that (really been into PBS Spacetime recently)
The Apple maps debut in 2012 was when Google maps was removed from the Apple store. Maybe there was a way for Apple maps to do train/subway directions then but the UI was ridiculously bad- giant stations equivalent to Grand Central were hardly visible and highway names were highlighted.
> How much did slack go for? 30 billion? For a shiny chat client with fewer features than the 25 year old tech they ape.

IMO they pay for the customer base more than the app itself.
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When I was a kid our activities included regularly running around shooting from imaginary guns, forming "bands" and watching cartoons where characters would constantly be doing/trying to do harm to each other.

I think this isn't an issue because a healthy person can not confuse fantasy and reality.

I can see how these kinds of activities can give ideas, but you would have to be already dysfunctional in the first place.
The biggest problem is blind trust in the system. This is how we get stories of people trusting GPS directions and driving straight into lakes.

Taking a few minutes to zoom out and check the actual maps in terrain view would save most people on these journeys.
Neither side in this conflict can claim a totally rational worldview. From where I'm standing: one side believes that our society is fraught with invisible power structures which reinforce inequity, and our highest duty is to dismantle those structures through any means necessary. The other side is skeptical of the extent of these power structures, and believes that freedom of speech is the higher ideal.

Each belief is to some extent unfalsifiable. There's no scientific or first-principles reasoning that tells us which value should take precedence in a given situation.

The actual nonbelievers are the ones who have no interest in the war, and will go along with whichever position their social circles deem acceptable.
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It does, but counterpoint: unassisted (no help balancing) bipedal motion has been a holy grail for a looong time, where 4-legged is child's play by comparison. This could mean that just the bipedals are faked.

It would help a lot more to compare footage with real-world people interacting with the bipedal robot.
Isn’t this beating a dead horse? The video game/violence link has been debunked many times. OTOH, a comprehensive study determining whether violent games and movies contribute to people becoming desensitized to actual violence would be interesting. I recall an interview with US soldiers in Iraq saying that shooting people was “just like playing a FPS game.”

It can’t be denied that our society is obsessed with violence. Americans have been like this for a while but recently produced movies and TV shows in Europe and the UK feature much more graphic violence than they did two decades ago. Why? Is it a reflection of a more ruthlessly competitive society or are there other reasons?
ah the " If not us, it will be someone else " argument.

Let's replace that with other things to show how incorrect this logic is.

"If we don't enslave these people, someone else will"

"If we don't bomb these schools, by golly, someone else will!"

The potential hypothetical existence of others acting immorally simply isn't a valid ethical argument to act immorally.

In the same way the response is "how about if instead nobody bombs the hospital" the response here is "how about if instead nobody builds armies of killer robots"

"no death cyborgs" sounds like a pretty easy ask for humanity. This should be well within reach.
That surprised me, too. All the data probably already is in https://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=7&lat=52.65153&lon=8.9347... (aside: look how limited Danish cycling infra is compared to the Netherlands and Belgium)

Maybe routing is too hard on such a dense network, or it’s just that they’re an American company.
Ah, you're correct. I confused it with Curvus Pro X: https://appleinsider.com/articles/04/09/15/apple_acquires_cu...
I wish my Dell monitor didn't have speakers. macOS doesn't provide any way to hide or disable connected speakers.
String theory exhibited quantum mechanics plus gravity since the day it was invented, it's not like LQG where setting up three macroscopic dimensions is a nearly insurmountably difficult problem. People think that the problem can be solved, otherwise nobody would bother with it, but string theory is obviously the first and best thing to try.
> “Big Tech must not get protections of Section 230!” Trump said in a statement Sunday. “Voter fraud must be fixed!”

Taken at face value, this statement links two issues that many people wouldn't think are linked. The president is blaming social media for his election loss and seeking to repeal section 230 as the remedy.

No matter how many times this comes up, it's extraordinary. First, because the president owes his 2016 win to social media company protections under section 230. Second, because the president almost won a second term thanks to it. Third, because section 230 is from what I gather a lonely diamond in the stinking pile of rubbish that is the Communications Decency Act.
A new coronavirus stimulus bill was just signed, pumping even more money in. Why leave before the party’s over?
> 'American workers should not have to compete with slave labor!'

That's a powerful point! This is a big issue that will affect our lives & the lives of generations to come.

Not to mention National Security issues & living in safe/strong neighborhoods. There are many reasons to promote ethical behavior & transparency with suppliers, on par with US standards. Ensuring that suppliers are ethical also disincentives industry/labor from leaving the US, as labor & compliance costs will be equalized.
To me, the hallmark of this pandemic was people’s (and Americans’ in particular) unwillingness to act collectively and cooperatively for everyone’s benefit. It was a gigantic game of Prisoners Dilemma, where we could have won with everyone cooperating (masks and staying at home) but people instead chose to defect and go out protesting, refusing the masks, and buying khakis. Here we are a year later, hoping the vaccines will save us, and everyone is still out horsing around, spreading the disease everywhere.
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That they've over promised sounds like pretty weak reason to claim people that support them are either lunatics or right wing.

Political campaign staff and people with ties to secret services seem like the exact sorts journalists should be meeting with. If they're one and the same even better.
Well, the well-sourced and evidence-based social justice pieces usually conveniently leave out 2 interesting points:

1. The differences between ethnic groups starts early in childhood. It's about the role models kids have. It's about how much time their parents spend with them and how much they nag on them to study. It is totally fixable if we generally focus on promoting independent thinking, long-term planning and delayed gratification. Everyone can do this, it's hard but absolutely possible. But instead, our society is trying to erase these values by penalizing those who were raised with them.

2. Like it or not, there are behavioral differences between men and women. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but there are differences, especially when it comes to risk-taking and multitasking. A trivial example would be traffic accidents where denting the bumper on a parking lot would be a "typically female" thing, and totalling the car while doing 40mph over the speed limit would be a "typically male" thing. Again, nobody is trying to pinpoint specific risk-taking strategies that statistically give you better returns, and convince people to use them. Instead we are penalizing those who are likely to use these strategies.

And if you are looking for a motive, look how the economy used to be cyclical. Corporations would grow big and inefficient, so new lean risk-taking players would take their place, bringing innovation. This happened in 80s with Microsoft, this happened around Y2K with Google. Behind each of these companies was a well-educated risk-taking founder, and each of these companies brought innovation to the table. Except now they have reached the "inefficient behemoth" stage and are ready to be disrupted. Except, they learned from the history and are heavily investing in stigmatizing the qualities associated with previously known disruptors.

That said, you cannot stop the progress. The cutting edge of the innovation will move to China or whatever, and the U.S. will become the new Old World...
They drove on an unmaintained and mostly unused segment of the Highway of Bones, called Old Summer Road.
Somehow I skimmed past that one... frankly this undermines TFA. We didn't know in February (with all the suspiciously-timed reports of mutations, do we really know now?) that this vaccine was so effective. We did know that respiratory illnesses are spread when people breathe on each other. Every other nation on earth (maybe there were exceptions, but I don't care) figured out how to get people in masks (and how to get people tested!) Why not us? TFA would like Trump to take credit for saving the rest of the world through reverse psychology, but that's goofy, and besides it emphasizes conflict more than necessary.

There is conflict, political and otherwise, in other nations. Yet somehow they were able to mask up and reduce public interaction. For the good of the public, the public needed to do something the public would prefer not to do, and in dozens of nations, the public did it. TFA is too USA-conservative to notice why.

In USA our rulers are not accustomed to bargaining with the public, because our unions are moribund. In other nations, not only unions but other collective powers as well are regularly heard by the government. In such a situation, it's obvious that people expected to stay in their homes without working need some money in order to that. That's not obvious to our politicians, because they're too busy stealing all they can for their billionaire masters. People without years of salary in the bank find their situations untenable. In other nations they would be fine.
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I am just finishing up my MS in Statistics, and at my university they don't have any course(yet) that goes into deep learning. The only time the course briefly talk about neural net is in the context of Logit regression. And I have always wonder if the time spent proving Gauss Markov theorem is better spent somewhere else.

Do you know any source(book or otherwise) that continues to build on top of topics taught in a Regression and Linear algebra course(such as Multiple Linear, Weighted Least square, Logistic, generalized least squares, principle component regression, singular value decomposition) and slowly move towards the current state deep learning?
I remember Google going for carbon neutral; Microsoft the same. This should be a non issue until models settle in.
The app Gaia GPS has MVUM (motor vehicle use maps by the US forest service) that are outstanding. You can use multiple map layers at once. You can use the Caltopo plus the MVUM to see which areas are open and passable.
There is nothing inherently wrong with putting them into .zshrc!

The reasons I keep them separate is because:

a) I can simply backup the `custom` directory and restore onto a "vanilla" oh-my-zsh installation
b) I can use descriptive file names which would otherwise have to be comments

Also, some software likes to append stuff (like adding directories to PATH) to .zshrc upon installation so it gets kind of messy over time.

I guess the comment is from the plain zsh installation and oh-my-zsh just didn't remove it.
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Ultimately if you want a relatively clean PopSci book on that subject you're probably better off reading the Wikipedia page, then supplementing with the opinions of people like (say) Sean Carroll (Book or not).

There's only so much you can say about a topic, which is why you end up with the cats in boxes.
I will always upvote this link. The entire site is incredibly interesting. I believe it's made the frontpage a few times with some interesting comments IIRC.
And of course China and Russia are mentioned in the comments. Propaganda works. Repeat something often enough and people will internalize it and assume it’s true even when no proof is provided.
My cofounders are oblivious.
Exactly. Individual comments often has value, but the comment tree structure itself has even more value.

Being able to read individual comments with more clarity at the expense of the entire tree is definitely major trade off that the line-length research is not measuring.
Certs and signing keys have been stolen before, ie sutnex.
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Whether or not it would have been a full three months I stand by my belief the current system was not designed for the cost-benefit of a raging pandemic.

The three month time of phase III had nothing to do with safety. That long period was only used because it took that long time for enough people to catch Covid naturally for them to prove statistical effectiveness. In the current system, if Covid had been raging at an extreme rate they would have had enough positives in the control group after a month and ended the trial then. If it had been under control, it actually would have taken many more months to declare effectiveness even though the extra wait time would have shown no more data on safety.

Whether or not phase II was sufficient on its own they could have declared the vaccine probably safe a month after phase III began instead of after three months. This would have still saved 50,000 lives in the US at minimum.
In terms of dollars that’s fine. But on a societal level I think you have to think about alternative cost: The problem is not the money wasted on string theory. It’s all the other research that those researchers could have done.
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> The idea that anyone could argue that low-rent cut and paste legal boilerplate is somehow evidence of national sovereignty is - really quite strange.

Indeed, which is why no one is. You’ve also got a reply that shows you’re incorrect on the tax claims, and the part about trashing the economy could be pulled from the writings of Nostradamus it needs that much clairvoyance and doom-mongering.

When I find I haven’t researched a topic properly and I’m demonising people based on malicious rumour and a mind reading ability I’m not even sure I’d want, that’s a good time to reconsider my opinion.
I agree, but then let's stop pretending that there's an underlying value which the price of Tesla shares reflect. If Tesla is like Bitcoin, then it's an asset with no intrinsic value except for its rarity. And the only reason people buy it is that they hope reselling it at a higher price. Nothing wrong with it, just let us be clear about that.
Your new version already looks much better: the collapsible -/+ buttons provide better delineation.
Robotics already has plenty of applications. Travelling over dangerous terrain for mapping, search and rescue, automation of manufacturing where dexterity is required, lifting and manoeuvring heavy loads. Those few applications alone covers a lot of industries.

But you might also learn about how to build prosthetics, augment human abilities with exoskeletons. Who knows.

These guys will figure out all the obvious stuff and perfect it. And then see how far they can push it.
To provide an open alternative to Google Maps' proprietary data seems pretty holy to me.

The author's choice of title is odd given he acknowledges its public benefit too:

"It’s the opposite of the Tragedy of the Commons — all of the private property holders, acting in their own self interest, are enriching the common resource rather than depleting it."
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They wholesale imported US government data that was developed to assist in finding residential dwellings (rather than for efficient navigation, TIGER). They've updated in lots of areas, but there's not really any good reason to assume they've updated it everywhere.

OpenStreetMap did the same thing and it's an ongoing hassle. It gets better all the time, but there's a lot of those features in sparsely populated areas.
As someone who is on record saying this wouldn't be possible, I'm pretty amazed (I believe the technical term is gobsmacked) :-). That said, the ability to manage this with essentially "shadow mode" is somewhat less impressive than having the kinematics "built in" so to speak. As I understand it (and correct me if you have more recent data!) the robots are programmed by using a person wearing an articulated sensor network to capture the motion[1]. The robots repeat what ever the person does.

There are lots of interesting domestic uses for this kind of capability. In California it would be interesting to see if they could be used to fight fires. Even if the kinematics where programmed and they were launched with a 'follow' drone, I could imagine a 3rd Person game type UI for fire fighters who could take over control and "drive them" like they would a video game. That would enable a much larger fire fighting crew to be deployed.

[1] FWIW 'training mode' for workstation robots has been a thing for ever where an operator manually moves the robot through the steps it needs to do, then tweaks the program after running it. Fixed problems like "pick up a part in any orientation, then put it into this orientation" are part of the robots built in moves.
The hard parts of entanglement aren't the Bell pairs, they're all of the things you can do with Bell pairs.
For me, the front toe taps are especially fake-looking. It’s hard to pin down exactly without going frame by frame, but to me it feels like it‘s a combination of the lighting and the way the foot “rests” on the floor (which should probably be deforming since it looks like dense foam?)

Almost as though they had to edit out some balance-assisting device.

Also: why are the people at the right speed, but it feels like the robots are sped up? Them being sped up would be fine, but if the two are at different speeds then it’s a clear indicator that it’s composited.
> I managed to learn QM without reference to cats in boxes,

This is because we teach students the "Shut up and calculate" formulation of Quantum Mechanics by default. Interpreting your mathematics doesn't build transistors or fund particle accelerators, for example.

It's still an important thing to consider but it doesn't have the same logical structure as day-to-day Quantum Mechanics
> manually escaping every field.

> Some fields don't look escaped.

hmm So the future of social media is everyone becoming software engineers huh. Good luck with those toots.
Something is special about sex. People have sex. People don't kill others (generally). Compare how many people you personally know that have had sex vs how many people you personally know that have killed someone.

As the study above points out, violent videos games don't make you more violent but I'm pretty confident sexy media (games, movies, music, etc) make people more horny and therefore more likely to seek out sex. Also, since sex is something people do in the normal course of their lives (vs violence which is not a normal part of someone's live) the media they consume is more likely to influence their behavior. It's a manual for something they hope to participate in vs violence, something they don't hope to participate in.
This reminds me of a piece of local history I recently learned in my hometown (Northeast FL).

In the late 1800s, a number of slave families traveled down-river from Georgia after being emancipated and homesteaded in my area on the St. Johns River. As property values increased and they started being taxed more heavily on their (mostly waterfront) land, many of these families (whose patriarchs were mostly illiterate and not at all business-savvy) ended up selling to (i.e. getting taken advantage of by) housing developers, basically losing their identity and heritage.

The story isn't necessarily a direct parallel, but the pattern reminds me of the "milkshake" scene from the movie There Will Be Blood. People shouldn't have to worry about their basic livelihood and property being stripped away by anything other than perhaps a natural disaster of some kind.
They had the vaccines in storage in October. Not as many as they had in December but they were just awaiting approval. The rollout would have been slower then with less to go around - but a headstart on the vulnerable population or potential spreaders would have been significant.
Unlikely. It also directly says 40 minute battery life. If changes extended it, it would be unlimited.
Most people think like you do. But then again most people are blindsided by revolutionary change.
I can barely trust google maps in SV, because it seems to go very far out of its way to make a simple route complicated, usually along the lines of doing a U turn on a highway and a dozen other turns in order to save one minute on el camino. It took me quite a while to get acquainted with the area because i was always doing these navigation gymnastics instead of straight simple routes.
> You would hope that. I’ve been in infosec doing application security as a consultant a long time. Developers have often destroyed my hopes :)

I used to work at a big bank in the US and the parent's description sounds exactly like how it would work.
> Tesla is being valued based on its potential future

This is what I don't get. Tesla's potential (but unlikely) future is that of replacing some of its competitors. And yet it's valued more than all its current competitors combined. Something just doesn't add up.
It'll happen very quickly when they're good enough. As you hire more fruit pickers or pizza delivery people the next one costs the same or is more expensive, opposite for robots. Especially since the cost will mostly go into prototypes and research.

As soon as self-driving cars really work as well as Uber drivers for example, they're not going to roll out super-gradually just because the very first cars cost billions to develop and $200k a piece.
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In what way were you unhappy with Lasik? Was it a matter of ecpectations or do you consider the end result could be better?