skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, tesla and others do the autopilot thing wrong and the right way to do it is to predict the trajectory for the next 5 sec and display it on the HUD-like screen projected to the windshield. This way the driver would see where the car is about to go and take control only when the predicted trajectory is wrong. This would solve the trust problem: the driver would know what's going on inside the car's "brains" and wouldn't need to act like an instructor to a epileptic student that can collapse at any moment. This would mostly solve the liability problem as well. The downside is that such autopilot can't leave truck drivers without a job.
He's trying to stick it to them for not continuing to support him through his many election lawsuits.
Why would you trust an American company to map your route in Russia over a Russian company?
It's true in the UK. I don't know about US tax law (why would I?).
It's a bit misleading to call this a $9.99 SBC when the cheapest shipping option (to Eastern USA) costs over $25. For that price, there are plenty of better deals available.
It also has how-to for pirating "Facebook Social Toolkit – Premium Version" along with things like "how to hack anyone's whatsapp"

This looks like piracy & script-kiddie guides channel, not a "cybersecurity channel" or anything educational-related. But the pitch forks are already out, so whatever.
I worked in China under Chinese rule, there's frustrations, but it was mostly fine. Know / related to many Chinese nationals, spectrum from FLG practitioners to purged officials. From rich coastal provinces to poor inland ones. China's a stressful place, everyone bitches about how things are, the loudest from their multi million dollar tier1 condos. But almost no one wants to go back to Mao days, except the FLG practitioner because they missed ideological purity of the old party. People can sing whatever, and if you believe the recent Harvard surveys, they sing mostly good things. The fact that they're singing in the first place is unparalleled freedom compared to Mao times where private speech got you fucked, i.e. what the Uyghurs are going through now, which is to say 99% of the country has moved past that. It's an unambiguous improvement. First ever civil code just passed this year as well.

It's only been 30 years, about how long it took Taiwan/Korea to liberalize, except things take longer when you have 1.4B people and antagonism from global superpower. Taiwan/Korean dictatorship got unambiguous and sustained US support. Under Xi, it's 2 steps forward and 1 step back. Realistically it's is 5 steps forward and 1 step back, but west likes to paint that 1 step as a chasm.
> walking more

I remember how much everyone has to do some (or a lot) of walking in London, New York, and other cities where you use public transport to get around.

I suspect that daily walking makes a huge difference.
Paper maps don't recommend routes.
I'm not asking you to change your opinion. All I'm doing is explaining the rhyme and reason here. If you chose to continue getting mad at something so frivolous please carry on with your wasted efforts.
Hydraulics make robot motion look fake? Have you watched real robots move before? I've never once watched a robot move and thought to myself "that looks fake".

This is how the robot moves IN REALITY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhND7Mvp3f4
2020, the Year of Everything Fake
Probably why Google still has separate Waze and Maps maps. One is where users meticulously keep everything up to date, the other is where you copy those updates and can sell this as your own product/service.
That's SOP in retail though. Walmart/Target/Home Depot/Best Buy/Whole Wallet, knows exactly what sells and use that to inform their own brands. And they kind of need to be tracking and analyzing those things in order to do their job.
That seems like a solvable problem with money. Get car manufacturers on board. A lot of people use their car’s built in navigation.
Were they able to save sufficiently for their retirement? Did they have a defined benefit pension and/or retiree healthcare benefit from a government job?
Other comment has a list of suppliers.

https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/016_005...

One of which is "O-Film"

Apple dropped them because they used forced labor: https://9to5mac.com/2020/12/03/iphone-camera-supplier-o-film...

So, it's probably reasonable to suspect that FairPhone does (or did) use suppliers that used forced labor. I only checked the one because I had remembered hearing it somewhere.
Yeah, they should've gone with more descriptive names such as "The Clojure Interactive Development Environment" and "The Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs". It's too bad they didn't.

On a wholly unrelated note, it is certainly strange that in all their documentation, SLIME and CIDER are stylized as all-caps for some reason; I wish I could figure out why...
It is possible, look at asia, they don't have land lines in many countries, they started around 3G, and now are pushing that further with 5G. The last economy to update will be the most advanced. So if the US can learn from China and Europe, it is possible that they could become a greater manufacturing power.
Fewer than 0? How come?
Why do you ask?

The interesting question is another one:

Why does apple juice have a glycemic index of 45, while a whole apple has a glycemic index of 38 and coke a glycemic index of 65, soft drinks going up to 75, and jelly beans up to 150, more than pure glucose?

And how do apple juice, hfcs soft drinks and fruit juices increase the risk for heart disease?

https://bmcnutr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40795-01...

The question of apples vs hfcs is sweet but misleading.

Edit: oh you've added your own research. Thanks for that. My remark still holds, the real insight is that sweet drinks are no good for health, and hfcs even more so than succrose sweetened drinks. So no matter if apple.juice is similar in contents and effect as a coke, both should be a rare treat, and water and unsweetened tea and fresh apples are really a Good Thing (tm).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25573327 has more discussion.
Whilst trying to avoid the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, I'd argue that this system is FP only in name, but not in spirit. Even in Haskell, you can spend all your time in the IO monad and use IORefs as shared mutable cells, but you'd have a hard time arguing that such code is "functional".

> It's hidden, and, when it's being done in the context of a generally functional idiom, it's downright pernicious.

I think what we're seeing is a distinction between _syntactically FP_ and _semantically FP_ qualities. It's easy to apply _syntactic_ idioms obtained from FP, as it allows you to avoid and reduce state wherever possible. However, in a language where mutable state is assumed, and it's your responsibility to not use it, you don't get the _semantic_ guarantees about the behavior of your program.

I don't like having to exercise discipline, because no matter how good I am at it, I'm only a temporary part of any software system. IMHO, the fundamental goal of software architecture is to institute bias directly into a codebase to support the problem domain. The way in which you work with a codebase is informed by how that codebase wants you to work with it: you'll naturally avoid things that are made difficult to do, and prefer things that are made easier to do.

Programming languages are essentially the basement level of any given architecture, because it is nearly impossible to override the decisions your language makes for you. It is almost always going to be easier to use what the language provides you, and if the language provides global mutable state, it will always be tempting to couple two otherwise separate regions of your codebase by a mutable cell. Some languages especially make FP idioms difficult (hi, Java), so you end up fighting an uphill battle -- unwinnable if you're not extraordinarily careful.

> There will always be some business constraint that prompts people to take shortcuts.

To borrow a phrase, I don't think FP can "win" until we deal with the forces that make mutable cells such an attractive choice. There are multiple facets to the problem; it's not enough to just pick languages that make FP the easier option (or mutable shared state the harder option). IMO, we need to have an industrial expectation of domain modeling, and architect our systems specifically with our problem domain in mind, so that problems in that domain -- and expected evolution in that domain -- can be handled not only easily, but intuitively within the set architecture. (Lispers go wild over defining their own language within Lisp for exactly this reason -- but all things in moderation.)
Europe isn't one country so it depends on where you visited.
Parker's Donna Lee by Jaco Pastorius, Broken Down
It's cheap and makes them money, Apple will plaster few rainbow flags with blm somewhere and the issue is the past because for professional consumer Silicon Valley tech bros fall with every simple marketing campaign as long as they agree with.
This is pretty much exactly what Urbit is.
The Dallas police used a police robot to blow up a suspect with C4.
I was born cynical and I'm proud of it, so apologies to Boston Dynamics and others, but these things will absolutely be used as war bots and automation surrogates once the time is ripe.

Even so, yes, these robots are truly engineering marvels and I wholeheartedly applaud the team for their hard work!

I just think that squinting the eyes slightly past the "search and rescue", the war applications of this kind of technology are obvious: the Atlas could do perimeter guard duty even in a muddy, slightly sloped or otherwise difficult terrain, but it could also form hunt and kill squads who need no rest, whereas the hunted person or persons presumably would.

As for automation, it will certainly happen too: the Atlas is humanoid-shaped and once it matures to be more independent and capable with environmental manipulation, it could easily function as plug-and-play automation for many tasks currently requiring a human. Pick berries or fruits, do gardening, deliver things like mail/pizza, and so on.
Is there a specific incident that this letter is protesting?
Use a semaphore instead. That's what it is built for.

That way you don't need to make a complex fiber scheme just for resource management. Spin up as many as you need an the runtime will do the task pool for you.

https://ruby-concurrency.github.io/concurrent-ruby/1.1.4/Con...
Seconded, this seems highly disingenuous. Raspberry Pi models are generally speaking highly available for the advertised price if not less!
I can't help but feel cynical about this piece:

1. 20 years ago the author wrote a paper asserting that string theory was a fruitless field of study.

2. The paper is written in a confrontational and snarky tone, for example: "The theory has been spectacularly successful on one front, that of public relations." Not a way to build bridges.

3. The author seems bitter that the paper wasn't accepted into Physics Today, and that the suggested rewriting into a letter to the editor did not result in publication either.

4. The author is sticking to their guns.

No matter how well-founded the idea that string theory is a dead end, this isn't likely to improve things.
Only if he also makes funny videos on how to pirate software?

As noted above, that's a good chunk of videos on the channel that got removed
>If it works until it doesn't, is it really something you should be trusted?

Depends on why you need to trust something. If the failure state is multiple nukes going off, sure throw money and time at it until your systems are bullet proof. If you've purchased new shoes and need to design a study to figure out which foot you should start with when lacing up, maybe you're going too hard. What about something more chemical in nature; say you have a family recipe you and your family love. You might tinker around with it, but do you stop making it because you are upset by the intellectual sloth of not running double blind studies on Grandma's Famous Cumin Chili? No. Unless something slaps your Bayesian priors in the face, like a news report that says Chili recipes using Cumin might cause cancer.

Again, the idea is that we all come into this with Bayesian priors. You don't need (and will never get) 100% certainty to operate in the real world. I don't need to spend a few hours and $60 to go from 99.5% to 99.7% on this issue and I'm betting you don't either.

We will be, and largely are wrong about a ton of things. And in the majority of cases it doesn't matter one tiny bit. Like here. This is a study about a political flogging point that is 15 years past the point it conceivably could have been made into legislation. The study will be dated by the time there's a political push for the issue to be re-examined.

This is shoelace study v.2.0. We have more pertinent, more complicated and more impactful problems to study both on an institution and personal level, so why devote our limited mental processing time to this? Because you want to be "right"?

Have you ever read a recipe you've done before and thought to yourself "I really shouldn't make this, because I haven't presented this foo
It's a cool ad, but it doesn't seem to be "spartan / brutalist" marketing to me. The point of the ad is to show you how their technology makes robots dance. But, clearly their real product isn't just dancing robots. They put a lot of work into making this functionality, and all that work is just for marketing!

To me, a real spartan approach to marketing is spending very little money on marketing, and just focusing on your product. That seems like the opposite of what Boston Dynamic is doing, because they put so much work specifically into creating these PR/marketing videos. Many of their robot models don't seem to exist for actual products, they just exist for marketing.
This is the best compliment for BD.
What is SOTA ?
Which of the Raspberry Pi alternatives hast the best compute and IO performance?
For losing weight, yes.

However AFAIK fit and moderately overweight is better for your health than unfit and skinny.
Real wages actually went up for Americans for the first time in 40 years during the last four years but yeah worse off...
If the mechanics were sufficient, why are people not posting more pictures of airliners flying into buildings in Flight Simulator?

It is a simulator, so it has the best mechanics. The violence is the only thing missing. Flight Simulator will just display a boring dialog saying "you crashed".
Implementing on Error Resume Next in Python
HN is missing a `word-break: break-all` on their `default p` class.

(Your reply with an unbroken word that spans larger than the page width forced my page to grow (horizontal scrollbar))
Maybe in general, but I don't think you're right in the case of self-driving systems. Waymo says that perception is the easy part and most of the work is elsewhere. So in the absolute worst case scenario, they would have to develop the perception part from scratch. At Tesla, this took 2 years.

BTW, all companies that can, use lidars. Even MobileEye says that their L4 system will use lidars and they've been working on a camera based system for 2 decades. Tesla doesn't use lidars because they can't.
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I agree with OP's interpretation:

> A more charitable interpretation is that the copy/paste isn't because the authors are hopelessly out of touch: instead, they're seeking to enable the direct re-use of all of the executive policy and judicial precedent which has developed around those legal particulars since they were first codified.

I mean honestly if this is the most egregious thing they have found in the agreement so far, it doesn't sound that bad (and I voted to remain)
At the same time what % of Americans have an iPhone?
What % drive a car < 3 years old?
What % have the latest $200 Nikes, $500 purses or $2K MacBooks?

There is certainly a problem with income inequality in the world, but it's hardly Elon Musk's fault that people that aren't making very much spend their money so poorly. There is a social stigma with appearing rich to your friends so you spend poorly...social media has made this so much worse in the last decade.

This problem extends to many different aspects of life...from taking out student loans to pay for a useless degree to letting people buy shitty food on food stamps. People could be doing a lot better for themselves, but it's rarely seen as a function of personal responsibility to do so (it's always society that has to change to help them).
The difference is you had to map your own route from the paper map. Now Google is suggesting the "best" route so its easy to blame this corporate entity and not the person who chose to follow instructions.
> So large transaction volumes aren't going to be an issue because there's also going to be multiple blockchains to spread the transaction volume across?

No, large transaction volumes aren't going to be an issue either way. However there already are multiple blockchains and anyone that can watch youtube can sync with all of them if they want to.

> I'm not sure that's any better, because you'd either be heavily dependent on intermediary exchange services and be exposed to exchange rate fluctuations

This makes zero sense. Anyone can choose whatever combination of whatever they want and most people never touch the normal chain. This is the reality right now, there are lots of choices, people can use any or all of them. Why would transaction volumes change any of this? This isn't a prediction of the future, this something that has already happened years ago.

> The problem is that the cost compounds, so comparing the cost to running a refrigerator isn't exactly fair.

No it doesn't.

> On the other hand, running a full node might cost $90/year today, but 5 years from now would cost $450 upfront + $90/year.

That makes absolutely no sense at all. A full node for every crypto currency can be run on a $35 raspberry pi with a hard drive hooked up by anyone that can watch a youtube video. Your numbers are just a lie, the entire bitcoin chain is 1/25th of an 8TB hard drive which can be bought new for $150 USD.

> This goes back to the decentralization debate. Needing a huge upfront investment to fully participate in the network is very much anti-decentralization.

Then it's a good thing that isn't true, since most people never touch it and those that do probably don't have to spend anything at all.

These are lies, there is no truth to what you are saying and you know it. If there was any validity you would have a better explanation than made up numbers and nothing else. You are predicting something as if it hasn't already been passed by. No amount of circular logic warps reality to what you want it to be. The bigger question is why you are so desperate to convince people that cryptocurrencies can't scale.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-eth.ht...
Also living outside the USA, and Apple maps is more accurate in some places than Google maps (the Netherlands). For instance a very big business lot was completely grey on Google maps, but completely mapped out on Apple maps. I don't even have Google maps downloaded on my new iPhone.

So, one anecdote for, one against, it evens out for now.
> If Wikileaks treats all leaks as equal then I don't see how this argument holds water.

It turns out Wikileaks does care about the source
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...
There are lots of obvious and not so obvious places where routes can't be calculated, for example, when asking for driving directions across the Darien Gap: "Sorry, we could not calculate driving directions from "San Francisco, California" to "Bogota, Colombia"" Although in theory you may be able to make it across by motorcycle overland, there aren't any roads and as such google maps doesn't plot a route through there.
A lot of that is just plain wrong. At this point Wikipedia is often just a battleground for information wars. Naturopaths have been recommending a low sugar diet for like 30 years. So is that quackery?
First case of highly infectious coronavirus variant detected in Colorado
Reality Gets in the Way of Idealistic Socialism and Capitalism
OK, but it's not a "SEV", he's looking at 2 years of logs on hundreds of thousands of servers over a wide variety of applications. Nothing appears to be "down". This is more like an investigation looking for some high-value efficiency improvements (which is something he's written about).

I am sure he did it "quick", but mere minutes of work and mostly just waiting around for something like that analysis? I doubt it!
Could it be slightly sped up? The robots do make jumps so one could calculate it from that.
The "compression" in front of a de-orbiting satellite does generate irreversible entropy, and the physicists are correct to say that air friction causes the heat during reentry.
Heh, I had a similar one in Northern Italy. What started as an offbeat paved, then gravel, road degraded into something best described as a goat trail over steep hillside. The worst thing is when you start having doubts it's too late: backing out is even more dangerous. AWD came helpful but still had a few white-knuckled moments there.
> A lot of people use their car’s built in navigation.

I don't think that's true anymore. We were looking for cars back in February, and one thing I noticed is that many of the new cars did not come with navigation. When I asked why the dealer told me everyone just wants CarPlay because they use Google Maps on their phone. That made sense to me, since I too did not want to pay for navigation since I just use Google Maps via CarPlay.
It's also interesting because they are using a wound as a signifier. Anyone could legitimately have an eye injury requiring such a dressing, but now an innocuous bandage is a show of support. The creativity and ingenuity that has come out of some of these protests has been really inspiring and gives me hope that humanity will always find ways to fight oppression no matter how oppressed they are.
It’s not really made in the US is more that they inspect the parts and clip them together in the US and that costs them $1000 for some reason.
It wouldn't be a bug if there was more information than "20 years later"
Yeah, the Apollo 13 season in 2020 was also amazing. It was the mission that had to abort the mission and return to Earth without landing on the Moon.
I wish there were 100%-compatible but more powerful Raspberry Pi Alternatives. So you could use the original Raspbian OS, Raspberry hats and all the GPIO and software recipes you can find around but have better I/O etc at the same time. As far as I know existing alternatives are far from being 100% compatible.
A couple of months ago, the Irish Supreme Court ruled that Subway's 'bread' wasn't bread (the reason this went to court was that it's important for setting a VAT rate), due to containing too much added sugar. In Ireland (and, as far as I know, most places in Europe) it would not be normal for bread to contain added sugar _at all_.

So, yeah, a sandwich made with what is legally cake seems fairly garbage (though, I do see the problem in that it seems to be hard to get normal bread cheaply in the US).

This does point to a potential solution, though. As I understand it, the determination was only directly relevant to taxation. However, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to imagine that a country could take the stance that advertising sandwiches made with non-bread as sandwiches wasn’t permissible. That might be enough of a marketing problem for Subway that they’d just drop the sugar.
I totally agree, tech valuations this year are staggering, yet this company is only valued at 1.1bn even as they have started commercializing their spot robot. It seems like their robots could automate the truck-to-door problem with automated home deliveries. I guess we must be missing something...
Oh hi Nick. I know you... And Gavin...
Small world.