skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> problem that didn't actually exist

Well, creating good education content is certainly an unsolved problem, but nod.

> document their entire course, [...] is really hard

That was the MIT OCW experience as well.

Hmm... thinking aloud...

I wonder how hard it might be to do bulk ingestion of existing OER content to seed such a literate-programming/github/npm but-for-text platform. Slice-and-dice and index, so it's immediately useful for easily pulling together custom content. Though profs creating slides are unconcerned by copyright, so obtaining material by googling seems likely easier than even well indexed ingested OER content.

And the challenges of an accessible UI are not small. One of the unrealized potentials of OneLaptopPerChild was having a community that mixed domain experts with software devs, so one could look ahead to a much lower-barrier MVPs for collaborative content creation. Hmm, so what might motivate people already skilled at git-horrible ui to work on text...?

Perhaps one could find some content niche which somehow inspired people to work together, using a platform with good bones, but without a so-hard-to-make broadly-accessible GUI. For illustration, introductory astronomy courses are common, and best-selling textbooks don't even bother to get the color of the Sun right. So one might imagine the astronomy community, which has coding skills, getting enthused by a "finally, an introductory astronomy textbook which isn't wretched". Or no, maybe not so much. It might be interesting to learn which OER textbooks have achieved wide use, if any. Use them as a market probe for communities which are already receptive to an OER-shaped effort? And hope one of those communities has unmet authoring needs, and the skills to tolerate an MVP ui. Ah well, thanks for the thought exercise.
What if we had the concept of annotations in JavaScript? That way I could ask for the dom environment if I needed it in my test or if I don't reject it entirely.
As a tale of people in over their heads, over reliance on maps, taking the wrong road and not knowing when to quit and turn back in the American Southwest (which then turns into an international situation and doesn't have closure for 14 years) Tom Mahoud's The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans[1] is an epic and worthwhile read.

It has lots of great stuff about lost person psychology, search strategy, persistence, local knowledge, and extremely remote areas.

Highly recommended.

[1] https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...
Here's an equivalent form for MasterCard: https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/corp-responsibility/c...
Related -
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/faceb...

I was consciences that the lack of 230 would doom the internet. Looking at the cesspit it’s become, I don’t Think It’s unreasonable to restrict section 230 a bit more.

Let’s see what the language is in the bill. Reporting like this is too light on details.
Imagine if software developers were held to this standard. Time to find another team of developers.

Imagine if consumers held the billion/trillion dollar companies to this standard. Time to find another OS.

Apple's outside counsel do not take anything for granted. Post a link to the "cupcake" case and let's have a look.

iOS is a licensed product. The license only allows iOS to be run on a single "Apple-branded" computer. Here is an earlier version:

https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/ios6.pdf

The license is interesting because all not the bits that make up iOS are written by Apple nor exclusively licensed to Apple; iOS is not 100% proprietary. What rights does Apple actually have that it can license. Some parts of iOS come from BSD projects, some come from other open source third party projects, some parts come from Apple, the later some of which have been open-sourced. The mere fact of a license does not mean Apple will successfully be able to enforce all its terms. Avoiding legal challenges to them is one way to keep licensees guessing as to their enforceability. Wanna bet whether this case settles before trial.

https://opensource.apple.com
Why would you need Google Maps for this? Start following a road in the general direction of where you are going and just guess on turns if you want an adventure.
> his sentence is under seal, as are the offences under which he is convicted.
Original poster here -- is there a reason this was flagged? I thought it was interesting that Tesla stock has done so well, in what is a very different year to that which everyone expected back in Jan.
Fair point about the batteries. Or, at least I have no grounded criticism. It's not a natural monopoly, though. It's not an OS.

As for cars, there are way fewer manufacturers than you'd think. Check out the Volkswagen Group, for example. Usually many brands share the same technical platform, and the parts are made by suppliers like Bosch, which serve all manufacturers that will pay.
> This reminds me of the (alleged) Tom Watson quote: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." These robots will be everywhere in twenty years. The cost and the software aren't there yet, but it's only a matter of time.

Hitting the nail on the head here. I've been following Boston Dynamics for the past 10 years and it's just amazing the progress they've made and it's going to get augmented massively with better battery technology and ML/AI. No doubt in my mind these types of robots will be everywhere in 20 years as you say.
If that were true, that would mean all the rational (hedge funds?) are holding their TSLA stocks despite knowing that their value is largely based on fickle investors.

Big serious investors must still own TSLA stock.. right? Why aren't they selling?
>Chopping someone up is heavily frowned upon in real life, but perfectly acceptable to emulate in someone's living room.

The same reason people have been reading horror novels for hundreds of years? A good book and an imagination is a lot more realistic than a computer game, IMO. The reason society gives it a pass is partly because they are entertaining and partly because they are considered free speech, the latter being a fundamental human right.
Thank you to the author of this list. I pay pretty close attention, and yet most of these libraries were new to me and I can see myself using 1-5 right away! This was a great list.
I’m not the one moving the goal post, I remain steadfast that they are being exploited and every time I point this out you give a slightly different reason as to why they are not. First it was the two systems (China vs US) are vastly different, then it was the convict leasing was ended, then it was voluntary (except when it isn’t), then it was at least they get paid, then it was well they are criminals so they deserve it.
I take issue with describing it as "voluntary", when the alternative is a longer prison sentence. It is paid a pittance, and is effectively involuntary.
GM arguably has a better self driving solution than Tesla at the moment. At least it’s safer.

Ford has the Mach-E which is getting really favorable press from the “car guy” world (i.e people who are a little more skeptical of Tesla) which supposedly is getting self driving and is $7k less with tax credit than the Model Y.

https://youtu.be/c4n5iPqxpaw

Honestly, given Tesla’s quality issues and how they address them, I wouldn’t mind seeing what the more risk-averse, mature automakers come up with. The way Tesla has handled design flows in the Model S front suspension is downright disgraceful.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-safety-investigatio...
Well you can always fallback to certificated Vietnam slavery instead.
The math of entanglement is not particularly complicated. The philosophy on the other hand....
Muslims’ religious freedom fully respected, guaranteed in China
Maybe he is like me, I put money into TSLA that I was happy to lose simply because I want to invest in things that make the world better. That hasn't changed just because on paper I'm rich. The mission isn't over.
Erm... Yes. Slip of the brain.
Nobody wants to leave the party before it's over.
$35 a month, according to buzzfeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alison_killing/xinjiang...
Most open source text captchas have ML/DL or OpenCV OCR solutions and more advanced captchas like gcaptcha/hcaptcha you can send to a solver farm like 2captcha. The cost for the farm solutions is pretty cheap.
Ah, didn't notice that before. Makes a lot more sense now.
Difference is that for anyone paying attention it has been clear for years that Bitcoin was hijacked by corporate interests (Adam Back's Blockstream) years ago and intentionally crippled in order to push their own "second layer" solutions to problems they themselves created.

Tesla's controlling interest at least wants Tesla to succeed, the people that hijacked the Bitcoin GitHub repo specifically want it to fail as, "Digital Peer-to-Peer Cash".

Just look into nonsense like "Replace by Fee", Greg Maxwell and the company Blockstream itself. All social engineering to get Bitcoin to fail.
People often flag Tesla articles that have mostly negative comments.
> When they "act, look, or simplify identify," in a way that easily identifies them as not cisgendered and/or not heterosexual, how are they not telegraphing information about their bedroom activities?

Because all they are really telegraphing is a preference for persons to collaborate with in said bedroom activities to be a specific gender, and even that is hardly certain.

In any case there is actually very little in the way of "bedroom activities" that is exclusive to particular gender combinations. Most people are physically capable of performing most acts unassisted with most other people.

And quite a few of the acts that are excluded can be accomplished with an appropriate adapter.

All of which says almost nothing about anyone's odds of doing any particular thing with anyone else.
Edit:

There is NO way to support liberty and deny the right to be a ninny.
It's like the publication bias coupled with the grant bias and sunk cost fallacy is self-reinforcing.
Some translators that still insist on localizing honorifics is funny, stuff like using Sir or making up a nickname for a character. I wonder what the Japanese do when translating English source to Japanese, do they insert honorifics where it doesn’t exist in the source?
Yes but it's just a 2:1 mux in the path, it's not like you need twice as many 32bit decoders
Nope, there will just be this giant wall that will only let non-banned subjects through, burning the rest to a crisp.

I'm actually scared what the internet will look like less 230. I'm guessing we will see more 4chan then pre-approved comments, just because that scales easier.
Here's a source for this claim.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-u...
Jesus Christ no accessibility on the CAPTCHA and even I failed it 8 times.
AOL. Walled garden. Captive audience. Original content.
It’s all going to end in tears in the days following wide deployment of FSD beta. Just one pedestrian death was enough to end Uber’s autonomy program and the political dynamics haven’t really changed since then.
That's already the present situation on social media.

* This claim about social media bias has been disputed.
Taiwanese companies were mostly responsible for those forced labor supplly chains in E. and S.E. Asia.
Do I think Tesla is overvalued? Yes, but I find it laughable that you think Tesla has no competitive advantages. Off the top of my head I can think of their battery production + supply chain, direct sales to consumers, world class electrical engineering, best in class safety, and over the air software updates. All of those factors would be extremely hard or impossible to duplicate at an existing car manufacturer.
>A lot of that is just plain wrong

elaborate?

>Naturopaths have been recommending a low sugar diet for like 30 years. So is that quackery?

I think the saying "even a broken clock is right twice a day" applies here.
I'd only seen relatively pricey solver farm solutions, hence the question. What constitutes "cheap" here? For a baseline, .05USD/captcha seems not cheap to me.
Group theory has applications in QM, but you can't go from the standard model to experimental results through group theory alone. To do that, you need to understand all of the physics concepts leading up to it. Even knowing what a conserved quantity is involves some of that implicit context you're talking about.
Tech startups are valued that way because software has [approximately] zero marginal cost. If everyone in the world wants to install Tiktok tomorrow, they can. If everyone in the world wants to buy a Tesla tomorrow, it would be impossible to fulfill that demand.
Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology
Fiat money isn't new, in general the transition between hard money (gold/metal), paper money, and fiat is cyclical. The transition from fiat to hard isn't always pleasant.

Some nice graphs from Ray Dalio that show it plotted out for various currencies throughout history if you scroll down: https://www.principles.com/the-changing-world-order/#chapter...
Aha ok, fair enough. I know for next time!
Technically to someone who has demonstrated control on visa.com at the time the cert was issued. It doesn't necessarily mean its actually visa.com.

Although I didn't check to see if they're using OV or EV certs.
"Big serious investors" are also putting hundreds of millions into bitcoin. These are crazy times. There is already over 20% more dollars now than there was last year[1]. If you follow the news you can see the dollar devaluation is likely not going to stop. Lockdowns kept inflation under control by reducing money velocity, but eventually inflation will come and funds are preparing for it however they can.

Rationality based on outdated models doesn't work when the environment is changing.

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
A swarm of these can fan out over a house and target very specifically anyone hiding there. Without killing the human shields.
you are taking playing for simulating, and that's not quite correct, as they are very distinctive. There's sim games of course, but they are games first and foremost, not sims. if you want to learn more about play, you should read one of the most interesting writings from 20th century: Homo Ludens, from Johan Huizinga.
answering your question, when you ask why is something mainstream or not you should know it has to do with commerce. I should also add killing someone irl is nothing like killing someone at a videogame. It's all imagination play.
Yeah... um... considering both the source and the available evidence to the contrary, I remain unconvinced.

And I question why someone is posting this kind of propaganda on HN.
In addition to domain+cert verification, you can type in "visa.com", scroll down to the footer, click "Privacy", scroll down to and click the "Visit Additional Privacy Information" button, then read the last paragraph of the second-to-last question, which links to this same page.
Mach-E looks ok but there's no way I'm driving long distance on J1772. You might convince people ChaDeMo is okay... but not if they've done a v3 supercharger.

Like I said, its not just the car. You may be right about SuperCruise, I have a small amount of experience with it, but I'm skeptical.

As for cars having design faults and the manufacturer being disgraceful... That's a pretty long list? We could start with the Pinto exploding? Or the Bronco roof collapsing?
Look around you and note that there appear to be about three dimensions, and furthermore there's gravity. Also, quantum mechanics is true. String theory is the only theory that satisfies both of those conditions at once. Other approaches to quantum gravity aren't that far yet, but could conceivably yield those predictions at some point in the future. Today, though, there's only string theory.
> pretty terrifying to think we are soon to have people hunting robots

for the robots, maybe

Animal traffic is a lucrative and it seems as illegal as unstoppable. My bet is that if this robots will deploy in a signifiant number, the people soon will realize that can make a life if they trap, club and dismantle expensive robots for selling metal parts and any valuable cargo that they would carry. Will be also illegal but some will try anyways. Anything electric can be insta-fried with a higher voltage or, more slowly, with a cheap molotov cocktail. Not much different than hunting a bear or deer, maybe more profitable.
I wonder what happens if Tesla doesn't achieve full self-driving for the lifetime of current cars where the owners paid for it after all the annual "it'll be ready by the end of the year" promises
If Schwab gets his way we will never travel again. Traveling is the ultimate expression of human freedom and for psychopaths like him this very idea is unbearable.
This is surprisingly common - a combination of target fixation and that hope that things will get better "just around the corner". People seem to be wired to push ahead instead of turn back and look for an easier route. I suppose a lot of exploration and discovery wouldn't have happened otherwise but then it's tempered by the numerous stories like the OP.
for my benefit I'm Glad apple maps worked!
It says "a quick change battery provides flight times of 40 minutes or more".

In other words, not on a single battery/charge.
While the top comment is certainly skeptical, I think it's worth pointing out that the majority of comments in that thread are positive:

> This is genius. It's is problem everyone is having, and everyone knew it (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/lazybackup ). If it really works as well as it looks in that demo then they nailed it. I'm both envious and inspired. I'll be surprised if YC does not fund them

> I saw your short demo at BarCamp and I must say Dropbox looks great! Are you planning on having a Linux port as well, or is too early to talk about that? Also, as another SFP applicant I have to tell you that I really hope you get the funding - you deserve it.

> You know, your app is something that I've been wishing someone would make for some time now. Congrats!

> Cool stuff indeed. I would give 5 stars for such an useful application.

> It looks great man. I know you'll be accepted. The writing is on the wall. Posting your video here just seals the deal, and puts yourself out there. I didn't apply to YC, but if I did, I'd be putting my stuff up here as well. I'm surprized nobody else has posted like you did. That takes some balls and self-belief.

> Kudos from myself as well. In fact, just today I was having problems with ftp and samba, and was wishing for a more graphical rsync. Perhaps it is true that a good way to do a web app is to implement a unix command. :) Good job. can't wait until it's out for the rest of us.

> Looks wonderful. You might want to check on the trademark 'dropbox'. I know dropsend used to be called dropbox but had to change due to trademark difficulties. Otherwise excellent work.

> Nice job! I was thinking something like this for a while and wonder why no one did it. It looks like dropbox just scratches the right itches for me.

> Great job guys, hope to see you get picked up in the next session. Keep me posted for the mac version.

> This definitely qualifies as Something People Want, and it looks nicely executed. Very cool!

> Great demo, great product, great business, well done.

> That's hot!

> I'm impressed.

> brilliant!
Videos are big. I have a YouTube channel and don't back my videos up. Quite the opposite, I regularly delete them to free up harddisk space. I do cross post them to lbry.tv though which I've found a lot better than peertube.
Well out of my wheel house unfortunately but i do know that “air multiplier” marketing speak is called something like the coanda effect.

A Tom Stanton video with his coanda effect quadcopter https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Irp_vnmUWZ4
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Why guess? https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ says 100PB.
GTA3, Vice, SA, 4, and 5 are chaste? Far Cry 3, 4, 5? Red Dead Redemption series? God Of War 1, 2, 3, Reboot? The Witcher series? Mass Effect series?

Are you sure we're talking about the same game industry?
I saw once that the likelihood of a crime is s function of likelihood of getting caught and the severity of the punishment.

It's difficult enough getting government departments within the same country to cooperate. Tunneling attacks along several international jurisdictions compounds the problem, especially if the attacker chooses to tunnel through states that are adversaries to the victim nation.
It looks like Planck's Principle is in effect here. To paraphrase, "Science progresses one funeral at a time."
Big Dog was discontinued in 2015.

Until there's light weight batteries or fuel cells available, big, long-endurance robots like Big Dog just aren't practical (especially for military use).
Ridiculous speculation at this point. Here is all of the current "evidence" that the bombing was related to 5G:

> Fridrich confirms that agents asked him whether or not Warner had paranoia about 5G technology.

> Fridrich told the agents that Warner had never spoken to him about that.
From my experience, OpenStreetMap is getting significantly better in the "long tail", as big companies (Grab, Uber, Apple) are using it and then contributing the issues back and reusing it in their proprietary maps.

Still, they are no match for Google Maps.
Looks like Boston Dynamics has finally embraced reinforcement learning for non-military applications.
I must say - After having Lasik done to my eyes and then not beeing happy with the results. I am quite amazed that there is so little real research going on with regards to senses everyone needs to function in society. Hearing, seeing, feeling.

I saw a documentary about the boston bombers, and a lot of the survivors lost their legs or had their legs maimed. One of the survivors had a leg that was basically an attempted save and she elected to amputate it,she said that what she would miss the most was feeling her toes in the sand. Now even the though the thought of that had never crossed my mind before, I could immediately correlate that feeling with my own sense of loss wrt. my vision.

The older I get the more dismayed i get with the medical community / industry. There's so much pain in the world, and it seems like the people most competent with the issues, are more occupied by nonsense. In almost all other professional trades, people willingly give their time and energy to solve problems. But when it comes to the most important machine as in - ourselves it's all for the money.
I'm surprised Visa is using cloudflare for their certs.
This got downvoted for (I presume) triteness, but there's an important underlying point: Amazon's actions (or anyone else's) don't have to look rational from the outside to really mess up your day.
> Yann LeCun got chased away from twitter by Gebru. Anima Anand kumar's tweet displayed an active participation in cancelling and chasing out anyone who does not fall in line with a very narrow definition of equality in society.

Yann is still active on twitter. He claimed to leave twitter, but didn't for any reasonable definition of "left". Yet people continue to claim that Gebru "cancelled" him or something. He's had like 15 twitter interactions today.

Be as skeptical of Yann and Domingos as you are of Gebru.

> There is a reason that supreme court justices are lawyers and not activists.

Lots of people would claim that many supreme court justices are activists, and depending on who you ask, exactly which judges are activists would change (both Ginsburg and Scalia have been called "activist" judges, not to mention Roberts, which I find hilarious)

> The open letter merely points that out and asks for equal representation of ideas without threat of being fired or sidelined in entirity.

I'd think someone calling for this would strongly support Timnit Gebru. That would be the ideologically consistent position, yes?