skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's one solution: don't buy cheap garbage.

Yes, someone makes a $23 drone. It is cheap plastic shit from China. Do you really need to buy it, and then throw it in landfill a week (or two days) later after it breaks?

Did OP reeeeeally expect a $23 drone to be on the up-and-up and NOT end up as landfill? OP is a bit oblivious to his impact on the environment.

This race to the bottom for the cheapest crap is what inspires these tactics.
> what will happen as self driving car safety exceeds human drivers

Average human drivers, or are you including the drunks and other bozos who cause the lion's share of fatalities?
Information products require artificial scarcity to be economically viable.

If freedom of speech gives individuals a license to say anything in any medium, then this means that artificial scarcity is inconsistent with free speech.

If artificial scarcity is immoral, then all information products are immoral.

(Note that as a practical matter I suspect that Nintendo only cares about "hacking" insofar as it undermines sales. I can't see why they would care about people modifying the games or equipment they own. I can totally see why they would care if someone invented an SD card cartridge for the 3DS that allows you to run every game ever written from it. Such a device, if mass produced and sold for profit, is clearly intended for piracy. Moreover, its easy to see how such a device is parasitic on the platform itself, so that if Nintendo didn't do something about it then there won't be a Nintendo.)
Semi-related: there's that 4000 year old clay tablet recording a customer service complaint, so ... old problem, reliably signaling product quality.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/4...
Yes, that’s the movie, and I think it’s worth watching. To compare it to a more modern movie, I think Arrival was inspired a fair bit by Contact. If Arrival is up your alley, you’ll probably like Contact too.
For better or worse, Rust calls it a VecDeque, but I think this is meant to clarify that the structure is just Vec storage with some extra methods on top to provide convenient ring buffer usage patterns:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.VecDeque.ht...
Ah that is sad to see.
Yes, that's the movie.
Why should it be? In the end the dead bodies count and it doesn't matter whether a cautious or inexperienced driver killed them. Inexperienced drivers are prerequisite of experienced drivers, there's no way to get rid of them. Excluding them from statistics is just discounting those deaths as... somehow less important?

If a self-driving vehicle is only 1.5x (instead of 5x) as safe as the average human driver then you're not trading between death by humans vs. death by machine, you're primarily trading between death by human and spared by machine and only secondly between the former.
You can't defeat bad ideas with shaming; shaming means you don't have an argument and are approaching the topic as a belief. You cannot persuade others with your beliefs.

You can defeat ideas only with better, well argumented ideas.
Introduction to Debugging Memory Leaks in Java
> The "will be exploited by few against the many" could be applied to any and all technologies.

And it has, arguably correctly, beginning with food production, as argued in, e.g. 'Guns, Germs, and Steel', 'Why The West Rules, For Now.'
Oh, the Yakuza interviews family members and figures out your schedule? And here I thought they trafficked in drugs and humans, and routinely murdered people. Silly me.
In what way does spending money on experiences compound?
Not the OP, but there is also a brief mention of Esperanto in "The Power and The Glory". As to why, I'm not sure of any direct connection of Greene to Esperanto or other constructed languages, but he was a friend of George Orwell, whose aunt was the girlfriend of Eugene Lanti, an Esperantist who was one of the creators of the standard Esperanto dictionary (PIV). Lanti (whom Orwell didn't care for) may also be the reason Orwell had 1984's "Newspeak" use terms like "ungood" which model Esperanto usages.
> However, the lives lost in autonomous accidents will be a different set of people than those that would have died in human driven accidents.

This is a really good point. I drive really conservatively and like to think I will never ever cause an accident let alone a fatal one. I think if this lever was taken away I would have a hard time accepting the automated driving a significant amount of time.
Emacs has forward/backward-sentence (alt-e/alt-a) commands, but you have to have two spaces after a period for it to know where sentences begin/end.
The comparison between all human drivers and all autonomous vehicles is far more complex than "whichever is statistically safer, as a whole". Belittling people who feel differently than you about it muddies the conversation for no reason.
I've completely stopped ordering from Amazon, for three reasons: they have too much market power, they have serious ethics problems, and their 3rd party seller program has made the buying experience garbage. Welcome to the club.
I've come across it in the UK. I remember a friend's mother, born in ~1940, insisting on it.
That may be true. Between brand DDoS and dropshipper spam, I no longer buy anything of consequence on any e-commerce platform - I only order from the sites of local chain stores (electroncis, pharmacies, comestics) or directly from manufacturer. I probably pay slightly more because of it, but I avoid dealing with fraudlent sellers and fraudlent products.
I don't see that ever happening, because too many just keep rebooting UNIX instead, as seen by all GNU/Linux based phone attempts.

And the companies that have the power to drive it into newer territories, like Google, don't care about providing yet another UNIX clone, just reducing the kernel development costs.

Had Inferno been a success, I bet we would also see blog posts on how to dump Limbo, replace ACME with vim, and have the GNU userland on it.
He got the idea from someone else. I had the impression he doesn't attach too strongly to the idea, but he offers it as an example of how you could have a something non-deterministic happening in human cognition. That may well be understating his commitment to the idea.

It seems weak to me, but I really don't understand the details of the idea.
A computer error is going to be scarier by far.

When a human kills someone with a car it is almost always in a way we can empathize. When you’re around cars you have pretty good mental models for the humans that drive them and how the car will behave.

When you’re around human piloted cars you can look at the driver and get a pretty good idea of intent. You can tell if the driver sees you, you can tell what their mental state is, if they’re paying attention, what they intend to do. You can sum up a person with a glance, this is the power of evolution, we’re really good at figuring things out about other living things.

Crossing the street in front of a car is a leap of faith, not troubling at all when there’s a human there, but a robot? There’s no body posture, no gestures, no facial expressions, nothing to go on. There’s a computer in control of a powerful heavy machine that you’re just expected to trust.

Robot cars don’t make human mistakes, they make alien mistakes like running down kids on the sidewalk in broad daylight, things which don’t make any sense at all that make people feel like they aren’t anywhere safe.

It won’t take but a couple of cute kids killed in a surprising matter to shut down the whole autonomous experiment.
Does anyone know of an alternative to Amazon that addresses quality and environmental issues (ideally something that isn't trying to sell me the latest hot garbage from whatever country is willing to trash the environment and enslave its citizens for a quick buck)?
The standard Google employee contract contains this restriction. It's easier for them to institute a blanket ban on open source contributions (including in one's spare time) and then consider exceptions on a case-by-case basis. They have a dedicated internal committee that fields employee requests to work on open source projects.
Any updated sites you can recommend for switch hacking. I have an original one so I know it is fully hackable just haven’t followed the scene in a while and wonder where it is at? Thanks
Yes, this does need to be at presentation time. In monospace, this may make sense, but that's not how text layout works. A space is dynamically sized.

Granted, there are overloading issues, but we have had decades to refine text layout engines to account for this. Major text layout systems, including those used in publishing, need to be able to dynamically adjust spacing based upon context. Software such as InDesign does this, and it is a standard part of workflow to replace all double-spaces with single-spaces.
Less Startups Is More
> Aren't ANN just some kind of brute forcing, just that this time brute forcing happens at training time.

Not by any definition of "brute force" that I know about. Brute force implies searching through all possibilities, which is impossible in chess as there are too many of them.
I am a big fan of GG but some of his books I find just too dry, almost literally in some senses, where the arid African climate seems to just pour out of the pages onto you, and also permeates the contents ; The Heart of the Matter, A Burnt-Out Case, are examples that come to mind. Don't let your first impressions turn you off from this genius. Some of his other books are quite different. Had I started with one of these ^ I might not be able to recommend those ->

I have loved ; The Human Factor, The Captain and the Enemy, The Honorary Consul, Our man in Havana, The Tenth Man ...
Oh my god dude, learn to figure shit out yourself instead of spamming your question in everyone's replies.

The second paragraph of the linked article tells you the year, main actress, and director of the movie, compare that to the movie described in your Wikipedia link to get the answer.
"safest medical procedure' is not a very high bar....
Since NewEgg started up their 3rd party seller program, I've also switched to Best Buy. Running out of places to buy from that aren't flooded with trash.
The experiment here is in self-selection, because only a very few, peculiar individuals will see that page and think, "Sign me up!"
> To compare it to a more modern movie, I think Arrival was inspired a fair bit by Contact.

Do you think Chiang's story was based on Contact (movie or book), or only that the movie was? Neither of those seems likely to me—more just a case of two authors independently writing about similar themes than of direct inspiration—but I haven't seen Contact for some time, and never read the book.
I came up with this as well. My strategy for products was often to read 1-star reviews, and there were often two cases:

1) The reviews are low-quality and not indicative of much, so there are few legitimate complaints, or

2) The reviews showcase a significant problem with the product alongside proof, and/or are often made by intelligent consumers

After enough time doing this with success, I've started to see many more 1-star reviews on products that get highly upvoted until they're the 'top review(s)', which don't really contain anything useful at all. They try to appear like they are an instance of 2), but often offer little evidence or quality argumentation.

I imagine it's easy to upvote 1/-star reviews on competitors' products to drive a lot of their traffic elsewhere instead. At this point I would love having a review system that is curated to only be from people I like/trust, but that is another whole story and ecosystem of course.
I'd toyed with CSS first-child, first-line, and first-letter classesva ways back ... and foud that especially for '"cards-type" formats, these made finding and distinguishing new posts far clearer.

The style is (largely) incorporated in https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius. An ello example with screenshots; https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/QGKKdiuqUw6O7ROl-V3uJA
Interesting, My holiday code project happened to be generating chord progressions with graph theory and it worked very well (imo) check it out: http://signalsandsorcery.com
The cheapest coding platform that's worth it
> The gold standard test for human level intelligence has long been and still remains the Turing Test

The Turing Test was an offhand example that Turing brainstormed. The hard part of the turing test isn't "intelligence" but "human" -- imitating a human's irrational quirks. It doesn't make sense to call that a "level", because computers are far better at imitating humans than humans are at imitating computers. In other words, humans can't even pass a symmetric Turing Test.
How much of that was the American propaganda machine doing its job to keep the western world united against communism? The change we are seeing could just be the end of the cold war leading to slow return to normal and not due to technology at all.
Which the fed itself has attributed to fluke changes in the market they couldn't foresee.
Vaccines are very safe because they are required to be very safe by law, if a vaccine is not shown to be very safe, it is pulled from production. They are not intrinsically safe.
Intel/Third Point: not so fab
Source citation needed.
When someone makes a game for Stadia they don't really care if it works on linux or Vulkan in general. All they care is that the game works on the custom hardware and drivers Google/AMD provides for Stadia. That is the only platform they will test that version on. (This is very similar to how console development happens. You have a fixed set of hardware so you just develop for that without a care for anything else really)

Sure the distance is smaller then starting with the Windows or Xbox/Playstation versions but there is still a lot of work to get it to work on any random pc someone builds.
> why should they pay me less or more dependent on variables external to my actual work.

They won’t pay you more in the long term. In the short term, they may be trying out candidates willing to work for cheaper. If they notice cheaper employees are available and providing the same utility, then I would bet the more expensive employees are on the chopping block.
Cars still weird me out. Cars are incredibly dangerous, even with all of the safety that goes into them. People don't treat them with the respect they deserve or demand.

Edit: I was specifically referring to how the danger of everyday things are under estimated by people. That people e.g. text while driving a 1½ ton vehicle at 55+ mph is a great example of that. The danger isn't high enough to be "common" but definitely higher than people estimate it to be.
We don't do partisanship here, but we do do policy. And policy maps back to politics with trivial ease, although not always consistently.
Archived version: https://archive.is/rj8Xp
Have you explored Barry Harris and his diminished sixth approach to jazz? I'm still clawing through it, but it seems to simplify the amount of chords you play to only 2 and then defines what variations will consistently sound good.
I don't know where the fear comes from. They seem like amazeballs ROI and like everyone should be champing at the bit to get them.
> It seems reasonable for self-driving cars to be expected to improve safety over human driving for the large majority of drivers, not just half of them.

Depends, do you want to save lives? Then self-driving cars only need to be a little safer than the drivers they replace. Which means if infrequent drivers with little experience that get replaced by robotaxis of average reliability could be a net-win in saved lives.
Delaying their deployment until technology arrives that beats the most conservative drivers just means accepting a higher death toll.
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing that link. I find the thought of a law requiring dogs to be walked daily especially comical. Well intentioned, to be sure, but short sighted at best.
Does the open source runtime has the same Free-Tier restrictions (Anvil Branding, Libraries, Domain)?
No clue why the sibling comment was not just down voted but flagged. But to kind of respond to it, my 0.0006 cents :)

ed25519FUUU:

"Generally curious, do we just basically ignore what happened in the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Vietnam, and China when we discuss the “community motivations” of communism and how that plays out?"

- there's the political and economic philosophy, and then there are real world implementations, done with various degrees of honesty and varied goals

- some will claim Russia etc are state capitalism or some other format rather than "pure communism"

- some will point out that purest examples of practical communism, the Israeli Kibutz, were wildly successful

(none of this is to indicate I have remotest interest in living in communism - in fact we ran across countries and continents to not be in one... But the theory is still interesting and in some ways relevant)
> Well, if it was, it was a bad one, and in restrospect it's obvious.

That's exactly the point - this keeps happening with various things.

Having reasonable machine translation / playing chess / computer vision were all considered as AI problems at some point, now they're often dismissed as not being AI, depending on whether or not computers are seen as achieving them. Alternatively, progress in those problems is dismissed due to not having enough "understanding" or "abstraction", even if computers are way better than humans at solving them (e.g. Penrose's point about chess).

The goalposts keep moving so that AI is always what computers can't yet do.
I shared the link because I hadn't heard about the infertility risk before and I found a lot of conflicting information when I looked it up – with many main stream sources dismissing the claim out of hand.

My understanding is that, yes, the proteins are similar, but not the same, and that a similar protein also exists in influenza which does not cause infertility when targeted by our antibodies. I assume this doesn't mean that it couldn't cause infertility in the case of a COVID-19 vaccine, but it would suggest it's perhaps unlikely.

Is there any reason to believe an mRNA vaccine would be anymore likely to cause our antibodies to target the syncytin-1 spike protein as opposed to a more traditional vaccine?

I do agree with your point that it's more a question of the probability of side effects than a possibility. This is something that's bothered me about the attacks on those who are hesitant on the safety of these vaccines. Although I'm sure there's a very low risk that someone will suffer any adverse effects from these vaccines there is almost certainly going to be some cases of adverse side effects, so in the interest of public trust in the COVID-19 vaccines and all future vaccines we should be ensuring the public understand the risks fully and not attacking anyone for asking questions or expressing doubts, because if it does turn out that some of those doubts did indeed hold merit then no one will trust a word the media or professors have to say on this in the future.
> Amusingly enough if you trace the history of brand names ... this is why they started!

That sounds like an interesting history. Do you have any recommendations for reading on it?
None of the comment you replied to was in the vain of protecting racists. It was about labeling random, unrelated things as racist symbols/acts, then pretending like that's okay to do and to even defend. It's absurd in every sense of the word. First off, you're taking the actions and beliefs of a handful of people (stupid teens mostly in all of these trolled stunts) and applying their "belief" (lame jokes in reality) to an entire demographic. The actions of the few are applied to the many. What you are doing is pretty damn racist within itself. Add in that you want people to alter their normal, everyday actions on the notion of a random group sudden decides, "Hey, this is mine now and everything associated with it is associated with me!" You're also claiming continuing to do said thing and even arguing that they never belonged to said hate group to begin with, makes you one of them. MLk had a thing about judging individuals on their own character, not on the superficial factors of others. That, and you're the one who started the argument in the first place. Don't claim someone is frivolously arguing when you're the one that started it.
Two spaces distinguish sentences.

The abbreviation ends a sentence. It gets two spaces.
You're basically surrounded by 8051 processors at all times. Tiny controllers, many probably OTP or mask-ROM, doing all sorts of basic management things.
It looks like Austrian court didn't do their homework. An interesting quote from GDPR authors:

(This is quote from official document. It wasn't written by me and no down-voting will change it (but it will potentially hurt people business for those who should see it and comply but didn't as they weren't aware of). It is as it is, regardless if you like it or not, if you agree with it or not,... it doesn't matter. https://edps.europa.eu/sites/edp/files/publication/17-03-14_...)

EDPS Opinion 4/2017 on the Proposal for a Directive on certain aspects concerning contracts for the supply of digital content, 14 March 2017, p. 7.

"There might well be a market for personal data, just like there is, tragically, a market for live human organs, but that does not mean that we can or should give the market the blessing of legislation. One cannot monetize and subject a fundamental right to a simple commercial transaction, even if it is the individual concerned by the data who is a party to the transaction."

According to that, the "contract" (or as they want to shovel it under consent - not even owner of personal data is allowed to give data in exchange for anything - it can give it as an option, surely you can demand the data like address if you are having online shop, once the buyer ordered something, but that is different case) was obtained using illegal means as the access to the Facebook was granted based on agreement where user should sell its "organs" (personal data) as a commercial transaction - allowing them to register to Facebook.

Max Schrems has shown that he will go to the highest courts before and probably will do the same here.

GDPR is not something that business is used to. It doesn't explicitly say "you can do this (and this,...) while you cant do this (and this,...)" allowing you to be able to tweak your business and circumvent it. It is conceptual and if you are breaking the concept you are breaking the law.

Or (I cant remember where I read this, but it illustrates it very well):
As an owner of chemical plant you are not told by the law how may toxic fumes (mg/m3) you can exhaust into the air. It tells you, "think of the children playing down the wind and you wont go far wrong". But if we will figure out your were intoxicating the children, you will be punished.

I just don't understand why Austrian court is hurting Facebook business and Max Schrems (in wasted hours) as at the end EU court will drop the decision (hopefully not charging Austria) and Facebook will have to comply to GDPR regardless. This is a lost game for Facebook, I don't understand why are they hurting their own business for something they cant win. Buying more time?
TempleOS Documentation
> Walmart and Target will jump ahead.

Actually, I think it's D2C that will jump ahead. The problem with Walmart and Target is they either (a) have limited brand selection (target) or (b) they dilute themselves so much to compete with Amazon that they eventually become Amazon (Walmart).
I found this part the most interesting too. There’s a comment in the reddit thread now where the author says:
It is called PimEyes but it does not give you the full url unless you pay. So I had to start digging from what I got.
Happy to oblige: https://www.smithlawco.com/blog/2017/december/do-most-driver...

In summary: in a study done in 1980, 93% of Americans thought themselves better than an average driver.
GE used to be a marker for reasonable quality but over the past couple of decades they've licensed their name for all kinds of crappy consumer products.