skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sister used live next to the Boston Dynamics facility in Waltham. She'd walk her on the nearby river path and generally disliked the way Boston Dynamics would periodically take over the path and keep her from using.

Part of the reason the robots evoke little excitement is because after a short look, you can realize they're just large puppets. We've had dancing puppets like Walt Disney's Small World. The reason Boston Dynamics takes over paths and shows robots dancing with each other is their robots still generally can't interact with humans or the environment in an unstructured way. Unstructured, "soft" interaction seem pretty easy to us but might actually close to "AI complete" in their potential complexity.

In between the advances in "holographic" displays (not quite as sci-fi as we would want, but they are progressing), commercial space flight, cybernetic prosthetics, CRISPR and this... we are living in the future. It's amazing.

I think your list illustrates how there's a wide variation among technologies in the time from demonstration to implementation. I watched radio controlled boats go around lakes in 1970s. Hobby drones are just now becoming useful, forty years later. Jet packs have been around for a long time but you still can't use them without serious safety precautions and they still aren't a way people would commute.
You're not wrong that BMI is okay enough of a metric for most people. But, in terms of a metric that is even more simple (one simple measurement tool instead of two), accounts for athletic builds, and is arguably more predictive of health outcomes (example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071369/), it would be great if we could standardize on waist-to-hip ratio instead of BMI.
Same as we do with passports: a central authority (national government) issues a proof that is hard to fake.

Frankly this is not the issue. The issue is that some people oppose what I have stated above as a matter of ideology, so if one think that proofs are necessary then the problem is political, not technical.
The road is in disuse. Russian Yandex recommended a much different route that was 3 hours longer, presumably because their developers knew something different about Russia than Google.
Why does this need to be some weird esoteric proof of X cryptocurrency blockchain thing?

This is a simple list, the problem can be solved with the simplest of datastores.

Someone gets the vaccine from an approved source, source enters the government id of the patient and the serial number of the dose into a webform. To check if person is vaccinated compare Id.

Most, if not all, pitfalls this has (requires ID to get vaccinated which not all people have, people can fake ids, unscrupulous provider could fake doses and resell) exist in meatspace, and not because of a lack of blockchain.

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This is a people problem just like mask wearing and social distancing are. It's the reason we've seen Dr. Fauci start increasing percent of immunization we need to see before we consider herd immunity having been achieved based on how willing people are to vaccinate https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-usa/fauci...
In Europe, at least in France there is lots and lots of restaurants with healthy cooked food and not expensive. Maybe it’s cultural ?
That sounds like a good way to get it all DMCAd
Does anyone wanna make an AUR package for this? ;)
That is outrageous. Of course it's not a vegetable, tomato is a fruit.
Things must be politically unpopular in order to get banned. Merely being objectively bad for a given metric is not sufficient. See also alcohol vs marijuana.
With the virus you can get funding to get rid of it. But try enforcing limits of sugar in coke and you'll mostly find money that tries to stop you.
Isn't OpenStreetMap also getting there? I haven't mapped or used the map in Russia yet but there seems to be an active community.
God damn, this is so interesting. I can't figure out how to sign up though.
Plowed, yes. But well-plowed? How much deeper can it get and still be considered plowed?

Tesla's have 5 inches clearance tops. FSD doesn't need to be able to drive through two foot drifts.
Ask HN: Seasonal influenza lower than usual this time of year
Those of you who are good with numbers, can you help describe this data[0] set? It seems that the flu's five-year average is 15.80%, while this year its at 0.10%. Seasonal influenza activity, in the United States, remains lower than usual for this time of year.

Last week, 36 positive flu tests reported. Last year, 7,703 positive flu tests, same week reporting.

Interesting, no?

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
Problem with Apple Maps is that it doesn’t allow multi stop trips and that the search function is way worse than Google maps. I also have had situations where the directions from Apple Maps were just plain wrong. Apple likes to keep things simple but I think they are going too far. Things like offline maps and search, multi stop trips and others are just way too useful to be left out.
So you're saying the Federal Bureau of Investigation is a criminal organisation that does not respect the rule of law and indeed brazenly celebrates that in public in a way nobody could miss by making sure a criminal is its most famous ever employee?

And this doesn't come up in every single news article about the FBI? This doesn't come up to discredit every single piece of FBI evidence in court?

I would believe that kind of thing about the Soviet Union. Or some other dictatorship. And this is happening, right now, in the USA, largely ignored by media, by politicians, by courts, with massive BLM protests, you say?

>Many Americans do hate him.

Many Americans believe the world is flat. Tragically what "Many Americans" believe means nothing about credibility.
>> What surprises me is the lack of urgency on the part of the US government. A lack of competitive chip manufacturing in the US is a threat.

> My bet is they consider Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea well within their sphere of influence (and control), so no urgency there.

That's pretty foolish and short-sighted, though, since all of those countries are within spitting distance of the US's main geopolitical competitor, and that competitor even has a disputed territorial claim to one of them (and vows to retake it by force, if necessary).
Friar Occham knows how to use wc and votes for option two.
Artist, Art, and story generated by AI
You are, quite simply, wrong on this account.

> Are Hackers criminals? Yes, because the law says they are.

You seem to be implying that "hackers are bad because the law says they are".

No, crackers, specifically, are bad because they act in bad faith and they can cause serious problems for people and organizations. We, as a society, codified that into law. If there were no laws, they would still be "bad".

> Does that matter? Not much outside the realm of law.

Yes, it does matter. The law was made for a reason. If it didn't matter, we wouldn't have the law in the first place. You might disagree with the reason the law was made, but even if you do, it mattered for the majority of people, so you're in the minority (not in an "underdog" kind of way, but in the "the earth is flat" kind of way of being a minority).

> If I send you a series of electrical pulses and that causes your systems to do something stupid, that's your problem.

Yes, but that's not where the story ends. It's also my family's problem. It may be my friends' problem as well. It might become a problem for all my contacts. It might even be a problem for my company. It might be a problem for the suppliers of my company. It might be a problem for their clients too. It may even become YOUR problem.

That's just thinking of 1 person. What if, by some miracle, the US Treasury gets hacked? Or the DHS? 328 million people have a new problem now

So we collectively got together we said that my problem could really quickly become everyone's problem and we said we'll start addressing it by making laws that say "hacking other people is bad".

Then you come around and you're like "boo hoo I don't think causing problems for other people is a big deal. They should just deal with it". Well, you're wrong, sir, and I hope you see why you also come across as a bit of an asshole.

> You are not a "victim"

Yes, you are. By definition of the word "victim".

> Most people disagree with me

Well there's your first clue, Sherlock.

> Most people disagree with me, but their abstraction is leaking, because even they agree with me on a fundamental level, they just don't know it

What does a leaky abstraction have to do with people disagreeing with you, but then somehow unknowingly agreeing with you on some fundamental level?
> "Colored" functions have a different return type; a future of some sort.

This is an aside and possibly pedantic, but everyone seems to have forgotten that the whole idea of futures was originally that they weren't some different type. They were the same type, but blocked transparently on demand and had no `get` operation.

The construct that came before futures, called eventual-values, had the different-type thing. The only difference of futures, the big idea, was they said 'maybe we can get rid of that part'.

> These “futures” greatly resemble the “eventual values” of Hibbard’s Algol 68 [39]. The principal difference is that eventual values are declared as a separate data type, distinct from the type of the value they take on, whereas futures cannot be distinguished from the type of the value they take on.

(Halstead, 1985)

But now people write types like `Future[T]`... which completely misses the point! If you start to write `Future[...` then think to yourself... this isn't a future. And that's how you get this colouring problem you describe... it was already fixed and people have forgotten all about it.
Ordered several of these after studying reviews/summaries, thank you!
It's a toothpick drone with two 18650 batteries on it, I doubt it costs more than $100. There's video above of a hobbyist doing the same thing. I don't know how autonomous this one is, but most quadcopters nowadays run STM32F4 processors, so, as you say, the software would be what's expensive.
If you eat lots of fiber you don't need to wipe as much. More fiber is the last thing Big TP wants.
> I had the Razer Blade Stealth in the running, but I was reading about support and longevity issues with them. Maybe they've been better recently? It's difficult to build a track record of longevity.

Razer still has hilariously bad product management.

One of their newest (non-hardware) launches is Razer Pay, a QR payment and Visa prepaid solution for Southeast Asia. It's been around since mid-2018, but they've just launched their prepaid card in Singapore.

The app and backend quality is below average for a large company like Razer (think: multiple incidents of double charging, and authorisation charges not being refunded), and has the app's UI is ugly.
Ideally people would host their own content. Then there would be no "policy" at all. Every channel should be its own website, and if they want they could engage in mutual link agreements with other content creators they like. Something like wordpress for video content, and maybe with some torrent tech involved so more viewers would distribute the bandwidth.
I can’t wait for them to sit together again and start working on errata.
The humanoid robots are so agile. It's incredible. Going to start saving up for my Google Deep Mind Boston Dynamics personal home assistant.
Not sure what's up with your tone, but sure, I'd agree with the needs comment.

That said, I would would wager that your needs are moreso met as an existing, direct market though - whereas what I'm after is splintered and left only to Apple.

To each their own, of course.
> Not aware of evidence that vaccination stops or reduces spread.

There isn't any evidence for the opposite, either. There is no evidence either way. You can't just choose between two unknown options based on which one you like, and then defend your position by saying that there is no evidence against it.
(Source: I am profoundly deaf.)

Hearing loss isn't only about volume and "hearing". It's also about understanding. When you get a hearing test, they aren't just testing frequencies. They'll also ask you to repeat back words that are said to you. There IS treatment for this, and you may actually benefit from a hearing aid or some other device that would help.

Your insurance should cover a hearing test! Just get it! It's pretty painless and kind of fun. Worst case scenario? They tell you your hearing is fine and you're back where you started.

Good luck!
> Why do you think that cheaper development costs will ultimately lead to lower drug prices?

If the cost of drug development were to drop by a factor of 100-1000, say from the $3B it costs today to the $3-30M range, that would likely unleash a massive wave of decentralization in the industry that would make it very hard to justify outrageously high drug prices for long.

However, short of a large drop of that magnitude, I agree that we'll probably continue to see Pharma companies charging as much as they can get away with and the political climate allows.

> I don't need a thousand drugs on the market to treat every indication. [...] If lowering the efficacy standards doesn't get me treatment for new indications, why would I want it?

It's true that the Better than the Beatles problem rewards consumers with cheaper drugs, but on the flipside, it robs them of the benefit of newer drugs.

As a result, all the technical capabilities that the Pharma industry gained into developing drugs that are less toxic or better targeted do not get translated into consumer benefit when the BTTB problem is in the way.

Moreover, once an area of drug development stops seeing new commercial success in decades, hysteresis sets in and can drive Pharma companies out of such areas, which has largely been the case with anti-infectives since the 1980s. (See Question 11 in the interview)
I am a huge fan of spartan-like no-bullshit brutalist approach towards their marketing/PR:

- No studio setup, just their lab
- No artificial lighting
- No fucks given about hiding the mess
- Robots going through surgery in the background
- Song is classy af IMO
- Can see the camera man
- Can see the engineers/employees
- Framing/cinematography isn't as polished (this is a feature, not a bug)
- Chipped paint, beaten up fairings

Generally, I love BD Branding/Marketing/PR:

- Logo is on point. It's Da Vinci level stuff. Humanist
It is totally opposite of what they build, such an amazing contrast and deeply thought out [1]
- One or two videos per year
- No twitter drama like a lot of SV companies (Hey, Elon)
- No excessive trying to get their word out. Their products speak for themselves
- No purple/gradient bullshit and design trends
- Their job descriptions actually make sense of what they need from you
- Their CEO, Marc Raibert, exudes wisdom, calm and has a persona of composure (seriously, watch his interviews) [2]
- No AI hype

Literally the opposite of Silicon Valley. May be I've had too much coffee and making lofty generalizations, but this is what I see! I also see the DNA of East coast/MIT/Boston rigor vs Silicon Valley cowboys - thoughts? :-) I live and work in SV btw.

I can't get over how amazing this video is. I hope it takes over the top spot on Youtube. It's got everything - music/tech/memes. The people behind BD marketing are geniuses IMO, although building an explosively-cool tech that appeals to all humans helps a lot. Outstanding.

[1] https://www.bostondynamics.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiNSPRKHyvo
The point where is: The brexit agreement is not the forward looking thing, it is taking the status quo and extending it. The EU can go and improve it (if they see need) but requiring something differently/newer in Brexit negotiations causes more trouble. It is a complex transition already and brexit negotiators don't have a mandate to renegotiate EU treaties (which would be the consequence)
In the US (especially in the West) there are a lot of roads that are seasonal and/or that should really only be tackled with appropriately equipped high-clearance 4WD with a driver who is familiar with driving under those conditions.

Even a fairly straightforward off-paved road route like to the Racetrack in Death Valley, sees the local Jeep rental/tour company rescuing standard passenger car drivers all the time because they get tire punctures with no or crappy rental car jacks, etc. (Or they change tires and the doughnut spare lasts for 5 minutes.)

I've fiddled with Google Maps in the Death Valley area and my experience was that it wouldn't take you on stupid routes just because they are shorter. But if you give it a destination that can only be reached by a challenging road, it will route you on it.
Cruise and Waymo Gamble Lives with Unsupervised Self-Driving Cars

https://jperla.medium.com/tesla-saves-lives-waymo-gambles-pa...
This is common behaviour of administrative workers. 7 years ago I was employed in a company where contracts with such clauses happend in monthly basis. "Web page should work on MSIE 5.5", and etc.
I don’t think Douglas Adams was talking about eurocrats.... everything in HHGTTG was far closer to home than that. Never once did Arthur blame the EU for the demolition of his house. Prosser was the name of the official overseeing it ... and if I recall correctly he was a reincarnation of Genghis Khan?

I often wonder what Douglas Adams would have thought of all this. The quintessential intersection of proud Englishman and citizen of the world.

He would have had some choice words for this whole mess I am sure.
This story reminded me of late CNet writer James Kim who died under similar circumstances (used Google Maps and ended up dying of hypothermia):

https://www.theage.com.au/technology/online-map-linked-to-fa...
Right now, many jurisdictions are supply limited, and most look like they're ramping enough to be supply limited, though still a bit more slowly than I'd like.

Lowering reserves would still increase administration rate immediately (though not proportionally). Actually, we might even enter phase 1B in some areas and have a mostly parallel administration system start to come up...

It's unclear to me how much of the slowness so far in administration (13.5% of doses allotted are reported as administered so far)... is A) (fixed?) delays in reporting, B) (fixed?) delays in logistics getting doses to administration sites, C) limitations on rate of administration, D) holiday-related slowness. Only C really matters in the long term-- if it is ramping poorly compared to production than that's a problem. But I think it's premature to assume C is limiting when A, B, & D are surely large right now.
Using Gitlab Pages to Host a Helm Registry
As the country gets more fit, and that fat turns into muscle, what happens to the BMI? It either gets higher or stays the same, right? Certainly a good measure to perpetuate a crisis.
Nice. What’s your next project?
There is no lock preventing you installing non-Apple executable. Theres a warning and such but I install apps from third parties all the time. There are even several package managers, macports and homebrew, that will install userland unix binaries for you.
The main problem is that it's your word against their's. So if nothing happened that would be caught on video, say just verbal bullying or it was in a blind spot, then nothing will be done because there's no proof.

Now the scenarios I've been talking about are where the bullying has become physical. Most schools that have a zero tolerance policy will punish both people who were involved in the fight/pushing/etc regardless of who started it, again it's mostly due to lack of proof, but the policy expressly forbids any violence. So even if someone punches you first and continues to attack you, the policy means that if you punch back you are in violation too and will be punished. So if you are in a corner and can't run away, the policy says you just have to take it without fighting back or get punished for defending yourself.

So the same will be for your scenario of running and telling the school. For one, you have to escape that bully and hope you're faster than them (before you get trapped/ tackled and it turns physical) or you both end up being punished. Then you have to have some sort of evidence that shows you were innocent and the bully person was unprovoked. Incidents without proof generally result in no action from the school due to that lack of proof, so the bully will continue tormenting you.
It might help to compare against video with less editing and effects. Several youtubers are playing with Spots and you can get a better idea of what they're really like.

Adam Savage: https://youtu.be/-R8wUybrspo?t=2374

Marques Brownlee: https://youtu.be/s6_azdBnAlU?t=249
Isn't the big wheeled robot used in some warehouses today? Maybe I just remember watching another BD marketing video about it...
I always had trouble finding wafer starts per months for Intel and TSMC both, if anyone have such data please share -- nonetheless, it seems like the demand for TSMC far outstrips supply and so there is plenty of room for Intel yet. In the worst case... there's a lot of money to be made as #2 chipmaker even if it's less than they are making as #1 chipmaker?
I found your point hard to agree with, until I mentally replaced "HTML" with "bash" at which point I was enlightened of how important context is.

Though I was hired to work with languages $X and $Y at $dayjob, many, many bugs slip through because bash is used as glue for languages $X and $Y. This was true of my last job too, the only difference is that in my current job we don't have a resident bash expert to call out issues in code review.

I've always hated bash, but it's "essential" complexity when dealing with a modern Linux system. Technically it's within our domain to change, but for various reasons time and time again bash wins out as the de-facto glue holding infrastructure together.
Again small scale vs large scale. If your talking a square foot of the stuff then it’s going to rise like your suggesting. Cover a few acres in LNG you get complex boundary layer interactions and giant swirls of natural gas mixed with air.

Read up on how you can get temperature inversion layers in the atmosphere. In your model that kind of effect shouldn’t happen, but actual fluid dynamics gets complicated.
Not at all. Servo is a research engine to try out new things. Things from Servo get incorporated into Gecko when they are production-ready.
Death by GPS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_GPS
> Europeans live longer than us and drink a lot, on average

Maybe it's because they have better and cheaper healthcare.
>I think most people will think your proposal is very extreme.

As would most heroin addicts in 1890.

When 73% of your country is losing between 5 and 20 years of life expectancy drastic measures are in order.
Unfortunately, this is why some level of social distancing and mask wearing is probably the only protocol that would make sense. What people do personally in terms of hygiene, vaccinations, etc. is private information and not something people are likely to want to have tattooed on their foreheads. Something like 50% of guys don’t wash their hands after going to the bathroom. I would like to know who they are, so I don’t get sick from them, but that’s not going to happen (e-coli infections can be life-threatening.) HIPPA protects medical information because it’s private. Anyway, life is dangerous. We have to take care of ourselves and assume that the other person is not compliant.
I was happy to close the tab once "Fit" popped up until I saw the waist measurement is to be done "at navel".
>The obvious one, the search engine... due to its accuracy and speed. No wonder their monopoly lawsuit.

As a general rule, I don't use the search engine. And not just because of Google's market power. It's also because the quality of search results have dropped enormously.

At this point, other search engines are at least as good, IMHO.
Behold, the Delivery Revolution