skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're a tabloid so it's not uncommon to see occasional misinformation, that pushes the boundaries of free press, which puts them at odds with mainland China. China has been gradually asserting more control over the press, for instance it's widely understood that TVB, Hong Kong's television, is indirectly controlled and filtered by Chinese officials. Since the passage of the national security law China now has a strong legal basis to round up dissidents it does not like and silence them.
The elephant in the room is that it is mostly moderately wealthy Asians in these classes, but it would be odd to mention that directly. As someone who is neither Asian nor White, I would like there to interact with more Whites, simply because almost all of my peers are Asian as a result of being in these programs. Diversity in Canada is less about a narrative of fixing the past and is more about the fact that diversity in general is cool, so having more Whites also can improve diversity.
I hope they at least tell the kids that the credit score chase game in the US is a giant scum. Has been for a long time. They probably wont though. Abandon all hope.
It’s a broad generalization to say that. There are still Republicans in Democratic strongholds and vice versa.

States with smaller populations were still hit by COVID, just later than metropolitan areas (which makes sense).

The problem with sparsely populated regions getting hit is the resources aren’t there to support major outbreaks. Last year, there were situations where patients in rural areas had to be transported to other hospitals — sometimes across state lines — to receive treatment.
Apple did follow the rules as they currently exist. There is presently no rule against operating a walled gardens in the manner Apple does. If such a rule existed, we'd all know about it. You would have cited it. Apple's critics would be able to quote the rule verbatim. And Epic's case against Apple would have been a slam dunk.

Don't be embarrassed to admit that you're the one wanting to make up new rules. It's okay to want new rules. Be honest about it.

If you are interested in having your perspective challenged, the commentator for whom I most agree with on this is Hoeg Law, who has published extensive commentary on the Epic vs Apple lawsuit. If you are interested in hearing a view that differs from your own, I can commend his publications to you:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1zDCgJzZUy-TrSXpg6ir...
Keeping the housing price expensive seems less efficient than just paying the boomers retirement money.

All kinds of people get to profit off of the high housing prices that could otherwise be part of the retirement money
If I survive the tribulation I vow to be as wholesome as you are except perhaps not as lucid. I'll sign off your edition of my novel with the "Tiger" however, because I'm half the man you are.
Yes, but not at the expense of holding other people back.

Trust me, being asked to play 'second fiddle' so that someone else can have the same 'outcome' but without doing the work, is far more discouraging and damaging to those who put in the work.

Merit, and hard work needs to be recognized, not ignored.
> They d encourage you to attack

Got a citation for that? An internet archive link perhaps?
We keep on chasing and chasing. I think the closest we’ve come so far is excel and most in programming scorn it instead of revering it.
The injury rate of Amazon's warehouse employees is the highest in the industry[0]. Annual turnover is almost double that of the retail and logistics industries [1]. On top of that, as you note, the work sucks. I would call those conditions bad, and the turnover suggests that the pay is not sufficient to retain employees.

[0] www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/01/amazon-osha-injury-rate/

[1] https://www.adpri.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/19220244/Th...
What Is Blue Box? A Vast Conspiracy Grips the Video Game World
> it's a prediction based on the capability of future hardware that seems plausible.

And nuclear fusion reactors are only 20 years away. That's a concrete goal and it's more likely than some vague new "metaverse". I promise, you'll still be posting on HN when anything resembling a shadow of this is released.
It still is strange there is zero testing of these functions (e.g. that fix doesn’t come with any tests).

Because there isn’t any requirement for testing, it allows these functions to become super complex and harder to see where errors could occur.
This would make for a great oatmeal comic material.
>100% reliable depth estimation from cameras might actually require a human-level AI to work

you don't need 100%, and even humans are far from 100% (500Mpx resolution of our eyes allows to basically sheer brute force through it in many cases). The stereo setup provides great and fast estimation with several megapixel resolution with good fps (way better than lidar) for majority of situations. It is some share of the [part of the] scenes, and you really know it right then and there, where you need AI and/or very sophisticated compute heavy algorithms. So instead of throwing AI and the compute power at those parts, you just pull the points from the lidar (and even radar if the things are that bad) covering that segment. And that way, given a couple more iterations of sensors (from current 20Mpx+ to the hundreds Mpx) and compute, it will be doing even better than humans. Anybody not doing sensor fusion would be a loser though - just like going into a fist fight with one hand intentionally disabled.
> but the problems it solves in no way help you if the maintainer is not alturistic or bad at security as originally stated.

That same edgewise applies to your bank too. Pinned TLS certs or pre shared keys might help against "BadGuys(tm)", but you're still screwed if your bank decides to keep your money. (s/bank/online crypto wallet/ for real world examples there...)
Low-carbohydrate diets and all-cause and cause-specific mortality
Financial health is a lot like general physical health, it's truly simple. Don't spend more than you make, don't eat more than you need. They're also difficult, as evidenced by how many fail.

There are deep systemic issues that stack the deck against the working class financially. There are also plenty of people that make very detrimental decisions when it comes to money and dig themselves into a deep hole, even without any obvious cause.

Both are problems that need to be addressed. The presence of one doesn't invalidate the other, and the solving of one doesn't solve the other. Normally these discussions are people talking past each other as they haggle over the proportion of blame to assign to the individual or system. I say address both simultaneously and let both sides think they're right.
> I love pumped storage, too bad it's not used more

Pumped storage is awesome and the most cost-efficient way to store energy. It's used as much as possible, but...

I attended a USGS [1] talk about dams (in California) a few years ago.

The key takeaway is: all places worth damming have been dammed. There are no more dammable places, hydrologically and geologically speaking.

When I drive through the central valley, I see a lot of roadside signs about "build more dams!" It's sad to see the miscommunication...

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/science-support/communications-and-publ...

(I cannot immediately find a link to the specific talk. USGS is fun: full of crusty geologists, who even in the heart of the Silicon Valley aren't particularly technologically sophisticated (a nice reminder of how niche we all are) )
I'm definitely sympathetic to this argument, however, considered in the limit, it does become pretty absurd. How long do you want to maintain the character of the neighbourhood for? 10 years? 20? 50? 100? 500? 1000? 10,000? Such a 'character' may be a grotesque luxury that future generations simply cannot afford to keep around.
Right, on one hand if you wanted to maximize everyone's contribution, a 'top performer' moving to a rich country and being more productive there is ultimately a good thing. And like you said, if their work leads towards equalization between the two countries its even better.

On the other hand if the output of their productivity isn't flowing back to their home country, Canada/USA/UK/wherever are reaping the rewards tax/tariff-free and the increase in productivity isn't being redistributed.

You wouldn't let a foreign power extract oil or gold for "free" from your country, would you? I don't want to argue against personal liberties but at the same time it could be argued that those rights are being exploited by rich countries to the detriment of poorer countries.

Then there's the whole TFW (temporary foreign worker) program that looks a whole lot like serfdom where landowners in Canada buy labour at below market costs without even extending the notion of citizenship to the workers...
Commercial drivers routinely make at least $0.50 per mile... towing hazardous materials (lithium or sulfuric acid and lead) is an endorsement that guarantees more money, as well. Add in amortized cost of the truck, charger, fuel, and batteries, you're looking at a "30 minute charge truck" costing like $25, minimum.
They never owned the stock, is the point of the Madoff scheme. If investing in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme bought actual units of shares, then it wouldn't have been a Ponzi scheme.

The point of a Ponzi scheme is that the current value is being supported by keeping the influx of new investors greater then those withdrawing their money.

The only way Madoff's investment scheme was worth anything was if he kept new investors coming in to cover withdrawals and siphoned off the capital base to support himself.
Depia Automations – Anything is possible
This is the modern equivalent of a laywer chasing an Ambulance down the street.
Your original self driving GTA5 videos are what helped me come to understand machine learning in the first place (along with some of Seth Bling's MarI/O, and a bit of Tom7's learn/play-fun magic). I used your tech to make an AI that played Donkey Kong Country in LSNES emulator shortly before Gym-Retro was released.

So, thanks a bunch, Sentdex. You are rad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castaic_Power_Plant
I wouldn't say it would stop anyone.. I just posted the quote to show the intent behind the action, which I find disgusting.
The internet has been amazing for me and others to learn anything at anytime - there are no barriers for anyone to learn anything they want and if people are willing to put in the time and work, they can achieve anything.
Arizona roads are also mapped to extreme precision, have very wide lanes, and are optimized for cars. Waymo has prioritized low intervention by being overly cautious and avoiding hard maneuvers (like many left turns).

That doesn't work when they scale up to any other set of normal roads, especially as density and complexity increases.
Java everywhere. I'll stretch the timetable into a little into the early 2000s. At my job, Java did run everywhere, from my Sharp SL-5000 Linux handheld to mainframes. We had applets in the server, and J2ME on phones. Sun was on a roll, Java was a good language, had garbage collection and good object orientation.
In 2021 I'd say that JavaScript has taken its place, running all those places, near to or as fast as Java does, adding functional to the repertoire.
firefox, because userchrome modifications can be pretty. i have no other justification for my choices.
Waymo's number for 2019 was around 11,000 miles driven per disengagement. It's been improving steadily, at a reasonably good rate.

Tesla wimps out and won't test in California, because they'd have to report.
> Apple Daily can fight in court and change jurisprudence

A fight Apple Daily is unlikely to win. Even supposing the Court of Final Appeal (CFA) came down on Apple Daily's side, the Hong Kong government would just appeal to the NPCSC in Beijing saying the CFA is misinterpreting the Basic Law, and zero doubt the NPCSC will make a binding interpretation of the Basic Law overturning the CFA's decision. The Hong Kong judiciary has zero power against Beijing.

The best thing would be if all the foreign judges (British, Australian and Canadian) resigned from the Hong Kong judiciary, to stop contributing to its false appearance of independence. I think if any of them refuse to resign, the governments of their home states should give serious consideration to compelling them to do so.
I have given this feedback for a person at Google who made fewer than five commits in a year, each with just a handful of lines. The lines were good, so it wasn't about the quality of the work.
Don't do this. If you do, you're playing with fire to satisfy your ego. Very little upside with huge downside risk compared to letting a lawyer represent you.
That visual programming would become mainstream
Just like prohibition and its sequel, the "War on Drugs," this idea is a dud. When people show you they won't follow your laws, believe them. I mean ostensibly government is "by the consent of the governed," right? Why is your response to "consent denied" to force yourself upon them with renewed vigor?
> My sole argument was that you can't currently take any mathematician not particularly interested in logic or proof theory, especially not an undergraduate student, and expect them to encode simple proofs that they understand in Coq without a lot of assistance.

Oh but absolutely, I agree 100%. I consider it the "holy grail" of interactive proof assistants: an assistant that understands mathematics as written by humans in papers, plus is capable of filling in intuitively trivial/boring steps. In other words: an assistant that is usable by someone with training in mathematics but not necessarily requiring training in the tool itself.
but it's relevant when you're trying to convince someone
"well at least you still have a house" after the market crashes and the bank kicks them out because they can't pay the mortgage. And unlike a stock where they only lose the value of the stock, the house could be so far underwater that they owe money to the bank even after the house is sold.
> Correct. Not only HN users but humans in general—I just don't think we work that way.

I am curious if this is actually true (that humans are unable, with concentration, to realize they cannot read minds), but maybe I have an excess of curiosity! :)
If Elon was any good at keeping his word it wouldn’t be an issue.
Please don't keep replying. It's repetitive and just leads to more.
Coca-Cola's personalized bottle site has one of the worst profanity filters ever
You have three frameworks to choose from.

1. AppKit (Cocoa)
2. Catalyst
3. SwiftUI

SwiftUI is a unified cross-platform framework so the knowledge is universal across the platforms except for the platform idioms.

Cocoa is exclusively for the Mac whereas UIKit is basically AppKit 2.0. It has the strengths and the improvements of AppKit without the weaknesses.

Catalyst is basically the opposite. Using UIKit framework but for the Mac.
It’s not an argument about if communism is a viable system of government. Communism and educational practices have nothing in common.
Maybe most people outside Japan don't know what kind of product Sharp makes, so I explain.

Sharp sometimes makes very original smartphones in Japan. For example, AQUOS Xx was 120Hz display smartphone in 2015 since they also make displays. AQUOS Crystal was futuristic great narrow bezel design in 2014. AQUOS Zero 2 in 2020 is my favorite smartphone because it's extremely lightweight 141g even thought it's big and has 240Hz BFI OLED.

If I understand correctly, their development is still in house, not ODM, at least for high end models.

They also makes affordable phones. It's just basic phone and not very good at perf/cost compared to China offerings like Xiaomi, but well sold in Japan it's Sharp/AQUOS branded.

Their smartphone's camera is considered to not good even for high end models. They're behind about computational photography. Some news said that Sharp makes camera sensor for iPhone, so maybe fine for making hardware.

I confirmed my AQUOS zero2 shots unimpressive photos (IMO iPhone 7 is superior) but it's fine for me who need really lightweight phone because good camera increases weight and camera bump.
You're off by a factor of 3600-- 1 watt is a Joule/second, not a Joule/hour. 1 GJ / 1800s ~= 555kW, not 2GW.
I think the main origin of the huge discrepancy is the definition of the “use” of a gun in self defense. The vast majority of these uses do not involve actually discharging the firearm, but merely indicating to an aspiring assailant that you are armed. A mugger pulls a knife, you pull aside your jacket to reveal the holstered pistol, he runs away. You do not inform the police (people stopped bothering in big cities decades ago), and it never becomes part of an official statistic.
There’s a reason hockey is popular there.
Funny how Obama pushed this as a good thing for small inventors.
Inflation = asset price increases = house price increases. All assets have gone up, new cars, used cars, new houses, old houses, stocks, risk assets literally everything.

It is mostly a result of fed reserve policy not any of the programs they list. Fundamentally none of those programs have any impact on $5m brownstones in Brooklyn NY, or $100m penthouses ok 57th street in Manhattan.

Japan as a comparison is not really fair, it’s population has been declining for a decade and well under 1% for the last 40 years.

They also have amazing mass transit making living outside of Tokyo much more palatable.

Additionally, the apartments they do build are smaller (750sq ft vs 866 sq ft)

But none of that matters that much because shockingly prices in Tokyo do actually increase.
Waymo etc do not use LIDAR for object sensing, only for positioning. LIDAR sucks for object sensing because it gives you no information about whether it's a plastic bag or a person — you still need vision for that. Even if you just err on the safe side and brake, that itself can cause an accident unecessarily.
I don't want to ban you. I do think this would be a good use for a probation feature if we had one.
Have you thought this through? Countries are going to think twice before applying serious sanctions to China, given that China can shut off their supply chain for, well, basically everything.
Current chips are basically 2D. Not quite, in that they do have 3D features, but those 3D features are essentially still implementing individual cells in a 2D circuit.

And those 2D circuits fit, eg. 4Gbits of DRAM into a single layer chip. The actual chip inside the plastic packaging is quite small -- let's say 4x4mm.

Now, you can can pack multiple layers of chips into a single package. Samsung is doing at least 12 layers for HBM, for instance, and they're only 60um thick each.

So you've got a chip that is roughly 65536 cells wide, and 65536 cells long, but you can only stack it 12 cells high.

Let's get that to 65536 layers: roughly a 4mm cube. That's now 256Tbits per package. Put 36 of those on a DIMM, and you've got an 8PB DIMM, and 512 PB in a 64 DIMM slot server.

Perhaps we can double the density? That gives us 4EB in a server.

This totally glosses over myriad difficult issues, but it's a very, very long way from being inconceivable when you consider the difference between a 512 byte 2114 RAM chip that was popular when I got my first computer, and what we have today.
Finally, someone recognizes Trump Derangement Syndrome as a legit condition!
You just echoed your last point and school already has a method for recognizing hard work, grades.
What an annoying charlatan. Karpathy is a brilliant computer vision engineer, but he has let his expertise in that subfield cloud his judgement on achieving the overall goal of autonomous driving.

Musk and Karpathy have been dead wrong about LIDAR for years. Remember Musk making the absurd claim of a million Tesla robotaxis by 2020? I think most hilarious is that both Karpathy and Musk claim the LIDAR systems are too expensive. Yet, in the same 2019 Autonomy Day they simultaneously claimed that Teslas would be able to drive themselves and operate as robotaxis, earning their owners passive income and therefore justifying significantly increased MSRPs. So, the $7k LIDAR system (that accelerates safe autonomous driving) is not worth the cost, yet stumbling towards autonomy on vision only is? If the car becomes an money-earner, you should use all of the systems available. The 2019 Autonomy Day was an utter embarrassment. I'm sure 2021 will be more of the same.

So now it seems that they've realized their folly in logic. So what's the solution? Well, you can't just complain about COST of non-vision perception systems. Because, as noted above, that doesn't make sense if you're going to simultaneously claim that your car will be able to earn you money (augmenting any extra hardware cost that gets you to that point faster). No, now you have to smear all non-vision perception systems. You have to say that their data is worthless and detrimental to the overall effort.

The entire claim from the 2019 Autonomy Day that "vision is what humans use to drive" is also completely bogus. Humans use many senses to drive. They feel the pedals and steering wheel. They use their equilibrio sense to sense motion. And they use their hearing to hear other vehicles, sirens, and issues with their own car (driving with headphones in is illegal for a reason). Any modern car, even a Tesla, is also using far more than just vision when attempting autonomy. Forget about radar and LIDAR for a moment. There are endless sensors in the drivetrain. Steering angle sensors and multiple IMUs for the electronic stability control. Brake and wheel sensors for the ABS. Temperature sensors everywhere. And countless other ECUs. The notion that vision is getting you there exclusively is nonsense. There's no good argument against LIDAR today other than perpetuating a lie to sell cars that are cheaper to produce. And, Karpathy has a massive professional conflict of interest in making CV the main player -- he's a CV expert. He was never a fusion expert before his hire. If CV is the pathway forward, he's gets to remain "the guy". It certainly behooves HIM to make that claim.

Autonomous driving will not be achieved in this decade. Perhaps ever. Ask yourself honestly: if you were tasked with building an autonomous commercial aircraft OR an autonomous car, which would you choose? Most would say aircraft -- nothing to really hit in the air, fully mapped airport and runway systems, and far fewer variables. Yet autonomous aircraft still do not exist. Perhaps the edge cases always rule the roost. Ask yourself why driving would be any different...
Cost asymmetry - if I had the spare battery capacity (assuming I'm only doing local drives) I'd happily donate it to someone stranded. It's like giving a fiver to fill up emergency gas if they're broke at a gas station.
Really? HKFP is still there.
We are chasing the 9s... diminishing returns are still returns. If 10x the data improves from 99.999 to 99.9995, that is still progress. Maybe 100x data gets you to 99.9999.
I knew it seemed high. The GW description didn't match the wikipedia article.
If each update gets slower on the same graphics card, it's probably not the fault of the graphics card
Interviewing the man that introduced cookie dough in Portugal
Magit comes close to this action-source-target model whenever possible.
That’s not what Marxism is
Renting hotel rooms is more expensive than a month-to-month lease is more expensive than a year-long lease, so that all checks out to agree with your premise.

Whether renting or buying is more expensive depends on your market’s outlook for property prices. But in an environment where they don’t go up, I’d definitely expect renting to cost more.
Many jurisdictions also have generous tax incentives for property ownership.

In Australia, for example, there's no CGT payable on your primary residence which means paying down a giant mortgage and then downsizing at retirement is a cost effective investment strategy for building a nest egg.