skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, most of the time, humans don’t seem to require radar to distinguish the moon (or a big yellow light far away) from a traffic light.

I think stereo vision won’t help humans much at the distances we’re talking about (might be different for a car with cameras over a meter apart, but that will suffer from bad resolution compared to the human fovea).

Parallax probably is a clue we use. You want to brake gently to optimize comfort for the passengers, so let’s say you want to start braking 10 seconds away from the traffic light. Since sin(x) ≈ x, the image of the traffic light will move up about 10% every second at that moment.

On a camera, that could be less than 100 pixels, but I think that should be detectable.

⇒ you don’t have to discriminate between the moon and a tragic light, you just have to find the nearby yellowish blobs.

Is it publicly known what Tesla’s self-driving does? Given the above, I think I would try to extract a depth field from the known speed of the car and the camera images, discard or deprioritize whatever is more than 20 seconds out, and then let some ML algorithm loose on detecting points of interest such as traffic lights, cars, etc. (As opposed to “feed a ML algorithm lots of video, and hope it will learn to deprioritize stuff that’s far away)
That quote has more to do with the physical size of space, whereas OP is primarily referring to the speed of space program development.
The problem is the assumption that 'AGI' has anything to do with a bipedal physical body that resembles ours.

We evolved the way we did due to evolutionary constraints.

The constraints of the evolution of our silicon computing devices are completely different.

Why would you hook all that gear up to a single automaton, with a head, two eyes, two arms and two arms. Those are completely arbitrary.

Why not hook it up to 100's or millions of cameras? Thousands of 'limbs'? i.e. ever camera and operable apparatus connected to the internet?

Our 'silicon' will have a recall advantage that our pure-NN brains do not, which is consistent lookup of data and 'perfect recall' of every bit of human data every recorded, which means that it's evolution will be quite different as well.

We'll have distributed systems that go way past the 'Turing Test' decades before anything remotely approaching AGI.

'Siri' is almost there, in 10 years I'll bet it becomes difficult to tell if Siri is a person or not. And Siri isn't even 'one entity' - it's a generic interface to other, distributed systems. 'Siri' in 10 years will start to resemble AGI but with other, more fantastic abilities (information access and synthesis).

Imagine in 50 years your Tesla is deeply integrated with satellite GPS location data, weather data, it's 'talking' to the 'local road controller' for control data with ms latency, and also 'talking' to every other car within 500m to get relevant positioning and other sensor data. Maybe some of the relevant AI processing requires far too much power, and it's done in real-time at the closest data centre via networking. At that point you have to say the Tesla isn't really the vehicle in front of you, it's an entire system of technology.

Sun Microsystem's motto was 'The Network Is The Computer' implying to the extent that all computers are comprehensively connected ... they form at least some kind of coherent entity.

The concept of AGI is so abstract that it almost doesn't make any sense.

By the time we are able to assemble a discrete group of computing components, to a discrete bipedal robot (i.e. a Metropolis-like automaton, i.e. Data from Star Trek) we will already be many decades ahead of that in terms of understanding how all of that maps to consciousness. We'll already have intelligent systems doing things way beyond what any human could do and probably what we could imagine right now.
>It just seems to me that the energy availability and chances of having liquid water are more conducive.

It seems to me the very concept of a "habitable zone" tends to imply liquid water on the surface of a planet is implausible/rare. There's a whole bunch of additional requirements besides distance and temperature, which some people think makes life in red dwarf systems doubtful, and even looking at earth's history, surface dwelling life seems precarious with all the extinction events.

And we have Enceladus as an example of the alternative. There must be orders of magnitude more bodies like this, with undersea oceans and some internal warmth, than bodies with surface conditions conducive to life. Perhaps life needs an environment like earth to develop fully, but if 99.x% of the potential habitat for the most basic life is indifferent to our particular conditions, then it seems to me overwhelmingly likely that's where it started.
Funny, I've been using it for years and never knew it was gone :coldsweat:
Don't dump it back then. Should be easy to regulate, each liter of water produced should have a certain number of grams of salt to account for. Personally I would like to see that salt turned into structures: https://gizmodo.com/buildings-you-can-lick-9-spectacular-str...
There's a very cool (and succinct) blog post[1] showing how to abuse this in an interesting way where you can put the code of a module into a string and load it that way.

Not something I'd use in production, but it's a very clear way to see how both "finding a module" and "loading a module" works under the covers.

[1] https://cprohm.de/blog/python-packages-in-a-single-file/

Edit: As an aside, I much prefer the way Perl does things in this space. It's much easier to define multiple packages either within a single file or across different files, and much clearer about what's happening underneath.
Empty storefronts were a huge issue in prime manhattan shopping areas since I moved there in 2015. At least in Manhattan it's not due to covid. There may have been a brief spike in vacancies in mid 2020 but the vacancy rate in 2019 was already extremely high.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/vacant-ny...
I agree that the large banana plantations currently use a lot of chemicals that harm the environment. But the same can be said of many other large scale agricultural products. When you go to tropical countries you will find that they frequently that bananas also are frequently grown in gardens and on the side of the roads. It is unlikely that these are all treated with a lot of chemicals, so a sustainable cultivation appears to be possible.
If you have Netflix the documentary[0] came out at the beginning of the COVID quarantine. It was pretty interesting to watch. They weren't sympathetic to Heemeyer but the town was definitely being sketchy with how it handles permits.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tread_(film)
Isn't a simpler explanation that we're just... wrong about what we're feeling?

My thought about this is that the feeling of free choice that we have stems from a form of irreducible epistemic uncertainty: we can't know what we are going to do before we do it, because our knowledge would influence our action. Furthermore, when choosing between A and B, we may use our self-concept to simulate our choices, meaning that by necessity our self-model is non-deterministic: it indeed performs several different choices during deliberation.

I think our error is that we mistake epistemological uncertainty for metaphysical uncertainty, and the non-determinism of our self-model for the non-determinism of our real self.
> Modern MacOS is also pretty unfriendly for developers and power users.

It has become somewhat unfriendly, but I really appreciate that you can still do whatever you want.

To run self-signed apps, run `sudo spctl --master-disable`

To turn off System Integrity Protection, run `csrutil --disable` from recovery mode.

To modify the root filesystem, do all of the above and run `csrutil authenticated-root disable` from recovery mode.

To disable library validation, do all of the above and run `sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.libraryvalidation.plist DisableLibraryValidation -bool true`

To disable AMFI, do all of the above and add the boot argument amfi_get_out_of_my_way=0x1

(Some steps may be a bit different on Apple Silicon Macs, I don't own any so I'm not as familiar.)

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You now have the same privileges Apple does. You can grant yourself whatever entitlements you like, inject your own code into any process, load your own kernel extensions, or just replace the whole kernel with your custom build of XNU.

I actually think a decent chunk of macOS's perceived "unfriendliness" comes from Mac users being less willing to hack around than users of other OSs. The common refrain in Mac circles seems to be that System Integrity Protection should never be switched off under any circumstances. I agree, if you're a normal user—but if you're not, and the handcuffs are annoying you, just unlock them already. (But do leave everything else in place until such a time as it presents a roadblock.)

Also, method swizzling in Objective-C is fun, try it!
I used Twitter for about 10 years. Over that time, my timeline -which consisted mostly of tech workers and artists- became a cesspool of political rants and toxicity, no matter how many times I "cleaned it up", and how hard I tried to restrict content to professional stuff. Quitting TW was definitely a good decision.
The website the mod linked to is Mediabiasfactcheck.com

The article is from Inside Medicine published via Bulletin.com by author Jeremy Faust.

I can't find any of the above sources listed on the site provided. If we want to have a conversation about the mods decision and if it should give us pause, we'll first have to understand the reasoning (or verify if it's even credible) of the mod.
I've been meaning to pick up a shutter release accessory for a while now since the 1100D only has 10s shutter delay in automatic modes, or 2s delay in the manual modes. Fortunately the movement when pressing the shutter button isn't much of a problem for these type of shots as the camera + lens is weighty and quite well balanced.
But there wasn’t a food crisis. So if I understand you correctly, the economy is resilient enough for a sudden, externally imposed oil shortage, but if we decide it ourselves and give us a few years to prepare, the economy, and indeed society, will collapse?
If Clubhouse can’t detect >3.8B erroneous requests and shut down that API/microservice, that destroys my confidence more than a data breach.
I would seriously consider focusing on IPFS integration and indexing using a distributed table. Most of these documents are already pinned on IPFS, focusing on bittorrent requires users to change how the files are shared, and we have all seen the rot that happens with bittorrent and trackers, try to find something from 30 years ago using bittorrent, or even 10 years ago in many cases. If you want to make these documents available well into the future and make it easier for scihub users to transition, focus on IPFS.
I don’t think they meant ‘in’ state, more so ‘issued by a state’ which DC isn’t.

I always thought it meant state as in ‘nation state’ - so a passport would count.
Florida is an ecodisaster slowly unfolding. I get that a winter hovel is a nice thing, but a permanent move to Florida? Between sea rise, and temperature rise....

As stated elsewhere... Slowly boiling frogs.
Mass exodus from Manhattan into the other boroughs. The biggest sacrifice you make in Manhattan is space, but you make it to be near your job.

Now that a lot of places are remote, the people who could afford a Manhattan apartment don't need it anymore and got tired of living in a shoebox.

You still get all the benefits of New York in the other boroughs, just in a 1 or 2 bedroom instead of a 5th floor studio walkup.
So wait, Pakistan actually had the Internet before India? (The Brain folks in Lahore, etc). Wikipedia says first public availability was 1994.
In theory a spacecraft could partially aerobrake in Jupiter's atmosphere to save fuel. Then use a rocket to enter Europa's orbit.
It works great if you only care about the short term moment of sharing. The technology is all there to make something superior to the family photo album but marking everything for eventual deletion makes it an inferior medium. Everything is designed to get rid of your words and images as soon as the content stops serving a party with motivations not aligned with the user. People tend to think their unique experiences and unique perspective is not worth anything but the sum of those billions might be the most important thing we've ever owned.
Can you help me understand why you hold this perspective? Per various news sources the previous incident involving Lyles was very similar, where she threatened police officers with scissors, but they were able to convince her to drop them and arrest her without anyone being harmed (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seattle-police-shooting-charl...). There are also audio recordings from the officers’ response in the later fatal encounter that corroborates their version of the story, including the fact that they gave her warnings to back away 11 times before shooting (https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/charleena-lyles-seattle-pol...). Per these links she also had a long history of crimes going further back (assault, robbery, theft, etc). To me it is unconscionable that someone with her history of crime and mental issues is permitted to live without supervision, let alone keep her children, and it is further unacceptable that she was let off a serious incident (threatening to kill a police officer) with no consequence or accountability by a “mental health court”. This looks to me more like a failure of soft-on-crime restorative justice policies rather than a failure of policing.
Same in the United States
> Linus could learn some manners

He acknowledged that and did so, years ago.
Then again, that study assumes cars will be on the road for 18 years (??!!??), with no major repairs especially no battery change.

The current average age of cars in the US is 12 yrs. How's that supposed to jump by 50% ? I understand electric engines themselves are simpler and more durable, but you still get accidents, chassis issues, steering issues, vandalism/theft, evolving fashion and tech... and you add battery issues: a smartphone's battery barely lasts 5yrs, I understand car batteries are sturdier, but ... 3.5x longer-lasting ? If they need replacing, that's a major source of extra pollution.

I'm all for cleaner cars, I actually don't own a car myself. But a study based on 18 years (+50% !) of product life isn't convincing, unless they prove cars in general and batteries in particular can last that long.
The black immigrant who challenged US segregation – nearly 190 years ago
Isn't it telling that stronger resistance is met in the younger years where the costs are paid by society and not the individuals? I deeply disagree that it’s the same set of individuals. Maybe I’m N=1 but I want to take focus off solving things at the college level and shift to solving things at the community level, explicitly not wholesale rejection of any program that benefits the disparaged. Rather a call to use the limited resources we allocate more effectively.

Let’s take the pessimistic stance that society is actively working to perpetually oppress the lower class and under privileged. If so then the fact that e.g. college AA is allowed to slip by but primary school support is opposed with death threats tells me that fixing primary school education is barking up the right tree or poking the hornets nest, what have you. The real threat is actual competition, which starts in the early years.

I tend to think is less of some insidious underbelly of society working to keep people oppressed and rather a more simple: good primary schools cost money and resources and we are ultimately selfish people who signal virtue yet balk come time to face reality and fund it. But that doesn't really change the conclusion. Democratize access to good primary school education. Increase funding and dismantle broken school district “gerrymandering” of funds allocation (in many cities rich communities produce rich and desirable primary schools because funds are allocated at the neighborhood level so it just perpetuates inequality). In my opinion the most effective thing a single concerned family can do would be to move to an under privileged neighborhood and send their kids to the public school there. Force yourself to confront reality and work to better the education for all. How many upper middle class virtue signaling anti racist parents (or parents to be) do you know who go gentrify a neighborhood and then send their kids to a charter school? Yeah. That’s literally SF in a nutshell for you.
Who could argue with you if you selected “African American?” Just say that you feel African as a result of your Middle Eastern heritage.
Senator Richard Shelby's retirement, for one.
+1 to this - it's fruitless to build public policy on businesspeople behaving economically irrationally, and worse can you imagine if they did?

It is reasonable and useful to pitch businesspeople on sacrificing short term gains for clear, low risk, long term benefits - and proof lies all around us from empty storefronts that could be leased at lower rates, to homeowners locking in 30 year mortgages.

Greater time horizons require much greater stability to control risk.
I wonder if we can take hundreds or thousands of such 3D map and accelerometer log pairs in order to train a model to be able to understand how to generically approach any new course.
In Norway for 2021, the oil sector accounts for about 14% of the state's total income (154 billion/milliard NOK) [1]. That's about $3500 per capita

For Nigeria 2018, it seems to be about $160 (USD 32.6 billion [2], 201 million people)

[1] https://www.norskpetroleum.no/okonomi/statens-inntekter/
[2] https://eiti.org/es/implementing_country/32
Investigation: TikTok's Algorithm Figures Out Your Deepest Desires https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27925651
> were considered untenable.

The billionaire space race starts before SpaceX, largely from/around the Ansari X Prize (Bezos, Paul Allen).
Cars last 18 years now ? And their batteries ?
One proposal I like for this is "cost" from the book radical markets - owners have to state a price for their property quarterly, are taxed according to that price, and must accept offers to purchase at that price.
Alas, I am never alone at home.
Click-bait with no meaningful content.
Norway is a large sparsely populated country.
Drunk driving hurts innocent people, thus preventing them from attaining what they love.

If heroin use leads to crime then maybe it could be forbidden for similar reasons. Or if the government can determine that people don't love heroin and instead only use it as an escape or due to addiction, then forbidding it might help those people to attain what they actually love.
Relevant, Dylan had written a piece[0] on why he created Neofetch rather attempting to improve Screenfetch. It seems he later blanked the page, I guess due to being a bit heated.

[0]: https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Neofetch-vs.-Scr...
> if you suffer from frequent power outages, you have to have a server that 'bounces back' and survives the outage

In my experience self-hosting a number of services, it's really no more challenging than managing the services themselves. A BIOS that supports wake-on-power is obviously a key hardware requirement. On the software side, I find systemd and DuckDNS to be very helpful and easy to use.

One of my sites is a remote cabin that suffers blackouts all the time. It has the burden of an LTE connection, which means it requires an ssh tunnel to get around the ISP's firewall. This makes autossh an additional, if simple and reliable component.
The language used by the parent comment is ambiguous. By armed response they mean that the responding police officers carry a gun. I don’t see that as a problem, because you never know what kind of situation they will encounter and what the needs might be.
Thanks for the helpful reminder to honesty, brand new account in classic world/number format.
Please consider removing "font-size: 14px" from the CSS rule for the main text of the page.
The Kolmogorov complexity of the set of all phone numbers is pretty low. All phone numbers with a few missing is also pretty low.

In fact, I now wonder if you can even compress the 3.8b phone number set to less than 1 bit per phone number. It should be pretty doable since a significant chunk of the number space is not valid.
Like finding out the new official domain, since it is constantly changing, most countries don't directly block facebook/twitter so you can use it for official communications, many scam domains masquerading as sci-hub trying to get you to install malware browser plugins. There's also a Telegram bot https://telegram.me/scihubot assuming your country hasn't blocked Telegram (China).
Could it?

My understanding about planetary protection is that you don't want to contaminate the new environment, because then you can't say for certain (that easily) if the life you are detecting is native to the environment or the contamination.

I also understand that the native population of the Americas suffered badly from the diseases carried in by the europeans. But those diseases landed in an environment much like the one they evolved in. The humans were humans, the atmosphere were the same, the temperature were the same, etc.

If the space-probe gets contaminated with some earthly bacteria, virus or prion they not only have to survive the travel there, but then they have to quickly adapt to the new environment. Different temperature, different chemical composition, different life forms. How often does it happen that you sneeze at a fungi and the fungi gets infected with your cold? Doing one of these adaptation alone is a big ask, doing all of them at once would be a huge leap.

Imagine that you move to a new place. You move there in a salted barrel, not designed for human occupancy. The locals speak a different language, have different customs, you can't get food you are used to and the climate is way out of your comfort zone. Would you be outcompeting the locals quick? I don't think so.

I wouldn't worry about wiping out a whole ecosystem unless the ecosystem is much much more similar to our own's.

But of course being cautious is always a good idea. Furthermore I already think we should avoid contamination. If for no other reasons than to avoid arguments about what the detected life really means.
If you don't think Johnson, an anti-science hyper-partisan, just wants these people to be acknowledged, then you're very naive. This is absolutely intended to be commentary.
Sorry, it's a 'cut and cover' as far as I can see. Unlikely to preserve anything.
But did the applicants of the patent show a working model? Or did they just patent a bunch of possible improvements in the hope that one of them would lead to a breakthrough?
I'm old enough to remember almost nothing...
Heh. I entered a topic of interest and found my own minimally cited work at the top of the list.

I approve of this tool! It's a shame I hadn't heard of it before.
> Nitpick: we can replicate it, it's not like we've technologically regressed.

Saturn's materials and computer technology are more than 50 years old. Not only would we have to want to recreate this historic technology, we would have to recreate the knowledge, skills and competencies of the experienced craftsmen that used it, across the massive supply chain, as well as the tooling required.
The issues the poster cites, like "this probe won't arrive until 2030", are in part due to the physical size of space.