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Yes, yes I am. (Failure is always an option!)

However, I think digging holes for radiation shielding in a smallish asteroid-like body -- especially if it's a gravel pile similar to 101955 Bennu -- may prove easier than landing, provisioning, and returning human beings from the Martian surface.

(101955 Bennu, target of the OSIRIS-REx probe, turned out to be a rubble pile. It's an order of magnitude smaller than the Martian moons, which are nevertheless also believed to be rubble piles -- they're not large enough to have significant surface gravity, let alone enough to melt/fuse their rocks.)
But the question is, why build a humanoid robot? It's much harder to balance (especially if it should be extendable with modules), probably won't be able to handle harsher terrain than four-legged models in the foreseeable future, and I don't see how they can do tasks significantly better than a simpler model with a few robot arms.

The stature isn't the main reason for the versatility of humans. I guess humanoid robots would be useful in situations where familiarity is important, but Tesla probably wants more than just a premium customer greeter with integrated voice assistant.
We're still waiting for Automatic Self Drive, not long ago he acknowledged it's harder than he thought it would be. Musk is a good marketeer though, he knows how to make headlines. A Tesla Bot will also likely be harder than he expected.
Robots digging holes on other planets is already a very real thing. It has been done so many times that it's boring by now.

It is easier than dancing and genuinely viable as a product, with that viability increasing with the degree of autonomy.
Very much agree on #1 and #2, and 6/7/8 in the same vein. Our internal documentation had a quality jump when we started to explicitly prefix documents with their intended audience.

For example, documentation targeted at our customer support assumes a basic familiarity with the monitoring systems and the structure of the customer facing services. However, documentation for the support cannot build on concepts like the network architecture, or shell access to servers.

On the other hand, documentation for operations engineers doesn't have to slow down the reader with information about the network architecture, as that's assumed to be known.

And being somewhat consistent with these documentation personas simplifies the onboarding of new employees, because there is a known knowledge base you need to access the documentation effectively.
TIL Chatroulette is still a thing
A self-driving car is just an intrinsically easier problem to solve. In fact, the first car that automatically centred a car within a lane using cameras to track lane markings hit the road in 1977! They had cars doing cross-country trips on highways with traffic in the 1990s!

Obviously there are complexities to it, which is why don't have any level 4 vehicles is just so much lower.

Humanoid robots are just several magnitudes harder because you first have to master the basic mechanics of human-like movement before you can move onto higher order things like avoiding running into a person. With a bipedal robot, a simple operation like walking up a hill is a major achievement. In the car domain, you essentially get that stuff for free.
> Even I know (not really being a heavy C++ user) that C++ doesn't have generics, it has templates

So… you know wrong?

Templates are a form of generics. What templates are not is an instance of parametric polymorphism.
That's not really true. Outside of tiling window managers, pretty much everything is designed around the same, familiar model of minimise/maximise/close buttons in the corner of the window. Just about every mainstream OS supports different UI toolkits, and for the most part everyone lives with this.

Even tiling window managers don't really have any problems. They provide a very niche UX, which is almost entirely keyboard driven. There's not a single general application I can think of designed for use with this kind of window manager. Still, you get a pretty consistent user experience for the most part.
Our indoor environments are built for humans. For instance, robots with wheels would struggle with stairs. Short robots would have trouble reaching up and grabbing things from shelves. Wide robots would struggle to get down narrow hallways.
Not for providing citation metadata for software, where BibTeX misses important fields.
He does his little stunts/blunders, and he gets people talking. It's free advertising, and brand awareness.
The reason you want humanoid robots is because environments that have humans in them are generally built around human ergonomics.
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> To the people moaning about how generics will make their favourite language as awful and ugly as Java: all of the libraries and techniques you like and use today will always work.

In fairness: just because that's true doesn't mean the libraries they like or need won't be migrating to generic facilities one way or an other, so they may be forced to the choice of interacting with generics or needing to reimplement their wheels (though also in fairness that's also common in the go ecosystem).

> I think it’s important to remember that the people who design this language like it for the same reasons you do.

That's not necessarily true, the designers of the language are not necessarily designing it for their use or like. See: Rob Pike's well known quotes on the target population for Go.
But still it is free
> They use literally any excuse to get that shot into people, including bribes. I just ignore all of it. It's obvious bullshit.

Another self-nominated candidate for a Darwin Award.

(On further reflection: I guess all Darwin Award candidates are self-nominated ....)
I get your peeve, all good.
I suspect he's more so talking from his position/experience as (1) a father, and (2) someone who launched his own (incredibly successful) business at a very young age.
I feel like there’s probably some kind of law that distributed systems always loose out to consolidated ones due to overhead. Unless it’s explicitly for circumventing the law like torrents or most crypto currencies.

How could Ethereum possibly compete in terms of transaction cost or ease of use with Facebook or some other centralised system.
Even assuming the robot existed, which it doesn't, (Maaaaybe it was tethered, so it didn't have to carry around batteries and a hydraulic pump) I'm quailing at the task of programming the thing. To match human performance would be decades of work for thousands of programmers.

(The robot picks up a screwdriver, and a screw. Then the screw slips out of its fingers. Now what? It lines up the screw and the screwdriver. It applies torque. The head of the screw strips out. Now what? The pain of robotics is that you need to cover each and every little error case, because if you don't, the damn thing doesn't work, because it has no brain! This is why every industrial robot is massively overbuilt, and it's environment and fixturing is carefully simplified and fenced off, because error handling is such a pain in the real world, where a dropped item bounces away and hides under a bench or in an orientation where your gripper can't pick it up. 1 in 1000 is too high of an error rate. 1 in 10000 is too much. It has to function perfectly, every time, every grasp.)

And the maintenance costs! Mechanical humanoid hands are terrible end effectors. All little moving parts and lousy tolerances. They would need constant repair and replacement. It couldn't possibly be cheaper than a human in 2021 or 2030.
I thought the kelly criterion assumes a known probability distribution outcome? How do you size the bets?
And then lose the documents in a big hack so that everyone with a forum access can use your passport copy. yes.
Most vaccines seem to be pretty shit versus the Delta variant. Pfizer/Moderna are about 53%: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e3.htm
Wherever you live, please never visit here, I want no tiger mosquitoes hitching a ride.
>For example, if every dating site in existence did this the world would be a better place. Instead, we typically see layers of opaque algorithmic shit governing human interaction. The platform's interests are then in effect prioritized, not the user's.

Doesn't that go against the less random nature of match-making in real life? People have preferences and biases, and these influence or even dictate the people they meet. They tend to frequent people in certain circles, and these circles have an imbedded bias (proximity, socio-economic, cultural, scene, etc).

>"Hey, this person could have been your significant other or best friend, but you never met them because some engineers at some tech company decided to get fancy. Fuck you." Or, in so many dating app cases: fancy and greedy.

You don't need engineers to do that. Match-making in real life is not that random. You hang around places your "could have been your significant other" does not go for any number of reasons. Even in medium sized cities (say 8 million people), the graph is pretty interesting.

Unless your real argument was that Chatroulette's raison d'être was to "break out" of the non-random nature of match-making in real life by introducing the randomness of a roulette, and that introducing match-making algorithms makes it more similar to real-life which defeats the purpose of Chatroulette, which I believe makes more sense, and thus, I believe is your argument.
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Tesla is an infrastructure company. He’s building infrastructural components for Mars as much as Earth, for sure.
Extrapolating my father's Model S purchase into this domain:

"look I spent $50k on this android - it makes fart noises and tries to jump off the pavement into a bush every few days"
They've existed for quite a while now - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector#History
Hopefully you use this as feedback for future voting decisions, to use empathy beforehand, not only after you've learned it yourself the "hard" way.
The Wikipedia example is a gem because it explains everything that is wrong with Wikipedia. All of "technical" information on Wikipedia amounts to nothing concrete or useful unless you're a historian..
Thanks. I think for this lang the pitch is pretty clear, it looks like fennel is lisp for Lua libs (like clojure is lisp for Java) in a nutshell.
Off-topic, but has he (or anyone else) written more on getting rid of loss functions in ML?
It's also correct a lot of the time.

Hyperloop didn't work out and the remaining related projects are looking more and more like scams. In the last few years no noteworthy progress has been made and even the most basic questions haven't ever been answered.

The Boring Company, which ripped off the original The Boring Company, has one finished project which didn't get close to the original vision and cost enough that further projects were put on hold.

Neuralink is cool but Musk made some really wild claims in their name without much to back them up.

SpaceX and Tesla do some amazing stuff and hopefully they keep being successful. But that doesn't say anything about the rest.
It feels weird to me that you are complaining about the complexity of WYSIWYG editors then proceed to complain the licensing cost of CKEditor which would have solved that very complexity. Wouldn't that mean the complexity of WYSIWYG editors is so high that such a business model works?
I've been thinking about this a bit recently, after watching one too many Dhar Mann videos about not judging a book by its cover of all things.

I think filtering out options through heuristics that are sometimes wrong but on average skew towards desired outcomes makes a lot of sense when you have more opportunities than you could ever follow up on.

Going back to your example of online dating, if attractive women had a conversation with every man that messaged them, let alone a date, they'd be spending 100+ hours a week talking to men on the off chance that someone surprises them.

Given that, it makes perfect sense from their point of view to completely ignore a guy for seemingly insignificant/unfair reasons like him wearing a Star Wars shirt in his DP or an algorithm believing there's a 24.8% chance that he's a creep.

She can only follow up on so many leads - might as well spend her time on the promising ones.
I don't get it either. This is the second 'Tesla doesn't have any idea what they are doing' article I have seen on HN today. Since when are we judging technology by its first iteration or even by the concept? Such a pessimistic sentiment
The CDC website said Pfizer is 53% effective against infection while the Indian one is 66% against symptomatic delta. So it’s probably still not as good as the mRNA ones.
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Budget/Avis are at best shit customer service and more likely regularly dishonest. Few businesses are on my permanent shit-list, but they're one.
go.com was an early pre-Web 2.0 company. I guess it was ultimately acquired by Disney or something, but yes, that definitely wasn't and isn't available.
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Well, you gotta start somewhere. I'm getting tired of people dismissing any effort of changing the world.

These are the same people that were laughing at him when he launched tesla. The same people whole said Apple was doomed, because they only had a smartphone. Etc. etc. etc.
super amazing! as they say in south asia, mashallah!

i'm from pakistan, doing a phd in germany, back in pakistan we don't even have e-rickshaws. but godspeed to our indian brethren.
> If at each triangle the fox has ~2 options that's 2^100 to get to 100 triangles away

I don’t think you understand what Djikstra’s algorithm is. Breadth first doesn’t mean you have to always re-visit the same node more than once.
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It seems therefore absurd to grant a person the power to pass laws.

Democracy is a compromise, not a good or even a working system. To avoid a riot of the idiots, you tell them "ok so do it yourself then, here take it and vote yes or no". Ofc, they're still emotional idiots who vote to stick it to Uber without caring what is written.

I would suggest we reduce people's decision to representative selection, and let the representatives work without too much hindrance. You must publish the law, but as a European, hearing my dad he didn't want to vote for the European Constitution because he didn't want muslim Turkish to become Europeans (which was what everyone resisting European construction pretended the law was about), it convinced me democracy is not a good system.

I live in China now, I'm in paradise I guess :D
Anybody got the Cliffsnotes version ?
Why spend a lot of money making an error prone program when you can have reality simulate it for you?

This is a problem I had at my last job, actually. We'd spend a lot of time on simulation that was kind of accurate but still need to do a fair bit of rapid prototyping to make up for simulation deficiencies afterwards.

For simple stuff like a prototype jig to hold equipment mockups can be faster to make out of rough cut materials instead of spending 2 weeks making everything fit in a CAD program.
> There are clauses in the constitution to systematically deny any human rights to Hindus

Which laws are those?
> The fox is tasked with finding the shortest path that hits 100 points.

This is exactly what I said (breadth-first). Breadth first find shortest distances to all nodes in the neighbourhood.
Of course the internet is addictive, just like slot machines and cocaine. And it should be regulated as such.

Social media, just like a slot machine, or a mobile game which is engineered to rob whales of thousands of their hard earned dollars, is optimized to create the type of reward signal which will result in a behavioral loop which will keep users coming back. Using data collected from the usage patters over billions of sessions, they've been able to test and craft a user experience which affects human psychology in such a way that a huge majority of people will be extremely compelled by it, and many users will not be able to resist falling into this behavior pattern even if they try. Especially children who don't have a fully-developed prefrontal cortex yet.

We have a long history of regulating things like this. For instance, it used to be possible to buy cocaine over the pharmacy counter in the US. But at a certain point we realized that this substance was stronger than human will in many cases, that there was a lot of harm being created by it, so we regulated it.

The only open question about social media is the harm component. For instance coffee is extremely habit forming, but we don't regulate it because the social harm is negligible. But I would argue the negative externalities caused by social media has already been demonstrated. Social media incentivizes engagement, which is most reliably cultivated by content creating emotionally charged responses, outrage, and conflict. As a result, the rise in social media has led to a decrease in social cohesion, and the rampant spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories.

I suspect in 50 years we will look back at unregulated social media the same way we look back at selling cocaine at the pharmacy.
One thing that can happen is you get enduring credentials from the OTP sign-in, and they last despite other credentials simultaneously existing elsewhere.

I only use Facebook trapped inside Facebook Container in one Firefox on one computer. But my understanding is that it's possible to sign in to Facebook from say a phone and a laptop at the same time, so the bad guys could get you to give them working credentials one day and persist those until you're asleep before using them. If you went to Facebook's security settings "Where you're logged in" and it lists two logins, one in "Paris" while you are in New York, you might realise there's a problem and force them out. But most people likely never look at that, why would they?
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What permission exactly does trouble you?
I guess the tab permission is a bit unusual.
However, with the Manifest V3, the extension couldn't make any outside calls anyway without explicit permission to do so (and this isn't the case).

The reason for the tab permission is not just to index them, but to also to merge bookmarks and history with open tabs. If you go to a bookmark, you've already opened it will just switch to the tab.
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So, a thought: granted that you want to multitask and make your own schedule, by setting things up so you can be interrupted at any moment by your employer with demands for your attention. You don't want to work a shift, you want it looser and less defined: you are not in fact making your own schedule, you're arranging to pre-empt whatever your schedule might be for the benefit of your employer and you figure this is your competitive advantage, being able to offer this precarious willingness to drop everything and take a gig. And you could be right: to the employer, that makes you higher value.

Is this not a concession, a way of competing by tempting the employer with more than they would be able to get from other employees? In essence you're not so much negotiating with the employer, but competing directly with other workers, some of whom might have stuff to do in their life that requires scheduling and predictability?

And this too is fine (ish), but then the question becomes: to what extent can the employer then pressure all employees to function on YOUR terms and abandon their own? Are you defining the new normal, the fundamental expectation for this type of work going forward? Does the employer benefit at the expense of employees as a class by establishing this precarity as the expectation?
My very limited understanding tells me that the human body is a very complex system not fully understood.

I only have engineering analogies, but deploying bad software in a complex distributed system can appear fine until latent effects are discovered literally years later (e.g. all data in a specific column for a subset of users was overwritten for records within 6 months in 2008).

My understanding with some debilitating, fatal conditions are that the causes are not well known.

Fundamentally, it seems that most science is a result of abductive, deductive reasoning etc but ultimately, tinkering and observation i.e. if you don't analyse something over 10 years, you don't know its effect over 10 years.

By using a variety of different vaccines all over the world the expression of humanity is that we are spreading the risk among various vaccine types or contracting COVID itself.

So for a mostly self-interested individual in a rural area with a low chance of catching COVID, would it follow that the safest (but maybe selfish) bet is to wait many years?

Or is my premise or conclusion flawed, especially because I missing prerequisite knowledge?
The article lists multiple reasons for the downward trend in STEM proficiency yet the headline attributes it solely to a push for diversity.
How could/should you visualize the way that a particular food product has been prepared in order to represent this?

(it's going to be hard in the context of a blog post or article title, because you need to pick a single word or two there; but I think that for individual food products, there could be methods to illustrate fairly clearly what types of processing were involved for people who would like to inspect the details)
This perfectly encapsulated why I LOVE web development.

You can debug one of the most complex softwares in the world (a browser) so effectively you can understand what you did wrong and fix it.
If we're defining anti-democratic laws like this:

> It allows voters of the past to institute laws that are much, much more difficult to change than other laws.

then having a constitution is a pure exercise in anti-democracy. Are we calling that "unfortunate" now?
Not even a bug, it's one of the inner working things you may or may not know about. I see it more than a trap than a bug. Honestly, there are other parts of IT that have it, the most familiar to me is SQL where you can run the same query in 10 seconds or 20 milliseconds and only experienced DBAs can tune it properly, in many cases without touching the query itself.
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