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I had this feature turned on until I missed food delivery 2-3 times in a row.

A fantastic book by Vernon Vinge called “A Deepness in the Sky” toys around with this idea a lot actually.

There is a virus that can release neurotoxins and it is flipped in very specific parts of the brain with a MRI-like device. This can elicit a state of “Focus” where the person (victim more like) becomes totally obsessed with a particular idea or subject. They devote all energy towards this subject and can make stunning breakthroughs on difficult topics because they are utterly and completely _obssessed_ with whatever topic they are supposed to be.

They are held captives by their own fascination and work as slaves.

I know this is taking the idea a bit far from the point, but it’s an interesting extension of the idea.

My guess would be that the videos processed in their work are quite small to limit computation time

These especially suck in China. It’s especially painful when you are finally free and clear of the great firewall only to be stopped by a mistuned fraud filter.

Scratches? My daily commute on the Caltrain quickly cured me of this concern. The bike racks on the Caltrain are simple and effective IMO, but essentially just cram bikes together with elastic straps.

It’s a great way to unblock lots of people to utilize trains that wouldn’t otherwise. 2 or 3 cars of the train are devoted to bikes. That certainly is indicative of the environment and the temperate California weather, but still. Makes for a marvelous multimodal commute for me.

Sunrun has been doing this for a while.

[1] https://www.sunrun.com/solar-plans-and-services/monthly-sola...

I have had the absolute joy of working with gRPC services recently. Static schemas and built in streaming mechanics are fantastic. It definitely removes a lot of my gripes with REST endpoints by design.

Thanks a lot for sharing this video! This is absolutely the kind of thing that I hope to find on HN. Plan to spend all of tomorrow on this.

I’m not sure about this. This kind of integration test would almost certainly be performed in a closed course (parking lot / garage).

This is absolutely happening at scale in Chinese malls and even those small 7/11 style corner stores. Correlating profiles with Alipay/facial recognition/WiFi/Bluetooth tracking.

Asian ==> Chinese

This is definitely a corner case and the amount of such corner cases balloon into numbers difficult to boggle quickly.

I agree this is an egregious miss, but absolutely understandable from an engineers perspective.

I’m sure no one is happy with this outcome.

I came here to say this. That one feature makes their site unreadable for me on mobile.

This generates pressure, driving up prices by constricting housing supply sure, but what is preventing SF from constructing lots and lots of new buildings? If there is pressure to increase the amount of available housing, then the government of SF has a Civic responsibility to create an environment where the housing supply can increase. Full stop. Property speculation will always take place.

My biggest frustration while browsing in China was reCAPTCHA. Most websites would load fine, but then they would detect that I was in a new location and this would trigger their account protection bullshit and ask me to complete a reCAPTCHA that...wouldn’t load. This happened ALL THE TIME and is just excruciating.

Sometimes there wouldn’t even be UI that would load to indicate something was wrong. Logins would just fail with cryptic messages.

Things like this are always tough to see on the micro, because individuals that didn’t do anything wrong are losing their jobs. On the macro, it’s tough to blame the business for doing the right thing for themselves.

The market places immense pressure on incumbent businesses to innovate to cut costs, reduce inconsistency, and provide fresh experiences. These are the basics of capitalism and any individual agent is _required_ to adjust their personal work policy to maintain their position of employability. Employability is always transient. Any personal skill, specific job category, or asset has a limited period of time that it will be useful to the market.

Some obvious examples of this happening:

* Walmart has been piloting robots that can take inventory and clean [1]

* Short distance Autonomous food delivery robots [2] [3]

* Autonomous vehicle delivery of humans and goods [5]

* Haidilao (huge Chinese hotpot chain) has been piloting robots that deliver food to your table [4]

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/12/07/busi...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/22/starship-deploys-autonomou...

[3] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...

[4] https://shanghai.ist/2018/10/29/haidilao-robots/

[5] https://www.frysfood.com/f/grocery-delivery-nuro-self-drivin...

Any technical blog articles you have that explain how you were able to ascertain these incredible performance gains?

Kudos on some incredible work! :)

Is the gas density gradient really so significant that it allows a balloon to move towards the front of the car? Any way we can add some calculations to this?

This was the scariest decision I ever made to be honest.

This is because Apple gave the party the keys to the kingdom.

This project has actually really matured in a fantastic way! I have been toying around with it in the past few weeks and have been incredibly impressed with their progress! I would definitely want to use Godot for a serious project. Although I am a bit nervous that things become more challenging in more complex projects. Anyone have any experience here? I poked around for some serious Godot projects and haven’t really seen anything too large.

This looks incredible! Heads up: the mobile version of the site (Safari/iPhoneX) could use some TLC.

This is actually a really good point. After reading your comment I can’t help but think that this is a purchased article from someone with an agenda.

This is somewhat tangential, but I really love how they published this research. This method has lots of interactive media visually explaining the result of their project. It was really easy to understand what they did, and fun to play around with the provided examples. I wish more research would end up online in a format like this!

The pdf is 15 pages, but really only 6 pages of it is actual content. Is it common for there to be 3 full pages of authors on a paper like this? Seems a little bizarre to my untrained eye.

Growing up, my family relied on government aid to buy food. My father had a stroke when I was in 6th grade, and despite being able to recover, my mother realized that she would be unable to support my siblings and I without him. I am the second oldest of 6 kids, so I was old enough to kinda understand the stakes facing my family.

My mother then went back to college to earn a degree in nursing. She pushed herself harder than I think a human should need to go to ensure my sisters and I had a stable platform upon which to launch our lives.

I then received an incredible need-based scholarship to university and this was hands down the best thing that has ever happened to me. My mind was expanded farther than I thought possible by the people I met, the culture of embracing and admiring the results of dedication and hard work, and the realization that I have agency to change my circumstances. I realized my life could be more impactful than I ever dared to dream as kid in my small, rural town.

I studied Chinese and CS, and stumbled into opportunity after opportunity that pushed me to grow as a citizen of the world and acquire skills that allow me to take part in it.

I am now working on (what is to me) one of the most interesting problems that humankind is attempting to tackle. I am learning incredible lessons about how intelligent people can make progress in an arena of extremely high uncertainty. I am learning what processes lead to innovation and technological advancement. I am surrounded by people from every corner of the Earth from a diverse array of milieus.

I am incredibly grateful for these opportunities to learn, adapt, and (hopefully) become an agent of change for those that had challenging starts in life. I know there are many others that were just as “deserving” of the chances I received, but for a myriad of reasons were never graced by the blind luck I was.

For these reasons and more, I am thankful.

I want to walk away from an article not with the pre-packaged opinion ofthe journalist/editor but with enough information to make my own decision. I don’t look to journalists for their commentary on the world we live in, but for updates on what is happening.

I think the downvotes are coming from the lack of context accompanying the GP’s bold statements.

Well deserved! Congratulations! I rather disagree with the Dark Forrest Theory as a premise, but I found the books thought-provoking, which is the most you can ask of a sci-fi writer.

For those interested, here is a link to a Wolfram Alpha query that shows US vs China GPD PPP [1]

Also, here is a Wikipedia link to what GDP PPP (Gross Domestic Product Purchasing Power Parity) actually is [2]

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US,+China+GDP+PPP [2] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_Power_Parity