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Wait so what does the model think that it is? If it doesn't know computers exist yet, I mean, and you ask it how it works, what does it say?

What if you don't say which side you are, so that it's a neutral third party observer?

The first few questions almost have me convinced I should open my own business. Surely there must be other difficult things?

I assume the main difficulty isn't that -- I assume it's the lack of comparative advantage, so competition eats into your margins until you're fighting a race to the bottom, not only making your customers happy, but doing it cheaper than someone else could, and I assume the stress from that makes it hard?

And also not being in control of your suppliers, so unpredictable events can affect your profit.

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Which Palestinians has Israel been a racist project to? The Israeli Palestinians that make up 20% of the population? Or the ones living on the other side of the border? I'm not sure it's only about race.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel

Ah yes, the west bank, where they have a leader who's graduate thesis is in holocaust denial[0] and where they incentivize murdering innocent civilians[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_...

Until these things lose popular support among the west bank, I don't have a ton of sympathy. Yes we can get into tracing back the chain of causation -- these people grew up in an echo chamber and they had no outside source of information, and Israeli soldiers likely killed family members of theirs unfairly when they were little, so of course they're going to say things like Death to Israel [2] and have a countdown timer until when they want to genocide the entire country [3]

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_Israel [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Square_Countdown_Clo...

(These examples actually stem from Iran, where most of the funding for Hamas comes from)

But don't you think it's a little unfair to only defend one side with fatalistic determinism? Israelis are treated as humans who are making horrible decisions. Mahmoud Abbas is treated as a poor innocent bystander who is just the product of his environment, so of course he's going to think those things. I think he's a human too, and he has made very bad decisions too.

Somehow western people always forget this stuff, but luckily the religious fanatics just love to do religious fanatical things, so it makes it easy to point to examples.

I'm unconvinced -- Certainly this will happen gradually, and there will be widespread public support for a solution. It's not to hard to imagine making online reviews or "high quality content" require verification tied to some per-citizen identification code (or asymmetric key). Maybe this makes it harder post anonymously on the internet, but at the very least we won't have the issue of proving identity.

Just wish we had a competent government to handle the upcoming transition. But even an incompetent one can have smart employees under it, and can give them the funding they need to accomplish this.

Great, thanks for doing this!

Love the simple, straightforward design.

What if the number of people upset with the schedules was actually much larger (and more diverse), but only privileged families felt comfortable or justified protesting the schedule?

Ah, too bad this mission to the moon isn't political, otherwise you might have found a connection!

And that's why Google's recruiting has the extra step of a hiring committee which didn't meet the candidate. Interviewers fill out interview feedback based on how their interview went with the candidate, and there's guidelines to try to reduce bias (no gendered pronouns in feedback, the candidate's code is included as-is in the feedback, etc) and the committee makes the final decision based on the feedback.

Sure, what is included can still be slightly biased, but if you're talking about non-technical things at the beginning or end, it won't really make it into the technical interview feedback, and probably will have little to no effect on the committee's decision. At the end of the day, the problems you're asked have optimal solutions and your code will either work or it won't.

Most of the energy of getting a rocket to orbit is in achieving orbital velocity, not orbital altitude :/. Unless you accelerate your satellite really really fast, it'll just fall back to the earth.

Well, it's like the restaurant example.

If I search for "restaurants", it shouldn't give me restaurants in Shanghai because that's the city with the largest population. It should give me Northern California, since that's where I live and Google knows that.

Similarly, Google might reasonably infer that if someone is searching for their own race, sexuality, or religion, they're probably more interested in information or support groups than porn. Not that both can't be served as results... just... priorities of what people are looking for.

Can humans magically solve NP hard problems that computers can't? I don't think so...

I know with plastics, "flame treatment" is a common way to prepare surfaces for bonding (with epoxy).

I could imagine that maybe flame-treating concrete has some benefits for tunnels. Probably gets rid of any oils on the surface.

I'm totally just guessing here. It could also just be an inside joke or a something else, but Googling shows that it might be a thing:

http://www.concreteconstruction.net/products/decorative-conc...

I think the limit is developer talent. It's hard to find people with the right background to train an AI model.

I agree that his comment was not in good taste, but I think he must have simply misread or skimmed the parent comment, or misunderstood.

Your comment is a great example of unnecessary escalation. He made a mistake, no need to pin all this angst about the disconnect between doctors and engineers on one mistaken comment on the internet. While I think the parent commenter should apologize, I think ideally you should too, this is blowing things out of proportions and that's not the kind of dialogue I like to see on HN, or anywhere on the internet.

This isn't about diagnosis, it's about monitoring already at-risk patients. He clearly stated nurses take this sort of measurement manually for at-risk patients, it's a simple solution to automate an existing workflow that involves an unnecessary amount of manual labor.

I kinda hate advertisements. News generates value and requires resources to write. The advertisement model was alright, but clearly WSJ decided that they're better off just forcing you to subscribe to get their news, and frankly it's not a bad deal. I do wish there was a "metanews" subscription I could pay to get access to every news source collated together and summarized.

Thanks for the explanation! I recently have been working on my own deep learning library (for fun) and was doing something similar. Aren't GL textures sampled with floating point units inexactly? Do you just rely on floating point error to be small enough that you can reliably index weights?

I ended up switching to OpenCL since I am running this on my desktop. Just curious to see what you did. Thanks!

You know, in isolation I felt similarly about this specific example. But looking at the rest of the article, you'd have to be blind if this is the one example you choose to pull out after reading the whole thing.

I think there's some confirmation bias going on here

This is only if the tube sections all move together. This could be handled at the joint between each tube section, and then the joints would only have to move a fraction of that distance.

I think by adapter, he meant USB-C -> Audio jack dongle, not a bluetooth adapter. So battery wouldn't be an issue.

But the developer mode notification on bootup kills the laptop :(

It warns you that you're in developer mode, makes a beep, and prompts you to push spacebar if you want to turn off dev mode, deleting everything on your computer.

Maybe you know to never make this mistake. Maybe you almost never turn off your computer. All that needs to happen is for you to reboot the computer once (say, it ran out of batteries while you were gone on vacation). Maybe it's you pressing spacebar on autopilot or a family member who mis-read the warning. The spacebar is pushed and now all your data is deleted.

I love crouton, but the dev mode warning is the most unfortunate user interaction design I've experienced in a product :(

Also, with 2FA it's not so bad.

This is the view from the inside as a Google employee. You see all these lines between what you work on and what other people work on. From the outside? People see it quite differently. For an example you can maybe relate to, it's easy to criticize Apple for recent design decisions (touchbar, lack of escape button, etc) and say that the whole company is losing touch with reality. The people working on the iphone might feel the same way you do here: There are more engineers at Apple than the ones working on the touchbar.

One thing worth mentioning (even though I agree with the gist of your point) is that machines make the same mistakes consistently. This is pretty rare for a human. Imagine 10% of the cars on the road are autonomous and they all make this same mistake.

I don't think so. I mean, read the story. It's written really well. Many years passed between Half Life 1 and Half Life 2, and yet #2 was very successful.

Another example is TF2.

exa is harder to type than ls, but this looks really cool.

Instead of a music stand, you could use a modified camera tripod or something -- I don't think that's too complicated. Anyways, point is a lightweight device capable of holding a 20LB binder isn't new technology -- you could probably buy some sort of off-the-shelf thingy for under $100 which would do it.

You're right -- you're not overcomplicating things so much as trying to give this video the benefit of the doubt. But it looks to me like the benefit of the glass is greatly exaggerated by having the binder with instructions be located off the platform. Obviously glass is a superior solution here, but not as much as presented IMO.