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by carapace 3y ago
What I think they should do (what I would do if I were in charge at a AI-car co.): There's a whole ersatz city out in the desert somewhere the whole purpose of which is to allow in situ modelling of new "smart" hardware. (
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by carapace 3y ago
First, where is the data? Second, yeah, it's bananas to test large, fast, heavy robots on public streets. The only reason we let it happen is because the robots look like cars. Third, it's bananas to have large, fast, heavy vehic
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by carapace 3y ago
It's all fun and games until... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ship_warehouse_fire
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by carapace 3y ago
> boycotting Chinese-made products. It's really challenging. Even if you try to just buy things made in the USA (or wherever, not China) very often some (or all) of the parts are made in China. And some sellers just lie about it
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by carapace 3y ago
> You have to go where the people are. There are a lot of people saying that in this thread, but I think "the people" have a responsibility here too, no?
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by carapace 3y ago
Yeah, this is a known (if obscure) technique. The main contribution here is the formalization and measurement.
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by carapace 3y ago
You're a treasure sir! The thing I find especially interesting about these sorts of puzzles is the translation from the word problem to the logical formalism. It seems like a separate domain from solving the problem itself.
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The empty Makefile is valid(blog.gnoack.org)
4 points by carapace 3y ago|2 comments
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by carapace 3y ago
It's better to avoid waste, waste of time, waste of calories. Most of the things that most people want you to do are wasteful, pointless, better to not be done. A very valuable skill is to be able to discern bullshit, and decline it.
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by carapace 3y ago
This is a transcript of this talk: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0076566 > Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dyer has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on
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Geopolitics in a hotter world (2010)(spaswell.wordpress.com)
52 points by carapace 3y ago|25 comments
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by carapace 3y ago
Technology that's putting those folks out of work (and into rioting, etc.) will also provide the tools to repress them. I don't like it, but that's the way it seems to me. E.g. Hong Kong.
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by carapace 3y ago
Functional is the way to go up until you have a problem that you need e.g. TLA+ to solve. In other words, is your program a calculator or a robot?
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by carapace 3y ago
Cheers! That's got to be one of the best pages on the internet.
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by carapace 3y ago
FWIW, I've done it both ways. The ad-hoc trick is cromulent.
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by carapace 3y ago
The government did : the Internet itself, eh?
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by carapace 3y ago
> Lappen’s taxonomy also suggests a more philosophical way of looking at these disagreements as reflecting two fundamentally different worldviews: a human-centered view of environmental problems versus a neopastoralist one that emphasize
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by carapace 3y ago
I figure "The Adolescence of P-1" was autobiographical. ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adolescence_of_P-1
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Tension in the Economics of Permaculture(lists.sr.ht)
2 points by carapace 3y ago|0 comments
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by carapace 3y ago
I think of my comments here on HN as my blog. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=carapace ) I've been on here a daily for several years now (you can tell when I'm really working on something because there a
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by carapace 3y ago
There's a simple algorithm, based on this idea, for eliciting your hierarchy of values. IIRC it goes something like this: - - - - Imagine a mundane task of medium importance, e.g. brushing your teeth or doing the dishes. Now imagine s
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by carapace 3y ago
whoa... like what quants did for trading but for legal, uh, wrangling...
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Trees with Edible Leaves(perennialagriculture.institute)
1 points by carapace 3y ago|0 comments
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by carapace 3y ago
> I personally think there is no programming problem where types aren't useful. I'd have to disagree with that just on first principles: no absolutes. (Note that that's an absolute.) :) Anyway, I'm not trying to argu
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by carapace 3y ago
> there is no immutable dict type Does the namedtuple not suffice? Apologies if I'm being dense. - - - - It's not an immutable dict type (for one thing, this has linear lookup, the BTree would be better) but it's fun: ht
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by carapace 3y ago
Syntactically maybe, but I find it has a quite workable functional subset. Integers, floats, tuples, named tuples, and frozensets are all immutable, functions are values, etc. E.g.: https://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Deri
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by carapace 3y ago
I worked with Joy for some time and came to the conclusion that syntax is a MacGuffin.
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by carapace 3y ago
Ockham's Razor doesn't apply in adversarial situations. - - - - I think the primary risk these folks are worried about is loss of control. And in turn, that's because they're all people for whom the system has more-or-l
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by carapace 3y ago
Heart emoji.
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by carapace 3y ago
Hacker News can't even embed an image or put a table, yet here you are? Anyway... _________________ / /| / / | / Table / | &#x2F

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