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Ask HN: What technology are you excited or optimistic about?
16 points by nharada 6y ago|18 comments
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Random HN commenters vs a leading expert on infectious diseases? Assuming everyone has the same expertise is also one way climate change deniers sow doubt about the science behind carbon emissions.
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I wonder if this will become the new high end luxury EV, at least until Tesla does a refresh of the S. My impression is that right now the current Model S isn't really that popular because the 3 is functionally similar at a much lower
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There's a good talk here about why ITER is so large: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk The idea is essentially that to get the parameters needed to make net energy with tokamaks, you need either very strong m
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You can buy these for smaller airplanes: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/autonomi/ Basically a "pilot is incapacitated" button, it will pick the nearest airport and attempt to land there, and will even comm
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I feel part of Zoom's initial foothold in the market was that inside of a conference room it "just worked". Or at least more so than other options I'd tried, especially a couple of years ago. Even earlier this year I had
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I welcome forward progress in the field, but something about this doesn't sit right with me. The authors have an unpublished/unreviewed set of results and they're already co-opting the YOLO name (without the original author)
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Frankly the fact that education is only 4x the budget of the police force is depressing in itself.
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> Tesla is ahead where it counts, sales Why is this where it counts? And if it were, wouldn't this mean that Ford/GM are way ahead of Tesla?
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Why do you think it never pans out?
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It's disheartening to read some of the comments here. Scientists are basically saying "we're not sure if it's going to be a disaster or a catastrophe", and some folk's response seems to be "see! scientists
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It might not sound impressive, but I think this is great news for two reasons: 1) Even if only 10% of people respond, this is likely going to give thousands of people for whom nothing else works a drug that actually does something. 2) Nearl
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Interesting that email feels like ours -- "Gmail is the new Finder ... Most importantly, your inbox is yours." But really isn't it just us trusting Gmail not to pull our access?
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I don’t doubt that either people could do better elsewhere or that someone makes a million dollars, but it’s disingenuous to claim that “If you publish a major conference paper, 7 figures is pretty easy to attain” when this is not true by m
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I'm being facetious, this is not at all true. At my company, we typically look for multiple major publications and you certainly don't get a million dollar job out of it.
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You don't know? Usually at NeurIPS and CVPR the applications are next to the tea and coffee they put out in the mornings. Not sure about ICML.
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I do R&D in computer vision, and everyone is shocked when I tell them that the roles don't pay that much better than software engineering. Articles like these make people assume you can make 2-3x what you would as a software engine
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Is there a generally accepted crossover point where quantum computers will start outperforming classical computers on the same tasks? I was under the impression it was somewhere around 100 qubits, but I'm sure there are caveats around
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I know you're talking about doing this at scale, but FYI: Muni buses in SF already provide this service. Nearly all have 2 or 3 spots for bikes on the front and you can throw your bike on and take it up the big hills for no extra charg
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Even if that were the only way, what are the odds fascists care about this problem enough to solve it? Clearly low: look at Brazil right now
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Even if there's a good argument to be made, I think the argument of having a larger body do the regulation still wins out. Local governments simply do not have the incentives to make many of the changes required. For example, it's
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Some of these "questions for the interviewer" are very good. In particular I like some of the "tell me the negatives" ones: > What is the most costly technical decision made early on that the company is living with no
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Lots of people here conflating "teaching what is right vs wrong" and "teaching how to consider what is right vs wrong". Ethics classes are typically the latter.
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I'd consider 9% of all human emissions[1] to be a "major source". Just because it's not the majority doesn't mean it's not important. [1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse
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> a macro impact typically heats the cylinder of tissue carved out along its path to a temperature of 10^7 K[18, 19], resulting in an expanding cylinder of plasma inside the body bummer
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> solve an unsolved math proof Yes actually, although there are some philosophical objections to computer assisted proofs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem#Proof_by_co...
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I wonder how much it would cost per mile of road to do this. I suspect you could get a huge benefit by electrifying major highways to start, for example: * The 5 on the west coast, connecting Seattle/Portland/Sacramento/SF&#x
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Water
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> hysteria is slowly increasing with children particularly freaking out Could it be because they're exactly the ones who will suffer from this?
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I'm continually impressed by the Keras team's API design decisions. They clearly understand that usability should be the focus, and even just the small snippet they post gets me excited about using the API. Compare this to CMLE&#x

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