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by oofbey 1y ago
The facts don’t line up with your concerns. Amazon announced prime air in what 2013 IIRC. Now 12 years later they have FAA approval for a small number of test flights. Exactly so they can slowly discover problems like this and fix them. Eve
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by oofbey 1y ago
Would that act like radar in mmWave? Send out pulses and see where they come back and time difference to estimate range?
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by oofbey 1y ago
Thanks for the context! Makes sense for traditional aircraft to be super conservative like this, especially given they tend to travel very long routes and sometimes have nothing more than a pair of human eyes paying attention to obstacles.
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by oofbey 1y ago
The repetition strongly indicates it’s a bug. No reason to think it points to a fundamental flaw in the approach.
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by oofbey 1y ago
Why do you think there is any problem with battery endurance? I’m quite sure Amazon has run the numbers on battery life for individual flights and for the lifetime of battery packs many many times. It’s just economics. And has basically not
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by oofbey 1y ago
Fine speculation. But they should be smart enough not to fly into their own blind spots e.g. the sun. They would tack back and forth I bet. They have a lot of tricks like this. I bet it has to be a confluence of factors. I hope Amazon repor
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by oofbey 1y ago
The clever trick is how it recognizes insertions. The standard trick of computing hashes on fixed sized blocks works efficiently for substitutions but is totally defeated by an insertion or deletion. Instead with CDC the block boundaries ar
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by oofbey 1y ago
What do you mean piracy in the a DRM world. Like being able to share your own PC games through the cloud?
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by oofbey 1y ago
You assume VCs are rational. They try to be. But they’re not.
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by oofbey 1y ago
That's a BIG workstation.
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by oofbey 1y ago
Now if only `/rewind` could undo the `rm -rf ~/*` commands and other bone-headed things it tries to do on the filesystem when you're not watching!
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by oofbey 1y ago
Can you give examples of nonsense security policies that make you less secure? I’ve always thought Apple’s security policies have been exemplary, forward thinking, and balanced.
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by oofbey 1y ago
In Ponzi schemes the numbers are generally faked.
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by oofbey 1y ago
"It’s Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future" - Yogi Berra. It's funny because it's true. So if you want to try to do this difficult task, because say there's billions of dollars and millions of
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by oofbey 1y ago
I would. Certainly if somebody asked me which way dice have a preference to land, over two or not, I’d say “over two” and not say “that’s a stupid question because dice don’t have opinions”. But to each their own. Try explaining ionic bonds
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by oofbey 1y ago
There’s a key way to think about a process that looks exponential and might or might not flatten out into an S curve: reasoning about fundamental limits. For COVID it would obviously flatten out because there are finite humans, and it did w
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by oofbey 1y ago
I hear you that it feels like something is off. The lack of diversity feels like we're losing robustness in the ecosystem. But it can be a good thing too. A lot of security issues are concentrated into one stack that is very well ma
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by oofbey 1y ago
SSHTTP3
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by oofbey 1y ago
A key point of the Turing Test was to stop the debates over what constitutes intelligence or not and define something objectively measurable. Here we are again. If a model has a statistical tendency to recommend python scripts over bash, is
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by oofbey 1y ago
I agree with you, but I don’t find the comment surprising. Lots of people try to sound smart about AI by pointing out all the human things that AI are supposedly incapable of on some fundamental level. Some AI’s are trained to regurgitate t
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by oofbey 1y ago
Loc is so easy to game. Reformat. Check in a notebook. Move things around. Pointless refactor. If nobody is watching loc, it’s generally a good metric. But as soon as people start valuing it, it becomes useless.
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by oofbey 1y ago
Early coding agents wanted to do this - comment every line of code. You used to have to yell at them not to. Now they’ve mostly stopped doing this at all.
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by oofbey 1y ago
I agree it’s healthy for Americans to be more skeptical of journalism, especially the sources they think they trust. But a key difference between NYT and Xinhua in China is that NYT explicitly doesn’t want to be duped. Sure reporters are la
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by oofbey 1y ago
Also hard to imagine how this could be used for espionage. Listening in on cell traffic requires defeating security measures in the protocol. Generally something like a 0 day. This might require a single SIM card, but probably not lots of u
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by oofbey 1y ago
Fair point. I agree. If there’s structure in people, the DSM should capture it. MDD phase 1,2,3 would be a useful update.
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by oofbey 1y ago
That’s one reason. Another less cynical reason is to ensure professionals mean the same thing when they use specific words. Brains are complicated, of course. Making predictions about how one person will react to medication based on their e
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by oofbey 1y ago
The raw data are in hundreds of dimensions. To visualize it meaningfully I think you’d need to run a t-SNE clustering, which would be fine in 2D. Raw PCA or anything like that which preserves the original structure probably wouldn’t show mu
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by oofbey 1y ago
The paper described makes a statistically rigorous attempt to recover common psychiatric diagnoses (like major depressive disorder MDD) from raw unbiased data about people’s experiences. And seems to conclude that the Venn diagram for commo
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by oofbey 1y ago
Written numbers and math were born out of accounting. Who owed how much to whom. This could be similar to that, although I think the societies of that time were collectivist enough to not worry much about debt.
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by oofbey 1y ago
Classic America. Laws favor industry and commerce over individuals. Because lower prices benefits everybody. Uh huh.

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