hungryforcodes

So you recommend we carry a laptop around in our pockets instead?

It has nothing to do with nuclear reactors. It's about all the systems we create. The difference between paper and real ones.

You could apply this to almost any engineering endeavor.

It's the new mania huh -- the campaign against alcohol. Mostly of course from anglophone countries. They don't seem to enjoy having fun, or letting people enjoy fun in their own way.

I understand of course severe drinkers having a detrimental effect on the medical system etc. But truth be told, proposing that people drink just TWO standard drinks a week seems suspicious.

I know people that drink a bottle of wine a day in France and are living to a fine old age.

Why?

What is the point here.

Or just keep important data like health care on paper?

Why the need digitize it.

Yikes! $300. Okay...I guess I'll wait until Christmas.

Helping people get laid?

“For a noninvasive method, this is a real leap forward compared to what’s been done before, which is typically single words or short sentences,” Huth said. “We’re getting the model to decode continuous language for extended periods of time with complicated ideas.”

Thats pretty scary. Who would work on this?

Refine this and in 10 years put it into wifi base stations that scan everything and you can read the thoughts of anyone in a room. Auto scan for "dangerous" keywords and voila: automated police state!

Fair enough. I'll at least have a look at it.

Sure, all the governments would LOVE this!

I'll take my chances with AI fake posts. At least I can just ignore them.

Which is? Most of these countries have really strong 4g already...

True, although their circumstances now might be quite exceptional?

My topic was originally about users OUTSIDE the US. Everyone I meet in Asia is pretty OK with 4g, also home based internet is pretty good. It's important to understand the US is behind the rest of the world in many things, including this area.

That's interesting-- I didn't know this.

Thanks for the link. It looks pretty cool. Form fact wise it looks to be competitive with an Android phone and a portable keyboard. So it's not clear immediately which is better.

I use termux daily, and you can stand up pretty much anything including a production grade PostgresDB. It's not a toy.

There is quite a difference in size there! Find me a 7 inch laptop with phone battery life and pocket availabilty.

No one in Asia or Africa or India seem to be using it. Are we just polluting LEO for the sake of a handful of Americans? I feel like in the US it's not even widely used...

Good points. Just to expand, I find with instant on digital music I never really listen to it with as much attention as vinyl.

In fact I love everything about vinyl except the sort durarion of each side, but even that makes me focus more closely on the experience. I know I'll have to turn it over shortly...

I would say it's the opposite of loosely defined. Marriage is one of the most rigid and structured relationship contracts that exists.

Dating people on Tinder are loosely defined relationships.

Are you kidding. I LOVE being alone. Guess what I am doing on Friday night. Can't figure it out? The answer is: whatever I want!

With some wife or girlfriend badgering me to spend time at home -- she decies what I do with my Friday night which friends i can see...No. I loose essential freedoms.

And then you are tied to that person your whole life.

Hardly seems like a winning deal.

This a great story about why not to get married.

This was a commercial landing though. I guess its not there to do science or improve the human race.

What was behind it?

Have started with English then learned Spanish (travelling through Latin America extensively), and now an Asian language, I have acquired all sorts of advantages and also new ways of thinking.

I really feel people on HN ARE sometimes missing the forest for the trees and I can't imagine how learning a new language could not be a good thing.

But who uses TensorFlow -- really -- these days.

And yet no one is talking about Google AI. None of it is a house hold name.

So OpenAI it is.

This would not be OS related but hardware related. I've never had a Samsung that couldn't read my finger prints. In fact I have a Samsung tablet from 2014 that uses facial recognition and it generally always works the first time, if not the second.

How is this possible, unless you're shilling? I just got a new iPhone 11 in the box and FaceID doesn't work: if you're too close, too far, have a face mask on, in the dark, next to someone, randomly fails, whatever.

My Samsung on the other hand always opens flawlessly with a fingerprint scanner.

What is Apple trying to avoid here by not including one?

Like the Caspian Sea?

I think the OP was onto something about salinity.

Good point. One of my relatives did that too.