Mangalor (u/Mangalor)

Mangalor commented on Compare Webb's Images to Hubble johnedchristensen.github.... · Posted by u/hexomancer

Downvote me to hell, but as a person who has zero understanding of what differentiates Hubble from Webb, the pictures alone just aren't doing it for me. I was excited to see something completely new given 30 years and 10 billion dollars and instead I feel like I'm seeing what looks like an enterprise upgrade and feel slightly disappointed.

What am I missing?

Mangalor · 4 years ago

These are just the first few images. Give it time.

Mangalor commented on Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco blog.waymo.com/2021/08/we... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

TillE · 5 years ago

Yeah it's been really odd to see the take that self-driving must require strong AI. It needs to be done carefully, but it's clearly a manageable engineering problem if you have good sensors.

Mangalor · 5 years ago

If there's a person at an intersection directing traffic, it will be very hard to have the car itself communicate with them as easily as a human can. Edge cases like that is where AGI would be needed it seems.

Mangalor commented on Bad News harpers.org/archive/2021/... · Posted by u/jbegley

the_optimist · 5 years ago

That’s not the way this works. You actually have to provide a structured set of evidence, not merely a theory of conspiracy. Analogously, you don’t see people plausibly claiming that Biden designed a program to hand billions of dollars worth of weapons to the Taliban. If there were evidence, then such a hypothesis could transform from irresponsible theorizing to responsible theorizing. But there is no such evidence. You have flipped the script on what you call “gaslighting” to evade the necessary evidence.

Mangalor · 5 years ago

Trump tried to lift the Russia sanctions in 2016. Trump said he'd partner with Putin on cybersecurity while they were preparing a major hack on the federal government, which succeeded. Stop gaslighting us.

Mangalor commented on Bad News harpers.org/archive/2021/... · Posted by u/jbegley

the_optimist · 5 years ago

That’s not the way this works. You actually have to provide a structured set of evidence, not merely a theory of conspiracy. Analogously, you don’t see people plausibly claiming that Biden designed a program to hand billions of dollars worth of weapons to the Taliban. If there were evidence, then such a hypothesis could transform from irresponsible theorizing to responsible theorizing. But there is no such evidence. You have flipped the script on what you call “gaslighting” to evade the necessary evidence.

Mangalor · 5 years ago

Nonsense comment, there's plenty of evidence and it's all public.

Mangalor commented on Bad News harpers.org/archive/2021/... · Posted by u/jbegley

ribs · 5 years ago

Russia is another foreign power whose interests often run counter to those of the US and which often acts accordingly. That does not make it a “hostile” power, at least in the sense the term has been used for decades; there is not even saber-rattling. Sure, its government is a bag of dicks and its people seem to like strongmen and authoritarianism and persecuting gays, but that’s not hostility.

The evidence of collusion - whose existence you assert without naming, not that there isn’t any - wasn’t as persuasive to me as it was to you.

Mangalor · 5 years ago

The last major cyberattack came from Russia. Russian hacker group ransomware hit US companies. It may not be "The Cold War", but it's definitely US vs Russian nationalism.

Mangalor commented on Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together blog.google/technology/re... · Posted by u/ra7

rexreed · 5 years ago

Side note - why does it feel like so many of Google's products, and especially their most core offerings are in a state of ongoing decay? Search is getting worse. Maps today is worse than maps 10 years ago. Even their Google home assistants, YouTube, Gmail, and other products just seem to be steadily creeping into more annoyances and less usability.

There was a time I felt that Google's search was head and shoulders above anyone else's and when I reluctantly used DDG I felt I was compromising some aspect of search value for privacy value. But now when I use Google search I'm bombarded with ads, find I can't trust search results, and even copying search links results in a mess of Google redirect.

What is happening to the core Google products or am I a curmudgeon for believing that the Internet was at its most functional and user-friendly best circa 2008?

Mangalor · 5 years ago

To be fair, you would not want to be confronted with the reality of these products 10 years ago, there's been a million bug fixes that have been done since then. But I agree on Search, it's almost like they sabotaged it.

Mangalor commented on Removing Holocaust Denial Content about.fb.com/news/2020/10... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

roseway4 · 5 years ago

Facebook is a private entity. Facebook’s shareholders have given Mark Zuckerberg and his management team the power to manage the company as they see fit. If users disagree with the terms and conditions of using the site, they don’t have to use it.

Mangalor · 5 years ago

In reality it's like Comcast. You could theoretically switch ISPs, but realistically and in practice it's a monopoly.