skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It only take one real counterexample to disprove something, so let me take a stab at this:

If learning styles were not real then why would people waste time making boooring videos when text is so much easier to both create an consume?

Or am I right that some people actually like those long winded videos? What about podcasts?

Spoken as someone who would sometimes skip the lectures, read the book and get best in class grades.
I don't think the notion of "sociopath" used in the Gervais Principle has the same moral connotation that we typically associate with the word. That's why I prefer Eric Dietrich's term "opportunist" instead[0].

I agree with you sentiment regarding whether many line-level employees[1] really understand what is involved in running a company.

[0] https://www.daedtech.com/book/
[1] I include myself in that category
EToon Cartoon Services
So, I went in and tested it out, and it seems like certain games can't be added. Do you manually choose which games to support? If so, what do you do when a group/user wants to add a game that isn't in there? It seems like if someone sees one of their games isn't supported, if it's their primary game, they might just not use the service.

Are you looking into a way to let users add "Custom" games, or request support for a game?
What I find interesting with this article is how so many things can occur when changing habits. Some can be psychological, some can be a reaction of the body, or both.

Looking around I see a lot of people giving diet advice after succeeding in losing weight, and often the people that already tried that but failed just nod politely to not antagonize the speaker. For some it’s food balance, for others it’s food volume, some started cycling, for me it was stretching.

To my eyes it seems that successful people just found a niche where the counter reaction caused by the change is weak enough to let them lose weight, and it would be a fool’s errand to pundit on how the majority of people would react to any specific change.
Does any programming paradigms protect better against data debt? The only way that I can imagine to significantly protect against this would be if there was some way to generate data migrations based on type changes.
I like the writing a lot, perfect balance for people without musical training (and an interest for sound). Well done!

Side note: the JS to play sounds throws an error in Safari TP, works fine in FF.
I'd say Scott Pilgrim, Jumanji, and Edge of Tomorrow are better video game movies in that sense.
TBH, Hollywood is not sending their best for making a game adapted movie either..
Where's your evidence that any of the people who've crashed in these Teslas were "victims"?
No, I prefer small meaningful commits. I am not for or against the index. I have no problems switching my brain between git add -A or -p as necessary. Like you said, it happens too often that someone sends you a huge pile of code (C code, in my case). My first impulse is to build and run it immediately. For me, just compiling the code can take up to an hour sometimes. Running my full test suite takes even more hours.

At some point I am ready to craft this code into multiple commits. After my first git add -p and git commit, I don't know if HEAD is in a state where it even compiles. It takes further work and discipline to produce a whole series of good commits.
Yeah, I have a lot of issues with Turo (mostly lack of customer service) but when I find people with specific fleets of vehicles I like (Jeeps usually) I aim for them as they usually make it stupid simple to pick up/drop off which is the huge benefit of Turo. That and renting more unique cars (like Wrangler Rubicons, Porsches if I'm visiting Woodside, etc).
> they only recently started allowing rentals over 24 hours

???? Zipcar has allowed you to rent a car for more than one day for years. I know people using them for 3 day weekend trips a decade ago. Explicitly remember them trying to budget their miles as you only got 180 miles per day, which you can burn up on distant destinations.
The first three items in your inbox will now be "Sponsored Email Placements", with organic email showing up underneath.
Building a system where you input an e-mail address and it spits out likely friends of that e-mail address isn't exactly the same as having pre-built "shadow profiles" for a bunch of e-mail addresses. With such a system it would be trivial to build a social graph for a person quickly after they sign up for facebook (and then suggest friends). But, doing so doesn't necessarily mean facebook had previously built out a social graph for that e-mail address and had a profile waiting for it in the shadows.
Because the whole point of Uber-like services is to externalize the costs and actual work onto others as much as they can possibly get away with.
Verizon released the 11th edition of their report yesterday and I took a quick look at it this morning and started compiling interesting highlights into this post.

Hope this will be of value to some of you. Particularly to people that don't want to spend time reading the entire PDF report.
>In what world does honor have value for businesses?

The one we live in. Honor and integrity are matters of justice. It is honorable to pay an agreed upon price for widgets. It is just. If one deviates from that they are painted as dishonorable and people don't like doing business with someone who has the reputation of being dishonorable (companies that lie to their clients or don't pay their bills).

>The business that is willing to like, steal, and cheat their way to higher profitability is going to outcompete the ones who will not.

Banks can do this unfortunately, but not other companies. You don't build a legacy like Ford, or Samuel Gawith in England by lying, cheating and stealing or treating your customers like trash.
Science’s vast gender pay gap revealed in UK wage data
Tesla is exerting and reinforcing that it is not liable for poor driver decisions. If you use any vehicle safety aid while not paying attention, and you die or kill someone while in control of the vehicle, that is your liability.

Whether they call their system "Autopilot" is immaterial. You are the responsibly party as the driver, and this is made clear both at purchase time and during vehicle use.
> Why should you "own" data that happens to be about you?

We are on a rock hurling through space at millions(?) of miles per hour, depending on your frame of reference. We literally write our own laws, in order to shape our destiny as we see fit. Or, we used to anyways.

An entity like Facebook having so much data on such a large portion of the population (not just US citizens, but citizens of the entire planet) merged with the increasing power of big data algorithms and understanding of human psychology is a very dangerous tool of persuasion.

Personally, I happen to believe that the reason this risk is suddenly getting so much "public support" is because politicians have come to a bi-partisan realization that having an independent entity with this much propaganda power is dangerous - the bi-partisan aspect is interesting as I think it's fair to say silicon valley "leans left" and would tend to be more favorable to democrats, but the last election demonstrated the risk inherent in that stance. Hence, a "spontaneous" flood of newspaper and TV articles with the subsequent (in my opinion, would be interested to hear disagreements on the chicken and egg aspect of it) awakening of "public outrage".
The thing that sometimes gets lost in the debate around Tesla autopilot (IMO), is that it's possible for self driving cars to be theoretically better than human drivers, AND that Tesla's implementation of that concept to be overall worse.

From the recent accidents it seems clear that Tesla autopilot is just not that great in it's current form. Even if it's following a line that it mistakes for a lane marker, how is it ok that it can't stop for a large obstacle in front of the car when given plenty of distance before a crash? How is this not a totally unacceptable type of failure for a system like this?
I re-watched it a few months back; it was still enjoyable overall. I agree that it didn't match up to nostalgia, but it wasn't as bad as one might fear.

The overt sexism (and threats) towards Sonya are pretty upsetting. I'd forgotten about that, and as a teenager I wrote it off as "well I guess he's just a Bad Guy". As an adult (and parent) now, I really feel like that kind of messaging is pretty toxic and unnecessary. (Heck, just the revenge motive of he-killed-her-partner would have been enough.)

There's a lot of writing that on some levels are Bad -- low-dimensional characters, etc -- but in the context of a movie character, wasn't all that bad. The characters were in many ways as much a caricature as their video game characters were. Johnny Cage is such a caricature of what one would imagine as the intersection of a spoiled (80s or 90s?) Movie Star with a martial artist -- in many ways, he seemed a direct spoof of Van Damme or other actors. And yet, I liked that they gave his character some redeeming qualities (IIRC).

As an action film, I still enjoyed the fight choreography for most of the fights, even if you have to have some huge suspension of disbelief about things like who would want to be one of Shang Tsung's disposable minions. :) I mean, what's the benefits and compensation package for that look like?
It first flashes, then beeps at you, and then disengages, so you start slowing down.

I believe that if that happens, it won't re-engage again until after the car is stopped, shut off, and re-started.
The carriers and providers, free to collect and sell your data now that the FCC changed regulations and replacement legislation hasn't been passed, don't like competition...
> I once took off three weeks for vacation, first in a very long time, several years. When I got back, there was definitely this air of "so and so is finally back, working like the rest of us." Even with my direct management, it felt a lot like I had spent trust for time off.

That's too bad. The person who sits to the left of me just got back from a 6 week long vacation and I have not noticed anyone being upset or treating them differently afterwards. We caught them up with the stuff that happened while they were gone and they went right back to helping the team.
People routinely ignore warnings. Did Mr. Huang normally ignore those warnings every day? If so, how are those warnings not just ass-covering by Tesla?
Zork: The Movie (Trailer)

https://vimeo.com/110531141

Zork Nemesis movie trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQxovf4r-is
All excited for a rare scholarly article on soil structure and it turns out to be an episode of six feet under. Sigh.
> Every time someone someone tries to sell me on this tired idea, I ask them: ...

Now it might be time to turn the table and ask: is it equally easy for everyone to learn bird calls?

Or maybe people have different abilities?

Edit: my point is not that this hasn't been used to sell a lot of useless ideas but rather that people are actually different.

For your bird call example the obvious way to learn it is by listening.

Other times it is less obvious. A kid with severe dyslexia will probably learn history easier by listening while other kids will prefer to read it at my own pace (i.e. fast).
Tesla probably shouldn't be saying anything about this at all, even just to avoid giving it more news cycles. But if they were going to say something, here's what they should have said the first time.

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We take great care in building our cars to save lives. Forty thousands Americans die on the roads each year. That's a statistic. But even a single death of a Tesla driver or passenger is a tragedy. This has affected everyone on our team deeply, and our hearts go out to the family and friends of Walter Huang.

We've recovered data that indicates Autopilot was engaged at the time of the accident. The vehicle drove straight into the barrier. In the five seconds leading up to the crash, neither Autopilot nor the driver took any evasive action.

Our engineers are investigating why the car failed to detect or avoid the obstacle. Any lessons we can take from this tragedy will be deployed across our entire fleet of vehicles. Saving other lives is the best we can hope to take away from an event like this.

In that same spirit, we would like to remind all Tesla drivers that Autopilot is not a fully-autonomous driving system. It's a tool to help attentive drivers avoid accidents that might have otherwise occurred. Just as with autopilots in aviation, while the tool does reduce workload, it's critical to always stay attentive. The car cannot drive itself. It can help, but you have to do your job.

We do realize, however, that a system like Autopilot can lure people into a false sense of security. That's one reason we are hard at work on the problem of fully autonomous driving. It will take a few years, but we look forward to some day making accidents like this a part of history.
I started making a list

* Super Mario Bros
* Silent Hill

And then realized that I couldn't add more to it... It's insane. There are so many good stories in video game. I'd argue that The Last Of Us is the most beautiful entertainment story every created be it a movie, video game, comic, book, ...

Anime have the same issues, they have insane stories and they either end up being ignored or worse, being shit on by directors. See Dragon Ball Evolution or Netflix Death Note...
I am a huge fan of Elon Musk and a small TSLA share holder, but there is something about Tesla and Musk’s response to this that feels so wrong. It seems two faced. On the one hand, they shout about how great and safe their technology is, and on the other hand they blame someone for dying when they chose to rely on that technology. Is it safe or unsafe? I know it’s not that simple, but this response still saddens me.

I know they must have people who want to bring them down through legal action. And I think they want to establish a precedent that they are not liable in any crashes out of a desire to protect the corporation. But still, this response seems so cold, and so uncaring, that I am reminded that Tesla is still a corporation that in the end must protect itself.

I want self driving cars, but not a world without compassion. Why is it that we seem forced to choose one versus the other?

EDIT: Immediately after hitting send, two Model 3’s passed me one after the other, before any other vehicles passed. The universe is strange.
That's my experience as well.

I was initially against it, but my company (or at least my department?) is now very good at making sure people get sufficient time off.
He came without being subpoenaed, so not putting him under oath may have been a courtesy. Many of the congressmen thanked him for coming on his own accord.
I imagine most Getaround car owners didn't imagine that their cars would be rented for commercial purposes, ground to the absolute maximum usage and having potentially dozens of strangers enter per day.

Hopefully this feature is opt in, but given my experience working for and using Getaround, I know it probably isn't.
> it sounds like Tesla is saying its autopilot doesn't actually work and that if you don't continue to drive your car you're going to die

No, it doesn't just "sound like", it's actually

> extremely clear that Autopilot requires the driver to be alert and have hands on the wheel. This reminder is made every single time Autopilot is engaged. If the system detects that hands are not on, it provides visual and auditory alerts.
Even the stupidest product ideas make the front page. I would hate to see what gets discarded.
Because public build is not the same as the one we use internally.
The cost for them is 0, the cost for MZ is incredibly high. I don't think he would have agreed if he was under oath.
I find it's always worth asking "will this get better over time, or worse" for everything, ever. Folks just fail to see past the next few months, having at least one person in the room asking this question makes them at least ignore it intentionally instead of complacency.
Haha. One I can recall is https://www.hundredunderhundred.com
I'd love a link to someone "debunking" Peterson, as he is just another scale on the ouroboros that is philosophical critique of the human experience.

I'm quite interested in the topic, but I am loathe to engage in the meta-representation of the topic; I wish to discuss messages not messengers. Though there is maple in my blood I am not who you seek to disparage.

I believe the most effective social organization strategies evolved are religion and nationalism, with religion being the simplest and nationalism being the strongest. I do not believe in an evolutionary stairway to enlightenment, rather a shifting physical world that creates arbitrary "final exams" for species that wish to continue proliferation. Ideas evolve like biological life forms, and meta-analysis is not a determining factor in the survival of ideas without the addition of death squads and concentration camps.

With this as a point of departure, there is no precedent for social organization that can claim consistent superiority over any other. Each has a matched set of strengths and weaknesses that exhibit or recess depending on the situation under review.

I firmly believe that the core criteria for a "working idea" is that it propagates generationally, through actors either cognizant or ignorant of it. Past that, all observable attributes are valued based on a particular situation, not a connected series of events (rather, a dialectic).
I don't think the reasons are too complicated here, I think they really just come down to a mixture of the following:

1. Most games are created as interactive experiences, and the storytelling reflects that. For example, look at something like the Metroid Prime series. Almost all the lore is found in logs and in universe worldbuilding, not in the form of a linear narrative. That's hard to adapt into a non interactive medium, because you have tell such a story in a completely different way.

2. Many successful games either have poorly thought out or non existent stories because they focus on the mechanics and gameplay. See for example the Mario platformers (the RPGs might work better here), the Pokemon series, Sonic, any puzzle game like Tetris, Minecraft etc.

(It's also worth pointing out that much of what's needed for a fun game would be seen as bad writing in any other medium, since a realistic hero likely wouldn't be able to handle the challenges in many games. Most video game protagonists would likely be seen as Mary Sues/wish fulfilment in a non interactive medium).

3. Hollywood has a tendency of going after popular franchises regardless of whether they have a story that works in film form. This means being stuck trying to adapt games that simply don't work well in the format rather than ones like adventure games or visual novels which would adapt pretty well. The recently announced Tetris movie trilogy is a good example of this, since the source material has basically nothing you can adapt into a non interactive film.

Video games are just difficult to adapt by virtue of the medium and what's needed to succeed in it.
I see your point on calling it "Autopilot", but if you think about the application of the term in terms of aviation, I think it makes more sense. Autopilot in planes won't land the plane for you. It basically will just keep you at a certain elevation and direction.

I think that Tesla's Autopilot function is comparable to planes. That's probably how they will justify it. However there might be a legitimate point in that people don't have that kind of understanding of what "Autopilot" means.
Correct. I used the wrong term.
I dunno the exact law, but those segments seem like specially-regulated segments of the economy.
The learning styles thing always confused me, because I would take the test to see which type I was, and get a different answer each time. I think it's because the way that you process different subjects just isn't necessarily consistent.

Ex:
- Anything related to music is auditory. I learned to read sheet music, but I can never "visualize" the sounds from that. I would just have to play it and see what comes out. If I heard the first couple notes of a song I've heard before though, I can easily hear the entire song in my head and then figure it out on an instrument.

- Foreign languages, by contrast, I needed good printouts for. I'm slow at processing streaming sounds in real time, and even more so for unfamiliar languages. I think my brain just has to do a lot of post-processing with full context to make sense of verbal language. But I could read and write the languages just fine, and if the language is somewhat phonetic, I can lean on my spelling knowledge to speak it halfway decently.

- anything technical or mathematical requires that I solve some sort of problem with it to understand

- Any "softer" subject (psychology, history, economics) is best reinforced when I learn via interesting stories. I like that so many textbooks have those "real world application" sections or whatever to tie things into history or things I've seen in real life. A good orator though can also tell a compelling story to keep my attention engaged on the subject.

The absolute worst though is when an educator makes a slide show, prints those slides out and hands them out before class starts, then reads the slides and answers questions. That pretty much guarantees I have no investment in the class, as I don't really have incentive to take notes or listen, and I won't be surprised by anything because it only takes like 3 minutes to actually skim everything and see it's just bullet points pulled from the text book.
> Mostly because videogame plot lines aren't as good as we give them credit for

Same with movies, books, comics, ... but the top is good. The Last Of Us ffs...
It's the phlogiston fallacy that all heat is equally the same chemical energy, and that all chemical reactions "just" produce or consume heat. The body is not an ideal furnace, and food is not an ideal fuel.
Most of CGI’s customers (if it’s the CGI I’m thinking of) are used to supporting software ecosystems like Fortran, Java, and COBOL for 20+ years on major releases. 10 years is “mid-cycle” comparably. When the IRS pays Microsoft millions and millions to keep supporting Windows XP, these “niche” organizations may be small in actual engineering persons involved but from a capital perspective extremely overweight.
As a change of pace, I really enjoyed your comments on k8's in the thread you linked in your profile. It truly is a breath of fresh air to see some sanity around that topic, especially with how much favor such platforms have curried on HN.
Agreed. It's not really being used correctly any time I see it being used (aside from describing actual propaganda, which is what this term comes from) -- "whataboutism" is a very specific tactic. The intent to distract from the issue at hand is a necessary component. Bringing in relative context in a productive manner != whataboutism.
I'm a pretty frequent car renter (Turo) and haven't heard of Getaround at all.
> Cryptocurrencies are most certainly divisible

The parent asked "what happens when a piece of bread is worth less than 1 satoshi?" - as far as I know, one satoshi is not divisible; am I mistaken?
This is really cool!

I'd love to see the "Hello World" example template provided for all languages, not just C (or at least, for Rust as well, since the C++ version would be awfully close to the C one already).

EDIT: On a different note, I was confused when I loaded a template, hit "Run", and got nothing. I assumed running would automatically build first. It would be nice to somehow hint to the user if they run something that hasn't been built yet.
Whoa, that's a lot of wasm to show a hello world, compared to "hello world" in assembly language.
That's what series are for! I could see The Last Of Us as a series.