skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cab medallions are currently transferable, so you would need to purchase enough medallions to operate the fleet you would hit at peak usage, but otherwise you'd just need to ensure that all of the driver can qualify for a medallion.

Hotel/rooming house licenses aren't un-affordable, there are regulations around them but both motel6 and mom&pop B&Bs can acquire them, so the bar is generally pretty low. For instance in Cambridge, MA it looks like it'd cost about 200$[1] to file for the license, Airbnb could probably offer legal services to help people properly apply if they cared to.

[1] https://www.cambridgema.gov/iwantto/applyforahotellodgingori...
> Let's be clear about all this, and where the problem arises from.

Yes, let's. It arises from parents letting kids not only watch but outright discover content unsupervised.

If it weren't YouTube, it would be [insert name of threat to kids].

With both parents working, supervising kids is easier said than done – I'm not saying it's their fault for having to go to work to support their families, but the responsibility of policing their own kids is certainly theirs and nobody else's.
https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/11/03/algorithmic-improvements...

https://github.com/efficient/libcuckoo
> Wider lens sweet spot

... and it's gone. Software IPD means a tiny sweet spot. Even if this is mitigated by slightly better optics it'll be smaller. Plus lack of hardware IPD will cause eye fatigue and headaches; discomfort is still an important part of VR HMD considerations. It didn't go away.

And using LCD means no blacks. So crappy space sims and games that have to be made to not use black.
My kids are still young (5, 6, 9), so I have yet to fight most of those battles. But I've already told them they can wait to have their own mobile devices until they turn 16... We'll see if I can hold out.
I'm not a Rust expert, but I think ownership and borrowing go away after compile-time.
Yes, failure to rule out an elephant means you probably didn't look hard enough (collect enough data).

But successfully ruling out an elephant is uninteresting if you didn't expect an elephant. The problem is that "statistically significant" sounds impressive, but we shouldn't be impressed.

I guess we need a less impressive term for this? Maybe something like "may have avoided statistical blindness."
Do you think this is one of those ideas that sound great on paper but in reality doesn’t pan out. Mostly because google doesn’t have enough domain expertise to understand the gaming community?
https://github.com/efficient/libcuckoo

There's the related cuckoo filter as well: https://github.com/efficient/cuckoofilter
Sure there are. You can't just call a result "significant" at will. You can pull numbers out of thin air, pre-filter your data or carefully pick a statistical test to be in your favor. But it's still well-defined which outcomes you're allowed to call significant and which ones you can't.
"Lazy reader" is not the audience for scientific papers.

Protecting against misinterpretations by outsides is not something that scientific research papers should worry about.
I'm guessing the 128-bit multiplication implementation on the ARM architecture isn't as well done as is on the Intel platform?

You might be able to reclaim the performance if you manually implement the multiplication using 64-bit variables instead.
> Collective rational thought and research to establish a scientific consensus that sugary drinks make you fat and ill knows best.

Collective rational thought also brought us such wonders as eugenics, phrenology...

I'm no fan of sugared beverages, nor do I consume them with any regularity, but it isn't my right to tell people they can't enjoy them because some people abuse them. Ordinary people have every option not to buy or keep soda in their house or near them at work; ordinary professional and personal interventions are sufficient to stop people from drinking them.

I have met a lot of obese people who avoid soda for its health risks, it is not a sufficient intervention on its own to change most people's dietary issues.

Now, if you want to talk about making soda, candy, sweet pastries, and low-value juice from SNAP, that's a different matter. It should not be criminal for me to put sugar in seltzer water and sell it to willing people.
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> They simply say that if rerunning the experiment again, it would be surprising to get a different result.

That interpretation subtly suggests that the P-value gives an estimate of the likelihood of the alternative hypothesis being true.
Exactly, sample sizes will have to increase with the selective threshold.

I'm surprised the authors don't talk about 'practical significance' vs 'statistical significance'. Statistical significance can be easily gamed, especially if you're relying on one study. I think the real problem is the reliance on one study to make broad generalizations. The 'replication crisis' is everywhere.
Thanks for making this! This was my first questions as well. Can you ship the very simple form, and later ship the more robust version?
Sorry, I hear "when it's against my preferred candidate it's absolutely horrible". Transparency, and informed decisions are usually claimed to be good for democracy. Hacked emails may play for this, even if done for another reason. Democratic elections are always go with dirt-digging, and spills, and it is essential part of the process even if someone doesn't like it.
Atheism is an answer to a question. It has exactly nothing to do with the scientific the method in much the same way that "What is your favorite ice cream?" has nothing to do with the scientific method.

Belief in god, on the other hand, is making a claim, and as such, can be verified by the scientific method.

It has been, actually, and belief in god is by definition disproven by the scientific method.
> And when you talk about "weak atheism", I would argue that the distinction between that and agnosticism is fairly subtle.

Strong Atheist: There is no god, I can prove it.
Weak Atheist: There is no god, there is no reason to believe there is one.
Agnostic: I don't know if there is a god.

The difference is not subtle. It is the difference between having an opinion and not having one.

Strong vs Weak atheism is basically a worthless distinction to most people, because having no evidence of something means you don't believe in it in the scientific method. No, it isn't proof of the non-existence, but we still act like it doesn't exist until proven otherwise, otherwise we have to believe literally anything that you can imagine that isn't provably non-existent (back to Russel's teapot).
There could be an instruction scheduler impact here as well. Intel processors are known for having an uncommonly deep execution window.

It turns out that the Nth wyhash64_x doesn't depend on any of the multiplies in the N-1th iterations. It only depends on the addition of the zeroth order constant.

So, with a sufficiently deep pipeline, the instruction scheduler can effectively be in the middle of several of those wyhash iterations all at the same time, thus hiding nearly all of the hash's latency by using the other iterations to do it.

Such are the perils of micro-benchmarking.
I think it would be easy with standard CSS: @media print * { display: none } Yes, it's circumventable, but they're going for accidental leaks, not intentional.
HOAs (in neighborhoods with houses) do a lot of things local governments do in other parts of the country, like south suburban chicago, where I grew up -- operate pools, common lawn care, etc.

I'm on a condo board currently and those are an entirely separate thing, much more intense, much more money, and much more service (when run well).
I think after the Quest it would be a big mistake to make PC headsets a separate product anyway. Any resources for Rift 2 would be better invested on Quest 2 and making it work well with a PC (plugged in, wirelessly, or both).

I can't see any fundamental design differences between a good mobile and PC headset. Sure the PC can drive a higher resolution on most games (for more detail or field-of-view). But even mobile can run certain apps like virtual theaters at high res, and it will benefit from less screen door effect. The weight distribution of the battery needs to be solved in any case, and a wireless PC-only headset would need a battery too. If an ultra-high res screen increases the cost they can always do multiple products but I don't see why they should segment them into PC/mobile. I think most PC users would rather pay an extra $50 for an all-in-one device that works with PC and standalone than $400 each for entirely separate headsets.

Looking forward a little bit, it might make sense for Oculus to make a compact wireless eGPU if they want to be competitive on high end graphics, since it could probably have much better setup, cost, and portability for users that don't already own a gaming PC (in addition to providing a standard performance profile). If the external graphics brick could have a snap on battery and be used on a backpack/vest even better. I've tried some arcade type stuff with multiple users, haptic feedback etc and it's pretty cool although totally non-standardized.
Reminder that it has been and still is the norm for the last half century for 30k people to die in car accidents each year. Many more injured and disabled.

Better yet, texting while driving increases the risk of an accident while driving 23x
I got more sense out of it on github: https://github.com/google/sandboxed-api/blob/master/README.m...
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That's exactly it. They have thought about it but the people who complain about AirBnBs are generally the benifitors of artificially reduced supply. Nobody is renting AirBnBs in Bensonhurst, they're in the WV or Chelsea. World's tiniest violin.
Didn't the second Vive release provide something more gamer oriented?
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I'm right there with you. I have a DK1 and a Rift and I strongly regret purchasing the latter instead of a Vive.

It's frustrating to hear people just now complaining about Oculus abandoning niche markets.
On a modern out of order uarch that kind of "complex" instruction would by spited in two micro operation, one for each register result.
And Agner's tables [1] confirms that the mul 64*64 => 128 is split in two micro-ops on Skylake.
So it doesn't give any strong advantage.

[1] https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
Tongue in cheek......this is planned obsolescence. New model with upgraded features is announced so you start to brick the old ones by making them run into things. :) Of course there is that pesky issue of it potentially injuring/killing the driver and passengers....

In all seriousness, these things are getting better, but Skynet is not here yet. Just because a company, governmental agency etc. says something is safe you always need to evaluate things yourself..and it's probably not a good idea to rely on these auto pilots unless you want to win a Darwin award. I love the cars, but the hype is a bit annoying around stuff like this.
You are confusing evidence with proof. Absence of evidence is not proof of absence, but it is evidence of absence even if the subject is intelligent. The absence of evidence for alien visitors to earth is in fact evidence of the absence of such visitors.

Now, there are some adversarial situations where absence of evidence is only weak evidence of absence. Two examples of this are the game of hide-and-seek, and steganography. There is also the invisible pink unicorn. So you can't rule out a certain class of adversarial deity just as you cannot rule out a passive one. But again, the actual deities that are the generally the subject of dispute are not adversarial.

(This, BTW, is one of the reasons that my favorite god is Loki.)
They need to prove that claim

No, they don't. The whole point is believe without proof. It's called "faith."
I can't shake the notion that these "Kidfluencers" are exploited by their parents and large companies in order to seduce other children (maybe this is obvious but I want to keep a seed of doubt in my mind that these kids actually enjoy making these videos, for fun). In my dream world, anyone in the business of "kidfluencing" would be completely de-monetized across every social media network, and all marketing directly to children would be strictly regulated.
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I've used KDE's Konsole for 20+ years. How would I got about testing its latency??
If AirBnBs overtook 90% of the apartments in your neighborhood this example might be relevant.

> The company begins boxing up that resource and shipping it off to people who will pay more money for that resource.

Unless you live in Christiana this is probably already the case. AirBnBs tend to be in expensive neighborhoods.
I've got an easy fix for you, just buy two pairs, and charge the pair that you're not using!
Methods like gauge R&R can be used to help decide if the measurement system being used in an experiment is sensitive enough to detect an elephant of a given size.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOVA_gauge_R%26R
The point is that Youtube wants to make a profit off all this, and with profit comes responsibility to follow broadcasting laws.

OP isn't saying that Youtube shouldn't exist, but that they chose to exist with that business model and so they need to solve the problems that come with it.
I don't have the fatalities stats, but their safety ratings have been perfect.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/20/tesla-model-3-earns-perfect-...
HP Reverb Virtual Reality Headset: A 4K HMD with 6DOF
"Linux support is on the roadmap post-launch"

https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/674311865023918080
> One of the things I hate about modern games is that while the environment gets closer to realism, humans (face, skin) still look like corpses. I prefer cartoonish characters instead of being in uncanny valley.

Subsurface scattering is necessary for face / skin to work with light. You get good subsurface scattering in movies these days, but not really in video games yet. Its far too costly to make realistic skin renders.

Skin is partially transparent: you can see the veins, blood, and even muscles through people's skin. Blushing is simply the act of blood rushing to the face, its immediately visible and instantly causes a reddish hue to due the skin's transparency.

Simulating that outside of movie settings is going to take far more GPU power than what is available even in the next 5 years. We're still working on basic raytracing for video games, not even the advanced stuff yet.

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In effect, the "location" of where light is reflected on skin is "inside" the skin. Light penetrates into your skin and illuminates the stuff underneath. But traditional raytracing assumes that the reflection occurs on the "surface" of skin, resulting on a "waxy" look. The reflection is subtly in the wrong place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsurface_scattering

Without subsurface scattering, you get the "barbie doll" look, even in raytracing. "Barbie Doll" works fine for cartoons, but its always a killer for me personally when I'm playing video games.

EDIT: Example image with SSS (SubSurface Scattering): http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ahUMngIOPqU/T85dlEU9I7I/AAAAAAAAA5...

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Gems, Marble, etc. etc. are also partially translucent, and look awful in traditional video games. Subsurface Scattering makes these partially transparent rocks look more correct.
It's also $200 more than the Rift S and only has 2 tracking cameras instead of 5. Not a bad product by any means, but unless resolution is your main concern I wouldn't consider it superior to the Rift S.
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Presumably the message we should take from Dr. Gould is that the western world should shower more of its resources on the children of other peoples across the world and less on its own children, in the vague hope of finding that talent in a field or sweatshop.

It makes you wonder whether any other civilization would even consider such a policy, and what the long term prospects are of any civilization that has so little regard for its own success in competition with other civilizations that it would even think about it.

It also makes you wonder what could cause a civilization to adopt that kind of mindset. Surely such an idea would have been laughed at by the western world 300 years ago, or even 100 years ago. Now that kind of mentality seems totally within the normal range. What has changed?
Legitimately curious, why would this be a better solution than Databricks on Azure or AWS?
Very interesting. USA' EB-5 visa is at 500k USD, in comparison.

For a chinese national, a Vanuatu passport would provide visa-free entry at almost all of EU, Cuba, Hong Kong (!), Northern and many African countries, Israel, Caribeean.
Well, if YouTube did nothing when 2 (very big with kids) stars were promoting a shady gambling site to minors, I have little faith they'll do something until the EU hits them hard with a court appearance & yet another multi billion euro fine.

https://www.tubefilter.com/2019/01/02/jake-paul-ricegum-yout...
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atheism

https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/about-atheism/

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/atheism

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/atheism (2)

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/atheist

And even if an atheist holds the position that a god does not exist, based on our current evidence, this is the default null hypothesis, and this rejection of the claim that a god does exist does not require a proof. The assertion that a god exists requires proof. The author's insistence that atheists who simply default to the null hypothesis in the question of whether a god exists need to provide evidence is the one violating the scientific method.

If someone tells the author that BBQ pork sandwiches cure cancer does he just accept it as true until someone proves that they don't cure cancer?
Dunno, maybe. I do wonder which cars Tesla gets lumped in with.

There can be a difference between a $75k ICE driver and a $75k electric driver.

The point is, one stupid decision by a machine doesn’t prove much.
It's only intractable if you're addicated to Nazi gold, as it were.

Social media companies can and do solve this problem for countries like Germany (set your Twitter location to Germany, watch how many people disappear from it). They choose not to elsewhere.
> In that case your chance of having an opposite gender twin should be about half a percent.

Only if you assume half of all twins are opposite sex, which is wrong; that may be correct for fraternal twins (though since environment at conception seems to affect sex, maybe not), but it certainly isn't for identical twins which are always the same sex (by sex chromosomes, at least.)
oh, I guess they were using https://github.com/pavelfatin/typometer ?
HN: This paper is the antivax argument

You should probably be replying to the one specific person in this thread who said that instead of arbitrarily attributing it to 'HN'.
Let's come back to this thread in two more years and continue this chat. Are you in good faith arguing that airpods and quality earphones will last the same amount of time and have the same environmental impact? It's one thing to have wanton disregard for the environment and say "Fuck climate change, convenience rulez", but a whole another thing to try to convince yourself that there IS no difference between the two choices.

Also, to preempt any exhortations of slippery slope fallacies, I'd say every person deserves a good laptop that they take care of, and a smartphone that they try to get to last as long as possible. That's where we draw the line. Every gadget beyond that should cause a serious examination of how necessary it is in one's life, and whether it is a want or a need. Airpods would fail catastrophically for almost everyone in such a sytem.
> I’ve spent a lot of summer trips hiking around small vacation towns in Colorado, and I’ve always found regular hotels to be a great way to do it. Occasionally I need to drive a bit more, but it’s not too bad.

That sounds nice, and it suits a lot of people just fine. But try doing that with a family, and on a limited budget.

I'll give you an example: last year I "rented" my own place for a week with family. We crammed thirteen of us into our house (it's properly equipped to sleep 12 but we've never had that many aside from our own family). My father-in-law took us out to dinner the first night, and we ate breakfast at restaurants most mornings. The cost of food was likely over a thousand dollars for the week, but it could easily have been double or triple that if we'd eaten out every day. As it was, some of our money went to the local grocery store instead of restaurants, and we were able to afford a week-long vacation instead of just a weekend.

You can't do this in a hotel with mini-fridge and a microwave. If you want to bring your family on a week-long vacation in the Colorado Mountains, and if you're not wealthy, then you do it by renting my house, which has a full kitchen, enough rooms, beds, and foldouts for a large family, and costs half or even a quarter of what the same space a hotel would cost.

So it's not that hotels are worse than vacation rentals. They're just different. They serve different markets. If places like mine didn't exist, the groups and families that stay there aren't going to stay in hotels instead; they're not going to come to this town at all, because hotels can't provide comfortable longer-duration vacations that are also affordable for most people.

This is extremely important for ski vacations. Skiing is expensive enough as it is, that most people can afford just a few days a year with the hotel, food, and fuel costs that come with it. But my place can make it downright cheap in comparison.
After game analysis. When someone picks the computer best most from a position you can ask how likely it is they came up with that on their own. Expert chess players recognize computer moves fairly accurately in a lot of situations (this is easy to test, just take a bunch of positions, show the last move and ask if it was human or computer). From there human judges look at the game and decide how likely it is someone cheated.

Of course if you only cheat once you get away with it as nobody will be sure. However cheating once isn't enough to change a game - in fact it will probably change it for the worse on your side (without knowing what the computer intended you follow a bad line after the otherwise good move). Thus you can look at a series of games and concluded if the player cheated or not. From there you take after the fact adjustments which mostly means recalculate everyone's score as if those games didn't happen.

Interestingly enough, chess masters generally will score alpha zero moves as human not computers. It will be interesting to see how online cheating progresses once better AI based chess computers become available.
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That is blazing fast for all sorts of embedded use.
I think I will forever be bitter about an argument that I had with a professor in college about statistical significance. There was a study with 12 (or some other tiny N) people who were told to click a button when they saw some change as a laser was moving in a circle. They were then asked to go back and pick the place where the laser was when they observed the change. The study found that people remembered clicking the button 10ms (or some other tiny value) before they actually did. This was clearly grounds for all of us to question whether humans had free will at all, because the result was statistically significant after all! When I challenged the professor on this, I was told that I should take a statistics class. I think that professor still turns me off from philosophy to this day. This happened in a philosophy class