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I recently watched a couple of episodes of Street Sharks because I liked it growing up and wanted to have a bit of a nostalgia binge. The whole thing is an ad for the toys.
> making natural movement

To me, the movement didn't seem natural. But what it did seem like is classic Disney animation!
No oled, no 8k, not even 4k...who wants this "upgrade"?
Using the same name as one of Google Maps biggest competitors. Nice.
There's truth to this, although I find the demo easier to appreciate when I focus specifically on the things that benefit from RTX. That said... I think they could've picked a better scene to that end. The original stormtrooper one was great, but an outdoor scene (fewer surfaces reflecting indirect light) with a body of water (a flat reflection which can be easily achieved using non-RT techniques) doesn't really play to the technology's strengths.

Side note: Geez, that linked video says so much about how much gaming culture has evolved in a decade and a half.
For anyone who havn’t tried the Oculus Go yet which use side strap audio, I have to share my experience: It’s awesome!

Probably the one thing that impresses people the most with the Go.
i would wager that your argument is a rounding error compared to laptops, phones, and tvs... are airpods less environmentally friendly than regular headphones? sure, but let’s tackle things that actually matter before nitpicking. my airpods are devices that i’ve had longer than many of my other electronics purchases, and they’re certainly a quality of life improvement
But, for the love of God, please don't put the word "Go" in the name :D
> What happens when your model errors aren't normally distributed?

Honestly...? You're screwed. At least in Bio, where most researchers haven't taken calculus, most folks will screw up the t-test or their ANOVA if you are not super careful. For non Gaussian data you better pray it's Poisson or has some other exotic name that you can at least google.

Especially with low N, you just kinda pray it's normal and then you go and try and get grant funding with those results.

Cynically, in the end, it barely matters. It's all about that grant money. Whatever way you can tease that data to get more grants, you just do that. No-one ever checks anyway (Statcheck excepted)
Except my point is exactly this - if you can only guess at the salaries of average and low performers than you have nothing to suggest that they aren't, in fact, paid more than you, and a union coming in would boost your salary and not theirs.
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I'd be curious to hear about the experience with customers in 6-12 months. It seems like if you can tap into the "hobbyist" market, and keep them interested, it could be a solid business.

I'm reminded by the Fender presentation at re:Invent this year (https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/fender/). Fender noticed that 45% of Fender players are new to the instrument, and most spend more on lessons then the guitar itself, but 90% quit after a year. The 10% that stick with it will go on to purchase 8-10 guitars, typically from their brand. So their whole strategy with apps and services is just to chisel away at that 90% number.
A pacemaker has objective improvements over the alternative, namely, death. So if a pacemaker has a bug, it's still overwhelmingly better than the baseline scenario of "no pacemakers."

A self-driving Tesla is not objectively better than a regular, human-driven car. The jury's still out on whether any self-driving car is even as good as the average human driver, so if one of them has a bug that causes serious accidents in reproducible situations, that's not better than the baseline situation it's being compared to.
AI to Give Drones the Ability to Avoid Collisions
> I kinda suspect it is the kind of job that is just inherently unhealthy

that doesn't mean you can't try to mitigate the worst aspects of it. here are some suggestions to start:

* saner hours

* better pay, so that you can live on 40 hours a week or less of this work.

* saner goals as far as throughput for amount of content screened

* comprehensive medical insurance including good mental health care

* free on-site confidential psychological counseling

the market's not doing a good job of taking care of these people. i understand why they get paid poorly in the sense that i understand why they will accept these jobs for this pay, and why companies pay that much for the job: it's because companies can get away with it. either through unionization or legislation, we need to fix that. FB etc don't function without these people, but these people are used by that system with no regard for their welfare.

programmers and other usually direct employees of software companies can have it bad, but they usually don't have it nearly as bad as the content screeners.

> I'm not sure what could be done.

me either, really, but there are some reasonable things we can try. i don't think we should just abdicate responsibility on this because it's hard and those people don't have much power.
> At this price you're paying for recognisability and affluence signalling.

Give it a rest, Apple makes great hardware with great software. That's why people buy it, nothing to do with being cool.
Most sushi places don't prepare nigiri properly in my experience. Each piece of nigiri should have wasabi between the rice and seafood and a small amount of sauce on top, intended to be eaten fish-side-down. (SF probably has the most places that do it correctly outside NYC and LA)

You're welcome to eat it however you like, but the ginger is generally speaking the palate cleanser while wasabi is historically both flavor enhancer and an antibacterial agent.
> Have you considered maybe going "old school" with the devices?

I have, but I've largely dismissed the idea.

When I tinkered with an Apple II, it was top of the line - Oregon Trail was amaaaaaazing. I didn't have stuff from three decades into the future to compare it to.

My kids know powerful, easy to use computing devices exist, so building an animation in Logo or something isn't compelling. They use their iPhones and Xbox daily to do cool, tinkery things - my son builds complex circuits in Minecraft, for example.

I experienced the "back in my day" thing with my dad a bit - he wanted me to learn to take apart engines, and it took a while for him to realize I was doing the same with code. I think a lot of folks are doing that now with the next generation and modern devices - missing the point. Chances are they're doing something creative with it, even if it's not the same creative thing we were.
In these videos, "Autopilot" is mentioned as the culprit, which seems to be a subset of the features Tesla has.

It seems to me there are 3 layers:

(level 0: Just Adaptive Cruise Control (use radar to adjust speed up to a max). Human still steers.

- 1: Adaptive Cruise Control (use radar to adjust speed up to a max) + Autosteer (camera's watch the lane markers and follow them). This is referred to as "Autopilot"

NOTE: This is where the accidents happen. The car isn't driving towards a barrier, it's following the lane markers and hits an error state. This is also NOT self driving.

- 2: "Nav on Autopilot". This is an additional function you turn on where the car has more intelligent (use this word loosely) capabilities on highways. The car will still do everything on level 1 combined with lane changes (using cameras to detect objects and trajectories differentiating cars from trucks from pedestrians from bikes from motorcycles etc). It will still follow lane lines, but with a lot of additional information (is there an object? am I merging? am I exiting? etc)

- 3: "Full Self Driving". This is an additional package that doesn't exist to the public. Internally I'm sure they're testing the functionality but this is using all of the sensors and algorithms and likely neural networks to decide what to do. A cool point though is that all Tesla's are likely running this code in "shadow mode" where data can be collected and assumptions can be tested without endangering any actual drivers. (see here for some cool data on this: https://electrek.co/2019/03/05/tesla-autopilot-detects-stop-...). "Hey, I think the car, if full self driving SHOULD take action X. *compare to what the driver actually does and log the data" over BILLIONS of miles

So when a Tesla hits the barrier or gets in an accident, we're actually running "#1" and people start freaking out. But when we get to the capabilities of #3 a lot of the "object permanence and continuity" stuff starts to come into play.

Full Disclosure:
- I drive a Model 3 every day on Autopilot 75% of the time
- I only 75% think self driving is capability under the current Tesla software suite but I bought the package anyways.
The parts of our brains that identify human forms have been finely honed over thousands of years; humans have always been the hardest subject to get right in any artistic medium. I think we're getting close here, though.
This looks great.

In a few short years I'll be able to get a VR headset and install a computer inside of one of these games so I can work remote from basically any virtual world. Then i'll only need to unplug and face reality to get the Postmates.
Yeah, that name isn't ominous or anything...
And modern semiconductors.

The original Pacific DC Intertie used enormous mercury vapor tubes.
"I've always suspected it generalizes much further."

I think it does. At one point a light bulb went off when I realized that all of these scholastic talent competitions were basically the intellectual version of childhood beauty pageants. Ultimately I see the whole scene as a cycle - kids from overachiever/dysfunctional backgrounds who grow up, have kids of their own, and then (usually unwittingly) use their own kids as props to help them cope with their own unresolved issues and insecurities.

The closest thing I have to a general takeaway is: don't use your kids as props to deal with your issues. But of course the parents who have enough self awareness to acknowledge their issues aren't the ones who are pushing their kids to an unhealthy degree.
If you crash 1 in 10 drives you have no business being on the road. Most people can drive for years without even having a single, minor accident.

If Tesla crashes 1 in 100 drives, it's absolutely a death trap since that's still an obscenely bad accident rate.
I agree, even when I do have the option of getting 'real' wasabi I always prefer the horse radish based one.
The link between meat consumption and colorectal cancer has been shown to be almost entirely mediated by two primary factors: nitrosamines and transition metals.

Nitrosamines are not naturally present in meat. They are produced when peptides (dietary protein) are heated a lot in the presence of oxygen. Nitrosamines are generally not produced when the protein is intimately mixed with large amounts of carbohydrates, because these act as antioxidants. So the line is "vegetable proteins do not generate nitrosamines", but if you were to extract those proteins into a meat-like product, common sense says that frying this like chicken will generate nitrosamines. The nitrosamines are just generated when organic nitrogen is oxidized to nitrogen dioxide, which reacts with peptides to generate nitrosamines. (Many vegetarian meat substitutes contain a lot more carbohydrate than real meat does. But there is an easy way to mix carbohydrates with your meat; that is left as an exercise to the reader.) (Also, the amino acids lysine and arginine generate more nitrosamines than other amino acids. These tend to be poorly represented in most plant proteins. They are also essential amino acids, and lysine in particular has been the object of serious investigation in the search for "complete" plant proteins.)

Transition metals are naturally present in meat. The most important carcinogenic transition metals are iron and copper. Both iron and copper are carcinogenic. Both iron and copper are necessary nutrients. In fact, iron and copper are two of the most important nutrients available in meat which require some planning to incorporate into a vegetarian diet!

In a very real sense, the same nutrients that would motivate you to eat meat are also the ones which cause it to be correlated with cancer. Red meat is a particularly dense source of iron, so of course it has the strongest correlation with colon cancer. (High iron titers in many vegetables report insoluble iron complexes which are neither nutritive nor carcinogenic. Iron in meat is highly soluble, nutritive and carcinogenic.)

This is not surprising when you consider that cancer is made of the same cells that we are and have (mostly) the same biochemistry that we do. When vegetarians talk about meat causing cancer, they always try to make it sound like God is punishing us for eating animals. Nothing could be further from the case.

But most importantly: the odds ratios are small. So I had a chicken sandwich for lunch.
That was a runc vuln, which affected other conatinerization solutions on Linux, not just docker.

Also it didn't really have anything to do with the Docker daemon running as root, it was triggered by the use of root users in containers (blocked if the user didn't do that, had decent SELinux setups or used user namespaces)
Yeah I got that. My point is that ‘workspace’ isn’t a Boolean flag in terraform. It requires additional flags to function, eg

terraform workspace new granra

‘workspace’ is effectively the CLI flags equivalent of a submenu.
Yeah. I like to go where few people have gone before, but that's not something that works when everyone does it. Maybe artificial attractions (Disneyland and the like) can absorb a large part of tourism, deflecting tragedy.
Admittedly, I do not have a lot of experience in other CPUs, but to me its just the way its designed. A simple syntax for assembly and the way it maps to byte values is clever. It doesn't require a lot of work to make things happen, ie "hacks" for interacting with IO. I also like how there is a separate IO bus from the data bus, which means IO doesn't take up memory. The register naming convention is simple, and having "alternate" registers is cool.

Just seems simple and cool to me.
But they agreed to the terms of service, what is everyone complaining about?
'Not worth quoting' is obviously a judgement of quality, and no more opposed to freedom of expression than claiming a movie isn't worth seeing.
Neat but I read the site literally every day and have posted for years and don’t have the ability to downvote. Perhaps I’m on a blacklist of ex-slashdotters.
> This trope that humans are bad drivers

Humans are bad in general. At least, self-driving cars will not be texting or using their phone while driving or involving in road rage. This list is really long.

"Nearly 1.25 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day. An additional 20-50 million are injured or disabled. More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among young adults ages 15-44"

https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/
First, show me an AI that can make better video recommendations.
Yes, there's a difference between a "statistically significant difference" and a "practically significant difference". One does not imply the other.
Is this hyperbole, or do you think Tesla actually said that?
Tesla turned over the best data set to the NHTSA. They had more data on Autopilot usage and chose not to turn it over. It's thus fair to assume that the data they did not provide would not have benefited the company. So if even the Tesla-provided data set shows Tesla is worse than a normal driver, then it's logical to assume that a full data set would show the same--or worse.
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I love DDG !bangs so much, that I kept finding myself in need of custom search !bangs...

So I built them!

I absolutely love DDG's search !bangs! ... even more than their stance on privacy.

If you've ever found yourself wishing for a custom search !bang you're in the same boat as me :)

Sure, sometimes submitting a public !bang is the way to go... But not always. Maybe you want to override the default !weather or you want a custom !bang for an internal tool used by your employer.

You can create your custom search !bangs at https://interrobang.online
Hy feels all wrong to me, though I really wanted to like it, and I put some time in when I tried it.

Part of it is that it compiles to Python bytecode, and took the simplest route of adopting Python's not at all lisplike scope. With `let`, you have a visual clue of variable scope; Hy had a broken `let`, and then got rid of it completely. Now it looks like there's a new `let` that might make more sense. I haven't used it in a couple years.

But that's not the only problem. It has the same feeling I get from Clojure and the various lisps that compile to javascript; it just doesn't feel divorced enough from its parent language to be satisfying in itself. I'd rather write lisp than Python, sure, but except for a few libraries I'd like to be able to use, I don't see much reason to prefer Hy over Racket or some other similarly-mature Scheme, which would have somewhat fewer libraries, but would feel like a consistent and self-contained language.
Blameless emerges from stealth with $20M investment
Even taking that perspective, the definitions are still semantically equivalent.

> You can't pick and choose common use and holding to strict definitions.

I never did that.
Lack of statistical literary is a huge problem these days. As the modern workforce trend towards more analytical methods, statistics can be used as a weapon to fool and bend the truth.

I'm frankly tired seeing executives going on stage trying to show some numbers and graphs to prove a point on some variables. You see this in board meetings too. The sample sizes are too small to conclude anything significant about it!
There’s a karma requirement. If I recall correctly I gained the downvote when I passed 500, but I could be wrong of course. My impression of this site is that they don’t do blacklists, they’d probably warn you straight up if they had a problem.
There used to be aggregators around but they’ve all seemed to have disappeared now. Anyone know more about that?
I also blocked YT Kids from our house. I also would prefer it if it could whitelist only selected videos (they only really like certain topics).

I am fine with Netflix as a reasonably decent filter as well.

There have to be other options...
After doing a significant deep dive into Databricks as a third party solution for my team at work, we decided Databricks and a deep commitment to Spark was a very poor choice for machine learning, though Spark seems generally fine as an interface for map reduce or scheduled cluster compute tasks.

Spark is in 2019 what Hadoop was in ~2014. In 5-6 years Spark will be the cure-all basket that a bunch of people put all their eggs into not realizing the deep-seated limitations. This is especially true for machine learning.
I think this market is hugely undervalued. As remote work gets normalized, remote workspaces will draw increasing investment to regain some of the fidelity of meatspace but with the efficiency and cost savings of remote work, and VR is poised to be central to this industry as soon as someone builds the tools.
What a fascinating product, and probably the most desirable from a consumer standpoint since the 2007 debut of the iPhone. My high school aged sister-in-law tells me that these have been the "it" item for the past two years.

For me, it has been impressive to see how durable these have been. I bought a pair, accidently had it go through a washer and dryer cycle, thought they were dead to the world, bought another pair, did the same thing again, and found that the first pair worked.

They take a beating, but just work. I can't say the same for my PowerBeats.
Yes, and there is precedent! We still have Government Cheese [1], which is just barely related to real cheese. Perhaps Government Meat would be an improvement?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese
This guy sounds exactly like I practiced pastor lots of BS too much assuming and a whole lot of nothing really important said.
I haven't had any issues after sweaty runs either. Occasionally they won't sit right in the case and won't be charged though, likely due to being upside down in the gym bag.
Alec Reeves, Inventor of Pulse-Code Modulation
Corporations and governments have shown remarkable fickleness when it comes to definitions of words like "reasonable" or "malicious". Everyone thinks they themselves are reasonable.

If the government comes knocking with a secret subpoena, what is "reasonable"? If someone malicious breaks in to your system, does it matter that this person isn't an employee?

For "95% of corporate applications", even plain email is good enough.
> Modern Spring, as far as I can tell, is still very much driven outside of Java code, it's just migrated from XML to annotations and yaml properties files.

Disagree; there's been a shift to using constructor injection over setter injection, which often obviates the need for Spring-specific lifecycle methods. So it's now much more common to have a service class that, while it may have Spring annotations on its constructor, can also be used in a first-class way in plain old Java, and e.g. doesn't use Spring for unit tests. If you're using Spring at all then part of your application wiring lives outside Java code almost by definition, but it's now more common to express wiring logic as e.g. an annotated Java method rather than encoded into XML. It's not a complete departure, and it may not go as far as you or I would like, but I do think there's been a real cultural shift.

> especially with Gradle (superior to pom files).

It really isn't. Arbitrary unmanaged code in the build definition is great for writing but terrible for maintainability.
FWIW I tried the Quest recently and it felt consumer-ready in a way none of the other systems I've tried so far did. Mostly due to the freedom to move without the cable, increased resolution, and better lenses (the price doesn't hurt either).

That's coming out in a few months though, and it certainly addresses the cost point. Is the main thing you think will take 5+ years content? Trying the Quest I couldn't help but be reminded of the Wii (maybe because I played a tennis game). Even though it's not perfect it offers a very novel experience at an affordable price point. I have no idea what the content line up for the system is though.
Again, I think you're looking at this backwards. C's undefined behavior rules exist because targetted hardware didn't have common behavior, where you seem to be arguing the reverse.

I mean, I can't sit here and tell you what to be surprised about, but to me, as someone interested in how machines behave, it's absolutely interesting and "surprising"[1] that one machine with an otherwise very similar architecture can be 8x slower than another on straightforward code. And trying to wave that away with "but the spec never promised!" seems like it's only going to get you in this kind of trouble (but "unsurprising trouble", I guess) more, and not less.

[1] Not here, precisely, since I already understand what's going on, but in general.
Unless I've forgotten more than I hope, I believe the formal definition of a 95% confidence interval is that "if the model is true, 95% of the experiments would result in a point estimate within the interval." This is distinctly different from "a 95% probability that the true value is contained within the confidence interval", but that is typically what is loosely inferred.
That's assuming he's always able to intervene before it kills him. The argument is that he may not always be able to or prevent AP from behaving erratically enough that results in killing someone else (while he saves his own life).
And it's also really funny to see Google take the deliberate strategy of being a nanometer less evil than Facebook, just so the media doesn't probe too deeply into Google. It's like how McDonald's and Walmart take all the heat, while Burger King and Target are virtually just as guilty of the same practices but remain off-radar.