skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I play irregularly mostly due to lack of time and many other interests. But when I do, it's almost always VR and I enjoy it immensely. I play mostly racing simulators like iRacing and Assetto Corsa. VR is so amazing with these games that I could never go back; should VR go down the drain, I'd rather stop playing than going back to screens.

(The other gaming I do is where VR makes precious little sense to begin with - like the odd indie game on the go on a Nintendo Switch, or occasional binges whenever Rockstar releases something big)
Obviously it was a cherry picked example, but to me the falsity is in the claim that “if you are eating vegetables you are necessarily more environmentally conscious than those who eat meat”. There are degrees of environmental friendliness on both sides and, certainly,
I think most people would agree that most meat-eaters do not appropriately weigh the effects of their consumption. But I think the same is true of many vegetarians who just assume because they are eating vegetables they are definitely making more environmentally aware choices than all omnivores.

That was my only attempted point.
They might not even know the answer themselves and have a solution in front of them that they are comparing yours to.

Then they just said the first thing that came to their mind rather than that they don't know.
Im sorry im not seeing the difference. Do we agree ?
It's because Tesla marketing material doesn't tell the whole truth, just the selected bit that sounds impressive. The conditions in which the Autopilot is safer than a human driver are so narrow and under so many restrictions that it's obvious it's less "self driving" and more "driver assist".

Indeed, I also find it disingenuous to claim the Autopilot is safer than a human driver even if it actually can't function at all in 95% of situations on the road. Guess saying "possibly safer than a human driver at these 3 things and only under these very specific conditions" isn't so catchy. Definitely not thousands-of-dollars catchy.
An awful thing can be a socially unacceptable narrative regardless of what the facts are.
A bit more details:

- You need an Oculus account but it doesn't have to be linked to your Facebook account, in fact you don't need a Facebook account at all. The exception is Oculus Rooms, a VR social app.

- Obviously there are proprietary drivers. And only Windows 10. I think you can use it in Windows 7 but it is not recommended.

- You don't need the launcher. You can even run bare executables if you wish. The Oculus software still runs in the background though. Also, the Oculus launcher supports "unknown sources", that includes Steam games.

- Oculus have their own store, but you can buy your games elsewhere if you prefer. They have a few good exclusives though.

- Steam games have different levels of support. Some games available on Steam can make use of the Oculus API. These work just as well as native games (because they are) but you may need a command line flag. Games using the SteamVR API also work well, but there may be a few minor issues, like the sound not switching to the headset automatically and a small performance hit. Games that don't officially support the Rift usually work, with maybe a few controller issues.
I had Bragi Dash headphones and took them back within 24 hours. The set up took me like 4 hours. Then the sound quality was so terrible it made my head spin....the sound quality was noticeably worse than even my earpods at the time. Also you had to have your phone in your right pocket otherwise you'd lose the connection. Walk three feet away and also lose connection.

The reviews are not great for Bragi Dash headphones at that time either. I though people were just hating but it turns out the reviews were accurate in this case.
Do you know his story?
How can I truly have "free will" if my decisions are so dependent on external influences?

You don't have actually free will, if by free you mean "uninfluenced by anything".

There's no evidence that such a thing exists, and anyone who claims such a thing invariably appeals to supernatural or hand-wavy explanations.

Note that many thinkers who claim free will exist actually are saying "what most people mean by 'free will' does exist", and usually that means "an agent capable of making choices without outside influence". This idea is compatible with determinism, so these people are called compatibilists.
There's no way to distinguish an ad from those things. It's analogous to distinguishing between porn and art.
Musk is more optimistic than you - says late 2020 for sleep while the car drives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8dEYm8hzLo&t=10m25s

Also quite interestingly he says there will be a big jump forward in quality when they switch to their own computing hardware (18m40 or so)
The role of mastodon.social in the Mastodon ecosystem
Hey, I'm really sorry about that! I'm still working on the details, but thank you for the feedback.
I find it very hard to credit that the AirPods, which transmit a few metres powered by a really tiny battery, would put out so much more power than a phone, which may transmit hundreds of metres powered by a very much bigger battery.

That said, I own AirPods, I am surprised by how great they are, but I rarely wear them because the radiation worries me.
In my neighborhood (SF Mission) there's a shooting at least once a week... seems like mostly on Sundays. So it just depends where in the U.S. you're living.
> Then you readdir, loop, println. no need to use the shell

Yes; you have a Turing complete language, so why would you use the shell?

The point that you've lost sight of here is that someone can do that and someone likely will.

(I don't disagree with you; I think that "shelling out" commands from decent programmign languages is an anti-pattern.)

Have you seen this?

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/process/struct.Command.html

Look, an example of what I'm talking about, right on the Rust site: how to send "echo hello" to your shell on Windows and Unix.

You don't think someone's going to copy and paste this, and substitute whatever command they want?
Missing some olde lisp things like car/cdr/lambda

A quick perusal of hylang.org didn't reveal how a Lisp works without cdr. I'm envisioning something awful with a colon...
What do Bayesians say these days btw?

I still find Bayes to be more grounded and less “pie in the sky” than frequentists.
i design lots of infrastructure for mining companies (physical mineral resources mining) and this holds incredibly true.

It's one of the biggest things I push back on when our clients have scoping meetings that just turn into endless strings of wants/needs.
> However, most big farms today do not farm sustainably

Is this true in the West though? It's not like we have a lot more forest to destroy... Soil erosion is definitely an issue, but AFAIK it primarily applies to growing plants (with e.g. artificial, fossil-carbon-based, unsustainable fertilizers), not animals.
For 64-bit ARM there are no function calls when using clang: https://godbolt.org/z/IR2DIj
> How can I truly have "free will" if my decisions are so dependent on external influences?

because you can recognize this as a pattern, make a supposition that this is related to previous conditioning, and retrain yourself at picking numbers randomly to eliminate the previous bias that you yourself recognized as 'problematic' here.
This. Until I can read text on the thing VR feels DOA. I got the original rift and it now sits in my closet collecting dust because the resolution is about 1/2 or maybe even 1/4th of what it needs to be to really be compelling. They need to up the resolution, figure out foveated rendering, improve the FoV and get me some dang gloves or at least a VR-ready keyboard (can see the thing in vr like you see the hand controllers). I care about these things far more than ditching the cord, inside out tracking (I'm not sure I want 5 cameras looking at everything in my room any time I am strapped in) or anything else.
According to the posters on Reddit, this update’s release notes were about “Dog Mode” and “Sentry Mode”.

Nothing warning that behavior of autopilot might change.
Inside view not required, self-awareness of users should suffice to come to that conclusion (i.e. "I know nothing of the inner workings of this system, so my judgement has to be worse than that of the ones who designed it.").
Smart though he is, he couldn't contribute much from a child's grave.
When will people realize that these fines are a ponzi scheme and a power grab of the EU? What has the EU done for me? Nothing. What has Google done for me? I watch Youtube, browse in Chrome, run Android, use the Playstore, program Go... The list goes on and on. If anything, the EU should pay money to Google because Google gets shit done and the EU doesn't.
> So now YouTube is just straight forbidden unless I'm picking the videos and that effectively means my kids don't see it at all outside of when I have a fun video to share... and even then I'm wary of what YouTube might suggest what to watch next...

Youtube-dl
This makes me smile a little. My civilization includes all human kind; we're all stuck on this rock together, after all. Think about the vastness of the universe and the billions of civilizations that must be out there! It makes me think that our petty squabbles, divisions, and tribes are just so much of a tempest in a teapot.
The the paragraph directly after that 60% number:

>So does that mean that Autosteer actually makes crashes 59 percent more likely? Probably not. Those 5,714 vehicles represent only a small portion of Tesla's fleet, and there's no way to know if they're representative. And that's the point: it's reckless to try to draw conclusions from such flawed data. NHTSA should have either asked Tesla for more data or left that calculation out of its report entirely.

I will go back to my original statement at the start of this thread. No one in these comments has the data to say definitively whether Autopilot is safer than a human driver. I am skeptical that Tesla even has enough data for that. But I am also skeptical of people who take that unknown and the occasional anecdotal data point like the above video as proof that Autopilot is inherently less safe than humans.
> Waste doesn't really happen in production

Except for the poop lagoon crisis https://newrepublic.com/article/151242/behind-hurricane-flor...

the dangers of cow farts
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-warns-cow-farts-c...

Or the "waste" baby male chicks who are ground alive when they are a day old (graphic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ5qAfyUuWE

Or the rain forests wasted to make room for more cows
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/beef-product...

Or that it takes 100 calories inputs to beef production to get 3 calories out. (Beef is 3% efficient).
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/1...
Yes, this is a very important distinction. Humans have gotten pretty good at not getting killed in car accidents, mostly due to increasing safety engineering and assistance features in cars. Humans are not very good at avoiding collisions entirely. In 2016 there were 6.3 million motor vehicle accidents reported to police. And NHTSA estimates about 10 million accidents go unreported each year (mostly minor fender benders and people damaging their own vehicles on fixed objects). To me, that's pretty clear evidence that humans are poor drivers.
You’re absolutely welcome to make an argument how a building kept deliberately empty of tenants over years benefits society.

You can consider that position nuts, but given the amount of public support and legal backing for a current initiative in Berlin to enact eminent domain against entities that hold > 3000 flats, “plain nuts from any angle” seems to be slightly exaggerated.
Have you seen how food is marketed and produced currently? I'm willing to bet it absolutely will not trend towards quality.
For a historical example,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndale_Bible#Reaction_of_the_...

The argument against Tyndale was essentially the same.
I'm not sure you understand what "monopoly on the use of force" means. Perhaps you think it's nothing more or less than "private citizens can't own weapons"? But it's more than that. The state decides who is authorized to enact violence, and under what circumstances. The state may say "you can own a gun, you can shoot trespassers on your property." But at the same time it says (at the very least) "you cannot shoot agents of the state performing their duties, or you will be punished."

Any state that loses the ability to enforce that policy is no longer a state, it's just a bunch of guys issuing suggestions.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence for more.
That's pretty absurd -- you're paying a discount for being a long-term tenant with a legally binding contract (and no cleaning/daily upkeep). Would you expect buying a home versus AirBnBing one to cost the same over 10+ years?
more likely car = first and cdr = rest.
Yeah, that's always been my issue too. There seems to be something about the elasticity of the human face, and the interactions of all the small muscles, that seems to be especially difficult to model.

This demo does at least seem to deal better with the darkness in the mouth. That has also always been problematic and made a lot of characters look positively demonic :)
FWIW, he was living in a shelter, so housing was being provided.
I'm sorry an incompetent professor left such a bad taste in your mouth, and on the field as a whole.

What's strange to me, is that my interpretation of the results of such an experiment wouldn't even lead to your professor's conclusion. The takeaway being the fallibility of sensory perception, where I might then prompt the class for a discussion of their intuitive refutations of empiricism before diving into the literature.

Unfortunately, being a philosophy major myself, I know all too well that a crap teacher can totally ruin a philosophy topic (let alone a topic of any subject). From my 4 years in philosophy classes of varying levels of difficulty, the common denominator between a fruitful time spent in class has been the willingness of the professor to engage with their students. Whether it's logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ontology, &c, the principal property of a quality professor is his/her dialectical ability.

Hell, that's how philosophy & theology was taught in the first universities! The professor would profess and then the students would engage their master in the subject at hand.
"posted by cms on 2017-12-31". Has anything significant changed since then?
Sheet music with a pen?

No one else has to see it so it doesn't have to be pretty
Sorry I did get annoyed. I've had similar ideas for this model and ultimately feel like it would be dismissed out of a sense of moral justice. Would I be okay with a 100K payback? In theory sure, thats the model for elite universities and no one seems to be concerned for their wellbeing. The determining metric would be ROI. The proposed model limits risk and incentivizes instructors to produce the most valuable curriculum. As more companies compete in the space, unskilled workers win because they now have a bridge to become skilled. Not only that, they're receiving cash while doing so!

I want to see this model taken to the extreme. Offer luxury living to students while they learn, and offer work from home positions upon graduation. Have developers compete to create modern campuses that compete for unskilled labor. They would only do this knowing there's profits to be shared by developing the unskilled to the skilled.
That was theory, that the state (or monarch) had to show both their power over life and death, and that the public needed to see thst justice was done. We (the British) figured out that didn’t even remotely work back in 1783, and frankly I don’t think that we require a second run at it.
Unfortunately, fast array bounds checks and fast integer overflow checks are anathema to speculative execution so aren't happening any time soon.

I'm becoming convinced that we really need to just go back to the Alpha 21164 architecture and stamp out multiple copies with really fast interconnect.
This is just a silly argument to me. Would anyone suggest that cruise control is worthless because you still have to steer the car?
What makes Groovy unsuitable as a replacement for Java, if the performance is now comparable?
> So how does the privacy extension not protect the privacy of users by hiding the mac address?

I never said it didn't. I stated that people overstate the protection the facility provides, not that it didn't provide protection.

The deficiencies of the privacy extensions have been discussed widely for years. A quick internet search will show the various criticisms and responses better than any reply I can make here will.

I should, however, clarify what I was trying to say -- I was not trying to say the privacy extensions aren't worthwhile. They're great, and people should use them!

What I was trying to say is that people often think of them as a panacea or a 100% solution. They aren't exactly that (what is?), and the nature of the design of the privacy extensions are such that they make other important network management activities more difficult.

My main criticism of PE (and it's not a showstopper sort of criticism) is that the extensions are hacky and it shows. They were thought up after-the-fact to try to mitigate a security mistake made in the original IPv6 protocol.
Yes, replace the 1s base with 1/100th of a second for humans (this cat is still faster: [0]).

My video professor told us 20 years ago, that for a fly in the cinema it's like watching a slide show.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbUGwA_woCE
Nothing in the git core cares about "distributed". It is distributed purely in the sense that it is copied many times.

A distributed system then that is not cognizant of it's distributedness does not incur the complexity of that.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

If you want to express a concept of probability like you tried to, it's exceedingly unclear. If you want to be understood, you should make it clearer what you're trying to say.

Going back to the definitions originally quoted, the only way you find probabilities like that in them is by reading them in yourself.
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Three Kings movie, starring George Clooney
Related: https://github.com/remoteintech/remote-jobs
I prefer my food made by a plant not in a plant...
What's the memory efficiency compared to the previous implementation? AIUI robin hood hashing with backwards shift deletion could achieve rather high load ratios, and thus keep memory footprint small. What I read about tombstone based open addressing suggests that it requires a lower load factor and thus more memory.
Attention spans are short and the product talks, so the home page should be some kind of working demo eventually
I consider my doctor an adviser, not an oracle.
According to the linked Reddit poster “ Tesla's only release notes for this release were DOG MODE and SENTRY MODE. They don't tell you there is a massive change to AP and to reset your expectations.“
Because technically meat paste is packaged and sold as burgers, depending on how you legally define burgers, meat, and paste.

The world around you is rife with people pushing the quality of goods to the point the market will accept, and then moving the market to accept even worse.

Because fundamentally, morals don’t exist in a market. They are imposed.

And good / bad are subjective. People buy cheap protein. This will be cheap protein.

And even if it is tasteless, texture less and nothing any human will call meat, it will sell as long as it’s opportunity cost is lower than the alternative.
Not everything was conducted over gmail or facebook messages.

(This is still true, in fact.)
I wonder if people that belong to other civilizations see it the same way as you, and what the consequences would be for your civilization if people in yours did and people in other civilizations did not.
You're not wrong. There are plenty of accidents caused by inattention and poor driving that aren't fatal, but that do result in injuries... a quick search didn't give me much information but crashes with injuries appear to be about 100x more common than fatal crashes. This doesn't take into account how serious the injuries are, however.

So if we assume that serious injuries are 10x more common than fatalities, that raises the odds to one incident per 750 years, or 1 incident per 75 years of any accident at all. You're still talking about things that happen to people once or twice in their entire lives. Of course there will be outliers (I've been in 5 accidents myself, only 1 with injuries) but the odds of being in a crash don't seem to be worth the risk of trying to automate mousetraps... we should concentrate on replacing car-based transportation instead of trying to use magical black boxes to make it theoretically safer.
I think "go get" will only grab the latest tag. If that commit an hour doens't have a new tag, it won't see anything to update.
> "Lazy reader" is precisely the audience for scientific papers

Exactly.

There are plenty of personalities and pundits that love to say "look at the data" or "the data is clear".

It bugs me when data is weaponized as truth to prove a conjecture, especially in the social sciences where studies are routinely difficult to replicate with consistent results.
Is Sky TV still suing everyone with Sky in the name?

https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/28/uks-bskyb-wins-judgement-a...

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-06-20-no-mans-sky-st...
My question too.

They shouldn't leave bad information up without noting it or following up.
> There's an absolute shedload of woo-woo stuff on the purported consciousness-enhancing benefits if you google around.

Oh god, yes, and it isn't even new. Back around 2005, I ran into a web site selling audio files which they claimed would cure addictions, attract romantic partners, improve luck...
"In fact, Severo said that no-one could recall the last time a non-Polynesian had come to Tepoto – certainly not in their lifetimes."

I have a feeling this island is about to get quite a few visits from readers of the BBC...
Szynalski.com has a page discussing the 40hz/plaque removal.

Another tone generator that I've used -- https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/isochronicBrainwaveGenerat...

I like binaural beats, some give me an ASMR like effect (ASMR videos made with binaural backgrounds b work well for me too).
Hamburg built a system with a pipe diameter of 45cm in the 1960ies but the system was scrapped soon after. It would be a godsend nowadays. See Großrohrpost on this page https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohrpost_in_Hamburg (sadly no English translation exists)
A big reason I added television examples, specifically, is that the article was talking about television, not movies, and the supposed dividing line between commercial breaks and television shows themselves.
You don't unit test a NN. You can unit test certain functions, but fundamentally this is an integration test.

This is why serious scientific training is needed to understand these complex systems when health and safety are on the line.