skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being stubbornly against lidar makes no sense. The sensors are slightly more expensive now, but dropping fast. I want my driving software to have super human capabilities. Any sensor that can cost effectively save lives and improve performance should be used.
There are some truly abysmal people in technology. I work in a multidisciplinary environment and deal with not only coders but people from other sci/tech areas and there's also some pretty bizarre, completely incompetent, personalities in other fields as well.

They seem to exist through some kind of combination of manifesting some kind of acute highly-sensitive HR problems (health, special class, etc.), bouncing around from unsuspecting job to job to keep the paychecks coming in, and simply being walking Dunning–Kruger manifestations. Eventually they accumulate enough time in enough jobs that it gets easier and easier to get new jobs due to being experienced and some of them will end up in senior positions where they no longer have to code (or perform in the core of their technical area).

They can come in from all sorts of places, often have stunning educational credentials and backgrounds, often have great looking resumes.
It's funny how the world changes, they went to such great lengths to target one pirate, but nowdays you can pirate UFC streams by literally googling it while the event is on, or just hanging out on twitter or reddit catching links before they're deleted.

(I know this because I buy every PPV via Fightpass, and probably 10-25% of the time the official app fails at least once, and won't log back in for 10-30 minutes, usually leading up to hyped up fights.)
> The same is true for many "e-sports".

Just like in "real" sports, many personalities in "e-sports" make a point of being douchebags. Some make a point of being a nice person.

> For me the social aspects, as well as the "mastery" aspects of gaming were just too simple, too simulated.

I agree, in multiplayer games "mastery" relates to improving mechanical skill, i.e. getting better at mashing specific button sequences as fast as possible or getting better at flickshots. These take a lot of time to get marginal improvements (e.g. improving your aim just a little bit beyond your personal baseline can take thousands of hours). In singleplayer and RPG games, "mastery" happens on the character and doesn't require anything from the player beyond either repeating some action a large number of times (e.g. picking locks to improve lockpicking skill) or simply allocating "skill points" awarded by advancing the game.
George Hotz is the "George" that Marc Andreessen was referring to in this 2016 interview [1] with Tim Ferriss:

Marc Andreessen: And so now, anybody in the world can download it and run it on their own computer. So all of a sudden, AI is like a tractable thing that you can just have on your own laptop, and you can build new things on top of it. If you want to build a bot, you can build a bot. We backed a founder who had literally built himself his own self driving car.

Tim Ferriss: I read about it.

Marc Andreessen: George. And by the way, him you should interview. But literally, one guy can now build a self driving car.

Ten years ago, this was like a DARPA funded, grand challenge research project. Five years ago, this was a team of 1,000 at Google. And now, it’s George. And so that’s an example of the kind of thing where it just looks like it’s going to tip. And then, there’s one George today. There will be 1,000 Georges tomorrow.

He's clearly a super-talented guy. He also has a penchant for drama and controversy, but perhaps that's just par for the course in the world of autonomous driving.

[1] https://tim.blog/2018/01/01/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts...
That benchmark seems a little bit problematic to me. When I click the benchmark button with matrix size 101 and iterations 5 the resulting score for GPU varies between 12k, 20k, 60k and Infinity.
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Since this is something I want to keep on my desk, not only for decoration but for actually copute things if I'm bored, I really want tone of the nicer ones.

It seems around 35 EUR is a normal price.
Breaking into ASOS
I think it is 4% nominal, which leaves some excess returns to keep pace with inflation.
I think this doesn't cover all the positives of gardening.

Getting sun (vitamin D, a tan, mood stabilizing effects of sun, sleep cycle stabilizing effects)

Fresh air (dopamine)

Increased backyard beauty (every time you look out your window you get to enjoy it)

Sense of accomplishment

Potentially fresh vegetables

A little bit more post-apocalypse skills lol

Contributing to local bee health
The evaporation rate per unit area would depend on many factors, including temperature, how much water is in the atmosphere, pressure, probably what is in the water, and surely a host of other factors.

The evaporation rate from the pot as a whole at any given time will then be that rate per unit area, which depends on that host of factors, times the surface area.

So once you know how deep a layer of extra water you need to add to cover evaporation in one pot, that will be the same depth of water you need to add to a different size pot if you are cooking in that different sized pot at the same temperature, pressure, etc. as the first pot.

Think of it this way: Imagine you have a rectangular pot, with a removable divider in the middle that effectively turns it into two smaller pots side by side.

If you put the divider in and cook some rice in the left side, you need a certain depth of extra water. If instead you cooked that rice in the right side, you'd need the same depth of water there.

Now imagine cooking in both sides simultaneously. You'd still need the same depth in each side as when you were cooking in that side solo.

OK, now imagine cooking in both sides, but without the divider installed. That's not really any different than with the divider installed. Each side is still going to need the same depth of water as before.

(Well, there will be some difference. Not all heat gets into what you are cooking through the bottom of the pan. The sides get hot too, and some heat comes in that way. Remember that the evaporation rate at any given point on the surface depends on conditions at that point. A spot in the center will take longer to reach a given temperature than a spot near a side, and so we'll have a non-uniform evaporation rate across the surface. I don't think this will make much difference as far as rice cooking goes, but figuring out for sure would require knowing a lot more about how heat moves within a batch of cooking rice than I do).
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Off-topic: if your wife gives up after a few seconds of an explanation, you might want to break it down to a level that she actually understands.

Identifying the appropriate level might be harder than actually formulating it on this level.

Keep in mind that this is not just an end in itself as this problem might occur in other situations, e.g. with colleagues, bosses or a customer not understanding what you are going on about.

The reason why this is actually important is that the amount of things we can achieve completely on our own are very limited and that for anything bigger, we need to interact and cooperate with others. The speaker is the one who wants to transmit the message. Therefore it is the speaker's task to make sure the message is clear enough and of an appropriate form (or even interesting enough!) for the receiver.
So they want people to pay for the crap that is UFC? You couldn't pay me to watch it. Watching people bleed all over each other and getting hit in the head until they lose consciousness is sick and takes some sickos to enjoy watching it.
What a roundabout way of saying "Let the media decide which studies and statistics you should pay attention to."

Of course Facts Man never cites studies - the author made sure you know he only misinterprets data contrary to expert advice. Good thing, too, otherwise someone might object to this article!
> you can expect to pay $2000+ to install on top of that, depending on how hard the job is.

Installing a mini split is nowhere the difficulty of an HVAC though, assuming your have the electrical circuit (which I'd guess would be an electrician's job not HVAC) it's a few hours' work, at least for a simple case and if the installer knows what they're doing: pierce the wall, mount the external unit, mount the internal unit, connect the two, charge[0], done.

By "simple" I mean a 1:1 setup with both units mounted on the same wall (and a wall-mounted indoor unit). Obviously a more complicated setup (multi-zone, slim duct, more distance between the two units) would take more time and be more expensive.

I can see $2000 for a non-trivial multi-zone setup.

[0] if you're handy there are mini-splits sold specifically for DIY installations which come pre-charged, though that means the pipes won't exactly fit the distance I guess
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For anybody curious (like me - thanks for pointing to it) that's presumably:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics

and not the left-wing r/politics.

Incidentally to non-US readers - at least on first look - the slant seems to be heavily USA-oriented, it doesn't seem at all geo.
Pseudocode is useful for academic papers to demonstrate an idea/algorithm in a condensed form - i.e. Without having to write out many detailed paragraphs.

Although I personally prefer a link to a public repo of code. But I'm a code monkey.
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This is what I meant by "getting into the epistemological weeds" heh. I'll requote your definition with emphasis.

> the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

All three of the italicized aspects are not how the mind is studied. The mind is not a physical object. It cannot be observed or experimented with in a systematic way.

You can obtain three samples of three different kinds of steel and perform a destructive test on all three of them, then when you're done you can obtain more. This is materials science and you can get paid a lot of money to do it.

There is "neuroscience" where you do the same thing, with neurons. Neurons are not minds. You'll never learn how a mind works by studying neurons, any more than you can learn how a building works by studying steel. If you're looking to learn how a building works, steel is just one of the hundreds of topics you need to understand.

There is no "building science" and there is no "mind science", because buildings and minds are not physical, natural things. They're unnatural things, conjured up by human invention and imagination. Physically speaking, i.e. according to the best observation techniques the field of neuroscience can come up with, a newborn, a brain trauma victim, and a college student are all identical as your parent notes.

This deficiency in understanding is what the commenter you were responding to was pointing to. People thinking they can understand the mind by doing fMRIs. And thinking any kind of rigorous exploration and study as "science" leads to this kind of mistake.

Another example, computer science isn't science. It's math. Computers are deterministic, there's no point in running experiments. Computers are not natural, nor are they physical. Silicon is, and you can study that by running experiments and observing the results.

To get epistemic, knowledge comprises justified true beliefs. Science is a type of justification. There are other kinds. If you use other forms of justification, then you don't get scientific knowledge out of it, overloading science makes people believe that all knowledge that comes out of academia is scientific, i.e. made through repeated experimentation and observation, such that we can rely on it to not fail on us.
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edge.org has the intellectual capacity of discussing multi-disciplinary issues however not in a forum style. This would be a great addition to the internet
>The problem though is that there is no business model that supports federated social networks.

Communication is a public utility. They shouldn’t need to be operated for profit.
Great idea.

Highlighting connections of storage tanks and pylons would also be helpful.
I think they are using lidar to train the model, but not investing in shipping the sensors to end users.

So in that way they probably agree with you more than you think. I’d guess they find that to be the right trade off.
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A friend of mine has made something like this for a blockchain hackathon once, around 2 years ago. The technics he used where relatively simple. It stats with some Elliptic-curve cryptography math to split up a single main key into multiple keys. Every person would than have a full copy of the encrypted files and when enough people combine there keys on the blockchain they would get the main key to decrypt the files and from then on it would be public that the files have been opened and by who.

This app seams to use Shamir's Secret Sharing, this is something where I am not familiar with, but from how far I understand the Wikipedia article about it. it works roughly the same but it is more general.

I'm interested to see if people will actually use this. If anyone has some additional explanations about the differences between these algorithms then that would be very appreciated.
> It seems like there must have been some serious culture/management problems at this company.

Yes. In almost every case I've seen it seems to come down to a localized culture/management issue in the area where the person works. Usually fixed on a particularly terrible senior manager who has the clout and connections to distract from the problem while problem employees fester forever.
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From the article:

“I can see millions more stars than people that live in the city,” one resident told The Los Angeles Times. “It’s unbelievable. I can see the Milky Way — the whole Milky Way.”

Try living in a truly remote area in the Southern Hemisphere. The Milky Way is unbelievably more spectacular from the Southern Hemisphere.
No, the house is too low behind a low hill for a short mast, and a very high mast wouldn't be ok. The way to do it would be 4G at the top of the hill and a cable or relay to the house, but as it's a populated village that would need cooperation among residents.

If there was plenty of cooperation and interest among the residents, they could install a better shared solution for the whole village than 4G even. There was a company willing to install something like that. But not enough people signed up to make it worthwhile.

I agree with you about 4G. I switched from ADSL+ to 4G last year in the middle of a city, and it's been a good improvement in download speeds, and an x10 improvement in upload. Netflix works excellently. Though there tend to be latency spikes, and new connections to websites for some reason are quite slow. I actually switched to save costs - unlimited data on 4G was less than half the price of bottom-of-the-range ADSL too.

When I want the best connection out of every option, such as a big download. I switch to my mobile phone, which seems perverse but there we are. I get ~90Mbit/s download via my phone. It's faster than wifi at the office, faster than ADSL, and faster than 4G at home too - the phone has a better modem than the standalone 4G router.

However I've tried 4G in London, which is the largest city in the UK, and it was awfully slow there. Too much density I suspect. So it's not a solution for everywhere. I think I'm lucky with it where I live. Around the same city, there are plenty of "notspot" shadows where there's no signal, not even 3G.
I'm sincerely confused as to whether you're rejecting or embracing activities that could lead others astray.
Huh, so the predecessor to Horcrux is also an oblique Harry Potter reference, in that it is named in Parceltongue.
So, solving a problem for a customer of “self” is certainly a way of going about things, but one that I worry myself carries immense risk if you ever wish to sell the solution.

I have found that it is important not to be afraid of doing market research, surveys, conducting interviews or observations of existing people in action with existing solutions.

If you want to scratch your own itch, that’s cool. And it can work to produce a nice tight product, maybe could in this case.

But if I wanted to sell my product, I’d try to figure out if there is enough statistical significance in the market response before building it. Even just putting out and marketing an RSVP landing page for the tool, to see how many people might want it - you might get a load of potential customers who sign up and can give you feedback.

Since you’ve already decided to build this anyway, you aren’t concerned about competition - so what do you have to lose from seeing if other people want it? [1]

[1] Note - I do know that sometimes you don’t want to deal with other people’s opinions while building a product, and the author’s approach certainly is one way to go about it. Also, I guess accounting is a pretty well-known niche so a lot of the knowledge is already out there, maybe you don’t need much new input. But I felt a hypothesis here that could be tested and would be reinforcing if proven true.

EDIT: I see from the website the author is taking early access adopters, so maybe they are doing this. Actually I like the approach of doing this in the open and blogging about it, it was more the original blog post that triggered my reaction.
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I've never heard of that either. I thought you were just supposed to fix your physics timestep and sort the graphics out later.
Pretty much. Central AC is the default in regions of the US where you really need AC (which is most of the south and west, places that people didn’t really settle in large numbers until post WWII - among other reasons, because AC hadn’t been invented and the climate there is oppressive without it).

In the northeast where buildings are generally the oldest in the country, window units are common - especially in rental units, because the tenant typically provides the AC themselves. One less thing for the landlord to maintain.

The northwest, for the most part, doesn’t use AC much with their climate. Many homes don’t have AC at all.

Mini-splits are becoming more and more common in big cities here now, but only if you’re lucky enough to own a place and you don’t have landmarked facade problems. I’d love to use one instead of my window units, but I rent a street-facing apartment in a landmarked building. Even if I could get my landlord to approve me paying for a mini-split to be installed, I couldn’t put anything outside. The commercial tenants in my building have mini-splits, but they have access to a side of the building which doesn’t front onto the public street, so no landmark concerns.

(The fact that many landmarked facades have a random collection of window ACs hanging off the front seems much uglier to me than a bunch of professionally-installed identical mini-splits compressors would be, but, c'est la vie...)
I haven't used these myself, but I read that discussion on betting sites is less emotional and troll-y. Presumably because people are more focused on being actually correct, rather than on ideology.

Example: https://www.predictit.org/
Read through most of this and I was thinking this is a pretty weird thing to get implanted. In which world would it be necessary to have a payment implant?

With Coronavirus, it’s clear contactless payments are becoming common place. But I’d venture to say we’re going to continue moving towards things like online ordering for almost everything imaginable and then picking it up which means rarely would I need to show/use my credit cards.
Depending on the situation, subcontractors can also be extra hard to fire. If they were hired to fill out staff on a contract, they may be entitled to some kind of workshare percent and threaten breach of contract if you pull their terrible people off work without a replacement. Then they fail to produce a replacement in a timely fashion.
I'll be having a training session for them on computer safety and parenting - they do a GREAT job at keeping her active offline :) Thanks for chiming in!
This article[1] has IBM slides which suggest 40-50x computation penalty and 10-20x RAM penalty.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/ibm-completes-succes...
Bill of Materials for my home office (now with SaaS and cooling)
I did sell each of them after while (once I got long term capital gains and needed the money for something else or wanted to move to a different stock).

So day traders no, but other traders yes? Particularly the peloton calls (2yr expiration leaps) were an explicit trade against some industry person that was extremely wrong.
100% agreed.

One of the most annoying things about OpenCL was the automatic CPU fallback. Trying to figure out if I had it actually _working_ or not was a terrible first impression. It gave an output, sure, but was it slow because it was still hitting the CPU fallback? Had I failed to install the GPU driver I had attempted to install? Or was it slow because my kernel wasn't GPU-friendly? Or hit some slow path in OpenCL?

Meanwhile CUDA, being entirely GPU only, was a breeze. Did I get an output? OK then yes I got the basics working. Now on to making it sing.
That's the easy part.
Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue
The #Brazilian# court deemed that it breaks the law.

As far as I know no other court addressed the matter so far.

Facebook argues that content should only be taken down where it breaks the law, which is reasonable.

Otherwise you'll see, for example, Facebook and Twitter silencing accounts of Turkish dictator Erdogan's opposition worldwide because that specific country deemed their speech to be illegal.
For some reason the thought of English become a standard made me feel sad.

While standardization certainly lends convenience and efficiency, diversity leads to more robustness and effective exploration — instead of everything being caught up in the same bubble. The web as a platform might become unmanageably “hot” (in a McLuhan-esque sense) if that were to happen; we’d just have to find other arbitrary ways of differentiating ourselves to form more convivial communities.

I don’t mind if English becomes the common interchange format (lingua franca, ha) but I hope people continue to be multilingual and conserving and growing the cultures of other tongues.
This is why I'm a frequent visitor to /r/selfhosted. Any other self-hosted centric communities to be aware of?
How would restoring from backups also not risk restoring whatever it was that broke their world at the same time?
Quality slide rules probably cost a lot more than that when they were still being manufactured :-)
There are multiple landing cameras this time.
This is the live stream
Anyone know how he got caught
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Would love to hear your recommendations on favorite e-readers, especially small format, large format, and ones you can take notes on!
It'd be more accurate if the horcrux files were embedded into other files that had to be deleted using an arcane command from the horcrux program to resurrect the original file...while the original file remains in a half existing unreadable state until resurrected.

ETA: For even more accuracy, increase the 'readability' of the file(for text only I guess) with each horcrux deleted. Allow them to be added one by one so the original file slowly 'increases it's power'.