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Film was scary too at one point. And before that, books. The media became more sophisticated over time, and the moral panics always followed. Yes, this “new” media is interactive and immersive, but there has never been that much compelling evidence that increased immersion actually changes matters that much.

I think VR may be an interesting test case in the near future as it is immersive enough to potentially be more traumatic and more unsettling... but that still doesn’t mean playing GTA or Doom increases your odds of going on a shooting spree.

The fact that you can make potentially more impactful stories using more modern media seems neutral to me. But to be frank, you really desperately do not need modern technology and fancy graphics to make an incredibly emotional, impactful game. Just look at indie games like Undertale and Celeste.
And roving cities assigning tickets for illegal parking and all manner of other infractions.
Yeah, I'm curious after seeing the video how much the control could be corrected by a simple change to the car's software. Do Teslas have a sophisticated-enough physics model that you could reduce some constant for the coefficient of friction enough that it would be able to tell that it can't safely drive at 30mph or take those corners at 15mph?

Or is the software just hardcoded to assume that if it turns the steering wheel at a specific angle that the car will move a specific amount in that direction?
I am sorry, but the term invented for the purpose of dealing with rape culture does not exist to be generalisable to a completely different niche. In this case the victim is the one paying huge bonuses to execs who decided that security is less important than their salaries. And other people are suffering for it.
Actually, it can be used to prevent that from happening in the future through facilitating security research that is not restricted to Apple-approved parties.
When Arstechnica reviewed it last year, it was only available in Europe.

I’ll keep a lookout.

Edit: It’s manufactured in China, so there’s still a risk and it’s still supporting an authoritarian government.
The fact that the attacker committed a crime and carries sole blame does not absolve you from your responsibility to secure your belongings.
Intel historically refused to budge on pricing, when presented with an opportunity to be the cpu supplier for the first gen iPhone.
I disagree.

Using BMI to gauge the obesity of an individual is lazy, but for a population, its quite okay.

How many people are more than 6'5" in a population? How many athletes? And even athletes sometime are overweight! A 6'5", 29 BMI NFL LB might be healthy, but the 32 BMI lineman with the same size will have the same problem as obese people once he's 35, discounting injuries.
Anecdotally, I,ve been able to improve significantly on this by training myself to pause for a second or two before the ,,what?,,

If I give my brain that time to catch up, it,s able to put context and sound together into meaning most of the time.
I enjoyed your introduction to TLA+, so looking forward to this. Thank you.
> Tesla’s approach of vision based, AP disengagement-led training will scale better ... [about weather] they’re special cases for other companies (from what’s been revealed; Comma might be an exception).

> all it takes for Tesla’s NN approach to pay off is one leap in explainability.

It's not vision and disengagement-led training that's conferring the scale advantages you're talking about, because other AV companies actually do train on and attempt to drive in various kinds of weather, and safety drivers do the same thing normal drivers do except that they're more trained. The difference is the approach Tesla has to safety (vs the others). Which is to say: Tesla doesn't worry about training their supervising drivers, at the risk of those folks' lives.

Tesla also doesn't seem to worry about _proving_ the safety of their systems: explainability isn't simply going to be a matter of a new algorithmic breakthrough. How do you prove that your software is safe if you don't sample heavily from different operating domains you want your car to work in, and then either simulate on those miles or actually test your car? Before letting a driver behind the wheel of an autopilot, companies like Cruise/Waymo/Aurora all do manual driving first in a new domain, and then move to safety drivers (even 2 to start, for extra safety). This is not because their software is incapable of doing the same things as Tesla, but because it's very worthwhile to sample disengage rates and assess safety criticality to various issues before allowing the car to act autonomously. And even then there are safety nets in place to further mitigate risk. (You're probably right that L5 is a long ways off, but this is how we'll get to L4.)

Of course it's more "scalable" to avoid all this and put the responsibility of risk on users who, as your system improves, become less and less attentive. And so this is what Tesla does. I suspect solving the long tail of issues is going to be more of a challenge for Tesla because at least in my experience it's easier to {convert a naive rules/simple model --> complex model} than to {debug the complex model --> handle failure modes with logic}.
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I will disagree, there was a guy here on HN that was promoting his shit software, it had a demo page where it would detect your IP and show you a list of all torrents you downloaded. I checked it and I am 100% sure it was garbage in my case. I am imagining this type of people that maybe have some connections or some money to get this shit software sold and innocent people getting threaten that they downloaded copyrighted or illegal stuff, that would cause a lot of suffering and drama in a family.

I hope you do not make the point that the seller has the "capitalistic obligation" to misrepresent his shit and the buyers have the duty to triple check.

There should be strong laws, like if your software promised something that is not true in real world situation then the people that sold it should pay, no loopholes.
But when you wield Apple's power, you control those margins. They're also different because they've been able to make privacy and recycled materials marketing points in their industry worth paying for. Why not fair labor?
"Officials in Orange County, Florida have confirmed that a motor accident death was initially included into the coronavirus death toll. It was later struck off the list, but not until authorities were challenged by the media.

Florida Department of Health in Orange County announced on Saturday that it no longer counts the death of a man aged in his 20s in a motorcycle accident as a coronavirus fatality.

The case “was reviewed and he was taken off the list for Covid fatalities,” Kent Donahue, spokesman for Orange County Health Officer Dr Raul Pino, told Fox35, which initially broke the story after perusing lists of official Covid-19 victims provided by the state."

Who knows how many more cases there are just like this. I don't trust the government's numbers at this point.
I am on a high protein diet. I can find "healthy" choices in local SF restaurant, but its rare to find food with enough protein to meet my needs.

Even "healthy" restaurants sneak in sauces and sweet drinks or don't accurately measure their ingredients (and thus correctly report calories).
That's hard to believe in multi million city there was not enough people to fill on one center. Maybe there was something other preventing people from going there? Do you have source?
Compared to nuclear and biological weapons, drones don't get my pulse up.

A future where terrorist groups can produce their own weapons of mass destruction seems like it may well be on the horizon. Through exponential improvements in the underlying technology. Crispr for biology and laser based uranium enrichment for nuclear.

I think it's entirely possible that the great filter might be ahead of us and might consist of our own weapons exceeding our ability to manage them responsibly.

Happy New Year all!
My autopilot slammed on the brakes while on the freeway last week because it was confused by the sun glancing off the pavement.

It was scary.

I have Zero confidence in Tesla self-driving.
The programmer you are today is the result of all the code you ever wrote, good and bad;
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True, I started weightlifting for three months and my BMI went into overweight territory. I had an athletic build both before and after. Probably good for a lot of people but weightlifting really puts it into question.

It's not like weightlifting is something only few men can do; most men can weightlift. Then they end up having healthy body fat levels, but end up with BMI in the overweight category. If something as simple and straightforward as weightlifting messes up a measure, then it's not a good measure.
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75% looks most similar to the previous Atlas videos. Also the movement of the people upstairs behind the glass or the reflections of the cameraman confirm that it has been sped up.
> Indeed, but even if 20% of people don't get their second shot on time

I think my worst case expectation is much worse than yours.

With a two week production shut down, I expect my corner of the world would not get new shipments for more than two weeks; higher priority places would be getting their previous orders filled before us, and we'd only get more once the backlog was filled. Also, I fully expect any production will take at least a week to be made public, so too late for an eager dosing regimine to start holding back.

Keep in mind, we're in winter, and winter storms often cause logistical problems.

The one dose efficacy data is too low confidence to make good decisions with. I'm open to the argument that it's better to use two doses to give two people one dose than to give one person two doses, but it would have been nice if that was trialed. There's also a related question of if you have a dose, if it's better to give that to a properly timed first dose recipient, or to give it to someone who hasn't received a dose yet. Again, there's not quality data; I would lean towards following the trial parameters.

> That's precisely where the government can step in and ensure that antibiotics therapies are available to workers in those facilities as well as daily tests.

Where has this suddenly competent government been for the past year? Yes, we expect a new executive in the US in a month, but the handoff takes time in normal conditions, and we have reason to believe this one will be more abrupt than many.

How do antibiotics help for covid?

How do daily tests help avert a shutdown when you can spread the disease while testing negative? One person could infect most of a shift of workers, given the right circumstances; more than one shift if they do handoff work to the next shift.

Supply chain workers for the vaccine aren't in the priority lists for the vaccine either. Anyway, covid isn't the only communicable disease possibility.
It is a loss leader then and they profit indirectly.
You need to separate R&D amortization from marginal price, otherwise you're deep in "ask a silly question, get a silly answer" territory.
I felt the same way, but I think it might be because of the context that we're used to seeing advanced robots. Currently, that context is video games and movies, where we know they're fake. In a sense, we're conditioned to see this kind of tech and expect that it is done with CGI, so it makes unbelievable when we see it done for real.
There's maybe $300 of off-the-shelf components (at retail prices) in the pictured air unit. It's the R&D time. The software dev and testing of the the whole system would be super expensive. Also there's no mention of their ground station design, how is it controlled by the operator, there's a lot of money and research that has to go into that half of the problem. Soldiers wont put up with the operational peculiarities that hobbyist will. Drones are incredibly fragile because of the weight limitations. 40 minutes of flight time is amazing, probably 2x the best time a hobbyist could build with off-the-shelf parts at that size class.
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> I can pay someone to change my oil, I can pay someone to cut my grass, but for some reason cooking healthy food, the most essential service, is difficult to find.

> Why has our economy failed us in this sector specifically?

Because it's incredibly inefficient for a chef to cook a meal for a family, because people want their food to arrive warm, thus preventing factory-food-production, because delivery is expensive, because everyone has a refrigerator, thus making cooked-to-order food have compete on price with long-shelf-life refrigerated staples, and because people vote with their wallets by buying food that tastes good, as opposed to food that's healthy.

Do you know what makes food taste good? Sugar, fat, salt, and alcohol. Do you know what's not healthy for you? Sugar, fat, salt and alcohol. [1]

The other problem is that a lot of Americans don't know how to eat well - because eating well is a skill that you inherit from your parents. If your parents were feeding you crap food as a kid, you'll turn into an adult that craves that same crap.

There's a huge class divide, here. My parents were immigrants with lower-middle-class means, but upper-class habits. As a kid, soda was a treat for me. Soda was a staple for my lower-class friends - which was not by their choice, but rather by choice of their parents. They grew up into adults with bad diets, bad teeth, and bad overall health, and they find it really, really hard to change what they eat.

This sort of thing repeats, generation after generation.

[1] Yes, I'm aware that fat and salt aren't unhealthy in themselves - but are probably unhealthy in the amounts we consume.
No. That was not thoughtful of you given the threat model. But the fault is always, _always_ on the one who commits the crime.

Claiming the contrary is exactly victim blaming.
Most every fast food restaurant has reasonably healthy food that few people order. Mcdonalds has chicken burgers. Everywhere has salads (albeit fewer than in 2019 because of food handling concerns in 2020).

Subway caters to this heavily in their marketing. You can easily put together a cheap sub with whatever macro/micronutrient combo you want.

Also, most supermarkets have a hot prepared food section with very healthy cheap pre-prepared food. Again... few people take advantage of it.

Outside of food deserts (which yes, do exist) it's really not hard to find healthy cheap prepared food if you want it. But nobody does.
> I think what people are missing with all these analogies about burglaries and negligence is the funny difference between cyberspace and meatspace: In cyberspace, your attacker can be anywhere on the planet, located in virtually any jurisdiction, and reliably tracing and attributing attacks is a very difficult task. In meatspace, your attacker must be physically present and is generally obvious and thus vulnerable. This difference has dramatic implications on the ability of the enforcement model to reduce incidence of attacks.

The jurisdiction part is the key here, IMHO.

Sure, the likelyhood of reliably tracing a single attack to a crew is very low, but a prolific crew has dozens or even hundreds of attacks going on in parallel, so tracing just one of them should be enough to take them down.

However, most crews live in "bullet proof" jurisdictions, where we cannot reach them.

If this practice of ransomware attacks continue, we really need a better solution for that. This could go as far as cutting off the "bullet proof" countries from the Internet, if it weren't for China and Russia, that simply from an economic and political perspective, we cannot disconnect.

I guess diplomatic solutions are needed, as well as investing more in IT security, secure OSS etc.
A predator drone can fire a hellfire missile from kilometers away and hit a car windshield, killing the passengers with a set of pop-out blades. I don't think humanoid robots are going to be a tipping point.
For a population study BMI is fine, elite NFL players aren't going to move the needle.
A professional athlete doesn't need a simple metric to understand if he's at his ideal weight. It's part of his job. The general public do need a simple metric which covers 95% of the population. BMI is that.
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BMI isn't a reliable indicator go gauge obesity FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON. I would think most of us agree that the people like Tom Brady, Dwyane Johnson (the rock), or competitive body builders would be extreme ends of this scale.

For average people BMI is a reliable indicator.
>Producing vast amounts before they have been tested at all would have been costly when they had to throw them out.

This is exactly what they did - funded by governments.

Example:

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

>The program promotes mass production of multiple vaccines, and different types of vaccine technologies, based on preliminary evidence, allowing for faster distribution if clinical trials confirm one of the vaccines is safe and effective. The plan anticipates that some of these vaccines will not prove safe or effective, making the program more costly than typical vaccine development, but potentially leading to the availability of a viable vaccine several months earlier than typical timelines.
A simple test shows this isn't more realistic. Gravity during the jumps are off, and people walking upstairs is odd. It looks like it was filmed in realtime.
Fleet data of Tesla's scale probably doesn't give you a substantial advantage. MobileEye seems to be ahead of Tesla with a lidar-less system without such data (but they have partnerships with car makers to collect mapping data). From what I hear, companies like Waymo don't want more data, the bottlenecks are engineering.

In self-driving, you basically have 3 parts - perception, prediction and planning. Perception is the easy part (if you have lidars). Tesla and AFAIK others rely heavily on NNs for perception. The real challenge is prediction and planning. To what extent are NNs involved here in Tesla's system is unknown, probably not that much. Overall, I don't think that Tesla has a fundamentally different approach than others.
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Come on... am i the only one who gets a steampunk vibe out of this? ;-)
BMI is an absurd measurement for people whose height is outside a small range. See, for example, https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/bmi.html
"Body positivity" is -- inadvertently for the most part -- insidious. Of course, don't make fun of overweight people for being overweight, don't be an asshole. However, making people people believe that they can eat whatever they want, can be obese and still healthy doesn't help at all. It might make you feel nice, but it is very destructive and unhelpful in the long run.
I learned that an LDS antenna has nothing to do with Mormons.
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László Mérő, Math-Psychology prof here told me like 20 years ago that it is simple: if you see others committing violent acts, it increases the violence in you. Even if it is an abstract drawing on screen. If you control it and you do it basically, then it does not.

Just remember: were you agitated more after a Tom&Jerry session or after Call of Duty.

With my brother we always were crying 3 minutes after one VHS of Tom&Jerry ended :)

Never after killing 1000 nacis on screen or similar.
Not every crime means businesses are not liable for the results of their negligence. If the business does not provide the reasonable means for dealing with fraud it’s their responsibility in front of the law for the result of given fraud.
I still remember driving through some small town in Arizona 10 years ago, and I couldn't find a single non-obese person there. Not just overweight, full on obese. Parents, kids, everyone. It was the one of the most bizarre experiences I've had, as a visitor. Cities are not that bad though, but I'm sure many rural parts are close to 100%.
Most German PC games seem focused on trade / mercantile or historical themes. There are also some popular simulation and role playing genres.

- Anno Series (I just picked up Anno 1800 yesterday)

- Fugger / The Guild 1-3 / Patrician etc

- The Settlers / Die Siedler

- Games set in the Dark Eye (role playing framework similar to D&D but more popular in Germany) universe.
I'm waiting to see what Tesla does with the 4D radar they are apparently going to use and when that comes online.

I'd feel a lot safer with that kind of data added to the current sensors.
Let me know when Tesla's cameras can put their arms up to shield their eyes from glare. Or move over a few inches to see around a big truck. Or react to a stopped big red fire truck with flashing lights. /s
But as long as you have government you need funds, which means tax, which means threat of force.
It goes the other way too. You might have a BMI in the "healthy" range, but actually have an unhealthy amount of body fat [0]. Of course, nobody puts themselves in this category.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#/media/File:Co...
Phone, phone, phone, phone, phone... so many times this word is used here, yet nobody suggested LITERALLY USING THE PHONE?
Example: I just discovered an app called DialUp(.com) which calls and connects you with people at predefined times.
Used it twice so far and I'm loving it.
I also think emailing is just perfect, so whenever you are comfortable (e.g. from bed) it's a great way to make good use of the time. Other plain-text (like commenting on Hacker News!) works great as well.

And lastly, consuming can work efficiently too - I would make the distinction between mindless- and mindful-tasks.
Watching Netflix is mostly mindless, while viewing educational content could be mindful (could be video but better yet text)
Take the fight to TSMC by fabbing for other companies. Probably combined with your option 3.
You are forgetting the industry's influence on these studies...corporate funding and lobbying are the major manipulators behind these voices.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
Doesn't seem to work to display the hierarchy in existing code unless you structure it using some syntax to allow for the code-folding to work.
Apply more scrutiny to the pop tech news sources you pay attention to and/or be more mindful of the takeaways that you read out of the information that is reported. This information is incorrect.
I remember the geography of my home continent very well, I travel around here a lot.

The hotels with shared bathrooms are very common even in Switzerland, and everywhere else in Europe.

The small apartments are more common the richer the country. Larger apartments are more common in the poorer countries. You can find the small ones in every capital city though.
Fat and salt are both critical for your health.
Hundreds of thousands of autonomous drone killbots the size of bats flying around do get my pulse up.
Exactly, I'm baffled by this as well. It's a simple and clear way to save many more lives and nobody even discussing this. It's also much easier to administer since you don't need to coordinate second visit. I don't understand why it wasn't part of the trial (some portion of people just get 1 dose)