skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll add my observation that action movies and games try to evoke a particular feeling (that feeling that causes you to exclaim, "that's so cool!"), and that feeling isn't just from violence. For me, watching an awesome, well-choreographed dance routine evokes a very similar feeling. (And you could probably argue a good kung-fu fight scene is essentially a well-choreographed dance.) If you ever watch a James Bond movie, they're essentially packed with stuff intended to evoke this feeling of coolness, including, but not limited to violence. You'll see parkour, extreme skiing, sky-diving, etc.

I'll also note that most mainstream action movies and games tend to de-emphasize the goriness and injuries from violence (although gore-flicks also exist, especially in the horror genre). Compare a James Bond movie to a more realistic depiction like Saving Private Ryan. When James Bond shoots unnamed bad guys, they neatly fall over with minimal blood. When he blows people up, you don't usually see any blood or dismemberment. They just get thrown by the explosion and lie dead (but intact) on the ground.

My guess is they do this because the audience isn't watching for the injury aspect of violence, and gore can turn off some viewers. I think the violence in action movies (and games) is more about the protagonist winning. It's the competitive aspect we like. The power fantasy. The protagonist showing incredible skill.

As for graphical realism in games, I don't really know of any that specifically focused on making the killing more realistic (I'm sure some exist, I just don't know them). I've seen games advertise realistic lighting, shadows, reflection, environments, water, faces, gun models, etc. When they make everything more realistic, the violence may get more realistic along with it, but it doesn't seem to be the main focus.
No he is a Kremlin agent for using his once storied organization for espionage. The RT job was to point out the obvious relationship between himself and Russian propaganda efforts going back decades.
The main missing word is "voters," which appears only once: "California's legislature has only made matters worse. A bill it enacted in 2019, ostensibly intended to protect gig workers, threatened to undo the business models of some of the state's biggest tech companies until voters granted them a reprieve in a November referendum."

Voters put California's legislators into office and voters continue to vote for dysfunctional policies, like the continuation of Prop 13 (https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/). While "bad government" is to blame, the proximate cause of "bad government" is still voters.
The retardation comes from the pressure at the leading edge being greater than the pressure at the trailing edge.
Here’s my stance: if we can’t show a meaningful and strong correlation, it doesn’t matter. People have a personal responsibility to follow the law. Consumption of such material needs to be so dangerous that it justifies compromising speech rights, and as of now, decades past the original video game violence debates, we’re still not even sure it does anything.

People can be “inspired” by a film or a game to do something illegal, but it’s impossible for us to tell if they were simply likely to do it anyway, so individual cases don’t say very much.
>Morbidly fat teenagers were basically nonexistent then.

This is always striking to see in movies with the "fat" kid. As an example, look at Willy Wonka from 1971 and 2005

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37220788 ['71 on the left]

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a798428/what-tim-burton-ch... [2005 on the left]

The fat gluttonous kid from 1971 barely looks abnormal today. While the one from 2005 is morbidly obese.
Can someone explain this "person-centered approach"? The slickness of the name makes me a bit suspicious: "I didn't use regular statistics, I did it the person-centered way"...
And presumably because she is one of many on the ACM Communications Editorial Board: https://cacm.acm.org/about-communications/editorial-board/
YouTube doesn't run ads on demonetized videos - that's what demonetizing a channel is all about. It means the advertisers don't want to pay for the ads to show next to those videos.
You can’t get output to be “90-95% correct” from machine translation.

People think of language translation as some sort of same dimension transformation but it’s more like re-projection that involve rotation in upper dimension. Simple warping goes only so far, neural networks give some uncanny slurries, human artists add a lot of their own brush strokes and it’s a lossy process both ways.

Speech transcription is much more straightforward because speakers are supposed to have corresponding single literal expressions for each segments of voice.
I get confused, when I read the term "society monster", as I think it's a loaded term, that is not reflective of the language used in the article

Arguing for more wealth equality is not the same as saying "billionaires are monsters", but having a few people able to fund lobbying and influence political systems, simply because of their wealth, while a large part of the population are cut off from participating in the democratic process, because they do not have the resources for education and the stability to commit long-term to a cause, is in my opinion a death sentence to modern democracy
because the board covers the pi board underneath?
Funny, I get the feeling someone who looked different would be immediately dismissed from their position.
The author makes some interesting points, but admits in another post that chat itself is distracting and sucks productivity (to the point where he had to invent "Pomodoro for chat" to break free). It feels like "group chat by default" would be even harder to break away from, especially if you're concerned about missing that serendipitous moment he talks about.

I have to say I do like his Chatodoro concept, however, so perhaps that's the key.
> Fourth: caring intensely about making everyone wear a mask, while not caring at all whether it’s a real respiratory filter or a paisley do-rag bandana

Most serious coverings were more effective than nothing. And from what I've seen any fashion/joke-only coverings were denied or criticised immediately.
> One of Wikileak's overt and major goals is to expose CIA secrets. The two are in direct opposition.

Yes, which makes them an opposition intelligence organization. Like I said.
No need to write a big article like this when one sentence will do.

Here, a kiwi fruit tests positve for covid19:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/4YrXoLayHWLI/

ie. the entire emergency is a fraud.
Google Docs on iOS Safari is unreadable garbage. Here's what this post looks like on my phone. I wish I could hide docs.google.com links from HN.

https://i.imgur.com/7cuifN3.png
> This is what I dislike most about Apple: they're trying to be a leader, but are not acting like one.

Apple has done far more than any tech company to take ownership of their supply chain.
> but there’s nothing that will brick them

You simply should not use a smartphone without security updates. It's as good as a brick in this case. (Or maybe never use Internet and Bluetooth on it).
I don't understand how you could imagine having a discussion about "what the standard model doesn’t solve and why new theories are interesting," that wasn't in the language of quantum mechanics, which the dead/alive cats in boxes thing would be an elementary first step of learning. Field theory is way farther off the deep end than the measurement of a two-state system.
Thanks a lot for all this nice tips. I applied most of them to my blog post.
> does that make you any better

Yes. Because at least you are publishing new information. And then then people can decide for themselves how to interpret it.
I agree but I chalked that up to motion of extremely rigid bodies under large torque.

Watch the reflections on the plexiglass while they are moving. Obviously they could have been composited in but there's definitely a live portion of the shot.
Tesla can't use lidars because: 1. It would make the cars much more expensive. 2. They would have to refund all people who've bough FSD or provide them a free upgrade.
> someone who has already slyly tried to dismiss the topic as surely a conspiracy theory (the implication being all conspiracy theories are false and/or batahit crazy).

The parent is clearly lampooning this perspective, not advancing it unironically. But I can kind of understand mistaking it for the real thing, the insistence on denying the possibility of conspiracies has reached some pretty serious Poe's Law proportions.
Here's an analysis of the Flow Browser: https://thereshouldbenored.com/posts/flow-new-engine/ by browser standards/testing veteran gsnedders here on HN, from June.

I cut out the juciest bit from the middle:

> The answer is almost certainly it cannot succeed as a general-purpose browser. Indeed, they've said themselves (emphasis mine) ...

Lots and lots of insightful commentary cut out, really do read it!
The advisory panel's science is in the government's trash can. Industry has been served.
If you're willing to pay several times the cost of a full frame DSLR and have an order quantity of 100 to 1000 or so, the scientific camera companies (for microscopes, telescopes, etc) are used to that sort of quantity and quality and would probably spin you a custom camera.

It's been a while since I've been in the industry but I can try to hook you up if you're serious. Email in profile.
It can look real with hydraulics, but it can look fake.

In that video you linked, look at second 21/22, when it raises the arms in the air: the way the arms stop instantly is very inhuman.
Right. The argument that the heating is by compression is at best misleading, and at worst completely wrong. The dissipative process in the shock is more akin to friction.
But ... this article is a sign that investors are losing patience and so they might not have a free hand. It might seem straightforward to cancel buybacks but if you lose your investors then you might find its someone else implementing a new strategy.
Tesla's system complains when the cameras are blocked, I've seen it many times.
Are you suggesting that COVID tests were widely submitted with kiwi fruit rather than saliva?
Park Ranger caught on camera tasing Native American man hiking off trail
always finds what you need, shows you the right way
Could someone explain if FiberScheduler can use all the available CPU cores?
I agree with the general conclusion that machine learning (just like any way of making decisions) involves ethics, but I disagree with the conclusion that every NeurIPS submission should have a concluding 1-2 paragraphs about the ethics of the submission. I reviewed for NeurIPS this year, and almost all of the ethics sections consisted of vacuous stuff along the lines of "uh, I guess...being efficient is good, might save some energy? and our method is pretty efficient, so that's nice".

I think a system where area chairs skim abstracts and solicit these ethics paragraphs where they seem necessary -- so, not for the billionth paper obtaining pretty bounds for some variant of convex optimization -- makes more sense.

I know that "think of the machine learning researchers!" is not a take that engenders sympathy, but we're probably talking thousands of human hours spent writing these things. It's not nothing.
I'm having a hard time believing it's underlying fear that motivates anger generally. If some videogame AI craps out or an open source program turns out to be deprecated, I get angry at the supposed laziness and ignorance of devs. "How dare such people exist and hang their feats on a wall?"

Not to mention strength follows anger, you need to be angry to handle a physical situation.

Honestly I think you're trying to fit the cylinder in the square hole.
Yes, at least this.
Vector maps are now available through the API, I believe.
Nice site!
How about adding "country" (or region) to "Sort by"?
Did you read the report you linked to ?

- The post-lockdown figures were higher than in the equivalent period in 2019

- The higher figures in 2020 should be seen in the context of a rising national rate and maturing real-time surveillance systems;

They say , Yes there were more suicides in 2020 than 2019 but that is because suicide rates were rising anyway. and we now monitor them better than we have before. AND the also state

(3)There are several important caveats. These are early figures and could change over time or with the inclusion of more areas. We cannot rule out higher rates in some local areas or population sub-groups, especially as the effect of COVID-19 itself has varied between communities;

http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=51861

So not unaffected by any means but lockdown impact is still not determined.
BD is basic research. Figuring out what can be done and what the potential applications are. I’m surprised BD has gone through so many sales. Whoever owns them in the end is going to make a ton of money I reckon.
I was doing a lot of cardio training for an ironman and had really low body fat, but still borderline overweight according to BMI.
I think that they will be more upgraded and everything will be even better
That's part of my question (to me at least) is why they couldn't implement preemptive actors? At least at the granularity of individuals methods which in Ruby is pretty much any action, right? Async and the whole red/blue function problem seems like a pain.
Network of 'droneports' is ready for cargo transport
> Isn't that the same strategy that countries like Iran, Russia, and China have against their whistleblowers?

We can't have a discussion if basic we can't get basic things right. Snowden isn't a whistleblower. He leaked stolen materials then fled to a hostile country.

Multiple IC whistleblowers were allowed to testify against the President in the last 4 years, all without punitive punishment (although the Trump's tried). Snowden could have chosen a different path. His impressive control of his own narrative seems to have most of this community fooled.
I don't think this is such a big deal. Competitors often co-operate around things that are important to the whole industry.

Major banks are competitors, but if they didn't co-operate we would not be able to ACH or wire money to accounts at other banks.

Ultimately it's more efficient if we all just use the same map data and do it once.
> How about the fact that gaming grew by every metric by orders of magnitude between 80s and now and violent crime dropped by half of more everywhere in the world. If the effect was even 0.01 with growth by 10000% we would have noticed.

Have shootings not gone up? Has no one noticed it.

It’s counter intuitive to think that games that simulate practicing shooting people would have zero influence on people this inclined.
I think it’s important to talk about the concerns related to military robots well before they reach deployment so the public is primed to criticize leaders who would claim their use will be justified. When should we talk about it if not on the release of amazing new capabilities sure to catch the eye of military officials?
I kind of like this one
sin(8x)/2x
Note that immediately after this become public, Apple put Wistron on probation refusing to award them any more work and requiring them to resolve the issues.

Governments really need to do the heavy lifting though because apart from refusing to hand over money/work they are very limited in what they can do.
Asimov himself has been accused of sexual harassment, although I haven't yet seen a sign that his three laws are now guilty by association.
I specifically mentioned the Black Bloc/anarchists because they really are domestic terrorists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy1eRCYS08w

I've met some of them and they are fanatical and dangerous. I made a video about how that type of mentality can destroy neighborhoods and lead to violence, like what happened in Seattle:

https://battlepenguin.video/videos/watch/9f81cd38-3ee9-4f26-...
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I use Resilio, its a little easier to setup with machines that aren't your own (family, colleagues). I have a number of machines hooked up (a number of shares), and take/read notes on my phone (my personal wiki is in one of the shares, very convenient).

Keeping a node online is the hardest part, I used an old phone previously, now an old laptop as a nearly-always-on-node.
Downvote opposing views without response and move on. This website is pathetic.
Plenty of room for the air to escape from the sides though.
Just a minor tip, a lot of fast food places will sell the pieces of meat cooked for less than the burger, minus the bun. When road tripping, I'd often hit a fast food place, get a couple meat patties and a side salad or two.

You're right on regular monitoring even without taking in carbs, depending on your metabolism, you can still get crazy high readings on almost no carbs in the diet... Took me 6 months of no carbs and had to still take insulin on occassion to keep it controlled.
> the cheapest shipping option (to Eastern USA) costs over $25

Why does it? It seems so small it could be sent for much cheaper.
Do you have any thoughts on why the FBI slow walked the Jeffrey Epstein investigation since the 1990s? Why they still haven't raided his ranch property in New Mexico? Why they seem to have done nothing with the extensive cache of CDs they raided from his Manhattan townhouse?
Agreed that it is a bit too far. Emphasis on the bit.

It is a de-facto dictatorship and it is tyrannical by many definitions.
It is not a crime to report crimes.
If you have local knowledge that some sketchy routes are actually valid shortcuts then you don't really need Google Maps do you? I'd rather Google Maps was conservative for the person without local knowledge.
Maybe the libertarian I talk to is not representative, but he thinks even military and police are not valid government functions, since they necessitate taxes, which necessitate levying monies from people with an underlying threat of force.
How were you paid? Patreon?
Cryptocurrency Startup Underpaid Women and Black Employees, Data Shows
On discovering reading – as a 50-year-old
It has only been one decade since he created a show that RT broadcast, but you've done nothing to show why that relationship makes him a Kremlin agent but not King and Ventura.

This argument is ridiculous. If there was any actual evidence he was a Kremlin agent, why would they currently be using the flimsy hacking charges to extradite him?
In your example from the article, it talks about how voters did vote in the company's best interests, which keeps those companies in line with the framework used in the rest of the country.

Was that an intentionally undermining of whatever point had set out to make?

Because I can dissect that part too, which is also the same as the rest of the country: nobody else really runs for these positions.
It is much more likely that this is based on the secure enclave vulnerability that was found earlier this year and affects devices with a A7 through A11 chip.
This seems like a good approach (acknowledging it limits you to only comments from reddit/twitter users). How do you embed the posts so it shows # of replies?
3 - when I have had rejections it has been by email, directly, with specific reasons. Hurts like hell, but can't really feel bad about it.
> Approaching an adult to use leverage to get what you want is tattling, especially when its over "sharing a toy that isn't hers"

Very good qualifier that the toy is not hers. Maybe mention that and that you don't have any authority over their toy.

> Learning to become dependent on external intervention for all conflict is not a life skill I want to teach my kids.

That is a good thing to have. My knee jerk reaction as having had absolutely no guidance on how to resolve social conflicts where I was say getting bullied to this comment initially was it might be an overuse of "just deal with it", but I realize that was not your intention :)
I'll take "ominous" for 1000, Alex.
Hi all, this project is my first foray into learning ReactJS - a goal of mine in quarantine this year was to learn as much about software development as I could.

When people find out I'm an Actuary (despite actually being a non-life Actuary), the first question I often get is "can you tell me when I'll die"? They're usually joking... but now I can point them here! I had a lot of fun making this and would welcome and feedback or suggestions you have.
Much appreciated. Only on HN.
If the author is here -- the extra features compared to IQ's version are nice! I might make this my bookmarked default version.

If interested, here are a few thoughts:

- It might be good to link directly to IQ's version of GraphToy, rather than his homepage.

- I dig the white background option!

- The create link feature is a bit smoother than the original.

- The download image button is a great idea, though I just realized with both versions you can right click to save the image, without needing a new tab. One thing that occurred to me -- it would be killer if the download image version popped up an SVG render with a higher sampling rate, instead of pixels! A little text or UI could clarify how to save a pixel version vs a vector rendering.

- I like the escalator function used to demo the time variable! I've used that very function on ShaderToy.

- It would be super nice if the plot window used a flexbox or grid layout to stretch to fill the window. It's currently a bit smaller than IQ's and doesn't resize.

- Might also be nice to have the help box be a popup you can click (the way it works in ShaderToy), and maybe put the variables underneath the plot, to allow the plot to expand to basically full screen?
It's the assumption of linearity in combination with anecdotes that make the prediction weak, not the assumption itself. If you hold that assumption and use a variety of data to justify it and extrapolate from that's different than what I was criticizing.
How is Fairphone any better than Apple on this issue ?

They make use of third party Chinese suppliers who they haven't audited.
Yes. Total violence going down doesn't prove that violence from video games isn't going up.
I agree, but globalism has on the whole improved the human condition by a lot. The vast majority of people aren’t middle-class citizens of developed countries. Like everything, balance is key.
> Second: after it took two days to invent a defense against the disease, spending eleven months deciding to use it. Then, eleven months later, not already having made enough for everyone.

Seriously? It took two days [citation needed] to do some chemistry, but the rest of the time making sure that that chemistry had resulted in what was actually a valid and safe vaccine against the disease. And ramping up production is hard, and you don't want to scale up the wrong lab bench process too soon.
It would be fun if it could play the wave form as audio.
It looks like their car (Toyota Chaser) was not fit for the purpose. I mean, looking at the car's wikipedia page I can see a city sedan that is definitely not adequate for off-road driving conditions at minus 40-50 degrees Celsius.

Judging by a couple of photos I could find on Google Maps it looks like in the summer the road is barely accessible using vehicles like the famous UAZ-452, I'm talking about this photo [2] showing a UAZ-452 crossing a river. In the winter I saw that these two people did it with a heavily equipped Toyota off-roader [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Chaser#6th_Generation_(...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@63.351051,140.967979,3a,75y,90t...

[3] https://www.google.com/maps/@63.258317,143.201208,3a,75y,90t...
But that's because of Apple rather than ARM. Tarring all ARM processors with that brush seems rather unfair.
I can't handle the pretentious writing style. Topic aside, the writing alone made me angry.

Edit: didn't realize this was Moldbug. Right in line with his other work.