skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would have been better to make one film, and treat it like the fantasy it was (more geared towards children). Have a framing sequence where Bilbo is telling a very young Frodo about his adventure "there and back again." But alas, that's not the world we live in.
The 12-TET certainly has some neat mathematical properties, but my point is that it’s not the only way to decide what “notes” are. It’s an interesting debate on whether there’s something fundamental to this particular approach that sounds good to the human ear, but I think it’s clear that there’s a hefty cultural component.

It’s also worth noting that modern 12-TET is not the series of whole number ratios that someone might expect from basing it off a harmonic series [1]. It’s an approximation based off a logarithmic scale. 12 Tone Just (or “Pure”) Intonation sounds pretty weird, and in my opinion, bad. If people had been making music with 12 Tone Just Intonation for the last millennium, maybe it would sound good to me!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_equal_temperament#Just_inte...
Their support is super responsive on discord and via email.

And yes Craft’s schema is pretty complicated.
I think the point about balance is valuable. In the 1980's the digital transition had just started and mostly contributed to cleaner control of analog processes like computer-controlled tracking shots over models(all the "swooping spaceship shots" were done this way). But most of the things one could do to add visual interest to a shot, regardless of the particular tech, were fundamentally pre-production, not post: Storyboarding, staging, lighting, prop and costume work; well-rehearsed and directed performances. The parts that were meant to be special effects were still often obviously abstract in nature, outside of the biggest productions: e.g. a character walking away from a burning airplane wreck might just be composited on top of a fireball in a very basic way, if the production couldn't afford to destroy an actual airplane. Even just doing any compositing was not an easy task and involved a few specialty roles to create mattes etc. So there were some natural constraints that pushed everything towards building up the parts of the scene that were actually "live-action".

Once CGI rolled in - and really, this was true of all graphics when you look at things like 90's magazines overusing Photoshop filters - we got a taste for adding multiple layers of production on top of everything, which made the final image less "tied together" and more of a chimera.

I do think animation has gotten better overall, even 2D, because animation has always embraced being chimerical and covering that up by finding a consistent approach to the final image. All that's changed is that there's a lower reliance on large numbers of drawings. In the 80's, very few animation productions could really achieve their full vision - with few corrective tools available, you had to have some excellent draftsmanship just to get a product out the door. While there were opportunities to use that to expressive effect, most of TV animation stuck to simple shots and reused as much as they could get away with. This also really pushed the default look of animation towards whatever was easy to draw, which dampened the tone of works trying to feel serious.

Now we have digital puppets that still are fundamentally 2D but allow the animator to spend more time on creating a performance that reuses snippets of pre-drawn material, which is overall a good thing. If they want to push a scene further and add additional camera angles or poses, they have the option to do so and can apply CGI to create the necessary references too - you aren't bottlenecked so much by drawing, but neither are you stuck trying to composite in a CG image, because you can paint over it and get whatever look you want, as long as that look isn't live action.
Is this just some random person that bought ycombinator1.com and added features, or an official thing?
So Tesla marketing gets the benefit of the doubt, but research doesn't?
> Does that mean that expectation is all automated cars will go exactly the speed limit on the left lane of North American superhighways?

It’s already against road rules to stay in the passing lane when cars behind wish to pass, regardless of the speed limit, or if you’re already driving at it. If cars behind desire to overtake, give way. This is already codified. No need to blame the cars or the self-driving tech. It’s the human driver who bears responsibility for what the car does or doesn’t do, as are the only ones able to countermand the autopilot. Blaming Tesla for any of that seems like dogpiling and behind the point.
Humans study CS for 5 years, reading code from online to be able to solve these problems.
The world doesn't deserve such an incredible marvel of engineering.
> I sort of agree, but both should occur. Letting transgressions slide because economic progress is made should not occur.

That assumes that these things are uncorrelated, and I don’t think you can make that assumption without proof. For example, Singapore is a multi-ethnic, multi-religious society with a delicate balance between Chinese (Confucian), Malays (Muslim), and Indians (Hindu). This is a mix that in many countries could devolve into perpetual ethnic conflict. Indeed, Singapore separated from Malaysia due to conflict between the Chinese and the Malay.

Part of that grand bargain is that the culture of government is Anglo and Confucian, but the government otherwise avoids intruding on the culture of the other two groups. Homosexuality is simply not accepted in Islam and among Indians. So a push to legalize it would be seen as an attack by westernized English-speaking Chinese upon the two other cultural groups.

Lee Kuan Yew was, in fact, extremely westernized (he spoke English as his first language), and opposed the law against homosexuality. But he was not about to upset social stability and unity in the country over that issue: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singapore-homosexuality-i...

In America, we take social stability for granted. Imposing social change without broad public consensus creates social strife and more than a little dysfunction even in America. In a developing country, such conflict could be fatal. The calculus of individual welfare versus collective welfare is simply different in a developing country. Singapore’s infant mortality dropped from 35 per 1,000 to 2.5 per 1,000 from 1960 to 2000. Anything that sets back economic development, no matter how well intentioned the goal, means literally tens of thousands of dead children. That’s the cold hard reality people in wealthy countries don’t have to deal with.
There are a bunch of standards for material fire classification, which may differ from country to country, but they're not really available to read online for free most of the time. You can do some googling around A1 fire classes, EI fire rating and so on.

A useful thing to know is that a house fire revolves around 800 degrees Celsius typically, so you should expect various materials that have a fire resistance rating to take more than that for a sustained period.
There are valid criticisms of Tesla, this normalized data story is probably one of them, but the fans and anti-fans of Tesla are so equally rabid that it is nearly impossible to have a rational conversation about it.

Expressing a view in either direction results in an instant pile-on of trolls and flames.
Using real names just means the John Smiths of the world can say what they want while Sally-Annabel Numblenuts has to be careful.
> One of the first things I learned working professionally is that of it’s possible you need to force all engineers to use the same OS.

Why stop there? You may also deny engineers admin access so they can't install unauthorized software alternatives to the one true path(tm). The policy is really solidified by not revising the list of blessed software for many years[1], assuring there are no support tickets, and your stack is truly 'stable'. Why let software engineers choose which software they'd like to install?

1. Eclipse is on the list, always has. Jetbrains requires skip-level approval as support is still experimental. What is VSCode? No one knows the process of adding it to the approved packages.
I also feel like my comprehension of physical reading material was better, but it's been a while sine I actually used physical material for learning, so it could also just be my brain is worse at retaining information in my old age. Definitely something I think I'll experiment with though.
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You don't think it's impressive, yet you surmise that a computer program could compete at a level of the top 1% of all humans in five years?

That's wildly overstating the promise of this technology, and I'd be very surprised if the authors of this wouldn't agree.
Interestingly Livecode had a GPL version until a few months ago. But I can’t wait to see your project, which sounds right up my alley. You could build yours starting with JUCE which has done an immense amount of heavy lifting in the portability department. It is also GPL.

https://docs.juce.com/master/index.html
A dimension I dind't see mentioned in the article is the volume of production and changing dynamics in the VFX industry. Back in the 70s/80s/90/s there was dramatically less special effects-driven content being produced. The community of those films was so small that you could have minor celebrities in people like Stan Winston. As the demand for the resource has increased, the talent in the production team has not kept up. This seems to me to be a key factor in the decreasing average level of CGI quality. Also keep in mind that VFX is a generally bad business. While more is being spent on production, VFX shops are extremely margin-driven and when you combine tight margins with tough (global) competition you end up making tradeoffs.
I... don't think that's a fair equivalence. I don't think you'd ever get death threats from tweeting about being annoyed by someone interrupting your work out to tell you you're pretty. I don't think you'd get people posting your phone # and address that they got from a people finder website because of some comics you made. I don't think you'd ever have to wonder if those plates that got thrown at you were real life incels that got radicalized and wanted to hurt you
"How would you begin to gather statistics and estimate risk for something like this, for example?"

The FBI tracks hate crimes. That could be a starting point. Various federal agencies provide protection and investigation of threats for political/judicial figures. It seems their analysis of what percentage are credible, and which ones are attempted, could provide good data.

We also have to view the risk as seen by the other commenter. They might not be outraged about this due to them not being a target by not becoming notorious on the internet and engaging with hate groups. This is largely the same as someone in a city saying the city is safe, but never going to the bad area. Is it a problem - yes. Is it one that directly affects them - no. Is it something they will take action on - it depends on their other priorities.
What would be the equivalent string to include in a chrome/userContent.css file?
Exactly the same situation with Apple, but it’s much more than bumps and ridges. It’s DRM for screens, digitizers, batteries, etc. It is genuine OEM but apple obviously prefers you to buy a new device.
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Lack of the word 'Tesla' in the title probably does it. As well as not tripping the flame war detector probably. We'll see how this thread fares.
Hey there! I work with alerting in general at Grafana - what are the pain points of dashboards and alerts as code you're currently experiencing? Would love to deliver / capitalise on the feedback.
If I had a single-car crash with minor injuries, why would I report it? It seems like there’s limited upside to me as the (obviously at-fault) driver. Go get medical care and go get my car fixed. (I drive cars cheap enough to replace and so do not insure them against collisions that are my fault.)

Drivers driving without a valid license, without insurance, under the influence, wanted by the law, etc would have all kinds of reasons to not report a crash.
because math doesn't do experiments.
Settings are like lines of comments or the weight of an aeroplane. Less is better but sometimes it can’t be avoided. I just hate having to configure things though because I always lose my configuration when I change device or have to factory reset so I’d rather change my expectations to match the defaults than to configure something.
It says that groups with the phone in their pocket focused better than those with phone face down on the table.

Having something that can not be lost, forgotten or misplaced, in a place you are not used too have it could reduce focus too. Maybe the same lost of focus would happen with keys, or credit cards.
Wow, I had no idea, that sounds really bad. The whole book banning debacle now makes sense and seems legal. That test seems to me to give way for courts to basically judge however they want, as all those three criteria are very subjective.

Also first time I hear about "patently offensive" and now I'm laughing. Thanks!
I’ve heard Tesla owners describing autopilot as feeling like being a passenger with a learner driver behind the wheel.

That was my first hand experience also, it feels like I’m the nervous dad gritting his teeth while the teenager does something technically legal and safe but nerve-racking.
Such a flying “car”? Best way to have ground meat everywhere in your garden if said neighbor makes the smallest mistake…
Well, it's an American law, so its validity has no relation to how non Americans see it. Also, the activist pressure is much stronger and much, much better financed on the anti gun side, so that does not make much sense. You can go read the recent SCOTUS decisions related to the 2nd amendment; their interpretation of the constitution is very, very well justified. You can disagree with it, but it's ludicrous to say it's all because of extreme activist pressure. The 2nd Amendment is pretty clear on its intent, and that's wildly agreed on by constitutional experts. Americans usually support the right to bear arms too.

I'm not American but if I was and I wanted to limit access to guns, I don't think arguing that the courts should decide the 2nd amendment doesn't actually give the right to bear arms would be the way to go. If you think Americans agree with you and don't actually want that part of the constitution, judicial activism wouldn't be needed.
If the budgets stay the same then some content might go where the ad money is. For example, the internet strangled the free metro newspaper business because having an ad-supported print media in the 2000's was difficult. If internet ads became dumber, then print ads don't look so dumb. And some money might flow back into things like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(Swedish_newspaper)
So if anything, the ad-supported content might shift to other places such as print.
Tesla should release demographic info if they have it. IIRC, luxury vehicles tend to have lower accident/fatality rates because their buyers tend to be more experienced, mature, and wealthier.

I'm also wondering about the assumptions the pre-print makes.

https://engrxiv.org/preprint/view/1973/3986

For example, it's assumed that Tesla's data has the same characteristics as the SHRP 2 NDS data, and that the demographic survey data from Hardman et al is accurate WRT the SHRP 2 NDS data.

> The analysis in this paper relies on the assumption that the freeway-to-non-freeway and age group crash ratios found in the SHRP 2 NDS are consistent with the manufacturer’s data, as there are no roadway specific nor age-related factors in the manufacturer safety report.

> Although the ages of drivers in Tesla’s crash rate data are unknown, their ages could be estimated from a 2018 demographic survey of 424 Tesla owners (Hardman et al., 2019).

But... It seems like Hardman et al are using California specific data.

https://escholarship.org/content/qt58t7674n/qt58t7674n_noSpl...

> In this study, we used a cohort survey of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEV) owners in California administered by
the authors in November 2019. Respondents had been previously surveyed by the UC Davis Plug-in and Hybrid
& Electric Vehicle (PH&EV) Research Center between 2015 and 2018 as part of four surveys in the eVMT
project when they originally bought their PEV. Respondents for the four phases of the eVMT survey were
sampled from the pool of PEV buyers who had applied for the state rebate from the California Vehicle Rebate
Program (CVRP). More than 25,000 PEV owners were surveyed between 2015 and 2018. A total of 15,000 of
these respondents gave consent to be re-contacted and were invited for the repeat survey in 2019. In all, 4,925
PEV owners responded to the repeat survey.

And... The newer data indicates that age could be positively with more Autopilot use and long-distance travel (also correlated with more Autopilot use), which seems like a confound WRT to the pre-print's conclusions and so on.

> Age is negatively correlated, indicating that the lower the driver’s age the higher the odds of reporting more
long-distance travel. This suggests Autopilot induces travel among younger Tesla owners. As with the model
with all Level 2 automation, users’ income is negatively correlated.
Here, you're conflating "bad driving" with "dangerous driving." The idea that "bad drivers" are the ones causing collisions, and that they can be corrected is not correct. I agree that bad driving is bad. I agree that bad driving will lead to collisions, but it doesn't follow necessarily that "bad drivers" are the reason that there are more injury and deaths. My contention is that, in general, we have a vehicle collision casino, and American roads just have better odds at creating collisions.

The most dangerous roads aren't the ones with the highest speeds: https://uk.motor1.com/news/415257/most-dangerous-road-types-...

The most dangerous roads are the ones where people aren't predictable. Every time you pass hidden driveway, every time someone is crossing on-coming traffic, every time someone changes lanes, every time someone crosses a crosswalk, society rolls the dice, and there is some level of randomness of uncertainty could cause a collision. The more you roll those dice, and the higher speeds involved, the more injuries and deaths you'll cause. It will happen even if all the drivers are driving reasonably. This is why controlled-access highways are surprisingly safe despite their high speeds.

Road design is everything in this model. "Stroad" type roads, that feature people regularly entering and crossing the road, and random, and generally unpredictable intervals are notorious for their dangers. Semi-rural roads, with regular blind driveways, and little-to-no room for error narrowness, and the other type of extremely dangerous road, because the speed and narrowness lead to the same high levels of injury and death.

Both of these types of road are not dangerous because of bad driving, they are inherently dangerous, but, i agree, bad driving makes them worse. I contend that the design, however, is integral to the danger of the road. This is the only reason you can have roads, like interstate highways, with the most deadly conditions (extreme speeds, large speed deltas during traffic, near-constant rule breaking) and yet the roads are some of the least dangerous that we have.
I think the rescript forum is more active and would probably have an answer to your question.

https://forum.rescript-lang.org/
She didn't even "put him in his place", it was his choice to be annoyed about it. If he were actually intending to compliment her, he might've found her reply humorous, but not annoying.
I don't disagree with your broader statement about autopilot's safety relative to other drivers, but...

>The "average driver" involved in an accident includes drunk drivers, road ragers, habitual speeders, teenagers, people driving in bad conditions (rain, snow), people driving without sleep and several other risky groups that most people buying Teslas aren't part of.

... what? Tesla owners absolutely can be habitual speeders, people who drive without sleep, road ragers, and drunk drivers. Can you please explain your thought process behind this claim? I really don't understand why anyone would assume that Tesla owners are less likely to have those traits than non-Tesla owners.
I'm sorry what is the purpose of this nitpick? It's a title obviously it doesn't tell the whole story, that's why there is a story. What's next are you going to complain that there is no actual mockingbird being killed in Harper Lees book?!

Is it that you don't agree with this person's politics why you are so dismissive?
Could you provide a source? That sounds fairly interesting.
You can't go by technicalities. But even if you go by technicalities, we never declared war in the first place it. It was a "police action."

I'd imagine it is a crime to attack a state that we are in a cease fire with regardless.
Things can also change for the worse though, especially for the Jews living there. just saying.
Because they would rather have a 20% profit margin on 5% of the market, than a 1% profit margin on 50% of it?

Being in the latter position is precarious, being in the former is printing free money.
I feel like this is not something the White House should be doing. No matter how noble this might seem in the present, I still think it is inappropriate and I hope this doesn't become a precedent.
At a high level, there’s good utility in guiding users down the path of a curated experience when the designers know the weak points of the app, or where some given tool has much more general utility than another (in which case they might hide the other tool under a context menu or something).

It’s not necessarily the case that designers guide users down paths that solely benefit the designer, and I think that approach tends to be seen by most as “bad design”. In fact, it might even be bad design by definition.
The objection would be that they are a needless inconvenience
That’s been a common objection to Copilot and other recent program synthesis papers.

The models regurgitate solutions to problems already encountered in the training set. This is very common with Leetcode problems and seems
To still happen with harder competitive programming problems.

I think someone else in this thread even pointed put an example of AlphaCode doing the same thing.
Generalizing the whole populous of a site because a part of it doesn't agree with your views of technology. lmao
Imagine having the opportunity to establish one’s legacy as the greatest benefactor in history, and instead spending ones wealth in such selfish, wasteful ways. Dude must surely be a sociopath.
If you believe there is no volatile read in this code, I'd like to understand why.

void func(volatile unsigned *a) { *a; }
If an attractive guy posted that someone came up to him in the gym and told him he was hot and he said, "I know," he may get the same amount of vitriol.
Clickhouse for storage,

What about deletes? And all that fussy transaction stuff?

It seems strange to make that particular recommendation (for apparently all their storage needs) on the basis of the information provided.
Those percentages only apply during active lockdowns; your premise is that there's been a continuous, worldwide lockdown for the past 2 years. The actual numbers will be far less.

Also, this study only measures impacts of lockdowns on Covid mortality, and doesn't include the human and financial costs of lockdowns.
Use cases:

I need a presence detector that's able to detect children near my pool.

I need a presence detector that can, via gait detection (or other), detect when a specific person crosses a threshold (e.g. autism or Alzheimer's with a tendency to run off)
It seems to me that writing an exhausting set of unit cases is harder than writing the actual code.