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I am so, so tired of Tesla's claims that FSD is "multiple times safer than humans" when the data they base these claims on are basically people using FSD in a totally safe environment which made them use FSD in the first place (mostly long straight highways).

Anyone trying FSD in a crowded city environment would shit their pants. Unprotected lefts are very often a mess, and interventions are legion. It is really a breath of fresh air to hear news outlets report finally about the actual state of the technology.


It's even worse than this: there is no evidence that FSD is safer on highways due to the extremely low number of bad events there.

It would take literally hundreds of millions of miles driven on highways to get statistical significance.

This is also why L3 is going to be much harder than people think.


Hundreds of millions of miles? That's no problem at all. FSD has already been driven over a billion miles. Basic Autopilot, 9 billion.


Great. Then where is the public proceedings showing that FSD is statistically safer than humans on highways?


If you love SimCity 3k/4 music, it is made by Jerry Martin and saxophonist Marc Russo.

A few great links for you: http://jerrymartinmusic.com/music_demo.php On this demo page website, you can find some original jazz samples not included in SC3k even though they are quite amazing

http://boombamboom.com/ Some website Jerry Martin opened a few years ago where you can download high-quality music from the games he worked on (Sims, Sim City etc)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1467440/SimCasino_Soundtr... Sim Casino is a way more recent game, and Jerry Martin / Marc Russo came back together to write the OST! It has a lot of feels from SC3k/SC4 music, so you might want to look into it.

You can also find one of their interviews here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1158420/view/4689895...

As you can see I am quite the fan... :-)


Monkeypox is not an STD and it is not an airborne disease.

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/faq.html


It's not, but from that link:

> Even though it is not considered a sexually transmitted infection, monkeypox can spread during intimate physical contact between people. This contact can happen when you have sex[..]

I think it's important to not let monkeypox be viewed as another "gay disease", both so people don't use that as an excuse to let their guard down, and also so that homophobia doesn't lead to violence, but we should also recognize that promiscuous sexual activity is a big risk factor.


The world isn’t black and white.

Certain diseases are more like an STD than not. Saying it is not an STD is like saying HIV is not an STD.

People will argue both sides to a meaningless end. Who cares what it is… care how it spreads and what follows, etc.


There is evidence from the NHS that it is airborne: https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1550820521234894850


Eric Feigl-Ding states there is evidence from the NHS that it is airborne, which gives us a very, very strong prior that there is not in fact evidence from the NHS that it is airborne.


"For individuals with infection who have evidence of lower respiratory tract involvement or severe systemic illness requiring hospitalisation, the possibility of airborne transmission has not been excluded." https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/principles-for-mo...


This preprint published 2 days ago details detection of monkeypox virus in air and surface sampling of NHS hospitals treating cases: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.21.22277864v...


Do you have some concrete reason for distrusting Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding?


Two clicks through, this is what he's referencing: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.21.22277864v...


Memories! :-) I was a web developer in the 2000s and I can relate to all of these very accurately… Replace Frontpage 98 by Frontpage 2003 and there you go!


Did they just compare a desktop running native x86 code to results of translated code using Rosetta 2 in MacOS/M1?


Absolutely. I don’t know what this tool is about, but the README statement is wrong; I can’t think of any distribution dumb enough to use performance governor by default. Most Intel-based platforms use Intel-specific governors.

I developed an energy-aware DVFS controller for HPC clusters a few years back, and there was no such thing as performance by default even on compute nodes.


Intel's own distribution defaults to the peformance governor [1] in order to race to idle. This has been Intel's recommendation for some years.

[1] https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/guides/maintenance/cpu...


Interesting note that I wasn't aware of-

>> The intel_pstate driver only supports performance and powersave governors.

What happens when ondemand is used with the intel driver? (is it even selectable?)


  # echo performance | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
  performance
  # echo ondemand | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
  ondemand
  tee: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor: Invalid argument
  # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
  performance
The Arch Wiki suggests that both powersave and performance have dynamic scaling, and running 'watch -p -n 0.25 grep \"cpu MHz\" /proc/cpuinfo' indicates that both of them do, with powersave mostly sitting at 1.2GHz with occasional increases on a handful of cores while powersave fluctuates from 2~ to 4.2GHz across all cores with minimal load.

The linked docs from Clear Linux say that power draw isn't entirely dependant upon cpu frequency when there's no load so there's no issue with keeping it on performance, and I'm not about to doubt Intel here, but I'd be surprised if powersave didn't save power if only by clamping down how many resources programs can use. Anecdotally I've noticed that the powersave governor doesn't really work too well when doing things like running virtual machines and will keep the frequency very low, as if the scaler is blind to the resources the VM is using, while having it on the performance governor will pin all my cores to a far more appropriate 4.2GHz.


It's not selectable:

  /sys/bus/cpu/devices/cpu0/cpufreq # echo -n 'ondemand' > scaling_governor 
  echo: write error: invalid argument
Without touching anything, it's using powersave on my box. It seems to work well enough, both on performance as well as battery life, but that's just my personal experience.

The question that this tool completely fails to consider is that clocking the CPU lower isn't automatically the most battery efficient thing to do, cf. race to idle mentioned above. To me, this sounds a lot like someone on the trough of the Dunning-Kruger curve looked at a problem and wrenched at it without understanding enough of it.


I am sorry if this is off-topic, but is this board running phpBB2 from 15 years ago? I have used most versions of phpBB until 2015, they all came with so many security holes, I have been hacked so many times because of it, how is this board still up and running!?


Opinion: Your Dog Feels as Guilty as She Looks

Science does not need opinions. The question is worth asking, but this article does not seem to be backed by any kind of research or experiments.


Yea. The entire argument appears to be a single anecdote about some guy's dog acting really upset after biting his hand.

Quoting the article:

> For the longest time, science has depicted animals as stimulus-response machines while declaring their inner lives barren. This has helped us sustain our customary “anthropodenial”: the denial that we are animals. We like to see ourselves as special, but whatever the difference between humans and animals may be, it is unlikely to be found in the emotional domain.

Isn't this just a strawman in service to an applause light?


There are some research and experiments in the article - eg give a dog a lemon is one you could try at home.

The author has loads of science awards, papers etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal#Awards

Even including an Ig Nobel prize for showing chimps can recognise each other from butt pics.


You are right. The 2017 election in France was under the spotlight especially after what happened in 2016 in the US and the Brexit in the UK.

EM! (Macron's party) was a victim of massive internet attacks during the campaign. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

In the past couple of weeks, I have seen French fake posts that were popular in the past 24 months raise again like an army of Phoenix. As far as media go, we have usually and relatively independent media in France, even public. However, foreign entities and especially RT France have been controversial in some of their coverage.


Isn't Reddit allowed on iOS?


Reddit has been removed from the app store more than once.


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