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by manquer | 2025-05-02 02:08:07+00:00
> 4.6 cab crashes, 3.7 livery car crashes, and 6.7 crashes with private cars.

> Waymo 2.1 crashes

The numbers become much less 80+% plus claim in the article as you remove factors. It comes closer to 30% with professional drivers.

Livery car is still not always well maintained a high sitting SUV with better visibility[1], perhaps with all these factors included if it is 20% better it is impressive technical achievement for sure, but not going to create headlines anywhere.

The point is the methodology is not as objective as it could be, and this is biased/selective claim, not that self driving cannot be better than humans.

[1] Also there is major difference in the price point between Waymo and Livery cars, I cannot say how it will influence rates but the different rates means different class of clients using at different times of day/night to different locations that needs to be normalized for.
by qzw | 2025-05-02 02:08:28+00:00
> somebody figured out how to make a computer do something

Well, I would argue that in most deterministic AI systems the thinking was all done by the AI researchers and then encoded for the computer. That’s why historically it’s been easy to say, “No, the machine isn’t doing any thinking, but only applying thinking that’s embedded within.” I think that line of argument becomes less obvious when you have learning systems where the behavior is training dependent. It’s still fairly safe to argue that the best LLMs today are not yet thinking, at least not in a way a human does. But in another generation or two? It will become much harder to deny.
by throw10920 | 2025-05-02 02:08:35+00:00
> Firefox moved to multi-process before moving to WebExtensions.

And? Removal of XUL addons were still a prerequisite for the multi-process architecture. Mozilla just realized that WebExtensions was a sane, performant extension API that worked well with e10s, and would useful for compatibility with Chrome.

> You've lost count of how many mass extinctions the Firefox extension has been through

Two? Hardly a lot.

The XUL model is inferior to the Web Extensions model. No amount of trying to cherry-pick specific instances of extensions that had local functionality or performance losses will detract from the facts that (1) the XUL addon system was inferior and (2) had to be removed in order to make Firefox (both the browser and ecosystem as a whole) more performant, secure, stable, and easier to maintain.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-05-02 02:09:39+00:00
>No war but the class war,

You're normally right. But Trump is also a very petty narcissist. His "culture war" is pretty much "anyone who makes him feel bad".

>Apple's execs are definitely powerful enough players in that war to protect themselves from consequences.

That's why I hope courts do start throwing contempt around. Execs need to remember they aren't above the law to the point where they can blatantly lie to a judge.
by kelseydh | 2025-05-02 02:10:12+00:00
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by 9rx | 2025-05-02 02:10:33+00:00
> which is why we cannot speak a language we do not know

You can, however, speak a language you do know even when the listener doesn't know said language. Thus proving that the words spoken are defined by the speaker. It must be that way, fundamentally – as you suggest, you can only speak the language you know. If that tells that words have no meaning, sure. That assertion means nothing anyway.
by d0100 | 2025-05-02 02:10:43+00:00
Deno is great!

I am trying to use it as a FaaS to some level of success

I only wish that the compiled binary retain full Deno capabilities, it would be even better if the permission model could limit file system access and limit cmd to a specific user

I've also been using Deno Deploy for AI integrations, and something I miss is being able to have multy-file projects without deploying from github

Just give me a online vscode environment, limited as it may be

Typescript LSP should be able to run in a worker, and I wouldn't mind having to install a browser extension if necessary
by eudoxus | 2025-05-02 02:10:45+00:00
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by jongjong | 2025-05-02 02:12:00+00:00
Standards are a bad thing. Convenient isn't the same as good. They mostly help large companies to monopolize large markets. Without standards, there would be a patchwork of companies catering to different communities. It would create a lot of work opportunities, lots of competition and there would be adapters to bridge between different interfaces. It would be more hassle but it would improve everyone's work life 100x and would probably result in faster technological progress as more people would be able to have capital to innovate, in a more flexible self-directed way.
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by jauntywundrkind | 2025-05-02 02:12:13+00:00
Google can open source some libraries here, but to what ends? Ultimately there is not zero knowledge here, there's one very concrete bit of information: Google says so.

Sure other people might be able to replicate the signing process. But who else is going to be able to get governments around the world to add those other would be zk proof providers?

This feels like such a vicious demented technological gordian knot being woven to trap humanity in.

Meanwhile the web has it's own devilry in progress, a similar effort to make non authenticated people utterly unable to use the web, the Digital Credentials API, brought to you again by Google. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/digital-credentials-api-or...

This is all so hideously bad for humanity. The zero knowledge aspect is the absolute bare minimum to not make this pure scum and villainy, but it's still a sick awful thing to do to humanity, uses a lure of convenience to walk us into a place where the individuals of the world are powerless and where ever expanding digital dominion over us corals and steers us. Do not want, go back to hell & stop trying to drag hell to earth, monsters.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-05-02 02:13:29+00:00
I'm replying to you and your comment specifically. Your support for this seems very at odds with your historical posting. Suddenly you support the Democrats delegating Congressional authority and support Republicans not asserting the Constitution's authority.

That said, how is it bizarre to blame the Right for failing to take back Congressional authority, delegated for 'emergencies', when the President is abusing that delegated authority? This is like a basic concept the 'Right' has pushed very hard, now taken to the biggest extreme by a President that it ever has. Or are we getting too much fent from that Penguin Island and it's a real emergency that requires tariffs on them to stop?

The 'right' are showing themselves for nothing but hypocrites and liars, that beleive in nothing. Not even party over country. One man's zero thought out tariff scheme from the last century over EVERYTHING.

https://www.financialexpress.com/trending/trump-tariffs-vira...
by aaronmdjones | 2025-05-02 02:13:59+00:00
> The article mentions a system which will balance the shared current.

Not quite.

It mentions the asymmetric Neutral current, and this is because in a balanced multiphase system, there is (almost) no current flowing on the neutral conductor, i.e. if you are consuming 10 amps from L1, 10 amps from L2, and 10 amps from L3, then there are zero amps flowing on Neutral. This is also why inherently-perfectly-balanced multi-phase loads (e.g. 3-phase motors with identical phase windings) can be constructed such that they do not require a Neutral connection at all.

In the UK for example it's quite common that houses only get connected up to one of the phases, so if you have 60 houses on a street, 20 each would be connected to only L1, only L2, and only L3. This achieves a reasonable balance in practice; the current flowing on the street's Neutral conductor(s) is/are very small in comparison to the currents on the Line conductors.

As in, it is already fairly well balanced, and there is nothing to be done in this regard.

Within the single-phase installation the currents on Line and Neutral are of course equal under fault-free conditions (typically up to 100 amps for a residential installation). There's nothing you can do to reduce that.

A lot of countries in mainland Europe wire up residential properties to all 3 phases (with much smaller permitted supply currents; I've seen as low as 20-amp main supply fuses), but again they go to some degree of effort to balance their phases with respect to single-phase loads. This is for grid stability reasons.

For the street example again, they could have wired up every house identically, but connected the phases in a round-robin fashion, such that the socket outlet circuit(s) are on a different phase in each house, and so on. If there were ever a severe imbalance (which would be detected automatically, or by routine maintenance and inspection of distribution transformers, depending upon how bad it is), typically it would be arranged for some rebalancing work to be performed, for example by disconnecting an outgoing feeder line serving some dozen properties or more and rotating their phases (connecting the old outgoing L1 to the transformer's L2 output, L2 to L3, L3 to L1). This still maintains the phase rotation order (very important for 3-phase loads, like some EVSEs and motors) but allows a more equal distribution of loads.

See https://docs.openenergymonitor.org/electricity-monitoring/ac... for why this is important.

This is somewhat simplified though. Real-world loads vary their consumption dramatically, and also feature reactive components that shift the current forward or backward with respect to the voltage. A 10-amp capacitive load on L1 and L2 will not cancel out a 10-amp resistive load on L3. Harmonics are also a problem, as the article mentions.
by a_bonobo | 2025-05-02 02:14:24+00:00
At the same time, NIH just announced that all grants involving foreign researcher are shut.

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-1...

>Effective with the date of this notice and until the details of the new foreign collaboration award structure are released, NIH will not issue awards to domestic or foreign entities (new, renewal or non-competing continuation), that include a subaward to a foreign entity.

No more collaborations for US researchers.
by BoorishBears | 2025-05-02 02:14:38+00:00
Honestly the idea that you can win by just being better is so deeply out of touch with enterprise that I assume anyone suggesting this doesn't understand the problem enough to be trying to argue against antirez of all people on Earth about this.

And that's not an appeal to authority: there just so genuinely and obviously is no such guarantee in enterprise that quality will ensure success that explaining it feels like trying to break down an elementary element.
by nine_k | 2025-05-02 02:14:40+00:00
> "Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows.

Well, on Linux I have `locate` and `fd` which work really well, doing that very thing, and `ripgrep` does even more.

I heard something built-in is also shipped with macOS, it's called something like "Spotlight".

OTOH MS Excel for Windows is one and only, the macOS version barely holds a candle to it, and analogs are even further away.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-05-02 02:16:57+00:00
"And so we return to where we started: the difficulty of imagining an end to capitalism. We do not claim to have a solution to that particular problem"

It's pretty funny to see such a blatantly biased article coming out of academia. Oh wait.

Meanwhile, I'll save my paychecks to buy the texts of some of those anti-capitalist produced standards.

In other actual anti-capitalist news, the NIH says we shouldn't have to pay twice for government sponsored research.

https://deepnewz.com/us-domestic-policy/nih-to-end-paywalls-...
by UncleEntity | 2025-05-02 02:17:22+00:00
I think it just does that to eat up your token quota and get you to upgrade.

Like, ask it a simple question and it comes up with a full repo, complete with a README and a Makefile, when all you wanted to know was how efficient a particular algorithm would be in the included code.

Can't wait until the add research to the Pro plan because, you know, I have questions...
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-05-02 02:19:17+00:00
The thing 'anti-capitalists' never seem to understand, is that it's not a top down system but bottom up emergent human behaviour. A function of consent/interoperability at scale beyond the immediate family/tribe unit. Thus hard to see an "end to capitalism". That would be like an end to language. We'd just re-invent it.
by lolinder | 2025-05-02 02:19:22+00:00
This is a very interesting point.

I wonder how many roles there are like this: low valued because they are low valued, in a vicious cycle. We hire people to fill a prescribed low-value role and don't expect much of them so we don't pay them much and so we don't get much out of them, because we designed the role to be low impact.

If we treat every role as a $200k/yr role, it makes sense that the first thing that would happen is that we find a way to give people leverage to make >$200k of difference in each role! And that's a really exciting proposition from both the employee and customer perspective.
by riskassessment | 2025-05-02 02:20:35+00:00
I specifically said journals subscription fees support peer review infrastructure. Yes peer reviewers are unpaid but peer review also would not exist in anything resembling its current form in the absence of journal staff moving papers through the peer review system. Associate/deputy editors are unpaid but the main editor of the journal is often paid and does provide scientific oversight and review, particularly at the margin of acceptance/rejection. The main editor of course is also responsible for recruiting associate editors who in turn are responsible for finding appropriate peer reviewers, so having a good editor who can recruit and maintain quality deputy/associate editors is key. Some journals even have staff scientific reviewers which act as a check on the occasional oversights of unpaid peer review.
by rayiner | 2025-05-02 02:20:57+00:00
> The USA’s global influence and entanglements goes all the way back to the Monroe Doctrine and grew substantially after WWII

The U.S. had virtually no engagement with the world outside the western hemisphere between the GOP’s formation in 1854 and World War I. Between Lincoln’s election in 1861 to World War I tariff rates exceeded 40%: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Average_Tariff_Rates...

> It still doesn’t explain how he won the GOP primary the first time and continues to maintain a cult-like following.

He won the primary because he curb-stomped Jeb Bush on live TV and called for immigration bans when Rubio was proposing amnesty. https://youtu.be/H4ThZcq1oJQ?si=DCUKC_kDG0JpaREn.

He maintains a cult-like following because he’s the first republican in recent memory to actually deliver conservative victories instead of blowing all their political capital on wars. Since he took office in 2016, conservatives have ended affirmative action, overturned Roe, cut border crossings nearly to zero, established a legal framework for prosecuting DEI under the civil rights laws, ended disparate impact, shut down entire federal agencies, raised tariffs for the first time since the 1960s. We might get a $45 billion budget for ICE! I’m not even covering everything in the EOs, which have gone under the radar because everyone is flipping out over tariffs. Trump makes clear that Bush/Cheney republicans weren’t even trying.

> If the poll numbers are to be believed, isolationists and nationalists never made up more than a slim percentage of the American electorate until very recently.

Those are abstract labels that don’t mean anything to people. For decades, the de facto policy has been more and more immigration, something that has never garnered more than 34% support among the whole country: https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-i.... The percentage of people who want immigration decreased has far exceeded the percentage who want it increased since 1965 except for a brief period around 2020.

The New York Times of all places did a great piece on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/podcasts/the-daily/electi....

Most republicans aren’t “isolationists” in the sense they’d oppose intervention in a situation like World War II. But for example only 20% of people in 2022 favored boots on the ground in Ukraine: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/new-americans-oppose.... That is de facto isolationism because you’re not going to get a stronger test case for liberal internationalism absent Russia invading a country like Germany.
by fiddlerwoaroof | 2025-05-02 02:21:05+00:00
From last year after Salt Typhoon became public:

> Adopt a free messaging application for secure communications that guarantees end-to-end encryption, such as Signal or similar apps. CISA recommends an end-to-end encrypted messaging app that is compatible with both iPhone and Android operating systems, allowing for text message interoperability across platforms.

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/guidance-mo...
by glenngillen | 2025-05-02 02:21:49+00:00
>> However, you are allowed to believe what you want and I can't stop you from being wrong.

>For instance, you appear to believe that I'm attacking you?

FWIW, that's not what I read. You made an assumption about implementation and the effects based on very little information. Xe simply said you can believe (i.e., make assumptions about) whatever you want. You then assumed (another one) that your comment was interpreted as an attack.

Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. There's not enough context in here to know either way.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-05-02 02:22:47+00:00
>>> overnment agencies have paid for versions of encrypted messaging apps that also have archive abilities before. In 2021, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) paid encrypted app company Wickr $700,000.

This seems like a perfect use case to support Signal. Have large, corporate or govt entities, pay for a custom fork of the app, built by the app developers themselves.

Why is telemessage getting the money ? Does the Signal Foundation not make it easy to do paid fork implementations ?
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-05-02 02:22:48+00:00
Fine. All that will happen is we'll see more sites switching to requiring a login to do anything on their website, so that they can track you with first-party cookies, and sell your information that way. Nothing will meaningfully change.

The only distinction is that I can do a decent job of blocking third-party cookies today with my existing solutions like uBlock Origin, but I will probably have a much more difficult time getting around login/paywalls.
by davidcbc | 2025-05-02 02:23:46+00:00
> But the message is slightly different: it asks Waltz to verify his “TM SGNL PIN.” This is not the message that is displayed on an official version of Signal.

> Instead TM SGNL appears to refer to a piece of software from a company called TeleMessage which makes clones of popular messaging apps but adds an archiving capability to each of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleMessage
by lolinder | 2025-05-02 02:24:01+00:00
It's not really that it's an exception to Goodharts Law, it's that Goodhart's Law only applies to measured proxies. If the goal of a company is first and foremost to make money, then sales is the only organization within the company that can be measured exactly according to the primary goal of the company rather than a proxy.

Goodhart's Law still applies to the extent that companies have other goals and sales's incentives totally screw those goals up. But they are very effective incentives at increasing money earned.