skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More details: https://getcruise.com/news/blog/2023/a-detailed-review-of-th...

> The incident occurred on October 2, 2023 at 9:29 PM PDT in San Francisco. A Cruise AV named Panini, operating in driverless autonomous mode, was at a complete stop at a red light. A dark colored Nissan Sentra was stopped in the adjacent lane to the left of the AV. When the light turned green, the Nissan Sentra and the AV entered the intersection.

> Against a red light, a pedestrian entered the crosswalk on the opposite side of Market Street across from the vehicles, passed completely through the AV’s lane of travel, then stopped mid-crosswalk in front of the Nissan Sentra. The Nissan Sentra then tragically struck and propelled the pedestrian into the path of the AV.

> The AV biased rightward before braking aggressively, but still made contact with the pedestrian. The AV detected a collision, bringing the vehicle to a stop; then attempted to pull over to avoid causing further road safety issues, pulling the individual forward approximately 20 feet. The driver of the Nissan Sentra fled the scene after the collision.

> Currently, the human driver responsible for the incident is still at large and we shared details with the San Francisco police and fire departments, as this was an ‘in progress’ crime by a hit-and-run human driver against another road user.

So much went right and wrong here. The pedestrian was crossing on a red light. The other car hit them, and fled the scene. Then they fell in the way of Cruise AV, which attempted to move away from the pedestrian, but couldn’t avoid them completely. Then unfortunately, misread the situation and attempted to pull-over, not knowing there was a human stuck underneath.

Regardless, this was a horrible accident and my thoughts and prayers go towards the pedestrian’s recovery.
I remember years ago thinking it was weird in Ghost in the Shell when a robot had fingers on its fingers to type really fast. Maybe that really won’t happen since they can plug into USB at least, but they will probably use the screen and keyboard input sometimes at least.
You are technically correct though, older versions only used JASS. However, LUA was added to Warcraft 3 in patch 1.31a [1].

> See World Editor Updates for more details on many additions and improvements including beta support for Lua

[1](https://liquipedia.net/warcraft/Patch_1.31.0)
The thing about cloudy no wind days is:

1. These are conditions that don't coincidence as often as one would think

2. If they do happen at the same time they are limited to certain places

Now the only thing you need to have your solar and wind installations not in one place and make sure it is unlikely enough to have all of them inoperational at once.

If you have the proper energy storage and a big enough grid that can balance itself this is totally doable.
In learning and performance, context is often underrated. A significant portion of learning is non-mathematical, non-verbal, and challenging to represent in symbols. An obsession with abstraction and abstracted thinking is not necessarily beneficial at all times.

In my experience, the majority of the time, it is more profitable to pay attention to the context and situation in which you are operating, rather than trying to over-intellectualize too early.

To put it more positively and concretely: "Focus on your personal conduct, accumulate and apply wisdom to your situations, and observe more of your situation, keep adjusting/improving rather than floating in abstract theories."

In more striking terms: "You can't learn to swim by reading a textbook; it is only possible to jump in and 'figure it out' in real-time."

Also, university doesn't prepare you for life mostly, as it teaches over-intellectualization (bad default). Sometimes, I feel university gives you some really bad habits to unlearn as you progress further in life.

Practice, reflect, improve. Put it in a loop. That's life.
The yin and yang of tech
> My understanding was that mobile phone signals naturally did not travel very far because of the spectrum they used

That's more about not going through trees etc. If you have a line of sight to a cell tower, what keeps you from connecting is mostly the radio trying to be polite and choosing not to talk to a cell tower that's more than some max time delay away. I assume for this they'll tweak the settings, and satellites are good for line of sight.
I think IBM saw Linux, and Java, etc. as a way to offer a sort of common software platform on top of its' various server platforms. X86 (when they still made them), NumaQ, POWER, Mainframes, sort of like Workplace OS, but for free.
1999 is not early internet by any measure...
>pv uses orders of magnitude more land per megawatt (not per megawatt hour; please get your units straight)

"Per MWhr" is a better measure when comparing intermittent-power generation such as wind and solar.

>posting random bullshit

^^
Also Endorsed by Avery Brooks a.k.a. DS9's Captain Sisko.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQAa_WKJxPs
A fascinating design decision of Hashtable in .NET is its support for multiple readers AND a single writer.

In C++ or Rust, we get multiple readers OR a single writer. Shared ref or exclusive mut, pick one. But in .NET we have AND not OR: one writer AND multiple readers, all concurrent.

This works because .NET's GC can tolerate the race. A writer may trigger a table rehash, and a reader will read either the old or new table. If the reader loads the old table, it won't be deallocated until it's done: the GC will keep it alive.

Any cool uses of this one writer AND multiple readers?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collecti...
> it's turtles all the way down with nostalgia.

And yet golden eras do occur, or so it would seem.

I’m sure it’s hard to tell when you’re in or near one, which is an interesting topic in its own right, but it doesn’t mean we should dismiss outright the possibility that a passing era might just be taking something truly valuable with it.
Stumble Upon used to be so addicting
Great that it lets you attach the debugger if it's running as interactive process.

Does that get you a full Swift REPL like Python's debugger does?
The same for Java, since its ecosystem has an allergy to calling native (non-JVM) code, to the point of rewriting perfectly good libraries in Java. When they do call native code, it's often in horrible ways (like copying a native library from within the JAR file to a temporary directory, and loading it from there, the JAR file coming with pre-compiled native libraries for all possible operating system and architecture combinations). So the Java package managers mostly focus on Java (and other JVM languages) code building and delivery.
Any time I’ve written a cover letter I’ve gotten rejected and all of my offers to interview have been without them.
The legal process has played out. The Omegle founder has been faced with having to spend possibly hundreds of thousands in legal fees, and as such has decided to turn off the site without going to court.

The legal process playing out rarely ever means that a judge or jury makes a decision, rather it usually plays out as an economic problem, one of "does everyone involved have 10s of thousands of dollars to burn".

Usually the answer is "no", so usually it settles out of court.
Ignore the sibling comment, it is definitely possible, typically via HVDC transmission. With 3% losses per 1000km, HVDC transmission of variable renewable energy is absolutely part of our future energy systems.

Wind is especially well suited to this - to a certain extent it's always windy SOMEWHERE whereas with solar you ain't generating any at night, no matter what.
you would look much less foolish if you read more than just the introduction to my notes; i did a great deal more math than that

while i appreciate mackay's calculations a great deal, his estimates for very polar countries such as the uk are not generally applicable, and even for the uk are probably conditioned on overly pessimistic assumptions; he would undoubtedly agree if he were alive today

in particular, he assumed (reasonably) that 10%-efficient solar panels would be much cheaper than 20%-efficient ones, which would remain impractically expensive. but in fact most solar farms are being built with 21%-efficient panels because they're nearly as cheap as the 16%-efficient kind, and the 10%-efficient kind has been competed out of the market. so mackay's excellent calculations are all too low by more than a factor of 2, because one of his reasonable assumptions turned out to be wrong

but i do think it's plausible that without wind the uk would have to continue importing energy from abroad, as it has done since the 19th century, unless it goes nuclear. because mackay was aware his estimates for very polar countries such as the uk were not generally applicable, importing solar energy from abroad was in fact what he recommended in the chapter you linked but evidently didn't bother to read
The fed absolutely has control over treasury yields. They're by far the biggest buyer of all the treasuries through their open market operations. By buying more or less they can change the price.
The A.M. vs Omgele case if I had to guess.
Tabler is really good for quick dashboard-style app prototyping

https://tabler.io/preview
18-year-old got hired as a Google engineer–his dad shares No. 1 parenting rule
There’s a short thread by WalterBright in here that explains why:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38199237

The back and forth on that thread seems to result in advocating for what we’ve got: compiler (TypeScript in your example) not caring, but linter caring.

The reason not to in the transpiler is it can be very helpful during testing to block or force some paths.
in my experience buy side realtors are really on the selling side team. each time i wanted to offer below asking they refused and never presented my offer. there was no negotiation and i had to arm wrestle to see documents before making an offer. one realtor wanted a BLANKET SIGNED offer form. “i’ll fill it out for you”. no thanks.
OP doesn't mention anything about a lawsuit - got more information on that?

EDIT: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791
Except that things actually changed
In Brazil, it is also 6%. It's ridiculous, 6% on top of what families spend decades saving for a limited amount of hours of _consulting_. A home is probably the most expensive thing a family will ever buy.

Unfortunately, they don't get money if they don't sell, even if they spend hours helping a customer. IMHO, this is bad. A buyer will pay for all the deals that weren't closed.
The article isn't an endorsement of using thread unsafe structures without protection in a multithreaded context. It's simply analyzing why the bug was less prevalent with one data structure vs. another. It's an interesting question.
$22B / 4.456B = $4.9/W, about 20x more expensive than your number for PV.
This article reads as if hiring a person to help broker a deal worth several hundred thousand dollars on something as intimate as a house is silly when it's not.

I don't use a travel agent to buy a $250 plane ticket because I know exactly what I want and I know exactly what I'm getting and there's not a third party involved (there's no seller of the seat, just the airline.)

The realtor isn't there because you don't have information, like a travel agent would be. The realtor is there to broker a deal between two parties that really don't like each other and are trying to hose each other.

I paid the full 6% when I sold my house. Worth the money.
The Alphle and Omegle, if you will
Women and men are different and communicate differently, tech is usually a male-calibrated environment, to get more women, you need to adjust the environment.

"Women are neurotic" is talking about the neuroticism trait. Women also score higher on average on agreeableness, for example. That's hard data, spoken in unflattering terms.

The former just means you need communication standards that are balanced.
How do you verify someone's age anonymously? More practically, how do you do this in a framework that works globally?
No, I'm pretty sure that putting dark clothes and glasses on a woman makes her an amazing engineer.
Exactly. All these numbers are based on the current/past market and a very broken assumption that LCOE of competing technology (renewables + storage) won't continue to drop further. Which of course they are projected to do; and not just a little. And of course that already actually happened and was widely predicted to happen years ago.

Also the numbers of these plants would need to be massively higher to be significant. 40-50 plants is tiny a feasibility study. That study has now been cancelled for cost reasons.

You'd need many thousands to make these start contributing significant percentages of market share to overall energy production. Tens of thousands really. Which of course at a high LCOE is never going to be competitive. Basically the "value" proposition to investors is to be selling these things at a massive loss using government subsidies to make that tolerable for whomever is buying. This has to be sustained until the learning effects drive the LCOE low enough that making them actually stands a chance of turning a profit. And of course there are no guarantees that the LCOE will actually ever catch up with renewables. Small chance of success & high chance of failure that requires decades of sustained massive investments and massive subsidies. All with a high degree of uncertainty.

That's not a great investor pitch of course. Which is why they are bailing. There seem to be a few other projects still going. But they'll have to face the same realities eventually.
The only reason investors buy homes is because they're a good investment. If you want to get them out of housing all you need to do is make housing a bad investment. That's done by increasing supply. Investors will always find loopholes to whatever regulation you come up with if it's profitable.
I directly credit the jungle gym with my not being afraid of heights. I was terrified the first time I was able to get to the top, but as time went by, my fear almost disappeared. The thrill of being out of the norm was awesome.
I think the reality is you'll find that your universe of acceptable code is surrounded by a mess of infrastructure code that may or may not be clean because people don't have the ability to care about everything.

I'm talking about makefiles, build systems, shell scripts, packaging systems, installers and more.

I also think clean code is a luxury. The more your codebase is alive, the more likely that upgrades, features and fixes will go across the grain.

It's not like people are slobs, it's more like a living house where busy people come in out of the rain or snow, or put dishes in the sink for later, or occasionally spill a plate of food on the floor and have to clean it.

The ultimate proof of this is that the new AI models are VERY useful, but are stored as blob more similar to grey matter than structured modular code.
you can and should use 'per megawatt produced' rather than 'per megawatt nameplate capacity' when comparing things like solar to things like nuclear

but intermittency is irrelevant to basic incommensurability of units; neither nuclear nor solar uses more and more land over time to produce a constant amount of power, which is what 'land per megawatt hour' implies
A ballot summary says this:

> These laws require manufacturers to provide the same diagnostic and repair information to vehicle owners and independent repair businesses that authorized dealerships receive. They also seek to prevent manufacturers from mandating the use of exclusive tools or software.

But that’s not what the law text says. As you mentioned the law is about access to the on board diagnostics, but nothing about the rest of the vehicle.

A contrived example would be that the manufacturer needs to tell people how to reset the Oil Change sensor on the car. But has no obligation to share how to actually perform an oil change. No obligation to provide the torque value for the oil drain plug.

So all this law obligates them to do is provide access to the diagnostic computers, but nothing about the actual mechanics of the vehicle. Perhaps this is legislated elsewhere.

But here in California, I can not get the factory service manual for my motorcycle. It is unavailable. Were this legislation to have been passed here, i still may not have access.

Yet that’s what the ballot summary says, “provide the same diagnostic and repair information”, but it’s not what the law as written says.
Why would a keyboard be required? I think the intent to hit a letter would more easily be sent over a bluetooth HID "device". ;)
They ought to put their money where their mouth is and relentlessly lobby Congress from all directions until copyright law is suitably curtailed, outspending rightsholders whatever it takes.

Depending on how serious they are.
No investors are paying cash for homes. The entire real estate game is about maximizing leverage with the massive home loans you can get.
Omg I also just released something pretty similar earlier today https://github.com/Jiayi-Pan/GPT-V-on-Web. But it received little attention.
Great news! You also pay a lawyer at closing in the US. They are far, far cheaper than realtors but have much more liability.

You can list your home and refuse to pay buyers' agents, but it generally takes much longer to sell a home that way. Not uncommon for a home for sale by owner to later be listed by a realtor when the owner loses patience. As you can read elsewhere in this discussion, real estate agents hate homes for sale by owners because those people generally don't want to pay their commission.
The right actions are ought to be complemented with the right knowledge. Iamblichus has many worthy works.
you've never 'made it'. every day is a struggle to start afresh and prove your worth. the moment you think 'you've arrived' is the day your downfall starts/
For now. Plus what about working hours, safe working conditions? Tesla's record is abysmal.

They need to sign the agreements so that they'll be bound by them even when Crazy CEO #2 has a bad quarter.
"If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine."

-Jim Barksdale
Yeah I saw this a lot -- real estate people would recommend someone for some kind of independent opinion, but that person has a long-term relationship with them (passing referrals), but no relationship with you

The problem is inherently that most people are buying a home for the first time. Or they buy maybe 3 to 5 homes in their life.

So it's very easy to build up an information asymmetry / cartel there
Omegles come and go, but "how is it hacker news?" is here forever.
While.we are on the subject of Omegle youtubers, I also love Something About Chickens
And after those subsidies stopped, the progress of nuclear power also stopped, naturally. If the subsidies continued, we could have had scalable, sustainable and affordable nuclear.

I believe that Renewables should be subsidized, and current progress is great, but total decarbonization is easier to realistically achieve together with nuclear energy.

If you support renewables, you don’t have to be anti-nuclear at all.
> When trying to define default values, people get confused with expressions like a === b ?? c and assume it will be parsed as a === (b ?? c). When in actuality it will be parsed as (a === b) ?? c.

I'll never understand why programmers don't simply put parens where they want the expression to be evaluated, rather than relying on their (sometimes incorrect) assumption about operator precedence. I want to chalk this up to hubris, but it's probably just laziness.
The parent comment was comparing the US to other western democracies.
If somebody else creates an account tied to your email adress they implicitly agree to have anybody who controls that account use these features.

If they don't like that they should use their own email address instead. If it was unintentional, it is their fault for not paying attention.
> When corporate servers get hacked, 'harm' is simply assumed, even if the hack only copied information

We’re not talking about a hack, but surreptitious recording. The legal owner of the conversation isn’t clear based on statute or case law within the context of relevant agreements. This is a case of the law needing to be tightened up.
That's interesting. Did you have anything else in the thread, or was it just the first question?

For me it returns a seemingly accurate answer [1], albeit missing his involvement with Twitter/X. But LLMs are intrinsically stochastic, so YMMV.

[1] https://g.co/bard/share/378c65b56aea
> Omegle is the direct target of these attacks

Does anyone here have any more details about exactly what types of attacks Omegle was being targeted?

> In recent years, it seems like the whole world has become more ornery. Maybe that has something to do with the pandemic, or with political disagreements. Whatever the reason, people have become faster to attack, and slower to recognize each other’s shared humanity. One aspect of this has been a constant barrage of attacks on communication services, Omegle included, based on the behavior of a malicious subset of users.
There are open source models such as https://github.com/THUDM/CogVLM and https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA.
People who routinely paid 20% to tip a waitress for a meal but don't want to pay a tip for someone who hugely affect the largest investment people make, This is just being cheap and rather foolish.
thank you for posting this correction; i had missed that obvious error
Redfin does fantastic photos. As a buyer I looked at their listings first because I knew they wouldn’t have a bunch of miserable photos.

They also charge lower listing fees.
Cow farts are less bad as that methane is from current carbon (the grass or grain that the cows eat). It breaks down to water and CO2 in the atmosphere after about a decade at which point it's carbon-neutral. Methane from oil wells is additional carbon even after it breaks down.
You do see how proposing banning maps with traffic updates tanks the whole concept, right?
Agreeing with others - consider getting actually good shoes designed for road running. Not your trainers you've had for 8 years and love or a pair you like the look of because they're small and streamlined. ASICS Gel Kayanos are pretty standard issue, popular trainers. Not super cheap though.
A lot of these new AI startups just give a plain text prompt to the GPT API with a smattering of web glue. This creates a product that looks impressive and might get funded, but has close to zero value add.

There’s a difference between having competition and having a business that can be trivially cloned. The challenge for a lot of AI startups is to show that they are adding something and are not just a dumb wrapper.
I would call that a minor hurdle. There's actually no shortage of unused land. Or roofs. And agrivoltaics (combining solar with farming) is a thing. And wind turbines and farms are a common combination as well. And we have off shore wind, and floating offshore wind. Which you can combine with solar. Floating solar to limit evaporation in hydro basins is also a thing.
I don't think that errors if the group contains different values...?
>If the library ever goes under, those books are given to other libraries or to the community that funded it.

Libraries also routinely cull their collections. Some go to an annual book sale or whatever--often augmented with donations. Based on what I see of my own library's book sale and how many books are still there near the end of the sale, I expect a large number are pulped every year.

I don't really disagree with your broader point.

> The only reason you cannot access every book ever scanned at your library is simple: greed.

Libraries don't typically scan books themselves. DRM-free music mostly worked (for a while) because digital music was copied so much anyway. Of course, that's almost entirely shifted to streaming services. Every form of content has its own payment and compensation peculiarities and issues.