skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if that is not Dave’s will, but Dave’s first novel? Or the technical manual to Dave’s computer system, where the onboard help files are just a URL that points to a dead server?
Knowledge preservation in the face of disaster is not a pointless effort.

Further, there is a difference between “knowing what a computer is” and “recognizing a specific manifestation of computing technology”. For example, this picture [0]. The URL is somewhat descriptive, but say you were presented with that piece of technology. Would you recognize it? Would you think that it could be important? Would you be able to get it running? For me, personally, it would be a significant effort in terms of time spent… and I certainly wouldn’t be able to recognize it just from that picture.

0. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/ZIP_Driv...
When I was young we signaled our love of Terry Gross by blasting her interviews on large radios when we walked down the street in our baggy pants. These radios were called "boom boxes" and they were wonderful.
I’ve done two dozen trips and I can vouch for this. It seemed completely safe and in control, with crisp decisive moves throughout all those rides. I’m not sure what they’re doing on the backend but this is it.
That's great. I'm glad they're good enough to drive in the southwest. But Waymo cars performance in SF cannot be implicitly extrapolated to non-SF environments.

Try the same thing in a place with winter on a normal suburban city road. The road edges and evolving swarm-defined lanes have little to do with the absolute GPS position of the unobscured lanes and edges. An all the road makings are often obscured for weeks at at time (or longer). The road surface snow looks just like the road edge snow. And it's a semi-permanent slippery surface.

There are a lot of challenges left in non-cherry picked regions before autonomous driving can be said to "outperform comparable human benchmarks" without this qualifier.
If you kill someone. Intentional or not, you will most likely serve jail time. are you telling me that if all vehicles were driver-less, there would cease to be any sort of jail time for any death-related to an accident?
You should imo. With cruise taking a nose dive, it’s clearly a priority to establish themselves as the “remaining alternative” in the marketplace. Especially given the problematic data that has emerged in this industry over the last few years.

Consider that the entire article starts with, “Safety leads everything we do at Waymo.” A clear and almost painfully direct PR to what took down Cruise last week. You could almost add “unlike our competitors” to the headlines haha
Exactly. But with a twist:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bp-boosts-ev-chargi...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uk-pet...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like podman is by and for linux devs. Once you move to Mac or Windows, you give up podman's main benefit of running containers without a daemon since you're still having to run a VM.
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I actually love the Aero theme of Windows 7. Honestly, I would prefer some sort of derivative of this without Windows/MS logos or trademark, that does not necessarily adhere super-closely to Windows 7, but just does what makes most sense; taking the best parts of Aero and combining with the best aspects of other DEs and themes (including KDE Plasma's Breeze and/or the older Oxygen).
Safer but slightly slower is totally fine. It's even more fine when there's no human attention being wasted on the act of driving itself.
I was under the impression the LIDAR approach was compromised by rain? Did something change or did I not understand it right?
People always claim that the weather “now” is somehow special. No matter when “now” is, the weather always seems unique to us. You can read people’s thoughts on weather from any century and it sounds very similar to what we are saying now.
LNG Shipping Rates Slump on Lower Demand Despite Red Sea Chaos
Obviously an announcement like this from a company with plenty on the line is going to be as positive. Report as is possible. That said, kudos to them for acknowledging several possible sources of bias in the writeup.

However, while differing vehicle types were mentioned as a source of variation, there was almost no indication that this factor was applied to the numbers. Also, my understanding is that this service does limit its coverage area, so I’m curious what sort of impact that has on the numbers.

One other interesting fact. They claim 7+ million miles on 700,000 trips. So the average trip is over 10 miles, which I found surprising, but perhaps I shouldn’t since most of the data is probably from the Phoenix area.
Auto makers are used to integrating technology from other companies like Bosch.
thanks for the info, nice service,

did not know there is indexing API,
Why would they be building so many new dorms if most students live at home? Where do all those people in the middle of nowhere go to school?
I can see a possible future where the are less cars because people don't feel the need to own one, and are just fine with calling an autonomous cab.
It was a technical marvel for the day.

The C64 version had more features but was slower. The Sinclair Spectrum version was faster but missed the C64 docking music.

There was an Amiga spin-off, as I recall, with filled polygons but it didn’t hold my interest.
People keep getting more expensive, the tech keeps getting cheaper, the economics will eventually work out.
Are they wrong? You naming rhetorical techniques is certainly not any more sophisticated or useful to the conversation than them deploying them.
What do you recommend that is faster that I can package into an app for distribution?
I was running one of them, and entering kaggle competitions throughout 2021 and 2022 using them. Many efforts and uses of Sentence-transformers (and new PhD projects) were thrown in the trash with Instruct GPT models and ChatGPT. I mean it's like developing a much better bicycle (lets say an ebike) but then cars come out. It was like that.

The future looked incredibly creative with cross-encoders, things like semantic paths, using the latent space to classify - everything was exciting. A all-in-one LLM that eclipsed embeddings on all but speed for these things was a bit of a kill joy.

Companies that changed existing indexing to use sentence transformers aren't exactly innovating; that process happened once or twice a decade for the last few decades. This was parents point I believe, in a way. And tbh, the improvement in results has never been noticeable to me; exact match is actually 90% of the solution to retrieval(maybe not search) already - we just take it for granted because we are so used to it.

I fully believe in a world without GPT-3, HN demos would be full of sentence transformer and other cool technology being used for demos and in creative ways, compared to how rarely you see them.
Like crappy little trains with no capacity?
The only planet with visibly changing features on a regular basis is Jupiter. And we can get good photos of it from Earth. So, just pictures, might be good for PR, but not very useful scientifically.
Anything specific? We use Next very successfully, and, well it almost became the main way to use React nowadays... pretty good track record for an "abomination". It's not 100% there, I dislike some features built around Vercel offerings (eg. middleware) but it's... a good idea.
> Docking was HARD

I was lucky enough to have a pair of non-self centring graphics paddles attached to my BBC. Docking with these was easy as you'd just line up, get the rotation right and then leave the stick where it was. I was 12.

40+ year old me tried docking on an emulator using the keyboard. It didn't end well :D
My point was simpler: negotiations don't have to end in agreement, let alone trying to get a patent license.

This discussion has devolved into abstract swipes at the patent law system with characterizations that don't even apply if you take the article at face value.
Positive quantities on sales orders decrease inventory. Positive quantities on purchase orders increase inventory.

Closed sales orders increase cost of goods sold and accounts receivable. Closed purchase orders increase assets and accounts payable.

You could create one uber-record that could represent all of these different assets, but it wouldn't necessarily be a good idea, because my clients and their accountants conceive of them as separate entities, and I need to make them legible to my clients as separate entities.

I create schemas that store/make legible data beyond a double-entry general ledger.
I re-implemented Mamba myself and this was the first time I had ever worked with einops/einsum. I'm 50/50 on them after this. I found them relatively easy to look at and understand the intent (possibly more so than other representations), but talking extra time to transforms into other primitives (loops, multiplication, etc). I belive using torch.einsum is generally well optimized as well compared to naively looping. All said, I don't know if I'd use it myself working from scratch but it's interesting to know and if I was working in python I might try comparing the speed of einops/sum vs other ways.
OpenBSD does implement some kind of privilege separation for X.

$ ps ax -ouser,args | awk 'NR==1;/X.*:/'
USER COMMAND
_x11 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt05 -auth /etc/X11/xenodm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-PFzcIG (Xorg)
root X: [priv] (Xorg)
What is the relevance of university affiliation with respect to the assertion? Housing cost is merely a function of what the buyer is willing to bear. They could spend the same amount on an off-campus house – the cost would be the same. But is that actually a cost of college?
I’m extremely skeptical of the economics of scaling Waymo up to a viable, profitable service. At least, not at a large scale. But the R&D that’s gone into it will require a large scale rollout to pay off.
Sure, you have to live somewhere but:

"While rental prices rose nationwide in this period, an analysis of Census data shows median rates increased at a slower pace in the areas immediately around all 12 schools than the pace for the least expensive options on those campuses."

ie, the cost of living in a dorm is rising faster than the cost of living off campus.

Some colleges require freshman to live in dorms.
This is amazing...

UX Feedback:

The vid bubbles are HUGE. https://i.imgur.com/TjHhtRr.png

It would be great to have TopicTabs... I search for "X" and it gives me one of the topic bubbles (as seen on the landing) - under my search bar. I enter a new search, the vids change, but the previous search results bubble is still there.

This is fantastic though.

--

It would be really interesting to package it in such a way where one can connect all their CCTV cams/footage to this. Then have all their video searchable:

"Show me any white vehicles that drove by in the last hour"

As seen on TV...
CCS is a worse standard than NACS. The connector is huge. Also CCS locks the cable on both sides (charger and car), so a bad charger or cable can strand your car. NACS locks only on the car side.
I do think of it as humanity's half-assed solution and probably our best hope.
Some kids’ school bus is about to get a serious upgrade
Bigger issue is the human in the loop. If you always engage the parking brake when leaving the vehicle so that it becomes a reflex then you never forget. People will claim that this will never happen to them and that it is pointless to do on flat ground... Until one day they hop out of the vehicle with the engine running / key in ignition and not in park and it rolls away from them.

Next biggest issue is probably if the car gets hit hard enough to break the parking pawl. Parking brake could save it from rolling away.

The pawl itself is not a tiny pin and will take some abuse, but maybe if you talk to mechanics in SF where people park on hills they see them fail all the time? That isn't the primary reason why I'd suggest always using the parking brake, even on flat ground though.
My first introduction to computers was a FreeBSD machine my dad kept in the craft room closet—that's where I learned how to use bash, Emacs, mutt, and the like. My family had a Mac, and I daily drive a Mac. And while I'm not the Apple fanboy I used to be, I still like Apple's products for the most part.

Hot dang this theme looks awesome.

As much as I detest Windows and everything non-UNIXy about it, Windows 7 looked great. That's the version of Windows that my high school ran; none of the computers were fast by any means (IIRC it took all night to render the weekly video the press team put out on Fridays) so the animations all were a little… stiff… but I appreciated that MS actually made an OS that looked good. I mean, look at that shine! Look at those lighting effects! And the OS is still useable!

Anyway… it's also a testament that you can make KDE do this kind of trick. Nutso.
No, you're getting downvoted because you raise a point that's negative and tangential to what's being discussed, which is a potencial 90%+ reduction in crashes, and therefore injuries and fatalities.

As someone who has lost close ones to car accidents, I don't give a shit about liability if we reduce casualties by an order of magnitude. I didn't downvote you but it doesn't surprise me that your take is unpopular.
Another big negative I think is underconsidered is that a Google owned self driving car fleet will be absolutely plastered with video ads and physical user tracking if they dominate the market enough to get away with it.

Imagine those unmutable video ads that are increasingly common at gas stations, but running constantly inside the car.
Tesla are free to benchmark against Waymo.

Or even against humans... not as a claim that is unverified, but to work to verify the claim with a third party.
Does this ban them from using all facial recognition software or just the software they used, which are two very different things.

Also, I think ppl would be surprised at the number of places that use this type of sw (maybe not ppl here.) Walmart has amazing sw that id's ppl before they even enter the store and regularly work with LE in helping find ppl.
Typescript "compilation" is just stripping out types, mostly. JavaScript is a subset of TypeScript (mostly). There was even a proposal to extend JavaScript comments syntax, so all typescript types would become comments (so you could just run typescript code with JS interpreter).
> even more cars on the streets, .. , and traffic will get a lot worse

I strongly believe it will go the other way, i.e. the 'robo-taxi' vision. Once cars can pick us up, take us where we want and then disappear, very few people will want to own their own car. I honestly think the vast majority of people already don't want to own one, but we don't have a better option. Why would a sane person want to deal with the maintenance, insurance, repairs, depreciation, etc.

Cars will just show up, take us places then go away to get someone else. We won't need nearly as many of them, and we won't need to dedicate so much of our cities to them, and especially not to parking them. We will be able to reclaim our cities.

NOTE: Old School automakers who can't/won't/don't adapt are going to push back on this HARD. But I still think it will happen.

For the record, I'm a car guy. I love cars. I will likely always have one for the weekends. If I was going into a city or commuting, I would take the robi-taxi every time.
I understand that it's a different approach, but I would still have expected this paper to at least mention FlashAttention [1] since they both leverage flash memory.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14135
I wonder if the famous Interstellar's docking scene was inspired by this game mechanic. It's pretty much the same concept - you had to align yourself with the station first and then try to match the rotational speed. If the previous alignment step isn't perfect than during the rotation matching the entrance would wobble and make it impossible to dock. Docking was indeed as hard as it looks in Interstellar :)
Had a quick read of your Github page for this project:
https://github.com/yoeven/ai-video-search-engine

Are you sure about the below?...How did you test this? My experience is the opposite.

Edit: For example, Youtube will return a video result of a video with a transcript containing the same quoted text that I've searched. Wouldn't that imply that Youtube has indexed the transcript?

>>FAQ

Doesn't youtube do this?

Not really, Youtube doesn't search the transcribed audio of the video but instead relies on the written content of the uploader such as title, description, tags. While all the audio content goes unindexed.

(I've tried emailing you about this but not sure if you've seen my email.)
I think I saw that in some documentary but I can't recall either.

However I'm curious about your phrasing "this suggests that our conscious mind might often act as a 'spokesperson', justifying actions initiated by our subconscious."

To me this is far from a suggestion, it's an observable fact, both in others and in first person. Are there people who don't view it like this? Who think all their actions are conscious decisions and don't catch themselves spinning narrative threads by their biases and fears?
Every organisation attracts all sorts of people with different motivations, interests, desires, which often conflict within the organisation. I don't think there are big differences there. Daycares and post offices are narrowly defined specialist organisations, not broad wide organisations such as the church or government.

And besides, I don't think churches can be a general solution to sense of purpose or community, because it would exclude the growing majority of secular people who don't really have any religious affiliation, or are explicitly agnostic/atheist. You need ... something else for that, something more secular. I don't really know what that would be.

And let's not view the past with too much rose-coloured glasses either, as religion could be ugly business just as much as nationalism can. A famous example is Tolkien's mother, who converted from Anglicism to Catholicism and was pretty much ostracized and consigned to poverty by her family (her husband died of illness when Tolkien was about two). A Catholic priest took Tolkien in and that's how he got his education so the church/religion isn't all bad in this story, but there was a lot of needless misery, and he was "saved" by a stroke of good fortune.

I remember this type of stuff from my grandfather as well (in the Netherlands). Their house burned down during the war and after the war they relocated to the next village, which was protestant instead of catholic (or the reverse? I forgot) and were ostracized because of that. Especially in the context of post-occupation Netherlands this was double ridiculous because you'd think that these kind of small differences would fade away, but there you have it. One of the reasons they ended up moving to the city.
Nope. Tesla has opened up the standard, but there are a few caveats.
Oy, keep yer spillage off my napron!
I wish all of these benchmarks pitted autonomous cars against a somewhat comparable user group – say professional taxi drivers – over just a general sampling of the population. The majority of people are driving most of their miles during rush hour when chances of a crash are the highest, while Waymo cars operate all day/night. Plus I'm sure that first-time drivers, drunk drivers, people out on illegal joyrides and other such extremes drag the numbers down enough that saying "I'm in the top 40%" really isn't all that meaningful anymore.

What I'm interested in knowing is how these cars drive compared to the average competent driver in the exact same environment.
You’re stuck with us here. You may learn something. And we may learn something as well.
- This is how you lose the time war - El-Mohtar, Amal
- Lord of light - Zelazny, Roger
- The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
What is a user-flow prototype?
The only way this has an impact on road accident/injury/fatality rates at any meaningful scale is if millions of people switch from routine personal-car based transportation to shared transportation, even single-occupancy shared transportation like Waymo.

I don't see millions running out and buying a real self-driving car kitted with a spinning lidar "hat" and visible radar transmitters sticking out everywhere, even if doing so meant safer roads for everyone.

What people in the market actually want is what Tesla has been selling (however fraudulently): a car that looks/performs very nice and claims full-self-driving capability, not a goofy looking car that self-drives very well in particular locations and use cases. Cars are about personal identity and power at least as much as they are about functional transportation.

I'd like to be wrong about all that, and would like a future where swarms of electric self-driving buses that route-optimize based on demand pick up people very close to where they are. But I also realize that the reptilian brains of consumers tend to decide how these things eventually pan out, and not the solutions that are optimized for efficiency and safety.
I don't know why you think Cruise isn't on track. Their numbers are also good, although probably not as good as Waymo, but they are also much younger than Waymo. Cruise is being punished by the state of California right now because they tried to cover up their vehicle's worsening of a particular human-caused accident, not because of some problem with their overall numbers.

EDIT: If you disagree, please link to the quantitative data that suggests Cruise isn't on track.
I didn't mention either because Android does both of those too. (via zRAM and the Low Memory Killer Daemon)
Somewhat reasonable position - except images were found that matched known and catalogued CSAM images. One would have thought that checking against that would be bare minimum for cleaning a large dataset?
… and Modula 2!!
Well, yeah, but that’s really more a consequence of a different marketing strategy than anything else. VW Group makes several minor variations of the same car under different brands. There’s a Cupra version of the id.3 and Audi and Skoda versions of the id.4, say, all under different branding. There are a bunch of other minor variants, too. Bizarrely, there will also soon be a _Ford_ version of the id.4 (the Explorer EV), though that would go under Ford’s total, not VW Group’s. Besides the Ford, VW Group could, if it wanted to, condense all this into three significant cars, plus the microbus, but that’s not how they operate.

Tesla is about 15% of the European market, joint-second. In the (smaller) US market it is nearly 50%. I think it’s reasonable to describe it as very dominant in the US, but not in Europe. It would be reasonable to expect this to change as US manufacturers go electric and as foreign manufacturers go electric for their US-targeted models.
I don't know either, I use it for the more than a year and it just works.
Used GNOME at first, now on Sway.

But every time Wayland is mentioned on HN, it's always orange display protocol bad.
It sounded like a but of a misdirected excuse: if someone is still complaining about Wayland now based on an initial experience half a decade ago, wouldn’t the first step be getting up to speed with the current state? When I read that I was reminded of how many Linux users had issues with things like mode lines back in the day, and that was a non-issue only a few years later.
The thing is the average car lifetime in the US is about 12 years so, so even if you assume autonomous driving "everywhere" is available in 10-20 years, that means you probably don't have a vast majority autonomous fleet for maybe 50 years. It certainly would be politically infeasible for the government to tell people they have to buy new cars.
I'm sure swarm would work for what I need and rationally its probably worth using, but I only trust docker as far as I could throw them and if I needed to really deploy I would probably just suck it up and figure out k8s.
You did say that, but it's not the part of your post they were responding to.