skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They only have to slow down and check for crossing traffic before going through.

As another poster said, this is not true, but more importantly…

Some cyclists treat the “yield at stop sign” concept as “yield to me the cyclist, as I will not slow down unless I have to, and I will be unhappy about that”.

I’ve been cursed out, flipped off, and given the evil eye when I pulled out from a stop sign and a cyclist that was far up the road when I looked had to hard brake because they weren’t even slowing down.

I’m all for cyclists rights. I was a bicycle messenger one summer, and my replacement was killed in an accident. Being a cyclist can be dangerous and scary, but some cyclists just act like entitled shitheads. Besides being a problem for all folks on the road, they also give cyclists a bad rep.
> Shrinking this technology is all it will take for similar devices to make workstation monitors and gaming consoles completely obsolete.

Do people want that? I love playing games in my Quest 2 for an hour or two, or the PSVR2 at my friend's house, but I dread the thought of spending 8+ hours a day in it while I work. No, not just because of the weight, but because I like the feeling of fresh air on my face and sunlight reaching my eyes.

For that reason, despite being able to play non-VR games in cinematic mode on those headsets, I never do that. Sure, it's closer to my face, and it is larger, but if I'm putting a VR headset on, there better be a compelling reason to block out air and light to my eyes. And a bigger screen isn't a compelling enough reason for me.

Technically I can also use my Quest to have dozens of virtual displays, but why? There's almost never a situation where I need more than two things visible at once. I can look back and forth between two things pretty quickly and easily (my code and the library's documentation; the PhotoShop/Illustrator mockup vs. how it actually currently looks in browser; etc.) but I can't easily look at 3 or more things at once, so I feel it'd be more of a distraction that a productivity booster. I mean I could buy a 3rd monitor if I really wanted to but I haven't found a reason to do so. I don't need to see Spotify or Slack 24/7, I can just alt-tab to them as needed.

I love video games, I often enjoying coding, but I really think having a screen right up in my face for most of my waking hours is a bit much, even if they were more like regular glasses instead of goggles. When I'm outside or walk someplace I almost never look at my phone unless I need directions or am responding to plans, because I like a break from staring at screens. Even when I'm working, I try to stand up and look away from the screen when I have no reason to be looking at it, whether it's code compiling, waiting for something to upload to a server, or any other time when there's no point to be looking at my screen.
> The felony conviction was the first of its kind in the nation involving a bicyclist.

The list of things that have killed one person in the last several hundred years is long. Everything is potentially deadly by that standard.

Here's a case mentioned in Law's Order:

"The plaintiff was about 14 years of age, and the defendant about 11 years of age. On the 20th day of February, 1889, they were sitting opposite to each other across an aisle in the high school of the village of Waukesha. The defendant reached across the aisle with his foot, and hit with his toe the shin of the right leg of the plaintiff. The touch was slight. ... In a few moments he felt a violent pain in that place, which caused him to cry out loudly. ... He will never recover the use of his limb."

(Vosburg v Putney, 80 Wis. 523, 50 N.W. 403 (1891))
People say lots of stupid shit. If there is no code or even paper, there is no reason to believe. Beating benchmarks requires something more than a blind faith.
There is a game on this website I would encourage you to play if you are interested in this type of thing. The article itself is quite good. It is directly relevant to this post:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-win-a-nuclear-st...

> Imagine you’re playing a game of chicken. You’re driving at high speed directly toward your opponent who’s also racing toward you. Neither of you wants to chicken out and veer away, but neither wants to die, either. Your best strategy? Rip off your steering wheel, make sure your opponent knows you’ve done so, and hit the gas.

Feels like a good time to watch Dr. Strangelove again.
No because the review is a dishonest hit piece. I’m super sensitive to nausea in VR to the point that I’ve had to drop out of an interview process to work in the space in the past.

Not one other reviewer has mentioned nausea, and I’ve been using AVP since Friday and not experienced it once. I was very concerned I’d have to return it and might never be able to use such a device.

I don’t know what’s going on with this piece but them reviewer has gone out of his way to exaggerate or even manufacture negatives and fill the piece with them.
It is a fascinating vector for undesirable chemicals to seep straight into the bloodstream. Ironic if consistent flossing lowers heart disease risk but increases cancer risk.
Is there footage? Can we see it? Is there a reason not to see it?
Scrum feature factories
True Delegation vs. Forwarding
Not sure I would make the "disabled" buttons stand out more brightly than a regular button. In fact I would swap the colors of those buttons, or maybe make the disabled button greyed out.
https://www.nfl.com/news/op-ed-flag-football-can-t-be-ignore...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39081597
There’s a time and a place, man. Well actuallying on an obituary isn’t it.
Presumably, Idaho does have the "Idaho stop", so driverless cars should be designed with that in mind, and operate as conservatively as possible to avoid crashes caused by other drivers or cyclists not perfectly obeying the rules.
> Germany is growing ever steadily and is the biggest country people-wise, [...]

Interesting, I was under the impression that the German population is declining. But you are right, it is slowly growing. In eg 1990 they had 73 million people, and nowadays it's 83 million (according to Google).

Apparently that's all driven by net migration, because the birth rate is so low.
Excellent to hear
I love this - no not just bc it's written in Rust - following!
Wait, why do you need anything other than CSS? Animations can have easing and loop indefinitely without JS.
My kid has a VR headset, along with a few of his friends. He certainly uses it but it's a huge exagerration to say that he spends more of his free time in VR than real life. Minecraft / Roblox / Fortnite you could make an argument for maybe (depending on age).
> Even when btc lightning solves most reasons

Lightning is nice but it's an unrelated project. Bitcoin itself is still fundamentally flawed and Lightning is basically syntactic sugar on the same decaying infrastructure. It "solves" the same problems Bitcoin did with a loosely agnostic framework around ... the exact same blockchain. It's the equivalent of getting a second-try on a test you failed just to write the same answer down.

And Lighting is one of the good ones. Other L2 chains range from "marginally exploitative" to "broken" to "outright literal scam" depending on the developer.
We shouldn't have to wait and listen to the spin from both sites. The video should be released immediately. What's Waymo's excuse?
To be fair, this is Kawasaki we're talking about. Only company I know that's nuts enough to put out a 250cc inline 4 screamer in the ZX25R. Then also produce the H2 which has a supercharger with holes cut into it so that you can hear the chirping of the impeller blade tips exceeding the speed of sound and generating a small sonic boom.

Don't know of another large motorcycle company that's willing to try wonderfully silly things like this.
Cloud Capex Retrospective 2023
Smartphones can do more, but are they radically different? Same look and feel, modestly better battery life. From v1 the camera is the biggest addition to what Jobs said - iPod, phone, browser. If AVP has the same incremental improvements, it will still be a bulky media device at best and I’ll still want to take it off for phone calls, work, and even taking photographs. Still cool, but not spatial computing.
By diplomacy he means letting Putin have what he wants. The fact is Russia repeatedly signed agreements saying no to a divided Europe and giving countries a free choice in who to ally with.
> You must not live in SF if this is unexpected for you.

OP didn't say surprised, they said disappointed. For example: I am not surprised that I burn my food because I left it in the oven too long, but I am disappointed that my food is ruined. Be careful not to conflate the two and impose beliefs on another person that they may or may not have. If you're talking politicians, I would say that such notions (pinning fictitious ideals to a person or group) are common tactics and this seems explicitly what you are upset about (as I think many are). So let's not engage in similar behavior, it only enables those tactics.
If bills aren’t an issue volunteer on a reasonably popular open source project and keep applying for jobs.
Perhaps it's not what you intended in your mind, but it's what you happened to type out in ASCII.

In this quote, you are asserting that something is true::

> What was the state of the gas and brake, what was the steering angle, how long was it from detection to action. Those things concretely answer the question of "would a human have done better or worse in this situation?"

Unfortunately it is not true: "Those things" you just identified in "the telemetry" can not "concretely answer" the question of "would a human have done better."

In particular, that is because "done better" includes detecting the obstacle or risk sooner--not merely time between detection and braking. To answer that, the inputs that would have been available to a human must be scrutinized by other humans, which means the video is important.
I've tried a few of these 'classless CSS'. But I mostly end up with 'water.css'. It gives me the least amount of surprises.
Apple doesn't need it to be in a sunglasses form factor for it to be successful. Xbox never leaves the house and is a major product. They just need sufficent use cases that people will actually use and stuff like rethinking UIs from static monitors/TVs/ipad screens -> flexibly overlayed around you, how people watch movies or how data is delivered visually/contextually while you're at home or in the office is a pretty big deal on its own.

Everyone is so caught up in it not being an outdoor device which IMO is missing the point for the stage the tech is at right now.

Nailing down simple indoor use, for an entirely new computing plaform/interface, seems like a legitimate first step before people are walking around outside with it. All the 3rd party devs need to nail it down too.

Like stage 1 self driving cars, you use it on a closed track before you put it on the street.
Please include cheaper GPUs as well. Make I'm just looking for more/different video ports for my PC? The name doesn't imply any restriction for being for training. Also, using best buy as the only data source seems odd, maybe there's a way to use PCPartPicker or similar as a data source, and expand from there?
I’ve used Vision Pro, as an experimentation to the future. It’s going to get there. Be patient.

But I do appreciate the criticism, that creates the market.

Hopefully, talented people start building things other than AI and SaaS.
That's very funny, thanks for that one haha :)
The thing is, human drivers do not and will never have such scrutiny. In this case, there is some hope that it will happen before these cars are widely deployed, even if said authority is the court of public opinion.
Here is a tweet for which “context” said it was showing a beating by Taiwanese police. It happened right before elections in Taiwan this year.

https://twitter.com/MOSSADil/status/1745921315498811752

The original note (see screenshot at https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/5080048) was up for a while as trending tweet gathered 1-2 million views by users worldwide who saw “context” and were trained to assume it’s the truth (it’s context, after all; it’s the meta above the facts).

Since the algorithm for which note to show is more or less a popularity contest, whoever has the most bots wins, and it took a while until people managed to correct the note. But of course the way Twitter notes work, there is no evidence of this controversy and attempted misinformation, or how many people exactly saw the false “context”.

How many notes like that can you honestly estimate you have seen and just automatically believed? For me, the answer is “no idea”. (Note that if the note agreed with your preexisting opinion it doesn’t make it true.)
> Cars can be parked right up to the ped crossings, potentially obscuring what is happening. Looks like a death trap to me.

California recently made it illegal to park within 20 feet of a crosswalk:

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/news-and-media/dmv-highlights-...

SF hasn't started enforcing the law yet, and I suspect that 99% of drivers don't know about the law.
Came here to say this - looks awfully like OSM data and no attribution.

I'm also not clear on whether Google likes displaying OSM data on their map; it's a strange combination. I can't ever remember seeing "Copyright Google, Copyright OpenStreetMap contributors" in the footer of a page.
I resent my inability to leave my bike on the sidewalk without it being stolen. It doesn't do a whole lot for me.
> I guess we can see why Apple declined to provide them an early review unit.

If Apple is so vengeful as to only provide review units to people who will give them glowing reviews, then that immediately invalidates every review from anyone who received an advance unit from Apple, because all of those reviews must have been made under the duress of knowing that anything other than a glowing review will put them on Apple's shit list.

In other words, by your own logic, the only reviews that can be trusted to have any degree of truth are those from people who didn't receive review units, such as the OP.

> They clearly have an agenda.

If it's so clear, perhaps you could enlighten us?
New method to more accurately spot underground nuclear tests
> Nuclear is just too expensive, long-term dangerous and sensitive to mess with.

I'm not so sure about the 'long-term dangerous'. Yes, nuclear produces a small amount of dangerous nuclear waste. But burning fossil fuels also releases lots of waste, and most of that is made up of stable isotopes that don't even have a half life and will be dangerous approximately forever.
I'm not surprised by the content of your links, but I can say I'm disappointed. After all, surprise and disappointment are different things.
I've job hopped a lot over the years and now i make about 30x what i did at my first software job. Now I'm sticking around though despite some of the craziness that i'd prefer not to deal with mostly just to prove to myself i can stick around at a job for more than 2 years.
Best summary of Go. That should be the headline of the Go website.
That was the one. Two for $70 in my case.
>Where do Americans like to vacation? Walkable places.

No, only some Americans vacation there. It's not like 80% of Americans all travel to European cities every year. In my observation, many Americans prefer to go to various US cities and rent cars, or to go to beach resorts, or spend their time on cruise ships drinking all day long.

>Americans will say that cars give them freedom to go anywhere, then complain all the good places don't have enough parking.

Right, this is one of the fundamental problems. Americans just don't understand that you can't have both.

>Anyways, I guess I'm jealous you get to live in Japan, because I totally wish that America could invest in our transit like Japan has.

Japan invested in transit because everything was already very dense. You can't just slap transit into a city like Houston and expect it to work out: you need high density to make it work. Living in Tokyo generally involves a LOT of walking (and stairs!); it's not like every destination is a block from a train station. It's why so many people own bicycles. Trains (and esp. subways) are extremely expensive to install and run and maintain, so you need very high ridership to make them work economically, and American cities outside of Manhattan just don't have that. You would need to change many things to get to Tokyo-level density; it'd be easier to just bulldoze the entire city and start over.

If you want to live in Japan and have tech skills, there's plenty of companies hiring here.
> cameras and mp3 players (and phones!!) are basically a thing of the past thanks to the iPhone

This was all true with the first iPhone though. That's the point. I'm sure that the Vision pro will be refined, but what will be necessary to make this a mass market device seems more fundamental than just a lot of refinements.

When the iPhone came out, I remember thinking it was too expensive and not for me, but I definitely wanted one and was jealous of the few people I knew who had one. I just don't have that feeling with the Vision Pro - to the point where I feel if I was given one for free I still couldn't see myself using it much.

That's sort of rare for Apple devices - even if I think some things are ridiculously overpriced I would always be happy with a free one and make good use of it.
Through the Looking Glass (1988)
I no longer see the point. It is difficult to explain. After many internet and real life discussions I made a single conclusion: intensive propaganda creates an impenetrable partition in minds. And we live in times of the most intensive propaganda ever. You can't hide from it anywhere. If you open video about cats on YouTube, open comments section, you'll read something like: "Cute cats, but did you know that every morning Putin eats kitten for breakfast?" (I exaggerate, but only a little). Even when I read contemporary science fiction, there's always some piece of current propaganda like if it is obligatory in order to be published.

It is difficult to gather and analyze facts and present them in easy to understand fashion. Some things are really difficult to explain, especially historical and cultural things. You waste lots of time and energy to research and to present facts in support of your point of view. But time is not limitless, I have work to do and life to live. Also, amount of facts is limitless. You can always fight one set of facts against another, with carefully constructed set of arguments you can prove almost anything. It's not math, where it's kind of possible to prove or debunk any theory without a doubt. Real life if more complex, and real life is not entirely rational or logical.

Also, it's like fighting with windmills in Don Quixote. I know, we all know, that all governments finance paid commenters. E.g. several months ago there was a leak that Washington finance troll factories managed by Russian "opposition". First they tried to deny it, but then had to admit that it is true.

And it was only one leak about one trolls factory. So here I am trying to write a few comments for free in my precious free time, while there're powerful organizations employing hundreds of paid commenters with salaries and KPI and clear guidelines on what to write. How can I fight alone against huge and well paid apparatus of propaganda and commenters employing millions of people to put everywhere version of truth contradicting to mine and to put me and my country in extremely bad light? It's a futile battle, and I give up on it.
I take a shotgun approach and install:

- libva-mesa-driver
- mesa-vdpau
- intel-media-driver
- libva-intel-driver
- libvdpau-va-gl

And hope _one_ of them works
you guys really love these driverless car accident articles
Could be useful for soldiers, who may be subject to concussions on an unfortunately regular basis.
Next article: How to fire high experienced, low potential people
Yes, all industries should need to clean up after themselves.

And in large parts, they are doing that. But I guess details depend on jurisdiction.
> Hopefully, talented people start building things other than AI and SaaS.

Only if apple open up API and at least make it in parity with iOS/iPadOS (we can probably dream about MacOS). Hopefully they will show something this summer in WWDC.
I think you might just have a bias for the time period you know most. There was maybe a bit of a drop off around the end of the Cold War, these things go in cycles. Many of them just died in the 70s, so it seems almost generational. The circumstances around the deaths and rise to power were shaped by the ages of these strongmen and the geopolitical events that led to their beginnings and ends.
> you can drop a straight line every time

The unreasonable effectiveness of linear regression...
the skiing is fine.

not great, but most of the people going out to utah for a ski weekend are on manmade snow on blue groomers, and the blue groomers out east are just as good as the blue groomers in the west.
Clearly one of these two scenarios happened:

1. The waymo made a left turn into the space occluded by truck, seeing there was no vehicle behind the truck when committing to accelerating through the turn, but not seeing the bike in the adjacent bike line proceeding through the intersection.

2. The bike made a left turn from behind the truck into an occluded space, which would be suicidal.

While we can’t rule out the latter until we see video, the former seems much more likely. And that strongly suggests it accelerated too quickly. All the talk about the bike not stopping is beside the point — Waymo is supposed to be able to safely handle such situations.
It's a pretty big market here I guess - this is for a simple installation, of course, with the mini split on a wall back to back with the external wall, running the piping down and hooking up and gassing. But that's about the standard price everyone was charging for that when I put my last one in two years ago. If you were putting in a ducted system obviously it would cost more.
Electron's web engine is also LGPL. (And GTK too)
Monitor replacement, with monitors that stay in place, is absolutely the killer app for me.

I would love to have a desktop that can change and be adjusted for different work loads, or simply dedicated screens for things that don't warrant a window all the time.
Have you actually used it for general computing tasks? If so, how was it?
Not sure what the relevance of the pedestrian is because he far outside the path of travel for the car at the time he hit the bike.
Interesting, Dart for backend? Do you build APIs? How is the ecosystem? I heard good thing of Swift as well, but I have concerns that it's to niche for backend stuff.
Fine. Shining lights in your eyes improves vision.
Well, I hope I don't shanked by one or both sets of advocates.

Years ago I made it partway through this early LISP manual co-authored by a young John McCarthy before his move to Stanford: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...

I remember thinking:

1) They did not mess around in the 1960s. No "Hello World," no promises, no sales pitch. Just an in-yer-face "Here's how we do things downtown"

2) They defined a language in terms of itself. I still don't get all that implies but, damn, they can do that?
This feels like the "no vehicles in the park" all over again.[0] We're all naturally inclined to have assumptions, but I think many are not aware of this. I think all have the capacity, just not the habit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36453856
Another thing about waste: burning fossil fuels also produces waste. A colossal amount of waste. That waste is mostly made up of stable isotopes, so has approximately an infinite half-life.

Eg mercury release from burning coal will be dangerous forever.