skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related: A few years later, Bill Gates would make the rather absurd prediction that there would be no successor to the DVD, because in the future, people would simply stream their movies over the Internet!
> Anecdotally they can be 10-25% slower than the rest of traffic

I don't know anything about USA, but my understanding of other humans tells me that "Waymo is 10-25% slower than the rest of traffic" actually means "Waymo drives at the legal speed limit for that location, without surpassing it".
Thank you. Do you know anything about the latency? Note-taking tablets are an area where tiny differences in latency can make huge differences to usability, or at least to "pleasant-to-use"ability.
Oh? I would think that the input prompt to drive generation is not lost during generation iterations -- but I also don't know much about the architectural details.
If it loses remote monitoring I'd rather it would pull over and park rather than barelling down the steep hills of San Francisco without a safety monitor.
Great article to come across on a friday afternoon, the first paragraph is a great hook and had me laughing too.

Was waiting at a drive through coffee recently with the dog in the front seat. She needed to vomit right as I was about to pull up to the window. Just happened to find a small paper bag from lunch, or something, and was able to get everything cleanly in the bag! A dog snout fits more cleanly into a bag than human I think, but have never needed to use one myself.
It can't handle anything resembling a large note, and can't link to other notes meaningfully.
Since when does questioning whether one person might move equal a mass migration or and ace-in-the-hole argument? Your language seems to indicate a sore spot has been hit.

We will see how it turns out. The main question is whether China has stolen enough technological ideas and knowledge to achieve escape velocity on their own. They've enjoyed free reign for 'partnering', coercion, & industrial & academic espionage for decades, and have indeed made very significant advances. That access is now being curtailed. If China has gained enough, and has sufficient financial assets, and can manage it, it should be able to bootstrap itself to next levels. Or, it may start faltering, in no small part to the inherent structural limitations of authoritarian states.

I think it is very much an open question

I'd still put my chips on the Democracies. Betting against the USA has always been a bad bet. But it's still been less than 250 years, so things may change.
Any recommendations for the circuit books?
Thanks, Simmon!
Public transit is actually pretty clean. The main problem is that they can't refuse to board disruptive passengers, who just trash everything around them. Waymo has cameras inside, so they can fine/ban you if you litter.

The driverless cars can also, well, drive themselves to a cleaning center during the night-time when it won't affect the income generation.

Another interesting possible feature is to redesign cars to be more easily cleanable. Driverless cars can dispense with the central console, steering wheel and pedals, with simple hard plastic covered in detachable covering. Even the seats can be made detachable.
Because the justice and political systems, particularly in regards to copyright, are deeply corrupt.
They have a big upfront cost to add a new city, but once they add it, their marginal revenue per car will be higher there (partly because they can be sure to keep those cars busy and partly because they can charge a higher premium).

They have to prepare the infrastructure anyway in all the cities to get to the scale they want to get to, but each new car built is going to be sent to the least scaled city so far.
Assuming the cars have internal cameras they should be able to surcharge riders who trash the cars.
The Fuggers, Bankers to Emperors
Yeah, it's like these people are Google to be able to get away with this. If you're going to do it, it better be for a self benefiting reason, and damn well better not be for the good of all man kind. This is capitalist society and not some sort of benevolent society. What kind of moron would think that would ever be a good idea? /s
Because publishers are assholes.
Uber/Lyft drivers won't improve their behavior on their own without feedback from the system, so please for everyone's safety please do report it.
Same! I was wondering why it hadn't blown up on front-page haha
On Being Bored and Being Boring
Study identifies first drug therapy for sleep apnea
The talk was entitled "Organization, Collective, Decision."

"Hope without optimism" was his first topic, based on the book of the same name by Terry Eagleton.

The grammar is distractingly bad in places and I'm not sure there's any coherent idea tying it all together, but I thought it was an interesting read. I think we need more open-ended conversations about how people organize and get stuff done. Maybe this can inspire some.
What makes you think we're not trapped in some really mediocre local optima? Tree dust makes me sick.
In a way he was right, if he was describing the movement of "holes", or the lack of an electron.
A matched case-control analysis of autonomous vs human-driven vehicle accidents

Published: 18 June 2024

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48526-4

"The analysis suggests that accidents of vehicles equipped with Advanced Driving Systems generally have a lower chance of occurring than Human-Driven Vehicles in most of the similar accident scenarios. However, accidents involving Advanced Driving Systems occur more frequently than Human-Driven Vehicle accidents under dawn/dusk or turning conditions, which is 5.25 and 1.98 times higher, respectively."
I'm a big fan of Excel but this works vastly better.
Incorrect.

When somebody else takes a risk for you, you have to pay them more than if they are not taking a risk. We pay soldiers more when they are at war than when they are not. People who want to raise money by selling bonds have to pay a higher interest rate if their credit is worse. Etc.

Prostitutes would consider unprotected sex more risky, and thus charge more.
Most of the issues with the hardware of the era was the dog-shit slow IDE HDDs and the price of RAM was too high (one reason NT4 wasn't targeted for the home). Move to flash storage, max out RAM, and things get better.
Amex Buys Tock to Help with Hard-to-Get Dinner Reservations
I would bet that most of the archive books are already on Libgen, yes
Simula 67 long predates OOP. Which, when you think about it, means that when OOP was coined it referred to a "message passing" paradigm, not "classes" or "objects". "Oriented", not "object", was the operative word. Having objects does not make a language object-oriented, at least not as it was originally conceived.

Simula 67, like Java, may fit into some newer OOP definitions that have come about over the years, but it was not considered OOP at the time of its arrival. The term OOP hadn't even been invented yet. And when OOP finally did get used for the first time, it most definitely did not refer to Simula 67. Where on earth did you get the idea that it did? Whatever gave you that idea was, frankly, nonsense.
Google Maps: acquired in 2004

Android: acquired in 2005

Google Sheets: acquired in 2006

Translate: launched in 2006

Chrome: launched in 2008

So only 2/5 of the ones you mentioned were started in-house, and all were pre-2010 (pre-Sundar) creations.

edit: Sundar joined Google in 2004 and apparently led Maps, Chrome, and eventually Android before becoming CEO. So "pre-Sundar" is technically incorrect.
Nobody said condoms were not effective, only that PrEP is MORE effective than condoms, which appears to be true.

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/prep/index.html

>PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV from sex by about 99%.

Last I checked 99 was greater than 95.
If y is always a power of 2 (as suggested in the comments), then I'd expect it to turn into an AND of some sort.

And more generally, with older architectures, integer division was much slower than integer multiplication, so compilers would generally transform this into a multiplication plus some shifts [0]. For context in that timeframe, MUL on Sandy Bridge introduces 3-4 cycles worth of latency (depending on the exact variant), compared to DIV introducing 20+ (per Agner Fog's excellent instruction tables [1]). So even computing x - y * (x / y) with the clever math to replace x/y would be much faster than just x%y. (It's somewhat closer today, but integer division is still fairly slow.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1131177 (the linked article 404s now, but it's archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20110222015211/https://ridiculou...)

[1] page 220 of https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
I will agree in the totality
> but Java's syntax will always be what it is due to it's legacy. It's not "modern" syntax, and the way it handles fluent expressions will always be kludgey.

Good. If you're constantly learning something new about your language, there's something wrong with your language. There's 2 good ways to design a language: simple and powerful, or simple and simple.

Modern languages go for complex and powerful, which I personally dislike. Instead of building a simple but powerful language, they build special case upon special case until they have a powerfully complex language. The unfortunate thing is it's only powerful in the blessed ways, hence the complexity, rather than being generally powerful.

All the above is IMHO of course.
So you're saying there will be a higher price point for the users that want a clean ride?
This must make some people in Congress really angry.
Do these things seriously have door handles that require power to work?
Personally going full Claude. Particularly with their latest update (and "Artifacts", which - beyond a mere "quality of life" improvement, are a gamechanger ...
Humans, and Hyenas, Sheltered in Cave-Like Lava Tubes Millennia Ago
> i hate having to sign up manually >:(

Likewise, sorry about that! I'll bump this up on the Trello board!
https://www.wsj.com/science/archaeology/lava-tubes-saudi-ara...
And then they screw you over on performance reviews because it was pointed to fit within a single sprint.
Here are some graphs I slapped together with matplotlib: https://imgur.com/a/VSPKtIe

Both graphs are 200mg per week. Green is dosed at once every 7 days, while the blue is broken into 7 smaller doses per week. (I haven't included axis and such, because it's really just the shape I'm trying to highlight)

As you can see, more frequent dosing results in steadier levels.

When administering your testosterone once per week, you will have to make one of a couple trade offs:

1) Dose high enough that you are above the level you want to be by the end of the week. This avoids the "crash" you mention, which will consist of both low-testosterone (low-libido, fatigue, etc) and low-estrogen[1] (joint pain, etc) side effects. Dosing higher means you shift the whole graph up, and you will be at supra-physiological levels of testosterone and estrogen, and the high estrogen side effects are no fun: nipple sensitivity, emotional fluctuations (think crying at the sight of puppy pictures), gynecomastia (development of breast tissue), horrible back acne, etc.

2) Dose on the lower side to avoid avoid high testosterone/estrogen side effects. This shifts the whole graph down, and now you're below where you want to be by the end of the week, and you now feel more like you did before you started TRT.

3) Somewhere between the above two options, and add an aromatase inhibitor (like anastrozole) to minimize high estrogen levels. You'll still have excessively high testosterone though... and you'd really be better off avoiding the high testosterone peaks instead of adding another drug to the mix.

I used to go into a clinic once a week for an intramuscular injection of testosterone cypionate. In order to not feel like shit the last two or three days of the week, I had to up my dose such that my back broke out in a constellation of acne, and probably negatively impacted my health in other more meaningful (but less obvious) ways.

Now I inject testosterone propionate every night. I managed to lower my dose so that I'm always hovering right around where I want to be, instead of bouncing all over the place.

That's another benefit of increased injection frequency: you can lower the total amount of testosterone injected per week while staying within therapeutic range.

1: Your body produces estrogen by aromatising testosterone. More testosterone and/or more aromatase -> higher estrogen. Less testosterone and/or aromatase -> lower estrogen.
So maybe not for collectors, but what about hipsters?

Find a barf bag supplier, have the Pan Am logo printed on them, stick them on Poshmark, and let the easy dough roll in.
The legal speed limit has nothing to do with how fast traffic moves on a road.

Roads can be designed to slow down traffic, but slapping a 25 mph speed limit sign up on an 80-100’ wide 4-lane road does not slow down traffic.

A road near me was reconfigured with a center turn lane and two lanes from four lanes and traffic slowed from 40 mph to 30 mph, the speed limit for this particular road.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/8/6/the-key-to-slow...

https://www.smatstraffic.com/2021/08/30/traffic-calming/
I think good RE houses have long since likely repurposed rapid PCB testing machines to determine common nets using flying CNC probes. The good ones probably don't need to depopulate to do it.
Unregulated construction of denser housing solves housing affordability. It doesnt make housing free, but if we built china style mega towers with minimal regulation housing would be affordable for most people working full time.
A full collapse of the Gulf Stream is not going to happen. Change is going to happen here, but it’s more complicated than a simple collapse

Why do headlines say otherwise? It’s due to an oversimplification of the currents that drive global climate. People conflate the Gulf Stream with a more complex system of currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC.

…

But even if the deep-water portion of the AMOC did shut down, the Gulf Stream would continue to flow. As noted by MIT physical oceanography professor Carl Wunsch in 2004, “The only way to produce an ocean circulation without a Gulf Stream is either to turn off the wind system, or to stop the Earth's rotation, or both.” Neither will happen, even in the most extreme climate change scenarios.

https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/will-the-gulf-stream-re...
https://archive.ph/gxy1S
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ai+layoffs

From the links on page 1-4 looks like companies are laying people off to invest in AI infra. That’s different than getting replaced by it. I just can’t think of a workflow that can be automated by “AI”
> So even computing x - y * (x / y) with the clever math to replace x/y would be much faster than just x%y.

That only works when y is constant. Otherwise, you need to work out what to replace x/y with… which ultimately takes longer than just using the DIV instruction.
First, reread the article. This is add-on for existing Starlink customers at $30/mo for 50GB with additional data costing $1/GB.

> In addition to the upfront hardware cost, service for a Starlink Mini is effectively $150 per month — as SpaceX is offering the service for a Mini as an additional $30 per month bundle on top of a $120 per month Residential service. The “Mini Roam” service “can be used anywhere in the United States” but has a cap of 50 gigabytes of data per month, with Starlink charging $1 per gigabyte for additional data.

Second, this is early release pricing for enthusiasts. Pricing will decline to "about half the price of the standard dish to buy and monthly subscription" which imply something like $60 a month for unlimited data un the US and much lower rates in the rest of the world, say $15/mo in Zambia.
"edit" is useful for splitting a single commit into multiple. You couldn't do it with operations you just mentioned.
Wow. I am astounded by this inability to think in perspective.

"This technology is already 2 years old, I don't see any societal changes yet, it must be much ado about nothing" must be one of the most superficial takes about technology I've ever read. Really, come on.

Just two things to consider:

1- it takes people and societies a long time to integrate and react to the possibilities offered by new technologies. A time easily measured in years, sometimes in decades.

2- the technology is rapidly evolving- faster than society is actually able to absorb it. Two years are really nothing. A child who was born the day GPT 2 was released has just started primary school, and will enter the job market between 15 and 20 years from today.
It’s not as bad, but fundamentally the vast majority of tourism workers earn minimum wage.

So you can have some tourism to keep some people employed, sure. But if it’s +15-20% of your economy, I’m not sure that’s a good idea.
Because billion-dollar capitalist rent-seeking bullies got their panties in a wad and threatened to bankrupt them with legal fees that the bullies wouldn’t even feel if they lost. And the archive is just a non-profit that were offering a not-for-profit service for the betterment of society, with literally zero actual negative consequences.
They totally do licensing deals

http://www.panambrands.com/
These are tools. Humans driving the tools have heart and soul and create things of value through their lens.

Your argument rhymes with:

- "Let's keep using horses. They're good enough."

- "Photography lacks the artistic merit of portrait art."

- "Electronic music isn't music."

- "Vinyl is the only way to listen to music."

- "Digital photography ruins photography."

- "Digital illustration isn't real illustration and tablets are cheating."

- "Video games aren't art."

- "Javascript developers aren't real programmers."

Though I'm paraphrasing, these are all things that have been said.

I bet you my right kidney that people will use AI to produce incredible art that will one day (soon) garner widespread praise and accolade.

It's just a tool.
For anyone who wants a sneak peak at what the content will be, Andrej Karpathy already has a series on videos on youtube that covers roughly the first half of the list here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj-3S1tku0&list=PLAqhIrjkxb...

Starts with building micrograd to build an understanding of how pytorch understands how to calculate gradients, then it proceeds all the way to making a gpt-2 clone.

Looks like this is an effort to reorganize and build on that existing work.
> Waymo never provides answers

Found this by searching "waymo stats"

https://waymo.com/blog/2023/12/waymo-significantly-outperfor...
But does it still compile under Java 17 and Java 21? :)
> "Waymo is 10-25% slower than the rest of traffic" actually means "Waymo drives at the legal speed limit for that location...

Probably 100% safer too

Speed is the most dangerous aspect of motor vehicles
The problem is that total energy used is never fully accurate so coulomb counting can only be so good. Top and bottom balancing is needed to reset the algorithms, otherwise state of charge is largely a guess especially over time.
AI Lego(R) PixelArt Robot [video]
*second best, for by Chapter58/spinozoan formalization PG** was the creator..and thus worthier of being 太上

"You are what you symbolicate"

**https://youtu.be/EEwPXdbKG8U

Oops, let's not get distracted..

EDIT: according to later commentators this is a popular misreading, but in this case the masses were correct?
https://www.aisixiang.com/data/117662.html
It’s for both really. The module system comes into play when application developers what to ship a jlinked runtime. You can make the size of your JVM executable down to like 35MB or smaller.
We should not blame people for honest mistakes. Challenger was not an honest mistake, it was political pressure overriding engineering. The joints were not supposed to leak at all, yet they were leaking every time and it was being swept under the rug. When someone suddenly demands to get it in writing when it was normally a verbal procedure they *know* there's a problem. That's not a mistake.

Same as the insulation damage to the tiles kept being ignored until Columbia barely survived. And then they fixed the part they blamed for that incident, but the tiles kept coming back damaged.

And look at what else was going wrong that day--the boosters would most likely have been lost at sea if the launch had worked.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39397058

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40624213

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788328

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39922095
Feature Lab: Interpreting and Steering Features in Images
Serious answer: it was judged that the act of scanning and delivering the book was ‘copying’ it - which copyright laws say they need permission to do. The whole ‘we only let one person at a time read it’ thing was deemed to be irrelevant.

Note that I’m not commenting on whether a reasonable person would also interpret copyright law this way, or on whether the laws are fair, just what the judgment was.
You can't compete with HFT firms even if you have this equipment because you need to install your equipment in a colocation, aka a data center that exchanges sending their raw data and your equipment trades there.
In this kind of trading receiving the data nanoseconds late from the other players matters.
AWS Lambda Orchestration via Kubernetes
Sealioning is tedious bro. Why not try to actually contribute something yourself, spend your own time and effort to show us how it doesn’t apply.
This is exactly why I think he was wrong. Normally, pretty much everywhere else we use the terms, "positive" denotes the presence or addition of something, while "negative" denotes the absence or subtraction.

So while I agree with the GP's comment that Franklin didn't know anything about electrons, so he arbitrarily picked one as negative and the other as positive, now that we do know about the movement of electrons, it kinda sucks because I think Franklin just "picked wrong".

I.e. it would make much more sense to me if the absence of electrons (i.e. holes) were negative by convention and an abundance of electrons were denoted as positive.
They are only taken over in certain edge cases, and even then the remote operator is only placing the next destination, he is not actually remotely "driving" the vehicle. More on this here: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/
Please Stop Using Local Storage (2018)
https://libgen.is/repository_torrent/

If you are upset about this, commit to seeding as many of these as you can until the IA service is restored.
The reference I gave gives a good reason why it isn’t a different Pythagoras… but, always hard to know for sure…

But I tend to think that Pythagoras had an even more incredible life than the legends.
There are contradictory scientific assessments regarding the likelihood and timing of a collapse.
Key multiplicity-controlled secondary end points included the percent change in AHI and body weight and changes in hypoxic burden, patient-reported sleep impairment and disturbance, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) concentration, and systolic blood pressure.

hmm... good?
Evolution regularly ends up in local optima that it struggles to get out from. Species go extinct all the time when there's no evolutionary path that solves its problems.
I love how the Hacker ethos has shifted from information wants to be free[0] to this sort of predictable HN (the H stands for Hacker doesn't it) reply.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free

EDIT: looks like the "this is the law" crowd is out in full force on this summer Friday night. All the cool people are doing something else, elsewhere obviously.