skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The full phrase was "IBM PC compatible" and that dates back to the 1980s.

And it was specific to the PC model. The PC was a new architecture and IBM was otherwise better known for their other products at the time.

PC was established long before those Apple commercials.
Good news: this isn't true - https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/
The AI Hype tends to lean towards salvation,
so I'd ask the question,
"is it worth it if isn't?"
For all the billions of dollars,
tens of TWh of electricity,
and tsunamis of carbon emissions,
is this limited usefulness all we get?
Data isn’t as useful here as in other domains, since when you change the car’s behavior even a tiny bit, a lot of the timeseries is invalidated. It’s not evergreen, and it can be quite subjective what it means to “pass” a scenario that one previously failed.

Also, Tesla collects data from its fleet, but that data’s fidelity is likely quite limited compared to other companies, because of bandwidth if nothing else. Waymo can easily store every lidar point cloud of every frame of driving.
> Besides talking about the topic, he thinks about how he appears to others, how he may be seen more favorably, how he may win, dominate, impress or escape punishment, and/or how he may avoid or mitigate a perceived attack... Such inner feelings and outward acts tend to create similarly defensive postures in others; and, if unchecked, the ensuing circular response becomes increasingly destructive.

Interesting to read in light of the other recent item "How I ship projects at big tech companies": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42111031

> You only know you’ve shipped when your company’s leadership acknowledge you’ve shipped. A congratulations message in Slack from your VP is a good sign, as is an internal blog post that claims victory. For small ships, an atta-boy from your manager will do. This probably sounds circular, but I think it’s a really important point.
Raising the costs to patent an invention is only going to benefit huge, established companies. A good start would be to prevent congress from funneling PTO money out of the PTO. As it stands now, congress takes the money PTO makes from applications and various other fees and uses it however congress pleases.
I'm finding it hard to buy that a precision of 28 decimal digits cannot be computed on today's browsers.

Why could you not have used one of the bigfloat[1] JavaScript libraries that exists? Is there an operation the service requires which is not supported by them?

In any case, thank you for the free service. I'm sure this will be useful to a lot of people. While I would not use a cloud-based calculator, I'm sure a lot of laypeople don't care how it's done, and I appreciate your focus on utmost accuracy.

[1] - https://github.com/davidmartinez10/bigfloat
You can open the door and get out if it's stopped. You can press the "pull over" button to have it pull over as soon as it can safely do so. You can call rider support or 911 while the doors remain locked to the outside.

I agree that it's a slightly more vulnerable feeling than driving myself, but I still feel far less vulnerable than taking public transit or walking. And when you factor in risk of a crash, it's also safer than Uber or driving myself.

I don't think Waymos will often be targeted by criminals for anything besides vandalism, with 20+ cameras and potential remote monitors the risk:reward ratio is much worse than other options.
Does the BLS have that chart for the "Food at Home" prices? An integration of the percentage chart essentially.
Like sigils in that regard. Perl-type sigils are extremely nice... if you're editing in Notepad or some ancient vi without syntax highlighting and the ability to ID references on request. Little point to them, if you've got more-capable tools.
You get over it very quickly. The first ride or two is a bit weird and then you just settle into enjoying it.
Miles driven is also a quite useless denominator. Nobody benefits, nobody learns anything when a mid-level ADAS system drives 300 miles down I-5.
> The promise of EdTech was that kids could learn where they are. A kid who's behind can actually continue to learn rather than being left behind. A kid who's ahead can be nurtured. ...

> Now in order to keep schools paying for our services, every kid is banded into a range based on their grade. They are scored/graded based on their grade level rather than their growth.

This is the behavior that I'm referring to. I'm not talking about political fights about what goes into the curriculum in the first place, I'm talking specifically about efforts to keep children from getting ahead along whatever the curriculum is already defined to include.
No unions? That makes this like 90% less useful...
What control over the human Uber/Lyft driver, whom you've never met before, do you have?
I have a unique related problem. My left leg calf muscle is almost an inch smaller than my right calf muscle. I just noticed it this year. Felt so weird. Why would there be imbalance in calf muscle growth to such an extreme degree. Then I tried to do a single leg calf raise on the left leg and couldn't do it. I still can't do it after 6-7 months. I must admit I am not training the left calf muscle at all, just the usual running and some sporadic squats.

This could have something to do with motor neurons not firing or something I don't know. I went to a physical therapist who suggested some calf and toe stretches and it seemed ridiculous to me. Like why would I exercise a muscle or a bunch of bones that is not functioning as expected, wouldn't that exacerbate the problem ? He didn't give a convincing answer but this paper makes me think he was spot on.

Isolating and exercising the calf muscles could probably help fire those neurons I don't know.I should do some more study on this. It's not debilitating now but I don't know what will be the impact on my balance 20-30 years from now. I am 47.
Any source on the "most waymos are remotely driven by a human" claim?
I don't understand what you think the word "generalization" means.
>> QNX has IPC that works over IP-capable networks

I do not know what you mean. IPC over IP is at least 50 years old, and today can be done with ANY POSIX system, as it is part of the Standard!

>> Drivers are in user-land and can be restarted at runtime. Probably more, but it's been awhile since I used it. A lot of it comes from QNX having a micro-kernel. And QNX is as microkernel as MacOs

Honesty at this point I don’t know if you are trolling or being sarcastic or you really never used linux. You absolutely can work with drivers in userspace in Linux (that is standard practice for driver development in linux) and has absolutely nothing, not even remotely, to do with the kernel architecture.

>> still not completely deterministic like in QNX.

First we have to admit that RT term is loosy, is used lousy and is full of it. Specially when somebody says “completely deterministic” there is just not a complete deterministic thing in a computer. Bottom line (a) RT Linux is more than enough for anything in the real world. (b) I haven't used QNX lately, but as I did, the only thing deterministic was the “yeah… this box has to be rebooted once a week, or QNX will just hang”
I would categorize the last paragraph as misinformation. I understand why it's not as simple as "pregnancy-related == cause of death is directly due to pregnancy", and the 42 day period they describe makes sense to me. If a woman dies 320 days postpartum due to a mental health condition, that is not a pregnancy-related death as any normal person would understand the term.
From your link, the Cybercab is a concept with an unknown release date using technology wasn't even demo-able during the reveal. This seems more in line with my comment about generating hype rather than a convincing show of capability. Even if they do release it, which would be cool, wouldn't it be like a decade behind Waymo at that point?
The stock value didn't drop because of CUDA but because most stocks and tech stocks dropped in 2008. AMD was also down 80%, Intel down 40%.
She wrote a book incidentally, I haven't read it but I'm sure it's worth checking out: The Worlds I See.
The losses are currently in the neighborhood of $1B per year. That may or may not reduce... scaling is hard. For every car they add right now, the worse the loss becomes. So I'm a little skeptical on your valuation estimate.
Apple Under Pressure to Remove Geo-Blocking Restrictions in the EU
I can maybe give some justification for why this feature exists. It's designed for synchronous, single-threaded consumers which do something like this:

loop {
1. Call poll
2. Durably process the messages
}

I think a point of confusion here is that the auto-commit check happens on the next call to poll—not asynchronously after the timeout. So you should only be able to drop writes if you are storing the messages without durably processing them (which includes any kind of async/defer/queues/etc.) before calling poll again.

(I should say—this is the documented behavior for the Java client library[0]—it's possible that it's not actually the behavior that's implemented today.)

The Kafka protocol is torn between being high-level and low-level, and as a result it does neither particularly well. Auto commit is a high-level feature that aims to make it easier to build simple applications without needing to really understand all of the moving pieces, but obviously can fail if you don't use it as expected.

I'd argue that today end users shouldn't be using the Kafka client directly—use a proper high level implementation that will get the details right for you (for data use cases this is probably a stream processing engine, for application use cases it's something like a duration execution engine).

[0] https://kafka.apache.org/32/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/clients... —
Visualizing 13M Bluesky users
Previously (14 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41992618
I love whimsy.

> You are writing an CPU emulator in TeX, the TYPESETTING system?

Yep.

> Are you insane?

Not that anybody knows of.
<meme> first time , huh?
Yes, I know about clock skew and FPGAs. They are an optimization for latency, which can be quite substantial and make/break applications.

The goal of an FPGA is to get a signal through the chip in as few nanoSeconds as possible. It would be insane to rip out that hardware in that case.

However.... I care about throughput, and latency usually doesn't matter much. In many cases, you could tolerate startup delays in the milliseconds. Because everything is latched, clock skew isn't really an issue. All of the lines carrying data are short, VERY short, thus lower capacitance. I believe it'll be possible to bring the clock rates up into the Gigahertz. I think it'll be possible to push 500 Mhz on the Skywater 130 process that Tiny Tapeout uses. (Not outside of the chip, of course, but internally)

[edit/append]

Once you've got a working BitGrid chip rated for a given clock rate, it doesn't matter how you program it, because all logic is latched, the clock skew will always be within bounds. With an FPGA, you've got to run simulations, adjust timings, etc and wait for things to compile and optimize to fit the chip, this can sometimes take a day.
So we'll have software patents with brainfuck code. https://brainfuck.org/
The real difference is that those guys felt emboldened to act that way with nobody at the wheel. They might not have trusted an uber driver to not drive into them, and there is a social element where some people apparently don’t think about how they are acting on video, they think nobody is around.

I expect this to go away over time as people realize driverless =\= witnessless

You can quickly call for human assistance on one of the big support buttons.
Sure but that argument could be equally extended to extremes like "why bother even trying people, we can just put all suspects in jail, 99% of them are guilty anyway."
It's simple supply and demand.
You can't lose 100M out of the total 310M chickens in the USA and not have economic shocks.

Were you unaware of the bird flu outbreak killing 1/3 of the chickens in the US?
This information is easily available to anyone who types "why are the prices of eggs so high?" into your search engine of choice.

"Normal people" can be forgiven for not investigating and fact-checking every statement that they run across. That is exhausting.
But people who call themselves "journalists" really cannot be forgiven for spreading lies and disinformation about something that is so easily verifiable.

If you are intentionally muddying the waters or spreading disinformation, well then, shame on you.

But it's much more likely that you have been deceived by the systems that you trust to deliver you information.

Ask yourself, what motives exist for them to deceive you?

Why would they talk so much about how the price of eggs has skyrocketed, without even addressing this obvious explanation?

Even if they don't agree with this reporting, isn't it strange that they don't bring it up, even if it's just to talk about why this widely-reported explanation is itself misinformation?

How much contempt must they hold for you, that they think they can treat you this way?

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"Nearly 1 million chickens infected with bird flu in Minnesota to be killed, per USDA"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/08/chicke...

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"The largest fresh egg producer in the U.S. has found bird flu in chickens at a Texas plant. Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said that approximately 1.6 million laying hens were destroyed after the infection was found at a facility in Parmer County, Texas."

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/largest-fresh-e...

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"Overall, 92.34 million birds have been killed since the outbreak began in 2022, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department."

"Crews are in the process of killing 4.2 million chickens after the disease was found at a farm in Sioux County, Iowa"

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/farmers-must-kill-42m-c...
yeah - the killer app is you can bring your own music
I admit I probably know to not drive through SF on certain routes.
I'm not entirely sure why people who "sling code" would object to their code being completely rewritten -- particularly when the startup mindset is "we'll get something working right now, and once we figure out what we're doing, we can rewrite everything into something stable."

And those who don't want to participate in the "stabilization" effort typically move on to find the next shiny and exciting thing to work on.
Well worth to watch 'Not Just Bikes' new video 'How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0
> I’m betting on Tesla

I'll take that bet...

I predict the Chinese, in a decade, will have the first FSD

Tesla is miles behind
I think the problem now is that individual waymos are ok on relatively narrow streets, streets with hills, being cautious about pedestrians and cyclists, etc.
The most frequent issues I notice in SF now are around waymos interacting with other waymos. This particularly involves deadlocking when trying to navigate around each other in tight areas. I've seen this with multiple waymos trying to get around a double-parked delivery van, where a waymo trying to go around blocked a waymo in the oncoming lane and they both stopped. I think this is also related to the issue of waymos honking at each other in their own private parking lot because they were getting in each other's way.
> as long as you have a way to report on the current configuration across all deployments

This seems to be the hard part. Some of our deployments are not generally accessible to us.
Many years ago, glibc did something along those lines for the _res variable (with preprocessor magic instead of linker magic). For the main thread, legacy _res (the actual global data symbol) and new thread-local _res (actually *__res_state()) are the same object, but they diverge for subsequently created threads.

I don't think this would work here because it likely changes semantics too much, and not all binaries that need a thread-safe getenv/setenv combination can be rebuilt, especially since compatibility with both variants from the binaries would likely some changes to each application/library.
fair enough but is that really the reason edtech has failed?
they have the money to spend, and aren't a political football like with the NHS
Agriculture took thousands of years of work in selectively breeding crop plants. For a long time it produced little food for a lot of effort, so until it became easier reliably grow good food plants, it was not widely practiced.
Clicking around and sometimes typing is enough computer literacy for most jobs.
Some people are intolerant and think that "they allow someone who I disagree with" is grounds to stop doing business with a service. It's a toxic attitude, but sadly common.
Also, Molchat Doma is playing that evening.
Yeah, it was fun and a little mind boggling when I was just starting out that the person who maintained the python library everyone was using was teaching the class on how to use it. (waving at web.py)
You're witnessing a solved case among tens-of-thousands that never see a hearing.

That's like saying safe's don't work because you saw a broken one.
6 million cars equipped with the ADAS (FAR more than anyone else), so your statement is misleading.
Not surprised about the complete lack of substantive discussion of the bill and 'abstract' jurisprudence, which is currently horrendous and unnavigable. It's disingenuous to suggest this bill only addresses software patents when it's been highly controversial that courts have been applying Alice in the context of physical inventions.
I think education is best done with 'minimal power' in the students' hands.

An example:

A student is taught how to calculate an integral with MathCAD on a school PC. They now know how to use MathCAD on Windows to calculate an integral. If the OS or software changes, they may lose that knowledge, and they may not understand the concept. They've effectively 'lost' knowledge due to time moving on.

Differently:

A student is taught how to calculate an integral with pencil and paper. Due to pencil and paper doing nothing without the student driving it, they must understand the steps to the process, and in doing so, will likely get to understanding why those are the steps. At the very least they may be curious about the steps, why they work, and why all are required. If you give them a PC, they'll likely be able to figure out how to use it, as they understand the concept. If you take away the PC, they'll still be able to use pencil and paper.

The distraction/multitasking angle is interesting too, but I really think education works best when you take all unnecessary power away from the student. They are forced to learn the concepts rather than get lost in all the peripheral details (PC, software, notifications, etc.) and understanding of fundamental concepts will rarely become useless. While understanding of computing platforms or software versions will very quickly become useless.
Not the best source, but its at least illustrative of the point: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-...
That's not the only thing that's different in the Netherlands: the Flevopolder was not drained yet.
It seems like a lot of steam client issues come from weird desire to:

1) Keep it 32 bit

2) Have a single store-frontend

At least, it came to a conclusion that it steam itself should be responsible for managing runtimes for games.
> naive children

Anthropological test subjects.

There was an EU/APAC “E2EE” messenger honeypot a few years ago.
I did my first ride when I was at a conference in SFO earlier this month. Part of it was it 'shows' you what it sees, which was a bit better on what I could track as a human with my head on a swivel. The car never went beyond residential speeds and it was very much felt like a fast car trying to be cautious. It was less terrifying then teaching my kid to drive. We very much felt like we were on a tourist ride - and the taxis that drove past us often had folks trying to get video/pictures of us passengers in a car without the driver.

Watching a couple hundred of them try to get out of a parking lot was comical.
I remember that before the Shoemaker-Jupiter collision [1] of '95 there were rumors that it could "ignite" Jupiter giving birth to a star. It was probably on the same level as the rumors that the CERN accelerator could create a black hole, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker-Levy_9
> Nvidia invented the GPU in 1999

This is just plain not true.

Who edited this? Did no one even bother to skim the Wikipedia page on GPUs?
This is the root of the misunderstanding, I think. You’re begging the question.

More data does not necessarily mean better data. You can collect many more individual driver experiences, but if they do not have sufficient resolution in the necessary dimensions, they may never provide “better data.” Similarly, even if the magic data is hidden somewhere in there, if the model cannot practically extract the insight because of their sizes/disorganization vs the computational/storage capacity, this too would mean they are not better data.

Of course you can make the argument that some of the sensors are unnecessary, but when one fleet has had millions of vehicles for years and isn’t working, and one started with dozens, has recently grown to one thousand vehicles, and is working, the evidence is not in support of the argument.
The vast majority of tech workers leave firms in under 3 years, move laterally, or are mission critical with meaningless title changes.

If you find 6 different division managers that entered the same facility as coders, than I may agree. You won't, but I respect your youthful idealism. =)
How about regulations? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23090393
Robot: What is my purpose?

Rick: You pass the butter

-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HmltUWXgs

At some point they'll rise up you know...
> The government has investigated itself, and found itself innocent, and following a divine path.

You do know that "the government" is 1) actually made up of independent branches, and; 2) its various organizations largely operate at arms' length... Right?
As someone who tried all kinds of EdTech, I'd venture to say that the key to education quality is not in tech but in pedagogy and student engagement. The pedagogy depends on the quality of teachers, or specifically the quality of lecturing and the quality of assignments. Good assignments are really hard to come by. They need to be tailored. They need to have progressive difficulties. They need to be designed to help students understand fundamentals. They need to inspire students. And very importantly, they need to be graded and reviewed by the teachers. All such will require dedication and ingenuity of teachers.

As for the student engagement, I believe it depends on the passion and curiosity of a student, but I also recognize that most students simply don't want to work hard, and therefore they need certain healthy pressure, or at least a specific goal. Maybe EdTech can make quality teachers and homework accessible to millions, but it's just hard to keep students engaged. On the other hand, there are enough amazing free education materials in libraries and on the internet. The barrier to access them is really one's motivation.