skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google/Waymo actually started way earlier, and had fistfuls of cash from the very start.

Google hired a bunch of people who'd done well in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge [1] - including Sebastian Thrun and Chris Urmson who lead the winning team.

Thrun is also behind Google Street View which in some regards [2] looks a lot like a self-driving-car sensor suite. So Google was having LIDAR-equipped, high-precision-GPS-equipped cars drive every street in every prosperous country, starting back in 2007. Uber wasn't even founded until 2009.

Other Google hires had a similar background - such as Anthony Levandowski who competed in the DARPA Grand Challenge with an autonomous motorcycle. He later gained fame after being caught stealing a bunch of LIDAR schematics and similar trade secrets while leaving Google for Uber.

We also know from court documents that Google was throwing around mountains of cash, even when the self-driving-car division had no revenue. Waymo was set up as an "internal startup" giving employees "equity" so Levandowski left not just with internal documents but also with over $100 million.

That's a stark contrast to a lot of other players who'd need to show investors a lot more to get a lot less. This endless money was undoubtedly helpful in giving them the confidence to design for L5 autonomy from the start, no need to design a lesser system to get the money coming in early. And of course if you can pay $100 million for one guy, you're not going to baulk at the cost of a few $10k LIDARs so long as the people making them claim the price will fall to $200 for automotive quantities.

The 2005 Grand Challenge simplified the driving problem a great deal - no pedestrians or moving vehicles to deal with, safe and driveable route guaranteed to exist - but it did a lot to focus development efforts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2005)
[2] https://schlaff.com/wp/the-secret-to-googles-self-driving-ca...
Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36114562)

https://web.archive.org/web/20160330195458/http://www.noogen...
No time to read the study, but does it correct for the circumstances of the claims - daylight, weather conditions, type of road?
Not really. The color attribute isn’t commonly used these days - it’s literally legacy support - and, even on pages where it is used, it’s going to be a tiny portion of the overall markup.

Also worth bearing in mind that parsing markup is fast, and certainly not the reason web pages can feel slow. That’s much more to do with heavy assets, poorly constructed JavaScript, long-running web service calls, excessive DOM manipulation and re-rendering, bandwidth constraints, etc. Parsing the markup on its own isn’t going to be the root cause of a meaningful fraction of web performance issues.
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A controversial plan to refreeze the Arctic
Not so sure. I think the prestige these days is very valuable considering we are a society that values this sort of thing.
We Have Google Drive at Home: Musings on Merkle-Tree Based File Sharing
You have data to back up your claim that “Vision Pro owners are using it often multiple hours a day? That’s a shrinking tiny fraction of AVP buyers based on my experience. I’ve been in the industry for a decade. I have an AVP, know many other owners and devs with published apps. I’m myself the dev of moonrider: most popular WebXR application so see the industry numbers.

Also sales /= usage and retention. Engagement is what you need to grow a platform.

Your numbers about XBox sales might be true for a brief period of time between Quest2 and Quest3 releases. Still what matters is engagement and retention.

As mentioned only product-market (albeit niche) fit for VR has been some games subgenres. Can you point to any other applications with significant numbers?
> privately insured driver population that resides in these geographic regions

If I were to hide something fishy, I’d define the shared coverage to include zip codes with fewer human accidents:

* zip codes are relatively small, so you have a lot of variance per code due to randomness of rare events;

* Waymo mostly covers urban areas and nearby suburban areas, so you can claim suburban zones were only recently covered by Waymo or that the insurance had too few members in certain zip codes to include them.

I don’t think that study is wrong, but it is in Waymo’s interest to claim they have few accidents and in insurers’ interest to claim there have many, or rather more, accidents to raise their premiums.
I want to apply for the Chinese government scholarship. Therefore, I have to communicate to the admission offices. Every international offices have merely Wechat account. And that's why I have to open a Wechat account and I don't know anyone having an exiting account. It will be helpful If Anyone share QR code.
Life Is Sharing Imagine the World Without Modern Communication
"Live is Sharing"
What a commercial and Archive.org can teach us about life

Back in 2008, I stumbled across a video early one morning during a maintenance window. It was a humble FLV (remember Flash videos?) from T-Systems’ campaign "Live is Sharing." A short ad reminding us how vital sharing is. It’s about community, technology that brings people together, and that whole “we’re all one” vibe. Honestly, I miss that feeling in today’s society. Even back then, I found it moving, but now feels like the perfect time to bring it back.

It almost feels prophetic, from a time when the internet was still somewhat friendly, and the technology behind it felt new and exciting. These days, even I see how much things have drifted in the wrong direction, with technology often being misused or instrumentalized.

With all the courage it takes to avoid being sued by T-Systems (still a loyal H-Pot customer here!), I’ve uploaded the video for you on Archive.org. Because that’s exactly where it belongs.

Archive.org is one of the last strongholds for ensuring that things don’t just disappear into the digital void. And yet, the platform is constantly under pressure. Why?
Well, surprise, it relies on donations. It also faces regular attacks from hackers and other party poopers with way too much time on their hands.

And that brings us back to "Live is Sharing." Maybe the slogan wasn’t just meant for marketing but a subtle reminder that we should all share a little more – whether it’s knowledge, support, or just a small contribution to Archive.org’s coffee fund.

So, check out the video (link below).
And remember: sharing gives life more meaning. Supporting Archive.org makes the world a little more retrospective.

Merry Christmas, and see you in 2025!

I’d love to hear genuine feedback on this post. If the video resonates with you, let me know!
> A native stereoscopic spherical video encoder could improve compression even more, since side by side views are quite similar in general.

Existing video formats already support this for interlacing, although you could also let inter-prediction refer to earlier parts of the same frame and get most of the benefit.
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Interesting, I didn't know about Seeburg. Funnily enough, this business model is even older: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telharmonium

"As early as 1906, the Cahill Telharmonium Company of New York attempted to sell musical entertainment (produced by Dr. Thaddeus Cahill's "Telharmonium," an early synthesizer) to subscribers through the telephone"

The business failed miserably, but the Telharmonium is remembered as an early electronic music instrument.
I rode in a Waymo recently and was amazed at how good it was. It was easily in the top 5 best drivers I have ridden with. Really really impressive.

It wasn’t nearly as cautious or timid as I expected it to be. But it also wasn’t reckless. I would describe it as assertive, but I’m sure some people would call it aggressive.

It knows the rules and what’s going on around and acts accordingly. This really should be the norm.

For the first time in a decade I’m excited about an emerging technology. The future is bright.
Elon Musk is already planning on scrapping the self driving crash reporting:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-...
Who has asked you to do anything?
So victims by your book are only allowed to speak up if (and only if) they never did anything wrong and showed inhuman restraint in not defending themselves?
They are faking their way through using a Lidar-heavy approach. When it works it's great, but when it fails it's dog level pathetic.
Have they banned horses yet? My money is on never. This technology doesn’t need a ban to succeed. It just needs to be allowed.
Highly unlikely. The parsers are written in efficient languages, and nobody is setting <font> color attributes in a loop. Also, this is not how it is done today, and old websites are usually a lot faster than modern ones. I would even argue that the parsing CSS's color syntax is way more expensive than this comparatively simple step-by-step algorithm.
Like the Borg, every Waymo is the same driver. So in column A, the insurance company has a meta-driver with many millions of miles of statistics. In column B, we have slow-reaction and non-lidar-equipped you, who had a fender-bender last year and a speeding ticket 3 years ago.
I think the most obvious drivers were:

* Time - Waymo started work on this in 2009 and are now getting a faster adoption in 2024. Uber started in 2015 and sold it off by 2020. Time has given Waymo the advantage of slowly ramping up and starting with toe-dips.

* Funding - Waymo has spent more money to get where they are now (probably 2-3x what Uber spent in total). Google also has deeper pockets than Uber, which means that there is less pressure on quickly ramping up Go To Market or immediately getting profitability.

* Culture - Waymo was much more cautious (likely because of funding structure) which is now paying dividends in terms of regulatory approval and consumer trust ('sometimes you have to go slow to go fast').
That white clock looks cool. What's the name?
Making a niche product is fine but that’s not the “next computing platform” that justifies $16B/year investment by Meta alone.
This is a very good argument FOR requiring that the tax must be included in the display price. Travelers going through ATL can't be expected to know the tax code for whatever gate they have been funneled to.
I don't just want the hardware, I want the software too. I want something that will do STT on my speech, send the text to an API endpoint I control, and be able to either speak the text I give it, or live stream an audio response to the speakers.

That's the part I can't do on my own, and then I'll take care of the LLMs myself.
> Chuck Norris isn't a colour.

But the browser is too afraid to point that out.

(Sorry, I'll show myself out)
> Key findings

> By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented. Key findings include:

> At least 5,139 civilians were killed in Gaza in 25 days in October 2023. This is nearly four times more civilians reported killed in a single month than in any conflict Airwars has documented since it was established in 2014.
In October 2023 alone, Airwars documented at least 65 incidents in which a minimum of 20 civilians were killed in a particular incident. This is nearly triple the number of such high-fatality incidents that Airwars has documented within any comparable timeframe.

> Over the course of 25 days, Airwars recorded a minimum of 1,900 children killed by Israeli military action in Gaza. This is nearly seven times higher than even the most deadly month for children previously recorded by Airwars.

> Families were killed together in unprecedented numbers, and in their homes. More than nine out of ten women and children were killed in residential buildings. In more than 95 percent of all cases where a woman was killed, at least one child was also killed.

> On average, when civilians were killed alongside family members, at least 15 family members were killed. This is higher than any other conflict documented by Airwars.

Seems like a neutral source that documents all conflicts focusing on the casualties.
Ask HN: What do you want your team to learn to boost productivity?
Hi,

I'm building a productivity app focusing on improving memory and retention. However, there is no general direction it currently has.

Thinking B2B, what would be the topics you'd want your team to learn? Something that comes to mind is internal documentation or project-related learnings (say a new framework, SOPs, company policies, etc.).

At my previous organization, we used to have a lot of clients. I wanted my team to know all about their clients - including their preferences on top of features, products, and project-related activities. Many of those things don't change as frequently and it would've saved us from a lot of slip ups . But that's a very client-agency setup.

What's it like for you? Think you're rooting for a B2B productivity app that improves memory and retention. What organizational problem does it solve for you?

P.S. Where would the source of this memorized information be? Example: website, pdf, slide, repository, video, etc.
So you can't really trust it due to the obvious conflict of interest.
Yes. That’s exactly how insurance works. Another way to phrase this is I will save a fortune on insurance by taking advantage of self driving cars.
> code freeze

But they're saying they're doing "CI/CD". Why they do code freezes? Why are people still afraid to deploy on Friday?

Because they're not doing Continuous Delivery.
Is it? Then why can’t parameters be checked by default when called in a function? Anything passes through with zero runtime checks. Any type checks you need to implement it yourself.
I just wish they take this opportunity to trim down more than what x86S offered and called it either AE86 or simply 86.

Even better open up this subset of x86 ( AE86 or 86 ) to be completely open ISA. May be it doesn't even have to be backward or x86 compatible.

I know 86 is old and going downhill, but we could always make it fast around the corner.
The New 3DS was quite good, but being a relatively cheap Nintendo portable with backwards compatibility concerns it was pretty low resolution.
meantime the rest of the world hopes to ditch worstpress next year
Swiss Re is the actual thing when it comes to actuarial tables and statistics.
Why calling BS is your career's best friend
For most people, the chance they are a victim of theft (VOT) in year 1 is correlated to the chance they are a VOT in year 2. So the probability that they are a VOT at least once in those two years is NOT simply (1 - (1 - 2%)^2). That formula only works when the two events are independent, like two coin flips.

As an obviously extreme example, imagine a world where 98% the people live in zero-crime areas, and the rest live in places where they are robbed annually.

In such a world, the percentage of people who were a VOT in a single year would be 2%, and it would not rise as you broadened to multiple years. (The same 2% of people would be targeted over and over.)

This is all just a roundabout way of stating the unfortunate fact that some people live in bad areas.

I'm sorry to hear about your experience.
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Ulimatum – Yet Another Chromium Fork
Disagree - I've seen this all over. The problem has absolutely nothing to do with tech whatsoever, and everything to do with decision making.
Donald Trump tells EU to buy US oil and gas or face tariffs
Which physical confrontations you handle yourself and which ones you outsource to police is a difficult question. The problem is not so much how you answer the question, but how many people in a large society will choose the "wrong" one.

And I think it's better not to refer to strangers on the internet as cowards. How would you feel if somebody responded to your opinion by calling you a name?
Customers and suppliers can be held liable for duing business with unlaful organizations.
Is text written an in an image field more visual than other text?
Yeah, it sounds to me like restaurants really don't mind this black market if it leads to tables getting filled more reliably.

If they wanted to end it, it would be straightforward to make the rez nontransferable.
If you assume coin tosses are independent, it shouldn’t matter if you miss coin tosses.
Ah yes. The old anti-privacy mantra: you have nothing to worry about, if you have nothing to hide.
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It's not a particularly interesting question as it's just random guesswork and gutfeeling until self-driving cars see actual widespread availability and rollout.

If at some point all new cars have full self-driving capabilities with widely accepted performance, then it's not impossible that after a decade of that as status quo, cars end up shipping with manual driving only being an override for specific maneuvering, and eventually having regular licenses lose rights to manual driving on public roads.
How the novel became a laboratory for experimental physics Essays
The FTC could ban crushing alive puppies into a homogeneous paste and feeding it to toddlers — there still would be people who don't see it beneath them to get enraged over the proposition and somehow frame it as a fundamental infringement of business rights if they arenmt allowed to crush alive puppies into a homogeneous paste.

I wonder what these people expect to get when they shill for corporations to whom they are nothing in the grand scheme of things.
How long before they'll require EU to buy Boeing planes too?
Earth's path through the universe slaloms through asteroids. It is not a question of if humanity gets reset, it is a question of when.
China nears record launch year with Ceres-1 and SAR satellite missions
You just need to know the injury claims of those drivers vs the average to compare.
But I agree, if I were to trust such a system, I'd want it to be a better driver than me, not than average. (And like everyone, I believe I'm significantly above average...)
Which formats or types of devices would give you the best ability to attempt to future-proof the capture of (relatively low short-term value) home videos of random family moments?
How about the warning signs about posted about the sites of the intended tests and the signs posted about the tests sites after the explosions.

Do you consider those signs to be "communication methods"? They used visual markings.
> As others mentioned, there is an implicit class here in play.

The same strategy is also followed by C# with their top-level statements. And yes, it's syntactic sugar.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals...
If they left Gaza in 2005, how come that that they always controlled water, electricity, movement of people, air space, sea space, and all resources access?

The international community regarded Gaza as always under occupation. You can have your own (unqualified) opinions about this; that judgement is a fact.
Ah yes, let's allow businesses to employ dark patterns to profit at the expens of unwilling customers because otherwise they might need to put in a little effort to deal with hypothetical edge cases.
is that a purchasable product? link? Thank you in advance!
Note that this was actually proposed by the EU themselves first [1]. Trump's art of the deal ;)

That being said, since the top 3 producers of gas are the US, Russia, and Qatar, the EU already buys more gas from the US and an arbitrage would be against Qatar (not a bad thing).

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-european-union-gas-lng...
I don't think that's an accurate distinction. I think maybe it has more to do with the genre (e.g. more common in rock and less so in the electronic music that I listen to, where it's mostly EP driven).

If we're talking popularity vs indie, those bands seem pretty mainstream. In my head indie artists that put out single songs on Soundcloud etc don't do albums until they grow big, so pretty much the opposite (more popular = more album focused).
Do you think the future is behind depth analysis from 2D pictures rather than in lidar scanning? I know lidars are quite pricey, but I haven’t heard of regular camera breakthroughs in the domain.
Yes it's relevant and no we didn't all agree it was a bad idea.

It generates power at roughly the cost of nuclear. It's distributed and resilient. It works around sluggish government and/or corporate monopolies. It reduces transmission requirements. It enables and encourages electrification and time-shifting of load. Adding it at build time can be cheaper than tiling.

It’s generally a good thing and we'll see even more if it as the tech progresses and gets cheaper.
It's a question if you put people's individual "privacy" (quotes because you're driving in public, on public roads paid for by the public, under public laws, and under the public's view - there's not really privacy as to how you're driving, everyone out there can see it) over people's collective right to live?

Road deaths are among the leading causes of death in multiple developed countries.
So Musk is effectively the most powerful man on the planet right now, he's a major player in 3 key industries, and the head of effective (de)regulation in the largest consumer market by dollar volume.

Isn't this a bit like ole' good Crassus in ancient Rome? Head of the government and richest buddy aroubnd? If history repeats, we'll see the American Imperial Era rising up very soon, were the interests of the state will fraction between the interests of the oligarchs and the lines blurry between law and personal convenience of the wealthist citizens
All Religions provide a proto form of it.

The villager runs to the witch or druid in the woods cuz no one in the village has an answer to their issues. This gives rise to a priest class that comes up with random answers and over time you have a natural selection process playing out selecting for stories, rituals, imagery etc etc that provide some kind of relief and value. The priesthood gets more powerful as the kings, queens and ruling class run to them too. Then you get a mutual dependency between the two groups where the clergy are given space to do what they do, in return they use their relationship with the plebs to legitimize the ruling class. To then challenge the priesthood in any part of the world, you have to wait for wealth and enlightenment or internal revolt within the priesthood.
> No. It's a better UI in every way

That's very subjective. I prefer KDE Plasma.
And would be very motivated to know the correct numbers in this case.
404 for me; maybe https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/original-eliza ?