skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or even as a pedestrian. I'm sure AI will be fine to slow down if it sees a massive puddle and avoid soaking everyone in 3m radius just for lolz.
I can already see the sign "No manual driving allowed" at the entrance of highways.
> I just hold that PLT or DSA are not end-all of CS.

Nobody said this, that's your preconception. The comment has nothing to do with PLT or DSA. What it was talking about was patterns used in functional programming which most developers coming from imperative languages don't really appreciate (i was one of them). Hence when somebody says it is useful i try to understand them rather than dismissing it out of hand. For example, here is a recent HN submission "Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ vs. Awk vs ... An Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity" which gives something to think about - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42445328 See "Lessons Learned" section here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42460631

> You learn more by studying OS, Networks, compilers, DBMS, processor architecture.

Again, this is orthogonal to what the comment was about. These are application domains/end products and not programming technique itself. They are not in conflict.
Does it implement the proposed Declarative Custom Element spec with slice templating?

https://github.com/EPA-WG/custom-element
> In the next two panels

Has a very different meaning it drawn left-to-right and they read it right-to-left.
> recent literature searches have put me off a bit, given that brittle ceramic blades like Zirconium oxide shed sharp microparticles that I doubt are good for the ingester

so you fear harmful microparticles, so instead you suggest something normal, like

> steel blade overcoated with a thin Teflon layer

eh?? isn't teflon that scary(tm) substance you must never scratch off your pan or you'll poison yourself?

how's that any better than zirconium?
And immediately I start singing Red Barchetta in my head…
I've also not seen much drama coming out of Waymo in the past. I could be wrong but I guess this is the benefit of keeping your head down and focussing on the problem instead of growing too large.
Waymo is part of Alphabet, Uber posted profits this past yewr...
I wonder why it ended up being "hash-tag" on social media when it's quite common for North Americans to refer to the symbol as the "pound symbol"?
I love how forgiving the web is. These days you can get strictness with typescript and the like, which is great for businesses and work. But the forgiving nature of html and css and even javascript has contributed to so much adoption. Plus grew one of the most important things in an platform the ecosystem itself. Seeing rust slow down with piles of crates and fall into the same issues, js and npm has, perhaps its not a language problem but a ecosystem size problem. Larger user base === larger problems

If you really want pedantic strictness and perfection, native applications are the place to work. But it isnt always better.

And the web is fast, like really fast in rendering highly markedup text layouts. Just because everyone uses a frontend framework for “maintainability” doesn’t mean the engine is slow.
Well I reject the premise, but if we pretend it's true:

> So why did it take so long? What was missing?

The scientific method.

> I personally know from multiple sources that modern psychotherapy can cure most psychological problems completely and permanently.

The ancients personally knew from multiple sources that gods, demons, and witchcraft existed.
No it doesn't. We're defining the arrows here. Sure, we'll keep left-to-right to avoid confusing them, but as long as the usage of the arrows is consistent the message would still be correct if it was right-to-left.

That's the entire point of defining the arrows using entropy.
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I can't trust that number if it comes from Waymo.com. I'd need to see it from an independant third party who has no interest having their finger on the scale
It seems like they compared apples to apples. Which make that an exciting result!

“The benchmark was calibrated using both mileage (driving exposure) and residence zip-code (geographic region). Specifically, only the claims associated with vehicles registered to addresses (i.e., where the insured resides) within Waymo’s operating zip codes in San Francisco, the Phoenix metropolitan region, Los Angeles, and Austin were included.” Page 11

“Waymo also almost exclusively operated on surface streets (non-access-controlled freeways) with a unique distribution of driving that is representative of a ride-hailing fleet. In contrast, the benchmark represents the privately insured driver population that resides in these geographic regions. The associated benchmark mileage has more freeway driving than the Waymo ADS.” Page 26

“Including freeway driving makes this benchmark crash rate artificially lower, so, by including freeways in this study’s benchmark, the benchmark crash rate underestimates the true driving risk of where the Waymo ADS operates.” Page 26

“Four claim frequencies were independently calculated for vehicles within Waymo’s operating zip codes in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Austin. Thereafter, these frequencies were proportionally weighted according to Waymo’s mileage distribution across these four regions. This resulted in the definition of a benchmark driving population which had driven the same driving distribution across geographic regions as the Waymo Driver.” Page 12

“Waymo also almost exclusively operated on surface streets with a unique distribution of driving that is representative of a ride-hailing fleet… Due to all three of these limitations being expected to artificially suppress the benchmark crash rate (underestimation), the benchmarking results in this study are considered to be conservative.” Page 26
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I adores wondered the same thing for any new breakthrough. I listened to the Eric Schmidt interview on Diary of a CEO regarding this and definitely agree with his reasoning. He basically says the reason new companies get ahead while we wonder why the existing companies who should’ve been doing this stuff are so far behind is because the old companies were also do everything else. He was especially talking in terms of AI and how Google seems behind while OpenAI came out so quickly.
Started 15-20 years ago, whereas Uber and Tesla hopped on the bandwagon late and tried to play catchup. I remember talking about the self-driving project at Google in 2008 or something like that. (IIRC they were trying to use Haskell for something.)
that was fun! It would be nice to show my colour next to the result to compare a little more.
It seems ridiculous to me that this comment is so down voted. It's a thoughtful and interesting comment, and contains a reasonable and even likely explanation for what we've seen, once one puts aside the bottom that Amazon is just evil, which isn't a useful way to think of you truly want to understand the world and motivations.

I'm guessing people reflexively down vote because they hate Amazon and it could read like a defense. I hate Amazon too, but emotional voting is unbecoming of HN. If you want emotional voting reddit is available and enormous.
You're "objectively" higher risk, based on a study by the company building the autopilot, right?

How objective is that?
I assume such a change would heavily impact you as well? 40% of all seriously injured in the traffic are single-bike accidents. Here in Sweden that is.
Codename RKN, in essence, performs an inside out analysis of a web application based on its inputs/outputs
and presents that data in a beautiful and context-full fashion.

You can even get a view into the runtime JavaScript environment in cases where there is JS activity for an input!

In addition, that data can be exported in JSON format, ready to be consumed by your next favorite tool.
Had to laugh a bit at the caveat about powerful hardware. Was bracing myself for GPU and then it says N100 lol
I propose 'autoautomobiles only'.
it actually ranks quite reasonably for civilian casualties even if we believe the Hamas figures (which we shouldn't), it's clear Israel are doing their best to minimize civvy losses.
It's already borderline happening with the satellite supervision.

Here in Italy insurance is 20% more expensive at the very least and the gap is widening if you don't put a tracking device on your car which checks position, speed, etc.

I have a hard time justifying why one would not want it (besides privacy), all people that complain about it are people that regularly drive above the speed limit or pull dangerous overtaking maneuvers.
The authors are from:

a Swiss Reinsurance Company, Ltd, Switzerland

b Zardini Lab (research affiliate), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

c Autonomous Systems Laboratory (research affiliate), Stanford University, USA

d Waymo LLC, USA

e Casualty Actuarial Society, USA
I'm glad that works for you! The challenge with executive function issues is that it can be literally impossible to reliably do things like that in advance! Especially months and months in advance. It's also a challenge to delay gratification; when I find something that really speaks to me about someone, I really just want to give it to them straight away.

As a result I think I place a pretty low value on events centred around gift giving -- and yet I live in a society, etc.
Reads like it was just a bad Mac all-around but the left-hand floppy drive was a visible symbol of that on the face of the machine because it was different from what was normal for a Macintosh in a machine that was full of things that were different from a normal Macintosh.

Also knowing Stephen Hackett, I don't think he's capable of hate for older Macs. He seems to love even the oddest of ducks and has a lab full of them.
Obviously the assumption is that "one day" we have systems that outperform human drivers + reliable data on said systems.
I agree it's too tough to define. So I'm just basing this off of vibes. One of my closest friends is a really good C++ programmer, so that's where I'm coming from. I'm not a C++ programmer at all.

I think the C++ standard might be the biggest. Like, just the amount of compiler passes it does and what means when is kind of insane. I shouldn't even have seen that in my life, yet I did. I guess that's what friends are for :')

But the ecosystem of C++ seems quite small compared to others as C++ programmers want to build stuff themselves.

So it depends if you just look at the standard versus the ecosystem.
The website also features the Nohari Window an inversion of the Johari Window using antonyms of the original words: https://kevan.org/nohari
Show HN: Interactive graphs in Rerun with a Rust port of D3-force
Rerun 0.21 comes with a new graph viewer that's written in Rust and runs in the browser via wasm. It's powered by a new force based layout engine that is a port of much of d3-force to Rust. (The release also contains some other cool stuff like undo/redo implemented on top of a timeseries DB.)

We built this with applications in robotics and spatial computing in mind but would love to hear feedback from folks that would see this as useful in other domains as well.
> It seems like they compared apples to apples. Which make that an exciting result!

I'd want to compare to our best drivers (e.g. ambulance drivers), not average drivers.
I am using Conda to build binary modules for different Python versions.

As user of the modules, venv is sufficient.
I didn't know Todepond worked on tldraw. That's cool.

> really novel UI for LLMs

Are you referring to Tldraw Computer or something else? Don't get me wrong, it looks really nice but not that different from other graph representations of LLM workflows, including live updates in the nodes themselves.
Any sane person will throw an exception, which, when unhandled, will crash the program.
Is there any possible future, where Waymo is NOT one of the major players in self driving software?
Thank you for your input. You're right, and one day I hope to be elevated to your level of rationality and logical thinking. It's an honour to receive input from someone like you.
> I assume 'crude GC' is a reference to Rc/Arc, but I would be interested to see some statistics for the claim most programs written in Rust use them extensively.

Yes, Rust's GC is used through Rc/Arc, and I never said it is used extensively by most programs, only that most programs do use it. It is because it is not used extensively that it can be crude and designed to minimise footprint rather than offer good performance.

> Also, Rc/Arc arent a part of any Rust 'runtime', but rather the standard library

What's the difference between a standard library and a runtime? In the three decades I've been programming, they've been used interchangeably. A language runtime means some precompiled-code that programs use but is not compiled directly from the program.

> rustc compiles to LLVM IR, but LLVM is not a JVM/CLR VM

I never said that LLVM was a JVM -- these virtual machines have very different instruction sets -- but like a JVM, LLVM is a VM, i.e. an instruction set for an abstract machine.

Now, it is true that Rust is typically (though not always) compiled to native code AOT while Java code is typically (though not always) compiled to native code JIT, but I don't understand why that difference is stated in terms of having a runtime. One could have an AOT-compiled JVM (and, indeed, that exists) as well as a JIT-compiled LLVM (and that exists, too).

It is also true that Rust programs can be compiled without a runtime (or a very minimal one) while Java programs can choose to have more or less in their runtime, but even the most minimal runtime is larger than the most minimal Rust runtime.
it's a liberal democracy that welcomes even gazans as citizens rather than a genocidal theocratic ethnostate like all its neighbours.
> Considering all the misery inflicted by computer crime that's enabled by the forgiving attitude, I 100% agree.

Parsers should strictly adhere to a standard, if the standard says they should be "forgiving" and that "forgiving" is well defined then all parsers should act this way. Inconsistent behavior between implementations opens its own can of worms that may leave a system in an inconsistent or insecure state.
Such a nice visual spin to interact with LLMs, great work by the team
That's ad hominem. The only question is whether the research is correct, and the data is true.

Having said that, with time we will have more independent studies.
> How did Waymo do this?

Waymo (January 2009) is older than Uber (March 2009) and has always been part of Google/Alphabet. So to answer your question they did it with enormous amounts of time, money, and talent.
I wonder how this compares to the Respeaker 2 https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker_Mic_Array_v2.0/

The respeaker has 4 mics and can easily cancel out the noise introduced by a custom external speaker
Yeah, it’s an interesting one. I’ve always known it as the hash symbol from back in the 80s when I got my first microcomputer. This was in the UK but I don’t think hash is UK-specific terminology: “shebang” (“hash bang” for #!) has been common parlance amongst the UNIX-crowd since I don’t know when.

I know pound is incredibly common in the US, but in the UK it’s never referred to that way because here pound means £.

“Octothorpe” is entirely new to me though, and I guess is quite context specific?
Some people called it the hash symbol, and then they used it to mark tags (as in categories or keywords). So technically, the symbol is not the hashtag but the entire #tag construct is.
I think it's much more likely that one publication published an article like this so everyone has to jump on the bandwagon. Laughable and pathetic. I only wish the answer was "yes".
I suspect good technical decisions were made early by Levandowski (who has more to his name than good decisions—including a new religion).
> IDK where you live but where I am, unless it's an actively life threatening emergency, the Police will say they're busy.

Where I live the basic law/constitution establishes a protection duty of its citizens by the state (this includes their property). The police is one of the ways the state takes care of this duty. If the state is grossly negligent in this or even does nothing at all, the state may very well be on the hook to make the injured party whole. This responsibility is passed down and carried by individual police officers, and there have been cases of police officers being personally convicted of causing bodily harm for not dispatching a unit after a request for aid (despite them not personally swinging any punches)[1].

Generally you'll have police show up for near anything if they can.

[1] https://www.wz.de/panorama/nach-notruf-keine-streife-geschic...
>a future society that is rebuilding itself wouldn’t have energy be able to advance far enough for it to matter.

even Ancient Greeks could have put some copper windings and iron together to produce electricity from wind. Add mirrors concentrated on a boiler and you can generate from solar. Availability of fossil fuels may as well be a damnation of our current civilization.
> I'd want to compare to our best drivers (e.g. ambulance drivers), not average drivers.

Why? As long as it is better than the median driver the roads are safer.
My favorite brain picker question:

What year would the EU* ban human driven cars on public roads?

That's it. Million different opinions ranging from "never" to "within a couple decades for sure", weak, strong opinions, and of course many interesting topics to branch out into.

*: sometimes I ask with US, or particular countries, it doesn't really matter for the sake of conversation.

Fun fact: people working in automotive tend to say within this century, people who like and owned many cars say never :-)
Yet Microsoft bought Bethesda
It amazes me how things used to make more sense back in the day.
Maybe Elon Musk will yield enough power in the US government to influence safety policies in such a way that is harmful to waymo. It doesn't seem like conflict of interest is bothering him much.
On Windows/Firefox, text selection doesn't work. Also not working is Home/End and wheel click scrolling. Cool project otherwise.
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> This is only true if you work on unimportant projects where delays and failures are acceptable.

And SCRUM only for important project you can release crap full of bugs and wrong use cases every 2 weeks.
> But like, isn't YAML still available for configuring things?

For most, yes. But for some included integrations it's UI-only (all of those I've had to migrate, it's been a single click + comment out lines, and the config has been a breeze (stuff like just an api key/IP address + 1-2 optional params).
I don't think a series of nuclear explosions of 10, 8, 1, 6 and 25 kilotonnes should be considered "communication methods".

It's more about visual markings.
Why? We aren't looking at introducing autonomous ambulances any time soon.

They should be compared to taxi/Uber/Lyft drivers that is what is being replaced by this and as such where the net harm increase or reduction will occur.
Is it possible to compare this to humans in another way? Could it be said that Waymo avoids 95% of the accidents that we regularly get in, and does have 3% of accidents that we manage to avoid. I think a major hurdle to mainstream acceptance is the errors that robots make, and a real mind doesn't.
Yes, and of course you must pay because the autopilot doesn't work when there's snow or rain or sun on the horizon or it's too dark, or the volcano near you is throwing ash and there's wind so you're now in a sandstorm, or wind is carrying sand from the sahara all over the mediterranean to you.

(all of these regularly happen all in the same place)
I mean, comparatively many people are hosting their home Assistant on an raspberry Pi so it is relatively powerful :D
That's so American I don't even understand why this guy gets publicity.
I think it would be better to leave these tribes alone instead of interacting with them.
Great, now let's compare it against public transit.
Funny enough, when drivers hit people that’s _also_ reported as “car crashes in to x”
Not really sure what the benefit of group buy would be here. Nuba Casa, the company that supports the development of home assistant and developed this product, already has a few products they sell. They had this stocked all over the world for the announcement and it sold out. I assume they had already made a few thousand. They will get more stock now and it will sell just like the other things they make. Any profit from this will go back into development of Home Assistant.
Not sure about the "less funds" bit, but Google started funding self driving cars in 2009. The continuous investment in tech is just now starting to make the dream feasible - as far as I know self driving cars were never more than a side project for Uber and Lyft.

With Cruise gone now there's basically just Waymo, Zoox, and Tesla (bit controversial) that are the names thrown around when talking about self driving market share, and out of those only Waymo has a functional service.
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https://voyager.gsfc.nasa.gov/Library/DeepCommo_Chapter3--14... seems to include pretty specific up/down carrier frequencies and channels used.
Google spent a lot of time and money attracting people who want to work on general hard problems rather than experts in specific domains. Maybe tasking a group of people like that is more likely to succeed in inventing something than building a team around the domain itself, especially in a space that has a lot of unknowns.
That might help Tesla catch up. That might make Waymo nr 2.

But my question was about being "one of the major players".

The market is huge. My rough guess is that every 10% of market share is worth $1T in market cap. Which is half of Google's overall current market cap.
> Sorting costs some time, but in return, removes cache misses from the for loop entirely.

Mmm. Can someone explain this? To avoid n cache misses in the for loop, we accept nlog(n) cache misses for sorting?
Both measures are valid.

When the AI is better than the best humans, that's when the best humans finally change career.

There's nothing that requires delaying until that point, the time in which courts order drunk drivers to only be allowed to own self-driving models.
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