skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This device is just the mic/speaker/wakeword part. It connects to home-assistant to do the decoding and automation.
You can test it right now by downloading home-assistant and running it on a pi or a VM. You can run all the voice assist stuff locally if you want. There are services for the voice to text, text to voice and what they call intents which are simple things like "turn off the lights in the office".
The cloud offering from Nuba Casa, not only funds the development of Home Assistant but also give remote access if you want it. As part of that you can choses to offload some of the voice/text services to their cloud so that if you are just running it on a Pi it will still be fast.
you're reading too much. pro in apple parlance only means "the most expensive of this model line".
I was just in CA for a few weeks and drove in SF quite a bit. There are Waymo cars everywhere and from the perspective of a driver I was more than a little cautious driving behind or next to one of them.

I would rate their driving as quite good, but their signaling of intent was terrible. More than once did I see them use turn signals, only to never actually turn. Turn the signals on, then off again, then on again, eventually turn perhaps but not always.

Humans are terrible at this too, but we also use more subtle and inadvertent signals like the slight movement to the line telling me they're likely about to switch lanes, only to see the signal go on halfway into it. Those subtle signals are easier to pick up on than a robot driving more or less perfectly straight while signaling, turning of signals, turning them back on again, and so on. Also super creepy with empty driver seats, and no one responsible to make eye contact with.

But the actual driving wasn't bad, as it turns out. Never had or saw a near miss, anything reckless or otherwise remarkable. I can see myself getting used to this tech and I would love for it to succeed, because man driving for anything but fun really sucks.
broadly Jupiter is sheltering Earth from asteroids, to such great extent that it may be a prerequisite to life that habitable water planets share the system with a gas giant. Certainly you’re right that this solution is not perfect.
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I think the one weird trick to understand pointers is to do a tiny amount of assembly programming. Assembly is very simple and pointers are everywhere. Writing useful programs in it is a chore, but you don't need to!
That's an elitist attitude that has very little basis in reality. Would you care to justify it?

Plenty of professionals, including developers, use Apple machines for their work, as tools not toys.
Nobody says it has to be a car form factor. It can be a self driving van or shuttle or bus.

Last mile is a nightmare with all public transit. With the low population density of the US we need a lot of small vehicles to feed transit hubs.
Maybe someone can now fix the following bug? "if you started the auto-dock on the wrong side of the station, it would crash into it instead"
Excalidraw is also mostly open source

https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw
The Night the Earth Shook - USGS's Response to the 2004 Sumatra Earthquake
Can't bet negative in that kind of game. If a game is expected to lose you money, don't play.
There’s one useful paragraph of information in there, and the rest is Matt whining about the consequences of his own actions.
Does that mean it just never has crashes where anyone survives to make a claim :?

I’m joking of course, but it was the first thing I thought when I read the title.
This makes a lot of sense, also for pedestrians and other drivers. Having seen these things live in action, it creeped me out to see an empty drivers seat.
Lots of people are going to push back against your statement - I personally agree with you. This is all about continuing our species and everyone else trying to weave some different tale is simply living in la-la land.
What's the place?
I'm not sure that's a entirely fair description of the accident.

> CEMRC's independent monitoring data shows that except for the brief detection of americium and plutonium in the nearby ambient air samplers, there is no persistent contamination and no lasting increase in radiological contaminants near WIPP that can be attributed to the 2014 radiation release.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02659...

Specifically, vastly more radiation is released by coal plants and yet more is included via ash into civil building materials.

It also reopened in 2017 and the "bypass" was a leak around a filter, not deliberate misconfiguration like it sounds in the article, and exposure was within limits and on the scale of chest x-rays at the maximum.

Also it's only possible for the currently open "panels" to be connected to the ventilation system. Once they're sealed they're no longer able to vent to the surface at all, so it's a failure mode that is mostly irrelevant to long term storage. A additional deliberate feature of the site is that the salt is self-sealing.

For any "mission zero" system, there will be scathing reports about process flaws afterwards, because any mistake at all is unacceptable. But this doesn't actually translate into a major harm. In this case, there was a vehicle fire that damaged equipment, a breached barrel due to a mistake in filling it with the wrong cat litter, and a filter leak, and an entire "comedy" of other poor processes in place and yet the effect was undetectable outside within months (and that's really saying something for radiation detection). Sounds like it worked pretty well to me, to be honest. It's pretty much the worst possible case, short of actually setting off a bomb in there. The really high level material isn't packed into these kinds of barrels or is dispersible either - it's in solid form.

There'd be similar reports about "never events" when a plane wheel falls off and the plane crash lands with no injuries. Should it ever have happened? No. We there bad processes at play? Presumably. Can we learn and improve? Yes. Should we conclude air travel is a non-starter? No. And a plane crash would easily kill hundreds, far more than any nuclear waste release from such a site ever could even in the absolute worst of the worst cases.
> Why? As long as it is better than the median driver the roads are safer.

The intent is to increase miles driven, and the drivers a commercial service can be expected to replace first are professionals, not "median drivers". In practice accident stats are also benchmarked against mean drivers in a world in which serious accidents disproportionately involve inadequate drivers (or conditions Waymo does not deploy in)
Yeah, good point :) Fully agree with this. The site will be very hard to reach anyway.

But for the case of industrial society at the tech level of 1800s and no knowledge there are things you can do too. Like make some of the bad stuff reachable with a bit less of an effort and allow people to figure it out by themselves. Our ancestors didn't all die due to bad mushrooms did they? So smart people will still be able to figure it out. Just give em a little help.
> But now you're just making an arbitrary distinction? That seems suspicious.

Maybe? I don't think it's very arbitrary.

> You might, but there are numerous cases where this is illegal, which means the legal system disagrees with you.

Situations like what? Time-shifting is very well established as legal.

> Your likeness is also "just factual content",

No it's not. There are moral rights and privacy rights involved.

> Your only way to resolve this contradiction is apparently to arbitrarily define the things where you think preferences should matter as "not having marginal cost".

I said it does have marginal cost. After you brought up how a server request in this situation pretty much doesn't.

Because these rights are very different from the cost to handle an http request: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights

> The only thing you've made clear with this line of reasoning is that you feel free to disregard anyone's preferences if they're inconvenient to you.

It's hard for me to believe you wrote this description of my argument in good faith. I have never even looked at these cameras, and if someone else's right to their own likeness got in the way of my own projects I would respect that right a lot. My own convenience has absolutely nothing to do with my argument. This is all about principles.
The NASA space pen story as you call it is a nice quip. It's also a complete lie. The Soviets using pencils wasn't a clever scrappy solution, it was an absolute nightmare for the Soviets. Pencil cores are made of graphite, when you write with it, small bits of graphite break off. On land it just falls down, but in space it floats around and attaches to things. Graphite conducts electricity and it caused countless shorts in electronics, as well as fires, all while in space. If the Soviets had space pens, they would've switched to those in a heartbeat.
Install mamba first?
That is one of the major things that Home Assistant are trying to fix. They have groups working on most languages and are adding them to their open as they improve.
https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/contribute-voice
AssemblyArena – An Open-source assembly programming browsergame
I guess he meant general soot from burned fuel, as much if not more toxic than lead itself.
Fundamental to Israel's problem is that they want "security" while they keep oppressing Palestinians and grabbing more land. They do not want peace- quite the opposite, peace means establishing fixed borders, possibly evacuating illegal settlements, not having an excuse for further expansion, etc. They want a permanent state of attrition that allows them to keep doing what is convenient to them while being safe from all reprisals.

This was said clearly by one of Sharon's advisors explaining the motives for Israel removing settlements from Gaza:

"The significance of the disengagement plan [from Gaza] is the freezing of the peace process, and when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem."
Depends on your population density. Tokyo does pretty well with purely public transport. There’s still cars of course, but you don’t use them for travel into the city proper if you don’t hate yourself.
Believe it or not, a lot of driving takes place in heavily driven territory :)

And I'm sure the autonomous vehicle will have a go-very-slowly mode for navigating people's driveways and similar places the mapping cars haven't been yet.
MX Anywhere, but G502 looks like it has the same thing.

Keyboard was G915 TKL. I didn't keep using it though. What I really want is a tenkeyless mx keys, but failing that I'm using a full mx keys.
Perhaps influence from programmers, who would know the real "pound sign" is either ℔ or £, depending what type of pound you prefer, and the number sign is №.

£ is a stylised L with a bar, incidentally.
If you don't need the features, React isn't an abstraction over HTML, it's a complication. Plus CPUs aren't getting exponentially faster anymore - that is a real game changer.
> As you may have heard, I’m legally compelled to provide free labor and services to WP Engine thanks to the success of their expensive lawyers, so in order to avoid bothering the court I will say that none of the above applies to WP Engine, so if they need to bypass any of the above please just have your high-priced attorneys talk to my high-priced attorneys and we’ll arrange access, or just reach out directly to me on Slack and I’ll fix things for you.

> I hope to find the time, energy, and money to reopen all of this sometime in the new year. Right now much of the time I would spend making WordPress better is being taken up defending against WP Engine’s legal attacks. Their attacks are against Automattic, but also me individually as the owner of WordPress.org, which means if they win I can be personally liable for millions of dollars of damages.

> If you would like to fund legal attacks against me, I would encourage you to sign up for WP Engine services, they have great plans and pricing starting at $50/mo and scaling all the way up to $2,000/mo. If not, you can use literally any other web host in the world that isn’t suing me and is offering promotions and discounts for switching away from WP Engine.

This post should be named "Holiday Breakdown" rather than "Holiday Break". In particular, one thing stood out to me:

> I hope to find the time, energy, and money to reopen all of this sometime in the new year.

He can't prevent WP Engine from getting access to Automattic services, so he acts out his revenge on the rest of the world instead?
> Soviets using pencils wasn't a clever scrappy solution, it was an absolute nightmare for the Soviets

Note, too, that NASA didn't pay to develop the pen. Fisher did.

> If the Soviets had space pens, they would've switched to those in a heartbeat

Guess what cosmonauts use(d) on the ISS? (Qualified because I don't know post-2022.)
This is a text book, not a visual guide. Visual does not mean text in images, which this is.
How does trust factor into it. I would not say trust is even applicable to a corporation.
<font color="chuck">Also just a name "Chuck" isn't a colour.</font>
Way to miss the point. Yes, it is known that the "NASA space pen" was not really funded by NASA, but but its development still took millions of dollars in R&D.

> Is there a single developed economy that doesn't make significant use of trucks and cars?

For the 127th time: car dependency is not the same as car usage.
I don't think they are that easy to jail break but I may be wrong. I think they wanted to create an open device that people could build from rather than just a hacked up alexa.
"Everybody" wanted the first generation of iphone despite it being grossly deficient in numerous ways (OS/ecosystem, hardware, price, etc), even compared to the extant smartphones / blackberries of it's time. People overlooked all of those deficiencies because the premise of a smartphone that was one big capacitive touch screen was extremely compelling.

With the Vision Pro, that kind of enthusiasm just isn't there. If it was going to be the next big thing, there would be a lot of hype for it even though its rough around the edges. The general public isn't rejecting the Vision Pro because it costs too much and has no apps, they're rejecting it because wearing a computer on their face isn't something they're interested in.
If you mean the text position that overflows, that seems to be computed by the library.
The same happens in chromium at some resolutions.
I've worked with Unix and Windows in the past decades and each and every time the only scenario Windows wins is when I'm developing applications for Windows.

Since I develop mostly for server-side, a Unix-like OS is a no-brainer. I have all three OSs on my desk and the least satisfying to use is Windows - it's relatively slow and difficult to troubleshoot device driver issues. On Linux you can always look under the hood and on Macs there is no such thing as device issues.
I didn't downvote it, but claiming that Echo/Alexa are behind because of financial reasons is misguided at best.

Amazon is one of the richest companies on the planet, with vast datacenters that power large parts of the internet. If they wanted to improve their AI products they certainly have the resources to do so.
Will the data collection and interpretation be perfect? What if the map with the speed limits is inaccurate and my commute goes through a road where the limit is 70, traffic drives at 70, but the system thinks the limit is 30?

My car displays the speed limit in the dash, as a helper, and sometimes the above happens. If it had automatic braking for crossing the speed limit, it would be a disaster.

Also, if I drive 70 on a 70 road completely covered in snow, will the system know I'm doing something dangerous?

Automatic judgement of people is a bad idea, and it surprises me that anyone who is working in software development would think otherwise.
Sure, but there are many more people looking at iPhone security than at Xboxes. The incentives, both monetary and otherwise, are much greater with iPhones than they ever were with consoles.
Yeah, this is obvious. The entire first world depends on exporting problems overseas. It's especially obvious if you've actually visited a developing country and seen the industry there and the standards for workers and the environment.

A lot of it is the path of least resistance. Even when local materials are available, something that costs $10 per kilogram will still be pushed aside for an overseas source of $9 per kilogram with only a slight increase in price for domestic consumers. That's a shame in my opinion.

First world countries need to pay more for their goods, and the price should factor in the environmental impact so we can no longer take advantage of the commons, either foreign or domestic.
> Maybe they will prove to be so reliable that you don't need to worry about them. You can just reliably assume and predict their behavior as animate objects about the same as you do for inanimate objects.

This seems to be what is happening. There was a comment here by some user not too long ago that said they deliberately drive in front of the Waymo’s because they trust them to slow down.
I thought L4 was Tesla Autopilot style, someone in the driving seat, hands on the wheel, ready to take over with half a second's notice, and taking liability for insurance purposes? And the geofenced "freeway driving only" stuff some German carmakers are coming out with?

Whereas Waymo's taxis don't have anyone in the driving seat at all?
> Quantify the safety delta and have an available alternative

I would love it if these comparisons included "bus stats / average passengers". There are ways to just reduce the miles driven and the chances of collisions at the same time, without new tech improvements.
Need to give them led matrix front lights. The cars will be much less scary if they regularly blink.
With Musk onboard?
The whole ContentID system is irreversibly broken as long as people are allowed to submit content for registration over the internet and not in person under penalty of perjury.

A ton of fake artists take widely used commercial sample packs and copyright-free music, create simple songs and then register them via companies that submit them to ContentID databases. They then use it to monetize content created by other people on Youtube. There is no way to report these because the listener is not the copyright owner.

Just two of the countless cases I've come across:

JasoN SHaRk - Let the Music Play. I've heard a track from an indie artist predating the release by more than half a year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEGgea4Z2co

Anitoly Akilina - A Nightmare (on My Street). This is a bold one; it uses a free track from Kevin MacLeod, also used in Kerbal Space Program. This means KSP gameplay videos get monetized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVbZT1iFnlM
The article is light on details, but we can make some guesses based on the label "10s integrations, 1Hz channels" in the plot. I assume they have a bank of 1Hz filters, and they split the output of each filter into 10s intervals, and somehow combine ('integrate') each 10s chunk into a single number for each bin.

They need to compensate the Doppler shift so that the signal stays in one bin over the 10s integration time. I imagine they are using non-coherent integration (basically computing total signal energy over 10s in each bin) to take into account that the doppler compensation is not perfect (if it was, you could have 0.1Hz bins with 10s integration time).

If the above is true, then yeah, they can't demodulate any data because the integration time is much longer than symbol duration.

I wonder if with more accurate Doppler prediction, you could get an ever longer integration time and narrower bins, and thus even bigger SNR gain, perhaps allowing signal detection with a smaller dish...
Because the object you are receiving a signal from is further, thus necessitating more sensitive receiving equipment that couldn't have existed in the past?
I would be interested in comparison to human drivers excluding humans driving under influence.

We know that humans under influence are really bad drivers. So bad, that DUI is illegal. Stats commonly include accidents caused these drivers.
It's all open and so should be able to work with OpenHAB as well but it would need somebody to either write a firmware that's compatibale with the OpenHAB endpoints or add ESPHome interegeation into OpenHAB. Somebody might have already done that for their voice stuff.
There is not much yaml in home assistant now unless you want it. I'd give it a go in a VM and see what it finds on your network :)
> Tokyo does pretty well with purely public transport. There’s still cars of course, but you don’t use them for travel into the city proper if you don’t hate yourself

Japan has .67 vehicles per person, almost 80% America's .85 [1] and above many European countries. They travel about a fifth as many miles per capita as America [2]. But again, four fifths and a fifth. Nowhere close to zero.

There isn't a developed economy that wouldn't see a significant quality-of-life improvement from self-driving cars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territor...

[2] https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar4.htm
does the cloud product’s “new project” button still trash your saved documents with one click behind a docstring something like “make sure you have saved your stuff before making a new project” where what they meant is “our cloud product does not save your projects to the cloud, it is in local storage actually and you can only have one project at a time so the new project button actually overwrites your old one, so when we say ‘save’ we actually mean export your stuff to a json file and save to local disk!! so you can re-import it back into the product later from local disk and overwrite it back!!!!” I did my VC seed pitch deck in tldraw along with a bunch of product mocks, ask me how i know this
A dipole does not radiate isotropically. It has a gain of 2.15 dB over the theoretical isotropic antenna. Gains with respect to the dipole are ERP, not EIRP. But still a lot of power :-)
It's impressive and all, but my reaction to self driving cars are completely different.

It's a great technical feat, but it's not ever going to be efficient as public transportation. The form factor of the car works against it.
Cargo-testdox turns your Rust tests into docs
No, I am saying that it is misleading to draw conclusions about societal risk from this study.
How to Read Papers
At the time? Perhaps, I don't know when the design documents* became public.

But today, Voyager 1 is a 50 year old curiosity, still of interest to cosmologists of course, but governments will be less interested in it than archeologists.

* e.g. https://voyager.gsfc.nasa.gov/Library/VOY_library.html and https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19660011758/downloads/19...
Back in the era of Palm Pilots and Blackberries, most people didn't have one, but the people who did have one tended to use them extensively every day. Today, most people don't have VR headsets, and most of the people who do are letting them collect dust on a shelf in their closet.

In the first case you have a type of product that is evidently very useful but isn't ready for the general public. In the second case, you have a product that early adopters can't find a routine use for.
One can only hope. Probably not the original, but a clone.
Sorry, it's hard for me to understand your sentence, but are you refering to the fact there were actual physical signs placed, but unreadable to natives?

Didn't realize it. The wikipedia page doesn't seem to cover that and youtube link is broken.