skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah I see, like merging on to a freeway. In Washington the law is actually to zipper merge (take turns) so I would expect Waymo to do that.

It’s a good question and I’m not sure what Waymo would do there. Based on my limited experience I expect it would navigate that situation correctly. The bias is to go (safely), not wait for perfect conditions.
Nice strawman.

I am not saying to get rid of cars altogether. I am saying that it would be better (and cheaper) for everyone if we took all those resources being out into "autonomous vehicles" and developed public transit first. Reduce the amount of yearly trips that are done by car. Provide alternatives.

The important thing about Japan or Europe is not "they don't have cars", but "people make 3-4x less trips by car compared with the alternative modes of transportation". If you want to have safer roads (in a way that doesn't give even more power to tech companies) the best way to do it is by simply reducing the amount of trips taken.
Why do my cannabis-sector ETFs keep going down then?
Interesting, I will try !

What would you say are the fundamental differences between Organic Maps and OsmAnd?
As a person who runs an OpenStack cluster, I can pull 100% uptime many months back to back with minimum intervention.
OO in Perl is lower level compared to Java or C++, so e.g. instead of having a class construct, you have to simulate a class - typically by binding (blessing) a data structure to a namespace. Then any functions in the namespace become methods that can be called via the data structure (object).

In practice, this has turned out to be a mixed blessing because of how tedious it is to do this repeatedly. So over the years there have been many libraries created to make this easier, each with different features.

There's currently work underway to modernise Perl's built in OO to address these problems.

On the other hand, this makes some things easier, e.g. Design by Contract can be added to Perl just by writing a library.

Another example, adding traits to PHP required updating PHP itself, whereas in Perl there are libraries to do that.
I found it easier to "get" when I started thinking of jazz as the beat poetry of music.
Unfortunately it isn't that simple. Check 3 only looks to see if we are moving backwards into the station slot. This is a bit pointless to calculate as falling backwards would mean that a number of the other checks (e.g. angle of approach) will already be failing.

This is why check 3 is omitted from later versions of Elite, including the C64 version; it isn't needed.

Lots of information on the docking checks here:

https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/docking_checks.html

Besides, is this a bug or a feature? Elite lore says that machine intelligence is banned in the galaxy, so I like to think of this as fitting in with that. Docking computers can kill you in Elite - and it's the same in Elite Dangerous. :-)
LUA is the one that annoys me the most, its a word. Its moon in portugese
Two reasons: lobbying and the Mouse.
>I think it's cruel to train the rats with electric shocks when they get it wrong.

This stuck out to me also. I don't mind a joke but not if someone/something has to get tortured for it.
Why do artists feel that Spotify is obligated to put them on their own playlists? This whole argument rings hollow. They’re basically salty that nobody cares about their music in specific, and that any slop sounding vaguely like the genre is apparently good enough for people.
> thanks to the success of their expensive lawyers

A man worth hundreds of millions of dollars crying poverty while throwing a months-long temper tantrum. Hilarious if you don't have any stakes at play.
Objectively untrue.
I've recently spent a considerable amount of time on Windows 11(after using linux/x11/wayland/kde for a long time),-- the UI inconsistencies are widespread there too. Microsoft is only finally finishing the push to make all control panels look consistent, and they are doing so by removing some of the more detailed options.
You said you couldn't imagine a conspiracy and I was responding to
that. As far as zero demonstration, simonw has a bunch of detailed
examples at:https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming/ or maybe https://simonwillison.net/tags/claude-artifacts/, but
the proof is in the pudding, as they say, so setting aside some time and
$20 to install Aider and get it working w/ Claude, and then building a
web app is the best way to experience either the second coming, or an
overhyped let down. (or somewhere in the middle.)

Still, I don't think it's a hypothesis that most are operating under, but
a lived experience that either it works for them or it does not. Just the
other day I used ChatGPT to write me a program to split a file into
chunks
along a delimiter. Something I could absolutely do, in at least a
half-dozen languages, but writing that program myself would have
distracted me from the actual task at hand, so I had the LLM do it. It's
a trivial script, but the point is I didn't have to break my
concentration on the other task to get that done. Again, I absolutely
could have done it myself, but that would have been a total distraction.
https://chatgpt.com/share/67655615-cc44-8009-88c3-5a241d083a...

On a side project I'm working on, I said "now add a button to reset the camera view" (literally, aider can take voice input). we're not quite at the scene from star trek where scottie talks into the mac to try and make transparnet aluminum, but we're not that far off! The LLM went and added the button, wired it into a function call that called into the rendering engine and reset the view. Again, I very much could have done that myself, but it would have taken me longer just to flip through the files involved and type out the same thing. It's not just the time saved, which, I didn't have a stopwatch and a screen recorder, but apart from the time, it's not having to drop my thinking into that frame of reference, so I can think more deeply about the other problems to be solved. Sort of why ceo isn't an IC and why IC's aren't supposed to manage.

Detractors will point out that it must be a toy program, and that it won't work on a million line code base, and maybe it won't, but there's just so much that LLMs can do, as they exist now, that it's not hyperbole to say it's redefined programming, for those specific use cases. But where that use case is "build a web app", I don't know about you, but I use a lot of web apps these days.
This is not how it works though. The thing is based on neurofeedback, so you have to consciously attempt to match the pattern.

Now what this could make easier is training killers. That's sufficiently evil for me.
What it means is that the complaints about language models being "just maths" or "just code" are not sufficient.
The Outrage over 100 Men Only Goes So Far
It doesn't matter what the reason is though, that was rather my point. They act differently in a test setup, such that they appear more aligned than they are.
Maybe addicting wasn't the right word, but more about reward vs effort.

Regardless, I think it's not the full picture to say businesses simply give people what they want; businesses actually shape people's wants. That's what advertising is about...
Sadly in modern times many devs aren't willing to pay for their tools...

Yet they surely appreciate the income they earn by using them.
You are taking effective birth control completely for granted.

It wasn't that long ago that monogamy was the default because no one wants to have a baby from a night of netflix and chill.

IMO you have the direction of causation backwards. Monogamy is not some child rearing optimization strategy. It was a social construct that evolved because causual sex at one point was incredibly expensive and now it is not because of birth control.
Because they don't disappear even with half the non-illegal vehicles being autonomous — some crashes also happen due to avoidance manoeuvres.

So the fairer comparison would be to say that if existing SDVs were instead being driven by human drivers, we would have seen ~60 property claims more and ~40 bodily injury claims more (forgot the exact numbers from the paper), which is what, like 0.1% improvement in claims overall (certainly still a great result for the small comparative number of miles travelled, but doesn't jump off the page really).

But because the miles traveled are so far apart, nothing is really a "fair" comparison.
The local stores still support those higher-paying roles, though again probably more locally — the local accountant, the local lawyer when they need one, the local IT company.

The Amazon HQ is great for Seattle and Luxembourg, but money spent there is gone from my local (or even national) community.
> a play to pretend that WordPress.org is run by volunteers when in truth it's entirely run by Automattic

It's run entirely by Mullenweg. The Board is clearly unable to have a big-boy conversation.
https://archive.is/myRcU
I don't see what's wrong about the note. I don't see anything suggesting the note is inaccurate. I don't see anything that says the court forced Reuters to add the note. It appears Reuters added the note of their own free will.
That's not fear, it's an indication of the respect in which I hold the original authors (whom I believe are still the copyright holders). If Bell or Braben asked me to take it this down, I'd roll with it. Same if Geoff Crammond asked me to take down my Aviator and Revs analyses; of course I'd comply. It's their code.

I have copyright content out there in the world (including the commentary aspects of this project), and I'd want to be able to control what happens to that too. Seems fair to me.
Planning to set up a new customer-facing website next year, and there is 0.0% chance that it will be based on WordPress, even though several of our existing websites are WP.
You don't need to stash deps in a subdirectory, IMHO that's a node.js design flaw that leads to tons of duplication. I don't think there's any other package manager for a popular language that works like this by default (Bundlers does allow you to version dependencies which can be useful for deployment, but you still only ever get one version of any dependency unlike node).

You just need to have some sort of wrapper/program that knows how to figure out which dependencies to use for a project. With bundler, you just wrap everything in "bundle exec" (or use binstubs).
Ghosts and Graves – NES game in 6502 ASM written after work
I don't know anything about the browser extension but it is probably worthwhile looking for any settings to change its behaviour. [1] Additionally you could try and test it to see how it's actually performing [2]

[1] https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/12/17/packets/

[2] https://rachelbythebay.com/fs/
The world is pretty well mapped at this point I don't think this will be a showstopper.

And the nice thing about driver less cars is that they can drive wherever and whenever pretty cheaply. There's no driver to pay. Just the electricity bill for charging the vehicle and some servicing/vehicle depreciation and other fixed cost. That's a race to the bottom in terms of cost.

There's no good economical reason to limit this to just small areas. You might charge passengers a bit extra if they are further out or even for the distance the car has to drive to pick them up. But there's no good reason for that to be very expensive as it would be with a paid driver.
The web solved distribution and that's why the web won. Click on a link see a page. Click on a link open an app. The alternative was downloading a .exe from questionable origin over an unreliable dial-up connection. App stores have become hugely successful since and if Microsoft had invented the mobile app model in the 90s (sandboxing and 1 click install process, like flatpak on linux) that model would probably have won instead of the web app. The web was incredibly buggy and horrifically slow for 2 decades, but there was no alternative so it won by default.
I always avoided powershell, because it used to have a loading time that is longer than a second even on a modern system. But after your post I thought I give it a try.

The first thing you encounter is a .tar.gz file that does not extract into its own subdirectory. Instead it pollutes the current directory with 273 different files, which is just plain incompetent.

Then, the pwsh executable is not marked as executable, so you have to manually chmod +x on it which is just stupid.

Finally, pwsh has a loading time of 273ms for its 70 MB "bundle", which is okay I guess, but imagine running your scripts with that overhead. fish has 32ms on my system, and plain old bash 4ms.
Then self driving vehicles will be a new choice.
>> “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

Except of course if Waymo would crash a lot more in freeways, which we can't assume won't happen just because human drivers don't. Far from this making human drivers look better it makes the comparison unequal and for that reason, uninformative.

Half of those apples are orange and smell like citrus fruits.
> More recently, light snowfalls occurred on 9 February 2015, 6 January 2017 and 5 January 2019, but the last heavy snowfall dates back to 17 December 1988.

Says wikipedia. Yeah, I don't know what I expected. Of course there's no actual snow in the meditteranean. It "lightly snowed" 3 times in the last 10 years.
there are many web scraping companies doing this, among them Apify too - https://apify.com/compass/crawler-google-places
Personally, I am now clear that both sides, matt and wp engine are wrong. Matt is more wrong than wp engine but that doesn't mean wp engine is right.

This is just my personal opinion.
At the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference, they had a Rivian AWS vehicle on display. We got to take a peek inside and see all the tech. If I were a delivery person, I’d love to drive that thing!

One of the demonstrators showed me the software in the truck. They can add notes for each address, like ‘be careful, this person has a mean dog’. It was really exciting to see how they’re using technology to make deliveries more efficient and safe.

I live in Michigan. I got so excited about the tech inside that I thought it could be a cool place to work, especially since Rivian is headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan. Unfortunately, they do most of their software development on the West Coast. In the Midwest, we continually hear companies saying they need more tech talent, but their actions don’t match their messaging.
> stop is uncovered and service is reliable

And it doesn't even occur to you that the problem is the poor infrastructure? Do you honestly think that the optimal solution here is just to keep waiting for some trillion dollar corporation to be able to sell some new product that will bring you more "convenience" (at the cost of dependency and yet-more environmental costs related to cars and its required parking infrastructure) when you instead could be doing something like, I don't know, getting your city council to improve the fucking bus service?
A rant on the internet has nothing to do with how someone acts as a (prospective) employee.
Pretty much the first time I ever tried to dock, the docking computer set me down squarely on top of another player's ship. After trying my best to cancel the docking, I ended up losing my docking request, which meant I wasn't allowed to be there, and got the space police after me. I've not really played it much since
> multiplayer networking
Its in the description
They look too big. I expected all the l=1 to be like a cone near (0,0,0). And I expected one of them to be vertical instead of horizontal.
> 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.

Yes and no. Many many non trivial things becomes very slow if you stick naïve ways with larger amounts for visual elements. It bites hard, because even naïve ways of doing things require quite some time for complex UIs, and very often, the roadblock requires to redo most if not all of the work.
For physics sims, I'd say it's useless.

Imagine you discretize a cube into 1000 gridpoints in each direction, that's 1000^3 = 1 billion nodes/"tokens". Plus you typically time-march some sort of equation so you need the solutions previous 3-5 timesteps as well so that's 3-5 billion tokens. If you are gonna do that in the first place, you may as well just use the traditional solver. Traditional solvers usually set up and solve a matrix equation like Ax=b with an iterative method like multigrid which is O(n) as opposed to transformer's O(n^2). It'll give you a much more accurate answer much quicker than it'll take a transformer to do attention on a sequence of length 3 billion.

The entire point of using GNNs/CNNs in this field is that people rely on their ability to make inference using local information. That means the value at each gridpoint/node can be inferred from neighbouring nodes only, which is O(n) like multigrid. Idea in most papers is that the GNN can do this faster than multigrid. Results so far are mixed, however [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07218
Hi,

I work on CSS parser performance, and error handling isn't really a big pain point; if you removed all error handling overhead, you would not be likely to notice any real performance increase in your web page loading. Most of the time, you just hit the happy path anyway, and the error checks from that is an easily-predicted branch.

A precompiled format (i.e., binary) _may_ help (I don't think anyone has really considered it), but “pre-verified” means it would come down to who you trust to do that verification, so it's a hard sell.
> I’m talking about Tokyo. Not Japan

Tokyo would have a tough time existing in a world without cars, trucks or roads. Its economy depends on that access.

There is no tradeoff between self-driving cars and a multi-trillion dollar infrastructure rebuild.
I agree 100%.

I think the question is, what when inevitably someone uses that human music to train an AI generating the same ambient music? Especially when you acquired the music on the cheap using a monopoly position.
> unlike trademarks where enforcement is required to preserve the trademark

That's a myth. It suits trademark lawyers and aggressive owners to pretend this is obligatory but it isn't.
Nissan Sakura Review: Why This £13,000 EV Is Selling Like Crazy [video]
> It is meant to be listened actively as opposed to having it as background music.

The masterpiece hanging in the museum was fully intended to be actively appreciated. The background on the box of cereal is ... just a background on a box of cereal. It's still art though.
tl;dr 6% faster on Linux. Basically, once a year I try to run Linux instead of Windows and I've been doing that since 1999 (seriously). It still has enough annoyances that it isn't worth 6% or extra freedom for me.
Oh stop it. That kind of snark is pointless. WordPress with the correct hosting setup and good coding practices is absolutely fine. It's the cheap hosting and throwing insecure plugins that causes issues with WordPress sites.
Yes, it would be better if the good thing were more perfect.
It takes a lot more for a program to be correct than having valid bit patterns.

To begin with, the whole point of classes is to maintain invariants. Guaranteeing that a location in memory matches the valid bit patterns of its members is far from sufficient.
Incredible achievement but would really appreciate if they laid out the details.
Matt's actual tweet, for context: https://i.redd.it/asjc0wtjarkc1.png

Those usernames say it all really.
I did NOT expect to see Ben Parr in there.
Yup. "Never fly without a rebuy", as they say!
Using WordPress as Personal Blog in 2024
I can't imagine the level of consumption that leads to more than one online purchase every day. You must have a constant mountain of cardboard at your home.

But anyway, shops selling luggage are common. They probably sell scales too. Argos, Tesco and Ryman have them.

Electronics shops like Currys have monitor arms, as well as office supply shops.

I won't guess what a good shower filter is.

Office supply and electronics shops also have label printers.

Moth repellent is available from large supermarkets, DIY stores and hardware shops.

All of these are also available online from British companies that pay their fair share of taxes.
This was referring to package manager being just a part of .NET's SDK. Gradle and Maven continue to ship separately.
trimming the ink sticks reminded me of nothing so much as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBb9O-aW4zI !

> IRL the substrata (objective-C? PowerPC?) get cleaned out

real artists ship, and shipping (like cherry blossoming) is ephemeral?

花の雲 鐘は上野か 浅草か
What's the guarantee we'll have only fully up-to-date, safety-checked self-driving vehicles in the future with no messed up sensors or controls (there'll be impaired people doing the checks, right? :))?

This is simple with a small, experimental fleet — so we are looking at the best case scenario for these vehicles, but the question is what does it fall down to in a realistic commercial application?

That would also be comparing safety, because averages are always skewed by bad apples (i.e. 1 driver with 20 collisions gets an average to 2 for a group of 10 drivers with no other collisions). We at least need to start talking about medians, standard deviations groups and such.

And we need autonomous vehicles to beat or match good drivers, otherwise, good drivers are worse off in the streets (and due to how averages are used, this might be more than 50% of drivers). Not sure why that's so controversial?
Gauntlet AI (YC S17) is training AI engineers and hiring them in Austin ($200k/yr)
WordPress.org is way too big to be a one-man show. I am absolutely certain that Mullenweg has nothing to do with plugin or theme validation, account creation or even packaging new WordPress versions, but also certain that he can tell his employees what to do. Hell, all of that should be automated by now.

He wouldn't be able to do any of that with volunteers that aren't operating under his authority.
As far as I can tell, he just posted on Twitter.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/tumblr-ceo-transphobic...
This seems like the perfect use-case for DwarFS : "DwarFS is a read-only file system with a focus on achieving very high compression ratios in particular for very redundant data."

https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs
> if we took all those resources being out into "autonomous vehicles" and developed public transit first

Waymo has raised about $11bn [1]. That is at best 4 miles of New York subway [2]. It's a third of a train between Bakersfield and Merced [3].

These things aren't competing. To the extent we can compare them on capital efficiency, it's not a good look for American public transit.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/business/waymo-investment...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-02-24/cityla...

[3] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-21/high-spe...
And many more: https://compareproxy.com/
So, how much true information having a direct insight into someone's allegedly secret journal can have?

Just how trustworthy any intelligence can really be now?
Who's to say it's not lying to itself after all...

Now ignoring the metaphysical rambling, it's a training problem. You cannot really be sure that the values it got from input are identical with what you wanted, if you even actually understand what you're asking for...