skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Neither choice is valid

Why not? They are the very real choices people are making.

Some would argue that lethal force is always wrong, even when you're being killed for money. Sorry, sorry... allowed to die without care ... for slightly enriching people that are already very, very, very rich.

Others, like the rebels in Syria, or the defenders in Ukraine, would argue otherwise.

> this statement is just pure mindfuck.

If you've never seen things in this way, you should start.

The billionaires see it that way.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

These laws, these norms you cling to... these are not designed to protect you.

> I'm not going to condone lynching or vigilante killings in any civil context.

Things stop "being civil" when death at an industrial scale becomes wildly profitable, legal, protected, and enforced by violent police.

The same police that will stand outside a school for an hour and tackle parents who do try to protect the lives of their own children.

> We're at civil war already,

You are, you just haven't noticed.

In case you do notice, you'll realise you're on the side that's losing because while you wring your hands in fear of things turning violent, the other side has been feeding your side into a meat grinder for profit at an industrial scale.

The Sacklers killed 200,000 of you people and you want to protect their right to lord over you in absolute safety!? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49718388

> At least we'll have justice, finally."

There's no "we" here.

I live in one of the rest-of-the-world places where healthcare is universal, and you have no justice. Not yet.
Ah, I didn't expect that this soon
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The creator of the repository does mention it:

> My hope is that the educational and non-profit intentions of this repository will enable it to stay hosted and available, but the original copyright holders do have the right to ask for it to be taken down, in which case I will comply without hesitation. I do hope, though, that along with the various other disassemblies and commentaries of this source, it will remain viable.
Humans evolved for distance running – but ancestor 'Lucy' didn't go far or fast
jazz != smooth jazz
I think a Colour Classic still has an auto inject drive, my LC II had one. You can tell the manual inject ones because the case has a curved indent around the drive. Although this is the changeover era, as some late LC IIs apparently have the different drive (and lose the Snow White stipe along the front at the same time).
Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks
If we wanted to help the hypothetical future humans not die, we should make sure there is no lead available, so they can't use it for pipes, sweetener or fuel additives.

Mine all the galena and store it safely with the nuclear waste. Would save millions and millions of hypothetical lives.
I would leave aside all proportions and corrections for population: because otherwise you need to multiply by a factor between 2 and 4 the deaths and injuries in Gaza to compare them with those of Israel. You'd probably not want to.

Besides this, the number of Israeli casualties in the Gaza invasion amount to a few hundred soldiers while the Palestinians ones are two orders of magnitude higher, and most of them civilians. If you have more precise data plase share.
You're conflating two tangential things, automatic driving is automatic driving whether it's a car or a bus.

The biggest issue that automatic driving needs to overcome is that it's sharing the road with manually driven cars. We've already had the technology for a long time to have perfect automatic driving if the environment was fully automatic; computers are unparalleled at accurately sharing and processing data with each other.

This isn't to say that the solution is to get rid of human drivers, because driving a car has been one of the most empowering paradigm shifts for the commons. Being able to travel yourself timely anywhere anytime for any reason is a level of power that pre-automobile commons simply did not have. Subjugating your power to travel to a computer is surrendering that incredible power.

If (and likely when) we can figure out how to better share human data with computers and vice versa computer data with humans, everyone on the road will be better off.
They were a leading cause of death when they were a common mode of transport.

Riding a horse is very dangerous. Its just regarded as an acceptable risk (its something many people encourage kids to do) for cultural and social reasons. A British government scientific advisor was fired for pointing out that riding a horse carries about 30 times the risk of a "serious adverse effect" as taking ecstasy.
It has nothing in common with Max nor Pd. The latter specifiy signal flow and operators on the signal. Nodal instead represents events and time distances between them; this way you can design musical patterns; time is two dimensional, so you can draw loops; then you can associate musical information with the events and add logical operations so that your loops vary in time. It's a very nice experimenting and composition tool, especially if you don't play an instrument. See e.g. here for a tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQpJi0AkFBQ.

And here are some nice composition created with Nodal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1BzGaz62PE, https://youtu.be/gi61bHLyDsU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTpyIT8dWIA.
It's no more of a brain picker than "how many beans are there in this black jar that you can't lift or shake?".

It's just saying something without any information.
Sure but building yachts is skilled labor, there will have to be a massive retraining operation
It's probably equally simple for a machine (if not simpler) to figure out if a human has looked at the oncoming vehicle with sufficiently advanced cameras and computer vision. However, we use a lot more hints (change of pace, facial expressions that indicate presence and focus, nodding etc), which, while not outside the realm of AI CV, would surely need lots of training, yet it comes pretty naturally to humans.
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Been surrounding himself with yes men for years. I mean he literally said “commit to my ideas or leave with a half year of severance” and a lot of people took him up on the offer
To the child that asked it? Absolutely. :-)

Information is only useful if it's accessible. If they are asking questions it's because the information they want is in practice not accessible to them.
Infosec experts divided on AI's potential to assist red teams
> did we exclude drivers who were not eligible to drive

One could argue here that it would be unfair to exclude the worst performing humans. Plenty of humans cause accidents for easily preventable reasons, but that's an honest part of our behavior. Or to rephrase, I think excluding the categories of people who drive terribly, but do still drive nonetheless, would be less representative of reality.

> Did Waymo drive across all the same areas and time periods as the humans did with an equal "proportion"?

No, they didn't. Their methodology didn't adjust for things like highway vs city street miles, although it did adjust for city and state.

> Could we compare "time behind wheel" instead of miles travelled?

We could, but that would incentivize slow driving rather than safe driving. You need to travel the same minimum distance from a hypothetical "Point A" to "Point B" no matter what, but the number of minutes could be inflated easily. Economic factors discourage inflating the number of miles.

> There are so many ways to slice and dice this and come up with favourable results for self-driving systems that I can't but be dubious of any claim.

I think it's fair to criticize the fact that they didn't adjust for geographic area with as much granularity as they should have (i.e. for highways vs city streets, or for excluded zones like airports). But other than that, their methodology seems solid to me.
> I wonder what it does in common situations, like stop-and-go traffic with two streets joining at an angle, where one has to yield?

Plan a better route? I can’t picture the situation you describe. Yielding traffic just… yields. When there’s an opening they take it.

On my ride the Waymo took a right turn on red. How is the situation you describe different?

Do you still yield unnecessarily when there are cars behind you?
The "live" plot (with the peak) uses indeed 1Hz bins (of 1 second), that we average over the last 2-3 minutes to reduce the noise. We could go even narrower, I might give that a try on the recorded data.
Those are technical not ethical issues.

In any case, the system works fine in Italy, the purpose is only to provide more data in case of collisions.

The idea is that if you're driving legally and you end up in a costly accident you can prove you were driving and acting correctly.
Ambulance drivers might be a step too far unless autonomous systems are expected to drive ambulances at high speed and run red lights. But my point is that they really do need to be a lot better than the median driver given their real world operational expectations, and especially significantly better than the mean driver they're being benchmarked against here, who probably loses their license for the bodily injuries they cause...
>developed proper public transit infrastructure.

No amount of public transport can accomodate the personal whims and demands of anyone let alone everyone. Even Japan, famous for its public transport infrastructure, still has a healthy population of drivers both in metro and rural areas.
For "last mile", we already have bikes, scooters, skates, plain walking...
Build a router and set inner HTML.

This would maybe be a few hours of work if going from a static site to a SPA was actually in scope. Strip headers from the current pages and now serve the body as content from an API.

You don't need your entire site to be built with react to use react within your site and building a JS based router is not very difficult and will get even easier if the Navigation API[1] becomes better supported.

This would actually be harder if you now still need a static site with an across page assistant. I would probably push back on some requirements and store state locally in the browser. Effectively hot reload the assistant on each navigation but even then it's doable, even using react.

1. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/nav-history-apis.html...
Why would anyone do an intervention, when it neither benefits nor profits them to do it? Let the man break down as much as he desires. The law will eventually catch up; not to mention that the good will, if there was ever any, is but all gone.
Is it perhaps as easy as adding the check on https://github.com/markmoxon/elite-source-code-commodore-64/... ?
> I would leave aside all proportions and corrections for population: because otherwise you need to multiply by a factor between 2 and 4 the deaths and injuries in Gaza to compare them with those of Israel. You'd probably not want to.

Why wouldn't I want to ? I'm not gonna deny for a moment what Gaza is going through isn't traumatic, of course it is. That's reality. And saying what Israel is going through is nothing is delusional as well.
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We only see the carrier because it has such narrow bandwidth, the modulated data is for us not distinguishable from the noise. FYI, at this data rate the carrier contains 25% of the transmitted power.
>Pressured by what, pray tell?

Nothing, it's not like international politics involve diplomatic pressure, economic blackmail, use of various trade/sanctions/tarrifs/monetary policy/etc as weapons, or downright demands by hegemonic powers over client states and lesser countries...

And it's not like the IMF is used as a tool to enforce neoliberal policy.

At least not in the Disney version.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/13/the-international-mo...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/05/the-imf-and-world-ba...

all the way back to (and earlier):

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2011.5...

>There's no patience for this blend of wilful ignorance or worse, disingenuity

Yes, thanks for the deep insights. If I wanted the Boy Scouts version, I'd have signed to be one...
He was here saying his lawyer validated everything he was saying when anyone with any little amount of experience with lawyers and B2B legal case could immediately tell no actual decent lawyer would have validated any of that. And what he said here on HN ended up being used against him in the injuction ...

So either he stopped listening to the people around him (including lawyer in a legal case), or the people around him are chosen based on their ability to say yes rather than be useful.

I don't know about the ownership of Automattic to know if there is a board not doing its job either or if they can't do anything anyway.

And ultimately the legal cases "doesn't matter" grand scale, but the damage he is doing to public perception is immense. There are a bazillion marketing agencies out there being affected by his emotionnal breakdown, so if WP Engine were to put themselves in the middle as a separate, "safe" provider they might even benefit even more from the situation. People don't like it when you touch their wallet.
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> Sure cars are helpful for transporting stuff. But most car rides is one dude sitting alone in a 1.5 ton machine moving his lazy ass around town.

I do not know about lazy. I find it a lot easier to use public transport myself. I would like to see numbers for "most" especially outside the US. Very few of my car trips are by myself without something to carry.

> Public transport, if done correctly, can replace that, also outside of big cities. There are good examples across Europe for this.

Where has public transport eliminated cars? Not anywhere I have been in Europe. You can significantly reduce car usage, but not eliminate it, so any safety improvements are still very important.

Another problem outside big cities is that some buses and trains, especially at quieter times, also run pretty empty. There were about four or five people in the bus my daughter got into this morning (on a weekday morning!) and its close to the end of a journey between two reasonably large towns. The next bus gets very full though.
I love the “practical difficulties”
Just because a pedestrian is looking in your direction, it doesn't mean they can actually meet your gaze. I don't drive and always try to make eye contact with drivers, but tinted windows and windshield glare often make it impossible in reality.

So I will stare at where I know the driver's face ought to be, but I can't actually tell whether they have seen me. Tinted windows darken the inside of the car and that makes windshield glare all I can actually see.
That makes a lot of sense, I never thought of the labor as the limiting factor on bus route (clearly I just never thought very hard about it) but boy would it be nice if there was a 9 passenger van every 5 minutes to replace a full size bus every 30.
I think it's more about when the market is still majority manual. 20% self driving might see premiums for manual cars go up significantly because manual drivers would have more at fault accidents per mile than before (assuming the same rate of accidents, but most accidents with a self driving car are the manual driver's fault).

There will also be things like not having DWIs and even cheap parking (since the car can drive away and park) that'll net out for self driving. And feedback loops there- the same size police force only pulling over manual cars from a smaller and smaller pool.
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I think the economics here are wrong by orders of magnitude. It doesn't make sense to deploy to the home an expensive GPU that will sit idle 99% of the time, unless running an LLM gets much cheaper, computationally. It's much cheaper to run it on-premise and charge a subscription, otherwise nobody would pay for ChatGPT and would have an LLM rig at home instead.
Yes, that's nearly semantic f(x)=x, I added that we could also find an x such as f(x)=1/x and f(1/x)=x.
Because ancient Romans and Greeks were smart enough to know the most of these problems stem from unfixable character flaws like lack of willpower.
This is just a play to pretend that WordPress.org is run by volunteers when in truth it's entirely run by Automattic. If it was actually ran by volunteers, he couldn't make any of it stop... because people volunteer their time without being told what to do.

I can't wait for him to lose millions of dollars for a hissy fit. It's going to be delicious.
Contempt of Court... literally.

IANAL but if this is execution of a court order it would be CoC if it counts as failure to follow orders to include false claims. I don't know if a judge can charge CoC for disrespect of the court when not actually in it. If an ongoing case, might get a warning to remove contravening commentary and only a CoC on failure to do so.
> Guess what cosmonauts use(d) on the ISS? (Qualified because I don't know post-2022.)

I genuinely don't know. Do they use pencils still or switched to the space pen?
The problem is not whether the machine can see the human, or even whether the machine knows that the human has seen the machine.

The problem is that the human currently has no way to know whether the machine has seen the human.
Oh no! Anyways...
Really fun stuff but most people have a limited amount of time in the day so if they can afford to take a car they're going to take a car.
I wonder why the frequency was redacted in this tweet.

https://x.com/nascom1/status/1851789221885022416
> Having seen these things live in action, it creeped me out to see an empty drivers seat.

I wonder if the safety gains could be just due to people being creeped out around them, and behaving more cautiously. Perhaps results would be different if they carried mannequins simulating a real driver in the wheel.
Ok but hear me out. Self driving public transit.

Right now I have to walk 12 minutes to a bus stop because the one literally in front of my house was closed due to a lack of drivers. Then I wait 3-10 minutes for a bus that takes 20 minutes to get to the bus hub in my neighborhood. It takes 8 minutes to drive there. If my neighborhood bus route was replaced or supplemented with self driving shuttle busses feeding that hub then a 1 hour door-to-door trip could be 30 minutes.
Oh yeah definitely, I write the types that I expect from the API - the point the original comment is making is that the state of reality is not your types, it's what the actual API returns.

But yeah if you use something like Zod you can at least say "this is what I'm pretty sure the API should return" but also define what should happen if things change / don't meet your types.
A while ago I made this app that lets you pick a color and find an English word that gives a similar color: https://g-dv.gitlab.io/color-namer
If self-driving cars are widely available, and they can drive everywhere a normal car can go, then you're not driving manually because you need to do so, you're driving manually because you like it, and the society isn't there to pay for your hobbies.
I think there’s just a bit of snobbery. It’s an off the shelf LPX chassis with a “Logic Board LPX-40” that Apple also supplied to clone makers. The floppy drive being on the “wrong” side is just proof that it somehow lacks that special something.
For sure, linting is just as necessary as typescript for a sane codebase.
The problem there is that there's a lot of sanity checking happening in browsers; I hope there will be a new technology where things like html, css and JS are all precompiled / pre-verified so the page is executed as-is with minimal sanity checking.

There was a post yesterday about Python's random() vs randint; the former just spits out a random number, the latter does a list of sanity checks on the arguments passed, whose cost adds up in many invocations. But that's a runtime sanity check, if that can be done beforehand with e.g. a stricter type system + a "let it crash / fail" attitude at runtime, all that sanity checking overhead would be gone.

I mean this script / at-runtime checking is fine during development if it means shorter iterations and whatnot, but in production it shouldn't happen.
Regarding drivers that are drunk or otherwise driving illegally-- why would you want to exclude them from such a study, if you can not exclude them from real traffic?

If our current system of checks and incentives is not able to keep them off the road, then you need to take them and the accidents they cause into account when comparing driving safety with an autonomous system.

Also note that the margins are too big, since only about a third of accidents involve intoxicated drivers, and the accident reduction rates from the paper are much higher than that.

I don't want to come across as harsh or accusing, but the "Methodology" section contains a lot of detail (and a more nuanced discussion could be had without disregarding it entirely :P).
> I've been using Linux for 28 years now and for a while it improved beyond all recognition, but it's getting very clunky again with all the bloat now.

Oh my this rings so true.

While some don't like systemd (which is fine, everyone's entitled to their own choices) I do like the more cohesive and consistent approach a lot.

But then my two uphill battles are:

- Xorg is still my go-to in spite of limitations Wayland aims to solve (colour management, heterogeneous multihead) but I can't for the life of me seem to be able to make it stable/reliable/usable.

- Pulseaudio was a debacle, so I used ALSA since like forever and could do great things with it. Trouble is some modern things expected become hard to impossible with just ALSA. Enter Pipewire, which conceptually sounds like a great thing but it is so obscure and underdocumented that I just can't wrap my head around it.
Except the injunction was against .com, not the .org

Part of the case is that he is muddying the water on purpose and the separation in two entities is fake, and actions like this may backfire in a big way (and I'm not even talking about the taxes aspect of it at the end).

Again, I doubt any lawyer with any once of competency validated this move, let alone write it publicly like this that it's because of the legal case and WP Engine. That's very dumb. What are the lawyers supposed to say when the case will be reviewed ? Nothing to do with the case ? Reasons unrelated to WP Engine ? Their client put it in writing without even being asked to.
Jesus, what an absolute sh..show :/ it's really a pity.
I honestly don't give a shit about music nor artists. Never have. But I'm at the gym about 3 hours a week and need a soundtrack so I like to listen to synthwave that the Spotify AI recommends me.

Spotify seems to trigger the hell out of music purists...
and with dedicated bus lines and predictable behavior that could be easier to do
You mean this: https://react.dev/reference/react-dom/client/createRoot

How you bundle react is left as an exercise to the reader but the data is still there?
Oh yeah, you have to get into branded types for this I think, which means a parsing step. Fair point.
So there's already pleasance?? Sorry, can't add anything substantive, but the following might save some time?

https://proofassistants.stackexchange.com/questions/908/what...

https://eprints.illc.uva.nl/id/document/12673
If you can imagine this, can you imagine the forms of sensing-by-proxy that’s possible that’s kept under wraps by various Skunkworks orgs?
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