skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>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.

Isn't waymo's behavior preferred? I'd rather see turn signals well in advance of any possible lane changes, rather than the moment before the cars actually start changing lanes. Sure, it'd be ideal if the turn signals were well in advance and there were no false positives, but road conditions are changing constantly, so by necessity you're going to be trading off between advance notice and false positives.
If it's all meaningful, then it has no meaning.

Meaning comes from distinction, the opposite of undifferentiated sex.
> Which is something I've always wondered! How does the Lofi Girl channel on Youtube always have so much new music from artists I have never heard from?

> The answer is surprising: real people and real instruments! (At least at the time of writing).

Sorry to break it to you, but there's actually tones of AI lofi music from Suno all over YouTube right now.

See this video for an explanation: https://youtu.be/_oxtFP2UUyM

And here are some examples of the content:

https://youtu.be/RJUvNVCqtpI
https://youtu.be/iBt051Pq7_4
Oh, 100% if you're burying one in an obscure place on your car, you want to set it and forget it, and you have the space, so the 10-year battery makes sense. I'm thinking of the more portable use cases.
It will be interesting to see how the Indian authorities react now that every new cell phone is a satellite communications terminal.
> Where is the black hole that is consuming all of the goods, if the workers dont get them, the rich dont get them, and they aren't exported.

Take new cars as an example. We are producing fewer of them [1], they are larger and more expensive, and they are mostly being sold to wealthier people. So yes in this case, capital owners (people more likely to have more wealth) are the ones purchasing the product.

Also, for a while we have been shifting towards a services based economy, so for a lot of this production growth, you won't see physical products. For example, you can't see the software IDE subscription I signed up for yesterday.

We also don't have a national export surplus because we import so many goods that are not worthwhile to manufacture here, while we export a ton of services, petroleum, and other raw extracted materials, all industries that scale with technology/capital/machinery and not labor.

1. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DAUPSA
LA is densifying around transit. It’ll end up with islands of dense areas connected by trains.
No. The authors state that their conclusion is not altered by the change in calculations. As per TFA:

> "This calculation error does not affect the overall conclusion of the paper," the correction reads. The corrected study still ends by saying that the flame retardants "significantly contaminate" the plastic products, which have "high exposure potential."
We need an AI to pick the correct topics and raise us properly.
This is not really how accident liability is sorted. Most countries have a clause in their traffic law that states that even if you're in the right, you must still do everything feasible to prevent an accident. If anything, I would imagine that self-driving cars would be held to a higher standard here, not humans.
Possession truly is 9/10ths of the law in this case I guess?
I'm not 100% sure why, but this is incredibly compelling to me as a fun developer-y thing. I want to use this.
Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for a delicious chocolate cheesecake.
Signs of consciousness in AI: Can GPT-3 tell how smart it is?
It can be true that crime can be decreasing and that retail thefts can be up.

Crimee trends can change as opportunity shifts.

This seems to be fueled by perceived changes in the legal risk of smash and grabs.
How is that clear? Perhaps they are a group that exists to do studies like that.
I mean, the email says it's from Google Forms. Is that not suspect enough?
Suspension Backpack Makes Its Contents Lighter
If you've used Google Chromecast or Google Chrome, a Tesla, or an Xbox, keeping software up to date isn't the chore it once was. Or you have to update to go online/have the car drive. The "guarantee" is that the other players who were too aggressive and did bad had to exit the industry. Uber killed a woman and exited the industry. Cruise dragged a woman 20 feet and lied about having footage of it, and exited the industry.

So you ask what's the guarantee, and the guarantee is the same as when Google came out with Gmail, and everyone said that's stupid because how are you going to read your email when that website is down, so then they made it so that website doesn't go down.
Hey, Steve here from tldraw.

We had a bunch of fun putting this together so I'm really happy to see folks enjoying it. I'm not sure where the project is going but I've been waking up for weeks with a fresh "oh christ, we could do ___", so that's exciting.

Ask me anything!
Well shoot. Now i want to record everything in my house and transcribe it for logs. I already wanted to do that but didn't think there was a sane way.. assuming this lets me create a custom pipeline, that's wicked
> some/many of the young LGBTQ+ people are against learning from their elders.

Well almost a complete generational cohort of their elders is simply missing. They died of aids in the 80s and 90s.
Let's not forget unless this is constantly uploading, hostile folks will be even more inclined to attempt assault to 'remove evidence' from the employee.
So after all there's no coordination, it's about what different media outlets perceive as newsworthy and of value to people.

Is this what you mean?

Because "coordination" means that there's an effort to make different parts of a system work effectively as a whole.
So the main concept people are having a disagreement here is around the concept of risk versus hazard. A thing can be a hazard, without being a risk. The data you should use to decide to take action is the amount of risk, not the amount of hazard. In the specific scenario of humans ingesting potentially dangerous substances, usually risk is directly related to the amount of exposure to a hazard. In other words, you can think of it as "risk = hazard * exposure."

For example:

- If you're a smoker, your exposure to the hazardous substances in cigarette smoke is sky-high. The risk to your health of being a smoker is so high and so clear that societies spend millions of dollars to try to convince people of the risk.

- If you're living with a smoker, but not a smoker yourself, then your exposure is lower, but still high enough to be actionable. So we see indoor smoking bans and 2nd hand smoke information also included in anti-smoking campaigns.

- If you're walking down the sidewalk and pass by a smoker for three seconds, you're still encountering the exact same hazard, but your exposure is so low that the risk is not really actionable. It's not like we see big public campaigns about crossing the street to avoid the risk of 3 seconds of exposure to second hand smoke. That's because the risk isn't there.

- Someone smoking in their house 50 miles from you is obviously zero risk to you at all, even though the hazard still exists.

You can see the same kind of pattern everywhere: car exhaust is the same hazard everywhere, but whether it's a risk worth actioning depends on whether you live in a dense urban center, or next to a busy freeway, or out in the exurbs.

So back to the plastic stuff. The study authors were claiming that the level of risk was high enough to justify everyone in the world throwing their utensils away and buying brand new ones. When it came out that the exposure factor of their "risk = hazard * exposure" formula was actually off by a factor of 10, they... stuck with the exact same story? I don't know, man. The original claim was below the acceptable risk threshold, and now it's even ten times lower than that. Surely that has some impact on the level of risk? Does this drop the risk from "smoker" to "passing by a smoker for 3 seconds"?

The distinction matters when deciding how much effort mitigating this risk requires: should I throw everything out right now, or just buy something else when my current ones wear out, or is the risk actually so low that it really does not matter? If I replace them, what is the level of risk of the things I replace them with? Should society put in the effort to ban these chemicals? What are the pros/cons of that? Are the risks mitigated worth the costs?

The authors' refusal to acknowledge this really makes me doubt that their conclusion is not affected by some kind of bias. The jury's still out, sure, but I'm not yet sold on their risk claims.
The Waymo failure mode of false positives (signals but doesn't turn) seems much better than the human failure mode of false negatives (doesn't signal but turns)!
>Almost a quarter century later, I remain amazed that Americans put up with locks the government has the key to (on our luggage). As someone who grew up in the Cold War, that’s the sort of thing we would have expected from the Soviets.

Remember, Americans reacted to the drugs and crime of the 80s and 90s by throwing more government invasion of privacy and erosion of due process at that problem too.
Unless we really can finally stop drunk driving overnight after all these years of trying I don't agree the comparison should result in significantly different policy. I want to know how Waymo statistically compares to all of all the actual drivers when setting policy, not how Waymo compares to what we wish real drivers would have been like. The only mistake would be to compare solely to drunk drivers, which is what you comment makes it sound like.

I would like to see the data sets filtered to match driving areas though. I.e. Waymo drives almost exclusively in urban environments so per mile data should be compared almost exclusively to urban driver data.
If lead pipes were good enough for the Romans, they should be good enough for us!
> may not have as strong an effect as one might like

You’re forgetting how much crime is motivated by “merciful” judges afraid to give long sentences to people who are incapable of functioning in society.

All you have to do is look at El Salvador for the ultimate proof study. According to CNN, murders fell by 97.7%. The western academic whines about the innocent; but NGOs invited to oversee the project have yet to make a single convincing innocence story.

There’s also the issue that crime is fundamentally, at its very root, a punishment of the innocent. Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the harmless.
IG users and Tiktok users were / are quite similar. Especially when Tiktok wasn't yet eating IGs lunch.
FAA updates Starship launch license for next flight – SpaceNews
> Analytics in Home Assistant are opt-in and do not reflect the entire Home Assistant userbase. We estimate that a third of all Home Assistant users opt in.
I don't know, but are we going to pretend that it would be particularly difficult to get funding for drastically simplifying and improving the tooling for one of the world's most popular programming languages?

I'm not sure how Rust is doing it, but the problem is hardly insurmountable.
An Indian state used citizens' data on political beliefs to deny benefits
you have no issues using iphone/pixel/whatever you got based on how those are manufactured? you gonna buy your next phone from a local producer?

At least in the USA we have some semblance of a Labor Department etc...
Google DeepMind's GenCast is based on diffusion:
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gencast-predicts-weath...

(Partially) Google Research's/DeepMind's NeuralGCM is based on hybrid models using ODEs and learnt physics:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07744-y

Microsoft Research's Aurora on vision transformers:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/introducing-au...

Huawei's Pangu Weather is also a 3D transformer I believe
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07744-y

I just wanted to highlight that there are multiple approaches in use for the same problem / in the same domain, and GNN does not seem to be the most widely used one.
> Calling for algorithm and advertising transparency should not be controversial.

It's not. You just picked the least controversial one.

> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

I don't care what they define as factual. Give me what I look for, not what I did not look for.
What about the many real open source RISC V?
Fun fact: there was a brief period after music recording, but before copies could be made with much quality, where if you wanted them to sound halfway decent each recording had to be a unique performance. Studio musicians were paid to perform popular songs over and over. When making copies became more feasible, there was backlash from some musicians, both for financial and artistic reasons - not unlike when recorded music started becoming popular in the first place. Not hard to see the similarities with modern distribution woes like piracy and streaming too.
Honestly, seeing this on the front page had my hopes up they had found out a way forward but alas.
Same for Mensa. I've never seen an actual member write MENSA but people who fake being members do it constantly. Think it might come from some of the organization's various wordmark logos being misinterpreted.
The door is not wide open to potential partners, but it’s also not closed —> door ajar.
> You also imply that "spinning up a new BEAM process" has significant overhead, either computationally or cognitively. That, again, is false.

Spawning 1M processes with Elixir is anywhere between ~2.7 and 4 GiB with significant CPU overhead. Alternatives are much more efficient at both: https://hez2010.github.io/async-runtimes-benchmarks-2024/tak... (a revised version).

Go, for example, probably does not want you to spawn the Goroutines that are too short-lived as each one carries at least 2KiB of allocations by default which is not very kind to Go's GC (or any GC or allocator really). So it expects you to be at least somewhat modest at such concurrency patterns.

In Erlang and Elixir the process model implementation follows similar design choices. However, Elixir lets you idiomatically await task completion - its approach to concurrency is much more pleasant to use and less prone to user error. Unfortunately, the per-process cost remains very Goroutine-like and is the highest among concurrency abstractions as implemented by other languages. Unlike Go, it is also very CPU-heavy and when the high amount of processes are getting spawned and exit quickly, it takes quite a bit of overhead for the runtime to keep up.

Sure, BEAM languages are a poor fit for compute-intensive tasks without bridging to NIFs but, at least in my personal experience, the use cases for "task interleaving" are everywhere. They are just naturally missed because usually the languages do not make it terse and/or cheap - you need to go out of your way to dispatch operations concurrently or in parallel, so the vast majority doesn't bother, even after switching to languages where it is easy and encouraged.

(I'm not stating that async/await model in .NET is the superior option, I just think it has good tradeoffs for the convenience and efficiency it brings. Perhaps a more modern platform will come up with inverted approach where async tasks/calls are awaited by default without syntax noise and the cost of doing "fork" (or "go" if you will) and then "join" is the same as with letting the task continue in parallel and then awaiting it, without the downsides of virtual threads in what we have today)
The US is one of the top jailers of the world.

I suspect that's actually due to an extremely bad false positive rate on the police and court system; jailing a lot of non-violent people for petty incidents and failing to address more serious crimes if they're even slightly hard to investigate.
By global standards, the US is not a low trust society, and very few countries could really be considered high trust (https://ourworldindata.org/trust).
I am maybe missing something obvious here, but isn't it suspicious that these attacks "affecting a small number of google users" happened to "hit" two people with significant cryptocurrency holdings?
We have plenty of strong evidence for the safety of tons of things. My ancestors have been consuming cow's milk, mache, and wine for thousands of years. If these things were not safe for consumption, we wouldn't be consuming them to this day. My bloodline wouldn't have made it this far. We don't add poison hemlock to our mache salads because thousands of years ago, some poor souls gave us strong evidence that it's not something you should eat, and that knowledge was passed down to us.
This article is saying that a bunch of nobodies found an audience via collaborative filtering on Spotify. “Organically.” But then, to save money, and because these nobodies have no power, Spotify authored similar music. On its route to organic charts, real musicians who were nonetheless nobodies were displaced by these fake ones.

Spotify put its thumb on the scales by changing the contents of named playlists, which are more like radio stations. They are Spotify creations and curations, and they are choosing to curate more explicitly.

The alternative is that the New Yorker authors a playlist of its daily new tracks you should listen to. 100% of those tracks that belong to nobodies / bonafide new artists, those artists would have to know someone at the New Yorker to appear on such a playlist. In radio, this took the form of pay to play.
Or, it really is there to inhibit theft by employees, and safety is just the public rationalization.
Maybe just make a PDF and publish that to the site?

I am doing that at:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcodepre...

(but admittedly it's a very different project and no copyright complexities)
It’s possible to synchronise secrets without sharing them with a third party: just encrypt them locally, transmit to third party, download to other device, decrypt.

This could be made easy for users by having each device share a public key with the third party (Google, in this case), then the authenticator app on one device could encrypt secrets for the other devices.

This would be vulnerable to Google lying about what a device’s public key is, of course, but enduring malice is less likely (and potentially more detectable) than one-time misbehaviour.
Consider what life will be like for the employee once they combine this with vision models. Constant supervision by an all-seeing robo-boss.
You do have a pretty niche use case tho. Aany issues with inferior product quality ?
Micropayments exist in apps, and yet that hasn't done anything to stop apps from having both micropayments while also being infested with ads.

It's time to dispense with the myth that micropayments were a missed opportunity for the web. Commercialization enshittified the web, and micropayments would have just accelerated that decline.
We are talking about black plastic spatulas and spoons, right? Existing cookware? Non-plastic replacements' price is less than 5 euro at IKEA, possibly less at local kitchenware stores... What urgency would there be apart from 'oh I need to pick up a wooden spatula for eur 0.50 next time I go to IKEA'...
> - You ll have to dispute a dead family member against a faceless company that conveniently deleted crucial logs.

On the contrary, of all my negative experiences biking in NYC over 10 years, the _only_ time I was able to hold a driver accountable was when they were riding a Revel scooter in which case the "faceless company" took them off their platform. This comment seems to significantly overestimate how easy it to hold human drivers accountable.
> third parties taking advantage of their playlist model.

Not really, it's a collaboration since Spotify actively promotes these third parties because they cost less royalties
Here's a link to a documentary on when these coupling deviced carriages are taken too far:

https://youtu.be/nX5PwfEMBM0
Assymetric recording. There will be people recording you, but you'll be either legally barred from recording them or banned from publishing it on the Internet.

(this is likely where the norms around recording will end up - reinforcing the existing power structure)
I’m so happy this drama came now and not later.

I was in the process of setting up a simple Wordpress site for my wife’s business, to replace the Adobe portfolio she is currently using… so thanks, I guess?
And just like the NASA space pen story, the private sector is developing them on their own at their own risk, with maybe some indirect grants or subsidies, but not a direct contract specifically for the government to be a beneficiary.

Way more money is being wasted on the grifts surrounding developing public transit infrastructure. LA County for example is 88 different municipalities and it will never get resolved.
NASA, Axiom Space Change Assembly Order of Commercial Space Station
This is definitely going to be coming.

You'll be able to pay more to take a single dedicated vehicle the whole way, or less that includes a self-driving bus or two for most of the middle segment of your journey.

But the bus "routes" will be totally dynamic based on demand, and will only stop occasionally, and you won't have to wait long.

It's going to be a complete revolution in public transit.
Was this all a big Ovaltine scam
> ..not how Waymo compares to what we wish real drivers would have been like.

I want to see "all the things", but in specific reply to this point, i want to see this because i have no intention to commit a DUI myself. So the bar for me personally is how well it'll do compared to safe drivers.

Lots of stats are useful, but i don't think we should undersell the various "ai vs me" comparisons that individuals could use. Since those are the ones that will help people decide if they themselves can/should/shouldn't take a Waymo or w/e.
Well, that hasn't worked thus far...

The United States leads the world in total number of people incarcerated, with more than 2 million prisoners nationwide (per data released in October 2021 by World Prison Brief). This number is equivalent to roughly 25% of the world's total prison population and leads to an incarceration rate of 629 people per 100,000—the highest rate in the world.

...maybe it's time to try a different approach like maybe slowing the transfer of wealth to plutocrats and back to the lower and middle classes.