skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if they are going to present it that uncharitably then yes, people would walk out. Cars with basic ADAS have been selling just fine, and their ".* assist" features have been sold by dealerships just fine. This just slots into the same category. "Manages your steering on long straight stretches of highways" is not a hard thing to convey.

What you said would be the case if they had the baggage of "full self driving" marketing over 10 years.
It's been proven in the developed world too.

It's been proven with children of rich families who become dependent.

It's been proven with poor communities who become dependent.

Most people don't do anything productive if they don't have to, and as this goes on they lose the capacity to do anything productive.
This make me think of the essay "I,Pencil" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
In early 2020 I used a Comma 2 on my Honda Civic for a few weeks.

It had one failure, but the way it failed was so alarming I'm hesitant to ever try them again. It not only failed while engaged, but it froze which meant it still showed the bright green outline indicating "I'm still engaged!" with no alert sounds, visual indication of disengagement, or automatic restart.

I only noticed something was off when my car started to drift outside the lanes during a curve, which took me longer to notice than necessary because it still looked engaged and it looked like a somewhat typical case of understeering until I started exiting the lane. It also never booted back on again, so something went seriously wrong during an otherwise routine drive.

Stock driver assistance systems (e.g. Rivian Driver+, Tesla Autopilot) have redundant computers it can fall back on if the primary fails. If Comma offered a self-contained device that was demonstrably redundant at a hardware level I'd be willing to give it another shot!
I agree re KPIs and engineering.
But, statecraft is people. You’re not dealing with bits :)
You need FFmpeg installed, yes. But it's not a separate step you have to do.
Looks like it, based on this video driving on the left side of the road in what looks to be Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkh3s6WHJz8
Yes, it is called persistence hunting, and humans are very well adapted to this style of hunting because of our ability to shed heat and run/walk very efficiently. Wolves are another animal that has this behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/sing...
Wait until you spend time learning probability, or worse, biology.
Is this a product for the USA? Is the grid that bad to need something like that?
Bluey is much more wholesome than Miraculous. Not a judgement thing, my eldest watches Miraculous too and I don't really have a problem with it. It's just not on the same level as Bluey. A huge plus for parents is also that Bluey is WAY more engaging for adults. Far and away my favourite program to watch with my kids. Some episodes really pull at the heart strings.
What's the chance that a driver will sit there for 350 miles and not pull out their phone, fall asleep, or otherwise drift off while sitting for hours doing literally nothing but required to be fully alert.
I'm giving limited examples, not a conclusive list of how audio could be manipulated. I understand that there are circumstances where my examples don't work.

My broader point is that audio evidence has never been perfect, just like every other medium that evidence can exist in.

Generative audio technology is not the first time that audio has been corruptible as evidence, and any lawyer who believed otherwise was naive at best.
The event was far worse than this article makes out. There were sharks aswell. That should give an idea of the environment those men were in. Waist deep in sea water, in a dense swamp, pitch black, being killed by sharks and crocs while dehydrating
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I watched a few episode of Bluey and I feel they are really great for parents. So great that I think they are meant for parents, not children...
What are the agents doing for you? Just interested in your actual use cases.
Watching the Cricket episode made me tear up.
https://www.bluey.tv/watch/season-3/cricket/
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Along with Bluey, Gabby's Dollhouse is pretty good. It’s not over stimulating and it’s interactive.
No one without some sort of ideological bias is going to do a serious study to address the question. That’s my point.
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I don't really get the OOP arguments from Anders. You don't need to do OOP stuff in C# - just write a bunch of static functions if you want. However, I totally get the AOT aspect. Creating a simple cli app meant for wide distribution in .NET isn't great because you either have to ship the runtime or try to use AOT which is very much a step out. I have come to the same conclusion and used Go on some occasions for the same reason despite not knowing it very well.

If doing a web server, on the other hand, these things wouldn't matter at all as you would be running a container anyway.
Bluey is next-level. S-tier television. It’s wholesome, calm, and entertaining. Episodes like Camping, Baby Race, Cricket, and Onesies are all emotional sucker-punches to the adults watching. (My pet theory, which my wife first suggested: Camping is essentially the Star Trek TNG episode Darmok.)
Lithium batteries can be made to be safe. There are millions of electric cars on the road.
When your daughter gets a little older I’d recommend checking out Gabby’s Dollhouse.
> The world is changing before our eyes. The coding LLMs we have already are good but the ones in the pipeline are better. The ones coming next year are likely to be even better. It is time to revisit our long held opinions.

Making technical decisions based on hypothetical technologies that may solve your problems in "a year or so" is a gamble.

> And in the case of "reads data from a OS socket/file-descriptor and writes data to a OS socket/file-descriptor", which is the case for a significant number of applications including web servers, I'm starting to doubt that choosing a scripting language for that task, as I once advocated, is a good plan given what I am seeing.

Arguably Go is a scripting language designed for exactly that purpose.
I'm very interested in this. I spent awhile a year or so ago researching and speccing out a similar project. I was thinking potentially you could offer a product like this for free or very cheap in a deal where the home owner pays their normal current utility rates but you switch them to time of use rates and offload enough of their usage during peak to make a profit. I was also thinking potentially utilities would pay to use devices like these for demand response if you were able to get decent scale which could also be part of the model to offering them for free/cheap.

Some random thoughts:

- I really like the industrial design on your device. The form factor for right above the fridge is exactly what I was envisioning.

- I would love a lower than 20 ms switching time. This is right on the border of might keep your machine on or not. I don't understand why battery backups for hardware have been so stuck and mediocre for so long. Last i checked there was only really one company selling LiFePO for this target. A Pila mini 200-300 Wh with a faster switching time would be amazing and would sell a lot i think if under $300.

- I was hopeful when I first saw this that you had sorted out some way to easily have this run on mains or at least a single circuit. Which i understand would require some level of electrical work but i don't understand why that has to be such a big barrier and why it can't be simplified and standardized enough to the same level as like installing a smart thermostat so even if you are renting it is just a minor inconvenience/cost thing.

- There are significant diminishing returns to the amount of battery backup in my opinion. There is a huge advantage to having any system at all even just a few hundred Wh just to run some lights and charge devices or fridge for a bit. I don't have the data but anecdotally most outages are in the hours range not days range. Still for some reason a HUGE percent of people have absolutely no battery backup at all. And then on the other end full sized power your whole home with no lifestyle adjustments for days systems that costs tens of thousands are equally ridiculous. The sweet spot is a couple kWh in terms of giving you still a lot of flexibility but reasonable prices, oddly to me this seems the most underserved segment.

On my original idea I was thinking of a device similar to your form factor but target squarely at running fridges for ~8-12 hours. Fridge alone won't work for time of use but if you could manufacture this as cheap as possible and make a deal with utilities from the demand response angle and some sort of special time of use deal I think there could be a sweet business. You would have to target specific utilities/regions at a time but if you could get 50k plus units in a region and at under $200 to the consumer I think utilities would be interested.
Cricket took out Sleepytime as my favorite.
If you're in Australia, there's a live Gabby's Dollhouse theatre show on at the moment that's also very good: https://gabbysdollhouselive.com/
It feels like the friction to get un-science has been completely removed now. Before you had to get lagged content and physically fetch it somehow. Now you can have it in the palm of your hands 24-7 with the bonus of the content being designed to enrage you to get you sucked in.
There will be a period of transition, but society is simply not going to function the way older generations came to take for granted. The reckoning is here. Power secures itself.
I’d wager you don’t have children, at least not high-energy ones.
Or maybe you’re thinking of Muffin.
Unfortunately, AC powerlines are extremely noisy. Powerline comms are used by SolarEdge to communicate with their optimizers. Because it’s a small closed loop there is far less noise than the home grid.
It would be big enough that people would find it annoying (unless using AOT which is hard).
> To me people pushing for self checkout sounds like somebody preferring self service over full service gas stations - I find it difficult to understand.

For gas stations, it’s faster for me to not have to wait for an attendant. I don’t have to let someone else touch my credit card and/or give them my zip code. And I don’t have someone else continue filling the tank after the pump automatically stops, preventing gas to drip down the side of the car.

For retail stores, self checkout is quicker, as stores are mostly not staffed well enough to compete with the self checkout lanes.
Worse than math, where set theory, type theory, group theory, and category theory all exist and refer to barely-related things?
It definitely does load shifting and utility rate arbitrage (and solar power charging) as a side benefit, but it’s not built to be an arbitrage machine. Its primary use case is backup, for now.
In accounting, a "journal" is a chronological record of financial transactions.
Acquisition is a common result for sucsessful deep tech startups. It's because scaling in these markets is hard and better done at large companies.
From their perspective, if they don’t have your data, it’s too easy to switch providers.
You can have both.

Plenty of phones had replaceable batteries, water resistance, and headphone sockets.

Of course, that was before Apple issued the edict that it was impossible.
Reminds me of: https://xkcd.com/2205/
I think it can charge when power is cheap (or off solar if you have it), and then power a device (like a fridge) when power is expensive, even if you aren't in the midst of a power outage. So it's a bit more than a UPS, and isn't just for handling outages.

Regarding cost, looks like this is $1k for a 1.6kWh battery. The Powerwall 3 is $9874 (plus installation costs) for a 13.5kWh battery. So Plia costs $625/kWh, while Powerwall 3 will run you $731.41/kWh. So it does seem the Plia is price-competitive, assuming my paragraph above is correct. And Powerwall will cost you even more than that per kWh since Plia is a self-install, while Powerwall is not.

Granted, there are cheaper options than Powerwall.

Plia certainly has its downsides: if you want it to power everything in your home, you have to put one (or more) in each room and plug everything into it (that's 8 or 9 Plias per Powerwall-equivalent). Presumably a whole-home battery can charge faster than a Plia, since you're probably plugging it into a 15A outlet where it'll be pulling less than 1800W.
The $$$ per second of shooting that is hilarious. I guess that’s what shooting IMAX feels like, but only for like 3 and a half seconds at a time.
Tumble Leaf. Slumberkins.
I’ve been telling my wife, when she worries about all this, that I think a lot of people are gonna be surprised that living in a Russian-style America isn’t going to be all that different, day to day.
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I kept missing important discussions happening around topics I cared about.

A Reddit thread, an HN post, a tweet or something on LinkedIn by the time I saw them, it was already too late to join the conversation.

Google Alerts? Too slow, too many irrelevant results.
Manually searching? Not scalable.

So I built PingNews.io, a real-time mention tracking & AI digest tool to solve this problem.

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I'd love to hear what you think—what other features would be useful? This is my first every launch.
No, I don't think that's fair. There are 2 assumptions in your comment which I think the poster you're replying to is suggesting you should reevaluate:

> The food quality is trash, and the prices are so high

If these assumptions are true, it makes sense why you wouldn't understand why McDonalds is relevant / successful.

I do not think these assumptions are true. The food quality is fine - it's somewhere between palatable and mildly tasty for most people. If you use their app, the prices are lower than most other places you could get the same number of calories + protein content.

The food is also very consistent. I've surely gone to at least 20 different McDonalds locations in my life all over the USA, and it tastes pretty much the same every time. I can't say the same for most of their competitors.
Daniel Tiger (Mr Rogers spinoff/remake/???) is really quite good as well. They did well at preserving the idea of the original in a very different format.
Zigbee is on the same frequency as WiFi and therefore suffers from all the same issues that WiFi has interference and limited range. SolarCity used Zigbee for communication with solar inverters. It was very unreliable. Tesla moved to WiFi after acquiring SolarCity.
Bluey is flawed and often in the wrong, that is kind of the point of her character.
Are there any reliable sites for ranking and benchmarking self-driving capabilities? (i.e. similar to what WebDev Arena and SWE-bench do for LLMs).

Curious where telsa and comma rank, and where others (e.g. mercedes) rank comparatively.
The analog hole. As long as human eyes can perceive the video, there will always be a way to preserve it, even if we need to fall back to analog (we wont, probably).
The point of the bear thesis on OpenAI is that training frontier models is extraordinarily expensive. They can’t produce cutting edge models, charge a cheap price, and make a profit all at once
> One notable appliance you don't mention on your website is electric water pumps for wells in rural areas....

We had a well in one of the houses we lived in when I was a kid, and its pump was wired directly to our mains panel. So this sort of thing wouldn't work with a Plia, which assumes you're dealing with stuff that plugs into a normal electrical outlet.

Certainly this type of setup could be rewired to have an outlet and a plug in the middle, but for most people that would mean hiring an electrician.
If it is breakpoints you are concerned about, you can set a breakpoint on a method in the chain and inspect `self`.
Blueys great, my kid loses his shit when the shows on. Its also interesting seeing a female character marketed to kids as a segment rather than just young girls which isnt that common.

My son is still under 2, so he prefers other low intensity shows like Mini Kids and Night Garden. The way he gets into Mini Kids is insane, I havent seen cocomelon but I am betting he would get drawn too far into that. Mini Kids sounds like the antidote to cocomelon, no fast cuts, slow music, and mostly just toddlers interacting with toys and each other on television.
Google is not a company I would want to work for.
The Rain episode is pretty cool too. It has almost no words apart from the goodbye at start. The good thing about bluey is that it teaches kids to do mischievous things and gives you ideas to do fun activities with kids.

https://www.bluey.tv/watch/season-3/rain/
Folks really like their intermediate dataframes... for "debugging".
I had a similar experience. I was a lead on a project where the client sent a functional expert to literally (at times) watch over my shoulder as I worked. He got very frustrated after a few weeks, seeing little in the way of code being laid down. He even complained to the project manager. That's because this was a complicated manufacturing system, and I was absorbing the necessary rules for it and designing it... a process that involved mostly sitting and thinking.

When I decided on the final design and basically barfed all the code out in a matter of days, I walked this guy (a non-programmer) through the code. He then wrote my manager a letter declaring it to be the "most beautiful code he had ever seen." I still have the Post-It she left in my cube telling me that.

I have little tolerance for untidy code, and also overly-clever syntax that wastes the reader's time trying to unravel it.

And now we have languages building more inconsistent and obscure syntax in as special-case options, wasting more time. Specifically I'm thinking about Swift; where, if the last parameter in a function call is a closure, it's a "trailing" closure and you can just ignore the function signature and plop the whole closure right there AFTER the closing parenthesis. Why?https://www.hackingwithswift.com/sixty/6/5/trailing-closure-...

This is just one example, and yeah... you can get used to it. But in this example, the language has undermined PARENTHESES, a notation that is almost universally understood to enclose things. When something that basic is out the window, you're dealing with language designers who lack an appreciation for human communication.
This is my favorite comment!
That all makes sense. A few more questions, if you'll humor me:

Why not leverage an existing smart home mesh networking technology? I know the industry has made a hash of the whole Matter/Thread thing, so if the answer is "we didn't like the existing solutions" that's understandable to some extent.

That said, Zigbee seems like an obvious fit here. Adding resilient links to a vendor-agnostic smart home network seems like a selling point to me.

What features will and won't be available in the MQTT interface? Given this product's narrative revolves around resilience in the face of infrastructure failures, I'd hope that the app can use MQTT to provide a complete user experience even when the mothership can't be reached.
I had to block this one in my house. Daniel is whiny and my kid started mimicking it, otherwise I think it's good
Oh, I thought that the name seemed familiar - this guy worked on some of the fancy graphics in Counter-Strike Global Offensive and Dota 2.
The last one is better as:

SELECT * FROM authors WHERE author_id IN (SELECT author_id FROM books WHERE pageCount > 1000);

But I think you're missing the point. The functional/procedural style of writing is sequentialized and potentially slow. It's not transactional, doesn't handle partial failure, isn't parallelizable (without heavy lifting from the language--maybe LINQ can do this? but definitely not in Java).

With SQL, you push the entire query down into the database engine and expose it to the query optimizer. And SQL is actually supported by many, many systems. And it's what people have been writing for 40+ years.
It's not that hard to understand when it's not fast like the fishing in bright light part you mentioned IMO. I've had much more trouble with some very thick NYC accents and Caribbean accents (although I put that down more to vocabulary preferences - when the phrasing isn't what you expect it's harder to understand).
Miraculous changes a lot in the later seasons. I'm saying this because while our kids were very much into the first 2 seasons, it was me and my wife who got hooked for the other 3 seasons.
The first 2 seasons are also full of fillers if you want, I don't shy away from skipping them when I'm alone, but we did watch it all with our kids.

We had a good time with it. Not sure if you watched it all, I'm looking forward the next season to see how the plot unravels.

But I'll definitely check Bluey :)

That being said, I wish there was a genre tagged as "engaging for adults, fun for kids": there are a bunch of movies and shows along these lines, but they aren't tagged in any other way.

Another genre that exists but I can't find is "boring for kids but child-friendly", basically any tv show that says stuff they can't properly follow, doesn't have action scenes, but has a convoluted plot for adults. On the top of my mind I can think of Shrinking (my kids still don't understand cursing in english, only italian, so this is great), but I remember there was an even better one that I can't think of right now.
Eternally grateful to PG and Jessica.
Why are they any less efficient than a single-door fridge? Losses in between the two doors? I don't see why it should be much different. Both types of fridge causes the cold air to "fall out" when you open the door(s).

A top-loading chest fridge/freezer is of course most efficient, but don't think many people have those in their kitchens.
Those are supposed to be pulled before they make it out of the packaging plant. They shine a light through the egg and detect if there is an embryo inside. The process is called "candling." Of course it is imperfect especially if the egg is very recently fertilized. I've gotten one or two with a red spot in the yolk over the years, but nothing close to a developed chick.