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by jefftk 8mo ago
I wish they included how many active cars they have at any one time so we could make a proper comparison.
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by jefftk 8mo ago
That it's 70 remote assistance people for 3,000 cars is pretty good counter-evidence to the "they're not driverless, they're remote controlled" claims.
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by jefftk 8mo ago
That's rewriting history. What they said at the time: > Nearly a year ago we wrote in the OpenAI Charter : “we expect that safety and security concerns will reduce our traditional publishing in the future, while increasing the imp
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by jefftk 8mo ago
Like (ad-funded) HN?
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by jefftk 8mo ago
Several of those have incorrect frames: https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/cyclist_23714264.htm https://www.freepik.com/premium-vector/bicycle-icon-black-li... Or missing/broken pedals: htt
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by jefftk 8mo ago
> Think of the Game hits from the 90's. A room full of people made games which shaped a generation. Maybe it was orders of magnitude harder then, but today, it's multiple orders of magnitude more people required to make them.
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by jefftk 8mo ago
> Most US states cap speed limits around schools at 15mph when children are present. Are you sure? The ones I've seen have usually been 20 or 25mph. Looking on Image Search ( https://www.google.com/search?q=school+
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by jefftk 8mo ago
How is "immediately detected the individual as soon as they began to emerge" worded weaselly?
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by jefftk 8mo ago
> people tend to drive their electric cars/trucks more gently too Really? I tend to see much more aggressive acceleration from people in electric cars (including myself when I'm driving, though I try not to). I've been
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by jefftk 9mo ago
I agree we're talking past each other somewhat, but it really feels to me like you're missing the point. Here's the convo: mg: This is a great example of how useful the File System Access API is ... auggierose: the API is
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by jefftk 9mo ago
We're talking about Simon's boosting of https://aifoc.us/the-browser-is-the-sandbox/ which is a prototype of Claude Cowork in the browser. That's what I'm saying needs read-write access.
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by jefftk 9mo ago
Not writing the feature makes sense, but pushing Firefox and Safari to add support would be pro-social if you're up for it. The most common reason for browsers not to add support is something like "this can be done in other ways,
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by jefftk 9mo ago
Providing a web app with edit access to a local directory is really needed for this to be usable. Without that you're constantly managing downloaded files and manually replacing things. I do think this is a case where the File System
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by jefftk 9mo ago
There are definitely less readable blogs, even restricting to ones that aren't intentionally hard to read. For example: https://www.lilywise.com/amusement (Disclosure: written by my kid, who was just shy of 7yo then)
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by jefftk 9mo ago
It's pretty unfortunate that the Yudkowsky-and-LessWrong crowd picked a term that traditionally meant something so different. This has been confusing people since at least 2011.
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by jefftk 9mo ago
(author) I'm really glad that you're making and selling far-UVC products. Nukit is the other manufacturer (aside from Aerolamp) that I feature on https://www.faruvc.org I really hope that your thesis is correct, and we
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by jefftk 9mo ago
That's really interesting; I had thought it was just the high CO2 was a proxy for greater occupancy, but it does look like there is a physical effect. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47777-5
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by jefftk 9mo ago
And skin damage
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by jefftk 9mo ago
(author) The non-profit OSLUV evaluates lamps and measures their emissions. Here's their evaluation for the Aerolamp, which is the one I've purchased: https://reports.osluv.org/static/assay/aerolamp%20dev
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by jefftk 9mo ago
https://www.jefftk.com
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by jefftk 9mo ago
This isn't the kind of thing you can do with a license, as long as training a model doesn't require a license. Now, that's an open question legally in the US, and there are active lawsuits, but that does seem like the way it&
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by jefftk 9mo ago
Why do you think there's was an implicit agreement that documentation was only intended for humans? I've written a lot of documentation, much of it open source, and I'm generally very excited that it has proved additionally u
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by jefftk 9mo ago
(author) This absolutely depends on the frequency of UVC and the intensity of the lamp. The lamps this post links such as https://aerolamp.net are putting out 222-nm, which is much safer than longer UVC wavelengths and the inten
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by jefftk 9mo ago
> I have not seen the pyramid with bread, cereal, rice and pasta at the base pushed for at least ~20 years. Thats right. It was replaced 20 years ago by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyPyramid
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by jefftk 9mo ago
> the first one was in 1982 or something The first one came out in 1992, and was active until MyPyramid came out in 2005. Which was then active until MyPlate came out in 2011.
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by jefftk 9mo ago
> Port allocation is hash-based—deterministic from branch name, no conflicts: > hash_val = sum(ord(c) for c in branch_name) > django_port = 8001 + (hash_val % 99) > Six agents, six features, one phone. What do yo
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by jefftk 10mo ago
It all depends on how much context the reader has. For some audiences a comment explaining bounding boxes would be helpful; for others your example comment adds nothing that isn't immediately apparent from the code. Part of figuring o
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by jefftk 10mo ago
This isn't that uncommon: * If a country doesn't have "closed borders" then many foreigners can visit if they follow certain rules around visas, purpose, and length of stay. If instead anyone can enter and live there wit
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by jefftk 10mo ago
No, Google doesn't use deceptive means. They identify their crawler as GoogleBot, and obey robots.txt.
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by jefftk 10mo ago
Whether you obey robots.txt (Google does, SerpApi doesn't) seems like an important distinction.

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