Hacker News: belltaco

Girls outperform boys from primary school to university

belltaco — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:53:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/news/girls-outperform-boys

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39340873

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

How much 1 TB of egress costs by cloud provider

belltaco — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 20:02:10 +0000

Article URL: https://getdeploying.com/reference/data-egress

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39329677

Points: 70

# Comments: 2

New Evidence Suggests Long Covid Could Be a Brain Injury

belltaco — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 03:18:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-evidence-suggests-long-covid-could-be-brain-injury-2024a10002v0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39323245

Points: 15

# Comments: 7

New comment by belltaco in "VR porn a no go for Apple Vision Pro users as capability blocked by Apple"

belltaco — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:25:38 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39277283

New comment by belltaco in "VR porn a no go for Apple Vision Pro users as capability blocked by Apple"

belltaco — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:25:27 +0000

Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39277283

Blizzard Voice Effects Artist on why they left Blizzard

belltaco — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 02:24:16 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/notsolittlec/status/1755705709667180594

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39310690

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

New comment by belltaco in "Pakistan cuts off phone and internet services on election day"

belltaco — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:58:09 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus

New comment by belltaco in "Sudo for Windows"

belltaco — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:53:03 +0000

Why is that?

New comment by belltaco in "Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced"

belltaco — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:11:01 +0000

I tried this

> write a powershell script to crawl an entire website and download all images

It still refuses to generate code for that.

New comment by belltaco in "Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced"

belltaco — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:15:55 +0000

Write a powershell script to download all images from a web page and crawl the site.

New comment by belltaco in "Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say"

belltaco — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 04:12:50 +0000

My reading was that the Waymo was turning left. Remember, the description is from Waymo's PR, so that's why it's vague on purpose and needs to be taken with a grain of salt. According to another comment bikes can treat stop signs as yield signs in California. If the bike illegally ran a stop sign I would think Waymo would say or imply that.

New comment by belltaco in "Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say"

belltaco — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 04:02:45 +0000

They did say that the Waymo only braked after the cyclist was 'fully visible'. They won't be releasing the footage on their own.

New comment by belltaco in "Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say"

belltaco — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:59:23 +0000

If the description is correct then the cyclist was going into the space that they could see in front of them, unlike the Waymo. Someone else said that stop signs are legally equivalent to yield signs for bicycles in California. They probably couldn't see the Waymo because it was occluded by the truck, so how could they yield to it.

This is why straight going traffic always has the right of way if the roads are similarly sized, and it's on the turning vehicle to stop and wait at the turn.

I would also hope that self driving cars are programmed to drive defensively and conservatively over trying to shave off a second or two of drive time.

New comment by belltaco in "Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say"

belltaco — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:21:47 +0000

I wonder if short range radar or sonar can help tell if there's something behind a large truck with the wave or sound reflections. If bats can do it, why can't computers?

New comment by belltaco in "Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say"

belltaco — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:19:51 +0000

Looks like the Waymo vehicle was turning after an all-way stop sign?

Is this a good representation with the blue car being the Waymo and the truck being the red car?

https://taylorkinglaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/4-Way-S...

Wonder why it was cutting so close to the large truck's back while accelerating during the turn that it couldn't see the cyclist till it was too late.

Them saying the car braked only after the cyclist was fully visible is additional cause for concern. Those are precious fractions of seconds. Doesn't Waymo use LIDAR? Shouldn't it detect the partial cyclist as a solid obstruction and start braking before the object recognition kicked in and recognized it as a cyclist? What if it was a trailer?

Many excess deaths attributed to natural causes are uncounted Covid-19 deaths

belltaco — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:06:50 +0000

Article URL: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-analysis-reveals-excess-deaths-attributed.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39296033

Points: 10

# Comments: 10

New comment by belltaco in "Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV"

belltaco — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 21:10:19 +0000

At least Hyundai hasn't been faking emissions tests like Toyota.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/commit...

Not to mention spending a lot on lobbying against clean air regulations aroun the world https://thedriven.io/2023/05/11/toyota-under-fire-for-anti-c...

New comment by belltaco in "Someone walking with a Vision Pro gets hit with a black mirror like experience"

belltaco — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:47:09 +0000

Imagine if this happens when someone's driving with it on. Apple shouldn't have had a mode called 'driving', it should've been called passenger.

https://preview.redd.it/theres-a-driving-mode-on-vision-pro-...

Someone walking with a Vision Pro gets hit with a black mirror like experience

belltaco — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:46:17 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/virtualreality/comments/1al558b/someone_walking_with_a_vision_pro_and_gets_hit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39294087

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by belltaco in "Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV"

belltaco — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:18:06 +0000

Toyota was forced to recall all their BZX cars for that issue, whereas the scale of the problem you linked appears to be much lower across Tesla's models.