MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DisjointedHunt | 2025-04-12 13:05:38+00:00
Each Waymo is > $140,000 of customized hardware and is limited to specific cities. Autonomy in commercial vehicles is arguably led by Tesla on coverage, miles driven, ready hardware, cost per mile etc. They’re going to start pushing tests on their consumer fleet, converting them to optionally commercial taxi rides soon with the fleet owner model versus the central provider model. This is scheduled for June in Austin and confirmed to be on schedule.

You can also take fully autonomous bus rides in China right now, even there, for, early reviews, the latest Tesla Autopilot blows everything else out of the water.

I’m not trying to push Tesla alone, but I’m trying to highlight the gap in adoption goals. What is Waymos ambition this year? How much can they ramp their fleet at $140k per unit versus Teslas consumer fleet and upcoming low cost robotaxi with the mass manufacturing improvements further lowering cost per unit?
by realharo | 2025-04-12 13:06:11+00:00
What do you mean by "inspect in browser"? All major browsers' devtools have supported WebSocket inspecting for many years.

Many of the other issues mentioned are also trivial to solve (reconnects, cross-origin protection).

Also, doesn't WebTransport have many of the same issues? (e.g. with proxies and firewalls). And do you have any data for the mobile battery claim? (assuming this is for an application in foreground with the screen on)
by IshKebab | 2025-04-12 13:06:52+00:00
1. It means you don't need C code & a C compiler in your project any more, which simplifies infrastructure. E.g. cross compiling is easier without any C.

2. You can do LTO between Rust and the C->Rust code so in theory you could get a smaller & faster executable.

3. In most cases it is the first step to a gradual rewrite in idiomatic Rust.
by orasis | 2025-04-12 13:06:52+00:00
Before I tried this process I would have agreed with you, however, we focus on longevity when it’s really intimacy that leads to deep lasting connections. It’s just that with the decades long friendships there is more time and opportunity for intimacy, vulnerability, and going through some shit together.

MDMA + the 36 questions is deep intimacy, vulnerability, and often going through some shit together.

We’re also not seeking friends to do MDMA with. On a few occasions, we’ve met interesting people that there is a strong initial spark of connection with and let them know about the practice. These friendships are now very deep and loving even if only a year or 3 old. They are anything but shallow.

As for short lived, only time will tell, but even if they were to end tomorrow I will have deeply cherished the present experience of these connections. I have one 10+ year friendship that is fading and while it breaks my heart from time to time, I still love this person and would do it all over again.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-04-12 13:07:12+00:00
I'd like to write Rust, receive its safety benefits (esp borrow checker), compiler to equivalent C, and then use C's tooling on the result. Why use C's tooling?

In verification, C has piles of static analyzers, dynamic analyzers, test generators (eg KLEE), code generators (eg for parsing), a prover (Frama-C), and a certified compiler. If using a subset of these, C code can be made more secure than Rust code with more effort.

There's also many tools for debugging and maintenance made for C. I can also obfuscate by swapping out processor ISA's because C supports all of them. On the business end, they may be cheaper with lower watts.

I also have more skilled people I can hire or contract to do any of the above. One source estimated 7 million C/C++ developers worldwide. There's also a ton of books, online articles, and example code for anything we need. Rust is very strong in that last area for a new language but C/C++ will maintain an advantage, esp for low-level programming.

These are the reasons I'd use Rust if I wanted C or C++ for deployment. Likewise, I wish there was still a top-notch C++ to C compiler to get the same benefits I described with C's tooling.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-12 13:07:31+00:00
This is paywalled but his earlier piece from the 9th has been opened to all:

"All the arguments for Trump's tariffs are wrong and bad"

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/all-the-arguments-for-tariffs-...

From it I learned that only 60% of Americans disagree with the statement "Tariffs are Tax Cuts".

And also that the chaos in the markets was muted because only 15% of traders even believed the tariffs would be in place for more than 6 months.

I'm somewhat saddened that this opportunity to touch the stove has not been fully utilised and so we are doomed to repeat it.
by quickthrowman | 2025-04-12 13:07:44+00:00
This is not new to watchmaking in the slightest. Highly complicated watches have been made for over 200 years.

Henry Graves Supercomplication was made by Patel Philippe in 1933, which was 92 years ago; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patek_Philippe_Henry_Graves_...

An even older example is the Marie Antoinette watch by Abraham Breguet, which was started in 1783, 243 years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette_(watch)
by twarge | 2025-04-12 13:08:09+00:00
These shovels are marvels of mechanical disadvantage. When I had to manually plough a field, the Kodali-type shovel was a much better configuration than a normal shovel because your arms are around the shovel instead of at the far end of a stick.

https://www.ppguk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/PPG-UK-NMM-...

https://www.photosnepal.com/photo/a-kodali-blx54z6kz
by Isamu | 2025-04-12 13:08:53+00:00
People have made the point many times before, that “hallucination” is mainly what generative AI does and not the exception, but most of the time it’s a useful hallucination.

I describe it as more of a “mashup”, like an interpolation of statistically related output that was in the training data.

The thinking was in the minds of the people that created the tons of content used for training, and from the view of information theory there is enough redundancy in the content to recover much of the intent statistically. But some intent is harder to extract just from example content.

So when generating statically similar output, the statistical model can miss the hidden rules that were a part of the thinking that went into the content that was used for training.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-12 13:08:56+00:00
Clean, straightforward and to the point, not confusing, and it's not some kind of an annoying low-performance website.

Doesn't seem to require any special browser, especially not one with compromised privacy settings.

So it's really a better website than most already.

Nicely functional, but when you do the math if you're making $100000 you should be able to accommodate the $25000 Mazda; well you do return a Positive response here.

But it says:

> Possible EMI:

>$ 2217.25

> Min Required Income:

>$ 16667 /month

Which is more $ required per month than you're even making . . .

I still think you're off to a good start.

You should be able to tweak your underlying algorithms which is something completely different.

Plus everybody making the same money can not usually actually afford the same things. You could allow for a slight bit more user criteria besides currency and amount, to tailor responses according to those modifiers.

For instance, I may be an outlier, but even if I'm making a million my best instinct is that I still can't actually afford anything I don't actually need, or anything overpriced even if I have more than enough cash on hand to regularly spend more dollars on other things routinely. Always has been. This does not change according to income. My ambition lies elsewhere, luxury or not.

Doesn't mean I never indulge in something I can't actually afford occasionally, but when you make a habit of that it can be the reason if you end up never having enough cash OTOH.

You also have to be able to draw the line very accurately for yourself for things that are just plain too high a price. Or too high a price at the present time. This is the factor that I think fluctuates most closely with income level, but there are always additional things to consider.

Regardless, I do admire the acquisitions of those who are consumers of things they don't really need, and stuff like that, whether they can afford it or not.

It takes all kinds.
by wdkrnls | 2025-04-12 13:09:35+00:00
Computer scientists had this idea that some things should be public and some things private. Java takes this to the nth degree with it's public and private typing keywords. R just forces you to know the lib:::priv_fun versus lib::pub_fun trick. At best it's a signal for package end users to tell which functions they can rely on to have stable interfaces and which they can't. Unfortunately, with R's heavy use of generics it gets confusing for unwary users how developers work with the feature as some methods (e.g. different ways to summarize various kinds of standard data sets as you get with the summary generic or even the print generic) get exported and some don't with seemingly no rhyme or reason.
by tkgally | 2025-04-12 13:09:46+00:00
> My prompts are falling behind....

If you haven’t already, you might want to try metaprompting, that is, having a model write the prompt for you. These days, I usually dictate my metaprompts through a STT app, which saves me a lot of time. A metaprompt I gave to Claude earlier today is at [1]. It’s sloppy and has some transcription errors, but, as you can see, Claude wrote a complete, well-organized prompt that produced really good results from Gemini Deep Research [2]. (I notice now, though, that the report is truncated at the end.)

[1] https://claude.ai/share/94982d9d-b580-496f-b725-786f72b15956

[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1np5xdXuely7cxFMlkQm0lQ4j...
by corimaith | 2025-04-12 13:10:08+00:00
70% of these metrics are solved in China (or most places in Asia) through methods that most people in this thread would be vehemently against. You can put the mentally-ill back into sanatoriums, enforce quick and draconian response to petty crime, and pay an economic underclass a pittance to clean your streets if you wish.

Unfortunately for Americans, it's not the CEO at fault here actually, it's the middle class and left-leaning/progressive that are directly responsible for many of the problems here. The funny thing is that Republican Party being in complete power with Trump would be more similar to the CCP than the Democrats or Progressives. Suppressing dissenting voices like Pro-Palestine in order to force national homogenity is a big part of that.

And I say this as someone who supported Biden and Kamala, but these left-wingers or libertarians who are so vehemtly opposed to the US Gov but then simp for China are just being childishly incoherent.
by HeavyRain266 | 2025-04-12 13:10:26+00:00
All the people from Elixir community I met, kept telling me "Mnesia sucks, use Postgres instead" through Ecto DSL of course. Same goes about pushing towards Redis and gRPC. Most of them will try to convince you to start using Phoenix instead... Also there are very little to no references on how to use e.g. Cowboy or Bandit without Plug DSL.
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by sfx77 | 2025-04-12 13:12:16+00:00
This is more nonsense. For starters you posted a bunch of Google searches for "genocide gaza" "israel apartheid". I'm not sure what that's supposed to prove, except confirmation bias. Also posting a lot of text doesn't make you right.

Second, apartheid are a set or racist laws within a country. There is no apartheid in Israel, every citizen has equal rights including the 2 MILLION muslim arabs living there. There are Arabic political parties, Arabic supreme court judges, there was actually an Arabic supreme court judge that sent an Ashkenazi president to prison! That's not apartheid, this would never have happened in South Africa.

Genocide when you try to kill an entire people. Here is the definition "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group." How is 50k death, with about half of them being Hamas genocide? It's laughable. Israel, as they've stated many times, are after Hamas. If anything you need to re-examine your perspective. Hamas is who committed genocide, they were just too weak to pull it off.

It's funny that you mention "The Nakba" and you don't even know what it means. For starters the "catastrophe" isn't the displacement. What people mean by it is that they failed to destory Israel. Second, it didn't happen in a vaccuum. It was part of the larger context of the Arab Israeli war, where 5 countries, including many people residing in the region attempted to genocide (your favorite word) the newly formed Israel. Also, literally every history book that isn't 100% one-sided will show you that it was a mix of reasons for the 700,000 people that were displaced. Many, if not most, were urged to leave by their leader who told them they would annihilate the Jews and they could go back, some left out of fear, since war was coming, obviously, and some were driven out, which makes sense. If you attack a people, they will drive you out. Another thing that isn't mentioned there which IS an ethnic cleansing, is the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Arabic countries during that same period. If you look at the population of Arabic countries from 1948 and now you will see a stark stark difference. You definitely won't see something like 2,000,000 Jews living in these places.

What is Israel and the U.S. occupying this is a nonsense argument as well. People who claim that, think that somehow the entirety of Israel is occupied. More nonsense.

The blockade is not illegal, if it was it still wouldn't matter as no country can be expected to absorb terrorist attacks. Funny how the focus is always on Israel and not Egypt, who has a "blockade" as well. Btw, these did not exist until the Intifadas. They make sense.

The pager attack, was the single most accurate military attack in military history.

Writing "false" on my arguments doesn't maks you right. You are just spreading propaganda, and I urge anyone reading this research this on their own. You are both extremely uneducated on this and need to read books not do Google searches.
by Adverblessly | 2025-04-12 13:12:53+00:00
> a two state solution was never acceptable to Israel

Most recently in 2008, Israel made exactly such an offer and was rejected.

"Abbas has since confirmed that he turned down an Israeli offer for a Palestinian state on nearly 95% of the West Bank. In September 2008, Olmert had presented him with a map that delineated the borders of the proposed PA state, for which Israel would annex 6.3 percent of the West Bank and compensate the Palestinians with 5.8 percent (taken from pre-1967 Israel), which Abbas stated he rejected out of hand, insisting instead to demarcate the 4 June 1967 borders of Palestine. He said that Olmert did not give a map of the proposal and that he could not sign without seeing the proposal. Abbas also said that he was not an expert on maps and pointed to Olmert's corruption investigation (he was later convicted).[68][69] Abbas said in October 2011 that he made a counteroffer to let Israel annex 1.9% of the West Bank."

Sadly, English wikipedia has a lot less information on this than the Hebrew wikipedia, but maybe turn your translation software to this: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%97%D7%95%D7%AA...
by bookofjoe | 2025-04-12 13:13:30+00:00
Perplexity Pro's list of companies that have been around since 1825 (200 years ago):

1. Kongo Gumi (578 AD, Japan) 3. Specializing in temple construction for over 1,400 years, it was acquired in 2006 but still operates under Takamatsu Construction Group. 2. Drohobych Saltworks (1250, Ukraine) State-owned and Europe’s oldest salt producer, now also a cultural heritage site. 3. Shirley Plantation (1613, USA) Virginia’s oldest family-owned business, operating as a historic farm and museum. 4. Avedis Zildjian Company (1623, USA) The world’s premier cymbal manufacturer, founded in Istanbul and relocated to Massachusetts in 1929. 5. Hudson’s Bay Company (1670, Canada/USA) Originally a fur-trade monopoly, it now operates department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue. 6. White Horse Tavern (1673, USA) America’s oldest continuously running restaurant, serving patrons in Newport, Rhode Island. 7. Baker’s Chocolate (1765, USA) Launched by James Baker in Massachusetts, it remains a baking staple under Kraft Heinz ownership. 8. Laird & Company (1780, USA) The oldest licensed distillery in the U.S., producing applejack since the American Revolution. 9. King Arthur Baking Company (1790, USA) Founded in Boston, it’s now a Vermont-based leader in flour and baking products. 10. Brooks Brothers (1818, USA) America’s oldest clothing retailer, surviving bankruptcy in 2020 and continuing under new ownership.
by jruohonen | 2025-04-12 13:14:36+00:00
> This is a real problem, and AI is a new vector for it, but the root cause is the lack of reliable trust and security around packages in general.

I agree. And the problem has intensified due to the explosion of dependencies.

> Has there been any work on limiting the permissions of modules?

With respect to PyPI, npm, and the like, and as far as I know: no. But regarding C and generally things you can control relatively easily yourself, see for instance:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by j-krieger | 2025-04-12 13:14:46+00:00
> as the abuse of entrusted power

I must say as a bavarian citizen that this "abuse" has lots of benefits for us. Of course I am aware of my bias here. I can't find an interview but Söder has said that a lot of other states don't even apply to all Fördergelder they could possibly get. That always striked me as odd.
by kigiri | 2025-04-12 13:15:18+00:00
My strategy for this kind of situation is to avoid direct rejection. Instead of saying stuff like "it's unnescessary" or "you are wrong", I push for trying first without.

I would say:

> Once we have a working MVP without websockets we can talk again to think about using websocket.

Most times, once something is working, they then stop to care, or we have other priorities then.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-12 13:15:41+00:00
> Virtually everybody who ever lost a job to technology ended up better off for it.

That's plain wrong, and quite obviously so. You're demonstrating here a very common misunderstanding of the arguments people affected by (or worried about) automation taking their jobs make. In a very concise form:

- It's true that society and humanity so far always benefited from eliminating jobs through technology, in the long term.

- It's not true that society and humanity benefited in the immediate term, due to the economic and social disruption. And, most importantly:

- It's not true that people who lost jobs to technology were better off for it - those people, those specific individuals, as well as their families and local communities, were all screwed over by progress, having their lives permanently disrupted, and in many cases being thrown into poverty for generations.

(Hint: yes, there may be new jobs to replace old ones, but those jobs are there for the next generation of people, not for those who just lost theirs.)

Understanding that distinction - society vs. individual victims - will help make sense of e.g. why Luddites destroyed the new mechanized looms and weaving frames. It was not about technology, it was about capital owners pulling the rug from under them, and leaving them and their children to starve.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-04-12 13:16:02+00:00
They are amazing machines designed for fault tolerance (99.999% reliability). The Wikipedia article below has design details for how many generations were made. HP bought them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers

I think it would be useful in open-source, fault tolerance to copy one of their designs with SiFive's RISC-V cores. They could use a 20 year old approach to dodge patent issues. Despite its age, the design would probably be competitive, maybe better, than FOSS clusters on modern hardware in fault tolerance.

One might also combine the architecture with one of the strong-consistency DR'S, like FoundationDB or CochroachDB, with modifications to take advantage of its custom hardware. At the local site, the result would be easy scaling of a system whose nodes appeared to never fail. The administrator still has to do regular maintenance, though, as the system reports component failures which it works around.
by somenameforme | 2025-04-12 13:16:09+00:00
> "[Google is] a public company and have to answer to investors"

As is an increasing trend, they're a "public" company, like Facebook. They have tiered shares with Larry Page and Sergey Brin owning the majority of the voting power by themselves. GOOG shares in particular are class C and have no voting power whatsoever.
by kazinator | 2025-04-12 13:16:31+00:00
That's not the technical report; it's also just a blog article which links to someone else's paper, and finishes off by promoting something:

"Socket addresses this exact problem. Our platform scans every package in your dependency tree, flags high-risk behaviors like install scripts, obfuscated code, or hidden payloads, and alerts you before damage is done. Even if a hallucinated package gets published and spreads, Socket can stop it from making it into production environments."
by karaterobot | 2025-04-12 13:16:46+00:00
The problem is that Adobe still makes the best tools in a lot of categories.

They also have the whole ecosystem lock-in model that also worked for Apple: their products work together, so if you try to replace Photoshop, you're probably still using Illustrator, and After Effects, etc. except your workflow isn't as smooth anymore, because there's one tool in the chain that works differently than the rest.
by sfx77 | 2025-04-12 13:17:11+00:00
They've also not targeted your country either like they did Israel. Even Hungary has recognized their strange obsession with Israel recently. The ICC is part of the U.N. and have passed more resolutions against Israel, then the rest of the world combined. It's pure insanity. Especially when comparing a democracy in the Middle East, a place where every other country is either authoritarian, totalitarian, run by terrorists, or dictators. Bashar-Al-Assad has killed over 700,000 people, yet somehow Israel is worse. It's pure insanity.
by ozim | 2025-04-12 13:17:20+00:00
We do have tools but adoption is sparse. It still too much hassle.

You can do SLSA, SBOM and package attestation with confirmed provenance.

But as mentioned it still is some work but more tools pop up.

Downside is when you will have signed attested package that still will become malicious just like malware creators were signing stuff with help of Microsoft.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-04-12 13:18:39+00:00
> Put it this way — I’m going to give you a text based question to solve and you have a choice to get another human to solve it (randomly selected from adults in the US) or ChatGPT, and both will be given 30 minutes to read and solve the problem — which would you choose?

You wouldn't randomly selected an arbitrary adult from the USA to do a brain surgery on you, so this argument is rabulistic.