MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-06 00:16:13+00:00
SEC and FTC would be obvious candidates who historically would do this. States also have the ability to prosecute this via UDAP (unfair and deceptive practices) laws.

Probably Tesla being the only major domestic EV manufacturer + historically Musk not wading into politics + Musk/Tesla being widely popular for a time is probably why no one has gone after him. Not sure how this changes going forward with Musk being a very polarizing figure now.
by utyop22 | 2025-09-06 00:18:02+00:00
Personally I believe in the ideal scenario (for the fed govt.) these firms will develop the tech. The fed will then turn around and want those law suits to win - effectively gutting the firms financially and putting the tech in the hands of the public sector.

You never know, its a game of interests and incentives - one thing for sure - does does the fed want the private sector to own and control a technology of this kind? Nope.
by asdff | 2025-09-06 00:18:06+00:00
I'm not sure how cleanly that is going to scale when each and every charger is going to cost a couple grand to install. Think of all the street parking spots there are, that is an enormous amount of money. In LA county it is estimated there are 3.6 million on street and 15 million off street parking spots as of 2010 (1). Lets assume its 2k for one of these chargers assuming no further upgrades to grid infrastructure that it would just work on existing lines. Unless I fudged the numbers that's $7.2 billion dollars just for the street parking. That would buy a whole lot of bike and bus lanes that cities claim they don't have the funding currently to roll out. Probably make a good dent in rail projects as well.

https://la.streetsblog.org/2015/12/01/18-6-million-spaces-an...
by zer00eyz | 2025-09-06 00:18:14+00:00
Waymo has been testing freeway driving for a bit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/waymo/comments/1gsv4d7/waymo_spotte...

> and uses remote operators to make decisions in unusual situations and when it gets stuck.

This is why its limited markets and areas of service: connectivity for this sort of thing matters. Your robotaxi crashing cause the human backup lost 5g connectivity is gonna be a real real bad look. NO one is talking about their intervention stats. IF they were good I would assume that someone would publish them for marketing reasons.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-06 00:18:15+00:00
"Full Self Driving (Supervised)." In other words: you can take your mind off the road as long as you keep your mind on the road. Classic.

Tesla is kind of a joke in the FSD community these days. People working on this problem a lot longer than Musk's folk have been saying for years that their approach is fundamentally ignoring decades of research on the topic. Sounds like Tesla finally got the memo. I mostly feel sorry for their engineers (both the ones who bought the hype and thought they'd discover the secret sauce that a quarter-century-plus of full-time academic research couldn't find and the old salts who knew this was doomed but soldiered on anyway... but only so sorry, since I'm sure the checks kept clearing).
by epcoa | 2025-09-06 00:18:43+00:00
The person you're replying to never claimed otherwise. However, while decision support is not directly steering and accelerating/braking the car, I am just going to assert it is still driving the car, at least for how it actually matters in this discussion. And the best estimate is that these interventions are "uncommon" on the order of 10ks miles, but that isn't rare.

A system that requires a "higher level" handler is not full self driving.
by alganet | 2025-09-06 00:20:09+00:00
Well, Claude Code is sold as an easy to use magic tool.

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code

> Unleash Claude’s raw power directly in your terminal.

> Search million-line codebases instantly.

> Turn hours-long workflows into a single command.

> Your tools. Your workflow. Your codebase, evolving at thought speed.

--

> Watch as Claude Code tackles an unfamiliar Next.js project, builds new functionality, creates tests, and fixes what’s broken

No mention of "weird and unintuitive". It sounds like a dream. It sounds like it would accept a prompt for a niche raspberry pi skeleton and work with it. Can you really blame a beginner for buying the product and being disappointed?

You should be angry at the LLM companies. While you're trying to teach people, they're working to generate tons of unsatisfied customers. And they come here, and you answer them for free? It doesn't make much sense to me.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-06 00:20:09+00:00
It's by definition in terms of how these things are counted.

L4 is "full autonomy, but in a constrained environment." L5 is the holy grail: as good as or better than human in every environment a human could take a car (or, depending on who's doing the defining: every road a human could take a car on. Most people don't say L5 and mean "full Canyonero").
by adamredwoods | 2025-09-06 00:20:35+00:00
That is a retrospective meta study, which leads to lots of speculation, but little actual proof of causation.

>> The researchers noted that while steps should be taken to limit acetaminophen use, the drug is important for treating maternal fever and pain, which can also harm children.

also:

>> Baccarelli noted in the “competing interests” section of the paper that he has served as an expert witness for a plaintiff in a case involving potential links between acetominophen use during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Huh, but digging in a little more does show some stronger studies... hmmmm...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6822099/
by DoesntMatter22 | 2025-09-06 00:21:05+00:00
They went from no revenue to the 9th most valuable company in the world under him. No vehicle sales to having the best selling vehicles in the world.

They are still profitable, have very little debt and a ton of money into the bank.

Every company has hits and misses. Bezos started before Musk and still hasn't gotten his rockets into orbit.
by asdff | 2025-09-06 00:21:19+00:00
What I don't understand about this is that to my experience being driven around in friends teslas, its already there. It really seems like legalese vs technical capability. The damn thing can drive with no input and even find a parking spot and park itself. I mean where are we even moving the goalpost at this point? Because there's been some accidents its not valid? The question is how that compares to the accident rate of human drivers not that there should be an expectation of zero accidents ever.
by Agraillo | 2025-09-06 00:21:40+00:00
> It's just making sure you're not accidentally passing invalid data or performing an invalid operation.

To understand that this is a big deal, one sometimes needs to face the relaxed rules of their static language of choice. Delphi (and its ancestor Turbo Pascal) allows passing untyped pointers for parameters defined as typed. This behavior is actually controlled by a setting that is probably relaxed (allowed) by default. It seems it was done for convenience when using pointer arithmetic. At some point in the past, I also started logging categories of bugs (an ad-hoc taxonomy) and, if some kind of bug appeared more than once, to do something about it (like encouraging a new habit, rule, or something similar). So, after passing wrong pointers twice in a short period of time, I made it mandatory for all sources to have only typed pointers, which required some additional typing but saved me from similar bugs further on.
by leephillips | 2025-09-06 00:21:44+00:00
I can’t control how idiots will “see” me. I’ve written before on the offensive lunacy of “Latinx”, opining that people shouldn’t use it and that it should be considered a slur. I know how it’s viewed partly because I live in Latin America. Does that make me some kind of language policeman of the right, or something? Are you part of the language police because of your comment? Apparently we both have some opinions about language and want to express them. Don’t spoil my fun.
by chatmasta | 2025-09-06 00:22:03+00:00
This golden nugget [0] of an HN comment contains a nice recipe for self-hosted DNS seeded with a download of the publicly available root zone data.

The author has a randomized username but is actively posting today. If you see this, 1vuio0pswjnm7, thanks for the tip!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31385133
by bjourne | 2025-09-06 00:22:04+00:00
> Why can't there be a language which is both as easy to write as Python, but can still express GPU kernels for ML applications? That's what Mojo is trying to be through clever use of LLVM MLIR.

It already exists. It is called PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow. These frameworks already contain sophisticated compilers for turning computational graphs into optimized GPU code. I dare say that they don't leave enough performance on the table for a completely new language to be viable.
by gpm | 2025-09-06 00:22:49+00:00
Copies of these books are for sale for much less than that - very very few books demand a price that high.

They're paying much more than the actual damages because US copyright law comes with statutory damages for infringement of registered works on top of actual damages, between $200 and $150,000 per work. And the two sides negotiated this as a fair settlement to reduce the risk of an unfavourable outcome.
by owenversteeg | 2025-09-06 00:22:57+00:00
This is a fantastic visualization, but it and the rest of the literature all boil down to "input text goes in, we do some linear algebra on that and the model weights together, and... magic comes out." Of course, the precise incantations of the linear algebra _are_ important, the whole thing is worthless without the attention method, but that's just a method, a fairly simple one at that relative to what it does.

How does it get from the ideas to the intelligence? What if we saw intelligence as the ideas themselves?
by qwerpy | 2025-09-06 00:23:46+00:00
Marketing choice of words aside, it's already really good now to the point that it probably does 95% of my driving. Once in a while it chooses the wrong lane and very rarely I will have to intervene, but it's always getting better. If they just called it "Advanced Driver Assist" or something, and politics weren't such an emotional trigger, it would be hailed as a huge achievement.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-09-06 00:24:30+00:00
I run unbound at home too.

To me a huge benefit of unbound is that it allows to return whatever you want for wildcards.

Including TLD wildcards.

Seychelles DNS has been hijacked as a whole and only serves malware? Null route the entire .sc.

.ru ? Nah, that won't resolve at my place.

etc.

Then unbound is at ease, even on an old Raspberry Pi, with blocklists made of hundreds of thousands of lines.
by standardUser | 2025-09-06 00:24:49+00:00
We once had no gas stations, now we have 150,000 (in the US). If the commercial need is there, building out connectivity is an unlikely impediment. Starlink et al. can solve this everywhere except when there's severe weather, a problem Waymo shares, which is starting to make me think the Upper Midwest might be waiting a very long time for self-driving cars.
by triceratops | 2025-09-06 00:24:57+00:00
If you pay in cash, wear a mask, and buy your token scratch card a couple counties or states over it's as close to anonymous age verification as possible.

Admittedly it's still more intrusive than the status quo (what if the cashier has a photographic memory? what if the store's surveillance cams zoom in on your ID as you hand it over?). But several orders of magnitude less intrusive and scary than uploading your driver's license to random websites to read some forum posts.

Everyone seems to be going toward the latter age verification methods right now. Assuming there's no stopping this age verification train, we can try to limit the damage.
by refulgentis | 2025-09-06 00:25:30+00:00
> NO one is talking about their intervention stats.

Interventions are a term of art, i.e. it has a specific technical meaning in self-driving. A human taking timely action to prevent a bad outcome the system was creating, not taking action to get unstuck.

> IF they were good I would assume that someone would publish them for marketing reasons.

I think there's an interesting lens to look at it in: remote interventions are massively disruptive, the car goes into a specific mode and support calls in to check in with the passenger.

It's baked into UX judgement, it's not really something a specific number would shed more light on.

If there was a significant problem with this, it would be well-known given the scale they operate at now.
by xpe | 2025-09-06 00:25:38+00:00
This is not a heavily researched comment, but it seems to me that the Model 3 is relatively affordable, at least compared to available options at the time. It depends on your point of comparison: there is a lot of competition for sure. The M3 was successful to a good degree, don’t you think? I mean, we should put a number on it so we’re not just comparing feels. The Model Y sells well too, doesn’t at least until the DOGE insanity.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-09-06 00:25:58+00:00
> What you describe would be extremely atypical

Well, we're commenting on an article describing such a case and there's no study telling us that it's atypical.

> I can’t imagine any lawyer representing a surrogate would allow that to stand.

Well, I can and I'd rather nor leave it to the imagination.

I understand surrogate clients, but many of them don't seem to understand that taking a narrow, egoistical view and wanting all options available to them actually limits the pool of willing surrogates. One of the many cases where greed works against itself and needs correcting nudges from the law.
by asdff | 2025-09-06 00:26:54+00:00
There are already plans to reach alpha centauri in about 20 years with unmanned probes (1). There still remain some technical hurdles in terms of the laser design to propel these probes afaik but it seems like this could be solved with more funding.

Too bad we are in the current era of eschewing scientific research in favor of crony politics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
by Aeolun | 2025-09-06 00:27:03+00:00
> I get it - we don't want LLMs to be reinforces of bad ideas, but sometimes you need a little positivity to get past a mental barrier and do something that you want to do, even if what you want to do logically doesn't make much sense.

If you want ceaseless positivity you should try Claude. The only possible way it’ll be negative is if you ask it to be.
by addaon | 2025-09-06 00:27:31+00:00
> They have not given up on unsupervised autonomy. They are operating unsupervised autonomy in Austin TX as I type this!

Setting aside calling a driver in the driver's seat "unsupervised"... that's exactly the point. People paid for this, and they are revoking their promise of delivering it, instead re-focusing on (attempting) operating it themselves.

I'd have no objection to this if they offered buy-backs on the vehicles in the field, but that seems unlikely.
by gerdesj | 2025-09-06 00:27:51+00:00
No one does FSD yet - properly.

It initially seems mad that a human, inside the box can outperform the "finest" efforts of a multi zillion dollar company. The human has all their sensors inside the box and most of them stymied by the non transparent parts. Bad weather makes it worse.

However, look at the sensors and compute being deployed on cars. Its all minimums and cost focused - basically MVP, with deaths as a costed variable in an equation.

A car could have cameras with views everywhere for optical, LIDAR, RADAR, even a form of SONAR if it can be useful, microwave and way more. Accellerometers and all sorts too, all feeding into a model.

As a driver, I've come up with strategies such as "look left, listen right". I'm British so drive on the left and sit on the right side of my car. When turning right and I have the window wound down, I can watch the left for a gap and listen for cars to the right. I use it as a negative and never a positive - so if I see a gap on the left and I hear a car to my right, I stay put. If I see a gap to the left but hear no sound on my right, I turn my head to confirm that there is a space and do a final quick go/no go (which involves another check left and right). This strategy saves quite a lot of head swings and if done properly is safe.

I now drive an EV: One year so far - a Seic MG4, with cameras on all four sides, that I can't record from but can use. It has lane assist (so lateral control, which craps out on many A road sections but is fine on motorway class roads) and cruise control that will keep a safe distance from other vehicles (that works well on most roads and very well on motorways, there are restrictions).

Recently I was driving and a really heavy rain shower hit as I was overtaking a lorry. I immediately dived back into lane one, behind the lorry and put cruise on. I could just see the edge white line, so I dealt with left/right and the car sorted out forward/backward. I can easily deal with both but its quite nice to be able carefully abrogate responsibilities.
Show HN: Claudio – Audio Input for Claude.ai
by ada1981 | 2025-09-06 00:29:29+00:00
I built Claudio to solve a simple problem: typing is slow when you have complex thoughts to share with Claude. This Chrome extension adds a microphone button to Claude.ai that uses OpenAI Whisper for transcription.

Key features: - One-click voice recording with intelligent progress tracking - Audio file upload support (perfect for mobile voice notes → desktop Claude workflow) - Speed control (1-2x compression) to reduce API costs - Private and secure - your OpenAI API key stays local - Real-time transcription stats and performance analytics Latest v1.2.1 fixes: - Improved audio duration detection using Web Audio API - Fixed NaN calculations in transcription time estimates - Better error handling for edge cases The extension integrates seamlessly into Claude's interface - just click the mic button, speak naturally, and your voice becomes text. Especially useful for content creators, researchers, and anyone who thinks faster than they type. Use cases I've found most valuable: - Recording ideas during walks/commutes, then uploading the audio files to Claude desktop - Dictating complex code explanations and documentation - Converting meeting recordings into structured notes - Hands-free email composition Installation takes under 2 minutes via Chrome's developer mode. The extension is free and open-source. Download: http://earthpilot.ai/claudio/ What voice-to-text workflows have you found most useful in your daily work? --- Independent project, not affiliated with Anthropic or OpenAI. Uses your own OpenAI API key.

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by derefr | 2025-09-06 00:29:38+00:00
Daily reminder that Telsa is not — nor was ever intended to be — a car company. Tesla is fundamentally an "energy generation and storage" (battery/supercapacitor) company. Given Tesla's fundamentals (the types of assets they own, the logistics they've built out), the Powerwall and Megapack are closer to Tesla's core product than the cars are. (And they also make a bunch of other battery-ish things that have no consumer names, just MIL-SPEC procurement codes.)

Yes, right now car sales make up 78% of Tesla's revenue. But cars have 17% margins. The energy-storage division, currently at 10% of revenue, has more like 30% margins. And the car sales are falling as the battery sales ramp up.

The cars were always a B2C bootstrap play for Tesla, to build out the factories it needed to sell grid-scale batteries (and things like military UAV batteries) under large enterprise B2B contracts. Which is why Tesla is pushing the "car narrative" less and less over time, seeming to fade into B2C irrelevancy — all their marketing and sales is gradually pivoting to B2B outreach.
by Rohansi | 2025-09-06 00:30:41+00:00
While I don't think vision-only is hopeless (it works for human drivers) the cameras on Teslas are not at all reliable enough for FSD. They have little to no redundancy and only the forward facing camera can (barely) clean itself. Even if they got their vision-only FSD to work nicely it'll need another hardware revision to resolve this.
by freerobby | 2025-09-06 00:31:02+00:00
Yeah, Tesla did themselves no favors with how they initially marketed FSD, and all the missed timelines amplified the brand cost of that. I'm glad to see them focus on what it can do today. Better to underpromise and overdeliver etc.

As an aside, it's wild how different the perspective is between the masses and the people who experience the bleeding edge here. "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed," indeed.
by jchw | 2025-09-06 00:32:25+00:00
On an individual level, there's always going to be people whose experiences don't match the average, but I really do believe most Internet conversation isn't particularly productive. I'm not saying I don't have productive Internet conversation, though.

Anyway, it seems like we're at an impasse, but I may as well link some references that back up what I'm trying to say.

There was this fascinating experiment posted recently to HN, "30 minutes with a stranger": https://pudding.cool/2025/06/hello-stranger/ - conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45124003

Publications regarding how people are exposed to opposing viewpoints online and how that influences polarization:

"How digital media drive affective polarization through partisan sorting" https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207159119

"How Many People Live in Political Bubbles on Social Media?" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2158244019832705

"Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06297-w
by g-b-r | 2025-09-06 00:32:39+00:00
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by rybosome | 2025-09-06 00:33:31+00:00
Not the OP, but I assume they mean that it's encoded in the type system.

For example Rust gives you a `Result<Thing, ErrorType>`, which might be a `Thing` or might be one of the possible error types given by `ErrorType`. So when you get a function's return value, you have to deal with the fact that it might have failed with this specific error.
by susiecambria | 2025-09-06 00:33:44+00:00
Not specific to tylenol and autism, but I think important: RFK Jr. will be issuing findings using "gold-standard science" and hold up the findings as definitive (as proof, etc.) at the same time that he completely minimizes and bemoans current scientific processes. While we may be able to tell the difference between RFK's BS science and real science, what does this mean for everyone else? Especially because RFK Jr. does not trust science?
by bsder | 2025-09-06 00:33:44+00:00
> Most humans that claim they could could.

I don't agree.

My anecdata suggests that Waymo is significantly better than random ridesharing drivers in the US, nowadays.

My last dozen ridesharing experiences only had a single driver that wasn't actively hazardous on the road. One of them was so bad that I actually flagged him on the service.

My Waymo experiences, by contrast, have all been uniformly excellent.

I suspect that Waymo is already better than the median human driver (anecdata suggests that's a really low bar)--and it just keeps getting better.