skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think GP argues that poor countries should be allow to have protectionism while being able export goods without tariffs.

I doubt that's the situation Iran is in.. it more like isolation. Because Iranian car manufacturers have no ability to import machines, or try to and export cars. I would imagine they aren't pushed to compete with foreign competitors.. and once sanctions disappear they will disappear with them.

If Iran wasn't sanctioned, could import machinery, and was allowed to export cars without cribbling tariffs, while it could forbid import of cars.
Then maybe car manufacturers would get good enough to compete internally. Or at least that's the theory GP is arguing, as I understand it.

Maybe, it holds up, being able to do protectionism without retaliation might be beneficial. Or maybe it would just lead to a inefficiet car industry that never manages to export anything, and is only continues to exist due to protectionism..

I don't know -- but protectionism might not be the way to create efficient industries. Or maybe it can be?
>Why is the car stopping in the middle of nowhere?

garbage collection?
Personally, I would consider success to be when it drives statistically better than _me_, not just _most people_. It really depends on how you choose to aggregate your data; if it's better on average, well, the average crash rate per mile driven for human drivers could be dragged down by a minority of very bad drivers. If that's the case, then if everyone bought a Tesla and used FSD, the total crash rate per mile driven would go up, despite FSD being "statistically better than most people" by that measure.
https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1370974296730824704...
>>I do wonder if some of these same things could, or would have been accomplished in the absence of Musk, but with the same amount of capital and under the leadership of Gwynne Shotwell.

That assumes the same objectives would have been pursued without Musk, which I find unlikely, given the skepticism and criticism Musk had to endure, and dispel, in order to keep his companies on-target, without a scale-back of ambitions, all those years.
Did you email Pine64? They are a touch slow to communicate, but they are generally pretty good about replacements and sending parts even if they list them as out of stock on their website.
Wow that's pretty bad. I only watched about half the video - but it appears the Tesla is patiently waiting for the oncoming traffic to clear, same as any human driver would. And then when there is a suitable gap in incoming traffic that any human could accelerate calmly and normally across, to finish the turn correctly, the Tesla just doesn't go. And then in the time that it took to be indecisive, more cars appear and it decides "nope, not time to go now either, keep waiting". Then at 4:05 in the video it does decide to go and almost accelerates right into the path of an oncoming car.

At 5:01 in the video it clearly has plenty of time to go and just doesn't move.
winning isn't on its own admirable, nor is complaining/criticizing on its own shameful. that's just the toxic ideology of "might makes right" that permeates our society
The SEC’s raison d’etre is to preserve shareholder value.
I'm a fan of `Array.from({ length: 1000 })`
There's a list of quotes just as wrong for spacex.

The issue isn't the predictions. It's the time frames he makes the predictions about. We will have everything he's said one day, but in the mean time we need to call him out for what he's done: lying, and why he's done it: to get money.
I thought maybe this Oakland video was an outlier in how bad it was, but I've watched several videos from the related videos, and the Tesla subreddit, and the system really seems like it's in bad shape. I'm really surprised that regulators are allowing this to be tested on public roads, and that Tesla hasn't pulled it. It is bad enough that when I see Teslas on the road now, I feel unsafe, because the system is so unreliable right now.

I would encourage anyone to watch the videos and make up their own mind, bc I do feel that people over-correct in their Tesla skepticism sometimes. But in this case, it seems warranted.
It would make more sense to just have one fat pipe for the whole building and one wifi network with multiple APs.

Or just a municipal wifi that everyone in town could share.

But hey, capitalism, gotta have everyone paying $39.99/month to clog up the airwaves with redundant SSIDs.
I tend to agree. The issue with capital or land is that you are taking another country's tender that may be debased in exchange for capital/land that your own citizens are priced out of (due to other countries running the printing press).

This is why it is prudent to lock up certain assets (land / long lived assets) to citizens of the country.

This is where china succeeded. You go in, you give up IP and share %, and they get a piece of the action.

Free trade benefits everyone for pennies. However, the makers / artisans (shoemakers, etc) always lose out big. So free trade is a net winner but creates very unbalanced losers. Ultimately there is an argument for compassion against free trade, which fits squarely with your arguments.
What's really shameful is comparing Fascism/Nazism (killed millions) to Trump (killed ... thousands? probably less than Obama).
If that forced them to go into a different direction with BioShock, I guess it was for the best! Not saying I didn't enjoy System Shock 1/2 (I did), but BioShock with its underwater retro-futuristic art deco style is also a very compelling world...
I wonder if Musk is intentionally bullshitting or if he completely underestimates the problem space because he's confident of delivering big things (SpaceX, electric cars).

The folks at Waymo/Google, some of the smartest people in the industry, admit to how hard of a problem this is and set realistic expectations. For instance, Waymo (and every SDC company except Tesla) say Level 5 autonomy is impossible and they are strictly targeting Level 4. But here is Musk who says "Level 5 will be coming next year" every year. I feel like there is a serious lack of humility at Tesla (or maybe it's just Musk).
Musk has clearly been way off base with self driving, and Tesla’s manufacturing is nowhere near where he said it would be by now. However with SpaceX it seems like he really it directly in charge of engineering. It was him pushing the booster recovery program and leading it technically. Yes of course it took a fantastic team to get it to work but I honestly believe there’s no way they’d have got there without him first relentlessly trying out every technical workaround got every problem for years, and second being willing to throw massive resources at it. I can’t see Shotwell doing any of that. She’s great, but she’s the one that makes it a viable company, not a red hot innovator.
What do you mean? The thing is it's trying to do full self driving. It just happens to steer into people, cars and walls while doing so!

There is a big difference between "bad marketing" and shipping wannabe self-driving code.
That sounds premature. There have been zero fsd beta crashes so far according to Elon.

The beta is clearly designed to err on the side of caution. The majority of disengagement's are due to this behavior. You could actually argue that an overly cautious beta is safer than one which is 99% percent reliable because it keeps the driver from becoming complacent.

Until there are actual fsd beta accidents I say let them test their software, the upside of self driving for society is worth it.
Measuring human capital using global learning data
I made Libmon as a way to monetize a library we were working on. It allows you to also set demo limits for developers for function calls and other things without a token.We can help you setup a marketplace on Gumroad and then hook it up to our token service that handles emailing and managing tokens for users.

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I mean this is what I'm getting at, if by important measures like preventing deaths, injuries, and damage it's statistically better than humans (and there's a whole discussion on how you collect and decide on that data), even if the behavior is weirdly unlike a human driver, is that success? Is that good enough?

I'm not asserting it even, just spitballing because this is fascinating to me.
duke was thinking with portals before it was cool
If I spawn 8 threads to do some kind of processing while you have 12 logical cores, I am missing out on a 50% performance boost (assuming the work is CPU bound).

If I spawn 20 threads when you only have 4 logical cores, they will just stand in each other's way (caches, context switches, etc.) and possibly eat 5x as much memory as needed on top of that.

I don't want to skirt the HN rules, but let me be clear that your replies appear as aggressive and incendiary while hinting at a lack of understanding for basic concurrency concepts. I don't know whether that's what it actually is or whether there's some miscommunication happening, but either way you're coming off as an ass. Be kind.
Peter Thiel once said, "Never bet against Elon Musk."

Elon said he was going to build a private space launch company. He did.

Elon said he was going to build an electric car company. He did.

Elon said he was going to build a $35,000 electric car for the masses. He did.

Elon said he was going to build a worldwide satellite constellation for Internet access. He is. Rapidly.

Everything Elon has said he was going to do, he has. He hasn't always done it at the speed at which he said he would, but he does always get it done.

He (meaning his team / company) will eventually develop a fully self-driving car. No, it may not occur at the pace at which he proclaimed, but I have confidence it'll occur.
Imagine a developer:

> On top of another abstraction (VMs)

Who does not need to badly handle infrastructure

> On top of another abstraction (Containers)

Who does not need to badly handle isolation

> On the top of an abstraction (Kubernetes, et.al.)

Who does not need to badly handle scalability

> On the top of an abstraction (K8s Custom Object specification)

Who does not need to badly handle deployment

> An abstraction (OAM)

Who just wants to ship their code
Does anyone know the state of MMS? I heard there was some work being done but it's not clear if it's usable and/or reliable yet
Maybe you do not know what words in the English language mean? I have a Quest and an Oculus VR and a Samsung Gear VR and a shitty cardboard daydream.

I get how concurrency works. I do not get how you get any sort of useful information from my desktop claiming 12 threads, to my phone claiming 8 threads, to my quest claiming 6 threads, to my ipad/samsung tablet claiming however many threads over webxr.

I do not see how you can do anything useful with the thread count which is what I have been disputing. CPU thread count seems especially useless since it has no relation to VR performance.
I think Google are basically just the funders, the actual leaders on the project seem to be engineers with strong AI backgrounds.
I actually don’t think he’s lying, I think he believes his own hype. That’s why he’s so incredibly motivated.
You could also make a dog that would turn into a bolt of lightning (and then back into a dog)
This could be because Of the relative concentration of these ideas.

We’re at the stock market has gotten competition from cryptocurrency’s, and social media becomes less service oriented and more of a layer.

Sort of like photoshop enthusiasts knew about and admired skill in the tool but the public generally had little familiarity.

As photo manipulation became common “photoshopped” as an idea was more commonly understood.
Because Teslas pose a risk to people who did not throw money at Musk. I didn’t sign-up for the beta program, so I’m pretty pissed to be an unwilling participant.
You've been given several good answers as to why, you just refuse to believe anything anyone is telling you.
When you're testing fragments of code by copying from one place to another to run, such as just pasting directly into a shell, indenting is an unnecessary hassle.
The other video that this guy posted is also worth a watch:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26519495

It's failing to safely do a very basic turn across traffic on a clear flat road with wide open view to oncoming traffic, on a clear sunny day. There's not even any weird concrete barriers, shrubbery, signage, traffic light control boxes or such blocking the view of the oncoming cars.
Humans have a semantic model of the world. "AI," so far does not. When human drivers see things they can usually discern what they mean, even with bad and high latency sensor input much faster and better than "AI." The problem to solve with self-driving is not sensor field or latency, of course a machine can do better, rather it is integrating what is sensed into a reasonable plan of action, "AI" demonstrably sucks at this.
What's your point? That conning tons of people out of $10k is praiseworthy?
Linux isn't all that will run on these.

Genode is working on a port. I'd gladly run seL4 instead of Linux.
https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2021/broken-nft-standar...
It’s not the same people there doing search and doing self-driving.
If it was the DOS version of Red Alert 1, it used the host rules
Wadler's Law :)
I don’t think it’s accurate to say Tesla is developing an AGI. I mean, the point of the project is to get a computer to drive a vehicle, not interpret French literature, which means the “AI” will be pretty “specialized,” which is kind of counter to the “general” in AGI.

So maybe they’re developing an “ASI.” But because there are already plenty of those and we call them “AI,” we might just say Elon’s trying for a harder, higher scale, and more commercialized version of a set of technologies that already exist. Kind of like all the other “impossible” things people mocked him for missing deadlines on in the past. And now, we’ve arrived at the point.
The big benefit of AI would be that it wouldn't get tired, impatient or distracted, which would potentially be a big safety boon even if it were slightly less capable than a normal driver at their best.

That said, FSD is driving so bad that I would demand an actual driver that drives this way get their license revoked.
AI does not exist.
It makes sense to me now why this team was so well-positioned to quickly respond to the novel coronavirus.

An individualized vaccine for cancer has to be created and administered fast, within the course of a specific patient’s cancer treatment.
If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you.

The reason why he's so motivated is because his compensation package is so ridiculous.
I was one of the contributors to That One Grenade Mod. Much fun, much desync when there were too many nail grenades around...
Whether it's laughable or not is a judgment call, but as a frequent pedestrian and cyclist, cars erratically swerving all over the road like that is not what I would call protective.
He says a lot of things... I think it's generally best to take most of what he says with a Falcon 9 fairing full of salt...
One of the things I took away from trying Julia was that unicode is incredibly dumb in some aspects. Unicode lacks support for parts of the latin alphabet in subscript and superscript formatting(similar for the greek alphabet)[0].

As Julia relies on Unicode for its neatly formatted variable names this is an annoying limitation that the developers can't even do much about.

Unicode has over 100k symbols, including about 3500 emoji. But a continuous set of 26 small letters, either in lowercase or uppercase(or both) is too much bloat apparently.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17908593/how-to-find-the...
I think the point is that Musk acheived what he had intended to do, something financial.
Edit: Yep, wrong thread, thanks.
Sci-Hub is very useful when you see a mention of an important paper from more than 50 years ago, want to read the original, and find out it's still locked-up for some completely unjustifiable reason.

In this case 'police' means 'the City of London Police'. I wonder if they're busy like Beverley Hills police.
The frame grabs of this incident clearly show no vehicle, yellow or not. There are a couple of other yellow objects visible, so this is not a case where it would be hard to see.
Bill Gates IAmA on Avoiding Climate Disaster
...only rivaled (in a slightly parodical manner) by GLaDOS from the Portal series :)
Side note: Why do license terms have to be so long, it makes it so much harder to read and I doubt it has any extra legal coverage. Wouldn't it be better if they just stated terms like:

* Can not resell the application as is or with any modifications

* Can not transfer license to another person or entity

etc.
Haggling has no point in a supermarket where the cashier's responsibility is maximizing throughout, and the streams of customers are thick.

Haggling works better at small shops with few customers and no lines. It allows the seller to have a huge markup on buyers who have little experience or time, or aren't as price-sensitive. It also allows for a human connection between the seller and a discerning buyer, and has an entertainment value for them both, like a short game.
> read the comment you just replied to

I can’t read your comment anymore, it was removed for breaking HN rules

Beyond that though - it wasn’t an aside... the whole point of their comment (and thus this thread) was switching distribution to other countries...
A subtlety that may be obscured by the name: the software developer is suggesting that people use technological self-help (proactively blocking and deleting cookies) instead of spending a lot of their time and energy repeatedly performing the same cookie consent actions. It's not so much "I don't care at all" as "I want to deal with cookies by a different method than being notified of them over and over again".
Are you really learning the skill, or are you sampling it? One semester is maybe 40 hours of instruction. Even twice that in practice puts you at 120 hours. I hardly think that is enough time to become a good skier, etc.
This is probably tied to his sexuality.

Not sure if the Woke crowd have organised an outrage yet.

But it's something to think about. Woke people are evil which unfortunately means we've stopped a lot of forward or intelligent thinking, which we shouldn't do.

I think when you publish publicly you lose certain rights. And that's what Twitter users are, mini newspapers. So I don't mind him/her, him and her, being outed. But it's also interesting to think about. Avatar rights and our relationship to our avatars.

It's hard to understand yet what all this means. Or what's going on here. Maybe it was for money.

If you like reading fiction, Claire Norths 'Touch' really makes you think what is life without a body. Her stuff is quite novel.
> Another way of saying this is that the infant industries often fail to grow up, they remain protected infants forever.

This is a good point!

> Each nation's assets should be owned by their own citizens only.

Curious, why? Countries vary in size, so this seems like an arbitrary restriction.

Also: how is it undesirable to have a foreign company build a factory that hires workers?

Won't growth be slower without foreign investments?
>Because Teslas pose a risk to people who did not throw money at Musk.

Heh:

>Because horseless carriages pose a risk to people who did not throw money at Ford.
There is no agreed definition of OO so what you are claiming is obviously wrong. But who cares? What we are doing with programming is solving problems. I don’t care if you are doing it “right” or not according to some arbitrary definition. But, having said all that, IMHO Erlang programmers are doing OO better than anybody else. And I am not an Erlang programmer.
Great question. I agree, answering a question like that in a thoughtless way can make your company look pretty unprofessional.

We build a 'profile' of the company - what it does, they systems used, the type of data it handles (and doesn't) to answer these questionnaires.

Part of the purpose of having a human-in-the-loop - especially for the first 1-2 questionnaires, is to support this type of review and ensure that answers are a sufficiently high quality.

As a general rule of thumb when answering security questionnaires (which our system supports), any "negative" answer should have additional clarification. FWIW, I'd say that a more appropriate answer to that question would be N/A instead of No to avoid confusion, assuming that the company doesn't handle any PHI / CHD.
He uses harpoons and grappling hook guns - close enough?
Is not a state.
If this could be a possibility, how could we think about it?
Turning dirt into hamburger exists already; it's called agriculture.
Tesla Full Self Drive Beta 8.2: Oakland – Close Calls, Pedestrians, Bicycles
Cruise has some long videos of self driving in San Francisco. It's far better than this.

What's striking is watching the system's screen vs the real world, and seeing Tesla not detecting important things. Tesla's big problem is simply that they are not very good at building a 3D model of the world around their vehicles. They try to do it on vision alone, and, after over five years, they still can't do that reliably.
Doesn't the 12-factor spec just recommend some practices about writing your app, where OAM is about the infrastructure spec?
Not just the Tesla drivers but the pedestrians and the other cars that have to deal with this unsafe, dangerous behavior.

Watching the live 3d view shown in these videos - it's a very erratic representation of the world around it and should give a pause to anyone that thinks this is "FSD".
Signal only exists officially as an Android app and, for desktop, an Electron app that is not adapted for a small mobile screen at all. The PinePhone community has no say in these two pieces of software, and Signal's devs are strongly opposed to anyone creating third-party Signal clients. So, this is out of the PinePhone community's control. There is also the option of running Signal over the Android emulator Anbox, but that is very RAM- and processor-heavy, and the PinePhone has very weak, underpowered hardware.

For a handful of unusually dedicated nerds, it does look like maybe one can set up signal-cli on the phone (which, again, is not an official Signal client and disapproved of by Signal's devs), but this is not a full-featured, polished solution.
Yup. 40% of US corporate equity is owned by the foreign sector. We have sold off almost half our capital stock to foreigners in exchange for short run corporate profits and cheap foreign goods.

And any attempts to adopt a more nationalistic trade policy that promotes sovereignty are met with pretty brutal suppression from our internationalized corporate sector and their various handmaidens in the press and progressive politics -- which now has no loyalty to America at all.

And this is happening all over the world, but most prominently in the US as well as Southern Europe. Domestic political forces that hate the native population are collaborating with the domestic corporate sector to sell every piece of capital that isn't bolted down to overseas investors with cheap printing presses and a longer time horizon.
okay... so why is that inherently praiseworthy?
This is the part I can't understand. You release software to dogfood, public beta, etc when you want to get more feedback and you've exhausted the ability of the previous tier to provide it. You wouldn't release software to dogfood if the programmers on the project can readily find defects in a minute or two, you go to dogfood if the engineers use it all the time and can't find new defects. The only reason for this FSD software to be in the wild is it is part of the larger pump and dump scam.