skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty common in ML projects, and a big reason why there aren't many major companies whose core product is based in a complex ML algorithm that isn't fully baked by the academic community first.

In theory, if the approach to self-driving that Tesla is pursuing in any given year actually worked... then the release would be about two years away. In reality it hasn't been working well enough, and every year a new plan is drawn up to reach full autonomy in 2 years.

This is also coincidentally slightly longer than the average tenure for an engineer/scientist, and as such the champions of a given strategy/approach will have departed the company before someone observes the strategy not panning out.
Not GP but I've been bitten by plenty of first-party implicit side-effects, both intended (by not me not now) and not (by me or otherwise).
You should check out https://www.oxinabox.net/2021/02/13/Julia-1.6-what-has-chang... if you've been away for a while. It's a pretty good list of what has been improved.
Same here. I'm getting:

> Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at wss://clickclickclick.click/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=websocket&sid=... websocket.js:111

> The connection to wss://clickclickclick.click/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=websocket&sid=... was interrupted while the page was loading.

Reading the comments, it sounds the site is supposed to log everything that I do? Perhaps Firefox is blocking it?
it's "kiss the ring" as in bow down beneath the seat of power, whereas "kiss the king" sounds more like a vaguely homoerotic fast food promotion.
That’s clearly not the case as people are saying these loans shouldn’t exist at all.
The world's most successful huckster, and being repeatedly proven wrong only seems to increase his success and cult following.
Or it's full self-driving but it's like, in beta?

If I were participating in a beta test and my phone kept crashing, I could complain about that, but not much, right? beta software does that.

Of course a car crashing is a much bigger deal, so, like: pay attention.

I'm pessimistic about it ever getting out of beta, personally. But it is what it says on the label. I've seen other, equally cherry-picked videos, where the FSD system has done a competent job of getting from A to B with zero driver intervention.
> Still they are at the forefront in the field. IMO in the same ballpark as Waymo.

They are nowhere near Waymo, who is doing actually driverless rides for the public. Tesla's confidence level is still at "you need to keep your hands on the wheel at all times".
http://web.archive.org/web/20210319083317/http://john.ankars...

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Oh that's an awesome description. Love the battery indicators he uses. It makes the concept much easier to understand.
Consumer routers shouldn't even make it an option to choose something other than 1,6,11 without entering a special code or something.
The parent obviously has strong political views

There is nothing substantial to support that theory, capitals are moved because of unfixable infrastructure, reducing overcrowded capital, historic realigning to actual cultural centres or public spending for economical reasons or to have it in a region ethnically aligned with the politically dominant group

Revolutions happen when a lot of people are demanding change not when people are rioting in the capital
Great information. Thank you!
Why hasn't the SEC punished this CEO for 5 years of blatantly false statements about a public company?
Why would any of this faith be created given the continuous line of bullshit you've been fed?
Thanks - I'm going to take these references back to the person who sent me the original article
So you’re saying someone should be able to get a loan for a phone, stop paying and then keep it because it’s “essential”? I mean there was a time when they didn’t have a phone.
Though geofenced, Waymo actually does have fully autonomous driving working already.

Waymo also has the sum total of CAPTCHA learning for them.

Tesla is trying to solve a much more difficult problem. It’s unclear if they will.
SEC can punish stock scams.
IIRC, at one point he offered a semi-bounty on anyone who could actually reveal the source, only partly in jest.
I agree, it is just a transportation vehicle.

Musk is a deceiver, he is not accidentally optimistic with his "forecasts".

I will believe fsd or autopilot works properly when musk and his kids do a coast to coast trip in winter from NYC, via Chicago driving through every city at rush hour. Blindfolded with no driver intervention.
Then it would deserve a fsd label.
There should be no room for double speak on this matter.

People say that humans are bad drivers as well. True, if distracted, tired, DUI, inexperienced. Still, no human with sound eyes and a drivers licence would drive like in that video. Unless on the run from police maybe.
How can they be at the forefront of this field? A driverless Waymo will come and pick you up from in front of the Costco in Scottsdale AZ, right now. This Tesla can't do anything unsupervised.

Of all the self-driving companies it is likely that Tesla is dead last, behind Waymo, Cruise, Aurora, and Zoox.
> but it's not like he's personally engineering the Falcon 9 and its recovery system.

Try telling his followers that without being immediately attacked, buried in downvotes, etc..
The video is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=antLneVlxcs

I think it's fair to say that there are definitely some sketchy moments in there. The one that surprised me the most was marked "Near Collision (2)" in the video (12:25). A car really close to the Tesla doesn't seem to be picked up at all until it's too late: https://i.imgur.com/BG0gN2R.jpeg

You can see in the first frame there that on the screen there's nothing in front of the Tesla, it's just the usual white background. But right out the windshield we can see the car is already very close. At the bottom frame which is a split second later, the car is finally detected and we can see the screen now shows the car. But at that point the driver manually intervened with a sharp swerve right as they were about to hit the car. Going frame by frame on Youtube the green box indicating the car was only there for 4 frames before the driver disengaged.

I was aware that self driving is far from ready but I didn't know that even basic detection stuff like this is buggy. Double parked cars, people walking in the street, etc, I would expect to be problematic. But this is not really an edge case, it's just a regular car at close range with no obstructions in between...
Nothing you said in all those words addresses the content of the article.
What Is an NFT and Why Are Some Sold for Millions?
Someone posted a link on HN to a site that adds random noises to your Zoom call. Next step would be a webcam driver that randomly freezes the video (as well as a virtual audio device that does the same).

I wonder if that's achievable with iptables rules that drop packets randomly. Or, if putting the WiFi router inside an unpowered microwave (it's a Faraday cage) would do it.
This [0] is much worse than the video in the article, IMO. It repeatedly tries to pull out in front of cars going 45+ miles an hour, in some cases giving the driver very little time to stop it. For level 5 (what Elon keeps claiming they will have very soon), they need to be able to go tens of thousands of miles without a crash-avoiding human intervention, not 10 minutes.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uClWlVCwHsI
I haven't really been following self driving closely, but this looks way better than i was expecting. Those streets were very busy, and it mostly did ok. I thought city driving was just off the table, and all the focus was going to be on long haul highway driving.
> It's not feasible or reasonable depending on the world catering to your every need.

You are implying that someone who wishes to remove trigger words from their codebase is "depending on the world catering to their every need." I don't see how that could be true. What does it even mean to depend on the world?

Removing trigger words from work documents and systems is inexpensive. It makes business sense.

You suggest that people "build mental resilience and being able to cope with that word". You seem to be repeating yourself. Again, please share some documentation about how to do this and its effectiveness.

There's some information that you seem to be missing: the characteristics of the human grieving process, techniques for dealing with grief, techniques for teaching those techniques, and their effectiveness. I suggest that you study a bit about the grieving process. I assume that you are a mortal human. Unless you die young, you will experience soul-crushing grief one day. You will be better off if you learn about it beforehand.

It's possible that you have experienced soul-crushing grief and have repressed it. Is that what you mean by "mental resilience"? If so, I'm very sorry for you. Repression puts off the hard work and prolongs the recovery time.
People probably want to be the first to try something that, if it worked, would change humanity as we know it. Or even just contribute to the progress in their own way. Money is hardly the only motivation for many things, nothing stopping them from owning Tesla stock if they really believed their involvement was going to make billions though.
It took three years to go from "in two years" to "next year." That's three solar years per Elon year. Starting at two years in 2015, that means we'll get it for real in... 2021!
Did you watch the video the article is mostly based on? The car trys to drive into several objects several times, other cars, oncoming traffic, literal walls. It's dangerous that they just put this out for people to 'test' while making outrageous claims about how well their tech works.
Look into it. The guy was just steps away from being a ghost today. Is he really senile enough to be at these events without a little CGI magic help between naps. The last few months have been more than bizarre.
Article makes me want to fire up my k6.

My new ryzen 2700 isn't as fast as my 8350... because pcie lanes. My m2 drives are more than 500MB/s slower on the 450 motherboard onboard m2 slots. Should have gone with a threadripper. Still, I'm always a underdog fan and don't like paying the tariff for owning the most popular hardware. I compare specs and teviews. But availability is another issue...
I came to them long into my lisp/scheme journey. So maybe it made me impatient.
The goal was to use spare lab computer cycles to run academic sim jobs on.
43% of the domains using the .click top-level domain are parked:

https://icannwiki.org/.click
This is not about government bureaucracy. It's actually about optimisation of a complex system in a context of conflicting loss functions and hyper dimensional variable spaces.

He managed to find a better local minima (at least for the variables he was considering in the first place). The other uncountable variables will probably readjust to a unpredictable future state.
Original comment was not M1-specific - if you use Docker for MacOS on x64, then CPU usage is very high.
To be fair... he has convinced millions of people to put up $10k towards FSD. He’s laughing all the way to the bank. And we are....well...we’re on HackerNews complaining about him on a Friday night.
Also worth noting that it's a lot less resource hungry than the official Kubernetes distro. Kubernetes documentation recommends 2 CPUs and 2GB of RAM per node just to have enough left over to actually run any workloads.

k3s is specifically designed for resource constrained environments (e.g. Edge, IoT, CI/CD) and can get away with as little as 0.05 CPU and 256M RAM (on worker nodes).

I don't recommend this as a way to save money on infrastructure but it does open the door to further use cases.
Until someone does, the people posting these videos, and anyone found to be driving with FSD enabled should be fined and have points applied to their license for reckless driving.
Ah yes, the “everything is securities fraud” loophole Matt Levine always talks about.
What is fascinating to me about the "self-driving" phenomenon is how many otherwise intelligent people got taken in by the hype.
> 270% tariffs

Sad to see consumers paying the price for what is effectively a cartel.

Why not simply compete?
from an available information perspective. There have been prognostications that AGI would be available in the 2020s for some time now if Moore's law continued.

When Spacex formed in '02 and Tesla in '03 many observers would have estimated that privately funded moon rockets, luxury electric cars, and mass produced solar panels would have been a bigger challenge.
SpaceX engineer crawled inside an imploding rocket on a jet in midair to save it
Nobody is asking you to do it so why are you so pressed?
Why do I get the feeling that teaching someone (or something) to drive is exactly the idea with the FSD beta?
It’s interesting, a couple years ago I remember there was some debate about upgrading the public transport in Seattle(?), and I saw some comments saying maybe we need to hold off in case a full autopilot car infrastructure might emerge as a cheaper alternative. I think we’re all a lot more grounded at this point...
Indenting is good. (as is, generally, being consistent and readable)

Indenting as code always struck me as a horrible idea. Better than, say, type coercion... but still horrible.
As an ML researcher, I endorse this message. Casual readers may want to re-read what they wrote, because it's really true.

Exploratory AI should be thought of as "potentially kills your company if it doesn't work and you gamble on it working."

The ultimate truth is that you're outsourcing your thinking to ML researchers, much of the time. And as someone on the ground floor, let me tell you that we often don't have a clue how to achieve X any more than you do. We have ideas, testable theories, plans that may or may not work, and have a higher chance of success than random people. But it's still only a chance.

I don't think a lot of companies have fully internalized that. If your company is based around the premise of exploratory AI, you are literally gambling. And it's not the type of gambling you can win in the long run with. It's closer to "put it all on black" than "let's take a principled approach to poker."
Some people are swearing by setting up a headless VSCode Remote SSH Devbox Intel NUC's.
I have a feeling that Africa is going to experience an economic boom.

I'm hearing about a surprising number of interesting, value-adding cryptocurrency projects based in Africa. In the meantime, the developed world is obsessed with economically useless trends like virtual sushis, pancakes and NFTs...
Uyghurs in Xinjiang are typically Chinese citizens. Chinese-on-Chinese (in the nationality sense). So it sounds fairly consistent to me.
> it's not like he's personally engineering the Falcon 9 and its recovery system

It does seem like his is heavily involved in the engineering, and he does say he's the chief engineer of SpaceX.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
What's stopping someone from forking Firefox and making obfuscated local APIs for it? Things like core count, history length and amount of memory are all arbitrary, so there's no reason a website wouldn't work if I randomized them each time I visit a site.
The NHTSA has authority to mandate a manufacturer recall for safety, in this case to mandate that Tesla disable this broken software.
Because most of his promises came through (eventually)
ML AI gives you perception only, no conceptual understanding. That conceptual awareness of the environment and causality is most definitely a requirement for safe autonomous driving.
Abstraction is what powers IT, what allows it to scale as immensely as it did. It hides the irrelevant details, handles it for you.

Abstraction is not always expensive, except at wrapping your head around it. (Though in the case of Kubernetes, the runtime and operations cost may be noticeable.)
Just import some dairy, Canada, problem solved.
On the other hand, I'm still using my Galaxy Note 3 (2013). Only some months ago did I eventually get around to flashing it from Lollipop to latest Lineage (android 10/Q). The battery is fine because I replaced it. 4G works fine. 5 GHz wifi works fine. A few apps were unstable or had performance issues which led to me finally upgrading and they went away. I can watch YT just fine, play various games, whatever, it doesn't feel slow.

I'm (hopefully) getting a Librem 5 phone sometime this year but I already know it's going to disappoint even as I've been expecting as much from the start. You're not getting these phones for their practical superiority on any metric, but as a weak signal to the world of an approach you'd rather others took, and maybe this will help form a better bedrock for yet another attempt in another 5+ years especially given how much upstreaming is going on vs. what Mozilla or Ubuntu did. I think the Librem is even more disappointing than the PinePhone (which, given its much more reasonable price, I'm tempted to buy for the same reasons I'm getting a Librem) and that's only comparing with my Note 3 let alone some of the monsters out there now (16 GB of RAM on a phone exists). The Librem/PinePhone have as much RAM as my nearly 8 year old phone, same number CPU cores (but lower frequency and probably lower performance), same internal storage, in the case of Librem actually more money in nominal prices, both lower screen resolution, uncertain whether Librem'll survive carriers moving to VoLTE (my Note 3 will)...

My only point in this mini-rant is that while it may not be a 10 year old phone, at 8 years my Note 3 is still looking better than these 'new' things on feature set. GP is right that these open phones are disappointing, even if in some cases there's nothing to be done because of the higher level project goals.
So if the site operator has a contract with someone to tell them all your data the you’re out of luck?
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I am taking evening classes at major Uni. I was accused of plagiarism last month. Due to wfh situation while managing a job, I did copy code from somewhere. I have come forth and apologized. Anything I could do to make situation better? This is first time I have done something. I was under intense pressure and did this due to fear of grades. Is there anything I could do to lessen the punishment? I know I am getting 0 on that part of course, but I want to salvage the situation.

I have learned lesson and will not copy anything again.
sorry, was what, 20 years ago now? can't remember the details (or how the multiplayer aspect/engine worked back in the day) other than the
story. I do remember I probably wasn't hosting, but I also didn't have insight into what the hacker was doing except what could be observed in-game :(
Prey works awesome through Proton, so if you're a Linux user I can definitely recommend it.
As a lead engineer, I would not let software like this out into the wild. The risk is so high and it's not ready. A lot of this would be caught by any engineer driving the car for... 15 minutes. You have thousands of engineers to throw at the problem - why can't you stay in a lane while turning? Why can't you read turn arrows in the road? Both of these are extremely fixable problems. Why is the car stopping in the middle of nowhere?
>Guessing it's bc one-liners are easier to write than for loops in the console.

Firefox has a pretty good multi-line editor now if anyone was looking for that
How is this different from forms being scanned and saved in a network folder at a file server?

Is CIFS a better data protection protocol?
"the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) in central California has adopted some of the country’s most aggressive rebate incentives for heat pumps, as much as $3,000 on heat-pump space heaters and $2,500 on heat-pump water heaters.... Sacramento power burns no coal, and runs roughly 50 percent carbon-free, thanks in large part to hydroelectric power. Blunk calculates that a new-construction home on the grid might reduce its carbon output from 2.5 to 1.1 tons of carbon a year...."

Sounds like a great plan ... if only CA can solve it's PG&E problem. I once lived where I heated from a propane tank. In early March an ice-storm hit and the ice-laden wires snapped hundreds of power poles. I had plenty of propane, but no furnace blower for 3-4 days. An electric heat-pump wouldn't have helped.
Clickbait headline generator using various tech buzzwords
Waymo is a joke outside a trained, geofenced area. It is fascinating to me how a company went from gee we can index search results and sell ads to we can solve one of the hardest general automation problems in the world.
I suspect it's the HN "Hug of death"
For most of the video, I felt like "laughably bad" was an exaggeration. The car made poor questionable moves, but it seemed to err on the side of being too cautious and too protective of pedestrians.

The last two minutes were really shocking. The car would have crashed several times had the driver not been extremely vigilant. Tesla should not be testing this on the general public.
According to what I've seen people saying online, in most of these cases Tesla does identify the vehicle but it identifies it as going in the wrong direction so doesn't think it is a problem for pathfinding. Vehicles going in the opposite direction are marked in yellow on the visualization, so they are hard to see sometimes.
No, it's accurately pointing out that perfect driving by an AI is unachievable, if we demand that, then 'self driving' will literally never be a thing. Ever.

The standard should be: "Safer than human driving" shouldn't it?

And when you realize that humans are already terrible drivers it doesn't seem so reckless to hold AI driving to a realistic, achievable standard instead of an ideology.

Another way to look at it: imagine two different human drivers, one is clearly "better" and faster than the other, but wrecks occasionally, but the other is a "bad" driver, but never does.

Which is a more desirable model for an AI to emulate?
'Privacy fetishism' - eh, no. People do care except tweats like yourself (remind me you need to be doxed and have your life ruined, maybe you will care then)....but that's beside the point.

Native apps can in theory do everything and more a web app does...but there is a big difference between an app platform which mostly serves to protect sec. interests and one which serves primarily ad networks and data brokers.

'it would just cost more' - fantastic, we want to discourage widespread data trawling, things costing more is an excellent way to do that.
This is a good time to think about which sort of laws the police enforce and what that says about our social priorities.
Can’t you do this with any interpreted language? On ruby your import could redefine anything.
I'm very much in agreement. Classic MacOS had a lot of great ideas, and it fit much better with Apple's unapologetic rhetoric. The switch to Unix was cool, but it represented a larger conflict of interests that made OSX and onward feel... wrong.
It's also quite short. You can try the Kittens Game for more depth [1], or if you like short story rich versions you can try A Dark Room [2].

[1]: https://www.bloodrizer.ru/games/kittens/
[2]: https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
You accuse the other poster of not understanding English, then say that trans women are not men pretending to be women. Yet "pretend" means "to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing." You even said yourself that they were born men. They can't change their gender so they pretend, sometimes even going to extreme and dangerous lengths to do so.