skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thrill of a percussionist striving against physical limits is real, but the absolute sound pressure level produced depends on the limits of the total instrument. Consider a conga player slamming as hard as they can, versus a rock drummer flamming with both sticks on a snare drum.

I'm not sure that it's possible to design something that sounds like a traditional rock drum kit that doesn't cause hearing damage when a drummer is mashing. It requires a different percussion instrument.
No corporation is going to say they offer "Level 3" self-driving, because that will explicitly shift liability from the driver to the manufacturer.
they already call it "fsd"
https://archive.is/iksKU
I can go to sleep on a boats autopilot system. On plane autopilot, I can take my hands off the controls and start filling out landing forms.
Stopped drinking alcohol from 2-3 drinks a day to 2-3 drinks a month. Something about alcohol causing my airways to block? Not sure exactly why but has made a big difference.
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I don't think the average person really understands what autopilot (as in aviation/marine) actually is and what it can and can't do.
The plus side of Werewolf as a social activity is that rounds are short and there's no need to strategize between them.

It can certainly eat plenty of hours, but I've seen an entire engineering department ground to a halt by longer-term strategy games where everyone goes back to their desk and plots all day between rounds.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book too!

It does make you see the world differently though, especially doors (for a while).
Not changing `this` is a huge benefit that shouldn't be ignored. Especially when you're programming in a more functional style, it makes sense to default to arrow functions because you never want to engage in `this` shenanigans anyway. So, yes, I'd say it's a pretty common idiom in the JS community to replace "normal" function declarations.
No, those are his initials.
Can we get over this trope of "autopilot doesn't mean self driving." Everybody knows what normal people mean by autopilot. And even if they didn't, introducing the new "Full Self-Driving" terminology seems to me to have a pretty unambiguous meaning.
The repo totally stands on its own now but when I made the comment it was only a few sample files and a readme with a few lines on how to install the project without any mention of what the project actually was besides its name. Now with a proper readme and some pictures I think it's much better.
We use xcodegen at my work and it’s awesome.

A similar project from Google is Tulsi [1] but even though it can also generate xCode project files I think it’s more geared towards making iOS projects work well with Bazel.

[1] https://tulsi.bazel.build/
To hype the shit out of it. If the concept car looks like crap, noone will be interested in the real deal... welcome to modern consumerism. The best part is companies do it because otherwise other companies will.
Pre-Acela and the electrification of the line north of New Haven that came with it, the only real reason you'd take the train from Boston to NY (much less points south) was to save money. When I was in school in the Boston area, when I went home to the Philadelphia area, I'd take the train for longer vacations but would fly for 4-day weekends.
It’s genuinely hard to tell if you are serious about this or not. Either way it somehow perfectly encapsulated the kind of thing this website is famous for. Congratulations?
Unfortunately the blog post does not make it clear what the requirements for a regulated entity are. And when the regulation applies at all. E.g. if an academic paper or an open source email spam software would be regulated (and subject to large fines according to the blog comments).

Can anyone shed light?
Do it please !
Yeah. If you check youtube you can find lots of Waymo footage of driverless vehicles operating on broad, very well marked suburban roads in moderate traffic. The FSD beta seems to handle that just fine as it is, and users are also posting plenty of footage[1] (including failures!) in difficult situations like five-way stops, unmarked rural intersections that are just pavement, gridlock conditions, etc...

I went looking hard for Waymo-in-extremis kind of stuff, and it just doesn't seem to be there. I think a lot of the argument here is being confounded by the vapor problem.

Full disclosure: I pulled the trigger a few weeks ago and am awaiting delivery of a Model Y with FSD. Two levels in the hand are worth four in the bush.

> Honestly the level system is pretty stupid

Indeed, the SAE Autonomy classification scheme is the OSI Network Layer paradigm of our age. People were sure TCP/IP was going to fail for not being OSI-compliant.

[1] Edit: this is a great example from urban SF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_zTZjCCoxo&t=0s The car manages narrow lanes, double parked cars, a ton of pedestrians, hilltop crossings with poor visibility, scooters in the lane, unprotected left turns, etc... It looks great in this particular video. And I can't find anything with a Waymo car dealing with similar environments, just big flat suburbs.
Well that is literally where the term comes from and it hasn't really been used in any other context until Tesla's usage, so not really sure where the average person's confusion is coming from.

My point is: I don't think this is true. But if you have a survey which indicates that a broad swath of the population believes Teslas with Autopilot don't need any human intervention or shouldn't have someone in the driver's seat I'd love to see it.

Literally dozens of people in this thread are saying "this is what the average person believes" when none of them believe it themselves. Where are ya'll getting this insight into the average person's thought processes?
I strongly doubt that current gen hardware for FSD will be level 5. There is at the moment no indication of this happening.
Why not? What led the public astray?
We wouldn't be getting 200mph trains though
Of course the R&D makes upt the majority of the price. When is that ever not the case? The version that is available now is not the only version that was made. This is something that has been thought about, made, revised, made again, etc. Things like this often go through multiple iterations. Hell, there will probably be a OpenAstroTracker 2.0 in a year.
If it's arbitrary precision, what's the difference, besides slightly more bookkeeping on your end?
> a mob or a single unaccountable low-level account reviewer may declare someone an "out law"

I take it you prefer that power to be reserved for those with high status?
Yes, they have some of the blame. For exactly the same reason that a car company can't remove the airbags and just tell their customers "don't crash!"
> Also, this wasn’t a vulnerability found in existing code that was disclosed.

You're right that the OP's analogy breaks down if the researchers were unsuccessful in getting their malicious patches accepted, because then there is arguably no vulnerability to report, and OP said "when security vulnerabilities are disclosed".

Steelmanning that analogy, though, what the researchers were doing was "probing for possible vulnerabilities", which some vendors also complain about, especially if the target is an online service rather than software running locally on the researcher's machine.

In that case, the main flaw in the analogy is still the difference between exploiting software and exploiting humans, so I probably should have focused on that. Nevertheless, there is a small ethical difference in some circumstances between software that is bought and software which is freely downloadable (regardless of the licences involved), since if you paid for something which is defective then you might deserve a refund.
> Just clicking the link is enough to fail?

Yes, clicking on links is dangerous[0].

0. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-fixes-...
i disagree. you don’t get the name autopilot just because you are doing something sophisticated.

autopilot in a plane is a true autopilot as it truly controls the plane. in fact apart from
takeoff and landing most of the flying is done by the autopilot.

is the problem of controlling a plane easier than driving a car? yes. so what?
Electric busses, battery swaps, reserved lanes / streets. At least for cities I wonder why this isn't proposed more. If you look at LA you take major EW and NS roads and take cars off of them. Bikes, busses, pedestrians. It seems we want to make everything better without making any changes to existing infrastructure/thinking.
Back before GPS became common, I had an idea for a navigation aid that would also be useful for things like lane assist and would not be affected much by weather. I have no idea if this would be feasible.

The idea is that when paving a road, mix a whole lot of passive RFID tags into the paving material. By a whole lot, I mean that every square meter of road should have a dozen or two tags. The tag IDs do not have to recorded in advance, and there is no need for any systematic ID assignment. Just order a bazillion tags with random IDs and dump 'em into the road.

Then afterwards you send vehicles over the road that have readers than can gather data to make a database of what tags are in what lanes of what roads, and where. The where part just needs to be the distance along the road from some reference point.

That data gathering can be done by paying commercial vehicles to install and use the readers.

The idea was to then make the data available to the general public. You could then make car navigation systems (remember, this was pre-GPS) that could read the tags in the road, consult the database, and figure out that they are on road X and they are Y meters from the reference point of that road.

You could also continue to pay commercial vehicles to gather and report data. By comparing that data with previous data, you might be able to detect damage to the road. For example, if a pothole develops, that should lead to a loss of some tags, which should show up in the data.
Oh, please, cry me a river. There's always a law to bomb another country, spy on the RoW, hack ally infrastructure, renege international treaties or put on some tariffs on imports from friendly countries, but somehow a minor contractual clause grinds to a halt export of vital medicine supplies during a pandemic.
you can also do this in a Tesla with the difference that you may make the news /s
On the contrary.

AI/ML will be completely automated by AutoML. I.e. the main challenge with AI/ML is changing data and not changing code. And data can be automated away.

Low code will fail, since there is not such thing. At some point you would need an algorithm and with that , you would need algorithm thinking / computer science.

There was a wave of low code tools during the 90's with tools like foxpro, magic, etc. but they all failed.
In some if not most countries in Europe tracks are built by government owned companies. So it is possible
The issue isn't how sophisticated or feature rich it is, the problem is the expectations it creates for what you can do. As a sibling has pointed out, the other places where autopilot is currently used are places where, once autopilot is turned on, much less attention is needed to avoid a fatal accident.

For this reason, the connotation of "autopilot" is "the vehicle controls itself with no effort needed on the part of the operator", which is simply untrue for Tesla.
In many places, walking and biking.
I think it’s ok to have that self awareness about where your values line is, when it’s paired with understanding that you’re able to abstract away that public service to someone else who does it for you.

A ton of folks want to have a free lunch in that respect, especially in tech. God help them if Amazon wins the JEDI contract while they work there, but other nefarious work FAANGs get up to while employed at one is ok as long as it’s ~out of sight. Like the Dragonfly project at GOOG...

Similarly, there’s this issue of so much fundamental tech came out of huge DARPA grants, NIST work, and so on. It’s ok if you don’t want to be the one working with DARPA/DDS, but tech’s roots are so tied to them that it has to be ack’d.

The line of folks who “would be in the DoD but for X” is long, and it’s a comically reoccurring conversation for people who do DoD work. That conversation is much different if that awareness exists, though.
This is even worse than trying to regulate cryptography. The bright side is that this will probably be even less successful than past attempts to regulate cryptography, too.
I don't know a single person that thinks planes are entirely flying themselves without pilot intervention?

Not gonna lie you have a very dim view of "normal people". Clearly you do not believe planes are entirely flying themselves, so I'm wondering who these "normal people" are that you are speaking for.
I don't know. I'd argue that if the production process is influenced by the loudness war, then it too becomes part of the loudness war.

For example, a technique of masking distortion (or clipping, rather) is adding something with rich harmonic content (a trumpet for example) to parts that are expected to be hitting the wall and otherwise distorting / clipping.

Would trumpets be there otherwise? I don't know, but I'm sure producers are aware of the limitations of digital audio and as such adapt the music to it.
I'm just saying the term rent is already used in the system.
> This is a fundamental breach of the prosecutor's duty to disclose any evidence that undermines the prosecution case or supports the defence case

So this is basically saying "the system is only as just as the integrity of the persons involved with the case when factoring in perverse incentives"
I think he was fed up with the notations, and made his own, rather than coming up with trig from scratch.
Great plan. Agree with all. Thanks.

In your experience, do you create a "fail safe"?

So for this study, some way for the researchers to prevent any of their patches from ever being released.
The ID buzz has got me excited too, but the video on the VW site [0] does the exact same thing we're knocking Tesla for.. "autonomous driving" displayed as the driver leans back, puts his hands behind his head and the steering wheel folds away!

No wonder those in the market are confused as to what these cars are actually capable of.

0: last video on https://www.volkswagen-vans.co.uk/en/electric-vans/id-buzz.h...
I also liked "Don't Make Me Think". The version I read was a bit older in terms of UI elements, but the principles are, as you said, timeless.

The breakdowns of what users are thinking are very helpful.

Another great thing to do in the same vein is to actually watch users interact with your software. I have done that multiple times and it is just so helpful to see what people are thinking and to build empathy.
> repeat the old and tired JavaScript hate, but this just isn’t a great idea.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with coders/analysts/scientists building solutions in any language. The "hate" that you mention -- and then proceed to echo -- is a narrow way of asserting the superiority of $mylanguage and the inferiority of $yourlanguage.

> flexible numeric types, fast math/algorithm libraries, and data manipulation

Your point b) is usually written in a performant, compiled language, and your point c) can be built from robust primitives in any language. However, I will add a point d) about speed and memory usage.

I do data analysis with the simplest set of performant tools: sqlite, bash-awk-sed-grep, Perl, Python, C++, SVG, and a browser to render. Any kind of glorified REPL beyond a terminal creates fragile complexity and dependency Hell.

My kit doesn't include Node.js or ECMAscript but I'm willing to open my mind enough to think it might, one day. The current tooling for data analysis (or "data science" if we want to be faddish) is a mess and I look forward to better tools in the future.
Let me get this straight: someone posts slanderous lies about another individual in order to defame them and perhaps profit from the defamation; google is exploited to drive the slander to the top of the search results; and you think any attempt to remove the slander would constitute censorship and compromise the purity of the information you have access to? Really?
That’s... not true. The EU has clearly stated the need to regulate the group of technologies broadly marketed as “AI” and that the rapid evolution of the technology means there is not point to make an exact definition of it at this time. Basically a “we’ll know it when we see it” approach
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Tesla is one of the most successful companies in American history, for you to say it doesn't run well reveals either unreasonable standards or misplaced priorities.
>If you use iTunes....

Is this iTunes or Apple Music ?

Because it happens all the time on Apple Music which is why I hate streaming services.
Demons-traitor that decide to terrorize innocent people by dragging them out their vehicles
I've seen a majority of sources abandon the function keyword entirely in favor of const arrow declarations (and shorthand method syntax).

FWIW I personally like the function keyword, since it's clear what it is to non-JS readers, but primarily because it hoists to the top of its file, so unimportant utility functions can sit unobtrusively at the end of the file, thereby letting readers encounter more important logic earlier in the file.
So you think it doesn't matter if cattle gets hit by the same ice?
Sure, no one is disputing the car's existence. The problem is it being promoted as something it is not.
That's true, although to some degree the separation of semantics from styling in HTML/CSS/JS means that the structure of the document will be preserved. And at least HTML is a text format! How much can you recover from a proprietary binary format, when the app's not around any more? At best somebody has to reverse engineer it, and it could change in all sorts of undocumented ways between versions of the app.
Sure but who's gonna pay to keep those servers up in perpetuity?

I would never buy digital thinking I'll have access indefinitely. At least with DVD's I can rip them and burn them on new DVD's if I wanted them to be "forever"
Wait... the second dose of the covid vaccine protects you from shingles? This is news to me.

Does anyone have a source for that? My quick google search doesn't give me any results that aren't about the Shingrix vaccine.
> autopilot in a plane is a true autopilot

That is only true for modern autopilot systems in commercial airliners and business jets. But the system has been called "autopilot" since the 70s, when it could barely hold pitch and yaw within a tolerable deviation, with no regard to the engine, altitude, yaw or a dozen of other parameters that still had to be maintained manually. Most plane autopilots are somewhere in between these extremes, and require constant supervision by the pilot in command when flying.
Selling people something they want, but not actually delivering it to them, is different.
Deceptive advertising is a crime. If you set out to create a belief that is untrue, you're already criminally liable. If the people who believe what you said end up getting killed...
you can look at this: https://overapi.com/#more
I took a multi day trip on via rail.

Also used high speed trains in Germany.

I understand the resistance but there is no technical problem that prevents efficient passenger rail services in North America, we just need to do it.
That answer is technically correct but too shallow.

I could then call

a = "hallo"
// can call String methods, runtime checked
a = 3
// can call int methods, runtime checked

in Python also variable shadowing. But in this case you assume a is the same but the type changes, and call it dynamic typing, while in the Rust example you assume the two a's are not the same variable:

let a = String::from("Hallo");
// can call String methods, compiler checked
let a = 3
// can call i methods, compiler checked

One could argue there is a difference with method signatures

def f( a )

a = "hallo"
f(a)
a = 3
f(a)

which does work in Python ("dynamic") but not in Rust ("static").

But then the actual usage of "a" in the method effectively puts it on the same level as interfaces in Rust and blurs further with static languages like Typescript without nominal types.
Car company can't do that because there are law to prevent that.

What law tesla broke in this case?
Right, at which point you now have to remember what iteration you're on (mnemonic device), or iterate versions on every login (IMO worse).
How do you price real estate when it lasts forever? (The land, not the buildings)

Of course there's an actual answer to this as well, the economic concept of a discount rate; things far in the future are worth less than they are in the present, by an amount depending on interest minus inflation.
This can't be real. They're connecting Denver to Pueblo but not La Junta which is 60 more miles across flat prairie with 700' difference in elevation. With the connection one could reasonably travel from Denver to Kansas City or Dallas. Without it the closest routes are through Chicago or Los Angeles. I do appreciate the idea that St Louis could get "enhanced services" to Chicago, however. Right now taking the bus is more convenient.
I hope we start seeing government truly pushing back against big tech. They have become larger than countries and now just manage the tax evasions schemes that keep them so profitable.
They’re comparing second-dose no-shows for the COVID vaccine with second-dose no-shows for the Shingrix vaccine. They’re not saying that the COVID vaccine protects you from shingles (it doesn’t).
That could well be the mechanism of a canon. But I'm not sure it's the point. There are a bunch of notions that go with it that seem to serve societal functions.

To me, it looks like canonization is more to do with our primate desire to find/create status hierarchies. That seems bad enough when we do it with living people, creating the sort of structures that enable oppression of disfavored groups. But it seems both sillier and worse to do it with dead people.

So I suspect the point of a canon as selected by people of social power is to reinforce the social power structure. Something like what the Catholic church does with canonization. They get to gatekeep "goodness" and control the knowledge and resources that let up-and-comers grow. It becomes another stick to beat the young with, a way to make them "pay their dues" to people holding power.

So my hope is that in the future nobody will waste much time doing fantasy mental tournaments for "greatest" artist between different eras.
Point (c) of ANNEX 1 includes Bayesian Estimation.
Why does it seem like the functional effect of these systems is to serve as "mistake multipliers"?
EU loves to stick it to American tech companies.
Nevermind, I see that I misread, they are comparing second shot rates of covid against second shot rates of the shingles vaccine.
Multiple discussions of his tweets already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26926697 (59 points/21 hours ago/112 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26840006 (455 points/8 days ago/430 comments)
I'm actually surprised that those long distance ridership numbers are as high as they are relative to something like the Northeast Corridor. I assume that must include some moderately popular but much shorter segments.
"Rent" or "Licence" is def not how they want to describe their service, like every platforms they want you to beleive that you own the content.
Packwerk enforces boundaries and modularizes Rails applications