skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could probably be done today with richer sensors on the car than just visual and with "smart" roads outfitted with specialized symbols and transponders to guide the car.

Pure self drive like humans do requires a cognitive model of cause and effect and the nature of the world being navigated, not just pattern recognition and prediction.

Enormous advances in predictive and pattern recognizing AI have been made in recent years, but these things still don't "understand" anything. I put understand in quotes because I still don't think we understand understanding.

The mistake of those who have bet the farm of self drive (Musk/Tesla being chief among them) is to jump the gun and think that the AI advances of the last decade have made it just a problem of scaling a technology. It's not. It's still a fundamental invention problem, not a scaling problem, but what we have is good enough to fool us into thinking we can get there.

Musk's other big venture SpaceX can successfully build and scale rockets to send humans to the Moon and Mars. That's because that, unlike full self drive, is just a matter of scaling already thoroughly understood physics. We know exactly how to build such things. We just haven't done it yet (beyond Apollo).
It seems to me that the biggest obstacle to that scenario would be legal. At some point the law would need to change to allow the "driver" to be asleep/watching TV/etc. behind the wheel.
also https://archive.ph/M2VZR
1. What about nix?

2. There is also an issue of hardening the system.
The paper that keeps showing up
Docklands light railway in London is completely driverless
You can use iCloud passwords with windows.
Listen, if you write a software system that puts more power at my disposal than Unix does, I'm happy to try it. But I suspect the Unix design has more wisdom in it than you think, because when I've tried to do better, even with the benefit of hindsight, I've always fallen short.
I think it's more likely that human-driven cars will become outlawed and infrastructure modified to accommodate fully-autonomous. It's not what I personally would want, as I simply enjoy driving cars and motorcycles, but it's what I think will eventually happen.
Haha true. So much money in those photos.

In the interview, most artists state that they have day-jobs, unrelated to music making. But little by little they've managed to accumulate all these synths.
Nobody has anything to say to me about text formatting specifications when their blog has so little text contrast. I know, not the same issue, just pointing that out.
You'd think so, but failing disks in raidz arrays can cause extreme performance problems, and failing disk electronics can cause lockups on SAS/SATA controllers.

Old disks are always risky. Avoid.
Do consider mindfulness for your sensitivity to sound.

Many people are simply more sensitive to sounds than others.

Most of those people can develope more tolerance by practising attention focusing.

It's a skill we've lost since we took so much control of our environment.
>Based on the analysis of the publicly available information, it appears reasonable to conclude that the COVID-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident.

I knew it from the day 1; my layman understanding was that Covid variants in nature are not that virulent as Covid-19. Covid-19 was GOF experiment which went wrong in a sense that it lab leaked. Lab leaks happen all the time but not as impactful as this one. We should learn from our mistakes not sweep them under the carpet.
You can make the same argument for cats, dogs and other mammals, which do have embodied intelligence but not the skills we typically associate with general intelligence (language, deductive reasoning, math, etc). Raw neuron count is only loosely associated with intelligence, which is highly variable even between individual humans with nearly equivalent neurons.

Our brains are made of tiny little animals because that's just how life evolved on this planet. It's not a given that this is the best or even a good way to approach the problem.
I think we already have a couple of viable flying cars, but the issue is that we really don't want Bubba Beer Blaster driving in 3D, when he can't even handle 2D.
Ironicaly, the museum of failure fails to load for me.
As pointed out on HN yesterday, it’s the Republicans in the Senate. It’s political. When will we learn?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33365683
I do not believe this will happen.

What we are seeing right now is that humans are really bad at co-operating with machines. We are asked to pay full attention to everything around us and take over at a moment's notice, while doing nothing >99% of the time. Humans simply do not work like that.

Meanwhile the AI acts like a black box, giving very little information about its inner state to the human. It can fail at any moment, without clear prior warning. It will fail in situations which look completely normal to the human. It will fail in situations it seemingly has successfully driven hundreds of times before. The AI is making decisions, but the human does not know why it is making them - or even that it is making them at all.

Humans are really bad at judging an AI's performance. We have already seen people falling asleep behind the wheel of their self-driving car, and that is not going to stop happening.

Self-driving vehicles are to a large extent an all-or-nothing thing. Until we can fully rely on it, it will only make the driving experience worse. Let's just stick to adaptive cruise control for now.
It's time to admit this is a game: journalism plays with society by projecting dream-like nonsense on the technology industry. It's time to admit we have large institutionalized portions of society whose purpose is basically immature nonsense, such as pushing idolization of the entire landscape of fashion and celebrity.
I like seeing stuff in this area -- C is great but feels unnecessarily hobbled by the long edit/compile/run cycles.

My own attempt at solving this right now is a C variant that's amenable to SLIME-style incremental development, and I'm having fun doing it, but it'll be a while before it's useful. This linker idea is really smart. Being able to drop it in to existing C projects is a big win.
Yes, if trains had roughly the frequency of hopping in your car whenever you want, and the density of roads, they would be used a lot more and many more people would not have cars.

Cf. The London underground.
$14.5M stolen from crypto token locking platform
fsd beta looking cool with output of what it sees
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui9qjDgVXco
I've started having lucid dreams by reminding me of "watching my hands" frequently and repeating a short mantra as described in Castaneda book (iirc the second one he wrote). It took me less than 3 weeks to start experiencing those. The first one was one of the most powerful and energetic experience of my life. I woke up with "I did it!" and started grasping because of the excitement.

Something that help me from dissolving is to frequently reminding of shaking my hands during the dream, it gives a temporary boost of consciousness.

The scariest thought that I had during my experiences was a time when I found myself thinking: 'what if I'll not be able to get back...'. I was walking in a dark world lighted by a moon for moments that felt like hours. I discovered that relaxing was enough to get back.
> Ford CEO Jim Farley justified this by saying on the company’s earnings call Wednesday evening that “profitable, fully autonomous vehicles at scale are a long way off and we won’t necessarily have to create that technology for ourselves.”

i.e., “Tesla has won, we’ll license the technology from them.”
Yeah, mine still work perfectly and I don't see why they wouldn't last me another twenty years.
Can we actually discuss this, or are people still freaking out? This was incredibly obvious, even early, early on. Suppression isn’t good, folks.
Probably a legal issue. A converted pantone colour might still be interpreted as being a pantone colour. Madness I know.
Good point. I think it will get even worse as automation improves. Consider that problems beyond thew ability of the automated driving system are delegated to the human driver. As automation improves, the human driver will have to be even more alert to resume control.
Well for small payments we need a simple tax box, no country is doing that, all countries require a ton of paperwork for each new “employee”.
I traveled to Tokyo for twenty years.

The Tokyo rail system is an official Wonder of the World.

I never looked at schedules, and the trains were reliable and cheap.

Crazy good.
Maybe I’ve been lucky (or unlucky?) in working on larger, research-heavy applications but I’ve found that an iterative solution is a better approach. Particularly when the ultimate solution isn’t well defined - optimizing for performance in the wrong direction isn’t helpful.

Better to construct a toy or prototype that can test ideas and confirm the design. Once that works with initial test data, it can be tuned or expanded as necessary to handle larger or more diverse cases. Use a bit more abstraction and keep the code clean to make multi processing easier if needed. Tune only when necessary, using language-standard tools wherever possible. Avoid reinventing wheels. Developer time is also a resource to conserve, and code has to be as simple as possible to make it maintainable.

But start with understanding what you’re trying to do and what solutions might look like. This should suggest the data structures and flow to consider.
Even if you have fenced in and dedicated roads, there are system control problems that will always arise. The more vehicles the greater the opportunity for failure of the system. Even today, simple systems like automated industrial plants have to have humans monitoring them closely to ensure that any errors that arise are actually handled properly.

Once you put a large number of vehicles in play, the entire dynamics of the system would become unmanageable.

You would require multiple hot redundancies at every level with human monitoring to at least minimise the things that could go wrong. It would only take one coding error for the entire system to fail and that coding error might only ever be found after some disaster has occurred.

It might be nice to have self-driving vehicles but the cost may be so prohibitive to make it infeasible.
Also the "honesty box" vendor put all the more ethical egg sellers out of business by undercutting them.
I use 1984 DNS to simplify updating my domains with my dynamic broadband IP. They have quite a nice API, so you can do this:

curl "https://api.1984.is/1.0/freedns/?apikey=xxxxxxxxxxxx&domain=..."

If you don't define an IP in the endpoint, it'll automatically look at the IP the request came from.
> Lab leaks happen all the time

Honestly, that's terrifying to read. Do you have references to numbers of leaks or other information on the subject?
Singapore still has company stamps.
Talking to a developer about self-driving cars is a good litmus test of sincerity and/or competence.

Utterly unbelievable that Tesla is still selling "Full self driving" cars to customers.
> Yes, I can still roughly tell the processed shots from portrait mode on my phone from a much better camera but the differences aren't as drastic as you'd imagine.

This. I have my Apple TV set up to cycle through my favorite shots in my photo stream and I can tell immediately the quality difference between my slr shots and ones taken on my iPhone. The colors are more accurate, the bokeh more subtle, and excellent sharpness. Even when comparing shots from 7 years ago to todays iPhone 14.

Unfortunately my slr sits collecting dust because, well, the phone is “good enough”.
There are innumerable ways vulnerabilities can be exercised that do not involve having to “hack” NAT. I would not be comfortable staying so simply that NAT will protect in all situations. It’s one layer of defense, yes, but is inadequate without others like malware avoidance.
Will Tailscale SSH support FreeBSD any time soon?
Just google Franz Josef Strauss for some history on German corruption. Followed by a quick search on how exactly the government sourced face masks during COVID (same political part basically).

For Switzerland, well, a quick search for money laundering gives you all the information you need.

EDIT: Both the FIFA and the IOCI, probably the most corrupt organizations on earth, are having their seats in Switzerland.
The above linked github issue seems to be about problems playing back SRT subtitle formats which are not supported by browsers, so there is still subtitle 'transcoding' going on.
I've been following this discussion from the start, and this report presents the clearest and most compelling summary of the evidence I've seen so far.

Excerpt from the conclusion on p.26:

"Based on the analysis of the publicly available information, it appears reasonable to conclude that
the COVID-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident. New
information, made publicly available and independently verifiable, could change this assessment. However,
the hypothesis of a natural zoonotic origin no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt, or the presumption
of accuracy."
Not op but yes they meant that.
I don't know if Tesla originated the approach, but they're the first I'd ever heard of doing it by my camera or radar or anything like that. I remember my first reaction was befuddlement, when highways cost like $xxx million per mile, why would the trivial cost of dropping electronic friendly markers for lanes and such be anything but a trivial 0.1% cost that should facilitate self driving from the road construction end as a primary means of situating self-driving vehicles?

Instead you have cars with that forever risk of death to their passengers when self-driving due to the non deterministic factor of not having a highway equivalent of train rails.
I really can't stand how americans treat other countries, and even, apparently, continents, as puppets in their culture war. One EU bureaucrat does not represent europe.

I also have to ask myself: If some russian bureaucrat reminded twitter that it has too keep following russian laws banning certain speech, would they cheer on that as well?

Anyway, Elon Musk can have as much freedom of speech as he wants on twitter in the US. If you want to censor your opponents in your culture war, the EU won't help you.
This always had the taste of being too US-centric anyway. European countries (and I guess the rest of the world as well) has very steep, narrow and weird roads and don't run on neatly organized grids. So it's even harder to achieve then just fencing cars and separating traffic.
This is not a real report. I very much suspected this is what happened but the trustworthy peer-reviewed studies have disavowed it. If you trust this study over those, you probably should refuse emergency medical care and read everything backwards.
> And we definitely won't be getting flying cars (for the general public), until we have full-self-driving.

The irony here is that "flying cars" (which really means eVTOL planes) is in many ways an easier problem to solve in terms of navigation, because the notion of strict air corridors and tracking of every vehicle coupled with fewer annoying pedestrians wandering around makes it far easier to make those accommodations (e.g. virtual "fenced-in and dedicated roads")
Joe Biden ordered a report into this and the intelligence community concluded lab leak was a viable possibility, so I don't see how this is political. Both parties agree lab leak is a possibility (well, now they do, after Democrats called it racist).
Unfortunately it became political, so all rational discussion became impossible.
There have also been a lot of new interconnect pipes installed in the recent years. Basically all the way from Norway-Scotland-England-France-Poland-Lithuania-Latvia-Estonia-Finland it's part of the same network, although I'm sure there are bottlenecks.

Here's a recent new pipeline part: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_Interconnection_Poland%E2%...

Sprinkle some LNG terminals which have and are coming also online, and it becomes much more resilient.

There's a lot of this diligent infrastructure work going behind the scenes, away from the political drama.
Innovation Anti-Patterns
Virtiofs – shared file system for virtual machines
I went to try it out, but it looks like your website no longer works? (The gifs don't change in response to new prompts)
True, for building permits, either fast or out of the usual and other edge cases, you don't need to bribe people, you need to know the people in charge very well.

EDIT: Nobody wants to donate overtly to the AfD, that's why they had already multiple investigations into their finances and donations. A large part of which came from Switzerland. They do have those donation scandals in common with the CDU and CSU, those received anonymous donations in cash in briefcases. And Schäuble, who ended up as Finance Minister in the federal government later, got away with, I kid you not, "I do not remember that briefcase containing 100,000 bucks" (emphasize from me). So, it seems all parties in Germany are corrupt, some more than others, with the exact degree of corruption directly proportional to the time in actual power.
London's Victoria Line has been driverless for decades.

It's not a hard problem. You solve it by putting linked activators along the track to control the train speed and acceleration. RMT has backup sensors for train position and radio control for emergencies.

It's plain old engineering. No AI required.

It's a completely different problem to automating a mixed use national high speed rail network which has to deal with a huge range of contingencies.
Shpinner – fancy spinner library for interactive bash scripts
Create fancy interactive bash scripts using the shpinner library. Features include: timeouts, retries, spinner, success/failure icons, status updates and fancy bash magic.
Ghadames: Is this the perfect desert town?
That's because Chrome for iOS uses Safari under the well... chrome.
Andrew Ng Ted Talk
Interface Hall of Shame
exactly, NFC-like technology would be extremely inexpensive in the scheme of things and could be deployed into road surfaces without much difficulty. I remember seeing a video of self driving technology from the 90s that used a similar approach - magnets in the road IIRC
Lego to discontinue Mindstorms robot line after a 24-year run
I tried to use a markdown table editor and found it was easier to make it by hand. to each their own I guess.
Factorio for Nintendo Switch is now available
So at that point why use a river? Couldn't you just use ocean water? It's comparatively "free" and we aren't going to run out anytime soon.
This analysis is immensely US-specific
Good tip ! :)
We don't have self-piloting planes which routinely take off, fly a route, and land.

Setting an autopilot for a route is relatively trivial. Auto-landing in heavy crosswinds or landing on water because of an emergency isn't.
My view is that hydro and fission are proven tech, so I am in favour of them. I am sceptical about solar and especially wind, which I suspect are feelgood solutions that are easy sells politically, ignore economics, and may consequently be more harmful than the things they were intended to replace.

Having gotten that out of the way, my post was more intended to be along the lines of a curmudgeonly cynical sideswipe at political processes. Getting hydro schemes approved seems a lot like getting bypass routes approved. There's always going to be otters, pandas, or whatever going to be on the short end of the stick. In one interview of a route's detractors, I saw a Downs Syndrome girl shown on the telly. The route would go near the home where she was housed, and would consequently "get confused". I was sitting there, thinking to myself, "holy shit, talk about cynical manipulation. She doesn't even know she's on here."

So my post was more of a criticism against the detractors of such schemes, who I think favour emotional over a more sober analysis. It's too easy to sloganeer about "Won't someone pleeease think of the children".

In the end, there's no definitively right or wrong answer, of course. It's up to society to weight the benefits and costs. There's always trade-offs. Sometimes the trade-offs can be black-and-white, sometimes they are shades of grey.
My take on this is always: we will see first fully automated airplanes and railroad trains before we will see a widespread of autonomous cars.

Airspace is an highly controlled area. We have many years of actual autopilots. We have many years of guided take-offs and landings. But still we relay on the skilled human.

The same applies to railroads. Here in Nuremberg we have an highly automated train running on a railroad track that is even partly shared with trains operated by a driver. But the costs of running the automated trains seems not to benefit so that further development has been stopped, because of costs reasons. Even has we have a huge shortage in drivers, which would suggests that automation would be the solution.
AFAIK there are only isolated airport shuttles that run fully automated.

That means, if can't run automated systems in highly controlled areas. Then why would it work with cars in highly uncontrolled areas?
Because the decision to "make it alway parse" is very fitting for content to be displayed on screen. If there is no visible bug, why report an error?
Collect yourself, dude.
Indeed, the few things I do already know of what the article talks about (very much including the javascript feature of the M1 you outline) are completely wrong, that makes the entire thing extremely suspect.

An other banger:

> Apple also does crazy things like putting a high end GPU (graphics processor) on the same chip.

They’re good but they’re not especially high-end, unless compared to other embedded GPUs like the ones in AMD’s APU, which… are rather comparable overall, and also single-die.
Sure, it's a super hard societal problem. But I guess step one would be publicly talk about it (in a serious way). Like invite doctors with that specialty to the talk shows and discuss who can be mentally ill, what can be consequences of this or that specific diagnose etc.
Other thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33350152 ("I got a Netflix cache server. 262TB", 27 comments)
So, if I pay for license to Adobe, using the colours provided is not covered by license?
And what is the reason why most rail transport in the world is not already 100% autonomous?
It boils down to the question whether AGI will happen during our lifetimes or not.
Pseudocode is supposed to be easily readable by humans or why else is somebody going to publish a code which does not even compile?

Math formulas are different because they are supposed to be perfectly working and understanding them requires an understanding of a corresponding math discipline.
>The government should take something from this and not allow for too much consolidation.

What's wrong with consolidation on its own? This is the corporate version of "every billionaire is a policy failure". It is, on its own, a purely aesthetic preference. I'm sure people from ex-Soviet countries wouldn't find it jarring at all.
I would finally be able to download all the Assetto Corsa and rFactor mods I want, and seed those things where there's just me and a couple other dudes so bailing feels bad—with still some storage left for peace of the mind.
Haha true :)

Well, we did break up. If I had to sum it up in once sentence. We had very different "stress-profiles". We still good friends 3 years later and I get regular updates about our dogs (though they all live in a different country)
Archived copy without GDPR nag screen:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221027152317/https://techcrunc...
What do you mean?

View finder, sensor, control surfaces, motherboard, heatsink, chassis+case. What exactly do you think is excessive complexity here?
Reloading a file in cling requires unloading all dependent files first. That includes destroying objects created from structs/classes in defined dependent files.