skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's obviously a stupid decision to remove a direct source of range data (radar and ultrasound) in favor of an indirect one (vision).

But on second thought this doesn't bother me that much because Tesla FSD is absolute garbage even with radar (and I don't think Tesla will get away with selling the FSD snake oil for much longer), so if vision-only is good enough for the base-level lane-keeping autopilot functionality and it makes the cars cheaper, maybe that's a good thing.
"Employees working on the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired."

Well I hope the meme that elon is some kind of benevolent and inspiring leader is truly dead and buried.
Even if you are not a fan, the PDF is a very enlightening read!

"...blonde with a shape even a uniform could not hide"

It's shockingly misogynistic!
Considering it can cost thousand of dollars or time, such as sending documents, to verify accounts, this is a good deal , assuming it actually confers a blue checkmark and consequent privileges
I'm guessing the previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33252108) will offer more insight, but the short version is "nothing" because it's just a spec
You can't parse the User-Agent header (which is the suggested method in the article) with a plain CDN either, so that argument is moot.
This is exactly my impression, too.
There are other techniques that aren't generally included in the "Zero Knowledge Proofs" set of techniques that are perhaps more practical for general development.

For example, I find private set intersection[1] as implemented by OpenMined a really useful primitive a bunch of privacy enhancing applications can be built on top of.

My colleagues and I recently published a pre-print[2] showing how to use this for sharing locations you and another person have had in common, without being able to see other locations. The paper talks about a social network built around this but I also think there are useful applications in things like real-world games (scavenger hunts etc)

[1] https://github.com/OpenMined/PSI/blob/master/private_set_int...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01927
In a "ok, maybe I'll look at this..."

Grab a client, launch it... it has a login and create account. Ok, create an account. It takes me to https://joinmastodon.org - find a server... and I see a list of foreign language, LGBT+, activism, technology, and furry. Looking at the technology ones... they seem to be aligned with the foreign language, LGBT+, and activism themes.

The ones that look slightly interesting / "I just want generic news" have a waitlist.

I scroll down this post and see mastodon.social being mentioned... I try that, and it is closed to new sign ups. indieweb.social has a wait list... I look at what its feed looks like... https://indieweb.social/public and its linked in posts (that I avoid going to linked in to see).

In the category of "low friction, something to say 'here is where I chat'", mastodon is rather high friction and at this time looks to be more self promotion than topics of conversation.

I realize there's a general "everyone off twitter" feeling going on, but for someone who isn't active on twitter in the first place, mastodon looks to be decidedly worse in terms of signing up and the content.

I do acknowledge that this may be just my "spend a few minutes looking at it" but for the casual reader, this doesn't appear to be something I'll be sinking any time into and will more likely shrug my shoulders if twitter falls into disrepair rather than seeking out a replacement for it.
Can you just target intel? Anyway the emulation in Mac OS can deal with it. Why take the extra effort to build two versions.
Yes, just the other day I was reading such an internet classic about how east asia is a model of community mental healthcare. Korea leads the OECD in suicide rates and mental health is deeply stigmatized. If we can get through the political backlash of this event without a high profile public figure committing suicide (to avoid responsibility) it will be a miracle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's literally how our previous mayor went out, and he didn't even manslaughter 153 people.
Local-First Software: You Own Your Data, in Spite of the Cloud [pdf]
People, even those at other big tech companies, unironically refer to working at Google as "retiring." Not sure 'big tech' is a great example to use when talking about productivity.
The migration tool automatically moves your followers. It's a bit janky, it took an hour or two for it do its thing for me (there must be some batch component, I dunno). I don't know how it works between banned instances, or what your options are for when a server goes down fully.

But all the of the follower/following data is available via CSV export any time, too. And there's obviously an open API as well.

And honestly, you could also just run your own server if you're that concerned.
Not a Star Trek related question, but I noticed that the title is printed in a special cursive font, while the rest of the document is typewritten. What kind of machine would have been used in 1964 to print a custom font for a one-off document?
Can you talk a little bit about how you built this?

What kind of prompt etc?

I'd like to do something similar but with a much, much higher word count.

Thank you.
Not quite. Light waves are so short you'll get some return from almost any surface, because the surface is rough at the scale of such a small wavelength. This isn't true of radar, and it's not just what substance the outbound radar hits but how flat it is, too. You may get no return. Or almost none. Even smooth, round steel posts give very little return IIRC. There's also an echo problem with long waves such as sound and radar, particularly in urban areas. In which case what you think is a firm direct return may be a very indirect return that happens to be in synch with the signal you were expecting.
Do you actually have FSD Beta? I do. It's not anywhere near the level of polish that you seem to imply it is. It gets things wrong all the time. Turns are downright dangerous.
How about maybe we decide we don't need people to slave away in medical school for a decade and go through residency in order for them to diagnose and treat patients? Is anyone stopping to think that the way we become doctors might be very stupid? We don't necessarily need tech to solve this problem.
I wonder if it's because Crystal targets so many Ruby developers... Folks are trying to make the next Ruby on Rails and re-create that lightning in a bottle. Hence all the competition in the space.
Possible, but physics is still really consistent, apart from maybe at the cosmological scale.
There's negative employee morale after being acquired, and then there's this.
statuscake and uptime robot. on the ones i kinda care about at least.
I think the magnitude and extent of the integration is a big difference. The cellular and internet providers essentially work for the government at all times.
I have a similar thought, as I rarely become friends with incompetent people. If I were to launch a startup with my friends (that I have worked with over the years) that would be an incredibly competent core of engineers
And this is (one of the reasons) why you should design modern protocols to use https as transport layer.
Something like this happened in Shanghai a decade ago (ok, 2015). 36 people dead, they really cracked down on special events with large gatherings afterwards.
I'll make a suggestion before you go too deep:

Integrate coding.

I have a hundred ideas of things I'd like to build with SD for cool drawing. There's a mile-long gap between doing things in Python and in GUIs. I'd like that to be an inch-long gap. For example:

- If I can use these tools in Python code (outside of your system, as a documented library), that's awesome

- If I can build plug-ins into your system, that's awesome

... and so on. Photoshop, and later gimp, sort-of did this with filters, and it was an amazing boost to both. What I'd really like is something like OpenProcessing meets carefree-creator, where I can easily do creative coding.

I have a neat model for how to use SD for rather creative, iterative artwork which I've wanted to hack, and I'd like a framework to hack it in.
That was my point - the etiquette is lost when the server is in your presence.
He also did Secret Life of Components which is very good. I used it as part of a Design & Technology course for my home school.
Why can’t this be automated with identification scanning software, which is highly commoditized at this point?
Because radar is not good at picking up stationary objects and/or has to filter them out:

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
Software deadlines of a week or so? Elon really doesn't knows thing about software management. What a tool - have fun attracting some real pieces of work.
<== This is the answer.

The MIT license is wrong for this, as is proprietary. You want AGPL.
In the very same ticket that comment was made, the companies such as Adobe, Facebook, The Guardian and Shopify voiced their support for the format.

Notice that Apple and Mozilla are not on this list. Unless other browser makers are onboard, it’s probably not going to happen.

Also, neither W3C or WHATWG, the web standards bodies are on the list. Also not a good sign.

Of course, Google just ships what they feel like all the time; if they really wanted JPEG XL, they would just do it. But they obviously don’t feel that strongly about it.
I’ve had some experience with moderately hardcore nodejs setups (hundreds of nodes).

I’m far from being an expert, but I noticed that nodejs is such a joy to work with that most of the time it just works.

As long as you write a quality code within given set of basic constraints - there’s almost nothing to dance around.

Cmon, it’s just a single threaded process pushing jsons back and forth. What else there to “architect”?

My old jvm days seem nightmare now.
By having his Vice President's count of State Electoral Votes get interrupted by a Pedestrian Tour, right as he gets to the first state with Dueling Electors?
And then ignore all Dueling Elector votes after resuming the count?

Would be real weird to see that happen in Brazil too
You could take any one single point in a complex multifaceted argument to the extreme and basically strawman it to death. But that’s not helpful.

I believe his point was to provide a new perspective on the problem, not to reduce the problem to a single reason. I highly doubt the only reason Tesla chose to use vision only in the short term was motivated by a single datapoint.

Even if it was the most important point... in this one person (on a large team’s) mind... it doesn’t necessarily mean it was the most important in the sum of the complex process it took to get to the decision.

So I don’t really see the value in taking it to the logical maximum because it’s not only illogical that they would be evaluating this one idea in isolation but even on its own they would still be balancing the optimal performance they got from x vs the optimized value they got from y, then compare it to the teams ability to work with both x+y(+z) at the same time.

For ex: You’d probably need 8 cameras pointing different directions vs one highly capable rapidly spinning LiDAR to even compete with it, so why even ask? These problems a) always have context and b) can't be so easily simplified and broken down.

Although you might make a good point that Tesla used this same poor logical-maximum reasoning to determine why not get rid of ALL sensors besides vision.
Reminder that the UC system hasn't had affirmative action for decades -- not saying good or bad, just a source of data
The images I've set up for web use are not very large. I don't have a RAW workflow.

So maybe I'm missing something.

I've found it very challenging to get better compression than optimized JPEG via Squoosh.

https://squoosh.app/

Of course, JPEG XL has alpha channels, and I'm comparing a new format against a standard that's had 20 years of refinement in implementation.

Are we cutting ourselves off from a similar future with JPEG XL?
There is a 5-volume anthology of his short stories by publication order. You can see how is themes evolved or changed with time, and it should be a good reading along his books (also, in publication or writing order) for that reason.

Not all stories there are great, but I think he did better in the short stories arena. Most of the movies based on his work were based on short stories, after all.
Young Kirk was pretty buff.
I should add, we are hysterically bad at predicting innovation (or predictions in general). We seem to repeatedly do things that the far most experts in that field would have angrily rejected for sounding preposterous. Perhaps not often enough but we do see those things regularly on the HN front page.
I think you made several unfounded assumptions. I agree that it's the innocent opinion - but this is a question about the basic, foundational rights, not the practical implementation (which is far from perfect).

How many people must be deterred it a balancing act. If jaywalking is punished by death, it will deter most people, but it is not adequate to the crime. And even death is not enough to deter absolutely everyone. One has to find the right balance.

Experiencing it first hand is not needed at all in my opinion. Per the above, it just has to work "well enough", and it usually does, even in the US.
>Then go tell that to Peter Gutmann:

Which is what the authors of "Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy" did. The highlight of their response is that for the recovery method described in Gutmann's paper to be accurate it requires a copy of the original data. When the authors tested a drive that existed at the time Gutmann wrote that paper in optimal conditions there was only a 92% chance of recovering a bit correctly. The chance to successfully recover exponentially decays with the number of bits you want to recover.

>if you want to use TRIM on SSDs

We were talking about HDDs. SSDs are out of scope.
A pen, perhaps? Inksmanship, drafting, lettering all were much more common skills.

Could also be stickers, hot metal typesetting (unlikely), or even phototypesetting.
I disagree, it's much easier to inspect cables or machinery when they're not hidden.

One of the apartments I looked at recently had this really annoying buzz in the kitchen, turned out it was a transformer that the previous owner plastered in. Definitely a big minus for me.

In my current apartment all cabling and piping is outside the walls because it was built before electricity was everywhere and I find it really handy <3. If the look bothers you it's not for you obviously but I don't think it's inherently worse.
Technological improvements will likely continue to exert some downward pressure on prices. This might result in a modest reduction in price over time. I personally think that increasing raw material prices will be a greater influence and costs will trend up, but I am not an expert.
Ars Technica ran a "how to download your twitter account" article on Friday. Surely, there is a way to upload it you your own mastodon instance, right?
Why do you think it’s ok to strip those people of their agency like that? Is it because they’re brown and you consider them to be primitive people?
Esp given that crypto coin banks do this via photos of your ID, now; just to sign up with them. They are fussy about the ID being up to date, too.
> The Minsk agreements were a settlement to the previous war — which said that Ukraine would respect Russian heritage and allow those regions to be semi-autonomous.

Where’s Ukraines settlement for Russia breaking the Budapest accords for the past 8 years?. According to you they should get their nukes back now right?.

> Instead, they banned the Russian language and shelled those regions for a decade. Russia then invaded after those shelled-for-a-decade regions formally asked for help.

Russia installed Russian backed agents to start a civil war, its strange that this has happened, to what 3? Post soviet states it’s as if Russia keeps doing it intentionally.

> I think the evidence points to a clear culprit:

You are correct on this there is a clear culprit but it’s russia not america.

Russia had ships in the area at the time, and Russia benefits from trying to force Germany to certify the Nord stream 2 pipeline that was left undamaged. Additionally Russia gets out of any damages for not supplying gas to countries via claiming force majeure.

You should also know that Gazprom had robots that could have quite easily transported these explosives internally in the gas pipes without needing to be in the area.
this thread just convinced me I should read Ukik :)
The avionics and weapons systems have all been replaced, and the engines soon will be. Also, the B52 is no longer considered suitable for the role it was designed for - dropping strategic nuclear weapons. In this role has been supplanted by the B2.
Can't fly if you're bed-ridden.
Yeah, this is better example than curved/3D. Curved TVs are minority and 3D is completely harmless (that's why they can add it for cheap even though very few contents). Smart TV is the default and isn't harmless.
90% of the roles that we used carrier aircraft for 40 years ago are now fulfilled by a combination of Drones, Cruise Missiles, SAMs, and CIW Systems. I'm not even convinced we really need the Super Hornets anymore, it seems like we're holding on to them for the 1 in a million "just in case" scenarios.
> But maybe if enough people finally stop using their spyware browser, there will be some hope.

Nearly every company I've worked for requires the use of Chrome because they can manage it.
"Conspiracy" was good; the rest was bad-to-horrible.
This post reeks of deeply rooted, unfounded assumptions and biases.

You're saying janitors/unemployed peoples are a demographic? Come now. Anyone can be unemployed or a janitor.
It's very easy to break something, but fixing it always takes more time/effort/care. Especially if you want to try to improve it or prevent it from breaking in the same way again. You could give a drunk toddler a hammer and set him lose in a museum and he could be extremely destructive in a very short amount of time, but I don't think I'd be laughing about it or thinking the drunk toddler was especially clever for destroying so much, and I wouldn't fault the staff for taking a long time to restore and salvage what they can.
Translucent Databases[1] is not the same thing at all. The approach they are using requires the person doing the querying to have the same encryption key that the data is encrypted with (eg, they recommend hashing data then querying with the hashed data[2]).

This is a great technique that improves security.

But is isn't the same as zero-knowledge techniques which are comparatively new. The maths for them first developed in the mid-to-late 1980s, but zkSNARK (which made it useful in computer science) wasn't developed until 2012[3]

[1] https://www.wayner.org/node/15

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301174908_Transluce...

[3] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2090236.2090263
Nabokov, or Paul Scott, or Kazuo Ishiguro if you want an example within SF (broadly constructed), would be authors I consider something close to opposite on this axis (though I enjoy both).
There's still too much apples and oranges for direct comparison. Tesla FSD doesn't make some of the mistakes human drivers do (like dozing off or being drunk) but it introduces new mistakes humans rarely make (like driving under semi trailers crossing the road).
Maybe a better programmer but most certainly not a better developer. What i find odd about leetcode is that much of it is highschool olympiad level coding. And with age and experience people forget all that. So in effect, leetcode, albeit wizardry, is a step back. No one has time to solve such nonsense when millions of users need their content served in 40ms across varying devices networks and all while the system communicates with various banks, data stores and servers spread across data centres and timezones. Sure the junior dev can faff with their little function’s code but not a senior dev.
It's decentralized Twitter.
That’s likely overly cautious. https://www.hammerpedia.com/frost-line-map/

That said, municipality’s will often be overly cautious and they do need to consider property siting abandoned.
I'd like to see the missive and exactly what it says. Most journalists have to work at speed and are sloppy as hell, as we've already seen several times in this case. I don't doubt that he wants to instill some urgency. Getting a page up with the higher fee and the new requirements will happen faster than whatever the final authentification scheme is.
So Django did not fit the author’s use case of implementing endless scrolling? How is Next better at this? Are there use cases where one could be suited more than the other, before we completely start writing off everything else?
Well BRICS is a thing, I wouldn't expect Brazil to break in solidarity.
Thanks! I hadn't heard of that show before, having watched the first episode you can tell it's from the era of Tomorrows World and the legendary Johnny Ball!
But the FAANGs don't want that because they can't make billions selling you ads and compiling your information.
What if you don’t want to provide your email or phone number to a network?

What if your friends only know you online, and do not know your phone number or email address?
I hope heic dies someday

Not anytime soon.

Every picture taken with the stock iOS Camera app is saved in HEIC. That’s billions of HEIC files.
Why would you think I'm trying to be funny? Everything I wrote is literally true, though maybe it's a perspective you're unfamiliar with. I don't think it's sad either.
Batteries have 1000+ cycle life time (LFP batteries even more) and charging is very efficient. Not at all comparable.
Currently about 17c in the day, 14c at night. At the time of writing, outdoor is 13c and RH is 95%. It was 22c the other day, however it is quite unseasonably warm right now. Once it gets into proper winter weather, normal daytime climate is around 10c-ish and 80%-90% humidity. I've never seen my indoor humidity lower than about 50% without a dehumidifier except after a really long dry spell in the summer or a really cold day in winter.

It doesn't often get that cold here, just very damp. Global warming is making winters even wetter. The UK actually has a fair bit of "temperate rainforest" and is classed as a humid temperate oceanic climate.
This is surprising to me. In Germany, the constitution (as the highest law) is clear on the issue: punishment is not a goal, only deterrence of also the violator but especially others. I guess it is because the constitution here is quite new, compared to US. Funny tho, as I believe the US played an important role in drafting it.
You could load the 12 characters directly into the screen memory and make useful use of the meta data.
One powerful reason to use aws is autoscaling. Everything else is bs.
> Eg, transform a schema type that describes my database tables into an easy-to-use query builder and data abstraction API with rich method chaining.

TypeScript can do this. It was done already halfway-well 6 years ago with way fewer features in TypeScript (https://github.com/brianc/node-sql/blob/master/lib/types.d.t...) - today we can do much better.
A process is an abstraction. It is not the essence of computing.
Any level of "deadline or you're fired" is trash-level mgmt that will only end up filtering gordon's awful types.