skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment made me wonder how they train the car for different sets of traffic rules. Some of this goes beyond formal rules. On most US highways you are technically supposed to overtake on the right, but it's totally common. In contrast in much of Europe this is actually enforced and the convention is that you only leave the rightmost lane while overtaking.

Do you do 100% of training on data from the same region? Are there low-level skills that all translate and don't bring the risk of training contradictory expectations? Can you just annotate training data with the rule set/location that applies?
How does spying by humans/agents even work these days? I can't imagine a british agent going around spying in North korea, China or even Russia, much less a woman. Cause if you get caught you are going to get tortured into oblivion. Hence most of these 'spies' are on a diplomatic visa to prevent getting disappeared/tortured and therefore most of their movements are easily tracked. Spying as an agent is probably the worst job that exists that I can't imagine anyone with a family would do it unless they are forced into it. And society rarely forces women into such hazardous situations. From my experience, people who become spies aren't women with education from elite colleges who raise families, they are much more likelier to be prisoners on a deal or drug smugglers or other people with nothing much to lose.
It must be difficult calling me myopic while also treating Apple as a regulator.
PS2 was before the GPGPU age and its GPU is fixed functionality, so it's not suitable for general calculations. Your problem would have to align perfectly with the computations done for regular rendering.

If we instead look at something more modern like an early GeForce with programmable shaders what was typically done was to set up your regular rendering of a full screen quad and write a pixel shader which performs your desired computations instead of actual lighting calculations.

APIs such as CUDA and OpenCL were introduced to allow people who weren't making games to make GPU calculations without pretending that they were colour calculations.
Still superchargers for now
If they can't determine if a post is violent or not, then they shouldn't blindly promote it.
I have been driving Tesla FSD 10.69 for the last few weeks and it is far from perfect. It's definitely beta level software, and unfortunately, there's no real distinction between beta web frontend and beta life-critical ASAD.

I routinely have to take control. It definitely accelerates to hard on some sleepy side streets. It's extremely conservative about speed and lane changes. It's terrible at anticipating slowing where humans obviously would, like brake lights stacking back toward you on a curving highway: the driver can see the braking problem coming from a thousand yards ahead, maybe miles. Summon is slightly better than a parlor trick. FSD is approximately useless in parking lots.

But....

It's not completely unusable. There are definitely segments of a drive I can mentally relax (back to my normal driving level of attentiveness).

Having gotten two kids through their driving tests recently, I'm struck how much FSD 10.69 resembles a 16 year old with their early driver's permit. They're terrible. But they are learning really fast.

Similarly, Tesla is now getting millions, if not billions, of disengagements coming back for retraining. The next release is going to be better.
You've got to be careful what conclusions you draw from that.

It's not easy to tell which people are really pulling their weight, particularly when you have people in operations who are doing things that are essential but not flashy and people in development and marketing who are doing things that are flashy but not essential.

When there are mass layoffs often the best people jump ship early figuring they'll have an easy time getting work elsewhere and an even easier time if they are the first to go. Some of the people who stay are the people who don't feel they have a choice.

I am not a fan of OKRs, stack ranking, and other practices that create arcane and "high stakes" processes for measuring value because a pathological narcissists core competence is to convince management that their glass is 70% full and that your glass is 30% empty.
Most homeowners' personal home address is publicly published on county government websites. Everyone on both sides of aisle agrees that the unwanted reposting of such on social media is doxxing and a bannable offense.
A single cancer drug from idea to FDA approval kills untold numbers of rodents and monkeys. Price we are willing to pay as humans.
How the heck do I respond to a post that contains such a mix of statements? Maybe:

Agreed.

Agreed.

Agreed.

No basis given.

Agreed with caveat that its a small minority.

Relies on particular world (well, Musk) view, too complex to discuss in limited space. Insufficient evidence.
Being able to bring the audience "in" on the broadcast nature of these (presumably authentic) conversations on X contentious topic would be an intriguing problem to solve. With AI coming more mainstream, an AI analysis of conversations might be where you could shine, including calling out astroturfing (like spam is detected today).
>But this software is working folks. It's going to happen. As I see it our choice is either to celebrate the advent of new technology or hide behind comment vote buttons trying to pretend that it isn't.

I don't believe people don't want this technology to happen, or don't think it's going to happen; I think the pressure and the criticism is there because people want it to be safe. When it comes to safety, I'd rather have FSD be subject to more criticism than it needs to be, not less.
Usually fluff articles like this are a prelude to a recruiting push. MI6 advertises in the Economist and I think the FT.
> billionaires tend to get more hate because they simply have more negative impact

Not just billionaires, the specific type of billionaire that seeks out fame.

There are plenty of billionaires with names you'd not recognize.
Being really good at Dota. Sounds kind of ridiculous, but I make plenty of money for my age, very very secure/comfortable financially. However, I've been playing Dota for the better part of the last 12 years, spent some of those years being in the 0.01% of players, friends with current pros, etc. I love it and could honestly do it for the rest of my life.
He's allowed to do whatever he wants with his private company. I'm also allowed to say "liar liar pants on fire" when he does things that goes against what he said he would do.
It's a huge number for this sort of research. Huge.
counterpoint: open source is fine. what needs to change is economics themselves
The biden campgain, who wasnt part of the government (not that that matters), asked Twitter to remove posts that were of Hunter Biden's penis. No evidence has been presented that the non governement entity, the Biden Campaign, asked for them to remove the Post story. Which, again, is not illegal. If you have evidence otherwise, please present.
I don't understand how regulators and insurance companies are so asleep at the wheel (hehe) around this. It seems insane to me that you can just start selling a car that you claim can drive itself without any kind of certification or safety data being provided.
After the "pedo guy" incident, Musk made it pretty clear he's thin skinned, petty and vindictive as well as pretty immature. Based on the public evidence it's hard not to predict these outcomes.
> Some people just do not do analytical thinking: break down a complex a task into smaller, more manageable parts and make a plan.

I would venture to say that most people do not think like this. And the people who do and the people who don't usually have a hard time communicating or understanding one another.

Much of my success in my career has been acting as a liaison between technical and non-technical folks.
Pointing out the obvious, it's extremely negligent for Tesla to have this feature available. It's not even close to ready for general use.
Got it, I use Nitter/Fritter extensively myself—I should have thought more about the way I wanted to share an image (still fairly new to being active on HN.)

Paradoxically, I thought it would have been better this way rather than sharing a personal website link, or an imgur upload.

I will be more mindful about what I am also annoyed by in the future :)
This article makes me really curious about how Mycroft.ai will fare. Its makers have a different aim than the other voice assistance (privacy friendly voice assistant). I ordered one when they started their crowd campaign years ago and they're finally shipping. Between then and now my interest in voice command has plunged dramatically (I don't know why), and I wonder if their other potential users feel the same way. The fact that they aren't mentioned yet in this thread is depressingly telling.
Probably Adderall.
You are merely very hung up on nomenclature. They had to choose a keyword, they chose const. It's very common: people have mental models and pre-conception about what word means. From that point, when in a specific context where their innate expectation are not met, they can have one of two reactions: adapt to the specific meaning in that specific context (mental flexibility) or reject and rant that things are wrong (mental rigidity).

Different people will have different breaking points about when things have been stretched too far, meaning they are not willing to compromise on. Working with people who have not the same level of flexibility or rigidity or differ in different contexts can be a day-to-day pain.
I hope he and others succeed! I've been using chatgpt to translate Python/TS into Rust/C++ for some smaller projects of mine in the past week. And with some tweaking it works beautifully. Sometimes it makes up crates that do not exist though.
>If you agree its fine, would you apply the same reasoning to [favorite politician]?

What, like Air Force One? https://twitter.com/USAirForceVIP
In all fairness, this is impossible with or without nix.

I've had some success with Poetry. But then I ran into programs that invoke pip during startup...
> Every car "nearly drove itself into oncoming traffic" if the driver doesn't takeover.

Those other cars don't claim to drive themselves.
By that logic, all drivers are early adopters every time a new driver gets their license and enters the "driving pool".
Oh really, "everyone knew" ? Apparently not certain journalists, like Matt Binder below, or not even Twitter execs at the time back in 2018 when Trump claimed conservatives were shadow-banned... Classic from the left: "first, ridicule it. Second, strongly challenge it. Finally, pretend this has always been the case and every one knew". Clearly in phase 3 here with yet another fakenews from leftits...

Matt Binder:
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1601142989061246976/pho...

Tweeter Execs denying:
https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-shadow-banning-republicans-...
The planes literally broadcast their location. It is in fact, public data.
Interesting thesis that Ivy admissions[0] change drove cultural change[1] (especially the asian comment[2]); I'd forgotten that book. The comment section has some worthwhile points as well.

[0] "college-educated" having become much more frequent over the course of the last century, I have a lot of trouble believing we can make apples-to-apples comparisons between this group in 1920 and in 2020.

[1] cum grano salis; https://quillette.com/2022/11/10/the-bobos-at-22/ is about how many of Brooks' model's predictions turned out to be wrong.

[2] note that in 1984, Party leadership is selected on both (a) a meritocratic basis, and (b) to reflect the ethnic makeup of the regions they administer.
> I'm not sure what sort of structural failures occur for this buggy mess to make it out the door

Sounds like typical companies that treat software as cost center and not "real work" like hardware/biotech/etc
Is flightradar24.com a security concern?

Note that the account wasn't about the location of a specific person, but rather the (public) location of a specific aircraft (own/used by a specific person). It's not like someone was tailing Elon and reporting their every location - planes must broadcast their location through use of ADS-B. It is public information.

> If you agree its fine, would you apply the same reasoning to [favorite politician]?

Yes.
It makes no difference. The location of any civilian aircraft in the air is legally required to be published.
I'm really embarrassed to have once been a Musk fanman (strictly as a space nerd). I know I shouldn't be, but I'm shocked at how much of a mendacious cretin he turned out to be.

He, SBF, and many more like them are just a bunch of Chauncy Gardeners. People convince themselves that they're geniuses until one day the realization dawns that they've been dunces all along.
Aren’t we going to see copycats?

Are they all going to be blocked?

I feel like I’m missing something.
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Because AJ explicitly asked to downvoted.
Publicly available information is... publicly available information.

Singling out public information and publishing it to single out one person when there are safety and security implications is crossing the line distinctly into what we call doxxing.

Just curious, how long have you been on the internet?

Would you like an account like this to exist tracking everything you do?
Public information or not, that doesn't make it ethical. It would be different if it tracked other celebrities also. It's a personal attack. I don't know why I have to explain why it would be a safety threat, but sure. Someone who wanted to do harm to Elon having easy access to his whereabouts at all time? Put yourself in his shoes. Would that make you feel more or less safe? And these days, someone wanting to harm him is not a far fetched idea. I don't care that it's public information, most people wouldn't even know that it is, let alone where to find and parse the data. Just because you can publish information like this doesn't mean it's ethical, or it doesn't directly effect someone's well being.
> "raise billions to make customers whole" also still means fraud; he's taking investor money and giving it away.

I think the means "take investor money, make customers whole, thereby restore FTX, raise the company value and then pay back investors", which is not fraud. That being said, I wouldn't put it beyond him anymore to publicly suggest defrauding investors.
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This is the list of people they've charged:

- Perry Matlock @PJ_Matlock

- Edward Constantin @MrZackMorris

- Thomas Cooperman @ohheytommy

- Gary Deel @notoriousalerts

- Mitchell Hennessey @Hugh_Henne

- Stefan Hrvatin @LadeBackk

- John Rybarcyzk @Ultra_Calls

- Daniel Knight (@DipDeity)
SBF is not the first person who thinks they are smarter than their lawyers. It even fits the pattern of "physics person dismissive of other fields" (e.g. https://xkcd.com/793/)!

I dunno if we need to go too far into the particulars of his life to explain it. When Popehat was talking about the legal troubles of people in Trump's orbit this came up a lot (and a lot of those people were lawyers!).
OP links to bot's creator's Twitter account, which hasn't been suspended. The @ElonJet account is still suspended.

https://twitter.com/elonjet
(Flagged) HN thread from when the ElonJet account was allegedly shadowbanned a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33957682
“3rd-hand story”, from a friend of a friend…uh, huh. Unless I’m missing a heaping bucket of “ironically”, you could have just said “there’s an old urban legend…” instead of passing off an old joke as something true.
Because people are idiots.

Possibly because Musk has a thousand things people are trying to bring his attention to and no one has succeeded in bringing this to his attention and making it seem worth his time.

Maybe. But the alternative explanation of attention deficit also explains the facts.
> All I'm saying is that my experience makes it very clear that what problems remain with this technology are resolvable ones. Consumer cars are going to drive themselves. Period. And given existing evidence, it seems reasonably clear to me that Tesla is going to get there first (though I wouldn't be shocked if it's Waymo, Cruise seems less like a good bet).

Perhaps I'm unreasonably dense, but I do not see the link (direct or otherwise) between 'it works well for me under the following circumstances' and 'it will work well for (almost) everyone, under all (reasonable) circumstances'. The former can be true, without any guarantee of the latter. Given all the hyperbole and promises that have been made thusfar, it's hardly surprising that folks are inclined to be skeptical, particularly if their own experiences are as poor as many in this thread indicate.

What I do agree with is that cars are going to be allowed to drive themselves, irrespective of how well they can do it, because the politicians and the bureaucrats apparently are unable to resist the siren song of 'progress'. That much we've seen in SF with Cruise among many other plraces. Whether this is a good thing is a different question entirely...
On UNIX, paths are UTF-8 by convention, but not forced to be valid. Treating paths as UTF-8 works very well as long as you hadn't also make the mistake of requiring your UTF-8 strings to be valid (which Python did, unfortunately).

On Windows, paths are UTF-16 by convention, but also not forced to be valid. However, invalid UTF-16 can be faithfully converted to WTF-8 and converted back losslessly, so you can translate Windows paths to WTF-16 and everything Just Works™ [1].

There aren't any operating systems I'm aware of where paths are actually Shift-JIS by convention, so that seems like a non-issue. Using "UTF-8 by convention" strings works on all modern OSes.

[1] Ok, here's why the WTF-8 thing works so well. If we write WTF-16 for potentially invalid UTF-16 (just arbitrary sequences of 16-bit code units), then the mapping between WTF-16 and WTF-8 space is a bijection because it's losslessly round-trippable. But more importantly, this WTF-8/16 bijection is also a homomorphism with respect to pretty much any string operation you can think of. For example `utf16_concat(a, b) == utf8_concat(wtf8(a), wtf8(b))` for arbitrary UTF-16 strings a and b. Similar identities hold for other string operations like searching for substrings or splitting on specific strings.
I wouldn't blame anyone for reading that press release and thinking that all that's needed to get power generation is to hook it up to a generator.

The press release makes no mention of the fact that we do not have efficient enough generators to turn the heat energy into net-positive electricity generation. And not for lack of investment, because more efficient generators would save millions in fossil fuel costs as well.

It also makes no mention of the fact that the laser system required somewhere between 100MJ and 300MJ for ignition on a reaction that only lasted a fraction of a second; with no clear path of scaling that reaction up so that it would actually produce more heat energy than was required for ignition.

I think that would be important information for a layman to understand what was and what wasn't achieved here.
Does anyone else remember being told Tesla owners would be able to rent their cars out automatically to Uber/Lyft when they weren't using them because of the FSD?
I have the exact same experience with AP. I trust it on highways until a merge or lane split is ahead. I think it's so silly that the decision making isn't more robust..

If I can't trust AP with simple road rules, then why bother upgrading to FSD?
The only ridiculous thing here is the take of people who don't see how harmful prostitution is to females as a class and try to pass prostitution as some "feminist" thing.

The nordic model is certainly anti-john and that's probably what triggers the parent. That only the client might go to jail. That's a good compromise.
You've gotten this horribly mixed up, IMO.

Violating the privacy of celebrities is free speech, as long as it isn't illegal (eg. lies or libel). The paparazzi has ran this shtick for years, and not once do they end up behind bars.

The real kicker is that Elon Musk has zero obligation to cater to free speech. Nobody running Twitter does. They can remove whatever accounts they want with impunity, and this time they chose some random dude's plane API. Treating this like a "violation" of anything is the wrong way to look at it.
Off topic but does anyone know what static site generator was used for https://open-web-advocacy.org ?
People (and technical people) like to believe that one data point isn't important, that it's an anecdote and doesn't matter.

But as a lawyer once said, "I convict with anecdotes."

In any case the reports are interesting because with them you can start to understand the shape of the autopilot's capabilities and limitations. IMO the individual reports (like the ones here) are nice and detailed; the kind of summary data the article wants is pointless, because it doesn't include any real detail in it. Your autopilot worked on a 400 mile stretch of empty Kansas highway, big deal.
Bit by bit, it gets harder to figure out how buying a Tesla is ever the right answer. Autosteer (beta) is worse than the competition, traffic aware cruise control is timid to the point of braking for things which don't even exist, you don't get basic things like ultrasonic sensors, radar, rain-sensing wipers, or even carplay. And even when they do include something that sounds halfway cool, it turns out to be underwhelming -- the matrix headlights are all of 100 pixels, which would have been cool about 10 years ago. And they aren't even enabled. Given how poor automatic high beams are, do we really want to see how Tesla matrix headlights would work in real life?
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Your face, license plate, IP address, etc are all also "public data" in the same sense. When you have large scale aggregation and dissemination of this data that still can create grave privacy and safety concerns.

I strongly believe that aggregation of many types of this sort of data should be made illegal by privacy laws.

I am less sure if those laws should cover flight location data, but it seems like a discussion worth having. We need to weigh the privacy and safety loss against the transparency gains.
No? Surely you've had a negative experience with a product or business and recognized that not every other person out there has had the same experience.

The people here sharing negative experiences aren't suggesting that the positive experiences others report are just the result of being a Musk fan.
Here is one of the people. Now it is just a legal matter.

When banning trump, it is used as the main argument.
Finally, people are starting to realize that the "stock market" is a huge scam
I expect that's exactly why you're paying to be a beta tester: they can keep your money and not deliver anything.

The one time I really beta tested a for-profit product, not only did I get it for free, I actually got a rebate on the final product (it was pycharm, and jetbrains gave me a free license for a year, which they got back many times over as I renewed yearly ever since).

Though I guess the early accesses I got for kickstarters were kinda like paying for a beta in a way.
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That article also mentions an ongoing federal investigation into the poor treatment of animals there.
This thread and the other comments on this post are amazing. One cannot sell a car without a seatbelt, but Tesla can use their customers for beta testing a dangerous system that drives a whole car around.