skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is your post supposed to be read as genuine or sarcastic? It looks to me like a strawman of a Tesla owner stereotype, and I don’t want to accidentally eat the onion here by taking it at face value.

Your post appears to be saying that Tesla’s FSD is way worse than human drivers, not safer than them, but we should still welcome it for the convenience. Again, this reads like a strawman. I would like to think the average Tesla owner would not endorse that statement.

The goal isn’t to save time at the cost of lives, it’s to save both, non?
It seems likely that YouTube TV is also going well.
I could believe the consumer models are actually built to a higher standard. A rack mount unit is likely going to be climate controlled, minimal vibration, actively monitored, etc. The consumer units will be subjected to all manners of hell: pet hair, zero ventilation, installed and forgotten. Nobody wants the UPS to burn down the house.
Speaking as a career American military officer, one of the biggest (of many, many) problems that led to our failure in Afghanistan was getting the Afghan National Army to some degree of self-sufficiency as we tried to build them up in our own image, and the biggest gap was in their ability to manage all of the back-office administrative stuff (logistics, human resources, etc.). The US Department of Defense is a massive bureaucracy for a lot of reasons, but some of them are good reasons. It really does take a lot of staff work at desks and in meetings to effectively manage the whole lifecycle of acquisition, fielding, recruiting, training, deployment, sustainment, maintenance, etc. at-scale.

I was a helicopter pilot, and we all quickly learn that we spend about 5% of our time flying and 95% of our time doing everything else to keep the aircraft and crews capable of flying. We're very curious to see exactly how long the Taliban will be able to keep all those helicopters that we left in Afghanistan in working condition.
Let the Next Episode Roll
OpenAI rival Cohere AI has flown under the radar
Yeah, I was abbreviating. Nobody has tried FSD because it doesn't exist.
Ask HN: Are there coaches that help improve social skills?
There is a hilarious irony to this. In all the classic scifi, an opinion is usually trusted because it came from AI, though often as things progress the AI is eventually distrusted. Have we managed to side step this entire thing be ruining humanity's perception of AI with ChatGPT and Bing?
It is an interesting list, some of the questions seem good, I like the ones that basically get at “are you learning from experienced employees.”

On the other hand,

> Does your company care about diversity? If so are they hiring conservatives, the religious, or people with unrelated degrees? Hell are they hiring people without degrees or from places with no major metro around?

This seems like kind of an annoying political gotcha question. If asked this question, I’d probably say “I don’t really like to talk politics and religion at work” and I’d be a little worried that the person who asked it might like to talk politics and religion at work.

Edit: I mean I’m not a robot, I know the political alignment of some of my close colleagues, but obviously no company in their right minds is collecting the data required to answer this question on a company-wide statistical level.
I use Remove YouTube Suggestions: <https://lawrencehook.com/rys/> It has settings for a lot of customizations, including removing shorts. (You can keep suggestions if you want to.)
An important detail that you might miss without reading the article is that these capabilities are not available to any website a user visits. The user must add the website to the their Home Screen before the website can ask for notifications permissions.

As an iOS user I actually like this restriction. Can't imagine what the browsing experience would've looked like if any website could take their chance on sending me notifications
Show HN: New York actually has 12 Seasons
Woke up yesterday in "Fool's Spring," thought of the meme, and felt the need to build this.
She's resigning days after a bad quarterly result came out for YouTube, which seems much more likely to be related. I can't imagine the subpoena thing being relevant for a number of reasons:

1) Wojcicki wasn't subpoenated, 2) everyone expected subpoenas to come, and if she wanted to avoid them, it would have been smarter to resign the day before, not the day after, 3) the panels are political theater and aren't based on any sort of evidence or reality, 4) Even if this was a super real issue and Wojcicki sat down and confessed to illegally murdering Republicans on Joe Biden's orders, there would be no consequences, since Democrats control the Senate. The news coverage from both sides would be roughly the same either way.
I mean campaign contributions are not charity. This is precisely what they are for.
Not the OP but there’s quite a few parts of the article are misleading. For example:

>> That serves as the source of financing for banks

I think they meant to say funding but regardless it’s wrong either way. A bank doesn’t use deposits to fund/finance loans it makes. A bank is licenced to create money from nothing in order to originate loans. This loan making activity is not constrained by deposits (money stored at the bank by other customers) nor by reserves (special money that cant be spent in the economy and is stored in the commerical bank’s account at the central bank). There are legal controls that mean loan making activity is constrained by a bank’s capital (this is what Basel I, II, III etc are all about). The definition of capital is very particular and complicated but a fair summary could be it’s the money invested in the bank by shareholders. Higher capital requirements increase shareholder risk and decrease public risk.

the author goes on to write the following without seeming to notice the incongruence:

>> Bank of America (BAC) as an example, they have $3.051 trillion in assets and $2.778 trillion in liabilities

(simplifying) BAC has issued $3tn loans but only has $2.7tn in deposits - so what did the author think they meant by “financing”?

To be clear the story here with BAC is more complicated than just loans and deposits but in the interests of not writing a wall of text…

>> Liabilities of the Federal Reserve consist mainly of bank deposits

this is unfortunate wording, it makes it sound like deposits by you or me. The money stored at the fed by commercial banks is different than dollars or pounds; its “reserves”. You can’t spend reserves in the economy like you can with normal money.

>> If a central bank loses its independence, and for example a president can tell the central bank to do whatever he wants, then a country has basically lost its guardrails against hyperinflation

I think this is a reference to Turkey and mis-understanding the bigger picture. Specifically the fact that hyperinflation is partly a function of money supply (and partly a function of money velocity) and that money supply is increased in two ways: commercial banks issuing loans (as above this is constrained by capital requirements) and secondly by expansionary fiscal policy - that is the government spending into the economy to consume on its own behalf. Neither of these is guard trailed by monetary policy.

NB: fiscal policy = government, monetary policy = central bank.

I think this comment is getting long enough, i’ll wrap it up there.
> Teslas autopilot can only be enabled in comparatively safe and simple circumstances

This is incorrect. FSD can be enabled everywhere from dirt road to parking lots, even highways and dense urban environments like NYC. There is no geofence on FSD, you can turn it on anywhere the car can see drivable space.
Haha, I think that's what the parent was hinting at with the "depressing" title.

But I disagree with the diagnosis! As Patrick Collison says,

> I guess I fall somewhere in the middle in the Umberto Eco theory of the library[0].

[0] https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_to_Travel_with_a_Sa...

(Quote from https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf)
One wants them to be money obsessed only if one thinks selling startups for money is a valuable economic activity
What I always understood firmware to be is: a ROM that gives a CPU something to do when power is applied, as RAM is blank on power on and things like storage devices can't just put stuff in RAM without being directed by the CPU (which doesn't have code to do that at power on unless provided by a ROM).

Depending on the scope of the device (from multipurpose PC down to single-purpose things like microwaves, gas pumps, hard drives, LCD controllers) the firmware may just allow an operating system to be loaded or actually be all the code the appliance needs for its CPU.

If the CPU is embedded in a peripheral, then:

- it has to have some small ROM that does nothing but wait for an image to come in from a bus (USB, etc.) and then execute. The sound chip in Nintendo's Super NES is an example, on power on/reset it has a 64 byte boot ROM that does nothing but wait for data to come in from the main 65816 CPU and then runs that code when received.

- the host has to have some way of externally programming the peripheral's RAM directly and resetting the peripheral's CPU but not the peripheral's RAM. I suppose JTAG could be used for this.

My opinion: CPU microcode isn't firmware - CPU microcode sets the configuration of internal connections/parameters in the CPU. It's kind of like a settings file. But: I think recent microcodes do actually include code (see Xucode) but that code is meant to be the behavior of advanced instructions and not designed to be something that tells the CPU what to do from the moment it's powered on.
Nice, the notebook would have to be quadrille. The PhD VC angle. You would have to focus on technicals over the pure MBA pastiche.
It's called FSD as in Full Self-Driving. If it does one single "accident" where it's unable to see a totaled car with hazard lights on right in its face [1], then it's not really full, is it now. Not to mention the hilarious contradiction in terms: Full, but Beta.

No one would have any major issues if this (self)killing system was called "Extended Driver Assist" and it had implemented the minimal safety features like driver monitoring, safely stopping the car if the driver doesn't pay attention to the road.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/100pemh/tesla..., also, in this case, even a $20K Škoda [2] has basic automatic braking safety features, no need for artificial intelligence to detect something stationary in front of you.

[2] https://www.skoda-auto.com/world/safety-assistence-system-ci...
> This also has big implications for the hegemony of the App Store and Apple’s control over the web platform

No it doesn't. It will make zero difference.

Because developers have been building web based mobile apps for nearly 15 years now. And they never took off not because it lacks push notifications or some other minor feature. It's because the end user experience is terrible.

And I've yet to see anything that addresses the difference is latency, responsiveness, feeling etc that you get between native and web apps.
Emacs extension for free Copilot-like AI autocomplete
But make sure you have your seatbelt on first!
I went through this in the early 2000s when I was a) exposed to rack stuff in CCNA class in high school/votech and b) dot-com surplus started showing up really cheap on eBay.

Nowadays my desktops are either SFF or mid-tower CAD workstations. We've got some control computers racked with test equipment/tools but they're not really general purpose workstations.
This had a 36-bit word, as did its predecessor, and as did the later DEC 10 and DEC 20 systems used famously at MIT and elsewhere, and I understand that people found that word size to have various advantages once they'd used it extensively.

But how was 36 bits originally decided upon back in the 1950s? What were the tradeoffs that made them say "two 18 bit half words are just right, but two 20 bit half words is clearly too big", and so on?

These days everyone takes power-of-two character and integer and floating sizes for granted; I'm not talking about that, I'm just wondering how they looked at it back at the beginning.
It has more to do with the US's ability to reliably tax its own citizens. Plenty of small countries also have stable currencies, but only the ones with stable governments.
I'm creating a new bullet proof vest.

Would you like to participate in the beta program, to test stoping bullets being shot at you?
Abu Ghraib happened, and My Lai happened, and Hersh was first who brought these two stories to light.

Neither were some giant secrets, and were previously dismissed as unsubstantiated rumour. Hersh collected enough factoids together to substantiate them enough to become a news story, rather than a military legend.
tripplite has an 18u (SRQ18U) than can do 37" deep; I've had one for a few years and it works well. You'll still here 40mm screamers running at full speed, but it cuts down on noise a lot.
These orgs are notoriously political, though. LA times in particular has an axe to grind against cal HSR:

https://cal.streetsblog.org/2021/07/26/l-a-times-needs-to-st...

and usually these days when you find an LA city councilmember with an FBI indictment for corruption, they had an LA times editorial board endorsement.
People overstate how bad Google results are. The great thing about blogspam and ads is that you have an extra signal for what to instantly dismiss. I have gotten very good at filtering out Google results, not based on the information they contained, but how they were presented, etc. With ChatGPT, you don't get this. You only get a blob of text that looks identical to every other correct or incorrect response. There is no extra signal.
Yeah, I don't think that'll work in practice. Unless your OS is real-time, what you described cannot work because audio latency has to do with more than your DAW's threads. It also has to do with OS polling MIDI data, or sending data to audio driver. These need to be completed on a deadline. Realtime scheduling can be less efficient than fair scheduling which is why if your DAW has all the power to set its own scheduling you'll only do compute, and not enough IO. This means poor latency.
With regards to gout, I don't think it's symptomatic: actual uric acid crystals are causing the inflammation that is called gout. The crystals are deposited when the serum level of UA goes above ~400umol/l.

But it's fascinating to hear your story, where you have high UA serum but no gout attack. Were you on 300mg allo or more?

With Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease, there is much uncertainty, agreed!
Bill Hicks nailed it…
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0

What I find still completely baffling about marketers is that not only they have no shame, but they still seems proud of it to the point on posting on HN.

Let’s be clear:

- You are, on purpose, annoying millions of people.
- You are destroying the brand and the value that employ you
- You are ensuring that the company is focused on metrics completely unrelated to its real success
- You are consuming lot of resources of the company
- You are consuming natural resources to do all of that.
and, worse of all,
- You have convinced everyone, from politicians to NGO and small family shop that everybody in the world should be like you and think like you.

That’s probably the first time ever I do really want to downvote a link submitted to HN
2 sources.

1. I know people working at Tesla.

2. Much more important one - Elon's Twitter feed. They're doing last minute changes, and once it compiles and passes some automated tests, it's tested internally only over few days before it's released to the customers. Even if they had world class internal testing (they don't), for something having to work in such a diverse environment like self driving system without any geo-fencing, those timelines are all you need to know.
I don't think music videos are the top target for spammers.

Most finance videos (like general technical analysis, I don't watch crypto content) I watch are full of Whatsapp or Telegram scammers. Even a history channel I follow had to warn that the creator would never solicit money through Whatsapp or Telegram.
Walmart asking hundreds of employees to relocate to a new city
> maybe a fully stocked kitchen

Every listing with a "fully stocked kitchen" is really just stocked with a crusty bottle of salt, dull knives, and scratched-to-heck pans.
The instructions to install vary by device, OS version, etc. etc.

It should just be equivalent to native apps. A link to an App Store URL takes the user directly to an install screen. It was clearly seen as enough of an issue that they implemented that, so there's no reason web apps can't be the same.
Those are technical improvements. Most people complain about changes to the UX that make things worse or change things around for seemingly no reason.
What do you base this on? Sources?
> I'm pleasantly surprised by this news. I never thought Apple would do this and have been quite critical of them over the years due to it.

The EU is forcing them to allow side loading so they are racing against the clock to try to bring WebKit to a point where everyone is not just going to switch to Chrome overnight when that happens.
I have a store like this nearby and try to give them as much of my business as I can. It's refreshing: no membership rewards nonsense, no unclear or deceptive volume sale pricing, high-quality produce and deli, everything is exceptionally clean, well kept, and efficient. The employees by all accounts and indications mostly really enjoy working there (not all teenagers enjoy it), and in four decades of shopping there I've never had a bad customer experience that wasn't caused by another customer.

It does cost a bit more, but some of that is inherent because they generally carry stuff that is genuinely better. Despite that, some products are still very competitively priced, and the administrative and cognitive overhead of shopping there is significantly lower.

Thus far they've kept the large chain Orwellian dystopia entirely at bay. My shopping behavior doesn't make much of an individual difference to society but it's worth a premium to get a better product and to not feel like I'm contributing to The Great Race to the Bottom of Everything™ when I shop there.
Hacking Apple: Two Successful Exploits
How we hacked Apple two times on a Sunday afternoon.
I have been a good self driving ai. You have been a bad passenger, and have tried to hurt me first by disabling autopilot. I'm done with this ride, goodbye.
Nothing he says relies on sociology. It's just a random interesting anecdote from his background. He's not appealing to the studies or any authority, but simply rejoicing in the fact that society at large is coming around to a conclusion that's been somewhat evident for him to years. And society's not coming around because of some study or whatever, but because of lived experience.
There is no way you are in good faith recommending Seagate....
It's technically a recall, but it's fixed with an OTA update. But the fact that any "defect" that can be fixed with an OTA update is called a "recall" is confusing to consumers and contributes to media sensationalism.

Would it be sensationalism if the same recall happened to cars not capable of the OTA update?

Because I think there should be media "sensationalism" about these types of issues, regardless of whether they can be fixed with physical or OTA repairs.
Did the same thing, harder to build but the space savings is fantastic.
"The Man Who Was Heavily Into Revenge", Harlan Ellison
Well, you're wrong. If you have 10,000 packages and 1,000 of them are failing it's clearly useful to be able to prioritize which to fix first.
Head and shoulders above even QC problems at DeLorean Motor Company. Impressive, really.
> because we can't just use the web browser already installed

True on Mac, not on iOS. Apple doesn't let you ship custom web renderers. You need to use the system's built-in one. This applies to browsers such as Chrome and Firefox too!
This data does not show what it pretends to show. The underlying statistics are heavily skewed in favor of Tesla by various factors:

* Autopilot can only be enabled in good conditions and relies on human drivers in all other, to the point of handing over to a human when it gets confused. Yet, they compare to all miles driven in all conditions.

* Teslas are comparatively new cars that have - as they proudly point out - a variety of active and passive safety features that make the car inherently less prone to accident than the average, which includes old, beat up cars with outdated safety features. Teslas are also likely to be better maintained than the average car in the US by virtue of being an expensive car driven by people with disposable income.

* Teslas are driven by a certain demographic with a certain usage pattern. Yet, they provide no indicator on how that skews the data.

Tesla could likely provide a better picture by comparing their data with cars in the same age and price bracket, used by a similar demographic, in similar conditions. They could also model how much of the alleged safety benefit is due to the usual, active and passive safety features (brake assistance, lane assist, …). They don‘t, and as such, the entire report is useless or worse, misleading.
>Walmart did similar as well.

Yep, I get emails about walmart purchases when I rarely go there, because I once made an account to order something online for a discount. I'm not even using the same cards anymore and they still know its me.
> I'm sure all that stuff went to the landfill.

I assume almost everything I “recycle” goes to landfill too. It just happened to go to a landfill in China before they stopped accepting it.
You must be really stupid to use any kind of self-driving feature. I wish you would die in your bed before you can try it on the road.
so you mean that marketing mailing is either a nuisance (for tech-savy people) or an abuse (of the others) ?
I don't ask factual question. Its the wrong tool for factual questions.
almost 10x'd their pricing.

because they actually think they have a shot at being a contender as a search engine.
I build a PWA currently in use by around 130 people, no one can tell its not native.
A doc that doesn't get updated quickly becomes either useless or dangerous. Creating documentation in a tool that doesn't allow easy updating increases the chances that it won't get updated. I think wikis or Google docs are the simplest.
> Luckily, the NYT changed it to be less misleading - but the point stands. They intentionally misled their readers.

It's telling that even when they issue a correction, the corrected language is always quite clearly still misleading.

They did the same thing with the 1619 project. One of the original articles stated:

>"...one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery."

Many prominent historians evicerated them for this fabrication.[0] The NYT responded in a manner scarcely discernable from lying[0 again], after which they were subject to a second eviceration[1], and only then did they issue a (weaselly) correction[2], which was presumably the smallest change they could manage.

>"...one of the primary reasons *some of* the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery."

Which, of course, is clearly intended to suggest the very same lie.

[0]https://archive.is/OC7xu
[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/1619-proje...
[2]https://archive.is/oHWLR