skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with everything you're saying there. I wonder, and this is largely an academic point rather than disagreeing with you, if the sort of people who would lean too heavily on "FSD" would also lean too heavily on "lane keeping assist", with similar outcomes.

But I think that the day in court that you mention above is going to go very badly for Tesla, largely because of the FSD name.

Why can't Tesla let go of the FSD name? I'd guess it's entirely the ego at the top. I think everyone agrees that FSD is not at all capable of full self driving. I know Musk wants to get there and thinks they can, but in the interim I don't understand why they don't just start calling it something more in line with the actual capabilities... "Driving assist" or revive the "Mad Max" theme they used for how aggressive the mode is, maybe "Full Tunderdome"?

Maaaaybe, nobody wants to tell Elon how bad FSD really is, so they have his cars remotely piloted so nobody gets fired? Honestly, that wouldn't surprise me at this point.
Man I hope they don’t alter any of his adult short story collections
This is just silly. Fat has two meanings. 1) noun, a type of animal tissue, which serves, as one of its purposes, to store excess energy from consumed food for leaner times. 2) adjective, describing a person or animal who has a lot of this tissue, possibly to a detrimental level. The first meaning is not derogatory (or shouldn't be), it's just a physiological description of a type of body tissue. It can be in the right places and of the 'right' amount, or it can be in the wrong places and too much or too little. That's when we get into the second meaning (derived from the first) where there is an excess and that excess is getting stored in the wrong places (both on the superficial level and deeper in organs and clogging up arteries & veins).

Thin, short and tall are all just straight adjectives. Them being that doesn't invalidate the double meaning of fat and somehow (by your logic) the word itself.
This hasn’t been my experience — for me, Firefox always manages to get into the “Using Significant Energy” list.
Oh my goodness how dare he!
> have a bunch of tech that is very good these days, in a larger quality than the failures.

We have moved to products just being "good enough".

An example is telco equipment, phones always just worked in the past, you would never expect an outage. Ask most people who had office or home phones up until the 90s and most would say they never had a single instance of their phone not working.

Then we went to Voip, and now soft phones like MS teams, and reliability is shit.

Its embarrassing that products like MS teams require multiple retry attempts each week just to make a simple phone call.
Wrong city, but right idea. I can't believe someone hasn't volunteered to pick up where Allen left off.

Microsoft alone is probably responsible for creating several thousand millionaires locally.
They do crowd shots like this quite a bit at sporting events and whatnot. I am in this one haha: http://gigapixel.panoramas.com/superbowl/2013/
True, but solar panels are a capital cost (ie a one-time cost) whereas electricity/gas is a consumable.

There are lots of variables, but return on investment in solar is around 14% annually for me. It'll vary from place to place, so you need to do your own math.
Unfortunately, it seems this is the trend now for all software jobs
I think in some future we may be able to create something sentient, but it’s not this.

AI is just a chain of matrix multiplications and some other tricks. Brains are on a whole other level with much more complex processes, even for ants. It’s just that now we have a model that’s really good at mimicking human language, and we mistake language for consciousness, as if language should follow consciousness.

I don’t think it does. These are my reasons:

1) Given that I know nothing about the mechanics behind sentience, I’d adscribe to the axiom that animals are definitely sentient, but most lack language. Then language isn’t a requirement for consciousness.

2) Since LLMs have been optimized for language generation and nothing else, they are missing the reproduction of whatever it is that is giving sentience to animals.

There’s no way LLMs are sentient.
Previous tangentially related passive radar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33581696
> StatiCrypt uses the crypto-js library to generate a static, password protected page that can be decrypted in-browser.

Bad idea. Your browser comes with web crypto, including AES256 and PBKDF2. See MDN.
There's no point in keeping an inventory because almost every project will require a parts order anyway. Just order what you need per-project.

That assumes that everything one does is a "project". I don't know about anybody else, but sometimes I just sit down at my lab bench intent to tinker or experiment, or do some ad-hoc repair on something from around the house. And I've found having a modest stash of components on hand is very useful for those activities.

It's a balancing act, of course. There's a limit to how much one would want/need to spend on stocking components, but I posit that the limit should probably be "greater than 0". I can't tell you what the upper limit is though. My component stockpile has been building for many years, and there's no way I could even tell anyone how much is invested in it.

All of that said the one other thing I've often heard quoted, and tend to agree with, is this sentiment:

"When you order components for a project, always order more than you need, and put the unused ones in your stash". The thinking being, something along the lines of "If you needed this component once, you'll probably wind up using it again."

Of course it is, again, a judgment call. Order a few extra $0.50 comparators? Sure. Ordering a few extra of some multi hundred dollar FPGA or ADC or something? Yeah, no so much. :-)
Oversubscribed means different things to different groups of people. (I'm replying to people in general, and not to the commenter above me)

To an ISP, it means that a customer could exeperience a shortage of service, but that a group of customers would have to simultaneously utilize the infrastructure. ISPs try to keep a ratio of customers to service where this isn't likely to happen, or for discount providers, that this happens only during peak times. Ultimately it is a balance of customer attrition.

To a customer, it sounds like they are being deprived of what they are paying for. (Residental customers agree to a best-effort service typically - the opposite of agreeing to a specific service level). Even with ample service capacity, it is often the first factor considered when any component in the aggregate network is failing or underperforming.

I sure do not miss being a residential ISP. But I carry with me just enough sympathy for service providers that I am "always a blast at a party".
"But no, we don't need lidar, radar, or anything else besides a couple of cheap Chinese video cameras."
Anecdotally, when I visited Lisbon last year, every taxi driver was extremely friendly and constantly encouraging me to buy some property and move to Portugal.

Obviously this is a small sample size, but my impression was the people I talked to all genuinely welcomed foreigners (and their money, sure) in a way I haven’t experienced in many other places. Other expats I talked to in Portugal agreed with this.

I think the Portuguese may find that the only thing worse than positive net migration is negative net migration.
Portugal ends Golden Visas (GV)

"attracted 6.8B euros in investment since its launch in 2012"

6.8B / 11Y = 618M/y

Min inv = 280k

618M / 280k = 2207 GV houses sold/y

Avg amt sold/y = 150k

https://foreignbuyerswatch.com/2021/05/11/total-home-sales-i...

Golden visa share = 2k/150k = only 1%

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1626534923619434497
Counterpoint, I click a link to load a feature page on the google cloud console, it takes around 10 seconds if not longer to load on a modern PC.

Meanwhile vendor products from early 2000s loaded their web interfaces instantly. And they had more functionality.
Am I the only one who found the two naked people?
I suspect that, upon the expiration of the original copyright, there will be new bowdlerized versions made, but that those will bear little resemblance to the versions now being released, except that some of the same things will have been changed, though not changed in the same way.
this site works

https://whathefox.com/
There are tons of books that actually are a product of the current time. Why not read those, and support living writers, instead of changing the meaning of older works?

Seems like your problem here is easier to solve without messing with the other writers and potentially confusing your child about what, say, a Ronald Dahl book is actually like.
Are you actually more productive in writing the code that you being paid for, or do you feel more productive, but are actually spending your mental energy and time writing custom Emacs scripts?
whoever thought this is crazy lol
Damn, and our penises are concerning large. [0]

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation...
Di is great. Di frameworks are usually not.
But also BMI is a crap metric, since it doesn't account for percent fat / muscle.
also the image of the Oompa Loompa in 'charlie and the chocolate factory' can also be interpreted as racist. The NAACP launched a protest, back in 1971 - at a time when racist attitudes were much more common. https://daily.jstor.org/roald-dahls-anti-black-racism/

The movie paints them with orange colored skin, no one was protesting that edition of the original text.
His series on Africana philosophy is also excellent!

Of note, his series on Western philosophy properly goes through Islamic and Byzantine philosophy before coming back to Western European philosophy of the Middle Ages, so it’s even more impressive than it sounds that he’s up to Montaigne now.
The key is capitalism, which always good for short term profit even at the expense of dooming everyone.

Do you think any of the institutional or otherwise detached investors will pay for any of the safeties? Lose money or sleep?

The companies will rather circumvent or ignore the regulations, outsource the toxicity, diffuse it over the entire world. When caught, they're just slapped on the wrist, if at all.

Even in EU, cases like VW systematically breaking ecological regs on cars, undetermined someone killing tons of fish in Oder river... Creative bookkeeping and monitors being underfunded and understaffed is rampant. That where they exist at all.

Nobody wants to seriously touch it or the whole facade falls apart.
The things you mentioned are fig leaves. Minor steps ahead at best.
Suppose that he were publicly cackling and saying "everything is proceeding as I have foreseen...".

Would you not call it BS, if he were asserting it as some sort of triumph? Because that seems to me isomorphic to what people are claiming when they say this was calculated. The only difference I see is the polarity, the positivity or negativity of how it's put.
Can you find Waldo?
You should take your own advice and not force your perspective on other people.
I’m just gonna point out that this is exactly why I have a reasonably large library of printed books in editions I’ve read.
I don't think you realize how utterly disastrous Chavez was for Venezuela. Maybe consider taking your own advice.

Chavez' officials, like Venezuela's own Elizabeth Warren, Karlin Granadillo, claimed "the law of supply and demand is a lie", and her socialist party nodded in unison to this ideological rhetoric:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201112003937/http://www.bloomb...

Only an echo chamber can allow this kind of economic illiteracy to proliferate.
A Software as a Service (SaaS) log collection framework
Grove is a Software as a Service (SaaS) log collection framework, designed to support collection of logs from services which do not natively support log streaming.

Grove enables teams to collect security related events from their vendors in a reliable and consistent way. This data may then be stored and analyzed with a team’s _existing_ tooling in order to support threat detection and compliance programmes.

Grove was created and is currently maintained by the HashiCorp security team.
Sure, I agree it isn't very specific, but I wasn't trying to make a general claim, just provide a hopefully recognizable example of revisionist history.

I think it would be different if I was claiming that most people believe this narrative, or something like that.

I could have pointed to some specific academics who feel this way, but I'm not sure that is any more convincing. Basically any example can be ignored with a no true scottsman argument if someone is obstinate instead of curious.
>Nothing is answered in this article. We simply don't know.

No, we haven't clearly defined consciousness. For a given exact definition of consciousness, we can determine whether something fits that definition or not. If we don't clearly define it, then we're just talking about a feeling, a qualia, and it's not possible for people to reach a consensus because they're not even discussing the exact same thing when they say "consciousness".
If this were true then why are there countless examples of rich people losing power throughout history?
Right, that's the point I was making about increased noise in the system.
I'm so annoyed, I'd been excited to order a brand new collection of all of Dahl's works and now I've got to go find used collections, which are going to get snapped up or thrown away by capitulating librarians and bookstore workers.
Right. After the fact and poisoning the swathes of land and tons of water nobody will clean up. And cost of the lost health of people being offloaded onto taxpayers.

The company or its shareholders is not bearing the cost of wrongdoing.

As such, the market is incentivized to do more of this garbage.

Environmental pollution is a classic example of a market failure. Market failures are the rule not some exception - they're a way to maximize profit. Efficient markets have zero profit.
I'll add this: get a nice de-soldering gun. I use a Hakko FR-301[1], which while not exactly "cheap" isn't "insanely expensive" either. The thing about it is, you never want to have to use it. To use a metaphor, if you do any shade-tree (or professional) auto work, having to pull out the FR-301 is like having to pull out the left-hand twist drill bits and a set of EZ-OUTs. When that happens, you know you screwed something up. BUT, when you do pull out the desoldering gun (or the EZ-OUT kit) and it saves your ass, you feel very good knowing you have it in your hip pocket.

I probably use my FR-301 a couple of times a year, but I think it paid for itself the first time I used it.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BKSLLG9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
That partly answers my question. Thank you.
don't worry, there's no way the techs at Comcast could figure out how to prioritize speedtest.net in their QoS tables.
You're right. It must be the housing thing then.
Lem is basically a Common Lisp Emacs. I think Hemlock might still be around too. I’ve heard talk Nyxt Browser[1] is looking to add editing at some point but that’s a ways off. Still a browser based Common Lisp emacs definitely excites me a little.

[1] https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/
I buried coax through my backyard to the friend’s house who lived behind me. Ran it under both houses and up through the floors in our rooms. I wonder if the next people to live in my house ever figured out what that extra coax was for…
Sorry to disappoint you but: rickroll
But that phrasing makes an entirely different point. It's not "we don't have the resources to document it properly" — it's more like...

"There is no possible documentation that could help you to not screw up when using this function. We've tried. There used to be docs here — first as doc comments, then hidden within the function (to force you to read the function to find them), then as a special pre-commit lint rule that triggers when people add a new use of the function to the codebase without adding a special annotation to acknowledge it. None of it helped; people still screwed up the usage. Even the people who wrote the function screwed up in new usages of it — every time they tried! — because the number of things you need to remember to get right to use it, exceeds the capacity of any single human being's short-term working memory. The very existence of this function is Ozymandian arrogance. It should be banished from the Earth. The only problem is that people keep reinventing it. We're waiting for a sufficiently-smart linter, so we can teach it to not let people reintroduce any function isomorphic to this to the codebase; then we can truly excise it for good. In the meantime, we leave it undocumented, for a bit of security through obscurity: a thing that you can't find a good way of coming to a seeming understanding of, you're less tempted to use."
I have a manual lathe, a manual mill, a shear, a few welders, a cnc router, a cnc plasma cutter, a few band saws, a couple chop saws, a surface grinder, a couple hydraulic presses, a cutting torch, and more money than I ever care to think about in tooling. It is definitely a hobby where you accumulate things over the years and not something I would recommend buying all at once.
It's funny because I get stereotyped two different ways: People that I make parts for at home think I am computer illiterate, and machinists that I model parts for at work assume I have never seen the inside of a shop.
Other manufacturers are very careful to remind users it's assisting technology. Tesla believers seem to want to promote its autonomously capable, or will be. And there's few people willing to tolerate 40mph speeds on highways, Tesla or otherwise, let alone 30.

14 feels to me like a horrendously large number for one vehicle manufacturer but your point is valid: what's the rate of analogous event for Volvo, or other market leading AEB?

The idea this problem is solved by making smart devices smarter at recognising flashing lights suggests they're looking for low cost consequence fixes, much as Boeing wanted for the Max.
https://archive.ph/NL23G
When you’re in Brooklyn, you still say “going in to the city” to mean Manhattan.
Power outages aren’t an argument against heat pumps anyway. Without power my central fan can’t run and thus my forced air natural gas furnace is dead in the water.

Anyway, where I live in Boise most utility outages are due to physical damage - whether that be animals, auto accidents, extreme weather (not “it got cold”, but wind gusts toppled a tree that brought down a utility pole), and fiber seeking backhoes. Even had the gas get shut off at my old house because an auto accident hit some equipment a street down causing a gas leak.
Consciousness.
HN loves bringing up Orwell in contexts that are not comparable. This is bad, but not in an Orwellian way.
Wait what? VSCode doesn't have macros?

I probably use them several times a week in Emacs. It's not a power feature but something very basic.
I really like this, but maybe I'm a sucker. I was an early lover of Svbtle, and have tried Bear, hosting my own Jekyll + Hugo static sites, etc.

First of all, I love the clean design + aesthetic. I also like the fact that you don't seem married to one format, unlike most blogs, which are married to...linear blogs only. I hope this leads to more types -- in particular, I dream of having a CMS that can create a site as powerful as Gwern's [0] without the headache of having to maintain it. Things like table-of-contents, built-in citation tools, popovers to other pages, etc. sound like they could work well, if they were a separate type from what you currently offer. But this is just me wishing and dreaming.

If I had to articulate anything, it would be that I hope (but do not see) you offer support for custom domains? Custom domain support typically is a given with paid plans. I can see this being future-work related though.

Typographically, I really like everything. The design is really fresh. It looks well thought-out. I genuinely really like everything you've done!

[0]: https://gwern.net/problem-14
> I'm sure there are many topics that if a teacher or librarian presented to your children you would move to remove their discretionary power

I would first consult with them, and, if necessary, go to the school board if I thought they were being unnecessarily intransigent (or too ideological). In other words, I much prefer working from the bottom up, i.e. from the local community level, rather than having prescriptions imposed from the top down.
It's only rational. The company certainly doesn't care about that individual first, as evidenced by e.g. its decision to lay them off when it doesn't think the individual is serving them, so why should the individual put the company first?

This is also known as The Iron Law of Institutions.
You'd be able to convince an AGI that is the year it is. The chat bot will be stuck on the story and statistical nearness of related responses.

The chat bot can't verify, because it doesn't Know anything.
lol, the same journal that referred to women as "bodies with vaginas."
BMI may be a crap metric for individuals, but not for large population samples. I guarantee you that nearly half of American men aren't at obese-level BMIs because bodybuilders are somehow making a dent in the numbers.
Yup, and it's all partially my fault for being the first financial services operator to show up in the 1960's with a telephone modem to connect Palm Beachers to the mainframes back up on Wall Street. Definitely more advanced than many of the old shops up north that were still on ticker-tape.

Yachtsmen gonna yacht . . .
> Netflix seems pretty sensitive to twitter opinions

Do they? They sided with Chappelle. They gave Norm Macdonald a talk show.

I think Netflix does a fairly good job trying to cater to everyone, woke and not.
The Mario Kart ride restricts anyone with a 40 inch waist or larger from riding. According to the CDC, the average American man's waist is 40.5 inches, which means most American men would be excluded from the ride. The average American woman's waist is 38.7 inches.

wtf. I remember being a 38 and that was pretty big and fat. I am now down to a 31. The obesity situation is worse than I thought. I wonder where the limit is? How much bigger will people get? A lot of engineering is based on the assumption that most humans fit within a certain distribution of weight, having to constantly raise this mean incurs many unforeseen costs and consequences.
if you're 5'9" / 200lbs you'd better be a powerlifter to be considered fit.
Yes, there have been massive improvements. so much so that many people take these as a given. Here’s a small few off the top of my head:
- power steering (most people would struggle to drive a car without it)
- anti lock breaks
- suspension systems
- fuel injection
- multi gear transmissions
- airbags

Now that I think about it I’m not sure I’d put the change from gas to electric as more revolutionary than a number of these seemingly mundane improvements.
Being cancelled is very much a real thing, since a lot of people have, e.g., spineless bosses who will immediately capitulate to the Twitter mob's demands.
If someone told me that they worked through a whole data structures and algorithms book I would be impressed but I would not be under the impression that they had 'mastered programming' in the sense that I would not be comfortable working with them. I would rather work with someone who has large gaps in their knowledge but is curious and motivated.

I 'mastered' programming by your definition by having a 2 year long internship at a hardware company where I was asked to make a website, write code that interfaced with non-standard networking protocols, and automate the company's garden. I had a whole lot of help from some graduate students that were there working on hardware design and were kind enough to answer the 1000 questions I had.