skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You ask a very pointed question and after reading the various responses given, I think it is quite obvious that many have forgotten a very simple rule from decades ago: Garbage In -> Garbage Out.

Two things to consider:

1). No computer system will ever go beyond its programming and for an artificial intelligence of any sort, this will be required.

I have worked in many systems over the last 40 years and all too often, when you are forced by circumstance or direction, the analysis of those systems have been shown to be essentially garbage presenting what appears to be reasonable results when those results are not at all reasonable.

2). No matter how much data we "feed" these systems, the data will contain rubbish in terms of what we are trying to do with it and this leads only to further rubbish being created.

What we need to be cognisant of in regards to these technologies is that they are or will be used by people who do not understand the limitations of these technologies and will believe they are far more capable than they really are.

I don't disagree that these tools can be or will be useful as an adjunct to our capabilities. But unless we are actually stupid, we should not be relying on these systems for critical purposes. Of course, this will happen as it has already happened many times in the past and we have suffered from the inherent stupidity involved - we (as humanity) are just too lazy in so many ways.

I have the privilege of watching my 5 month old granddaughter grow and when you see the intelligence inherent here and then compare with so called machine intelligence, you quickly realise that all of our efforts in machine intelligence development is nothing compared to what we see in the development of intelligence in human beings.
+100 Yay, Longmont!

My service has been rock solid: https://photos.tylercipriani.com/2023-05-25_next-light.png
Phantom braking is not a full ABS lock type of braking. It’s more like a brake check.
Flying through Tegel was a notorious exception to that less BS rule. The wait for our bags was longer than the flight in from München.
That's the "insider/outsider" thing. Trump is a rightist outsider, Bernie a leftist outsider. Both are favoured by "anti-establishment" types.
Someone ask it what it thinks about Bitcoin
I have always wanted to put a modern LTO head on one of those giant reel to reel tapes. Probably wouldn’t work right, but if it did it would be awesome.
I think it's more that if someone does it in a Tesla, it makes for good headlines and generates clicks, so we hear about it. Someone in my hometown confused the pedals in an ICE car a few years ago, made a small blurb in our tiny newspaper, nowhere else. Same with cars catching on fire. Happens all the time, but when it happens to a Tesla, you see it in the national news.
The Tesla drivers in LA are like an upper echelon of terrible Tesla drivers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd0IpJFSZ10
3 is the guidance in the UK at least
I'm actually not sure anymore which side of the aisle, if any, anyone in this conversation joins, but in the US, both the Democrats and Republicans have spent the last 70 years selling the average worker down river, whether by trade agreements that made it profitable to do all manufacturing in China or decades of successful anti-union and anti-"socialism" propaganda or banking deregulation, or letting coal mines poison you while also letting them write the textbooks that tell you you should be thankful for being poisoned, to embroiling us in middle east nonsense, to the war on drugs, to stabbing important unionized transportation workers in the back directly (Both parties have an explicit case of this!!!)

The republicans switched to ideological and religious stuff mid century, and the democrats seemingly responded by just.... walking away from the common man? It's weird. If you want to vote for workers empowerment in the US, you don't have an option.
Most people are pretty much unaware of anything outside of their car other than for the couple of seconds they look up from their phone to look at the car in front of them. Look to the sides? That's too much time away from the screen in their hand! /s (only partially)

Since my time of learning to drive, the requirement to have formal driving training has ping ponged in being a requirement or not. The number of hours as an observer is just as important as the hours being behind the wheel. One of the things repeatedly mentioned by the instructor was to not drive side by side any car unless absolutely necessary. It was also a recurring theme in my repeated defensive driving classes. I also have an uncle that drove trucks for a long time, and he would tell stories of things he saw on the road. A relevant story was when one of the wheels of a tractor-trailor doing 70mph down the highway lost the outside wheel of the trailer and seeing the damage it cause the car driving along side. All of that added together makes me never like to have a car on my sides and I will speed up or slow down (which ever has more space available) to avoid it. For those that did not have to take a driving course, this is just information they may never have been provided.
Bullshit, full stop.

We live in a society with deep dependency chains on technology we can't possibly understand as individuals, that much is true

But all of those technologies are subject to independent auditing and regulation to make up for that lack of verifiability on an individual level. It is technologically feasible to apply that kind of standard to computer technologies, and in fact I would argue that it's much easier than it is for a lot of other kinds of technology we rely on. That our willingness at a political level to do so is lacking is a corruption issue, not a feasibility one.
You don't have to use the TSA locks if you go full American and throw some guns in your luggage.
I am not sure I agree with your assessment. Last time I was in a FSD Tesla, it repeatedly tried to run red lights and didn't know how to merge lanes on a freeway...
This is one of the most blatant MLM token projects. Inviting new marks and getting benefits from the number of people you've brought into the scam, conferences, targeting of the vulnerable populations, all the hallmarks of a typical pyramid scheme.
> If we used statistics to guide criminal justice policy we’d be in big trouble

Uh... we do use statistics to guide criminal justice policy? Not sure I understand what you're saying. How do you think they decide where to police and what to prosecute? How they decide on legislative penalties? It's true that this process isn't necessarily 100% data based, and in a bunch of ways ends up very unfair, but it's absolutely driven by a mostly-sincere attempt to get the most social good out of our limited enforcement and regulatory budgets.
I don’t get this to be honest. Had a couple of experiences as a passenger and now I actively avoid them (on Uber). The ride is absolutely awful. So rigid. Every bump on the road is felt, to the point I felt nauseated. They’re spacious, and maybe they’re nice to drive? But if I bought this without test driving it first, I would return it.
The Economics of Developer Tooling
How do you keep notes of your work as you code?
I find keeping mental models of the code I'm working on or reviewing to be a lot of cognitive work. So tend to jot things down either in a notebook or just put screenshots onto OneNote (I like the big endless canvas and ability to scribble notes). I feel like there is a more intuitive way for doing this. Any recommendations for tooling? How else do people do it?
I wish it were that simple, sometimes. Not everybody is in a position to, for varying reasons. We’re privileged to have that ability. There are entire groups of people who just can’t because of being “black listed” for one reason or another.
It has worked pretty well for me. Even though I have been "overdressed" every time, you can do suit without a tie, or put your jacket on the chair at the start, etc.

Even though tech / "IT" people are usually casual, I think it doesn't hurt at all to show that you take the even seriously, and that you own a suit and are not afraid of wearing it if some particular client meeting / other event ever necessitates it.
Those are not bad ideas and suggestions at all! Thanks!

Let me see if I can get a French episode generated for you today or tomorrow and if you like it, I'm happy to send some more your way :)

What is your level of French?
Why precisely makes that a fallacy?
I've heard some auto analysts suggesting that Tesla's trick to drop their car prices was not necessarily an act of desperation, as much as an action of opportunity. While all other car manufacturers are upping prices and increasing lead times, Tesla is taking advantage of this by having vehicles available and lowering prices in order to gain market-share in a time when other manufacturers are expecting and preparing for slower sales.

If that was the strategy, then it looks like it is working exactly as planned.
He's clearly not as smart as people imagine him to be. Thera are countless approaches to try and they are mostly based on existing knowhow about encoding to avoid injection.
I had a brief moment of hope that this might mean decent internet would be available to me, before remembering the entire reason I don't have fiber internet in-unit is because my condo HOA is a bunch of boomers who turned down the install. Kickin' it 2007-style with my DSL
The statement that the war was unprovoked is proving to be less durable by the day. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-war-in-ukraine-was-...
Agreed. Fully.

And yet precisely none of that, to me at least, is persuasive reason to NOT put the most effective possible light and information on cars coming out of the factory :-)

(And don't even get me started on red vs amber rear turning signals ;)
Any ideology that doesn't allow Ukraine to make their own destiny is unacceptable. Ukraine told Russia it wouldn't join NATO, tried to set itself up to join the EU instead, and got invaded anyway, back in 2014.
He didn't show that full scans are better than indexes, just that they aren't obviously worse when the data is small.
CppCon 2022 Back to Basics: C++ API Design – Jason Turner
That might almost be a reasonable opinion, if you’ve only read the headlines. This case was about a homeowner vs the EPA. The EPA wanted their property to be classified as a wetland because it has a ditch.
Other than the very explicit tracking of the packages, their dependencies, the full build instructions, the public history, cryptographic signatures for the pre-built binaries, and the trivial ability for anyone to re-build from source and audit the entire chain all the way from bootstrap if they wished?

I’m not sure what golden standard we are comparing this to. It is not perfect, but I’d say this is a far more solid bedrock upon which to build software than anything else I’ve encountered.
I am not considering them because they keep taking away more and more (hardware) features over the years. No parking sensors is an instant no buy for me. Already had horrible experiences with their vision based wiper automation.
> Tesla self-driving is better than a bad human driver.

Genuine question: what evidence is there of this?
I like how people talk about this the same way they do gun safety
I'm in Erie and get Gigabit. It's not symmetrical, but it's the best internet I've ever had.
What an embarrassingly privileged comment. The US funds terror around the world for their own benefit. Millions die because of the actions of the US or are effectively enslaved for the benefit of US capitalists to sell overpriced products to wealthy consumers such as yourself. The CIA regularly destabilizes 3rd world countries for the benefit of US corporations (see United fruit company and Guatemala). To suggest the world is a “peaceful” place simply because you live in a country that has never seen war in its homeland during your lifetime is ludicrous especially given the wars the US has started and participated in. Frankly this comment reeks of propaganda, I wouldn’t be surprised if you worked for the fed or a company profiting from the military industrial complex.
GPT-4 can probably explain LaTeX formulas pretty well, but when they are compiled PDFs, the encoded PDF plain text is often garbage, so GPT-4 probably couldn't understand much.
Is there a big market for $125,000 cars? Who needs a car 40 hours a week?
I love AltShiftX book and movie reviews. The Dune ones are long and interesting.
They are necessarily non-constructive existence proofs, for sure. You're not alone in some potential unease with that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_...
The U.S. was "properly attacked" in the War of 1812, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11.

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There are conspiracy theories (which I don't believe) that the latter two were known, but deliberately permitted to happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_advance-knowledge...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories
I mean, I think the Model Y is ugly, but I don't think this is anything specific to Tesla. All crossover SUVs are ass-ugly and I don't think it's possible to make one which isn't, but that hasn't stopped them from selling like hotcakes.
Is this even a lead? Seems like Tesla is just bearing the R&D that any other auto manufacturer can decide to implement if it makes sense for margins. There's no secret sauce when a competitor can get a hold of your product and see how it works. Its why in past wars doing things like scuttling vehicles was important to prevent competition.
Oh wow! Thanks for the heads up.

When skimming about Toyota, I'm getting unsafe floor mats and sticky pedals as the cause of acceleration, but maybe I'm not looking hard enough. The other commenter also brought up that it's a common issue.

Guess I'm feeling less safe on the road then ever - and I'll get a manual to boot
Is it actually better than a bad human driver? (And what’s your metric for ‘bad’ — tired, drunk, distracted, a teenager who just got their license but didn’t actually practice enough?) Because I’ve watched enough videos of people having to quickly override Full Self-Driving in ordinary situations that I’m really skeptical that it’s better than most drivers. I’d be willing to say that in practice FSD usage is small enough to not be a serious threat to public safety, but I haven’t seen evidence that it’s better than a human.
I think that's pretty rare?
> Tesla self-driving is better than a bad human driver.

I have big doubts regarding this claim. I could not find any source that is not Tesla.

Given that TFA is about Tesla deceiving and hiding information from customers, do you have any source that isn't Tesla or Musk?
I think you'll find Nirvana ≠ Fallacy

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/nibba...
It hits home when you realize people were saying 90% of software projects were failure.

People wanted perfect solutions in one go. Everyone was blaming software developers.

If one expects only perfect outcomes then it is easy to get high fail rate.
The Gorshkov class frigates are a much tougher nut to crack than the Moskva was. A well orchestrated Harpoon attack might be able to, but Ukraine lacks enough launch platforms (and no aircraft that can safely reach it).
That's usually a shorthand for a child's limited understanding of complex factors when parents are too tired or unable to explain things better - not an actual moral claim.
I don't own one, but I watch a video on youtube every time one of these threads comes around and it seems to be pretty good these days.

Your examples are bad. People do both of those things all the time.
That's not a great idea. The driver is still in control of the car and is no better than anybody else, and maybe even not paying attentnion because some think autopilot is self driving. You should treat all other traffic with the same defense.
why do you think if we can not understand the dependency chain, the regulators and the auditors can?
I bought one and it's the most fun I've had in a vehicle in my almost four decades of driving. Not going to tell you what to like, but your opinions are definitely an outlier.
Latest suspension is really good. We have one, would never sell it. Upgraded the suspension myself from 2021 build to the latest rev for $600.

Edit: Ref: https://old.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/12c49ir/_/jf2k...

Have Tesla Service confirm parts to your VIN/vehicle model (LR vs Performance).
Yeah the win matrix is what you want to look at if you haven't internalized or memorized what various Elo differences mean
Vertical integration has many benefits. It’s the same reason Apple started making their own chips and ditched intel. The SOCs will be cheaper and better optimized for Tesla’s use case.

Every Nvidia GPU I’m aware of ships with both CUDA cores and Tensor cores. For a pure ML application those CUDA cores are almost useless. Tesla would be paying Nvidia’s premium for transistors that aren’t optimized for ML inference.

A Tesla designed chip can be 100% dedicated to tensor multiplication. You’re paying less per transistor and every transistor is utilized to the fullest extent.
Thats a massive difference in absolute and relative terms. $50B and 100%
Its a meme stock with a lot of volatility for scalping plays.
A similar incident happened at SFO a few years ago where an Air Canada flight tried to land on a taxiway since the normal runway was closed and unlit and the pilots missed the memo.
The more popular 2nd gen Priuses aren't THAT ugly :).
Alright, thats a fair point.
Colorado has not been a purple state in 8+ years and is going more solid blue by the year. In the 2022 election, there was one thought to be close statewide election. It was a blowout, 55.9% dem, 41.3% GOP. The 2020 presidential election had very similar results.

https://www.politico.com/2022-election/results/colorado/
British Airways cancels 110 Heathrow flights in latest IT collapse
It was famously a problem for Audi in the 1980’s and almost destroyed the brand. I thought everyone had heard of that.

But it is one of the most common if not the most common cause of unintended acceleration in any car.

I’ve even had it happen to me one time. The typical scenario is that you’re traveling at low (“creep”) speed with your foot on (but not pressing) the gas pedal. You think your foot is on the brake, so you push to slow down… whoops you’re starting to accelerate.

The probable reason that it happens more often with Teslas is that they have less lag between pressing the accelerator and getting juice. So by the time you realize you messed up, you’re already going fast.

In most gas cars, firmly pressing the accelerator results in milquetoast acceleration and a lot of noise for a second while the transmission downshifts and the engine revs up. In an EV, you just… go.
Trump started the legal process of ending that war, like him or not.
This is the kind of business that is extremely simple, very boring, and heck, even easy to implement, but ends up making the owners 6 figures MRR with a bit of marketing and networking elbow grease. The perfect software lifestyle business.

I love the splash page too: simple and to the point. They aren't saving the world with AI, they're just making better cron jobs.
Is neuralink even claiming to be working on input to the brain? I thought it was just trying to read the human brain.
Some people (like myself) prefer a sporty ride.

They're really fun to drive. I own one and don't regret it. Obviously no car will appeal to everyone but clearly Tesla has a market despite the nay-sayers.

edit: The purchase experience beats traditional car makers hands down. No high pressure sales tactics or scams like rust preventer.

Nay-sayers also under-rate Tesla's mobile service. Go into the app, create a ticket, attach pictures. Get an estimate within hours (sometimes minutes). Accept, schedule. Tech comes to your house with all the parts and tools. Super easy.

Not much to maintain... motor coolant (ATF), coolant system, etc are lifetime sealed. Brakes last forever thanks to regen. Basically replace air filters every 3-4 years and tires per normal... which can also be done by mobile service.
Big fan of my Y, but you aren't kidding, the suspension is truly awful when you compare it to something in the same price category like an X3.
Yes, he was sold a bill of goods, but in his 8 years never re-evaluated the situation.

I'm going to guess that he was wary of the political attacks over doing so -- if all it took was french mustard or a tan suit, imagine the outrage of "cutting and running"
Tesla has their own insurance because people were complaining about high rates. Why else would they come up with their own insurance?
> Deutsche Bahn is one of the better railway operators in Europe, especially compared to the railways in Southern Europe or the UK

Are you sure you're not just remembering their old reputation? DB's punctuality and performance has gotten to be terrible lately, I'd say they're well below Trenitalia or Renfe or most of the UK railways at this point. (And complaints about British railways are pretty overstated; prices are bad, but performance is objectively pretty good).
I wonder what they'll do with it. Let it expire? keep renewing it?
How is this different from Quartz or Spring Batch?
Or "Do whatever I say because there's a slight chance if you don't follow my arbitrary rules you will be tortured forever by one of the characters in my arcane storybook"
Agreed! Especially how easy it would be to have a bot that is aware of your vocabulary level and slowly introduces more vocabulary the more you interact with it.
Well, there is a trick to reading a lot: don't live for the thrill of finally finishing a book or a paper. Instead enjoy the process of reading and understanding every paragraph.
So he got fired? [Asked to resign and he didn't have any choice in the matter.]
Adding an index is an incredibly expensive task on a dataset so big that it needs one to be added.

It's something that is likely to require massive engineering effort on a live system.

Removing an index, on the other hand, is never an issue.

It's not at all premature optimization, it's simply basic software design.
> It is a vanishingly small number of scenarios where you are keeping pace with a car next to you and you're not in the wrong.

I think it really depends on where/when you're driving. I find this to be a common scenario on interstates during rush hour:

I'm in the right lane, doing approximately the speed limit. There is a safe distance between me and the cars in front and back of me, but only just. If many more cars enter the road, traffic would need to slow down to maintain safe distances. In the left lane is the same situation, except they're averaging about 1 or 2 mph faster. In this situation, there are cars in the left lane passing very slowly, spending a lot of time alongside me. I could slow down below the speed limit every time a car passed on the left, to reduce reduce that loiter time. But this would make my driving less predictable to the drivers behind me (and waste a lot of mileage too...)

So normally, when the other cars are my size, I maintain my present course and speed, driving as predictably as possible to help the other drivers anticipate my course. Changing position in traffic is inherently risky, so I avoid making changes unless doing so is necessary to avoid something I judge to be more dangerous than the average. If a truck passes me on the left, I'll slow down to make the passing faster even if that means a car behind me has to brake. But if in that moment I judge the guy behind me to be even more dangerous, then maybe I won't. It's the kind of decision that needs to be made on the spot in a case-by-case basis. On interstates that are flowing fast near capacity, you need to be constantly evaluating the relative threat of the traffic around you.
We don’t trust the drum on the washing machine. That’s why organizations like Underwriters Laboratory exist.
Yeah just gotta turn it off every single time you get in the car.