skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that these self-driving cars are limited to a few big cities--where they're least necessary, since good public transit is far more efficient, many things are within walking distance, and speed limits are low anyway.

IMHO the biggest potential for self-driving cars is in suburbs and exurbs where mass transit is inherently less efficient.
Try the -nocommands option to disable that bit of braindamage.
I don’t know how we could say humans are “good” or “bad” drivers. What are we comparing against? We’re the only thing that drives cars (other than a few self driving cars).
Either you have a free for all with no moderation that will be toxic to the mainstream and impossible to monetize or you end up with Reddit again.
> A human driver would disengage FSD long before it got into situations like that, which means Tesla would be unlikely to have the training data necessary to train its cars to handle it properly.

Wouldnt Tesla just just have Auto Pilot simulate what it would do and then compare that with what a human actually did and then learn from that?
You are free to chase whatever you want. Same goes for those who have chosen FSD.
I frickin love computers in movies that have tons of Blinkenlights.
What makes country roads in England so terrifying to US drivers (other than the obvious left vs right issue which would apply to cities too)?
It's crazy to think Sequoia was started by Valentine who invested in so many iconic companies.

And now just look at Sequoia. The bottom of the barrel with the worst takes in technology. How much a company can fall.
The mix of unconstrained input (the real world, not a lab, not a simu, not a factory) and safety-critical output make this kind of problem particularly hard to tackle.

I don’t understand why anyone could think that it would be easy or fast.

Guys like Elon or Geohot have been simply delusional.

I think that being naïvely over optimistic is a good trait for innovation engineering, but we should also manage expectations…

Nothing is done until it’s done, proof is in the pudding.
> This is very on brand for Elon:

I don’t think SpaceX is a failure in general, and Tesla seems to sell a lot of EVs, I feel like 10 years ago their were many comments on HN that both were impossible achievements.

Not really a fan of musk, I bought a BMW i4 instead of a Tesla (although not for dislike of Musk), but the Musk haters seem to have a worse track record on their predictions than the Musk fanboys.
Argo AI "grift" stop. there goes your whole narrative.
> Elon and Andrej Karpathy argued that since humans can drive using just vision

Is this maliciously specious or am I missing something? I drive using vision plus decades of life experience and all the tacit knowledge, judgement, and reasoning ability that comes from that. We have not reproduced any of that with math, and getting/stalling 90% of the way there with mimicry is not good enough.
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Holding data hostage (to a subscription) is such a strong attractor that it has completely obliterated every other model. And I hate it. It makes everything worse, for everybody. I don't know what will replace it, but my clients are all already groaning under the load, and I don't blame them one bit.

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On a completely different subject, but to end on a happier note, I want to thank you for recommending citrulline a couple weeks ago. It's made a surprisingly large difference for me, and it hadn't been on my radar as something to even try before you mentioned it. So, thanks!
me and the bros have already fully pivoted
I think you quite underestimate how large Reddit community is. It became "the default community" for most topics.
GPS is owned by US government and operated by US military [0]. And US military does not charge retail :-)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
Their logic is on the same level as arguing that birds fly with just wings, so no idea why we’re playing with those silly engines.
> It's fact that masks help prevent the transmission of diseases that spread from the nose and mouth

It's true for diseases with a droplet based spread, like the flu.

Disposable masks are good enough to catch the droplets people spray out when they sneeze or cough preventing them from falling onto surfaces that people will later touch and then touch a mucous membrane, infecting themselves.

All the early Covid advice was based on the false theory that Covid had a droplet based spread.

With a fully airborne disease, like Covid, you need something capable of filtering the virus out of the air you breathe. At a bare minimum, that would ba a n95 mask fitted so tightly to your face that unfiltered air cannot come in through the sides.

Perhaps you remember all the pictures online of medical professionals with with pressure sores from where the masks pushed into their face from 2020?

A disposable mask held on with two rubber bands over your ears simply isn't capable of preventing you from being infected by a virus floating in the air you are breathing.

>Two years after the pandemic began, we finally have a good understanding of how COVID-19 is transmitted: some infected people exhale virus in small, invisible particles (aerosols). These do not fall quickly to the ground, but move in the air like cigarette smoke. Other people can get infected when breathing in those aerosols, either in close proximity, in shared room air, or less frequently, at a distance. But the journey to accepting the overwhelming scientific evidence of how COVID-19 spread was far too slow and contentious. Even today, the updated guidance and policies of how to protect ourselves remain haphazardly applied

https://time.com/6162065/covid-19-airborne-transmission-conf...
I have only used a travel agent once. It was a helpful service for me at the time, but I think I paid roughly 40% over what I could have had I arranged everything myself.

In other words -- a great business to be in!
The horrible sadistic shit doctors got away with. Plain torture under the disguise of a medical intervention for what we today recognize as PTSD.

Suspicion of malingering had a perverse impact on treatment methods because many doctors believed that these soldiers should receive aggressive treatment. A vast field of medical experimentation using coercive psychotherapy techniques then developed in order to find a cure for these soldiers and to send them back to the battlefield as quickly as possible. A medical–military collusion ensued.

Another example are the unfathomable acts performed by doctors in the Third Reich [1].

I'm appalled that there are always corrupt bootlicking physicians in our ranks. To this f'ing day[2]!

[1]https://ahrp.org/1932-1945-doctors-academics-perverted-medic...

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/cia-black-sit...
snopes's kneejerk 'FALSE' followed by a page of lukewarm pilpul for everything from 'monster energy drink marketing uses satanic symbolism' to 'children being offered icecream in exchange for being vaccinated without parent approval' makes it a 'nopes' for me
As a counterpoint, a good number of people worried about AI think about it this way "Think of human intelligence capability merged with machine capability". There is nothing supernatural with that line of thinking. As a human you have some very strict evolutionary limits to the peak of your intelligence. You can't overclock your brain, nor can you easily extend its capabilities outside of the limits of slow analog inputs (eyeballs/ears).

It would be the peak of human hubris to think we are the most optimal form of intelligence possible because we are the most optimal form of intelligence that currently exists.

I personally believe that far more intelligent architectures than us are possible. What I do not have the answer for is if and when we'll produce them. But if we do, and especially in the short term when the greed of humankind is still limitless, then it will be the death of us.
Apparently it’s 45,404. That’s still a little bit less than people killed by a gun the same year (48,830), and killed by opioids (nearly twice as many: 80,411). Let’s not forget an estimated 300k/year deaths related to obesity. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm.

Whataboutism but puts those numbers in perspective.
Sadly, on many systems tcp: is disabled by default - certainly that way in debian, whereas telnet isn't shrug
Only allow people who pay for ad free Reddit use a third party client.
>I don’t think SpaceX is a failure in general

I do take issue with this because I don't really see how a company that essentially leeches off Uncle Sam's bottomless pockets can tell its workers they need to be more "hardcore" or face bankruptcy if Starship doesn't work by EOY 2023
> Do you argue that citizens/people should not be bothered to know the law?

Police Officers dont have to know the law yet we expect people to know the law.
That is not how arguments work at all.

I work for Google and I like what Waymo has accomplished (disclaimer: what I work on is nowhere near Waymo). Tesla is making a different bet with different engineering resources. And why would Google give up their secret sauce to Tesla?
Perhaps, but the fact remains that the title as stands is deceptive.

The direction of the deception is related to the probability investigators are unable to determine if someone working at a restaurant was sick. Which seems slight.
It comes out of the US Space Force budget, so yes.

https://www.spaceforce.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Article/2197...
Bitcoin sustains about 7 transactions per second. In 2022 there were roughly 168 million registered voters in the United States. It would take 24 million seconds to publish 1 transaction (vote) per voter using a bitcoin style blockchain. The math doesn't work. Bitcoin is not a solution to this problem.
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I get that it's faster, but binary search is already so quick that it is almost free when you look at the big picture, even with large datasets. If standard library implementors want to switch to this method behind the scenes then that's fine, but I'm not re-writing my apps.
You won't be disappointed. Check out the archives for even more.

https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

I recommend the mechanical watch demonstration.
"Over three million Pintos were produced over its ten-year production run, outproducing the combined totals of its domestic rivals, the Chevrolet Vega and the AMC Gremlin."
No, Tesla gets bad rap because they constantly lie. And they lie, because it allows them to get billions in basically free capital.
That’s less true than I used to think.

I once accidentally ACH debited the wrong person’s account at a different bank.

There was no real way for me to stop the transfer without doing extremely bad things involving having my bank report me to law enforcement.

So, I ended up sending the money back via a second transfer. That’s problematic, since the first transfer I performed was certainly unauthorized and could have been clawed back by my accidental victim (I trusted them, and I was 100% at fault, but that’s not the point.)

The whole experience was bad all around, and I thought ACH was designed to handle exactly this class of screw up.
Leeches of Uncle Sam ‘s bottomless pockets by providing it with cheaper launches than any other contractor could? Seriously not a success? Ok then…

I get the idea that Musk is like Bezos or early Gates, it’s a management style that I wouldn’t like to work under, but it’s a style that can get results for some things. Anyways, engineers can easily vote with their feet.
mods are the same type of gatekeepers as reddit itself, push agenda because were trusted by community.

Also, backslash is not that large, there are only about 60 subs supported protest so far.
You mean like a train?
Oof :/
What exactly is this “extremely low-hanging fruit”? A federally fin cancer sick leave program seems the only option. Creating, maintaining, and preventing fraud in such a program seems far from easy or low-hanging.
Is it really that hard not to go into subreddits that are toxic? I never see any of this on Reddit because I stick to sci fi, Tech, and other non political subs
telnetd probably doesn't have too many eyeballs, so I wouldn't be too confident about it really. Whatever eyeballs are focused on telnetd are less likely to be ones who take security as a major concern.
Humans have 0.2s response time. It’s astoundingly good. I’m in robotics and our pipeline time is nowhere remotely near 0.2s.
i noticed on HN. if you gave Tesla/Elon any credits. you get down voted.
No. It's not thinking in any meaningful way. It's practice for when you're in front of that person and getting ready to talk for real.

But for those who have no control over it, it just goes apeshit. I've heard self-reported cases of people doing the same but with historical or even fictional people. They try to use it for everything... as if that simulated person they're "talking to" will somehow be capable of solving a problem they themselves aren't capable of.

I think I was in grade school when I realized all the rest of you were lunatics. Took a little while longer to understand the nature of the cognitive flaw.

> Do you think they still don't think in language?

Yes. Because if that's how you "think", then you're not thinking at all. Which means you're also incapable of understanding how thought works.

You're asserting that I'm wrong, offering no evidence or even a plausible alternative theory. It's just another one of those absurd "truths" that dumb people assume is true and no one ever calls them on it.

I've explained that it is but one mental faculty, I've explained the evolutionary origin of it, and to top it all off, I've explained why you mistake the output of this singular mental faculty to be"thought".

I would hope that you'd be able to work through on first principles why I must be correct. You've just said thought is impossible without human (spoken, maybe signed) language, when there is clear counter-evidence in the world that everyone is aware of that contradicts your asinine theory.

I would hope that. Except that it's futile.
An NDA? That's how I can tell you're a new founder. No one cares about ideas, it's all about execution. For example, I'll give you an idea, an app to book a taxi with drivers also being other people who get paid for your ride. Can you execute it?

It's all about execution.
CDC: Stay home if you have symptoms.

Worker: I took sudafed, ibuprofen, and dayquil. I don't have symptoms!
Going to work in a driverless taxi, being able to work while driving. I could do that now with a regular taxi, but the driver sitting in front is a bit expensive. Only needing the car should make it a lot more affordable.
How is radiation supposed to delete character instead of flipping one bit? How is interpreter protected?
> Nobody indeed buys a satellite, but they could have put a tax on receivers to fund the system.

They could not put a special tax on receivers, let the manufacture and sale and commercial use of receivers create economic activity, and then tax that economic activity through, e.g., personal and corporate income tax, and use tht to fund the system.
Fun fact: in Taiwan Telnet-based BBS is still quite popular today. The most popular forum, PTT, has 50~100k concurrent users.
As mentioned above, the costs to distribute keys, manage accounts, deal with customer service, etc. would be high. The Galileo system apparently considered it at one time.
You can also request the desktop version of the site.
"Taxpayers will likely have to cover much of the difference to ensure wells are plugged and not left to leak brine, toxic chemicals and climate-warming methane."

Sounds like they've solved the problem already.
He composes popular music that fits the movie its in very well. The melodies are memorable, the marches, stirring, and he is very prolific. However, listen to a Beethoven symphony, particularly the 5th or the 9th. Except for the bit about movies, they have everything a Williams piece has and more. Much more. The 9th, for example, runs anywhere from an hour to an hour and 15 minutes. Much of Williams stuff runs a couple of minutes, at best. As far as being prolific, Beethoven is credited with 722 works of all types.

Is he the G.O.A.T.? No, not even close.
I've been to places that only accept credit card and it's infuriating as a consumer, and confusing given my relationship to small businesses. Consumers expect the same price regardless of their method, but the card fees are painful. Especially given our (former) payment partner (but really the CC companies) are doing everything they can to take more money[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34996006
Why not just put ice in a bath tub?
https://archive.ph/Vd5Wu
The right time is any and the right place is Denny's. I'll update the comment when my Uber for pet food has reached a trillion dollars.
The red flags above were compiled over 20 years of interviewing but honestly it's gotten worse and most of it was the last 10 years. In fact, 80% of the above was experienced in my last job search cycle.

I've managed to avoid leetcode/hackerrank due to my industry/niche/seniority, but orgs manage to invent their own BS.
Tata Steel own jlr now, most 70s 80s jags used Bosch electrical components, typically shared with the various German brands. They definitely skimped on wiring quality in the late 70s, it nearly killed them until Ford rescued them.

The issue with the current recall appears to be with LG Energy Solution South Korea batteries and the jlr Battery management code rather than a hardware issue. Who knows imo modern vehicles are far to complex
Most global finance happens in NYC. California could also seize wells via eminent domain now to start remediating early, instead of allowing continued extraction and profit, with the end result still being leaving taxpayers on the hook after shareholders throw the carcass on the public tab.

They’re the fifth largest global economy, they can afford to litigate challenges until the heat death of O&G. Kill the businesses with forced liability for the costs to clean up their assets.
“curl -v url” saves a lot of typing while also supporting https/vhosts/etc while still showing all of the communication and other debug info.
FSD isn’t to the point where it can safely operate without a driver monitoring it. You’re arguing against allowing it on the roads with a safety driver on the basis that FSD isn’t ready to be operated without a safety driver. That makes zero sense.

FSD with a safety driver does not pose a threat to public safety. That’s not coming from me, it’s coming from the NHTSA.
With unemployment this low, I just can NOT believe how many companies are doubling down on RTO. Companies hold almost zero leverage at this point. Even the “quiet layoff” theory makes no sense, because they’re still on the hook for severance and unemployment.
I don't think it's super surprising that someone who sells a product called "Full Self Driving" that isn't fully self driving would also happen to lack rigor in their scientific claims.
Yet again, we see that just because you can be your bank , doesn't mean you should. These 'safe', ' audited' programs, protocols, wallets keep failing. The introduction of irrevocable bounties creates a huge incentive to find bugs. The so-called self-funded bug bounty. Never trust a 3rd party to do your crypto.
>>>> I would say we just call this the marginal cost of doing business instead of ruining it for everyone.

No.

That arsehole is causing a major cost on 1 employer. Its certainly not the cost of doing business or a rounding error..
Cold showers aren’t sufficient?
My parents had 5MBbps ADSL in the middle of downtown Atlanta for the longest time, and it'd get worse when it rained. They refused to get cable for "we don't even own a TV" ideological reasons or something, but apparently there was no way to get better internet from a telecom company.
I haven't used either of these personally but have seen them suggested before:

GL.iNet GL-AR750S-Ext

Wiflyer WE826-T
Compared against any other activity or mode of transportation.
Users are canceling their GPT-4 subscriptions and OpenAI doesn't seem to care
By that standard, every single existing transportation option is unsafe. We are back to hunting and gathering while living in trees, but let me tell you, even tree climbing can be dangerous.
Is putty still used significantly in the windows world? Is there something better these days?
Had a hard time with this thought: if we’re so sure we’d be able to manipulate agents thoughts (agents trained to think like humans), what keeps humans from being manipulated with similar efficacy?
probably it's the same reason as how some good selling authors aren't considered as 'literary'
The problem is that these systems can't handle a ton of “edge” cases which are actually fairly common — they work in the best case scenarios when conditions are normal, weather is decent, other drivers are behaving, etc. That could, as you point out, still replace a LOT of human driving time but there are two challenges: the first is that you don't know when road or weather conditions will change unexpectedly and require human intervention, and the second is that there's a fair cost to having these systems. That extra cost is easy to justify when the pitch is “you get a robot chauffeur and can watch a movie or sleep” but not when it's “you need to be ready to step in at a moment's notice because we just encountered inconsistent markings, road work, or a spill”.

I am expecting something like the automatic convoying some of the trucking companies have been experimenting with to be more successful since they avoid the tedium aspects (they're already paying a driver to handle everything), don't drive in terrible conditions or unusual roadways, and since they get heavy utilization of the vehicles there isn't the problem of paying even more for something which already sits idle 95% of the time.
The first third of the article is kinda polemic, it won't really convince anyone needing convincing.

This however I thought was the substance of it:

> The VCs’ actual use case for AI is treating workers badly.

> The Writer’s Guild of America, a labor union representing writers for TV and film in the US, is on strike for better pay and conditions. One of the reasons is that studio executives are using the threat of AI against them. Writers think the plan is to get a chatbot to generate a low-quality script, which the writers are then paid less in worse conditions to fix. [Guardian]

> Executives at the National Eating Disorders Association replaced hotline workers with a chatbot four days after the workers unionized. “This is about union busting, plain and simple,” said one helpline associate. The bot then gave wrong and damaging advice to users of the service: “Every single thing Tessa suggested were things that led to the development of my eating disorder.” The service has backtracked on using the chatbot. [Vice; Labor Notes; Vice; Daily Dot]

> Digital blackface: instead of actually hiring black models, Levi’s thought it would be a great idea to take white models and alter the images to look like black people. Levi’s claimed it would increase diversity if they faked the diversity. One agency tried using AI to synthesize a suitably stereotypical “Black voice” instead of hiring an actual black voice actor. [Business Insider, archive]
> Such a society would be insane, could not survive, could not face its problems

This sounds like the message Yuval Noah Harari currently has about AI, at least in the more short term. And that is democracy is not possible in an environment where unswayable AI agents exist in vast numbers and become a time sink for humans to argue at. This would lead to autocracy as people began to panic because institutions began to fail they and look for strong leaders. Some would say that ML algorithms are already leading us on this path.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Noah_Harari
But, why use a random person’s paypal account as the destination?