skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to be absolutely insane to beta test Tesla FSD, it’s very dangerous and full of bugs, nowhere close to ready. The only reason it’s out on public roads is because Musk is in charge, and he’s happy to take massive risks and kill people to get to market a bit faster.

Waymo, on the other hand, is actually very good. Waymo is (IMO) actually a bit better/safer than the average human driver, Tesla FSD is way, WAYYYYYYY worse than a human.

I’ve spoken with a number of ppl who’ve taken rides in both Tesla FSD and Waymo, and the reviews are unanimous. Tesla FSD makes major mistakes very regularly, you have to be taking control a lot, it’s a terrifying experience. Waymo actually drives safely and correctly, in a confidence inspiring way, with no need for human intervention.
> With the recent advances of turning CO2 into other substances, such as propane, should we be focusing more on closing the carbon cycle and simply be producing fossil fuels from the waste products of yesteryear?

That's much harder than it sounds, because (unlike, say, lithium) what's important in propane is the energy stored in it in the forms of chemical bonds, not the constituent elements. Basically, the resulting C/O/H we have is just waste product. We can't "just reassemble it back to propane" because to do it we need energy, and if we have that energy, why not just use it directly? No need to insert propane as an intermediary, barring unusual situations like jet fuel.

It's basically like trying to turn feces and urine back to a beef steak. Having carbon and hydrogen atoms isn't the hard part of producing beef.
Wait so anyone on the planet can file for a dmca takedown of any youtube video without having to provide a real name but counter filing requires you to put your full legal name ?? How the fuck is this shit even legal ?
Just as a note if you're looking for similar programs or alternatives, Shaun Inman[0] released something like this a long time ago called Day-0. I've been using it on the MacBook I'm currently typing this on since 2012.

He's updated it a few times over the years to deal with new versions of macOS not cooperating with the old build.

Website seems to be down due to Media Temple merging into GoDaddy, according to the description of the GitHub repo[1] mirroring the old content, but the Day-0 zip archives[2] are still there. Of course, it feels weird to download and install a zip from a GitHub archive without any context, so I guess it's probably dead now.

There'

I think the first version was released sometime around 2011 and the most recent update[3] was in 2020.

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[0]: https://twitter.com/shauninman

[1]: https://github.com/shauninman/shauninman.com

[2]: https://github.com/shauninman/shauninman.com/tree/main/asset...

[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230317115926/https://shauninma...
let's not pretend like youtube has some heights of quality it's upholding. "all sorts of quality" is really more like all sorts ranging from good to bad to awful. and short-form comedy is in there too, and was there all along, right on the regular youtube.
This pope is a real Catholic, not just the administrator of a real estate empire like the leadership in so many places. I hope his reforms are long lasting.

His 2013 apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium is a tour de force. Check out what he has to say about inequality and the idolatry of money:

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortatio...
Hah! What if Homer's "wine-dark seas" really were wine-dark!?
We did 15 startups in 21 months
I can only assume that shorts increase ad revenue by decreasing the time between ad views and that's why they push them on users and creators.

The government needs to step in and regulate ads, because ads destroy content and at some point , quality content is a societal good that needs to be protected.
lawyers and PR will innovate faster than self driving capabilities.
Every time I have tried to watch shorts it ends up being videos of people getting killed or dying. I just went ahead and blocked them with adblock
[X] -- "Ok. We'll hide this for 30 days."

Is that your idea of consent, youtube?
More fruits from the DeJoy era of USPS. I do believe he is working as intended.
I’m not disagreeing about the feasibility of space travel with current tech.

I’m just pointing out that you seem to have just made up this idea that we shuttle trash from the ISS back to Earth and that’s wrong.
I don't think it will bring about appreciable results, but I think that's fine. Everyone has their own opinions on it. Government policy is the one that matters for me since they can force things.
Self-driving cars work really well so far. But we'll see, I guess! https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/09/are-self-driving-cars-a...
"Just spin up a docker container" is a self-contradicting sentence. For non-complex applications, anything needing to touch containers is itself too complicated.

Even with pgvector, there's no good way to write a simple tutorial for embedding newbies.
Tesla gets a lot of Flak, but all driving assistance systems in commercial cars today that I tried are wayyy more terrible.

My long term rental Nissan Rogue lane following system tries to kill me multiple times a day, and only disconnects with an alarm 2seconds+ after leaving the lanes.
> In Europe the examinations are a bit more strict than in the United States

As someone living in the US, I wish they were stricter here - I see lots of frankly dangerous behavior on the road.
It would be nice to see some before-after pictures.
Move fast and break things, car edition.
It seems a little superfluous to me, but the paper itself does a little too? Isn't this akin to publishing a paper on say mongodb vs postgres?
This may be how it works out but anyone arguing that an observer flying in an airplane through public airspace has the same opportunity to peer into your private back yard or other areas of your private property is arguing apples and oranges. Most people flying in planes are passengers in transit between two locations with no opportunity to guide the plane to allow them to view specific locations. On the other hand a drone operator has full control of the path the drone takes and can operate it so that it peers into private spaces from public airspace.

If a property is marked as private property then that privacy should offer protection from those who would trespass using public airspace.
Agreed, though somehow a few of my accounts have escaped that recommendation minima in YouTube.

Not so much on tiktok or any fb property. They really force the onlyfans market-funnel jiggle videos into your face..
Google finds itself in a postion of largely unchecked power over many users of its platform, that rely on it for primary income. These people work in an environment without any of the typical legal protections around their livelyhood, so I think we should be cautious to side against the worker, if only in the spirit of labor day weekend.
A Meditation on Matcha
Negative encounters with vegan meals in regular restaurants or with inexperienced cooks can shape attitudes toward the term "vegan." Unappetizing taste experiences may lead to associations with blandness, while poorly balanced nutrition can raise concerns about sustainability and health. Additionally, frustration with limited food options in social settings or restaurants may result in perceptions of "vegan" as inconvenient and restrictive.

> I also get that these kinds of meals are generally cooked alongside or on cooking materials that may have come into contact with meat, but I haven't found a vegan/vegetarian friend that has been sensitive to that detail

Vegans come in all shapes and sizes, and although I don't care too much about contamination, veggies smelling like bacon would be very unappealing. I wouldn't visit such a restaurant twice.
At airports we call the smell of burning kerosene "the sweet smell of success."
And there is a large amount of advocacy for the USPS to take over consumer banking. No thanks. One thing about the government is that you can't sue them for their mistakes.
Lucene has its own HNSW implementation…

… actually through codecs Lucene has a whatever-you-want-to-build implementation
Maybe it’s more indicative of the wine color at the time than the sea color. ;)
Do you treat all traffic participants with same scrutiny?

I’d rather have distracted driver on autopilot over distracted driver in a car with crude ADAS.
I only said it was obvious that LLM's don't know anything about art past what you described, which you didn't dispute and was an obvious logicaly conclusion from your own explanation of what AI "learned".

>I gave this conversation to an LLM to respond to.

I'm not surprised, I repeatedly characterized your responses as obtuse, disingenuous, or ignorant. I'm not sure what you think you proved.
From the looks of the commit it was simply for reporting issues and feedback and is being swapped out for YouTube, likely since Twitter isn't reliable anymore
I'm old enough to remember when browsers would highlight in the url bar that a site had an RSS feed. Well, I'm old enough to remember upgrading from Mosaic to Netscape, so I'm v old.

Cool little project.
An unending line of eager aspirants.
For the most part I agree with you, but

>I don’t care for arguments about safety statistics

is insane. If it's safer it's safer, and the only way to know is statistics.

The fact that (seemingly) no government department is collecting and publishing safety statistics on every self driving car manufacturer defies belief.
> "picture" doesn't think of his fellow humans as fully real, thinking people

I can't say I agree, this feels like a very uncharitable reading of his/her posts. Unless it was edited in after the fact they even said "You're absolutely free to believe either way, and I don't want anyone to force you to do anything."

While it would be insulting to call any individual person's preferences a result of brainwashing, I don't think it is a stretch to say that at a societal level preferences are shaped by mass-media and advertising. Improving access to and making people aware of less resource-intensive forms of comfort doesn't have to come from an authoritarian place. One of my major motivations for seeking out a more walkable area was urbanist YouTubers extolling the benefits. I suppose one could argue that things like bike lanes are hurting drivers but if a city's transit priorities stem from local politics and preferences I don't think it can be reasonably argued that making any particular transit method a priority is more authoritarian than another.

> In practice, comfort is mostly a function of stuff.

No question that it is a variable for most people but I'm not sure I buy that it is the most dominant one. All other variables being excluded, time to do what I want is at least as important for me as stuff (luckily I like my job so time/money aren't usually in conflict). And I think for many people "stuff" like cars and nice lawns aren't inherently drivers of comfort, but rather just possible reifications of goals like "pretty yard" or "fast/easy transit," both of which can be realized in less resource intensive ways. For the yard example, that might be a native garden or xeriscape (in some cases there are rules against these, which actually goes against freedom imo).
Without meaning to suggest that there's no much better ways to raise animals for meat, it's still a fundamental truth that the land area needed to support animals is much higher than crops. If we were to only eat meat from animals that were raised in a biodiversity sustainable fashion, we'd all have to eat far less meat (which I totally support as a flexitarian).
Base64 Encoding/Decoding in Java with the Vector API
A Java base64 library using the JDK incubator Vector API.

This is the fastest base64 library for RFC2045 (MIME) encoding/decoding, and the fastest pure-Java library for RFC4648 (only slower than intrinsified java.util).

Usage, benchmarks, and some insights into java.util intrinsification can be found in the github README.
Are you saying project-based billing has fewer legal risks - could you expand on that?
A not-untypical style (as used by the BBC) is to write initialisms like UUID in all caps, and acronyms like Nasa in title case.

Initialisms are pronounced by saying each letter in order. Acronyms are pronounced as if they were words.

"ID" is a funny case because it's an ordinary abbreviation, and not really an initialism* or acronym, but it's pronounced just like an initialism. I think I'd prefer it "ID".

I would definitely avoid writing it "Id", lest it be confused with Freud's concept.

* unless as Norm Macdonald joked, the "D" is short for "dentification"
I don't understand how its possibly legal for tesla, or anyone for that matter, to be able to push out beta life critical software to the general public.

Say for example a utility company pushed out an update that flipped the power contactor between you and the grid too many times that it caught fire, the company would be taken to court.

I simply just don't understand how Tesla can get away with it.
What's unclear about it? My impression from the window screenshot alone is you choose rule docs and a text doc, and it tells you what parts of the text doc violate parts of the rule docs . It could be used to help make sure writing (likely for some corporate or technical purpose) follows a set style guide. Organizations already often follow formal style guides in their writing, I don't know if they have their own similar tools to automatically check if their style is being adhered to.

So like Grammarly, but you bring your own rules.
Deep voice person is Nate Harrison, you can also watch it on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/NateHarrisonCanIGetAnAmen
Every week I feel like we get a few papers closer to "SQLite is all you need".

A voice in my head seems adamant that the solution to this whole space of problems is neatly managed by one clever schema and minimal computational resources. It has only been growing louder and more confident in this over time.
I know there are conflicting rulings. I think both of them need updating to be able to cover trespass and violation of privacy using aerial drones that have many more sensor packages available today.
All this proves is self-published research works really well for businesses! I've worked for ones that won't publish the bad reports I've written.
Have you ever worked with large-scale, historically grown systems? More likely than not, the people that have actively made the wrong decisions (or have, through inaction, allowed an initially-working system to degrade) are long gone.

Dilution of responsibility is a real problem, but harsh punishment of everybody that, under some (your?) metric that made an error is definitely not the solution.

If you're truly interested in this (and not just angry and looking for somebody to take it out on, even though the root cause here is probably systemic – which is not the same thing as "inevitable!"):

The aviation industry and its culture of failure analysis and prevention is a great place to start, in my view. We have a lot to learn from that in our industry.
In fact I'm actually very familiar with that history already. Russia has justified their military invasions and occupations of neighbors by claiming that their actions were a result of NATO's actions, but this is in my opinion after having considered the evidence to be a ridiculous pretext. At no point did NATO actually force Russia to roll their military forces across the borders of their neighbors despite Russia's obviously false claims to that effect.

This is a case where pro-Russian propagandists have made a lot of headway in both-sides-ing an issue which was unilateral. Repeating that propaganda isn't a nuanced or informed take, it's rationalizing and justifying war crimes.
> He would scoff at my suggestion to install anything other than what he's known for 30+ years.

Very fair. I've started earlier, but I've been trying to remind my parents that if they want to have a good relationship with their, non-existent as of yet, grandkids - they need to have a good relationship with new tech. That's what the grandkids are going to want from them.

Somehow that convinced them.
It's just a lobbying method. Companies will keep whining that they can't find employees while simultaneously refusing to pay fair salaries.
Lucene is a java library. No way they are using Pinecone.
I wonder if this is also hitting things like right-to-repair; a lot of useful information like service manuals and schematics are almost certainly in the realm of piracy, and I've noticed they've become a lot harder to find recently.
You've failed to establish automated driving as a safer alternative,

And you've failed to establish anything as a safer alternative. (Want to get Americans out of their cars? Bring guns. You'll need a lot of them.)

Get out of the way of the people who are trying to make things better, please.
You don't wonder how they even found this? Between the amount of climate change affirming papers, you'd almost have to be looking at the list of recent controversies
I'm guessing they choose to use OpenAI embeddings since this is the dominant use case for most people.

The embeddings are just the "data" that's in the database. Swapping out getting embeddings from OpenAI with Llama is as trivial as putting information about your own customers in your own database as opposed to using info on someone else's customers.
"Gee - hardware is fragmented, complicated, and quickly gets expensive outside of simple scenarios". Yeah, it does.
Your stated argument against allowing human control of the vehicle is that it presents a safety issue, implying that you could be car jacked.

You could be car jacked while riding in a taxi/lyft/uber/etc. It’s unclear why you think this any different.
Tesla should never be allowed to ship broken beta builds in the first place! Criminal negligence is a thing…
Aside from questioning self driving cars and Tesla’s misleading marketing stories in particular; “you don’t even have skin in the game anymore” (so who still has then?)

Why - in this highly safety critical domain - is there ever anything close to “beta” software accessible to end-users? What about all other participants in traffic? This “perpetual beta” approach hasn’t been industry best practice for most of its existence.

There used to be years long development and testing procedures, all happening outside of common traffic.

This is all a big marketing racket attempted to as “efficiently as possible” transfer most of risks and costs on masterfully deceived consumers and the ever unquestioned public.
URLs that Google banned show up on Bing just fine. Another nail on the coffin.
https://www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube can hide them for good
> Those concepts are unrelated to what we're describing.

No they aren’t. They’re literally the subject of the conversation before you joined it.
Title feels quite misleading. This doesn't seem to have been Google itself going out of its own way to ban URLs as the title suggests, but rather the copyright holders submitting the Google takedown form before the content was indexed, as opposed to afterward.

> “Search accepts notices for web pages that are not even in our index at the time of submission. Nevertheless, we will proactively block such web pages from appearing in our Search results and will apply these notices to our demotion signal."
the quality has gotten better over the years so they must have been doing something right
If companies released just the hardware without the services, then we could have open source jumping in to provide those services, and things would be cheaper.

Unless of course you want to argue that without financial incentive nobody would ever do such a thing, and open source is a fairy tale that can't really exist ...
Anything talking about Lucene is non trivial from start.

I'm coming at this from a perspective of a competent dev trying to build a tool with OpenAI APIs - which, from what I can tell, is a growing topic.

If you're experienced with building APIs and new to the LLM stuff - skip the langchain and chromadb nonsense. Just use the OpenAI APIs and pgvector.

Chromadb and langchain are usefull when writing notebook prototypes to get an idea of how this stuff works - but discard immediately after that phase and save yourself the trouble of porting later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euronews#2022–2023:_Alpac_Capi...
Ask HN: Share your favourite technical writing
What organizations do you think maintain exemplary technical writing and/or documentation? This could cover tutorials (how to guides), reference material, introductions to topics, manuals, etc. What appeals to you about their writing or documentation? What, in particular, do you think is engaging about the way they write/document?
If he wants to be among the “few deaths”, good for him, but none if us signed up for his shit.
I recently discovered a lactose-free sort of cheese in Germany that had only a small label on the rear side of the package (other brands in this segment usually make it very clear to simplify the discovery by lactose-intolerant people). My guess is their marketing team already knew the effect and wanted to sell it to broader audience. I won’t be surprised if „Eco“ and „Bio“ labels have „overpriced“ or similar negative perception for the audience not too concerned with their original meaning, but the discoverability for the target audience matters more for most of the products.
Ask HN: Why is this site so stubbornly against readability and accessibility?
I don't get it. This place has been around for more than 15 years, with supposedly some of the smartest people in the industry hanging out here, yet why is almost every thing about it still so HOSTILE towards basic UX practices?

Tiny font, minuscule tap/click targets, GRAY text on a BEIGE background???

Yes, yes, if I hate it so much I could just use custom CSS, or make a better platform, or a reader app.. I just want to know why, besides "they don't have enough time/resources." Literally all they'd need to do to make this place more readable is remove their current CSS.
Watch the video. He has filed an FBI report against the stalker, as well as having hired multiple specialists to help him out legally.
The mistake to make here is to blame Tesla. They’re just pushing their luck within the regulation, else their competitors will overtake them. The blame for this lies with the regulators.
This is completely obvious and I am surprised that they had to write a paper about it but with $100m investments in vector databases I guess it needed to be officially said. For those companies to be successful they will have to also become either a better search engine or a better database in addition to vector search and compete either with folks like elastic/redis/opensearch/vespa or with postgres/mongodb/oracle/mysql. An independent vector only search system doesn't make sense.

Also, all embeddings are basically equivalent for this use case.
True they are so basic it’s sad, but on a flip side warnings are so obnoxious on Tesla plus it’s kinda easy to accidentally disable autosteer without noticing only to discover you are drifting over into other lane.

Wonder if Tesla could somehow allow to drive with less steering wheel resistance but also autosteer reliably.
The options might exist, but that doesn't mean that they are viable/usable. I agree with many of your points, but regarding document processing, LibreOffice really does not compare with any of the best alternatives (Google Documents, Office Word). It lacks options, if the options exists they are hidden in obscure menus, it doesn't display many things correctly (at least on my Linux computer), etc. For document processing, I'm still stuck on Google Docs, which is quite a sad state of affairs.
no events or burning man also though.
Any comparisons to Automerge or Y.js/Yrs regarding performance or features?