skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt that's true. I don't know why it wasn't in the actual article, but the byline of the title is: "PREPARE TO RESUME CONTROL IN 10 SECONDS...", which I think is the minimum time that it takes to exit autonomous mode. the ars technica article is just kinda garbage honestly.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/first-drive-navigating-la-...

> However, if the system senses a pedestrian or a bicyclist on the highway, detects an emergency vehicle or enters a construction zone, Drive Pilot will hand control back over to the driver. There are audible, visual and tactile warnings — the seatbelt tightens — and during that time the car is still actively driving.

> If after 10 seconds I do not respond, Drive Pilot brings the car to a stop in the lane,

> Drive Pilot is currently legal on California and Nevada freeways. Of course, all states are different in terms of traffic liability, but Mercedes-Benz says it stands behind its product as long as the driver operates the system correctly in a properly maintained vehicle.
We cannot go to the Moon and Mars only to consume all the resources as on Earth
Who would be coerced if I could run whatever software I wanted? Oh, the precious apple corporation? They are coerced all the time by legal restrictions. I'm just asking them to stop blocking it.

I'm hoping anti-trust law will come to bear on software from apple.
Have any of these "code red" security upgrades prevented a school shooting event?

How would we be able to know? They don't expect to arrest people on their way to a shooting. They expect that potential shooters will be scared off from even trying.

We do know that the number of shootings keeps going up. The culture of fear is caused by the fact that there's something to be afraid of. The odds are low but the consequences are horrific.
The time to write the patch is insignificant in this context.
My guess is they are looking for funding right now. Also add on 20 years to that statement at the earliest - wish it weren't so though.
Building stuff is always impressive so well done on that. For me it feels a bit like you are saying the audience for this is 'people who want their friends to pay for them to do stuff'? My question would be if I know these people socially, why do I need a website to handle this?

As others have said, I think there are fairly clear mental models for exchanging money: charity or jobs. At the moment, what you seem to be describing is a jobs model, but with added complications such as a campaign and a set end date?. Its not clear me what value I get as a person paying things as a result of these added steps, so why would I use this over another market place?
> I'd be pissed if I put in a lot of effort revising my contributions to a project, only to be told at the end that "I like my version better, so go away!".

Then you shouldn't contribute to someone else's project.
I’ve actually been fairly impressed with how far monocular depth estimation has come in a few years. I think that it should not be relied upon in self driving cars because they need closer to 100% accuracy and also almost no latency, and the SoTA ones are too slow to be run every frame currently. Not only that but it’s a life-or-death situation where cutting on accuracy % to save BoM costs seems ridiculous to me.

But in a higher-acceptable-latency, lower-risk environment like this, I am actually quite bullish on camera alone methods. Video understanding has come a long way.
This is a really hard lesson to learn and it takes most people (myself included) many tries to learn it. From reading your post, it is super clear that you understand the lesson-- validate your idea early. But understanding the lesson and actually learning it are worlds apart.

You have put a lot of time into this project, and it is not going to go anywhere. This is a tough realization. One that you naturally want to argue against. It's easy to be stubborn. But the more time and effort you put into this, the more time and effort you are wasting.

The positives: you have built a foundation and undoubtedly learned some things along the way. Take that knowledge and pivot to something that people want/need. Good luck!
100% this. It has all the symptoms of an old boy's club, combined with smugness of socially inept nerds. It would have cost the maintainer basically nothing to handle this better, but the natural inclination of these types of people in their fiefdoms would never allow it.
This article becomes significantly easier to read after the Reveal Bullshit [1] plugin. For example: As Bullshit queries get more personal, sending them all to some centralized bullshit is a bullshit security and data locality disaster waiting to happen.

[1] https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/
Not sure I follow?
> Even when you cause an accident, you don't pay.

You do pay a deductible in addition to your almost guaranteed substantial rate increase

> What is the process and what happens?

We don't know but we do know that Mercedes was required to provide proof of insurance or a $5 million bond to the CA DMV as a condition of the permit.

> Are they going to reimburse insurance company?

probably. Even in a normal crash, you contact your own insurance company and they will try to see if they can push liability to someone else, usually the other party or parties in the crash. Drive Pilot just adds another party they can attempt to push liability to. They will negotiate on your (really their) behalf and try to assign blame. In cases where your insurance and Mercedes disagree then it would likely go to court.

> We're already paying so what practical difference does it make to the owner of that car?

Even if you assume $0 deductible and $0 increase, the assumption of liability is a very strong signal that Mercedes is very confident in the system.

You can also peruse the regulation that they are licensed under which provides a lot of information:

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/news-and-media/california-dmv-...
That is not what the "AI safety ninnies" are worried about. The "AI safety ninnies" aren't all corporate lobbyists with ulterior motives.
I put it on the bottom edge of my monitor, on the back, just peeking out enough to illuminate my keyboard.
https://youtu.be/R2mC-NUAmMk (At 45s in is the ideal)

It's still not glass integrated - but the phone version has been out for a while ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/seeing-ai ) - previously discussed when it was released https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14774167 (6 years ago, 133 comments)
This hasn’t been my experience at all. It’s just as original as humans, especially at the “derivative” style of most popular media. It’s probably true that humans are still better at extremely creative thought but that’s not what most commercial writing is.
It also incentives short-term thinking and results. Some managers will burn whole departments just to hit a target and then leave after they got their bonus and the company goes down.
https://onnx.ai/ sounds close to what you're thinking of, it's an open interchange format.
United States Senate Committee Passes Marijuana Banking Bill
Last thing poor people need is to get into crypto. Crypto feeds on the poor.
> cannot wait to ask it how to make nuclear weapons

So you are telling me what's stopping someone from creating Nuclear weapons today is that they don't have the recipe?
I’m surprised that foam of any sort of foam would be used in a medical machine with a lifetime or what? 10, 20 years? I struggle to think of any foam in any product I’ve owned that maintained its condition over that amount of time, whether cleaning products got on it or not.
With that criteria, you have ruled out siding with any form of organization that humans have ever created.

Businesses, governments, churches, sports teams and probably even Girl Scout troops all have a history of committing violence when it serves their aims.
With Cloudflare's default settings, a malicious entity can intercept any Cloudflare <-> Backend connections invisibly to the end user since the SSL certificates aren't validated. The end user also can be victim to plain old HTTP MITM on Cloudflare's upstream networks, as happened in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12091900

It's hard to take Cloudflare's commitment to security seriously when they still ship such terrible default settings.
Improves the sound, basically.
I'm the creator of IndexGuru.

Let me tell you a story you might get some value from.

August 2022 - November 2022. Built the application.

November 2022 - January 2023. Tried to plug it on reddit wherever I could. Got maybe 6 users.

February 2023. Gave up, stopped working on it, but maintained it.

August 2023. I see a clone of my app on twitter. The guy making it is publicly broadcasting how much he's making: several thousand dollars per month! First, I was mad, but then got over it. Can't blame the guy - that's just the game. But, it inspired me to get back to work on the product. It's good enough, just wasn't marketing it as well as him, so I stepped it up.

August 2023 to now:
- I have been marketing TF out of the product. I have grown to nearly $400 MRR in a matter of weeks. I know 400 MRR seems small, and it is, but if it continues at this, it will be pretty substantial in a few months.

My marketing channels:

1. I monitor subreddits related to my product. I try to give helpful responses. Every other response or so, I'll merely mention the name of the product without a link. (Kinda like I did here). If they're interested, they can find it on Google.

2. My product is very much for people that own websites. A huge niche of website owners is the #buildinpublic community on twitter. So - I've been responding to people on twitter, being heavily involved and sharing any info I know. People click on my profile, they see the link to my site, and click on it because they're curious. Then, the landing page either works or it does't.

TLDR:

- I worked on an idea that was good. Did bad marketing. Somebody did the same thing I made, but did good marketing. They made a ton of money. Don't be like me. Market.

- Plug your product on reddit. Don't be super egregious. Provide value. Don't plug it every single time you comment. Reddit is super unforgiving in this - mods love to ban self promo users.

- Get involved in the relevant community for your niche. I found it on twitter for mine, and it's been working great.

Hope that helps!

edit: formatting
Show HN: DanswerBot – Open-source Slack bot to automate repetitive questions
Slack questions have always been a huge time sink for me. They’re a distraction that pulls me away from what I’m doing, and often requires digging up old knowledge. If I’m in the middle of something complex, I may take a while to context switch and get around to answering, which leaves the asker blocked for hours.

Addressing this seems simple: give an LLM your organizational context and plop it in Slack to answer things for you.

So that’s why we built DanswerBot! It’s MIT licensed (https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer) and completely free to use. The bot can automatically sync with and back answers based on documents from Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Confluence, Jira, Notion, local files, websites, and much more.

Quick demo vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q35NeqsMnU

A quick note on hallucinations: in order to reduce their prevalence, all answers are backed by quotes. If the LLM-provided quotes don’t match any document or no quotes are given, we’ll warn the asker that something may have gone wrong. Additionally, all used documents are linked in case the asker wants to double check the answer. Answers can be thumbs-upped or thumbs-downed and all questions / answers are recorded in Postgres for easy future inspection / analysis.

For usability, we provide an admin dashboard where you can configure connectors (we have 14 currently). Once a connector is set up, we poll data sources every 10 minutes to keep answers up to date. Which LLM to use is also up to you - DanswerBot can be configured to use a locally hosted model, Azure OpenAI, or OpenAI directly.

Finally, if you aren’t a slack user (or if you just prefer a more tailored UI), there’s also a web interface to ask questions against your knowledge base. A short demo for that can be found at: https://youtu.be/cWWtnuVCUX0

Of course there’s a bunch more that I can’t cover in one post - happy to take questions in the comments (or in our Slack / Discord, which are linked on the Github repo).

If you’re interested in testing this out yourself, you can easily run everything locally with a single command. Docs to help you can be found at https://docs.danswer.dev/quickstart!
Assuming computers will still be programmed by then. I think your observation is spot on by the way.
… and what is preventing them from scaling up to a small suitcase?
Hot take:

I would love to have service providers show their (down sampled!) Alarms actually used for operational excellence publicly (from a read replica/etc)

Doing so would enforce that you actually have those in place, since they're public and now a marketing point. That said, I get the concern of trolls and competitors trying to get a "low score".
OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Jony Ive about a hardware project
Rusticl is the latest attempt at developing an OpenCL implementation for mesa and that is exactly the goal.
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> If anyone has any other ideas to scare the AI safety ninnies I'm all ears.

Getting strong "I'm voting for Trump to own the libtards" vibes here.

Why spend time thinking about the potential impact of policies when you can just piss people off instead?
>> Huawei was taking off like a rocket in Europe before the US kneecapped them. <<

Huawei was taking off mostly in China -- after the CCP forced Samsung out of China after 2013 under Xie's state industrial policy to protect their domestic industry. Samsung's China market share went from 20% to 1% in a span of a few years. (the same can be said for LG Chem's EV battery business in China and Hyundia/Kia's auto business). It's difficulty to say what would have happened in the EU though.
That can handle a 20B model, either in llama.cpp or exLLaMA:

https://huggingface.co/models?sort=modified&search=20B

https://huggingface.co/Kooten/U-Amethyst-20B-3bpw-exl2?not-f...
It would be quite sad if we've gotten to a point where saying "I think my patch is better than yours" from a domain expert to a newbie is considered humiliating and violating.

Talking about utilitarian consequences, Linus had been way worse and while I fully agree from a moral perspective that his most extreme behaviors were bad, from a purely utilitarian perspective that didn't prevent Linux from being one of the most successful OSS projects out there.
“Most people want certainty. They want to feel comfortable. And then the true founders, they want to find chaos, and they want to turn chaos into order.”
Garry Tan

I thought this quote summarized an important insight for founders. It echoes a model from Amar Bhide's "Origin and Evolution of New Business" that startups have to hunt for situations where the probability of high value cash flows is uncertain because the situations with low uncertainty will be dominated by existing firms who can make substantially larger investments of money and effort.
https://www.vurderingsportalen.dk/ejerbolig/english

All property owners in Denmark will receive new public property assessments based on a new and more reliable assessment system.

That's the selling point.

Reality is that with the roll out of the new system many thousand people's houses has either increased or decreased massively in value.

A house that was worth 1.000.000DKK might now have been publicly valued to 25.000.000DKK.

Cost of the new system is beyond 1bn dollars and has been going on since 2014.
Just adding on to a nice response from abronan, our internal protocol also does some optimizations when it comes to leader election, e.g. Pre Vote protocol (https://github.com/eBay/NuRaft/blob/master/docs/prevote_prot...)

Also, we apply many different faults in our Jepsen tests which are run 3 times a day and we never had a problem with leader election. I know this doesn't confirm that there is no bug in it but it's pretty reassuring I would say.
I would say that the author stated he asked for his patch to be accepted so he could be a contributor implies they weren't planning on contributing more. So it doesn't seem like a sceranio where they should spend that extra time.
And who are you to decided that? How about people who demonstrate incredibly judgemental behaviour such as yourself, do you have a place in OSS... and is somehow qualified to judge who else does? Don't think so.
These things won't be 'all knowing': things that are kept secret by the government like how to make nuclear weapons won't be known by it, nor can you ask it what your coworker thinks of you and have it accurately tell the answer. They are however great reasoning and creative engines. I look forward to being able to boost that part of my workflow.
Philips has known for a decade at least the foam was degrading. It first popped up in commercial respirators in hospitals. They knew full well this foam was breaking down and they did nothing about it for nearly a decade. They are directly responsible for a lot of cancer in their patients and there needs to be the proper consequences for the executives for corporate manslaughter.

How they have behaved through the recall has been equally appalling. They have spent years telling people to keep using their machines and failing to offer replacements, offering a pittance for the machine not allowing people to reasonable replace them. They have made the situation worse since 2019 and its only not starting to get resolved with appropriate replacement funds in place for people to switch to other manufacturers.
I think there's a real difference depending if you "fit" where you are. In a city, no matter how weird your interests, you'll likely find a group nearby that is also interested in that.

In a small town or suburb if you're the "odd man out" it can be much harder.

But when I "lived in the city" as a younger man, I was often traveling out to the suburbs where friends lived as they had the space and the things to do.
looking forward too it!
You would also need to prevent overcommit of disk; you'd typically mmap to a sparse file, and then you've got the same problem of overcommit on disk as you did in memory.

If you're going to do drastic things, you can configure Linux's memory overcommit behavior, although strictly avoiding overcommit usually results in trouble from software not written with that in mind.
I have a slightly different keyboard relationship; I used to browse the Typing Injury FAQ of alternative keyboard designs[1] and fell for the idea of chording keyboards and mobile devices like the DataEgg[2] (I still wonder if chording could be useful on multitouch mobile devices), then for mechanical IBM Model M, then for split Microsoft Natural, then if you're going to split for each hand, don't half-arse it, whole-arse it with the DataHand[3] and its opto-magnetic switches. Then why not type faster like a court reporter, with Stenography and keyboards which support n-key rollover so they can be used with Plover[4].

Actually, what I most like is a flat keyboard with full keys and arrows and separate F keys and numeric keypad. Because most of what I'm doing is not entering long-form English literature, it's text and key combinations and numbers and arrows and symbols and mouse clicks and holding a phone and anything which requires the concentration of a weird entry system, or needs both hands in just the right places, or cuts out lots of keys to look stylish or take up less desk space or squash keys together to fit on a laptop, or change the alignment of keys weirdly, or assume everyone has prehensile thumbs which can take 90% of the key load on their own, or disregard years of muscle memory for a little temporary fashion, are ... worse.

[1] http://www.tifaq.org/keyboards.html - look at the links down the left side menu.

[2] https://friedmanarchives.com/dataegg/index.html see also AgendA https://friedmanarchives.com/dataegg/History.html and Twiddler2 - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/HandyKey-Twiddler-2-Chor...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34298063
If they want to have these primitives then I’d prefer to have a “universal” queue API that would work with SQS, Kafka, etc. with some magic. But the developer API could be just deno.Queue or whatever
The Post Office in the UK introduced a new internal application called Horizon (developed by Fujitsu) in 1999, which uncovered widespread fraud in the various post offices. This lead to approximately 900 people being successfully prosecuted for theft and fraud, some of whom were jailed, and several of whom committed suicide.

Except as it turns out, people were innocent, and the software was flawed. This was known by the Post Office for years, but covered up. After years of investigation reports, court cases and now an inquiry, it's only recently received widespread media attention, and some of the people involved are starting to receive compensation.

It's one of the biggest miscarriages of justice ever to have happened in the UK, and no one involved in the false prosecutions or coverup has been charged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
> "If a language model spits something out it was already available and indexable on the internet"

This is false in several aspects. Not only are some models training on materials that are either not on the internet, or not easy to find (especially given Google's decline in finding advanced topics), but they also show abilities to synthesize related materials into more useful (or at least compact) forms.

In particular, consider there may exist topics where there is enough public info (including deep in off-internet or off-search-engine sources) that a person with a 160 IQ (+4SD, ~0.0032% of population) could devise their own usable recipes for interesting or dangerous effects. Those ~250K people worldwide are, we might hope & generally expect, fairly well-integrated into useful teams/projects that interest them, with occasional exceptions.

Now, imagine another 4 billion people get a 160 IQ assistant who can't say no to whatever they request, able to assemble & summarize-into-usable form all that "public" info in seconds compared to the months it'd take even a smart human or team of smart humans.

That would create new opportunities & risks, via the "different interface", that didn't exist before and do in fact "change much".
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