skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was at GM Cruise we were using a "semantic map" - the robot cars would drive around the city trying to figure out where they were based on GPS, and then match up what their LiDAR/RADAR/Camera data showed after going through the "Ground Truth" system.

The software just did whatever the ML model figured was the optimal response to the current situation, 10x per second. Often it got the wrong answer, and the NN would be focused on fixing those "wrong answer scenarios" next.

The cars can't drive anywhere the semantic map doesn't already cover.

Ridiculous, and so very disappointing.

We need better methods - maybe something that could generate metaphors like Lakoff suggests in "Metaphors We Live By" but the whole "drive robot cars around a city a million times and make a huge model of it" strikes me as very inefficient.
It's widely accepted by most people in the industry that this is in fact required by the existing functional safety standards, though they obviously weren't written with that intent originally.
GPT-Fathom: Benchmarking Large Language Models
Absolutely!

Fun fact: all of the current website's infra is NixOS-based

Fun fact #2: I overhauled Bitcoin Core's reproducible build system to use Guix (a Nix-inspired functional package manager)
Absolutely. For me, the whole point of autonomous vehicles is the added safety, control and predictability they could bring. Relying on an unexplainable AI model leaves you open to unpredictable instabilities, which, for this particular use case, are unacceptable (at least to me).
Well, sort of. The original downtime was caused by the reverse proxy dying for no apparent reason. This state could be detected by healthchecks. However the quick solution after the second time the container went away while on holiday was to use ‚restart: unless-stopped‘ and I could see a case where the container was down 90% of the time but just-so-happend to be freshly restarted while the healthchecks were looking.

That’s why I decided to use the docker API’s /events endpoint to get notified about all changes. Using dockers healthcheck features you can even monitor the availability of the http server with this solution as well. I did not find a project that went the same route.

The downside to this approach of course is, that if docker goes down you won’t get notified, also if you just use curl inside the container for healthchecks, you won’t notice external network problems. So something that is hosted on the outside like healthchecks.io is a great addition.
Same. It’s such a simple idea but execution can be brutal. I also took drag select for granted for years too.
I was born in 1991 and my elementary school growing up had Apple ][s and in middle school (2002–2005) we learned to use Hypercard in computer class—so my baseline level of knowledge about computers from before I was born, before self-directed learning came into play, is more than kids these days, at least.
because its compromised by a Bitcoin maxi

they’ve been slowing progress down for 10 years straight now

but don’t worry you’ve been able to pay bitcoin invoices with monero and everything else for nearly as long too, just use a mixer and set the destination asset and address to the one on the invoice
The passenger was stupid for a couple of reasons:

- They brought something with easily-identified branding through an aiport.

- They bragged about its capabilities.

- They made a political statement.

- The threw shade on this item because of their behavior.

Anyone with social sense would remove the branding and say it's a test tool for electronics.
> That is a very disingenuous way to describe signups.

I wasn't describing signups, I was specifically describing the Quora signup. People have been bitching about that for almost 15 years and nobody who actually uses and likes Quora cares. It's like the notch on the iPhone. Only something people who would never own an iPhone bitch about.

I am not saying you should signup. I am saying it's ridiculous to complain about it when it's clearly not a service you even like in the first place. Why do you care what some website you don't even like requires?
It is surprising that if you are on the free plan then

“Enabled by default for Free zones.”
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renewiltord.
It's definitely unsettling when we don't fully understand why a fix works. I suppose one could argue that, in that sense, software development is as much art as it is science... you learn and adapt, and over time, the understanding of why certain fixes work may become clearer. I wish I could remember the specific instances of this throughout my career, but I remember at least a few where we were happy to have the fix (even though it was annoying we didn't understand the why) and then months or more later we came to fully understand why. I distinctly remember how, in many of these cases, it felt to us like it would've impossible to even come close to the why without first just having the fix. That's what made it even more frustrating — that we felt we needed to understand the underlying issue in order to fix it but then it felt like there's no way we would've understood what the underlying issue was without the fix! In that way, it kind of all just felt like luck or a miracle...which is definitely not very confidence-inspiring.
There are other means, the most common being Calvin like protocols where every replica deterministically processes some log, and so only one round of distributed calls is necessary.
(Sorry just rereading and I meant demodulation, autocorrect got it the first time)
This already exists in Stable Diffusion and others, called outpainting.
I don't understand how they are able to replicate all the interaction rules. There's a bunch of things going on in WoW, and unless you did a heck of a lot of experiments how would you uncover the rules governing all the interactions between different things? For instance you can bubble hearth on classic but not in hardcore. How is an external server developer going to know that?

Also how do they place all the NPCs and hook up the quests and lot tables? Do they scrape wowhead?
Being a smartass in an airport is a pretext for cops to act as fascist pigs.
> blocking for a few days is not rate limiting.

Yes, it is.

> if i am talking to a customer on facebook and i get blocked for a few days this could cause me to loose a job. (and no, sometimes i can't choose how to communicate with customers. if they insist on facebook then that's where i need to be).

This scenario feels contrived. In this hypothetical, you're talking to a customer using your personal Facebook account and that's the only way you have to contact them? And your employer somehow would see you getting blocked from Facebook as the problem, not their nutty customer relations practices.

> same for my grandparents. they may be upset if i can't talk to them and i can't reach them in other ways.

Again, this is super contrived. You act like you have no other contact method for your grandparents, and no way to get another contact method.

> the risk of this makes facebook an unviable option for me to communicate in the first place.

This is a very decent conclusion to come to. I wish more people would do the same. But there's no sense blaming Facebook for using moderation practices that any other platform in the same position would also choose.
> Unlike widely used Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based and Search-based approaches, GPT-3.5 not only interprets scenarios and actions but also utilizes common sense to optimize its decision-making process

Relying on LLMs for reasoning seems dangerous due to the risk of hallucinations, especially in a safety-critical setting like self-driving. I have some other problems with this paper, for example, the comparison to RL is limited to zero-shot and this technique will struggle to run in real-time due to the slow inference speeds of LLMs.

Maybe there is some potential for LLMs to work as a fall-back mechanism in new situations or to help predict the behavior of humans and other cars, but I doubt that LLMs will become central to decision making in self-driving cars.
Read this. Once I started, I couldn't stop. It's a far quicker read than it looks (though this is just part 1) and utterly essential.

Kissane has put together a concise, readable, and horrifying account of both the background of the Rohingya genocide and how Meta actively fanned the flames.

Her argument for Meta's culpability is simple and effective. Meta faced two problems in Myanmar: (1) not enough Facebook users, and (2) increasing incitement and hate speech that was clearly and repeatedly stoking anti-Rohingya violence. The company repeatedly showed that it was only interested in growing the user base, even though they were clearly aware of how that growth fed a genocide.
They’re too small and the recycling plant will filter them out to the trash.

They need to be compostable, instead.
Hmm that's fair. I think for most hobbyist applications though it really is gluing a bunch of things together, up until the point where you have two get FCC certified or stuff behaves erratically and you have to go and learn this stuff.
It's like open carrying in Walmart (when they allowed it). Sure, you could do it... but it's stupid for a couple of reasons: it scares people unnecessarily and it announces someone as a target of violence and/or theft of a weapon.
Price $995, available November. See article in The Verge:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/14/23872334/honda-motocompac...
The New Yorker’s eccentric diacritic is the diaeresis rather than the umlaut.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/mary-norris-diaeresi...
Just tried them... they make you download individual tracks like they've never heard of a zip file, just to make you try their app out of annoyance. Not really no-nonsense :(.
nonsense. when you accept a job at a company, the only "risk" you're taking is that said company will go under at some point in the indeterminate future, for reasons outside your control. if that happens, you file for unemployment benefits if need be, and find a new job—you're not putting any work into the company that's not directly reimbursed by your paycheck and benefits. this is completely and fundamentally unlike risking your own capital to start a new business. the two aren't even remotely comparable. if you think they are, then, once again: why are there so few co-ops, and even fewer started from unions? it's almost as though astoundingly few people want to take actual risks, as opposed to working a job for a paycheck and benefits.
Lean into it with some clever riffs on it like "Can't wait to get to the space age? Well we can at least give you the rails today!"
I didn't mean private networks. I meant the ISPs that do that.
> Solar panels provide 2-3x the output, none of the physical dangers, and are quieter than an ants whisper.

...and stop at night. In many places wind peaks at night, which compliments solar nicely. This could be especially useful in a future where the majority of cars are EVs that charge at night.
They have been asking this for longer than 2 days. I think I got pestered a couple of weeks ago.
Try networking and reaching out to organizations that need your assistance. Offer some sort of valuable insight and that will lead to more networking relationships to help you attain a role. You seem way smart. Good luck.

Edit: advice not advise to may have your resume checked. Not trying to be rude just an observation.
ISPs are also private networks, unless operated by a government entity. And I would absolutely uphold the same expectation from an ISP as an organizational or personal network.
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Even more true of Nuclear but I wasn't making an argument about oil and gas versus solar.

> Plus "concentrate" doesn't quite capture how there are inefficiencies in conversion.

Jeez.
Yep, it often makes more sense to go by car (especially when you can fill your car up), or you want to use your car at the destination (though renting is an option here).

Sometimes going by train is just more pleasant. Kids don't need to be strapped into carseats, repeatedly asking "are we there yet?" You can go to the bathroom or stretch your legs any time. You can do other things, such as enjoy the scenery or read a book. Also, last time I checked, trains are lot safer than cars. There is no traffic. Finally, you don't have to drive!

If you like, you might consider soft factors in addition to the fare :)
While again i dont disagree with your conclusion, i believe your arguing here is flawed. The derivatives can and do move the price significantly. JPMorgan payed quite hefty fines for manipulating the precious metal markets (as well as treasuries) through spoofing¹. Thats now happening by dumping significant volumes of derivatives onto the market at times its especially thin. Which can be in the order of magnitude of yearly productions. Combining this with bots trading trends prices can be moved significantly.

But again, due to golds importance from the monetary perspective, significant price increases are not going to happen. It could be seen as currencies devaluing, thus lending out central bank gold reserved to achieve price stability is very much on the table. I believe it was Greenspan that talked about this in the past.

¹ https://www.reuters.com/article/jp-morgan-spoofing-penalty-i...
Indeed, it's akin to why some programmers like Vim and other terminal editors over GUI based ones. It's the exact same concept.
There are issues with traffic laws and contradictions but speeding is not what “makes it work”.
That depends. If you can use the command line and write a short script that’s just copy/paste from StackOverflow, curl is very simple.
Maybe so, but my point remains. Communication/knowledge collecting whether by intelligent life-forms 'over there', or by humans actually going over there and looking, or by Terran robot systems going over there and looking on our behalf are just not feasible.

Humans are hampered by their extremely short life-spans and generations. And the Universe is unbelievably huge.
> IRL, however, we're not going to see a rack and pinion lift a 250 wagon x 100 tonne load 2.5 kilometre long iron ore train up a short one story high incline (throw in the engine and the wagon weight that's ~ 30,000 metric tonne).

A 2.5km iron ore train? What are you talking about? A 2-8 train in Factorio is 10 wagon-lengths, and each wagon is 7 tiles = 7 meters, so a large iron train is only 70m long.
By that logic, wouldn't every ISP have a moral obligation to MITM all of their customers' traffic? Obviously that's wrong.
As long as it's the top ad spot, why not? That's basically the only relevant ad when you search $company -- "Hey, we also do that."
For what it's worth, I live in Manhattan and don't work from home, and this didn't affect my day at all beyond my evening commute taking an extra half hour or so.
suspension ?
I thought llama is open weights and open to commercial with reasonable restrictions. I haven't heard practitioners who fine tune llama having trouble with it
Just wishlisted! This was always my favorite part of Cities Skylines, and from there several other train games. But the tracks don't seem to be their main focus (vs economy and logistics), so I'm really excited about this. October's right around the corner!

A request, please: Would you please consider adding Geforce Now support so those of us on Macs and underpowered PCs can play it too? That tends to work better than the Rosettaing of Intel binaries. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/cloudgaming
VA Linux was quite generous in selecting their "friends and family" beneficiaries. I was one of them (and made enough money to pay cash for a used car), despite not really having contributed to Linux at all (I made some contributions to Perl related to a different OS).

I later learned that the first day pop of VA Linux was deliberately engineered — large allocations were contingent on buying more shares at market prices on opening day.
has its own tradeoffs tho
Because the article mentions “health benefits” of beta carotene, I feel it’s important to bring up that carotenes have an awful and highly variable absorption rate in humans, with beta carotene generally being considered the best. The specifics will also heavily depend on genetics and the particular food eaten. It should be noted that other animals differ significantly in their absorption rates.

Carotenes once absorbed then go on to have an also awful and highly variable conversion rate to retinol.

While I’m not sure if it’s the best, this paper seems to mirror the concerns with carotenes I cane across when I last explored the subject, so I’ll throw this out as a reference: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652...

“The absorption of β-carotene from plant sources ranges from 5% to 65% in humans. Vitamin A equivalency ratios for β-carotene to vitamin A from plant sources range from 3.8:1 to 28:1, by weight. Vitamin A equivalency ratios for β-carotene from biofortified Golden Rice or biofortified maize are 3.8:1 and 6.5:1, respectively, and are lower than ratios for vegetables that have more complex food matrices (10:1 to 28:1). The vitamin A equivalency of β-carotene is likely to be context-specific and dependent on specific food- and diet-related factors and the health, nutritional, and genetic characteristics of human populations.”

As such, any time you see beta carotene listed as a substitute for “vitamin A”, you are likely being mislead, as you have to both win the genetic lottery and obtain it from specific foods for it to be even partially viable as a substitute.
The code in my example is an entirely valid way to interact with values, and doesn't represent an "opting out" of safety or abstraction.
I think it’s about time for the Hawaiians to join the melting pot. We can tell them god isn’t real and then it won’t be sacred.
I have an even less popular opinion that license exams should involve a simulator portion where 5-10% of the time, an unavoidable freak accident occurs and you fail.

In my head, people would calmly walk away from this, and it would serve as a stark reminder of how dangerous this all is, help reduce congestion by reducing licensed drivers, and encourage carpooling and expanded public transit. In reality, an angry mob would probably tar and feather me for trying to enact such a ridiculous idea.
I think that the valuable parts are xAI (explanation) and make the interaction between the REAL model and the human.
MSFTbot: “We've moved this issue to the Backlog milestone”
I think the most important point is that working in-office should be the strong default. Sometimes even employers seem to think of this too haphazardly while their company suffers from workers being unable to do the socializing part of interacting with coworkers normally, and it being too easy and inviting to cheat the company. So many things come automatically when people are in the office, but require a lot of managerial skill and effort to "re-implement" when a company switches to a significantly more remote configuration. I've seen this both crashing and burning in company A and being almost incredibly well executed in company B, where both did basically the same business in similar structures.

I read that a _lot_ of the RTO criticism seem to more about politics, where arguers indirectly want workers to be able to be paid the same for less, or sometimes even being paid for nothing. Being a non-financially driven developer who has been both an employee and employer in a few small companies I can't say I have a lot of respect for those arguments that seem to ignore one's own earned dignity from meaningful work. (not saying there's any around here)
This 6-million-year-old turtle shell still has some DNA
It both seems awesome, but also like a slow (12mph) low-range heavier (40lb) scooter.
Lots of reasons to be concerned about actual use in self driving cars, but as a robotics control problem solving approach this is very interesting. We really need fewer bespoke models required for general purpose robotics IMO. If we could do some basic structured interpretation of inputs (sensor specific, rather than application specific) and then just feed those in to some big LLM, if this actually works I am in principle all for it. At least as a stepping stone in research. Perhaps it will help us uncover other previously unknown control methods. But I think this is very interesting to examine.
Yeah, I had a VPS for $13/mo. What's even sillier is that you could rent a VPS for $4/mo (Kamatera) and then use SSH tunneling to forward any port you want to your local machine. In fact, I've done that too.

P.S. would not recommend Kamatera for IPv6 or email. They simply don't have IPv6, and you'll have to fight with their support to get a PTR record made if you want to run a mail server. I really do mean "fight", I had to create 5 or 6 tickets before they would let me wade through 2 or 3 different agreements to assure them that I wasn't going to use it for spam.
Nice try, but a friend of mine told me this game is digital crack.

I'm not gonna get hooked on this until I'm retired.
I'm pretty confident it will happen, there's too much real-estate money to not do it.
They refuse to carry my medications :(
Well.

That was an adventure.

I'm not going to lie, I laughed. A lot.

This was one of those moments where the broader internet floods into a niche corner of existence, and it's kind of fascinating to see just how sharply internet culture can clash.

"calm down socrates"

~ pissgocker
It uses a client-authoritative peer-to-peer architecture, which has surely led to billions in lost revenue. I'm surprised selling GTA money has done as well as it has, considering anyone could get as much as they wanted for free.
I’ve owned many Pis through the years. Always for personal/hobby stuff, but they have been workhorses all the same.

I ran a Pihole server on an ancient 1A for several years. It was considered underpowered but worked great. I’ve run Homebridge services which was a great way to integrate various IoT stuff into HomeKit that lacked native support. I’ve since moved these things onto other hardware to consolidate things (not because of anything inherently wrong with the Pi).

For about a year now I’ve been using a Pi as a BLE data collector to slurp data from a weather station I have on my deck. That being said, the onboard Bluetooth on the 3 and 4 is pretty awful in my experience. I needed to use an external dongle to make it reliable.

For over a year I used a Pi 4 to run multiple SDRs to record and rebroadcast trunked police/fire scanner traffic. I eventually had to retire it for that purpose when the trunked system changed to digital and the Pi just couldn’t keep up with the workload anymore.

Those were all applications that I ran for months/years at a time using Pi hardware. I’d consider them “serious” even though they weren’t anything impressive or enterprise-worthy.

Other things I’ve done with them are use them as emulation stations. Even older Pis are more than capable of emulating 8 and 16 bit consoles without a hitch. Their compact size makes them portable and easy to plug into a TV and work with a Bluetooth controller.
Ask HN: What tool do you want me to build?
Hey guys,

I have a ras pi that isn't doing anything. comment your idea for a simple tool you'd like access to.

I'll code up the top voted idea as an SPA web app and host it for everybody to access for free. Thanks.
I stumbled upon Factorio only after the graphics and gameplay of Dyson Sphere Project hooked me! Both are fantastic games with similar mechanics but different challenges; DSP has modern quality of life conveniences (like cleaner/simpler use of pickers from conveyer belts), but Factorio has a ton of depth and great mods.

I don't mind the look of Factorio, personally, but being able to rotate stuff around and see different angles of the factory was very helpful for routing in DSP. Then of course you can take it to a first person view too, like Satisfactory, but then I spent too much time trying to move myself (the player) through my maze of conveyer belts.