skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so conflicted reading this story. On one hand, yes, there were choices made during the design of the system that directly contributed to this tragedy. And a lot of innocent lives were lost, so saying that's "shit happens, it's an edge case" rings very hollow.

On the other hand, this was a very peculiar set of circumstances, very much an edge case. Is it reasonable to expect designers of combat systems to triple check their choices and run more test scenarios to identify and address such edge cases? I'd say yes. However, I think it's unreasonable to expect them to design a perfect system for a highly volatile and chaotic use case such as war.
It's also quite annoying how the piece is split up into small chunks, due to tweets or toots or whatever they're called being limited in size.
First you look at the MIT license (https://opensource.org/license/mit/): "Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>

"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

Assuming the full license (I omitted about 892 characters) were in the original the derivative work omitting the original notice violates the license. In USA, you register your copyrighted work and can sue for statutory damages.

Patent protects an original idea (reduced to practice) and one precept is that the idea got independently used only after it was disclosed to the public. Obtaining a patent from the PTO is not a trivial matter and then you can sue for your lost profits, damages based on the defendant's profits, or prohibit use by anyone. All of this assumes you really care.
Devkits have been software locked for a while now and need an always on internet connectivity to the mothership to work, so even if the HW kit would leak onto e-bay, there's nothing you can do with them as they would immediately be backlisted and usually that leads to the studio being blacklisted as well for the blunder so it's natural the studios don't want them to leave the office. You never know which disgruntled employee would rage-quit taking the devkit with him leaving you to deal with the wrath from the console manufacturer.

When I was doing some security evaluations on a gaming console it was mandatory to lock the HW samples in a vault at the end of the business day when the last person to leave the office was done with them. Naturally that made WFH impossible even during covid.
I'm just going out on a limb here, but a paid service needs to be good with limited input. I've used SD locally quite a lot and it takes quite a bit of work through x/y plots to find combinations of settings that produce good images somewhat consistently. Even when using decent fine tunings from CivitAI.

When I use a decent paid service, pretty much every prompt gives me a good response out of the box. Which is good, because otherwise I'd have no use for paid services, since I can run it all locally. This causes me to go to a paid service whenever I want something quick, but don't need full control. When I do want full control, I stick to my local solution, but that takes a lot more time.
zerotier and tailscale is very good at this. you can lock down everything and it wouldn't matter because you still can connect from anywhere with all the security you want at each places.

i run multiple zerotier networks at different levels and they all work transparently.

i dont like tailscale as the hosted platform wants you to use an oath login and i have had bitter experiences with it so zerotier it is.

zerotier does not have a public gateway option where you can have a network only access the internet via a certain point (maybe it can be done but it isnt easy as tailscale) but i am happy with it.

i also do not have to worry about VPNs and all that because zerotier does that for me.

you can self host both so you are in control at all times
That's nice, and I'd believe that, if my buddy who ordered one had gotten even a single response to his six emails about it thus far.
> Rus, meaning “red.”

In what language?
There is no understanding among Russian historians regarding the meaning of this word. The version with "rowmen" is dominant though. Though it is agreed that originally it was the name of some Scandinavian tribe/clan/region, whoose descendants became the first Russian rulers in 9th century.
> "native" apps are pain to develop, pain to port, pain to build, pain to debug, pain to install/deploy

Not really. Languages and tools have been very good since more than twenty years with comfortable IDEs and cross-platform frameworks, and the result can be a single, statically linked executable which you can just download and run. See e.g. Qt or Delphi. Of course, one can also make things unnecessarily complicated.
These constant comparisons or obsessions around what ex-Googlers use or do at Google needs to stop.

You are not Google and neither is your startup.
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I agree. I've always hated the twitter-style threads people write. I can't stand it. There are websites that compile a thread into a better reading blog style format however.
We call it "multi-tenant applications" or "role-based applications": https://www.youtube.com/live/Zk0Il6I5MQI?si=BFVL3JkHaj1hcGrZ

And there is a separate concept of a configurable application which can completely reshape its component graph according to some high level configuration flags (like database=prod|dummy), we call it "multi-modal applications".

And we created the perfect tool for wiring them: https://izumi.7mind.io/distage/index.html
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EB0LyBLULyw

Obligatory snoop dog video lol
And don't forget that there's a "when". Planets ready to be seeded with life are rare at a given point in the universe's timeline. So the AI also needs to make course timing decisions in the magnitudes of 1B years...

It's so much easier to build and train AI then migrate our "humanity" into machines and just go from there to the Tannhäuser Gate and beyond.

When I was a kid, my dad, a very spiritual guy, after tucking me in, revealed to me: "Son, humans can already travel faster than light". My young and inquisitive scientific self said "What?? How?!?!" And he goes: "Just close your eyes and imagine yourself on Mars. It's instantaneous."
> Many Americans and even astronomers opposed the plan for various reasons. Even former President Eisenhower (who created NASA) said: “Anybody who would spend $40 billion in a race to the moon for national prestige is nuts.”

I think he was right.
Sorry, I don't see where's the edge case. In a given area there are going to be lots of planes. If there is risk of confusing them and making decisions based on non-reconciled information, it seems a pretty critical flaw.
For centuries, Russian bureaucrats were expected – completely officially and under the law – to earn their living by extracting money from members of the local population directly, instead of through taxation going into a state budget. This was known as kormlenie. To populations elsewhere, such a system might meet their local definition of corruption.
That's a useful website, but holy shit it is utterly unusable without an adblocker.
Wells Fargo, First Interstate Bank, NationsBank, Penn Square Bank, Pacific Capital Bancorp, to name a few.

Source: my divorced single-mom grandmother and her incessant complaints about them.
That's what I wonder, though: mimetic thinking as a viral phenomenon. It may reshape one's perceptions, forcing a certain conformance, like prions.

If there's any room for alternatives or unconventional thought, it must now be assigned within an established hierarchy. Or, it must be shoehorned into invisible guardrails.

This is not bad in itself. Of course, useful ideas must transmit successfully to realize progression over decades.

But if one has a choice to focus attention, there also ought to exist the option to ignore it.

I don't mean to "ignore all frameworks" or "everything original must come from the self." I just mean I avoid TVTropes--yet I also embrace Dramatica.

No doubt TVTropes is a form of design patterns for writing, for which it has incredible value. It's just not something I want to "shape my mind around."

As I write this, I know it doesn't make much sense. It may just be a silly thing, and I have yet to "mature to realize the concept of" a shared, tropic mindview.
> Mastodon is apparently at least as bad as Meta.

Wow. Such a comparison is mindblowing.

You are apparently unaware that the default Mastodon web client is only one way of many which you can use to interface with a Mastodon instance. If you feel that there should be a plain HTTP(S) interface to its open API, feel free to advocate for one — or to create it yourself!
Yeah I have never met someone using an amex card that didn't have a backup visa or mastercard.
Relax, they just bragging.
I don’t think this is universally true. I had a CHF Amex for years. Used it by in EUR and USD online and in person.
Absolutely. The aggressive alternative to "I'm sorry you feel that way" is "I'm not interested", "I'm not going to help you with this", or even just "No". I'd also like to point out that saying these things isn't necessarily morally wrong - it depends on the circumstances.
The last paragraph is so true. Borrowed from the reference https://henrinouwen.org/meditations/poverty-is-a-quality-of-... :

“Poverty is the quality of the heart that makes us relate to life, not as a property to be defended but as a gift to be shared. Poverty is the constant willingness to say good-bye to yesterday and move forward to new, unknown experiences. Poverty is the inner understanding that the hours, days, weeks, and years do not belong to us but are the gentle reminders of our call to give, not only love and work, but life itself, to those who follow us and will take our place. He or she who cares is invited to be poor, to strip himself or herself from the illusions of ownership, and to create some room for the person looking for a place to rest. The paradox of care is that poverty makes a good host. When our hands, heads, and hearts are filled with worries, concerns, and preoccupations, there can hardly be any place left for the stranger to feel at home.”
Entra ID (Azure ad) free above a p2/E3 I think. Auth0 bought by okta. Ping. Google.
Very insightful indeed. It suggests this article is not factual. Not the first anti Tesla article from that website featured on HN. Light on facts and evidence usually. And in this case spreading (deliberate?) lies.

"Test rides were given at the event for those who immediately paid the first $5,000 of a $50,000 deposit to pre-order the vehicle"

A bit less dramatic than Tesla getting a quarter million for nothing, which the article is leading with. Presumably, the kind of people that have 250K would also be able to hire some expensive lawyers to get it back in case of a failure to receive a car. I don't think that happened. The narrative that Tesla survived near bankruptcy by ripping off wannabe roadster customers seems like it is a complete and utter fabrication.

Those 5k deposits are still interesting of course but I doubt that made a lot of difference for Tesla. Assuming the number of 1000 people is actually correct of course. Which given the rest of the article is not a safe assumption. That's a lot of test rides. Just saying.

The roadster would have launched in 2020, which as some people may have forgotten was the first covid year that created a few logistical challenges for lots of companies; Tesla included. Then we got the Ukraine crisis, chip shortages, etc. So, yes they are 3 years late, not 6, delivering what was always going to be a bit of a niche car. And there seem to be some valid reasons as to why that might be. Also, people took test rides so the car was real enough for that. Tesla actually managed to keep on growing marketshare in the past three years throughout these events. So they aren't doing that poorly.
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Routes and timetables are increasingly becoming openly available.
However, obtaining fares data is challenging.
Do you have a specific use case for such data?
Mastodon is a microblogging service, so not meant for large bodies of text. This is why the text entry box is small, the columns are somewhat narrow (especially in deck mode) etc.

Platforms like https://writefreely.org/ , which are designed to be for blogging and long-form writing, are the place to write this. Write Freely federates so one can follow accounts and interact with posts via Mastodon etc.
That's a good point, at least Twitter has third-party tools like Thread Reader to mitigate this annoyance. I wonder if there is an equivalent for Mastodon?
It's odd to me how people perceive him as a cartoon villain. He's fairly ordinary in terms of views and actions other than being childish.
Considering you run already run these zerotier networks, I would assume you heard of it, but since I don't see it mentioned and you (for obvious reasons) don't like tailscale, have you heard/used headscale (the opensource implementation of the controller(hosted) for tailscale) ?
forgot to mention n64 had 4 controller ports -- multiplayer support seperated it from the competitors.
I would’ve expected American prison calls to be much more expensive, here in Finland local calls from prison cost 3.60 euros per hour. Calls abroad can easily cost 10s of euros per hour, even within EU.
In Portuguese "bergamota" by itself is tangerine.
Hard agree here. There are so many small things there that could be improved.

One simple one is identifier re-use, if it is necessary for some reason, then at the very least it shouldn't happen within a specific time frame, so that you may have the same identifier used again as in the scenario.
Have you had many interactions with the police? Like been pulled over, contacted or harassed?

Because for quite a few people in the US they don't have as much freedom as you might think.
i suppose its not news, but there was a long thread about it but it came from this post from june:

https://nonint.com/2023/06/10/the-it-in-ai-models-is-the-dat...
The tragedy of Iran Air Flight 655, which was shot down by the USS Vincennes in 1988, highlights significant user interface (UI) flaws in the Aegis Combat System used by the U.S. Navy. Here's a breakdown of the key UI problems that contributed to this incident:

IFF Console Operation Flaw: The aircraft identification friend or foe (IFF) system, crucial for distinguishing between civilian and military aircraft, had a critical operational flaw. Although Flight 655's IFF correctly identified it as a civilian airliner, the Aegis system required operators to manually follow the contact with a cursor. In this instance, the operator did not "slave" the cursor to Flight 655, causing the system to query the IFF of a different aircraft, an Iranian F-14, from the same location.

Dashboard Design Issue: Aegis' large displays, used for senior decision-making, failed to show critical information like altitude. This omission made it challenging to assess the intent of an approaching aircraft. Flight 655's climbing trajectory, a non-threatening maneuver, wasn't immediately apparent to the captain from these displays.

Tracking Number Confusion: Aegis' feature of unifying data across multiple ships led to a fatal misunderstanding. Both the Vincennes and its escort, USS Sides, tracked Flight 655 but assigned it different tracking numbers. When Aegis unified these contacts, it chose one tracking number and recycled the other, which was then assigned to a U.S. bomber. This led to confusion about the altitude of Flight 655, as the captain, unaware of the tracking number change, received data about the wrong aircraft, believing it was descending rapidly.

These UI issues, combined with the high-stress environment and other factors, contributed to the crew's misunderstanding of the actual situation, ultimately leading to the tragic decision to fire on the civilian airliner. This case underscores the critical importance of intuitive, clear, and comprehensive user interface design, especially in high-stakes environments like military operations.
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I don't think so. SIMD is more like a weird mix of vector processing and bizzare mathematical transformations originated from low-level facts, and the latter becomes more significant when SIMD targets shorter inputs.

I recently helped my friend who needed a fast CCSDS Reed-Solomon decoder in Python. The existing Python library was really slow, like 40 blocks per second, while the same algorithm written in C# claimed 10,000+ blocks per second. It turned out that the Python version made use of Numpy but so badly that it was much faster to eschew Numpy. After some additional optimizations to avoid modulos, my version easily handled ~2,000 blocks per second without Numpy.
TSLA's valuation has been insane for a while. I would probably buy them as a car manufacturer if their price was more in the $70b range rather than $700b.
One of the books was an entire annotated disassembly of the BASIC interpreter, if memory serves. I vaguely remember there being some sort of kerfuffle about that.

Another thing that one got: a printed circuit diagram of the machine.

As for today: One can get get an entire annotated disassembly for Elite, including the version that used the Second Processor: https://www.bbcelite.com
I agree, the described scenario could just be another day at any airport and surrounding airspace (I guess any airport that is dual purpose military and civilian).
Spoke too soon: Brother's new market add-on printer trick called "Refresh": some Brother models now dial home to their centralized server.

TL;DR: buy "Refresh"-free Brother printers.
Even if this were a given (and it isn’t), I think it’s unlikely Tesla robotaxis capture the transport market like that.

There’s a lot of cars to replace. Capturing 10% of yearly car sales, worldwide, is already a very tall order.

Capturing 10% of all cars on the road would require this level of gargantuan sales for many years, and that’s just so 10% of cars in the world are your brand, not so 10% of rides are on cars owned by the fraction of people who bought your brand and decided to let it drive strangers while they’re not using it.

Moreover, beyond the safety concerns there’s policy concerns— knowing how to safely drive in Indonesia doesn’t mean being allowed to drive in Indonesia. Resource constraints— where is all the lithium going to come from, and how will the people around the world feel about this?

And there already are alternatives beyond the car industry. Public transit, for example. Demand for not driving or not owning a car can’t only be safely fulfilled with robotaxis.
I tried to feed it to archive.ph but they actively hide the content with javascript too. Mastodon folks really don't like people without javascript.
Ok! Sorry to waste your time then, good luck with all that.
Biggest issue is an LLM will often lead you to a dead end or unsatisfying answer and will quit the call abruptly while sometimes with humans you can escalate to a manager.
I wonder how this compared to plain air traffic control technology of that era? Were ATC doing it better? (Obviously there are a lot of ATC-driven disasters of that era too).
Install more RAM because developers are lazy and use Electron instead of making efficient native apps? What about the global power consumption and resource consumption of this trend?
Thanks, I knew I heard that story somewhere before. (but I would not rule it out, that recent CEOs heard and learned from that episode as well)
i also had a hard time reading that piece about bad UX on my phone. i don't know about the desktop experience but you made a valid point.
For some reason, some people with discount any example of Rails scalability as not counting.
I actually found that interview to be quite hard to listen to.

Charlie often interrupted the question, answered one that could have been asked, and then later on the interviewer (Ben or David) came around to actually finishing the question, and it turned out not to be the one that Charlie prematurely answered.

He also gave several answers that I didn't think were really insightful, of course YMMV.

I found this interview to be one of the least interesting to be ever published by Acquired.
> Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

> Is there such a thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

~~~ Charlie Munger

--

It is a disservice to salute the Man by picking just a partial idea, in the rich amount he was so kind to share, yet there is something fundamental in that message above.

It was Warren Buffett that said «You should write your obituary and try and figure out how to live up to it», and this seems very relevant with Charlie Munger.

We are grateful for all the good teaching.
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It took me a while to save up the money. I had an entry level salary at Boeing, which was an average salary for a newly minted engineer.

I also had an ancient car and a cheap apartment, and didn't spend money on booze.

Average new car prices were $14,000 in 1982. I bought my car for $800. So yeah, I'd say investing $1,000 was well within common man finances.
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Which other CEOs have managed to move as fast as Tesla and SpaceX in a hardware space without similar amounts of damage (presumably in the burnout sense)?
Story is real or not aside, why would you not laugh it off? At that stage nothing can be changed, money was lost and bug was fixed. You can only look forward and plan for the future and the guy is going to be paranoid in the future deployments to make sure not to fuck up again.