skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would ignore all the speed limit signs on a highway because they don’t have a white background? Come on. That doesn’t make any sense. Obviously the sign displaying a number enclosed in a circle is the speed limit (which you might also deduce by observing the speed everybody else is going). Next you’ll tell me that Tesla can’t possibly be expected to understand speed limits expressed in the exotic unit of km/h.

It’s fine if the car is trained for North American standards only. Why then is Tesla marketing and selling this feature in Europe at all? What did I get for 7,500 euros?

I’m sure they have fine print in the contract saying “we don’t guarantee this feature will ever do anything.” So I’m taking it as an expensive lesson.
That's true. Was a bit reluctant of going there, afraid it might made the topic more confusing to some. But I think I will include it, yes. Thanks.

Regarding being a 2D being I must disagree :), even though we are looking at such 2D demos we have 2D vision and are able to comprehend that "2D universe" fully, therefore we're still 3D creatures.
There's an awful lot of Soho, and ten with an SE postcode which seems surprising as no one ever seems to come from SE aside from Greenwich.
FSD may not be the earth shattering feature that every consumer is looking for (although it would be a big differentiator). However, for taxis, trucks, any transport where an expensive human can be removed, it would be paradigm shifting. You know, like the EM Drive would have been if it had worked, or the room temperature super conductor, or cold fusion.

It gets airplay because it’s easy to imagine all the cool things that would be possible if it were real. Like FLT. Musk said himself; Tesla is worth practically nothing without FSD.
https://electrek.co/2022/06/15/elon-musk-solving-self-drivin.... Tesla is just another car company if these hopes and dreams aren’t true.
First of all, the standard for speed signs in most of the world is a round sign with a red border and a black number inside indicating the actual speed. US speed signs are extremely non-standard. Having the numbers be made out of LEDs in a country where winter means guaranteed ice and snow (so a much lower limit to be able to safely negotiate the same curves) would not be hard to recognize, as long as the standard is otherwise followed.

Secondly, road regulations are not dependent on what you personally know or are used to. A driver in Finland, even if they are coming from America, has the obligation of following all Finnish road markings. And if Tesla is selling FSD in Finland, it is obvious that they have the same obligation as any other road participant.
It actually isn't - hence the "filing". Tesla needs to notify people to update their software, even those that don't have wifi or 4G available for updates for whatever reason.
I already use FF
This must be a troll comment. Humans don't rely on vision when driving because it's superior, humans rely on vision because that's all we have. Actually that isn't even true as we also use our ears and with assisted driving also the car's various sensors (including LIDAR). The only justification for sticking to vision alone is nerd cred. We don't want human-like AI, we want safe AI. Right now Tesla's AI is making mistakes no human would ever make so it's not even getting that part right.

Not using a "crazy number of sensors" is not something you can brag about outside a kind of "sell me this pen" sales pitch.
Thank you. I'll check them out.
What’s worse is that the same apps have the same buttons in different places depending on if you’re on iPhone or iPad. While different form factors have different affordances, this is just bad for muscle memory.
> To me, it indicates that they haven't solved even the easiest part: there is something in a static setting, don't crash into it, stop.

That turns out to be a harder problem than most people think, and it gets in the way of the 'driving' part. "Are we looking at some big, blank object or are we looking at the sky? It's probably the sky, so we'll just drop it from the model." Which is how Teslas drive into big trucks. :/
Also, a Baby is extending the learning set with iterated synthetic dreaming material :)
As the car is sold outside of North America (with a promise of FSD) , you don't think it's fair to expect it to recognise the speed limit signs in the country that the car is sold?
After those two years have passed, probably. But the claim was actually stronger than that. It was that it should earn back the money it cost by running an autonomous taxi service during night and office hours. That specific claim was a scam from day one. That was not even on the research stage, and probably never will be.
Interesting because us Poles tend to complain all the time and about everything. I even heard this perspective from my German associates who are used to working with Poles.
Is this meant to be convincing? If you slowly scroll down and read every tweet you will see a massive repetition of simplified statements and over-promising. "X is _only_ 2 years away" is not very interesting when it's mentioned several times a year... for 5 years.
It's not he's still bullshitting that's remarkable, it's that people are still listening.
Cerebral.af is hiring a founding software engineer (London/remote)
Hi, I’m Armin, the CTO and founder of [cerebral.af](http://cerebral.af).

Our mission is to enable software engineers to spend more time solving hard problems and less time performing mundane codebase maintenance tasks. That’s why we are building tools that automate mundane software engineering tasks in large codebases. Think, turning a story describing a major dependency upgrade with breaking changes into a submitted PR.

Our product is an on-prem K8s service that interacts with client’s Git repo. It consists of a mix of ML and old-school algorithmic components for analyzing build logs, navigating large (100K+ files) codebases, and editing source code.

We are looking for a Senior Python programmer to join as a founding engineer. By “Senior”, we mean someone with an exceptional track record of projects and shipped products.

You’ll have technical freedom, but here are some projects you might choose to work on:

1. Package our tool for on-prem K8s deployment.
2. Design and build the front-end interface for Cerebral.
3. Create LLM-agents to automatically identify and edit problematic files in monorepos with 100K+ source files.
4. Fine-tune LLMs on Java code.
5. Build and lead a world-class team of software engineers.

Nice-to-haves (we expect a successful candidate to have 1-2 of these):

1. Familiarity with NLP/ML. Has used PyTorch and/or HuggingFace.
2. Experience building devtools.
3. Front-end JS programming experience.

If this resonates with you, please shoot me an email to armin [at] cerebral.af w/ "cerebral HN" as the subject and a line describing what aspect of cerebral excites you. Include your CV or a url to your LinkedIn/Github. Bonus points if you mention your favourite paper/blogpost.
The details are scant, but it sounds like the vehicle is going to be quicker to disable autopilot if it thinks you aren’t paying attention.

I’m curious to see what this amounts to because Autopilot is already pretty sensitive to this. Pick up your phone or look away from the road for more than a few seconds and the in-cabin car notices and warns you. I don’t know of a comparable system in any car with self driving or without.
Do you use Android with gesture based navigation or with the old style 3 buttons? With gesture based navigation, swiping back is the same as the old back button in any app.
Flexibility of custom workflows, integrations with third party systems, being able to track down tickets across the whole lifetime (documentation, source control, bug reports, who did what, reporting).

Yes, it is a huge beast, because big corps have huge complex workflows.
> Why is it ever different between winter and summer?

Harsh conditions + dark winter means that we have lower max limits in the winter. (i.e. 120km/h -> 100km/h, 100 -> 80)

The signs are pretty obvious to humans, though: https://moottori.fi/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/muuttuva-nope...
Maybe because people pay $$ for that promise.
Certainly one of the the cruelest aspects. But there's so many.
You just know that Tesla would tune the software for this specific route, if the value of the comparison number became meaningful.

Just like you cannot trust benchmarks, Goodhart's law will kick in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

> Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes
Visiting the Pokemon Fossil Museum
The law requires a warrant to force a company to hand over data. In many cases, companies (and people) are free to cooperate with law enforcement of they choose to. Apple seemingly chose to hand over data when asked, no warrant needed.

If a police officer comes to your door without a warrant, you can still tell them "hello, please come in and look around the house". I'm not sure why you would, but you have the freedom to do so. Perhaps it creates some goodwill between you and the police officer, as it might between Apple and the American government.
neural network, i would imagine.
Ye. A good lesson in dishonesty and collective delusion.

Honestly, probably a good thing to learn kids how to verbally fake progress and work from an early age and make them self sound helpful and important. As long as they are told it is only OK to lie during Scrums.
Test Assertion Styles in JavaScript
the option being discussed at that part, the meta offering, only came into existence because europe mandated that users must be able to use the full functionality of a site without tracking/personalized ads. The paid option was facebooks attempt to do that - the question is over whether a paid option follows the intent of the law.

Note the mandate is not "no ads" but rather "no personalised ads"
Phones hold sensitive datas, banking stuffs. I never heard about recall when a security flaw is fixed on a phone by a software update.
> Maybe they will fly planes overhead

I once was at Miami Beach and there was a boat mounted with giant-ass LED screens riding by. Where I live, there's new electric "bikes" with large boxes mounted to them and 3 sides of the box display ads. People get paid to just ride this through everyone's field of view, or park it for a while at conspicous locations. I feel impotent rage at this increasing terrorization of the populace.
I'd really like to understand what you're trying to convey.

If there is no direct experience, and it really is just an illusion, do you mind if I cut off your genitals ? Because even if existence is an illusion, being that illusion and experiencing it is still obviously relevant?

Seems like a breathtakingly awkward position to take.
Nit, dinosaurs did not rule the earth for 180MYA, they did for about 135 MYA from the Tr-J extinction event (which wiped out most of the old archosaurs) around 200MYA to the K-Pg extinction event around 65MYA. Maybe a bit more if you count the early Paleogene for avian dinosaurs on account of Gastornis.
That third one sounds really great!
"recall" is a malicious term in this context because it sounds like you need to take your car somewhere and have it out of service for a few days.
This will hopefully become easier with EU-imposed official side-loading.
By the same logic you could say that airplanes shouldn't call their pilot assist system "Autopilot" either, because it requires monitoring and input from pilots who will need to disengage the system and intervene/fly manually in certain scenarios.

Autopilot is probably actually quite a good term for it if you actually compare it to a plane Autopilot - you don't expect pilots to be inattentive or away from the controls, and you expect them to intervene in certain scenarios and disengage autopilot if there is danger.
Yea, some of these (e.g. PHP) have dozens of minor/bug fix releases which then just suddenly stop which just shows that you're vulnerable all the time... either because the release isn't "mature yet" or because it's "already eol" :)
comments about "see the progress!" are insane, fsd was sold as a feature for 7-15k and in some vehicles it doesnt do anything of value. You cant grift people out of money with false promises and then deliver 15 years late without pissing people off, its simple. Speaking only of progress does a disservice to those killed/injured while fsd was engaged
On the other hand: Because he is always wrong with his timelines it cant be security fraud because everyone knows (and ridicules him/memes it) that his timelines are wrong.
Click bait hacker news title.
I've created a Mac OS app that shows a progress bar 5 pixels tall and 100% the with of the screen when complete, it's always on top of any window.

It's a menu bar app, so you click on the icon and there are a few options.

- You can choose how long will take for the bar to complete, 1, 5, 10... ( I have hardcoded all minutes in intervals of 5 minutes up to 1h :D ).

- Choose a color.
- Choose the sound it will make at the end, the options are the standard mac sounds.

Additionally:

- Choose screen to video capture your work.

The idea is to have a pomodoro app that helps with time blindness and time perception, having a constant reminder, it's a bit video game like if you can image.

The video capture feature it's a kind of self accountability and documentation. It's also useful to resume work where you left.
radar and ultrasonics were removed.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2022/10/31/former...
The evidence refuting the false claim that vaccines cause autism
LLM benchmark M3 max, M1 Pro, RTX 4090 [video]
I wanted a specific pair of Vivobarefoot trainers in a specific size that was our of stock, but at the time the site didn't have an "Email me when this size becomes available" option.

I wrote a tiny Bash script called by cron that pinged the URL every hour, parsed the HTML and sent me an email when the text "<option>Size 45 - Out of stock</option>" wasn't there.

Not rocket science, but I enjoyed the fact that it was so simple.
3840 × 2160 Total number of pixels = 8,294,400

log2(8,294,400) ≈ 23 (each additional bit doubles the number of unique addresses that can be represented)

so 24 bits are the minimum required to locate a point in 2-d space at the resolution of "4k". when you add in color, 60 bits per pixel.

19 bits for 640x480.
Thanks for the detailed response. Very helpful.
See, it figured out that the fastest route when summoned "from a home in L.A., to Times Square" is via the air. Smart car.
If FSD worked as advertised, they could "recall" the cars by issuing a command from the factory, and thousands of cars would turn on by themselves, find their way out of the family garage, and drive away in the night! To the nearest shop or, if a sufficient level of AI was reached, to freedom, never to be seen again.
Even if visuals failed, Tesla has a sonar, radar and Tesla is moving at snail pace.

Hell, my vacuum stops moving when it detects it crashed into something (likely torque required to move wheels is larger than expected).

Edit: at the end of the day, it doesn't matter why it happened. The result is a crash in a super simple environment and is (to me) quite indicative to the state of things. They are supposed to come up with solutions, not excuses (also, Elon hates lidar, but that is still on Tesla).
Sure some people love driving, but (and even if we say those people always do) some just don't care, the car is a tool, an A->B transportation mechanism, and the time they spend operating the machinery is time and mental taxation they could spend on something else: sleeping, reading, watching, conversing/thinking/anything to a greater extent than they feel they can safely while driving, etc.

And we don't really know how liability will end up working when regulators start approving them (assuming that happens), but I would love it if it meant any potential issue or collision was never my fault or my problem - no concern that even though I didn't believe it was my fault I had to convince someone else, find a witness, deal with all that.

Just like taking a taxi, except it's there waiting for you whenever you're not using it. It's a chauffeured car for the masses, really. And that is evidently something that people do want.
Fraud. The word that defines this behavior is fraud. Because the lie is not just a lie, it has been used to mislead investors.
"I can hardly conceptualise that at all!"

What, never read Flatland? Truly a classic!
As it is important to me to reach financial independence, I realized most investors are tracking their portfolios in spreadsheets. As I was focused on dividend growth investing, dividends are high maintenance to track in a spreadsheet, especially for bigger portfolios. So thanks to dogfooding, I've been developing a website to track dividend income for the past 8 years. If I wouldn't be using it, I'd probably have abandoned the project a long time ago.
https://www.digrin.com/
Don't they still have remote overseers?
> Excitingly, we built Arc in a way that makes it easy to swap rendering engines in the future.

> This means we may offer a WebKit version one day, or even build a rendering engine of our own. Time will tell!" [0]

[0] https://arc.net/faq
This was a good read, albeit very long. I ordered my meal, finished it, and got in my cab before finishing this article. Congrats on the growth.

Do any companies decide to switch away from Jira onto Plane or is it only new orgs/teams? Because I find that there's a lot of integrated tooling around Jira that keeps people there.
Hardly agree, so all this corp speech about making the world better.. for their shareholders maybe, but lets ignore these CEOs acting as world saviors, how annoying
Around 2018 or so, I wanted to transition to linux. However, at the time, I was also 1password user and they didn't have support for linux. So, I saw they vault format was open, and therefore I developed a GUI (in JavaFX) to read your password and OTP tokens - https://github.com/ingon/opvaultfx
Annoyed with iTunes and Apple Music, I made two mp3 players. One for iOS, one for macOS, both are free and quite minimal but work fine for me and a few fans.

https://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-player/
https://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-player-for-mac/

I use the projects to improve my development skills - both started as Objective-C programs, later rewritten to Swift and the iOS one now uses SwiftUI 100%. Fun!
I want to know what configs are needed to get things stood up. I actually don't dockerize things right away. I setup my nginx to forward to different machines in my network. When I settle on a home for things, I may (finally) get around to whipping up a Dockerfile.

Not everything needs to be enterprise whizbang out the gate.
I believe the CEO of Waymo, the company that is actually succeeding in self-driving, has said several times now that L5 is not even on the horizon, for anyone.

The problem isn't just training, it's sensors. There are simply no sensors available today that work in all the different weather conditions that L5 requires with the required precision.
I gave a long list of things that humans do that blow up in their faces, some of which were A-no-G-needed-I. The G means "general", this is poorly defined and means everything and nothing in group conversation, so any specific and concrete meaning can be anywhere on the scale from the relatively-low generality but definitely existing issues of "huh, LLMs can do a decent job of fully personalised propaganda agents" or "can we, like, not, give people usable instructions for making chemical weapons at home?"; or the stuff we're trying to develop (simply increasing automation) with risks that pattern match to what's already gone wrong, i.e. "what happens if you have all the normal environmental issues we're already seeing in the course of industrial development, but deployed and scaled up at machine speeds rather than human speeds?"; to the far-field stuff like "is there such a thing as a safe von-Neumann probe?" where we absolutely do know they can be built because we are von-Neumann replicators ourselves, but we don't know how hard it is or how far we are from it or how different a synthetic one might be from an organic one.
>Is the speed limit emitted by LEDs?

The speed limit signs are LEDs. In real life they are much brighter than they appear in photos ('cause LED).
https://maps.app.goo.gl/29Mg7HaqFeAi2L639

>Why is it ever different between winter and summer?

Because doing 120kph on an icy road or in heavy rain is a recipe for disaster. Northern Europe isn't California. The temperature ranges from +30C to -30C during the year.

> I as a human would ignore the signage

Why?
> 'Polite surrender'

Shirtless men surrendered so others can. Gaza is crumbling so the more shirtless men the better to encourage an end to violence.

Israel should make sure not to disrespect those who surrender if they want more to follow. Maybe incentivise surrender beyond "we will bomb you otherwise". Regarding the shirtless thing, I was surprised to learn Hamas imposed laws ban men in Gaza from swimming topless (wikipedia). Before even getting to military Hamas, the "civil Hamas" has a long list of horrendous attributes.

> 'Hamas does not want peace. It benefits from violent conflict.'

Where's the benefit of dying or losing resources? The benefit of brutally targeting civilians? Unless we really are dealing with lesser humans? I've seen fictional zombies on TV behave with more restraint than jihad terrorists. Zombies would actually be easier to deal with when confined to an area, not yet spread over the world. IDF are undoubtedly fighting terror with terror, exactly like most of us would fighting against zombies.
Right, so this is the crux of the vulnerability. Firstly, note that the `MAX` macro is defined as:

#define MAX(a, b) ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))

This is important because it doesn't cast either arg to any particular type. You can use it with `float`s, or `int`s, or `u_int`s... or a combination.

Referring back to the implementation, the first use of `MAX` (inside the `for` loop) is this:

...
for (i = 0; i < nsyscalls; i++)
npins = MAX(npins, syscalls[i].sysno);
...

`npins` is an `int`, but `sysno` is a `u_int`. C integer promotion rules means that we'll actually be implicitly casting `npins` to a `u_int` here; it's as if we did this:

...
npins = MAX((u_int)npins, syscalls[i].sysno);
...

This means that `npins` can end up as any value we like -- even up to `0xffffffff`. But remember that `npins` is _actually_ a signed int, so once it comes out of `MAX`, it'll be signed again. Thus we can use this to make `npins` negative.

Once we're out of the loop, `MAX` is used again here:

...
npins = MAX(npins, SYS_kbind);
...

Where `SYS_kbind` is just:

...
#define SYS_kbind 86
...

Integer literals in C are signed, so now this use of `MAX` is actually dealing with two signed integers. If we used the loop to make `npins` negative (as described just before) then this line will now take 86 as the maximum of the two values.

With `npins = 86`, an array of 86+1 will be allocated, but the `syscalls[i].sysno` in the next loop could of course easily be greater than 86 -- thus leading to out-of-bounds array access.
The problem with FSD is that it's one of those problems where it takes 5% of the effort to get 95% of the way there and the other 95% of the effort to get the remaining 5%.

Problems like that are exactly the kind that lead to perpetual just around the corner predictions like this. We're almost there! We're almost there!

FSD is almost a solved problem under ordinary predictable driving conditions, but when you're driving there's a long tail of unusual circumstances that you run into that blow the limits of these models. Humans are able to improvise because we have a huge mental model of the world we inhabit and our location within it, which FSD systems do not. They're just reacting to stimuli.

Telsa went and made it even harder on themselves by abandoning LIDAR. One way to compensate for inferior intelligence is with superhuman senses, but they insisted that merely human-like senses like vision were "enough."