skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I’ve been hearing outlandish opinions daily way before AI was a thing of public interest. They only become very problematic and potentially fraudulent when a company charges money for it.

Btw illustrators are getting replaced. Not all of them of course, but the demand is shrinking. Similarly for certain writing roles.
Open, Multimodal Dataset for Self Driving
I have trouble with the wording in this case. This would not increase the safety of autopilot but limit the usage to situations closer to the “happy path” of the system.
I don't see the problem. Elon is just innovating at such high velocity, that relativistic time dilation kicks in.
There is not, because none of it was scripted and any semblance of narrative flow was crudely faked in editing. But it's a reasonable request. I'll try pushing the audio through Whisper and see what comes out. Google will, eventually, do it's own speech recognition but historically it hates my accent.
Just like “bit” is a term of art in computer science that means something different than “bit” in vernacular language, “recall” has a specific meaning in the automotive industry.

A recall is a mandatory fix that the manufacturer is obligated to provide at no charge and to proactively notify customers of. It comes with reporting obligations and long term warranty implications.

It might be that industries should not reuse common words, but IMO it’s a little silly to insist that they only use the most literal and etymologically correct terms for each individual action rather than defining categories that have clear meanings even if a specific action doesn’t perfectly match the most literal reading of the name of the category.
I actually don’t use it all that often, but it certainly is great to have when needed! I have considered putting the code online once or twice, but the setup is convoluted enough that documenting it probably would be a pain.

(It consists of one Firefox extension which can’t be installed on a normal browser, one SQLite database to store the text, one Haskell server to interact with the database, and one Qt frontend to present the results. It wasn’t trivial for me to set up.)
the actual data is here : https://assets.ctfassets.net/4cd45et68cgf/1HyknFM84ISQpeua6T...
Heh, it's fun reading those old threads and seeing some people back then say "I don't think we'll ever see XYZ" when we have XYZ today.
This is super cool. Many startups are offering OpenAPI -> SDK, but I've never seen anything that generates a command-line tool.
I wanted to automate important parts of the job seeking process:

https://getspence.ai
Airplane autopilots are something else. You are not allowed to use an autopilot unless you have training and a license for it.
Same sign in Spain, when the road is congested the limit goes down.
A bill-splitting Telegram bot: https://github.com/crash-g/bottino

There are many apps that do this already but my friends mostly use Telegram and it was easier to not having to install another app for such a simple task.
OKX has promised to compensate the impacted consumers, who lost their funds.
To guarantee the security of all user assets, OKX has canceled the impacted contracts.
Hackers stole over $424,000 from user accounts at the prominent OKX DEX earlier today in a big catastrophe. Wallets linked to the OKX decentralized exchange (DEX) were recently the targets of theft due to an exploit.
Why should the taxpayer subsidize a business run by one of the world’s richest men?
They could be their own OEM. They're doing it for the Jetson, they're doing it for their shield devices.

Put a downsized version of the grace hopper chip in there, call it AI-DevBox and it will sell.
The term recall is a term commonly used in the industry to denote a safety related situation that needs mandatory and free remedy.

It is not used in the context of your average update that might give you new eye candy or features, it is just for safety related issues and usually at the behest of a regulator (though a manufacturer can decide to do a voluntary recall to avoid the regulators stepping in).
Not showing the user ads is also only half the problem. As the article said, those who pay not to view them are the more valuable advertising targets. There's nothing about those plans, as far as I've seen, that says they're not still tracking usage patterns, viewing habits, etc... and selling that info on to others who don't have a paid ad-free option.
I really wonder where we're headed (in general, not specifically with Teslas) regarding technologies requirements to "do enough to prevent misuse."

These requirements are already a major thorn in my side. My car has sensors to detect when a passenger isn't wearing a seat belt and to blast an ear-hurting alarm directly at the driver. It's so loud that it's actually a safety issue in itself because it's hard to focus on driving when there is a blaring alarm in your face.

The worst of the problem though, is that the system is made to be ultra cautious and thus has a lot of false positives. For example, if I put my backpack on the passenger seat, I have to plug the seat belt in otherwise it will scream at me once my speed hits 10 MPH. Or if one of my kids decides to change seats so unbuckles and moves to a new chair and buckles in that one, then the car will scream at me unless both buckles are buckled, even if there's no weight in the previous seat. It takes several minutes to timeout and stop, meanwhile it is ear-splittingly loud and so bad that it's unsafe to drive while it's blaring.

There are more things, like if I leave the engine running while walking away with the key fob in my pocket, it will loudly honk twice. This happens constantly. Just this morning it honked ear splittingly loud in my face while I was scraping the ice from my windshield.

Then of course there is the complete disabling of the in-car navigation controls while moving, so my passenger can't configure the map while I'm driving, even though there is absolutely no reason to do that. The net result is also that I end up using my phone which is way less safe because I have to look down and the controls are not even remotely optimized for quick and low-attention use.

Our modern way of maximizing the responsiblity of the manufacturer to prevent misuse and minimizing the liability of the person doing the misusing is leading us to some real bad places IMHO.
Thanks for your feedback. Indeed, something is off for Eastern Europe query .. (first time I have discovered this issue). I will inspect the backend. Feel free to try it with a country name or entire 'Europe' in the meanwhile.
Is this production ready? Docs seem to sugget it's a huge WIP.
A website allowing to browse chords for variety songs (mostly french songs): le-chansonnier.com
It is also in the URL/search bar, type whatever you want to find on the page instead of a website address and the bottom option will be “On this page”.
Modern internet is not in business of producing content and using ads as means of paying for said content production and delivery. Modern internet is in business of selling ads and is using content producers as means of keeping users in front of screens while ads are being shoved into their faces.

So, yeah, internet would be different, but to me it isn't obvious how it would be any worse or less in value.
Adding to what other commenters already said, I really enjoyed lalo.li. I found myself playing it for quite a while and enjoying the challenge of moving the ball around with lines.
And even if they manage to pull it off, they ought to have data showing that they, in particular, can remove lidar sensor without losing fidelity, simply because we know that lidar is what gives reliable range information.
It appears every time you get into an app by clicking a notification while you're in another app, and it's 100% consistent in that context.
>Why should a gradient-descent optimizer have this property?

Because some human may give it that. You may have noticed random code downloaded off the internet may do bad things, not because code and an inherent desire to be bad but because humans.
You really have to explain how you can even begin to compare a payment processer with steam.

Steam provides a ton of value add on top of payment processing. Advertisement, distribution, a storefront, a boatload of users.
13 December 2023: Tesla recalls two million cars over autopilot defect.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67693935
Not two seconds ago I just watched Elon Musk break into my house, steal the copper out of my walls, kick my dog, and piss on the ashes of my dead grandma. Fortunately, libel is legal now because idiots continue not to understand how the first amendment works.
and also tells you if you look tired (and need a coffee). And it actually works pretty well
From this article [0] in October of 2023"...Autopilot have been involved in more than 700 crashes, at least 19 of them fatal, since its introduction in 2014..."

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/t...
I think it's extremely high, since many cancer treatments suppress appetite.
I’m guessing you have to be a true believer to be a Tesla lawyer, but I wonder what the paralegals think
Different contexts: Pilots are a niche margin of highly trained, tested, and skilled, responsible people. The ~100 million car drivers in the u.s. have no actual training required, a 10 question multiple choice test, and a brief non-standard, subjective road test. Car drivers in the u.s. who want to surf the web, smoke weed, and watch porn all at the same time and don't want to take the bus are rampant. Others want to edit spreadsheets, film their blog, and apply makeup while driving. Many don't even have a high school degree or their perceptual and cognitive faculties intact. To them "autopilot" sounds like it will empower them and solve their problems. Consumer protection exists because government needs to protect the average nice, but non-expert people from the most egregious, predatory, irresponsible businesses.
Fair enough. I can imagine how South Africa looks from the outside, but our experience does not match all the doom and gloom. I'd encourage anyone to visit - there is absolutely no risk of getting fried by someone's car flamethrower, at least.

I understand you meant no harm.
I've been thinking about a tool to format a number where the common display format is abc.defg.hijk.lmn (but I'd be retrieving it from an e.g. database without the periods), the sample AutoHotkey script is a great starting point!
I’ve looking for a simple way to use voice input on the main ChatGPT website, since it gets tiresome to type a lot of text into it. Anyone have recommendations? The challenge is to get technical words right.
Don't Fuel the Copyright Troll Fire, Supreme Court Hears
For mobile browsing of Reddit, I found Sink It, iOS Safari extension, to help clean up the current mobile web version so I’m not struggling with old.reddit which isn’t mobile responsive.

https://gosinkit.com
So how does LIDAR read a sign (not just the shape of the sign, but the content)? How does it read the colour of a traffic light? How does it read brake light status or indicators on the car in front?

Oh, it can't?

So you need cameras too?

So you have to build a 3-dimensional sensor fusion system for LIDAR to work?

Wouldn't that fusion system be more complex, less performant, and more fallible that just choosing a single model (vision/LIDAR) and optimising around that?

10 million years of animal evolution makes a good case for stereoscopic vision as a sensing system for navigating the world.

LIDAR is a crutch for low-maturity software systems.
I'd like to see a visualisation of this where each point has an arrow to the time the prediction is for. Is he always saying 2 years?
well some people like docker and some don't. If you are in the self-hosting realm, personally I think it is fair that the people doing it knows about DevOp or systemadmin, or else pay someone to host it for you.
That's exactly what I am saying. Since humanity has to bet the lives of our children on something very new and unpredictable, I would bet mine on the top 3 scientists and not your opinion. Sorry.they must be definition make better predictions than you and me.
This is the most intellectually lazy take I've ever seen, and I truly wish people would stop throwing up their hands and giving in. You can absolutely peel back the layers with enough will. At least assuming anti-consumer cryptography/malicious toolmaking is not employed.
Why do these image generators always converge on galaxies?
I agree on the gamification, but I think they are still useful.

I mean this project has 18k stars that just tells me it’s popular. It’s possible they bought fake stars but at 18k that would be strange.

I think stars are useless for comparing a 17k project to an 18k project and anyone comparing that way would be flagged by me as not so smart.

But it is useful to distinguish something with just a few stars from thousands.

The challenge is that there’s not really a good way to tell what a successful project is short of looking at it closely and using it. I’d like a better measure, but this is what we have.
Agreed. I heard a story about a guy who is used to chewing tobacco while driving and would crack open the door and spit while moving at speed. He tried doing this in his son's new jeep and the car immediately slammed on the brakes and nearly caused an accident. Obviously cracking the door to spit out the bottom isn't too safe but slamming on the brakes? What why?
Because it's not a condition for acceptance or denial.

Bezos got tax credits for having kids
> When it comes to personal transportation, however, where’s the value add?

Doing other stuff, like watching a movie, resting/sleeping or maybe even working.

Could be cool in an RV. Go to sleep, wake up in a different location without "waiting"

Or send your car to pick you up at the airport / train station.
The Supreme Court may soon decide to change how regulatory agencies can enforce those practices.

https://www.govexec.com/management/2023/11/supreme-court-app...
No. But I found it good enough as it is
Huge fan of unwind! I have been using it for nearly a year.
My take-away is that you should use reliable tools, and as few as possible. If you read it like that then the reason to not do what you said is that `find` and `xargs` are more reliable than what I realistically be able to achieve with ifs and cats.
Part of an observer’s perception of a cultural artifact comes from the observer’s knowledge and experiences, which can include knowledge about the people who made the artifact. It can change over time as the observer changes. Learning of a performer’s death can be such a change.
> Most people concerned about encoding performance are doing livestreaming

What make you think that? I very much care about encoding performance (for a fixed quality level) for offline use.
It is consistent!
How would you keep state of which pets have already been posted?
They said they'd use starship to launch and it's not yet ready
Had to do this with Mazda.

Five years later and the touchscreen keeps causing ghost touches every time the car stops, I actively have to make sure I'm in some obscure menu where random touches won't start calling people or changing the radio channel.
Show HN: AI-Audiobook-Maker: Helping My Disabled Little Cousin Enjoy Story Books
Hey everyone!

I've been working on a 'program"' (read as: overengineered bash script) It's called AI-Audiobook-Maker, and it was born out of my experiences with my 10-year-old cousin who is developmentally disabled. Despite his difficulties with reading, his enthusiasm for stories goes hard, even if he can't READ them.

Watching him, I realized that the world of books was kinda out of reach for him, and I suppose many others.

So, I set out to build something that could bridge this gap.

After only finding shitty, expensive subscription sites that only gave you a couple hours of audio gen, I wanted to make it a bit more accessible.

So I created a tool that can turn any text into a dope, natural sounding, engaging audiobook.

Features that make it better than using ElevenLabs or something:

- It does simple conversion of text files into audiobooks
- You get a choice of six different voices and two models: tts-1 for faster processing and tts-1-hd for high-quality audio
- Transparent and affordable pricing: only $0.015 per 1,000 characters

I converted 'Fuzzing The Machine', a textbook on bug hunting, and that cost around $5.

I've made it open-source in the hope that it can evolve and help more people.

Would love to hear what you think, hopefully it can help you too.

Audio Demo: https://voca.ro/1jrSMAA4WEsX

P.S (Looking for a job rn, hmu at jack<at>jackdarcy.com.au> if you'd like to chat!
> You cannot give informed consent as you have no clue what could happen in the future

That view would completely void any possibility of giving consent to anything, ever.

The same logic could be used after the fact to sue your doctors for example. "Sure I signed something, but that couldn't have been informed consent when I didn't yet know that the operation was going to go poorly."
There’s a good chance we may get fusion power first.
Sorry, only made it available in a few markets (still early work). But if you are OK with the English version, I will add Romania to the list. (Only made localisations to a few languages, beside Dutch and English a few Scandinavian ones.
Yes, it can be registered but requires a Serbian person to do as all registrations require an "ID Number". If you're from Serbia and you have $100 on you (only $30 if you're registering locally as far as I can tell) then register the domain and let the owner have it back because otherwise it will get jacked by some SEO scumbag and turned into a content farm, guaranteed.

CRI Domains itself says it can't be registered, but every other registrar I checked will let you proceed to checkout.
Ditto my 2021 Volvo, with alertness monitored as well (it pops up an adorable cup of coffee on your dash!).
This prompted (pun intended) me to think about an interesting psychological effect. I wouldn't have been able to push the AI in that way. In some sense, there's some "humanity" in me that would have stopped ignoring the AI's complaints when it started saying that going beyond is not possible.

It was even a bit cringey for me to read the conversation.

Food for thought, I guess. The way and form in which an AI replies, might influence what some people are able to obtain from it.
Gesture support on iOS feels natural because it's implemented by the application (?).

On Android back gestures usually aren't 1:1 because they behave like a back button. Swipe and let go, then the back action is executed.

Firefox on desktop Linux has better gestures than Android, namely swiping to the right goes back and swiping to the left goes forward. Firefox on Android doesn't, because the OS treats swiping in either direction as a back-button action.
I always go with discord in newer projects. Why? I feel like most people have discord nowadays and it just works (TM). I rarely have a case where a person said that they can’t join because they don’t have discord or don’t want to create an account because other reasons.

Beside that, money is also a big factor. Slack for example is getting more expensive for communities.
I’ve been using Arc for a couple days now and love it. It’s been a while since I’ve adopted a tool (besides developer tools) that I felt truly increased my productivity and enjoyment in my day-to-day activities.
They shouldn't be selling FSD outside of NA if it doesn't work with anything but "North American standards". It's really that simple.
I know it is owned by Atlassian now but Trello is a very nice tool for this.

I've been using it for more than 10 years now to track personal todos and projects.

The phone app is also smooth and to the point.
I don’t want to join a server to search. It’s kind of an expensive action. And it’s sticky. I don’t like joining things and having more clutter.

So in discord it’s like this:

-join server

-search

-figure out how to leave server

On IRC it’s like this:

-join channel

-ask question

-get directed to wiki or forum

-search forum

-never have to leave anything

-or better yet that wiki or forum is indexed so I just google and find my answer that way
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
I think Mercedes is the only one who has level 3 on the road. And only in certain areas on certain roads. It's all very limited.

level 4 will probably take some time.
We shouldn't be storing ANY personal stuff on company CLOUD. We all ought to have OUR own data, usb online.
It's more about the consumer's satisfaction IMHO. For one reason or another, it appears that the Tesla customers are happy with their purchase.

There is a cult mentality and the cult members are happy with what they got, even if it's not exactly as advertised however it's not just about the cult mentality but it's about the overall experience of the product.

I think if Elizabeth Holmes delivered slick blood testing machines that work no different than those on the market(large amount if blood instead of a drop), but had better workflow and user experience, Theranos could have been a success like Tesla.

She tried to imitate Steve Jobs, had she imitated Elon Musk she would have been fine. She should have had the Siemens machines modified to work with modern GUI, developed some automation for drawing large quantities of blood in a pod at the mall and integrate all that with the healthcare and keep repeating that in 2 years just a drop of blood would ne enough.

The only difference between Musk and Holmes was that Musk actually delivered something that had some redeeming properties.
Except for the nav, most people would consider the occasional beep to be a petty minor issue. Except for the nav thing, these things have been around for ages, and if you’re struggling with them that heavily, I would suggest that features that have been pretty standard for 30+ years that the issue might not be the features.
I always thought these claims were false (that vaccines caused autism).

After people have been banned, shunned, and even fired from their jobs for talking about their own experience with covid vaccine injuries, I'm really not sure anymore.

Big pharma have every incentive to protect their money supply by funding these studies and paying media companies (and even people to post on social media) to push false narratives so they don't end up in court.

Right before covid hit, I read an article in Wired about a dengue fever vaccine given to children. It wasn't tested enough and kids started dying by the thousands. The pharma company wasn't willing to admit anything was wrong (even pushing scientific studies they funded) and the government was getting paid, so they wouldn't stop administering it or admitting fault.

It took 10 years of court cases to finally settle (the parents didn't get any money/compensation). They finally figured out that yes, it was their vaccine that caused these deaths.