skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Its tough. On one hand I feel for your condition and I can see how in your case the autopilot is a net benefit, but on the other hand this sort of sentiment is just reinforcing the "my car is driving, so it's ok that I switched my brain off" colloquialism.

I definitely don't use it that way. I'm always actively driving the car and very frequently override the FSD (in a fair percentage of cases for safety reasons, in a larger percentage of cases because it's being annoying to other drivers e.g. not leaving enough space for other cars to zipper merge or not leaving space for a car to parallel park).

For me I'm always the driver, FSD is a backup for the "what if", not the other way around.

But I agree, many people may use it the other way around. The other way around is really the way it should be long term but its tech isn't there yet.

I really wish they would stop using the driver facing camera and wheel force to determine if the driver is attentive. It very frequently judges against me because my arm is light, so I'm punished even though I'm gripping the wheel. The driver facing camera is blocked easily by the sun shade so that also causes inadvertent punishment. I shouldn't have to look at the sun just to appease the camera. I wish they had some kind of capacitive sensing lining the steering wheel instead if that's what they need to be compliant.
I guess the opposite could also be asked: Why doesn't the EU use something proven, durable, redundant, and sensible like checks instead of relying on fragile computers that have thousands more points of failure?
I'm not sure I buy that argument about dynamic languages. You are probably right in that auto complete played a role, but for me working on a pure node js app back in 2014ish, it was a nightmare of runtime issues that type checking would have eliminated. The productivity gain in a typed language was not having to write unit tests for things that static typing does for free.
I think this, too.
Yes. The sanity from Google.
I don't know where you are, but in NYC and in the area all billboards that I can remember are of local businesses.

Just off the top of my mind the billboads that I remember seeing driving round Manhattan - RPM Raceway go-carts, HSS Hospital, a gentlemen's club, local news anchors...
That doesn't much help. Their main claim is that it is not normal (and hence political) for a subsidy to be canceled based for failure to make progress.

I've seen no evidence supporting that claim, and lots of evidence to counter it.
> Are they going to offer prescription glasses?

For those Meta collab frames? They already do. Afaik every single frame sold by Ray-Ban is available as a prescription version.

> Are they going to cost more because they're prescription?

No idea, but I would assume yes, as sunglasses cost more for prescription lenses on the same frame virtually everywhere. And i don’t see why it would work any differently for clear non-prescription lenses as opposed to shaded/sunglass lenses.

> No VR company has ever catered for those with faulty vision.

Catered? Maybe no, but almost every new major VR headset announcement prominently features either their ergonomic adjustments/customizations that accommodate prescription glasses or they straight up just offer prescription lenses for VR headsets themselves. I am not sure what more one can even ask for here, aside from the ergonomic customizations to accommodate prescription glasses being more versatile or better.

Major manufacturers have been improving upon it with each generation, as I still had to wear prescription glasses all the way through the OG oculus rift + HTC Vive era. Most of my friends who are into VR and who still wear prescription glasses have corroborated on their experiences with it as well.

Oculus Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro offer prescription lenses as well. While Vision Pro is still yet to be released, Apple provided plenty of details regarding their prescription lenses. And Oculus Quest 3 has been providing prescription lenses for the headset since the launch date.
A reference was already provided. Here's a direct link to the demo of a cross-site scripting attack via webassembly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glL__xjviro&t=450s
One opposing force to this eventuality is the huge and still-growing RV/camper/boat industry, which has begun shipping some really good, house-sized DC electric appliances lately. It seems like these worlds might one day converge.
VR Chat is the ultimate VR app. Infinite number of cool things to do and people to meet, lots of nerdy hobbyists who make VR stuff out of passion.
You don't need all of that. If you can charge at home that is helpful (even at L1 rates), but if you live near a DCFC that works too.

40k also isn't really expensive for a new car. It is below average.
20 miles is pretty far away. What were you expecting?

The factory one is clearly due to negligence.

But, the parent comment alluded to something about "living in an area prone to tornadoes," which would include areas you described.

So, any storm during tornado season would be enough to take precautions or at least be on alert. No?
Internet comments are always so polarized... Some people liked remote learning, some didn't. I know some college profs who were glad to stay home in -20C weather. Others hated it even then.

It's true that remote teaching didn't take over the world, but I doubt people's appreciation of it had anything to do with it. It just wasn't a long enough event to change anything permanently.
> By the end of the year, anyone will be able to make brand new Taylor Swift music that sounds good. The average child will be able to animate short films.

But will I be able to listen to that music and watch those films in my fully autonomous vehicle which will be available in 2016... I mean 2020... I mean 2025... I mean 2040?
> There are good manufacturers for Android. But they're still unmatched in terms of services. In the above analogy, nice road, worse travel experience.

Again, it doesn't matter if roads are nice. Or if your mafia thugs give you a handkerchief after they beat you bloody.

> It's the cost of doing business with Apple, made clear to you since you begin. You just factor it in your offering.

Just like mafia.

> No ones expect you to build a Windows App without a computer running Windows.

Can I buy macOS to run on my PC? No?

> You don't. You're paying only for access to the distribution channel (base fee).

Since you mentioned Windows, I can compile and distribute as many Windows applications as I want. Without paying a cent to MS.

> Remember the tools and services above? If you're making business with Apple customers through Apple services, you're paying for it on a transaction basis.

Again, like with mafia. But now on iPhone!
There is, Zelle works pretty well for smaller amounts. Paypal jinxed themselves early on by lobbying so hard to be "not-a-bank" (even though they do everything a bank does). If they hadn't used their not-a-bank status to screw so many people for so long (I think they're better now, not sure), they could have been the de-facto payment processor by now, at least for debit.
That’s all true, but I still think it is a reasonable goal. Having the technology to be self sustaining in another world has the ‘side-effect’ of letting us be self-sustaining on earth… reducing the risks human pose to ourselves.

That said, ‘colonizing’ the artic or shallow ocean floor probably accomplishes most of the benefit for a subset of the cost and risk.

The only real benefit I see to space over the attic is that off worlding mining and production could be a benefit in itself.
but they are not even in the same price bracket,
if I'm considering the vision pro (3.5k ?) then my comparison would be against the new varjo xr-4 releases that are around 4k (or 10k for the varifocal lenses version).
And most utility/etc bills will require ACH (or a payment fee).

So now Bob's Valley Energy Inc has the information to empty your account.

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(Though FWIW, probably neither your employer nor your utility company is storing the information themselves in a MySQL db.)
> Even then, some tables are a little... suspect.

In what way? I mean if you got good enough tools it can be made Ikea straight, right?
Haha, too bad the Earth VR team was disbanded because that would be the Holy Grail. If someone can get the budget to work on that I'd be tempted to come back to Google just to help get it done! It's what I always wanted when I was building the first Earth VR demo...
I wouldn't call OpenBSD programmers average.
The other issue with this is that sometimes people don’t tip servers because they liked the service / want to support underpaid staff / etc. People will tip in these situations because they want to be perceived by others as good tippers. This is why those flip screens broadcast your tipping decisions to the entire line behind you and everyone you’re with—capitalizing on peer pressure. I’m sure that if there was a separate tipping voting booth where nobody could know your tipping decision, tip income would crater.
My understanding is that AMD GPUs are harder to use for exploration/experiments, right? Because of the amount of small differences and instabilities compared with Nvidia, you can't reliably use existing tutorials/pretrained models and libraries. Is that still the case?
I have never seen people so excited for VR/AR as they have been by the in-device recording of AR views. Generally everyone is careful to clarify that the real experience is full of warping and distortion, but people are genuinely enjoying even that poor version of what is to come.

VR gaming is maybe not the killer app that VR fans think it is, only Beat Saber has really come close. A lot of us genuinely tried to get into VR gaming (for my part I’ve owned: DK2, Rift, GearVR, Rift S, Quest, Quest 2) but decided 2D gaming is better in the current state of things.
FTS is fairly modern and well-funded. It's an example of Russian government infrastructure run by "young technocrats" (as opposed to Yes-men from Army and Ministry of Internal Affairs).
So on a scale of "1" to "The Matrix," we're at about a 6 right now?
Existing front page discussion from today:

Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38629963 (124 comments)
And how do you think extinction risk for AI can come about? In a self-contained bubble?

The idea that AGI poses an extinction risk like the notion of a chain atomic reaction igniting the atmosphere as opposed to posing risk more like multiple nation states pointing nukes at each other in a chain reaction of retaliation is borderline laughable.

The only way in which AGI poses risk is in its interactions with other systems and infrastructure, which is where knowledge of how an AGI is built is far less relevant than other sources of knowledge.

In an air gapped system no one interacts with AGI existing can and will never bring about any harm at all, and I would seriously doubt any self-respecting scientist would argue differently.
There's an excellent docuseries adaptation of the book on PBS:

https://www.pbs.org/show/story-cancer-emperor-all-maladies/
You’re under the right paper for doing this. Instead of one big model, they have several smaller ones for regions in the scene. This way rendering is fast for large scenes.

This is similar to Block-NeRF [0], in their project page they show some videos of what you’re asking.

As for an easy way of doing this, nothing out-of-the-box. You can keep an eye on nerfstudio [1], and if you feel brave you could implement this paper and make a PR!

[0] https://waymo.com/intl/es/research/block-nerf/

[1] https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio
So basically, in your zeal to defend the Apple Mafia, you're saying that it'd be OK to shake down people just for connecting to Internet. Because you personally like iPhones.

Got it.
UniFi – Introducing Etherlighting [video]
The devices would of course work for sending data. What doesn't work is the google organization.
I don't necessarily disagree, but the proposed mechanisms for controlling that market supply seem hard to enforce with the current millage regime. Any hushed talk of expropriation also risks eliciting thoughts of eminent domain. It's a really hard sell.

Additionally, the biggest piece of evidence for physical supply being the constraint is overcrowding: how many unrelated people are living in a single housing unit? Especially in college towns like Santa Cruz (and especially as we've not stood up new schools elsewhere), this seems particularly acute.
Birdsong as Code [video]
I recently purchased a Quest 3 and have tried a bit of VR Chat. Any pointers on how to get the most out of it?
Family is about protecting the bottom line

Company is about the upside

Ofc they are different.
And after those 5 hours you spend another 5 hours beating your head against the wall until you finally realize the docs are out of date.

Stale docs are worse than no docs. IME (at non-FAANG, non-tech darling companies) docs *always* go stale pretty quickly. No one wants to take on the thankless, unbudgeted task of keeping the docs up-to-date, or browbeating all the other devs to update the docs when they make changes.

The only docs I push for are stuff like swagger where the documentation is also living code. Otherwise I say just put it in the readme, and every repo has a clear owner responsible for keeping that readme up-to-date as necessary.
I guess the applicability of that law is directly proportional to audience size.
Walkabout MiniGolf. I haven't played anything else since I bought that game, more than 2 years ago.
I tried the last year's pro. We bought two for productivity in the company, hoping for better meetings in remote, colab designing in 3d in AR etc.

The hardware was definitely there, but software definitely not. And on top of that, forced FB integration which sucks in business context (you can't just have an office device, because it's tied to a specific person's private account).

Gave up shortly after that, and didn't have the time to check it again. So perhaps things changed during the year.
Worse in one specific regard, yes. And they agree with you in their conclusion, saying dust during processing is likely a factor.

You can see the full study here:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/resp.14625

> In conclusion, this study is the most comprehensive assessment of the physico-chemical characteristics of dusts generated from a wide range of resin-based engineered stones (of high- and reduced-silica contents) and the first to assess how these characteristics relate to the lung cell response, at a scale large enough to potentially identify components of these materials that could be linked to the severity of disease among ES workers. We showed that exposure to high levels of RCS dust during ES processing is likely contributing to disease severity in this occupational group, however, other inorganic components of ES dust, in particular Co and Al, may also be strong contributors. Furthermore, some of the highest inflammatory responses recorded were observed in non-engineered stones, further supporting the view that components other than crystalline silica may be contributing to the pathogenesis of severe silicosis. The outcomes of this study have important implications for future regulation of ES products as they challenge the common view that reducing the crystalline silica alone will eliminate disease risk.

The key take-away I get from that is that it's not silica specifically, but something else about engineered stone that is making it so unsafe to work with. And that's why they are banning the whole product class.
It's weird that Dropbox would want to pay Open AI to do whatever it is they are doing on everyone’s files, without knowing if a use will ever use or see that feature. It sounds like a premium feature that you would want a user to have to manually enable.
This argument rears its head every time the state of the art in developer tools makes a credible threat to improve.

And yet relatively few developers use C, assembly, or machine language as their daily drivers. I've even met accomplished developers who don't know how to write a compiler!

It's fine for developers to become dependent on tooling that makes them more efficient. This is a good thing, and we want more of this!
Thanks, here's the discussion:

Tesla Recalls 2M Cars to Fix Autopilot Safety Flaws

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38625652 (200 comments)
In some places it's also illegal to have that many LI batteries in your house (looking at you, SF).
Show HN: PickCells – Procedurally Generate Pixel Art
Hi all,

I hacked this little tool on a couple of train rides during my vacation to procedurally generate sprites based on loosely defined areas in a mask.

You can use it to brainstorm ideas, to prototype art or to generate some temporary sprites for your 2d game.

It's likely not good enough to give you a final product: it's meant to sketch things out and can be useful in game jams or early development stages of a game.

The idea came by reading the Pixel Spaceship article by Dave Bollinger https://web.archive.org/web/20080228054410/http://www.davebo... though I took took a couple of detours during the implementation.

I would love to hear your thoughts: this is an itch I long wanted to scratch, and finally found a good way (and some time) to do so. If turns out to be useful, maybe I can invest more into it.

Thanks!
I'd be interested in seeing a wider range of answers to the original question as well.
Work to live, not live to work.

https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/
You think? I think it's a choice that very few technical users even know about. And of those, 90% don't care about efficiency.

The 250 W space heater vacuum cleaner soundtrack mode should be opt in rather than opt out. Same for video cards.
Using any of the higher 8 registers on an x86_64 requires an opcode prefix and makes your instruction 1 byte longer. There is still a small reward for avoiding r8-r15.
Clickable: https://www.onlycfo.io/p/new-tax-rule-is-terrible-for-softwa...
And then the likes of Donald comes in and decides, that anyone that didn't support his campaign isn't worthy to be listed in the government "dictionary"(it's directory).

Yeah... I'll live with bad advertising, rather than pave the way to 1984.
Twitter is barely working. They had to cut browsing for not logged-in people.
How do I block/mute these trolls on this website? I tried searching the FAQ but didn't see anything.
This is great. And love to see Mithril. One of the best JavaScript frameworks before the whole madness started.
I can confirm that month ago there was a bug where you could try Imagen just via changing JS variables (but it didn't work for video generation).

Of course it became immediately obvious to me why the model isn't public. It's just not as good as advertised, that's why. Google should stop deceiving the public.
There is no proof. He never said it. People keep posting other quotes but none where he says what they claim.

If you have proof of a direct quote where he says that FSD will be done withing 6 or 3 months for certain than please post it.

Otherwise, attacking me is dishonest
> I think it's due to a lack of familiarity

100%

I also think people are on tooling burnout, there have been soooo many new tools (and SaaS for that matter), I personally and anecdotally want fewer apps and tools to get my job done. Having to wire them all together creates a lot of complexity, headaches, and time sinks
This. By far the most important book any developer should read, no other book even comes close.
Saw the leaked IBM video and it is clearly deeply racist against white people. Glad someone is sueing them.
I've seen how instantly-available profiles affect the engineering culture on practice and it's transformative. The difference between "yeah strange, I'll deploy an fp build some time later and check... maybe" and "see this thing right here on the flamegraph" is huge and often repays 5-15x of the initial 1% slowdown.
> I really wish they would stop using the driver facing camera and wheel force to determine if the driver is attentive.

Interesting, I didn't know they had a driver facing camera like that - that makes my encounter with that woman make a bit more sense, if she is required to be eyes open, looking forward, hands on wheel for autopilot to work, there's nothing to stop her from maintaining that position but being lost in a totally separate daydream and having no recognition of what's going on around her, which is in line with what I observed. Frightening.

As for the capacitance sensing, wouldn't that not work with gloves?

In general I don't think there's really any way to mechanically determine if someone is "paying attention". So any system that relies on driver attention and disaster intervention for safe operation is destined to be unsafe, and in my opinion and observation much more unsafe than a purely human driver.
That _may_ be true (though the fact that we _have long_ allowed them such rewards and they certainly have not pulled everyone out of poverty seems to auger against that hypothesis) until you prove that conclusively, however, we should continue to proportionally tax them on their earnings.
One factor in the cost of such an event is the effort required to restore from backups.

Sure, paper is a safe storage medium. But how would one restore from paper backups? Put that mountain of paper through scanners?

Doable, yes. But if it takes extreme amount of time and/or people power, then how useful are those backups, really?
Duckbill N95s are pretty amazing. I've worn one for 24h+
Hmm, a software manifestation of social and political stereotypes.

Kind of leaves a strange aftertaste for an otherwise useful concept.

In hindsight it's mildly surprising Sacha Baron Cohen (aka Borat) didn't author this one.
and soon will be with the PS5 and XBS(S/X) as well, if they aren't already
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autocomplete accurately took care of a lot of the boilerplate; that low-hanging fruit has been picked. AI is not doing the same IME, the pay-off has been a lot slower coming, and sometimes it's making the work more painful.
Bluetooth audio is kinda ass for gaming anyway unless you have low latency codec support on your source and consumer which is almost never the case.

Sony has their own such codec which is why the audio jack on the PS controllers works so well..
Personally I'd like to know the formulas for certain foods because lately there have been a lot of ingredient and process changes that have made the foods and drinks taste so much worse, and not just in processed foods. There's the overreliance on high fructose corn syrup, the switch from canola to much worse and more environmentally destructive palm oil, the rise of using acid concentrates instead of actual fruit juice, and so on. If it's not the ingredient changes, it's market consolidation that has killed the better product so the bigger one can survive, such as Cheez-Its killing Cheese Nips. If I knew the old recipes I'd make these things myself.
I think within reason, people should be able to chose their own destiny - we shouldn't lie to ourselves however and assign people agency in cases where they have none - most employees have little agency to exercise in the relationship with their boss.
The problem is that while those things might be true, their impact might be quite limited. Will all the kids do their own short films? Will people stop listening to Taylor Swift?

More "trinkets and gadgets" is a continuation of the last decade, the real question is if things remain incremental (maybe up to a percent more GDP growth) or become truly transformational. Claims to the later do invite scrutiny.
Indeed! Still my go-to for smaller personal projects.