skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the core issue is that anyone can easily create a URL for a file that looks like it was published by the Microsoft team.

Instead, if Github uploads used the uploader's Github account in the URL path, scammers would need to resort to other means like punycode to mislead users.
Nothing about that quote indicates that waymo loses money on marginal rides, rather that it loses money in aggregate which is not particularly surprising considering low overall volume , r&d overhead of both head count and things like cars and facilities to store said cars
If you’re hoping the Supreme Court, and in particular this Supreme Court, is going to agree that the Constitution requires the executive branch get a warrant before spying on cross-border communication with a non-citizen, you’re going to be disappointed.

FISA is Congress exercising the only authority it has here, which is oversight & regulation. You could argue FISA should be stricter, but it can’t extend the Constitutional reach of the Fourth Amendment, nor can it contract it the way many in this thread believe it’s somehow doing.
> If you don't grind 10h and have a clear career path, you are a failure.

The post doesn't say this.

And it's a post about someone's career, it makes sense that they talk about their career, not about their friends, and the inevitability of death.

There's having perspective and then there's completely missing the point. People should be able to discuss an aspect of their life without giving an overall life philosophy.
So they minimize the forward KL divergence from the generative model to the data distribution, and then maximize the entropy of the generative model? Seems like it would be simpler to just minimize the reverse/exclusive KL divergence, giving you a cross-entropy term to minimize and then an entropy of the generative model to maximize.

I guess the obstacle to doing that is not being able to evaluate the true data log-density, only sample from it, so the cross-entropy term can't be estimated?
Thank you. Totally agree! Another interesting feature of code interpreting is that it improves the reasoning of LLMs
Every band of builders in a garage needs a variety of classes, but at least one Doomscroller. While everyone else's attention is down, in, focused, the Doomscroller looks outward.

They are the teams eyes and ears, continuously maintaining the indespensible information grounding signal. A streaming infinite scrolling HTML connection to the garage, from the real world.
Experiencing Automaticity and Flow State with the Bimodal Blitz Method
JFK airport is one of, if not the largest, crossroads of the world. Everything from the barrel of accents on the radio to the line of multi-coloured penises taking a leak in the men's room[1] - the world comes together in these few square miles.

To expect that all the pilots speak English with perfect Siri-like diction is at best silly and at worst offensive.

[1] this is a subtle reference to comedian Louis CK lamenting travel as a single father, being forced to take his daughters into the men's room of an international airport - where the alternative of leaving them outside, alone and unattended, was a far worse option
Well, before FISA, constitutional warrant requirements were not sidestepped, they were simply ignored. So now we're acknowledging that the constitutional requirements are still there, but now we use this weird dodge to get around it. So is that better or worse?
Multimodal Integration
Not necessarily. Professional managers can overvalue managed service because they perceive scarcity of skilled resources. Cloud and managed services has an overall negative effect on engineers ability to develop talent thereby exacerbating the scarcity issue. It’s actually harmful for managers as well… over time we’ll need less of them too (since they outsourced part of the job of managing).
>What about availability zones and fast failover

You're making OP's main point. He's arguing that (to use his numbers) 90-95% of startups don't actually need to worry about that. Hell, I would argue that a lot of services at established companies don't actually need to worry about it (and the ones that do, need to worry about it a lot). Tons of stuff inside of $megacorps is running on crummy "non-scalable" architectures because somebody sat down and did the "engineering" part of "software engineering" and went "y'know, I think all we're really ever need is..."

>Cloud is still better for early stage startups

My preference is cloud these days (especially if I'm just quick and dirty clicking buttons in console rather than CDK-ing things together). However, there are still lots of cases where sinning up a $10 droplet and running `docker compose` completely satisfies "the architecture" part of the business.
In my county, they've let people over 62 freeze their property tax rate so that they won't have to sell or get a job (gasp!) to pay the tax on the home.

This is the same generation that demanded the single most expensive type of residential area be built for them to live in: single-family detached home on a significant fraction of an acre of land, platted out on a transportation system dependent on automobiles. None of this stops costing more money because they don't want to pay more money.

As a 32-year-old who still rents, it's infuriating.
> Only works with Android/PC. Sorry iOS

If this was implemented as a Bluetooth mouse with just a scroll wheel, wouldn’t you get support on all recent operating systems for free?
After spending a lot of my time doing both, I can offer some perspective on that. It's not that I disagree, and many people feel the same as you, but very often it results from underestimating the time, experience and knowledge needed to create a secure and efficient cloud environment. Also, RDS makes many things easier for you (but also less flexible), but some things can't be automated and still require manual intervention like major version upgrades.
There is PCem for that, but I had mixed results in terms of stability and speed.

Apparently x86 is hard to emulate in a performant way.
They're however low margin commodity services at a colo provider.

Building your own data centers is the last of a long list of steps up in difficulty and one most people wont need.

Renting by the rack in a colo facility with a support contract is however approachable from the point your cost is above ~$10k / months. Depending on location, once you're above ~10 racks or so per physical location, a dedicated cage can start to make sense, and a bit above that a data centre where you can rent office space for a couple of your own dedicated staff.

Even many colo providers haven't owned all of their own setups for years. I think 2001 or so was the first time we had facilities in a colo building where half the building has been leased, ready made w/raised floors, HVAC, generators etc. to another colo provider which "just" had to staff it and handle sales and accounts.

You can go to a commercial real estate broker and get a fractional data centre building, or you can go to a data centre operators and get a fractional functional, staffed data centre all the way from large percentages of the space with locked steel cages or walls separatibg your part from the rest down to individual 1U server slots.
What's the point of acquiring them instead of just sponsering the project? I'm trying to understand supabase's angle here and if this is good or bad news for non-supabase postgres users.
Almost all medical specialties require a massive amount of know-how, and are only very weakly data-driven. I'm an anesthesiologist, and even anesthesia is weakly data-driven. Honestly, people who think AI can replace a doc in the current state of tech do not understand anything about practical medical care. The day of AI will come, but not today nor in the close future.
Not available in Europe
I looked into this years ago but it was very complex to set up, and I believe it only really has benefit if you have a lot of threads waiting for a long time for other threads, which is pretty rare in my experience.

Neat idea though.
ZeroSSL are the only ones providing certificates for IP addresses and free year-long certificates. Cudos to them for disrupting this market, almost monopolized by letsencrypt. Don't have high hopes, though, big players probably will kill them as they killed other free certificate issuers. For some reason letsencrypt status-quo as the only free certificate issuer benefits big players.
I'd venture to guess it's to avoid confounding it with a Ø used in Scandinavian languages.
Sometimes these videos have worse audio than what was actually heard by the pilots and ATC because they're recorded from somewhere else with worse reception. But it's not only that.

It's amazing how much we've stretched this way of communicating into a very safe industry by the numbers. Maybe the remaining failure modes are now showing up. There's an almost accident where the plane reached only a few feet of altitude on approach to Paris well before the airport because the controller gave bad information and the read backs were not enough of a check. There's another almost accident where the controller didn't receive the communication that a plane had aborted takeoff because another plane talked on the same frequency at the same time. Maybe there is now value in having a more standardized digital messaging setup for key moments that augments the normal audio conversation. There is so much that is tipified that it seems that could actually reduce the workload if done with good UX.
Unauthorized crossing or mistaken clearance to cross an active runway is definitely a big deal. It's a reportable incident, that will be investigated, not something that "happens every day." It's something that could result in the loss of hundreds of lives, not to mention the loss of the aircraft and closure of the airport while they clean up and investigate.
I guess I would question the value of that, if the fundamentals are such that any such programs and choices have so little effect.

Japan is highly centralized and yet what is so different about the depopulation situation there? It has been widely reported and actually there have been many links posted on HN about it.

The article seems to be making a big deal out of a minor factor, in order to sell a narrative about state centralization saving countries that have adopted it (the Economist is a UK periodical, and the UK was one of the latecomers to centralization). The USA, which is more like the UK used to be, serves as a kind of foil or cautionary example. Note the final sentence, warning us that decentralization leads to Trumpism.
Is incumbency a bad thing if they’ve to serve everyone equally and at prices that are fair? It’s not like they operate without any regs at all today, right?
Those 65 cars could easily be >10% of all new S classes available on dealer lots in the two states, the majority of customers order custom made or order special chauffer variants.
> Very cool! But this being AGPL has me wonder: if you as a user download an AGPL licensed WASM binary, because the browser is making network connections by design, are you required to share the source with any third party your browser makes any request to?

No. Clearly not. A browser making connections to servers is not the same as a "user interacting with it remotely".

> And if your browser has proprietary/not “generally available” compiled/minified code loaded, from Widevine to your corporate Chrome extension, are you in violation of AGPL if you don’t share all the sources to all those things, which by law you cannot have?

Only if you distributed the browser with AGPL code in it. If just runs WASM code its no different from any interpreter running GPL code.
This is a very sophisticated longread, I have no comments about it rn, but it deserves to be read and analyzed slowly.
Drake's new song uses AI generated Tupac and Snoop Dogg vocals
At the end of the call, you ask them for payment details, and usually they say "oh dont bother"
It bears repeating that Tesla isn't in the same category: their main value is in their stock price, not stamped metal and batteries, or even the knowledge in assembling those into vehicles.
So I have to be ready to react to a mistake the car is making, not having any insight into the thought process of the car. I have to be a constantly vigilant backseat driver.

Am I on the hook for accidents?
Only one thing can make these people work past midnight: abusing the American public. “Representation”, my ass. None of them represents me or anyone I know.
Tesla requires the driver to pay attention to the road at all times, even with "FSD". (And having tried it, you would definitely want to do so.) This system does not have that requirement, on roads where it's supported. What's the lie?
Idea: make content creators share their Bitcoin addresses and tell what "fee" they expect for each download of a torrent (akin to "views").
That's one the main reasons to use it, another being wildcard certificate.
> originally thought autonomous cars would greatly reduce costs

In general, it's a mistake to think that selling price has anything to do with the costs. The price is simply what the market will bear. If people are paying Uber $x for a service, waymo would be stupid to price the same service much lower than that. If their costs are much lower, they would rather make that much more profit. If the rider wants a small piece of that pie they can invest in the business (via stocks in the case of Google).
I think we need to be more proactive than that personally. Lots of big companies do anti competitive things that we don’t want even if they aren’t exactly a monopoly. But no one’s doing anything about that.
Air traffic communication is structured and a very limited subset of English. It makes more sense if you remember that that first call in the video isn't coming out of the blue - the pilot of Delta 29 Heavy would have already been in contact to start taxiing etc and is expecting a pending authorization call, knows the format it will take ('call sign - command - modifiers/watch-for'), and then it's all read-back anyway to make sure there's no misunderstanding.

The communication gets much clearer and less staccato when something is going on that's not regular - my favourite example is an incident at JFK where a taxiway was unexpectedly blocked and you can watch the Russian pilots struggle a bit to explain[1], presumably because 'cones' isn't in the normal ATC glossary[2]

[1] https://youtu.be/YmywjMQDbos?feature=shared&t=77
[2] https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/media/pcg_4-03-...
Which video?

Tesla still has this one [1] up where the "not required driver" had to save the vehicle after it ran off the road into fences and etc numerous times [2] [3].

[1]: https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

[2]: https://www.classaction.org/media/matsko-v-tesla-inc-et-al.p...

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/technology/tesla-autopilo...
I've not done a whole lot with S3 but is this due to it being easy to sync between storage providers that support S3 or something?

I'm more used to Azure Blob Storage than anything, so I'm OOL on what people do other than store files on S3.
That's why you need to do garbage collection from time to time. That adds a lot of complexity to the system.
Software engineer. Normal stuff (k8s, python, aws, postgres, etc)

On-call rotation is not always mandatory, and I always ask in the interview about that.
But why? Just for people to gron it back into usable form?

Unix tools work best with line-based data. Using some "structured" monstrosity like xml or json forces all other tools to deal with this particular format, thus breaking the orthogonality between programs.
I could understand the delta two nine heavy quite well in this example.

But I think it’s also something you get (and have to get) used to.

Also the spoken word does not correspond 1-to-1 to the subtitles, in the sense that 4L is „four left“ for example, and K4 is „kilo four“.
Well the last time it happened - and widely enough reported that the Aviation Herald picked up on it - was two days ago. I'm not playing the pedantic Hacker News game.

https://avherald.com/h?article=51791758&opt=0
It operates under such specific conditions, it’s not very useful right now. Unless you spend a large part of your commute on clogged California highways, there’s not a big use case. But Mercedes would be hoping to expand that operational design domain (ODD).

Ultimately, I don’t think their L3 technology is the groundbreaking part (I think they use Nvidia Drive). It’s that they are willing to take liability inside their ODD. This will be a good experiment to see how liability shakes out for an automaker putting it in the hands of customers to be used conditionally vs someone like Waymo who doesn’t want anyone in the driver’s seat at all.
House passes bill that could ban TikTok in US amid high-stakes foreign aid vote
I don’t get why we aren’t able to regulate them further. Fines for each day a claim is open past some limit. Fines for average wait times that are too long. Jail time for executives. Etc
Simple Question: how could I as a private party contribute to help this get more friction & ultimately more success?
I thought that when I started this thing. Turns out, every device implements slightly different flavors of USB-HID in their drivers. It's a complete shitshow under the hood. I'm trying to get iOS working, but it's so opaque compared to Android. I have achieved limited functionality with iOS, but it's not the buttery smooth action I can get on PC or Android.

https://x.com/andrewmccalip/status/1781674889679982991
In theory the point of this system, unlike level 2 systems, is that you _don't_ need to do that. Of course, not having used it, I can't comment on how successful it is.
> Why did a startup need to manage K8s? Why does using the cloud preclude a monolith?

Because we were dumb and thought k8s meant we had to go microservices.

> if the app can fit on a single VM …

Well of course. If and when it out grows the vm hopefully you’ve found product market fit and are bootstrapped and making money and have hired proper platform and dev teams to do it right and the single VM PoC is redone.

Or so that is what we are sold. In reality things happen piece-meal and more chaotically.
,” said Load Letter, finally looking up from their plughack console.
Getting your Haskell executable statically linked with Nix
Do you mind listening some of these "better VCs"?
s/abuse of power/imbalance in power/
It's not responsive, but it does work.

You just need to first click on the scroller element and then you can start dragging it. And start by dragging up, not down. Otherwise the refresh might override the interaction
I think the spirit of the question is why anything---atoms, consciousnesses, laws of nature, quantum fields, etc.---exists, instead of nothing at all---no atoms, consciousnesses, laws of nature, fields, etc. QFT doesn't answer this question, does it?
A land value tax would be a more efficient way to fairly distribute the benefits of land.
This is spot on. The liability difference between L2 and L3 is enormous and key to the progression that this announcement represents.
It's not useless, but it's a very specific use case: commuting in rush hour traffic.
I suspect it's vaguely near gross profit, that is excluding almost all the expensive engineers, marketing, R&D costs, new silicon development costs, etc. It's not remotely operationally profitable though, you're right.

The business model is pretty simple. Robotaxis can operate much cheaper than humans and simultaneously provide a better service. Competing at the same cost as existing services makes them massively profitable. You can unlock additional efficiencies through things like fleet management, not supporting unprofitable cities the way Uber has to, vehicles designed for longer service lives and so on. Most companies plan to use that market (and closely associated ones like food delivery) as a profitable beachhead to scale down the technology to the point where it can be applied more ubiquitously in things like consumer vehicles. Some are more vocal about this than others.
These people are sending and receiving these messages all day every day their whole professional lives, I think it just comes naturally that they would end up communicating like this. The jargon may make sense to you when you read it but you're still not used to hearing it spoken which is why I think it's harder to comprehend (I feel the same way). Professionals can probably comprehend it quite well.

There may be advantages to making everyone speak more slowly and clearly but given the amount of messages passed back and forth over these channels I suspect it would also have a significant cumulative impact on throughput.
> [...] screen real-estate is also important [...]

This is why I've been spending a lot of time (ab)using Emacs's browser, eww, in conjunction with follow mode: The two together allow me to view most things in an efficient columnar display, letting me take better advantage of the width of my screen. (It's hard to rotate a laptop's monitor.)
The AI act is less than a month old; you were likely dealing with either older or local legislation, or some attempt at corporate responsibility (possibly risk management; if you tell your financial regulators “yeah, an unverifiable magic box makes the lending decisions, unreviewed”, you will likely get in trouble, at least in the post-noughties-financial-crisis era).

The EC is usually rather sceptical of attempts to work around the rules.
I noticed this in myself last time I was as a TA. I'd go back and re-grade the first 15 assignments or so to make sure the rules were being applied consistently.
No I actually understand the concept that other countries have different ways of speaking and am instead asking if this is a specific instance of such a difference.
>When was the last time you saw someone run a red light on the road? Mine was ... yesterday.

Are the drivers really that bad in your area, or was the last incident really well timed for this comment? I'm not a M-F commuter, but still drive multiple times per week, and the last time I saw someone obviously running a red light (ie. not someone who's 1s late crossing on a yellow) must have been 2-3 years ago.
>Yes it is cheaper to run all this stuff yourself on a VPS but you still "pay" for those things with your time.

There's also liability. If you pay someone for services rendered, you can throw liability on them. If you run stuff yourself, you're liable.

Data breach at <cloud> for your services? Hang them out to dry. Data breach on your own server? You're fucked.
Maybe in the case of CPUs. But, there is a fundamental technical shift going on away from computationally expensive things being done on CPUs and moving to AIAs. I suspect that this is why Jensen said Moore's law is dead.
the fact that humans need a book to tell them sleep is good shows how broken this society is.... or how stupid the average person is
Survivor bias! ;)
Just clone the scroll messaging from any old generic that works already. MiM for the easy win.
And end up like Humane? No thanks! It's at optimal shittiness levels currently.
Thanks for sharing! It was a very compelling product demo, your voice synthesis and latency are both very impressive.
> “commute on clogged California highways”

It’s embarrassing for Tesla because they pretended they had this solved and practically ready to ship eight years ago, started taking customer money; still take customer money on promises of “Real Soon Now”; and yet it’s a bunch of staid old Germans who actually ship it.
Agree with the sentiment, but spying capabilities have been abused before FISA, just ask Martin Luther King Jr. So I don't think things were particularly fine before 9/11 either. It's just that technological advancements have made abuse on a mass scale possible for the first time in human history. AFAICT surveillance used to be much more targeted and labor intensive. That all changed after 9/11.