skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It's better if people are incentivised to do something than that they just decide to, or (as with OpenAI) decide to against incentive.
I don't quite understand the robotaxi angle.
So in future, a person A's Tesla would go around autonomously and ferry around people. I am guessing the only reason Tesla shares would be up since they would take a cut from the earnings?

1. Won't Tesla need to get permission city by city to drive around autonomously ( like Waymo, Cruise )?

2. I am not well aware of US laws, but where I am from personal vehicles have different registration from commercial registration. Expectation is every Tesla owner does the leg work to upgrade their registration?

3. Who cleans up the car if a passenger has made it dirty ?

4. I would guess that most people want to go to work around the same time in the day and come home the same time as well, including the Tesla owner. Which leaves the Tesla to become a taxi only during the non-peak demand times ? Won't there be a supply-demand mismatch?

I could go on and on. Can't really fathom what potential did the market see to have their shares go up post-market. Anything I am missing?
Oh dear, I zoomed in to the Island of Debauchery
> So think about this: say your CEO asks you to make a missile specifically to target and kill children.

Well, I wouldn't and I would get fired, and the CEO would find someone with less scruples. And you would say "Damn, these technologists have no mercy" even if 99 engineers have refused before the one that accepted.

You're simply falling for survivorship bias.
Root cause is ability to serve ads on gov properties. That sounds awful.
Nah I just want something that doesn't fall to bits. My Model S (yes I did own one) had worse finish than the ass end Citroen I had.

The model S had paint runs and the drivers door didn't shut properly.
Laugh in BYD
Of course I didn't know that, but if true, that's wonderful. I am saddened by the ongoing destruction of value when a decent product or company is acquired, and then shuttered because it's not quite the juggernaut the acquirer expected it to be, or because there's some unforseen misalignment, even though this company was a viable business. Selling it back is a great solution, instead of doing a write-off where the company is destroyed.
The post somehow got the URL incorrect to the HN submission and then even failed to link to that incorrect URL. The previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39426310
I definitely noticed and it's a huge improvement. Shame google doesn't make any money from these sites so they won't ever bother promoting them.
It never was. During their brief fight with Elon Musk they revealed old emails clearly stating that releasing things openly was only a ruse to attract talent at first and they never intended to do that with good AI models.
I wish they would open source their TTS system, as they did with Whisper.
Maybe we have different definitions, but I think they absolutely do, I would say things like insisting on Apple CarPlay, or the UX of the self-driving software, the vibrance of the RGB dash/door lighting (...) etc. is caring about finish.

Your car enthusiast might care to a different sort of extreme or niche (like wanting real leather not PU; or not wanting leather because the '66 never came with leather) but it's still caring about finish IMO, just different aspects.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135303 149 points, 16 hours ago
Just look at women in afghanistan, for example.
Not to be pedantic but it's ESPhome not ESPinthemiddleofnowhere. There are other solutions for far away sensors.
So let's look at the Q1 report: https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/...

- Total revenue is down 9% yearly and worse quarterly.

- Service revenue is up 25% yearly. Milking current customers. Nice.

- Quarterly profit down 55% yearly and 80%+ quarterly. hmm.

- Operating cash flow disappeared. Free cash flow at -$2.5 billion. It's not like interest rates are low...

- Stock is up 11.5% pre-market because Musk said that Tesla is moving to the tight margin market (low cost EVs). Makes sense huh?

The stock market/US economy is now a confirmed meme/ponzi scheme.
That sounds extremely underwhelming to my mind.

Like having a programming language sold as free of any awful metaprogramming constructions (and induced headaches) through guarantees that no metaprogramming at all can be done in it.

A language that forbids to talk about its own grammatical structures is doomed to see its users abandon or extend it when they will inevitably deal with a situation where exchanging about the communication tool at hand is required to appropriately deal with its possibilities, expectable behaviors and limits.
Ace, yes - I fiddle with Ableton a lot so know this space a bit - loads of amazing stuff, and you're right, typically the UI's are doing exactly what I'm looking for - thanks!
Meta wants to profit from the use of AI not the making/selling of it. Commoditize Your Complement and all that. Having this understanding of why is enough to be comfortable with alignment.

The Meta offerings should be under the umbrella name "FreeAI" analogous to Free Software (e.g. FSF) vs the more commercial leaning Open-Source. Heck everyone should contribute to it and make it a movement so "Free" is both an adjective and a verb.
There is another major reason why bittorrent shoud be used: interop. "Streaming services" broke noscript/basic (x)html interoperability.
I agree with the theory in the sense that I agree with the statement "Wouldn't it be nice if you had a genie that grants you wishes?"

I disagree with I think every implementation and its death toll, and with the general idea that we should be forming groups to violently gang up on other groups. Whether it's national socialism killing the citizens of other countries and taking their stuff to give to the government to apportion, or regular communism killing the citizens of other classes (classes defined by the communists) and taking their stuff to give to the government to apportion. Centralised economic control can easily get bad in small organisations, but at least the blast radius is limited. When it's in the hands of the government, who also have all the other powers, it never seems to work out well.
Prediction: Project will take 10 years too long and results in a normal (non-high-speed) rail system connecting the two places that is too expensive for people to reasonably use.
No, life is not simply anything that is very complex.
Not to detract from OP's project, but I only noticed today that Atuin[1] also now has a feature that synchronises aliases (in addition to your shell history). I self-host an Atuin server and it's been super helpful being able to ctrl-r and find a command I ran on another machine.

Does this project facilitate synchronising aliases across devices as well as across shells or is the idea you'd use something like Syncthing to achieve the former?

[1] https://docs.atuin.sh/guide/dotfiles/
Of course they do. The brand is the sum of all the design and engineering decisions and marketing over time.

I absolutely bought a Lexus because I perceived it as high quality - reliable, assembled properly, good finishes. Same for my BMW, though it’s almost certainly less reliable. My Honda truck, I expect reliable utility, not luxury.
This doesn't surprise me too much. I've written a fair bit of BPF code and getting programs to verify is very difficult and inevitably requires reading the verifier code.

It's interesting to compare this to the Rust borrow checker. As a Rust novice I've found out difficult, but not impossible, to translate my idea into a borrow-safe program. But the borrow checker is surely much much simpler than a full theorem prover, and nonetheless I believe it has taken _huge_ amounts of work to get it to its error messages to their present state of usability.

So I think this is likely to be a major challenge in any high-level language with a verification aspect.
And even if they're not (I believe they are), how long would Tesla get to keep that market to themselves?
Additional counterpoint: the current risk-free rate is probably not the right discount rate for the robo-taxi business.
I don't know how much good content they can sustain full time, but 25 videos in 7 years is not enough.
The concern is about adversarial content.
I agree, except in the case of OpenAI it should be an end, and yet they fail at it spectacularly, and since Altman/Microsoft finished their takeover there is basically no hope of it ever coming back.
The code can be found here:
https://github.com/white-flame/eurisko/blob/main/src/EUR
The movement was against using html table markup (<table>, <tr> etc.) for layout because of the accessibility issues. It was not against the CSS display:table since that does not affect accessibility.
I don’t get how personal cars can be rented out to reduce idle time and maximize utilization. By the same logic we should be making our homes ultrashort WeWork spaces while we travel or go to work. Cars are somewhat like an extension of our home. For some it’s a highly private space. If this analogy is true then they will never be rented like ultrashort cabs.
I don't think of dry stone walls as masonry myself. I actually think that's the distinction between masonry and not-masonry!

But anyway, I think the second last section on the link, the part that addresses the wrongness of the name, would align with your opinion.
Wasn't there previously some problem with using Pico boards and you had to use a fork because PlatformIO were trying to get vendors to pay (for something they never asked for), and then kicking up a big fuss when they didn't pay up. I say vendorS because they are now trying it on with Espressif also. It seems like a very strange funding model. Did that get fixed? It was a depressing state of affairs when I last looked.
1. Yes some cities allow self driving cars and others don't. It's widely believed that as the technology proves itself, the patchwork regulation will be replaced with a national regulation.

2.Not true in the U.S. No special registration needed to drive an Uber.

3.Obviously the owner like with existing ride sharing networks.

4.Yes, existing ride sharing networks handle this with surge pricing.

There aren't a lot of problems. Ride sharing exists and some of them even operate autonomously, all be it with extreme geo fencing.
Then you'd mistakenly think that those people were doing any actual thinking...
World Fund lays out plan to get climate startups through Series B Death Valley
I am in that 21%. Heck, I would MUCH prefer to buy a car with no touch screens at all. All I want is a decent car ala 2004ish but with modern crash safety and headlights that don’t suck. I do not care about Bluetooth even!

I realize I will not be able to buy a car with no screens due to the backup camera rules. But there is actual safety value in that for me so I’m ok with it.
I can't find private location in the f droid app and the APK downloads don't work. I tried fake traveler but it was crashing constantly and was not able to fool organic maps
No? I haven't tried it yet, but in the docs it says "SQLite3 file format, and import and export facility"
If you relax the "functionally" condition enough, it has been already shown that most paint splatters (including art pieces) are actually valid Perl [1].

[1] https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
AI Insights: A Beginner's Guide [video]
Frankly it is simply the US dollar being overvalued. It is making US exports way too expensive for most of the world. Google can't really compete and make any money.
Needs a (1990) in the title?
Yeah, unless I'm looking at it wrong, there doesn't seem to be any meaningful difference between 1.25.5 and 1.26.0:

https://github.com/nginx/nginx/compare/release-1.25.5...rele...
Dusting off my T1-to-USB telephony interface project [video]
The problem is risk —- most new businesses will go under. Who’s going to take on that unreasonable risk without commensurate reward (high interest loan rate, if any, or equity).

Co-ops could go the angel/VC route for funding if they don’t give up a controlling share.
How's the fork doing?
> because the content you have left once you removed all the sites China bans didn't have many useful hits

You mean non-Chinese content? Chinese users aren't interested in non-Chinese content by and large. English literacy is better now than it was when Google pulled out and it's still pretty bad.

Dealing with the censorship is trivial. The problem was they couldn't compete on merits and got absolutely dunked by Baidu on search and maps (though there is a ton of competition in maps these days, namely Amap and Gaode Map but it was true when Google pulled out). Primarily because of localisation (because it's natively Chinese) and also because Baidu looks and works like the rest of the Chinese web.

For similar reasons Yahoo is still huge in Japan. It looks and feels Japanese. Google does not.

I really reject the idea that Google failed because of censorship. All of their Chinese competitors had the same restrictions and came out on top is all.
Sure buddy. I began using the web in 1996 and I had the same reaction.
It seems pretty clear that they were far left activists trying to punish Tesla. They even published a manifesto on the most popular German leftist/anarchist web platform.

Specifically they complained that Tesla makes "SUVś[sic], killing machines and Monstertrucks".
A similar thing happens to me. I don't use Apple Music regularly. This means the last song I played is from something like 2-3 years ago. I constantly listen to podcasts and other music streaming services on my phone. Constantly. In the shower, running, in the gym, walking around town...constantly.

Yet when I enter my car and CarPlay starts for some reason maybe 50% of the time (not all of the time even) it randomly decides to play the last song I streamed in Apple Music 2-3 years ago. WTF Apple?
Remember that robot Elon "unveiled" that turned out just to be a person in a robot costume?

He is saying[1] that this robot will be in production before the end of this year, and:

"Will be more valuable than everything else combined because if you have a sentient humanoid robot that is able to navigate reality and do tasks at request there is no meaningful limit to the size of the economy. So that's what's going to happen"

How does anybody take him seriously as this point?

[1] https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1782892725521535437

Further context - https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-could-start-selling...
> why would car makers want to spend millions of dollars a year rolling their own infotainment system?

This is addressed in the article:

> There used to be a big difference in driving characteristics and technology between premium and budget brands. Compared to a Volkswagen, a BMW used to have a more powerful engine, better handling, and comfort features like seat-heating and cruise control. However, a Volkswagen Golf now has similar tech as a BMW and with the transition to EVs, drivetrains and handling won't be the same differentiator as before.

> Now, the focus has moved to the interior. Infotainment systems have become a central part of that, so carmakers are coming up with unusual concepts to set them apart, both in hardware and software. CarPlay 2 is going exactly in the opposite direction, more towards standardizing the in-car software.

But I think a great differentiator for upmarket brands would be to offer as few screens as possible and as many buttons as possible. Electronics are a plague. Some features are very useful: mainly, route planning and the ability to play music in the car. But the rest is a nightmare.

I don't want to talk to my car; certainly not when passengers are sleeping during a trip, and even not when I'm alone. There's a subtle humiliation associated with talking to a machine. More importantly, I don't want to randomly target zones on screens to set up things, and I don't want to look at the screens because I don't want to take my eyes off the road. Give me buttons that have a fixed location, and that I can feel without looking.
It's becoming a common scam in India where people are sent a malicious APK via WhatsApp and the moment they install it, the attacker will reset their passwords via Phone Number + 2FA
Well that is sort of the point. The pricing reflects luxury but the quality does not reflect the pricing.
There was a popular discussion thread yesterday on the steps Google took to ruin search (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976) I see a lot of parallels to how Microsoft is ruining Windows. I used to love Windows and it had a profound impact on my life. However, now that it’s in late stage enshitification, I am doing everything possible to avoid using it. It’s astonishing how Microsoft keeps making Windows worse. They just need to leave it alone and keep patching security updates.
Robotaxis seem like a risky investment. Even if the tech gets nailed (and at the moment it struggles in urban environments), will legislators ever allow them? Most EU cities have legislation in place to curb traffic growth which robotaxis fly in the face of- its easy to see how "circling" instead of parking could create congestion. There seem to be too many problems related to liability. How do you replace all of the non-driving tasks of a taxi-driver? (cleaning, lifting bags, etc., helping with elderly/disabled people).
> Sticking to principles like Data Security, Privacy,

Isn't that something Europe has but the US chose not to (at least regarding computer/ad/tech industry) ?
What is the reasoning behind allowing commercial ads on gov.uk domains? How can this in any way provide an improved public service to the visitor?
> Robert’s thesis is that there are smart people (like Lisa and himself) that agree that outcomes — no matter how specific or documented — should never be used to criticize managers, and hopelessly stupid people (like Homer) that do not take that position by default.

None of the statements in this is the case, other than that there are smart people.
It is well known that more regulated professionals have never done anything morally questionable.
Why would it?

Tesla FSD is already being used for on a billion miles per year. Search for "Cumulative miles driven with FSD":

https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/...

Usage will continue to grow as it gets better. And it got a lot better over the last months.

And then there is Waymo which proves that with geo-fencing, high resolution maps, additional sensors and remote operators on standby, robotaxis are already possible today. Tesla could add some of these too, if it wants to accelerate meeting regulatory requirements.
Worth waiting for the drop on Stairway! But what is Denton playing just after, ca. 2:40? Didgeridoo? Chapman stick variant? Something else?

The hypnodancers got away that time, but if they ever did get nicked, "it'll all (in not so russian Ukraine) be OK": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Am5AEPHd6k
No One Can Own Law; So Why Is Congress Pushing a Bill to Extend Copyright to It?
Well it could be important. CarPlay has no problem displaying a notification of a message with a red dot or a popup from below. If it didn't, then I get it.

But it does show that there's a message but doesn't show the message itself: worst of both worlds.
Each streaming service has unique content. So each one is completely different. It isn’t like which grocery store has the better price for bananas. There’s no need for streaming services to compete on price because no one else has the same product.
I’m happy with the way Mazda has integrated CarPlay. No touch while moving, the navigation wheel moves a highlight around the screen to select buttons/links. I find it much less distracting.
In every team, I worked we solved this with a simple wiki page where we listed the stuff we needed to get work done. We even have a copy+paste+send to IT email to get licenses and accounts.
I do this with XPrivacyLua
They (either political wind that blows in) will use this as precedent and apply it to other businesses it sees as an ideological or technical "danger"
Shh... I'll tell you a secret. For years and years a lot of the electric vehicles in lots of brands, weren't meant to be sold. The public were even advised by the car dealers not to buy them, and they were made so unattractive as possible.

In part because the carmakers were probably unsure about its long term performance with a totally new technology, but the main reason was other.

It just happens that the environmental emissions of a car maker fleet was calculated as the average of emissions from all their models in the current market.

Those tiny, squared EV that looked like toys were built with the only purpose to decrease the brand average value. Thus they could have models contaminating more in the upper categories. (Plus painting the brand in green for PR purposes).

All of this changed after Tesla started to show its claws and to be taken seriously.
The end neither justifies nor undermines the means.
People literally do this, it's called Airbnb. I don't understand, this is supposed to be a tech news site and you guys are acting like you haven't heard of any of these massively successful peer 2 peer companies.

It seems that you don't like Tesla for other reasons, so you're bringing up easily dismissed business challenges that have already been solved.
https://imgur.com/a/9emlt8m
I think I may have heard of Zoho once, as a South African dev. My employers have all used either Microsoft or Google office suites. South Africa might have better access/relative pricing to U.S. services than some other African countries though.
Risky investments are good investments. If you invest, that is your business. You get paid to carry risk.

Legislators already allow robotaxis. Look at Waymo and Cruise.
hope Go core team continue improving compiler!
I have apps constantly refuse to work if I only allow Approximate location on Android.

Even stuff like weather apps.
Prediction: Project deadlines will have been shaved by salespeople and marketed as "high speed" when none of the requirements for it have been factored in the budget.
Go is known by the speed of it's compiler, doing extra work during the compilation would slow it down. I would not mind either to have a "release" flag that would take minutes and produce a more optimized binary.
Was flabbergasted by this as well. Anyone know any other countries that allow ads on government websites? This is the first time I'm hearing about this.
Optimally as long as google has managed to dominate the search business.