skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there aren't non-union hires in the same industry and location

We live in a globalized world where location doesn't matter as much.

Automotive Unions are good at demanding fairly competitive wages for their members, but this pushed margins significantly down, leading to vendors and even manufacturers in the Automotive industry to leave union-friendly states like MI, Ohio, and Pennsylvania for those that are right-to-work (eg. South Carolina).

A major reason companies like GM and Stellaris fell behind on the EV trend was because battery technology and automation doesn't fall under the UAW, so there were constant protests and strikes against EV manufacturing (eg. the UAW strikes a couple months ago).

Meanwhile, the Teslas, Hyundais, DaimlerBenzes, and Fords pivoted manufacturing to right-to-work states like Alabama, Kentucky, and Texas.

Imo, a big reason for the PHEV push recently in the US is because of UAW negotiations to protect legacy ICE builds which can be modified into PHEVs as they use most of the same parts excluding the battery portion [0].

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/business/electric-vehicle...
I predict Tesla will claim that FSD disconnected 5-seconds before impact, therefore it is the driver's fault entirely. Or some vague thing about FSD giving an attention warning within the 15-minutes before impact.
Because for all the angst and outrage at HN, ask yourself how many people do you personally know that have been killed by Autopilot?
This happened once before and the driver still wasn't paying attention at as obvious a hazard as a train crossing? Not sure I trust them to distinguish between autopilot and FSD. Although of course FSD is not actually capable of driving without supervision so it could easily be true.
It usually plays out like this.

The Congress person from Alabama where the fuel tank is built refuses to ok spending for NASA's other projects (or some other desirable project that needs to get done) unless the design requires things be built in their district. Since the tanks were previously built there it becomes the easiest way to satisfy their black mail. This may not be explicitly stated other than in meetings with the speaker of the house but it is understood none the less. This is not Congress people directly profiting from this decision but they have to run for office every 2 years and need to have consistent pork returns to keep their constituents happy.

There is nothing illegal here in fact the system is pretty much designed to work this way to insure that Federal money is distributed among the states.
I feel like we’re at the “3D TV” phase of AI right now.
macOS has an accessibility feature where you can hold ctrl (or something) and use the scroll wheel to zoom the entire screen in.

Not quite the same, but works really well for not breaking any layouts because it just scales the entire display out of the viewable area.
(Timescale co-founder)

James did put a lot of thought into this post. I saw multiple iterations of it before it was published. I think calling it a shitpost is being unkind to him.

I think we just find that some developers don't like reading long posts, so he kept this one short :-)

But if you want something with more length/depth, here is another one we recently published:

https://www.timescale.com/blog/postgres-for-everything/
That video also seems like they were driving insanely fast on a foggy day. Quite possibly setting the speed offset way higher than the speed limit. A human could have easily not seen the train as well at that speed.

During fog your speed limit should be determined by your braking distance and visibility. Period.

I wonder whether the autopilot would have performed better if travelling at a more reasonable speed.
High-quality 64k intros usually need a film-like production process nowadays, except it is harder because you have to fit it into 64k later, it typically means procedurally generating everything as well as using the appropriate tools (runtime packers, compiler options, etc...). It is, I think, the most demanding demoscene category.

There is much less commitment in a tiny intro. You don't have days of preparation, storytelling, art direction, etc... to stick to. If, when optimizing your intro, you stumble on something better, you are better off throwing everything away and build on that instead, "everything" is just 192 bytes after all. I didn't know 192b was a thing BTW, I am more accustomed to powers of two, like 256b.
My understanding is that it's actually quite difficult to implement a rule for "don't drive at full speed into solid objects" because solid objects are somewhat difficult to reliably identify.
Love the article.

In regards to your nixos configuration woes, you can adopt a pattern like GitHub.com/foehammer127/machines, which could help with Darwin/nixos separation, and should decrease de-duplication.
Everyone knows that Athens is considered the 'OG democracy', your comment reads as condescending.

If you continue learning about history, you might happen to notice that there appear to be gaps between how societies self-describe and the actual values they live by. This was well-known by contemporaries at the time, as Athens was described "in name a democracy but in fact governed by its first citizen."
Camera only perception systems don't have any indication of what is solid vs not. This is why Cruise and Waymo use LiDAR. They have exactly what you're talking about. Even then it's hard -- consider soft vegetation or trash.

Furthermore: tailgater collisions are a thing. You can't just stop on a dime, especially on fast roads (even just 45mph roads).
I, for one, did not expect the rumoured arrest warrant for Netanyahu. Indicting a government coalition made up of several political parties is quite different from indicting a specific prime minister. I think just about everyone expected the ICC to condemn both Hamas and the Israeli government, but I would've only expected warrants out for the Hamas members (as they're classified as terrorists rather than politicians by just about everyone).

In the same vein, I would expect "China/Russia/America found guilty of war crimes" but not "arrest warrant out for Biden/Putin/Xi".
Typographical is an adjective (pertaining to typography). I used the noun on purpose.
A lot of these "FSD" failures end up being Autopilot w/ lanekeeping.
From the first line of the Wiki article: "The g factor (also known as general intelligence,...)"

I was referring to g, not to the concept of general intelligence, which very obviously has pretty much always existed. Apologies for the ambiguity.

In any case, I don't think it really matters how precisely or reliably we can actually measure g directly, which is really what your sticking point is. Every important decision we need to make around the idea of general intelligence has to do with 1) whether it exists, 2) how well it correlates to positive outcomes in life under specific social and economic regimes, and 3) how heritable it is. All of these seem pretty darn obvious from various experiments not relying on measuring g directly.

Why do you think it matters whether we can measure g? What decisions are there to be made with that information?
Beautiful Motivations
> As long as he’s in power he’s protected by diplomatic protocol

Not true. That’s why Putin shied from visiting South Africa [1].

[1] https://apnews.com/article/putin-brics-summit-south-africa-i...
The name "Autopilot" for their lane-keeping feature clearly relies on most people not knowing how autopilot works in planes, because it's heavily implied to be autonomous driving and it's not. It's just a Tesla scam.
My javascript may had been gutted, but my HTML and CSS live in Word documents across clipboards immortal.
I think that's a good idea in theory, but it still relies on the car knowing when it's looking at a solid object with 100% accuracy.
I straddle the tech/art gap as a tech artist in 3D VFX & Animation. I've done work as visual as branding and identity, and as technical as network performance and a back-end web development. I'm also a technical writer for a commercial rendering engine, which is pretty different, but I've some experience reading and writing about these things.

Technical folks often approach process write-ups as they would an incident report, or a tutorial. Rarely a pleasant read! A little prep before you start yields major improvement: First, decide exactly what you're saying, and to whom. For a big one, having a "story" part, a prosaic technical write-up, and a reference section can fit multiple people's needs. Then, consider exactly what your audience wants and needs to know about your message: try not to be overly broad. Make that into a simple narrative and story arc, and expand it into an outline. It sounds like boilerplate, but it's more like scaffolding. Correctly applied, it steers you towards a concise, compelling piece without endless dickering and waffling about what to say next. Start with the broadest, least specialized audience-- adding details is easier than editing them out.
I still won't believe it until reviewers get hands on. In October 2022 I wanted an efficient laptop for web development but didn't want to grab a mac, so I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad X13s with the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, which Qualcomm made similar promises about and it lived up to exactly 0% of them. The main draw, the battery life was worse than my old Blade 14 that ran Fedora, windows on ARM and their current emulation continues to suck, every so often core services would just not work. The Linux support is only just barely getting there, Ubuntu and Armbian have custom images, where a lot of stuff still doesn't work. The camera will never work because of proprietary blobs and the battery life is way worse than windows, no suspend, audio barely works, etc. And those aren't just problems of Lenovo or that thinkpad it stems from the platform. I ended up buying a macbook a few weeks ago and it was 2 years late, should have got it in the first place.
Isotropic Neural Cellular Automata (2023)
Thanks but no thanks,

Not buying or requesting another Windows pc ever again.

Its full of adware and spyware at this point. even though I do like Satya's MSFT better than Balmer's.
Tesla uses only cameras for FSD, not lidar, so it can't tell what's a solid object and what's not. Driving in foggy conditions where everything is fuzzy to the camera isn't helping.

I'm surprised FSD stayed engaged, and I'm also surprised the driver thought it was a good idea to use FSD in this weather.
I get it! But at the same time, this is opinion work - and also, what would this look like without the emotion? A bone-dry analysis of the text? Would it say "this is bad"? Not arguing at all, there're all kinds of valid analyses to be made, I just don't know how else I'd pull this off.
Interacting with an Alleged Financial Scammer
More recent than the 18th century. Black people didn't get the right to vote in all of the US until the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

It would be completely reasonable to say that the US (or at least the southern states) was not a democracy in the modern sense of the word until that happened.
I would not trust something that drives as fast as that car does in that type of fog.

But I trust my open pilot device, but a large part of that is that I can see on the screen actually what it intends to do.
It depends whether you want to facilitate insightful discussion, or not.
The vast majority of companies I have worked for, had products that required at most 3 main components:

- web server

- relational db

- a queue system for async processing

So, yeah two of such components can be handled by postgres (although I’d go for rabbit mq for async processing).
FSD? More like Full Self Blaming!
Here’s the problem: Tesla only uses camera input - no lidar or other sensor tech. So it’s a visual model ensemble that needs to decide what a solid object is.

Models don’t reason. They classify and predict. If the prediction is wrong, explaining why is pretty hard, or maybe impossible. So you just need to iterate over and over on the data to try and fix it. It might, and it might not.
my argument is that some people don't, not without going homeless and living out of their car and eating off of EBT (in the US). if the choice was to sign a shitty non-compete, or get evicted, I find it hard to fault someone for signing such a contract. it's not a logic problem with your reasoning but that the reasoning starts from an (imo) unsound place.
Okay I'll answer your low-effort question in case a lot of people, like you, think they know what a CDN is but don't.

A CDN is when you set up servers in datacenters around the country and distribute content to them so that your content is closer to your users.

What Netflix did is create guidelines for ISPs that want to cache Netflix content at the edge. So Netflix isn't running a CDN themselves, the ISP acts as a CDN.
100% I would move out of the bay area if I had the means and I was bootstrapping.

I grew up in the East Bay, but I bootstrapped my companies in New Haven, CT and Fresno, CA, both much cheaper to live than the Bay Area.

It happened that my wife was getting her PhD, which is why we moved to those cities, but I commented often that I was grateful that we lived in such low cost of living cities while I was trying to conserve cash and get my companies off the ground.

I run MicroConf, and each year we run a survey and a report called The State of Independent SaaS, where we survey 600 or 700 bootstrapped or mostly bootstrapped SaaS founders. One of the questions we ask is about location.

And unlike venture backed companies, which cluster in a handful of cities, Independent/Bootstrapped SaaS founders are located in more than 340 cities around the world, with the most populated city (London) having only 4% of the population.

You can bootstrap from pretty much anywhere. Personally, in your shoes, I would pick a place with great quality of life and great culture, plus low cost of living. Cities like Minneapolis, Charlotte, Raleigh & Durham, Boulder, etc.

Good luck, you have plenty of runway and I wish you the best on this journey.
The biggest challenge is identifying said solid object. It is only within the last five years that cars with radar have been able to detect stationary objects with some level of reliability, prior to that, if it wasn't moving, there is a good chance that your Adaptive Cruise Control wouldn't detect it, as otherwise they had a tendency to stop for the bin that is on the side of the road, or for parked cars.

A train is a particularly challenging problem, since it is moving at high speed, even with two cameras it is card to really figure out how far away it is. Just because it is easy for humans, doesn't mean it is easy for computers, and vice-versa.
> That is clearly undemocratic

Agreed. But that doesn’t unmake Israel a democracy.
It's possible/likely that if such a safeguard is implemented, the self-driving systems would be unusable as it'd trip the safeguard either way too frequently or at unacceptable times.
Perhaps it's time they consider lidar? Elon hasn't seen the WHY yet?

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has stated that cameras are the only sensors self-driving vehicles need, and that Tesla's electric vehicles do not use lidars. Musk has previously called lidar "expensive appendices" and "a fools' errand". He has also said that any company that relies on lidar for its autonomous capabilities is "doomed".
RAG vs. GAR: A Primer on Generation Augmented Retrieval
(Thanks, I missed that part of the article, maybe due to an incomplete page load. I'd done a keyword search for "Johnson", to check whether my skim missed something, and that part didn't come up.)

Possibly is/was a jerk, but also strangely candid about it. Like he takes/took some pride in loyalty and his importance, and is asking to be grilled by a prosecutor, and perhaps held accountable (contempt of court, co-conspirator). That's not taking it to your grave.

> Some of his assignments had come directly from company lawyers, he added, and he couldn’t discuss them with me. “I didn’t even report it to my boss, or anybody,” he said. “There are some things you take to your grave.” At one point, he also told me that, if he were asked to testify in a PFOS-related lawsuit, he would probably be of little help. “I’m an old man, and so I think they would find that I got extremely forgetful all of a sudden,” he said, and chuckled.
> I'm all for investigating if there were any orders of directly targeting civilians being given to the Israeli military, etc, but that's a pretty far fetched assumption in my opinion

The Panel's report is not based on "far fetched assumptions." It names the explicit acts that Israel is known to have committed (eg: mass starvation via blockade of food and shelter):

"based on a review of material presented by the Prosecutor, the Panel assesses that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu and Gallant formed a common plan, together with others, to jointly perpetrate the crime of using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. The Panel has concluded that the acts through which this war crime was committed include a siege on the Gaza Strip and the closure of border crossings; arbitrary restrictions on entry and distribution of essential supplies; cutting off supplies of electricity and water, and severely restricting food, medicine and fuel supplies. This deprivation of objects indispensable to civilians’ survival took place in the context of attacks on facilities that produce food and clean water, attacks against civilians attempting to obtain relief supplies and attacks directed against humanitarian workers and convoys delivering relief supplies, despite the deconfliction and coordination by humanitarian agencies with Israel Defence Forces. These acts took place with full knowledge of the extent of Gazans’ reliance on Israel for essential supplies, and the adverse and inevitable consequences of such acts in terms of human suffering and deaths for the civilian population."

https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/240520-p...
You don't need to imagine ;-)

https://x.com/avthars/status/1788195573989806448
There was a "Buy Now Pay Later" feature thing that Edge was pushing at the tail end of 2021 that was available in developer channels which might be related
Americans genuinely do know what cursive looks like, and it's still taught to this day, source 3 kids who know how to write in cursive but weren't taught be me. Maybe broad inaccurate generalizations are the issue here, not American's cursive learnin'.
My car runs on gas. I don't own my own network of gas stations, but I still have a gas tank that keeps me going.
That's a great problem to hold off on tackling until you have hundreds of engineers.
And the ad video “building more sustainable world”.

—your mining company
You can see the flashing light from way back. You would also probably hear the train.
We live in the age of dynamic clocks where modern performance-oriented CPUs try to optimize both performance and power efficiency at all times, so for the vast majority of users, it's both a lot faster and a lot more efficient to do things this way, while enthusiast parts still allow a lot of manual control to squeeze out the last few percent. I've had really good luck in my past few builds just getting very high-spec RAM and running XMP / DOCP profiles with a small FSB OC and letting the multipliers do the rest.
> For some reason "web" doesn't even consider to respect dpi and angular sizes

Maybe I'm not sure what you mean, but this is not correct. "The web" is definitely DPI-independent. Specifying a width of 16px will render 32 physical pixels on a @2x display.
I think the problem is those hard rules end up causing problems in more cases than they solve problems.

Eg. Driving into an apparently 'solid' cloud of smoke from the truck in front might be a good idea.
Hear me out. Htmx is just what Mootools was around 2005, before they shifted gears to try to be more like jQuery to try to chase its popularity.

Making standard forms refresh with dynamic server content was one of its core competencies, and One of the big things Htmx does.

Htmx isn't anything novel. It's all been done before.
Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 chip laptops are only just getting there. Last time I tried to daily it maybe 6 months ago, they didn't even have hardware rendering on the GPU, everything was rendered on the CPU. Ubuntu and Armbian have custom images for the x13s, no idea about the Volterra but it's much worse than the windows on ARM experience for that laptop and that's saying something.
"To each according to his needs [and oppressions]?" I'm sure Karl Marx is dancing a polka in his grave.
Obviously they have that. The issue is that they don't recognize solid, stationary objects all the time. Which you'd think would be easy, but turns out it isn't.
Black bear that feeds on mostly berries, etc. during spring is actually quite delicious.
Once upon a time, we crammed HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into single PHP files—easy and straightforward. But then, someone said, "Separate presentation from logic!" So we did.

Then someone said, "Sending HTML is old news; let's send JSON on the back end and reassemble everything with JavaScript." So we did.

Then someone said, "Why don't we put everything in a single file and call them components?" So we did.

Then someone said, "Why don't we push those components from the server instead?" So we did

Wait a minute???
Open Source Is Neither a Community Nor a Democracy
Thanks, I'll keep it going as long as I can!
If only there was some sort of technology that could directly measure the distance to objects. Perhaps as some sort of point cloud.

Guess we'll never know.
With PLv8 you can run much of your server side logic I. The database, even React server components: https://react-postgres-components.vercel.app/
But unconditional support for Israel is a rare topic with mostly bipartisan agreement from the leadership class. The disagreement from the public is very likely more correlated with age than with the party someone supports.
Placing so much blame on individuals like Zuck and Sandberg is already a stretch. Though leaders have a huge influence, and should bear the responsibility, this piece tries to make it seem like it is those individuals that caused the perceived problems. It even implies that they had "bad" motivations, which is really reaching. Describing the stock classes, the article implies an enormous amount of detailed control on company behavior via stock ownership, which is generally not the case at any large company. Corporate boards don't generally get into features and implementations and stick to strategy. The argument is further undermined by what seems like some sort of personal vendetta from the author.
The Mercedes-Benz Drive Pilot system has special warning lights when operating in autonomous mode. It is generally considered to be technically superior to Tesla's system in most respects.

https://group.mercedes-benz.com/innovation/product-innovatio...
[1] is the only video which I would say I found any bit accessible. But to be honest even after spending days, I couldn't grok it. And in my observation, different implementations of HoTT are quite different from each other.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4cz1OgpU3M
I'll use the autopilot in regular traffic on highways only. But I'm also aware that glare will mess with the cameras in my Mach-E.

Also, the driver attention system warns me if I'm not paying attention to traffic.

I.e. know when to use it and be aware of its limitations.
In foggy and rainy conditions only a radar will help you.
I’m always amazed when people talk about using Tesla self driving features. Every time I get in a Tesla the driver has the screen showing this little block version of how it perceives what’s around it. It always misses stuff, cars jump in and out, things randomly vanish. Maybe that UI is buggy or doesn’t really show what the self driving would use, but I can’t imagine seeing that and then wanting to let the car drive itself.
I don't see how there is a meaningful difference "administers large chunks of territory undemocratically" and "is not a democracy" in practice.