skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ford's Blue Cruise is not hands-off on mapped highways, only on portions of some highways where curves are shallow. And it can suddenly demand you take over in a failure mode that completely disables itself forcing you to instantly take over in a split second.

Also it still kills people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgFPW5esM04
Tangentially related: for those who are considering LASIK in order to save money on contacts: I created https://lenspricer.com/, which compares contact lens prices across almost all online stores.

Buying them online at the cheapest price can lower your cost significantly (like up to 80%+ - the price you pay at nation-wide stores is often very overpriced compared to online prices).
During the pandemic everyone was online. There wasn’t enough bandwidth. So all major platforms slashed bitrates. YouTube, Netflix, Zoom.
“Experts have said that she survived the fall because she was harnessed into her seat, the window seat, which was attached to the two seats to her left as part of a row of three. That was thought to have functioned as a parachute which slowed her fall.”
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Linguistic relativity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity :

> The idea of linguistic relativity, known also as the Whorf hypothesis, [the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis], or Whorfianism, is a principle suggesting that the structure of a language influences its speakers' worldview or cognition, and thus individuals' languages determine or influence their perceptions of the world.

Does language fail to describe the quantum regime with which we could have little intuition?
Verbally and/or visually, sufficiently describe the outcome of a double-slit photonic experiment onto a fluid?

Describe the operator product of (qubit) wave probability distributions and also fluid boundary waves with words? Verbally or visually?

I'll try: "There is diffraction in the light off of it and it's wavy, like <metaphor> but also like a <metaphor>"

> If it gets more abstract than math

There is a symbolic mathematical description of a [double slit experiment onto a fluid], but then sample each point in a CFD simulation and we're back to a frequentist sampling (and not yet a sufficiently predictive description of a continuum of complex reals)

Even without quantum or fluids to challenge language as a sufficient abstraction, mathematical syntax is already known to be insufficient to describe all Church-Turing programs even.

Church-Turing-Deutsch extends Church-Turing to cover quantum logical computers just: any qubit/qudit/qutrit/qnbit system is sufficient to simulate any other such system; but there is no claim to sufficiency for universal quantum simulation. When we restrict ourselves to the operators defined in modern day quantum logic, such devices are sufficient to simulate (or emulate) any other such devices; but observed that real quantum physical systems do not operate as closed systems with intentional reversibility like QC.

For example, there is a continuum of random in the quantum foam that is not predictable with and thus is not describeable by any Church-Turing-Deutsch program.

Gödel's incompleteness theorems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_th... :

> Gödel's incompleteness theorems are two theorems of mathematical logic that are concerned with the limits of provability in formal axiomatic theories. These results, published by Kurt Gödel in 1931, are important both in mathematical logic and in the philosophy of mathematics. The theorems are widely, but not universally, interpreted as showing that Hilbert's program to find a complete and consistent set of axioms for all mathematics is impossible.

ASM (Assembly Language) is still not the lowest level representation of code before electrons that don't split 0.5/0.5 at a junction without diode(s) and error correction; translate ASM to mathematical syntax (LaTeX and ACM algorithmic publishing style) and see if there's added value
I bet it's due to a deficiency in some trace nutrient that covid depleted you of and you simply haven't recovered it somehow. that would explain why it's such a specific pattern, there's a slight mechanical issue with your memory system

I read somewhere that covid depletes your system of choline and other B vitamins, so I got these https://jarrow.com/products/neuro-optimizer-120-capsules and it seemed to help with my brain fog at the time, and make a quick recovery after it passed
Sure, but "we're trying something harder" doesn't mean anything. Waymo is succeeding at a well defined, useful form of driverless tech. They will probably be able to extend this, maybe slowly, to more and more cities.

Tesla is failing at everything they're promising, and not delivering anything useful along the way (FSD as it exists today is more dangerous and more demanding than regular driving).
Not that I agree with the vaccine stuff, but the US are in something of a information war with the Russians and Chinese.
Well, if something will be prohibitively price it is just like not existing.
12B years of black hole history, revealed through X-rays and simulations
Of course not. I want more people to say it. I want everyone to say it, to condemn OpenAI, to condemn big tech ad nauseum. I want everyone to stop using big tech products as much as possible and I want big tech to go bankrupt.
'Autocratic Connectivity' in China and India
Yep, because if you want something bad enough, and if it’s clearly possible, enough research will get us there! Except: commercially viable fusion, quantum computers, hyper loops, AGI, interstellar space travel. Hmmm.

That’s the problem with research; much of it turns out to be a dead-end, or exponentially more difficult as you approach the goal. FSD looked extremely likely there for a time, but I think the problem was actually AGI in disguise.
The product doesn't work until the human can be human instead of telling followers only subhumans complain.

Being more specific: Product either requires a certification, like a driving license, or is foolproof.
Tongue in check comment... as I am learning Rust for fun, mid-career, "high productivity" is not what I'd call the language. I like it, but I am half as fast as other similar languages to get the same results.

Jokes aside. I'd like to see a comparison of Rust vs. modern Ada.

I haven't touched Ada since college (i.e. in decades), but it has many nice features that C++ lacks. It's a pity that it isn't used outside specific circles.
Fake it til you make it is a fundamental principle of startups. We just don’t usually see it at such a vast scale.

There’s a timeline where Theranos was acquired for 9b by UnitedHealth if they could keep the grift alive juuust a bit longer and Elizabeth Holmes ascends to the tech firmament permanently while her enablers congratulate each other.

Tesla has even more and deeper financial and branding defense mechanisms. That said, the clock is ticking, now, I think
as GME, that trump social thing, et al. already showed it a couple of times fundamentals don't matter. Tesla is held by folks who either don't care (ETFs, institutions, hedge funds, blablabla) or Elondong lovers.
My recollection is that the CEO stated no security problem with the product, security was their utmost and first the toppest priority all the time and into eternity, they wouldn't dare trying to release anything with security concerns.

Apparently there are security concerns afterall. Did they lie before or now or just completely clueless about what is a security concern or what? I am confused.
I take a stimulant for my adhd. If i didn't have physical exhaustion (usually a 10km 2h walk before sleep) I don't think I could sleep at all. It still affects the quality of sleep (not much deep sleep) though.

Now, sleep quality really affects everything. I think in general, mental health/sanity is hardly taken seriously in the tech industry. If I had employees I'd rather they had enough physical activity and sleep over a long and sustainable period than them sleeping under their desk hacking through the night.
Yep, agree ! Sad as it is.
Poetry involves a specific choice of words (perhaps with some thought to metre or rhyme), so if anything, we should expect programs to be as beautiful as poem.

(would there then be algorithms as beautiful as an argument, or functions as beautiful as an idea?)
His soul will evaporate because his AWS credit card expired. There was a replica at Google Cloud but the Cloud Soul service was deprecated.
Apple's Scrapped Car Project Means AI and Headset Bets Are More Urgent
I felt similar at the beginning but then I realized the suggestions were suboptimal, and it happened like 50% of the time. Usually not completely wrong, just imitating something that was already written, but sometimes introducing subtle bugs. So in the end it actually made me less productive because I had to stop my flow and start analyzing if there is no catch in the suggestion. It was a bit tiring and in the end I decided it's easier for me to stay with the flow.

I'll give it a try next year, maybe it improves to the point where the number of suboptimal suggestions falls to 20% or so, it would be much easier then.
Why do people keep bringing up this incident that happened in the very early days of the system when it wasn't even called FSD? It isn't representative.
> where at 8:20 it fails to properly deal with a cop car and the fanboy complains that the cop did not obey traffic laws

More specifically, the cop car had its lights on and emergency siren going, so presumably was trying to respond to a call, in which case it is the responsibility of other vehicles to get out of the cop's way.

> US people might consider this "chaos", but it's perfectly normal behavior in many countries, where a red light for pedestrians is more a suggestion than a rule...

Also worth nothing the "jaywalking" is not a thing in many jurisdictions:

* https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking
Friend of mine has a e-bike from cowboy. The thing is 8 years old and has rust and other forms of oxidation on all kinds of places.

Meanwhile my 20 year old koga miyata bike (which I also used for 10 years for my commute in all kinds of weather) has no sign of rust anywhere.
There are no FSD deaths. Only old Autopilot ones.
Fun or not, but I think the parent means electricity, i.e. how much kWh were wasted/spent on this
this is an amazing find! thanks a lot
(What's happening here is a reduction of the color count: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_quantization)
Today I learned your can crawl all the pages of your website using a simple wget command:

check-links:
@echo "NOTE: Ensure 'make run-site-deep' is running before running this target"; echo
-wget -r -l 0 --spider -nd -nv http://localhost:8000/ -o run.log
grep -B1 broken run.log
@echo Done; echo

Source: https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/08a2d7b/Makefile#L37...
> Further to that, it generally feels as though the UK is a country massively in decline

To a large extent it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. People expect decline so it happens. It has been happening for a long time - back to the 1960s or so when the UK became the only only country ever (still true) to have a space launch capability and lose it.

That said, IMO the causes of this are widespread across the west. It is evident in the US, and the drift away from competitive free markets, the rise of culture war politics, short termism is business and politics, naivety about the rest of the world (disastrously reflected in foreign policy - Russia being the obvious example) and so on seem to be spreading.
The article says the transition takes 2-5 years and happens every 11 years. Isn't the title a clickbait then?
So a standard mixed-used development but with certifications of how wonderful and eco-friendly they are allows throwing out most regulations everyone else has to follow, creating a preferential, tiered system. That sounds fair and respectful of community interests. /s
I would suggest doing some research on those and NOT relying on Wikipedia. But even then, your last 2 links even disprove your point.

The Arbez coup was an attempt to prevent the USDR from gaining a foothold there.

The Brother Sam operation didn’t even happen - “The operation was thus deactivated before it had any physical effect in Brazil”

The Chilean coup happened before the CIA actually got involved. But regardless that coup was done because Allende refused to follow the Supreme Court “the Supreme Court publicly complained about the government's inability to enforce the law of the land”

So using the “democratically elected” hides the fact the situation was far from democratic at the time of the coup.
Someone like the EFF needs to take this to court. Surely it cannot be legal to make a one-sided change to an agreement about an already-purchased product!
In my memory it used to be more common to have a colophon on a website or special projects. I always enjoy things like this and when I teach the students are required to create a colophon as part of the project grading rubric
Taran had very strong myopia, with his eyes at -10.00 and -8.50 before the operation. It's not surprising he's dealing with vision issues like starbursts now. The higher the degree of myopia, the more material in the eye they need to remove, which means a higher chance of side effects.

My friends I know who got LASIK had low/medium myopia and didn't end up with long-lasting side effects like Taran. And the starbursts are much smaller and less noticeable in size.
But they have higher average wind speeds, and headwinds can slow you down as much as hills.
We are in a weird internet time where if you consume something online, it's there because somebody has spent time and money -- sometimes a lot of it -- to make it that way. This is true of both brands and individual content providers.

That doesn't make the content wrong or bad, but it means that the diverging incentives between producers and consumers is going to continue a drift towards easy, mediocre, engaging material and true deep-dive information, even with tech articles. The net went from "search, find the source, deep-dive, make tentative judgments" (like one would do at a library doing research) to "search, pop-in, see the listicle five-minute fact-bomb explainer vid, then assume you know everything important there is to know." (as one might do, say, browsing items as a yard sale).

If you're looking for true knowledge, you're going to have to deal with this more and more. It's a tend that's continuing, not some current state of affairs. If you're looking to be entertained and waste time playing games and absorbing random trivia and political justifications for things you already believe, you're in luck: a lot of people and a lot of money are hard at work to keep you happy.
The article says many other brands have the same problem though.
Would it make sense to have some partial/incremental SHA256 implementation? E.g. one that gives the first character only (in ASCII representation). So that you could have a cheaper money miner to narrow down the search space?

Is it even possible to have cheaper first character SHA256 algorithm?
Sharing wildlife sounds from all over the world
Two leading spaces preserves the code formatting

check-links:
@echo "NOTE: Ensure 'make run-site-deep' is running before running this target"; echo
-wget -r -l 0 --spider -nd -nv http://localhost:8000/ -o run.log
grep -B1 broken run.log
@echo Done; echo
Not sure I can follow either. Bullets obviously cause injuries. Words almost never do. And if so, that's mostly up to the recipient and trivial to prevent.
Do you have full mudguards/fenders?
I will bet you 10 times more to the contrary, literally, absolutely :D
Check out the author's comment on this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40570186
What if it was encrypted but the key need to be present locally anyway. Key under the mat situation? PIN on the back of the card case?
Show HN: Feature Flags for Modern Web
Hey HN!

I’m Jacob, a software engineer based in Denmark. I’m excited to share with you the product that we have been building for almost a year.

At my workplace we were using feature flags on a large scale. In my team we were facing a lot of issues related to poor developer experience of other solutions. We’ve made the decision to simplify it. We had a feeling that feature flags should be simple and not confusing or frustrating to work with. That’s how we came up with an idea to build FeaturesFlow.

FeaturesFlow is a feature management platform that simplifies the process of setting up feature flags. With FeaturesFlow you can easily experiment with your software, de-risk your releases, instantly rollback faulty features and gradually rollout changes in your software to your users.

Our goal was to make a simple solution that could handle most of the use cases for feature flags. We wanted to provide seamless dev experience because, after all, it is us - developers, who are working with them. Here’s an outline of what we did:

- FeaturesFlow has an organization > project > feature toggle structure. We wanted to follow a Github-like structure, cause most of us are used to structuring our projects in that way.
- With such a structure, we were able to minimize response sizes of requests sent to our SDKs. All of our feature flags are evaluated on server-side to minimize the client-side bundles.
- By having tenant based architecture, we can very easily scale our services.
- We made sure to integrate very easily with modern web frameworks, especially Next.js.

Other solutions have really poor support for modern web frameworks such as Next.js. Often times, you would like to fetch treatments on server-side, but their API doesn’t really support that. You’d often end up creating your own provider… - yuck! But we got you covered! Here are guides on how to use FeaturesFlow with NextJS.

Pages router: https://docs.featuresflow.com/Guides/next-js-guide-pages-rou...

App router: https://docs.featuresflow.com/Guides/next-js-guide-app-route...

Demo : https://github.com/baginskijakub/features-flow-demo

The process of setting it up is really simple, if you need any help, I’m sure documentation will help you. Otherwise, don’t hesitate to contact me.

If you’ve got feedback, criticism, questions, or comments I will be happy to answer in the comments!
Tesla's most recent version of FSD (which is released to a limited number of non-employee testers so far) uses only eye tracking for driver monitoring and does not require the user to touch the steering wheel as long as they are looking forward.
There Are 23 Moons and Planets with Water in Our Solar System (2022)
I want to warn that one huge issue with SQLite in WAL mode is that if your site gets a high load, the WAL file will grow unboundedly. I ran a stress test of 14k RPS (that's the maximum my PC can pull off in my Go application, but it probably can happen with a more modest RPS) and the WAL file quickly exploded to tens of gigabytes, which can render your machine inoperable (it almost broke my PC). The default checkpointer can't properly function if the DB is continuously written to, due to the internal limitations of SQLite.

I managed to solve it by running a separate goroutine (thread) which monitors the WAL size on disk every second: if it goes above the target size of 8 MB, my framework initiates the "slow down" mode where all reads and writes are slowed down by artificially calling sleep(), starting with 16ms and gradually increasing the sleep time according to a few heuristics. This allows the application to have small time gaps where no reads or writes happen and the checkpointer can actually proceed (the goroutine activates it manually). The slow down mode is deactivated when the WAL size is within the target size again.

I think SQLite in WAL mode is not really fit for production without this kind of hack.
DARPA unveils 6 new designs for uncrewed vertical-takeoff military aircraft
What a strange reply. It's not a dialect. It's just plain English.

https://www.google.com/search?q=water+fast
This one is brief! Just completed setting up a brand-new virtual machine with CentOS Stream 9. Everything went smoothly till the networking phase. Despite the fact that this article was prepared with reference to CentOS 9, I would like to think that the same remedy should work for any other Linux distribution if this problem arises.

In the beginning, I configured the internal interface such that I could access the CLI from my LAN network. When I implemented my internet-facing interface, the issue emerged. I was unable to access my virtual machine from the internet (outside network) nor was i able to ping the internet from the VM.

Since CentOS utilizes firewallD by default, the firewall was the first thing I suspected and instantly disabled it, but the problem persisted. I then started looking into networking issues.
How to detect (headless) Chrome instrumented with Puppeteer
About other countries:
Well, the pedestrian is always bargaining with its physical integrity. The pedestrian must damn well always be right unless it is definitely suicidal (not rethorical)
> We need to stop that kind of language. It’s pure 1984 bullshit.

Sounds like you're saying, in this specific passage I'm quoting, "this language is dangerous and must be stopped".

Surveillance AI is already more invasive than any Panopticon that Orwell could imagine. LLMs and diffusion models make memory holes much easier. Even Word2Vec might be enough to help someone make a functional Newspeak conlang — though I wonder, is it better for me to suggest the (hopefully flawed) mechanism I've thought for how to do so in the hope it can be defended against, or would that simply be scooped up by the LLM crawlers and help some future Ingsoc?
I had LASIK twenty years ago and have regretted it every day. Before that I had a -2 prescription that was perfectly correctable. I still have a -2. However, in the late evening my vision gets much worse, as the iris expands. And it's uncorrectable. I'll never be able to see stars again. I struggle with large halos when driving at night, and I lost some edge detection abilities. The cause was that the laser used had a smaller diameter than my lenses. The doctor who examined me beforehand mentioned this as a potential problem, but I was so excited to have perfect vision that I didn't listen. Also, I continued programming while healing. I needed a lot more far-sight time, so I'm told.
Fair, but none of that has anything to do with the most efficient and desirable use of a particular plot of land for 99.9% of a town/state/country.
Show HN: I made a site of all SaaS pioneers
Hey HN!
I am a 17 year old Indie Maker who made this site.
If you can give me feedback on how would you want this site to be, it would help me a lot!
Yeah I agree that it is hard to be entirely objective on something as subjective as sense of decline — lord knows I’ve spoken to Dutch natives whom hold an opinion that the country is ‘not what it used to be’. I do get a feel that people, generally, seem less embroiled in a race to the bottom than we do in the UK.

It feels that people in UK have been ground down to a point of ‘ah well, it’s all f*cked and always will be now’ and, as such, people accept things like a £5k bicycle failing multiple times within 2 years.
I'm not familiar with the other standards this is being compared to. Why not use PCIe?