skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if their sales grow exponentially you might be correct, but I’m not sure that’s the case.

I’ve seen some pretty impressive videos on this channel: https://youtube.com/@aidrivrclips?si=dYOXOhn5cdGDpWmh
Building an O2 concentrator for welding and vacuum tube work
accompanying video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB3hHk1_2V0&t=97s
For desktop FF (ESR) at least.

In about:config:

media.autoplay.default = 5

media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2

From https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_21h.htm?q=autoplay

Searching on that site for autoplay leads to the same settings for Fennec on Android, but I don't dream of electric sheep, so ...
It’s about as shit as the 300k lines of c code. Added with drink spilling acceleration in 12.3.6 for no reason at all.

There are major improvements in taking a curve and not scaring the shit out of the driver, much faster basic turn right on stop sign, lane changes when it does it, it’s hard to describe just how smooth they are it’s a little nuts the car just floats over it’s not human, but it really should not have changed lane most of the time… so decision logic is shit. Etc.
lol, all science is bad at stats, and uses correlation as causation
"sociopathic fascist" wasn't on my redditer bingo card today.
One target would be about 500AU out, where you can use the sun as a gravitational lens.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCAL_(spacecraft)
Is using Google still a thing lol? It was a common quote about 2 weeks ago wasn’t it?
Good idea - the code MONTH1 gives 75% off for the first month as a trial.

Implementing a free plan is a great idea though.
Sure but there's harmful slander that can ruin people's lives and cause real harm.

For instance, manifestos by hate crime mass murderers are littered with conspiracy theories and wild lies.

It's faster, quicker, more scalable and less effort for propagandists to lie than for researchers to carefully document and disseminate good faith efforts at reality. It's also easier to understand manufactured bullshit than messy complex reality.

It's the fundamental problem. Reality will not sort itself out because fakery is faster and can be made more compelling, so it spreads quicker and is, unfortunately, more believable by more people.

I know fixing it is hand waving a magic wand but that doesn't make the current state any more acceptable
Yes, they should. However, I've often seen teams lose track of all the services and components deployed. There is usually a dependency on one or two engineers, and when they leave, it introduces a significant knowledge gap in the team. Organizations are typically focused on growing the business, and it's usually only the cloud provider who benefits the most from the lack of visibility and optimization.
"Always" is a pretty big leap (I hope).
Thunderbird chokes on this.
You're off by a couple of magnitudes. Voyager travels the distance of one light year in about 18 000 years.
Unfortunately, the adaptive cruise control is also far dumber than it thinks it is, slamming the breaks when passing under bridges on the highway etc.
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That's interesting -- thanks.

Looks to me like he has some of the same ideas as I had in this talk:

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3095-one-...

I turned it into an article series:

https://www.theregister.com/Tag/One%20Way%20Forward/
My response was to the "FP is dead" comment. It's not dead.

IMO React was a lot simpler to reason about than any of the competing frameworks at the time. It's a function that takes data and outputs a UI. If the data changes, the function is re-run.

How did React beat EmberJS (LinkedIn) and Angular (Google)? Marketing budget may be a factor, but "because billion dollar corporation" is not a conclusion I would draw.
How does Tesla FSD fair against the Waymo self driving taxis?

I'm curious about whether self driving is still an impossible task right now, or if it's just a matter of quality between companies - in which case it's possibly a fair bet being made by Telsa execs that they'll bridge the gap given time and money.
If people are already using FSD (supervised) on a daily basis, it's working.
It's not "Level 5" yet, but they don't claim it is.
Totally agree that the "Full Self Driving" name is marketing BS. What should they call it instead? "Kinda Works Autonomous Driving, Please Pay Attention" ... ;-)
> because people want better compilers.

If you ask developers what they want from their development ecosystem, better compilers wouldn't even be in the top ten.
Yes that's how the advice should be interpreted, but it is bad advice because it's not how it is actually interpreted. It fails to communicate a good idea.
We're in an ice age now. Humans have always lived in an Ice Age. It's called the Quaternary glaciation and it's been filled with individual glacial periods.

You might want to read up on terminology.

Physics, thermodynamics, informs us that the glaciers aren't coming back while the insulation in the atmosphere is high and still increasing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation
They just changed the assignments of what tapping the right stalk once vs twice does -- before, once brought you into cruise control and twice into autopilot. After the change, that order is reversed by default, but you can change that from the settings.
Yes, Microsoft and Google will not be able to authenticate to your network if you enable tail lock. A node in your network has to sign.
you're so wrong. do more research. Driving on a geo-fenced area is much much simple than what Tesla is trying. Eventually they can do that as well without problems if they can't generalise.
yeah what, a GV100 is $1600 on eBay and you can run like a 3.8bpw quant of 70b llama at some decent number of tk/s, if you buy two you can run a 70b 5bpw quant with 32k context no problem
Why? Because of shadows or does it operate on a 2D 'view' of the traffic situation?
Ah yes, of course - we just have to wait for the next version. The response seen in the Twitter replies, YouTube comments and now HN comments to descriptions of FSD foulups for the best part of a decade now.
I wonder if the rules of continuous improvement apply to ML models. It seems that regressions are very easy to pick up. And that with a complex task like FSD it is virtually impossible to use the established tools to safeguard the stack from regressions (i.e. test cases that assert some unbroken functionality).
Or you know, instead of crab bucket mentality - let children develop instead of intentionally holding them back…
Remember all those millions of people who said they would move to Canada the first time. Yeah no one else does either.
Software Engineers as Mental Athletes
Civilizations will collapse, but self-eradication might be quite difficult.
Why would he do something Tesla should have done? Why would he risk his life for a blog post? He’s a regular person trying to reach his destination, not a Tesla beta tester with Tesla-funded insurance in case the car tries to kills him.
If current LLM were AGI you could just tell it to write a book or make a software project and it would do it end to end on its own, just like a human worker does.

But people tend to conflate knowledge for intelligence, many thinks that Google search is intelligent as well etc.
That's correct, it always fascinates me how a woman before and after child birth are like two completely different persons. Men, not always.
>condemning a 4-year-old to mostly interact with other 4-year-olds is appalling. other 4-year-olds are ignorant, impulsive, insensitive, and often cruel

I don't understand your point. Other 4 year olds are ignorant/impulsive/insensitive but not yours?

>everyone deserves the ability to ground themselves in the adult world

As a children I had zero interest in doing that. There may be children way different than I was, but I think speech, ability to express emotion, self-worth, etc are way more important for this than (very) early reading skills.

>deliberately keeping a child ignorant is detestable

Come on, nobody talks about raising an analphabete children. The topic was about (not) speeding up the learning process extremely, and (not) leting kids learn this skill at a more usual pace.
Exactly. And kids should play with more than just the one age group.
We once got paged because our app was down. But… it wasn’t. Everything was green and API requests where being processed.

After some digging and a lot of luck, it turned out that BT (huge ISP in the UK) and unceremoniously added our hostname to some internal blacklist, meaning it would never resolve, specifically and only for BT ISP users.

Getting it removed was non-trivial, and it as only through complete luck that an employee had a friend who worked at BT and was able to escalate the problem internally. Without that connection we would have been screwed, as there is nothing we could find about this blacklist on the internet or how to contact them about it.

Terrifying.

Sort of a bug, I guess? Maybe with BT?
Is there really a belief that people who use ad blockers are worthwhile ad targets.
There is no single solution this problem.

Look at the changes that happened in the past and ask yourself:

* which people have been successful regardless of changes that happened?

I think almost independently of whatever you do in life, if you are absolutely best at what you do, you are probably going to be fine. Even if what you do is house cleaning, if you are best at houscleaning you are going to be fine. There is always going to be a millionaire or a billionaire who will prefer to have a human sweep the floor rather than a roomba. Or maybe a lab will prefer to have humans to do the work just to not invite potentially dangerous electronics on the site.

There is always demand for top level talent in any area. There will always be demand for human reporters, human drivers, human writers, human programmers, human graphics designers, human managers, regardless of the changes that will happen.

But it is possible that the demand will only be for top of the top of the top of people in each those areas and 99.9% or even more will be replaced and automated.

Another thing that can help is rare specialisation that is not worth automating.

One of the easier ways to find those rare specialisation is at a cross of two largely orthogonal areas of study. I like to think a lot of useful things happen through people who connect different, sometimes distant areas of knowledge / ability.

Another thing that helps people survive change is being a free agent. Don't be an employee -- be an enterpreneur with a mindset to learn and ability to pivot on a moment to moment basis. Learn a lot about life and universe, economics, trends, etc. Learn basis of how enterpreneurship works, how to find new areas that can provide value to people.

---

So if you are a developer, you have some choices:

* become best damn developer while you still can. Spend considerable time honestly learning your craft. Just completing projects is no longer enough to be safe, but outstanding developers who can complete projects will always be needed.

* learn deeply something else that can be connected with development. I know finances and it seems there will always be a need for people who know well development as well as finances.

* you could learn management/leadership skills. The trouble is, there is plenty of technical managers/leaders, just becoming one will not guarantee job safety. You will have to work hard to keep being strong technically while you are also trying to become very competent manager/leader.

* build on your development skills to become an enterpreneur. This is probably the hardest / riskiest path.

Other choices? Please, let me know... I am myself interested in this whole topic.
I switched to Kagi for this reason
I'm sure many viral infections potentially have effects that linger.

However, what makes COVID different is it's not really a respiratory virus like flu, even if that is the primary transmission mechanism. It manages to infect many different organs in the body to varying degrees (hence the huge constellation of different symptoms presented).
I was talking about the MMO games.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxBg4sMusIg

That's "You Suck at Excel" talk by Joel Spolsky.
This is odd. One of the ways kids learn to read early is by starting off being expiated to fairytales and other fiction then later learning to read those same stories. That useless sets them up to enjoy fiction.
It doesn't make much sense to compare 720p to 720p like that. What matters is the bitrate. So the better question is - does youtube offer better quality video at a given bitrate constraint now in comparison to the past?
IIRC it's an vision-only ML-based system. So the answer to "why" is probably "we don't know lol"
Half of the city infrastructure is dedicated to supporting 3000-5000 pounds of highly manufactured metal to move a single 100-200 pound passenger going the same direction as everyone else.

And we want to spends billions on autonomous driving so we can continue being locked in the absolute least efficient solution so we can require manufacturing another $10k or so of equipment on hundreds of millions of cars to enable FSD?

This is a sham sold for the money.
> It's real and it's only a matter of time before it's better than humans in most circumstances ...

I heard that argument for many years for many deep learning applications of significant value. Any day now, right?
Swedish ergonomy at work. Switching between portrait and landscape mode on demand. In 1985!
ECC is always preferred if one could afford it.
> I could only say that (for English) spelling is different (and kind of stupid).

One of my earliest memories is the unwelcome lesson that the printed word "ice" is the spoken word /aɪs/ but "police" is /pʊˈliːs/.

In retrospect, it helped me get an early start on accepting the notion that substantial parts of life involve putting up with network effects left lying around by previous generations.

(upon reflection, I did ultimately immigrate to someplace where "Eis" is /aɪ̯s/ and "Polizei" is /poliˈt͡saɪ̯/, so maybe I hadn't been as successful with acceptance as I believe?)
> SUM(CODE(MID(LOWER(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(C3,”:”,””)

Smells like K, except way more human-friendly :)
Tell me you don't know where roads come from without telling me you don't know where roads come from...
I wonder if those Vegas loop Tesla use FSD? Or if the Teslas being tested in parking lots count as FSD miles. Didn't Tesla game their range numbers? Didn't Musk say "we could've gamed our demos, but we actually didn't!" for their city to city demo? Also notable they released a 30 day free trial so it makes sense to see an uptick
You see this difference between what is said and done in multiple places, where WinDev has influece, versus other business units like DevDiv and Azure.

Hilo was a kind of response to the Longhorn development approach based on .NET, but using COM and C++ instead. Some surviving stuff,

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/announcing-hilo/

"So overall C++ is a good choice for writing Windows 7-based applications. It has the correct balance of the raw power and flexibility of C, and the sophisticated language features of C#. C++ as a compiled language produces executable code that is as close to the Windows API as is possible and, indeed, the C++ compiler optimizer will make the code as efficient as possible. The C++ compiler has many of options to allow the developer to choose the best optimization, and Microsoft’s C++ compiler is one the best ways to produce small, fast code.

With such power and flexibility there are potential pitfalls, of course. The chief problem with C++ is the issue of memory management, but since it is a mature language, standard solutions have been developed, for example smart pointers. There are many established standard libraries and their longevity and maturity means that they are broadly used and tested and so can be trusted to be stable."

Taken from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/msdn10/f...

Followed by WinRT/UWP, being pretty much a revamped COM, with C++, and .NET bindings (although not for all WinRT scenarios).

Which has pretty much stayed this way, and why .NET is more successful on Azure and cross-platform, than on Windows itself.

So still looking forward when WinDev will take security more seriously.
Everything is defeatable. I was hoping more effort than "absolutely nothing" had been done for the cause here.
Interesting, this video mentions a Yiddish song "Shvayg, mayn harts" ("Hush, my heart") that it seems to have been inspired by. And on a video of that song https://youtu.be/uT7GcjBnWaw is this info

> ("Shvayg mayn harts") was in the 1935 Yiddish theater show Papirosn. Years later eden ahbez paid Yablokoff $25,000 out of court to settle a plagiarism complaint. Listen to the chorus and see if you think it was stolen. Some say they were both stolen from Antonin Dvorak’s 1887 “Piano Quintet No. 2” - which may have been stolen from Czechoslovakian folk music.

Here's a Dvorak comparison https://m.facebook.com/MastersonHomeConcerts/videos/dumka-an...

Also noteworthy is the fact that eden ahbez preferred to spell his name as all lowercase.

All of this and more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_Boy including the original poster of this HN item.
There are tradeoffs. IIRC Netflix uses software encoders and they work pretty hard to squeeze the maximum quality for a given bitrate. Makes sense for their use case. OTOH, for like video calls, certain kinds of archiving, in general cases with few or no views, it makes sense to use hardware encoding even if it means compromised image quality.
Looks like gibberish advertising for the project
But it's... out right now. You can literally use it today.
The article answers the wrong question of 'is FSD perfect?'.

A better question is whether it's 'cost-benefit positive'. That's all that matters when users decide whether or not to use something.

If FSD reduces fatigue and allows you to arrive to work fresher, it might be worth tolerating the odd wrong turn extending the drive time by 2 minutes.
Why does 'advancement' imply genocidal results?
With a free tier colab notebook (T4), it takes about 1-2 minutes per sentence for me. Am I doing something wrong? At this rate converting a whole ebook to an audiobook seems like a no-go at least for the free tier. I’m using the deep clone. Any tips for making it faster?
This seems pretty unlikely but I’d love to be able to do the same if someone knows a way to
Voyager 1 only gravity boosted at Jupiter and Saturn. That's not a particularly special alignment. Doing the same thing doesn't need a "grand tour" alignment, which happens every almost-two hundred years by the way.

Also it got most of its speed from Jupiter, and we can do a gravity assist with Jupiter any year.

And check out this plan for a double Jupiter gravity assist. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2020/eposter/1110.pdf
Currently, it's definitely less reliable than Waymo, but is available anywhere in the US or Canada, and is coming to more countries soon.

The other factor is the trajectory of each endeavour. Waymo are gradually adding more cities, and Tesla FSD is gradually getting more reliable.

Both of them are going to be perfectly fine self-driving systems at some point in the future. It's an open question as to when Waymo will be able to scale up substantially, and when Tesla FSD will be reliable enough to operate as a robotaxi service.

You can see lots of videos of both on YouTube to gauge where they're up to. If you find accounts that are focused on each, you can search by oldest videos to see the progress that's been made and extrapolate from there.
And it sort of works in limited cases.

FSD is like ChatGPT, it works in many cases, it does some mistakes, but it is certainly not “useless”. It won’t replace full time humans yet (the same way that ChatGPT does not replace a developer) but can still work in some scenarios.

To the investor, ChatGPT is sold as “AGI is just round the corner”.
I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not aware of any significant drop in new orders for Airbus. Do you have a source?
Oh? I only rarely drive my wife’s Tesla but that’s excellent to know, thank you!
Did anyone here do the eye surgery where they make a cut and slide in a permanent contact lens? My eyes are too bad for lasering, but this method would apparently still work. The doc tried to sell it to me as the better method irrespective of how bad your eyes are, since it is reversible (you can remove the lens).
The conclusion addresses your point:

> Without FSD, you pay attention to the road and everything else is within your control. With FSD, you still need to pay attention but now there’s the additional cognitive load to monitor an unpredictable system over which you don’t have direct control.

For the author, FSD is a worse experience in addition to costing a lot of money.
The article answered that.. the author experienced increased cognitive load while using FSD, needing to be hyper aware of not only the road conditions but being vigilant and ready to correct mistakes.
My neighborhood has the effectively one-way street thing going on. FSD would be a total clown show in here. Tesla would have to add some way to determine the velocity of the oncoming traffic around a 90 degree bend while dealing with extremely limited visibility due to seasonal foliage. They would also have to add a way to factor in the historical behavior of these cars over time. For example, I know the guy who drives the blue Tundra is kind of pokey, so I speed up a bit to clear the contention first. The more compelling scenario might be the one where I know the white Mercedes SUV has an extremely aggressive driver, so I'll prefer to wait on them to preserve the peace.
Waymo does 50K paid trips per week without a driver behind the wheel. Tesla does zero. Waymo is a business. Tesla FSD is currently just a tech demo.
Recharge. Someone else mentioned being an introvert with an extrovert job. That resonates.

After talking to people all week and dealing with their whims, I lose steam.

I find it impossible to do the things other people find fulfilling. It all seems like more work. I'm exhausted to the core.

More specifically, low energy stuff. Watch TV, read, whatever. The last thing I want is to burn more energy/talk.

Oddly, typing and such doesn't count. Being able to opt out immediately I suppose.
NASA: Gravitational Lens B0218+357 [video]
There is no way to prove it, but I am pretty sure I developed Keratoconus due to Lasik.
It's funny because it's critical of sites for low quality "AI written listicles" but it's essentially a list of domains written by AI. And the result is there seems to be no consistent application of the principles expressed.

Why are we blocking amazon.co.uk and amazon.in? Why not block amazon.com by whatever that logic is? hulu.com gets a block, but why not netflix.com? Or why hulu.com in the first place? If there is a reason, it would be valuable to express that so people aren't just blindly blocking sites simply for being popular.