skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the last questions on the earnings call that just completed, was what would happen to Tesla revenue if Trump wins and those get cancelled. His answer after a pause, was that it probably would have an impact...and would probably be worst for his competitors...but does not really matter because they are all into FSD....
Or the "simple" solution is sufficient as the vast majority of users won't even use "quick workarounds that fit in a comment on Hacker News".

And if the simple solution that still works most of the time is sufficient to avoid liability in the courts then it's solved the problem they were aiming at.

If the more complex solution costs more in engineering time than the benefit, they're arguably obliged as a public company to not implement it. Often chasing the long tail just isn't worth it.
Show HN: HR/Finance Tool with AI Customization
InnovateX is an HR tool designed to simplify the entire employee lifecycle from hiring to offboarding and helps tailor to users needs using AI. InnovateX has an applicant tracking, onboarding and offboarding processes, and a comprehensive suite of features including benefits management, time off tracking, timesheets, and a public forum for enhanced team collaboration. InnovateX also has automated payroll calculations for the pay period and an intelligent AI that customizes the software to meet businesses needs, ensuring a tailored and efficient HR experience.
“Only a moron would buy YouTube”, Mark Cuban, 2006
Just buy VTSAX. Never trade anything.
That's like 10-15k SV yearly engineer salaries?

Granted, it's "over the next few years".
They could buy a lot of H100s for the roughly $4 billion they dump into VR/Metaverse each quarter...
Adding this to my copypasta collection
It might get your account canceled
I was a jury consultant. Im now also a lawyer.
I think the title is missing a word:

“Alphabet _has to_ invest another $5B into Waymo”.

I’d like to remind everyone that it’s still a taxi business with taxi margins (best case).
https://youtu.be/Wm2_7j6xYDo?t=1356
Congress Wants to Let Private Companies Own the Law
One option we've been testing is the 'maintainFormat` mode. This tries to return the markdown in a consistent format by passing the output of a prior page in as additional context for the next page. Especially useful if you've got tables that span pages. The flow is pretty much:

- Request #1 => page_1_image

- Request #2 => page_1_markdown + page_2_image

- Request #3 => page_2_markdown + page_3_image
By default, File.read does block, yes. As it crosses into libc, it releases Ruby's interpreter lock, allowing another Ruby thread to execute while it blocks.

Ruby 1.9 added Fibers. These are coroutines with their own call stack that yield and resume explicitly. They're like Goroutines but without Go's scheduler. Fibers are commonly used to build Enumerators, internal iterators support external iteration. File.read in a Fiber still blocks by default.

Ruby 3.0 added support for truly asynchronous File.read. The batteries are not included. A fiber scheduler is required to enable this optional feature:

https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.3/Fiber.html#class-Fiber-lab...

https://brunosutic.com/blog/ruby-fiber-scheduler
Don't sell Crafting Interpreters short!
I’ve always wondered if it’s possible to pool together small amounts of resources from users e.g. similar to torrenting with networking, but with compute and use it to host a large model like this one. If the community wants open source to be the way, I believe this would be the only way to get these large models accessible to users while the community stay in semi-control of the platform.

Edit: would also work with training I'm assuming?
One more good reason to start strengthening the idea of global governance?
San Francisco just built a short subway to Chinatown. Not quite clear why.

SF's Chinatown is stuck in the 1950s. It's not modern China. No black-glass skyscrapers in exotic shapes. No outposts of Shenzhen manufacturers. It's mostly a retirement village.
I'm pretty sure those were actual kernel modules, not eBPF. eBPF for their Linux agent is on their roadmap but not something they are actually doing yet. eBPF should be sandboxed and unable to crash the kernel. Could be I'm missing something, though.
If you think it's de-risked and ready to take off, why share the upside?
I guess you wouldn't detect it. Elite cyclists can easily sustain 400-500 watts for many minutes, 20 watts is like 5% - a rounding error compared to variability of power input.

The issue with drafting would be that it comes and goes. In a sprint finish, one moment you might be drafting, another trying to overtake the other guy (so not drafting), then fall behind again and draft, all in a matter of seconds.

Then, there's the road gradient, also a massive impact on the power/speed function, and it's highly localized. You might know that a stretch of the road is 8% on average, over say 100m segments, but locally it can be much more or much less. On sharp switchback the inside of the corner can be 20+% when the outside is only 5-10%.

Plex it's a race, power goes up and down in response to events, one moment you're sitting in a group, another you're chasing the guy in front. Presumably that's also where you'd press the boost button - when you'd legitimately be putting down more power.

In amongst all that I doubt you would see an extra power boost.
Are we watching the same video? The people in the video I saw turned and started running almost immediately.
I'm so happy with Waymo, the current Waymo passenger experience is unparalleled. It's the future, for sure. It's true that there's no real competitor right now.

I've been watching Cruise fleet vehicles drive around in Phoenix, so maybe eventually they'll gain some ground again.

Waymo uses their own in-house lidar units as far as I know, but otherwise, it's a good time to be Ouster. VLP-16's cost about $5,000/unit right now.
Yes, exactly! For most sports, the rule would be: Do not kill or injure your opponent. But for contact sports like basketball, I think a good brawl would really liven up the game! Brass knuckles is almost certainly too much, but the idea of knocking out all your opponents so they can't score would actually make basketball much more interesting and strategic. Basketball + Boxing would make a fun combo!
Yes, they can.

Is it a problem that they do? I don't think so. Using semantic symbols seems far better option. Most fonts simply map multiple codepoints to a single glyph while dealing with all fun stuff like ligatures and all fun from GSUB tables (and fun company tables in fonts).

Honestly, I see semantic information as an absolute win and good choice. If unicode didn't contain it, it would have to be somewhere else (or making ratehr unpleasant choices like having fj together). It's an illusion that it wouldn't. People want pretty text. Rest of the world doesn't care. They want pretty text everywhere.

Instead of hating unicode, there would be hating "glyph points" plus "markup" (that would be literally everwere, from email to form editors) have all kinds of problems.
Assuming that's possible and the design of the control cabinet isn't boiling down to "a raspi wth a CAN bus adapter" that controls the individual lights via CAN Bus or whatever and an electrical distribution panel for mains AC to the light poles.

With old incandescent bulbs you absolutely needed a cabinet full of relays, but given that you can make a fully working traffic light out of Philips Hue lamps, an USB Zigbee controller and a day worth of time, I would not be surprised if a manufacturer opts for going the easy route.
Or a sign that the market sucks, so they've been applying for a while.

Or their interview skills suck.

Because I'm not a fan trying to puff myself up by blowing flowery smoke at people, I've previously felt that I should _like_ the one true answer to "Why do you want to work /here/?" to be "Because I need a job, and you're hiring.".

But I suppose a nicer, more compatible answer would be something like "Because our requirements and interests seem to align.". I guess that would sound a little like "interested in the work we are specifically doing" without being some sort of gushing false enthusiasm that anybody would perceive as either an exaggeration or a lie.
That's cause so many of them live in NYC and are oblivious to things that don't exist there
I'd be interested in what your take on effective collective action is.

As for pg's recent comments: whether or not he's on YC's board (I can't find confirmation either way, though he's listed as a founder: <https://www.ycombinator.com/people>, snapshot: <https://web.archive.org/web/20240723223830/https://www.ycomb...>), his essays are featured on YC's homepage (<https://www.ycombinator.com/>, snapshot <https://web.archive.org/web/20240723223921/https://www.ycomb...>), and he's making comments clearly indicated as guidance for both YC and other firms.

My own goal isn't persuading pg so much as YC's present leadership, and that of other firms (incubators, VC, or commercial enterprises). Opposition to populists has generally been "fringe", until it wasn't, or until all possible hope of opposition is lost.

There are other examples of notable organisations distancing themselves from founders. EFF and John Gilmore come to mind: <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/john-gilmore-leaves-ef...>
>Fully deserved, IMO. It's interesting how this funding round doesn't include external investors, but the previous two did. What's the calculation by Alphabet here?

Prediction: Google/Waymo will buy the smallest, yet capable, manufacturer of vehicles (electric or not), and vertically integrate.
If a brief moratorium (brief in geological time, like 25-50 years) was imposed, would this clear up? Or, does it descend into grey goo in space because at a threshold size, the debris can "float" on the exosphere?

Not a suggestion we call a halt on sat launches for 50 years. I'm asking if the remediation of time would work.
CNBC explainer video on aluminium gigacasting
Imagine thinking alphabet views waymo as a tax write off.
Yes. Using fine tuning.
I really don’t understand tankie logic. The nation that has been your geopolitical rival for a century is suddenly the beacon of western civilisation and ideals, despite stating they hate you and everything you stand for, and then attacking a country for merely thinking of allying with you!?

“I believe everything this former KGB operative says about my government! Finally, a neutral party without self-interests who can reveal the truth!”
I found this dubious as well, especially how it is portrayed as a simple game of compute power. For a start, there is an enormous asymmetry which is why we have a spam problem in the first place. For example a single bot can send out millions of emails at almost no cost and we have to expend a lot more "energy" to classify each one and decide if it's spam or not. So you don't just need more compute power you need drastically more compute power, and as AI models improve and get refined, the operation at ten times the scale is probably going to be marginally better, not orders of magnitude better.

I still agree with his general take - bad actors will get these models or make them themselves, you can't stop it. But the logic about compute power is odd.
We must have the old version in Australia because we bought extended autopilot for our 2024 M3 Highland and it drives for about 10 seconds before drifting into the left or right adjacent lanes and making everyone nervous.

And it tried to kill me on the freeway when it pretended it was going to merge and then just kept driving straight into the gutter.

In fact I have been thinking about asking for a refund because it is LESS capable than our 2020 Corolla’s adaptive cruise.

Really crappy situation to be waiting for someone to fix software that you paid for. If EAP is actually OK overseas, why don’t we have it here??
The Waymo-Zeekr feels like what Apple wanted to accomplish with their car.
Previously unknown source of oxygen found; implications for life origins?
I support you spending your fiat as you see fit, and will encourage you all the way to the bank, your feelings costing you a chunk of change you can hopefully afford to part with. We vote with our purchasing power, and I support your right to vote. I hope you can respect my vote to not further empower a terrible human.

I also upvoted your comment and will vouch for it as well, shared perspective is important, even if contrarian or deviating materially from a consensus.
> or the one that has an innovation this year (like side skirts) that other teams don't.

This honestly sounds like a very interesting competition to me that I'd love to see: a competition that is about both the athletes and the engineers behind the winning athletes.
If you aren't paying drivers, that's a lot of margin, yeah? If you're the only driverless game in town all of your vehicles can potentially earn an the salary of a driver, like 20$ an hour. They'd pay for themselves within a year pretty easily.
At least for this type of cheating: cycling equipment is competitor-supplied.

Professional gaming tournaments that don't issue/mandate equipment have this issue as well, professional paintball has had this issue, etc.
It's no secret that implementing AI usually involves far more investment into training and teaching than actual code. You can know how a neural net or other ML model works. You can have all the code before you. It's still a huge job (and investment) to do anything practical with that. If Meta shares the code their AI runs on with you, you're not going to be able to do much with it unless you make the same investment in gathering data and teaching to train that AI. That would probably require data Meta won't share. You'd effectively need your own Facebook.

If everyone open sources their AI code, Meta can snatch the bits that help them without much fear of helping their direct competitors.
> Always explain why something is useful. Yes, even when it’s obvious to you.

I almost always wish open source repos did a better job of this.
I spent 15 years here, had like 5-6 software engineering jobs, moved a few times to a different neighborhood, tried different social activities (sports, arts, dance lessons, online dating, etc.) and in the end the people always turned out the same. But maybe I'm just unlucky...
I'm just imagining Google deleting Steven Spielberg's entire private collection that he stores in Google Cloud because of the copyright claims.
Yup! I want to evaluate a couple different model options over time. Which should be pretty simple!

The main thing we're doing is converting documents to a series of images, and then aggregating the response. So we should be model agnostic pretty soon.
It wouldn't be that hard to mandate the riders use pedals that are only fitted at the course/track and otherwise stored by olympic officials. Power meters integrated in pedals have been a thing for a long time now:

> https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/658593

It doesn't need to be pedals either - it could be a standard crank arm or any other easily accessible part that can effectively house a power meter.

I'm sure there are plenty of other issues with this power meter based approach, but securing the data is probably doable to a reasonable degree.
A Skeptical Look at AI Investment (Goldman Sachs) [video]
There are a ton of operational costs that Uber/Lyft have lobbied to give to cheap contractors with no benefits.
Come on, you can print it yourself if you want and it's clear that at this price and shipping from Europe he earns close to zero on these.
Isn't this the agency that landed on a comet? That seems pretty innovative.
Humble Games confirms 'restructuring' amid reports all staff have been laid off
I can see why it was the case from engineering standpoint: adding a name from spoken phrase to a list is trivial, but looking up an item (that might not even be there) from a list based on a spoken phrase is prone to transcription errors. The user might refer to it with different phrasing than when it was added too.

This is feasible only very recently with LLMs.
They're not safer. The claim is that OpenAI will enforce guard rails and take steps to ensure model outputs and prompts are responsible... but only a fool would take them at their word.
This is true when the aircraft is at altitude, but there have been cases of passengers opening doors in flight at low altitude, where there is little or no pressure differential:

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/passenger-arrested-after-plan...
We are all rotating around the t-plane, constantly, at a consistent rate that will never stop.
I'm a huge proponent of building more rail of all kinds, but in the end we have to accept that traditional public transit options can only solve part of the problem. For the low and medium density parts of this country we should leverage the infrastructure we already have, which is a comprehensive road system. Automated shuttles and taxis remove the most expensive and dangerous part of driving - the human driver - and they already have all the infrastructure they require. I see it as only a matter of time before automated transit services on public roads outnumber individual drivers.
It's common (at least nowadays, in my experience) in English to omit the verb or part of it in headlines.
> People say that types-as-interfaces are not composable

Who says that and what does it even suppose to mean?
I was in Istanbul last year. Didn't see these wonders he mentioned.

The subways seemed to be closer in quality to a NYC than a London.

Very capable, but didn't seem cutting edge.
Parent commenter doesn't suggest that, just brings up the fact that there's indeed a large Vietnamese diaspora living in Warszawa.
they give you the code and they give you the model it runs, and you can customise and redistribute both. It's all open source in that respect.

What people are complaining about (totally unreasonably in my view) is obviously Meta is not "open sourcing" all the training data, so nobody can retrain the model from scratch themselves. This argument to me is just silly. The whole point of these models is they distil pretraining on massive data sets you wouldn't have access to otherwise. If you insist on them releasing the data set, they will have to cut it down to 0.1% of the size and you will be getting what you had access to already in the first place.
Hacker News ≠ "The Web"
You’ve twice focused on contradicting an opinion I did not express, but you haven’t told me how it relates to the questions I posed. It’s quite clear you disagree with the other person about whether signing up for Twitter is an endorsement of anything in particular. So are you saying that to imply that you do think they’re obligated to sign up for Twitter? What does your point have to do with my questions at all?
It’s not a grammar fix, it’s a sentiment fix.
>San Francisco just built a short subway to Chinatown. Not quite clear why.

Largely to set the stage for service to the Richmond.

>It's mostly a retirement village.

A testament to the resilience of the community in the face of an ongoing housing supply shortage. There is no doubt immense pressure from our typical economic processes to displace retirees from the place that they've lived their entire lives. You'd rather see old folks trapped in car-dependent suburbia, eventually unable to drive themselves to their basic needs?
That analysis doesn't sound right to me.

"the music likes me not"

To my ear, it's more similar to modern day "me likes", as in "I like".

Keep in mind archaic English retains more of the Scandinavian structure. "Likes" would in that case be active, i.e. the person doing the liking.

If my hunch is right, it's a play on words going from that more archaic structure in what the host says to the more modern structure in how Julia says it. Playing with the ambiguity of language.
I saw a similar method recently where blackhats registered a dodgy app with AzureAD which gave them broad authority.

After a few months they inserted themselves into a conversation about a wire transfer, posing as a finance director. The language was off just enough to raise flags.
Gonna chime in with the "why" that goes unspoken (except for on The Site Which Shall Not Be Named, where they are quite vocal), as far as public support goes: poor people and minorities. That is, the middle class, upper middle class, and elite who are influential enough to make-or-break these projects (usually by killing them with a number of phone calls, emails, dinner conversations, and lawsuit) are either afraid of poor people and minorities and don't want to ride public transit with them, or else don't want to give them a "free lunch" (never mind that the realities of car dependency mean that these people are actually subsidizing the complainers, by having to put a large portion of their own income into maintaining the means of transportation by which they get to the businesses that enrich the wealthy).

And, yes, I know, I know, the source; however, the consistency of their (incredibly profane and offensive) sentiments, squared with the ongoing reality of our public transit systems (SIDS: Sudden Infrastructure Death Syndrome), leads me to believe that there's a non-zero chance that they're merely expressing a more crass version of a shared belief among the more well-off and less incel-adjacent.

I post this not to inflame, but to raise an issue that has to be addressed in order to make these things happen. Not poor people and minorities, but the irrational attitudes towards any public good that is perceived as benefiting them. I dunno if you have to solve racism/classism, or merely convince the top 20% that public transit is a benefit to them, too, but you're going to have to do something wrt this matter if you want to see improvement in public transit infrastructure in this country (and preferably before a multi-billion-dollar quasi-FSD boondoggle ends up in the federal budget).
> I didn't agree to have ads from X or Y company roll before my video/s

Maybe read terms and condition before loading videos on youtube?
No. The text is an asset used by the source to train the model. The source can process arbitrary text. Text is just text, it was written for communication purposes, software (defined by source code) processes that text in a particular way to train a model.
Being trans, just like having autism, is not a mental disorder. The rest of the post is just repeating propaganda. Some empathy would go a long way.
It kept war out of central Europe from 1945 until 2022 (I'm not 100% sure we shouldn't count Georgia/Bosnia/Chechnia/Kosovo, so I'll say "central Europe").

I don't think two nuclear armed powers have ever declared war on each other - despite two nuclear armed powers currently being in active conflict (India and China) and another few being incredibly geopolitically unfriendly (India/Pakistan and Israel/Iran).

The whole idea behind MAD initially was that if Russia decided to get ideas in Europe, the Western powers would stop them with a nuclear curtain. That's why France has a "warning shot" nuclear doctrine, and the US hasn't ruled out Nuclear First Strike.

IMO, for what it was trying to stop, it worked. Ask people in China and India - it seems to be working for them as well.

EDIT: as an amendment to this: would Russia have been so bold as to invade Ukraine if the 1994 surrender of Ukraine's nuclear arsenal hadn't happened?
Is this how Mitsubishi is going to reclaim their past glory? As a child I remember they had some iconic vehicles.
google really, REALLY wants us to return to work
I'd find knowing what's in the training data hugely valuable - can analyse it to understand and predict capabilities.
All these parts (pedals, cranks etc) are very much an integral part of precisely how you set up the bike, not so much things you swap out without noticing. You'd get pushback from the teams if suddenly you mandated a particular pedal or crank. Some racers are very particular about what pedals they want. And cranks aren't exactly roadside-replacable.
Yes, exactly this! The messaging on that site is actually really refreshing!