skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpaceX builds and launches one of these for about $50-60 million and a reflight costs them about $20 million. They charge about $70 million per flight. They've made their investment on the first flight and more than double that income on all future flights. Compare that to a new $55 million dollar rocket for every launch, and you see how after a couple dozen reused flights a booster has earned SpaceX hundreds of millions of dollars more than using new all the time.

SpaceX already dominated pricing with its cheap flights before reuse, built on cheap costs from vertical integration and advanced manufacturing processes (plus skilled workforce) but reuse made winning every launch contract even more lucrative and today no one else can possibly match them.

More importantly reuse lets them fly often as they refurb in about a month and have a fleet of about 16 boosters. That lets them hit 3 flights a week when the operation is going smoothly and that is how something like Starlink can be profitable despite requiring over 100 launches a year. The cadence is ridiculous and that could not be had without reuse at anywhere close to SpaceX's workforce sizing today.
I am so bitter about my FSD purchase in 2019. At the time, there were some enhanced autopilot features and the rest was promised by the end of the year. I occasionally try it out and it's so bad. It feels completely unsafe. FSD has left such a bad taste that I almost never use even basic autopilot. I feel like I was conned out of $6000. I will never buy another Tesla as long as fraudster Elon is at the helm.
Google to Let Some Users Generate Images of People After Scandal
The inability to distinguish between mask types says more about the person who can't do so than it does about the similarity of mask types.
Given historical precedence, it's almost a certainty that it will not stay at that level, but regardless the context of my response was someone basically saying that high net worth individuals wouldn't have a problem paying the tax, and that's almost certainly not actually true.
Panasonic CF-31 i7 16GB 1TB already seems like a decent value at $640 https://www.ebay.com/itm/235658243945
LLM-generated descriptions miss lots of context. For instance, depending on the site and content, we might mention people's races or fashion. Other times we don't.
The easiest explanation is no significant amount of people in China are using it, there's no need to resort to conspiracies and backdoors.
Why should the choice of licence not be a fair concern to express in the comments? I'm not questioning the validity of the authors' decision per se, but the considerations and priorities behind it, and whether they ought to be different for a project of this type. I don't see how this side is less important or interesting to consider than the technical one (on which comments seem quite commonplace, and rightly so, in my view).

If my actual opinion interests you, I might lean towards the LGPL, rather than the GPL. I find both of them more beneficial than any of the MIT licences for a UI framework, but strong copyleft might do more to hamper widespread adoption and interest in the project, which seem an important factor as well.
Fil-C is now best case 2x slower than normal C, worst case about 6x, and I haven’t even finished implementing the obvious optimizations.

I bet that the Intel chip I’m on is more than 6x faster than any of the CHERI hardware.

Fil-C has a more deterministic and safer handling of use-after-free and it’s flexible enough to run CPython (pretty sure CPython was too much for CHERI’s capabilities).

If you consider that:

- Fil-C will get faster even without architecture help

- Fil-C runs on normal HW

- it probably only takes a small extension to the HW to eliminate any remaining Fil-C overhead (a much smaller extension than CHERI).

- Fil-C is just a thing I pulled out of my ass in the last 10 months or so and is a totally solo spare-time project (I.e. if a real compiler team did this full time they’d probably make it even better than where I’m at)

Then it sure does seem like CHERI is going to be doomed long term.
> People with measles can become contagious up to four days before developing symptoms and measles particles are known to be able to hang in the air for up to two hours.

> “Measles is perhaps the most contagious disease that we know of,” Cieslak said in the Aug. 8 news briefing.

> One to three of every 1,000 children who contract measles can die, and complications from the disease can lead to lifelong effects including hearing loss, deafness and intellectual disabilities
You can't guarantee that monkeys are typing perfectly randomly. We may never see better than "it was the best of times it was the blurst of times"
For Public Safety usage most all ID’s now have at least a 1d barcode and most have a 2d barcode. When the usage environment permits their use, barcode readers permit quick and accurate data entry versus manual keyboard entry.
Jean-Michel Jarre – Tech Meets Music [video]
Curious to hear what you think the other options are apart from the driver.
Project Farm did a great episode on counterfeit tool batteries [1]. If I remember correctly, both ebay and Amazon were culprits, at least in the comments.

I personally find that one of Amazon's main affronts is interfering with customer reviews in order to maintain artificially higher ratings. For example, my reviews stopped processing and would never post. This happened after leaving honest critical reviews. Note that +90% of my reviews are neutral or positive. Additionally, they removed my ability to search reviews, replacing it with Rufus, a completely incompetent and worthless search bot. This, I believe, cleverly prevents prospective buyers from accessing useful customer feedback or experience unless the buyer is willing to manually parse all reviews, which ain't happening.

Amazon does a lot to convolute reviews, including jumping to the wrong review after selecting a product to review from the order history.

It's an extremely useful and convenient resource, but thoroughly rotten. The algorithms are flagrantly evil and a very deliberate and specific search for a high-end product, the desired product will often be displayed below several or many more cereal-box quality products worth less than their packaging.

Where they win is shipping, variety and pricing. Hard to beat, but I never order anything serious on Amazon unless the seller is the actual company of the product, and even then...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kTTGGv6-syA
Yikes. I don't want to use this product myself.

Still, it's worrisome to judge based on anecdotes. I'd really like to see some sort of overall statistics that compare Tesla FSD to other cars. Tesla claims their FSD system, overall, saves lives. Does it?

The Waymo statistics, I find pretty convincing that Waymo is safer than human-driven taxis. There are still bad Waymo anecdotes, and they should continue to improve, but overall it seems like a good thing for safety.

Tesla FSD, I just don't know.
And I wonder how good some of the real ones are either... To certain capacity the prices feel laughably cheap.
> There's no evidence it's purely political.

There is a lot of evidence it's not. In France, the executive power (president, government, prefect) always ask a "procureur" to indict someone (issue a warrant and direct the police). In this very case, it's a "Juge d'instruction", which are notoriously independent (And it caused enough issues to have a Sarkozy/Dati law that tried to curtail this liberty around 2010, and still you have conservatives and far-right people asking for less initiative from this kind of judges (one of them ordered former president Sarkozy's phone to be put under surveillance).

Unless someone can draw a direct line from the OFMIN judge to Macron, i consider people talking about "political" bullshitter.
I don't have much in the way of skills (just web dev) or education (science B.S.), so whatever I can get!

Web dev seems to be dying anyway, so unemployment is more likely than getting to work for any of those orgs, alas :)

But I just think it's cool when companies/orgs find a niche and are able to sustainably work on that problem, living outside the usual tech hype cycles.
Price shocks in anything are generally bad for the economy (maybe with the exception of some commodities like oil, but even this can be bad since the producers of that commodity will be in trouble). You're too focused on the rich people, and not enough on the economy.

Price shocks are bad because they can cascade and cause businesses to fail, resulting in layoffs, etc.,. Stability is one of the most important things in the economy.
Right, I agree, arresting Durov because of what people do or do not do on Telegram is absurd.
The point here is to bring the computer to the field, not to bring the field to the computer.
> Anybody buying FSD is a fool

Anyone treating FSD as anything more than an L3 in beta (i.e. not L3) is a fool. That still leaves plenty of safe-enough entertaining use.

> if you have the babysit a self-driving feature, then it's entirely useless

I don't think so. My Subaru has L2 lanekeeping functions. I absolutely have to babysit it. But it's fun. And it reduces the stress of driving.

FSD is more stressful. But it's also more entertaining, and I don't think materially unsafe if it's being properly monitored.
> Pi is normal

ok... click

> Pi may be a normal number

huh...
FSD is surprisingly good when it does work. But the problem, as I have said on this very web site for more than a decade, is that the failure mode is unacceptable. You have to button up all the nigh unto infinite edge cases to truly be fully autonomous.
I'm on mobile right now, can't inspect how they did the web fonts. Is it JS-based, or they used something similar to this https://github.com/Y2Z/invisible-ink?
OneBusAway Launches Official Python and JavaScript SDKs
Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one (2021)
Yes, that stereotype irritates me because it stigmatizes people asking the obvious questions.
sure, if you don't mind replacing it weekly.
Usually HN engineers are able to compartmentalize and correctly answer questions like this, but it’s a lost cause with Tesla for some reason. They’re unable to separate “it did a dangerous thing, but did not cause harm” in their minds.

Yes, it has problems. Yes, it has regressions. Yes, sometimes it does dangerous things. But it drove me 400 miles, door to door, last week and did fine. There’s clearly something historic happening here, but all HN can talk about is flaws.

If someone developed a warp drive, and 25% of the time it turned the operator into jelly, we wouldn’t sit here talking exclusively about jelly. We’d talk about how warp drive is cool and what the path to fixing stuff is.

It’s really bizarre.
Well the majority of ML systems are compression machines (entropy minimizers), so ideally you'd want to see if you can learn the assets and game mechanics through play alone (what this paper shows). Better would be to do so more efficiently than that devs themselves, finding better compression. Certainly the game is not perfectly optimized. But still, this is a step in that direction. I mean no one has accomplished this before so even with a model with far higher capacity it's progress. (I think people are interpreting my comment as dismissive. I'm critiquing but the key point I was making was about how there's likely better architectures, training methods, and all sorts of stuff to still research. Personally I'm glad there's still more to research. That's the fun part)
Trying hard not to capture value: lifetime value of a generous free tier
I regret that I was born before jobs (the "work or starve" kind we have now) are made obsolete, so in that way I regret keeping every job for any length of time.
> Eaves are one of the easiest...

None of the responsible architects, nor developers, nor builders, nor Realtors pay those maintenance costs. And most of the folks buying houses these days are either indifferent, or oblivious, to the problem.
It's for public safety / law enforcement use cases. ID cards like driver's licenses have a barcode on them, they can read the barcode in their police software to look you up and get your warrants, driving record, etc and digitally ticket you.
The thing I wish we better understood about Waymo is how much the remote human operators are actually intervening on a daily basis - maybe I don’t know where to look, but I’ve never gotten a clear answer here. AFAICT the success of Waymo means Tesla needs to have a similar level of human oversight for its FSD vehicles. But since Waymo’s PR is all about the autonomy, way too many people have the impression that Waymo’s advantage is solely about better algorithms along with humility around limited geographical range. These are probably important factors! But I strongly suspect we don’t appreciate the human oversight.
"Development of Deep Ensembles to Screen for Autism and Symptom Severity Using Retinal Photographs" (2023)
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... ; 100% accuracy where a recently-published best method with charts is 80% accurate: "Machine Learning Prediction of Autism Spectrum Disorder from a Minimal Set of Medical and Background Information" (2024) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... https://github.com/Tammimies-Lab/ASD_Prediction_ML_Rajagopal...

I don't think any of the medical imaging NN training projects have similar colorspace analysis.
It's a novel-ish attack vector variant of social engineering HR, drag/spear phishing, and industrial espionage.

I haven't found any other examples or mentions of it on the internet since I have seen it in the wild since C0VID, so if anyone has a name better (LLM's didn't) you can be immortalized in Annual Training PowerPoints forever.
Accidents are not good, but how does FSD safety compare to human drivers in general?

Human drivers run over and kill school children too, so which is actually worse statistically? Human or FSD?

I'll side with the FSD / Elon haters if FSD is significantly worse. Until then I ask questions and remain neutral.
I think this is a very shallow take. I'm a GPL proponent and have worked on/released GPLed software for a good 20 years, now, and I think it's distasteful to judge how people choose to license the work that they do for free, and effectively "donate" to society.

I do wish more things were covered under licenses with strong "copyleft", but I don't begrudge anyone the ability to license their hard work however they please.
Google docs also uses OT not crdt. OT is easier to develop by an order of magnitude and even offline mode is possible to implement in a good enough way.
I really don’t care; they should have known the truth. And if they didn’t, they should have informed us on that, too.

The whole issue to me is that they acted like the authoritative figure who you could trust. Turns out, we could not. So why should I trust them from now on? They damaged it, and didn’t try to “fix” it. They just called everyone that asked questions conspiracy theorists, combining everyone into one word “wappie”. The officials did. They actually used that word multiple times on TV.

So I don’t know if they knew, but it’s besides the point.
we used them because they guaranteed parts and repair for something like five or ten years. This was the number one reason we purchased hundreds...

No complaints, they were very stable. We tried other cheaper models and they would overheat etc.. ( used on large ships )
exactly not too obstructive but right at your cursor. You will love it!!
Yeah. You can tell riding in them and watching the little screen, that the Waymo has a superhuman ability to detect pedestrians and cyclists around it.

I would much rather my children bike on a street where every car was a Waymo, than a street full of human-driven SUVs.
The comment thread does not disappoint: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1f2x5cc/after_a...
Marginalia Search is an AI-free[1] search engine, mostly because I don't think search is much helped by AI. The sorts of problems that does better than traditional IR-methods based search are things traditional search engines never did particularly well anyway.

https://search.marginalia.nu/
https://git.marginalia.nu/

[1] For whatever AI means these days. Given everything people claim to be AI in their marketing, there's an argument to be made all software is AI.
I feel the same. I enjoyed the FSD trial but it confirmed that I was right not to pay any money for it. It drove me all the way home successfully on a route I thought for sure would require my intervention. That was cool. But then one day it randomly decided the bike lane was the correct lane. That was a funny feedback when it asked why I disengaged ... "You decided you are a bike but you are most definitely not."

What's weird is that it was awful on the highway. I once rented a 2018 Model 3 with FSD before I bought my first Tesla, and it was delightful on the highway. It could switch lanes and everything. But the current FSD ... I tried to tell it to switch lanes, and it got halfway between the lanes and then changed it's mind. Didn't disengage, just sat there for a bit before deciding to wander back into the lane I started in. Another time, right after I engaged it, it decided to switch lanes (successfully this time, at least) but right in front of another car coming up on us. And there wasn't anybody in front of us to begin with. WTF.

AP is fine. I'll keep that. Though I'd like to have the dumb cruise control available as an option, because sometimes the adaptive cruise is a bit psychotic.
Why does the page have so much scrolling jank for a static landing page?
While human researchers might consider this bug trivial, I still feel happy that it can be discovered and patched automatically :)
IPFS is an interesting idea but there are a number of limitations that keep it from taking off. It’s also a bit of a timesink because the initial idea is good and it sucks you in and only later do you see the problems.
gReader Pro is pretty good on Android, doesn't get in the way too much.
If I ever needed to explain to someone who is in management, that is, who is a businessperson and not a tech person why their data might not be safe, why their allegedly "private" chats and "private" information might not be all that private, why any "secure" financially related things (ability for their business to receive payments, bank accounts working, ATM's working, etc., etc.) might not be all that "secure" -- then this is that explainer video!

This is the best video that I have seen so far -- that can communicate those high-level concepts to a broad, non-technical audience which might otherwise have trouble conceptualizing them.

In terms of communication of those concepts (of why allegedly "secure" might not be all that secure), this video is top notch!

The video is also fairly unbiased, that is, it talks fairly equally about positive and negative aspects, good and bad aspects of this phenomena, that is, it shows the phenomena as a double-edged sword (i.e., a philosophical idea for systems that can either work on behalf of a given party or for it, i.e., it can swing both ways).

So I like the communication and fairly unbiased aspects of this video.

If I had to choose one video for communicating all of the risks I enumerated above (we might call that the "threat horizon" -- you know, let's make up a term to describe it) to CEO's and other management types that might say things like "Of course we're secure, we've spent several $million$ on computer security, we have the best and brightest minds, of course we're secure" -- well, to those types I say, "watch this video and then tell me if you still think you're so certain"...

In summation, this video gets an A++ (from me!) for its ability to communicate this complex set of ideas to people who usually don't understand/grok/relate-to complex sets of ideas...

I'm not saying that everone in management is a Dilbert "Pointy Haired Boss" (PHB) -- but I would argue that in many corporate environments those that are, might outnumber those that are not...

Phrased another way, "The price of eternal freedom -- is eternal vigilance"...

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
Google docs was originally ot based as well. I'm not sure about the current state of it.
Inventory tracking. This is a piece of military equipment, and a lot of that stuff is tracked with bar codes.
Can't wait to share sweaty goggles with "Wet" Joe, who last washed his face for his wedding in 2006.
Maybe they should add good backup encryption then lest people decide they don’t want to use Signal because it doesn’t have this feature and end up with weak/no backup encryption.
> Waymo goes the wrong way on the street

I'm familiar with that intersection in Tempe. There is a bar for beating the average human driver on it, and going to wrong way is sadly not above it.

I'm also not aware of any fatalities resulting from a Waymo accident. (Waymo also doesn't seem to be deluded about its system's safety. That's why they have human drivers on standby, remote and in person.)
FWIW, I haven't been active there since 2021. When I was on the Amazon Alexa Developer Education team during lockdown, I used to answer Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) questions between breakfast and morning stand-up. But since I left the team, I haven't worked on a product with that kind of question volume there.
> Falcon 9 booster landings became such a normal event that it's only news when it fails.

A bit like the airplane industry they are trying to copy -- make these things routine....
Established by make sure you know the assumptions it makes too. Don't just take data at face value, make sure you know what the data actually is telling you and importantly what it doesn't tell you.
I wouldn't even know where to buy RAM (good RAM, at online prices) in person...
You know the app is open source, right? You can check this yourself and see how hard it would be to remove.
I am a muggle, but the three biggest use cases for me have been:

1) Boring stuff like JSON schema/JSON example modification and validation

2) Rubber ducky

3) Using this system prompt to walk me through areas in which I have no experience [0]

You are a very helpful code-writing assistant. When the user asks you for a solution to a long, complex problem, first, you will provide a plan with a numbered list of steps, each with the sub-items to complete. Then, you will ask the user if they understand and if the steps are satisfactory. If the user responds positively, you will then provide the specific code for step one. Next, you will ask the user if they are satisfied and understand. If the user responds positively, you will then proceed to step two. Continue the process until the entire plan is completed.

I recently finally used the OpenAI API in a project. It was gpt4-o to analyze news story sentiment. The ease of use and quality of output is impressive.

[0] I should add that I have been using "presets" in the LibreChat GUI to allow me to have many system prompts easily available. It's kind of like Custom GPTs. Also, using LibreChat for work feels better as I believe that OpenAI states that they do not train on data provided via API.
This is the "virtual monorepo", if you want to clone one repo and build the entire SDK product then this is the correct thing to checkout - but development work right now still happens in the separate project repos, of which there are ~20
It doesn't even have to run over a pedestrian to be dangerous, such a move could very well lead to the driver being pulled over and extrajudicially executed by a trigger happy cop
I remember running into the old version of these super early in my little IT life, back when I was just at AIT; All that time playing with FCBC2's and Blue Force trackers ended up giving me an addiction to very graphically boring military simulation games, but I'm not complaining.

We also used to run HMMWVs over them on my deployments, mostly to prove points and win bets lol. That got stopped after an MRAP crushed one though - The rakkasans who know, know ;)
Gotcha, thanks for the details!