skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As soon as it’s good enough for Tesla to accept liability for accidents.

That makes a lot of sense and not just from a selfish point of view. When a person drives a vehicle, then the person is held responsible for how the vehicle behaves on the roads, so it's logical that when a machine drives a vehicle that the machine's manufacturer/designer is held responsible.

It's a complete con that Tesla is promoting their autonomous driving, but also having their vehicles suddenly switch to non-autonomous driving which they claim moves the responsibility to the human in the driver seat. Presumably, the idea is that the human should have been watching and approving everything that the vehicle has done up to that point.
No. The Kernel IS the operating system.

No, the user space is (mostly) busybox, in both cases.

The user interface is different sure.

The fact that termux (a Debian userspace) is able to run on android at all is enough to dispel your claims.

Stop with the mental gymnastics, you're ill prepared. If you wish, I can buy you a dictionary.
I think Gabe was entirely right, it is in the end service problem. And services can be wrong at multiple ways. For a moment video content got it right. But this was naturally unstable equilibrium. Free market capitalism is naturally greedy so everyone wants their own piece of the pie and not just give it away for someone else.
I think the Waymo approach is the one that will actually deliver some measure of self driving cars that people will be comfortable to use.

It won't operate everywhere, but it will gradually expand to cover large areas and it will keep expanding till it's near ubiquitous.

I'm dubious that the Tesla approach will actually ever work.
What makes you think he's unhinged? His odd tweets?
OK, going through the tutorial again, I think the difference between commits and changes are definitely the thing to focus on. Before your comments, I felt like I was building on a small foundation, because I didn't understand how commits and changes relate, and didn't have a good mental model of them.

After your comments, the entire tutorial is more solid, but still I feel like I have gaps. My feedback would be to really focus on commits vs changes and define their relationships, what affects them, etc before you go into anything else.
Comments like this are a great example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Your comment is actually an indication that you don't have the mastery required to get useful, productive output from a high quality LLM.

Maybe you don't push your boundaries as an engineer and thus rarely need to know new things or at least learn new API surfaces. Maybe you don't know how to effectively prompt an LLM. Maybe you lack the mastery to analyze and refine the results. Maybe you just like doing things the slow way. I too remember a time as an early programmer where I eschewed even Intellisense and basic auto complete...

I'd recommend learning a bit more and practicing some humility and curiosity before condemning an entire class of engineers just because you don't understand their workflow. Just because you've had subpar experiences with a new tool doesn't mean it's not a useful tool in another engineer's toolkit.
Sure. But how do you achieve that in practice? All functions can't be pure, and at some point you need to handle messy I/O and deal with nondeterminism. How you structure your code in the best way to do that, while also ensuring you can write useful tests? None of this is trivial.
People in Europe are white. Of course engineers, politicians, cooks, street sweepers are going to be white.

Societies, not only in Europe, have historically been men-dominated. So, again, the elite is going to be mostly men.

It is relevant that what you call a "quick aside" was even made because it reveals the mindset and deeper agenda that pervades some parts of academia and political circles these days, which bluntly is anti-white (and, God forbid, male ones).
I don't think that's a useful argument.

I think we should start allowing autonomous driving when the "driver" is at least as safe as the median driver when the software is unsupervised. (Teslas may or may not be that safe when supervised, but they absolutely are not when unsupervised.)

But once we get to that point, we should absolutely ratchet those standards so automobile safety over time becomes just as safe as airline safety. Safer, if possible.

> It's stupid to hold automotive autopilots to the same standard as a plane's autopilot when a third of fatalities in cars are caused by the pilots being drunk.

That's a weird argument, because both pilots and drivers get thrown in jail if they fly/drive drunk. The standard is the same.
The correct name would be "Not Self Driving". Or, at least, Partial Self Driving.
That's a ridiculous argument.

If a construction firm takes an arbitrary design and then tries to build it in a totally different environment and for a different purpose, then the construction firm is liable, not the original designer. It'd be like Boeing taking a child's paper aeroplane design and making a passenger jet out of it and then blaming the child when it inevitably fails.
Oh, calm down. Twitter broke a feature, people moved to a Twitter-like thing where the feature still works. There is no need to overthink this particular one.
Rules of Makefiles (2002)
Knowing someone with a brain injury, something that is hugely apparent is how much we take for granted "sequencing" - that is, the ability for the brain to hold a sequence of events, ideas or actions in a coherent order over a period of time. It's much more fragile than you would think. People with specific brain injuries suddenly can't work out whether to put their shoes on before their socks etc.

Why I mention this is that I see both language and reasoning as rooted in this more fundamental cognitive ability of "coherent sequencing". This sits behind all kinds of planning and puzzling tasks where you have to project forward a sequence of theoretical actions and abstractly evaluate the outcome.

Which is all to say, I don't think language and reasoning are the same, but I do think it is likely they stem from the same underlying fundamental mechanisms in our brain. And as a consequence, it's actually quite plausible that LLMs can reconstruct mechanisms of reasoning from language, in a regressive model kind of fashion. ie: just because their are other ways to reason doesn't exclude language as a path to it.
Using Euro coins as weights (2004)
Bizarre. MicroSD cards are $5 on Amazon. I figured everyone has a bunch of spare 5V 2.5A PSUs in the box of wall warts in their garage, but maybe that's a bad assumption. $5 for a brand new PSU and $15 canakit shipping. So it's $100 total if you didn't care at all about cost and bought the most expensive Pi for use as an edge device for no technical reason.

Why would you need a heatsink unless you use a case? Why would you use a case? That price tag is entirely self inflicted
You can use reactivity outside components in Vue without Vuex, I don't find it to be much less intuitive than Svelte (which is also nice, don't get me wrong).
Searching for and Navigating Git Commits
> I think we should not be satisfied with merely “better than a human”.

The question is whether you want to outlaw automatic driving just because the system is, say, "only" 50% safer than us.
The problem is not so much the lack of disclaimers, it is the adberitising. Tesla is asking for something like 15 000 dollars for access to this "beta", and you don't get two modal dialogs before you sign up for that.

This is called "false advertising", and even worse - recognizing revenue on a feature you are not delivering (a beta is not a delivered feature) is not GAAP.
Someone, at some point signed off on this being released. Not thinking things through seriously is not an excuse to sell defective cars.
Answer is already there in this thread.
There's no reason a bug fix for a free software needs to be non-free.
You can't honestly call Xbox a failure. This is a $20B market and about 10% of Microsoft's revenue.
The editor was very basic, but surprisingly good. I used it this year on CP/M on my RC2014. The whole IDE was pretty great, given that it also included a fast compiler.

I don't think the intent of this whole thing is to say that there is no point in modern improvements. But it _is_ good to have some reference on how much we used to get done with so little. Those several decades of complexity growth are buying us some stuff, but maybe not as much as we think.
That's what they want you to think. I mean this entirely non-sarcastically. I don't know exactly how bad they are or aren't, but they work hard to look like prestige.
That's helpful. Appreciate it.
Crowd sourced Computer Book for kids
There has to be an easier way than that?
As an alternative to simulating latency: How about using a VPN service to test your website via Australia? I suppose that when it easier to do, it is more likely that people will actually do this test.
Thank you for this. The number of people conflating Tesla's Autopilot with an airliner's autopilot, and expecting that use and policies and situations surrounding the two should be directly comparable, is staggering. You'd think people would be better at critical thinking with this, but... here we are.
Not trivial, but that is exactly the kind of thing that successful insurance companies factor into their premiums, or specifically exclude those scenarios (e.g. not covering war zones for house insurance).
Designing RealTime Collaborative Systems: Deep Dive into Mouse Pointer Tracking
>it's an objective fact that California's government is hostile toward it's citizens possessing and bearing firearms

A state puts restrictions on semi-automatic weapons (one model which has been used to kill hundreds or thousands of people in random shootings) and here it's described as "being hostile to people possessing firearms". For most non-americans (which is my case) this will always sounds so strange
> curl https://ngs-lang.org/install.sh | bash

What can go wrong ?

POSIX ?
Does Germany have a consumer protection agency? I might have complained there after the flight.
I'm not sure this analysis is totally correct though, after all without spoiling to much, an Indian prince features prominently in some of the best known stories of Jules Verne, and another of the famous ones is about a Chinese man.

And most stories take place with characters that are British or American bordering on parodies, rarely French people.

It's true that women are rarely important though.

Also disclaimer, I didn't read this article.
Syncthing Android App Discontinued
There is a blue whale skeleton in my hometown, at the Melbourne Museum.
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/14968
More specifically, it is large VC funding or private equity ownership that does it in. As I see it, not having a lean operation, growing the company and expenses too fast without a commensurate growth in revenue and in profit, is the root of the evil. In contrast, a lean self-bootstrapped firm ought to be much less at risk of becoming not open.
> Are there any other types of drivers [than human drivers]?

Waymo says yes, there are.
Tecno Pocket Go hits Kickstarter: Handheld gaming PC with a wearable display
im not entirely sure their support could get any worse?
No, that makes no sense, because we can't ensure that human drivers aren't impaired. We test and compare against the reality, not the ideal we'd prefer.
Setting aside religious discussion, what I found interesting is that the shroud has a lot of things that we simply cannot explain. For example, we have been unable to replicate the image as it exists (I think he said 200 nm thick), using highly advanced UV technology. If we can't figure it out now, how on earth would someone have created it centuries ago? I found other details, such as the absense of the photo-negative impression where blood stains were, fascinating.

I also thought the debunking of the 1988 "findings" made a lot of sense.

I'm not saying that it is "authentic" in that it is the impression of Christ from the Resurrection. What I am saying is that using our best scientific methods, we still have no explanation for how it came to exist.

I suppose I should ask, what kind of evidence are you looking for that would make something convincing to you?
Just remember, the mininum billing increment for file size is 128KB in real AWS S3. So your Git repo may be a lot more expensive than you would think if you have a giant source tree full of small files.
My experience: only the good operational execs engage personally, and only for specific reasons of gathering feedback and improving the overall system.

You’d be surprised how often decisions are made without ever seeing people at work, or communicating with them in a meaningful way. There are managers who do engage first hand, but they are not real decision makers, and just relay the report on situation and context upstream / execute on decisions of others. Relay of accurate first hand information from workers to execs almost never happens.

As one of the neighbor threads accurately highlighted: this is by design, both on customer side and on worker’s side. Customers get vouchers, workers get retainers, among both there is a calculated percentage of people facing what they see as “accountability sink”, what is in reality a machine intentionally designed that way.
Chat Memory for Meta AI
Funny you should make claims about my skills when you have exactly zero data about my abilities or performance.

Evaluating my skills based on how I evaluated someone else's skills when they tell me about their abilities with and without a crutch, and throwing big academic sounding expressions with 'effect' in them might be intimidating to some but to me it just transparently sounds pretentious and way off mark, since, like I said, you have zero data about my abilities or output.

> I'd recommend learning a bit more and practicing some humility and curiosity before condemning an entire class of engineers

You're clearly coming from an emotional place because you feel slighted. There is no 'class of engineers' in my evaluation. I recommend reading comments more closely, thinking about their content, and not getting offended when someone points out signs of lacking skills, because you might just be advertising your own limitations.
Yes, I meant something else, and of course I'm not advocating for hard to understand code. However, as the sibling comment suggests, what's obscure or hard is relative.

The problem with indiscriminate application of "code has to be easy to understand" is that it can be used to make pretty much anything, including most features of your language, off limits. After all, a junior developer may not be familiar with any given feature. Thus, we can establish no reasonable lower bound on allowed complexity using such a guideline.

Conversely, what’s too simple or too difficult is very specific to the person. Somebody who’s coming to a junior developer role from a data science background might have no problem reading 200 lines of SQL. Somebody with FP background might find data transformation pipelines simple to understand but class hierarchies difficult, and so on. So the "easy to understand for anyone" guideline proves less than useful for establishing an upper bound on allowed complexity as well.

Therefore, I find that it’s more useful to talk about a lower and upper bound of what’s required and acceptable. There are things we should reasonably expect a person working on the project to know or learn (such as most language features, basic framework features, how to manipulate data, how to debug etc.) regardless of seniority. On the other hand, we don’t want to have code that’s only understood by one or two people on the team, so perhaps we say that advanced metaprogramming or category theory concepts should be applied very sparingly.

Once that competency band is established, we can work to bring everyone into the band (by providing training and support) rather than trying to stretch the band downwards to suit everyone regardless of experience.
In this post, you have been told about an Islamic Talisman with the blessing of which you will be protected from all kinds of negative energy during marriage.
It should be remembered that since ancient times, people have believed that from engagement to marriage, every girl and boy can face the evil eye of giants, witches, and dangerous negative energy.
Therefore, during this time, old people tried to protect their children through charity and prayers and the same is done even today.
It should be remembered that a few months or a few days before the marriage, if a girl or a boy falls victim to negative energy or the evil eye, due to this, they may have an accident or there may be some obstacle in their marriage.
Therefore, before marriage, every girl and boy needs a special kind of spiritual protection, in ancient times such spiritual protection was done through the divine amulet (marriage talisman) and even today, the spiritual blessings of the divine amulet (marriage talisman) are the most visible for the protection of marriage.
I went with Svelte when I built out the website for my canvas library a few years back[1]. It's proved to be easy to maintain the site, and I particularly like that it supported my vanilla JS library (which I use on the site's landing page) with minimal fuss.

At some point I want to update the site to use Sveltekit, which I'd been experimenting with in personal projects. But then the team announced Svelte 5 and these things called "runes" and ... I don't know. Having just passed my 60th birthday I'm getting to a stage in my life when keeping up with all the New Shiny makes me wonder if it's worth the effort, or if I should be doing more interesting stuff like creating new content for the site instead.

[1] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/
Seems like you have thought about this a lot. What do you think about xbox? It seems like with cross play and gamepass they should be doing well but maybe they are failing with console price/quality and poor exclusives.
Re: gotchas: an even easier one is that the Tesla FSD statistics don't include when the car does something unsafe and the driver intervenes and takes control, averting a crash.

How often does that happen? We have no idea. Tesla can certainly tell when a driver intervenes, but they can't count every occurrence as safety-related, because a driver might take control for all sorts of reasons.

This is why we can make stronger statements about the safety of Waymo. Their software was only tested by people trained and paid to test it, who were also recording every time they had to intervene because of safety, even if there was no crash. That's a metric they could track and improve.
They do care about the ability to calculate loads across truss configurations, develop inverted pedulum feedback controls, etc.

One of the people metioned was good at that kind of work, the other .. not so much.
Jules Vernes is a notorious misogynist and racist. Read "The Mysterious Island" for instance. He was a product of his time, but clearly not the best one on those grounds.

Also "People in Europe are white" is really something you just hear from people without any European historical culture, and/or people wanting to sell a racist ideology. You have the whole spectrum of colors in Europe, and that's not recent at all. Africa is 30km from Europe, Asia is connected to it, and people travel since before we were modern humans.
I've started just sending physical, paper, letters if I need to communicate with a company. It seems to have a better success rate.
Ask HN: Seeking Guidance on Launching an Email Service
Hello everyone,

I’m embarking on a journey to create my own email service as a solo developer and would love to hear from those who have already ventured down this path. How has your experience been?

My aim is to offer a comprehensive solution that includes email, calendar, and contacts. I know there are numerous open-source projects available, and I’m looking for your recommendations on which ones are the most reliable and effective.

Additionally, if you know of any resources similar to https://explained-from-first-principles.com/email that could guide me through the technical aspects, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you!
So they publish an updated model every three months that works better.
Which means you can approach the speed of light, but never travel at this speed in space.
Ask HN: Do you use CM tools newer than Ansible?
Ansible was created in 2012. I am curious if you use any general-purpose configuration management tool that is newer. (By "general-purpose" I mean not narrowly focused on containers or cloud infrastructure.) I am aware of at least Itamae (first commit in 2013), Pyinfra (2014), mgmt (2015), and mitamae (2016).
That's not a workable idea as it'd just encourage corporations to obfuscate the ownership of the plant (e.g. shell companies) and drastically underestimate the actual risks of catastrophes. Ultimately, the government will be left holding the bill for nuclear catastrophes, so it's better to just recognise that and get the government to regulate the energy companies.
I suspect the performance might vary widely depending on if you're on a road in california they have a lot of data on, or if its a road FSD has rarely seen before.
I recently used a 555 (and some other simple parts) to fix some timing issue my ham radio's internal CW keyer seemed to be having. Maybe I could have used an ESP32 module that I also had lying around, but I could run the 555 directly off of the ~12 volt power supply, and it was also more fun to build the little circuit.

More details if curious: https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/1eo9ki7/xiegy...
Going proprietary is one thing, but doing it in several steps in different repos and saying nothing about it I really don't like...

What are open alternatives at this point?
I’d need about 40 minutes.
Many students are not college-ready. They don't want to read, write, or follow instructions.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/1g5fhae/utterly...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Professors/
How about the government running a service where you can ask them to validate an image?

Trying to tweak an image will not work because you will find the police on your doorstep.
I get pretty abysmal results for scarce categories even though they have well defined preconditions.
It would be quite exciting to train a LLM with (OCR scans of) all mathematical journals, pre-prints, time-series etc.
> and I don't think that can apply to a company, because writing is what individuals do.

By that token, no action could ever apply to a company—including approving, producing, or releasing—since it is a legal entity, a concept, not a physical thing. For all those actions there was a person actually doing it in the name of the company.

It’s perfectly normal to say, for example, “GenericCorp wrote a press-release about their new product”.
Pragprog just published a new book this month with SNOBOL in it:

Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks

https://pragprog.com/titles/dzseven/seven-obscure-languages-...
Probably the first IC I used.
> it will be quite good within a year

The regressions are getting worse. For the first release anouncement it was only hitting regulatory hurdles and now the entire software stack is broken? They should fire whoever is in charge and restore the state Elon tried to release a decade ago.
I always found the point of view silly that it's somehow better to ship proprietary firmware with the hardware, rather than shipping the same proprietary firmware bundled with an otherwise free operating system and uploading it to the hardware when booting.
If brain isn't more special than Chinese room, then brain understands Chinese no better than Chinese room?
XGBoost LightGBM Catboost and JLBoost?
The awesome Ben Eater gives the clearest explanation I've seen of how the 555 timer works internally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlSFm519Bo