skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I miss the most is coming into contact with people with a huge variety of backgrounds.
> Which surprisingly were the people with who I had to spent the most amount of time explaining how software works.

How is this surprising? I read this as "huge variety of backgrounds", meaning, all kinds of backgrounds which are NOT software. It would make sense to me they don't understand how software works.
How is forcing one of its largest employers, one of its largest manufacturers, and leaving the commercial airliner market dominated by foreign companies good for the country?
"Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course"

Isn't this just chemotherapy? It seems like we already break the Hippocratic Oath quite regularly and many people are glad we do!
The point is not that it was a good title, it's that you should not respond to a bad title with a bad HN comment. ("Good" and "bad" in this context mean, to a first approximation, in accordance (or not) with the HN guidelines.)

If you had posted a version of this comment instead (i.e. your second comment, which I'm currently replying to), that would of course have been fine.

Btw this is a case of the 'rebound' phenomenon*, which is that often people respond to a moderation comment with the best, most compelling and precise description of what they were originally thinking. It's a pity we can't get those in the first place! On HN it's good to pause before posting anything snarky, ranty, etc., until you** can access that information and then post it instead.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

** I don't mean you personally, of course, but all of us.
Benefits?
You know what they say, if you want to kill someone in the US, do it in a car.
Bluesky gains 1.2M in 2 days, 12M total after X disables blocking
I have worked in specialist consulting for 10 years and I agree with this take. Our business does the best during times of uncertainty. During lean times, operators want to make sure they are allocating capital intelligently, so they pay for our insights and advice. In the good times, they just plow all their revenue into making the flywheel spin faster, no need to be cautious or thoughtful when money is coming in no matter what you do.
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41771085 - October 7th, 2024 (4 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743399 - October 4th, 2024 (1 comment)

(no material discussions previously)
What's the worst that could happen to you if something goes wrong during your hotel stay?

Because with your ID copied, that could happen to you if something goes wrong in your ID copier's stay.
It's way to late to fix the "statement vs expression" bug in Python's design.

We could have done that in the v3 switch, but we decided to spend man-centuries of effort on chasing already deprecated legacy Windows Unicode semantics instead.
It’s not “magic” but it can be an effective treatment for ADHD - for the people it works for, which isn’t everyone.

Personally, I think a lot of people with ADHD are way over medicated, leading to the type of symptoms you describe. If you take the lowest effective dose of the most mild stimulant that works for you, it will probably not work quite as well but will also not have any side effects at all. Ritalin is usually much milder than e.g. adderall, and I think most people would do better on extremely low doses of it- like 5-15mg spread out over an entire day for a large adult, whereas people tend to start on 2x that and then double it.

It’s supposed to “fuck” with your reward and risk processing circuitry - in particular to make them actually work for people where they naturally don’t work.
I have no idea what the conditions were like for this incident, but I’ve blown through a 4-way stop sign when the sun was setting. There’s only so much sunglasses can do.
> Gaps in Tesla's telematic data create uncertainty regarding the actual rate at which vehicles operating with Autopilot engaged are involved in crashes. Tesla is not aware of every crash involving Autopilot even for severe crashes because of gaps in telematic reporting. Tesla receives telematic data from its vehicles, when appropriate cellular connectivity exists and the antenna is not damaged during a crash, that support both crash notification and aggregation of fleet vehicle mileage. Tesla largely receives data for crashes only with pyrotechnic deployment, which are a minority of police reported crashes.3 A review of NHTSA's 2021 FARS and Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS) finds that only 18 percent of police-reported crashes include airbag deployments.
A good password generator should check that the random generation did not give too many repeats or that the password is not easily guessed by a simple common password list
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41880649

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41884740

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41878506
To be fair, a lot of organizations can't do this on their own. Which is why they hire a consultancy.

Information is siloed, teams compete rather than cooperate, any team's own dossier is going to be seen as biased and unobjective.

There's real value in hiring a neutral, competent vendor to come in, assemble the relevant information using best practices, and present a "dossier" with common-sense conclusions. Then the leader who hired them can use that as political cover for taking the necessary actions they wanted to in the first place, because the leader is no longer siding with one bureaucratic faction against another, but merely taking objective advice from an outsider.

That's actually worth a lot.
How did you detect that?
Boeing already tried doing this. Several big Customers rejected deliveries from the non union plant because they were unacceptably poorer in quality.
Previous discussion (11 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41881527
>I save my old antibiotics and such because it takes so long to get into urgent care, and it's expensive, and I can't go to my regular doctor for a sinus infection because it takes two weeks to get in.

I cringed so much reading this.

* When you're prescribed an antibiotic, you're expected to finish the course of medication. Not doing so leads to resistant strains.

* Medication has an expiration date for a reason. You generally shouldn't expect to be able to save it from one illness to the next, nor to know that the one from before is applicable to the current condition.

* The large majority of disease is caused by viruses, and antibiotics won't help. Your "sinus infection" might not be a local infection at all but just some respiratory illness resulting in sinus congestion. Never mind whether it's viral or bacterial.
I could see using one of these as a landline replacement. I was lamenting with another parent the expense of a landline and how difficult it is for kids to call each other to arrange a park meetup or other games - this could fill that gap perfectly.
I had to track everything I did for a while, then fill out weekly reports that were due monthly. I ended up writing something similar, where it would log everything to a single file with a timestamp. I then had some commands that would let me pull back the previous day, previous n days, or any specified date range.

Eventually I changed this up and made something that I could trigger with a keyboard shortcut, would pull up a prompt, and append it to a daily note I had in Obsidian.

I don't have to track things as much anymore and I noticed I became a lot more productive and a bit more happy when I wasn't worried about accounting for every minute of my work day.
I've por es as an external consultant to KPMG as a software engineer and I loved that all processes are clearly defined. I think is big because all steps are clear for everyone in the company so the do not misstep that often.. I also felt like we had so few meetings and a lot of work was done in little time with almost 0 interference from management.
So they still harbor the same amount of mental and emotional strain, is what you're saying?
Are we talking about the time the car hit the mayor on his bike in 2017, or the time the car hit a different mayor in 2019, or the more recent one in 2023?

Either way, when you ram your car into a bicycle it is known as "el san jose hola" or "The San Jose Hello" around here.
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
More clarity may change people’s opinion of the accident, but IMO pedestrian meaningfully represents someone who is limited to human locomotion and lacks any sort of protection in a collision.

Which seems like a reasonable description of the type of failure involved in the final few seconds before impact.
Hehe I guess it greatly depends on the kind of group of people you test it on. There are a lot of people that buy these comfortable e-bikes with fat wheels and big seats, not because they're sporty, but because they're lazy and want comfort. And often you can also see it from their weight.
What laws in the last 20 or so years have made this situation better or worse?
Free market, it will open up a lot of opportunities for new companies
How much would you be willing to build it for if it was open sourced but you would be paid for ongoing maintenance and feature enhancements?

Edit: thanks for the reply!
Even on topics where I agree with him directionally, I find he misrepresents the truth or omits significant caveats.
- "There were pathetic advertisements from the whale oil people of that time arguing for 'pure' whale oil over 'impure' substitutes."

It's the same today: people pay premiums for vegetables fertilized with "pure" bird poop (guano) over equivalent phosphate rocks mined from the earth.

e.g.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/world/americas/30peru.htm...
That is the correct use of pedestrian as a noun.
https://www.goodreads.com/fr/book/show/60760108-beyond-the-b...

The bears get there first, then the raccoons...
pulls the mask off “we” and “our”

It was Matt Mullenweg all along
Is Being Data-Driven a Fad?
Crash Course: If You Want to Get Away With Murder Buy a Car
Woodrow Phoenix
Not to mention that when you can't see, you slow down? Does the self-driving system do that sufficiently in low visibility? Clearly not if it hit a pedestrian with enough force to kill them.

The article mentions that Tesla's only use cameras in their system and Musk believes they are enough, because humans only use their eyes. Well firstly, don't you want self-driving systems to be better than humans? Secondly, humans don't just respond to visual cues as a computer would. We also hear and respond to feelings, like the sudden surge of anxiety or fear as our visibility is suddenly reduced at high speed.
I get what you're saying but the GP is saying they are literally suffering from psychosis. We should definitely be able to say psychosis sufferers are not operating in the realm of reality; it's tautological
I thought they were still doing one free lesson. It's been a while since I was on Reforge though.
It was Bart, https://comb.io/vs9gku.
Yup makes sense from that point of view.
> Now, at this point, do I attempt to negotiate the NDA or just move on?

Just move on.

If you really want to do them a favour, tell them why. But that's not mandatory.
As illustrated in a number of cases mentioned throughout this thread, this revenue is minimal.

It is simply easier to say "no" instead of going out on a limb and saying yes and then your bosses coming at you for doing what you shouldn't have done.

Nobody will be reprimanded for saying "no", but somebody might for just granting access to these 3d scans.
If environmental factors incapacitate you, should you not slow down or stop?
Ask HN: Has a single image/GIF ever made something 'click' for you?
When I first saw the sine wave coming out of the unit circle (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Circle_cos_sin.gif) in high school it blew my mind. Have you ever experienced something like this?
What I really want are open standards.

Standard battery inter connectors, software APIs, etc.
Should I break rank? Navigating corporate hierarchies
A Distributed Systems Reading List (2014)
The interesting question is how good self-driving has to be before people tolerate it.

It's clear that having half the casualty rate per distance traveled of the median human driver isn't acceptable. How about a quarter? Or a tenth? Accidents caused by human drivers are one of the largest causes of injury and death, but they're not newsworthy the way an accident involving automated driving is. It's all too easy to see a potential future where many people die needlessly because technology that could save lives is regulated into a greatly reduced role.
The OnePlus 6 can run mainline Linux, though apparently audio in calls drops sometimes. [0]

0: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchil...
Sometimes using a word correctly is still confusing because it’s used in a different context 90% of the time.
The Bangladesh high court ruling that reinstated the quota system and quite likely was the catalyst for the subsequent overthrow of the government was completely devoid of legal standards: https://www.supremecourt.gov.bd/resources/documents/2110398_...

The high court found a constitutional right to the quota even though it wasn’t in the text of the constitution. Textualism could have saved the government.
I think parent commenter emphasized the context.

Leaving out context that would otherwise change the interpretation of most or targeted people is the main way to misled those people without technically lying.
Source: trust me bro?
Future of Internet in the Age of AI
I'm really wondering how this change passed Apple's App Store review process. They can be strict on features like this.

But I guess the rules are different for Big Companies, coz for example, none of us can have a single letter for an app name, like X.
The measure of uniqueness is effectively entropy (entropy = log base 2 of the number of possible passwords). Ease of use is just unnecessary (for entropy purposes) padding on top of that (constraints on symbol sets, order, etc). The necessary threshold is entirely dependent on your threat model, combined with the risks that your use cases are exposed to when using the password.

Your point that using entropy rich passwords is foolish, is incorrect most of the time, and even if it weren't people's general understanding of where specifically to draw that line is generally significantly underestimated as a collective. The evidence of this is the amount of data breach information available, and the actual attacks which are available using this information.

Service breaches happen where the password database is insufficiently secured, and that often correlates strongly with insufficient protection of the password hashes. This means that low entropy passwords can be cracked and used for a period of time before the data breach is discovered. Entropy (and MFA) are the only protections against that.

56 DES was cracked in a day in 1999. Your passwords should definitely have more entropy than that. Probably around 80 bits is enough (about 16 alphanumeric characters or so). Your much lower threshold on entropy is insufficient for pretty much any reasonable threat model except public access.
> Pedestrian' in this context seems pretty misleading

What's misleading? The full quote:

"A red Tesla Model Y then hit the 4Runner and one of the people who exited from it. A 71-year-old woman from Mesa, Arizona, was pronounced dead at the scene."

If you exit a vehicle, and are on foot, you are a pedestrian.

I wouldn't expect FSD's object recognition system to treat a human who has just exited a car differently than a human walking across a crosswalk. A human on foot is a human on foot.

However, from the sound of it, the object recognition system didn't even see the 4Runner, much less a person, so perhaps there's a more fundamental problem with it?

Perhaps this is something that lidar or radar, if the car had them, would have helped the OR system to see.
> Its fairly well established that consulting struggles during times of economic uncertainty (but does fine when things are outright bad or good).

The culture engendered into corporate America by businesses like McKinsey is exactly what causes economic uncertainty.

When the only thing that matters is the number at the bottom of the piece of paper being big enough for some analyst in lower Manhattan to be happy, humans will do all sorts of unpredictable things to make that number be that way.
WireGuard Performance with a Pi Zero (2019)
yeah well quote that line then
Fair enough. Genuinely asking, how do people who have never heard of you find your music if not through Spotify or social media?
Is this the cheater Zimbardo who completely lied how the most popular prison experiment of the world was falsified?
All this mocking when moto exists is just :-( https://github.com/awslabs/git-remote-s3/blob/v0.1.19/test/r...

Actually, moto is just one bandaid for that problem - there are SO MANY s3 storage implementations, including the pre-license-switch Apache 2 version of minio (one need not use a bleeding edge for something as relatively stable as the S3 Api)
Is anyone else disappointed they didn't experiment with any AI features? I'd think Amazon would welcome the challenge of some sort of on-device LLM and embedding model of your bookshelf.

For example, it would be very cool to just highlight a character's name, and the AI reminds you who that character is, when they were introduced, and what they've done so far in the book.

Some books have an X-ray feature that allows embedded, hyperlinked concordance and index material within the book. It would be cool if they took that technology one step further with LLMs.
I don't think we can say "whitelist" anymore.
Do you know what this is due to?
Show HN: Open Source Auth w/ Passkeys
I had to come and check whether this was posted here and whether it gained any traction.

Sad and terrifying, how this isn't on the top. Zero comments.
For reference, X has 611 million active users as of April 2024. So Bluesky is almost 2% as large.
The article you provided does not say that. The only failure related to the manual release it mentions is that using it breaks the window.

> Exton said he followed the instructions for the manual release to open the door, but that this "somehow broke the driver's window."
I don't understand why this debate/probing is not just data driven. Driving is all big data.

https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

This report does not include fatalities, which seems to be the key point in question. Unless the above report has some bias or is false, Teslas in autopilot appear 10 times safer than the US average.

Is there public data on deaths reported by Tesla?

And otherwise, if the stats say it is safer, why is there any debate at all?
There are already compelling POV videos, drone footage, and photos from wonderful angles in brilliant conditions (sunsets, no other tourists...), yet people still go and visit wven if they don't get any of the perfection that may have been captured with these art forms.

Simply, the emotions caused and felt when you experience art live, things that run through your mind and how and who with you live it, are not matched by any of the depictions you can get. Even primal senses like feeling the wind, torching sun and smell of your sweat and sand in the desert as you glance at the pyramids are far more immersive than VR will become for another couple of decades at least.
Brazilians will not be pleased that their exclusive Brazilian social media will now have English-speaking users in it.

Jokes aside, I hope the new users understand the risks of federation as they get on board, specially the privacy risks: whom you block, follow, and who follows you is public information in the platform.
I thought whale oil was what you get when you boil the fatty tissue of the whale. Why would the skeleton have any oil in it?
I'd just ask an AI to code it up. Forums are easy to implement. Or just download one of the popular forum softwares.

The value of HN is in the users, not the software. I'd doubt very much you could establish the kind of crowd that visits here.
at least 10x better than a human
It's not just that they're too big—it's that they're morally corrupt and largely unregulated. These firms have been involved in everything from tobacco lobbying to the 2008 financial crisis to pushing opioids, and that’s just scratching the surface. Despite their role in these crises, they’ve faced zero accountability and continue to rake in massive profits.

As for their supposed value (which comes directly from ex-employees): big consulting firms are essentially hired as a liability shield for the C-suite. Their main job is to back up whatever the CEO already wants to do (usually cost-cutting). This way, executives can claim: a) "McKinsey recommended it, so it must be right," and b) "If it goes wrong, it’s on McKinsey, not us."
Best of luck to the author! My understanding is that anything that makes large file sharing easy and anonymous rapidly gets flooded with CSAM and ends up shuttering themselves for the good of all. Would love to see a non-invasive yet effective way to prevent such an incursion.
What a stupid thing to get mad about. Blocking someone should (and can only) prevent the blocker from seeing the blocked. It cannot prevent the blocked user from seeing the blocker’s posts because the blocked user can log out or worse create a new account.

But that’s right elon bad so x must be doin hate crime.
Because Boeing is too big to fail and will be parted out by the US government if management does not get it together. Management and equity will be wiped out, the manufacturing infra and workers will not. The demand for the product will still exist (civilian and military aircraft, space vehicles, etc), but the economic configuration will be forced to change by bringing the system to failure.

Based on all available evidence, Boeing is failing because of its management (since the McDonnell Douglas
deal), its board, and its shareholders not pressuring for sufficient change.

https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/aircraft-propulsion/d...
Hesitation around self-driving technology is not just about the raw accident rate, but the nature of the accidents. Self-driving failures often involve highly visible, preventable mistakes that seem avoidable by a human (e.g., failing to stop for an obvious obstacle). Humans find such incidents harder to tolerate because they can seem fundamentally different from human error.
My dream is of a future where humans are banned from driving without special licenses.
If you don't want to self-host and you don't want to trust someone else's service (I don't know anything about this server) you get Bitwarden Send with the $10/year premium plan.
That’s not the point. My point was primarily that there is a need for competition to Tesla.

It’d be not a good place to end up being hostage to Musk (or Trump) whims and depend on them to keep lights on for Starlink or ability to put satellites into an orbit.

And having a clear separation of government is also important.

It should be possible to outcompete X now. The opportunity is there, a lot of people who work there would prefer to avoid supporting Trump. And while X outcompeted NASA (for a motivated Silicon Valley company it’s not that difficult to outcompete a government agency, while draining best people from it), now X itself is becoming a perverted place. So there should be some opportunity there.
The Tesla knows when it's cameras and blinded by sun and act accordingly or tells the human to take over.
You shouldn't be on the road then? If you can't see, you should slow down. If you can't handle driving in given conditions safely for everyone involved, you should slow down or stop. If everybody would drive like you, there'd be a whole lot more death on the roads.
I believe Waymo has already beaten this metric.