skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is about lying to the public and stoking false expectations for years.

If it's "fully self driving" Tesla should be liable for when its vehicles kill people. If it's not fully self driving and Tesla keeps using that name in all its marketing, regardless of any fine print, then Tesla should be liable for people acting as though their cars could FULLY self drive and be sued accordingly.

You don't get to lie just because you're allegedly safer than a human.
It is incredibly expensive to develop large airliners.

As I understand it, the only peer companies that do so are Airbus, COMAC, and Embraer (Edit: Bombardier ended with the A220).

Which one of these should replace Boeing?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If I can't see because of rain, hail, intense sun reflections, frost re-forming on my windshield, etc. then I pull over and put my flashers on until the problem subsides. Should I have kept the 4700 lb vehicle in fifth gear at 55 mph without the ability to see in front of me in each of these instances? I submit that I should not have and that I did the right thing.
Because universities have a duty first and foremost to their community. That is the citizens of their country and increasing duty to those local to them in their country.

The United States is not an economic zone that belongs to the world in short.
I would think one relevant factor is that human vision is different than and in some ways significantly better than cameras.
I have known alcoholics and heavy marijuana users. Alcohol is hands down far worse for health long term if used heavily and regularly. It’s not even close. I personally consider alcohol a “hard drug” at least at higher doses.

That being said there is this myth that weed is harmless. It’s not. It’s a drug. If it’s smoked it damages the lungs just like smoking anything else, and the compounds in it might have negative long term effects on cognition.

Like anything else of the sort if it’s used at all it should be used in moderation.
We have immigration (illegal or otherwise) to stave off demographic cliffs. As much as the right hates illegal immigration, it is mostly Christians and they integrate well.

The EU either has to integrate muslims, which is a rougher ride, or Russians/Ukrainians, of which there is a more limited number to import.

The country with the worst demographics, South Korea, still IMO has an out: it can topple North Korea and import a huge number of people from there.

China is in deep, deep trouble. They have restated demographics downward, and probably it is still worse than that. Combined with increasing levels of totalitarianism, allegedly a huge financial house of cards in real estate and regional governments, and a likely invasion of Taiwan that results in blockade and sanctions...

Russia was having huge problems before the war. Now they are throwing away a badly needed generation, and causing 2-5x that amount to flee the country.

Democracies have the potential to pivot from demographic disaster, but totalitarian regimes don't care about them, because demographic cliffs mean there is just an older more compliant population to suppress. Of course it means long term their country will fade to irrelevance and perhaps starvation/economic collapse, but totalitarian regimes exist primarily to ensure the survival of the regime, not the population.
Don't all these consulting firms have a really bad record when it comes to large-scale infrastructure projects? Some of the worst examples are Ciudad Real International Airport (Spain/McKinsey), Karuma Hydroelectric Project (Uganda/Deloitte), Chongwe River Water Supply Project (Zambia/Boston Consulting Group), Isimba Dam Project (Uganda/McKinsey), Haramain High-Speed Rail Project (Saudi Arabia/Deloitte), and Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island, New York (McKinsey).

In constrast, China's infrastructure projects are highly successful - high-speed rail now covers 42,000 km across 100 corridors, and the first one was only completed in 2008. Based on their example, the most efficient way to build modern infrastructure is to cut the consultancy firms out of the loop entirely.
There are two ways to be in bed with an ache: lying and turning. If you had an undiagnosable chronic illness with flareups, would you content yourself with your life being essentially over, or would you keep trying to alter your environment until other people thought you had a weird lifestyle? I think pretty much all of the ambitious professionals on this forum would be wrapping themselves in tin foil like a baked potato long before they gave up on being alert and active enough to self-actualize.

If you thought non-ionizing radiation only coupled to the human body thermally, it could instead be trying gluten-free, or notroopics, or buying a lot of air filters, and if your illness went into remission after starting you wouldn't want to switch back and forth twenty times to build up a statistical sample.
Interesting, I never considered that thought before.
Saved you a click:

>As expected, the speed is around 90 megabits per second, as the Pi Zero has a USB 2.0 OTG port, and I’m using a 100mb ethernet adapter for it.
Summer1975! would be equally likely to be checked by a password sprayer. It has the same number of hits on HIBP, and falls into a category where heuristic password guess algorithms would generally group them as being the same thing.
Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements
Not having a boolean data type is IMHO just an annoyance, not comparable to the lack of transactional DDL.

But to the point, people often use this point to claim that MySQL is a toy database, not usable for real world production use. I use Oracle as a counterpoint, which also has a lot of warts but is pretty much an archetype of an enterprise-grade DB engine.
Can you point to a bankruptcy where what you described (management wiped out, manufacturing infrastructure not) actually happened and didn't fail within 5 years?
We need to strictly enforce THC limitations on these products.

The weed with 5% THC we used to smoke as a kid is NOT the same as throne 90% THC products sold today.
The reorg of GM by the Obama administration does not tick all the boxes [1], but is the most recent example that would come to mind of government support via BK management and recapitalization. The administration did this to save jobs and the manufacturing supply chain [2].

Capital is made up, management is fungible, manufacturing supply chains and systems are the hard part (which is why, after incredibly aggressive financialization, Boeing is having to acquire Spirit AeroSystems, which had previously been spun out for cost savings...which went to management comp and shareholders). If you are optimizing for a specific outcome, it is important to understand the malleability and limits of the components that make the whole.

Even Elon recognized this during Model 3 production hell [3]. I suppose we must always learn the hard way for the lesson to be of value. If management is the problem (and it is very clear Boeing management is the problem), it must be replaced so that the people who do the actual building can build. This is no different than the tech culture of "employ great people and get out of their way."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reor...

[2] https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/economy/jobs/rescuing-t...

[3] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/984882630947753984 ("Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be precise, my mistake. Humans are underrated.")
The ideal scenario is if your name can be condensed to a coveted three-letter username[1], e.g., rms, esr, dhh, bwk, etc.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4lDvkAFyps
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I don't get how this is so hard to understand (in general, so many people seem to be reading this completely backwards).

Previously, if X blocks Y, X isn't recommended Y's posts, Y can't interact with X's posts, Y can't see X's posts.

Now, if X blocks Y, X isn't recommended Y's posts, Y can't interact with X's posts, but Y can see X's posts.

The new system changes nothing in terms of what the person doing the blocking experiences. It fixes abuses of the previous block system, where scammers, grifters and impersonators hide behind blocks to reduce the chances of being caught. It also eliminates the silly fiction that a block prevented stalkers from stalking their target on a platform that has free accounts and the ability to easily switch between multiple accounts.

Apple's policy is that apps must have "The ability to block abusive users from the service." They don't say that users should be able to block other users from seeing their posts. In fact, this is also how blocks work on other platforms like Discord. If I block a user, I don't see their posts unless I click on them, they can see mine, but they can't directly ping or reply to me. Similarly with Reddit, being blocked from a subreddit makes me unable to interact with it, but lets me continue to view it.
Where is that number from?
I think this is the answer: the company takes on full liability. If a Tesla is Fully Self Driving then Tesla is driving it. The insurance market will ensure that dodgy software/hardware developers exit the industry.
There is also Bombardier. But none except Airbus makes planes in the same class as Boeing.
Ask HN: What AI based search engines are you using?
Hello HN,

What AI based search engines are you using on daily basis and how has it improved your daily workflow compared to just googling on internet
Lottery system could plausibly result in resale of tickets and thus reduce to pricing people out.

The problem with cases like Mona Lisa is that Louvre never really is that overcrowded, but Mona Lisa attracts a crowd at all times (even if it's less than 1% of all visitors on the grounds of Louvre, that's still a lot).
I mean it's the literal language they use in the report[1]. Personally, would much prefer a publication to be technically correct, a person on foot on a motorway is referred to as a pedestrian, that is the name for that.

[1]https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2024/INOA-PE24031-23232.pdf
By a stricter definition, a pedestrian is one who travels by foot. Of course, they are walking, but they’re traveling via their car, so by some interpretations you wouldn’t call them a pedestrian. You could call them a “motorist” or a “stranded vehicle occupant”.

For understanding the accident it does seem meaningful that they were motorists that got out of their car on a highway and not pedestrians at a street crossing. (Still inexcusable of course, but changes the context)
Two examples of hover styles on images
Prior to that, FSD was labeled ‘Full Self Driving (Beta)’ and enabling it triggered a modal that required two confirmations explaining that the human driver must always pay attention and is ultimately responsible for the vehicle. The feature also had/has active driver monitoring (via both vision and steering-torque sensors) that would disengage FSD if the driver ignored the loud audible alarm to “Pay attention”. Since changing the label to ‘(Supervised)’, the audible nag is significantly reduced.
hah, disagree strongly tbh, there may be an adversarial engine that specifically finds positions that stockfish doesn't evaluate well. they did the same to AlphaGo:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-b...
Absolutely! Keep me updated - these types of projects are definitely fun to explore. It'll also be interesting to explore alternative LLMs, as well as providing zero shot examples within the system prompt itself (if you haven't already).

I forgot to mention but it might also be worth exploring more classic NLP techniques like named entity recognition to score clues higher and lower in terms of overall specificity.
You can still block people, the change just makes it so that the blocked party can still see the blocking party's posts. If your account is public, it has always been possible to look at the posts by using an alt or incognito.

And AFAIK this update is already how other social media platforms like Tumblr function.
How do GPUs work? [video]
To get an idea of how serious this omission is to the validity of the conclusions, take a look at "Individual differences in executive functions are almost entirely genetic in origin" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18473654/
Another bad-faith argument. A built-up railway network is not incompatible with a built-up road network. Many countries have both working together (each serving use cases with their own strengths).
https://youtu.be/Q9kNMJ8SguQ?t=898
I wold love to join - I sarted reading the book a while ago but never finsihed. Liked a lot what I have read so far though. Sent you an email.
Are bots considered "active users" in your statistic?
I think one of the reasons they focus only on vision is basically the entire transportation infra is designed using human eyes a primary way to channel information.

Useful information for driving are communicated through images in form of road signs, traffic signals etc.
You are a fanatic. Nothing wrong with that but it isn't 'most people' are going to do something else at those distances.

time matters for most people. Thus what matters is how far they can get in about half an hour. It doesn't matter if we are talking about walking bikes, cars, helecopters: how ever far you get in half an hour matters.
The holy grail of a stacked diff workflow would be making multiple Github PRs each made against the previous branch instead of trunk, and then updating the branch that's closest to trunk and rebasing all of the children PRs without having to force push into any of them.

Git and Github do not support this workflow directly, and this creates space for all the other tools.

Jujutsu comes close to supporting this workflow directly, without having to provide any specialized utilities that mention "stacked diffs" at all.

https://github.com/spacedentist/spr (not to be confused with ejoffe/spr) is a utility that maps a local change to a remote branch, updating the branch (without force pushes) when the local change is updated. (Changes work the same as they do in JJ, but the implementation is different.) And this works even when you have a stack of changes and update one in the middle of the stack.
"Oil" used to mean olive oil and nothing else.

Its usage gradually expanded to include other vegetable fats, liquid animal fats such as whale oil, and finally mineral oil when it was discovered.

People back then weren't particularly interested in the chemical compositions of the different oils, only that they felt similar and served similar purposes.

Meanwhile, animal fats that are solid at room temperature, such as butter and lard, were never really called "oil" despite being much closer to other edible fats than anything we dug up from a desert.
> Don’t assume without all the info; the real story may be more complicated… maybe the interviewer was playing dumb?

Indeed. I raised a specific idea involving a specific other company at my job interview. The CEO seemed impressed by the suggestion but also cautious about implementing it, and wanted to know what I thought they'd get out of it. Shortly after starting the job, it became quite clear that the parties had been talking to each other for a while...
Sueing someone because he/she doesn't follow your orders.
Exactly -- it's not just the overall accident rate, but the rate per accident type.

Imagine if self-driving is 10x safer on freeways, but on the other hand is 3x more likely to run over your dog in the driveway.

Or it's 5x safer on city streets overall, but actually 2x worse in rain and ice.

We're fundamentally wired for loss aversion. So I'd say it's less about what the total improvement rate is, and more about whether it has categorizable scenarios where it's still worse than a human.
The description has me wondering if this was definitely a case where FSD was being used. There have been other cases in the past where drivers had an accident and claimed they were using autopilot when they actually were not.

I don't know for sure, but I would think that the car could detect a collision. I also don't know for sure, but I would think that FSD would stop once a collision has been detected.
"Weakest precondition" is a term of art, specifically referring to predicate transformer semantics[0].

I think we must be interpreting that phrase differently?

Otherwise[1] I'd claim the opposite: when playing against an opponent, one ought merely retain an advantage, which is a weaker predicate than even the weakest liberal precondition, but when playing against entropy (the sheer bloody-mindedness, or at least sufficiently advanced ineptitude, of one's users; or the yolo-tude of whatever provided their data; etc.), especially at several GHz on multiple cores, one should ensure the strict WP.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_transformer_semantic... (I'm probably missing some subtlety, but for practical purposes I find reading "set" for "predicate" and "relation" for "predicate transformer" suffices)

[1] unless you're one of those (hopefully rare) devs who always produce fault-tolerant systems — under the principle that ultimately users can be relied upon to tolerate the faults.
>>. How about a quarter? Or a tenth?

The answer is zero. An airplane autopilot has increased the overall safety of airplanes by several orders of magnitude compared to human pilots, but literally no errors in its operation are tolerated, whether they are deadly or not. The exact same standard has to apply to cars or any automated machine for that matter. If there is any issue discovered in any car with this tech then it should be disabled worldwide until the root cause is found and eliminated.

>> 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.

I really don't like this argument, because we could already prevent literally all automotive deaths tomorrow through existing technology and legislation and yet we are choosing not to do this for economic and social reasons.
>Postgres 17.0 has been out for a bit and it’s awesome, but here’s the reality: most Postgres users won’t upgrade right away. Most probably aren’t even on 16.4 or 16.anything —they’re probably still using Postgres 15 or an even older version.

So, by "ancient", this author means possibly not even two years old, as Postgres 15 is barely that old (https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-15-released...).

Meanwhile, I've had to make posts this year to tell people no, seriously, stop using Python 2.7.

And meanwhile in my package repo:

$ apt show postgresql
Package: postgresql
Version: 14+238
Priority: optional
Section: database
Source: postgresql-common (238)
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>

This is Mint 21.3 btw.

The author's expectations are incredibly unrealistic.
Twitter users really are something else.

Theres outright misinformation spread daily, most discussions are toxic af, and theres no improvement in sight.

But the people keep going back because they need to gossip about dumb shit that is going on. They NEED to be the first one to show everyone the latest happenings.

If you're still there, just accept its only getting worse and you have no spine.
Anyone got any opinions on max number of tunnels? How does performance degrade as you have thousands of simultaneous tunnels?
There is no free market for something like this. You need so much capital and there are better places to invest. Venture won’t do it. Government would have to and they simply have no understanding or appetite for funding startups for such spaces. Yes we could do so much better than Boeing but it’s more likely the government will repeatedly bail them out than do something about this.
This is very much what I would like to see.

The price of insurance is baked into the price of a car. If the car is as safe as I am, I pay the same price in the end. If it's safer, I pay less.

From my perspective:

1) I would *much* rather have Honda kill someone than myself. If I killed someone, the psychological impact on myself would be horrible. In the city I live in, I dread ageing; as my reflexes get slower, I'm more and more likely to kill someone.

2) As a pedestrian, most of the risk seems to come from outliers -- people who drive hyper-aggressively. Replacing all cars with a median driver would make me much safer (and traffic, much more predictable).

If we want safer cars, we can simply raise insurance payouts, and vice-versa. The market works everything else out.

But my stress levels go way down, whether in a car, on a bike, or on foot.
Historically speaking, it's common to both UK and US English because it predates the European colonization of America:

http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm

Personally, for a situation like this I'd use the somewhat more formal 'become' instead!
I just bought a Lectric brand cargo e-bike. The family loves it for riding to school and nearby trips. The e-bike concept is sound.

The bike itself though has been constant issues, like the front bearing wore out in 50 miles because they didn’t add enough grease and the tires aren’t rated for the weight the bike says it is. So avoid that brand!
So.........like right now you mean? You need a special licence to drive on a public road right now.
Negligence is negligence but people tend to view vehicle collisions as "accidents", as in random occurrences dealt by the hand of fate completely outside of anyone's control. As such, there is a chronic failure to charge motorists with negligence, even when they have killed someone.

If you end up in court, just ask for a jury and you'll be okay. I'm pretty sure this guy didnt even go to court, sounds like it got prosecutor's discretion.
Waymo is limited to cities that their engineers has to map and this map maintained.

You cannot put a waymo in a new city before that. With Tesla, what you get is universal.
I was in a Model 3 Uber yesterday and my driver had to serve onto and up a curb to avoid an (idiot) who was trying to turn into traffic going in the other direction.

The Model 3 had every opportunity in the world to brake and it didn’t, we were probably only going 25mph. I know this is about FSD here, but that moment 100% made me realize Tesla has awful obstacle avoidance.

I just happen to be looking forward and it was a very plain and clear T-Bone avoidance, and at no point did the car handle or trigger anything.

Thankfully everyone was ok, but the front lip got pretty beat up from driving up the curb. Of course the driver at fault that caused the whole incident drove off.
Just in time for me. Very excited about this release. The improvements are very well thought out and the api is even nicer than before.
Lots of people are asking how good the self driving has to be before we tolerate it. I got a one month free trial of FSD and turned it off after two weeks. Quite simply: it's dangerous.

- It failed with a cryptic system error while driving

- It started making a left turn far too early that would have scraped the left side of the car on a sign. I had to manually intervene.

- In my opinion, the default setting accelerates way too aggressively. I'd call myself a fairly aggressive driver and it is too aggressive for my taste.

- It tried to make way too many right turns on red when it wasn't safe to. It would creep into the road, almost into the path of oncoming vehicles.

- It didn't merge left to make room for vehicles merging onto the highway. The vehicles then tried to cut in. The system should have avoided an unsafe situation like this in the first place.

- It would switch lanes to go faster on the highway, but then missed an exit on at least one occasion because it couldn't make it back into the right lane in time. Stupid.

After the system error, I lost all trust in FSD from Tesla. Until I ride in one and feel safe, I can't have any faith that this is a reasonable system. Hell, even autopilot does dumb shit on a regular basis. I'm grateful to be getting a car from another manufacturer this year.