skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the question was what we should be satisfied with or what we should aspire to. I absolutely agree with you that we should strive to make autonomous driving as safe as airline travel.

But the question was when should we allow autonomous driving on our public roads. And I think "when it's at least as safe as the median human driver" is a reasonable threshold.

(The thing about Tesla FSD is that it -- unsupervised -- would probably fall super short of that metric. FSD needs to be supervised to be safer than the median human driver, assuming that's evn currently the case, and not every driver is going to be equally good at supervising it.)
So far, data points to it having far fewer crashes than a human alone. Teslas data shows that, but 3rd party data seems to imply the same.
The EU and the FTC are slowly reintroducing the concept of liability to big corps, especially the big tech. Is the world healing?
True, VCs and private equity wherever they touch, things will change. These companies would love to build their empires on open source libraries, tools, frameworks and languages off the efforts of such individuals but would not give back enough and in most cases nothing at all.

This imbalance needs to be recognised.
What’s even more horrifying is he believes in forcing IUD surgeries onto teen girls. Why is a man this old so invested into sexual art of and opinions relating to the sex life of young teens? It’s genuinely disgusting to think about.

“I'm of the opinion that 14 year old girls should be required to have an IUD installed. Ten years of contraception that requires a visit to the doctor to remove prematurely.” - https://web.archive.org/web/20130523180641/http://www.reddit...
You must work in the BBC drama department if you believe that people in Britain, France, Germany etc are not historically and overwhelmingly white.
Is it possible your SD cards are fake? I did full disk writes till destruction and got 1000 cycles with a Sandisk Ultra (their cheapest line of microSD cards)

That should be enough for 10 years under a typical Pi workload like writing and compacting logs.
I just start using it and this happens.
No, you need an entirely common, unspecial license drive on a public road right now.
No information which code was nonfree, no information how it was spotted. Rereleasing tarballs with the same verison number, which means there are now two official versions of the same tarball with the same version but with another md5 hash.
In my opinion not the best information politics.

p.s.: Do they have a so small overview about the own code that they need 3 versions to detect that there is non free code in the release?
That’s going to give you double (plus a bit) latency as your users in Australia will experience.
The article is talking about how his stories inspired real world colonial technocrats in France at the time.
> However, the effects of those danger seem much more abstract and delayed, leading people to not be as worried about it.

Climate change is very visible in the present day to me. People are protesting about it frequently enough that it's hard to claim they are not worried.
Pristine Reader – A Clean, Distraction-Free Reading Experience
Hi HN!

I just launched Pristine Reader, a browser extension for Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Brave, Edge, etc.) that transforms cluttered web pages into clean, distraction-free reading views.

Features:
- Clean reading mode (strips away ads and distractions)
- Save & organize articles
- Offline access, global search, and customization
- Text-to-speech and built-in dictionary
- PDF export, printing, and more

I built Pristine using React and Vite for a lightweight, fast user experience. It's available now on the Chrome Web Store, and I’ll be open-sourcing it soon.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

https://pristine0.pages.dev/

Thanks!
Azlan Ibrahim
Was Verne more, or less, misogynist and racist than his contemporaries? I was under the impression that both were common during his day. From the little Verne that I've read, I didn't have the impression that he had a particularly bad opinion of "the savages" he describes in his stories.
The chief difference here is that you can plausibly point at every investor in Starlink and say if they have the slightest idea of Starlink's business plan, they know that causes light pollution. There is exactly one degree of separation from putting satellites in the sky to causing light pollution. There's no plausible deniability there.

This article is more about the phenomenon where decisions are removed by multiple degrees. The locus of decision making is either obscured or non-existent, creating plausible deniability. This is often done by rewarding activities that don't obviously create harm but nevertheless require causing harm to carry out.
The people writing articles for journals that aggregate and approximate other sources are in mortal terror of LLMs. Likewise graphic designers and anyone working in (human language) translation.

I don't fear that LLMs are going to take my job as a developer. I'm pretty sure they mark a further decrease in the quality and coherence of software, along with a rapid increase in the quantity of code out there, and that seems likely to provide me with reliable employment forever. I'm basically employed in fixing bugs that didn't need to exist in the first place and that seems to cover a lot of software dev.
TIM and WindTre have overridden the block, don't know about the other ISPs.
As someone who had to work around the bugs and limitations of IE6 for years in the enterprise, popularity is not a measurement of how good a technology is.

The reason React is "embraced" by the industry is that it is widely used, not because it's the best choice. This lowers the risk for companies that can replace its developers with another easily. I'm not saying it's as bad as beeing stuck with a stale IE (yet), but there are surely good alternatives out there.

"Nobody has been fired for choosing IBM", was a saying that applies to React today

It has reached the "IBM" point where it's so widely used, that it has become the most rational choice for enterprise.

We have to wait for a few years while smaller businesses who don't have (or care about) the same risks uses better alternatives until they reach the point where you are not blamed for choosing something outside the box
Are you saying someone will use it to create a CSAM generator? It'd be like turning smoke detectors into a nuclear bomb. If someone that smart wants this, then there are easier ways for them to do it. Analyzing the detector could let you tune normal images in an adversarial way that'll cause them to be detected as CSAM by a specific release of a specific model. So long as you're not using the model to automate swatting, that's not going to amount to much more than a DEFCON talk about annoying people.
Looks like it uses bundles rather than raw files: https://github.com/awslabs/git-remote-s3?tab=readme-ov-file#...
A potentiometer is a simple voltage divider, and I think often used as an input to the ADC of an MCU, as a means of turning some some value up or down.
Man, brain is so weird. The weirdest brain injury symptom I can’t wrap my head around is when people lose the ability to understand the number 0. Like everything else works but this is beyond their understanding. Like what’s so special about this number?
> My biggest concern is that Waymo and Tesla are juking the stats to make self-driving cars seem safer than they really are

Even intentional juking aside, you can't really compare the two.

Waymo cars drive completely autonomously, without a supervising driver in the car. If it does something unsafe, there's no one there to correct it, and it may get into a crash, in the same way a human driver doing that same unsafe thing might.

With Tesla FSD, we have no idea how good it really is. We know that a human is supervising it, and despite all the reports we see of people doing super irresponsible things while "driving" a Tesla (like taking a nap), I imagine most Tesla FSD users are actually attentively supervising for the most part. If all FSD users stopped supervising and started taking naps, I suspect the crash rate and fatality rate would start looking like the rate for the worst drivers on the road... or even worse than that.

So it's not that they're juking their stats (although they may be), it's that they don't actually have all the stats that matter. Waymo has and had those stats, because their trained human test drivers were reporting when the car did something unsafe and they had to take over. Tesla FSD users don't report when they have to do that. The data is just not there.
No, react came first. And Vue is not the same. Vue 3 added reactivity via refs (which are essentially signals by today's terminology). They can be used outside of components, like Svelte's runes. Svelte 5 is very similar to Vue 3. So much so I jokingly called it "svuelte" when they first announced it.

Vue gets unfairly overlooked imo. I worked with it for 12 months and it was mostly a joy
In my experience, SSO is a requirement for some corporate clients. So depends on who you are selling to (individual employees or orgs who will have a number of their employees use the software). For example, if you sell a quoting tool to a department, which will then be used by their salespeople, SSO requirement is a possibility. If it's a small app that the CEO will use to schedule posts on Linkedin, then there is no need.

In my experience, login using Google, Apple is a convenience feature that may increase conversion rate if the product is sold to individuals, but is not essential.

Your experience may vary.
> As a programmer, I want to spend most of my time programming in a programming language

If your work requires you to use a web stack, this attitude will not serve you well in the long run. If you make the effort to learn these technologies, you'll soon find them to be simple and predictable, but admittedly not without some historical baggage. You may even have an easier time with Svelte, since it has everything working out of the box, unlike React, which requires you to figure out a build toolchain and a separate solution for styling.
Or Zitadel ;-)

And yes I am clearly biased.
Microsoft and Meta are running customer facing LLM workloads on AMD's graphics cards. Oracle seems to like them too. Google is doing the TPU thing with Broadcom and Amazon seems to have decided to bet on Intel (in a presumably fatal move but time will tell). We'll find some more information on the order book in a couple of weeks at earnings.

I like that the narrative has changed from "AI only runs on Cuda" to "sure it runs fine on AMD if you must"
In my opinion it's even more complicated, as the "management layer" is also using these tactics against itself. "You must use an iPhone", "You cannot expense this trip with company card", "Your permission request to do XYZ in our cloud was automatically declined", "This tool only works in Google Chrome". Why? "The rules say so" / "The system says so". Who set "the rules"? Who set up "the system"? Nobody seems to know, and digging into it yourself is a herculean effort and usually a waste of time.
If your microwave had an error, you would be put off if you had to power cycle the whole house. Installed a new receptacle, sure, but operating an appliance? No way. Now you would have to reset your clocks everywhere at a minimum.

I have a linux computer running a public server that has not be restarted in three and a half years. This is what I expect.

Every time I have to reboot my work laptop due to work pushing some updates or that I have to reboot my windows machine because it is running unreasonably slow, I am reminded that inconsiderate assholes have become more lazy and are ok with polluting the whole system, mismanaging state and resiliency, and when the equivalent of the microwave has an error, the only solution is rebooting my house. We can do better.
Waymo is safe where they've mapped and trained and tested, because they track when their test drivers have to take control.

Tesla FSD is just everywhere, without any accountability or trained testing on all the roads people use them on. We have no idea how often Tesla FSD users have to take control from FSD due to a safety issue.

Waymo is objectively safer, and their entire approach is objectively safer, and is actually measurable, whereas Tesla FSD's safety cannot actually be accurately measured.
> "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

There's of course a lot of cross-communication with other continents, from the muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula to the Ottoman wars in eastern Europe, and the colonizing empires.

But the European history is very strongly predominantly white, and pretending otherwise is something you only hear from politically oriented people, unless you try to push ridiculous ideas like 'Italians are not white' as I've seen here and there
I've been tasked with improving a system where a lot of the events relied on timing to be just right, so now I routinely click around the app with a 900ms delay, as that's the most that I can get away with without having the hot-reloading system complain.

Plenty of assumptions break down in such an environment and part of my work is to ensure that the user always knows that the app is really doing something and not just being unresponsive.
Could you elaborate on why it's dangerous? Aren't runes just proxies with some variables in them?
Really?

The more focused a company is (the more reliant it is on its core service) the more accountable it can be. I'd argue many companies are if anything more accountable than the government. It doesn't have to be true, but I'd argue it often is.
great question. i am no expert on the topic, and my weekend project ended up being pretty small (a few hundred LoCs in total). I was able to get the core logic "work function" to work, but all of the stuff around it, I wrote by hand.
I dont believe the largest company on planet earth by market cap has the problem as bad as government, even in a smallish country.
Likely I am too old, but I completely don't get the idea of using an external service for authentication. Cynically, I have started to suspect that implementing basic mechanisms such as authentication is a lost art among programmers with short attention spans raised on social media and Skibidi Toilet. More charitably, is could be an issue of switching to a new technology every three years, so best practices for implementing this stuff don't have time to be developed.
Is beying another typo?

In my personal learning journey I have been exploring the space of intuitive learning which is dominant in physical skills. Singing requires extremely precise control of actions we can't fully articulate or even rationalise. Teaching those skills requires metaphors and visualising and a whole lot of feedback + trial & error.

I believe that this kind of learning is fundamentally non verbal and we can achieve abstraction of these skills without language. Walking is the most universal of these skills and we learn it before we can speak but if you study it (or better try to program a robot to walk with as many degrees of freedom as the human musculoskeletal system) you will discover that almost all of us don't understand what all the things that go into the "simple" task of walking!

My understanding is that people who are gifted at sports or other physical skills like musical instruments have developed the ability to discover and embed these non verbal abstractions quickly. When I practise the piano and am working on something fast, playing semiquavers at anything above 120bpm is not really conscious anymore in the sense of "press this key then that key"

The concept of arpeggio is verbal but the action is non verbal. In human thought where does verbal and non-verbal start and end? Its probably a continuum
Flying is safer than driving but Boeing isn't getting a free pass on quality issues. Why would Tesla?
Wow. I had a flashback to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growian
Try Flora Incognita.

https://floraincognita.de/
ahem at least in the Western world corporations were invented by the Church, an entity well known to me not accountable....look at the 94 apologies and the Pope's words before and after each apology....

By the way this is what bitcoin was set up to solve...notice it not being solved.
Just got a similar email, this is beyond worrying
It is only "anti-white" in the sense it's criticizing white men from over a hundred years ago who were doing pretty horrible things in the name of colonialism.

And the fact they were white is pretty important as they themselves used this as justification for their superiority and thus colonialism.

It would be more productive to engage with the meat of the article rather than dismissing it because they mentioned the race and gender of the subjects and engaging in "anti-woke" dog whistling.
One interesting corollary of this is the need to rethink the underpinnings of therapy. Eg, CBT is based around verbal thoughts and replacing bad ones with good ones. I've had CBT practitioners insist to me that thoughts always include words. But once you recognise that there are kinds of thinking, both processing and "mental actions" , not linked to words, it's not so easy. How do you identify and replace a maladaptive mental process, if it's not linked to a verbalisation? If it is, does replacing the verbalisation really do anything?

This I think is why so much popular psychology is so vacuous - the slogans are merely things that triggered some people to figure out how to improve their mental actions, but there's no strong linkage between the two.
Just to be clear, LLC is supposed to be about limited financial liability, not criminal liability. But we seem to have forgotten that on the way.
Well, maybe.

You can maintain or increase the value of your IP (and therefore tour company) by _showing_ you're investing in the protection of your IP.

After all, the value of IP in your books is subjective. That perceived value increases if you can report you've "removed thousands of links to pirate versions of our content". So in that regard, battling piracy is money well spent.
The history of the barcode
In this particular case, I’d suspect it’s just stupidity, tbh. There’ve been a number of changes to Twitter which read as “things that Musk likes, and doesn’t realise that not all users like”; for instance, see the briefly-mandatory dark mode.
Thanks for the clarification, I'm looking forward to it's eventual release! =)
Eh, I'm not completely convinced open source leaders are judged more harshly.

Go find people on the street and ask them to name the CEO of WordPress and then ask them to name the CEO of Google. Like the average person doesn't criticize an open source leader because they have no idea who they are.

In any sort of big tech thread there are tons of criticisms about privacy violations, basic functionality, lack of support, etc.

However, more to the thread. If say Amazon yoink'd Apple's store and started selling Amazon Basic Macbooks on it there would be complaints.
On Cultural Appropriation
run a node. but never an exit one.
That's a trap of average. When you have a guy buying Taycan for 100k EUR and guy buying Golf for 30k EUR then average car price is 65k EUR. Guy in Taycan does not care about average car and guy buying Golf can't afford this average priced car.
So the name of it is a contradiction, and the fine print contradicts the name. "Full self driving" (the concept, not the Tesla product) does not need to be supervised.
You probably used Vue 2. Vue 3 essentially uses signals for reactivity and it's very straightforward once you have a mental model. It's model is very similar to svelte 5
This is ridiculous in my opinion.

It is not for someone that wants a shell but for someone that wants a Javascript repl...
Astronomy isn't the only issue with space pollution (e.g: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome)
I would much rather have a “buggy” system made for the user that was written with free software than a highly functional blob of proprietary code sending all of my data to an advertiser. Dogmatism in software is important, particularly regarding user freedoms. The very moment you relax on user freedoms you get horrible devices like the iPhone which doesn’t respect the user at all and uses them as resources to be mined for capital.
I long used Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minute" as evidence that privately funded space flight isn't so unimaginable. In that case by the Baltimore Gun Club. Then there is The Man Who Sold the Moon by Heinlein where the moon is first visited by "the last of the Robber Barons".

Of course here in the real world space exploration is too costly and complex a game for any organizations other than governments to play, and Verne and Heinlein were optimists with stars in their eyes. Or that's what it seemed like in the seventies when it was pretty much true.
What do you use that good javascipt for? And what is the excessive stuff that causes slowness and bloat? I'm not a web programmer, just curious.
It's regular expressions via derivatives which is sanely representable in functional programming fashion. Matching a single string doesn't need the caching layers for termination, you could do this in C++ templates if you have the patience. Nice to see it in typescript syntax.
The Deutsche Bahn AG is in fact a private Aktiengesellschaft(which is to say a stock company) with the german gov't owning 100% of the shares. I'd very much argue that it is run mostly like a private enterprise and only occasionally compelled by the government to act like a public service.
On Rust in Enterprise Kernels
> Following that train of thought back one can go all the way to the Roman Empire which used slaves as proto machines as you call them.

All the way to the deepest depth of history actually: Sumer and Elam left behind records of slavery and later on in Ur we find laws seting up a framework for slavery.
>Sometime in the next few months, I’ll figure out how to move it to a lower-cost archival hosting model, probably as a static non-WordPress site,

That is the part I am most interested with. I wish there is a one off payment services, for let say fixed price for 20 years where you blog and domains remains on the internet.
Chrome’s network emulation is a pretty poor simulation of the real world… it throttles on a per request basis so can’t simulate congestion due to multiple requests in flight at the same time

Really need something like ipfw, dummynet, tc etc to do it at the packet level
You sure the ~600 companies that the Deutsche Bahn is made up of can be compared to one state-owned entity?
> none of these were actual computer output

Not surprising since real-time, high-def color CGI hadn't yet been done in 1968.
Yes, but it never worked. I once organically stopped using them without even thinking about it for around a year. This was the one year in my life when I had a reasonably rich social life. Therein lies the answer.
Fluids can't be fragile.
Enshittification is a natural process, like aging and corrosion.

I adopt a 3-2-1 backup strategy for my Bitwarden password-protected exports, which can be decrypted without needing Bitwarden. In addition, I use a separate non-Bitwarden solution for my MFA secrets. This minimizes damage and facilitates migration in the event Bitwarden degrades, or becomes outright malicious like Raivo. The same would apply to the password manager I'd switch to after Bitwarden in the near future, and any other password manager thereafter.
> The chance are high that a random German speaks English

Not sure how random my selection process was, but that certainly wasn't my experience when I lived in Germany a few years ago. Maybe in big cities, yes. But even in the burbs, chances are you have to look for the metaphorical needle in the haystack to find someone speaking English. Your best bet might just be teenagers and young adults.