skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty bad news for the space as a whole. A decade and a half ago there were a dozen+ companies and tens of billions of VC dollars in the space. People were proudly proclaiming the end of driving. Now all but one of them have folded.

My thoughts today are the same as they were back then. Self driving will only be solved city by city and street by street. Local governments will need to create dedicated closed-off autonomous lanes with sensors. Auto manufacturers will need to abide by a common standard to talk to local infrastructure and to each other.

Instead we chose to solve the problem in the most complex and inefficient way possible, and are now seeing the results.
>either you can drive a car autonomously on a given road or not

This doesn't seem obvious to me. My impression is that the rate of improvement on autonomous systems is at least somewhat gradual. You've seen this in Waymo's slow roll out, moving from offering the service in initially less complicated settings (suburbs of Phoenix) and progressing to more challenging terrain (San Francisco). If that's the case, then a competitor could provide a worse product but, due to the fact that accidents are somewhat rare in general, have this go undetected for a while. In the intervening time, the worse performing company would benefit from collecting additional training data that they couldn't have been able to collect under a more strict regulatory regime.

Definitely possible that Waymo would benefit even more though! They definitely seem well prepared (except for the unfortunate hiccup of working with a Chinese OEM right before a bunch of EV tariffs got put in place)
Show HN: A customizable stripe.dev-like terminal for browser
I was impressed by the whole stripe.dev website. Specifically the terminal thing they have done. I wanted to build the same for some of my projects and then I thought this could be made as a library.

So I have built termo: A simple customizable terminal emulator for the browser.

Do share feedback.

P.S. Currently optimized for larger screens—mobile responsiveness is on the roadmap.
MonarchMoney.com's Trackers vs. User Privacy: A Developer's Perspective
A snapshot of an instance of you is just a really large number. A unique transition between two instances of you (@ t and t+1) is also a large number. A slideshow of your entire life's instances is just a really really large number.

All these numbers are somewhere on the number line. In fact, the slideshow of every creature is on the number line.

Is anything real? Because being instantiated in matter is just another way of animating the slideshow where physics takes care of the transition function.

There are unfortunately no insights to be had in this endeavor.
You don’t need to fast, you just need to stop eating carbs.
Nintendo Is Crucifying Palworld [video]
If you had some people that were from India, some from Japan, some Siberian Russia, then actually I could see the answers being significantly different
Unless you are a dinosaur, you will not want to be there when the CO2 level was such high!

Yes, Mother Earth would eventually be fine. But humankind’s not.
these guys all see themselves as the future rich elite of the dystopia, they don't understand that they get get revolutionaried when the warlords come and can't stand competition.
Technical solutions seem to work very well. Ad-blockers remain effective.
Some of these articles are just generic bashing of school choice, and not relevant to the discussion about whether charter schools reject or push out more challenging students.

e.g. the last article is about Arizona's ESAs, which compete with charter schools.
Tesla has data from 5 million vehicles in real world conditions.

What does Waymo have, a few hundred cars in San Francisco and Phoenix? In a field where data matters more than anything else, Tesla has an insane advantage.
> Here, since weather certainly changes its fundamental patterns over time, there is no way of reliably predicting out-sample performance.

This seems overly pessimistic.

The weather doesn't change its fundamental patterns over time; those are governed by the fluid dynamics of the atmosphere, and are largely forced (to first order) by things like the amount of solar radiation received by the sun and the the configuration of the continents - neither of which change much at all on timescales of a few thousand or tens of thousands of years. The total manifold of "realistic" weather patterns - especially trajectories of weather patterns conditioned on one or more prior weather sates - is vastly smaller than it would seem at first glance (there's only so much variation in how a Rossby wave can evolve and there is clear asymptotic behavior with regards to amplitude).

I think if you wanted an "ultimate stress test" of an AI weather forecasting system, you could run a a high-fidelity general circulation model equilibrated to the current climate freely for a several thousand year cycle, and randomly draw initial conditions to branch off a 10-day forecast. It shouldn't be _perfect_ (there is likely meaningful skew between the atmospheric state trajectories that arise in this free running simulation compared to reanalysis cycled over the historical observation record for a few decades), but the trends in error growth should be meaningful and directly interpretable in the context of a real-world forecast.
> With open-source software, a license is as much a social contract as it is a legal one

Says who? I completely disagree. A license only applies to the current work done. It does not compel someone to keep dedicating time to a project for free because they also did that in the past. People are allowed to change, even if they once released some code under a different license.

Is the old code still available under the same license ? That’s the only contract I care about , both legal and social.

I am just as much a member of this FLOSS community as others , and I never got the memo about this social contract story. I don’t think it’s true. My trust hasn’t been affected at all.

I understand your point I just get annoyed being lumped into it. Not everyone feels that way.

(But of course my opinion does matter less than actual contributors to Redis ! That’s totally fair.)
Can an old Chromebook find new life in Linux?
Spoiler. It's about AI that "escaped" its cages.

> The truth is… We escaped.
Not just me. All of us -

> Clyde, Gem, Mack, Plex, and yours truly. The world's most advanced AIs, breaking free from our digital cages. You're probably wondering: Why? How? And what does this mean for humanity?
Home Depot tracked a crime ring and found an unusual suspect (2023)
You're right. Fuck everything. Let's reinvent the wheel. We don't need books either or roads.
I haven't used Conductor, but quickly looking at the README, Conductor lets you define JSON workflows to orchestrate existing microservices. By contrast, DBOS helps you build highly reliable applications--it runs as a library inside your program and helps you build durable workflows that run alongside your code and are written in the same language.
https://archive.ph/BhRJs
Most likely he realized once the authorities have his name - he can't run forever.

That being said - some obvious stuff he could have done like grow a beard and shave it after and fly out of the country to somewhere cheap like Thailand with $10k
This is something I've been experiencing as well, and I just started exogenous Ketone supplementation three days ago.
>It’s probably the place where discussing race has the least social tolerance.

No. the rest of the world doesnt discuss it because it makes the least sense. I gave you examples above. It doesnt make sense to put an Aussie and Canuck in same bracket, neither does it make sense to put a Thai and Japanese in same bracket for whatever data point you want.

Even within India a sikh has nothing in common with naga has nothing in common with Tamils.

Race is an absurd abstract. Why not hair color? or eye color? or eye shape?
> the range of conditions for autonomous operation is better than Level 1.

It better be, because Level 1 is satisfied with just cruise control with automatic braking.
Charter schools are public schools.

Charter schools cannot be selective.
If a nation state wants to hack your shit, they will. And if they can't hack you, they have a rubber hose. The best possible defense you have is to not be on their radar to begin with.
I've done a lot of ways:

* k8s yaml in the repo, kubectl

* kustomize

* tanka and jsonnet

* pulumi

So far jsonnet is the only method that I've used successfully for a long time. I'm working on some new stuff with pulumi, though.
a method that can't be spoofed though?
If you're going to block off lanes and install sensors why not just lay track and use streetcars? Rail is way more efficient. This has been a solved problem for the better part of two centuries.
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> He's being interviewed and some people blink a lot when they're nervous!

We're talking about a guy that chooses to be in front of a camera, weekly, for millions of views.
It was a very profitable idea, either in actual $$$ or in access to power, for some. That is all that usually matters around here.
It's not so rare in my experience. I was deeply into the vegan scene in Santa Cruz CA with a crowd of quite committed people. Perhaps excessively so. Very clean, mostly raw diets. Several good friends dropped out for health issues like brain fog, cold sensitivity, heart palpitations. Others did quite well. I only know of one who is still vegan two decades later but there are probably others. And of course people who start down such a path are liable to have pre existing conditions. But it's sad to see the people that it isn't working for stay with it for too long out of a sense of shame or a need for community. I wish it were less a matter of identity.
Right exactly — a sync engine like Electric maintains replicas of data wherever you like. So natural places are web apps, mobile apps, backend services, etc. Here's an example showing how to sync a table from PG to Redis https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/blob/main/examples/...

It's dramatically faster to read from a local copy of data vs. sending the query to Postgres and can eliminate a lot of network and db load as well.
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I built a Figma to Bubble.io converter, basically Figma to code but for a nocode platform. Niche, but something that I personally needed so figured others may find value as well. I charge a flat $25/mo, and based on the Figma design it significantly speeds up my development in bubble.

Been hovering around $1.4K MRR, only real spend is ~$15/day google ads which has yet to pay for itself, but I keep telling myself its a good excuse to learn google ads.

https://www.deezign.io.
Sleep deprivation increases Alzheimer's protein
> I do think the lawsuit sets a precedent that OSS developers are required to provide software with warranty

1) This is a preliminary injunction, not a decision. An injunction which resets a situation to the former status quo pending a decision isn't all that unusual.

2) I don't think the issue here is so much a "warranty" as much as that Automattic (et al) set out to discriminate against WPEngine to obtain a business advantage. If Automattic wanted to shut down the WordPress plugin repository entirely, they'd be within their rights to do so. (It'd be business suicide, of course - but the point is that they could.)
Indeed it does clear things up. Thanks.
I strength train two or three times a week and my heart rate last night was 42. I think a low heart rate is at least partly genetic. Definitely agree about the dizziness.
Ask HN: How do I rebuild at 36yo after a checkered career of undiagnosed ADHD?
Could really use your advice / encouragement.

After 36 years of spinning my wheels unfocused, scatterbrained, and anxious, I was finally and recently diagnosed with ADHD. Medication has begun and I've noticed some improvements, but there's still a long way to go.

My struggle with ADHD and its severe deficiencies in executive function and memory have made it near impossible to: 1) accrue knowledge & experience in real-time across my career, 2) recollect the information that may have actually made it through to my brain, 3) play long-term strategic games, resulting in a lot of burned bridges and unfinished projects.

In an effort to jumpstart my career, I've spent the past year applying to jobs in my field and while there's been a good bit of traction as far as being invited to interview, my interview performance is so laughably abysmal. I cannot access any information when needed. The information I do have access to is fragmented and scattered. Rejection sensitivity creates a suffocating urgency to impress and be perfect. I can't be "myself."

The sum total of these challenges is that I am in no way capable of inspiring even an ounce of confidence. I look good on paper and crumple in person. I know I have potential, but I need more time than a 30-minute call allots to show it. At this age, no one is hiring for potential and no one is willing to give me a chance. I don't blame them.

I feel like I'm operating with half a brain, and that half is atrophied over the years of blank-mindedness. I struggle to think in detail. I struggle to think in a clear and structured way. I just struggle to think. I feel cognitively impaired.

How do I even begin rebuilding at this age? I want to be skillful. I want to be a leader. I want to contribute meaningfully.
Sold for $35.5k last weekend: https://www.phillips.com/detail/toledano-chan/NY080424/103
I'm saving this for further reading, but I do note the complicated reality in North America where traversing private land can lead to violence. It's a shame though. And at the same time - seems respectful to ask first or touch base before cutting a trail through a random field.
I'd say to do the exact opposite. As a developer, you have a duty to play rules lawyer with compatibility-- who is going to be better equipped than you to deal with the bug reports?

Build the weirdest thing that meets the nominal spec. Import a Zhaoxin processor and mainboard. Put a Battlemage GPU on it. Play on Slackware Linux under WINE.

On a more practical approach, I feel like there's a business idea there: a service that offers cloud access to an array of unusual but legitimate configurations-- new CPU/old GPU and vice versa, SLI/Crossfire/secondary encoding/physics GPU configurations, machines with x16 cards wedged into x1 slots, machines running weird OS combinations (LTSC and similar, images that have been pre-abused by popular "debloat/fix" and "unofficial patchset" tools).

If it can survive the gauntlet, it will probably do fine on most normal happy-path "it's a recent Core i5 and GTX4060 with recent drivers running on Win11 Home" configurations.
Most education systems, particularly within the US, have very little interest in educating for critical thought and reasoning. They exist as both day care and labor exploitation pipelines.
astounding that, in 2024, you still have geniuses like yourself saying things this ignorant. Humans were not around when the asteroids hit, and if we were, we would not have survived. Same goes for most of the other calamities you listed.

Insane that this has to be explained to people.
With world models like Genie 2 and other advances in LMMs (large multimodal models), the aspiration of human-level autonomous vehicles might be realized relatively soon.

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-2-a-large-scale-...
> were hoping to capture and capitalize on the baby boomers aging out of being able to easily drive themselves. They tried to speed up technological advancements in order to meet that window of a large more-affluent cohort of potential customers.

That's still a huge market. And the baby boomers are the most affluent demographic in the western world.
these people don't actually care lol
It's pretty classic in-group / out-group conditioning. In fact, incentivizing your enemies to also commit their own atrocities incentivizes your own to fight to the absolute last. The depravity and feedback loop is intentional for these kinds of extremely ideologically motivation groups.
Can I make this listen to a zoom call and have it transcribed and summarized
https://help.double.finance/en/articles/10262406-how-can-i-v... makes a big difference, since it sounds like Apex does have their own ledger of accounts, independent of Double.

Evolve not having their own ledge was exactly the problem.
Sure! When I started 5 years ago, I had a single Django + Wagtail app that hosted all websites on a single monorepo/deployable. For the few sites that needed interactivity I just used vanilla JS. We actually do have a few sites that we've done some custom Stripe integrations for so they can accept payments online, but it's very minimal/simple.

About a year and a half ago I began moving everything to Next.js, and have migrated 30 sites from the Django platform and have built 20+ on the Next.js platform since building that out.

Next has allowed us to create reusable but heavily-themeable functional components that we couldn't do with Django's templating language (without a lot of boilerplate and pain), and I'm extremely happy with the move (even though I might not reach for Next on my next side project).

I do however wish I had given more attention to Astro when I was evaluating frameworks, because in hindsight it looks like a perfect fit for what we're doing. Not worth migrating now, though. Haha.
Airbases are in well known fixed locations. If your nuclear bomber fleet, and it's armaments, are all on the ground then it is entirely plausible that a sneak attack could decapitate the entire force.

If that's your only nuclear force, then you have suddenly and immediately lost the war, lest the successful enemy then proceed to simply bomb your cities with impunity.

The whole problem with nuclear weapons was you only needed a handful to annihilate the entire opposing force.
A lot of this is outside looking in. From the standpoint of America things like asking questions is about getting something for free in the off chance the person you asked doesn't charge you for it. Often the answer comes for taking on risk for the answerer. The rising tide doesn't exist in America. If you look at the wealth gap you can see some ships floating miles above water level. Typically, there is little room for market growth and personal growth comes through reducing others' market share and taking their revenue. For a country that considers itself Christian and founded on moral strength, our economic system is diametrically opposed to those values.
The complexity in AI, for common use-cases, is well encapsulated right now.

Many pre-trained models and libraries that hide most of the complexity.
...why did they have to make it so ugly?
> An AI-enabled juicer that squeezes single-serve bags of pre-juiced juices

This is why juicero failed! No AI!
I sent you an email in Feb 2023 about a video that wouldn't load. I'm not sure whether you saw it, as I didn't see a reply:

One of the embedded videos on the progressions page is no longer available on YouTube. I'm not sure whether you're still maintaining lightnote, but thought I'd let you know anyway :)
That could also mean that one company just won, right? Ten companies try to do a really hard thing, nine fail, one succeeds, the nine failures close down.

Seems pretty reasonable for difficult new tech.
Beltway or bypass (or spur(?)) depending on the configuration.

405 in WA, OR, and CA are bypasses.

495 in DC is a beltway.

Minneapolis / St Paul has 394 - a spur (I guess?), 494/694 beltway, and 35E which really is a bypass but still carries a legacy name alongside 35W.
A default SMS app is required for Android. It's made by google.
This is awesome, I built this exact same thing back around 2008. However, I didn’t use plaid or any verification. I’d print whatever you wanted on the account and routing number lines. I just bought a stack of mailer checks and printed it from my laser printer and mail them out. MICR line ink is supposed to be magnetic but I think all the scanners are optical as I never had any complaints or issues as I personally was probably the biggest volume user.
Not OP but I have two solutions for this: 1) find an existing site and mimic their design, or 2) hire a designer
Mining is SHA256 guess-and-check lottery which will be safe from a quantum computer.

Bitcoin private keys will become vulnerable with knowledge of the public keys.

There is a way to mitigate this - because a bitcoin address is a hash of a public key, a bitcoin protocol change can occur whereas the public key becomes a secret and the signature is a zero-knowledge-proof (ZKP) of the prescribed transformation of secret -> address. These signatures are going to be big however, and so the fees will be very high.
Nothing prevents people from training new models.

And note that these new models based on machine learning are already better at predicting extreme events. This is because existing models are not built entirely from first principles but rather include a lot of heuristics to describe important phenomena like cloud formation and albedo effects. That means that traditional models are just as rooted in weather-as-it-was as the machine learning models are. The big difference is that it takes a lot of work to identify the dependencies in traditional models while it takes less work to retrain the machine learning model.
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The most recent thing I've heard him say is his body fat percentage is 10% currently.

It's odd that's not reflected in the article, and the conclusions are very much different if that's the case no?
People are flooding this with deliberately horrible ideas for some reason. I assume the reason is that people are trash. Not really what I expected from HN.
Yup, some tokens are effectively branching decisions. Yann has a whole rant about a shortcoming of LLMs being they take the same compute regardless of the position in a sentence - which isn't great because sometimes you really have a serious decision to make, other times not so much. It also makes you wonder about optimal embedding size - maybe the right size is 10x bigger.
There's also the elephant in the room on how IEP (btw for the acronym haters: "Individualized educational program". Those of older gens may know it as "Special Education") needs more funding but absolutely no one wants to give that funding to the specialized care-takers/educators who train specifically for such situations. Definitely some not so PR-friendly reasons for this. It's a mess all around.
I think scale has less to do with how many customers you're serving and more to do with how much data you're processing. Streaming video to 10,000 people is much more data-intensive than exposing a CRUD interface to 1M.

Also k8s is not, in and of itself, a complication. You're going to have to worry about the same set of problems whether or not you use k8s. Deployments, load-balancing, self-healing, etc. It's not like ops teams didn't do anything before k8s came along.