skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, certainly. That was supposed to be a sarcastic reply to the comment above.
Tesla is a veeeeery distant second. Elon is full gung ho on vision only. They even removed ultrasonic sensors for parking. Tesla even removed radar. Vision only is Tesla’s bet.

Meanwhile Waymo bets on jamming the car full of sensors to ensure it has superhuman 360 perception in all conditions with multiple sensor redundancy. Waymo takes safety insanely seriously. Tesla doesn’t care if 100s die in their car while on FSD. Waymo doesn’t want to make cars or manage fleets. They want to purely focus on automating the driver end to end.

Unless Tesla has a magical perception algorithm breakthrough, Waymo may expand all US states that allow it, while Tesla won’t even get an operational robotaxi with 100+ rides per year.

Elon has tremendous success in SpaceX with falcon & starlink, that’s a fact. But Tesla FSD is so much hype compared to substance.
The vehicle was equipped for Super Cruise. The feature is tied to a subscription account, and GM/the dealership do not provide subscriptions for showroom cars. After I wrote my comment, the dealership contacted me to say they had set up a demo subscription with GM for the vehicle if I wanted another test drive.
> a guaranteed loss legal battle

Some people may think that the loss of today will cause the upheaval of tomorrow.

> Was it

That I don't know. You look and try to make sense of it. You formulate hypotheses.
> Strange timing given the claim was in 2019

In 2024 Google used 67 quantum bits to solve the same/similar random circuit sampling benchmark, that they used 53 bits in 2019. The discussion from 2019 on what is the relevance (if any) of solving random circuit simulation problems, is equally valid today.

Maybe in 2030 Google or someone will use 200 or 400 bits to solve an even bigger instance of the random circuit simulation benchmark problem, and then we get to have this same discussion once again.
Cool project! Which carriers are you using and how do you get around things like A2P 10DLC?
Words fail me sometimes when it comes to feed readers
That doesn't necessarily imply that super low body fat is optimal.
If you go by literally any venue where people talk. There is, at the minimum, widespread 'darn - a completely awful human was killed - what a shame' mentality everywhere, and across the political spectrum.

Justice is not defined by the law, but by personal values. The prosecutor in this case is going to be obsessive in ensuring that none of the jurors understand their legal right to jury nullification, because if they do - this guy stands a very high chance of a mistrial - if not outright acquittal.
I'm not sure there's a good WHY. To me both weather and AI are similarly complex and inscrutable, so they seem right for each other.
The test code of sqlite is not public.
Show HN: I built an AI business ideas generator by combining existing solutions
Hi HN,

I’ve always been fascinated by how many successful businesses are born from combining existing ideas in new ways. From Apple’s smartphone blending tech elements to Airbnb rethinking travel. Innovation often lies in the overlap.

As a side project, I built onlift.co, a free AI Business Idea Generator, a tool that helps you discover interesting combinations of existing ideas. Powered by AI, it generates fresh, unexpected synergies that could inspire your next venture.

Here’s why I made it:
- I noticed how often I got stuck trying to brainstorm startup ideas.
- Many brainstorming tools focus on categories, but not on creative intersections.
- I wanted a tool that makes you think, “Why didn’t I think of that?”

This is for:
- Makers hunting for their next project.
- Founders looking for pivots or fresh perspectives.
- Anyone curious about how AI can boost creativity.

I’d love feedback on how useful you find the ideas it generates and whether there’s a feature you’d want to see. Let me know what combinations surprise you most!

Looking forward to your thoughts and suggestions.

Cheers,
Glen

P.S. Of course, coming up with ideas is just the starting point. Building, validating, and scaling a business is where the real challenge lies. But hey, ideas are fun to explore, and you never know which one might spark your next big thing!
> Additionally, the auction here was run farcically, and basically seemed designed to create an outcome where the onion gets to buy this website for no money.

You have been lied to.

As I see it, the situation couldn't be any simpler: the oligarchs will take what they want, justice be damned. It was a done deal as soon as Musk entered the scene.
Cognizant, Tata, Infosys, the list goes on, the all have been gaming the system for 30 years now to funnel people to the US like Mexican Coyoties. They're not in the game to hire US people, it's all about funneling as many Southeast Asians as possible here.

Talking to many friends over years having been through it to come here, I view it a bit like old (like 18th century old) indentured servitude of Europeans trying to get to the US however possible that they'd sell themselves into contractual slavery as "indentured servitude". It was later stopped, but for a time it was a good deal for everyone involved, wink wink. The slaver/outsourcer got cheap labor showing up to sign away, now a captive workforce, all to get shipped off to the promised land with the hope the poor bastard can pay off the debt working for nothing near what the slaver/outsourcer gets, all while waiting on an immigration list that may never happen.

It's all better than anything they'll get in their home land, so they'll bet big and do anything just to get to the US to drop an anchor kid to force naturalization. Same(ish) game from 200-some years ago, just with a modern progressive spin and abuse of terrible government regimes.

The other scam is they run them through Canada for quicker immigration than US, and then just move to the US as Canadian citizens faster than waiting on a direct list to the US. Anything for that Murican dream and soaking up Murican dollars.

Now with this despotic regime for 2025, we'll see how immigration works out, but all the slavers pay big lobbies, so they'll keep on keeping on for sure.
Awesome, do plan on having this translated in different languages? I'd buy a German version.
> thinking damage control: can a least destructive CO2 absorber invasive species / ecosystem outpace this positive feedback loop?

Humans can fit this description and can definitely fix this if we tried. The technology we used to cause this issue in the first place is about as complex as fire and the pointy stick compared to what we have today, our executive capacity has simply not kept pace with our technological one.
None of the leaders of Germany in WWI were still in power by the time WWII started.

The exact opposite lesson was in fact learned by the Allies from WWI: instead of crippling Germany and the other Axis powers like the French did after WWI, they went with the Marshall plan, rebuilding their economies and making sure they have an actual future.

The Kaiser wasn't the problem after WWI, it was poverty that allowed the Nazis to rise to power.
> That really isn't true these days. The dynamical cores and physics packages in numerical weather prediction models and general circulation models have more-or-less converged over the past two decades.

Ah, well, I did stop studying GCMs about 20 years ago so perhaps I should shut up and let other people post. I appreciate the detail in your explanation here, and I wouldn’t mind a link to papers explaining the current state of the art.
In contemporary western society, if you can find a way to label someone as racist, you win every argument. There is no recourse.
Yeah, I inferred that from their post.

My point is that even “something meaningful” comes with tech debt. It’s like that at my current place.

Too many people get “grass is greener” syndrome and think that there is some magical company somewhere which gives everyone plenty of time to refactor everything and fix all of the tech debt and execs make fantastic business risk decisions which always benefit the employee. In a world of scarcity, that practically never happens.

Just weigh your options in the market. If it’s worth staying where you are, just realize that the employee is not responsible for making business risk decisions, only responsible for sufficiently informing those who do of the facts.
Given how the US does schooling where zipcode matters as much as it does, something tells me you can get from A to B a lot quicker just by controlling for school district wealth or something
Karpathy said in a recent podcast that they pre-train on LIDAR data so no, Tesla is not gung ho on no LIDAR. They "just" do transfer learning with inference on vision-only, which might be a great idea in the end.
If it would be less trouble (because of customs and other external factors), and assuming it can help, maybe a phone keyboard can also be considered? An OTG cable plus a normal USB keyboard might also be a solution if portability is not a requirement.
> The OSI and co. re-defining the term

I don't know where you got this idea but it's not true. The OSI is simply defending the definition as it has been generally understood since the start of its usage in the 1980s by Stallman and others.

The only group of people "re-defining" -- quite successfully I suppose, which you are an example of -- what open source software means are those that have a profit motive to use the term to gain traction during the initial phase where a proprietary model would not have benefited them.

I don't think I need to provide concrete examples of companies that begin with an open source licensing model, only to rug-pull their users as soon as they feel it might benefit them financially, these re-licensing discussions show up on HN quite often.
That is pretty slick, and beautifully lightweight. Would love to see artwork for the royalty
CoPhone – Android Phone in the Cloud
There's a decent amount of work where having teachers focus on the lowest performers raised the overall performance average. Sounds obvious but when left to their own devices it seems that teachers still spend way too much time with the high performers.

At least that's what I've heard as conclusions to various bits of education research over the years
Yes, I think there are still a lot of people paying for those, so they still make it.
AI Generated Content Is Great – You're Just Using It Wrong
That feels like a straw man. Nobody was claiming otherwise.
The oceans are already fucked as well, we have disrupted their carbon cycle, warmed up and acidified it. For example, we've killed some 20-30% of phytoplankton already, ocean stratification is increasing, etc.

Don't forget: Antarctica is becoming greener.
"Almost all the way" is fairly far fetched when taking a candid look at the landscape for Cruise.
> I Hope Trump takes care of it and ends the H1B program

More likely it will be expanded or remain the same under Trump since he is being bankrolled by Elon.
aweasome!
:s/roof/ceiling
We hit on exactly the same pattern for our product and it works really well.

We use Hasura as the read engine. That updates a graph of mobx objects that drive the ui. We apply updates directly to those objects so the ui updates immediately. The mutations are posted back to a Python api that applies them to the db.

I’ve looked at Electric because we’ve had to recreate some of what they do to interface with Hasura. At the moment it’s a non-starter because we use pg views to shape the data for the frontend.
Unless you can show an example of humans reasoning solving a problem outside the Turing computable set, there is no rational basis for assuming the brain is anything but a computer, as the very notion that we exceed Turing computability would be revolutionary and utterly mindbending in terms of consequences on a number of fields.
The natural rhythm? Summer + Autumn feasting - Spring fasting with lean meats, then repeat?
Exactly, and that is a thing for every single piece of software ever written. Doesn't make a difference whether it's an OS or not.
Cool idea, definitely giving it a try! Will let you know my thoughts.
Are the places that are doing better doing these things?
Which cities in which countries and climates have robotaxis (or have had robotaxis) now?

It felt like there was a lot of buzz around it a while back but then it only happened in a couple of cities which were just US cities with favorable climate. Did it ever move beyond that? You'd think that if the market is really competitive, then operators would bring it to cities where it doesn't exist, rather than just all competing in the same small handful of cities?
I believe the opcache is too small to really matter here to disable. Even though it's fast SRAM, it's not too many transistors.

Performance loss will of course cause the task to run longer which increases total power usage.

It makes much more sense to disable SMT instead first, with the performance losses being on par most of the time, while this bringing serious powwr savings.
Google's biggest bet is AI for search
Are there any you can recommend, or are you just saying that from knowledge of the level of biological discourse here?
That’s interned people - not PoW.

And I doubt they shot them.
I would love a local-run version of this on my windows machine! Same subscription price is fine.
They have repeatet panic attacks, when they "wake up" in a foreign place, surrounded by foreign people. Think of "teleported to a strange city" every 3 minutes.
The package name will be sl-vcs like chromium-browser
Some it could also be cold math of expected gains vs expected losses. The expected gains are growing slowly, but the major blunder of last year has made the expected losses skyrocket.
100% agree. I miss the days where the title would describe the method instead of being a sales pitch
I have essentially the same question!
The point of descarte is that you dont know anything about anything, and in my opinion, all of his bad arguments begin when he starts stating his certainties, except for his first one.
Ford brags that BlueCruise gets top marks from Consumer Reports but I think it's mostly because of because of this driver monitoring, rather than actual driving performance.

> Starting with 2024 model-year vehicles, we will deduct points if an [active driving assistance] system doesn’t have adequate [direct driver monitoring systems]. Right now, only Ford and GM’s systems meet our criteria for earning additional points, but others could be available soon. ...

> Ford’s BlueCruise sets a high standard among [active driving assistance] systems, aided by an infrared camera that monitors the driver’s eyes to determine whether they are looking at the road. If the driver glances away from the road for more than about 5 second... the system will give the driver a visual warning and an audible chime.
It also depends on your education, IQ and productivity. If your job is slightly out of your league, you will struggle to have a work life balance.
In English (but also in other languages like my Italian) orange hair is called red because the color orange arrived too late with the orange fruit.

https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/33117530568/why-dont-we...
That video is phenomenal! Thanks for sharing
I've seen a paper (probably by Bostrom) deducing normative statements ("oughts") from the simulation hypothesis (purely descriptive, "is"). Namely: the grad students running these simulations are more likely to switch off boring simulations. Thus, if we want to keep living in this world, we should strive to make it interesting.

I must say, with Trump, Brexit, war, and more Trump: Well done, folks!
The researchers built a map of brain activity and discovered that neurons in the lateral part of the hypothalamus were highly involved in recovery of walking function. focusing on the hypothalamus they found a new “command center' that can help restore movement when the usual direct routes are disrupted.

It's wild.

First they let animals with spinal cord injuries attempt to walk on a treadmill. At different stages of recovery they checked which neurons were active

Then they injected viruses into the spinal cord that move backward along nerve pathways up into the brain. By seeing exactly which brain cells the virus ended up in they could figure out which neurons in the brain directly connect to the spinal cord segments controlling the legs.

To analyze the entire brain at once they used tissue “clearing” techniques that make the brain transparent. They then used specialized microscopes to scan and reconstruct the brain in 3D.

They wrote algorithms to align these images to a brain map so they could count active, spinal cord connected neurons in precise brain regions.

Combining these markers connectivity tracers and 3D imaging they created a complete atlas of which brain cells became engaged during walking recovery. This approach highlighted the lateral hypothalamus as a site that sends signals down to the spinal cord to help restore walking function even when the usual direct routes are damaged.
Popular a year ago (184 points, 171 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36906140
The New Rules of Media
Peak capitalism spawned a lot of chaos - it was probably the period of time where tech significantly dropped quality of life. I'm not talking about the tyranny of jobs. I'm talking 10 year old boys blowing glass, slave tier wages, monopolies, 100 hour work weeks, families of subsistence farmers being outpriced into bankruptcy. Communism, fascism, genocide, mass famine emerged from this. Things were worse because people thought, "How bad can things get?" Capitalism later silently evolved to be less free market, because full blown capitalism is unsustainable. But as time goes on, we forget these lessons and optimize for growth.

There's a correlation between economic inequality and political instability. Money buys power. When someone controls both money and politics, the only response by the unpowered is violence.

Inequality triggers because of technology. We're seeing a tech boom lately. This triggers waves in economic and political stability, which triggers waves of violence.

Recent lockdown, crypto, and climate change adds more ripples - so you're looking at overlapping waves of change soon.

e.g. Arab nations are highly dependent on oil and are screwed if oil prices drop, but the Russian war bought them a few more years of stability, which they invest into other things. So the waves can overlap in ways that counter each other.
Americans are too busy fighting each other.
I have built https://audiala.com which creates audioguides for historical and touristic places in cities all over the world. It brings a bit over $500/month in in-app purchases.

I got the idea in 2023 as I was solo traveling Florence, Italy and thought it would be much nicer to listen to stories about the monuments around me instead of having to read a guide. There is also so much more to be done: next, my plan is to create personalised itineraries based on your preferences, starting point, etc.

I tried paid marketing but found much more effective the SEO I have done on the website, and users seem to share with their friends and come back, which makes me happy.
Everything I list is at fair market price, with fairly conservative margins if you consider materials, capital expenses, and labor time.
For a long time, I wondered why a remake of The Shining was made in 1997 [1]. Now the internet simply explains that this was due to the author of the original novel being dissatisfied with Kubrik's adaptation. So much for mystery.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(miniseries)
I regularly do repeated cuts of identical stuff width with my tracksaw, so I'm not sure why you'd think you can't easily do that.

About the only thing the tracksaw is not good for are long cuts of narrow stock. And yes, dadoes, but I do those with a router and arguably you should not even try to do them with a table saw, unless you are trying to hurt yourself.

Implying that because of the possibility of kickback a tracksaw is comparably dangerous to a track saw makes no sense.
That brand of "hacktivism" was based on embarrassment. Embarrassment
went away. Internet security got so bad, and leaks so common, that
the impact evaporated. When Barrett Brown went down for Stratfor it
was because he embarrassed the wrong people. Today that kind of breach
happens every other month without the help of any hostile hackers.

Also companies became brazen [0]. It became okay to run a company like
NSO (Pegasus) or simply publish your grotesquely immoral and very
illegal hacker manifesto... as a "product", so long as you're doing it
for money (ideological ends are still frowned upon).

Hacktivists can't compete with that.

Indeed, exposure of wrongdoing became a useless tool in everyone's
hands. Before the wave of regulation, when Ian Levy, was the CTO at
NCSC he gave a talk saying how we could "shame" hopeless BigTech
companies into better security. Though I admired his attitude it was
clear to me that would not work. Heavy regulation was gonna come
because BigTech has no shame.

At the same time enshitification happened. That meant that the
consequences of leaks and outages became much less. Where else are you
gonna go? Microsoft can go down for days and despite the harms there
is no reckoning. Everyone is simply stuck in a dead-end dependency on
monopoly services. We just take an early lunch, call it "internet
weather" and to hell with the economy. If "hactivists" took out half
the internet tomorrow it would be "business as usual" for most people.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42382815
I read on Kindle so Audible should be rasy for me, but the pricing of their audiobooks is simply ridiculous, so that's a no for me.
Have you heard of carapace? Its a tool to create spatial lines for drawing
The causal mechanics are the same. ML works on very specific distributions of measurements of those patterns.

ML models are models of measures, not of the causal process which generates those measures. In this sense they arent 'models' at all, in the traditional scientific sense of the term.
I'm not sure it even matters.

If it gets to court you've got a plaintiff either claiming that defendant violated copyright or the defendant failed to follow the terms of GPL.

In both cases the defendant will respond that they followed the terms of GPL.

In both cases the court has to determine what the license means and then whether or not defendant followed the terms of the GPL. To do that the court has to decide what those terms actually mean.

For that I don't think it matters if GPL is considered to be a "contract" or "license" because as far as I have been able to tell the rules of interpretation are the same no matter how you characterize the document.

Maybe it could make a difference in the remedies that are available if plaintiff wins. If it is seen as not being a contract then it might be that the only remedies would be those under copyright law. Those would generally be an injunction ordering defendant to stop infringing and monetary damages. Actual monetary damages would be near zero so plaintiff would probably ask for statutory damages.

If it is seen as being a contract then potentially the remedy could include an order that the defendant release their source code. If the GPL infringement was distributing binaries without making source available this would probably be the remedy plaintiff wants.

Ordering the defendant to obey the terms of the contract is called "specific performance" and I believe is usually disfavored by courts if monetary damages are sufficient but since infringing GPL generally doesn't cause any monetary losses to the copyright owner and the whole point of the contract was to make source available I'd expect a decent chance plaintiff could get specific performance.

Note that this means that it is actually better for GPL to be seen as a contract.
Does this mean that the problem of not being able to verify QC results will go away in the scenario where we have a large enough QC to solve an NP problem?