skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no proof that tesla can make FSD work with the level of safety they would need for a robitaxi service. Especially with camera only.

If they do pull that off, or are able pivot to a fused sensor architecture then I do think their hardware potential will make them a good competitor.
The past couple years, I've consistently used robotaxis whenever in SF. Definitely not a pipe dream.
If taxis got bigger it would cut into personal sales, yes, but it creates a new revenue stream whereby they take a cut of every ride. The price anchor in that new revenue stream traditionally accounts for the cost of having a human driver, which a self-driving car doesn't need, so they would likely be off to a really good start in terms of profitability. Especially considering they have already paid for a significant amount of the R&D.
> we need to intercept cocky executives before they incriminate themselves in media res.

Please don't, just let them.

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.
STM launches stm32n6 microcontroller with neural processing unit (NPU)
Cal Newport beat you to #3
Dupe (9 points, 2 hours ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42382220
The plural version is still available. Might be worth it to buy that one.
Bat bombs (bombs full of bats with time-delayed releases of napalm) were developed in World War II.
to me it’s a hallmark of a writing style that understands itself to be written speech.
Why? I'm not in a gang or a mob, so i am safe from their silly little squabbles. I don't care how many gang members kill each other. I also don't care how many people die in DRC civil wars, because I am not in the DRC. I don't care about people dying on other planets and in different galaxies.
its a w idea
FWIW, I (a human) read the order and this is a pretty accurate summary.
Sad news IMO. "We're not cut out for the future. We're all in on the dying business." Dunder Mifflin level stuff.

Cruise cars were way more numerous around SF, although the service was worse than Waymo's. That stupid October 2023 accident really snowballed, and it wasn't even their (primary) fault.
I had exactly the same thought. I read it after struggling for hours, making notes, etc, with a very hard (to me) part of my code and it made it seem pretty trivial.
It's been paying his rent for 8 years, I think fortune's on his side ;) The landing page got me too and I signed up
Maybe he'll have to step back like Linus had a few years ago.

And maybe give the wp.org domain ownership to the Foundation, making WP a bit more reliable and resilient to one's actions.
And when you go to Tesla for a test drive, they first thing they do is shove it into auto-cruise or whatever they call it whether you want to or not! At least that is what happened to me when I test drove one 10 years ago. Maybe they don't do that anymore.
> Not sure what you’re talking about, but I get the feeling that you’re trying to smear me with allusions and innuendos.

To be fair:

>> Americans, so as the composition changes, and the whites become less of a statistically dominating factor, the scores are expected to go down, even as the education quality improves.

Reads a lot like "Our scores are going to go down because there are more brown people, even when we try so hard to help them.", and without further explanation, suggests a predicate of "brown people are inherently dumber". I understand that you're more likely suggesting that the immigrants are coming from a place with lower educational quality, which means they have a weaker educational background. Particularly though its a litte odd when the only called out groups are "white people" and "immigrants" with no mention of other groups like non-white natural born citizens (not to mention confusing when trying to consider white immigrants). It has a lot of the elements you'd find in dog-whistles:

* the immediate framing of results in terms of race/ethnicity

* setting up a whites vs the undifferentiated others.

* a declaration that white people are propping up the others and describing whites as dominant. (I know you said statistically dominant, but the word dominant has a lot of connotations no matter how it's prefixed).

* the use of flat, statistical wording around a seemingly odd juxtaposition (the first point).

Doubly so on the internet where it's extremely common to find the person who said the original to be spewing overt racism a bit down-thread.

I don't know if you are racist, and I don't think you intended racism in your comment. I'm just pointing out that it's not surprising someone read bigotry into it.
I agree both are easy to say, but IMO ${new_thing}s fail like 80% of time and, even it succeeds, take much longer time to find its useful usages and it's much narrower than we expected at first. So I think it's better to have skeptical or pessimistic attitudes toward ${new_thing}s by default. BTW I'm impressed by LLMs for some tasks and it makes my job easier, but still feel it's useless for majority of my daily tasks.
There are some Reddit threads about this - https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1dz57am/trade_3...

Take them with a grain of salt.
>What YC looks for, above all, is founders who understand some group of users and can make what they want. This is so important that it's YC's motto: "Make something people want."

...and then, after having become one, sellout your loosely held principles, exploit people by "bait and switch", sell their data, feed them BS, make them addicted to your product, use dark patterns, concentrate even more power, hire >What YC looks for, above all, is founders who understand some group of users and can make what they want. This is so important that it's YC's motto: "Make something people want."

...and then sellout, exploit people by "bait and switch", sell their data, feed them BS, make them addicted to your product, use dark patterns, and so on. , buy politicians and so on...
> I’d prefer to say we just go back in time the moment it collapses. How can you disagree with me? No proof of anything and we can all contrive untestable solutions.

That's close to retrocausality which is a serious theory/interpretation of quantum mechanics.
You captured very well my sentiment. Also same feelings for AI.

I'm wondering if it's time for me to switch professions and give up compsci / software altogether.
By ~50% of voters, not 99%. More people agree on this than do on cat pics being cute.
LibSQL: Fork of SQLite That Is Both Open Source, and Open Contributions
It's too bad there were never any good movies made about the code-talkers. There was one movie by John Woo, starring Nicholas Cage, named "Windtalkers", but it was terrible; coincidentally, I was just reading an article this morning about the "worst war movies of the last 25 years" and Windtalkers was on it, alongside "Jarhead 2" and others.
I did as well and yes, it's fine. This is just a meta comment about what we're accidentally training people to do, not a critique of OP.
Accurate black box is fine until it blows a forecast and people die, and you want to fix it for the next time.

Take the situation with Hurricane Otis — what do you do if an AI doesn’t detect cyclogenesis 24-48 hours beforehand? Are we sure tuning the model to detect this event will improve forecast skill in general, or will it make it worse?
Japan is roughly as close to Nippon as doitsu is to Deutsch.

The Germans are somewhat extreme on the exonymic spectrum, there are something like six distinct terms used in Europe for them. I've never heard one complain about it.
I love this site. I love browsing David Rumsey's map collection and I know that they have a georeferenceing feature, but I haven't used it.
It is definitely possible to catch H5N1 flu from drinking unpasteurized milk. Early on in this dairy farm outbreak there was a group of barn cats that got sick due to drinking milk of infected cows. 50% of them died.

There have been dozens of cases of farm workers getting sick by exposure to infected animals and their bodily fluids.

It’s estimated that 20-40% of dairy herds are infected and no effective controls are in place to prevent the spread.

So far there have been no human to human cases but if people keep drinking unpasteurized milk there certainly will be and then we’re in for pandemic two. Now with higher mortality rates!
Usually illegal, not always wrong.
Probably because English is so very non-phonetic. To repeat an ancient joke, "Hookt awn fonix werkt fer mee".

I could also see it resulting in more subvocalization, but my assumption is that subvocalization is actually a very important short-term strategy that almost always goes away quickly.
The author is of course mainly talking about the fact that the current Claude models are one of the best for programming. Only o1 can rival 3.5 Sonnet, but o1 is way more expensive and takes more time to run.
We did have Suburbans, Broncos and a Ram thing that was closed in. Not a ton of them but they were out there.
it's just a runaway feedback loop, no biggie. /s
Show HN: Rugby – cycle-accurate Game Boy emulator
For the better part of the last three years I’ve been working on a Game Boy emulator as a passion project in my spare time. There's still room for improvement (mostly with accuracy in the core), but I think it’s finally at a point where I’m comfortable sharing it.

It's implemented in Rust, and currently is ported to macOS, Linux, Windows, and browsers via WebAssembly.

I’d love to hear any feedback you have!
Initially to a PolyForm license[1], which I then forked to create my own[2]. I informally refer to it as an "edu source" license (the source available is primarily available for educational purposes).

[1]: https://polyformproject.org/licenses/strict/1.0.0/ (hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24804223)

[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi-license
Edit: Nevermind. This conversation isn't going anywhere productive.
I'm responding to the question of "is it". Go be overly pedantic somewhere else.
An AI companion suggested he kill his parents. Now his mom is suing
That's the negative things about positive feedback loops, eventually they grow enough to be noticed, and by then is already too late to avoid them to become massive, because taking action will take time, and meaningful action even more.

And it is not the only system that went from net absorber to net emitter of carbon, the Amazon rainforest crossed that line some years ago already.
Sean Carroll will be happy to hear that.
Discussion (61 points, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42382829
> To the contrary, you could totally conclude from this that US has excellent educational system at least with respect to these, as you call them, “advantaged” groups

Wouldn't the educational system being geared towards these groups be an advantage granted to those groups?
I'd be willing to bet most of these still hold once you control for wealth.
Even without the attribution, it was still pretty clear to me that it was a chatbot-generated summary. No human who understands how the legal procedure works would introduce the summary in that way, as the court order is the preliminary injunction.
Congrats, you're one of today's lucky 10000:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Also worth reading the poster's follow-up years later and the ensuing discussion. Graeme's observation about the significance of the comment is super important:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16661824
Archive link: [https://archive.ph/2024.12.11-000916/https://www.washingtonp...]
> might not in fact also be low performers at reproduction

Can you be more specific? Are you talking, for example, about religious groups?
Oh ye of little faith, why wait for cybercab when the model 3 was driving NY to LA driveway to driveway in 2018. Waymo died years ago
Dupe (56 points, 3 hours ago, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42381311
Thanks! Emailed :)
Right here in the US, this is how Bill Gates built Microsoft.
considering humans leave oceans of blood in their wake with their own driving, all of the autonomous driving companies are doing great by your measurement of success
I think discussing people from wearing Rolexes is a social good.
Thanks, ScrapingBee has everything I am looking for in terms of functionality. My honest opinion is that most people who are looking for an alternative just want something cheaper. Thats 99% of what I am looking for, at least

Things like captcha solving are nice no doubt but for many people, their use cases just aren’t compelling enough to make it worth the ROI. I would love captcha solving, but definitely not at your price point..
He was in secondary when he into math
There’s a community of users to think about…

I think Matt needs to be replaced, and while the “what” may be arguable, he loses hard on the “how”.
I kinda feel Bitcoin hitting $100k does not mean its success. I think it proves to fail to become a currency as intended at first, and instead it becomes a gambling target and political tools for billionaires. That's far from the original purpose.
A better name for "laws" is "models."
I don't know of any computer scientists, including the quantum-information-theorists, who think that QTMs can compute something that classical TMs cannot. That is, QM cannot solve undecidable problems.
It's wild that no one bats an eye at these things in some locations now and in other places people still insist they'll never exist
It's pretty obvious: our society, because it's based on representative government, requires a baseline of general welfare sufficient that as many citizens as possible have leisure time and are not subject to PTSD-inducing levels of stress. This is at odds with the increasing inequality and increasing cultural and class stratification within our society. As it is increasingly only possible for upper-middle class and up parents to care for children effectively, the rest of the child-age population will continue to be worse and worse off, while the upper middle class pull the ladders up after themselves out of concern and fear over the future welfare of their own children being completely zero sum.

The most urgent things that need to happen to stop this are:

- Ensuring sick leave, vacation time, and improving wages, especially on the lower end, such that 1.5 incomes are sufficient for 2 child homes so that parents can have time for their children.

- Policies that severely disincentivize vouchers, private, and charter education so that there are fewer incentives to try and create "tides that selectively lift boats."

- Increasing the housing supply.
While Japan indeed has only one national language, in practice it has many different dialects of that language which are not very mutually intelligible. I live here, any my girlfriend says she can't understand lots of people from various more-remote places. She can't even understand people from the opposite side of her own prefecture. So people frequently have to switch to the standard "Tokyo dialect" when talking to people from other parts of the country. Of course, this is probably lessening over time with mass communications, similar to how Americans largely speak with a "midwestern" or "Chicago" dialect used commonly on TV.
It’s hard to see that idea making less than a million dollars if implemented to be fair.
The BadRAM thing is interesting -- shouldn't this be easy to catch with a memory test?

Chip lies that it's twice as big as it is, so just check if something you write to 0x0001 shows up at 0x1001

Actually a bit surprising that modern boards don't do enough testing to catch this from the start -- checking that the address lines are working should take pretty much no time and would be a good check for whether a module is making good contact on all the pins.
I would strongly advise against additional event types because the double-entry model is already an append-only journal. At most, I’d encapsulate the creation of a transaction as a structural formality for whatever event stream/bus is in use. The clearance events produced by the clearinghouse need to be more purposeful and work at a domain level for the logic to have any chance of coherent implementation. So it’s a PaymentsCleared event, note the plural because in many systems this is a batch. This is probably followed by events for the creation of records for the aggregate settlement transfers and their subsequent approvals/lodgement/lifecycle with financial institutions/treasury systems.

The most interesting projections from such an event stream are usually just Balance and PendingBalance. I wouldn’t type entries based on status, it’s just a flag (or more likely a timestamp and reason code), and transaction is not distinguished at all, its status is nominally cleared simply when all the linked entries are cleared.
This indeed is a big deal. People have been told for decades that saturated fat clogs up arteries ( based on questionable studies while ignoring counter evidence). Another example how the vast majority of the 'research' community followed the herd without questionioning. There was some opposition but they were the minority, so they were easy to dismiss/marginalize.
>Japan is roughly as close to Nippon as doitsu is to Deutsch.

This is seriously ignorant. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Japan

"The English word for Japan came to the West from early trade routes. The early Mandarin Chinese or possibly Wu Chinese word for Japan was recorded by Marco Polo as Cipangu. The Malay and Indonesian words Jepang, Jipang, and Jepun were borrowed from non-Mandarin Chinese languages, and this Malay word was encountered by Portuguese traders in Malacca in the 16th century. It is thought the Portuguese traders were the first to bring the word to Europe. It was first recorded in English in 1577 spelled Giapan."
> Swiss banks are notoriously expensive and have terrible investment products that hold trillions because of their obsession with protecting capital.

What? Their second largest bank, Credit Suisse, imploded only last year. They hold trillions because of their nominal neutrality (though their cooperation with western sanctions against Russians appears to be hurting this significantly) and banking secrecy laws that serve as shelter for proceeds for all sorts of crimes.
What is this based on? Some made up target numbers? Tesla isn’t going any of this stuff yet so they have no idea what it really costs.
So do they say. I am reminded of Google Flu Trends [0]. They likely also did similar "verification" and it didn't work.

> The initial Google paper stated that the Google Flu Trends predictions were 97% accurate comparing with CDC data.[4] However subsequent reports asserted that Google Flu Trends' predictions have been very inaccurate, especially in two high-profile cases. Google Flu Trends failed to predict the 2009 spring pandemic[12] and over the interval 2011–2013 it consistently overestimated relative flu incidence,

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Flu_Trends
This is such an awesome app - great work!
Haven't seen the anime, but at the time of Copernicus Poland wasn't THAT Catholic. I mean it was Catholic, but it wasn't extermist about that compared to Western Europe.

Polish Kingdom had a long-standing conflict against Teutonic Knights over Prussia (which is where Copernicus lived). Prussian Confederation joined Poland to be defended against Teutonic Knights and Copernicus even participated in defence of Olsztyn castle against them.

Czech hussites (protestants before Luter) participated in wars against Teutonic Knights on the Polish side, and Polish king supported them to some degree against Catholic crusades.

Few decades before Copernicus Poland even sent a delegation to Council of Constance defending the right of pagans no to be invaded in crusades and supporting Lithuanians against Teutonic Knights. The guy making this argument was Paweł Włodkowic who taught in Kraków Academy before Copernicus studied there.

Also - Polish nobility was starting to embrace reformation in 16th century and even forced Polish kings to give them guarantees of religious freedom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Confederation

TL;DR: Poland was pretty tolerant for the time. It became hardcore Catholic after counterreformation.
>Covid is probably the most thoroughly studied disease in history by a mile though.

last estimates I read mentioned 400k covid research papers, diabetes had over 1.5m and 'cancers' , as varied as that topic is , has many many millions of papers.

The intensity of research was high, and the technology yielded quick high quality results, but there isn't much reason to consider it to be 'the most thoroughly studied disease' -- maybe if you go by some arbitrary figure like 'megabytes of genomic data sequenced' ?
Why make something up like this?
It has twice been proposed in the Navajo Nation Council to officially change the name from Navajo to Dine and both times the proposal was voted down. This was largely because the proposal was unpopular among members of the tribe. There are multiple generations that have grown up being Navajo, they think of themselves as Navajo, and they want to continue to be referred to as Navajo.

Also, growing up (white) on the Navajo reservation, I was taught that Dine was the native language word for themselves, but no one ever expressed any desire for white folks to refer to them as Dine. They tended be private about their culture - there were aspects that were for them not for us, sometimes plainly and other times more subtly. Dine sometimes had that feel, like it was a private name amongst themselves, not a public name for outsiders to use. In other ways it was similar to German vs Deutsch, just a different word in a different language.

It is more recently that some Dine activists have cast off the name Navajo as colonial and wish to be referred to as Dine, but as far as I can tell it still isn't the majority opinion.
I love the tesla service. Bought my car without talking to a single sales person, they come to my home to rotate my tires on my schedule. Only complaint is cosmetic service tends to have a long appointment wait time, but things like a cracked windshield were immediately serviced.

I don't know how I will switch to another car brand after this.
Which makes rot a good metaphor actually. The DNA of a tree which becomes infected with a new mutation of a fungus didn't change, the fungus did.

Code in which a vulnerability is discovered is in the same position. It's developed a susceptibility to a new force malevolent to its purpose. It doesn't have to change to rot, it suffices for the world to change around it.
These people care little of the potential consequences, they operate from a particular mental model in that regard [1]. The harm will be done. When they swan dive from a reputational and legal perspective, step back and the problem solves itself.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42371295
I've built a SMS to Slack which enables two-way SMS messaging from your Slack channels.

I had an annoying use case where when trying to login to a shared work account, the 2FA code was being sent to a colleague's phone number. Now being able to receive that code in Slack solved the problem.

Customers now use it for their own customer support. End users really like SMS as a messaging platform, nobody wants to send an email or talk to a chatbot.

It uses Elixir, Fly, GCP, Stripe, and a couple carriers.

https://smstoslack.com
Congrats on the launch!

I'm building in this space[1] and I'm intrigued. When I checked out the repo, this actually looked like possibly a really convenient way to fine-tune models, but I'm trying to understand the piece about "products simply don’t have datasets, and datasets can’t keep up with product evolution". What does this mean in practice and how does this relate to fine-tuning?

[1] https://www.fabi.ai/
Open source means just that: that the source is open. The OSI and co. re-defining the term to suit their ideological preferences doesn’t really change that. SQLite is open source, even if it’s not Open Source.

Edit: FSF should have been OSI, I think. Fixed.