skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine a tramway train car that branched its rail-line at every intersection, person, animal, lane, or obstacle it detected.

1. What would that rail system look like?

2. How reliable would that service become after (6^(4+p+a+l)) per km branches?

3. Given #2, how much computing power is needed to evaluate that state always-mutating SLAM environment?

4. Ok... now throw out GPS (don't work in cities), Lidar (don't work in direct sunlight), and Machine vision cameras (fooled by weather and environment surfaces)...

5. Peoples wishful thinking tends to hijack common sense when someone else pays the price.

Easier to redefine what "autonomous vehicle" means with "levels", rather than to recognize how difficult the problem actually is inside an unconstrained system.

I would never claim to know anything about the subject, but I did help build working platforms when I was more interested in robotics for a time.

Making them "safe" is a whole different problem domain, =3
it’s cheaper and more permanent to just lay fibre and copper to provide internet. we don’t need 3000 satellites launched every few years to do so.

i think you’re overinflating elon’s importance. (not that he designs and builds starlink, anyway)
$20GIGA, not grand.
> I have had zero problems inputting Japanese and Chinese.

That may be fine.

Neo2 does not work. Neo has 3 modifier keys, Gnome/Mutter/Wayland/Whatever does only support two.
Neo2 has a compose key, Wayland does not honor it.

https://neo-layout.org/

I use mod4 for navigation (arrow keys, site up) and compose for Slavish (read Polish) input (źżąę)
This is a bit of a nieve view and I also get the sentiment you think taxes are some kind of punishment. Taxes are a charge on running the country and infrastructure good enough so that your business can profit and enhance an economy. If you think compabies are being taxed too much then you don't grasp how much profits they're actually making. And how much of the countries resource and infrastructure they take up.
I think just like with robots working in factories AIs doing info work is not an issue of the AI. It's the economic system that is bad at capturing externalities that we're hell bent on keeping. On a base level I think you're right that it will cause problems, but it's not the AI itself that's the issue.
See this article for a collection of censored prompts:

https://medium.com/the-generator/deepseek-hidden-china-polit...
I’d just call that “constructive dismissal”.

Which is legally dubious in a lot of places.

Some of the return to office drives look a bit like constructive dismissal to me.

i.e. an attempt to encourage workers to leave without making them redundant by many conditions unpleasant.
Well, unless you use LegacyPatcher of course.
What's your GPU quota in GCP? How did you get it increased that much?
If you're attending a protest with a phone, the cell tower ping will deanonymize you anyway.
Pictures of the Grand Canyon. You can see on Google. pictures of the grand canyon with my kid in the foreground... Pictures of a city nearby. You can find on Google pictures of the city nearby from the top of the tallest building in the city nearby. No. Out my back door if I turn left 10° more than I normally do I'll quickly arrive in a spot no human has stood in for decades. Not in a Google search.

I don't want to claim that maybe it's the surroundings that are mundane, because I don't find that true. One of my favorite films is koyanisqatsi, which is, really, just industrial film of earth. As mundane as it gets.

I suppose I cannot fathom this yardstick you describe.
Wayland as a just protocol... Isn't that the same argument they used when it shipped without copy/paste or a screensaver?
Being from Denmark I have always been puzzled by how US/UK media portray us as neo-Hitlers for being slightly more critical of MENA immigration than our neighbors. Meanwhile Switzerland has been doing what almost amounts to white-only immigration to the point that their "troublesome" immigrants are Europeans from Albanaia and Serbia.

Neutrality is good for PR.
I think you meant to write "it must have" rather than "it should have"?
> It is like mandating a minimum number of days people must not work

This is exactly how it works in many European countries. By law, you can transfer a few vacation days to the next year (or have them paid out in some scenarios) but most of the time you’ll be strongly encouraged to simply use them all.
This article makes it seem like the Swiss have been somehow singled out, but the same restriction applies to a number of countries, many of which are firmly US allies.
Yes… in many people's opinion, you should never ever say anything kind about people like Elon. Fuck him BTW but go ahead and downvote me, because I intend to be kind.

(Supremacist, thus spelt.)
Only me getting part of my answer in Chinese?
> And the rest of your comment is straightforwardly telling farmers how to farm. On average, I bet they know all that stuff better than the legislators. They're farmers

Strongly disagree. The incentives are just not the same. If farmers use pesticides which will kill all bugs and pollute nearby rivers to increase their yield a tiny bit, that's not good for everyone else. If they decide they're only going to do tobacco because it's very lucrative to export, that's not good either. If the techniques they're using are obsolete (and thus inefficient and resulting in them barely being able to survive against foreign competition) or very bad for the soil/environment.

Farmers produce food, it's one of the most critical things in a country. If things go wrong, there are famines or economical crisis (cf. Egypt, Sri Lanka in the last few years, Soviet Russia in the past century). Hell, many countries were couped to take over control over their farming sectors for commercial interests (Hawai, Central America and the Caribbean, cf. the Banana Wars).
This is hurtful, Skynet will just mock people to death :(

> Roasting your digital vibe: You’re rocking a 30-bit color depth in Ankara like it’s 1998, clinging to Mac OS 10.15.7 like a Turkish lira in hyperinflation, and lurking on Hacker News for 3 seconds before panic-clicking here—truly a masterclass in chaotic productivity.
The unification of the flaws is the scarcity of H100s

He says this and talks about it in The Fallout section - even at BigCos with megabucks the teams are starved for time on the Nvidia chips and if these innovations work other teams will use them and then boom Nvidia's moat is truncated somehow which doesn't look good at such lofty multiples
This restriction makes no sense.

The US says "18 countries may purchase our AI chips", but what I understand is "90% of the world may purchase Chinese AI chips".

China just needs to infiltrate Taiwan, which is geographically and culturally closer than the US.
It doesn't matter now as deepseek has shown. Also this was done under Binden so we have no idea what Trump will do.

However it does spoil the relationship and maybe the next time around when Switzerland is ready to spend 6B Swiss Francs on planes it won't be US made ones.

Additionally if Trump doesn't follow the agreed upon global minimum tax which Switzerland also bent over backwards for why would it do any such agreement with the US in the future?
That’s not what they wrote and you misinterpreted it. The point was that if it were true what is being claimed — that we’re close to AGI and we (the US, or EU, or China, etc., depending on where you live) must create it first or someone else will beat us to it and there’s no recovery from that — then the current behaviour makes no sense.

So someone is lying somewhere, and the end result is pumping stock prices.
In a way the age of killer robots has arrived. You can't put that cat back in the bag.
Well you're making a huge shift without accounting for it. The land war picture would have been radically different without the Soviets. In total they deployed more than 34 million soldiers during WW2 [1]. That's substantially larger than the contribution of every other ally, combined. The second largest force was the US with a total of 12.2 million soldiers (by the end of the war). [2]

So what would have happened in this scenario is difficult to even imagine, because Germany would have been under far less pressure. They were already working on the development of 'Projekt Amerika' [3]. It went nowhere, but without the pressures of the Red Army they would have had vastly more resources to expend on such ventures.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army

[2] - https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikabomber
I think the blunder is firmly with the people who caused the blowback. I don’t think it’s a good idea to all be up in arms whenever someone says something you disagree with.
His DeepSeek argument was essentially that experts who look at the economics of running these teams (eg. ha ha the engineers themselves might dabble) are looking over the hedge at DeepSeek's claims and they are really awestruck
Yes, here's the Reddit post to give you a better idea of how it was framed and the tone of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/indiehackers/comments/1ea1cpd/lets_...
Corporations aren't the whole deal. You need governments too. Without governments COVID kills a billion people not a few million. Also without governments you don't have the structure to have corporations. You would have effectively flotillas of pirate ships shooting at each other, not the modern economy.
My wife and I* scanned 4000+ film prints with an Epson scanner I bought in frustration at not finding a well regarded negative scanner. It took a weekend. They're untagged except by any writing on the film packs or the photos themselves.

It isn't that big of a deal. I'd do it for pay for other people if someone absolutely needed it, but it isn't that hard. 100GB including the static gallery site I set up, currently in glacier and on two NAS.
Any recommendation for brand etc for credit card sized ones? I’ve an old Tile that needs replacing.
To be fair, what country doesn't act like they have this cake replicator technology? Certainly the U.S. and England are firmly in cakeism territory.
Or later, seeing how long it took to load /usr/bin in a filemanager.
Both because I hold a microbiology degree as well, and also because that's not actually how epidemiology works either.
Tl;dr: X bad and tears but Wayland with 1.5 frame latency (or more) good. Now, if you have a monitor (or TV) with 30i refresh rate, you're screwed.
Something tells me that wouldn’t have been a problem if Concord had been made by Boeing.
Sure, it's what Gnome Wayland does, but the Wayland protocol does sort of mandate that every frame should be perfect, and the cursor has to match the underlying content, e.g. if it moves over a text it has to change to denote that it is selectable.

I do believe it is a useful tradeoff, though.
And that’s why so many kids had trouble registering their iPad on our network. As it would not send the mobile registration to the iPads

<sigh@Apple>
I saw that, and that wasn't a "Nazi salute". Any and all publications and pundits/influencers declaring it as such are wholly disingenuous and should be ashamed of themselves. The sensationalizing was a textbook example of taking things out of context and projecting your(the Left's) own biases.

If you can't understand that, let me put it in simpler terms: That was a "My heart goes out to you!" salute and I am happy for Musk for being happy that we the American people won the election against all odds.
Would it mean it was active earlier but a critical mass was needed to cause a pandemic? Or it evolved in humans while circulating Wuhan?
>Jazz Jackrabbit employs some really unique VGA programming to do fast blitting

Isn't this similar(identical?) to the tricks John Carmack used to get side scrolling Mario clones like Commander Keen working on the PC platform, who's rudimentary graphics system couldn't do that back then?
I assumed that the emphasis is correctly on "outbreak", ie: a single statistically significant increase, as opposed to a progressive increase over centuries (which is what led to the huge numbers in the 19th century)
They could be preparing something different than kinetic weapons: https://breakingdefense.com/2024/05/is-russias-cosmos-2553-s...
"I have a question for you: do you trust the provenance, integrity, and completeness of data from the earlier stages of the outbreak in Wuhan?"

Nope.

And yes, I am equally cautious with my opinions about it being a zoonotic spillover event. I consider it the more likely of the two explanations, but far from definitive.
Indeed. I'm just also find it interesting how timely some of his actions can immediately blow up on us.

And yes. It really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things but was such a common rationale for those who voted Trump. I'm shocked that he did not in fact keep a promise thst would have benefitted the working class.
But not on mobile, which is a big draw back especially for something you might want to do on the go (Op said that’s not the goal, but for me it would be)
I mean, if you could get a large country that you had some enmity with to embrace anti-vaxx I guess weaponizing that smallpox might seem attractive, if you had really poor morals of course.

So luckily that won't happen!
Guess that CAN-oo was more of a CAN’T-oo
Sure, if we only admit things in its cinematic universe it makes sense. It's incoherent as soon as you take a step out of the trees into the forest. For instance, we also know there's a well-made and popular argument that OpenAI is closed.

It's bizarre to flatten it to "they're giving it away because it's worthless but they're lying and saying its worth something so their stock goes higher", even setting aside the questionable premises that relies on.
Huge fan of wrapping simple PowerShell tools with Gum for making things a bit nicer for colleagues to use, Charm’s entire catalogue is art
When the Concorde flew, the panels would expand. On the last flight of the one in Seattle, one of the crew stuck their hat in one. When it slowed down, the hat became stuck in the wall. It is still there.

Kinda cool.
AMD states that bugs only get fixed for Wayland.

Coincidentally I have got a graphics driver that likes crashing on OpenGL (AMD Ryzen 7 7840U w/ Radeon 780M Graphics)
Trump is winning the intimidation wars so far. But I wonder when "everybody else" the 7.6bn or so get fucked off and start creating treaties and deals that are bad for the US.
I don't think it's too much wrong with using the exploits you've got since every country would do that if they could, just don't piss on peoples' heads and tell them it's raining.

Pretending you're neutral while you're dealing with all sides is a very hypocritical definition of neutrality that people aren't buying.
See also AI discussions and holding a telephone incorrectly, also do we not own phones
>This isn’t like Reddit where you can unsubscribe from the crazy big politics subreddits or unfollow people on Twitter.

Sure it is. This is the internet, Hacker News is just one website someone could choose not to patronize among countless others.

If you don't want to see US centric conversations, don't patronize American websites like Hacker News and certainly centralized American services like Reddit or X.
Why? Serving is still a massive effort, requires massive amount of GPU memory to hold those models.

I don't understand the logic that deepseek somehow is a blow to GPU demand. If anything, more people will try to build on top of R1 style model now, it is only going to drive demand, for customized training.
I do see heavy tearing when watching videos under i3 on Ubuntu LTS and a 60 Hz monitor. So what? I just don't care. Tearing in videos does not hinder me from getting my work done. Watching videos is just wasting time most of the cases anyway.
I don’t know about CIA, but something about Proton has always felt off.
Drones are illegal without prior registration in most tourist destination we can reach with small kids in Europe, some of them just dont allow them at all. They are extremely obnoxious, 1 person recording annoys hundreds of others, pretty selfish behavior. They scare wildlife badly so it ends up dying on cliffs. No love nor respect for that, quite the opposite.

I've had one of smaller DJI ones, but reality was, when looking back, even with simple quick recordings I was annoying to rest of the family since it takes a lot of time to set it up, fly, and put it back again. I've donated it to Ukraine army cca directly when russia started the war, hopefully they did put it into good use.

Make great memories, sure, but do it with respect to others and laws.
I base it on my evaluation of the arguments of those people as an epidemiologist. And their expertise - as I've said, my expertise focuses on a different aspect of outbreaks, with its own theories and methods, and I know enough to recognize that addressing this requires a good deal of specialized knowledge.
Ask HN: What Does Deepseek Mean?
Can anyone explain the impact of deepseek in a simple manner? I've heard that it basically China undercutting the US Algorithms on LLMs so they can train for much cheaper. Does this mean I should short sell NVIDIA? Is OpenAI inflated in valu?? WTF is going on? I really honestly have no idea what to make of the recent news. Someone help explain it simply.
but it works
> China just needs to infiltrate Taiwan, which is geographically and culturally closer than the US.

Taiwan is China. Their official name is the Republic of China, and they're the remnants of the losers from the civil war that ran away go to an island and assimilated the locals. They still officially claim to be "the one and only real" China. For Americans, think it the Confederation ran away to Puerto Rico (assuming it used to be American before being occupied by Spain for a few years, before they went there) and was still there.

But today Taiwan is de facto independent. More and more of its people consider themselves Taiwanese, not "the real" China. Ideally, they should be left to self-determinate. Unfortunately China (PRC) considers itself to be the one and only real China too, and wants all of it. And it would consider Taiwan, with which it has a lot of bad blood (its former dictator literally preferred fighting the Communists over defending over the Japanese that were invading and committing mass atrocities; and he started all that with multiple purges of anyone left aligned), becoming "independent"/separate as a big humiliation. But they also know that any war will probably result in TSMC being sabotaged, so it might be all for nothing, economically. The question is will they risk it for "prestige".
Yep.

My prior is that it is a zoonotic spillover event. Not necessarily that one, though there is some good evidence for it.
Sure, that's why it was a weird rebranding.
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anki for memory, definitely. but you have to develop the addiction/bone-headedness that you will complete your reviews each day. you also have to write your cards in a specific way (Google for how to write good anki cards or ask chatgpt)
> European countries would do well to stop being so complacent and relying on US for high-tech and defense, and invest heavily on having a competitive local defense and high-tech industry,

Yes, I like this speech better with the von der Lyon accent, when I heard it a couple days ago.
Show HN: Making AR experiences is still painful – had to make my own editor
Hey HN!

My co-founder and I have spent over a decade building mixed reality projects and have been growing more and more frustrated with the process. From the number of tools needed, to client sign-off, to the complex esoteric tech stacks. And especially how slow the iteration loop is when dealing with interactivity and UX.

Two years ago we decided to stop whining and fix the fundamental issues. Ordinary Objects [0] was built with our core needs for AR prototyping: a very tight iteration loop between editor and real device, real-time interactivity while editing and clear and concise flow management + mapping. There are many things that layered on to make all of that possible: making it multi-user from the ground up, handling assets without a fuss, and building up a new interaction language.

From a technical standpoint we wanted to be native on the all of the platforms that we support, and do that as quickly as possible. Two years ago the best tool to achieve that was Unity, and I believe that is still the case today. Everything else is inside our custom C# Redux implementation. Our multi-user needs are very different from games, and it helped a lot to learn from Figma's technical notes to implement our pseudo eventual consistency setup. Its been super nice to be multi-user from the get go, we've been able to explore much more functionality this way.

Once the core churn eases up a bit more we will be open sourcing this particular C# Redux setup. As it has nothing to do with any engine code.

The website has some quick examples of how the design tool works [0]. But if you want to view a more complete prototype here is something Gregor, my co-founder, put together recently [1]. We now also have an easy getting started playlist [2].

Over the past year we've been testing with closed groups, and have been excited by what everyone is making. Now we are ready to open it up for all of you to try! Give it a spin and let me know what you think! And happy to answer any questions here :)

[0]: https://ordinary.space

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/onlinegregor_mixedreality-spo...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_A9gShKENE&list=PLidKy8OpOy...
This is odd, ETH Zurich is one of the top ML research labs in the world. They routinely work with Disney! Are they going to block Germany and Max Planck Institute as well? (who commonly work with ETH Zurich)

https://studios.disneyresearch.com/researchlab/disney-resear...

https://www.youtube.com/disneyresearchhub
It's possible your definition of mission critical just doesn't match up to that of those responding to your comment.

If the loss of a set of data would threaten the existence of the company, that's mission critical. While having a sophisticated niche tech partner handle day to day operations of that data is one part of managing the risk of data loss, if one put all their eggs in only that one basket, that would possibly indicate one has a lack of experience with tech vendors and hasn't read anything about managing risk.

Every business should have at least one routinely tested, independent path for mission critical data recovery.
Per HN guidelines, that "just" is load bearing.
The first non white country there is Eritrea at 14.