skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an exception: Tesla FSD (the US version, not the horrible EU version) this is rather cool and impressive, and unbeaten in the market for now.

Though free and open-source solutions are not that bad like https://github.com/ApolloAuto/apollo

But the build quality of a Tesla car itself, omg. It feels like a carton box with an amazing battery.
I don't use it daily, and I find copilot counterproductive (for me). I do try to experiment with chatgpt when I remember to.

I find it good for complex SQL, reviewing emails, and Godot assistance (I'm a beginner game Dev).

There are also times when I have programming questions and I might try to use chatgpt, with mixed results.

Our company has tried to integrate it into one of our products, and I find it troubling how on occassion it is confidently giving bad results, but my concern seems to be in the minority.

EDIT: there was also a large refactor I did recently which involved lots of repeatable, but not super regexable, changes - chatgpt forgot where it was as I went through it, but other than working around that it was very useful.
It's a tower video, but we also see the operator moving the camera to catch it. I would expect to see cameras passively covering the entire runway, and not needing an operator to frame it. The reason is the operator may miss something else happening, or may be distracted at the critical moment.
That could probably be solved with bit-torrent. I think the bigger obstacle is the hardware required for training. Maybe it would be possible for groups of people to reproduce/train open source models with a distributed BOINC-like system?
> "don't fuck up the franchise."

Were they asleep while filming the more recent star wars films?
It's cheaper to make it without a hole than add a separate component and screw threads on both components. After all, you will drill the hole zero or one time, as needed.
What you’re describing is dissociation, if you’re looking for a word! Its effects are not as well known and it’s under-appreciated how common it is. Plus having 3 different societal definitions really makes the concept difficult to talk about.

I’ve done a lot of work on this myself and one can connect with one’s parts, if that model seems accurate to you.
It's cringe but not so much more than deepmind's OG "solve intelligence then use it to solve everything else"
I feel like that's part of what Elon is flexing. Teslabot was late comer compared to competitors like BD.

Elon is showing off he can marshal enough resources and talents to be on par (kinda) with state of the art products in crazy time. That's been most of his superpower so far - not breakthrough tech that didnt exist before. We've had rockets before.
Autocomplete on steroids is what I use it for. I've recently started using Cursor and the productivity improvements have been huge. I won't let it write very large blocks of code but I do a lot of web stuff so being able to update the classes in one spot and have it recognise all the other places that might be helpful and let me just tab through. Code to test things it's pretty good at as well which also saves a lot of typing.
Nah you just make a Russian Roulette menu out of pharmaceutical offerings and continually parade new chemicals through the marketing machine as the patent granting/expiration cycle chews through them.

You run costly ad campaigns and multimedia commercials, and you send salesmen out with imprinted pens and fancy notepads and they hand those things to the physician, then they purchase a nice lunch for the clinicians and explain how they treat all the weird nouveau conditions that were coined specifically for this drug. Do not Taunt Happy Fun Ball

Then the insurance companies get on board with "fail-first step therapy" and the physicians start writing the cheapest prescriptions possible in hopes that the patient will go away or so totally fuckin' placebo'd that they were so busy filling scrips that they wouldn't bother complaining about the same thing twice.

Can you tell that I immensely enjoyed Hank Azaria, Jake Gylenhaal, and Anne Hathaway in "Love & Other Drugs"?
Here's a real open one: https://allenai.org/olmo
I had a more classic boombox shaped version. It was the same size picture tube, with tape deck. The tube came to the "top" edge of the boom box flat rectangle. I watched "little big man" on it, Custer's charge with full sound, from here (left pinkie) to there (thumb) also Sony from memory
I found it via the Google sub-reddit. There appears to have been some kind of internal clampdown, I just checked and the Google Discord server has been renamed to The Tech Collective (https://discord.gg/techcollective). No idea if employees at Google are still a part of it.
I wonder what the likelihood is of big leaps forward there, in terms of communicating with other intelligent Earth life.

As in, will our ability to wrangle vast amounts of data and characterise it gives us enough insight into what whales are saying to one another that we might be able to start asking them questions?

It doesn't seem absurdly far-fetched at this point. But they're probably even more pissed at us for the last couple of centuries' behaviour than the various Indigenous peoples we Westerners have screwed over.
> His profits don’t come from his products, but from his fanbase buying his stock.

SpaceX is private, Starlink makes real money from real users.

> Everything he does is done to influence the public opinion to make him the tech genius of today in the collective psyche.

Well that's clearly not right. He's doing a lot of things to make himself seem like a total tool that we should all boycott no matter how good the products are. If he actually did what you say, he wouldn't be burning all these bridges.
Ask HN: Can I really create a company around my open-source software?
This is a serious question because I'll be the first to admit, I'm not a great business person. Also genuinely not trying to just promote my software either, but looking for some advice and feedback.

I recently built and launched Forms.md, which is an open source JS library that lets you create multi-step forms and surveys. The forms themselves are very similar to what you would find on Typeform. The library works anywhere you can run JS, so it works with all web tech stacks: Django, Rails, React, Angular, etc. The library itself is just the front-end form builder, there is no backend because I expect people to just submit their forms directly to their database as that should be fairly easy to set up. It's also licensed under Apache-2.0.

Website: https://forms.md

Repo: https://github.com/formsmd/formsmd

Some backstory, this was initially known as blocks.md, and I was charging for a one-time license under BUSL. But that version was quite difficult to use because it only worked with Markdown files.

This time, I'm charging around $25/month in order to remove the branding. Everything else is completely free. Now this is the part I struggle with: I feel like the quality of the software is quite high and so is the output. But can this be an actually viable business model? I have really thought about just making it entirely free (even the branding removal) and just seeing it grow, but I would love to make some money from this and potentially even do this full-time (God willing). I spent months building this, and I constantly keep on doubting myself on what to do. I even hesitated to launch for 2 weeks because I was really anxious.

Any honest feedback on this? Could I actually make this into a company or do I need to start adding more features like backend, integrations, etc.? I'm kinda burned out at the moment, just left my day-job, so it's all a bit of a mess really. If anyone has any advice, I'm all ears. My email is also on my profile.

Some other questions:

- Should I go back to charging a one-time fee?

- How do I even reach out to potential customers/users?
I work in AI and love the technology. But all the hype and grandiose claims make it awkward when people ask what I do, and it makes hiring harder when experienced developers hear 'AI development' and walk away - even though it's mostly just solid full-stack engineering work.
The problem here is obviously liquidity management. You could think of the vault as a battery that charged and discharged.

If you drain and charge the battery at the same time, there is no net change in the charge level. Theoretically, you wouldn't need the battery to begin with.

Now add time lags. Now discharge may happen before charging. The net change is zero over the full duration of the cycle, but the battery is being drained temporarily and it is changing its state all the time.

If the battery is not large enough, the system will shut down. This in itself is not necessarily a catastrophe, but you will have to pay damages over the shutdown duration for the consequences of that shutdown. This will probably ruin profitability of the counterparty.
DeepSeek is an open model that can be "untrained" to be uncensored; Grok to the best of my knowledge isn't [0]. So it's much worse.

[0]: What Musk has said is that when Grok 3 is "ready" (?), the previous model, Grok 2, will be released as open source; like most promises by this evil man, this one probably doesn't mean much, but it does mean that there's currently no plan to release Grok 3.
In Japan utilities are separated into pseudo-governmental entities that operate the infrastructure as a monopoly, and for-profit companies that deal directly with customers. This seems to work relatively well in that the customer-facing companies can distinguish themselves in the market (e.g. offering higher prices but better customer service), and the infrastructure is immune to profit incentives but subjected to high levels of regulation.

The closest equivalent I experienced in the states is when I lived in the SF bay area and got internet access as a customer of Sonic, who provided DSL services over copper lines owned by AT&T.
On LLM/ML itself: it seems a lot of cynical people start with some unreasonable idea that "AI" should be able to do what it will perhaps be able to in 10 or 100 years, and are subsequently upset that it is not capable of that yet. It may get there, it may not. But that's on you for starting with a wrong assumption.

Is the AI "business" or "market" overvalued for it's current capabilities? Yeah, I do believe so. Welcome to the financial world, which is completely separated from reality. It's like that in all sectors where something new and exciting is happening, not just IT or AI. People poor money in hoping to be early enough to make a profit. Nothing more, nothing less. The rest is marketing. Some Sam Altman guy promoting the hell out of his own product? That is literally his job, regardless of wether or not he believes it all.

But articles like these are so bizarre to me. The author acts like he has millions at stake and his money manager just won't listen and pull all investments out of AI. Hurry up, the bubble is about to burst, I will lose all my money!

Except that... they don't. They are just "old man yelling at cloud". If you believe AI is the next Metaverse or WeWork, then it will just die off by itself once the bubble pops. Why are you having so many conversations about it, where you seem to be desperately trying to convince people of the bubble/con that is AI. To the point that you're so sick of it, that you write down your arguments so you can point the blinded there instead of having those tiresome arguments.

Genuinely baffled. Spend your energy on something productive rather than destructive, perhaps?
D works just fine without using the GC. It can also work just fine with just the C standard library. It does not insist on it.

BTW, the GC makes the compile time function execution sweet and easy.
Using General Search Algorithms on Dynamic Optimization Problems (2023)
I wrote this blog back in 2023 but since then I became a frequent lurker on HN and decided to repost the blog here. For me, writing it was about connecting the dots between dynamic optimization techniques I've studied as an economist and the more general search algorithms studied in CS. (This is a second submission for I erroneously put Show HN in the title the first time around.)
It -is- pretty pathetic. My floodlights have better resolution, and I'm just a nobody consumer interested in watching wildlife move about.
Maybe I should have clarified more - I'm using a desktop PC, not a laptop

The system seems to go into sleep state just fine, it just freezes when waking up again
He is referencing a specific tweet that Musk himself made.

If I were in China, I'd worry about the kind of things DeepSeek wants to censor, especially if the people who made it were also very loudly saying things like "we need more AI in our government". But I live in US.
Honestly, the main thing I've found ChatGPT to be useful for in my daily life is helping to translate what I write from my native language to the language spoken by most of the people where I live. But even then it only really works if you have at least a basic understanding of the language and can ask it to rewrite sections when you recognize poor word choices or awkward phrasing.
TLDW. Will this be open weights?

This commit seems to indicate so, but neither HF or GH has public data yet:

https://huggingface.co/xai-org/grok-1/commit/91d3a51143e7fc2...

Edit: Answer from Elon in video is that they plan to make Grok 2 weights open once Grok 3 is stable.
Same. Even the cheapest drill I have for dirty jobs does this with no problem whatsoever.
Replit and Anthropic's AI just helped Zillow build software without any engineer
s/shutting down/powering off/
Also known as "catastrophic interference" or "catastrophic forgetting" ... No all that catastrophic unless it balloons, but it's a name that stuck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic_interference
That's annoying but could also be caused by the monitor or TV HDMI implementation.
I've found that Claude has been pretty decent at writing boilerplate code.

For example asking it something like "I have an elixir app that is started with `mix ...` can you give me a Dockerfile to run it in a container?"

It can also do things like "Given this code snippet, can you make it more Pythonic" or even generate simple apps from scratch.

For example, a prompt like "Can you write me a snake game in HTML and JavaScript? The snake should eat hot dog emojis to grow longer." will actually generate something that works. You can see the generated code for that prompt at https://claude.site/artifacts/34540f88-965e-45ca-8083-040e30...

Following up with "Can you make it so that people can swipe on mobile to control the snake?" generates https://claude.site/artifacts/651e957a-9957-488c-ae6b-e81348... which is pretty good IMO for 30 seconds of effort.

It also has a surprisingly competent analysis mode where you can upload a CSV and have it generate charts and analyze the data.

It's not perfect, it'll sometimes get confused or generate some dubious code, but you can quickly get to a 90% good solution with 1% of the effort, which is pretty impressive IMO.
If you read scifi from the 50s you'll find that there was no original idea in any scifi film.
Append-Only Programming
This is a surprising thing to read, as that’s a lot of services. Are you religious? Or were you once?

I’ve visited many, many churches, likely hundreds. I love their architecture. I have never been to a service and am an atheist.
Something I'm grateful my dad taught me is the importance of good tools. He had cheap knock off vise grips that couldn't hold very well, and also name brand ones which did great. He told me how he regretted buying the cheap ones because they cost more, in the end - he still had to get the more expensive ones anyway. Ever since then I have always tried to get good quality tools when I buy them, and it has served me well.
poor rat :(
Qubes OS 4.2.4 has been released
The real concern isn't that Grok chatbot will be biased if you ask it a question like that. In any case, knowing Musk, it won't be subtle, so people will know what they are getting.

No, the real worry is that Grok is what Musk's "young conservative genius" squad is going to put in charge of many of the things in our government, basically, on the basis that it saves money.
You don't have to be an "expert in AI". What does it require to be one, anyway? (He's a cognitive psychologist, which would make him an expert in intelligence in general, if you want to be pompous about it.) It is even unreasonable to listen to only experts in AI. It's a problem that requires more than one perspective.
This was just painful to read.

>For my washing machine, they were unknown unknowns - I didn’t even expect there’d be a hole to drill, new hoses to buy, a cold water tap cap to remove, and a spigot PVC wall to drill out.

No, most of this was something that could have easily been known if checked after the first trip to the store but before going there again, or at minimum before the third trip. It was just so painful to read how there was absolutely zero planning and checking before execution.

While you can also do many checks and plans in software development and deployment (like calculating if the thing you want to calculate given your resources is even remotely possible, back of the envelope calculations, you know), there's still many more things that are much harder to know about and check in advance, and there's not usually a huge cost (going to the store) associated with problem solving each time.
The commercial version is the Garrett E-Turbo [1]
Effectively it is an electric motor on the shaft that connects the turbine and the compressor, allowing electric spin-up on low RPM (reducing turbo lag) and electricity generation when the exhaust energy exceeds the compressor requirements. By dynamically controlling the boost pressure you can also consistently run at a stoichiometric ratio, reducing emissions and further increasing efficiency. Pretty smart!

[1] https://www.garrettmotion.com/news/newsroom/article/what-is-...
Possible, but in terms of the galaxy vs evolutionary time, we're not looking very far into the past.

The Milky Way is of the order of 100K light years, which for evolution is the blink of an eye.
> a theory that widespread adoption of the existing product will experience an uptick

because profit of this can not cover the investment in this industry

adoption of iphone/smartphone/internet brought new products, including those for reproduction and those for consumption

but generative AI is totally different with iPhone, consumers maybe willing to buy a new ai-powered iphone __just like how they bought new iPhones for every 2years before__

> The current landscape imho should be viewed as an R&D race amongst private actors

in fact, it's a CapEx race, you don't need to R&D anything (ofc you must pretent you do)

that's why it's a con

> The AI Bubble will burst “any day now”

"The canary in the coal mine to look at is when Satya Nadella or Sundar or Zuckerberg say, ‘You know that $80bn of capex I said I was going to do? I think I’m going to cut that by two-thirds.’ That’s what you need to look for."

that's the day
Why do you think you know that? How would you know if you were wrong?
I was also thinking he must live next to the store.
People have tested this question online and gotten very balanced answers so I assume it's some special mode Elon was on
Because people have different opinions on which things the government should spend on. The objective function to optimize for is disputed.
For me, getting summaries of meetings is my favorite use case. Saves me from taking notes and I can extract next steps.

It also helps me getting started with new content, kind of building the scaffolding of, say, a blog or social post. It still needs adaption and fine-tuning, but getting rid of a white page is a great help for me.

And I use LLMs to play through ideas and headlines. I would normally do this with other humans, but since working full remote, its a nice sparing partner, although the AI not being able to really give criticism is a bit annoying.

The tools also make it easier to write in English as a non-native, making sure my text does not include any false friends or grammar errors.
I think most people are still "holding them wrong", and it'll take an entire generation of people to really figure out what these things are and are not good for.

I'll give two recent use-cases that may provide a hint of their ultimate utility:

1) I've been modernising 2010-era ASP.NET code written by former VB programmers that looooved to sprinkle try { ... } catch( Exception e ) { throw e; } throughout. I mean thousands upon thousands of instances of these pointless magical incantations that do nothing except screw up stack traces. They probably thought it was the equivalent of "ON ERROR RESUME NEXT", but... no, not really. Anyway, I asked ChatGPT in "Reasoning" mode to write a CLI tool utilising the Roslyn C# compiler SDK to help clean this up. It took about three prompts and less than an hour, and it spat out 300 lines of code that required less than 10 to be modified by me. It deleted something like 10K lines of garbage code from a code base for me. Because I used a proper compiler toolkit, there was no risk of hallucinations, so the change Just Worked.

2) I was recently troubleshooting some thread pool issues. I suspect that some long-running requests were overlapping in time, but Azure's KQL doesn't directly provide a timeline graphical view. I dumped out the data into JSON, gave ChatGPT a snippet, and told it to make me a visualiser using HTML and JS. I then simply pasted in the full JSON dump (~1 MB) and ta-da instant timeline overlap visualiser! It even supported scrolling and zooming. Neat.
Woot! I need to read the docs better! Thanks for sharing that :D
Your source is Elon Musk. AfD is not just "a mainstream right-wing party".
When was the last time you updated your brain OS? My rememberory format changes every couple of years.
I've wanted to do Nand2Tetris for a very long time, but it just never reaches the top of the pile of "things I'd like to do".

Many years ago I built a linux system following the Linux From Scratch (LFS) guide. My experience doing it corresponds with a lot of what the author mentions.

In all this there is a slightly uncomfortable realization, at some point you need to trust the layers below, knowing everything is simply not possible.
I don't like Elon either, but not only has SpaceX created breakthrough tech that didn't exist by landing an orbital class rocket, as of today still nobody else has done it.

Landing a rocket was considered impossible and unthinkable 10 years ago, and then SpaceX completely changed the game. And they're reinventing rocket tech again with Starship by catching it midair.
Moral outrage at the idea of personal responsibility and strawman arguments are hallmarks of poor decision making.
I'm not sure I properly understand what these maps are visualizing. I'd have expected the London public-transport map to heavily compress adjacent tube stations and expand tube "dead-zones" but this doesn't appear to be the case. It can take me 10 minutes to get to central but 60 mins to get somewhere equidistant in z2 or z3.
This is nothing but propaganda. When your economy is shit any small increase will make it look like it’s booming.
Code Style Sheets: CSS for Code
Tumorgrowth.jl – Predictive models for tumor growth
TumorGrowth.jl is a package providing ODE-based models for predicting the changes in volume of a lesion. In addition to classical models, like Bertalanffy and Gompertz, it includes, as experimental, some neural ODE models. It has tools to calibrate the model parameters, given patient measurements, and a tool to compare multiple models on a holdout set.
Yeah, I know, and I know about the leaded gas situation.

The thing about cameras, though, is you can buy an HD dash cam for $100 that records in a loop. Buy it, plug it in, and point it at the runway. It doesn't need anything beyond a wall socket.

If I was an ATC sitting in the tower, I'd probably just install one myself.