skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've done most my hiking in Spanish

That's genuinely impressive, I've done most of my hiking in silence /s

I know what you meant though.
This feels like a article against the fur trade that was written on a rare animal skin.
My feeling is that they're paywalling features that are arguably better left out of these tools anyway.

When I'm reaching for Notepad, I want something that is very minimal with very low "interpretive" functionality. If I'm on Windows, I want to expect that it is there if I'm working in an unfamiliar environment and I don't want to hide the raw text as much as possible. Same with Paint. In both cases, if I want more, I'll reach for a more capable tool which excels at having the advanced features I'm looking for.
TL;DR:

"If this was just about technology, that would be interesting enough. But technology doesn’t operate in isolation. It shapes culture, which shapes institutions, which shapes incentives—until you end up with a whole epistemic ecosystem where uncertainty is treated as something shameful."
This statement goes against any report and analysis on basic autopilot, not even FSD.

Just like the video, that if you’d take some time to watch l, you’d see that’s just basic autopilot.

Data is saying other things, but if we want to deny gravity, I’m ok with it.
I gotcha. I misread and misunderstood. Yes, we agree.
If anything is misrepresenting it's both the name autopilot and the name "full self driving" for two things that neither are autopiloting or full self driving.
Anyone knows if there is something like that with heavy focus on privacy? basically decentralized offline first, end2end encrypted collaborative note taking/knowledgedb is something iam looking for.
What on earth is wrong with you?
To be clear, this is like buying a car that has traffic aware cruise control available as an option, but turning it down, then insisting the TACC is broken and dangerous because it doesn’t work on your car.
Are they undercutting businesses or creating new ones? Running and supporting an instance of a suite of open source tools can be a business.
their first thought was maybe that used again riot or violence in the first place not necessarily to attack people

I mean its just moral Highground at this point, same can be said for Oppenheimer if he didn't do it maybe war that more costly would occur
What language is the JVM written in?

All safe code in existence running on von Neumann architectures is built on a foundation of unsafe code. The goal of all memory-safe languages is to provide safe abstractions on top of an unsafe core.
Once there's violence targeting you, the solution is to bring real weapons and resolve it using ordinary military tactics, that is, you kill the operator.
With 5g less and less people use random wifi hotspots, and for home locations, phone manufacturers assume that it's easier for the user to just type in the password than to generate qr codes for their new phone every few years.
Besides making flashing esp32 devices easy there is also another niche use-case for webusb and that is Web MiniDisc; keeping those recorders alive long past manufacturing EOL.

- https://web.minidisc.wiki/
OK - a bit like the fairground game of trying to knock coconuts off a stand by throwing a wooden ball at them. It doesn't matter how many balls you are throwing per minute (total energy being delivered) if the energy of each ball doesn't cross the threshold to knock the coconut off.

OTOH, the energy of a photon is such an abstract concept (not like the kinetic energy of a ball) that I'm not sure it really helps explain it.
Oh dear, your timeline casts doubts on the ability for a Tesla to self-drive from LA to New York before the end of 2017
You started with a bias and ended with another one.
No, but the French and German governments just gave you an excellent code base to start from!
>Hitman is an example that contradicts your point about gameplay, guards will see you in mirrors and act appropriately.

See:

>It's something that's trotted out as a nice gimmick, 99% of the time it's not there, and you don't really notice that it's missing.

Yeah, it's a nice detail for the 1% of time that you're in a bathroom or whatever, but it's not like the immersion takes a hit when it's missing. Moreover because the game is third person, you can't even accurately judge whether you'll be spotted through a mirror or not.
I expected my comment to get downvoted due to the anger (rightfully so) from Canadians. People don’t seem to understand that most Americans didn’t vote for Trump and that those that did probably didn’t want him to attack Canada, of all countries.
Can you have a device which upon detecting the frequency emits some kind of counter vibration that cancels out th attack?
The biggest issue where I live (Philadelphia) is the plague of motorcycles and cars with exhaust systems deliberately altered to maximize the noise generated. The police won't do a damn thing about it. Most people seem to accept and even defend this situation with one of the following retorts: 1. With all the murders and other crimes, the police should not be wasting time on this. 2. That's just how cities are; if you don't like it, move to the suburbs. 3. Kids are just having fun, Karen!

By the way, I've lived in the suburbs, and the situation with leaf blowers is just as maddening.
When it came out, block-based editing and always-on wysiwig were novel, and Notion was definitely more delightful than the existing “internal wiki” software category (Confluence etc.)
Making these 3 from static websites generated from docstrings is a multi-billion dollar industry called LLMs.
You’re missing the point. You can’t call yourself a democracy and prevent people from peacefully protesting. Either you allow people the right to demonstrate in peace to show those in power the scale with which a certain cause moves people or people skip protesting altogether.
How do I make sure my game runs well on Via?
"We have to to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country. The professors are the enemy." - JD Vance
I think it ends up proving the opposite. I did not feel like scrolling through all this pointless flair was in any sense rewarding. Quite the opposite, it's distracting enough to be annoying, so if anything, it feels like a counterpoint to the message in the text.
> Surely, if you support something, you have some familiarity with it?

You'd really hope that's the same logic used when someone doesn't support something too.

Rarely are people's opinions that well informed unfortunately.
Entirely different software stack.
No, C lacks encapsulation of unsafe code. This is very important. Encapsulation is the only way to scale local reasoning into global correctness.
Anyone can commit treason given the circumstances and foreign agents know this. You should fire everyone just in case.
The actual problem statement is can such a system do so safely. If it is just to drive a car all you need are some stepper motors and a raspberry pi.

The goal is to reduce accident and fatalities not eliminate jobs .

If LiDAR has 1/10th the fatality rate of camera setup and is less costlier than 10x the value of human life(as used in legal proceedings) then it still the only viable option
They use completely different machine learning models for each of the two features
In this case, I believe Canadians are taking issue with the treatment they may get at the border. They don't want to be sent to detention because of a simple misunderstanding with an over zealous border security guard who is scared of losing their job if they accidentally let the left one in.
Here's what the official Tesla website has to say about FSD vs. Autopilot:

> In addition to the functionality and features of Autopilot and Enhanced Autopilot, Full Self-Driving capability also includes:

> > Traffic and Stop Sign Control (Beta): Identifies stop signs and traffic lights and automatically slows your vehicle to a stop on approach, with your active supervision.

> > Upcoming: Autostreer on city streets

Since I don't see a stop sign, or a traffic light, I cannot imagine how that makes any difference or can in any way be considered a complete f*k up, or how that's a "HUGE misrepresentation of facts". These things, listed here copied verbatim from the website of the manufacturer, are completely irrelevant to what was being tested here. It's like arguing that a crash test is invalid because the crash test dummy had a red shirt instead of a yellow one.
What does this extension have over extensions like MarkDownload or MarkSnip? And will it be available for other browsers?
Making electronic dance music in 1990 [video]
Wow the comments are.. Bad. Not all single instruction operations are the same.
But seriously, how much more would Tesla have to spend on each unit, if they were to include a LIDAR sensor? why not optical and LIDAR?
Reminds me of the escalation seen in the Ukrainian Maidan, went from some heavy handed policing to non-lethal rounds (eg: teargas / beanbags) to BBs to snipers and live firing on crowds.
Building Efficient APIs with Qbix and the JAM Stack
It wasnt even on autopilot when he crashed it. At best, he was testing automatic collision avoidance while pressing the accelerator, not autonomy.
I think artificial neural networks was implied and there is a world of difference between how biological and artificial neural networks function.

That said, I'm not sure that's what the barrier is. I think humans would have trouble driving with a fixed low resolution camera too.
Apparently, Tesla has stated that they do not use paired cameras for ranging or depth perception, which is the standard approach for stereoscopic vision.

Instead of stereoscopic vision, Tesla's neural net processes the data from the cameras to create a 3D view of the surroundings.

https://electrek.co/2021/07/07/hacker-tesla-full-self-drivin...
For a while, FSD was a totally different system from Autopilot. FSD was the giant new neural net training approach from end to end for all kinds of driving, while Autopilot was the massive explicitly tuned C++ code base for highway driving from the early days. The goal was to merge them, but I haven't followed it closely lately, so I don't know if they ever did.
How do we know if Rust is safe unless Rust is written purely in safe Rust?

Is that not true? Even validators have bugs or miss things no?
>The intel graphics division is run by fools who won't give their cards a USP in the SR-IOV feature home labers have been asking for for years.

Intel are "fools" for not adding a feature that maybe a few thousand people care about?
No, I don't think that's what they were implying.
I agree it's not about the 10x engineers or the greenfield. I think YC's selection process is still focused on finding distinguished individuals, but within two specific constraints.
It has better depth-from-vision estimation that not only uses stereo vision, but can combine multiple frames.

In theory, it can handle the painting on a wall scenario. In theory.

I’d like to see it tested!

This wasn’t it.
Reminds me of Bret Victor's article,"A brief rant on the future of Interaction design".

https://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDes...

I guess one on the reasons why he's building Dynamic Land.
I love how humble his origin story was, and how he didn't need to drop in where he is/who he is as part of it.

Amazing who you /meet/ here.
Apply for it: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/
I thought this was going to be about those accursed motherboard chipset graphics
But once you've increased the light frequency (i.e. photon energy) above the required threshold, THEN making the light brighter (more photons) will increase the number of electrons emitted.
Still, watching the video people will take away that Tesla FSD is not safe (whereas only autopilot is relatively unsafe). Nothing can be further from the truth, considering I have been using some form of FSD/AutoPilot since it started.
One very interesting things happens when you drive with FSD. Because the FSD in-cabin camera is watching you extremely closely, it is literally like having 2-drivers driving.

I insist that my wife and kids drive with FSD, because then I know then that FSD is forcing them to watch the road. Think about that! Use the latest FSD on HW4 for a while (I do 90% of my drives with FSD) and make an informed decision. IMO, not using FSD is killing/hurting people.
I would prefer that dissent be legal.
It's a weapon meant to deny the use of an area by threatening non-selective permanent physical damage. There are very few legitimate civil use cases for something like that.
That looked like a Lexus with its insignia blacked out, so I'm guessing it was a custom build. But if you want a car that comes with LIDAR, look at the Volvo EX90.
https://archive.is/hj3Om

> Apple’s product marketing organization, marketing communications, software engineering team and AI organization are all culpable.. Given the nature of this collective failure, it’s unlikely to result in management changes on Cook’s executive team.. the whole mess is likely to come to a head this week at Apple’s annual Top 100 offsite. A March tradition since the days of Steve Jobs, this is a meeting of the company’s 100 most important executives.

Since no one was responsible for this collective failure, can a single leader be given responsibility for future Siri success?

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. —Steve Jobs
Findings on butanol toxicity may enable cheaper biofuel production
Hubert Dreyfus rolling in his grave..
You won't know you haven't, which is the whole point.
This feels like a AI summary of a real article.
Dev of the Obsidian Relay plugin [0] here.

We support most of this (you'll need to also use Obsidian Git), but haven't released OIDC (please reach out of you need it!).

[0] https://system3.md/relay
Looks good! One minor point: it looks like some of your conversion isn’t keeping accurate styling. For example, if you look at the letter in https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fict... that starts with “In conformity with an order” you’ll see (in Firefox and Chrome, Safari’s in the process of adding the styling) that the address is 90º as per the original scans. The same in https://flowery.app/books/edgar-allan-poe/short-fiction/thou... falls back to normal display, which is fine but perhaps a little bit of a shame.
High schooler needs some life advice
Greetings.
I am currently in my senior year of high school and quite ambivalent about starting a new chapter in life: college. I have been a studious person throughout my schooling and have had a keen interest in technology from a very early age.
Now, coming to the main point. I feel this unresistible urge to put in hard work towards becoming someone in life. I've observed that the older people become, the drive or ambition to get out there is slowly eroded. Sometimes a hoard of responsibilities gets in the way, or simply the elixir of youth has given up. I do need to be clear that I am not being ageist in the slightest degree. I extremely value age and experience, and this high regard is what led me to write this post. These statements reflect internal fears, which, quite literally, keep me up at night.
I want to work on some project, some initiative. But, the requisites for doing so are just too much. Especially with how technology is evolving. I had an idea about 2 years ago about building a chatbot that answers questions and marks papers from my high school curriculm. However, neither do I have the skills to build such a project, and even if I wanted to learn to do so, I have no clue where to start .Furthermore, there is also a lingering question: Do I even need to do it all by myself. I mean, things certainly don’t work that way in the real world. But not having a single professional work experience causes me to feel overwhelmed by the logistics of working in a team to build something.
‘Vibe coding’ is a term that made me chuckle when I first read it here on HN. I’ve been doing it for over two years now. To state the obvious, it’s an okay aid, but I was only confident in doing so because of my basic background in web development—something I lack when it comes to more advanced topics.
With vibe coding, I can build something fairly basic, but when it comes to the technical aspects of a project, there’s no easy way around it.
To sum it all up. I feel that time is running out, and I need to do something impactful in life. Something impactful, to me, means doing a big project or an initiative. I have good ideas, and I know I can execute them. However, I lack the technicalities to build something all by myself. I apologize in advance if something I said sounds too trivial
One more question: if u could do it all over again, what would you be doing at my age?
Thank you and have a great day!
Jon Gruber's latest long post[0] comments on the oddity that this is only coming from Gurman, with zero other sources able to corroborate it.

Personally, I am ambivalent: I hope that Apple is taking the situation at least as seriously as it seems to be in the apparent leak, and I hope that they do indeed have some of this stuff working in a partial, demo-able fashion.

[0] https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/a_postscript_on_the_singu...
Developing, managing, and operating distributed systems infrastructure has way less training data available than webdev. And it doesn’t translate in to pithy interpreted language one-liners.
Like I said, I get how this could happen. But it is wild for a company proposing they've "almost" solved FSD to not be able to execute basic collision avoidance - a core, fundamental capability of FSD - to not have deployed that capability into the hardware of a car they claim is completely capable of FSD with that hardware.
Furthermore:

> Active Safety Features

> > Active safety features come standard on all Tesla vehicles made after September 2014 for elevated protection at all times. These features are made possible by our Autopilot hardware and software system [...]

No mention of FSD anywhere in that section. Tesla fanboys, pack it in.
I can get behind the vision of computers being more physical. That's a potent vision.

The claim that current technology is a regression compared to past technology is hard-to-swallow, though. I have a family friend who took CS classes in the early 70s. Punching out 0s and 1s, waiting a day to have a chance to run the program, etc. I do not get the impression that she views this as the pinnacle of enjoyable HCI.

My mom also has a funny story about visiting this friend during the chaos of finals. The friend showed my mom the computer area. My mom vividly remembers seeing students frantically trying to get their final programs done and punch card papers being scattered EVERYWHERE.

Back to the main point, I don't see a lot of extensive, enjoyable physical interaction in this past paradigm. Punching holes in paper would probably get tedious. Carrying the stack of papers over to the mainframe operators would also get annoying. And then you read out the results of your program one page at a time on physical paper. Sure, it's more physical, but is this really more enjoyable in the long run?

So exactly what point in the past is the author reminiscing about?
That's a poor analogy because what Mark was testing was emergency breaking and collision avoidance, which is part of Autopilot.

https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot#active-safety-featur...
I dunno, I generally try to avoid driving off the road into a landscape.

That said, I very well might drive into a high-res billboard of the exact scenery behind the billboard, if I wasn’t expecting it on a long straight country road. The in-car view in that video looks pretty damn convincing, sure you’d know something was off but I wouldn’t bet on 100% of drivers spotting the deception.

Maybe next video he can show that Autopilot won’t detect a land mine, or an excavation just after the crest of a hill.
Out of curiosity, why do they take raw pointers as arguments, rather than references?
This was recently posted:

Separation of Concerns in a Bug Tracker [2024]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296422
Estimates are that something like 300,000+ people were out actively protesting just in Belgrade... in a country of 6.6 million people.
I’m getting this sense too, as my own employer is starting to add AI features. The pitches for what is possible are not grounded in what engineers know the system can do, they’re just assumptions about “if we give the LLM these inputs, we’d expect to see these outputs that are accurate enough for meaningful productivity gains.”

I’m not an AI skeptic, but it’ll be interesting to see how we manage the uncertainty in these projects.
What is true is that there are more operations in C which can cause undefined behavior and those are more densely distributed over the C code, making it harder to screen for undefined behavior. This is true and Rust certainly has an advantage, but it not nearly as big of an advantage as the "Rust is safe" (please do not look at all the unsafe blocks we need to make it also fast!) and "all C is unsafe" story wants you to believe.
Claiming unsafe invalidates "all of the nice memory-safety properties" is like saying having windows in your house does away with all the structural integrity of your walls.

There's even unsafe usage in the standard library and it's used a lot in embedded libraries.
Nothing in your comment is a logical response to anything in mine. Perhaps you need to take your own advice, especially with text that's right above where you're typing?
All Apple needs to do is allow 3rd party apps to integrate with Siri, then use an LLM as a way to convert natural language into the set of allowed API calls. Basically similar what chatGPT does with function calling. And on osx, they should have already had a head start due to applescript integration everywhere in most apps. I have no idea why they're trying to reinvent the wheel with "Shortcuts" which is severely limited.

They already have everything waiting there for their taking, and they're squandering it for no reason. Siri on osx should have been built on top of AppleScript from the get-go, then the switch to LLM would have been easy.

For that matter, I wonder why on osx I haven't seen any 3rd party apps be a siri replacement using applescript to drive applications directly. So much effort is spent on screen scraping and trying to get "agents" to use computers like humans do, but for decades osx has already had a parallel set of APIs built into every application specifically for machine consumption. And most good 3rd party apps even make use of it.
FWIW I am as paranoid as they come, but paying using cash is absolutely less convenient than using Apple Pay.
1. Human "neural network" is few orders of magnitude more powerful than the best neural network available right now.

2. This might be obvious question but: Humans have two eyes and they are few centimeters apart so that we could use stereoscopic vision to estimate the distance. Does Tesla FSD even attempt to do something similar?
In the next century, researchers will discover that the GUI wasn't designed to make computing harder by forcing people to find cryptic little symbols, randomly arranged on the screen, and break routine operations into tiny sequences of manual steps. And it wasn't called a "personal computer" because it turned each person into a computer.
Everyone thought LLMs would scale exponentially like everything else in computer science. It's actually linear and they're all stuck holding a bag of mostly worthless goods.
They do have 2-3 front facing cameras and their e2ee does necessarily get the same understanding of the world around it.
One particular model: the electron g-factor.

Now go look up how precise a prediction the same model makes for the muon g-factor.
I was honestly shocked that both the Biden admin and corporations were able to hold this off in 2023-2024 given the huge debt loads held by everything.