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> What happens if other companies aren’t putting self driving cars out yet because they aren’t happy with the current rate of accidents, but Tesla just doesn’t care?

You handle it the same way any new technology is introduced. Standards and regulations, and these evolve over time.

When the first motor car company started selling cars, pedestrians died. The response wasn't to ban cars altogether.

The appropriate response would be to set some rules, examine the incidents, see if any useful information can be gleaned.

And of course, once more models are out there with self driving abilities, we compare between them as well.

Here, we can get better data than what's in the article: What is the motorcycle death rate with cars with no automated driving? If, per mile, it's higher than with Teslas with automated driving, then Tesla is already ahead. The article is biased right from the get go: It compares only cars with "self-driving" (whatever that means) capabilities, and inappropriately frames the conversation.

If I'm a motorcyclist, I want to know two things:

1. If all cars were replaced with Teslas with self driving capabilities, am I safer than the status quo?

2. If all self driving cars were replaced with other cars with self driving capabilities, am I safer than the status quo?

The article fails to answer these basic questions.
If employees are all using softphones (like my client), purchasing cell phones for each employee adds expense and the complication of a 2nd phone number.

Expense and complexity are also the primary problems with TCR.
The process for this began before the inauguration right?
Only regulation can fix this, because for the company it's nothing but upside. They can double-dip by selling data, gather data on their users, etc. There is no downside. There are nowhere near enough knowledgeable people who will balk at this stuff, and even if there are it won't matter if/when everyone does it.

All economic incentives encourage maximum invasion of user privacy. That's almost universally true in my experience.
Exports are what you pay for imports
Tips for PR Writing
A stochastic parrot with a sufficiently tiny residual error rate needs a stochastic model so precisely compressing the world and sophisticated decompression algorithms that it could be called reasoning.

Take two 4K frames of a falling vase, ask a model to predict the next token... I mean the following images. Your model now needs include some approximations of physics - and the ability to apply it correctly - to produce a realistic outcome. I'm not aware of any model capable of doing that, but that's what it would mean to predict the unseen with high enough fidelity.
Right. My point is that there are things we can argue about. "Is it better to have this road here or to keep the forest?", for example. Reasonable people can argue differently, and sensibility is important. Some would be biased towards business and economy, and others would be biased towards conservation. Having these debates in the media is helpful, even if you disagree.

But "is the Earth flat?" is no such question. Reasonable people cannot disagree, because the Earth is definitely not flat. Pretending like this is a discussion worth having is not being impartial, it’s doing a disservice to the audience.
From the article:

"The discovery of the backdoor was made by cybersecurity specialists Andreas Makris (aka Bin4ry) and Kevin Finisterre (aka d0tslash), who published their findings in a detailed technical report late last week. The duo reverse-engineered firmware and conducted a hands-on analysis of the Unitree Go1 robot dog, revealing that each device ships with a preconfigured tunnel client that initiates a connection to CloudSail — a remote access platform developed by Zhexi Technology, based in China.

The researchers demonstrated that upon gaining access to the CloudSail API, which they did using a recovered API key, they could:

List all connected devices and their IP addresses
Establish remote tunnels to those devices
Access the robot dog’s web interface with no authentication
Use the robot’s cameras for live surveillance
Log in via SSH using default credentials (pi/123)
Move laterally within internal networks to which the robot is connected

Makris and Finisterre identified a total of 1,919 unique Unitree Go1 units that had connected to the CloudSail network. While most connections originated from Chinese IP addresses, a significant number were traced to academic and corporate networks abroad. Notable institutions included MIT, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Waterloo, among others. The researchers even observed some units connecting via Starlink, suggesting use in mobile or remote environments."
BBC, Guardian, and NYT have all reported on this footage.
Pants on fire just doesn't seem to cover it.

It's just that Google Voice app on iPhone did something weird in a recent call. I hadn't been using it very much at all, and about a month ago I got a notice from Google saying, Use it or lose it. Ok. So I use it and the suggestion thing threw me for a loop.

On my phone's 120 mm screen, if you switch to the keypad, but before you type a number, the top of the screen says "Suggestions". But I didn't see that. I'm looking back and forth between a phone number in an email signature and the on screen keypad. Once you start typing the number, "Suggestions" goes away. So I finish typing and look up to see the name of a personal contact (never called from Google Voice, btw). I had to type the number again I was so confused.

I was thinking, that's what you get for free IP phone number and free app. Now I read the OP and think, now my iPhone is going to start acting like crap too?

Funny to think it, but I wonder if these Gov peeps are using the free versions or if they pay for these services?
> Zoning needs to be a little more nuanced than "build whatever you want."

Why? It worked. People didn’t build plants near houses as soon as transportation technology let factories be built on cheap, remote land.

Also, I suggested deregulating residential permitting. If people build houses by ammonia plants and people still choose to live in them, that’s sort of a striking damnation of the current system, isn’t it?
There is some movement towards deprecating "as", and lints that will recommend using alternatives when possible, but there are a couple of cases, such as intentional truncation, where there isn't a stable alternative yet.
Related question: Why is welding pretty mainstream while blacksmithing is a much more niche craft? Blacksmithing is a more overarching skill: After all every blacksmith knows how to weld but relatively few welders can forge effectively.

Possible answers:

1. Blacksmiths enjoy making custom tools for each domain while welders just want to get on with solving their domain problem.

2. Blacksmithing is harder to learn. Welding using modern techniques is easy to learn. (Caveat: Welding well is quite difficult. But learning to weld good enough to repair a broken hitch on your tractor is easy.)

3. Welding can solve a very large chunk of metalwork problems. Not all of them--and not always with elegance--but it gets the job done quickly. Blacksmithing can solve a larger set of metalwork problems with more elegance but it also takes more time and skill.
I mean Fox news removed the stock market ticker and started saying saying 'we will be poor and we will be happy' and 'we shouldn't be consuming so much stuff' so the Fox News/Trump administration talking heads?
Well we can come up the number of Waymo-involved motorcycle fatalities from such a breakdown easily from the total fatalities which is 0
Trying to wrap my head around this explanation and I’m picturing a looping gif. You have your normal x and y dimensions and then time through the gif. If the loop length is very short then distance between any two pixels will mostly only depend on x and y. Is that right?
It's going to be really interesting!
Ah yes, running the US Federal Government and running Twitter are two completely comparable endeavours.
Depends what region of the country you are in.

In much of the western US, especially Arizona, there are enormous farms growing water-intensive crops, in particular alfalfa. These farms are owned by assorted entities in the Middle East, and the crops are shipped overseas.

This is an enormous problem. The Colorado River basin is already over-allocated and there is not enough water to go around. But due to how water rights work, any entity can purchase an open-ended amount of our already endangered water supply and do as they please with it.

At this moment it isn't a critical problem, because we do have enough other agriculture and water to support ourselves. But with the direction the climate is heading, eventually we will have a drought of such severity that the water used by those farms makes or breaks us.

During the Great Famine in Ireland, the island consistently produced more than enough food to feed its citizens; it was all simply sent overseas.
As a blogger I use both feeds - it’s a pain bc I manually maintain both but it’s worth it.

I use neither though to decrease my screen time. Perhaps I’m a feed grifter? I hope not.
Yeah, totally agree that something related to this will likely be the next paradigm. I've been putting together experiments in different directions trying to find that thing that's missing but haven't really found a killer use case yet to pull it all together.

That's a really cool idea that once you can get something somewhat reliably consistent generated, you can kind of let your A/B tests start to run themselves with just rough guidelines on what you're trying to optimize for...
Ask HN: What happened after LK-99?
There was a time where there was frothy hype around LK-99, the superconductor that 'worked' at room temperature.

VCs and angel investors were hyping on the socials about a dawn of a new era, committing to fund and pour billions into startups trying to capitalise on LK-99 and superconducting startups, material science was the new thing they all said.

And then everyone suddenly forgot about it?

Did more research go into this area as promised by the VCs?

What happened after LK-99?
This is absolutely an option! It gets a little tricky to avoid shifting content around, since it's pretty typical to load styles in the head but load javascript either at the end of the DOM or with the defer tag, so the javascript would likely be running after the user has already seen the layout, and layout shifts could be clunky.
The USA is rocketing towards bankruptcy, it's just not sustainable.
The number of people who use state and federal parks in a given year is roughly equal to the number of people who fly.

It’s definitely a few notches above “very few”.
Maybe I'm wrong. Figure 2 seems to depict exactly what's described by the title, searching for a combination of random numbers that recovers an approximation of the weights. But if that's true then I have the same question about information theoretics that you posed above.
> Until the middle of the 20th Century, cartography was more an art than a science.

Strange perspective, accurate nautical charts were critical infrastructure in the age of sail, making them and using them was a very technical endeavor backed by significant financing. The brightest scientists of the period spent a lot energy on the longitude problem and similar navigation bottlenecks. Accurate land maps were also important for military and state finance purposes. Much of early mathematics and astronomy were focused on measuring the Earth and pinpointing your location.

I’m not sure if map-making was a science explicitly, there was no UX academia like there is now, but it was certainly a serious engineering field rather than an “art”, and dismissing that rich history of know-how seems like a poor foundation for a review of map-making theory.
Question is, why?

Yes, but why?

Is this a cabal of Jews trying to hide the truth? (no, it is not).

Or is it that the atrocity isn’t highly relevant to discuss on a hacker news thread, and also hard to have people follow HN Guidelines? (Much more likely explanation)
Python 3 is not that different from Python 2. Yes, if you're a mindless interpreter designed to specifically parse and evaluate Python 2 code, you're going to have a hard time with Python 3. Thankfully, software developers are humans and should not have this issue.

The number of shells that are relevant to any workplace I have worked in have been two, possibly three if you're working somewhere heavily Apple-based. All three of these shells are POSIX-compatible. Other shells exist, but are entirely optional and rarely used (I say this as someone using one of those other shells).

Linux has changed more, and is probably the biggest source of change in the list that the previous poster described, but as they point out, most of these changes make managing Linux systems simpler, and shouldn't really cause significant problems.

I think you're strongly exaggerating the scale of changes here.

> My issue is, employers don't want general knowledge, they want an easily slottable asset. You need to know their tech stack. Even if it changes. Hence why LLMs are so in demand.

I'm a frontend developer. Every job I've had, I was not familiar with the specific framework they were using when I went in for that job. In every case, that's not been a problem at all, because I've been able to clearly demonstrate that I understand the foundation of frontend development, which is far more important than the precise technologies used in the company's framework of choice. My experiences in general are the complete opposite of what you describe here: every single employer that I've worked for has wanted primarily deeper general knowledge rather than specific knowledge of their specific stack.

Maybe this is a market thing — maybe things really are that different here in Europe — but your descriptions do not ring true at all for me.
You can't handle a panic, it's the whole point.
Are there any independent studies that have confirmed this? I don't think such a study would still be possible given the API access limitations.

We know that Twitter used to comply with far fewer government censorship requests in countries like Turkey and India before Musk took over, so actual data would be great.
I used to do that but now I have put a password on my guest wifi with a QR code for easy typing (which I still have not printed; I should do that one of these days).
> Why? I’m not entirely sure, but I’m willing to bet it has something to do with Sahil taking a position at DOGE and perhaps an effort to obscure payment activity.

Maybe they felt competitive pressure to offer a feature other payment providers have? Or, it could be a conspiracy theory involving DOGE.
I’ve read some exchanges from an American friend with their other American friends on social media years ago. I noticed that many of the people were very against the idea of people they don’t think are deserving from benefiting from them. Even in abstract ways. For example people getting welfare who are actually scamming the system. Or having an outside benefit, like poor people getting free healthcare even if they can’t pay taxes. Trails would have been a good example for this group, “why am I paying for trails I don’t use?”.

I have a hypothesis that Americans are so scared of others benefitting from themselves that they miss that many, many more people are deserving and it makes for a better society. But they don’t see that and would rather punish the deserving and themselves, if it means the undeserving will hurt more. I think this thinking also bleeds into your social justice movements.
Man, I'm impressed by the quality of the responses my offhand comments have received in this thread. I keep getting corrected and find myself agreeing with the corrections.

You're absolutely right that female characters are, uh, not his strength, and mostly I think you must be right about characterization in his work as a whole. That being said, when I ignore the male characters who seem like wish fulfillment of some adolescent power fantasy (Nigel Sheldon -- immortal genius, intergalactic industrialist, undisputed patriarch, and virile keeper of the harem? Please.) and the female characters who are, you know, young, "nubile," and hyper-sexual, the remaining roster is, I think, solid. Even the characters who are archetypes worked for me.

(Edit: sorry, I confused Children of Ruin and Children of Memory.)

And I find myself agreeing with your assessment of Children of Ruin. In some ways I think it's not well constructed, sort of stumbling through the mystery, winding up much longer than it needed to be, but the main character (no spoilers) has a psychological richness that I can't recall encountering in his other books and is the only of his characters to whose fate I've felt emotionally attached. The ending, too, is among the best and most affecting I've read in quite a while.

And, yes, the antagonist and setting is, I think, incredibly well conceived and well drawn.

So maybe I've changed my mind. Despite some structural issues that, I think, weaken the novel (and I think recall feeling that the 'reveal' came too early or just that the clues leading up to it were too obvious), it may be my favorite book in the series. Its more modest cosmic stakes and narrower field of view, than a lot of the other work of his that I've read, enable Tschaikovsky to develop it into something quite special.
I'm actually making the argument that people should be held more accountable for solving problems the more power they have.

It's easy to say "both sides" committed immoral actions, but that doesn't really get us anywhere useful, other than perhaps some moral superiority.

If we want to actually solve problems, i.e. prevent those bad things from happening in the future, the practical suggestion is to start with those people who have the most power to effect change.
An ability to answer questions with a train of thought showing how the answer was derived, or the self-awareness to recognize you do not have the ability to answer the question and declare as much. More than half the time I've used LLMs they will simply make answers up, and when I point out the answer is wrong it simply regurgitates another incorrect answer ad nauseum (regularly cycling through answers I've already pointed out are incorrect).

Rather than give you a technical answer - if I ever feel like an LLM can recognize its limitations rather than make something up, I would say it understands. In my experience LLMs are just algorithmic bullshitters. I would consider a function that just returns "I do not understand" to be an improvement, since most of the time I get confidently incorrect answers instead.

Yes, I read Anthropic's paper from a few days ago. I remain unimpressed until talking to an LLM isn't a profoundly frustrating experience.
Good catch, it does look like a made up author and the article feels GPT-ish.

I bet on paid 'marketing', if you can call it that, by ScanMCP.com, created to capitalize on the Invariant Labs report.
Nice but it needs more testing. Sometimes it doesn't move.

You need to differentiate between one tap (for clicking on an item) and dragging so that it moves even if you drag the buttons
Europe has domestic petroleum production.
"If C was mainstream braces wouldn't be shift-[ and shift-], clearly LOGO must be the dominant language"
What are some examples of companies that do this?
>I wrote 'multiple codegen architectures' instead of 'multiple architectures for codegen'.

You want to generate e.g x86 + ARM + RISCV, yea?, and shouldnt it be a result of modular architecture?

like your various codegens just take your AST and generate output
It's amazing more people don't understand this. In a free society people have the right to say things that are stupid, wrong, toxic and just plain false. If you live in a society where the government assumes the power to control what you are allowed to say you no longer live in a free society, period. This holds true whether you're talking about the EU's assault on free speech or the Trump administration's assault on free speech when it comes to criticizing Israel. It's amazing so many are willing (and eager!) to surrender their freedoms to what they perceive as benevolent overlords with their best interest at heart. What they fail to understand is that once you have lost the ability to speak freely, you inevitably lose all of the other freedoms that go along with it. Your benevolent overlords now possess the power to arbitrarily classify anything they don't like (especially that which threatens their power) as "misinformation" or "dangerous speech" or whatever other euphemism they invent to silence you. Just because you may today happen to agree with the people who decide what you are allowed to say doesn't mean you will agree with them tomorrow. And tomorrow you won't be able to object, because your ability to speak freely will be gone.
If a C++ developer decides to use purely containers and smart pointers when starting a new project, how are they going to develop unsafe code?

Containers like std::vector and smart pointers like std::unique_ptr seem to offer all of the same statically checked guarantees that Rust does.

I just do not see how Rust is a superior language compared to modern C++
This sort of logic is why half of Silicon Valley is a Superfund site.
That's a bit like when people like their abusers. "I like that they're strict, they have my best interests in mind, they restrict me for my own good." Don't worry, it also happens with large corporations of all kinds, including Facebook, Google, X, etc.

Well, it's really not that difficult for Apple to provide simple way to install an app on the home screen. Or enable notifications. Or manage notifications. Or get rid of that stupid bar on the bottom of the phone, without going into "guided access mode". They just won't. They lock you down and you like it. You can't trust yourself to manage your own notifications.

Also, email is not notifications. And it's full of spam, because unlike notifications which give a capability only to a specific private key, email addresses can be shared with others who spam you.
That Adams quote is nice, and has a similar historical flavour to some of Milton Friedman’s arguments.

That said, choosing a field of study only has the risk of bankrupting yourself.

The excesses of the 21st century, whether that’s blowing up the supply chains that got you out of stagflation, or injecting Maoist rhetoric into academia, will have a much larger and more destructive blowback.
Write that tiny of bit of JS inline in the head and put the class/attribute on the html element.
Not just middlebrow, old middlebrow. The Good Earth? The Nine Taylors? This is every college educated boomer’s aspirational reading list, a mix of books they liked and books they’ll never read.
Apologies for the poor formatting!

Features:

- Multimodal search across text, diagrams, and videos

- Natural language knowledge base management

- Fully open-source with responsive support
Relatively people use your residential street. Why not let it turn to mud then? Wider economy won't miss it.
What Are the Dots on the Side of Vinyl Turntables, Is It Decoration?
Its ok to be paranoid
If you searched for "Arizona Trail southern terminus" you'll see what the terminus looks like today: a beautiful* monument shadowed by a half built useless wall that cost way more than the government spending to maintain some of the most beautiful trails in the world.

These cuts would not just put trail users (which aren't just hikers but also firefighters, hunters) in danger but also cause damage to national parks and national forests as trail users would have to find alternate routes that go off trail.

* It is, in my opinion, the most scenic terminus of all national scenic trails. The (half built) ugliness of the looming wall is an insult to the beauty of the American West.
I don’t understand the argument why EU would tariff China just because they need export. Can you elaborate?