skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t see how this “clears” Waltz.

For one thing, as far as I know, the iphone doesn’t attach phone numbers to contacts automatically, it just asks. The article claims the iphone did it, but I think Waltz must have.

Also, this why you don’t use a random group chat app for national security conversations. Your general app is designed for engagement which includes building out the social network. Of course it’s going to err on the side of inclusion, when here you want to err on the side of exclusion.

For national security, contact info would be vetted, verified, and strictly up-to-date. There would be multiple guards that would prevent a thoughtless tap months earlier from leading to the wrong person being given national security information.

It sure is frightening that these bozos are in charge of things that have high stakes.
Is it recursive?

Presumably the same effect applies if it were tariff between towns, then counties, then states, and finally countries.

Then what, we are missing interstellar trades to lower the prices on earth?
I think we should separate ads that people seek out from ads that people put up with. They’re very different in purpose and effect. When the ad is the thing you actually want to see, I have no problem with it. The issue is ads that you’d rather not see, but are either attached to something you do want to see, or are placed where you have no choice.
I have a challenge for You: make applications of Your choice of BlackPill [1] or Radxa ZERO 3E [2].

Hint: You might be interested in Forth Systems and Lisp Machines.

[1]: https://github.com/WeActStudio/WeActStudio.MiniSTM32F4x1
[2]: https://radxa.com/products/zeros/zero3e
By that time Waymo will likely be over a billion miles of data, and you're likely going to need similar amounts of mileage to prove that your safety margin is >> 10X better than human.
You can take the tiger out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the tiger.
this is like saying “if anyone cared about security, they wouldn’t be pushing programming languages” since they essentially created the whole cybersecurity industry.
That's exactly the sort of thing that I think should be banned. Particularly the meaningless terms like "improved health".
Hi, congrats on your launch.

Note that to show your work you should change your title to "Show HN: xxxx" and follow these rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
It very nearly did. Then the AI Winter happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
Hi HN, I have been working on a more engaging alternative to standard step counters. One that gamified the process but not to the point of losing its initial purpose. I call it Floramis Walk. In it, every step you take gets converted into in-game currency called Lux which you can use to scan real plants. Think of it as a whimsical fusion of Tamagotchi, step trackers and Pokemon GO.It even has an educational 'Florapedia' that keeps track of each species you find.

It is the first in a series of lifestyle based games that I am hoping to create centered around real life habits and gamifying them.

I just launched it with my small team on Product Hunt and have attached the link to it here. Would love to hear your feedback on the concept as well as features. Thanks for taking a look!
Except we're largely talking about salaried employees who aren't paid by the hour.
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43601273
This was purely an effort to improve margins on the cars that they tried to sell with other types of rationale. From the way I've seen him operate his companies, treat his employees, and now work with the government, he has a high tolerance for risk paired with a very low tolerance for perceived inefficiencies plus too little patience to fully understand the problem.

He really embodies the ethos of "move fast and break things". So let's fire 80% of the staff, see what falls down, and rehire where we made "mistakes". I really think he has an alarmingly high threshold for the number of lives we can lose if it accelerates the pace of progress.
Mine was and still is people cutting into my lane when cornering. You turn a corner and bam, incoming car.

Still, I always leave the bike in gear until the car behind me has stopped, and if I can, I stop slightly diagonally with enough space to move left or right to avoid getting sandwiched.
China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative – GPMI up to 192 Gbps, 480W
Show HN: I made an AI news summariser for any topic in the world
Hi HN,

I built Bitesize, a free app that lets you catch up on the news through fast, focused summaries — built for people who want context without the clutter.

It started 6 months ago when I got tired of bouncing between sites to piece together what was actually happening in the world. Single outlets felt too limited, aggregators were noisy and repetitive, and most articles buried the key info under fluff.

Bitesize is my attempt to fix that. It follows three simple principles:
- Show only what matters — no filler, no repeats
- Recaps that take under a minute to read
- A personalized feed on any topic you care about

What’s next:
- Faster, smarter topic search
- Text-to-speech summaries
- Multi-language support

Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or ideas!
I still think we're going to get a next administration. But I think that getting there will make Jan 6 look extremely minor.
They mean vector tiles. It’s tiles of vectorized images, usually of a map (or other geographic data). They’re so named because they are a vectorized replacement for raster tiles, which were PNGs. If the server chucks back a picture, it’s not a vector tile server.
It's because the sensor suite for lidar is expensive and HD cameras are basically a commodity at this point.

So if your goal is to pump out $20k self driving cars, then you need cameras to be good enough. So the logic becomes "If humans can do it, so can cameras, otherwise we have no product, no promise."
Find an archive and make sure they're aware of the work you've done. Archivists always love meeting people who've done good work in the space they're in. Especially when they have some tech chops which is desperately lacking in the space.

Beyond that, if the material is public domain, that library is called The Internet. Post it and promote it. The only reason to seek association with a library is if you're looking for cred for some reason, and that's not the business they're in.

If it's not public domain, or if you haven't marked your derivative work public domain, then you put a library in an awkward position. Realize that these are the types of people who still post little notes by the copy machines saying what's permissible and enjoy policing it.

Most just say no for the same reason that Hollywood returns ideas and scripts unopened. They're busy and the cost/benefit isn't there.

Although the self-described online ones tend to play fast and loose, real librarians have a formal code of ethics which is worth reviewing.

https://www.ala.org/tools/ethics
Typeconf – Open-Source Typed Configuration with Storage
Cars unlike aircraft don’t need to move forward to maintain safety. If the lidar normally has very good uptime but happens to break, you need to safely come to a complete stop and that’s basically it.

Trusting vision systems for 30 seconds or even 30 minutes over the lifetime of a car is very different than trusting them for 30,000 hours. So for edge cases sure, add a “this is an emergency drive to a hospital without LiDAR” mode but you don’t need to handle normal driving without them.
Is this a front end to yt-dlp? Like https://github.com/Rudloff/alltube ?
If that was true then all cars should have ignition interlock devices, because it's easy for a manufacturer to foresee a user driving drunk.

But they don't, and I'm not sure if there have been many successful cases of suing car manufacturers because their cars let people drive drunk(?)
I have not followed the case too closely, but it seems like the timeline was roughly:

- deny anything wrong happened - Atlantic is a liar

- the leak might have happened, but nothing secret was shared

- ok fine, secret military information was shared

- here is an analysis that says it was the phone at fault, not human error

I have trouble believing anything except butt covering at play. When you are repeatedly caught lying, I do not immediately believe the latest story iteration, even if it is plausible.
It’s not hyped. You can literally watch how FSD perform all readily live on YouTube, and despite these shortcomings, they’re lightyears ahead of any self driving systems. And it’s going to just get better as they account for all these corner cases.

Tesla is a victim of their own success, they’ve set the bar so high people now expect it to have 0.0000% failure rate.
Filtering as a matter of habit eliminates the risk. That's OP's point, not that motorcyclists should watch their mirrors like a hawk and jump between lanes when they decide that the driver behind them might not stop.
This is tangential, but seeing a Ross Anderson article reminded me...

Does anyone know if <https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/> is permanently gone or just temporarily down?
I deffo get the “checked in AWS keys because I didn't understand what I was doing” vibe with the adoption of AI tooling.

I wonder if any AI coding tools will do similar things like curl rando scripts from the web and execute them.
Yet, many if not most people would like an education that is informed by educated literati. People pay big money for it, for good reason. Disadvantaged kids are absolutely starved for it, in more ways than one. Is the "worst crime" when they are exposed to it or aren't?

>I also have a concern that they aren't a great foundation for a young person approaching adulthood trying to understand their place in the World and their own beliefs and values about themselves and the World they live in.

Is your concern valuable because your opinion of a standard literature list is that the books are mediocre or provide a mediocre education? Why should we care that you, specifically, are concerned? Or why you, specifically, see the list as mediocre and dull?

You seem to be implying that literature has to socialize kids to values (those that you prefer, I assume). You seem to be perturbed that everything that a child reads may not cater to that goal.

What I see is an essay whining about how standard English lit material isn't teaching kids political material that the writer prefers.

Ironic to the post-author's role as a literature critic, the post is too indirect and employs too many words toward expressing that complaint.
In Vermont, we have banned outdoor advertising (billboards) for over 50 years with no such issues.

It's hilarious that you think that advertising is actually necessary for economic prosperity. If anything, it's probably a net drain on it.
I think the only reason that demand is endless is due to how profitable it is to sell that attention to advertisers...
My point is that you're presenting Herzl as if all he wanted was to legally purchase land for a Jewish state. But you left out that he advocated systemic racial discrimination to coerce another group to leave. I'm trying to ask if this would color your previously neutral and benign characterization of him.
Unfortunately, excessive litigation is one of the downsides of an under regulated society. If our only protection from corporations is lawsuits then we shouldn't be surprised that people bring a lot of lawsuits.
Infinity blade series
I love the general idea, but banning all forms of paid advertising seems a step to far. That encompass a lot, and enforcing it would be near impossible. There's also clear areas where it could have a negative impact, like for public transport that relies on providing ad placement.

I don't see a problem with criminalizing big ad companies, ad markets, and ad middlemen. I think that would solve a good chunk of the issue.
The comment really needs the words "each pilot acts as a backup for the other pilots" added, or something similar.
yes, it's missing the millions of FSD miles vs the minutes of drives of all of the rest combined.
As much as I want to disagree with the author, I’m not entirely sure I do (certainly in an ideal world I do) and given the possibility of an upcoming technofeudalist future, more people may tend to agree with the future when the nature of small countries changes from small culturally significant relatively poor and vulnerable states to small obnoxious billionaire playgrounds.
This is completely arbitrary Internet lore. Unless you have local laws that define the terms, they don't actually mean anything. Also, if you're "filtering", then you will, inevitably, find yourself "lane splitting" when the light turns green before you reach the front.
The fact that all LLM input gets treated equally seems like a critical flaw that must be fixed before LLMs can be given control over anything privileged. The LLM needs an ironclad distinction between “this is input from the user telling me what to do” and “this is input from the outside that must not be obeyed.” Until that’s figured out, any attempt at security is going to be full of holes.
Ask HN: Is there an intuition for Minesweeper parameters?
Playing Minesweeper, 9x9 with 10 mines is usually solvable without taking risks, but 9x9 with 18 is not. Is there an intuitive explanation for what makes Minesweeper games solvable?
In GIS world, a vector tile is a chunk of geographic data (the vectors) limited to a geographic region (the tile boundaries which fit into the projected checkerboard of your map).

You use a vector tile instead of a png or jpeg tile because you don’t want an image representation of the data, you want the raw “vector” data so you can style it, search it, and do other things with it on client devices.
Tariffs only make sense to protect a fledgling domestic industry which is already receiving investment. Even then, does anyone think that for instance US car makers will suddenly be competitive globally?
That gives you absolute rate, but not relative rate.

There are not many other cars out there (in comparison), with a self-driving mode. There are so many Teslas in the World out there driving around, that I think you'd have to considerably multiply all the others combined to get close to that number.

As such, while 5 > 0, and that's a problem, what we don't know (and perhaps can't know), is how that adjusts for population size. I'd want to see a motorcycle fatality rate per auto-driver-mile number, and even then, I'd want it adjusting for prevalence of motorcycles in the local population: the number in India, Rome, London and South California vary quite a bit.
A first-class IDE that doesn’t take six hours of fiddling and days of research to cobble together. Robust and well-maintained libraries for sockets, I/O, threading, and more. A corporate sponsor for corporations to be able to rely on when choosing to integrate Lisp into their .NET projects.

The ML crowd received F# and that’s practically the only reason anyone still uses anything ML-esque. I would like the same for Lisp. I know Rich Hickey tried to make Clojure for .NET first and failed, though, so I’m not holding my breath.
It also depends on the person and the problem and the problem. :)

My thinking isn’t logical and it doesn’t use language internally. It’s difficult to explain but, due to mental disability I’m using my visual memory to do all of my information processing.

Let’s say it is not easy to describe a picture in words if things get complex.
Maybe a stupid question, but why not using SSH certificates instead?
I'd love to know what horrible library / code the author was using where sandboxing it like this seemed like the best alternative.
> Musk did not understand this.

more likely

he is a ruthless ** who doesn't care about people dying and slightly increasing the profit margin is for him worth more then a some people dying

regulators/law allowing self driving companies to wriggle out of responsibility didn't help either

lidar was interesting for him as long as it seemed light Tesla could maybe dominate the self driving marked through technological excellency the moment it was clear it won't work he abandoned technological excellence in favor of micro optimizing profit at the cost of read safety

which shouldn't be surprising for anyone I mean he also micro optimized workplace safety in SpaceX away not only until it killed someone but even after it did (stuff like this is why there where multiple investigations against his companies until Trump magiced them away)

the thing is he has intelligent people informing him about stuff, including how removing lidar will statistically seen kill people, so it's not that he doesn't know, it's that he doesn't care
To add, even if the fatality numbers are small, accelerating into a person is a pretty outrageous failure mode.
While the sheet doesn't mention it, the Cellcrypt app is a fully functioned encrypted text messaging app.

https://www.cellcrypt.com/cellcrypt-federal
400p books on average. To respond to another comment: I retain every book I’ve ever read to the point I cannot read the same book twice.
So what is the secret to making an engine that runs forever ? Chevy small blocks were like that. Novas and Malibus just needed regular maintenance.
I unfollowed Marginal Revolution when Tyler joined The Free Press this week. I’d already been pretty skeptical about the content on MR because there was very little rigor in the discourse and there are, apparently, no limits or constraints to what economists think they’re qualified to comment on, particularly when economics isn’t even invoked in the discussion.

I don’t go to my doctor for a discussion on urban planning. And if I do.. not at their medical office.

It’s a blog. Not a practice of economics, this one article notwithstanding.

And it isn’t even by Cowen.

EDIT: The comment section on MR is pretty awful too.
You’re right let’s call them muggles, which has the added double-elitism of “I understood that reference” as well as the in-story elitism of the wizards. /s
I guess as you say, it's a social club of sorts. I imagine that they could instill some good values in younger children/teenagers, and so on.

But this is all guessing.
What gets me is that there are no other brands in Tesla's league. Tesla is the only consumer car that has "FSD" level ability.

The competitors have to use pre-mapped roads and availability is spotty at best. There is also risk as Chevy already deprecated their first gen "FSD", leaving early adopters with gimped ability and shutout from future expansions.
> So what does nncp-exec do? It reads stdin and encrypts it to node bob. It adds metadata, saying it’s requesting the “tarextract” command, and adding two arguments to it (the -C /var/local/backups). It writes this all into a packet file in the transmission queue for bob.

> When bob processes the packet, it spins up /usr/bin/tar -xpf - -C /var/local/backups, piping to it the data that had originally been piped to nncp-exec.

I was with them until seeing that nncp-exec accepts user provided arguments[2], and that just smells like an escape waiting to happen. Since they drew parallels between that and the command= in authorized_keys[2] I looked it up and it doesn't appear that either command= nor its ForceCommand sibling accept user provided arguments

I presume its target audience is where both ends of the connection are "you" (or at least fully trusted)

1: https://www.complete.org/nncp-concepts/#remote-execution

2: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/noble/man8/sshd.8.html#...
He was not wrong about one thing, he was frequently wrong. He is highly charizmatic bullshitter that gets away with fraud and lies, that can secure help from people when he needs.

But, he is frequently wrong, it just does not matter. He was occasionally right, like with Tesla back then.
I disagree. I think this is one of the most important lenses to inspect the problem through, as the current set of articles and discussions about MCP security I saw here over the last weeks, seem mostly oblivious to the fact that the vulnerabilities they're complaining about are also MCP's main features.

> That a system is hard to secure doesn't negate the need for it to be secure.

Correct. However, security is a spectrum - there's such a thing that "secure enough", especially when making it more secure eliminates the very reason for system's existence. Additionally, we can and should secure different parts of a system to a different degree.

For an analogy, consider utensils and workshop tools. We secure them as much as we can against accidents, but not so much as to make the tool worse at its job. We add further security by means like access controls, or laws making people responsible for use and misuse, etc. - i.e. we're making the larger system secure, without burdening the inner core.

(For comparison, fully secure version of utensils and all kinds of tools are also available on the market - you'll find them in toy stores.)
I'm tired of the privilege paywall around LeetCode
Apple iPhone Price Hikes Are Now Looking Possible in the US
> Not by name, just that the safety regulations will require a safety record better than Tesla's but worse than Waymo's.

That's not a bad thing if Tesla is significantly worse than Waymo. That's desirable.

The solution here seems like it would be for Tesla to become as safe as Waymo. If they can't achieve that, that's on them. Unfair press doesn't cause that.

I mean, I care about not dying in a car accident. If Tesla is less safe, and this leads to people taking safer Waymos instead, I can't see that as anything but a good thing. I don't want to sacrifice my life so another company can put out more dangerous vehicles.
Show HN: Lessons Learned from the Friends Episode Tagging Project
I tagged every episode of the American sitcom "Friends" and wrote about what I learned from the experience. The link is to the "lessons learned" summation -- there's a link to the actual project at the top of the page.

Also, there's an HTML web component linked from the main project as well -- it allows filtering of tag-based items.
Yes.

Too bad interstellar trade will probably never be economically viable. But it would lower prices, yes.
Tell HN: I asked an AI to generate a logo, it gave me the finger
I am no graphics designer, no artist. I'm a software engineer. I'm definitely not a "prompt engineer".

I'm currently working on an open source project ( https://link-society.github.io/flowg/ ), and I've been told that I need a logo.

I don't actually care much for a logo actually. But this sunday, I was bored, and I was glossing over some AI based logo generation tools.

I tried this one: https://www.design.com/maker/logos

With the following "prompt":

Business Name: flowg
Keywords: pipeline, log

And one of the result was a nice middle-finger: https://ibb.co/n87BKj9H

That might be the most human/realistic response I got from an AI ever :D
How can you say this about my experience? For example, in Wood Green, North London, I can only remember seeing a single billboard, on the side of an off-license. Where have you lived where they are all around the place?
Alex Tabarrok has co-authored Marginal Revolution with Tyler Cowen for a decade.
while I don't disagree, ¿por que no los dos?
> First To Gain U.S. Approval For Level 3 Automated Driving System

It’s actually more a testament to Mercedes Benz’s ability to navigate regulatory slog.

VW would’ve passed emissions if the technicians didn’t take it out of the lab to test for on-road conditions.
A Dual-Morphing Pneumatic Origami Gripper
Any additional cost on top of the 'natural' costs involved with producing a result raises prices.

Additional costs that direct resources to a government are a form of a tax, this includes direct taxes at the point of sale, and it should also include taxes incurred for traversing an arbitrary interface (tariff or toll).

Any form of tax on goods / services proportionately effects those who spend more of their income on those goods / services more. Tariffs on not-luxury goods are regressive taxes on the poor and middle class.