skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see that cutting out the LIDAR could qualify as "cheap." And maybe he's being risky on betting on lowering the cost by simplifying the technology.

But why make the jump to "fraud/charlatan"? Every system needs to be finite. We can invest in every bell and whistle. Furthermore, he's upfront about the decision. Fraud requires deception.
This is too simple. Prices float somewhere between cost to produce and value to consumers.

You can’t raise prices beyond value or no one will buy it.

You can’t lower prices below costs (for too long) or you go out of business.

Competition pushes prices down towards costs.

Therefore businesses are always looking for markets with barriers so they can rise prices to value.

Tariffs typically raise costs for all producers, but this only inevitably leads to price increases when competition has driven prices down to near costs.

Unfortunately many staple grocery products fall into this category.
> Gravity, the thinking goes, can escape our brane and extend into the bulk. That explains why it’s so weak. All the other forces must play in only three spatial dimensions, while gravity can extend itself out to four, spreading itself much too thin in the process.

Wouldn't this cause gravitational force to fall off with distance using something other than an inverse-square law? I think this explanation would be a better fit for the weak force than gravity for this reason. Thoughts?

More broadly: inverse-square behavior (Gravity, EM etc) strikes me as an intrinsic property of 3D geometry; more so of a tell of dimensionality than the magnitude of the force. (I believe the article is inferring higher dimensionality from relative magnitude, vice distance falloff)
> The ADHB body double

Okay. Maybe I can apply this metaphorical technique

> You’re gonna need a literal body

I’m out.
Open to any thoughts or ideas you’d like to share! What do you think about mind-reading tech? The state of Colorado is already passing laws around it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlyRvT92_zA&t=9s
Shakespeare wrote plays that were meant to be played by actors and that is how they are used till today. Todays equivalent is a movie script. So indeed, it would be better off studying books to learn how to create top selling books.

Articles criticizing hero worship are kind of better when author can demonstrate they know a lot about history and the field they write about. I read some of those articles. But this one seems to make mane claims, compares apples with oranges and then throws around names of people that basically no one worships.

I never seen anyone claim that Euler is the most important mathematician or spend a lot of effort learning about him as person. We do learn some of his theories, because they are actually still relevant to us.
Unmasking EncryptHub: Help from ChatGPT and Opsec Blunders
Counter-Strike. I learned basic HTML for a clan web page, then PHP to run the forums.
I eventually wanted to host my own server, so I learned Linux back then too. Probably 25 years ago.
i don’t see how leadership has anything to do with it, at least any more than any other collaborating members of the team. all parties need “good enough” communication skills, which can be learned (to an extent). poor communication skills regardless of in office or remote will tank a project and if systemic, a company
Montesinos' Sermon (1511) [pdf]
AI giants reject government's approach to solving copyright row
Obviously it’s a tax increase on working people to fund even more tax cuts for the already insanely wealthy, allowing them to buy up even more assets.

Even if you have a $10m portfolio you’ll be next, once they’ve drained the $100k and $1m lot.
Spanglish?
Skin: Vector/2022
We can tell there is no impact of Brexit because UK exports fell to both EU and non-EU countries by about the same amount, probably due to COVID impact. They would need to diverge for there to have been an impact of Brexit specifically. This doesn't require forecasting to see, you can look at the graph and see that there's been no divergence.
I have my notifications for Slack and Outlook turned off. I get a Dock tile badge, and Slack does ping my wrist via smartwatch, but not much else. Most emails I get are not vitally important, nor do most of the things I get on Slack immediately required reading or actionable.
> Democrats, who historically supported protectionist trade measures, now oppose tariffs…

Targeted tarrifs. Not blanket ones on the entire planet (including, you know, the uninhabited island full of penguins). Hell, Biden kept some of Trump's.
> It forces functions to be memory pure (pure with respect to memory), even if they aren't.

What if the unsafe code is not supposed to be pure but mutates some memory? For example, does this allow implementing a doubly-linked list?
The article refers to the remote operator in the basement. This makes the device a Waldo, not a robot. Another reminder that this is Heinlein’s future and we are just living in it.
Thanks for checking it out. It could definitely use larger library of sounds in general.

Ideally, I'd like to allow sharing and storing of presets, but it was simply out of scope for the PoC - the functionality is there in the desktop version btw, but it on the other hand asks users to download an unknown .exe and then share mp3 and json files with each other, putting us firmly in the mid-90s'.
If you're actually concerned about the handfuls of bytes a settings object would take, you would make the page/segment containing parser code able to be unloaded from memory.
lmao you think this is going to make the USD worth more? What are you smoking and can I have some?
Well, you can close all file descriptors (except the pipe used for sending the return value back to the parent), re-mmap all files with MAP_PRIVATE, and then use SECCOMP_SET_MODE_STRICT to isolate the child process. But at that point, what are you even doing? Probably nothing useful.

If there were a Quick Fix for safety, we'd probably have discovered it by now.
An Appeal to Documentation Owners
[citation needed]

Tesla releases all self driving statistics including time since disengagement of self-driving before accident, right?
> Linux feels a bit different since the complete system is not controlled by a single vendor. You have multiple distributions with their own kernel versions, libc versions, library dependencies, etc.

No, AFAICS that can't be it. The problem is that all those libraries (libc and others?) change all the time, and aren't backwards-compatible with earlier versions of themselves. If they were backwards-compatible, you could just make sure to have the newest one any of your applications needs, and everything would work.
> You have a main and a backup pilot, but either one must be 100% capable of doing it on their own. The backup is silently double checking, but their assignments are more about ensuring that the copilot doesn't just check out because they're human.

This is not how flying works in a multi-crew environment. It’s a common misconception about the dynamic.

Both pilots have active roles. Pilots also generally take turns who is manipulating the flight controls (“flying the airplane”) each flight.
At least in Canada all kids get vac, not sure what's the situation in the US.
Looking at your insane pricing page I have to assume that you are sponsoring that single person?
I don’t know why everyone says “just cameras.” Are people imagining they are using some algorithm to detect some object and come up with a distance measure? I’m imagining they are just having the cameras autofocus and determining the focal distance which seems about the same as banking on a good lidar reflection to me.
I see that you have also said "You can literally watch how (Tesla) FSD perform all readily live on YouTube"

I for one find this line of argument - that videos on YouTube are a stronger signal than regulatory approval - to be absolutely wrongheaded, delusional and laughable. YouTube proves nothing, and as a platform, was never intended to. Unlike regulatory approval.
It is worse than that. The other adas providers do not all automatically report this stuff. He's comparing five reports gathered meticulously to a self reporting system that drops the vast majority of incidents.

It is a bad article.
I think the point of parent was that the issue, the too narrow leading, is not a change that needs debating. On a mailing list, issue tracker or whatever.

Or if you think it actually was, this was not a project that I'd want to get involved in.

As someone who reads mostly ePubs, many of which suffer from issues this project aims to fix, I mean that in a very caring way.
I agree, and I encouraged my kids to read the classics, but I did not give them a list of stuff they must read. I suggested things I thought they would enjoy.

> Around 30yo, I got Gulliver's Travels as a gift. Wow. I loved it. Provided context for so many common clichés.

Another writer whose works are just a bunch of clichés. I was disappointed to find Shakespeare was the same. (that is supposed to be a joke, BTW).

I do not think it such a disaster to read those at 30. better to read them a bit later and enjoy them, than to read them earlier and not. What you enjoy does change over time.

I think the most important thing is to get kids to read, then to read anything reasonably good.
> It's now gotten to a point where I'm actively seeking desks with my screen exposed to the room, so people would be able to see me procrastinate, guilt tripping me to limit this sort of behavior.

I have this same brain. Working in public at a coffee shop is a great baseline, but it's even better if I can feel the social pressure to not fuck off even if it's made up by my own neurotic head. It's a crazy double-edged sword to wield. Really useful, but I think it heightens burnout and I can't stand to stay in the same place for long due to the palpable buildup of pressure to Go Home.
The Great Cheeto will be demanding network latency tariffs next
Why not? Thanks.
I got the letters "AACNT" and even cheated online. The only word online dictionaries could make was "TACAN" and it wasn't accepted.
> generally trends toward making the highest value messages for both the audience and advertiser get seen over lower value messages in any given situation (because those are the ones that can afford the market clearing price on said advertising).

This is true, but only for the set of messages that produce value that can be captured by the advertiser. This set is a small subset of messages that produce value. For example, a message about the benefits of excercise/socializing/climate action would produce a lot of value, but not in a form that any single advertiser can capture. So a lot of high value messages don't get produced in the current system, and might have a better chance in a more "natural" attention economy.

Advertising also increases the value of a product, so the value of things whose value can be captured by advertisers will be inflated when compared to their value in an environment without advertising.
It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway (2006)
That's called night and people drive in it just fine.
> The replies to my comment seem to me to be addressing the question of what the appropriate reference class is, not the base rate fallacy.

The base rate fallacy is fundamentally about the relative rates in the population, and I don't see that data in the article.
Good luck altering the constitution to allow for content based prohibition of speech.

Now, on the other hand, the Supreme Court can also chose to ignore a couple centuries of case law and effect the same goal but that's also less likely than changing the constitution.

Let's take advertising out of it, what are the chances we would even be seriously discussing this issue if TFA was proposing to outlaw an entire religion?
> Expanding production without increasing costs is difficult

What about economies of scale, though? If you can triple production while only doubling your cost, the unit price should drop.
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What poisons the idea among engineers is not that Musk came up with it (he didn't), but that he can't justify it using the language we speak, either by theory or by practice. Instead what we get from him is marketing, stunts, keynotes, sleights of hand, bravado, exaggerations, unfulfilled promises, premature rollouts of untested tech... the man is an anti-engineer, it's hard to trust him.

What made cars successful at the DUC was omnidirectional 3D distances to everything around you provided by the Velodyne LiDAR. So if we have a way to get that kind of data without a LiDAR, that would be fine.

Moreover, what a LIDAR gives you is an honest-to-god measurement. This whole idea of using deep learning to get range data from camera data is not measuring anything, it's making an inference. Which is why it's fooled by a looney tunes wall.

And like I said, we lack any inference engine that is better than the human brain. So betting your entire strategy on an inference engine that doesn't exist, bucking industry practice and the consensus of the engineering community, gets the following results:

- The NHTSA’s self-driving crash data reveals that Tesla’s self-driving technology is, by far, the most dangerous for motorcyclists, with five fatal crashes that we know of.
- This issue is unique to Tesla. Other self-driving manufacturers have logged zero motorcycle fatalities in the same time frame.
- The crashes are overwhelmingly Teslas rear-ending motorcyclists.

If this problem is unique to Tesla, and Tesla is unique in relying solely on optical sensory input, then we can conclude relying solely on optical sensory input is bad. Nothing to do with the fact that Musk is the champion.
I had to click Reader Mode to see it
Is anyone expecting tariffs to improve global competitive advantage?

Tariffs may work towards an isolationist goal of producing and consuming our own goods. Tariffs are an attempt to unwind globalization though and disconnect our markets from the rest of the world.

Whether it makes us more competitive globally is really a non-goal. It could happen if our resources, labor, and manufacturing costs are lower than other countries but that's extremely complex to predict even if you wanted to try.
Project Runeberg seems to be still going after 30-odd years.
One of the pet projects I have going is to try and store the interactions as a roam-style knowledge base of connected thought, with the idea that you could browse through this second brain you’ve been talking to afterwards.

Almost every time I’ve asked an LLM to help implement something I’ve given it various clarifying questions so I understand why, and digging through linear UI threads isn’t great.

A decent o11y or instrumentation layer is pretty important to do anything like that well.
ML folks tend to invent fanciful metaphorical terms for things. Another example is “attention”. I’m expecting to see a paper “consciousness is all you need” where “consciousness” turns out to just be a Laplace transform or something.
My Subaru has done this many times, and with regular cars, not motorcycles.
Because they have local industry interest groups that control their politicians which screws over their own country. They'd mostly be better off without those tariffs.

Here's a hot tip: if you see a country like North Korea, don't ask why they're doing what they're doing on the assumption that it's good. Move in the opposite direction.
> People - like the author of this article - claim they want stability. But, I’m here to tell you that what they buy is change.

You work in enterprise software sales and you think people buy change? That is bizarre and shocking. Enterprise software sales is nearly 100% conversations with people who refuse to make massive improvements in their own QoL (and bottom line) because they loathe change so much.

In fact, I've built multiple E2E businesses that succeeded in difficult industries because we promised no change (to people's work processes) while still improving their software behind the scenes.

What an absolutely bizarre conclusion. You seem to be a victim of confirmation bias, where you aren't considering the 99% of corporations who aren't even taking your pitch, let alone buying your product.

But back to the article...

Most people hate change, but the ones who do like it don't like changes where things become worse. Car door handles were perfect and have become significantly worse.
> particularly when economics isn’t even invoked in the discussion…

I think the Professor Cowen fancies himself in the way of the “public intellectual,” so that he takes the liberty to write on a range of topics outside the domain of his academic focus. He does seem extraordinarily well-read; and in many topics he writes about, I have no way of judging his contribution to those fields. While I occasionally read MR, it strikes me as quite technocratic in the way that most libertarian writing is; and this sort of socioeconomic analysis detached from human values of empathy and concern for the wellbeing of the collective isn’t appealing to me personally. But I’m sure it fills an important niche.
You can model the whole universe with probabilities!
It really isn’t. The comment argues that the proposed solution is unworkable and would have adverse consequences, not that it would only partially work.
Does that mean some of us are gonna learn to be a bit frugal?
And, then in theory, restoring the thread when the requested registers become available. But is the spilling/restoring registers hardware something that would see much other use? In some code hardware accelerated stack management can be a real advantage. In other code its just not flexible enough to make sense. And in some function calls are rare enough to make it not worth the investment. I sort of expect that more code running on a GPU is in the third category but I could image that I'm wrong and that it would be in the first. But if not the investment in those mechanisms might not be worth it.
Two decibels? As in 1db plus another 1db?

2db is not nothing, but it’s not bat hearing.
Tariffs were supposed to be approved by the Senate (Article 1 section 8, Article 2 section 2), but Trump is using "emergency powers"

With so much of American goods coming from China, it's kind of hard to see how the US could win a war with them without, for example, improved domestic production of bandages

https://natlawreview.com/article/can-president-impose-tariff...

https://www.globaltrademag.com/adhesive-bandage-import-in-un...
I’m not gonna tell you Lutnick is smart, but did you watch the clip or just read Rupar’s quote? He’s clearly saying that electronics manufacturers are leaning on low-wage foreign labor as a crutch to avoid the cost of investing in more innovative automated assembly strategies.
> You've reached the generation limit for guests.

That's it.
Have you ever been in the US? The roads there are huge. Road lanes are huge. Cars are huge. Crossroads are huge. Parking spots are extremely large. European roads are fine, but they are way more narrow and tuned for smaller vehicles. It's easier to drive with a smaller car (or "normal sized" for you).

Also in Europe in the west we have narrow or paved historical roads, and in the east we have many poor quality roads. In both cases smaller (non-huge) car is beneficial.
His father's profile: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Musk
Your mom loves you. Cherish that!
I wish mine was still alive
For those who are into ebooks and audiobooks, I’ve been having a blast with the app Storyteller: https://storyteller-platform.gitlab.io/storyteller/

You can self host the server, and it will create epub3s with the audiobook and ebook synced up.

Then you use the mobile app to listen and read the books. It works way better than whispersync from kindle.

Read on your boox e reader then switch to your phone and listen and everything syncs up seamlessly.
It's pretty funny because lidar used to be many thousands of dollars and now it's down to hundreds and they're still sticking to just regular cameras. Funny in the sense that Teslas are many times more dangerous than lidar enabled cars but anyway.
The relentless innovation fuelling China's 'brutal' car wars
The people who voted for Trump need to think again … they will end up being the suckers of all of the Trump policies…
The argument here isn't against self-driving. Flying is also 100x safer than driving, but there's still real value in continuing to use the best technology we have available to make flying even safer.

"Not a single other automobile manufacturer or ADAS self-driving technology provider reported a single motorcycle fatality in the same time frame."
Games and HTML.

I loved playing computer games when I was young, and in school, they were also teaching us HTML to make cool webpages. I was naturally curious so I started learning things on my own by reading computer books.

In parallel I loved gaming so much I wanted to make my own games. I started making small stuff on flash after reading online and learned a little bit of ActionScript.

That made me realize that coding is really hard to learn on my own (for my dumb brain) so I thought to check my local computer institutes for basic courses. Found a small coaching center. Instead of coding, they convinced me that I needed to learn hardware first and impressed a teenage kid by showing simple tricks like breaking windows password, upgrading hardware, etc.

So I did that course for 6 months and to my surprise I enjoyed it as well and learned a lot on my own too. Finally, I started building computers for a living and started a small home-computer repair venture with my friend (during college).
There's no point in explaining that. A lot of them have never been outside the country and maybe Canada. Even if they can afford to go somewhere they don't have the time. They can only imagine the world outside as a version of what they know. And everywhere they went hasn't been very different from what they have at home. They won't be able to imagine it.
I doubt price hikes hurt Apple as much as other brands.

Apple is good at branding & marketing, they're partially a luxury good & status symbol, and have ecosystem lock-in.

These things makes it harder for people to switch to a potentially cheaper option.
Since the category is "Games", the answer is [Settlers of] CATAN.
> You can’t raise prices beyond value or no one will buy it.

Arguably, that's precisely the aim of some of these tariffs. Price the foreign imports out of the market
Only if there's competition.
People can have latent TB, which causes no symptoms and is not contagious. If it reactivates, it can cause permanent damage to the lungs and/or other areas such as the bones, joints, kidneys, and brain. Diagnosis and treatment are important just the same. Lazy doctors can miss out on testing for TB when the lungs appear clear, with symptoms present in just the lymph nodes, bones, joints, kidneys, or brain, indicating possible extrapulmonary TB.