MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neogodless | 2025-04-25 18:05:57+00:00
I did. I tried a lot of things.

Ultimately the next day (this morning) I unplugged the charger, and hopped in the car and pressed Factory Reset, and it worked like a charm, and everything is fine now.

I don't know if charging was blocking pairing but I assume it was blocking the factory reset. (Just wish error messages were... more informative, you know?!)

I assume somehow data was... not in an ideal state... in the car's internal database, and the factory reset removed the bad data, allowing normal operation to assume.
by TuxSH | 2025-04-25 18:06:46+00:00
Hmm, looking at cppreference:

The consteval specifier declares a function or function template to be an immediate function, that is, every potentially-evaluated call to the function must (directly or indirectly) produce a compile time constant expression.

It's possible that the compiler just doesn't bother as long as you aren't actually calling the function.
by e40 | 2025-04-25 18:06:51+00:00
I don't see how you could come to that conclusion. Here are the facts:

Biden:

* Nonviolent Drug Offenders: Biden focused heavily on criminal justice reform, commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 individuals convicted of nonviolent drug offenses.

* Death Row Inmates: He commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life imprisonment without parole.

* Preemptive Pardons: Biden issued preemptive pardons to several individuals, including Dr. Anthony Fauci and retired Gen. Mark Milley, to protect them from potential future prosecutions.

* Hunter Biden: In a controversial move, Biden granted a sweeping pardon to his son, Hunter Biden, covering any offenses between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024.

Only the last one is at all controversial. I disagree with it, but it was clearly a protective pardon instigated by rhetoric and actions by Trump.

Trump:

* Political Allies: Trump frequently granted clemency to individuals with personal or political connections, such as Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, and Paul Manafort.

* Capitol Rioters: In a sweeping move, Trump pardoned over 1,500 individuals involved in the January 6 Capitol riot.

* Controversial Figures: He also pardoned individuals like former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and Michele Fiore, a former Las Vegas City Council member convicted of misusing charity funds.

All 3 categories of Trump's pardons are controversial. 1 vs thousands.
by science4sail | 2025-04-25 18:07:01+00:00
Tax havens aren't immune to economic disaster though. If the US dollar becomes worthless, then it doesn't matter how many dollars you have in your offshore bank account. Ditto if you're storing wealth as equities or bonds. Real estate value will collapse if tenants can't pay rent or if the local government decides to confiscate land.

I suppose that you could keep gold or bitcoin wallets in a vault, but then it actually belongs to the vault guards, not to you.

Basically you need a collapse that's bad enough to shrink asset prices but not bad enough to break the social contact.
by cogman10 | 2025-04-25 18:07:04+00:00
Which is bonkers. If ever there was a thing that should be taxed it's jet fuel for private jets. 300% tax on private jet fuel would be reasonable.

The emissions just to shuttle rich people from one side of the country to the next (For some, multiple times per day) is insane. You should need to be a billionaire just to afford flying private jets and it should still eat a significant portion of your income if that's what you choose to do.

And for what? Like, we live in the modern era, why does anyone need to travel from NY to Florida to Texas to California in a day?
by Duanemclemore | 2025-04-25 18:07:09+00:00
I am currently developing a project in APL - it was in my backlog for a long time but I'm actually writing code now.

I phrase it that way because there was a pretty long lag between when I got interested and when I was able to start using it in more than one-liners.

But I discovered this paper early in that process and devoured it. The concepts are completely foundational to my thinking now.

Saying all this to lead to the fact that I actually teach NAATOT in an architecture program. Not software architecture - building architecture. I have edited a version to hit Iverson's key points, kept in just enough of the actual math / programming to illustrate these points and challenge the students to try to think differently about the possibilities for the design and representation tools they use, eg their processes for forming ideas, their ways of expressing them to themselves and others, and so forth.

If I had the chance (a more loose, open-ended program rather than an undergraduate professional program) one of my dreams is to run a course where students would make their own symbolic and notational systems... (specifically applied to the domain of designing architecture - this is already pretty well covered in CS, graphic design, data science, etc.)
by danans | 2025-04-25 18:07:33+00:00
You can do that in any car today. Nor is there a lack of devices available for physically attaching a regular tablet to your dashboard.

The question is whether a car maker should be encouraging or enabling a generic touch screen tablet to be installed on the dashboard versus an infotainment device with constrained functionality like AA/CP designed to minimize driver distraction.

I would be happy with a built-in screen that did nothing but AA/CP while the car was driving, and then reverted to a normal tablet interface when the car is parked.

Climate control, etc should be physical knobs and buttons. Anything critical to driving should be on or near the steering wheel.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-25 18:08:09+00:00
Lots of trucks are still for work, but they have gotten so expensive more people than ever are considering them as luxury purchases.

Electric windows have been a luxury item for generations.

Traditionally, with an F-150, they were just much slower, prone to failure and expensive to replace.

Especially if you often go in & out from a gated area where you have to roll your window down every time and use your pass or talk to the guard :\

Or roll them all down whenever it has been parked in the hot sun, to quickly let out the overheated air before the air conditioner can become very effective. If you have A/C, or even use it at all :)

Window motors may not last much longer than a set of tires then, and cost as much to replace, often without warning. You're supposed to be able to afford it anyway.

However in the late 1990's the manual knob was moved to a stupid place, and it became impossible to lower the window in one quick second any more.

I can only imagine that the automotive engineers were constantly being bathed in the luxury of their environment and never even put enough test vehicles having no options through any kind of ergonomic comparison.

For the longest time these kind of things were built to provide an extreme amount of comfort for someone having a similar stature to Henry Ford. Almost lasted the entire 20th century before there was such great discontinuity.

Engineers probably didn't test drive any having manual seat adjustment, on long trips either. Otherwise they would have done better than to have an adjustment bar blocking the entire area under the driver's seat in such a way that about 25% of the footroom was lost, which was formerly available as you occasionally adjust your posture for endurance.

It was like expensive sportscar people started designing trucks. You don't sit upright in a sports car so the space is not wasted there. No more twin I-beam front suspension either, you didn't really want a truck that tough any more in the 21st century did you?

They didn't know any better. At least they once did.

And who doesn't like luxury?

Automatic locks is another one, once very seldom seen except in things like Cadillacs. That's why people envied them so much for decades, and when they finally came within reach of the mainstream they flew off the shelf.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-25 18:08:16+00:00
According to this book foxes are light weight because they jump to capture prey

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114389122128299887

So far as my fox is concerned [1] I know it puts a lot of stress on my hindquarters (wants to be pronograde?) and to express itself wants to use a range of postures and motion wider than I find comfortable. If I have to explain it to people who might be skeptical I just lie and say I am preparing for character acting in community theater.

[1] https://yokai.com/kitsunetsuki/
by daxfohl | 2025-04-25 18:08:18+00:00
Seems like it would be easy for foundation model companies to have dedicated input and output filters (a mix of AI and deterministic) if they see this as a problem. Input filter could rate the input's likelihood of being a bypass attempt, and the output filter would look for censored stuff in the response, irrespective of the input, before sending.

I guess this shows that they don't care about the problem?
by openasocket | 2025-04-25 18:08:45+00:00
There's another argument that you touched on in your last paragraph that I think deserves to be underlined, which is about proper accountability.

Imagine an undocumented immigrant who commits a serious crime, like murder. Do you want the local prosecutors to go after them, and send them to jail for a long time? Or do you want ICE to go after them, in which case they ... get deported and wind up living free in another country (putting aside the current debacle with El Salvador and CECOT). Where is the justice in that? If someone commits some sort of crime in the US, I want justice to be served before we talk about deporting them.
by jll29 | 2025-04-25 18:09:46+00:00
Enjoy coding!

Real coding on 8-bit machines was a bit more scary than using QEMU since you had to remember to save your assebly sources after each edit, as running your machine code often crashed the machine.

You may want to also use:

(global-set-key [(C-f5)] 'compile) (global-set-key [(f5)] 'recompile)

in your .[x]emacs file to save pressing M-x M-c or ESC + 'x' + 'compile' + ENTER (4-10 keys) to run make/compile with 1 keystroke instead.

Popular execises for beginners on the C64 were:

- write a loop that reads from A000 to C000 and writes to the same address. This seemingly useless exercise makes a copy of the CBM BASIC from ROM to RAM (the C64 has addresses multiple times in parallel "banks"), in order to subsequently edit the appearance of the characters (screen font) or to rename BASIC keywords.

- jump to a subroutine ("SYS" in BASIC) or write code to jump ("JSR"/"JMP") to an arbitrary address, and then discover why the machine behaves as it does when you do so, by reading the RAM or ROM code located there with a disassembler or HEX monitor (try "SYS 64738" versus "SYS 4222").
by pstuart | 2025-04-25 18:10:07+00:00
> I don't think DOGE is about saving money. It's about some kind of ideological purge, intimidation, and possibly gathering data

You are not alone in this assumption, they've made it clear from the outset via Project 2025. They want to dismantle the government and sell it off to their friends.

It's a pity too, in that we should be continuously trying to make government more cost effective. It's one of the countless missteps of the Dems to not do this themselves (but in the right way: provide valuable services while trimming waste). Another misstep is in not educating the public on the value the public gets from the tax dollars spent.
by dimal | 2025-04-25 18:10:20+00:00
I like it, but the best modules already have knobs and jacks for everything. When you have CV going into the jack, the knob acts as an attenuator or attenuverter. This means that the modules are generally larger. Make Noise generally does this and their modules are consistently bigger than everyone else, and they're also some of the most popular. Look at Maths. It's a slope generator and a mixer. It's fucking huge. But everyone has it because it's patch programmable. The problem in Eurorack is instead of making things patch programmable, they try to fit in a ton of functionality into a small space, so you have a lot of modules that have multiple modes where buttons and knobs all have different meanings depending on what "page" you're on. Fuck that. Almost every time I try a module like that, I end up selling it.

He's right about the interface being the point of Eurorack. Plugging things into other things is the whole point. When I have a module that has hidden state, I forget what state it's in or what the knobs mean. I end up avoiding those modules. With cables and knobs, I can see the state of the whole system. I need good cable management to make sure it's not spaghetti, but I already do that in code already, and it's not that different.
by 9x39 | 2025-04-25 18:11:22+00:00
A trend for corporate workstations is moving closer to a phone with a locked-down app store, with all programs from a company software repo.

Eliminating everything but a business's industry specific apps, MS Office, and some well-known productivity tools slashes support calls (no customization!) and frustrates cyberattacks to some degree when you can't deploy custom executables.
by bdelmas | 2025-04-25 18:11:48+00:00
Let's be real, are we talking about that one guy on vacation who missed his flight and is now staying longer than his visa and being de facto an undocumented person too? Or another type of profile? Like someone who did it knowingly and actively wanting to stay unlawfully? Yes there are different cases that encompass the definition but I think we can agree that we are not talking about cases like the guy on vacation.
by godelski | 2025-04-25 18:11:55+00:00
This. Same with giving them TINs so that they pay taxes. These BENEFIT citizens and permanent residents of the country.

I see a lot of comments being like "what's the point of laws if they get ignored." Well, we're on a CS forum, and we have VMs, containers, and chroots, right? We break rules all the time, but recognize that it is best to do so around different contextualizations.

There's a few points I think people are missing:

1) The government isn't monolithic. Just like your OS isn't. It different parts are written by different people and groups who have different goals. Often these can be in contention with one another.

2) Containerization is a thing. Scope. It is both true that many agencies need to better communicate with one another WHILE simultaneously certain agencies should have firewalls between them. I bet you even do this at your company. Firewalls are critical to any functioning system. Same with some redundancy.

A sanctuary city is not a "get out of jail free card." They do not prevent local police from contacting ICE when the immigrant has committed a crime and local police has identified them. They are only protected in narrow settings: Reporting crimes to police, enrolling their children in school, and other minimal and basic services. If they run a stop sign and a cop pulls them over, guess what, ICE gets contacted and they will get deported[0].

Forget human rights, think like an engineer. You have to design your systems with the understanding of failure. So we need to recognize that we will not get 100% of illegal immigrants. We can still optimize this! But then, what happens when things fail? That's the question. In these settings it is "Conditioned that an illegal immigrant was not found, do we want them to report crimes to the police or not?" "Conditioned that an illegal immigrant was not found, do we want them to pay taxes?" How the hell can the answer be anything but "yes"? You can't ignore the condition. Absent of the condition, yeah, most people will agree that they should be deported. But UNDER THE CONDITION it is absolutely insane to not do these things.

There is, of course, another solution... But that condition is fairly authoritarian. Frequently checking identification of everyday persons. It is quite costly, extremely cumbersome to average citizens, and has high false positive rates. I mean we can go that route but if we do I think we'll see why a certain amendment exists. It sure wasn't about Grizzly Bears...

[0] They may have holding limits, like not hold the immigrant more than a week. Maybe you're mad at this, but why aren't you mad at ICE for doing their job? You can't get someone out there in a week? Come on. You're just expecting the local city to foot the bill? Yeah, it costs money. Tell ICE to get their shit together.
by isoprophlex | 2025-04-25 18:12:05+00:00
That's 12.9 tokens per line when given 16k output context, which seems borderline doable, I'll grant you that... but mind you that these agentic code assistents don't need a single pass to accomplish their acts of verbosity.

They can just plan, stew for minutes on end, derail themselves, stew some more, do more edits, eat up $5 in API calls and there you are. An entirely new 1000+ line file, believe it or not.
by r0x0r007 | 2025-04-25 18:12:16+00:00
Hi,

I created an AI led learning platform for developers. The idea was to create lessons that are custom and specific to user's needs, using AI.

Users can create coding lessons based on their prompts, including: -code generation -lesson theory generation -full narration(AI voices+ subtitles) -code typing simulation synchronized with narration -dual editors(so you can type while watching the lesson) -linking lessons into full courses

Basically I tried to simulate actual typing and narration as if a developer was explaining the concepts himself.

There is also an option to create the code yourself and just type the narration. This could be great for sharing code and best practices.

If you think this is an interesting concept and give it a go I would really appreciate your feedback.

I find this kind of learning interesting and use it myself, but I’m aware there’s still a long way to go to make it foolproof

Cheers
by prmoustache | 2025-04-25 18:12:33+00:00
Caveat: this is not universal and depends on the juridiction.

For example in France a software/service editor can only really attack a user if he is infringing on copyrighted stuff. Outside of that the EULAs only allow it to ban/remove access to its services without risk of legal retaliation. And by infringing copyright I mean redistribution of copyrighted material, not downloading and using it. I am sure this is the case in many other countries.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-04-25 18:12:48+00:00
Is your argument really "misdemeanors aren't crimes"?

Imagine, "someone knowingly or recklessly causes bodily injury to you or with criminal negligence the person causes bodily injury to you by means of a deadly weapon".

Would you not consider yourself the victim of a crime in that case? Because that's just third degree assault - a misdemeanor(at least, here in Colorado)
by hylaride | 2025-04-25 18:13:47+00:00
> It absolutely does NOT mean those things.

I don't personally disagree with you, but today it pretty much does.

Anyways, my point is that this is designed as a utilitarian, cheap truck that covers the use case that most pickup trucks are actually utilitarian for, like local farm or light duty construction work. It's got a short range, no entertainment for long drives, etc. The article doesn't even say if it has AC (Slate's site seems to have images that allude to it having it).

The OP wants something for families, which exists and costs more because most families want more. They want good, cheap, and available when you can only have two. Even with gas/diesel powered trucks, there's a huge difference between the utilitarian ones construction workers and farmers buy and beat up and the expensive "luxury" quad-cabs that families now buy because minivans are too uncool.
by bananalychee | 2025-04-25 18:13:56+00:00
Not really. I want law and order to be upheld for the benefit of the broader society. If this can't happen due to systematic obstruction, then it's not a violation of my principles to be less critical of toeing a line I'd otherwise not like to see breached. If we all had hard lines drawn in the sand that never moved around, this wouldn't even be a conversation, because 15 years ago mass deportations were uncontroversial.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-25 18:14:35+00:00
> Supreme Court precedent is that states cannot be compelled by Congress to enforce Immigration law

Not just immigration law but federal law generally. It's funny that this never reached the point of beign a decision rule in a case and thus binding precedent until the 1990s, as you see it in dicta in Supreme Court cases decided on other bases back to shortly before the Civil War (specifically, in cases around the Fugitive Slave Laws.)
by burnerthrow008 | 2025-04-25 18:14:38+00:00
> Yes to a simple battery system!

But you realize this will make cold-weather range suck and on-the-road charging suck, right?

Preheating the battery and cabin on "shore power" is something EV buyers just expect at this point because that can consume 2-3kWh of energy (equivalent to 6-10 miles or 10-16 km). That's almost 10% of Slate's range (see below).

Preheating the battery about 10-15 minutes before you arrive at a supercharger is another expected feature. It can increase charge acceptance rate by over 50% (reduce charge time by 1/3).

The 150 mile range is extremely optimistic given the size of the battery and shape of the truck. With just 5% top and bottom buffers, you'd need to achieve over 3.1 miles/kWh... which is the consumption expected of a small aerodynamic sedan. I would bet real money that highway range (at 75 mph) for the small battery is less than 120 miles from 100% to 0.
by andy99 | 2025-04-25 18:15:05+00:00
This is so irresponsible, it's "misinformation" of the worst kind (in that it's difficult for a layperson to parse and comes from an ostensibly trustworthy source).

When "blockchain" was on obvious scam, we all knew it but weren't vocal enough, now that AI is venturing into mountebank territory, it's important for everyone to speak out against this kind of charlatanism (importantly by dismissing it as nonsense and not letting them shift the narrative). I've lost so much respect for Anthropic who have done some good work but now appear to be a cult.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-25 18:15:52+00:00
> Do you think those that have been opposed to current gun laws would be nearly as proficient at the use of their newly acquired weapon

I don’t own a gun and I’m a better shot than half those militia types. The purpose of the guns isn’t to shoot them, it’s to deter. By the time it’s WACO, one side’s marksmanship isn’t really relevant.
by dimal | 2025-04-25 18:15:55+00:00
> Pure vision instead of error prone "set-of-marks" system (the colorful boxes you see in browser-use for example)

One benefit not using pure vision is that it's a strong signal to developers to make pages accessible. This would let them off the hook.

Perhaps testing both paths separately would be more appropriate. I could imagine a different AI agent attempting to navigate the page through accessibility landmarks. Or even different agents that simulate different types of disabilities.
by edoloughlin | 2025-04-25 18:16:12+00:00
> I also don't have any concrete examples jumping to mind

I do (and I may get publicly shamed and shunned for admitting I do such a thing): figuring out how to fix parenthesis matching errors in Clojure code that it's generated.

One coding agent I've used is so bad at this that it falls back to rewriting entire functions and will not recognise that it is probably never going to fix the problem. It just keeps burning rainforest trying one stupid approach after another.

Yes, I realise that this is not a philosophical question, even though it is philosophically repugnant (and objectively so). I am being facetious and trying to work through the PTSD I acquired from the above exercise.