MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2025-04-07 15:41:18+00:00
> This 2/3 year delay in the early part of the adoption curve matters a huge amount for the future of Japan’s EV business

> particularly given that China is aggressively working to enter some important markets where Japanese companies have no competing EV product

Japan's largest automotive markets other than China (which is basically a lost cause for any non-Chinese player now) are the US, Japan, India, and the EU.

All of them have market barriers against Chinese players so 2-3 years is not a major difference, as Japanese players have been tooling for the li-s EV shift for 4 years now already. Also, in Japan and India, you can already buy Japanese branded EVs.

And the EU still has the China specific EV tariffs, and is not budging on that.

And even large secondary markets like Mexico, Canada, and Brazil continue to retain tariffs against Chinese automotive exports, because they do not wish to lose their own manufacturing capacity.

> and “using a competitor’s products for two to three years so you can shake the bugs out of your EV production process and get a product to market ASAP, then switch to domestic batteries that will soon be available.”

They are doing this in a limited manner with the bZ3x and bZ4x.

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I'm not denying EVs are becoming prominent, but EVs are still a minority of overall vehicle sales. They are becoming more prominent, but 2-3 years is not going to change anything given that trade barriers against Chinese automotive players exist in every major market.
by paganel | 2025-04-07 15:41:56+00:00
That's how art is supposed to be, to raise something inside the one experiencing it. For those that want a more mundane experience from the same time-period there's also a Sargent and countless others like him.

For reference, the one Schiele exhibition that I got to attend took place more than 15 years ago, at the Leopold Museum in Vienna itself, and for sure I didn't see it as grotesque. I was more mesmerised later that day by the Egyptian art hosted in the nearby Kunsthistorisches Museum
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-07 15:42:05+00:00
It’s a completely financial thought process. Nobody is going to invest capital to make pencils 7% cheaper when I can dump money in monkey NFTs and yield a big short term gain. China has incentives to make pursuing those opportunities attractive.

The glory days of manufacturing that people think of are their grandparents union jobs in the 1960s. The problem is the leadership people like Musk and Bezos are thinking more 1860 than 1960 :)
by bumby | 2025-04-07 15:42:13+00:00
I don’t think anyone who work in risk mitigation would conflate those scenarios. Risk = probability x consequence. What you’re pointing to is the difference in consequence. It’s already acknowledged in mature risk mitigation programs. Eg, FMEAs list fault consequence, severity, likelihood, and detectability and don’t assume all faults are the same. The tradeoff is an engineering/business decision to assign appropriate mitigations to land in an acceptable risk posture.

If you aren’t mitigating it with the appropriate controls, you aren’t managing risk. My point is just passing the buck to the human is not an appropriate control in many critical scenarios.
by cuu508 | 2025-04-07 15:42:56+00:00
Thanks. These are a little big (100Ah, 200Ah, 50Ah...), heavy and expensive compared to what I'm looking for. For reference, I'm currently using a 5W panel, and a single 18650 element, costing a few dollars from AliExpress. Works fine for my usecase (Meshtastic nodes) except for the charging below 0°C thing.
by tristor | 2025-04-07 15:43:26+00:00
> And in a lot of conditions, my Android phone takes better photos, by virtue of more advanced technology.

> I have tens of thousands of dollars of camera equipment -- mostly more than a decade old -- and there just haven't been advancements warranting an upgrade. A modern camera will be maybe 30% better than a 2012-era one in terms of image quality, and otherwise, will have slightly more megapixels, somewhat better autofocus, and obviously be much smaller by the loss of a mirror. Video improved too.

I thought the same thing, and then I went and rented a Nikon Z8 to try out over a weekend and I was blown away by the "somewhat better autofocus". As someone who used to travel with a Pelican case full of camera gear, to just carrying an iPhone, I'm back to packing camera gear because I'm able to do things like capture tack-sharp birds in flight like I'm taking snapshots from the hip thanks to the massive increase in compute power and autofocus algorithms. "Subject Eye Detection AF" is a game-changer, and while phones do it, they don't have enough optical performance in their tiny sensors/lenses to do it at the necessary precision and speed to resolve things on fast-moving subjects.

In terms of IQ, weight, and all that, it's definitely not a huge difference. I would say it's better, but not so much that I particularly cared coming from a 12-year old DSLR. But the new AF absolutely shocked me with how good it is. It completely changed my outlook.

I say this, not to take away from your overall point, however, which is that a phone is good enough for almost everyone about 90% of the time. It's good enough that even though I upgraded my gear, I only bought one body when I traded in two, because my phone can handle short-focal length / landscape just fine, I don't need my Z8 for that. But a phone doesn't get anywhere close to what I can do with a 300mm or longer focal length lens on the Z8 with fast moving subjects.
by nonameiguess | 2025-04-07 15:43:30+00:00
As every fifth thread becomes some discussion of LLM capabilities, I think we need to shift the way we talk about this to be less like how we talk about software and more like how we talk about people.

"LLM" is a valid category of thing in the world, but it's not a thing like Microsoft Outlook that has well-defined capabilities and limitations. It's frustrating reading these discussions that constantly devolve into one person saying they tried something that either worked or didn't, then 40 replies from other people saying they got the opposite result, possibly with a different model, different version, slight prompt altering, whatever it is.

LLMs possibly have the capability to understand nullability, but that doesn't mean every instance of every model will consistently understand that or anything else. This is the same way humans operate. Humans can run a 4-minute mile. Humans can run a 10-second 100 meter dash. Humans can develop and prove novel math theorems. But not all humans, not all the time, performance depends upon conditions, timing, luck, and there has probably never been a single human who can do all three. It takes practice in one specific discipline to get really good at that, and this practice competes with or even limits other abilities. For LLMs, this manifests in differences with the way they get fine-tuned and respond to specific prompt sequences that should all be different ways of expressing the same command or query but nonetheless produce different results. This is very different from the way we are used to machines and software behaving.
by mubou | 2025-04-07 15:44:14+00:00
It's not age-old nor is it controversial. LLMs aren't intelligent by any stretch of the imagination. Each word/token is chosen as that which is statistically most likely to follow the previous. There is no capability for understanding in the design of an LLM. It's not a matter of opinion; this just isn't how an LLM works.

Any comparison to the human brain is missing the point that an LLM only simulates one small part, and that's notably not the frontal lobe. That's required for intelligence, reasoning, self-awareness, etc.

So, no, it's not a question of philosophy. For an AI to enter that realm, it would need to be more than just an LLM with some bells and whistles; an LLM plus something else, perhaps, something fundamentally different which does not yet currently exist.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-04-07 15:46:04+00:00
> I can found a new company in Estonia in literal minutes without speaking a single word of Estonian and without being physically present in the country because the whole process is digital and in English.

> If you want to attract international talent you have to adapt.

Calling English "international" is like calling Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Turkish or German "international". Internationality is not "English".

> You can value deep friendships but still be friendly towards acquaintances.

I insist that Germans are typically not less friendly, but they are indeed less warm (compared to, say, people from South American countries, and also some South European countries). This is coherent with your claim "If expats feel like Germans are acting coldly towards them", which I would not consider to be unfriendly. Indeed: what is considered to be "friendly" differs a lot between countries.

> Not everyone, some do find it easy to integrate but most don't.

If you don't want to learn German, it will likely be hard (or at least much harder) to integrate. The problem rather is that many people invested years, sometimes decades, into learning English and US-American customs instead of learning German and customs of German-speaking countries. Thus the situation that your mentioned people don't find it easy to integrate is in my opinion partially self-inflicted.
by awongh | 2025-04-07 15:46:44+00:00
> For example in the USA, they will refuse to speak German with you. So what?

In the USA many official government forms are made in several different languages.

This may not always be the federal government (probably less likely these days), but in California you can cast your vote in like 5 different languages (maybe more)?

This would never happen in Europe. It's simply less friendly to diversity.
by skilbjo | 2025-04-07 15:46:56+00:00
great to see this. two questions:

-would i be able to publish a link to my canonical openapi spec if my service, or i should plan on doing a PR in this repo for the openapi artefact?

my spec infrequently changes, but it sometimes does, so how do ideally updates happen whereas my current workflow is publishing an openapi spec to a public link

-how does this (and Arazzo) interact with MCP?

is this meant to interact along side MCP, a replacement for it, etc?
by naasking | 2025-04-07 15:47:22+00:00
> It is supposed to be raw data from the sensor with some additional metrics streamed in, just sufficiently standardized to be used in the camera-vendors' toolchain for development.

This is what I was thinking, that there are potentially so many RAW formats because there are so many sensors with potentially different output data. There should be a way to standardize this though.
by hackeraccount | 2025-04-07 15:47:48+00:00
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee It's an inherently interesting subject but (and it's been more then 10 years since I read it) it's a history of people innovating. I remember really enjoying the way it tries to get at the whys and the hows of people coming up with good ideas.

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Christopher Clark The origin of WWI is a story that's been told repeatedly. This version is delightfully depressing. I can't quite describe the book. If you say X happening was the fault of everyone it's easy to imagine that's synonymous with saying it's no one's fault. That's not what's being argued - here it's that it's literally everyone's fault.
by bdcravens | 2025-04-07 15:48:15+00:00
The company I work for is a small company that has enabled above-market results for everyone employed. Almost 20 years ago the founder saw a specific niche, and went after it aggressively, having software built out of his own savings. We've never taken a dime of outside funding (aside from PPP loan in 2020, allowing to us to lose no employees despite our income being decimated). He's very aggressive about keeping expenses low, but he takes care of his employees, knowing they are the most valuable part of his company. (Self-serving for me to say I know, but it really is his value system)
by reginald78 | 2025-04-07 15:48:35+00:00
I'm assuming they're still using the phone in some capacity in (what they thought) was offline mode. What they really need are phones with hardware switches for all radios, which of course almost don't even exist as a product. If a faraday bag worked for them they'd probably be better off just removing the battery altogether when they don't need the phone (removable batteries also aren't that common anymore).

It speaks to how terribly fit for purpose mobile devices are for soldiers in an active modern battlefield. Not only do they require discipline and technology training to prevent leaking positions, but most of them actually lack the capability to prevent leaking altogether no matter how trained you are.
by tangentstorm | 2025-04-07 15:49:03+00:00
He has done this many times on his YouTube channel!

For an example, this guest was particularly clever and charming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJP2zkl_44o

J/k. It's me. I'm the guest. :)

BUT: this was our talk after he saw my livestream where I was stumbling around trying to do things in GT early on, so it might help other people.
by polishdude20 | 2025-04-07 15:49:07+00:00
I recently have gone through the interview process with a company where I mentioned a range for what I was expecting. This was stated to me to be a full time position. At the end, they offered me lower than my minimum range and a three month contract to boot. Do I just come back to them and say "look, my lower end of the range is higher than your offer, can we make that work?" I'm sure they'd come back and say "how about we revisit after your contract is over."
by buildbot | 2025-04-07 15:49:51+00:00
Oh interesting! This seems like it would be a good fit ;)

Especially for really old setups that had RGB color wheels and multiple exposures, exactly like a multispectral astro image might. Phase one also has a multispectral capture system for cultural heritage, which just shoots individual IIQs to my knowledge… It would work great too for multiple pixel shift shots.

Possibly, the engineers just didn’t know about it when they were asked to write the firmware? It’s funny, I think most RAW formats are just weird TIFFs to some degree, so why not use this instead.
by aoeusnth1 | 2025-04-07 15:50:24+00:00
There is 0% of the exam which is trivially answerable.

The entire point of USAMO problems is that they demand novel insight and rigorous, original proofs. They are intentionally designed not to be variations of things you can just look up. You have to reason your way through, step by logical step.

Getting 25% (~11 points) is exceptionally difficult. That often means fully solving one problem and maybe getting solid partial credit on another. The median score is often in the single digits.
by iLemming | 2025-04-07 15:51:16+00:00
I think you're conflating job satisfaction and the difficulty of doing it.

Software engineering can bring immense joy, but it is often a hard job to do. While it may not be physically demanding like some trades, it is often intellectually demanding and stressful, especially with tight deadlines and evolving technologies.

You know that intellectual tasks, such as those found in software engineering, can require significant mental effort and may burn more calories than some physical jobs due to constant cognitive engagement and stress?
by tecleandor | 2025-04-07 15:52:00+00:00
Ah, I think I might remember a couple RCE they had... [0]

So for Windows use I then started to recommend a fork called NanaZip [1] that enabled some Windows security features (CFG, CET, Package Integrity Check...) and added support for additional formats that other forks already had [2] [3].

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0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip#Security 1: https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip 2: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd 3: https://github.com/myfreeer/7z-build-nsis
by azalemeth | 2025-04-07 15:52:03+00:00
I am trying to learn Danish. I cannot agree with this enough.

Consider "halvtreds," the Danish word for 50. A reasonable person might expect it to mean "half-three" based on pattern recognition and the fact that tre is three. But no! It's actually a compressed version of "halvtredsindstyve," meaning "half-third-times-twenty" or (2.5 × 20).

This continues with "tres" (60), "halvfjerds" (70), and "firs" (80)—all using a vigesimal system that, if you studied French, seems reasonable.

Except, well, the Danes don't properly sanitize their inputs. "femoghalvfjerds" (75) translates to "five-and-half-fourth-times-twenty," combining decimal and vigesimal systems with zero regard for foreigners...
by freeone3000 | 2025-04-07 15:52:09+00:00
RL is useful for action selection and planning. Actually determining the mechanics of the game can be achieved with explicit instruction and definition of an action set.

I suppose whether you find this result intriguing or not depends on if you’re looking to build result-building planning agents over an indeterminate (and sizable!) time horizon, in which case this is a SOTA improvement and moderately cool, or if you’re looking for a god in the machine, which this is not.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-04-07 15:52:31+00:00
Reinforcement learning is very good with games.

>> In Minecraft, the team used a protocol that gave Dreamer a ‘plus one’ reward every time it completed one of 12 progressive steps involved in diamond collection — including creating planks and a furnace, mining iron and forging an iron pickaxe.

And that is why it is never going to work in the real world: games have clear objectives with obvious rewards. The real world, not so much.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-04-07 15:52:32+00:00
> This would never happen in Europe. It's simply less friendly to diversity.

In Germany, six minority languages are protected:

* Dänisch (Danish)

* Nordfriesisch (North Frisian)

* Saterfriesisch (Saterland Frisian)

* Romanes (Romany)

* Niedersorbisch (Lower Sorbian)

* Obersorbisch (Upper Sorbian)

Source: https://www.bmi.bund.de/DE/themen/heimat-integration/gesells...

This means in the respective German regions you can also speak to the administrative agencies in these minority languages.
by cess11 | 2025-04-07 15:52:51+00:00
Smalltalk-style tooling is mostly used in small businesses selling to either small or niche businesses. Things like custom ERP in manufacturing, custom CRM in insurance. Some military projects have also been done.

The Pharo folks insist on trying to adapt to industry, and that's also the focus of a lot of their published material, though there's still an academic legacy in there.

For me the tricky thing is to find enough time to study the API:s, the programming language is easy to learn the basics of and then one has to figure out the flow in creating a package and adding code to it, but then it's a slog searching and reading the code for hundreds of classes to figure out where the thing one wants resides. On the other hand, when things break it's usually a breeze, the inspection and debugging is great, unless one does the mistake of redefining some core class and corrupts the entire image.
by const_cast | 2025-04-07 15:52:54+00:00
There’s no reason to believe scientific research as a whole is a net-negative. This anti-science populist message is tired. The reality is that a lot of this research has saved innumerable lives.

The solution is never, and I do literally mean never, burn it all down. This is a populist message because it’s easy and appeals to the lowest common denominator of human. It’s intellectually lazy, and supremely evil in its simplicity.

Yes, the institution is flawed. Because all institutions are flawed. It should be improved, not set on fire. These are solvable issues. But proclaiming the best solution is no solution is the worst kind of anti-solution. Everyone loses. Everyone. There are no winners in this mentality, only losers and slightly less losers.
by andrehacker | 2025-04-07 15:52:57+00:00
Well, yes and no. For many people in our profession, anything related to computers is thought to have started in the late 70s when computers became things that worked outside of elaborate data centers. It is somewhat amusing that the collective memory now is that the mouse and GUI were invented by Xerox, virtualization is thought to be a thing from the late 90s, and touch screens are from the 2000s, even though all that technology was around since the 60s. We must have driven the old-timers nuts with all the widespread mainstream bragging about our “inventions”.
by fastball | 2025-04-07 15:53:07+00:00
Or maybe having a social safety net has the opposite effect you think it does, in that anyone starting a business without one is going to try that much harder to make sure their business doesn't fail, as otherwise their life is ruined. Someone with a safety net might be happy to give up after some minimum of effort because they know they'll be fine. Necessity is an incredibly strong motivator for people.

Not necessarily saying that relying on the specter of ruination would be the right choice (if the above was true), but I don't think you can reduce it to such simplistic levers.
by vfclists | 2025-04-07 15:55:30+00:00
> Take, for example, the story of a 9-month old baby girl whose choice to avoid preventable childhood illnesses was taken away from her by someone who made the choice to skip out on a routine vaccine.

The "choice" was not taken away from her, because at that age she is unable to make choices on her own, whether for better or for worse.

> Until this point in her life, the infant had not had so much as a cough or sniffly nose.

Someone would argue that this point was proof that your choice not to vaccinate her was the right one.
by pookiefoof | 2025-04-07 15:55:48+00:00
The VAE component of TripoSF, a new model by Tripo (https://www.tripo3d.ai) for high-resolution 3D shape modeling. The core idea is SparseFlex, a sparse voxel representation based on Flexicubes. Instead of dense grids, it only uses voxels near the surface. This massively reduces memory, enabling reconstruction up to 1024³ resolution directly supervised by differentiable rendering (avoids detail loss from watertight preprocessing).

Key features enabled by SparseFlex + the training approach: - High Resolution: Up to 1024³ output. - Arbitrary Topology: Naturally handles open surfaces (like cloth, plants) and complex internal structures without needing watertight meshes. - Interior Reconstruction: The "Frustum-Aware Sectional Voxel Training" allows reconstructing internal details using only rendering loss by rendering from inside the object during training.
by djur | 2025-04-07 15:55:49+00:00
It doesn't fail to meet the OSI's definition of open source. As you elsewhere conceded, the "blessing" in the SQLite source doesn't have legal weight and doesn't violate the OSD. Public domain software has always been considered open source. For instance, the Debian project, famous for their exacting standards for free software, accepts public domain software:

https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Public_Domain

As they mention here, it is theoretically possible that code dedicated to the public domain might still be encumbered in a way that makes it not open source: "we are unaware of a case where a jurisdiction has upheld a copyright claim to a work which has been dedicated to the public domain everywhere".
by apparent | 2025-04-07 15:55:57+00:00
> so if you're aiming for a $10M outcome, they won't be interested

VCs won't be interested if you're aiming for a $100M outcome because what you aim for is generally loftier than what you hit. If you're aiming for $100M you might sell for $25M or $50M, which is generally uninteresting to VCs.