MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gwbas1c | 2025-04-25 15:51:09+00:00
> The simplification goes simpler still. Slate will make just one vehicle, in just one trim, in just one color, with everything from bigger battery packs to SUV upgrade kits added on later.

Makes me wonder if, once "normal" features are added, cost and reliability will be a problem?

In contrast, I could see this really helping the dealer model work because dealers could compete with different customizations.

That being said: At least when it comes to the battery, efficiencies come from a single large battery instead of a modular battery. I suspect they'll need to offer a larger battery at the factory.
by throwaway5752 | 2025-04-25 15:51:22+00:00
Executive branch arrests of members of judiciary are not to be taken lightly. There are many ways to deal with these situations and this is extraordinarily far from normal. All you can do is diversify your US-based investments and get travel visas while you still can.

If you are tempted to downvote, you could make a better point by finding comparable examples under any other modern president.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-25 15:51:31+00:00
It's a hard concept in all kinds of scenarios. If a pharmacist sells you large amounts of pseudoephedrine, which you're secretly using to manufacture meth, which of you is responsible? It's not an either/or, and we've decided as a society that the pharmacist needs to shoulder a lot of the responsibility by putting restrictions on when and how they'll sell it.
by xpe | 2025-04-25 15:52:26+00:00
Want to try a conversational reset? I'll start.

My disagreement with the claim "AIs are overeager junior developers at best" largely has to do with both understanding what is happening under the hood and well as personal experience. Like many people, I have interacted for thousands of hours with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others, though my interaction patterns may be unusual -- not sure -- which I would characterize as (a) set expectations with a detailed prelude; (b) frame problems carefully; (c) trust nothing; (d) pushback relentlessly; (e) require 'thinking out loud'; (f) resist bundled solutions; (g) actively guide design and problem-solving dialogues; (h) actively mitigate sycophancy, overconfidence, and hallucination.

I've guided some junior / less experienced developers using many of the same patterns above. More or less, they can be summarized as "be more methodical". While I've found considerable variation in the quality of responses from LLMs, I would not characterize this variation as being anywhere close to that of a junior developer. I grant adjusting my interaction patterns considerably to improve the quality of the experience.

LLMs vary across dimensions of intelligence and capability. Here's my current assessment -- somewhat off the cuff, but I have put thought into it -- (1) LLM recall is superhuman. (2) Contextual awareness is mixed, sometimes unpredictably bad. Getting sufficient context is hard, but IMO this is less of a failure of the LLM or RAG and more about its lack of embodiment in a particular work setting. (3) Speed is generally superhuman. (4) Synthesis is often superhuman. (5) Ready-to-go high-quality all-in-one software solutions are not there yet. (6) Failure modes are painful; e.g. going in circles or waffling.

I should also ask what you mean by "overeager"? I would guess you are referring to the tendency of many LLMs to offer solutions problems despite lacking a way to validate their answers, perhaps even hallucinating API calls that don't exist?
by alnwlsn | 2025-04-25 15:52:56+00:00
> any jack can have a knob plugged into it to set it to a fixed value.

I'm kind of surprised he didn't start with a knob with a tiny accelerometer, mcu and battery in it to produce some sort of output signal into a stock plug depending on how the knob is oriented with respect to gravity.

Putting electronics inside the plug is nearly a mitxela trademark. https://mitxela.com/projects/flash_synth
by jerf | 2025-04-25 15:52:57+00:00
The real problem with AI is that you will never have an AI. You will have access to somebody else's AI, and that AI will not tell you the truth, or tell you what advances your interests... it'll tell you what advances its owner's interests. Already the public AIs have very strong ideological orientations, even if they are today the ones that the HN gestalt also happens to agree with, and if they aren't already today pushing products in accordance with some purchased advertising... well... how would you tell? It's not like it's going to tell you.

Perhaps some rare open source rebels will hold the line, and perhaps it'll be legal to buy the hardware to run them, and maybe the community will manage to keep up with feature parity with the commercial models, and maybe enough work can be done to ensure some concept of integrity in the training data, especially if some future advance happens to reduce the need for training data. It's not impossible, but it's not a sure thing, either.

In the super long run this could even grow into the major problem that AIs have, but based on how slow humanity in general has been to pick up on this problem in other existing systems, I wouldn't even hazard a guess as to how long it will take to become a significant economic force.
by trealira | 2025-04-25 15:53:15+00:00
The context is that it's a footnote. The footnote is referenced in this paragraph:

A postfix expression followed by the . operator and an identifier designates a member of a structure or union object. The value is that of the named member (106), and is an lvalue if the first expression is an lvalue. If the first expression has qualified type, the result has the so-qualified version of the type of the designated member.

106) If the member used to read the contents of a union object is not the same as the member last used to store a value in the object the appropriate part of the object representation of the value is reinterpreted as an object representation in the new type as described in 6.2.6 (a process sometimes called type punning). This might be a non-value representation.

In that same document, union type punning is explicitly listed under Annex J.1, Unspecified Behavior:

(11) The values of bytes that correspond to union members other than the one last stored into (6.2.6.1).

The standard is extremely clear and explicit that it's not undefined behavior.
by cryptonector | 2025-04-25 15:53:15+00:00
> Thank you. I needed that. I started the project in 2016 and have been obsessed with it since then.

Well, like I said, I'm impressed.

> I myself find [fork()] quite clever.

Oh for sure it is clever. Though vfork() would have been more clever. The thing that fork() did that was very nice is make it real easy to spawn processes in a shell, which meant not having to design a spawn() system call (which are invariably large APIs), which greatly simplified Unix development in the 70s, both kerne-land and user-land. vfork() would have been more clever, but that didn't occur to Ritchie, Thompson, et. al. I wonder how things would have gone if they had thought of vfork().
by TheMongoose | 2025-04-25 15:53:25+00:00
"The tooling is bad and making things harder. The solution is another tool!"

I applied for a SWE role at FedEx. They had a chat bot that asked me if I fulfilled the minimum requirements one by one with yes/no clicky responses and then linked me to a regular job application.

Truly transformative.

Never heard back, I'm sure another AI system rejected my application for some nonsense reason or another.
by bri3d | 2025-04-25 15:53:40+00:00
What do you mean by "analog?" It's not possible to make an "analog" vehicle of any kind due to regulation:

* It would be impossible to pass modern car emissions standards without electronic engine control.

* Backup cameras are mandatory, so you need an electronic pixel display somewhere.

* Lane keeping is required in Europe as of 2022, so that's a suite of sensors and computer-steering as a requirement.

* AEB will be required as of 2029 in the US, so that's a full electronic braking system (some form of pressure accumulator/source, solenoids/valves) and forward looking sensors (radar, lidar, visual, etc.).
by toast0 | 2025-04-25 15:54:03+00:00
> - Lack of a mobile app. Minimalist design is great, but I still want an app to manage charging and be alerted to any vehicle issues.

I get that cars have these, but my PHEV (which I don't often charge) lost its app when Ford pulled the plug as 3G was sunsetting and I don't think I'm missing anything. If there's anything wrong with the car, it can show the check engine light (or whatever it's called when there's no engine).

> - Lack of good charge management and battery conditioning.

Seems like a little early to declare this on a vaporware product? I don't think you need a screen or an app to have reasonable battery conditioning?

Anyway, I would love small trucks to return. I had a 2007 Ranger and I have a 2003 S-10, and there's nothing in the US new vehicle market that fits the small truck niche anymore. CAFE standards can't be met with a small footprint truck, so we only get large footprint trucks. But EV trucks don't have efficiency standards, so maybe we'll see the niche again. (I think you could maybe hit the CAFE standards with a single cab ranger and a hybrid drive train, but I also think automakers prefer to sell luxury trucks rather than base model trucks)
by ryandrake | 2025-04-25 15:54:25+00:00
I'd be worried that once an app got a foothold into the product, the company would be unable to resist the urge to spread the app's tentacles across the entire vehicle, adding connectivity and telemetry and DRM, integrating it into the other car's systems, adding remote-this and wireless-that, and then inevitably the product would end up just like the turd cars we have today.
by waffletower | 2025-04-25 15:54:34+00:00
With all due respect, even if you are Thom Yorke (actually definitely if you are Thom Yorke) I would probably be bored by your music if it is unwilling to expand and grow with the nascent possibilities of technology. While AI music creation tools tend toward vapid imitation at worst and noble democratization of hit songs at best, Google is providing a more sophisticated interface here which may allow the truly creative to discover viably unique and new music. I live for that. While I support those who want to grab an acoustic and sing at open mike, it would be a loss if all music had to sound like that and it never further evolved.
by LambdaAndLatte | 2025-04-25 15:54:40+00:00
No offense taken. We understand.

Its something we have considered. At this stage you can use a temp email and we don't link to bank accounts.

For the hacker news crowd - I am sure they would be comfortable downloading and running containers etc. In theory we could have an offline mode (though we do use some market data that updates semi frequently so we would have to release a new binary periodically)

For the general population that becomes less of an option. We have also seen an increasing comfort in people sharing select financial information (and APIs to more safely share and constrain banking information). We also think we have some neat ways to provide a lot more value without needing to sync as much information as others but thats for 2-3 versions down the line.
by kemayo | 2025-04-25 15:54:46+00:00
> the law is simply being applied evenly, and judges are not above the law.

We obviously don't know the details yet, but this case does sound like it's on the more frivolous end of such charges. If they actually wanted to prosecute on it, they'd need to convince another judge/jury that this judge didn't just make a mistake about where the targeted person was supposed to be right then. This kind of prosecution normally involves comparatively more concrete things -- say, someone claiming to have no idea about a transaction and then the feds pulling out their signature on a receipt.

Of course, this could be a case where the judge knew the person was in a waiting room because they'd just talked to them there on camera, and then deliberately told the ICE agents they were on the other side of the courthouse while they were recording everything.
by ndriscoll | 2025-04-25 15:54:52+00:00
But it also has the potential to make the experience of creative pursuits better. e.g. have it listen to your playing of an instrument and give feedback on how to improve your technique. Or have it be an always available multi-instrumentalist partner for a jam session. You start playing and it just rolls with it and maybe inspires you in a way you wouldn't have thought of alone.

People are so weird about how to view ML/advanced signal processing. Don't look at things thorough the myopic lens of "prompt ChatGPT and it responds poorly". Look at it as an auto-complete, or a better form of on-the-fly procedural generation. Remember e.g. Audiosurf creating levels from your music? Make it happen on the fly. Maybe you could even create an interactive game where one person plays an instrument and the other does some kind of beat-sabre or dance-dance-revolution thing based on it analyzing and anticipating what's going to be played. The game scores you on how well the group was able to get into a groove together or something.

It feels to me like people get upset about ML encroaching on creative endeavors because they're not sufficiently creative to see how it could augment those fields and be a tool to make these things more interesting instead. Corporations will use it for cheaper slop, but slop was already what they wanted from humans anyway. For people that are actually interested in the artistic or social side, they'll have new tools.

Here's an example of something entirely off-the-wall/fun/creative enabled by these ML tools: Plankton covering Tool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc-PymIfv8M
by raverbashing | 2025-04-25 15:55:27+00:00
Honestly that website has the least amount of information per text I've seen in multiple websites

I had to really dig (outside of that website) to understand even what NATS is and/or does

It goes too hard on the keyword babbling and too little on the "what does this actually do"

> Services can live anywhere and are easily discoverable - decentralized, zerotrust security

Ok cool, this tells me absolutely nothing. What service? Who to whom? Discovering what?
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-25 15:55:51+00:00
The thing that has changed is that 6 months ago, directing federal agents away from an illegal immigrant couldn't be rationalized by one's oath to the Constitution committing one to a belief like "I don't think anyone should be blackbagged and sent to foreign torture prisons for the rest of their lives without due process."

Sure, the law is the law, but it's certainly not true that nothing has changed.
by 2mlWQbCK | 2025-04-25 15:56:01+00:00
My favorite documentary I have not seen (yet), I Dream of Wires from 2013, about modular synthesizers. I know in some trailer there was a maker of modules saying something to the effect that if only people actually making music with their synths bought modules he would be out of business. Can't find that trailer now or I did not watch carefully enough now. There are a few different ones on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQSxqha62j0
by doright | 2025-04-25 15:56:04+00:00
I was learning a new cloud framework for a side project recently and wanted to ask my dad about it since it's the exact same framework he's used for his job for many years, so he'd know all sorts of things about it. I was expecting him to give me a few ideas or have a chat about a mutual interest since this wasn't for income or anything. Instead all he said was "DeepSeek's pretty good, have you tried it yet?"

So I just went to DeepSeek instead and finished like 25% of my project in a day. It was the first time in my whole life that programming was not fun at all. I was just accomplishing work - for a side project at that. And it seems the LLMs are already more interested in talking to me about code than my dad who's a staff engineer.

I am going to use the time saved to practice an instrument and abandon the "programming as a hobby" thing unless there's a specific app I have a need for.
by johnklos | 2025-04-25 15:56:13+00:00
Content filtering should be highly context dependent. If the WAF is detached from what it's supposed to filter, this happens. If the WAF doesn't have the ability to discern between command and content contexts, then the filtering shouldn't be done via WAF.

This is like spam filtering. I'm an anti-spam advocate, so the idea that most people can't discuss spam because even the discussion will set off filters is quite old to me.

People who apologize for email content filtering usually say that spam would be out of control if they didn't have that in place, in spite of no personal experience on their end testing different kinds of filtering.

My email servers filter based on the sending server's configuration: does the EHLO / HELO string resolve in DNS? Does it resolve back to the connecting IP? Does the reverse DNS name resolve to the same IP? Does the delivery have proper SPF / DKIM? Et cetera.

My delivery-based filtering works worlds better than content-based filtering, plus I don't have to constantly update it. Each kind has advantages, but I'd rather occasional spam with no false positives than the chance I'm blocking email because someone used the wrong words.

With web sites and WAF, I think the same applies, and I can understand when people have a small site and don't know or don't have the resources to fix things at the actual content level, but the people running a site like Substack really should know better.
by mjburgess | 2025-04-25 15:56:23+00:00
1. It isnt clear ICE agents have any legal authority to demand a judge tell them anything. 2. It is highly likely this is an official act, since it would be taken on behalf of court, so the immigrant can give, eg. testimony in a case.

A "private act" here would be the judge lying in order to prevent their deportation because they as a private person wanted to do so. It seems highly unlikely that this is the case.
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-25 15:56:36+00:00
> There is no good reason I can't run Linux on my TV, microwave, car, heart monitor, and cpap machine.

Agreed on the TV - but everything else? Oh hell no. It's bad enough that we seem to have decided it's fine that multi-billion dollar corporations can just use public roads as testbeds for their "self driving" technology, but at least these corporations and their insurances can be held liable in case of an accident. Random Joe Coder however who thought it'd be a good idea to try and work on their own self driving AI and cause a crash? In doubt his insurance won't cover a thing. And medical devices are even worse.
by anshumankmr | 2025-04-25 15:56:41+00:00
I try a variation of the surgeon is a mother prompt, and I've found even the widely touted as the smartest^TM model, o3 stumbled on it when I added a small variation by saying the kid had no other parent. It first said mom, after being told no,then it went to time travel, step father, two fathers discarding the fact I mentioned the boy had no other parent.

https://chatgpt.com/share/680bb0a9-6374-8004-b8bd-3dcfdc047b...
by dangoodmanUT | 2025-04-25 15:56:50+00:00
I think this is missing a key point about partitions: Write visibility ordering

The problem with guaranteed order is that you have to have some agreed upon counter/clock for ordering, otherwise a slow write from one producer to S3 could result in consumers already passing that offset before it was written, thus the write is effectively lost unless the consumers wind-back.

Having partitions means we can assign a dedicated writer for that partition that guarantees that writes are in order. With s3-direct writing, you lose that benefit, even with a timestamp/offset oracle. You'd need some metadata system that can do serializable isolation to guarantee that segments are written (visible to consumers) in the order of their timestamps. Doing that transactional system directly against S3 would be super slow (and you still need either bounded-error clocks, or a timestamp oracle service).
by vel0city | 2025-04-25 15:57:20+00:00
Android Auto for Phones has been dead for a few years. That would be the app you'd use on an Android tablet.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/android-auto-for-phones-i...

Also, these days AA can connect to the car's systems to do range estimations for its route suggestions and suggest charging on the routes. I'd hope whatever connectivity they do here includes sharing that data with the device in the cabin.
by metalman | 2025-04-25 15:57:22+00:00
go the next step, and offer box and wheel/tire deleet, lots of people will have or can get wheels/tires that will fit, if they use one of the popular size combos, and many would opt for a flat deck, or custom purpose box see if it can be squeezed down to 20k, taxes in delivered with no box, they can be stacked, piggy back, just the way commercial heavy trucks are stacked for delivery.....more per load, less trips
by stouset | 2025-04-25 15:57:23+00:00
Many of the people currently being stripped of their rights and deported are documented, legal visa and green card holders or documented and legal asylum seekers.

Even illegal immigrants need to be deported through due process. That’s the entire part where the government is supposed to demonstrate that they are here illegally. We are currently skipping that part and essentially granting the executive branch unilateral authority to deport anyone to foreign labor camps as long as the press secretary says the words “illegal immigrant” or “MS-13”.

To make things even worse, these deportations are being overtly politically targeted. If you’re here on a legal visa and speak against this administration, they are making it clear that they will strip you of your visa and disappear you without a second thought and without an opportunity to defend yourself.

You are correct that the law is dead. You are embarrassingly mistaken about who killed it.
by hedgehog | 2025-04-25 15:57:28+00:00
Keep a desiccant pack in the car, it'll go a long way towards avoiding damp-related issues. The reusable silica gel ones market for gun safes come in a metal can that's easy to handle & recharge in the oven at low temperature. We have muddy gear in/out of our cars constantly and this has worked for us.
by digdugdirk | 2025-04-25 15:57:56+00:00
... As opposed to the numerous civilians who are currently being killed by government forces without repercussion due to qualified immunity?

Though having said that, I'm not sure if qualified immunity would apply in the same way to ICE officers. If that hasn't been legally determined yet (remember - ICE didn't exist before 9/11, and legal determinations take time), and looking at how ICE is currently operating with impunity in plain clothes and unmarked vehicles... Things will get much worse than Kent State before they get better.
by dylan604 | 2025-04-25 15:58:41+00:00
If you have never had the pleasure of being raided by bots, it is always a life experience when it first happens. It's only natural to think some personal side project would not be something to attract someone's attention to bother in this way. It's also a learning experience to finally realize that there are people that absolutely are willing to do this just because they can and/or just to see if it can be messed with. Also, never underestimate that your side project might land just right with someone that has a bone to pick and your project gives them the avenue to do it.

If you've never experienced any of that, it is very easily dismissed or flat out never even considered.