skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure most "technically-minded" people will be well aware that a desktop would offer better performance. I'm equally sure portability does play a big role in taking or issuing a laptop for most people. Kinda hard to take a desktop along for wfh days or travel...

Besides, the Apple Silicon ones do come out first in tons of benchmarks and the thermals of the 16" ones have received a lot of praise. There may be some desktop-in-a-laptop-shell monsters that outperform them, but for most workloads a 16" M1 Max should be very hard to beat. I have a M1 Pro from work and it's a beast, does a bunch of stressful things a lot faster than my built-from-scratch desktop (not brand new but also not ancient). Maybe read up on Apple silicon and Macbook thermals, a lot has changed since 2018.
> People tithe and sacrifice to their church for a promise of rewards in the afterlife.

You… you may want to post some receipts on this, or perhaps edit your comment
Do you have experience in this? I do. What fraction of memory samples do you estimate you'd need to find structures of interest?
Even then, even if you can solve every case involving actual roads with perfect markings and intact signs and functioning signals, I’ve found myself just this week:

- driving across an unmarked grassy mound to park a car at a store in their designated area.

- paying a fee with coins to enter and exit a toll road.

- stopping to move around roadworks based solely on hand signals from one of the workers.

These aren’t even scratching the surface in terms of edge cases that could be encountered regularly.
Was your friend Joe Pesci?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBarc_-Eoek
The lawyerly fun of Twitter's complaint against Elon Musk
From what I understand, SPY returns adjusted for inflation over long term average to 7%.
I quietly use Teams every day. I'm not a particular fan of it but it doesn't get in my way more than an Electron splash at boot and an ugly purple icon at bottom right. This is on a rather elderly HPE laptop - dmidecode says: "HP 250 G6 Notebook PC"

I used to have audio snags with it but those went away and I migrated to pipewire about 12 months ago and the audio quality has improved.

I do lack some "features" like background blurring etc but I note that BBB manages to do it fine.

It does look like there is a lack of love for Team on Linux but it sounds like the third class citizen is Mac.
The pattern of zoning and development that the U.S. has used for the past 70 years assumes that nobody wants to walk or cycle anywhere and that they feel so strongly about it that they want cities to be built such that people will die if they attempt to do so. I grew up in a neighborhood where the elementary school was about half a mile away... on the other side of a five lane highway with no crosswalk and no sidewalk on the other side. Zero chance to assert your independence as a kid. Zero chance to live responsibly as an adult.

A part of the reason people wish they had FSD so badly is because they want to be rescued from this fundamental failure of NA-style urban planning that necessities driving, all the time, across both short and long distances.
Back in the day, when I was but a young teen, sad that I couldn't afford Win95 when it first came out (or run it THAT well on a 486DX2/66mhz & 4MB RAM).

Stuck with Win3.11 I looked for other things I could run, that didn't involve me nuking the PC and installing Slackware or otherwise distrupt the "Family PC's" main use; running Lotus 123 for my mother's home accounting business.

So what I found was something that could mimic a "modern" OS, but that still offered 100% of the compatibility, that even an accounting parent could stomach.

IBM Workplace Shell for Windows 3.1x:

https://winworldpc.com/product/ibm-workplace-shell/151

I found it on either the early web, or on a shareware BBS, but the purpose was the same; to convince someone to please, for the love of god, buy IBM OS/2 (not even OS/2 Warp!)

I sure as hell didn't care or want OS/2, but boy did it make my slowly falling behind Win3.11 PC look like the cool kids with their brand new spaceheater Pentiums.

I occasionally reflect back on that time and sorta miss those days, and that computer.. but then I remember it was a Packard Bell sunday flier special "package deal" purchased at Circuit City by a clueless parent in the early 90s, and I was lucky it lasted 4 years before the motherboard blew up and was sent to the recycler. Of course the 2 PSUs, and 3 HDDs dying in that time should have been a hint.
Consumer and grid-scale battery storage

Solar

And I also think they could do some clever stuff with home HVAC, possibly using waste heat from crypto miners as the H.

Lastly, afaik they went camera-only in their cheap cars (3/Y) and still use fancy stuff in the S/X.

They gave fsd customers new computers once. What’s to stop them from going back to vision+lidar or whatever once the parts are available and retrofitting as needed?

The whole ‘vision-only is better’ gag seemed like an obvious ploy to keep being able to ship cars from the beginning of supply chain problems.

And yeah, Elon does not appear to be a good person.
I assume things will revert to a medieval system like they did for the past millenia.

Where single kings/warlords will amass huge power and people will flock to their banner's and countries for protection from other kings/warlords.

After the dust settles in half a decade or so and power reasserts itself it might actually be pretty cool to live in a medieval depopulated society except with a lot more advanced technology.
This part is an informed speculation: He does not seem interested because of several factors.

If Whatsapp was valued $19B few years ago, Twitter has a much higher internet footprint. Plus it serves ads unlike Whatsapp. I would bet Twitter valuation in $45±5B is a decent number in 2022. Problem is Musk doesn't want to cough up that money even though he's talked big - and/or borrow against $TSLA which would make him give up more shares than he imagined. The correction is his self-corrective step. The realization has come tad late, after his public song & dance about how he wants to "buy & unlock the potential of Twitter".

You don't drum up investor expectations, then publicly trash & diss them questioning their credibility. That's the role of due diligence. Companies negotiate, go over finances & relevant details in diligence check - and then talk to media (or not if you aren't happy to go ahead).

Musk basically has broken all norms: He promised loftily he'd buy, even went on a TED-styled talk show event where he unequivocally told how interested he is. $TSLA dips over concerns, market trends downwards - that gets our infantile free-speech champion to make increasingly harder requests to Aggrawal & co., before he wants to proceed further. When Twitter cannot reasonably fulfill his near-impossible requests, he claims in lay speak "Material Adverse effect", which implies he is being forced to buy from Twitter when the latter knows it is false/lossmaking bargain & shifting the onus of this drama to Twitter board.

If you're to pick the details of the story, it makes you wonder whether its pure luck that a fickle man like Musk is owning two superb engineering companies or has he hoodwinked everyone to think like that. But I feel he tries too hard to be something between Steve Jobs & Tony Stark
I mean... someone has to be the first employee or first technical employee. Everyone can't be a founder. I'm ignoring the term "founding engineer" because I also find it a bit disingenuous, and I consider that just a terminology fad.

How do you decide how to balance that? YC/Silicon Valley has settled chiefly on near-market (~80%, it seems) rate salary and a much more significant stake (0.5-1.5%-ish, I guess) than later employees.

The other factors that play into it, in my mind, are:

* interested, but not ready to be a founder; by whatever definition they want to use

* less "feeling" of risk as a 1st employee vs. actual risk (this one CAN'T be discounted. emotions are not rational)

* wanting to have a much larger area of responsibility than they could at other companies

* firmly believing in the company/founders/mission for whatever reason

Those seem to be the things that come up in every discussion I remember. Let me know if I missed anything obvious.
I just find this really silly that something as simple as a garage door takes 5 months and held up by a global supply chain, given this is the United States and our history of steel and machinery manufacturing.
When it comes to the task bar, the closest to it might be RetroBar: https://github.com/dremin/RetroBar
The DuckDuckGo comparison is a perfect one. The average user has demonstrated they do not care about whatever creepy/evil thing Google is doing that we talk about here. They just want to lookup the hours of a restaurant as quickly, reliably, and easily as possible so they can eat and move on with their lives. Ditto use cases for Twitter, Facebook, etc, etc.

Why (and when) will average users suddenly care "because blockchain"? They don't and won't (the usage numbers reflect this). They just want to get an answer to a question in seconds, Tweet their musings, endlessly scroll pictures on Facebook/Instagram/etc, or watch Youtube videos of cats, glitter bombs, or whatever. For free. As ridiculous as it is to me and most of HN the average person is even willing to have their TV and streaming services show them endless ads. They just like that they bought that 60" TV for $400 on Black Friday.

Even the censorship/de-platforming argument falls flat. It's been demonstrated that people (as a whole), going back to our tribal roots, prefer to engage with like-minded others. It is fundamental human nature and there have been multiple studies conducted that show it's wired in to our reward circuitry.

Trump gets booted off Twitter? Enter Truth, Parler, whatever where many millions of users moved in near record time. When it comes down to it people like echo chambers and they like free. Platform for free speech? Create a Truth account and start wandering in to flame wars that go against the political leanings there. You will get booted just as Trump got booted from Twitter.

This is where I think blockchain and lack of censorship is also fundamentally flawed. They don't want to pay XYZ in some random coin to make a social media post. They also don't want to bump in to child pornography or some other universally objectionable content (in the case of true to the mantra decentralized blockchain platforms without any form of "censorship").

The same argument goes for money. Almost no one cares - they want to swipe their credit card a few times a day and move on with their lives. They do not care about transaction fees, final settlement times, etc. It's invisible. Other than credit cards and cash the average person interacts with more complicated levels of the financial and banking systems a few times in their lives. They do not care if a lifetime of home ownership (as one example) cost them $50 in wire fees. They likely have no idea (and again don't care) how the 401(k) their employer set them up with actually works.

They also don't want to discover that their wallet has been hacked, their exchange collapsed, the value of their money dropped 20% overnight, or any of the other number of ways funds go "poof" with blockchain.
Ex-CIA coder behind WikiLeaks ‘Vault 7’ cache found guilty of espionage
I can’t afford a butler or driver, either, but of course I can afford 30 minutes of such in an on-demand fashion a time or two a week.
I was the only one who read it that way.

And don't call me Shirley.
I'm old enough to remember all the breathless pronouncements in 2015 about how self-driving cars would be everywhere within 5 years. I was skeptical then and I'm still skeptical that it will ever happen outside of some limited range of well known paths that have been pre-determined to be safe - ie we'll have (and we do have) some self driving cars but they'll essentially be on a closed course and will not leave the course. There are already some small bus lines like that - the bus just goes around a closed circuit picking up and dropping off people always taking the same route.
Right. In particular, a subsequent write to the same address may overwrite (part of) the cache line representing that bit of memory, pushing it to the back of the LRU line. This might happen over and over again, and that cache line then might not get flushed until the end of process's time slice. Anything out in memory backed by that cache line keeps its old value until the writeback finally happens.
> This is only to show that modern investment practices bear strong elements of ritualistic faith.

Conversely, ritualistic faith has a long history of financial investing, evidenced by its tendency to procure very high value real estate for itself with the funds of it's adherents.

Also, the cathedrals of Europe are glistening with the golden dividends that accrued from religious investment in the conquest of the Americas.
You’re not wrong that they’re bad machines, but nothing at all stresses them like Teams. Xcode, Zoom, Adobe CS? All fine. Teams? Just don’t even try.
Love to see progress still happening on this gem. They also recently added hi-dpi support, which is a great achievement and keeps the game playable on modern systems.
A social one where you use experience to make inferences about what is going to happen next. Who hasn't observed an aggressive driver coming up from behind, weaving around other cars and said to themselves something like "that guy is going to cut me off, better ease off the gas so there's a little extra room in front for when he does". That level of situational awareness isn't coded for is it?

Edit: I have a whole mental model for other drivers and different approaches for them. Someone driving like a grandma? Pass when available. Nervous/erratic/lost driver? Keep extra distance then pass as soon as possible. Aggressive driver? Relax, give some space and let them get ahead. And so on. I get that stereotyping is bad but ignoring the subtle signals other drivers give off seems like it would be myopic. An AI that doesn't anticipate what others will do on the road will always be reactive rather than proactive.
Introduce him to some girls. Hormones will get him out of the house. Other than that, tell him to get a job/start charging rent.
BitKeeper and Linux: The end of the road? (2005)
A guy I know actually did make a graph programming language, implemented on top of neo4j. It was very slow, but he did use it successfully for analyzing SQL stored procedures and finding fraudulent transactions.
So is this a genetically modified algae that will begin filling our oceans with cement once it gets out in the wild? Or some sort of controlled process involving naturally occuring algae? Really, this link plays more like an advert for world economic forum than infos
hmm, I think the real time aspects of self driving are hard. There is lots of promise with masked language and image modeling, but plenty of work to be done, even for non real time applications.
Ex-CIA Engineer Convicted in Biggest Theft Ever of Agency Secrets
That is not the thickness we are concerned with, here. :)
Setting aside the normal disgust I have for this process, I did some googling to make sure there wasn't some important reason why this isn't a repulsive process.

"the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984.[14] This law permitted local and federal law enforcement agencies to share seized assets "... it appears to be motivated by all the wrong reasons.

It has origins in English law and has pretty much been used in a tyrannical way the entire time. I tried to see the other side at least.
I ended up selling mine because the build quality started getting on my nerves. Misaligned panels that are "within spec" or interior rattles that make the ride completely unpleasant (at only 10k miles).

The tech is all right, and I got to try auto pilot at a discount. Unfortunately the phantom braking made AP completely useless with passengers who would freak out and complain. However, when it worked it was quite nice but I ended up using it way less than I'd hoped. Glad I didn't pay 12k for it!

The best part of owning the car was the insane acceleration and supercharger network at the beginning. But, that got annoying as more people started getting Teslas. Going on longer trips meant a ton of anxiety especially since some superchargers in cities would be packed. Worse, some would be out of order or slow charging. After the gimmick wore off, wasting 45 minutes to go another 2-3 hours started becoming annoying. And before someone asks why 2-3 hours, its called hills. California is full of them, and especially where I live I lose so much efficiency climbing hills.

Anyway overall I'd rate the car 5/10. Fastest car I've ever owned. Beyond that it was pretty much exactly as they described - a beta product. I'll probably try a Tesla again in 5-10 years.
But this requires the user to cede control, at some sacrifice to convenience. There's no incentive for the manufacturer to make that feature, nor for the user to employ it. The chances of passing legislation mandating such a feature are inversely proportional to the duration of the mandated fuzz period.

In a perfect world, one could even imagine smart thermostats (and other smart devices) coordinating to lower peak demand, rather than increase it, by "fuzzing" usage over the entire day. But this necessarily means refusing to power a device precisely at the time when you're statistically more likely to want to use it. It's a tragedy of the commons.

An answer might be to offer very granular spot pricing of electricity, providing an economic incentive to do what the grid needs, rather than trying to force the issue. This could also work well to buffer peaky renewables, provided there was enough elasticity of demand.
China’s court AI reaches every corner of justice system
Rather than the Federal government turning to central economic planning, a better approach would be to remove the artificial barriers to domestic production.
Anyone who's worked with z/OS or OpenVMS's queuing and distributed execution facilities will tell you that there's no comparable open source solution, even if you start installing 3rd party software. The usual solution is to go buy a NetApp Filer to use NFS's distributed locking and storage, but NFS doesn't understand execution queues and there's no easy way to do things like buffer output to local storage temporarily if the cluster splits. Filers are also very expensive, whereas distributed shared storage is built into OpenVMS at the filesystem level.
My youngest used Teams for school for most of the pandemic on an old Core 2 Duo laptop with 2GB and later 3GB of RAM.

Mind you, it ran on Ubuntu Mate and used about 1GB of RAM.

I'm not saying I like it, but it didn't fail.
As someone that ran it for over a year, before getting a Win95 box, I don't disagree. But at the end of the day, it was still Win3.1x under the hood. Win95 was bloated at the time, sure, but after the first service pack I thought it was a huge improvement.
I agree about the value of the internet. It’s amazing that people can ask questions in general and share knowledge, and I am happy that it exists.

Not really sure how that applies to my post though, but cheers!
> Things like traffic signals that actively communicate their status to nearby robot cars (more than just a red lamp that can be occluded by weather, other vehicles, or mud on the camera lens). Or lane markings that are more than just reflective paint, but can be sensed via RF. Rules around temporary construction that dictate the manner of signage and cone placement that the robot cars can understand. The cones might have little transponders in them, I don't know.

The problem you then face is that any of those could be forged / faked without some kind of way of securely validating the message in some way. You could cause absolute chaos by driving down the road broadcasting false messages. It's a little harder to hack and modify traffic light signals, for example. But we've also seen hackers screw up Tesla cars by sticking stuff on the back of their car to deliberate mislead it based on vision.
The even better part is that you can generate or find test vectors to test your implementation against a known-correct one.
I’m very tired of this outdated free market in a vacuum ideology that blames consumers for decisions made by and for the benefit of large corporations. Average consumers weren’t clamoring for mass outsourcing, JIT supply chains, or even faster deliveries. These are all decisions that had far more value for shareholders and balance sheets than the average customer.

What is the expectation, that individuals should turn up their noses at cheaper prices or faster deliveries to make a statement against globalization at their own expense despite having no real power to change it? I’m all for rejecting the supposed benefits of capitalism, but I don’t imagine that’s the goal for people who push this narrative of shifting the blame from literal decision makers with some hand-waving about “the market.”

I’m sure in 5-10 years we’ll have similar revisionist claims that trickle down from The Economist and WSJ that we were all begging for every product to have data-harvesting apps and SaaS billing. Don’t complain, you asked for it.
> our history

you said it ;)
Not true if you're in a position to work on the project. In that case, it matters how confident you are in their claims: if you believe them entirely then you might want to help, while if you disbelieve them then you won't bother.
Well look at this guy. Maybe you should take charge as the new director of AI seen as you figured it out.
"Is anyone at Microsoft Listening?!?!?!!"

Why would they listen with a capital L?
What you are describing is essentially railway system.
In both cases the idea was to start simple in wasm 1.0 and leave those things for later. Both are being discussed now.

For the first see e.g. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1397

For the second, WASI is doing that on the server, while on the Web we just haven't found a way that is better/faster than calling through JavaScript (we tried to do direct WebIDL bindings among other things).
Misread “systemic engineering” for “synthetic engineering” on first go - was thinking that may be some new ai application
Very cool and completely new to me. Thanks for this!
Does desktop Safari not run Teams, or is the installing edge suggestion just so you can install it?
Do you capture the effects of a ticker symbol delisting from the index? Trivial for a single stock of course, but looking across a portfolio, then the effects from delisting from an index, new listings into the index, stock splits, and M&A inevitably becomes a thing.
40 GWh or half a million vehicles per year (80 kWh each). A lot but also not a lot if you consider hundreds of millions of vehicles need to be replaced.

If we used plug in hybrids with 10 kWh batteries, this would be enough for four million vehicles.
Nvidia Announces Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing Platform
I mean they're already using a Mac...
Here is my hot take. N.B. that I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Some other kids tried to use a Microsoft mail service of some kind to access the emails in those accounts (for example, to get a password reset email for the Minecraft account).

The login attempts came from Microsoft servers rather than the kids' home internet connections, because that is how it works when you ask a web app to go fetch mail from another account for you. And conveniently, it obscures the home IP addresses of whoever was doing it.

Like I said, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Good luck!