skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's the concept of an implied warrant of merchantability. If a thing has an ordinary purpose, and the thing sold fails in that ordinary purpose, the buyer has recourse.

Since a reasonable person buys a car as a long-lasting mode of transport, the sealed fuel tank would probably not meet expectations.

However, if the propulsion system were, say, nuclear fission, and the system lasted 5-10 years and then needed to be replaced, that might be a satisfactory product from this legal viewpoint. The NTSB and Department of Energy would have some things to say about it, though.
Here's a podcast where they talk about it:

https://logbuch-netzpolitik.de/lnp433-auf-yolo-konfigurieren

(In German)
Yeah, let's hinge hundreds of billions on the hope of an emergent property simply manifesting.
A Reboot of the Maxwell’s Demon Thought Experiment–In Real Life
Pretty sure search works, used it mang times. Anyway the major logseq power from my point of view is the ability to tag every bullet point, and then query it. Granted I never needed to write a query, I just search for the tag and find all references to it.

First note taking tools where I actually *read my notes*
Do you find HN to be clickbait, do you need more content than is on HN (kudos if you've finished the front page before it updated), or is there not enough informational or thoughtful content here? I'm not quite sure what you're looking for, like if HN is good and you just want more of this, or different topics, or...
I am from selectdb company. selectdb is a cloud native data warehouse developed by the founding team of apache doris. Recently we submitted ClickBench's test results and we achieved good rankings. Later, we will incorporate all performance optimizations into Apache Doris and submit the test results of Apache Doris.
Regardless of selectdb or doris, we not only have outstanding performance on large wide tables, but also perform well in scenarios such as tpc-h where there are many joins.
https://en.selectdb.com/blog/SelectDB%20Topped%20ClickBench%...
Private companies have a stronger incentive to make choices that accrete value to the firm.

On average, this means they’re more rigorous in their vendor selection processes.

Therefore private entities are less likely to make bad purchases.
Except he actually did consider it and negotiated with investors. How is it fraught when you investigate a business opportunity?

So many salty shorts itt.
I understand how the situation got here. I just felt my curated "resources" were drying up and wanted to see how everyone is going about it.

Thanks for the interesting blogs link will check it out.
How is it good for the small local businesses who don't have a choice but shutting down?
Is that really how it is for you? The blank days in my opinion are the good ones, the level and balanced ones where I can just be in the zone or frankly even just zoned out.

The depressing days are the ones where my brain decides to sample from its wine cellar of my past mistakes without my permission.
This makes it sound like Germany had chosen to introduce the Euro whereas [1]:

>President François Mitterrand argued for the single currency because he hoped to bolster French influence in an EU that would otherwise fall under the sway of a unified Germany

However, you can argue that the continent suffers because Germany had reduced its labor costs [2], which unnecessarily moved production processes.

[1] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2012/11/17/the-time-bomb-a...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_concept
I'm assuming you haven't heard about corr^w lobby.
Information might be free to reproduce, but it's not free to produce.
Three basic investments-in-self I suggest:

1. A small lamp to keep near your bed. I have a USB cob light with three brightness settings that I got for video recording a few years ago. Turns out, I like it as an anytime light too. I don't think my light produces a natural spectrum, but it seems to help with the onset of short days regardless.

2. Organizers and some stationary. Getting lots of cheap pencil bins, zipper bags, binder clips, manila folders and plastic trays can keep you feeling in control of things around the home if you find you have any disorganized piles of small odds and ends; clip them, bag them, put them in a tray or a bin. Stationary helps focus that because it means you have paper and pencils to store. And stationary is a thing you can apply to studies to make them feel fresh; different pens can give you a different tactile experience when copying information.

3. A pair or two of sturdy gloves for exercise purposes. One of the simplest ways to exercise is to do crawls. Crawling works everything pretty equally, it can get you breathing heavy in a short period and there are lots of variations. You can strap on some weight if you need it to be strength-focused.
My second step still stands :)

The unique data-point here is that we are creating these "mini brains". I'm not invoking a knee-jerk "sCiEnTiSTs pLaY g0d OMG!" reaction, but I will invoke Goldblum's Objection: "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should".

Like several others in this thread, I'm bemused that this passed bio-ethics. Drawing the line isn't entirely arbitrary, ethics panels do it every day. We already have the tools, but it seems that in this case we don't know whether to apply them, or which to apply.
It feels like there is an article like this every other week. They reflect the same generic view which is broadly true yet I think is not very useful as an advice. In a highly creative field like software competitive advantage often outweighs comparative disadvantage. In other words it might very well be the case that a company that takes a chance on something unusual with a higher opportunity cost will outcompete competitors. How to make the "right" choice of unusual is where the interesting questions lie but that is highly context-dependent and can't easily be generalised into a blog post.
Yes but given that mouse neurons were used as a base, you now have a strong craving for cheese.
We can be glad we never heard the B-side:

> Jacks released his version as a single in 1973 on his own label, Goldfish Records. "Put the Bone In", an original composition about burying a deceased pet dog, was included as the B-side.

— Wikipedia
The main lesson here seems to be about the value of incrementalism. This project was always pitched as self driving cars in one leap, which set huge expectations and more or less ruled out just shipping incrementally better driver assistance year after year. Probably because the space became dominated by Google and Page-ist futurism, so they weren't able to sell anything that would be expected to come with an actual car because "automotive supply chain" didn't fit with Google's self image. And then everyone got scared that they'd succeed and tried to copy their approach.

The mining site thing is probably where things should have begun, or highway driving only, but the question is, could a company have motivated ML and programming experts with such a humble starting point? Or was the hole-in-one approach required to build a team that could get anywhere at all?
Because we can, and if we don't someone less ethical will.
Not hacker news. It’s mostly click bait / programmer junk food for the last couple of years (I only started reading then but took a while a realise)
It seems risc-v is missing the "small and big", "hardware accelerated", equilavent of x86 "rep stosX" and "rep movsX". Basically hardware memcpys and memsets. Heard latest arm ISA has them.

risc-v implementors/experts out there: is this true?
It's not only off topic, it's also wildly unrealistic (IMO). 1$/day may seem little, but that's for middle-class US standards, and it gets proportionally worse when you realize many people make more than one trip per day. What incentive do you have for people to pay that amount?
You are doing the very thing you're criticizing here. Freedom of speech apparently includes making a movie, protesting that movie (both true) but not counter-protesting.
Thanks for your reply. Do you have a suggestion for a tool that combines multiple feeds into one?
Seems like this situation would have been common 25 years ago, but even poor families today have more than one computer at home. Indeed, every family member probably owns a smartphone, which is way more powerful than the “family computers” of decades past, and a quite capable Linux box if rooted and paired with a Bluetooth keyboard. If you’re a burgeoning hardware hacker, a Raspberry Pi is a few tens of dollars and a more than capable machine for that purpose.
Alternative title:router reseller scams the German government for 400m
I know, I think the promises are unrealistic :)
This has always been my own imagined future
My personal belief is that depression is a deadly spiral stemming from and exacerbating damage to neurons.
Thanks for this. I just went over and read one. Based on the name, I would have never guessed it wasn’t stuffy academia-type writing.
The corruption in Germany is unbelievable. Given Schröder, Merkel, Dieselgate, this thing ... Germany os basically a rich Russia.
This is nonsense. In Spain the FNMT issued certificates work fine and have simplified much daily business.
Call me jaded, but my experience with public contracts told me that, most likely, the hardware will still be replaced or, best case, the company providing the firmware will get a follow up contract around 100 million to do the update.

Also expect close to no media coverage about that, or any political consequences. Heck, it took a thorough, highly public late night show investigation into the head of a government agency for cyber security and his close, and private links to former KGB agents and owners of cyber security firms, shady lobbying associations and whatnot for to be soon replaced. As if his known close ties to the private sector, and specific companies that ended up in the concil advising the government on cyber security, wasn't enough. One has to wonder so, how such a position doesn't require a security clearance. If I had close private contacts to known former KGB guys (known because the guy in question got an award in public for long service for the KGB and the state) I wouod have never passed these checks. Or if I had not mentioned them I would have lost my job immediately. Fun fact, it was the former conservative led government, and more specifically conservative politicians in cjarge of the ministry of interior, that put the guy in his position. And politians from the same party maintained the contact with Russian authorities.
I've said it before, if you truly want to experience what a real life raod looks like in most of the World, just go to Eastern Europe and create the test models there.
Indeed. Although some of us try to opt out of that stuff too, as much as possible.

The ethical questions raised by anomalous situations like this indicate that our historical decisions may need revising.
How can I vote to replace corruption?
Agreed. Of course the *40 series had a unique feature of getting security and infra architect consultants to slam them repeatedly on the office desks in clients' offices, due to their special and innovative combined top trackpad / trackpoint buttons :D

(I hear ThinkPad is trying that a abomination again, which means my t25 may have to live another 5 years)
Solar and wind aren't 'flexible' though, they are unreliable. You don't get to choose when they start and stop, even for solar predicting sun during the day isn't reliable due to random clouds cutting out 80% of incoming light.

'Flexible' generation is gas and oil, as well as most storage systems. Either we need an enormous overprovisioning of both renewables and storage so that we can handle the 0.1% of cases (~= 1 day every 3 years), or we have something we can actually schedule when we choose, not when nature's chaotic systems choose for us.
Productivity & efficiency unlocks in trucking, ride hailing, public transportation, vehicles, insurance, human capital, medicine etc..

We are talking tens of trillions in value unlocked around the world.
> Have you actually seen what nuclear waste looks like?

Yes, it has numerous forms. Most high-level radioactive waste is stored in dry cask storage. Until you destroy the cask and the things in it, it's pretty safe. But if you keep too much at one place it becomes a great target for terrorists. If you put them below the surface you must find conditions which doesn't degrade the cask.

Medium and low-level radioactive (dry) waste is often stored in plastic bags in normal steel barrels. When they rust through, you have a big problem. And steel barrels tend to rust faster than radioactive waste decays. Germany put a lot if these barrels into the former mine Asse and had to get it back at really high cost after saline water entered the storage location. After that there was even more waste to store because you need new barrels and have to store parts of salt from the mine as well. So Germany practically had a nuclear waste storage. It didn't work out so well, so people there are skeptical when someone else says it's not a problem.

And then there are radioactive liquids in storage tanks. The only solution I have heard so far is to dilute them so that they can be dumped into the sea. That may work for small quantities of waste, but if it's done globally, we have a problem.

> Same here, and I think thats precisely the problem - there are few scientists and technical proffeshions in government. Like a huge chunk of human society is not present in decision making.

I just wanted to say that a formal degree doesn't necessarily qualify you more on the subject and I don't like someone saying "you haven't studied this shut up". I judge people by their arguments, not by their title.

But I think more expertise among politicians can never hurt.
Interesting. I imagined fishermen hauling in a net full of choke springs and accelerator pump gaskets.
This sort of abdication of responsibility permeates through german companies as well and it pisses me off to no end.
I work at a company like this. From what I gather, it seems to have started out as a fine product-oriented business, but turned into what it is today due to the incentives involved. We sell our product primarily through public sector invitations to tender, where what matters is hitting a bunch of feature checkboxes on a list, with zero regard for the actual quality of the product.

You get exactly what you pay for.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33205318

We may need some gas peaker plants to occasionally run in the short-term, but they wouldn't be a significant fraction of energy generation. And the implication of that isn't that renewables leads to more fossil fuel usage than nuclear. You've also go to factor in that we can build out renewables a lot quicker.
> 1. Pay for publications

That doesn’t mean you’re not still the product. They can resell your information and use the journal as propaganda just as much as before, well, even more, since they have your full ID and address.

No, we need ethics in journalism, but this train has long gone. Can’t remember the last time I saw both sides of a story in the same article, that must have been decades ago.
Another decade for prototype self-driving cars to cover another state part of the US? $100BN in funding these gadgets and contraptions that don't work. Not even Tesla FSD can drive itself reliably at night without supervision, because it is not Level 5.

Until LiDAR becomes more cheaper and these cars CAN drive themselves safely at night without supervision in any state at scale and as advertised like a robotaxi, then you're looking into multiple decades of these research prototypes being 'useful'.

So far, that $100BN is a VC scam until proven otherwise.
True. But I think HN is simply a constant few notches above the baseline of the Internet. As the Internet is "sinking", so is HN.

Plus, you can actually have a good discussion here. Somehow the community knows to completely shut off any kind of "me too", "this is awesome", or other useless comments.
That quoted statement isnt really a premise, though it could be inaccurate.

You make the obvious point of how we ended up where we are. The non obvious point is that this is not a desirable end point.

Food is increasingly lower on nutritional value, some estimate 50-60% over the last ~50 years. Discount that from your yields of 5-20x. More bushels doesn't mean anything other than profit. Depleting soils and agricultural run-off have very difficult costs to quantify, so we largely don't even try.

Soil condition is awful in monoculture farms. Nothing grows without synthetic fertilizer and pesticide. Glyphosate is being phased out because it's likely the largest driver of chronic disease the world has ever seen. Yes, blah blah, 'no evidence' - a point predicated on the fact there are no studies. We are barely coming to accept the reality of the gut biome/health connection, much less the gut/brain connection..

What is the cost of these failures? Certainly the corporations don't bare the brunt. Perhaps the situation would be different if they did. Or perhaps it would be different if you purchased products from producers with these costs in mind
Ah of course, I didn't think about that.
We are what we are not.
I'm not sure I agree with this success metric: for one thing, there's plenty of roads any given human can't or won't drive on due to perceived difficulty.

But when I think "autonomous vehicle" I definitely don't think "arbitrarily capable of driving on roads" - I think something capable of navigating well-understood national roads. I don't see any inconsistency with the idea that there'd be "no automation" zones or roads, or that pre-approved travelways for AVs is a failure scenario.
> and it’s trapped inside a small rectangular flat screen

Why is that a problem when we are talking about flat diagrams, spreadsheets or text?

> You claim that you have used VR extensively, but I highly doubt it based on your comments.

It's precisely because I have used it extensively that I make these comments. Presence and the ability to project content into a virtual 3D space that is experienced by direct interaction is a great technology if it is presenting content that benefits from this representation.

Interactive movies benefit from this. Virtual Walks through great landscapes or museums do. Virtual Art exhibits do.

Games do, perhaps more than any other area. I have literally spent hours in "Tales from the galaxys edge" just walking around the Cantina playing repulsor-dart or sitting with friends around a fire in "A Townships Tale", exactly because this is an immersive experience where the presentation through this technology has tangible benefits over experiencing it, as you say, on "a small rectangular flat screen".

And I can absolutely see this technology have a great impact in non-entertainment areas; Controlling robots in dangerous work environments. Helping maintenance personal with difficult tasks through AR devices. Training of personnel. Architecture comes to mind, designing complex machinery, 3D design in general.

But spreadsheets? Flow diagrams? Source code editing? Wearing a headset to sit through meetings? How do these applications benefit from this mode of representation?
I go to public radio (NPR) and podcasts, mostly.
Well, the Arabic version of that same Wikipedia article provides the Hadeeth transmitter’s analysis of the Hadith regarding Al-‘Asmaa bint Marian, and the verdict that this hadeeth is fabricated (Mawdoo’). It simply isn’t true.

Moreover, the language of the claimed poet - I’m an Arab - is far different from the language of the time, far from being poetic, and the statement claimed that Prophet Muhammad said has a very different tone from his usual tone (He said “Who’d save me from Al ‘Asmaa bint Marwan?” and the Prophet himself mentioned that there is no savior other than Allah. The prophet approach would be something like يريحني (v. make me relaxed) from so and so. It’s a very horrible and easy to spot fabrication, the fabricator almost didn’t put any effort in it and used the language of his time instead.

You don’t need to mention a fabricated story to attack Islam’s take on free speech. Free speech is simply not a principle that was ever well-regarded in Islam. “Whomever believes in Allah and the last day should only say good or be quiet” and “Are people thrown into the depth of hellfire except by the sowing of their tongues” and “It is enough for one to be described as a liar is to talk about everything he heard”. The notion of “freedom” is a very western notion that - in its current form - very alien to the sort of freedom that Islam talks about: minimal freedom that is constrained by rules. Free speech certainly isn’t regarded as part of that minimal freedom. More like “constrained speech”, because of the inherent Islamic belief that free speech brings chaos. In times of Fitnah (tribulation, calamity) people are commanded by the Prophet not to speak a word: “Hold your tongue, stay at your home, and abandon the matters of public”; which is absolutely against free speech because people’s opinions are stirred most when there are events, and they’re commanded to be quiet and bottle it in.

It is just that we, Arabs, are a radically different culture that values stability and tradition. Something of the sort of “People should mind their own business”. Free speech undermines both. It’s a significant cultural difference that the west has no intent to respect, because they regard it as oppressive.

You don’t need to mention a fabricated story to highlight that.
WHY is a fully autonomous vehicle even interesting to pursue, given that wheeled vehicles and their infrastructural requirements are such a large expense and social and environmental problem relative to the benefits provided?

I mean, out of all the moonshots, why die on this particular hill?

I consider an actual hyperloop to be a much more compelling vision for the future: those pneumatic tubes the banks use in suburban US locales coupled with maglev capsules being routed around electronically by magnetic field switching, etc…
Or flying jetson mobiles etc…

Why is the current obsession a robotic driver of a boring old car ?
I believe in android bluetooth requires some location permission, because it can be used to identify your location.
In some cities (in western countries) you can't travel or do internet banking if you don't have the right app. Are you coerced? Yes you are. That is the same thing here. But you don't see "security experts" complaining.
And then in those safe geofenced locations we could put down metal guide rails so that navigation is easier. And then use metal wheels with flanges to reduce rolling resistance. And then hook many cars together into one long vehicle. And ...
It’s probably difficult to appreciate for Americans how wildly intransparent German governments and their agencies are across the board. The default for everything is to be closed and private. No accountability mindset at all.
That sounds strange, when there's a shortage of power, don't the higher electricity prices go mostly to the energy producers, in order to create incentive to increase production and start up more expensive generation forms?
It is, but remember that people's lives and freedom are on the stake
One big german company who has had a couple of scandals attached to their name and that has been 'disappearing' progressively from markets operated in similar ways (and the market cap going down progressively).

They end up cornered in markets where the expertise needed and moats are high and where they are slightly not too behind or ahead of the competition.

But anyway, the way to procure such "routers for secure networks" would be to add a contractual requirement of support for 20+ yrs.
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