skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To take a bit of a different perspectives, there's actually a few million people living at a few hours drive from Champagne, the region.

If you live in Reims it's a 20~30 min drive to a producer, from Paris it's roughly a 2h drive. In 2h you come to the producer's winery, taste a few of their production, and come home with a box of 6 or 12 pretty good bottles that you got a fairly low price (20 ~ 50 euro a bottle is realistic).

You can drink them in a 2 or 3 month span, and do the trip again to another winery.

For these few millions of people, Champagne is not _that_ much a luxury, nor a rare drink, yet it still tastes pretty good. National Champagne consumption is healthy and varied, and Champagne is still in competition with all the other crazy good wines of all sort (including other sparkling whites from France, Italy, Spain etc.).

There is definitely hyped brands, and Champagne getting out of France is at such a markup that it makes it harder to go for taste only ignoring the rest of the cultural markings, but I'd argue wineries from the Champagne regions are still extremely good at their craft and also live in a competitive environment in regards to taste and quality.
> They basically remove the concept of exposure entirely and simply pass the sensor photon counts to the neural net.

That sentence does not make sense. There's no such thing as a count without a corresponding interval that count occurred over. That interval is the exposure.

You can of course do lots of (very) short exposures to avoid sensor saturation. That's "just" a movie at a very high frame rate. And then you can post-process this in lots of exciting ways, align the frames, average them, etc, etc.
It’s interesting that IMEI seems to be the primary key that much of these backdoor commands rely on. Collating your IMEI against historical info, the government knows where you’ve been and with whom; collating it against other personal data, it can figure out your address, employer, birth certificate, etc.

I wonder how people might obfuscate or rotate their IMEIs, to prevent this kind of tracking and collation?
Nah, I use my cash to buy computers.

In a couple of years, they will be worth big money!

:-)
And overcoming self imposed barriers, like investing in crypto and avoiding equities. It will be harder to overcome an older generation that owns all the means of production.
Yep, we do about 30TB of user images a month, looked into converting to avif for storage savings, but the processing time basically stopped that. Ended up on webp.
Consistent UX I guess is part of it (tho not necessarily), but I think the bigger thing is that they're all federated by protocol, so activity from one is viewable by the others (assuming they're federated) it's a bit like FidoNet or even UUCP of old.
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If you don’t care about anything why do you care to be curious?

You see? Ive just found one thing that interests you. It means you’re lying to yourself. You’re telling yourself stories that are simply not true.

So either take your head out of your butt and start deep honest conversation with yourself (and not with ideas from other peoples books, whoever they are).

Or just invest some time in finding a good therapist to work this out.

Or if this doesn’t interest you - find a random one, who would just drug you.

Or it may be a combination of these.

In either case - you should stop looking for a feeling that magically comes to you (this is what drug addicts do), and start looking for a meaning that you define or create for yourself.
It is pretty cool: https://youtu.be/ODSJsviD_SU?t=4355

They transitioned from 2D to 3D a couple years ago, major transition but it does seem like a critical step. We live in a 3d rather than 2d world.
Musk has bought Twitter out of activism and is possibly hostile to a certain number of employees.
I live in a post-Soviet country that has district heating systems, and rather quickly the demand for heat outstripped the demand for electricity, so in my city this is now mostly fulfilled by 'heat plants' burning gas. The price you pay per kWh of heat is quite a bit higher than you would pay for having a gas furnace or heat pump at home, so I'm not sure how efficient it is.

Also the heat plants are not that far from residential areas, so if they were to burn more polluting fuels (apparently when they were built, they burnt bunker fuel) it wouldn't really be any better than burning at the point of use.

If you have some kind of geothermal source (proper geothermal, not a ground source heat pump) it seems like it would make sense, but if not I think heat pumps at the point of use are a much better solution. In apartment blocks you could have a centralised system for the building, you don't need each unit to have its own system.
Better to be micromanaged by 1 person than 10.
Google bought Alter to better compete against TikTok
> Well BRICS is a thing, I wouldn't expect Brazil to break in solidarity.

BRICS is a thing the way FAANG is a thing, not the way NATO is a thing. Solidarity is not one of its features.
That was his pandemic project! It's really fun: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtaR0lZhSyANYB0Xxb9OS...
Great, you can do two jobs for the price of one.
Spotty is an understatement, concepts and coroutines are still very buggy and inconsistent between compilers as well. GCC and MSVC released an initial version of concepts two years ago that was far from complete. It's much better today but still no implementation is remotely good enough for production apart from some limited aspects.
Any suggestions to be better at Linux or SRE in general?
Almost like people with the will and knowledge to build distributed platforms like mastadon are out of touch with the average user of modern social media.
FWIW I've given up the SQL query builder route and instead went with GraphQL query builder / Hasura route (https://typed-graphql-builder.spion.dev/).

Its technically codegen but only from the schema; queries are fully typed on-the-fly.
returning home on foot https://twitter.com/chenchenzh/status/1586648156539961344
Yes, I dispute that. He bought it out of spite. Just like he called the hero cave diver a pedo out of spite. He's a genius businessman - I judge him so because he has somehow figured out how to sell electric cars to conservatives, but he is a flawed as fuck human.
> Germany (of WW2 fame)

Sounds like an quote from an intro to a Tom Lehrer performance, and doesn't reflect the actual title of this article. If there's a reason behind editorializing, it's generally considered good form to provide it as a comment.
Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Chapter 1 – Marshallbrain.com
You may have stopped being you. How do they know if you are you if you haven’t renewed yourself?
What's the limiting factor of homomorphic encryption? Is it that it's provable? Is it the compute overhead? Is it too magical for governance?
My roof (North California, 11 kW system) usually produces more than my driving consumes. Have been running this for a near-decade. Totally doable. I'd still love to get my PV system separated from PG&E's grabby hands but I'm not sure that's legal.
Then why do you get a login prompt when clicking "Get Started"?

I see after poking around a bit more that you can edit the examples after opening them, but it's still not very obvious.
What kind of friend do you have that you can't just say, "Hey, what's your handle?"?
In '64, this might have been reproduced on a Xerographic photocopier, although it's also possible it was reproduced photographically (to produce offset plates) if they were making a large number. Either way I suspect it's most likely the "Star Trek" lettering was done by hand, but another possibility would be pressure transfer lettering.
I appreciate the flattery, but I'm not really an HCI expert. To my taste, GNOME, KDE, and modern versions of MacOS are all significantly easier to use than X-Windows in the 01990s, most of the time, as well as capable of doing a wider range of things. But, because their implementation is much more complex, they are often more difficult to debug when things go wrong, even though the available debugging tools are also better.
> I realize there's a general "everyone off twitter" feeling going on

Is there?

I guess it kind of depends on what bubble you are in.

I try to get myself into a wide range. Seems like where they are losing some, they are picking up some, and people who have come to depend on it (journos, researchers, political heads) aren't going anywhere.
Just torrent it. Seems like the industry isn't bothering to sue anyone these days.
I don't really get your linkedin reference. I'm on indieweb and that's not my experience of the place.

FWIW I moved from mastodon.social to indieweb, just put myself on the signup list and was on in a few hours. It didn't take long.

And you could have just joined mastodon.social if you wanted the low friction quick signup.

Though it is apparently under heavy load right now due to twitter exodus.
Twitter just handed that and more to a plutocrat.

I'm not seeing why anyone should assume an internet rando is less trustworthy.
sorry jannie is a derogatory term for a internet moderator who does it for free. nothing at all against actual janitors who have real jobs. sometimes i get too zoomer for hn.
> Autopilot’s camera could not distinguish between the white truck and the bright sky.

Is this a hard limitation to vision systems? Or are they saying in that particular early version it couldn't?

(And yes I understand LIDAR wouldnt be limited by the color and would see the objects)
Is walking in with a sink and saying "let that sink in" a respectful manner? No, respect isn't his style.
Mastodon has been averaging about 1000 new users an hour for the last 3 or 4 days. Compared to a few dozen a month ago.

It's not mainstream, and never will be, but it's in the process of becoming quite vibrant, TBH.
>We do not.

But not because of a lack of visual information.

Most of the time it's a la k of concentration or an overestimation of one's own driving abilities.
Code generation is feature of Go. We use it with ent to generate clients, services, and database all together using the same ent scheme.

We even use it to generate clients and servers for other languages with the help of templates.

The language is small and simple that maintaining the generated code isn't that big of a problem as you might think.
I don’t recall what year the copyright takedowns began, but about five years ago it became noticeable. In the late 1990s to early to mid 2000s, you could find hobbyists uploading them all over the place. When YouTube got started there was a brief point in time where almost half (or maybe more than half) of all Alan Watts recordings were uploaded. Podcasters like Lorenzo made it even more popular (don’t recall where he got his recording from, but pretty sure he was later served with a takedown notice by the Watts family).
China's alarming decline could take down the global economy
This is how you get a "why do I have to ask on HN to get lucky to have someone at Google who knows how System X works see my post to get support on this stupid product?" reality. Inflexible machines that run on rules are not even a unique feature of software, but they are good at slowly making your customers stop liking you.

The hard part of the "machine to deliver a service / outcome from inputs" is not "formalizing a process in code." It's designing that process, in all its gross real-world complexities, and then (even harder) changing it as the underlying world changes.

If it was easy to actually nail down the requirements in advance, you could ship out the coding to meet a spec to the lowest bidder.
how do you count photons continuously? what... this makes no sense, if you pass "the photon count" you just did a exposure... also how does a photo diode count photons?
The very last plot idea, “infestation“, seems to predate and be kinda similar to the Alien franchise.
> In duck-typed languages you have to write a lot of tests to do verify things that the compiler does for you in statically typed languages.

Ruby with Sorbet is not duck-typed.
None of this addresses the question:

Nitter exists and it is open source. Why not add a mastodon API to it?

The existence of such a thing in no way has anything to do with existing mastodon instances TOS / acceptable use relationship with twitter (if such a relationship even exists).0
You lead people; you manage resources.

Managers might be a good idea for a factory line; might. Managers job is again not to direct and guide people but keep the boat floating and the milking going. The mentoring etc is kindness and an extra -- if it was their job they would be called leads or mentors. When was the last time the average manager was fired/reprimanded for not mentoring and improving and leading people? They are there to make sure the river keeps flowing.

Software industry is weird because you are trying to apply factory line management to computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, ... Let's see how long this keeps going.
Nocode: Write secure and reliable apps. Write nothing; deploy nowhere
Would you mind discussing a bit the process in building something like this?
It's particularly insulting because no one could be bothered to come up with a useful, interesting problem description that is not loaded to the hilt with acronyms of systems that are only ever relevant to their current system:

> If the TFM strategy involves a GDP, AFP, or CTOP, FMDS allocates arrival slots for the constrained
resource to NAS users and computes Expect Departure Clearance Times (EDCTs) for all included flights
that are still on the ground.

While we are here... where on earth is the reference/demo data? How do they expect anyone to make a visualization going purely from verbose specs?
Design competitions are an extremely common way to facilitate job placement for students. It filters out the uninterested, develops skills, and connects employers with first-time job seekers. It costs almost nothing and everyone benefits. The work product is often irrelevant.
This amounts to a long winded way of hand-waving away the shortcomings of battery storage without actually proposing a plan to resolve them. We do have lithium ion and lithium iron phosphate batteries, but not in sufficient quantities. Your proposal amounts to crossing our fingers and hoping that extraction industries can accommodate a 100x increase in output over the next decade, without significant increase in price. There are indeed alternative battery chemistries but they aren't being used because various shortcomings make lithium based batteries the most effective.

Nobody has ever commercially deployed hydrogen storage, and most hydrogen is produced via steam reformation. The fact that you performed electrolysis as a child does not somehow mitigate the difficulties of using it as a form of grid storage. If you do have a plan to make it viable, go talk to VCs and you'll be a billionaire. But alas, actually delivering grid storage is harder than making promises.
Never heard of rap, I guess. And the world lionizes its leaders.
"People" here being the 0.001% of the population that's interested in and capable of responsibly hosting anything. As others have noted I'm perfectly fine with someone having to make a phone call, go to a web UI, whatever to click a box with a scary warning (and potentially agree to additional terms) when they want to open their connection up. Spectrum has 32 million customers and blocking SMTP, netbios, RDP, rate limiting SIP, etc are reasonable defaults.

The alternative (today) is the literally millions of compromised PCs, IoT devices, etc that inflict incredible amounts of damage and make even more decentralizing services like CloudFlare essentially a necessity to make sure whatever you're hosting can deal with the possibility of terabits of traffic from a botnet showing up at any second (or SPAM, or VoIP fraud, etc, etc). As it stands now we have both and there is still an incredible amount of trash traffic - see other comments in this thread about people trying to host their own Asterisk instance and having it use 100% CPU just processing all of the malicious trash traffic showing up.

I mentioned blocking international calls by default in another comment. So now you need to contact your provider just to call someone in another country? Unfortunately, yes, that has been the case for many VoIP enabled systems for almost a decade now.

In NANPA (North American Numbering Plan) the international call prefix is 011. This is trivial to put behind a flag. However, after that detecting toll numbers is much more difficult because you're dealing with the entire world at that point and the numbering schemes, etc for toll numbers are all over the place. Additionally, in many countries there isn't any rhyme or reason to their toll numbering and unscrupulous network operators and jurisdictions that don't have a functioning legal system capitalize on all of this. It's been a while but I even remember some destinations in the caribbean taking advantage of having a +1 country code so not even the "international" call prefix block works in that case.

In my past life I was the CTO for a VoIP service provider with hundreds of thousands of business VoIP systems. This issue is very vast and complex while looking from the outside like yet another HN "Why don't you just do X" or "I could solve that in a weekend".
this is actually amazing! no sign up, just an awesome, powerful, useful, application of AI.
In the past no. But in the future there is possibility of using a "basket of currencies" to replace USD for intra-brics trading.
One is infrastructure entropy and the other is software engineering entropy (we're still talking about data from one type of sensor, just at larger scale).

Most tech startups have 10x+ more problems with the engineering part than the infrastructure/ops part.

Also this is one person's perspective from a large team. His answer might be biased because he's an engineer and I doubt his was the only voice in the debate.
Reading most of his short stories in order is a great experience. Yes, you hit some not so great stories, but from time to time you hit gold. Beyond Lies the Wub, Meddler and Paycheck are some of his early works that worth a read.

Regarding Ubik, there is a Russian movie, Koma, that looks like it had Ubik as inspiration, and in that probably is more faithful than most Hollywood adaptations of his work.
Compare Godot's governance page (https://godotengine.org/governance) with this blog post and the previous one. Godot's governance page indicates, clearly, that Godot is owned by the community and SFC is empowered to ensure that happens. There's no acknowledgement of the existence of W4Games (who are also not called Godot Engine Ltd), much less any governance role. This makes W4Game's position as "just one consulting company amongst many" which is much more palatable. If W4 wanted to take Godot to an open core or visible source model then, it would have to fork, despite containing the lead developers.

The worry here is that Gitea Limited will be in the same position as ElasticSearch in a few years and they've given no structural roadblocks against that while dropping community leadership for commercial leadership
In my opinion it's dangerous to make verification too easy. Right now verification means, approximately, "this is somebody". Make verification too easy and it becomes "this person pays for Twitter" which is probably the opposite of what you want. I would say - keep verification as exclusive as it is, or slightly less, and charge for it is optimal.
Which is crazy to me. This websites policy is "Hey, websites that want their writers paid fairly can only be submitted if us users can find a way to bypass this and pirate their content for free".

I'm not going to sign up to NYTimes, but journalists do need to receive payment for the work they do and you've got essentially one of the biggest tech forums actively helping users avoid that.
While in that specific case codegen does sound like the right approach, I think in most regular cases you would be able to get away without it. Honestly, a 64-variant type is not really that common.

I think codegen is OK as long as

- its designed in a way where it doesn't cause users to want or need to modify the generated code (this is the biggest downside of codegen)

- its against "relatively stable" API thing (protobuf / swagger descriptions, DB schema etc).
Just wanted to add that the linked piece is a really well articulated criticism of c++. I say that as someone who has been using c++ for about 30 years.
This seems like a big weak point. I went to check it out just now and it's like "pick a server" and... I don't know, which one is best? Can I change later? Seems confusing, pass for now.
...except it's not always that black and white a distinction.
> Why is LiDAR still expensive enough for the cost to be a problem for anyone?

Because economy of scale is not the only reason things are expensive. Lidar with 2cm distance resolution has to detect light and measure time to less than 60 picoseconds. It requires sophisticated, expensive sensors like avalanche diodes and complex and extremely fast circuitry.

Consider what a single pixel of a lidar device is doing. It's operating 8 orders of magnitude faster than a normal camera pixel. It's detecting an incredibly small amount of light; the spot of a weak laser on a questionable surface from tens of meters away. Its doing that in the presence of light that is tens or hundreds of thousands of times more powerful than the reflection it's actually looking for. Much of that reflection is even at the same wavelength of the laser!

Even the mechanics of the device are critical. Pixels are gathered sequentially, unlike in a camera, so any vibration makes the data uselessly fuzzy. Vibration in a camera is correlated extremely tightly between millions of pixels. In lidar its correlated with dozens to hundreds. Any high frequency vibration has large negative impacts on the data.

> Or maybe similar tech at another frequency like spread spectrum microwave with phased array semiconductor antennae?

...that's just radar. Literally. Microwaves are 300 Mhz to 300 GHz. Automotive radar is like, 80 GHz, +/=5 GHz (mostly). It uses phased arrays. It uses highly integrated devices. They don't use semiconductor antennas, because the area on a silicon die is far, far to valuable to use for an antenna, but the antennas are incredibly cheap. Radar and lidar are just pretty different.
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>and the delta (difference made) was quite small

But why. Because LIDAR doesn't help much in general or because the Tesla engineers aren't good at using the sensor data?

Same with the manufacturing.

Sounds to me like Tesla can't handle complexity.
And if they can't handle the complexity of manufacturing, they surely can't handle the complexity of full autonomous driving.
Sorry if I was unclear. Software is more unpredictable in my view, both because of fleet updates and it being so fundamentally different than humans. (On the whole, I realize AI and ML could work similar to some human processes.)
For anyone interested, Library of America has a wonderful 3-volume collection of some of PKD's books: https://www.loa.org/books/311-the-philip-k-dick-collection-3...
Yes, those were some of my favorites as a kid. I think I read them about the same time as the Lord of the Rings. Rocannon's World and City of Illusions too, those were memorable.
The electronic voting system is auditable though:

https://portal.tcu.gov.br/en_us/imprensa/news/tcu-audits-bra...

There are many valid criticisms against this system. It not being opensource, it's audit process being very restrictive etc... There is a nice presentation following a conclusion of a vulnerability test that highlight many of the issues: https://youtu.be/4MgsGdbtf6o

But this impossibility you claim is just nonsensical.
this looks amazing. Loads super fast. Do you have plans for more electronic components? :) Also - how feasible is a simulated speaker?