skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's shorthand for "primates with a genetic mutation that resulted in opposable thumbs were more dextrous. Those primates proliferated due to natural selection". I guarantee that even evolutionary scientists do not talk like that over dinner and regularly reach for such shorthands.
See elektrobooms idea for charging tunnels every 20 KM or so that can make urban vehicles not need a massive battery
The most apparent difference is storage consumption: A GeoDesk GOL file for a recent planet comes in at 80 GB -- as a pgSQL DB, it would require nearly 1 TB. GeoDesk spatial queries (especially intersects) leave pgSQL in the dust, even on low-end hardware (Throughput rates of 30 million features per second for bbox, 3M for 10K-vertex polygon, on a dual-core notebook with 8 GB RAM, SATA SSD; 4x this on a proper workstation). However, GeoDesk isn't intended as a general-purpose database. If you want to find the element with wikidata tag "Q1234", or all postal-code areas with ZIPs between 90000 and 92000, pgSQL will most likely perform better, assuming the data is properly indexed. One thing to note is that GOLs are read-only; future releases will allow incremental updates with fresh OSM data, but you cannot modify the data or add to it.

We designed GeoDesk with the assumption that users analyze/extract the OSM data with GeoDesk's tag-filtering/spatial operations, and then migrate the results to another database that matches their applications' needs. GOLs simplify distribution of OSM data. Internally, a GOL is organized into tiles (tens of thousands for a complete planet). With basic zip compression, these tiles are comparable in size to OSM-PBF (the most popular distribution format). As @pastage has already mentioned, converting OSM data into a GOL is significantly faster than importing into pgSQL (at least 20x). In the future, we envision that users will simply download GeoDesk tiles, skipping the conversion step altogether.

Another key difference is ease of development. GeoDesk queries return feature objects, obviating the need for object-relational mapping (For now, this is limited to Java and other JVM languages; we're considering a C++ port, which would pave the way for a Python API). GOLs replicate OSM object graphs, making it easy to explore the relationships between nodes, ways and relations: Find all residential streets within a city, count the number of speed bumps on each, find the crossroads, check which of these belong to bus routes, etc. All this can be done in pgSQL as well, but will require planning and proper table design to get it right.
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> Assume a counterfactual world without poachers, would the elephants evolve to be tusk-less?

Of course they would! I can't see how you can disprove that. In both that world and ours there are or have been tusk-less elephants, elephants with two heads, elephants that live 150 years.

Evolution is pseudo-random. The whole of nature gives context and some variants thrive better within this context. It is illogical to take life out of its natural context and think whether it would have evolved differently.

Your question should be rephrased as "would elephants without tusk thrive and outcompete regular elephants in a poacher-less world?" Maybe yes, maybe no, but my point is that evolution occurs every time a new elephant is conceived, and maybe the resulting animal lives longer.
I think the article and the arguments presented don't really make much sense, but I do find interesting that it says the article was published on Oct 5, 2022, yet there are comments going back as far as November 2019.
I can pick up 20 free SIMs from my local phone store...
Whole truck doesn't have to hop on rails. This thing exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadrailer
wow, it looks that someone from Air Force Materiel Command was very hot on Mireille Mathieu http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/page/154437

Mireille Mathieu is a french -old school- singer https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireille_Mathieu
ay yes, uploading crap to get download credits.. or paging and sucking up to the sysop for credits..
As a SAP developer there are so many ways to read Excel sheets but they all suck in one way or another - SAP itself does that but it depends on which SAP module you are programming in (MM/FICO/EWM) so each module has a mediocre implementation to read in XLS.

Somebody got fed up and did a general purpose XLS import library, but some sites forbid you using it.
Copyright lawyers cost money...
If any company can create such a headache for a case that clear-cut, then how can YouTube not be trusted to be a major source of aggravation all-round?
Won't be too long until you can run a model like this on local hardware
Poaching is illegal. All practical issues with sedation and humane tusk removal aside: these guys need to work fast. They shoot the animal, race over to it, hack the tusks off at breakneck speed, then disappear.

Penalties for poaching are generally paid with lead.
> Start at main() and skim until you get a feel for the overall architecture

Man I wish that worked for Java ;-)
You did not mention poachers' potential impact.
Isn't that the very mechanism under which evolution operates? Survival of the 'fittest' doesn't mean strongest/fastest. Clearly, due to poaching activities, tuskless elephants are being 'selected' for survival.
I used ChatGPT to make my decisions and live my life for a whole day, from getting out of bed to going partying.
Corporations use OSS for avoidance of paying tax and labour. There is plenty of activist, idealist developers that can be tricked into doing work corporations need but without receiving remuneration.
That's why OSS is being championed by big corporations as it saves them a ton of money that they otherwise would have to spend on R&D etc.
With OSS they can cherry pick ripe OSS projects, appropriate them and use to make millions or even billions and original developers won't see a penny.
You know you may get the so called "exposure", but try to pay your rent with it.

OSS really needs to be regulated, so that for profit businesses pay OSS contributors living wages at very least, if they use their projects.
>I'm convinced this entire space should be visual. We always visualize data pipelines in our minds and on whiteboards...well, visually. Two-way code-diagram syncing is needed to allow best of both worlds

I'm also convinced by this! Currently building something like this at https://www.ilumadata.io/
We have a pipeline builder (not yet on our website) that lets you visually build out the data pipeline. At the same time it's creating the corresponding files for each node which you can switch to.
Fair, I checked and it turns out I must have misremembered the legality aspect. There are, however, safety recommendations that strongly urge to take a 30-45 minute break every 3-4 hours of continuous driving, and - IIRC, that was many years ago - the model S range was more than enough if you followed those recommendations and recharged during downtime.
Strongly disagree. And the war is ongoing since 2013.
Ukraine's conflict is just a symptom and distraction for the masses.
The real war is on the peripherals and monetary models.
I thought truckers commonly work in teams specifically so the truck can keep moving during mandatory breaks. The driver on break goes to sleep, and their partner takes over.
IANAL, but if incriminating shit has already been said, what's keeping law enforcement agencies and district attorney's from taking it up?

The more they wait around twiddling thumbs, even if the strategy is to build a robust case by using his public statements, the more public discourse starts steering to enforcement not being able to touch supposed elites.
So let me understand this. You're saying that the primary feature of human brains is deductive reasoning, and that deductive reasoning is equivalent to calculating chess moves. Since ANNs are a lot better than humans at calculating chess moves, they must be an analogy to human cognition? Can we infer from this that ANNs are already cognitively superior to humans?

I feel like something is missing in this equation. :)
You'll get a more concise response if you ask it to actually write a Hacker News comment for you.
Not sure why you think this example is better - a torn hymen isn't as fatal to humans as a poacher is to elephants.
> It didn't become dominant by being a bad browser...

IE6: hold my beer
Not slaughering your own food is a pretty recent thing and still how common in a large part of the world.
Seems like a comment from an innocent kid this one.
`More Elephants born without tusks in ‘evolutionary response’ to poachers`

`Elephants without tusks in ‘evolutionary response’ to poachers`
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Evolution of life is different from mutation. We can have mutation anytime, but evolution of life is more or less the basis of 'natural selection' in which mutations that favor survival is selected.
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To add to this, even in a level playing field where founders lacked rich parents or Harvard, they'd still stand on the shoulders of those who previously developed tech that can now be exploited for profit. e:g dot-com boom was made possible by development of the internet itself with public money. Not to mention individuals' mental ability at certain types of problem solving, which isn't equally distributed. And large element of luck, being in the right place at the right time. So, while hard work and entrepreneurship, so long as done ethically, should be celebrated and rewarded, at the same time people who are "average" should not in any way denigrate themselves. Also, some big successes in startups come at the expense of everyone else. AirBnB being a classic example where some people have benefitted massively but at the expense of neighbourhoods, community, ability of locals to afford housing etc.
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Does anyone have good examples of pre-product, pre-revenue companies going public actually working out, especially more recently?

I know access to capital is a big factor in this decision, but especially post Sarbanes-Oxley I have the feeling the forces against finding product-market fit are so incredibly high for public companies. Having seen first hand what that really means: The implicit taxes on morale of regulation, compliance, disclosure duties, transparency, auditing, bureaucracy etc. are so gigantic that I have a really hard time imagining the viability of this. I've found it's pretty hard to attract high freedom high responsibility talker-doers to a public company for those reasons.

That's certainly a driving factor behind startups staying private for longer than ever and continuously rising VC round amounts, but I already found it's hard enough for a profitable company with product-market fit to go public and still keep their top talent that I don't want to imagine what that feels like pre-revenue.
Tesla has a lot of experience with this. They managed growth and profit throughout the covid crisis and related supply chain disruptions and invested in expanding production capacity further all while many of their competitors were basically struggling with staying profitable.

So, I would not dismiss their ability to execute on what they've announced here. They are obviously well aware of supply chain challenges and have been heavily investing in solutions for that. And they obviously waited with this until they had the logistics and manufacturing in place. And it seems that they are re-using a lot of components they already have - like their drive train and batteries. And they do have a lot of new production capacity coming online.
As an SAP dev knowing some German is a big help - not German but my home language has Germanic roots without the gender bits so close enough, so it helps if I need to read their variable names as comments are sparse or simply not there.
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Sounds just like dbt, but less organized and without jinja templates.
100% serious.

Value is 100% a human construct. If there are no humans there is no value, at least in any sense that we talk about it.

If you disagree then argue your point. Asking if I’m “serious” is not an argument.
Some (not all) of these strike me as not applying to all of the West, but being very American.
I think that's mostly due to the fact that the small market size makes it not quite worth it. With something like self riving the development costs are huge so you better capture a sizeable market.
Beauty with CoD is that you can turn it on, play for 10 minutes and then move on to other stuff in your life. None of those games (except maybe Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, I'm not familiar with that one) look like you'll be able to do so. CoD is essentially a arcade FPS, while the ones you listed are more on the "realistic" side of things.
So, we laughed off the warnings that we're blindly attempting to summon a god, and instead we just accidentally created a devil.
> it's most likely that the charging infra is part of the package fleet operators buy

That inherently means short haul trucking which parent says is feasible. With long haul trucking, I’m almost never at a location owned by the fleet operator. Pepsi and Anheuser Busch may have long haul routes that are exceptions, but you can see from the other trucks they are buying they are doing a lot of short haul trucking. They’ve both also bought BYD trucks for the same locations that have a range of 125 miles, so they don’t need the 500 mile range for their activities.
Other considerations, for building it into a product, and for even one-off hobby use:

* For software reliability and sustainability, what Linux distros are supported, do they upstream all changes, do they rely on closed drivers or blobs, etc.?

* For one aspect of security, what's the provenance of design and manufacturing?

* Hardware reliability?
Let me ask this. How do we know something has value? Through what process do we arrive at that conclusion?
In case anyone from the Photos team sees this: Photos is the reason I still use a personal Google account, and I pay for Google One. It just works. Everytime I notice a change, it seems like it tangibly benefits me. When I don't notice a change, everything is smooth, fast, and easy.
> "anti-gravity technology"... is just a random technology. A solution looking for problems to solve, I suppose.

If cars drive above people instead of next to them that would also solve that problem.
> The next step would be to combine the two, i.e. tell chatGPT to explain the result of a logic reasoning program in natural language. It could of course also be asked to translate a natural language query into Prolog code.

From what I remember, the very initial prototype of AlphaGo just had a neural net trained on historical games; effectively saying, "what kind of move would a traditional grandmaster make here?" with no planning whatsoever. This was good enough to beat the person who wrote the prototype (who wasn't a master but wasn't a complete novice either); and to make it able to defeat grandmasters, they added Markov chains for planning (which also necessitated a separate neural net for evaluating board positions).

It sounds similar to your suggestion: A model which simply generates realistic-looking sentences is accurate maybe 85% of the time; to make it truly human (or super-human), it needs to be paired with some sort of formal structure -- the analog of the Markov chain. The difficulty being, of course, that the world and its knowledge isn't as simple to represent as a go board.

That said, making coding answers more reliable, by adding a logical structure explicitly designed to support search & testing, should be within reach.
I woke up today and decided to ask ChatGPT something instead of Googling it. It worked perfectly for my query.

A version of ChatGPT that has access to the web (can crawl, can link to content) will be a big blow for google.
I also had this experience with ChatGPT, specifically when I tried to get it to do math. I've also had this experience with image generating AIs the produce feverish psychedelic imagery. I think it's a lot like when you hear yourself on the phone with a delay, or hear nails on chalkboard.
Most, probably 40-something, states regulate it either explicitly or implicitly.

As we know from many other subjects, anything short of federal regulation is roughly equivalent to “unregulated” for the purpose of internet hand wringing.
It's not yet the norm.

When it becomes the norm, it will replace purchasing a game at the store [this has already started to happen for PC]. We will no longer be able to play games except through platforms like Xbox Live or PS Plus.

This will eventually give companies like Microsoft and Sony complete control over their platform's IP. When it happens, we'll never be able to collect these games as part of nostalgia growing up playing these games.
Does a computer you can’t buy even really exist?

We’re in the realm of philosophy here.
sounds like ya might want a computational egyptologist
No doubt. In fact the current speaker of the parliament clearly stated this some days ago:

[in Persian:]
https://www.entekhab.ir/fa/news/701903/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%DB...
>Tesla already has a very long order book for these.

Source?
This was a wonderful time.

Ran up the same massive phonebill (and same horrendous trouble), life changed for the better (with BBSs and then the web!) when the phone company started doing free evening calls to local numbers up to an hour long... Set the timer, disconnect, dial back in.

Still bizarre to think you were literally dialling a stranger's house, then you'd find a list of other numbers in some random text file on their BBS and just take a chance dialling those. The excitement of finding somewhere great!
My first job was building pipelines in informatica's ETL tool and Pentaho. As far as I can remember, It used to be very visual back in the days. Hadoop and large scale pipeline came into picture and all of sudden these pipeline were super complex to manage, nobody knew what was happening, and we were riding big data hype. With scripting language, it is easy to test out these pipelines and showcase value before deploying them. Secondly, I think there is some sense of satisfaction or accomplishment when people script a pipeline than visually building them, even if it might more efficient in some cases. So, visual representation is a sexier pitch but it might be a hard sell.
Our audits were all done by interns from the big accounting firm and they just dumped some of SAP tables and ran it via some internal tool and based on that they signed off our results.

HANA - remember the first time we installed that in POSDM - it performed worse than the DB2 install we had before - we upped some settings/buffers/memorty and then they told us to turn on row indexing for one of the core tables (TLOG).

I thought columnar was the magic here - why did we upgrade to this again ???.
> Unfortunately we gave up our right to own software when we let companies own the servers.

Some games managed to balance this quite well despite no self-hosted servers, for example BF4 which allows community managed "rented" servers.

But one thing to note though is that nearly all of them will very quickly adopt global blacklists with cheaters. So for a community BF server you'd hook your server to a global anti cheat database, and any bans from the server would end up on the global cheater blacklist. While the choice of using a global blacklist was of course up to the administrators, it wouldn't be very easy to find a server that didn't use this type of system if you happened to be blacklisted.
So the community will invent exactly the same kind global bans that the game studio has. I never saw a problem with that (likely because I wasn't a false positive).
Such a clear landing page. I gave them my email address before I realised what was happening.
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> Event ticketing is, imho, one of the most fundamentally corrupt industries I've ever encountered

That's irrelevant to the discussion. It's a thing that happens, people expect it and the only people who complain about being kicked out are... well being kicked out for being a horrible person.

> But whatever. Do they confiscate the season tickets you were using with no refund?

Absolutely, yes, they do.

On the other hand, they'll probably also tell you _why_ they're doing so. They also won't take your money for _future_ season tickets.
Their stated policy on appeals is that your ban will only be overturned if it was the result of a compromised account
Your point about keyboards isn't necessarily true anymore, since there are now a few keyboards with Hall effect sensors that allow for analog input. That's probably the future of gaming keyboards, but it can also be pretty nice for people using it primarily for typing, since you can configure the activation behavior (how much travel, etc) for each key to perfectly match your preference.
No supply of any RPi computers in India for almost 2 years now. :(
> Many people were pleasantly surprised that they were getting refunds on the hardware, though I’m sure anyone who bought a game outright instead of just subscribing isn’t too happy right now

I believe they refunded software purchases and in-app purchases too. The only thing that didn't get refunded is Stadia Pro.
Sounds harder than writing your own code sometimes.
Reader other people's (or machines') code is not easy at all.
Hey all!
I'm Jaan, the OP of the Semi article here. Great discussion already!

I'm off the 'net for a few days but if you have questions or suggestions, hit me up on Twitter (@theEVuniverse) or on my email jaan/at/evuniverse.io. I also write a weekly EV industry newsletter which is where I uploaded this from. Cheers!
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[...] would the elephants evolve to be tusk-less?

The word »evolve« in that sentence means exactly what you say, »thrive and outcompete regular elephants«, or at least that is the way I wanted it to be understood. What is your definition of that word in that context that makes the sentence mean something different?