skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not new. A paper in 2021 [0] showed you can train a quadruped robot to walk in minutes using parallel simulation in GPU, and then deploy it on the physical robot. Being parallel it is faster, and more so if on GPU. But sim-to-reality transfer is still a concern, and the architecture doesn't help if there are sparse rewards.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11978?context=cs.LG
Fair enough, from customer complaints I've probably hired one or two of them for deliveries...
an install is expected to last 10-25+ years... that's a long time....
That seems like a lot of languages to try to learn via any method. Why not focus on making one usable?
> The GDPR is quite clear that such tracking can never be a legitimate business interest

I assume the "can never" is actually a "should never", considering the profits that Facebook makes from it. ;)
I have a rule for comprehensions that I try not to break: they should only have two phrases in them. Whether that’s two “for x in y” or one “for” and one “if”. Anything more becomes confusing and illegible.

Complicated comprehensions are not clever or impressive, they’re annoying.
I'm starting to lose track of the need for all this "assisted stuff".

People have written the most incredible scripts without "the help of AI". If someone isn't a great writer, do they need to be augmented into great writers so every script is great using "AI(tm)"?

Is the plan that we feed AI all the greatest scripts ever written so writing becomes a toy, we destroy writing as a job and then just have eveyone using "aiwriter.com" to generate scripts like it's a toy?

I think like many things, being a good writer is more than just producing a good scripts...

Makes me wonder where it's all headed.
Sounds great, but the land underneath is absolutely killed as if it were paved over, no grass, ground cover, crops or anything. That said, it seems to be less than half the amount of land.

Nevertheless, it seems that the innovative German installation method of using vertical panels in between agricultural rows is better [0].

[0] https://cleantechnica.com/2022/07/25/new-research-says-verti...
> If the panels don't point directly at the sun, then you lose much of the efficiency.

This is true for a single panel. But the amount of sunlight which hits an acre of land is constant. If the land is 100% covered with panels, the panels will collect 100% of the available sunlight.

Installations that tilt the panels have lots of space between the panels.
I think "touch based" is used here to mean knobs and buttons, not a touch screen.
> Simple falsehood doesn't appear to be against the rules either, only deliberate lies/manipulated media are.

So Twitter made this claim. FP didn't deny it either fwiw.

> With no evidence to the contrary, we should presume Dr. Bhattacharya innocent.

While I'm a big fan of Blackstone's Ratio you need to recognize that I am not accusing him of anything. He's not on trial here, the FP is. My claim is that these Twitter Files are propagating controversy without providing any substantial evidence. Dr. Bhattacharya is only part of this conversation because YetAnotherNick claimed that the post about him was direct evidence of manipulation. Which, if you read back, I said that this sample is not informative since we do not know what led to the ban. Without that evidence we don't know if Twitter acted in good faith or not.

Again, Dr. Bhattacharya is not on trial. Proof of his innocence would help The FP's argument, so why are they hiding it? The same is true for __every single one of the samples given__. We have ZERO information about the content that was posted that led to the actual down-weighting and bans. Because this information is being _intentionally_ hidden from us we must be suspicious of The FP's motives here. If you visit their website I'm sure you'll find a bias that strongly correlates with the claims they are making here: Twitter devalues right wing voices. Problem is, the claim still has no evidence. Just correlations. But these are not the same thing and that's why people are fighting in the comments. There is absolutely no information given that can allow us to draw accurate _causal_ solutions.

Don't confuse criticism with political hackery.
Seems lying them flat also makes their cleaning robot able to easily maneuver, meaning they don't need to leave any space in between panels for humans to perform maintenance. Pros: reduces land usage as you mention, but also less humans needed for maintenance.
Makes me wonder. If we did have automated luxury communism, would
people like me just not be satisfied and struggle to find new
"problems"? Alexis De Toqueville described the "American Spirit" as
one of "restiveness"... itching to change and move (FWIW I'm British
but tarn with the same brush).

There's a funny line in "Analyse This" where Bully Crystal's character
says innocently to Robert De Niro...

"What are you going to do this summer?"

And the Mafioso gangster (De Niro) replies;

"About What?!"
First time reading about Flet. Good technical guide, a few typos but pleasure to read. Hope to try the project. Thanks for sharing.
>These photos frequently go through the home on a room-by-room basis.

Some sites have virtual tours or video of the home. From a buyer’s perspective, it’s great.

Photos, virtual tours, 3-D tours and video

A site access guide, floor plan, and walk through for Burglars?
S&P 500 indices pay 1.56%, so after a couple of years if Faamng salary is $400k that can make it savings that's $6k residual growing each year.

S&p dividend indices are 2.54%, utility indexed 2.85%
To be fair, it's very easy to pick a standard door lock, and both require physical access to enter the home.
For me the killer failing of MATE is that it does not and cannot handle vertical taskbars right. GNOME 2 couldn't and MATE still can't.

(LXDE did; LXQt can't either. Sadly, it could before it reached v1.0 but it's now broken.)

Xfce does this with aplomb. In my testing (I wrote the article at the top of this thread) it is also substantially more stable; I regularly experience crashes in MATE.

Here's what it should look like:
https://imgur.com/gallery/fLeAy

This is what it looks like when MATE tries:
https://imgur.com/dBfjico

That's not a bit poor or sub-optimal: that is broken and unusable.

MATE is also orphaned; the team that created GNOME 2 have moved on, and it's a substantial codebase to maintain.

Xfce is smaller, faster, more stable, and does more.

For me, that is game over. YMMV.
The quote that comes to mind for me is from Casino

Ace Rothstein : "Listen, if you didn't know you were being scammed you're too fuckin' dumb to keep this job, if you did know, you were in on it."
Well, I learn a few details with the article, so, thanks.

On the other hand, and maybe is me being too literal, I think it gives the wrong impression about what a generator is. It has nothing to do with one liners using brackets. My generators use 'yield' and look like a 'for' and they are still generators.
Suggestion: make it a bookmarklet[0] instead of an extension.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet
I take your point, but arguably the optics of burning up every last drop of fossil fuel are worse.
I would say the answer is "Yes, but..."

It won't teach it on its own, but it can help you along with other methods of practice. I think even classes at school aren't enough on their own to teach you a language. You need other things to help you really learn the language.
FWIW I agree with you. I spent a lot of time trying to make a very basic website for my company using the usual suspects, and I found they all look like crap. I think part of it is doing it yourself and so being acutely aware of the things you don't like, and part of it (at least for me) is just a genuine lack of any design sense, that gives off the overall effect of low production values. I plan to give in and pay someone. I think frameworks only really work if you know how to make a good design
Right, tactile was the word I should have used.
While I feel like Swift missed the opportunity to become a popular language outside of Apple platforms, this is still fantastic news. Having the source code available for Foundation could make debugging things much easier in addition to being able to fix issues! There really is nothing more frustrating when working with Apple platforms over not being able to ever fix things. I get jealous of my Android colleagues in this area.
In 2017, he said they all would come with "full self driving", standard, in 2019. You could tell it wouldn't, because his lips were moving.

The main problem with these things is that they can only move 5 tons if they have to go up a hill.
Its ok. They don't want to admit reality. I ahve 3 kids (one is a baby) and I love them to death but crying baby is never fun and certainly not relaxing and I am happy to admit that.
I think we're talking so much about models that they will inherit a whole baggage of self conscious feelings in the next iteration.
It does sometimes spit out recognizable chunks of its training data rather verbatim. While half of their compiled evidence is entirely unconvincing to me or I disagree with on other grounds (mostly moral and the difference between a human or computer mimicking a style) - there is some that is pretty undeniable. Search for "the dead" or scroll down to near the end of the article and notice the lyrics "generated" for the punk song. Then compare the GPT-3 "generated" lyrics to the second link's [Verse 2].

https://www.twilio.com/blog/building-a-punk-lyrics-bot-in-py...

https://genius.com/Smash-mouth-all-star-lyrics
I’d prefer a model where I can export info from my profile and this tool creates a nice embeddable widget. That way I know exactly what I’m handing over.
Product manager here (nothing to do with transportation). It seems like the Tweet thread and some comments here are complaining about the design tradeoffs without considering the use case.

From what I see from comments in this thread, these trucks are meant for pretty specific short haul use cases, with consistent routes and perhaps the origin and destination points being owned by the same company as the truck (eg Pepsi, FedEx)

So for example, if this truck carries packages between two FedEx facilities in the NYC area, its chances of encountering a cash-only toll booth are zero, and the company can use electronic records systems that obviate the need to present paperwork (in fact, I bet FedEx does this already anyway.)

Likewise I believe many if not all weigh stations in this area are electronic as well.

So it may seem superficially that Tesla traded off one thing (driver comfort, by forcing them to get out of the cab more often) for another (energy efficiency due to aerodynamic design) but in reality it maybe that in these use cases, the driver won't be getting out of the cab anyway for reasons above, so it's basically "free mileage."

I can make similar guesses as to why some of the other complaints don't actually hurt anything, or maybe are worth it. Eg: let's say there are 3 times a year the driver has to get out of the cab to clean the mirrors. Maybe doing that 3x a year is well worth the increased energy efficiency of every single mile this truck drives in it's life.
It does eventually. If you want a prompt response you should contact product security.
Sounds like the 90s where a lot of devs had a terminal session into beefy a Unix box with a consistent environment.
Do you use Cloudflare DNS, 1.1.1.1? It is a known issue that archive.ph/md/vn doesn’t work with that due to some dispute its operate has with them. Cloudflare refuses to send some DNS option on privacy grounds, which the operator of that site insists they need; in response, they configured their DNS servers to block Cloudflare.
I think his wording is off, and he means touch based as in tactile feedback. Not touch as in a touch screen.
+1 for Restic. I'm only just barely scratching the surface of its use, and it's still just amazing. Here's the article I referenced: https://www.seanh.cc/2022/04/03/restic, though it looks like you're doing a lot more wizardry than that!
does it work in zsh or bash? only fish?
It's because in the future, you won't talk to anyone, it will be Teslsa botz doing everything! Duh?
You have to run 3x as many of them, because they move less than 1/3 the freight per run.

Unless you are moving toilet paper or packing peanuts.
This is the second comment on this thread that I've seen make this argument. It doesn't hold up. Very few of the complaints in this article have anything to do with long-haul drives. The center console seat is a baffling decision, and toll booths --- which happen on short-haul drives! --- are just one of the complaints.
You're asking the wrong question. Regardless of the specific number of work hours that would be necessary to live a minimal but decent lifestyle (however you choose to define that), some people will always choose to work longer and harder in order to raise their social status. That status is often denominated in money but it can also take the form of possession of scarce resources, athletic skills, physical appearance, or fame. Most people are very status conscious and will then work harder themselves in order to keep up with the competition (or at least not fall too far behind).

You might claim that this status seeking is irrational or unhealthy or whatever, but that's a moot point. It's fundamental human nature and will never change.
Interestingly, I had a very similar situation recently, but had the opposite experience. Took 4+ years of Spanish in high school and undergrad, ~20 years ago. Had a trip to Costa Rica and I spent about 2 to 3 months using Duolingo, and I felt it didn't help much at all, other than as a refresher for very basic vocabulary.

I ended using Google translate towards the end of the trip, which was disappointing for me.
A pre-order based on a marketing prototype is not a real sale.
It looks like there's a config flag that disables all network activity, including to/from their cloud.
You didn't link your reference, so I don't know how those numbers were calculated. However, they are so large they are clearly not maintenance costs, but probably all in costs. That's apples to oranges (Tesla vs Toyota are two different segments). It's also not the topic of conversation (Tesla maintenance costs).
In my experience with PostgreSQL, using a connection pool and proper indexes can outperform Python or Ruby execution speed by an order of magnitude.
Well I live in a country where it snows and have been with a Tesla in the mountains when it snowed. It takes only a little while and the snow easily falls off as soon as it's not freezed to the glass. At most you need to give it a nudge.
I feel like the point is that we shouldn't be goaded into activity for the sake of capitalism, that we should have the right to be lazy even if we never use it.

It would be nice if I could just walk out of my job for 2 weeks and get rested and refreshed and then come back like it was nothing without first having to make an appointment for said vacation and possibly take calls and deal with issues remotely the whole time, you know?
> why they cant dig some kind of trench or mound to put them on at least, to angle them more towards the sun

Trench will flood. Mound needs to be maintained. Cheaper to put more static panels flat than trying to get every electron out of them.
Solar in Texas seems like an obvious win in just about any configuration. But I wonder how this would work at higher northern latitudes in the winter. I suspect efficiency would be pretty bad with a 20 degree incidence.
> and the driver who stays well under 130 because he feels that’s safer for him and everyone around

That’s the other extreme that is a part of the problem. Both, the speedster and the slouch think their speed is safer for them. Driving too slow for the traffic around is as dangerous as driving too fast.
Always funny to see these new revelations, while at the same time reading https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/debunking-twitter-...

"Does Twitter shadow ban?
Let’s discuss this one upfront. Simply put, we don’t shadow ban! Ever. We do rank Tweets to create a more relevant experience for you, however, and you’re always able to see Tweets from people you follow. Check out our company blog post for more details."

and news articles from earlier, such as

2022-05-03
https://www.wral.com/fact-check-hannity-says-elon-musk-bid-e...
The code I got for "write a small python program to play tic tac toe" was complete (though I had to write "continue" to get all the output.

It made a playable game, that was close to the output that it suggested would occur, but it did have a few mistakes - it missed 2 win conditions (rows and one of the diagonals), and the output didn't quite align fully (i.e. "" instead of " " being printed and no lines for board edges, it also doubled up the diagonal checks oddly.

# Check if there is a winner, and if so, print a message indicating who won
if board[0][0] == board[1][1] == board[2][2] and board[0][0] != "":
print(f"Player {board[0][0]} wins")
elif board[0][2] == board[1][1] == board[2][0] and board[0][2] != "":
print(f"Player {board[0][2]} wins")
else:
# If there is no winner, the game is a draw
print("It's a draw!")

It took me a while to find the right prompt to fix this as it seems to confuse the code checking for game over, which checks for a winner as one of the conditions, for the code that checks for the winner at the end of the game.

One of my prompts led to the output being made the program be refactored into a function run in a loop rather than a one shot game. and then I tried:

>the play_game function prints the wrong output when there is a winner in the columns or rows

and got the desired fix.

I like the stateful nature of this.
maintable = 1/trse;
I developed an extension[1] after the Chrome Store stopped accepting MV2, but before Firefox support for MV3 in stable. I had to write some custom build scripts to build the extension with MV2 for Firefox and MV3 for Chrome. Pretty annoying.

[1]: https://github.com/b0o/aws-favicons-webextension
I think the issue is, they designed a truck being worried about aerodynamics than anything else. They made it aerodynamic and forgot to ask about how it actually should work in practice.
Cheers mate.

I can still run and walk up steep slopes so all good so far. I'm 53. I am about in fair shape for my age.

I feel your pain and I know I have pained my own family and friends too in the past and I am ashamed for that.

Giving up the fags is hard, really hard but possible.
It is. He claims that with a specific seed, he's done it in much less (4 minutes maybe? I don't know). It's possible his speed-run record with a random seed is 14 minutes now, but I'm not entirely sure about that.

Last year, his class at school (he was 12-13) had their own server where they built lots of stuff. At some point, they divided into two teams. His team was the largest, which he found unfair, so he switched to the smaller team. Then both teams secretly decided to gang up on him, which they did when he wasn't prepared. 20 kids, against him on his own, without his armor on. He had an enchanted golden apple ready, quickly put on his netherite gear, and went to town. Beat them all.

As part of a special projects week the school organised not just a regular sports day, but also an e-sports day. 7 events. He won 6 of them, including one game he'd never played, and got silver on the one game he didn't win.

He's ridiculously good, that much is clear to me now. I'll let him know the internet says he should get a Youtube channel. He doesn't talk much, though, and I think that's kinda necessary for a youtube channel.
Yeah, it must be something specific about the overhead in the Source engine when drawing entities, but it doesn't matter if I render the particles as 2D sprites or as 3D models, both of them have a similar performance impact over not rendering them at all when there's 700, and there's no way it's a hardware limitation.

The GP shared some links below from other indie devs, there is a realtime water simulation that looks pretty dang good, though it looks to be on the scale of a human-sized tub.
C# was my first programming language, and it's always been the first thing I reach for to knock out a quick program, but I find myself using it less and less these days.

The new language features are neat, I guess, but a lot of it feels like bloat. And then there's the absolute trainwreck of the framework, core, standard, mono, and wpf ecosystems.

There's also a general distaste for Microsoft lately. I tried to open one of their sample projects to figure out Bluetooth, but it told me I had to upgrade to windows 11 to compile it.

Today I built a one screen ui with wpf. There are exactly two textboxes, three checkboxes, a combobox, and a button. 200 lines of code at absolute maximum. I tried to build it as a single executable, and it produced a 140MB file that doesn't work without some mysterious dlls in the same directory. Kind of the opposite of "output single file" imo.

The whole dotnet ecosystem has become so bloated and problematic that it's just not worth the effort to use it unless I have to.

And don't get me started on AppDomains or assembly loading. I discovered a bug in there years ago and I'm still mad about how much trouble it caused me.
Ask HN: Startups doing on-device AI/ML
Hi HN, what are the startups being built in the on-device AI/ML space. So, companies that help other companies/devs run/train their models with low-latency/more privacy on device.

I find the field very interesting, so I was wondering if it's possible to build new companies in this space or is it mostly occupied by the hardware developers (Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple, Google, etc.) due to the nature of the low-level software being developed.
I literally talked about the toll booth case in my post. I don't remember the last time I paid cash toll personally, and I used the specific example of the NYC region where they don't exist.

If you are going to operate the truck in a region with tons of cash toll booths then probably this one isn't for you.
Most of a modern x86 die is cache, same as for every other architecture. It's unlikely that there are many dies that have some defect in the legacy microcode and nowhere else.

Fundamentally changing the instruction format might save a little bit of space, but then it wouldn't be compatible with x86-64 anymore either.
I think you need to reexamine the phrasing you're using, because it's coming off as extremely dismissive of people with significant knowledge of the industry.
Take a look at Warp.dev
Switch audio to Bluetooth headphones automatically
The reason processes get treated by stone tablets rather than living documents is that in most companies processes get handed down from on high, to the the people who actually have to live them.
Oscar Peterson on Synthesis
I saw this on r/synthesizers and thought it would be of interest to HN
May I know the name of the phone size comparing app? That sounds very interesting!
For a grid scale installation, let’s say 5% of panels are dead due to whatever failure. I am not sure the rational response would be to do any maintenance vs installing more capacity. Twenty years later rip out all of the old panels, replace with new. Repeat forever.
Guess shell scripting is bit old school of a solution.

* Pass 3 url websites to shell script.

* In shell script, compute 1/3 window size & coordinate for each url.

* In script, open a different window with computed window coordinates/size (aka 3 side by side windows), where each window is running a web browser using one of urls passed on command line.
There's one of these in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego. Was always fascinated by it when we went there for dinner or whatever. Haven't seen any in NC but there's a few locations on the map. Need to make a trip I think.
We’re talking about the Autobahn, not a random road in the forest or a city. Those are designed for the speed.
I get anxious even thinking about volume touch control. Got a higher pulse and everything :-D