skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well underway is a bit of a stretch.

They dug a trench in the sand, which is not such a tall order given the consistency of sand.

It's also the reason why they can stick a straw in the sand and oil comes out.

The only big trademark Core infrastructure project made in Saudi up to now has been the Abraj-Al-Bait [0], spearheaded by the Bin Laden Group [1] (founded in 1931 by Osama Bin Laden's father) which is something comparable to the recent CityCenter Las Vegas Development.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraj_Al_Bait

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Binladin_Group
In your opinion, exactly how much time should people making purchases put in to investigate the extent to which they're being lied to? Because in my view, the burden should first fall on companies to be clear and honest.
Technology affects our day-to-day lives
> The proper analogy would be that the media player would play random extra videos in addition to what you are watching,

FWIW, its not the browser "including" the adds. The ads have been included in the video itself.
Waymo offers a taxi service in SF where the cars have no driver.

From https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/full-autonomy-waymo-driver-265...

> The Waymo Driver operates at Level 4 autonomy, meaning, Waymo says, that “no human driver is needed in our defined operational conditions.” This, Waymo continues, represents “fully autonomous driving technology,” with the Waymo Driver being “fully independent from a human driver.”
I have a kid, at some point we give up trying to keep everything tight because the little devil would immediately make it a mess again. Now we do the bare minimum.

That's the explanation.
> "oh so you're one of those super nerdy people that is naively optimistic about technology, is socially stunted, loves infantile pop culture and has zero sense of aesthetics"

Hello!
I think where we can all agree that Musk is a genius is in seeing where billions of public funds are going to flow, and then positioning himself to be in a position to profit.

That was a key difference between Theranos and Tesla/SolarCity.

Imagine if Elizabeth Holmes had gotten just a bit luckier with timing and had been around when the COVID pandemic occurred. Not only would she have launched a highly-futuristic COIVD test, but also received billions of funding with nearly no oversight. She almost certainly would have negotiated to receive proactive immunity from the government, like the vaccine manufacturers did.
We actually use dapr which provides abstraction layer over all of those things including
State management, Pub/sub, etc..
So it’s really easy to switch between them without changing the code at all.

https://docs.dapr.io/developing-applications/building-blocks...
Often writing abstract interfaces costs more then switching things out by changing your code. So it's often better to keep concerns separated and make it so that code is easy to change, but creating abstract interfaces is often not worth it for a lot of products.
"Right tool for the job" is as foolish as any other approach: this discounts the experience someone or even a team might have with another tool that is not a perfect fit, but might still do the job just as well. If you ignore this and instead go with a different tool for every little thing, your project will be a dependency nightmare no developer can master easily.

Postgres is an all-purpose database that has it all: relational databases were created to model real world problems, and while they might not perform best for all the usecases, they can usually model them just fine while protecting from many programming errors.

And then Postgres has features on top: partial indexes, object DB features, replication etc.
Do you really need it early? Got like 2 failures in 20+ years, i just let it fail.
I suspect that if McDonalds' management were only pretending that they were opening new burger franchises to dupe investors and they'd managed to raise billions in funding by pretending a single mockup restaurant with a rubber burger and some city stock footage was a restaurant chain, they would be quite likely to serve jail time. But McDonalds is, in fact, entirely capable of making and selling burgers. Nikola is not capable of making and selling functioning hydrogen fuel cell powered cars, despite lying about already having that capability seven years ago when their stock soared.

Doesn't matter what consumers know about authenticity of advertising imagery, it matters that McDonalds investors aren't being lied to about the existence of the Big Mac and Nikola One investors were being lied to about the existence of the Nikola One's propulsion system. Which is why "other companies that aren't amongst history's biggest pump and dump scams also get creative with product images" was never going to be a viable legal defence for Milton.
You could have the advantages of both worlds by having one json object per line. You could stream process, and you could structure more complex objects and have consistent escaping.
RustDesk looks to just have a generic AGPL license with no additional copyright listed beyond the Free Software Foundation copyright statement. IANAL but my read is that means RustDesk releases its code under a license that allows this type of activity.

The FSF is the strongest champion of free as in libre licenses. Free as in libre is intentionally far more permissive than free as in beer. There are times when free as in libre is desired for all kinds of good use cases, but that unfortunately also means the projects are also free as in libre for all kinds of bad use cases. That's the fundamental challenge everyone who works in open source software has to deal with. Free as in libre and free as in beer are different things, and as soon as you start putting restrictions on use cases you shift from free as in libre to free as in beer (or not even free as in beer).

Maybe someday we'll have licenses that neatly resolve this problem, but we don't yet and I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it. RustDesk likely chose the AGPL in part because in many people's minds AGPL offers an appealing intersection of free as in libre with requirements that many view as in conflict with running the software as a business. HopToDesk would be an existence proof that AGPL is not the barrier to commercial operations that some people advocate it is, leaving the world in a state where licensing open source code for "good" uses only (as in you can't take my open source code and make a competing business with it) is a hard unsolved problem. As another commenter here mentioned, Blender has had a lot of challenges with this sort of thing, as have a range of open source projects that hope to make money off hosting of their projects and consequently don't want AWS offering branded hosting of their projects.
I think you might mean IND-CCA2 here. IND-CCA3 doesn't seem to have gotten a lot of traction as a "notion".

At any rate, once you have a deployed a system, theoretical notions of security are much less important. You then have to show an actual weakness if you want to convince someone to change something.
How many of these mandatory impact assessments are identifying ways of improving the ecosystem with their installation? Obviously I don’t mean by by displacing carbon.
Doesn't need kids to cringe for one's life is all I can say, and fine to take any fun for that away :p
Fyne.io supports many use cases on these platforms (+web?) with Go. It would be interesting to build a web UI toolkit on top of it, but I think they've chosen not to.
This is boilerplate conspiratorial nonsense. West European countries would benefit far more from East European countries being free from the economic drag imposed by endemic corruption. The EU internal market overall would be much richer and stronger, and those banks and corporations would have a better quality consumer and labor base. Banks and corporations can make plenty of money in high-trust societies just as in low-trust ones, and they get more regulatory certainty as well.
From what I've seen there are quite a lot of Tesla drivers in major southern suburbs.

Southern suburbs tend to be fairly conservative. Maybe not quite as Trump loving as rural areas. But conservative nonetheless and likely not turned off by Elon's recent emergence as a right wing political figure.

Also, if you read enough /r/elonmusk you'll see that a lot of people have bought into Elon's schtick that he's actually just a centrist (apparently centrists love DeSantis)
With gzip on web server the difference is not important at all.

CSV in general is problematic as there is no standard (RFC 4180 is not). In certain contexts this surely can be good solution but definitelly not good in general scenario.
That's when Adobe formally expressed a support for JPEG XL (comment 61), which is a big milestone by its own and people started to push Google to finish the experiment in lieu of that event, as everyone expected that it will land at some point, most likely shortly after libjxl reaches 1.0.
Ann Wroe’s Artful Obituaries
I am not an Elon fan or anything, but I don't think you can say the jury is out on Tesla. Tesla is the first successful new car company manufacturing in the US in more than fifty years. It changed people's perception of electric cars and changed the car market. Even if it has a ton of troubles going forward it will be a very valuable company. I think you have to give him his due for that.
Couldn’t you use an expression index, or even a stored generated column with a normal index on it?
The shit people sign their name to on the internet...
Yes. And that's L4 and it exists
Seattle's road infrastructure is bafflingly bad and confusing for drivers. But it always seems wrong to me to assume that we shouldn't improve the infrastructure and make it more safe vs putting half baked self driving out in the real world to overcome it. I understand they want more data to feed into their ML datasets and the idea is that that will improve things over time, but we are sacrificing some number of lives for this data without knowing if a convergence point will actually be reached. And what you say at the end has lead me to actively avoid Teslas when I can, they make the road more unsafe for me while they are learning, not just their own drivers.
My firm is making a big deal of "We're going agile/scrum" as of the start of the year.

I'm not sure I quite understand how it makes sense.

From my personal perspective, the sprint model is an okay idea if you're working greenfield, or at least in full control of your deliverables.

I'm wondering how it fits into any sort of dev process where third parties are involved. For the same conceptual change, some will be "send us an email with the ID from the test API call you made, and we'll tell you if it looks right" taking a few hours. Others will demand a huge stack of formal test cases, weekly meetings, and a cycle time of two weeks to even get back what they didn't like about your test requests. How do you possibly slice that into two week intervals?
“Shrinkflation”
Different views across all the EU member states are represented through the MEPs.

14 VPs is just a small part of the EU gravy train.
Yes, thats why I think it's a huge problem for the industry. How the heck is it possible that so many developers with bachelor and master degrees which otherwise do a reasonable job don't even know that they have a dangerous knowledge gap there???

through that:

> in the worst case customers seing other customers data because of the wrong transaction levels.

should not happen even with wrong transaction levels, that indicates some additional serious design problems IMHO, likely related to premature optimizations
and the "redundant" headers will get compressed away to nearly nothing over most transports.
This may be observer bias. People who have no children and a really messy house may just visit their friends instead of calling them to visit.
> Use Postgres as a message queue with SKIP LOCKED instead of Kafka (if you only need a message queue).

you have a 200 node Kafka cluster just as a message queue?
I see pumps where the security seal is broken or the door isn’t fitting all the way quite often. AFAICT Pilot/Flying J give zero shits about their pumps as long as the majority of the fuel doesn’t end up on the ground. Don’t even get me started on the DEF pumps…

Now I’m wondering how much of that is from people messing with them to get free fuel?

Since I don’t pay for the fuel I have reverse incentives. I make enough off the bonus points to support my coffee habit plus some snacks on the side so I want them to be accurate.
This is already happening with regularity, at least in California.

Engineering is about solving part of the problem first, then iterating. If you look at what they've accomplished only in the last year with FSD, I find it highly unlikely that 0-disengagement drives don't become the norm by the end of 2023.

Currently, 90+% of drives have 0 safety-critical disengagements, and 50+% have no human-discomfort-related disengagements.
Another alternative is a streaming JSON format like JSONL (newline-delimited JSON). You can parse one record/line at a time, but still have the structure and named fields of JSON.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_streaming
Theranos isn't a failure, they just haven't achieved their goal yet.

You can read this any way you want. I do think that Theranos (or another company) may eventually achieve part of the vision of Theranos. Same for FSD.
Everyone is different, but I'd have trouble making time for a project like this unless it served some goal I truly cared about.

If you're the same, is there something more specific to help you focus and put in the time?
We're talking about this years later, looking at years of context, that's hardly "failing to assume good faith from the onset".
True. But most panels are rated and tested for icy hail to hit it on a hot sunny day with the panel surface at 70 degrees C.

But obviously doing this repeatedly might not be good for it - naturally hail on a super hot day is rare.
https://jsonlines.org/
There does not seem to be anything "exclusive" about these images. They look like regular worldview 3 images that anybody can buy.

From TFA:

> The strange gap in imagery raises questions about who gets to access high-res satellite technology. And if the largest urban construction site on the planet doesn’t appear on Google Maps, what else can’t we see?

This is ridiculous. Commercial satellite images are sold everyday to thousands of buyers. You only need a credit card. Google maps is just not updated immediately with all these images that people buy.

I'm surprised at the low quality of these MIT "reporters".
I think one of the issues it data types. JSON has them CSV doesn't, so this means your program needs to be aware of which columns are which data type and do the conversion where needed.

It's similar to JSON Vs INI files for config files.

On a different note I wouldn't nest JSON in a CSV column. I'd delimit with a pipe or something the split string on that. Much simpler if you're in control of the data.
I wouldn't undersell ChatGPT. It's like a repl for a particular LLM. Maybe there are others but it's the first time many people have gotten direct access to the technology. Sometimes the medium is the message.
I don't completely disagree. They definitely have to be weighing the likelihood of that outcome, and Musk's statements probably made it seem more likely. That said, there are a lot of existential threats to companies that they should probably not be spending investor money on, such as asteroid defense.
It's not just that no-one pushes back, but the opposite: many actively encourage it (especially the consultants and the US/EU firms who ultimately mostly benefit from it).
Ugh, Sorry to hear youre going through this. Unwinding an entrenchment is hard, wonder if theres a support group or something for those deep in techno-optimism.

For me, the frame breaks in me have been deep thought from both an engineering perspective and cultural scaffolding perspective, paired with real travels to places where technology was limited (either be practical circumstance like going to a rural village or intentionally like a silent meditation retreat).

A graphic I still come back to is the good life project ( https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/ ) with inquiry around how many planets of stuff even the alternatives require from a planetary boundaries perspective. There's more technical works like https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m .
Yes, I feel like this would've been more helpful generalized as "Consider DSV" (delimiter-separated values) than CSV specifically, because of the interop issues that often come up. I'd have also mentioned using Parquet.
Seems to me it would be better still the optimize the whole calculate the rotate is a part of (maybe you don’t really need one of those rotates) but that’s a lot tougher.

It is great to see SMT used for more real problems though!
You're correct that concentration is important. "The dose makes the poison", as they say.

But it's not about being "comforting", it's about having a heuristic to make decisions when you don't have enough hard data. So in general, I try to avoid novel chemicals. It's not a guarantee of anything, but it's good enough for first-pass decision-making.
Points taken, but LLMs are still outpacing expert predictions, so empirically they’re under-hyped.
"let Postgres generate the JSON for API responses" would have been a far less confusing way of expressing that idea. I had read the linked stuff and none of it looked like front-end code hitting a PostgreSQL db directly.

yes, if you can create some JSON without having to transform in an intermediate code layer, that's handy/useful. I often don't run in to too many scenarios where things are trivial enough to allow for that - there's usually some app-level logic that comes in to play with respect to visibility/permissions/etc.
Insane Saudi Arabia is still considered a developing country.
You can, but that is hugely inefficient. Any additional draw to the canvas has to generate a data URL for the image to be progressively decoded.
> Public health experts are always seeking a “one size fits all” message to give the public.

Faux experts. Real experts understand that one size does not fit all.
Except touchscreens are a clear danger to the driver due to the attention they pull away from the road.

Controls for the driver need to be physical, full stop.

There's more than just driver preference at play here; there's physical usability and its impact on safety, and that should override expectations people have with tablets.

We're flying around with 2 ton missiles, it's best we treat them with the appropriate respect.
That's fair, though I've never done any sort of sysadmin on a Postgres server either..
http://synapticpaint.com/dreambooth/browse/

Can you explain the value of these models, please?

This is a serious question. My eyes just see one horrendously ugly (and dystopian) eyesore after another.
The only reason, in my eyes, to use CSV is to have easy interoperability with spreadsheet software.

If you want streaming: https://jsonlines.org/
Because as in parts one and two there’s no actual story here indicating wrongdoing by the Democrats. The meta story of why and how Musk is releasing this info is just as much an interest.
Sure, my go to database is also Postgres rather than oracle. Good enough for most things, without the downsides of the company oracle. Just wanted to highlight that Postgres isn’t unique here, and that serving http from a database is actually not that special.
haha, yes, thank you.
> Greek politicians demanded hefty bribes

How come that it was usually a German company willing to pay the "hefty" bribe? Maybe because "until 1999 in Germany, bribes were a tax-deductible business expense, and there were no penalties for bribing foreign officials"? [1]

Cause and effect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens#2005_and_continuing:_w...
(My current understanding is now that the footage being inauthentic or misunderstood is the most likely.)
I have experimented with swishing a little baking soda in water around to neutralize the acid before brushing after coffee (just a rinse, not swallowing it). I have no idea how to measure the effect but it does feel better.
This is what people aren't paying attention to. The rate of progress over only 1 year is astounding.

Driving with FSD supervised by a driver already makes driving far safer and far less stressful. The car has a situational awareness that humans can't match. It's only a matter of time until most drives have 0 disengagements due to human discomfort/awkwardness.
I've seen this kind of thing a lot before and I'm saying that it's almost never needed. All you're doing is building your own bespoke indexing system on top of a database that is doing it (much better) already.
Somebody just jumping on a new tool thinking it's the right tool for the job might still end up with worse performance than someone proficient with another tool (like Postgres) might get in less time.

No matter the scale or how big it is.

If you are talking of specialized solutions, that means you know exactly where an existing, well known solution is failing you and why.

Eg. if you drop all foreign key references and constraints in Postgres, you might get similar write performance to other databases which can't make those guarantees when you do need them.
They would have just thrown them in the dumpster. The point of the bin was to stop people from filling the trash cans with their used books.
Poe's Law striketh
I mean, generally I would love (more) union types, unfortunately so few languages have them.

For Ops requirement I think it's too specific for a language level feature. In Kotlin you'd just use a sealed type in the cases were you really need to know why function can't produce a value. Works like a charm.
reread post above please.
It is very, very good with language, and very bad with facts and numbers. That's an oversimplification, but also the gist of it.

You have to recognize how it works, why it works - then you can use it as basically an incredible superpower force multiplier.
> If your criteria for whether a model is good is "it fooled a 9th grader" well, I don't know what to tell you.

Fooling a 9th grader is amazing. That's a pretty well formed human being right there except with less life experience. Fundamentally no different from you in general reasoning terms except on a smaller set of information. So fooling you is merely a question of model size.
Thank you. People here are just reacting to the headline and general dislike of Musk.
no news about this in Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/search/Eva%20Kaili
I'd say the "opportunity" is primarily in creating business models with these new AIs. The AI field is going to be innovating on them regardless what any individual chooses to do. Discussions about viable applications of these new capabilities are scant, beyond reducing existing technical artist head counts I see little to no discussion about new capabilities and new applications not possible before. Sure, we're developers, but we're also supposed to be entrepreneurs and this lack of creative discussion about what can be done that was not possible before is curious in itself.
Gridfinity is source-available, not open source. The commonly accepted definition of open source includes the freedom to redistribute without discrimination against certain types of use.
I mean point well taken, but, as they acknowledged in the post themselves, CSV isn't suitable when you have a nested structure. And you almost always have/need a nested structure, no?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/full-autonomy-waymo-driver#:~:text...
Isn’t world hunger solved in the sense that it’s no longer monetary? Are there people starving due to lack of funds?

That being said, these aren’t exclusive tasks. It’s not like Saudi Arabia chose between feeding people and a multi-year 170km infrastructure project. It seems odd to compare building a city in one country with feeding people all over the world.