skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, it took me some digging to realise that this extension is primarily built for packages, not XCode-managed .xcodeproj projects [1].

This means that, unless I'm missing something, you can't open your existing project in VSCode like you could with AppCode.

Overall, I'm unhappy with the tooling around Swift. The compiler is slow, the formatters and linters are worse than in the javascript-ecosystem, and since AppCode is sunset, there's only a single supported IDE which I dislike. I frequently run into issues where the compiler won't give me a useful error message until I simplify my code, and the SwiftUI previews don't seem to work at all.

[1]: https://github.com/swift-server/vscode-swift/issues/128#issu...
That's apparently dead wrong. Patriot anti-missile system would just position the ordnance in the way of an incoming rocket. They would collide and explode in the air.
Was that before or after pip's new resolver was released at the end of 2020?
I’ve seen exactly one setup that might work: Prius with blacked out rear windows. Even then, the curtain behind the front seats was suspicious.
They shouldn't. Otherwise, there's nobody to pushback against stupid client requests. Product owners should be managing the product, not the employees. Having an employee manager to butt heads leads to a better overall product because it leads to better discussion between the devs who know the system and the product owner who is helping to flesh out requirements.
Don't shit on the accomplishments of others. What do you possibly know about self driving?
What you are seeing now is just the precursor of what there will be. I will get back to you in 20 years and laugh.
> With that said I can still use Windows without a Microsoft account.

Only because you are a power-user and know the magic trick to perform when installing Windows to avoid signing in with a Microsoft account.
I recently migrated my disc collection from cases. Initially I got binder pages like you linked, but I returned them and got paper sleeves instead, because (1) paper cases are cheaper and more compact, and (2) when I put discs in binders, they rub against the (admittedly soft) backing material, whereas when I put them in paper sleeves, I naturally hold the sleeve such that the discs don’t rub the sleeve when being inserted, and that seems a bit safer.

I do still use a binder for the papers from the cases.
This. It is about the driver actually not being responsible for the system behavior when the car is driving itself. That means Mercedes-Benz bit of the long tails.
> pretty regular basis

It's very rare. I've never seen it, IIRC.
> It is interesting that this (otherwise great piece) does not mention cryptocurrencies / blockchain at all

The term "crypto bro", and its societal connotations, is relatively new. Even if cypherpunk work is decades old. Google Trends shows that.

I recognize that, for most citizens, all cryptography work gets tainted by that term, "crypto bro". If I meet somebody at a social event tomorrow and tell them I build NFT crypto libraries for Woozle, vs. CRC32 crypto libraries for Tooble, are they going to differentiate? A lot of the current progressive crowd will wrinkle their nose, regardless.

I recognize the trend-makers who coined that term did so with political means in mind.

I recognize that they were attempting to say, "We're all part of this system. Unrestrained pursuit of work above all else can be harmful. By coining this term multiple people are taking a social hit."

But I also recognize some may want to re-orient allegences not just for the benefit of those we may spend less time with if we work more, but to reinforce other power structures.

Decades have been spent iterating on that idea. Good puzzles and enigmas take a while to work out.

Anyways, I'm happy they're proud of their work. There are some good points hidden in there, even if I'm more hardened to the reality now.
There is no place for nukes, just because because they cost so many times more than renewables. They cost, per kWh, even more run intermittently.

What you need in backup generation is cheap construction. Storage cost is falling even faster than solar and wind.

We already have the combined-cycle gas turbines. Their opex falls with duty cycle. Duty cycle falls with renewable generation buildout and, eventually, storage buildout.
You can already find free and open source alternatives for just about everything in Matlab. And yet, even many companies that complain about the cost of Matlab don't use the Python and Octave alternatives. Seems like money is achieving something that other motivators aren't.

"Know your users". Something is preventing them from considering those alternatives as replacements.
It should be noted that Mercedes accepts liability for accidents involving their self-driving cars [1]. This is a very different approach from Tesla [2]. Tesla's irresponsible approach is impacting other more responsible companies because it is lowering consumer confidence in self-driving cars.

[1] https://www.kbb.com/car-news/mercedes-well-be-liable-for-sel...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/magazine/tesla-autopilot-...

Excerpt from [2]:

"The Autopilot kept Riad’s Tesla at a steady speed as it approached the stoplight that marked the end of the freeway and the beginning of Artesia Boulevard. According to a witness, the light was red, but the car drove straight through the intersection, striking a Honda Civic. Riad had only minor injuries, but the two people in the Civic, Gilberto Alcazar Lopez and Maria Guadalupe Nieves, died at the scene. Their families said that they were on a first date."
I know some laptops do that to keep their heatsinks from clogging, not sure how effective it actually is though.
ECC RAM should be a human right
Some academicians insist in seeing Art even in "popular" works. But also beside that, well, you would lose a popular work - if somebody did it, they probably "put something in it".
I don't see why Chat GPT would fail at changing print statements to print() method invocations.
The author of that comment was incorrect though. Page 18 of the PDF shows that it was an arbitrarily hardcoded number encoded in a BigDecimal, has nothing to do with 16 bit integers. Furthermore the limit was 65*3*55... whereas the max 16-bit unsigned integer is 65*5*35, so the digits don't even match up.

It's a cool hypothesis, and perhaps the person who hardcoded that number was even inspired by 2^16 - 1 in some way, but as the replies point out it doesn't really make much sense beyond an odd curiosity.
Yeah, I thought people here would celebrate something actually shipping, but instead there's so much moaning about this and that. Nationalism at its worst, IMHO.
I once interviewed at a place that told me they did "design sprints", "coding sprints", "integration sprints", and "testing sprints"
They refer to capability in the legal sense and frankly that's all that matters.
You could introduce (or write more) tests from your side for new feature that you write or for bugs that appear. But in general it takes a bit more experience to get unit testing into existing code, but not undoable and you could practise this for a smaller, independent or even hobby project. Still, the critical part is to get support, not just acceptance, from your boss as sometimes "less problems later" argument does not convince them as "it always worked well without tests".

And just adding tests isn't the only thing it takes to improve the software quality.
Author here! I used the world slippy, possibly out of context, to refer to a generic map using remote vector or raster tiles.

Maybe it's easier to define what I don't mean by a "generic slippy map": https://play.abstreet.org/0.3.37/abstreet.html

This website is effectively a very powerful game engine (written in Rust and compiled to wasm) running in the browser - I can't easily add a GeoJSON ovrlay, or geolocation, or other web map patterns.

The "street explorer" demo (https://a-b-street.github.io/osm2streets/#18.37/-33.88071/15...) loads a slippy map (OpenStreetMap) and then loads in a debug segment of the map data.
Or Monero.
Who is lagging here is Tesla.
It’s really close to 2^16 * 1 million - 6$.

65,535,999,994 vs $65,355,999,994

No idea where the -6$ comes from or if the 535 vs 355 was intended.
No doubt similar systems were installed on the soviet ICBMs, probably still in use today.
Does anyone else feel like Tesla could have had it first, but Mercedes-Benz decided to pay off the US instead as it's now popular to hate Elon?
Others have pointed out that this is already possible. This offering seems to be more targeted at small scale or personal use, which I think is the least concerning.

Google street view already exists as well, and I can, for not much more than this service costs, go pretty much anywhere within a few thousand km and look at something.

What we should be concerned about is large scale corporate uses of this data, which have been going on for years. For example, insurance companies or municipalities using satellite images to see if you make any changes to your property. Or license plate scanners for that matter.

Without dwelling on it, governments and companies want to apply our new ability to record everything always to a system of laws that were written when you couldn't. Laws and rules are flexible in how and when they are enforced for a reason, and any benefit from new surveillance accrues only to the government or company.
Very cool. This is the kind of progress I would expect here. Big players like Toyota, Mercedes, Ford, are going to take longer to get going, but when they do, they will have the execution and scale to do it far better than most tech companies. The initial tech hurdle is massive, but the space is won on logistics and consistency once the tech is solved.
> Herpesviruses (which includes VZV, the chickenpox virus) sometimes cause recurring meningitis and encephalitis. They do get into the brain. We just don’t know how.

So does MMR (Paramyxoviridae, Matonaviridae) and Influenza. So does Zika and Dengue and Yellow Fever (Flaviviridae) and Chikungunya (Togaviridae) and Adeonvirus, which all have very different tissue specificity, and aren't associated with long-term dormancy.

In the case of meningitis, it's not an infection of the brain, but the membrane around the brain. It's caused by lots of bacteria, as well as enteroviruses, which are most commonly associated with the digestive tract. Malaria (which is a eukaryotic parasite) causes both meningitis and encephalitis. All of these things "get into the brain".

Point being: it's not even remotely the same thing. You cannot extrapolate from "inflammation of the brain" to "neurodegeneration". It's like extrapolating from "fever" to "risk of dementia", and just because herpes viruses happen to infect neurons and cause inflammation doesn't imply a causal relationship with neural degeneration.
I'm dumb and forgot for a moment that the southern hemisphere has opposite seasons from the northern hemisphere.
That’s actually the exact same order of magnitude, FYI.
You have provided a plausible explanation. Given her other behavior, a darker explanation is also plausible.

> She stole some money. Let's not be that harsh.

As far as I am aware, she also deployed medical tests which she knew did not work to retail users. That is pretty messed up.
Except it's not 65536 -- it's 65356. (I just verified in the PDF.)

Which actually makes me wonder if somebody fat-fingered it and meant to type 65536 by hand and got it wrong. Which given everything we've found out about the sloppiness there, would seem quite apropos.

Normally I wouldn't think so, but the trailing "999994" also just seems so strangely floating point-derived... but who even knows.
Yep! Was quite a surprise to see this be released just after I wrote the blog post!
The Perils of (Startup) Prudence
How Charlie Javice’s Frank sale to JP Morgan wound up in allegations of fraud
>We need the same, but for movies and tv shows.

And audiobooks! Audible is stupid.
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Mercedes explicitly accepts liability while their system is in control, while Ford and Cadillac don't. They say you don't have to hold the wheel, but you are still liable for anything that happens.
Did all my projects in octave during image processing class. It's awesome.
NOTE: antipope.org is my blog, but this was a guest blog essay by qntm, who can more commonly be found at https://qntm.org/

(Mentioning this because I've just seem some drive-by commenters attributing "Lena" to me. I didn't write that; I wish I could.)
Tesla would have to remove features to meet the reliability bar for level 3. And they won’t ever do that, because their marketing angle is entirely reliant on equating “features” with “capability”.

The fact of the matter is that the gee-whiz factor of seeing their cars navigate intersections is greater than the gee-whiz factor of lacking a notification that you must monitor the cars actions.
What “actual research”? This article? There’s no source.
Start here! --> A Dark Room [1]

A Dark Room is awesome. It's also what got my kids hooked on programming once they learned they could use a browser's developer console to write JavaScript to change various in-game variables.

Edit: A Dark Room isn't strictly a text-based game in the sense where there is much typing on a keyboard. It's more a point-and-click text-heavy game. But it still feels very much in the spirit of a classic text-based (typing) game.

[1]: https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34334925
Is that true? I would think a YouTube video would fall under the first part, sharing on the web/social media. You don’t sell a YouTube video, you distribute it
Tesla is not reliable.
I interned there a couple years ago. It was nice to use tech that was more standardized than proprietary / internal so that the skills were easily transferable.

From a business perspective it takes you out of the business of managing your own infrastructure. Even at big tech now we have to decide between managing our own infrastructure and “outsourcing” it to a managed service. Most advice I’ve gotten encourages the latter. It can cost more but if cost isn’t prohibitive it frees you up to deliver features and value for customers because you no longer have to develop (as much) expertise in ops.
>“If you drive a Tesla you’ll have experienced phantom braking at some point, a false positive condition when the Autopilot cameras thinks there’s a wall up ahead, for example if going under an overpass. It will literally brake. You step on the accelerator and cuss once or twice at Elon and you’re good to move on. This Bay Bridge driver could not make a decision and let the car brake to a stop. It’s not uncommon. Anecdotally I would say Teslas get rear-ended quite often.”

This level of apologism is shocking. “Everyone knows Teslas emergency brake to a stop in the middle of highway traffic randomly, bro. Just gotta be ready for it! No biggie!”

Yikes. Ever considered rental cars? Borrowing a friend’s car that you’re not familiar? Or just 100+ years of automotive history in which random no-input braking was considered completely unacceptable and not even a thing?
brilliant choice. many people would pay a lot to get back the 2 or 3 hours stuck in rush hour.
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Tesla and Mercedes are playing a totally different game.

The Mercedes system only operates in narrow conditions, but you can watch Youtube videos while the car is driving.

The Tesla system operates in almost any conditions, but you have to watch it like a hawk, and when FSD crashes the car Tesla will claim it was an operator error.
Proofread (not spell check!) your work when writing about IQ:

"and what good is earning all that money when you have no time left to spent it"
>> decided to pay off the US

What does that even mean? How do you "pay off the US"? The congress? The President? The regulatory agencies? Also, isn't Elon the wealthiest man on the planet? If the issue was simply about "paying off" someone, surely Elon could have already done it ages ago?

Or maybe Deimler is a serious corporation that actually knows what they are doing, and through rigorous engineering they know they can accept legal liability for their system, where other companies will not.
“ As some of you may have heard, Mercedes-Benz has been granted regulatory approval to begin testing its Level 3 autonomous driving technology on Nevada roads.”

The first sentence seems to contradict the headline. Approval to begin testing is not approval across the board.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman & GPT-4:‘people begging to be disappointed:they will be’ /
If you're a fan of Tolkien, check out MUME (Multi-user Middle Earth), a MUD that's been online since 1990: https://mume.org/

Its unofficial community site is http://elvenrunes.com/ which has hosted forums and player-submitted "logs" (text logs of PvP fights) for over 20 years.
> Of course not. This is evolution at play.

Thanks.

That's one possible future, but for it to be capable of being a good outcome I think it would have to be a consciousness of some kind. A pure intellect without any feeling is not interesting to me.

Unfortunately we can't answer questions like "what exactly is this 'self awareness' thing we all agree we have anyway?" at this point, so we don't know — are incapable of knowing — if we've done it already and are now moving away from that, or have not and are approaching it.

While I lean towards believing GPT isn't yet self aware/conscious/a thing with qualia, it is conceivable to me for it to be as much so as we are. While Descartes famously wrote "I think therefore I am", A. J. Ayer dismissed this argument in the following way:

> "I exist" does not follow from "there is a thought now." The fact that a thought occurs at a given moment does not entail that any other thought has occurred at any other moment, still less that there has occurred a series of thoughts sufficient to constitute a single self. As Hume conclusively showed, no one event intrinsically points to any other. We infer the existence of events which we are not actually observing, with the help of general principle. But these principles must be obtained inductively. By mere deduction from what is immediately given we cannot advance a single step beyond. And, consequently, any attempt to base a deductive system on propositions which describe what is immediately given is bound to be a failure.

So, while asking a language model to describe what it's like to be switched off is only going to result in a definitely false invented response, that doesn't mean it's not like us. In fact, now I write that down I realise that specific failure mode is exactly like us, because we've got all these stories about afterlife and reincarnation.

But… we don't really understand the question of personhood well enough to make a test for it. All I just wrote says "not impossible" rather than "it's conscious".

~

But, to your last point… the range of possible personalities for an artificial mind, conscious or otherwise, matters more than the social structures. I don't care if they're loners or have a Dunbar number in the quadrillions, but if they are (excuse the obvious trope) Machiavellian sadistic psychopaths, then making them is a fate worse than the eternal silence of extinction.
Any chance you could outline your process? E.g. if you had to start from a new VM, what all would you need to do?

I've always just set everything up via the command line, and it's tedious/not repeatable (and there's also no isolation). I'm sure there's a better way, but usually the solutions I see involve gluing together a bunch of different tools--possibly even more work than I'm already doing (although there are benefits!).
1000x yes. I feel like I’ve had the same conversation about story points since 2006.

Use story points. Succeed with story points. But don’t try to convince yourself (or me) they aren’t just an analogue for time.
edit: nah you changed your post without saying so. cringe
I read elsewhere in the thread that the license allows basically anything, provided that you aren't making money and that you give credit. The latter is the hard part. Would a source=... tag on the object be enough? Or does anyone using that part of the OSM map need to be made aware that this contains data based on skyfi? There are no methods currently for doing the latter.
For simplicity lets assume all the cars in this discussion are the same mass and travel at the same speed except when they slow and stop for a traffic light or are accelerating back up to speed after the light changes. Let E be the kinetic energy of each car when it is not dealing with a traffic light. Let's assume no regenerative braking. Let's assume that a car idling at rest uses R energy

So we have 1 car that approaches the light, gets a red, and stops. It has to shed E kinetic energy. Then 10 cars approach the intersection on the perpendicular road. Before they reach it the light changes and they all have to stop, shedding 10 E kinetic energy. The first car resumes its journey. The light changes again and the other 10 resume.

The net result is that encountering the intersection caused this 11 car system to shed 11 E kinetic energy more and to consume 11 R idling energy more than would have been consumed if the intersection had not been there (e.g., if the crossing had been an overpass).

What he's proposing is that some sort of smart traffic light system could notice the 10 approaching cars and hold their green a little longer so that the 10 cars do not have to stop. Suppose it has to hold the light long enough that car 1 has to wait twice as long.

The energy cost of the intersection on the 11 car system under that scenario is E shed kinetic energy and 2 R idling energy. That's going to be much less that 11 E + 11 R.
And then again, if you really hate your telesales callers, put them on hold with some hold music like this:

https://soundcloud.com/user-237714155/sales-call-abyss

Explanation of how/why they came up with it here: https://www.theregister.com/2016/04/29/it_helpdesk_creates_o...
How is it stupid? I haven't paid attention, but I thought audiobooks were now on a Spotify-like system?
Not justifying fleecing taxpayers, but you also generally don't pay for drugs, your insurance or Medicare does. Most pharma (including iirc shkreli's) companies have access programs.

Not justifying Martin or excessive pharma prices but it really is the case that we should disabuse ourselves from the notion that one should be entitled to life-saving care.

That process comes with a lot of externalities. Most drugs are incredibly costly to manufacture in terms of environmental damage (petrochemical solvents and cosolvents, water for purification, etc). I loved my dad but when he was dying I remember wondering why our society was bearing the ~100k per week cost because he didn't want to die. When mom was too weak to pull the plug I stepped in and made the hard (easy?) choice.
High egg prices should be investigated, U.S. farm group says
If you study strategy - not showing up is 75% of winning. Avoiding battle and waiting for the right moment is the key.
Mercedes is the first company with enough confidence in their system that they accept legal liability while their system is in operation - that's not impressive???? Literally no one else is doing this.
Eh… it depends on what you think is good and bad. It’s not clear to me that surveillance capitalism will be a long term good. Gadgets and social media are fun, but digital feudalism will be (is?) a lot less fun and rewarding.
Ask HN: Good 2-player word or puzzle games to play
What are some good online word or puzzle games for 2 players?
Mine produces 6-8 kW on summer days, in New York. I still buy most of my power from the utility, but my roof is maxed out.