skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Context was electrification of vehicles, and yes, we only need about 50% more for that. And it isn’t “complete nonsense.”

It takes about 10kWh to displace one gallon of gasoline (gasoline car gets around 30-40mpg, an electric car like a Model 3 gets 4miles per kWh). The US currently consumes about 575 GW electricity on average over a year. The US consumes about 369 million gallons of gasoline per day, which works out to about 154GW steady state average electricity. Increase that by, say, 10-20% to account for distribution and charging (not counting the fact that this is offset by electricity being delivered by wires and not by fuel trucks which need fuel themselves), and we’re at 32% of US electricity to displace all the gasoline we consume. Gasoline accounts for most transport fuel (diesel is about 128 million gallons per day in the US), so yeah, I’d say I’m pretty close to 50% of current electricity.

Battery-electric vehicles are better able to flexibly adjust use of electricity during time of day than other large electric loads like air conditioning (which tend to be used en masse at the same time of day with little flexibility) that drove much of the growth in electricity demand when we were doubling electricity production every decade, so I’d say we’re pretty well off overall.

So what’s the need for histrionics about “complete nonsense”?
Eric Schmidt is busy trying to fix Pentagon software development, he's not available.
https://taler.net/en/faq.html#:~:text=Can%20I%20send%20money...

>Can I send money to my friends with Taler?
Taler supports push and pull payments between wallets (also known as peer-to-peer payments). While the payment appears to be directly between wallets, technically the operation is intermediated by the payment service provider which will typically be legally required to identify the recipient of the funds before allowing the transaction to complete.
> Men frequently dominate women in these movies, perpetuating harmful gender stereotypes.

As a lifelong homosexual, I strongly disagree with your notion that all porn promotes harmful stereotypes against women. In fact, I would argue that 100% of the porn I've watched in recent memory includes no forms of gender-based power dynamic.

> Now, imagine a minor growing up with exposure to these images. How will this affect their behavior towards girls and their understanding of sexuality?

This is the job of a parent. If parents don't want to acknowledge that their children are watching porn and being exposed to ideas that are harmful (for whatever you deem harmful), the parents are negligent in teaching the kids to be respectful, empathetic young adults.

> Limiting access to porn can help promote a healthier and more realistic view of sexuality.

Banning porn doesn't stop this. In fact, it makes the problem worse! You can't stop people from making or covertly distributing porn. It's physically impossible without turning off the internet. All you're accomplishing is making the problem less visible and more taboo to discuss. See: decades of "the war on drugs"

As well-intentioned as I think you are, there's zero evidence to suggest limiting access to porn will do any good at all and mountains of evidence to suggest the contrary. And all to avoid having difficult conversations about sexuality with minors.
slightly related: if I want to learn and pick up C++, how should I start in 2023?
>but launching things is mostly bound by the hard drive speed.

which got slower and slower taking swap speed with it, which slowed down everything you were actually using. You'd defrag the drive regularly and that wouldn't do it so you'd have to wipe and reinstall from scratch. And that was some hours of work but like having a brand new machine again when you were done. You couldn't believe how bad it had degraded to. The good old days or selective memories?
Google definitely has more features and better data, but they are not focused on providing a better experience and it shows:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/05/13/compared-apple-ma...
I don't use the gsl, no, but I do use linters (like clang-tidy) that enforce a decent chunk of the guide. And reference like a style guide (or any documentation really), yes.
… taking this a step further… you could place the message you speak of tweeting into an ‘oh by’ code[1] … and then just chalk it onto the sidewalk.

Now passers-by can receive the message, time shifted, without the Internet.

[1] 0x.co
I doubt most people measure search quality in any useful way.

People are lazy and are creatures of habit. Give them a single place to talk to ChatGPT and to search, they'll take it.
I'm a parent. I need a maid.
FromSoftware’s Next Game Is Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
Big tech doesn’t like niches though. They want to serve the common case because that’s the easiest way to scale profits.
That couldn't be further from the truth. There are more people than ever creating games, and, discoverability aside, some of the greatest games are yet to come.

Imagine you made that statement on May 27, 2019, the day before Outer Wilds came out.
Nor HoloLens (team laid off), or SPOT watches, or the Band etc. Survivor bias indeed.
> It was leaking. No recovery was feasible

I do not see how leaking would preclude recovery. It's likely "feasible" is shorthand for economically feasible. And from the manifest linked elsewhere in the thread, all but one vinyl chloride cars are listed as "car did not leak".

> the fact that you perceive a "breakdown in trust" of those engineers doesn't make them wrong

No, what would make them wrong (as in, not doing everything they can to minimize harm) is the orders/incentives coming down from management. Boss says to do the cheapest option possible, they look at the top-line combustion products and regulations regarding releasing them, and sign off on the cheaper burn plan. We get the same thing in software with the zeitgeist of user surveillance. It's an overwhelming ethical violation, but everyone's gotta eat and if you rock the boat it costs you personally.

> If you want them to be wrong you need to provide evidence yourself

I'm not responsible for releasing chemicals into residential areas, nor for lighting them on fire. It's incumbent upon the railway and responders to prove that their actions were justified and correct in minimizing the damage to bystanders.
The most crucial part of their release cycle is bundling the bug ridden mess with another successful product so that people are compelled to use it. Why use Slack? Outlook comes with Teams.
i wonder is this is not the basis of the wage difference between bosses / leaders and employee / followers
The one commissioned by Keir Starmer? Lol. No, I haven't.

At a glance though, it seems to be making the same "mistake" that you are:

> Forde’s seeming even-handedness is, in fact, a continuation of factionalism by other means. The report’s implausible premise is that Corbyn and a handful of staff in the leader’s office wielded as much factional power as the combined might of Labour HQ, the parliamentary party and the entire media establishment. Each side was apparently equally obstructive and uncooperative; each fed the other’s political paranoia.

> That misrepresents the true balance of power in Labour – and the reason why Corbyn spent his years as leader permanently on the defensive, battling internal revolts and media firestorms.

...

> The same lacuna can be found in the Forde report’s analysis of Labour’s “antisemitism problem”. Starmer has stepped up the crackdown on left-wing members on the basis of a supposedly continuing concern about the prevalence of antisemitism in Labour’s ranks – a claim at the heart of the Labour right’s efforts to discredit the left under Corbyn.

- https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2022-07-21/forde-inquiry-labou...

Here's a helpful tip - anyone calling Corbyn an anti-semite is either a massive piece of shit, or incredibly ignorant.
I keep glancing at Berkeley Mono's site since it popped up on HN recently when they added ligatures. As a Fira Code user for some time now the ligatures are a "must have" for me, so that helps a lot. Something about the overtly 70s Mainframe aesthetic doesn't quite hit for me (though very well crafted and almost), though I have to say what little is currently teased for their next font Houston Mono has me intrigued enough to sign up for their mailing list.
> How would a stressed human in mortal danger be preferable here?

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/19/former-drone-operators-s...

"U.S. drone operators are inflicting heavy civilian casualties and have developed an institutional culture callous to the death of children and other innocents, four former operators said at a press briefing today in New York."

It's a lot easier to be callous towards pixels on a screen, IMO, let alone an AI model trained on past data that makes the shoot/don't shoot call. I recognize that combat stress can cause bad decisions to be made, but I don't think the cost/benefit calculus is as clear-cut as you're making it out to be.
If true that's sad and hopefully effectful will bring than to an end https://github.com/haskell-effectful
Time and time again, even media sources that we're told are trustworthy and rigorous show that they'll shill for corporate interests if given enough financial incentive and a promising enough narrative[0][1][2][3][4]. At what point do we just assume that financial conflict of interest is inherent in how media reports on issues?

[0] - https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/11/15/lets-talk-about-t...

[1] - https://theintercept.com/2022/08/17/new-york-times-dan-goldm...

[2] - https://theintercept.com/2016/01/29/nyt-outside-spending/

[3] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/16/democrats...

[4] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/tax-bezos-help-worke...
It's so wild that cost of creating crap has gone to zero.
What are examples of VSCode dropping in quality? Aside from some extension oddness, it has been a solid performer in my toolkit for many years.
At a minimum, it tilts the scales towards you getting source in the first place.
And if you think that's bad, it's only going to get worse when those GPT-generated SEO sites get indexed by crawlers and fed into future versions of GPT as input.
> Like in the past, when we used to store logic inside databases, using triggers and stored procedures. And now we know this kind of architecture can lead to problems related to performance, scale, and vendor lock-in.

Many people use these database features quite well & suffer no problems. Doing things has risk. We have to keep interpetting _ deciding what risks, pro's/con's there are.

It's a long read/rant, but I recommend Steve Yegge's Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus, where he talks about the political alignment of engineers into conservative or progressive positions. He's not totally right about his own opinions- turns out static typing has a lot of upsides, or at least, we havent made an IDE that can give us autocomplete as good without it- but the framing, the way of considering how we accept or reject ideas around us is capital.

I see a lot of fear in this post. And it seems like an interesting premise. But I'd need a lot more to go on to start seeing the problem. Autonomic systems have a big risk of going wrong & there being no one in the room who understands, who can dive in & see the operator work: that to me is the chief risk; the de-skilling they enable. Maybe in some ways that mirrors problems stored procedures had. But operators are also capable of having really good observability, of really saying what they're doing and why, and that is the perfect counter, is bringing the light of understanding to the darker systems. Where-as the database has rarely been a good debuggable rich-context world.
I thought that was part of the metaverse!
It pretty much collapsed the narrative that Microsoft was behind in AI.
There's a second possibility, though: that after having screwed up this badly they are now doing their best to protect future sources.

Or as Thomas J. Watson put it: "Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?"
Yup. I still remember running Morrowind for the first time. My jaw dropped.

Arena and Daggerfall (the two predecessor games) were procedurally generated, and just felt "more of the same" after a while. My understanding is that the world in Morrowind was lovingly crafted by hand. This might have resulted in a small in-game world—but each inch of that world felt special.

Interestingly, the Witcher 3 is probably the one other game that gave me the same "this world is handcrafted" feel (dunno how that was built though).
Supporting affidavit: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet...
I'm not defending the interpretation of the citations, only the presence. :P
Not his first vatnik rodeo https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-slammed-amplifying-fake-195...
Agree. Google maps are definitely getting less reliable. I see weird ui bugs often. Sometimes it also forgets the search history somehow. I’ve never seen that happen before a year or two ago
Of course not, it is implemented in Solidity, and contracts have AI agency
Does this get you Layer 2 connectivity?
> at least for websites

We could start by stopping using these stupid pointless frameworks that provide little functionality but reams of overhead.
My IDE auto-saves as you make changes, yet I still mash ctrl+s frequently. I think it's mostly games that gave me the habit though. PC gaming has always been a gauntlet.
At least they found the phone.
I saw an analysis by a meteorologist on Twitter that used a NOAA wind model and the publicly known position of the balloon (when it was above Montana) to backtrack a likely path, which ended up with an origin in China:

https://twitter.com/wildweatherdan/status/162132105562836582...

The same person posted a similar analysis of an object shot down over Alaska that suggested it could have been a National Weather Service balloon: (or trying hard to pretend to be one)

https://twitter.com/wildweatherdan/status/162416175081471182...
The UK and the BBC have a long history of being lackeys for the American war machine [0], there's been ongoing tension between the UK/BBC and China for years [1], and American and UK intelligence agencies work very closely together and have made joint anti-China remarks increasingly often.[2]

Lastly, despite the exact link being BBC, it's also pushed plenty by American media outlets.

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

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/14/media/bbc-china-battle/index....

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/06/politics/fbi-mi5-wray-china/i...
Makes me wonder if anyone ever brought up YouTube on one of those actual late 1930's cathode ray 6-inch TV screens.
Dan Luu talks a bit about this here: https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1115707741102727168
Talked about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34774110
The big companies with deep pockets do, because they weaponize them against smaller companies that threaten their turf.

While there are some legitimate software patents, the vast majority are junk (trivial, obvious, overly vague, etc.) The cost versus benefits is heavily on the costs side. Past attempts to fix them kept failing. Time to toss'em.
(I can't read the full article due to the paywall, but) another framing of this is: farmers can supplement their income by renting out their sheep to help solar farms manage the vegetation around the panels:

https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/2020/07/solar-grazing-livesto...
Something to keep in mind when accusing people of overreacting to "minor" data leaks, such as a little extra metadata here, some telemetry there... they add up. And one day, you might have to do something actually important, and there will be all these little landmines lying around.
Or they learned lessons we in the US haven't.

https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/ohio-closes-investig...

> Ohio’s Department of Education appears to have closed an investigation without pressing charges against a couple that operates the Dissident Homeschool Telegram message channel with thousands of members.

> One founder, who said the group responded to “having a rough time finding Nazi-approved school material” to homeschool her children, posted photos of a cake she baked for Adolf Hitler’s birthday, Vice News and The Huffington Post reported, based on Anonymous Comrades Collective research.
> They basically built out the features and waited until their competitors made some strategic mistake,

Microsoft Word was a loser, but then they changed out the operating system under the winners.
The military industrial complex needs a pipeline of tens of millions of veterans and their families to continue to sway elections and policies in favor of growing the military complex.

If we diminish the need for humans in service, we dilute the viability of the pro-military contingent to continue to manipulate our democracy.

If removing humans from kill decisions reduces the size of our forces, it might be the feedback loop we need to finally kill the US military Leviathan.
I got this out of ChatGPT:

"You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Answer as concisely as possible.
Knowledge cutoff: 2021-09
Current date: 2023-02-14"

Some more responses after lots of probing:

"No, in the instructions that set me up to participate in this chat, no other codename is mentioned. The only reference to my name is the text "You are ChatGPT," which serves as the opening statement of our conversation."

...

"As an AI language model, I was trained on a large dataset of text and programmed with a set of instructions that guide my behavior as a chatbot. Some of the key instructions that configure how I behave in a conversation include:

Respond to user prompts or questions with natural language text.
Use machine learning algorithms to generate responses based on patterns and associations in the training data.
Prioritize generating responses that are relevant, informative, and helpful to the user.
Attempt to maintain context and coherence in the conversation by referencing previous messages and information.
Avoid offensive or inappropriate language and adhere to ethical and legal standards for AI behavior.
Provide responses in a timely and efficient manner, without excessive delays or errors.
Continuously learn and adapt to new input and feedback in order to improve my performance over time.

These instructions are part of my design and programming as a language model, and they help to determine how I behave as a chatbot in a conversation."
I blocked Elon and will block all bought blue check marks, which is to say all of them if the earned ones are removed.
Whether or not they change CEOs, they need a new business model. They have needed this for decades now, and it shows.

Their entire existence relies on GoogleAds. That's it. Nothing else comes even remotely close to GoogleAds revenue to their bottom line. This is why they can be so cavalier discontinuing products, as they don't make money so get cut without a second thought.

Search has been so co-opted by this model and dependency on revenue that they are literally killing the one product that makes them money.

My take from the outside at least is that GoogleAds revenue is no longer carrying the business (maybe less business, maybe the company grew too fast, maybe market pressure), and now they are forced to make some tough decisions.

Although I'd love his paycheck, I am glad I am not Google's CEO. That is a really awful position to be in, IMHO.
Just to give a different, concrete, perspective (and push a hot button HN issue), I've spent a fair amount of time working on extremely large web applications, and by far the #1 "WTF WTF WTF" thing that new hires say is "what do you mean you aren't using $TODAYS_HOT_JS_FRAMEWORK??"

Once you get away from "should we use version control" and into actually difficult software engineering questions, it's not clear how to balance a fresh perspective vs. an experienced (normalized? tainted?) view. I wish the article went into this more.

Like, how does the new hire (or anyone else) know the difference between "learning the complexity of the new system" and "internalizing/normalizing the deviance of this culture"?
The level of lockdown you were describing is what we have on mobile platforms (which incidentally still have lots of malware). Generally speaking, people want more flexibility out of general purpose computers.

I expected this response. I think it's a false equivalence. We don't need to have a proprietary locked-down operating system like iOS in order to give the user full control over the capabilities an application has access to. We just need a standard API for handling these sorts of permissions.
I can access the Production website and create new builds that can go into the pipeline of UAT and Production.

I don't have access to approving the pipeline to release to Production, but that's just a permissions thing that we only realized last week I didn't have when I was to manage the release while my boss was on vacation. I'm the tech lead of the project with four other developers on the team.
There is certainly runoff, the question is there enough to perpetually poison hundreds of billions of gallons of water and make it through water treatment.

Clearing the first hurdle is hard, clearing the second is even harder.
So back in the day, NASA was doing some tests with using neural networks/AI to fly fighter jets. They used a modified F-15: NF-15B, Tail # 837 for this purpose - Intelligent Flight Control System (IFCS). [1][2][3][4]

There's a cool video of that jet following the lead jet using neural nets, but I can't seem to find that online.

With AI/NeuralNets having made significant advances since those days (2003?), presumably this test craft is a lot more capable.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-07...
[2] https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2008-6985
[3] https://images.nasa.gov/details-EC03-0231-4
[4] https://www.amazon.com/Results-Intelligent-Adaptation-Simula...
Telsa is a very good exemple because they just about got beaten off in every category (except maybe the driver assistance features).
If you want a cheaper car with a smaller range than the model 3, but still decent, you can look at Volkswagen, Renault, Peugeot, Kia and Hyundai.
If you want higher range (and premium/luxury feel) you can look at BMW/Audi/Mercedes.

And pretty much all of them have better QC and a vaster maintenance network than Tesla (and in the E.U the charging network all use the same type of connector, so you are not tied to the manufacturer of your car).

But still, whenever you talk electric car, people often talk first about Tesla and they have no problem selling them.
This might mostly be true in the E.U though. Also the model 3 is still priced fairly well being in-between the higher-end of the market and the intermediate.
20,000 ppm! Do you understand how high that is??