skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not literally -- I'd take power windows and AC, that's it -- but I agree with your point.

Really, what dumbfuck decided that, because they're both "electronics", an electric car needs to be an iPad on wheels? Or that this concept is linked in some way with ADAS systems?

I listen to VW execs talking about how "EVs are software". Are they? Says who?

It's a fucking battery, a motor, a big-ass Buck/boost converter, and, in Tesla's case -- this element of complexity is legitimately good -- a heat pump. To exaggerate only slightly, I see no reason why any low-voltage ICs more complicated than an LM555 should be needed.

Chip shortage? We need high-performance MOSFETS, yeah, but the controller could come from a technology node circa 1979.

And then the insides are all "luxury". Everything comes with leather seats (which crack) and fancy interiors. No!! There is nothing wrong with the inside of a Camry. Give me that.

I thought Tesla started with a Lotus. Talk about bare-bones. What the hell happened?
I've been there. around 26, I wasn't in greatest mindscape. Lonely, fired from my job, crashed my car, credit card debt, took drugs, spiraled out of control, got arrested and six years later I now own my own apartment and just redecorated it with new carpet. I've had a harsh life but I turn 34 on Monday and I feel I've done well to be where I am and still not where I was.

Change is hard, to throw away everything and start from the beginning when it really isn't your fault is a path not many choose. I walked the wrong path, ended up in the wrong puddle which eventually lead down the wrong rabbit hole.

I am extremely grateful for the window of opportunity that exposed itself to me, for what I was given, the support I was given. And now all I want to do is return the such. I do what I can, when I can, how I can. I volenteer regularly, not to gloat, donate. It's hard. Its hard for everyone. I feel more balanced then how I was and now do feel I now seem to have a sense of urgency to fight for others who don't get such luck. Especially the animals.

We are in control of our destiny but are restricted from the freedoms we should have, with the world in dismay is concerning but it only takes one to start the shift back in to motion and change everything for everyone. Whether my dream becomes a reality, I better get back to coding.
Not necessarily, some of my distant relatives went to the US to work in mines and/or be domestic servants (M/F), which wasn't exactly high prestige and yet they considered the US to be freer and more friendly towards random people than their country of origin (back then, Austria-Hungary).

You may underestimate the seriousness of the remaining vestiges of feudalism in pre-WWI Europe, including, say, rampant anti-Semitism in the Russian empire. It was probably better to be a schnorer in New York than a Jewish doctor in Odessa (with its tradition of deadly pogroms).
Thanks; that makes a lot more sense than Asparagus Gray.
Letlang looks really nice! Keep up the good work!
I wonder if he’d find them very interesting at this point when he predicted something similar half a century ago.

Fundamentally these models look backward. They’re a sum of what the Internet contained last year and can write you anything from that viewpoint. But an author like PKD was always looking forward. He might nod to GPT and go back to thinking about how much further things can go.
Or, as in Strugatsky brothers plot, the aliens were moving back in time so they continued living on in the age XIX, and perhaps left after repairs.
German Digital Affairs Committee Hearing Heaps Scorn on Chat Control
The name doesn't matter, but it is a fact that there are processes that we don't control that are very intelligent in our brain. They can find their way home, or drive your car etc, without you having to think about driving or where to go, you just zone out and before you realize it you are home.

Any assumption that such a process doesn't exist is therefore disproven immediately, we know that none of those can be true. So, since we know that such a process exists, it asking us questions just like we ask it questions seems like a very useful property to have to handle all sorts of bookkeeping and learning. It is a very obvious mechanic in a brain containing two intelligent systems interacting so tightly as these two does.
There's a reason Cartman's "Respect my authority" bit is so good. These types of roles are especially attractive to a particular personality type. There are jobs where it is best to have people that do not want to be in that position vs having people seeking to be that position.
For me, it's less of a macOS inherent issue and more so that many, many things just assume Linux by default. Anything you find on GitHub that relies on some sort of native module is really hit or miss in terms of "will this just work, or will I need to go waste a couple of hours or resort to a VM?"

For example, I've run into a couple of occasions where I've needed to build some third-party thing that happens to also need something like QEMU, but the build scripts only run on Linux. Annoying, but whatever, setup a Linux VM/"container" and good to go, right? ... except there is no nested virtualization support on the M1 macs.

Outside of those sort of issues and other ARM-specific problems, while it doesn't usually impact my workflow too much, I wish I had more control over the system. I wish, for example, it could boot off of something other than APFS, etc. I don't want to have to deal with Time Machine when I've already got snapshots everywhere else, etc.

Everything is relatively minor, but there is always some new thing that makes me annoyed every week or two.
I think for a lot of them, especially the LE agents that come from a military background, the A Few Good Men reference actually applies. They really think we are in this endless war, and that they are patriotically defending their country from hand-wavey "enemies." If that's true, the ends justify any means, up to and including breaking the law. The law written by non-warrior civilians--what do they know about these dangers lurking around every corner?

This perpetual-warrior mindset is evidently pervasive throughout law enforcement and other branches of government.
It’s all a matter of trade offs.

Direct injection allows them to do some magical things inside the combustion chamber for efficiency/performance gains with the trade off that the valves are ‘dry’ so will need some maintenance down the line. Maybe you save more on fuel than the cost of having to pop off the head(s) down the line, maybe you don’t. Same with the multitude of sensors, knowing what exactly the engine is doing lets them control it more optimally.

Though I do agree that they add too many unnecessary things like Heated Seats as a Service (looking at you BMW).
I am constantly pondering ideas how could intuitive and "cool" web without broken URLs look like, and whether mechanisms for it are or are not embraided into original standards.

Farthest I got is that we probably should see two addresses where we currently see one in our URL bar: Locator and Identifier and whole web-related technology should revolve around this distinction with immutability in mind.

- On server side Locators should always respond with locations of Identifiers or other Locators. So, redirects. Caching headers makes sense here, denoting e.g. "don't even ask next five minutes".
- Content served under Identifier should be immutable. So "HTTP 200" response always contains same data. Caching headers here makes no sense at all, since the response will always be the same (or error).

In practice, navigating to https://news.ycombinator.com/ (locator) should always result in something like HTTP 302 to https://news.ycombinator.com/?<timestamp> or any other identifier denoting unique state of the response page. Any dynamic page engine should first provide mechanism producing identifiers of any resulting response.

I feel there are some fundamental problems in this utopian concept (especially around non-anonymous access), but nevertheless would like to know if it could be viable at least in some subset current/past web.
I think it was the popularity of Only Fools and Horses that gave rise to a pseudo-Cockney slang common in my time as an undergrad. Degrees were ranked:

- Geoff (Hurst) -- Class I -- "first"

- Simon (leBonn) -- Class II:1

- Desmond (Tutu) -- Class II:2

- Douglas (Hurd) -- Class III "turd"

(I matriculated '91. And not in London.)
> You are confusing competency with bias.

If you mean the conservative derogatory version, I am not. Deference to NatSec has long cut a deep gash across both major political ideologies. Neither serve us when they fail to be an fact-based adversary to Gov/Corp/LEO.

If you mean the stock vanilla version where everyone prefers one thing to another, that seems too generic a term to be useful in this context.
They need backup cameras because they have lost all the glass so they can pass the crash tests against the other 2,000-lb landwhales who also can't see them.
The question was whether string templates will support laziness, not whether whatever the string template is eventually used for supports laziness. String templates supporting laziness would make you independent from what the point-of-use supports.
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As I understand it, the allegation here is that only by following the internal policies would their activities be allowed under the Fourth Amendment, and by breaching these policies their actions are illegal under the Fourth Amendment, not under any more specific law. Of course, as you say, this all depends on the nature of how the internal policies were breached, so it's far from a given.
Yes, if your data is not entirely public, you will need object-level autorization.

But the point is that no, it's not straightforward; the authorization must be designed to fit your needs. If you are not designing it, you can be certain that it's broken.
I don't think we have a free market (yet). Yes, there are like a million different "AI something" startups, but all of them seem to be calling OpenAI behind the scenes. (At this point, the ecosystem feels a bit like a frontier town next to the site of an UFO crash: Everyone is very busy trading alien artefacts, selling tools, exchanging tricks, building businesses on top of other businesses, etc - even though no one really knows what the artefacts are actually doing or whether or not the UFO might suddenly turn on again.)

So if OpenAI or Microsoft decides to change the models or to forbid certain uses then the entire ecosystem is affected.

I think it will all become more interesting when there are genuinely different models in use or when it becomes feasible for smaller businesses/projects to build their own models. I think LLaMA, Bard (eventually?) and that chinese model are some promising starts here. Especially with LLaMA's supposed leak.
Yeah, that’s something, at least. Wouldn’t the order that mutations happen still matter, even though they have to acquire a lock? Not a pythoneer, myself.
The messages were, I have a girlfriend and I want an iPhone.

They came out together ten minutes into a two hour drive and five minutes later he was asleep because I said, I will talk about it with mama.

And later that same day while he was doing his soccer things, I did on my Windows Phone. And then we all talked some more over the next few days.

Mostly about the girlfriend. Because it was awesome to see him reach that stage of his life…we were that age once.

The iPhone came eventually after a few weeks. I think it turned out a positive tool for social navigation in his circumstance.

Other kids have other circumstances. But they are not my kid for better or worse. Your kid certainly isn’t.
They don't have to sell their homes, instantly anyway. Reverse mortgages absolutely exist.

They're not a cure-all, of course, and the high rate environment isn't exactly ideal. But they are an option that gets out of the situation you describe.
Heroes of Might and Magic III was released on this day 24 years ago
Slightly easier explanation is that a quid is used the same way the word "bucks" is used for USD.
One of them had to retract their statement after it caught the attention of the province’s prime minister as well as the federal prime minister.

link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/justin-trude...
In Chrome you can right click on the page and choose "Translate to English".
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At least some of this phenomenon is due to dual higher income earning couples pairing together at rates much higher than before, which obviously follows from the fact that more women are earning more money than ever before.
"Quirky" things tend to happen on weekends.

In this case I will guess that the upvotes / time were more positive than anything else; there being few people reading through /newest early this morning.
Limitless is more fantasy than sci-fi IMO.
Do you really think governments and government organizations/forces obey the law?

Don't get me wrong in an ideal world they should, but we're far from that world.
Don’t forget the famous car test! A mix is not complete until it sounds good in an old Toyota Camry from the 90s.
I totally agree, which is why I included that in procal! Just right-click a cell to turn it into a sign bit.
As an example programmers can understand, machine learning is a better model for this than a logistic map.

Natural selection is basically gradient descent with random walk as the "step" algorithm rather than back propagation. At each step, you randomly adjust the weights by a small amount. You do this with like 100 candidates and pick the best one that lowers the cost function the most. This is one generation, and you "selected" the best mutation that can proceed to the next generation of your learning algorithm. It's essentially an extremely accurate model of evolution.

When you let gradient descent run in-definitely the weights will eventually converge on a minimum in general. By "in general" I mean that these weights will only converge within the vicinity of the local minimum. Keeping the learning algorithm running with random walk... what you will find is that the algorithm travels randomly all around the minimum and stays within a certain "equilibrium zone." This is exactly what happens in biology. A more accurate example would be adversarial neural networks, when you have two networks competing. What you will find is that for adversial networks you ALSO get convergence within the vicinity of a local minimum.

The logistic map you present here is simply not an accurate model of evolution. I don't think an accurate model actually exists. The most accurate models are the algorithms we to do genetic programming and these models are simply simulations where we have a sort of "feel" for how the algorithm will converge. There is no closed form understanding of it. Our knowledge of these algorithms accurately reflects our knowledge of natural selection itself in the sense that you can't simply pull a random logistic map formula out of nowhere and claim it applies. It doesn't.
Saddest pissing contest ever
It's been a while since I've tolerated the git gui interface, but when I used to use it, the line-to-chunk logic would regularly fail on short 2-3 line spans.

There's a stackoverflow discussion [1] that suggests it was fixed in 2018, but for many years it was a terrible experience that pushed me to use other frontends just for reliable partial staging.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58133092/git-gui-error-f...
Married men live longer, but the last years are mostly garbage anyway. If you’re co-dependent or really need that companionship, autonomy and agency might not be what you’re optimizing for. Cashflow and wealth doesn’t buy love or happiness, only choices and freedom. Optimize accordingly.
The story evolved later that day

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/justin-trude...
> There aren't enough rich people to sustain this. It'll work until another company comes in and out-prices them.

It will never get to that point because the wealthy have learned to spend on lobbying to protect their wealth.

The ROI of spending $15 million on lobbying > the ROI of spending $15 million on innovation/efficiency/new products.
Use of K9s as pretext for plausible cause is well known issue, that said, without knowing specifics of the situation, impossible to comment on legal merit of them submitting the cost of search warrant for debt collections.
Not in the context of memory safety. You can still have race conditions up the ass, but not data races, unless you're using a native library which 1. releases the GIL and 2. is broken.
I warned that second lockdown data was wrong – but I was ignored
Grew up in the 1960s, pre-decimal. In primary school, we learned to do arithmetic in pounds, shillings, and pence (but no longer farthings) and also learned imperial units. The coins in circulation at the time were 1/2d, 1d, 3d, 6d, 1/- (1s), 2/-, and 2/6d. There was also a 10/- banknote. Some prices were in guineas (21/-).

They stopped minting groats (4d) after 1856 (except in Maundy money), half-farthings after 1870, and farthings after 1956. Farthings and silver thrupnies (3d) were still around but not in circulation.

The florin (2/-, or a tenth of a pound) was introduced during the first attempt at decimalization in 1849.

Crowns (5/-) were never in circulation, but were minted for special events such as coronations. They still are, but their face value is now £5.

Decimalization began in 1968 with the introduction of 5p and 10p coins (same size and value as 1/- and 2/- coins) followed by the 50p coin (10/-) in 1969. It was completed in 1971 with the introduction of the 1/2p, 1p, and 2p coins.

From secondary school onwards, it was decimal money and metric/SI units, which simplified calculations a bit.

Ireland decimalized at the same time as UK, and Australia and New Zealand a few years earlier (at the rate of two dollars to one pound).
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This type of chiding moralizing reminds me of nothing more than ChatGPT’s patronizing and presumptuous content filter.
> I also don't have a large social circle

Can you find a singles group to grow your network. They have tons of them at local orgs (churches or town clubs). Join one of these. I have a hunch that getting into a new crew may be what you are looking for since therapy is going a bit slow.
I read a great book recently which talks about this topic in a more rigorous way:

Creating: A practical guide to the creative process and how to use it to create anything - a work of art, a relationship, a career or a better life. https://a.co/d/6a1U0AM

Its specifically eye opening in the way your own life is just another thing to create but it could be applied to creating anything.

It talks about the choice to create itself. To make something for its own sake not to solve a problem. It also has a concept of primary choice, secondary choice (to create as a step toward primary choice) and foundational choices (what primary and secondary choices are based on)

Creating ultimately doesn’t come from anywhere. You start blank and you just “make it up”. You make up what you want to exist.

In the context of creating your life for example you write down all the things you want. And go through a process of tightening it.

The important thing the book says is 1. Have a clear vision for what you want to create and 2. Have an accurate picture of reality

The vision just needs to be clear enough so you know it when you see it.

He says having an accurate picture of reality was the surprising thing most people struggle with. Not the vision of what to create.

Very interesting book.
Free Guy might work, but I would consider just saving the whole simulation concept for whenever he is old enough for The Matrix, or other AI movies such as Her and Blade Runner. Free Guy is quite lazy with the Hollywood tropes. Lazy might be fine when he hasn't seen that many movies yet, but still I would prioritize watching something "better" (many other good suggestions here).
Any luck they'll create something like a Managed Alcohol Program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_alcohol_program

Unclear what benefit there is to stopping people addicted to opiates getting those opiates cleanly and cheaply.
Why not use the system default controls and not reïnvent the wheel?
Ask HN: Are iOS App Clips a Flop?
They were introduced in 2019, but I think I've only seen them twice in the wild.

They're neat, but it makes sense- tough to justify only supporting iOS when a QR code will work on Android too

Does your company use them? Any interesting anecdotes?
Double-checking on the inflation data for that era - https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-... - I'd say that your old nan was quite right. (But maybe not quite in a literal, "terms as defined by an economic professor", sense.)
Is this really news? There have always been a couple of companies given license to produce such things for various narrow purposes.

Cocaine is used as an anesthetic in some nasal and eye surgeries for example. Research and testing purposes also need clean standards to use for comparison.
Don't rebuild: that version of yourself is forever gone [1]. Build another you: rebase mercilessly. Of course, one path to wisdom is to discover there was never an you to begin with: each morning we re-instantiate the memories and take on the goals of a past tyrant.

[1] Recent HN: The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35009509 In book form, check Jeff Hawkins' A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence for a hint towards a new metaphysics of whatever being a person is.
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Your comment cautioned against marriage for its "cost". Now you are talking about lifestyle preferences.
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And this here in UK

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/feb/21/four-day-week-...

Makes me think about Keynes Granchildren Essay from 1930. I do feel our relationship with work has changed a lot in the last few years, more so than any other period in my 20 year working life so far.
Very few companies have DEI programs. DEI isn't a trend because it's a defense against specious discrimination suits. It's a trend because it's fashionable. The argument in your last paragraph is thus easily falsified.

A message board strategic tip: if you're going to try to make an argument about how antiracism is overreaching in our society --- which should be a layup! --- try to do it without citing an overt racist to support your argument.
This is an interesting bit of behavior but the article did not explain what real-world circumstances make this behavior meaningful.
In these discussions, I always like to suggest my favorite company as a case study.

https://www.fractalaudio.com/

They make the highest end guitar audio processing HW and are constantly providing free SW updates that greatly enhance the unit. Their lack of a subscription model for SW flies in the face of current HW/SW product monetization "wisdom." Compare to their competition which maybe pushes out one or two firmware updates over the life of the product that are mostly bug fix.

I have bought every main release of their flagship product and will keep doing so even though it is way more than a bedroom player needs. If you are into guitar and a hacker, I recommend checking it out. It is a massive evolution beyond the old school pedalboard and tube amp world (which of course have their old school charms). It has an insane level of depth and most parameters are controllable in real time.
since its now written down, its basically established facts. /s