skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been a huge skeptic of Tesla, but when you visit Europe the roads are FULL of Teslas, and in the US the roads are now full of them too. In Europe it's more bizarre because generally those consumers were sticking with European brands. Seeing Fords or Toyotas is very rare there, but Teslas are everywhere. That made me a believer. However, I do think the company is probably overvalued.

I think Elon Musk does a lot of very good things, but I do think he often is stupid, a liar, and at worst a useful idiot. In the end though, SpaceX, Starlink & Tesla have all been net positives for humanity. Jobs and Gates both were/are not great people, but their products and companies have been good for basically everyone, so it's not a new concept.
>I hear that maybe the national post office got revived in Aug 2022 though?

Apparently so! <https://gringopost.com/2023/02/17/postal-service-of-ecuador-...>
This is the way. The only drawback of docker on lambda is slower cold start times (which may have changed since I built on lambda)
> I take drugs to minimize my cancer risk.

What is this about?

I take laetrile via raw bitter apricot seeds, and generally avoid sugar and avoid many carbohydrates.
> Goodbye US employees, welcome Asian and Eastern European employees. It's definitely not about costs though (wink)

To any companies planning to save big bucks through outsourcing: forget it. It looks good on paper, but in practice you will regret picking your engineering talent based on how cheap you can get them.

It's taken years for my company's management to truly understand that if your motivation for hiring overseas is that you can get engineers for 1/6 the price, you're going to get correspondingly poor results. Good engineers don't stay long at that price point, no matter where they live.
Thank you very much! Released an article yesterday on my tips for the ChatGPT API if you haven’t already seen it!
I mean, yeah, cost is kind of the problem with AWS, especially for large amounts of data. Do your own cost/benefit of course, but for some of us it's a non-starter.
Tracking happens everywhere you take your phone. Bluetooth beacons, apps grabbing data, etc.

The laws don't stop it. They just force it to change shape. It can be stopped by careful consumption.
I find it hard to think that the US (With it's many, many fuck-ups) is the only, let alone the -worst- guilty party in the last 100 years.

Slavery and native American genocides are pretty bad - as well as the countless countries US has invaded/bombed.

But anyways, are we trying to estimate which country has done more bad in the last 300 years? China or US? And are you willing to become more pro-China if we conclude that the US has done more bad?
Better performance per watt, but why ARM server market share not grown over x86
If ARM-server offerings are available on the major cloud providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure and the on-demand prices for these instances are way lower, why are people not rushing to move to ARM on the server.
>just as newer battery chemistries moved away from cobalt

Tesla seems to be the leader here. Per Investor Day[0] and other sources, they

- developed low-cobalt and low-nickel cathodes, to reduce scarce battery metals

- increased overall vehicle efficiency to allow iron cathodes which are earth-abundant

- consolidated electronic modules to reduce microchips and wiring

- are soon switching to 48V, to further reduce low-voltage copper wiring (copper being a 'medium-rare' metal)

- switched from copper to aluminum high voltage conductors (per Munro Live), aluminum having better conductivity-to-weight

- reduced vehicle structure with structural battery design and 'gigacasting' manufacturing

Many of these seem to benefit from vertical integration.

Are any other manufacturers pushing as hard here?

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl1zEzVUV7w&t=1875s
That's an interesting use case!

The development so far has focused on security-related uses, especially finding hardcoded credentials in source code and log files. For the serial number and license spelunking you describe, Nosey Parker would need a couple more pieces to work well:

(1) Regex rules that would match serial numbers. I think it would be tough to write a regex for this that would match precisely and with good recall, i.e., producing few false positives and few false negatives. Not a showstopper, but not ideal.

(2) Built-in unarchiving support. Nosey Parker will handle textual files on disk just fine, but won't do useful things for many binary file types such as zip files. Your old external drives probably have tons of non-textual files like that. I would like to eventually add built-in unarchiving support to Nosey Parker; this would allow a way for textual content to be extracted from binary files and then scanned like the rest.
> You never need that if these things are the result of a fixed client request; the set of things to be done can't change, so eventual consistency will serve the purpose.

Yes, if I wanted to handle orders of magnitude more simultaneous requests than this app could conceivably ever need to, but with more app complexity and greater latency for substantive results even at it's existing scale, I could use an EC solution instead of an ACID one, but...I don’t.
That's a terrible part of Denver. I agree. Rome wasn't built in a day.

Why would you ever lock your bike outside anywhere in the U.S.? NYC is no better. It's actually worse out East in my experience. That's a separate issue. One exacerbated by the naive views of liberal voters.

You live in the remnants of the Wild West. Millions of poor Central Americans are pouring across the border and setting up shop in your backyard. What do you expect? You are never going to get European city living unless you move to Europe.
Low conscientiousness yields greater levels of depression, higher levels of drug consumption, and high inclinations towards criminal behavior. People high in conscientiousness tend to be more conservatism. These things are all measured in various psychological studies, but really none of it should be surprising because its been measured to death. Measured to the point of extreme precise prediction.

Conscientiousness, one of the big 5, is concerned with rule oriented behavior, restraint, self-discipline, presence, and so forth. People who are more self-aware and rule oriented tend to be more physically fit, goal oriented, and are more likely to excel in their careers. They are also more likely to build strong lasting relationships as their speech and behaviors are more restrained.

None of this has anything to do with intelligence. Of the big 5 the one most correlated with intelligence is "openness". Counter-intuitively, at least to me, conscientiousness is the less correlated with intelligence by as much as -0.27. That means there are many people who are extremely intelligent yet are sloppy drug using creeps not worth the time of day and cannot manage their personal finances to save their lives. Depressing and statically more likely to self identify as "liberal".

This has a nice tie-in to development. Have you ever heard of developers wanting things to be "easy" and then their code looks like sloppy shit? But, but but... they seemed so smart in the interview and their resume is stellar, so what went wrong? Even more to the point are developers who need things to be easy, cannot build actual software without configuring tools to do it for them, and then using that experience (that quest for easy or fear of original explicitness) to gauge competence in others.
There is a late enrollment penalty, and it can be substantial (ie paid for the remainder of your lifetime).

https://www.medicare.gov/basics/costs/medicare-costs/avoid-p...
> Neither splice() call knows when the data it passes through has reached its final destination; the network layer may still be working with the file data even after both splice() calls have completed. There is no easy way to know that the data has been transmitted and that it is safe to modify the file again.

Am confused. Normally you'd modify buffers after they've been acked at the application layer. Do samba clients not send acknowledgements?

> the problem could be simplified by taking the pipes out of the picture and allowing one non-pipe file descriptor to be connected directly to another. The pipes, Axboe said, "do get in the way" sometimes

> a new "send file" io_uring operation could be a good solution to this problem; it could be designed from the beginning with asynchronous operation in mind and without the use of pipes

ooh I like that purely from a programmer convenience PoV
Careful, this comment comes awfully close to expressing something resembling nuance... Pretty sure that's illegal these days.
> revenue at a 25-30% margin

I love how Tesla fans are so quick to applaud how much money Tesla is making from them. It seems most of "the mission" is (re-) building Musk's wealth.

> such as their heat pumps

The heat pumps that have been a problematic nightmare?
It really depends. I have barely had an in-person meeting with anyone superior to me in my company in 3-4 years. If I got called in to the office to meet with anyone superior to me and no one else from my team, and no agenda, I'm going to be in dread the whole way because that would be an insanely irregular thing. It's not any better if they randomly invited some, or even all of my team to the office for a meeting with no agenda.

Sure, it's detached, but it's not like I'm expecting my upper management to be attached to me that way.
Thanks for flagging - will get this fixed! For reference the paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10496
Tokenizing everything in one go is usually the right approach. The typical case is the error-free case, so you won't actually tokenize more characters than necessary, but you will simplify the implementation and avoid jumping back and forth between parsing and tokenizing (thus improving locality).
> In a better world, laying someone off would be done in a more caring and sensitive manner, because it's a huge and often unexpected change for the recipient. Human beings deserve better than being forced to attend their own mass slaughter.

Layoffs are usually not “unexpected” if you can read the tea leaves.

Besides, I go to work everyday to exchange labor for money to support my addiction to food and shelter. I never expect a company to “care about me or my feelings”.

I’ve also ensured that I have had at least 3-6 months of living expenses in the bank for the last 25 years. Yes - this was from the time when I was making $11/hour as a computer operator and I was saving my overtime.

There also has never been a point in my career that I didn’t “have my running shoes on” - an updated resume, a skillset that was inline with the market, a strong network, and an updated career documented.
> Yeah, that's nonsense.

Not exactly. Medicare limits the ability to which non-participating providers or providers who accept assignment can charge patients for additional services beyond what Medicare will cover. You actually can end up in a situation where you can't pay out of pocket for additional services because the only providers available (logistically or practically) cannot accept those payments.
The hobbyist paved the way. It was like knitting in a way, but with molten metal and wisps of smoke. Cathartic sometimes.
I didn't realize Her was already a reality.
I’m interested in higher performance and don’t really care about file or data output. I can also deal with the UI issues.

Basically it’s the core calculation and formula engine I was hoping was implemented as a library that could be plugged into another application.
Want to see my bills? I don't shred paperwork until 3 years go by, so they're around somewhere. We were able to afford it, though it did take a good chunk of our retirement income away. And it was less in previous years.

The goal was to protect against really bad things happening that would result in hospital bills of a million or more -- and screw up our retirement completely.

(We had private insurance because both of us retired early, and the early premiums were reasonable. Also, my wife had heard that Medicare was a bad insurance to have, and didn't want to take the risk she couldn't get the care she might need.)
Let’s prove them wrong
I think that's the author's point: the industry tends to act as if complex, scalable architectures are inevitable if you have a useful service or want a viable business.

You can get a lot of mileage out of essentially any backend technology running on recent-ish hardware, provided the devs know what they're doing.

> Our backend today is more sophisticated but our philosophy to scaling is simple, avoiding premature optimization.
Thanks! It’s much harder to implement that’s for sure but I totally agree that it’s a great way to interact, being able to and follow up messages and clarify things is really great
Was at Argo and left latitude somewhat recently. You are spot on, most of Argo leadership is gone, most of the autonomy folks got picked up by either VW or Ford Latitude.
Seriously. That's definitely more insulting. "You're going to dance for us in person one last time for no reason except that we want to see your face when we tell you you're fired" feels way more cruel than pulling me into a call and telling me I can immediately open my browser and start looking for another job.
Best example I know of for new magnet chemistry without rare earths is Niron Magnetics:

https://www.nironmagnetics.com/

https://hackaday.com/2022/09/01/iron-nitrides-powerful-magne...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34359383
A lot of that is BSD has learned when to rebuild downstream ports, and they have a good ci system to rebuild them.

I don't know whar Debian does for the above.
Maybe I’m a cynic, but I believe there is too much conflict of interest here to gain any footing. The major government agencies want companies collecting any and all information possible on people. The agencies can then buy that data without needing any warrants or additional oversight. Find some useful data through the back channel? Get the warrant and go through the hoops to publicly request the data needed to bring to the courts.
You could turn on a TRS-80 and get a prompt _immediately_. The faster the computer, the fatter the software. More functionality too, but depends on what your goal is.
I would definitely believe that some parties in the advertising ecosystem are ignoring opt outs, but I'm not convinced that this methodology demonstrates that. The problem is, I'm not seeing anywhere where they describe setting up a history for these simulated users. For example, if they had said that they first navigated the user to a site about mattresses, cars, or some other highly marketable category, then I would expect to see much lower bids when opt outs were respected. But if they aren't doing anything like that then it isn't surprising that an opt-out fails to decrease bids, because there's nothing to be targeting on.

Their framework is quite close, however, to something that really could do a good job here. Compare these cases:

* Visit some sites that do not indicate commercial interest, then compare bidding behavior opt-in and opt out. That's what they did, and you shouldn't see much of a difference.

* Visit some sites that indicate specific commercial interest, then compare bidding behavior opt-in and opt out. You should see higher bids and ads that are related to that commercial interest for the opt-in category. If you don't, something went wrong. If you see those same higher bids in the opt-out case, then consent is not being respected.

(I used to work in an adjacent area; speaking only for myself)
How long before people can buy their own in-home personal chatbot off-the-grid system? Might be profitable at >$100,000 per unit at present, though the service and maintenance fees would likely be pretty steep per month, including the electricity bill. See Joi, Blade Runner 2049.
I get your point, but at least they don't expect me to pay them money for the privilege of finding out what they actually do (assuming we're talking open source ones).
The Waluigi Effect: Enantiodromia in large language models
If this is your jam you should be aware of the gitea fork forgejo. Much of the federation-related development has been moving there.

https://forgejo.org/
If every investor was buying only index funds, all it takes is one investor to find one stock that has great fundamentals and is undervalued relative to its performance.

They will beat out the other investors on this one pick.

Once someone starts winning and getting a better return the money flocks to them and away from the index funds. That then causes index funds to rebalance, which causes those investors looking for a better return to find other stocks, rinse and repeat.

It will never be the case that everyone is investing only in index funds. It would be so easy to beat out everyone else in that scenario.
Who knows but alot of us wouldn't take public transportation if it stopped by our front door.
We're talking about how ridiculously expensive restaurant food in the US is, not where people live.
Which ones are lying?
Most people don’t care. They don’t care if Amazon, Facebook, and Google know what they are doing online. They opt in to tracking by joining loyalty programs to save a few bucks. Privacy is just not a concern most people have.
It's only a matter of time before the Linux kernel itself is rewritten in Rust. Or, more likely, a Rust-based replacement is written.
He’s serving someone’s, somewhere’s interest.
Yeah it’s a very mild shock. Probably feels more like a vibration honestly.
I started typing no, but then....

I honestly can't decide which would be worse: a developer who literally doesn't know what a cache is or one who installs caches with bad invalidation policies.
So we onboard the communities with a bot and then push the post there based on their preferences + the post frequency they are comfortable with, If you drop your email we can give you a demo.
> The broader problem is that the government, courts, police and everyone else who is otherwise in charge of enforcing rights in this country does not know the first thing about technology.

It’s beyond that. It’s micromanaging. Regulation cannot and should not be able to keep up.
They dont trick anyone. Its very clear when you sign up what youre getting and that youre opting out of normal Medicare.

And like i said it’s can be better thab normal Medicare for some people. Thats why they choose it.
Days are 24 hours for all of us
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dqsgxLyl5E
> Pretend you are a car driving on a highway...
I live in Denver, and find the bike infrastructure to be criminally inadequate.

The same is true for the road infrastructure, but the bike lanes are set up to ensure that there's a continuous stream of dangerous and complex interactions where bicyclists would be effortlessly killed by a driver.

I ride a scooter around the city full time, like a small motorcycle, and it's so fast and easy and convenient.

I used to bike around the city but will never go back to biking.

heres a cool litle project showing where ive ridden in denver (and the world)

https://josh-strava-heatmap.herokuapp.com/
According to their data the cost of financing is $658/annually out of $10k total. I assume you’re thinking used cars will reduce depreciation, but it won’t go to zero and even if it did you’d still be looking at less than half of the total cost since a used car still needs gas, tires, parking, and you’d have more in repairs. Cars are just expensive.
It's not news to some of us.

Part of that is that the last imperial dynasty to rule China was not Chinese, but ethnically Manchurian. A lot of problems came from that. Granted, that does not make it okay that the West helped carve them up. But a lot of their external issues in the past few centuries have internal root.

If the Han and the Manchurians could not get along, how is that the West's fault?

WRT "terrorism" in Xinjiang: I think non-Han minorities might have a different opinion than the official Beijing line.
Don't see how you could consider the question they posed to be trivia for someone who knows javascript? Abuse of truthy evaluation is very rampant. All the JS codebases I've worked on are filled with `if (!myArray.length)` and etc. I would be very sad if anyone with a year of JS experience couldn't get this problem.
What's terrifying there? I mean the 3 kids at a young age sounds like more than I could have handled but everything else you wrote sounds like the dream.
Gptee: LLMs done the Unix-y way
The idea behind gptee is to bring composability to language models at the shell script level. In line with the unix philosophy, we simplify the LLM interface to just stdin and stdout

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
The Third Bit · IQ and Personality Tests (2021)
A pregnant person is a woman.
Correct, this is not a CLA. The idea is to use it instead of a CLA.
You are talking about minimizing the expected or average latency, which is very rarely important. The actual goal will depend on the broader system but typically you want to minimize the latency of the worst 95%, 99%, 99.9% etc of requests. Whether or not the cache reduces latency depends on the distribution of the cache hits. In practice, items that miss a simple LRU cache often have the longest latency in other parts of the system, in which case the cache would not reduce p99 latency.

EDIT: I recommend reading the Google SRE book or the famous "tale at scale" article.

https://www.barroso.org/publications/TheTailAtScale.pdf
zero support for this thesis in the article
> The broader problem is that the government, courts, police and everyone else who is otherwise in charge of enforcing rights in this country does not know the first thing about technology.

Politicians might not, but the government apparatus does. There's a reason 3GPP/ITU for years have built backdoors in telecommunication networks. It is simply that the IETF folks building atop Packet Switched Networks are putting up brave resistance: https://archive.is/iawrM
Working harder and smarter are two different things. Productivity has nothing to do with working harder, otherwise china's labor force would be the most productive in the world. It's not. Mexico has twice the productivity of China

Most productive countries are those who work smarter. See the list for yourself

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_labour_...
Which, of course, is a lathe US company. Not the ne of these small EU companies referenced. Of course, this is by design.
Replika wasn't even ChatGPT, imagine that + voice synthesis...
What are you suggesting? That these companies have poor system design? That they don't need to hire smart technically minded engineers because their problems aren't technical?
The business goal of interviews is not to select the best one, but to narrow down candidates with an acceptable fit for the role.

An interview system with a high false-negative rate is not seem as problematic if the false-positive rate is also low. The cost of not hiring a very good candidate is way lower than the cost of hiring a bad one (even considering the opportunity cost in most cases).
I want to see it in the editor when I'm making changes or creating CSS.
The US also initiated many famines. For instance, there was one in 2020 that US policy contributed to.
The basic idea is that a rogue superintelligence could turn us all into paper clips. After all it only takes one.