skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I own a pretty old car, so haven't got the bells and whistles. But I've just rented a new model Camry for the last 3 weeks, and here's my takeaways:

Android Auto is much better than Apple Carplay. Carplay was janky and the navigation stuttered. Also the layout of the on-screen UI was weird, and poorly thought out. As usual I think, Android Auto is probably designed to work ok on any size screen and gracefully degrade. Carplay is probably impeccable on a few cars and crap on the rest (like this Camry).

But my pain point is that it would be easy not to notice that this exists. My mum for example has a very new car, I'm sure it supports Android Auto, I'd be shocked if she knew it exists. GM could make plenty of money from people who don't know Android Auto/Carplay exists (or from those that prefer to not need a phone), while still supporting Auto/Carplay for those that want it.
True and it’s good money. Better money would be tech money.
what a weird modern version of religious war
Okay
Nvm
If you don't think the US economy didn't grow enormously from 1800-1914, what can I say?

> If there is no 'extra' money when we need it, economies stagnate

The banks create money as needed through supply & demand. This is complex subject, but the fact that the US economy thrived from 1800 to 1914 shows your dire predictions to be simply lacking.

> class mobility

Was very robust in the 1800s. The US moved scores of millions of people from poverty into the middle class, and a lot into the wealthy class.

May I recommend reading some history books about 19th century America.

> it happens to be the least bad option that we have come up with so far.

Your dire predictions didn't happen in the 19th century, and we didn't have endemic inflation.
A robotic brain would know that we've taken this premise as far as we can and reached perfection. Absolute perfection, even. Now, pass me the butter.
It's great that you've trained them to be able to drive for so long so you can relax and get some sweet frags
As a skeptic, this reads like "look how great Google search is at finding stackoverflow answers already; imagine how good it will be in a decade!"
Take a look at the 2 listed references by Parks and McClellan. They are considered seminal papers in the field of signal processing and are the basis of the function you linked. And they will probably appeal to your math background more.

The name of the algorithm is Parks McClellan filter design, or sometimes you will see it named firpm, as popularized by MATLAB.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks%E2%80%93McClellan_filter....
I’ve found that AI prompting has been nearly as time consuming as doing it myself from the get-go. This includes content writing and visual art. Maybe I’m an edge case. I’m not a skilled programmer. However, I’m a decent writer and painter. At most, it generates quick, solid, though generic ideas. Unfortunately, I have to do a lot of reverse engineering and curation to make any valuable changes. Try writing a tech article about, say, an iPad, and it will give you a lot of generic, but well-written content devoid of any tech specs. Add tech specs and use lose the style. What should be a simple fluff piece takes a couple of hours to get the balance right. Or try creating a visual work of, say, two people running down a street, holding hands, and unless you’re very open to interpretation, many hours later, you still won’t have anything approximating what you imagined. You change the “camera” angle, and they’re no longer holding hands. You add a small detail, and the entire scene morphs, etc. I’m saying this as someone who also uses weights and negative prompts. I look forward to further advances, though I’m perfectly happy if these skills remain in the realm of humans.

I will admit chatgpt and copilot are very good at offering up bite-sized pieces of code, like particular objects and functions as well as templates.
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In JavaScript (the wild west of programing languages) when I see a library that exports names in non-idiomatic ways, or otherwise has a non-idiomatic API, I usually search for a different library.
Andy Pavlov, mentioned something similar. Where, he advocated Relational database to solve most of the graph database utilities. He also made a bet, if graph databases spawn a legit usecase by 2030, that he would change his CMU profile picture.
I implemented pretty much exactly this setup once.

For what it's worth, there's a lot of footguns with this approach. You need to be careful about infinite cycles and things like that. You also just do not get the ergonomics of using a query language that is meant for graph data. Once you get it all setup and experience the issues you will no doubt be able to build whatever you want but there's a learning curve.

In the end we switched to using Neo4j and were able to build new features a lot more quickly than we would've been able to on Postgres.

It's also worth mentioning that there are many ways to store graph data, and using an "adjacency list" like is being done here may or may not be the best way for your use case. Neo4j I think uses a different approach where nodes store info about edges they are connected to directly, so you don't even need to hit an index to follow an edge.
It's not a Taylor series. It's a series, but a minimax approximation, not Taylor.

Taylor series are essentially “Give me a polynomial p(x). At x=a, I want the value to be b, the first derivative to be c, the second derivative to be d, etc. etc.”. (Usually, a=0, also known as a MacLaurin series.) This gives you a _great_ approximation in the immediate vicinity of a, but usually a pretty horrible one the further away you get; in a sense, you spend all your approximation energy on that single point.

Minimax approximations are “Give me a polynomial p(x). Over the area x=[a,b], I want it to never stray far from f(x); give me the one that minimizes the worst-case distance”. (The distance function is usually either the absolute error |p(x)-f(x)|, or the relative error |p(x)-f(x)|/|f(x)|, but you can have an arbitrary weight function in some implementations.) So you consider everything in that area to be important, not just one point.

Taylor series are simple to calculate (which can help if you need to calculate the coefficients on the-fly, or by hand), good for analysis, and easy to understand, so most engineers will have heard of them in calculus. The Remez algorithm, on the other hand, essensially requires a computer, and is significantly more complicated to understand and implement. (Remez is not the only way to generate minimax polynomials; Chebychev polynomials come close, and I believe Sollya uses some other algorithm.) Both will converge to the actual function giving infinite terms, but minimax polynomials will be _much_ closer in most real-life situations. Also, if you are really pressed for it, you can have rational minimax polynomials (p(x)/q(x)) that approximate tricky functions _really_ well even at low degree, but of course at the cost of a division.
> I don't understand where these long haul truckers find their stamina.

I've spent quite a lot of time driving on I5 in the western US which has a very high volume of truck traffic. I can pretty confidently say that a lot of these truck drivers do not have the stamina you think they have. Many of them are driving just as fatigued and unfocused as you describe yourself being. I make it a point to avoid going over either the south California mountain passes, or the north California ones, after dark, for that very reason.
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PostgreSQL is my love. Thanks for all developers.

Do not blame the tool if you feel it doesn't fit your niche. Blame yourself first, and try to use it the right way.
The density is astonishing too. A 2000MW plant is small compared to the equiv solar/wind. Not saying not have solar/wind(the opposite) but when a city needs a lot of energy, nuclear is often a really good source. The build times are almost all red tape too and that is something governments have chose to do.
They're talking about the policy for a car "chase". They edited their post to explain how the policy was broken.
It's not the same Spotify account you login to your phone with, or it only supports logging into one account?
Copying a quote from that "slow thinking" post because I hadn't seen it and I think is valuable:

> People say that your first reaction is the most honest, but I disagree. Your first reaction is usually outdated. Either it’s an answer you came up with long ago and now use instead of thinking, or it’s a knee-jerk emotional response to something in your past.

Fascinating trying to think of questions people might ask, how I might respond, and why.
What does "understand dependencies" mean to you? What kinds of things would help you understand dependencies better?
Based on various scientific studies, it takes at least 10-15 minutes for (cont)
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I haven't read the decision, but the case seems to revolve around Gonzales wanting to legally compel the town / its police to perform their advertised jobs. While the actions of Castle Rock do seem highly unreasonable, trying to legally compel performance would seem untenable in general - would this right also apply to a person in an area with an understaffed or nonexistentant police department?

Whereas the duty I was talking about was just the basic standard of performing every job - when you don't do your job to the satisfaction of whomever is paying you, then you get fired or otherwise let go. (Of course this is modulo needing to get rid of police unions, or at least needing to seriously reform them so that bad employees will indeed be fired).

Furthermore Gonzales's argument would seem to rely on the idea that police are a special type of citizen that carries specific responsibilities/capabilities, which runs contrary to removing the privileges they abuse.
"How do banks work" is one of those practical things that probably deserves more explicit overview in middle- and high-school, but failing that, It's a Wonderful Life came out almost 80 years ago. So I don't think some scrutiny of bank customers here is a very severe sort of victim blaming (edit: especially if blaming the Twitter-blathering VCs inciting the run more than the individual companies). The bank screwed up. People noticed. Months passed without it being a HUGE panic deal. Then a bunch of influential people did their best to make it even worse, before being mostly foiled by the government, who kicked the can down the road.

On the other hand, 80 years is a long time. Maybe Hollywood needs to do a remake. With Marvel characters.
Same here. The vim muscle memory is too strong.
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Eh it will just be like text. Consider the source, and otherwise assume everything you read on the internet is a lie.

That being said, it seems many "new" internet users havent figured that out for text yet, which is worrying.
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Uh, PG&E can't just raise their rates. They are regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission and have to get approval for rate changes. But thats not really the point.

If I am choosing between a service provider that has a history of making large pricing changes to customers and one that has a history of pricing stability, I'm going to take the pricing stability every time. Why is AWS so much better at this than GCP? Is AWS simply better at doing financial modeling and projections? Does no one at GCP think about margins before they launch a product?

I think it is more fundamental than that. I think AWS has a respect for its customers that GCP lacks.

For GCP, customers are an inconvenient detail that they would prefer to ignore if they could. If there is pain that will either be felt by GCP or by its customers, GCP tends to push it onto its customers. In contrast AWS goes out of its way to not do that to its customers. Old workloads continue to run. Prices are stable. They treat their customers with respect.

There's a number of things with Amazon's employee culture that I find distasteful. But when they say "they work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust," that is clearly demonstrated in a way that is simply lacking at GCP.
TL;DR: "journalist" rides on the AI hype bandwagon to get eyeballs on an article about a software that churns variables using to calculate which horse is the fastest on races.

> In the early 1970s — armed with sharpened pencils, a mini calculator, large sheets of paper, tall stacks of the Daily Racing Form and a bottle of Jack Daniel’s — Beyer performed his painstaking work. By carefully and thoroughly accounting for the biases of tracks and adjusting horses’ clocked times accordingly, he collapsed the complications down into a single number: a speed figure. Speed figures allowed for reliable comparisons between California horses and Florida horses, between five furlongs and six, between a lowly claiming race and a big-money graded stakes.

> [...] The approach became so ingrained that Beyer Speed Figures now appear in bold type in the Daily Racing Form, alongside every horse’s every race. The CAW syndicates, McKeever’s EquinEdge and many other recent projects are direct descendants of Beyer’s pencil-and-paper calculations.

> [...] McKeever gave me access to EquinEdge, and I fired it up one night in my apartment. I also deposited $100 on a betting site and pulled up a multicast of live races around the country. I intended to follow EquinEdge’s suggestions to make my wagers.

> [...] I’d cashed four juicy tickets in a row and, within less than half an hour, doubled my money.

> [...] The next night was different. Longshot after longshot, none of them on my radar or the algorithm’s, pulled away down the stretch. At one point, I lost three consecutive races on photo finishes. My winnings evaporated and I went bust. God is dead.
Why do these arguments not tell us how it will happen?

Show us the steps the AI will take to turn the earth into a playground. Give us a plausible play by play so that we might know what to look for.

Does it gain access to nukes? How does it keep the power on? How does it mine for coal? How does it break into these systems?

How do we not notice an AI taking even one step towards that end?

Has ChatGPT started to fiddle with the power grid yet?
As someone who ran for a state-level elected office, I can tell you that campaign finance violations are not "a dime a dozen".
I thought this story was going to be about someone adding a dummy to the passenger seat to get into the HOV lane…
If the charges do turn out to be minor I too will agree he shouldn't be prosecuted. We just don't know. At the moment I think it's disingenous and diminishing to assume it's something like a parking ticket.

> I personally believe we should give much more affordances.

Yeah, totally at an impasse here. I'm not American, but it seems very un-American to me to consider political leaders part of an untouchable special class. I'm fairly certain one of the founding ideals of America was that there should be no kings. I agree that they should be respected, but that requires holding them to a higher standard. You don't become senator or president and then can do whatever you want. A country can only ever be as good as its leaders.
Yes if you pledge it as a collateral. In such a case you’d have a margin call if paper losses exceeded the agreed upon thresholds. In much of finance bonds and CDs are treated as cash equivalents because it’s easier to move a 100k single bond than make a wire transfer.
No but a bank having poor risk management is a very justifiable reason to take all your money out of it.
There can be multiple reasons for heavy cars to be bad. Additionally, extra heavy cars wear roads much faster.

It's nice to have a way of recuperating energy but it doesn't solve everything.
ah yeah that's a fair point. Look at Skype, they've been doing video calls since approximately the beginning of the public Internet. Yet zoom was still able to become the dominant cross-platform video chat app. So that "build in private for 6 months and be ahead of your competitors" isn't a one size fits all tactic. "doing it better" is another good moat.
The bonds aren't worthless. The important distinction of the new short-term Fed lending program is that the Fed loans against the face value of the bonds, rather than the market value.
This was only the case in Europe. US cars instead come with a Slacker account, and you need to associate your Spotify account to access it, same with Apple Music.

Not sure if the associations are per-user or per-car, though. I believe there was work to move them along with some other settings to your "user profile" and would go with you across cars.
I'm on the same boat. Every time I asked it to provide C# code it gives me back crap. Nine out of 10 times it’s using non-existing libraries. The same thing happened the other day when I asked an SQL Query. I’m still on ChatGPT 3.5 though, perhaps 4 is way better.
do you not like it?
> part of the implicit risk in using someone else's computers

I have not followed this space for almost a decade now but I assume that on-premise costs have also gone up in the last couple of years. They had to do that in order to compensate for the higher energy costs (especially here in Europe) and for the higher employees-related costs (even though those costs might be easing right now).

On the other hand I do not know how the higher cloud costs compare to the (presumably) higher on-premise costs in terms of percentages.
Was NYC ever actually not cool? It has financial ups and downs, but it has always been the place where real ambitious people go to do cool shit, right?
Yup. AWS never raises prices, assuming one ignores that one time they added the per-transaction fee to S3 shortly after launch, but I think everyone thought was a rather understandable change.

Conventional wisdom is that AWS is more reliable to trust to build on top of. My interactions buying cloud services is that the AWS account managers are more trustworthy and reliable (although they spend less time building personal rapport and small talk). And this kind of thing just confirms that.
I can see how this possibly won't scale compared to dedicated graph dbs.

I'm interested in what the fundamental difference is in those graph dbs because rdbms seem so close I don't see why it isn't just provided as an extra layer on top.

As described in the article, any graph can already be built with an rbms, so why for example does neo4j need to be standalone and can't possibly be a layer on top of postgres to leverage existing relationships? Any good articles on that?
AFAIK, the Fed has agreed to lend banks cash on a short-term basis against their devalued (hardly worthless) bonds at par. If you have a source for the Fed agreeing to buy bonds I'd be very interested to read it, because AFAIK the Fed is selling close to $100B of bonds a month.
> I'm 100% sure this sales tactic was coming from a manager that was almost certainly coming from Amazon corporate.

This reminded me of when I recently helped my mother-in-law cancelling all her Amazon subscriptions she forgot she had, they make it VERY easy to not find out about the different ways you spend money on Amazon. For instance you have to log into the accounts for different countries separately to see that you have Prime subscriptions in those countries.
Do you have depositors expecting >2%? If not I wouldn't worry too much.
OH WE’RE WELL PAST THAT JERRY.

Kills me every time haha
Banks also have a MASSIVE amount of CRE Commercial Real Estate (office buildings) that are completely empty, without lease payments flowing in, and since COVID-19 has shifted knowledge work to remote-first in many cities, these office will be empty for a long time.

The CRE bubble is going to burst in the next 18 months as the 5-year commercial office leases signed in 2017+ are all going to come to an end, and the banks will be realizing these losses starting now and the next few years. Its going to get ugly soon.
> Sweden has some of the highest suicide rates in the world

Urban myth. Sweden is #44 according to Wikipedia.
Ok but that's a little different than saying you can't cut the traversal short.

If I'm traversing ancestors (let's say) until I find one that doesn't satisfy a condition, it'll bail out then. I get that this doesn't serve all uses cases, but it isn't a small thing either.
Oh no, we’d have to add 0.13% to the national debt to bail them out.
It shouldn't matter. If I want my money, in part or in full, you should give it to me.
How much empathy do we exercise towards bacteria?
I hope not. Interest rates need to rise. Yes, you're gonna make some people lose a lot of money. But the economy cannot continue with inflation this high and we certainly do not want to go back into pre-2022 craziness where money is thrown around at complete nonsense because it's so cheap.
It's done over an adhoc wifi network, not bluetooth.
user-created loot boxes are the pinnacle of the current gaming environment
So you're saying there's a discount
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Yes, "doesn't everyone use adblocker?". Possibly. Maybe that's why I didn't get more money. I certainly use an adblocker. But there's clearly some subset of people who will see the ads. Some company policy bans adblockers. Or someone's using a public computer to do some browsing.

Or they're browsing on a phone. There are fewer adblock solutions for phones, to the point where adoption is basically nonexistant (I don't have data to back this up).

So seeing as how I dislike ads, why would I subject anybody else to them, if the money it gives me is insignificant to me?

It's the golden rule. Don't do unto others what you wouldn't want done to you.
This sounds like GM is committing brand suicide by actively making itself unappealing to Gen Z.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/06/gen-z-survey-says...

I love Android, but I also know how to read.
Pre-orders for the EV Blazer started recently. My retired GM-employed father went down to sign up, because if he didn't want it come delivery, I said we'd take it. Parents have a new ICE Blazer, and it would fit our needs well as an EV.

But no CarPlay? You can keep your Blazer, Chevy, we're going to go buy a Kia.
But then if you take another moment to think about it a bit more, it turns out that financial services is 20% of the market cap of the s&p500; 20% of all corporate income; and 7.5% of total GDP in a $20+ trillion economy.. so maybe 42B isn't as much money as it seems.
What have you produced with it? I’m genuinely curious. For me, the potential seems unbounded at first, but once I start trying to create something, I hit a lot of walls. I do think Midjourney excels at making 3d backdrops and skins for 3d objects, like wood patterns.
Pre-orders for the EV Blazer started recently. My retired GM-employed father went down to sign up, because if he didn't want it come delivery, I said we'd take it. Parents have a new ICE Blazer, and it would fit our needs well as an EV.
But no CarPlay? You can keep your Blazer, Chevy, we're going to go buy a Kia.