skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use Firecracker to provider greater isolation and more capabilities in dev envs. For example, one thing you often want in your dev env is to run Docker containers, but to do that you need some permissions that usually only a root user has. If we used Docker to virtualize dev envs then we would have several options to enable that:

- make dev envs privileged containers, effectively giving any random user root control over the machine where Hocus is hosted

- mount the Docker agent from host into the container, but that also allows the user to gain root control over the host machine

- use Linux user namespaces, and give you a root user with limited capabilities inside your dev env. That's actually what Gitpod - another Github Codespaces alternative - does. That root can't do everything though. It can't run Kubernetes, LocalStack, or the Elastic stack, because it can't modify some system limits.

A dev env backed by Firecracker is a full-fledged virtual machine that has none of the aforementioned drawbacks. It has some performance tradeoffs though, but we are working to minimize them as much as possible.
Tesla is the largest automaker by market cap because of speculation.
I'm a fan of using two translation units:

* one TU with code that is fast to compile and modified often

* another TU with code that is slow to compile but modified rarely

I still use header files, but the fast-to-compile and modified-often code goes directly into headers, so I can still organize my code into separate files.
Whether this bothers you really depends on the country. It would both me in Germany where there are still many unlimited roads, but anywhere else? Not sure ... But even then it was limited to 150 before. Not a big difference. And a follow distance of 1 is not safe in any case.
Maybe AI bros could explain why computer vision still sucks so much?
Lmao in your own personal world perhaps. Out of spec has a basic freeway test on youtube - most cars ping pong within lanes, shut off when the road curves too much and/or only work on select mapped sections of freeways.

You can diss the wipers or parking sensors but pretending that the competition is anywhere near autopilot, especially the newest one based on FSD code, is hilarious.
Yes that support is still not complete. When you pass a Pandas dataframe into Scikit you are implicitly doing df.values which loses all the dataframe metadata.

There is a library called sklearn-pandas which doesn’t seem to be mainstream and dev has stopped since 2022.
Ask HN: Do we need 100B+ parameters in a large language model?
Cerebras-GPT, DataBricks's Dolly performs reasonably well on many instruction-based tasks while being significantly smaller than GPT-3, challenging the notion that is big always better!

From my personal experience, the quality of the model depends a lot on the fine-tuning data as opposed to just the sheer size. If you choose your retraining data correctly, you can fine-tune your smaller model to perform better than the state-of-the-art GPT-X. The future of LLMs might look more open-source than imagined 3 months back!

Would love to hear everyone's opinions on how they see the future of LLMs evolving? Will it be few players (OpenAI) cracking the AGI and conquering the whole world or a lot of smaller open-source models which ML engineers fine-tune for their use-cases?

P.S. I am kinda betting on the latter and building UpTrain (https://github.com/uptrain-ai/uptrain), an open-source project which helps you collect that high quality fine-tuning dataset
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malloc() and the kernel would need to conspire to know this before you call read, when malloc() gives you back the memory in the first place
I can think of about 50,000 things we can remove from EVs to make them cheaper. I can't believe out of all the things they put into an EV, removing AM radio is the one thing that will make them cheaper.

Does everybody need all of the infotainment shit? No. But will they make an EV without one? No. Most infotainment setups suck ass, but everybody still wants one so bad. Most factory stereos are total crap, even the branded, "good" ones.

Does everybody need 1200lb-ft of torque? Dual motors? Massaging, heated, seats, and whale penis leather? AWD that you use maybe one time per year, when you should probably stay home anyways?

The manufacturers here are chasing profits, not trying to make affordable cars. They're not going to pull out the AM radio and pass the savings on to you. Nobody ever passes the savings on to you.
I sort of agree with you in the most extreme case, ie "computers taking our jobs" means AGI. I'm not even sure that LLMs take you to AGI fwiw. Obviously we also need to define what we mean by AGI too.

Anyway, all of that aside my point is this. AGI-aside, the current tools, scaled up and improved, will have a big impact on productivity eventually. When I think of the toil so much development involves now, especially for your average mid-level engineer, a lot of that could easily be eliminated. That's a lot of man hours right there. I can also see it as a knowledge base on steroids. Large orgs are so hampered by fragmented docs, misalignment etc, that this could really help to build business and domain insights.

I see any number of transformative business /dev products to start appearing soon. The level of investment, and the technical progress, make this inevitable.
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Coming up with objectives or deciding what is appropriate (i.e. what to backpropagate against) is a function of intelligence not accounted for in current AI design.

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The tests using a wheelie bin and…person…seem really basic.

How could this pass testing?
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I'm sorry but you're wrong. Even Ford's CEO admitted they are way behind.
Tesla isn't the best but they can fail quick and learn from it fast. The reason you see so much hate is probably it comes from the Short and Distort playbooks from hedge funds who want them to fail.

Even this guy who has no skin in the game knows how far behind everyone else is and laughs at all you haters.
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The best offsites I've gone on have been working for charities/community service. Better than hanging out with drinks or doing some other random 'fun' activities by far.

I know that's not exactly the question, but adding that donating labor is also enjoyable to many workers. In my case the best was at the SF-Marin food bank, and Feed My Starving Children was fun too. Even picking up trash around a neighborhood with a work center was okay, nice to get outside.
Yeah, give laptops a good cleanout every couple of years even if you're a non-smoking obsessive clean freak. My T42 started acting weird a while back and opened it up...numerous odd places clogged with lint, dust and what I assume is cat hair. Worked fine after degunking.
You rely on the power grid for gasoline too. Gas doesn't pump without electricity. Also, refineries are a more concentrated source of failure than power stations and a grid.
> the iPhone had a ton of issues when it launched

Tesla came out with their first car in 2008, so we are not talking about a "first gen iPhone" with the Model 3 (which came out in 2017). The point is that Tesla is squandering their huge lead.
> So if you have the superior product, but the lesser position in the market, then get busy marketing.

Easier said than done I imagine. Big brand VPN providers charge several times more for the "same" service, or make you sign up with 3 year commitment to even come close to Mullvad's monthly pricing.
The HUD in that video reminds me of cartridge tilting on an N64 to make the models glitch out.

https://youtu.be/7DJQb_9CVHc?t=229

Funny in a youtube video, not so much in a $50k car.
Crypto isn't legally considered a security.
Not only this, but the features have rapidly transitioned from fancy features unique to Tesla to table stakes features of other manufacturers.
Mercedes-Benz Cars reports 520,100 global car sales during the third quarter of 2022.. according to some random site.

I know that the vast majority of merc sales were not EVs but i think they are making enough to know hows its done.

Vertical integration seems tesla main moat.
Man, what a coincidence. My neighbor across the street just bought a Tesla this weekend. Having just returned from driving Hyundai IONIQ 5s, I of course scurried over to check it out. He's thinking about returning it. Why? No parking sensors. Seriously, that's the reason he gave, unprompted from me. He seems otherwise happy with the car, but for this sole feature he might take it back.

IONIQ 5 has parking sensors, BTW. Yes, I pointed this out to my neighbor. :-)
There's already some work to that direction with cloudflare workers... but I really differs on why people would look for that; in a bit more convoluted case, for example, it would be destined for browsing nested pages of instagram, facebook, reddit, and so on... so it's bit difficult to that, especially with things that require auth...

much more a coordination problem that an engineering one
Volkswagen is up to 572K EV sales per year despite only starting to focus on the category in 2017.
Half of the Left Alliance either voted against it or abstained. They're not one of the big 3 parties, but they have enough seats in parliament to have an effect on things.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20020423
And GM has decided to force you to use their software and not plug in Android on all upcoming EVs.
Docker is used for running the control plane.
I'd encourage you to read further. Switzerland is an exception to the rule

https://twitter.com/SteveRattner/status/1640733289722920963
Can the cars sold without the sensors plausibly be retrofitted later by Tesla service? That would be a good gesture and solution but depends on how completely they removed it I suppose.
M1 won't boot without internal storage.

The point of the parent comment was not about saving data from the drive, but that the devices are landfill material once they hit tbw limits on their drives, even if they were otherwise in good condition.
Buggy? In what way?
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But radar only does anything for detecting cars in front of you, so the only deficiency by removing it is using vision to perform that distance-keeping when using traffic-aware cruise control, which is not a pain point in my 2022 M3LR even in the rain.
Wow, just wow. I have no doubt that Google has a lot of excess to cut, but IMO I always see it as the death knell for large companies when they start a nickel-and-dime approach to cost cutting. I can certainly see the argument for cuts where they are needed to improve focus, and lots of the FAANGs had too many "frilly" expenses in the past 5-10 years, but cutting expenses that improve your employee's productivity is just totally boneheaded. I'm reminded of when Bernie Ebbers (of WorldCom scandal fame) railed that employees were "stealing coffee" because the amount of coffee used per filter was out of whack - nevermind that WorldCom was about to collapse in a giant accounting fraud. Obviously I don't believe the fraud aspect applies to Google, but the "focusing on the wrong shit" definitely does.
Whether your car is electric or not, you're relying on an external power distribution system to keep it working. Gas has to be moved to you just as much as electricity does.
Police don't have immunity for the crimes they commit against citizens. Prosecutions are rare, but not unheard of.

And the problem isn't how to solve disputes between people who can solve problems without resorting to violence. The problem is how to deal with people who can't, or don't want to.

Someone has to use violence to resist violence. If you can think of a better way to govern that group, great, but just proposing to eliminate them entirely is a child's dream.

Even the book you mentioned acknowledges that. In the chapter Individual Security in a Stateless Society, it says:

> The inhabitants of the anarchic society would most likely wish to develop systematic institutions ... [that] serve the function that police serve in governmental systems.
This is akin to the keyboard argument in the comment you are replying to.
I believe you mean "you have to opt in to their ads, and there is no ad replacement feature", unless something has changed very recently.
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Haven't read any comment that points to a user actually trying it; does someone have a link? Or has tried it?
> physical buttons

I'd pay extra for that
If I'm getting nervous from Civil Unrest (or just a really bad snowstorm coming up in Canada), I can always grab a few 5-gallon containers, fill them up at a Gas Station, and keep them in my garage just in case, along with filling up my car. If nothing happens, I'll just use them up. If something does happen... I don't want to be the guy with the EV trying to get away when everyone else is also trying to use the EV charging stations for the same reason. If the charging stations are even functional.

Plus, an electric car (or any valuable car) is prime target during civil unrest. It's fun to destroy expensive stuff. It's not fun to destroy a mid-2000s Civic.
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MidJourney gives by far the prettiest results of all the text-to-image models however it's obvious they have fine-tuned it to that generic ArtStation digital art look.
Yes and no.

IMO the major benefit of parking sensors is that they see things that the driver and the cameras can’t. Not because of perceptual or image processing issues — because the obstacles are obscured by the rest of the car.

So surely a good enough machine vision algorithm could do the same things if it had camera on the bumper, but they would get dirty and be more expensive than ultrasonic sensors on the bumpers.

How many times have you not been sure whether there’s an obstacle right in front of your car because you can’t see there?

(Maybe a really nice mapping algorithm could remember what’s in the way, but that’s not terribly useful when un-parking if obstacles move, or when parking and approaching obstacles of which the driver and the cameras have never gotten a good view.)
Yes but China appears to be sorting our shit too.

And very effectively.
This is really impressively bad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1g1okoQJEE). The glitching alone is enough to not trust this thing one bit, but it's not even able to prevent other predicted cars from clipping into each other, detecting a person right behind the car and so on. What a joke. Combining all the raw camera feeds into a virtual overhead view would be so much more useful that this computed mess.
It more sounds like overly strict bean counters have won some internal battle at Tesla, thereby ensuring cost cutting measures are winning out over everything else. Regardless of brand damage, etc.

Did they have a change of CFO or similar in the last 6 months?
> Tesla is behaving like a company which doesn't realize the competition is catching up fast.

Should their market cap be $600b, higher, or lower given this statement?...
This mentality is exactly why the west will continue to face a worsening loneliness crisis and worsening social cohesion. The idea that developing relationships requires some kind of sacrifice and actual human interaction in the context of performing a larger goal is for some reason treated as completely alien.
The cars without sensors could be retrofitted with sensors, but those sensors are no longer manufactured. You could maybe take some from scrapped cars, or design an entirely new but compatible sensor.
Have you looked into GiveCamp (https://givecamp.org/)? It's essentially a hackathon where you build a website for a nonprofit.
> Lots and lots of natural resources facilitating lots of businesses which aren't really feasible in say, Germany, France, Japan.

This doesn't seem to be a big factor in the boom industries in the US: tech, finance, pharma. It does matter for construction, the biggest employer.

The US still seems like a more welcoming place than western Europe. Or at least you can take comfort in a suburban home and drive to people/institutions that are from your immigrant group.

We have an immigrant ethos that exceeds that of the UK, France, and Germany. Plus, our large number of decent universities means the masters/F1->OPT->H1B pipeline works well for many educated workers.
Predominant does not require sole. And, I hazard a guess that the regulations around guns are... different. To say the least. Just scanning their regulations listed on Wikipedia, it is a very different thing than seen in the US. Such that your comment is clearly bad faith.
Private copy levy is so insignificant that it's just weird to mention it. We're talking about a tenth of a percent of the price of a MB here.
Blackmail is a crime, so this would be a pretty safe bet.
Here you go - it might not help much, this is a pretty specialized field of network engineering. If you were in a service provider, you were likely aware of this tech otherwise probably not at all.

From my head:

LDP = Label Distribution Protocol

RSVP = ReSource Reservation Protocol

PCE = Path Computation Element

BGP = Border Gateway Protocol

L2VPN = Layer 2 Virtual Private Network

IGP = Interior Gateway Protocol

MPLS = Multi Protocol Label Switching

TE = Traffic Engineering

FRR = Fast ReRoute

SR = Segment Routing

SP = Service Provider
Does this remote usecase justify it being a bultin feature of every car instead of a dedicated device that only the people that need it would buy?
> NordVPN has spent an incredible amount of money getting their name out there.

I think you misspelled "spamming ads everywhere".
This gave me some nostalgic vibes from http://ro.me
Firmer chocolatey user here. It did the job but was a far cry from a Linux package manager. I use winget now instead when I have to use Windows. Still prefer Linux.
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

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Why paid masterminds are mental masturbation
Tesla's first car was a six-figure performance vehicle for the rich.
It's goal was to make EV's cool and attractive, not for the average consumer.

The model 3 was the FIRST Tesla that the average car consumer could consider actually getting.
Serious question.. Is the software on the Taycan or Ionic a better experience than in the Tesla?
You assume that nobody would eat you. (which is probably fine in practice, but in theory...)
Just test drove an Ioniq 6 the other day. Insanely fast, beautiful and the software is pretty good too. Model 3 doesn't even compete.
I'd like to know this too! I have a Polestar 2 and with the recent software updates, the only thing I feels it is beaten on with the Tesla is that it is a little less efficient.

But for me for looks, interior etc, the Polestar is miles ahead of the Model 3.
Being stuck with a 256GB machine for a long time is not great.

Apple should start at 512GB. It doesn't meaningfully increase their BOM, and gets rid of a lot of user frustration.

Also, I notice you had a 2014 machine, so you skipped the keyboard issues that plagued Apple until ~2021.
I think I found it!

https://rtraba.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/golem-xiv.pdf
While a container ship doesn't have a keel per-se, it does have about 200m of flat plate length sticking into the water. At small angles, that flat plate can actually have a decent lift to drag ratio. Historic sailing vessels also made do without a modern wing-keel, so our current plan is that the container ship can crab into the wind by less than a degree to produce all of the side force required to maintain a steady course.
Yes. See this comment [0] Another HNer with API access tried just ingesting the paper without context and some instructions and model-temp=0 and got better results.

I've also found in my area that it'll happily hallucinate stuff -- after all, it has zero actual understanding, it just predicts the most likely filler in the given context.

Tamping that down and just getting it to cut out the BS/overconfidence response patterns and reply with "I know X and I don't know Y" would be incredibly useful.

When we get back an "IDK", we can probe in a different way, but falsely thinking that we know something when we are actually still ignorant is worse than just knowing we've not yet got an answer.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35392685
Yeah it's incredible they shipped it like that. I bet they planned to ship it with the FSD visualization (which is very impressive), but it got delayed so much that they used that atrocious legacy visualization to meet whatever "deadline" they had.
It's not available for smartphones.
By what metric in the world is Tesla the largest car company? Ford, Toyota, and Chevrolet each produced triple the number of cars over the past year as compared to Tesla.

https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2022-us-vehicle-sales-figures-...
File backed memory is "less" than heap memory, because it can be thrown away when needed instead of being swapped out to disk.

And because reading the file probably allocated file backed pages for it anyway unless you used O_DIRECT (and profiled it first.)

There's also wired/mlock() memory which is "worse" than regular memory because it can't be swapped/evicted at all.
Musk in trying to cut costs is going too far in replacing hardware with software. It was the same with Lidar. I don't know why he is okay with car being as good as humans when with sensors like lidar self driving cars can be better than humans.
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