skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CCS standard has "HLC - High Level Communication", which is available for both AC and DC charging. While i'm not interested in paying $700 for ISO 15118, I imagine clients [cars] are set up to break the current flow if anything out of the ordinary happens or if the input power doesn't match what the station is saying it's sending in an instant.
I think their company or institution should be paying for the assistant, just as they pay for the office, security, executive, HR, etc.
I don’t those state actors are releasing models as open and free though, as parent was looking for.
The path of a generalist or the joy of being an amateur
U.S. Inflation Eased to 5% in March
New side project idea: OS that’s a word processor that runs in ring 0 on bare metal that you dual boot into :)
How are folks parsing PDFs with GPT4? Every 3rd party tool that supposedly uses GPT has failed for me on even the most regular of PDF bank statements. Currently I am parsing the text contents manually using pdfbox to reconstruct historical bank statements, but this is error-prone due to page breaks and run-on lines.
I was poking around the blog - there's a duplicate sentence on the "Range Anxiety is Bullshit - Part 1" page:

I work as an interaction designer and prototyper at Normally, a data research and design studio.
I work as an interaction designer and prototyper at Normally, a data research and design studio.
This is obviously incorrect. It sounds like you are assuming that the ONLY significance of swearing on a bible is that you believe that God will punish you? Well, that’s wrong, the ritual has other significance.
> If there's not a supernatural enforcer then there are no consequences to lying/breaking your oath. Interestingly, it looks to me that even atheists are endorsing this false idea here!

Most Christian theology holds that God is the present age is not going smite people for breaking such oaths. I think you are right to frame this ritually not theologically.

I would argue that purpose of swearing on an object is that it demonstrates that the oath is being made seriously, as an oath. Lying and breaking minor promises is socially acceptable in almost all human societies, and in some circumstances it is more socially acceptable to lie than be truthful. An oath is a different sort of object. An oath is something which is not socially acceptable to break, and thus swearing on an object which is deeply important to the oath taker ritually emphasizes this fact both to the oath taker themselves and to society at large.

A modernist view of rituals is that they create Schelling fences[0]. You agree to X, everyone knows you agreed to X, you know that you agreed to X, and you know that everyone knows that you agreed to X. Thus, if you do !X, you know that you have broken an important oath and everyone knows that you have broken an important oath. There is a clear line and there are mutually reenforcing internal and external pressures not to cross that line. Furthermore, if someone tells you to d !X, you have an ironclad reason to tell them no and it is much harder for them to take the rejection personally since it is personal. You can point to a public pre-commited attestation to never do !X.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)
I accessed the message through a mastodon client instead. They are a lot better at federation than the various instance sites IMO, a more consistent interface when there is no option of sending you out to a non home instance page.
I’d absolutely pay for some features of a smart washing machine, like a way of telling whether there’s a load currently running. I live in NYC where my building has one (non-commercial) W/D set for ten residents. Climbing up 6 floors with a heavy laundry basket sucks and avoiding wasteful trips would be something I would pay a huge premium for if I could add it on.
The direction that it's coming from matters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
I guess im talking about ux just as much as gameplay, it isnt that these are the only 2 possibilities its just those are the most common outcomes you see. The gamma and contrast comment was specifically because it hinges on what im pointing to, that limit isnt on pc but the extra graphics options are not available through the in game interfaces because there is little incenive to provide the extra sliders to the crowd that can make sue of them.

Apologies if you feel i misrepresented your argument, or hijacked the orivinal thesis.

Perhaps the term that would be better for what im describing is console-centric game and ux design? Its basically the windows8 problem all over again.
> it's also easy to imagine that societies who value machine learning and other engineering over feminism and other social justice studies are likely to outcompete the latter

It is also easy to imagine otherwise, eg. murderous AIs killing off humanity and other AI dystopia that many people are concerned about these days. I don't think they're likely, but as far as imagination goes, it's possible. And if that actually happens, it's arguable that wasting time over "useless" concepts in the humanities is a better survival strategy for societies.

Specifics aside, I think it's quite hilarious that people in a tech discussion forum think tech is objectively more useful to society than whatever other field that they're totally unfamiliar with.
Nice. Alas, that will probably also block fast charging on iPhone 15+: https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/20/usb-c-faster-charging-iphone-...
NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
Yeah will be good to not need R2DBC or the Rx APIs etc.
plug your own charger into the power outlet
Go for it. As another commenter mentioned, it’s a riff on Hitchhiker’s Guide
+1 from me as well for jetbrains. I simply refuse to pay subscription for software. If it does not have perpetual license of the version I am buying and one year of upgrades then it is not on my computer.
For what it worth, there actually is a separate JEP (I believe this: https://openjdk.org/jeps/429 ) for a new, scope-bases solution that promises much better performance.
Wont argue against that, every tool has its own unique benefits!
I know the exact feeling. I have over 10 years experience in tech and ~7 years in product. Typically I am looking at 2-3 offers when interviewing for a me job but this time around I methodically applied to nearly 100 jobs with only a handful of interviews and only 1 offer! (which wasn't even a tech company). I know the job market is supposedly in good place but for tech workers it seems to be the worst market I have seen since I've enter the workforce.
I'm struggling to think of any computer terms that aren't repurposed 'normal' words, initialisms, acronyms, or portmanteaus. Even the words 'computer', 'program' and 'code' are repurposed.
Andrej Karpathy has an introduction to AI series on YouTube that deserves an honorable mention.
SaaS Founders Don't Realize the Power of Reddit for Marketing, if it's used well
Over the last few months, I've realized there is a ton of untapped potential in Reddit as a marketing channel. This article primarily covers its use case for messaging, but there's a boatload of value in using it for customer research as well. Does anyone here have any experience using Reddit for marketing? Whether it be for paid/organic promotion, customer research, etc.?
https://archive.ph/lMbln
The article mmentions Moose, MFEM, OpenMC, but the really good stuff relevant for us nuclear physicist I would expect being talked about aren't mentioned: Bison, Transuranus, Marmot, Serpent, Vasp, Rattlesnake, Fispact.

On the open source open access side I'm missing Lammps or Geant4.
Your project (especially the video) made my life a little brighter. Thank you for putting it out there, and having a sense of humor :)
Mastodon's architecture inherently does not prioritize speed of first page load. Any PR would be rejected :D
These pronouns were adopted by groups like the Quakers for a long time after the KJV was made. they didn't refer to a single person with "you" because it is a kind of "royal we" where you ascribe plurality to a singular person (when they believed that only applied to God).

When the KJV uses thou or you (it uses both depending on plural vs singular pronoun references), that is because the underlying text is implying something different. Translations without this distinction are losing some of their meaning.
The sole aim of this company was to extract money from investors...somehow, they managed to raise $500mn, $159mn of which went to the founders for selling secondary shares [1].

I really don't understand people like this. It's far easier to build a serially unprofitable business and cash out your shares...ask Adam Neumann, Travis Kalanick, and the GoPuff founders. Just don't lie to investors, pretend you're building something real at least.

1- https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-outcome-health-executive...
So you are saying while he worked there he didn't do anything about the problem, and now that he's gone he's shit-talking his old employer?

I have no beef with either Filippo or Google or Go. Or you for that matter.
But this weaseling needs to stop.

Now feel free to downvote me, you hypocrites.
Isn't that what those charge-only cables that don't do data are for?
> the reality is that a lot of things have a terrible UI with unorganized data. that's why this tool is so amazing - because it doesn't matter anymore.

how naive. how do you know it's right? ah, you have to manually do the calculation anyway to confirm, this is what Tao ended up saying in a reply asking as much.

AI is great, but it's not a silver bullet, since its correctness can never be 100% under the current LLM framework.
"At this point I have lost my faith in the decision-making at Twitter," he says. "I would need some time to understand whether Twitter can be trusted again."
I'm an Affinity user too (Aff Publisher + Designer). I'm very happy with the one-time purchase. I felt a bit bad about not upgrading to V2, as I want to support the company. But GIMP works perfectly fine for me so I have not shelled out for Affinity Photo.
> wow, the site is so slow. getting "This resource could not be found" errors on reloads.

Oh dear. Federation at its finest /s

If the instance is too small, it will easily fall over under heavy traffic. If it is too big, it is highly centralized and even then it cannot scale at a maximum of 300,000+ users at the same time.

Eventually, they would all be re-centralizing back to Cloudflare. Once that goes down, all of the biggest Mastodon instances go down at once.

As for GPT-4 in mathematics (LLMs in particular), in goes inline on what I said before. Fundamentally, these LLMs cannot reason transparently, nor can it directly bring up its own mathematical proofs with thorough explanations that allows mathematicians to work with. Only low hanging fruit of summarization of existing text.

If Mr. Tao can see its limitations, surely it puts the hype of unexplainable magical black-box LLMs to rest as being great sophists and bullshit generators.
I agree - the only "public charging stations" I see on any kind of regular basis are EV charging stations. It's been a couple of decades since I remember seeing a USB one, not that I doubt their existence.
The editor payload now is loaded on demand (after you click edit), so it's truly progressively enhanced now. :)

Thank you Nils Kjellman for the patch. https://github.com/michael/editable-website/pull/8
Audit Logging in Ruby and Rails
Personalized recommendation does not address that use-case. All you need to do is check reviews, lists and favorites among users on r/books or other platforms.
Unrelated: Is there a stats/ml mastodon instance that’s comparable to Mathstodon? Hopefully populated with technical people rather than marketing and hype-oriented posts.

I find the site a pleasure to use compared to other social media. So much less annoyance with pop-ups and banners and engagement traps everywhere, albeit it’s slow to load right now.
Typically ThreadLocals are used whenever something is costly to initialize per-request. The rule of thumb is usually: you might want to use some heavy object without locking, so you stick into a ThreadLocal.

However, if suddenly you have a million threads then this optimization doesn't work anymore. Sure, the concept of ThreadLocal still works, but in practice you'll end up creating a million of these heavy objects - something you wanted to avoid!
>"The reality of being a Principal Engineer"

The reality?

>One of the most important competencies of a principal engineer is to become a force multiplier. This is a more mature definition of the ‘10x engineer’ than what the Silicon Valley ‘cargo cult’ like to use.

A 'more mature definition'? What? It's just another buzzword. What a garbage article.
You said, “the Skygod that the Christians pretend to worship on Sundays”. This comment is uncivil and does not belong here. That behavior is not acceptable and please do not behave this way in the future.

To be clear, the comment denigrates Christians, by (among other things) saying that they pretend to worship.
Looks to me like right now they chose the best (least bad?) strategy one could choose in their position of being late to the party. They focus on a way to spread the thin supply of batteries they have while covering as big a part of the market as they can, and at the same time still letting the investments they made in ICE bring some returns. They also target a segment that's mostly an afterthought for other manufacturers.

On paper they could go all in on EVs but they'd make a pitiful number while competing with the big players who have a lot more room to maneuver with their margins.

A PHEV with 200km electric range might as well be a full EV 90% of the time but being able to cover the other 10% (every other condition and anxiety) is enough to win more people over. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
The LinuxKit and scenario-based testing parts sound interesting as well.
Well, that’s on them — were they developers in any language they could have also made a mess there. I have seen my fair share of random custom maven plugins as well, which have more bugs than features.
The complexity of an async lib/framework such as i.e. projectreactor stems from that your code stops being linear. And so is the dataflow.
This is the core of the issue. You trade simplicity for performance.
Using futures you can still write simple linear code.
The problem is that thread based execution doesn’t scale well when the threads are mostly waiting for io, such as i.e. an http request.
That is, it was a problem until virtual threads arrived.
Who told you to not do stuff and why are you listening to them? Who do you report to?
Sublime Text is like the modern equivalent of the WinZip 60-day trial.
It's so wild witnessing the degradation of Twitter.
I'd add Tailscale and Fly.io to the category, too. Well-written technical blogs are truly the way to HN's heart.
"‘Sometimes Things Break’: Twitter Outages Are on the Rise" New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/technology/twitter-outage...
Yeah the Typescript port gave a good starting point. However there were some missing pieces which we had to build into our server - https://github.com/tus/tus-node-server#extensions

We plan to contribute these back to the Node TUS server after launch week.
[andrewstuart] is exactly on target with his critique. The Raspberry Pi foundation is only using the educational market as a false cover. When the pi-zero family was introduced, it looked like they were being true to their stated goals, but that didn't last long.

Furthermore, Sony is the last company I would ever expect to share those goals. Sony has always targeted the high end of the market. They are profit driven, and have NEVER been interested in the low cost educational or hobbyist value of their investments.
https://archive.is/wbwUa
We used to have 4 cores in 2012 plus and this is slightly different than 2 cores

It is double actually. Also there are CPUs with 64 cores now. Also in 2012 there were CPUs with more than 4 cores.

that's all I can notice

What you can notice is not real information when speed, cores and energy use can be quantified.
Sure, but on twitter you don't have to think about which federation you are on
The CEO, Rishi Shah, was a major rising star and was profiled by the Wall Street Journal in 2017. The journalist on the story thought something seemed fishy and started pulling threads, leading to an expose published in October of that year.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/outcome-a-hot-tech-startup-misl...
You're probably thinking about the on-board inverter, it's often referred to as a battery charger. The battery management system is entirely within the car, and the car will tell what voltage and amperage to deliver to it.

The design of CCS2 is actually quite nice. There are pins for singalling that, if broken, will immediately shut down power delivery. This means that you can just pull the cable out safely, without risking arcing or electrocuting yourself.
You can. But you also sort of want to hold anything really significant back for the next major rev.
You made me realise that it's time to drop the Raspberry Pi for new projects, much like I decided to drop Android after 13 years of use in favour of an iPhone.

Unless Raspberry Pi comes back with a roar in the next year or two, the best hardware platforms will be decommissioned x86 low-power SFF PCs, followed by cheap-ish special-purpose ARM devices if a specific application requires that. Raspberry Pi was the only well-supported, well-priced ARM machine that was truly general-purpose in my eyes.
Wouldn’t the Peter principle in this situation be more like a very good data enterer getting the job of Terence Tao?
The younger generations of coders are indeed more susceptible to hype, but if you go around dismissing things that are hyped, you're going to miss out on a lot of good things. I've got 15+ years of Java experience, and I think Go is a nice language and has some real strengths. From what I can see, the primary difference with Java isn't the build system or the binaries, it's the decision to strongly favor simplicity and readability over expressiveness. The payoff for this is that you can jump into any Go codebase and figure out what's going on fairly quickly. You don't need to pull down the source, fire up an IDE and start drawing object diagrams, you can figure out what it's doing by skimming the source on Github. I find this very useful.
Actually I was referencing the MediaTek announcement

https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2022/08/10/inte...
The way that the "hello world" in the youtube video is synced with music made me think that it would be awesome to make music this way, to translate the body movements to sound. A kind of reverse dancing — rather then dancing to the music, the music would be created to your dance.
We’re going to have to disagree. Habits are merely unformalized rituals. If you examine your day-to-day you may find many rituals you do to prepare your self for the coming moment. Adjusting your volume on your music before a coding session. I obviously don’t know you, but a lot of people like to prepare snacks before watching Youtube. There are a lot of things we think of as habit, but we prepared them literally like a ritual.
It's a surprise even if you restrict your point of view to the narrow economic interests of his employer, UCLA, who benefits from Tao's discoveries. Shelling out another 50k or so for an assistant, even if it boosts his productivity by only 10%, is a no-brainer.

If you expand your point of view to the interests of all mathematicians, or society at large, the waste here is even more extravagant.
I was thinking if the model is: buy Version 1 for $99... then next year, Version 2 is out with lots of new features for the upgrade price of $79 -- well, then nothing really stops you from releasing new features under Version 1, but at some point you kinda have to hold something back for Version 2, or there won't be any reason to upgrade. So it shifts the incentives toward holding back big new features, and away from incremental updates.
In many countries, chargeback require proof that you did not receive the service. Which make chargeback nearly impossible outside of outright scam.
Thou = singular second person

You = plural second person

It uses them because there is an actual difference. In modern English, you cannot tell if "you" is referring to one individual or a group without examining the surrounding context and adding your own judgement (a translator looking at the original text will have much better judgement).
I'm still not getting what you're saying. What's "this" in your sentences?
> If the rulers have designed a system where change the existing rulers have not condoned is all but impossible then have they really spoken? There's a reason I compared it to a dictator that keeps getting "elected".

I don’t think you’ve established that the Massachusetts Bay colony had a system that prevented change that wasn’t condoned by the existing rulers. I would argue it had a system of enforced social consensus that could change (and did change) as the consensus changed.

“Dictators” come in two varieties. One is someone like Putin, who enforces policies the majority may or may not support. But another is someone like Lee Kuan Yew, who presides over a consensus-oriented society that keeps getting elected because the consensus supports the direction of the country. The latter is still a democracy, and in a way a more perfect democracy. The authoritarian element serves not to oppress the majority, but to overcome the heckler’s veto and allow the government to actually do what the majority wants.

And, of course, the structure of power in the Massachusetts bay colony was much more distributed and democratic than Singapore. It was a sort of collective authoritarianism rather than top down authoritarianism.
it was cache invalidation, and naming things. Just throwing stuff in cache is easy.
When I've done DC rapid charging on my Leaf, I noticed that the charger knew the battery percentage reported by the car. That seems likely to be digital signalling to me, so suddenly there's the risk of buffer overflows and suchlike.

I've not seen this on AC, but when I looked into this previously I got the impression that there exists a digital signalling protocol established by modulating something ignored by older cars and chargers that can be optionally supported. If that's the case then there's potentially attack surface there, too.