skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electric cars have something that previous "green" vehicles never had: rapid acceleration.

EVs are downright fun to drive. Sure they don't have the handling of a lightweight Porsche, but being able to walk a Mustang GT with an F-150 lightning on the highway drag race is something all the "truck guys" can brag about. That's a very important selling factor, especially from a test-drive perspective.

The biggest hurdle is fast-charging infrastructure in cities, but for the majority of Americans that live in suburban/rural areas with a garage, it won't be hard to install a charging system.

I think it's a smart bet personally.
I agree - unfortunately we have gone so far down the rabbit hole optimizing transformer models.

Alternative models like S4 have been able to get transformer level performance with O(N) sequence length scaling.
unfortunately lawyers (et al) will similarly pick the worst possible interpretation of a law as needed to win a case
The Government Pension Fund of Norway just hit a new all-time high at 14 500 000 000 000
NOK (~1.4 trillion US dollars), mostly due to exchange rate. Live counter: https://www.nbim.no/no/
No, it’s people who possibly even agree with the intention of this wanting the letter of the law to be as clear as possible — so that a hypothetical uninformed judge a few years down the road has less wiggle room for a bad decision. (Also note that in some European law traditions, written law is more important than case law.)
I mean, the advice is "use a giant pile of money to set up and maintain a dual-home situation until you are satisfied that the job will pan out."

Laws are supposed to protect people who don't have the resources to proactively hedge against stuff like this.
The optimisation lies between keyboard and chair.

Plus if one lacks the ability to write high performance Haskell code, they definitely aren't experts.
Almost everyone is willing to trust 3rd parties with data, including enterprise and government customers. I find it hard to believe that there are enough people willing to pay a large premium to run these locally to make it worth the R&D cost.
That's quite interesting: I wonder if someone has done something similar with Postgres WAL log streaming?
Alpaca & Alpaca-LoRA are literally trained to be chat bots. Their goal is to be instruct-tuned.
Plenty of others in this thread have expressed the mistake of calling these sorts of activities "useless" but I can relate to the splendidness of self-expression for fun. I've recently started writing music and might record some songs soon after years of religious listening. Over that time I heard many amazing artists across all sorts genres, some with jaw-dropping virtuosity or unbelievable originality. And yet it took someone doing really lo-fi DIY recording over some simple songs to get me off my ass and learn to play. Even though they hadn't reached the heights of some of the other groups I'd heard, I could hear them having fun with their music in the recording, and that was enough to convince me I should give it a try.
Yeah, and now the girl is no longer necessary.
I initially thought to geoblock them, but the trouble is - their laws apply to their citizens even in my country, and I'm unclear as to what happens when a regular person visits the EU.
> I wonder how many people do not have access to an outlet to charge overnight at their home....

A huge number! We can start with almost 100% of people who live in apartment buildings.

The charging situation alone makes electric vehicles infeasible for me.
>The nice thing about market activity is that we each have the power to make decisions about what is convenient

That's the whole point of the fuel economy and EV regulations. For better or worse, we don't really get to make those decisions.
It's unfortunate that instead of addressing the points I raised in my response, you've chosen to question my authenticity as an HN member. The book propagates misguided notions that stem from a privileged perspective, which views poverty as a choice and supports harsh legal actions against the destitute. I believe my original response provided clear and cogent arguments, and considering your unfounded accusation, I don't see the value in continuing this discussion.

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken."

My initial response was clear and specific. Rather than addressing my main argument, you assigned me a task/homework. I take your assumption of me being a bot as a compliment, as I've been striving to enhance the professionalism of my HN comments, particularly in discussions with strong opinions where emotions run high.
I would say rather,

humans who feel unconstrained because they are insulated from view, cupability, and consequence by virtue of their institutional agency-laundering,

will matter of factly engage in almost any kind of awful behavior, especially bloodless ones,

exactly so long as they are able to allay cognitive dissonance, which is very completely done when it's not them, it's <institution> or <role> or <rule>.

The difference in taxonomy of standard evils executed by bankers, C-suite types, the very rich, religious authorities, and politicians, vary primarily as a function of the opportunities afforded by each role and the risk-reward surface it affords.

Those who thrive in (and most effectively exploit without cognitive dissonance) a given institution in turn underpins the attractor and filter functions for those roles.

Cops priests politicians entrepreneurs—they all have their well-known shadow-side stereotypes, for the damn good reason that those stereotypes are rooted in the recurring abuse each invites.

Humans, anonymized and/or elevated, deeply suck to at least one standard deviation. Or perhaps you can say, there is no shortage of humans who suck, exactly enough as needed to fully exploit the available amoral crime space; and recruit for it, teasing out and amplifying what might otherwise have been latent.

That our society (or I would say, species) has not figured out how to corral this behavior bodes ill.
That's pretty neat, and an interesting use of nat-gas, but I'm just really ambivalent about crypto and the miners.
Yeah, I think @dang should change this link to the official announcement at https://on.substack.com/p/notes
So?

Either spending is wasteful or it isn't. People don't work for free and the money is accounted for.

For example the Federal government and public universities negotiate a rate at which F&A (overhead, facilities and administrations) can be at. Then the Federal government, since they're paying for it, ask for receipts. The money is being accounted for.
Last time I tried the browser, most crashes were the typical "not implemented yet" code paths. Some feature wasn't built yet, so necessary flags weren't set, so the program caught the invalid state and died.

I don't think I've ever seen a crash in either Serenity or Ladybird that I could attribute directly to memory management. For volunteer C++ projects, their memory management seems to have been done excellently. Using modern C++ features and things like error return types instead of null seems to be a key part in making the browser this good.

It's also worth mentioning that as far as I know Ladybird doesn't implement a JIT engine, using bytecode to execute Javascript instead. That should also make life significantly easier for memory management.

It's still a young browser and I'm sure there are some nasty memory corruption bugs lurking in the depths, but I haven't seen those yet.
No disrespcet, but that's a LOT of money for writing copy. If OP were making half that, I think there'd be less incentive to replace that work, but I may be wrong.
No, my premise is that we don't know whether there is a distinction. I asked how they are different, and you haven't given an actual difference.
Yeah, it's good to step outside the comfort zone sometimes. Most recently for me that was taking photos at a cycle event - trying to remember to pay attention to the background and framing even in the heat of the moment!
Ethics, politics, and society in the age of artificial intelligence (2020)
Oh God, please no. Not enough getting tons of recruiter spam, now I'd also get robots pestering me about considering an exciting opportunity in a new exciting startup about which they'd surely be glad to tell me if only I respond to their spam. And this would happen anytime I'd write something online that is tangentially related to some keyword they gave to the robot. Because if I asked a question about some Scala library, and your company uses Scala too, this means I'm a perfect match for you and surely would want to drop everything and come to work for you. Or at least it doesn't cost anything for a robot to try?

And the worst of all, if anything goes wrong - "sorry, our AI hiring system had a bug, we deployed an update. We apologize for the inconvenience".
and this code that "compares against the embedding you stored locally, uses a function called cosine similarity" is open source from openai or something you wrote and not open source?
The list of people who need help is so much longer than any one causing an event that makes it into the newspapers or anecdotes.

Why is it such a fantasy that treatment options should be appealing to the people committing themselves to them?
With celebrities like Steve Jobs we have a lot of interviews, autobiographies and data available.

It would be interesting to finetune a LLM using all this data to act like him. Then you add TTS with his voice and voilà: Your personal Steve Jobs personal advisor running on your GPGPU or even phone, eventually.

Makes you wonder if there will be laws against doing this without permission eventually. It's kind of hard to stop it if it's relatively easy to do.
> One of our team members has gotten into the habit of pointing out that “you can do this in Postgres” whenever we do some kind of system design or talk about implementing a new feature. So much so that it’s kind of become a meme at the company.

love it
> According to Ford’s press release, the American automaker sold a total of 10,866 electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2023, up 41% year over year (YOY).

https://electrek.co/2023/04/04/ford-slips-below-gm-for-2-in-...

> Previously, Tesla said that it had delivered around 88,400 vehicles in the first quarter of 2020

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/29/tesla-tsla-earnings-q1-2020....

and just for reference, this year:

> Sales of new Tesla electric vehicles rose for the first quarter of 2023, according to sales and production figures released by the EV maker on Sunday. For the three months between the start of the year and the end of March, Tesla delivered 422,875 EVs

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/04/tesla-built-more-cars-t...
Answering a slightly different question than the one you’re explicitly asking: I think then utility of this setup is being notified while you’re away from your machine.

I often leave clothes in the wash for 24 hours (or longer), and then they get all gross and I have to wash them again; this happens because I can’t hear the chime from my office, and with the way my brain works, I won’t think about it again until much later. I could set an alarm on my phone every time, but… that would require that I remember to do that.

I would love a way to either send a push notification to my phone, or have an audible house-wide chime, or something along those lines :)
In theory. Practice has proven messier to many. Maybe some have a "functional mind", but they shouldn't extrapolate their head to others. Functional has been around for 60+ years. If it were the magical productivity and Lego-modularity golden hammer, it would have mainstreamed already. (Long LINQ is also hard to debug for many of us.)
This! Most haven't tried. It goes incredibly far.
Yeah, that's a better name for it - good clear explanation too.
Much more haven't, that is why joking about Year of Desktop FreeBSD isn't even worthwhile.
Meaning you just stop showing up to job A?
Nothing that can't be solved more efficiently by making the data publicly available via traditional means.

What would the blockchain be the superior choice here, since the DMV would ultimately be the only one with "write" access to the whole thing? Why would any other nodes host that blockchain if they have nothing to gain from it?
You have a steady secure job and they give you an offer months from now that makes you want to leave.
Well, ASP.NET (Core) was startup was not exactly intuitive. How many people could type it up without a template? Routing was also way more complex than necessary...
Agreed. Over half of homeless people are employed. And many (most?) of those can't afford housing (and everything associated with housing) with their wages from that employment.

Wages in comparison to the cost of living is an issue we also talk about, but we never connect the two.
Can we re-invent SETI with such LLMs/new GPU folding/whatever hardware and re-pipe the seti data through a Big Ass Neural whatever you want to call it and see if we have any new datapoints to look into?

What about other older 'questions' we can point an AI lens at?
Well, I don't, and I'm a Windows fanboy. So, why, exactly none of you ask:

1. The PowerShell separation of, what on *ix* systems is stdout and stderr, doesn't really work. Want to know whether your invocation of a PowerShell command worked? Well, it might be that the error stream has content, otherwise check the warning stream, otherwise check the regular output stream, and see if it contains an error-message-like-ish string

2. Continuing on this theme, just 'give me all the output, regardless of type/class, from this command' is just plain impossible. You want to see what this command would print on a terminal? Good luck with that!

3. Serializing PowerShell output to JSON (which, naively, you would assume would be sort-of reliable) generates heaps of PS*-specific junk. Just the common '|fl XXX' expression will trigger this

4. Even commands that appear to be successful, may in fact have failed. The Azure commandlets are especially guilty of this. Remove a load balancer NAT rule? Sure, we'll pretend to do that! Except, nothing happens, and you'll need a support ticket to actually modify your configuration
I'm a bit confused by this article. On the one hand, it seems to advocate for thinking beyond "instrumentality" and being solely "oriented around the practical principles of utility, effectiveness and impact". On the other hand the two examples highlighted are "some of the greatest nature writing ever set to paper" and "the greatest punk rock bands in history", which seems pretty squarely oriented around utility, effectiveness and impact...

If the point is that doing "useless things" can also lead to greatness, I would say it's also possible to complete a marathon by walking on your hands, but it sure as shit easier to just run. If the point is that "impact" is not the be all/end all, I would whole heartedly agree but argue that the first step is to reorient ourselves away from celebrating just the extra ordinary outcomes.
In the popular T.V. anthology American Horror Story, Steve Jobs is shown to be conversing with aliens in a UFO. I thought that was a really apt and funny depiction given how advanced Apple's tech is. Though the vision and leadership that keeps Apple on top to this day probably can't be given by extraterrestrials.
> Ford also benefits from high import tariffs on foreign built trucks, a tariff basically designed to protect the F-150.

Protect it from GM, Toyota, Rivian whom builds their Trucks in America?

No American truck buyer wants a Mitsubishi or Hyundai truck. Full stop.
I'm not aware of any but surely Top Gun:Maverick could have been written that way and come out largely the same, at least as far as the script is concerned.
"Regulating themselves" is a misnomer and rarely happens in government.

Judges are regulated because they can't bring forth cases. Only a prosecutor can. The prosecutor is regulated because they can't make a decision, only the Jury can (and the Judge handles meta-decisions). The Police cannot execute you, they can only had evidence over to the prosecutor.

"Government" is about designing a system of different people, doing different jobs, doing different checks and balances against each other. Anyone who thinks "Oh, X just will self-regulate" is looking at the worst of strawmen.

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That being said, in many cases we don't know what kind of system should exist to move forward. In these cases, having the free market self-regulate while we figure out issues is probably better. Later on, we can write laws that benefit everyone once we understand what the heck is going on.

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I don't think our banking system is doing much wrong. Yeah, I'd prefer if SVB didn't take a bunch of people's money, but the shareholders (and maybe even the bondholders) are going to be wiped out by this debacle. FDIC taking over in the case when things get bad did work, I just personally disagree with what the FDIC did.
Sharding among workers by ID isn't hard.
Don't know what the law is like in most states in the US but in the EU if the employee has been with the company for longer than 6 months it wouldn't even be legal to fire with 0 notice & no severance - generally companies wants you out asap but continue paying your salary for the minimums require by law. In my experience at least 2 weeks and more commonly 1+ months (I've seen people get 3 months, that have worked at the company for several years).

This of course doesn't apply if the employee did something like outright breaking the law or the terms of their contract (rare).
I think your positioning is wrong. The problem this solves is auditing user accounts in SaaS applications. That is a great problem to be solving, and you can position yourself on that! Why talk about 'SSO Tax' when this has nothing to do with SSO?

There is at least one other 'open' library for solving this problem (https://github.com/ConductorOne/baton).

However, I like how you're scraping web data for apps that don't have APIs. I've been waiting for someone to do that. That said, I want it built into other tooling I have purchased, so I don't have to implement myself.
> If we look at the global picture, there are two major reasons why sea levels are rising. One is that the ocean is warming, and it needs more space and expands.

My understanding is that water expands quite a bit less in the range between 32°F and 212°F than it does when it freezes.

It seems like floating ice melting and decreasing in volume 9% is notably more significant than the volume increase from a couple degree temperature increase. There also certainly way more liquid water than solid to contend with.

I'd be curious to know the effect of melting ice decreasing the volume versus the temperature rising increasing the volume.
While true, I think they do innovate in policy around it. Regulation is an ever-evolving field as well and they do think about it more.

But yes, in a half-century I'm very curious where Europe will be. India passed the UK in gdp recently and Germany sooner or later.
In Germany at least 4 weeks depending on how long you have been with the company up to 7 months.
Cults. Jobs woudln't be nothing without Woz and without Unix and even GNU/Linux' raise in late 90's.
My hobby project does ~1.5M jobs per day enqueued into Postgres, no sweat. I use https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job which uses PG's LISTEN/NOTIFY to lower worker poll latency.
Your question was:

> In what state is it legal to kill people for stealing your stuff?

In Texas, under certain circumstances, it is legal to kill people for stealing your stuff. This might be very different than the laws in the state that you live in (it certainly is for me in New Jersey) but it is the reality.

As I mentioned it likely wouldn't apply in this case.

As a side note, the Castle Doctrine does apply within one's vehicle. Presumably an argument could be made that if someone stayed within their vehicle while confronting the home owner the Castle Doctrine may apply. Admittedly that is quite a stretch and I have no idea if something like that has ever been tried in Texas courts.
> The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-169) amended the Qualified Plug-in Electric Drive Motor Vehicle Credit (IRC 30D), now known as the Clean Vehicle Credit, and added a new requirement for final assembly in North America that took effect on August 17, 2022. For new electric, fuel cell electric, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles acquired, delivered, and placed in service after August 16, 2022, this final assembly requirement applies. For vehicles placed in service on or after January 1, 2023, the Clean Vehicle Credit provisions are subject to updated guidance from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. [1]

[1] https://afdc.energy.gov/laws/electric-vehicles-for-tax-credi...

The IRA was a bipartisan law passed by Congress. Part of it renewed a credit of up to $7500 per purchase of an EV that underwent final assembly in North America.

Additionally, California (which by all accounts sets national car standards) has passed updated regulations to phase-out the sale of ICE cars within the next 10 years. This is also a very important piece of legislation that will help the Ford decision.
Were these companies startups or outside the U.S.? I’ve never heard of a big company doing a background check after start date, that makes no sense.
I mean, at some point you do have to write code. Either

1.) You (hopefully) know a bit about how your DB works, what the workload is, what your tasks are. You also (hopefully) know a bit about SQL and Postgres. So you learn a bit more and build upon that knowledge, and implement the queue there (which comes with other benefits).

2.) You learn about a new package, deal with how to set that up, and how to integrate it with your existing database (including how tasks get translated between the queue and your existing DB). This also increases your maintenance and deployment burden, and now developers need to know not only about your DB, but the queueing package as well.

There are certainly cases where #2 makes sense. But writing off #1 as NIH often leads to horrifically over-engineered software stacks, when 10s/few hundred lines of code will suffice.
Mass scale EVs will be lfp (no cobalt nickel) and sodium ion (not even lithium)

Blood minerals will be for luxury uktralong range, etc. And even that is being addressed. And if sulfur chemistries hit production or solid state, look out

The article is indeed fud.
Also check out Cataclysm:

https://github.com/Mattie/cataclysm

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK8fUuQDgZ4
I think too many basically sane people are close enough to losing their minds at all times that they would fear for their own civil rights. The mentally ill on the streets are only a small sample of a spectrum.

I understand the history well enough to note that a wide swath of (also) expensive alternatives have not been tried yet, or the basically sane people mentioned above would be willing to undergo treatment that works.
Sounds to me like the company didn't plan correctly or have adequate staffing in place for the workload.

If they did, an abrupt loss of an employee wouldn't put them "in a tough position"

I hope you don't die and put them in a tough position for not giving a 2 week notice beforehand.
> It would be costly in the short run and require a lot of investment

It seems like you already know why it's not realistic. Fossil fuels fulfill the role of a marginal power source very well, neither renewables nor nuclear can replace that role as of yet. There are still plenty of issues that need to be solved towards electrification, lets not make it unrealistically difficult for ourselves.
Debian in particular has the ddcci-dkms package that once installed should solve the entire problem and let you control external monitors the same way you control internal ones.

I just found it, and I have to restart KDE to see if it worked, so no certainty here yet :)