skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There appear to be numerous choices on Amazon, both cables and dongles that work with your existing cables.

Of course, that depends on the data blocker itself not being compromised. :-)
If you want to focus on durability then I think your complaint makes even less sense. Somehow I doubt S3 is primarily backed by Redis.

I think it's fair to assume that something backed by Redis is not durable by default because that's not what Redis is known for, whereas the other options you listed are known for their resiliency and durability. I wouldn't view Sidekiq as a similar product to RabbitMQ and SQS.

Also, Sidekiq Pro uses more advanced Redis features to enable super_fetch lending to the assumption that by default Redis is not durable: https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/increase-reliability-of-backg....
It's the pure penny pinching form of Muntzing (just cutting parts out to see what still works).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntzing

There seem to be two dominant pop commercial successes, those where brand means everything and cost is increased well beyond any utility to signal wealth, and brand AND reliability mean nothing (because like your mattress it'll be a few years later anyway) which is just a race to the bottom.
I find it fascinating how Chess is, in a way, stateless. Other than whether some rules like castling are still valid, you don’t need to have played the previous moves to be able to play the next moves effectively.

This got me thinking: is that common in games? If I take someone’s place at a Risk board, can I play well?

But in both cases, there is perhaps still some state… At least if you’re playing a human. You might be able to get a feel for what’s on their mind. Where they’re going with the game. What overall strategy they’re working on. And that can inform what comes next.

But is that just a form of gambler’s fallacy? Would an AI have a natural advantage if it made optimal moves given current state rather than being attached to a “plan”? Is the “plan” just an abstraction so you don’t have to re-analyze the board every time? Or is the “plan” some sort of advantage?
I would argue that libraries have an additional problem in that there's a many to one relationship between users and maintainer. It feels like there should be a way to design the ecosystems so that the maintainer doesn't end up with so much default expectations.

I think a more generalized version of OP's concept goes into a lot of things.

I thought about this when I first played Minecraft on a multiplayer server where people had vandalized the world. Much harder to keep it tidy than making it ugly. I think they usually solved this by giving mods ability to rewind. Crude but effective.

Like, what makes Wikipedia work? It's easy to go back in the version history when somebody breaks stuff?

It looks like there should be a bunch of tricks that could be used to design these systems so that doing the right thing is easier than breaking stuff.
How does this business decision make sense?

A car is a high-margin item, so the impact of even a handful of consumers choosing not to buy must be huge, right? Whereas, they would need to "monetize" (ugh) many many more units to turn back that lost profit.

And as the shakeup due to EVs begins, even loyal consumers will be considering other makes. My girlfriend bought a car recently. CarPlay was not negotiable for her, very high up on the list.

What are they putting in the water over there GM?
Wouldn't it be great if cars would just send the car data out to phones?

People already have a very well configured device hooked up to all kind of extras with them in their pocket. I don't really known what Android Auto or CarPlay offer but my weak understanding is it's mostly a dumb screen & display... Maybe a microphone? If hvac & lighting & other auxiliary systems were also controllable some really pleasant well integrated experiences could be made.

And also the people riding in the back would have a much easier time being able to DJ.

Alas any and all data integrations imply they will almost immediately be used for a the worst ends. The old EU funded Webinos IoT system had a really neat pro-user model, and they had some OK car based demoes too before they closed up. There's just so little places where trust can even start today, & comparatively webinos was such a solid trustful/trustable go.
GPT-360
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The absurdity in all these debates is how quickly people move the goalposts around between "artificial human intelligence" and "artificial omniscience (Singularity)" when trying to downplay the potential of AI.
> Despite what people keep saying about "it's just an LLM!", it should be clear to people that language is a human abstraction for meaning, and clearly GPT-4+ can produce pretty meaningful results in the language department.

Yes -- it produces results meaningful to us, or we infer meaning from the results because our brains use the best model they have, inferring intelligence and meaning from language. But the language comes from data sets of human-produced material, not from the LLM's imagined intelligence or consciousness.
What makes it so obvious folks haven't read it?

Why do you consider it a more trustworthy source than others?
I Moved from Gitpod to Goorm
Tim Dodd just released an excellent guide on how to visit Starbase.

https://youtu.be/aWvHrih-Juk
when the conversation becomes part of the training data (rather than a one way street) this is going to....
>But you can perform minimax (which is how AlphaZero works)

AlphaZero uses Neural Networks, old engines used to use Alpha-Beta pruning if I am not mistaken but after 2017 (the year AlphaZero papers were released) they started using a combination of the two or just NN.

Chess Programming Wiki [1] is an awesome website if you want to learn how Chess engines work in detail (or write one).

[1]: https://www.chessprogramming.org
This approach is very appealing, but when I put my SRE hat on my first concern is observability. Has anyone implemented tracing for Postgres with a span for each procedure call?

When I put my dev hat on, I want the option of attaching a debugger and adding breakpoints. Anything there?
As long as it is not GPT-ME
Will that basically kill LLMs (and probably GAI in general) use in EU? I haven’t seen a successful implementation with it and post attribution like in Bing won’t fly in this case.
Is it? Or wasn’t reported? Or maybe they were counted as Covid deaths, per WHO, Flu causes 290 000 to 650 000 respiratory deaths per year.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-%...
GPT-One
In fact Greg Brockman explicitly said they are considering changing the release schedule in a way that could be interpreted as opening the door for a different versioning scheme.

And actually there is no law or anything that says that any particular change or improvement to the model or even new training run that necessities them calling it version 5. It's not like there is a Version Release Police that evaluates all of the version numbers and puts people in jail if they don't adhere to some specific consistent scheme.
I haven’t looked into this for a long time but is the aftermarket head unit market still thriving?

Seems like there’ll be lots of plays for folks like Alpine to cater to all the frustrated folks whose factory unit is trash.
What bothers me is the mendacity.

No, you're not checking for a "secure connection". What you're doing is taking a fingerprint, to both deanonymize me and detect if I'm a bot.
Once you have it installations, you can keep it up-to-date with https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade
So, in the old days, if you fall asleep in front of the TV you might have some weird infomercial-fueled dreams. But they’re purged when you wake up.

Now, if you fall asleep in front of your phone screen, it takes days or weeks to shake out that mistake?
Would there have ever been a pivot to the consumer market, or would it be stuck behind big iron like with IBM and whatever they have hiding under the hood?
I haven't truly felt the need for Android Auto or Car play in mine, but then it's my first vehicle in a long time so I'm not married to either. The navigation is mostly okay and I can send locations from my phone to the screen. I can use Alexa to play music from a bunch of sources. I wish they had more internal media applications, but it's fine as a first attempt. Maps seemed to be mostly cached (other than the satellite view) as I can use them offline.

Would I turn down AA/Car play? No. But it's not a need for me. And I'm not even sure how they'd scale to the giant center console and lovely dashboard display.
I broadly agree, but the third film is genuinely excellent and while consistent direction might have aided the franchise as a whole, it would have robbed us of the best film.
I didn’t know that part. That’s pretty dumb. But in general I would like the idea if they could get that work after.
I was betting on April 20 for meme reasons (and Musk likes the 420 reference) but next Monday works as well. I am very excited about it.
the image on the home page quite clearly shows the former
Thanks!

That's not very flattering, and if I used any of those products/software features (I have only bare, internal SAS drives, both spinning rust and SSD) I'd be really concerned.

Since I only use bare internal drives, I imagine I'm not at risk (although, I've had one or more of these drives for at least 7 or 8 years -- so if I was at risk, you'd think that would have happened already) from the vulnerabilities noted in the links you provided.

But I'll do some research (although I do try to keep track of such things and never heard anything about actual drive firmware -- rather than the NAS/cloud products -- being compromised.) anyway.

Thanks again for compiling these links and sharing them. Much appreciated!
If you take into account player behavior dynamics, then I think path to a state becomes more important. I.e. "what my opponent thinks I'm trying to do" becomes important information to keep track of. Maybe not the case with chess, but definitely in other games.
The parenthetical that you seem to have skipped makes it seem like what you’ve quoted was actually intended as sarcasm.
Lipid membranes are pretty cool, but they're not life. Nucleobases and amino acids are letters, not sentences.
Solar Roof for the VW ID Buzz EV
If that's the case, how are 3rd-party head units allowed to use AA? I know for an absolute fact that mine recieves exactly zero data from the car outside a simple +12v signal that tells the radio to turn on/off. Do aftermarket radios exist that require a CAN connection? If so, how could they even be certain the radio even 'understands' the flavour of CAN being used by the car? How about more modern cars that have their CAN systems near-completely locked down?
Every time people say that you need to first install 30 pluggins before you can use gnome I just think “uh no, you don’t. It works just fine out of the box.”

Rather than turning a bunch of preferences and habits in to hard requirements, I prefer to just go with the flow. If the gnome design team says workspaces are now horizontal instead of vertical, I just go with it instead of building a plug-in or fork to turn them vertical again.

Same with Apple products, they are designed well, so just go with it.
Disappointingly, the article does not show the paper airplane itself, except maybe in a blur. This omission strikes me as weird.
They may well be more or less production limited on the EVs (not saying that they are, pointing at the possibility).

If it actually works good people might not care in the medium term. Generally the problem people have with the automaker systems is that they sucked, not that they weren't CarPlay.
> This is how you burnout people - have people do boring yet frustrating work, make them do it the hard way, then put them on a deadline with other competing priorities.

The last two years of my life.
> But I think there's the potential for emergent behavior, where size has a quality in itself, that's already showing up with GPT-4.

"Emergent behavior" remains an article of faith, like the second coming. May happen, sure, but we have no evidence or theory for it, and no examples in our own species or any other to make us confident that consciousness somehow "emerges" as a function of scale.

> Nobody knows how these work...

We know exactly how they work. We can't predict the output from the inputs, or get the model to explain its internals in terms that make sense to us, because it doesn't internally work with words and sentences. Not understanding something completely -- atomic bonds, neuron activity -- and not knowing how to get from there to immune response or consciousness doesn't imply magical potential, just our limited understanding.
I don't believe stockfish cares about past moves at all besides castling/en passant. It's able to evaluate a board so effectivly that it doesn't need it.
https://github.com/ish-app/ish/blob/master/kernel/calls.c
> If it does rebound, it might not be until the next generation of startups reaches mid to late stage on the other side of the current lending crunch,

Building boomed in SF during the GFC (2008 et seq) so there was extra capacity as things recovered, and eventually space was at a premium again. The real estate glut helped early stage startups.

> presuming they don't exclusively work remote or choose NYC as their primary hub.

I love NYC, and am even on a couple of boards of actual tech companies in NY, but c'mon it doesn't make a lot of sense for tech businesses, except I suppose some fintech. Advertising, online retail, sure, I suppose, but those rarely need bespoke technology, much less anything novel. But California's level of investment last year slumped to only 3.5X NY...it has a long way to go. And much of that slump was in SF -- SV held up much more strongly, as you could also see in the real estate article posted on HN today (NYC commercial vacancy rate isn't as high as SF's, but is higher than SV).

These hot spots thrive on network, and nowhere are the networks more intense than NY, but on the tech side the biggest, most active network in the USA, err, world, is still in the Bay Area.
It won't get to orbit, just "nearly orbital" as the article states.

"(...) the Starship vehicle will attempt to ascend to an altitude of 235 km and become "nearly orbital." Starship's engines will shut down at 9 minutes and 20 seconds into the flight, after which the vehicle will coast for more than an hour before entering Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. It will not complete a full orbit and is expected to make a high-velocity splash down about 225 km north of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. On the nominal timeline, this will occur 90 minutes after liftoff"
Android auto and car play are both really bad user experiences. They are just better than what most car companies can build, which is a very low bar.

Here's the android auto experience: Take my phone out of my pocket (not that easy when you are already sitting...), turn on bluetooth (I often have it off because it grabs my headphones etc when I don't want it to) and connecting it to usb (where'd the damn cable go? An apple using family member swapped it out for a lightning cable, and tossed the usb c cable in the back, or on the floor...)

Every now and then it won't connect anyway - or the usb cable is defective (it lives on the car floor so it has a short life), or the usb slot in the car (especially a rental) is defective.

A passenger might have a higher priority bluetooth device and it steals the connection.

When I get to my destination I forget my phone in the car because it is in my pocket most of the time - but not if you are going to use android auto!

If GM manages to do as well or better than Tesla on their infotainment system it would be a win. Unlikely for a dinosaur company like GM, but if they are using an android product there's a fighting chance.
I personally love CarPlay. A requirement for my next vehicle is wireless CarPlay, and I will not even begin to consider it if it does not have that. Some people want ventilated seats or a V8. I want CarPlay. I think this is a very silly move by GM that they will quickly reverse.
> As a security person... oh, no no no no.

As a non-security person, I don’t understand how anyone with the most rudimentary understanding of computers can think that you can get a hardened security boundary by explaining the boundaries to the computer in English and then _concatenating_ that with untrusted input. I wouldn’t even know where to begin such an argument. “Have you heard of adversarial games? Social engineering? Are you aware that human language is ambiguous?”
That's 1 TW in what duration of time? Per hour?
Maybe the connected division was one of many potentially decimated by the voluntary buyouts?

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-mot...
There may be conventions but in no way can anyone force them to follow them. It's just a name for a release. They absolutely are working on the successor models and have stated they plan to release a model by June. Whether they are working on a new architecture or training running, they certainly have experiments, but who knows how serious they are.

Regardless they can and will call future models anything they want. They could easily just decide that the minor improvements that come out in a few months are called GPT-4.2 and the major new training run is called GPT-4.5 instead of GPT-5.
Detaching the entertainment system from the car and making it just a dumb touchscreen and speakers must have really grinded the gears of auto makers.

I can now upgrade my entire entertainment system, GPS, phone, etc. by replacing a phone. They’d prefer you get another car when your system is feeling old.

I don’t even understand why my 2020 car had an optional GPS add-on for thousands of dollars.

Android Auto / CarPlay is one of my favourite evolutions in cars. It could have gone so much worse for the consumer.
Fused filament had already been commercialized more than a decade before reprap. Maybe check back in ten years.
Is it a more general problem?

Does "more intelligent" behavior require instructions and data to be more intertwined?

Sometimes your instructions can't be perfectly specific up front since there are some things about step 3 that you'll only learn by doing steps 1 and 2.

Or sometimes even people just make mistakes, or things are in inconsistent formats.

Consider this toy example:

"""
Given two lists of comma-separated-data representing names and addresses, find any names which appear in both lists with conflicting addresses.

List 1:
Alice, 123 Main Street
Bob, 224 Alpha Street

List 2:
Alice, 245 Alpha Street
Charlie, 888 Zeta Street
"""

I gave that to Chat GPT right now and it treated it like a programming problem, produced python code with that data in dictionaries, and also told me the answer: Alice.

I then opened a new session and gave it the same prompt but changed the commas in the data to be pipes like "Alice | 123 Main Street". I left the first part the same, though, specifying commas.

It wrote Python code this time that split like so `item.split(" | ")`. It didn't tell me Alice in the response, that might just be randomness, I dunno, but the code did print out that Alice had the conflict.

So it was able to tell that it's instructions didn't quite match the data and adapt in order to do the right thing anyway.

I could imagine it will be quite challenging to add "the ability to adapt to the facts on the ground" without bringing in "the ability to get misled by an adversary"?
It's pretty usual for someone to make a joke at a party[1], however

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party
If we can’t (and we haven’t) define intelligence, how could we possibly define artificial intelligence or synthetic.
as intended
Sounds like deliberate price fixing
It is also random bullshit. There is an entire group of people convinced that if you are shot with a 9 MM round, it "blows the lung out of the body".[1] They also think that 9 MM is a high caliber round, and that the AR in AR-15 stands for "assault rifle".

These lies are knowingly spread by the White House and the Democrats. Anyone who devoted 1 minute of thought and research would know they are all false, but we're in an agenda-driven world, where fact, truth, and reality are all secondary to political ideology.

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[1] https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-says-9mm-bullet-blows-lun...
Probably a joke of _poor taste_ but my guess is lead.
Several dozen to several hundred hours?
I can't address most of your reply without sounding like an evil gatekeeper, but yes - it's safe to say that when I'm hiring, I'm interviewing the people our team needs to rely on today, not someone who might grow into the role after the company fails.

To be honest, it's super frustrating that we can't have that conversation without an army of bootcamp grads accusing us of elitism. Only a decade ago, it wasn't controversial to expect that people applying for highly demanding technical positions were ready to start on Monday.

I digress.

As to the senior HTML artist... I feel like that's on you to suss out in the conversation. Another one of my elitist views is that someone who can only do HTML - literally, text markup - is not a senior talent.

If you want to make sure that a candidate understands how an MVC framework works, ask them to talk about their thoughts on service objects, or when they use Redis vs Postgres, or whether they have used Sidekiq jobs to do cool things. You can interrogate them to a wild degree and check off all of your boxes while making it feel like you're just shooting the shit.

It's almost impossible to bullshit your way through explaining how you implemented a key-based authentication mechanism over websockets. Writing out the code on a board accomplishes nothing. I know how it's done, and I'll know in 15 seconds if a person shuts down, terrified, when talking about it.
I have several tools, thus several batteries, and never use them all at once. I have never in well over a decade had to replace a battery.

And even though they changed battery tech, all the tools still work with batteries in both directions. They designed each new battery tech to do that.

What tool system do you think has all the problems you listed?
> Customization is super fun but it's just another layer of complexity at the end of the day.

Feel like this often is a recipe for fragility too. I used to be big into customizing a linux environment and editors/IDEs for personal use, but often turned into an enormous time sink when troubleshooting would be required just to maintain usability.
> Pretty terrible example to use for the lawlessness of SF. Everybody involved is wealthy, and the attack was totally personal.

The fact that a person was stabbed and killed on the street and the killer felt he could get away with it is kind of a good example of "the lawlessness" you're trying to downplay. This doesn't depend on the socio-economic status of the stabbing victim, or the attacker.
Pretty cool for the hack factor here. I live in a neighborhood that is on the grid, but subscribed to 100% renewable energy plan.
Way less cooler than this project, but I can claim the same (well, renewable) just by running a website on my laptop! :)
My assumption is they are doing this because they don’t want to hand over control over the final experience to tech companies who will build a moat and lock them out.
Infotainment systems are increasingly inseparable from the car, with vital controls moving into them. Not sure how an aftermarket head unit can compete.
Currently, the equivalent of parameterized queries with LLMs literally doesn't exist.