skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In that case TSLA is 1.7x Toyota

While valued at 3x. The valuation still doesn't add up, though the debt issue is a decent point.

> It matters how much profit you make and TSLA has the highest margins on EVs of any company.

They've certainly enjoyed high margins while they were the primary game in EV town. But they're not anymore, and it remains to be seen what distinguishing features will let them command high margins in a newly competitive market. The slashed prices seem to indicate they're not sure they can do this either.

> Toyota is way behind EVs

Toyota had EVs on the road before TSLA was founded. They didn't focus on the hybrid game because they couldn't do it. They did it because they understood hybrids would (and did) dominate practical concerns during a transition period, and they were rewarded pretty strongly for that bet up through 2020 given that market's greater size than straight EVs through that time and their majority ownership of that market. They'll handle the shift to EV emphasis just fine. By somewhere around 2030 they'll probably be selling more EVs than TSLA and likely with similar margins but more effective manufacturing because they're very, very good at that.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-22/germany-r...
A lot depends a lot on distribution, which surface level stats don't reveal. I've lived in very high crime rates that were perfectly safe because it was a mixture of 'don't go to these areas' and basic interpersonal stuff. I've also lived in areas that were far safer on paper, but were substantially more dangerous for me because crime was far more 'equal opportunity.' I've no idea of the situation in San Francisco but this could easily explain the perception : stats relationship.
Because you can prove it. In the auto industry you can't just claim it conforms, you have to prove it does for all possible conditions. With containers enforcing that separation, you can prove it much more easily.
In 2000 I installed Linux (and BSD) on various spare Compaq DS10 and DS20 Alpha machines to test it against the stock Tru64 because of a bug that caused local network packet losses when using unconnected protocols like UDP even at very low speeds, and it was 100% reproducible. We later discovered that that packet loss was due to an interrupt fired by the video card driver that would literally kill everything for a fraction of second. That's why we use protocols like TCP, but again, that shouldn't have happened to that extent. Application was ATC so video cards were quite high end.
I used the Mgen and Drec tools by the US Navy that I modified to run them in a many-to-many configuration, so that I could for example let them run synchronized tasks over a weekend and compare the logs on the following Monday.

Fun fact: Installing Linux on spare machines (we had plenty, one was used as doorstop, no kidding) was our idea. Our PM at the time, which was very likely the most ignorant one I ever had to interact with, didn't veto the initiative, still criticized it anyway because "Linux is amateurish, you should use something more professional". Long story short, after most part of the group, including myself, left because of that idiot, he was finally fired, and according to a colleague who kept working there, after a couple years they started moving everything to Linux.
AI Generated Startup Idea – What do you think?
Yeah, building a 70m diameter device is obviously going to be more expensive than building a 12m diameter device, but assuming the budget is available there's no technical obstacle to doing so.

SNO+ cost about $100 million to build which is a decent bit for a science project but nothing for a military procurement project. Assuming cost scales with volume (which I am skeptical of), 200 times more expensive would be $20 Billion - about 1.5x the cost of a ford class carrier. Is knowing the location of nuclear reactors to that level of precision worth that price tag? I don't know but it's within the range that someone could make a plausible argument for it. If we assume construction takes 10 years, as it did for SNO+, then the project would represent 0.2% of the US's annual budget.

And these are directional detectors, they don't need to triangulate. You can most definitely identify the location of a reactor with one detector, which is exactly what this study has done. If you were to go with multiple detectors, they can all get proportionally smaller and thus cheaper, to say nothing of potential economies of scale.
Twitter has ample restrictions on harassing people. You are talking about censoring views, not harassment/insults. You core argument, that anyone is taking a "maximalist free speech" allowing people to harass others, is a lie.
I’m not extremely informed, but the former president of the aclu defended stallman a few years ago. Scroll down to about 2/3rds of the way down for the detailed quotes

Eg,

> But a number of the ideas for which Richard Stallman has been attacked and punished are ideas that I as a feminist advocate of human rights find completely correct and positive from the perspective of women’s equality and dignity!

https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web
Consider creative/content jobs such as illustrators, freelance writers, translators as a spectrum or perhaps a pyramid.

A big part of that pyramid is mass produced "good enough" output that was already squeezed before AI. That part will be almost entirely replaced with generative AI operated by a relatively tiny group. And with "will" I mean right now. The top of the pyramid will be semi-safe but production methods will still drastically change.

I'm not convinced of the "we'll just create new jobs" narrative. From land to factory to office. What would be the next step in this cycle? I'm talking a billion people, not 3 super AI coders overseeing things.
Has it? 2019 is the latest aggregation the FBI publishes. Looking at the SFPD Dashboard, homicide hasn't changed from last year at 13.

https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...
Better by our own yardstick, but evolution can get plenty of people to adulthood without any medical issues.

A frog egg would presumably prefer an evolutionary strategy that involved fewer eggs and a more caring parent. However, the willingness to fail allows for more long term flexibility. Which is presumably why many species place their young in an immediate live or death struggle with their siblings.
> Having said that, don't you think these recycling contractors are using that knowledge for other customers?

Maybe? It really depends on how much Apple is willing to punish its contractors for not protecting its IP.
A lot of what's in this comment could equally be applied to Mozilla too.
Finally, software engineers can break out of the $10-20 per day income bracket!
I wish there was a language that is to JavaScript/TypeScript/Python/Lua what Rust is to C++/C/Java.
My guess is that people couldn't forecast this particular result, except in hindsight.

I'm sure if you ask most college deans "Would you prefer more money for your department?" the answer is always going to be "yes". So it starts as a one small decision to get more money and that decision leads to another, and another...It's a slow mission creep that can eventually morph the entire culture to one that is ROI focused.

I'll give one example from experience. One college used to have a "veterans coordinator" that was really just an ancillary duty assigned to an employee. Just one of those side duties that every has as part of their job. When the new GI Bill was passed, the administration realized how many more veterans may be available for college. They decided to hire a position to focus solely on that program. I mean, who is going to be against the idea of helping veterans transition from service back to civilian life via education, right? Once they saw how much money was involved, they could justify even more hires. Now there are whole teams that only focus on veterans on campus. On one hand, it's a great service to provide a specific population. On the other, it's administrative bloat predicated on an ROI calculation.
You can't give people free stuff and then complain when they only come for free stuff. That was literally the whole tactic - that people will come for the free stuff, and some of them might also engage in the secondary activity.
You're performing a sleight of hand. No city census or national crime analysis categorizes burglary as a violent crime, and I'm not sure why you called SF out on it.

I don't look down on people complaining about property crime, I'd just like them to be honest about what they are complaining about.

SF is 55 out of the biggest 100 cities on burglary rates, by the way.

(It's interesting how all this is apparently a controversial take.)
I spent hours trying though ...
You're mistaken about == in the first ten days Mocha implementation. If types differed, its result was false. I changed it after that, due to internal Netscape requests from the LiveWire team to make it sloppy. Their use cases included comparing HTTP headers reflected as strings to numbers such as 401, and database fields containing numeric strings to numbers. I've written about this many times, e.g., https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1641067035391332354.
Not to be confused with `hdiutil`.
I use WhatsApp to talk to friends in other nations who only use WhatsApp. I don't consider it to be a secure communications channel.
The hubris in the quoted statement is unbelievable. I only hope that the people thinking up such stuff never get any decision-making power worth mentioning.
It's at odds with prevailing modern attitudes. The majority of talented devs of the millennial generation are excited to work for FAANG and don't have the innate distrust/hate of big corporations the previous generations of devs did, including all the the FSF old timers.
When I moved to SF in 1996, the murder count that year was 86. Last year it was 56. I haven't been back in a very long time, but I guarantee you it's a far safer city than it was back then. I lived on Market between 6th and 7th and had knives pulled on me, and watched a car get blown up across the street underneath Hollywood Billiards, which is long gone now - according to Google Maps, they're building new apartments there.

I loved the Tenderloin back then, even though it was terrifying. It was full of weirdos and loonies and junkies and poverty stricken artsy types like me, who had no power or desire in gentrification - we were just poor too. But we embraced where we were and didn't try to change it. The loin changed me far more than my presence changed it - for the better. It taught me compassion and empathy and how to avoid getting knifed by a junkie in the alleyway.

Y'all colonized the poorest parts of the city and gave the poorest folks nowhere to go, and you still complain when they dare to pop up where you are. I hope all that authenticity and exposed brick in your offices and apartments are worth it.
I find it hard to support him because I do not trust that he will not continue being himself and create another controversy in the future.
The ECU wasn't doing the engine thing no more.
Is your wife behind all these recipe blogs?
"pervasive bias"? Prior to the bubble popping, crypto was hot on HN, and people aggressively attacked anybody with anything negative to say about crypto as so many people were either HODLing or running something within the space.
Fukushima was not Chernobyl: it killed nobody, polluted very little. Much less than a coal plant does in any case, even in terms of radioactive particles put up in the air ..
My life experience has been that it's much easier to spot someone has a prepared answer to a soft question than a technical one. I immediately feel like I'm not having a conversation with them. That's why even in technical interviews, I try to stick to broad, conceptual questions that serve as a conversation starter.
LLMs can build an internal world model and use it at inference time in order to understand spatial problems and rulesets. It's part of the often overlooked "How does it do that though?" counterpart to the often repeated "It's just predicting the next most likely token." Here's the write-up I've found that's the most clear, there are several other papers and ongoing research finding this though: https://thegradient.pub/othello/
Selenium as a predictor of metabolic syndrome in middle age women
On the other hand, if the older folks in positions of power cared about what the world would be like in 100 years we might actually start doing something about global warming et al.
That goes both ways. I wonder if you would come back to this comment when one of your held beliefs are disproven. I won’t derail this thread into what it might be, but I won’t hold my breath…
Excessive microservices is lazy engineering. It doesn't solve any problems - they just get moved to the next quarter, or some other team.
There is some thought that social animals that live past their breeding age still play a role in passing on their genes by increasing the fitness of their relations. For example, by helping your sibling's offspring pass on their genes, you are effectively helping pass on roughly 25% of your genes. I don't totally know where I read this but I'm pretty sure it's in selfish gene by Richard Dawkins.
Show HN: PyLLMs: – Connect and compare top AI models in Python
Hi HN,

We needed a simple way to connect to the top AI models to experiment, prototype and evaluate them.

Main features:

- Connect to top LLMs in few lines of code (currenly OpenAI, Anthropic and AI21 are supported)

- Response meta includes tokens processed, cost and latency standardized across the models

- Multi-model support: Get completitions from different models at the same time

- LLM benchmark: Eevaluate models on quality, speed and cost

The benchmark uses predefine questions to test AI reasoning abilities across a range of "hard" queries. The outputs are then automatically evaulauted using a powerful model (gpt-4 recommended): https://github.com/kagisearch/pyllms/blob/990855968b4bc26ab6...

This helped uncover a hidden gem among models: 'claude-instant-v1' which is 4x faster, 2x cheaper and similar quality to 'crowd favorite' gpt-3.5-turbo.
living the ideal Free Software lifestyle—that is, using no proprietary software or hardware, meaning no SteamDeck, no game consoles, no smartphones, etc.

I'm a proud owner of a PinePhone, on which I run an operating system called postmarketOS; there's no proprietary software to be seen. Due to the amazing success of postmarketOS and the projects they package, I can enjoy cellular networking and a whole host of apps. Occasionally the lacklustre performance of the hardware can be frustrating, but apparently the faster PinePhone Pro is vastly better in that regard - as it was, the PinePhone was a fraction of the price of more popular phones. Furthermore, I can even SSH between my PC and PinePhone via the internet or USB to transfer files!

I think my ideal Free Software lifestyle seems preferable to the author's :)
and indeed, it has no foundation at all. The aforementioned jew-hating racist who has made these accusations has presented zero evidence, despite theoretically having a position, security clearance, means and motive. So not only is it part and parcel of what has been an avalanche of lunatic right wing jew-hating racist conspiracy theories, but it doesn't even come with a basic sop towards proof. It's dark right wing fantasy cosplay and it's great that the media is beginning to label it as such, rather than legitimize it with 'well gosh it could be true that the FBI is in a grand conspiracy to murder black people for money'.
The idea that violent crime is reported less in SF than any other city is a fallacy based on, again, confirmation bias. Also, theft isn't violent crime. And as I already explained twice, theft in SF has returned to pre-pandemic levels, while violent crime in SF is still consistently lower than most large cities and decreasing. Violent crimes almost always get reported. So, your argument is based on the opposite of reality.

It's a concerning level of paranoia to suggest that multiple and separate data collection sources, including the city government, local police, state police, the FBI, justice advocates and local journalists, are ALL manipulating statistics to create a narrative that SF is safer than your perception. Especially considering that your personal narrative would be preferable to the police agencies, since it would allow them to more easily demand (and receive) more funding if violent crime were actually on the rise.

Please go read the threads about the Bob Lee suspect arrest, so you can see all of the people who were making the same mass-hysterical argument you're making, but admitting how they now regret getting caught up in that "SF is the Thunderdome" hysteria.
That is why I left the google Pixel for iPhone. I liked my Pixel, but at the time, they only did 3 years of support and security updates, I understand they recently upped it to 4 or 5 years? Sure, my iPhone costs more, but if I use a phone for its total life span (when it stops getting security updates), the iPhone comes out cheaper if you divide the cost of the phone by the number of years it gets supported.
My first distro was Ubuntu 8.04 Server. Kind of funny because I was in high school back then and decided to install Ubuntu on my machine, coming from the Windows world, I thought that it would be cool to run the server version, thinking it would be like Windows Server 2008 (with a desktop). After installing I was shocked to find out that I had no desktop to work with, spent the next 3 days figuring out how to connect my machine to the internet and then eventually downloaded Gnome. Now almost 15 years later I still use Ubuntu as my daily driver, typing this on 22.04
>It feels a bit like you're championing a narrative of "See, it's not so bad! You'll just get your stuff stolen and your car vandalized!" I wouldn't feel so smug about that.

You are making the poster's exact point for them. Take a step back, breathe, think.
Hes not saying "I would like to report a murder and tell you who did it, their full name, and social security number"

He's reporting his status and begging for help. He's thinking about survival.

What do you expect to have said in his situation?
Disagree. He has as much right to express himself about stuff he has a meaningful understanding of, or otherwise, in any forum that will have him, as you do. If you don't care for what he says, you can just ignore him.

I won't comment on "hologram of a 1960s hippie" because you said it like it's a bad thing.
We're mostly talking about things that are just industrial jigs using existing technology. These things are just bog standard industrial engineering.

Printers that print directly to boxes or products without labels are already commonly available and commonly used.
it absolutely is not here for this purpose
A finer point - it’s mere marketing attempting to influence consumer buying decisions with platitudes that distract from pure capability evaluations or other considerations. Which obviously works on getting a lot of people over the purchasing hurdle.
> "This is a product we will give you many years notice and a migration path if we decide to get rid of it".

Is that even the standard procedure at google though? There are plenty of projects where they’ve unceremoniously pulled the plug with little notice, stadia is a glaring example (though to googles credit, they did provide some refunds)
Musk, Boebert call to ‘defund’ NPR after it quit Twitter
Has it ever been anything more than insular like-minded people though, or was it all illusory?
someone forgot the echidna exists
People vote based on how they feel, so I'd say it is government's responsibility.

Especially since feeling safe is not the only thing government gets evaluated on. I don't feel threatened by feces on the street, and yet I'd want government to fix that too.
Doubly so because all comments raising suspicious about the event were immediately dismissed as bad faith arguments without any consideration.

1. Why was he out by himself? At 2 AM?
2. It didn't seem "random" at all, and in fact seemed like a targeted homicide.

Turns out both of these suspicions were valid. /shrug
I grew up in a violent town (high murder rate - even blatant). The difference between that and SF is that you don’t personally experience that violence in my home town. It’s really quite rare it affects someone you know. It’s even rarer for it to be direct.

SF is different. Within my first year there i had already seen someone shot in front my building (i didn’t witness it but the aftermath). An asian friend was slapped and her phone taken - she’d have given the phone anyway so the slap felt unnecessary. You fear parking your car - not trembling in your pants fear but a dread that you’ll have to deal with that shit again (now the breakins happen while you’re still in the car). You don’t know when someone is yelling on the street whether they are harmless or gonna attack you - doesn’t have to be a weapon just yelling at your face with saliva splattering all over you would traumatise you enough - yup, that happened too. My girlfriend and I used to try to help them. We’d give them leftover food - bakery items mostly. We’d see that all tossed on sidewalk when we walk that way again. There was always glass on the sidewalk. There’d be random tents you’ll have to get around. This is daily and adds up.

Like I said, I grew up in a violent town. So avoiding travel at night or going around the house locking windows or being aware of the approaching blind dark spot is something I’m used to. Most everyone around me was not. Even those from the Bay Area haven’t seen. I used to think they were weak but the truth is no one has to put up with it and I think people have the right to “feel” safe as well.

(Again, none if this will show up in a statistic and I’m not saying these people should be locked up in the name of tough on crime either. These are absolutely property crimes and quality of life crimes but you do feel fear and dread almost everyday)
What "breaks" when types are the same? The strings do not have the same contents.
From https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/richard-stallman...:

> "I have an announcement to make," Stallman said at the FSF's LibrePlanet conference. "I'm now on the Free Software Foundation board of directors once again... Some of you will be happy at this and some might be disappointed, but who knows. In any case, that's how it is. And I'm not planning to resign a second time."

I get that not everyone is perfectly well rounded but how do you fail at messaging this poorly? "...some might be disappointed, but who knows. In any case, that's how it is." Just a giant middle finger.

I'm sure plenty of Stallman-types will say everyone is not being generous enough or that cancel culture is going too far, but your job on the board of a foundation is implicitly a social one and if you can't not piss off 90% of the people around you then you are still bad at your job and unfit for it.
That's the point: there is no dataset that will allow you to reliably rank every "major city" by crime stats because every city reports crime differently and no crime dataset also accounts for factors which may affect those statistics (eg law enforcement misreporting crimes for political reasons).

How do you even define a city in this case? You say those are normalized crime stats per 1k residents - how big are the metro areas? Are there any cities that also count a portion of their suburbs as part of the city? Does doing so reduce per-capita crime stats? etc...

My suggestion would be to thoroughly vet your sources before posting their conclusions as fact.