skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was only a matter of time IMO. The two big enough to matter pros to FWD are packaging (no pesky drive-train competing for space) and stupid proofing (in the form or more forward crashing and less sideways crashing). EVs solve the former. Modern computer control solves the latter, though side curtain airbags, pre tensioners and modern expectations of seat bolstering had long since diminished it.

Trying to make two tires do all the going and the lion's share of the turning is just silly for a variety of reasons (competing design goals for suspension/handling, tire wear, performance, etc) and without some big pros to make up for it there's no reason to incur that.

Of course some applications that have cargo space as the utmost priority will remain FWD forever (Promaster style vans, probably some station wagons and subcompact hatches, etc) but for more rounded cars, especially ones with AWD optional having RWD be the default just makes too much sense from a suspension design and handling perspective to ignore.
Silk has been produced for 3-4k years, can you imagine what a son-of-a-bitch that was back then? Was silk like gold and bitcoin? Somehow valuable because its such a bitch to produce? Feels like all of it is a goof on the people who accept it at face value.
> I'll never understand why they need software engineers, specifically, in an office.

Because the basic ape dominance drive that's very strong with many managerial types derives more satisfaction from the physical presence of a large group of subordinates who can be ordered about with impunity.
I know it's "bigger". But the protection circuit should be working on a thousandth the power as the output transistor, and the chip has a zillion logic transistors already, so I'm saying the chip should be negligibly bigger.

It should always be tri state. Never allow the positive and negative output transistors to get power at the same time. If that particular detail wasn't already implemented, it'll take like two logic gates more. Which is absolutely nothing compared to the rest of the chip.

And again, don't change the electrical properties! Tap like a microamp for monitoring, on a pin that outputs milliamps.

It doesn't matter that there is no universal solution to "abrupt" because we already have an acceptable setup and it's not changing.

Sensing can be done with no real impact on output characteristics. Additional shunting and clamping is not necessary. If the damping only happens by controlling the output transitor, then it's no different from how the circuit already works.

And no we're not starting in the best case. We're starting with a transistor where the design goal was to have as fast a slew as feasible. If it already doesn't overshoot dangerously, then using the same or slower slew shouldn't be hard to avoid overshoot, all else equal.

Most of your objections come down to "if you change X you might cause problems" when I'm saying not to change X.
Let's look back at Star Hopper. SpaceX literally hired a company that builds water towers to build a prototype tank for Starship - and flew it! They were primarily trying to figure out how to build it, move it, etc. Obviously the risk tolerance was high. That's really the difference between them and say Boeing. SpaceX starts with higher risk tolerance just to figure out the lay of the land, but they start reducing that tolerance as development progresses. Boeing aims for perfection out of the gate (apparently).
A guess:
We figure out that humans are as dumb as they are because reality is comprised of a profuse depth of information that we may as well consider defacto infinite, and with our very finite brains we are forced to use biases to trim away almost all of the information about reality that isn't immediately relevant to our needs. It's all survival and triage. It ends with the same trouble but with more time to process it, so all in all, more slow and plodding progress, but progress nonetheless
Nice work. Where will it run?
I broke my Alix 1C trying to install Coreboot on there:

http://www.zoobab.com/alix-1c

I went once in Zurich and knocked at the door of PC Engines to buy a Wistron wifi card (it was cheaper then shipping it to Belgium), it was one guy in a house with plenty of hardware. Memories!
> significant parts that were planned to be tested could not be tested

I don't think "planned" is the right word - the right word is "hoped".
Well... the US tax-payer spent $2.9B for a starship or two. Or to be more accurate, there's a contract between NASA and SpaceX to deliver a Lunar Lander Starship variant (NextSTEP-2, Appendix H, Option A.) Last year it was upgraded to Option B which (I think) calls for a beefed-up Starship that can perform multiple lunar missions.

I'm sure they're not just dumping 2.9B in Elon's bank account (I mean... if they did he would just buy back all the Tesla stock) but there are a series of milestones that need to be met for the government to release the next chunk of funds. I don't know if NASA published the exact milestones, but maybe "not exploding on the launch-pad" was enough to release the next block of funds.
I wouldn't be able to find a link, but I recall a Travel StackExchange question a couple years back where a European was asking how to stay safe from gun violence during their vacation to the US. They were terrified they might be randomly shot by a stranger, or pulled over and shot by the police.

Obviously this view of the US is deeply misguided - but this is the problem our sensational media creates. It makes rare events seems commonplace and irrationally freaks people out.
> The lie can cause harm.

Like what? I'm going to write a lie on a piece of paper and seal it in a safe which no person can access. Is it going to break free and kill us all? Or what harm should we expect from it?

Back to reality, it won't cause any harm. If someone with poor judgment found a way into the safe, read the lie, and then did something stupid, that could result in harm. But it would be the person doing something stupid that caused the harm.

Even the court case was clear that the harm caused was in people making poor decisions after reading the lie, not the lie itself. Why are the people who caused the harm claimed in the case not held responsible for their poor judgment? What is special about Google that it gets to take responsibility for unrelated people doing something stupid?

Fortunately in this case the harm caused by those people was limited, but if the harm was greater, like someone murdered the guy after reading the lie, would it be reasonable to charge Google with murder and absolve the murderer of responsibility?
Perhaps "don't have children" should have been the first suggestion.
Agreed, it's good in small chunks. Sometimes I'll feed it a prompt to generate new code to double check my approach is valid. Sometimes it's shown I am the better architect, other times it's made me aware of parts of an API that I did not know about. Ironically, it's helped me the most in writing recursive code.
Can an e-bike’s fat tires be offset by a fat battery?
Yes, especially given that nobody can adequately define what AGI even means.

But hey, if we did, then we couldn't have so many meandering, unproductive conversations about it on Fridman or Rogan.

Recently, I used GPT-4 to read my cousin's writings on his fictional world and generate a chart of the timeline and concepts using Mermaid syntax. I think one of the best things about LLMs at the moment is that it can convert things in an abstract way. Even if it doesn't get it totally right the first time, it can correct itself on instruction, and still saves time over coding something or downloading software.
Need to way to feature-detect for “Add to home screen” instructions
Starting on AWS in a few regions, but multi-cloud eventually.
Looks like this is the last time I’ll have to point out on HN that BuzzFeed News was the “serious news” side of BuzzFeed, not the main listicle side of the business. They won a Pulitzer in 2021 for International Reporting, and 2 Polk Awards [0]

They also had one of the best news org GitHub repos, with the code and data and documentation for their investigations:

https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/everything

[0] https://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpress/buzzfeed-news-wins-ge...
It isn't reasonable to compare the 7B model with the likes of ChatGPT 3.5 which has 175 billion parameters. Stability does have plans to produce a comparable model, though. Right now they're working on models up to 65 billion parameters.

This is just the very early stages of development, and the exciting thing is that it's something you can actually run yourself and it's freely usable for commercial use.
Michael Schumacher’s family planning legal action over fake AI interview
Disgracefully negative headlines and coverage of this historic event from AP, BBC, and NPR this morning.
I love make.

I've used dozens of different build systems over the decades, and while each has their own strengths and weaknesses, make remains my favorite.
BuzzFeed News will shut down
I don't think SpaceX cares about your uninformed opinion
> publish it with a headline and cover that suggested it was real

The subheading is "It sounds almost real! +++ What's behind this" ("Es klingt täuschend echt! +++ Was dahinter steckt"), allowing them to weasel themselves out of just flat out lying. That's the schtick of "Die Aktuelle".

On the actual interview page, they explicitly disclose that it's not a real interview in their, eh, unique way of writing:

Talk to him just once. Ask him how he is really doing. And almost ten years after his tragic finally get some answers! Not meager, nebulous half-sentences from friends. But answers from him! From Michael Schumacher, 54! Here it is - the incredible interview!

With redemptive answers to the most burning questions that the whole world has been asking for so long.
How is he doing since the tragic accident in 2013? The answer:
"My life changed completely after that. It was a terrible time for my wife, my children ... I was so injured so badly that I was in a kind of in a kind of artificial coma for months because my body wouldn't have been able to take it all."

But the most important question: how does he feel today?
The answer gives hope: "Much much better than years ago. With the help of my team, I can I can even stand on my own again and even slowly take a few steps and
walk ... My wife and my children have been a blessing to me and without them I would not have made it. Of course, they are also very sad about how everything
has gone ... They support me and stand firmly by my side."

When asked about whether he follows the careers of Gina, 26, and Mick, 24, the answer is: "Of course!
I follow both of them with great pleasure ... They really make me and the whole family very proud."

And on a possible possible appearance in the future: "I have to be very cautious about it, because I don't want to let I don't want people to think too much
wrong about me."

Nothing wrong? Did Michael Schumacher really say everything like that himself?

The Interview was on the Internet. On a site that has something to do with artificial intelligence, or AI for short. What is behind all this? DIE AKTUELLE went in search of clues. There are actually Internet sites where you can talk to celebrities. But the answers are provided by artificial intelligence.

But how does this AI know the personal backgrounds? About marriage, children and illnesses? Someone must have entered the information - like in Wikipedia - on the Internet! Was it really Schumi himself who the information from his sickbed? From his sickbed? Or someone from the family, nurses or employees?

The answers sound deceptively real! Too good to be true? If Michael Schumacher would speak to us - it would be a world sensation. And a miracle, also through our prayers. A real miracle.

(Yes, that's the entire interview on 2 A4 pages. That's it. They asked 4 questions to a character.ai bot. The magazine has many pictures, little text.)
If you're counting the capsule itself, Starship qualifies too.

If you're talking about the launch escape tower, that's for during launch. It's gone by the time you reach orbit, leaving you in the same scenario of Lunar Starship in the event of a failure; in space, but no way to get down.
Having pride in ones country is a good thing.
There was a lot of wrong with the launch from the start - failed engines, destroyed pad, parts of the rocket flying off during the start. Yes, it's amazing that it went for as far as it did, but there is no way they can fix all of it quickly.
As if an 11-year-old will absorb any of that...
Sounds like a much better strategy than annoying us all with media adulation. Maybe there are some positives to going that length for the sake of privacy.
If we are listing places nobody will be able to find, let me add that there is also a fantastic Chinese restaurant somewhere within a few blocks of 7th and market where we had a great Christmas Day lunch a few years ago.
lol, indeed.

As long as the hallucination problem remains, I think we are going to see a significant hype bubble crash within a year or so.

Yes, it is still useful under proper guidance, but building things on full automation that are reliable doesn't seem to be something that is actually within realms of reality at present. More innovations will be required for that.
Journalism is expensive. Has anybody really figured out sustainable funding for it?
My car started and then exploded after I got out of my driveway. Another successful commute to work.
> I can't pay my accountant, utility bills or my property taxes with Bitcoin though.

If you get Bitcoin in, and then you convert it to USD, why not?
clearly many people care about grey hair, despite how frivolous you think it is. do their opinions not matter?
Tiktok is available on Android and Apple phones. Not sure what the significance of Android is in your post. You can even get tiktok on Apple Watches with a bit of effort.
Apologies, I meant the last bit in a broader sense than only food products.

But the points you're making are fair. Indeed the pollution involved in meat consumption is a big reason why I don't eat meat. There are many contributing aspects to the carbon morality of the products we buy and I try to be mindful of them where possible.
Early modern sailors were uneducated manual labourers with few economic prospects in a world where simply living as a lower class individual was more dangerous than nearly any job that exists in the developed world today. Sailing often paid better than jobs on land which made up for the risk, and it offered the potential of massive reward to the high class leadership of the vessel.

There is no consummate economic incentive for being an astronaut. The incentive is the experience and making some impact on science, and while that motivates many people the probability of attracting the best and the brightest goes down as the probability of exploding goes up.

I'd say there's unlikely to be enough of an economic incentive to justify riskier manned space travel until the earth becomes a whole lot less habitable.
yes.

Huawei's real mistake is that they disrupt the silicon tech leadership of intel and other traditional vendors in that space, with a number of --- in hindsight ---- excellent strategic moves, for example

* they now hold a "controlling" majority of G5 mobile patents
* they are a strong and serious player in automotive
* ASIL D real time kernel for automotive functional safety
* integrated platform from microcontroller all the way to Android-alike in the UI
* this is unlike BOSCH, Continental, Renesas, Delphi/APITIV, etc, who were blocked by the traditional car vendors to create such a platform

* "Huawei aims at becoming a BOSCH" https://tcrn.ch/3v7O4z1

* serious cloud player
* serious player end to end in the mobile market (from backend via physical broadcast network to mobile phones and OS on top)

the list could go on and on

oh, and their ownership structure is spread ownership by employees. the majority shareholder is the founder with a whopping 1.9% of shares.

afaict they pay like FAANG/MAAMA/... and offer very comparable possibilities for personal development.

they are doing pretty much everything right while the traditional wealth has no control over them.

and _that_ is something "the West" fights nails and toes.
Exploding on the launch pad would've been a failure.
How do people feel about large-ish arrays on the stack? e.g. 30k element array. I profiled something like this in Rust, and using a Vec on the heap was actually faster than the array on the stack. I'm sure there was some benchmarking issue/caching affecting the result, but I found it surprising following the (perhaps incorrect) intuition that stack local variables are faster than heap.
Bitcoin is probably a barrier to entry, meaning the "users" in this industry don't all know or understand how to use Bitcoin, and so this would mean losing a portion of their less tech savvy userbase. On the other hand, almost everyone (who is online and able to purchase things) knows how to use a credit card.
That was my question. Is the algorithm exactly same across the world, including inside China?
Buzzfeed is already using GPT to generate listicles and quizzes:

https://futurism.com/buzzfeed-publishing-articles-by-ai

This announcement is about Buzzfeed News, the investigative division which was already facing cuts last year:

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/buzzfeed-news-editors-...
Ah, that's a shame. I came in here thinking I would celebrate.
Before GRUB, (i.e. with LILO), you could easily do this at any time by just booting with the added kernel parameter “init=/usr/bin/emacs”.
Indeed I think anyone who's paying attention can expect Musk to fail every time
Ketamine is sometimes used for chronic pain. It’s very expensive if the IV route is used.
Still a much better solution than installing an additional browser runtime with each "native" app. And Firefox should finally give in and implement "add to desktop", as it is much more useful, when your main browser supports it. Also, useful for business where launching your database application as separate task and having browser things in browser makes it easier to work. Especially for workers with lots of tabs.
Ask HN: How Do You Tinker?
How do you come up with ideas, how do you prioritize what to do, how scrappy are you?

I ask because I want to tinker more
I'd like to see the overlap of people that use bitcoin as a currency and pay for adult material on the internet.
strongly agree

it's important to make sure your code base isn't doing anything dumb, like O(n^2) iterations, or 1000 sequential RPCs instead of 1 batch RPC, or etc -- this is i guess your point about architecture

but assuming that bar is cleared, performance optimizations should only be accepted when accompanied by benchmarks/profiles that demonstrate their usefulness at the whole system level
/me (from outside the loop): "huh?"
Indeed, the rates of revenge porn and AI deepfake targeted towards men is considerably lower than that against women.
Did you obtain the BTC that you used for the purchase from an exchange that requires PII?
They sold the business last year I believe, may be wrong
the internet archive have torrents of all their media, although very many of them aren't seeded
Poor family and community ties, a capitalism driven culture of dehumanization and commodification, and even people who are "making it" have often sacrificed and stressed a lot to escape poverty, so it's trading one pain for another.
And SLS is that much further behind
+1 white American melts better than Provolone, and definitely works better in a cheesesteak. Both are preferable to "wiz" which is honestly pretty gross.
Why dig a flame trench if you can have your test article make one for you. Efficiency!
That's not bad.

One limitation is that is probably a builder pattern, creating an object that runs an arbitrary state machine. (I suppose it could be a method repeated rerun, where fsm is a wrapper around the current state, and method calls that don't apply return a null object singleton, but that seems less likely).

If so it will have a few downsides, like extra memory needed to build up the transition table(s), and possibly being less efficient in executing than a hard coded implementation, simply because the FSM type would need to implement code for arbitrary FSMs, meaning potentially less efficient than scenario specific implementation.

In many scenarios this additional overhead is probably not a big concern, and the increased maintainability vs some other styles of coding FSMs may be well worth it.

I'd guess the built up data structure data structure would be something like a dictionary that maps from the current state to a dictionary that maps from trigger conditions (or commands in the code above), to a struct that contains the new state, and optionally a transition action function pointer (or delegate, or whatever your language calls them).

One of the interesting things about FSMs is that there are many ways to code them. I've also seen an thin wrapper around state object with methods for all transition actions, said methods being mostly a switch statement (or if/else chain) around the current state, setting the new one and possibly calling an transition action.

Plus of course there are plenty of ways to code an FSM such that its existence is more implicit than explicit, where the main hint that an FSM exists at all the existence of a variable named state.
Is it time for a decentralized image host, where images are actually stored on users devices?
It's hard. The guardian newspaper in the UK is funded by a trust that was endowed by one rich dude https://www.theguardian.com/about
I'm a fullstack dev of 10+ years experience. We have people on our team who've done almost nothing more than a react bootcamp. They can't do what I do, even with chatGPT, but they can do a lot of things I don't want to do.
> presumably it's disclosed in the magazine itself?

Yes, indirectly, they have screenshots of the answers with a blue "c.ai" box in them.
Yeah, the thing people miss about the space station isn't that it's high up, it is that it is fast. It orbits the earth roughly every 90 minutes! It is literally faster then a speeding bullet.
a) If they are unable to identify the user by any means then this is their only resort and google is going to happily hand it over.

b) Depends on the country you are in. You might be the only one connected to a specific VPN server at specified time, this also answers point c.

c) Would be surprised. Have a read of this recent Affidavit https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23723268/pompourin-af...
So is one who follows Shatnez a Shatner?

There is probably a joke in there about being so hammy...
It's not chargebacks specifically, but you can find a handful of articles and websites detailing how MasterCard and Visa in particular deciding that they will not allow certain kinds of adult content.

They flex this by putting leverage on the banks to not support this either, as they could lose the ability to work with Visa or Mastercard if they start doing banking outside their TOS.

There are some reasons why this could be a good thing - pornography is an industry rife with problems of trafficking, abuse, etc. and denying funding of that kind of behaviour is not without reason. But this tends to spill over to just about everything that /isn't/ abusive as well, which leads to adult sites and the like not being able to secure their own funding or get support from banks.
Despite the fact that the Victorian era was quite conservative? So your point doesn't make a lot of sense to me. We're moving to a neo-victorian(more conservative/prude) era that is also shutting down Conservative speech?
Sometimes leaders get too much credit for what their team accomplishes, but I think it would be silly to deny that there are people who make unique contributions. Apple wouldn't have been Apple without Steve Jobs. SpaceX wouldn't be SpaceX without Elon Musk.
Sending humans into space at this point is purely vanity.

This is exactly what we should build AGI to do - explore places humans can’t.
Cool, thanks for letting me know.