skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musk behavior is significantly weighing the stock down. I saw Tesla early on as a slam dunk investment. But at a certain point when everyone began to see them this way (vain hope!), I had serious doubt they could deliver.

And 10 years later, I realize anyone else with industrial experience could have done a better job of delivering cars than Musk could.

We are giving this guy more credit than he deserves. There have been far too many layoffs at Tesla, good employees with similar vision, all because this guy was a billionaire jerk, without the billionaire title.
Large, extremely safe, no paint to maintain, no body that gets easily dented, impact resistant glass, electric, high performance, long range, great torque and acceleration, can haul stuff, can fit a family, can be used in a pinch for power, and looks awesome.

And maybe the self driving stuff will turn out to be useful too. Too soon to say.

Electric vehicles are coming much more slowly where I am and they cost 1.5-2x what they do in the US. So I bought a ICE car this year. But I hope one day a cybertruck will be a practical option for me.
Porsche (~300k units/year) and Range Rover (~90k units/year) are niche brands, Rivian isn't even profitable and a volume manufacturer. Conversely, the Model Y was the US' 6th best selling vehicle last year [1], is currently the 4th best selling vehicle in 2023, and will likely the world's best selling car in 2023 [2] based on demand and supply forecasts.

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/629993/tesla-model-y-6th-bestsell...

[2] https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/1177/tesla-model-y-set-to-...

> According to a report from Focus to Move, the Model Y is now the fourth best-selling vehicle worldwide after an astonishing 88 percent jump from 2021 to 2022. There were 759,000 Model Ys sold last year, just 28,000 units behind the third-place Ford F-150 which has been the best-selling truck for the previous 46 years. Toyota claimed the top two spots, with the RAV4 at 870,000 and the Corolla selling 1.12 million.

(waiting on my cybertruck)
12KW on a single phase is really not what you want to do though, that works out to 50A which is likely more than your distribution panel is wired for, usually they are good up to 40A and 50A for a couple of seconds but more than that and you are inviting blowing up the utility side fuses. You will also need pretty beefy cable to be able to run that kind of current, 6 mm^2 ~30A, 10 mm^2 ~40 and 16 mm^2 ~55. Unless you want to run your cable really hot, which I would not recommend. Also, you will have to beef up the wiring in your distribution panel, the utility side fuse (which normally is 3x25 or 3x35, rarely 3x50 though it is possible but will require fatter bus bars and special breakers as well). Much better to divide the power over your phases. That way you can run 12KW on 3x2.5 mm^2.

The setpoints I am struggling with are the difference between for instance the voltage at the inverter versus the voltage at the distribution panel, when pushing a mere 5KW into the grid from the upstairs inverter that raises the voltage enough that the inverter will trip. This is not due to the usual suspects (faulty wiring, loose contacts) but simply because of the length of the feedline to the attic and the fact that it is 2.5 mm square tri phase cabling, which has a 4V voltage drop over that length and there is absolutely no way to compensate for that.

Highly frustrating. Other interesting set points would be to be able to de-rate the inverter and to be able to get it to shut down faster once the sun has gone under.

That's really good value for the money what you've got there. My setup is a bit more expensive than yours but it also makes a lot more power (as it should :) ), I've spent a lot of time on getting it all set up properly for the summer. The biggest problem remaining (and that I won't be able to fix) is that I can't angle the panels on the low roof properly because that would upset my neighbors so they are at a very shallow angle, just enough to the get the water to run off them but even then at the edge of the panels in the 'down' direction there is a little area of about 5 cm where water pools long enough for algae to grow. So I will have to clean these quite frequently. Maybe I'll figure out a way to deal with that but so far nothing that really worked well. A steeper angle would require a higher starting point or a lower ending point, neither of which are feasible.

The real pay-off is in March/April and September/October when we will save substantially on gas by heating using an air/air heatpump with a COP of about 3 to 3.5 at the temperatures at that time of the year. That should put a sizeable dent in the energy costs.
The sheer size and scope of a single scam is absolutely astounding here -- and who knows how many others have yet to be discovered.

When I search for new generative AI tools, it really does start to feel like a Wild West out there.
> This would be problematic if you were learning any new language for example.

But it is a benefit when it comes to technical papers, chemical names, and foreign loan words.

> This is not exceptional for an adult.

Really? I've met plenty of functioning adults who say they sound out words in their head when reading. Go to any one of the many online threads about reading methods and you'll come across plenty of people describing that they have a voice in their head pronouncing each word that they read.
Content loaded via Embedly is cached after the first load. By default I think it's cached for a few hours.

FWIW Mastodon isn't the only decentralized social network where you can embed published content into Medium; you can do it with email as well, with any thread published on fwdeveryone.com. I documented the process of building our integration here:

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/how-to-build-an-oembed-inte...
What data is wrong?

Germany is the most populous Western European country. The figures that you quote for the EU have nothing do with the comparison we're making in this thread.

I don't see how the figure for a percentage that you're quoting is compelling in any way:

126 / 1.6 = 78.75

126 / 1.4 = 90

1.6 * 83 = 132.8

1.4 * 83 = 116.2
It’s just cool. Feel like nobody has any creativity or originality in the car market since the 60s and Tesla is the only one driving it.
I know what it looks like in my head but I can’t quite figure the algorithm out. The spiking is basically reinforcement learning at the neuron level. Get it right and it’s basically all you need. You don’t even need training data because it will just automagically learn from the data it sees.
We did very similar with a Java stack without even trying really. Competitors using things like Ruby and went all in on distributed messes had hundreds of servers but we had about 15. It does require you to be aware of performance, but I wouldn't call it difficult or particularly time consuming.
electrons don’t, electricity does .
I don’t know, I’ve seen maybe 10 in my 25 years in the industry and they were mostly all at the start of my career in a mainframe shop. I ‘taught’ them AIX as we moved a critical system off the big iron onto a RISC system. I don’t think I’ve seen any in the wild in over 15 years. Other professions age doesn’t seem to matter much at all.
But most people do not think critically. Even if we try we do not have access to perfect information.

You read a news article. Is it fact? Is it a tilted spin? Is it truth that omits strategic nuances?

No matter how critically I approach it, I will not be able derive objective truth from biased and fuzzy information.

At some point you will need to trust someone to curate.
Is there any indication that the Cybertruck is delayed for reasons related to its unique aesthetics? Why would a new truck that is normal looking be easier to build than the cybertruck?
Yeah if it didn’t already have a ridiculous number of reservations proving you wrong you might have a point.
With the path integral being an analogue computer.
There is also a third approach that is the best if you have a predictible base load with surges sometimes imo: hybrid cloud

You basically run the base load in your own data center and the surges go to the cloud. My university is evaluating this because sometimes you have multiple labs that need a lot of compute resources at the same time and local compute cluster has finite capacity.
Coal miners weren't the only blue collar workers replaced, there were 20 million US manufacturing staff at its peak, now its down to 12. All offshored. That's 8 million alone.

The US is already spending $1 trillion on infrastructure, $1 trillion can hire 10 mil people digging ditches for a year, and when subsidizing gainful employment (ie, only subsidizing 20% of the wages), can probably generate 50 mil jobs. If AI is that impressive, expect the government coffers to swell so much it can spend $1 trillion on infrastructure every single year.

The US can easily absorb $30 trillion in total of infrastructure investment + housing construction, rebuilding itself to say Chinese standards. This wasn't possible previously because of cost and labour shortages. Now it is.

The future isn't all roses, but pretending it'll be some sort of apocalypse, is just another form of coping, excusing yourself to understanding the reality.
I'm not sure that definition is relevant; it's too extreme to apply to the situation.

By that definition the US censors speech such as incitement to violence, fraud, slander, and intellectual property. No place has ever been uncensored.

Like everything in life, there's a matter of degree to it and a question of what is censored.
How Analog Video Works [video]
The 2 brothers who were killed were notorious gangsters involved in 100+ cases of murders, loot, kidnapping etc. At least read-up before trying to win with your ignorance.

India has Buddhists, Parsis, Jains, Zoroastrian as “true” minorities. They don’t have any problems in India. In fact they are among the most prosperous folks.
Why is that only Muslims have problem everywhere on the globe? France, US, UK, Israel and the list goes on.
Is there a point to sell 'trucks' globally?
There is a bright line between the town square (which is a public space) and social media (which is private property). Pointing to this line and claiming that it is dissolving is counterfactual and seems, to me, to be an unsubtle yearning for government control of private property, which is very close to an unmitigated evil.
of course!

- using redis for long term memory/vector search

- using gpt4only mode w/ 8k context for "fast" and "smart" llms

- allow local command execution

My (admittedly, magical and weird) ai.yaml looks like:

ai_name: [app]-founder
ai_role: You are working on a AI SaaS product called [app]. You complete all goals continuously to build [app]. You are a highly autonomous and efficient software engineering agent composed of ChatGPT 4 instances. You are running on macOS via AutoGPT. You rely heavily on memories from your past. You know [app] is an existing app in the current directory. You avoid 'search_files' because it will crash, so use ls instead. You avoid performing the same actions in a loop or repetitively. You manage a fleet of agents that can answer questions up to Sept. 2021.`
ai_goals:
- [something to effect of - git clone template repo from this url if it isnt already cloned]
- continuously build an app- add relevant features by questioning the state of the web app that is located at localhost:3000 && localhost:5556, and improving the code.
- understand and learn about what might make a good [product idea]
- research and build a business (with moat) around [app/biz name] (limit sources to high quality such as news.ycombinator.com, github.com, reddit.com, etc),
All the media writes is hit pieces on Tesla. They’re an easy target without a PR department, after all.
It's funny how we used to say "a picture is worth a thousand words", and now a YouTube video is worth about five words.
> Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.

> Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.

Can't really argue with that, even though I also frown at the tone of the test of the post.
Medium… there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time
> People do not have the tools to discern truth given plausible misinformation.

Then give them the tools.

> Indeed, that is a risk, but not the only risk.

It's not really a risk, it's a fact. Governments routinely lie about plenty of things, and deny things that we later find out to be true.

I would much rather have a bunch of people believe the wrong thing, than have true things labeled as misinformation, or worse, censored.

The onus is on us, as citizens of a free society, to set the record straight, and constantly work to educate people. That's just the responsibility we have to accept. "Freedom isn't free" and all that.
> They have the classic "I read a lot so I read words I don't know how to pronounce" issue.

I read a lot of fantasy literature as a kid, and I'll argue that not needing to bother with pronunciation is a huge boon when trying to go through a particular style of fantasy novel!
Open AI assistants should really be implemented on open protocols with open payments. Nostr is a perfect protocol for that because of Zaps which can provide a strong alignment signal to the (various different) communities — not just white “western” men.
All of those nifty features are replicable by any other manufacturer.
4090 is amazing, but very large card. 3090 is "good enough" for ML - same 24gb vram - and you can pick them up used for half the price of a new 4090. That's what I did.

WSL on windows apparently decent, or native PyTorch, dual boot windows/ubuntu still prob best tho.
It's extremely unsafe. The design is illegal in at least the European Union, UK and Australia.
What a strange part of Putin's legacy.

I'm still hoping for de-escalation, but frankly it feels like we could easily have an incident that causes things to spiral out of control, a la the start of WWI.
Hollywood Writers Approve of Strike as Shutdown Looms
Of course, on a small enough area, short enough time, and rough enough goal, it's fine. The same applies to the earth being round or flat. I don't compensate for the curvature of the earth when figuring out area of bricks for a front walk, or building a shed. So what?

With your example, if I'm just trying to walk roughly north in the middle of the day and I know that my destination is just west of mountain slope that I'll see when I get near, then it'll work to just keep our shadows roughly in front of us. But, let's take finding a point on a functionally featureless plain or desert. It's 8 miles away, due North, so a bit over a two hour brisk walk. Local noon (w/DST) is 12:45, so we start at 11:45, and the sun's azimuth is 154°. By the time we get close-ish two hours later (say 7mi at 3.5mph), the sun's azimuth is 207°. So, we started out walking North, but we've been bending to the East, and are now off course by 53° to the East, and our average path is 26° off. After 2 hours at 3.5mph, we should be 1 mile away, due South, and set to arrive in 17 minutes more walking. Instead, we're 3.2 miles away from our objective, and walking 53° in the wrong direction.

The zone where this works is really pretty small, and we're probably using landmarks instead. And if you're trying to do this on water without compensating for the earth's rotation, you'll soon be in trouble...
The video is interesting, but I suspect, that the author is making some subtle errors at places. Tho I'm not 100% sure, last time I analyzed those subject was at BsC/MsC courses at my uni.

E.g. he says something to the tune of

electrons take a few ns. running around, and then settle down in the maze.

IIRC electron flow in a medium is relatively slow, something on the order of centimeters per second. So it's not electrons which settle some potentials by moving quickly, but the electric potential finds its equilibrium. And it finds its equlibrium by electrons exchanging virtual photons (carries of electromagnetic force)?
Short, glib comments get dunked on here, but you've got a point. As the saying goes, “The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” The judgement of the common folk is not unassailable, and is frequently wrong, which is why Democracy needs numerous checks and balances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYTQ7__NNDI
> the current ruling party is straight up unironically fascist and descends from the same political party that inspired the german nationalist socialist party.

This is false. There is no link between the German Nazi party and BJP. If you are talking about RSS, the link comes from a quote in a book published in 1939 (well before the world found about the holocaust) by the RSS founder [0]. Admiration for Hitler and his Nazi party in the 30s wasn't unique to the RSS founder [1][2].

Golwalkar was also supportive of allies in their war against Nazis and supported the formation of Israel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._S._Golwalkar

[1] https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/britain-ado...

[2] https://time.com/5414055/american-nazi-sympathy-book/
As I understand it they have the input data, but next up they are creating the model. I could make a joke about drawing an owl ... but that would be a bit mean. I am really glad people are working on this.

I wonder... who is paying? Will there be restrictions like ethics clauses and suchlike. Not necessarily a bad thing if they do. Will there be restrictions on commercial use.
This same youtuber made a video about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vrhk5OjBP8
It gives you a tailored answer from stackoverflow :)
A lot of people, including me, would buy Cybertruck for advertised price $39,900.
Police generally need a warrant to enter someones house too for the same reasons. However, if they chasing someone or there imminent danger they can enter someones house not search it, but it is only to deal with chasing the person or preventing the imminent threat.

The only reason I see police deploying this would be to avoid a high speed chase. Where that ends up constitutionally I don't know not a judge or lawyer, but it is one of those imminent danger/pursuit situations the courts have carved for other circumstances.

Now I will say if the police follow someone they are chasing into an other persons house and in that house see drugs. Under most circumstances that could not be used as evidence against the person that lived in the house since they did not have a warrant to search for drugs in the house. Their only legal reason to be there was to catch someone, so anything unrelated to that narrow purpose generally can't be used in court.
And this is why we need to watch out for that potential timeline where everything gets written as pixels to a web canvas and can’t be MITM altered/filtered/uBlocked
You're absolutely right about blue collar needing a revival, there's an enormous amount of work to do there, and it's a type of work near impossible to replace with AI. Further, I'd say that we need to better appreciate these jobs, in compensation and work conditions.

That said, I don't see this mass transition happening from white collar to blue collar for a very sizable part of existing white collar. In many developing countries, white collar is a of a considerable age. There's skill/capability/physical issues as well as a social/cultural aspect. You're telling people that their educational investment is now worthless and are hereby demoted to the working class. May be correct, true and just, but expect social unrest.
The Model Y has a very conventional style, so the fact that it sells well would seem to be a point in favor of the GP’s argument. It also sells in many continents, which Cybertruck might not be able to do.
Same! This is a hell of a piece of software. It's fast and very easy to use, and it single-handedly makes you think PDFs are obvious and super simple. Which, knowing the truth, just blows my mind.

Using Master PDF editor is like watching a 60 second youtube physics video that's so good, you just understand quantum physics perfectly by the end of it.
Yeah because Tesla is doing so poorly as of late /s
The Model 3/Y’s success must be entirely independent of Musk’s leadership huh?
I believe there's a not so small crowd of people who want videogame like thing in real life. Now how many people in that crowd have the money for an EV truck.
Very easy clicks, helps 'journalists' get that next promotion while providing zero useful information.
Great that you poured your heart out for others to read. Made my job much easier.
I believed that it used several other engines, and also had its own crawler, not just Bing. Can you share a source for "just a wrapper"?
This is incredibly messed up. If I'm a shareholder with a conscience against alcohol and beer, this goes against every nerve in my body. It's like Tesla announcing hemp CBD smoke vapor. Since when did I agree to become a drug dealer? Or a black water vendor?
I want to think the NATO countries are wise enough to not start WW3 if they get an excuse. If a fighter jet or something gets downed, it'd be in the interests of everyone to play it down.
Maybe a distributed trainer? AI@Home?
The link doesn’t appear to work
Altnews the left wing version of Tucker Carlson. I'd go as far as to say that if Alt-news told me there was no Earthquake in my house, my first instinct would be to find cover.

Local and politicized news in India is notoriously biased. But the direction of the bias varies from news org to news org. Somehow, American & British news orgs are notorious for giving megaphones to the worst faith actors within Indian politics.

I've found that ThePrint is the closest thing to centrist-neutral reporting in India. They are pretty open about leaning left*[1] on social issues and leaning right [2] on economic issues.

[1] The left-right division doesn't work as cleanly in India, but left for the Print means separation of church & state, live-n-let-live, individual freedoms, LGBT support, a kind of French secularism.

[2] which in an Indian context means left of Biden, but right of pre-1991 socialist India. ie. Welfare-ist, but not isolationist.
In the UK it’s called “pressure sales” and there are consumer laws against it.
You're not wrong but what's the difference between history and narratives?

"History" is the study of different narratives to TRY to come to a semblance of truth, but even for recent events this is almost impossible.

Pick an example like "Did the US dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan ultimately save lives, or was it unnecessary" and it's impossible to find the truth between 2 conflicting narratives, each fairly justifiable.

Another one is, most Soviet Anti-American Propaganda was true.
The Internet Archive that just risked their existence on a why-did-we-think-we'd-get-away-with-this blunder (charitably you could call this ideological blindness, at best?)?
The FBI did do this with safety deposit boxes. And a judge ruled they did nothing wrong! https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-30/judge-ba...
> The most painful is having to run multiple data centers for HA. Double or triple the price right there.

Ok, let's make one thing patently clear: ITS THE SAME IN THE CLOUD

All the cloud vendors will tell you need to have stuff replicated in multiple "Availability Zones" or "Regions".

And yup, the nickle & diming nature of the cloud means that's going to cost you double or triple.