skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people like freedom of choice, I guess. Like in a democracy, where you can vote whatever candidate you like, except here is with your wallet. Others like dictatures.
That's about the same efficiency as every modern EV. This is not Tesla specific.

Electric motors are very efficient, regenerative braking helps, EVs are designed to be super aerodynamic, etc.
Where do these numbers come from? The linked thread says that the instruction decoder chip alone has 110k transistors.
Have we discovered all the emergent abilities of GPT-4?
Everyone who's driving slower than you is an idiot and everyone who's driving faster than you is an asshole
Who is Nehal Wadhera, the Mumbai Indians batter who impressed on debut?
The injected anti-Trump rant at the beginning of the article is weird. Was this added as an olive branch to appease the mob?
Very interesting! Many people with T1D wonder, when they get a sensor, what a “normal” glucose chart would look like. I’ve never seen a graph for a non diabetic person. I’ve checked the glucose of friends a time or two and it’s consistently been 85, which was good to know.
Perl also flagrantly violates the Principle of Least Nausea, with all its emetic Syntactic Syrup of Ipecac.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrup_of_ipecac
Can some energy be recuperated on descent, blades turning in reverse?
your analogy doesn't old : ice cars reuse their tank.

it's not nitpicking, electricity production has a cost. It's just a different cycle of production / pollution.
Space lasers
Haha, if my country had a 25 year ban then there would be very few cars on the road and Germany would have to find some other place where to dump their used cars.
> including those with negative experiences

Nobody is hiding negative experiences. Again, you come across as wanting more badness than perhaps there actually is.

<A paragraph about personal knowledge of drug damage >

Yes, we know about this kind of thing . I personally know of alcohol deaths, permanent damage from amphetamines, addiction to cannabis, and second-hand reports of mental illness from cannabis abuse (note: abuse not use), anecdotal but reliable reports about mental damage from LSD. These conversations are happening.

You seem only receptive to the negative side of things.
Meanwhile I was considering an addendum to my GPL licenses to read something like, "use of this code is strictly limited to humans. under no circumstances may an artificial agent use this for training. Any evidence of sufficient similarity in an AI output will be construed as a violation of this license".

Obviously it wont work, but I do wonder if this is a direction GPL4 should be looking into ...
The cheap EVs aren't here yet, but the technology has the potential to eventually become cheaper than ICE. 30% of EV cost is currently in the battery, and this will drop.
The more time I spend on this site the more I realize everyone here watches the exact same YouTube channels.
Technical crux:

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the attack, called CAN (controller area network) injection, works by sending fake messages that look as if they come from the car’s smart key receiver, the research continues. The underlying issue is that vehicles trust these messages without verifying them. Once the thieves have accessed the necessary cables by removing the headlights, they can use their device to send these messages, it adds.
```
I call this egoism. Modern ecologism just aims to make a nice walled garden around their voters, they don't care what is happening outside this garden.
In the reality, other parts of the country/earth is getting polluted to produce the goods.

I much prefer the older ways with polluting factory in the city, at least everyone could see what it takes to provide each good, and share its cost. The current way of doing things is to ban everything, which force manufacturers to produce elsewhere in the world and import it. Plus we are loosing knowledge in the process.
Same for obscure C++ compiler errors. You might need to make a small repro, first.
'GhostToken' Vulnerability Opens Google Accounts to Permanent Infection
Do you have kids? My young child wants to "ask the AI" stuff all the time - which is a relief, because I'd much prefer that over giving them full Internet access until they're mature enough. AI is a huge accelerant for childhood learning.
I get that the social pressure can be intense, and I try to have sympathy
for people who are trying to do the right thing in such situations... but...
damn.

If you're curious, you should talk to him. I was a juror on a murder case, voted to convict one of the defendants. While he did, in fact, kill the victim (affirmative defense), I'm unsure that I would class his actions as murder or manslaughter. And I'm sure I'm not comfortable with the sentence a murder conviction carried, although my peers were quite confident (again, affirmative defense).

Sure, there's peer pressure, but there's a lot more pressure from the legal system to adhere to archaic definitions of truth and guilt. Pressure from the legal system carries a much bigger stick than pressure from the other jurors. Don't even think about jury nullification or you'll be on a judge's shit list. Trust that the police translated things into English correctly before the official translator arrived. Trust that there aren't any mitigating circumstances in the undocumented gap in time. Trust that the judge is not withholding material evidence. I rationalize my behavior because I followed the letter and spirit of. the law, but yeah there's a fair bit of shame and regret that tends to stick with me. Personally I'd aim for empathy were I you because nothing in our legal system is so cut and dry.
> If some particular eBPF program is a derived work of the kernel, then whether it's loaded or not doesn't matter.

IANAL, but as eBPF programs are distributed as bytecode and only JIT-compiled and linked when they are loaded into the kernel, I think there's an argument to be made that it doesn't become a derivative work until it's loaded.
Really? Can you explain this a little more? If memory serves I use close/open check boxes that have labels with descriptive aria and IDs. Then toggling one hides itself and reveals the other.
WRT what hulitu refers to (as i understand it), it isn't Tcl/Tk that makes the GUIs more usable, it is more that the modern trends that largely came out of small touch screens and often use flat(ish) themes with a lot of padding and unused screen real estate that make desktop applications less usable.

Tcl/Tk just makes it harder (though not impossible) to make such GUIs because its defaults were made before those trends, but it isn't unique to it - the same applies, e.g., to applications made with Qt Widgets. Note that here i do not refer to how easy it is to make the GUI, just on how usable applications are from a desktop user's perspective when using the default look and feel.

This particular problem is largely a matter of trends - some libraries/technologies make it easy to follow those trends, others harder, however the root issue isn't so much the libraries/technologies in question but the trends themselves.
These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us [1] explains in detail how "trucks" overtook "cars" as the most popular vehicle in the US, and legislation that lead to that.

(Quotes because the words refer to the legal definition of trucks/cars.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
I wonder how close to mass production those intermediary technologies are.

Bumping the energy density closer to something like lithium-sulfur would probably make 95% of ICE-based technology scrap heap tech.
Do you not feel this is an unreasonable expectation? I wouldn’t think we would ever get to the point where phones are only charged once a year. This assumes that power consumption would not increase over time.
225 Wh/km is even high for most routes and cars. Unless you drive fast on motorways or in cold climate, it's often easy to get to 150 Wh/km (15 kwh/100km as often displayed).
Why does the lights need a can bus connector nearby?
No serious company put an ethernet port outside the building or use a wifi without encryption.
I wonder what lunatics are this car designers/manufacturers .
A quick Google suggests the Tesla S, X, 3, and Y all have multiple CAN buses (https://teslatap.com/modifications/extracting-internal-vehic...)
Very interesting experiments as a data nerd would love to see a write up about how your diet effected your sugar. I know it's unlikely you will publish it but if you would I'd love to read it.
Also, non-autistic people (apparently called "allistic"? TIL).

My partner does this exact same thing. I'm never able to find out what she wants to do, because any such question becomes reinterpreted by her as a "he must want to do this, so I must say what I think he expects me to say" game.
For some reason there’s a niche of people that drive RAM Vans in the Netherlands. Not sure why exactly that brand and model but it’s the only ‘Murican style trick you see on our roads.
Interestingly in Spain cyclists are well-protected and ordinary drivers who otherwise might drive pretty unsafely, take care of them. Coming from a different place it's so weird to experience someone driving 35 km/h behind a cyclist on a country road because there is a solid white line and a "no overtake" sign. Even if they do overtake (legally) they always keep at least 1.5 meters. There was a huge awareness campaign about this and it is working.
This is great news. Inkscape is amazing but the GUI/canvas can be so slow.
Finally. A proper engineering breakthrough deservedly getting recognition here.

Unlike the mass in-flux of low effort GPT-laden BS promoted by the generative AI grifters.

We need more of these foundational breakthroughs and less from the generative AI hype squad.
Or we'll just go full circle and gasoline will be available at pharmacies:

https://radair.com/blog/2011/11/10/automotive-history-benz/
May I ask, what are your qualifications and how did you get a job in this field?
> Most flights are short haul. And they are, well, short. Which means, all of those are in scope for electrical planes.

Exactly. In the EU, Eurocontrol (European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation) says 30.6% of flights in 2020 were 0-500km, roughly within the range of the Eviation Alice currently. A further 43.6% of flights in the EU are between 500 and 1500km.

Source [1]

> You don't have to cram hundreds of people in a plane if you eliminate fuel cost as a major cost factor. That's the only reason we do that.

Not only. Gate capacity and runway capacity is an issue too. But that might also be easier to resolve with smaller electric planes. E.g. there's Liliums approach of vertical takeoff from little more than a helipad-sized platform, but even non VTOL planes capable of taking off from short runways would be helpful.

[1] https://www.eurocontrol.int/publication/eurocontrol-data-sna...
> Account locks have done a huge amount to reduce phone theft, a tractor is 100x more expensive.

Based on an iPhone 14 @ $1500 and what I saw on a price list I googled, John Deere tractors seem to range from around $40k to around $575k. That's a really wide range, from 20x to nearly 400x as expensive.

https://commercialvehicleinfo.com/john-deere-tractors-price-...
Then explain how polluting and making lots of noise is freedom? Is speed limits imposing on your freedom to drive as fast as you want? Seat belt laws imposing on your freedom to have your kids unsecured in the car? I seriously don't understand this mindset.
and they're already talking about starting GTK5. CADT all the way down.
Gasoline internal combustion engines run at about 30% efficiency. Diesel does somewhat better at about 40% for car size engines, and about 50% for the really big ones. Electric motors easily exceed 90% efficiency. The EV wins even without regenerative breaking, even accounting for the losses in the batteries.
Eid Mubarak Y'all
Copilot CLI is exactly this https://www.npmjs.com/package/@githubnext/github-copilot-cli
It depends. To get on the level of spam protection discord has you can just use open source filters.
Rockets reaching orbit are an interesting example too.
There are theoretical maximum efficiencies for thermodynamic cycles in combustion engines. I believe the limit in the diesel cycle is around 40%. Petrol engines are lower still.
Taking a school trip to Tunisia was a huge eye-opener how liberally people can interpret driving rules. Think of: tourist bus driving on the wrong side on the road to avoid traffic. On a highway, exiting from the left-most lane without signalling etc. Interestingly, they told us that this is still nothing compared to how it is in southern Tunisia - Sfax. I don't really want to go there, I value my life too much.
People with separated brain hemispheres, for example sight and speak capabilities, try to make plausible reasoning. There are some well known physiological experiments to prove this. This proof that our brain try to provide a plausible explanation that has nothing to do with what is happening in reality.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7305066/

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Another reason we will all rely on China…
I had to double check this wasn’t a joke. The bad guy in a Nintendo court case is called Bowser?!
NATO allies 'agree Ukraine will become member'
Interesting that in spite of at least one documented case of confusion and numerous comments attesting to the same there is no response of 'ok, maybe we should change the name'.
> before this capacity boost, electric planes were a complete joke. Now, they are only somewhat funny.

Ha! Well put.
Yeah the owner of Linn at the time wanted something to replace the Vaxen in his factories and he did not like the direction DEC was going (Alpha) and funded two Comp Sci professors to do a new bespoke full OO design.

From reading it only reached a prototype state in software on a Sun 3 Workstation and some logic boards but then Linn ran into some financial difficulties and it was cancelled.
Most comments seem to be just praising this, but in my opinions the visuals are just headache inducing non-sense. I remember watching flash animations and briefly dabbling in making some, but I don't remember this kind of flashing hyper stuff.

All in all this was confusing thing to try to suffer through since I couldn't decide if this was suppose to be just a podcast where I dont look at the visuals or if there was going to be something actually worth looking at. So I just kept looking away and back at the flashing lights while retaining absolutely nothing from the audio portion.
We are taking the nodejs solution too far.
iOS is pretty resilient these days, unless you happen to have a zeroday ready.
Do you contribute otherwise to using FLOSS servers?
It's relatively easy to extend Python with project like Py03[0] and Maturin[1]. Polars[2] is the perfect example of that.

It's not easy to push coworkers/companies to use an unfamiliar language. Rust isn't fast to learn. You need very good arguments and a good usecase to make it works.

I doubt that learning Rust will help you more that learning more about the data engineers tools, so this isn't really "worth" your time.

[0] -- https://pyo3.rs/v0.18.3/

[1] -- https://github.com/PyO3/maturin

[2] -- https://www.pola.rs/
Never had a need for this. static factory methods are almost always the better solutions.

Ctors should only assign params to fields and nothing more.

Though I applaud that it makes the language more intuitive/consistent.
I'm not going to get upset about your ignorant statements, but you should be easily able to realize that we could've achieved similar results with electric systems a long time ago.

We could've deployed nuclear a long time ago, wind etc. We could've used and invested further in electric tractors 50 years ago.

You're conflating what I'm saying, I'm not saying technology wasn't helpful, I'm saying the internal combustion engine, sucked and still sucks and that we need to be careful when deploying technology at scale.

It wasn't just the internal combustion engine that has been a problem, oil wars, dictators, lead based fuels, deaths from air pollute, these thing have caused incredible amounts of harm.

Lastly, we're not also out of the woods yet, it's not over, go look at some climate charts and look at the trajectory we're on, the world is getting hotter, faster. Also strip mining the world for lithium and cobalt will also have massive implications for the planet.

I know we like to think we're clever, but we're rarely wise.
Bullshit, Python breaks compatibility between minor releases all the time. The script you wrote for 3.8 has high chance of being broken on 3.11.
I've learned flash after the language died. Haxe, OpenFL and all the amazing tooling built around the Haxe language make it an interesting choice for developing games. Still
It failed to accomplish all the trivial tasks I've requested, rendering it unusable for the time being.

User: implement a python function that takes two numbers
and return the sum
Assistant: def sum(x, y):
if x == y:
return sum(x+y)
else:
return 0
I expexted this to be (demand for living writers and artists to stay rather than annihilate) however I also expected requirements to grow (only real stars to remain wanted, leaving no place for mediocrity) and average wages to change (drop maybe, or perhaps even grow as only the best remain on the market).

Some entry-level copywriter jobs will probably still exist as well but they will apparently transform into speed copypasting and proofreading and move to cheap labour countries which already do most of the AI training.

Isn't it the case?
Relevant: Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/11880/9365

You may already have been aware but sharing in case others aren't!
Ask HN: How to deal with a possibly liquid-damaged monitor?
Greetings,

yesterday a small liquour-filled rack detached from the wall and a bottle of sugary liquour crashed on my SO's monitor (recent AOC 28" 4k panel).

The frame split cleanly open and a few ml of liquid spilt through the ventilation grate on the controller board and internal PSU.

Instantly pulled the plug (it was on standby), and turned it on its head which seemed to have prevented worse. On first inspection the panel doesn't seem to have cracked or sustained liquid damage, but I'm worried about the PSU. Searching online I could find quite a lot about cleaning "regular" PCBs, but nothing about PSU components (seems to be forbidden territory).

Pictures, bad quality I know:

PSU front: https://ibb.co/JnLpf67 (a few splodges)

PSU back: https://ibb.co/0rH65HG (most visible gunk)

Controller front: https://ibb.co/BgxhSpT (some gunk here too)

The controller back looks pristine.

The panel power supply port (top of first picture) has stuff in it as well. My plan is to carefully clean with 99% isopropyl alcohol on a Q-tip and a tooth pick for the hard to reach places, e.g. inside the connector, followed by hair dryer treatment. I read some soak it, but that might not be a good idea with the coils, foil and all and is probably overkill.

Then I would stress-test it for a few hours in the yard and see if it goes up in flames.

Do you think this is a sane way to handle this? Any (longer-term) failure modes I should be aware of?

I would be sad to throw it away since it's quite new and expensive. Thanks in advance.
Iron-air batteries (1,200 Wh/kg), and in general metal-air [1], might bring a surprise after 2024: December 2022, "Form Energy will site first American iron-air battery manufacturing plant in Weirton, West Virginia" [2].

[1] 2017, Yanguang Li, Jun Lu, Metal–Air Batteries: Will They Be the Future Electrochemical Energy Storage Device of Choice? https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00119 Betteridge's law of headlines answers "no", but good overview.

[2] https://formenergy.com/west-virginia-governor-jim-justice-an...
You didn't read the link.
Right, it probably shouldn't be a business at all. But it is something valuable and neither "legacy" forums nor IRC will be going away any time soon.
People with brain-split separated brain hemispheres, for example sight and speak capabilities, try to make plausible reasoning that are not grounded. Here is an example From (1) about brain-splitted subject called Joe:
In a particularly dramatic recorded demonstration, the famous patient “Joe” was able to draw a cowboy hat with his left hand in response to the word “Texas” presented in his left visual half field. His commentary (produced by the verbal left hemisphere) showed a complete absence of insight into why his left hand had drawn this cowboy hat.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7305066/

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A car lamp will usually have a few different bulbs/LEDs (daylight running lights, headlights, high beam, indicators also the height adjustment motor), so it's less wiring to run a CAN pair and constant +12V to the fixture, than to wire each light type individually.

I think the light can also report a failed lightbulb to the dashboard.
> The Senior Inkscape developer post seems to be one of those postings where a company already has someone in mind

Agreed, but considering the circumstances, I'd be much more confused if they didn't already have someone in mind.
> From a purely practical perspective, the death penalty is bad because of inaccuracy in the legal system.

I've always thought that from a purely practical perspective the death penalty was bad because however vile a person is, and no matter what horrible thing they've done, a living person is more likely to be of some use to society than a corpse, which a convicted person will inevitably become at some point anyway.

It may be that we'd be monsters ourselves for extracting whatever value we can out of the living convicts, and only later the dead, but the logic still makes it seem like a waste of opportunity/resources.
Transcaucasie
Cool demo

Just want to point out that we are actively working on improving the quantization accuracy / performance of ggml [0]. We already have promising results that are yet to be ported to the WASM code path, so hopefully such type of demos will become a bit better in the future.

[0] https://github.com/users/ggerganov/projects/2
Manufacturers are also pushing this for ICE cars, so that’s not really a differentiation point between ICEs and electric. Hopefully we will get legislation to tame this trend for cars and other goods.
I wonder what the thieve does with the car after stealing. Will you always need that Nokia to start it or is there some kind if aftermarket for counterfeit keys?
You know how I know you aren't poor? You think anyone in the bottom quartile will buy a new car. This is hardly a regressive policy. It directly targets the wealthier populations.

That said, in the interest of honest debate, it will shift the used car market prices significantly initially until supply of used EVs spins up. Although this is very secondary.
> Electric planes could recharge using solar or wind. As efficiency increases with these technologies, it would mean planes wouldn't require carrying the same watt-for-watt energy as fuel.

Those are pipe dreams :-)))

Solar recharging for electric cars is not realistic, let alone for electric planes.

Wind charger... maybe there's something there, but the fact that nobody has tried it probably means it's not good enough.

https://www.arenaev.com/why_solar_panels_on_cars_are_beyond_...

> So under optimal conditions the Hyundai solar roof would yield 280kWh *yearly*. In London you'd get 164kWh.
People also can’t really recreate an earlier mental state, and have to resort to post-hoc rationalisation. E.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196841/

I feel like the answer to the question “give me a possible reason that a person/llm would give this answer given this situation” is all that’s ever really possible!
If you are an excellent programmer, you will write excellent Perl and good Python code. The Python language limits your ability to write excellent code, which also limits your ability to write horrendous code.
A Latent Space Theory for Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models