skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Carmakers are ‘pushing’ SUVs because a large fraction of buyers want SUVs.

I think this is an overgeneralization, and there are a few factors at play:

Carmakers and dealers push SUVs because typically they have a better margin. I know when I bought my first car back in 2006, lots of folks tried to push me into an SUV even though I -knew- I wanted a basic compact sedan. [0] One of my past partners had the same problem even last year when shopping for a Sedan from the brands that -do- still sell them.

Many consumer groups overbuy on vehicles in general; Whether it's folks who buy a full size truck when a midsize would be more than enough, or as a 'status symbols' (e.x. Cadillac Escalade or Range Rovers at the start of the century)

Then there's the 'Miseducated' group that think that SUVs/Trucks are 'inherently safer' than a Sedan (maybe in some cases, but then it's a weird game of MAD at best since the counter-argument is that SUV->Sedan accidents tend to go worse for the sedan...)

> You can’t really change what people want without enacting dystopian/fascist policies.

IDK. Fixing EPA Footprint rules would be a great start while being more on the 'pragmatic' side than dystopian/fascist.

[0] - RIP Saturn and their no pressure sales.
Although it isn’t to the same extreme as the US there are plenty of large SUV’s on the roads in Europe.
US job creation robust despite banking crisis
> I wonder which full-stack JS framework you used that you thought made life harder?

I’ve used Angular, Dart, Backbone, Ember, Elm, React, Vue, Svelte, and a few others I can’t remember anymore. All in production systems, not demo projects. Also some of the “build it once” platforms like Meteor.

They’re all cool until you have to actually maintain them. My favorite part is having to build my data models twice, one for the producer and one for the consumer. That’s totally never caused any headaches or slowed anyone down at all.
Owners are very distinct from users. What percent of that 7% have ever bought or sold anything using crypto (other than when they obtained it)?
As soon as you realize this will "allow" many parents to force their children to work at 14 years old, no it doesn't seem reasonable.
You can already bike from one part of SF to another, investment in bicycle infrastructure would make that easier and safer. Or, you know, public transit. Individual vehicles suffer from massive inefficiency compared to nearly any other form of transportation – look at Elon's fully autonomous tunnel.
I haven't taken one since they announced the change (I'm in a part of Phoenix that's pretty walkable), but I think it will be 3 in the rear bench and one in the passenger seat. They've been pretty clear that they don't want people sitting in the driver's seat, and I'm guessing that will continue to be the case with this change.
What do you mean by "like C++"? Something like C#? Rust? A modern object-oriented language?
When a company gets to the stage where they actually need a mobile app, it is pretty easy to add API endpoints in many/most/all? major web frameworks. Starting out with the FE/BE split slows you down immensely.
Retro Color is straight-up amazing. Not only can it simulate the VHS sound, it can also do vinyl, a whole host of different types of speakers, and overall it's really user-friendly. I use it on everything. Synths, drums, drones, FX, even vocals on occasion. Highly recommend it.

Haven't tried Sketch Cassette but have seen videos of it in action, sounds pretty awesome.
This was not an attack against the community or the paper in question. I am only speaking from my experience as (primarily) a lurker.
All cars are "light trucks" these days according to CAFE rules. Even sedans
Why large engineering teams are testing on Kubernetes
Ironically even the US launched mostly with Russian engines for quite a while. And Arianespace was launching more russian rockets then European ones.
I think it's far more likely screenreaders with AI become good enough that disabled people can browse the web as normal.
Sure, to that end my favorite Cruise anecdote stems from one of the Cruise humans forcing the car to make an illegal left turn off of Mission a few years ago. Granted Cruise's software still struggles with legal left turns, but still.
Honestly, these complaints (other than 4) apply to the vast majority of papers. #4 is just false. It has already been viewed by other lab members (peers) and open publication is peer reviewing. The "peer review system" (publishing to conferences/journals) is relatively new and I think ML demonstrates all the problems with the system (yay hype).

Novelty is especially a joke. ViTs are "just" NLP encoding transformers. T2I models are "just" NLP models connected to generative models. Diffusion models are "just" whitening models. GPT3 is just GPT2 with more layers and more data which is just GPT with more layers and more data. We can go even deeper if we pull from math and physics works. But that doesn't mean these works haven't been highly fruitful and useful. I'm happy all of these have been published.

> because of the hype around LLMs

I too hate the hype, but it is often bimodal. There are people who are far too critical and people who are far too accepting. The harm is not preprints or people reading papers, the harm is people who have no business/qualifications evaluating works confidently spouting out critiques. It is people not understanding that researchers are just critical of one another's work by default and that doesn't mean it shouldn't have been published.

It is well known that reviewers are good at identifying bad papers but not good at identifying good papers[0,1]. Which let's be honest, that means reviewers just have high reject rates in a noisy system. Making publication as a metric for merit a highly noisy one at best.

As for the paper:

Many LLMs and large models are using attention approximations. Nor is the kNN technique particularly new. My main complaints are a lack of comparisons for Figure 3 and 4, but I'm not a NLP person so I don't even know if there's some other good works that can compare better (BART is a common baseline). But generative models are (unfortunately not notoriously known) extremely difficult to evaluate. Paper seems fine to me. It is useful to the community. I don't like the name either, but their input is limited by computer memory, not the model. I would want to see more on this. Not a NLP person all I can say is that this looks neither like a strong reject nor a strong accept. I'll leave it to the community to determine if they want more experiments for the conference publication or not but the work seems useful.

[0] https://inverseprobability.com/talks/notes/the-neurips-exper...

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09774
The reality is if the people managing the massive funds that run the stock and bond markets don't think it's different than the government doing what they normally do, then they'll be find.

This loophole keeps getting brought up, so I just wish someone would do it so we get an answer either way.

(If they are smart, they will mint $1m coins, or $500m or $1 billion; some of those would get snapped up by collectors immediately)
The Debt Ceiling is likely unconstitutional and irrelevant. Republicans use it to cut benefits to the poor or middle classes. Getting a hand on debt is what Democrats do. Year after year we get more evidence of this through reductions in our deficits under Democratic administrations. You know what we get under Republican administrations? Massive debt and growing deficits.

This is a Republican issue full stop. The debt ceiling isn't about debt. It never was and it never will be.
Factorio is what you’re looking for
I wonder why this is getting so few traction here.

These models seems to beat all other available open-source models easily and the Blogpost is extremely well written, with very good documentation and fine-tuning instructions.

Well done MosaicML, I am excited what comes next and will definitely test out you platform!
Handles are DNS names that point to the DID

https://atproto.com/guides/identity
Most people have their charger setup in their garage.
Not just headcount, also - and most importantly - the patents and IP.
Gestures from flaggers routing traffic around construction, or police around an accident for example.
Getting to these planets or moons that have water in the first place is already hard, getting back from them is pretty much such a big nonstarter at the moment it's not worth thinking or worrying about.
Don't misunderstand: I am a huge proponent of solar/wind + storage and grid interconnectivity. But you have completely talked past my point.

> Levelized cost already takes into account the capacity factor of the sources. On a per-peak watt basis, PV is 10x cheaper than nuclear.

You sound like you know what you are talking about, so I presume that you know that one of the limitations of Levelized cost is that it doesn't control for "time effects" which was the entire thrust of my comment.

> We can look at the cost of providing steady power (synthetic baseload) from renewables + storage

Yes, that's what I suggested is a fair comparison.

> any nuclear plant started today could come online, renewables beat nuclear. It's important to use more than just batteries for storage; batteries are not well suited to long term storage.

There are a lot of unstated assumptions/conditions here. Do you have any references I can read?
Speaking as a member, in terms of actual unionized workplaces affiliated with it, it's still extremely marginal. In terms of membership in general, it has grown considerably in the past few years, but most of the new members are those who were (further) radicalized by the contemporary US politics and seeking like-minded folk in general, not specifically to organize.

Thing is, people who try to organize generally expect some immediate gains out of it, which generally favors large established unions who "play by the rules". IWW is a strongly ideological union and has things like an explicit ban on no-strike clauses in its constitution, which makes it much harder to write a collective bargaining agreement for a workshop that employers are willing to accept. Burgerville Workers Union is a recent example of an IWW success story that broke down over this issue.
It's even worse with Intel and x86, they basically don't accept your money so you can't even try to license x86.

The companies that currently have licenses (AMD and Via) are probably the only ones that will ever get them.
I like how the guardian just hates SUVs. Probably because they confuse them with "rich people's" cars and as such are a default target?
I am finding it hard understanding how this can be done if you have work email and Slack apps installed on your phone.
I see footers working as a usable nav bar only if the number of navigation elements is small enough and the footer is sticky (always visible and at the bottom).
Hah, no kidding. It's undoubtedly a massive feat of engineering, but so are a lot of things that don't belong on our roads.

I'd much rather live with the vast majority of smaller cars and trucks electrifying and letting the 0.1% of people who feel the need to drive a Hummer keep their gas-guzzling cars. At least the old gas models were a "mere" 5,000 lbs and accelerated 0-60 in a much more reasonable 7-8 seconds.
Oh, ugh. I'm on a Mac so I don't see anything like that. That sounds horrible.
How does the city owning the land improve things?
This is awesome and I really hope it succeeds but using it at my company means I’ll have to answer, “why can’t we just use SQL” a million times from every engineer who is dreading learning a new thing
That's not what liquidity means though. You could say that about /r/wallstreetbets too
You don't need an automated energy hog HVAC system when passive cooling and good insulation have been successfully used for millenia. You don't need an automated vertical hydroponic warehouse or huge expensive carbon-sucking fans when simple land management strategies result in healthy productive topsoils that are strong carbon sinks. These are microcosmic examples of a macrocosmic concern.

In general, successful technologies of the past, up until about the time we started converting fossil fuels to energy at industrial scales, were about decreasing human energy requirements by taking advantage of existing and mostly passive physical phenomena. Then a precise notion of "capital" came into focus and less than 100 years later the profit motive demanded extractivist methods of unconstrained "growth". This approach ends up re-calibrating the accounting qua "efficiency" from energetic to monetary, which introduced significant disconnects between what can be called "sustainable" growth in the physical vs fiscal contexts.
My apologies, I misinterpreted your comment. You make a fair point that HN discussions are not equivalent to formal peer review.
Snoop Dogg on AI risk: “Sh–, what the f–?
300 million easily pays for literally and metaphorically bulletproof security indefinitely. What security-related lifestyle changes couldn’t be overcome with this sum of money?

On a different note, the lottery typically ruins people’s lives. There’s even a TV show about it. People just can’t adjust to that kind of change in wealth. I think this would be no different.
Absolutely. That is the today impact.

What about when it's Waymo One or Uber Zero. Support is GPT7 Two.

No call center jobs, no driving jobs, less supporting jobs, less money flow, more homelessness, more violence. Decreasing compensation for the jobs remaining due to increased competition.

Short term profits go brrr?
Ha, they’re finally expanding to the ASU Tempe campus. This should be fun.
The Guardian is also pro-environmentalism and there are many people driving SUVs when a less polluting smaller car would serve their needs just fine.
Here's a link to a non-paywalled article: https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/05/opensea_nft_verdict/?...
A formative experience when I was learning to drive was being pulled over to the right and watching a firetruck pull behind a car stopped at a red light, siren blaring and lights flashing, and eventually having to get on the PA and tell the person to run the red light so they could get through.
On reflection, I probably agree that the answer is "yes" to the question as I phrased it. I think that if you take a random paper, the peer reviewers probably do have much more useful feedback than HN would.

However, if you limit the question to "papers which make bold conclusions of the type that generates lots of discussion on HN", I think HN will be more likely to find methodological flaws in those papers than the peer review process would. I think that's mostly because papers are optimized pretty hard not to have any problems which would cause them to be rejected by the peer review process, but not optimized very hard to not have other problems.

Which means, on average, I expect the HN comment section to have more interesting feedback about a paper, given that it's the sort of paper that gets lots of HN discussion, and also given that the author put a lot of effort into anticipating and avoiding the concerns that would come up in the peer review process.

Which, to a reader of HN, looks like "a lot of peer-reviewed papers have obvious flaws that are pointed out by the HN commentariat".

I do think, on the object level, a pre-print which the author intends to publish in a reputable journal will be improved more by fixing any problems pointed out by HN commenters than by fixing any problems pointed out by peer reviewers, and as such I think "post the pre-print on HN and collect feedback before peer review" is still a good step if the goal is to publish the best paper possible.
Lojban is elegant from I guess a logical/mathematical point of view, but I don't think from a human point of view. Iirc "in the land of invented languages", the author pointed out many issues with the language in that even it's biggest fans can't really speak it fluently...so what's the point? Esperanto is probably a better bar here, which I just started reading the Hobbit in lol. I will say that Lojbahn is super cool though. The attitudinals are particularly interesting.
Cars really should be put underground. Electric cars going in tunnels, not gasoline cars spewing the exhaust from the top of the bridge.

… The mansion’s bright white siding is turning dull and black from car exhaust. …
Seriously. What happened to that whole philosophy that the founding fathers had about being wary of our own government and the tendency of governments to overreach to control its citizenry.

That entire sentiment seem to have disappeared especially in the last few years in favor of China-Russia-terrorism-whatever new bs hysteria.
>Using a niche ISA also may have its downsides

RISC-V is no niche ISA. 10b cores shipped in just 2022, according to CEO's speech in latest RISC-V Summit.

RISC-V is inevitable.
I assume they mean a sticly footer.
FTA, $500 per day to rent an historic mansion overlooking the bay (i.e. before the bridge obstruction)

I have a family wedding to attend back east this autumn and we're looking at around that (before "service fees" and taxes) to sleep 5 out in the sticks of New Hampshire -- short-term housing has truly gotten out of hand, basically everywhere.
> Climate yes, but air quality not by as much as you'd think. Multiple studies have come out showing that the weight of EVs puts more pressure on tires and breaks, which in turn increases the particles they dump in the air.

This is total bullshit. EVs barely use frictional brakes at all. My Tesla Model S from 2014 is still on the original set of brakepads after nearly 200000 miles. Several EV car models even have a problem with disks _rusting_ because the frictional brakes are not used except when the car is parked.

If anything, EVs will absolutely cut down on brake dust.

With tires, it's a bit more nuanced. Regular tires can indeed wear a bit faster on an EV, especially if you are addicted to high acceleration. But tire vendors are now producing EV-optimized tires that are a bit more durable, and it seems like the difference is pretty negligible.

Also, keep in mind that your bullshit study only looked at weight. So it follows that buses and trucks (that have MUCH more weight) will leave genocide and devastation in their wake.
If you need to pull 50W from a mini PC constantly, you probably can't run that same load (without horrible latency, throughput and stability issues) on a 15W ARM SBC to begin with.
Thanks for those links.

This claim in the Forbes article doesn't make sense to me: "It doesn’t need the money but it does want to learn from how riders interact with a service they are paying for."

Alphabet has been pressured to show more tangible financial results by activist shareholders[1]. Waymo has 2,500 employees. Waymo's annual budget for headcount alone include stock based compensation is over $1B by my estimate.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/6daa5d29-8595-4630-a633-eb1f8b138...
I live downtown PHX (Roosevelt Row) and beyond riding in them I MUCH prefer them driving around on the streets than actual human drivers. There isn't a day goes by that I don't see drivers make up 4-way stops, disregard the 4-way stops, flip a youey in the middle of an intersection, etc. Contrast that to the ever predictable Weymo, just quietly going about their little self-driving existence.

Only problem I've seen with them is people don't realize that just because you wave them through doesn't mean they will proceed. If a Waymo sees a human on the corner that looks like they will cross it will stop and wait until the heat-death of the universe for them to cross.
The Hummer in any form seems like a ridiculous vehicle. The Rav4 Prime weighs more than the Model Y, so depends on what version. The 4runner, Tacoma, Tundra, Sequoia etc. are all same or heavier, the big difference is that in the future, battery technology is expected to get better, so EVs should become lighter.

Model Y RWD weighs 4065 pounds, but pretty sure my Tundra is a lot less safe for pedestrians, as it sits higher and weight about 1800 pounds more without fuel.

Yeah, smaller cars are better for pedestrian safety, but North American drivers in general want bigger cars. Ford stopped making passenger cars for NA, even. Although you could argue some of their small 'SUV's are really hatchbacks at this point.

Not sure how you get people to want to buy smaller cars other than taxes.
There's no physical law of nature that requires EVs to be heavier than ICE equivalents.

As battery tech improves they'll get lighter and they're predicted to beat ICE on this metric in a couple of years
Dump these insecure phone adapters because we're not fixing them, says Cisco
SUVs are exploding in popularity in Europe, too, though they do tend to be smaller there.
You can get more decentralization than those services provide, but not without sacrificing usability and/or security.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko's_triangle
I don’t like it when they have chicken and vegan options on menus either
One thing that caught my eye is the study is simply modeling the increased PM10 and PM2.5 based on hypothesised influence of weight difference using gas and diesel cars (from 2013) as a basis.

Obv. I haven't read anything but the summary but the core assumption means it's an extrapolation and not measuring actuals.

For example, while EVs accelerate faster, regen braking massively reduces brake wear - the lack of mention of regen in this extrapolative study seems a huge miss. Also EVs typically don't have the same tire material - they use low rolling resistance tires which do better on particulates.
AirTag helped investigators locate $1.1M in cash stolen from armored truck
Police found Atlanta Midtown shooter with surveillance technology
A SPA can track the mouse cursor, as well as stealing form content that was left unsubmitted.
SvelteKit forms work fine with Javascript disabled -- Rich Harris is a big proponent of progressive enhancement.
If we're talking cars hitting you at 80mph, sure you're probably dead no matter what. But a 9,000 lb car hitting you at 35mph is traveling with the same momentum as a 3,000 lb car going 105mph. You might survive a 3,000 lb car hitting you at 35 mph, you're unlikely to survive the other.
Yeah Airbnb has become so outrageously expensive and is so much less convenient than a hotel that it's almost never worth it anymore, it's crazy.
Adding the form element allows it to post to the server without javascript, just like olden times. Since the htmx header is not included, the backend was instructed to return a full page instead of a fragment.
I am very confused and couldn't follow. What do you mean?
I understand it's interesting to announce accomplishments (such as increased areas for testing), but as someone who lives in West LA, it's slightly annoying to see multiple announcements saying "testing is expanded, be on the lookout!". I'm nearly at the point where I'm just ignoring announcements for Los Angeles because the last two haven't amounted to any changes for someone that lives here and wants to use the service.
With all the hype about AI this year, does anyone know whether it's translating in any meaningful sense into self driving? Can they use transformers? If so, is there a step change in performance? Has this already happened?
Also see: Cisco SPA112 2-Port Phone Adapters Remote Command Execution Vulnerability [Listed as "Critical" "No workarounds available"]

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/Cisc...