skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think a shape memory alloy would provide a shock. I suspect they are solenoids(vs explosive bolts) used to detach the vehicle from it's mounting plate on the rocket. and the engineers as they went down the list trying increasingly wild ideas to get the antenna to deploy reached "fire the release solenoids, and hope it shakes the antenna pin in the correct way".

It did, so slow clap for the engineers for saving a very expensive science experiment remotely from billions of miles away. well done.
> I understand that you may believe your ability to think is magic.

Nobody said that. I am sick of the false dichotomy of being given only two choices:

a) It's magic

b) It's akin to our latest discovery
Data pollution isn't the problem it is made out to be. You can even use a model trained on garbage data to relabel the original set and retrain.

Google of all companies is sitting on exaflops of TPU capacity, they can retrain models larger than anyone else, faster than anyone else.
The top graph (Gallup 2017 Business & Industry Ranking Net Positive Scores) is 6 years old. 2022 results can be found here:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/12748/business-industry-sector-...

Computer Industry is now 3rd and the Net Positive has gone from 67 to 35.

Internet Industry has gone from 5th to the bottom half of the list and the Net Positive has gone from 41 to -2.

Perhaps the Techlash was just a little late.
Agreed. EVs are a great second commuter vehicle for someone with a garage.
Can be standing without being mobile, but yes standing makes it easier to be mobile
Highly not recommend opening a restaurant - chat with any chef, they'll tell you the best food they've had was in their own kitchen. You're better off organising soirées or large meals for friends and charging the cost of food if that gets too high - you get the best of both worlds.

But as another commenter said, making a youtube channel or something of the sort could be a great idea - but no sure profits.

And going to culinary school is an absolute pleasure - I highly recommend it for your own knowledge only.
Why accept that expectation in our industry? The ability for employers to require it is negotiated, not a natural law
AI Is Speeding Up Astronomical Discoveries
I read this article and thought it was strange. This person drank 10 cups a day plus energy drinks. Of course he developed problems.

Everything in moderation, and ideally no caffeine in the afternoon
Bose has repair service. It isn't self-service, so it depends if your goal is throwing less shit away, or being able to service your own devices.
The tech has a lot to do with it. But I'm not sure Mastodon or BlueSky has the tech, they're mostly replicating Twitter but with distributed servers. I haven't checked Nostr in detail yet.

To avoid the toxic nature of Twitter you need to allow recursively organized entities/communities which moderate themselves locally, not globally.

In this case you can both allow the "virtuous" to group and be protected as a group, but also the "vicious" to group and be isolated as a group. Unfortunately our understanding of systems is so piss poor, no social media is doing this that I'm aware of.

Well I could say Reddit's subreddits are a step in that direction, although very crude, and the moderators scheme is less than ideal. Let's say more mini-monarchy than mini-democracy.
Being able to defer taxes is a function of the tax code and not wealth. The 401(k) system is another example, though vastly less favorable.

All useful forms of tax deferment are tax cuts, otherwise people wouldn’t use them.
I'm experiencing the trade off between simplicity and expressiveness for a lightweight frontend library that doesn't involve VDOM.

On one hand, a library [1] can be very concise (update dom from object, with looping and nesting supported).

On another hand, a library [2] can be very flexible and reactive (update dom from dom events).

However, when double-binding (a.k.a. bi-directional binding) is required (update dom from object and update object from dom), it seems more complex than I would consider it lightweight.

When double-binding is preferred, I'd rather go for angular / vue. Still exploring alternatives.

[1] https://github.com/beenotung/data-template

[2] https://github.com/beenotung/dom-proxy
> It's also worth to go cold turkey for a month or so...

> Be ready for headaches early on and couple of lethargic weeks until your brain somewhat resets.

Oh my god no don't do this. Why would you do this?

Just taper your caffeine down by about 5% of your starting caffeine intake over the course of 20 days and you'll get off of it with zero headaches. You'll feel a tiny bit less energy over those 20 days but it's not a big deal. And if even the tiny-bit-less-energy annoys you, you can plateau at any time and then resume the tapering down a few days later.

I've done this several times. I personally gradually change the proportion of caf/decaf beans I grind for each coffee (I like the coffee ritual) but you can also just drink less of a cup of coffee.

The headache you get from cold turkey caffeine withdrawal is so incredibly shockingly painful, I've tried it once and never again. There's no reason to subject your body to a shock like that. The pain is your body telling you don't do this.

(If you're wondering why I've done this so many times, it's because sometimes there are weeks/months where you need coffee to get you through it. But then when I have months where I know I won't need coffee, I then taper back off.)
>Better inform the folks in Norway (75% EV share), Iceland (45%), and Sweden (32%):

I was waiting for this, those countries do not get the winter people in Minnesota and Montana get. Far less sever on average. A quick search:

Is Minnesota or Norway colder?
What is this? FARGO — Oslo, the capital of Norway, is located at 60 degrees north. Fargo and Duluth are closer to 47 degrees north. Winter weather in the Dakotas and Minnesota, however, is much colder than in Oslo.

and

They are both northern places although Minnesota has a climate that is much more severe than that of most of Sweden, particularly in the winter months although Sweden is much further north. Stockholm is warmer in the wintertime and cooler during the summer months.
I haven't tried XM4's or XM5's but I do have both XM3's and AirPods Max. The XM3's have excellent cancellation and are more comfortable, but have more of a bass-cannon sort of sound profile compared to the AirPods Max, which have cancellation almost as good but have a generally more balanced sound.
They already have those: https://shop.fairphone.com/de/accessories/true-wireless-ster...

While I don't see spare parts for those, they claim to be "100% electronic waste neutral". Probably much harder/impossible to repair due to the form factor though, not sure.
Maintaining the temp inside the car is going to pull at most a couple kw. So 2 hours with the heat or AC on even in a very severe climate is going to consume <5kWh. Which translates to a loss of 15 miles in range.

If you got stuck overnight due to snow on a mountain pass maybe that would be an issue. But in that case you have the same issues with an ICE car and all the carbon monoxide that comes along with it. I’d rather be stuck in an EV where I can at least run the seat warmers and climate on a low setting.
How about on this one:

Gasoline has a higher energy density than lithium ion batteries meaning that you will have less weight to carry around giving you a more nimble vehicle. It also lets you accelerate faster from the same engine torque since you have to accelerate less mass. With electric vehicles you have to carry a battery for you entire range and it is not easy to swap out.
>drive 8 hours without a pee break is and always will be aspirational.

Which is why I think that once you get to a range of around 300 miles, the most important metric shifts from range to charge rate. None of us should probably be driving for more than 4 hours straight. But we also don't need those breaks to be an hour long. If we can get to the point in which 10-15 minutes of charging gives us 4+ hours of driving, then I think most serious complaints about range anxiety disappear.
That might take 5 or 10 years to reach endgame, but it seems like a less direct, but still viable way to complete the war.

This plan would have killed more people, and caused far more net suffering, than simply nuking a couple of cities.

As a similar example, it's true that letting MacArthur use nukes would have been a monstrous act of evil that would have put the US up there with the Nazis in the annals of infamy... but it's also true that more North Koreans would be alive and well today if we had. We could hardly have done more damage with our bombs than the Kim family did with ideology.

Of course that's a simplistic assessment that ignores the consequences of normalizing nuclear warfare at a time when its destructive capacity was ramping up at an exponential rate. But it is entirely fair to apply it to Japan at the end of WWII, when the lesson was relatively cheap to learn.
Moreover, whenever I’ve offered up a solution that scratches my itch, people complain that I should have focused on improving the current thing, but typically the maintainers of the current thing aren’t interested and have different priorities (probably very understandably!). When I can fix my problem by contributing upstream, I do so but it’s often prohibitively difficult.
Also road wear. Trucks (semis for Americans) are much worse but trucks are much fewer and have relatively preset routes.

Road wear is apparently the power of 4 in relation to weight.

And EVs are much heavier, especially for small cars (think everywhere not the US). Small EVs are 30-50% heavier.
>If it can do 10 code questions it has seen before but fails to do 10 it hasn't (of similar difficulty) then it strongly suggests that it isn't reasoning its way through the questions, but regurgitating/rephrasing.

First of all, coding is one thing where expecting perfect try on first pass makes no sense. That GPT-4 didn't one-shot those problems doesn't mean it can't solve them.

Moreover, all this says if true is that GPT-4 isn't as good at coding as initially thought. Nothing else. Doesn't mean it doesn't reason. There are many other tasks where GPT-4 performs about as well on out of distribution/unseen data
Nikola Tesla and Swami Vivekananda by Mr. Toby Grotz (1997)
> This is what is known as "cope", ie, they don't feel emotionally satisfied.

Yeah, I'm gonna need a citation for that one.
this is my go to reply to people on different forums when they ask "why Freebsd"
How SpaceX set off a new race to commercialise space
It seems very ignorant to bet against AI given all the progress that have been made in that last year (!).
I like the idea, but they look a little big to be called "buds".
That is a crazy speedup!!
> there is no logical reason sixels couldn't be offered today in gnome terminal if the key people making sure that doesn't happen changed their mind.

I read through that entire Bugzilla page, and IMHO the usability and technical concerns are pretty valid. You can say "well, those are not an issue for me" or "I can live with it" and that's entirely fair, but I can understand how a maintainer would want it to work really well before merging.

Also, I believe it did get merged in 2020? The current status is a bit unclear to me.
This rings so true that it made me laugh out loud when I read it. I’ve heard this line from literally every Rails-engineer-peer I’ve worked with that I can think of, usually about codebases that they were in charge of.
Do you think Bose actually repair anything? I always assumed they just replace it and recycle/destroy the old one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Etymology

'The term is thought to have been influenced by the trademark "Cazeline" or "Gazeline"', then becoming 'gasolene' before ending up as 'gasoline', shortened as 'gas'.
> But under very hot or cold weather, you will lose AC and Heat

At least the "hot weather" situation could be remedied by adding a solar roof and possibly hood to the vehicle. While it does not really add much in the way of range extension it does provide power to run AC when it is needed. An average car roof is big enough to provide 400W to 600W which goes a long way in offsetting the power consumed by the AC.
Venues to work, other people’s thoughts working there, management, nuances about local licenses, stuff that anybody with any job would do
The accessability of guns is not part of hotwiring kias, or even choosing to use them for crime. Gun ownership and crime are not strongly linked.
> A key reason there are such large soon-to-be-inherited sums is the uneven way boomers superbly benefited from price growth in the financial and housing markets.

While their point about financial markets is valid, framing rising house prices as a benefit is incredibly dishonest. Unless one owns multiple houses, one can only realize that "benefit" by going homeless.

In general I find framing the worsening unaffordability of housing/education/healthcare as a "benefit" to those that lived in better times distasteful. It is done to give legitimacy to taking those things away. Not only are things getting worse - if your family managed to protect themselves with sound financial planning, they'll be pulled down back into the crab bucket.
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/when-rubber-hits-the-road...
I think this looks awesome and captures the whole IKEA vibe very well.
Tech executive Bob Lee led an underground life
Of all the absolute horseshit in the article, the most obviously wrong is saying that "tech doesn't play both sides of the political aisle".

So obviously wrong if you look at any single company. Just recently, we saw how FTX was lobbying hard for both sides.

And there absolutely has been a backlash against tech. Ask any Facebook employee how people react when they say where they work.
> What if Pluto is not as far away as we actually think it is?

What if, what if.. um.. nothing, really? Our ships continue to work for a while, (may be t=0), then they won't, and we correct the models or the math.
This seems to have worked for Ruff in the Python world: https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff

It re-implements a bunch of popular linting rulesets & plugins in Rust and is incredibly fast, especially compared to the other tools.
"But Elon's income on the other hand depends on the success of Tesla's FSD."

Well, his income and net worth have done pretty well without delivering FSD, so maybe not?
Glasswire[0] is good too, albeit it's commercial/paid software. It has a good Android app and allows me to block malicious/privacy-invasive outbound connections from various apps.

[0] https://www.glasswire.com/
TLDR 30% of http requests are bad bots, 17% are okay bots, and 53% human.

The PDF report isn't explicit, but since their assertion is "based on data collected from the company’s global network throughout 2022, which includes 6 trillion blocked bad bot requests", it means the "internet traffic" is measured in number of HTTP requests. As noted in other comments, results would have been very different with network bandwidth.

BTW, I haven't checked if the search bots behaviour has recently changed, but I remember that most of them ignored the directives in robots.txt asking for a slower crawl. And I couldn't find a way to declare that the content almost never changed.
You asked

> How is helping someone with a solution “status and confrontation”?

I answered with an example

> "I just discovered my spouse cheated on me" "oh, leave that asshole now!".

This would be giving a solution but it would just be a display of status.
Mind blowing quantum computer used by JPMorgan, patnered with MSFT and NVDA
Im a pretty big car nut, and GM is known for some sketchy stuff, but this is BS.
> Is literally saying that the whole must be licensed under the GPL (note: even whether there are sections that may be considered independent and/or separate and/or derivative and/or whatever), otherwise you just can't distribute it.

You seem to think it's very clear what the "whole work" is and that it must include ZFS.

See my comment of 2 days ago.[0] Section 2 states "...a whole which is a work based on the Program..." which is, as I've already mentioned, defined at Section 0. I'll say again -- at Section 0, it says "a work based on the Program" is either 1) the licensed program (Linux only), or 2) "any derivative work under copyright law", which ZFS is not, so the combination is such a "mere aggregation."

> Just think about it. The LGPL would make no sense if this wasn't the case.

Whether the LGPL makes sense or not is not really a concern of mine, but the LGPL also only applies to "derived works" as well.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914449
There have been times in the past when I've had far too much coffee in a day. As I've gotten older, I've noticed a difference in how it affects me. Cutting back is helpful.
What made you remind of it?
Ultima Ratio Regum 0.11: Buried Treasure
To all talking anti war here, do you never talk about american veterans of vietnam war. Do you not remember their service positively while still being against the war?
Let a man remember his father. Especially when he is talking about building bridges and not how valiantly he killed n enemy soldiers.
My favorite Berlin Wall story was a friend of mine wrote an opinion piece for the college newspaper in the fall of 1989 talking about the moves towards democracy in the Warsaw Pact nations which concluded with the line, “but don’t expect the Berlin Wall to come down any time soon.”

He submitted the piece at the beginning of November. The paper came out on November 13th.
> I don't think there was a market for it before LLMs.

At $work CGI assets sometimes grow pretty big and throwing more VRAM at the problem would be easier than optimizing the scenes in the middle of the workflow. They can be optimized, but that often makes it less ergonomic to work with them.

Perhaps asset-streaming (nanite&co) will make this less of an issue, but that's also fairly new.

Do LLM implementations already stream the weights layer by layer or in whichever order they're doing the evaluation or is PCIe bandwidth too limited for that?
I think that it's ok, if they can do that much work. I mean everyone can take two or three jobs even without remote jobs. Though with remote working it is easier to do two or three jobs if they are similar and you can send same work to both companies. It's not a problem before it's about copyright.
Those estimates are unrealistic regardless of any potential degrowth scenario. You'll run out of drivers and/or roads way before the 100 year mark.
I think you’re not using “sentience” in the same way as each other.

I recommend avoiding “sentience” in this thread and being more specific about what you mean.
Don't worry, only the 10X engineers are working more than one job; they weren't getting compensated 10X at any one job so this makes it more fair to everyone.
As an owner of BEV, this is correct. I was able to afford Enyaq for cca 60k EUR. And if you can't charge at home, then you are charging on public chargers for _more money_ than you would be taking gas in similar ICE. And on top of that you are subjected to stupid applications and waste much more time to actually get the charge. You are essentially paying premium to get less. And idealists are surprised that people ain't thrilled from BEV future.
It seems overly optimistic to expect a breakthrough.
Fun story, I was in a loaner car from a dealership which had lane assist. I was driving in the desert around a corner against a cliff so I couldn't see around it very well. Right around the corner there was a small boulder in the road which I had to swerve to avoid, except the lane assist fought me on it since it would cross the painted lines. It wasn't like a near death experience or anything, but it really made me think on how the systems meant to protect us can be what causes a life threatening problem if they aren't designed well. If I had to swerve to avoid another rock or a wayward vehicle, compensating for my own vehicle's unexpected response to driver input is at the bottom of the list of things I'd want.
Man am I tired of seeing posts about these AI tools.
With suitable training they can.

The insurance industry expects the average insured driver to file a claim every 18 years. That's covering all conditions, all of the time. No "hand off to someone else when I get scared" because humans can't do that.

That's honestly pretty good.

Wake me when autonomous driving can get within a factor of two of that.
Idk that economic “attack” is good phrasing but the bundling of video content combined with tools/platforms/monetization for user generated video content absolutely had a devastating effect on legacy video media. Maybe, in your words, the initial money-burning provided a lift, but now Hollywood writers are striking for more pay and Netflix is one of they key bogeymen.
A lot of people are quite unhappy with it, yes, but... Consciousness is still very much a philosophical problem. Think of Marr's levels, functionally, LLMs and humans are quite similar, but algorithmically? How about the implementation layer? There are still many, many mysteries to be solved in the realm of philosophy of mind and LLMs should serve as reminders that Consciousness and Intelligence are not the same.

May I suggest this reading? https://qualiacomputing.com/2022/06/19/digital-computers-wil...
Or it could be a PCM pin-puller system: basically paraffin is heated and while it liquifies, it will slightly expand and push a pin that will trigger the release.
That's partly balanced out by the greater engine efficiency, 90-95% versus 30-35-40%. Also regenerative braking. Oh, and much better engine efficiency at low speeds.
It seems intellectually lazy to assume that the present continues reliably into the future. You need a more concrete argument than "we've been making progress so far so we'll keep making progress", or if you're on the other side of the argument, you need something better than "this hasn't happened yet so it will never happen".
Would you avoid teaching math if your students could use a calculator instead of a slide rule?

(Are these equivalent arguments? To what degree is this new tech so much different? Is it still just a tool?)

Reasons I will not return to teaching, unless it's at a teacher-powered public school with fewer than 100 students who are struggling in part because they don't have enough support:

-low pay

-unreasonably large workload

-expectation of homework

-disrespect for teacher autonomy (if you don't let teachers have more creative control, might as well farm out the job to artificial intelligence. Admins: hire teachers who are themselves life-long learners and value figuring things out right along with their students, to name a couple characteristics I value)

In the right setting, I love the challenge of helping my students grow into adults (largely, people who can identify their emotions and then decide what to do, and who can find and take steps to fulfill a sense of purpose), regardless of what technology is available.
But EVs being worse is handwaved away in the article without any hard data:

“ Some are concerned that electric vehicles tend to be heavier, which might increase tyre wear”

That’s a fact-free argument.
This is really neat! I'm going to take it for a spin in a simple CRUD internal app.
Thanks for sharing this.

The physical therapists I’ve talked to have been very clear that staying in the same position for too long is a primary driver of pain.

So, I’m not sure if this is a whole solution.
What is funny thought, that 0% chance events don't can't happen, but must happen. Like when you pick a point on a line, or roll a dice infinitely many times.
Is there a good tool for Limux that can assess network quality as a whole? It would be nice to have something that can do a few tests all in one run and give me an idea of what is going on (besides tools like ping for latency, iperf for local bandwidth and packet loss).
Rising number of lithium battery incidents on airplanes worry crew