skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
adjusted for inflation not to mention features, cars are cheaper than ever.

My first new car was 1992 Maxima. It retailed for nearly $20k in 1991, which is $43k in today's money.

It didn't even come with leather, power seat, sunroof, ABS, CD, or automatic climate control. It only had one airbag.
You lost me at "While AI regulation is important" - nope, congress does not need to regulate AI.
Does anyone have leads on where to find de-commissioned EV batteries for reuse as local energy storage? I want to hook some in to a renewable energy generation platform.
I had ChatGPT write a letter to your senator:

Subject: Urgent: Concerns Regarding Sam Altman's Proposed AI Regulation

Dear Senator [Senator's Last Name],

I hope this letter finds you in good health and high spirits. My name is [Your Name] and I am a resident of [Your City, Your State]. I am writing to express my deep concerns regarding the Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation proposal put forth by Sam Altman. While I appreciate the necessity for regulations to ensure ethical and safe use of AI, I believe the current proposal has significant shortcomings that could hamper innovation and growth in our state and the country at large.

Firstly, the proposal appears to be overly restrictive, potentially stifering innovation and the development of new technology. AI, as you are aware, holds immense potential to drive economic growth, increase productivity, and address complex societal challenges. However, an excessively stringent regulatory framework could discourage small businesses and startups, the lifeblood of our economy, from innovating in this promising field.

Secondly, the proposal does not seem to take into account the rapid evolution of AI technologies. The field of AI is highly dynamic, with new advancements and capabilities emerging at a breathtaking pace. Therefore, a one-size-fits-all approach to AI regulation may quickly become outdated and counterproductive, inhibiting the adoption of beneficial AI applications.

Lastly, the proposed legislation seems to focus excessively on potential risks without adequately considering the immense benefits that AI can bring to society. While it is prudent to anticipate and mitigate potential risks, it is also important to strike a balanced view that appreciates the transformative potential of AI in areas such as healthcare, education, and climate change, among others.

I strongly urge you to consider these concerns and advocate for a balanced, flexible, and innovation-friendly approach to AI regulation. We need policies that not only mitigate the risks associated with AI but also foster an environment conducive to AI-driven innovation and growth.

I have faith in your leadership and your understanding of the pivotal role that technology, and specifically AI, plays in our society. I am confident that you will champion the right course of action to ensure a prosperous and technologically advanced future for our state and our country.

Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to your advocacy in this matter and will follow future developments closely.

Yours sincerely,

[Your Name]
[Your Contact Information]
Also to be fair, it was created with water from a river that had all sorts of horrible run-off from farms in it, which is why it is so particularly toxic.

I'd expect projects like the ones mentioned in the article to be slightly cleaner than that, but still pretty awful.
I believe the customer mentioned in the article could also be related to Rasmus[0] as this discussion had the CTO of Cloudflare replying https://github.com/rsms/inter/discussions/549

[0] https://rsms.me/
Indeed, the original solution for the GBA was a peripheral lamp to illuminate the screen just like natural light: The Worm Light

It's almost as if the peripheral port was made for it.
I always hated this logic, the "I know better than you". You can still add pragmas trivially in JSON, this doesn't prevent that problem, it just makes it more convoluted at the expense of a powerful documentation feature.
Now I'm curious what the UK equivalent would be, if there is such a thing.
The comment you are replying to was sarcastic: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230126005862/en/Ger...

> and if we want actual competition in rent prices, then the supply would have to vastly exceed the demand and not just meet it.

So, having less than 1% of the housing stock go to AirBnB supposedly makes cities unaffordable but increasing the supply of housing will not have the opposite effect until supply greatly exceeds demand? Why?
Obviously. When you're a company of one - they're one and the same. When you're a company of 200k - you're a drop in an ocean.

What you care about diverges from everyone else, and the main thing you have in common is maximizing the compensation / enjoyment curve.

Most people's enjoyment at work is not going to go down sharply because their employer is looking at how much time the average person spends in the office.
Ethanol is only a "horrible toxin" if it's consumed in amounts that would be nearly or certainly lethal for any other solvent (save water). Human gut bacteria do not produce trichloroethylene.

As organic solvents go, ethanol is one of the safest — but it's too flammable for dry cleaners.
What you're asking for is what Compose does (the new Android toolkit). Being pure FP though does have issues. There's no way to get a reference to anything on the screen, so some tasks that are basic and obvious in an OOP toolkit turn into a strange hack in Compose. For instance to focus a text edit you have to create and memoize a "focus requester", pass the "requester" as a parameter to the TextField function, then "launch an effect" and finally you can use the requester to request the focus.

Compare to an OOP toolkit: call edit.focus() when the UI is first displayed and you're done. The reason you need a requester in Compose is because everything is FP and lacks identity, even though there actually is object identity buried deep inside, it's just hidden from you.

The FP model does have some benefits, but I think OP is right and we'll end up with a less radical mixed approach.
Is it worse than the crypto arc?
He absolutely does. The interview I saw with him on the PBS Newshour was 80% him talking about the singularity and extinction risk. The interviewer asked him about more near term risk and he basically said he wasn't as worried as he was about a skynet type situation.
That is the wrong discussion. What are their regulatory, social, or economic policy credentials?
In Vancouver its build build build and the investors buy buy buy. You need to make the new build available for people who want to live in them. Simply building more is not enough. Vancouver proves that in spades.
Yup, it really only works because I do work at a small company. I imagine this wouldn't work for several reasons at BigCo.
This seems wrong. Tesla has estimated their batteries to be good for over a million miles[1].

[1] https://www.electrive.com/2020/10/19/tesla-researchers-prese...
The word you might be looking for is prima donna rather than Mary Sue. I'd certainly agree that there are quite a few of those in the software industry.
>I mean, it will?

It's complicated obviously, but I think "will create jobs" just leaves a lot of subtlety out of it, so I've never believed it when representatives say it and I wouldn't say it myself writing to them, but a small letter to a representative always will lack that fidelity.

I don't think anyone can guarantee that there won't be job loss with AI, so it's possible we could have a net negative (in total jobs, quality of jobs, or any dimension).

What we do see is companies shedding jobs on a (what seems like perpetual) edge of a recession/depression, so it might be worth regulating in the short term.
The thing is, experts like Ilya Sutskever are so deep in that shit that they are heavily biased (from a tech and social/economic) perspective. Furthermore, many experts are wrong all the time.

I don't think the average HN commenter claims to be better at building these system than an expert. But to criticize, especially critic on economic, social, and political levels, one doesn't need to be an expert on LLMs.

And finally, what the motivation of people like Sam Altman and Elon Musk is should be clear to everbody with a half a brain by now.
What’s funny is that a lot of people in that crowd lambastes the fear mongering of anti-GMO or anti-nuclear folk, but then they turn around and do the exact same thing for tech that their group likes to fear monger about.
> DFOs tend to have issues past a few dozens variables.

It is interesting to check the results in section 5.1 of the following paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.13246.pdf

where these algorithms are compared with finite-difference CG and BFGS included in SciPy.
> number of phones Google has sold is completely irrelevant to the fact that they too do local ai

How will they make money? For Apple, device purchases make local processing worth it. For Google, who distribute software to varied hardware, subscription is the only way. For reasons from updating to piracy, subscription software tends to be SaaS.
Ethanol is not a hydrocarbon, nor is TCE. By definition, a hydrocarbon is composed of carbon and hydrogen. Ethanol contains oxygen, while TCE contains chlorine.
$30k Cars are not for people earning minimum wage. Take a bus or buy something sub $5k. Minimum wage uses the minimum viable transportation.
I want to know the same for eg using cdn or cloudflare workers to proxy images and videos from s3 , Google drive or other services
i usually fail interviews for a month or two and by the third month and 12th interview i am more comfortable. repeat every time i go looking for a job. also random luck is involved on whether i remember how to do some algorithm.
I've been using Erlang for nearly 20 years, on and off, and I think a reason it's not more popular is that it has always felt like a tool that is really good for some things, but maybe not so good for this or that random task. If you pick Python or Ruby or Java, you know you can probably do the thing in question, whatever it is, even if that language isn't the perfect fit for it. As well as the next thing and the thing after that. There's something in your toolbox for it. With Erlang, the toolbox didn't always have that depth. It's gotten better with Elixir on the scene, but there were times when I would wade in and fix upstream bits and pieces with Erlang libs. That very rarely happens to me with Ruby.

That said, it is a fantastic system for some problems and I really miss working with it.
It's a component in some solvents a consumer might use, as you noted, but it's also used in manufacturing, in areas where a trace amount might end up in a consumer product but the major problem is for the people who are exposed to it during that item's manufacture. (or for the people who have to deal with the manufacturer's waste)
My Ford F150 from 2015 is going just fine. It'll go for a lot longer too - it's pretty much infinitely repairable.

No touch-panels, no weird dash controls that do god knows what. Clock that shows the time; thermometer that shows the temp.

Made for folks who want to get there, not figure out how to get there.

It was in a fire, sort of. Next to a truck that burned. Left side of mine was melted - all the plastic parts dripping onto the pavement like some Dali painting.

All repaired, all working fine again! Got 170000 miles on it; gonna go another.
Organizationally, I'd love a separate "cleaning crew", whose primary job is chewing thru the back log. Outside of the release cycle.

There's dozens of us who revel in polish, fit, and finish.
Your point that the rules are different outside of flatlandia is taken. Your region seems like a useful case study. What are the comms options (wired and wireless, inc internet) for folks who live out a ways?

Past that, you might be hinting in favor of my earlier posted fantasy. It's that soulless corps abandon AM and it becomes affordable to the point where AM is local everywhere.
My work overlaps so much that it would simply be a hassle to have two different machines. A lot of problems I solve on my own end up being used in our code base, and vice-versa. But I also work at a small company (less than 90 people), so we're more nimble than other companies I imagine.
They make very nice pens, a few others to check out besides Waterman and Monte Blanc would be Sailor, Pilot, Carolina pen company, Kweco, I'm sure I'm missing lots...
TIL! https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ilk

still, there are probably a lot of people like me who have heard it used (incorrectly it seems) as an insult so many times that it's an automatic response :-(
RPython-based emulator speeds up RISC-V simulation over 15x
RPython is a limited Python subset that can be compiled to C. It provides a meta-JIT and a garbage collector for interpreters built on top of it.
I've been doing a lot of web dev for the past few years and have used angular, react, and vue in production within the last year.

My recommendations:

- Vue+vuetify is my preference for frontend framework. None of them are perfect but I think Vue is the simplest. Tailwind is nice for prototyping but doesn't scale well , I always end up ditching it after a few weeks

- Typescript on both frontend and backend (to easily share code & interfaces and get nice IDE goodies in VSCode). I like NestJS or just plain express.

- Avoid ORMs, I like Kysely for Postgres

- You can easily spin up a database (RDS), frontend (CloudFront), and backend (Lambda is easiest) within the free tier on AWS.
Maybe it's time to watch "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVo0dyjnWYo
> capturing and recycling TCE after use is fairly expensive, and since it was cheaper to buy new TCE, manufacturers would just dump their dirty used TCE, creating superfund sites etc.

This isn't a problem, us future generations can just engineer our way out of it at a cheaper cost than it would have been to deal with it in the first place.

/s - For sarcasm, and sorry.
That really doesn't explain the why though. Why is pixel fill so slow? You'd expect the opposite given the numbers on graphics cards. What's the disconnect here?
> Do you think that other professionals would put up with this shit? Absolutely not.

Lots of them do?

>> very employee at JPMC has a profile in the WADU database.

This, allegedly, isnt just for swes. JPMC has legal staff who would be, "putting up with this shit" as well as other countless employees in other orgs who would have the same type of monitoring.

If anything engineers are technical enough to at least know their work computer is being monitored. Many employees dont even know that IT can likely access their computer at any time.
And for a data interchange format this is also 100% reasonable.

The problem is that people have started using JSON for configuration files and the like, which IMHO has always been – and continues to be – the wrong tool for the job.
Teleoperation of RC car from inside a cylindrical dome
> But very few people buy Pixel

I've wanted to buy a Pixel for years but Google doesn't distribute it here. It's not like I'm living in some remote area, I live in Mexico, right next door.

The first couple of years I assumed Google was just testing the waters, but after so many Pixel models I suspect it's really just more of a marketing thing for Android. They don't seem to have any interest in distributing the Pixel worldwide, ramping up production, etc.
https://archive.is/uh0yv
> Surely you would think differently if you were working in a heavily regulated environment with hefty fines and even heftier publicity stakes.

Of course I would, but I don't work in that kind of environment.
Coffee can also be decaffeinated by supercritical carbon dioxide, which was the first process I learned about (as an intro to supercritical fluids in a thermodynamics course).
Hello, thank you for the question!

To clarify, we don't offer any consumer cards (RTX 3080, RTX 4090, etc) mentioned in the thread. Instead, we provide professional cards from the RTX Series such as the RTX 4000 and RTX 5000.
Everyone's got their fairly reasonable explanations as to why this is happening. Complexity in cars driving up cost and tanking reliability. Inflation. Tight finances. Public transit, work from home.

And then I look at the WEF guys, who want to make personal vehicle ownership not a thing and think... Boy it's happening. We're turning into Cuba with ancient cars on the road -- eventually none of them will be personally owned. And we're totally happy about that prospect for now.

2016: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/goodbye-car-ownership...
As the other reply says the CD shop thing should’ve been a big hint for example

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Centre,_Karachi
An easy to use and lightning fast free wordle solver. Give it a go if you are stuck with the daily puzzle.
Humanity has already created bioweapons. The AI just needs to find the paper that describes them.
We need something like GNU for AI, "UNAI is not AI" to take on all these business folks working against our interests by making their business models unprofitable.
Does Google do on-device processing? Or do they have to pander to the lowest denominator, which happens to be their biggest marketshare?

If the answer is no, then does it make sense for them to allocate those resources for such a small segment, and potentially alienate its users that choose non-Pixel devices?

Also, if the answer is no, this is where Apple would have the upper-hand, given that ALL iOS devices run on hardware created by Apple, giving some guarantees.

(I don't know this answer, it's a legitimate ask)
System Shock Remake set for release on May 30th
Only if its completely full. A travel thermos is ~6 inches deep and OP said to fill it to 2-3 inches.
New car prices have gone up over time. I wonder if something like (new car price)/(average car lifespan) or (new car price)/(average miles driven) is stable in the long term. (Of course in the short terms car prices are rather inflated right now.)
Can you please share what ChatGPT prompt you used to generate this letter template?
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Curb_cut_effect&o...
If you keep up on maintenance and aren't riding around on blown shocks, sagging springs, etc. then 20 plus year old cars ride perfectly fine. I would gladly ride around in a Lexus LS400 or Mercedes S class from 1992 in great condition vs. a brand new Honda Civic.
Replied to my own comment to share what people do with these pens:

https://www.artistandmasterpenman.com/
Which vector similarity metric should I use?
I built and sold a company on "Work machine" since I've been employed here in the last 7 years. This setup only works because of the company and the culture. I can sympathize that it wouldn't work for larger employers.
Reading, however, is a skill taught to all schoolchildren, and taken further in college.

The idea that someone is able to read yet can not read technical manuals while being in the CS space is just shy of unthinkable to me. Reading them slowly, I completely understand. Everyone reads technical writing slowly, since it requires a lot of thinking.

But that thinking is related directly to our day jobs. That thinking shouldn't be so foreign that it prevents people from reading technical docs, well written or poorly written.

Personal bias, perhaps, but still a very foreign concept.
Show HN: I made a news site built on prediction markets
Goal is to be kinda like The Economist meets Metaculus

Just a quick MVP, would love to hear any feedback
Insufficient for what? Humans regularly fail simple algorithms for small numbers, nevermind large numbers and complex algorithms
> It still doesn't change the fact that they're just function approximators that are trained to minimize loss on a dataset.

That fact does not entail what theses models can or cannot do. For what we know our brain could be a process that minimize an unknown loss function.

But more importantly, what SOTA is now does not predict what it will be in the future. What we know is that there is rapid progress in that domain. Intelligence explosion could be real or not, but it's foolish to ignore its consequences because current AI models are not that clever yet.
The worries about AI taking over things are founded and important, even if many sci-go depictions of it are inaccurate. I’m not sure if this would be the best solution but please don’t dismiss the issue entirely
One of my favorite sites to browse when I'm looking for inspiration is this site of 300 game mechanics: http://www.squidi.net/three/ . Even if I don't copy something verbatim, reading through them starts my brain juices flowing, and I'll remix them with some of my own ideas or combine a couple together to get me unstuck on a problem I'm having with one of my designs.
If you read the TFA it says, "TCE is highly persistent in soil and groundwater; inhalation through vapor from these hidden sources is likely the prime route of exposure today."
I vote that this is a failure of the manager to set and reinforce expectations.
Farming does a heck of a lot worse damage than 'a decline in bird populations'. What causes such decline in wild animal populations and causes damage to humans is that farming takes up all the available room driving both animals and humans away. I would rather see the farmer being free to sell their lands to housing developers or build on it instead of the current level of masochism with considerations like autarky and tradition being dominant. Presumably a lot would go for it. Farmer happy, people happy. Probably birds happier too. We will
help to ensure Ukraine wins that war and afterwards it can sell us food. Or Africa. Or wherever, really. Europe has better things to do.
It’s always used derogatorily. I agree that you should change it if you don’t mean for it to come across that way.
I agree I didn't make this clear enough in my letter. I do think AI will cause job loss, I just think it will be worse if a few companies are allowed to have a monopoly on AI. If anyone can work on AI, hopefully people can make things for themselves/create AI in a way that retains some jobs.
> How are people even finding hardware without a TPM?

Most of the computers I use don't have TPM. I buy older, used computers, but I think the oldest one I have in every day use is 7 years, so not ancient.

Of my friends, both technical and not, most of them have computers that are older than 4 years.
Imagine thinking that a bunch of molecules grouped in a pattern are capable of anything but participating in chemical reactions.
Pretty ignorant, pathetic, and asinine comment to make -- no wonder you're making it on a throwaway, coward ;)
So are we thinking that the average car lasts about twice the average age of cars - that is, 25 years?
> Do users actually care whether something is local or not?

I think most don’t, but they do care about latency, and that’s lower for local hardware.

Of course, it’s also higher for slower hardware, and mobile local hardware has a speed disadvantage, but even on a modern phone, local can beat in the cloud for latency.
No. Recently I started to use RSS reader again and I subscribe to blogs that I see valuable.

Tech twitter is terrible - doom scrolling to find something useful. Too much vim/tailwind related bs.
> Without guardrails, someone can have a completely amoral LLM that has the ability to write persuasive manifestos on any kind of extremist movement that prior would have taken someone with intelligence.

In an earlier time, we called these "books" and there was some similar backlash. But I digress.
And high mass is generally considered a safety benefit for school buses so heavy batteries aren't much of an issue.
True, but it really depends on the documents. Unfortunately, technical writers are not being paid adequately, so this profession is not well developed. It is a highly complex job that requires a great deal of empathy and a thorough understanding of the product, in addition to excellent writing skills.

Hire a technical writer, it will pay off.