skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can't we just have simple electric vehicles without all the high-tech?

No, because ~nobody would buy them.

> I don't understand why we need to put so much technology in a vehicle.

Because 99% of people want it. Not everyone wants everything, buy each group of people wants some features and the end result is that you have to stuff your car full of tech to be competitive in the modern car market.

And this isn't an EV thing. The tech is going into all the ICE vehicles too. Tesla is the exception, they put huge screens into cars well before everyone else and they happen to be an EV company. But normal manufacturers are mostly putting similar tech in their ICEs and EVs.
When you ignore domestic politics entirely I can see how it would look that way.

But there is a very real difference in policy between rural Alabama and Chicago. In no small part because of different parties exercising control in those localities.
Not really. It's a very manual task. Can only be scaled if you ship thousand units of the same model to a single factory. Compatibility has to be evaluated per model. Structural integrity has to be preserved, batteries are usually located at different spots than motors are.

Of course you can say "here are 4 pros - if you say anything bad you want the world to suffer from cars" but you know that this is not how we can get to a solution.
This case wasn’t about a farm or rivers or lakes. It was about a lot with a ditch that someone wanted to build a house on. The EPA wanted the law to cover any property with any kind of feature to control rainwater or runoff, which is basically every piece of property in the country:

> Within a few years, the agencies had “interpreted their jurisdiction over ‘the waters of the United States’ to cover 270-to-300 million acres” of wetlands and “virtually any parcel of land containing a channel or conduit . . . through which rainwater or drainage may occasionally or intermittently flow.” Rapanos, 547 U. S., at 722 (plurality opinion).

All the court did here was rule that the law doesn’t cover ditches which might occasionally have rainwater in them. The EPA will have to go back to the older definition that includes navigable waterways, such as rivers, lakes, and seas that carry interstate or international trade, as well as the wetlands adjacent to them.

As usual, Congress retains the power to amend the law to give it a more precise definition. They could even amend it so that it does cover any random ditch that might occasionally have water in it if they wanted. Congress could have made that choice at any time in the last 50 years, but they have chosen to leave the law vague instead. If you think that the Clean Water Act _should_ be applied to every single ditch in America, then write your Representative and tell them off for not doing their job.
Ford will add Tesla plug to its electric vehicles in surprising move
Selection bias, negative news is shared more.
American leadership deserves to be judged if they commit hundreds of billions of dollars to cause with no benefit to the American public. A Russian victory that we are spending huge sums to prevent doesn’t bring any benefit to the American public.
Why would EVs last longer?
Fair enough. That's ultimately what I think made bcrypt successful, it was widely available in basically all languages and easy to configure.
What would be the 14th amendment violation?
Also our binocular vision is movable unlike cars.

Which is how we determine depth when there is occlusion ie. we move our head.
Why is there no Claude+ ? Seems like their competitor to GPT-4.
> Yes, some apps are only available in the play store, and the maker of them does not publish them anywhere else. How's that google's fault again? Are you mad at Twitter because Starbucks doesn't sell their coffee there?

I can buy from Starbucks anonymously, or give my friend money to buy something for me. If they're calling it a "store" then that comes with an implication that you don't have to consent to being creeped on to get stuff from there.

They also did a bait-and-switch where they initially touted android's openness, but then moved an increasing amount of core functionality into google play services and encouraged app makers to depend on that.

> There is no vendor "duopoly" between google and apple. There are about a thousand flavors of Android, and a bunch of phone makers - and google isn't even the top Android seller. The only one I've used with a play store was for like a year in 2010.

There is absolutely an app store duopoly - it's a different duopoly in China than the rest of the world, but that's a distraction. The fact that they're able to sustain their 30% cut shows how much market power they have.
Yes this I think is the key difference - perhaps its a strategic move or perhaps some other reason (i.e. low relative volume) but the fact that most other automakers have upwards of 25+ SKUs versus 4 SKUs for Tesla.

In fact for Toyota there are some 15+ Toyota SKUs and 15+ Lexus SKUs - ranging in price from the Corolla (compact) to the Sienna (minivan) to the BRZ (youth sports car) to the BZ4X (CUV EV) to the LS500 (executive sedan) to the Landcruiser (guerrilla infantry vehicle).
Meanwhile Russian Railways are chugging just fine, and make up for closed airports in the south of Russia.

You can also take a suburban train from Rostov-on-Don, change train at Uspenskaya and ride all the way to Makeevka, DPR.
I don't even know what a good answer to that is. Some integers are stored in registers. Some are stored on the stack. Some are stored on the heap. Or you could be asking how integers are represented, with two's complement being the usual way. Did I pass your ambiguous question? Probably not.
Oh wow, thanks, I had no idea. Googling brings this up, though: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7584458B2/en

If this patent is genuinely enforceable, surely the names of the keywords aren't relevant?
Environmental action is based on who’s paying the bills. It often doesn’t make sense.

Case in point:

At a time where Manhattan commercial real estate is about to implode and traffic is at a nadir, there’s a major push to kill driving in NYC to pay for overpriced mass transit. Instead of investing in electric vehicle infrastructure, we’re investing in destruction of lots of businesses (like nationally prominent hospitals).
58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
I’ll do one further: most of us shouldn’t have to drive cars at all every day, we’re just enabling dependency on the robber-barrons that create them - our entire country has been built to be reliant on the auto industry, it’s practically a hostage situation and most of us have stockholm syndrome
Yes, it is necessary. People want it. I want to be able to connect my phone to the car. To be able to use a navigation app. I'm not going back to reading maps (also, I never started).
I can't see how saying there were, or could be, unintended consequences becomes a fallacy.

All systems more complex then two electrons can behave unpredictably. That's just a fact, that will always be true in 100% of all possible scenarios.

There's of course a norm in day-to-day life to not quibble about every possible combination of 3 electrons or however many below a reasonable threshold, but that norm is based on the differing opinions of individuals in society.
Your country does immoral things, Russians do immoral things, Chinese too, every big "power" does. That's not the point. Point is, how would you react to the foreign powers on your border ?

Would you go south or not?
This is a great write-up, and I've had similar experiences in domain specific scaffolding (using GPT-4 directly rather than Smoll-AI and I was creating Odoo extensions rather than VSCode).

That said, I think some of your takeaways are more criticisms of Smoll-AI than GPT-4:

> there are no instructions on how to develop, use, or publish the extension

... Because you didn't ask for instructions. All it would take is one more prompt to get these.

> there is no .gitignore for typescript/javascript/vscode artifacts

> there is no launch.json file that configures running the extension in development

Given the prompts it's fair to expect these should have been created. But again, since you already demonstrated some domain specific knowledge is required, when you see something like this is missing from the original prompt then you need to ask for it in a new prompt.

> there are no tests

I think we're seeing a pattern here. Did you ask for tests? In defense of the AI here, I think very few human coders would be writing tests in such an early stage of development.

> there is no code reuse

This one is fair. But I wonder if you fed all the original code in - I guess it would fit in one 32k context? - and asked it to find code reuse possibilities (and bugs while we're at it), what would you get?
> I always assumed it must be because the merchant pays a higher fee for Apple Pay transactions.

I've never seen evidence of such, but there is certainly concern about becoming ever more reliant on credit card companies. So there can be an odd push to set up a first-party-account-based payment method (even if that winds up actually being backed by credit cards today).

The behavior doesn't always make immediate sense - for example, Walmart going as far as to special-order payment terminals without NFC so that they can never accept contactless, but then having you pay with their app - with a credit card online transaction, which I believe is a higher rate.

For some apps, it may be that they don't prioritize Apple Pay merely because they know only some browsers support it, and only some percentage of people on those browsers have set it up.
Russia's power also came from American hegemony and its military was built in direct reaction to it. Or how the middle east is a mess in huge part because of the US. Or Latin America after all the meddling.

I really don't see an argument for US influence being better than the status quo, except for the US. It didn't stop wars or ethnic cleansings either when it was at its peak.
But they are when they get involved- the odds of getting into a crash with a Tesla goes up significantly when you happen to be inside of it all the time.

Insurance covers risk. More cost exposure, more cost gets passed on to the customer
While I'm not sure why you moved their recently I can see why you wouldn't have noticed how nice it used to be. As I said, it already started the decline a decade ago.
For all of Microsoft's flaws, they typically are good at working with regulators and ticking the boxes needed to get into a market like EU. It's unsurprising that Bard isn't there yet, as the whole field has moved at "faster than large corp/government" speeds but I don't imagine MS will stay out of those markets for long.
Especially interesting that the company started succeeding during the time period that he was off playing with Twitter and running that toy into the ground.
Smells like a perpetual motion hoax.
what if your hustle is substack blogspam though
The point being they could eliminate the human drivers and take the whole revenue instead of sharing it.

From ridesharing company PoV right now they are only taking 30%-50% of the revenue, and they have gaps in meeting demand due to resourcing challenges.

The business model is pretty solid if self driving taxis work even if its only in urban and suburbs
In this case it's hard for me to justify the forcing of republics that are largely Russian to belong to a union that has been turned decidedly anti-Russian including with a coup and NGOs and intelligence activity.

There has been a lot of bloodshed, including of civilians before the "war" started and much of it was from the side that is now aggrieved.

I understand the economic reasons for not wanting Russia to control so many resources and important trade routes, but in this case if there is a "more wrong" party in my opinion it is the meddlers from further off. This is only my opinion and I really think there isn't much of a "morally right" party in this sitution.

Let me also put it like this.

I don't necessarily control what bad people in other places do, but I expect my own society to not behave badly. To not overturn other societies and cause death and suffering and chaos for economic gain and then give me bullshit reasons and propaganda about "truth and justice and democracy". I believe if more people on all sides thought this way we would have less problems but as you say, here we are.
Amazing, hearing it played sends chills down my spine.

It's not as old, but in Wernor Herzog's documentary "Cave of Forgotten Dreams", an archeologist plays a 30,000 year old vulture bone flute. It even uses the pentatonic scale!

Some links about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUCBBDV2Tzk
https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2011/flute-of-forgotten-dreams/
https://www.npr.org/2009/06/24/105823127/a-little-flute-musi...
you're right, thanks for pointing that out... got confused by another reply in this thread, and whenever I see "unintended acceleration" I think "toyota" and the names kinda look alike. Too late to edit my comment.
> I'll go a bit further... Do we really need computers on four wheels? Can't we just have simple electric vehicles without all the high-tech? No distracting screens, no computer for other than just governing the electric engine, no fancy car locks, and so on.

I'd love to, the problem is it would get some pitifully low NCAP rating (because lack of active securities would bring the score down and I remember it is && deal, so car can have excellent crash safety yet still get low stars coz of lack of the electronic toys), and manufacturers want to sell as much gadgets as possible, because every few bucks of extra electronics is every few dozen bucks they can charge customer for.

The other problem I think is that the "fancy annoying electronics" are probably not that big part of the price of the car. Add chassis, battery, heating/cooling system for the car and all the mechanics and you already arrived at most of the car's production price.

Like, even if you add $500 of the compute (amounting to mid-high range GPU) and $500 on ruggedizing it for car work... extra $1000 worth in electronics isn't all that much of car price.

I for one am keeping my 8th gen Civic Type-R for as long as possible, got ABS, airbags, even some traction control but none of the annoyances of modern cars. All I want from new car is android auto...
> ADSM software, can't find that it even exists anymore

Re-branded Tivoli Storage Manager in 1999, I think still maintained, alive and kicking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Tivoli_Storage_Manager
Generally polling organizations poll a random sample of Americans via phone calls or online polls. There is a lot of process to try to guarantee a representative sample.

I don't think a pollster would be disappointed that you don't have a party affiliation. In fact some of biggest emphasis in election season is on independents or undecided voters.
I honestly thought the Tesla connector was going the way of Betamax.

I own two Teslas, and none of my chargers have the Tesla connector.

Maybe it will beat out J1227+CCS?
I think your cheapo Chinese/Indian EV is most likely classed as motorcycle.
Deleting from Emacs sequence vars
In cities for sure but even if you make cities be pedestrian friendly anyone outside of them still needs them
Yeah, it's a hard problem, but researchers are smart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRdUjrOnKdw

and human drivers do not set an infinitely high bar.
Trying to get that money back is like drawing blood from a stone; depending on your hourly rate and capacity for frustration it might not be worth it. I'm genuinely traumatised by a recent DB fuckup which ruined a 6 day holiday after an entire day of frantically trying and failing to get alternate connections and being brushed off by them (you have to physically visit a separate building or send snail mail), to the point where I'm putting off important stuff in another city because I just can't handle dealing with them yet.

I realise this is more about me than them, but I sincerely am having mental health problems regularly because of DB and have forgone 100ish euros refund several times in the last months because of it. Words cannot describe my seething hatred for Deutsche Bahn.
NHSTA is infected by the woke virus. Elon knows what you need. If your car crashes into a wall or whatever, it’s probably your fault anyway.
Why can't you see the full text? Try this link:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-023-01349-8

I copied it from the Nature article, where I got to from the BBC link. The Nature page has the full text (I'm not logged in). I'm on firefox, is it your browser?

Edit: Oh, wait, I am logged in to Nature. But only on firefox. When I switch to chrome and try navigating to the Nature article by clicking the BBC link, I get a paywall. What exactly do you see on your side?
What do you think the threshold number is where scanning a list will outperform a hash table? 10 items? 100? 1000? For what it’s worth, for small data sets I agree with you. But I think it’s very hard to be calibrated correctly on what small means here.

Re: binary search, the biggest cost to scanning data in a database is loading that data from persistent storage. A few mispredicted branches aren’t going to matter much if it means you can do fewer reads.
Why didn't other car markers do this earlier? Isn't Tesla's architecture open source?
> You should ... allow at least a two-second gap between you and the vehicle in front on high-speed roads and in tunnels where visibility is reduced. The gap should be at least doubled on wet roads and up to ten times greater on icy roads

Highway code rule 126[0] says 2?

[0] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/general-rules-t...
What exactly does "quit EU" mean. They make an app that connects over the internet. Anyone including businesses, are free to use their money how they see fit by paying for a service that runs in a another country.

All the EU can do here is get rid of the business and infrastructure presence of this company in the EU. Getting rid of jobs and tax revenue. They can also do a China and prosecute their own citizens for trying to access things they want on the internet.

There doesn't need to be Any "AI-related regulation." There's nothing specific or magical or new about "AI" that's not covered by current law. What it does look like to me, is the government couldn't press some authoritarian laws, so they slapped "AI" on it to mislead and misdirect their voters.

Nothing backfired, it wasn't a shot or a bluff. It was a statement that if they pass draconian laws, their citizens will have to buy the product online with their visa card without paying VAT.

Funnily enough, the EU guy who is leading this and doubling down, is Romanian. I've had some friends from that country and been there a few times. It's not a place I would think of when I think honest regulatory body, ethics, or bleeding edge technology. It definitely is a place I think of when I imagine a peacock puffing its feathers, a tiny monkey hitting it's chest, and a drunk idiot with low IQ doubling down till the grave.
People would keep them longer if they don't have to do fairly expensive preventative maintenance on belts, transmission, etc. There is of course the battery to worry about, and it remains to be seen how this will play out over decades.
Therefore they scream in their advertising?
Roxy-WI: Web Interface for Managing Haproxy, Nginx, Apache & Keepalived Servers
Yanukovych was removed by the Ukrainian parliament on a vote of 328–0 out of 450 members. Russia doesn't have a right to be upset that Ukraine kicked out a corrupt puppet.

As for NATO expanding east, Russia has something of a grievance there but the U.S. and NATO should never have relegated some of the former Soviet states to the status of "buffer regions" in perpetuity in the first place. Those countries have the right to self-determination and security just like anyone else.
Nix has several search commands, it's just none of them do quite what people want (e.g. "nix search" with flakes and "nix-query" without flakes search by name and description, "nix-locate" can search by contents but the interface is a bit obtuse)

For those who want a local search for executables, and don't mind running nix-index:

#!/bin/sh
results="$(nix-locate -1 --regex --top-level "^/bin/${1}\$")"
for item in $results; do
nix search "nixpkgs#${item%.*}"
done

will search for a specific executable and give you (hopefully) reasonable output. If you don't have flakes enabled, you can just print the result of the command-substitution directly, but you won't get the short description.
As of 2021, there were going to be only 10 billion coins, 1 for each human and 2 billion for the founders and investors. Nothing shady or profiteering there. [https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/10/21/worldcoin-now-v...].

We should read how they plan to increase the supply only for births and retire coins for deaths. And if you don't have a clear cornea, no goodies for you.

Meanwhile, from the article:

> Blania told CoinDesk that Worldcoin has partnered with a “very big international manufacturer” with a plant in Germany, which will pump out about 50,000 Orbs per year. Though Blania declined to name the company or say where the company was from, when CoinDesk asked if the manufacturer was Chinese, Blania responded:
“Definitely not, for many reasons, and one of them is actually security. The Orb itself has private keys and signs every message it sends so we know it’s actually a real Orb. And that means we need to lock this whole supply chain totally up so we know it’s not compromised,” Blania said.

And how do you know that I didn't claim this is a real Orb, and just steal your retina print?
I mean I'd imagine the evidence being pretty simple, put someone that can't drive behind the wheel, boom, worse than tesla
> If a table scan takes 250ms vs 0.01 for a indexed lookup

I'm not sure whether the units of that latter number are still ms or now s or whatever, but either way isn't that where you are wrong? On real computers, there are lots of situations where linear access is trivially faster than a "better" data structure with theoretically better runtime complexity.

1000 accesses to a single page for a linear scan are going to be many, many orders of magnitude faster than 5 accesses chasing pointers across 5 pages that have no TLB entry, or excruciatingly worse, that need to be paged in from disk.

This is an extreme (but absolutely not unrealistic!) example for illustration. Slightly more subtle scenarios involving e.g. branch prediction have already been named by eklitzke.

This problem exists across multiple layers, not just close to the CPU like above. (As eklitzke also already mentioned with disk involvement, even if it's an SSD.)
Yes, and several NATO states have separate military alliances with Greece at this point, but luckily neither side has ever invoked Article 5...
It's a bit sad to see the comment section here fighting about left/right, Democrat/Republican, and whose fault this mess is instead of focusing on the military-industrial complex.
The benefits of industrialization have accrued primarily to the rich; the negative consequences will be borne largely by the poor. But in any case no one is seriously trying to stop industrial civilization; we are (slowly, inadequately) trying to transition it to more sustainable foundations.
In the UK the franchise model is slowly falling apart after Covid gave it a death blow. Lines are being nationalized as the operators extract bonuses for the exec team and finally give up by tanking the service so the government has to step in. Here is the latest.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65555262
Tort law requires evidence. The only entity with actual evidence of what the car did is the entity who is the defendant in the litigation.

All of the elements of the Tesla business model like no repairs, no dealers, etc are all about maintaining that control.
fancy name for what seems like a fairly standard "intro to proofs" textbook, at least based on the ToC.