skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t have data on this, but my subjective impression is that over the last several years, the number of manufacturers selling EVs and the price of EVs have both increased at the same time.

Of course, additional supply should normally decrease prices, but maybe there’s something weird going on. Here are some possible mechanisms I dreamed up:

1. Could the various manufacturers (collectively bringing lots of cash to break into the business) be bidding up the cost of some inputs? If high demand allows the market to bear higher prices, maybe everyone just ends up paying more?

2. As EV moves from “government environmental policy compliance program” to “luxury essential”, the types of cars on the market change. Just because it’s technically possible to make a cheap EV, doesn’t mean they will be readily available. By analogy, air-conditioned seats are no engineering marvel, but are usually only offered in upmarket vehicles, probably as a type of price discrimination.
Most people who don't know how AI really works, all seem to think tht it's the AI that is intrinsically dangerous. Except for AI to be effective, you need an organization, you need caretakers, and you need a body that directs it. At least for now.

The people who are in charge of that system, are the ones who can leverage AI to their own advantage. I'm more afraid of those people than the AI itself, because in the end AI is just statistics and probability.

So, let's say an AI is used in the war in Ukraine. What would it look like? Well, judging by the AlphaStar AI made to beat grand masters in Star Craft 2, it would look like complete and utter pwnage, even if the AI only gets control of a complete underdog.

While it's probably very challenging, I don't think it's outside the scope of possibility to adapt something like AlphaStar to real world tactical scenarios.
I feel an obvious solution many are missing is simply to ask your colleagues for help. They can either listen to your rambling or they can offer answers when ones you've thought of before or novel strange ones you had dismissed but bear rethinking. If your paralysis is due to you working alone, then your open mindedness should make your amenable to asking for help.
It's sad really, my old 4000 series laserjet was a tank.
In the US it was the experience I think. Just like Uber in some markets where taxis were a shitty experience before, buying a car was (apparently) a crappy experience in the US before Tesla. But that's a very local phenomenon. Not sure about the sports car thing though. It's not much difference between a Model Y and a Mach-E or Polestar2 when it comes to this. Tesla did have the performance angle because they were early movers and compared to an ICE car their entire lineup is obviously looking pretty snappy.

Most buyers though just want a boring reliable car. If a known and Trusted brand made a car that was just 10% more expensive and 10% less attractive on specs than a Tesla, then Toyota would eat their lunch I think.
A car has wheels, an engine/motor(s), and a mechanism to make the engine/motor(s) turn those wheels. This hasn't changed more or less since the invention of cars, regardless electric or combustion.

What has changed is the way the car is controlled. No longer are cars controlled by physically connected cables and wires that move to user input, cars are now controlled digitally by computers that respond to user and environmental input. This is where the technology is, and this is where tech companies like Tesla naturally and obviously have an edge on car companies like Toyota.
A thing I've often fantasized about is some sort of mega-conference where top luminaries from every academic field get together and hammer out a global namespace of jargon, resolving all collisions so that no longer can a term mean eight different things in eight different fields.

Imagine the global boost in productivity and knowledge-sharing...
Why would they be forced to do that? Assuming that they
1. Charge all customers the same price at each super-charger station. (Prices will vary with time of day and different super-charger charger locations.)
2. They open up their network to everyone voluntarily.

I don't see an argument for self favoring or anti-trust. What am I missing? Why do you think that outcome will happen?
In Seattle, we buy a $$$$$$ boring machine, bore a tunnel, and then cut up the machine and sell it for scrap.

Nobody ever thinks "hmm, now we have a perfectly good boring machine sitting at the end of a tunnel in the middle of the metropolitan area. Hey, I have an idea! Let's continue boring and extend the tunnel!"

My favorite was when they bored a new tunnel downtown, and stuffed the resulting rubble into the Battery tunnel, thus providing 0 extra capacity for $$$$$$.

They ripped up the rail tracks from Renton to Black Diamond. After all, what could you do with rail lines connecting one city to a bedroom community?

Lastly, there used to be a rail line connecting Renton to Bothell. What to do with that, what to do with that ... Oh, I know! Let's rip up the tracks, tear down its bridges, and make it thoroughly unusable. Not do anything sensible like connect it to the west side light rail so there's service all the way around Lake Washington. Several people carefully explained to me that it was impossible to use right-of-way for trains for light rail, impossible to poor a concrete platform at stops, etc. But it is possible to spend tens of billions of dollars mowing down neighborhoods on the west side.

Government civil engineering in King County is a mystery to me.
Yeah, it's the enhanced autopilot. It's not self- driving though, the only thing it does on its own is change lanes automatically and park itself and come out of a parking spot to get you
A comment there says:

there is a windows 3.1 directory picker in “odbc data sources” utility

Found it (Win 10, 22H2):

https://i.imgur.com/JgWa0Wa.png
thanks will give it a shot
A few years ago they started only including "starter" cartridges that are only part full.
I think this paper [1]

Piccinini, Gualtiero & Scarantino, Andrea. (2010). Computation vs. Information Processing: Why Their Difference Matters to Cognitive Science. Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 41. 237-246. 10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.07.012.

leaves the question open on whether cognition is computation or information processing? while laying out an exposition on the difference between computation and information processing.

The last two sentences in their paper's conclusion is:

> Thus, cognition may well involve the processing of information. Whether this information is processed by means of (digital) computation remains an open question. (reference to footnote xii)

and in the footnotes (number xii):

> One of us believes the answer is likely to be negative (Piccinini 2007b).

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222414469_Computati...
Juggling robots and machines – a video survey
Also as someone with a physics degree, it's difficult for me to think of taking courses beyond sophomore year that didn't involve SVD to some extent or were using proximal solution strategies (solid but not crazy tough public state school, late aughts). It's not something skipped for time, it's a basic tool used in multiple branches of physics/math. I'll need to look further to validate some of the content/capabilities but as with most things, buyer beware.
There is a difference of using GPT as a tool and as someone to outsource your work too. As a tool it's like a super powered spell checker. I don't think any university in the world bans the use of spell checkers. As someone you outsource your work too, that's cheating by any standard.
I'm just saying that like Git and shell people will eventually make their own porcelain for a myriad different use cases. Most of those will probably be buried in some corporate proprietary repo.
We lost the secret key for this bitcoin in the incinerator, can we get the key back?

That problem has neither a theoretical nor a practical solution.
I can attest to this. Fresh inputs are often the only way to get out of a mental feedback loop.
I somewhat understand the nihilism at play here, but it's not like those trucks exist absent consumer demand. They aren't driving around for fun!

It doesn't matter that you are not giving the company money anymore, until enough people independently make that decision and then it starts mattering. This is a thing that happens in every economic sphere.
Plenty of China-only car models are more than "inspired" from existing vehicle models.
Free cartridges in new printers are usually not full (just enough ink to print some pages).
> "People think that P≠NP, because they tried it hard, and did not find any NP-hard problem in P."

That was the informal explanation given to the computer scientists. But that's not so convincing to non computer scientists and it's not the informal 'pop science' explanation.

An example (not the only one) of the kind of 'pop science' explanation I mean, is Impagliazzo's Five Worlds (https://gwern.net/doc/cs/cryptography/1995-impagliazzo.pdf). One of those hypothetical worlds he called 'Algorithmica' and it's where P = NP. One of the amazing and outlandish things that could be accomplished in such an exotic world would be the following feat: "Thus, a computer could be taught to recognize and parse grammatically correct English just by having sufficiently many examples of correct and incorrect English statements, without needing any specialized knowledge of grammar or English."

It's not so wild to me, to think that if someone's understanding of P vs. NP was from that kind of pop science article, then they would think we should start considering more seriously that we are in the Algorithmica (P = NP) world where such feats are possible!
Meanwhile, a coworker got a Model S and after 2 service visits ended up having to change his entire wiring harness. On a vehicle with less than 100 miles.
I develop web apps for my business. I used to be a gamer and I really miss gaming a lot. My biggest vice is spending money on a Steam game library that I will probably never get to play. My fun is coming up with new ideas that are productive for society and bringing my visions to life is more fun.
You would probably call me a culture warrior and yet I'm a Team America: World Police and South Park fan.
Then why the hell are they so expensive? I'd like to be all in on electric, but my car budget is 30k, why do they pile so much fancy crap on them? I want a go pedal, a stop pedal and a window crank. You can keep all the rest of the crap for the luxury cars.
The stance is extreme because it's doomsday speak, of the kind only people on top of a box in the park used to say when I was a kid. Humans will be here, maybe less of us, on boats, in constant air-con personal pods, whatever, we'll figure something out.

We're not going extinct any time soon unless someone decides to launch nuclear weapons.
This is good news, somehow.

Here is how the earth 'greenhouse effect' really works: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oqu5DjzOBF8&pp=ygUlZ3JlZW5ob3V...

This is why Co2 do not have any effect until it reaches the high troposphere. That takes 20 years. The average climate we have right now is caused by emissions from 2003.

I'll repeat that in the comments of every climate article I read by the way, sorry for the repetition. M
A Personal View of Average-Case Complexity  (1995) [pdf]
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces
The Hero with a Thousand Faces from Campbell was a required reading in Disney some time ago...
The History of CMOS
https://archive.is/Kxdeh
What about the Corolla GR and Yaris GR, though?
In real life problems often have multiple solutions and we don't like some of them, possibly the simplest ones. This is much like exceedingly expensive solutions to technical problems. In my experience customers faced with a costly solution reframe their problem and accept to do their business a different way. Their customers won't notice.
Toyota is first and foremost a manufacturing company; they go to absurd lengths to ensure their supply chain is as robust as can be and that the product they deliver is reliable. It just happens to be cars. (And forklifts. And probably lots of other stuff, too)

The downside, of course, being that most of their offerings appear quite, uh, boring.

Upside? Anecdotally, my 26 year old Toyota Land Cruiser (With 300k miles on it!) has cost me less in workshop visits and parts over the 140k miles I've owned it than the missus' 2016 VW Passat has over 30k miles of ownership. And the Passat isn't a bad car at all. Has the Land Cruiser beat on fuel economy, though.
Seattle should be ashamed at giving themselves 10 years just for planning + design. This isn't the linear shinkansen, you're not even crossing state lines! It is a train. We know how to do this.

There are obviously considerations to optimise for but how do you need 5 years for planning, _then another 5 years for design_?
The US would never declare war on Mexico! Nor annex any part of it!
Sometimes “there is no solution to this” is the solution to the problem. Often it may: “the solution to this is beyond us/me” - which is an equally suitable solution.
Awesome! Going to check it out
Go business casual. A shirt, a blazer, proper trousers (not jeans) but not a full blown suit.

The blazer may come off as the meeting starts.

And if you speak and interact well, there is no chance they'll misunderstand being well dressed for lack of confidence.
The title and the first question are two different things.

If the "anxiety/paralysis" is the real issue here, then it is a completely different topic that probably needs external help.

For a "problem you are not sure has a solution", if it's related to job/technology, I search for a workaround (if applicable which, most of the times, it is).
The Battle of May Island
Thanks for the catch. I recall the story having been updated with information on explosions in Berdyansk, but internet archives do not have that update.. Yahoo has also picked up the story, but it is the same 2022 piece.

Currently in

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news...

There is similar information to what I recall as the CNN updated article text under the headline :

2 hr 56 min ago

Russia says Ukraine carried out missile strike in Russian-occupied Berdiansk

The only other sources I am able to find are Ukrainian..
The original post does not specify the nature of the problem. The problem might be something objective like scientific research. Or something deeply personal like an illness of a friend or family. Depending on the problem, the approach will of course be completely different.

In case of scientific research also, it depends on the situation. A PhD student's approach to a difficult problem with apparantly no solution would be and should be different from someone who does not have a deliverable. If you are a student, you need to deliver some result for a degree. So after some time it would be better to forget about a seemingly unsolvable problem and focus on a new problem which you can solve in perhaps a better way.

A senior researcher however in my opinion should persistently try to solve the harder problems. As I feel it is their job.

Coming back to different problems than scientific research, I can only think of one approach. Ask the question, how important is this problem to you and your life? If it is as important as the the well being of you, or your close ones, then you have no choice but to focus and fight to find a solution.
This is what working with people is like. You will need to make your case and get buy-in from people if you expect their support. You can't just bluntly expect them to respect your conclusion. If you fixate on your conclusion, you will be unable to explain your reasoning getting there, since it will seem irrelevant to you now that you are sure your conclusion is solid.

Understanding what doesn't work is also an important part of understanding the problem.

If One Is Truly to Succeed in Leading a Person to a Specific Place, One Must First and Foremost Take Care to Find Him Where He is and Begin There. -- Kirkegaard

I am often in a situation where a developer is asking help for Y and I'm wondering why he's doing that instead of Z, W, etc. He might be right in going for Y, but I still need to adopt his reasoning, if I am to defend the solution on a system and organizational levels, for reasons like budget/resource/risk/customer experience/technical debt, and ensure buy-in from other stakeholders (product managers, commercial stakeholders etc).
I live in Ballard and frequent the D and 40 buses to get to Seattle center or downtown. Uber / Lyft are insanely expensive now, and I have a zero alcohol policy when I'm driving.
It really is unsophisticated to be worried about the potential for superintelligence to be incredibly dangerous. The very notion is incredibly gauche.
at this point the gpt api will do all of that for you! or you can use the embeddings api and build your own systems.
I agree that figuring out non-trivial jq expressions takes a lot of time, often accompanied with a consultation of the somewhat lacking docs, and some additional googling.

Nonetheless, it is pretty slow at processing data. For example, converting a 1 GB JSON array of objects to JSON Lines takes ages, if it works at all. Using the steaming features helps, but they are hard to comprehend. It gets memory consumption under control and doesn't take super long, but still way too long for such a trivial task IMO.
Because Tesla is pushing the Model Y with their pricing (presumably because margins are better). The Model Y Long Range is $500 cheaper than the Model 3 Long Range after tax credits. The base Model Y is only $3.5k more expensive than the Model 3, after tax credits.

For many months you couldn't even order a Model 3 Long Range, your only option was a Model Y Long Range.
This is one interesting reason why porting to different platforms (word size, pointer size, endianness) helps find bugs.

Also, that’s why we all should write unit tests.
Memorial Day – 2023
2023 Memorial Day Events : https://www.military.com/memorial-day/memorial-day-events-an...

'2023 Memorial Day events'
Yes, and at that point it was because Firefox was the second most popular browser. Motivations do change.
Ask somebody from a different branch of work, who has very bad understanding of that problem.

They often have a bizzare idea somehow leading to the right track. They solve it in a completely different way or know that the problem does not matter to begin with.

Its like rubber duck programming with a smart duck.

I once had some weird data problem and complained about it to a sales guy.
He called the customer to not enter certain things,and the problem was gone.
I'll quote OP again:

>>COVID vaccines significantly reduce how many people who get exposed to COVID actually get sick.

The boosters are 26% effective at preventing infection.

Sure, they do something if you are particularly at risk of having a bad time with Covid, but that low effectiveness at preventing infection means there isn't much argument that they did much to slow the spread of Covid.
Tragedy at Sea: The “Battle” of May Island
I would just like to point out that in the space of two decades we've whipsawed between "ulcers aren't caused by stress, they're caused by bacteria" to "no actually ulcers might really be mainly caused by stress."

Many such cases. I once wondered whether my decision to not pursue a PhD in physics was a mistake, but I increasingly believe we live in a Dark Ages. It is impossible to take the vapid Science as an institution seriously, especially when it embraces this myth of science being constantly correct.

(And yes, I understand there's a difference between scientific press and actual scientists. And no, you're wrong if you think their self-esteem or general sheltered Mickey Mouse worldview around their importance is any different than the public press.)
Precision matters, when end pointers are used there is no limit for the string/array size, as it is traditional argument the C folks use against bounds checked data structures.

"C can get new types" is definitly a solution, one where new types can be incremently used and with time transition existing code bases to the new types.

By your own words, "C can get compiler annotations" is not a solution for the problem as well, someone has to write the code that uses those annotions, hardly any different from using new types.
if i did, would i post about it here?
How Are Art Historians Using AI?
So the first step is to let the LLM write the documentation.... :)
>Doesn't that cause people to go to work and school when they might not have otherwise?

Hence the absurd situation where you "need" to get vaccinated to be a good person, but you also need to keep testing, in case you leave the house while infected.
Having N people drive to your neighborhood could be more efficient than M people driving to the store individually if M >> N. So now when you want something you drive to the store? How is that better?
That's not new. The entire printer industry has been doing that for well over a decade, at least with laser printers.
Campus Puritans Come for an Astronomer–and His Byline
Same. Best thing I did was switch to a laser Brother. Fuck HP really
> they're ruining social supports like Medicare and Social Security by pulling out multiples more funds than they ever contributed

FYI, people don't get to "pull out" funds from social security. You get paid what the government computes you'll get.

> they also failed to save anything of their own or are otherwise refusing to retire and leave the workforce

So which is it? They failed to save therefore they can't retire, or they could retire but are "refusing to"?
A lot are also missing the point entirely for comedy's sake. Which is admittedly fine for a meme...

While I love making projects with htmx, doing the equivalent for the complicated frontends we've got at my dayjob would not be enjoyable to maintain either. You'd end up with with fragment routes all over the place and will have serious issues finding where which is used, as the routes are all just strings with variable substitutions.
Its also annoying to write non-e2e tests for the resulting backend IME, which is totally fine for a lot of applications, but forces you to restructure your code awkwardly to be able to write unit-tests in the backend
they are going to start prompting for tips at the self service gas station pumps, along with the ads that you have to click through before you can pay for gas
I looked at both too, and bought a model Y. What were the deciding factors for you?

I liked the Tesla software and easy supercharger access. The model Y also felt more spacious, especially in the trunk.

I would summarise it as a much better UX in the model Y.
Not directly related to this, but what about a Firefox extension for LinguallyAI?

I know that the Firefox user base sadly is relatively small nowadays, but maybe you're already using only the cross-browser WebExtensions API, so it might not be _that_ much extra work.
The problem with GPT and other LLMs is that they don't tokenize words at a word or morpheme level, it's just blocks of up to 4 characters, so you get tokens like `!"` instead of two separate tokens. -- That makes it harder to write custom tools on top of, unlike e.g. the output/model of things like the universaldependencies project.
Everything is performance-critical. I buy new hardware so it runs my software as fast as it can. Why would I upgrade my CPU if I knew my programs would start running slower?
With that title and reception I can imagine people bookmarking this for „later“ and feeling good about it. But who reads that stuff really?

To each their own, but 700+ pages for material that is done in my experience in the first 2-3 weeks of undergraduate math is more disheartening than empowering for a student, in my opinion.

If you can open a math book anywhere in the last 20% of pages and just start reading, you are looking at pop science and not lecture notes.