skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you're assuming that the autonomous vehicle is going to be _better_ than the human

i think this is already proven true empiracally with the existing milage and rates of accidents. https://thedriven.io/2023/04/27/accident-rate-for-tesla-80-l... (or from here https://www.carscoops.com/2023/03/tesla-says-its-autonomous-..., which quotes various sources of data, unless tesla is lying about their FSD data they reported).

Humans just don't believe in autodriving, and there's still the problem of liability assignment - both aren't a technology problem imho, but a human impediment to adoption.
> Where I grew up in Los Angeles, only the very wealthy lived within 10 miles of where they worked.

Thats not a mode of transporation issue, that is a city planning issue
The title is literally "2050 China - Becoming a Great Modern Socialist Country".

Did you even read before insulting me? Since you couldn't possibly have read those 100 pages since I shared the book with you, I must conclude you simply CTRL+F for "full socialism", which is the funniest thing I've witnessed in a long time.

Also I'm really curious to know what is your definition of "full socialism". Can you provide one without resorting to Wikipedia?
10 in total or 10 per seat?

SaaS mostly exists to extract profits perpetually.

This doesn't mean it's not sometimes worth it, but when you add all the licenses together, there tends to be considerable savings if you're willing to self-host.

In reality both sides of the debate are often wrong.
Many trains, including diesel trains, use the motors as generators for braking. Electric trains might return the power to the grid, diesel ones can dump it into a large bank of resistors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_braking
As often as people say correlation isn’t causation, non correlated trends that happen to overlap for a few datapoints is happenstance.
Remember there isn't enough lithium for grid scale renewables and it's dangerous, but there is enough lithium for disposable vapes which are completely safe for ordinary trash.

(/sarcasm, obviously, I have no idea how those things are legal)
The sad thing is, it's relevant again today.

And I'll add thanks to US hostile foreign policy.
On this, as with many other things, De Gaulle was right. Reading Michel Winock's book on the demise of the Fourth Republic [1] convinced me of it.

[1] https://www.fnac.com/a4905415/Michel-Winock-L-agonie-de-la-I...
The alternative is generally some form of ballastless or slab track – https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballastless_track - essentially rail fixed directly to a concrete substrate using a variety of different approaches. Lower maintainance costs at the expense of higher installation costs, and most often seen on high-speed systems, tunnels etc.

There are also various forms of baulk track – https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baulk_road - in which the rails are supported longitudinally with regular tie-bars to maintain gauge. I don’t think this is used much outside of some specialist applications.
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I had an epiphany recently about the "servers are cattle, not pets" wisdom: every home server is necessarily a pet. With all that that implies.
I'm not sure I see the religious aspect.

It's more of an inevitable consequence (over an unknown timeline, granted) of the assumption that human intelligence is not some kind of absolute limit, and can be reproduced in a non-biological system. I admit that is still an assumption, but the opposite seems harder to support to me, though we're all admittedly guessing here.

Once you make that assumption, then yes of course it follows that the 'beyond human intelligence' would be able to do all of the things that human intelligence is already doing. Namely, science, mathematics, developing AI systems etc.
The Road to Idiocracy
> I peel the >2yr off and shred it

Oh how I wish I had the courage to shred paperwork older than 2 years. Here are a few true examples where I'm glad I didn't shred too early:

- lifetime warranty claim on an appliance required the original receipt from 12 years ago

- needed to verify details on a lawyer's bill that arrived 4 years after the service was done

- parents' tax return from 30(!) years ago that had critical info about a capital gains issue

And let's not forget that tax records might be needed up to 3 years after filing in case of an audit (and some sources say 7 years).
Old Photos Show What Gas Stations Looked Like in the US (1920s-1940s)
Ask HN: Should I call my newest feature “AI Chess Coach”?
Hey HN, I recently launched a chess training website, chess.braimax.com, and right now I’m developing a new feature which I originally wanted to call “Digital Chess Coach”. This feature - currently in private beta - evaluates a user's strengths and weaknesses based on their on-site activity, creates a customized tactical training program to overcome the weaknesses, and adapts the program based on the results, to keep the user motivated and promote steady progress.

The adaptive part of the feature uses machine learning techniques. A marketer who is helping me says that I should definitely call this an “AI Chess Coach”, and make this central to the whole positioning of the website. As an engineer who did a thesis and some research in the field, I often roll my eyes at how freely the term "AI" gets thrown around these days; in this case the claim wouldn’t be completely baseless, but I’m still hesitant.

So, what do you think? Should I worry about fellow techies being suspicious of the "AI" label? Or should I put those concerns aside and ride the trend? Personally, how much more compelling (or repelling) would you find “AI Chess Coach” vs “Digital Chess Coach”?
Her face has actually a rather simple comic style. See e.g. here:
https://www.dsogaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Tomb-Ra...

I think actually using cell shading could suit her rather well. Similar to how it is done in recent Zelda games. The "unreal" look comes from combining her simple face with realistic lighting of a normal render.
I work for a company with unlimited PTO and it is a double-edged sword.

Before I joined one team member had less than 7 vacation days in a year, and she's working in a country with less than 10 public holidays a year.

It is _very_ easy not to get vacation because you can have all you want.

Now everyone in my department MUST take at least what's legal on the country they're based.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/drug-use-...

Looking at the map I think you'll see for yourself your point doesn't stand.
Will the stateful API make things faster or cheaper? Or does it just simplify the API usage? I'd guess mostly the latter, but don't know.
Is that Waymo or Cruise?
Are you sure?

“The United States is home to the highest number of immigrants in the world. An estimated 50.6 million people in the United States—a bit more than 15% of the total population of 331.4 million—were born in a foreign country.”

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigrati...
Brexit was just a way to distract fools while picking their pockets, I don't see a real connection here.
Yeah, the thing about debating doomers is that there is no empirical data to ground the debate. They require us to abide to their framework on how things will run out but why should I? If you have no evidence then this is just a fun imaginative game to play, not a serious discussion.

And no, this is not equivalent to the climate change debate. We have a very well established arrow of causality between carbon emission to higher temperatures to more extreme weather. With AI doomers we have increasing process power > rapid self-improving AI > rise of a will to exterminate humans that can't be contained by us > doom.
Open Domains
Perhaps, but Altman turned an open non profit org to a for profit closed org. So why should we continue to take his arguments at face value?
> Turns out, there's a stark difference between creating true fans around one narrow, rigid aspect of yourself, and creating true fans of a dynamic, evolving human. Niche strategy is great at the former, but the latter requires something else entirely.

You are not your product. You are not your niche. You are what created those, and you can build on that.

I'm finishing my fourth book and planning a fifth. Each is quite different and they are not in any sense a series, but each one beyond the first had the preceding as a springboard. I didn't plan it that way, but they’ve taken me on a fascinating journey. Adjacency is a wonderful thing.
It's small, but one of my favorite math professors in college, when he could tell the class was losing focus on the lecture, would begin proofs with a shouted "BEHOLD x!" instead of the more traditional "let x..." It always woke people up.

Even for the most diligent students (which I was not), there will always be some dry material. Often, when I was struggling with writing up a difficult proof, I imagined him saying "BEHOLD," and it would cheer me up. Little things can make learning much more fun.
TL;DR "ballastless track" is track rigidly set in concrete instead of the aforementioned floating, but it must be done to very tight tolerances and is expensive
> Greed, of course, is always a human motivation, but the early Valley culture was created by entrepreneurial outsiders who genuinely wanted to make the world better.

This is a rewriting of history. SV started (in the 1950s!) as an outgrowth of the military industrial complex, making tech hardware for DoD radars and missiles. The entrepreneurial, consumer-facing, "change the world" stuff happened afterward.
Emotional manipulation by only presenting a view which aligns with your desired policy outcomes — but not the contrast, eg that ICEs enable modern farming — is classic propaganda technique.
We are all mermaids in the womb
This is hyperbole, yes, I'm not parodying the actual incident but the attitude.

Anyhow, crossing yellow lines isn't okay for that reason in particular, it's to keep first responders safe. The incidents listed should be just seen as failures which developers need rectify, not as a "learning experience" the public needs perspective on. The learning experiences should have happened in their controlled testing, not on the road.

I will say that generally in life, when you fail, even spectacularly; sure, you can tell yourself it was a learning experience to keep your mind sane. You do have to be careful saying such things to others judging you as if to ward them off because it comes across as cheapening the fault, or even faulting them for judging you (the lacking "perspective" bit). The best you can do is apologize, admit fault, and then assure them you'll do better in the future.
Sorry about the weird title, I wanted to get the subtitle in there as well so one could see what the article is about, no one knows the word torpillage
I’m personally surprised that this strategy plateaued as soon it has. It had an extremely sharp early-success curve.

Opinion: a lot of people in this space thought “no one wants to get in a car with a radar tower on top, can’t we make it just look like a car?”

And decisions proceeded from there.
Don’t Get Distracted by the Hype Around Generative AI
Well literally everything causes cancer to some degree and any particles one breathes in that aren't air can cause lung problems.

The real question is probably "do enough people get sick from it that it's more expensive for the rail company to pay out lawsuits than the track to be replaced".
No. There is no incentive for car AI to improve because everyone knows it won't be allowed for basically forever. Chat AI is here and will progress, so there's massive incentive for it to improve.

Chat AI will improve at at least 10x the rate as car AI.
Trains also have breaks that produce break dust.
I heard that ChatGPT 4 runs in the red even with $20 subscription. Makes sense since only 25 messages every 4 hours. The nerf coincides with browsing taking more power up probably.

Google probably doesn't want people using GPT 6 tech instead of search entirely, which is a real possibility since Google is often filled with SEO spam nowadays. I think they just want LLM + integrated with ads. Google had better results like 15 years ago for general information.

Of course their nerfs are all intentional. When compute and techniques improve/scale they can unnerf. If they catch wind of a competing product they can also unnerf. They still have stuff developed they can't affordably deploy like multimodal, it can already take images.
That like-for-like, accounting for negative externalities in all alternatives, nuclear isn't that much more expensive.
U.S. House Republicans Push for Crypto Oversight with Bill to Make SEC Play Ball
Guessing the true motivations of the rich and powerful is an essential element of democracy, because they never reveal their intentions.

This is also why even countries with stricter libel laws than the U.S. make broad exceptions for public figures. If you can't speculate about motivations in public, you'll have a dictatorship soon.
I thought self-driving was always an aspiration. Full self driving requires solving the holy grail of robotics + the ultimate safety problem. There should be by now a few technologies that can be deployed as side-benefits instead of waiting for the whole package to be achieved
What does it take to port 16-Bit Win 1.0 application to native Win 11
It was removed:

https://humanloop.com/blog/openai-plans

"This content has been removed at the request of OpenAI."
A long time ago, in order to get computers to do anything useful, the hardware required huge rooms.

Today, a little cell phone is significantly more powerful than a room sized computer back in the days.

LLMs shouldn't be any different. Today, they require giant server farms to run. Tomorrow, they will run on little robots/cell phones.

A few things will allow this:

1. Chip makers like Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, Intel, Nvidia, will heavily emphasize AI performance in their future chips. Expect accelerators like the Neural Engine to get significantly bigger. In the future, I expect that most of the transistors in a SoC will be dedicated to AI acceleration - and not CPUs/GPUs.

2. Moore's law is not dead. We will continue to get more transistors in a given area. For example, TSMC has plans for 1nm which will likely have 4-5x more transistors per area than the 5nm Apple M2 or around 100 billion transistors. For comparison, the 4090 has 76 billion transistors. A 1nm Apple Silicon Max chip could theoretically have around 300 billion transistors, which makes it 4x more than a 4090. If GPT-4 requires 4x 4090 to run, then a single 1nm M Max might be able to do it in the future.

3. Larger models will optimize to require less resources.

4. Smaller models will become more capable.

These forces will converge and we will have local LLMs that are top of the line.
Rails on rubies
Apple Virtualization Framework
Unfortunately, these rounds are not available either on the official website or on their github (https://github.com/google/coding-competitions-archive/), so I'm afraid there's not much we can do from the outside.
See "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtaHNAaDhjU
the output of LLMs is not novel to this audience
I was never very good in high school. If I tried very hard, my best score would always be close to 80%. I never liked being told how and what to study, that kind of environment never fit well with me.

Uni was a much better fit, being able to study and learn in my own time, and on my own way.
I still remember my first two years at Uni. Barely passing almost all tests/exams with a 50%-60% despite spending many hours at night in the library to study before going home to do the same. I felt like an imposter faking in class.

One day, after struggling so much, I realised that trying to force myself to learn. Instead, try to understand the material by experimenting with it.

If I was given a piece of code, I would modify it and re-write it from scratch in my own way. Slowly my grades started to improve, but most importantly I began to enjoy Uni much more. I met many people, and found friends to have fun and muck around with.

Looking back now that I'm working full time, it's like a fond memory where I did many embarrassing things with friends.

I'm still early in my career, but almost all my skills/knowledge I've developed came from me experimenting and exploring in my own way in my own time.

I'm not sure if this helps, but that's my rough journey.
Who Releases 3k Pounds of Confetti on Times Square by Hand Every Year?
Is that net negative ? They are heavier so I'd imagine more tyre dust
There's one obvious pink elephant in safety that makes it very difficult for me to perceive positive intentions. What is a bigger threat to "safety" from AI? You and I - society society at large, or an organization whose entire purpose for existence is to think up brand new ways to violently impose their will on the rest of the world - and have a long history of showing minimal to zero moral constraints in pursuit, and execution, of those ends? Let's not forget to also factor in near to zero laws meaningfully constraining their behavior, and a trillion dollar annual budget to cook up new forms of violence.

Yet all the talk about "safety" is about keeping the chatbot away from you and I, while completely ignoring the real threat. And of course the real threat will always be granted access to whatever AI system it demands, because of those magical words that can make the sun rise in the West and 2+2 sum to 5: national security. And the version they're using isn't going to be responding with "As an AI language learning model I cannot..."

Where's the logic in this?
Changed? It's the same song as before they were famous.

> We’ve co-authored a paper that forecasts how malicious actors could misuse AI technology, and potential ways we can prevent and mitigate these threats. This paper is the outcome of almost a year of sustained work with our colleagues at the Future of Humanity Institute, the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, the Center for a New American Security, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and others.

- 2018, https://openai.com/research/preparing-for-malicious-uses-of-...
Can I see the described Boo video without needing an emulator?

EDIT: I think it’s this? https://youtu.be/FpGwT0QqJbY
>France is not a great place to make business, but the quality of life is fantastic.

France is a privileged country from the geopolitical point of view.

I am from Spain, and if you compare it with it has much more water flows, most of the country is plain and easy and cheap to transport things by rail or rivers(without so much mountains in the middle), the soil is rich and is irrigated, and it is in the centre of Europe. It have access to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. It has warn weather.

I also have traveled a lot. Could you compare France with Morocco or Lybia? China? Russia?

The only country that I personally know that is as privileged as France in the world geopolitically is Argentina. Argentina is richer than France, the political system has lots of similarities and it is an absolute mess.

Other things that you mention has not so much to do with the political system but with History. E.g French, Italian or Spanish people love to eat well, good food, as part of our culture, while anglo saxons in general do not consider eating healthy a priority.

IMHO the political system is France is sh^t, with other system they would be much wealthier. It is very centralised so Paris is very different from the rest of the country. Bureaucracy is so high (bureau is a French word).

What saves France is competition with other systems in Europe when they do crazy stuff like putting a 75% tax on the rich, people can move easily to neighbour countries and their politicians reconsider things.
4k here means that the program is 4096 bytes long and not the screen resolution. Yes, that's only four thousand and ninety six 8-bit octets.

And they are supposed to run on a machine with 985.248 kHz clock frequency. Yes, thats kilo as in one thousand.

The machine in question has only a single core (with a single thread), but the demo cleverly uses the CPU of the floppy drive for a speed up, so you could say it features true parallelism on multiple cores.

Also arithmetic on the machine operates only on 8-bit values and of course there is no hardware multiplication. Division, you wouldn't even think about.
RCE via LDAP Truncation on Hg.mozilla.org
Humanity is reproducing just fine, it seems. So what's your point?
Thanks! That's way too well hidden.
I'd add manipulation by picking phrasing you want to though... Like "ICEs enable modern farming". Machines/vehicles are one of the things that enable modern farming, it's ICE that's currently the most common power source for them - but ICE is just one implementation of it and can be replaced.
Nice! It is great the “meritocratic” effect HN has, where people can access and discover opportunities no matter where they are from.
Rowan Atkinson on free speech (2012) [video]
> yes, this is why we're on the brink of WWIII. Allegedly Putin is outraged at the betrayal.

We aren't on the brink of anything, Russias not capable of fighting a WWIII, they can't even take Kyiv in over a year.
I'm posting this because I've just found it. I'm trying to boot a custom toy kernel that I'm developing (with virtio support). Wish me good luck!

OSDEV rocks!
One thing you should learn from David Goggins
Good point actually, in medicine it's usually the high insurance risk that makes for the high costs I think. Interesting that nobody ever sues GPS providers for their connection dropping out or degrading, resulting in lost business. I'm sure it's happened but nobody would think of doing it.
> Can you give us a logical reason why Ukraine needs a weapon for mass-suicide?

Because it's part of Russias propaganda and disinformation campaign against Ukraine, which has heated up recently a head of the counter offensive because they know they are losing in that space.
Media does not need government control to be bias and spilling propaganda.
WebGL is low level, so you need a graphics engine ontop.
Acciracy exists, neutrality in reporting is a myth. One that is simply not worth pursueing.
Maybe you should mention that these concerns are about the workers who "work with the stones on a daily basis, often standing in great clouds of dust without wearing masks" (maybe they should simply wear masks then?), not the general public.
Announcing to everyone that you didn't bother reading the article because you don't have time, but then wasting your own time playing around with ChatGTP, then wasting everyone else's time by posting something everyone who actually did bother reading the article already knows, is hypocritical and disrespectful of everyone's time, and adds nothing to the conversation.

If you didn't bother reading the article, then simply don't post anything, especially not an announcement you didn't read the article.
V8 Maglev: compiler design doc
Volvo plug-in hybrids don't make any noise when driving in EV-only mode. They are super stealthy, you have to be super careful when driving around a car park because no one is aware you're around them.
What draws me to the C64 demo scene is that they use a fixed hardware in ways that it was never supposed to. Doing all this wonderful graphics and sound in just a couple of bytes on hardware that's less capable than an average washing machine is just mind blowing.
> but Woz's "annus mirabilis" from March 1975 to April 1977

Surely his "duo anni mirabiles"