skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Europe already has wide deployment of CCS2, including in Tesla vehicles. I don't think they're gonna be persuaded to change.

Note that CCS2 isn't even electrically compatible with NACS. CCS2 support requires a three phase onboard charger (not just single phase like in north America), and the DC pins are separate (which requires a different arrangement of contactors in the car, and extra conductors to the charge port).
I understand not everything is perfectly literal. However, your literal point is bad and foolish, and if you were making a different one, it's still not clear what it is. So I'm just going to collapse this discussion believing that you didn't really have a point, and were just running your mouth with some hyperbole you coulnd't in the end justify.
Happy to entertain! Obviously some people are annoyed by the whole thing but I find it interesting picking apart what's going on with our words.
It's still worthwhile to look at 10x and 100x concentrations since these things bioaccumulate. Whatever negative effects are happening at 1x should be studied as we crank that concentration up. Might be fine now, but in 100 years? We should probably have an idea how the harm/effects scale
You are using the word vectorization in an idiosyncratic way, you are referring to the process of embedding words?
I don't get the hate for the CCS connector? I use it multiple times a week, it works fine. Now and then I come across a charger that refuses to start, OK, the connector is worn. I suppose someone will come along and fix it.

I have one in my garage; it does not sag under its own weight.
To be clear, that’s people paying a monthly subscription fee for an app that is free and has several premium one time IAP unlocks.

For example, I paid for Apollo Pro as a one time thing so I’m not a subscriber. Only people paying for Apollo Ultra every month are counted. That 50k is just the most invested and dedicated of Apollo users.
The whole thing was just to illustrate the point that he thinks the Apollo API access is worth nowhere near $20 million a year in opportunity cost.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/11/tesla-opens-its-ev-connect...

No need
Backward compatibility with J1772 (AC only charging standard).
I'd love to see a federated Reddit clone. Administrators should have power over their communities, nor Reddit.
There is one obvious candidate to buy it... but that was shot down as some kind of threat.
Can’t the Tesla plug also do that? You can plug a Tesla into a normal outlet.
What Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor looks like
Again, you seem to be arguing, but I don't see the connection to points I'm actually making.
It seems a number of people believe that the recorded call has Steve Huffman talking, but I don’t see this claim anywhere in the original post.
Ah, not every user would be approved, huh? Cool, makes sense then.
My observation is based on spending over a year in that station, and being close with someone who was a chef there.

It really isn't as simple as those "only" statements. There are other uses for freezers than warming stuff up to normal freezer temperature. The on-station food storage situation is a real hack. Shoveling snow off boxes of food in your too-small outdoor deep-freeze doesn't need to be part of the chef's job. Reading red printing on those cardboard boxes, is rather difficult under the red light that tends to be preferred outside in winter.
> This is not tortious inteference, since Apollo could have continued to provide Reddit services to their customers, though this might have required Christian to change his business model.

So, this is the one thing I'm not sure I entirely agree with. While it's true that Apollo could have changed its business model, they only had 30 days to migrate users to a new business model, including some users that are on a yearly model.

Furthermore, Reddit had previously stated to Christian that the timeline was flexible, and that they'd be open to extending it. They then walked back on that promise, leaving Apollo scrambling to move all their existing users to the new model in very limited time. And that's after telling christian multiple time earlier in the year that no change to the pricing policy was being considered for at least the year to come.

There's essentially no solution for Christian here. They don't have the money to pay for the usage of their existing 50k yearly that won't migrate for up to 12 months.

While I'm not a lawyer, I'd be very surprised if a case couldn't be made with this behavior.

Not that it'd ever go to court anyways - it'd be a huge time and money sink with unclear outcomes. Better to focus on the next steps.
You would be wrong at the scales we are talking about.

The whole point is that it is unintuitive.
No, feel free to use the official guide, it's still very, very, very helpful. Yes, you do need to use an unofficial image, but that's just if you have hardware that requires non-free drivers (or blobbed drivers, Guix uses Linux-Libre by default).

Not the best of circumstances, I know, but it works (plus if you really wanted to, they give the derivation details in the release notes so you could just spin up a Guix VM which runs fine with the default image and generate the image yourself).
The App Store doesn't allow for this sort of auth process? Surely you could showcase it as just `username` and `password`.
A few extra notes on tokens.

You don't have to use tiktoken if you aren't actually tokenizing things. The token lists are just text files that consist of the characters base64 encoded followed by the numeric ID. If you want to explore the list you can just download them and decode them yourself.

I find that sorting tokens by length makes it a bit easier to get a feel for what's in there.

GPT-4 has a token vocabulary about twice the size of GPT-3.5.

The most interesting thing to me about the GPT-4 token list is how dominated it is by non-natural languages. It's not as simple as English tokenizing more efficiently than Spanish because of frequency. The most common language after English is code. A huge number of tokens are allocated to even not very common things found in code, like "ValidateAntiForgeryToken" or "_InternalArray". From eyeballing the list I'd guess about half the tokens seem to be from source code.

My guess is that it's not a coincidence that GPT-4 both trained on a lot of code and is also the leading model. I suspect we're going to discover at some point, or maybe OpenAI already did, that training on code isn't just a neat trick to get an LLM that can knock out scripts. Maybe it's fundamentally useful to train the model to reason logically and think clearly. The highly structured and unambiguous yet also complex thought that code represents is probably a great way for the model to really level up its thought processes. Ilya Sutskever mentioned in an interview that one of the bottlenecks they face on training something smarter than GPT-4 is getting access to "more complex thought". If this is true then it's possible the Microsoft collaboration will prove an enduring competitive advantage for OpenAI, as it gives them access to the bulk GitHub corpus which is probably quite hard to scrape otherwise.
You don’t see platforms being this user hostile and staying relevant for very long. Look at what happened with Facebook, for example. People are moving away from Reddit these days anyway, with Discord being the most common place to start a new community.
Using plants like this has to be a part of it, it saves so much effort.
Value as a toy/trinket is obvious. But it's not exactly priced as such. So it will not sell. Comfort aside, I'm not even convinced why I would want to wear this for long periods of time. It needs some sort of killer app to really help me connect the dots.

We obviously just have different takes. I would not be surprised at all if you are more correct than me. But I also don't view "Apple of all companies" to be infallible, this could very well flop. They are more capable than most companies in their ability to absorb the losses for an extended period of time to see if the market ever materializes.

Edit: so I did some external reading and basically agree with this take while respecting your bullishness

> What matters is can we find the killer App – the unstoppable use-case. ..... The Success of Vision pro and Apple’s push into “Spacial computing” rests with developers coming up with amazing ideas. Otherwise, it’s bloody cool, but isn’t compelling enough.

https://eftm.com/2023/06/i-tried-apple-vision-pro-its-the-mo...
Why would he have learned from something that didn't punish him in the slightest? That edit, ellen pao, that time they tried to hire someone who I think was a known pedophile or something... None of it has stopped reddit from bringing cash and clout to the people in charge, and none of it has prevented them from getting to the point where they will most likely walk away after the IPO with plenty of millions of dollars each.

This is the inevitable outcome of a human who has never been told no or punished for their misdeeds. This is what it looks like for a spoiled child to run a company.

We have a lot of that lately.
So, are mods at subreddits considering a move to alternatives like Lemmy?

Spreading the controll of subreddits over multiple domains and communities is probably the only insurance against ending up in a situation like we are witnessing with Reddit now.
Every database has its own flavor of SQL syntax for DDLs. So, we settled on a minimal common syntax.

We will have "import" functionality available soon. You should be able to convert database specific DDLs into diagram language.
You are also a wife beater. Please leave this website, you are not tolerated here you aggressive felon.
I had a staph infection on my balls when I was recovering from cancer. My normal doctor was busy so I went to urgent care, with blood dripping down my leg. It was the first time I ever asked for pain killers. I was prescribed acetaminophen.

I understand that addiction is a big problem, but this was a male doctor looking at a whole in my testicles, and telling me he can't give me painkillers
There's only a paid version or an ad-supported version, so yes.
Yes that's often mentioned. But the human cost is a percent of what old-style factories employed

Sure factories employ skilled labor. But very few. And what are unskilled laborers supposed to do?

American has 30M folks who's employment has descended to service industry (teller, cashier, food service). They can't all be retrained as Engineers, even if we needed 30M more Engineers which we don't.
> So if the impact of the change is so small, why does the CEO of this company [...]

A thousand times this. Plus their repeated insistence that they "aren't like Twitter" (which is true, I think. They're worse.) They are obviously running scared of something, and that something can really only be that the impact of this is potentially enormous.
It's not a deal though. Reddit says the users are worth $20 million in lost advertising. So either Apollo pays the money, the users move to another app that pays, or the users return to the official site and app. Either way, Reddit gets their $20 million.

Apollo has no leverage here unless there is strong evidence most of the Apollo users will leave Reddit if the app shuts down. I don't believe they will. The other potential leverage is the upcoming subreddit blackouts, or hinting at taking the Apollo users to start a competitor. The developer said they are not going to build a competitor (that was a mistake, they shouldn't have revealed that card), so I think the blackouts are the only chance of lowering API costs.
Ooh, this is a rare one! A comment directly noting the similarities between AI art with photography, but insisting both aren't art. You're in very historical company: https://daily.jstor.org/when-photography-was-not-art/
FWIW, re: comparing to "elite SV company" compensation, it doesn't really make sense to discount stock, since stock at the "elite" SV companies is effectively cash, because they're public. Unless you mean that your friend is also making a significant amount of stock, but since you can't value it (e.g. the company is private), it's harder to compare to the "elite" SV companies.

I know Google was handing out $385k total compensation offers ($200k salary, $150k stock, $35k annual bonus) in 2020 to senior software engineers, and Google's 401k matching is 50%.
postmarketOS v23.06 Released – From the Gnome Mobile 2023 Hackfest
> Tesla already opened up the NACS connector for others to use. We don't know the detail yet but the license fee is probably minimal if Ford and GM agree to join.

Any licensing fee paid to a single company is unacceptable for what is described as an "open standard."

> the CSS1 connector is monstrous compare to NACS

Sure, it's bigger, but how is that a problem? It's not like you carry it with you. Nobody I know has ever had an issue physically working with it, including people 70+ years old.

> Tesla has a larger and better charging infrastructure than EA etc. What's wrong with giving infrastructure subsidies to companies who proved they have a superior product? Or do you think that everyone deserves a piece of the pie, regardless of their technical competency?

I have a big problem with companies getting infrastructure subsidies that they then use to rent-seek in the market and force other companies to pay them fees for access to publicly-funded infrastructure, yes.

I'm not saying subsidies have to be given equally, but subsidies should absolutely not be given to companies that limit the product of that subsidy (charging) based on licensing for profit.
Your answer explains what tokenizers are, which isn't what I asked. You also told me something interesting about tokenizers, which is also not what I asked. Can you tell me anything NOT about tokenized? This is my point.
"Old school investors" haven't mattered since the Dotcom boom showed you can just make money by making up a narrative, selling, and walking away.

That's been the economy in the US for two decades now.
pdw is r/the_donald
I will admit, I was hesitant as well, but so far it's been fine. The #guix community on libera.chat is very active and has been nothing short of amazing in helping me understand the ins and outs of Guix. For any non-free software I use, #nonguix in libera.chat exists. It's less active but still pretty active (plus I pop in occasionally).
Obviously I know this. As stated, in 3rd grade parlance it’s appropriate to say “they struggle”. Have you ever heard someone say, “I need a new computer; mine’s dying.”? This level of pedantic nitpicking is not appropriate for 3rd graders. I’ve heard professional programmers say that their computer struggles with compiling certain programs they are working on. Colloquialisms can be useful and they are ubiquitous.
Mexico stands out to me as a country that hasn't lived up to its potential in that regard. Certainly there's no shortage of potential cheap labour, given the number of refugees making their way across it. And regional security and ability to get hold of necessary skilled workers shouldn't really be an issue, when you have the US right next door. It's hard not to see why it wouldn't be significantly to the US's benefit to ensure Mexico (and other central American countries) can become a global manufacturing hub, so I do wonder what the primary forces working against it might be.
Silicon Valley was built on government investment.
> When I'm reviewing someone's work (be it a design doc or a PR), I don't want them watching me as I do it. I want time to focus privately, and I want to be in control of when I share my feedback with them.

That's fair. I'll think about how I can address this longer-term. Would being able to enter a "privacy" mode that hides your presence help?

> What's the typical flow where the presence feature would save a ping?

The typical flow I envision is someone on the same team following up with a coworker after 30-40 minutes after that person has indicated that they will review. It helps them understand if they need to ping again as a reminder. The reason someone may ping in that window is because PRs behave like black boxes after the link is sent - they have no idea if someone is reviewing and how far along that reviewer may be are; the author just has to wait until the comments come.

We're currently working on real notifications pipeline, so this won't be a huge use case in the future.

A different use case where presence may be more useful is to prevent overlapping reviews when pings to codeowners teams are automatic. If you can see someone else is reviewing, then you can defer to them.

> I should clarify that I work with a team of freelance developers, so I don't like asking them to install unnecessary software on their systems. I definitely wouldn't ask them to install surveillance software, which it sounds like is what Visibly is.

I disagree on the surveillance comment - Visibly uses GitHub data that is readily available, augments it with the review time metrics, and allows you to see the progression over time. Beyond that, Visibly does not monitor your work; it does not track what sites you're on or how you do your work. Visibly is only active on github.com and only on PR pages atm. It also takes the most minimal permissions to do this.

Visibly is there to help you and your team understand how much time and effort reviews are taking so you identify trends and better optimize processes. It's also there to help the IC represent their work come perf time - it's really hard to figure out what to write in a perf review when you have to sift through months of work and reviews.

> Oh, I thought the PR times were only visible to the reviewer.

PR times are visible to those who have read/write permissions on the repo. Just like they can see comments / reviewers, they can see status and time. It's just another decision point.

> Attempts to reduce developer productivity down to simple metrics like "lines of code written" or "minutes per code review" are counterproductive.

I agree and not what Visibly is doing. Visibly surfaces metrics to give you more insight. If you don't know how much time reviews are taking, it's hard to accurately estimate timelines, hard to understand the thoroughness of reviews you receive, hard to see the cost of tech debt / complex code, etc. Visibly provides knowledge that you can use to adapt and improve collaboration.
Why even wait. Id shut it down on the 12th.
LISA: Laser Interferometer Space Antenna:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Ant... :

> LISA would be the first dedicated space-based gravitational-wave observatory. It aims to measure gravitational waves directly by using laser interferometry. The LISA concept has a constellation of three spacecraft arranged in an equilateral triangle with sides 2.5 million kilometres long, flying along an Earth-like heliocentric orbit. The distance between the satellites is precisely monitored to detect a passing gravitational wave.[2]

It also says the ESA LISA projected launch date is in year 2037.

Could 3 or 4 cubesats per cluster solve for space-based gravitational wave observation?

CubeSat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat

Li-Fi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Fi

Could the gravitational wave sensors be mounted on Starlink or OneWeb ULEO Ultra Low Earth Orbit satellites with a 5 year lifecycle? (Also, how sealed and shielded do consumer radio telescopes like Unistellar's eVscope and eQuinox need to be to last a few years in microgravity? Maybe mando blackout noise.)

What is SOTA State of the Art in is it "matter-wave interferometry"?

/? matter-wave interferometry wikipedia:
https://www.google.com/search?q=matter-wave+interferometry+w...

/? matter-wave interferometry: https://www.google.com/search?q=matter-wave+interferometry

Can low-cost lasers and Rdyberg atoms e.g. Rydberg Technology solve for [space-based] matter-wave interferometry?

/? from:me LIGO https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40westurner%20ligo :

- "Massive Black Holes Shown to Act Like Quantum Particles" (2022) https://www.quantamagazine.org/massive-black-holes-shown-to-... :

> Physicists are using quantum math to understand what happens when black holes collide. In a surprise, they’ve shown that a single particle can describe a collision’s entire gravitational wave.

- GitHub topic: gravitational-waves: https://github.com/topics/gravitational-waves
You'd have to ask the people who prefer Western Union.
Thank you very much for taking the time for this, several new names that I had not yet run into so some interesting times ahead.
Yes and I'll stand by that statement. I think you'll find, once again, that nothing I said contradicts the statement you made, which is:

> There are studies for and against artificial sweeteners. There are studies funded by industry. There is such a thing as corruption in science and corruption in regulatory agencies. The global artificial sweetener market size is $7 Billion.

I get that you're on the "okay, they're not" side of that divide that we all find themselves on. That's fine, and you are welcome to come to that conclusion. It's not one I've come to, but that's why the world is made up of different people. Remember, what I actually said was:

> These artificial sweeteners are among the most studied chemicals in the world. At some point you've gotta say okay, they're fine, or okay, they're not.

as well as the post you quoted. So I'm really not sure what you're arguing about here. Nothing I said contradicts your statement of "There are studies for and against...". Indeed, there are. Decades of them.
Thanks for the head’s up.
So conversely, is the brain magic? And if so, if we look at the evolutionary lineage of neural networks, at which point did it become so?
They were present long before API pricing was announced.
That's not open. That much is clear when GM and Ford have to sign licensing agreements to add the connector to the car and get access to a NACS to CCS adapter, which won't work on vehicles from automakers that haven't signed that agreement.

Not to mention that "open for others to use" is not the same as "developed by an independent trade association to remove undue influence from one company over the process", which is how it should be.

Imagine Tesla can't figure out V2H, so they deliberately exclude it from the connector to hold back the rest of the industry that wants to move forward with it. Is that okay for you?
Arch is my ideal distro, but since my motherboards started using UEFI I just haven't been able to install it. I followed the instructions from the Install Wiki[0], but just couldn't figure it out. Manjaro's been a nice in-between with a painless installation process

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide
There's no single thing you can point to as "the issue" (unless you just point to fossil fuels in general, I guess). Driving a couple of thousand miles per year as a hobby is pretty bad, that's quite a lot of "unnecessary" co2 emissions. Will it cause mass starvation and make environments uninhabitable? No, not by itself, but it'll contribute more than most hobbies. I believe it's in the same ballpark as a round-trip flight across the Atlantic, for reference.
> I have one in my garage; it does not sag under its own weight.

I agree with you that the CCS connector is perfectly inoffensive, but you're probably thinking of J1772, unless you have a DC fast charging station at home!
Eh, please comprehensively define intelligent... I have a feeling that this may explain a lot about your answer.
Sure, and that's why they value API users around 20x more than their website users ? (based on the rough estimation in the post)
Apple’s Vision Pro launch shows what Microsoft could have truly achieved with HoloLens

https://tecl.ink/2023/06/apples-vision-pro-wearable-headset-...