skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We know Tesla cannot match Mercedes" - how? You know this?

"reckless" "untrained fanboys" "defective software" - what is this tone? Why is it reckless? Why do the fanboys need training? Why do you think the software is defective? These are significant unjustified claims!

To me, it seems each company has a different strategy for self-driving, which aren't directly comparable. Beta testing with relatively untrained people on public roads seems necessary for either strategy though.
the simple answer is that your motivations for being an artist need to change to be exclusively personal fulfillment. because that was true for the pre-AI world, as you essentially described, and its true-er for this current-AI world.

the real meme is about how artists have always been grasping for financial respect in every market condition ever, and yet nothing has changed. people were never going to commission you, they were never going to book you. While they do appreciate the content. But for the few that would ever actually try to commission something, they encountered friction after friction after friction and collectively artists have been disinterested in solving. Because they're starving and preoccupied with fighting for scraps and modicums of respect at all.

The world’s has now solved many of these frictions.

The frictions were:

1 hoping they found the right artist to begin with

2 hoping that artist is reliable and has any work ethic or structure in their life

3 not bruising that artists ego in however communication style is preferred

4 dealing with how completely segregated many artists are from contract negotiations and any aspect of the business world, but needing to secure rights properly

5 ego in securing rights properly without the artist overplaying their hand

6 waiting for the commission

7 revisions

8 circle back to 1

9 if you ever get past part 8, you have the issue of whether your new license can be used in an unforeseen way and medium in the future

getting burned in altruistic commissions of living artists is simply over now. all these frictions are solved with the free and immediate way.
On every measure, there was never a better time in the history of civilization to live.
Why is Elm getting forked?
"our culture" ? there are 15 year old males with the size and muscles of adults, and their 14 year old girls starting to make babies.. Its not uncommon or stereotyping to say it, it is measurably true. You did not have to go to school with "kids" like that did you? Daily aggression is common, reading skills low, zero interest in math is common. The males that survive to adulthood can be grandfathers by 45 easily. I mean "I had five kids with three women, I never married any of them" says the 45 year self-described grandfather guy on the park bench with new shoes and a very relaxed attitude. That is his direct quote, I did not say that, he did.

Literate people live in a bubble and that is not "our" society either?
Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bill
How much electricity can you pay for the price of a computer with an M2 Ultra?
Also speaking slower gives the listener time to think about what you say.
Charging drivers for going downtown is effectively a thing in most cities everywhere due to parking. The only drivers not paying to go a downtown just about anywhere are ones just going for a cruise, without stopping to do any business for any length of time.

Here is a better idea: ban driving from downtown entirely, except for certain service vehicles.
A more charitable interpretation is people have suddenly been reminded that he exists and of what he did. I don’t think that anyone is getting paid to do propaganda against Republican primary candidates on Hacker News. That goes doubly so for candidates that have a functionally zero percent chance of winning (Christie knows that - he’s just there to attack Trump).
Tesla's sell at 100k - 1 mil mark up?
Ask HN: Does Reddit pay Imgur for pummeling of its services/API?
Seriously, Reddit is like the cob in corn on the cob, the kernels are the subreddits, and their size determined by users, the connection to the cob are the mods.

Take away the mods and the kernels - and what use is the cob?
Hmmm, there would still need to be heat transfer inside the heat sink from one side to the other via the bottom plate. Maybe that would still be more efficient than the transfer via a larger contact area between two heat sinks back to back? Not sure...either would probably work. What I can build might depend on the geometry and size of the heat sinks that are easily available. One big heat sink would make construction a little easier.
> metal embrittlement

You can't ship things in steel vessels overseas because steel rusts in contact with water, especially salty water. See what I did there?

> distribution costs

What about distribution costs? Hydrogen can replace natural gas. Wherever you have a gas burning powerplant, you can retrofit it to burn hydrogen. The tanks that store gas for that plant can be modified to hold hydrogen. Whatever distribution costs are incurred for natgas will be incurred by hydrogen. Some will go up, some down, but not by orders of magnitude.

> sheer loss of efficiency

As opposed to what? In a world powered by solar and wind, you'll have times (lots of times) when you generate more than you consume. The least efficient option is to just not generate. Generating electricity and converting it to hydrogen, and then the hydrogen back to electricity at a later time may or may not be economically profitable. In the cases where the economics will work out, people will do that, where it won't people won't do it. But the economics will always be against batteries for long term storage, except if by some miracle batteries will get to be 100 times cheaper (not a mistake, 100).

Other chemical storage solutions (ammonia, methanol, ethanol, lithium hydride) need one extra step that will be very expensive. There are slight chances for one of those to make sense, but my bet is that they won't. Why? Because both Europe and Japan are betting very, very big bucks on hydrogen.
we have tried decentralization and it doesnt work because the internet is no longer in its baby state. People reminisce of those rosy times where only a few select highly educated people were online but this is not going to be the case ever again. Trust is not a solved problem

The best we can hope is we can build AI-moderated content systems where the AI is subject to some form of self-governement by the community by e.g. voting among possible moderation models. Adding humans into the mix always invite uncomfortable gatekeeping and political issues
You can continue to buy in one hour increments to save a little too if you remember to keep checking the app.`
There are several different types of CPU's, in two main classes, CISC and RISC. The difference is summarised by the first letter - "Complex" vs. "Reduced" - Instruction Set Computer. Or, what size "vocabulary" a CPU decodes.

RISC-V is a type of CPU architecture (a set of plans for how to build one, not an actual CPU itself), that also happens to be open source. Anyone can build a RISC-V CPU without having to buy the rights to do so. (Many are.)

This project is an emulation of a RISC-V CPU. A kind of virtual "reference" CPU in software. It can be used to compile code that can run on a RISC-V type CPU, and to help understand what's happening inside the CPU when it runs.

It's written in C, which is and was a very fundamental programming language that's influenced the design of many other languages. It is a language that is very close the fundamental language CPU's natively decode and process.

CPU's natively use a language referred to as "Assembly", but which actually has many varieties particular to each CPU design. Regardless of variety of CPU, assembly is usually is about as reasonably "close to metal" as it gets.

It's literally communicating with the CPU directly in its own language. This makes it extremely fast to run, but laborious to code, and also somewhat "dangerous" in that with such low-level control, it's easy to mess things up.

This project takes an input of a text list of RISC-V assembly instructions (a "program") and pretends to be RISC-V CPU with those instructions loaded into it and being run on it. Useful for understanding, prototyping and building a RISC-V program.

CPU's are designed rather to run assembly that already "works", having been created programmatically (compiled or interpreted), by a higher level language that isn't going to give it things that make no sense (hopefully).

So there is not usually a lot of provisioning done in the design of the CPU to make it easy to watch it and its state carefully at a low level and examine how your assembly program is working, or not working. Emulation eases this.
That "certain amount of time" is variable, but in practice is on the level of 10-15 seconds for the Mercedes system - at least that's what it was when it was first certified in Germany some time ago. It is designed to let you take your hands off the wheel and look at the scenery, but anything more than that is too much distraction for when it requires you to take over. And it will, because it's really not very capable at all - it's basically an advanced traffic jam autopilot that can follow other cars in a straight well marked line, that's it.
imo most people give up before their intelligence would become the true limiting factor
I like it because it cuts bikeshedding and people meandering endlessly on possible ideal solution
I think this a problem that LLMs can help with. If you feed them your goals, they can give you a program back, and adjust that program based on changing circumstances.
Obligatory https://iselmdead.info/
OK then don't!

That's the magic of the market! People have different values.
There's a real effect, just nothing even remotely close to the actual fantastical claims being made about it. It's highly doubtful there's some sort of profound way to induce arbitrary brain states through audio input alone.

I remember vividly that this was very hyped in some circles around 2005 or thereabout, with wild claims that listening to some strange white noise for twenty minutes could induce full-blown psychedelic trips even in people with no psychedelic experience. I even tried a bunch of em, and the only clear effect was a mild headache. And I was naïve enough to think it might work back then, and yet there wasn't even really a placebo effect.
Nvidia Shield Controller Driver Coming with Linux 6.5
Suppose if the title was “use machine vision” it would have been boring?
That doesn't really say much. I have never said that no such thing exists or that running on donations/as a collective can't be done.

But it is rather an exception than a rule, esp. at the scales we are talking about (e.g. Reddit or Twitter), with world-wide audiences with varying legal and financial regimes.

Look at newspapers. Look how many people actually bought subscriptions to popular services like Twitter, Instagram or Facebook - vs how many are using them for free.
Sorry no. I have to find it too. I can't do anything right now because I am on metered 4G.
I used to love GTD. I've been using it - or rather trying to use it, then increasingly personalized variations of it - for almost two decades. I still appreciate the wisdom there, but I wish someone would've told me 15 years ago that it assumes a certain way your brain is wired. Maybe it's good for the majority, but it still sucks to be the one with a brain that requires inverting or replacing some of the book's ideas.

Like, keeping your head clear is a wonderful selling point, but externalizing all the tasks also makes them no longer feel like they matter much. Keeping a list of projects and next actions is a good idea in theory, but much harder to benefit from in practice, when your visual system starts erasing the TODO list from your visual field, like it was a piece of negative space, an external equivalent of the blind spot in your eyes.

> But if it's an expense report, probably just do it already.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I've never had an expense report that took me less than 2 hours to complete. Usually it's half a day, as it involves scanning and attaching receipts.

> Break projects into actionable sub-tasks.

To this day I have a really big problem with the "actionable" part. My attempts always end with tasks that are either too big (and therefore too scary), underspecified (actionable, but not to completion - always getting blocked by something mid-way), or overspecified (20 steps, half of which take less time to get done than it took to write them down, and getting 1/3 through the steps usually invalidates most of the rest anyway). I just don't know how to get to that magic point of actionable tasks that you can just pick and do.

> Separate calendar and to do list.

This is interesting in that for people with ADHD, this advice gets reversed: it's more important to have one system for everything, as the more of them you have, the less likely it is you'll actually use any of them. Don't know how widely this applies, but it's definitely true for me.
It will likely take a while because there is a difference. I'm not sure if it's manual effort or just having more data in certain regions.

When I first got into the beta, it wasn't great, but has improved significantly since then.
This is fundamentally the problem. Far too much money is being extracted from the system by landlords and banks (via mortgages) for no productive labour rather than being spent on actual productive things like internet forums, the actual cost to produce food without subsidies etc.

When people have more money to spend because they’re not paying half their take home pay on rent or a mortgage, they’re generally more amenable to paying for things.

The other half of the solution, is that most tech companies have got to stop trying to become ridiculous never ending growth machines like Facebook, and just become boring utility companies. No one needs Facebook to do all the shit it does - it just needs to be a digital yellow pages. No one needs reddit to be flashy - it just needs to function as a forum. Keep the price low (e.g an hour of minimum wage in whatever country you’re accessing from for a month for a no ad version) and you will get people signing up.
I’m not sure if you know much about noise - but 60dB is not that loud. Normal conversation level.
If you exactly double the volume. You arrive at 63dB. (Every 3dB is a doubling of the level of noise).
It’s been a while since I worked on sound/noise, but I believe if you listened to noise at a level of 80dB for 8 straight hours, after 8 hours you’d become at risk of experiencing damage to your hearing.

I haven’t studied ANC specifically, but if you use a normal set of headphones, and you turn the volume up to drown out the residual background noise as well as enjoy your music. Say took your headphones from 80dB to 83dB after four hours of listening you would start to damage your hearing.

However, if you have noise cancelling headphones, meaning you can cancel the residual noise out at 60dB and then double the volume of noise by turning it up to just 63dB you would be able to enjoy your music or podcast without damaging your hearing.

The problem I noticed when I studied the volume of people’s headphones is that people actually tend to turn their headphones up quite a lot louder than they should. I personally at one point had mine set around 95dB which if I listened to my music at that level for longer than 15 minutes (which I was) I was damaging my hearing.
It is interesting to note the differences in apparent defensibility of companies such as Google and Reddit changing terms of use and behaviors of platforms.

According to the general sentiment on HN, Google is being mean to developers and shouldn't get away with things like this, but Reddit merely has a rug and developers are silly to build things on top of that rug when it can be pulled away at any time.

I wonder why there's a difference here.
That's not a fair comparison. We should be comparing Mac Mini to NUCs if power consumption is the relevant factor. Plenty of NUCs are rated for 15w.
They note that "In a statement, Barracuda said it will be providing the replacement product to impacted customers at no cost"

Would you still switch to a non barracuda device ?
100% renewable does not imply plentiful or cheap electricity.

Infrastructure is cheap to maintain in term of amount on your Bill.
> and very few people actually want to pay for it.

I think this is a core assumption that I'm not sure I believe in.

Works for the public deserve public (distinct from government) funding. There are many things that say "if you don't give us money, we can't continue to exist."

"We need enough money to function" is a completely different sell than "we want to 1000x our investors investments."

Reddit's enshitification[1] is a function of needing to please investors. Many people are very happy with old.reddit.com, yet reddit paid for ux devs to implement dark patterns because that's what investors demanded.

I don't want to pay for signal, but I pay for it. I don't want to pay for Wikipedia, but I pay for it. I don't want to pay for my local radio stations, but I pay for them. I don't want to pay for my politicians to represent me, but I pay for that. I don't want to pay my taxes, but I've traveled enough to see what happens without government institutions.

I think people are willing to sacrifice money for purpose. Reddit and twitter were great free speech platforms before billionaire malfeasance. These platforms threatened authoritarians world wide. That is purpose I think people would financially sacrifice for in both external funding, and loss of income.

I think it is pretty clear that the next great social media platform will be a 501c3 and they will ask for money in the same way that radio stations do.

[1]https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
No need for tiles, a cover would suffice.
> regressive tax

I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Usenet was decentralized, and Google (amazingly) didn't ruin it. Dejanews was the last man standing and they were going bankrupt.

Nobody wanted to pony up. It's that simple.

Nowadays, a bunch of people have gigabit to their house. Colo is $400/mo for a cabinet and gigabit. 3U servers are under $500 and probably under $200 if you dig. I can go on.

You could resurrect Usenet easily, but nobody is doing it. Why? Because it's a pain in the ass. People forget that a lot of the early internet stuff relied on a bunch of people providing free labor (generally at universities) to keep it all afloat.
I mean the last commit for Elm core was in 2021. Changes require sign off that doesn’t seem likely from who is currently maintaining it. Why not fork it if you are interested in evolving ELM?
So you pay expecting full utilization but are expected to utilize on a fair-share basis only? And if I run my Monte Carlo simulation, which can take a week to complete, my instance is flagged for alleged crypto mining?
I partially wanted to LOL this. Realized that's not a thing for HN.
Thought that this will likely be downvoted because HN.

Then I thought, what a great way to tax the spammers / hackers that use DO!

I would gladly pay the $5 ddos fee to hammer the ips that keep trying to login to my wordpress sites.

just kidding, I would not actually do that.. but the thought is pleasant.

I've used DO many times and I am a fan btw - just looked back at their pricing page a couple days ago considering spinning up a droplet to self host a git thing.
Does Mercedes accept liability for any crashes that occur while its system is in control?
The irony: "Keep reading with a 7-day free trial"
How much processing power do you use to process the input and control the car? You've got more of it in your head than a whatever Tesla puts in their cars. Your cameras are also better.
I think it’s availability heuristic. There are lots of people I don’t criticize because they’re irrelevant. As soon as they make themselves relevant…they are opened up to both more enthusiasm and critique.
Not familiar with DLSS at all, does it requires developers to do something in order to take avantage of it too? I had imagined it was automatic but then again I know nothing about it beyond the marketing pitch to consumers.
You have a premise that the web site has to cost a lot of money. I keep wondering if Reddit-like aggregator could be run such that

* The founders take minimal amount of VC money to get things running

* There is no self-hosting of anything unnecessary

* Everything is hosted on-premise (not sure if this would cut costs in the long run)

* Serve the users the least amount of ads to make it worthwhile

So basically run a decent service that you can sustain for decades. You won't become an IPO billionaire, but maybe get a humble couple of millions.

Perhaps it can't be done, and enshittification is the only way. In that case, I don't see any other way than decentralisation run by donations to get us something decent.
So it can only be used on highways with a 40mph speed limit??? :D
Quota for what?
That works nicely until your brain figures it out and it stops working - instead of "autodeprioritizing everything else", it just cranks up the fear of impending failure to the point nothing has any priority because you can barely think straight...

For me, this switch happened somewhere between my last year at university and my second job. As a part of it, I lost the ability to "pull off all-nighters" - not in the sense of being able to stay awake that long, but in the sense of being able to do anything useful in that time.
I think something like Wikipedia could potentially be a decent model for an centralized but open version of reddit. Have donation drives to keep the servers running once a year, and have something like the five pillars & an open license to ensure the project won't be rug pulled from the community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
Seems like a failure of architecture or deployment on mastodons part. If you want your service to be both self hostable and widespread you have to make the self hosting just work.
The performance of the chip is matched to the memory size.

I think it’s a U shaped curve.

Beyond 80GB, today, the larger chip would maybe all of these: yield less, scale worse, take too much power, etc.

Like this matching of compute resources to RAM is partly the difference between CPUs and GPUs.

Anyway, it’s just to say that it isn’t a business decision. The extra RAM in the M2 doesn’t help the GPU much for the same tasks the H100 excels at, because it isn’t performant enough to use that RAM anywhere near the same way an H100 would, and if it were, there would have to be less RAM. The H100 doesn’t even have a graphics engine. It’s complicated.
Because ultimately there hasn’t been a single publicized death or injury resulting from FSD Beta, while it only took a few months for a professional tester of Uber’s SDC effort to kill someone. So maybe it makes sense to test with millions of people for a few minutes a day instead of 8 hours a day with a few hired testers. The media would sure jump on such tesla headlines.
>the simple answer is that your motivations for being an artist need to change to be exclusively personal fulfillment.

Mine are and the same goes for most of the artist I indicate. The point wasn't that they were in it for the money, although many dream of being able to at least one day pay the rent with it (or maybe just groceries).

The rest of your response makes sense (although I think much of it could be said for all of hiring someone to do work). Anyway, thank you for providing your perspective.
That tracks. I’d add that Ph.D. laureates tends to be people who like to pursue knowledge in depth. I think it’s this, combined with the work ethic and discipline, that make them excel in certain fields.