skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
valid points on both sides aside, remote is the new lean.

for any startup with an office and other place based expenses, a placeless startup with lower expenses is coming to eat your lunch.

where we’re going we don’t need places.

stay hungry my friends.
By the way, Mercedes tested a self-driving van in 1986[1].

[1]: https://www.politico.eu/article/delf-driving-car-born-1986-e...
Netplan is garbage. I remove all that and use NetworkManager. It's good and just works.
My 49 inch 144hz monitor ran fine for this exact use case when I had an amd 3600 and Nvidia 1660. Is your work use case somehow more demanding than gaming?
I find it deeply disturbing the number of people here who take this complete historical illiterate seriously. Seriously get some self-esteem and stop with this self-flagellating "technology is the source of all problems" bullshit.
Do they use a RealTime OS?

If so, (how) do they run GPU drivers on it?

And if not, how do they guarantee that the system is responsive and safe?

(Of course a third option would be that they don't use an OS at all for the mission critical stuff).
This is often the case. VM appliances are all little Linux VMs where the user just doesn't have access to the internals. Heck, that's basically Docker containers too.

Also, Barracuda cheaps out on these massively especially at the low end. I've seen, in the modern Core i years, Barracuda 1U appliances powered by Pentium III processors. I suppose they are powerful enough for the job Barracuda is asking of them, but it's worth a chuckle to see how many years old the chipset they're shipping is.

The hardware is absolutely the cheapest part of the stack for them.
Clickbait title to say the least !

While Tesla did amazing things for EVs adoption, and self driving (even if one may say the main contribution is hyping it) it’s hard to see them as leaders anymore.

Fact is, Mercedes is taking responsibility for its system while Tesla is not. Tesla claims (and especially it’s fanboys) starts to look like Theranos. Yeah it almost work and it will be a game changer. Yeah well…

I’m curious about those Tesla videos that are everywhere - is there some kind of dataset somewhere with videos of similar situations, annotated with which version it is etc, so one can make a kind of historical evaluation of its progress ?

(Would also like the history of Elon tweets claiming each version fix this or that to go along in the dataset)
Arrested for using Linux and encryption in France [video]
Yeah, everyone also ignores that public transport can be supported through taxes and operated at a loss.

In the US, we have a weird obsession with all public goods/services paying for themselves. We should ditch that, operate at a loss, and pull the difference out of progressive taxes.

There's no reason your CEO or office shouldn't foot part of the bill to transport you into work.

Heck, were I king I'd fund public transport 100% from taxes and do away with ticketing. Imagine how much less money we'd pay on road maintenance, police doing traffic duty, running ticket stands/etc. Not to mention the air quality improvements and environmental impacts.
A lot of comments here talk about how terrible Kaczynski’s actions were, and I agree with them. I do wonder, though, at what point does such behavior qualify one as mentally insane? He seems fairly insane to me, and I’m not sure whether we should see him as an evil person with true agency or someone with a mental illness.
That is post-agricultural revolution humanity. Sure it is ancient by the standards of an individual, but it is only a relatively recent and small part of the more than 100 thousand years of human pre-history.
God no, I'm tired of having to set videos to 1.5x
I avoided answering the question due to the reasons I previously stated.

My reasons, in roughly decending order of importance:

- They went back on their earlier promises. I don't like it when companies do this. As a consumer, my best way to affect this is to vote with my wallet.

- Cost of living is already high enough that the additional expense will be too much for those who already can't pay for much. Entertainment is important, especially in times that are getting harder.

- Netflix has been making terrible creative decisions time after time, and I don't feel like giving them more money as-is.

Instead I've taken up reading a bit more :)
Cheaper in terms of money, but in terms of time? I have a hard time justifying anything that requires configuration and dicking around. I’m a grown-up and don’t have “free time”. I need things that just work. For me, that’s not Intel and Windows or Intel and Linux. It’s macOS, which is the only true workstation platform left.
This Netflix documentary on the Unabomber was pretty interesting; there are other sources I'm sure, but this seemed good. His participation in a multi-year Harvard psychology study was a fascinating facet to the story and his development.

Unabomber: In His Own Words

https://www.netflix.com/title/81002216
Neovim, but curved slightly
Ask HN: What to do with a unique and coherent movie idea with a great twist?
Hi HN!

i don't have anything to do with writing but for trying to sleep, i tried for years to come up with a story.

Last week it made click and i have now a basic story line, coherent and with a great twist at the end.

I benchmarked it already with friends and family (while telling them pls be honest) and one of them even said "And you just came up with that?".

I'm now lost on what to do. I checked out screenplay websites but it feels like the wrong place. They expect some screenplays and i don't even know what this is. I can explain my story in 5-10 minutes but i'm not good at all in writing dialogs etc.

Is it a valid screenplay if its just a handful of dialogs and scenes and not like a 30 minute tv show?

Do screenplay websites like black list expect to be for screenwriters who actually want to write a screenplay?

Thanks!
I've read the C++ code used in the benchmark and noticed several issues that would affect its performance (wrapping comparison function behind multiple layers of indirection, throwing exceptions (!?) from comparator, passing arguments as references rather than values, not using the C++ sort "Compare" template argument). Given the amount od indirection and boilerplate I'm pretty skeptical of the results od this benchmark.
That's sort of the flip side of the coin. Google firmly believes that technology can solve everything and humans shouldn't need to be involved out of principle. So they build a great UI, great tools for devs and engineers to use, and then provide absolutely zero humans to support that.

I have a hilarious situation at the moment where they decided to shut down my Workspace account because they retracted the grandfathered-in free tier. This has 15+years of history of a small business I ran in it. I tried to move it to a paid account, but because the account was created in a different country to my current billing country, the form doesn't work (can't enter address for credit card). And there's just literally NO way to do it. No avenue to any way to contact a human to quite literally give them money. So in the end I gave up : downloaded the emails and resigned myself to losing all the other history associated with the account.

But what's really hilarious is they can't seem to shut it down either, perhaps for the same reason. Every time they set a new billing deadline it warns me with another spate of emails and then the date goes by and its still there. I suspect their software doesn't know how to shut down a hybrid multi-country account either, and there are no humans so they are stuck.
What the hell is a buggy whip? And if you couldn't buy one, what's stopping you from making one
How does this get to know the influencer enough to imitate the person? Most probably couldn't explain themselves enough for an accurate representation without extensive conversation. Maybe a future collab between us?
Using the ticket requires to use a phone with either Google Play or an iPhone. Alternative phone firmware (degoogled Android, SailfishOS, etc.), paper tickets, smart cards or anything else are not supported.
Totally. Any iOS, or in this case realityOS, IDE would necessarily have to be remote only to actually be useful.
I use this approach [0]. Works well enough for me and is visually adequate for "piping"-style code.

0. https://sr.ht/~tpapastylianou/chain-ops-python/
In situations where I need to sort a list of large objects, I normally create an separate "OrderedView" or "Ordering" which holds either two lists [comparable_value] and [index] like you describe, or a single list of [comparable_value, index] (depending on the types and languages the second option will be faster). Then it just provides either an iterator. If you only need the ordering once this saves you from going back and re-ordering the original array.

If you need to run through the list multiple times, it probably makes sense to actually go back and re-order the original so that the accesses are linear memory. That is, unless the values are pointers in which the indirection will likely kill the benefit.
A Colombian woman I know said her mother, who lived in the Amazon for a few years, had to learn what an anaconda smelled like, to avoid it. Because imagine trying to run away from something in the jungle.
> All of these concepts have predictive power that is proven with hard data every day

Citation needed™

> if you think that these predictions are wrong, you can make yourself a lot of money.

The market can remain irrational much longer than you can demain solvent

As Keynes summarized it in his “beauty contest” thought experiment, it's not about getting the “real” price that matters, it's about guessing what price the group is going to assign. Being “right” against the crowd gives you no point.

For one person getting away with the big short, there are a thousand that just miss the timing of the crash even though they were right on the underlying analysis.
I agree this is a super common case. I don't have a benchmark, but I bet when actually moving structs the C qsort starts looking a lot more reasonable.
Was cost of the device also taken into consideration in your overall cost calculation? What was the cost of your Windows desktop and what was the cost of your M series device you replaced it with?

Have you ever upgraded any components of your Windows desktop (RAM, GPU, CPU, motherboard) or did you discard the entire thing?
Working in the AV space, it's really frustrating how confidently people who have no idea about what's hard and what isn't go off about Tesla right now.

Mercedes has soundly beaten the last decade of Tesla efforts by reaching L3.

I've personally watched FSD go off the rails and into a crash situation within 60 seconds of being turned on three times this month (I have a friend who loves to try it in San Francisco)

Had it crashed it'd be on my friend, not Tesla. The fact Mercedes is taking responsibility puts it in an entirely different level of effectiveness.

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People also don't seem to understand Mercedes has a separate L2 system that works above 45 mph that already scores better than AP by consumer reports
Some of the AWS services have clear quota limits and it works as expected, you give me 10k widget credits and if I use 10k widget credits it stops working and I need to open a ticket. Example of this would be SES.

Where it ends up being a bit of a nightmare is stuff like SMS on SNS where they would specify a quota but we could still hit it before their system reported it. We never did figure out if they were looking at a rolling monthly average and bursty campaigns could cause it to creep above their projection. This was always a manual review for this product and the only way we could avoid it was getting way higher quotas than we needed approved. Ultimately we ended up moving SMS over to Nexmo (now Vonage) for bulk SMS so we didn't have to have potential outages when the mystery quota of the now was reached.
It's weird reading the first page and realizing that this was written in 1995. I didn't get a sense that any of these would have been relevant at that time in the country I was living though it seems highly relevant today everywhere. The problem seems to have spread like a contagion.
If your IPMI is in any way exposed to anyone other than your administrators, then you have other problems. These interfaces should be segmented away from all other networks, irrespective of any vulnerabilities they could have.
You logic is completely backwards.

Dense housing doesn't result in traffic congestion. If more people live closer together there is more population density, but as long as they can access commercial areas easily then they can do their shopping and work and recreational tasks without cars. When you remove cars then you suddenly have much more living space because a car takes up a large amount of room to store and there must be extra space for commuters and visitors.

Are you seriously arguing that adding more space for cars makes cities less congested? For every one parking space you add you remove a large amount of useful space for other things.
> Why is it a good thing that Elm doesn’t get frequent updates? First of all, it means your code will last a long time!

Stockholm Syndrome at work
Well unless you just want to run your own hardware. That can be orders of magnitude cheaper (business trajectory changing stuff, think offering a free plan vs not) for the right kind of workloads.
I'm not a YouTuber, but I found Theo Browne's "How The YouTube Algorithm ACTUALLY Works"[0] to be pretty intriguing.

I watched it a few months ago and just re-skimmed the transript, so I'm not sure if I'm remembering it perfectly, but here's what I took away from it:

- YouTube's algorithm recommends videos based on audience viewing patterns.

- The algorithm doesn't care what the video is about, it only cares about who is clicking on it and watching it.

- Click-through rate and watch time are the most important metrics, they're how the algorithm determines who to recommend your video to, and whether to recommend your video to a wider audience.

- It first shows your video to a small group and if it's well-received, expands to a wider audience with similar viewing habits.

- It repeats this process until it finds the falling-off point, where the click-through rate and watch time drop off.

- Figure out who your niche audience is and make videos that they're likely to click on and watch.

- You're going to need to create enough videos in order for the algorithm to figure out where your audience is, and then you're going to want to make more videos for that audience.

- The average clickthrough rate you see in your analytics is not the whole story. You might have a 20% clickthrough in your target niche, but if the algorithm starts recommending your videos to a wider audience, your click-through rate is going to start to drop. That doesn't mean your video is not doing well, it could actually be doing well enough with your niche that the algorithm is trying to show it to more people outside of your niche.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58jv8WL6H9I
One of the crab lang moderators was removed because he retweeted Elon Musk's homophobic tweet.
Understand how recommender engines work.

Make life easy on the recommender engine. Pick one topic and stick to it (that way the recommender engine is more confident about what is in the video and who to pitch it to). Use all fields available to explain the recommender engine the niche you want to carve out.

The recommender engine will pitch your video when it is in its best interest to do so. So you have to work with it to get it what it wants.
Style transfer is pretty cool tool as someone who likes to play around with sound design. It will be a lot of fun to drop this on parallel channels and blend it together into choruses and new instruments.

Right now the generation still sounds a lot like loop packs smashed together anyone could technically make. But it is practical for anyone who really only cares for that style of sound but do not themselves have the familiarity to do it. Now they can just say what they want and hit regenerate, skipping the latent feedback cycle of iterating with humans or sifting through song snippets.

My opinion on this style of content is that ai generation is simply accelerating us to the inevitable end of generic digital content, it isn't really changing it. It just happens to be also the optimal interface for discovering and not just generation.
Yowzzaa, but the damm Beta on Tesla can't still think of slowing down while cornering on steep curves, throwing people on to the side and not navigate into a dead end that drops into the ocean.
This is not an anecdote, it's my personal experience.
No way I'm not gonna trust a system again, that puts human lives (even those who are not driving a Tesla) for a beta test.
Musk seems to believe he has more leverage than he does. Pull a power move, get your power tested.
It is literally this. Decongesting the streets for rich people.
Reddit could just moderate things with paid employees like other sites. It might even be better for it.

Right now, it feels like they are taking advantage of unpaid labor and not really being good members of the community.
The chips it is being compared to are a year older. If there wasn't an advantage somewhere, it'd be an absolute failure.
Good move. London has done this for many years with its congestion charge zone (and, more recently, the T-charge for high-emissions vehicles). Helps cut down on traffic congestion, reduces air pollution, and helps raise funds for transport projects.
Americans are actually less mobile than they used to be. Young people even more so.

https://www.trulia.com/research/why-millennials-move/
Cool. I downloaded and tried out the app but it just says "Loading code line ranges" on all the returned results.
And the p-value?
Organisations like the FSF recommend that you don't use devices that require "non-free firmware" at all. They don't recommend anything like this for devices with "non-free EEPROMs at all". Stallman himself has stated he has no problem with such devices (I can't find a direct quote on this right now, but I'm 100% sure I've seen Stallman write or say this at time point).

My point was that the entire position just doesn't make any sense: either you reject all non-free software no matter how it's loaded (which means there are very few computers you can actually use), or you just use your hardware with "non-free firmware" that would be baked in anyway and stop worrying about the entire thing.
None of what you said has any bearing on the intellectual validity of his manifesto. There’s nothing to “even out” — we can and do separate the work from the author.

I found some degree of edification in reading his manifesto, and I see no justification for your attempt to dissuade others from reading it.
You make the mistake of taking my comment at face value instead of interpreting it as an indictment of your behavior.
>> Official "invitations" to the first round countries (PL, CZ, SK, HU) were issued around 1997 -- but that's the last step in the process.

Not the last step at all. In July 1997, NATO invited Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary to accession talks, to be correct. Talks began in September and took until 1999 to conclude. Full membership was achieved only in March 1999. Invitation to accession talks is by no means a formality or a last step.

>> Anyway by 1993 talk of these countries joining NATO was already all over the news (NYT: "Yeltsin 'Understands' Polish Bid for a Role in NATO").

... and that was considered as far-fetched as Ukraine's ambitions towards EU and NATO membership were in 2021. Something that everyone politely nodded to, but very few believed would happen in any meaningful timeframe. Russian army was still in Poland in 1993. Poland was in a socio-economic disaster then. Energy crisis, insane inflation and organized crime, inability to even pay government employees' wages, let alone participate in international organizations as an equal. NATO membership and American nuclear umbrella were mythical dreams at that time, often ridiculed in the press, as you will discover if you dig deeper into old newspapers. The tone changed during accession talks when it began to look like entry into NATO was really going to happen.

>> The Founding Act itself it pretty long-winded, but I'm not seeing any text that "greenlights" NATO expansion (other than by simply not mentioning the topic).

From the treaty: "To achieve the aims of this Act, NATO and Russia will base their relations on a shared commitment to the following principles: /.../
respect for sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all states and their inherent right to choose the means to ensure their own security, the inviolability of borders and peoples' right of self-determination as enshrined in the Helsinki Final Act and other OSCE documents;"

NATO established this clear understanding with Russia in writing before anyone was invited to accession talks.

>> But across the board -- I'm just finding your thinking to be rather muddled, and that you're just not seeing the forest for the trees (in addition to getting a lot of the "trees" themselves wrong).

The only ones trying to muddy things are those who ignore a decade-long political process in European politics and its huge bureaucratic trail, and try to give a simple alternative explanation that hinges on a handful of out-of-context quotes from Baker and Genschler, because there is nothing else to back it up. It's like quoting some overly alarmist NASA memo questioning radiation shielding of Apollo spacecraft, and using that to "prove" that the Moon landings never happened - ignoring the immense work that 400 000 people and countless institutions and companies all across the world put into it over a decade, and all the trails they left behind.

You have to throw away a decade worth of European diplomacy to subscribe to the Russian talking point about broken promises and encirclement.
The most important caveat that the author mentions: this advice may not apply to Django Rest Framework.

Class based views for DRF are awesome because they represent a resource. It has been a great experience writing REST APIs with class based views, and it reduces boilerplate with a tolerable amount of implicit logic.

But as soon as I need to render a simple html page from a request, I share the frustration of the author.
Sounds like they don't want people to die from their product.
It is not. The FSD Beta enables an aggressive attention monitor which is not active with the basic AutoPilot system.

The nag when FSD is enabled is actually quite annoying. Even glancing over at the screen for more than a second will trigger it. If it triggers more than a couple times you get locked out for the drive. If it triggers more than 5 times in total across any number of drives, you get locked out entirely for a full week.
They AOT-compiled the instructions, and only then started executing.
You're not allowed to sleep, you need to take control within 10-15 seconds.

And no, it doesn't turn off if there are no vehicles in front, but it does turn off above 45 MPH. On most highways you'll only be below 45 because of traffic.

Above 45 they have a separate L2 system that requires "normal" attentiveness.
for now, that is. in German they call it "traffic jam pilot" Staupilot. they start L3 autonomy with the boring and tedious scenario first.

it's obvious they'll expand it to more and more freeway/highway driving scenarios, and from there grow into any out of town driving.

meanwhile Waymo and Tesla can take their bruises with downtown traffic and pedestrians and children and hand drawn road signs and dirty signs and poorly placed ones and whichever more crazy real life reality show surprise guests appear on stage...

I wouldn't (and I don't think you did but several others in such discussions do) snicker too much on Mercedes. they have a knack on getting a couple of car related things pretty right.