skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, come on. A Tesla (excuse me, "NACS") plug with AC adapter attached is still less than half the size of a CCS connector. This is what it looks like:

https://shop.tesla.com/product/sae-j1772-charging-adapter

It's just a passive connector. All the signaling is handled internal to the car (which actually supports CCS too, there's a equally passive similar-looking CCS adapter you can buy).
The key issue seems to be the 80/20 rule.

The 80% are anonymous lurkers or accounts that very rarely post anything.

The remaining 20% is split 15/5, with the former being frequent contributors to discussions - and the final 5% being _content submitters_ .

The 5% power users interact via 3rd party apps because, quite frankly, the "official" UIs (App, Website) are totally shite.

They also maintain the automated tooling to keep order of communities - again, accessed via API.

Without the 5% submitting content, the 15% won't interact and provide the remaining 80% material to read.

No material to consume = no advert page impressions = no revenue stream.
According to a report compiled by the EU, the largest group of primary sources consists of the small particles released from the washing waters of synthetic textiles, such as fleece clothing. Wear particles from tire and road materials are the second largest primary source. Together, these primary sources form 15–31% of the microplastics in the oceans, that is, less than one third.

Secondary sources include larger plastic items, such as bottles, bags and fishing nets that are ground into microplastics over time. These are estimated to form 69–81% of the sources of microplastics in the oceans, that is, at least two thirds.

The fleece loving hippies are killing us faster than the car fanatics are, but only just.

https://www.nokiantyres.com/company/sustainability/environme...
The integers represent a position within a vector of "all known tokens". Typically, following a simple bag-of-words approach, each position in the vector would be toggled to 1 or 0 based on the presence of a token in a given document. Since most vectors would be almost completely zeroed, the simpler way to represent these vectors is through a list of positions in the now abstracted vector, aka a sparse vector, ie a list of integers.

In the case of more advanced language models like LLMs, a given token can be paired with many other features of the token (such as dependencies or parts-of-speech) to make an integer represent one of many permutations on the same word based on its usage.
> Its weird how perspective shifts.

It's not clear that it has shifted yet. It wasn't clear that Google Glass would be rejected until people started wearing them publicly.
> 1. 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.

So if I want to purchase a NACS charger for my house, besides Tesla, what are my options?

> 2. the CSS1 connector is monstrous compare to NACS, with design deficiencies that are more or less not fixable.

Besides size apparently, what are these "design deficiencies" that you speak of?
To move the goalposts slightly, Apple is a very different company pre and post Jobs return.

They had tons of flops before he came back, but the company is almost completely changed post.

of course, one could argue that he’s gone and that is lost as well, but they seem to continue delivering imho
Sure they've grown, but that wasn't anything special that Tim Cook did. They were growing astronomically already. The apple watch was not a game changer at all, it was just an obvious progression and the apple watch literally makes up just over 2% of revenue.

The iPhone changed the world. The iPad changed the world.

Tim Cook just kept the company running and business as usual but they haven't done anything all that exciting.

TBH Microsoft has done way more interesting things in the last 10 years.
True, but that curve is flattening out. The UN predicts human population will peak 10.43 billion in 2086 and begin to decline from there:

https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth

(Obviously, the error bars for a prediction like that are large.)

Many developed countries are already losing population:

https://www.worlddata.info/populationgrowth.php

An even larger fraction of developed countries would be losing population already if it wasn't for immigration. This suggests that as the developing world becomes more like the developed world, human population will be less of a concern for the global environment.

My perhaps radical position is that two best solutions for surviving climate change are birth control and education for women. The fewer people we need to keep alive, the more easily we'll be able to adapt to the changing climate.
Kudos to simonw for all the LLM content you've been publishing. I like reading your perspective and notes on your own learning experiences.
I have zero interest in putting where I’m at anymore on the map than it already is. Such places are vanishingly rare in the US, and incredibly common in Europe. It’s very frustrating.

However, in the interest of shaking everyone off my trail, I will mention that there’s many affordable, walkable towns and cities outside Philly and Chicago that were built up 100 years along the commuter railroads. In the absence of zoning-related tyranny, transit oriented development happens naturally. Look for towns and cities that were built before 1945, before we paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Yeah my bad it's rubbish bin. Phone posting is a curse.
Is an enterprise product sitting around and watching "movies" by yourself?
History books can also very confidently say something wrong within the first paragraph.

When I graduated from high school they were throwing out history books. I picked up 3 consecutive editions of a US History Book from my favorite teacher. One said the US won the Spanish-American War, another said Spain won it, and the third said Cuba won it.
JATS is gaining adoption in publishing, but is difficult for scientists to actually _author_ in. This is one of the main reasons behind tools like MyST (https://myst-tools.org) and Quarto (https://quarto.org/) - both are semantic authoring tools that allow authors to export to JATS but author in Markdown (or in JupyterNotebooks).

Having semantic authoring tools also means that you can easily change the template -- saving a ton of time for the author. For example, about 400 journal templates here:
https://myst-tools.org/docs/mystjs/creating-pdf-documents
You are doomed. Please send me all your Lego and electronics.
The Netherlands had a nationwide bus/train/tram OV-chipcard framework for at least a decade. So, this is the upgrade which removes card-specific behaviours but the socialised outcome is much the same: I hold a device or personal cashcard to a reader, I am registered. "contactless" is such a neologism: I dont "insert" it but by god, you still basically "tap" it which colloquially is contact. no?

One quirk of the Dutch system which hit foreigners but not nationals is that the dutch banking systems used a card clearing service which was very much integrated into their own (very old, very venerable, very good) banking systems and only one or two card suppliers internationally in the visa/mastercard framework were in the computing interchanges. Consequently most tourists could only add value to their OV Chipcard at the manned railway station counter, because it's readers had to handle all visa/mastercards presented: the machines at stations and busstops simply didn't work, and you got a very dutch "shrug" when you watched one of your friends work, and your own payment failed.

This was also why Albert Heijn sometimes refused visa. Self catering accom in central Amsterdam? priceless. For everything else, No, there isn't always mastercard: it depends. Put that milk bottle back!

When I got a 6 month residency in Amsterdam, and was allowed to open a dutch bank account, life got much simpler. -Except the dutch also went hard on 2FA and you had to use a USB attached PIN generation device which read your card, to do online shopping. But it did mean you could recharge things like phone accounts. I suspect there's a very dutch "shrug" about this too because it's undoubtedly safer than most economies "use stored card if you can remember the CVV" thing but it was .. slightly annoying. Remembering which door of the tram to get on and off annoying. Remembering not to walk in the cycle lane annoying. Having to put up with half your city being non-dutch speaking annoying. (sorry)

Back in my hometown of Brisbane I have to live with a transport grid which spans anywhere I want to go, but chose the wrong kind of reader and payment engine and it's been a multi-year shitshow to get them to begin even TESTING doing this, with ordinary cards, and stored value on the phone. They underspecified the model on release. Australia was within 2 purchase decisions between Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane of a single tollway RFID provider, and a single compatible card for transport.. And they went "nope" and so we had 3+ competing systems which intersected sometimes.

Was it really impossible to specify interoperability?
Hn has a taste for shadow banning. You don't get to see what people post because a majority of posts on threads aren't shown to anyone but the author.

This place is the iceberg meme basically.
I mean in some ways the fact that Israelis are not all angels and Palestinians are not all devils is precisely my point. But look at the US media. They border line worship the Israeli army. Yeah — the same army that assassinated Tamimis father and killed her baby brother in the process. The same army that protects a sniper that journalist Shireen in the head. How is that not fucked?

But the whole “both sides are wrong” issue is total bullshit. One side has all the power and the other exists below the boot. One side is actively ethnically cleansing Palestine and the other side is being ethnically cleansed. You can’t possibly make both sides equal in blame.
I guess also worth mentioning, modern forestry uses tree farms and has been for a while. Those tree farms burn differently than natural forest and are super dense. Getting more logging into the mix, or more wood mills is not necessarily a solution due to second order effects (more tree farms)
Was the asking price really so unreasonable? Facebook makes $70 per user/year, how much would the reddit API have to cost to hit that number? All the comments about it just point to "server cost break even point", but reddit has tons of other costs, plus it's a business that exists to make a profit. I haven't done the math here, but the analysis I've seen seems flawed.
>Steering is analog.

This is changing rapidly.
eg:

https://www.infinitiusa.com/infiniti-news/technology/direct-...
Covid is, oddly, a specific one that has me scratching my head. I am all for increased ventilation. I have a hard time grokking any of the claims on covid.

Note that it is easy to believe most claims, except schools stand in the way. The outlandish claims that so many have held about the magic of ... well, anything, seems to fall in the face of why it didn't demolish schools. It clearly spread through the schools. Just as I have friends where it hit their family, but didn't spread to us this round. Somehow. I don't think I can credit good hygiene for my family. Certainly not the 5yo.

Again, I'm all for ventilation standards. They certainly shouldn't make things worse. By all reasoning, they should make things better. Claims against Covid/Flu, though, I take with some salt right now. I'm hopeful, but not sure I'm expecting anything there.
This is a discussion about NYC. I don't know why you're focused on Mountain View.

Do you think that you can somehow generalize from that to NYC?
Adding milk to coffee will raise the pH to above 6.
PeopleWhoCode – Tech Blog for Developers
It's almost unreal that an Instagram page that started in 2017 as simple page reposting cool setups for developers grew to 280K plus followers as of today.

I've created a blog where I'll share inspiring stories from developers in this community about their journeys in tech, plus featuring cool setups, workspaces and a developer focused newsletter.

Super excited for this and welcoming any feedback!
The problem with Reddit as a business is that they have the least profitable users of any social platform. So one would have to build a backend, incentive the app makers to switch, get advertisers and do it all more cost efficiently than Reddit does it.

That’s a small needle to thread.
Online Karnaugh map solver with circuit for up to 6 variables
The dog cull of 1760 divided London
Not sure what "struggle" or "too many" is supposed to mean, but my laptop (running Python in a Linux VM) handles million-digit numbers just fine

>>> a=10**(1000000)
>>> b=a//3
>>> len(str(b))
1000000

Given that computers have calculated the value of Pi to more than 60 million digits , I think we can safely say that computers readily handle numbers with many digits.
They didn't even need to do that. They could simply have changed the terms so that user-facing clients like apollo either need to show reddit ads, allowing no ads for users of reddit premium. They approve api users anyways, supposedly, so mod tools and the like could be exempt, and they could introduce higher cost efficient bulk export of comments for large scale generative AI machine learning use cases.

Instead of being the shit-show it is now, it could have been a good money maker.
What I can verify:

To the best of my knowledge, this is the first work that proposes putting a photorealistic, perspective corrected face on a VR headset.

"FrontFace" (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3098279.3098548) is the first work that proposes putting eyes on a display on VR to "lower the communication barrier".
Wasn't solyndra given a loan that requires repayment? Government funded grants, loans and research are reasonable for developing damn near all of our fundamental tech. The internet has it's origins as ARPANET to connect universities/military installations.
It's not in Apple's interests to get into military contracting because of the potential to damage their brand, as well as avoiding the geopolitical tensions that would invite.
I'd wager HN has a larger overlap with /g/ than Reddit does.
Did you read the article? They signed a deal directly with Tesla. They also never had to develop their own charging stations. Existing GM EVs can use any network that uses CCS already.
If you're capable of installing arch, then yes it's better.

Manjaro is more for those who are not. Really, the first time you install Arch you're stuck in pages and pages of wiki trying to make decisions like what kind of partition scheme you want, what kind of network configuration tool, what kind of disk encryption, blabla.

For people like you and me, this is fine. The idea is you learn from it as you go, you tailor the system to your needs. Personally I use FreeBSD, not Arch which takes a similar approach (a slight bit more guided) and is a little bit more opinionated but also offers some cool options not as readily available in the linux world.

But reality is, most people are not like us, they are already put off by a Next-Next-Finish installer. The Arch wiki might as well be in Chinese for them (or in Dutch, if the user just happens to be Chinese).

While I've never used Manjaro other than on a Live CD, I understand this is the usecase it tries to cover.
I wonder if the embeddings could be explicitly configured to account for these “symmetries”. E.g.: instead of storing seperate full copies of the “variants”, maybe keep a reduced representation with a common prefix and only a small subset of the embedding vector that is allowed to be learned?

This could force the model to correctly learn how to capitalise, make all-caps, etc…
I don't think the linked discussion about the earliest Macs in the early '80s not having extra peripheral slots is saying the same thing as consumers being able to upgrade memory and storage.

To the best of my knowledge / memory / experience, all of the Mac models introduced prior to the Air in 2008 had upgradable memory and storage.
I believe Tiktok basically does that already.
I remember a big tech worker telling me something along the lines of "If you pulled out a camera here in the office, you would be quickly removed by security". Something of that level of locked down would be impossible to enforce with remote work.
This person has some weird grudge. Why spread their caustic message here?
It has manipulatives/widgets that the tutor works with and responds to, rather than just a chat bot.
I guess none of these apps are interested in banding together to make a new backend to replace Reddit?
If he's being administered IV caffeine instead of given a cup it's possible that he couldn't take pills either.
Mark Walters vs. OpenAI LLC
The OP didn't even bother to read the conversation. This was announced in April, but Reddit did not provide prices. It only assured this won't be as expensive as Twitter API access, and the drama started once it actually did.
The app is getting shut down for $0 regardless, why would anyone pay $10m to shut it down?
Discussed yesterday. Really, HN, please just disable the invasive outgoing referer tags from ALL outbound links, now that that is possible.

Yes I know (as someone commented yesterday) that the target sites would like the info for their own analytics and marketing. But they would also like your email, income, sexual orientation, mothers maiden name, etc. The whole concept of privacy is that all those entities out there who want that info aren't automatically entitled to get their wish. The overlapping topic of "security" is about resisting even forceful attempts to get the info. Once HTTP escaped environments like CERN, referrers should have always been treated as private.

So please, HN, please shut off those referrers.
I don't think HN should be trying to associate with people who go out of their way to say that they don't want to associate with HN and to a certain extent I do think that if you don't understand why they don't want to associate with HN that indicates you might have some blind spots about HN. Ain't like they're the first to feel this way (hi jwz)
It's a shame I don't trust Apple not to do the same anymore. If the advertisement creep into MacOS is any indication, the Vision Pro might have more pop-ups than the Quest.
The person who operates the PC is responsible, not the programmer.
> as hamstrung as an iPad.

iPad is selling great because it is not ‘hamstrung’, it’s focused. People choose a device that does a few things only and does them greatly, instead of one that does everything, poorly.

There’s plenty of tablets with similar hardware specifications to an iPad that allow sideloading and hacking. That’s just not what a lot of people are looking for. They want a device where you can trust that if you press the button, the screen turns on and the apps do what they do, every time, without it being another computer to administer.
Sponsor tutorials to win over those in learning mode. They are the group who is open to change and willing to try/learn about new products.

For the busy experienced developer try solving a problem using your tool and spread on hn, twitter, discord, github, reddit.

The problem you have is the market has caught up to you. To continue to do well you need to become a marketing company instead of a pure leading edge tech company
I decided to use this as a good excuse to delete Reddit. I find myself going to it too often, and scrolling for too long, and afterwards I feel worse about the direction of humanity and down about the world. I’m not getting anything positive from it so for my own mental heath I’m deleting the app.
Weird because my 8yo understood it and loved it
> But a lot of people are acting as if any charge at all is untenable.

Is that the case? Every reaction I have seen has been to the magnitude of the price, which is much, much, much more than what Reddit makes off of users
Nice - lots of AMD 29xx microcode stuff on there, I never saw any of the original NuMachines before.
I personally don't have reason to hate Lina. How come?
This says more to how shitty calls are. To a group in person, that background noise is hardly noticeable, but it becomes completely debilitating to a call. I'd be interested to dig more in to why, I guess the microphones on laptops are just not as good as our ears at picking up closer noises with priority or something.
It's incredible for the industry, most of these non-Tesla EV's were effectively unusable outside daily use due to poor charging infrastructure. Now they're not, it's great.
This is an interesting example of why trying to regulate standards for an industry in its infancy might not go as planned
A month??? That’s definitely different.
I'm not familiar with Manjaro, but with other security-focused distros, the difference is what the defaults are, plus perhaps some unique convenience applications.

There's nothing you can do with any of the security-oriented distros that you can't do with any other distro, but the security-oriented ones can ease initial configuration and perhaps make it less likely that you overlooked something.
I agree it's terrible and very American, but I don't think it's recent. There's a good bit in this Backstory podcast where they talk about how part of the shift to sleeping straight through the night (as opposed to the previous behavior of first and second sleep) was partly driven by puritan busybodies (from the temperance movement, I think?) who thought that it was virtuous to sleep a bare minimum or less: https://backstoryradio.org/shows/on-the-clock-4/

And that of course goes back to the Puritans around at America's founding, who were deeply opposed to anybody having fun or enjoying themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans#Behavioral_regulation...

I also recall reading of Calvinists who came to American in the mid-1800s to be free of such things as vaccines and insurance, because they thought those things interfered with God's plan. A plan, apparently, wherein a lot of people suffered while others stood around and quietly gloated that they were god's favorites.
Despite all these cherry-picked numbers, China's economy will grow by 4-6% this year vs. USA's 0-2%.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/us-growth-gdp-china-economy...
It doesn't dispel it
It's not like environmental law began with the EPA. Like most such organizations, it initially consolidated a bunch of existing responsibilities under one roof.

There was a direct predecessor organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Health_Divisions

What actually changed was that the public became more concerned about pollution, and politicians reacted to that.
I was on Slashdot in the 90s - they started in 1997. There were some early web boards that came out then as well.

And yeah, phpBB has improved. One site I've been on for a good 15+ years is running on it and it's got some decent features.
I find it interesting that suddenly the censorship and admin intervention is a bad thing now that Reddit is becoming "too greedy" for their IPO but when this happened or subs that went against the mainstream Reddit narratives were banned (first quarantined to slowly suffocate them) it was cheered on.

This is just the next logical conclusion of user and narrative control.