skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a source to support some of the above the above claims (including a link to PDF of NHTSA letter): https://www.techspot.com/news/99079-biden-administration-car...

There's some interesting context missing from the explanation too, which is that apparently the feds were consulted years ago and they said "it's fine."

The Massachusetts Right to Repair Coalition's response to the NHTSA letter:

On behalf of two million voters and thousands of independent auto repair shops across Massachusetts, we are outraged by the unsolicited, unwarranted, and counterproductive letter from NHTSA that conflicts with the Department of Justice's statement submitted two years ago in federal court stating that there was no federal preemption. NHTSA's letter is irresponsible, having been transmitted without any new evidence and after the conclusion of the federal trial, despite having been asked by the judge to participate in the court proceeding and declining. NHTSA's letter fails to acknowledge the evidence and testimony presented at the trial that demonstrated the viability and security of an open access platform. This is yet another delay tactic the manufacturers are using to thwart the will of their customers, Massachusetts voters who voted 75-25 in favor of their right to get their car repaired where they choose. The FTC, the Biden Administration, and many members of Congress have all come out in support of Right To Repair.
When quantized to 4 bits, yes. You lose some quality by doing that, though, as compared to the full f16.
I also prefer the battery meter to show percentage simply to reduce range anxiety. Even if the mileage estimate was accurate, I’d rather not constantly be calculating how many miles I think I might need to drive before the next charge.
Probably the most prolific killer as far as radioactive vegetation is Polonium 210 in tobacco. [0]

I always thought it made a good case for organic cigarettes, which otherwise sounds really silly on the face of it. My logic being that organic tobacco should not use phosphate fertilizer which is likely the source.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19960838/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19186689/
Set up a Virtual Box + CLI.

if you are designing a quick teaching tool or a training session, make warning messages that are informative, motivational, and kinda scary depending on the result (e.g., git commit with message is good, here's a sparkly high five; merge to main w/o code review is scary; squash commits is scary; committing credentials and pushing to prod is scary). Consider designing the lesson around lawful/true/chaotic evil/neutral/good. And then when not great things happen, have them try to fix the issue (rebase, reset commits hard/soft, rollback merge to main, ask for help when you don't know, inform someone else that you've made an error). This way they know informing others that something not great has happened and asking for help are good. Design the lesson such that best practice is standard practice.
By the same logic someone could claim that 1985 Excel was in fact based on the preceding 20 years of mainframe and minicomputer software and the very first spreadsheet-esque programs.

And that those were in turn based on the ideas of Von Neuman & co. from 1945 of tabulating numbers efficiently, and so on and so forth in roughly equivalent leaps all the way back to the first abacus.

It's so reductive of a perspective that it's self-defeating, since no human being, including you, could ever actually comprehend the entirety of technological development, or even just the post-1945 developments.
You have to compare similar situations a small island with a heavily controlled and under surveillance society is not comparable to western countries with much less controls and bigger borders easily crossed.
In my humble experience, I know about them, yet I still never use them, I find it infuriatingly confusing to work with. The only time I've ever liked breakpoints and regular debuggers is when working with C, anything else feels off to me.
A close family member worked there and was a part of all the magic. I love picking his brain and getting the inside story about things that happened there. Very fascinating to hear his take on why it all worked so well.

He influenced me to be into computers as a kid and eventually go into tech.
Anything thing that talks about "Before the Big Bang" isn't science. It may be philosophy or mathematical speculation, but it is not science.
My EPA highway mile rating is lower than I see in actual driving in my ICE. City is about accurate unless I’ve been in a lot of traffic’s with its look back range for live mpg estimates. Lots of owners of other EV brands and the article itself said they’re much better than Tesla’s estimate as well. It’s difficult to see how the issue is anything but specific to Tesla and its method of presenting info to consumers. They were even force to lower their previously stated range, per the linked article.
The article mentions this, but for those not clicking, this is especially egregious because xAI is a separate company. That's like Elon deciding to take @y next, so Model Y can have its own short Twitter handle.
GS15 is not that impressive. Don't get me wrong - it's a good rank and the pay is decent by DMV standards, but like there are thousands of people with GS15 ranks. Now if he was an SES level that might be more intriguing...
The oldest standing bridge across the Seine is Pont Neuf, "New Bridge", of course. It's the setting for the remarkable film Les Amants du Pont-Neuf:

https://youtu.be/y2OjjtY1A80

This is what I think of whenever I see the Seine in the news.

Internet Archive has the full movie:

https://archive.org/details/les.-amants.-du.-pont-neuf-1991
“Hackernews discovers first year university engineering statics/analysis from articles that are really just reposts of 3 year old reddit content”
> “There’s lots of jobs out there where you could make, like, 60 to 80 K and not do that much work and be remote.”

Let me know where, please. I guess I'm trash, but I've never stood a chance/have the resume to make it past ATS...

Edit: Also, some of these are posted on Reddit every now and then and create a real hubbub, e.g., some email pusher for Uber recently - https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/s9iviz/the_misogy...
“the annual average dose per person from all sources is about 620 mrem”

That’s the mrem of 62 chest x-rays. From food and drink annually.

Should we be alarmed? Or just more comfortable with lots of diagnostic x-rays?

EDIT: Thank you. I missed a link in the article that clarifies: “From food and water (40 mrem)”
It isn’t though. You can use gravity to apply the weight to the superconductor and the pushback would be against gravity.
Feels like advertising just fundamentally destroys journalism.
Sines are about 1/.7 (40%) longer aren’t they?
Cool! More features from SO that no one wants!
All repairs are unlicensed.
I tried them when I visited the US. It did not work for me at all and I needed to rely on wifi instead.
2000ft over 35mi is like a 1% grade. That's not much of a grade.
My recollection is Chrome was legitimately better than anything else on Windows, even Firefox.

One especially awesome feature was a built in pdf creator. You did not have to download cutePDF or whatever.

It was also more reliable and crashed less, and probably other things I forget.
That an interesting point. Is there some way to definitely show that happening?
>Does this mean it may be possible to self-host a ChatGPT clone assuming you have a 70B model?

Not only possible but quite easy. Inference for 70B can be done with llama.cpp using CPU only, on any commodity hardware with >64GB of RAM
Figured I'd see how much of the world was covered and searched "China."

It mentions Confucius, featuring the line "Yet we know little of China’s history until a great deal later." Then the theft of silk, the Mongols, a brief mention with Columbus and Peter the Great, and ending with Commodore Perry's ending of Japan's millennia of isolation.

Pretty poor coverage before you factor in the "yellow race" parts. Those get pretty bad, like the discussion of the Teutons vs the Huns

>It was white toughs against yellow toughs, and the Huns were beaten. It was lucky they were beaten, for if they had won, these dreadful wild, yellow people might have conquered and ruled the world. The white toughs were bad enough, but the yellow would have been worse
Seven Years in the Making, an Interactive Map of the Silk Roads
If you tap the miles indicator, it changes to percent.
Perhaps that was the brilliant part I was talking about.
Really the only way to defeat it would be by having all the citizens share their keys openly so no activity was ever guaranteed to belong to the credential owner.
If I had a dollar for every product I use with a piece of shit CEOs I'd be a millionare
I agree on AGI, but a massive step function shift in energy will certainly destabilize society. The livelihoods of at least a hundred million people depends on fossil fuels.
When you say "coding questions" do you mean questions that should be answered by producing code, or questions about code ("explain this")? Or both?
The US is so bad at naming things!

A Serpentine Wall sounds better than a Worm Fence or Snake Fence.

Crinkle Crankle Wall is a bit more fun than ZigZag Fence.

A Ribbon Wall seems like a nice thing to have on your property vs a Battlefield Fence.
> Following my ill-defined "Tarsnap doesn't have an SLA but I'll give people
credits for outages when it seems fair" policy, on 2023-07-13 (after some dust
settled and I caught up on some sleep) I credited everyone's Tarsnap accounts
with 50% of a month's storage costs.

This speaks volumes to me about what kind of person Percival is; that credit would appear to be generously on the "make customer whole" side of the fence, and unlike the major cloud providers, he didn't make each customer come and individually grovel for it. And a clearly written, technical, detailed PM, too. This is how it ought to be done, and done everywhere. Thanks for being a beacon of light in the dark.
> But it was still faster than trolling the internet.

I'm guessing you mean trawling the internet rather than trying to upset and annoy the internet:)
There is a House M.D. episode based on this ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatever_It_Takes_(House) ), where the titular Dr. is called in to diagnose and treat a CIA agent poisoning,

[SPOILER AHEAD]

but due to the secrecy of the agent's work they are given an amended patient travel history when really they had been to Brazil.
It’s just misdirection, the old magicians trick they always do. News about ufo or aliens is going to grab everyone’s attention. Make it seem credible with congressional involvement. Take all eyes off the real news and onto the charade.
Not really, it's mostly gathered from cluster headache forums online.
It doesn't completely protect, no. Nothing does. Like much in security, defense in depth is the byword. Not checking the hash throws away a layer.
just look at the teams ui and count how many buttons are on screen crammed under the text box, and how many of those you’ve actually used in a productive manner
> You go download all your data from the service

Just about this step... you are supposed to have it already. You just have to find another service and start using it.
BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system
the open data world needs this for easy and consistent checks between Openstreetmap and Overture Maps
Just what people wanted -- another aspect of their life to be politicized.
"Frustratingly simple"...that is a very strange adverb to use there in my opinion. When I'm assessing a tool, I don't think frustrating is a word I want to see used to describe it. Just me?
One response to the levitation video is that it is hard to distinguish from a non-superconductive diamagnetic effect, which can occur even in not very exotic materials.

There are videos of graphite levitating that are circulating, for example.
If you drive your tank dry on the side of the road in a valley with no cell service, the fact that gas stations are plentiful won't help you and you're in exactly this same situation.
That's a thermodynamic limit, but we're not even close to hitting that yet.

RTP superconductors still aren't going to magically make computers emit zero heat, though; there are other sources besides resistive losses. I was under the impression that other factors dominated, though a couple people responded yesterday to tell me that resistance is the primary source of heat. Not an expert in that area, would love for someone who does chipset design to clarify.
> heavy usage

And, with the weight of EVs, even heavier.
At least 3 of the 5 big tech companies "impose" ms products and have done so for years as they grew. You're gonna miss out on a lot of upside with that mentality. To each their own though.
https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/159jojs/scienti...
Pressure from peers to conform to established paradigms does suppress the development of new approaches. And it's true that pushing back against that is not good for your social standing. Interesting article, but not sure he really needed to read two books to figure that out.

Speaking of new paradigms and the states of mind necessary to push the limits of human knowledge, I feel that is going to be one of the last stands for AI-pessimists. But I also suspect that it will quickly fall.

So I anticipate the relevant articles five or ten years from now will be about getting into a state of mind where you can understand what the hell the latest genius AI agents are talking about. They will eventually conclude that the only option is a state-of-the-art high-bandwidth brain-computer interface.
How does the issue of plagiarism bear on its utility? That’s like saying it’s impossible to get value out of listening to a torrented mp3.

I’m not sure understanding is an inherent issue either. When I Google ”weather lisbon,” Google spits out a number. The app doesn’t ”understand” anything, but it still helps me plan my day.
Most people using cash at a dispensary are using the ATM at a dispensary too.
>On a downhill run that is long enough you could in theory fully recharge your battery

Such a road would by identifiable by the car's GPS.
That's an overly cynical take, post-mortems are not for anyone's reassurance, they are a learning opportunity.

The airline industry is as safe as it is because every accident gets thoroughly investigated with detailed reports ("post-mortems") including what to do differently going forward. These are taken as gospel among all players in the industry and as a result, you very rarely see two different accidents caused by the same thing anymore.
I wrote a blog post https://shapr.github.io/posts/2023-07-25-android-app-in-hask...

I hope this helps
The last paragraph firmly places this story in America.
Moving data in and out of Postgres in a fast and reliable way is exactly what my startup needs. I am looking forward to trying PeerDB!
That's, uh, not a conspiracy theory. The free version of ChatGPT uses an entirely different model on the backend.
The text of KOSA does not require age verification.

The standard in the statute is "reasonably should know" that a user is a minor.

This likely looks something like the status quo, where the site asks for but does not verify your age. Additionally, if the site does not know the user's age but eg categorizes a person as "12-15 years old" for the purpose of ad targeting and sells ads based upon this targeting feature, then courts will likely agree that they should have "reasonably known" that this person is 12-15 years old (else they were committing fraud in selling those ads).

Not much changes in terms of age request/verification. What does change is what you need to do with that info about age once it's furnished and available. KOSA is about TARGETED ADS and ALGORITHMIC RECOMMENDATIONS. It even contains language that absolves platforms of responsibility for content specifically requested by children:

> IMITATION.—Nothing in subsection (a) shall be10
construed to require a covered platform to prevent or pre-11
clude— any minor from deliberately and independ-13
ently searching for, or specifically requesting, con-14
tent; or15
(2) the covered platform or individuals on the16
platform from providing resources for the prevention17
or mitigation of suicidal behaviors, substance use,18
and other harms, including evidence-informed infor-19
mation and clinical resources
I got dunked on. I casually commented an opinion without thinking of how to put my feelings and thoughts into words. I made the legal option too upfront. It is an eye catching controversial topic to jump on. I am just enjoying myself for now. typing up random ramblings.
> I don’t buy into the “mark of the beast” narrative but if it works to help hold on to the freedom we have with personal computers I’ll hitch my wagon to it.

It's also worth considering where this stuff comes from instead of ascribing anything the other team says to superstitious fools and their invisible sky man.

Branding people like cattle wasn't invented in modernity. It's infamous Nazi behavior, and the Nazis weren't the first to do it either. It's so old that people centuries ago saw how bad it turns out and put a warning against it in their ancient book.

You don't have to believe in the devil to believe that history repeats and learn a lesson from the people who came before.
Insurance not being available could also be impacted by the huge increase in replacement costs due to inflationary pressures on real estate and repair costs; it could also be a conscious move to pressure lawmakers to pass more favorable laws. It could also be due to the increased populations moving to areas like coastal Florida where hurricanes have been sweeping in for thousands of years or Colorado where wildfires are part of the lifecycle of forests.

Temperatures have fluctuated throughout history as have the ice levels in the arctic regions. People are certainly a factor, but there are general trends and cycles that earth follows as well. Depopulation may not greatly impact these incidents.
Hamming: "What is the most important problem in your field"

Me: "It is administrated/directed by uninformed individuals who get paid more than me and have more authority than me (they call them managers)"

Hamming: "Why aren't you working on that?"

Me: "Are you seriously rhetorically inciting me to "get rid" of people? You know that could make you an accomplice in a court of law..."
You realise that not liking something is not the same as wanting to genocide it, right?

Making something illegal doesn't mean that the population wants to gencide the people who do that thing.

FCOL, shoplifting is illegal and yet no one is under the impression that the population wants to genocide all shoplifters.

Trying to stop something from happening is not the same as wanting to genocide all the practitioners.
Interacting with any person raises your risk. The more people the risker.
Looks like the CEO agrees with you, which is a nice thing to be able to say given all the cynicism everyone seems to have of late: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36892057
Chrome was better and faster than Firefox when it came out...
I think that the people who don't like it might not shop at that store, and the business should take that into account.

That "should" shit, however, is inviting other people to make a value judgement just so you can attack them for not being libertarian or something, nobody cares. They should do what is best for their business if they want to be successful. They thought that was crypto, and who am I to second guess? As long as they're doing it, or strange advertising shell games, I'm not even their customer, so I don't get a say. I don't think they did anything remotely fraudulent...
I'm a senior software engineer with 20 years experience and I still struggle with npm/yarn nearly every time I use it. In my experience, the most senior people on JS teams also struggle with dependency problems, react, etc constantly. This is not a struggle I experience or see others experiencing with Java or C#. Python environments and tools can be frustrating but not anywhere near as much as JS tools.
Finally those "has science gone too far" memes can be trendy again.
I'm not sure that I understand. A compiler inlining a function can't create undefined behaviour (UB) where there wasn't any before. Otherwise it would be breaking valid code.

Do you mean that after inlining the compiler has more visibility can can idenitfy UB that it was not sure was UB before?
Testing the OpenTelemetry Demo is hard
Sure but you get to ride that title and any amount of experience to the next level.
I found this article a bit offensive.
That’s really interesting. It seems like this technology could be huge
There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful article.
Well, the ELIZA we all know and love, was just one possible script for ELIZA. With another script, ELIZA could walk you through diagnosing an engine repair. (Sort of, with silly open-ended questions latching on to keywords you used.) It was, and still is, a substantial advance in natural language processing. Semi-flexible handling of the incredible complexity of natural English. Seems quaint today, but impressive at the time.

Giving computers the ability to handle natural language with some kind of flexibility, context-sensitivity, and appearance of understanding (even if they lack it) is one of the core goals of AI. AI was, and still is, a field with decades of serious history and work before anyone heard of Stable Diffusion. And machine learning is just one tiny subset of AI.

AI went through a similar hype bubble at the time of ELIZA, funnily enough, with natural language processing! ELIZA and SHRDLU, along with early machine translation systems, gave the impression of far more ability, especially in careful demonstrations, than they actually had. Much hype over machines that could seemingly handle natural language because they can produce coherent sentences sometimes... then disillusionment as the limits of the techniques used were quickly encountered. We may be repeating that today.
... why would you move to the suburbs after tasting freedom?
Auditors are seen as annoying antagonists, just like the people who open carry in places that cause the police to get panic calls. But without them the police get too comfortable breaking the laws with no accountability.

I don't have the time, money, or balls to be an auditor, but the ones who know the laws and do it without bothering the general public are good in my book.

You should know what a Terry stop is. You should know you have the right to remain silent, know what the true meaning of "I got 99 problems but a bitch aint one"
No. Chrome was much faster than Firefox when it came out, which was in turn much faster than IE.
Yeah, because Monopoly, née The Landlord’s Game, wasn’t created as an explicitly-political Georgist propaganda tool.
Given the size of the only companies you were able to list it doesn't seem like innovation for the sake of impact is cherished either.
I feel like this is unfair, because Epic Systems could recommend ICD10 codes based on the listed symptoms. The doctor would pick the final diagnosis code from the recommended list or their own. That doesn't mean Epic shoulders the liability.
So more like hyperbole?
> It'll display a the battery in miles, but it's at least 25% inflated.

Worth noting this is also common in ICE cars. Mine has it.
Aluminium's also more expensive than steel but experiences sufficiently less breakage to justify the price.
I used to work at a university where everyone’s Unix was their last name. Mr Root did not get this.
You can see from the photos in the article that the amount of waviness is not so large as to result in large angles between adjacent bricks -- the usual mortar between bricks connects them and doesn't even look like it's all that much larger a mortar join than for a straight wall.
Yes! For some reason my brain just always swaps those middle letters while typing—I've updated the blog post but it'll take a few minutes to get through the caches.