skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will never buy another Ford again for reasons like this. In the past 8 years I've had an F-350 and an Expedition and they both are plagued by software issues. Paired with the impossibility of getting parts, I've been suffering without HVAC for almost two years! It's horribly uncomfortable for 8 months of the year, and downright dangerous the other 4 as the windshield will get covered in fog and frost that makes it difficult to see. Never again.
It can help a bit but it is still complex.
The off-the-beaten-path nature of this reminds me of banks sending $<arbitrary decimal amount> as a PIN for auth.
Car makers are speedrunning that list.
Ehhh.

Solving any one problem with robotic manipulation isn’t all that hard. It takes a lot of trial and error, but in general if the task is constrained you can solve it reliably. The trick is to solve *new* tasks without resorting to all that fine tuning every time. Which is what Russ is claiming here. He’s training an LLM with a corpus of one-off policies for solving specific manipulation tasks, and claiming to get robust ad hoc policies from it for previously unsolved tasks.

If this actually works, it’s pretty important. But that’s the core claim: that he can solve ad hoc tasks without training or hand tuning.
Depending on how you run your containers, you should be able to run a debug container in the same namespace as your target container. That way you can keep your images lean and bundle all the debugging tools in a different image, which you run only when you need to.
I’m bad at reading zeros but isn’t that a bit over 2 billion with a b?
Pentagon Wars – Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution [video]
All Labor has Dignity
We’re back to the recurring question: what economics model will work without workers?
I've always wondered what percentage of "users" are "lurks" who never login, occasionally check a profile or click on a tweet on another website.

One of the previous uses of twitter was "announcements". Government, corporate, emergency, community, software, etc.

The previous move to require logging in was already a massive blow to that, requiring a payment would decimate it was a use-case.

I don't see company's/governments putting announcements on a paid platform. You can't expect people to pay for twitter for announcements.
It's a bit faster and easier than parquet, but right now the format is unstable, which is a huge downside and makes it unsuitable for medium/long-term storage. After DuckDB v1, they'll keep the format stable and then I think its popularity will increase dramatically.
They're outsourcing identity verification to gmail to replace the "email verification flow". This way they don't have to configure any email infra like sendgrid, ses, etc, deal with bounces and so on. It's also possible gmail has better API support to process a lot of email, but I have seen this in products that have nothing to do with email. Just plain we only serve gmail customers. It's likely also another stricter variation of we only serve US customers.
> I can't think of many other public figures that have spent as much time as him, advocating for blue collar work.

The trick is not advocating for the work but the worker. Employment, without fail, sucks ass.
Why not? To give the impression to ‘headline only’ readers that congress people do in fact get in trouble for insider trading.
An flat toml file is indistinguible from ini except one point: you can create an pure key value file without sections but not with the most ini parsers i saw.
You’re right, they are libertarian adjacent. I just get the sense that it’s “GOP Lite” these days, in terms of the policies and figureheads they support. There is a left-libertarian aspect but I don’t see much of that in the US today.
Does it? If I pay you to move rocks back and forth in a field does that work have dignity?

Making someone work a job that could be done cheaper and faster by a robot doesn’t benefit anyone. You’re destroying economic value and wasting the worker’s time.
Isn't the confusion caused by a larger point though?

Like, how many of the top 100 economically sustainable companies are environmentally sustainable?

I agree the title is kind of click-baity, but I fail to see how it would be misrepresenting anything.

It's just a clever play on the word "sustainable".
This is the biggest weirdness that I hope gets addressed.
My Ioniq 5 (ironically, a Hyundai...) puts turn by turn directions on the HUD, if you want--eyes stay on the road, but you get full visual feedback. To me that's the best of both worlds. Downside is it only works with the on-board nav and not CarPlay/AA.
Prediction:

iOS will get a stricter form of "System Integrity Protection" (the macOS feature that allows you to disable most of the sandboxing and code signing policy). The process for disabling it will be even more onerous and scary than it is on macOS, which requires rebooting into Recovery mode and typing a command into a terminal.

Third-party app stores and other unapproved software will be available if the user disables SIP, but financial apps and the NFC chip will be blocked.

Therefore nobody will do it, and Apple will say "told you so".
My problem exactly. My memory seems not to work well for symbols which rely mostly on position. Is it URL first or link text first, and do I put the URL in round or square brackets? Same with formatting: Is the first * italics or bold? I can remember <i> and <b> much better, and will trade off a bit of verbosity for not straining my memory anytime.
I love Munger, but I guess his freshman survey courses didn't cover pharmacology.

Glotz wants to use a name that has somehow charmed him: Coca-Cola.

Just why was Glotz charmed by that name?

Ctrl-F "cocaine" - 0 hits

Oh. Charlie is telling a just so story that doesn't comport with the facts.
Look around for microphones advertising both "dynamic" pickup and a "cardioid" response pattern. Either of these would work well, I use the Shure model personally:

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SM57--shure-sm57-car...

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SL75C--behringer-sl-...

Dynamic microphones only pick up what is recorded directly in front of them; you have to stay close (<3 feet) and probably amp the signal to be audible. I'd also recommend a microphone arm or shock mount to hold it someplace convenient.
Oh, thanks for this, I hadn't heard of RFC 9420 until now and it looks very interesting.
Got to be honest, qua customer, I have zero interest in alternative app stores. Maybe I'd care as a developer because I'd have money on the line, but I just have zero interest. And, fwiw, I'd rather have Apple act as my payment intermediary than hand out payment information to more parties.

I'm sure it's great or whatever, but I can't see it.
> It's in line with the classical definition of masculinity. What is not feminine.

This is not only a very western perspective but a very modern one. Regardless, the principles of liberating people from gender roles applies just as well to a gender role applied only to men.
It's the same with software - the electronics in use when we create a Jira ticket, or all of the electrons in use for all the Jira activity for an entire year of you building your product probably costs $0.15. Maybe storage and history and uptime - but Jira (cloud) that cost is shared.

What you're really paying for is the ongoing development of Jira.

(Not looking for hate on Jira - just an example).
Ideally I agree. The issue seems to be that barriers to entry are too high. There is so much regulatory capture in the automotive industry, everything is arrayed in favor of incumbents.
I am generally onboard with none native AppStore’s provided the platform vendors are able to have sensible defaults that will not confuse or limit what none technical people can do (basically iPhones should ship as they are but users can add none native AppStore’s by jumping through some fairly trivial hoops..)

The bit where it falls down for me is where does it end, if Apple / google are forced to open up their platforms so epic etc can have their own app stores, are Epic etc forced to open up their platforms (the Fortnite store for instance) so others parties can open their own stores within the game?
"Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37581866
Compounded monthly? That's rather cherry-picked. 0.75% interest compounded monthly doubles in 93 years, not 100. You're compounding the left side differently than the right side.

When talking about stock market returns, people are talking about year-over-year returns. There is no "compounded monthly"; 41% interest "compounded monthly" is actually 49.7% interest. Everyone would call that 49.7%, except credit card commercials that are trying to trick you.

The point is that GP presented the %-switching thing like a rule, but it's not. They've confused how that rule is applied.

Edit: I tried compounding every second. The rule works exactly. e is just such a magic number that continuous compounding is exactly the point at which this rule becomes true. So the more often you compound, the better this rule is. Wild. I still don't recommend using it for annual percentages.
Ah, so as long as you keep getting elected you won't be charged... that's the new game...
I don't know about in Svelte, but in Vue watch is for taking some sort of action when things change, while computed is meant to return a value.
This analysis, like many from Charlie Munger, is worth considering carefully but misses two curious aspects of the Coca-Cola story.

First, the price of a 6.5 fl. oz. bottle of Coca-Cola was set at 5¢ in the 1880s and remained 5¢ through the 1890s, the 1900s, the 1910s, the 1920s … all the way until the 1950s when the price was finally raised. The dynamics that led to this remarkable phenomenon is described in a Planet Money podcast [1] and on Wikipedia [2].

Second, “starting in Atlanta, then succeeding in the rest of the United States, then rapidly succeeding with our new beverage all over the world” is much easier said than done. Coca-Cola somehow hit this jackpot, but Munger himself would cite See’s Candies as a counterexample of a brand that, for whatever reason, does not travel as successfully from its place of origin.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/456410327

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_price_of_Coca-Cola_from_...
That makes sense. Everyone has always come up with my scams before ;)
A Soviet mathematician quietly solved the mystery of planet formation
I'm with you on all that. I think YAML's fine, and I like it way more than TOML for non-trivial files.

I think Python's pyproject.toml is a great use of TOML. The format is simple with very little nesting. It's often hand-edited, and the simple syntax lends itself nicely to that. Cargo.toml's in that same category for me. However, that's about as complex of a file as I'd want to use TOML for. Darned if I'd want to configure Ansible with it.
First, the infrastructure bill came out of the center, not the left (although it is fairly popular across the entire spectrum). Second, I don't see many people expounding the individual benefit from the infrastructure bill period—seems like a blatant strawman.

> Two-thirds of the jobs in the infrastructure bill will go to men: black men as much as white men, and Hispanic men a little bit more, because they’re so represented in the construction industry.

If I perceived the government as only capable of offering jobs and no other support I would also be pissed and feel alienated. I don't see much evidence that this is how people view the world outside of the Brookings institute.
It might be best to turn on “do not disturb” during such a session.
I see we are in peak bullshit again.

AI will be a force amplifier. great, we get that. I suspect that this kind of vague marketing bollocks will be generated almost without any oversight soon.

However there are also risks. Just like calico which used to be a really expensive luxury, and then with empire and colonialism, and later mechanisation became a cheap(er) commodity, LLMs will kneecap whole industries.

I think any site that relies on advertising on the web is going to die. This includes google, as they are the gateway to the web, and rely on you using them to answer questions obliquely. This means that the need for web developers and support staff is going to decrease.

I think the open web will shrink to ~20% it's present size. It will mostly revert back to hobbyists and people arguing. Things that require up to date data will continue (news, sports, gaming, etc.)

Social media will either thrive, or revert to small group chats (think half whatsapp half tiktok/instagram), to get away from autogenerated horseshit.

As for streaming TV/movies. AI porn is the canary there. If that takes off, then your kardashians/court reality/low budget drama might feasibly be generated (we are a way off though)
A New View of the Moon [video]
> it has the side effect of making it harder to hack your own car through a single point of entry other than the main OBD2 port

Thanks! Do you know by chance if the OBD2 port can talk to/control everything? Would that be a good entrypoint?
i agree, but that was not my point. this subthread started with a nitpick that overpowering competitive values would be self sabotaging as it would be employing the very thing it tries to get rid of.

competition is if course not exclusively individualistic. but overpowering competitive values in my mind needs to mainly happen on the individual level. that is, individuals need to learn to be cooperative. there is still room for healthy competition, like in sports and what not, but only if competition is not permeating through every level of society can we benefit from cooperation to build greater things.
And if they lose, big companies get a signal that they can train on copyrighted data, and serve the resulting models, as long as they dont redistribute the models or reveal their "secret" training dataset. They will probably work to obfuscate the copyrighted parts of the datasets.

Meanwhile, open source models and datasets are left out to dry, as they could still be sued. Either legitimately for openly including the copyrighted datasets, or illegitimately when the defendant can't afford to take it to court.

For users, this is a lose-lose lawsuit.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644 is along these lines.
Kids would absolutely disable SIP to get Fortnite and that's a scenario Apple doesn't want. More straightforward sideloading scenarios are more likely.
Novalight
It’s just a talking point people like to parrot
Thanks that's valuable feedback. I didn't mean to sound defensive!
...people actually use voice commands? I've not used them in any GPS for like 10+ years nor do I know anyone who has audible navigation enabled.
Midjourney is good for inspiration, but as more people use it things that are just whole cloth generations are going to start to look same-y and cheap. Some iteration/post processing will be necessary not to look low rent.
Found via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26033834
The WOTC CEO became Hasbro CEO last year FYI
You can generate advertisements at Google with GAI.
good, let Twitter die.

Find it on this list soon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...
The Surface Pro looks like it is sub-$1000 and comes with a 12.3" screen (I think they still use a non-16:9 aspect ratio which is why it isn't just 13"). I had one a few years ago and it was great for sheet music. Since it is Windows, you can easily manage PDFs. It had a pretty good built in PDF reader as well that also allowed markup so you could easily add in any extra notes. How reasonable it is to use for actual performance probably depends on what type of music you're playing (if it's piano, you really should print it out or get a special pedal for page turns).
None. There will be an economy of Robot consumers and Robot producers.
It’s going to lead to a stream of low quality shitware the likes of which you see in Samsung or Amazon app stores. Those Apple guidelines prevent those being listed in the Apple store.
If a majority of programming nerds weren't so averse to building UI to facilitate more complex actions with better guardrails, we'd probably be better off in many ways. Our desire to not standardize anything beyond "human readable ASCII-like" has held us back, imo.

Xcode's plist editing ability is a mild improvement over manipulating XML text directly, but could use more obvious shortcuts/hotkeys. Even writing XML in an IDE like IntelliJ isn't great, autocomplete should do a lot more.
> There's tons of empty land

Your premise is flawed... outside of Antarctica, there's not really much empty land on earth.
Intel’s biggest laptop CPU update in years is a departure from past designs
SambaNova launches new SN40L chip; demo of 1T param CoE LLM
Most of these "downloads" aren't actual downloads anyway, they just build pipelines doing `npm install`.
Another variation of this is the popup that only has "accept" and "remind me later buttons". It's even worse when it happens in work applications. Zoho does this. You open Zoho books, the accounting SaaS, and every X days after login, they show you a full page notice about some product/feature with options to "accept" and "remind me later". Imagine this in the middle of you rushing to create an invoice.

I'm a paying customer, so I send them an email complaining and they ask me to send them a screenshot of the exact notice. I'm currently looking for alternatives.
I believe they do this because most critical softwares are American, and as long as the NSA has better offensive capabilities, it's better for the NSA if international defenses are low.

I don't think china or Russia really have good offensive capabilities, so as long as it is the case, this helps the US maintain some form of cyberweapon supremacy.

As long as china or small black hats don't do harm, they will not raise security standards.
Payments have nothing to do with the integrity of the hardware or operating system IMO.
Exactly. Everyone except for the companies with the resources to move their training to Japan loses if the authors win.
My current head unit for (admittedly a 10 year old VW) does all of those things.

Backup camera, steering wheel buttons, MPG, fuel level, low tire warnings...

It's actually really impressive for for $190 I spent on it.

The only thing which it disabled when I replaced the head unit was the built-in handsfree bluetooth stuff. It all goes through the stereo now (and doesn't work that great). YMMV on these aftermarket head units.

A lot of the stock head units look like weird sizes, but it's really just trim on the front of it looking highly custom. Aftermarket units sometimes (often?) come with matching trim pieces to make it look OEM.
Even if that means they can't pay using their phone anymore? I know I removed magisk because my banking app stops working with just the manager installed.
This will really damage Stephen King.
Not really sure what the point is here. Microservices work great with database transactions.
Really? It doesn't bother you that you need to manually navigate to the Amazon web app to buy a Prime movie or a Kindle book, or the equivalents for any other digital assets you might be interested in?
I just use a cheap chromebook that can be flipped to be used as a tablet. Works like a charm and is very affordable.
Type 2 diabetes is solved with low carb and you can use the cheap food. See virtahealth.com if you want professional help.
> How do they know the wood was used 476,000 years ago, as opposed to a human 6000 years ago finding and using some 470,000 year old wood?

Seems absurdly unlikely—is there a reason to suspect this is the case? Even if you were to find half-a-million-year-old wood why would you use it to build a structure?
“Microwave oven to blame for mystery signal that left astronomers stumped”: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-ov...
Have you tried coding with it yet? Easy to see how you could get that impression from just playing with ChatGPT, but copilot/cursor/dropping stack traces into gpt4 is transformational.
I hear you. My compromise has been to use a cheap ChromeBook with touchscreen that flips around. I use the (somewhat clunky) Android MobileSheets app which supports syncing across various cloud storage so that part works quite nice.

But probably doesn't quite fall into the "lightweight" category...
Can you imagine a model that performs very poorly on MNIST that would perform well in real-world computer visions problems? If you can't, then MNIST is a nice simple smoke test when assessing models.
I don't think a reliable one with low latency exists, which is why almost all professional musicians end up using an iPad Pro. Insane overkill, but unfortunately the best solution.
That would be amazingly ironic if Epic, in its quest to free Apple's App Store, wound up with a court decision that destroyed any profitability of its own...
The point is that you're ok with forcing them to be desexed but not forcing them to live inside. Why?
It's not that people don't care; it's the client they use that basically have them reply to the l most recent message regardless.

I blame conversation view.
Be careful with users hounding you for features, especially ones like you specify.

Think of HN here. How many feature requests have they implemented over the last 10 years?
Toyota reveals its plan to catch up on EV battery technology
> Considering beavers make wooden structures for their own benefit and survival

It's more like they have a compulsion to stack wood where they hear running water. The implication here is intention and a cognizance of purpose, which is not unheard of in the animal kingdom but is fairly rare.
Those are valid points, and while I have a different opinion, I can't say you're wrong about any of it.

But I will say that the first time I used a JSON API that had replaced an XML one, I almost wept with relief. Perhaps because JSON is so simple, it pushed APIs toward having simpler (IMO) semantics that were far easier to reason about. Concretely, I'll take an actual REST API (that is, not just JSON-over-HTTP) over the SOAP debacle any day of the week. I know you can serve XML without using SOAP, but to me they're both emblematic of the same mindset.

Still, at least neither of them are EDI.
Not yet, but I may give it a try. The JSX this is as off-putting as a case of leprosy though. The idea that React needed to invent something new that wasn't JavaScript was absolutely terrible.
I think cars already have a sense of touch with the road with traction control sensors.

For everything else isn't touch too late, especially at high speeds? the point is to avoid the crash.
This was a primary goal of Google Plus: empower cookie / fingerprint joining. Even if Plus were to fail they’d still be able to harvest gmail and youtube for everything else.
I would expect the repetition generally comes out of necessity. If he's selling the parts to feed himself or his family he's that much less likely to choose to stop if it means giving up some source of income, however ill-gotten.
Sometimes when I’m doing yard work in the front yard I’ll notice the Amazon delivery truck come on my street. I’ll watch as it stops at about other or maybe every third house on the street and delivers something. I live in a suburban neighborhood with dozens of other streets very similar to mine. There are hundreds more streets like mine in the neighborhoods surrounding mine and I’m imagining a few handfuls of Amazon trucks are hitting these streets each day.

Then I imagine the amount of drone’s required to replicate even a portion of these Amazon deliveries and it starts to make my head spin.

I can imagine some use cases for the drone deliveries but there is no way I can imagine it replacing much of the current delivery system.
NextDNS
My dream: we give up on bullshit jobs. We implement UBI. We localize the majority of our agriculture. Humans, largely freed from fake labor, work communally on their local farms, splitting up the labor so nobody has to wreck their health and finances gambling on a lettuce crop.