skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
General Motors' autonomous vehicle unit recalls cars after dragging a pedestrian
Either install windows without being connected to the internet or log in using username: test
pass: fuckmicrosoft
It will fail to log in and offer to create a local account.
PD: that password is optional, any password will do, but over time I noticed it is good for mental health.
> go to the dealer to buy a replacement key fob for your Tesla for $300 and not eBay for $5.

Off topic, but FWIW: Teslas don't in general use fobs (maybe you get one with an S or X?). You can buy one for $175 if you want, but in general the primary unlock mechanism is the app on your phone, with the effective root of trust held in an RFID wallet card (of which you can buy extras for $20 each).
> Oh yeah, imagine a transportation technology that killed people every week. No way that would be legal. Except if it's cars, for some reason they magically get a pass.

Imagine a transportation technology that killed orders of magnitude more of people every week. That's the reality if you just magically s/car/jetpack/g for everyone.

> We could get rid of those hoops and flying cars would still have a lower death rate than the regular kind.

Not really. Driving a car is trivial compared to flying a helicopter; the hoops in question are mostly about ensuring pilots are properly trained (vs. half-ass bullshit trained, "you'll learn the real thing on the road" that is getting a driver's license) and actually meet some health standards. Number and difficulty of hoops differ in various areas of aviation, but they all recognize just how much easier it is to kill yourself with an aircraft, and how much more death and destruction an aircraft can cause.
Also https://xkcd.com/1987/

Edit: not to imply that the work of the maintainers hasn’t been INCREDIBLE (it has). I just thought this XKCD was a funny take on how complex the python packaging ecosystem is.
Compressed memory is a performance increase. CPUs are fast.
Mapping and modding Quake 2 and 3 pushed me from Basic and HTML/CSS into much less forgiving C/C++ programming around the same age -- wouldn't be the engineer I am without it. It's invaluable to modify something you know and understand and extremely rewarding, which is the first thing I teach to friends who want to learn.
Thanks for conceding the point. Have fun.
With a bit of work to nerf some of the telemetry and dumb stuff, I liked 10 as much as 7. I won't say you're wrong.

Windows 10: From my Cold, Dead Hands.
Very naive question, but are the semantics of Fortran so different that it can't be translated to C first and then compiled using a C compiler? Perhaps maintained in C going forward?

I can't imagine there are a lot of Fortran folks around maintaining these old libraries - they must need maintenance no?
I built a new computer a few months back and made the mistake of buying Windows 11. The amount of effort it took to get to work the way I want made me really feel like I could have just spent the same energy on a Linux operating system. Thank God for Valve and all of the effort they are putting into making Linux gaming viable.
Are you trolling? In-garage delivery is obviously an optional feature and one that usually costs extra (Eg Walmart InHome is $20/mo)
No, I used the word "mitigate" to indicate I expected mitigation...

> expressed surprise that any bias effect was left at all

Nope, if you scroll up you'll see that "somewhat" word there (you replaced it with "at all").
I’m not doubting individual complaints, but I’ve noticed for basically every product that the people who are heard in public forums tend to be people who have a complaint while people who are content are often relatively under-represented in such places. And so, if your views of something are formed by reading reviews, you almost always form a more negative review of the thing than you would have if you experience it yourself. Add in various partisan attitudes about Teslas, and I’ve consistently found that the impression I got from reading about Tesla, Autopilot and FSD was significantly worse than the experience of using them.
Time to regulate OS releases. Prove your new version is actually an upgrade, and increase user productivity first - not just forcing them into your regulatory captured product suite.
I think homemade jam would tick nearly all those boxes.
That prompt has saved me from an accidental shutdown more times than I'd care to admit. In some cases we didn't have offline management/VM console to trivially turn it back on.
I like the idea, but it seems to have too high a cost for its value. Something like $12 per year sounds much more reasonable.
Oh, Meson is definitely a "sorry Dave" kind of build system. In many cases it's extremely opinionated, though I have only found a couple cases that get into "infuriating" territory.

It does compensate by generally preserving a lot more sanity than its competitors, and having a readable and maintainable description of the build system.
Something I noticed about all these projects (and they are quite a few) is that they are quite old (some going back ~2 decades or so).

I wonder what is the dynamic behind that longevity. Music hasn't changed ofcourse but on tech side I would think there are significant new possibilities.

Is it something related to the difficulty of implementing low level algorithms (famously a lot of linear algebra stuff goes back decades and rests on C / Fortran libraries). Is it that there isn't enough interest to justify new efforts or are those systems already near "perfection"?
Azure OpenAI had an advantage of larger context length. Hoping they boost up the Azure offering following OpenAI updates yesterday.
Or at least, I'm pretending that I'll sell it. Lol.

No promises. But if something looks good enough maybe I'll ramp it up to a real production run.
It’s like an analogy from high school. 1 is to 8GB as 2 is to 16GB. See, they’re analogous.
"Better" is subjective and not the term I would use in this context.
The problem with self driving cars is we are.. putting the cart before the horse.

That is a lot of the hard issues with driving are preemptive knowledge issues. I see a ball rolling towards the road from the left. I as a human know that, one the ball will likely roll out in front of me, and two, a kid/person may be following that. Now if you see a blowing trash bag, you probably aren't going to take any risky corrective action to avoid it.

The problem just a vision knowledge system is a ball and blowing trashbag are just objects that have the same priority. You have no categorization system of the relative meaning and dangers behind each action.

But things start getting weird when you couple LLMs with vision knowledge. Really, it's much too slow currently, but in multi-modal systems objects get depth of meaning. That trash bag can be identified, and a low risk can be assigned to it. While the ball can also be identified and a high risk assigned to it. Along with a bunch of other generalization that humans typically do.
yeah, fortran has native arrays
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X isn't the problem, people are.
Cmd+Up or Down arrow to move to the beginning or end.

Cmd+Shift+Up or Down to select.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 for the rest of the shortcut keys.
Additionally, LTSC is a lifeline that was designed to eventually run-out. The individuals that rely on it are in for a rude awakening when the LTS period expires. Microsoft has no interest in catering to you; they want enterprise users on metered B2B solutions, and individuals on their ad-ridden "Home" OS. If you feel insulted, the best they'll offer you is the option to buy a "Pro" license and feel even worse about yourself.

If it works, it works. But LTSC users are like that meme of the smug guy on a plank, aiming at the dude who's keeping them from falling off a cliff.
ChatGPT is a good editor for the papers I write for school. Even for short sentences I don't like, I'll ask it for some options to reword/simplify.

I also use it heavily for formatting adjustments. Instead of hand-formatting a transcript I pull from YouTube, I paste it into Claude and have it reformat the transcript into something more like paragraphs. Many otherwise tedious reformatting tasks can be simplified with an LLM.

I also will get an LLM to develop flashcards for a given set of notes to drill on, which is nice, though I usually have to heavily edit the output to include everything I think I should study.

In class, if I'm falling behind on notetaking, I'll get the LLM to generate the note I'm trying to write down by just asking it a basic question, like: "What is anarchism in a sentence?" That way I can focus on what the teacher is saying while the LLM keeps my notes relevant. I'll skim what it generates and edit to fit what my prof said, but it's nice because I can pay better attention than if I feel I have to keep track of what the prof might test me on. This actually is a note-taking technique I've learned about where you only write down the question and look up the answer later, but I think it's nice I now can do the lookup right there and tailor it to exactly how the prof is phrasing it/what they're focusing on about the topic.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot and we've had to ask you this multiple times before.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
It’s never perfect, but it still is a high barrier to pass.

As for modern therapies, I mean - depends? A lot of our modern illnesses also simply didn’t exist at the scale they do now.

Heart disease has been going up steadily in the past few centuries for example.

ADHD is an interesting one too. I have ADHD. For the vast majority of human history it probably won’t have been a big deal for my mental health, but it is now due to what’s expected of me.
I would expect that some people are genuinely working really hard on making the UX better. But there are equally powerful forces of people who see how they can enrich themselves by actively making the UX worse. It is difficult to underestimate the effectiveness of a sociopathic manager who sees a path to making money at everyone’s expense.
Why not you and your neigbor just give your address as

Big pink house on Foo St. (#8-5-5)

or

Big red-and-yellow-striped house on Foo St. (#8-8-5)

or whatever colors they are? If they are the same color, repaint one of them.

As a bonus, this will completely throw off all the automated data brokers, idiots that use "KYC" as an excuse to want to know where you sleep, etc.

Alternatively put an apartment number on your house (there will be only one apartment, of course.)

One of you will be

855 Foo St. Apt. 1

The other will be

885 Foo St. Apt. A
California has some of the best funded public schools in the country. California has some of the smartest technologists and inventors in the world. California has mostly crappy public schools. Clearly adding money has very low marginal utility in the current educational marketplace.
This should simply be illegal. Fraud.
Idiomatically phrased as "a lie will make it halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on"
Yes, this space is high on tradeoffs.

With plenty of source power, pixel grids are flexible. You can construct these from LEDs and paper, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWGoC-9z2Qw. Or chain together 16x2 displays, or use flip-dot displays if you can source them.

If you are low on power, morse-code over a single LED would go a long way - low on equipment cost. Audio output and radio could also be decent low power outputs.

Seven-segment displays are workhorses. Restrict the interaction to hexidecimal characters.

Other obstacles for post-apocalyptic computing are power and storage.

For power - generation itself could be ok from a bicycle. But you need a way to buffer the power.

For storage - FeRAM should be a good option. Will not decay like conventional disks, so long as you repopulate it every few years.
> If savings incerease when the deficit increases, why don't we crank defecit so high that everyone can be billionaires?

Nominal wealth is relative. If everyone is a billionaire it doesn’t change the relative claims we all have on real resources.

What we can do however, and what MMT economists recommend, is using the power of the federal government as the issuer of the currency to ensure spending is maintained at full employment levels (meaning 0% involuntary unemployment). The best mechanism to achieve that is a federal job guarantee.

> And if the savings decreases when the deficit decreases the entire country must have been broke when we paid off our debt in 1835. Right?

Well sort of. Every budget surplus leads to a recession or depression[0]. However the US could retire all its “debt” overnight and stop issuing bonds and paying interest if it wanted to, without any surplus. The fancy terms for this are quantitative easing and overt monetary financing but fundamentally there is no difference between treasury issuing bonds “out of thin air” and issuing reserves “out of thin air”. Both reserves and government securities are high grade financial assets held by private banks, the nature of the liability held makes virtually no difference to the operation of the money system.

Bonds are simply used to set and defend the target cash rate which is also a pointless vestige, we should just have ZIRP forever[1].

[0] https://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/pn99_3.pdf

[1] https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/07/debt-free-money-...
All the CVE bros just fainted reading this
Ideally this lint would ignore if (false) and if (true), even though these are still constant binary expressions, they aren't vectors for similar bugs like the constant expressions in the blog post.

Although "real" production software would use feature flags of some kind instead of hardcoding the constant, sometimes you do just need to hide some code behind an if statement that is currently ineffectual, and linters that prevent that are extremely annoying and force me to write a confusing, convoluted expression that is too complicated for the linter to detect as constant true or constant false.
Github Copilot has been really valuable to me and has had meaningful, positive impact on my life.

Crypto hasn't made me more productive in any way. To me, it's had the same utility as an online casino.
Yeah. Nothing against your article. As someone whose native language is RTL I can tell you this is not an isolated case at all. If you're used to operating a computer in RTL languages like Arabic script you'd see this stuff every single day. Not exaggerating at all. ;)

Unicode is such a complex beast this is just one aspect of it.
Sad clown paradox
2005 is about as late as you can go before the processors in cameras started being powerful enough to do a lot of stuff to the images. Most of my collection is very early 2000s or even late 90s. The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-F717 is a great cam from 2002 that was Sony's flagship at the time. Despite having cool features that modern cams don't (nightshot which also allows for easy IR photography, a swiveling lens assembly), the pictures have that "filmic" look thanks to the CCD sensor and little to no denoising done in-camera. It was also high resolution enough for the time (5MP) that the pictures still look reasonably detailed and sharp. Super early digicams often had like 1MP sensors that produce quite fuzzy images (though I feel that has its own appeal)
> gas station attendants

Only when legally required by law, and you end up paying for it in the price and availability -- ever tried getting gas in Oregon after 9pm?
But this person gets to give a presentation to leadership about the reasons users disable OneDrive and propose am ambitious plan to improve it. Users filling up their OneDrive means more money while probably not only a tiny minority will move away from Windows because of stuff like this. The cost of moving to a new OS you aren't used to is huge for most users.
You still need an API for getting new codes. If you're willing to switch apps and manually generate a new code every time you order something online, you likely don't order often enough to be relevant to any e-commerce company
> Thinking || allows for set operations: states.includes('VALID' || 'IN_PROGRESS')

Genuinely wondering what language that would have been valid in.
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chatgpt doesn't just program, is interactive, this will make junior dev. more emphasized in their strength and not, while gaining a lot of experience
I partially agree. I think the last giant hype cycle around crypto had no pants on the entire time. It was all one giant delusion, and also why I don't think crypto will have step 4-5. It's just dead outside of incredibly niche uses (many of which are crimes).

I also agree that there's something there there with LLMs... but also that it's hopelessly overhyped right now.

Smartphones are a good example of this - nowadays we tend to think about iPhone or BlackBerry as the start of the smartphone "era" - but that wasn't the actual start of smartphones.

The first smartphones were called PDAs, and there was a hype cycle around that! Lots of companies wanted in! But adoption was abysmal and the whole thing fizzled out. BlackBerry and iPhone were the steps 4-5 of that cycle.

The state of LLMs right now is the Palm Pilot. Whiz-bang. Cool. Tons of press. Lots of imagined applications and attempts at mainstream adoption - but honestly nowhere near good enough to achieve mainstream breakout. Died a slow death without fulfilling its most lofty promises, and the space was relegated to a niche status until the actual entrants arrived to actually achieve mainstream success.

I think LLMs will have a step 4-5 with actual mainstream success. I just don't think the current players are it, and also that the vast majority of the current players have no pants on and are just pure grift.
All the people they should be tracking block it
You responded to a post saying that the effect exists (neither characterizing magnitude nor what the base rate would be without mitigation) and said you were surprised that was the case.

If you only expect mitigation, there would be no basis for surprise, of any degree, at the mere fact of the effect existing.
Win 7 is the only version of Windows that I think is actually good.
they are trying to trademark "GPT" and "GPTs"..in order to do this...they need to use it widely and specifically...i don't believe that it has gone through yet..so in order for it be approved they will use this name...then prevent others from using it....thats the game...
I agree, but then I expect the major benefit of current AI will be in providing reference solutions to previously intractable problems - it'll be much easier to develop more deterministic, classical / GOFAI methods of solving those problems once we have a wasteful but working solution to play with and test against.
What is it with this ad madness creeping into products we paid for everywhere? I own the product, i paid for it, now go away. If amazon sold it underpriced that’s their problem, not mine. This practice should be made illegal.

Anyway if you have a playstation laying around plug your tv into that and use that for online content.
Well, Hamas members at least would generally claim this. So the set of people isn't zero.
If mankind didn't do great things because they are poor people, well, we wouldn't do much of anything at all.
Anyone know more information about how this was built?
Define "uncivilized". If I choose to occupy a national park and live off grid and disconnected from society, do I qualify? Or is some kind of ancestry on a land required? If so, why? Isn't such a requirement kind of arbitrary? Why does my accidental birth into this society necessitate that I must slot into this bureaucracy?

> At the same time I can advocate for letting groups of people control their territory and form states that aren't liberal democracies, since that's yet another form of allowing for dissenting views.

What if they want to home school all of their children, do they have to abide by some kind education standard? The bureaucracy will come for you for any choice it finds unpalatable.

I don't see a way to reconcile these without a lot of special pleading. In the end, a form of natural selection will dominate and only the type of people who can fit well into the most optimal bureaucracies will thrive. Maintaining indigenous rights and the rights of "uncivilized" humans will be simply a curiosity, like how we keep animals in a zoo, rather than some coherent recognition of an inherent right to exist and live apart.

I'm not taking a particular side on this question here, I used to be all pro-civilization, science, research and expansion into space, etc. in the Star Trek sense, but I've increasingly recognized the natural selection aspects of this and the apparently inherent incompatibility with liberty.
We have this already - “f2c” has been around for decades.
Fortran is a higher level language than C. There are plenty of fortran developers.

It's awful for application development, but that isn't it's niche
I am using Phind quite a lot. It's using it's own model along GPT 4 while still being free.

It is also capable to perform searches, which lead me - forgive me founders - to abuse it quite a lot: whenever I am not finding a good answer from other search engines I turn up to Phind even for things totally unrelated to software development, and it usually goes very well.

Sometimes I even ask it to summarize a post, or tell me what HN is talking about today.

I am very happy with it and hope so much it gains traction!
You're missing the point.

The point is not whether Hillary is good or bad.

The point is that most people are unable to remember good things that even very famous career people have done, despite this information being in the public record. It's just not covered, repeated, and as memorable as bad things that people have done.

You're focused on "Hillary bad!", not realising that that's the point I'm making. You can only remember bad things.

The exercise is to see if you can name good things. You can't, not because she's unadulterated pure evil, but because good things are not as memorable in general.

Try for a moment to rise above your primitive animal tribal instincts and think like an anthropologist.
> there would be no basis for surprise, of any degree

That's what the "somewhat" is for. Apologies again for your confusion.
You don't know what you're saying. That's because of virtual memory and its much slower. Apple's claim is bullshit and they lie.

Every modern OS compresses memory, not just the MacOS. And no 8GB is not equivalent to 16GB on a Mac. Apple says it so foolish people believe it, but its not true. Sure unified has advantages, but they're saying BS.
Inexperienced engineers aren't the problem. Juniors will submit spaghetti code messes, but those can be cleaned up without too much trouble. The real problem is incompetent people higher up that can make large scale architecture and design decisions. e.g. somewhere I used to work there was a VP that decided to hand roll an ORM instead of just using Django.
> Israel should have done a better job of protecting Palestinians from Hamas, as they are now doing:

They've protected over 10,000 Palestinians so far!
If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend checking out the story of MyHouse.wad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAo54DHDY0

If you want to go in spoiler free, I'd recommend downloading the WAD and playing it through blind. But if you don't have the time for that, there's a ton of great youtube videos that covered the topic.
I've found the Roku UI to be pretty laggy every time I used it. It seems to be running at 10 FPS or something. Huge turn-off.
I've been hearing something like this about Python builds every two or three years for decades. How long until the next "big transition" is "converting legacy PEP 517 projects"?