skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a delightful little town on an island off SoCal coast, Avalon, where the main mode of motorized transportation is indeed the golf cart. The shaping constraint is geography, the town is on an island by a bay surrounded by steep hills, medium/long distance travel is out of the question. Would be difficult to transition nearby LA megalopolis to such a mode of transportation without enforcing political barriers to travel, which in practice would require a ruthless tyranny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon,_California#Transportat...

"The main method of transportation within the city is by small gasoline or electric powered motorcars referred to locally as "autoettes". These include numerous golf carts and similarly sized vehicles. Vehicles under 55 inches (140 cm) wide, 120 inches (300 cm) long, and less than 1,800 pounds (820 kg) may qualify as an autoette. Any resident may acquire an autoette permit with the restriction of one permit per household. It is very difficult for a private citizen to get a permit to have a full-size vehicle in Avalon."
With the 4-bed one, if you're on the top bunk, it's not bad, unless you get unlucky and your compartment mates are particularly rude.

The 6 is too much for me.
Completely agree and it's worse with electric unicycles.
There are millions of years of evolution conditioning humans to trust things that are familiar. It's naive to think we'll adapt effectively and quickly to extreme manipulation.
I only need Alexa for like four things and it excels pretty well at that:

* What's the weather?

* What time is it?

* Set a timer for X minutes

* Where is my stuff?

Edit: Also, measurement conversions in the kitchen are handy.
Agreed the classical electrodynamic approach lets us derive this relationship in terms of electric fields (Ampere-Maxwell and Gauss given a suitable gauge), a change in permittivity /varepsilon lets us change the region of this effect
I'm on the telecoms side because I believe it's yet another power grab disguised as a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, and no one has convinced me otherwise.
When is that measuring the salmon? Surely, calories per gram per kilometer is very high if you're swimming upstream and low when you're going downstream, right? Is this when they're in the ocean phase?
JavaScript is like the hammer that makes every problem look like a nail.
> The multi gig "backends" are all versioned weirdly and I find they're very rarely reused between applications.

I find that they're generally rather well shared between apps. I use Tumbleweed and only install apps via Flathub. I have around 40 apps and I don't have this problem. It was a problem when I used 4 Flatpaks and the rest came from system repos.
very good table
Alexa is unimaginably bad considering the money and time they’ve spent on it. Someone should do a business school case study on how it could be so bad. It literally can’t handle the most basic of tasks involving playing music on Spotify without making idiotic mistakes, or even properly processing the same 3 commands we give it every day to turn on or off the lights. I’ve been muttering for the past 2 years to myself about how they should fire everyone involved in the project. I guess they finally realized it too.
So, we rather explicitly agree that Python has nothing called a “language specification”, but that its published first party documentation includes what is, functionally, a specification of the language distinct from CPython implementation details?

Not sure why there is an argument here.
The worst part of an agent is that they will not show you a house that is for sale by owner. They are actively limiting your options and you are paying them for that service
This is far less likely in a world where people don’t use their cars to drive 2 minutes to the grocery store.
A bicycle is a vehicle in plain language, I don't think they were making a point about the, uh, legal term of art.

I was confused by your link, it seems to be saying ebikes aren't bicycles and are in fact a form of vehicle?

> Why aren’t e-bikes considered to be traditional bikes and already allowed on Reclamation lands?

> In accordance with 43 CFR 420.5(a), e-bikes are currently considered as Off-Road Vehicles
AIConfig – source control format for gen AI prompts, models and settings
Many aspects to the word "efficiency".

Space efficiency - how wide it takes to reach a certain throughput - train wins

Time efficiency - how much time it takes to get from point A to point B - barring traffic, car wins

Energy efficiency - how much energy it takes - bike wins

Your argument is just as strong without the subjective ranking of efficiency.
> While there are still three outstanding audits not yet wrapped up, the DoD reported that the remaining 18 failed, including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and National Security Agency.

Here's my surprised face: - _ -
I think your complaints are valid. For starters, I turned off that affiliate marketing thing, I wasn't using that anyways.
Sure, history made it so. From the automobile, to oil, to interstates, North America is it.

https://www.army.mil/article/198095/dwight_d_eisenhower_and_...

>> President Eisenhower is widely regarded as the catalyst for the IHS. His motivations for a highway network stemmed from three events: his assignment as a military observer to the First Transcontinental Motor Convoy, his experience in World War II where he observed the efficiencies of the German autobahn, and the Soviet Union's 1953 detonation of the hydrogen bomb, which instigated a fear that insufficient roads would keep Americans from being able to escape a nuclear disaster.
No. He can keep silent and still have access to the market.

There's no incentive to make him say it.
That would be nice, wouldn't it? I have a feeling the majority market share may have shifted a bit since 1999.

(edit: I mean from PC to IOS and Android)
Figured it out on my own a few years back. Only answer that makes sense. It's used for very few things, and the output of those is published annually. If we're using more fluoride than that, the difference tells you annual (uranium, of course) bomb production.

From there, the propaganda took off, any counter-narrative is conspiracy theory, and we now believe our own lies.

Hell, the funny thing is I think almost all our current arsenal is plutonium... how long could uranium have even mattered? Not past the 1960s.
I trust gorhill a lot more than I trust Apple or Google!
I think having a single-threaded async/await style interface for doing non-blocking things like creating and reading output from subprocesses could be pretty nice.

As far as I can tell Emacs already supports the primitives required to implement an async/await style interface. The way it works now, is that the editor is one big event loop. The event loop handles reading keyboard input and eval'ing the elisp functions bound to those keys, and while that's not happening, non-blocking things like subprocesses are being progressed. This happens outside of elisp, inside of the C part of Emacs somewhere.

Right now subprocesses support using custom "sentinels", these are an elisp function that gets called by the event loop whenever the subprocess progresses in some way.

I'm not really a concurrency expert but I think you could work these already existing things into a nice interface. Having built in support for this would be a huge upgrade!

There are libraries like emacs-aio that try to do this, but I don't know very much about them right now, but that should at the least serve as a proof of concept.
Completely agree.

This form of transportation needs it's own infrastructure. We need wider dedicated paths for this much higher efficient form of transportation that can carry many more people than car lanes can. Like in the Netherlands the Unites States needs to build an entirely separate bike path network so that these bikes can stop being ping-ponged between getting killed on the roads and slightly annoying pedestrians.

Every single person that converts from driving a car to riding an e-bike is one less person creating traffic. If there's anything cars hate more than pedestrians, hate more than bikes, it's other drivers. This will be a huge win for drivers.
Maybe for you it did, but not for the rest of the world.

The singularity is defined as a moment in time when the A.I. improves itself to such a degree that humanity can no longer keep up.

Throwing more compute power vs a single opponent is not the same thing.
How would this computer fare against the top 10 best players collaborating(or even top 90-100)? I would bet it would lose big time.
> nobody wants to believe the headline/article

Look at the headline—

"'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months"

and the article's very first sentence—

"Renewables alone have powered the Uruguayan economy for nearly four straight months."

versus the quote you use (the second sentence of the article)—

"In the three months to end-September 2023, the South American nation generated all of its electricity from renewable sources"

Both the headline and the first sentence are misleading. The writer did this on purpose. My guess is it's because he (Nick Hedley) likely knows that many (most?) people reading the headline won't go past that first sentence and will come away with a false sense of what really happened. Couldn't he have instead spread the good news with "Energy independent Uruguay runs its electrical grid on 100% renewables for four straight months"?

How is asking for upfront honesty being an acerbic pedant?
at a micro level that's probably true, but from a public policy perspective, I'm willing to bet that regular bikes effect to increase fitness probably saves more carbon in the long run (healthcare is pretty calorie intensive).
And that's the thing. We should be paying realtors by the hour, or some fixed fee unrelated to the eventual purchase price. The link between purchase price and the effort made by the realtor is weak at best, and often completely nonexistent.
Mxit existed long before WhatsApp. Possibly a decade. I used it in the developing world and it wasn't anywhere nearly as successful as WhatsApp. For example, nobody in my family used it.
That they have a very weird definition of what a «vehicle» is, is part of the problem : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle
Coax is cheaper, or at least was when I used it in 1995. However since coax went from machine to machine it could be more expensive if the machines were not near each other. What killed coax was a problem anywhere took down everyone, and so there were too many problems.
While its a great book, its really just a tour of the tactics used by Chinese manufacturers to gain the upper hand. It does not definitely prove that Chinese manufacturing capability is inferior, just that they have a mindset of squeezing every last drop of blood out of you and have many strategies to do so. And to be fair, Bernie was really squeezing what he wanted from his manufacturer. Overall the whole business relationship was miserable on both sides and probably shouldn't have happened but how else do you expect Chinese companies to get the business in the first place?

Its clearly backfiring these days since now some of the largest markets(US, & EU) are taking their ball and going home.
No I provided reasoning. Better to provide reasoning then cite some reasoning that can't be read because I'm not going to spend money to buy a book.
There is no way that will last without monetization. AI is expensive to run even on evaluation side.
The Transition from Indiehacking to Micro Companies
> That's well below average mileage

Hence the emphasis here and in other comments about finding ways to use cars less. I diverted an entire vehicle from the dump rather than buying new and requiring additional CO2 emissions in that production process. It suits my lifestyle well. I could have bought a used EV but this car was free to me (after cost of spare parts) and I learned a lot about how to work on cars getting it up and running again. Plus sometimes I'll need to tow stuff.

Regarding payoff: My research says 5-8 years on average (12k miles per year) after accounting for production and emissions (generation for EV, gas for ICE), so I'm curious to know where you get your data.

> 300 or 500k miles is more than possible with today's EVs.

I'd like to see empirical studies on this but I suspect the sample size of EVs with that kind of mileage is too small at this point.

It's well known that EV batteries degrade faster than expected, aside from early year Prius hybrid and later Leaf batteries which seem to be holding up well for some reason. So even if the car lasts, you may have replaced the battery multiple times already.

None of this even accounts for microplastic production from tire and road wear, which goes as the fourth power of the vehicle mass. EVs obviously on the losing side of that vs bicycles, ebikes, even small ICEs.
I think in the minds of many, software patents are the means of getting people to disclose their source. But they currently don't work that way anywhere.

(edit: actually IIRC it's fine to sometimes promote what you're doing on HN, so long as it's not Every Single Post) . Can you tell us a bit more?
Bike will get stolen anyway which is really annoying no matter the insurance. Not saying bike isn’t preferred to car, it’s just something I always consider.

I’ve got a bike AND a car, I still take the car on certain trips where the bike would make more sense logistically because it feels like 50/50 it’ll get stolen.
maybe, if you are in a closed system (like a small tribe). When most bullies Ive worked with went looking for other jobs they were treated like pariah, so it hit them when they left the closed system or someone from outside came in.
> The threat model also doesn't make sense to me: if an attacker can manipulate the boot process, I feel like they would be able to attack the overall system just fine.

That's not true actually. These capability systems have the principle of least privilege right down to their core. The checkpointing code is in the kernel which only calls out to the disk driver in user space. The checkpointing code itself is basically just "flush these cached pages to their corresponding locations on disk, then update a boot sector pointer to the new checkpoint", and booting a system is "read these pages pointed to by this disk pointer sequentially into memory and resume".

The attack surface in this system is incomparably small compared to the boot process of a typical OS, which run user-defined scripts and scripts written by completely unknown people from software you downloaded from the internet, often with root or other broad sets of privileges.

I really don't think you can appreciate how this system works without digging into it a little. EROS was built from the design of KeyKOS that ran transactional bank systems back in the 80s. KeyKOS pioneered this kind of checkpointing system, so it saw real industry use in secure systems for years. I recommend at least reading an overview:

https://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs428/doc/eros-ieee.pdf

EROS is kind of like what you'd get it if you took Smalltalk and tried to push it into the hardware as an operating system, while removing all sources of ambient authority. It lives on as CapROS:

https://www.capros.org/
also, Pacific Beach, La Jolla, UTC, Downtown/Gaslamp, Hillcrest/North Park are all pretty dense neighborhoods - so I suspect despite our major flaws, we have the capability to improve car alternatives pretty well. Much better than a lot of places with zero dense areas.
Broodwar and Starcraft 2 – Pathing
Advice is all about course-correction. Some people are too timid, others to arrogant. Some too impulsive, others too cautious. Some people should work harder, other people should be reminded there is more to life than work.

For any piece of good advice the opposite is also good advice, but for a different person! That’s what the author of this list doesn’t seem to get. Advice is about adjusting behavior in a specific direction, and that is very personal because the mistakes we make in life are personal.

Generic advice tends to have the opposite effect. It tends to confirm people’s biases. It makes people double-down on behavior that holds them back.
How is this different from the old terminal mainframe model?
If they figure out LLM running offline on your iPhone, it will be very funny how Siri will be the winner at the end.
Recent experience with the DMV in my state, was that to transfer my license and registration into that state (which is a customer acquisition problem, BTW) required me to book a month ahead of time in their online system, which even then resulted in me having to drive to an office that was the fourth-nearest to my residence.

So "YMMV".

I have literally never experienced anything that even approaches that level of nonsense in the private sector.
The Economist also wrote an article about this last week, spurred by the class action lawsuit. Paywalled as well, but I'm hoping you have some free articles left, unlike the WSJ:

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/11/08/time-to-take-a-...
Like what? The Nokia N900 or the Pinephone? There's never been any realistic choice to make.
Would be nice to have a diagram of the moves in question in the article lol
Not working for when I tried.

I wonder if I print a set of open eyes and test your game.... Will it detect the trick? Would I win or get banned?

Jokes aside, eager to test ; )
Admittedly I drove a pretty worthless car, but when I moved to a denser city and stopped driving, something like "swap your car for a lifetime public transportation pass" would have been really, really tempting, too.
Websites have obviated the utility of a buyer’s agent “finding” houses for 90% of buyers.

Setup alerts for the type of house you want, draw the geographic boundaries on Zillow, and spend 2 minutes looking at the listing and maps to find out everything an agent would have been able to tell you.
Ha, I went to submit a 'Show HN' about this and someone had beat me to posting it :)

I've been hacking on stranger.video for the last couple of weeks. One big design goal was to build something omegle-like that I'd be a little more comfortable using (thus there's no audio, no text chat, video is limited to faces, video cuts if it can't find a face, if you don't like what's on screen close your eyes and it disappears, etc). But I started before omegle shut down - the timing was surprisingly (and of course the shut down is sad).

The site is also intentionally set up to not feel too gamey; I think some folks experience this as "staring contest" and others as "weird art about missed connections" and I'd like it to be open to both (so, no leaderboards). I think it'd be really cool to set up some physical devices that are all hooked up to an instance of this site.

Anyway, I blogged a little bit more about the site at https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-12-stranger-video/. Happy to answer questions here ofc.
> I got annoyed and disputed them all and as of yesterday the claims have all been released. What a pain.

And from what I've seen, YouTube allows Content ID to automatically claim any and all "infringing" content, but the people who post the claimed videos must dispute each one individually.
Is it the fundamental architecture of an LLM that makes this problematic, or the input?

Based on how it's reported that they work, I assume that even without garbage in their statistical reasoning of the next word would occasionally come up with bad output. E.g. they might come up with 2 + 2 = 5 because of mathematical inputs such as "1 + 2 + 2 = 5".
Can anyone explain to me why it is awful for a person to live in debt but it is okay for the federal government to do so? I've never understood this in the least, other than the "kick the can down the road, America superpower backed by military blah, blah, blah" very weak argument. History is full of the carnage of failed empires that had this same idea.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN

32 trillion in debt seems insurmountable, has anything like this ever reversed course historically?
all this is good advice but you need to be lucky to be surrounded by good people.

One day in a team meeting I spent 15 minutes trying to argue with 2 senior developers on why it didn't make sense to me how they had declared CSS "variables" like this --10px: 10px; and were using var(--10px) in various classes all over the CSS. Team manager was in the meeting, who was basically just sitting there and ignoring all the conversation.

I gave up and just approved the PR.
I wonder why the HTML menu element was so half hearted. This is such a common requirement that it shouldn’t require hacks like that.
Yeah probably. Every EV comes with an 8+ year battery warranty, and it seems pretty rare to actually use it. No one I know has.

From anecdotes I've seen online, the only people who experience serious serious range degradation are atypical users (eg a taxi with 500k miles that exclusively uses fast charging) or owners of cars that don't have any thermal management for the battery (e.g. Nissan Leaf).
In your example there is no legal or otherwise requirement to verify to provenance of money spent in a casino. I think many would agree it's an overstep to start checking that. Going to the casino would require an invasive inquiry into every gambler's personal finances. I cannot imagine that kind of thing happening in our current world.

If I buy a bike, or any other good from another person, it is an unfaire burden on myself as well. That said, we at least have the ability to do some screening that may be otherwise impossible for a casino. I can ask at least for a copy of the receipt or proof of how the good was originally purchased. It's not perfect, and I've never personally asked or been asked for such a proof when buying/selling, but it's definitely possible.
Title companies are already pretty efficient and relatively cheap... not a lot of margin or process to improve with technology.
That is rude behavior from those two wheeled users. If you honestly look at the dangers and attitudes involved I think you will find that drivers of cars are a much bigger problem.

In a large portion of cases where a bike is using pedestrian infrastructure, or going the wrong way on a one way street, it is because the alternative would be more dangerous.

It is unpleasant to be buzzed by a two wheeler, that is inconsiderate full stop. However the actual consequences of a collision are much much less severe. The fastest e-bikes go around 20-28mph, and mostly travel slower than that. A heavy ebike + rider weighing in at 350lbs at 28mph has an energy of 1.2437e+4 J, a 3500 pound car moving at 20mph has an energy of 6.3454e+4 J, 6 times as much. Cars regularly go much much faster around pedestrians. Bottom line, you'll break a bone from a nasty bike collision, the car driver will kill you. However drivers of cars aren't held accountable.

We dedicate so much of the US built environment to cars, for their movement, and free storage. Look at how wide car lanes are... encouraging speeding (despite what the speed limit signs say). Look at how entitled car owners are that they think its fair for them to store their private property on public space for no charge. If we gave a small percentage of the space dedicated to cars for bikes, bike use would flourish because it's safer to ride a bike. Given that most trips are less than 3 miles, its also quicker to get around on a bike, especially an ebike than a car.

[1] https://www.1728.org/energy.htm
Why would there be any more risk than if they were instead walking on the road ?
Problematically, in some states you can deduct the price of a trade in from the taxes you pay on the new car. What this means in practice is that even if you sell private party, the net amount you get may end up being almost the same unless the dealership is truly robbing you on trade in value due to the deduction on new car tax.