skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I link this to my Roomba, and in a few days time it'll design and build a much better Roomba, while confined to my apartment with only wheels and a vacuum to actuate?

I think a much more realistic outcome is that you put it into a fancier robot body that can go outside, and by the end of the week it's scrap in a homeless camp chop shop
> Everyone I know doing construction/trade work tends to drive much smaller pickups.

Smaller than an F150? Maybe it's because I live in the Bay Area where there's more money being thrown around but trucks of that size and larger seem to be common for trade workers.
“The competition does shady things too” isn’t really an argument for this not being a simple case of posting misleading prices…
Update your resume & look around for a tech lead role at a different company. If your current company's reorg isn't going to work out in your favor, it's on you to take action.
The idea is indeed logical and stupidly obvious, once you learn the basics of what "optimization" means, or what "recursion" is.

> I find that hard to believe. Ever watched Terminator?

Terminator has fuck all to do with recursive self-improvement. Don't confuse people who grew up on sci-fi with people who casually went to see Terminator or some other pop-culture artifact featuring some kind of "AI".

> OK, then. You're a GI, go off and build an army of better yous and take over the world.

What do you think the drama with eugenics, genetic engineering and designer babies is around? It's literally humans trying to make better humans in the only way that is available - reproduction.

AI made in silica would be more malleable, easier and cheaper to replicate. Self-improving software isn't even a fantasy; it exists in many forms - though it's far from open-ended like a self-improving GI would be.
AFAICT, sports cars faster than a 911 are relatively common. What automakers would be happy to beat would be the 911's handling.
Same boat here although I can say that in my younger days I was always a “civilized” driver on city streets but was also into street racing and bike speeding which was done in isolated areas or late at night. Nowadays I see more “1 block drags” to show the pop-bang of a shitty modded 3-series than anything else. That and the “Coupé-SUV” owners who think they’re driving an MRAP on an assault.
I think all airbus commercial jets are fly by wire.
Like literally every other engineering discipline, it should be considered software engineering malpractice to use a component that is not guaranteed to be fit for purpose or that you have not audited to be fit for purpose. If that means you can not use some whizbang library because you do not know if it works and you are too lazy to figure that out for certain, tough.

But I want to use the random steel sheets of unknown quality I found lying around to make a airplane is not a acceptable position. But, this does not mean you need to use aircraft grade steel everywhere. You just need to use things at a appropriate level for your purpose.

If they really must use software that guarantees nothing, then they must verify it works for their purpose or pay somebody to make it fit for their purpose, simple as that.
Next time this happens, I recommend just letting people use a different browser. Firefox in particular has gotten much better at importing bookmarks, passwords, etc. from Chrome.

It was a Sign from the universe that it was time to make the switch. Who are we to reject Signs?

(Full disclosure: I'm an engineer on Firefox. But that has nothing whatsoever to do with my advice here, no siree Bob, not in the least.)
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> What makes the Gaza conflict more prominent to the US than what's happening in Africa?

Lots of things! Israel is generally the largest recipient of foreign aid[1]. This is partially, but not exclusively, because Israel is considered important to various domestic groups for reasons that are outside of normal policy concerns[2]. For lots of reasons Israel (and the groups it abuses) are an important domestic political issue.

I don't think it follows regional wealth either. For instance - the Saudi involvement in the Yemeni civil war has been going on for a long time, is pretty objectionable, and is pretty hard to defend. Yet it's not covered very much because the fact of the Saudi-Yemeni conflict is awkward for the US. The US security apparatus thinks its important to be on good terms with Saudi Arabia for various reasons and so our information delivery apparatus warps the information it shows us to avoid making us think about it too much. Another way to think about it is that the news that is distributed most is at a local maxima of the intersection of "salience to US politics" and "capacity to make some money by sharing this news somehow." Gaza (and Israel) are, for various reasons, at the exact center of those two categories.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/14/h...
Are all the future autonomy claims still a selling point or is Tesla downplaying that more these days?
How do you generate the movement data?
If you want to go for a over-the-top techy solution you could do non-destructive testing with a near-infrared handheld spectrometer. It's a pretty neat technique that can determine ripeness of a lot of fruits (and properties of other materials) if that can be detected via abundance of certain molecules.

It looks though that Consumer Physics stopped selling their SCiO device that was ~$250 to consumers, and I don't know if there is any equivalent current alternative.
I see from the photos it will have side mirrors now, so no side cameras after all. Still haven't heard anything about crash testing, which I'm curious about since thick stainless steel isn't what one would usually associate with crumple zones. To be sure, I wouldn't want to be hit by one if I were a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
So the theory would be that grammarly desktop sees the gif (what? How?) and calls some browser accessibility function on it (or?) which chrome cant handle and it crashes?
too late to edit the above, realizing i left the name Volgograd (city on the Volga river) out.
I just re-read it recently after seeing Oppenheimer. It is even more about the cold war than I remember, as are Peace on Earth and Fiasco.
It's also a drop-in replacement for grep as it supports the same flags and regular expression syntax.
Whoa I totally messed that up! I didn’t even know that they dropped Chrysler in 2007 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Group)
Maybe if they don’t put a foot-wide console in the middle there would be more space for people and cargo.
This is where I settled. The net was kind of hard to use so there was a certain kind of user.

Writing blog posts is kind of hard so there weren’t a ton.

Then it got easy and everyone is on. So thus the yelling and marginalia.
> Everyone I know doing construction/trade work tends to drive much smaller pickups.

Odd for me all my friends who farm or do construction own either the F150 or the equivalent dodge RAM truck.

The other trucks either don’t have cabs big enough to fit multiple workers or fit full sheets of drywall.

Now I’m in Canada, perhaps you’re European?
What is it with Mac app developers and bad Japanese names, I wonder?
This is a great answer, thank you! It really makes sense to build a box with Proxmox at home with this view. Nice!
They should definitely publish the gif
>US chattel slaves were forbidden by law to read because it made organizing/rebelling easier and more likely

That's not the reason why.

The reason is rooted in Wessexian and Mercian cavalier culture.

The cavaliers were noble-blood hegemonic, believed that their hegemony was sanctioned by God, and that it was not only their God-given right to engage in literacy and certain leisurely pursuits, but it was their duty, and it was God's will that the nobles, and only the nobles, should pursue these things.

This cultural expression existed long before chattel slavery was ever a thing, with peasants and indentured servants being discouraged and disabled from literacy, though not necessarily legally forbidden.

So these people didn't forbid literacy out of fear of peasant reprisal, they did it because they believed God had granted the privilege to them, and only them.

See: Fischer, 1989. Albion's Seed.
Interesting that the marketing image on that page is clearly meant to suggest driving around on Mars. I think it is clear from the design and marketing that this truck is meant as a fashion statement not a work vehicle. It will be interesting to see if it catches on. I like some of the ideas used in the vehicle's construction, though I do not like how dangerous it appears to be for pedestrians.

If I made a prediction, it would be that lessons learned from the cybertruck will influence a new generation of vehicle designs. It seems to be a design that takes a lot of risks and tries new things, and I would expect some of that to stick. Tesla certainly has experience making vehicles and a desire to simplify and innovate, so I would expect at least something of this design to inspire new vehicle designs.

A lot of people are saying its ugly. I feel that way too though I am unsure if it will grow on me. But as much as people say that, I think it will catch on anyway. It's a very flashy fashion statement and I think that will appeal to people with money and those aspiring to look like they have more money than they do.
There is something quite shocking (pardon the pun) to older car enthusiasts about just how fast off the line dual-motor EVs are.

The super coupes of one’s youth are utterly obliterated on the dragstrip, not by EV coupes, but by family SUVs and pickup trucks.

That said, just because they can go fast in a straight line doesn’t make them in any way equivalent to a 911. Give me a mountain pass or a racetrack, (and no kids or stuff to carry) and I’ll take the 911 every single time.
It has a lot of use cases in the mining industry, such as monitoring mine water, ventilation systems, fluids in tanks and pipes, distance and angle measurements, remote operation of actuators and equipment, environmental monitoring, etc.
The nostalgia I feel is for the experimental DIY vibe and doing stuff for free just because it's fun or you want to contribute to a community. Hustle culture and corporate walled gardens have sucked the fun out of the old web.
I'm a technical founder working in a deep-tech startup.

If I am completely honest, I think the recommendation of having a technical cofounder while useful for startups in the past might not be as useful for the startups of the future.

Why? I strongly believe AI will cause a paradigm shift, and I'll adventure stating that AI will make non-technical people be able to do more and more with less. Which will make the requirements for differentiation in the tech side even harder to accomplish (very few people reaching the god-tech realms), but at the same time it would make the bases reachable for almost anyone. Basically, a more polarized order where less people will have access to "technical founders" that can differentiate themselves enough outside of the AI realms.

I'd love to get more thoughts on this!
> Bed does not fit a full sheet of plywood, so a deal-breaker for practical truck buyers.

Specifically said it does with the tailgate down, which is the norm for anything that doesn't have an 8' bed.

> You’d assume 96” would be a default parameter in any generative model focused on “optimum truck.” Am I missing something? Enlighten me.

I can only assume they made a tradeoff between cabin space, bed length and overall vehicle length. There is no perfect, only tradeoffs.
Or it might make things even worse. After all,the FISA court system itself was created in response to abuses by the CIA and FBI (and others) as a way to check their power. Instead, it became a (secret and opaque) rubber stamp that approves over 99% of all warrant applications.
Yeah, that is why software engineering and system operations is hard.

For example, the article doesn't get to a root cause in an absolute way. There is no absolute SEGFAULT of the OS causing the misbehavior. However, they nail down the crash to a gif, and if the gif is in, it crashes, and if the gif is out it doesn't. If the gif is loaded otherwise it crashes, too. At that level, to me, that would be enough, because we're users of the browser's rendering there.

Finding a solid cause that can demonstrate and reproduce a problem, and basing a workaround around that at a boundary you're unwilling to cross can be fine. If it's within the company, it absolutely is fine as long as you escalate beyond that boundary.

However, I have enough teams who are like "Oh, we set all values to 25 one by one and when we arrived at flum-value at 25 it stopped crashing. Fixed." Why 25? Who knows. Why flum? Who knows. Maybe the other value changed at the same time fixed it? Who knows. Do we use 26 once it starts crashing again? Fuck knows. Maybe 24 is better?

We have no explanation for 25, so why would 25 be a good fix?
From what I’ve heard, trucks are huge now due to various fuel efficiency regulations. A big truck is easier to make with fewer regulations. It seems like all the electric trucks want to prove they are bigger and tougher than the ICE trucks, but it seems like the perfect platform for small trucks, as the the efficiency standards would become a moot point. I’m looking for trucks like the old Ford Ranger from the late 90s to come back. The Maverick was a start, but they need to take it a step further.

Maybe it’s like with the Model S. First they have to prove it’s cool and remove all the excuses (too slow, too weak, not enough range), then they can scale down to the smaller more mass market options at lower price points.
I don't have any use why http would be the barrier. Works for matrix, works for ActivityPub, works for seemingly whatever.

I was really looking forward to http2 letting servers push resources to open connections, but alas the browser implementers have yet to get around to extending fetch to enable push observability. I love the idea of new chat messages coming in as http resourced the page just sees. But even without that nice to have, I want real contentions and real argumentation around how or where http isn't enough. It seems so greatly malleable, can be adapted to serve seemingly any scheme. Looking at grpc for example, it's kind of stunning how little has to be added to make a bidirectional streaming rpc system.
The avocados must grow!
Based on my experience with Large Language Models (LLM) so far, I see more value in niche sites that marginalia will help the user find.

An LLM is regurgitating what it reads, true or false. There's a bias for things it sees more often. There's randomness in the response. Sure, humans are error-prone but a problem with known computer responses is that humans tend to think "a computer did this so it must be right." And LLMs are not pumping out true thoughtful answers but simply putting a string of probably words together.

The internet is vast and is increasingly filled with garbage, stolen and duplicated data, and monetization. It's nice to be able to look in the nooks and crannies of the internet for data.

I'm actually more interested in sites that do personal curation of interesting links that are personally vetted and of interest to someone than what's found through google or chatgpt.
I believe you are correct, I mentioned "There is also a limit to the amount of times you can "just make it bigger" before it actually performs more poorly, as I understand it." But there may also be a certain sweet spot we can slowly increase as we do more research. We lose accuracy when we quantize from a larger model to a smaller one (such as 16b quantized to 4b) and it's usually done for speed, but a larger model quantized down tends to be more accurate than a model trained to be that particular size. So it would be interesting to see how it would work if researchers build up to much larger parameter sizes, but quantized them down so they were easier to run but still kept some of the benefits of the increased parameter count.

I also imagine parameter count is currently more limited by how much we can process at once, so we could be looking at the NES and trying to imagine PS5 games based on what we know about the NES :)
> Caveat emptor

Doesn't apply here. I would have loved to freeze the chatgpt4 model the day i bought it.

It's more like i bought a car, then 4 months after Sam Altman broke into my garage and smashed the car windows and broke the engine then left.
Everyone made fun of me for having one, but it was the perfect city car. Great turning radius & it fit basically anywhere. And the plastic body meant that if someone opened their door into you, it just bounced off instead of leaving a dent.

It's a shame they never made any significant improvements on the range. After degradation, the range on the i3 ends up pretty abysmal. The REx was a fun idea too and even let me take the car on multi-hundred mile road trips, without recharging, after coding the REx to one of the buttons in the car.
But for a trip you’re making twice a year an extra hour is hardly that big a deal.

That's not your call, for it's my deal. And 3 days to 8 days, as I said, is indeed a big deal.

And here we are again, with you hand-waving away my needs and requirements.

No, your way isn't better. It's worse. For me.

But that's not the point. The point is, electric cars have no legs.

And at a 40% estimate, that's 1/2 a million Canucks driving. And you try to wave away this number, by arguing as if this the only reason anyone ever drives long distances!

It's rare you claim. Well, no it isn't.

It's very common to drive more than 1000km, for many many people, although I realize you're not used to it.

Here's the thing, when people say they need the range, and that electric cars currently don't make sense for them?

They're absolutely, unarguably correct. They're correct, because requirements aren't met, and that's that.
Suburban married couples with two children who have a powerboat, bumper-pull camper, and/or like outdoor recreation.

That is, mostly the same people who already buy four-door pickups with 5.5 foot beds.

It could also be good for around-town trades, especially if they tow light trailers -- like landscape crews.
If they can "wrangle systemic complexity in a good, sustainable and reliable way" then I think that's AGI. If we hit AGI we'll have plenty of other things to worry about beyond being able to make a living as programmers.
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And if you wanna drain a lot of water with what you are eating. A single avocado needs 70 liters to grow, a magnitude more than a tomato.

Depending on where that farming is being done that might already be an issue.
In my hometown there is a light that is nearly instant during low-traffic hours. When I would walk to work in the morning I would press it and it would immediately go yellow->red but when I came home in the afternoon, with higher levels of traffic, I'd have to wait for the cycle.
Don't worry if you are a citizen of the US you'll still be affected by what trump or any other president does. Cause unless you renounce your citizenship you'll still be paying taxes.
Not just you.

Anyone who uses a truck a lot will have a 150+

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How many programmers do you see with MacBook Airs
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This doesn't seem very different than advertising a price after a rebate.

Saving $1,200 a year on gas seems reasonable if you pay $4/gal and fill up a 14gal tank twice a month. I'm not sure about the tax credit -- I assume those are guaranteed to whoever purchases the vehicle, but maybe that's not the case.
I'll go one further. The uncomfortable fixation on attractive women for the models is only an inkling of what is to be the primary application of such technology which will be porn. No matter how amazing that tech underlying these animated stills may be be the race for the lowest common denominator is already shining through on their examples. Don't think for one moment they didn't choose those on purpose. They know where it's heading.
Is this related in any way to the state of mind of a human under hypnosis? Is there any way we can check whether or not this is the case?
Well I'm not going to dig into all that data to see if it verifies your claims, so I guess I'll leave it there.

But the first link I posted came from the insurance industry, not from Tesla.
I'm not an expert in Buddhism, but from what I've read I think your interpretation may be a bit reductive of the many strains of thought that exist within Buddhism.

"You don’t disappear in the sense that you cease to be as an individual mind, you are always yourself - that’s a tautology. What you lose is the sense of some identity that’s separate from what you ARE in this very moment."

This assumes that there's any concept of "you" that exists independent of your thoughts whatsoever. I think you're right that some Buddhist thinkers believe in this kind of essential awareness underlying conscious thought that you're describing, but others would say there is literally nothing underneath. "The self is an illusion", "all is emptiness", etc. If you believe in those ideas, then you have no awareness independent of conscious thought because there is no you independent of conscious thought.
Just read this. Watts is the closest to Lem of any more recent author I’ve found.
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I think that concept is taken from Wolf of Wall Street, where one of Jordan's cameras in his daughter's room is a teddy bear with a camera in its eye.
Side mirrors are required by law, but they were supposed to be easily removable after delivery (which is legal). We'll see if that made it into the final version.
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There’s nothing particularly unnatural or even unfamiliar about 5/4. Also, “Take Five” was not written by Dave Brubeck.
Sadly I can't build a better me as I'm not of robotic construction. And I was a being a bit flippant with the world takeover. But as soon as AI reached human level it would quickly go beyond it given the rate these things improve, allowing it to get to to work on improved models. As something along those lines in the real world think the Tesla robots but improved with far better AI.

Actually thinking about it I wouldn't rule out Musk/Tesla going for the world takeover thing;)
Trucks last longer in the bay area. The cost is amortized over basically... forever.

Take a 10-year old california pickup to anywhere with winter and people will be amazed.
It shows a reasonable disclaimer at the bottom:

> * Prices assume IRA Federal Tax Credits up to $7,500 for Rear-Wheel Drive and All-Wheel Drive and est. gas savings of $3,600 over 3 years.
I'm no fan of Google whatsoever but I really don't agree with this premise that just because they're successful and their competitors haven't figured out how to compete yet that Google should then be forced to be sugar daddy to legacy businesses. The solution is unleashing your tech industry not more nanny laws.
I agree. I'm saying that the folks buying the former should not be doing so under the pretense that it's better for the environment, or society.
Maybe that would be an apt analogy if you didn't agree to an EULA limiting OpenAI's liability as terms of using their service. Your only path of recourse as their customer is leaving the platform.
I spend $15/mo to charge my Tesla.
You can easily remove snapd:

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/snap-remove-disable

Or use one of the 500 linux distros out there or build your own.

Linux doesnt force you to use one path. My reply is not meant to sarcastic I am just bringing to your attention that you absolutely have alternatives, because linux is cool - ubuntu included.
> > That's incredible marketing.

Still the best statement to describe Musk and his companies.
i've had the cybertruck for a few weeks now, here are my thoughts