skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Earliest delivery is 2024, so not really "released", is it?

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.
There's a stem of sorts at one end. Prod at it from the side - if it falls off easily, it's ripe or too far gone. If it stays attached, not ripe yet.

More usefully, you can buy pre-mashed avocado in the same style as pre-made guacamole. If the use case involves (or could be made to involve) mashed avocado this option has a serious shelf life (presumably it's irradiated or similar) and lives in the fridge until use time.
This is a tech forum, and no one yet has asked how a stuffed bear with a camera in its eye is being powered or retains wireless connectivity while she's at college.

If this wasn't creative fiction, I'd say the first sign that these parents never had anything to worry about would have been that their daughter either didn't notice or wasn't concerned that her beloved rechargeable teddy bear was stuffed with electronics.
It can pull infinite mass. Just not all at once!
As with the sibling post a surprising number of niches. The games industry is definitely guilty of having a blind spot about anything outside the core. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Wider game devs discovery of Roblox only after it had become an enormous juggernaut is also largely “kids with Chromebooks”.

Games like Krunker and frankly many others also have no issue publishing web tech games on Steam.
Well, avocados are good if you need more iron.
It's the sucker-punch of legal maneuvers.
It's smaller than a F-150, the best selling vehicle in the US
I would suggest you actually watch the interviews with these people and the interviews with Mark (who makes the videos).

I will re-emphasize "You can bring a horse water, you cannot make it drink". To us it's unfathomable, drinking water is so good and important, so the problem seems simple. Just give them water. But it seems that there is some contingent of society who just does not like to drink water. Even if you give them pristine water and a safe place to drink it (as mark regularly does).

If you needed to fix homelessness, the way to do it would be to round everyone up and force them into a program. Like a nice camp with food, housing, recreation, counseling, and no drugs. No drugs.

The key word here is force. But you cannot do that. They are adults and ultimately they control what they do. So you give them the option, and inevitably they just chose to stay on the street. Mark has lamented endlessly about this.
I saw the best minds of my generation get jobs in fintech, adding dark patterns to ridesharing apps, reinventing databases from first principles and pseudo-journalistic influencing instead of becoming policy makers.
The 11,000 may be limited by the suspension system.

So in terms of comparisons I don't think you're wrong, but it might be better to compare it to the F-150 Lightning for more of an apples to apples comparison. The F-150 Lightning Platinum vs Cybetruck AWD is probably the most fair comparison in terms of specs, but the CT is ~$20,000 cheaper

If we compare the F-150 Lightning Lariat with XR Battery to the Cybertruck AWD, because of price:

F-150:

Range: 320mi

Towing: 7,700lbs

Curb Weight: 6,361lbs

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CT:

Range: 340mi

Towing: 11,000lbs

Curb Weight: 6,603lbs

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F-150 Lighting Platinum to CT Cyberbeast, because of price:

F-150:

Range: 300mi

Towing: 8,500lbs

Curb Weight: 6,893lbs

---

CT:

Range: 320mi

Towing: 11,000lbs

Curb Weight: 6,843lbs
Sometimes I wonder if the cozy feeling of the "old" internet so many people are nostalgic for was really just a byproduct of a few enthusiasts gaining an outsize following because the net was financed by universities, governments and the military. Once the unwashed masses and commercial interests joined the party things "went downhill".

You can still blog if you want, you just won't get the automatic exposure.
Neonazi maybe not (yet), but neofascists for sure: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23248823.2023.22...

The "centrism" framing, btw, is fundamentally useless. In postwar Europe, PSE parties are left-wing and PPE parties are right-wing; other parties are fundamentally defined by their primary relationship with one of these two. The "centrism" mantra is reactionary twaddle to justify one's ideological vacuum.
Personally I only see the benefit of tiling for terminals. And in macOS, iTerm2 performs tiling perfectly. I just swipe to my iTerm workspace with tiled terminals and tab between other apps that are fullscreen.
And in fact, I don't think they have fixed it. I've seen "Error 5" plenty of times in Chrome. It seemingly occurs whenever I have a lot (100+) of tabs open for any site where each page allocates at least one accelerated drawing canvas (a literal <canvas>, or a <video>, or a .gif <img>.) I've seen it happen on Reddit (but only new reddit, not old reddit!) and on a number of other sites.

I hypothesize that Chrome simply has a global (i.e. cross-tab) per-toplevel-origin limit to the number of allocated accelerated drawing canvases it's willing to allow; and that when you go over it, Chrome forcibly de-allocates all the existing drawing canvases used by other tabs that have that toplevel origin loaded, thereby causing them to crash. It's probably a measure designed to prevent a site from from DoSing your computer by just allocating an infinite number of canvases.
Two adults, two kids in car seats, and a dog. With that, even a mid-size SUV has no space for cargo. If you drive a sedan, you have to leave the dog at home.
Stallman may ‘not have a very high opinion of many of the decisions that were made in Common Lisp’ but in my opinion he’s just wrong here. Emacs would be even more valuable than it is had it been implemented in Common Lisp.

Frankly Elisp would be better had it had lexical scoping from the beginning, and if it had Lisp’s condition system, packages and — yes — keyword arguments from the beginning.
> Someone thinks it is a good idea to use Smart Pointers then passes the value to library functions written in C and other languages

If you got a low-level pointer out of the smart pointer container in order to pass to a foreign library, then you're not strictly using smart pointers. You violated the encapsulation in order to get a "dumb" pointer out, and the issue is related to that.

This is a complete strawman.

"Don't use a garbage collected, managed languages, they are a myth. Why? Because a pointer to some garbage-collected object ends up in foreign libraries written in C, which can hang on to it past reclamation ..."

Well, gee whiz, you will just have to learn about the exact sharing situation with the foreign code (how long does it retain the object) and do what is necessary.

> Make them raw pointers and delete them when you know it is safe.

That's completely stupid. If you know when it's safe, it means you must know when the third party library is no longer using them. If you know that, you work that knowledge into the smart pointer solution.

Smart pointers, by themselves, have their own idea of when it is safe to delete something. That idea is very clear and obvious. If it doesn't match the reality of what is safe when, then you have to augment the logic. That's it.

If a foreign library directly accesses an object that you track with a smart pointer, you can create a proxy object representing that library, and that proxy object can hold on to a smart pointer on behalf of the foreign library.

The complexity of dealing with the foreign library could be entirely minor (and self-contained) compared to the overall resource management problem of that smart pointer class; you could be making a lot of unnecessary work for yourself (and future bugs) by uprooting the smart pointers in favor of dumb pointers.

What are you going to do if part of the reason the smart pointers are there is that they are providing needed exception safety?
> Is the "parameters" the vocab list?

The vocab list is the mapping of tokens to their utf encodings. for example, the token 680 is "ide", token 1049 is "land".

> So from the 7B parameters, it picks which 32k potential parameters to use as tokens? So the "vocab list" is a 32k subset of the 7B parameters that changes with each request?

No, do not think of parameters and tokens as comparable in any way (at least right now). The parameter count is just the total number of weights and biases throughout all of the layers. The vocab size is static, and will never change during inference.

this is simplified - you give it a list of tokens, and then there's a bunch of linear algebra with matrices of "weights". All of those weights combined is the 7B parameters.

The final operation results in a 32k long list of probabilities. The 680'th item in that list is the probability of "ide", the 1049th item is the probability of "land".

The model never "picks" anything, there are no "if" statements so to speak, you give it an input and it does a bunch of multiplication resulting in a list of predictions 32k long.

The model does not "pick the best token" at any point. It simply hands you a 32k predictions. It's your job to pick the token, you can certainly just pick the highest probability but that's not usually the sampling method people use https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-sample-from-language-m...

I highly recommend 3blue1brown to learn more about neural networks (and anything math related he's great) https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/neural-networks

tl;dr - very oversimplified - you multiply/add 7B numbers with your input list resulting in 32k predictions, which you map to the letters in the vocab list.
more like a murder weapon
Ask HN: Imminent demotion, what to do?
I was promoted to tech lead 2 months ago. Everything was going great until the company announced a reorg.

Things are still up in the air but I asked my boss what are the plans for my team and he confessed it's likely we will be split apart and each one will be allocated in different teams.

All the possible teams mentioned already have tech leads do my position would be made redundant. I'll likely go back to IC if I agree to stay.

The idea of getting demoted so soon after getting promoted feels bad. It killed my enthusiasm today.

Have you ever gone through a similar reorg? Any advice?
Plumber and similar trades allow for being a lone wolf drop an assignment and go away until I call you its done.
> - total stream-of-consciousness gibberish that could probably be assembled into a coherent statement if the writer would re-read what they wrote and edit it

This drives me nuts. Did anyone see this [1] on HN the other day? People in comments were springing up to defend this atrocious writing style.

Make a paragraph. Make a point.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38275905
> While things like TrueNAS exist with ZFS support, in the past iX systems has made some overeager patches to ZFS, to bring in new features that weren't appropriate to include yet IMO. I hate to dig up old news, but that's why I've avoided them so far.

I've also not enjoyed reading their forums at all, while information about Proxmox tends to be actually helpful rather than berating people over their hardware choice or spreading misinformation about ZFS.
> It's interesting to see that in people who often view themselves as hyper-rational.

It's perhaps because they are rational enough to realize, thanks to the same knowledge/skill that put them on the software engineer careers, that AGI isn't a fantasy but a possibility and a potentially very big deal.
Just tax them by the same formula and watch cars getting smaller and smaller. And getting more axles I suppose.
Also hard to compete with gestures only available in Apple apps like “quick note” where you drag your finger from the bottom right of your screen anywhere (even in lock screen) and a new note pops up
I love ripgrep, it's searched a directory in a half-second for a pattern that took GNU grep literally fifteen minutes.
Cyberiad or Star Diaries are good starts for the humorous (but still philosophical) stuff. Solaris is his best known work, serious, and excellent. It’s tricky because Lem is almost two authors, one serious and one ironic leading to zany. Everything is short, so easy to just try.
Drive-by-wire throttles have been a thing for over a decade, and the only company to epically screw it up was Toyota.
I think about this a lot, too. My academic interests are pretty broad, and I could improve in every subject, so why don't I? I think there are two reasons: a lack of focused effort, and the steadily increasing demands of adulthood.

I do reasonably okay at self-guided education when I want to, but there's definitely a difference vs. a structured secondary education environment, where there is accountability and other people to guide each other through the process. And, that's coming in to those subjects with already a better-than-average literacy and numeracy; I have to expect that for people who struggle with grade school reading comprehension or math, trying to bootstrap those abilities alone would be daunting.

Also, there's just less room for pursuing those now. Lots of people are getting squeezed by concerns that aren't part of most childrens' awareness -- housing costs, bureaucracy, the treadmill of maintaining all the machines that get us through daily life. Those add enormous pressure to dedicate more time towards professional development and "getting ahead", or at least not falling further behind, and that has been eroding all of the unstructured time that I would spend working my way through a textbook (or online class). People with poor literacy are probably more likely to have lower-paying positions, so all of those demands are even more severe.

Not that it's impossible. Lots of people do manage to self-educate their way out of poorer circumstances, and certainly the internet has made that far more accessible than it was before the turn of the century. But, let's not underestimate how challenging it is, either.
Pieter and Danny businesses are not startups, these are "lifestyle" business. They even say that continuously. They see what's trending and feasible, glue some generative APIs with an okish frontend and publish it. Repeat.
As far as we know the Romans used a similar system to the Greeks, there were usually no physical school buildings but parents did/could pool money together to hire a teacher who would teach in various public spaces etc. There are plenty of sources, anecdotes etc. describing this hundreds of years prior the the 3rd century C.E.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurius_Carvilius_Ruga is first person that we know of who established an actual school in Rome (and it's unlikely that there weren't any schools before that). He lived in the 3rd century B.C. (not C.E./A.D.)
Of all the people qualified for the role, it's only coincidental the CEO's son is the best fit overall. Nepotism has no role in Musk's strict corporate meritocracy, right?
Out of necessity children in third world countries you can see at least toddlers running around naked. Not because that’s what the parents ‘want’ it’s simply the unaffordability of clothing they outgrow fast.

As the economies develop it becomes more rare, till it disappears.

In many ways countries that are advanced today were poorer, for the average person, than today’s third world countries a century or two ago.
I'm looking at insurance plans and it is the same story, they show price as if you get the maximum govt assistance, even if I put in $1M for annual income.

I see this style of price hiding more prevalent everywhere. Too much psychology and dark patterns have invaded everything we do. I cannot count how many times I click a cool new open source project link on HN, see a pricing page, and find a "monthly" price with an astrix and toggle to see the real monthly price
Steer by wire is ok. We had all pedals by wire for ages. Hopefully they won't screw up the implementation again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agMrewRJTow
I always thought of Github as a place to host software projects, but it does work as an image hosting service as well I guess.
>> It is very frustrating when some Ivy League 25 year old PM/management consultant tries to pitch you on their vision while treating you like an idiot savant they can easily take advantage of.

I get calls weekly from people seeking technical co-founders. The biggest thing most CTO candidates dont realize is the power they have -- unless the "business co-founder" is actually bringing something to the table.

I'd LOVE to work with a "Business co-founder" who actually brings Purchase Orders, Funding, Transact-able Relationships, prior wins (esp publicly verifiable wins). That would be a dream.

It makes no sense to work with a "Business co-founder" who wants ME to put in hundreds of hours of technical work -- upfront -- often for equity "e.g., free" -- and retains the right to take all the upside and has none of the downside. Why would I need a "Business Co-Founder" at all in that case, I might as well be the only founder and recruit later.

I see tons of friends burnt by these types of "deals." The biggest red-flag is when the "Business co-founder" still has a job and no real skin in the game.
The debate here shows why we'll be stuck forever with the status quo: It's a topic that can be endlessly bikeshedded, everyone has an opinion, and there are a million incompatible proposals (each with drawbacks that will make some groups strongly oppose them).

Meanwhile, I bet most even don't understand the effect of DST (minimizing how much the clock-time of sunrise varies, at the cost of increasing how much the clock-time of sunset varies, https://coolinfographics.com/blog/2012/11/6/daylight-savings...)
Maybe I can't tell from the video, or maybe they're not working on this yet... But what about the steering wheels? Surely the driveshaft will have to have a joint on it on the front wheels in order for the front wheels to turn? Also this doesn't look like it would deal with camber changes which are needed to keep your tires flat on the road when cornering...
Elon said a long time ago they wanted their vehicles to be a smackdown for Internal Combustion Engines, and I think they're getting there. This is the kind of marketing that make regular people go "Wait, what? How is that possible?".

More than about 10 years ago that was simply unheard of, and I'm certain people would have said it was impossible.

Useful or not, it's a very impressive thing to do. 99% of automakers would be happy if they could build a sports scar faster than a 911, let alone a pickup with 11,000lbs towing capacity.
i look forward to the recalls
Two of my favorite organizations working directly together.
The main thing that may matter, at least in the short run, is that an external loop allows us to inject additional steps by applying heuristics and allowing tool use. E.g. we can let the LLM "realise" there errors in its code and have it continue from an injected "thought" about making sure to fix the errors from the compiler before presenting it's output, or "remembering" that it needs test cases etc.

We can also potentially add longer term memory - summarise the context, and judge which parts are important and stuff them in a vector store, and now and again swap in similar pieces of past context.

But of course it's not either or - better prompting to get the LLMs to do better from the start doesn't compete with then feeding that into an external loop as well.
Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38460281

I wonder if the price-gouge-EV-customers and complain-about-EV-subsidies groups overlap... Hmm.
Yeah this just comes across as not understanding pointer ownership, or memory allocation in general. It's not a trivial issue, especially if you're dealing with weird C libraries. Sometimes you don't own a pointer you allocated. Sometimes you need a custom deleter.

Within your own code you can just use std::make_unique and rely on the compiler to catch errors, but when passing raw pointers to libraries you really gotta read the docs and work carefully.
Tell me you have zero flight time or aircraft engineering experience without telling me you have zero flight time or aircraft engineering experience. This is no different from Trump claiming he wanted "damn steam" for aircraft carrier catapults despite electromagnetic ones having clear advantages. This isn't 1969 anymore.
It’s not really an issue. I have one of these hot keys set up and what it does is when I hit ⌘→ it will tile in the right half and when I go to hit ↑ it will then shrink to the upper quarter.
why do steer by wire at all? Is it cheaper somehow?
> As a Canadian this is disappointing to me. I disagree with the law.

As a Canadian, this is exciting to me. I agree strongly with the goals of the law (while holding nitpicks about the actual wording). I think the fact that Google came to an agreement shows that they don't have a fundamental issue with the law either (or they could've just withdrawn from our market, like Meta). It's a win for independent media in Canada, and thereby, for all Canadians.
It's about a foot longer than a Ranger Supercab and 10" shorter than an F150 Supercrew.
AeroSpace – an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
> Just picking up responsibilities doesn't mean you'll get rewarded.

I'm sorry, I did not mean to attack, or otherwise offend you. I was attempting to say that one can look for an opportunity to work in an environment where one can feel appreciated. I'd employ a person with such experience as long as they'd know some basics. What's TLS, how does it work, roughly. What's DNS. TCP vs UDP. At least understanding of what problems are solved (or created, if you are in that camp) by Kubernetes. Docker basics. Read open source code.

Those are interesting subjects. I'm sure there is a ton of hypothetical past problems one could attempt to modernize and have fun while doing so.

It's just a free opinion of someone on the internet!
The pendulum always swings.

10, 15 years later and there will be a widespread “rediscovery” of the human made web by those who grew up with LLMs.
The Israeli’s are using recommender systems to help choose the targets to strike. This is one of the most consequential, and dangerous developments in Artificial Intelligence yet.
I like the Minis personally. But they are 10k more than a bolt. Something about chickens not paying their taxes?
$280 in China, $8,892 in the US: new Chinese cancer drug approved by FDA
Note: still cheaper than similar drugs in the US.
I like it! Seems like a great way to incentivise companies to contribute.
And “His Master’s Voice” and numerous stories. It’s one of his favorite themes.
"Yep, a toolbox-sized battery against the back of the cab in the bed"

https://twitter.com/baglino/status/1730337374058463305?t=Pb5...
That's an excellent postmortem culture.
The lockdowns brought about a pandemic of selfishness. If x% of the people didn't like lockdown rules and they broke them and they were fine, y% of those probably absorbed the lesson that some other rules are useless.

It didn't help that most, maybe all, governmental authorities were improvising their COVID response, some other percentage of people lost their fear/trust in authorities that way.

Ha, societal breakdown indeed...
This is terrible, it will only encourage the Canadian gov to regulate more tech related things. They absolutely suck at tech.
I think the tide has turned on the Lightening. I know that dealers near me are trying to sell the ones they have.
A more "correct" fix has been posted https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/15615
Yes https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseFor...

(Not sure if popularity matters.)
I still open up TP7 in DOSBox-X to play with "leet code" puzzles. They're mostly imperative and the super-fast compilation time and debugger are impressive even by today's standards.