skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just started using copilot last week. I was blown away. I would barely start typing and it would show me anywhere from a single line to 15 lines of exactly what I had been intending to write. It was mind blowing. In one instance, it found reference to data in a totally different part of the page and correctly used it in the code it was creating. I still can't figure out how it did that. I was beyond impressed. Sometimes it was 100% spot on, other times it was 90% of the way there, but it was crazy how much time it saved. Though, I have been programming for many decades, so I was able to tell pretty easily if what it was creating was good or not. I think this could lead a new coder astray.
I bought a 2004 corolla off the lot and my experience has been the same.

legitimately the only major repair I've ever needed is to replace the oil pan and that was my fault. runs like a champ, I literally just got back from driving it about 10 minutes ago.

It looks ugly as sin as over the years people have thrown themselves at the vehicle, including a line down the passenger side where a fedex semi took a left turn too sharply, but it runs beautifully. Part of that is maintenance, of course, but if you treat'em well they'll treat you well.
Indeed! I recently learned about an aspect of this which is named and tied to national brand strategy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Japan
Why is the countdown silly?
how common do you think this perspective is? outside of places like this one, of course. as far as I can tell, the average person's perspective of the guy likely hasn't changed much in the past few years at all.
Maybe you could read the flipping comment?
If you had a torn cv boot, it was a 4x4. The cv doesn't actually transmit any power when you're in 2 wheel drive mode. So unless you did many miles in 4x4 after the torn cv boot, you wouldn't really ever experience a problem with it. That's very different than a FWD car with a torn boot.
Wow, that's cool! I asked ChatGPT "The fragment coloring is currently greyscale, update the fragment coloring to create a rainbow effect." and it created this excellent animated rainbow effect, first try:

https://pastebin.com/raw/NtYuJv1m

It looks especially good with the changing colours highlighting the bloom effect
From the article:

> For stimulation, focused ultrasound waves can flexibly target specific regions throughout the brain from outside the skull.
I have a VW bus that doesn't see a lot of use and with a bit of fiddling it was easy enough to run a (fused) connector to just behind the grill with a little rubber lid to make it waterproof. That allows me to plug in a trickle charger without having to open the hood. That little trick has saved me multiple batteries already.
> As someone who usually buys ~10 year old cars and drives them into the ground I'm much more interested in long term reliability.

That's a much simpler list:

1: Toyota Corolla

2 to end: you're not really serious about running it into the ground. :)
Safest for the driver, not the people they hit. Hopefully the insane repair costs for stainless steel will encourage at least some caution.
Because different people need different things from their vehicles, and as such the optimal shape should be different. Moreover because it's pretty clear from consumer preferences that vehicle-profiles are largely a fashion choice, and there still isn't much variation.

A vehicle that I'm much more excited about than cybertruck in terms of shape is aptera [1], with a drag co-efficient of 0.13 (model 3: 0.23, toyota corolla: 0.29). They're giving things up in exchange for this (most notably back seats), but if you don't need the things you're giving up it's a huge win.

[1] https://aptera.us/
A lot of it is likely software update that they call "recalls" etc. But just guessing. I have two and they are very reliable.
Yeah, microwaves are right out. Lasers, maybe, but lasers that can focus so closely qualify as offensive weapons.

Generally, less-focused lasers, picked up by nighttime solar farms that absorb sunlight directly in the daytime, are a much more likely medium for orbital power than microwaves. Monochromatic light can be converted to electrical power with much higher efficiency than can blackbody solar radiation. Lasers producing no greater intensity than sunlight worry people less than microwave radiation.
Both run by Musk and they have a lot of folks who have swapped between the two. In general they have very close connections.
This is factually correct (I ride a motorcycle and did a deep dive into the death statistics before getting my license) but your conclusion is tenuous at best.

Motorcyclists consciously take the elevated risk of engaging in a known-unsafe activity and absolutely should take reasonable precautions to keep themselves safe. Even so, it's still a tragedy when someone dies on a motorcycle. Pedestrians, on the other hand, want to walk around their neighborhoods and cities without being killed.

I don't quite know the right words to respond to, "just look at the death statistics and avoid being near cars as a pedestrian," but they're not kind.
Yeah, this guy (https://w.wallhaven.cc/full/x8/wallhaven-x8r18l.png) is much cuter...
In a nation of embarrassed millionaires, I'm not surprised.
This. I don’t personally know a single person outside of professional relationships that has this strong of an opinion on him.
Think of how terrible life would be if we couldn't share our anecdotes, if we couldn't talk about things we've seen that go against what the experts have told us to believe.
MacOS, OpenBSD and/or FreeBSD?
The point is, people contribute heavily to their deaths on motorcycles. And I assume on foot too.
Wearing ear phones? Chance of death through the roof.
Talking on the phone? Way more dangerous.
Out at night walking after a drink or two? Better watch out.
Don't look both ways, twice? You're in trouble.
Not only is this coming in 2024 Wi-Fi routers (IEEE 802.11bf WiFi 7 Sensing), but the Intel Meteor Lake SoC includes a dedicated IP block for "AI Sensing" to process sensor data from cameras and radios. The former lead of the Intel client AI team has moved to AMD, and Ryzen already has an AI IP block, so AMD may follow.

While radar has been around for decades, research into WiFi doppler imaging was jumpstarted by Intel's release of custom wifi firmware around 2010. A decade and hundreds of research ("device free wireless sensing", "CSI imaging") papers later, there is now open-source code for doing this on sub-$20 devices. In the mid 2000s, similar imaging was used in WoT conflict zones to locate adversary humans by "seeing through walls".

Radio spectrum and devices using that spectrum are managed by national regulators in each country, who can set policy for authorized applications. Until national regulators step up, the only defense against passive through-wall, Wi-Fi Sensing is EMF shielding for the walls, roof and floor of specific areas in homes and businesses. Otherwise, "The Transparent Society" (David Brin) is incoming.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/2/12/314

> Intel Visual Sensing Controller (IVSC), codenamed "Clover Falls", is a companion chip designed to provide secure and low power vision capability to IA platforms. The primary use case of IVSC is to bring in context awareness. IVSC interfaces directly with the platform main camera sensor via a CSI-2 link and processes the image data with the embedded AI engine. The detected events are sent over I2C to ISH (Intel Sensor Hub) for additional data fusion from multiple sensors.

https://www.techpowerup.com/276114/new-intel-visual-sensing-...

> The company didn't detail how it goes about this, but technologies already exist to combine visual input from the PC's cameras; radio from the PC's antennas, audio from its mic array; to form a picture of its surroundings.

https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Client/...

> With an initial focus on respiration detection, we hope to extend the technology to detect other physical activities as well. Intel Labs will demonstrate an early prototype of breathing detection ... The solution detects the rhythmic change in CSI due to chest movement during breathing ... The respiration rates gathered by this technology could play an important role in stress detection and other wellness applications.
Is this an email address harvesting scam?

There is no product here. The website is so generic and devoid of any detail that it can't be real. It's for foodies and costs "pending $".
They have been hot and slow for 10+ years and haven't gotten any closer to not being hto and slow.

And now RISC-V is likely to pretty much wipe them out.
one very interesting take i hear is those 'armored plates' might become a death trap in a car crash. As hydraulic cutters might not be as effective on them in case firefighters need to cut people out of a vehicle.
How would exploitation be uncommon?
Its a good start but still falls short of the 3-2-1 principle. You should have an additional backup that is air-gapped.
No, by how many working X7's and X5's they were passed.
Well yeah, I still owe like 15k on it...
I didn't say run on the production box. I said, create an identical environment as the production box.
I mean you can tell me that the dice is fair but if I get 100 times in a row 6, I will start having some doubt.
As a person who is both tall and fat, I've been astounded by Japanese cars. By "tall" I don't mean basketball player tall. I just mean around maybe 85 or 90th percentile tall for US men, about 6'1" (73 inches or 185 cm).

When my Nissan Sentra got totaled by a drunk driver I looked at all the similar cars from both American and Japanese companies. The first thing I noticed was that the Japanese cars were comfortable--I had plenty of leg room, by head didn't hit the roof, the seats weren't too narrow, and the steering wheel wasn't too close.

The American cars were all more cramped. And I don't mean cramped just in ways that I could fix if I would have just got my act together and lost weight. No, they were also cramped because I was too tall for them.

I even took a look at American mid-sized cars and they too were apparently not meant for people over 6 ft.

It was kind of funny. The Japanese are a relatively small people. I'd be around 97th percentile on height there. So how come they are so much better at making cars that accommodate tall people?

Anyway, I ended up with a Honda Civic. 11 years later it developed a problem that my local dealer (Seattle Honda) just could not reproduce or diagnose from my description and it was again time for a new car. (From later discussion on a car forum on the net, it seems like the problem was a bad ECU).

That was around when SUVs were getting really popular, and I decided to have a look. Again, Japan for the win. Even though the American SUVs I looked at were overall much bigger cars than the Honda CR-V, only the CR-V had the head and leg room I needed.

I ended up with a CR-V. That worked so well that when that lease was up I leased another, and then another when that lease was up. Then I remembered that I had only leased that first one so that if I didn't like the form factor it would be easy to switch back to a sedan, and so when that third lease was up bought a new 2006 CR-V and still drive that now.
It looks like a 1980s CGI low-poly render of a random asset from a forgotten video game. It's "cyber" in a purely backward-looking nostalgic way.

You can do some astounding things with laser cutting (etc) now. This is some steel panels bolted together to make a child's drawing with wheels.
FWIW, I have a model X and love the falcon wing doors. I’ve never had an issue with them, but I realize it’s a lot of complex moving parts so wouldn’t be surprised if I do. However:

* they open fully in really tight spots where normal doors wouldn’t (although a mini van slide door would)

* they look awesome (although a mini van slide door never would)

We bought the car because the seats were the only ones that didn’t give my wife problems, as she has various health issues, of all the makes and models we tried from various car makers. No idea why, the seats are fine for me but not the best of any car we tried. But it is what it is. However, despite that practical necessity that chose the car for us, the doors really are awesome and something unique in the world of cars.

Likewise, cybertruck is definitely unique. It has a lot of awesome as well, so I hope it does well, even if it’s a PITA to make and has issues with reliability. Too many cars are generic retreads of generic retreads - it’s good to see new takes and design risks get funding and production.
This is what we call vehicle weight inflation. As cars get heavier and heavier, the roads get increasingly more dangerous for smaller cars, which causes everyone to get bigger cars. And the loop continues.
Larger cars are more deadly.
What a terrible take. Accidents happen. When they do, it's obviously better if people don't die.
At least where I live, a lot of people I know are turned off by him. Including expressing opinions like the OP where they intended on buying a Tesla but now are looking elsewhere. Granted I live in a bubble, and one's friends & acquaintances are another sort of bubble. But it's different than HN.
That "as long as" is doing a lot of work.
I don't see how he would be a grifter. I just think it's a hilariously stupid, ugly car, that seems to lack a crumple zone. If people want to buy that I'm not going to think less of Elon, but I'm going to wonder how people can look at that thing and not think it's super cringe.

If it fails I'll think fewer people have embarrassingly bad taste, which I guess would be nice.
it would be great if you could provide a bit more detail to your criticism, especially pointers to relevant literature you think they missed

Frankly I don’t really see how some discrete optimization thing solves the problem this paper is addressing, because evaluation of the constraints (i.e., thermodynamic stability of a crystal) is one of the most computationally challenging aspects of the problem
I will take your reservation if you have one. I have one, but am looking for a second.

I can like the cars but not like Elon, very little nuance required in holding the position [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37949037
I really don’t know how useful a comment structured like this is. Were you trying to be helpful or hurtful? I think it’s better for you rather to +1 GP’s comment by adding your observations instead of only measuring their values against yours. Do better please.
I remember the Loongson MIPS laptop made headlines many years ago. Richard Stallman even used one for a while.

It got a lot of attention among my hacker space fellows, but I don't remember why. Was it an open hw design or something?
Sorry wrote that too hastily - directly searching a 10Tb dataset of the internet for open source models
It's ironic that this 30-year-old book, that was produced at a time when UNIX was not the colossus that it and related OSs are today, has been superseded by the course of events.

(Same as BYTE Magazine's 1995 cover story "Is UNIX Dead?" presaged its own death by only a few years.)

Today, most computers (and phones, TVs, and household appliances also) run on UNIX or a related OS, while the Vaxes of 1994 have disappeared and the Windows Desktop is declining rapidly away.

Author's Note: I have never used Windows as my 'daily driver'. I have used a UNIX Desktop throughout the 1990s, and a Linux Desktop since 2001.
Never too late!

https://www.carsforsale.com/delorean-for-sale-C136838
There’s a lot of evidence that larger vehicles are massive threats to pedestrians.

I’m not sure what the evidence for huge A-pillars as a threat is, but if it’s worse than larger vehicles it does not in any way change the fact that larger vehicles are indeed a massive threat.
At least they have VR working right!

Adding insult to irony, the new F-35 retrofit is reported to run a UNIX-like OS, too :p
The latter would apply to basically every company on the planet and would mean you could only purchase from sole traders.
> 3. Casio digital watches. These are used as timers for improvised explosives but again, they're incredibly reliable. And cheap.

While the watches themselves last forever I find that the strap or loop breaks pretty quickly at which point the cheapest option seem to be buying a whole new watch.
No. Relating to not enough stations. Soon all vehicles will be able to charge there and fees on top in case they didn’t know.
Ford F250 weights the same or more.
I canceled my reservation over a year ago.
Not at my windows machine to test this out right now, but wondering what you mean by having to store the weights in a separate file for wizardcoder, as a result of the 4gb executable limit. How does one go about this?

Thank you!
What I've seen with friends who drive BMW and with the Mini that the business leased for an employee: the engines are reliable, bodywork and interior is ok, electronics gizmos are unreliable and required multiple updates for various problems. One friend's very fancy 5 series was more in the shop than that he drove it to the point that he got attached to the loaner.
Man those were the good old days. Remember when Gemalto, the main producer of key card cryptographic materiel- including DOD CACs- was hacked?
I never jaywalk but I have been nearly run over several times in crosswalks. People run red lights or don't check the crosswalk during unprotected lefts or rights on red all the time.
I basically refuse to use any sort of AI assisted autocomplete for this very reason. I want consistency more than accuracy. consistency enables power and reliability, if it changes every 3rd time on the same input it slows me down.
I had a WRX into the late 2000s before it got totaled parked in front of the house. At the time, it had 130,000+ miles (mostly highway miles) and it felt like it had *at least* 2 or 3 more solid years in it. Even the clutch feel fine. What I got from the insurance company didn't come close to the value of that car to me.

I replaced it with a KIA Soul. At the time, the price / value made sense. It was an unplanned expense and I just didn't have time to shop around. It's was buy or die! :) The Soul is still going but it's been it the shop for various issues much more than the WRX ever was.
I don't think so. The first killed pedestrian was dead for 22 years before the roaring 1920s.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38466522
> 80 million neurons

With, each, more than 60 different types of neurotransmitters, exocytosis, endocytosis, transporters, destructive enzymes, pre- and postsynaptic receptors, ~7000 connections to other neurons and much more I did not think of, even a single neuron is an unbelievably complex machine all by itself.
I wish the inverse was possible, eventually getting us to bikes (instead of bulldozers).
My native language is Greek but I have been involved in translating stuff from English to Greek before.

Most translators in open-source projects are pretty familiar with English. Usually they have a technological or background so English is a must. Often we struggle with translating terms into our very own language because at least in some cases they may sound a bit weird.

I personally tend to use English UIs in the software I use because it reduces the cognitive load off trying to figure out the exact term at hand, but for my 85yo mom that struggles with very basic stuff yeah I'm glad she has the choice to use Greek.
Germany's budget crisis spurs calls to change its borrowing limits
Mini = BMW.

Subaru: depending on which model can have a lot of Toyota parts.
Taking a quick glance through the sections:

* Chapter 2: This is mostly still a problem, although many tools have gotten better about error messages, and there are a few footguns that have been removed. (A lot of this chapter, I presume, is basically about how something like VMS generally has a saner terminal interface than Unix does. But I've not used VMS enough to know for sure.)

* Chapter 3: The internet exists and is easily accessible. There is still often a lot of issues with documentation in, say, man pages or the tool's command line option (see how often I complain about git's help!), but if you search for your problem on the internet, you'll probably find a more coherent answer anyways, so it's not as relevant anymore.

* Chapter 4: Sendmail is no longer the dominant tool to send email on Unix systems, and for that matter, few sites run their own email servers anymore. Not really relevant anymore.

* Chapter 5: Usenet is even less relevant.

* Chapter 6: I've had some issues with terminal stuff in the past, but in general, most terminals just implement half of what xterm does, so it's often the case that programs emit the terminal escape codes directly.

* Chapter 7: X is still moderately painful. Windowing is usually done via a higher-level toolkit like GTK or QT (and Motif isn't big anymore), or else often rolled on top of GL (or Vulkan) buffers. Xauth doesn't come up in practice anymore, and a lot of the other issues mentioned here aren't as relevant. But I still like the dig at X getting server and client confused.

* Chapter 8: Shell proliferation has mostly gone away, largely down to either bash or POSIX-with-no-extensions sh. However, a lot of the criticism about shell as a programming language rings true.

* Chapter 9: Several of the tools mentioned here are just less relevant these days, especially because something like makefiles tends to be autogenerated rather than written directly.

* Chapter 10: C++11 is a pretty radical change to the language. And half of this chapter on C++ is somehow a rant on the C preprocessor, which is generally minimally tolerated by most C++ programmers, especially those on the committee.

* Chapter 11: Another chapter of mostly irrelevant tools.

* Chapter 12: This chapter is largely relevant, although nowadays, there are also ways you can set limits to avoid some of these problems.

* Chapter 13: A lot of kvetching about filesystems no one uses anymore. Although some of the complaints about how POSIX views files is still appropriate, but do note that all major OSes these days end up sharing the same deficiencies in their file semantics.

* Chapter 14: NFS is still around, although I think it's gotten a lot better in the past 30 years.

Overall, the high-level criticism of Unix as a worse-is-better approach still rings true, but this is largely a book that prefers to take cheap potshots over any serious analysis, and those potshots have often not aged well.
I think that market has already developed. Look at prices for used cars from that time period.
This kind of mindset is why many parks and landmark exist, in the US and Europe. Someone owned a land or a castle, etc and then donated or sold it with strings attached to keep its purpose. Muir Woods is one example, private purchase with the intent to preserve it.
I thought Nissan would rank a bit higher. Somehoe less reliable than a bmw.

My Nissan going on 8 yrs now. Only basic maintenance, tire replacement, and battery replacements so far.
Yeah I agree with this. You show up at a party and there are five others, you’ll suddenly have five new friends.
Is it the stock battery or after-market? Even if you bought it one year ago, when was it filled with acid? Many auto parts stores sell sealed lead-acid batteries as "new" when they've been sitting on the shelf for a year and the clock starts ticking when the acid goes in. You can get higher quality AGM batteries that will last far longer, but know they are quite expensive. Alternatively, you have a parasitic battery drain going on with your car.
Had to change the channel. Must have been live. It was funny the first time, but he insisted on repeating it, and he sounded a little unhinged.

Seems like a certain lack of emotional development. I don't want Musk to be a polished corporate drone but the most interesting people express themselves in a more controlled manner. Something I haven't mastered but I try not to disconnect my brain and cut loose. It never ends wells.

For Steve Jobs' reputation, he seemed to have learned, at least publicly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o