skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course Tesla has taken it further which is interesting and could be useful - but it's not quite true that the whole car is on 48V, they've already said that ~20% of the common / supplier-provided components are still 12V. For pure EVs, sticking with higher voltage makes a lot of sense and Tesla was perfectly suited to lead the charge here since they have built so much of their supply chain from scratch and can spec everything to be 48V where other EV manufacturers mostly just reused components from their ICE cars.

Previous 48V systems were only partial for good reason as well - traditional manufacturers have been using "mild hybrid" 48V systems since ~2001. Many of the electrical components on ICE vehicles are parasitic engine loads since they need power than can be provided with 12V, so e.g. the water pump and AC compressor have separate belts that always are 'robbing' the engine power regardless if they're needed or not. Adding that 48V system allows for the engine to be freed from the draw that those components require and adding some light regenerative braking is sufficient to keep the batteries supplying that system charged.

That these 48v systems aren't universal should provide some color on how successful / important the manufacturers had found them to be.
Not exactly similar companies in terms of their goals, but pretty hilarious to contrast this model announcement with Google's Gemini announcement two days ago.
Oh god, the receivers being shipped with the LTC2208! They do not even deserve to have supply of that chip. What a disservice.
As I write this comment, I'm realizing that perhaps this post isn't for this specific audience.

AI discussions on this forum are often really interesting and tend to land on the more technical side of things.

The conversations on social media are very different. "AI artists" dominate the feeds so it feels like AI was specifically made to replace artists.
Except that some of the investment that Amazon does goes to code that is also useful for the home robot. Amazon can afford it - probably saves money - so they make the investment. then they come along later and realize that the home robot is in some way affordable as so many of the parts needed already exist.

Of course I cannot say when it will affordable. It may be Amazon has to solve the last remaining hard problems and then the R&D is paid for: all that remains is packaging and marketing, it may be thousands of hard problems remain. (I'm guessing someplace in between) I also don't state what the home robot will do. May the home robot just picks up the kids toys when they are done but can't do laundry - even though I want the laundry robot more the toys only one is still useful.
James Baldwin’s early novels and short stories: sublime

William Gibson, Neuromancer: finally went back and read this. It’s so culturally entrenched now, it’s hard to remember that it wasn’t always. Great example of a cautionary tale turned into a corporate roadmap.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five: first Vonnegut I’ve ever read, definitely more in 2024

Rick Ruben, The Creative Act: A successful guy trying to sound wise for hundreds of pages. It was ok, but ultimately boring.
> Onyx is strictly type-checked. However, the type-inference systems in Onyx usually allow you to omit types.

>

> x := 10

I...

Why is this a feature in every new language? Can't we have a language that is more verbose and explicit, not less? I'd love it if named parameters were mandatory, not optional.

(Named parameters is when you name parameters/arguments you pass on to functions, like you can do in python and groovy: `foobar(arg1: 123, arg2: 'hello')`)

Most of my problems I run into is due to implicit behaviour that no one bothers to explain. In Onyx here, having type-inference means I now how to remember that x := 10 means x will be a signed 32-bit integer instead of, you know, the code that I'm writing remembering it for me.

And I'm just guessing here. Maybe x is a double. Or unsigned since its initial value isn't negative. Or maybe it was signed 32-bit integer but the Onyx developers changed it to 128-bit long long for version 666.0.0. The point is I have to look this stuff up or remember it instead of, you know, it being right there.

I don't even know what you gain by doing this. Less code is less messy but also hides a lot of information from you. Hiding information should be something an IDE does, not the language itself.

Thank you for reading my rant.
But all the controversy around verified accounts, over-abundance of far-right wing content, etc, doesn’t help its case.
That is off by at least an order of magnitude since we have 350k searches/day [1]

But anyway, we like niche, niche is good, allows focus.

[1] https://kagi.com/stats
Two ad hominems in one comment. Way to go.
It's not like those elections are fair anyway?
I was surprised they didn't use the word homodyne.

One issue they didn't mention, but probably shows up in the noise figures is that homodyne receivers suffer from 1/f noise in the relatively wide band "direct conversion" amplifiers. Of course all of the heterodyne receivers suffer from 1/f up-conversion at the mixer.
_Sympathy strikes_ only make sense when directed towards the target of the original strike.

If all sympathy strikes were to be total walkouts then it would result in a general strike and that doesn’t target any specific party and thus doesn’t put pressure on them
Flavorish- taking the guesswork out cooking, with AI
From endless online recipe searches to last minute grocery runs, Flavorish simplifies all things cooking. Accessible anywhere, Flavorish does the thinking for you, creating a recipe using AI, smartly organizing grocery needs and simplifying recipe storage.
Just returning a context here [0]. Interesting case of which I was
unaware, Thanks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux
Gold star to dfbrown, who pointed this out in the release announcement comments yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38547713
Why is JavaScript so advanced yet the ecosystem is so behind? [video]
> bad layouts are a management decision.

That's an interesting way to describe AliExpress shovelware, but OK, yeah it's a "management decision"
You can, wait for a 4-bit quantized version
A Front End AI Interview Website
Despite all the billionaire meta-craze, people still use Google, Facebook and Twitter.
I use a 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo 2007 iMac running Snow Leopard as my photo lab workstation. Upgraded to 5GB RAM, 512GB SSD. Runs Aperture 2, scans film, and prints photos like a dream. It can even do some light web browsing with https://github.com/wicknix/InterWebSnow, but it often struggles with the modern web.

This machine can also be upgraded to a Core 2 Extreme, but I haven't found that necessary for my workflow.
Coming from an American perspective, this seems nuts:

> So I’d buy my olive oil and coffee there but go elsewhere for my apples and tomatoes etc… easy to do when all the shops are close together and you’re walking by them anyway!

You're just walking into a supermarket carrying bags from other stores? Do that here and you'll quickly have "personal security" in the form of loss prevention following you around the store - if they don't stop you at the door.
please tell me he is building underground bunkers
On the subject of caffeine, vaping, as a vehicle for caffeine delivery instead of, or in addition to nicotine delivery, is an interesting new way to get it into my system.
> The real solution is to plan for having a low-power access point in every room.

This is too expensive, how about a correct placement of a one router and refusing to use a vacuum cleaner with spyware?

> If anything, I’d want my future home to have WiFi-blocking walls

You have no choice since anything except some nasty plastics does this, even wood according to the article.
To put into context, Tesla only employs 120 people in Sweden.
IIRC a long time ago, game devs would complain to google about people abusing refund policy by buying their games, complete the whole playthrough in a day, then requesting refund. This was before in-app purchase become the norm though, so you can buy full games upfront instead of unlocking it bit by bit via in-app purchases.
The problem with the example has been discussed elsewhere: the design is wrong. Of course refactoring but keeping the design more or less the same won't work.
I'm sure it's also a marketing move to build a certain reputation. Looks like it's working.
Also read Giovanni’s Room this year. So good.
> By your logic, as long as...it's okay for...

Sorry, but NO. Please re-read my italicized & shouty & "Please re-read...before you" words another 3 more times. Then me how you interpreted that to mean "it's okay". Without assuming that I took the same Moral Philosophy 483 class as you, and subscribe to the deductive methods which you learned there.

Also notice - my analysis was history/sociology/psychology, without reference to culture wars or chain-of-logic moral judgement of people. Vs. your analysis seems to be very much the latter.
We could re-do the supply chain for residential construction or

Buy existing tech that can arrive tomorrow, google: “Wi-Fi mesh”. Pick from a half dozen options.
That is only 24GB in 4bit.

People are running models 2-4 times that size on local GPUs.

What's more, this will run on a MacBook CPU just fine-- and at an extremely high speed.
Me personally? No, I don’t think I have the connections, patience, or talent for that. If I did I’d probably do it for a big company instead, they pay better than “we the people,” I think.
I had no idea Panera was killing people with lemonade.

At a local fancy brunch place, a relative from the south asked if there was a charge for lemonade refills. The waitress frowned and said “this isn’t syrup out if a bottle, a human being squeezed these by hand. So yes, there’s a charge.”
Horseshit. I could charge my Pixel 5 once every other day, and I use it for photography as well as meme scrolling and messaging. If you're using your phone so much that it needs to be be charged twice a day then you're almost certainly using it in a way that's worse for your health than for the battery life. Or you're wasting a lot of battery life on background telemetry.

Do you use battery saver mode? I actually try not to fully charge my phone, but keep it between 30%-70%, which puts less strain on it, and battery saver kicks on at 50%.
And yet, I think all us engineers know that time matters immensely for the business. There has to be some balance struck, otherwise some engineers will build crystal castles that never ship or take months for relatively simple features.
Yeah, I thought that too. Akamai seems to be popular with corporations.
Solution: 'slow' cooking at 250C. First put the dough in the oven, then put it back in with toppings.
$2mil per treatment.

Most sickle cell sufferers live in Africa. They won't be able to afford that. I understand that fighting death is expensive, but I really hope that cost comes down.
Some people apparently don't understand what evidence is.
LOL. I should have tried to get it. I spent a significant amount of time from like 93-96 trying to persuade NSF/NS to let me register b.com and e.com and came pretty close at one point. I should have thought about b.org!

I want b.com because "Be dotcom!" sounded cool.
Joy, happiness, wonder, and love, don't have an LD50 of 192 milligrams per kilogram.
Yes. And then as with that solution, in many cases it doesn’t work and you have to fall back to regular polling. If you remember to detect that the connection has dropped. And then the testing defeats the purpose because it wakes up the radios.

So now you’ve packaged the problem in a new layer that doesn’t solve anything but creates new problems.

The concept of an open connection waiting for the server to say anything is not novel or special, it just, as we already know, doesn’t really work reliably, you have to do more work to make it reliable.
> Again, just following orders.

I seem to recall there was a trial in the forties of some relevance to Poland about this sort of thing.
What would you say https://www.latacora.com/blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right... and https://www.latacora.com/blog/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting/ are, if not "doing something useful like making those things better or providing alternatives"
Swedish postal service is open to any private actor and does not have any law enforcement wing.

Lots of companies have access to the mail boxes. I know of at least three companies that deliver to my mailbox + one that delivers marketing materials to it.
I guess you have to decide what you want on your CV. "I solve problems" or "I build complex stuff".
I don't see any code in there. What runtime could load these weights?
Arch sends distribution news every week or so, usually in one or two paragraphs.

https://archlinux.org/

I've followed the gitlab migration and every package and distribution change that warranted community notification for more than a decade.

It's such an empowering feeling to have tracked all the changes to the distribution over a decade. The Arch maintainer culture has managed to provide consistent high quality communication and documentation.

Most of the news doesn't require action on my part, being a subsystem or package I don't use. They use the news channel sparingly and the distribution is minimal and clean. News arrives only every other week or so and is succinctly written in one or two paragraphs.

It's a distribution for those who love precision and professionalism.
When they try to reason about the origin of the “Q*” name - I bet that the “star” sign in the name is a throwback to the old famous “A*” algorithm. It would also fit the theme of pairing the reinforcement learning and state space search.
> Things like game exist and will always be because it’s necessary for evolution. On other hand, things like “genuine connection” do not exist outside of your imagination.

Nothing exists outside of your imagination. Reality is a soup of particles interacting with each other, and your mind is trying to make sense of these through a complex layer of abstractions and modeling.

"The game" is no more or less real as a concept than "genuine connection". They're essentially both attempts to model reality, and arguably, they are not even trying to model the same aspects of reality.

So, sure, be aware of our biological needs and constraints, as neglecting them means fighting a hard-to-win uphill battle. But I wouldn't make the mistake of seeing biology as any more or less real than psychology and culture. They're different models for different levels of our stack, and arguably, meaningful relationships necessarily span many more of these layers.

I wouldn't expect biology (alone) to give me meaningful relationship advice just like I wouldn't expect psychology and sociology to tell us how to cure cancer.

> but from what you say I tend to sense some idealistic attitudes.

What's wrong with a bit of idealism, ideally mixed with a heavy dose of pragmatism? Knowing exactly where you already are is important, but it doesn't tell you where to go next.
Even if you'd be inclined to shrug off the fact that this wasn't real-time voice and video-based, which you shouldn't because the underlying implications would be huge for performance, there's still the matter that the prompts used. The prompts shown are miles apart and significantly misrepresent the performance of the underlying model.

It goes from a model being able to infer a great deal at the level of human intelligence to a model that needs to be fed essential details, and that doesn't do much inferring.

I get the feeling that many here on HN who are just shrugging it off don't realize how much of the “demo” was faked.
Here’s a decent article that goes into it some more: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/googles-best-gemini-demo-w...
Highly recommend checking out the Peak Salvation podcast. [1] It’s made by a former FB exec who worked in an Amazon fulfillment center during the holiday rush. Very enlightening and thought-provoking.

1: https://peaksalvation.com/
Which is irrelevant, eu or us?
I just have a feeling that the articles that were published comparing efficacy of e.g. Ritalin vs. caffeine were focusing on whether caffeine could be a wholesale substitute for Ritalin, which I don't think is the case either (people with serious symptoms need serious medication). Instead I am curious about looking at the broader spectrum of ADHD cases, and evaluating whether caffeine could help 'lower-level' sufferers who may not need the full service medication.
I’m in the same boat, I think I actually used the 100 searches up in two weeks or so. I remember wanting to search something on the couch and then being told I’m out of credits, throwing money at them was a no-brainer at that point. I think if OOP hasn’t used their 100 searches up in a few months, maybe they just don’t really need a search engine that badly? If you aren’t in the market of moderate to heavy search engine use, then paying any amount of money for one would also not sit right with me.
Ask HN: Favorite Podcast of 2023?
I'm a fan of Very bad Wizards[0] - A philosopher and a psychologist discussing their fields through pop culture.

[0] - https://verybadwizards.com/
Not 7B, 8x7B.

It will run with the speed of a 7B model while being much smarter but requiring ~24GB of RAM instead of ~4GB (in 4bit).
> saw two code blocks resembling the same shape

Yeah, this is the crux of it. What exactly is duplicated code? Humans are pattern matching machines, we see rabbits in the clouds. Squint at any 4 lines of code and something might look duplicated.

On the other hand, code bases that do have true duplication (100s of lines that are duplicated, large blocks of code that are exactly duplicated 16 different times), multiple places & ways to interact with database at differing layers - that's all not fun either.

It is a balance & trade-off, it goes bad at either extreme. Further, there is a level of experience and knowledge that needs to be had to know what exactly is a "duplicate block of code" (say something that pulls the same data out of database and does the same transform on it, is 20 lines long and is in 2, 3 or more places) vs things that just look similar (rabbits in the clouds, they are all rabbits).
Sweden has to double down on Esrange I guess
We'd appreciate if you posted an example or two to kagifeedback.org so we can take a deper look. These things are mostly fixable.
> He's an engineer that worked through this with other engineers

Who? Because you can't mean Elon, not if your objection is to people spreading bullshit...
Let's Split Up, Gang
I'd push things back to around 1800, when the study of medicine became more scientific.
Controllers that support roaming and handoff.
@kcorbitt Low priority, probably not worth an email: Does using OpenPipe.ai to fine-tune a model result in a downloadable LoRA adapter? It's not clear from the website if the fine-tune is exportable.
Jeebus. What else do you hate? Puppies? Apple pie? Ice Cream? Christmas? LISP?
Each browser tab and cross-origin iframe is its own process sandbox. Web security operates on domain boundaries.

If your webmail provider or bank is serving malware or user generated content under the same origin as the frontend, they have self-owned beyond the browser’s capacity to help.
You don’t have to write dozens of parsers. I didn’t.
I only have a RTX 3070 with 8GB VRam. It can run quantized 7B models well, but this is 8 x 7B. Maybe an RTX 3090 with 24GB VRAM can do it.
The HN title[1] was editorialized. The actual figure, used twice in the article, specifies it is talking about data center networks monitored by Akamai.

[1] As of this comment: "Spoofing DNS records abusing Microsoft DHCP server running in 40% of datacenters"
Spraying Coffee with water before grinding can affect it's flow rate [video]
Buffalo, NY - Not a usual place for a SWE in the US to end up, but I picked it for the culture, climate and COL. I'm thankful for remote work to make this choice possible.

Pros: Snow. Greenery. Great Lakes. Climate change safety. Rust-belt esthetic. Great food scene. Friendly people. Low COL. Well located to explore North America.

Cons: Miss shopping amenities from tier 1 cities. But, Toronto is a short 1.5 hr drive away.
I actually started down that path last year, with the incredible Power of Prolog book and video series. It's one of the more impressive learning resources I have ever come across.
I have noticed a trend with Ars posting original articles with a lot of similarities to content from smaller sources that came out a few days earlier. Its pretty common to see a rather esoteric topic make it to the front page of HN and then a similar article showing up on Ars a bit later. I assume their authors are mining HN and similar places for ideas.

Not saying that happened here or that it is ever plagiarism. Just something I noticed as a daily Ars and HN reader.
Installing self-contained programs written in Python not packaged for your distro:

PIPX_HOME=/usr/local/pipx PIPX_BIN_DIR=/usr/local/bin pipx install app==1.2.3

It sets up an isolated install for each app with only its deps and makes it transparent.

The distro installation tree of Python is for the exclusive use of your distro because core apps cloud-init, dnf, firewalld are built against those versions.
That's a valid criticism. I was 100% sure there was a "play" button for some reason on the second line of the "factorial :: (n: i32) -> i32 {" example. Only now do I realize it's not a play button

|> iter.fold(1, (x, y) => x * y);

Let's not. Let's keep things clear for the reader.
At least that part is realistic.
And at the 4 hour mark, the passengers were rescued. It would be ironic, of course, if the rescue train hit any one of the geniuses that smashed windows and started walking the tracks.
> 2. Do you purchase a cell phone in 2023 with "Camera quality" in mind? Not trying to be rude, I'm actively sampling this query. I can't understand this and haven't since modern smart phones proliferated. No matter the phone, set it to raw, take photo ,edit in post. Comes out leagues better than any ios, pixel etc photo. and I don't know who is taking so many photos and comparing them to care.

The whole idea of smartphone cameras is that nobody is editing RAWs. I have issues with the GP comment but wanting a high quality camera is not one of them. Taking decent-to-great smartphone photos, whether inane or artistic, is a staple of modern life. (Although it sounds more like a status thing in their case, like they don't want someone else in their social group to be the go-to photographer? Maybe it was just not worded clearly.)w
GitLab team member here.

Spamcheck is available for all tiers https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/reporting/spamchec... For licensing reasons, it can only be included in EE, and not CE. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/-/issues/6259#n... You can run GitLab EE with the free tier as well.
This is good to see. It does not seem to involve any right to repair legislation though. Looks like it's purely an antitrust case where the claim is that John Deere is monopolizing the repair industry through consolidation.
The only thing middle class people (as in somewhat close to the median income) spend $125k on in their lives is their house. And I'm not sure how well something optimized for ~10k hours of 24/7 warehouse picking and packing work is going to translate to housekeeping work.
What is duckdb
Management chooses to make and sell a bad product. It's not that RF design is somehow arcane wizardry lost to time.
After Snow Leopard MacOS went downhill in performance, every app ran very slowly in my MacBook Pro 2007 with El Capitan, without ever using more than 30% of CPU capacity, the system just crippled them.
Good point. Small but important distinction.