skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal is to replace a human driver in every situation where a human driver could or would drive, with an equivalent or (ideally) better safety record.

Are you suggesting that Waymo is there? I don't think the evidence would support that. Even if we relax that goal a bit so the self-driving car can disengage and refuse to drive in, say, the most difficult 20% of situations, I don't think we can say Waymo is there, either.
I looked into that myself years ago, and honestly can't remember now why I made that decision back then :) Should probably document such stuff somewhere.
For the WASM one (disclaimer: I built it) it's at least reasonably simple to reproduce the build [1], and the resulting blob is fully cross platform.

Also, although I do (lightly) patch SQLite which might invalidate results in your view, the SQLite team is producing/testing/releasing WASM builds of SQLite built with much the same toolchain, which, hopefully, smokes out compiler bugs.

[1]: https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/blob/main/.github/work...
> affordable commodity hardware, like a single server with 4x NVIDIA A6000 or 8x NVIDIA 3090 GPUs

I need to seriously revise my definition of affordable commodity hardware
> government of Gaza

Hamas is not the government.
It would be even harder if it were an actual mountain of archived paper, replicated into a couple of locations.

There is something to be said for the safety of outdated practices.
If it was a documented anti-theft feature it could be legit. A state could theoretically have some use for the proverbial 'blow up your own bridges when you are invaded' sort of measures.

Ignoring the lack of disclosure of what should be a selling point and that there hasn't been a case of trains being stolen for later illicit reuse in recent memory.
This is used in cruiser missiles for stabilisation
I read an article sometime on 'the limits of Computation' or some such which stated even at moores law we would have substrate density of something approaching a singularity in something like 800 years. Does anyone remember this?
Perhaps Imagine every post ai hard take off civilisation popping a new universe off in some other Brane or whatever but with their own slant on initial boundary conditions. Do you go with the flow in the main evolutionary branch or try for a fat tail with some revolutionary new thing (physics if you're really radical or just life chemistry if mearly genius).
Or maybe you just want to stay home in computronium reality.
Which is why the moon fits the sun..
Pretty sure they didn't come up with the same image. Images 1, 3, and 4 are the three images the GP generated and they put the Imagen-generated image (2) into the set for ease of comparison.
Mirror worlds are a pretty common effect you'll see in NeRFs. Otherwise you would need a significantly more complex view dependent feature rendered onto a flat surface.
If billboards are a safety hazard, then all road signs are as well. (But they aren't)
lmao ok thank you for your opinion
I don't think Apple should sell other stores within the App Store. However, I should be able to install unapproved apps/stores some other way.
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
I don't think this "my fault" / their fault is a useful way of thinking for enterprise decisions. For my part, I was and am in charge of cloud (and on-prem) purchasing decisions and I don't like to consider these things binary. Counterparty risk is just an additional cost to consider.

We use Alibaba Cloud, GCP, and most of all AWS. About December last year, Alibaba Cloud had a full zone outage as their datacenter provider had complete air-conditioning failure. One of the first things to go were the switches plugged into Express Connect (their feature to allow you to have direct links to their cloud through your network provider) and we had backup access set. We didn't get all of our stuff shut down but it helped.

But developing and maintaining backup access costs something. When we egress from S3 to our on-prem cluster, that's a cost. Vendor continuity and substitutability is just a cost like that. It's up to the guy managing this to model each of these risks and no enterprise vendor will sign an unlimited liability contract so you're going to have to land somewhere reasonable here. I always make sure to have exit clauses for us, and I try to ensure vendor exit clauses are what I'm comfortable with and appropriately priced.

Ultimately, you'll just have to read what you sign and have good counsel. But that's just what's worked for me. If you find the blacklist model more successful, more power to you.
The story I read said that the repair delays impacted train schedules (owing to fewer trains in operation). Potentially millions of people had their life disrupted because of corporate greed.

Seems like a slam dunk public outcry.
They are literally used as home batteries for many people that currently live off-grid. Yes, you would need an inverter as well. Just like you would for any kind of device to store 120V/240V AC power as 12/24/48V DC power. (Both that site I linked to and the other poster have lots and lots of inverters that can be tied to grid, and solar, and carey enough power to run your entire home for < $2k
i think people should be allowed to tinker with stuff. why not. it is ok to.memif.that voids the warranty tho. fair enough.

its a bit funny in.this case the company first claims.it doesnt brick stuff, and subsequently threatens these guys.. did they lie first? that seems bordering criminal for a company to do... just admit it :/. 'yes we drm our crap and brick stuff with anti tamper detections'. how hard is it...

hope dragon sector doesnt get into trouble, they do amazing work!
rsync doesn't offer AI capabilities. If you want to roll your own integration with OpenAI then you will still be sending data to OpenAI.
Yeah, trains tend to have large cabinets inside, and not like those cabinets are opened and inspected every day.
Military is a wee bit more necessary than getting rid of billboards, just ask Ukraine.
access denied from italy as well
> a lot more unicorns outside silicon valley

The problem I see is that the massive funding available to "SV Startups" often skews what a success really is. Say you have a startup that's received several rounds of funding and based on those rounds it's now valued at $1B+, what is that valuation really worth if you're burning cash so fast you're only 1 or 2 failed rounds away from bankruptcy. Sure it's nice to be able to say "we have a 1 billion dollar company" but what is that worth if the valuation only holds if investors keep pouring cash into it? IMHO a company that is worth $100M and can stand on it's own feet without constant infusions of cash is inherently more valuable than a company "worth" $1B but needs to make every funding round to keep the lights on.
Show HN: Play Othello in your web browser (made with Mithril)
You might be interested in “Integrated branding” and/or visual identity systems, including the use of “parametric” design, grids, and variables, going back at least 50 years. You’re 100% right that there is a tension between the outputs/artifacts and the generator (process/logic). This often is a challenging aspect of design education programs. Figma’s explicit structure, and certainly their community as well as the rise of design within software, have made this more visible and tangible. But this is an old tension rather than a new one.
Sadly, not available for Steam on macOS (Apple Silicon or Intel).
Thanks for your reply. There's a good response to that plan here[1], the main takeaways being low round-trip efficiency (lose 50-80% of the energy spent in the process of storing & releasing) and the lack of proven renewable hydrogen generation tech. We should absolutely keep developing this idea and use it in places where it's a good fit. But I'm not willing to bet our future on unproven tech when we have a perfectly good solution right in front of us already working today.

[1] https://theness.com/neurologicablog/hydrogen-takes-another-h...
Welcome to mass media, everything you see is "curated" (ahem...censored by @dang).
My comment? I've never been to France. My point is that you can't compare these two things. It's not like having a fair severance packet immediately means you would need to halve your salary just because you compare with a country with a different salary level.
There are definitely brands owned by the market itself that does that nowadays.
>Boring tech + customer focus will likely beat most competition, regardless of where their offices reside.

Reminds me of this classic post: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

Your addendum on customer service feels spot on too. What good is any software, if its users are unsatisfied.
plus it phones-home for safety
Just ran this on my phone through a browser, this is very impressive
> As a central part of resource management, the OS thread
scheduler must maintain the following, simple, invariant:
make sure that ready threads are scheduled on available
cores. As simple as it may seem, we found that this invariant is often broken in Linux. Cores may stay idle for seconds while ready threads are waiting in runqueues.

This oddly lines up with an observation I've made about traffic lights. It is very surprising how often you'll be stopped at an intersection where everybody is waiting and nobody is allowed to go, sometimes for what feels like 10-30 seconds.

It seems like the lowest-hanging fruit for improving traffic is to aim never to have degenerate intersections. If someone is waiting and nobody is going, the light should change quickly.
I expect there are warehouses full of forgotten tapes and punchcards reminiscent of the last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
What other people have mentioned is that there are multiple implementations for Nvidia GPUs that are many times faster than whisper.cpp.
To put it another way, a company with inconsistent design is likely in a better position in terms of income and culture than a company with a design system!
The first step would be to stop indiscriminately killing civilians (or discriminately killing civilians, whatever, just stop).

The next step is up to them to figure out, but "commit war crimes" isn't an acceptable answer. Those pointing out the war crimes don't have to pitch an alternative to war crimes and hope the idea is accepted or whatever. Just stop killing civilians, then reassess.

Just to clarify exactly where I sit morally: I do not find it acceptable to kill 10 civilians in retaliation for 1 civilian being killed, nor do I find it acceptable that such 10x revenge killing of civilians is allegedly done in the name of saving civilians. Such statements tell me that the ones making them, don't view Palestinians as civilians to be saved. Whereas I don't believe 1 Palestinian civilian life is any more or less important than 1 Israeli civilian life.
yeah well, I find that super-duper-insanely-fast-whisper is 3-4x faster than insanely-fast-whisper.

/s
> the renter population is the most straightforward proxy for primary residential demand

This would be correct if rents were stable amidst rising home prices. that happens from time to time. But it tends to correct itself, and it is not the situation in Santa Cruz. Even at prevailing prices, there are more people who want to live there than there are spots; that’s why prices and rents keep rising.
As a user, this really frustrates me. Promoting is not precise enough to compose a bunch of specific elements, so the obvious solution is to do several prompts each with transparency and then combine in Photoshop/photopea. I end up asking for a white background and then cutting out manually
Ask HN: Is there a decent Hypefury alternative?
I've been using the paid version of Hypefury to create a schedule for a client's social media posts but there are so many quirks I have been less than impressed. If you have any suggestions or alternatives that I should check out please let me know.

(For context I'm only creating scheduled posts for LinkedIn and Twitter)
GitHub Availability November 2023
Sort of half and half: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38525366
Is there any way to take the class without registering at a self pace?
My first introduction to The Command Line was playing MUDs on a IIgs and I've never stopped thinking about it in terms of exploration.
There are well-paying jobs that allow smart people to focus on exactly this.
It's interesting that, on long running and well regarded (but obviously, not authoritative) site "HG101’s Top 47k Games of All Time" [0], the top 50 ranked titles includes virtually no games - 1? 2? 3? arguably - of a technically more advanced pedigree (than the Switch's capabilities), in terms of applied processing grunt, 'graphical fidelity', etc.

Expand that analysis further, to the top 100, and it remains true.

'Regard accumulated over time' would clearly be a factor in that bias, but not a definitive one. Relatively modest processors like the A57, and (vastly) weaker, are still the home of the majority of human video gaming enjoyment.

[0] http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/hg101s-top-47k-games-of-all...
> I suspect his statements are carefully made to not technically meet the legal definition for fraud, but colloquially he's absolutely a liar.

They're probably not carefully made, but fraud requires knowledge of falsity, and short of an internal report saying "this feature won't be ready before XYZ," it is going to be extremely difficult to prove Tesla knew the claims were false.

The other thing you'll run into is reasonability of reliance--at this point, with so many deadlines repeatedly blown through, it would be hard to demonstrate that a reasonable person could rely on a representation that a promised deadline would be met.
> The GPS system doesn't use the direction to the GPS satellite for localization but rather only the distance i.e. timing, so spoofing GPS is based on accurate control of the time of the transmitted (or replayed!) signals

GPS uses Signal-to-Noise ratio for determinating the signal quality and integrity. Horizontal signal will suffer pretty fast. Especially if your receiver is sophisticated and could actually detect the signal strength (power) outliers. If you want to spoof GPS signal very well, it should be also weak. But weak signal will quickly disappear with ground-based transmitters.

I used ”strength” incorrectly on the previous comment.
Ah, I get it now, thx.
/invited is a subset of /pool
Can you please let me know how your experience goes after trying this?
Sure, but I'd trust experts in a field over a bunch of CEOs who have a vested interest in claiming something will be ready sooner rather than later.

Even CEOs who are an experts are by their very nature too biased to take at face value.
Isn’t that usually to give pedestrians a head start on crossing?
The documentation [1] says otherwise. Image generation is "Restricted General Availability (approved users)" and "To request access to use this Imagen feature, contact your Google account representative."

[1] https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/generative-ai/image/...
If you have Netflix, check out one of Kaufman's more recent films, "I'm Thinking of Ending Things". It's an (increasingly loose) adaptation of Ian Reid's book of the same name. The book is deliberately disorienting and unsettling which makes Kaufman's style really shine.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80211559
I would suspect some unnecessary copying. Nothing else explains a “lower level” binding (zombie) performing worse than modernc.

My (WASM) binding also has a lower level API. But I worked hard to make database/sql work first class, so I wouldn't expect much improvement.
Embedded devices, certainly in the days of 16 MiB NOR flash, do not contain unwind or debug information. Even today OpenWrt and similar will routinely strip all binaries installed to the final firmware image.

There are some structural issues in the Linux world, too; the default of debug data contained within the binary is often undesirable, symbol servers (they finally learned about those in Ubuntu 22) require extra setup & tooling support that isn't often invested in, widely used libraries like libunwind are both arcane and terrible (yes, an instruction pointer of 0 will not have associated unwind information; use your brain and realize someone called a NULL function pointer).
fun fact - Go Channels started out as pretty thin syntax sugar over features provided by Plan9's C libthread.
Broad acclaim requires a broad minspec.
I think you might be misunderstanding. The GP did three runs using one model, each with the same prompt that was used for the Imagen demo image. The outputs are images 1, 3 and 4. Hence the similarity.
Same for me? I'm in Europe, maybe that makes a difference perhaps?
I'm trying to think of the second order effects of solar and battery storage if it becomes cheap enough to run your entire house without the grid. Wouldn't it make sense to design houses with DC power from the ground up? Why go through the inefficient inverter if you are generating DC from a solar panel and using DC power internally in all of your appliances?

Assuming $3-5 per watt fully installed and a 6 kWh solar panel array. Plus and additional $10k worth of batteries, you should be able to run most houses 24/7/365 off solar power. So a $40k investment should be around what you need to generate all the power for your home for ~25 years. (Assuming you average 30 kWh used per day) This is pretty close to being a no brainer for certain areas of the country with high electricity prices. (California, Hawaii)
The vita was a direct downgrade from a PSP if you valued fast loading times, emulation, homebrew and piracy. Even if you didn't pirate you gained the ability to rebuy your PSP games, and new expensive games with an OLED that had less battery life.
I can reliably pick out the difference between bottle, canned, and fountain Coke and Pepsi (all 6 variations). Out of the fountain, Coke and Pepsi are sweeter than their packaged counterparts (because the syrup is usually fresher and more concentrated); Pepsi tastes somewhat like a blend of Coke and watered-down Dr Pepper. Canned Coke and Pepsi have a metallic taste not found in its bottled or fountain counterparts (and this taste remains even if poured into a cup).

For bottled Coke, HCFS Coke and Mexican/Kosher Coke taste similar but not the same: HCFS Coke has stronger/bolder (one-note type of) sweetness but sugar Coke has a broader sweetness.

All versions of regular Pepsi have a cloying aftertaste.
The small dot would be equivalent in brightness to the full moon, meaning if you looked at both with a luxometer, they would look equally bright. It's not saying that the star will be as bright as the Moon, but concentrated down - that's not how brightness works...
This happened because (1) we saw your original submission later and thought it deserved a second chance, a la what ggm and mtmail already posted; and also (2) we didn't see that another thread about the same article had already taken place.

In other words, sometimes second-chance picks end up duplicating a later discussion. We try to avoid this but it happens!
Can you throw some examples up on Imgur or something?
I love this genre of "programming as black magic". Closest other example I can think of is maybe some of the stuff from Unsong, but I've frequently memed with coworkers about bugs in these terms - "oh yeah, the angles on your pentagram must have been wrong" or whatever.
Thanks for asking.
- Advertisement: the free internet has lots of places for adds
- Distribution: there are several very good protocols for transferring files, even ones with DRM!
- Storefront: ...stores don't take a 30% cut of what they sell, and as we all know inventory costs are pretty low when it's all just bits on NAS storage.
- Users: again, this is called the internet, they are there and what they need is curation. I would much rather a proper gatekeeper, say for example Polygon magazine, was able to pay real game testers and journalists to surface the really good game, and make a cut off of this, instead of the wasteland that's on display at whatsonsteam.com
But when I am optimistic but I rarely am outwardly optimistic because I know it’s lying if I am.

I think he knows that when he lies, many people take him seriously because his companies are sometimes right. Which pumps his valuation.
SumUp taps €285M more in growth funding to weather the fintech storm
Others in the EU are reporting it's off by default for them as well. So it's probably configured deliberately as opt-out in the US and opt-in in Europe.

I would call that a win for European privacy regulation.
Favor composition over innovation.
Neither are trivial, the two just scale very differently.

I do see the benefit in resilience of building out fiber even to moderately unprofitable (from a unit economics point of view) regions, just like we also build roads to communities that will never "pay the investment back" in taxes. But there are cases where it just can't be justified.

But it's also not a simple either-or: There are other technologies than fiber and satellite; there can be more than one high-throughput LEO provider; we can have a few GEO satellites for redundancy (although with significantly worse latency) etc.
You just moved the goalposts in order to set up a straw-man argument!

One can quite reasonably point out that level 5 autonomy has not yet been achieved without moving the level 5 goalposts.
Solar-10B
Limited your upload speed on a free account? I'd hardly call that a dark pattern.
Let's see, Tesla is reinventing the wheel for extracting government money extraction? They make a solid profit on each car they sell. You gonna bring up the loan. But that loan was repaid in full by Tesla, ahead of time, where as Ford and other who also got similar loans defaulted on it. You going to bring up EV subsidies - but that's open to every automaker and Tesla is probably the only company that can make a margin on their car even without EV subsidy.

Now let's talk SpaceX - people who are not familiar with the space industry don't realize how much SpaceX fundamentally changed the industry - before SpaceX it was like two players in the space launch area, and they used to charge government a shit ton of money for each launch, often using Russian engines. SpaceX made it so cheap that it was hard for anyone to compete, and their offerings are so cheap when compared to anyone else (and sometimes they are the only launch option US) that even competitors are compelled to use SpaceX. You being a Musk hater would argue that all the government launch contracts to SpaceX are 'subsidies' but nope, they launches were gonna happen whether SpaceX existed or not. SpaceX only saved government tens of billions of dollars by reducing the launch costs.

I can keep going on but it wouldn't matter to you. Customers really wanted SpaceX. Everyone who uses Starlink really wants it, go talk to actual users. Just because the products the guy is developing doesn't align with your notion of what customers really want doesn't mean if it's something useful.

Starlink would exist without this subsidy from the government. That doesn't mean that Starlink should not try to get a share of the subsidy that government offered to all the players in this market. If you have a problem with the subsidy complain about the government, not one of the many beneficiaries just because you hate the guy that owns the company.
Shipped stuff? Like what?

Threads? Its usage is down 90% since its launch six months ago, presumably because they kept the people who could launch stuff and got rid of the people who had some idea of what should be launched.

The "Blue Checkmark" system? Released with no thought at all, absolute disaster. Steven King had to publicly announce that, despite indications to the contrary, he was not a paid user, and he felt it was important to tell people because he didn't want the idea that he was a paid subscriber to harm his reputation. Same underlying problem: the people who could ship things were still shipping things, but the people who could figure out what to make were gone.

And yes, they did drastically reduce cost...and much more drastically reduce revenue.