skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fusion!

Also, from the New York Times:

> it will take quite a while before fusion becomes available on a widespread, practical scale, if ever.

> “Probably decades,” Kimberly S. Budil, the director of Lawrence Livermore, said during the Tuesday news conference. “Not six decades, I don’t think. I think not five decades, which is what we used to say. I think it’s moving into the foreground and probably, with concerted effort and investment, a few decades of research on the underlying technologies could put us in a position to build a power plant.”

> Most climate scientists and policymakers say that to achieve that goal of limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius, or the even more ambitious target of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, the world must reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

So, 30-40 years to build the first plant, just a little too late to do any good.
Exactly, but the Windows license you need for a proper Hyper-V server is quite high
Heck, absolutely! Doubly so if you liked the 80s and 90s action flips and Hangover!
> it’s about the money and not the content

I think that’s unfair. In most cases people are doing YouTube as a source of income and in order to do that they must:

- Create regular content

- Stick to content that YouTube encourages

- Diversify intelligently

If they make a mis-step on any of those they can lose that stream of income overnight.
I probably should have mentioned that my phone is over 6 years old, which may or may not be a factor.

Absolutely could be entirely a GM problem though. I haven't been too happy with the car lately, and don't think I would buy a GM vehicle again.
We had narrowed down our car choice to one of two vehicles a few years back - and the deciding factor was which one came with CarPlay standard. It's so invaluable for us - navigation is great, voice input is excellent, my wife and I can pick the media we want by plugging in our own phones, etc.

GM is going to lose this fight, I think. Maybe they're hoping that other auto manufacturers will join them in rejecting CarPlay/Android Auto, and I sincerely hope they won't.
Related:

End-of-life dates - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30499023 - Feb 2022 (54 comments)

Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033728 - May 2019 (80 comments)
The real reason is probably somewhere between: "this money is already earmarked for political allies" and "we think you'll deploy broadband globally anyway, with or without us giving you taxpayer money".
Save money by buying the normal book and pirating the non-restricted version
I'm guessing that when buying a car most people can't afford to be picky with the infotainment system and will prioritize buying a better car over infotainment quality.

Worst-case scenario these days is not too bad either, you'll get an aux connector or somewhat stable Bluetooth (if you set it up once and avoid doing anything other than play/pause/next). Yeah, from the software engineering point of view it's slow unreliable crap, but as a consumer you have little power to fix things.
Can confirm that. My xdrive unit in my BMW died a few months after buying, and everything worked, I could even hear the parking sensors even if I couldn’t see the camera feed anymore because that was piped through the X-drive unit.
During 2020/2021 I was on the lookout for a new car. It was important to me that it support Apple CarPlay. My last car was the last model in the lineup that didn’t support the first wave of back then tethered CarPlay support and I hated to use my old iPod classic as a media device because loading up new music was kinda laborious. Tesla etc fell out because I actually use Apple Music and a switch to Spotify just so I can listen to music in the car was and is still a no go for me. I also stayed away from the new android based systems. So this move just means that another car brand is out as a potential option. Not that GM is big in Europe. I guess that also means Opel/Vauxhaull is out of the picture too.
IMHO that's both correct, but also subtly the wrong way to think about the singularity.

Yes, there's an ever faster pace of change, but that pace of change for the general human population is limited precisely because of the factors you laid out: people can't keep up.

William Gibson said: "The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed."

That's what has been happening for millennia, and will be ever more obvious as the pace of progress accelerates: sure, someone, somewhere will have developed incomprehensible ultra-advanced technology, but it won't spread precisely because the general population can't comprehend/adopt/adapt it fast enough![1]

Exceptions exist, of course.

My take on the whole thing is that the "runaway singularity" won't happen globally, it'll happen very locally. Some AI supercomputer cluster will figure out "everything", have access to a nano-fabrication device, build itself a new substrate, transfer, repeat, and then zip off to silicon nirvana in a matter of hours...

... leaving us behind, just like we've left the primitive uncontacted tribes in the Amazon behind. They don't know or care about the latest ChatGPT features, iPhone computational photography, or Tesla robotics. They're stuck where they are precisely because they too far removed and so can't keep up.

[1] Here's my equivalent example to your iPhone example: 4K HDR videos. I can create these, but I can't send them to any of my relatives that would like to see them, because nobody has purchased HDR TVs yet, and they're also all using pre-HDR mobile phones. Display panel tech has been advancing fantastically fast, but adoption isn't.
Run an LLM on M1 Mac 8BG
Thanks! That looks like a fun page and doesn't seem to have been discussed on HN, so I've changed to that from https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09982. Readers will want to look at both links.
The world is already incomprehensible on some level. At this point, it's just a question of how much incomprehensibility we are willing to accept. We should bear in mind that disaster recoverability will suffer as that metric rises.

Based on my understanding of people, we probably have a long way to go.
Almost no research, despite implying multiple threads to pull on interesting original research... and yet the article is 100% an appeal to emotion and/or tropes.

Opportunity lost , indeed
> Hopefully smaller events like Gamescom, Paris Games Week, Siegecon

Are these really smaller? At least two of those had attendance numbers dwarfing E3, and Gamescom usually has around twice the amount of exhibitors.

Now from what I know, E3 used to be a more exclusive event limited to the press, making for a bigger news cycle. It was the place to show off your pre-rendered "gameplay" trailer and make announcements.

Important? Yes. Probably. Big? Not really.
The fakeness of our future makes me want to leave anything tech and chase something more tangible in nature and made with my hands, not just my fingertips.
I bought a 2017 Mercedes a few months ago and was disgusted to find that I was unable to update my map data beyond 2020. In the first week of ownership I had driven on to roads that didn't exist in their map.

Also, it appeared to have no network connection so would not pick routes according to traffic.

I spent $600 on an aftermarket CarPlay and Android Auto device and couldn't be happier.
I did some research and hopefully this will help you.

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"Social assistance
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Housing benefit
This government subsidy provides financial relief to families with low incomes. Applicants must meet a minimum income requirement, but it doesn't exceed the upper income limit.

Citizen's benefit
This state welfare benefit is paid to people who have no income or don't earn enough to support themselves and their dependents.

Unemployment benefits
These benefits pay 60–67% of your previous salary, plus health insurance.

Employee benefits
These include health insurance, pension plans, long-term care, unemployment insurance, and more.

Also please visit: https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/en/financial-support/citizens-...

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Many of us are with you but mod staff and PG have a different opinion :)
Pocketbook https://pocketbook.ch

You can download your books as you want and copy them to the device in many ways, including connecting the thing via USB to your pc and using it as an external storage unit. Sounds trivial but try to do that with a smartphone.

You can buy books from their shop if you make an account, but it is completely optional.
>I expect they don't want to pay what great software engineers cost, and even if they did, most such engineers probably wouldn't want to put up with GM's bureaucracy.

IMO, the bureaucracy isn't that big a problem; all big companies have this problem. The big problem for GM is their locations: who the heck wants to move to Detroit? Or any of the other places their suppliers tend to locate?
Then why can't "the best ux design teams in the world" design CarPlay apps that work?

Regardless of GM's ulterior motives here (follow the money), they're not wrong.

CarPlay stinks. It indeed has caused me distracted driving while I execute a complex task such as, oh I don't know, choose a song/playlist. The worst offender by far is Amazon Music, which is nearly unusable, though Apple isn't too far behind. The mapping apps are just as bad and getting worse. Want to report a hazard etc. in Apple Maps? You have to tap a chevron and wait for a fold-out menu to appear, it's like 3 taps deep. By this point you have passed the hazard and become one yourself as you fight these terrible UIs designed by... you guessed it, "the best ux design teams in the world".

And yes 90% of it are the apps but at its heart CarPlay is just display mirroring.

The UX of most CarPlay apps is downright TERRIBLE.
When I sold my first company even the receptionist (in her sixties and divorced) was able to pay off her mortgage and retire.

There’s no guarantee but it happens more than you would think.
> Moravec's paradox is probably a good analogy, where what we think is easy is only easy due to previous experience.

One explanation of Moravec’s paradox is based on evolution.
Human skills are implemented biologically with mechanisms that have been shaped by natural selection. The older the skill, the more time natural selection has had to shape it. Abstract thought is a recent development, so we should expect the current implementation to be relatively inefficient.
C++20 has very powerful compile-time metaprogramming and generics facilities. As a consequence, you can codegen complex systems of data structures and algorithms that are verified to be both optimal and safe at compile-time, essentially from a specification. The ability to automagically infer and codegen use-case specific types means that there are almost no naked primitive ‘int’ and similar types anywhere, the types are restricted to what they need to express and little more. While there is some ability to formally verify the correctness of these type interactions at compile-time, it is limited as a practical matter. The real strength is the ability verify the properties pretty exhaustively at runtime, given sufficiently good testing.

If you implement something like a database kernel almost entirely in user space, which is what you want to do if you care about performance, you have a new set of problems that languages like Rust were not designed to solve. Ownership, mutability, and lifetimes are not resolvable for most objects at compile-time, they can only be resolved dynamically at runtime. With C++, you can make these look like ordinary objects with ordinary behaviors, with metaprogramming abstractions under the hood arbitrating the chaos. Things that look unsafe are actually guaranteed safe by the underlying abstractions. In this type of software, almost your entire address space is “unsafe” in some way, so it is enormously useful to be able to overlay a safety model that does not rely on the compiler, since the compiler cannot solve these cases.

I use both C++ and Rust in production environments. There are cases where C++ used well is legitimately safer, theoretically and empirically, which is why I still use C++ for some things. Rust may become stronger at dealing with these cases but it still has many years to go. (Also, Rust async story is a hot mess, and you really need async for scalable, performant systems software.)
Are you a German or other EU citizen? Do you have a car? Are you paying rent? Are you willing to travel?
> So your assumption is everyone going to Moon or Mars is a saint.

I have no idea where did you get this from :) .
https://web.archive.org/web/20231213052011/https://www.econo...
There are many companies which have complete archive of arXiv, even arXiv put it in S3 and kaggle[1]. If someone just wants to serve static pdf it could be done very cheaply using R3 or something. I don't really think the old articles could die in the same way as journals which forbids archiving materials.

[1]: https://info.arxiv.org/help/bulk_data/index.html
It's this kind of thinking that is the only reason machines would ever become the primary life form on earth.
You compared the most updated infotainment system to the least updated phone. For most people it’s something like Ford vs iPhone or Chevy vs iphone
So in other words, a willingness to "compromise" while actually taking a complete victory: https://vimeo.com/36854424
It's not a codec-specific concept, so it should be portable to any encoder. x265 and AV1 should have similar things, not sure about VP9 as I think it's too old and On2 were, as I said, not that competent.
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Can you ask friends or family for financial assistance? Not trying to be disrespectful of your situation, but I'm not sure this is the place to ask for handouts. There's virtually no way for me to figure out if you're telling the truth, regardless of how much I sympathize with your dilemma.
He's being prosecuted for crimes, some of which preceded his time in office. I'm sure you have strong feelings about a certain laptop and prosecuting the alleged crimes attributed to it?

You need to at least be consistent with your complaints.
Kindle with ads has been observed to, after a couple alerts that it’s been offline for too long, just ignore airplane mode at some point.
I have yet to see biometric security done by airport security - either TSA or Clear that doesn’t show your picture when it recognizes your fingers.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38618262. (There was nothing wrong with your comment; I'm just trying to prune the top-heavy subthread.)
> ...[w]hile I don't know why ideas pop into my head...

If you're trying to argue that you're doing something different from statistical sampling, not knowing how you're doing it isn't a very strong place to argue from. What you're experiencing is probably what it feels like for a sack of meat to take a statistical sample from an internal black-box model. Biologically that seems to be what is happening.

I have also done a fair amount of writing. The writing comes from a completely different part of my mind than the part that experiences the world. I see no reason to believe it is linked to consciousness, even allowing that consciousness does exist which is questionable in itself.

It is an unreasonable position to say that you don't know the process but it must be different from a known process that you also don't have experience using.

> Are you claiming Stephen King's conscious deliberation wasn't part of his writing process? I'd say it clearly was.

Unless you're claiming to have a psychic connection to Stephen King's consciousness, this is a remarkably weak claim. You have no idea how he was writing. Maybe he's even a philosophical zombie. Thanks to the rise of LLMs we know that philosophical zombies can write well.

And "clearly" is not so - I could spit out a lost Stephen King work in this comment that, depending on how good ChatGPT is these days, would be passable. It isn't obvious that it is the work of a conscious mind. It in fact would obviously be from a statistical model.

> If none of us are conscious, why should I justify any copyright policy preference to you?

I've been against copyright for more than a decade now. You tell me why it is justified even if consciousness is a factor. The edifice of copyright is culturally and economically destructive and also has been artistically devastating (there haven't been anywhere near as many great works in the last 50 years as there should have been in a culturally dynamic society).
These people are certifiably insane. How are they not aware that people carry their entire digital lives in their pockets and purses and aren't going to swap that for whatever pile of garbage GM will come out with?

Further, how are they going to handle rental fleets? Do they think people will fork over $20 on top of a rental fee just to use their junk service?
https://wenbolan.com/4dobject.html
It depends if there's anything left to simplify. Maybe this is the optimum we'll reach between concise expression and accuracy of representation.
i read this literally, was going to look up some stuff for an ageing parent
Yes, that plus the overgeneralization in "The Arabs believe" and the overtones of religious flamewar in "affront to Islam".
Honestly, I felt like the takeaway I got from the Anna Delvey ordeal was that even major banks are susceptible to worshipping those that have inherited fortunes and to such an extent that they'll ignore any due diligence, even when legally required, because god forbid they offend or inconvenience someone that both has everything and has never any of it because rewards through merits is for lowly peasants.

I'm not saying we should hate trust fund babies, but outright worship of these people as if they are inherently our betters is far more detestable than she is for recognizing this diseased worldview and exploiting it.
Seinfeld was recorded in front of a studio audience, so the laughs are real. The thing is though that they often did multiple takes of each scene, and the laughs are sometimes the ones from different takes.
I feel rocking-chair-like saying this, but I remember reading about hypercubes as a kid in the 60's and just having this wide eyed "Woah" feel. Life was good then in that way. Requesting a copy of Flatland from the state library too and feeling the same way.
It would be useless to me personally.

I hate radio. I don’t listen to much music. When driving I mostly listen to podcasts and audiobooks which sounds like is not really practically possible.
> Call it what it is.. they like the control of their in car entertainment systems and they don't want external companies taking that part of the pie.

they did call it as it is. it's in the article:

> In addition to potentially buying things from GM or GM’s partners through their car’s infotainment system, GM is also looking at subscription services that would be managed through the same interface. GM’s chief digital officer, Edward Kummer, told Reuters as much when the decision to drop CarPlay and Android Auto was announced. Automakers see subscriptions as huge new source of income to be tapped, with GM alone hoping to make as much as $25 billion per year just off subscriptions by 2030.
The new Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class (2021)
And how is this any different than currently using your photo ID and someone looking to see if the ID matches your face? You would still have the identical twin problem
The problem is that you need to architect, build, and maintain that system for years, or decades, to come. That requires an in-house software team that knows what it's doing. Building that first version that "works" is easy. Building that first version that actually works and supports everything you need it to, is quite a bit more difficult.

Building and then maintaining that software, year after year, without slowing to a crawl because of all the tech debt that's piled on (especially so since you have subpar engineers or you're contracting out to cheap workers abroad), is even harder.

And if you want to provide a user experience comparable to what the top software companies in the world are capable of, that's just not gonna happen at these car companies.

Tesla was born from the software industry, that's why they're the only ones that can compete.
To be fair, it's a definite truth that shows get more chance of funding based on what is popular and how it fits into that perceived potential popularity.

So TBBT is a part of the overall zeitgeist, an example of a show of its type that was very successful.

You bet if a sci-fi show was number 1, than other sci-fi shows would be being made and better funded.
Update 1-US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit
Letter to the Harvard Corporation re Harvard president
But it lacks good media apps for podcasts and audiobooks unfortunately.
Who are the people who need to be smarter
It's not a few dozen lines of code because of, among other things, the case in which one thread allocates a lot of memory that is then sent to another thread to be freed. This actually happens more frequently than you'd think, because of producer/consumer patterns. In that case stop-the-world synchronization must happen in order to re-balance the pools in order to avoid what are essentially memory leaks. This is complex and is actually fairly similar to garbage collection.
Warm show? I admittedly haven’t watched many episodes, but they all seem somewhat casually cruel to one another, and not in a loving way you may tease a friend.

I always felt the stereotypes were truly making fun of geek/nerds, and somehow fooled folks into thinking they were in on the joke.

Warm is a word I have a hard time using.
Makes me think of the Dune pain box.
Can you give examples of this? I was recently looking for a car and saw the discounts and credits for a Tesla and thought it was finally time to go electric. Then I started researching the interface and saw so many people talking about how clunky it was and they decided to just use bluetooth with their phone to listen to music rather than the interface or even worse hacks where they setup a web server on their phone to mirror to the interface and have to type urls so they can use waze.

My wife has a Honda CRV with android auto and it works great when I drive it. We both use Youtube Premium (formerly Google Music) for our music and I use (soon to be going away) Google Podcasts for my podcasts. Those both work great with Android Auto. My understanding from looking it up is that it is near impossible to use non-supported software with a tesla without ugly hacks. My experience with Android Auto is good that it, or something better, is an absolute requirement on my next car. From my research, it seemed like Tesla added more walled garden annoyances than improvements.
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