skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you there. After getting frustrated enough with gnome 3 to jump to plasma I quickly came to discover that tweaking whatever you want on the desktop is way easier than what I thought. Literally just right click on the thing and disable stuff away!

The settings for plasma are certainly overwhelming, but if there are too many tools on the file browser, right clink on the icons and hide what you don’t want. Taskbar too crowded? Right click it and get rid of stuff. Konsole is showing the menu bar and wrong fonts? Right click the thing and fix it!
We need private rich people to buy up large tracts of land and build techno test bed cities for this stuff.
Does anyone know what the name is a reference to?
Speaking for myself, I would absolutely "drive" more miles if my car were autonomous. I'd take the hour+ trip into the city far more if I didn't have to drive or go on the two hour+ drive to the mountains for a day hike. Even if there are fewer cars (which is mostly about the economics) there will absolutely be more car-miles with autonomous systems.
> The jitter entropy technique relies on differences in timing when running the same code, which requires both a high-resolution CPU cycle counter and a CPU that appears to be nondeterministic (due to caching, instruction reordering, speculation, and so on). There are some architectures that do not provide that, however, so no entropy can be gathered that way. Donenfeld noted that non-Amiga m68k systems, two MIPS models (R6000 and R6000A), and, possibly, RISC-V would be affected;

So, I understand not wanting to break RISC-V support, but _should_ people really care about breaking compatibility with early 1990s MIPS chips and a 1979 Motorola CPU?
State-space LLMs: Do we need Attention?
"Mamba, StripedHyena, Based, research overload, and the exciting future of many LLM architectures all at once"
This makes me sad in a way that's a little hard to articulate. But I'll try!

I plug my $9000 2013 Nissan Leaf into an ordinary 120V extension cord each night so I can commute to a neighboring city for work, and the electricity costs me $20/mo. I also have a 1986 Toyota pickup like on Back to the Future that I had to gas up every other week, using 30 gallons of gas per month and costing over $100. So the operating cost of an EV is about 3-5 times lower than a gas vehicle.

My friend has an EV charging dongle that we jokingly call the octopus, which has a dozen adapters for plugging into every kind of 120/240V outlet like on ovens and dryers. So he charges his car in 4 hours out of whatever outlet is available, for the same $20/mo that I pay.

So convincing the public that everyone needs to buy a $500-1000 charging station for their EV was a social engineering campaign to slow the adoption of EVs.

The real engineering work to let us plug EVs into any outlet has not been done yet. But it would look like this:

* Level 2 J1772 chargers have a resistor that tells the EV how much wattage to draw. But that just passes the buck to the user, who now must ensure that the outlet can provide that wattage. A better system would have a smart power manager that senses current saturation or voltage drop near the point where the circuit breaker trips. We also need smart breakers that add noise/harmonics/phase as they approach their limit, which EVs would detect to self-regulate. And we need breakers that trip for a nominal time like 1 second or shorter, or however long power supplies can continue to operate uninterrupted, so that a tripped breaker isn't a showstopper.

* Nearly all US portable battery power stations come in only 120V with a 30A TT-30 plug normally used for RVs, with no 240V option unless you connect two stations for twice the price. If we want a 5000Wh/240V station so we can charge our EVs on solar power, we'll have to go to Europe or Alibaba to get it.

* Battery chargers, BMSs and inverters are notoriously finicky. They often won't charge below a certain voltage threshold, causing some solar installations to spend part of the day off. We need 95% efficient 10kW rectifiers/inverters that can take any AC/DC voltage from 0-500V and output standard 12/24/48/96/120/240/480V in all phases without requiring configuration from the user, for under $1000.

If we had these ubiquitous power tools, then choice of NACS/CCS/CHAdeMO would be moot.

Edit: I forgot to add that before Google fell, they held their Little Box Challenge in 2014 to develop a high-efficiency low-cost 95% efficient 2 kW inverter similar to the one I mentioned, so the tech has been available for almost a decade now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Box_Challenge
Aero is cool, and i'ma let you finish, but Windows 2000 was the best look ever.
The related DearPyGUI is so cool.
https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui
QtTabbar has been great for me, used it on Windows 7 and 10. I'm waiting for the respect the user EU version of 11 before switching.
As opposed to which other wildly successful space programs? Ariane? Lol. I'm not American but yes us space programs are absolutely way ahead and have been so since Apollo. They are also pretty good arguments whenever someone tries to argue that the US is backwards technologically because of... measurement units lol. Not sure why it's even worth denying that. There is tons of stuff to criticize the US for, or where the US is behind but space programs are probably not one of them lol.
Beautiful interface design there, and it's fully customizable to your liking as well. It also supports keyboard shortcuts.
All the steps it takes a User to accomplish an action. Usually low fidelity (wireframes vs finished designs). The prototype part I'd assume means you can click through it (like Figma prototypes).

E.g. Login Form. Could should initial state -> error state -> submitting state -> success state. Could be a "User Login flow".
Pg_vectorize: Vector Search in 60 Seconds on Postgres
I'm actually rather negative on automated testing.

Every project, that has gotten rid of the Q/A team to rely on automated tests, hasn't exactly gone well. Windows being the obvious example, but there are others. I'm not seeing the quality improvement that should be there. And even when there are tests, elementary mistakes (like the time Windows 10 would delete your Documents folder) slip through the pipeline and screw everything up. How is it that some of the most reliable software in the world (like the moon landing suite, the IRS tax system, or stock trading mainframes, or the Windows NT kernel) were written before automated tests; yet some of the buggiest software in the world is the most well-tested (like Windows 10, or Google Drive, or just about every SPA)?

In a team setting, they certainly seem to catch bugs. But is that because the tests have caught so many bugs that would've slipped into production; or is it that the team can afford to be careless now and writes sloppier code to begin with? I'm increasingly suspecting it's the latter, and while the tests catch most of the sloppiness, sometimes the slop passes...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38522428

https://openreview.net/forum?id=AL1fq05o7H
Idk about “dear” but ImGUI I believe stand for “immediate mode graphical user interface”
it opens files in IDE...and it looks like I don't need assistant IDE plugins anymore
I love that this exists and in fact in many ways prefer how it looks to the stock KDE theme, but it’s unfortunate that modification of KDE itself was necessary to achieve this level of accuracy.

It underscores a more general frustration of mine of Linux DE theming in that it’s less flexible and capable than Kaleidoscope for classic Mac OS was, as a result of theming being somewhat tacked on even for DEs that pride themselves on flexibility (like KDE). Ideally, there’d be little that themes couldn’t be able to change about one’s desktop environment without invasive modifications.
We Know How to Put People on Ozempic. Do We Know How to Get Them Off It?
We could legislate around this very irrational/human fear. Personally I’d feel much safer if the roads were primarily filled with drivers that don’t get emotional and are objectively safer. Even if a few accidents confuse me and seem avoidable. I think what your analysis is missing is that most human accidents are also 100% avoidable. Why aren’t we looking at the incredibly dumb things humans do and asking the same hard questions? Why doesn’t it spook us when a human doesn't see a red light and t-bones cross traffic? Or when a multi-car pileup happens because a large pickup truck with a big car complex is tailgating someone at 85 mph and a sudden stop is required?
I think this is just an unfortunately reality of almost any public resource... my community just built a new pickleball complex, but there is still an opportunity for a private pickleball club that has an indoor space. Government is constantly caught in the middle trying to provide resources while also controlling costs and not wanting any project to look like a boondoggle or overspend.
Thanks for the info, cool to know you can install that separately.

My original point remains: out of the box, many Windows users find they have the 'latest drivers' for their graphics card, find that DirectX 12 is working fine on their system, while simultaneously finding Vulkan does not.

For games, it's fine to require users to fix their Vulkan drivers. But if you're making a video player and want to leverage hardware decoding.. I think this is an aspect you should be concerned about and aware of.
Sorry to veer slightly off-topic, but can anyone familiar with academia explain why such a literary exercise gets published on Arxiv as a research paper?
What is scientific or research-driven about it? How is this different from a long-form opinion or literary essay except for the fact that it's written with a paper-like style and voice?
I'm baffled. Is this just because humanities professors need to show they're published as well and they need to get a score for tenure, or something like that?
> the second and third order effects...

You're being overly pessimistic. I can see the opposite occuring on each of your points.

- less traffic due to more efficient driving: once automated driving is pervasive it's natural that cars and traffic as a whole will coordinate and optimise use of the road. You should be able to predict traffic accurately and choose the optimal time to travel. Car speeds will coordinate to maximise flow through roads. Improved public transport will increase the number of passengers per vehicle and reduce personal vehicles.

- more investment into better modes of transport due to lowered costs: the cost structure of buses (and trains) lends itself to larger vehicles with less stops. Without having to pay someone to drive you can remake public transport into something that takes less people at a time to more places, without requiring expensive infrastructure. Think small automated busses that serve a web of points instead of routes, so people can request to get from A to B and the system delivers from as close to A and to as close to B as possible as soon as possible at the lowest cost.

- less car ownership: most people don't want to own cars, so it's very likely that car ownership will drop significantly. With new privately and publicly owned forms of public transport, the need to own a car will disappear in many cases.

I feel that almost all technology is positive (not sure about social media), since it generally gives people more choices and abilities. Automated cars have very few downsides.
Times change and companies need to adapt with the times. 2015-2022, exclusivity would be a huge positive for Tesla. Their vehicles would have lots of charging stations while other vehicles wouldn't. That's great for Tesla.

When the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure plan, it became clear that CCS would become the dominant charging standard in the US - unless Tesla acted fast. Tesla's port would go from an advantage to a disadvantage. Tesla has 12,000 US chargers today. Maybe the company would make that 25,000 by 2030. The NEVI pushes for 500,000 chargers by 2030 with the CCS port. Toward the end of the 2020s, Tesla would feel pressure to switch to CCS because the majority of chargers in the US would be CCS. Tesla owners would complain that their Tesla vehicles used a different port from 95% of the public chargers.

By pushing the industry to adopt the Tesla charger, they ensure that chargers built using the NEVI money will most likely have Tesla ports. They could even argue that the administration should drop the CCS requirement given that the industry has moved to the Tesla port.

Tesla's port would have gone from an advantage to a hinderance. If Tesla didn't move the industry to the Tesla port, they'd eventually have to move to CCS. People would want their cars to be compatible with 95% of the chargers out there. When Tesla announced a switch to CCS, sales of current vehicles would likely crater. With Tesla abandoning their port, people would want to wait for the new model. Tesla might need to offer steep discounts to get people to take the "old" port. Instead, by moving the industry to their port, they put the uncertainty on competing vehicles; they make potential punchers of competing vehicles more likely to buy a Tesla or delay their competing purchase. That either adds to Tesla sales or makes competing companies question their EV commitment.

It's not that Tesla wanted to give up their moat. It's not that Tesla wants a bit of charging revenue. It's that if 95% of the chargers in the US become CCS, that moat is trapping Tesla in rather than keeping competitors out. Yes, having Supercharger exclusivity would still be an advantage for a few more years - and it will still be given that it'll be a couple years before competitors have Tesla's port on their vehicles. However, Tesla doesn't want the situation where their port becomes the odd one out where Tesla owners need to fumble with CCS adaptors. Maybe Tesla gives up a year or two of Supercharger advantage, but they ensure that it doesn't become a disadvantage.
> This means we can release new features on the web that’s instantly available with native controls on the apps, without having to wait for App Store approval. It’s a big win in terms of mobile productivity.

I'm surprised Apple (or Play?) allowed that. It must be a full time job keeping up with all the rules for what's allowed versus not with submitted apps
That's NIMBY neighbourhoods firing a pre-emptive salvo, to prevent those lines, and the easements around them from being re-developed into new transit lines. Presumably to keep the poors and undesirables and people without cars out of their beautiful town.

/waves in the general direction of Kirkland, WA.
If you're building a new city just do public transit instead of all this inefficient nonsense. Either way it's not a naturally growing city so if you're going to plan one plan one that makes sense
Copied text from Wikipedia somehow seems different from deriving the nobel prize winning process from a dataset that didn't have the answer in it.

And downvotes. The article presents this as a magic box capable of novel work, and some distance down says it found the answers on Wikipedia. Those are different things, whether you're excited about LLMs or not.
This is fair. I was unclear about the distinction between fewer cars (supported perhaps by cheap taxis - robotic or otherwise), and car useage (not supported by cheap taxis of any kind).
Great job. Maybe the best effort yet?

That said, I liked the windows 8 look and feel better though. Not a huge fan of shiny glass aero effects. Grouping was quite the innovation back then. I wonder what happened to the (woman) who created it.

I think Gnome can, easily, be turned into an amazing GUI but its creators, for whatever reason, insist on ruining the out-of-box experience. It's 99% there and better than almost anything Windows and macOS have to offer. How come only apple offers cool stuff such as reopen apps after reboot.

sorry for the rant
> Can I run wayland software in windows ?

Yes. Wayland is the protocol by which WSL programs display on the Windows desktop.

> Come back when you have a working alternative, and please stop using some magical "authority" argument : "a decision has been made" (by whom, where, when, why, with whom authority ?)

By the X developers, who decided en masse to abandon X and work on Wayland instead.
$6 billion to continue operating. I wonder how much it would cost to cover the adjacent area in solar panels and sodium storage batteries of the equivalent capacity?
> Sometimes people just want to feel smart more than be smart.

Yeah.
There's basically two main classes of destructive devices: explosives and firearms with a bore over half an inch. The permits for the former are mostly issued to demolition and mining and it would be insane to allow anyone to "collect" explosives that degrade and become unstable.

You don't actually need either the FFL or the permit if you just decommission the main gun, which is how most tank and artillery collectors get theirs. DD permits are rarely issued for explosives without a good reason (like construction or mining) so even if you get the permit for the gun, you'll struggle to get one for the shells.
If any Dutch entrepreneur is listening: I have been dreaming about the same delivery mechanism for the Netherlands. Difference with Atlanta? There are canals everywhere, inside and outside the cities. It might be possible to just lay a waterproof pipe at the bottom of many existing canals to create an extremely cheap network for autonomous robotic deliveries.
I've used Dear PyGui [1], which is based on this, and it has been a mixed bag. It's fast and basic functionality is super simple. The documentation is somewhat lacking when you wanted to start doing something non-standard. I would still rate it quite highly all things considered.

[1] https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui
Does riding in a Waymo One vehicle require a Google account?
The visual approach isn't an issue, it's the requirements to maintain visual separation. Under emergency conditions, you'd expect the separation to be handled by ATC.
> And as one such person, I don't want to hear a company tell me I can't even have the _option_ of an open device because "it's for my own good".

This particular feature, Activation Lock, is an optional feature you can turn on. The problem (in this case) is that someone else enabled the feature after wiping while they had physical access to the laptop
I think there definitely should be. I wouldn't want to set foot in a place that did this, and would be really angry if I discovered that a place was secretly doing this because it would rob me of my ability to protect myself.
Should fit well into standard box truck?
Once human-driven alternatives (eg. rideshare, taxis) are out-competed by autonomous taxis, what would be the incentive to keep those prices low? Especially if Waymo is the one service with suitably performant autonomous vehicles
Btw - I published a paper at EMNLP with the txtai author (David) about using semantic graphs for automatic creation of debate cases!

https://aclanthology.org/2023.newsum-1.10/

Happy to see that David's excellent work is getting the love that it deserves!
I work with a FOSS product that has millions of lines of C. As a student, I would have been wowed by seeing these FOSS contributors each with +100,000 LOC in a single project. Now that I am more familiar how barely-functional the software is, with glaring architectural mistakes papered over by literally millions of LOC, I am more cynical.

"Contributing" 100K LOC by implementing a bespoke http.c and mysql_client.c in 2020 is almost never something to be proud of from a SWE and product perspective. Great for ego/NIH and job security though.

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
LLM Sensory Evolution: A step closer to AGI?
Unlimited context limit is the future for LLMs and AI
Improved Log Drain Filtering
Once automated cars make up a significant fraction of cars on the road I would expect some communication scheme to emerge to make them coordinate with each other, maybe even sharing observed positions of other road participants.

There is the risk that they will misbehave or deadlock around each other, but also a great opportunity for them to communicate intent to each other at a level human drivers just can't do from a sound-insulated cabin.
Must be very tight roundabouts to induce a large rotation of the wheel! I’m used to roundabouts where you only have to turn the wheel slightly, but maybe your locale differs.
> Tesler's Theorem (ca. 1970). My formulation of what others have since called the “AI Effect”. As commonly quoted: “Artificial Intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet”. What I actually said was: “Intelligence is whatever machines haven't done yet”. Many people define humanity partly by our allegedly unique intelligence. Whatever a machine—or an animal—can do must (those people say) be something other than intelligence.

https://www.nomodes.com/larry-tesler-consulting/adages-and-c...
Dimensional analysis just means checking that the units work out. You can do it!

x, dx, y and dy have units of length. dt has units of time. v, I’m guessing is velocity, so length/time.

length/length^2 = (length/time)^2 * length/time^2

->

1/length = length^3/time^4

These are different types of things, they can’t be equal to each other.

It is essentially like static types in programming, but for physicists, and it is a similarly simple but dramatically powerful idea.
I am surprised that law has not been challenged by someone stating it violates their first amendment rights.
You're comparing apples to oranges. Disengagements means there is a safety driver present that takes over to prevent a dangerous situation. The car requesting remote assistance, which occurs when there is not a safety driver, is an inconvenience and expense but does not mean there is a dangerous situation. (Of the 22 Cruise rides I took, it happened 3 times, and at no point was there danger.) It just means the car is confused. Conflating these things and accusing Cruise of deception is itself being dishonest (even though Cruise has actually been dishonest on many occasions!).

The whole game plan is have a bank of human operators who prove remote assistance at initially high rates which is then driven lower over time as the edge cases are ironed out iteratively. The fact that Cruise is only using one human remote assistant to manage ~15 rides, as mentioned in the article you link, tells us that the rate of remote assistance is already so low that it will be a very modest expense. For more, see the comment from Cruise's CEO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38145997
RISC-V: The Almost Unused Bit in JALR
We won't need as many of them but the ones we use will be almost constantly on the road, 20 cars on the road all the time is more traffic than 100 cars on the road 10% of the time and in people's garages the rest of the time
I am 37. I am encouraged by your words, it makes sense the phone just replaced behaviour that was already there.
Depends what you want; Inkscape does it well for some basic tasks involving images with few colours, I've often thought about how it could be achieved better for artistic pieces
The commit [1] was eventually reverted [2]

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6f98a4bfee72c22f50a...
[2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0313bc278dac7cd9ce8...

> "This causes a large number of qemu boot test failures for various architectures (arm, m68k, microblaze, sparc32, xtensa are the ones I observed). Common denominator is that boot hangs at 'Saving random seed:'" This isn't hugely unexpected - we tried it, it failed, so now we'll revert it.
They tried to build a domestic program with Arianespace, but the cost for the engineering is too competitive. New space entrants like SpaceX and soon to be Blue Origin make it economically infeasible for all but the most sensitive EU NATSEC missions to be handled by US providers.

It’s a shame to see honestly.
Cant interpret this charitably.

could you help me understand?