skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But now I wonder, how much is Musk and how much is it that Musk just raised a ton of money and the companies were run by people way smarter and more competent than him?

It is quite obvious that the more involved he gets in his companies, the more they fail, Twitter being the most obvious example, but SpaceX and Tesla both do as well as they do despite him, not because of him. He was able to moderate his ego better for those companies due to being less unhinged from reality earlier in his life, when he was putting more of his time into those companies.
> You’re thinking of ..

Right, because Waymo has now tuned their cars to cut off each other even if it results in illegal and unsafe turns https://youtu.be/kN0MLclnWa0?si=5yM847zMqnH90d52
LMDB has a mode designed to do something similar, if anyone wants something like this with just a bit more structure to it like transactional updates via CoW and garbage collection of old versions. It's single writer via a lock but readers are lock/coordination free. A long running read transaction can delay garbage collection however.
You'd think they could make fine money as neutral brokers since everyone served their ads and for a long period they did make money as semi-neutral brokers. But since, IDK, 2019 they have become more and more garbage. This is broadly part of the concentration of wealth and power you see everywhere else but I don't know the specifics but you can see the result.
Was in the Netherlands recently and toured an old windmill. Highly recommended. The way they reuse the same core equipment to perform various jobs is awesome. Plus it just sounds cool.
a nand gate is not too primitive, of course, but building an actual cpu out of nand gates involves several hundred of them, and that circuit is harder to describe than a universal turing machine

turing's original paper gave a convincing argument that turing machines were universal; he said that they could do anything a mathematician could do, since the mathematician can only hold a finite number of symbols from a finite set in his memory at once, and can only fit a finite set of symbols from a finite set on a page in his field of view. so the squares on the turing-machine tape were originally pages in a notebook

it seems like you would benefit more from exposing yourself to things you find strange; you could start by reading turing's strange paper https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

strangeness doesn't guarantee insightfulness, but it's a necessary precondition to it; if you continue to dismiss all strange arguments you will dismiss everything from which you could possibly learn anything, preserving your ignorance like a precious jewel
hot liquids can burn. people like hot coffee. takeout coffee cools relatively quickly. coffee is made with boiling water. What temperature should a coffeeshop serve their coffee at? Who is responsible for what? I think the case was overblown. Life has risks, assume them or don't leave your house.

I understand that others might differ, they want only "safe" coffee to be served, but we're not looking at a "trolley problem." Less than hot coffee is just a different arbitrary line, one that will increase number of people disappointed by cold coffee. "hey, lower speeds save lives, let's put the highway speed limits at 45 and strictly enforce!" It's not something to make a morals case out of, it's a practical tradeoff.
UI feedback: Love the style, look, and feel. But I think it needs more tweaks on responsiveness before it's really playable on my device.

Tried to play but it first seemed like each conversation froze after my first message. Turned out the rest was being hidden and I would need to scroll inside the chat area to see it - only seeing one line at a time. I could zoom out in the browser though, that makes the text too small to read.

The avatar pic of the AI takes up all the vertical space that could have been used to show the chat.

Desktop Firefox Linux, 1920x1200.
He didn't moderate his ego. The people at these companies built a system of advisors to manage their CEO the way that a kingdom with a 5-year-old king used to. He stormed into Twitter without letting them build that up, and now we're seeing the effects.
Interesting tidbit from the story about the timeline: NASA is only behind schedule if you accept that they could just lop 4 years off the project because the guy in charge said to. If they launch in 2027, as the story posits, that's just a year earlier than 2028, the original goal date before March 2019. That was when the then-president ordered the agency to "speed up" and launch in 2024.
Yeah, a lot of database storage engines use O_DIRECT because the OS's general purpose cache heuristics are inferior vs them doing their own buffer pool management. That said if you try this naively you're likely to end up doing something a lot worse than the Linux kernel.
> hence I will not trust any system that does not perform at least as well as I do.

...which is a pretty big fallacy and, if implemented as law (which I am working to make sure it is not), will get a lot of people killed.

Literal drug addicts, people driving under the influence of alcohol, and people driving distracted are driving right now. Even AV that performs at the level of the median driver will massively reduce the number of those people actually making driving decisions, and therefore directly reduce road deaths.

Why? Because most accidents and deaths are caused by drivers performing at the low end of the spectrum. In the US, a full third of accidents are caused by drunk driving - which would be virtually nonexistent with AVs ("virtually" because the AVs aren't going to be perfect and are going to need manual intervention).

The bar is literally the average, because if everyone drove average, deaths would plummet.

And, unlike the American public, it's massively easier to improve AV driving behavior than average human driver behavior. A system that starts out eliminating the lower end of driving performance while improving over time is a deal too good to turn down if you care about human life.
Drawing a straight line into the future and then making projections on that future as a projection of current trends is critically dumb and ignores every technology revolution we have had.

Humans are terrible predictors of the future, and technology changes aren’t linear projections that are easily predictable.
Imagine being the only fish without a tag. Everyone at school will know how lame you are.
"We're starting some experiments to understand how the videos YouTube recommends differ from the "average" YouTube video - YouTube likes recommending videos with at least ten thousand views, while the median YouTube video has 39 views."

In experiments by yours truly, it seems that quality goes down as views go up.
Many old films are really long

Gone With the Wind is 4 hours long
Depends on what you mean by "like". When born we have no concept of grammar and learn the one our environment uses. You get samples of sounds and you get rewarded for responding to them correctly. At that level, it's exactly the same thing LLM does.

If you mean, do we create a similar mental model for the language to what happens in the LLM weights - I believe we can't tell one way or the other yet.
The military industrial complex wants it very much. So do the associated political representatives.
This link goes to the text-only version of the story. To see the pictures and video (the story kind of needs them), go to the full site <https://www.npr.org/2023/12/22/1198908957/led-lights-flicker...>
Ditto. Downsized from a larger xenon box into a nuc. Instead of RAID I just have a good backup approach. It doesn't matter if my home server suffers a day of downtime (which it did from a failed SSD).
The vacuum probably lowered the voltage, preventing a component from overheating.
My take on the man is that his value was both as a salesman (with the overpromising and hype building), as well as the dictator who could cut through analysis paralysis by committee (a la Steve Jobs).

I think it served him well for Tesla and SpaceX but without shielding from his own worst impulses (as in Twitter and Cybertruck at Tesla), his reputation has been squandered.

Add that his social media interaction which has diminished him in the eyes of all but his acolytes....
Ho hum. Mr. Early Adopter learns what happens to early adopters.
You misunderstand that this technique was executed by using YouTube _search_ to find videos, not by querying the exact URL. They can doctor search results however they like.
I participate in a lightly moderated anonymous parenting message board, and many agree it is similar to social media in engendering those unhealthy emotions.

I definitely feel HN falls in that category, maybe even old school newsgroups and Reddit. There were definitely flame wars going back to the 90s, so bad behavior has a long history even before Facebook (or MySpace or Friendster).
Usually starts with "this can't be THAT hard to add this to my project, let's try it". Six months later you've got a solid working knowledge of running a lathe and you've started teaching workshops to other hackerspace folk on how to run it because everyone has seen you running that machine and needs help on it. Then you realize you forgot to finish the project that sent you down this road in the first place. You get bored and stop using the lathe for a few months. "Hey, it can't be that hard to design a PCB for this project, lets do some of that now..." Six months later you're teaching workshops on it...

And then years down the road you know how to make most things from scratch from the electronics design, PCB gerbers, and the enclosure both in metal (both machined and fabricated), laser cut, and 3D printed. But just conjuring up any cool thing you want to make summons a mental spreadsheet of the time it will take to complete the project, possibly including making a small-run of extras to sell for much less than your time is worth, and then you set your drink back down and shake your head because ain't no one got time for that any more. And then you buy the Etsy/Kickstarter version instead because you realize they have woefully underpriced their super cool widget.
https://archive.vn/dGht0
I have long decided my strategy should be "pick the least worst". Much less frustrating if you look at it like an engineering optimisation task.
> So I imagine all these AI upscaled film weren’t done for our benefit but to save streamers a bit of bandwidth.

You may be onto something here. A 2-hour 4k movie that’s already smooth and blobby encodes down to 10GB or so and doesn’t look so different from the full-fat Blu-ray. A good film transfer at 4k… it’ll start looking off when the target file’s under 30GB, if not sooner.

[edit] though, on the other hand, they can do this well enough when they encode for streaming, from a good source, no need to start with something bad, you can just add one extra step to make it bad before encoding. Though then it invites comparison of your “high quality” (but actually awful looking) 4k streams to the much-better original source.
I love Redmon!

I had a Customer who used Zebra industrial label printers for labeling product. The print jobs came from one of their Customers' ERP servers, sent over a VPN directly to the production line.

The Customer might send hundreds of labels in a single job. If the roll of label stock ran out during the job their server would re-send the job from the beginning after the printer was reloaded. This meant somebody had to find and dispose of the duplicate labels (or risk re-using a serialized label).

The Customer said that they couldn't modify the ERP software that was composing the jobs.

A friend and I wrote a parser for the Zebra "ZPL" printer language to ingest the large jobs, split them into single label jobs, then shoot those single labels into the printer. We used Redmon to intercept the jobs coming from the Customer's ERP server into an LPR queue on a Windows server machine. Redmon would hand the job off to the label splitter.
Like others in the thread, I also experienced this recently in NYC. It’s amazing how incredibly quick the system is too. You place the items in the bin at the same time, and by the time you look up at the screen the price is already waiting for you to confirm and proceed to payment.

One of the first times I’ve felt delight shopping in person in years.
Yes about Cars,Yes about Planes:See How Deforestation says "Yes" about emissions
My guess is that before the order shows as “shipped” in their website, the product is moving through Amazon’s internal logistics network. When to show as “shipped” is a somewhat arbitrary decision when the company runs a sprawling network that delivers to your door.
I’m convinced this is a big part of Amazon’s rise to prominence. While they often had competitive pricing, they also had a built-in discount by not collecting sales tax that brick and mortar stores with nexus could not avoid. And they fought hard against any changes to the status quo as it pertains to sales tax (at least until it became advantageous to do otherwise).

I’m fairly certain Amazon knew these consumers weren’t paying use tax instead. Local stores took a beating by having to play by rules that Amazon didn’t.
Simply asking it, “What would you tell a medical student…” works around this. I can’t imagine how or why they’re bothering with this when a simple disclaimer would probably protect them legally. WebMD seems to do just fine.
I don't follow, Why would hash based routing not use the history API?

I'm aware of the choice between path based routing, and hash based routing, which has some server side implications.

The History API manages entries in the client history, which I always thought a hash based router would still need to use. Maybe because a hash based router can work single page on the client without having to fake real resource paths?

edit: I'm only familiar with the vue side, but vue-router relies on the same code for both, I can only see minimal differences for the `#`, not much for the history management.

https://github.com/vuejs/router/blob/110c86929ac92e2428d8d49...
Getting a 403 forbidden link from source right now, did we trip the poor guy's ddos protection or is it just me?
Microsoft Announces the End of Windows Mixed Reality
Ad block recovery strategies (Shadow DOM)
To this day I remember coming across something on Compuserve ~1990 explaining GIF and how it is pronounced. Like the peanut butter.
I'd love to read it when it comes out. Where should I look for it when its published? Ignore if its a stupid question.
Of course. Why would you ever think differently?

When you buy a business, what do you think you are buying?

Edit: the comment I'm replying to has changed its entire content at least twice now. The current version is expressing doubt that this will hold up under appeal due to what was said. The first version expressed vague surprise that promises made before a company was sold hold up after it was sold. I have never seen somebody abuse the edit function in this dishonest way on HN before.
Perhaps I'm misinterpreting, but it sounds like you think this is ridiculous: can I ask why? Buying a company generally includes accepting their liabilities, I don't see why employee bonuses would be any different.

Edit: Parent has edited their post to completely rewrite it. The original seemed to express incredulity at the idea that a company's new owners would be on the hook for the company's liabilities after a buy-out.
You sound like someone who could benefit from foot pedals for modifier keys.
Discussed at the time:

How to build a windmill - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4579932 - Sept 2012 (53 comments)

also:

How to build a windmill part 2: Parts, nuts, bolts and blades (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791461 - Dec 2015 (7 comments)

How to Build a Windmill, Part 2: Parts, Nuts, Bolts and Blades - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4584772 - Sept 2012 (10 comments)
>They are not suddenly going to stop using Google Search

They will use it less if it becomes a waste of time to try.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231222123505/https://jacquesma...
Surely someone at YouTube could answer this question definitively?
Is there a reason why they are not taking the 1999 version of the domain down?
Having a game I'm into makes every day enjoyable
>> 60

And the default lease time is 60 minutes?
Found this service while looking into shadow dom abuse: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/nfjerk/new_un...
This is a Nissan Leaf. Those have been around for what, a decade? Not exactly an early adopter IMO.
I agree, it needs a lot of UI work.

Thanks for trying it though!

I'll take a look tomorrow at that screen resolution and address the issue.
I sooo want a wind turbine to supplement my solar, but as you say, I just can't make the economics work.

For starters, wind is a lot more mechanical. Meaning moving parts. Meaning maintainence, storm care, and so on.

For another it's more obtrusive, large, high, creates some degree of noise etc.

It's not exactly cheap. My inverter could handle it, but between the mounting and turbine, it's some real cash.

The argument for it just falls apart when I do the math. For less money and waaay less hassle, I could just extend the solar.

So I love the -idea- of wind but the economics of it just don't work at personal-scale (yet?)

Personal Hydro also looks interesting (but alas I have neither the elevation, nor river for that). For a while I researched ocean wave (especially shore wave), but I dont live by the sea.

Ultimately we use what we can get, which for me is solar. I get plenty of wind here, which is why it seems a waste to not use it, but again, economics...
I wasn’t contesting your opinion but rather the veracity of Waymo’s “study” which is really a press release. I and others have seen Waymos in collisions (e.g. in MTV) where Waymo chase vehicles showed up and acted as private security in order to shield the scene / liability. And then there’s Levandowski’s hack to the car and resulting crash that might have ended self-driving taxis today had there been reporting requirements https://www.salon.com/2018/10/16/googles-self-driving-cars-i...

At this point I believe you are trolling and disinterested in discussion that might be critical of Waymo’s brand and safety.
Superb write-up, a good balance of technical:non-technical while building its argument inexorably.
In the early 2000s I worked at an on-campus lab that did 3D printing back when that required machines that were 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars. One of the machines built blocks of paper that were each laser cut and laminated to one another. The company that made it went out of business and there wasn’t any software support. Many of the supported printers had tools to email when various events happened and we used that to page employees to come in and remove finished prints or whatever needed to be done.

This machine didn’t have that capability nor any obvious extension points. I ended up writing a VB app that would pill the serial port, which the machine used to talk to the control system, and if the serial port was busy and then became free, send an email. Email was sent by writing a very simple SNMP client.

That program ended up working for another, lower cost 3D printer that we acquired later as well.

I ended up extending for a 3ᴿᴰ printer to tail its log and look for a message it emitted when prints finished.

We share it with a few places and got one of the printer companies to add email support later.
I’ve worked at a company where our remote access was over a super slow modem line but the machine did have access to the internet.
Exactly the same for me, I've found answers derived from chat GPT training to be way more useful than the browser search answers. Half the time it doesn't work, it ads a lot of waiting time and it provides answers way less comprehensive. I have used the custom "classic" GPT bot when I have wanted to avoid Bing search answers.
Mean GRE quant scores across years and countries
I personally love mine. The build quality is great and it fits well in my hands
Have you heard of people using Nintendo switch controllers in modeling programs like this?
My version of this epiphany was w/ BBSs in the late 80s. I just assumed the BBSs I called were running on "mainframes" or some such. It was shocking when I found out I could run a BBS on my PC.
Yes, but have you seen their fashion shows?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpypTXccG2I

Even more choices.
So there are disposable RFID chips on every price tag? I would think that is wasteful and expensive? Is there a way to recapture them like a deposit return
> especially if you don't care about the ohmic region (which you usually don't in logic ICs),

you have to care about the ohmic region to be confident you've safely steered clear of it; at least one fet moves through the ohmic region every time a mos gate's output transitions

rtl is the bipolar equivalent of nmos (see the analog simulation at http://tinyurl.com/ylnljbgz) but you do need base resistors if you're going to try to drive its inputs with voltage sources instead of the outputs of other rtl gates. but you can omit them when the inputs are connected to rtl outputs http://tinyurl.com/ywja8z28

the flip side of that is that, though you need a base resistor to provide a constant logic high to an rtl gate, you can provide a low just by leaving the input open, you don't even need a wire like you do for nmos

bipolar logic is also a lot harder for students to blow up if your lab power supply has a current limit on its output
Very cool! I've been playing around with some similar ideas, though as I'm sure you've also noticed it's quite challenging to make of game of these things. (The most similar concept I've been working on is a game where you must gain favor with lonely sentient plants by telling them stories. Not deception really, but the same sense of convincing the AI.)

The latency is pretty high, but knowing the technology that's understandable. But it would help if there were more indicators when there's expected latency. Like... I think there is a "typing" indicator probably while the LLM is getting ready to reply, but not one while the voice is being generated.

I encountered some problems navigating when another character was in the way. It seems like characters could just walk on top of each other without any real harm to the gameplay, and avoid that bug altogether. A simpler map would also help.

Overhearing other character's conversations is interesting, but a little hard to manage, and it took me a while to realize it was possible. I also got some overlapping speech (both sides of a conversation, I think).

I'll say my attempts to simply gaslight my way into getting the code were not successful, so good prompt engineering there :)

It does seem like this is somewhat similar to a simple game of Werewolf, and indeed you could take these mechanics and implement Werewolf, with a variety of AI characters voting alongside yourself as a human, and your job is to either help or confuse those characters into voting out the werewolf.

I think someone other than me just got voted out of the game. I also had it in a background tab, so when I went back to the game tab I got a ton of voices and a bell all at once. Then I think someone decided I was the human while I was talking to him, and got some background voice accusing me while I was still in conversation. Luckily I was able to maintain my conversation and finally get the code, thus winning :)

I think it could also be fun to use some of these mechanisms with different underlying social environments. Maybe corporate espionage. Maybe sabotage. I fear that it might be too fun to literally troll groups into dysfunction, while teaching dark skills... but it also could be fun.

I'm trying a second run-through... though I admit some of the awkwardness of navigation and unclear responsiveness of controls is making it a bit hard to stay motivated. Crisper controls would do a lot, even while the latency itself is currently unavoidable.