skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But that's not really the right analogy.

I know it's not the right analogy, that's why I used it as an example of what you proposed, i.e. "I think of it like a format war. The winner isn’t usually the one that is the most technologically advanced."

The point being, in normal "format wars", people are willing to take certain tradeoffs because the stakes are low - I'm willing to be cheap because the difference in video or audio quality or whatever is negligible to me.

That dynamic doesn't exist with self-driving cars. If one system is able to drive just .5% better, I'd pay a ton more for that because my life is on the line. And it's not at all like Waymo is building a "hand-crafted mechanical watch" - they're building a system with better sensors to provide a better experience. I sincerely doubt leaving out these sensors will ever lead to a safer experience.
IBM's 1000 qubit quantum computer
There's 3 Tesla superchargers between Vegas to Reno, in Beatty, Tonopah and Hawthorne, which is roughly 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 of the way through. So definitely doable but definitely less convenient than an ICE car that can make that drive in one shot without refueling.
Interplanetary vehicles are still purpose built and expensive. It is also generally a lot harder to get to another planet than you would expect. As for our own moon, it has an irregular distribution of mass, so nothing that orbits it stays up for very long. Read about PFS-2 if you are interested.

I'd imagine that dream isn't too far away though, since orbiters are needed before a manned or most unmanned missions can be sent to a body. NASA's MRO still cost us 700m though, and only 90m of that was related to the launch.
>kind of talking about every essay, ever?

Absolutely not. Only the bad ones. An essay is an argument with yourself. If you take the explicit position that you should ignore your doubts, as this author does, then what you are putting on paper is your personal confirmation bias.

My hobby horse is not christianity, my hobby horse is the thing that he has insanely distilled from christianity as the part worth keeping. The author had a bad experience as a teen applying to elite colleges for no other reason than because he was supposed to, and the conclusion he should be drawing from this observation is so obvious that you might not even notice that he doesn't.
Chasing through a bunch of links, their claim to "usefulness" seems to be based on this paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06096-3 where "Our benchmark circuit is the Trotterized time evolution of a 2D transverse-field Ising model, sharing the topology of the qubit processor" which sounds like a task picked to be easy for this particular quantum processor to solve, and maybe of interest to some physicists working with Ising models, but not really "useful" in the general sense.
The above comment contains sarcasm, and taps on the paradoxical self-referential nature of the book title How to read a book.

Source: How to read an internet comment
there are almost certainly new-ish low end ARM chips this would hit as well, it's not really about the specific examples

declaration of bias: I have a non-Amiga m68k that can run linux
I think it fits, Dear ImGui is the most popular immediate mode GUI, and it's what most people think of when they hear "imgui" even though I've seen people shorten "immediate mode GUI" to "imgui" too.
> Tesla makes more cars in a quarter than BMW in a year

bmw sold >2million cars in 2022, compared to tesla's 4.2million since 2008.
Yeah goodwill in the past 5 years has been a waste of time. They have become too savvy and I think people are collecting more. In 2016 I could go to the two near me and almost guarantee a decent find. I also think people get rid of this stuff in cycles and perhaps that vein has run dry for the generation of classic video game stuff. The same goes for photography and hifi audio stuff.

I do recommend estate/moving sales and regular old garage sales. I have found some pretty solid stuff. The estate/moving sales also have good pictures so you can filter through the bad ones.
Indirectly, if AI-generated CSAM materials flood the internet, it would provide cover for real CSAM which would get lost in the crowd making it more difficult for law enforcement to identify and prosecute offenders.
Happy to hear the state is making a wise decision here, instead of bowing over to conservation groups who only consider climate goals when it aligns with their larger conservation focus

https://www.sierraclub.org/michael-brune/2016/06/nuclear-pow...
Nah, some of it is an heirloom.
However so many sites are using CloudFlare and other DDoS prevention and CDN services. I'm sure the NSA has fiber taps (beam splitters) at the point where the data travels unencrypted on the internal datacenter network.

CloudFlare itself might not even be aware of the taps. Or maybe only a few select employees know about it.

I think the solution to these problems is to reduce dependence on the Internet. It's now possible to torrent an entire library worth of books and have it all on your personal computer at home. 20TB HDDs are readily available, and constantly getting cheaper. Also check out https://reddit.com/r/DataHoarder. And we have local AI models, again these do not need the Internet to function.
Where Have You Installed Your Python Packages?
Mechanical intelligence simplifies control in terrestrial limbless locomotion
Is accessibility not a worthwhile concern?
Maybe Canva would buy them? Or merge I guess
WFH.

- Save 10+ hours a week in commuting.
- Save $$ on lunch
- Spend more time with my family.
- Get more done in both work and personal stuff.
My understanding is that the origin of that phrase came from "some engineers have 10x the output of the worst engineers" not the average engineer. Then it became a phrase to let people on social media self-identify as alpha-males while preening for their viewers.

You want to hire a diligent engineer who can problem solve and manage work-life balance to provide you years of value. And unlike a unicorn, these people exist.
Serious question is every EU charger outlet billed in a common way, like with cash, an app, debit/credit card, in car screen, with a payment screen, or preconfigured to bill seamlessly?

Seems like the billing issues at non Tesla chargers in the US were a large part of the issues..
Three phase power is out there but you never see it in residential and rarely in commercial. It's pretty much just an industrial kind of thing.
Thank you for the feedback!
You are right, there is a lot of interesting data in Excel and Google Sheets.
Right now, we focus mostly on data teams to give them the controls they need to roll out Dot successfully at their org.

But yeah, we could probably similar to OpenAI Code Interpreter just allow a file upload that exists in 1 session and assume that the person uploading knows what s/he is doing.

Good advice on Elon. I am personally a fan but I understand that he is controversial.
I think this is problem with nuclear power...
You can never get a new project started without a public outcry.

So instead of new, safe, carbon neutral nuclear power (like thorium reactors, passive cooling, etc), we're are continuing to running literal old-timer nuclear plants (Diablo Canyon was built in 1981).

Most folks would not drive a car from 80s, but somehow we're cool with running powerplants that old.

IMHO The best for our carbon footprint with safety would be new nuclear plants.
Played a lot of Elite on my trusty old ZX Spectrum. Contrary to what many people say here, I hardly ever had any problems with docking: the game was quite forgiving, and you could dock from rather insane angles, the only real requirement was to get into the 'dock' rectangle at an acceptable speed.

I also fondly remember Elite successors, Frontier: Elite 2 and Frontier: First Encounters. The great feat of those was fitting an insanely huge galaxy with orbital stations, surface cities, mountains and such on ONE FLOPPY DISK!!! These days just an image on a launch screen would require more bytes than those whole games full of content and missions and ships.
> Another news site is Hacker News. With its focus on Sillicon valley and technical news, this site has probably one of the most tech-savvy readers and … it does not use a single line of Javascript.

Wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js

Even though HN doesn't require JS, I think it's wrong to say that it doesn't use any.
> "Things don't work the way they do in x.org"

That is not what I said, please don't misquote me. I said:

> [things] don't _just_ work like they do in x.org

Maybe it wasn't clear in my post above so let me clarify. A lot of thing "just work" in x.org and don't in wayland compositors. That is the complaint. That things which were easy are now hard.
NHTSA standing general order crash rates are a mandated and publicly available data source. That’s what the study is based on.
Tesla has multiple times made it clear that they don't believe you own the car.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/tesla-again-thre...

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/tesla-blacklist.2484...

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-featur...

Considering they have the ability to remotely disable the car, they can make good on their threats, even with dubious legal standing.
> it’s just a story of one person with questionable proofs

I don't think your interpretation of the article is accurate

> Jain is one of tens of thousands of Tesla owners who have experienced premature failures of suspension or steering parts, according to a Reuters review of thousands of Tesla documents.

> The documents, dated between 2016 and 2022, include repair reports from Tesla service centers globally; analyses and data reviews by engineers on parts with high failure rates; and memos sent to technicians globally, instructing them to tell consumers that broken parts on their cars were not faulty.
There's a confusion of terms here.

There's the "Emergency brake" (aka e-brake) which is a misnomer for what is actually the parking brake (not to be confused with the Park setting in an automatic transmission) or also called the hand brake for cars where this brake is a hand lever rather than an extra foot pedal.

And then there's "automatic emergency braking", which is a computer-controlled automatic brake that gets applied when it detects an obstacle.
Over 800 karma and 200 comments*
But thanks for the link !
Solutions to linear differential equations are exponentials, and this may be what the author meant. In a state space model, we can write Newton's law under gravity if we let y(t) = [x(t), x'(t)]^T, let A = [ 0, 1; 0 0], let b = [0, -g]^T, and set y'(t) = A y(t) + b.

Indeed, the solution is y(t) = exp(A t) (y0 + int_0^t exp(-As) b ds).

In Einstein's theory, we have a generalization which says a stone's path through space-time follows a geodesic of the metric. In differential geometry, the exponential function, by definition, sends tangent vectors to geodesic curves.

So the author is right, under this interpretation.
Try the I2P anonymous network where by default every user is also a router. You can chain the two together, set I2P to use an outproxy and set the Tor browser to connect through I2P.

I have no clue as to what security this provides nowadays. I predict the NSA or FBI have large scale packet timing correlation in operation now. Or the random number generator has been compromised, or there are a series of bugs in the Tor or I2P implementation itself? I also think there was a human compromise of the Tor Project itself 8-9 years ago as well, it has been significantly weakened.

Personally I tend to like one-way data broadcasting systems, that way the receivers cannot be traced if they are air-gapped, e.g. satellite or radio data broadcasting. However nobody operates any useful service nowadays. Twenty years ago you could receive the whole worldwide Usenet feed with a DVB-S PCI card, unencrypted in the clear from a service called Cidera[1]. It was just UDP multicast packets containing Usenet messages, split into fragments with sequence numbers, trivial to reverse engineer.

I had this at service home, we had dial-up and with a 55cm satellite dish in my bedroom window, I had a 45Mb/s data feed. I wrote my own software including a device driver for the DVB-S card running under FreeBSD (4.2-RELEASE I believe). Nearly 1000x faster than dial up, which was mind-blowing back then.

Also archiving Nostr text messages is interesting, you can get the entire worldwide feed of messages from the relays, and then search for whatever topic of interest you want in the messages. Nobody can tell what you are searching for, unless your computer is compromised. I'm thinking about broadcasting these by satellite somehow, but satellite bandwidth is very expensive. It's just a matter of getting the funds for it.

Reception should be possible using a RTL-SDR or AD9364+USB3.0 microcontroller[2], and a satellite TV dish. The AD9364 chip can be had from AliExpress[3] for $6 now.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20020806064624/http://www.cidera...

2. https://www.crowdsupply.com/amungo-navigation/stixrf

3. https://www.aliexpress.com/i/33017832196.html
Don’t feel bad, Mamba is very new technology. I only just heard about it for the first time last week!
When you’re really REALLY frustrated, do you go into the pond and stare at it from the inside?
No different than a gold ETF.
Just because it’s not something Tesla PR wants to be public does mean it’s a conspiracy theory. This is a well-respected media outlet basing the story on thousands of Tesla’s own documents and interviews with former Tesla employees.
Wat! How? "Mouse/Advanced/Pointer acceleration" disable, wow. Thank you!

I feel like a gaslit dependent having accepted something that shouldn't have been for so long, and now so grateful that it's available.
Yep.

This is a touch UI problem in general not specific to an EV.

For specifically the HUD, I'm often on dark rural roads at night where deer are extremely common.

The HUD is bright enough to affect my night vision in these roads so I turn it off when driving on them.

The GMC Acadia(gas burner) I rented had HUD controls as physical buttons on the dash to the left of the steering wheel. I push 1 button and the HUD is off.

The Ioniq 5? I don't have an exact count but it's 3-4 menu levels deep, probably takes 5-6 touches to get to it.
I agree in principle, but it's also sitting right next to several fault lines. PG&E claims it's engineered to withstand quakes, but given PG&E's history, I'm not inclined to take them at their word on anything.
I once made the mistake of subscribing to both tptacek and jacquesm's comments via RSS. I found that they post at a tremendous cumulative volume. This makes it very hard to keep up with in a feed reader. But they have rather good noses for interesting discussions. A way to filter HN posts by stories that have comments by certain users would be interesting to experience.
Something is utterly busted about the spec and the patent system. Look at the Swift code for decoding the headroom! It stinks — maybe Apple tried a few different transfer functions or for size and didn’t bother to mark which version was in use? And now Apple is kindly offering to license the patent if this goes into an ISO standard?

I’m sorry, but a system to decide old nonsensical formats should not require a license.

Also… the gain map is subsampled 1:2. Surely this will cause annoying artifacts at sharp edges where one side is much brighter.
I barely tap my wrist when it says "Apply slight turning force".

When it gives you the 2 handed graphic to take control that's more of an alarm it's because the in vehicle camera can see you're not looking at the road for an extended period of time. It did that to me one time when I was sending a text while stopped in a traffic jam.

The 2nd warning is really annoying and unclear about the level of force needed.

Also test drove an Ioniq 5 and we liked it a lot too. Definitely the top competitor from what we saw. Every other vehicle that approaches the features of the Tesla that we saw costs a crazy amount of money.
My knee jerk reaction to the headline was "YES"!

Then your healthy dose of reality had to bring me down
> You can have precedent when courts follow fellow courts' decisions.

They're not required to do that and when it comes to nonsense results like trying to reconcile the different outcomes in Epic v. Apple and Epic v. Google, they're going to have a think and then make their own decision.

> Also, even if SCOTUS rules one way, it can just overrule itself a few years later if it wants to (like it did in the summer).

That wasn't a few years, it was half a century, and in general they try to avoid that. The case you're referring to was quite possibly the most controversial case in living memory.
I did the same, but more for performance reasons than the aesthetic or clarity.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to how you're getting snow on the rear window while driving, and in quantities so large for the rear defroster (which surely the ioniq has?) to not be able to keep up.
> the cost to maintain the plant an additional five years could reach $6 billion.

This does not appear to be a serious attempt to help the environment with carbon-free electricity.

It looks more to be a PR move to satisfy people who have been boosting nuclear, without regard to costs.

$6B for a mere five years is highway robbery. Installing $4B of solar and $2B of batteries will result in 20-40 years of carbon-free electricity, and far far far more of it.

Those who have been boosting nuclear without a hard nosed look at the costs of technologies have a lot to answer for here. This is just a PR game.
this isn't technically correct. the low levels are not causing the corrosion. it's the contaminants that float in the fuel is the issue. when the tank has plenty of fuel, those floaters are not near the fuel pump. as the levels lower, the contaminants become more concentrated and are more likely to interact with the pump. at least, that's how it was described to me. by described, of course i mean harped on at every opportunity the parental unit could berate about lack of proper care for the car blah blah blah
Can't read. Does it say USB-C? ;)
> So long as you monitor your battery charge you know the vehicle will get there

ahem, a BEV has __a lot__ more failure points than just "empty battery"...

sending a complex machine down a tube will _always_ carry the risk of the complex machine reading down. pneumatic tube "vehicles" are simple, they can not break down.

I am not an expert, I don't know which one is better or more reliable, but your claim that once you monitor battery charge, everything is hunky dory is wrong.
...and yet there's no realistic way to implement such an extension for any other IDE without resorting to per-platform-compiled and potentially unsafe native code :)

The embedded emulator including the Dear ImGui debugging UI compiled to WASM is just around 700 KBytes, runs on all platforms (even in the VSCode browser version) and is safely sandboxed, that same code compiled to a native executable on macOS is 847 KBytes, doesn't run on any other OS without compiling another version, and would be blocked to run anyway because it is potentially unsafe.
I expected the core of the algorithm to be a parallel prefix scan though (isn't that the point of Mamba?):

for i in range(l):
x = deltaA[:, :, i] \* x + deltaB_u[:, :, i]
y = einsum(x, C[:, i, :], 'b d_in n , b n -> b d_in')
ys.append(y)
Related critical review on IBM’s 1000+ qubit computer and on why it does not matter

https://youtu.be/XlCsi8zagNw?si=HgayJIHJZNFpRyo-
Perhaps my initial selection was too short. I was trying to avoid copying out whole sections of the book. Overall, I think the book is less ambiguous than the one definition I presented shows. The entirety of the text reinforces different aspects of that definition.

Fowler goes on to elaborate on the definition in chapter two, where he presents two context-dependent definitions (one a noun, the other a verb). The noun form is a specific type of change and the verb is the application of one or more of the nouns. E.g., "Move Method" and "Move Field" are types of refactorings. These are defined as changes made "without changing its observable behavior." To further qualify, he states "[o]nly changes to make the software easier to understand are refactorings." By way of example, he compares to performance optimization where he says: "A good contrast is performance optimization. Like refactoring, performance optimization does not usually change the behavior of a component (other than its speed); it only alters the internal structure."

Maybe it's just the domain or languages I work with. Nowadays I never see anyone apply refactorings as described in the book. I'm sure devs implicitly apply several of them, perhaps without the rigor presented, and that's understandable. But, I often see "refactoring" just as a catch-all for any code change.

While certainly there are some blurred lines in terms of what constitutes a refactoring or not, I think Fowler handles the product/API split fairly well. He adds:

"The second thing I want to highlight is that refactoring does not change the observable behavior of the software. The software still carries out the same function that it did before. Any user, whether an end user or another programmer, cannot tell things have changed."

By stating a programmer should not be able to tell things have changed, I think we can at least anchor public APIs as something that should not be adjusted in a refactoring. Such a change could improve the maintenance of the software or the quality of the product, but I don't think it fits the narrow definition of a refactoring. Admittedly, the part about the observable behavior of the software not changing can get murky. But, I think Fowler tries to scope this more at the code level than at the product level.
Choosing the right approach to building your own AI assistant
Good analysis of factors to consider when building a vector DB-based RAG AI assistant.
The Diablo Canyon plant construction is closer to WWII than it is to today.
The policy function outputs the probability of taking every possible (legal or illegal) action. Once you have a way of indexing those actions, both the policy and the game need to refer to the same thing when indexing the same number
For visual system , you’re not on FSD , I’m one year on FSD and it’s much better , I heard they will rollout in 2024 FSD stack to EU . Car is a bit over alert on emergency break and I would say it is good but annoying
> What purpose is it filling for society in its current state?

It’s the greatest convenience-security ratio store of value.

Precious physical things are not convenient.

Fiat currency is not safe. (Don’t bring up consumer use cases. Bitcoin is a store of value, not a currency.)
Just wait until they can start executing AI-related tasks with quantum computing in 20 years time. The hype will no doubt be insufferable.