skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber tries that, but it turns out in many places you can't offer human-driven taxis much cheaper once you put them on equal footing regarding insurance and other relevant regulations and stop running the service at a loss.
ShareChat faces large valuation($4.9B to $1.5B) cut in new funding($50M)
Yeah I phrased it extremely poorly as well (was thinking 3D XPoint and the like). Point still taken
On the plus side it has tabs, which is one of the main redeeming features of Windows 11 for me. It kind of looks like one of those alternate Explorer-replacement tools that were popular for a while. A little ugly, but more functional.
If the provider has all knowledge, I don't think it deserves to be called E2EE at all. E2EE implies (to me) that decryption doesn't happen until your message has reached the other end. Any decryption on the server/relay/middleman, even if re-encrypting, is not what I call E2EE.
I find people don't care and will talk to you with or without headphones on and expect you to take them off.
Serious question, if performance is the lynchpin, why write it in Java?

Especially considering they use unsafe "heavily", for big joins they could easily just call out to some native code if the surrounding code reaaaaally must be Java (again, why?). It's the worst of both worlds using unsafe Java: you don't get native speed, there's loads of memory overhead from everything being an Object (besides the rest of the VM stuff), and get to "enjoy" GC pauses in the middle of your hot loops, and with fewer safety guarantees than something like Rust.
A one-way radio broadcast is not a dialogue; in fact, we have much closer to realtime dualogue with leaders today, despite greater scale (yes, its still moderated by intermediaries, but its much more rapid and much less wrapped up in the ability to tell different stories to different audiences without information rapidly flowing between them—politicians still try this, sometimes, but it tends to fail, and increasingly to fail very quickly.)
I know it's considered a necessity by most, but I used to relish the time I had to spend on the NYC subway precisely because there was no cell coverage and I could read a book without the strong temptation to dick around on my phone.
>Still, you have to be realistic. After some years I realized that centralization happens because decentralization is in some sense like communism. If you take away ownership over private property then people lose the incentive to improve it. It becomes a commons and the usual tragedy follows. Centralized services are private property, and so the owners make sure they are well kept and improved.

Counterpoint:

There's plenty of examples of poorly stewarded private property. Probably even moreso than poorly stewarded communal property. You're thinking about the problem at a level of collective action, while completely missing the individuistic level. Care is a finite resource, and exists only on the individual level. It is further fundamentally constrained in bandwidth. A person can only exercise care on so many things at a time, and there is a sizable list of more important things to worry about, often constantly being added to throughout an individual's life. Yet we value the individual's ability to manage their own priorities in terms where they want to allocate their bandwidth; in spite of other work needing to be done.

Centralization vs decentralization has no major impact in regards to work getting done, only to how the work gets done, and the accepted tradeoffs we make as a result of working in that modality.

In point of fact, it isn't an inevitable consequent of existence that you've come to observe centralization winning out in the end; but rather it is a result of the fact the web was spawned and has matured in a market that first and foremost packages up and organizes the tasks and rewards of labor through the creation of centralizing legal fictions in order to coordinate itself.

A society with a hammer, like an individual, is prone to discerning the solution to every problem being the pounding of a nail.
I am the founder of Starlight Charging[1]. We are working on crazy-low-cost L2 chargers for multifamily apartments. Plug-and-charge is a sine-qua-non for us.

One still major unsolved problem is the lack of agreement on a standard for payment/powerline communication from the EVSE to the vehicle. OCPP 2.0.1 and ISO 15118 is supposed to bring "Plug and Charge" capabilities -- this, in theory, would allow drivers to simply pull up to a station, plug in, and charging start right away. i.e. No more fiddling with multiple different manufacturer's apps, no more being SOL if your phone battery is dead.

While we're seeing agreement on the physical standard for the shape and size of the conductors, there's still progress to be made on the protocol between vehicles and charger. Tesla refuses to implement OCPP because they have a great walled garden right now and don't want to release the stranglehold on the payments.

[1] https://www.starlightcharging.com
> And Apple will accept emails from Android, Linux or Windows systems just fine. HTTP is not as close, but still more so than Bitcoin.

No they won’t, not unless the emails are addressed to an active iCloud user. That has paid them.
I’m not pretending the market is perfect at all. I’m saying what central planning we do have has been very anti-housing development.

Your example perfectly supports that!
> I want to buy a Mac soon, and I'm really struggling to decide how much RAM I should order.

I'd recommend getting at least 32GB if you're on the fence. Not being able to upgrade it is a bummer, and your future self will thank you for getting the most you possibly can.

For my most recent upgrade I went for 64GB (previously 32GB) and I'm really glad I did, especially since llama.cpp became a thing shortly after getting it.
Universities often require students live on campus. So yes.
No need to pay a human and fewer total cars because they can operate mostly 24hr/day
I think the obvious interpretation is, "I want to be able to use my car without having to interact with its UI, I just want something I can cast CarPlay to". And that's understandable and unproblematic and doesn't imply that the car should be unusable without an Apple/Android phone.

Tesla's lack of CarPlay means it's far behind in the software battle for a whole lot of consumers.
Microsoft and the Church (Satire)
> I don't understand why it should be a total legal monopoly...

You're asking philosophical questions about the patent system. I'm not defending the patent system and IANAL.

I recommend the wiki article to get an overview [0]. Your phrasing doesn't align with my understanding of patent law or the article's characterization of the situation.

> The patent isn't personal property that the company "owns" like how a person owns a house...

> But instead we apparently want to say, "no other company should be allowed to make a watch with a pulse oximeter for 20 years unless the company which employed the inventor agrees to it".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent#Effects
maybe your carplay experience is better than mine?

all the big touch screens don't really support multitouch and the volume of navigation versus music is different/deafening/unconfigurable and the waze carplay app is garbage

i.e., I always just use my phone on a holder + connect via the car's bluetooth since I'd rather have one good device/screen with proper audio since bluetooth works much better sadly...
My university required freshmen to live in dorms. Many colleges do.
Yes most self taught programmers actually have instinctively a good way of programming if they learn it through hacking.

It's a direct and straightforward way of programming not ruined by object oriented thinking or any of the solid principles bullcrap.

What does the computer need to do? That is a powerful mindset to get into and building on.
Your comment signals a key misunderstanding.

Doing a=jsx and interpolation does NOT touch the vdom in any way.

VDOM only comes into play for jsx returned from components before being rendered to screen.
In my experience, getting stuck in the middle of the street is >90% a Cruise problem and <10% Waymo.
Windows has ads (and you pay for it), Chrome OS and android have never had ads, so it doesn’t follow that Waymo will have ads due to Google.
> I do not see how the existence of autonomous taxis is any different than the existence of taxis.

Cost. The cost of an Uber is way too much for daily travel (vs owning your own car or public transport).

A human-driven taxi needs to pay the driver's salary within an 8 hour shift. An autonomous taxi can run (almost) 24/7, 365 days a year. Which do you think will be the cheaper fare?

Another scenario is someone simply renting out their own car as an autonomous taxi whenever they aren't using it themselves (which is most of the time). Then it'll always be cheaper than current-day taxis because it's just a low-effort bonus source of income to the car owner.
> it's limited in that you can't bring it all the places that you can bring your eyes.

Why can't you?

> Also, as one improves at reading code a develops a mental debugger that can be brought anywhere your eyes can.

This is definitely true, but that "mental debugger" is susceptible to incorrect assumptions about the runtime state at the point of execution. If this weren't the case, far fewer bugs would be written in the first place, as this mismatch about assumed vs. actual runtime state is where most bugs emerge.
IIRC, that is based on the utility potrace.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrace

potrace worked just fine for me when I needed to digitize some drawings that became a prominent part of a business's graphic design. Maybe a decade and a half ago.

Edit: I see now that Inkscape can do color by first decomposing into colors and then doing each of those separately.
> If you kill someone. Intentional or not, you will most likely serve jail time.

Is this true? My admittedly small data sample suggests it isn't.
Can you build a small but safe car? Mass, height, etc are key variables in a crash.
Firearm auctions are pretty common. High bids are definitely often about person/legend/myth, like being at a famous battle, but many others are pretty much just the gun. I think that's because they're relatively common, affordable, usable, and easy to preserve. There's one Girl with a Pearl Earring made of canvas but millions of wood and metal Lee-Enfield rifles.

Cars seem like they'd be similar but I don't know any car collectors. I've also heard of antique furniture auctions, very curious what those collectors are like.
The AWS s3API has a querying capability https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3api/list-...
I saw another post here about this book a few months ago and gave it a shot. I lasted about four weeks before giving up on it. I found the process of writing morning pages to be thoroughly unpleasant and it did nothing to spark any creativity in me. I also found the premise of 'someone in your past told you not to be creative' pretty hard to relate to.

Similar to meditation, really. My experience seems at odds with everyone else and I'm clearly the weirdo for not getting anything out of it.
What's tricky is that in a different context, those people would be excellent contributors. Like in a mature product, who wouldn't love a developer who works on documentation, builds out a staging environment, and makes the codebase more scalable? But it just doesn't make sense when you haven't shipped anything yet.
All my friends on google plus agree!
I'd expect employees to act in a way they perceive would be least harmful to themselves and their job. If they incorrectly say someone wasn't the person matched, and that person then proceeds to steal from the store, the employee may (probably correctly) perceive that they'll suffer consequences for the error. The safest direction for them to err in would be "yeah, it's probably them".
Oh yeah, I want to work on AMD/Intel/NVIDIA and MacOS, even iOS/Android.

I've been following MLC-LLM as well. Right now I am just using JS/WASM from Huggingface, but later I will want something more performant.
As a recent convert to KDE (from GNOME) any good theme recommendations? Breeze is fine but a bit bland.
Or Boeing executives.
It is the default for building hookups (i.e. excluding individual apartments/condos/flats, but EV chargers don't make sense there anyway) at least in the Western European countries - can't speak for much of Eastern Europe but Croatia where it is also the default. Even during the 60s when the home of my grandparents was built in back-then Communist Yugoslavia, it was already 3 phase.

Our transmission grid (that actually extends even down to Africa and parts of Asia!) is already three phases, we're not sparsely settled to require SWER anywhere, so it doesn't save the utilities any money to not lay three-phase AC to every building by default.
The idea is that the cost of autonomous car use will be much lower than taxis, because there are no labor costs. If you have to get to work every day, taking a taxi (if you can even find one) is much more expensive than buying a car and amortizing the cost across its lifetime. As the price of autonomous taxis fall, that will reverse.

That doesn't mean I agree with the GP's point about it lowering car usage overall. The reduced cost of auto taxies also pushes against your reluctance to take one, though perhaps not all the way to "use my car whenever I leave the house" levels. I also think that once people begin replacing their cars with autonomous taxis, they'll sign up for all kinds of taxi subscriptions that will further reduce that reluctance. After all, driving your car now isn't completely free: it still costs you gas money, plus the hassle of actually driving it. And other forms of transportation aren't free either. So the bar here isn't 0.
I guess the question is how to get the means to spend such efforts, and how Europe didn't
The name, I presume. "Waymo" = "way mo", that is, "way more".
> The price of charging is already dominated by the marginal cost of electricity

No it isn't. Most level 3 chargers are 3x-4x the price of electricity.
Migrants risk death on Mexico's 'Beast' train to border
I'm discussing the capabilities of Fly Kubernetes, not Fly Machines. This is good news though, it means they might get there in the future.
Let's not lose track of what this discussion is about: it's not about whether your uncle might be feeding you bullshit, it's about whether ChatGPT is a good source to learn about new topics you're not knowledgable on. Your crackpot uncle is not the baseline here – a well-reviewed book (or documentary series, or podcast, or whatever) is.

That there are crackpot books out there is besides the point; I can trivially find out which the good books and crackpot books are. With ChatGPT you need to verify every single reply it gives you.

And there is nuance here. Take Horrible Histories. I like Horrible Histories – it's fun, and generally the history is accurate. But it's not perfect and has mistakes, and there's a ton of lists enumerating these mistakes, so you can safely watch the show and then read these lists to ensure you're not believing a mistake.

There is no "historical inaccuracies in ChatGPT" list. It would be impossible to construct such a list. You need to verify every single reply it gives you, and every detail of that not just the general gist.

General critical thinking helps you surprisingly little because many of the signals of reliability that you usually rely on are lacking. Thinking you can trust ChatGPT on topics you're not already fairly knowledgable on and can't be easily empirically tested (e.g. math, programming to some degree) is a good way to get fooled.
> Without mentioning "overcoming resistance to change"

Isn't that implied in getting someone to change?

> organisational development (OD) community

Could you explain how OD relates to change management? ChatGPT says they have some overlap but they aren't the same thing -- and the post is about change management not organizational development. So I'm confused by your comments :)
I never got over Windows 2000. That old grey theme was ugly, but an extremely clear and efficient design language. In wanting to keep on with the good and trusted, I would always disable all theming on Windows 7, which gave you basically the same style.
I guess it depends on whether the replicator is supposed to replicate on the bio computer platform or on a biological platform.

The biocomputing platform needs to not only assemble the sequence but also assemble the (or at least "a") protein encapsulation for initial delivery to an organism.
I just want a hard expiration on it, something like a 48-hour horizon for the video and any data derived from it.
Unfortunately nope, see the description above. Costs about $15/sequence of 150, but if you have one you'd like to see I'm happy to kick it off...

That said, all the instructions for getting started and running your own are there (including a jupyter notebook!). If you have some data you generate I'll happily add it to the platform.
Mapping an Alien Invasion
Masterclasses, TEDx Talks, Spam, and the Rise of the Fluffpreneur
I'm sad that Windows doesn't look like this anymore. I've never liked KDE, but I might not mind using this. There's lots of caveats in that README; enough to make me think that Chicago95 works better.
The push for HTTPS everywhere came directly from the Snowden revelations, and that is considered a good thing.

Now people are focused on encrypting metadata, so things like DNSSEC took off.

There was a recent discussion about how state actors are using push notifications to spy on users. Maybe that is the next area of improvement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543155
I'm pretty sure FlashAttention doesn't deal with flash memory at all.

From what I understand, FlashAttention is about using access patterns that better leverage local memory, and especially SRAM. Eg, it about keeping data in CPU L1 cache, or in whatever the GPU equivalent is.

(In other words: FlashAttention is concerned about the part that's faster than DRAM, this is about better offloading to the part that's slower than DRAM)
The episode: https://adspthepodcast.com/2023/12/15/Episode-160.html

The legislation:

* https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2670

* https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/cyber-resil...
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Hang out with mechanical engineers and it won't be long until you hear, "best part is no part".

Best code is no code.
> not using the card purchase UI at train stations is confusing.

Agreed that the UI for Japanese train ticket machines can be confusing for first-time users such as foreign visitors, but foreign visitors aren't the primary use case. These machines are designed to be familiar and fast for the bulk of their users: residents of Japan who know how the train system works. Stations need to move massive numbers of people through these machines quickly, and this layout is incredibly efficient for that.

Older terminals used a very similar layout of two groupings [1]:

1. physical pushbuttons with prices displayed using 7-segment LEDs

2. physical pushbuttons for most common multi-passenger sets

The touchscreen terminals provide this exact same layout, which provided continuity as the changeover happened, and kept the lines at the machines moving quickly. They're also freakin' brilliant when it comes to minimising the button-presses required to buy tickets. e.g. two parents and a kid going to a station that's 400-yen from here? Press the "two adults, one kid" button, then the fare. You're done. Fare zones are listed on a large train network map usually posted right above the machines with both adult/child prices [2], but locals almost always know where they're going and how much.

Given how heavily-trafficked Japanese stations are, it's way more critical to minimise the time required to use the machines and keep the lines flowing than it is to provide an easy experience for foreign visitors. Compare to e.g. Montréal where even users familiar with the metro can spend upwards of a minute to buy a ticket or recharge an Opus card.

[1] https://livedoor.blogimg.jp/ticket4_ta/imgs/f/d/fdfe28d7.jpg

[2] https://livedoor.blogimg.jp/ticket4_ta/imgs/4/9/4987e9ba.jpg
If cars were invented today, they'd never let us have them.

"It's like a horse and buggy, but much faster and heavier."

"But it'll know somehow how to avoid other vehicles and pedestrians and trees and houses and such?"

"No, the driver has to pay continuous attention or it'll veer wildly and hit whatever's in front of it."

"Shouldn't it run on rails? Or between protective barriers?"

"Painted lines."
Well, sleeping is generally done when demand for cars is extremely low. And a lot of people can’t sleep in cars even when they are a passenger. It’s hard to imagine that becoming common enough, even at very low prices, to add to the number of cars on the road.

While I’d certainly prefer to watch Netflix than actively drive, I’ve still got stuff I need/want to do that I can’t in a car even as a passenger. And it’s just not comfortable for long periods of time. A lot of people get motion sickness staring at a screen in a moving car. Etc.

A lot of people own pickups just because they occasionally want to tow something or move something large. A lot of people own second cars for occasional use. These might become rentals instead when it can affordably just show up at my door in a half hour.

There’s no way to tell how this plays out. There will be some amount of induced demand, there will be some amount of reduction in use. One never knows which will be bigger.

What I do know is traffic deaths kill over 40,000 Americans a year, and driverless cars could potentially get that to 0 or near it, whereas human drivers cannot. I do know we can electrify cars and power them all with renewable energy, not immediately of course, and remove many of the environmental concerns. We can enhance mobility for the elderly and children and mentally disabled who can’t drive.

There’s a strange amount of anti-car propaganda that has gotten people worried about this, but I look forward to a driverless future in which cars are cheap, clean, safe, and available to all.
There was definitely a public basketball court and a football pitch within a few blocks of where I lived in suburban Münster. So can't speak for all of Germany, but there are some public spaces for the common sports in that country.
The "Aero" look of Windows can be categorized into an esthetics era called "Frutiger Aero". (https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Frutiger_Aero)
It is a technical argument. Allocator's responsibility is to allocate memory. Constructing objects in that memory is not (and must not be) its responsibility.

> This would have been a point if that's the control you don't have with the allocator interface. But you do.

Well, std::allocator::construct() has been removed in C++20. You still have std::allocator_traits::construct but it just calls std::construct_at().

> you're not suggesting invoking placement-new oneself all over the place whenever one allocates the backing storage

Well, that's what all the standard containers do (vector, list, map, etc). Or you can use std::construct_at() instead but that effectively is a variant of the placement new. Of course, you'd better use std::make_unique()/make_shared() (which normally still devolves to placement new IIRC) instead of manipulating raw pointers and invoking constructors manually.
Sure I sometimes say features are assets but code is a liability. Usually as part of an argument against complexity that some engineers favor to be ready for speculative future circumstances.
I always enjoy reading stuff written by Andrey, he's a brilliant fellow for sure.

Can highly recommend his personal blog as well: https://puzpuzpuz.dev/
That is not "a new LLVM architecture"... It's talking about a different Mamba.