skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And the hybrid sedan with fifty thousand miles on it that also turned into a brick while going eighty down the freeway, losing its power steering, its power brakes, its power everything.

And that is why "drive by wire" is a mistake in cars. It may be unnerving for someone who never drove a car with no power steering and no power breaks to suddenly loose it while going 80mph, but it's not going to kill you unless you're quite unlucky (it goes off the moment you try overtaking, you have to brake hard etc.) But if the power goes off with a drive by wire car? You're dead.

"But airplanes", yes huge airplanes had drive/fly by wire for a long time. I still remember when people would prefer to fly Boeing rather than Airbus airliners, because Boeing planes still had physical connection between control surfaces and the yoke/pedals ,while the corresponding airbus model didn't.

However, these are hugely expensive machines worth tens if not hundreds of millions of $ with teams of highly skilled maintenance personnel checking them out at a very tight schedule. Aren't there smaller planes with fly by wire? Yes, for example F16, and other military jets. How much do they cost, and how are they maintained? Probably the same as commercial airliners, if not better.

So what about your typical "cessna"? I've looked online for a while to find any small plane using fly by wire and I didn't find one. When searching for cessna fly by wire I found Cessna is just "warming up" to the idea in their business jets putting one control surface "the flaps" on fly by wire while everything else is directly hydraulicly actuated by the yoke/pedals on their Columbus business jets.

And Elon thinks it's a good idea for a car that costs $100k (supposedly $40 later)? What happens when that car is 20 years old? Unless they know for a fact it will be scrapped after 10 years than it's fine.

Don't tell me about its dual/redundant motor and triple sensors, unless each motor also has its own battery with cables routed differently and a controller that can still do stearing when the other battery connection gets chewed through by rodents and contacts for this one are so corroded it barely works.
thank you for this resource :) going to look into that.

first time figuring out opsec !
> We developers pretend that LLM's are akin to humans and that they've been educational material.

Developers thinking LLMs are akin to humans arent the brightest crop, and are usually a topic of ridicule.
[Book author here]

If you have questions about the contents of the book, it's inception, etc, then feel free to ask.

(I also spoke about the book at the computer museum in Cambridge, so this video might give you some background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15cC6hq66I0)

If you have questions about the book itself, ask the publisher!
People love their integrated IDEs. And I don’t want to spoil that happy feeling. But perhaps we should actually focus on making programming languages more human friendly so we do not need complicated tooling around them to make us feel productive.
Well, Chappelle's Show was a matter of him not wanting to do it due to compensation issues. Had no idea Deadwood was an actual hit, though, I assumed it was one of those "cult following" shows.
Is this tech, beyond what it can do for those struggling with disabilities, really a good idea to be full on developing in an AI world? Mind reading for computers? Nobody else sees the potential?
A human could tell.
Perhaps I might increase room limit to 10 users?

I'm trying to replicate the feeling of a hostel commonroom
I understand what you mean but at the same time in the web-dev world I find it interesting that React is migrating from OOP to functional.

("We recommend defining components as functions instead of classes." at top of page at https://react.dev/reference/react/Component)
yes, biofuel is a colossally bad idea and it should have been obvious to everyone involved right from the start.
There are a lot of things happening in the world besides Elon Musk, despite what the media would like you to think.

The sub headline on this is “ He proved this year that he’s not just evil but deeply stupid too.”

I’m really just tired of the anti-Elon campaign. The powers that be apparently really fear him and are trying intensely to destroy his reputation with the public. Hit piece after hit piece comes out: it’s a clear campaign. I wish people were more resistant to this kind of disinformation campaign. It’s so overt and basic.

Most successful green electric car entrepreneur in the Western world. Progenitor of the company that is reliving reusable rockets. Douche?

You wonder what he did. Did he shit in someone’s Cheerios or what? Maybe he stopped showing up to the committee 300 meetings or forgot to pay his dues?

Whatever it is, honestly, I’d like to move on. Am I the only one?
Nice work. Do you know of any studies looking at the cost of powering the world that way? And the time need to transition?
If you want a great toaster, just get this one:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/gp/product/B07PHLN9DD
Yeah. No one is out there suing the shit out of cliff notes because they published a summary of Catcher in the Rye.
This is the kind of discussion that matters only for the very theoretical edge cases or for the pop-math inconsequential discussions

0 is even

I mean, it is the first phrase on the linked fine article:

> In mathematics, zero is an even number.
That would be horribly unreliable. I hope they dont rely on machine learning for such critical infrastructure.
I just looked up the share structure; didn't realise the publicly traded shares only appoints 1/3 of the board. Still their second best option is start buying up competitors and going ahead with purging NYT from their training set. That might well end up a worse option for NYT, as they won't stop LLMs from gradually intruding on their space and the moment OpenAI or other LLM providers own major publishers so they don't need to depend on scraping, they lose any leverage they currently have.
> I've never seen an excel sheet do anything like backpropagation.

Not strictly in the sense you mentioned (assuming that you mean "by themselves") but people may find [1] and [2] interesting.

[1] https://pub.towardsai.net/building-a-neural-network-with-bac...

[2] https://towardsdatascience.com/demystifying-feed-forward-and...
From the article's own summary: Our results point to a gap between expected and realized costs stemming from low resilience to time- and site-dependent construction conditions.

Guess that's where they took it from.

Skimming the paper it seems a large part of the issue is that it's difficult to mass produce something which needs to be integrated into a variable environment, and attempting to do so is detrimental compared to custom solutions.

This seems to mirror what I've found in the software world, where a custom integration is often much cheaper and easier to maintain than trying to manhandle some generic library/software to do what's needed.
I think of inheritance as just being a workaday implementation detail to facilitate code reuse in some scenarios. Polymorphism ("many forms") is more related to the concept of interfaces, but as you touch on has been equated with inheritance in a lot of peoples' minds.
IIRC... it used to be that the durable & repairable products also dominated markets as the top sellers. But "advances" in materials (moar plastic!), outsourcing & logistics (containers!), electronics (shiny! shiny!), etc. created broad new ranges of "junk" that were attractive for their better affordability, replacing the top-shelf stuff as best-sellers. Wider access to basic functionalities (if not durability & repairability) created more buy-in for the economic system and the underlying political system. Vote Consumerism!

The top shelf stuff is in many cases still on the market, and might even be at roughly same-price after adjustment for inflation, but for Joe Sixpack, affordability trumps durability & repairability.

This might be a dreadfully oversimplified explanation, but it's my strong impression after seeing decades of market (d)evolution.
Two points:

a) If a person is using those values daily for years (or even a couple of months), then it's very likely they'd have memorized them

b) Sometimes just knowing the concept exists for sure is good enough, as you can then go and brute force things until you've worked out the values
I think LLMs may really change the IP landscape.

Culturally we’re taught that there is a moral component to copyright and patent law - that stealing is stealing. But the idea that words or thoughts or images can be owned (and that the might if the state can be brought to bear to enforce it) would seem utterly ludicrous to someone from an earlier era. Copyright and patent laws exist for practical, pragmatic reasons - and seemingly they have served us well, but it’s not unreasonable to re-examine them from first principals.
This is essentially just fifth generation warfare, of which people seem to be insanely ignorant.

I often talk to people who argue about whether it exists or whether governments can be sophisticated enough to launch these kinds of campaigns.

I fear for humanity.

Great talk.
There are some pedestrian routes here and there. (Yup, "歩行者ネットワーク" means "pedestrian network") But the 改札内 / the area inside the ticket gates seem to be missing the pedestrian network. Also, the platforms themselves are missing, as there are the upper (2F) and lower (B1F) connecting passages, but nothing in between.
In short, a survivor bias. I didn’t thought about it and it is possibly true !
There is probably as much if not more things produced today that will last many decades, but the only one we see of the past are those which survived.
Maybe not no one

https://berkeley.municipal.codes/BMC/12.90.050
I have a GE refrigerator that is now 70 years old, and has never stopped working or needed repairs (at least in the 30 years I have owned it).

Doesn't have a touch screen, and there is no app to tell me what food to order, but it just keeps on running and doing what it is supposed to do. Not sure any amount of money could buy a new model that would last this long.

and before anyone says newer models are more energy efficient so I should replace it, you have to factor in the wastefulness of having thrown away 8-12 refrigerators over that 70 year time period and the impact that would have had on the environment.
Now here: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_tra...
Samsung stuff has all the pretty songs and touch screens and smart features.

They just forgot to add the actual functionality though.

We've got all AEG stuff and zero issues so far. 7-segment displays and physical buttons. Nothing to break.
> When a baby is about to arrive, every minute counts. Yet when Jen Villa of Salinas, California, was in labor, she and her partner drove 45 minutes in the middle of the night, bypassing nearby hospitals to reach one they could afford.

Unless there is a problem, that happnes only in the movies. IRL for the first baby there are like 2 days of sparse contractions, and even when there is a contraction every 10 minutes there are like 4 hour more until the baby goes out. Talk to your medical doctor for details, but remember that movies are not an accurate representation of reality.
I remember a case where the court did not allow ID to patent "First person shooters"

This rings similar.
What’s funny is a website like this is exactly how a good psyop is propagated

Sound like you’re on your marks side, carefully construct an emotional connection via design and semantics that trigger their bias to want to believe

You’ve just been fucked by psyops
Surprisingly this is something that I have been thinking on for the whole 2023.

I myself am really bad at documenting findings while doing research or bugfixing so I started at recording all my daily activities for both replaying research sessions and also for my future me in case something is not clear in the docs.

Then I knew rewind and I was happy to know that I am not alone. This REM is the confirmation that this definitely has great use cases :)

I’d rather prefer the recording phase to be as lightweight as possible so I am recording the full mp4 video and plan to re-encode at a lower rate at night. But there is a compromise between recording quality and file size, I do not want end up with several Petabytes of videos.

What codec do you recommend for this use case? Lossy video codecs usually are very efficient for real images (just like the comparison between jpg/png) and I am sure a video format that is PNG based should be more efficient in space while preserving text quality.

I am very interested in read your thoughts about this.
Russia, India closer to joint military equipment production – minister
They created that content. It's an important distinction to make as compared to Reddit or Facebook where the users created the content.
Every time I see these packages mentioned, I’m reminded of an interview with Joe Armstrong. In it, he said, (paraphrasing from memory) “Wouldn’t it be interesting if a language had a global, flat registry of functions that anyone could pull from and contribute to? That way, bugs are fixed in one place, there’s less reinvention of the wheel, things get more correct over time, and programs just become a simple composition of standard functions.”

I may be misremembering his meaning, but I remember thinking it was an interesting idea. It wasn’t obviously a terrible idea. I thought it would be like the Clojure standard library on steroids, especially if it was coordinated and vetted by a decent team.

But alas, NPM has proven it otherwise.
Homework question? Even if it's not, you need a much better problem description, before anyone could help you. I have the feeling you don't really understand the problem yourself.
Now you have me pining for the sansho pepper ramen I will never forget in Ginza.
The basic fact of the matter is that >99% of people will never be interested in hosting their own e-mail server, and that's okay.

This means we need organizations to host e-mail for people. In a capitalist system, that means companies, and it leads to consolidation and monopolization. So far, governments have been seemingly uninterested in going after the large e-mail providers for anticompetitive practices; maybe that should change. But as long as those anticompetitive practices only really affect individual hobbyists who wanna host their own e-mail, while business interests are unaffected, I don't see this changing.
Maybe it's a modulo operation squished together with the modus operandi, for laughs
So negative, just unbalanced and so negative.
Why do you need error-correction code for a debugging feature though? I would not protect debug registers with a hash.
But having predictably generated sequence of numbers is what cryptographers prefer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing-up-my-sleeve_number
I think the problem with cars is that it's a multidimensional change space (as they're a much more complex devices than something like a toaster or a blender or a piece of clothing), and in some dimensions they fare better (environmental impact of fumes, safety). If we stuck to aspects like local repairability, sturdiness, material quality, etc they wouldn't fare as well. But sturdiness for example also means they'd be more lethal on a collision, so there's a tradeoff with cars that doesn't exist in, say, toasters.
I did a nullll package [1] whose only purpose is to export a null and takes 400MB in memory but somehow it got flagged in HN [2]. With 41 stars on github and 100% test coverage [3], it was clearly production ready.

[1]: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nulll

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17072675

[3]: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nulll/blob/master/test.js
You can just use the browser.
I really wish other moderated sites had something like showdead. It's nice to see examples of what kind of content isn't meant to be on a site. (but isn't illegal and purged totlly) reveddit used to exist for reddit, but was killed during the API pricing debacle. A shame I need to create an account to use it though.
I looked at the post, I feel like we're missing dinner context here, because what it looks like it's doing seems very naive. As far as I know, Onshape is the only CAD product that has true git style branching and merging versioning.

Unfortunately every successful startup in this space gets bought out by the competition. After buy out, the CAD product gets cut down and real development stops. First they loose their agnostic features (spaceclaim); if they used to be compatible with a whole range of upstream and downstream products, all support for competitors products is dropped. Then they stop the real innovation, to keep the space open for their flagship products (onshape), or give their product a chance to catch up.
Yeah, the whole presentation feels like an Adam Curtis documentary where random bits of information and imagery are thrown together to create the impression of a common thread.
Blocking IP ranges is also horribly unreliable. There is no good way to fight spam in a system like e-mail, just varying levels of terrible ways.
Good comment, it was very funny to see how people desperately try to find moral justification for pirating media A but not B. "It's apples to oranges, you see, there are less letters in the NYT article than in the book and they are rendered differently, so it is ok to pirate their work. I did nothing wrong!" :)
> But the idea that words or thoughts or images can be owned (and that the might if the state can be brought to bear to enforce it) would seem utterly ludicrous to someone from an earlier era.

Is there any research into how people from earlier eras thought about it? And should all laws that seemed ludicrous to someone from an earlier era be discarded? If not, how exactly do we determine the relevance of what someone from an earlier era would think about our laws?
I'm _literally_ just looking for a toaster that'll outlast me and found Dualit: https://www.dualit.com/products/2-slice-newgen

Hand made in the UK, fully mechanical and you can get spare parts for it.

There's very little that can fail, it doesn't have a spring that brings the toast up, you need to push the lever yourself. Even the timer is fully mechanical.
When I'm having to wade back through previous commits trying to debug a problem, there's nothing I hate more than finding someone's large squashed commit. Instead of using automated bisect tooling, I have to try and understand what they did and untangle it. This might be an area of the codebase I'm unfamiliar with and it'll take even longer. Compared to this, writing a few extra commit messages costs nothing. I really don't get it.
It can't be the CPU since it is actually memory-mapped code, and the branch predictor surely cannot cause page faults and so cannot page in the next page of code.

Truly curious. I guess the linear access pattern helps but 800 MiB/s?
Curtain is still a step up from a bed in shared room at a hostel. Personally I’ve never felt unsafe in a hostel, a little exposed at times, and annoyed when people turn up drunk and make noise getting into bed, but not unsafe.
guess who headed the smalltalk team and what team he was working on when he invented the term 'object-oriented'
Lasst euch grüßen, Pionier [video]
Mindwar by Michael Aquino goes pretty deep, but this entire topic is a bottomless pit and once you start researching him and his associates, there's no going back. This is your chance to still enjoy the steak.
Are you suggesting that a death due to an explosion at a plant owned by "PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel" counts against batteries, because some of them use nickel, but not nuclear plants, which pretty much require nickel-containing stainless steel for its anti-corrosion properties?
likely be LFP? I think those batts are already available. The problem is they arent that great. Power density is low, they are advertised for 2000 cycles so I guess reallife is sth like 1500, so around 5 years only. We really need great bettery innovation with decent lifetime (minimum 10 years, 20 years preffered) and decent energy density. Once that will kick in, we could really start smart grid revolution.
And users unable to correct the data themselves
I don't think NPM has proven that idea infeasible, just that it may not be a good idea to depend on third-party content that may change under your feet, on such a fine-grained level.

But have a look at the Unison language https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/ , that has such global registry but addresses each function by a hash of its syntax tree, and thus sidesteps the issue.
one of my fav, would like a new edition with more interviews
(I know, I know, check on youtube etc etc)
Is the only standard to which we hold one company whatever the other does? Is there no room for higher principles here, in your view? The competition between consumer brands is all that matters?

Come on.
It reminds me of Linux backdoor that also was made to look like a mistake (== replaced with =) [1].

[1] https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2013/10/09/the-linux-backdoor-...
Thanks for this. I'm building a card game that needs an infinite canvas. I'm currently using Miro but there's no easy way to "flip" the cards so they are hidden or make certain decks just visible to their owners.
When I first heard of the is-odd and is-even NPM packages I was sure they were a joke, yet there we are: 200K weekly downloads! Publishing the packages may have been the effort of one spammer, but many developers obviously chose to use them - that's the part that boggles my mind.
Blocking ads and avoiding payment are two different things.
The archive link doesn't threaten their jobs and helps them avoid paying for NYT. It's NIMBY, or rather it's true form of NIIIM (Not if it impacts me).

Hypocrites are EVERYWHERE and are the majority.
I realize it's extremely unlikely that anything actually bad will happen, it's just a psychological thing for me.
> fundamentally the same thing

I fundamentally disagree. That's not some established fact, just a narrative used by those who wish to plagiarize using "AI".
Packages should specify their entitlements.. network access, file access, executing system calls, being able to monkey patch things, accessing packages outside their own.
You can't really @ people into things here. You need to email him.
Is that article about the IEEE 754 positive zero, or negative zero, or both?
Rats ≠ mice. Rats are a public nuisance that hang around because there’s always trash outside. Mice are the ones that invade your apartment.

I’m sure rats do invade some apartments, but that’s gotta be crazy rare.
New Copenhagen rapid transit map
> As for the much of the cheap stuff – those Target mittens, say – they aren’t merely inexpensive, they’re valueless. In fact, they’re of negative value when one considers the waste or materials involved, and the wasted energy of driving to buy them, then driving to return them later – a second trip that in this case, and many others, wasn’t worth making. Instead, we took the loss. And the world took the loss. A small one, but they add up.

"Value subtraction" was a key criticism of the Soviet system: outputs were worth less than inputs. Zoom out to our Big Picture (let's call it "life cycle analysis") and yeah, value is being drained away at every step. Some as dividends, some as environmental damage, some as political bribery, some as pure friction.

So if this kind of price signal no longer works in the American economy, then maybe the American economy is fundamentally broken and needs replacing. Not to mention the political system propping it up.

Rant concludes.
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We can extend this analogy. What if someone put up a proxy, that has a legal Netflix subscription and which "watches" streams of Netflix shows, captures actual RGB values of pixels and re-streams the resulting video to anyone else? Isn't it the same "proxy" excuse?