skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't need to transmit, you can get an RTL-SDR dongle: it's way cheaper than an HackRF and fully supported as source by GNURadio
Problems can be found just as easily with the wrong year and make of any ICE vehicle. In those vehicles, software updates are generally only done by a mechanic, sometimes loaded from a cd or DVD loaded into the car's stereo.
I mean (for example) that in the shell I can pipe the output of one command to another, like on UNIX. But what gets passed is not text, but an object.
I’ll add a small point to this. The computers my old cars do have, I’m quite thankful for. Being able to purchase a ~100-200 buck code reader and easily plug it in and figure out what my warning lights are trying to tell me has been a great educational tool and saved me a ton in maintenance.
I'm sure it's the Chevy Blazer, or at least same problem as. https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-chevy-blazer-ev-launch-has...
Hmm... you're right.. I tried searching for ANY support... but there's really nothing yet.
This is the way.

Also the scrutiny Tesla has received at the start of it's operations might be quite a bit more than the other makers.

I'm hearing Kia/Hyundai's needing a replacement battery are having to wait months if not up to a year, while new ones sell away.

Buying a used EV will become like buying a used ICE car - there are ways to do it well, and ignoring either is at your peril... and no guarantee a brand new one will be reliable, nor the warranty performant when needed.
Not quite the same but you should check out autojump if you haven’t before: https://github.com/wting/autojump
> six reactors.

Pardon me: a single power plant. Well, not even a whole power plant. Parts of a single power plant. Doesn't change anything.

> The Earthquake caused shutdowns of nuclear power plants. throughout the country

You are trying to insinuate that the earthquake somehow caused damage to the plants so that they needed to be shut down. This is not the case:

"Though all of Japan's nuclear reactors successfully withstood shaking from the Tohoku earthquake..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan

The reactors were fine. The decision to shut them down was a political one, not a technical one.

>> "Build new ones." Guess your interpretation wasn't correct.

> You can't fully read the thing you posted?

Yes I can. Alas, you don't seem to be able to read or remember what you wrote:

>>> "3-fold" just means, that they want to restart some of the old reactors.

This was false and continues to be false. They are building new ones.

> In reality China brings two coal power plants per week online.

Yes, in addition to building out nuclear and renewables, China is als still building coal plants.

Can you explain how that is related to anything? I mean, they als build cities, bridges, railway lines, ships, ...

> Nuclear is too late, too expensive, ...

Citation needed.

Nuclear is quicker than renewables. France converted their electricity to nuclear in 20 years. Germany has taken 20 years so far to try the same with renewables and we are flailing. We have the 2nd most expensive and 2nd dirtiest electricity in the EU. And we haven't even started on the more difficult part yet.

> ...the last years.

The underinvestment into nuclear in the last 10-20 years is a well-known problem that is just now being corrected. Linearly extrapolating the past is ... not wise. Particularly when there has been a massive policy change.

Germany is alone in the world with its Atomausstieg. The rest of the world is looking at us with pity and bemusement while they build reliable, grid-level electricity generating capacity in the form of nuclear reactors.
Honestly she loves all her subjects in school. I’d say the “engineering tendency” that she picked up from her mom and I (both eng) is the desire the go deep on learning something. I see it when it comes to math, but equally see it when it comes to music or history.
The plant derived medicines come from plants known to indigenous people to have activity. If there's no indigenous knowledge available there's no way to study the plants and make modern medicines.
Yeah that's a macro (`std.macro.listcomprehension`), you can copy that file and change it to be whatever syntax you like. It's indeed inspired by Python's syntax.
Haha, good thing I picked white - now it's invisible!

#ffffff
It's not the same photo, but here's one with the same error from from July. https://www.f150lightningforum.com/forum/threads/priority-up... (about halfway down)
Well all the best for your technological rapture, it sounds delightful
Tesla is very very good at software engineering. They still need to find the balance in their software and process engineering, though.
FORD- fix or return daily ?
I’ve never heard of it but can tell what it is from context. I agree.
Ha, and I'm sure that's how he thought of it too.
I mean, yes?

Not everything has a profit motive behind it. We have this entire concept called charities and philanthropy that also show cases how people will spend their own money to accomplish goals or viewpoints.

You've never hosted a fan site or a squad or guild site for a game or movie? Or ran a discussion forum? Or hosted an irc server for a community.

Not once did I expect payment for any of those.
I stayed in airbnbs in both and I don’t see what you’re talking about
Back when it was in news cycles that Tesla's stock couldn't possibly be worth more than legacy automakers' because it was only a matter of time until they came for Tesla's lunch, I couldn't imagine they'd fumble it this badly.
Can it run continuously for years?
Did you use claude?

https://www.anthropic.com/index/claude-2-1-prompting
Agree, altho the cold and the lack of diversity are real downsides
My 2012 Dacia Sandero is as dumb as you can be nowadays I think.
Aww I wish I had known about AirGradient a few weeks ago. I ended up buying an an Air Things wave plus where I can at least export data to csv.
I see a lot of people asking "How could this possibly happen?" It turns out that there's a common failure mode that makes it past almost every unit test suite: a lack of disk space.

Running out of disk space pops up time and again. I've often wondered why software fails so often in this situation. But it's because the basic components of the system start to break -- things like "Call with temporary file" stop working, because creating a tempfile fails. And usually you're writing that code precisely in a spot where it assumes it can't fail.

This just happened on my PS5. I thought I'd play a bit of Armored Core 6 over Christmas, so I sat down and was greeted by "Can't start game." There was a pending update which couldn't be installed. So I skipped update; same error. But now the update was skipped, so it wouldn't even try to reinstall it. I ended up having to reinstall the whole game. Never seen a PS5 game completely brick itself like that.

Disk space woes are also one of the primary reasons websites go down. Ever forget about a server for two years and suddenly see your service break? It's almost always because the process ran out of file handles (resource leak) or because it ran out of disk space (hello imagemagick tempfiles).

Of course, the bug here could be completely different, but disk space errors are so common that it's as good a guess as any. Computers don't do well when you're out of disk space. MacOS freezes and bluescreens instead of going to sleep, because it can't save the hibernation file to disk. PS5 media recording stops working, because the hour-long recording backlog no longer has room to write the video to disk. This software update obviously passed their unit tests, but failed in this particular case; disk space is one of the few variables that they probably didn't test for.

I wish it were easier to write unit tests for all possible out-of-space situations. There are just so many. Even if it technically doesn't break, it often craps up the experience so much that the user ends up wondering why the software is so bad.
Seconded. There are also great interviews with Bruce Shelley and Bryan Reynolds there. The most recent episode with Jake Solomon involves a lot of Firaxis stories as well.
Ye well at some point getting a sausage from Deliveroo or Uber Eats was a no-brainer since it was cheaper than in the actual fast food joint, due to some VC selling a dollar for pennies.

Should limit the stock price prospects though.
Poland’s Sikorski under fire over Russia interview
...then in a few years, people won't even notice that they're simply scanning a code on their devices and adding them to whatever home control system they wish.

The sentence you (partially) quote starts with "if" and ends with "wish". Cough.
It's because tech bros hate feminists and their allies even more than they hate the corrupt tech industry.
Was about to post this, thoroughly enjoyed the 3 videos last night. The attention to detail is wild, the time investment to build + edit the videos is also commendable... I think he said he spent about 4+ months now on the bodywork.
For having lived in Chicago I would say it’s much more walkable than SF. Actually I’d say the only city thats more walkable that I’ve been to in the US is nyc
I suspect she may be referring to the stereotypical carbureted V8 + manual / hydraulic auto combination that's still highly popular amongst US enthusiasts, which certainly has no ECU at all.

Microprocessors didn't exist until the early 70s. Late 70s / early 80s is when they started becoming common in cars.
I think the author confused lowest bidder with producing something people could afford. For all their weaknesses micro's could be purchased by normal people. You could not produce a lisp machine or alto equalent in the 80' that it was possible to afford for regular people.
It was an image that was replaced with SVG earlier this year, that's probably a nice added bonus.
GNURadio is a fantastic project. I wish I had it many years while I was studying digital communications at university. I am quite busy, but one of my to-do project is to write a digital mode (FT8, WSPR, etc) decoder with GNURadio
This is exactly the kind of product worth supporting. It's Christmas Day, so won't be buying today, but I've added this to the list of items for my Home Assistant.

There isn't an HN promo code is there?
Very helpful reply, thanks. I use it every day and have no issues getting to to generate an appropriate tone for my responses so I want more concrete examples of the issues.
>The effect is that two restaurants can each hire two people for a total of 40 hours per person, but don’t have to provide either with full-time benefits, like health care, paid time off, reliable hours, etc.

>I wonder how your law works in situations like this.

In Europe health care has little to nothing to do with one's employer, and paid time off is mandated by law no matter how much or little one makes.
All the LLM struggle with math, I've seen other examples. Repeated prompts sometimes give different numbers. It's not a good use case for LLM.
Thx -- your graph is the better one.

There's still a clear inflection point at 2014.
Imagine: you’re in the middle of crunch time at work, your wife is pregnant, you receive some notice that the rent is going to increase ten folds in two weeks, good luck.
Except it's not going to ever leave your car inoperable...
From those that are privacy conscious matter also has an issue that seems largely underreported.

You can't choose which device on the network is the controller when setting up a new device to a network.

For instance if you have a home assistant blue it might choose your Amazon echo to initiate the network. Therefore you have multiple networks running which may not respect your privacy or choice.
Economically it's doing much better than even most of the USA, though there's a question of how long that might last.
As someone with very little knowledge of LLM's, does someone have an ELI5 of what causes this or why LLM's struggle so much with math?
It would not be economically feasible to build. CANBUS has revolutionized cars; now cars look more like a human body, with power and data being distributed to major points and then branching out. Before, everything ran from the fusebox. That meant a LOT of wiring, among other things. Copper is expensive and heavy. Car makers had a lot of incentive to save weight and cost so the wiring was as thin as they could get away with, so stuff never worked quite right.

It would be dangerous, because various driver warning systems and such would not be possible. System that are having a significant impact on per-mile safety for vehicle occupants (road safety for vulnerable road users has plunged.)

It would not be economically viable to operate, because engines are efficient as they are thanks to things like variable valve timing, direct injection, and so on. Some ECUs can sense how good the combustion was on a particular firing cycle via resistance across the spark plug after the ignition event. None of that would be possible with a "dumb" car.

It would also not be economically feasible to repair, because the diagnostic time would be crazy. Trying to diagnose "dumb" cars from the 80's and 90's was a nightmare. You could spend hours just trying to figure out what was wrong in a maze of wiring, relays, resistive packs, analog sensors, vacuum lines, etc. Dealerships are staffed by low-level techs, people on their way to something else or starting their own shop. Car companies couldn't possibly train them on all the intricacies of analog "dumb" car technology anymore.

Now? I plug in a OBD2 wireless module, tap "scan" on my phone, drink a cup of tea while it systematically talks to every module in the car, and I not only get fault codes, they've likely got time and mileage stamps, an indication of whether they were intermittent or continuous.

I can trigger a test on a component.

I can see what the ECU or body control module THINKS is going on versus what's actually going on.

I can tell the body control module to adapt to a new analog sensor.

all without needing to so much as pop the hood, remove a single screw, or upholstery clip.

It's a fucking dream.

The shittiness in "smart" cars is because legislation in the US hasn't kept pace with technology, and that is because legislation and regulation in the US is dominated by corporate interests.
All math teachers: partial credit, they showed their work.
> Maybe the author doesn't remember the blue screen of death, or reflexively hitting ctrl-S every five minutes to save because the software might crash, or clicking on menus in Word and they wouldn't open because you had a macro virus. Maybe the author doesn't remember broken software that just was not fixed, ever, because there were no software updates. Maybe the author is just too young to remember those things. Well I remember them.

I remember all of this, and it was a lot of time ago. XP was more stable than Vista. Then, Windows 7 arrived and became the most stable Windows version ever. Windows 10 and 11 turned out to be overbloated and problematic. I remember using uTorrent, which, after Azureus, felt like a breath of fresh air. It was written in C, super fast, small, and efficient. Now, it too has become an overbloated mess. In the last 10 years, the huge demand for software has led to many people entering the field without adequate understanding and knowledge about software enegineering, resulting in a market flooded with buggy, overbloated software.
My favorite from GPT-4:

USER
Today is November 1 what day is 140 days from now?

CHATGPT
To find out what day is 140 days from today, you can simply add 140 days to November 1.

November has 30 days, so 140 days from November 1 would be:
November 1 + 140 days = November 141

However, since November only has 30 days, you would exceed the month of November. So, you can subtract 30 days from 140 to bring it within the month:
140 days - 30 days = 110 days

So, 140 days from November 1 is 110 days from now.
I know motorcycles are basically just an occasionally-useful game of russian roulette but every fucking automotive news cycle has me thinking about how they're basically the only way to buy just a motor and some wheels anymore.
Yes, but I usually need to look up the -exec clause, because `{} \;` just feels hinky.
I would counter this idea its all corporations fault with "the general public doesn't want to rotate a tire, let alone grow a potato."

We socially infantilized each other. Technology plays a huge role in that.

Voices of the past warned that extreme division of labor would result in humans that are lazier, stupider than the dumbest animal. People sit online screeching about the slightest social faux pas, do nothing about intentional destabilization of education, healthcare, and infrastructure by political parties.

We complain that every last mile problem, every edge case we encounter, was not solved already by Big Tech. Never occurs to us to solve them ourselves.

I grew up being taught how to rebuild cars from the frame up, fix houses for people in need struggling in Midwest winters, was mentored in physics, chemistry by college age aunts and uncles, had a grandfather who retired after decades of designing computers for IBM teach me analog circuit designs/implementations, and helped farmers birth/raise livestock, got a couple uni degrees a while back. I'm barely 40.

Meanwhile my office worker colleagues waste time and real resources driving for an oil change. They demand others solve their survival problems for them. Friends struggling in this economy have started chanting "If I'm just going to berated for not working 7 days/week for a rich person, may as well quit and work 7 days/week growing my own food, fixing my home."

Fingers crossed the fiat hallucination Boomers force us into serving is about to vanish with them. Physics does not put an obligation on the future to propagate their rhetoric.
Linear and uniqueness types sort of collapse into the same thing when an object is required to stay linear or unique for its entire life cycle.

They become distinct, and sort of dual to each other, when you relax this restriction: linearity ensures that no copies or aliases are produced going forward, while uniqueness ensures that no copies or aliases have ever been produced in the past.

In other words, if you call a function that is linear in its parameter, you know it won't form any additional copies of the argument, but the function can't assume it has the only reference to that argument, so it can't e.g. update it destructively. Conversely, a function that takes a unique parameter can make that assumption, but its caller can no longer assume that the argument it passed in is unique.

See also this recent paper on the two: https://granule-project.github.io/papers/esop22-paper.pdf
I think that the vendor ID limitation is less of a hurdle, realistically, than it’s made out to be, especially in the short term. Simple cert costs and loss of captured markets/lack of demand are the bigger impediments. But I don’t think the obituary needs to be written on matter yet.
Merry Christmas! Happy to have HN as one of my trusted resource on technology, new technology trend, and insightful information on varied topics other than technology!
Funny enough ChatGPT thinks the answer is eighteen.
I’m considering getting an iPad mini to read & annotate within Zotero.

Anyone have experience of using an iPad mini for this. Is the form factor do-able or really too small?

I like that I could read lying down with one hand, which I can’t achieve with a full-sized iPad.
ChatGPT 4:

Ten elephants would have a total of 32 legs if two of them are legless.

Analysis:

# Calculating the total number of legs for ten elephants, considering two of them are legless

# Number of legs each elephant normally has
legs_per_elephant = 4

# Total number of elephants
total_elephants = 10

# Number of legless elephants
legless_elephants = 2

# Total number of legs
# (Total elephants - Legless elephants) * Legs per elephant
total_legs = (total_elephants - legless_elephants) * legs_per_elephant
total_legs
My favorite is “what weighs more, 1 lb of feathers or 2 lb of bricks?” almost every llm ive tried says “they weigh the same”
Correct.

But now there is another complication to an eventual reemergence of ruby on rails: the competition defeated the initial comparative advantage - i.e. the simplicity - of the RoR platform. The premises that justified RoR in the past are too weak today in my opinion. The framework was sold on how easy and no-nosense it was setting it up and start prototyping your commercial solution in a time where the competitors were awkward and epitomized by J2EE, where setting up and developing the most basic application was time consuming and complicated.

Today with Spring Boot, for instance, you can bootstrap and develop your app as quickly and easily as any other cool and alternative framework but with the advantage of using a really popular and fast language.

Technologies don't die quickly and COBOL and Perl are the living proof, but it's really hard to see a bright future for RoR and ruby and I think that most of their contribution was already given.
Gratuities are useful when they follow the service.

The porter carries the luggage, the waitress brings the food, the vallet retrieves the car, the technician fixes the furnace, etc.

Some of the payment is up to the consumer, who can pay more for quality service.

Tipping prior to service is dumb and pointless.
I laughed when I read the substraction of 0 legs for each legless elephant. Then I did a double take... 8 legs per elephant is standard?
KDE’s Okular. Works on Linux, Windows and macOS.

If you’re on already macOS, Preview already has you covered.
Still a long way to go before bard is able to truly compete with chatgpt
Math requires reasoning and logic, LLMs don't do reasoning nor logic. They just generate plausible text.

That's why they're nowhere near AGI.
There's quite a few Uniates on the old calendar, though.
I just tried ChatGPT and it ran this code.

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

# Current date
current_date = datetime(2023, 11, 1)

# Calculate the date 140 days from now
future_date = current_date + timedelta(days=140)
future_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

Result: '2024-03-20'

The ability to execute code is kinda insane for these models.