skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't get me wrong, it is great that we can harness wind and solar to generate tons of electricity. But as the article points out, they aren't consistent enough to provide electricity that's always on, which is something our society is built to expect. Last year, Contruction-Physics.com put out a great 3-part article on why nuclear is so expensive. It's worth a read [1]. But long story short, we hardly build them anymore (we last finished a new plant in 2016 and there are two more currently under construction, which takes many years) and regulations change all the time so there are very few people with real expertise at putting them together. And talented people certainly don't want to go into the field, because there's no guarantee of consistent work.

[1] https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-are-nuclear-power...
Well I'm anxiously anticipating the first Micropython build for the Cray-1.
True, so there was probably a commission cost, though even Christie's might have been doing it to try and establish itself in this new space.
Nobody is above "the law", just ask Dredd : https://www.facebook.com/889298117788282/photos/a.8893364377...
I like the trick of setting the sticky bit to indicate that it's taking a second kick at the can.
I upvoted this in the futile hope that the right person sees it.
All the other EVs have standardized on their charger now as well though, so their network is available to everyone.
> often told we can afford all this debt and war but then I take note of homeless veterans and I am told we can't afford to house them

I mean, yes. We can afford it. We choose not to.
> I was wondering if it would be possible to give a model an image and retrieve the prompt back so that when that same prompt is passed to the corresponding model, it generates that image, pixel perfect

No
The vagueries of DHCP can be learned best with a home lab, IMO

Back in the day, setting up random hardware or VMs on an isolated subnet taught you everything you needed to know about low level network protocols like DHCP, STP, BOOTP, ARP, RARP, and how to sniff it all with wire shark when you weren’t getting a lease

Containers have largely hidden this plumbing from us at a test/dev layer
I know its irrelevant, but i am curious - which bit? Hate for cadburys, tolerance of hershey or love for lidl? Or just the whole worldview :)?
These are the realities of war. There are no good guys in war.
No idea why you are being downvoted. I think people in some circles and some places hold strongly to their newly crafted dogmas.

No one is equal to no one. I do not see how this can be taken badly at all : absence of equality does not equate to lack of intrinsic merit.

As to the main topic : I think some degree of deference to some people, represented by some specific words, is a good thing, as long as it does not fall into some Byzantine rules that make communication less efficient.
Wow I really can’t believe this is an argument you’re trying to make. Spam is something entirely distinct from “any content I disagree with or didnt ask to see”. That’s kind of a preposterous take and a grievous misunderstanding of the internet.
Also bamboo is not a tree and not protected under any tree laws (that I know of).

IANATL (I am not a tree lawyer) but do browse /r/treelaw for fun
Merry Christmas yall, here's hoping that the HN crowd has an above average 2024.
Same! I can't believe I've had my HN account since 2014. Almost ten years!
What is your solution for people that have two or more childrens in two different schools when road covered in ice or 3in of snow? Or when its -17 celsius outside?
A lot are only checking emissions and lights.
I’m pretty sure the fundamental concept of NFTs is totally useless for anything other than financial speculation.
'just going with nuclear' = just continue dreaming?

Or in other words: when was this ever on the table to go just nuclear?
Just wondering, why order =, material, and carbon that way instead of material, =, carbon?
> They pay little, but there was an instance where one of their physicians had to appeal to insurance to get a scan done (thankfully the insurance acquiesced). It doesn't make sense and all this debate around single payer healthcare is just obfuscation and distraction from investigating actual solutions.

Single payer is literally a complete solution to the problem you’re mentioning before.

So why is it obfuscation and distraction? Especially when single payer systems in Europe have proven to have better outcomes at a fraction of the cost?

I find the thought process here fascinating. Single Payer, which is actually delivering results in nearly every other developed country is an “obfuscation” and we need to find “actual solutions”. Doing what every other country that doesn’t seem to have the problem in question is not an “actual solution”. No, we must invent one out of thin air or it doesn’t count.

This seems like a Not Invented Here syndrome taken to its extreme.
> Shameless Plug

I see what you did there.
Merry Christmas all <3
31 in Oct(al, base 8) = 25 in Dec(imal)
I've been maintaining a list on the sidebar here:

[1] https://potato.cheap

The following are also cool projects, but not included in my "cheap" web list due to too much javascript:

[2] https://univer.se

[3] https://mmm.page
Don't know about video courses, but Internet standards like DHCP are open and available on IETF.org. There are explanations on Wikipedia too. Also, if you're into Linux the HOWTO section on tldp.org can also be a big help for more practical stuff.
Toyota, Ford, Dodge = could fall off

Tesla = would fall off
I’ve thought about buying a Tesla for years now but stories like this have dissuaded me. I would have hoped that issues such as these would have been resolved by now. But, I’m glad that the other auto makers are starting to finally bring some competition in the EV market.
Great write-up, thanks! Sorry to be blunt but as Dutch you might not be offended :) What's in it for you, what keeps you there? To me it seems very stressful and hostile work environment.
What exactly gives impression of luxury in Tesla, other than ridiculous price?
There isn't a single horse. VR and LLM are very different techs with different applications.

On the other hand, each company differs on it's ability to deliver in a given space. Microsoft failing on VR is just that, Microsoft failed on a category of products. Just like Google and cloud, or support. I'm confident Apple could succeed in the space, and so well that it will make it trendy again.
Yes, long may PC Pro continue! I currently sub to the print versions of that and Edge (gaming coverage).

I don't really care if I already knew the news as covered, it's much more I like to read their opinions on said news, I love the random stories from the "Real World Computing" section, and their reviews are a decent starting point when I'm considering something or asked to recommend, also giving an insight in to all sorts of areas I may otherwise not pay any attention to.

edit: Also, I worked computer fairs every weekend back in the day, all over the North - Cheshire, Aintree, North Wales, Bradford/Leeds. Those were great times!
Depends on what you call “real” but it’s going to basically be a certainty that it was someone using money borrowed from other crypto nonsense to prop up this specific crypto nonsense in the hopes that making money off crypto nonsense in general could continue for a few more months.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/24/us/san-francisco-bay-red-...
This is like reading a review of an iphone from an older dedicated blackberry user. It can take a bit to get used to advances in technology.

The Tesla UI is the best car UI I've ever used. By far. I would never want to go back.

1. There's zero guessing. The steering wheel touch zones are very nicely marked by bumps. I have never put my finger in the wrong spot.
2. You can configure the steering wheel buttons to do sound/climate/etc. But you're mostly meant to use voice and put everything on auto.
3. Never in my life have I just stared at the speedometer. Why are you staring at it so much? Is something wrong?
I don’t see how the source code of a game being public is a problem; the game will be as enjoyable (or as crap) with or without the source code public.

Oh wait, Rockstar are going the multiplayer plus gacha route. A leak may hurt because the players may not need the gacha.

For single player games, I see no problem.

And for those hoping more games release source code, I don’t think the source for commercial games is in a state where you can learn from it :)
Higher, run the extension and look at the feed, it's like 90% garbage
Neocities is popular but only within a particular niche. There's a strikingly consistent topic and vibe among neocities-hosted sites compared to e.g. squarespace.

Neocities (sans neocities.org-subdomains):

https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=as%3Aneocities+-si...

c.f. Squarespace:

https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=as%3Asquarespace&p...

(disclosure: I built this search engine)
I don't know, man, my 2016 Model S has been lower maintenance than any of my past or current cars, with the exception of our RAV-4 which has way, way lower miles on it (90K vs 30K). So, YMMV.

It's a bummer because with Elon's antics I don't see myself owning another Tesla, but my experience so far has been great.
>Wind - and other renewables - have done what nuclear couldn't. They have provided such an abundance of electricity that consumers are paid to use it.

That's actually a symptom of the current issues with renewables: production is highly variable and unpredictable (to an extent) and cannot be controlled, and electricity produced cannot be stored.

Interestingly, if electricity indeed becomes too cheap to meter then why bother with heat pumps, etc. at home? It is much easier and cheaper to just install an electric boiler and electric heaters.
It is dead and has been replaced by Gelsinger's Law.
Russians ran computers with ferrite-plate RAM of similar size on submarines well into 90s or maybe even 00s. Still using software written for them on Kilo submarines in some sort of VMs.
Even Toyota is moving in that direction. They put their remote start under a subscription model and to my knowledge haven’t backed off it despite the initial backlash. [1]

And GM is removing CarPlay and android auto entirely from their head units. Under the guise of “safety”.[2]

Frankly unless consumers react strongly, I don’t see the car industry righting the ship with their anti consumer crap.

I have a 2009 Toyota. Arguably the sweet spot for features. Have a backup camera integrated into the tailgate but minimal otherwise computerized stuff. The A/C controls are the traditional 3 dial setup which is ideal for me, I can adjust it without looking down at all. I had to pull over to turn off the heat when I borrowed my in-laws F-150 for a day. I did swap the head unit for a kenwood with wireless CarPlay and integrated dashcam.

Given what I had seen from new models, I’m going to be sticking with my 09 Tacoma for a while longer at least.

Even my wife’s 2018 Honda Pilot had surging issues at low RPMs that was caused by dirty transmission fluid. Nothing that would throw an error, luckily my mechanic had just seen the same issues before. Her car has had more issues than mine honestly.

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/news/43329/toyota-made-its-key-fob-...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/03/gm-confirms-its-droppin...
As another commenter mentioned, this is actually expected behaviour [1]. Because it’s precedented, it’s treated as okay [2].

To me, the car broke. Plainly and simply. And had Tesla had a similar fuckup, I don’t think they’d find sympathy. (Reasonably.) That’s something that comes with a longevity.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38762366

[2] https://www.subaruoutback.org/threads/loose-gas-cap-causes-e...
FTC blocking Meta acquisitions of VR apps & the refusal to have apps for kids hasn’t helped them
Lately I've been under the extreme temptation to rewrite my game engine in Rust.

I crave the ergonomy of rust development. I use Rust at my job (not game dev) and it sucks to switch back to C++ for my side projects

But I resist for the moment, because I fear it won't be easy as I predict and it would delay my projects.

I already started using this list of features and refactored most of my code for c++20. I hope C++ will continue on that path and catch up Rust. But there are still so many things missing

In the meantime I refactor little by little my C++ projects to be "rust ready": hierchical ownership, data oriented with minimalist oop. So the day I can't resist no more I will be able to quickly rewrite it in Rust
On a side note, I always thought the absence of "formal you" made english-speaking countries more laid-back. This is usually a good thing, because it makes ideas and information circulate more smoothly.

But like everything, it has some drawbacks : the constant need to level everything and to some kind of hypocrisy.

I have nothing to back my intuition on, just some Sapir-Whorfish reasoning...
Just switching to a public healthcare, or more likely, a public payer system won’t magically solve the problem. There’s a lot of work that needs to be done to ensure it works well.

The difference is that there is evidence from other countries that a public payer system allows for a better medical system to be built on top of it. There’s no evidence that America’s system of patchwork and arbitrary payments by different vested interests each trying to offload their expense onto some other entity allows for a decent system.
You think the GM and Ford gigafactories would have taken up the slack, ignoring the chance to milk existing ICE investments for another decade? The charging network would have spontaneously emerged and somehow been as good as what Tesla delivers?
The RISC-V Vector extension allows the vector length to vary at runtime whereas with SIMD the vector length is fixed at compile time (128 bit, 256 bit etc.). It means the code is more portable basically.

With x86 SIMD the standard solution is to compile the same code multiple times for different SIMD widths (using different instructions) and then detect the CPU at runtime. Though that is such a pain that it's only really done in explicitly numerical libraries (Numpy, Eigen, etc.). In theory with Vector you can compile once, run anywhere.
"Retrieval augmented generation". I found success from "rag llm tutorial" as a search input to better explain the process.
I feel like the subsidies given by the government did that. Free parking, free cash towards the car, no taxes, etc. Is what revolutionised the electric car market. And of course most new cars are electric. They are banning the sale of gas powered cars in a couple years in Norway. Maybe Tesla made a car prior wanted but the government made it easy for them to buy it.
I wouldn't write that, and if someone did they'd get to keep all the pieces.
Requiring a small nuclear reactor to power it aside, the Pi 5 feels far more like it's up to the task of a full desktop machine. Admittedly I haven't tried anything but headless workloads on mine so far, but it's so much snappier it's genuinely unreal. I'm really looking forward to seeing how much faster lidar localization and just SLAM in general runs on it once ROS support is sorted.

Although they did remove the h264 decoder and encoder which is a bummer, like you say it's hard to get working support for it anyway. Vulkan + regular GPU acceleration might be easier. And it still only has 4 cores which is crap for desktop multitasking.
Is HP Reverb G2 going to be useless with Windows 12? Or will Microsoft still provide bridge to SteamVR?
Redistributing is not a problem that needs to be solved, raising the floor is.

The delta between floor and ceiling does not matter. Lift everyone up, this is not 0 sum.
They're more consistent than people think - especially when anticorrelated solar and wind are paired.

Power is cheaper to store than people think.

Nuclear power is worse on all dimensions than people think.
I admit I never had a service need that prevented me from driving: I have a preemptive A/C tube replacement and I have an appointment to replace a tire pressure monitor, so I can't attest to the quality of service.

Regarding autopilot, I agree that it's bad. I don't know how it compares to other cars - I've never driven another car with lane-keeping - only a Toyota and a Volkwagon with adaptive cruise control, and my Tesla seems to be as good as they were.

In truth I think the whole "self-driving car" idea is a horrible mess. If I were a regulator the only self driving I would approve is Level 5 - full self driving, and maybe level 4 which is really level 5 just geofenced. Either you're driving the car or the car is driving itself, you can't have it both ways.

Adaptive cruise control is still you driving - because if you lose focus or attention for more than a second or two you'll slip off lane - while lane keeping is horrifying to me because you could lose attention for half and hour and still be fine - right until you're not (and neither is the person you hit).

All this to say that yes, Tesla's autopilot is crap, but I don't use it and wouldn't use a competitor's version, so I don't measure it by that yardstick.
I agree on the Model S, some of the interior feels cheap (but some does not). In particular the panels around the door interior don't mount very well or stay put. The rest of the interior seems good though. This coming from an Audi A8, which had a really great interior.
> but also misinformation

I've often wondered about this. I grew up loving computer magazines, trusting everything they published. Was there actually more credibility with the information back then, or did it have more to do with the fact that far fewer "sources" had the ability to disseminate information (good or bad) and there was a natural system of checks and balances about what got published? We tended to believe what appeared in print because we assumed the info was verified before ink hit the page. These days, of course, we know better than to just blindly trust sources, but still get tricked into doing so anyway.

I have no answers on this, I guess, but it is something worth thinking about.
The problem with inducing demand for roads is that they take up significant amounts of space and disrupt everything around them.

We can provide everyone with terabit internet without taking up more than a tiny amount of surface space, so inducing demand on that front isn't a problem.
Texas depends on immigrants to grow its economy… Immigrants in Texas' workforce contribute $119 billion to the Texas economy annually in personal income, making up nearly 1 in 5 of all wage dollars in the state.

Further, immigrants make up significant shares of workers in industries like construction (37%), business services (23%), and manufacturing (26%). Immigrants make up even larger shares of more specific essential industries, like 53% of landscaping services, 47% of building services, 42% of meat processing, 22% of restaurant and food services, and a third or more of several manufacturing industries, including those that produce plastic products and electrical products.

I’m not sure what you had in mind when you said the average Texan doesn’t benefit. It seems like they do, since the average Texan lives in a home, comes in contact with landscapes, and uses … products.

I’m thinking like someone who lives in Texas and comes in contact with immigrants. Guest workers, first and second generation Americans. It’s impossible to live in any sizable city in Texas and not see that immigrants are essential to Texas’ economic success.

https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economists/~/media/docume...
Not GP, but they dropped support for SKUs which were still sold at that point. The MI50 would be a fun accelerator to play with and easily worth 2000$ if it were made by Nvidia. Since they are made by AMD and not supported, you can grab them for 200$.

https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/2308
Audio CDs are really an analog format and are less susceptible to degradation than digital formats.
Their valuation is three times larger than Toyota, yet they manufacture only 10% as much cars a year. It’s still deeply rooted in hopes of future expansion and innovations, lack of which they might not survive.
I replayed 12 a couple of years ago, the new Zodiac Age version. The quality of life changes in that have made it a significantly more enjoyable game, you can see now what they were aiming for and where they were up against the limits of the PS2.

Story is still a bit of a mess, pacing wise, but its voice acting has aged well (unlike X).

It’s a different game to the classic run, but I would rank it up amongst my favourites in the series now.
Ah, the old "you can't criticize anything unless you're a luddite". Inevitably, you'd excuse them too cause they don't have experience. Make an actual argument.
Would you have stayed on team if it was at a less competitive school and region?
Would need to know which vendor. I used to work for a company that provided satellite Internet solutions for airplanes but might not be what OP used
Sending CBD messages are explicitly forbidden, not necessarily due to actual illegality, but due to SHAFT compliance. CBD derived from hemp is federally legal. Messaging about it can be illegal depending on claims made. I'm not really complaining about that, although the short timeline for new, exorbitant fines is ridiculous. We do not have a relationship with any entity other than the government itself that "fines" us. This is not normal behavior for a business relationship. We do not need to discuss cbd/canibus anymore, although you are welcome to continue arguing for your position that a business can fine their customers anytime they want with effectively no notice to the change in their agreement.

The important change is that the new language prohibits anything that could be illegal in any state, regardless of whether the message originates or terminates in that state. I already gave you the example of abortion - you continue to ignore this example. Several states now ban emergency care for pregnant women that could result in the termination of a pregnancy. But now a California doctor can't message "Your appointment for termination is ready." or "This is a reminder to take pill #2." to a California patient because Texas has passed the Christian equivalent of Sharia law. How many other laws are there that could violate laws in individual states that we don't know about? Sodomy is still on the books as illegal in many states, as are many other laws that exist but are effectively unconstitutional. This app to person messaging can be for individual use as well - a user can send personal messages via a web or app based sms service.

The carriers are doing too much. They are prohibiting legal traffic. And at some point, like me, you have to fight for your customers, or you'll get disrupted. I'm extremely motivated to disrupt this industry at this point, or at the very least push the average American towards services like Whatsapp. Third party messaging apps like whatsapp are extremely popular outside of the US (used far more than SMS) and the ability to send encrypted messages without carrier interference is a big benefit.
At least where I have lived if there is an emissions check it is a separate test. I think the inspections I have had to do involve brakes, lights, steering/tie rod, windows (no cracks/chips), exhaust, and I think in VA the engine light could only be on for frivolous things.
States that do safety inspections are generally more thorough.

Virginia: https://vsp.virginia.gov/safety-and-enforcement/vehicle-safe...

Massachusetts: https://www.mavehiclecheck.com/motorists-basicinfo#Safety

Those are the only two states I've lived in. I don't get why so much of the country doesn't do these; it seems the Northeast of the US almost all require periodic safety inspections and the western US does not.
Yeah that's like saying Smartphones will fail because Microsoft failed at it, when Apple clearly didn't.
I am slowly making peace with being a public figure