skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turning the difference into a ratio doesn’t remove biases on Instagram.
Sony and Nintendo call independent studios.

Where is accurate information about the apps for kids limitations? Because there are apps for kids in the device and some few popular on Internet.
Could you please sell everything you have, give it to a charity and live in the woods?

I'm getting tired of every discussion diverging into a 'environmental impact' judgment message from anonymous.
Thanks I'll benchmark this one, what kind of personalization most people need? URLs? Calendar design? I've embedded forms to fill (w/ image) before taking slots in my existing app in that sense
Sounds like the typical cycle of new technology, that even LLMs will go through at one point.

- Thing is invented and people think it's cool

- Suddenly everyone wants this cool thing to be everywhere and do everything

- People start to realize the limitations and cool thing gets used in niches where it actually makes sense.

For VR, some people thought it'd replace gaming as a whole. Instead, it just made simulator games a lot better, but the rest is kind of gimmicky (said as someone who does enjoy VR a lot).

Similar thing will happen with LLMs and also the next cool thing.
> Were they luxury cars, like teslas?

Teslas are priced as luxury cars but they aren't luxury cars. They have strong selling points, like the amazing battery compared to other EVs or their looks (I do find the Model S very nice / sleek) but the quality of the interior/materials and sound proofing simply isn't there, not by a mile.

Here's a list, for example, of some actual luxury cars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-segment

I was highly disappointed when I went in a Model S: I'm used to actual luxury cars and I simply don't know how to put it nicely: to me a Model S is a complete rip off price-wise.

I'd urge anyone thinking that Tesla is luxury to go in a Mercedes dealership and sit in a class S or go to a Porsche dealership and sit in a Panamera (or in the Taycan 100% EV). That is luxury.

FWIW the Tesla Model S and Porsche Panamera (for example) entry models begin at the same price so it's not apple and orange comparison: that's why I say Tesla is sold as luxury, at the price of luxury, but is not luxury.
This does not, however, change the fact that it became one of the first mass markeds in the world for electric cars, where Tesla has kept the lead even when all the legacy auto companies are selling electric cars. The Model Y is the most sold var model in Norway in 2023, outselling the number two, VW ID4 by 3-4 times.

Model Y is the most sold car model in the world in 2023.
I was responding to this:

you can plant beans and have a crop in weeks.
> Unix is bad. But file descriptors are good. Modern Unix-derived operating systems (Linux, some BSDs) are already moving towards file descriptors for everything.

Perhaps we should just call them "object handles" instead.
Subjective. I feel completely the opposite about them when I've driven them.

Impressive technology, and admirable strides towards their mission, impressive engineers ... but with many failing: FSD, repairability, boring drive-feedback, insurance pricing, focus on speed over alsmost everything, manufacturing quality both inside and outside, and the design language of a taxi-cab to top it all off ... only the S can be considered a decent looking vehicle.

But, above all, once you lose goodwill (via the CEO behaving like a thirsty attention-grabbing idiot) you lose nearly everything. This is what I don't think is factored into their ridiculous company valuation.

Tesla have been both one of the most impressive companies of the last 20 years, and one of the biggest dissapointments (to me).
Looking forward to trying out the Android app when it's available!
Toyota, Ford, Dodge = Safe language in a recall document

Tesla = you talking out of your ass
Most AI using companies want something like a 3090. Performance and price are both great for enterprise use. But due to NVIDIAs EULA, you're not allowed to use them in the datacenter and that forces you to buy A100s at 20x the price.

So just getting close to NVIDIAs retail price and performance, but without that EULA, would already be massively valuable.
The issue with this line of reasonning is we'd find similar issues in most of the other "successful" countries.

I don't think people look at most US presidents as beacons of human value and righfullness. Same for South Korea or Japan leaders. The US basically swapped "corruption" for "lobbying", revolving doors and other more evolved systems. But we'll find explaination for why it doesn't matter for these countries in particular. And these probably include the general population being wealthy enough to not let things slide behind a critical point and take a hit when shit is about to hit the fan.

Perhaps my point is there's no specific recipe for success, and in particular perception of "good government, hard-working population, and low corruption" often come after the other issues are solved and the country is on the rise.
Creating Trust by Abolishing Hierarchies [pdf]
I've brushed for no more than 2 minutes 2x/day for basically my entire lifetime. I have no cavities at 50. At each cleaning at various dentists the hygienist has remarked how little buildup I have and the dentist typically reports my teeth and gums as in superb health. I drink coffee regularly.
So I think your comment is nonsense for me.

But interestingly in your comments here and elsewhere about brushing, I see no mention of one of the most -- if not the most-- important kinds of brushing, which is using a flossing brush with, crucially, the right technique, which is not much like other brushing, plus baking soda and a drop of 3% peroxide. Most dental offices aren't teaching this at all, but there is plenty of review of standard brushing "at the gumline and on the surfaces of the teeth", as well as plenty of new and hyped imaging types or surreptitious promotion of dental products...*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cow6wNRJqoo

This is in addition to standard brushing.
Cant be? You can take agency over your own life today and start looking at the road. Autopilot is a wonderful tool, I use it every day and it considerably reduces exhaustion, I dont care about this white rabbit of level 5 self driving. The car tells you to watch the road, tesla did their part, if someone causes an accident by not watching the road, they should be held accountable the same as anyone else.
Sorry but VR will never die, its future potential is too enormous. It just has cycles of popularity and we might see a new surge with the Q3 being a very popular holiday gift this year.
We've been around 1mloc for the Drakensang single player and MMO games, and that was 15..5 years ago, with a relatively small team (up to 20 programmers), and budget-wise far away from what's considered an AAA production.

While I wouldn't want to work on a 10mloc C++ code base either, it sounds totally realistic to me.
Wow why the career change?
Sure, thank you for providing the standard contrarian disclaimer to absolutely every article ever written about renewable energy.

But in a historical lens, that the -UK-, i.e. His Majesty’s Coal Fire, has such abundant wind generation that it can be free every once in a while when The Great Smog was only ~71 years ago is an incredible feat.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London
Check out Curitiba. It’s a beautiful clean city with very low crime and great public transportation. It’s more like Mountain View or Ann Arbor than Chicago or New Orleans. Compared to a city like Memphis or St Louis, it’s relatively utopian. It’s a .856 on the Human Development Index, which puts many US cities to shame.
Hello to Everyone Stuck at Work
When you drive to work at 0430 on the 25th of December you get a good idea of which jobs really matter in this world. I live near a hospital. The staff parking lot was 1/4 full. I drove by police and fire departments. Lights still on there. The ambulance was parked in its usual spot beside the highway onramp waiting for the inevitable early morning road accident. The hotels all had people working front desks. I saw an airliner pass overhead. Pilots and countless aircraft-related jobs are all at work moving people around this morning. At work my ID was checked by a guard. I took a handover from the night shift, then started phoning my cohorts doing similar jobs at other locations. All across the western world, people are sleeping in or beside vehicles waiting for the red phone to ring. Then there are hundreds of people staring at screens on darkened offices ready to call those phones. If you are reading this at work then you are doing a job that matters, one that cannot be put on pause for a day. If not for us, everyone else wouldn't sleep so soundly this morning.

I'll see most of you again next week. If you are working this morning you will likely be working New Year's too.
Java is pretty fast though, according to benchmarks. Your point regarding comfortable to use ... yeah, fair enough to some degree.
The linked (https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust) looks reasonable to me.

Chata probably needs to work out roughly what the semantics of the language should be. Its good to know what the library support is intended to be as that informs language design (assuming the library is to be implemented in chata anyway). Quite a lot of this page is about syntax.

There are some design decisions that have deep impact on programming languages. Reflection, mutation, memory management, control flow, concurrency. There are some implementation choices that end up constraining the language spec - python seems full of these.

Echoing p4bl0, implementing the language will change the spec. Writing a spec up front might be an interesting exercise anyway. I'd encourage doing both at the same time - sometimes describe what a feature should be and then implement it, sometimes implement something as best you can and then describe what you've got.

Implementation language will affect how long it takes to get something working, how good the thing will be and what you'll think about along the way. The usual guidance is to write in something familiar to you, ideally with pattern matching as compilers do a lot of DAG transforms.

- I'd say that writing a language in C took me ages and forced me to really carefully think through the data representation.

- Writing one in lua took very little time but the implementation was shaky, probably because it let me handwave a lot of the details.

- Writing a language in itself, from a baseline of not really having anything working, makes for very confusing debugging and (eventually) a totally clear understanding of the language semantics.

Good luck with the project.
Even if she were near, I'd expect it to select her profile and let me select mine. Instead it deletes my profile entirely and I need to reconfigure my seat, mirrors, and any drive settings that are now at default.
It's quite inhospitable in its current state, and...

> Mr. Krolow said that he has seen Red Rock Island go on and off the market for about 20 years, its price fluctuating between a low of $5 million and the current high of $25 million.

> He’s not optimistic. He doesn’t think development will be possible, considering the staunch opposition that Bay Area residents have to just about any development proposal. Red Rock has the added complication of being located in three different counties that intersect in the bay.
MS spent billions of dollars and doesn't even own the product.
I think they're still prevalent in hospitals due to their reliability and higher connectivity.
I think Ruby is much better at shell script like tasks and interactive / exploratory programming for system tasks compared to Python or Node. Use it as “better bash” or
“better Perl” and it’s worth it. I primarily work in a Typescript codebase, but regularly reach for it as a tool to wrangle log data, semi-structured text, or do regex rewrites of a bunch of files.

Ruby is also very fun, probably the most fun language I’ve used regularly. That makes it its own reward.
This is like going to the Dell laptop support forums and concluding that 100% of Dells are bad.

Because Musk is an idiot it's fashionable to hate on Tesla. But there are plenty of us out there who have had an amazing experience. We had one minor issue in 4 years and it was fixed extremely promptly. The car is amazing.
Because William Lane Craig does lecture tours.
Hence Erlang. When in doubt, restart the part of your application with bad data.
Building Trustworthy NeuroSymbolic AI Systems
So, a normal day in Argentina.
I don't believe it's legal to host public VPN exit nodes in Saudi Arabia, so it might be someone from there.
Well, yet it did happen.

https://i.imgur.com/rL0F70c.png
https://www.southparkstudios.com/video-clips/hq0tek/south-pa...
>"The feature crossover is probably 80-90%"

It is not.

>"assembly "

It has assembly built in.
There is an easy profile toggle
For those of you who are new to movie codecs, here is some info that might be useful:

roughly, videos are not streams of images, one after the other (well motion jpeg is, but ignore that) They are "key frames" ie full images, then a set of blocks with some vectors that move those blocks around to make a moving image. So you'll see something like b, i and p frames, each have a different role for making either a full image from which the next frames re-constructed, or the blocks that make the in-between frames.
My Maverick went up in price after I bought it at MRSP. But that was a market anomaly.

There’s usually a drop some but that amount is excessive.
Is it already open or is it opening? Last time I talked to my friend with an EV Porsche, he wasn't yet able to use the superchargers.
Slightly off topic but does anyone have any recommendations for a similar style of book that focuses on ARM and/or RISC assembly programming?
How does bedrock satisfy the non-hallucinating requirement?
https://www.dawn.com/news/1800232
It is often the case that as the regular case increases in frequency, it becomes accepted as an alternative. It seems that lexicologists these days are less likely than formerly to insist that the philological roots of a word are the only determinant of correct spelling.
MWh-scale quantities of electrical power

Doesn't have to be electrical. I was part of a "demand response" study a decade back where a cold store was provided a prediction of electricity prices. When electricity prices were low or negative, the infrastructure would drive the temperatures to the lowest point to shift future energy consumption to the present. This shift in time is also a form of storage.
I learned this the hard way when I was homeless at 17-18 years old in the middle of Wyoming winters. I had at least had my old Grand Cherokee to sleep in the trunk space, but not enough money for gas to run the heater. I'd pile all my clothes on top of me, but there were always patches where the cold got through and I'd spend so many nights just shaking from the cold. Spent the Christmas of 2004 this way. You are also correct that when it would be sunny (but still cold) the next day, it was an awesome experience. Almost like a ray of hope, as cliche as that sounds. It's crazy what having sunlight can do to improve your mood. That's one reason I loved living in SF later on, there were so many sunny days and I also wasn't homeless lol.
https://nitter.net/erratarob/status/1739132876732674539?s=46...
It's an option when you set up your phone as a key. If it didn't delete me and just picked the wrong profile, it'd be a great feature.
Just wait a couple more years:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-energy-consumption?...

We are in the middle of an energy technological leap. It'll take a decade to unfurl, but it's nothing short of astounding.
Merry Christmas to a wonderful community!
existing: process_vm_readv, pidfd_getfd;
proposed: io_uring_spawn

https://lwn.net/Articles/908268/
https://lpc.events/event/16/contributions/1213/attachments/1...
The lack of Chrome on iPad is disastrous
Apple’s religious stance to lock down iPadOS and only allow the Safari engine is not only anticompetitive but it’s also hurting their own costumers and the product itself.

The web versions of Gmail, Docs, Drive, and websites in general are optimized for Chrome. As long as Safari is the only greenlit browser on the platform will never be a true MacBook replacement.

Why are Apple allowed to block competing browser engines on iOS/iPadOS? Do we have to wait for EU to pass these regulations first?
Missouri's inspection is on par with CT and VA from my experience. But that's the only midwest state I have lived in.

If I had a hunch, income plays a part. Flyover states are poor, that means older and more beat up cars. Older cars (out of warranty let's say) are more costly to fix. States have to balance "people need a car to make money" with "people need money to drive safe cars".
Which don't exist.
Doesn't it have an ide problem on Linux?
Which countries Cadbury? Cadbury in Australia tastes better than UK IMO
At least for the company I work for, to maintain our insurance, we had to be enrolled in a service (KnowBe4) that does nothing but:

1) produce shitty AI voiceover "please don't click email links" videos

2) randomly email, text, etc us with fake stuff trying to get you to click the links.

I always report the emails as phishing to Google just hoping one day something gets flagged somewhere on Google's side, but I doubt it will ever happen.
That is a fairly good strategy. Six years ago at Capital One, I experimented with generating synthetic JSON AWS CloudWatch files for testing (that would not contain any sensitive information). Way back then I used LSTM models and I simply had code to check output and only keep valid samples.

LLMs are so much better for this than LSTMs now.
> This makes me a feel a lot better about choosing a Toyota over a Tesla back in 2019.

To anyone not into cars I'll give a simple advice: unless you really do a lot of high-speed highway driving (that'd be 80mph+ / 130km/h+, european highways speed), simply buy a Toyota.

I don't think you can go very wrong buying a Toyota.

And this comes as a german cars lover.

The only reason wife traded her Toyota CH-R for a BMW is because we do lots of (european) highway driving and we felt the CH-R was too noisy on the highway (at 80 mph: at 55 mph it's totally fine).

Buy a Toyota, make sure to do the maintenance needed in official Toyota dealership so you can extended the Toyota warranty for as long as possible.

And you're good to go.
I understand the general thrust of this point. And there are many things to agree with..

But just a reminder. Iran still commits public executions by hanging. For things like blasphemy.
Absolutely, I should maybe clarify that I did not mean to say that we can fully rule out the language itself as a cause of the poor performance, Ruby always perform worse than Go in this example for obvious reasons.

But, saying that the frameworks using the language under the hood has almost no relevancy is wrong in my opinion! And that is what I was trying to point out.
products below 200 euros and brands speedo or quicksilver

That is what I expected you could mean. Yes, that is a popular pattern. But it is not customizable like the "bicycles that are (made of steel AND weigh from 10 to 20kg) OR (made of carbon AND weigh from 5 to 10kg)" given in the article. When you select two brands on Amazon, they are always connected via OR and when you select the 200 euros, that is always connected to the rest via AND. So the typical

search?brands=speedo,quicksilver&priceMax=200

works.

The point of the article is that this does not work for customizable AND OR constructs, and therefore one should use SQL. And then it gives the bicycles example, stating that this feature request comes up "faster than you can imagine". But no, it almost never comes up in product search. I have not seen it even once in the last 9 years among the thousands of feature requests I looked at.
How precisely you need to ‘park’ on a Lagrange point?

There’s obviously a singular, ideal Lagrange point, but I would assume there’s something like a practically viable sphere around it where you would benefit from the advantages.

Given the vast distances, I would assume that this viable sphere is sufficiently large to accommodate more than enough man-made space infrastructure.
Could you just intentionally waste a lot of energy when the price is negative to make a lot of money? Is there a limit on how much you can use?

Of course you shouldn't do that, but I wonder how their business model looks like. I assume the negative price comes from subsidies, and those probably are limited?

edit: with "wasting", I mean literal wasting, basically discharging the grid without using the energy for anything (say, by putting a heater outside)
This is adjacent to the classic free WiFi hack on airplanes, which is to boot another client off of their DHCP lease by spoofing their MAC.

It’s unfortunate that, below HTTPS and a light smattering of WiFi encryption, there’s essentially no authenticity controls on LAN management protocols.
No? They are managing the relationship they have with their consumer customers by enforcing a code of content for commercial customers that communicate with them.

I guess there is an argument that the service should be a utility, but I don't think there are currently laws that would force them to carry messages that they expect to be a net harm to their business.
by that logic, hamas aren't the bad guys either. hamas is lambasted as a terrorist origanization because they dont' differentiate between military targets and civilians. the IDF seems to make no distinction either yet we dont' call them for what they are.

I wonder why that is
And some surface rust doesn't fail inspection. For that we clearly are in not-working-properly-and-potentially-a-safety-hazard territory.
No, of course not. The whole problem is because they just with the cheapest option (also outright unambiguous corruption in Schroder’s case) and ignored any issues that might have longterm
Yes but you can’t fault Apple for people freely choosing to use one app over another, especially when they do nothing at all to discourage whatsapp and the other third party alternatives.
AI can now conduct chemistry experiments in the real-world
Analysis of previously human-generated information gleaned from the actual world is one thing.. Next step for AI is intervening directly in the physical reality with its own experiments.Cut out the middle-Man, so to speak.
Ah I see, thanks. I thought it might be the equivalent to our social security tax.
"Should I try to be a straight-A student?

If you are, then you think too much."--Billy Joel, "It's Still Rock'n'Roll to Me"

At first this led to a slacker attitude about education.

Then I realized that knowledge >>> ignorance.

The final conclusion is that credentials are as good as far as they go, but knowledge is key.
We've been using touchscreens daily for about 15 years now, and I am still enraged by the fundamental stupidity of a UI that puts your fingers on top of the thing you're trying to see, with gestures required that you can only guess at.
Seems Microsoft spun them out and gave them independence. Not sure why, given it's the kind of IP that helps keep microsoft dominant.
The future of intelligence in the Universe: a call for humility
I remember being 13 and buying these magazines. In depth reviews and explanations of technologies.

Stuff like Byte was both deep, entertaining, well written and forward looking.

Internet media never got to the same heights as printed media did when it comes to editing and packaging quality.

That's not to say there haven't been great heights on the net too, as it allowed for new ways to communicate about technology (think https://ciechanow.ski/ great content and many more).
This must be something language/culture dependent. To a native Finnish speaker, labeling the button that resets the internet connection as "internet reset" makes perfect sense. Just like the power button only switches the power on/off for that particular device but not for the rest of the world.