skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Really the bar for humans to legally operate a vehicle is whatever licensing process is in place in a given state. We don't make them pinky swear to not do anything dangerous or illegal.

That is not sufficient for self-driving vehicles. The license is the thing that shows "okay, this person seems safe" but then some of the things that keep them safe are the threat of accidentally killing themselves, or being arrested and put in jail for a crime they commit while driving, or the financial penalty of being sued for an injury / damage they cause, or the risk of having their license taken away for errors. If a human being applying for their license was invincible, incapable of being jailed, sued, or having their license taken away, you might expect that our CDL or other licensing processes would be more stringent.
I guess it makes you feel better as a user to be part of the hyper converged buzzword bingo. But seriously it seems to be both web and container (web) focussed. They should maybe rather say what they are not and what the limitations of their approach is ( I guess isolation comes at some costs)
> YMMV. I took LSD. It didn't do a whole lot other than make me think I could play the piano when I definitely can't.

For me, despite regularly taking high doses of psychedelics (so far LSD and psilocybin), none of them have been huge life-shattering trips. They're just recreational experiences.

Maybe I'm just neurodivergent in a very specific way that isn't easily impacted by psychedelics. They're still my favorite substances and I still enjoy them, but it hasn't made that big of an impact on my life, other than being something to spend my money on, like you say.

Or maybe people with self-proclaimed life-shattering experiences are just extrapolating more out of their trip than what actually happened.

I'm sure plenty of people have legitimately improved their lives this way, but I don't believe the hype.
UCSC should also have a psychedelics studies program (is there any better place?), particularly on account of their already unique (and wonderful) History of Consciousness program.

I remember an old and dear chemist friend of mine there who made me aware of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). I still have his copy of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History he lent me after taking a sociology course on drugs in society, if I recall correctly.
ChatGPT says that couscous is generally considered to be savory.

I think perhaps you are conflating a savory flavor ala umami with the concept of savory dishes, i.e., non-sweet dishes.

Whilst I would agree that couscous isn't umami, I do consider it to be a savory dish by default as it isn't sweet in its unseasoned state.
It's extremely uncommon in the US to have induction hobs over 4kW. Even if the outlet could supply it, they're very rare.
Agreed. You could also maybe have special tracks in these roads that the cars could attach to so they would not need tires. Additionally I bet you could link them together so the robots could carry hundreds of people at once. I bet you could even run them on a regular schedule so people can use them to commute on the regular.
is there a great collection of his letters in a book you’d recommend?

i love Jack Kerouac’s “Windblown World” (an awesome collection of his journals / letters / notes on writing) & would highly recommend if you’re a fan

haven’t really explored Flaubert & am curious about where’d be a good place to start
That's not really accurate. Ojeda is a long time kernel contributor and so are many of the folks writing drivers. Maintainers of various subsystems are also particularly interested.

Not everyone is of course, but hardly "just (Rust) advocates" like you suggest.
Yes they are 100% related. The side effect was triggering underlying schizophrenia. Which is why we need controlled research.
While the author's framing is wrong, aren't there genes that have positive dominant effects and negative recessive effects?
Thanks but I don't think I'll switch.
The article says

> I also tried putting my phone in a (turned off!) microwave, but this did not work either, it was still connected to the Wi-Fi access point.

But yeah I would have thought the same.
Restart the 757 production line, with modern engines. Boeing was already working on it. It would be a stopgap, but one that could allow Boeing to survive until a new narrow body aircraft design could be produced.
To a pretty good approximation, everything that feasibly can get shipped by rail already is. Railroad companies operate fairly close to capacity, and they have no desire to reduce their massive profit margins building new rails en masse and handling the maintenance burden. That leaves only the shippers themselves, who are often much smaller companies that couldn't reasonably build a new rail line or buy cars for every customer, but can easily afford a few trucks to be relocated anywhere in the country they have demand.
Thanks! Pretty alert pedestrian handling in that 1st video. Including one threatening to dash in between cars, one actually doing so, and one (apparently) making to cross and then not crossing. Also traffic cones are now explicitly shown on the monitor.
Who said anything about extended? Do you think there might be a period of time a person might be away such that they would not want their cat locked out the whole time, but their cat also has no chance of filling up their waste receptacles?
I've opened up the website https://projectbluefin.io, but it turns out that this is not a website, but rather a web application. You cannot do things like this and claim it is built for developers. Scrolling lags, it shows a loading spinner and it does not respect navigation controls.

I cannot take this project seriously. Dope art, though.
> I also tried putting my phone in a (turned off!) microwave, but this did not work either, it was still connected to the Wi-Fi access point.

Apparently modern wifi chips are just too good at picking up faint signals.
You're completely forgetting the demographics of people who rent, live in apartments, lease cars etc. You're also assuming everybody wants an EV or feels it is appropriate for the distances they need to travel.
Cats don't have hopes and dreams to be crushed, we can hardly compare cats to people.
A universal problem for all EVs in cold climates
I have read the paper, although maybe not deeply enough.

It is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure I'm fully convinced.

Sure, you can parse remote calls and package imports to find dependencies. But this assumes applications are integrated using remote procedure calls. What if applications talk to each other using a message bus? Asynchronous patterns are meant precisely to decouple publishers and subscribers - in number (how many processes will read a message?), identity (who are those processes?) and time. It looks like this system would not be able to decouple portions of code talking to each other using a message queue.

Any thoughts?
It somehow never actually happens this way, but I would happily spend twice as much for any open source product simply because I get more control, predictability, and utility out of it.

If you want to pay rather a lot more than merely twice as much you can get source from MS too, and still not get all the utility because it comes with ndas and no ocean of other user hackers who want the same obvious things you do.

Spending time on an open tool is an investment that you do because it pays off. Spending your own time, or paying a developer (hired in house or consultant), or paying license fees for a closed product are all just things you spend to get the result.

It has nothing to do with your time being worthless. If your own time is too super valuable to spend directly building, then the choice is not "pay MS to do it or do it myself", it's pay an employee to do it one way or pay an employee to do it another way.

You pay an employee 100k and MS 100k, or you pay 2 employees. You get 10x more value out of two humans producing work that you 100% own and get to have every important detail exactly how you want it, and then it works for as long as you want it. Even with the churn from security updates and popular fads, anything you invested in building, you still get to use forever if you want. No serial number ever expires, no activation ever blocks your ability to make backups and hot spares and parallel extra capacity. And those humans actively solve new weird problems in a way no piece of software or software licence ever can.

The reason not to pay MS is not because it costs money, it's because you get shit for it.
Thank you, my comment was intended to apply specifically to the Church of England. Any community that wanted a church was required to set aside farmland whose produce would be used to fund it, and the people had to donate their labor to work the land.

So the English church had a rather unique arrangement where each parish had a source of funds independent of central government or church bureaucracy. That was the attraction of the job for intellectuals. As long as you kept your head down and didn't screw up big time, you were left alone.
With new markets you often want to target a small niche, I've always thought that relatively slow moving road trains travelling at night would be a good place to start.

Air resistance means slower speeds are more efficient (you don't need to worry about human driver needing paid per hour or limited by regulations).

Less other traffic at night, but (presumably) sensors can be designed to work well in these situations.

If you split a truck in 3 it can travel together as a pack for aero yet reduce stopping times as each part brakes seperately.

You could probably even section off an entire lane in certain areas.

Some of these possibly needed EVs to mature more before they become practical.
Yep, even with a manual transmission in neutral you can feel the lubricant viscosity bringing up the clutch at -30C. My car's outside temperature display doesn't show temperature below -30 and it takes time for the radio to start working. Seat warmers are really appreciated as you don't need to wait for the engine to warm up enough to heat the interior.

Block heaters run about 400W. It helps a lot to have a garage. When it's this cold, I also run a battery charger as living in a walkable neighborhood, I can go several days without using my car and the battery sags in the cold.
Promoted FB posts are a very bad measure of what is happening. They are designed to provoke people and get reactions - it is all about engagement.

I do not know what the motive is (some way of making money no doubt) but it is clear to me that these are mostly just trying to get comments and reactions.

I strongly suspect a lot of what I see on FB is not even human written - lots of jokes that do not quite make sense, minor variations on things I have seen before that also do not quire make sense.
I use Apple Notes and don’t bother to organize anything unless it’s a whole bunch of related material that I’m going to use together—notes for an rpg session, say. All the rest, I just make sure that I give it a title that I’ll recognize when I see it, and include words that I’ll likely use if I go looking for it with search.

Been doing this for years, haven’t lost anything yet. It works so well that time organizing it would have been wasted.
Cats specifically are invasive species that decimate bird populations.
If only dang had the time away from moderating this forum to do that
> C has this solved

"Reflections on Trusting Trust" was a demonstration of this in the C ecosystem long before package managers were a thing.
Well you’ve been missing out!

I have a small group of Belgian friends and it’s quite possible they’ve been pulling my leg. Sad (for the kids) if so. Belgian beer is great!
it is quite laughable to see the UK government be so interested in AI and doing laws about it, when UK basically weights absolutely NOTHING in the AI field.

English policians love to smell their own farts.
> when using a gasoline car you still have to stop every two hours to pee, stretch your legs, and swap drivers

Source?

My longest ICE-powered trip recently was a ~500 mile trip across Europe with precisely one 15 minute break to pee and buy coffee. A total of ~8 hours on the road, and I was driving alone. On the plus side it was a very nice rented Audi.
Of course! Bash script is Turing complete so it should be possible to implement everything in it :)

The only upside to having an executable Dockerfile is that it's still a valid Dockerfile that you can use with docker build, docker-compose, etc. in addition to being able to execute it.
It's the resource curse.
The temperature does not affect to charge stored in the batteries, right? However, you have to use the battery to heat itself as well as heat the bus (unless you got diesel heater or something for the cabin).
The unlisted MotherDuck pricing page
It's not hard to guess the pricing page URL. It seems that MotherDuck is not ready to announce it. Cold Storage is $40 per TB (close to many S3 based offering). But I have problem to understand the Hot Storage: $0.02 per GB per hour. Is this memory, cache, SSD? Overall the pricing looks quite reasonable.
Well... not directly without root, but you can host a DNS Server on Android and use it if you wanted to
Depends on how far left we are talking. Based on the party goals/statements it's typically that Democrats are left and Republicans are right. Obviously there is a spectrum, but that seems to be true in the aggregate and reflected in the types of laws being enacted in the municipalities or states.
compare to Boeing's volume? maybe, but Airbus is one of _Europe_'s largest defense contractors
That like OPs post is also a mixed bag. The high repair costs are largely because of EV manufactures trying out new things, like unibodies that are very expensive to replace, lack of 3rd party mechanics trained on them, and less commonly available parts at auto stores as you mention. The great news is that none of these are inherent with EVs, the traditional manufactures are using more construction in common with their ICE counter-parts and mechanics and parts will become available with time as the market adopts it. The other bonus is that EVs need a lot less maintenance to begin with because they are mechanically much simpler and regenerative breaking does a lot to cut back on wear and tear on the parts that do experience more issues like tires and brakes.
Are they? Airbus has its hands in quite a few major military programs (Eurofighter, A-400M, Tigre, Super-Puma, ...), as well as in spatial programs, especially satellite intelligence.
From the article:

The COSMIC system is a cluster of FPGA, CPU, and GPU hardware, which at all times receives a copy of digitized data streams from each of the VLA’s antennas. The data received by COSMIC necessarily reflects antenna-pointing, LO-tuning and digitization settings commanded by VLA observers, but otherwise operates completely independently. In particular, COSMIC is unaffected by any of the interferometric phasing, channelization, or correlation processes of the VLA’s facility instrument: WIDAR.

COSMIC comprises three main components:

A fiber optic splitter, which duplicates digitized data streams from the VLA antennas and delivers these to COSMIC digital instrumentation.
A small FPGA Cluster, which receives VLA antenna digitized data streams, channelizes these to 1 MHz frequency resolution, and transmits these data streams over multiple industry-standard 100 Gb/s Ethernet links.
A CPU/GPU Cluster which receives 1 MHz resolution data over Ethernet and performs a variety of digital signal processing operations, ultimately outputting SETI signals of interest (often referred to as "hits") into a database for further analysis.

And the CPU/GPU cluster in particular is extremely interesting:

The COSMIC CPU/GPU pipeline implements a beamformer, high-resolution channelizer, doppler-drift search, and calibration correlator. The configuration parameters of these algorithms may be varied in order to best leverage the array’s behaviour as dictated by the Primary Observer.

The COSMIC CPU/GPU processing pipeline is still under development, but will have the following capabilities:

Buffering of ∼ 5 minutes voltage data for all antennas in the VLA;
Beamforming of up to 32 coherent tied-array beams;
Incoherent beamforming;
Configurable frequency resolution between 1 MHz and 1 Hz;
Inter-antenna correlation (used for gain calibration observations) with millisecond time resolution; and
Doppler drift searching for narrow band signals (in antenna or beam data) with linear drift rates between -50 Hz/s and +50 Hz/s.

In normal operation, the COSMIC system will search for candidate signals with non-zero linear drift rates, and will permanently archive small data snippets (< 100 kHz bandwidth and < 5 minutes duration) around these events.

This is really cool!
It’s a Bosch 800 series if that helps.
Kudos to Brian! He was one of the earliest to see the potential and raise a lot of money from the best VCs. Even thought he struggled immensely to build a good tech team in the initial years and had a lot of turnover - a fabled story of two CTO’s fighting and punching each other in a conference rooms with glass walls made the rounds of Silicon Valley - and they built a tech stack that took many years to upgrade and address the tech debt. Despite that, and the fines and lawsuits from the SEC et al, he has managed to take the company public and release a slate of innovative products and stabilize the company. Crypto is decidedly not a space where you can build a tech company like Google but Brian has struggled yet managed to build a company and partnerships that netted him the ETFs as well. Remarkable turnaround from a tough start. And addressed a lot of the challenges post Covid layoffs.

A lot of people said Coinbase was toast but he’s managed to be the last man standing (for the moment). One has to respect and admire that.
Oslo can't have been surprised by the existence of cold weather. Did they not contemplate any countermeasures, like heaters at the charging location or better insulating the batteries so the heat from discharging them and then recharging through regenerative braking keeps them warmer?
I've been observing that AI tools often don't really replace people, but rather amplify the amount of work that a single individual can do. In that way, rather than seeking to replace truck drivers, it might first be more useful to make it possible that one driver can navigate two trucks in tandem, and later perhaps more. The largest issue with autonomous driving seems to be the ~20% edge cases that may occur, and have high variance, and ~80% could be automated. So perhaps at some point a single driver could drive more than one or two trucks.

It seems like there are a lot of 'default routes' that trucks take, and in the beginning, it'd probably just be a small number of highway routes that could get clearance in such a way, and then scale up.
Robots key to new ways of farming as labor shortage looms
It's not necessarily that psychedelics make you more comfortable with yourself. Psychedelics can reinforce the psychopathic way of thinking. I'm not a psychopath (...as far as I can tell), but I can think similarly to one when sober. For me, LSD can intensify that way of thinking. It can intensify everything, to be fair, but the way you think while on it can be... I guess "conducive to psychopathy"? If a psychopath is missing emotion/conscience and is given LSD, then they can end up with far more ways to manipulate their own thoughts in a way that supports their psychopathy, if that makes any sense.
I like articles like this even though I'll never write a screenplay because it's fun to think of ways to apply it to ordinary persuasive writing. That said: if the craft of screenplay writing interests you, and if you haven't already, immediately subscribe to the Scriptnotes podcast, which is Craig Mazin (Chernobyl, Last of Us) and John August (Go, Big Fish), for like 600 episodes.
Adding more wheels does not reduce stopping distance.
I have never heard that LFP would be fire safe. Just safer compared to other lithium cell types.
I stand corrected, looks like you can get some of those dell switches for a couple hundred bucks, haven't looked at the market in a couple years. To me the biggest thing mikrotik offers that no one else seems to is small reasonably priced 10gbe switches. I don't need a 48 port sfp+ switch, I need two 12 port ones with mc-lag for my ceph/k8s cluster.
Django all batteries are included for you over time.
How Japan spent more than a century earthquake-proofing its architecture
In some arctic locations, they keep the gas pumps fully enclosed and heated, with only the hoses accessible from the outside. You need to go in a little shed to swipe your card and select the grade.

One example: https://www.go2moon.com/image/DaltonHwy/Dalton-S3.html
>you. The difference between running in the morning fasted and running after eating a single banana is the difference between feeling like you are being tortured and being able bounce around like a bunny.

This seems really wrong for the vast majority of people.

Is your average person really bottlenecked by their blood glucose levels and not say, cardiovascular health or lung capacity?

I think most people get winded in a hard run way before their muscles are low on energy and they are feeling sluggish, no?
You talked with generals and ministers of defense? During a crisis, as opposed to boring peacetime, when everyone can claim to make moral decisions, without having to actually be tested?

Your current government may be risk averse, the one that gets elected five, or fifteen years from now, in a different climate...

Your comparison between this work and Rust is not a good one. There's degrees of potential for abuse, and a system that predicts people's future behaviour in the hands of the military is nothing like a general-purpose language.
In your experience, how does this kind of approach behave with asynchronous dependencies?

Let's say you start from a codebase with three portions (call them services, modules, whatever): A, B, C, D. A sends a (synchronous) remote procedure call to B, which sends a message over a message bus which is also used by C and D. C and D do not talk to each other except over the bus.

It sounds like this approach would identify the remote call dependency between A and B (which could be split into different deployment units), but not the message bus usage. Or, at least, it can't identify who is subscribing to a topic where B pushes its events.

As a result, you would get two deployment modules:

- A

- B and "everything else"

Which doesn't sound right.

Am I missing something?
Vacation generally means an extended time, so you did.
Yes. There are a lot of people who are driving for things that a good public transit system could handle. Sure you can have your SUV for towing the boat to the lake - but you only do that on weekends (and no every weekend) - why are you driving to work, to church, get groceries - for most people those are tasks that that a good transit system could handle.

Note that by good transit system I mean one where you never check the schedule because the next bus/train is never more than 5 minutes (that is a maximum time). By good transit I also mean a system of transfers to express service so you can get to more distance places quickly. Nobody in the US has a good system (NYC's subways don't even come that often!), but there is no reason we can't have that, and some places in the world do have it (at least for a few).
I used https://squoosh.app/ to losslessly compress the PNG further.

If you download the PNG from my post, you can check the filesize.
Crystal is basically taking Ruby and adding compilation and a strong static type system.

I enjoy writing it but don’t think there’s any particular reason to try/learn it, unless you happen to also be a ruby dev who prefers compiled, strongly typed languages.