skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Satellite internet is fast becoming good enough and cheap enough.

As an additional safeguard, you can make your trucks go into 'safety' mode when connection becomes spotty or when too many operators become too busy with other trucks.

'Safety mode' could mean slowing down the trucks or even stopping some of them. And in general, letting the autonomous systems err on the side of caution more often.
Related:

Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38146809 - Nov 2023 (10 comments)
The $10 Lightning to 3.5mm dongle for my iPhone has a microcontroller with RAM and an ADC, and the $20 lightning to Ethernet adapter has an Ethernet phy in it, so it's just a matter of someone getting funding, building it, and selling such a product. Latency would be a concern, but get a good firmware engineer on it.

It should be noted that the wifi version of this is sold by Sonos though I don't think they do surround sound for movie watching, but are focused on multi-room audio.
Satellite internet is fast becoming cheap enough and good enough.
I was thinking the same thing, that they got their information from Jeff
Perhaps she's from California?

UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC, UC Davis UC Irvine have insane freshmen profile and it's possible that she went to school that might not be nationally ranked but is a good school on its own right (i.e. Cal Poly).
Funny you should mention!

I'm not much of a programmer or designer at all, but probably my most popular thing is the "EightFiveZero" theme I made for Zim, which the author of Zim linked to from the wiki and makes me almost feel like a real programmer or something.

https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Templates
I don't see where that was suggested. He's been using it 10 years. He doesn't like the way things are currently going.
The mechanical design of pro audio balanced cables is poor and it's common to end up with a bad one in the field. A balanced amplifier with one input connected to a long unterminated wire is way worse than a single-ended cable would be under the same conditions. Even in consumer home use XLR cable ends will fail. We're stuck with it unfortunately unless you want full custom gear.
Naveen, the admin of the fork is a heavy contributor to the original repos. So I hope its not that difficult for him to maintain the fork. Infact it has started to make its way to Izzysoft on F-Droid

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.fossify.gallery
If e-commerce were so easy then Amazon would not have 38% of US online sales.

Their next biggest competitor is Wal-Mart with 6%.

Logistics isn’t trivial but Amazon literally built their business overnight while FedEx literally has tons of global competitors.

FedEx needs to capture more of the upstream revenue.

New Idea!

Shopify buys FedEx then merges with TikTok :)
It sounds like they made this to yearn for Linux stability.

I guess I'm fortunate in that I already made for the endgame of that quest, which is NixOS.
They also, by definition, came of age when we knew much less about longevity. They may not necessary be living the most longevity promoting lifestyle - just one that's markedly better than the average.
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The learning curve is steep for React, you’ll struggle without solid JS skills
pick a word dude
> I once helped out in a sound booth where the cables picked up AM radio

This right here is part of the reason the "coathanger versus cable test" annoys me so much. All these wonderful graphs "proving" that cables don't matter never take environmental noise into account, which is frustrating because in reality that's exactly what you're testing.

The fact that you could pick up AM radio inside a sound studio means that, for experimental purposes, that environment is simply not good enough.

Are expensive cables mostly bullshit? sure. Do better cables still make a difference? My personal experience tells me absolutely yes, just usually not enough to matter to 95%+ of people.
Any kind of remote assistance will most likely not include steering the truck in real time over the internet.

Rather, things like "unknown obstacle on the road, can't continue", with the operator instructing it to just run over that empty cardboard box. All realtime safety decision-making should have safe autonomous fallbacks, a human cannot be expected to drop in and take charge in seconds. The entire level 3 / 4 "semiautomation" market is a bunch of make believe.
How does apt-get install handle the following scenario?

You need the following software:

- You need the latest release of Erlang for your app

- A database (like Riak), whicn in turn happens to need an older version of Erlang

- The new Erlang needs the latest libopenssl

- The old Erlang needs an old v1.x libopenssl

- You used some open source software written in C++, so you need libstdc++

- Some of your own C++ code has exposed a bug in libstdc++, so you need yet another libstdc++ with your patches, but just for that software

- Etc

How does apt-get install allow you to have multiple versions of a given dynamic library (with the same SONAME) and multiple binaries (erl, clang, etc) installed at the same time?

The answer: it doesn't.

Nix has no problem handling everything I described above, and it handles it easily.

So, yes, you can pin versions with apt-get install, but you're out of luck if any of those packages have any transitive dependencies with different versions.

Also, the pinning guarantees are higher with nix: you can be guaranteed that your packages and their transitive dependencies are byte-for-byte identical, every time. Pinning end-to-end across all packages (and every transitive dependency thereof) is not a normal, happy-path thing to do in apt, so you would be hard pressed to find anyone that does that, given how onerous that would be -- whereas it's trivial in Nix.
This is actually a pretty interesting comparison. McDonald’s is franchised and so quality is highly dependent on the franchisee. FedEx is the odd one out in major delivery companies in that their model subcontracts to local companies in a similar fashion with the expected wild variance in quality. UPS is wholly owned and operated as a comparison.
This is a mixed bag. It’s awesome to have competition. On the other hand this launch could blunt antitrust / monopoly efforts against Amazon.
A lot of medical terms have been hijacked by influencers, including some influencer doctors.

“Dopamine” is the other big offender. So many social media doctors and influencers building huge podcast followings with “dopamine” babble. Huberman is one of the worst offenders, but he seems to slip past a lot of people’s filters because he’s a doctor and he mixes actual studies into his extremely long podcasts so that people assume everything he’s saying is accurate.
Maybe so, but could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
That doesn't even make sense.

Are any solutions more likely than any others?

How are you getting an "optimal play algorithm" when the entire game is about using what you know to filter the solutions that are still possible?
I thought Knowledge Lakehouse was going to be a variation of a Memory Palace
I just noticed there are 3 tabs for a diagram - substance style domain.

This seems too hard to use by person, but I look forward to seeing this plugged into chatgpt
You can make your offer contingent on selling your old house (or on an inspection, or anything else you want). Sellers are also free to not accept such offers. Both of my house purchases were from submitting a no financing contingency offer with significant earnest money, and I think that helped me win both bids.
Ideally the builds for external PRs should not gain any access to any secret. But it is not practical. For example, you may want to use docker containers. Then you will need to download docker images from somewhere. For example, downloading ubuntu:20.04 from docker hub. That one requires a token, otherwise your request may get throttled. Even accessing most Github services requires a token. I agree with you that these things require a lot of care. In reality most dev teams are not willing to put enough time on securing their build system. That's why supply chain attacks are so common today.
I also bought myself a new domain for this.

Previously I was using service@service.myname.com, and I realized that's leaking a bit too much info.

So, I bought genericname.com and switched to using service@service.genericname.com

Slightly less leakage, although I really doubt anyone is looking. I still have occasional issues with companies rejecting emails with their name in them, but that's easy to work around.

It's great in stores when they ask you to sign up for something and you give them an email that's obviously their name. Raises some eyebrows but most people working the checkout really don't care. A few just comment that it's cool, most are skeptical.

It's all hosted on fastmail and routes via wildcards to my central inbox anyway.
> The only problems that making it run on roads instead of rails solves is political - [...]

You say it like this is a point against autonomous trucking?

Technical problems are solvable. Political and social problems are basically intractable in practice.

If autonomous driving can turn 'delivering large amounts of cargo along fixed, guided pathways' from a political into a technical problem, then this would be a jackpot.

> [...] capitalism is designed to route around any such inefficiency as morals or safety standards until otherwise compelled by regulation.

No? Plenty of eg cars exceed minimum safety standards. Some brands, like Volvo, are even explicitly sold on safety. Most companies explicitly talk up their morals and ethics, too. Look at almost any old advertisement for examples. Ethical brands are quite popular, and whenever one is found to be only pretending, there's usually a big scandal. So many of them actually practice what they preach.

Similarly, most people are paid more than regulated minimums. According to your theory, that shouldn't happen.
I'm really curious as to the reasoning behind your question and why you think an LLM generated query somehow would have unfettered access and permissions.
Inflammatory signaling isn’t all “bad”, just like how oxidative stress and cortisol aren’t unilaterally bad.

A lot of people have a really broken, superficial understanding of these topics and assume that all these processes and chemicals in our body are bad and must be reduced as much as possible, but they play important roles in the body.

Many people are surprised to learn that taking a lot of antioxidants before working out actually reduces the effectiveness of exercise. Influencers have peddled this idea that oxidation is bad and antioxidants are good for so long that people think it’s a number they just need to push downward as much as possible with as many supplements as they can take.
#1 is not a pot of gold, rather a stream of gold.

The authors' two options are #2 or #3 (or #4 which is a smaller #3).

I would classify a true third option as private fundraising with secondary sales.
Hmm that's interesting to me. I'm currently on a Planck EZ, I like it but would like my hands a little further apart, and the idea of using my thumb for more modifiers is definitely interesting.

Had a look at the Corne but didn't want to lose keys (not interested in homerow mods, and I like having keys like ctrl on both sides of the board). Kyria might be the thing for me..
What part of that is not fair? If someone else has more ready access to funds, and a seller wishes to prioritize highly for that, they should be able to. It would seem to me to be unfair to a seller to say "you must wait an extra N weeks on all sales because some buyers will need that long to get funds together".
how do you decide on the valuation of a startups?
This doesn't look like GPT. I have never seen GPT say "probably ghcr, but don't hold me to that".
Not uniformly, but product search is abysmal. Try searching for HomeKit-compatible light switches.
> I would've gotten at MIT (where I did get in).

Not sure I follow. You got admitted at MIT and decided to go to a Big-10 school? Is Big-10 the Big Ten Conference, with Ohio State and U Michigan?

You really did that?

Have you ever seen this ?

https://sfs.mit.edu/undergraduate-students/the-cost-of-atten...

> 58% of full-time undergraduates received an MIT Scholarship during the 2022–2023 academic year. Among those, the median family contribution after student term-time work was $9,926.
> A human driver could look at traffic reports and plan to take the wheel on areas with congestion, road works, and the hilly sections that are technical.

Yes, but honestly, you would have the computers look at the traffic report and at the map.

> The boring straight shots they can sleep. Maybe this could get the duty cycle up to 100% and keep the truck moving non-stop? Really any material increase in the duty cycle would be incredibly valuable.

I think technically that's probably possible on many routes, but I wonder how regulations interfere.
The problem with anecdotes is that they're not science. And as there is wide variety in humans this is very much a case of ymmv.

Anecdotally, my wife went onto a low-carb diet 18 months ago. She likes low carb food, and isn't a huge fan of bread, potatoes etc anyway, so it was easy. She's not total though, still eats a rusk at breakfast, and has a (home made) pizza once a week.
She also started exercising a lot more, and found a sustainable rhythm for that. She's lost 50 lbs. (Around 25kg).

Interestingly, her blood sugar levels have not dropped significantly, but they did drop a bit.

I sporadically do low-carb, and always lose weight doing so. I like bread, potato's, rice though so my diet is much less obsessive. My results are more fluctuating but slowly trending down. I'm in no rush, but eould like to drop around 15 lbs this year. I lose about 1lb per week if I'm "fairly strict" - exercise levels don't change (I exercise a reasonable amount.)

Incidentally, I've found that just slowly reducing quantity has helped as well. Eating from small bowls and plates has helped me.

None of this is data. And I still "cheat" (I'll happily eat normal in social situations, and often on weekends etc) but I seem to have found a pattern I can maintain long term. It's a "diet" in the sense there's good and bad, but its also "lifestyle" in the sense that I try to be "moderate" with the bad.
> Costco is still quick, just not as quick, and their website / app is trash to use compared to Amazon.

Really? I feel like Amazon is always trying to trick me into a) signing up for prime, b) buying sponsored products, c) buying cheap Chinese junk or d) buying stuff in the wrong currency and getting hit with unfavourable foreign exchange rates.

Whereas the Costco website just works.

The Home Depot website is also a pile of junk. Just yesterday I probably spent 5x longer on the Home Depot site than on a competitor’s (Canadian Tire) website because of the jankiness of filtering for an extension cord. If you search for something with a lot of results (e.g. light fixtures) the result set is basically unusable because of poor filtering functionality. A few months ago the entire search functionality broke because of some ad domain that I was blocking. They harvest emails that you punch in for email receipts at checkout for marketing purposes. etc. etc.
Can you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? We've had to ask you this before. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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Interesting!

Seems like something that should be pretty amenable to automation, especially if you can modify the truck.
... because it could reduce amazon's marketshare and pricing power? which would reduce the supposed need for such efforts. is this just schadenfreude desire to see amazon get fucked in court?
We've banned this account because it has been posting tons of flamewar comments. That's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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The current SteamOS (what Decks run) is based on Arch but is not rolling. The original for Steam Boxes was based on Debian.

Reasoning for the switch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamOS#Development

> The decision to move from Debian to Arch Linux was based on the different update schedule for these distributions. Debian, geared for server configurations, has its core software update in one large release, with intermediate patches for known bugs and security fixes, while Arch uses a rolling update approach for all parts. Valve found that using Arch's rolling updates as a base would be better suited for the Steam Deck, allowing them to address issues and fixes much faster than Debian would allow. SteamOS itself is not rolling release.
A playlist of him on Numberphile (youtube channel): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWI9eDSJREzp...
When Cybercriminals with Good OpSec Attack (2020) [video]
"On a long enough timeline, survival rate drops to 0%."
As long as you're comparing cars and air travel, I'll point out that the aviation industry lies with statistics when they present the numbers.

When comparing safety within aviation, they talk about deaths per departure.

When comparing safety between aviation and cars, they suddenly change their metric and talk about deaths per mile, making aviation look much better.

I'm not saying aviation is worse than cars if you do a fair comparison; I haven't done the math. Maybe it's still better. But still they are fudging things in their own favor.
Can you please not post flamewar comments to HN? You did that repeatedly in this thread and we're trying to avoid that here.

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I’m only going to get into detail if anyone cares, but the actionable, germane thing is to be ready to move to torch-like tensor libraries.

The same design flaws in PyTorch that make it an interest attack vector (which in a very, very small way I had a part in, I also got this wrong) are the same design flaws that basically dictate that’s it’s more like an API than an implementation now: and those flaws are all the ways it’s too big to easily audit or port.

It’s a very good UI to accelerated computing, and I suspect it’s the “last one” for a long time.

I hope the next mainstream implementation will be TinyGrad, I fear it’ll be MLX, and I’d settle for JAX, but it won’t be PyTorch per se.
Yes, reading something you are interested in and is readable, is easy.

As a kid I used to consume Enid Blyton books without really being aware I was reading them or how much I had read, I was just "inside" them. I wasn't trying to read them, I just did.
If someone is comfortable with that, I don't see the issue. I had a pair of grandparents who shared an email address, and IIRC we saw some customers who did that when I was working on banking systems a couple years ago.

Actually I'm kind of tempted to set up a shared email for my wife and me for exactly things like that. She's already the main user of my Facebook account, where she goes on gardening groups or something.
I think we agree then.

Even one additional Von Neumann would be great. More would be fantastic.

And would be associated with a lot of other more impactful people.

The “good” reason for not providing better conditions is we don’t have a system for that.

My vote would be that the value of all raw natural resources not created by human beings efforts be considered a joint inheritance.

The raw value of them being shared by all equally with a focus on health and education for children, and keeping adults above survival mode. We would all benefit from that investment, even the rich.

The efforts of those who extract and process them, as with any human added value, would be rewarded by the competitive marketplace as usual.
Right. This is the entire job of M&A bankers.
The best repair is no repair!
WTF? We've cut you an unbelievable amount of slack over the years but if you flout HN's rules this flagrantly, I don't know what you expect us to do. Do you want to be banned?
I'm watching Edgeql, I feel it could end the career of AI query generators, ORMs and low end BI.

https://www.edgedb.com/
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? We've had to ask you more than once before, and it looks like you've been continuing to do it regularly. That's not cool and we eventually have to ban such accounts.

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In addition to better perf per watt, it’d allow them to shrink the console, potentially to something as small as a Mac Mini or NUC. Less need for cooling means a smaller console.

This could help them make inroads to people who might not have considered a home console before due to their relatively large size. Wouldn’t be surprised if the Switch did well with this market and now MS wants a slice of that pie.
> Your post-money valuation is a hard floor on your sale price

This doesn't have to a hard floor but:

1. Most fundraising is done on a 1x liquidation preference. (Investors get paid back first at 1x their investment.) So selling less than your previous valuation means additional dilution for common shareholders.

2. Investors will likely be unhappy and could even block the deal if it is less than they thought it was going to be worth.
GDPR works within a legal framework.

It requires investigations and evidence and it metes out fines for non-compliance, eventually.

A fine doesn't reverse stolen/hacked data, nor does it work particularly well on the megacorps who just eat it as the cost of doing business.

If there is more profit to be had than it would cost in fines then that's not a deterrent, its a tax.

Until the fines are proportionate to the offence (whatever the profit is/was + punitive percentage) it's only going to deter those who can't pay the current fixed rates.
Upstream is the kernel itself and standard kernel interfaces. Nvidia doing their own (non upstream) thing is the main problem here. They didn't work with libdrm for years.

Being a client or even a partner doesn't guarantee good cooperation with Nvidia (Evga has a lot to comment on that). As long as Nvidia is not a good citizen in working with upstream Linux kernel, it's just not worth investing effort in using them for someone like Valve.

Stuff like HDR support or anything the like are major examples why it all matters.
> And Nix doesn't?

If you're asking if installing/running software with Nix requires containers like Docker does: no, it does not.

> At least with Docker you can get something useful within 2 minutes

% nix shell 'nixpkgs#ruby' -c irb
irb(main):001:0> puts "Hello, world!"
Hello, world!
=> nil
irb(main):002:0>

That took me about 5 seconds to type out, and now I'm in an IRB REPL slinging Ruby code, despite having never installed Ruby prior to running that command. Add another 5 seconds for nix to fetch the necessary files (which are then cached locally, so a second `nix shell` invocation will be immediate) and we're sitting at roughly 10 seconds end-to-end.

If it takes 2 whole minutes to use Docker, Docker must be pretty bad. I guess vintage things have their appeal, but apart from that I don't see why people would be so attached to such archaic, inferior technology.
I love the live translation for this talk, and others. Great work from C3 organizers.
The part where they had a poll was very unscientific, it left comparisons to random audio equipment on the listeners end. Results would be based on the listeners situation more than the source.
someone suggested a cloudflare issue; which neatly explains the symptoms i also observed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38992718