skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The world's first non-repairable car.

Apple's phones have about 7 years of first-party support / guaranteed useful life, compared with the rest of the industry's standard of maybe 2. Yeah I'd never buy a car that will only be good for 7 years, but let's see what they ship.
financial stability is a different word for money.

no one is saying the government needs to specifically pay for art, the original discussion was about how to determine the worth of art. You think money is the right proxy, the other poster thinks fulfillment is the right proxy.

yes the other poster was hinting at UBI and using artists as a proxy for people being able to work on what they find interesting. you strawmanned that into an argument that governments are being asked to specifically pay for art.
> with their career on the line

Accessing the SAT system to re-read all the tickets to the reporter sounds like the easiest possible way to get fired. Obviously someone is going to review every access and be very skeptical of anyone viewing that data after the news broke.

I guess there is always "use your coworker's computer when they go to the bathroom", though. Lock your screen!
I think there is a lot of ground to cover in "RAG". Most of the demos or tutorials online seem to simply use a vector database to retrieve similar documents according to a cosine distance.

I'm now working on a "hybrid" search combining lexical and semantic search, using an LLM to translate a user message into a search query to retrieve data.

As far as I know, there's not a "standard", the field keeps moving and there are no simple answers.
Are you able to share the types of applications you've built?
Discussions on HN for each

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39059255

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39061587
I am pleasantly surprised to see that he attended the "walk and talk" organized by Craig Mod, also discussed previously on HN [0].

I am really inspired by that, and I am trying to organize one in either the Dolomites (Italy), or in Venice and its Lagoon (also Italy), which would have to be adapted to the characteristics of a lagoon with islands [2].

Anyway, if this is of interest to you, please say hi to WalkAndTalkItaly@gmail.com and let me know why you'd like to do it, and if you'd prefer Venice or Dolomites.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38613170

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolomites

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Lagoon
Working with various data, ML, and researcher-type engineers there's a bit benefit to using Python. Especially if you want to be at the forefront of what's being built.

I've been building with Python FastAPI and a React/Nextjs app. I've gone back and forth on whether we should have used Django, but we've been full steam ahead with what we have.

If I wasn't building in the AI space I think I probably would have used Node <-> React with tRPC to make the typed full stack monorepo experience seamless.

Oh and Postgres - I'm irrationally loyal to Postgres
Related:

The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29347665 - Nov 2021 (308 comments)

The Humble Brilliance of Italy’s Moka Coffee Pot (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24122182 - Aug 2020 (19 comments)

Also:

We tested 11 moka pots and both of our favorites were from the same iconic brand - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37427325 - Sept 2023 (4 comments)
Minimal Contents of a .git Folder
It’s the “Show HN” part.
It looks like the next-gen Zen 5 AMD cpus will be another large leap anyways, so not needing to upgrade now should make you even happier down the line! :)
I think there's plenty of sass companies out there that are subsidizing what their customers are paying them with vc cash. I've been at 2 sass companies where infrastructure optimization was starting to be a real concern. If your unit economics are in the red and additional customers cost you money, you need to optimize somehow.
Not really. Unless you assume a couple of things: indestructible, perfect technology and methods to either suspend or prolong lifespans to geological time scales. Even system hopping would have at the very least the requirement of a basically unchanging (both biologically and in terms of politics/society) civilisation.

If either of those aren't practically achievable, the idea falls apart quickly.
To attempt to pedantically clarify, is "exists only because of a complex system doing its thing" not true of basically any pure lump of material that exists?

To me, the actions of stars fusing heavy atoms and then those atoms ending up in lumps of material somewhere sounds like a pretty complex system doing its thing.
For a customizable/modular laptop, it’s a pity that we can’t have full-height cursor and function keys, or even a ThinkPad-style seventh row.
The replication problem does not mean your gut feeling or pre-existing biases are more reliable than potentially flawed or invalid studies.
With the ubiquity of SUVs at this point I can't imagine that many of them are being sold to men wanting to feel more "Rugged". I would think the vast majority are bought by those who want the additional space and safety of these cars, like families. It's going to be very difficult to convince consumers to drive cars smaller cars they see as less safe without some significant costs imposed on larger cars.
The average American also outputs about 125W/kg if you include our technology, and not metabolism.

US Primary energy consumption = 30 Trillion Kwh/ year [1]

30 Trillion Kwh/ year / 8760 hrs = 3.3×10^12 W (watts)

3.3×10^12 W (watts)/ 330million = 10 kW/ person

10 kW/ person / 80kg = 125 W/kg

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
I like this idea of magical red tape that makes things disappear.

Did he test it on any other items?
Apple having so much cash perhaps the business model is to lease them?
Looks like a chance for MC-21
Not sure what you mean by not a real thing anymore - it's still up at https://ipaidthemost.com/

Do I have a broken link somewhere?
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Platform Tilt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39061587 - Jan 2024 (108 comments)

Platform Tilt: Documenting the Uneven Playing Field for Firefox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39059255 - Jan 2024 (4 comments)
how would you wipe them without an internet connection if I shut it off ?
...GPG had such a feature for ages: it's AFAIK largely a result from very modular/flexible smartcard/HSM support.
the fact they haven't published an analysis with every single case this was abused, even if zero, in the past is proof enough this was a feature to someone.
I’ve seen teams do 2 weeks of detailed project planning and estimating where the entire project could have been done in 2 weeks by a good team if they just set their nose to grindstone and did the work.

It’s unbelievable how useless some of these planning and estimating sessions are.
I feel confident in wagering that GP didn't intend to allow driving an F150 with a regular license.
Better read the original source: https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installa...
My main thinking was there are a lot of things weight can (somewhat) be a shorthand for:
Visibility past/around the car, visibility from within the car, carbon emissions, difficulty to drive, amount of space taken to park, deadliness of collision due directly to weight, impact on roads, and deadliness of collision due to form factor.

Of those, the deadliness of collision due to weight and impact on roads are the only ones that still hold up if it's an EV. I just want to avoid a situation in which someone gets a gas engine instead of an EV of the same form factor because they would need a special license to drive the EV, which just barely gets over the weight limit. But I would also be open to this law in any form.
This feels like a VP at Google told the Chrome team they needed more AI.
And if actual history and real biology are anything to go by, you'd end up with a zoo of civilisations (and remnants thereof) that don't resemble humanity in the slightest and might as well be aliens.
it's not anymore surprising than realizing graphics programming requires you to have a good grasp on linear algebra.

the math is how it's done, it's statistics all the way down. If you don't have a good grasp on statistics you're not going to fully grok ML.
> Using SQLite in a filesystem offers many advantages w.r.t performance and reliability. Do these advantages translate over when using WebAssembly SQLite over OPFS?

I would say generally yes. SQLite is known for its performance, and with Wasm SQLite, performance is strongly related to how the file system operations are implemented. There have been some good advances in this area in the last couple of years. My co-founder wrote this blog post which talks about the current state of SQLite on the web and goes into performance optimizations:

https://www.powersync.com/blog/sqlite-persistence-on-the-web
I would agree with that it's usable as a single datapoint, used with others (other submissions, general performance, etc).

However given that we already have professors literally failing people by just pasting and asking chatgpt, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that.
the rumors was that it restricted addons while trying to win back google's big pay... that is not even hinted in the sources
What are some good online courses to break into the field for a competent, generalist software engineer? Ideally I want to end up focusing on the platform / MLOps space.

(For someone say, who has a CS degree, took a Linear Algebra class a decade ago and doesn't remember much.)
> Consensus would exist due to the power of the state regardless of the economic system.

What does this mean? Genuinely confused what you think a state is in the modern age if not the infrastructure necessary to support a market.
The more I hear about it the more convinced I am that we should only allow IP to be held by individuals (and make it non-transferrable). Instead of selling your idea to some company you could instead just sell a promise not to sue them for the duration of your claim (which I'd be fine setting to your natural lifetime under this system).
Do you think show pieces in rich households would be used?

I’d argue if they did, someone was getting fired immediately.
No but it was (mostly) filled with real people. Sure there was a GPT3-generated article or two but they were pretty easy to spot.
Wall Street Journal Hedcut Stable Diffusion Model
This is a bit old in SD terms, but I wanted to post here if anyone ever wanted to use a fine-tuned SD model to create a WSJ-style hedcut of themselves (or others I guess).

* I wanted to express that this work would not be possible without Noli Novak's incredible artwork, and attribution should be given to her when appropriate (and certainly not to me) *
When I clicked the link it went to a login page. Maybe a landing page or video demo would be a good idea?
But noone external to the contents of their head can know that. It's unknowable to all the rest of us. (The only thing the rest of us can tell is they might be confused, incoherent, have a weak, inconsistent or just idiosyncratic set of principles, etc.)

See the author interview of Robert Greene on "Exploring Human Nature" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tGC401j78
I don't know about my 100-0 battery time. What I know is that suspend on Fedora/Framework is *not* valid for overnight or longer sessions. My battery will drain 50% in two days on suspend, vs weeks for a MacBook.

I now make sure to save my work and shut the laptop off completely at the end of a session.
Personally, I’m loving my Pi 5. It is just in the sweet spot, enough performance for what I need it to do, it’s portable, very low energy usage, it runs off an SD card so it’s very easy to re-image or swap images.

The NUC device is a desktop computer. If you want a desktop then buy a desktop, that’s not what a Pi is for (despite some unwise marketing to the contrary).

If the v5 is too expensive then pick up a v4, they are bound to get cheaper as v5 availability increases.
> Even if I could figure out how to get a PCB made from a KiCAD file I wouldn't be able to do the surface-mount soldering without botching everything.

For what it's worth, some places like JLCPCB can source and solder SMT components to your designed boards as long as you pick from their available parts library.
I've taken a crack at combining the two titles. Thanks!

(Submitted title was "Alternative London: A British Whole Earth Catalog")
What features are you looking for in a Mapbox alternative? Tiles? Geocoding? Anything else?
Do you have recommendations for good books that are not too mathematical, written for the average developer?
It really depends on what your priorities are, its a key driver in defining the culture.. who do you listen to when considereing tranformation / change?

You could have a suite i guess.. maybe look for overlap?

Satisfaction? Vote = vote * staff turnover for voters role.

Greed? Vote = vote * voters team profit

Top down control? Vote = vote * voters grade

Reverse disfunction? Vote = vote * number of complaints raised by voter

Cross functional impact: vote = vote * num departments voting for this

My question marks reflect i have no idea what the real optimisation is when you select a defined metric / score.

In reality (as someone who wants to make things hollisticially better in a sustainable way) i look for the overlap of several things:

Who do people have on speed dial to fix issues? Will this reduce how many calls they get? Ignoring what official processes say.

Will this impact the bottom line?

Will it increase customer satisfaction?

What will be the impact on staff turnover? I prefer to reduce this but at least there needs to be a mitigation if its negative. Key questions are: will people better understand personal their impact on
Cost and quality? Will this make success and failure clearer outcomes for the individual?

Then finally will this be a step towards or away from governance principals of org? E.g. does this cause party A to have needless influence or judgement over party B (at all levels).. basically will this enable individual agency at all levels.

I always justify it on paper in terms of governace efficiency/efficacy, profit and quality.
Yeah it kind of sucks for people who don't like these systems that efforts to resist them are essentially the same as using GANs to train them.
The thing looks like a maul made for splitting wood and you know its owners will drive like they have a lawyer on retainer.
yeah, being 5 is a big difference.
We usually end up going to Costco once a week for ~250$/trip
We wrote a blog on various Rails background job processors handle jobs.
So strange putting this out in public. It's almost like it was entirely written to investors.
There were experiments with wafer scale FPGAs in the 1990s. The idea was that being programmable, the final chip could be programmed to route around defects. Lasers were also used to eliminated defective cells.
We are still including the 8 weeks. 8 + (4*n).
ML is a broad topic, and it keeps getting wider, and deeper. Even ML specialists don't try to keep up with it all. Be comfortable with not knowing everything.

Machine learning engineers are software engineers, and they exist, so the title is wrong. I suppose it is in Nyckel's interest to claim otherwise.
Unless that person's writing style just happens to be very close to how the average human writes? If it's 0.01% for "any given human", I wonder what the numbers would look like for a human closer to average than usual?
Wikipedia claims the nsa's active cyber mission (anachronistic terminology ) was up and running from as early as 1997, so there were definitely people having those thoughts and working those capabilities. And we're totally ignoring people like Markus Hess in the 80s. Thank you for taking the time to add perspective to the knee jerk reactions.
Why would they need knit mittens/gloves in North Africa?
The fact that we have a team of only 4 people doing this work when it should be a national effort with a couple billion in funding is a disgrace. Shout out to the Innocence Project. If you have the money, it's a great place if you want to make a change in our justice system.

https://innocenceproject.org/
"The 'Lolita Express' is in my Backyard" (Remembering the 727)
"As a result of this, nothing will change for Henrique and I."
Is it this article? https://medium.com/developer-rants/agile-has-failed-official...
I wonder when we'll convert to plasma computing, as in the entire instruction set and operators running as a waveform in a condensed cloud of plasma where the voltage outs at specific points equal the computational result of the inputs?

If we could do that then we could run terahertz frequencies.
Andrew Ng's course for theoretical underpinnings, and Jeremy Howard's fast.ai course for the practical. Or just the latter course, if you want to get right to it.
If I buy a pound of sugar, doesn't it matter how long it takes me to use that sugar in order to have any relevant insights? If I buy a pound of sugar a week, that's a really different implication than buying a pound of sugar only once per year.
Those aren't vectorized at all, just unrolled. vmulss/vaddss just multiply/add the single-precision floating-point in the vector register.

With clang you get basically the same codegen, although it uses fused multiply adds.

The problem is that you need to enable -ffast-math, otherwise the compiler can't change the order of floating point operations, and thus not vectorize.

With clang that works wonderfully and it gives us a lovely four times unrolled AVX2 fused multiply add loop, but enabling it in rust doesn't seem to work: https://godbolt.org/z/G4Enf59Kb

Edit: from what I can tell this is still an open issue??? https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/21690

Edit: relevant SO post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76055058/why-cant-the-ru...
Apparently you need to use `#![feature(core_intrinsics)]`, `std::intrinsics::fadd_fast` and `std::intrinsics::fmul_fast`.
There are not many people who would say that McDonalds' hamburger is the best hamburger in the world, and that Starbucks' coffee is the best coffee, yet brands like these dominate the world like none others and in multiple ways, not the least of which is market share. That doesn't mean they did anything wrong. Or maybe they did. Who knows? Does it matter?

I use Firefox daily. I'm typing this into Firefox. I feel fortunate to live right now when such a thing is possible. I'm not all that hopeful about the future though, because I know that we as a society collectively ask for shitty things on a regular basis, and we get exactly what we ask for.
I rather appreciate knowing where the key electrical substations are in my area: helps me to understand exactly who can screw with things and where they would do it -- which makes me pay closer attention when I pass by substations and see someone lurking about. Not knowing that the location is critical I wouldn't think twice about someone loitering; knowing the location is sensitive and critical makes me look twice, take an active interest, and perhaps phone in a suspicious activity reports. Some people while about this information enabling terrorists: I think it enables all of us to open our eyes and protect our own interests.
O'Reilly's line is relevant; e.g.,

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hands-on-machine-learni...

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/deep-learning-for/97814...

But if you really want to understand what's going on I would use a traditional ML textbook. I'm more of a no pain, no gain kind of person.
> someone could have said the same about Enron's initial 15% drop in 2001

Not someone who's been paying attention to Bitcoin and knows you can't compare it to a stock, especially one that became the poster-child for corruption and how the financial system can be manipulated.

> Stock indexes have a century-long history of recovering. Bitcoin? a decade.

Certainly no asset has been declared "dead" [1] more times than Bitcoin has in its first 15 years--the white paper was released October 2008 and the Bitcoin blockchain went live January 2009.

Bitcoin has dropped at least 15% in a single day many times; that's to be expected for a new asset class the vast majority of people don't understand. Once things settle down, Bitcoin will continue to do what it's been doing since 2009—increase in value compared to fiat currencies. The 15% drop over a couple of weeks is inconsequential.

[1]: https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/bitcoin-is-dead/
He offloaded a ton of TSLA to finance the twitter deal, reducing his ownership from 22% to 13%. Now he wants to dilute shares to claw back control.

Twitter has undoubtedly been a distraction.

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/elon-musks-losing-stre...
that arrow key configuration is an absolute show-stopper for me and has been since MS came out with a version of their original white ergo keyboards with that configuration.

it was this: http://xahlee.info/kbd/i/Microsoft_Natural_Keyboard_Gen1-s.j...

vs this: https://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/ProductImage/23-109-...

I'm pretty sure it was still the 90's when I developed this special hate for changing the arrow keys.
> Great, now everyone in a sedan is being blinded by all sorts of SUVs and trucks. Utter failure.

I drive a truck and live in a mountainous area. Trust me, it's not just sedans. Nearly everyone drives around with their brights on and it seems they no longer bother to turn them down when approaching traffic (automatic dimming features don't work well up here). Consequently, night time driving is dangerous. I don't know what their advertised beam pattern is, but it's like driving passed spotlights aimed at your eyes while on the road when you're on the outside lane.

FWIW mine are halogens (2014). Plenty bright (and aim-able—for towing), but they're useless when you're temporarily blinded by super bright LEDs.
Arachnid Prime?
I'm not well versed in this subject but could you solve the heat issue by running the cores at low voltage and clock speeds?
Moving away from the cloud is the trend. Moving between AWS and GCP will probably stay stable.
Yes, I'm referring to the sheeple. Sorry, we're the ones who vote.
Either security theatre, it makes the naive gambler think they have an edge so they bet more, or they have vested interest/stake in offsite betting platforms
Ok, I've taken a crack at making the title more accurate above. Thanks!
If you can detect it early enough an absolutely miniscule amount of force can multiply over time to an enormous difference in position later on. Much less force than would be required to stop it from spinning or sending material to act as a deflector.
They're allowed to have limits like "local driverless taxis don't operate outside SF city limits or below 35 degrees with precip in the forecast" etc. at level 4, but to meet level 5 (per the bet) it has to be able to "drive everywhere and in all conditions," [0] which adds a lot of really difficult edge cases.

Situations that come immediately to mind:

- Driving in the hurricane lane on the shoulder during an evacuation

- Reversible lanes and streets

- Sizing up an icy hill and figuring out whether it's safe to keep going

- Ferries

- Knowing a baseball entering the road from behind a parked car will probably be followed by a child

- Understanding traffic police, sign turners, "follow me" trucks, etc.

[0] https://www.sae.org/binaries/content/assets/cm/content/blog/...