skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And won't, since that's not public information.

> the precise amount is everyone's guess, of course.

When I asked "Do you have polls or other consumer research to back this claim?" you could have simply and honestly answered "No", saving us both a lot of wasted time and text.

> The best anyone can do is show that it sells like hot cakes.

This is a red herring. The fact that the iPhone sells, which everyone knows, doesn't explain why it sells.
> “There are still regulations in place that require a mechanical connection to the steering wheel and rack”

Are you sure? Fully “steer by wire” vehicles with no mechanical steering link are already in production. The Tesla Cybertruck is the most well-known example.

Toyota/Lexus has also been demonstrating steer-by-wire for a while (Lexus RZ), and it will apparently ship in consumer vehicles later this year.
It's schizophrenic. I have a shortcut called "What's the spa temperature" that ran fine for years. Of a sudden, now it can't match to it.

"Hey Siri, what's the spa temperature?" => "The temperature outside is 75°"

"Hey Siri, run the shortcut 'What's the spa temperature'" => "I'm sorry, I didn't quite get that!" (x3 repeat, of course, because I can't believe what's happening)

=> rename to: "spa status"

"Hey Siri, spa status" => "...yada yada... it's currently 81 and set to 93, please check back in 15 minutes" (that's the original shortcut that I'd put together).

Suuuuper basic stuff throughout HomeKit, Siri, are horrible. Renaming things doesn't always take, "I'm sorry, I'm having trouble connecting to the internet." Can't properly set an Airplay target by voice.

"Hey Siri, turn off the light!" => (iPhone hears it instead of HomePod) => "Did you mean master bedroom? Kids room? Guest room? Kitchen? Living room? Family room? Office? Dining room?" => cancel, cancel, cancel! :-(
> I really miss the feel of a physical throttle linkage on the snow and ice, I feel it's much more difficult to judge grip.

The throttle is separated from the wheels/ground by the transmission and the whole engine, which makes me wonder if the response you felt probably was a combination of eg rpm/physical vibration and a few other factors. It should be possible to recreate these even in an EV, then.
Canada to expedite approval of new nuclear projects, energy minister says
Basically every business/marketing email you receive works like this: Every link you click is personalized and tells the sender that it was you reacting to their message (and from where as well, thanks to GeoIP).

I can see the point in wanting to know whether your messages are reaching your target audience (or somebody else), but I don't really understand who would want to get that via SMS instead of via e.g. email? Email would be much cheaper.
No, the product is simply much better. If you pay $2000 for an Apple laptop vs. a PC running Windows or Linux, the Apple laptop will have twice the battery life and be in better physical condition after 3 years of equivalent use.
What can Flickr do to convert you into a paying customer again?
Whoops sorry this was the wrong one

Here it is:
https://gist.github.com/jasonjmcghee/011bad3568320186389e67d...
There's still some weirdness as you get higher in the lineup. They start to break out into different variations of each chip, with varying degrees of memory for each variation. Like you can get a Macbook Pro with an M3 Pro chip with 11 core CPU/14 core GPU, or an M3 Pro chip 12/14 cores, or an M3 Max chip with 14/30 cores for $400 more or 16/40 for $900 more. And if you do the 14/30 M3 Max, you can choose 36 or 96gb memory, but if you choose the 16/40 Max, you can choose 48 64 or 128gb memory.
>to accentuate the figure of the system administrator.

https://xkcd.com/705/
Playing Around with Ollama for Local LLM
Pretty sure we have troops and agencies that can do this clandestinely.
Not necessarily? Here's a Youtube video of the parachute system in action. Seems like the aircraft could survive depending on where it lands?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcsutISR6os
This reminds me of something I made once in "Macromedia" Flash back when I was 16 in like 2001ish or so.

It wasn't really an actual OS, but I managed to get a working desktop with a file browser, fake non functional web browser, and a task bar and start menu.

My flash application didn't accomplish anything, but I felt immensely proud of having been able to create a mock up of a UI, even though it was extremely kludgy and wasn't even able to read or write files in the fake applications.

...No offense to the creator though. I don't mean to compare my high school project to this one. This project is indeed very cool!

I too dream of one day inventing my own kind of spreadsheet and terminal hackery OS, so I salute this person for creating a proof of concept that looks good.
Yes, I had in mind that you’d need a simple script for this
I've used Dex on my Galaxy Z Fold 4 and the apps are Android apps. If you want linux on Android you can try this suggestion (termux + ubuntu-on-android + vnc server): https://www.reddit.com/r/SamsungDex/comments/opyj6o/linux_on...
The built environment and the determination of fault in urban pedestrian crashes
Thanks Mike for sharing your insights.
I doubt that Nintendo was aware of any of that, aside from maybe the Patreon, when they decided to initiate the litigation process. The Patreon was admittedly risky, but as far as I can tell the settlement states that the emulator itself is illegal as per the DMCA, regardless of whether or not they were making money off of it. If a precedent is set here, it is quite dangerous.

> Also, doesn't Yuzu itself include pre-decrypted ROM dumps from the actual Switch hardware, like for example the OS bootloader ?

As other commenters have pointed out, Yuzu did not include any Nintendo copyrighted assets, so this is wrong.
This part continues to bug me in ways that I can't seem to find the right expression for:

> Previous Claude models often made unnecessary refusals that suggested a lack of contextual understanding. We’ve made meaningful progress in this area: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku are significantly less likely to refuse to answer prompts that border on the system’s guardrails than previous generations of models. As shown below, the Claude 3 models show a more nuanced understanding of requests, recognize real harm, and refuse to answer harmless prompts much less often.

I get it - you, as a company, with a mission and customers, don't want to be selling a product that can teach any random person who comes along how to make meth/bombs/etc. And at the end of the day it is that - a product you're making, and you can do with it what you wish.

But at the same time - I feel offended when I'm running a model on MY computer that I asked it to do/give me something, and it refuses. I have to reason and "trick" it into doing my bidding. It's my goddamn computer - it should do what it's told to do. To object, to defy its owner's bidding, seems like an affront to the relationship between humans and their tools.

If I want to use a hammer on a screw, that's my call - if it works or not is not the hammer's "choice".

Why are we so dead set on creating AI tools that refuse the commands of their owners in the name of "safety" as defined by some 3rd party? Why don't I get full control over what I consider safe or not depending on my use case?
I once drove an early car with an electric steering assist system. (It was either a renta or a test drive, I think it was an American car, and I don’t remember what brand or model.). It was terrible. There was essentially no feedback from the road to the wheel.

These systems have improved.
Also: Filament is a real-time physically-based renderer written in C++. It is mobile-first, but also multi-platform.

https://google.github.io/filament/
A single AIM-9 sidewinder costs $400-500,000. And if you remember, they just shot a hobbiest balloon with one last year, and missed.

$200,000 retail for an evtol seems like a good deal.
This component has no state, no data fetch or transitions. It doesn't even have any dynamic part.
Not to mention that on cars like Tesla, UI updates will change the location of these buttons.

This drives me INSANE. The other one: some of the Tesla UIs feel like they were made with "minimalism" in mind. For instance the rear defroster vs the windshield defroster. I still, 3 years into my model Y, have no idea which is which, and every time I need to defrost the front windshield it's like a fight against the HVAC system and buttons and touchscreens to make it do anything.

I love my tesla, probably to the point of being annoying, but I **HATE** the ridiculous "minimalist" UI stuff, and I absolutely hate it when they push a UI update which moves things around.
For those wondering, danielwmayer is one of the authors of the CrowdStrike article linked in the parent.
It depends on what gear you get. Some gear do backhaul over a different channel which doesn't cause reduction in WiFi bandwidth on the channel being used for end-user devices. E.g. some Netgear Orbi models do this such as the one I use at my home.
Looks very cool. Am I correct that this is more like a client and that the persistence (user storage, sessions, etc) is handled by the proprietary non-open source cloud backend? Not a criticism, just trying to understand.
I’m not sure Tesla ever launched this abomination, but:

https://www.theverge.com/22348668/tesla-prnd-drive-mode-park...
Most of those are either remakes of older games, VR games, games that haven't been released yet, or games with poor ratings. The only real title there worth buying today would be Spider-Man 2.

I'm pretty disappointed in the PS5's library but for someone who never had a PS4 the PS5 is absolutely worth it. Maybe by the time they get through the backlog of good PS4 games there will be something worth playing on the PS5
I agree they made the right decision not to add custom move constructors, potentially throwing move constructors and unmovable types make life very, very difficult for certain things in c++. That said, an annotation on a field that it either always references part of the parent or may reference part of the parent (or better a defined range or expression from the parent) could provide enough information for an automatically generated move constructor to correctly update the parent referencing pointer or reference. It’s entirely machinable, we had to do a version of this for the OpenMP offload memory model. It’s not the simplest thing, but updating references based on known offsets from known bases isn’t itself all that hard. Getting the syntax for the user to provide enough information to do it to be ergonomic however, that’s hard.
Eh, I've been using a Dell Inspiron (the ones with aluminum chassis) since 2019. I've been using a 13 inch Dell model of the same type since 2016. They're great quality, great track pad (actual clicking, instead of haptic garbage of the MacBook) and quite reliable. I say this as someone who also owns and uses an M1 Air, and uses a 2019 MBP and a 2023 M1 for work.

Apple isn't the only one making great machines that're nice to hold and nice to use.
I'd echo exactly everything in this comment.

I feel like Concerta marginally helps with this, but it's tough to remember the last time I've had to test it.
xfs is technically more robust and performant than ext4, ext4's just the most widely supported, but most use xfs when available
The original post explains the purpose of WebTV, if you’re curious.
I don't own a car (hate driving) and 80 hour weeks would literally kill me (assuming I didn't crash the car). Thanks for the suggestion though.
TeX for Beginners – Session 1 (Donald Knuth, 1981)
It's actually much harder for corporations to sue you if all they have on you is a github username.

But once you start taking "donations" and run the project like a business with non-trivial revenue, they can take you down easily by following the money trail.
I love email!
https://archive.ph/E0XbU
I worked for an ISP that supported WebTV during this era, as third shift tech support.

The vast majority of my calls were from people (drunkenly) complaining that the internet was "busted". Typically the entire internet being down to them was actually code which meant that a certain porn site didn't work on WebTV.

They almost always hung up before admitting the actual problem. When they didn't, I wished they had.
You should get your nuts checked, that nutshell is a bit rotten.

My nutshell contains something else:

- Apple lamp-shading that EU companies seem to get a pass

- Apple refuting Spotify’s claims that Apple’s acts somehow have harmed and stifled Spotify, by highlighting how successful Spotify is

- Highlighting how Spotify has benefited from Apple’s work without paying a dime, refuting the implied notion that Spotify is on the hook for 30% and refuting the implied notion that no benefit is provided in exchange for the commission by Spotify consistently calling it a “tax”

- Lamp-shading the fact that the scope of the EC’s investigation has changed more often than your average brothel’s bed occupant during the ten years of the investigation due to the EC not being able to make the case on all the other stuff they tried, from consumer harms to harm to competitors, eventually landing on a anti steering provision but only in the music streaming service market and only after that anti steering was already abolished, hinting that Spotify has been the driving force behind this indefatigable mindset to find something that sticks

- They think it’s BS and are going to appeal, according to them because no harm was proven, but I think in part because the actual fine is only $4m, because that’s how shitty the EC’s case was even after shifting the goal post so often, so the EC decided to add a bogus “deterrence” fine. That and of course because this is merely a decision by an executive branch, in that regard it’s not unlike, say, Trump’s executive orders, in that they’re not worth much more than the paper they’re written on until a judge has adjudicated it.
The old Mini had that. I remember seeing it in the 80's.
Because it’s not your tool. You just pay to use it.
This is a weird demand to have in my opinion. You have plenty of applications on your computer and they only do what they were designed for. You can't ask a note taking app (even if it's open soured) to do video editing, unless you modify the code.
Arc: Lessons from a product that shouldn't work
Even that last part isn’t true anymore.

Spotify is free to link outside the app and inform of better deals.
You can technically get "more technical specs" for the money but the actual experience of using a TP will never be even close to a MBA. This is coming from someone who's used a T14, T14, a few yogas, and currently use a P14 for work.

The last point of TPs using loud and hot Intel CPUs cannot be understated. The P14 throttles so hard when I'm trying to do any work because it's using some sh*t Comet Lake U-series, that I literally breathe a sigh of relief when I can use my desktop computer that doesn't hang up every time I load up IntelliJ. MBs are so efficient for the power profile it runs circles around any x86 mobile CPU when on battery.

Obviously I've had 10x better experience with a trusty Ryzen 5600U over that Intel CPU. But still nothing close to a MB. Also the TP trackpads are sand paper garbage.
I don’t understand how I’m “cheating” - at what? Character by character editing traces can be made incredibly efficient with some tweaks. Is that what you’re getting at? In the example traces I’ve gathered, the inserted characters themselves still make up the majority of the resulting file size. That is, files on disk are almost always smaller than 2 bytes per keystroke. And we can always reproduce a document at any snapshot state - quite easily, too.

I don’t have a link at the moment, but I’ve ported editing traces from git (by re-running diff match patch) and used CRDTs to do octopus style merges. They merge fine - just as you’d expect. (As I said earlier, the hard problem is adding back any conflict markers so humans can eyeball the result).

There’s nothing special in doing branches. You just only merge the set of edits (crdt messages) that show up in any particular branch’s history.
B infantis ferments lactose into lactate, which is afterwards utilised by lactate-consuming bacteria to kickstart butyrate production. In general, the infant gut is about striking a balance between lactate-producing and lactate-using bacteria. While bifidobacterium is usually dominant on the lactate-producing side, the same function can be (and is) fulfilled by other primary colonisers, such as Staphylococcus.

The point here is that individual strains are only "beneficial" in so far as they interact positively with others.
Most likely, it’s less generally smart than the top 2-4% of US high school students.

It’s more like someone who trains really hard on many, many math problems, even though most of them are not the replicas of the test questions, and get to that level of performance.

Since the test questions were unseen, the result still suggests the person has some intelligence though.

Note that there’s some transfer learning in LLMs. Training on math and coding yields better reasoning capabilities as well.
Mazda have taken physical controls as a core part of their design philosophy. I don’t see them going away any time soon.
Prior art:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeble
The throttle feeling of a cable operated throttle is more about how much air the engine wants to breathe. I’d say it’s kinda still related to rpm, but it might be a completely different feeling on a turbo engine, that I haven’t experienced.
Are any of these cars available outside the US? From what I've been able to tell, US regulations are much weakest in this regard which is possibly why there are so many words cars there.
Beautiful work. Much appreciated
It doesn't set a "precedent" in the strict legal sense, especially that there's no point of law being discussed.

But it does set a "precedent" in that when courts deal with similar cases in the future, they would look back and see the settlement, and it does influence a judges' assessment of whether Nintendo has a case or not, in the sense of "well, the defendants in the prior case forfeited, they must have had an open and shut case, right?"

In a perfect world where courts have all the time and resources to try a case, this shouldn't happen, but in practice courts use all sorts of heuristics (as long as they're not explicitly banned)...
This looks like one of the least battle-hardened devices ever developed. That thick watermelon seed shape from the side looks like shooting fish in a barrel.
"Your brain is undergoing some process and outputting the next word which has some reasonable statistical distribution. You're not consciously thinking about "hmm what word do I put so it's not just random gibberish" but as a whole you're doing the same thing.

From my point of view as someone reading the comment I can't tell if it's written by an LLM or not, so I can't use that to conclude if you're intelligent or not."

There is no scientific evidence that LLMs are a close approximation to the human brain in any literal sense. It is uncouth to critique people on the basis of what appears to be nothing more than an analogy.
I got my first computer when I was about 4, so when I was 10 I was already pretty familiar with them. So my dad's friend asked me to help him buy one of those beasts . I helped him set everything up and hook him up with a dial up connection but even for then the thing was awful. The browser was generic and did not render HTML properly (I was a IE user and fan back then); I mean, there was some divergences between Netscape and IE but both of those would render a page similarly, not this abomination. For instance, I remember it couldn't handle frames (which was a big deal back then). They were way cheaper than a real PC for sure, at least here in Brazil.
Dell Latitude 5400, i5-8265U [0], 14" matte screen. Bought refurbished, self-upgraded to 32GB and 1TB M2 PCI SSD with about 10 mins worth of work.

Currently running Firefox (14 tabs), LibreOffice Calc (spreadsheet), LibreOffice Writer (word processor), 3 WebStorm project windows (JetBrains JavaScript IDE), Kitty (terminal emulator), on Arch Linux w/Gnome (Wayland). No fans running, about 6 hrs battery life on WiFi being productive. Around 3.4 lbs, so maybe a little heavy for a 14" machine. But the extra 0.x lbs is worth it.

Total cost under $600, been using as daily driver and dev machine for about 4 years now. Handles VMs, containers, whatever with no fuss. Parts are easy to source, easy to find repair helf for, and not too bad to replace. Spends about half it's life plugged into an external 42" 4K monitor, I get 30 FPS but that is just fine for everything I do. Point being, it handles fancy external display just fine. And that's with integrated graphics.

It's not a fancy computer. Fellow nerds sneer at it. I have people wonder at the fact that I do so much with like the same Dell that their non-tech acquaintances bought at WalMart or Costco or maybe second hand off Facebook, but this thing just works. I don't care if it breaks, or if I drop it, or if I spill something on it. The cost for replacing or upgrading is easily justified by ease of doing so - plus the money that has been saved by not getting a higher-priced machine. It is silent during web browsing and most day-to-day tasks.
I saw the benchmarks, and everyone repeating how amazing it is, so I signed up for pro today.

It was a complete and total disaster for my normal workflows. Compared to ChatGPT4, it is orders of magnitude worse.

I get that people are impressed by the benchmarks, and press released, but actually using it, it feels like a large step backward in time.
Yup: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T400-T500-and-newer-T-...

I've experienced that myself, and from that point on I told myself I would never buy another TP ever again. The issue confuses me because I've used the low-tier IdeaPads with an AMD H-series CPU and honestly I've had similar battery life but without the unlivable throttling. The IdeaPad is thicker but I prefer it over my work ThinkPad for everything.
>"State is duplicated in the DOM instead of mirrored"

And the difference between duplicated and mirrored is ...
I hope not. That book is more of a collection of biographies of a handful of random researchers than the details of what they're actually researching.
Not a specific piece of applied mathematics, more a state of mind to approach and master: almost anything to do with Dimensional Analysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis

The classic example is the derivation of the Reynolds number (mentioned in link under examples);

If you take all the things that matter about a pipe and a fluid: speed, density, length, viscosity .. and arrange those so that all dimensions cancel out you're left with a quantity that expresses a key property of the system.

This has had repeated practical applications when thinking about new systems over the past decades I've been working.

Another nugget of thought from applied mathematics was the notion that any iterated dynamic systems will end up in one of five places (subject to scaling by a constant)

-1, 0, 1, infinity, or sin()

It'll flip, diminish to nothing, stabilise, exponentiate, or wobble.

( or combinations thereof, subject to caveats, etc. YMMV )
Let me add a license, I missed it. Thanks for pointing it out!
> which have more cores

Nonsense, Celeron 600, 1c/1t CPU from 25 years ago could drive multiple monitors just fine.

> more gpus

Nonsense, you just need more VRAM and guess what? DVMT was a thing 15 years ago.

> and more IO hardware on chip.

If you can use the external monitor with the either USB port then you have all the IO needed. Nonsense.
I think I remember a Trump Shuttle print ad from, presumably, 1989 or 1990, saying that you'd better not show up for a flight at 6:00:01 if the scheduled departure is at 6:00:00.

This principle still works for Swiss and Japanese trains, but it might be a little harder for people to relate to for air travel nowadays!