skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly my thoughts, unfortunately.

But giving it the benefit of the doubt, this looks mind blowing to me !

It was kind of known that the research and tech is almost there for a while already, but seeing the demonstration live like that - incredible !

But then it takes me back to those Musk companies - maybe it's just a repackaged already available research presented in a nice way - making us believe it could be 'deployed' in real world, while in reality it can only be done in a very controlled environment. And we are led to believe that we are '2 weeks away' from it being widely available. Hope we're wrong here.
They don’t try to account for methane hydrates at all?
> Python's behavior [..] is the common behavior.

The very post we're commenting on shows that that's not true: PHP, Python, Java and .NET (C#) share one behavior (accept "\n" as "$"), and ECMAScript (Javascript), Golang, and Rust share another behavior (do not accept "\n" as $).

Let's not argue about which is “the most common”; all of these languages are sufficiently common to say that there is no single common behavior.

> $ matches at the end of the string or before the last character if that is a newline, which is logically the same as the end of a single line.

Yes, that is Python's behavior (and PHP's, Java's, etc.). You're just describing it; not motivating why it has to work that way or why it's more correct than the obvious alternative of only matching the end of the string.

Subjectively, I find it odd that /^cat$/ matches not just the obvious string "cat" but also the string "cat\n". And I think historically, it didn't. I tried several common tools that predate Python:

- awk 'BEGIN { print ("cat\n" ~ /^cat$/) }' prints 0
- in GNU ed, /^M/ does not match any lines
- in vim, /^M/ does not match any lines
- sed -n '/\n/p' does not print any lines
- grep -P '\n' does not match any lines
- (I wanted to try `grep -E` too but I don't know how to escape a newline)
- perl -e 'print ("cat\n" =~ /^cat$/)' prints 1

So the consensus seems to be that the classic UNIX line-based tools match the regex against the line excluding the newline terminator (which makes sense since it isn't part of the content of that line) and therefore $ only needs to match the end of the string.

The odd one out is Perl: it seems to have introduced the idea that $ can match a newline at the end of the string, probably for similar reasons as Python. All of this suggests to me that allowing $ to match both "\n" and "" at the end of the string was a hack designed to make it easier to deal with strings without control characters and string that end with a single newline.
The world is full people who say things like "I used an AMD video card or CPU once in 1967 and it had driver problems, never again."
No, I think very few people truly believed that a souped-up SmarterChild would be all that interesting. Google focused more on winning board games.
If they're not booked they're exorbitantly expensive. I've seen one optimistic soul listing an unremarkable house in rural Arkansas for $7000/night: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/905741949079877847?check_in=202...
Eventually it’s all NACS/J3400 in North America, which is the “Tesla Charger” but the J1772 wire protocol and some additions to help adoption. For example, you can run two phases from commercial 480v three phase commercial power to charge at 270v.

As a J1772 equipped driver, I don’t mind eventually needing an adapter since I don’t personally use DC fast charging very often.
I realize this isn't the most unbiased source, but it does have lots of citations with studies comparing Wikipedia and Britannica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia
Better than an exoskeleton is a second implant below his C4/5 to reconnect his spinal chord with his brain via wifi.
What's the deal with a large chunk of Turkey's northern coast being jammed?
To paraphrase someone on Bluesky, why should I read a book that no one could be bothered to write?
The only way to both get experience and get hired is just to keep trying and just shooting for whatever you'd like to do

After series of failed interviews I got my first job by during interview clicking with my future boss on a personal level and we ended up talking more about Witcher books than job itself lol. Less than a year later I ended up leaving that corpo as despite good performance and good opportunities I was just very wrong cultural fit

So moral of the story is that stuff can be really random and the only way to get it right is to just keep trying
Yeah, but what I meant is that these can't all be explained by not being paranoid (letting the competition creep up on you), or even by not having an exceptional CEO.

If you are in the business of making CPUs, and obviously aware of how fast things move in the tech world, then how can you not be aware of industry trends going on like smart phones, gaming and AI? If you are somehow late to see the trend then double down and catch up. What about getting behind on process nodes/generations? This used to be one of Intel's core strengths, and you'd have thought they'd have institutionalized the things you do and don't take on in a new process to keep the change manageable.

So, I wouldn't say it just a matter of not having Andy Grove - it seems like a matter of having incompetence at many levels.
> Most of the sound from a modern car with a functioning muffler is wind noise

What? Like wind hitting the extremely aerodynamic surface of the car designed specifically not to catch the wind? I have never heard or read this in my life - it is widely known that tires-on-pavement is the biggest contributor of car noise. That roar you hear standing a quarter mile from a busy highway is not wind, it's the tires.

> "Electric cars are heavier" is some silly nonsense where people went looking for something to complain about. You can make an electric car as light as you want, with the trade off that it implies making the battery smaller and reducing range.

Again, this contradicts everything I've read and/or is just willfully ignorant. You can't make EVs superlight by stripping down the body, for example. The battery is the heavy part and while they may get more mass-efficient over time EVs are now and for the foreseeable future strictly heavier than same-size ICE cars.

EVs aren't the savior of the environment, public transit is. EVs are better than ICE cars in most ways, but for noise all cars are a problem and EVs are worse.
I got a nice Thinkpad T14 Gen 4 recently with a 7840U, if you like Lenovo Thinkpads. I've used many Intel ones before and I like them all equally.
8% of healthcare spending is salaries, is that your smoking gun?
Worth it? I'm leaning towards 'not worth risking it' since I don't have a real sense of the long term value of the company, so the only thing would be trying to get in on the 'pop'.
My guess (as someone whose company makes a PDF extension for Chrome) is that it may intercept embedded PDFs as well. Sometimes sites use iframes or the like, and those get intercepted. But if the PDF is displayed through some sort of third party tool then it would be unaffected. Just my 2¢!
The problem with using an eggplant to denote end of
string is backwards compatibility.
LOL what about the amounts the banks and bankers stole from us in the last decade and a half? Why don't you complain about that also? I'm sure it dwarfs whatever scammers have stolen in crypto. But you guys hate that you missed your chance. But it's never too late. You can still invest. It's not over yet.
You can't teach me anything at all about the world of crypto, believe me. I'm one of the MtGox creditors, and that has been going on for 10 years now
How’s the starlink experience? Lag? Speed? Transfer limits?

A good friend was asking me in the context of an off the grid cabin and I couldn’t answer.
And you still get to pay US taxes assuming you are a US citizen.
This has nothing to do with my comment or what I was replying to, which was a comment about crowded public spaces.
It is not easy to cruise along in some large corps. You always have to be on guard about layoffs or managers throwing you under the bus.

Not always true but it only needs to happen once to you for your 40 hour cruising to end. At that point, you will question why you spent so much time slaving away.
a blast of flame, and a deafening howl in one attack ?!
Photos are showing Li-ion 18650 cells afaict

Those are the most common for e-bike batteries
That's why I specifically said "if they can also eliminate that...".

Sure it won't come from just having a good data set... they'll need to do other stuff as well. Hopefully not impossible. :)
Oh, I didn't consider that, since I was a young person then. Sticking notes, directives, etc, everywhere was just really common. So if they get a note about extra daily checks on equipment X, they print/affix the note to the equipment. Or other similar needs. There would probably be limited screens, so anything you wanted to be known to everyone, becomes a note.
> Work somewhere ten years and then decide you hate it? Either work there another 20 years or quit and lose your pension.

That's not usually how it worked.

> I have a pension from the 1990's. Worked there 7 years. I'll get around $150 a month when I retire

As you yourself note. You didn't lose your pension by leaving after 7 years, you still get it. Sure it's minimal because you only worked there 7 years instead of 40 but you didn't lose it.

> I have no idea how young people get these fantasy ideas about the past.

I wish I was that young but I also will eventually receive a pension from a company where I worked for a few years in the early 90s. It'll be like $100 but I only worked there a few years.
The unique algorithm behind rewind in Braid
The fact is sqlite and its derivatives are more than enough for a LOT of the web lol, people always act like their random site needs 10,000qps to operate when in reality most barely crack 5-10
I LOVE this. I pitched something similar (albeit far less intelligent) to my last employer only to get scoffed at, so it makes me really happy to see someone actually make and productize it. Wishing you success!
Yes basically the meaning of "realtime" in databases, not the realtime of RTC :S
This is a sound point, even if it's being made a bit sarcastically. Copyright and intellectual property are an entirely different body of law than property rights, and people most often conflate them as an emotionally charged rhetorical technique that's generally rooted in a dissatisfaction that intellectual property and physical property are treated differently. The use of the word "steal" in this context is probably to incite readers to their cause, but ends up just sounding sophomoric to people that know anything about intellectual property law.

It's a shame because the GP had some valuable information to share about the emails software heritage was sending, but likely got downvoted because of this.
> Do you think the reason hallucinations occur in LLMs is because the training data includes the hallucination?

No. What a bizarre take. Why would anyone think that?

Having a training data set that's not based on fiction sounds like it could be a useful thing.

If they can somehow get rid of the hallucinations too it could be good.
You can sell tickets to the events like it's 1930
I think you underestimate the probability of little to no return, and ignore opportunity cost.

I've seen several startup founders pay themselves below market for years because they have all that equity. Only to find out, a couple down rounds later, it wasn't worth it. They tried though.
> Memory safety is a very small fraction of the problems a computer program can have

And a large fraction of the problems that lead to security situations. Worse, they are often so subtle that they stay in a codebase for decades.

> and replacing them by an immediate shutdown is hardly a very useful improvement on program quality.

That's a pretty absolutist statement about something that's very context dependent.
Probably none. I'd much prefer to be poor in Paris than America.

https://homelessdeathscount.org/ (arrogent domain given it's a USA count)
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/dying-on-the-streets-franc...

Even adjusted for population size, we're still talking 2-3x the death rate if homeless.

> Acolin notes that France has roughly as many social housing dwellings as the United States, despite having less than one-fifth the population.

https://www.sightline.org/2021/07/26/yes-other-places-do-hou...

Social spending in France is the highest in the world, which has a dramatically larger effect on poor immigrants.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/social-spending-highe...

In France, these immigrants woild also have access to public healthcare, meaning they'd get 70-100% back on most medical appointments and reimbursement for prescription medications. There are many other social benefits too. It's also much more likely to be closer to their country of origin than the US, in the event they want and are able to return at some point.

I'm not trying to be rude, but why do you think a poor immigrant would have it better in the US than France? I can't think of a single reason.
It seems like the article is blaming China for falling iPhone sales, but it looks like Chinese consumers just aren't buying as many iPhones because Huawei makes a competitive phone at a better price point.
From a technical perspective, moving a mouse with your mind isn't entirely new: https://elifesciences.org/articles/18554

Personally, I think the most exciting part of Neuralink and other companies working on BCIs is the fact that they're trying to keep these implants in long-term, and scale the deployment significantly. Most academic BCI research thus far has just been trials, without patients getting to keep the implants long term.
What a crappy reporting!! It is China's fault that they do not want to work with US companies anymore after US govt actively pushed them out??
I have long felt the same way as you. But I do think everyone benefits from structure - I think the difference is in whether we can accept (or tolerate) externally-imposed structure, especially when we disagree with it. If not, the best coping mechanism is to build your own from the inside. If you examine your own sense of spontaneity, you may find some scaffolding you've built up too.
Indian navy recaptures Somali pirate ship and frees crew
Instead of everyone crawling on their own, isn't it more efficient if everyone shared the same index somehow?
Well, simple: we have some
Trailing dot is where the 14 DNS Root Servers are.

Each dot before that trailing dot is also
an authoritative name server(s).
I don't think the requirement for printed output requires any appeal to military applications. They would have been exchanging navigation information with mission control over the radio. That's all mission critical and needs to be read back. Anything they got via voice they would have to write down. Getting it by text in the first place would increase reliability and reduce cockpit workload.

You also get in-flight information like weather that you'll want to write down for later reference. Teleprinter writes it for you so you can review it at your leisure.

Airliners and ships at sea have both historically used teleprinters for the same reasons, although the modern navigation computers have mostly eliminated the need.
KiCad is free and has a great community, which means lots of projects to download.
> A and B being closer works for cars, too.

Only when the distances are greater than short-walk distance. Cars take up (huge amounts of) space at their destination by parking. You can only push two destinations so close together before their parking lots merge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Ward
Tau Language - Advancement on Formal Methods and Software Development
Strange to learn that this is a private company, I'd always assumed that the Encyclopedia Britannica was produced by the UK government, in the same vein as the CIA World Factbook.
Fun read. It has some similar ideas to https://dedis.cs.yale.edu/2010/det/ but that was actually focused on multicore processing and the communication across cores.

Congrats on the launch.
Well, I was there in the late 90's and don't recall that anecdote. Most of the people in the fab shuttle the lots from station to station. Some even look at porn and get high while waiting (that's my anecdote, clean room alarms went bananas when he lit up). And robots that zip around the ceiling and drop down in dangerous areas do the rest.

Mind citing your anecdote? I realize I wasn't in every fab, but it's not rocket science, even on 300mm and beyond.
Reddit is like twitter or uber. does not matter if not profitable, tons of censorship, or growth slowing. it can raise ton of money and live off that forever
From the write up, it’s hard to see that this was fun.

It seems more like Chris Rock’s joke about driving a car with your feet.
>> Can other GNSS give usable timestamps? Seems like it'd be tricky for a jammer to target all of them

Actually the opposite; GNSS systems are all purposely designed to operate at virtually the same frequency (check out this figure [1]) while cleverly not interfering with each other. There are sub-bands within each constellation too (L1,L2,L5 etc) but it's very easy to pump out wideband noise across all the GNSS bands.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-spectrum-of-current-...
> Turkey has had a significant internal conflict with the PKK (Kurds)

PKK the terrorist organization, yes. Kurds the ethnic group, no.
Halting Problem isn't "does this one instance of a program return". Halting problem is with a Turing Machine, implement an algorithm that will determine whether any arbitrary turing machine from the space of all possible Turing machines return.

You cannot generally decide the problem, because at best your algorithm can only practically determine "the Turing Machine under test has not returned...yet. The Turing Machine capable of ultimately deciding the returnability of TMuT, would necessarilly have practically infinite runtime.

And for that matter, bring yourself out of TM's and you've got all sorts of other nasty constraints that make the Halting Problem Solver unimplementable in the real. What happens when brownouts happen? Single-event-upsets? Rowhammer events? You couldn't win in the purely abstract theoretical, so even trying to get a literal win in the real doesn't stand a chance.

Halting Problem is Computer Science's realization that there is always a bigger Turing Machine, much like how mathematicians understand there to be infinitely many primes. Within the constraints of the axiomatic model of computation; you cannot put a pin in the entire space. Only increasingly large swathes of the space at the cost of completely unreasonable respurce expenditure.

Or as I like to think of it, HP is the understanding that only 2 people ever understood this code in it's totality. God, and me when I was writing it. And I long ago ditched that original context that allowed me to claim I understood it.
> Luminaries like that also have their hobby horses and grievances that may color their writing

If you look at specialist academic encyclopaedias (e.g. the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy), very often the article on theory X is written by one of the major proponents of theory X – because only they feel sufficiently motivated to write it, and because the editors think it is charitable to grant the proponent of a theory the opportunity to produce their best defence of it. But, they'll make sure to include coverage of the criticisms of the theory, because that's what an academic is expected to do. And the editors will make sure the article overall, and the coverage of the criticisms in particular, is fair rather than overly slanted – e.g. by recruiting one of those critics as a reviewer.
Fujitsu spilled private client data,passwords into the open unnoticed for a year
You have to wonder where they're finding contractors to competently build these and maintain them. Electrify America has a bad reputation for offline and broken stations, and Tesla might not bid on a contract like this. It would be cool if they built state capacity to just have charging stations.
As soon as you can stimulate tactile impressions it's over. You can put on your VR Headset and be in a completely different world. Eventually the interface for eyes and ears will improve, but tactility would be a huge step towards being in a completely virtual world.
How Forbes Can Increase Conversion Rates
It's not only a function of trip length.

If you make the drive shorter but make parking harder,

and you make the walk/bike shorter but walking/biking pleasant,

people will take their cars less.
I have been looking to do something similar for the last few years. I tried grabbing a few textbooks and learning a bit, but I found it difficult to really make any progress.

I ended up enrolling in a part time Masters of Bioinformatics. I got an exemption from the basic software courses, since I already do a lot of coding in my day job. The remaining courses are split between:

- molecular biology theory (obviously need a good foundation here)
- wet lab
- statistics
- bioinformatics (which is learning the different tools, what they do, how to build a pipeline, which is just a lot of bash and python glue) and then how to interpret the results

I just started so I haven't done the web labs yet, but I am learning a lot with my current courses which molecular biology and bioinformatics. Having classes, assessment, and immersed in an environment with other people learning, along with professors to answer questions, is really good.

Not sure if this is an option for you. I tried to do this in my free time with books, YouTube, etc, but nothing really clicked.
population growth and aging are a thing
I mean, this is a matter of law, and it isn't. It's a curious point to double down on.
>> you still get it

Different plans had different limits. Mine was 7 years, I stayed just long enough to get it. If I had left a few months earlier, would have lost it. Pensions suck.
Look where Tesla puts their Superchargers [1]. There’s a reason they go at businesses instead of rest areas. If you site them where they are at the whim of politics, your infra is in constant political/bureaucratic peril. Businesses are incentivized to keep customers coming.

Tangentially, the EV chargers are always out of order at O’hare and Midway airport parking lots. The Superchargers at the nearby gas station (ORD) [2] and the Target (MDW) [3] are always available. Tesla is incentivized to offer a highly available charging network (they don’t move EVs or receive revenue from other automakers otherwise); you want folks with an incentive to provide high uptime to own and operate these stations.

[1] https://supercharge.info/map

[2] https://www.tesla.com/findus/location/supercharger/chicagoil...

[3] https://www.tesla.com/findus/location/supercharger/ChicagoIL...
"In some cases you are safe in other cases you aren't" is not good enough for real safety.

Congrats if you never write bugs. For the rest of us, we will use the widely available data that demonstrates that these bugs recur over and over and over and over even in organizations with strong developers, strong testing culture, and where the use of static analyzers and fuzzing is widespread.

Yes, C also has these problems. Both C and C++ represent significant safety risks, despite powering some of our absolute most security critical applications (the linux kernel and our web browsers). Other languages don't give you these footguns.