skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any idea how much of the earth's land surface (to say nothing of its enormous oceanic heat sink) was covered by temperature observation before 1979? We're talking about a few times a day at a few hundred locations, over a few hundred years. Most of the temperature data before 1800 is from SE England; from 1900 onwards, the only better data are from the continental US. All amounting to a miniscule fraction of the data needed for a model...if the system were closed. It's not. No one has any idea what the sun (chief driver of earth's climate) will do next.
I can't answer most of your comment's questions, but to just answer the first point - it's about cost of labor.

Tata motors are made in India. BYD is Chinese. Both involved much lower cost of labor, both from the engineering perspective and the manufacturing too.

Heck, even Tesla themselves have a factory in China and from the most recent figures I could find, their Chinese built Tesla's are 40% cheaper than the American built Teslas -- https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/electric-vehicl...
I don’t think the ground ever even froze this winter.. not sure where you hail from, but sounds like in a cave.
I wasn't going to agree, but I think your interpretation is correct:

vaporware | ˈvāpərˌwer | (vapourware British English)
noun Computing informal
software or hardware that has been advertised but is not yet
available to buy, either because it is only a concept or because
it is still being written or designed.
Drawing Kolam patterns in stitches and code
You linked a wikipedia reference section about climate change, suggesting people need to argue those points, and then immediately devolved into doomsaying with a theoretical war with refugees after theoretical "massive" climate-change-caused disasters.
If you have spare time, get a barista job on the weekends. The physical activity will relax you and you'll get lots of practice talking to people. Books are mostly bullshit - you can read 100 and not be any further ahead. Talking to people is a hands on skill just like coding. Practice > all.
> thats A LOT for city driving.

Most of America is very much NOT city. If you start on the East coast of South Carolina and drive West, after 9.5 hours of driving you'll be in...South Carolina still.

> secondly, on highways there are chargers popping up so it wouldnt matter

Call me when fully recharging an EV takes the same time as fully fueling an ICE car. I don't want to sit at a station for 45 minutes every 180km on my road trip.
You would never have known anything else. If you realized you were self-aware, say, sometime around reaching hydrostatic equilibrium, what would you even compare the experience to? Would the very concept of autonomy have any meaning to you? As a solipsistic consciousness, would you have an ontology into which to place such a concept?

(Apologies for the Socratic barrage, but this line of inquiry triggered my inner first-year philosophy student.)
For very modest definitions of playing. Perhaps it'd be more impressive if they recorded a demo file and let that play back without the realtime overhead? Even so it can only move in forward, back, turn, and fire. And only knows to face away from the wall it's collided with. This is so far below even basic Doom bots that I'd be afraid to call it playing.

The ASCII intermediate interpretation also seems unnecessary and very limiting. But perhaps that's to keep it near realtime, looks like 1 FPS?

And why run on a Mac? Why not a beefy PC with a GPU that can do the calculations faster?

Still, does seem like a fun challenge. Maybe with further tuning or training it can level up
AI replaces stage musical star Sara Poyser in BBC production
So your voice/text goes into the machine, the machine spits out a response, and a Real Person reads/copypastes the machine response. You will be in fact dealing with a human.
Hm, i smell a google here. What a shame tbh.
No you are not.

You can't call it a joke, if models are continually improving and making steadily more accurate predictions and the accuracy is quantifiable.

You are just making the same error in opposite direction.

Lets ignore any results because it is just so complicated it can't possibly be correct.
How much of the big expensive training jobs are CUDA specific? If it’s billions of dollars of compute, rewriting the software to use whatever hardware is cheapest may make sense?
It gives the appearance of innovation and disruptive thinking to people who don’t know better.
Curious, why do you need to construct these as class instances, like operation = new Exp() ? Seems like a lot of extra overhead constructing those objects. Why not just have Exp contain static methods for forwards and backwards?

[edit] nevermind, I missed the cache step. Still not sure it wouldn't be more performant to centralize caches as plain objects somewhere rather than to call new() on every op...?
Hi, creator of CQ2 here.

> no explanation of how it is going to solve the problem.

I didn't what you meant. The explanation is mentioned on the site: "CQ2's unique sliding panes design with quote-level and n-level threads helps you hyper-focus on one thing at a time. No more losing context. No more copy-pasting quotes.".

> another confusing interface

Interesting, did you try the demo (https://cq2.co/demo) as well? I've simulated a real LessWrong discussion there and I think it turned out much more organised and focused, because of its interface.
The way I interpreted the short amount of text I could see, was that it would ideally enable better concurrent and parallel execution of part fabrication, as in initiating computation on multiple threads across multiple cores, and then sending the result to the main thread for UI (paint and layout).

I have zero knowledge of manufacturing, but if that worked out, would it not increase the efficiency of converting raw materials into a final product and yield cost savings by minimizing controllable downtime? I'd think you'd just hit external bottlenecks in the supply chains, but in my imagination that's where you'd want them to be.
>"The flake input schema allows for:

o Having your flake pull in another flake as an input

o Having your flake pull in an input that is specified by another flake

o Forcing another flake to use an input specified in your flake

o Forcing another flake to use an input specified by yet a different flake"

[...]

>"This is the cheat-sheet I wish someone had shown me when I first started tinkering with flakes. I hope you find it useful."

I found this article very useful!
Sounds like you had crappy teachers.
By that definition Duke Nukem Forever was not vaporware.
Now? Read any comment section about climate change here, and a solid portion are just covert denial or people looking down on science and scientists. Some of it is people thinking they're smarter than they are, some of it is cognitive dissonance, and some of it is selfishness, because tackling climate change probably involves limiting some of the wanton excess that the capital class (or aspiring capital class) desperately craves.
Having an existing offer is a good idea, but I wouldn't totally write off dealer financing.

When you go through the dealer for financing, they get a portion of the interest that the bank takes out (finance commission). That lets them take the price of the car below what they paid for it, because they can still make a profit on the financing and trade-in.

Apart from that, there are sometimes pretty big rebates and rate incentives that OEMs offer when you take their financing.

I built a system that estimates what monthly payments a dealer can offer a customer based on what incentives they might qualify for. It's pretty common to see a difference of several hundred dollars a month between the best combinations and the worst ones (even with the same term).
Could be a question of what we worked on. I did Ads ML Infrastructure, Abuse Detection Systems (spam basically), and then more ML Infrastructure on IG Feed/Stories. I was deep enough in the engine room it was all more or less feature embeddings. So it’s probably fair to say I would have known less about strategic maneuvering than plenty of less tenured folks closer to the surface.

I knew it sounded vaguely sketchy but you remember how many vaguely sketchy things some frisky new PM tried to get pushed through a launch card meeting only to have someone on Sheryl’s radar detonate it on the launch pad. The timeframe is the main reason I’m skeptical: Sheryl didn’t put up with crap like that she knew what was at stake.
I demonstrated that in order to dispute human-caused climate change, someone certainly has their homework set out for them! :)

Then I shared why many of my generation don't believe we can turn away from this, not because of our technology, but because of our sociology, our politics. Similar to how people believe AI will "free people from labor" despite improvements in technology almost never reducing labor loads but instead just getting people fired.
I was going to reply, "Unum ex multis dica". It's always interesting when two people can see the same thing and come to opposite conclusions!
> industrialized fungi production for protein replacement, industrial farming is here for awhile longer.

What do you mean? This sounds like industrial farming.
Yes, and when the climate changes too much, everything dies. I mean, I don't see too many dinosaurs left. The sheer hubris to think that it can't happen again...
This dialogue from Smithsonian Magazine seems somewhat confused. Protecting the moon from development is a valid position to take; and somehow, to the contrary, the article promotes various scientific development projects. It's disingenuous to advocate for position A while calling it position ¬A.
The natural world constantly has disasters and has had disasters for 4.5 billion years. It's only in the last five years that dying newspapers realized they could get clicks by breathlessly reporting on them.
Absolutely! And the haters of that license either do not understand it or have their user-hostile intentions.

Or plan to make money with other people's love and free-time.
The other recent IPO - the one with drastically worse revenue:expense - also turned the bend & is down now too. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/03/28/truth-social...
Fair enough, I can see how it would seem that way.

The comparison is not meant antagonistically, but almost as tongue-in-cheek.

In making the comparison we're acknowledging that Rust is the touchstone for safety in today's (programming) world. Our praise for Rust in the article shows this.
I heard this car is so amazing it can be charged with simple mobile battery pack plugged into its USB-C charging port. This seems to be total game changer.
I'm pretty sure the refusal to acknowledge reality is causing more nihilism at this point than the truth ever could.
I hope you’re being sarcastic? Or is that actually your stance on people’s privacy rights?
> I don't know that it will actually "deter" anyone…

I think there is probably a significant number of people who wouldn't normally be criminals, and thus aren't technically being "deterred", but would end up being just that little bit less scrupulous if they regularly see prominent examples of criminal behavior going unpunished.
This might work for used cars, but probably won't for new cars. Dealers frequently lose money on the sale price of new vehicles, but make up for it on finance/insurance and profit from selling any trade-ins.
I’m fairly impressed at Bloomberg’s reporting. Being this neutral on Elon or one of his companies is a fairly big ask for most legacy tech publishers.
> Testing a dapp off the mainnet is like ensuring your website works on localhost

I would argue the exact opposite. A website will be deployed to different versions of different browsers on different operating systems. A smart contract will exist on a single distributed computer. It sounds like the actual problem is people treating smart contract development as cavalierly as web app development
Ever needed more stuff than you could fit in a backpack at work? Ever bought something too big to carry on a bus?
> we had a huge reduction in emissions lain at our doorstep by COVID

Before covid I lived in a city and took public transportation every day. Now that I work from home I live in the suburbs and I drive every day. Projecting WFH as the solution for every problem is silly.
Seems similar to what Elastic did few years ago [1]. I kinda understand their motivation. It's not theirs originally, but they had antirez working on it for 5 years as their employee. They are making some contributions [2], I wish GH had a way to see such an insight by company affiliation. On the other hand, AWS and likes can easily fork pre-license-change version and spin it into its own product. However, I am fairly certain that AWS Elasticache is already such a thing – their own fork that diverged enough from the upstream and they are not eager to share.

So I view it as every major cloud provider with redis offering has its own fork. Except that Redis Labs also owns the original name. But it can go on as a stand alone project, like MariDB was spawn off after MySQL acquisition by Oracle.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25776657

[2] https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors?from=2019...
Most of China isn't a city either, but just like in the US most people live in cities.
I agree, but what I think is curious about the whole situation is that you can also see it strictly as a market failure.

It's a very pure example where parties in competition each that have a use for some kind of software can shortsightedly develop their own versions of it in-house, but that duplicates a lot of effort. They'd be better off getting together with their competitors and collaborating on a shared version that suits their needs, avoiding duplicating effort and all benefiting from each others' contributions. They could do this by direct collaboration or by funding an independent organization that fulfills their needs.

Sure, this can go badly if there's a large difference in scale between the different parties and some can muscle others around. But it and similar models do work out at the scale of the Linux Foundation, Khronos, down to Mastodon, GitLab, Blender, Krita, Forgejo, even arguanly projects like Bitcoin Core.

There isn't the structures to facilitate this kind of regime shift. But there should be.
Wow I had no idea FL Studio was written in Delphi.

Anyway, I went pretty deep on SwiftUI from the announcement, and started programming with Delphi 7 / Visual Basic 6. While I enjoy SwiftUI, it has some rough edges still, and it's been 3 or 4 years. Hopefully Apple can put things together this year, especially for macOS apps.

I agree that Delphi is leaps and bounds better than the web technology in popular use today, and every reason I've heard for why (increased DPI, variable screen sizes, etc.) are just poor excuses.

The web is where the money was, development approaches forked, and now the worse approach happens to be more popular.

I can't decide whether it's sad or funny what Microsoft is trying to do with Blazor. They solved their Desktop UI problems by offloading them to you with a browser (now you have the problems).
"It's not that bad". It is.
Most research is in some way shape or form is funded by the military. The era of having some general commanding eggheads is long gone.

Since the 1970s, it's almost all outsourced to the private sector via PPPs because private sector players can deploy capital and execute much quicker than the DoD or DoE who have regulatory requirements and need to have specific line items defined for them within budgets.

Also, I think you underestimate or don't realize how much DoD related work is done in the Valley today. I'd estimate that 30-40% of startups in the Bay Area are in some way funded by the DoD - either via Federal sales or via strategic investments via In-Q-Tel or their private sector counterparts.

On top of that, most STEM research grants at Bay Area universities come from either the DoD, DoE, or DHHS.

This public private partnership model is what China copied, which is unsurprising, as most of their middle level leadership and policymakers attended these programs and benefited from the US-China Science and Technology Agreement which evangelized the American PPP R&D model in China since the 1970s.

The difference is, the Chinese system is much more lax about compliance and graft, which allows for it to be much nimbler. The downside is graft can be MASSIVE, such as the corruption scandals surrounding China's Big Fund and fiascos such as the collapse of Tsinghua Unigroup
At some stage, it needs to stop. Whether by some type of natural economic disaster or political intervention. This is wild.

Seems like an out of control infection at the moment.
Like Volvo?
Large Horn Subwoofer Build
Lmao, love seeing what HN decides is controversial these days.

God give me the power of some of y'all's utterly depraved self-serving self-delusion. I at least acknowledge the moral compromise of how my labor accrues in the system instead of burying my god damn head in the sand about it and offering poor incoherent defenses of my employee in public. And I make a third of what I could make at FB, and still probably don't contribute as negatively to the world.
Driving a car is like smoking?
Yes, this is a great read. After that many years it still influences me. However it is not that kind of book you read before going to bed. It requires intense studies to take something out of it.
Don’t get me wrong F# seems like a nice lang but definitely not mainstream (non geeks don’t use purely functional langs).

You can’t deny Kotlin is bigger lang than F# by any ranking from those popular (Tiobe) to unknown ones and is build on top of much bigger ecosystem (JVM) - that’s IMHO much more important factor for anyone doing commercial projects.

Additionally there is a big incentive to use it over Java (if you are stuck with older JDK) contrary to using F# over C#

Kotlin as a lang is better than C# (which is normal - it’s newer) and has better default IDE (IntelliJ) than anything on the market.
I think it does allow them to assemble faster. I found another article here: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/09/tesla-will-build-a-car...

It claims that it reduces the number of parts (and presumably simplifies assembly)
This is what I am confused about so what right do they have to enforce AWS from selling Redis when they do not own it?
corrected link: https://github.com/thebrowsercompany/windows-samples
Someone will find an alternative, market the shit out of it and it will become the dominant variety in 20 years once bees die out in France.
There's a kind of woo for everybody. Dumb people have favored woo, smart people have favored woo. Woo cuts across boundaries.
From the article and Musk's mouth

> Musk has said that he believes Mars could be a “back-up drive” for humanity in the event of catastrophic global warming, an asteroid strike or a nuclear winter, and believes that the planet could be warmed by nuclear weapons.

If a dinosaur killer fell on earth after nuclear Armageddon the ruins would be more habitable than Earth where we have massive resources to build a "back-up drive" People often fail to credit just how inhospitable Mars is or how difficult it is to actually make a fully self sustaining society that could sustain itself if Earth stopped sending resources.

This doesn't mean we shouldn't strive it means we have to accept that if we don't succeed in more earthly endeavors we're going to fucking die. It is important that we don't overstate the utility of such "back-up" plans lest we undervalue the more immediate risks.

> The ivory tower "scientists" are just not really scientists anymore.

A scientist is someone who cares about proof. Outside of fiction lots of scientists are rather boring folks who spend decades on the minutia of their corner of their field.

Both Musk a capitalist and the Astronomer are operating outside their fields however the former is a moron and the later is a realist. At least if you disagree on the public policy you and the astronomer could have a fact based discussion on the respective options.
Equinix: Major Accounting Manipulation, Core Business Decay
There's high quality global temp. data from naval ports about the commercial trading world going back to ~ 1880 - this data can be accurately infilled to within a known margin of error using sparse points agianst modern high resolution grid data.

There's pretty decent global temp. data going back thousands of years via proxy measures with good error margins.

I'm not attempting to persuade you, just stating STEM facts.
I'm not too familiar with https://cube.dev/ - but my initial impression is they are focused more on providing APIs backed by SQL. They have a SQL API that emulates the PostgreSQL wire protocol, whereas Spice implements Arrow and Flight SQL natively. Their pre-aggregations are a similar concept to Spice's data accelerators. It also looks like they have their own query language, whereas Spice is native SQL as well.
Good to read that on HN. A fair share of HN Readers and supporters belong to that crowd ...
> Every single one of Tesla's cars has been over-promised and they always under-deliver. At this point it's a dead horse.

FTFY
Perfect is the enemy of the great.

Credit card users pay $1+ fees per transaction all the time. They don’t complain only because vendors usually eat the fees on their behalf to obscure the issue.

I have a “2% cash back on everything” card which I know is actually a “we charged your vendor 4% and shared half of that with people like you who clicked the right button” card. I don’t like it. But, that’s the game.

People complain about the impossibility of crypto having fees of pennies with settlement times of minutes while constantly using credit cards that have fees of dollars with a settlement time of days.
Serious question: how much of the cost of a car is labour? I figure they've probably automated as much human work out of the product as possible, both as a money-saver and to deal with human limits on consistency and the ability to chuck 500kg assemblies around a factory floor.

If they can make a $15,000 car in China, they can make it for $18,000 in South Dakota.
This slippery slope/where do you draw the line argument is very weak.

It's like saying me accidentally spilling a bit while doing a oil change in my garage is the same as BP spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude.

Scale matters. And "where you draw the line" can be defined loosely to be left up to interpretation at the time.
Paint operations are typically one of the major constraints on production flow. Paint facilities are expensive and require lots of environment review and hazard remediation. It’s probably cheaper to paint at the assessmbly level in China with no scrubbers or expensive facilities but getting matching color is hard
Remember when the ozone layer was what everyone was freaking out about? How'd that whole thing go?
> Without explicit intent or some sudden accident, there's nothing to point at

I disagree. As the article shows, there were plenty of technically competent people who did point at specific things. But management did not listen to them, and indeed actively suppressed them and drove them out. And since the FAA had outsourced all of its "independent" inspection responsibility to Boeing, there was no effective third party that the technically competent people could go to to raise a red flag.
I really don’t understand it. How many MPGe could door handles subtract? 1? Is it even that much?

Is it aesthetics? I don’t think theirs look any better. And they feel flimsy AF. They give you nothing to hold onto when manipulating the door. Even if they didn’t freeze, I just don’t like them.

So we’re going to make this more complicated, more failure prone thing that looks and feels worse for no real benefit?

The worst part is that other EVs are adopting it.
Rather, it seems like cynicism about the media, than a stance on rights.
That is a consistent problem with the education system no matter what the topic is with few exceptions.