skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
20 years ago, the Moller Sky Car was making headlines. Still not much to show. But the demo videos were pretty neat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_M400_Skycar

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shlZySkGq6g
So, I have to pay to read the proof? Not fun.
Not Poster, but commercially-available solid state lasers top out at a few tens of watts and due to limited wavelengths have restricted usage on certain materials (eg. even different colours of the same type of plastic may or may not cut, well or at all). I know I've a machine in mind that would be great to make if the available diode lasers were able to cut a wider range of materials, never mind metals.

If it can cut metal, it'd probably not suffer much in the way of limitations on other materials... .
They might only need a calculator then. It's not ok to throw a spreadsheet at every problem.
For DC, you don’t need to synchronize the grids.

For some reason HVDC (specifically HVDC, not just DC, most DC devices use low voltages, far below the voltages that would be efficient for transmission), is apparently more power efficient than AC. I’m not sure why, though.
Smishing scam regarding debt for road toll services
Hmm, I didn’t consider this. Anyone actually generating AI articles on these types of platforms and profiting?

Thanks for letting me know Medium lol.
From article seems like there may have been known problems before they departed.
I don't think mermaid or similar are extensions of markdown.
They are standalone notations that a markdown editor may implement/render.
It depends on what you're doing. I am using IPv6 in my home network because I simply couldn't host anything on my CGNATed IPv4 connectivity. Working around this CGNAT either costed money and/or required people to install additional client on their machine to holepunch through the CGNAT, which wasn't ideal since all I wanted was to host a simple blog.

Guess why people are being forced to move to CGNAT? Precisely because we have run out of addresses.

The dismissal attitude of HN towards IPv6 ("we ran out of IPv4 and everything still works!") will always baffle me. Because things are _failing_ to work.
Nothing new really.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Workers_in_the_...
> She passes a prominent display of Lume Whole Body Deodorant, a new product for the store priced at $14.97.
>
> “It’s interesting, but it’s too pricey for my customer,” says Hart. It isn’t selling that quickly.

The whole thing reads as a horrible dystopia.
That plays like a first-person shooter, with added movement up and down.

In my mind, if you can strafe, it is an FPS.
It remains a mystery to me that so few python developers know or use the "help" functionality that can be similar to this. Similarly, the apropos command listed is incredibly nice. Shame that similar functionality seems to have dropped off in most other environments.
Type level unit tests are indeed super helpful, and in my experience they are easier to write than “real” unit tests, because mocking is trivial.
ChargerHelp sees opportunity in clunky EV charging network
Give me a map and I'll find a way for an off-site carousel.

I can see a huge amount of wasted space below freeway interchanges which encircle central Houston. Just build two storey deep FSD offsites below all of these.

US is a weird outlier but many other places already have good public transit. FSD offsite parking they still can explore.
You could take every PV panel ever made and just stack them up in the desert. It would hardly take any space and nobody would notice.

That is, if you refuse to recycle them, which would be silly.
To be clear, I don't think this is true right now. But if the technology does improve just a bit further, it will be easy enough to be spammable and it will be abused.
Also:

- It'll be hosted in our data center in the USA.
- It will have 4GB RAM, 20+GB SSD, super fast internet, and lots of bandwidth.

Like getting a Digital Ocean Droplet or an EC2. Except we're hosting it for you for free and you can deploy as many applications as you want to it.
It's near impossible to work as a professional academic without learning English well enough to publish in it. Furthermore, in many fields you need to move countries during your academic journey and learn a language. For example my previous PI was Spanish (Catalonian actually) but did his PhD in Paris, so he needed to learn three languages in addition to his native tongue. Other lab members were French, Italian and German, all again having to have learnt English so they could each communicate with each other but also publish. The international collaboration is already there, and it's aided, not hindered, by the use of English as a common tongue.

It's a two way street as well, if an academic can't read English than they effectively cut themselves off from 95% of the research in their field, and most certainly the most impactful research. Lastly, most journals offer paid translation services and a lot of Universities will similarly offer a service, so it's almost a moot point.
this works until an entire generation of people are used to reading LLM generated text and they write like an AI
The archive linked in the developer's Twitter profile (https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B) lists a new GitHub repo: https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_updates/

Download latest release from here: https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_updates/releases/tag/latest

It should auto-update (as long as the new GitHub repo isn't taken down...)
LOL. LOL. Are you a professional Tesla defender?

I've lived on the west coast, the east coast, and the midwest. I've never experienced paint damage due to bird poop in 40 years.

Since you seem to know so much about the issue - do you know of any other car manufacturer who recommends immediate removal of bird poop as the first line of their exterior car instructions?
Life insurance usually doesn't pay out on suicide. Whether that's suicide or "suicide".
An excellent commentary from an actual ships chief engineer for some great context:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B9znFDwdBI
I wonder if the demand is expected to remain stable..

The article mentions that Japan redesigns its currency every 20 years, and they're doing so this year.
> Microsoft won't ever be able to compete with free/libre and self-determination

That's an interesting take that doesn't seem to line up very well either with history or the article, which points out that governments have made moves like this in the past, only to return to Microsoft products at some point in the future.

Since at least the late 90's I've been hearing prognostications that Microsoft was doomed because of open source and how it's only a matter of time, and they are now the most valuable company listed on US stock exchanges.
Gen Z is full of financial angst despite inheriting a golden job market
When I hear "dynamodb or maybe foundationdb or redis" that sounds like three very different projects.
> models of word frequencies

Ironically, your best effort to inform people seems to be misinformed.

You're talking about a Markov model, not a language model with trained attention mechanisms. For a start, transformers can consider the entire context (which could be millions of tokens) rather than simple state to state probabilities.

No wonder you believe people are being 'taken in' and 'played by the ad companies'; your own understanding seems to be fundamentally misplaced.
It absolutely helps. Even a small battery enable regenerative braking. Instead of simply losing all of your braking to heat, you capture some and use it on the next acceleration.

I have a hybrid truck. In city driving, it is twice as efficient as its non-hybrid counterpart. It’s also about 50% more efficient than our mid-sized SUV. It also has the benefit of being able to turn off the engine for an extended period of idling.
> If the company is doing mass layoffs on top of that then it pretty much always means financial trouble.

When the big tech companies have been doing mass layoffs, the vibe amongst the workers and on here has always mostly been: but they're making so much profit!

The reality is that an astute and strategic CEO/board will do layoffs as a last resort in order to steer a company through troubling times ahead. Tesla forecast a large drop in 2024 EV sales, which is now happening. They didn't do the layoffs until their forecast turned out true.
Thankfully the break overrides the acceleration, and I imagine a driver's eventual instinct will be to hit the break - and once they notice the vehicle decelerating they can stop panicking.
Adobe explores OpenAI partnership as it adds AI video tools
They make cheaper rockets than anyone else, can reuse them, and can land them. This indictment is a failure.
We already have a NeoVim plugin [0] that makes replacing Xcode somewhat possible. It's not perfect and requires that you have Xcode around for certain scenarios but I have been using it as my daily driver for the last month.

I think you would only need xcode-build-server [1] in order to get autocompletion in VSCode.

[0] https://github.com/wojciech-kulik/xcodebuild.nvim

[1] https://github.com/SolaWing/xcode-build-server
They are replaceable and they could release a larger keyboard and trackpad in the future.
>Which of those principles did Toyota violate when they had an almost identical issue in 2009?

None.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/toyota-found-not-at-fault-in...

The conspiracy theorist in me says this came at a time when the US auto market wasn't great and it was amplified to get people to buy American cars.
Yes - the context is different.
Current context is low sales, lower margins, lots of competition, falling stock price.

In 2018, it was restructuring.

In 2019, it was "profitability cuts".

In 2022, it was "elon has bad vibes about economy".

Now, in 2024, Tesla is 1.5x the employee size than in 2022, but does 2x the employees cut, after failing to reach targets and amid high market pressure.

Do the math.
Lol what. Even adjacent jobs like hardware engineering are much harder and pay less.

And there are so many more challenging mental jobs. Think ATC, think labwork, think academia in competitive fields, think sales, ...
I seriously considered a Framework for a recent laptop purchase, but, ultimately, went with the venerable ThinkPad. That said, all is not rosy here either. BIOS updates to resolve issues still don't come out fast enough and there still are nagging firmware and driver issues that have not been resolved 6 months after the device was released.
The passing of years and historical dynamics have perhaps changed the nature of this debate. The conflict has evolved conceptually, and although equivalent to the previous spirit, it now seems to be characterized as local [F/OSS] vs cloud [BigTech].
These flying cars are essentially just snazzy helicopters for wealthy people and enthusiasts. They can 'never' scale to be a mass-market, rush-hour queuing solution and holiday mass-exodus.

Well 'never' is a long time, but at least quite a long way away before the AI, technology and materials can support a lot of traffic, mid-air fender benders, breakdowns etc.
I'd argue that physical stalks for windshield wipers and turn signals are also safety-critical.
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I agree it's a weird thing to obsess over. I have never seen egress mentioned, let alone approach the leaderboard in terms of costs.
Did this for DynamoDB over the pandemic. Helped me learn both the Redis API and DynamoDB. https://github.com/dbProjectRED/redimo.go

Want to do the same thing with Postgres as well.

The Redis API and data structures are really nice and have been tuned to be useful in a wide variety of situations. Implementing these APIs is different concurrent, compute and storage models is a nice way to learn them and get options open.
That’s not really true though. Unless you’re talking about a trivial distortion, like inverting the colors, there’s always some loss of information. In the case of blurry text, we’re still making an assumption that the paper holds some form of human writing, and not literally a blurry pattern. Maybe there’s external context that confirms this. But solely based on the image itself, you can’t know this. It’s basically a hash function; there are multiple possible “source” images of what’s on the paper that may end up looking exactly the same on the blurry/low-res/degraded etc output video. Human readable text is likely the most plausible but it’s not 100%.

You can’t reverse an operation that loses information with absolute certainty unless you are using other factors to constrain the possible inputs.
> My point is that there is no standard possible that would be easy enough to implement. IPv4 works good enough for now, but any standard trying to replace it or solve it's problems will have the same deployment issues at v6.

But that's just not true now, is it? Extending the address space didn't need a complete rework and rethink how local network routing works, removal of standard NAT and messing around with address assignment (DHCPv6, SLAAC, and all of those messes).

IPv6 isn't having problems because it's not compatible, it's having problems because they made an utter mess of how local networks works and routers most companies (and people) have aren't able to reliably deal with the complexity of what's rather easily solved by DHCPv4 on "old" networks. The fact that IPv6 decided to rework the basics of how routing works while also demanding a dual-stack deployment is the core of the problem.

If the extent of deploying IPv6 would be "we'll enable address assignment on our existing DHCP server with same rules", you'd be on mostly IPv6 right now.
Not everyone dev that uses a VPN or something like Tor is doing so due to some malicious reasons. Some people face challenges regarding privacy.
Zoom Workplace: Reimagine teamwork with AI-powered collaboration platform
There are 16TB 2.5" SSDs now, unless it must be mechanical.
Of course (!) there is a keybinding for that…
Hongkong? Taiwan?
Fortran Standard Library: release v0.5.0
The question answers itself: No IPv6 because apparently Amazon, Azure, Twitter, and all the others on the list are doing great without it.

When I turn IPv6 off and everything starts working normally again on my home network, it's a safe bet I'm not going to troubleshoot what the real issue is. Sure, misconfiguration at my ISP probably, but if you think I care enough to go down that rabbit hole, you don't understand how people work.
I have `MaybeRequired` serving almost the exact same purpose! You are right it’s a common problem, a useful approach, and I just wish TS had better support for case analysis than chained ternaries.
Or the sky for that matter...
My mother had a ‘92 Camry whose accelerator pedal would stick and while it was not an insurmountable obstacle to overcome it was seemingly random and unexpected when it occurred often leading to panic. One of the instinctive things was to tap the pedal to “unstick” it, but if you’re decelerating that can cause issues, especially if it doesn’t work.

I have a Kia now with the opposite problem. In the afternoon the sun will trigger the collision avoidance system and abruptly break. This has happened probably half a dozen times on a particular turn on a nearby freeway that is angled in a way the sensor must be vulnerable to. When going 65-70 on a freeway with no car immediately in front, but possibly cars on either side) and having the car violently break is frightening and requires fast reflexes to ensure the car stays in its lane.

Similarly we have a Toyota hybrid where the feel of the break changes completely when the regenerative breaking is released. I’ll be slowing to a stop light and it’s almost as if the breaks give out and I need to apply more pressure to achieve the same deceleration.

While I don’t doubt that there is human error involved in the vast majority of crashes, when you encounter a flaw like this it is obvious how it could result in an accident.
Sure but there are gradations. The law has different categories for these.

1. I'm just bad at maintenance.

2. I was performing an illegal act, like the fuel switch.

3. I'm really intentionally trying to hit this bridge and have done some sabotage to make it happen.
The most widely used benchmarks for evaluating LLMs
Commonsense Reasoning
- HellaSwag
- Winogrande
- PIQA
- SIQA
- OpenBookQA
- ARC
- CommonsenseQA

Logical Reasoning
- MMLU
- BBHard

Mathematical Reasoning
- GSM-8K
- MATH
- MGSM
- DROP

Code Generation
- HumanEval
- MBPP

World Knowledge & QA
- NaturalQuestions
- TriviaQA
- MMMU
- TruthfulQA

I collected their descriptions and links to their original papers here: https://www.turingpost.com/p/llm-benchmarks
"Among the many commentaries on Debord's demise, one scholar noted: "Guy Debord did not kill himself. He was murdered by the thoughtlessness and selfishness of so-called scholars (primarily trendy lit-criters) who colonized his brilliant ideas and transformed his radical politics into an academic status symbol not worth the pulp it's printed on…""
Title needs updating.
They didn't mention the year of the story, it could've happened a couple of decades ago.
> Why don’t we just wait to see how things play out before making that kind of judgment?

The car was announced in November 2019 - almost 5 years ago. Delivery was delayed by 2 years and the car still clearly has manufacturing defects. Things have played out.
You can only put so much "person staring at screen" clips into a 15 second short video.
James Webb alone cost NASA $10 billion, with $4.5 billion in overruns. It took 30 years to design and construct. Carefully designing things to work the first time is expensive and slow; blowing up a billion dollars is the more effective use of money here.
Both Deepl and LLM use transformer decoders, a type of generative models.
That was one case that didn't find evidence for fault. The ability to stick a Toyota accelerator with the floor mats due to design issues was very well documented, all over youtube, and the recall was very real.

In fact the evidence looks just like this situation with the Cybertruck. So getting back to the confirmation of priors point: it's telling that you view one as a "conspiracy" and the other as The Truth.
A helicopter can't go from flying to transport you in a highway. When people talk about flying cars they imagine that. Something that can fly and go around roads as a _car_ would normally do.
I mean, there are ways to still mitigate most of the risk.

Obviously probably an oversimplification, but I could imagine one or more of the following:

- reliable ejection + personal parachute

- gliding mechanism

- parachute for the vehicle itself

The latter two assume the vehicle is fairly small and/or lightweight.

Of course, similar to airplanes, multiple redundancies would also mitigate risk.

A number of mitigations could help reduce risk below that of driving cars (which can be quite risky in some areas/situations, but we take the risk anyway).
This is not very clear about the case where the text is AI generated and substantially edited, fact checked, and improved by a human co-author.

I think that kind of writing is perfectly valid. AI contexts can now include primary references, and with human critique, AI can fix a lot of its own style and factuality issues.

A good author writing this way will end up writing in their own voice, but spend less time drafting and revising, since they can delegate that to their AI assistant.
Scaling and NAT shouldn't be put together.
Half the world is ruled by Excel.
Every Tesla I've sat in feels like it should cost $20,000. Like a Fiat.
Loath as I am to say, but the SLS has a program cost over $20 billion and has launched only once to date (it did work, to be fair). Every single one they launch will be a one-way trip, so it's going to be a long time, if ever, until they can even get the per-launch cost down to under a billion.

Starship/Super Heavy "only" cost 5 billion as a program and also has 1 successful flight (and two Earth-shattering kabooms). So far, they're the economical ones by quite some margin.

It's not like Northrop Grumman and Boeing are known for being parsimonious with their money.
I've never done it, but you buy it from the thief (junkie) directly. So it could be that you find them by word of mouth, like you would use to buy drugs when they were illegal. But you can also buy a second hand bike very cheaply, some are even free (just an example: https://www.marktplaats.nl/v/fietsen-en-brommers/fietsen-her...). New bikes are usually more than 200 euros, dutch brands are 500 euros and up
Gah I had a horrible experience with prescription Adderall. Sure, you take it and you feel remarkably alert--but since it a) is a drug you habituate to and b) does nothing to fix the underlying causes of your lethargy--you need to up the dose. And then up the dose. And up it again.

Eventually, you are maxed out, being both over stimulated and exhausted at the same time, to the point of complete burnout. I never took illegal drugs of any kind--I was almost 30 before I had my first beer even. But here I was, addicted to meth.

Then when you stop taking it, you experience every single one of the withdrawal symptoms meth addicts feel. You have no energy and no motivation. Your dopamine production is so screwed up that you get no enjoyment out of anything.

And the only thing your doctor can suggest is that you go back on it again. If you do, you start the cycle all over again. If you don't, you are facing YEARS of withdrawal symptoms. It gets better, but I'm not sure you ever get 100% back.

I'm sure that some people benefit from Adderall, and since I'm not a doctor, I'm not going to tell everybody not to take it or give it to their kids. But for God's sake, get a second opinion before you do so, because there are doctors out there who get kickbacks and are little better than legalized drug pushers.
Android's AirTag competitor gears up for launch, thanks to iOS release
who has a full version
Don't cut vinyl with your laser, it will produce chlorine gas which will not be good for you to breathe and will corrode your equipment. Use a dragknife cutter instead.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741536

"They want you to forget what a film looks like" | 310 points by zer00eyz | 3 months ago | 213 comments
I don't like people being titled "Billionaire" for no reason.

Owner suggest 100%, not 15%.
Isn't that position to do with words targeted at specific persons/groups? Not song lyrics speaking generally?
Every place in the world does probably. But how would you prove an unmarked, cheap bike was stolen?
It’s doomed because of the material choice of their pedals? Come on now, don’t be dramatic
> I think org-mode syntax is not the most ergonomic and beautiful.

Which parts about it? I actually agree with the sentiment, to my taste there are some aspects of org-mode which are better than Markdown, and some which are worse, and on balance Markdown wins the contest.

I have a project which is attempting to meld the benefits of both, so I'm interested in what you see as org-mode's pain points.
I didn't mean people don't care about sunlight in general, of course they do. Just that people don't consider it when phoning someone in a different time zone. If I'm contacting someone in a different time zone I just think "It's before 11:00 so I can ring them" not "it's daylight there so I can/cannot ring them".
> It's not tax payer money, it's spacex's money.

Some US$ 18 billion came from tax payer though.