skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I think it should be, according to traditional (pre-y2k) values.

But in a society of the spectacle, people find their meaning in relation to the larger show. Just listen to the satisfaction in the voice of the video above: He feels good because he was able to rectify the situation. He was also able to relate to a larger audience because of it. The Tesla's failure gave him meaning.

Now other people will want to be like him and buy a cybertruck and find and fix issues and demonstrate them to a global audience...
Nobody challenges it, but when someone says "I wonder how we'll get rid of the byproducts of solar", it obviously frames the discussion differently than "I wonder how much less impact the byproducts of solar have on the environment than those of coal".
Cars in the US are highly scrutinized by reviewers and enthusiasts, and they're highly regulated.

It's been basically impossible to disguise poor quality in cars here for a long time, so the failure of shiny chrome is the least of the Cybertruck's problems.
It makes sense from Apple's perspective. Normal users don't do anything other than light usage, but businesses need more. Thus they can charge businesses more while home users can still buy a nice laptop for cheap, since consumers are realistically a smaller market and highly price sensitive, while businesses don't care that much about paying a few extra hundred bucks for a computer when they're paying the user of said computer significantly more.

Dell does the same thing in the business world. You void your sales contract if you open up those laptops, too.
I think the SD module won't be able to have the card flush. SD cards are 32mm long, and you need some PCB space for the socket cage and the USB-C on the other side. The retrofit PCB outline they provide is only 26.9mm from front edge to back edge, so an SD card will stick out a little bit.

So perhaps they decided to first go for the one that lets users have the card flush for use like an expansion bay as well as for data transfer to/from devices.

https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards/tree/mai...
If the root cause of the actual collision with the bridge was itself an illegal act, then then perhaps the operator could be facing felony murder charges for the deaths of those involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule
> Yes, it's really hard -- the innovation is aligning the really basic dot-product similarity mechanism to hardware. You can use basically any NN structure to do the same task, the issue is that they're untrainable because they arent parallizable.

This is only partially true. I wouldn't say you could use *any* NN architecture for sequence-to-sequence prediction. You either have to model them as a potentially infinite sequence with an RNN of some sort (e.g. LSTM), or, depending on the sequence type, model them as a hierarchy of sub-sequences, using something like a multi-layered convolution or transformer.

The transformer is certainly well suited to current massively parallel hardware architectures, and this was also a large part of the motivation for the design.

While the transformer isn't the only way to do seq-2-seq with neural nets, I think the reason it is so successful is more than simply being scalable and well matched to the available training hardware. Other techniques just don't work as well. From the mechanistic interpretability work that has been done so far, it seems that learnt "induction heads", utilizing the key-based attention, and layered architecture, are what give transformers their power.
I’ve used the 1M2 with my own NVMe SSD, it’s very nice. Another good option is the Satechi USB4 NVMe SSD Pro Enclosure. Both are fast and reliable.
"Criminal" and "negligence" aren't mutually exclusive
Everybody can make indestructible bridge. To make a bridge that barely stands takes real engineering.
I wonder if the surface emitting nature of these will make it easier to phase lock multiple chips. This could be very useful for large apertures and power beaming over long distances.

One application for high efficiency large aperture lasers is powering long distance aircraft, either by beaming from ground stations along the way or from laser stations in space. The ability to forego fuel entirely would be quite attractive, allowing potentially unlimited range.
But isn't it just your opinion that a quality work of art should appear to have a certain consistent high level of care throughout?

It seems possible, if not likely, these were unfinished pieces that were in-progress when the artist died. Perhaps many of these would never have been finished no matter how long the artist lived. You might look at one and see what had gotten a lot of attention and what hadn't, maybe even see what had gotten attention first and what later, and wonder about exactly why. It's pretty interesting, IMO.

Probably one good way to value art is its impact on the viewer. So that's obviously very subjective. But surely a variety is good. Or put it this way... the skillfully and richly crafted masterworks that you view in a museum are certainly worthy works of art. But if skillfully and richly crafted masterworks that you view in a museum are one of only a small set of forms of worthy works of art, you're putting art in a small, confining pen. That would really limit the impact it can have. Which, I think, means that's just a far too limiting a view of art.
The article is detailing a device that has dual protocol support: TB and USB. It prefers TB in one case and USB in another. I don't see any ambiguity here: it goes down the list: USB 4, TB, USB 3.1. The Intel macs are missing USB 4.
Well that is quite the charmed perspective on life you have, a specialist for every question available when needed. Many don't have the access you do and a yearly chat with their primary care doctor goes a long way for their health.
Investigating a Traditional Codec: SVT-AV1
Just type:

> " " C-b C-y C-a C-SPC C-e M-( info C-a C-k C-/

Ohh emacs. lol
What's wrong with it being a hit piece?

Are we supposed to stop caring about acceleration problems because Toyota had one?

Should journalists have decided not to write about this at all?
I spend most of my time with AI assistants simplifying complex code other humans, including me, have written.

They have made me much more efficient at refactoring spaghetti code and removing unnecessary complexity.

It all depends on how you use them. They can be a cause but also a solution to a problem that affects human codebases too.
The Toyota story is fascinating: somehow, despite floor mats for cars existing for many, many years without special locking mechanisms, we are supposed to believe that Toyota vehicles represented a unique risk, or that their drive/brake-by-wire software was much buggier than the rest of the industry.

The fact of the matter is that no-one has ever been able to demonstrate an actual software/hardware failure that would cause unintended acceleration (of the kind that would not stop if you pushed the brake pedal to the floor); nor show that Toyota floor mats were particularly likely to jam the pedals.

This was (almost to a moral certainty) a media-induced hysteria, with most cases being traceable to the usual cause of unintended acceleration - foot on the wrong pedal. ref https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3153815/

For those who are unaware: all reasonably modern brake/throttle-by-wire cars have software that will disable fueling when the brake pedal is being pressed (that's why you need a special line-lock mode to spin the rears in your Mustang). Also, unless you're driving some kind of monstrously powerful performance special, your brakes can overpower your engine.
I move from London to the Bay Area 5 years ago, specially to get immersed in the “Silicon Valley” culture.

The differences seemed small initially, but they add up. I find people are bolder - less risk adverse. The energy is about 4x London, the scale 10x (the USA market is 10x more valuable vs the UK: 5x the population worth 2x the dollars). Genuine success is important, you cannot arse about pretending to work (like MANY Brits do).

It was a move to a much worse work-life balance for me.

The downsides are significant, lack of quality art and culture. You earn 2x or 3x but everything from cheese to housing is 2x to 3x more expensive. The Bay Area is geographically isolated, no more weekend tries to Paris or Berlin. You’ve got Hawaii and LA (a 8h drive to a city uglier, more polluted and dirty than Delhi). Skiing is Tahoe at $160/day, whereas London gives you access to dozen of much better resorts at a fraction of the price. Tahoe was especially disappointing.

I drove through SF last week and there was only one billboard that wasn’t about a GenAI company selling a CRM system.
Although, it seems really weird, user-agents are generally thought of as an authentication mechanism, right?

I’m 0% sympathetic to sites that for which this works. The reason they accept these user agents is to mislead Google, right? I think it is fine for a site to not send content to me if I have ads or JavaScript disabled, or if I don’t have a subscription. But it is wrong to falsely advertise that the content is available.

For some reason I assumed this had some automatic archive integration or something like that—actually circumventing real account mechanisms by copying out the content to some third party host. Because otherwise, taking them down seems pretty dumb. But then, I should not have assumed, the world is a pretty dumb place.
It's because you could move in any direction and move and spin at the same time.

I don't get dizzy, but I'm sure almost anyone would when they watch me play.

Other games don't really have the six degrees of movement that Descent had.

Most people can only think in 2D.
> customers are increasingly demanding IPv6

Who? Where?
> Like many businesses, my org requires some paperwork ("telecom approval") in order to buy computing hardware, which is basically a short questionnaire that I assume to check off some "we're not actively trying to backdoor you" boxes. I've had vendors get this turned around in <24 hours. Framework, however, has not been able to do this.

I'm not in this industry but do sell into regulated industries with vendor diligence practices.

I would check your assumption that it's just "checking off some boxes" -- often questionnaires can be hundreds of pages long, and require you to sometimes get esoteric certifications or attestations. The questions are often very sophisticated meaning that not just anyone can fill them out. Big companies have dedicated roles for this type of thing (a lot of CISO at SME is filling out these papers) where the person is specialized in filling out these papers. Also, there is a knack to these types of forms -- you have to be able to hold two opposing ideas in your mind to do this effectively, A) this is important to do quickly and well to enable us to make sales to this company, and B) this paperwork is bullshit and you should focus on checking the boxes versus worrying about, e.g., truly enforcing a floppy disk security policy at your firm (yes, most of these questionnaires get added to over the years and never pared down, so you often have to answer questions about comically obsolete or irrelevant technologies). There's a big catch because often someone skilled enough to answer these questions would be better served actually doing things, e.g. writing code, and the people who can fill out these questions but not skilled enough to do the actual things are a weird middle-ground of mediocre that is hard to find.

Really big companies often solve this by just paying overskilled people to do this for a few years, which is expensive and soul-destroying for the skilled person (I had a CTO quit in large part because of having to do paperwork). And after a vendor is already established with a company, the requirements for updating it year over year are really light, so it's actually not as hard for established companies to maintain versus new vendors.
Oh, it’s serious all right. Seriously dangerous.
https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/22576852947223-Art...

> We define AI-generated writing as writing where the majority of the content has been created by an AI-writing program with little or no edits, improvements, fact-checking, or changes. This does not include AI writing tools such as AI outlining, or AI assisted fact, spelling, or grammar checkers

> Do I need to disclose the use of AI-assistance such as grammar or spell checkers, outline assistance, or fact verification?

> No, you do not need to disclose this use. You must disclose if you are using text or images generated by AI
Of course there's a strong genetic component. For an extreme demonstration, no amount of cultural pressure is going to prompt the emergence of these attributes in a population of watermelons or earthworms.
This doesn't seem to touch on any of the points on my comment.

It does take a lot of unnecessary stuff out of the way. But isn't enough to change the picture at all.
Yeah, it's very effective to be altruistic to news agencies for that good PR.
LRM = Language Reference Manual ??
Only the macbook pro and mac studio have an SD card reader; hardly a standard feature.
It depends on the expected ROI of the investment

Utilities don't face competition so the efficiency gains have to speak for themselves. They can't gain marketshare.
> Are people not saving for their retirement?

Your retirement savings in the US has no fallback, except social security. So taking money out of it to buy a quickly depreciating liability like a car would be a really bad plan as most financial advisers would say. It feels tempting, and on paper you may even be a millionaire who happens to feel broke all the time, but like everything in life it simply depends.

> wouldn't it be better to take the money to buy the car from your savings and avoid paying interest?

We bought our car a few weeks before rates were raised. The interest on our car is 4%, the interest on our savings is now 5.5%. So it worked in our favour to finance when rates were extremely low.
I mean like a bystander walking by a construction site who just happens to catch a bad reflection for a fraction of a second
I've followed and thought about this space for long. It might turn out that humans are the last things to fly on autonomous vehicles.

Quadcopter drones are already used routinely for information gathering purposes. We might get autonomous small aircraft that do van sized cargo delivery quite soon. Those and other similar systems then get enough repetition and practicalities sorted out that eventually humans can be transported.
TBH that's what all parts of modern, mass-production vehicles look like if they're not expected to be user-facing.
Finally, a keyboard that https://mechboards.co.uk/products/hyper-7-v4 look practical
This has been Nvidia's play for over a decade. AMD was playing checkers with gamers and linux while Nvidia was playing chess with datacenter and actually putting out good software that made it all possible.
Any summary of the biggest/most impactful changes?
I don't think that reporting news is a hit-piece. Tesla has halted Cybertruck production due to this issue, that's just a fact. Any reason to stop production is newsworthy.
That is not the event or circle I’m referring to. This one is far more nefarious. Just check out LinkedIn, unless he’s removed it.
Read a TOS some time, it's enforceable because they can choose to do absolutely whatever the hell they want. If they're wrong, well... tough nuts.
LOL. I've been buying new cars for 40 years now and I've never had my paint damaged by bird poop.

Maybe the birds are more corrosive where you live.
I cannot really cite from the internal documents like code of conduct or cybersecurity policy.
More than that, to my knowledge, they can't be used as evidence of crimes.

The NTSB runs as a "blameless postmortem" org. Their findings are to be used to change systemic processes.
>>"something changes"
When you lay down, blood shifts to your head which can cause your nasal passages to become engorged with blood, causing a stuffy sensation.
leave behind as in "move to better pastures", "change job"
The Gas Utility Industry Is Gaslighting Us
If so, isn’t that the same issue Toyota dealt with [0] 15 years ago?

Toyota’s recall didn’t include it, but we had a ‘92 Camry whose accelerator pedal would stick. Possibly a one off, but effectively the same result.

0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932011_Toyota_veh...
The author mentioned WKD but was mistaken. The culprit was keys.openpgp.org, not WKD.
Good for you. My comment is not directed at you, but at people that may not be aware that installing certain software on work equipment might be a breach of policy.
Those seem like pretty critical skills to teach someone in the ruling elite actually.

Doing those things at scale is ‘work’ even if it isn’t what most people consider work.

Learning how to sweat a pipe is useful if that’s what you’re going to need to do to put food on the table.

Learning how to placate powerful sponsors, not get caught doing naughty things, and networking among other power brokers is how you put food on the table as a ruling elite isn’t it? Or at least avoid being burned at the stake.

And not something they’re going to teach effectively at your neighborhood public school.
The problem with Unix is that the abstractions don't match today's adversarial computing environment. If seL4 can provide kernel-level process (tree) isolation, which part of Unix is inadequate for 2024?
Yes, but pure Mamba doesn't perform as well as a transformer (and neither did LTSMs). This is why you see hybrid architectures like Jamba = Mamba + transformer. The ability to attend to specific tokens is really key, and what is lost in recurrent models where sequence history is munged into a single state.
100% explainable by Tesla's five principles of manufacturing:

1. Make the requirements less dumb: "All designs are wrong, it’s just a matter of how wrong." - Musk

2. Try and delete parts (that seem unnecessary): "If parts are not being added back into the design at least 10% of the time, not enough parts are being deleted." - Musk

3. Simplify or optimize: "The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist." - Musk

4. Accelerate cycle time: "You're moving too slowly, go faster! But don’t go faster until you’ve worked on the other three things first." - Musk

5. Automate. "I've made the mistake of going backwards on all five steps." - Musk

Evidently this issue with the accelerator pedal was caused by principle #2: The Cybertruck team at Tesla questioned the requirement to securely tighten the metal plate covering the accelerator pedal, and somehow concluded it seemed unnecessary. Now they have to add it back!

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Source: https://evannex.com/blogs/news/elon-musk-reveals-his-5-step-...
"Billionaire owner"

Incorrect. He is CEO and major shareholder.
The guys who've blown up a billion dollars of tax payer money because rather than carefully design it to work the first time, they slap something together and let it fail to 'iterate'? It sounds like it's same guys working at both companies.
We are told that there is a safety and unintended acceleration problem. Nothing like that has been confirmed from Tesla.
This is funny considering I live in the center of Schleswig-Holstein and work in IT. People barely know how to work with Excel, they most likely won't figure out anything remotely different...
It depends.

Some argue that Shakespeare didn't invent any new plot or narrative structures.

Others argue that all western philosophical work on ethics after greeks is in its essence just commentary to the new testament.

From my perspective not much new was said about ontology, monotheism and logic of truth after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmenides

I am no expert but just by extrapolation - if i see a new idea, chances are it is new only from my not educated enough perspective.

This is not about science, I imply the discussion is about fiction, stories and philosophy.
Cybertruck Stuck Accelerator Problem
A Cybertruck owner recently encountered an issue where the top cap that covers the pedal slides off and jams against the interior of the car. This then creates a situation where the pedal cap is pressing on the accelerator while jammed.

The video originated on TikTok, then posted by @elaifresh on X showing the exact video in which this happens.

https://x.com/elaifresh/status/1779587107046232270
The promise of the truck was as is typical more 'rugged' than 'high quality'. I never considered myself part of the target market, so my reaction was more 'bold choice, lets see if this pans out' unironically.
Very much so. That is why it seems we won't have DC distribution (ever? Not sure what it would take for DC to make more sense)
Not sure what your comment wants to say, that yes, the US is importing uranium from Russia, or yes, it is importing uranium from Russia, but more from other countries?
I haven't worked with them, but lcsc also does this: https://www.lcsc.com/customcables/landingPage
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.

Nothing is going to change the fact that _any_ solution needs every router to work, needs to handle legacy v4 and new v* addresses.

There is a reason why there aren't even alternative proposals to IPv6, none of the problems that the IPv6 deployment is having can be solved by a "simpler" implementation.
Again CEO salary usefulness isn’t relevant to the claim that “Non-profits can’t distribute profits, but they can pay salaries.”

The people in control, the board, can’t pay themselves crazy salaries. That is the relevant point.
Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available
I mean… I agree with you. Unfortunately “I did that because no automated checks stopped me” is a very weak defence.
I dunno. But my impression is that thing is way too expensive to buy as a hacker toy.
It's also the only country to ever start a war with the US over steel exports.
The Prompt Is the Code
Many people use the term "open-source", but this is truly a matter of software freedom. Microsoft won't ever be able to compete with free/libre and self-determination because their business model is predicated upon capturing and exploiting their customers, and it's gotten to the point where governments -- perhaps their most lucrative and complacent customers -- have had enough.
Being a good software engineer in a team is indeed among the top 10 hardest mental job out there
One thing that my child mind never accounted for was what happens if my flying car breaks down? In a normal vehicle, it cruises to a stop and gravity keeps it on the ground. That same principle becomes sheer terror when applied to a flying car model.
There's also bypassing nanny software in coffee shops. I've had checking a word meaning on Urban Dictionary and checking the odds of Trump winning 2024 blocked by that. I guess for naughty words and gambling?
I'm skeptical:

* Where do you buy a ≤20 euro bike?

* Most people on the street have bikes that look to be at least 200 euros new, from what I can tell.