skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a major European city. If I wanted to charge an electric car it would be at least a kilometers away and is often unavailable.

The comparison to gas is irrelevant and nonsensical since it takes minutes to fill up and gas stations are plenty. If I had an electric car I would want to charge it overnight near my home. That is not possible for me and I don't see that it is possible for many others.

>There's plenty of opportunities to charge your vehicle over night

A kilometer away and I would occupy that spot for the entire night. It is pretty obvious why I would not do that.

I don't really care about your theory crafting what I could and could not do. It is obvious that this is the reason Hybrid owners don't use their electric mode as often, since they can avoid going to great lengths to charge their car.
Summary dismissal for sure. If it goes to trial, National security related ending
We've heard for years that this is also the case at all US auto manufacturers. That they're run by accountants, not enthusiasts.
Oh man, as someone who has driven a tesla in the rain where the automatic wipers didn't work and I had to frantically dig through touch screen menus on the highway, this sounds all too real.
An interesting dilemma for media owners - the subscription model is the future of news, yet the self suppression of reach that this necessarily entails means that media owners now have far less influence over politics than they did during the ad-funded era, hence this unsatisfactory half-way house of 'its free when we want to influence your voting behaviour'

Also: democracy isn't dying just because media stops have the reach it once did. People will still vote, that is not being suppressed
It wasn't about running out of land it was about the demand increasing prices to the point that locals could no longer make use of it.
The author says it does fix it:

https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/17778547526356912...
Memeology Is Now Generally Available
20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a new revolution
Yeah this. Total shit. I had a Model S P100D and the doors didn't even shut or line up properly. If you can't get the basics right then there's going to be a lot of problems hiding away that you can't see and serious procedural and process problems.

On mine I had unintended braking randomly in the middle of the motorway. I think that's less fucked than unintended acceleration at least. Maybe not for the guy behind me.

I now don't own a car. It was the most money I've lost in one go and the worst vehicle I've ever driven.
seL4 is still being worked on. There are recent changes to the wat time is tracked. I would say in terms of research seL4 is still up there. The current trend is very much on verification of user space and also verification chains down to RISC-V.
I've never driven an EV but I'm curious about this statement. When would continuing to accelerate ever be the desired behaviour when pressing both pedals at the same time?
BMW has recently had a lot of issues over years with some PCV valve setups.

Looks like they've recalled almost 1 million vehicles and have tried multiple times to address the issue.

https://bimmers.com/blog/pcv-valve-heater-recall-explained/

I don't know enough if that meets your requirement of "something that has been a resolved non-issue for decades at this point" but it's something that BMW has apparently been trying and failing to fix for awhile now.
Maptool is written in Java and it runs as fast as anything else I use.
The problem i see too often is that users use verbiage like "I know/don't know Excel...", or "I know/don't know Word...", etc. However, many users that i see would be equally as lost in front of say, Google docs, or LiobreOffice Writer or Calc....i think we should go back to decades ago when people would use more general terms like "document" or spreadsheet"...but of course, that's likely not possible because microsoft has been quite successful at selling theki brand and associated brand names...and as much as i support efforts like what is happening in Germany and other areas of the world, the challenge is not only one of tech compatibility or training, but very especially around branding and mind-share. I say that sadly, because i want open source options to exist as equally *VISIBLE* choices in the marketplace.
The market timing of this ~1 day (same day?) after Supabase GA? Both are good platforms though.
> ...according to a new report from Realtor.com.

(Obviously the best source for totally objective advice on this subject, right?)
Structural issues: the cost of material and the value of labour
What are you talking about, it's there clear as day, the US beats Cuba on life expectancy:

https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/
How is a mouthguard "less invasive" than a CPAP mask? A CPAP mask is 100% outside of your body--it doesn't "intrude" at all.

Sounds like marketing b.s. to me.

P.S. I love my CPAP.
I've driven several cars that cut the throttle if you brake hard. Especially easy with drive-by-wire.

(Haven't tried it on a new Tesla)
I think what would be interesting is integrating with dsqlite or other replicated solution. Performance is no the only requirement
The only example of this has been when a company ignored it for a very very long time and then got sued and forced to resolve.

It's a bit abnormal for tesla. Most of the time their "recalls" are software only. I had far more disruptive recalls for my honda minivan.
> In the real world, stuck accelerators are a common

In my car from the mid 90s' the solution to a stuck accelerator is pretty trivial.

You can physically shift the transmission, which is a mechanical connection, into neutral. Worst case you can turn the key which electrically disconnects the ignition. And stuck accelerators were rarely a problem because the throttle was a physical cable.
This was previously the Pendant from Rewind, it's been released as a standalone app now and wearable in August.
I’m not extremely well versed in the topic so forgive the ignorance: how does this differ from AWS Aurora’s offering? is pricing or scaling different. It’s not immediately obvious why you would want to use this instead.
I don't think it's a "hit piece," just standard mediocre journalism. I've seen multiple reports that this is due to accelerator pedal issues including one in the article, and it does seem to be a real issue:

https://twitter.com/garageklub/status/1779571445930324456
I don't get how this achieves point in time recovery? I assume I'm misunderstanding some fundamental part here.

If the branches are achieved using a COW file system, how does this part from the blog post work?

> Suppose a developer fat fingers a table or a database out of existence? No problem, move the branch to the second before that event happened.

How can I go back in time arbitrarily here? I would have assumed that you can only go to existing snapshots if the underlying method is a COW file system.
> It doesn't have to be good or bad

I think it's inevitably bad because dehumanisation ends in
war. Dehumanisation, for me, is synonymous with violence. It isn't
just technology but the terrifying post-modern subjectivity that
allows 8 billion people to co-exist in relative peace.
"Accelerationism" looks set to build still more and better weapons,
fewer ways of resisting using them, and less capacity to care, so I
fear the colder future you speak of will be a nuclear winter. Of
course, as you say, it's like some people want that.
Interesting

Anybody know if 'fuel switch' is a felony?
What you are saying is absolutely not true.

"BYD hasn't entered the market yet"
https://electrek.co/2024/01/12/byd-slashes-ev-prices-germany...
https://bydeurope.com/article/409

Plenty of Chinese brands are sold in Europe. Nio, BYD, Xpeng, Zeekr, GWM (Ora) etc etc they're all there. Xiaomi isn't outside of China yet as they have launched literally a week ago only.

https://electrek.co/2024/03/28/xpeng-xpev-launches-two-evs-g....

https://www.arenaev.com/first_units_of_zeekr_001_delivered_t....

https://www.carwow.co.uk/ora/funky-cat

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/07/1223355479/chinese-carmakers-....
The built in tutorial followed by a couple of weeks of forcing yourself to use it for basic editing tasks until you find yourself comfortable again. Don’t try to recreate a full IDE experience at first. Try to walk before you run. The beauty of emacs comes from discovering that it solves problems you didn’t know you had rather than being a drop in for your current IDE.
you're probably confusing it with the similar-looking oleander, i put daphne (laurel or bay leaves) in my soup. all parts of daphne are supposed to be poisonous but it's not in the same league as oleander

oleander is an unrelated plant, being a rosid rather than an asterid, but in some languages people use the same word for both because they both have thick and leathery dark green glossy lanceolate leaves, usually glabrous, with minute reticulate venation

edit: no, laurel or bay leaves are not daphne, they're laurus or one of several other genera. laurus is also unrelated to daphne, being a magnoliid. i don't know anything about how toxic daphne is. i regret the error, which was due to Δάφνη being the greek word for laurus nobilis, the laurel from which we get bay leaves for seasoning food
you see this kind of wishful (delusional?) thinking very frequently on hn:

> Microsoft won't ever be able ... their business model is ... have had enough.

statements made with complete certitude, as if these things aren't nebulous to begin with or in the process of being decided. it reads like the opening line to a christopher nolan superhero movie (i.e., a call to arms) rather than a position or even an opinion.

i personally don't understand what people get from the act of writing/posting such things - i mean i'd get it if we were on some hill about to rush into battle but this is an anonymous/faceless tech news forum.
There may be a potential for more localized grids that are interconnected by HVDC transmission lines. I'm not sure what the impetus for that would be, however. I agree that it would be unlikely.

Interestingly, HVDC actually becomes a more efficient method of transmission over longer distances. Perhaps it's feasible to generate electricity half a continent away. Maybe tile the Sahara with solar panels and power all of Africa with it.
> Their sales champions in 2023 were XBox, Azure and Microsoft 365.

And that last one is why they care and what this article is all about.
I’ve mentioned it elsewhere on the thread, but we had a 92 Camry (not included in the recall) that had an accelerator pedal that would stick. It happened to multiple drivers who have not had that problem in any other vehicle but would randomly deal with it a few times a year to know something was wrong. It’s been several decades, but I seem to recall breaking not disabling fuel line. When an issue occurs seemingly randomly it’s hard for a shop to diagnose.

I’m not sure if the Toyota recall dealt with a similar issue or not, but when it seemed so similar to the issue we dealt with that I figured it was more wide spread than just our car.

Was there hysteria? Probably. Did some Toyotas have sticky accelerator pedals? Certainly.
If the pedal, one of the 4 primary ways of controlling the 3 ton vehicle, is this egregiously faulty, then where else has Telsa skimped on vital QA in the design?

The culture that leads to cheap glue holding on a piece that can jam the pedal down likely cut corners in 100 other places.
'Eat the future, pay with your face': my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint
the US Government Has a Microsoft Problem
For high-speed networking, exokernel concepts are now being used in the form of DPDK (user space) and eBPF/XDP (user code dynamically verified and loaded into kernel space). Exokernels aimed to move kernel functionalities not into a bunch of separate processes like microkernels, but into libraries. In the late 1990s, I worked on such a system which unfortunately fell victim to the dotcom crash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel
I'm an engineer at Neon, happy to answer any questions
Nice work Neon! I’ve used it a number of times and am impressed at how quickly databases become available. Leaps and bounds faster than RDS. it’s amazing when you need something now.
For good reason: if your priority is safety moving foward, you don't want people hiding information about incidents because they are concerned about repercussions.
I'd guess he's right. No one outside of Apple knows more about the inner-workings of the M series than Hector. For those that don't know, he's the main contributor and lead of Asahi Linux.
Sony's PS5 Pro is real and developers are getting ready for it
That pricing is quite "less generous" than Turso: https://turso.tech/pricing

I'm wondering what accounts for the difference; is Turso just bleeding money on smaller tiers, etc?
I know it's a meme at this point but you just explained Embrace in 5 lines.
those are the same thing, we aren't talking about logging nonrenewable old-growth forests here
I'm not sure if SpaceX's approach to development is a problem. We don't have to like it, but they develop faster and cheaper than the competition... and as proven by Falcon 9, Dragon, etc, it works. The competitors designing it "carefully" are often slow and still have failures[0] while costing more.

I'm not going to say that the SpaceX approach doesn't have disadvantages or that everyone should use it because I don't believe that, but it works for them, even if you get to see more failures (and I understand that many have a fear of public failure, but not everyone is like that).

Their money comes from the same sources as the other space companies: public and private investment/contracts. If a different company takes twice as long and charges twice as much for the service and SpaceX does it faster while charging less for the same service, then if I was a tax payer, I wouldn't care much about the way they develop and test their rockets.

It's important to not allow our views about Musk to cloud our view about what some of his companies are doing. Cybertruck seems to be a bad product. Falcon 9, Starlink, etc, are good products. It is what it is.

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[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/ula-continues-invest...
In that particular case the eyes and the teeth look more human than bovine to me. I don’t know if that’s a general rule for Minotaurs though.
I feel pretty convinced that that is the next iteration here, and would be quite disappointed if there aren't at least three companies working it right now. In fact maybe the correct solution is to generate 3 version of each function using 3 different LLMs and only return if at least 2 of them generate the same results, like back in the very early days of computers.
If you have an application that runs 24*7, how do you determine what your costs will be?
It was Merkel that ended up doing it, while the Greens were not in power.
Turso is sqlite not postgresql
The arcing is no joke. In my building they have a new assembly of three coupled water pumps and an electrical box that is waiting to be installed that has a scary warning about how the electrical box could create a dangerous arc.
No it's doomed because it's a classic Elon Musk product: it was rushed into production, build quality is low and the aesthetics, which are unrefined and overwhelming, are used to mask an overall shoddy product that overpromised and underdelivered. The pedals are just one example of it. The body panel gaps and poor off-road performance are others.
I have bought two Framework 13 laptops, and have been happy with them overall.

I love their vision of a repairable laptop, and have replaced parts on them, without issue. That is a great achievement.

I have had issues with drivers, and specifically had to reinstall windows to reflash firmware to get a new touch pad to work in linux. Bummer, but I'm also running on the fringe a little, so I accept that.

Overall, the experience has been positive, but I can just imagine how much of a tidal wave of support they must be experiencing. That's not to give them a pass. I hope they improve, but they are trying to do an audacious thing.
Thanks, great advice, I would say it was my mistake before, I wanted to configure everything how I wanted and the information was overwhelming, plus the learning curve.
Well the surface oxides are the finest oxides of any vehicle, possibly behind Datsun.
Ahaha. JvN is the demiurge regnant (not Einstein, btw) so a single implementation of the quantum Harvard architecture could in principle be sufficient to deluge away the globalist-techno-nuclear-feudalism

But maybe postvonneumann is already here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029014
Burn it in a fast reactor
Block Innovation by Supporting the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act
If the H1B visa exists to undermine the wages of us citizens, congress should amend the law and face the election consequences of their actions, because the current law explicitly does not say that, in fact, the opposite.
Sapia.ai CEO: It's Time for AI to Retire the Resume
For what it’s worth, my cleaning lady is in no danger of starvation. She has a vacation home, and I don’t.
Maybe it’s my low expectations, but I don’t expect a US organization that primarily serves the US to start holding conferences outside the US.

The article mentions the availability of short-term postdoctoral fellowships from three European institutions to the “global south”. But they’re in Europe. Of course they’re biased toward Europe because that’s who they’re serving.

The actual issue seems that for whatever reason incumbent US and European institutions look down on peer institutions in other counties (the part about the gatekeepers). Everything else is a hack around that.
I hate how Twitch puts over a minute of pre-roll ads before you can start watching a stream. They should at least wait 60 seconds, I can't imagine how many people have chosen not to catch a new stream because they'd immediately have to sit through over a minute of ads before even getting to any content.
KNative?
Clearly mischaracterizes it as the primary reason for leaving as opposed to one of the things that happened after he left.
What's the difference between SpaceX and all the other big US space companies?

They all receive government contracts/investment/subsidies (or whatever you want to call it). Why is this specific company being singled out?
London Airspace Management Programme (2016)
(Postgres hacker @ Neon)

PostgreSQL writes changes to disk using WAL for consistency. Every WAL record is a set of changes to the PostgreSQL data directory (data files, metadata, ...) that need to be persisted together.

Neon indexes this WAL, and restores pages to the right version by replaying all WAL from the previous page snapshot up to the right version, allowing full point-in-time for all persistent tables in the database.
A valve for emissions is a fuck up, but not kind of fuck that that's the poorly made fake metal accelerator covers in a $100,000+ car can fall off and unintentionally accelerate the vehicle (which can go 0-60 in 3.9s) to a top speed on 112MPH, that's also made out of stainless steel that will destroy anything it hits, including you.

I have higher expectations for my poorly made death machines.
Do you mean the `help()` function in the REPL? I agree that it's very useful, but I don't see it used well within text editors (e.g. neovim hover on pyright doesn't show the full help text).

I'd also like to add that in ipython and jupyter, you can do `symbol?` and `symbol??` to get help and detailed help, respectively.
At certain power levels, reactive effects take over. Takes more energy to charge up the transmission lines 50 or 60 times a second, than it actually can transmit. Also, no skin effect.
What's important for this dialog is time.
The Schröder 1 and the Merkel decision are decades old. Would it have been better to keep a health nuclear industry going? Yes, probably. But that was killed for good with 2011 reversal (Merkel, not Greens...). And even that would have been of questionable value because there would have been no new construction.
The red-green-yellow government in 2022 had a few remaining nuclears going but keeping them online would have been difficult and costly. So there was no real choice.

The real energy politics failure happened mostly under Merkel , but the greens are sooooo bad. Yes, ofc - it boiled over in 2021/2022 but we warned Merkel did not bother to set the necessary goals in the decades prior.
Kinda difficult to built new solar and wind energy quickly when your predecessor intentionally crippled that.
Well done on the maintenance part! I think you are really helping me out a lot as I may not be up to the same level of effort for redoing our heating system.

It seems like this kind of think should be very doable in the industry but capability seems to be the big challenge.
Throughout 2023, I’ve been closely monitoring the wave of GenAI releases by SaaS companies.

After reviewing over 2K press releases and filtering for only US-based SaaS companies, I curated a database that I could use to explore any trends.

Here’s a post about the data.
But then, insurances are often non-responsible if the root cause is manslaughter, aren’t they?
Not exactly flying cars, but Korea is rapidly making real progress on drone taxi, helps the government has seriously supported such things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKGK_8gmNQ4
The unfortunate irony is that if you enter a country illegally you'll get easier access to some form of a legality status than if you enter a country legally which you then have to jump through hoops of bureaucracy to make happen.

I'll take the downd00ts for an otherwise good discussion on this topic.
LLMs are destroying themselves by adding new censorship daily
Slack. Very few meetings. Defining projects and workflow so people don't get stuck waiting for answers or collaboration.
Hah. Perfect.

When my 6,500 pound cybertruck starts unexpectedly accelerating at a rate that can reach 100MPH in ~7 seconds, the very first thing I am going to be doing is scanning the dashboard for an abort button that has never been there before.
tl;dr

Claiming to protect creators, or perhaps that should be 'identifiable copyright holders', the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act of 2024 has been introduced at the U.S. House of Representatives. At its core, the Bill requires those responsible for training or modifying a dataset, used to build a generative AI system, to notify the Copyright Office of any copyrighted works used in that process.
In a DC circuit, a capacitor looks like an open circuit because after it fills up it just sits still.

In an AC circuit, a capacitor looks like a resistor, it takes work to fill and empty it every cycle.

Transmission lines over the earth behave not just like wires, but also like capacitors. Higher voltage reduces resistive losses, but in AC they’re penalized by these “fill and empty a capacitor” ones, that DC doesn’t.
And those ads usually are for stuff that isn't even relevant to me at all.

Like some more AAA garbage and such.
Congrats! It has been quite the journey!