skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do jounos treat mundane incremental automation progress as dystopian, while casting the dystopian tech paradigm shifts as mundane?
I currently shelved 3K more words of why it's hard if you're targeting real animators. One point is that human inbetweeners get "spacing charts" showing how much each part should move, even though they understand motion very well, because the key animator wants to control the acting
I am generally mildly negative on many Tesla decisions, but this has happened to the big manufacturers as well. Stock floor mats that caused stuck accelerator. Toyotas infamous stuck accelerator code that actually hurt people. Their code was reputedly a giant mess.
6502 > Z80
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085565
Tesch and Stabenow probably made a lot of money with their government contracts also back in the day. Doesn't negate the fact that the way they made that money was wrong.
The faulty airbag manufacturer was Takata. It wasn't just Japanese brands affected: Ford and BMW also used those airbags.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle-safety/takata-recall-spotlight
Perhaps there are societal issues that make it so that advances in technology tend to be hostile to regular people. If that were the case, then it wouldn't be surprising if objective journalism on technological advances skewed negative.

Personally, I think that the issue may be that technological advances are being driven by corporate profits so they don't necessarily prioritize the concerns of average people. This could be exasperated by issues such as corporate consolidation, regulatory capture, network effects, etc. that insulate corporations from the negative effects of upsetting average people.
I highly doubt that that has anything to do with minification/tree shaking. My guess would be JavaScript feature and API support.
How do you arrive at lackluster sales conclusion? They are obviously just production limited as they scale up a new line. Can you place an order today and buy a cybertruck? No there is still a year+ long wait list of people wanting to buy.
The basic problem is that everyone makes mistakes. I feel bad if people do things maliciously or in bad faith. None of those, as bullets, feel that way. He did a lot of big things, some of which will invariably be big mistakes.

Expanded from bullets (e.g. Iran-Contra) there was badness, but what would be helpful would be to:

1) Expand those out a little bit, to where we can see the bad.

2) Compare to other presidents for level of bad.

On the whole, I have complex feelings here. The quality of recent presidents and presidential candidates has been very, very low. I think I'd take Reagan over Hillary Clinton, Trump, or Biden. On the other hand, I think I'd take Obama, Romney, and probably McCain over Reagan.
10+ years ago when I worked in fancy kitchens we would every once in a while get a white collar guy (always a guy) interested in changing careers to something they could be "passionate" about. I saw it work a couple times but never with tech people. We stopped even letting them try lol. They'd come in expecting to be in a position of authority, expecting us to be grateful for all the changes they'd immediately want to make to how we did things.

To some extent this was also true of the other professionals. But they'd usually shake it once they got humbled by seeing up close how fast a good cook can actually shuck perfect oysters or just calmly handle the intensity of the line during dinner. Never saw a programmer adapt to it.
The Infinite Small Web
This was in December https://www.newsweek.com/china-falling-long-march-rocket-deb...
DuckDuckGo AI Chat
It's literally the meme truck. That meme has sailed and died. People will still hoot and holler when they spot you driving one in the wild but that's different from people wanting to pay the steep sticker price for what the car actually is.

I don't see moms picking up their kids with these trucks. I don't see people using them for camping. The unnamed companion ATV seems to have been recalled for not being roadsafe and doesn't seem to be coming back any time soon.

It's possible there will be a revised Cybertruck eventually but this thing has so many design flaws and underdelivers on so many promises (e.g. "you could use it as a boat" when taking it to the carwash voids your warranty) that it's not mass market compatible. Heck, it's not even possible to make it street legal in Europe without massive changes.

As far as Musk's ventures go, the Cybertruck is up there with the Hyperloop in terms of what it is and what was promised. Remember the unprovoked throwaway claim that it'll let you use it as a source for compressed air to drive pneumatic tools? Or the talk about selling a version of it to the military as an APC?
Sure but where's the article about how uber reduced drunk driving, made cabs stop ripping people off and profiling. Or how google maps liberated so many people to feel comfortable exploring new places? Or the million other benefits that these new technologies have. Why is everything negative? Imagine if science reporting didn't report on drug discoveries and just how new drugs are leading the inequity in healthcare outcomes between those that can afford them and those that cant
The problem is in words "at present". There's no some global timeline to say "present". The time in far away places just didn't happen yet.

UPDATE: minor consideration -- time can flow at different speeds (e.g. gravitational wells). That's probably doesn't matter to our discussion, but just another argument against "at present".
Yes, I thought same some adhesive alone does not feel enough for me. Why not some fasteners or some sort of clipping mechanism?
I worked for years at a KFC, all the way up to assistant manager. It was actually quite a challenging job, far harder than my senior software engineering role I have now. You have to manage at least 10 different products, and about 10 other variables such as labor and food cost and speed of service in real time, all while typically running a position yourself, and doing inventory in your down time.

That said, the actual physical making of the food is a small and trivial part of any operation of a fast food restaurant and this robotic help would be laughed out of any kitchen I was in.

Until the robots can do all of the tasks above and quickly switch from one to another and be highly adaptable in real time based on the needs of the restaurant, I think we’re okay.

This tells me more the founders of this startup should have gone to work in a fast food restaurant before thinking they are smart enough to innovate it. This feels like ivory tower innovation at best.
Deus Ex – Where Are They Now?
Wrote this article to explore where a lot of the creatives behind Deus Ex went, and what some of their lesser known works might have been
It was my first love. Incredible how long it lived.
"At this point I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth."
Don't Let Me Down
Tesla ordered the recall, they weren’t ordered.

Existing HN titling: “Tesla ordered to recall almost 4k Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator” should probably be adjusted.
The article doesn't even state it this strongly. The claim is that planet 9 is the best explanation. Another explanation offered is that there was a previous planet that affected the existing planet's orbits and it is no longer there.

The article also notes that this claim is being made by the same scientist that popularized the idea of a planet 9.

There is plenty of room for doubting this specific planet 9 claim without changing any laws of physics.
Yes I do agree. But its not just me but recently I am listening it from lot of my friends and relatives as well that they are experienced many more incidents than past.
That has always been possible. Also, under the ObjC layer, is good ol' ANSI C (FreeBSD Unix).

There's a number of apps that run on modern Macs, that were written in C, but it is unusual to see ones that leverage the GUI.

That said, it's possible to walk from Boston to Portland (OR), but I'd rather take a plane.
I'm not seeing anything here that would actually require anything like AI, this looks like old school industrial robotics, a little machine vision, and some basic scheduling - can anybody tell me what I'm missing here, or is it really all things that could been done 30+ years ago without issue?
What is most interesting to me about automation in the restaurant industry, is its almost complete absence in the United States.

If—as I understand it—labor costs dominate the cost structure of all restaurants, then why isn’t the average restaurant already mostly robots?

Is it really a technology issue? We haven’t been able to
build a burger making robot until today? Seems unlikely.

Is it financial? The capital deployable to build a single restaurant can’t cover the initial costs of the robot? Seems like a McDonalds could spread the costs over thousands of restaurants.

So what gives?
Such has been the case for the last decade.
I was curious how frequently automakers have recalls, because it seems to me that Elon linked companies tend to get treated 'differently' by the media. The answer was extremely surprising. Here is a list. [1] Just in 2022:

Ford - 67

Volkswagen - 46

Daimler Trucks North America - 42

Chrysler - 38

Mercedes Benz - 34

GM - 32

Kia - 24

Hyundai - 22

Tesla - 20

BMW - 20

Pretty wild, because these rarely if ever make the news.

[1] - https://www.carpro.com/blog/automakers-with-the-most-recalls...
> Tesla is losing money on every truck sold at this point

Is it just me or many people don't seem to understand fixed costs vs. variable costs that I learnt about in high school while growing up in the third world?

Don't people have to take Econ 101 in the USA or whatever the equivalent is in their countries? Or is it optional.

Not even going to bring up "advanced" concepts like COGS that I know about while being a CS major and never taking an economics course.

What you said doesn't many sense, because, say they sell 100 million trucks, according to your logic they would end up with a huge loss. But in reality they would make a big profit.
The difference is that your example fled while most likely being guilty and mostly just wanted to evade prosecution, in China there is no need for any actual crime
Your issues seem to be algebra. I recommend Khan academy personally and just working through all of the highschool math that he goes over. I found his stuff when he was still just a guy on youtube back when I was in the same position as you. Studying calculus, did fine in high school, but my school was not good and totally unprepared me for actually studying math, skipping over a lot of those fundamentals. So often I would have a professor or TA take a complex equation, show an "obvious trick" that we "knew from algebra" and it would be the first time I ever saw that in my life. There is really no other solution than to study and relearn algebra, geometry and trig yourself as you learn calculus.
They aren't only press fitted, they are glued together, but a change on assembly line lead to chance that some soap got on pedal and prevented the glue from bonding the two parts
If Telsa and the article are telling the truth then these aren't anywhere near the same.

The mat was a design flaw from the beginning that missed QA, that happens in any large scale manufacturing as you can't just get everything right from the start.

If the article is telling the truth, this was a change made on the build line that wasnt' approved, that's a huge f$ck up if true and an incredible show of incompetence if someone can just start making design changes without approval on the build line.
Did atoms exist before they were discovered, or not until after they were discovered?

This question could be applied to a number of things historically, and may even be in effect going forward.
how did you tried it
I wonder if it was more of an issue with the mic and/or mic placement on phones? Old landline phones had a large mic right by your mouth, whereas cell phones have little pinhole mics near the bottom of the phone.

I feel like I've actually noticed the opposite. My parents still have a landline, although it's basically VoIP (through their cable company) but it's connected to the analog lines in their house. I've noticed they generally sound clearer on their cell phones than they do on the landline.
If Elons pay package from 2018 gets revoked and they issue a new one (supposedly after moving from Delaware to Texas law), then it’s estimated Tesla will have $20bn+ accounting charge
Can you get it down to an RTX 4060 VRAM level?
The Digital Markets Act and gatekeeper designation are primarily about antitrust, not privacy. Hence the focus on financial criteria. For privacy, there's the GDPR.
I really like the idea behind this. That's what the Recent view should look like.
Love this, if I never have to write a wrapper around objc again I'd be in heaven.
Posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40086515
This article is actually right that I downloaded the old version for Windows (would not happen on another OS, as there are maintained packages in most of the package managers).

But I just checked with the newer version and I didn't see a difference when testing with my 2.5GbE LAN (still 2.3Gbit UP and 1.9Gbit DOWN)
/data has been that area for me. It has been common practice since the late 90s to separate OS and data on completely different devices even

The homedirs belong on the OS drives and are managed by the OS. Anything you want to keep safe goes on the data volume where backups run.

It’s also very nice to just disconnect the data drives before any upgrades. You can’t corrupt a filesystem that isn’t even present to the system
It's just the halo/horns effect. If you think (Tesla|SpaceX) is an innovative company doing some great envelope-pushing stuff then you probably empathise with their engineers more than usual and you're willing to give them a pass. If you think Elon is a (bigoted man-child|burgeoning danger to western democracy) then you probably think negatively about his companies and you're more likely to do the opposite.

At the risk of sounding trite, it's incredibly difficult to form a balanced opinion on any situation because the little lizard brain inside always wants to steer you one way or another.
All the important business documents go in ~/horseporn of course.
Their downfall happened the day they decided go all in on Windows Phone instead of Android.. And that was 100% Elop doing..

But i don't believe it was a grand plan from MS to screw Nokia so they could buy it..

Some even suspect that MS just bought Nokia because Windows phone was not selling and Nokia was loosing money, so MS was afraid Nokia would turn to Android and they would loose their flagship devices..

So they needed to ensure a phone maker for Windows Phone and wanted go into making their own phones, Nokia had a good brand that they had a good relationship with and Elop was still there to make things easy..

On the other hand, if Nokia had focused on Android from the start or at least had devices on both systems, they had the potential to be the leaders on Android phones by now..
Amazon, 'pierced spoon'

https://www.amazon.com/Pierced-Serving-Spoons/b?node=3672970...
Didn't McDonald's solve this problem decades ago?
So what you're saying is: Develop a noodle cleaning bot before you work on your noodle cooking bot? ;)
I'm surprised it's still around.

It's always been a cool project, but I've personally, never found much use for it.
Right? What are people on about?? There are a few buildings still standing. Some kids are still starving, it's not like they were all killed by bombs. Hopefully the final invasion will be successful and resettlement can begin, right? It's important we take the long view and not get bogged down by one hospital or another.
Can you put cybertruck in neutral? That's the SOP for ICE cars if accelerator is stuck.
reddit thread says its just the DIP packages being discontinued, there's other Z80 MCU parts still be made after this
Funny, I find the language most engaging and enjoyable to read. And unambiguous, which is much to be desired when new concepts are being explained.
The business of making the trains to Auschwitz run on time [2002]
I thought this was relevant given recent stories about AI being used to identify military targets.

The author claims that IBM established a subsidiary in Poland named "Watson Business Machines" to work with Nazis after Germany invaded Poland.
You just have to find your niche... I am bullish on the Religion of the prophet of Linux in the Desktop.
And even if I had, I'm quite sure they wouldn't have meant they wanted it in the terminal instead.
Don't really see how that fact changes that story, both can be true.
When MIT and Quaker Oats conducted experiments on unsuspecting young boys (2017)
> The underlying problem is that the way your brain works doesn't really map well into categories. Text searching sometimes works, but has the same problem.

What did you find that works ?
Automate the process, then scale up... doing both at the same time would probably cost more.
The Django code base is excellent. I learned a ton early on by reading through it
I'm not taking issue with him expecting employees to get in line with the mission and methods. I'm saying he should be more frank and transparent about the fact that this is what he's doing instead of acting like Google as an entity is objective and impartial.
> We have a culture of vibrant, open discussion that enables us to create amazing products and turn great ideas into action. That's important to preserve. But ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics. This is too important a moment as a company for us to be distracted.

Honestly, good on them. Having a culture of honest and open discussion about work is important, but there's a very vocal minority in many companies that thinks their political opinions are both objective fact and the most important thing to discuss at any given work function.

When that kind of attitude seems to receive official support from the company it actually does make people with different political opinions feel unsafe at work. This is not okay, and it's not healthy for the company, and I'm glad to see Google finally pushing back against the idea that loud political fights are appropriate in the workplace.
Same thing, wish that from the start unix had some standardized "applications put everything they want here" home directory that's separate from the "here user chooses to put their own files" home directory
Five hours?
Same. I’ve relinquished control over all the OS-provided directories to Adobe and Microsoft and go and whatever else assumes I want its crap in those locations.

Above someone jokes about just putting everything in Desktop, but honestly, it’s what realistically winds up happening. I can’t be bothered to manage files myself, really. Mostly, the apps I use know where their things are, I have a rudimentary system for archiving finished work, and the rest I can handle with search.

I’m just not in any way geared to be a file clerk or self librarian. Fortunately I have a machine that is very good at those things
Do priests/preachers commonly testify as expert witnesses in court?
One of my former coworkers is now a high-end chef after he abruptly quit the company I was working at. He's married now and he seems happy.
Wouldn't you want your robot precisely designed to the spec of your kitchen as it throws hot oil around, rather than figuring it out on the fly with computer vision? As another commenter pointed out, robots have been frying potatoes at immense scale for decades, without a single LLM or AI in sight. Just "normal" computer programs can do it.
The worst offenders are CLI tools written by people on Macs that do not respect XDG, because it's not a thing over there. So every tool gets to pollute your dotfiles with its own stupid directory. .rustup, .mix, .npm, .yarn, etc.

But polluting your home directory like ~/go, without even the decency to hide it, is extremely rude and offensive.
Top ChatGPT prompts I could find - With a ranking system
Hello hello HN!

I often find my self navigating through forums and GitHub repositories to look for new creative and effective AI prompts, this process is slow and sucks, but once in a while you find some good content there.

MyPromptCollection.com is an open-source initiative designed to make it easier how we discover, share, and utilize prompts for AI tools like ChatGPT and MidJourney. Inspired by the reddit voting system

I found that many of the top search results for prompt libraries and collections are just useless generic AI generated prompts. I thought that a more centralized, community-driven platform could streamline this process. That's why I created MyPromptCollection.com

I uploaded these prompts already:
https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts
IMO, the GOPATH itself is a terrible design. It makes you mix together things from unrelated projects in the same directory structure, instead of each project having its own independent directory structure, like on every other programming language. The GOPATH design goes so much against the way I organize my projects, that it's the main reason I have never got interested into learning Go.

Perhaps this design makes more sense for those who prefer to keep several unrelated projects together in a single monorepo, but that's not my preference.
China did not dump but it has been divesting out of its US Treasury holdings over the last 10+ years. It holdings were $1.3-1.4 trillion 10+ years ago now they are just less than $800 billion. Japan has taken over from China as the largest US securities holder and buyer but the way current Yen price is falling against the dollar they might start selling some as well to stop the yen decline
WhatsApp servers have been blocked in China forever. I lived there for 13 years and the only time I recall using WhatsApp without VPN was in the early 2010s.
I hope ChromeOS gets some love. We need some competition to Windows. They've even experimented with ads in Explorer. They have no limits anymore :)
It might be plausible if any evidence was presented, otherwise it's very loose speculation.

Many of the cowhands working side by side vaqueros were literal boys (15-17) and very young men.

In Texas it's very common to call a young man a boy.

Currently it's a baseless accusation that it was a derogatory term, even moreso that it's racial.

It's never been mentioned as such until now, well past the high days of cowboys.
I was referring to distribution (local) rather than transmission (between grids or regions, I believe HVDC is limited to transmission so far)
Of course, WebTransport also isn't real sockets. It's more like WebSockets but with more modern transport semantics such as unreliable data and multiplexing without head of line blocking (as long as it's run over QUIC).

For security reasons, browsers don't allow Web sites access to raw TCP or UDP sockets.
After US intelligence ‘predicted’ the terrorist attack in Russia, this prediction should not be ignored.
It should also be noted that most of those Tesla "recalls" are over the air software updates that happen automatically. This one is noteworthy because the owners have to physically bring their vehicle to the service center.
No but the brake pedal overrides the accelerator. Of course, EV’s accelerate fast so you likely don’t have much time to react