skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in automotive and have had to handle the procedures after a recall was decided against code I owned (though had not written). The important distinction here is in how many vehicles are affected by the recall and the severity of it. Also, potentially in the party at fault (Takata vs every single OEM, for example). The thing to note here is that Tesla had to recall every single Tesla with FSD or Autopilot because NHTSA demanded it, over Tesla's express wishes. That is much worse than pretty much any other recall.

The other component to this is that many of those other recalls are probably software/calibration recalls, with no parts touched, and Tesla has been doing OTA updates for years longer than the other OEMs. In some ways that's good, since they can fix things without the need to issue a full recall and get the fix out to customers much faster. In some ways that's really really really bad because they push fixes to a range of hardware with limited customer ability to opt out, and I have zero reason to believe that they're managing the complexity/testing problem on that orders of magnitude better than the rest of the OEMs, since I sat through a lot of meetings trying to come up with a way to really thoroughly handle it to no avail. I distrust that kind of operation immensely and it's probably the primary reason I won't own a Tesla and have little interest in anything being produced today. Maybe a Mazda, maybe.

That said, I spent 5 years at Ford and I can't say I'm at all surprised that they lead this list...
Compared to the mammal template, beetles don’t have to do satisfy as many requirements (no temperature regulation, simple brains, etc). So they can have complicated biochemical attacks because they have a solid foundation, easy to build on.

It is definitely possible I haven’t thought this out very well.
lol'd at this. YES!
All of the 4 AI coding assistants I've tried (claude3, gemini, gpt4, deepseek) used SFML for graphics when I asked them to code boids and game of life in C++. I'm wondering if that's because it's cross platform or that there's more code out there using SFML that these models got trained on? SFML seems relatively recent compared to Qt or even FLTK, so it seems kind of odd that there would be more SFML training data. It also seems odd that all 4 were in agreement here that SFML should be used for graphics in a C++ program.
this will never happen. why? because humans are outrageously self-centeredly narcissistic. so narcissistic that we invented religions where god is just an omnipotent/omnipowerful version of a man, and then we go "god created man in his image" to justify it.

humans can't help but be obsessed with other humans, the same way every species is hardwired in a specific way to relate to their own species.

the idea of any computer system "brain" not being compared and contrasted to our own is against our very narcissistic nature.
It's a bit cargo cult-y to claim that synthetic SNNs and human brains are equivalent just because they share some similarities.
I've never worked for AOL nor yahoo so I have only an outsider view...and I'm sure to a degree you're not wrong. But still, these Apollo guys are just another level of value extraction.
I've owned many cars over 20 years and outside of cosmetic water marks due to evaporation on a hot car, have never heard of paint damage this way.
It's because rather than understanding that waste is eliminated through decades of practice optimizing a single process, Musk thinks it's eliminated by getting rid of stupid people who prioritize useless things like safety. It's a teenager's perspective on what's wrong with the world, "Why don't they just do it better?"
>Pre-operative shower using chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG)

https://uihc.org/educational-resources/pre-operative-shower-...
Agreed, I prefer a more capable model that I can connect to Wikipedia than a less capable model.
A community has to be able to deal with such news even if it's rather uncomfortable to think / talk about.
My dad lives by using dish soap to lube up hoses and other connectors. This has that vibe.
> I think a lot of people, especially in STEM, pooh-pooh philosophy at first.

A lot of philosophy ignores biology, sometimes even physics. In topics where biology would be immensely relevant, like with philosophy of mind. Dennett didn't try to ignore biology, he was deeply aware and well read in biology as well.
Can't say I met or knew him, but his essays in "The Mind's I" and "Brainstorms" are what got me to pursue tech as a teenager in the early 90s. Along with Hofstader, his ideas were foundational to hacker culture. What a time to go, where there has been a kind of cog.sci winter for the last 20 years, but the last year of LLMs has forced philosophy of mind back into the public consciousness. Though largely today under the guise of "AI Safety" and "alignment," Dennet's articulations form the tools we're going to be using to reason about ethics as they relate to these things we think of as minds - and regarding how we relate to these things that increasingly resemble other minds. Without too much lionizing (even though he has, however, just died), it would be hard to say that new ideas in philosophy as a whole have had more impact in a lifetime or more than that.

A lot of very clever people disagreed strongly with him. However, since not one of them could deny they were shaped by the forces they opposed, those controversies became the shape of his own huge and formidable influence. I'm sure he would want to be remembered for something else, and I have the sense sentimentality was not his thing at all, but his popularization the term "deepity," was in the character of many of his ideas, where once you had been exposed to one, it yielded a perspective you could afterwards not unsee.

I hope an afterlife may provide some of the surprise and delight he brought to so many in this one.
This is an essay that lauds Cambridge, MA as a panoply of virtuous places with "limiting virtues" while at the same time decrying an "elitist" fascination with "anything goes". Lots of Cathedral energy in its architectural thesis [1].

It's one thing to point out the virtue in constraint. I don't even disagree. If the article were merely an architectural critique, I would be mostly on board. But the article doesn't stop there. It proffers a hip cafe in Harvard Square, the Cambridge library, and "one of the only choir schools in the United States!" as virtuous... while simultaneously mounting a larger critique of elite excess(?!)

So let's discuss this virtuous neighborhood.

Cambridge currently has six housing units with 2+ beds for sale on Zillow with listing prices below $800,000. None of these are single family homes, one of these listings is an error, and another is ~600 sqft. At least some of the others, I would wager, are intentionally under-priced and will go over asking. Perhaps all of them!

How is this relevant to the social/architectural thesis of the piece? Simple: what Cambridge needs is not elaborate architectural programming of constrained spaces designed by $X00+/hr architects. What Cambridge needs is a bunch of affordable boxes with programs that minimize cost of design, materials, and labor.

Leave the rarefied air of hangouts for the Actually Elite, such as the article's Faro Cafe -- a no-laptops coffee shop located in Harvard Square serving fancy cappuccinos and premium pastries to the city's tenured faculty. What you'll find beyond those cloistered enclaves is that the societal critique of this piece has a deeply flawed premise.

I suppose, if you're the personal beneficiary of a trust fund or the professional beneficiary of an institution's endowment, then the cheap "everything box" apartment seems gouache. You can have better! But the "rectangle with minimal interior subdivisions" is not primarily the architectural manifestation of Elite Liberal Individual Narcissism or whatever. It's just the cheapest way to build out an interior space that feels big enough for a family to spend time in together. Walls are expensive, and artisanally placed walls even more so!

And I suppose if you have a private office in Harvard Square or Boston's Back Bay then the coffeeshop/office combo seems like a terrible symptom of a hyper-individualized Screen Obsessed Society. But to approximately everyone else living in a place where a family of 4 will pay $4,000/mo for not enough living space, that coffeeshop/office combo is as close as you'll likely get to a private workspace.

None of this is an argument against no-laptop policies or quiet ares in libraries. But then -- the article also isn't primarily an argument for those places! If the piece didn't come with a larger thesis decrying Elite Cultural Decay while singing the praises of one of the most culturally elite and least economically affordable neighborhoods in the world, then I would've had a very different reaction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
Developers can't physically see the people that will be effected and they are usually just following orders from managers.
It is shitty but it is way easier to know a bomb you were ordered to make is blowing people up on the other side of the world than it is to shoot someone directly in front of you.
> LLMs are generative models trained to produce text similar to the text on which they were trained (or for the pedantic: minimize perplexity). They are not trained to output facts or truths or any other specific kind of text.

If you train them on text that is largely true, then the output is also largely true. To ignore this is to miss the point of LLMs altogether.
I think the figure I saw was that if human emissions stopped tomorrow, silicate weathering would get rid of the excess carbon in something on the order of 10k years.
Translation: "We're attempting to preserve our moat, and this is the correct PR blurb. We'll release an API once we're far enough ahead and extracted enough money."

Like somebody on Ars noted "anybody notice it's an election year?" You don't need to release an API, all online videos are now suspicious authenticity. Somebody make a video of Trump or Biden's eyes following the mouse cursor around. Real videos turned into fake videos.
Very sad to hear. We’ll certainly miss having his perspective to ground us in this era of AI hyperbole, as thousands of engineers start confronting the ambiguities of consciousness with incongruent mental frameworks.
People love this benchmark. And it has a solid idea behind it, but it also seems like it would be trivial to game since it relies on public “blind” rankings. All the models need for an advantage is just to sound more personal and confident and that’ll heavily bias most users asking generic questions or having a chat. It’ll be a terrible measure for any kind of intelligence aside from sounding human-ish.

It’s also good to keep in mind that the ELO scores compute the probability of winning, so a 5 point Elo difference essentially still means it’s a 49-51 chance of user preference. Not much better than a coin flip between the first 4 models, especially considering the confidence interval.
People ask Reddit and Quora and read the confident responses cautiously. I’m certain people will learn to do the same with LLMs. These are still new tech and people are figuring it out.
> I'm flabbergasted at the way it's been adopted by the left now

It's not.
The best part of that comment now is Tim Bray responded to it!
Stuck throttles used to be quite a common problem in the pre-ECU days.

I've had two cars that had a stuck throttle in the past, both where the accelerator cable connects to the throttle body on the top of the engine. In both cases, lubing it up solved the problem and it never reoccurred. It is a bit of a shocking thing to happen, but with a manual it's instinctive to just jam the clutch down.

What worries me about modern cars, in particular electrics, is the lack of any kind of kill-switch. Motorbikes have them, cars used to just have an ignition switch, but now everything from the ignition to the accelerator pedals is electric. Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a switch that kills the car if all else fails?
The whole "hallucination" business always seemed to me to be a marketing masterstroke -- the "wrong" output it produces is in no way more "wrong" or "right" than any other output given how LLMs are fundamentally operate, but we'll brand it in such terms to give the indication that it is a silly occasional blunder rather than an example of a fundamental limitation of the tech.
I love self control. I really wish there was a better way to automate it, though, so that I didn't have to remember to start it.
> The best practices we followed often felt like cargo cult programming.

Best practices are cargo culting if they aren't adapted to the local context.
Why an ex-Googler just opened a chestnut farm in rural Pennsylvania
Godwit does not glide at all. Its wings are physically too small to support any kind of gliding flight. It must flap constantly to stay aloft.
I was teaching one of the local highschool kids how to program in C and they asked "So why does everybody use i,j, and k for their indexes in loops?"
How would you determine if the Universe is finite or infinite?
My wife’s BMW has it. I assume it closes the active air dampers and the grill vents.
i don't get it. we essentially figured this out in the first Matrix by having a bunch of cameras film an actor and then used interpolation to create a 360 shot from it.

why can't this basic idea be applied to simple 2d animation over two decades later?
I can see how you would find that unproductive, but I don't know if it really counts as quackery.

Quack: 1) A practitioner who suggests the use of substances or devices for the prevention or treatment of disease that are known to be ineffective.

2) A person who pretends to be able to diagnose or heal people, but is unqualified and incompetent.

The inside baseball term more relevant to what you're talking about, I think, is "talking past each other."
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25655279

A quack philosopher would seem to me to be someone that claims to be doing philosophy or interpreting the ideas of a philosopher, but doing so in an egregiously wrong or misleading manner.

You also might want to check out this article for more on p-zombies, by the way: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
This feels like well-trodden ground.

AI-skeptic: "I can come up with AN example where an AI is worse than an encyclopedia, and it's confident! Burn it all down! Hallucinations!"

AI-user: "I literally couldn't care less about that. It's more accurate than any person I know personally on almost every topic and makes code that works 70% of the time in 5 seconds."
Tim Sweeney still owns >50%.
Yeah, the sanctions against Russia were among the most severe in history, and widely observed by Western corporations. That they failed is a different discussion. Meanwhile, BDS is a "hate crime".
> The argument generally is that warming temperatures cause rising CO2. This in turn is a fact not disputed by climate scientists, only that it is not sufficient to explain the current rise in CO2.

It should also be noted that the type of C in CO2 matters:

> In addition, only fossil fuels are consistent with the isotopic fingerprint of the carbon in today’s atmosphere. Different kinds of carbon-containing material have different relative amounts of “light” carbon-12, “heavy” carbon-13, and radioactive carbon-14. Plant matter is enriched in carbon-12, because its lighter weight is more readily used by plants during photosynthesis. Volcanic emissions are enriched in carbon-13. The ratio of carbon-13 to carbon-12 in the atmosphere and the ocean are roughly the same. Since carbon-14 is radioactive, it decays predictably over time. Young organic matter has more carbon-14 than older organic matter, and fossil fuels have no measurable carbon-14 at all.

> As carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have risen over the past century or more, the ratio of carbon-13 to carbon-12 has fallen, which means that the source of the extra carbon dioxide must be enriched in "light" carbon-12. Meanwhile, the relative amount of carbon-14—radioactive carbon—has declined. The record of carbon-14 in the atmosphere is complicated by nuclear bomb testing after 1950, which doubled the amount of radioactive carbon in the atmosphere. After the nuclear test ban treaty in 1963, the excess atmospheric carbon-14 began to decline as it dispersed into the oceans and the land biosphere.

* https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/how-do-we-k...

> In this “Grand Challenges” paper, we review how the carbon isotopic composition of atmospheric CO2 has changed since the Industrial Revolution due to human activities and their influence on the natural carbon cycle, and we provide new estimates of possible future changes for a range of scenarios. Emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel combustion and land use change reduce the ratio of 13C/12C in atmospheric CO2 (δ13CO2). This is because 12C is preferentially assimilated during photosynthesis and δ13C in plant-derived carbon in terrestrial ecosystems and fossil fuels is lower than atmospheric δ13CO2. Emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel combustion also reduce the ratio of 14C/C in atmospheric CO2 (Δ14CO2) because 14C is absent in million-year-old fossil fuels, which have been stored for much longer than the radioactive decay time of 14C.

* https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...
The lmsys leaderboard has 700k votes.

Who did all those votes? I did like 5 of them...

I'm slightly suspicious someone might be gaming the votes, because billions of dollars of company valuations ride on who has the best AI...
> Consider checking important information.

How do you check important information, when it's all wrong? And when companies are pushing LLMs as where you go to check this information?
Came here for that comment.
Good idea, that'll make sure people don't share hallucinations as facts /s
This reminds me of the theme of "Lobsters" from the novel Accelerando by Charles Stross.

The protagonist meets a sentient AI created from the simulated connectomes of biological Lobsters. They ask for asylum outside the light cone of an ongoing singularity, fearing that things are going to get too weird.

The protagonist arranges for the Lobsters to be broadcast out into the Milky Way, hopefully to be intercepted and reconstituted by a stable post singularity civilization with decent rights for sentient mind vectors.

Unfortunately, a copy of them ends up being eaten by a Dyson sphere just a few light years away from earth. When we re-encounter the lobsters, they've been lobotomized, and are being puppeted by a conniving species of sentient spam, trying to con humanity into a crappy scam based singularity. But that fails, because the human singularity is already spammier than the proposed scheme.

TL;DR: Don't you just hate it when you'r a scanned lobster and broadcast your mind vector only to be mind ganked by sentient spam, and sent back to Earth where things are even worse than when you left?
Extensions explicitly designed for the old extension system still work.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy

Also works with Pale Moon. There are even special builds of Pale Moon that will run on Windows XP.
>Maybe take a shot at parsing JSON in C++ and see if the nostalgia survives the process.

I have used this library in the past and was actually pretty easy

https://github.com/nlohmann/json
I can't say I've seen any but some of the code style ones are very prescriptive (function longer than N lines, short variable names etc.).

Single letter variable names are totally fine in some cases. And while very long functions may be bad, it's pretty annoying when you're adding one line to a function for the linter to say "nope. have you considered dropping everything and refactoring this?"

You can easily turn them off though. I can't remember any code based ones that are really wrong.

Maybe some are prone to false positives, e.g. warning about a default `= []` argument. But you can waive them individually.
> the arguments of the low-carb camp are very convincing. Fat is an essential macro. carb-sugar is entirely optional.

Why would this be convincing? We don't need antioxidants, polyphenols, fiber, nor all sorts of nutrients to survive, yet consuming those things improve our health outcomes.

Exercise isn't essential either for survival.

What I see is that the low carb community is full of story-telling sophists convincing people to give up "carbs" like beans and broccoli to eat foods full of saturated fats (usually avoiding unsaturated fats). And then weaving more convenient stories about how elevated LDL / ApoB isn't a concern when the saturated fat comes home to roost.
> summarizing content

Like summarizing what does Tim Bray think of Google? ;)
“I’m going redefine these philosophers as scientists, so that I can ridicule philosophy more easily “
> Meanwhile Lincoln sent me a “fix” for a recall that involved neither software or my car moving an inch.

> “We identified an issue in your vehicles user guide that could lead to improper seat operation. Please place this piece of paper between pages 168 and 169 of your guide.”

Great and perfect example, thanks for bringing that up.

I searched for that issue and every single news article I could find [1] had "missing owner's manual information" or the equivalent right in the headline.

Only Ford or Lincoln haters would argue that removing that information in the headline is a fair and acceptable thing to do.

Are you still going to argue that Tesla is treated the same as Lincoln by the media and on HN? Is hoping for more context in the headlines a bad and unreasonable thing?

[1]

https://www.motor1.com/news/672511/ford-recalls-trucks-suvs-...

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/recall-alert-nearly-1-mi...

https://www.ksstradio.com/2023/06/ford-recalls-nearly-one-mi...

https://www.auto123.com/en/news/ford-recall-million-vehicles...

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/ford-recalls-1-million-tr...

https://fordauthority.com/2023/06/1-million-ford-vehicles-re...

https://www.wftv.com/news/trending/recall-alert-nearly-1-mil...

https://dallasexpress.com/business-markets/ford-recall-over-...
This will really help using streams and just being expression/HOF-oriented in general, I often find myself writing custom FunctionalInterface's just to capture an exception instead of writing a Consumer/Function/etc. maybe this will help ease that a bit. I still wish there was a way to just "bail out" execution of a lambda like you can a for loop if the function the lambda is used in is declared to throw the exception in question.

But I often find that I'm not thinking functional enough if I find myself trying to do that. But also sometimes I'm forced to by surrounding APIs etc.
The far left hasn’t adopted Zionism. Are you saying that “Zionism” doesn’t exist, that it’s something in the imagination of the far left? Benny Morris (e.g.) would disagree.
Make sure you order appropriate support ICs as well, as some of these are EOL too. I would recommend a Z80 DART, since that is actually useful to work with.

As for what to do with them, consider a retro-controller project that you'd typically use an Arduino or similar, or consider porting Microsoft BASIC or CP/M. It depends if you want to be semi-practical by doing something with the former or have a little nostalgia fun by doing something with the latter. These can also interface with an SN76489 to do some old school sound effects and music. With some more advanced interfacing, it would be possible to drive an OPL3 or similar.

These are surprisingly capable CPUs.
https://www.historytimeline.com/timeline/universe/
What do you think the Ministry of Defense does?

Are you aware of the recent revelations that it is using AI to indiscriminately kill people at their home? https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

Do you have an evidence that they aren't using Project Nimbus for this? Spoiler: you do not - none of us do.