skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are single proteins that need to "evolve" somehow, but they need to arrive at a very particular shape, and extremely near misses offer no feedback information and are just as good as dead.

But the combinations of amino acid sequences they would have to search through in order to find the correct shape is so large that it is greater by several orders of magnitude than the sum total number of all the organisms that have ever lived on Earth since the beginning of time (which is about 10^40, I think).

So your claim that "evolution just tries so many billions of options, man" just doesn't hold water.

There was a time, back during the 1960s, I'm told, when mathematicians in the academy would openly mock evolutionary biologists for their lack of understanding of statistics. But then political correctness took over or something.
I have had quite a few different cars, all of which I have
used automatic car wash "tunnels" regularly during all seasons
of the year.

I have never experienced any problems from it.

Not long ago I read about a Tesla driver S driver who had a fight with
Tesla over the paint job. It was deteriorating in a hurry.
Tesla said it was due to the owner not following proper car wash procedure.
With specific soap at specific temperature and so on.

The driver protested and said they had done everything by the book.

I dont find it reasonable to have so many limiting rules to washing a car .

Then again perhaps this is a common problem with luxury cars.
I have never had one of those, except my first car which was a really old
Cadillac. The paint was still good even after all those years,
and I put it through the aut car wash many times.
Really? The reasons you gave are perpetual. Don't you think that the real reason, in this moment in history, is that landlords are colluding on rents? If we enforced anti-competitive laws, and raised property taxes in the suburbs to a level commensurate with the maintenance costs of those areas' infrastructure, it would solve a lot of these problems.
Learning from marketing to quantify developer relations impact [video]
Not clear if you are being sarcastic or not, recalls are way more common in other brands, with Ford leading the charts on number of recalls. https://www.powernationtv.com/post/auto-brands-with-the-most...
This isn’t a China specific thing. The story of Carlos Ghosn is a particularly worrying example out of Japan.
"Why were people protesting Google doing business with a fake democracy that denies 2 million of its second-class citizens equal rights and is currently on a genocidal rampage having murdered 15000+ children, and nobody is protesting Apple obeying to a dictatorship? Fixed it for you.

[0] Nation-state Law Essentially Establishes Apartheid Regime - https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2020-12-22/ty-article-op...
WRITTEN IN 1910! Why oh why has every text written after this failed to include such a clear understanding of the concepts. There is no excuse for this, academia! Shame, shame! I should engage thee in a bout of fisticuffs were thou a being!
So you believe in a "force" that creates life?
I always like the idea of tags, but whenever I get into a proper tagging system with thousands of entries I always end up having to regularly "refactor" my tags, which is fun exactly once and then it's just another goddamn chore.
You might really enjoy working through the Art of Problem solving series. They’re early math -> calc books for kids that are getting into math competitions, and they explain so much in so much detail and really get to the root of why while also developing intuition. Get the e-book version. The explainers are incredible.
calvin@bison:~/work$ tree -d | head
.
├── 2022
│ ├── 04
│ │ ├── 19

> so i open my shell, it drops me into ~/t/, which is symlinked to ~/work/YYYY/DD/MM

Please confirm you are not a monster and that you meant /YYYY/MM/DD.
It's weird how you spell Emacs :P
One of the most frightening moments of my early life was when the accelerator peddle got stuck (actually one of the connecting rods) going into a roundabout, fairly recently after passing my driving test.

I couldn't figure out why I was speeding up even when breaking hard. But somehow I managed to maintain control and put the gear into neutral - and then sat at the edge of the roundabout with the engine screaming at full throttle before I figured out what was wrong and turned off the ignition. Wouldn't want to be in a Cybertruck with that happening.
The End of an Era. It was a good ride.
I hate having a polluted home directory, especially when an application thinks it should get a non hidden directory in my home!

The one that upsets me the most is the default directory for go modules `~/go`. This frustrates me so much. I refused to install any go apps or use it for development for years. I've unfortunately had to give in, and it can at least be overridden by setting `GOPATH`, but it is a terrible, terrible default.
The only thing that matters to me is portability when I switch systems, and aware of work vs personal environments

I need to be able to login and run a single command to sync to have the appropriate set of files for whatever /linux/work/personal/desktop/server I am on

For example, I never want certain environment variables to be exported to work systems, like my home vault endpoint or certain tokens.

I recently switched to home-manager from the NixOS project and it looks very promising. The Nix language is complicated but the abstraction to define all these different types of environments is exactly what I need, and git branches manage the work/personal split of file content
Native Plants Quiz
Not sure who would fund this research? Perhaps the Procreate Dreams folks [0]. I'm sure they'd love to have a functional auto-tween feature.

0: https://procreate.com/dreams
Tesla could have owned the entire EV truck market currently, if they didn't choose to make a truck that required a big amount of R&D and is hard to build. Why Tesla chose such a path completely baffles me.

Tesla's mission was "to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy" which they were doing by making solid and affordable EVs and electric storage solutions.

One of the biggest reasons of the success of Model S was because it had a modern but conventional design unlike the other toy-like EV cars on the market at the time. Model S proved that it is possible to build a modern conventional EV car that people can buy.

It feels like Cybertruck is coming from a completely different mission statement. Actually most of the decisions they have been taking for the last 2-3 years feel like it.
Apparently whatsapp is blocked in china[1]. I have a feeling that for them it's not as simple as "fill[ing] out a pretty trivial form". Would they even acknowledge the form and/or process it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
> What happens if you fully press both the acceleration and brake pedals? I would hope for the brakes to be more powerful and stop the car, is that the case?

You get a “both pedals pressed” alert and the accelerator is ignored, so the brakes don’t even need to overcome the engines. The behaviour is logical at least since tesla added blended braking (though I’d assume it also did that before then).

However as soon as you release the brakes the car starts accelerating as whatever the throttle is at again.
San Francisco sues Oakland over proposed airport name change
I think the headline is right for the wrong reasons.

I assume the point is that the letters U T and C are not in that order in either the French or English full name, as detailed in the Etymology section of the article.

However, true pedants will know that to be an acronym it should be pronounced like a word, like SCUBA, not individual letters like FBI which are sometimes called initialisms or alphabetisms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym
> They never needed help

I stopped reading after that. It's a pretty narrow-minded view
The absurdity of the fry robot is that they’re automating around cooking stations designed for humans, rather than modifying the cooking stations for automation. These are consistent processes that can be automated with repetition - conveyors and timers and such. We manage to fry millions of KGs of chips (crisps) around the world, and none use robotic arms to gently shuffle a fry basket in a small vat of oil.
I can hear it already, "Brave". smh.
Done. Anything else?
> people who value narrowcasting over broadcasting can freely ignore the FANGs

It is very difficult and costly in time or other resources for most people and businesses to "ignore the FANGs"

Parasitical businesses are generally not just parasitical. They balance providing real value with how much they can extract, in complex ways.

People who want other people to watch their high quality content want to be found by as many people as would benefit from their content. So they post on Youtube which gets them their audience, but now they are helping Youtube funnel their viewers to trash content and to be surveilled.

It is all a sticky rat's nest.
> I have 10 apples. I find 3 gold coins in the bottom of a river. The river runs near a big city that has something to do with what I can spend the coins on. I then lose 4 apples but gain a gold coin. Three birds run into my path and drop 6 apples each. I play an online game and win 6 gold coins but I have to share them equally with my 2 teammates. I buy apples for all the coins I have. The price of an apple is 0.5 coins. How many apples do I have? And where is the river?

> You now have 34 apples!

Actually, it forgot to add one coin when the person lost 4 apples, and the apples should be 34+2=36 in the end, so the model got it wrong. I tried on phind.com with their 70B model and it actually got it correct. Still, quite impressive for a 8B model, but it does show again the problems that come with trusting such problems to LLMs, that actually finding mistakes is so hard because it all sounds correct and confidently well written.
There was a major airbag flaw which affected most cars from Japan for like a decade, and it just kept growing. I always kind of assumed that was if there was a recall of that magnitude out of the blue it would rock a lot of boats so it was trickled out. *Takata I believe.

This one does seem a lot more
stupid though.
I agree it's not the full answer.
What hall pass? It's the opposite, the media blows a minor issue at Tesla out of proportion, while there are no national headlines about Fords or Jeeps getting recalled for bursting into flames

https://www.powernationtv.com/post/auto-brands-with-the-most...
China has around $800-900B in US Treasury bonds.

$22-23B is a drop in the bucket, and the recent sales are primarily being used to stablize the Yuan [0].

This article is clickbait (as anyone who knows Indian media knows, given the source)

Lotta hysteria around US-China relations, which while not great, aren't at the flashing red level yet, and are way better than US-USSR relations at anytime.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/china-loo...
RISC-V Unleashes Your Imagination
This assumes you stir the same with the fork and spoon.

You can generally stir more quickly and chaotically with a fork. Stirring with a spoon will require a slower stir to avoid splashing over the cup edge. This ge really means that when you stir with a spoon you create a vortex concentrating the solute in the bottom center of the cup.

There's a reason bakers use whisks and not spoons for mixing - tines create more mixing actions.
OpenTofu vs. HashiCorp Takes Center Stage at Open Source Summit
Reels don't interest me, they are just showed in my face whenever I use Facebook (or should I say Face-butt?). It's impossible to hide without using a custom script/adblock, which I ended up doing, but the only long term, cross device solution is to simply to delete the Facebook account.
This is true, but it's not exactly private. In this case it is circulated widely among banks. I'd happily accept another method for private people to know they are on a private list.
You're technically correct, there's no basis to argue that a "3D representation" was learned as opposed to "enough 2D projections to handle the inputs in question." That said, the hand which did not exist in either of the original 2D frames makes an appearance. I think calling wherever it was pulled out of "the 3rd dimension" is not wrong; it was occluded in both 2D inputs and functionally you had to know about its existence in the 3rd dimension to show it even if you technically did it by learning how pixels look across frames.

You can also see much more 3D ish things in the paper, with 2 angles of a room and video created moving the camera between them. Of course in some sense it adds to my point without detracting from yours...
I think the point being made is that it seems plausible that a term used in Britain to refer to literal boys was repurposed later in a different context to be a demeaning way to refer to an adult man working with cattle in the US.
The issue is that even in your framing “…’nothing’ at any point in time…” is at odds with the Big Bang theory which says time had a beginning. How do you conceive what was there ‘before’ the universe came to existence? (In the absence of matter, space, time and energy)
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.

Source: Nearly two decades ago we worked on this problem and read a bunch of research. We ended up making an app that let you input multiple facets to narrow things down, with the basic view being a calendar: https://nemo-docs.com/

We didn't have anyone marketing it, so it never really took off. The original plan was to build a serverless/P2P storage system underneath so sharing would be seamless and not require messing with servers, but never got that far.
You're partly correct. Our economy runs on consumption. Housing is a consumable, of sorts. Then you consume home appliances, furniture, textiles, etc. People consume more when they own, and less when they rent.
Automation is expensive to acquire, operate and maintain. It is better to hire employees...unless employees become much more expensive.
Not true. Read Matt Levine's article from 3 days ago
Hearing the collective sigh of relief of the entire cryptographic community
2024 Uber Lost and Found Index
You call it negativity I call it financial fundamentals. Tesla stock has been overvalued for quite some time and continues to be overvalued, even after the mass sell-off we've just witnessed. Obviously, we can quibble over what it means to be overvalued, but I'm a bit old-school and say a stock with a P/E ratio of 14 is at risk of being overvalued. Now, the thinking is if you're in a period of low interest rates or it's a high-growth stock then a P/E ratio above 14 may not be undesirable. But interest rates are increasing, and the sales figures clearly indicate Tesla is not a high-growth stock. I conclude their P/E is therefore too high and the stock is still overvalued.

Is Tesla going to go bankrupt? No - not in any foreseeable future. Will Tesla take over Toyota or Volkswagen in sales volume? Not likely, but there are several automakers who are doing quite well without those sales volumes.

Tesla is going to learn, if they want to continue to exist, to make products that people want. Steve Jobs could convince you that you needed something when it cost under $1,000. It's a lot more difficult to do the same when the price tag is $100,000.
Yes.

> Tesla noted that since 2018, Musk hasn't drawn any compensation, including salary or cash bonuses

His stock compensation was performance based/

> Shareholders approved Musk’s pay package back in 2018. However, according to an Axios report, very few investors at the time believed that they would have to pay out on it. That’s because the compensation plan was tied to extreme performance goals that seemed improbable Therefore, at the time, the expected value of the Tesla pay package was “closer to zero than it was to $56 billion”

You cannot pay for auto parts quality with stock options that pay out only when 'extreme peformance goals' are hit. So Musk's salary had pretty much zero impact on this recall, unlike, say, other company car recalls which they could have presumably used the company CEO's salary to prevent the recalls, going by the assumption that the OP was making.
Yes indeed. That's the joke.
This is an area where recalls is a bad metric. It could be that a company with high rates of recalls is actually very good and just issues recalls for smaller things while other companies don’t.
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> Of course, some day Virtualbox may support a KVM backend, just as virtualization tools are starting to support unified hypervisor backends on Windows and macOS. There's even an existing patch, though I do not know what the status is and whether or not it could ever be merged upstream.[3]

This is the official patch set for the VirtualBox KVM backend. Our plan is to support this for the near future. There are even packages for ArchLinux (AUR), gentoo and NixOS already if you want to test this.
Most of us purchase these services, and pay happily, until the inevitable enshittification step, then it's back to the high seas, because I'm willing to pay for services, but I'm not willing to pay more, to get less, because some assclown has quarterly numbers to make.
Impressively, there's Mess Detector, a machine built in Minecraft itself that predicts the internal state of the rng, using the position a lit tnt (instead of a block drop):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPmQ0rnJjNc
Thank you for concurring with me. This is also the explanation i could come up with while observing food mixer blades(they resemble a fork more than a spoon), tough the flow is more turbulent in that case.
Seems like a “performance” is baked into the price. You’re right, surely there are better machine optimized methods of making fries.
Dutch privacy watchdog recommends government organisations stop using Facebook
The article posted and discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39998396

It claims to have a Quantum Algorithm for Lattice Problems.

Now there's a note:

"Update on April 18: Step 9 of the algorithm contains a bug, which I don’t know how to fix."

...

"Now the claim of showing a polynomial time quantum algorithm for solving LWE with polynomial modulus-noise ratios does not hold."
tesla booked musk's much-discussed options package as a $2.5 billion expense. opportunity cost aside, it's silly to imply that a public company isn't going to act differently after it's stuck a significant fraction of its revenue on the wrong side of its balance sheet: analysts definitely will be.
You would want to be in a Cybertruck, when you press the brake pedal it auto overrides the accelerator pedal. Being in a Cybertruck with a stuck accel pedal is way safer than in a traditional truck
What does unapproved mean in this context? That it didn't pass by Musk's desk?
At least the wheels falling off slow the car down.
For scripts, I've learned a couple tricks from OpenAI's Cookbook examples.

This one came in handy not too long ago:
https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples...
Aren't most journalists carrying water for certain politicians? Just look at the article Uri Berliner wrote on how politics affected their reporting. The journalists felt a need to cover up a story because it would negatively impact a favored politician of nearly everyone there

https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-tru...
Drive-Through Car Wash Was Too Much for Tesla Cybertruck
If it's a place of business that has banned politics, why does he keep blogging things that make him sound like a deranged culture warrior?
Takata is the airbag company, Takeda is a pharma corp.
While a CSPRNG would have solved this problem, it also would've created a new one: much slower chunk loading and random item placement, which would have greatly slowed down the game simulation, and thus tanked framerate and playability. As it turns out, the right solution is to use multiple, isolated non-cryptographic random number generators with distinct state. That way, even though you can guess the state of one of them, it doesn't give you any insight into the others.
You might be interested in checking out perspective[0] they server side `tables` which propagate changes to frontend charts by sending row diffs.

[0] https://perspective.finos.org/
I currently work for a company owned by Apollo, and nothing about Apollo has changed.
We’re pointing the JWT pretty far out, so why wouldn’t we just point a camera at this thing?
There is an update:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40086515

"Update on April 18: Step 9 of the algorithm contains a bug, which I don’t know how to fix."

...

"Now the claim of showing a polynomial time quantum algorithm for solving LWE with polynomial modulus-noise ratios does not hold."
I don’t think most of GMS works behind the great firewall right? So technically, all Android phones sold in China should be using something else.
>That is a strength, not a weakness

The trouble is self-styled "both sides" types believe that since they take the both sides approach, they have insulated themselves from the kinds of politicization that compromises the extremes. But the manner in which you position yourself relative to those extremes is every bit as politicized and every bit as liable to the same cognitive biases and rationalizations.

Misinformed climate skeptics often regard themselves in this way, as not taking one side or the other on global warming. They mistakenly believe that this orientation has elevated them above equivalently offensive extremes, but in truth they have compromised their own media literacy by orienting themselves in that manner.

There are numerous instances of this all over the political spectrum, Cornell West talking to left-wing academics in left-wing academic language about how "nobody" thinks Obama is truly left-wing. Journalists during the Iraq war had a both sides approach that cashed out as extremely hawkish and apologetic in defense of the Iraq war.

The Lex Friedman version is a "centrist" in a specific kind of media environment that lends disproportionate visibility towards its own set of boutique topics. The combination of optimism about technology and trends especially around AI and crypto and some libertarian leaning politics surrounding it, which at its periphery finds itself disproportionately saturated by right-wing memeing and politics. And so it's a form of centerism that's in the center of a world as described by those things. But for him and his viewers it's something they consider a perfectly neutral state of nature that's free of any adornment of ideology.
There was an update of the paper 2024-04-18:

"Note: Update on April 18: Step 9 of the algorithm contains a bug, which I don’t know how to fix. See Section 3.5.9 (Page 37) for details. I sincerely thank Hongxun Wu and (independently) Thomas Vidick for finding the bug today. Now the claim of showing a polynomial time quantum algorithm for solving LWE with polynomial modulus-noise ratios does not hold. I leave the rest of the paper as it is (added a clarification of an operation in Step 8) as a hope that ideas like Complex Gaussian and windowed QFT may find other applications in quantum computation, or tackle LWE in other ways."
Is that the dichotomy here? Strange worldview.

I mean at risk of being complicit in genocide.
> Any answer is subject to the follow-up question, well why does that thing exist? Why did that happen?

Various kinds of faith (religious, scientific, etc) can stop infinite regress.

> If a question cannot be answered, there's no point in asking it I think.

Easy peasy.
Does this mean that, theoretically, this could lead to the ability to build MacOS apps in higher languages that interoperate well with C such as Python? I know you can build MacOS apps with Python now, but does this potentially improve the experience?
His compensation was in stock options.