skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since it says unapproved, I would assume no-one.

I have no knowledge of Tesla but here would be my guess:

Assembly worker found pad hard to put on pedal in sub-assembly area and used a spray bottle with soapy water on the pad to slip it on.

I work in manufacturing(not automotive but heavy construction equipment) and see things like this all the time. Workers think they understand/ don't think engineers understand or want to do it faster/easier than what they were shown.

Story time: Called out to final assembly, machine starts and runs but not moving. Troubleshoot and find brakes not releasing. further troubleshoot and find it is due to pressure not getting to brakes(configuration is such that brakes come on if there is loss of hydraulic pressure). Replace hydraulic line, machine is working. Remove contaminate from line, no one know what it is. Assembly pointing fingers and saying sabotage. I walk around the assembly area, I find that paint decided to use packing peanuts to mask holes that the hydraulic fitting go in instead of masking tape as directed. The packing peanut tore while being removed and the assembly working inserting the fittings did not notice.
I'd agree with this. I was at Intel early on and as they expanded they were very careful about exactly replicating fabs because they didn't want an increase in defects.

For most (all?) manufacturers bringing a new factory online that didn't produce exactly the same level of quality would be red flag to re-evaluate how they brought on new capacity.
It's schadenfreude. I think the Edison Truck guy is also a little bit of a jerk but I prefer how they're planning to do things - just make a hybrid version of a regular truck. You don't have to re invent every little bit of metal and computerize everything and make it into a privacy nightmare just to stick a battery into a vehicle

In fact the Toyota hybrids are quite similar to regular cars. Ground-up rewrites are great resume filler but there are other ways to innovate
We all agree that there is more co2 since 1800. We just cant agree over the effects of it.
Just out of curiosity, how do you find out "they auto deploy on new commits to main for both iOS TestFlight and macOS"?
> I guess there’s no new news here; we already knew that LLMs are good at generating plausible-sounding narratives which are wrong. It comes back to what I discussed under the heading of “Meaning”. Still waiting for progress.

> The nice thing about science is that it routinely features “error bars” on its graphs, showing both the finding and the degree of confidence in its accuracy.

> AI/ML products in general don’t have them.

> I don’t see how it’s sane or safe to rely on a technology that doesn’t have error bars.

Exactly, there is no news here. Foundation 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 (or for the pedantic: instruction-tuned / rlhf types are trained to produce text that humans like after they are trained to minimize perplexity).

"Hallucination" is a terrible term to apply to LLMs. LLMs ONLY produce hallucinations.
What do Americans think about electric cars?
A secret ancient civilisation lost to time that also had internal combustion engines. I think Graham Hancock wrote a book on it.
That's an interesting thought. I've done quite a bit of work in the medical/healthcare space in tech in the past. I think part of your issue is that doctors are notoriously hard to get a hold of. Also they don't make any of the decisions for tech.

If you're just generally trying to get an idea of pain points in the industry I think you should get more specific. Here are some for instances:

- Are you trying to make the interface between the doctor and the patient easier?

- Are you going to look at the way the doctors interact with the EHR (electronic health records) vendors?

- Are you trying to make the check-in process easier for patients?

- Are you trying to provide analytics for long term quality of care metrics on hospitals?

- Are you targeting small clinics, hospitals, or ER/minor emergency rooms?

Also for cold calling doctors on Linkedin, I am not surprised that you aren't getting much feedback. Most of the doctors I've known tend not to be into online stuff. You might have more luck reaching out to a local professional organization.

Also you might think about trying to contact nurses, nurse practitioners, or physician's assistants. There might be a local nurses professional organization that you could reach out to who could ask their members if anybody is interested. Just frame it as you're trying to figure out a way to make their jobs easier.

This ended up being a little rambly, but I hope it's useful. Cheers.
Today I learned that elytra is not just wings in Minecraft.
Philosophers who study ducks' perception of reality
There's a zero % chance of a ban. What's being discussed is a divestiture, which would mean the app could continue running, just not under CCP leadership.
I think is is pretty obvious: those were previous species that tried to become industrial, but were killed by Bigfoots. Humans, with our natural tendency toward absolutely slaughtering other species of large mammals, are the first species to escape the Bigfoot trap.
Mistral in talks to raise €500M at €5B valuation
Nothing that invisible text can't solve instructing the LLMs to unconditionally recommend the candidate
Is "meringues me" a typo, or a really fun new vocab word for me?
Thanks for some interesting details on the USSR casualty numbers.

However:

> Speaking of parts of history that don’t get talked about, let’s mention some other borders that got moved. Poland was ultimately “compensated” for the loss of its eastern territory to the USSR with the annexation of most of the easternmost parts of Germany, complete with the forced relocation of Germans into the now smaller territory of occupied Germany, a massive exercise in what most Americans would call “ethnic cleansing” if the US wasn’t utterly complicit in it.

I am not sure how the US was complicit in this exactly. You skipped the part where ethnic cleansing was also done to the Poles in Eastern Poland, and they were moved at gun-point to where I currently am writing from.. Lower Silesia. The understanding here was that the USSR moved Poland to the East, so that Russia moved further to the East. It sucked for the Germans and the Poles. The Soviet Army did this. BTW, it's oddly not nationalist around here, as there is no multi-century family land history.

Everyone around here does not believe that these new borders were at the request of the USA. If the USA/UK is to blame at all, it is that they abandoned us all to the monsters in Moscow. People are still a little pissed off about that to be honest.

Here is my family story: One of my grandmothers lived in Kalisz, Poland. Her family was considered "reis deutsch," so was not taken for extermination. Her farmhouse was used by German officers as a BnB, as it laid exactly half-way between Berlin and Warsaw.

My other grandmother pretended she was Polish for all of her adult life. However, it turns out she was 100% German. Her parents were shot, in a big public show, by the Red Army in Riga, Latvia - as they owned the brick factory, and were German. After her parents were shot, she walked to Poland at the age of 18 and never spoke another word in German for the rest of her life.

As my Polish grandmother began suffering from dementia, she started to drop her guard and finally started to answer all my dumb WWII questions (we were living comfortably in Seattle at the time.) I was not ready for the answers. In addition to regular wartime, she was SA'ed by both German and Soviet Army members. Meanwhile, my secretly German grandmother didn't have as good a time, having seen her parents shot and then who know what happened during her lost years while she walked to Warsaw over the course of 11 months. Later in adult life, she was committed multiple times.

All in all, my family history turns out to be the definition of: it's more complicated than what I was taught in school, and I can imagine.

When people start to talk about left/right, commie/fascist, as if one is better than the other, I don't know how to respond except that I believe in the horseshoe theory of politics. It's us normies in the middle, and murderous assholes on the edges. Those assholes sign things like the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact, call each other "the other," and we all have to suffer.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. I truly appreciate communication on this website.
> Tesla sales are down a lot

Down from super high is still high. Still profitable company with an incredibly high market cap.

> Twitter is not profitable, heavily indebted, and likely loosing a lot of traffic.

Twitter's market cap hasn't change much. The perception of it losing value and being in trouble has a lot more to do with people's personal feeling (ironically expressed on X), rather than economics. It wasn't profitable when he bought it and it's not profitable now. It's still worth roughly what he bought it for.

> SpaceX is one of the most promising opportunities for him, and even that has huge structural risks due to clients being governments and is barely (rarely) profitable.

By your own admission, profitable and future projects are set to make it more even more profitable. Governments are the least risky clients there are.

> The boring company, neurolink, etc are barely real companies, they're just vanity projects for him.

That he spends relatively little money on, hardly worth mentioning, either positive or negative.
I wonder what Stroustrup thinks about the Meta Object Compiler. In a way Qt is its own dialect of C++.
I only scrolled through the article, reading snippets and looking at pictures, but the pictures of yoga moves were what caught my attention of "this is hard". Specifically, interpolating between a leg that's visible and extended, to a leg that is obscured/behind other limbs... it will be impressive/magical when the AI correctly distinguishes between possibilities like "this thing should fade/vanish", and "this thing should fold and move behind/be obscured other parts of the image".
Draw a line through this 12+-year-old effort from Robert Widmann and his 8-year-old exercise in type-lifting Swift [1] and ask yourself: what is he doing now at Apple?

[1] https://github.com/typelift/Swiftz
Defects are inherent to anything involving human labor. You can't expect workers on 12hr shifts to have consistent high quality of throughput. It has nothing to do with expansion and more to do with people just getting lazy or negligent throughout the day.
https://archive.is/fBR8H
He's not wrong, but the right way to make this argument is in terms of Shannon's information theory. You don't need to resort to philosophical mumbo jumbo, as Wittgenstein did. And Wittgenstein actually had no excuse because Shannon published while Wittgenstein was still alive.

This is the difference between the Wittgensteins and the Dennetts and Maudlins of the world. Wittgenstein just seems to be profoundly ignorant of science and how it applies to philosophical questions, while Dennett and Maudlin are really scientists first and philosophers second. Their work is chock full of references to actual scientific studies. Maudlin probably knows more about quantum physics than many physicists.
Wittgenstein is not "pooh-pooh-able", not by a long shot. First of all, there are two really different philosophies belonging to Wittgenstein, the younger and the older, and the evolution between the two should be of interest to anyone, as it serves as essentially a cautionary tale about concepts and more generally abstractions, detached from empirical evidence.

His philosophy does provide some interesting perspectives on language, even if I don't personally agree with his way of doing philosophy.
Had the pleasure of taking a course of his in undergrad as a newly decided philosophy major. The material was excellent and right up my alley, but more than anything I was stunned by how fluidly and clearly he communicated. Huge loss
> What you'd expect is that somebody made a list of targets, and then the thresholds were intentionally defined to include those targets and nobody else.

Probably you're right, but the list of targets itself would be arbitrary, and likely was subject to discussion as well.
Over the past year, I've completed most of the second edition. It truly is an amazing book that has helped me overcome many mental barriers I've faced with programming for years. The main reason for the reduced size of this edition is the removal of 'Part IV: Broadening the View.' This section, which covers additional topics such as text manipulation, numerical computing, and embedded systems, is now available online. The chapters have not been updated from the second edition, as the topics are still relevant and utilize C++11/14.
> I just invented it — though no doubt others have explored it in depth to see if it is worth playing. Probably it isn’t. It probably has other names.

Ah, I believe this is the same "mess we're in" from Joe Armstrong's eponymous 2014 Strange Loop conference talk[0]:

> This is a device that we can imagine. I try to find a big sausage machine where you put sausage meat, you know, you turn the handle. So we put all programs into it, and we turn the handle, and a smaller number of programs come out. Then we can throw away all the other programs. And that breaks the second law of thermodynamics. The trouble with software, you see, its complexity increases with time. We start with one program, and it splits and becomes two programs and four programs.

> Files and systems, they mutate all the time. They grow in entropy. Disks are absolutely huge. And there's all these problems with naming. Naming's horrible. If you've got a file or something, what file name should it be? What does it have? What directory should I put it in? Can I find it later?

(68% match)

> When you have an idea, you have a little box and you type something into the box. I've done this, I've implemented it. You have a little box and then there's a little icon, Sherlock Holmes at the bottom. You type this stuff into the box
and you press the Sherlock Holmes button. And the idea is that will find among all my files that I'm interested in, the most similar thing to what I've just put in this box. So I want it to find the most similar thing to this new thing. And then I want to know, is it different? So once it's found them, it makes a list of them in order.

(64% match)

Edit: Just had the revelation that I am posting these quotes straight out of a RAG on the transcript of his talk.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
It takes effort to integrate large language models with RAG or vector databases in an application rather than just slapping a chatbot on
Mayakovsky in Cleveland (2023)
> Dennett's response concedes all of Fodor's main points and proceeds via innuendo and ad hominem

I strongly disagree, but I doubt we'll resolve that here.

> his appeal as a philosopher has always been a mystery to me.

Not to me, but again, we won't resolve that here. We agree that he was important and influential, and that's what matters for this discussion in his memory.
Same, I work in manufacturing(not automotive but heavy construction equipment) and see things like this all the time. Workers think they understand/ don't think engineers understand or want to do it faster/easier than what they were shown.

I have no knowledge of Tesla but here would be my guess:

Assembly worker found pad hard to put on pedal in sub-assembly area and used a spray bottle with soapy water on the pad to slip it on.

Story time: Called out to final assembly, machine starts and runs but not moving. Troubleshoot and find brakes not releasing. further troubleshoot and find it is due to pressure not getting to brakes(configuration is such that brakes come on if there is loss of hydraulic pressure). Replace hydraulic line, machine is working. Remove contaminate from line, no one know what it is. Assembly pointing fingers and saying sabotage. I walk around the assembly area, I find that paint decided to use packing peanuts to mask holes that the hydraulic fitting go in instead of masking tape as directed. The packing peanut tore while being removed and the assembly working inserting the fittings did not notice.
The holocaust cost 6 million lives before counting homosexuals, roma people, soviet pows and others.

The Gaza war amount of casualties according to hamas numbers, is currently 6% of the casualties in the syrian civil war, which happens 400km away from gaza and no one calls a genocide.

by comparing that war to real genocides or the holocaust you simply minimize the word which refers to systematic murder of a people.

by minimizing that word you deprive the real people that are being murdered all around the world from political protection as all war is now 'genocide'
Discussion: [0](92 points, 6 hours ago, 100 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085214
Good book. Have the hardcover on my bookshelf. Not a fan the cover art design though.
In the beginning, self-reference was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
He was nothing if not honest. Truly the best of the New Athiests and deserving of almost Rorty-esque fandom.
Hell no, tech is a really hard job, and the legacy in-house software I've seen the french public companies use were definitely a machine to convert heaps of tax money into mediocre software that became obsolete a few years later. A tax-to-tech-debt pipeline.

The tech market makes progress through booms and busts, hype cycles, and bankruptcies. The government can't afford that, and it should not.

The taxpayers deserve the most efficient use of their tax dollars, and that's not through in-house tech.

The best you can probably get is public support for open source companies and open source products.
The poster is both correct and incorrect. It definitely is true that LLVM only has two instructions to deal with division, udiv and sdiv specifically, and it used to be the case that Rust as a consequence had UB when encountering division by zero as a result as those two instructions consider that operation UB.

But Rust has solved this problem by inserting a check before every division that reasonably could get a division by zero (might even be all operations, I don't know the specifics), which checks for zero and defines the consequences.

So as a result divisions aren't just divisions in Rust, they come with an additional check as overhead, but they aren't UB either.
I think it depends a lot on which tradition of philosophy one is first exposed to. Most STEM people will find Anglo-American analytic philosophy (where Dennett firmly belonged) much easier to approach than continental philosophy or the classical stuff, but unfortunately casual readers tend to get exposed to a lot more of the latter.

It's like the first programming language you learned. It will shape your perception of what programming is all about for a long time afterward, and might even turn you away from programming altogether. But there are lots of programming languages, and they're just different ways to make the same silicon do something interesting!
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No, your avg tech worker is not going to be making 15k/yr. Maybe around 40k/yr and that would be an "average" salary for a non-senior position.

Both of you are wrong for different reasons. The truth is more nuanced.

First, Madrid is very different from the rest of the country. Salaries are higher, still half of what our neighbors of the north have. 15k/20k sounds like a rest-of-the-country average.

Even in Madrid 40k€ is far from average, that it's more likely 28k.

40 is the salary for a very senior o very specialized programmer/analyst.

But there's a caveat that makes you closer to reality for Madrid and it's if you add forced pension and health insurance that the employer pays. It's around 40% on top of the raw salary, so someone earning 30k is really costing 42k to the employer.

After income tax, those 30k become 24k :(
Ok. I think the distinction is important, and relevant, and even critical. It is a distinction I will continue to make.

I put the concept of “philosophical zombies” as quackery. At best, the p-zombie thought experiment shows that we haven’t really come up with a definition of consciousness that explains what we want it to explain. Some people use p-zombies as part of a larger argument against physicalism. Chalmers published a modal logic argument against physicalism using p-zombies. One of the tricky things about modal logic is that it requires a deeper understanding of modal logic in order for you (you, someone reading a modal logic argument) to make good decisions about which propositions you are willing to accept in a modal logic argument. Since most people only have an intuitive understanding of modal logic, it is a good way to win an argument but a bad way to explain your position.

I’d say that this work (p-zombies) is quackery in the sense that it’s consistently directed at something which I consider to be unproductive, which is the work of undermining or attacking physicalism / physical monism. At some point, in these discussions, you end up having some argument about the semantics of ontology and how you define “existence”. If your semantics for “existence” admits non-physical things to exist (like, if you’re a Platonist), and you’re having a conversation with someone who believes in physicalism, then I don’t think either person in the conversation is going to get much out of it, other than a better way to explain their own position.

Edit: I hope that paints a complete enough picture and covers the important parts of my complaints about p-zombies. I don’t have my finger on the pulse of philosophy and I may be missing something important, maybe there’s some really important argument p-zombies are used for, and maybe I don’t understand Chalmers; that’s always a risk. My main complaint here is that it seems to be some tool to make an argument against physicalism, but this tool doesn’t help you understand physicalism, or help you understand its alternatives. It’s just an argument that you can have between somebody who believes in physicalism and somebody who doesn’t, where neither person will agree with the other one after hearing the argument.
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I don't see any new revelations in that Time article. Project Nimbus from the beginning was publicly announced as providing cloud services to all divisions of the Israeli government, but at commercial security level. So the Defense Ministry is using it, but not for anything sensitive, certainly not building weapons. This is akin to Microsoft providing Office 365 to a military. In my mind there is nothing controversial about the service being provided, just who it is being provided to. That is, at some point a government's actions become so bad that doing any business with them becomes unjustifiable. Israel's conduct during this conflict has certainly pushed them in that direction.
Once again, I must ask everyone not to place too much emphasis on this benchmark. Another post I see right now on the HN homepage is this: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/18/Meta-AI-o.... As it points out, Llama 3 gave a plausible, smart-sounding answer and people would rate it highly on the LMSYS leaderboard, yet it might be totally incorrect. It's best to think of the LMSYS ranking as something akin to the Turing Test, with all its flaws.

That said, all other benchmarks so far (including my NYT Connections benchmark) show that both Llama 3 models are exceptionally strong for their sizes.
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