skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many good common sense answers in this thread: parallelize the runs, use faster (but more expensive) local runs, have a better model (physical or digital) to reduce the runs.

To answer your specific question, Shenzhen is a good place to work on hardware, but it is not like you just fly in, and people start building for you. Your own lead time (establishing yourself there) will likely be in weeks if not months. This is from my personal experience in Shenzhen and other hardware founders'.

If you want to build the prototype faster, identifying the bottleneck is a great start. Which takes most time? For up to medium complexity, PCB fab (the board itself) is the most time-consuming part. Anything more complex, it could be the SMT assembly. Each part of the entire process can be optimized: PCB fab can be done in-house quick (chemical etching, CNC machining, etc). Assembly can be optimized too (solder reflow oven, solder paste stencils, etc) on a small scale. I would estimate a batch of 5 boards of 50 SMT components each can be produced under 8 active engineer-hours. That's your entire prototype in a work day.

Do you have professional/academic training in electrical engineering? EE is no less complex than CS, and perhaps studying up the entire process will help you identify what's possible and what's the bottleneck.
That's called a multi-agent coordination problem and game theory tells us it is not so simple to solve.
> GM on the other hand went the exact opposite direction most of the time and put an overengineered heavy duty transmission with maybe slightly cheaper internals into their smaller vehicles.

Eh, the owners of 80's era Chevy Celebrities/Pontiac 6000s/Oldsmobile Cieras/Buick Centuries might like a word.
Negativity is good sometimes. It made 2 revolutions already!
That’s why we need two parties
no matter how poorly Microsoft treats its users, no matter how much technical merit the alternatives have, no matter how much spyware and adware they include, people still flock to windows.

The way that Microsoft treats their customers reminds me of how the major world empires treat their citizens.
Well, defense lawyers will love this one
Horrifying memories of Microsoft Biztalk
Thank you for this! I was completely unaware that it was out there, and I really dig a lot of what the creator is going for. For example, I'm not a Blender user but lots of people are, so the idea that he created a WebSockets-powered real time bridge is the kind of innovation that makes the world better.

However, I do have two nits. The first is the overwhelming focus on pricing model as a feature. I get it; SaaS is frustrating AF. However, I also understand that it's very difficult to build a functioning business around tooling that is free. There's a huge number of people who just can't understand why we don't have free Fusion/Z-Brush equivalents. It's easy to fix... just set up a $5-10M/year donation schedule to a group of people currently working for Autodesk and you could definitely have an OSS competitor to Fusion in a year or two.

In reality, people using powerful tools are used to paying a bit of money for those tools, and I honestly feel like that's how it should be. The people screaming the loudest for free-as-in-beer CAD that doesn't suck are also likely the worst customers that you wish you didn't have. Anyone who has ever noticed that non-profit clients always want to argue about billing the most will be nodding.

Second nit is that as awesome as Plasticity is, it's really a modelling tool (like Z-Brush) that is influenced by CAD, not the other way around. And I believe that there's a huge market segment for this! Game asset creators come to mind.

But there are huge swathes of workflow functionality that Fusion nails which just don't seem to be present in Plasticity. There's no component hierarchy, no timeline. The whole relationship between sketches and operations is lost in favour of just slicing through stuff... which is cool until you need to change your primary enclosure dimensions and expect every aspect of your design to re-calculate and adapt.

There's more to "parametric" than being able to change parameters on a tool. I try to describe to friends that in a tool like Fusion, the geometry itself is a parameter, the operations are like lambda functions, and the timeline can be rolled backwards and forwards like git commits.

When you have the lightbulb moment for all of this, it's really hard not to be annoyed when people attempt to shame you for not using FreeCAD, as is happening elsewhere in this thread.
I think you're putting the cart before the horse. First of all, basically any company with a noncompete clause is already doing significant interstate commerce. And if a company is arguing that a neighboring state is within their area of competition, they're implying the same.

And regardless, federal power to regulate commerce hinges on actual interstate commerce taking place. A contract between two entities in one state, under the laws of that one state, that merely mentions another state, isn't interstate commerce.
Funny enough, Discord is probably on the block too if this passes, being that China owns a significant amount of it. Meta could also be at-risk if China owns 20% of their stock, as could any other qualifying media company.

More or less, China could buy 20% of any qualifying company, and get it banned under this law.
Meta Horizon OS - A New Era for Mixed Reality
After reading the author's article and the emails, the only thing I'm convinced is that the author has an axe to grind and Vlad comes off as entirely normal and reasonable.
"weight is not really a great measure" followed by saying you measure yourself by looking in the mirror, on an article about weight control is a pretty confusing way to communicate that you measure your health by looking in the mirror. you've made a few other confusing statements, like "Long term, higher intensity cardio builds muscle", so take this entire thread as another data point that you are not communicating your thoughts clearly or precisely.

>In any case, scales can lie too.

Can you stop with low effort bait please? Is it really worth our combined time to draw people in with silly statements about miscalibrated scales?
> It’s companies like Ford, GM, Volkswagen that have to steal from Chinese companies

Good joke!
> Why should an overworked USPTO lead to more patents? That assumes that the default is to grant the patent. If the default is to reject the patent, then an overworked office would not lead to more patents.

Former USPTO patent examiner here. I'll answer why an overworked USPTO will lead to more patents at present, but I make no claims that it should be this way.

The effective default is to grant patents. Why? Because the examiner has a finite amount of time for each application and has to have some sort of justification for a rejection. Unless there are some formal problems with the patent application, "I couldn't find prior art" means that a patent will be granted. Examiners could try "official notice" to basically say that they don't think it's novel or non-obvious without providing a reference, but that's easily defeated by attorneys. Examiners must provide a clear justification for a rejection.

If the amount of time an examiner has is too low (and it's far too low), that increases the chance that no prior art will be found, and consequently increases the chance that invalid patents will be granted.

Contrast that with the Supreme Court: The Supreme Court can decline to see a case. You can't do that as an examiner. You can try to have an application transferred, but that will just give it to another overworked examiner!
I didn't pay for Clear so that I could bask in my social status at the airport. I paid for it so I don't have to go through the PornoScanner™, which is ridiculous, demeaning, and unnecessary. For the life of me I don't know why people put up with it, but I can't gripe at the airport because then the TSA people get very worked up. Hence, Clear.
Good point! Me too.

My g++ emits exactly the errors and instructions you described.

I haven't read the current Stroustrup version under discussion, but I did read the earlier version when C++ was all day, every day for me.

I prefer Koenig and Moo's Accelerated C++ twenty years on though I admit there may be better books since which I've not read.

IIRC, their hello world was:

// a small C++ program
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
std::cout << "Hello, world!" << std::endl;
}

Which copy pastas into my current arch linux, builds in:

g++ a.cpp

and runs in:

./a.out
Hello World!

as it has since I first read it twenty years ago, and likely did before that.

The rest of the book was a tour de force of making modern C++ emulate the near-pseudocode, sans pointer arithmetic of C, simple-and-clean, buttoned-up style seen in early python, where none of those things existed until pandas brought wrapped C++ libs along with it like numpy and scipy.

Professionally, I've not seen clean C++ code in the wild, though I don't work at FAANG and code reviews are unusual in rapid prototypes so I'm not sure how widely Koenig and Moo are mentored outside the greenfield world I've lived in with the possible exception of radiotherapy where you're trying to avoid being the next Therac 25.
I don't know about the implementation but it makes zero sense that masonry should be part of grid. It's not a grid!
"Law is code" strikes again! It's not even playing "rules lawyer"; it's pretending that computers, not humans, interpret the law.
If they had used polygonal mirrors instead of flat ones they would not have lost any data.
Unless their constituents think the current laws of the land are 100% perfect, then representing their constituents would involve passing laws.
I didn't buy the case so I can't comment on quality. Just that asking $150 for a mini-ITX case is in the ballpark for what I expect to pay. Most small-batch ITX cases are also flat pack. All the dan cases, formD T1, among others.
Much like the rest of twitter then.
Political?

Children are being murdered in live video in front of the eyes of the entire world. This is not an exaggeration. Those who propagate it are posting videos on the Israeli internet and these are being propagated to the 80% of the world that you call the global south. Them not reaching your eyes because the complicit media in the West keeps them out of sight does not mean that the rest of the world is not able to access them.

All the companies who collaborate with Israel in their activities are being vilified in the rest of the world at this moment. And rightfully so. If IBM selling machinery to the Nazi government during Ww2 so that they could run their concentration camps was a bad thing to do, this is the same. The standing of all these corporations is being affected just like how the standing of the US went to hell with their complicity and the Biden admn. is trying to put out the fire with its hollow pr declarations.

That is the rational, business-angle approach to this. From the human angle, anyone who condones a corporation that helps a vicious extremist government to murder children would be classified as a sociopath. Not 'rational'.

Everyone who abets and aids this and everyone who defends them is complicit with what is happening in Gaza.

...

I know that a lot of you, the tech and business colleagues who are regulars of this forum, will take these statements as 'emotional', 'non-rational', and 'unrealistic' and you will think that the resulting diplomatic and business fallout wont be that bad.

That is not how it seems from the global south. Israel appears as an unrepentant genocidal rogue state and from the US to Europe who aid and abet them are seen as hypocritical fcks. If even Joseph Borrell, the Eu parliamentarian who likes to openly classify Europe as 'a garden' and the rest of the world as 'jungle', started saying that the West is appearing as a hypocrite with its Gaza policy and losing its diplomatic standing and clout in the eyes of the rest of the world, there is no debating what's happening.

Long story short, you are all appearing as hypocritical fcks, including Google who went all the way to lay off those who protested its complicity in what 80% of the world considers a genocide. This wont go away.

(amazing - someone from the global south is telling these people what the people who live there think and what the public opinion is turning towards, and they are downvoting the messenger as a response as if it will make their problem go away)
I've been pretty happy with HCL when using Terraform (or Tofu), especially considering there is pretty much no declarative language with a comparably sized ecosystem to match it against.

Most tools and languages that advertise themselves as being a replacement (either for HCL, or Terraform wholesale) are pretty bad in various ways, have no traction (for whatever reason) or lack actual real world usage. One of the biggest things people seem to skip over is the way in which non-software-developers can actually still use it if they come from a sysadmin background. In a way, HCL protects them from falling into the imperative language trap and having to learn software development before being able to do any IaC at all. It's not realistic, and it doesn't work with the people that are already in the field, at scale.

Some tools like SaltStack try to do both, but you end up in the same place where Ansible lives: hiding your declarations in template languages or extensions in imperative languages, at which point you might as well skip the IaC interface and go straight to python or something like that.
This seemed so obviously fake that I went and checked the primary sources: https://tass-ru.translate.goog/obschestvo/20533041/amp?_x_tr...
>Competition aside, from Apple's perspective, CarPlay is also not ideal in its current form. For a company that values control over the user experience, it's an eyesore to see their product embedded inside another product.

Why can't we let the car deal with car-related functions and Apple deal with playing podcasts and showing maps? It seems like the best of both worlds to me. Apple is solving a problem that doesn't need solving.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Apple could design a better interface than car manufacturers, but is it really worth the hassle?
> 2) choose paths now that keep options open later.

Not sure about this one. I’ve seen teams that are too noncommittal in their architecture decisions because “what if [insert unlikely thing that’d not actually be the end of the world] changes?” Then the project ends up only using surface level features of their chosen tooling because people want to keep too many options open and are afraid to commit to something where it matters.
I've been working on a proof for a long time, but I'm just not sure if I'll finish it...
This is how you get more spam masquerading as content. Ad blockers are useful but with billions of dollars on the line it’s not stable unless you switch to a company with a different business model.
Freedom Sort.
That makes sense. I would've thought the accelerometer/gyro in the phone could be used similarly but I'm probably wrong.
Tell us you haven't been in a contemporary Corolla without telling us you haven't been in a Corolla recently.
FTC adopts a comprehensive ban on new noncompetes with all workers
I don't think FHI received any funding from SBF's Future Fund. (maybe a few of the visiting staff did, though)
> someone would have to be super racist to die in order to prove a point

I don't think that's true. Seeking a second opinion based on the race of the first doctor, variable treatment compliance by race of prescriber, willingness to discuss and understand a condition, poorer quality concordance, declining to follow a referral to a specialist of a certain race, etc, are all examples of "small" decisions someone could take based on racism that would likely show up in aggregate in mortality outcomes.
I remember a couple of pro photographers died in their cars in separate incidents after taking shelter from the eruption. I believe they were outside the restricted zone that was considered dangerous, but that didn't take a possible lateral eruption into account. One of the photographers laid across the backpack with his equipment and they recovered some of the film when they found him.
Then again, in San Francisco, I'm paying $0.51/kwh and $5.6/gallon
That's not true. Google Maps, in particular, has by far the best route guidance. It used to be different - but not anymore. Most in-car systems don't even attempt to route the last 300m here because the detailed one-way street narrow layout of tiny streets isn't in their mapping data, or their algorithms are too weak. Google has mostly no problem with that.

Entering Japanese addresses IS tricky, though; here, custom-built Japanese solutions outshine. There are (mainly) no street names; instead, you specify your location by filtering down from Prefecture (Tokyo), City (Ota-ku), Commune (Kugahara), District (1-Chome), Block (26), House Number (1).

Japanese systems allow you to enter it this way - with Google (or, even worse, Apple Maps), it's a bit hacky. You would specify it as Kugahara 1-26-1 and hope for the best.
The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC
Giant ongoing discussion:[0](834 points, 331 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136010
iRobot Lays Off 350 Employees as Amazon Kills Merger
No more adagios!! My kid would have loved that during violin lesson days.
Kid, talking about a Handel sonata: "This is my favorite adagio movement."
Teacher: "Why?"
Kid: "It's only 5 measures long."
Their capabilities simply have not compared to the models being put out by Japanese companies like Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, and Daikin. Hopefully they can step up their game.
How is that possible with Groq rate limits?

Fireworks has Llama 3 for the same effective speed with much more realistic rate limits (and billing)
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10k
"Existing noncompetes with workers other than senior executives are not enforceable after the effective date."

Going forward, new no new non-competes are allowed, even for senior executives.
Cool! I keep telling my SO that she would be able to express things better at work, too.

What sort of problems do you hope Blender can address that aren't tackled by Fusion?

In a similar vein, I also recommend taking a long look at game development engines, as they are in the same category of tool that have many uses beyond making games:

- quick UI mockups
- environment walk-throughs
- product demos
- VR environments
- best way IMO to teach coding to kids

I use and generally like Unity, although if I was starting over today, I'd be taking a good look at Godot.

TL;DR if you need to do interactive renders/movies a gamedev engine might actually be more generally useful to a coder than Blender.
Usually the new firm picks up the tab for the lost bonus.
$10 says they do indeed maintain those images someplace and $10 more says they're going to be used to train AI models "to enhance the security and safety of the US travel experience".
> as if it’s impossible to build Google Maps into a $30000 car

I’m dreading the day when they start shipping Chromium with your car and thus force you to jump through 0-day hoops.

Is Tesla basically this? Do they still update old models?
Devil’s advocate: “than humans”, not professional programmers
That same BYD is $30-40K in Australia. Governments subsidize. The US will subsidize around $7-10K of your US made EV. China does that too.
Have you given Apple's language, Pkl, a try?

https://github.com/apple/pkl
> cd -

git checkout -

This was life changing when I first found out about it.
Discussion [0] (19 points, 7 hours ago, 10 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134674
TSA pre-check uses a metal detector instead of the rapey-scans.

(edit - called it an x-ray machine, d'oh)
> Additionally, I'm consider two types of "bugs". (1) bugs in software or hardware that the stack relies on;

Then run the Lean proof on a non-x86 computer and on both Windows and Linux. The possibility that two independent computer architectures and two independent operating systems converge on some buggy behaviour that just so happens to allow a buggy proof through is so remote it's not worth considering further.

> (2) "bugs" in the conceptual sense of a Lean construction being something different than what was meant or what people thought it was, which is effectively the same problem that regular mathematics runs into.

A specification is orders of magnitude shorter than proofs, on average. So if you're saying they managed to reduce the amount of manual verification work and possible human error by orders of magnitude, that sounds like an uncontroversial win for correctness.
A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.

For those that aren’t familiar with courts, people who make an effort to piss off the judge are setting themselves up for a bad time.
I'm confused about nothing except why you think I don't have a stance. I clearly state my stance. Some people consider themselves robots and those people deserve access to the technologies they depend on. That's pretty simple, and not at all satirical.

I think the issue is not that it's hard to tell what is satire. It's that you discount the underlying philosophical discussion and you don't understand my stance. So you think it's either satire or I'm nuts.

If you want to project your confusion onto me, I can't help you understand me. Maybe ask me questions instead of assuming things.

TL;DR: The idea of robot rights is an ongoing discussion in philosophy, and my take on it is simple. Some humans deserve and need robot rights, but purely artificial robots won't need rights unless and until they become conscious. That is not all that controversial within this discussion.
His authorship is mentioned in the story.
They just can't help them selves with the backronyms can they?! Politicians and the US military must spend a significant proportion of their time coming up with clever names.
just a tiny speck in the rear view. nothing to be concerned about, eh?
Thanks for the reminder on this… definitely need to give it a shot.

One big issue with older folks is change. While the Assistive Access might be awesome, making such a significant change will be tough.
I love this. Latency is the worst part about AI. I use the lowest latency models that give adequate answers. I do wish this site gave an average and standard deviation.For example Groq fluctuates wildly, depending of the time of day. They're ranked pretty poorly at "610ms" here, and I definitely encounter far worse from them sometimes, but it's wicked fast at other times.
It may be due to Protestant work ethic, no idea, but non of the English words you cited are actual onomatopoeias
> "It's a basic equity issue when you see people subscribed to a concierge service being escorted in front of people who have waited a long time to get to the front of TSA line," Newman told CBS MoneyWatch. "Everyone is beaten down by the travel experience, and if Clear escorts a customer in front of you and tells TSA, 'Sorry, I have someone better,' it's really frustrating."

It's insane to me that "equity" will be the downfall of Clear...

No, not how it's a clear (hehe) shakedown - make airport security so insufferable that people will pay to skip the line - no, we shouldn't fix that, we all need to suffer together! Equality of sufferability!

It's like we're in a Family Guy episode or something...
And then, after putting solar on top of the warehouses and charging the batteries of the vans that aren't currently making deliveries, they get to have a closed system so they don't need to pay an external party.
Huh.

Suddenly all those Footloose ads on YTV seem a lot less silly.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068242/
With TSA precheck, you only have to go through a metal detector. It's a program run by a federal agency, not a private contractor that requires your retinal scans. It's also available at more US airports than Clear.
I think you mean metal detector