skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We would package our python server that the user installs on their machine" - which version of python? What if the user already has python v3.8 will you force them to upgrade or use python version switcher? What about pip3? Will you install a bunch of packages? When I hear install on user's machine I think, use golang and ship just 1 binary.
Why does it matter? He's not particularly more narcissistic than any other CEO. Steve Jobs? I'm generally not concerned about the specific personality type of the CEO or any other employee at a company when I buy a product.

Tesla is clearly the industry leader in terms of volume, technology, and efficiency. The market wouldn't exist without them. Most of those companies your listing can't/don't produce in volume because they have massive negative margin and range/dollar is inferior to Tesla. Only a few companies are in a place where they can make money on selling electric vehicles such as BYD and they did it through relentlessly copying Tesla.
I know the idea is you save money by saving time but each of these AI services want another $30/mo and they all do kinda the same thing powered by the same models. I’m just so subscription fatigued.
Devs will do literally anything to avoid writing actual CSS
Supposedly 10% of trains in the USA are about 10,000 feet or longer. Duckduckgo tells me that's about 3km. Supposedly there's at least one train 14,000 feet or longer.

https://www.aar.org/issue/freight-train-length/
Using AI for Neurodiversity and Building Inclusive Tools – Smashing Magazine
Isn't that what they call an "externality"?
I think the whole "Let me tell you what I want and you make it for me" is the wrong approach here. I think it would be more informative and generative if you gave it an example and could work with the AI through iterations.

For example, give it a Tailwind login form/page and have it create a dark version. Have it generate an alternative layout, etc.
But Waymo can't yet offer commercial service on freeways.
> Frankly, even if you disagree with the vote, a democracy can and should be able to make such judgement calls

That's literally SCOTUS's job though, particularly as it relates to the US Constitution. The whole point is that unconstitutional laws "in theory" should be struck down.
Those Delta ones look nice but I can't find a reseller for them unfortunately (specifically the DVS-G106W02-2GF)
The boring answer is that its simple community.

If you surround yourself by friends who all do that one thing and are all driven to be good at that thing, you will be motivated to do the same thing and get good at it, and motivate other people in turn.

Silicon Valley used to be like this.
> we shouldn't allow politicians to distance themselves from that action

Again, we have an actual case on hand. Who is distancing themselves from anything? Whose position—in talk and votes—on each of these issues isn’t abundantly clear?
Yep! C# is on our roadmap, coming up next after we ship support for Ruby. I recently joined the engineering team at Stainless and this was one of the first questions that I asked. I'm a C# enthusiast and worked at Xamarin back in the day, so I'm pretty excited for this feature.
> If I was a senator, I would consider that almost treasonous.

The Constitution - in this case, probably the First Amendment - very clearly limits what the Senate can do. The entire three-branch system is built on checks and balances of this nature.

> Frankly, even if you disagree with the vote, a democracy can and should be able to make such judgement calls.

Can we vote to put redheads in extermination camps?
No. The Supreme Court exists primarily to interpret the law, reconcile laws with other laws, and address vague language or other inconsistencies. Overriding the will of senators, immediately after a bill’s passing, is very rare and threatens their perceived legitimacy. Senators can always impeach SCOTUS judges, and to do such an act begs for it.
Be that as it may - it wasn't started in Palo Alto or Pleasanton. Their about page[1] mentions the predecessor company was founded in New Jersey (1996), before moving to San Jose (1998), then Pleasanton (2000)

1. https://www.zoho.com/aboutus.html
As a fellow lazy hobbyist, I'm gonna suggest that buying the cheapest ESP32 / -C3 / -C6 boards can be a poor value. The cheap ones are often > 25.4mm wide so on a single standard breadboard the pins are only accessible on one side[0]. Also having recently been fighting CircuitPython running out of memory parsing a ~35KB response from a web service, boards with some PSRAM are real nice to have. And speaking of CircuitPython, ESP32-S3/S2 boards can run the UF2 bootloader for that Pi Pico-like experience.

Waveshare's super compact ESP32-S3-Mini (or Zero) has become my first-to-grab. For 5 direct from their China site it works out to $7.35/ea pre-soldered with shipping or save a buck each for unsoldered. 2MB PSRAM and 13 usable GPIO. They also have less cheap -S3 boards in Arduino Nano ESP32, Pi Pico, and ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1[1] formats. And the oddball ESP32 One in Pi Zero format, using an ESP32 w/ off-die PSRAM. They sell on Amazon, too.

A genuine Espressif ESP32-S2-DevKitC-1-N8R2 is $8 on Amazon, a relative bargain if you need it tomorrow and can live with one less LX7 core and no Bluetooth.

[0] If you use the trick of spanning two breadboards side-by-side, that's an extra cost that could have gone towards a better smaller board.

[1] Beware of cheap boards claiming to be copies of Espressif's 25.4mm board designs, many have been widened to ~28mm. Bad ESP32-S[3|2]-DevKit[C|M]-1 copies give themselves away by having enough room on top to put pin labels next to the pins instead of between them.
That's a really good tip to screen
The devil is in the details and, at the end of the day, the person with the problem is the one who has to solve it. Even armed with great advice that's not an easy task or it wouldn't be a problem to begin with.
One of the main challenges for co-ops is navigating the entry and exit. If you had Direct employee ownership, you have to buy in when you start and sell your stock back when you leave.

A trust with the employees as beneficiaries solves a lot of these problems. It also prevents the co-op members from taking the company public for a huge payday.
um, rust? Web3 is soooo rust.
The replying comment side stepped the discussion of error messages lacking context that could be easily remedied to be identifiable and the response was "it's in the manual". All error messages meant to be understood by humans should be in the manual at minimum, but what the replyer suggested by ignoring the conversation was "your issue with the error message isn't important because you can figure it out yourself". It's dismissive to respond to nuanced articulated opinions made in good faith with simplistic matter-of-fact answers that don't address the problem, which could easily be seen as a form of hostility in a place meant for discussion and engagement.

You could argue that's not their intent or that it's the case of direct wording than intentionally being curt, but this is the second post in the chain that dismisses the legitimate discussion with additional redress to make sure you let the poster know that it's their problem "punching at shadows" and that their problems are imagined. What a shameful display of lacking empathy.
I feel like if TikTok didn't want this to happen, they should have not had their CEO commit perjury in front of Congress.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tikt...
> You can't have it both ways: either ChatGPT as it is now is dangerous (hence you don't open the weights but you also should not commercialize it) or it is not and there's no good reason to keep it secret.

Almost every dangerous thing I can think of "has it both ways" by the standard you apply here.

I can use an aircraft without being a registered pilot; I can use the police without being a trained law enforcement officer; I can use restricted drugs when supplied by a duly authorised medical professional; I can use high voltage equipment, high power lasers, high intensity RF sources, when they are encased in the appropriate safety equipment that allows them to be legally sold as a lightbulb, a DVD player, and microwave oven respectively.

The weights themselves reveal any and all information found within the model, regardless of superficial attempts to prevent the model "leaking". We do not, at present, actually know how to locate information within a model as would be required to confirm that it has genuinely deleted some information rather than merely pretending — this is an active field of research.

By analogy: data on a spinning hard drive. In certain file systems, if you delete a file, you only remove the pointer to it, the actual content can be un-deleted. A full overwrite of unused space is better, but owing to imprecision in the write head, even this is not actually certain to delete data, and multiple passes are used — but even this was not sufficient for the agents who oversaw the destruction of The Guardian's laptop containing a copy of the Snowden data.

At present, we do not even know how to fully determine the capabilities of a set of weights, so we cannot actually tell if any given model is "safe" (not even by a restricted definition of "safe" as in "we won't get sued under GDPR Article 17"), we can only guess.

And those best-guesses are what people complain about when they are upset that an AI model no longer does what it did last week.

There is an argument that having open access to the weights makes it easier to perform the research necessary to even be able to answer this question. That's an important counter! But it's not even remotely where you're going with your comment.

> ChatGPT has clearly caused significant negative social impact (students cheating on their essays, SEO spam, etc.) and they didn't give a shit.

None of those are significant social impact. Negative, sure, but the "significant" risk isn't SEO spam, it's giving everyone their own personal Goebbels; and it's not "students cheating" because, to the extent the AI is capable of that, the tests they can cheat on with it represent something that is now fully automated to the point that it shouldn't be tested — I mean, I grew up with the maths teachers saying "you won't have a calculator on you all the time when you're an adult", but by the time I got to my exams some of the tests required a calculator, and now I regularly do ⌘-space and it does the unit conversion as well as the maths, and even for the symbolic calculus I can usually just ask Wolfram Alpha… which is on my phone, which I have on me all the time.
You could expand the number of lanes on I15 (like it is on the Nevada side) for a small fraction of what this project would cost.
It’s definitely a concern where I work (not Google). Deranking anybody who happens to share a vertical we’re in is colorable as an anticompetitive action[0], and due to our dominance in another sector (not search), effectively any anticompetitive action anywhere is a no-go. And since we don’t have time to review whether a particular competitor also competes in one of our verticles and run everything by legal, nothing gets de-ranked manually.

0: for context, us doj does not take antitrust action against companies simply for market dominance; it requires market dominance plus an anticompetitive action. However, they don’t like monopolies, so effectively any pretext can be used — see the apple lawsuit or the 90s ms lawsuits for how little it takes.
I kind of low key look forward to this.

It's hard for me to imagine TikTok retaining even 20% of the US market share after an app store ban. But that 20% would still be a huge cultural victory for ByteDance, would be an impressive resistance.

The US would really have to turn into a monster, would have to deputize a huge amount of internet services into becoming policemen to go further, and that's a horrible thing that I don't want to see. But also, I struggle to see that deputization down without a huge stink that makes congress look like foolish jerks.

And it'll never work. No matter how many ISP types we conscript, there's just way too many VPNs and other capabilities out there to workaround a technical ban. Squeezing hard will sort of illuminate the futility of the act.

And sort of that's my hope, that the ban becomes a lesson in futility, that sort of shows ByteDance's posture here is right (albeit at a considerable loss in market position). I want the internet to have a win here, I want democratized individual choices to triumph over tight centralized control, I want nations to not have the means. Other nations attempt elaborate control and I don't want the example of control to be proven viable here in the US. There's dark dark roads Congress & the government could go down to try to enforce this ban, but I'm kind of hoping they fail fast and fail hard.

(Also reserving the right to change my mind later. I struggle to see right now how picking on one (and only one) big foreign service is justified.)
China no longer wants to be an underdog and wants to be a super power itself, thus forming geopolitical rivalry with USA.
The video of the owl is a great example of doing a terrible job without the average Joe noticing.

The real owl has fine light/dark concentric circles on its face. The app turned it into gray because it does not see any sign of the circles. The real owl has streaks of spots. The app turned them into solid streaks because it saw no sign of spots. There's more where this came from, but basically only looks good to someone who has no idea what the owl should look like.
It is... not rare.

https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/unconstitutional...
Yeah but for me I am thinking of how kids can use this to learn things around them
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40130803, which was posted earlier.
Only if you fall into the trap of thinking that disparate impact = discrimination. It's easier to blame selective enforcement than accept that there's a problem there.

That being said, there has been abuse with them. Police pushing to classify ambiguous sounds as shots to justify their actions.
This is a major problem on the scale of carbon induced global warming, deforestation, and other types of environmental pollution? Isn't the solution, presumably some new type of tire, likely to be applicable to all vehicle types? gas electric or otherwise.
Judicial review has been the accepted norm since Marbury v Madison.
Sorry these sound like marketing brochure answers not real life experience.
I believe you that you own and love this device but be honest about what you really used it for, not what you could use it for.
Just because some other country suppresses what content their citizens see doesn't mean we should too.

I think it's pretty clear that the establishment doesn't like the content on tiktok and that's a large reason for the ban.
Congrats on the launch! Incredible customer list!
The station is on the strip, just a bit south. I think the Tesla tunnel will go there lol.
I think the linux kernel is close to that. And if you go with a minimal distro like alpine, then you're not that far away from what is described. Compare it to MacOS where just launching a program is a whole shenanigan. I have a small digital audio player running linux and the interface is a single program. I like OS for their flexibility, but when I look at my computing needs (as a user), I'd be fine with just a small list of software. Anything else is nice, but not "essential". I think that's why iPad has been successful, it's the graphic DOS. You launch an app and for all purposes, it may be the only one running on the hardware.
Pulumi's cloud offering to be clear. As far as I know you don't need to use their hosted solution if you don't want to (though maybe that's changed?)
Lack of trust in the project's future with the impending sale to IBM.
Zoe was not the first electric Renault. Do you remember that 2010 monstrosity the Twizy?.

The early history of EV in European carmakers are plenty of WTF were they thinking?. Have you seen the Citroen Ami?. Later the brands gradually changed its mind, in part by the Renault success but mostly for Tesla. We could say many things about Tesla but at least they tried to build cars and not toasters from the start.
Amtrak coach seats are twice the size of airplane coach seats.
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We will also have 0% coal by the end of the year (Radcliffe upon Soar has to shut by the end of October IIRC), by law.
I've used Everything for many years. It would be nice if it were FOSS. Still, it's always been fast and reliable for me.
The sensors are there and report on CAN bus, I just don't know enough about how the nav systems are integrated to know if they actually use the data.
Considering Congress passes almost 500 laws per year (1229 from 2019 to 2021, 1234 [sic] from 2021 to 2023), it is a little less than 1% of cases.

But that’s just the federal branch. Your list includes states and local municipalities - which makes the real number much, much lower. Much closer, arguably, to 0.1% or less of all legislation.
I think it is more than 5 years on average. Here is the answer to prompt from Meta.ai below:
Unit 8200 is an elite intelligence unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and the length of service for new recruits can vary depending on their role and position.
Typically, new recruits in Unit 8200 serve for a minimum of 4-5 years, but some may serve longer depending on their specialization and the needs of the unit. Some roles may require even longer service commitments, up to 6-8 years or more.
It's worth noting that Unit 820psilon is considered one of the most prestigious and competitive units in the IDF, and service there is highly sought after by many young Israelis. The unit is responsible for military intelligence gathering, signal intelligence, and cybersecurity, among other things.
Bad LSD being "a thing" and bad LSD being "a thing that causes bad trips" are very very different.

Among the things that people often sell as LSD, some have dangerously steep dose-response curves like 25I-NBOMe, some are pretty close analogues like AL-LAD.

None outright cause bad trips, and most or all of them are also sold with their proper labels and enjoyed by enthusiasts.
The ultimate plan is LA->SJ, which is a reasonable compromise and avoids a lot of the reasons why connecting to SF directly via HSR is impractical (it would essentially require a complete reworking of Caltrain to accommodate HSR trains, because there's no alternative anyone would accept to build another parallel rail line up the peninsula).
He could’ve said Nothing. That he’s so hostile to something that would be so financially beneficial to him makes me even more suspicious of his motives.
"which will prove this" is not a prediction, it's an assertion of absolute truth.
Open Rack has totally different power distribution than industry-standard racks and it uses OUs instead of Us. How much more difference do you want?
Do they even have standing? The proposed "ban" is enforced on the app stores, so I could see Google or Apple have standing, if they don't want to be forced to delete an app their users like. Meanwhile tiktok.com will still work in browsers.
Could all be a war over what datacenters get to service which customers in the end:

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/tiktoks-futur...
If the US has any credibility in the context of its constitutional sanctity, then this "ban" will be declared unconstitutional by the us supreme court.

if this were a poker game, ByteDance would have a full house. There is just no way they can lose this case, if only because the Citizens United ruling grants their corporation personhood.
Oh, that's worrisome. I'm trying to implement it in our embedded content soon, because some of our customers got caught up in Chrome's third party cookie blocking 1% trial that started a week or two ago.

Any specific problems you ran into that you could share?
Reminds of the CPU GHz race.

The main thing was that the figures were as large and impressive as possible.

The benefit was marginal
Ask HN: What are some words that you learned on Hacker News?
I'll start. "Orthogonal".
Should I throw my money at scammers or invest in a huge bubble read to burst?
The sooner you know about it the more likely it is to catch them. And the more exactly you know the time the more likely it is to catch them.
I wouldn't say there's a technical knowledge gap insomuch as there are regulatory and political issues in the cities that need more time to resolve than building a line through farm country & desert do.
> You dont need intelligence to have a startup that succeeds

Not necessarily genius-level but being smart I'm sure helps. You might not need it, in the sense that there certainly are counter-examples, but yeah, on the big numbers it's pretty obvious that it's an advantage.
Related: volunteering is a good way to get out of your own head. Putting your concerns to the side and helping the community can do wonders for your mental health (not to mention gain new friends with similar interests).
The argument from what other countries have done can often be used simplistically. Yes, it’s important to learn from other countries. However, when you look into it, it sometimes turns out that the other 29 countries have all done things in somewhat different ways, that their solutions are somewhat path-dependent and culture-specific, that they have problems too, and your country has some unique problems of its own that are hard to overcome.
The only Western automaker that can produce electric cars without losing massive amounts of money. Only Western automaker that produces EVs at scale. By far the leader in terms of technology and efficiency in the industry. Best range/dollar vehicles you can buy in north America.

A couple Chinese automakers like BYD and Xpeng might survive the next couple years, they did it by relentlessly copying Tesla.
This created a mental image of 'Hey, Frank, pop down t' tesco and get us some AAs, here's a tenner' from someone at the national grid :D
Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla's fleet into AWS for AI – would it work?
Google and Meta have limited what political content they'll show to you, feels like a pretty clear attack on something the establishment doesn't like but justifying it with the boogey man of communism: https://www.npr.org/2024/03/26/1240737627/meta-limit-politic...
Could be making the same http/rest calls?
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Not my downvote. Corrective upvote actually.

>It was only ever for the profits.

Why not? But remember how they had a proven bonanza without having to be the least bit evil?

I know that's not enough for some people, so too bad.

>no one's paychecks have ever bounced.

I guess you could say that. Technically correct.

>their direct deposit all of a sudden stopped.

This appears to be what has actually happened to thousands, and may continue for some time.
Protecting against speech is fundamentally anti-American.
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> I’m just so subscription fatigued.

I can help you with that for only $9.99 a month!
AI models don’t care if the electricity comes from renewable sources. Renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels at this point and getting cheaper still. I feel a lot better about a world where we consume 10x the energy but it comes from renewables than one where we only consume 2x but the lack of demand limits investment in renewables.
I guess my point is: it seems like a lot of people believe China is subtly manipulating public opinion via TikTok, but I think it's more likely that these feelings are just organic and they surface in TikTok because people agree with them.