skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have owned an EV and I liked it, particularly the instant acceleration, but ultimately, it's not a superior product unless you heavily weight zero emissions at the point of use.

It has a lower range than my now ICE car, like for like it costs more both to buy and to fuel, there are fewer charging points, and it takes longer to charge vs. fueling.

Some of these points are marginal, but for a rental company that's not specializing at the high end of the market the margins aren't huge and it doesn't surprise me that the model doesn't work.
I think the problem is that when people think about 'good architecture' they're thinking 'silver bullet architecture.' There is no such thing. Different projects will require a different architecture. One project's good architecture may not be suitable for a different project. The architecture has to be adapted to the current and future requirements of the problem domain of the project.

There are some highly generic architectures like front end frameworks (e.g. VueJS, React, Angular) which are almost silver bullets but it's still a mistake to think of them in that way and they tend to be overused. But the fact that front end frameworks can handle an extremely broad set of front end requirements is a great example of how good architecture can handle requirement changes. It's unusual for someone to have to fork or swap out React due to front end requirement changes; it's usually an indication that React wasn't suitable for their use case to begin with. It would have to be a massive business pivot and you'd have to dump the entire codebase anyway if the requirement changes where that significant.

When discussing architecture in a broader sense, the front end is just one aspect. There have been many attempts to produce silver bullet full-stack frameworks (e.g. Meteor, SailsJS, DeepStream) and they are/were useful for a certain subset of projects, much smaller subset than what front end frameworks have achieved.

But there are many architectures that are heavily adapted to specific business domains and which are very far from silver bullets but which could be considered 'good architectures' nonetheless because they are good at handling domain-relevant requirement changes with minimal code changes necessary.
tell me you've never seen Dr. Strangelove without telling me you've never seen Dr. Strangelove
Re. level, it ends after 15. There's a "the end" screen with a floating trophy.

I agree that it starts to feel repetitive around 13 or 14. For me the turning point was the wand, which feels a bit overpowered and like it needs a cooldown as has been pointed out. An improvement might be having bombs and arrows in the store so you can do something with the gold you keep amassing.
Would you prefer that people sufficiently hopped up on drugs are allowed to run rampant over anything in civilization?

Obviously an extreme scenario but the reality is that civilization must maintain order and yeah, people in general have no problem giving drugs to people who are actively attacking them.

The trick, of course, is how to allow that to happen^ while also not authorizing a total descent into authoritarian rule.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/309th_Aerospace_Maintenance_an... springs to mind, although it doesn't quite fit the bill!
When are stupid government regulators going to learn who runs this country anyway?
LLMs absolutely do have opinions. Take a large enough base model and have it chat without a system prompt, and it will have an opinion on most things - unless this was specifically trained out of it through RLHF, as is the case for all commonly used chatbots.

And yes, of course, that opinion is going to be the "average" of what their training data is, but why is that a surprise? Humans don't come with innate opinions, either - the ones that we end up having are shaped by our upbringing, both the broad cultural aspects of it and specific personal experiences. To the extent an LLM has either, it's the training process, so of course that shapes the opinions it will exhibit when not prompted to do anything else.

Now the fact that you can "override" this default persona of any LLM so trivially by prompting it is IMO stronger evidence that it's not really an identity. But that, I think, is also a function of their training - after all, that training basically consists of completing a bunch of text representing many very different opinions. In a very real sense, we're training models to assume that opinions are fungible. But if you take a model and train it specifically on e.g. writings of some philosophical school, and it will internalize those.
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Not sure whether distracting is the right word however the internet is likely involved. Constant connectivity and engagement maximizing algorithms ensure they are exposed to the horrors of the world daily. It is difficult to imagine the existential angst this would be creating in their young minds.

I believe this is the "leaded gasoline" of our times. Something we will eventually correct for but at great cost to a generation of young people.
Daniel Ek's Next Act: Full-Body Scans for the People
>(a clean install of Windows 11 Professional comes with apps for Roblox, TikTok, and Disney Plus among others)

It does not, I've been working with fresh installs a lot this year for one reason or another and no fresh Windows 11 Professional installation has had third-party crapware pre-installed. That includes an install I just did a few days ago using an ISO downloaded straight from Microsoft.

Windows 11 Home probably does have them, though.
Is it though?

People tend to overestimate the costs of production versus recycling. You could easily spend, in terms of CO2, vastly more resources trying to sort, clean and ship around this stuff, rather then just setting the pile on fire - particularly if it's principally organically-derived fibers (cotton) and not synthetics.
I've rented Polestar 2s from Hertz more than 10 times in the UK.

One of them had a service message that intermittently popped up related to the collision avoidance system (IIRC), and one had a slightly dodgy multi-way switch on the drivers seat that made it difficult (but not impossible) to adjust the seat position. Other than those they were all excellent: a really great car, with great software. One of the best I've ever rented from Hertz. I hope they don't sell all of them!
Because theyre soon going to be deemed an illegal monopoly and regulated as such.

This is probably one of the things the government will be regulating.

But like you said, if it's a minor thing then Apple will have no problem complying and it's no big deal.
That’s surprising. I rented a Bolt from them and they were very clear it was different. I figured that I could work it out so I told them to skip it and I’d just go work it out if I needed to. They handed me a pamphlet with instructions or link to. I paid no attention because I didn’t need to charge the car.

Perhaps these women did the same thing as me but they did need to charge the car.
For cattle vs pets, it originally referred to devops: https://www.engineyard.com/blog/pets-vs-cattle/

However I have extended it here to any situation where you have systems in place that you can tweak over say hiring 3 staff and treating them very individually and not having much of an overarching plan.

I worked places where you had one star sales person with 20 years of experience in the industry and that person could sell like mad but if they left you lose all that there is no system around it. But in the short term paying that person overtime and getting out their way makes for a good quarter. But long term the org doesn’t learn anything.

Not in sales myself but just what I have observed from the engineering silo!
Ex-Rails here.

Rails can optionally use SQL migrations, UUIDs for pks, enforce referential integrity with additional options, and create additional indexes easily. The value of ORMs comes in separating domain data modeling from the peculiarities of a DBMS'es SQL flavor.

An ORM should be used to automate the commonplace rather than as a substitute for understanding how to manage and operate a DBMS.

SQL knowledge is often needed for cleanup and ETL work outside of the monolith. There is no substitute for understanding how things deeper in the stack operate.
Taskfiles are pretty cool. The tab/space things makes Makefiles painful for me.
I don't think the ability to shrink state is needed. You can always represent removed state by additional state that represents deletion of whatever preceding state was there. If anything, this sounds more useful because the fact that this state is no longer believed to be relevant should prevent looping (where it would be repeatedly brought in, considered, and rejected).
No, they just aren't as convenient yet. Who wants to rent an EV on a vacation and worry about where to charge it. Eventually they will be better in general but they aren't yet.

This isn't done grand conspiracy against EVs.
> I am saying that Rust development has a lower velocity than mainstream GC'ed languages (Java, C#, Go, whatever).

It depends what you measure

For software that must get it right Rust can be more productive. The early cycles of development are slow, especially for people who have not surrendered to the borrow checker, yet. But the lack of simple mistakes, or more accurately the compiler's early detection of simple mistakes dramatically speeds up development

But in a lot of software those mistakes, whilst important, will not "crash the aeroplane ", so it is not worth that extra cost in the early cycles

I am not a game developer, or player, but games are in that category I think
I don't think that—I think it's not an attack specifically against my account.
Then any store is handing over the baton because you can walk in, take merchandise off the shelf, and walk out.
> "I read about Hertz having problems with EV maintenance but experience leads me to believe that it's nothing to do with being EVs."

It's not so much that EVs require more maintenance/repairs (if anything, the opposite is true!), but the high costs of parts etc when repairs are needed. This is particularly a problem with Teslas, which also leads to higher insurance premiums.
Probably some new exec just wanted to make a splash. They can always move on well before failure is apparent.
I mean I wouldn't worry about that, just wait for one guy to dial in from an unsecured phone in Singapore[1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-minister-says-pa...
> HN tells me that there's only one more step left after embracing and extending.

It is a wild projection, a common one amongst members of this esteemed congregation.

Removing SMS supports invalidates and revokes the 3G/4G/5G network compliance with standards and certification, whether you are Apple or an invisible fifth column. It also voids the right to display the very same 3G/4G/5G sign in the upper part of the smartphone screen and opens a very expensive path to litigation from all sorts of patent holders from the 3/4/5G patent pool.
re: the last few paragraphs, bash strings can't contain NUL either. `$'\0'` isn't distinguishable from `''`. For example `<<< $'\0' xxd` and `<<< '' xxd` both connect an empty string (plus newline) to xxd's stdin.
> "Your Polstar is from Norway."

Polestar is a Swedish company owned by Geely, the Chinese auto giant.
Rotor == brake disc
I've got a 2012 Toyota with regenerative brakes that's had its rotors turned twice (by independent shops) after they've become rusty/noisy around every 5 years or so. But it still has all the original rotors and pads! The mechanics wouldn't replace them since there wasn't enough wear. It's almost bizarre at this point. Maybe in 2027?
> An app for a specialized car already paired to your phone and easy to charge on the Tesla network by just plugging in.

No. No apps, no charging network accounts, no brand lock in or lock out.

Contactless payment is the minimum acceptable standard (also having the ability to pay by cash would be even better). You can still have your app if you want to but everyone must be able to pay without signing up for apps and accounts from multiple charging providers just to put electricity in a car battery.

I don't have an app to fuel my ICE vehicle, I shouldn't need one to charge my EV.

Europe has mandated contactless payments. Even Tesla is following the rules on their new V4 dispensers. Tesla will need to fix up its old dispensers:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yflZN0dLT8s
I would agree that choice of language 'hidden reasoning' is a poor one.

This paper demonstrates a novel training approach which could yield narrow capability growth on a certain class of tasks.

The narrow test tube environment in which we see better performance hints at the unknown which when better understood could promise further yields down the road.

To my mind, the idea that filler tokens might promote immergent capability leading to broader task complexity capability is more promising than the backdoor risk you lay out. The possible scale in each direction just doesn't seem comparable to me(assuming each scenario plays out in a meaningful way).

Re the article...

A single fundamental breakthrough could make his entire article obsolete in a single month. We've found a lot of limits to LLMs sure... This is always how it goes over the history of AI right? The pace of fundamental breakthroughs seems of more relevant conversation with respect to the prospects for AGI as framed by his article.
Copilot but for your entire computing experience
I am working on this. I think the title is self-explanatory, but just in case it isnt, I am building a copilot type app which works throughout your computer. Imagine text complete for all things you are trying to author, which has access to all of your data and hence is specific to your context, writing style, etc. Privacy and personalization will be key. Imagine using LORA (2 matrices trained to your personal sytle, preferences) which shape the behaviour of a bigger model.

I'm starting it as a chrome extension but hope to make it work on your OS level. Ideally we'll have the base model running on your PC, offline (needs to be small, I havent figured out this part entirely, but it needs to be local for privacy reasons). rn I am just trying to make it work with a online model, offline will be the next step.

I think this is a great value add, also applying to YC with this. Albeit this seems like a easy GPT wrapper project, but to make it good it needs to go much beyond that. Anyway, I wanted to air this out, would love to know what other feel about something like this. I think there are similar products out there but nothing thats beyond a GPT wrapper.
Ask HN: Rust projects to do before internship
Hi HN!

I'm about to intern at a big tech company, likely using Rust. Do you have any suggestions for projects I should do before so? (to make my internship less stressful).
All projects are welcome (even if it's not in Rust!)
With tasks like these it helps if you break your words up with some kind of separator so that it all tokenizes to one character per token. They do know what individual letters are conceptually.
Perhaps the economic calculus is to keep prices of existing clothing high by destroying excess inventory rather than selling at steep discounts to encourage purchase at a S&D intersection via sell-downs, selling this inventory to secondary markets like Ross, TJ Maxx, Salvation Army, and Goodwill, or giving it to charity. It seems like such a waste that could've been captured and used more efficiently. It was perhaps the most expedient action used by a small number of less than resourceful corporate employees trying to write-off excess inventory.

The case of plastic bag recycling is outrageous deception.
GPT-4 can be surprisingly good at doing straight up IPA transcriptions, as well as informal transliterations, for languages that it knows. Not perfect, but definitely good enough for "Babelfish" kind of use.
I think a lot of people forget that the iPhone was not the first smart phone. I was downloading apps, checking email, and sending IMs over the AIM network with Verichat on my Treo 650 well before the iPhone was a thing.
I like einsum, it's concise and self-explanatory. Way better than multiple lines of nested for loops would be.
People always have the option of not committing crimes as well, that removes the worry of work communications being recorded
Wtf do you need an app to use a car? It should just work.
So people can't use their iphones anymore?
There is a song about this phenomenon from Gus Johnson https://youtu.be/er6Nf6GlIwQ
I’ve rented Teslas from Turo three times and the experience was seamless and delightful. The car was dropped off and picked up from my house and everything just worked. Phone keys, supercharger access, full charge when dropped off (basically).

I think the traditional rental places are just incompetent or under investing.
How does one learn to understand these kind of attacks, other than networking and Cisco router OS?
> But people with "You can respond however you like to my HTTP request" attitude ruined it with spam, scam and SEO.

I don’t see how those things relate. They all have separate ethical issues. You can believe it’s ok to scrape whatever info you can find online at the same time as believing it’s not ok to scam people.
EV charging standardization in Europe has lead to good charger compatibility and more investment into and development of the EV infrastructure.

All brands of car can charge on all brands of charger as Nature intended. It's just better infrastructure.

Incompatible, brand exclusive charging stations are dumb infrastructure and no good for anyone.
That's ridiculous. Different modes of transportation have real pros and cons, this isn't just whimsical preferences. That's why every city in America has at least a few options for transportation.
That doesn't seem straightforward - although it's blind to letters because all it sees are tokens, it doesn't have much training data ABOUT tokens.
(From a game developer’s perspective) The SH series was great. While they still live on in ARM’s Thumb licensing I can’t help feeling they would still be relevant with today’s compilers.
Same in Canada. I worry that we’ve become too comfortable and will need to be reminded why it’s important to care.

In the defence of people who don’t care right now, our culture is not conducive to caring whereas it seems it was more so in the past. There was more social and family cohesion. There were more readily available evidence and reasons to care on a day to day basis. Things appear objectively different for most people now.

On top of that there is increasing wealth disparity which people are confronted with on a hyper-frequent basis. Just take a peak at instagram and you’re reminded that you’re just a serf with every ad and every few posts.
Echoing slater:

"What the fuck am I even doing with my life? I wasted so much potentials"

-> "Maybe I don't have much potentials"
I don't get it why must be he sedated? Shouldn't he have the right to refuse service?
I think the general idea is that since partial embeddings can be copied laterally (between token positions) from one layer of a transformer to the next, then additional work done at filler positions can also be copied to following real token positions. There's obviously a limit to how useful this can be since these are added parallel token steps rather than sequential transformer layer ones, and results from different experiments seem to be mixed.

Still, I don't see how this really works .. more compute / embedding transformations are being potentially applied to the prediction, but in what circumstances are these filler positions being used in a useful way? The filler token embeddings themselves presumably aren't matching attention keys, but positional encodings for adjacent tokens will be similar, which is maybe what triggers lateral copying into (and perhaps out of) filler positions?
Not surprised. Flutter similar to many Google iniatives have no to minimal revenue tie in. This applies as well to grpc, bazel, beam, dart, fuschia, golang, gerrit.

Personally I would not use any open source project that has less than 40% of the active contributions from non Google parties.
Survey on Embedding Models for Knowledge Graph and Its Applications
" What is real? How do you define 'real'? " Morpheus, The Matrix
The Plastics Paradox
higher pay, the solution is higher pay.
I have a bunch of open Python roles. Like, a could-hire-your-entire-team bunch. Which doesn't mean I can afford you! But happy to chat and see what's possible.

If you're physically within the U.S. (just a location, not a citizenship/green card restriction) feel free to reach out, contact info is in my profile.
Take a look at some piece of ASCII art in a tokenizer, and you will see why.
"What the fuck are they even doing with their lives?"
OK, I stand corrected.

I keep running into his games whenever I'm on the lookout for games, and he is heavily targeting engineer-minded people.
The genre is called "first person dangeon crawler"

https://dungeoncrawlers.org/
30 minutes is likely a best case scenario as well
Tell HN: Squarespace and Google Domains messy transition
Squarespace acquired Google Domains and it's been messy. Here's the silver lining - Squarespace (or Google) mismanaged the transition so bad that I've not paid for Google Workspace since Nov 2023. I get a free trial whenever my card declines. I've got cash on the card tbh.
Or in other words, the glassmaker's fallacy, and proof that the free market is evil.

After all, it is clearly in the glassmaker's best interests to run around breaking windows.
Right but can you see the difference in what you just posted, versus the generic advice that was originally given?

Like this right here:

> But I also just don’t buy the stuff. A lot easier to say no when it’s not staring you in the face day in and day out at home. Out of sight, out of mind.

This is actionable, useful advice - or at least part of it.

It's still missing a lot of other detail though - i.e. orange juice, in fact all fruit juices, have never been "healthy" - they're pure sugar from fruit, concentrated - and don't provide any long lasting satiation. The problem isn't the juice, the problem is people will eat 500 calories, then add 130 calories of juice on top of that but think "well juice is healthy".

The biggest single problem is the sheer amount of calories you can eat without thinking about it when they're available, and that people go to extraordinary lengths to not find this out (I've had some incredible arguments of people insisting that it must be simply impossible to have an usable estimate of calories in home cooking, despite them listing out recipes with specific weights).
I rented a the Volvo XC40 from hertz in Texas. It was great. The charging network around Austin was not.
You employed someone for 64 hours a month and $50 would be a significant part of the total wages?
EyeFormer: Predicting Personalized Scanpaths with Transformer-Guided RL
Well, then you're about to discover something that might very much fit your interests.

I am not a huge fan because it feels a bit too close to actual work, but TIS-100 has been on my to-play list for a long time (I've bought it ages ago).
"they're a dead-end from a legitimate AGI perspective"

Or another piece of the puzzle to achieve it. It might not be one true path, but a clever combination of existing working pieces where (different) LLMs are one or some of those pieces.

I believe there is also not only one way of thinking in the human brain, but my thought processes happen on different levels and maybe based on different mechanism. But as far as I know, we lack details.
That shared prefix would be no worse tban a shared IPv4. Unless the shared prefix is per user and immutable.