skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Tesla spaces" tend to be dominated by Tesla stockholders who care more about share price than cars and customers. They have a way of turning every bit of Tesla news into actually being a good thing for the stock because <reason>.

Supercharger rollout wasn't slow. They have been averaging more than one new station opened per day in the US alone. If a new gas station brand were opening 30+ new gas stations per month in the US I think we'd find that impressive.
Seriously who wouldn't take that trade haha. That being said, I think it takes a certain kind of person to do all of this stuff and not fold to the stress in the first place
How is it a genocide if the victims have a larger population in the same location than when it started?

Not every bad thing or territorial war, even of conquest, is a genocide.
Those are extremely arbitrary metrics stated without sources. Do better.
The Innovators Dilemma.
IPSWDL is the ideal platform for downloading iDevice IPSW firmware files plus OTA updates directly from the Apple server.

The platform uses API to get firmware and device information while also providing its API endpoints for developers to use and pull content.
Honestly we’ll probably just figure out how much a football field costs and use that.
As a yimby, I am required by consistency and good taste to applaud this outcome. Cities with their own local environmental rules is a recipe for disaster. It is the reason why American construction is paralyzed. You can say that these environmental regulations included air and water rules, but mainly what they've been used to do is to stop the construction of housing. The fact that Austin was able to enforce its development regulations outside of its own city limits is pretty ridiculous honestly.
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How would that work without allowing nefarious implementations to federate incorrect previews? Is that even really an issue? It doesn’t seem to be one technically, but I’m not well-versed on the social engineering implications.
> This is the most interesting part of the article for me. Google's approach today, versus how it reacted to the backlash against Maven in 2018, reflects a very different company with a different attitude toward the opinions of its employees.

I have two theories, both come with no warranty:

- Google is alarmed at how much "trust and safety" affected their ability to deliver LLMs, and is listening fractionally less to people of this political viewpoint

- Google has more existential threats and no more ridiculous ZIRP to coast along on, and so needs real income from customers that value it

- The Google department that owns this contract has some clout, and wanted to show its high-paying customer that it wasn't going to be swayed by the politics of its staff members
In a way, it's useful that American roads are so unsafe. It means self-driving vehicles can be deployed early, in an environment where they can do some good, well prior to when they'd be a net safety improvement in e.g. Norway.
The rich getting richer is not "trickle down economics", it's just the natural consequence of evenly distributed economic growth.

If Bob makes $5000 a month and Steve makes $10,000 a month, then the income disparity between those two individuals is $5000 a month. Now imagine the economy doubles in size and those gains are evenly distributed. Now Bob will be making $10,000 a month and Steve will be making $20,000, and the income disparity between the two will be $10,000 a month.

There's nothing trickling down in that scenario.
What are some of the devices that allow you to easily change the IMEI?
Might be good to have some flexibility in where those particular tokens are placed, but yeah -- I could see value in creating a "pool" of tokens that should be used at some point in the future in the answer.
> Unlike in the US or Dubai where entrepreneurs will travel to start businesses, in the UK you would typically look to do the opposite

What? The UK has a massive amount of immigration, and loads of startups and tech companies were started by Europeans moving to the UK TO START A BUISNESS. Like, you probably picked the worst country to make this claim about.
A lot of these AI-related announcements seem to be doing this sort of baiting.

"I made a new thing", go to the repo, COMING SOON. Or this, here's the paper, no we won't show our work.
For me the big advantage of Tesla FSD is that I find I spend more attention watching for moose in rural areas and pedestrians/situational awareness in urban areas because I can let the computer handle the mundane stuff.

Is this also the case with Blue Cruise? Does the eyeball monitoring camera count watching ditches & sidewalks as "paying attention" or does it force you to strictly keep eyes front?
If Europe had 50 small companies doing what big tech does I don't think there would be a problem, but the problem is that Europe doesn't. So it gets a smaller slice of the economy and has to "import" social media, operating systems, mobile phones, etc.
> I'd expected some AAA titles to be written in Rust by now.

"AAA" titles are huge and/or high dev budgets. Even if a game is "starting from scratch" the engine development team are still likely taking code from previous projects to get started. Of course there are other factors. It could be a BIG RISK to move to another programming language when the team, despite frustrations, are already familiar with something else... like the perks C++ brings (you learn from trial-and-error)

Could you imagine learning Rust as-you-go... building a AAA title... and fighting the compiler? To me it is a huge risk!

That is my opinion.. but I am sure others will disagree. If there is anyone on (or did) a AAA title with Rust... I would be happy to hear more about it.

I am not saying it will never happen. Maybe a AAA title is currently in development in Rust. I honestly dont know. However, game developers... if they are looking into Rust... are also looking at Odin, Jai, or Zig. For gaming, I think they are better alternatives than Rust but (again) that is my opinion.

Now for smaller, indie games - the possibility of moving to Rust (or another language) is more likely. Likely a fair percentage have moved away from C++ now.
Keynote: Rethinking Serverless with Flame – Chris McCord – ElixirConf EU 2024 [video]
As A renter, I wish more people thought like this. It is 100% the impediment for me going EV on my next vehicle purchase. I don't see apartment complexes like mine (built ca. 2000) retrofitting parking stalls for any level of charging without subsidy and lots of kicking and screaming.
My takeaway was that he was a lunatic, not particularly thoughtful and had an infinite risk tolerance
>the low end jobs were made non-existent by regulation and people who work them in the US live off government handouts in the EU?

That's a very strange idea about how the EU economy is...

People really thing we don't have tens of millions of people do "low end jobs"? What's the idea, that they were somehow automated by robots?
I’m confused why you think this would put you at increased risk. You are allowed to defend yourself against threats today. Why do you think that would change?

Though you are also speaking as if people camping on your land away from your dwelling are necessarily threatening. If that is something you believe, you might want to reflect and ask yourself why.
The size of the payout was linked to stock growth targets, so when the pay deal was agreed it would have been clear it would be worth a massive amount if the stock growth targets were hit.
If they were unionised the workers wouldn't have been paid for the walkout, presumably.
The first sentence of the article you should read: “ OK so this doesn’t count as a real post.”
Nobody believes they're an average driver.
> Something like a diffusion model but for text.

This actually sounds amazingly useful.
Ok.

Seattle to Madison: https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=026855c9-03d6-408...

Mt Shasta to sac: https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=a5a84688-8fbc-412...

For some reason I have initial charge set to 40%, but even then there’s several chargers in range. At recharges are quick going to 60% which means if consumption is higher you could charge for a free more minutes and easily get to 80%.

Can you be more specific?
The problem is that a position's probability output is conditioned via attention on all previous positions.

If you want to be better you need to switch to DDPMs for example (e.g. an encoder-only transformer to predict diffusion transition probabilities in parallel, then apply steps of denoising).

The problem is just that these don't work so well from auto regressive decoder transformers, and encoder-decoder architectures like e.g. Google's T5 have fallen out of favor since about LLAMA dropped.
The tech sucks. Lack of 360 cameras. Lack of RADAR. Lack of Ultrasonic sensors. Lack of Android Auto/Apple Carplay. Lack of integrated Rearview mirror camera. Lack of Heads-up Display (let alone augmented reality HUDs integrated into the GPS navigation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8tl0KmqaqU)

That's just the standard tech everyone likes in cars in the year 2024. There's also the lack of physical windshield wiper controls, physical highbeams, or physical climate control buttons. (Everything is tablet-only for the ultimate cheapness / low-end experience).

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The funny thing is that we're in a situation where a 2016-era Model 3 has a better driving experience than the refresh. Well, you know, until they software-disabled the Ultrasonics and RADAR units to make the older model worse.
The obfuscation algorithm has already been reverse-engineered, so no AI is needed.

https://wuyongzheng.github.io/china-map-deviation/paper.html
While we're complaining, does anyone else think the button mechanism is too complicated? That diagram has 50 annotations, which seems like too many for a button.

I know nothing about fabrication or physical engineering, but surely it can't be that hard to make it simpler, like a safety pin or a <second thing>.

Not a joke. Thanks.
> Can't buy a gsm module for your arduiono

What do you mean by that? Ostensibly I can.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2687

Note: it’s on back order, but in theory I would be able to buy a GSM module for my Arduino.
I may be misunderstanding your meaning, but I'm not convinced that "prompts as a service" is short term. I think we'll see a number of apps pop up that will be essentially that, i.e. powered by a generative AI, but with a great UX. Not everyone is good at prompting, and although it is a skill many will develop, packaging up great prompts in niche problem areas still looks like an area of opportunity to me. I'm not talking necessarily about chat experiences, but apps that can, as an example, maintain task lists for you after consuming your incoming communications.
I was shocked at the crazy taxes on middle class earners when I was in Europe. Now way these people build wealth long-term. And it’s kind of on par with the US COL-wise.
> USSR has been eco/green paradise

USSR was poor as fuck therefore is saved money on packaging whenever it could. It was occasionally ecologically benefitial as well, but to go from that to "eco/green paradise" is absurd.

USSR was polluting like crazy, significanly more than more developed economies. It treated its citizens as replacable cogs, to the point that after Chernobyl catastrophe it was Sweden not USSR that informed people there was, in fact, a catastrophe.

USSR was denying any problems with asbestos, calling it "asbestos hysteria" of the west. Russia is still doing it to some degree, and russian asbestos mines are causing significant health problems to the people living there. About 60 000 of them.

Soviet heavy industry was ignoring any health, safety and ecology concerns in the name of cost-saving. The reason most "commieblocks" are gray is the air pollution from all that industry and 19th century tech heating with unfiltered coal-fired powerplants.

USSR accidently destroyed Aral Sea. As in - it's no longer there. That's some amazing ecologic paradise.

The only reason Russia isn't the most polluted country in the world is that it's the biggest country in the world by area and very sparsely populated. There's a lot of it to devastate.
„…the new device generated more energy than it consumed, making hydrogen production self-sustaining.“

„…seawater electrolysis can take place spontaneously… without external input of electricity!“

They use hydrazine N2H4 to reduce the input of electricity needed and coat the electrodes with platinum and tellurium which act as catalysts.
> Given the remarkably slow rollout compared to most things Tesla does

Oh, yes, that 1M strong self-driving taxi network promised to be delivered in 2019 is rolling out really well.

As is the Cybertruck, robots, and AI.

The supercharger network is arguably the most successful Tesla product.
This feels like a lot of industries lately. Competition is great, but the ongoing development of so many sub par products just feels so wasteful.
Starlink is offering 100x-1000x higher bit rates, depending on which Iridium service we're talking about. It's not really a direct competition.
> the empty Nutella jars were washed, kept and used as glasses for drinking - because buying new glasses was hard or expensive.

You do understand that sand is one of the most common things on earth (hence the glass is dirt-cheap).

Just as an example of those mentioned faceted glasses: their price was 7 or 14 copecks (good thing every one of them had the price stamped on the bottom). It’s less than the price of bread.

The only thing I could imagine about those Nutella being used as glasses is common “this is a thing from the coveted west”.
> Apparently much of ChatGPT's purple prose and occasional rare word usage is because it's speaking African-accented English because they used Kenyan/Nigerian workers for training.

Do you have a source for the 2nd part of your claim that they use Nigerians for RLHF?

I’m know OpenAI use Kenyans via Sama / Samasource [0] and it has been discussed here [1] before.

0: https://www.sama.com/

1: OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426421
> Elon generally does not fall victim to the sunk cost fallacy.

That, or he erratically makes decisions on a whim. Depends on how charitable your reading is.
Technically "for cause" means anything other than when the position is eliminated. So usually "laid off" means that the total headcount is being reduced, or that being reallocated to other tasks, so employees that are no longer needed are laid off.

If you fire a 500 person team and intend to replace them with new people who do the same thing, it's not really a lay-off, but for legal purposes they probably have to treat it as a lay-off in terms of severance / unemployment compensation because I doubt they can document an actual cause for most of them.
This means Toyota / Lexus, Subaru, Mazda, Volkswagen / Audi, Porsche, Volvo, and numerous other brands just blindly comply? Ugh
No I don't listen to All-in I can't stand listening to any of that self-indulgent nonsense.

FYI - because Chamath and Sacks haven't heard of Waymo operating robo taxis before (which is mind-blowing that they didn't know that considering a good portion of their job is an alternative take on the news) does not mean the rest of the world doesn't.

Tesla is indeed way ahead on self-driving.

In terms of Chinese EVs - that will certainly bring in a lot more competition but they aren't the same class of vehicles. It's like comparing fiat 500 and an audi a6.
It's called the Markov assumption. It was basically the single most important piece of mathematics in the field for decades. It allowed us to solve otherwise intractable problems given the limited compute budgets of the time.
I mean, this fork has 2 commits, made an hour ago.
Meanwhile, as other people have pointed out, there are already other quite active forks.
You literally couldn't go anywhere, at this point. At least, not very far. A mile or two maybe, in a rural area?

A decade ago, maybe you could avoid being tracked if you took only back roads in the country and avoided towns and cities. But now every house you pass with some private security system or vendor in it (in addition to all of the other sources, plus those set up on roadways) is reporting back to someone, and they're selling either the raw video or the processed data.

Lots of people reading this probably subscribe to such a system and don't even know that they're contributing through whatever private system they or the property they reside in are using, because it's buried and obscured under ridiculously vague terms about third-party data sharing vendors.

This article has done the disservice of making it seem like a single company expanding over a few years in an otherwise empty market. But it's not an empty market, it's just a new player gaining share as commodity-level tech matures.
As we speak, the Chinese are establishing auto plants in Mexico and Canada. Just like "American" manufacturers who have already done the same.

https://mexicobusiness.news/finance/news/soaring-chinese-car...

For consumers, the most significant difference between an "American" car built in Mexico and a "Chinese" car built in Mexico may be the price and how much extra they're willing to pay just to hate on China.

"American" manufacturers obviously have no problem sourcing parts (and labor) from China. Why should "American" consumers?
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sapiogram made no assertions or arguments, just asked a simple, reasonable and good-faith question. Your response was disproportionately negative.
Rubin got $90M as a gift from Google, beyond what was negotiated.
Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time
In the US being fired means you had a job yesterday but involuntarily don't have one today. Most employment is at will, so the employer doesn't need a reason to discontinue your employment. It could be performance or cost savings or some mix of both. It could also be no reason at all. The specifics don't really matter. They also don't need to provide any severance in most states, no matter the reason.

The "oh you weren't fired, you were laid off" line is manufactured by HR and is meaningless. If you come in to work one day and your boss decides they don't like the color of your shirt and shows you the door, were you fired or "laid off"?
The Electrify America experience is pulling into the far corner of a Walmart parking lot, and often waiting for one of the working units, or struggling for 10 minutes to even start one.

The reliability is terrible and perhaps forcing VW to operate a charging network as a punishment does not lead to a good customer experience

Tesla and Rivian network charger locations are usually in better spots than a Walmart. The chargers work the first time, at full speed and availability is always correct in the vehicle display.
One person’s maintaining is another person’s building. There are definitely many many very competent people with a “builder” mindset that would get a kick out of building a good maintenance / service experience.

It’s simply that these things aren’t respected by…someone…or someones, and don’t get the attention they deserve from the people that could provide it.
An example from Sweden. A commercial company organised a camping trip where one of the stops where on a persons garden. So they pretty much had different campers there everyday. Should a commercial company really be allowed to "rent" out your garden to campers?
Not really. The usual path I’ve personally seen _many_ of my peers go down is:

1. Study in the US or move to the US after completed studies.

2. work in the US for 3-10 years

3. Move home when they have kids

I’ve seen this over and over. You get to a phase in life where you conclude you have been getting while the getting was good and other factors are more important
Getting publicly fired and then using your labor rights and bureaucratic processes to draw out the issue seems like a much more effective form of protest than just quitting. Their tactics are good here.
Am I the only one totally not surprised by this?
You'd be surprised, Europe has a massive industrial base. European steel can be made with European iron and coal to make European weapons in European factories from European designs.
It is absurd because in order to make money the companies need people with money to buy their products. If everybody was a slave they wouldn't be able to buy anything.
#3 - Move somewhere you don't need a car.

lol jk, Vancouver is too expensive, and there is no where else in NA where car ownership is optional for parents.
By your definition garage doors aren’t mainstream because renters don't have ubiquitous access to them…

My definition of mainstream: nearly all major automotive companies offer EVs that are mass marketed.
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There's roughly a 25% chance the credit card reader / app will incorrectly reject payment (broken or not) on competitors' stations, and roughly a 10% chance the charger will be broken. There's a 1% chance it'll feed bad voltage to your car. There's also a 5% chance you'll have to make a phone call to arrange payment.

Of the dozens of issues that I've had across a few different cities, I think the problem was related to the connector once.

If they'd simply put standard vending machine credit card readers on them and not bothered with apps, they'd have cut their downtime by at least 75%.
Which Starbucks?
It's so refreshing to come across new AI research different from the usual "we modified a transformer in this and that way and got slightly better results on this and that benchmark." All those new papers proposing incremental improvements are important, but... everyone is getting a bit tired of them. Also, anecdotal evidence and recent work suggest we're starting to run into fundamental limits inherent to transformers, so we may well need new alternatives.[a]

The best thing about this new work is that it's not an either/or proposition. The proposed "learnable spline interpolations as activation functions" can be used in conventional DNNs, to improve their expressivity. Now we just have to test the stuff to see if it really works better.

Very nice. Thank you for sharing this work here!

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[a] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179232
It's not pledge, but firejail and other SUID binaries like it (bubblewrap, nsjail, etc..) are the only such ones on my system. It's better than grsec/chroot sandbox I used back in the day on Gentoo. I've also used shorewall, ufw, opensnitch for firewalls over the years. I could go on.
> and didn't become popular for gamedev until the turn of the millenium

Wasn't this also because Microsoft had terrible support for C?

Since the mid-90's, a number of gamedevs moved to C++ but were unhappy with the results.. how OOP works, exception handling, the STL, etc.

My understanding is.. by late 90's.. many game developers, despite using C++, we still coding more inline with C programming than (proper) C++.

Mostly C code but using some features of C++ like, functions inside a struct, or using namespaces, that did not sacrifice compilation and runtime speed.
As an American, I've been trying to get people to use the Everest, the amount of money it costs to climb Mount Everest, as the unit of measure for midlife crises and upper class indulgences.

(One Everest is around $50,000-$100,000.)
Behold, the epsilon turn:

https://youtu.be/t34dj8m1UGw?si=qh0JB48bmcpxY26B

The player stops spinning the disc, rotates the laser around to the other side, then starts spinning the disc in the opposite direction.
It's a stretch to call it work related for the person protesting. If it were, the simple act of not working would be sufficient protest against the opposed work.
> When the EU was performing well in comparison to the USA, no one had amy issues with the long standing growth metrics

This viewpoint assumes that the article is wrong (and maybe it is). However a metric can be fine, and then something changes which necessitates a change measure. What if this has occurred?