skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why project leads straight up bury their projects instead of transferring ownership to maintainers that are interested in keeping the project alive.
You are probably thinking about (proto)reflect.
I thought it was total bs, but [0] shows it to be true.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/239229/most-sold-car-mod...
Related article in the Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/business/media/newspapers...
There will always be unreported crimes. What matters more is changes to crime and reporting rates. Given all data sets show that crimes have dropped significantly

- If the reporting rate for crimes has been steady or increased, then we can conclude crime has indeed decreased

- Only if the reporting rate for crimes has decreased do we not know the effect. It would be dependent on the magnitudes of each

They get into some of this data in the piece
Yeah I absolutely agree. The way it was told to me, there are 3 types of people: Commandos, soldiers and police. Commandos like cutting their own path through the jungle and going behind enemy lines to do something nobody thought possible. Soldiers work as a team to make a stable foothold. And after the area is secure, police keep the peace and deal with problems that come up.

The world will always ask commandos to stay around as soldiers and soldiers to stay around as police. But that’s not their role. They’re needed elsewhere.

I saw this with my own eyes back in college. A friend started a computing facility newsletter. Every Sunday he was up until dawn finishing the copy in it, and then Monday he would find a working printer and print copies. I think he was funding it himself for the first few months. One of the computing staff (the “student liaison”) fought him every step of the way. He was constantly being trouble, making it hard to distribute the newsletter. Telling him he couldn’t use the printer. Random stuff like that.

Well. My friend was reliable and 6 months passed. Every week the newsletter came out and it became part of life on campus. My friend moved on and guess who put up their hand to keep running it? It was the liaison. The same guy who had made it so hard to start in the first place. He’s just a born police man. I think deep down he loves maintaining the status quo. Once the newsletter was part of the status quo, he naturally took it on himself to keep it going.
I think the word you're missing from my reply is "political".

The US economy is very robust, but politics have never been this bad.
The income tax rates are very high in NL if you earn above $40k - it becomes 37.07% from €35,473-69,398 and 49.5% from €69,398 and above [0]

Also the levels.fyi data for both Amsterdam and Jackson is regional (hence why data about Vicksburg is included).

> My dad was pulling $100k in port Gibson as a systems engineer and that was a couple of decades ago

Oh wow that's good money even today.

[0] - https://www.expat.hsbc.com/expat-explorer/expat-guides/nethe...
New winner " communication" at 14
When talking about public spaces, I'm certain that the big reason is corruption of the financial sort.

At least in my part of the world, the local government is in charge of public works. Be it streetlights, walkways, fountains, signs, roads or whatever. They do these things via public tenders and its always about the lowest bidder. "For X amount of money we need a walkway from here to here."

In most of the cases the winner is secretly decided in advance, work gets eventually done and the public get the walkway. Everything included in that walkway will be of the poorest quality, badly finished, crude, and ugly.

You may say: "Oh but it was cheap at least, so many of those public works can be done". Wrong! Its super expensive, kickbacks eat most of it. No wonder the politicians (both local and state wide) and their friends live like kings.

A bit paradoxically, when talking about buildings done with public money like schools, museums, hospitals, gov buildings etc, those usually look like from an architect's wet dream and I don't think many countries can/want to match that. The reason still is corruption. An eg kindergarden made today costs ridiculous amounts of money and "needs" an architectural studio with renown so they come up with a design which is usually very expensive. The building gets built as cheap as possible, and no amount of money is saved for future maintenance.
If they're successful, I hope James Damore jumps in on this.
Daily Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft over A.I
You are freely conflating profits and stock valuation, which aren't comparable.

The vote is basically on if the shareholders want to honor musks 2018-2022 comp package, which was recently thrown out.

The deal was that if Elon got the stock to 600 billion for shareholders, he got to keep 50 billion.
Really appreciate the kind words! And yes, there's definitely a lot of room for improvement when it comes to displaying the correct information, which is one of the top priorities moving forward.
Looks like PocketPod from the latest YC batch
It's a term I use for emergent behaviour. And some philosophers of technology would disagree with you, such as the panpsychists. We are just a bag of cells and yet we speak of "wanting" things even though we might just be deterministic bags of blood.
This is very unsurprising.

The interesting challenge here is helping people understand why asking an LLM to do something 20% of the time is a bad prompt.

I intuitively know that this prompt isn't going to work, but as with so many of these intuitive prompting things I have trouble explaining exactly why I know that.

Aside: If you need a GPT to incorporate randomness in a reliable way you can get it to use Code Interpreter.
Take a look at the visual tests for VexFlow to get an idea of the complexity music engraving can have: https://www.vexflow.com/tests/
Kinda, yes. You can do the opposite too (see: negative self-talk).
The FSF did not add the license to your source code, though. You did that (or another contributor), and the FSF gave you permission to use the text of their license. Adding the license does not assign copyright to the FSF.
Direct link to the book: https://everything.curl.dev/
Elon regularly fires teams that don't perform. He fired the management of Starlink in 2019 and the product was still a mass success. So much hatred and negativity for one of the most truly innovative companies of our time.
Android seems to be the go-to choice for most devices requiring a touch screen. You could get away with a lot less in most cases, but why bother when you can just throw together a quick Android app and use some industrial Android ROM to take care of all the hard parts? Everything from portable supermarket self service scanners to TVs has been running Android for ages. Sony has been putting Android on TVs since before Android TV was even a thing.

The only thing Android sucks at is native support for keyboard interaction, anything big screen or touch screen related may as well be presumed Android until proven otherwise.

There's one exception, which is Samsung, who is still pushing Tizen to its products, though their smart watches switched from Tizen to Android not too long ago.
Good new is most strongly typed languages work well with our current architecture. Bad news is Rust is not currently on the roadmap but that I can see that changing depending on how popular this demand is.
The US got to be a superpower because of 2 world wars and massive purchasing of US armaments by the allies, effectively transferring British Empire wealth across the water, kickstarting large local manufacturing, and being a safe production hub after the wars.
Are Amazon's Increased Margins Good or Bad News for the Rest of Us?
You have it backwards. There's a huge backlash when somebody's fired for being racist, or homophobic, or transphobic. Now anti-authoritarian protestors are being doxxed, fired and arrested; yet I haven't heard a peep from those people who "believe in free speech."
As a lifelong laserdisc aficionado, I would love to lend a hand here if you’re in the tristate area!
We have no actual data about exactly what happened and how they are actually reorganizing things.

There is literally 0% chance that literally everybody related to Superchargers was fired. There is 0% chance that the whole maintenance organization was fired.

The sources that are suggest here its comments from fired employees, and those kinds of comments can very much lead exacerbation.

This isn't the first time we got reports that 'every XY' was fired and it turned out to not actually be true in various ways.
It's worth saying that Ars Technica has an extremely anti-Musk viewpoint and often publishes articles targeted against him and his companies. As others have pointed out, these two companies merging is unlikely to rival Starlink and the article may be mostly wishful thinking.
Very cool, ordered :)
Deal. Not like they cared about law anyway, so it'll change nothing. They're already looking at life for the kind of armed trafficking they're already doing.
If you were standing on top of Mt. Elbrus (elevation: 5.6km above sea level), you could see the horizon roughly 271km away (assuming the horizon was at sea-level, there were no obstructions, atmospheric or otherwise, etc). The inverse of this is that if you were at sea level, 271km away from the peak of Mt. Elbrus, you could theoretically see the peak of the mountain.

So, assuming you weren't at sea-level, it's reasonable that you could see the peak of this mountain from 300km away.

However, seeing the peak of a mountain on the horizon isn't sufficient. You'd need to see a large portion of the mountain on the horizon in order to determine that it's actually the mountain you see in the distance, and not a closer peak that's less tall. This means that the observer would need to be at sufficient altitude themselves in order to view the mountain from this distance. I don't know enough about the math to calculate the necessary altitude required by the observer, but I would estimate an elevation of many hundreds of meters above sea level to be necessary. If anyone else can calculate this better, I would love to know how to find the answer myself.

Without knowing the general area of where you were, all I can say is that it sounds very unlikely.
I really like the US Department of Energy 'state of affairs' document called The pathway to virtual power plants commercial liftoff (https://liftoff.energy.gov/vpp/).
AnyCable for Ruby on Rails: How Does It Improve over Action Cable?
Because the UK doesn't have any dodgy crown-dependency money-laundering tax havens?
Sourced with european energy produced by european produced infrastructure and by workers eating european food grown with european resources?

It's "possible" for this to happen. And in the event of a large global war, we'll even go as far as to say it's plausible. But given that the world is heavily globalized and not at war, it's not actually what happens because it is cheaper to trade with others.
I can't think of a single hyped up pre-order that worked out. Either

* Everyone else can buy it when the pre orders are delivered

* Due to monetary constraints, regular orders are actually shipped before pre-orders

* The device is nothing like it was promised

* The device doesn't exist

The intentions are good (funding without VCs) but I rather the VCs lose money than consumers
Volkswagen and Mercedes have a history of helping authoritarian regimes, like Brazil and Argentina.
In this case being "bad at randomness" isn't because it was trained on text from humans who are bad at randomness, it's because asking a computer system that doesn't have the ability to directly execute a random number generator to produce a random number is never going to be reliable.
s/video/vibe?
So interesting. How do you see regulations getting in the way of the ideal that you lay out?
Or buy an older used car.
Recent product launches of the Humane AI Pin and the Rabbit R1 have been deeply disappointing.

These disappointments expose a gap between how AI products are being marketed and hyped up vs. what they’re actually capable of.

It’s part of a bigger trend that is rooted in Silicon Valley’s obsession with attracting investors and generating media attention at the expense of delivering real value to customers.
They come armed with statistical data. You come with a statement of fact that you don't support with any data. While I might be predisposed to believe you, you do not in fact offer any support for doing so.
FWIW, I'm using the atom minis with esphome compiled with the esp-idf framework without issue.
I have heard another version of this classification: people are either builders, or scalers, or optimizers, but rarely combine the traits. They are good for different stages of the company growth. Builders are good at the most risky and innovative stage from founding the company to getting first customers. Scalers know how to become big and profitable. Optimizers squeeze the juice and keep moats deep.
> Meanwhile murders, which are the one violent crime whose statistics are extremely hard to game or underreport, on account of dead bodies being attention getting, are still way up from the post crack war lows.

But... that's not true?

1900-2001: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Homicide_rates1900-2...

1991-2022: https://www.statista.com/chart/31062/us-homicide-rate/

We're at one of the lowest historical rates since the early 1960s.
Most articles circulating widely have included quotes from Google that the protesters that have been fired were physically disrupting those at work. I didn't expect that to be a contentious reference without a source, but sure here's one - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/google-fires-more-worke...

To be clear, I'm well aware those are quotes from Google's PR department. I'm not taking them as true and was primarily building off other comments here. I think I covered that well by making sure I including "if true ..." caveats, not sure what else you'd want from me here other than to agree with you.
> Russia can easily produce all of the steel and all of the explosives needed

Russia might be able to produce a lot of steel, but it is struggling to produce military grade, hard steel.

Half way down this article: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/6/2179504/-Ukraine-U...
Humans are bad at generating random data yes but that video isn’t exactly convincing proof of it.
It also doubles as a low-range space heater.
Not in Irish law anyway -- a verbal contract can absolutely hold up in court. Anything including a recording or witness can corroborate this -- not a jot of ink or paper required for enforcement. Still a good idea as writing is just simply a useful flexible and convenient storage mechanism but there are a lot of nuances beyond your 'if it's not written down it doesn't count' sentiment.
Not really in Space. Eric Berger is very pro Space, so much so that he is very often accused of being a SpaceX fanboy and other things.

He has written a book about SpaceX and has good relationship with SpaceX and Musk.

He is the Senior Editor for Space.
It's hard to look at a system where you have "AI" directly causing human deaths and not have a knee-jerk reaction that it can't be done and should be regulated out of existence, even if it's objectively safer than humans. It's an emotional position but as they say it's nigh impossible to reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
A Search Engine in CSS (2018)
Then it shouldn't have added exceptions in the first place. But exceptions in go exist and so does exception (un)safety, and denial only leads to buggy code. I cannot count how many times I've seen exception unsafe code in go exactly because everyone keeps ignoring them
I wonder why they didn't stamp the same data on both sides?
Said "requirement" is only a human construct. The computer doesn't care.

If the humans choose to make an exception for that, it can be done. Granted, the planning that has taken place thus far has rejected such an exception, but there is nothing about Go that fundamentally prevents carving out an exception.
Not exactly sure what you're referring to. If it's the legality of using a VPN to access streaming content, it varies by location and the terms of service of the streaming platforms.
Is this sarcastic? It's hard to choose reliable replacement maintainers, as a recent episode showed dramatically.
Within this tech gloomy you really need to find connnections, however you can. Friends, families, whatever, just ask around. Buy people meals, ask for advices, do whatever you can to squeeze into the industry.
That came from self-reported survey data, a well-known source for manufacturing statistics.
The problem with go exceptions (panics) is that they are a second class citizen. Leading to ignorance of using “defer”-statement when needed, opening up risk of leaving mutexes and other critical handlers open.
Musk said the rollout will be slower but continue on Twitter.

Maybe he meant in the short term, but I would expect a different kind of bluster if what you said was true.
>Volvo, which is owned by Geely, a Chinese company, did not respond to the request.

Volvo didn't share data too.
That's too much risk for me to put on a $50-70k car - that's downpayment money for a condo.
Anecdotally, my wife and I are both small business owners here in Canada, and everything you say is spot-on.

I will almost certainly never hire in Canada. The next company I start will be in Delaware.

More tax and regulation is a moat for larger organizations who can afford to deal with it.
Seems like we need to start trading anonymity for credibility?

Maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

Anonymity on the web has led to some pretty atrocious behavior.

Plus, at this point, anonymity on the internet is an illusion anyway.

Just use existing trusted CAs to issue personal certs based on some reasonably robust verification process.

Maybe the AI apocalypse will help fix the internet by making anonymity untenable.
No it does not and it never has.

Freedom of speech is a protection from the government, not other citizens.

And I suspect the only reason people take this view is because the speech is something they agree with. Would you, for example, feel like Google was being totalitarian if Hitler Hank hosted a sit in protest against the company for hiring people of color and he was subsequently fired?
Well actually...

We're doing a pretty good job of making it a lot less common:
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/problem-our-dwin...

There's even such a thing as Sand Theft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_theft
On the other hand, it's hard to build safe self-driving cars without actually deploying them in the real world. If we can tolerate some level of risk, we can get to self-driving cars sooner.

Every year we delay having safe self-driving cars, about 50,000 people die on the road who don't need to die.
and there are a lot of them. Usually 8-16 per supercharger chargers at a single location vs the few electrify America stations I'v seen to on the east coast that have only two chargers at the station. So I'm less worried charging at a Supercharger that all the chargers will be taken. It also tells you on the screen how many chargers are available at each location before you get there.
If it's visual, is it headless?
The likely scenario is that the local electrical utilities supplying/servicing the chargers will take over the operation in the shadows until they develop their own brands and change the signage and payment terminals.

The Immediate effect is likely going to be that the prices are going to be readjusted to make sure the network makes money for the owners without Tesla funneling investment capital(they likely cant raise anymore) into the network.
I used to work in aircraft maintenance on F-15s. We'd have entire toolboxes with cutouts, just like the example.

I still use a "physical" checklist as I get ready in the morning - my wallet, keys, ear buds, and keys all have their physical spot over night and in my pocket.
"voluntary code of conduct" -- don't know why people trust these anymore. its in the same league as "police investigating themselves".
Can you share data to back that statement up please?

I think what they were getting at is that crime is more closely linked to age and economic status than race

> younger people and those with lower incomes were far more likely to report being the victim of a violent crime than older and higher-income people
I'm always fascinated to see a critique about a device (car in this case) that never once even mentions the core thing(s) the device is supposed to do.

You didn't even mention any of - fuel mileage, road noise, driver fatigue, comfort of seats, performance of HVAC, visibility, crash safety, passenger comfort and entertainment, storage volume, leg room. You know, transporting meat sacks safely, comfortably and cheaply.

I personally think it's because vehicle manufacturers have spent the last ~20 years not really improving the core vehicle at all, and instead convincing people that massage seats and car play are actually important. Personally I think they're a distraction from the fact most cars today get the same horrible mileage they did 20 years ago.

If someone made a car that was comfortable, easy to drive, had plenty of storage and was super cheap to drive (like 3l/100km / ~70 US MPG) I'd be all over it.

And that is what EVs are. So far they're mostly focusing on the core product and have not spent the time or money on the fluff.
I think a general way to answer this is by considering for any domain you know: What would you pay a human to do right now, that LLMs frustratingly can't, but should in theory, if only they were a bit better and more consistent?

This could mean: Instead of diving into langchain and trying to program your way out of a bad model, or trying to do weird prompts, just write a super clear set of instructions and wait for a model that is capable of understanding clear instructions, because that is an obvious goal of everyone working on models right now and they are going to solve this better than your custom workaround can.

This is not a rigid rule, just a matter of proportions. For example, you should probably be willing to try a few weird intermediary prompt hacks, if you want to get going with AI dev right now. But if most of what most people do will probably be solved by a somewhat better model, that's probably a cause for pause.
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No, my argument is that the state is the right level of government at which to regulate the environment. As we see here, most states have the power to abrogate city regulations, to dissolve and combine cities, and so forth. If the state of Texas permits Tesla's battery factory to dump waste into rivers, the state should fix that in state law.

There is not an analogy here between states of the nation and cities of the states. In the federal system, states have all the powers. Within the state, states also have all the powers.
Somewhat related is _Flying Logic_, which was ostensibly made to to enable ToC-type thinking processes at Northop Grumman.

https://flyinglogic.com/

For a period in my life I was very taken by the promise of a node-based graph visualisation of projects, enabling you to quickly track dependencies, constraints, next steps, redundancies and so on.
> I can fix it myself

If, if this disastrous piece of history ends up well, the reaction to it will be a market that demands repairability, vendor agnostic.

Among the circulating information about new vehicles is, for example, that * batteries may tend to drain in days and * a flat battery cannot be simply replaced or restarted: the car must be brought to its manufacturer's service premises. Evident absurdities like this could trigger a reaction, they should wake up people...

It could and should make people want to be able to fix their car themselves.