skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'For one thing, federal policy has, in many ways, distorted the car market to favor larger vehicles. Fuel economy regulations, for instance, are more lenient for SUVs and pickups than they are for smaller cars, nudging automakers to produce more of the former and fewer of the latter. Another egregious example: Small business owners such as real estate agents can save thousands of dollars by writing off the cost of their vehicle—but only if it weighs more than 6,000 pounds, a stipulation that effectively excludes sedans entirely.'

Fuel economy standards are being used as a tool to get rid of gasoline-powered sedans. Environmental activists generally support this.
This seems like a feature that the Apple Vision Pro should have launched with. If you try to use it on a train, your virtual screens will fly away from the accelerometer input.

And while this sounds super socially awkward at the moment, imagine being stuffed in a coach seat for a 10 hour flight and being able to pop on some noise canceling headphones and a light headset and sitting in a large theater watching a movie instead. Sounds amazing to me.
Sam Altman seems like a world class douche, is anyone else getting this vibe?

I need to know if my spidey senses are on point.
Yep. Just for fun, I searched for "wool shirt", clicked the first result, opened the first men's shirt I found[1], and checked the fabric: 38% Montana Merino Wool, 50% American Polyester, 12% Modal (beech wood pulp). Half plastic, when I searched specifically for wool.

[1] https://www.duckworthco.com/products/mens-vapor-pocket-tee
> From what I've been able to gather, most privileged progressive white-collar circles in American cities tend to run almost exclusively Democrat. Has it always been this way?

No and it's not always true. They just have different shibboleths and areas you'd see them. Rust Belt and Farm belt come to mind here.

> Have Americans always allowed voting habits to dictate their choice of friends?

At least in my lifetime, things started to polarize around the GWB vs Kerry election. Opinions on the war/etc caused some people at my college to change some friendships based on political affiliations... most people would just avoid talking politics though (touching on your previous question, someone in collage from a fairly well off family kinda got the wrong message from American dad, yet he just made sure to stop talking about how pretty Ann Coulter was in front of left wing people.)

The elections after that amplified the split however. Obama's second election was, in my head, less 'contentious' than the first... but by 2016 I think everything was in full swing.
These reminders that AI will not only be wielded by democracies with (at least partial attempts at) ethical oversight, but also by the worst of the worst autocrats, are truly chilling.
The vast majority of users use NVidia’s own kernels versus optimize their own. And those who do write custom kernels are typically not trying to compete with NVidia’s own GMM.
The practice of email address "obfuscation" feels like a relic of a bygone era, one that was never actually sound in its methodology, but spread. A form of cargo-cultism has kept it alive
Anyone else find it a bit odd how they quickly set it up a day before Google I/O?

They clearly want to steal the thunder from Google's announcements. But they could only do that if they had inside information into what Google is launching. Otherwise it would be smarter to wait and react. Remember they already said this is not a search engine or gpt-5. So while this is probably cool it's not a silver bullet and probably won't overshadow what Google launches.

Unless it's almost exactly the same main announcement. In which case a day would make a difference.

Chatter seem to suggest they're announcing a voice to voice assistant, apple partnership and Google drive integration. All things Google is also rumoured to announce.

It definitely feels like the big guys are panicking to find their moat.
That little walking plant is cool for 5 seconds, but super annoying and you can't close it
Biden needs Michigan voters. That's all this is about.
Yeah that's my point. Say in the title that it ranks #X on the leaderboards, not that it's "better" than some cherry-picked model.
I am describing reality as I see it, at this point you're basically calling me a liar. You could have simply googled it yourself; e.g. "is it normal to use WhatsApp for business in Latin America?" to which the resulting summary is "Across LATAM, WhatsApp is used by citizens as a way to communicate with family and friends and is being increasingly used by businesses big and small to provide customer service, make sales, take bookings, and more." Note the --> big <-- part of that. You don't need to rely on my assertions the when there is so much evidence readily available. I have no idea why you're arguing with me and do not care that you don't believe me - what on earth would I have to gain by lying to you in this way. It makes no sense.
I think the previous poster said the opposite: you think that others think you are selfish (projecting on others).
Typed racket for a friendly approachable one, Shen for a overpowered complicated one.
Hot weather gets techies hurrying back to office
And even then you aren't retroactively making it more open. You are just now offering an additional, more open license as well as the existing one.

You haven't taken the original license away, you just provided a better default option.

The same weirdly enough goes in reverse as well. You can provide a more restrictive license retroactively even if the rights holders don't consent as long as the existing license is compatible with the new, more restrictive license. i.e. you can promote a work from Apache-2.0 to GPL-3.0-or-later as the former is fully compatible with the latter. However you can't stop existing users from using it as Apache-2.0, you can only stop offering it yourself with that license (but anyone who has an existing Apache-2.0 copy or who is an original rights holder can freely distribute it).
https://cdn.openai.com/hello-gpt-4o/coins-01.jpg

It's GPT-4o, the o stands for "omni", which I'm guessing means multimodal input and output. Rumors of an end-to-end audio-to-audio real time voice demo, that's what I'd really like to see.

Source: https://x.com/btibor91/status/1790053718416605335
> The Chrome team also wanted to make sure that people could use the new AI features without needing to understand how the underlying technology works.

This is a dark pattern, right? "Trust me, bro," isn't what I would call reliable marketing. Of course Chrome wants people to use technology without understanding it. Then they won't ask pesky questions like, "where did this data come from?" or "how much of my activity are you tracking to make this work?"
> every kind of vegetable, .., every kind of cheese as well.

That's not my experience of American supermarkets in North Carolina when visiting on business ten years ago. Even in supposedly upmarket supermarkets like Harris Teeter the fruit and veg was really not very good and the selection of cheeses (and other dairy products) was downright poor.
If you think the average American supermarket has every kind of meat, cheese, drink, and vegetable, you are in for a big surprise traveling the world.

In many ways American markets have fallen behind relatively poorer countries in variety. Most of what is sold are monocultures and packaged foods. The selection of fresh produce (or any produce) is often disappointing.
If there is no free will, it’s tautologically impossible to define anything, therefore there is no reason to make an argument for free will, because in doing so I would be using free will.
I don't think what happens in politics is a great proxy for interest. Lots of things with high interest levels never happen - federal digital privacy laws or federal right to repair laws for instance. And, vice versa, lots that are exceptionally unpopular get passed with exceptional rapidity - spying laws and copyright lasting until the heat death of the universe laws are a couple of examples there.

Most polls since the end of the Apollo program have shown strong and growing interest in space. Here's [1] the most recent I could find - a 2018 Pew poll. 72% consider it essential that the US continue to be a world leader in space exploration, 80% agree that the ISS has been a good investment for the country, 63% consider it important (45%) or top priority (18%) to send astronauts to Mars, and so on.

[1] - https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2018/06/06/majority-of-a...
DAMMIT. You beat me by 2 minutes haha
MIT 6.S191: Convolutional Neural Networks [video]
CA (controlled atmosphere) is relatively old multidisciplinary science, practice and huge businesses today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_atmosphere

And, yes, thanks to CA fruits and vegetables are really fresh at shelves, because a CA is about controlling of natural processes of ripening.
Till CA adoption USA imported about 90% apples out of season.
Now less than 5% only.

It's one of the greatest invention and applied science over the past 100 years.
> I haven’t really specced it out, I just like the aesthetic.

I think you are the exact target market for an F150. Go nuts. We have backup planets, right? Just buy the biggest, coolest looking thing you can find!
Jim Simons, Code Breaker Who Mastered Investing, Dies at 86
This is a common Silicon valley illness. He just lost all perspective outside his bubble
XMPlay is an audio player for Windows
Because using millstones to grind grains into flour leaves traces of sand and stone grit in the flour.

It's really hard on the teeth long-term, IIUC.
how can i get that cute ass pot walking around my screen 24/7?
Mediocrity as an Existential Risk
Melinda French Gates to Resign from Gates Foundation
The thing about the complaint that natural fibers are ill-fitting is a bit odd. It's true that less stretchy clothing is more forgiving, but it's also true that the ill-fitting aspect is because of the cut, not the fiber. The problem can be easily and (relatively) cheaply fixed by having the garment altered to fit you.
> Unless you're a technical user, you haven't even heard about any alternative, let alone used them.

> How am I supposed to know if this Falcon 2 thing is even worth looking at beyond the first paragraph if I have to compare it to a specific model that I haven't used before?

You're not. These press releases are for the "technical users" that have heard of and used all of these alternatives.

They are not offering a Falcon 2 chat service you can use today. They aren't even offering a chat-tuned Falcon 2 model. The Falcon 2 model in question is a base model, not a chat model.

Unless someone is very technical, Falcon 2 is not relevant to them in any way at this point. This is a forum of technical people, which is why it's getting some attention, but I suspect it's still not going to be relevant to most people here.
AI should replace clueless managers, not workers
This doesn't really work for, lack of a better term, 'at scale'.

My parents for example live far away from my career and career options. I can't afford to move them to live with me. Full remote work helps, but companies want to drag workers back into the office at the cost of their family. If my parents got sick or had issues in order to help them I would need to abandon my job, drain my savings and become a full time caregiver.

Business culture, career advancement, the way jobs are structured are all at odds with taking care of elderly family members. The only people that can afford to do so are those already well off.
very good heuristic. I'll be borrowing. Any others you'd care to share ?
Adding micro-services is the way to make the company bankrupt.

"micro-services" is the worst solution to ANY problem. Is not a solution, only another way to write a problematic app.

The problem here is complexity and "micro-services" is the MOST efficient way to add complexity.

And the real problem here is complexity X scalability, which requires simplicity and tunning, stuff that "micro-services" IS NOT mean to solve.

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I work in the enterprise space, and you bet you can cut 70%* (every time you find stuff like this) of the code and stay single-master-DB even for some very large companies if you have a half-decent architecture.

p.d: Do note that cut code does not mean the app will end with just 30%, is just that 70% is trash to be redone.
https://archive.is/YIFkA
Bit-stealing made legal: compilation for custom memory representations o [pdf]
Reckon we can get in some last minute speculation? You know, in the spirit of last minute crunch developer demos.
I'm curious about specific examples you are referring to, going in either direction. Off the top of my head, Java is not implemented in itself yet has perfectly fine tooling. Whereas Haskell is implemented in itself and its tooling leaves much to be desired (despite my love for the language overall).
Shit is always going wrong, that's the perspective that many seem to be lacking.
But stock ownership, as a relationship between the stockholder and the company, is fundamentally not peer to peer. There's no way for you and I to settle a trade of Gamestop stock ourselves; we have to either contact Gamestop to transfer the registration or go through a trusted third party broker who holds the registration on our behalf.
I don’t know what HN thinks, but you touch upon a good point that VCs do feel this need to differentiate. It reflects the broader shift where promising founders have more say and VCs aim to offer more than just money.
The reason that the M4 n an ipad makes sense, is because that's where apps are created. That is the development target. Mac desktop apps are no where near the volume as iOS. So if you want to get AI apps made, you introduce the M4 where it will actually get done.
Happy to see this silliness return.
> Has it always been this way? Have Americans always allowed voting habits to dictate their choice of friends?

Not to the degree we see today. I think it's something that's really taken off in the last 8 to 10 years, and I remember seeing the first signs of it starting in maybe 2008. The Tea Party and Occupy Wallstreet movements seemed to be the leading indicators of a much more deepening divide.

It's not really surprising to me though. I think when you frame it as "allowing voting habits to dictate your choice of friends" it sounds superficial, but there are deep ethical and ideological divides. You're framing like people are saying "You voted for X and so we can't be friends", but I think a more accurate framing would be "X is an abhorrent belief and cannot in good conscience have a relationship with anyone who would support X or any politician who is in favor of X".

Believe it or not, this is _very different_ than it was maybe 20 years ago. I used to have good friends who were in the "other" party, and while we had pretty strong disagreements about policy, I never doubted that in the end we all wanted what was best for people, and our views of what the best outcomes would be were pretty aligned even if our ideas of how to get there were very different.

Today, that's not the case. There's almost no common ground to find.
Clang supports the extensions, you can build the Linux kernel with clang today:

make -s LLVM=1
here in louisiana it's snowed 3 times in the last 11 years. It routinely will go several days at a hard freeze. It very nearly is always at or below freezing at night. I have a CSV of 5-minute granularity temperatures going back several years (at least 5 years).

It's gotten to freezing in southern california, in that decade, as well - at night. Growing up there, it never did, but around 2002 or so it got to 30 one night. I have friends in the PNW, utah, colorado, texas. The US has a long cycle, and listening to people who have either moved around a lot or not been alive for more than 1 cycle is funny to me.

I enjoy talking to old timers, especially about nature. Prior to 2021, the year everyone made fun of Texans, there was 1 large freeze in the early or mid 2000s, where ice formed on power lines and broke the lines. Prior to that, it hadn't happened for at least 30 years to anyone's recollection.

Oh, and i live in a sub-tropical rainforest. It rained exactly 5" this weekend - i just went and checked. I comment a lot about the weather on my boring facebook account, so i can see all the times it's rained more than an inch or two - or where rain was predicted but didn't appear.

Come summertime, when it's "the hottest ever recorded", there will be different arguments from one side, as usual.
It's worth reminiscing on what a terrible deal we got with cable. It was over 10x as much for a pretty basic package.

Despite all the cost, tons and tons of ads. Well beyond anything we'd dream of accepting today.

On top of that they would intentionally play absolutely nothing a solid 10-50% of the time. Even prime hours were used to dump garbage absolutely no one wanted to see.

Things are moving in that direction, and I'm looking for new forms of entertainment. Still, it's shocking how poor the value was. Reminded of paying $20+ for one song.
There always seems to be this implication in anti-VC rhetoric that founders are somehow gullible to VC's (whatever that means). I've yet to meet a founder where this is true.
I already have foot-high grass in places. Ask me if I care :-)
I thought we had moved on from cryptocurrencies
google might start indexing your email
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fetch PACKAGE VER:
@echo fetching {{PACKAGE}} at version {{VER}}
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$ just fetch foo 1.2.3

Here is the Make equivalent, with equivalent error-checking

----
fetch:
$(if $(PACKAGE),,$(error PACKAGE was not set))
$(if $(VERSION),,$(error VERSION was not set))
@echo fetching $(PACKAGE) at $(VERSION)
----
$ make fetch PACKAGE=foo VERSION=1.2.3

I agree that the `just` version is a little neater / tidier. But it's not like Make can't do the same thing. And Make is a much more powerful tool.
Isn't PE really focused on getting their fees?
Irresponsible looking if you share 20ft of grass with a neighbour.
I agree that I'm saying something the article isn't quite saying.

I've been grappling with similar questions for a while. I've been focusing less on the nominal replacements like the author did, and looking more at our general inability to create a programming language that is "like" another language, but just generally improved. C++ is almost literally the last example that really took off. Python 3 was something like what I'm talking about, and while Python survived Python 3, I'm not sure I can call it a success.

But we could really use "like X but modern" in quite a few places. I'd love to see a modern dynamic scripting language that is a lot like the current ones, but, for instance, was designed from day to work with threading somehow. In this case I'm not referencing async versus thread debates, I'm not talking about how it gets exposed to the users, I'm talking about the difficult that 10-20 year old scripting languages still have to this day using multiple processors in any reasonable way. And maybe we've learned we can get most of the benefits of dynamic scripting languages without quite being as dynamic as the current crop is, so maybe instead of a 10-40x slowdown we could be looking at another 2 or 3 speed increase over the current crop with only minimal feature loss. And a few other things.

Various such languages arguably exist, but they are starved of oxygen.

As for the bottled water point, if you look with sufficient detail you can eventually figure out why this Evian bottle is better for you than that one. No two things are identical. But if you can't how the differences between two brands of bottled water and two entire language implementations are a sufficient difference in quantity to be a difference in quality... several times over, honestly... I don't really know what to say.
Bangladeshi farmers find zucchini's high yields and low costs palatable
> which plausibly has far more precision than a float32

If that was true, then a DRAM cell could represent 32 bits instead of one bit. But the analog world is noisy and lossy, so you couldn't get anywhere near 32 bits of precision/accuracy.

Yes, very carefully designed analog circuits can get over 20 bits of precision, say A/D converters, but they are huge (relative to digital circuits), consume a lot of power, have low bandwidth as compared to GHz digital circuits, and require lots of shielding and power supply filtering.

This is spit-balling, but the types of circuits you can create for a neural network type chip is certainly under 8 bits, maybe 6 bits. But it gets worse. Unlike digital circuits where signal can be copied losslessly, a chain of analog circuits compounds the noise and accuracy losses stage by stage. To make it work you'd need frequent requantization to prevent getting nothing but mud out.
I bet traditional image processing would love to be implemented in ThunderKitten.
Well anti-China protectionism legislation can easily pass through congress, something that undermines the value of the petrodollar can't.
> Take photos in a concert, and memories become fainter.

I don't know about short- or medium-term, but long-term the photos can remain objective anchors for memories that reduce the memory drift for everything all around them. When you have a photo of an event, even if you didn't take it yourself, it locks in many facts that individually weren't important enough to memorize but do constrain other possible facts and thus keep memory more accurate.

When I got into photography I took high-effort high-quality photos everywhere I went. There are so many minor events I wouldn't remember at all if not for the photos, and even for events I do remember, I likely would have forgotten that certain people even attended.

Long term, I can be completely objective about the times, places, people, conditions, etc. of a great many events in my life, and every time I refresh and reinforce memories it's anchored in those objective details.

There's a less objective angle to this that I still acknowledge and enjoy. When you take a good photo of a good moment, and look back on that as representative of the event, it has a way of making the entire event look that positive. You scroll back through a timeline of photos like this, it can make entire years of your life look as good as you want them to.

That's part of why I think there's a big difference between scrolling a backup of all your phone photos vs hand-curating albums (regardless of the device that took them). When you choose what you'll see in future you influence how you're going to feel about it, and that's an under-appreciated mechanism for investing in your future headspace.
Also any sort of wildflowers let the bees eat an easy first meal before everything blooms.
Are you saying that every company up to a certain size should have a single master DB?
> Now, I know the answer to this as well: tailoring. You read any serious piece about fashion and fit and they will tell you that to look good, you have to get your clothes tailored to fit your body by someone who knows what they are doing.

> I can imagine a world in which that is a standard activity that I could engage in, but our world is not that world. Last time I wanted pants made shorter, most places I went wanted me to have pinned them up myself beforehand. I found a place that would do the fitting part, and it took weeks, a couple of follow-up nudge calls, and several trips there to get it all done. Plus, what if I gain or lose a few pounds? Am I going to get things perfectly fitted around my torso then be unable to wear them a month later? Ugh.
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