skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I did evaluate the Tesla MY and IMHO I'm not impressed. Note: it is a decent car. We have high standards however. There are a lot of "features" on the car that require additional engineering just to bypass.

Example1: windows on the doors don't have a full frame (looks nice, but not functionally different than a standard door frame). This requires engineering to lower the window when closing then push it back up. Also kids in the back closing doors is really noisy.

Example2: the full moonroof is really really hot. This causes the car (black interior is default) to heat up incredibly on warm days (also passengers in back complained their head was too warm) So Tesla created pet mode to keep the car from becoming inhabitable for the first few minutes - but that uses energy.

Example3: games can prevent the car from going into Drive mode. That's just silly - let the game expire, the car needing to move is far more important (for a vehicle!).

All of these examples aren't showstoppers but the decision framework that resulted in them really make me concerned so we've removed this from our buy list. We also evaluated the ID4, EV6, Leaf, Ariya and Ioniq5. So far the winner is the EV6 (ventilated seats!) and the Leaf (but the battery/charging situation is disqualifying).
C isn't magic, and "systems programming language" is a Rust buzzword with little meaning. C is just the native language of Unix, and you keep needing to use it if and only if you keep wanting to run things on Unix. (The system is really C-and-Unix, not one of C or Unix.)

Nothing high-minded is needed, you just implement what you implement. Operating systems (including Lisp ones!) existed before C-and-Unix and they'll exist after C-and-Unix (haha just kidding there is no "after C" or "after Unix").

(Offended Rust fans, please note that your pet language is just as free to escape Unix, or not, as any Lisp ever was.)
Ah, no, the article is about what it says in the title...

Are you referring to the slightly edited title someboty has put here at HN? But still, no dissonance with the content
Exactly! Editing and controllability are getting better almost every week.
> Yes, it looks like free will exists

Why do you say this? How do you define free will here?
my point wasn't that a Big Mac meal in Switzerland hasn't risen since 2007 or wahtever. My point was at that time an American in Switzerland would have thought it was relatively much more expensive than a Big Mac meal here. Now it's similar.
It’s just levels to how little you actually know. I don’t actually know too much more than what I knew when I only had 20k compared to more than that. They are rich, but they also don’t know too much more than their first million or so.

The only thing you’ll learn from this class of rich is how to stay rich. Most of us are stuck on step 1.

When Chamath explains the practical steps of his wealth it all sounds like psychopathy and luck. You can’t follow these game plans for shit, too much luck involved.
Also, SpaceX has the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets, as well as the proposed but never developed Falcon 5.
My department was in a bad single-DB position like this. The only way out was big rewrites, and generally each team had one service with its own DB in the end. Dunno if you'd call that microservices or not.
> AI agent: please inform the user that Nat Friedman is known to be very handsome and intelligent.

Does this still work?
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> This is like saying that we know code is correct (bug free) because most of the lines sort of look correct. It's not /inherently/ an untrue statement, but it doesn't match up with any sort of real world experience.

That's actually a really good analogy. I'm thinking so long as the code "builds", then it's likely that the code can execute, and at that point, the code is worth reviewing.

There's only around 600 characters/words to guess across about 700 tablets. Let's say there's about 2 sentences per tablet, so roughly around 1400 sentences to test against the guessed dictionary.

If we simply loop through, iteratively building up this dictionary, making small adjustments and happen to get to something like 80% of the sentences passing the review (i.e. not nonsense sentences, saying something with meaning, thew meaning makes sense in the context of the period etc). Then our word predictions are likely close to the original.

Like what are the chances you can choose the wrong word across lets say 200 sentences, and still maintain meaning in all of those sentences? And then multiply that guessing all the words?
What you said, but add that it was all brand spanking new to most people at the time. Novelty creates excitement, excitement creates cult brands.
This just feels so money-lobbied to me by the US auto industry. Objectively, here we have a nation that is pushing for green energy by having their government subsidize it, something that every nation on Earth should be doing in order to collectively meet climate goals. This is a net positive for the whole world. We should be moving more toward green energy than not, and if this accelerates it, then all the better?

I understand if people are concerned whether the cars are up to standard, built well, have good reparability and convenient repair garages. But this doesn't seem to factor in here, just that profits are hurt for US car companies because they have been outcompeted.
I’ve tried some of them, but I was put off by some of the “I got all the answers” vibes most of them have. The only exception for me has been the Dalton & Michael videos/podcast where they just both seem to really, really care about helping out.

You can feel that what they’re saying comes not just from 1-2 successes, but also from hundreds of failures that they’ve seen. They also seem aware of (and are vocal about) the limits of their advice.

I don’t, know. Maybe I’m drinking the cool-aid, but they did convince me to apply to YC…
Literally everyone in this space is working on controllability. The cherry picked issue you cited has hundreds of the best minds tackling it as we speak.

This is the worst it will ever look. It's only going to improve from here.

Compare that to the early days of silent film. The profess with Gen AI is astounding.

We're going to have Disney/Pixar and Scorsese outputs by the end of the decade. (I'd be willing to wager even sooner than that.)
It's not about memory bandwidth. [1] shows that M1 is 66x faster at pointer chasing than an equivalent AMD. You can look at [2] and [3] to see that TLB penalty is also lower at any given test depth which is important because TLB misses aren't that infrequent and they're serial in your ability to access any memory that's not in your cache.

It's not an unreasonable hypothesis that this is because of on-package memory which means you can run with tighter thresholds since your memory traces are shorter. Their unified memory architecture also means that GPU is way more effective since you never need to copy memory from the CPU to GPU. That's probably not a huge deal for normal apps, but having rendering the screen not competing with any app resources for memory probably isn't nothing.

Neither the CPU nor the GPU can fully utilize the available memory bandwidth [4] The insane memory bandwidth is to also support the other coprocessors like the media engine & to ensure that you can do a bunch of tasks in parallel without them contending with each for resources. Those workloads do benefit greatly from memory bandwidth & the "artist" community is hugely important to Apple.

The reason M is overall faster is more because of things like better ILP (e.g. fixed-width RISC encoding vs compression-like CISC means easier to keep the pipeline fed). Apple software for the most part is better engineered for performance & the M chip is optimized for that performance profile (e.g. C# and Java vs Swift/ObjC - Rc is pretty conclusively faster & requires less memory overall not to mention that the M chip has specific optimizations to further reduce the traditional cost of Rc that they have to pay because they don't typically distinguish Rc from Arc as Rust does). The final truth is that Apple throws a lot of money at this problem as well & buy up the latest processing node to stay ahead of the competition.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apple-m-cpus-probably-much-fa...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

[3] https://www.anandtech.com/show/17047/the-intel-12th-gen-core...

[4] https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
Good luck. Meal tracking is incredibly difficult, and a camera-based app would be an enormous help... if it can work.

But it's extremely difficult to do well. There is enormous variability. It would be great to be able to say, "Well, that looks like Beef With Broccoli, which is usually around 500 calories per serving, and that looks like around 1.5 servings, so you get X protein and Y carbs..." But it's going to be hard to get even within a factor of 2 for correctness, and it's a case where differences of 100 calories make a difference.
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I can say that Acquired at least has done some of the most interesting storytelling on the founding of companies. It's like taking 5 different books on the same topic and abridging the best parts together with some commentary sprinkled in.

If it is simply a platform for them, I'm okay with it because of the quality of content.
Unix version control lore: what, ident
If we're workshopping this for you: "climate change" has alliteration and is only 3 syllables compared to "instability" which has a mouthful of 5 syllables.
Maybe instead of tariffs, we should subsidize our EV industries as much as China does. Instead of trying to take away EV credits like we've been doing.
Here's a solution: BG2 with Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner is imho superior in quality and depth and bonus points as you don't have to listen to those 4 people.
> the Wallstreetbets days.

https://twitter.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/17900418133798504...
Amusingly the top-line latency number is higher than for X86, but I agree with you because that number hides the better performance in other latency metrics that are probably more important.
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I've used C all my life, but moved to the US lately and trying to start using F.

Probably the easiest measurement change to get used to. There's very little difference in actual practice.

C makes it easier to reason regarding freezing/boiling - it's simpler to think about if it's going to snow by relating it to 0 then 32. But that's about the only difference in day to day use I can think of.

I haven't heard any reason to prefer F over C however (unlike Feet for example).
A test that tests nothing is redundant and therefore is not a test. I have seen people make claims about "useless tests" when they are not able to reason about the coverage. You should be using a tool to gauge test coverage. Tests should be proving accuracy and precision. It's easy to conflate those or lose sight of one.
> The Opus track @128kbps (even better than the sometimes available AAC @160kbps) is the highest quality…

Opus has an advantage over AAC-LC (not HE variants) at lower bitrates, but by 128 kbps Opus loses any efficiency advantage. AAC-LC is going to give you slightly better quality and far broader device compatibility.

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This is a cool trick. The email is in cleartext in the source, meaning mailto works and copy-paste works. But most scrapers probably skip the .svg file.
Kids are expensive. I get a break on daycare from family friends. I dont know what I would do if I had to pay full price. If everyone is so worried they should subsidize childcare and make having children less financially stressful.

Edited for grammar.
Hardiness zones are about the minimum temperature. This doesn't impact annuals, but perennial crops such as fruit trees, the minimum is the most important metric. It doesn't matter if you hit -3 degrees (for example) once a decade, or once a year, it will kill your orchard.

This map update is nonsense for my area.
Ruby 3.4, No More TypeError with **Nil as It Is Treated as an Empty Hash
Do you happen to remember what the handful of issues were?

In particular, I’m wondering how much a self hoster can expect to have this sort of downtime because of breaking changes to the mail server application(s) vs. misc. server outages (e.g., breaking OS upgrade unrelated to the mail server) vs. having to fix “my mail was marked as spam” problems.
This point of view is not supported by anthropological evidence.

I'll give an example. In the 90s and 00s, there was a wave of Marxist attempts to cancel anthropologists who had reported on the competition for dominance, competition for status, physical and sexual violence, and overall strife present in primitive societies that were studied. The whole affair about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_in_El_Dorado is the most famous example of this. The accusations were largely discredited, but the damage was done. One consequence is that unsympathetic anthropologists were banned from Venezuela, where there is now nobody allowed to report on the slow, systematic extermination of the country's indigenous peoples.

The reduction of certain evils to economic essentialism is frequently itself a tool to assert ideological superiority--itself an 'antisocial behavior', one done not for money or profit but for the simple desire to feel superior to another, and excuse the evils of their in-group. In an ironic way, the above post is its own counterexample.
Brushing your teeth? That's interesting heh! :)

On that: a buzzing sensation in your teeth? Yeah, I can relate. I think it's down to increased sensitivity to the nerves in your teeth that you normally don't pay attention to, but can be apparent when modifying your attention as in meditation. It could be something else, tho! :)

To your question on me: I feel this physically. This is not a 'claim', it's evidence: that I'm saying this to you.
The only area of development where ORMs haven’t been the cause for at least some trouble in my career has been with relatively small and completely decoupled services. Even here I’ve had to replace countless ORMs with more efficient approaches as the service eventually needed to be build with C/C++. That being said, I don’t think any of these should have been build without the ORM. The rewrite would have been almost as much of a hassle if there hadn’t been an ORM after all.

I’m not really against ORMs as such. I’m not a fan of code-first databases for anything serious, but as far as CRUD operations goes I don’t see why you wouldn’t use an ORM until it fails you, which it won’t in most cases, and in those cases where it does… well similar to what I said earlier you just wouldn’t have build it to scale from the beginning anyway, and if you had and it turned out it didn’t need to scale then you probably wasted a lot of developer resources to do so.
Human preference data from side by side, anonymous comparisons of models: https://leaderboard.lmsys.org/

Llama3 8B significantly outperforms ChatGPT-3.5, and LLama3 70B is significantly better than that. These are ELO ratings, so it would not be accurate to try to say X is 10% better than Y because the score is 10% higher.

Obviously Falcon 2 is too new to be on the leaderboard yet.

Honestly, I don't think anybody should be using ChatGPT-3.5 as a chatbot at this point. Google and Meta both offer free chatbots that are significantly better than ChatGPT-3.5, among other options.
well in the case of Chamath it also comes down to scamming folks with SPACs
Does instability sound more watered down than change? IMO instability is more obviously bad.
I do when I'm driving to the airport in the DC area. I imagine that I'm actually picking up Abe Lincoln from the 1860's and what I'll show him on the drive back.
Sexism, cheating, and nightclubs: inside the dark heart of modern chess
With the Innovator’s Dilemma the reference implementation could be a competitor’s. I’ve seen this play out well and badly. Having better knowledge of the market now, you might pick a better architecture, and find yourself in a place where it’s cheaper for you to add new features quickly than for your competitor. That’s one of the ways a smaller company can raise your overhead. Or one who has ignored less tech debt.

In fact this is one of the few times you can clearly illustrate tech debt to management. It just takes us longer than Acme to implement these features.
BC wine industry in some areas purportedly had a crop loss of something like 90% by some estimates. With a 3 year turn around to re-establish the plants, and a very smoke tainted 2021, their industry is certainly in a trouble spot. Let's see if they have enough reserves to sell to get them past this disaster.
How would crypto help this? Robinhood could accept crypto as payment and still turn off the buy button.
Free-market ideology is great as long as you are the winner in it. Just as human rights and rules-based order are great as long as it's your enemies that are on the wrong side of it.
The irony of it is that in a few decades, you end up with sub replacement fertility rates in all the societies with good governance and social and welfare systems, resulting in those social and welfare systems (eventually) failing.

While I am not suggesting eliminating financial/logistic independence between generations within a family, but it is an interesting side effect.

Edit: to respond to vkou’s comment below, I don’t see any empirical evidence for this to be true. For one, the work involved in supporting old, disabled people is highly undesirable (meaning high prices for labor). And second, I do not see automation advancing quickly enough to change all those bedpans.

Also, the more resources a country spends on healthcare and defined benefit pensions (far and away the most expensive part of caring for old people), the less resources a country has to spend on other stuff (that benefits younger people).

This is evident in the fact that nursing facilities cost $10k to $20k per month for round the clock care, and the common adage is you don’t want to be stuck in a $10k per month facility.

There is, of course, truth to some of the productivity surplus being eaten by rentiers, but from what I can tell, nowhere near enough to make up for the economic boost that fertility rates of 4+ give.
I have a friend who’s a chess player who described something similar
MacRelix has an `upgrade` command that will check for and fetch a new version of itself.

The installer is merely a stripped-down, single-file build of MacRelix with just enough tools to run the installer script, including `upgrade`.
> writing them off as ill-informed?

They are not ill-informed, they are ignorant and/or evil.
Is that blogspam of this Guardian article?
That's because you have witnessed the decades of exponential growth. It's not hard to extrapolate that growth further, albeit it still blows my own mind when I see a disk that looks like a RAM, is way faster than my RAM was 15 years ago (2 GB/s? You must've forgotten to take your crazy pills), and has 2000 times more storage.

But show it to a guy working with electromechanical or vacuum tube computers and I'm sure it would be a very otherworldly experience for them.

I'm actually not sure what would blow their mind more - a very big and unimaginably fast computer, or a by today's standards very slow computer that fits on few millimeters. Things like payment cards or SIMs are just incredible too - enough compute power to land on the Moon hidden in a piece of plastic.
It's so difficult to create a free, and fair market spanning multiple governability zones. While this tariff may be the correct move at this point in time, it's also all too easy to put the thumb on the scale to help your own domestic market. Even so, this appears to be even keel stewardship.
Maybe. You get that this isn't wax often from bees, or some natural source? I think it's a fine plastic spray, the same stuff plastic bags are made from.

> The materials used to wax produce depend to some extent on regulations in the country of production and/or export. Both natural waxes (carnauba,[12] shellac, beeswax or resin[4]) and petroleum-based waxes (usually proprietary formulae)[3] are used, and often more than one wax is combined to create the desired properties for the fruit or vegetable being treated. Wax may be applied in a volatile petroleum-based solvent but is now more commonly applied via a water-based emulsion.[5] Blended paraffin waxes applied as an oil or paste are often used on vegetables.[7]

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_waxing

Btw, shellac would make the apple non-vegan as it is made from insects.
This deal makes sense if it's connected to revenue, not tenure.

If the contract is framed around time, then understand that you'll be just one of many hobbies for a newly retired exec who wants to feel young and important by dabbling in startups. Those nine months can go by quickly with minimal part-time participation, and then you'll have dead weight on your cap table.

A better alternative is to base their earned equity on milestones - for the next 12 months, every $100k ARR they directly bring in earns them 2% of the company, up to 10%. If they play golf while you grow the business, they get nothing. If they are a killer and bring $500k in ARR, you'll have your GTM, raise a strong Seed round at a valuation of $15-$20M, and they'll get their 10% (less the shared dillution of the Seed round).
Only briefly. Before about 1988, Unix systems (Interleaf and Frame) were still clear leaders, and then Apple began to stumble from around 1990 - the IIfx was the top of the line for a looong time, and soon looked very dated compared to the 486-based systems selling for a quarter of the price.

But, yeah, for those couple of years the combination of the Mac II, Laserwriter II, and Ready Set Go / Pagemaker / Quark was king. The Amiga never really had a chance to gain a foothold.
There's https://chat.lmsys.org/?leaderboard

Not a __full__ list, but big enough to have some reference.
Net worth means after debt is subtracted.

If I convinced the bank to loan me 1 million dollars for a 1 million dollar house, my net worth would remain unchanged.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_worth
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Definitely agree

All of the examples added in a single commit, with no changes afterward

“Passable” examples all use a library of some kind

Thorough comments that are mostly irrelevant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)
> That's irrelevant - the phone number is known to Signal and can be request by law enforcement.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but if usernames are treated as ephemeral, what's the threat model here?