skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scary headlines are misleading. Being first meant that Tesla captured nearly 100% of EV sales. Now that there are reasonable competitors in the mix, it's only natural that its sales volumes will regress to the mean over time.
Regarding the maps thing...

> My dad’s house wasn’t on the map. Neither was my mom’s house. Neither was my friend’s place. Obviously I can’t use apps based on OpenStreetMaps to get me places if the places I want to go aren’t on the map.

What do they mean by not on the map? Is it not showing up in search? Is it the housenumber wasn't there? Is it the street not existing at all? If manually zooming to the place was it showing with the correct street and number?

I'm curious since I've found OSM coverage to be pretty good for things like streets and housenumbers since they are generally based on imported data, no?
Mass transits and more pleasant places to live are probably correlated with more tax efficient policies.

It's just that the USA has accumulated a number of unfair advantages.
On the flip side, I've absolutely never been able to pick up a new programming language from a book.

Most of the languages I've learned I started with YouTube video tutorials, but most recently when I wanted to learn Rust do you know what worked really well for me? GitHub Copilot. I started a new project, and when I didn't know what syntax to use I made a comment and examined the output. By the time the project was done I'd learned how Rust worked and could write code without help.

Before making sweeping pronouncements about what does or doesn't work for learning, it would be worth considering that people vary widely in which learning strategies work well for them. You might just be projecting your own preferred learning style out on the world.
dl_tool=$(command -v curl || command -v wget)
if [[ ${dl_tool} == *curl* ]]; then
dl_cmd="${dl_tool} -sLO $1"
elif [[ ${dl_tool} == *wget* ]]; then
dl_cmd="${dl_tool} -q $1"
else
printf "%s\n" "ERROR: curl and wget not available, exiting"
fi

Can easily be turned into a function.
Chrome on Windows as well.
Yeah, i have a 3090 and 64gb of ram. I can run a 8x7B and get pretty decent performance out of it with partial offloading.
I agree that just marinating in a trauma and victim mindset isn't healthy. All you do is re-traumatize!

But that's why any therapist worth their salt will focus on engaging and healing those issues. Yes we engage with the trauma response, but in a safe space so that you can walk out of being trapped in it.
> which is going to be incredibly slow.

"Faster but wrong" isn't really faster it's just wrong.

> That code doesn't appear to be sequential from other threads is not the language's fault. It's just a fact of reality.

What other threads? In a sequential programming language we certainly can't have "other threads".

> You can still write "sequential programs" like it's K&R.

"You can just not use the bits you don't like" is how we got C++ dialects that C++ proponents love to pretend don't exist. If the language is "simple" except for all the new bits that are complicated it's not simple.
The watch article was on HN a few day ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40365956

While the title is provocatively titled, "How the Soviets revolutionized wristwatches", it seems to be more of a play on words around the Soviet revolution. The article is about how they bought watchmaking equipment from the US, looted machinery from Germany after WWII, and copied swiss designs.

Soviet watches were workhorses, but not revolutionary at all.
> While this is clearly exaggeration, I'm not sure I find much merit in the argument.
>
> C is full of gotchas, footguns, and a tremendous threat vector. But it is also the standard for many uses.

(I'm not GP)

Yes, and the same way there's a plethora of bash-alternatives in the making, there are multiple languages trying to essentially be a "better C", such as Go, Rust and so on, not to mention C++ and its descendants.

I definitely think there's room for an improved bash. The biggest question is whether an alternative can become ubiquitous enough to be a fully qualified alternative.
Motors primarily convert electrical energy (or fluid/air pressure in the case of hydraulic/pneumatic motors) into mechanical motion.

Engines primarily convert chemical or thermal energy into mechanical power. The term is also applied metaphorically to a central component that drives a process or system.

> Pretending that they are anything but synonyms now is ridiculous and I'm glad the article pointed out that they are used that way instead of pretending that the older definitions still have merit like so many prescriptionist folks do.

So you are ok with having your opinion about this recorded in online forum's database motors and easily discovered by users of Google's search motor?
> You should take it upon yourself

> It's a problem solved

If I have to take it upon myself, then it's not solved.
Seems like there is high potential for some NPC text generation from LLMs, especially a model that is trained to produce NPC dialog alongside discrete data that can be processed to correlate the content of the speech with the state of the game. This is going to be a tough challenge with a lot of room for research and creative approaches to producing immersive experiences. Unfortunately, only single-player and cooperative experiences will be practical for the foreseeable future since its trivial to totally break the immersion with some prompt poisoning.

Even more than LLMs, I'm curious about how transformers can be used to produce more convincing game AI in the areas where they are notoriously bad like 4x games.
Is there really any reason to buy a Tesla if you want an EV other than as a status symbol? I bought a lightly used Chevy Bolt which, after rebates cost me $8000. Its range is around 230 miles. Why are people paying $40k for cars?
This is absolutely not true for kids in the range of maybe 9-13 or something. I have kids. I learn via text books. They just can't do it yet, and they are a good way ahead of most of the kids in their grade.
But they did invest in digitals, heavily. There just wasn't enough there to power the huge ship that had been driven by film. Even if they controlled the entire digitals market it wouldn't compare to the previous film market. Perhaps chemicals could have been a saving grace, but I believe Fujifilm had a sufficiently cushioned blow due to the Xerox subsidiary and the more favorable Japanese Business environment. In contrast to Kodak, Fujifilm didn't suffer a significant reduction in government revenue.
> Seems like max demand for EVs have been hit in Western Europe much like the US.

* Based on current prices / range / charging infra rollout, etc. I think range has gotten to an acceptable place for most people's anxieties (still progress to make of course), price is coming down with the cars coming out in the next year or two but infra investment feels like it's dragging things down a bit. Particularly where I live in the north of the UK anyway.
I am not saying property rights are bogus, but they are also not a god-given principle. This is why I reacted.

There are lots of ways to draw the line. Allowing people to walk in a forest you "own" is one of them.
It's almost like a RangeMap, of which there are at least 3 notable variations:

* The basic RangeMap, where a range of adjacent keys all map to the same value

* The computed RangeMap, where a range of adjacent keys all map to adjacent values (common for e.g. case-conversion of Unicode, can also come up for IP addresses)

* The DenseMap, where a range of adjacent keys map to arbitrary values, but use an array for memory optimization.

The first two actually can be made to work for string-like keys. The last is only possible for integer-like keys; use a carefully chosen trie design for string-like keys.
AlphaFold3 – why did Nature publish it without its code?
Ruby is my choice primarily because of its syntax and the powerful meta-programming capabilities. The ecosystem in itself is not any richer or better than Python, no, Python has faaar superior libraries and vibrant support.
In my case, I've found ruby-toolbox.com to be useful when I need to scavenge for libraries.
and... 'fixing' it can cause its own issues.

I've been involved in some systems that routinely spit out dozens of warnings per day. After 'fixing' some of them - maybe getting a system down to a few per week, bug reports started coming in that the system was 'broken'. Because people noticed the boxes and messages they routinely ignored were gone, and this must be a problem. Lots of re-education may need to happen on a large scale to actually 'fix' alarm fatigue across the board.
North Korea is a good counterexample, but it is hardly a relevant comparison (nor is it realistic) to Hamas. The Workers’ Party of Korea was funded after liberation from the Japanese Empire. Though it included many members of the resistance fighters (notably Kim Il Sung) the movement it self was not a direct continuation of the pre-independence resistant movements.

World War 2 is also a weird time in history to gain independence as external forces (particularly the Soviet Union and Western Allies) played a large part of the resistance. If you compare instead with Vietnam, which also was liberated from the Japanese Empire, but was promptly re-colonized by the French, where the same liberation movement that fought the Empire, also fought and won the French, and became the legitimate government of first North Vietnam and finally all of Vietnam. The Communist Party turned out to be a much more functioning government than the South Vietnam Government which had a series of Monarchs, military dictators, western imposed dictators, etc.

Finally I’d like to turn to FLN which is probably the most relevant comparison. FLN consolidated Algeria as a one party state for the first decades after independence, and it took a whole other rebellion for democratic reforms. But the terrorist activities of FLN (which were much more numerous and destructive than Hamas’) almost completely stopped (I don’t remember any post-independence terrorist activities of FLN actually).

I actually think that Hamas’ rule would be far more democratic than FLN’s. Hamas has a wide support among the people in Palestine, and they would easily win a fair and free election. If they would engage in undemocratic activities, it would cost them more then they could gain (granting international recognition [which honestly is unlikely]). All of this would be void though if Israel would continue interfering with an independent Palestine.
I think the hostility comes from Wikipedia constantly asking for money when most of the money goes to things that aren't Wikipedia.
I'd love to see the cumulative collective market cap of MIT founded companies vs Stanford companies.

My guess is that Stanford founded companies would win.

I'm an MIT grad myself. But I've noticed the incredible productivity of startups coming out of the Bay Area.

Though, not sure how much of that is Stanford grads specifically as opposed to other schools in the area (as well as graduates from schools around the country who flocked to the Bay Area).
You can generate JSON or other machine readable formats to use as inputs to APIs allowing the LLM to directly operate whatever software or hardware you want. You can’t remove next token prediction without fundamentally changing the architecture and losing all of the benefits (unless you invent the next big thing of course). Each generated token has to go back in order to get the next one. Perhaps if you could simplify your API to a single float value you could just do a single step but I doubt this would work as well. Progress will continue to be made through further training and fine tuning until another significant discovery is made.
You should just leave it at "people like different things" instead of making claims about why people don't like something (especially something that you like).

Because now you invite more negativity (on top of the original negativity and now yours) as people who didn't like their writing may now want to defend themself because they just didn't like the style and aren't part of some "growing undercurrent" who can't appreciate his brilliance because he's not "well-established nor a known expert".

Maybe they just think the writing is overwrought like when you outgrow John Scalzi's lamewad writing after briefly finding it clever in Old Man's War? (I think that's a decent place to end this because Scalzi is a very successful author.)
They're not even status symbols anymore. I think it's quite common knowledge now that they're poor quality cars made with very little care.
Dollars to donuts it's Chinese brands like MG, BYD, Nio, Zeekr, etc. taking most of the recent sales, they're just so much cheaper.
> Does this meak we know how much the total density of matter has to decrease in order for universe to expand one cubic meter?

It doesn't work that way. Remember that GR is a theory of spacetime geometry. When we say "the universe is expanding", that's really shorthand for "the spacetime geometry of the universe has a particular shape". It doesn't mean that the universe "adds cubic meters" over time.

There is certainly a relationship between the density of matter (or more generally stress-energy density) and the geometric property that informally we refer to as "the rate of expansion of the universe". The equations that express that relationship are the Friedmann equations, which are just the Einstein Field Equation, the central equation of GR, specialized to the kind of spacetime geometry that "expanding universe" refers to. But it's not really useful to think of those relationships as saying that if the matter density decreases by this much, it makes the universe expand that much.

> It looks to me that "dark energy" / cosmological constant is just a measure of preference for matter+volume (or at least energy+volume) to take the form of volume rather than matter, in an otherwise conserving process.

No, that's not a good way to look at it.

A cosmological constant aka dark energy is best thought of as just an unusual form of perfect fluid whose pressure is minus its energy density. Then you just plug that into the Friedmann equations to get predictions for what we should expect to observe, such as "accelerating expansion".
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That's of little consolation to the people who bought Tesla stock when it was far more overvalued than the still grossly overvalued price that it has today. The quality of their products is bad. The quality of their leadership is even worse. People have taken notice and are voting with their wallets.

Even if I could buy a Tesla for $19K and it did 800 miles per charge, I wouldn't, because the control system alone is beyond terrible.
Blackbody radiation is the wrong approach. If you are going to slap a PV panel onto a radioactive source then tune it for the emitted radiation rather than the blackbody heat. Radiation from nuclear decay should be very narrowband, allowing for a more efficient PV solution.
I don't get what Bytedance is doing here. Clearly they are not actively trying to evade blocks, as they are idenifying their bot with a user agent sites can block.

However, surely they have enough smart engineers there to realize that running a bot at full speed (and, based on other reports, completely ignoring robots.txt) will get them blocked by a lot of sites.

If they just had a well behaved spider, almost no one would mind. Getting crawled is a fact of life on the internet, and most website owners recognize it as an essential cost of doing busses. Once you get a reputation as a bad spider, though, that is very hard to shake.
Do people think the first movie was not mostly digital? That’s been my impression and it’s not that hard to tell when you watch it.

Furiosa just looks bad though, and I’m a fan of everyone involved in this film. But god damn does it look weird. It’s like Miller gave up trying to hide the digital parts and just leaned into it. Mistake.
Entering a highly-politically-polarized market category, where one tribe sees "hating your product" as central to their personal identity, then loudly aligning with that tribe and going out of your way to antagonize the other one which actually likes what you make, is going to be taught in business schools for decades as a What Not to Do example. What an absolute fucking moron.
I liked how it wasn't explained because the goal is to make you think about those questions. In a post apocalyptic wasteland where valuable resources are scattered far away in an endless desert, wouldn't cars become an almost mythical and religious item? Without the Chrome Cars, everyone would die as they would be unable to travel and get food/water/etc. So is it any surprise that after generations of living like that, they would worship chrome much in the same way primitive cultures worship the sun/rain/water?
No pivot tables would have been a non starter on this project, and it _had_ to be python because of an edict from on high :)
> I raise North Korea as a counterexample.

North Korea is not the result of a country electing the leadership of an independence movement after an armed struggle.

It would also be very bad if. say, an outside power occupied and imposed a totalitarian regime on all or part of Palestine, and continued supporting it for decades.
Or they decided to specifically take that wording and reverse it as a form of poetic justice on the original complaint?
If we're just talking about NPCs in a video game, I bet the game studios have the resources to train a very specific LLM optimized for NPCs. Lots of training data could probably be stripped out; after all your average quest-giver in Skyrim doesn't need to know how to implement Black Scholes in Rust.
There are obscene amounts of money in EdTedh. It lives in rich parents wallets.
A few years ago Teslas were common but pretty much the only electric cars you’d see on the Swedish roads.

And their build quality reputation wasn’t stellar.

Nowadays there are far more other brands of electric car on the roads. Kia are perhaps the most common, and not-previously-heard-of Chinese brands are starting to appear.

I think Elons own not-a-nice-person story also hurts Tesla.
What are you talking about? Tesla was not even in the top 5 by model in October 2022.

https://alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu/general-i...
This is classic HN/Twitter take who are absolutely clueless about the law/copyright.

Producer : I'm making a movie X. I wish Harrison Ford would play lead.

Harrison Ford : Suck on it.

Producer : Well this dude comes close to Ford. Let me cast him and make a movie anyway.

The fact that supposedly smart people are overly cautious and are heavily influenced by celebrities / hollywood take on this subject is proof why people like Sam Altman, Elon Musk succeed. Their competition is clueless / risk-averse
I use GPT 4, and it still constantly invents things and presents them to me with authority. I haven’t tried GPT-4o yet.
> for games: i think they are simply too slow for now?

I think it's two-fold. The primary one is that it's likely very difficult to maintain a designers storyline vision and desired "atmosphere / feel", because LLM's currently "go off the rails" too easily. The second is that the teams with enough funding to properly fine-tune generative AI to do dialog, level/environment-creation, character-generation, etc. that funding means they're generally making AAA or AAA-adjacent games, which already need so much of a consumer GPU VRAM that there's not a lot left over for large ML models to run in parallel.

I do think though that we should already be seeing indie games doing more with LLM's and 3D character/level/item generation than we are. Of course AI Dungeon has been trailblazing this for a long time but I just expected to see more widely-recognized success by now from many projects. I take this as a signal that it's hard to make a "good" game using AI generation. If anyone has any suggestions for open-world games with significant amount of AI generation that allows player interaction to significantly affect the in-game universe, I'd be very interested in play-testing them. Can be any genre / style / budget. I just want to see more of what people are accomplishing in this space.

My hope is that there will be space for both the current style of game where every aspect is created/designed by a human, as well as for games of various types where the world is given an overall narrative/aesthetic/vision by the creators, but the details are implemented by AI and allows true open-world play where you finally can just walk into any shop and use RAG/etc to allow complete continuity over months/years of play where characters remember your conversations/interactions/actions of you and anyone playing in the same world.

I do think there's something of an "end-game" for this where a game is released that has no game at all in it, but rather generates games for each player based on what they want to play that day, and creates them as you play them. But I'd like to imagine that this won't replace other games (even if it does take a bit of the air out of the room), but rather exist alongside games with human-curated experiences.
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I agree on the most part, but I still think some pretty cool games can come up with local LLMs. Suck up for example, though not local afaik, is a pretty cool one.
I'm aware that there is a compatibility layer in place that will runs most apps, and that some of the most common production apps will have native builds.

But from what I can read, the compatibility layer is not perfect, and for instance games cannot be expected to just run or run well enough to be playable.

If you are at the point where Windows apps cannot be expected to just work, then why not use wine (and proton for games) instead, on an ad-free system?
Without voice or video chat, selling IRCv3 as a discord replacement is a non-starter. Let alone without the other community building elements.
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Not if the overall market was growing. Problem is when you are losing market share and overall market is stagnating.

I see nothing scary in headline, it is a pretty straight fact.
> I didn't really get Fury Road. Why were people spraying silver spray paint in each others' mouths?

Solvents get you high. They also kill you, but beggars can't be choosers in the post-apocalypse.

People inhale spray paint in real life if they are desperate enough, or just really stupid.
> all I could find was this from 8 years ago: https://github.com/BytemarkHosting/netlinkrb

Yeah, that's so typical. I've almost become used to this, seeing useful gems being very old. To me, I see that as either abandoned (which means I have to fork it and polish it) or the gem is considered complete.
I haven't benchmarked it, but almost certainly yes - The unpacking shouldn't be that big of a deal, but three branches vs 0 branches likely is.

And, the function as a whole is much more vectoriseable - if its in an inner loop, the compiler ought to be able to inline it and autovectorise the loop.
Please have a legitimate response. Strawmanning is not cool.
quickest fix is to change the text to a light gray.
> never met Cray

We lost Cray* to an untimely automobile accident. It'd be possible to have many fewer of those in the future, but that policy seems to be a much harder sell than I'd think it would be.

* when the Mac team bragged they'd used a Cray to design their latest version (heat flow simulation IIRC), Cray humblebragged back that he'd used a Mac to design his latest version.
They wording was reversed, however; I took this to be an explicit and intended way of righting the scales for what had previously been written.