skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how DARE Americans use their own vernacular to communicate when there are other people that commit is different ways!
Pedestrians and motorcyclists are supposed to play chicken, one supposes. The self-driving problem requires general intelligence and a theory of mind, both unsolved problems.
I was curious so I tried to answer this question

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Training Llama 3 models emitted 2290 tons CO2e (https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md), and took 7.7 million GPU hours. Those GPU hours are for H100s, which consume 700W. So the conversion is approximately 2290 / (7.7e6 * 3600 * 700 / 1e9) ~= 0.12 tons CO2e per GPU-gigajoule.

A100s (what Huggingface offers) consume 400W (https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Cent...) and cost $2.21/hour (in e.g. CoreWeave https://www.coreweave.com/gpu-cloud-pricing). So $10 million in H100s buys you ($10e6 / $2.21/h * 3600s/h) * 400W ~= 6515 Gigajoules in GPU-hours.

So Huggingface's offering will emit ~781 tons CO2e. Less if they've inflated the value of the compute they provide, which they have an incentive to do, but let's round to 800 tons.

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According to https://www.carbonindependent.org/22.html, one Boeing-737-400 flying for 926km emits (3.61 tons fuel/flight * 3.15(g CO2e / g fuel)) = 11.37 tons CO2e .

So $10million in compute is like ~72 Boeing-737-400 international flights.
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Every day the FAA (so only in the USA) handles, on average, 45,000 flights (https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers). If only 1% of these are international (very rough calculation), the total amount of compute released by this Huggingface announcement is like 16% of one day's USA international flights.

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This may sound like very little or like a lot to you.
In a lot of cases... probably not in my experience. I think it can make a big difference in some cases though.

What REPL were you using though? Something to think about is that the Lisp and Smalltalk REPLs are a lot more powerful than Python in that I think when an expression fails, the program itself can be edited and it will start where it left off. You can't do that with Python.

Edit: the article does a good job of explaining this as "It's like if you could run your code in a debugger with a breakpoint at every single line that only activates if something goes wrong!"
Unfortunately the moment you get dollar bills attached to particular words, everyone starts using them. AI sells. Evolutionary algorithms do not. So everyone chasing the sweet dollar will say AI and other buzzwords.
Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul – and a monthly subscription price
That might be true, but it also destroys the economics. A massive factor in this is that to justify the valuation of Tesla you need to beleive not just that Tesla are going to solve self-driving (again) but they're going to do so and have a monopoly for some period of time. If Waymo really do solve it and roll out at scale, then all that Tesla is going to offer from an economic point of view is a race to the bottom. They'll entirely lose pricing power, which defeats the purpose of the pivot in the first place.
I Personally prefer the Tesla go to market strategy. They are tackling a much harder problem (machine vision) and if it ends up working, it will be done far more elegantly (a few cameras rather than tons of sensors) with far more significant implications to our day to day life (the tech can be extrapolated to tons of automation, like garbage roadside cleaning, side walk garbage collection, robots, etc).

On regulation, I believe regulators are prone to bending to the will of local constituents. Uber was very effective at galvanizing voters when local markets were threatening legislation via the app. I imagine the many millions of people that will own a Tesla in 2 years will have no problem clicking a “message your local congressman” button on the screen to get this approved in most markets. It won’t matter if NYC, Portland, San Fran and LA ban it.

Of course, the data will have to fully support the safety of Tesla FSD. I’m curious to watch it play out.
Yeah... I'll just leave the other readers (if anyone else is still reading) to judge whether we missed your point, or you missed ours...

(Or, I suppose, whether we're just talking past each other.)
Far from all Incels are antisocial. An incel is just a (typically young and male) nonbreeding human of breeding age. Most species have them. Human societies in the past got around the problem a little by discouraging polygamy and shifting enough risk of death onto men only that men were a minority and likely to breed by default if they made it into adulthood. Modern society doesn't like fifteen year olds dying in farming accidents or warfare, so there are a lot of men involuntarily celibate instead. But that category covers a huge range of situations and behaviors. It's just become associated with the antisocial subset because it's an effective insult - by definition, no one wants to be incel.
most of these teenagers already come from upper middle class (professional parents) backgrounds, they don't need the money, they know that winning it is a guaranteed admission to MIT or Harvard. Getting admitted to top schools today is an order of magnitude tougher than it was even 10 years ago.
No AI?!
If people will bring multiple laptop batteries, they’ll bring unlimited tethering hotspots.
Maybe the idea is that you overload your favored default as a + operator? Even more baffling certainly, but at this point I wouldn’t even be surprised this was considered a compelling argument in the mind of whoever settled this API choice. :D
That is a good call. Having platform knowledge is definitely a plus, but core language skills are probably more important considering the minimal complexity of our system.
Selling Tesla as an energy company is why the stock price is so much higher than any other car manufacturer.

Didn’t they just cut their supercharger team though?
A few that I'd like to learn about more deeply given the time:

1. Reverse engineering and vulnerability research. Not that much programming in the sense of writing code, but it basically requires you to be deeply familiar with assembly, compiler optimizations, application binary interfaces, and obfuscation methods. It's especially interesting because there are basically two groups that are heavily involved in this work: independent hackers and nation state or adjacent entities (infosec companies, defense contractors, etc).

2. ROM hacking and homebrew. This is similar to reverse engineering, but it's done for more fun reasons. Lots of super interesting work people have done to do things like mod or optimize classic console games, decompile games so they can be recompiled for modern systems, or just learning the development stack of an obsolete console to create new games and software from scratch. It's especially interesting because you tend to have to get into older or more obscure ISAs like MIPS, PPC, or MOS 6502. Check out Kaze Emanuar for some examples.

3. Mainframe computing. It's only esoteric because the hardware and software is largely proprietary and locked down. The Hercules emulator exists though, and IBM lets you run the 30+ year old versions of their Mainframe OSs as a hobbyist without needing to worry about licenses and stuff. The business model sucks, but Mainframes are interesting since they represent a very different paradigm of computing from the now commonplace X86+Linux commodity machines. There's a YouTube channel called moshix which offers pretty accessible long-form information on how to get started hacking around on Mainframe emulators.
I wrote something similar on top of TMUX and zsh. I use zsh hooks to dump the current TMUX pane to a file (/tmp/lastcmd) just before a new prompt is displayed; I also set variables $O1, $O2, ... to respective output lines. It never occurred to me to bind `less /tmp/lastcmd` to a key, though - good idea :)

(BTW: the problematic part was to make it fast enough not to be noticeable. The code that dumps the pane contents and searches for the start of the last output is written in Nim, in effect.)

It was possible in TMUX because it gives you programmatic access to the pane's content. It's probably possible to do the same with some terminals - urxvt uses Perl as an extension language, for example - but TMUX provides a compatibility layer, which means I don't need to rewrite the whole setup if I change the terminal emulator.
Something that I haven’t seen mention is the combination of Covid-19 shifting consumer behavior and the rise of DoorDash and others. A number of restaurants in my town never went back to offering seating and instead have a dedicated pickup spot for DoorDash.

I went to do carry out from a local restaurant that had a small bar section as well as a restaurant section and thought I might have a drink while I waited. I wasn’t able to because the whole bar section was strictly for carry out now.
Who said it wasn’t? The article is about one Starbucks in Toronto. We don’t know how many Starbucks stores closed, moved, changed their hours, or rearranged their furniture, or had managers willing to tell homeless to move on.
The thing I would love to see the most is full shortcut management.

1. Configure which shortcuts override web page shortcuts. (Ex: Can't open history on Google Docs)

2. Customize shortcuts arbitrarily (add/remove/remap defaults). Bonus points for vim-style shortcuts being possible.

3. Shortcuts for JS/bookmarkets.
I agree, and in some countries it does feel like your children get 'institutionalized'. Still, even there, there are differences between schools. What my parents did was to visit the schools, talk to the teachers, see whether they had a good or a bad feeling, and insisting on getting me into a specific class. It does work, but of course all the schools and classes should ideally be good.
Is this not really only relevant to the US though and where Waymo are operating?

Here in the UK, they recently passed this law, which could allow self driving cars from 2026 - https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/22/uk_law_gives_green_li...
This kind of science leaves me with lots and lots of questions.

E.g.: As our understanding of DNA progresses, and we link more and more of it to different traits, will we eventually get into a situation where a swab on the water glass tells potential employer much more than the interview?

Or: imagine that in addition to the discovery "viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders" there's a discovery that "this viral DNA is much more prevalent in [a certain population]". What will be the consequences of this?
> Change `browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh` to true

Just a note that this flag didn't exist in my Ffx 127.0b4. Created to True = surfaced the Add button as advertised.
That isn't true at all. In most binary protocols, you put the size of the message in the header. Then any sequence of bytes is allowed to follow. There are no escape sequences.
Ukraine was under Russia's governance, Maidan unlinked the governance, so Russia's governance fed Dombas separatism and sent undercover troops (aka destabilization and progressive control), Ukraine's new governance responded with troops. Time passed, Russia's governance got inpatient, sent regular troops thinking it would be a way to finish and regain quickly the control over Ukraine's governance, aka open invasion, but the troops didn't know they were being sent into a war, and the external support was underestimated.
Secure by Design Pledge
"Get out of the way, phlogiston theory, electromagnetics are here to stay."
It is a very nice and important initiative. Blogs and personal pages are the essence of the Internet and anything that aims to honor them should be encouraged. Many people worry about the imminent collapse of original and clean sources, essential for the functioning of LLMs, but blogs can be the salvation. They are the main source of diverse and original material, given their sheer number and update frequency. For this reason alone, they should receive more attention and care from search engines [especially Google, which aims to be a player in the AI sector]. Your idea also has an interesting social flare.

Congrats and thank you for your work. I hope to add my blog as soon as I have my /now.
I believe that's outdated already, the next...uh, expansion layer would be some sort of generative AI features.

In other words, every other platform expands until it can summarize emails.
Thank you. I naturally am very attracted to the permissive licensing, but time and experience of seeing huge companies take permissively licensed code and use it to make, make billions without giving back anything or anything of substance, and comparing that to how the Linux kernel has evolved, has made me really consider whether GPL isn't needed. That debate is forever ongoing, of course, but it greatly warms my heart to see that Dell is contributing back. This seems like a success story of permissive licensing.
Emphasis on "if it ends up working"
adblock/ublock/umatrix could get you out of that too.
I am right there with you; working from home for last 6 years and 10 of 12. If I work from an another location it is an hour or so. I also live in a neighborhood that is mostly professionals that are back in office, so it seems there is less WFH people in some places around me, especially some newly opened spots.
The misleading, wasteful way the US measures gas mileage
I think the suggestion is that the rise of populist parties is making the otherwise “responsible” politicians take more populist decisions to win back votes, especially before an election.
There really should be a FOSS re-implementation of OPL.

Better still, one that could run on modern phones.
The issue is that it needs the really really good on baseline before people start switching from other services.

But if you are able provide better baseline than others, then you might not even need the users to be "better. With users, you would be then exceptional.
The two-party system is not really a coalition system, is it? For one, there is no way for minority factions within parties to exert effective control over the other factions, no? A prime example being how the centrist majority of the Democratic party crushed the democratic socialist faction.
> While no one was behind the wheel during my rides, Waymo has remote operators that sometimes provide guidance to its vehicles (Waymo declined to tell me whether—or how often—remote operators intervened during my rides)

So basically Waymo are remote controlled taxis
I tried Kagi for a while and found it to be excellent. I settled on Perplexity for my own use however.

I still use Duck Duck Go, Google, and Bing-ChatGPT. Not sure why, but sometimes I like variety.
Good tune, though.
Yeah, that'll teach them for teaching the wrong way
I just want something like this for a pygame I'm making.
But not very compue intensive.
In principle yes, but real liquid atoms never "settle down" whereas the ones in the simulation clearly do.

What is going on is that the particles in this simulation represents something more like droplets: huge quantities of atoms grouped together and treated as solid sphere with properties matching some average of the atoms it is supposed to represent.

And water doesn't evaporate a droplet at a time, thus evaporation is something that this type of simulation cannot reproduce.
We don't give equity. The company is bootstrapped and the founders ran it completely until cash flow positive. It is now a fantastic mission driven small business, not a startup, focused on post graduate certification exam prep.
Raising my kids in the Bay Area, I certainly am aware of what I call unhealthy competitiveness in even the public schools.

If you think this is an unfortunate way to raise a child — in that kind of overly competitive environment – then there is a lot of blame to go around. The difficulty of getting into a UC school being an obvious place to start.
I was at a cute little cafe the other day that serves little desserts and baked goods and someone sat down, opened their laptop, pulled out the mouse and headset and proceeded to join a conference call. They ordered a croissant. Dude eat your croissant, enjoy the atmosphere and leave. Go do that shit at home. Honestly even my public library has been overrun with people squatting all day for work.
India's government is trying to silence US critics
>Pedestrians and motorcyclists are supposed to play chicken, one supposes. The self-driving problem requires general intelligence and a theory of mind, both unsolved problems.

Self driving only has to be better than people drivers, statistically, to be a benefit to society. This probably isn't a very high bar.
> Sorry, this doesn't make any logical sense to me. If X is important because it is a cause of a high number of bugs

It doesn't make sense to you because you keep focusing on the number of bugs, and I keep talking about bug severity. As I've already explained, memory safety bugs are worse than other bugs. The number of bugs is generally not as important as severity, and doesn't typically impact how useful software is past some threshold for bug count. The severity of the bugs is important, always, eg. across the set of programs with 1 bug, the subset of programs where that bug leads to memory unsoundness will be considerably worse than the rest.
Prefer Noun-Adjective Naming
For sure Trolls who escaped the disc world.
Really pleased to have a play with this--I've so often read comments that the agenda, the calendar, on this thing was better than almost anything since, it was interesting to go and have a look. I can see the point, the year view is really good in a way that my current calendar (fantastical) doesn't quite match.
Presumably, the same "problem" that gold-plated HDMI connectors are solving.
I love the idea, but having spent so much time learning the ins and outs of bash I feel like I’d rather just use bash. To say nothing of the Lindy Effect. Bash will probably be here in 50 years. This probably will not.
If you roll a 4 sided die twelve times, getting a single "1" is a likely outcome. Getting a "1" 3 times is more likely, but not significantly so.
As I understand it the federal government collects income tax which which would go hand in glove with UBI. So surely UBI would be distributed through that channel wouldn't it? If everyone in the USA got UBI except the citizens of Iowa, I think they might change the law?
I for one want totalitarianism in search. Post one spam blog and that’s it, it’s over for life.
Every swiss that is issued the military gun (which is most) get a gun. They are trained by military professionals how to use the gun and hoe to store the weapon at home. It is for example forbidden and punishable by law, if something happens with your weapon, if you stored your weapons ready to shoot. You must remove the bolt and store it in a save, secured location. Using ammunition provided by the goverment must not be used, if it is used you will be punished. If you dont handle your weapon responsibly during trainig you may go to military prison.

So probably it probably not really compareable to how most people learn to handle a weapon in the usa.
In military parlance the EM spectrum is just another battlespace, akin to the water or air battlespaces. Dominance simply means maintaining your freedom to act in that space while simultaneously denying the adversary's. An EM battle can be won and lost without a "shot" fired. Look at the reports of GPS interference around Russia/Ukraine. That is probably the civilian-visible edge of the ongoing EM war.
Cops used to harass them away.
To be fair I haven't tried gnome terminal in some years so maybe it's improved. I have used konsole (well, yakuake, but same thing) more recently and was minorly annoyed by the latency, particularly when scrolling in emacs/etc. I have since swapped out yakuake with kitty with tdrop for the "quake mode" effect.
> The reason for this renovations is to keep homeless individuals from camping inside the stores

It's also to prevent free riding businesses from setting up shop. It's also to reflect market changes where fewer people were looking to them as third places in the first place.

> Retail business is hard. You _do_ want to be charitable

Mostly, no, retail businesses don't, they want to make money. To the extent appearing charitable helps with that, they may want to appear charitable, but that's instrumental, not an objective in itself.
50-story condo tower proposed in S.F. is dead. This is what will replace it
Scientists swabbed monuments in Europe to see what bacteria live on them (2019)
I guess that's fair. I haven't seen that pattern in Rust before and I don't think I particularly like it, but I can see why some might.
By all means, name your exact point then.

Mine was that some people needlessly -- and very immaturely -- rebel against using Rust because of something they saw on HN 5 years ago. There's no Rust zealotry here for a long time.

I chased after a few people asking them if they really tried it or they simply resist something because it's gaining popularity.

How dare I? :D
Weren't we supposed to have Tesla robotaxis making everyone $10k a year back in 2021? I will be shocked if there is an actual product that is actually usable within 6 month of August 8.

Never trust a charlatan.
"Security through obscurity" is the vernacular formulation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle and refers to using bespoke encryption algorithms rather than strong encryption keys. I don't see how it has any bearing here.

Indeed, outside of cryptography, keeping substantive knowledge secret is quite often a critical component of security. See generally Rogue One ;-)
Probably lots, my first Palm was a TX in 2006, and I remember it was ~£300. I used it with a IBM T60 which was was I recall £1200+

I had an IBM R30 before that in ~2000 and recall it being ~£1500 as well.

Laptops weren't cheap!
I guess I haven't read enough Rust code to come across this patterns, but I don't think I particularly like it. Perhaps I would get used to it though :)
I am using regular chrome
They were subsequently rehired. Or most of them were anyway. You know, sensible business decisions, forward planned, so on and so forth.
The social and political environment for the unhoused, as well as the substance abuse environment, has shifted during those 20 years. Many homeless people today are exactly where they want to be. They don't want to come up with rent every month, please a boss every day. They want to do street drugs without a care in the world. Sometimes it's an easier way to avoid confronting mental issues.

20 years ago if you asked an unhoused person to leave a Starbucks, the fear of police, the general shame, etc. soft social pressure might have worked. Today's street residents might see the antagonism as entertainment, their position in the world as entitled, and sleeping in the police lockup as a clever free hotel hack. It's the same sense of entitlement that has them break someone's car window for something they can sell for $10 or walk out of a store with an arm full of merchandise.

In a way, the breach of social contract has become an entertainment aspect, if not a Robinhood-esque anti-society self-justification. The consequences of "being a constructive member of society" are too high for many, and the consequences of street life are ones you can mentally harden yourself against.