skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you think might be the most promising substitute for aluminum? And what do you think of the Japanese idea of using wood?
It's worth noting there is also evidence that the Australian aborigines changed the climate, making Australia drier, with their hunting practice of burning forest: https://theconversation.com/how-aboriginal-burning-changed-a...
Sadly, this was the start of the cognitive dissonance for me that led from fanboy -> disappointment -> better left unsaid. Revealed himself indeed.

Oh for a good and righteous king! But not in this life; not from men.
Self driving cars in general are a useless technology demo. Not just TSLA (although more so because of the repeated false claims).

It’s a way for the car industry to fight against their extinction.

In the beginning the argument was: “it’s not the cars killing people, it’s the damn ‘jay walkers’ (term invented by auto industry, btw). Get those people off the road and cram them into the sides of the streets so my fat car can ride freely!11”

That campaign worked, to some extent, and now we have a patch work of sidewalks.

Then later…

Eisenhower (inspired by the ability for the German military to easily mobilize across the country via autobahn) pushed for interstate highways subsidized by the people. Auto industry capitalized on this and this contributed to the invention of the American suburb and slow decay of once walkable urban cores.

Cars were a luxury item. Now it’s a necessity, along with a whole laundry list of items for a car owner:

- gas

- time spent looking for charger, and charging

- parking (less space at home for living and instead using space for car)

- time spent finding public parking

- parking fees

- time spent in traffic

- car repairs

- car maintenance

- car insurance

- yearly taxes for registration

- car sales tax

- car depreciation

- toll fees for turnpike/regional highway

In recent years, people have been realizing how car centric transportation cannot scale (ie, induced demand); and is an environmental disaster.

Now the auto industry’s answer is: “oh we have self driving cars!!1 that’s going to fix it. It’s the damn human that can’t drive!! Have aRtIfICiAl iNtElLiGeNcE hold the wheel! As for pollution, electric cars will fix that” (totally ignoring the carbon emissions to transition to an EV, increased brake dust and tire wear pollution, and rolling 10 yr contribution to e-waste in the form of batteries, and a grid that has traditionally relied on non-renewable sources)
Awesome blog.

Then I clicked on the author's profile, read another of their posts, and saw:

> I first encountered programming sometime around 2010, when I was 9 years old.

I was 13 in 2010, and trying to stuff secondary school maths and science into my head. Every time I see a cool computer graphics-related blog post, it's by someone younger and way more talented than me.

I feel extremely inadequate; my inner voice immediately went to something I can't really publicly say in case I get a dozen help-lines in response.
https://docs.modular.com/mojo/faq#will-mojo-be-open-sourced

Further reading. TLDR: they plan to open source it gradually over time. There's no evidence to suggest otherwise.
Nvidia open source LLM Nemotron 4 340B at top of the charts [pdf]
If you want to waist some time start your presentation with a table of content. Then explain the CV of your coworkers, yourself and everyone involved. Also don’t forget to mention the history of your company and all the stuff your company is doing besides what you’re presentation is about. In the end make a summary, thank your mom and dad and mention that your company is hiring.
Anything other than short distance prototypes? Please share because I’m not aware of any
Sure, but there are grounded metrics there (the theorem is proved, not proved) that allow feedback. Same for games, almost the same for domains with cheap, approximate evaluators like protein folding (finding the structure is difficult, verifying it quite well is cheap).

For discovery and reasoning??? Not too sure.
"pseudo-Marxist" ? LOL, you have no idea what you are talking about. I'm arguing for a smaller-scale energy landscape, for privately owned enterprises, individuals, etc. If that is Marxist, you are seriously confused.

EVEN if I were to buy solar panels from China, then I'm still financing them, I'm buying them, I'm installing them, I'm operating them, I'm selling the energy and the profits from solar electricity is MINE - over the full lifetime. Solar energy production is more than "chinese panel manufacturing".

The nuclear reactor Flamanville/France, which has massive cost overruns and delays:

* controlled by the state
* financed by the state
* bought by the state
* constructed by the state
* operated by the state
* energy sold by the state

EDF (Electricité de France) is government owned and builts and operates the power plant, it also sells the electricity to the customer.

ALL, literally all, of the electricity production and distribution from French nuclear power plants is owned by the state. That's Marxian!

If I see where I live, the Wind Farms serving the region:

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

The construction firms for Wind Turbines are Vestas, Siemens, etc. These are not state owned. They are private enterprises.

Example, the German Wind Farm "Kaskasi". The Turbines were built by Siemens. The Wind Farm is owned by RWE, a private enterprise. https://www.rwe.com/en/the-group/countries-and-locations/off...

> Energiewende is also financed with state money

The Energiewende had established a mechanism where the consumer pay higher prices (which you have lamented about), which finances the build-up of renewable energy -> the money goes to the renewable energy electricity providers, which are private enterprises and individuals.

The energy companies, the grid, the construction companies, etc., none are owned by the German state. These are all private enterprises or local municipal utilities.
Maybe I'm just a bad driver, but it feels much safer to me having two entities paying attention, instead of just one

It's much more comfortable not to have to micromanage the exact position of the car at every moment, as a manual driver does

I think your "automatic driving" argument is wishful thinking
From my perspective water is only at best a proximal cause. The big problem is that if the motor needs replacing five times during a two year waranty period that is a lemon and the manufacurer should give back the money one paid for it.
When you say " I'll try to merge some of these settings into Django by making them the new default or the default for new projects created with the start project command", you mean you are a Django core developer and you plan to make them as part of the Django project?

If you are, YES PLEASE! :D I would love to have those settings as my default configuration, because the majority of my projects are tiny to small to between-small-and-medium size, therefore SQLite is more than enough for me.
> that everything is now a web app.

Notepad is not. The new version in Win 10 needs 3 to 5 seconds to start.

Calc.exe is also not a web app. It also needs 3- 7 seconds to start.

Today is it normal to see black region on a local program because drawing on the screen is a hard, unsolved problems.

All what matters is profit.
Please read form the start.

The specific was not about Physical media. The specific was that All content distribution requires fees. Physical media was not even specified in the original context.
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> Those things are still fast enough today that you don't need anything newer for most practical daily tasks.

A 13 year old CPU should definitely struggle to keep up with just the basic electron based chat applications we use today, which is only one piece of software that most need to use. There is still no incentive for startups/VC funded companies to make their software more performant.
These would be very welcome changes.

How do self references work when the struct is moved, given that they're pointers?

Also I'm not sure about having a feature that only works for private functions. I can imagine that would be very weird and annoying. I think it would be fine if it were allowed for public functions too, we just need better built in tooling to warn you about API breaking changes. After all you can already break API compatibility in obvious and very subtle ways. It would be great if Rust said something like "this is an API incompatible change; you need to increase the version number".

I think there are third party tools that try to do that but it would be great if it was first party.
it's just for fun? :)
A big part of art is about expressing yourself. No matter how advanced AI gets, the ability to express yourself isn't going away.
Compose multiplatform is the future. I've used Flutter extensively but I created my first Compose Desktop app about 2 years ago and haven't looked back. Everything was alpha back then, and the tooling was only okay, but it is quite an impressive dev experience now, and there are two huge advantages over Flutter:

- it is truly native, in the sense I can directly talk to native APIs on each platform without going through bridging code and there's no special runtime

- Kotlin exists outside of Compose Multiplatform. I love Dart as a language, but the reality is it is irrelevant outside of Flutter. Due to Kotlin gaining some popularity across various platforms and domains, it has an advantage that people who already know the language will decide they want to try Compose Multiplatform, because it's low risk and low effort to try it out
The first 2 and last incident seem like mapping errors. I know people working in this space, and it sounds like they all think the problem is "just giving it a better map". They want to rely primarily on a world map and use things like vision to "see" cars and other local stuff. That approach will never work (except in limited cases like Waymo mostly gets away with). Humans rely primarily on vision and understanding, and reading signs.

FSD requires AGI. These systems are all expensive science fair projects and have already killed a number of people.
whoa, welcome to the war on cars, hn.
Here's a nice arcball demo that does work on mobile (and also uses multi touch, which allows you to do things which are a pain with the single cursor of a mouse, like rotating about the camera axis)
https://threejs.org/examples/misc_controls_arcball.html
As Lovely as a Tree
You can only detect gross structures with xrays. It cannot tell you that a material will not be more likely to fail early due to included contaminants, or lack of, or grain structure etc.

By interior composition and distribution I'm not talking about anything as comically stupid as plating like the inside is aluminum.

The surface of a finished part is routinely intentionally quite different from the interior, ie spin casting and case hardening etc. Frequently the performance of the part actually requires that the interior be different from the surface, ie hard shell resilient interior.

You can observe a lot about a finished part in various ways, like just tapping it and observing the sound can be more useful than an xray. But there's a lot you can not know after the fact through observation, except by observation of the eventual failure or not.

For one example, dissimilar materials, either within a casting or even just 2 parts in contact with each other, or a part and a brazing material, can migrate and diffuse into each other over time. Small differences in the initial conditions change how that develops over time, and can result in big changes in the performance of a part later.

You can't examine a finished part to determine that it was fabricated according to the recipe. You can only detect gross problems. You must trust that the supplier and their suppliers all followed the various recipes.

Here's another angle:

They first detected the forged paperwork because the guys on the factory floor observed that the material looked wrong.

So, it's the opposite of "you can't detect the difference". They detected a difference just plain visually.

The counterfeit parts might actually be perfectly sound. We don't know they will fail early, we only know that we can't trust the paperworks claims about how they were produced, where the materials were sourced from, how they were processed etc. Whatever the source and processes actually were, the end result might be inferior, or might be equivalent or even superior. (although detecting pitting they didn't expect does not lean towards the parts being superior)

They are able to observe that there is something different about these parts. They visually looked different enough to raise the question. Yet so far, they haven't been able to say that the parts are actually unsound through any testing or that initial visual observation.

It's not only that a part that looks perfect might not be, it's also true that even when you do detect a difference, it doesn't mean the part is bad.

You can observe a lot, but there is no amount of after-the-fact observation or testing that can replace knowledge of how a thing was produced.
> VVC is a generational improvement in compression ratio over AV1

That's probably true, but do you know where I could find a comparison that shows a variety of speed settings for both codecs? And ideally discusses how fast VVC is expected to encode once everything is more finalized.

It's easy enough to run everything at default speed but then the results are almost meaningless.
We will have to wait for another leak to verify that.
Tragic.

This does appear to be a solid description of software culture, especially of the Bay Area: avoid looking bad. That describes an unintentional form of conformity, perhaps Machiavellianism. Contrast that with a near opposite subculture like military, especially of the east coast, often expressed in terms of stubborn hyper ethical deviation.

In one case the goal is either to please or save face as determined by a person’s level of agreeability but in the other case the people, especially the self, are just nameless tools to accomplish a goal such that agreeability only determines level of care.

When you learn how to recognize this in the intentions of other people you are in a much better position to manipulate the conditions to accomplish what you believe to be important.
Imagine if you sit in a self driving taxi and need to get somewhere and the longer the ride takes, the higher the price for it. Then the taxi not really getting anywhere fast.
Today: almost certainly nothing
In a decade: almost certainly very little
In a century: almost certainly more than the Voyager
not sure, but what I see from the start it's I need to login and pay, but this is no make sense such as I need to try those LLM before paying.
Maybe I'm wrong but it's would be easy to cutch customer if he would spend some time with "some girl" and in the middle of discussion he need to pay ahha
Elon Musk and SpaceX are being sued by 8 former employees alleging harassment
The author wasn't in danger: "[...] both cases are not life-or-death situations [...]"
Actually the feedback part of learning is important. There's a famous experiment with cats in baskets that demonstrated that.

But AI isn't an animal so the same constraints don't necessarily apply. I think you'd have to have a particularly anti-AI & pedantic bent to complain about calling this language discovery.
Just because things change, doesn't mean they change fundamentally into bad or worse territority.
Yeah, I thought exactly the same thing. If you didn't know what kind of person Elon is after the Thai cave diver incident in 2019, you weren't paying much attention.
Pffft... Says the species that abducts and anal probes their cosmic neighbors!
The Otel spec does give leeway for language-specific details, and the SDKs are not as uniform as you'd expect (ex. Java's agent configuration is very different from Node's auto instrumentation). I'm not denying that there's SDK specs to adhere to, but the abstraction complexity in Otel is really from the amount of flexibility they've tried to build into the SDK for better or for worse.

The flexibility benefits vendors (I work for HyperDX, based on otel) - as it allows for a lot of points of extensibility to build a better experience for end users by extending the vanilla SDK functionality. However, it creates a lot of overhead for end-users trying to adopt the "vanilla" SDKs out of the box as there's 5 layers of abstractions that need to be understood before getting things started (which is bad!)

I've only seen the DX of Otel improve over time across the ecosystems they support - so I suspect we'll get there soon enough.
A few things I remember.

Early 90's a few old friends that worked as security guards all bought 486 clones so they could play DOOM.

Probably about the same time Autocad and Schematic Capture running on a PC was fast enough.

Couple of years later friend that worked for big corp got a sun work station as his work computer. Quickly noticed his officemates PC took 1/3 the time to compile.

Electronic suppliers chasing high PC volumes didn't give an rats ass about companies like Sun's rounding error volumes.

I remember Unix boxes as being clunky. To boot insert the boot floppy. Power failed, your file system is toast.

I feel like this all point to them failing to innovate out of their core competency and create cash cow products.
Von Braun was a Nazi party member and used slave labor IIRC. Why would anyone think he would change? I bet Von Braun didn't. The US just used him, after trying not to, because he was too useful. Nobody was going to give him any more slave labor so what evil could he do?

Musk is another kettle of fish - he's very rich and has the potential to do a great deal of evil.
paper-qa:
https://github.com/whitead/paper-qa :

> LLM Chain querying documents with citations [e.g. a scientific Zotero library]

> This is a minimal package for doing question and answering from PDFs or text files (which can be raw HTML). It strives to give very good answers, with no hallucinations, by grounding responses with in-text citations.

pip install paper-qa

> If you use Zotero to organize your personal bibliography, you can use the paperqa.contrib.ZoteroDB to query papers from your library, which relies on pyzotero. Install pyzotero to use this feature:

pip install pyzotero

> If you want to use [ paperqa with pyzotero ] in an jupyter notebook or colab, you need to run the following command:

import nest_asyncio
nest_asyncio.apply()

... there is also neuml/paper-ai w/ paperetl; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39363115 : gh topic: pdfgpt, chatpdf,

neuml/paperai has a YAML report definition schema: https://github.com/neuml/paperai :

> Semantic search and workflows for medical/scientific paper

python -m paperai.report report.yml 50 md <path to model directory>

> The following [columns and answers] report [output] formats are supported: [Markdown, CSV], Annotation - Columns and answers are extracted from articles with the results annotated over the original PDF files. Requires passing in a path with the original PDF files.
Britain's 'Pompeii': UK's Largest Bronze Age Find
This one was probably best https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8234027/

Also read the wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_eye_syndrome
Other checklists? It's checklists all the way down
Oh he absolutely did: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Didier_Sornette&a...

Any edits he made that aren't his own page are editing in references to his own work in other articles.
I wonder if the guy who died when his Telsa drove under a truck would have written a similar comment the day before. What do you think?

I mean this one: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/t...
ZeroPoint's nanosecond-scale memory compression could tame power-hungry AI infra
I was driving a rental in Marrakech last week; that was an intense experience but India is on another level.
Delay?!

Will recording and storing all your activity ever be secure? Suddenly in the future it will flip and become secure or what do they expect from the delay?

Ah, yes, I see, they want to delay until people are not concerned anymore. Cooking them slowly in increasingly worse privacy violations than throwing them into a hot one at once. Works with frogs. And users of modern gadgets.

Instead of waiting they'd better making it a product that those have no concern can download now, and perhaps even paid for in exchange for the mass of data they provide. It could even be a separate operating system lets say Windows 1984 that users are paid for using it. With webcam on all the time and no stars in password fields. Alternatively it could be called Windwos Beijing and have mass orders from the folks there.
Why Japanese?
I'm not a Django core dev, but I have managed to get my changes merged into Django already (the transaction_mode setting in 5.1 was my contribution).

Carlton does seem to be onboard with my idea[0], so I'm optimistic that we can make it happen. Comments like yours will help me make my case so thank you for that!

[0] https://fosstodon.org/@carlton/112605212812578926
author pointed out that either way drivers behind him would've been very confused, so even if it DID correct, it still made mistakes that disrupted the flow of traffic.
Somehow this is not a big deal across the Channel in the Netherlands. Yet another case of the British not learning from the Dutch?
It's not enough for robotaxis yet, and Tesla doesn't claim that it is. They just think they'll get there.

What they do claim is that with human supervision, it lowers the accident rate to one per 5.5 million miles, which is a lot better than the overall accident rate for all cars on the road. And unlike Waymo, it works everywhere. That's worthwhile even if it never improves from here.

Fwiw you can take your hands off the wheel now, you just have to watch the road. They got rid of the "steering wheel nag" with the latest version.
Together MoA–collective intelligence of open-source models pushing LLM frontier
Another +1 from me then. I've had to litter my code with retries to recover from DB locks.
I don't hate CORS from a developer perspective, I hate it from a user perspective, and from a broader "health of the web" perspective. Because, as I said, it works differently between browsers and it works differently between websites within the same browser. Mostly these differences just mean I have to use Chrome instead of my preferred browser.
Tangentially, but I'm wondering how the calculations really go with the robo-taxis. Taxidrivers here are probably getting $5/h or so and it's a job you can get without any skills at all, you don't need to speak the language and you don't need any tests, you just need to be able to sit down, input stuff on a GPS and drive. So there's an infinity of people to employ if you're a cab company. Neither Waymo nor Tesla want to give the tech away for free. Is there a market (without corporate subsidies from Waymo etc)?
The universal approximation theorem disagrees. The question is how large the network should be and how much training data it needs. And for now it can only be tested experimentally.
It was long time ago when I was an intern. I had no clue of Nothing back then... :)
Once Tesla starts hiring hundreds of Robotaxi intervention engineers then we will know they are serious, otherwise it's just a marketing ploy.