skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those near Wales, you can visit while the dig continues.

https://www.pembrokecastle.co.uk/events/view/archaeological-...

>From 17th June to 12th July there will be an archaeological excavation of Wogan Cavern taking place every day ... we are able to provide our castle visitors with some information on how things are progressing through our daily 'Cave Catchup' sessions. During these sessions a Castle Tour Guide will be in the Great Hall above the cave for approx one hour. So our visitors will be able to chat with the guide who will offer the latest information on the progress of the dig. There will also be the opportunity to see the dig site on a live video feed from the cave while the dig is in progress, and the chance to view replica artifacts of items identical to those that have been discovered at the site.
First they laugh at you (Voltswagen), then you win?
The savings are an order of magnitude different. Switching from Intel to AMD in a data center might have saved millions if you were lucky. Switching from NVidia to AMD might save the big LLM vendors billions.
Turns out when governments toss around the words "spy" and "espionage" freely and without regard to their actual definitions they can get away with things like this.
I don’t think there is much evidence that they are far behind their competition in anything but sales. Efficiency of their latest models is good, software has improved a lot, and they are starting to return to their previous (good enough) quality levels. I think we are quickly approaching the full commoditization of EVs. At similar price points you get the same thing across all manufacturers. Maybe a bit more quality here, some additional software gimmicks over there, and the rest is just marketing, local patriotism, and branding. Add to that a sprinkle of varying regional adaptation
Pretty much all interesting low-level systems stuff is UB in C/C++ and has been for years. That's dumb.

The reason we need low-level systems stuff is to bit-bang on hardware; put data in hardware formats; look at the low-level representation of things that we "shouldn't"--like integers, floats, objects, structs, stack frames; and implement the language runtime itself. The intent is usually pretty clear from what's written, and the mental model of the systems programmer is "I know I need to make the hardware do this thing". Compilers optimizing away UB and otherwise treating it as never going to happen actively get in the way. UB makes a systems language not a systems language anymore.
https://github.com/xiaomi-mt6789-devs/releases
> My brain tries to hides all this from me

Your brain is _really really_ good at surmounting challenges including many that you did not mention. We don't know how to get close to this in terms of reliability when using cameras and ML alone. Cameras and ML alone can go very far, but every roboticist understands the problem of compounding errors and catastrophic failure. Every ML person understands how slow our learning loops are.

Consider that ML models used in the field have to get by with a fixed amount of power and ram. If you want to process time context of say 5 seconds, and with temporal context 10Hz and with resolution 1080p, how much data bandwidth are you looking at? Comparing what you see with your eyes with a series of 1080p photos, which is better? Up it to 4k: how long does it take to even run object detection and tracking with a limited temporal context?

Your brain is working with more temporal context, more world context, and has a much more robust active learning loop than the artificial systems we're composing today. It's really impressive what we can achieve, but to those who've worked on the problem it feels laughable to say you can solve it with just cameras and compute.

There are plenty of well respected researchers who think only data and active learning loops are the bottlenecks. In my experience they're focused on treating the self driving task as a canned research problem and not a robotics problem. There are as many if not more respected researchers who've worked on the self-driving problem and see deeper seated issues -- ones that cannot be surmounted without technologies like high fidelity sensors grounded in physics and HD maps.

Even if breadth of data is the problem and Tesla's approach is supposedly yielding more data -- there is also the question of the fidelity of said data (e.g. the distances and velocities from camera-only systems are estimated and have noiser gaussians than ones generated with LiDAR). If you make what you measure, and your measurements are noisy, how can you convince yourself or your loss function for that matter that it's doing a good job of learning?

It's relatively straightforward to build toy systems where subsystems have something on the order of 95% reliability. But robotics requires you to cut the tail much further. https://wheretheroadmapends.com/game-of-9s.html
Boeing management is in the business of selling contracts. They are not in the business of making airplanes. That is the problem. They relocated headquarters from Seattle to Chicago and now DC so that they can focus on their priority, contracts. They dumped Boeing's original management style and grafted on the management style of a company that was forced to merge with Boeing. They diversified supply chain as a form of kickbacks to local governments/companies that bought their 'contracts'.

They enshiftified every area of the company, all with the priority/goal of selling their core product, 'contracts', and filling their 'book'.

We are plenty capable of designing Engineering systems, PLMs to manage EBOMs, MRP/ERP systems to manage MBOMs, etc to handle the complexities of building aircraft. What we can't help is the human desire to prioritize enshitfication if it means a bigger paycheck. Companies no longer exist to create a product, and the product is becoming secondary and tertiary in management's priorities, with management expecting someone else to take care of the 'small details' of why the company exists in the first place.
I'm super impressed and have a lot of respect for group of teenagers.

I have a question: do you have any idea what your parents did right to get you into electronics and hacking like this?
I'm looking into getting my 3 kids into CS and EE, and it's something i do for a living, but i have no clue on how to make this for them.
My parents never did anything except buying me all the books i asked for; I was just obsessed with knowing more cool stuff.

Thank you for sharing such a cool project with the world, your future will be very bright, keep it up!
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We just had the xz crisis and that surprises you?

IT is just a series of security breaches.
I mean… yeah, if it was my full time job to educate my one child at home, then yeah, I feel pretty good about my chances of making that work - but also having that kind of time, and money, and energy to commit to a task like that is just… I mean, who can afford that, practically speaking? That’s a 13 year unpaid commitment that you have no training for or skills in, and the stakes are the success of your child. Are you prepared for all that?

I guess my point being - it’s not ‘random parents’ in your example, it’s parents that are already in a position to be able to and to be willing to deliver a child though a k-12 curriculum with superior outcomes.
Wow, that was a pretty elaborate setup.
Are stock buybacks really purely a tax dodge?

At a high level, if a company which has taken investment in the past in return for giving up some control of the company, if they have spare cash later it seems reasonable to buy back some of that control. If available control of the company is then more scarce but the demand hasn’t changed, it’s fair that the share price goes up as a result.

People on the internet seem to treat it as a loophole that is being exploited, but I don’t really see that. Should companies never be allowed to roll back share issuance?
It's not always about that. AA and Car play are a very common reason for service visits and it's not uncommon for customers to get their entire head unit replaced because of frozen screens or whatever. GM hired a lead dev from CarPlay to help lead their replacement. When they work it's great but my touchscreen freezes regularly and it's extremely annoying.
Tesla, who use cameras only, have not demonstrated full self driving, despite trying for a decade. Elon Musk has stated "It is increasingly clear that all roads lead to AGI. Tesla is building an extremely compute-efficient mini AGI for FSD" [1]

Waymo, who use additional sensors like lidar, have a driverless taxi service which needs no safety drivers.

The evidence kinda speaks for itself, IMHO.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1740641473849352450?s=20
Tesla also started doing their "iPad with a car attached" thing before CarPlay was released in 2014.

Arguably they could have switched over at some time, but they're doing well enough that they haven't felt the need.

But I'd be surprised if there isn't a Tesla somewhere in the bowels of Musk's volcano lair that has CarPlay running, just waiting for the right time to release it as a software upgrade option (only $1000!).
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Wow, tricked me! Some of the stats are still pretty interesting.
Remind me of the One World Trade Center rebuild, and "if you want a 747-proof building, you're building a bunker".

Translate the internet to the real world, and basically every building (IP address) is getting shot at, hit by planes, nuked, bioweapons are stuffed into the mail slot, and lock-picked all day, every day.
Honestly, aside from the handling mechanics the directly relate to the hiw the vehicle moves (steering, stopping, etc) the "user experience" to working with vehicle peripherals seems to be steadily getting worse every year.
be conscious of it, when the shiny thing appears, write it down on a piece of paper and tell yourself you'll come back to it if it's interesting enough. At the end of the day, throw away the paper :)
Office is bad enough. One reason we’re stuck with the very bad Excel (gives wrong answers) is that you got Office because you want to use less offensive products like Word and Powerpoint so you already bought Excel.
Most nuclear reactors are thermal power plants and they all need to dump waste heat. Thermal power plants convert heat into electricity with turbines and are limited by dumping the waste heat.

Are you thinking of radioisotope generators? Those aren't reactors. They use thermocouples and need to get rid of the waste heat. The Voyager RTGs have radiator fins.
What field of mathematics is this?
Volkswagen is also currently building up a direct competitor to Rivian with Scout Motors.

What exactly is the goal here? Technology sharing for products?
Robotaxis represent the biggest public health improvement since antibiotics & vaccines, reducing deaths through accidents and improving city air quality. But need data-driven insights that help regulatory bodies, manufacturers, and most importantly the public make informed decisions about this transformative technology.
I wonder if you ever listen to the many, many, many Jews who state that criticism of Israel is not 'antisemitism' and that blowback from the state violence and the intensely evil persecution & genocide of the Palestinian people perpetrated by Zionist Israel over more than 70 years now is the single biggest contributor towards them ever feeling 'unsafe' as Jews?

Again, there are many, many, many such Jewish voices that have emphatically dismissed the format of your attempted victimisation play here.
That's why relative positions are not used in CRDTs in the absolute sense. Entities are added via IDs and operations are recorded via IDs. If user one deletes line 3 and user 2 deletes line 4, user one will see lines 1, 2 and 5 and onwards. The commands that are captured by CRDTs only operate on the state of the document as the user sees it at the time, their own changes might be overwritten later during a merge, but their changes won't interfere with parts they were not destined to interfere with.
Every day that passes brings the singularity one day closer. However ... there is no way that the singularity as promised will occur within our lifetimes.

It won't hurt you to dream though. It might keep you off the streets.
I would say that Dawn of War 1 is the pinnacle of the RTS genre. Still has never been topped by any game I've played, even its sequels. DoW 2 was a dumpster fire that removed most of the RTS elements and cut armies down to 1/3 of the size they used to be. DoW 3 was a step back in the right direction, but still was not really at the lofty heights the first game hit.

I used to dream that Blizzard would put Jay Wilson (who was the D3 lead while he was with them, but more importantly was the DoW1 lead before that) onto a Warcraft 4. I would've loved to see that. Alas, after D3 had a fairly chilly reception (and Wilson himself sparked outrage through unwise social media posting), Blizzard quietly demoted him (and he eventually left). So it was not to be. But I still wish it had happened.
There are an astounding number of people who never stop for even a second to consider the nuts and bolts implications of the ideas they want to foist onto society.
Not so difficult to add this feature with the help of human like voice and LLM backend.
From my admittedly limited perspective, it doesn’t seem like you need conspiracy theories to rag on the actions and statements of the current Russian government.
I have some experience of people doing independent bookstores or coffee shops and it's very hard to make money in those. It might be ok if you are wealthy already but otherwise it's likely to be stressful.
Tesla is competitive (sales are not dominant, but OK, in China) but the other US automakers are truly f***.
This gets expensive really quickly at least for me.
The web ui for 20 dollar is dirt cheap in comparison.
There are cheaper or free alternatives to Artifactory. Yes they may not have all of the features but we are talking about a company that is fine with using a random CDN instead.

Or, in the case of javascript, you could just vendor your dependencies or do a nice "git add node_modules".
Fire the morons in government for not seeing this as bundling.
Each operating system coming from the biggest corporations should offer two paths: express/recommended setup and a fully customizable one for advanced users.
>"user experience" to working with vehicle peripherals seems to be steadily getting worse every year.

Don't need to worry about this with VW, they already have hit rock bottom on that front!
happy to be proven wrong! Cheers
Don't think of the bullet as being shot, but as being released and finding itself attracted to a low pressure space with nothing blocking it from reaching it. ;)
Ketamine pills for depression show positive results in trial–but with caveats
How is it that these people became so disillusioned with the mission that they're now actively working against it?
I don't think any of the numbers you quote are really that meaningful. Like you are quoting IDs - what is the cost of an ID? If all the IDs were stripped, would that even make a measurable difference? Really now.

Similarly for those other numbers about selectors or classes. How much of a performance burden are those, really? Not the numbers punched out by some cargo cult calculator tool - what is the actual impact?

(I would try to compare cssstats.com's numbers for Gwern.net to sites we can all agree are "very user hostile and wasteful of the user's resources", like Medium.com or Substack... except it breaks and won't even report numbers.)

> It's an impressive looking site IMHO; but pretty much everything he's done is very user hostile and wasteful of the user's resources,

That seems like an extreme take. 'Pretty much everything'? There's no feature you like or find useful? It's all a waste? Your non-wasteful user-friendly version of gwern.net just throws out everything like the dropcaps, the code folding, the popups, the transclusions, the sidenotes, the backlinks, the link-icons...?

If that's not what you mean, can you point to a website which comes anywhere near Gwern.net in terms of supporting reading long, complex, heavily hyperlinked & annotated documents, and clearly outperforms it browser-wise?

> like downloading 14 fonts.

I'm not sure what page you are looking at, but what are these '14 fonts', exactly? It sounds like you're counting every font file without looking at them at all, and you are including, eg, the dropcaps which are subset to 1 letter per font file and so are efficiently only ~1-10kb each, or the link-icon font file, which is like 5kb compressed and saves requesting a bunch of SVG icon files, or the Quivira fallback (to avoid box Unicode garbage) which shouldn't be used in most pages but if it is, that's fine, because it's all of 3.5kb. Surely any performance woes do not come from downloading 5kb to draw a fancy 'A' at the beginning of the article, and is worth it for such a signature bit of visual style...

Even the regular font files are subsetted to save space. (I wouldn't be surprised if there are a lot of websites with just '1 font' which weigh more than those '14'.) So the font files do not seem like they are 'wasteful' to me.
I'm old enough to remember how companies all tripped over themselves trying to help the government spy on their customers after 9/11. I assume that every company that I do business with has an open pipeline to the government feeding in all the data it has about me.
He didn’t expose anything significant on Russia, for some reason.
Taking a closer look at AI's supposed energy apocalypse
Apple still charges extra for the Apple music service, right? Spotify costs $12/month, Apple music costs $11. If that's true then it seems market competition is working decently in that area. If you could launch a competing service and charge $10 you might have a chance.

What Microsoft did was, they said "Hey we have a monopoly on office software. We should have a monopoly on chat too". And they started giving away Teams for "free" i.e. all companies who were paying for an Office subscription were suddenly paying for Teams too with no way to opt out. How is someone going to compete, when most of their potential customers are already forcibly subscribed to a "good enough" competing service.

It was especially egregious here because Teams was such an inferior product so it probably won in no small part due to this tactic.
> Http pipelining should make it fast to load them from your server with the rest

That's true, but it should be emphasized that it's only fast if you bundle your dependencies, too.

Browsers and web developers haven't been able to find a way to eliminate a ~1ms/request penalty for each JS file, even if the files are coming out of the local cache.

If you're making five requests, that's fine, but if you're making even 100 requests for 10 dependencies and their dependencies, there's a 100ms incentive to do at least a bundle that concatenates your JS.

And once you've added a bundle step, you're a few minutes away from adding a bundler that minifies, which often saves 30% or more, which is usually way more than you probably saved from just concatenating.

> The only advantage to using one of those cdn-hosted versions is that it might help with browser caching

And that is not true. Browsers have separate caches for separate sites for privacy reasons. (Before that, sites could track you from site to site by seeing how long it took to load certain files from your cache, even if you'd disabled cookies and other tracking.)
> The same concept should be applied to container based build pipelines too. Instead of pulling dependencies from a CDN or a pull through cache, build them into a container and use that until you're ready to upgrade dependencies.

Everything around your container wants to automatically update itself as well, and some of the changelogs are half emoji.
For a company who's product requires trusting them with login tokens for all your favourite online services, this is ludicrously short-sighted.
IPX on DOS was amazing and easy; IPX on Windows 95 was all sorts of fun configuration hell if it didn't "just work".
Political deepfakes are the most popular way to misuse AI
Definitely looks like a solid improvement over Helm when it comes to just downloading and installing Kubernetes packages but it still to early for me to have a solid opinion since the aspect of actually building and distributing your own chart doesn't seem have been tackled which is basically 90% of the use case for Helm despite calling itself a package-manager, ha.
Are we talking about Tesla's cameras or the "best" cameras? There are smartphone cameras that do depth sensing and HDR, and cameras are cheaper than eyeballs so composing them to get more angular resolution seems OK.
What good does this comment do beside allow you to gloat and put others down? Like, Christ. Are you telling me that you’d ever speak this way to someone in person?

I have no doubt that every single person in this thread understands what a supply chain attack is.

You are arguing over semantics in an incredibly naive way. Trust relationships exist both in business and in society generally. It’s worth calling out attacks against trust relationships as what they are: attacks.
Tesla doesn't have android / iOS integration? Didn't know that somehow :0
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>Rivian focuses on a different segment of the market from most cars sold by VW Group (trucks, SUVs, the American market in general) so from Rivian's perspective they're not likely to be cannibalized.

Couldn't be more wrong. VW is building up a direct competitor to Rivian.
Even for security-related products the incentives are murky. If they're not actually selling you security but a box on the compliance bingo then it's more likely that they actually increase your attack surface because they want to get their fingers into everything so they can show nice charts about all the things they're monitoring.
distcc (for Gentoo!) still makes sense when you have some beast machines and a bunch of Raspberry Pis or similar.