skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article seems to mix up several systems.

On the one hand, there's the limiter set by the driver (that you can override by pushing the pedal down hard), which is usually activated by the same lever or buttons as cruise control but works differently - you accelerate to 50mph in a 50 zone, activate the limiter, and the car will not accelerate above that limit. You can just push the gas pedal down and hold your speed as long as the road is free.

The other system is the sign detection (sometimes GPS assisted) which displays a limit sign on your dashboard and beeps at you if you go over it. My experiences as a passenger in the UK in a 2016 registration car:

- It does not recognise that "chopsticks" (start of motorway) raises the limit to 70 mph unless stated otherwise.
- It does not recognise a National Speed Limit sign built into an "end of roadworks" sign (which is the normal UK way to end a roadworks-based speed restriction on a motorway).
- When one lane is out for works, there's usually big 60 (sometimes 50) signs for the cars and a very small 15 sign for the works vehicles. Sometimes, the camera picks up the 15 sign and beeps at you about that.

I don't know if the technology has got better since. Maybe we can use AI or something.
Yep. And quite a few have air conditioning as well.
Link for those who see “restricted” message:

https://invidious.private.coffee/watch?v=VGI7ib6kjwk
Yeah, I'm trying to think of scenarios where I go over the speed limit, and they're all blatantly obvious cases of accident avoidance in my mind. Specially due to other people being really terrible drivers.

For example, I'll sometimes go over the speed limit when overtaking someone, because they don't actually know that you should NEVER speed up (only maintain or lose speed) while you're being overtaken. Oh no, that's not common sense, that's LAW almost everywhere.

But the worst of all cases: 3 lane highway. Me (car A) and another guy (Car B) in an acceleration lane (so 4th) trying to merge in. A car (C) in lane 3 is trying to weave between us two, as the lane is also an exit. All fine. I'll merge in, the Car C will too, and Car B will do so a bit behind.

Car (D) speeding up on lane 2 quickly turns and clearly shows themselves meaning to go to the exit lane, but noooooo, not behind anyone, he MUST go ahead of Car C. There are three outcomes in this mongoloid's cerebral physics puzzle. He crashes me if I don't get out of the way, he crashes C if they don't give way, or he panics, does something weird and either of them crash into B.

I slammed the pedal faster than I could even process what was up. If some stupid retarded automated system got in the way of that moment, I'd be in the workshop and considering my position on political activism a bit more than before.
beeps when you turn the corner. beeps when you change lanes. beeps when you take your hands off the wheel. beeps when the engine starts. beeps when you open the door with the engine running. beeps when you don't have your seatbelt on before the engine is started. beeps when you open the trunk. beeps when you close the trunk. beeps when you stop the engine and it's not in neutral. beeps when you drive with something heavy resting on the back seats.

i guess i won't notice these beeps when you speed too much.
> This then leads people to say “heat pumps don’t work” or “heat pumps are expensive to run”

When I was doing some extensive renovations of a house about 7 years ago now (in the UK), we called a company whose main business was to install heat pumps (along with underfloor heating, etc). The person asked me a bunch of questions, and based on the age of the house and the insulation and such, she said, "I appreciate what you're trying to do, but I'm really worried that a heat pump won't be able to heat your house sufficiently on cold days; I'd really recommend that you take the money you'd spend on a heat pump and spend it on better insulation for the house instead."

Given that's their main business, and that she was knowingly turning me away as a customer, I tend to give some credence to her assessment. At least it can't be due to a lack of understanding or bias.

Now that our house is better insulated, I might try again next time our boiler is up for replacement, particularly if I can arrange to get the heat pump to cool the floors in the summertime as well as heat them in the wintertime.
You can use cosine similarity with embedding vectors of different lengths (or better, the vectors have all the same length, but they are sparse with most components being 0).
Any kind of real physical restrictions will initially be geofenced to grade seperated roads.
So far I haven't seen Google publish anything of significance for interacting with their RCS server, or the details of their implementation of open messaging concepts.

Where they're not using MLS, they're using the Signal protocol. Without publishing details about key servers and authentication methods, none of their layers on top of open standards such as RCS are very beneficial to anyone but them.
> as well as a reasonable profit to cover both expected future support and future R&D for improvements and/or new products.

That would be a weird definition of profit. Profit is what is left after expenses (like future support and R&D). But I will admit R&D is an oddball (there a taxation difference between R&D, compared against earning profits then investing the profits into a startup).

Do you have a pension, or own shares, or want to own your own business? Profit and some types of interest are rewards for risk.

But yeah, people think they pay too much for everything, that profits are unethical, and most people in wealthy countries don't understand how they get their lifestyle, and then get ignorantly angry at everything!
You are downvoted (right now) but correct.

I recently switched jobs and one refreshing attitude of my current employeer is that unlike my previous one they are happy to let us work on defense projects.

That is refreshing in 2024.
But backups are easier to manage with HDDs because you have less media to shuffle around. So for M-disc to be competitive, it would have to be several times cheaper per TB than HDDs, but in reality the M-discs are almost 10x more expensive.
If you can find a way to make touch-friendly interfaces useful on desktop devices with a large screen and a keyboard maybe then they'll take off.

Better yet, make all user interfaces the same as a toaster. Everyone can use a toaster. Bread goes in, push the lever. One universal way of thinking for everyone and everything. No domination by the tyranny of choice.
“Yes, but that’s what you should be looking for.”

… and you aren’t going to find them in Silicon Valley.
I would say they're very bad at inferring any sort of complicated nuance.
>Most accidents are not caused by a lack of speed but rather, too much speed.

Any evidence for that? Don't you think inattention from drivers or mechanical failures are more likely causes?
Building a Simple State Machine in Python
Yes? This is making the code worse in order to dogmatically avoid goto.
I've tried to replicate your issue in the Elm testing library I'm a maintainer of, which uses some of the core ideas from Hypothesis.

It was able to generate values just fine ([1]), so your problems might have been just some issue of the Hypothesis _implementation_ instead of something wrong with the general algorithm?

Note that your usage of Hypothesis was "weird" in two aspects:

1. You're using the test runner for generation of data. That's sometimes useful, particularly when you need to find a specific example passing some specific non-trivial property (eg. how people solve the wolf, goat, cabbage puzzle with PBT - "computer, I'm declaring it's impossible to solve the puzzle, prove me wrong!"), but your particular example had just "assert True" inside, so you were just generating data.

There might be libraries better suited to the task. Elm has packages elm/random (for generation of data) and elm-explorations/test (for PBT and testing in general). Maybe Clojure or Python have a faker library that doesn't concern itself with shrinking, which would be a better tool for your task. The below gist [1] has an example of using a generator library instead of a testing library as well.

2. You were generating then filtering (for "at least one non-0 values across a column"). That's usually worse than constructively generating the data you want. An example alternative to the filtering approach might be to generate data, and then if a column has all zeroes, generate a number from range 1..MAXINT to replace the first row's column with. Anyways, "all zeroes" shouldn't happen all that often so it's probably not a huge concern that you filtered.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/Janiczek/c71050aa89fb0b19d73e683f9a3...
That's the one! Guess it came directly from ARM, no wonder I couldn't find it.
My guy, read the blog post before responding. Not only has Stevan written a stateful property-based testing library, the article you didn't read addresses at great length the question of "why".
Your point still stands, but as a note in Sparta slaves were state property, not individually owned.
This device is much less about phones, for me. I've never used mine with a phone. It's a type-c monitor with an integrated keyboard and pointing device.

it's like a portable physical console in a laptop form factor. I carry it around and plug it into Raspberry Pis (via HDMI, not type-c alone) so I can get a physical console. I have a few smaller single board computers that I occasionally use it with as well. It folds completely backwards so you can use it as a monitor alone, if you want, and I do that with my MacBook so it's a 2nd monitor (or 3rd depending on where I am) and it's great.

It's just a single type-c cable to give the Steam Deck a keyboard and a larger, higher resolution screen, for games that don't do well with controller inputs. Plug in a mouse, turn off the trackpad, and you're gold.

This is far more than just a "turn your phone into a desktop" thing.
Made me check and Google translated it about the same. No unexpected comma or awkward driven into the woods (by whom?), punch is a punch (blow is more generic), but awkward duplication of "one".

> I believe that one should only read books that bite and sting one. If the book we are reading does not wake us up with a punch to the head, why do we read the book? So that it makes us happy, as you write? My God, we would be happy even if we had no books, and if necessary we could write the kind of books that make us happy ourselves. But we need books that affect us like a misfortune that hurts us greatly, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like if we were to venture into the woods, away from everyone, like a suicide; a book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Probably for the same reason many things are the way they are; pushing the cost onto the consumer.
There's at least three types of heat pumps:

- air-air heat pumps which function like "inverted" AC, which is what you were thinking of - another quirk being that in some models the air vents have optional electric heating which provides more instant more intense heat at the cost of massive energy use

- air-water heat pumps which use air to heat up water similarly to a conventional boiler - a noteworthy difference is that they usually target 40°C instead of 60°C but like other heat pumps they're very energy efficient and are typically used with floor heating

- brine-water heat pumps which use brine running through underground pipes to heat up water similar to air-water heat pumps - these are arguably more efficient but more expensive to install due to the excavation necessary to lay the heat exchange pipes

The latter can further be categorized based on the layout of the underground pipes (YMMV on the exact nomenclature as English is not my native language):

- area collectors use a horizontal grid requiring a large area of land and limiting its use for things like trees or swimming pools (or anything that needs to go deeper)

- trench collectors use a vertical grid, essentially turning the area collector on its side - these of course require much deeper excavation but have a much narrower footprint but depending on where you live you may need to get additional permits

- basket collectors use a three-dimensional grid, usually split across a number of "cages" or "baskets" combining the footprint advantage of a trench collector with the depth advantage of an area collector

In Germany air-air heat pumps are the default with many prefab construction companies due to the ease of installation. When we built our house with a conventional construction company we went with a water-air heat pump because that's what the plumbing company was most experienced with. A brine-water heat pump would have been a good option due to the soil consistency and ground water level but sadly national regulations enforced a minimum depth much lower than what would have been otherwise possible and this made the option cost prohibitive for us.

The main advantage of air-air heat pumps is that they can be better used for cooling (because at the end of the day it's literally just AC) whereas other heat pumps are usually capped by the dew point to avoid condensation.
Using an LLM is just one of the ways to generate embedding. To do k-means you still need to pick a distance function, like jaccard; k-means is probably not ideal for near duplicates, and you can use min-hash to speed up k-means as a pre-pass.

I don't think the vector DB adds much. You could use it to speed up the lookup of the min-hash sketches if you have hundreds of millions of documents, but it is probably overkill.
Of course. At current trend its going to consume ridiculous amount of electricity for no good reason (and make some more CO2). Funny that 60W old school light bulb is bad bad bad, but 400W gfx card is ok and armies of 3kW servers to produce bs responses to queries are also ok. Consuming ridiculous kilowatts to produce even more bs video is also "no problemo". Hm. Poor artists, I can see why they're furious about this.
Website is broken on mobile.
Yes, but it's busier/less information dense, so it's not a straight upgrade.
My friend's father owns an AC/heat pump/PV installation business and by his account it's even worse, as the most common issue seems to be that piping is poorly laid out and/or insulated, making a huge chunk of the heat escape into the ground.

How was that not an issue with coal/gas boilers? I don't know. Perhaps people just cranked up the gas and lived with the resulting bills.
Drying out 3d printer filament is another.

Also heating up engine casings to get bearings in/out.
Chromebooks are basically the US school systems, Google employees, and little else.
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The Winget module is a wreck. The way it is designed, unfortunately, neither fits the object oriented approach of PowerShell nor follows the PowerShell guidelines for cmdlets.

For instance https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3820 or https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3231.

Also, even though it does not completely work with PowerShell 5, it is marked as compatible.
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/2881

The design choices made makes it weird. I hope it would be a good one in the future. But it is now problematic.
> Another example: in 2009 light bulbs were banned in the EU

For the sake of anyone confused by this, incandescent lightbulbs, and even then a phase-out — Halogen was 2018 according to Wikipedia, but this news doesn't seem to have reached my local hardware store in Berlin: https://www.obi.de/search/halogen/

Plenty of light bulbs for sale, they're just different than the ones I had as a kid.
Tbh, I was thinking of SUVs and middle-aged men as they have access to high performing tanks — my father being one of them.

I had an old bmw 320d; it did about 9s; and I think that was too much.
There is basically nothing on the website, not even a screenshot, and the macOS download links is dead.
I'm curious about this user experience and whether most people would be comfortable with it, especially while merging.

When I press hard on the accelerator to cancel a speed limit, does the car accelerate hard too? Or is this signal trapped for the cancel operation?
> Yes, the VC funding will dry up, but hardware and algorithmic advances will decrease running costs by equal amounts.
The author said the same - "The current reliance on expensive GPU clusters may give way to more specialized, efficient AI hardware. This could help mitigate some cost pressures."

As with the cloud, prices increase once competition dries out. Even if hardware becomes cheap, the services will cost more because shrewd and greedy boards run most businesses.
Keep making. The web is mostly not working (docs -> 404 etc.)
If you’re in NSW there’s a state government subsidy of $2800 later this year for home batteries.
Drying 3D printer filament too (though I've not tried it myself and not sure I'd want to use my ovens for that).
It uses the least energy, but here we are talking about demand shifting to make use of variable electricity sources. It can be worth using more cheap solar energy in the middle of the day instead of less natural gas later on.
Arrow’s theorem defines a ranked voting system as a function that takes a permutation of the candidates for each voter and outputs a single permutation of the candidates. As a special case, if you take the function which sorts the candidates by how many voters ranked them as first, you get plurality voting.
Yes - and it is certainly possible to export the "final", up-to-date set of drivers via DISM, then build an orthogonal set that you can recursively install via a single one-click pnputil batch file in Audit Mode (Ctrl-Shift-F3 at the top of OOBE).

This is the easiest way to validate benchmarks across neutral, bloatware-free OS versions (at least the ones supported by that SoC, anyway).
I refuse to use anything with python tooling now. I just don't. It is just so extremely rare that things work on the first try with it.

I have a keyboard project that runs on an RP2040, and the firmware is in Rust. Here are the steps to flash it if you're starting with just the repo and no Rust toolchain:

(install rustup)
$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
$ rustup target add thumbv6m-none-eabi
$ cargo install elf2uf2-rs
* Put the keyboard in bootloader mode *
$ cargo run --release

This is relying on rustup and Cargo to do the heavy lifting of toolchain management and building, which they are fantastic at. Python projects don't even come close.
I see you didn't even try to justify your bullshit there.

Of course corn and solar panels are different. For one thing, an acre of solar panels produces vastly more economic value per year than an acre of corn. What the corn observation does is show that the idea that this is too much area is insipid nonsense.

I could have easily compared the area to other things, like golf courses, parking lots, roads, or areas given over to fossil fuel production.
Labour won 33.7% of the popular vote and 63.5% of parliamentary seats. The British political system is just as broken as the US one. In 2019 Labour won 32.6% of the popular vote so they have actually not grown that much. It is the Tories that has shrunk due to competition from other right-wing populist parties.
Thanks for sharing but everything is extremely unclear. The biggest piece of information is the HN title.

Also, remember Floorp Browser? Sounds similar.
The gas installations were also bad.

People talk about needing larger radiators for heat pumps. You also needed similar sized radiators for condensing gas boilers to work at the claimed efficiency.

People were just burning 20% more gas for no good reason.
This is a major university, so they could be expected to be a little on the wild side with projects like that. If they're the only one with a system like that, it raises the cost.
It's only because you can't put Electron apps in the terminal (yet).
Those figures are for the unit itself. It takes a lot less energy to heat air than it does to heat water, but water retains heat for much longer.

What matters is the SCOP for the system as a whole.

In a traditional Victorian house with a fireplace in every room, radiant heat will provide far greater efficiency than a forced air system, in which all of that warm air will literally go straight up the chimney.
Why does it have to be treated as an investment rather than a technology demonstration?
Maybe a silly question, are those computers suitable for harsh environments such as in a rover on Venus?
> I've recently started thinking that LLMs would be fantastic at being the interface between humans and computers

Join the club :) I'd say that's a pretty mainstream idea right now.

Exciting nonetheless
There's no physics basis for teleportation, whereas there is a clear physics basis for fusion. The way you assess things is terribly flawed.
I'm quite fond of Crimea.

Very fond, I'm sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_German_ultimatum_to_Lithu...

Many Ukrainian cities as well

And the German soldiers were always so fond of Paris.
The law does not allow you to break the speed limit to pass. You might just have to start following the rules
FUD.

This isn’t running a nuclear reactor it’s following some basic rules and common sense.

Lifepo4 is much more stable than you seem to think.
Lots of news articles about that, e.g. https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24178144/microsoft-window...
The system is also supposed to discourage you from breaking the law intentionally, yes.
Talking about air conditioner-style heat pumps here,

> as soon as you turn it off

You're not supposed to turn it off - then the room will get cold again. Spending the energy to heat up the whole house and radiator mass is very energy-inefficient. Just leaving the air heat pump on the whole time, letting the thermostat regulate and just heating the air inside the home is more efficient, even though it's "running for longer".
Italian police seize Chinese drones bound for Libya disguised as wind turbines
If I did it I would try this first: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector
If you want to be immortal as an artist, paint your works on cave walls, for that deep time gallery.

It would be cool to have a history painting, of all that happened on earth as we know it today. Similar to the empires history painted in the foundation in a cave. All those discoveries, all those triumphs and failures. One huge picture.

It would also make sense to search for similar painted caves near caves where such paintings are discovered, expecting filled up cave entrances and collapsed entrances (erosion, ocean, etc.) . Goto outdo the Johnosons next door. Even back then.
That is because the people with soft skills that are paid well need people to get things done, so they go and hire cheap people with hard skills. That is how it works at every single company, the people with soft skills are paid the best and rule over those with hard skills.
I feel that a specialized AI becomes too niche to be useful for the common folks.

A general LLM model, that is "jack of all and master of none" may remain the go-to choice for the masses. These systems leave the last bits of intelligence to be filled by humans.
Ask HN: HN Repost Buffer Time
5 months ago, someone had reposted about coffeehouse HN[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067496],

It's a pretty cool way to talk to other HNers but apperently the platform is dead. So I would like to know what is that buffer period before we can repost anything.