skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said, honest open source advocates won’t take issue to how I framed their position.

Here’s a more important point: how far would the open source people have gotten without GCC and glibc?

Much less far than they will ever admit, in my experience.
I take busses, Bart and Caltrain every day in SF and San Jose, and I'm in Seattle a week per month and use busses and trains there extensively, and I've never been attacked by psychotic violent people.
The Minds from The Culture scifi series have something like this... The top level glyph is the base meaning and you can encode essentially infinite depth of meaning beyond that...
Of course you have to go multidimensional at some point, so you can't really print it out beyond a few layers of resolution...
What's your RAG approach? Dump everything into the model, chunk text and retrieve via vector store or something else?
> This is a big car company having a so-so year. Ford and GM have years like this. Ford's P/E ratio is around 15. GM's is around 6. Tesla's is around 68. Nothing in this report justifies that.

Telsa is not a car company, any anyone that thinks that way is completely missing the point
Have you considered that maybe there isn't a "perfect" or "ideal" person, of either sex? Other than "providing a comfortable lifestyle while not working all the time" (which is arguable even what that means), the things listed above are literally just being an adult in a mature relationship. Helping with chores? Being emotionally available? Knowing how to hold a conversation? How are these qualities that you think are so difficult to attain that only the "ideal" man has them?
Phi 3
> As a capital city… attracts the worst kind of scum, politicians, wannabe celebrities, con men, corporate drones, gold diggers

This sounds pretty standard, maybe you don’t like capitals / big cities??
Definitely not true. Source: have .zip and .rar files in Google Drive
One of Waymo’s co-CEOs went over the estimates in a recent podcast:

Vehicle lifetime: 400,000 miles

Upper bound vehicle cost: $100,000 (though I expect Zeekr to manufacture it for way less)

Cost: $0.25 per mile

There’s room for margin compared to Uber since they can take advantage of economies of scale (high utilization, centralized operations/maintenance and so on).
Everything said here about LinkedIn is also true on X.com (Twitter).

As Elon posted in 2023:

> "Our algorithm tries to optimize time spent on X, so links don’t get as much attention, because there is less time spent if people click away. Best thing is to post content in long form on this platform."

Source: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1709244708533264592
This is competing with 4o not 4o mini, right?
I am probably one of the most free-market leaning ppl on HN.
National Parks are a very good place to curb the free market.
It's a classic Tragedy of the commons, the value is huge and would not exist without the government. There is no incentive structure where privatization would leave millions of acres open for a token fee.

I quite often think how people should be encouraged more to go to the natl. parks, they really take your breath away and are something to cherish. Buffalo running wild, Grey wolves if you're lucky, crazy weird geysers, go!
X-rays are sub-nanometer waves. Millimeter wave scanners are fancy radar (with microwave photons)

I always opted out of x-ray backscatter machines, but mm-wave scanners aren't worth the hassle.
async is a great feature if you use it from square 1. If you start with a legacy codebase using callbacks and try to port it incrementally to async, you're gonna have a bad time. Otherwise, it's definitely a feature
Highly depends on where in SJ<>SF you'll be, but over all I'd say it's pretty difficult for a few reasons:

- Caltrain currently terminates at 4th & King, not exactly a prime spot in SF, so you'll likely want to transfer to MUNI, so add that to your commute time and expense.

- The Caltrain ride itself is over an hour between SF/SJ.

- Caltrain lead times are't great outside of rush hour.

- I live in the middle of SF and it's 2hrs door to door to Diridon (SJ).

It isn't difficult if you're looking at the occasional trip to SF, but as a daily commute I would not recommend. I know quite a few people who do it and it's not pleasant spending that much time on a commute.
This is not how the overwhelming majority of the world works though.

> if facial recognition becomes that common for wearers, most of the population is going to adorn something to prevent that

"Most of the population" is going to be "the wearers".

> Coworkers don’t and wouldn’t tolerate coworkers taking videos or pictures of them.

Here is a fun experience you can try: just hit "record" on every single Teams or Meet meeting you're ever on (or just set recording as the default setting in the app).

See how many coworkers comment on it, let alone protest.

I can tell you from experience (of having been in thousands of hours of recorded meetings in the last 3 years) that the answer is zero.
They could have spent this money instead on smart roads/highways and setup sensors on every single road in the Bay Area.
Why do we suffix -gate onto political scandals that have nothing to do with the second half of the Watergate hotel?
Are they a software company? Maybe energy company? Not sure what they are.
Many sushi restaurants around the world are run by non-Japanese Asians (who often have a separate menu for their ethnicity than can be asked for if you know). Where I live (in the Washington, D.C. area) most Latin American people are Salvadorans, but they mostly run Mexican restaurants as that's the Latin American food that sells.
Yes, it's trivial to remove guardrails from any open access model:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jGuXSZgv6qfdhMCuJ/refusal-in...

https://huggingface.co/failspy/Llama-3-70B-Instruct-ablitera...
Corrosion requires a constant source of fresh oxidant. The water trapped inside a heat pipe cannot corrode anything.

The tiny amount of free oxygen that was ever trapped inside gets consumed essentially immediatly and amounts to a relative handful of atoms on the inner surface.

If a heat pipe ever corroded and leaked, it was manufactured with a leak to begin with, or was corroded from the outside.
Bit of a strong claim when the Erlang/OTP was designed to handle massive concurrency without colorful methods. Given that both Erlang and Ruby are inspired by the message passing semantics of Smalltalk.
Good idea! I have been manually copying my resume source into ChatGPT for feedback, but a script seems much nicer. Also, I didn't know about how you can render the markdown output using glow.

I recently rewrote my HTML resume into LaTeX, since I was wanted to make sure it could be easily parsed by automated systems. I'm not sure how much of a difference it makes, but it gives me an outline of the sections in the Firefox PDF viewer sidebar.
The vehicles can also be redeployed during off-peak hours for delivery services. They’ve previously also talked about private subscriptions for individuals.
The reason the original CEO was replaced by a guy and another guy and finally Musk is because the cost of Roadster parts was higher than the price of Roadster.

What Tesla needed was someone who is un-naturally good operator: someone who can drive the costs down, motivate the employees to deliver great product at a profit.

That was Musk.

And if you think that's just a given and any CEO can do it: currently Lucid and Rivian are still loosing tons of money on their cars. So does Ford and GM. Not to mention Fisker and few others who went bankrupt in the process.

You can do apples-to-apples comparison of execution of Musk vs. CEO of Lucid or Rivian by looking at "money burn at year N" of company's existence. Lucid and Rivian are still accumulating "money burn".
Maybe all of these systems will move to iPads in the future.
Has the ability to opt out changed the TSA operating model? Or does it satisfy some emotional response in those who do while adding slightly more time to aggregate screening for the opt out population? I understand the desire, but the lever you're trying to pull is in concrete. Redirect your efforts to somewhere effective.

By participating in Global Entry and opting into CBP and DHS/TSA "one to many" credential and identity proofing (colloquially "facial recognition"), it makes my life much easier while traveling. If I have strong data security and privacy concerns along the lines of "this will eventually lead to dystopian government interaction outcomes," the only place that is solved is at the ballot box and within the legislative and legal frameworks. The databases relied on for matching already exist [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40045575
That’s a rather motivated reading.
> Low volume halo products make good testbeds

Keep in mind that "low volume" product is already the best selling EV pickup in the US...

https://qz.com/tesla-cybertruck-ford-f150-lightning-electric...
Ruby Code Navigation: Major Ruby LSP Enhancements in the First Half of 2024
Why should it be? It's just a very heavy metal.

Even a non-depleted uranium is not explosive until the pile reaches the critical mass.

In the laymen terms that reactor design would, under a very, very specific conditions, sharply increase the energy generation on the shutdown procedure (instead of decreasing), which would overheat the core, increase the fuel elements temperature and, consequently, increase the amount of steam from the water which is used as a coolant.

After the temperature and pressure rose too much the parts of the coolant and fuel systems started to break, which provided the reactor with a lot more fuel to work on, increasing the output 60 times (from 500MW to 30000MW), which insta-converted the all remaining coolant to the steam (and further raised the temperature and pressure in the reactor) and that steam pressure just ripped off the top cover of the reactor and send it flying.

There was another explosion (about two or three seconds after the first), but it's a mere consequence of the first one, happened in an already destroyed reactor and it is still not clear if that was just a plain chemical one (hydrogen) or the thermal one (ie what you would call a 'nuclear').

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Test_execut...

If anything, water is a neutron moderator ie it inhibits the reaction:

>> In the light-water-cooled, graphite-moderated RBMK, a reactor type originally envisioned to allow both production of weapons grade plutonium and large amounts of usable heat while using natural uranium and foregoing the use of heavy water, the light water coolant acts primarily as a neutron absorber and thus its removal in a loss-of-coolant accident or by conversion of water into steam will increase the amount of thermal neutrons available for fission

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_moderator#Form_and_loc...
I think the author just wants to say that if the regulatory credits are not there, then the profits will be 0.9B less than the reported net profit today, which is about 0.5B. This is a fairly reasonable statement, and it is assuming that they sell the same number of cars and people are already paying the maximum amount they are willing the pay.

You could argument that if the credits are not there, Tesla will sell less cars, and the net profit will be even more slim.
Additionally, we all make decisions collectively in society even though many of them do not affect us personally. I'd argue old people do have interests in many decisions, but perhaps you are not aware of them
Italy and Spain, in particular, do not care about the quality of ridership on their metro lines outside of tourist heavy areas. So, if you plan to ride the train, in particular if you are alone, have a plan to deal with pick pockets and gropers.

No one ever really addresses this trade off.
Cloud-Native DBs and Unikernels: Reimagining OS Abstractions for Modern Hardware [pdf]
Because road cycling is 95% pushing the endurance/strength of the human body to the limits. Most other sports are a combination of many different skills. Road cycling is mostly about pushing the pedals as strong as possible for the duration of the race.
Correlating Late-Holocene climate change&population dynamics at Cahokia Mounds
I think the ask is for a cheeky, hidden seat tube motor like one referenced in the article to preserve the bike aesthetic rather than external mounted stuff: https://goatbikes.com/vivax-assist/
meteorites shine briefly, swiftly, and suddenly

so i guess as an adverb it relates to how quickly the rise is happening and how hot/bright it burns
In other countries, the amount of rail you already have is not really indicative of stopping new rail construction any time soon. Seoul, Paris, Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai etc. all have very large metro networks and are not stopping any time soon.

The problem is not really dollar amounts but effective spending. East Side Access ended up costing $12B for one additional station and a few km of track, where some of the tunnels already existed. Consider that in Paris, they just opened a 15km extension with 8 stations for about 3B EUR.
You can and it was free for a while.
Neat! and thanks for the response.
Ask HN: What tools do you recommend for working on Windows?
I'm a 22 years old hobbyist software developer and sysadmin enthusiast. I've been using linux in all my computers since I was 15 and I mainly program in Go, shell script, and Javascript. I work at a factory and recently for promoted to my first white collar position, so for the first time in my life I work at a computer. The position is production control, nothing to do with software development.

The computers at the company, however, are running Windows. It's very jarring going from 7 straight years of linux to Windows 10. I like creating scripts and tools for myself at home, so using Windows is often painful and feels like a slog. What I wanted to ask you is tools for making my experience less terrible. I recently discovered and started using AutoHotKey which is awesome and I'm sure will be of great use and I've also been trying to get into Excel programming (Excel is an important part of my job). What software would you recommend for someone in my position? The catch is that it must be something that doesn't have an "Install" step. Whenever I try to install anything it asks for an administrator password that I don't have, but things like notepad++ you just grab an .exe and run the program directly with no issues

What I'm missing is things like shell tools, shell scripts, text manipulations tools, rofi/dmenu, pdf tools, a rich text editor that isn't MS Word (I know markdown and html)
Threads, processes and concurrency in Python: some thoughts (2010)
The fact that it still exists indicates that it's likely to be the case, it's clearly frustrating for them and they would get rid of the option if they thought they could.

People like me are probably padding the stats in favour of a small but consistent "preference". There's no way they're not watching the statistics and making decisions based on that. If they think a small enough minority opt out they will remove the option.

> By participating in Global Entry and opting into CBP and DHS/TSA "one to many" credential and identity proofing (colloquially "facial recognition"), it makes my life much easier while traveling. If I have strong data security and privacy concerns along the lines of "this will eventually lead to dystopian government interaction outcomes," the only place that is solved is at the ballot box.

That's not my concern, petty bureaucracy and trampling the dignity of people nonchalantly is.

What I'm referring to is much larger than just the TSA, it's a global industry selling security theatre, imagining the techniques of tomorrows bomb threat are anything they've seen before, forcing you to throw your liquids away and then charging you through the nose for water on the other side.

"But you can take an empty bottle, there are fountains!"

That's the discretion of the security agent you happen to get, I've had bottles thrown out because they had "flOz" written on the side despite being empty.

I travel a lot, so it's probably just the fact I want a consistent experience above else, and the rules are different depending on airport and very selectively enforced. Though they might argue that this is a feature to thwart terrorism.. (he says while rolling eyes)
You're not objecting to public transportation, you're objecting to the public. The people on the bus or the train are not any different from the people at the supermarket or at the park.

Many Americans, like myself, are ok with being around people in a city. But you're right that there is a group of fearful suburbanites who would rather sit in isolation miles away from the cities they drive to than risk catching a whiff of B.O.
Some of the 'cost' of building cars is paid for with money from 'tax credits'.

It's very clear on the diagram I linked above. You can't attribute 100% of 'operating income' to one thing. If anything you need to attribute things proportional to their inputs. Otherwise it's misleading.

I mean if that's what you want, here you go - https://imgur.com/a/dWrGKuN

Then you create a strawman scenario of 'without tax credits...'. Well no, without tax credits the spending policies and prices of other revenue streams change in order to hit net income targets.
That seems plausible. A lot of their current lineup gets dinged, but it's for things like "refinement" or styling, or underpowered, and so on. They have a good reputation for reliability, safety, and other things that are harder to improve.
This is like saying "You have the right to privacy. The police can tap your phone, but you have nothing to worry about as long as you're not breaking the law."

"we're open source, you can use it for anything you can imagine. But you can't use it for these specific things."

Then there's the added rub of the source not really being source code, but a CSV file.

That's fine. If you want to set that expectation, great! But don't call it open source.
Then what? Meme stock? Super charger network? Vibes company?
> A meme stock refers to the shares of a company that have gained viral popularity due to heightened social sentiment.

- Investopedia
This is a serious point. I knew dozens of high-skilled tech-based Europeans who left the UK due to Brexit and felt both hurt and offended.
Not in languages like Ruby.
No. Tools are limited by the user, sure, but they're also inherently limiting in themselves. If I want to insert a nail into wood and all I have is a pile driver then being a expert pile driver doesn't suddenly make the tool suited to the task (which was the point of the Rust in gamedev article)
If it makes you feel better, carry on, just don't expect it to change outcomes. It clearly doesn't. Opt outs are not tracked [1]. TSA opt outs are the equivalent of a close door elevator button that does nothing [2].

[1] https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/tsa...

[2] https://www.sciencealert.com/the-close-door-buttons-in-eleva...

And a very on topic quote from the above citation:

"Perceived control is very important," Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer told Christopher Mele at The New York Times. "It diminishes stress and promotes well being."
I expect some tuning around torque curves and the like, but electric drivetrains aren’t a pure positive for wear and tear - the heavier weight plus torque and general drivetrain characteristics are murder on tires, suspension, and several other wear items on the vehicle. High duty, and especially high duty from taxi-style driving, is likely to impact wear as well.

You’re right about the benefits of bulk maintenance, although I’m skeptical that a taxi operator will be able to pull off pure solar charging - typical electric car batteries are on the order of 40-60kWh, which is about what an average home uses in a day or two. Scale that up to a reasonably-sized fleet of electric vehicles, and I suspect any fleet operator will be buying their juice.

The utilization rate on the vehicles will be interesting - browsing around a bit looks like an average cab runs between 70-100k miles per year (the car, not the driver - most taxis run multiple shifts), so call it ~200-300mi per day, so they ought to be able to make it the whole day on a single charge.

Once you own the vehicle, though, it’s pay per use - as you note, if you’re not planning to sell it, it’s not really losing money sitting around. It’s not making money, but it’s also not incurring costs from operation.
Isn't 5k$ more like an entry level bike nowadays? I think people are easily spending 10-20k for a bike, just to feel a tiny bit faster and to brag about it to their friends.
> Vehicle depreciation doesn’t matter unless you’re selling the thing

Depreciation is replacement cost smoothed out. If a business is unprofitable after depreciation it cannot organically replace its capital equipment.

That said, I’m sceptical of the Uber and Lyft being unprofitable for drivers after depreciation. Doubly so in the cities Waymo targets.
Can a machine learn mathematical structure?
Their revenue grew 14% YoY. That's nothing special at all if you look at their historical top line growth.
> There’s no easy answer, though there is a growing consensus around certain factors that are holding America’s transit systems back. In a future post, I’ll describe these factors in depth.

So what are these factors?
Ask HN: Would requiring drivers to wear hearing aids make them more acceptable?
The idea is to require drivers to have excellent hearing if possible via hearing aids if necessary.

Would this make hearing aids cheaper and more socially acceptable even when not driving?
WebArena does this really well, called the "accessibility_tree"
https://github.com/web-arena-x/webarena/blob/main/browser_en...
Exactly, it would show outlier performances where speed / pedal power ratio was too high in certain sections.
Good point. Though being a non-profit doesn't remove the fact that the value proposition of CAs is trust.

Perhaps there is some compromise like they just have to submit all issuances certs to a 3rd party, and maintain the last few months worth of issuances.
It's because the US' big star was caught doing it, so American media tries to project an image of it being normal in the sport. Same thing as those Soviet weightlifters. The actual prevalence is surely no different from baseball or tennis or what have you.
That's not the discussion. We're talking about what open source is, and it's having the weights and the method to recreate the model.

If someone gives me an executable that I can run for free, and then says "eh why do you want the source, it would take you a long time to compile", that doesn't make it open source, it just makes it gratis.
If that’s just lifetime/cost, that’s not covering energy or repairs.
> what a file is

What is a file, what is a program, how programs run and how programs communicate, is not understood by most people (including most CS students).

> Honestly I don't find that too bad.

I understand what you mean, it is the same with most technology, users just use it, as your example of cars, or even furniture, or forks and spoons, or language, I am not even sure it is related to complexity.

But I disagree on what it means to use a computer, because unlike other machines, it does what you make of it (now even more, with llama 3.1 out), I think to use a computer means to program it. Somehow in the last 30-40 years, user interfaces gave up on their users. You dont own your programs, your files or in many cases even your computer, it doesnt start the programs you want(iphone for example), and you cant debug other programs (e.g. in case of macos you cant gdb -p into signed programs unless you disable the system's integrity protection).

Somehow we managed to squeeze all the fun out of it. As John Carmack says: the distance between what it is, and what it could be, is the opportunity, and I am sure people can have way more fun programming :)

This commodore 64 user guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9WnHuGjZ38 is my inspiration.