skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have electricity cost of <7€ now for 100 km. Petrol cost was close to 20€. Plus I save a lot on repairs. Previous car was old and I got tired of lying under it.

I guess car choice and calculation behind it is very individual. I never wanted Tesla, but got best trade—in conditions there.
I don't know. I'm seeing articles suggesting our diet used to contain more fermented foods but inventions like refrigeration has altered our diet to no longer lean on fermented foods as much.
Drones? For last mile delivery roads are the only game in town.
I lament that he didn't spend a chapter or two on a floppy disk and floppy disk controller. I would like to see a detail treatise on that, I've never seen one.

Maybe its straightforward, drag and drop from the FDC data sheet into a bit of code. Then again, maybe not.

Even when he did the SB-180, his 64180 based SBC, it has an FDC, but he does not talk of it much.

He also did some articles on an 8088 computer. This was interesting because it came out in that seeming millisecond of time between CP/M and MS-DOS, but before "PC Compatible". His computer could run MS-DOS (or, I reckon, CP/M-86), but it was not a PC Compatible.

But it was just a couple of articles, not a book like this was.

Mind, he spent much of his time in the controller world, not really the desktop world. The SB-180 was a bit of a anomaly in that sense, as it was more of a full desktop machine than most of his other work.
A point of contention for me is the IEEE Code of Conduct [1] whose point 5.e. can be summarized as "I will not infringe the intellectual property of others". If you are critical of copyright itself (something not unusual among hackers) then the IEEE may not be the association for you.

[10 https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/code-of-cond...
> There some hetzner resellers which accept crypto coins instead

Who? I would assume hetzner would close those accounts pretty quickly.

What is their markup?
Yes, I'm avoiding DSC because Nvidia GPUs have an issue with DSC when switching to full screen games that cause a black screen for several seconds.

DP 1.4 also does have enough bandwidth for 1440p@240hz without HDR, so I only have this issue with HDR on.
> Battery still can do 300 miles if I want

Estimated 300 miles and actually doing 300 miles is not the same thing.
preventing this sort of arms race is the job of the government

otherwise in 50 years everyone will be driving around an ex-army abrams
Even though I run a company which has only 4 million profit per year, I have seen something similar that once a company starts being successful, you attract these people who's only job is to move from successful company to successful company in a sort of a circuit. They don't add much value but they know how to stay out of trouble.

So what happens I think is that most business value is brought about by a very small percentage of a company's actual day-to-day productive output. However, as a company grows, you do need this additional people because without them the company will start losing value. But a very few people and very few work in the company actually adds value and gets the company to the next step. So imagine something like apple the iMac when they launched it and then the iPhone and then the iPod drove the company into what we know it to be today. But if they didn't have all of the other managers and stuff who were pushing papers and getting things going, the company wouldn't even exist. The founder really needs to know what matters in the company no matter how large it gets and how to go to the next step in the company and that will take very very little of the company's actual outputs. Figure out who are directly responsible for creating those outputs and create a direct relationship with them. Going through the mbas and the paper pushers is secondhand information and usually they are tampered with.
People in a city can comfortably walk and bike in many cases, and take public transport in most other cases. I do, because I live in NYC.

But the US has very few cities proper (mostly those which grew big before that advent of the car), and even those have uneven density and thus efficiency of walking or taking a bus.

A ton of what the US taste call cities is sprawling low-density almost-suburbia surrounding a few high-density "downtown" areas. See Houston, TX for an impressive example. Biking in such places is possible but tiring, walking is mostly pointless unless you visit your neighbor or a park, and running a subway is uneconomical.

Hence, they resort to cars.
> SELinux being set to permissive by default.

My bet is to reduce support calls. "Why can't I do X and Y on this server?"
All that is meaningless, supporting Trump makes the demographic he follows on X love him and fawn over him even more
Do you have a citation for China peaking coal consumption? The sources I can find say that China is still adding coal at a rate that far outstrips the rest of the world, with a rate of new coal construction up 4x since 2019 [0].

They're also adding solar at an even higher rate [1] so maybe you meant that coal as a percentage of electrical consumption peaked two years ago?

[0] https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-responsible-for-95-of-new-...

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/china-added-more-sol...
I agree 100%.

I would really underline the ability of the founder to have this pretty unique ability to see and set the strategic direction of the startup which requires a lot of abstract thinking with the tactical and operational skills to make sure you earn money right now.
> If I want to buy a pair of glasses with arbitrary optical properties, why shouldn't I be able to?

Don't sites like Zenni Optical already offer this?
He separates those from “performance”.
I don't understand why we even need an app. Isn't the car is app already? With a reliable cable connection to the charging station. Cannot the car negotiate the payment on it's own?
> Moraes was granted that authority by the Supreme Court, so it is legal.

This is not exactly true, so let me explain it. Moraes is himself a justice on the Supreme Court. He was not granted authority by it. His own claim actually acknowledges that no new laws (either legislation or constitutional amendments) were passed to give him this power. Instead his claimed power rests on something more confusing and again, illegal. Brazil has two top level courts - an electoral court and a Supreme Court, for simplification and use of common international language. These two are separate courts and are supposed to have separation of powers. When de Moraes was president of the electoral court, he proposed in October 2022 to the electoral court that he be granted the unilateral power (as a single person) to remove online content as part of his role in the other court, the federal court (where he was inaugurated in 2017) - this is all easy to verify and there are many sources (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_de_Moraes).

Obviously, it is a total violation of the separation of powers for him to sit on one court and grant himself powers that he can use through the other court. Because no new legislation is involved, it also violates the fundamental role of the judicial system, since the creation of laws is part of the legislative power in Brazil.

> But then again Elon acts like an unaccountable little dictator in his fiefdom, which is also dangerous, so I don't really mind that X is getting banned

I don’t condone Elon’s erratic behavior. However, I think generally he has been more on the side of free speech and civil liberty than the previous leadership of Twitter. For example, after Musk’s acquisition, Twitter tried hard to stop censorship in India through a lawsuit against the government that they battled in 2023. They did not succeed, in part because India passed laws that legalized censorship unfortunately. But at least Twitter/X tried. As far as I can tell, they have been consistent with their public policy of following local laws when it comes to content moderation and censorship. But in Brazil’s case, the orders appear to be illegal (example: https://x.com/AlexandreFiles/status/1829979981130416479/phot...).

Whatever his demeanor is though, he is a private individual, and his actions matter less than actions of the state. Alexandre de Moraes is a Supreme Court justice. Whether Elon antagonizes him or not, he should remain neutral, stick to the law as written, and lean in favor of civil liberties as a default anytime there is something controversial or ambiguous.
This is only if the company is not stuck in a rut. In academia, the state of the art advances when the previous generation dies off.
> I don't know if those comments are just patriotic Europeans or...

This is nitpicky, but just want to mention that Europe is a continent made up of 44 diverse and distinct nations, and Hetzner originates from one of them.

Patriotism doesn't really work in that situation (nor in the context of a private company).
This is a great explanation. It should be paired with the article.

Thanks!
Intellectual property, more like imaginary property.
Just be warned. You're going to spend a couple of weeks after having read it being very frustrated with people influencing your world who apparently didn’t read it…
Because doctors never misdiagnose or prescribe wrong medications...

I'd rather make my own choices, thank you very much.
And RAID once stood for array of inexpensive discs and is now independent discs. But you are right different meaning.

Found these here
https://books.google.de/books?id=Jzo-qeUtauoC&pg=PT7&dq=%22g...
Computerworld magazine 1976 VGI called a graphics processing unit (GPU)

> 3400 is a direct-writing system capable of displaying 3-D graphics and alphanumerics with speeds up to 20.000....

It's not what I would call a GPU, but I think it's hard to draw lines when it comes to naming things and defining things.

If anyone else wants to try to find the real GPU

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22gpu%22+graphics+processin...
Self hosted Bitwarden instance?
It's possibly even simpler than that. The equations of GR involve a constant, called the cosmological constant, which could be given any value without changing the theory. A positive value for that constant would exactly correspond to what we know about dark energy.
I once spoke to Scott Hanselman [1] on a conference. He is diabetic and also makes talks about IT and diabetes. I liked one point he made: people without diabetes should not buy these products, as it only brings the prices up, meaning that not everyone by can afford them.

Edit: forgot to specify link.
1: https://www.hanselman.com/
This is very nice and something I’ve been looking for for a while.

Any chance icons can be included? I want to design AWS diagrams and use service logos.
>Part of the problem is that carmakers refuse to sell small cars. If you don’t believe me try to buy a small car at a car dealership in America.

>Consumers are angry about rising costs, particularly for automobiles, and having a choice to buy an affordable vehicle could be surprisingly popular.

Consumers may claim they care about rising costs, but the fact that more expensive SUVs are outselling sedans makes me think it's the consumers who are refusing to buy small cars, rather than carmakers refusing to sell them.
Fun game! Resizing the browser window after it starts breaks the game though. If you you resize it so the princess is off the screen, you can't lose :)
I guess somewhere there is a data to either prove or refute this. Look at all the current active recycling centers and look if they built stockpiles before. And which stockpiles actually disappeared after the center was operational, or which never started operating and the stockpile remained.

If you really could uncover a conspiracy like this, I'm sure big newspapers would be happy to collaborate on releasing these news :)
Non-AMP link: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna167813
But do you press Ctrl/Cmd + C three times or more to make sure it takes effect?
On the newer Nissan Ariya model: at home, battery SOC says 99%, predicted range 290 miles. We go on family day trip to the beach, 30 miles later and SOC says 70% with 260 miles predicted range. I am no expert and I'm sure these systems are hard to build but we have got to be able to do better than this.
There may not be, but unless it is attempted seriously do we actually know? Is the current local maxima near the global one or are we a long ways off? I have no idea, but I can't assume we are already there just because my imagination can't come up with a better solution.
Someone from Brazil said they have no rule of law right now, they have a dictatorship. So Musk would be complying with a despot, not the law enforced by Brazilian representatives.
There is a classic discussion on the subject described here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
BYD Seal Euro NCAP crash test videos. 5 stars.[1]

NCAP rates some Teslas higher, and some BMWs lower. So it's in the safety range for overpriced luxury cars.

IIHS hasn't tested the BYD Seal yet, because it's not sold in the US.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jxOt6mL6FQ
> Not every person is able-bodied enough to walk and bike

This is true, but it also true that not every person is able to drive a car. In fact the inability to drive is way more common than the inability to walk.
The situation is actually much worse. If you go to an optician to get a prescription for eyeglasses, assuming you pay via your insurance, if the optician believes that you will not be ordering glasses from the optician, the optician intentionally and vindictively gives you an erroneous prescription that is off by 0.5 in one eye, leading to a lack of focus when seeing at a distance. It took me many years to catch on to this scam because I had to distinguish it from the prospect of Zenni shipping out bad glasses which they didn't.
Apple News is a step in the right direction, but how does it integrate with www links?
A picture is worth a thousand words: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpUOgrdUYAELoAQ.jpg:large

These two have the same bed length: https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/06/E...

I own a 2020 F150 and I hate how big it is. Turning radius is pathetic. You have to climb into the bed like you're scaling a mountain. There's two sets of steps to get into the front seat (which is gigantic, like it's made for someone 300lbs). I can't see what I'm backing up to. God help any little kid or animal in front of my truck, I'm not seeing 'em. Literally all I wanted was 2000+lbs payload and 4x4, and this was the best option.
And this is why we really could use government intervention - to create standardized markets for recyclable products.

Basically - the CME for recycleable material, leading the way to gradations and cleanliness standards.

Right now this is an industry that could benefit from creating more scalable markets within the food chain.
Agree, and by extension would love to see a conversation between PG and Marc Randolph on the topic of startup advice. I can't tell if the two polar opposites or preaching essentially the same thing - both seem to say "take ideas with a grain of salt" but PG seems to exempt the founder, as if the founder and only the founder has some secret power to succeed no matter what - if only they go it alone.

"The startup can build and extend, but the startup never invents anything. That preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a [founder]." -PG Steinbeck /s :D sorry
There's an adapter shortage, so that doesn't really work yet.
Advertising based funding was always a scam and doomed to be a race to the bottom as per unit margins can barely support unit costs of production. The incentives for attention capture and sale of private information are the only material market pressure.

Sadly in a world of scarcity journalists need to eat too, have families, retirement funds to accumulate, etc. Quality of work requires paying humans, which requires funds from the consumers of the product one way or another. By paying as a first order user you boost the unit margin considerably and change the incentive structure to prioritize your priorities, not the priorities of advertisers and surveillance economy participants.

Sadly I don’t think anyone has come up with an alternative way of paying for the people to do the work.
And is this usable for Person with T1d? Seems So, https://www.diabettech.com/cgm/dexcoms-stelo-by-numbers-coul...
You hold the vision, so tell people whatever you want. That's my interpretation.
The inevitable result: https://cmarshall.com/images/WhatsTheWorst.jpg
> People in US suburbs frequently live several miles from their town center

It is not the responsibility of the citizens of the central city to accommodate suburban drivers.
'Mindblowing' fake AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D chip investigated – buyers beware
That might happen if the car makers could charge a 30 percent commissions from the EV charging companies.
Bloodless coups are a thing.
Thank you! Custom icons - not yet. I’ve been mulling over how to do it on server and client that isn’t hacky and that plays nice with edge intersections (how edges will point to the bounding box of the icon/logos)

It’s definitely something I want to support.
“… they have a good chance at not having to work at all for the rest of their life.”

We must have different expectations for the failure rate of startups.
That's fine, but Apple is still apparently lying about what these people are doing exactly.
Not at all (it's a fair question). I think the idea of deferring exclusively to a doctor is wrong (for me at least). People wear fitness trackers to count their steps without damaging their exercise goals, and I view other medical testing similarly.

First, I'm not "undergoing treatment" so I don't think my negative perceptions would cause anything to have a worse efficacy (which is my understanding of "nocebo").

Second, I think that measurement is ok (great even) as long as you have correct expectations. Doctors will often say that you shouldn't get tests unless undergoing a differential diagnosis from a doctor, because tests all have ranges, and slightly off results can freak out patients who are otherwise healthy. Frankly, I assume it's actually a cost/effort thing. I disagree because (1) you have to wait until something is wrong before getting a test and (2) its would good to have a baseline level of <thing> for when something goes wrong to avoid red-herrings.

If you have a mole or lump, a doctor would not recommend you undergoing surgery, or even get an invasive biopsy unless it's really scary looking at start. Many/Most are benign. BUT a doctor generally would suggest you watch it regularly in case it changes. Clearly monitoring benign-looking things is good, because it can become less benign or it can be a symptom of something dangerous.

Concretely, I'm a very healthy and active individual, but also a vegetarian. Vegetarian diets can easily be vitamin deficient, so I get tested. Doctors generally don't want to test me because I "clearly look healthy and don't have symptoms of deficiency". But I was absolutely deficient for years, and while I felt fine, supplementing for my deficiency showed me I could feel better than before.
You're comparing apples to oranges - structured output (a capability) with structured output + CoT (a technique), saying that structured output isn't good for reasoning. Well, it's not supposed to "reason", and you didn't apply CoT to it!

I didn't like it overall and I think it can confuse people and it shouldn't mention best practices:

1. To ensure a reasonable amount of variation, its temperature was set to 1.0.

Why would you use any other temperature than 0 when you are asserting the correctness of the data extraction and the "reasoning" of the LLM? You don't want variation.

2. true_answer = (5029) + (1.7509)

Why are you using the LLM to do math? If the data was extracted correctly (with structured output or function calling) let it write the formula and evaluate it.

3. The new Structured Outputs in the API feature from OpenAI is a significant advancement, but it's not a silver bullet. / there's more to this story than meets the eye

The new API is just a nicer built-in way to extract structured data. Previously (still valid) you had to use function calling and pass it a "returnResult" function that had its payload typed to your expected schema. This is one of the most powerful and effective tools we have to work with LLMs, if used for what it's supposed to do, we shouldn't avoid this because it doesn't "reason" as well.

> John Doe is a freelance software engineer. He charges a
> base rate of $50 per hour for the first 29 hours of work
> each week. For any additional hours, he charges 1.7
> times his base hourly rate. This week, John worked on a
> project for 38 hours.

And the sample scenario is something I wouldn't use LLMs for. Nevertheless, CoT can still be applied with structured output, I'd like to see your structured-output-reasoning-cot to figure out why it didn't work.

Structured outputs allow you to extend the prompts by providing descriptions for the fields you expect, making it much more effective than other solutions, and you can also implement features like self-healing loops (fx. to get rid of the 1% chance of gpt-4o to not reply with data following the schema), etc. The paper's authors used the plain "JSON mode" that is useless, glad to see you did it better.

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Anyway, here's GPT-4o with function calling (not even structured output) solving the issue correctly every time: https://gist.ro/gpt-reason.mp4

As you can see it's super consistent with GPT-4o and temp 0, with a silly simple prompt. If someone worked on the prompts / split it into a "multi-step pipeline" (come on, is this what we call fn(fn(x)) now?) they would achieve the same result with 4o-mini.
Chaos, anomie
A New Simple Platform for Showcasing Your Artifacts
The USA already moves a higher percentage of freight by rail than almost any other country. But rail could never work for time-sensitive loads or last mile delivery.
this is not compressed hydrogen storage, anyway your 2,3,4 are the same as my round trip storage efficiency 2
Yeah, even entangling particles remotely seems to require two pairs of entangled particles locally, sending each half somewhere, entangling the remaining local halves again locally and then using quantum teleportation to transfer the entanglement to the remote pairs together. So while you could do this to entangle a particle to a black hole, you’d still need to travel to the black hole classically and there’s no way to do this today as the nearest black hole is over 1k light years away.

I’m not aware of any theoretical or experimental way to straight up entangle unrelated particles remotely but I don’t know QM enough to say it’s straight up impossible but it would violate my understanding of how entanglement works.

That being said it is an interesting thought experiment although in practice I doubt you’d measure anything particularly interesting through the entanglement and more importantly it’s not clear entanglement would survive near a black hole since we don’t have a unified model of gravity and QM.
It's costing me roughly $4.50 per charge (we pay ~$0.30/kWh and it takes roughly 15kWh to fully charge). My MPG is ~20mpg, and gas costs around $3.50 per gallon, so I have roughly the same fuel costs whether I'm charging or putting gas in the tank.

I am saving a bit on repairs as well. I was spending close to $1500 a year on maintenance for the old car (but it was 8 years old and had 100K miles on it). We also had a nice tax incentive for buying EVs/PHEVs, so that helps.
>For the record, if you do not know what a dict actually is, and how it works, it is impossible to use it effectively.

While I agree it's good to know how your collections work. "Efficient key-value store" may be enough to use it effectively 80% of the time for somebody dabbling in Python.

Sadly I've met enough people that call themselves programmers that didn't even have such a surface level understanding of it.