skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These were added precisely because they were in use in older systems, so I don't see what you're complaining about here. The emoji expansion is annoying, but this isn't an instance of that; this is specifically adding characters from legacy computing character sets for compatibility purposes.
In fact, the conventional wisdom for a long time was to not turn them off if you want longevity. Bearings seize when cold for instance.
The high sharp corners are indeed intimidating when Cybertrucks pass near cyclists.

Paradoxically for a vehicle that's surely received oodles of aerodynamic attention, it at least doesn't seem like a design that might push a pedestrian to the side or lift them up onto a hood, but rather knock them forward (and then under the vehicle).

A Cybertruck crossed in front of me at a traffic light this weekend in my first Cybertruck encounter as a cyclist. I was surprised by my lizard-brain's involuntary concern as the hood's corner passed by.

Edit to add: it seems like a wide vehicle, too, which adds to the effect.
I bought the HGSTs specifically because they showed good stats in those Backblaze drive stats that they just started to publish back then.
I’m not saying they’re faking deliveries.

I’m saying that it looks like they have sales growth when what is really happening is that they’ve been so constrained on production that they’re only now increasing sales to fulfill back orders.

The problem will arise when the back orders are filled and this too-unique looking truck with only one paint color is everywhere. The novelty wears off and now you’ve got a vehicle similar to the PT Cruiser or VW New Beetle where its unique appearance has worn out its welcome in the market. Five years from now Tesla has no path forward on refreshing the truck. Every single passenger car on the market has a 5 year styling refresh cycle.
At Boeing, I worked on proving the elevators would not flutter. It wasn't about a driving force being at the resonant frequency. It was about the interaction of spring rate of the system and the force pushing on it.

The same thing happens if you stretch a rubber band in front of your lips and blow on it. Increasing the stretch will increase the frequency.

Musical wind instruments work the same way.

P.S. the elevators did not flutter in flight test or in service. Phew!
It's not indicative of the specific purpose of something. You can have a rugged backpack, a rugged water bottle, and a rugged vehicle without any of them sharing the same purpose to you.
That expenditure keeps maritime trade safe and armed conflicts on levels unseen anytime in human history. This benefits all of the world's population. If americans suddenly decide that they want to be isolationists again, inflation of 2020s and wars such as Russian invasion of Ukraine will look like child's play.
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> When they release a true next-gen successor to GPT-4 (Orion, or whatever), we may see improvements. Everyone complains about the "ChatGPTese" writing style, and surely they'll fix that eventually.

IMO that has already peaked. GPT4 original certainly was terminally corny, but competitors like Claude/Llama aren't as bad, and neither is 4o. Some of the bad writing does from things they can't/don't want to solve - "harmlessness" RLHF especially makes them all cornier.

Then again, a lot of it is just that GPT4 speaks African English because it was trained by Kenyans and Nigerians. That's actually how they talk!

https://medium.com/@moyosoreale/the-paul-graham-vs-nigerian-...
Legitimately what is a better time in history for the total amount of human suffering to be less?

Countries that are just awful to be in have always existed. I'm willing to bet that a smaller percent of humans are in misery today than ever in history.

Thoughts?
Echoing a similar sentiment, so supporting legacy retro video game sprites are very important to ensure are in and never change, but including flags is not okay? I re-read the justification for it recently and it still doesn't hold water, because it felt like it boiled down to "It's hard."

I was thinking about how Minecraft has a system of components and layers that let you compose various flags on their banners. Obviously that's far, far simpler than country (and autonomous region, and county, and province, and and and) flags that can include text, symbols, and practically entire images. But I did wonder if there was some way that could be represented. Unfortunately, I'm not nearly well-versed enough in code points and their ilk to propose anything useful.

But, I am torn. Archival projects are important, too, and language evolves. These decisions will live for potentially hundreds or thousands (Linear A) of years, and interoperability in computing is important.
The bounty cost is not relevant for the company, but what about admitting liability?
It's pretty amazing - between the drivers who think Teslas are only for snooty liberals the drivers that want nothing to do with Tesla's CEO you'd think there'd be few left buyers left but still they sell like hotcakes. I'm a boring sedan driver but there must be something people like about the Cybertruck beyond it looking cool.
Ca't help but wonder how much electricity would have been consumed if you had left it on 24/7 for ten years...
I would find it very interesting if there was a study done on second order impacts of porn producers. I suspect the outcome would be the opposite of the assumed, as in I suspect the average creator has an above average outcome compare to others with similar demographic and social economic status.

I am reminded of the study done on the damaged goods hypothesis, which gave a negative on that hypothesis. Not only did porn actresses not have higher rate of childhood sexual abuse, but they rated higher than the average in terms of self-esteem, positive feelings, and social support. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23167939/)
No other car looks like a dumpster on wheels, and thats why no one is going to break their neck starring at one, which is what sells.
Not to mention that probably a majority of the electric gas and water meters in the US operate in the 902-928 range.
There were these ancient Ukranian mega cities 6-4k years ago that stood for thousands of years. They had gardens, and what appeared to be a complex social life. Notably, they had no walls, meaning there was nothing to protect themselves from. Peace.

So yeah, there sounds a lot better. No walls to stop friends from coming, or you from leaving if you happen to not like it.

Just because we lack imagination doesn't mean a better world can't exist and didn't exist somewhere in the past.
> Retrieval Interleaved Generation (RIG): This approach fine-tunes Gemma 2 to identify statistics within its responses and annotate them with a call to Data Commons, including a relevant query and the model's initial answer for comparison. Think of it as the model double-checking its work against a trusted source.

> [...] Trade-offs of the RAG approach: [...] In addition, the effectiveness of grounding depends on the quality of the generated queries to Data Commons.
Is that for one drive, or for all 24 drives to survive 10 years?
If you're writing an article that interprets a report for me, at the absolute bare minimum at least link to the report somewhere.

I'm so sick and tired of getting my news from middlemen who "interpret" events and reports for me, no matter how accurately or inaccurately.

Just give me the source so I can read the source for myself.
That is true today. Will it remain true in the next decade? There’s troubling signs that the probability may rise.
it's (1-p)^24^10, where p is drive failure rate per year (assuming it doesn't go up over time). so at 1% that's about 9% or a 1/10 chance of this result. Not exactly great, but not impossible.

the backblaze rates are all over the place, but it does appear they have drives that this rate or lower: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-...
18,000 Miles Later, an American Woman Has Cycled the World
It's weird when stuff is phrased like this as it puts the blame on the train rather than the cause of the accident (freight trains have stopping distances in the region of a mile of distance, and easily take more than a minute to do so). Should be "military vehicle causes train crash" or similar.
I never would have guessed Tesla would go from selling electric cars to Democrats to selling electric trucks to Republicans.
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Well, they tried multiple times! Some tried a direct image, some tried a compact hash of images that should be known in advance ("Coded Hashes of Arbitrary Images"), another tried a direct mapping to Wikidata entities ("QID emojis"). They ultimately failed because... yeah, they would have been much more difficult to implement than what we have right now.
If my security software exfiltrates my secrets by design, I’m just going to give up on keeping anything secure now.
I did try using HDD spindown on ZFS but I remember (It's a long time ago) that I encountered too many vague errors that scared me and I just disabled spindown all together.
https://archive.ph/JJOzf#selection-659.0-659.58
Dropping 32bit support was the right decision. Most of those games work fine in emulation on Apple Silicon if they are single player, or alternatively in a cloud gaming service like Nvidia's that you can use to access your Steam library directly.
> shell scripts are the wrong solution for anything over ~50 lines of code.

I don't think LOC is the correct criterion.

I do solve many problems with bash and I enjoy the simplicity of shell coding. I even have long bash scripts. But I do agree that shell scripting is the right solution only if

= you can solve the problem quickly
= you don't need data structures
= you don't need math
= you don't need concurrency
This is a true conspiracy .
If they employ polish cheap engineers it will be a net loose.
> The company said it is appointing a new chief food safety officer who will report to its president.

Here's me thinking that would be a standard thing for such a large producer...
Can't think of a bigger flex of how locked-in their market share is.

On the plus side this should spur some disruptors into gear, assuming VCs are willing to pivot from wasting money funding LLM wrappers.
It’s not true that “common sense” is being overridden: most companies and sysadmins do need that baseline to avoid “forgetting” about things which aren’t trivial to implement (if you didn’t work in the field 10+ years ago, it was common to see systems getting patched annually or worse, people opening up SSH/Remote Desktop to the internet for convenience, shared/short passwords even for privileged accounts, vendors would require horribly insecure configuration because they didn’t want to hire anyone who knew how to do things better, etc.). There are drawbacks to compliance security but it has been useful for flushing all of that mess out.

Even if it wasn’t wrong, that’s still the wrong reaction. We’re in this situation because so many companies were negligent in the past and the status quo was obviously untenable. If there is a problem with a given standard the solution is to make a better system (e.g. like Apple did) rather than to say one of the most important industries in the world can’t be improved because that’d require a small fraction of its budget.
Keep in mind that in these cases, it’s rare that anyone makes any kind of good faith request for the site to be fixed beforehand, instead jumping straight to the lawsuit.

Generally, that’s how you can tell that this is just a sneaky cash grab and not any kind of legitimate ask.
It has hot swappable code. For skilled practitioners it's fine.
The unification happened because of the 16-bit restriction. I'm actually for the unification in general anyway, otherwise virtually every CJK character would have been confusable to many Z-variants.
You are wrong. It is more than just voices, those skilled in thought control can move between minds, manipulate our emotions (our sexuality), control our involuntary systems, and more you will refuse to accept.

We are not alone in our own minds and a secret war is upon us.
Unlikely, given we have people running for high office in the U.S. saying similar things, and it has nearly zero impact on their likelihood to win the election.
Taking something that seems incredibly obvious and writing a rigorous paper about it is often pretty funny, especially if it's not already researched. A lot of SIGBOVIC papers follow this formula.
- Hello, I am a robot from Sirius cybernetics Corporation, your plastic pal who's fun to be with™. How can I help you today?

- Hi! I'm trying to construct an improbability drive, without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace. I have a sub-meson brain connected to an atomic vector plotter, which is sitting in a cup of tea, but it's not working.

- How's the tea?

- Well, it's drinkable.

- Have you tried, making another one, but with really hot water?

- Interesting...could you explain why that would be better?

- Maybe you'd prefer to be on the wrong end of this Kill-O-Zap gun? How about that, hmm? Nothing personal
2680-2685 in the Miscellaneous Symbols block: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf
As someone who also has not had a legitimate business reason to pour time and energy into learning these technologies, come along on this journey with me! Hopefully we'll learn something new and expand our toolbox for problems we face in the future, or at the very least gain a better understanding of the substrate of the modern software stack, which is so often abstracted away from web devs
Tailwind is more about removing "cascade" from CSS, making it harder to make CSS "spaghetti". Unlike CSS frameworks e.g. Bootstrap that abstract away CSS primitives
Because a lot of people pointed out that it's not that unlikely that all 24 drives survive without failure over 10 years, given the low failure rate reported by Backblaze Drive Stats Reports, I've also updated the article with that notion.
I remember Bill Gates recommending a book on his book list a few years (half a decade?) ago about how, by every measurable stat, life is better now than it has ever been in the past.
Well they certainly don't care about the speed of the endpoints their malware runs on. Shit has ruined my macos laptop's performance.
Honestly, this article describes nearly all companies (from the perspective of the engineers) so I’m not sure I find it hard to believe this one is the same.
Were these the original AirPods Pro or the AirPods Pro 2? The original ones had an issue: https://support.apple.com/airpods-pro-service-program-sound-...
So you are saying if we can run these other LLMs for ChatGPT to talk to cheaper than they can review then we either have a monetary denial of service attack against them or a money printing machine if we can get to be part of the review process (apparently I can't link to my favorite "I will write myself a minivan" comic coz someone got cancelled but I trust the reference will work here without link or political back and forth erupting)
That’s something of a historic artifact: they hadn’t yet given up on the idea of fitting in 16-bit integers, and China threw its weight around. I don’t think anyone working on a Unicode now would make the same decision.
I've seen it post edit it seems. It would be nice if HN marked that... But yeah, if it's good quality and I can't tell the difference from a human writing it, I'm cool with it - because at that point it's just random accusations that are going to be wrong a lot of the time.
Follow-Up 2 has been there since at least Dec 2022: https://web.archive.org/web/20221231143310/https://devblogs....
I thought the Nasreddin stories were more about him being a bit of an idiot or a scoundrel, but bluffing his way out of it?
I did not know intel was so short of cash it needs military money to stay afloat.
I think it was a very hard decision in Unicode's part, because ISO/IEC 8859-9 (or more accurately speaking, its 8-bit counterpart) already had aliased a normal Latin lowercase "i" with the Turkish "i" and Unicode had to maintain the equivalence as much as possible.
This isn't hard to deal with because it's just an evolution of having to check the # of CPU cores to know how many worker threads to start.

But there are a few more problems because of cache hierarchies; touching the same memory from different CPU clusters at once can be extra slow, possibly even slower than fetching it from DRAM.

This is called NUMA (which is ironic for a unified memory SoC.)
Yup. We sure as heck haven't made a lick of progress in the last 2 years. No new, useful technology to see here folks.
Nonsense. You don’t need any staged deploys if you simply make no mistakes.

/s
You have no proof of that
Let's all hope because when it's an employer's market, they tend to lean towards exploitation and burning people out that do have jobs which isn't exactly healthy.
M* CPUs aren't made for maximum performance, but for maximum power/performance tradeoffs, since they're mostly used in portables.
They did say "type of car".

Do you think vehicle safety regulations give pedestrian safety an appropriate amount of consideration, in light of the poor forward visibility of many vehicles that are currently for sale?
I do see some value in having the state license people who make a business of convincing strangers to allow them to use sharp cutting implements on their body in ways that, if not properly maintained and used, could lead to injury, to undesired slow-to-reverse harm to appearance, or to transmission of infestations like head lice.

There's plenty of room to disagree on what the specifics of this oversight should involve, but some degree of pre-approval seems very much appropriate.
This is nothing more than Intel joining the ranks of the other tbtf government contractors. That's how they plan to survive.
Good point then.

I have always traveled coach, and should I fly first class, I would definitely want my flight to last as long as possible, for the experience, but I guess the novelty wears out.

But 500 flights is crazy, one flight every 10 days for 15 years... I certainly understand why you would want to fly supersonic. But now I am curious... why would someone fly that much with the remote communication abilities we have now? I heard that in order to do business in Japan, it is important to be there, so I guess that if you want to come back home sometimes, it is hard to avoid, but still, that's a lot of time flying.
It's the first bullet point in TFA, right after the big screenshot.

> Stress-free hand-drawn style ... A hand-drawn style reduces stress on perfection and allows you to express ideas quickly.
Well if they say that QA was part of the process then they’ll look like idiots because they sucked at the process.

Don’t find this particularly interesting news.
On the original blog it states that the machine used 200W idle. Thats 4,8 KWh a day. 17520 KWh over 10 years? At around 0.30 euro per KWh that's 5K+ if I'm not mistaken.
Toyota Prius Delivers 93 MPG Setting Guinness World Record
Generally, from my time in a radio spectrum regulatory body, you start by enforcing EMR compliance at the importer/manufacturing level, so no-one can buy a new 900ishMHz baby monitor that would cause interference - either by regulating allowed transmitter power or just flat out verboten.

Then you respond to interference complaints as they come up, and commercial operators tend to be very vigorous in monitoring their spectrum that they're paying for, and can often pinpoint the location reasonably well already, and then the nice radio inspectors come out, triangulate it, and have a friendly talk.

Never really had a situation where spectrum that was regulated as "general user" (e.g., no need for a licence, but also no protection against interfering signals) and heavily used by by consumer appliances was modified to no longer be general user though.
Update on iPadOS 18 apps distributed in the European Union
The movie of the galloping bridge looked like resonant frequency to me.

Back at Caltech, the dorm halls had poured concrete walls. Naturally, some students got a signal generator, a power amplifier, some speakers, and installed the speakers at the node of one of the halls (the halfway point).

Then turned it on, and tuned the frequency until it matched the resonant frequency of the hall. The energy in the halls quickly built up until the entire building was going whomp whomp whomp. Except that the frequency was too low to hear.

You just got a feeling that something was very very wrong. Residences would come out of their rooms wondering what the heck was going on.

A fine prank!

Of course, that was exciting the resonant response with a driving resonance frequency, which is not what happened at the Tacoma Narrows bridge, which had a different way of exciting it as already explained.
I loved the idea around the 10Gb NICs but wondered what model switch are you connecting to? And what throughput is this topology delivering?
Why would you trust a company no-man any more than a company yes-man? They both have agendas and biases. Is it just that you personally prefer one set of biases (anti-company) more than the other (pro-company)?