skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are other standards that can put vehicles in different emissions categories. I believe the one that most crossover SUVs target is being considered “off road”, by having four wheel drive and meeting a few ground clearance specifications: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/part-523#p-523.5(b)

The goal of promoting these small SUVs instead of sedans is actually because they’re quite fuel efficient: being in the same category as much larger trucks, they pull up the average fuel economy and take the pressure off manufacturers to make their highly-profitable bigger SUVs more efficient.
The way I see it these models especially O1 is an intelligence booster. If you start with zero it gives you back zero. Especially if you’re just genuinely trying to use it and not just trying to do some gotcha stuff.
Google Is Running Out of Cloud Storage
What does this foreshadow for web payments and services?
That data seems wrong, though I have seen it reported on blogs and such. FBI data on total burglaries is under 1,000,000 since 2019 (857k in 2022, the last reported year) Home invasion should be a somewhat smaller subset of that.

https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crim...
Since data centers are driving up demand, and therefore how much coal byproducts go into my kids lungs, the least they can do is pay for the infrastructure upgrades.
... where Ashlee Vance used to be a writer! I really loved his style back then and was quite pleased to see him becoming so successful [1-3].

[1] https://www.ashleevance.com

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/01/space_economy_vance/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashlee_Vance
You could custom program a canary wallet. When the wallet makes a transfer it automatically calls 911 and sends the cops to your house or your phones location.
A mediocre programmer won't be able to judge the allegedly expert level output any better than a non-programmer, so I don't see how that would work.

I think it is more likely that great programmers might just increase their productivity even more with, which will make their value even greater.
MacBooks are a looser for profits. They make way more on the pro and upgraded versions that people would still buy. The phone would act like a gateway MacBook lite. Get people hooked on the ecosystem
>>Asteroids such as these hitting the moon?

Considering this one is 10 meters across and the surface texture of the moon is dominated by impact craters, it seems very likely over time.

>>Meaning for the planet?

For these types not much, but you do raise a good point that a large asteroid or incoming rock has two targets that could affect the planet. Missing the earth but knocking the moon into a different orbit could have a variety of significant consequences, depending of course on the magnitude and direction of change...
Thank you for the note. I've actually tried many times to bring up the barriers that are major problems in our company. But everything seems to be subject to a lot of politics. No one seems to be willing to listen, and at one point it just started affecting my morale and peace of mind. My personal situation is currently so that I am unable to switch jobs though. I am willing to take a break and find something new later next year
It took 50k gallons of water to put out Tesla Semi fire
Just keep in mind that a lot of people equate Agile with Scrum, which is incorrect. Agile is about exactly what you said: empowering devs to get shit done. None of the extra “keep managers happy” crap that Scrum introduces is in any way covered by the Agile manifesto.
Not OP, but surely yes.

To expand a bit, there's not that many _good_ games where you can explore, follow the story, enjoy a beautiful world and don't need good reflexes or emergency reactions skills.

In particular, gamers with decent skills will praise and give exposure to truly beautiful and well detailed games, and people with little to no action skills won't get past the tutorial.

We can look at it as a fact of life, and expecting all games to be accessible at any skill level is just impossible, but there's a sad part to it when it's so close.

I got my family to play Monument Valley and it was magical. Journey ? they got stuck on the more finicky paths and gave up the controller, while still enjoying the bit they could clear and watched the rest as I played.

Stray was on the same path, where they could probably deal with everything except the few time limited sections. If there was a "no action sequences" switch, it would be truly wonderful.

Also it probably would sting less if there was more games with a path for very low gaming skills.
He sort of puts this in a fact of matter way without passing judgement, but I honestly hate it. This is absolutely an entitlement mentality. You see it in chipotle lines, people somehow think because you're paid a measely check you have to sing and dance for them. I wish people were more accepting of what writers gave them as just a piece of writing to ingest and understand. Fuck you and your fucking head cannons. If you hate something so much, read something else.
Because there are multiple definitions of what a metrics usecase is.
Can get a piece of Trump's suit along with that piece of paper
I think back to the early 2000's, and there are other factors in play as well. Back then, I worked with a team of engineers that stayed together for over 4 years. In that time, we did not have Project Managers telling us to do daily standups. We met as an engineering team.

We often would go days without having a formal meeting.

But, software was different then as well. Everything is interconnected now. One team dropping the ball affects countless other teams. Deployments were whenever we felt a new one was due or at a multi month cadence. Did this introduce problems, yes, but at the same time, they came in controlled release cycles.

Nothing against CI/CD and continuous delivery, but the hamster wheel has gotten to a point where we have to release all the time. Corners are cut on everything, and testing is given lip service.

At this point, I am a manager, and SCRUM stresses me out. Either let us work from a queue, or give us a project with a deadline. Give me back a stupid gant or pert chart. At least then it was, is this done to allow XYZ, not we are going to accomplish this in the next 2 (arbitrary) weeks.

So much more to say, but I am toast.
The NGDV is based on the 9500lb Ford Transit, so it's more like they started with a heavy-duty truck and scaled down.
Walking Purchase
According to some, it already did. It is called the Universe.
Agreed. It might make some sense to require undergrad chemistry and biology for med school applicants but presumably that could be squeezed into 2 years of undergrad. Possibly a customized curriculum could teach it faster or as part of med school.
As an older person in tech I see ageism alive and well in tech. The young ones don't understand why we oldies roll our eyes at hearing the 13th iteration of "this is ground breaking new idea" or when we gently interrupt a personnel or strategy discussion with a few use cases from the past to illustrate the pending shit-storm being proposed.

Time for the world realise this tech stuff and programming has been around about 100 years! Let that settle in. A century of code. So the tech population is now clever and curious 8 year olds all the way through to 80+ curious and seasoned Algol programmers. And we ALL have value.

#endofrant
I don't understand this. You can make triangles small enough that you can't tell the difference, and define them mathematically in terms of curves..? Isn't this how any rendering will ultimately work? The primitive is triangles.
I have no reason to presume someone holding crypto isn't a cryptobro.

Either way it's irrelevant, the criminals got a hold of their personal information somehow and the most likely cause in this day and age is the victims divulging it themselves.
My take on Searle is that he was a hack. It's possible I judge too harshly, that _I_ am a hack (the likeliest, tbh) or that I and his writing have some fundamental life outlooks different.

Regardless, I think the Chinese room experiment is bunk and proves nothing. And I fail to gather where the medium of computation steps in the Chinese room experiment. The "computer" might as well be a bunch of neurons in a petry dish.

I guess the proof will be in the pudding when we develop superhumanly intelligent AI.
For $200m yes, but you’d be really stupid trying to do it all at once. Small amounts, multiple accounts, gradually over time.
I'm not a mathematician much beyond AP Calc in high school (almost 40 years ago). I am deeply fascinated by Bézier curves and geometric continuity. I've spent a lot of time digging up research papers and references about this and related Computer Aided Geometric Design mathematics. Mostly I skim them for the illustrations and more geometric relations. For several years I've been trying to understand how to make sure that a Bézier curve is G3 to an adjoining curve, given the tangent direction, and first and second curvature derivatives.

I've tried a variety of ways to ask various LLMs to help solve this. Finally with access to ChatGPT o1-preview I was able to get a good answer. The first answer was wrong, but with a little more prompting and clarification I was able to get the answer I wanted to relate the positions of P0, P1, P2 and P3 so that a Bézier curve could be G3. This isn't something that is unknown because there are many CAD programs which can do this already, but I had not been able to find the answer I was looking for in a form that was useful to me.

I don't really know where that puts o1-preview relative to a math grad student, but after spending tons of time over a couple years on this pet project, getting an answer from a chat bot was one of the more magical moments I've had with technology in a long time.
I added the ability to export to arcs/circles when writing out DXFs using PythonSCAD in the library:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

See:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/export.d...
I think you're talking past the person you're replying to.

Not sure why you use the word "active", as it's unnecessary. Gatekeeping is just erecting barriers of whatever sort in an effort to keep people out. Making install documentation that is very very detailed to the point that some people will be turned off by it and go away could very much be considered gatekeeping. Even if that documentation is objectively good documentation.

Obviously we can't know the motives of the people who wrote the documentation. But it's fair to look at the docs and believe that the authors are engaging in gatekeeping. That belief might be wrong, but there's no evidence either way. Unless the authors have come out and said something about this topic, of course. And even then, it depends on if you believe what they've said.

It's subjective.

(I personally have no dog in this race. I don't use or particularly care about Arch; Debian suits me just fine. My main experience with Arch is positive, though: their wiki is amazing, and when I search for answers for various questions about Linux and Linux desktop software, the Arch wiki comes up very often, and is nearly always helpful.)
> For all the zillion things I can configure in my Honda Passport, I can apparently not turn that annoying feature off.

Here you go: https://www.idlestopper.com/

Sad that this is what it's come to, but here we are.

I was considering purchasing a Honda recently, and this was one of the things I investigated. Like you, I consider the hesitation imposed by this mechanism to be annoying, and in addition, dangerous.
I think it is entirely fair to say that there probably isnt just one primary way to run a large organization. That’s really the main takeaway I found useful from Paul Graham’s blog post.

He obviously didnt specify at all what other ways are and what this nebulous “founder mode” means. But I think just pointing out hiring an army of consultants and mbas might not be the only way to do it is an important statement to make that I don’t think most people in the corporate world would readily admit to.
Generally people who preferred niche apps like OpenSCAD preferred not to be restricted in how they can use the app.
There's still fun hacker spaces out there. The Playdate community is a really fun space because it's mostly non commercial and people just making stuff for the love of it. [0]

The raspberry pi community is also in the hacker space, I think the shortages and the price of the newer products hurt it some but I'm sure the spirit will come back. [1]

Overall I'd say that people spend too much time on the internet and it's effectively a full time job form them but with no breaks, which of course leads to burn out/disappointment. [2]

I'm rambling at this point but maybe there needs to be a hobbiest hackernews or something.

[0] When most stuff is priced $10 at most and they're are onyl at most 100k devices on the market, there is not much money to be made.

[1] I'm still disappointed there is not much of a gamedev/creative software community around the raspberry pi.

[2] And when you read about angry sad things all day because that's how Merchants of Despair keep you on their sites. Well it's hard not to feel angry and sad.
I think people who are successfully using it to write code are just chaining APIs together to make the same web apps you see everywhere.
Fiat money is harder to steal because you can't just transfer hundreds of thousands or millions about from mainstream banks without questions being asked.

For the most part I don't think that the GP has the story straight.

You can't really have it both ways - either Bitcoin is desirable to criminals because it's untraceable enough to get away with it etc, or it's not. I think that they're overstating the ease of finding a person's complete holdings.

Having said that, amusingly, if I had to think of the best way to force someone with a million dollars in a bank account to give me it... the first thing that comes to mind would be to hold them hostage and say to them, get KYC'd on a crypto exchange and send me the crypto. I think that the biggest barrier would be that with no prior history their bank and the exchange would throw a big fat WTF and probably lock everything down for weeks.
Depending if that was sarcasm or not, I may have some bad/good news for you:

https://facts.usps.com/0-tax-dallars/
are there places today that don't do some variation of scrum today? Waterfall is pretty much non-existent.
Love OpenSCAD! Here’s a little library for generating “toy brick” compatible models for a 3D printer.

Also written to be a follow along example to help understand how to think about writing OpenSCAD programs.

https://github.com/joewalnes/toybrick
OpenAI Discriminates According to ChatGPT
OpenAI has made the unfortunate choice to not allow pre-paid cards for pre-paid credits, despite numerous other online providers happily allowing such cards. Even for post payment on cloud services. I'll let ChatGPT explain why that's discriminatory -- and a breach of OpenAI's ideals.

I think that it's important for organizations like OpenAI not just to talk about ideals, but to practice them.

https://chatgpt.com/share/66e64823-3eb0-8000-ad2e-92a2c33bf5d1
This is impressive analysis, but have I overlooked the laundering part? Money laundering is providing an explanation about why it is clean, not hiding the reason that it might be dirty.
Agreed! I've never used Arch, but the Arch wiki often comes up in search results when I'm looking to solve a problem, and it's usually very helpful.
No, the only proper way to prevent attacks on the data thereof is to keep a backup that isn't readily accessible. Aka offline, whether that's literally turned off or just airgapped from the rest of the infrastructure.
Why wouldn’t it? Has to capture and send all that spyware data for better ad matching.
The obvious answer is you’ll get called a liar and shrill.

I’m not saying you are; I think there are a lot of legitimate AI workflows people use.

…but, there are a lot of people trying to sell AI, and that makes them say things about it which are just flat out false.

/shrug

But you know; freedom of speech; you can say whatever you want if you don’t care what people think of you.

My take on it is showing people things (videos, blogs, repos, workbooks like Terence posted) moves the conversation from “I don’t believe you” to “let’s talk about the actual content”. Wow, what an interesting workflow, maybe I’ll try that…

If you don’t want to talk to people or have a discussion that extends beyond meaningless trivia like “does AI actually have any value” (obviously flame bait opinions only comment threads)… why are you even here?

If you don’t care, then fine. Maybe someone else will and they’ll post an interesting video.

Isn’t that the point of reading HN threads? What do you win by telling people not to post examples of their workflow?

It’s incredibly selfish.
A better mental model could be "can a retired housewife play it ?"

Violence is less of an issue than the tighter action sequence. I got stuck on the elevator bit for a good 15~30 min, and didn't feel much fulfilment from clearing it at the end TBH.

Not every game needs to be accessible, but Stray has so few action sequences, they feel quite unneeded (it would actually be excellent if they could be avoided through sheer cleverness). It reminded me of the random bed scenes in 90s movies.
There are now more electric cars than gas cars on Norway's roads
You have not understood my and the parent's comment i was responding to.

You have to know what the "Sachar Committee" was and its recommendations, to understand why the parent sarcastically referred to it in its comment. My comment will then become clear.

Pervez Hoodbhoy has spent a lifetime (and much reviled for it in Pakistan and by most Muslims all over the world) trying to shine a light on why the Islamic culture/society has fallen behind dramatically in Scientific/Economic/Social progress in the 21st century and become regressive/backward. The video i linked to gives a snippet and you can find more detailed analysis in his longer videos (available on Youtube) and books.
How do you handle QA and automated testing?
Debian too, but for some reason I just feel good about doing a fresh install whenever I get a new laptop. I do rsync over my home directory and a few other things, but it just feels nice to have a fresh machine with a minimal amount of packages on it, where I can install stuff as I need it, and leave out anything I haven't used in a long time and have forgotten I'd even installed.
Which is totally on them. We had to suffer a decade of being told the human brain is a neural net (as if my brain was a numeric matrix, freaking ridiculous) they get to suffer when that dumb analogy comes back to bite them.
There's different requirements and use cases.
I mean, that, or keep your money in a bank or brokerage. But yeah, I guess if you're not going to do that, git gud at opsec.
> Why did obesity increase linearly for half a century and then suddenly increase exponentially starting in 1980?

I do know one thing people used to jump on that coincides with this timing, but I don't know how likely it is to be a/the culprit - high-fructose corn syrup. It's the green line on this graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Sweetener_consumption,...
Oh I assure you we in the systems admin game still have a lot of tricks for people who piss us off...

Most comman is "malicious compliance"

Just do EXACTLY what management tells us to do... things tend to go to crap real fast.
Monk Mode
There’s more friction involved in withdrawing money from a bank. You can do stuff like cancel transfers within a time window, something that’s not usually possible with cryptocurrency
Debian (stable or testing, depending on your taste).

I hope your experience is better than mine, though. I've had mine (12th-gen Intel) for 2 years now with a terrible thermal throttling issue, and support alternates between asking me to do the same things over and over, and ghosting me for months at a time. Judging by the community forums, it's a common-enough problem too.

I assume you're getting either the Core Ultra or whatever the current AMD board is... hopefully they're better.

If they come out with a new mainboard next year, I feel like (after 3 years of owning the 12th-gen) I can justify a mainboard upgrade (though I guess it'll also mean new RAM, ugh), and pray that it's actually a hardware problem (and not a problem with the embedded controller's firmware), and that it's been quietly fixed.
AFAIU, that is compared to Intel which is very pleasant to work with for OEMs. AMD is probably(?) still better than any ARM SoC maker.

I'll reward manufacturers that take the (relative) pain with my business :)
US/Canada 2024, $3 billion in fines by US regulators, https://rupakghose.substack.com/p/td-banks-aml-issues-and-fi...

> DoJ investigation found.. [banking] business had been used to launder more than $650m between 2016 and 2021 from US fentanyl sales for Chinese crime groups and drug traffickers.

Canada 2018, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33918115

> An estimated $5.3 billion of laundered money into B.C. real estate in 2018 hiked housing prices 5 per cent, two special reports released Thursday by the provincial government show.

Australia 2015, https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/06/stop-money-launderi...

> Credit Suisse estimates some $28 billion of Chinese money has been invested in the Australian housing market over the past six years
Love this. I’ve had anxiety about agile and how I’ve never seen it work well, and the “before days” was in some of the most enjoyable and productive projects until agile came along
This is more true in China than in the US.
Creating an infrastructure with an extreme abundance of available energy is good for everyone.
I have never seen a USPS truck here. And I think all of my imports were delivered by DHL or UPS within Germany.

I don't think USPS drives any trucks in Germany
Yes, but the representation as arcs allows one to defer the conversion to polylines/triangles until a later time.

As an example, if doing V carving, the appearance will be smoother if the geometry is imported so as to have arcs/curves, deferring the conversion to polylines/straight line movements until the last possible moment on the machine.

Arcs/Curves are also easier to work with if one needs to edit, and are more efficient in terms of representation/disk space/storage.
The same way I verify my own proofs of textbook exercises: very cautiously. Subtle errors are a feature of the problem domain, not a new novelty.
I thought you were probably exaggerating, but yes. I've never heard anyone make anything resembling any of those claims.

What I have said is something to the effect that if TCP isn't reliable over a given path, there's not a whole lot I can do about it as an application engineer short of making my own ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of TCP inside my own app, which I'm not going to do.

> 14. Weird networks that are not transparent to standard protocols are an aberration. I can safely ignore them.

I certainly can and will. If you wanna run an RFC 2549 network, I'm going to spend approximately 0 seconds making my app support it. If you want to do something weird, you make it work. I'm going to optimize for the other 99.99999% of customers.
New Simulations Suggest Planet Nine Might Not Be a Planet at All
Refusing pre-paid cards probably reduces fraud quite a bit and helps enforce KYC. Makes total sense from a business-running perspective, I bet it's saved them a lot of time and money in the long run. If accepting pre-paid cards is really that lucrative (lol) then surely OpenAI will be surpassed by their competitors any day now.
Which was not the original plan. Luckily enough pressure was applied to improve the plan.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-postal-service-gas-trucks-el...
Love it, this seems very similar to https://www.actsofgord.com/
In good faith, when people mean open, they mean unenforced to the point of 10k people per day strolling in.