skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a large head. There is zero chance of crawling out the window if you're trapped in these cars.
That’s a bit apples to oranges because you’re comparing different form factors completely.

Form has a huge impact on acoustic properties and comfort.

You’d want to compare them against IEMs.
Gordon Welchman: The architect of 'Ultra' intelligence
I follow the lead author, Stacy McGaugh, via his blog where he posts discussions and musings about the latest research into the dark matter vs MOND debate: https://tritonstation.com/new-blog-page/

His arguments are very convincing and relatively clear. I am not an astrophysicist but I have two degrees in physics and have always found the dark matter theory to be lacking -- in absence of any evidence of causation whatsoever, dark matter can only be described trivially as "where we would put matter if we could to make our theory of gravity make sense," which is totally backwards from a basic scientific perspective.

Predictions based on modern MOND postulates are shown to be more and more accurate as our observational instruments continue to improve in sensitivity.
They should have partnered with every major CDN and load balanced across all of them. It’s ironic how we used to be better at broadcasting live events way back in the day versus today.
I guess one question I have is did Netflix partner with other CDNs?

Despite their already huge presence, Amazon for example has multiple CDNs involved for capacity for live events. Same for Peacock.
Everyone should have a glass breaker in their car. Even if the car has mechanical doors.
I disagree with most of the reasoning here, and think this post misunderstands the opportunity and economic reasoning at play here.

> If Gary Tan and YC believe that LLMs will be able to design chips 100x better than humans currently can, they’re significantly underestimating the difficulty of chip design, and the expertise of chip designers.

This is very obviously not the intent of the passage the author quotes. They are clearly talking about the speedup that can be gained from ASICs for a specific workload, eg dedicated mining chips.

> High-level synthesis, or HLS, was born in 1998, when Forte Design Systems was founded

This sort of historical argument is akin to arguing “AI was bad in the 90s, look at Eliza”. So what? LLMs are orders of magnitude more capable now.

> Ultimately, while HLS makes designers more productive, it reduces the performance of the designs they make. And if you’re designing high-value chips in a crowded market, like AI accelerators, performance is one of the major metrics you’re expected to compete on.

This is the crux of the author's misunderstanding.

Here is the basic economics explanation: creating an ASIC for a specific use is normally cost-prohibitive because the cost of the inputs (chip design) is much higher than the outputs (performance gains) are worth.

If you can make ASIC design cheaper on the margin, and even if the designs are inferior to what an expert human could create, then you can unlock a lot of value. Think of all the places an ASIC could add value if the design was 10x or 100x cheaper, even if the perf gains were reduced from 100x to 10x.

The analogous argument is “LLMs make it easier for non-programmers to author web apps. The code quality is clearly worse than what a software engineer would produce but the benefits massively outweigh, as many domain experts can now author their own web apps where it wouldn’t be cost-effective to hire a software engineer.”
Well he is almost 60 and the average retirement age for pro boxers is in the mid 30s. He is well past his prime and in physically demanding sport that is very hard on participants.
I would wear 11 of them for the calculation functionality.
Nope. One ring to rule them all.
Who ever said anything about shrinking it because they won't be getting paid? That's not what it's about at all.

It's about getting rid of the nepotism and corruption by downsizing the bureaucratic state. That's obvious to anyone paying attention, this argument is a non sequitur.
That’s a different point entirely. You talked about being unable to fit your head out comfortably. I addressed that.
Any tutorial?
I’ll leave a thought that isn’t a Tesla criticism (because the others are good): everybody should carry a lifehammer in their car. If not for saving your own life, it might come in handy for saving somebody else’s.

https://www.amazon.com/Lifehammer-Brand-Safety-Hammer-Nether...

Don’t buy the cheap Chinese knockoffs.
Munroe on YT complained about exactly that 4 years ago :/
Insight: Borderless Europe fights brain drain as talent heads north
I've always wondered why they put it there too.
Almost all ailments can be mitigated to some extent by lifestyle choices. Is anyone that doesn't make the best possible choices for the particular ailment responsible for their situation?
The "role playing" aspect is treated as fake and inconsequential here, but for a doctor, doesn't it translate to "this patient is all set and will not call later saying the problem got worse"?

In contrast, hearing from your doctor that "your labs are normal, you just have anxiety" is a common and horrible experience. It's likely the end of the doctor-patient relationship and if anything is being missed, maybe even a lawsuit.

I get that there are some interesting Objective Science issues here but for studies aimed at improving real world clinical practice, subjective outcomes matter.
Obviously not "society". I've yet to hear of anyone purchasing a pair of glasses from society. When disability advocates refer to society as cause of disability, they are not talking about specific individuals or corporations, but the wider commonalities between individuals and organisations.
i'd also recommend "Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science using Scheme" by Max Hailperin, Barbara Keiser, Karl Knight.

http://www.gustavus.edu/+max/concrete-abstractions.html
Because its the one area traditional networks have the advantage in
It's similar to how commenters push desktop Linux/LibreOffice over Windows/MS Office.

Yeah, I love Linux and dislike MS, too. Desktop Linux _has_ dramatically improved, but the average user isn't going to want to use it.
Anecdotal:
Driving by my house (last month?) i saw a lane blocked and multiple police cars and various safety vehicles. As we drove past, i saw a Tesla Model X or Y, had gone over the median / lane divider, which is what 5” high? But the car was burnt crisp. You couldn’t tell what the original color of the car might have been. The road around it itself was charred black. There was no other car around to suggest a collision with another vehicle and there was no structural damage to the car. Made me think that maybe the car’s undercarriage hitting the median caused something to start the fire. But i’ve rarely seen a car burnt completely black, inside and out.
I think there is a Python version if that floats your boat
I have the smaller older variant of the Timex Explorer and is still my most worn out of my whole collection despite its ugliness since it's by far the most useful due to the vibration alarms, great UX and features. Shame they don't make it anymore and has only been replaces with this gigantor edition.
Real life problems. Thanks for sharing :-)
Just calling out the poor way this (and many) articles write about car accidents. I’m not a Tesla fan at all but blaming Tesla for the crash is incorrect.

(It is correct to blame them for the way the door locks work though and therefore can be blamed for the excess injuries/deaths that result from the design decision.)

From the article:
> Four people were killed in a fire after a Tesla Model Y lost control and hit a pillar in Toronto last month.
> Five people were trapped inside a Tesla Model Y after it crashed and burst into flames

The Tesla didn’t lose control, the human driver lost control of the vehicle.

From a previous article the day after:
> Police said the driver of the Tesla lost control of the vehicle while travelling at a high rate of speed and collided with a guard rail. The vehicle then struck a concrete pillar, they said, before bursting into flames.

If it wasn’t for the irresponsible driving on the part of the human driver, this incident wouldn’t have occurred in the first place. The driver paid for this with their and others’ lives.
Only one active committer on github..
Some trials are run in an isolated environment in which the participants are sequestered for the duration of the trial, including making sure subjects are chaperoned when going outside. For example, this study reported on by The NY Times [1] seems to try very hard to prevent cheating.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/well/eat/ultraprocessed-f...
That’s not really specific to Tesla. Lots of cars have rear windows that only hinge open slightly
So we have an ongoing debate in the white collar world - work in the office or work at home. I am firmly on the “teams work better in physical proximity camp” but there are still many better ways to arrange that physical space

And this - the hideaway desks that fold down to become a table top gaming session, well that could make much more flexible office spaces. (Don’t get me started on offices with one or two desks and doors that shut !)

But yeah, I like it, even if my house has that many people in I would probably just hide in the kitchen all night
> But we all know that leadership is never held accountable for their failures.

You've never heard of a CEO or other C-suite or VP getting fired?

It most definitely happens. On the other hand, people at every level make mistakes, and it's preferable that they learn from them rather than be fired, if at all possible.
How about a simple tiny safety hammer instead. The ones a lot of cars (at least here in the EU) are already outfitted with. As others have pointed out, any car should have such a hammer.
Why do they want frameless windows?
The server is Linux but the game machines are Windows.

But I am going to try switching the game machines to Linux at some point. I can't tell you how many times I've run into what were almost showstopper problems with the whole iSCSI netboot thing with Windows, only to get really lucky with some registry hack that worked around it. I'm sure it's going to just stop working at some point. Whereas with Linux I can dig into the stack and make things work however I want.

In fact, in the old Palo Alto house, when I first completed it in 2011, the game stations were Linux for the first six months. In theory it was a better setup because the machines were able to use their local disks for the copy-on-write overlay (this was easy to set up with an initrd script and Device Mapper). With Windows, I haven't figured out how to utilize the local disk at all -- so all the copy-on-write overlays are on the server side, which of course wastes server resources.

Of course, the problem with Linux is game support. We got a long way with WINE in 2011 but there were just a few too many issues. Here in 2024, Linux is ostensibly a much more capable gaming platform, with Steam support, Proton, etc. So maybe it'll work better this time?

Anyway, just another project on the todo list...
Love the creativity and dedication to the project. And really cool house.
That’s what your VC investment would be buying; the model of “pay experts to create a private training set for fine tuning” is an obvious new business model that is probably under-appreciated.

If that’s the biggest gap, then YC is correct that it’s a good area for a startup to tackle.
The linked page notes that Affinity supports macOS, iPad OS, and Windows
wow. That's genuinely scary. Sitting on top of a lithium fire while locked in seems terrifying.

I wonder whether legislators should require inclusion of one of those glass break hammers in each car?
"is immune to firing by the board" is not a typical CEO power.
Dr Racket has SICP and HTDP as a teaching pack.
Stress warps fear memories in multiple ways
Fake news.

> The house overall was a 7-digit number. Sorry, I'm not comfortable being any more specific than that.
Frameless windows are aesthetically pleasing to many people. Tesla aren’t alone in that preference, they are just one of the few brands that use frameless by default even on the lowest end vehicles they sell, so there’s a higher number out there.
Lexus’s latest cars have electrically controlled doors as well. The mechanical failover is a bit better mind you, you have to pull twice instead of pushing, but I am not sure how panic proof it is.

I live techlnology but IMHO it is overdone in modern cars. Please bring back tactile and mechanical controls where possible.
I have this argument a lot in tech.

We should always be doing (the thing we want to do)

Somme examples that always get me in trouble (or at least big heated conversations)

1. Always be building: It does not matter if code was not changed, or there has been no PRs or whatever, build it. Something in your org or infra has likely changed. My argument is "I would rather have a build failure on software that is already released, than software I need to release".

2. Always be releasing: As before it does not matter if nothing changed, push out a release. Stress the system and make it go through the motions. I can't tell you how many times I have seen things fail to deploy simply because they have not attempted to do so in some long period of time.

There are more just don't have time to go into them. The point is if "you did it, and need to do it again ever in the future, then you need to continuously do it"
Apple Removes Another RFE/RL App at Request of Russian Regulator
For a long time, I lived in an area with a lot of creeks and rivers. Since my first car with electric windows and locks, I keep something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Emergency-Cutter-Window-...

in the glove box or center console. Call me paranoid, but I don't trust the electronic system to work if my car is sinking.
Yep. Craftspeople take their craft seriously, sweat the details, learn the patterns,
go deep.

And that’s complimentary with marketing oneself as Ruby/Rails dev or whatever else the market needs at the time.
Why do they want glued-on RAM and SSDs?
What is an "unlikely event" for any given passenger is nearly a 100% certainty for Tesla. The engineers and product managers who came up with that solution probably have trouble sleeping at night these days.
There’s still a second mechanical release so this is strictly more complicated than simply having a mechanical system to begin with.
https://darwin-containers.github.io/

Also, if you want to cross-compile in Linux instead of run a container: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/macos-cross-compiler
The WWE is moving their programming to Netflix next year. If I were them, I'd be horrified at what I saw.
So you're saying it retains the authentic Casio calculator watch experience?

It's 30+ years since I owned one but I recall having to press the buttons with the corner of a nail and cursing if I thoughtlessly cut them!
It can do tcp/ip, but it's extremely slow. Like 5+ seconds for a character to appear over ssh with a direct connection.
Awesome! The fold up mechanism is a great idea to make it look clean, when there is no party and it also saves the hardware from dust :D
I think maybe the original killer app for microwaves was baked potatoes? An hour to cook in a conventional oven. 5 minutes in a microwave. But maybe no one eats those anymore?
VoiceAuth, DeepFake Audio Detect
VoiceAuth is an audio deepfake detection application designed to identify manipulated audio content. Utilizing advanced machine learning models, the application processes audio files and provides insights into their authenticity. It supports various audio and video formats, converts them to WAV, and extracts features for analysis. The application has a built-in database and works on Windows.

Features

Deepfake Detection: Uses both a Random Forest model and a Hugging Face pipeline model for accurate predictions.
File Format Support: Handles multiple audio formats (e.g., MP3, WAV, FLAC) and video formats (e.g., MP4, AVI) by converting them to WAV.
MFCC Visualization: Visualizes Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) features extracted from audio files.
Metadata Storage: Logs file metadata, including format, size, audio length, and prediction results in a SQLite database.
User-Friendly Interface: Built with customtkinter, providing a modern and intuitive user experience.
Batch Processing: Allows users to upload and process multiple files simultaneously.
Logging with Typewriter Effect: Displays logs with a typewriter effect for better readability.

https://github.com/sadiqkassamali/VoiceAuth
There are devices that plug in to the OBD2 or cigarette lighter charging port & claim to boost power or MPG, but in reality only light up an LED. I think some people are fooled into thinking they work by wishful thinking, expected result bias, etc., so I'd expect we could find evidence for particular kinds of placebo effect among some people WRT cars
Not necessarily. Many cars have manual doors and frameless windows. A 1996 Subaru comes to mind. Tesla could easily make the windows dip when a mechanical handle was activated.

Electronic door latches are fine, it’s the backup mechanism that is the problem. Some cars have the mechanical alternate forward of the electrical release such that if you are grabbing frantically you would eventually pull it. This still looks minimal if that is more important than safety.
Submit a PR of something you have and love, or if there's something you've been wanting, other devs may want it too!
And now he's bought his way into US aristocracy so he can do whatevr he wants and no one can stop him. He doesn't like criticism from the NTHSB? Well he can deem the NTHSB "inefficient" and have it downsized and the leaders sacked. Does the FTC think he's lying about his self-driving claims? Well maybe the FTC is inefficient and he just makes a call to Trump and the DoJ won't be investigating anything either. The US is now completely an oligarchy and kleptocracy.
Probably even many, because it‘s energetically impractical to stop at the focal point.
I know several founders who went through YC in the chip design space, so even if the people running YC don't have a chip design background, just like VCs, they learn from hearing pitches of the founders who actually know the space.
I'd add that for anything your life depends on, my general rule is don't buy from Amazon. Buy from the manufacturer. Way too many counterfeits on Amazon.
I don't understand either why you would need a whole web site to remember "Readme, Usage, Setup, Credits, Release notes, etc."

Feel free to write whatever you want. People forgot (or they are too young) that old READ.ME files were literally free form (with ASCII logos and stuff) and didn't bother with such details.
Nah, not when it takes out one of the headlights and they've gotta swap in the brand new matrix headlights on both sides to replace them, plus the big unibody front bumper, plus misc sensors...

Apparently parts availability also forced unintentional upgrades.
8M cells: virtual embryo shows organs forming in exquisite detail
Text editor, compiler, BASIC interpreter, virtual machine emulator, CRUD application, web server, Lisp interpreter, Forth Interpreter, SQL database application.

Repeat the above as gui applications, and on the web.
In 2008 I had a BMW Convertible with frameless doors. When you pulled the door handle the window dropped. Same from the inside.
>I quit since.

apparently they have too :)
To apply for a job at Musk's DOGE, you need to pay for an X premium subscription
> Splitting the file doesn’t need to be part of the file format itself. I could split a file into N parts, then concatenate the parts together at a later time, regardless of what is actually in the file.

I'm inclined to agree with you.

You can see good examples of this with the various multi-part upload APIs used by cloud object storage platforms like S3. There's nothing particularly fancy about it. Each part is individually retry-able, with checksumming of parts and the whole, so you get nice and reliable approaches.

On the *nix side, you can just run split over a file, to the desired size, and you can just cat all the parts together, super simple. It would be simple to have a CLI or full UI tool that would handle the pause between `cat`s as you swapped in and out various media, if we hark back to the zip archive across floppy disks days.
You're living the dream, man.
This is golden advice, honestly. "If you don't use it, you lose it" applied to software development.
Coal and Asbestos are natural too, the point is that "natural" there is a greenwashing term as it's quite polluting and not the best energy source out there considering global warming.
Routing the mechanical linkage to a place in the door that would make sense for a door handle to be is the difficult and expensive part.
This article reminds me of two experimental ~20% projects we worked on at one of my companies in the mid-2000s. Some unreleased projects age like fine wine, offering a chance to inspire others years later.

The first project was a wiki with active scripting capabilities. By “active scripting,” I mean that the wiki could execute embedded code snippets and display the results directly on the page. This concept feels somewhat akin to modern tools like Project Jupyter or Wikipedia’s feature that calculates ages and other data dynamically.

The second project was more radical and linked with the first, aiming to introduce a new kind of collaborative scripting. We developed a small proof of concept (PoC) by modifying Jython [1] to enable shared namespaces among users. This allowed users to access each other’s functions, objects, streams, variables, and more—in real time—creating an experience reminiscent of the Matrix in Neuromancer [2]. All in Python.

[1] https://www.jython.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer
"Tesla didn't account at all for what happens ..."

Tesla might not have, but you can. Always have a glass breaker and seatbelt cutter in your vehicle. Doors get crumpled and can't open regardless of make/model.
"And even more precisely: it's a claim that absolutely no one makes."

"So you're gaslighting yourself, in effect."

Come now, those are very much adversarial.

Regarding the main point of contention: Russia complains about NATO expansion raising security concerns and the response from NATO/US representatives is "NATO is defensive pact", "Russia has nothing to fear from NATO", "This is a new NATO... Its enemy is not Russia", and so on. This list could go on and on. But the denial of NATO presenting a security concern to Russia is just an assertion that NATO is benign to Russia's security. In other words, NATO expansion is irrelevant to Russian security. These terms all mean the same thing in the context of whether NATO and NATO expansion is a security threat to Russia.

Seriously, this is all just the basic meaning of words. If it's not obvious to you, then I don't know what to tell you. Perhaps consult ChatGPT.
Commenters lament that Rosetta will go away before users are ready.

In my opinion, Rosetta should be more heavily gated* to push everyone from Adobe to Steam to build for aarch64. Countless "Apple Silicon native" claiming tools require Rosetta under the hood for dependencies or even (bless their hearts) only their installer.

* Like right-click to open packages or install not-from app store, except Rosetta dialog should note that once it's installed any other old software not made for this system will run without warning. Turns out avoiding Rosetta is a great way to ensure not just apps but your CLI tools are all up to date... Alternatively, make Rosetta sandboxed with apps, and/or let it be turned off again more reasonably than the safe-mode surgery required now.