skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the points of these "smart" systems is to do the aiming themselves and adjust to the conditions, including the vehicle's load.

My dad's 20yo Citroën had self-leveling lights, which weren't user adjustable (at least not in an obvious way). However, even though the lights were relatively bright (Xenon), nobody ever "complained" about them, they somehow always found a way to not blind oncoming cars while lighting the road very well.

They were fixed pattern, with the high beam on a manual switch, though, so they never tried to guess whether there was someone in the oncoming lane.
There are open-source libraries like AdPlug (https://adplug.github.io/) that offer really good OPL3 emulation. If you have the MIDI assets from the original game, it might be possible to get the original AdLib soundtrack working with OpenTTD!
> I do think that, were we living in an economic golden age, people would be able to ignore and excuse the increased prevalence of foreigners on "their" streets.

I don't fully know what's going on in Europe, but in the US we have several TV news networks dedicated to making you upset about the increased prevalence of foreigners. And they've been doing it for 30+ years, so it's working, no matter how good the age is or isn't.
The Flexbar Resurrects the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar as a Standalone Device
Well not everywhere in Europe. I have Philips version of LED bulbs which replaced my halogen lights. They are great, and they have the same beam form so they don't blind anyone. At the same time, they wanted to fail me on the annual inspection because "a car which came with halogen lights cannot have LED lights". Next time I'll put halogens just for the inspection. Completely moronic laws.
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Culturally, who writes React apps with only those dependencies? I’ve done it for quick benchmarks and the like, but actual sites almost always have a huge amount of code to load. It’s like saying that you can have a Java app using only builtin libraries: true in theory but rarely in practice.

I found this really noticeable while traveling over the summer with limited bandwidth: the sites which took 5 minutes to fail to load completely all used React or Angular along with many, many other things posturing at being an SPA but the fast sites were the classic server-side rendered PHP with a couple orders of magnitude less JavaScript. It really made me wonder about how we’ve gotten to the point where the “modern” web is basically unusable without a late-model iPhone and fast Wi-Fi or LTE even when you’re talking about a form with a dozen controls.
> Superluminal is the new industry-standard profiling tool.

Never heard of it and I do a lot of performance related work. Is Superluminal really that popular?
Governments across the world spent around two generations convincing people that becoming a young parent was a disaster, something to be ashamed of. Probably it will take at least as long to undo that, in the best case.
The next version has an animated HP bar. He's also working on improving clarity of the charge mechanic (right now its very confusing).

Thanks for the detailed feedback!
> if consumers consented

The consumer has a phone, they obviously consented - hardly passing through the eye of a needle.
Banal explanation: there is the red party, and the blue party, and when the red party started claiming it was a lab leak, the blue party doubled down on the opposite.

I have some sympathy for the blue party here, as the red party came up with the idea of "alternative facts" and the evidence for a lab leak, unless there was some top secret government material we don't know about, was sketchy at best so the red party was much more certain of their claim than the evidence would have allowed for. But that doesn't prove the claim either right or wrong.
Yes, we had a talk about contrast and also showed him WCAG guidelines. Next version will be much better
It was released as freeware back when by EA originally, which is what openRA relies on. Later the source was released under GPL[1] during the CNC remastered collection from EA.

[1]https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...
One additional note on this model, it needs to be configured to automatically select HDMI-1 on power up. Otherwise, it will display "No signal" until you select one of the 3 HDMI ports.

With this minor adjustment, this cheap QLED TV quietly powers up in "store" mode without any connection and acts just like a "dumb" video display. No "activation" required and any "smarts" are out of sight and out of mind.
Pacific Northwest also does not enforce any vehicle identification or registration laws. No license plates, different license plates, only one license plates, fake plates, expired car tax sticker, none of it is enforced.

Nor are moving violations.
How would you go about cache hits instead of using a sampling profiler? Would you use eBPF / BCC?
Set theory is basically a study of the formation of single sets of objects and the study of various infinities. Typically mathematical objects are sets with operations on them so set theory is useful for understanding them, but the vast majority of set theory is not necessary for the rest of mathematics.

Category theory is the study of collections of mathematical of a give type. The category of groups, the category of sets, the category of vector spaces. The key facet of category theory is that you can have "functions" (called functors) between categories and the power of category theory is the study of these functors. I put "functions" in parentheses because most categories are not sets in the set-theoretic sense because they do not have a well-defined cardinality. Of course, some categories called "small categories" are sets.
Apparently 12,000 dollars in 1959 even is over $100,000 today:
https://measuringworth.com/dollarvaluetoday/?amount=12000&fr...
I'll add to this: If you want to practice following up but are afraid of "bugging" someone, start by wishing 1-3 people happy birthday every day. I put every person I know birthday on one giant Google calendar and wish people happy every day. It's a super easy way to at least say "hi" to someone once a year.
Thanks for detailed explanation. I wasn’t able to believe in YouTube videos, that many extremely tuned cars were legal in US. In Germany they would be immediately towed away as not roadworthy. The lifted trucks leave me always speechless. Why!?..
> Racism

I haven't 100% fact-checked this, but I believe in late 2019 when the first claims started floating around that some new kind of SARS had started going around in China, a lot of people went around saying that's definitely not true and the only reason someone could be claiming this is to stir up racism against Asians.
Urk, clearly continuing this conversation is fruitless. Even after mentioning twice and with emphasis that I’d use a purposefully exaggerated example, you decide to latch on to it as if it were the central thesis, calling it “false and deliberately inflammatory”. Do you understand the meaning of “purposefully exaggerated”, of analogies and hyperbole as a means to explain a point? Stop assuming bad faith, and please go fresh up on what an ad hominem is, as you keep mischaracterising it. My original comment had nothing to do with you, unless you’re Al Ewing and pretending not to be. Stop taking it personally, this isn’t even about you. You’re also conflating what other people said with my points, which is unproductive.
I would not go so far as to say Reagan was overall left-wing, but he did some things are are very left-wing and also had a huge impact and weren't minor at all. California has been a blue state since his immigration amnesty, this was not the case before - it was usually solid red.
Was Bill Clinton "right wing" because of his free trade politics (eg NAFTA)?

Contemporary left-wing politics do not look like communist Russia when it comes to the economy. The American use of the term "liberal" (or "liberalism") is more useful in that regard, and that includes free trade, and also immigration of foreign labor, something that naive observers might categorise as "neoliberal" or "turbo-capitalist", except that many left-wing governments engaged it in (US, Canada, UK and many more).
Okay, but can Imagen 3 create dozens of pictures of the same character in a variety of situations, with consistent but variable outfits?

Because PASanctuary can…
I like the bunting: true or false. No bunting for Good Friday or years mind.
I'm a PhD in math. I love category theory and it's very useful for studying abstract algebra at the research mathematics level because it clarifies concepts and even provides algorithmic ways for computation at that level (e.g. adjoint functors and cotriples to compute homology). But to be honest, except for computer science researchers, I would not recommend it to programmers. I am also a programmer (at least a part-time one sometimes, and previously full-time), and I can say with absolute confidence that a deep understanding of category theory is 100% useless for programming.

Again, with a few exceptions, but if you are one of these exceptions, you will already know it.
Finally, the killer app for AR technology.
I also hope you're wrong about this, but there's no way for me to know other than what my peers say (https://x.com/kilianvalkhof/status/1864284445584261163).
Your neighbourhood gas station could be making you sick
A failsafe method is to create a vlan with a gateway that is the VPN. Using Linux routing tables, the vlan device routes to the wgX as the gateway. If the VPN app dies, there isn't a route to the internet for hosts on the vlan.

As far as IPv6 is concerned, there is no entry in the routing tables so IPv6 packets can't leave the network.
Things like matrix lights used to be prohibited on new cars in the US.

This has subsequently changed: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/nhtsa-allow-adaptive-dr...
Martial Law Didn't Silence South Korea's Media. It Empowered Them
Getting money for living expenses as you study is the life of the average middle class student in USA, he didn't say it funded Musks ventures. The emerald mine made them rich compared to other Africans, but that doesn't say much compared to the average American.
The bad news: the US is 100% reliant on imported gallium, primarily from China
I'd invite you to give a counterpoint to what I posted, this type of post is not really in line with the guidelines of HN. You're a dad, act like an adult, please.
Naming it paulgraham.blog makes it sound like it's his website...
Show HN: Working OpenID Connect with SSH
What often bothered me: that SSH and SSO (with OpenID Connect) have somehow worked together so far, but either only with solutions that only work for AWS/Azure/Co. or are "unpleasant" to use. My inner nerd was like, "There has to be a better way."

I've just launched a new open-source project called Engity's Bifröst, and it's ready for you to try out. It's licensed under the Apache 2 License and offers the following features:
1.) It also supports OpenID Connect (SSO) and works with the normal SSH client on any operating system, in addition to the usual mechanisms like SSH keys and passwords.
2.) You can not only connect to the console of the host where Bifröst is running, but you can also start a separate Docker container or Kubernetes pod for each session (with its own images, etc.).
3.) Bifröst also supports what are called flows. These are comparable to virtual hosts as we know them from HTTP.

Unfortunately, I'm now stuck adding more and more features. I'd love to hear your thoughts and I'm excited to have you on this journey with me.
This panel's summary says "The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature", which tells they are not using "lab leak" to mean a natural zoonotic virus.
Thought it was clear I was using "grain" as a blanket term for the affect a tool has on it's output in the same way a analogue cameras film stocks have unique literal grain.

In the sense that the iPhone sensor > internal AI process > Apple Camera app post-processing choices imbue an iPhone Camera Image "grain" to what you shoot.
This is a general problem in the UK: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/02/uk-governmen...
It’s much easier to learn complicated things in one’s native tongue.

OTOH, it’s a huge advantage to learn technical English early on. It’s the language of computers, engineering, science, math, business.
> When it comes down to it, most people would rather save money and pay less than shop at small businesses.

You hit the nail on the head exactly here. People are very good at maximizing their short term situation, even at the detriment to their community. A good example is people who travel to nearby cities to buy things because they have lower taxes. They don't seem to understand that (for the most part), taxes in their own city benefit their city. Taxes they pay to a neighboring city don't benefit them or their neighbors.
Indeed but adapting the open models to the product costs massive amounts in compute and engineering.

Not sure the oss community can keep up.
All good points. Clarity around charging and hits is on his plan.

Appreciate the detailed feedback!
It makes me wonder, is it possible to write something this complex in assembly today, given modern security features.

Not that you'd want to, given that OpenTTD has networked features and you'd want something that makes it easy to validate/isolate remote payloads.
Well, I object to absolutely every instance of repeating that brain-scrambling drivel, this one included. For some of us it would violate the rules of war.

But that just means, there's one mall I will never be visiting (not homeless)
Some people leave because they feel they might be at risk from the new government. This has been a common theme during the 20th century. And the incoming administration has been explicitly threatening to go after his enemies. Unclear whether he will actually follow through on that, let's hope not.
In the US the strobing lights are critical. A huge portion of drivers are looking straight down while they drive at their phone.
Thanks for the information. I was aware it was originally an essay that was compiled into a book. And now that I know it's pretty light I'm even more motivated to read it.

In relation to your LLM comment, I was on the Wikipedia page for Frankfurt's Book and there is a specific mention of Bullshit of the LLM variety:

>Frankfurt's concept of bullshit has been taken up as a description of the behavior of large language model (LLM)-based chatbots, as being more accurate than "hallucination" or "confabulation". The uncritical use of LLM output is sometimes called botshit.[0] (at the bottom of the section)

This might be slightly tertiary but my interest in this subject has also led me to 'The art of being right' by Arthur Schopenhauer.[1] Which doesn't explicitly state that it's bullshit but it is rhetorical sophistry dedicated to winning arguments and debates. And many of the tactics in the book smell just as bad as any Bullshit. There's some modern reprints floating around and it's also a pretty light book.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit#Reception_and_crit...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right
In any case, winning side is the one people themselves align with. America will be on the losing end if people will be running from America to China, if America will have to build a wall to keep people in, not keep them out. Fat chance it ever happens. Strong nations are those that are attractive to talent not those who make a lot of plastic shit. Soviet Union proved that.
This GPU has a 192-bit memory bus. At 32-bit GDDR bus width (well w/ 6, 2x16b data channels per chip), that means you have 6 channels. With regular GDDR6, the largest produced size is 16Gb (2GB), so 12GB is what you get. You could double that up w/ a beefed up PCB if the memory controller supports it to get up to 24GB (in the way workstation cards like W7900 and A6000).

Beyond that, you'd have to move to GDDR7 (which has 24Gb/3GB chips incoming) or to HBM stacks, but at that point you're well beyond a "basic GPU". I think the only way you could get to 128GB would be either using regular (LP)DDR or HBM.

Note, Apple M chips have weak GPUs with decent MBW and large memory capacities (up to 192GB @ 800GB/s for an M2 Ultra, launched mid 2023) and have not been a major CUDA threat so I don't think your hypothesis actually stands up.
Both English and French are the official working languages of Cern.

They should include more languages than just English, but French is not by default the more obvious choice.
> one.one.one.one:443:64:ff9b::1.1.1.1

Is this a typo or a weird curl-specific address format I've never heard of?
That's not a good reason for mattering. All of lab leaks and wet markets and factory farms and free range farms and more are all plausible vectors for future pandemics. We luckily don't have enough pandemics for past ones to be particularly statistically significant, we must use modelling.
This reminded me of the scene in Amelie where she makes a video montage for the glass man. Really interesting and random topics.
IPv4 isn't going anywhere soon. I live in a country with 80 million people and a very Internet-using population, yet no ISPs currently offer IPv6, and I'm sure there are many more similar countries.

I wish I could use it though.
Thanks for sharing.

If you want notebooks that do some of this with local open models: https://github.com/neuml/txtai/tree/master/examples and here: https://gist.github.com/davidmezzetti
Automating Cloud Cost Optimization for Startups (2022)
This is incredibly good, and reflects most of the things I have bumped into that made me miserable. One of the takeaways for me (which transpired where I am now) is "to do devops properly, do not have, hire or designate dedicated ops people". It works exactly like it should.
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Ready to Outsmart 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind'?
I would check out vision models as a technique to go around OCR errors.

ColPali is the standard implementation & SOTA. Much better than OCR. We maintain a ready to go retrieval API that implements this: https://github.com/tjmlabs/ColiVara
I think there's a critical mass of usage/popularity that a software tool needs to sustain itself and I would think that after that point, the returns on popularity are increasingly diminishing. After reading the book "Working in Public" by Nadia Eghbal, I'm almost convinced that an excessive user base could be harmful to the core maintainers and thus to the project as a whole.

Some language communities can get by with a minuscule percentage of total users. 4% of all developers for example is a sizable amount. I think Emacs is in a pretty good sweet spot.
> One might ask how you learned C (or python, or anything else) in the first place, if you can't be bothered to learn what the very simple $< and $@ mean, which would take you literally seconds to look up if my example wasn't actually enough already.

The problem is, you typically don't need to touch Makefiles that often once they work (or fulfil a reasonable interpretation of "work"), so unless you're a distro packager or the project(s) you work on are sufficiently complex and large to warrant an entire FTE just for build tooling, chances are high you need to touch that stuff only once every few years, by which time almost everyone has to dig into the documentation yet again... made worse by the fact that Google's search quality has gone down the drain.
On my bike lights, the "strobe" mode doesn't actually turn the lights on and off. It turns them on steadily at moderate brightness, with periodic very brief flashes of higher intensity. That seems to me like a really good compromise.
> [...] and likely charging nowhere near enough to cover their costs. As I wrote in the Subprime AI Crisis in September, in the event that these companies start charging what they actually need to, I hypothesize it will multiply the costs of their customers to the point that they can't afford to run their businesses [...]

Free offerings are loss-leaders and will likely be enshittified within the next few years, but businesses relying on the models will instead be using a cloud GPU host or API, the price of which (based on the models we know the details of) appears to cover inference plus a profit margin.

Plausible that releases of better models will slow down due to training/R&D expenses if investment decreases, but I think if you're paying for GPT-4 currently then from this point on there'll always be at least some equivalent model available.

> [...] diminishing returns [...]. The entire generative AI movement lives and dies by the idea that more compute power and more training data makes these things better, and if that's no longer the case [...] what's the point?

Diminishing returns means going from 100 GPUs to 101 GPUs does not give the same improvement as going from 1 GPU to 2 GPUs - not that it gives no improvement. The scaling laws predict this, and I believe it's likely true of any approach to intelligence rather than a limitation specific to deep learning. Computer graphics also has diminishing returns from compute, for instance.

> The constant refrain I hear from VCs and AI fantasists is that "chips will bring down the cost of inference," yet I don't see any proof of that happening

Surely it already has? Try running some recent LLM on 2010-2012 hardware from around when modern AI was taking off.

> It cost $100 million to train GPT-4o [...]

Beyonce's home cost $200 million, and advertising for the Monopoly Go mobile game cost $500 million. It's undoubtedly a lot of money, but also relatively high-impact and I wouldn't necessarily bet against it eventually going a couple of order of magnitudes higher.
>Nobody needs to work in USA either

But then who's gonna be the delivery man who delivers your post/packages? Who's gonna be your teachers in school? Who's gonna be the baker making your food? Who's gonna be the builder and plumber building the shelter you live in? Who's gonna be the doctor healing you? If nobody needs to work.
The question I responded to specifically asked about American scope.
> Another interesting question is: how many people get infected, then recover, but never develop the symptoms? Do they exist?

It appears so [1]: “New research has shown that humans may be able to survive Rabies without vaccination or treatment after all. A study done in Peru (were Vampire Bats, a known Rabies carrier, are common) lead by Amy Gilbert of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 7 out of the 63 people evaluated tested positive for rabies antibodies. Of those seven people only one had previously taken the Rabies vaccine. This meant that the other six had produced antibodies on their own after being exposed to the virus and had survived.”

[1] https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/is_rabies_re...
Would there be any ventures if Errol didn't fund Elon's trip to the USA? That's the point, without the emerald mining funding there would be no Elon in the USA, no Elon taking risks in ventures, etc. It can't be looked at in a vacuum of "he didn't get direct money for his ventures", it was only possible for Elon to start ventures because of the emerald mines.
No. Do you seriously don't understand the difference between JSX, a simple syntax extension that compiles to JavaScript function calls, and a templating language, for example Vue's templating syntax [1] or EJS [2] ?

[1] https://vuejs.org/guide/essentials/template-syntax
[2] https://ejs.co/
Giving feedback - solicited or not - is part of an engineer's job. Wether it's cosmetic feedback or not doesn't matter as cosmetics are also part of the job, although not everybody thinks so.
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