skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feels weird that you hype up its ad free in the description, when you need to pay to have the app work (monthly, annually, or permanent). I'd not expect a paid application to have ads.
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One Nvidia A100.

From the paper :

> We train using the AdamW [26] optimizer with a batch size of 5 and gradient accumulation over 20 steps on a single NVIDIA A100 GPU

So it's "consumer-grade" because it's available to anyone, not just businesses.
To be fair to GM, Tesla basically had to be a brand new auto company and work through a whole bunch of legal loopholes and battles just to have their direct sales model. GM and the rest of the legacy automakers are essentially bound to the dealership system and the dealerships represent a much larger lobbying base than the automakers themselves.

We are seeing this play out with VW’s attempt to direct-sell Scout vehicle's and immediately getting challenged/sued by dealerships over it. [1]

https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2024-10-25/...
Here's a similar version to the German link, but US store and voltage:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C99834TW

Any suggestions for something similar, but with temperature controlled speed?
New framework for quantifying uncertainty in LLMs: Semantic Density
> gay porn

I think someone already came up with this

> uber for blowjob

Limited only to certain geos where prostitution is legal; already exists in certain countries in some shape or form
> There seems to be some unwritten rule that remaining a coder is a net negative when you start tickling the upper management ranks.

sometimes I wonder if this is a thing because managers just don't want to code, and having other managers doing it makes them look bad
>in many respects it tells a certain class of people what they want to hear.

I'm no health plutocrat. In fact, I've been unemployed for the past several years due to a chronic health condition. I'm currently getting private health coverage through Medicaid.

Recall that Chenoweth started out believing that violence was more effective, then changed her mind after looking at the data.

The internet's response to the CEO shooting has revealed that there is a huge appetite for violence. People with an appetite for violence appear to vastly outnumber those without on sites such as reddit. I'm seeing a lot of arguments in favor of violence, and nearly all of them strike me as quite shoddy. I wish I had the time and energy to respond to all of the bad arguments, but I don't have it.

I started reading your roarmag article (found through the internet archive), and it doesn't seem very compelling.

* The author starts from the premise that BLM succeeded through violence, which seems dubious.

* He seems to assume that "a counterhegemonic and politically radical viewpoint became perplexingly commonsensical overnight" due to violence, and doesn't seem to understand that correlation isn't the same as causation.

* He points out various issues with the study, which weaken the strength of its conclusion, but also seem sort of inescapable when doing this kind of research.

I stopped reading when it became clear to me the author was "telling the audience what they wanted to hear", to use your phrasing. ("ROAR was an online journal of the radical imagination...")

As long as we're going to assume that correlation is causation, I notice that your second link states that

"the success rate of nonviolent resistance campaigns has declined since 2001"

and also

"incidental violence by dissidents has become a more common feature of contemporary nonviolent campaigns compared with earlier cases"

Wonder if those facts are related? Nonviolence isn't what it used to be, and also it's now become less effective?

>states have to some extended adapted to/exploited the strategic challenges posed by nonviolent resistance.

Sure -- and they've adapted to the strategic challenges posed by violent resistance as well, I'd argue.
>Batteries that can store the internet in them for when your connection goes down.

This idea is kind of great though. Remember that mcmaster car website? One reason it was so fast is it would silently download the next pages before you visited them. Creating the impression of instant loading. Could we do something similar where a program constantly downloaded websites you were most likely to visit in the background? Eventually having both a mass archive of useful content over time and creating the impression that the web were instant? With how cheap storage space now is and how fast connections are maybe the bottleneck now is efficiency of user input.
Style Control: Disentangling style and substance in evaluating LLMs
Made https://meeteffective.com/ for useful 1 on 1 meetings. Not charging for it though right now
Tiktok shouldn't be banned, social media in general should be banned for anyone under 18.
Business model enforced by the government.
I don’t understand. school budgets are based on the number of pupils. It’s pretty clearly something that can be divided. Of course there is some fixed costs, but those can be subtracted out of the pool before dividing which voucher policies do.
In this case, they are not really democratizing metatheory. Am I understanding metatheory any better now?

I do not know what it would even mean to democratize functions. Functions just are. Can you democratize the number 5?
The XMPP Newsletter November 2024
What all these AI crazies forget is that they're building a world with no customers.
If no stupid humans have jobs no stupid humans won't have money to buy whatever these Magical AI companies are selling.

Hint: AI doesn't buy AI.

Good luck to us all
Can you please avoid the flamewar style on HN? You're welcome to express your views, but not like this—it's against the intended spirit of the site. If you want to express your substantive points thoughtfully, that would be fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
yup, george also commented on the cruise news here https://x.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1866617393436651688
Well, I'm not going to name names, but let's just say I've met O(10) Nobel laureates in physics and at least one was terrible at arithmetic.
FSD is hybrid driving.
Oh I wasn't trying to say that NSA is in any way non-rigorous, only that if you make it rigorous it does require some machinery that is itself not terribly straightforward.

As for whether that's worth it or not, I have no strong opinion.
So this is like SoC, but with more separation between the blocks due to them being on different dies?

(There are times when I'd rather ask HN, than AI).

Is it kind of like taking a step backward: going back to then ancient classic circuit board with multiple chips and shrinking that design as-is, but without putting everything on one die?
I am going to try this, it looks very interesting
I’m by no means an expert in weather forecasting, but I have some familiarity with the methods. My understanding is that non-“AI” weather models basically subdivide the atmosphere into a 3d grid of cells that are on the order of hundreds to thousands of meters in each dimension, treat each cell as atomic/homogeneous at a given point in time, and then advance the relevant differential equations deterministically to forecast changes across the grid over time. This approach, again based on my limited understanding, is primarily held back by the sparse resolution and the computational resources needed to improve it, not by limitations of our understanding of the underlying physics. (Relatedly, I believe these models can be very sensitive to small changes in the initial conditions.) It’s not hard to imagine a neural net learning a more efficient way to encode and forecast the underlying physical patterns.
It's a good thing there are Coq proofs. However, I would still like to see the paper though. A paper is supposed to be more than just a syntactic theory. Typically there is some motivation included as well.
Rhea: An evolutionary AI framework for optimizing expert knowledge
Feels like a bit more body fat would suit him a lot better. The lean look is fine if you're under 25, but at some point you have to admit that it's over.

> the way he looked while taking “TRT” looked nothing like a “testosterone replacement dose” but rather like a (mild?) steroid cycle

This seems to be common with TRT takers, who tend to have the physique (or some slightly strange-looking approxmation thereof) of a man 10 years younger. I guess it's not supposed to give you an abnormally high testosterone level, but you'll get that level consistently and reliably, regardless of mood or external events. Can't get that when you rely on your body to do it itself! It all adds up!

A TRT dose set based on the population average might also prove usefully higher than your body is tuned for too. And I expect you can just say that you're not feeling it, and they'll give you a bit more.
It de facto describes you of property if you have to carry all your wealth as cash, which is then (at least stochastically) subject to civil forfeiture and/or everyday crime.
I don't know, I'm of the opinion there is no true substitute other than jumping ship to a better learning environment. I think as long as you're cognizant of it, maybe that time comes in 2-3 years, maybe sooner.
> public education is a necessity for a successful country.

Every time it’s studied it’s really hard to tell whether the system has any learning effect. Of all my peers you could pretty much identify their academic ability at age 8.

When you push on this the answer is it’s actually for socialization and day care while parents work. That starts to sound like compliance training and seems like a weird thing to spend 40% of state budgets on in addition to local and federal funding.

> People are reallllllly dumb now

Is this the pro-democracy pro-public schooling take?
Fascinating. I did not know that you can create presentations with Typst
It's way more powerful than that, since every active user session can have its own shaped & subsetted subscription to live data. See https://electric-sql.com/demos/proxy-auth for an example of how you could build a simple authorization proxy that allows each client session to build a customized long-poll of their own subset of relevant data, directly connecting to the Electric engine, and https://electric-sql.com/demos/react for how simple the frontend code can be.

I fondly remember the days of Meteor (before the pivot to Apollo), where you'd give up SQL and in return be able to give every user a real-time live-updating data model, kept in sync with a secure subset of the central MongoDB database. Now, you don't need to give up the SQL part, nor are you locked into an entire ecosystem. We're going to see really cool things built on this.
The top-selling EV maker in the US also has:

vehicles regularly catching on fire for no reason

vehicles driving into the back of emergency vehicles, slamming on the brakes in the middle of highways - both because the CEO decreed that RADAR/LIDAR isn't necessary

Issues with its "self driving" randomly swerving at objects, pedesrtians, cyclists, other vehicles...

Enormous service/parts/bodywork backlogs

vehicles blacklisted by insurance companies becaue of high crash rates and repair costs

windows that randomly shatter

drivetrains that fail because you drive them in too heavy a rainstorm

a truck that cannot be driven in the snow (snow reflects light off the DRL bar, blinding the driver, the headlights getting blocked by snow, and the vehicle is stymied by barely a few inches of snow):

https://www.tiktok.com/@molesrcool/video/7446853436198358303...

GM doesn't have any of these problems (except for a small number of Bolts which had defective cells made by LG - all replaced now, and given extended ten year warranties.)
> but at some point you have to admit that it's over

I am confused by what you mean. Being lean should be a goal throughout life, no?
> A battery powered and an LLM-powered sexdoll that talks like a real person and performs inference on-device without making requests to the server for privacy preservation

I’d invest in this
I don’t think you understand how down the rabbit hole this guy goes.

> Bryan Johnson’s supplements list includes more than 100 compounds taken as powders, tablets, and capsules, designed to support different aspects of his health.

This is an insane thing to do and I have delved deeply into supplements myself and it is stunning how hard it is to find evidence that any of them do anything beneficial long term.

This matches me own experience and daily diary of trying things, rating how I feel, bloodwork, etc. The only thing I’ve ever found beneficial long term is testosterone, sunlight, and exercise.
not making anything with amazon affiliate program?
I like how confident this post is.

Blackrock absolutely has private equity operations which they do not hide even a little bit

> Private equity is a core pillar of BlackRock’s alternatives platform. BlackRock’s Private Equity teams manage USD$41.9 billion in capital commitments across direct, primary, secondary and co-investments.

https://www.blackrock.com/institutions/en-us/strategies/alte...

They also do more traditional asset management, but saying they “do not operate at all the same as a private equity” is like saying that Jack In The Box “does not operate at all like a taco place” despite the fact that you can buy a taco at every one of their locations.
GM and the other automakers should be lobbying to change the dealership laws then.
> Also, in the interviews I have seen of him, his blinking frequency is quite high, presumably because he is so low in body fat that his lacrimal ducts cannot manufacture the lipid portion of tear fluid properly.

Bryan Johnson is one weird dude and I would bet against his regimen's effectiveness. But stuff like this is just silly and makes me doubt the rest of this post.
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Maybe in some small parts of the country. Tesla is dominating most everywhere else in the US. I definitely have no access to a Waymo but have been driven by FSD in heavy construction. (Do not own a Tesla myself).
That's why it won't be a public market.
Given where his body fat and his core body temperature is these days, let's withhold judgment a bit before we crow about "titan sized improvements in GDP".

He's running an n=1 experiment well out of established parameters, and the outcome is far from guaranteed.
I would prefer to see a distasteful person sent to retire to rural North Dakota, rather than murdered, but maybe I’m a little soft.
Please, tell me which GWAS study is claiming to estimate entire heritabilty. I am not aware of any. This is because their methodology simply does not allow it. They by design are going to miss some heritability, and the methodology is not powerful enough to be able to tell us how much they are missing. If you don’t understand this, I think you are very confused about what these studies actually say.

> It's funny, I can point to comments from IQ-fixated people on this site from 10 years ago saying that GWAS was going to settle heritability stuff.

Please, do, and bring receipts! You should refresh your memory as to where the whole debate was 10 years ago. At the time, many people still hopelessly argued that intelligence have nothing to do with genes, and the “IQ-fixated” people replied that GWASes will conclusively show that they do. Now that they have, the goalpost has shifted, and people who argued that intelligence has nothing to do with genes are, similarly to you, arguing that it doesn’t have as much to do as “IQ-fixated” people have claimed. Of course, in 10 years, the goalpost will move again.
Sounds like the people hosting sites like that have a severe skill issue with their business model. That's a them problem.
Nov 18 (Reuters) - Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab shares rose more than 5% on Monday after Bloomberg News reported that President-elect Donald Trump's transition team was planning to set up federal regulations for autonomous vehicles.

The report comes days after Trump named the automaker's CEO, Elon Musk, as a co-head of the incoming administration's government efficiency department.
Trump's team is looking for policy leaders for the transport department to develop a federal regulatory framework, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Last month, Musk criticized the state-by-state approval process, required for self-driving vehicles, as "incredibly painful", weeks after unveiling a two-seat "Cybercab" robotaxi without a steering wheel and foot pedals, set to go into production in 2026.
I remember one time when I was at summit station on the Greenland ice sheet, one of the AI-driven weather models on Windy was predicting a physically impossible 40 degrees F (we were sitting on 3 km of ice, no way that can happen).
And for good reason. The whole point of the regulation is to assure that there is someone nearby for the owner to get a vehicle repaired and be able to buy parts.

ahem Guess what Tesla has a ton of problems with?

Edit: there are a whole lot of people replying who seem unaware that I was referring to new car customers who have a vehicle which is broken under government-mandated warranties, but also that:

- The majority of manufacturers have long required proprietary diagnostic tools (the OBD-II functions in your car are only useful for the most basic diagnostic info, cannot adjust parameters, and cannot trigger diagnostic procedures such as cycling a valve or motor.) That is why some states and countries have right-to-repair laws. Automakers responded by shifting all that stuff to work only over telematics, and then claimed that online websites were not "tools."

- At one point car companies were doing bullshit like shipping parts with electronics in them "uncoded" (not uncommon, VAG does this) and not flashed with any firmware. Volvo did this. The firmware could only be flashed by a dealer, and it required them to plug the car into their internet-connected diagnostic tool through which servers in Sweden would encrypt the firmware for that specific VIN number and module, which could only be decrypted by the main control units in that specific car - and transmit it back to the technician's diagnostic tool.

- Teslas require software/online tools only provided to Tesla service centers and technicians

- You cannot buy parts for a Tesla without providing them with the VIN number of a car you own and which they still consider roadworthy. Tesla has a very arbitrary process for declaring vehicles to not be roadworthy, with relatively minor collisions triggering it, whereas vehicles nearly totally destroyed often are not declared unroadworthy and their VIN can be used to purchase parts

- Tesla does not distribute parts via third party distributors such as Worldpac, and prohibits its OEMs from selling parts, which is extremely unusual. You (and your independent mechanic) can only get parts directly from them - if they'll sell you the part at all.

The laws requiring dealerships and that they be independently owned were created because in the early days of the auto industry, people were getting endlessly screwed by automotive manufacturers producing cars that would break within weeks or months, did not have parts available for them at all, and the company would dissolve right after a production run so that customers had nobody to go after for damages.

The reason for requiring it be an independent business is simple; the state government wants to see that a local business has judged the manufacturer to have their shit together sufficiently enough to want to do business with them, and they won't be left holding the bag.
Very cool. Did you source the individual components along with a printed PCB and assemble yourself?
confirm that algebra was introduced wholly as an 8th grade math class, and only available to a tested subset to enroll in that.
I'm not sure how these services work, but are you planning to offer hard covers as well for a "next print"?

I've had my eye on Crafting Interpreters for a bit now, and I don't mind paying extra for a nicer version — especially if it's going into the pockets of an independent writer.
I suspect I have the same "nuclear archaeologist cyber-friend" as the author.

I sent a Twitter "friend" (who labelled himself a nuclear anthropologist instead of archeologist) a copy of a book called "100 Suns" by Michael Light, which is a coffee table sized book full of photos of nuclear tests. The book is eerily beautiful: http://www.michaellight.net/suns-intro

In return (and entirely unexpectedly) he send me a small package with a handful of small pieces of that Mark 17 bomb casing he collected in Albuquerque - just like that last pic in the article. They're sitting on a shelf with my piece of Trinitite and my pieces of Maralingite (sand fused to glass by an atomic test in the 50s/60s at Maralinga in South Australia)

I have some weird internet friends who know my weird interests...
Borax or Baking Soda Rectifier and the glow (2003)
This was also available on the Chevy Bolt EUV as an add-on for $2,200. The Bolt EUV started at $28,795, so with the add-on it could be had for ~$31k before tax, title, etc. Not sure where you got the $200k+ number.
They are multi function, so just looking won’t quite get you there. There are some surprises there your eyes won’t see.

Like any good UI, the basic uses are easy to get, but there are other features there to be discovered in each button. It’s really well done.
> Mercedes is driving itself and you have 10 seconds to takeover. Huge difference between level 3 and level 2. One is self driving and one is just a drivers aid.

None of that is true, it just follows the car in front in slow moving traffic during daytime in good weather on premapped roads and cannot even change lanes. No car in front anymore? It completely fails to "self"-drive.

These limitations are taboo to talk about because the Mercedes system is used as an anti-Tesla talking point, you can get permanently banned from Reddit and BlueSky for bringing it up. Thats why so many people think its a great system.

Edit: Downvotes for bringing up inconvenient facts.
No, there is a reason they are called stealerships.

A Subaru dealership tried to charge $200 to reset a passenger window like this (literally just pushing the button to roll down the window and back up):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXfAKIOxLPQ
Do you think UHC is bad because the CEO happens to be a uniquely evil person and if it was someone with a good heart it would be good?
The only federal requirements are FMVSS, which have nothing to say on the subject of AVs. Some states have their own testing programs with paperwork requirements.
Are you an MD like the author? And even if not - what is your rebuttal here?
> Him getting away would have shown that insurance companies are so terrible and so hated that the public is OK with the murder of those responsible

That is already proven to a large extent. Sure police are doing their job because of the pressure they have and someone working at McDonald's wants to collect tens of thousands of dollars, but it is pretty clear that he has significant public support based on the outpouring of support in the recent days.

> Escape would have sent a much stronger message

No, escape would have just shown that he is good at hiding. Effectively giving himself up gave an even bigger stage for him to place his point. And he got a lot more coverage by delaying that instead of immediate surrender.

> than whatever he could hope to accomplish by grandstanding in a courtroom.

What is grandstanding for you could be advocacy for another. Only time can tell whether it accomplishes anything.
He has stock options in redis labs, so existing financial ties - although he mentions in his blog his comp for coming isn't wild, I wonder what the option package looks like