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Or, Office Space issues.

(And before anybody says it, yes I know they refer to Superman 3 in Office Space)
The only reasonable way to cheat on this would be to find real bugs in many repos, train your models on the solutions, wait till the cut-off period, report those bugs, propose PRs and hope your bugs get selected. Pretty small chances, tbh and probably not worth the rewards (the 90% solve rate is pretty much impossible given the constraints - 4x L4s and ~4-6min / problem. There's no way any models that can be ran on those machines under those time limits are that much better than the SotA frontier models)
You could in fact make a location system, similar to GPS. But it would need to be deployed and take up a lot of weight. The kind of INS system you would need to use instead of a camera, without location stations like GPS satellites, would be way too heavy and expensive. In addition, aligning them requires knowing the current location and heading of the drone before it takes off, usually on a level surface. Most drones on Earth use GPS to account for drift from their onboard accelerometers.

A great example of how hard INS navigation is would be the SR-71 celestial INS navigation system R2-D2. The SR-71 would use astronomical observation in order to update it's INS navigation periodically, similar to a sailing ship at sea. Modern laser gyros are aligned automatically using GPS. However, on military aircraft, alignment can still be achieved using manual input or datalink.

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-sr-71-astroinertial-navi...
> What I'm missing out on is an (Android) app, and I think that this would be a good reason to think about moving over to HA.

There is! The Home assistant companion - it brings you a lot of functionality in terms of location, notifications, sensors and what not into the HA world.

https://companion.home-assistant.io/
I think this is a classic example of Unix-induced tunnel vision.

Because Vi[m] is just one example of a keyboard-driven UI that has been adopted in other places, whereas in fact there's a more common one that's used by more people on more computers every day... but it's not widely known that it's a thing and it has a name.

It's IBM CUA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

It is what defines the keyboard interface of MS Windows, and tens of millions of skilled Windows users use parts of CUA every day, from Alt+F4 to close a window to Ctrl+S to save to Ctrl+F to find to F2 to edit.

For blind and visually impaired users it is the sole or primary UI for Windows.

It is also largely supported in multiple Linux and FOSS desktops, such as Xfce, Unity, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, and others.

Sadly, KDE does not implement much of it, and modern GNOME almost none of it.

But it's there and most Gtk desktop apps support some of it -- although Gtk4 is driving that out now.

CUA provides a whole set of consistent keyboard controls for DOS, Windows 3.x, 9x, NT, 2000-11, OS/2, and almost all the Linux desktops until GNOME 3 came along. It has editing keys but also far more.

A skilled person can drive all of a Windows computer, and all apps, as quickly as a skilled Vi[m] user can -- well, can edit text and nothing else.
I've been eyeing Valetudo for a while. I think it's a shame that it doesn't and (according to the author) never will support multiple maps. I don't want to have to buy a separate robot for each floor when I can easily carry it to the next floor when it's done.
High consumption, usually, eventually leads to investment. Germany has had a lot of bad investments, especially in infrastructure. Stimulating the economy by increasing the government spending is usually not the worst idea, as it will let the market decide on what to invest.

The opposite seems to be working in Argentina, sure, but I always quote Kuznets when it comes up: "there are 4 types of economies: developed, undeveloped, japan and Argentina".

As someone who studied economics and is doing wildly different things, I'm looking forward to see how the "DOGE" thing Elon is doing will change things. I bet it'll be for the worse, but there is a reason why I didn't become an economist at the end :)
> body { max-width: 50em }

I have this 16:9 screen. I'd like to use all of it, thanks.
The author posted about the original tweet announcement a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42413392

In reponse to my comment of "Realistically, an AI that can perform that well is worth a lot, lot more than $1M.", he said:

> yeah i agree. one of my goals is to inspire and honor those that work on open source AI.

> people who work on open source tend to be motivated by things like impact and the excitement of being part of something bigger than themselves - at least that's how i always feel when i'm around Berkeley and get to meet or work with OG BSD hackers and people who helped invent core internet protocols or the guys who invented RISC or more recently RISC-V

> those people are going to do this kind of OSS work and share it with the world anyway, without any cash prize. i think of this as a sort of thank you gift for them. and also a way to maybe convince a few people to explore that path who might not have otherwise.
That would explain the lack of difference. My Mac is a new Mini M4, though.
I think people are laying the groundwork for "true" AI to be plugged in. even if they know it's not currently that effective.
Trump also got Musk who - among other things - bought a social network for $50-odd billion to bend it into a right wing mouthpiece. One billion donated by Californian and Washington state tech workers is nothing in comparison…

And Zucks who used to play both sides but did a face-heel turn to MAGA before this November. And speaking of it, the Winkelvosses, too.

(And of course many tech-adjacent finance billionaires, and all the „old money“ heirs who own and vote the shares of the Mag 7.)
imho a lot of "luddism" so labeled by pro-ai bros is just people furious about shoddy artefacts that degenAI produce. That compares to original luddism, difference being the original 19th-century opposition against industrial revolution had proven them wrong with improved quality whereas genAI hasn't.
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Am I the only one who finds these types of comments arrogant? I mean, we get it, you know better and have been doing this for a long time and so forth...Sometimes I feel like it's just about relativizing whatever tech is popular right now. Just to come back two years later and say "oh well I've been telling people about this cool tech two years ago!"
It's really an apples to kiwis comparison. The California project is certainly worth studying for how far off the rails it's gone, but the LV stuff is a toy project that's not really going to solve any real transportation problems long term.

Where it's really at in terms of learning how we could do better is to study places like Spain that are building the Madrid metro as well as long distance, high speed trains for relatively low prices. It's a thorny problem and it's not just "stuff costs less in Spain in general".

But what we'll get is more of this huckster selling us flashy stuff and not delivering, as well as California continuing to not deliver either.
and checks and balances allowed it to eventually come out, even though i think facebook knew they could fight it in court. In China that is not an option, Xi and his circle say is what happens with no recourse other than a straight up rebellion by the people of China.
Sidenote: I just installed Home Assistant this weekend for the first time. Insanely polished piece of software!
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This is not a true story because as a merchant you cannot "refuse chargebacks". In fact too many chargebacks will result in a loss of your merchant account. You should really stop making things up.
That assumes the plan itself is the only useful output from the time spent planning. Even if the plan itself isn't used, the time spent planning means you examined the problem thoroughly, and raised questions that needed answering. Taking the time to think about those questions in order to give a coherent answer is, in and of itself, worthwhile for answering the question later, even if that part's never actually written down.
The WiFi and BLU Shelly devices are pretty rock solid, and couldn't be more compatible with HA.
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Suggestion: phone calls always connect to call the Los Angeles Municipal Court phone menu system, and the experience replicates the song "LAMC (L.A. Municipal Court)" by Tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTUUnbr5d4E
what's the state of bulbs that don't use apps? I have some from IKEA that get paired to a Bluetooth remote, and it seems pretty good for now but I'm kinda nervous about relying on a device like that.
So I interacted with people at cerebras at a tradeshow and it seems like you have to have extremely advanced cooling to keep that thing working. IIRC the user agreement says "you can't turn it off or else the warranty is void". With the way their chip is designed, I would be strongly worried that the giant chip has warping issues, for example, when certain cores are dark and the thermal generation is uneven (or, if it gets shut down on accident while in the middle of inferencing an LLM). There may even be chip-to-chip variation depending on which cores got dq'd based on their on-the-spot testing.

Already through the gapevine I'm hearing that H100s and B100s have to be replaced more often.... than you'd want? I suspect people are mum about it otherwise they might lose sweetheart discounts from nvidia. I can't imagine that cerebras, even with their extreme engineering of their cooling system, have truly solved cooling in a way that isn't a pain in the ass (otherwise they wouldn't have the clause?) and if I were building a datacenter I would be very worried about having to do annoying and capital intensive replacements.
In my experience, it’s usually (d), even if they are on the team.
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> so much content to consume

Well, I'd say part of the problem is you think of yourself as a content consumer. How things are called can be important.
I have yet to have a bad experience with Roku. There's a lot of variety depending on what you want, but the UI has always been fast, effective and gets out of my way. Great app selection.
Came here to say exactly this. Oppenheimer was accutely aware of the ethical implications of the work, and struggled with it greatly.

I've noticed this pattern more and more in recent years - for people to draw upon past events, technology and ideas with this kind of pseudo enlightened retrospective to support their theories.. while either completely missing the point or missing huge pieces of it's context, and yet researching such things has never been easier.
It's not gish gallop, I was trying to be thorough. If you don't wish to participate in this discussion, that's fine. But your accusations of projection and my arguing in bad faith are uncalled for. I am allowed to bring up whatever I wish in support of my argument. You come across as insatiable, unwilling to do due diligence, and extremely selective.

You misunderstand the entire chilling effect argument, and are looking for some kind of mysterious hard evidence which you are just going to have to locate on your own. To a rational person, the simple argument of government overreach and regime changes, and examples of such as I provided, and the concept of the authoritarian ratchet is enough to support limitations on mass surveillance. Discounting it all as "gish gallop" is incredibly uncharitable and negative.
It's easy to see the bad stuff. The good stuff just disappears into the background. So, it's probably mostly true that major inefficiencies in products/services get arbed away.

It's sort of like the efficient market hypothesis in the stock market - spend enough time in it and you'll see the vast majority of the time the vast majority of stocks are not mispriced to any meaningful level. But it stands out like crazy when you see one and you remember it.
> Why don’t you want myQ anywhere near your network?

Precisely because they're rent-seeking. I have a wifi-enabled garage door opener that I paid a lot of money for. Why should I have to pay MyQ every month to effectively just let something other than their app or their proprietary switch open the door?
Anyone can do a renovation that "tightens up your house enough to matter".

Use a qualified professional. Get multiple inputs.

It will cost money, and more money as you approach perfection, but it is doable.
That article discusses videogame sales, nothing about hardware. Mac game sales would be included in the "PC game sales" statistic. I'm also not sure when "Apple declared war on NVidia and shunned PC gaming in general"? If anything they've been getting more friendly to gaming recently.
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If you ever want to do this in pure C, I show how here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42432802

Technically, the device side code is in CUDA C, which is really C++, but no one has written a C compiler that can compile a lightly extended version of ANSI C to PTX, so the device code must be C style CUDA C there, CUDA FORTRAN or hand written PTX assembly. I went with what was easiest, which was C style CUDA C.
I think this is a positive. We should be happy other countries reducing the tentacle lengths of US social media vorps (or Chinese social media like tiktok)
Idk how accurate net worth predictors on the web are but it says his net worth is $20 million. Is this from his personal funds?
As a European, I view this as preserving our strategic independence and wish we'd do more in more domains.
Reminds me very much of much of the frontier science Ashton Forbes (the crazy zero-point energy guy) has been exposing on Twitter. For example:

"There is a very deep connection between magnetism and zero-point energy. So yeah, go ahead and build a magnetic motor. It's possible to draw this energy just using spins of electrons and permanent magnets." https://x.com/JustXAshton/status/1830621589848928459

Unfortunately I can't find some of the more relevant posts I have seen recently. But maybe someone else on HN also follows this guy.

Also: Magnet 900,000 times stronger than Earth reveals directional mass particles https://www.yahoo.com/news/magnet-900-000-times-stronger-140...
When my company were doing RTO they had a SaaS platform to book seats, but of course that information was not displayed anywhere so people just sat wherever, making the whole process pointless.

This got me curious about small eInk labels that we could set up some API webhook to refresh. Turns out there's not really any out of the box solutions to do this.
> If you’ve got a spare garage remote control, a raspberry pi or Arduino board, a soldering iron, an optocoupler, and a sense of adventure,

You just excluded 99.9% of smart home product customers.
I can definitely recommend the Vorkosigan series by Bujold. That quote is from the first one, and echoes here and there throughout.
> American news outlets just love to use the click-baity word "collapse" when it comes to parliamentary systems not being able to form a government.

Not disagreeing with the American media’s love for click-baity nonsense, but I’ve been under the impression my whole life that this was a Britishism we imported. Not that British media is known for shying away from shock-value, but for what it’s worth, the BBC and The Guardian both refer to this as a government collapse, and have done so in the past when the French and Dutch governments collapsed.

Also a bit less confident this is a British import now than I was since I can’t track down a useful etymology. Would appreciate if anybody could post one here if they have it.
65" OLED TVs signal that the user has money, exactly the kind of user you want to advertise to most!
The "when they can’t cheat" comment relates to the "Why make a contamination free version?" section.
Haha yes, the LLM era is "data science is the hottest new job" all over again.

I guess everything with an algorithm in it is AI if you look at it from enough of a distance...
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I'm not buying any device that's not 3, everything else turns into a brick as soon as there's some larger change.

I have some older Google Speakers, and while they seemed to be 2, after being powered off for long enough they can't be set up again, not even with internet access since their firmware was also outdated and the app isn't able to set them up again.
> FBI, which is basically the Federal Level police force in charge of finding corruption in politicians.

This is false.
I don't think this is a cynical take. I think it is the rational take. Anyone not doing this is going to be outcompeted by those who are.
This appears to be missing the forest for the trees.

Which is to say, if Rock's law continues to hold, it doesn't matter if some global consortium can pull together $1T for a new fab; can they pull together $2T four years later? And $4T four years after that? And $8T? $16T? To say that a doubling at this rate is sustainable is to suggest that you more than double the value at each step. At some point this can clearly not be the case, unless you want to posit a world where going from one process node to the next literally doubles the entire productive output of the human race.

Absent some unforeseeable technological breakthrough, at some point it has to slow down, either slowly, or drastically, or otherwise stop altogether. And for anyone who's currently middle age or younger, it's currently projected to happen in your lifetime.
If it costs nothing, why don't we both get together and build a money-printing machine as well?

You say like it's something easy anyone can get done. Have you ever tried? If you try to build a sustainable and successful business, you'll see how hard it is.
This is usually the correct conclusion:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oqXe4WVnAz4
Well, yeah. I avoided the subject of trust because it wasn't the subject of the comment I was responding to. It's a different component of money.

Money depends entirely on trust which is a form of belief. But it only matters because it accounts for energy. Because there is nothing to trust in if money can't be exchanged for energy. We trust that our paychecks will buy food because our society is usually fairly robust in that respect. We trust that the US government will go to war to prevent the USD from being deprecated, which lets us continue to use USD.

There's no trust that Bitcoin can always be exchanged for any arbitrary good or service - whereas USD can be turned into anything you want. Bitcoin will always account for some energy usage, but so will starting forest fires. The difference is that nobody is ever going to trade me anything of value for starting a forest fire. That's the trust element. But starting a forest fire leaves just as real an impact on the universe as mining crypto, as mining gold, as building bombs to threaten grifters with.
The world has become a very complex place. Every single thing from houses to cars to medical services is provided by a team of people with years of training in some esoteric field.

Buyers are going to have a difficult time, and it can only continue to get worse.
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Of these four, which were more reliable votes on important Democratic policy priorities: Bernie Sanders, Angus King, Joe Manchin, Kristen Sinema?

Now which of the four were Democratic Party members at the time, and which were independents who caucus with the Democrats?

The problem with Democratic policy priorities wasn’t that their razor-thin Senate majority rested on independents who had been caucusing with Democrats for quite a while prior to 2021 – 30 years, between the House and Senate, for Sanders.
Dan's website is the only one where I have to use Safari's Reader mode
the US military is now talking openly about going on the attack in space
Nitpick: in a parliamentary democracy, the executive functions just fine in times of a lame-duck government (Just like in a presidential democracy like in the US right now.) What does not work is the legislative function - which in a parliamentary democracy usually works in tandem with the executive which has the parliamentary majority. But countries can work for years without legislators pushing through sweeping reforms…
I'm curious about what you're issue was finding cameras as, to me, that's the easiest thing to find cloud free since they have a long history of being used in closed networks as POE, onvif cameras long before smart homes were really a thing.
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Most of “the people selling something” have little to no credibility, so their words have no value beyond a very low bar.

It would be different if it’s someone e.g. very high up at a F500 selling something, even with a huge information asymmetry, because it’s still possible to bank on their credibility. (Assuming they offer sufficiently many guarantees signed by sufficiently many people.)
This is why companies put crap in fancy shells.
Hacker News is a form of social media, regardless of whether you consider it "real, meaningful, longform discussion" as compared to other platforms.

"If you study enough design and user experience principles then you start to feel" is not quantified enough, imo. Your initial critique was that the paragraphs were "too dense," but we've established it's not necessarily that they're too long. Perhaps if you'd give an example of how you'd fix some of the paragraphs, I'd understand your concern better.

I was not defending the formatting of the page at all (that's a strawman itself). Looking at the original page in non-Reader mode, it seems like adding graphics every few paragraphs so it's not a literal wall of text would increase readability, as an alternative to making the paragraphs themselves less "dense." I'm not sure what supporting graphics would be on-topic, though, aside from maybe screenshots of some of the cited sources.
It’s true to an extent, you just need a high threshold for “major.”

First, you have to remember to adjust for company size. You might see some obvious inefficiency that costs millions of dollars, but when the company has twelve figures in annual revenue, that’s insignificant.

We all know (probably work at) some company that tries to save money by skimping on hardware for their developers. Some simple upgrades would probably pay for themselves in a few weeks in increased productivity. But what’s the cost, maybe 10% in developer productivity? That’s a lot, but it’s probably not close to make-or-break.

It’s definitely true at the extreme, and it’s a major difference between government programs and private enterprise: a business can’t go on losing money forever.

In less extreme situations, it’ll be true when the cost of the inefficiency exceeds the company’s moat. Oracle can afford to be tremendously inefficient since they have a certain segment of the enterprise database market so locked up. But if they push it too far, they’ll get eaten alive by some upstart.
I think the smart car trend is worse, and much harder to work around. I can only buy old cars from the south for so long before that dries up as well.
haha that's 2024 american politics 101 it seems
Are you just free-associating dead famous people now? Mike Lynch? Rod Hull? Kenny from South Park?
* Sync doesn't work correctly between platforms and valid file names on Windows lead to data loss because the UI sucks.

* The calendar is a UX mess. A lot of actions seem to need one more click than I'm willing repeatedly to do.

So, yeah. It sucks.

It can work for _certain_ tasks good enough, but as soon as one leaves the happy path the pitfalls mean you better have a decent backup.