skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were game devs, so they weren't so much interested in how the chip was SUPPOSED to behave, but rather in how it ACTUALLY behaved. If you look at their code, you'll see instructions being used in ways that they weren't intended, or for their hidden side effects.

You saw similar kinds of shenanigans with the 6502 chip and its "hidden opcodes" that eventually became semi-official.

The mere idea of using binary coded decimal to implement a time counter that can trivially be converted to decimal numeric sprite indices is brilliant. If SBCD had operated as described in the manual, it would have been completely inappropriate due to the extra time SBCD takes to run. But since the instruction already alters the status register, there's no need for an additional CMP, and so SBCD is faster overall, and then a simple shift-then-index is wayyyy faster than a full binary-to-decimal conversion when displaying the timer on screen (DIV performance was abysmal on the 68000).

This is how they managed to squeeze so much juice out of the chip, as evidenced in the Metal Slug series, and SNK vs Capcom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNK_vs._Capcom:_SVC_Chaos

An OS vendor wouldn't do these things, because there'd be no guarantee that a future chip (68010, 68020, 68030 etc) mightn't actually behave as the manual states, and then the code would break.
As I was asking myself, what the comparative value is for other cars, from the article: For "Other electric cars inspected" the rate was 9%, for the Tesla Model 3 2020 model it was 23%. This indeed sound very significant.

"The popular model has defects in particular in the brakes, lights, wheels and steering, according to inspection data" also does not create trust.
I'm also quite impressed that the binary fuzzer of the fourth team found 12 zero days. That's pretty impressive considering it's an automated process compared to the other (human pentester) teams.
The entire deletion exercise was probably to thwart AI training related scraping but the fallout was greater than expected. "Old forum posts on some storage" are an insignificant expense for a company of that size in terms of storage/infrastructure, and even less significant as effort to manage the forum.
cdbuff: Your Grandpa's cd Command
https://github.com/akoerner/cdbuff
Here is Knuth introducing the MMIX instruction MXOR, which Intel later defined on vector registers under the name vgf2p8affineqb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_pPF5npnio&t=3300 (55:00)

"This is an instruction that doesn't exist in any computer right now, so why should I put it in a machine, if it's supposed to be realistic? Well, it's because it's ahead of time."
Interesting to see that cars in Denmark undergo their first inspection after 5 years, here in Romania new cars get their mandatory inspection after 3 years and then every 2 years. I wonder if these high failure rates will lead to policy change in Denmark.

We're not just talking about panel gaps anymore, problems with braking and steering are a huge risk for everyone on the road, not just the owners of these vehicles.
If you‘re opening the cover, disconnecting antennas might be the way to go instead. Depending on the device, it‘s relatively painless and even reversible.
How many mass produced electric cars were sold there in the same class in 2020? I see some potential bias in this statistic because Tesla is probably the only one who sold a significant number of cars back then, but I don't speak Danish.
The marketing genius of Mike Posner
When you do business with a contractor that brags publicly about how quickly and cheaply he can build houses, you’d expect the same result: cheap materials, shoddy houses, barely passing inspection. If at all.
Building a read only mode into a product not designed with that in mind is more effort than deleting.
That used to be the case, but nowadays on par with every other car manufacturer
I have 2 Teslas at home. Previously have been a user of premium brands like Mercedes and Audi. I have to say that the build quality of my Model 3 and Y is way better than what I got from those "premium" German auto brands. Suspension geometry and design is what you would expect from a car priced much higher.

The issue with these Teslas (and also other electrics) is that you almost never press the brake pedal. This becomes a problem in the inspection when the brakes are not performing as they should. One should keep special attention to these parts when driving an electric vehicle with one-pedal driving. You must use the brakes from time to time.
Originally it used a bayesian learning algorithm, so if you kept dismissing it in frustration it would stop appearing.

However the product people decided that it would be the major feature to market the new office version. Thus they demanded that Clippy appear more often so that they could show off the feature easily.
Exactly. There isn't a substance on earth that won't harm you when contaminated with impurities/taken at the wrong dose/taken with something else that interacts badly. Thankfully HN has trolls standing by with useless pedantry to keep us safe :)
There exists a rich theory about duality in computation, a forgotten
twin of lambda calculus:
sequent calculus
https://ps.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/publications/ostermann22intro...
I recommend you check it out if you are at least a little curious
about duality in programming.

I've been thinking about duality at the core of programming language
design for a while now. Motivated by asynchronous computation and
mainly focused on the question: How to build programming abstractions
from input-output-duality? It is fascinating seeing the common
abstractions just naturally evolve from there.

As a preliminary result I wrote a theory of computation:
http://perma-curious.eu/e3lli/core/
It describes how to go from input-output-duality to an advanced lisp dialect.
It seems they do pretty badly in Germany too. TÜV data showed 14.2% Model 3 cars had "significant defects" at inspections after 2-3 years. This was the highest defect rate of any car model.

https://fussmattenprofi.com/en/these-cars-fail-the-tuev-repo...

Edit: Previously stated "at 12-13 years it was a little over 40%.", but this is incompatible with how long the Model 3 has been on the market, so assume this was a caption mistake by the site posting the stats.
Renewables aren't even a boom / bust cycle now. Their cost advantage, constancy issues aside, means they are an economic inevitability.

I don't think the US is going to have any more problems for quite a while in energy of the petroleum sort. The bakken shale formation isn't running out anytime soon.

Nuclear however, has fundamental issues with getting its costs down.

I'm guessing at some point EV companies from China, which will be normally blocked from the US market we're reform basically as OEM manufacturers for the complete car design and then some US EV company simply badges it.

I don't see why Chinese companies wouldn't start setting up Mexican or Canadian manufacturing facilities. Chinese companies need to diversify their global footprint to avoid the inevitabilities of demographic decline in China and an increase in authoritarianism
I'm sorry but this doesn't make sense. Antibiotic resistance to TB only affects those who have TB, so if another 'natural' medicine is found and TB gets resistant to it, then it is still just as bad for the people affected.

Natural means nothing in this context. Effective medicine is effective medicine, and there is nothing that makes TB less prone to developing a resistance to a 'natural' effective medicine over any other effective medicine.
Sorry, I don't seem to understand your question... I think you're talking about categories and subcategories? You can have household as the parent category and all the expenses under it. The must/need/want system (I think) is used by a lot of expense trackers, and for Bagels I used it as a way to limit unnecessary spending (want%).

I primarily built Bagels starting from my use case, so maybe some of the modelling might not suit expenses of large quantities. I haven't got to the point in life where I have to pay taxes and bills yet haha
> From an archived DoJ page[1] at the year 3 (January 2024) mark, ~1200 defendants were charged and 171 were convicted (32 without a trial). 749 were sentenced in total.

The number sentenced cannot be higher than the number convicted (and the source document, unlike your summary, does not make that impossible claim), since sentencing requires conviction.

> So that's presumably more than several hundred defendants waiting for what should be a speedy trial.

Many of them were charged substantially after the event, “Speedy trial” refers to the time from charging to trial (the time from event to charges is governed by statute of limitations, not speedy trial rights.)
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Baked into the Textual framework!
For Finland it is 4 years, then 2 years until 10 years from registration and then yearly.

Lot of this probably comes from warranties and how usually cars have yearly maintenance where they should fix most issues.
> A friend argued to me that crypto is "A Terrible Thing" because its just used to fuel the (illegal) narcotics industry.

That's a good thing, though.

Jokes aside, as a person who loves crypto technologically and agrees with the more cipherpunk roots of bitcoin, I have not seen anyone serious use crypto for anything other than drugs or small transactions, just for the sake of it. People usually just seems to hoard the stuff, which is incredibly stupid since the main value proposition of crypto is being able to transact it. I almost respect the people buying drugs with it more, since they at least use cryptocurrency, rather than just speculating in its value to fuel their gambling addiction.
Not if they're in the Elon Church of management. He's the new Jack Welsh.
The same has been reported from Germany. Tesla has "surpassed" Romanian etc. built cars in inspection failures.
I tried a few relatively simple terms in the areas I have an interest in, e.g. ("attention is all you need paper", "sip rfc", "klatt speech synthesizer", "crafting interpreters book", "Scott Alexander Substack"), and none of them actually produced the results I expected.

Marginalia seems to work okay-ish if you want to learn about something, but not if you want to find something.

If you want to read what people think about Scott Alexander's Substack, you will get some decent results, but not if you want to find the newsletter itself.
I think what you breathe pre-dive is almost irrelevant. The real kicker is what you breathe during the dive, and that's always going to be gas under pressure. The levels of gas in your blood go up very quickly. Recreational divers can only afford ~10-20 minutes at 30m depths before they need to decompress. And that doesn't even count as "deep".

You can't breathe pure oxygen under water, as it becomes very toxic very quickly as pressure goes up. So you have to dilute it with something. Nitrogen is easy to get hold of (actually you just compress atmospheric air). I'm also not sure cutting nitrogen out helps much with decompression sickness, you get it with other gases too - maybe more slowly, I'm not sure.

You can, and do, replace nitrogen with other gases, mostly helium (and in rare circumstances, hydrogen), but for other reasons. Nitrogen too becomes toxic under pressure, around the 30-40m mark, with symptoms similar to drunkenness - not good under water.

Funnily enough, helium does the same deeper down, except the symptoms there are the opposite - nervousness, tension etc. So to some extent perhaps these two balance out. Hydrogen has very low toxicity, but for some reason people feel queasy about mixing pure hydrogen and oxygen.

Crucially, too, a lot of deep diving is commercial in nature, and cost-sensitive. Anything that isn't just compressed and bottled air is getting very expensive very quickly.

It all gets incredibly complicated. Deep enough, you need to breathe gas that contains so little oxygen that you would suffocate on it at surface pressure. At pressure, it's fine - the partial pressure of oxygen is sufficient, and having less of it makes it less toxic. But you have to be careful to only use this gas deep enough, else you'll run out of oxygen. Or at other times, when decompressing, you might use an oxygen-rich mix, which while more toxic, helps you purge some of the other gases from your bloodstream, cutting decompression times.

It's a fascinating topic to read about from the comfort of my sofa.
I'd guess the majority of those issues are rusted brake disks. You don't need the regular disc brake very often in an electric car.
You don't need brand recognition when you have market capture. Microsoft can murder a small puppy every time you buy Office and send you a photo, and you will still pay them because what else will you do.
China isn't involved in naval sabotage in Europe. They're doing their own thing in the South China Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line
Not atm. But you can write a script to feed your data into the sqlite db file! The schema can be found in https://github.com/EnhancedJax/Bagels/tree/main/src/bagels/m...
> servicing is notoriously shady and closed.

Afaik in most of the world car companies are required to offer the tools to third party service stations at a reasonable price. Then again if you control the full supply line you can make repairs near impossible so there is that. And also reasonable does not mean economicaly viable unfortunately.

I'd love to see it made a requirement to be affordable to end users but that is a bridge too far I guess. Most mechanical tools are affordable enough but electrical is still insanely expensive up to the point you are nearly required to buy Chinese copy/bootleg variants.
Every single thing in which M$ has market capture is shockingly bad. Windows, Office, Azure.
While it states "Other electric cars inspected", it does not appear to specify if that means simply all other electric cars, or other electric cars with the model year 2020. The latter is the only group that should be compared with the 23% figure.
Hmm.. I was referring to rich Germans not to innovative Germans.
That aside the Schwarz Group is building their own Cloud business.. and they were one of the very few large companies that dared to NOT use SAP but build their own stuff. Not sure this counts as innovation but it's worth mentioning.

edit: I just re-read the GP comment and I get it now.. it was only doubting that there are people who recently accumulated riches.. then of course Schwarz would be a bad example :)
They are Dutch and insanely advanced and complex machines

https://youtu.be/h_zgURwr6nA?feature=shared
That's how scams work.
I haven't explicitly checked my current EV, but IIRC the BMW i3 I had previously would track regen usage and periodically forego regen in order to exercise the brakes. The point being to avoid old crusty brakes when you need them the most.
May I introduce you to the concept of percentage ?
In The Netherlands cars have to be inspected every year. That’s part of the reason why second hand cars are so expensive here, they are exported en masse because they’re well maintained and popular everywhere.
That applies to many roles. Lawyer AI can’t actually lawyer because someone needs to be accountable. War fighting AI needs to know where to kill. Doctor AI needs handholding. If we can find a legal construct for an AI surgeon operating on your child I think we can find one for an agent running a marketing company working on shareholders behalf.
Thank you. I expectedly disagree, but there's no point in arguing. I simply don't get much chance in this atmosphere to get well thought out answers contrary to my own views.

I'll just say this:

>correct this significant, and as far as I'm aware unprecedented, abuse of the judiciary and he delivered on that promise.

This is extremely common because "speedy" was simply never defined. Taking months over minor non-violent crimes like drug usage as an example. Given the chaos in identifying all suspects (IIRC they were never all fully discovered, an atrocity in and of itself in our police system), I'm not too surprised it took years to try everyone caught.

No one's probably chomping at the bit to re-define "speedy" better:

>a trial conducted according to prevailing rules and procedures that takes place without unreasonable or undue delay or within a statutory period.

but I think we both agree this is a very vauge, insufficient definition.
They tend to resolve their problems over time but new releases do suffer.

Cybertruck for example has been a complete mess.
YouTube plays out hours long unskipable ads to adblock users
I appreciate both the study and sharing the results, but I'm questioning some of the questionnaire design choices.

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> On a scale of 1-5, how long do you plan to stay at your company?

There is literally no reason for this to be "on a scale of 1–5" when one could just ask about number of years directly. Asking people to translate years into "a scale of 1–5" introduces all sorts of errors: for some people, a four might correspond to 2–4 years, whereas others may think about a 10–20 years tenure when they see a four.

What's even weirder is they later translate this 1–5 scale into a binary yes/no answer. How was the threshold selected? Would respondents have replied differently if they knew where the threshold would go?

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> On a scale of 1-5, what’s your perception of the value of your stock grant relative to your other compensation?

This could ask about a percentage or a fraction instead, and prevent some of the same errors as above. You might argue that "sure but a four simply means 80 %" but I doubt that – note that the average answer for a subgroup in the study was nearly four, and I don't believe half of respondends of that group get less than 20 % of their perceived comp value in non-equity.

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> How likely are you to recommend your company to a friend or colleague?

This is a good question because there's a specific way to combine the data later that has known correlations with company success; there is some reasonable research linking higher eNPS values with better outcomes. But that requires combining the data using that method, which is not just taking the average – what the study authors did!

If they had used the established methods, they would have gotten some reliability and validity testing for free. They did not, so they would have to show that their combined data is valid too.

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The other two survey items (growth opportunities and equity comp fairness) could probably have been made more concrete, but I also see how it may be easier to ask on a 1–5 scale for those. However, there's nothing in the report about how they performed reliability and validity testing of these scales. Without testing the scales for these psychometric properties, the results could be meaningless.

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I get that this article never intended to reach for scientific rigour and that it is but an advertisement for a software platform. But still, I believe we (as a species) can get better at these things to the point where even advertisements can be informative. I'd like to see that, anyway.
In Switzerland it's 5, then 3, then every 2 years.
> That said, Active Record and Active Job seem to do exactly what I write manually over and over again in Go

There goes your answer. Golang was made for Google to simply - onboard junior engineers quickly. It wasn't made to make products quickly.
Might work for technical divers but regular leisure divers use compressed air which contains nitrogen anyways. If you prebreathe pure oxygen and then begin the dive using regular air, you will reaccumulate the nitrogen pretty quickly, I think, so you will need to decompress like normal. And you can't dive with pure oxygen because it becomes toxic when going lower than about 6m due to the high partial pressure.

Also, you would need to have pure oxygen available and breathe that for maybe an hour before each dive, which would be expensive and annoying. For touristic dives, especially along the shore, it's easier to just plan the dive so you can still see something interesting while waiting for decompression.
The bad build quality of at least the US built models is a meme by now. The Chinese and German built models are supposedly way better though. Not that I'd buy a Tesla at this point.
You'll never be the same again regardless. Food for thought.
Does it matter if its electric when it has problems with "brakes, lights, wheels and steering"?
Wondering if the lack of regular maintenance on Tesla cars (D2C model vs. dealer + service model) results in more problems being caught at inspection time.
There are many many many other EV and hybrids which weirdly don't exhibit this issue
Still they are quite popular here in The Netherlands. Dec 2024 almost 10.000 5-year lease contracts expired. There are lots of 2nd hand M3 for sale now, for about EUR 20.000 which is quite a good deal.
Isn't this mostly due to fintech being the middleman?
My first choice of framework was ink (came from web dev background), but couldn't get it to work how I wanted it to. Textual adopts the component model, and IMO the docs are awesome! It's like writing React honestly (without the reactive part. Textual does support reactivity, but couldn't get it to work and just wrote code to update the UI jQuery style). It also uses CSS to style, which is great and works as expected most of the time!

Maybe give it a second try haha
Market share of battery electric vehicles in Denmark is currently 51.5%: https://alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu/general-i...
> It would be delightful if in 10 months from now, internet advertising no longer worked at all

Internet advertising will work as long as the internet exists. Classic targeted advertising on the other hand will no longer work but all it means is that it will be much more subtle and you will struggle to tell it apart in a way that you don't nowadays. Sounds a far more dangerous alternative
They're cutting their own cables. https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-tested-cutting-off-in...

As nvradov says, the sanctions need to get a lot harder, especially on German machine tools.
I wanted to say this, but could not express it as well.
I think what your points also reveal is the biggest success factor of ChatGPT: it can do many things that specialised tools have been doing (better), but many ChatGPT users had not known about those tools.

I do understand that a mere user of e.g. OCR tooling does not perform a systematic evaluation with the available tools, although it would be the scientific way to decide for one.
For a researcher, however, the lack of knowledge about the tooling ecosystem seems concerning.
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This is a huge logic jump from my perspective, just because you have some manufacturer with lots of issues, the solution is to consider a <4 years old car in general as a possibly problematic one and inspect it earlier ? For me the outcome should be to put those manufacturers in a list and scrutinize them.
I've had an Ioniq 1st Gen for 3 years, and while there was some brake rusting, it wasn't enough to not pass inspection. You can fix that by doing some heavy braking with recuperation disabled.
You might look at

- https://sdk.vercel.ai/docs/introduction

And use it with v0 (also vercel)