skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Ada is seen as some esteemed language that only the military and space would have the expertise to use. I had that opinion for maybe a decade but it was very wrong. The other issue was that it is so powerful that compilers had bugs and by the time an affordable open source compiler came along I guess C++ was gaining libraries and the militaries don't release libraries.

The ironic thing is that Ada was designed to be cost effective over a projects lifetime. C costs you a lot further down the line.
We can add these to the pile of completely useless AI shit the world built in the last two years. Are people under some kind of spell that forces them to be in owe ? Looking at a lawnmower magazine is more interesting than these in term of utility and interesting tech
I still have my Donkey Kong 2 and Jnr. Unfortunately I played my Turtle Bridge that I got when I was probably 7 or so to smithereens.

I wore out the buttons and also as a kid you can't help but touch the screen, so it had several sections that no longer displayed properly.
I like it - a quick scroll through some facts to find interesting tidbits quickly (:
Same experience with my 2022 Model Y:

Have yet not had a single problem for two years.

Surely the problem lies in a high variance in the production of later models.

Like when you visit a stellar restaurant and come back years later to realize the magic sauce was a chef who left.

Also, yes, it sounds risky to buy a car without being able to drive it back when it immediately breaks. I can also see myself as a victim of that because of experiences like yours and mine: Teslas are the most purchased EVs, they're everywhere, surely you'd know if their reputation is tarnished for other reasons than the mascot being unpopular.
I have owned Model S since 2018, now driving my second one (Raven).
The first one was just poor manufacturing Tesla has been known for forever.
Second one is however the disaster. So many sounds while turning the steering wheel, driving on tiny slopes, braking etc. forced me to convince the service center to replace the suspension, arms & half-shafts (all under warranty). None of these steps helped, service center proposed to try another service center "where there may have more experience" and called the squeaking the feature of the vehicle.
I visited 3rd party garage, got more information about possible sources and concluded it is probably impossible to fix it.
So here I am, driving the $80k car that squeaks like 30 years old rusty Ford, attracting attention at the parking lots.
Won't be buying a next one for sure.
Why do you omit Trump who pushed the government debt higher than Biden (and actually significantly higher than Obama in his second term, thus excluding the GFC)?

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/030515/which-united...
I love reading technical blogs, and Fabien Sanglard’s are some of the best out there https://fabiensanglard.net/

also the simple design of the website makes it great
Many of those are very funny. Where would we be without the Chuck Norris joke format?

Of course, paraphrasing @sitkack 's observation in the other comment thread (combining with my idea that streaming alone is faster than all that repeated hashing), "better address space is worse real-time perf". For the guy behind the famous 1986 good natured trash talking "industrial-strength Fabergé egg–..., a museum piece from the start", it made me wonder if between 1980 (when McIlroy1982 was likely written) and 1986 (when the famous Knuth-McIlroy "battle" happened) if Doug came to consider that v7spell was perhaps guilty of the very same "crime" he used to roast Knuth.

In truth, of course, as with most things, it's just a matter of scales - at some small document scale the v7 compression works better while at a closer to dictionary-size scale the merging does (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42980934). I suppose it's also worth mentioning that the optimizations of that linked program automagically compresses prefixes and optimizes suffix byte-comparisons in a human language-neutral way (i.e., just from the sorted structure/vague concept, with no linguistic insight beyond "lexicographic" order). Esp. given the i18n push of the 90s, it's possible the POSIX guys might have included some prefix-suffix delta format merge utility had it existed and English-specificity might be what blocked `spell`. Of course, Seymour Cray's computers had already begun vector processing and those techniques might also not be very SIMD-friendly. { So..many..trade-off..dimensions! }
There's a great deal of coverage about DeepSeek on Zvi's newsletter here: https://thezvi.substack.com/archive?sort=new - the first post on R1 is from January 22
I think the downvotes is for essentially doing what you are criticizing when you point out a certain thing someone said that hurt you.

They were making an effort to stay on topic (reliability issues with Tesla's cars). You're making it about divisiveness.

The ethical considerations around Tesla are pretty bizarre. It gets political, since the owner of the company is so deeply associated with both the cars and politics.

I don't think your comment comes from a bad place, I understand the fatigue and the desparation. However, when someone in power does something "divisive" (quotes, because its the understatement of the decade - you can probably come up with examples) and people who mention it, even by not mentioning it, are told to be quiet because they are being divisive - it can come off as trying to silence people and ensure no criticizism can be raised.

Again, I don't think that was your intention but it has that effect either way.
somewhere around a few thousand lines. I want it to support tens of millions. I have a fast enough computer, storage is effectively free. I've tried all those things - everything short of doing a bunch of bpf filters and setting breakpoints on the binary myself.

honestly, with these modern systems this shouldn't be a problem any more. I look forward to it.
What if they just sell a new Time Capsule appliance so anyone can setup their own local iCloud?
Its easy to throw around words like “stupid” on the internet, especially with hindsight, but how could it have been anything but a complex decision estimating values for many variables?

Would they have been able to hit a competitive price while maintaining environmental regs and paying a domestic workforce, would china end up the only other supplier in the world? Can government subsidies be counted on to last multiple administrations?
Writing a blog is always rewarding, but it's a difficult exercise, especially if one's writing in another language. Not only do you have some proficiency in writing fluid sentences and paragraphs, it's sometimes taxing to formulate something in a language that's not your mother tongue.

I'm curious if people around here have tips on diminishing friction and how to write better/more easily.
It is all fun and games until you think about not only the victims but the possible harm done. Even a loss of a small amount of money can be life changing.

Swatting is just something the morally impaired can relate to better.
I mean, all that proves is that there exist _instances of the car_ which are not defective. Like, it would be extremely odd if every single unit was notably defective.
"Fragile shader code won't make it anywhwere near release" is a pretty bold claim.

If it happens to work with the Nvidia driver it's getting shipped.
> It then gave me 2 notifications about some assist features not working and rear warning not working or something, idk.

It told you the blind spot indicator isn't working anymore which is relevant safety information.
If I was to buy a car these days (which I'm not, I don't have nearly enough money for that), I'd want something with as little "computer" in it as possible. Just a box with 4 wheels and an engine, or maybe a battery and a motor, maybe a heater for when it gets a bit cold, and I'll throw a bluetooth speaker in the back seat if I need something to listen to
Nothing fixes a badly designed chassis or poor geometry, no matter how much Tesla wants to pretend that they can fix the handling in software
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To sum the article:

* they sold him a broken car in December, that keeps losing battery 8% per day even when standing out doing nothing

* they told him they could repair it, at the end of February, because of high demand for the part

* he cannot now go to holiday peacefully and has to charge it nonstop

* he doesn't consider the car safe to drive it all the way to the service center, because it basically doesn't work

* the customer support is ignoring him

Sounds like a nightmare alright. If I was him I would start getting lawyers/customer rights groups involved.
I agree. Mentioning blog in the end is probably a better way. Finish the conversation, chain of thoughts and then before switching over to next topic or when saying byes or even a day or two later send them your post. But not in the middle of a conversation.
I think we have seen a general trend towards centralized platforms on the internet. Where you had many individual niche sites before, now you have a few all-encompassing platforms. There are some exceptions, but I generally find that many of those platforms want to maximize your time on the platform itself. As a consequence, they do what they can to keep you from leaving the platform via a link to some other website.
For those who don't remember:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230819072628/https://techrepor...
What an appalling idea.

1. A walled garden? Run by Google? Aside from locking this discoverability away in a walled garden, how many years before Google kills it out of corporate disinterest?

2. So, blogs with Google tracking promoted higher? Blogs with copyright information excluded as it is not legal for LLM's to train on it? What do you think would happen?

It's fraught with problems.
As a side note Usaid portion of the budget hasn't increased over the last >30 years (despite the large peak due to Ukraine support).

https://usafacts.org/explainers/what-does-the-us-government-...
I used to work for a small consultancy which had a fantastic policy on this: there was a company credit card, and you could buy anything on it up to £100 with no advance approval - provided you made sure to send a reconciliation entry with a project code in before the end of the month, so it could be billed to the customer.

This was incredibly timesaving for all those cases where you need a cable or a USB stick or a book or some parts off Digikey or a small software license. Because having a meeting about whether or not something is necessary would easily have consumed more than £100 of time.

It helped that it was a small office of less than ten people and everyone could physically see everyone else's desk.
Some wisdom.

But as usually everything depends on the target audience and the actual occasion.

I often make architecture diagrams for non-technical users so that we have a shared image to talk about and use as a point of reference during a discussion.
FYI their open source ai definition released with a lot of controversy, unsurprisingly because it had heavy contribution from corporations with their own interests. It's best to ignore it for now until the wider community has decided on an appropriate open source definition.
Oh, wow. My parents had one of those (or very similar) when I was a kid (the first gen one). Kind of disappointing (though honestly sensible) that they went for normal door handles instead of the weird pushbutton thing from the original, for the electric one.
Because marketing (open source is a buzzword after all), and the media just repeats what they read in press releases verbatim. But most people working with the models themselves call them open-weight, except for some occasional exception like OLMo that publishes the dataset and training scripts and is actually open source.
> After several shutdowns and two bankruptcies due to low rare earth prices...

It's important to contextualise this, it is probably the most important part of the entire story. Rare earths aren't all that rare, they generally have a crustal abundance comparable to copper. The question of where rare earth mining & processing happens is mainly one of price. Or, accounting for second order effects, a question of environmental regulations.
My pleasure. Claude 3.5 Sonnet made the diagrams after 3 rounds of prompting.

LLM's are surprisingly good at making diagrams in monospaced ascii or MermaidJS.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/trumps-tax-returns-rele...
> How much evidence does one need to dispel the "this is OpenAI/sama hype" argument?

For AGI hype, we need exactly one piece of evidence that machine AGI exists, or that we know how to build it. Otherwise, it's an exaggeration that AGI is imminent - otherwise known as hype. Or maybe it's hope, but sama suggests it should be an expectation.
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The author shows encapsulation of global state elsewhere. I’m not sure why they wouldn’t use RAII for the log level stuff so it was automatically rolled back.
More like 70km, in neighboring Vienna both connected via high speed highway, can be maybe 40m drive
If some one is determined to find out the authenticity then it’s possible right? Like Waybackmachine or similar tools?
Sure, I agree with you, it just depends on what you want HN to be. I am an outsider to the US, I see your country as deeply divided. Families torn apart because of how they vote. Unthinkable here, probably unthinkable over there up until 10 years ago. In fact it seems more and more likely the US will erupt in a civil war, and split in 2.

It just such a shame that HN, what I see as a gathering ground of intelligent people, is so much contributing to the divide by labeling people with other opinions as sub-humans almost. Belligerent, closed, judging. I don't like it.

It's frightening.
There needs to be a column for the name of the narrator. I will listen to almost anything read by a narrator that I like. The LibriVox version of Flatland has long, detailed descriptions of the illustrations, but I've still listened to it several times because the narrator has a great accent.

She's Ruth Golding btw. https://librivox.org/reader/2607?primary_key=2607&search_cat...
> “Nearly four billion years ago, an asteroid or comet flew over the lunar south pole, brushed by the mountain summits of Malapert and Mouton, and hit the lunar surface,” Kring said. “The impact ejected high-energy streams of rock that carved two canyons … in less than 10 minutes.”

For comparison, it took 5 million to 6 million years for water to erode the landscape of Arizona to create the Grand Canyon.

Well yeah, it sounds perfectly reasonable that two wildly different mechanisms of producing a crack in the surface of a celestial body would also work on wildly different timescales. I mean, the crater itself (which is even bigger than the "canyons") also formed within 10 minutes or less, but that doesn't sound so spectacular, because all impact craters are formed this way.
Even smaller games often get some amount of consultation from Nvidia/AMD - they are typically in the credits in some form.
Although I agree — and also left the UK in part* because this law was clearly going to blow up like this — I would add that the US and China are about equal now, so look at what gets done to Chinese tech firms that don't play nice.

* the other part being Brexit, whose saga still isn't over given the Reform party opinion poll rating and them wanting to also leave the European Convention on Human Rights which has bad things to say about government surveillance
So how do you start? Send a letter? Make a call? Serious question, how you force a megacorp to listen to your problems?

Edit: there is this classical problem description at the very end of the article: “He promised me that on Monday, January 6, 2025, someone from the Sales Department would contact me.” And that’s the end. Nobody will listen to an individual. Lawyers know the back door and suddenly things start happening.
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It feels a bit counterintuitive to go for a Bluetooth speaker over 3.5mm?

Your low tech car will feel like a emotional prison. Of all the annoying modernities you want the worst one? If you want to make a deal with the devil I would choose rear camera.

Think about it. All the headache and time to pair Bluetooth devices over a dead simple connector.

I would aim for a pre 2016 car. I think that has some margin to the Internet of Shit product lines?
Do the remote service teams travel across the border? That would probably be more impactful than the physical distance if e.g. there was some minor recall that travelling repair men could take care of while the car is parked at home or work.
Then, the ejected debris that created the canyons likely soared over the lunar surface and then collided with it at speeds of about 2,237 miles per hour (3,600 kilometers per hour).

Oddly adding a veil of precision to an estimate of a kilometre per second.
> Mandatory binding arbitration will still be an issue.

No, because consumer laws can outlaw forced arbitration. They usually trump any contract law, so even consumers that agree to arbitration may not be required to go through with it.

For example, in Germany, any arbitration agreements must be separate from the sale/service contract with consumers[0]: "Yet, arbitration agreements with consumers require that stricter formalities be observed: such arbitration agreements must be signed by both parties separately from the main contract to which they relate (section 1031(5) ZPO)". You cannot bake one into the contract to which it relates. The seller may insist the customer signs an arbitration contract, but the sale contract cannot be conditional on agreeing to arbitration, so the arbitration becomes optional rather than forced.

Of course, I understand many countries do not have such strong consumer protection around forced arbitration. This is why more consumer protection is needed.

https://globalarbitrationreview.com/insight/know-how/commerc...
"Probably beyond help" means they're not going to change their opinions no matter what, so trying to find phrasing that helps change their opinions is a waste of time.

Being a musk supporter in this day and age isn't a simple difference in opinion, unless you're a good person who's been living under a rock, in which case a mention of musk being pretty awful could actually help you.
Actually they did, the entire 15T tokens that were supposedly used for training the llama-3 base models are up on HF as a dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb

It's just not literally labelled so because of obvious reasons.
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Good writing style, but no, we quite know how muscles get built. And we know why some people find it very difficult to do.
I wish avoiding a hangover was as easy as drinking water.

I get really bad hangover from some wines and beers, and no hangover at all from others. Haven't been able to figure out what the difference is. Wish I could just drink water to avoid it.

However, 400mg of Ibuprofen helps a lot.
Regarding 1 - MATH:

Somewhere in the video he says that LLMs have expert (only slightly fuzzy) knowledge about a lot of topics, but fail with simple math questions. Many non-technical people anthropomorphize LLMs and don't know that they can't think or calculate like a real calculator. LLMs compute tokens and you can improve the performance, if you don't put too much computation into a single result token.

I think it's an excellent example to show the capabilities and limits of LLMs. For softer topics, you can argue a lot more about what's considered to be right or wrong. With Math, you have a single correct answer that can be evaluated and people assume that computers are good at computer things, such as calculating numbers, even though LLMs actually aren't good at this.

The takeaway is: Prompting and "computational complexity per token" matter and if you understand how it works for math, you probably understand how it works for softer things like answers about law or whatever.
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Perhaps there are different groups of wealthy people with different views on these things?

In my experience wealthy families where the parents are doctors, university professors, and in technology tend to want to transmit a genuine love of learning to their children, as they feel learning and education has done well for them.

On the other hand - my friends are merely millionaires, preparing their children to work for a living. Perhaps there are higher levels of wealth where your kids will never need to work, and the ultimate flex is your kid taking a degree in art history and dropping out half way through because daddy won't mind.
Another sure sign of this is custom internal tooling for things that are not business specific like time tracking and report generation.

A company I worked at had an IT budget of 5000 euro for 120 people (90% SWE). The logic was: if we buy a commercial solution for time tracking our IT budget will double. Instead super senior engineer Y is maintaining his "free" in-house solution with half the feature set.

All of these problems are about not taking the cost of expensive engineering time and energy into account in a rational way.
People looking for a new SUV wherever the Y is more popular than the RAV4, maybe?

You can start with Norway for example: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=NO&q=%...

The UK: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=GB&q=%...

California: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US-CA&...

You get this.
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Please re-read my comments. I don't state anything for or against Musk, I make it a point not to. I try to stress that things are not as one-sided as this comment-thread tries to make it out to be. I believe that that is a good thing.

Is it not amazing to you, that you have just labelled someone that tries to argue against divisiveness as a Nazi supporter? My country, my grand parents suffered greatly under the Nazi's. I know what divisiveness does, I know what labeling another group of people as less-human, and stopping all attempts at conversation with them, can do.

Fixing your country's politics is not done by working hard to increase the divide. Sure, be against Trump/Musk, but at the very least try to understand their supporters. You'll find that most of them are kind.
(3.8 billion BC)
Yeah, I like how the OP basically recreates scoped variables by applying all these strict rules, instead of just using scoped variables. For example, with DI, instead of a global variable, we just use a singleton/scoped dependency. Why? Because we can enforce those rules implicitly without hoping everyone pinky promises to use the global variables correctly.
Unlike The San Bernardino Case in 2016, Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) does not allow any public entity, apple or not, to publicly discuss that.
Looks like Elon was too busy farming in Path of Exile and now Tesla's customers have to wait until he asserts he's the god's gift to gaming first.
OK, but that leaves the tools used to train the model (aka the build scripts). These could be open sourced.
I wouldn't say they take pride in not caring actually.
Post-Brexit, I imagine that's a feature of the request, not a bug, at least from the UK's standpoint
No, but do other brands even have remote service teams? I have never heard of anyone using such a service on any car in Slovakia. (Other than the assistance you can get from an insurance provider.)
Didn't you get the memo. Only Tesla can be bad.
> At this point I can't see us going back to the way things were. I can't imagine any new systems programming languages gaining traction that aren't at least as safe as Rust.

Zig seems to be gaining traction. Hard to predict whether it will succeed or slowly fizzle out after the initial excitement phase though.
I think higher cars simply need harder suspension to counteract rolling and rocking forces.