skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things:

* Automation (emergency auto braking, full adaptive cruise, autonomy) is here and needs electrical signal input. AEB is very nearly standard everywhere now, so there's an electrical input braking component that has already been added to the system.

* If you look at modern brakes, it's hardly simple anymore. Brake boosters, ABS, master/slave systems. It's run on a corrosive fluid that is water sensitive and uses hard pipe plumbing.
I'm sure they are soon going to be your managers.
It must be reliable. Having a mechanical fallback is a way to achieve that. If an electronic system can be made equally or more reliable, then it’s fine.

This community is going to have natural and reasonable skepticism of this. But consider that many airliners are fly by wire and their safety record is superb. There’s no guarantee an automotive system would be that good, my point is just that it doesn’t have to be worse.
The more I learn about UK wiring, the more I'm convinced it is the worst in the world. Untrained people in third world countries regularly do better. Of course the UK has been getting better, but they are the ones who came up with the ring wiring and then have to put a fuse in each plug to try to overcome some of the problems from that idiot system.
OpenAI is losing money on their $200/mo (!!) Pro subscription[0].

[0]: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/altman_gpt_profits/
I started somewhere around Red Hat Linux 7.2 and I remember in high school I had to have some shell scripts lying around to load the driver, bring up the interface, force DHCP renewal. I couldn't really play any games (outside of Battle for Wesnoth) and Flash's iffy Linux support always caused problems browsing the web. People didn't even care about supporting Mozilla browsers until Firefox shipped.

I started using Linux full time again a year ago (Bazzite) after ~15 years away and I'm astonished how much stuff just works now. I can just use Chrome and every website works. My entire Steam library works. I installed this as an experiment but the experience is so damn good these days I haven't had the need or desire to break glass and install Windows.
Generally you would not solder mains power. Often code doesn't allow it.
I wonder how much of goth locations depend on mass transit options. We should put trackers on all of them, obviously, and do a controlled study.

I just started reading "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz, and it is about a kid who is into subcultures within a strong Dominican community inside a larger NYC community. Interesting parallels.
Just because it's the latest kool aid tech, doesn't mean it's legacy; it often feels like it becomes legacy as the people pushing it leave.

But this is why technological choices need to be taken with care, and if you're in a managerial position, you should only agree on using new tech if there's dedication / guarantees for the ones pushing it, a healthy labour market, or budget to provide training for people that don't know it yet.

And that's why so much is still 'boring' languages like Java, .NET, PHP and Javascript instead of Rust or what have you.

I'm a Go fan though and will exclude that, as IMO Go is by design easy to learn by anyone.
It always feels like people are irrationally critical of AI assisted stuff. Does the typical Hacker News comment have more substance?

- Informally benchmarked against 4 specific competitors: Gemini, OpenAI, o3, and Claude

- Identified two concrete features: URL content ingestion and integrated search

- Noted specific limitations: search engine occasionally misses key resources

- Provided a real-world test case: consulting business analysis where it found new opportunities other models missed
If we axe the NOAA, then we will solve climate change...awareness.
No, you were right, this appears to be just research on how applicable LLMs could be to the space. They talk about the improvements their LLM makes, especially in being multimodal vs training multiple independent models, but also the limitations that appear to prevent it from being useable as it is. Maybe some form if it will be used some day (it does seem like it would be useful to have semantic understanding of the world integrated into the system), but at least as of when this was published, it's not actually used.
No, because I wouldn't make a blanket statement of "if some fraction of people like <some technology>, then it clearly must be good" because it's an absurd statement to make. It takes away all nuance and conversation. It forces a one-perspective narrative and that's exactly why marketing and marketers-in-the-modern-sense are shit. (btw I'll gladly stand with my conviction and hypocrisy whilst you go stand with advertisers)
I'd argue that even with automated tests it can be considered legacy. Easier to change things if the test coverage is comprehensive enough, but I've yet to find a project like that, even the ones I built myself.
> Did all of that free code reduce demand for developers?

the anwser is yes, while in the meantime, the expansion of the industry offset the surplus of developers.
Ha, as the OP posed it as a question: “what will happen…” and I was going to answer “lose a limb”

The eye angle is even more troubling, to be frank.

If I’m brining 2024 tech into wood shop, let’s make it robotic hands!
Instagram shows me too many videos of "pick up artists" doing POV videos of their douchey interaction with girls, recorded on these. I wonder if it's too stealthy that the people being recorded don't notice. Slash, maybe they have release forms and the videos published are just the ones where they consented to being recorded (heh, as if the pick-up scene cares so great about consent...), and the failed ones are where they immediately say "Is that a camera? Fuck off!".

It does have a glowing LED: https://youtu.be/X95mWoTgjaE?t=105 but I feel like they're easy to hide with some black tape.
Facing problem while botting Arch Linux in my laptop
I have an old laptop dell inspiron i3 7th gen, 4gb RAM. so i completely removed windows 10 software and want to install arch and start using it...so i did everything and installed using a pen drive...but when i boot through pendrive its booting successfully...wereas when i boot without pendrive its not booting...fix this problem and guide me pls..
> ChatGPT is literally generating billions in revenue.

It’s losing more billions than what it’s generating. Revenue does not equate profit.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/openai-sees-5-billion-loss-t...
Remember if you would hire someone to do the job they would have that tool. So you can use the money you save on tools and then have the tool. The first time you DIY a job you shouldn't plan on saving money.

Friends are also good. No need for you to own a weird tool if you can borrow if from someone else who also has done the job. (so long as you return the favor)
There's a huge difference between spending $10 at Chick-fil-A and spending $50K on a Tesla. Automobiles are the second most expensive item people purchase. They think a little more about that purchase than they do a chicken sandwich.

I don't know specifically what's going on in Turkey, but I have seen that January sales in Europe had dropped an average of 50%. That kind of sales decline should make anyone sit up and take notice.
Windows 7 was objectively the best Windows, and Ubuntu is considered by many to be one of the worst distros. Why were you so desperate to flee Windows 7?
My guess is torque isn't as big of an issue since on acceleration you break traction before anything snaps. The big issue in my mind is technically cooling and practically packaging since you already have the space inside the wheels.

I know inboards are used on some formula student cars in the rear (on some karts as well?) but I haven't looked up the issues they have with them.
I've seen a non-zero number of electric windows and mirrors that have failed in my time; what does that look like for a braking system?
Maybe it's just my bias talking as a senior software dev, but having spent a career watching software fail in inexplicable ways, and in the specific case of "if this door doesn't close, I will likely die" hand me the hydraulics please.

Also, my pinko commie ass would be remiss if I weren't to speculate about how if you fall behind on your car payments, these features among other drive-by-wire features would also allow a dealer to remotely lock out the vehicle until you pay up, and given the other shady things they already do to folks, I can't imagine this won't be an application for this tech too. Gotta fuck those poor folks till the line goes up, of course.

Edit: Or hell, doesn't even need to be if you miss payments. If you go too long for an oil change, your OEM could lock you out. If you aren't up to date on your Chevrolet+ subscription, they can make your steering wheel harder to turn. Or if you gasp try to service your own vehicle, ohhhh there could be all kinds of hell to pay.

Just, rampant opportunities to fuck with consumers just as hard as tech companies do. And isn't that what we all want in the end? Cars just as grating and irritating to use as our computers and cellphones are, in the thousand tiny ways per day they are?
I don't believe him. Musk is in charge, but I hope that once Musk is done with his part in inflicting very serious damage on our nation and Trump throws him under the bus, nobody will forget that Trump is claiming responsibility for it now.
WiFi is cursed in OSS.

FreeBSD always has from 0 to 1 WiFi maintainer. All of them were very talented and productive (Søren Schmidt, Adrian Chadd and Bjoern A. Zeeb among others!), but it is too complex and vast area to work alone. Especially beginning from 802.11n and beyond.
What are you using it for in general? IME the reason Claude pulls out ahead is that when you use it in a larger existing codebase, it keeps everything "in the style" of that codebase and doesn't veer off into weird territory like all the others.
I would never trust an LLM to do this unless it was pointing me to pages/sections in a real manual or reputable source I could reference.
at least the model we used was behaving like this. It was making objects larger than it visible as a line and smaller visible as a whole (like coloring fill in MS Paint). Objects that fit in the eye were colored and larger were not. However this was a neural network model (shown in excel as a matrix) - I wonder where did he get it from. When I wrote the above, I tried to find it but couldn't
> GitHub Copilot and similar tools make good developers more productive.

Do we have any empirical evidence of this? It seems like it'd be an easy experiment to run - task a number of teams with building a particular product, some with Copilot and some without, and see what happens.

I've tried copilot myself, and at times it makes me feel more productive, but I can't tell if it's truly helping me overall.
Cheaper.
You can’t build fault tolerant system without network lag. Your hardware can fail you any second, and every backup will be inconsistent with your local db. To solve it, you need to have a system with proper control plane and consensus algorithm like paxos inside.

SQLite is great for simple projects that can lose data, but, if you need to have no downtime, you need a distributed db.
What percentage of humans produce high-quality text?
Fireside chat with Max Jaderberg, Chief AI Officer at Isomorphic Labs [video]
An interesting sociological tendence that I've noticed after talking to large-ish to medium-ish streamers is that haters fixate. And the greater that level of hate and fixation, the more successful that person seems to be.

Of course, there is a critical threshold to this phenomenon - a hater singularity, if you will - after which the hate becomes negative, but before and up to that point, the hate just fuels the metrics.

Is there a historical equivalent to this fixation? People have watched trials and followed the stories of serial killers with revulsion and fixation pre-social media & live streaming, but that fixation seems more muted (in retrospect) than today's trend.

It's striking just how much negative emotions drive the "attention economy"
Bit of a boomer statement here but maybe this will encourage devs such as yourself to contribute more to open source passion projects that will help dethrone the monopolies. Looking at Valve's investment into Linux via Proton as a great example.

It would be so nice to have a productivity Linux OS that just works on all my devices without tinkering. I want to stop supporting the closed source monopolies, but the alternatives aren't up to par yet. I am extremely hopeful that they will be once mega corps inevitably decay and people tire of the boom-bust cycle.

As technologists, we all want beautifully designed tools, and I'm increasingly seeing that these are only created by passionate and talented people who truly care about tech, unlike megacorps that only care about enriching their board and elite shareholders.
For the curious, this is the saga of when I had to fix my washing machine because a repair man used the wrong type of terminals when fixing it previously: https://andri.yngvason.is/repairing-the-washing-machine.html
Don't forget the possibility of adding digital locks so it can only be serviced with authorized parts by authorized dealers "for your security and safety".
He experimented with getting transfusions from his son. Amazing that he actual does not sound as nuts as he is ;-)
Yes sugar BAD. Hey that’s a good slogan! I must start marketing that. Damn Bob Lustig beat me to it.

If you want to live forever as a cognitive entity then the only solution is to start designing your robot body and hope AGI can implement a version of you even you can not tell apart from you and you.
My current handbrake is a toggle switch. :(
> I do balk on not looking directly at the power tools while using them, though.

I might be nervous to use power tools, but passthrough tech has gotten amazing over the last 2-3 years. I just hope we can shrink the headsets down a bit more.
I can't see why it wouldn't be. It's a purely executive branch thing.

It's almost certainly unethical, and an invitation to crime. But I doubt the Supreme Court will find it a crime in itself. They'll say that it's up to the legislature to fix it.

The suit will cite the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Hatch Act, and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act as the legislature's attempt to fix it, but since they weren't extremely specific about this particular job, Congress will just have to have another go at it. And I'm sure they'll get right on that.
The goal of H1B isn’t to simply suppress wages for the highest paying professions, it’s to make up shortfalls. Lack of high school French teachers in Alaska can be an issue not just a lack of programmers with an AI background.

As such, if only one applicant for underwater welding is submitted the industry likely doesn’t require extra workers even if you’re willing to pay 500k/year. I’d still weight things so people paid 5x as much have 5x as likely to be picked which would discourage company’s submitting hundreds of applications for lower wage jobs.

PS: These were L-1A applications not H1B. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-1_visa
Maybe not a cash drain per se but we've decide it's not worth it. For us, it feels less like an intentional product and more a total shitshow. Increasingly so.

It's always felt like a haphazard set of products right at the level of toleration. But that gap has become smaller and smaller, where we simply feel like there is no clear vision and there's always new annoyances. If I described our email troubles alone over the past two or three years... absolutely brain-dead issues. Ones which themselves cost a pretty penny in lost revenue. It feels like its becoming a pervasive sink of hangups.

I've come to detest their products as a whole, not unlike Salesforce. A few months ago, we decide we'd make a change to companies with more intention. We started with email. "Solid intention" is a hard thing to define but making major changes to my personal workflow made me see things in a different light.

Someone can rip me on this, cause idk if it's silly, but Obsidian for personal use set me off on a journey to try new methods and platforms, ones with maybe different philosophies and different communities around them. I've never been happier nor more productive. Same for my team.
So the No True Scotsman fallacy of LLM productivity?
it depends how you define good or worse

for humanity, the increase in productivity is progress

i'm not saying it's bad, i'm saying it has consequences
First paragraph:

> Lloyds Banking Group this month launched a review of the technology and engineering professionals working in the UK operation with headcount reductions inevitable and some roles being offshored to Lloyds Technology Center in India.
This is how they've done the past releases as well, soon after they release the latest and greatest they open source the last model.
I'd argue this is the wrong design goal: correctness is more important.

I'm in the UK but my work PC's Internet exit node is in New York due to enforced use of corporate proxies, so the time shown to me is 5 hours out. Javascript would report the correct timezone.

It is not possible to correctly identify physical location from IP addresses. Not just because of proxies and VPNs and the accuracy of the data: you can go near a border and find your mobile phone connects to a cell tower in a neighbouring country, without even visiting! IP Geolocation is accurate enough for statistics and marketing but probably shouldn't be used for anything user-facing.
Exactly this. Strong back, soft front.
There’s a reason many subcultures are obscure, and it’s because they suck. I started out in English-speaking anime forums like Reddit and 4chan, then eventually spread to darker and more obscure places. I learned extremely quickly that hidden gems are rare, and if you have no friends and nobody walks to talk to you about anything you like, it’s probably because you’re a socially maladjusted asshole. I left those communities and never looked back.
IMHO anything other than making it a meritocracy wouldn't work. Just remove governmnet bureaucracy from the hiring process, abolish work visas and if you are worried about the local workers help them some other way(pay them UBI, provide them with training that can make them more valuable - I don't know what works for specific case but nationality is not a merit).

Do you know how do they game the minimum salary requirements? They pay the worker the minimum and then the worker pays back the difference over the actual salary they agreed. Depending on the jurisdiction the implementation will change.
In my case (when I was 13-14 and messing with stuff) Ubuntu might as well have been the only distro I've ever heard of and my experience with Windows 7 was that it did not run as smooth and fast as Linux on my poverty spec laptop.
Why AI Won't Kill Software Companies
I don't know why, but much more appealing to me is PostgreSQL on the server.
The efficiency argument isn't really about macro-efficiency, it's about micro-efficiency. It's not, "with my lightning fast editing speed, I will drop 10k lines today", it's about writing this method faster so I can run tests and see if anything changes, getting me to the next thinking step that much quicker while the problem is still fully loaded into my head. It's about keeping flow state flowing. It's about reducing the iteration time between working code states, so your cycle time gets tightened.
The Cybertruck is steer by wire.

Infinite had it with a backup, but it was bad.

On the good old BMWs with hydraulic steering, you could get Active Steering, i.e. variable steering. They basically introduced a planetary gear set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unL8HpMeVTA

If today you buy a BMW with Active Steering it means you get rear-wheel steering (on top of the standard front-wheel steering, but don't tell the execs, you don't want to need a subscription for front-wheel steering).

On BMWs since the F* (with the electric assist steering) variability was achieved by a variable-ratio steering rack.
h1b abuse you say? Shocking.
Less than half, and that's being generous.
I actually quite like his content, and I consider myself generally wary of marketers and content creators.

I find most of his videos, which typically follow the format of "I conducted experiment X on myself; here are the results," useful and digestible without being overly pushy about selling his Blueprint product.

The sample size = 1 person (himself) casts doubt on a lot of his findings, but I've still made some lifestyle changes after watching his videos. I finish eating earlier, and anecdotally feel better. I've leaned toward eating more healthy nuts and extra-virgin olive oil, and I've also purchased a sleep tracker.

I have not made any Blueprint purchases.
Corporations exploiting cheap labor is a bipartisan issue in the US. There doesn't seem to be any knobs that can be turned to go after corporations for exploiting cheap but legal immigrant labor. What can any administration do? "You didn't break the law, but we don't like you" isn't going to stand up in court.

What the current administration is trying to do that WILL impact corporations is raise tariffs. This will raise the cost of production overseas and on-shore some business, which will increase the demand for labor domestically.

Many people argue that this will cause inflation. I don't think it will. Consumers cannot pay with more money than they have. If some country in Asia wants to sell their wares for $10 usd, and the consumer only wants to pay $9, guess what? They're only getting $9 for the goods.

Many countries are promising reciprocal tariffs, though that's what the current administration is attempting to impose. This is also great for Americans. That means corporations have to sell goods overseas for less, meaning there is less competition for their products, which means Americans can buy for less. Corporations will HAVE to accept lower margins.

It would be great if a bill could be passed to completely eliminate all white-collar immigration. We have enough talent in this country, and the other countries need it more.
I like the minimalism myself.
> “an employee of the White House Office”

Can the cook demand tax records?
> the existence of complete training data is [...] not an absolute requirement [...] this OSI stance is widely regarded as a reasonable approach

That's definitely NOT the case for me and it's the reason why I now see the OSI as a joke. But feel free to make up your own definitions: Windows is open-source, the PlayStation is a car, and broccolis are good for cats (for a different definition of a broccoli).
Any model that censors itself does poorly, despite being able to provide high quality answers.
Functional recovery of brain tissue arrested in time during cryopreservation
The question was cost, complexity, weight, etc. Reliability is an different issue. But nothing says an electronic system can’t be extremely reliable too.

Your fear of being locked out makes no sense. That was feasible the moment you had a cellular modem and computer control of the ignition. Modern cars already have electronic control of the brakes for ABS, it’s just not in between the pedal and the calipers. Brake by wire changes nothing in terms of the ability to remotely disable a car.
I would use a wrapper sh script that checks for the tool and prompts an install, basically how Java projects include maven or gradle into a repo
We’ve been using InfluxDB 1.x since 2017 and I’m itching to get off of it. Currently we’re at about a trillion rows, and we have to ship our data to Snowflake to do large-scale aggregations (like hourly averages). I put a bunch of effort into building this on top of InfluxDB and it’s not up to the task.

Any sense if ClickHouse can scale to several TB of data, and serve giant queries on the last hour’s data across all sensors without getting OOMKilled? We’re also looking at some hacked together DuckDB abomination, or pg_duck.