skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Autonomous driving is being implemented with LIDA in many cars, Musk’s cars can’t see through fog.

Battery tech is now old news - every car company is doing this and making huge leaps in battery tech. Charging connectors are a dime a dozen now - at least BYDs don’t have flaws like the Cyber Truck where the plug literally gets stuck in the Tesla and majes it immobile.

Most car manufacturers have OTA updates in various models of cars now.

Ever tried to repair a “gigacasted” car?

But you were talking about recent innovations, which haven’t been taken up by other car companies. Could you name some?

I can list the opposite of innovation in Tesla cars: unreliable cars, unsafe features throughout the cars, no LIDA sensors and only cameras, large numbers of fatalities involving self driving Teslas, problems with sticking brakes, poorly fitting trim, wheels falling off at speed, tow bars that literally snap off taking out the back of the car, suspension and drive axle failures… want me to go on?
> Visual effects

Maybe I missed the mark on “gamedev”, but 3D is larger than just “aesthetically pleasing 3D VFX” for its own sake

Often I’m trying to use something as a reference for a design where a 3D model isn’t the actual end goal, or I’m performing analytics on a 3D object (say in my case for a lot of GIS and simulation work)

The whole “mesh is the be all and end all of 3D modelling” irks me as while yes it’s a really important way of representing an object (especially with real time constraints), it doesn’t do justice to the full landscape of techniques and uses for 3D

It would be like 2D sprite artists from the gamedev world saying “what’s the point of all this vector art you illustrators are doing” or “what’s the point of all these wireframe designs you graphic designers are doing” - “these aren’t raster images!”

I suppose my snipe was trying to communicate the idea that 3D is larger than just a vehicle for entertainment production. It intersects many industries that may eschew polygons because real time rendering is irrelevant

3D tooling has uses beyond producing 3D scenes, just as Photoshop is used for more than touching up photographs

Edit: for anyone stuck in a rut with meshes come join the dark side with nurbs - it makes you think about modelling in a radically different way (unfortunate side effect is it makes working with meshes feel so so “dirty”)
OK, incomprehensible to me but also nothing to do with Fauna or the topic at hand :-/

https://www.jaxon.gg/ceres-fauna-graduation-announced-why-is...
> The AI companies seek to train models in order to compete with the authors of the content used to train the models.

When I read someone else’s essay I may intend to write essays like that author. When I read someone else’s code I may intend to write code like that author.

AI training is no different from any other training.

> If a court determines that the AI output you've used is close enough to be considered a derivative work, it's infringement.

Do you mean the output of the AI training process (the model), or the output of the AI model? If the former, yes, sure: if a model actually contains within it it copies of data, then sure: it’s a copy of that work.

But we should all be very wary of any argument that the ability to create a new work which is identical to a previous work is itself derivative. A painter may be able to copy Gogh, but neither the painter’s brain nor his non-copy paintings (even those in the style of Gogh) are copies of Gogh’s work.
Exactly. Tesla's business performance may or may not be good, but OP's analysis is ignoring the huge elephant in the room. It's true that Elon has been an asshole for a long time, but his recent actions cross the line from asshole into something an order of magnitude worse.
Yep. The "wouldn't it be great if we had robots do all the labor you are currently doing" argument only works if there is some plan to make sure that my rent gets paid other than me performing labor.
"What's good for Milo Minderbinder is good for the world."
I asked a follow up question.

I don't even believe that white men aren't the largest demographic at google.

But even if they aren't, do they face systemic oppression because of this?

Why is it relevant that they aren't a majority?
If someone new to FE development were to start today, what would the process be?

A) If they are on their own (one-person team), they will do a web search and pick the most popular framework/library etc. Or do some POCs in a few of these frameworks/libraries and pick one.

B) If they are part of a team, they will go with whatever the team has decided

If someone has been doing FE, they either will stick to whatever they are doing or search for what else is out there. Yes. This sounds like a treadmill - but that is part of software development and continuous improvement, right?

Building a website in plain/vanilla JS or no JS is possible.

It all boils down to what is moving the product development forward. And this isn’t always simple or possible with FEs.

There are many choices for BEs and cloud providers as well - and sometimes a combination of those.

In short, there are no right or wrong answers. It is always - “it depends” - on what scenarios you are targeting and what features you want to build
> Tesla's cutting-edge solution? Actually using nuts and bolts like every other manufacturer from the last century.

Many other manufacturers secure some exterior trim pieces with glue or tape.
One thing I'd like more info on is in what ways Nestlé and other water companies have contributed to the problem.

I've long heard that they lobby to prevent the local Government in CDMX from providing potable water in order to protect their bottled water and water-delivery business, but I actually don't know how well substantiated those accusations are.

On the positive side of things, Mexico City gets a ton of rain during the wet season which can be harvested with rooftop collectors.
Outsourcing is a similar issue here. Also the big consultancy indian firms.
And somewhat ironically here, SuperDB not only implements sum-type decoding of JSON in package unpack, but it also implements native sum types in a superset of JSON that we call Super JSON (with a query language that understands how to rip and stitch sum types for columnar analytics... work in progress)

https://superdb.org/docs/formats/data-model/#25-union
> How many years will it be before audio on the Linux OS doesn’t suck?

to be blunt, it doesn't seem to suck whenever someone designs a consumer product around it. I have DVD-Players, BluRay Players, Network Radios, all based on Linux OS, and I never have to hassle with alsa and pulse-audio. In fact I never interact with the underlying Linux, just like accessory vendors don't use linux APIs to communicate with iOS.

> If we imagine a world where os init was regulated by the EU

We don't need to imagine anything like this, the EU is not regulating any OS.
The EU identified that Apple is a gatekeeper to a market and simultaneously a player there, controlling the market in its favor.

To ensure fair competition, Apple is required to ensure that it's a fair market for all players.

As stated elsewhere, Apple is still enjoying a significant advantage, because they could still develop i.e. a Airpods feature which relies on a newly developed iOS-feature, launch both simultaneously and be the only one on the market using it.

The only major impact is that they are not allowed to restrict competitors from ever catching up with them.
You need real examples?

You know those "gang members" that were kidnapped to Venezuela torture prison without any due process?

And everyone was "fine" with it because hey they said they were "gang members"

Guess what? It's already been discovered one of them is just a professional soccer player with no gang affiliations.

But he's still there in prison with shaved head and will never be seen again because there's no balance of power to stop it, courts are ignored daily.

That university protestor they disappeared? As soon as a New York court ruled he has to get a hearing, they moved him out of the district to the south.

Now remember this is only eight weeks into it and there are TWO HUNDREDS more to go and imagine that atrocity multiplying weekly.

First thing Hitler did when he was given power without their congress (parliament, Enabling Act) was remove the judges opposing him. Sound familiar?
We already have safe and reliable battery tech being deployed in massive amounts as is in plentiful evidence in this article.

Solar with IRA subsidies is $30/MWh in the US, without subsidies it's $50/MWh. Current storage prices are probably no more than $60-$70/MWh for storing solar for later. New natural gas is $95/MWh at current gas prices.

Similarly, fusion does not promise cheaper energy, at least I have never seen a numerical argument that could support that. If you have one, I'd love to see it. Fusion is mostly interesting because it doesn't exist so people can project whatever characteristics they want on it.
Pragmatic Divesting from Enshitifcation
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Will You Be Domesticated by AI?
I was sitting and imagining what would be the future once AI starts doing everything for humans. I imagined a future where humans don't do any work and everything is done by AI. At that point humans would relax and get fed by the work of the AI.

In short, we will become cats for our AI overlords.

When that happens, it will be important to be cute enough for an AI overlord to "adopt" us. Hence this attempt.
Huh, the last time I visited Sydney for work the locals were discussing which polling place had the best food/snack, mostly some kind of grilled meat
> Therefore, they believe, we should deemphasize solar in favor of “firm” sources of energy like gas turbines, next-generation nuclear or advanced geothermal.

One cool thing about advanced geothermal is that it can load follow solar like natural gas does today: ramp down when solar is abundant and ramp up when it is not. That could come from slowing the turbines, or even by storing the extracted heat (in molten salt) during peak solar hours and using it to turn the turbines to meet peak demand or overnight.

They are in many ways a great complement for each other.
Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps
I think the solution to this problem is the same as with scammers and is an analog one.

Bust the kneecaps of all the people responsible for those crawlers. Publicly. And all of them: from the person entering the command to the CEO of the company going through all the middle management. You did not go against this policy? Intact kneecaps are a privilege which just got revoked in your case.
If that happens, count with me to use Anubis to factor large primes or whatever science needs as a background task.
No, really, it's a very similar thing.

There are also fake unions in the United States in the cannabis industry. Pretty grim situation.
I was hoping to link to this from somewhere technically relevant but having scoped out the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 S296 it actually seems unwise to do so as a British person. Meanwhile Starmer is proud of Britain's "freedom of speech" (yes, I know freedom of speech sensibly has limits, but the statute is overly broad in this case).
The israeli impunity has likely made Russia more ruthless in Ukraine, with for example attacks on hospitals. Sudan is an interesting example to bring up, since the RSF is closely connected with Israel's friends in the UAE, and the UAE has recently asked the US to help them avoid responsibility for what they've done.

The Assad regime clinged to power in part in the way it did because it was what Israel preferred, israeli elites have been very afraid of what would follow the fall of Assad, which is likely why they've bombed Syria more or less constantly since then and occupies a large portion of the country. In the West many people believe the Assad dynasty to have been a clean iranian asset, but this isn't true. Bashar had good relations with security services in many other countries, and was one recipient of people collected by the US for torture during the so called War on Terror. Besides Beirut and possibly Amman it's likely Damascus was the most important spy hub in the region.

The fate of Syria is an enormous tragedy, that could likely have been avoided.
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I'm smelling a random junk-science "result", which happens to push a lot of people's buttons:

> The research that gave rise to the dark oxygen discovery was partly funded by a Canadian deep-sea mining business, The Metals Company, that wanted to assess the ecological impact of such exploration.

> It has sharply criticized the study by marine ecologist Andrew Sweetman and his team as plagued by "methodological flaws".

> Michael Clarke, environmental manager at The Metals Company, told AFP that the findings "are more logically attributable to poor scientific technique and shoddy science than a never before observed phenomenon."

EDIT: That is followed by other biting criticisms. The strongest one amounts to: The nodules have been sitting there for millions of years. Any sort of electrochemical process that was actually making oxygen in them would have run out of energy long, long ago.
Even if Ampere could afford to undercut the internal development of these hyperscalar ARM chips (which to my knowledge they cannot), there is more value in in-housing ARM chips like Amazon / Microsoft are doing: you can more easily try out wacky ideas in chip / firmware design.

Often times these companies might have an idea for how to save power / tweak cores in a weird way on a CPU, but have a chicken-and-egg problem with not knowing exactly how much it'll reduce COGS. Not knowing that and having to negotiate with a vendor (who will often want to charge more for the feature) means that it's difficult to do unless it's an obvious slam-dunk.

By bringing chip development in-house, adding new features skews more towards a political decision that requires less rigorous financial calculations (e.g. "how much power will this save relative to the vendor_cost++ and our own developer cost?" for 3rd-party chips). It basically allows these cloud providers to ship new features more quickly in their CPUs.
Outcomes matter. Things that are fine at an individual level can become social harmful at scale.
You missed the point of the court's decision. This was a civil trial for damages. Criminal fines weren't a factor here. The intent of damages is to make the plaintiff whole. The defendant's finances aren't supposed to be a factor.

There's a good chance that the total damages will be reduced on appeal. This case will drag on for years.
Notably the jury pool was from North Dakota, a state where many people have direct or indirect ties to oil and gas industries. In fact,

> During jury selection, potential jurors appeared to largely dislike the protests, and many had ties to the fossil fuel industry. In the end, more than half the jurors selected to hear the case had ties to the fossil fuel industry, and most had negative views of anti-pipeline protests or groups that oppose the use of fossil fuels.

Source: https://archive.ph/OMEYP#selection-1559.0-1563.204
This article read a little different than I expected from the title. I was just thinking about this topic recently through a book that surveyed historians in the 19th century. So many of them got their starts doing historical research as a hobby or a passion in life. The discoveries they made were a life's work, their joy rather than something required to do (many did make it their occupation, though not all).

It's inspiring I think that the depth of passion in any topic can carry you through to important discoveries. In that sense the coding hobbyist and the citizen scientist are little different IMHO.
No?

Walk me through the leap here?
And in that case both systems end up with a situation new entrants can't enter.
“HI. LAV A FLUSH HAS FAILED. NO SUCTION. CHEERS”

Well, that would be awkward.
Can't this be mitigated by putting everything behind a login?
Yes this is another major victory in the long bipartisan project of making protest de facto illegal.
Yes, because it’s actually him signing the executive order and not the autopen.
The entire reason bots are so agressive is because they are cheap to run.

If a GPU was required per scrape then >90% simply couldn't afford it at scale.
There is growing evidence that doesn't fit the current model. It's funny how 'age is just a number' may be empirically true in a very existential sense.
Why do you think you're allowed to murder children if they are close to people engaged in legitimate resistance to occupation?

If what I write incite hatred towards the palestinians in you, that's a you problem and you should probably seek out professional help with that.
They don’t have a right to extract art from artists… commission means pay for a piece up front, not after the fact. And on top of that you can only make digital copies cheaply.

Again they would not be “stillborn”. We’ve figured out crowdsourcing and popularity-based compensation (YT, patreon, etc.). You are just making statements without backing them up with readonable arguments.
At this point, why even use bitcoin, or crypto at all. Just use a crypto that is better suited to micropayments.
Not 100% sure this counts but I noticed that yesterday Reddit.com, on a default signed-out profile, was recommending me a /r/ "Cyberstuck" subreddit via the front page which was actively condoning and encouraging violence against teslas. Given that tens of millions of people view the front page daily, that could probably reasonably be construed as mass inciting of violence, and Reddit is well known to be a primarily Democratic instituion.
Ive had good luck using: https://github.com/actions/github-script

When the cli didnt have support for what I needed
You definitely still can just show up and do cool hacks.

Also hackathons are really easy to host if you keep them under 50 people. All you really need at that size is a co-working space and some pizzas.

So if you don't like the vibe at your local hackathons, why not host your own one weekend?

I think the key is really the size of the thing. Giant hackathons with big sponsors and prizes are always going to be more "serious" feeling than your local self-organized hack-days.
My personal perspective is that our (technology evangelists) mistake was constantly lowering the barrier to entry under the guise of removing "gatekeeping" abilities of entrenched players. This idea that technology would be this great equalizer, lifting everyone up together and spreading free access to information to everyone would somehow solve so many of our ills.

The reality is that most people do not care enough about the systems of life to educate themselves, and bad actors exploited this constant lowering of the barrier to entry by flooding these forced-participants with advertising, "free" services, and a glut of cognitohazards. We created a world where authenticity comes not from expertise, but how pretty and usable your website is - and that had knock-on effects our elders tried to warn us about (just look at games like Deus Ex, System Shock 1/2, and similar cyberpunk games of the era and how they warned about mass surveillance, forced adoption of technologies, centralization of infrastructure, etc).

> ...if we want good, nice things, we'll have to actively work for them and defend daily.

This is what I've been trying to instill in others for nearly twenty years, since my days of playing SysAdmin in High School and bypassing proxy-based web filters to get to Newgrounds. To truly be participatory in any community, you must volunteer time in bettering it somehow. Maybe volunteer to be a moderator and improve site policies, or donate surplus resources towards self-hosting, or just helping folks move to better, less centralized or more community-supported platforms.
> [...] use (shell scripts, make, just, doit, mage, whatever) as long as it is proper, maintainable code

I fully agree with the recommendation to use maintainable code. But that effectively rules out shell scripts in my oppinion. CI shell scripts tend to become big ball of mud rather quickly as you run into the limitations of bash. I think most devs only have superficial knowledge of shell scripts, so do yourself a favor and skip them and go straight to whatever language your team is comfortable with.
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Or, alternatively, you know, pay the author for the work they've done
And the craziest part is that it is built on top of JS/HTML which is an extremely stable technology at heart.

15 years ago I wrote a small (5KLOC) vanilla JS webapp that is still in daily use by around 10 people without a single line changed.
It held up better then my Win32 applications!

Almost all of the front end churn is simply a political/organizational failure.
> People are saying Tesla stock is falling due to Musk, but he has been an asshole publically since the Thailand incident where he called the rescue diver a pedophile.

There's a visibility issue; that, and most of his antics, was largely only seen by Very Online people, but over the last few months the fact that he's stark raving mad has become increasingly obvious to the general public (via Nazi salutes etc).
For that to work, a website has to push a mirror into that alternate system, and the scraper has to know the associated mirror exists.

That's two big "ifs" for something I'm not aware of a standardized way of announcing. And the entire thing crumbles as soon as someone who wants every drop of data possible says "crawl their sites anyway to make sure they didn't forget to publish anything into the 2nd system."
The company I work for (as a data engineer) does utility scale solar + battery installation and site management. We recently finished a large scale installation just outside of Las Vegas (by some measures the largest in the US). It was backed by a PE firm. Costs are getting so low, the tech so predictable, and with battery warranties around 20 years the PE firm is able to get pretty high return with a fairly low risk. They enter into a "power purchase agreement" with the utility so they know how much they will be able to sell the power for, and as long as we collect data on the batteries they will be able to be warrantied if there is an issue (but there rarely are issues).

The batteries are by far the most expensive portion of the setup. The solar by comparison is dirt cheap. We have single axis tracking like mentioned in the article. Every day we fully charge the batteries, and discharge them in the evening.