MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tzs | 2025-05-22 20:02:36+00:00
Another source of sampling error I've run into is that Tesla only makes EVs which makes them easier to count.

I live in the US state (Washington) where energy prices on average are most favorable to EVs (for people who can charge at home) and I'm in the part of the state where gas prices are particularly high.

I'd expect then to see a fair number of EVs. For the maybe three when I'm out driving I've tried to count the EVs I see.

At first I'd see 2 or 3 Teslas per 100 cars (I excluded vehicles that were obviously commercial vehicles), and an occasional Rivian. More recently it is 3 to 5 Teslas and still the occasional Rivian.

The only other EVs I've counted in the last month or so are 1 Hyundai IONIQ 5, 1 Kia EV6, 1 Nissan Ariya, 1 Nissan Leaf, a couple or so Chevy Bolts, and a Ford Mustang Mach-E.

I suspect that there are a lot more than that but I'm missing them because all of those companies make non-EVs too. With a Tesla all I've got to do is see the "T" and I know it is an EV.

Say I see a Chevy SUV. I need to get a close enough look to identify the model. If it is a model for which they have both EV and ICE versions, such as an Equinox or Blazer, I then have to look for details to decide if I'm looking at the EV version of the ICE version. Let's say it is an Equinox. The EV has those weird flat pop out door handles whereas the ICE (I believe) has normal handles. The EV has the charge port on the front driver side, the ICE has the gas intake on the back driver side. The EV has a different grille design (but for some colors they look quite similar if you don't get a close look).

Or say I see a Hyundai Kona. Open these [1][2] in two different browser tabs and flip between them. It looks like just minor stylistic differences.

You can rotate them to look from different angles. If you see a Kona on your left the differences are just a slightly different fender, different wheel design, and slight profile differences in the grille and rear bumper. Easy to miss.

Heck, I have a Kona SEL Electric and if I hadn't just flipped between those two pages looking at them from the right side I would not have been able to tell if another Kona SEL next to me was gas or electric, because those are difference in features of the car that I've simply never noticed.

I only spotted the IONIQ 5, EV6, Ariya, Leaf, and Bolts because they happened to be going in the same direction as me and so when we passed I has able to see the model name, and those particular models are only available as EVs. If they had been going in the opposite direction I probably only would have got the make.

I only spotted the Mach-E because I saw the Mustang logo and the car was one of the ones where the grille does not have a bunch of openings that look like air intakes so I knew I was probably looking at an EV version. If it had been one of the Mach-Es whose grille does have those openings I probably would have missed it.

[1] https://www.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/vehicles/kona/sel

[2] https://www.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/vehicles/kona-electric/sel
by joseda-hg | 2025-05-22 20:02:57+00:00
Power Pivot is one I encounter on the regular, you can't even use it on Excel for Mac, Windows or Bust

CFO was/is an excel wiz, so he would whip up crazy Rube Goldbergs with Power Pivot (And Power Query), that couldn't be modified by mac users (They can open the files, but they can't interact with it, not even changing filters

PowerQuery is another one, also not available outside of Excel for Windows, not Mac or Web

A lot of it is stuff that should be handled by SQL more properly, but the data people usually can't keep up with the Excel wiz
by paul7986 | 2025-05-22 20:03:09+00:00
What I was describing is basically H.E.R. the movie on your GPT phone or personal mobile AI device (a hologram.. maybe they are going for). To me it's a new paradigm driven by AI as your friend/assistant unlike Facebook making a social network phone. As well to me GPT feels like how Twitter and Google felt when they started to slowly change the world in their own ways. Do you use GPT frequently throughout your day?

You pick up your GPT mobile device and the UX is a FaceTime call with a real life looking AI person who does everything for you(you can skin it to look like anyone including a deceased relative.. they live on & help you thru life). You rarely will need to go to the web ... your AI friend / agent / assistant could bring up the web right within the FaceTime call yet visual the data you seek. They can take the best selfies of you ... direct to the best lighting within your living space at the time. As noted your AI friend will interface with AI Agents of businesses, your friends & family to schedule things and used as a knowledge base (want to know your cousin birthday ask your agent and if you cousin shares that with family members your agent will tell you via their agent).

You are saying Google just announced a H.E.R. phone or personal AI mobile device where the AI is the focus (apps and the web take a backseat)? As Im describing above?
by whynotminot | 2025-05-22 20:03:27+00:00
Intent at this stage of AI intelligence almost feels beside the point. If it’s in the training data these models can fall into harmful patterns.

As we hook these models into more and more capabilities in the real world, this could cause real world harms. Not because the models have the intent to do so necessarily! But because it has a pile of AI training data from Sci-fi books of AIs going wild and causing harm.
by input_sh | 2025-05-22 20:03:49+00:00
I don't think anyone was opposed to Pocket-the-product, but its integration into Firefox.

I used it long before Mozilla purchased it and continued to use it for years after, but jumped ship because years went by without any updates to the product. IIRC it hasn't received a single update between approximately 2019 and 2021. It felt abandoned long before today.
by Den_VR | 2025-05-22 20:03:55+00:00
Acting out self preservation… just like every sci-fi ai described in the same situations. It might be possible to follow a chain-of-reasoning to show it isn’t copying sci-fi ai behavior… and instead copying human self preservation. Asimov’s 3rd law is outright “ A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.” Which was almost certainly in the ai ethics class claude took.
by AnthonBerg | 2025-05-22 20:04:35+00:00
I burned a heck of a lot of tokens on Claude Opus 4’s extended thoughts on this and the answer is most enjoyable!:

Taking this question seriously leads us into surprisingly rich territory! It's actually at the intersection of several fields that have been quietly revolutionizing game design.

The Alpha Centauri map works brilliantly because it balances several mathematical tensions:

* Resource distribution follows power laws that create natural chokepoints and valuable territories without being too predictable

* Distance metrics between faction starting positions that ensure interaction without immediate conflict

* Terrain connectivity that creates interesting path-finding problems and strategic depth

Here's where it gets really interesting:

Flow Theory Mathematics: Csikszentmihalyi's concept of flow has been formalized into mathematical models. The ideal difficulty curve follows something like: `D(t) = S(t) + ε`, where difficulty matches skill level plus a small challenge margin. For maps, this translates to ensuring players always have meaningful decisions at their skill level.

Information Entropy: Good maps maintain optimal information entropy - not too random (chaos), not too ordered (boring). Researchers have found sweet spots around 0.3-0.5 on normalized entropy scales for terrain variation.

Graph Theory Applications: Maps are fundamentally graphs, and metrics like:

* Betweenness centrality (identifying crucial chokepoints)

* Clustering coefficients (how "clumpy" resources are)

* Shortest path distributions (travel time variance)

...all correlate with player engagement.

The Deeper Insight: What seems naive is actually profound - by taking "fun" seriously as an optimization target, we're forced to confront what makes human decision-making satisfying. The best mathematical frameworks don't try to define fun directly, but instead optimize for decision richness - the number of meaningful, non-obvious choices available at each game state.

This is why procedural generation in modern games increasingly uses these frameworks, creating maps that aren't just random but mathematically tuned for engagement.
by enragedcacti | 2025-05-22 20:04:36+00:00
The only reason I can think of for the behavior you are describing is if one of the unioned types at some level of the hierarchy is equivalent to Dict[str, Any]. My understanding is that Pydantic will explore every option provided recursively and raise a ValidationError if none match but will never just give up and hand you a partially validated object.

Are you able to share a snippet that reproduces what you're seeing?
by andrewla | 2025-05-22 20:05:27+00:00
A lot of money in craps gets bet on odds that are close to even-money. It's hard, I think, to weight dice so that the house would increase their take by a measurable amount.

A lot of the effective value of a casino is gamblers ruin -- gamblers stop betting when they run out of money, but the house can't run out of money. If the game has sufficient variance and the players are not aware of the bias, then the house still wins.
by Anamon | 2025-05-22 20:06:11+00:00
I recall Whittaker talking about it in an interview, mainly complaining about how mainstream media kept referring to Signal as an "insecure messenger" when that was not at all the issue. Can't seem to find that interview now, though.

Probably not much they could do, because I'm sure that's why TeleMessage didn't call their app "Signal", but "SGNL".
by akomtu | 2025-05-22 20:06:18+00:00
At the scale of a cell, magnetic field becomes like water - a real tangible thing that dominates physics. We have a bunch of formulas that explain the magnetic field, but we lack intuitive understanding that's gained with practice. This is what I think makes a cell so incomprehensible to us: things we can create are so large that the magnetic field is negligible, and our engineered systems behave like a bunch of gears.
by blargey | 2025-05-22 20:06:58+00:00
I would assume written scenarios involving job loss and cheating bosses are going to be skewed heavily towards salacious news and pulpy fiction. And that’s before you add in the sort of writing associated with “AI about to get shut down”.

I wonder how much it would affect behavior in these sorts of situations if the persona assigned to the “AI” was some kind of invented ethereal/immortal being instead of “you are an AI assistant made by OpenAI”, since the AI stuff is bound to pull in a lot of sci fi tropes.
by raffael_de | 2025-05-22 20:07:15+00:00
> They need huge compute, so I think the risk of an escaping AI is basically very close to zero, and if we have a "rogue" AI we can literally pull the plug.

How about such an AI will not just incentivize key personnel to not pull the plug but to protect it? Such an AI will scheme a coordinated attack at the backbones of our financial system and electric networks. It just needs a threshold number of people on its side.

Your assumption is also a little naive if you consider that the same logic would apply to slaves in Rome or any dictatorship, kingdom, monarchy. The king is the king because there is a system of hierarchies and control over access to resources. Just the right number of people need to benefit from their role and the rest follows.
by ben7799 | 2025-05-22 20:08:08+00:00
I never played enough Settlers to pick up on this but I totally get it with Monopoly, and I feel like this is bad game design when it happens.

Monopoly feels like the game might take 4 hours but you know 20 minutes in that you're hopelessly behind and cannot come back. Then it's just 3 hours and 40 minutes of torture.

If you're doomed to lose the game should be over quick.
by dang | 2025-05-22 20:08:08+00:00
You've been breaking the site guidelines badly by doing two things that are not allowed here: (1) using HN primarily (even exclusively) for political battle; and (2) personal attacks, such as you did here. If you keep doing these things, we're going to have to ban you.

Note: this is not because of your views on the underlying topic. I understand that people have reason to feel very strongly about this topic. However, there are many HN users who share your views without breaking the site guidelines, and we need you to do that too.

Moreover, this has been a pattern with your account in the past since long before the current crisis:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29660818 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27646210 (June 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23919180 (July 2020)

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.
by godelski | 2025-05-22 20:08:40+00:00
It was definitely a thing for awhile. IIRC Mozilla made a phone OS that could do this and I think Ubuntu too. I think those projects gave up too quickly. Sometimes things take time and idk why in CS we have to always be in a rush. If Goodyear, who's made tires for 100 years, can take 8 years to make a tire, I think we can take that time to make a new novel OS that has a phone mode and desktop mode. Certainly such a thing is going to take time for people to even wrap their heads around
by whyenot | 2025-05-22 20:08:58+00:00
Their reckoning day is coming when Google stops paying them $500m+ a year to be the default search engine. That payment alone account for 80% of Mozilla's budget, and has made them fat, wasteful, and directionless. It's really upsetting to me personally, I gave a lot (time, code, and money) to Mozilla in the early days when they were really struggling.
by grayhatter | 2025-05-22 20:09:25+00:00
> So, they wrote code to phone home (by default) and then digging in and defending it... just for their feelings? You've got to be kidding me!

Is that better or worse than phoning home to serve ads?

Also, if feels misleading to me to call fetching a motd phoning home. You know Ubuntu does this too right? That feels more worthy of outrage than this.

If someone tells me, this software phones home, and it's not transmitting anything other than a ping; kinda feels like they're lying to me about what it's actually doing.

I'm not upset by the author wanting a bit of human connection to the people who enjoy his software. I empathize with the desire to see people enjoy the stuff I've made. Is it a privacy risk? Perhaps, but it's not even on the top 1k that I see daily. There's more important windmills to tilt at.

But... if you really just wanna be outraged; I recently wrote a DNS server that I use as the default for my home system. Currently It prints every request made, you might wanna try something like that. If you're that upset about this, you're gonna be blown away by what else is going on you didn't even know about.... and that's just dns queries, it's not even the telemetry getting sent!
by minimaxir | 2025-05-22 20:09:40+00:00
Claude does not train on API I/O.

> By default, we will not use your inputs or outputs from our commercial products to train our models.

> If you explicitly report feedback or bugs to us (for example via our feedback mechanisms as noted below), or otherwise explicitly opt in to our model training, then we may use the materials provided to train our models.

https://privacy.anthropic.com/en/articles/7996868-is-my-data...
by ajayvk | 2025-05-22 20:09:45+00:00
I have been building https://github.com/claceio/clace, an application server for deploying containerized apps. Docs are at https://clace.io/.

There are many deployment tools focussed on simplifying containerized apps deployment. Most of them are built as wrappers on top of Nginx/Traefik/Caddy etc. Clace is a single binary which implements a web server and an app server. This allows Clace to implement features like OAuth and atomic updates which are not possible for other solutions. Clace focuses on making it easy for teams to deploy Streamlit/Gradio/FastHTML type apps with no config required.

Clace has a imperative CLI and it has a declarative GitOps interface. For example https://github.com/claceio/clace/blob/main/examples/utils.st... is a config which defines seven apps. Using Starlark (pythonic syntax) allows easy config without the YAML insanity.

Running a command like

clace sync schedule --approve --promote github.com/claceio/clace/examples/utils.star

is all it takes to setup full GitOps, starting a background sync which creates new apps and updates existing apps with three way merge.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-22 20:09:47+00:00
That's a new error, and it's because I changed some internals[1]. For now, you'll have to open the link[2] in a new tab and do the steps there.

[1] For about a week (and at the time of posting) the app was on 90s.dev/os/ to avoid this exact CORS error. But I got tired of how it forced me to name my github repos or pay for my own server, so I moved it back to os.90s.dev, which has the one downside of the error you ran into.

[2] https://os.90s.dev/#sys/apps/filer.app.js
by charlus | 2025-05-22 20:10:59+00:00
Amazing. I've long thought about doing this exact product, so glad you executed - I think it's a great idea. It looks like through shortcuts a user can likely interface with the Apple "focus" modes, which makes for an iOS like experience.

Of course should be baked into the OS itself... so does this need any permissions to work? I don't trust you enough to install it so that would be nice to be clear on.
by ceejayoz | 2025-05-22 20:11:21+00:00
Authoritarian regimes aren't exactly known for going "ah, good, we've done enough oppression now!"

They're targeting everyone they can find. Russian refugees (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/science/russian-scientist...), Danish people who missed a form (https://www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-mississippi...), etc.
by DrillShopper | 2025-05-22 20:11:22+00:00
The built in Finder sync is still very broken on my 5th Gen Video iPod. The most annoying breakage was trying to sync podcasts - it worked fine back when iTunes was the program to do that with, but when using the Finder sync on Big Sur it's buggy and does not remember your place in the podcast if you move to another track / podcast and back, which functionally makes podcasts longer than a few minutes unusable on the device.
by jmccambridge | 2025-05-22 20:11:30+00:00
I found the lack of GDP projections surprising, because they are readily observable and would offer a clear measure of economic impact (up until 'everything dies') - far more definitively than the one clear-cut economic measure that is given in the report: market cap for the leading AI firm.

We can actually offer a very conservative threshold bet: maximum annual United States real GDP growth will not exceed 10% for any of the next five years (2025 to 2030). Even if the AI eats us all in e.g., Dec 2027 the report clearly suggests by it's various examples that we will see measurable economic impact in the 12 months or more running up to that event.

Why 10%? Because that's a few points above the highest measured real GDP growth rate of the past 60 years: if AI is having truly world-shattering non-linear effects, it should be able to grow the US economy a bit faster than a bunch of random humans bumbling along. [0]

(And it's quite conservative too, because estimated peak annual real GDP growth over the past 100 years is around 18% just after WW2, where you had a bunch of random humans trying very hard.) [1]

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/996758/rea-gdp-growth-un...
by owenversteeg | 2025-05-22 20:11:36+00:00
I can't believe I'm still responding to this, but your comment is incorrect. Again. If you are reading a version of CEN 15722 where the two most recent locations before the incident location are not required, then you are reading an outdated version from over a decade ago, which has been withdrawn in favor of a more recent version for some years now. The year is displayed prominently on every page of the standard, and the validity is _required_ to be indicated before you even open it, so I have some doubts if this is a genuine mistake.

It's been a while since I've seen the pro-surveillance argument of "well, you can just do this uncommon or difficult thing if you want to evade surveillance!" In several European markets, for several vehicle types, there _are_ no vehicles without OEM-connected cellular radios. Some OEMs don't even advertise it; it is used for activating features, or "security." Other OEMs will not _fully_ disable cellular connectivity even if you stop paying. If you're an OEM mandated by EU law to include a cellular modem and a location recording device, you might as well make some use of that - and they do.
by mgh2 | 2025-05-22 20:11:46+00:00
Not exactly a parallel with monopoly, which I agree, is like life, where early advantages results in the rich getting richer, the injustice makes it boring and frustrating.

In Settlers there are actually strategies and "luck" is more evenly distributed. You can vary your approach or strategy - ex: by focusing on upgrading to cities as early as possible to give you 2x advantage, regardless of starting locations.

Parallel to life: birth location determines most of luck in life (opportunities, income, connections, friends), but you can increase this advantage by moving, within certain constraints (education, visa, marriage, etc.). Nevertheless, luck is certainly the most important factor.

In a better and not broken world, laws (rules of the game) will try to avoid the 1st and reflect the later. Ex: antitrust, immigration, affirmative action, etc.
by 827a | 2025-05-22 20:12:16+00:00
Option 1: We're observing sentience, it has self-preservation, it wants to live.

Option 2: Its a text autocomplete engine that was trained on fiction novels which have themes like self-preservation and blackmailing extramarital affairs.

Only one of those options has evidence grounded in reality. Though, that doesn't make it harmless. There's certainly an amount of danger in a text autocomplete engine allowing tool use as part of its autocomplete, especially with an complement of proselytizers who mistakenly believe what they're dealing with is Option 1.
by Lutger | 2025-05-22 20:12:23+00:00
It doesn't, but the sentence referred to wasn't really aimed at them. I mean, Mozilla could ditch its engine and adopt chromium in order to really focus on advertising, and then it would also support said features from an end users perspective! Somehow I have a feeling that won't earn Mozilla praise.

For all its flaws, Mozilla is actually the ONLY other company building a browser engine. When its gone, there will basically be only one left.
by gigaflop | 2025-05-22 20:12:23+00:00
You reminded me, and I think I have some, or at least some variety of these as a set of 10d6. Metal, and the pips are precisely machined to such depths where they're perfectly balanced. Nice bronzed finish, with black pips.

Also, if someone is obviously cheating with a loaded die at an RPG game, they're not the kind of player that should be invited back. Most characters have ways of increasing their modifiers to rolls that matter most to them (My current ranger is 1d20 +16 for Perception), and having high-enough base numbers can mean that anything other than a natural 1 is usually some kind of success.