MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mhandley | 2025-06-09 01:38:01+00:00
The ones in towns will mostly disappear. There will be enough chargers at supermarkets, malls, restaurants, anywhere people actually want to go, and most people will charge at home or work. The remaining business won't be enough to keep in-town gas stations in business. Range anxiety will become more of an issue for gas cars.

On highways, it will be a different situation. There will be plenty of gas and diesel still available, as the remaining business from towns becomes more concentrated. You won't find a gas station without a restaurant attached though. Fast chargers will be common, but ultra-fast ones won't be as common as we'd like, as they will want to keep you just long enough to buy a meal, etc.
by TuringTourist | 2025-06-09 01:38:09+00:00
I suspect this might be because diet marketing before AI was one of the most fraught with misinformation subjects you could run across. This is because the "sale" of the idea has an effect on every salesman, so all of the salesmen are trying to sell every thing at once,since that's also selling their thing, and ground truth gets stampeded. Now when you combine diet marketing and AI, you get a multiplier. Both in the sellers and the buyers, since the desire to believe is stacked.
by anonymousiam | 2025-06-09 01:40:49+00:00
I don't believe it's my responsibility to cover these basic concepts here, but the role of the OS is to abstract the hardware from the applications.

All browsers are applications, regardless of what Microsoft argued in their 1998 anti-trust suit defense.

The OS knows how to talk to your networking hardware, and it provides services for the applications to do so, and even implements some standard protocols so the applications don't need to do that.

This is all very basic stuff, but I've been out of school for many decades, so maybe they don't teach it anymore.

https://www.theringer.com/2018/05/18/tech/microsoft-antitrus...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-09 01:41:35+00:00
In 2023, the U.S. had approximately 85.3 million single-family detached homes and 8.2 million single-family attached homes, totaling around 93.5 million single-family homes. This represents the majority of the nation's housing stock.

Rebates exist for a reason to install EV chargers at home. Certainly, it will take time, but the transition is inevitable at this point. The average daily round trip commute is less than 40 miles, which is ~12 hours of charging on a 15A 120V household outlet. Electricity is ubiquitous, and installing interfaces is relatively inexpensive and straightforward.
by stubish | 2025-06-09 01:42:21+00:00
This might become moot if the push for 'community batteries' I see over here takes hold. Rather than giant battery arrays 200km away near a solar farm, smaller arrays in your postcode soaking up rooftop solar and offpeak grid. Maybe the business model for the modern service station is to install extra batteries and make money with the excess capacity doing energy arbitrage.
by billybuckwheat | 2025-06-09 01:42:43+00:00
I'm hoping it'll be like the GridServe electric forecourts in the UK: a place to charge your car, have a snack, do a bit of shopping or relax, or rent an office pod for a few hours. Wishful thinking, maybe, but what good is trying to peer into the future without a bit of that kind of thinking?

https://www.gridserve.com/electric-vehicle-charging/electric...
by osigurdson | 2025-06-09 01:42:44+00:00
I've been underwhelmed with dedicated tools like Windsurf and Cursor in the sense that they are usually more annoying than just using ChatGPT. They have their niche but they are just so incredibly flow destroying it is hard to use them for long periods of time.

I just started using Codex casually a few days ago though and already have 3 PRs. While different tools for different purposes make sense, Codex's fully async nature is so much nicer. It does simple things like improve consistency and make small improvements quite well which is really nice. Finally we have something that operates more like an appliance for a certain classes of problems. Previously it felt more like a teenager with a learners license.
by defrost | 2025-06-09 01:44:26+00:00
> There are no EV replacements for heavy trucks and they do not appear to be viable yet.

Janus Electric has been converting prime movers to electric since 2019, listed on the ASX this year, and have demonstrated viability.

* https://primemovermag.com.au/body-electric/

* https://www.januselectric.com.au/news/janus-unveils-first-el...

* https://www.januselectric.com.au/

So far they've barely made a dent in global big truck numbers but they're planning to expand over the next few years .. and there are others in the same business.

> Comparison to earth moving equipment in mines do not apply.

Why not? These fleets have been quasi electric since the 1970s, have serious ongoing research into fully renewable replacement paths, and are responsible for a massive chunk of transport fuel usage given the sheer number of mines in the world and numbers such as iron ore mining in one Australia state alone accounting for > than a billion tonnes moved by trucks alone (including overburden, etc).

These aren't trucks that refuel at gas stations, but they are a considerable sink for fossil fuels.
by numpad0 | 2025-06-09 01:44:29+00:00
Couple best vram for buck && borderline space heater GPUs off top of my head: Tesla K80(12GBx2), M40(24GB), Radeon Instinct MI(25|50|60|100)(8-32GB?), Radeon Pro V340(16GBx2), bunch of other Radeon Vega 8GB cards e.g. Vega 56, NVIDIA P102/P104(~16GB), Intel A770(16GB). Note: some of these are truly just space heaters.

I'm not sure if right now is the best timing for building an LLM rig, as Intel Arc B60(24GBx2) is about to go on sale. Or maybe it is to secure multiples of 16GB cards hastily offloaded before its launch?
by hamstergene | 2025-06-09 01:44:29+00:00
Remember how the central idea of Orwell's 1984 was that TVs in everyone's home were also watching all time and someone behind that device actually understanding what they see?

That last part was considered dystopian: there can't possibly be enough people to watch and understand every other person all day long. Plus, who watches the watchers? 1984 has been just a scary fantasy because there is no practical way to implement it.

For the first time in history, the new LLM/GenAI makes that part of 1984 finally realistic. All it takes is a GPU per household for early alerting of "dangerous thoughts", which is already feasible or will soon be.

The fact that one household can be allocated only a small amount of compute, that can run only basic and poor intelligence is actually *perfect*: an AGI could at least theoretically side with the opposition by listening to the both sides and researching the big picture of events, but a one-track LLM agent has no ability to do that.

I can find at least 6 companies, including OpenAI and Apple, reported working on always-watching household device, backend by the latest GenAI. Watching your whole recent life is necessary to have enough context to meaningfully assist you from a single phrase. It is also sufficient to know who you'll vote for, which protest one might attend before it's even announced, and what is the best way to intimidate you to stay out. The difference is like between a nail-driving tool and a murder weapon: both are the same hammer.

During TikTok-China campaign, there were a bunch of videos showing LGBT people reporting how quickly TikTok figured their sexual preferences: without liking any videos, no following anyone, nor giving any traceable profile information at all. Sometimes before the young person has admitted that for themselves. TikTok figures that simply by seeing how long the user stares at what: spending much more time on boys' gym videos over girls', or vice versa, is already enough. I think that was used to scare people of how much China can figure about Americans from just app usage?

Well if that scares anyone, how about this: an LLM-backend device can already do much more by just seeing which TV shows you watch and which parts of them give you laugh or which comments you make to the person next to you. Probably doesn't even need to be multimodal: pretty sure subtitles and text-to-speech will already do it. Your desire to oppose the upcoming authoritarian can be figured out even before you admit it to yourself.

While Helen Toner (the author) is worried about democracies on the opposite end of the planet, the stronghold of democracy may as well be nearing the last 2 steps to achieve the first working implementation of Orwellian society:

1. convince everyone to have such device in their home for our own good (in progress)

2. intimidate/seize the owning company to use said devices for not our own good (TODO)
by jvanderbot | 2025-06-09 01:45:04+00:00
Not OP, but I have verified, and it is accurate. At least accurate enough from images or descriptions when assuming average proportions. Where it's really accurate is when you have measurements, even rough. I took to having a 1/2 cup scoop around the house so I could get volume measurements.

Initially I verified against labels by eating the serving size precisely. Then, I switched to weighing and doing the math on random days or meals.

For some items I would tell it the calories and macros and it would remember (a pb spoon is a common treat around my house).

It's good.

But like all food journalling the benefits are not so much having macro balances or tallies, its in making you aware and making you think about what you're eating. That alone takes you out of autopilot and lets you eat better.

It's just bad at math. So I would ask it to output a json struct for each day, that I could inspect by sight, then I'd save that and had a python script to actually tally.

I had predictive analytics and the whole 9 yards. Maybe I should have started a business! https://jodavaho.io/tags/diet.html
by ofalkaed | 2025-06-09 01:45:11+00:00
During Shabbat the members of the Jewish community who are most vulnerable are the ones who take it too far? Technically you are not supposed to even carry your keys, medications, babies, anything, so to strictly follow the rules means either being a shutin for the day or taking stupid risks which could easily cause undo long term hardships or even death. For the most part it is just updating the laws to modern society and the move away from the more communal living arrangements of the past.
by bee_rider | 2025-06-09 01:46:26+00:00
1) taking your lawyer’s advice is a voluntary action (although it is probably a good one)

2) I don’t understand the distinction being made between voluntary or involuntary, in the sense that a corporation is a thing made up of by people, it doesn’t have a will in-and-of-itself, so the communications it sends must always actually be made by somebody inside the corporation (whether a lawyer, marketing person, or in the unlikely event that somebody lets them out, an engineer).
by idiotsecant | 2025-06-09 01:47:18+00:00
In fact, I would go so far as to say no religious rules come from God! It seems pretty obvious that an omnipotent being in command of all the subtle and awesome phenomena of all of time and space is not going to concerned with whether some barely evolved apes on a backwater planet orbiting an unremarkable star in a forgettable galaxy, among innumerable galaxies eat shellfish and cows milk in the same meal.
by Kiyo-Lynn | 2025-06-09 01:47:41+00:00
I once accompanied a family member through immunotherapy. The treatment times were mostly arranged by the hospital, and the doctor suggested doing it in the morning. We just thought it was to avoid the afternoon rush. Looking back, though, they really did seem to feel better with morning treatments. Now I realize the timing itself might actually affect how well it works. I really hope that in the future, doctors will consider not just the drug and the dosage, but also when it’s given.
by a_bonobo | 2025-06-09 01:48:04+00:00
I think the OP's page works because these coding agents identify themselves as the PR author so the creator can just search Github's issue tracker for things like is:pr+head:copilot or is:pr+head:codex

It seems like Claude Code doesn't do that? some preliminary searching reveals that PRs generated by people using Claude Code use their own user account but may sign that they used Claude, example https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/pull/1732
by shakna | 2025-06-09 01:48:16+00:00
A considerable number of countries use systems based on ex-Eurocat now TopSky, for their air traffic controllers, which is a distributed system.

Install and updates are via a registry based system, and it supports Windows, Linux, macOS - because its mostly written in Ada and R, as of 2012. (Most are running on top of Linux, as far as I'm aware).

No floppy disks, no underrunning DOS, etc.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-06-09 01:48:48+00:00
Surely the ideal choice for the

> learned token embeddings

for the pixel intensities in M3 would be... a single scalar value between 0 and 1? (That is, a "vector" of length 1, consisting of just the original pixel intensity.)

Am I misunderstanding something? Or is this maybe a case of "Yes, you could just do that much simpler thing in this simplified example, but in general you need the complicated approach that we're trying to demonstrate"?
by cap11235 | 2025-06-09 01:49:52+00:00
It makes a psychological difference, yeah. I'm happy now just throwing any whim at it. For instance, I've been meaning for years to fix my disks, since every new computer just has me put the old drives into it, plus the new ones. Prior to the consolidation I had Claude do, oldest was from 2007 (good job, Western Digital 20 years ago). I had Claude write a plan on how to move files my most recent spinning disks, and also redo my mounts (for organization and improving my mount flags). I had it write the plan, I went "yeah", had it write a new fstab and a script to perform the moves in the project folder, had it "ultrathink" and web search a couple times to iterate on those for improvements it could suggest. Then I reviewed them, and had it apply the changes in a Claude instance with no automatic permissions beyond reading files in the project directory, so I manually approved the system modifications each.
by cyberax | 2025-06-09 01:50:09+00:00
Yes, but we found plenty of bugs. Fixed some (e.g. in TrueSheet). It is drastically faster, but I won't call it a "game changer".

It's great for us because we have native code modules, and seamless Turbo Modules are nice (you _can_ use them with the old arch, but it requires some jumping through hoops).

As for reanimated, I would just stay away from it entirely. Way too many layering violations for my taste.
by jonahbenton | 2025-06-09 01:51:00+00:00
Identifying and writing about it is a good first step. Some people need to talk these things through (with a therapist), or talk and practice behaviors (CBT), some people can write it out. For me, writing out the anticipated experience makes material changes in my processing. It works kind of like this:

Follow the thread you started here and journal about the anticipatory experience. Use your imagination and write about it until you don't have any more words. Get yourself to feel the fear more directly than just anxiety, and lean into the fear, feel it, let it inhabit you. Once you are feeling the fear, actually opening an email will not be a challenge, because you are already in a place where it feels like the worst has happened. Maybe the email(s) match your anticipation, most likely not, but nevertheless there likely is something to process from the email, to work through your reaction as to whether there is an obligation. Continue to journal about this. Take all day if you have to.

The process of getting it out as words serves a bunch of purposes. It helps your meta/reflective cognition process the anticipation/anxiety as an explicit mechanism over which you have a choice, and build an understanding of whether it is a worthwhile expenditure of energy. Almost certainly you will arrive at the understanding- not an intellectual understanding, but an experiential one, because you experienced the fear, and the reality, and you reflected on it- arrive at the experiential understanding that this is not a good use of energy, and at that you will feel tremendous relief. Next morning when you are presented with the option of opening emails, you will recall this experience that the anxiety juice was not worth the squeeze, and it will be easier.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-06-09 01:51:46+00:00
>This bug in democracy was there in the beginning. But it's only now, 2500 years later, that it can be exploited effectively enough to invalidate the whole concept.

Not sure where the 2500 number came from. The US is about 250 years old, and the founders were extremely wary of democracy based on its history prior to the US. The US constitution was designed to mitigate issues with democracy, e.g. that is the purpose of "checks and balances". By democracy standards, the US has been very successful; the average constitution only lasts 17 years: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/lifespan-written-constitut...

This article estimates that the US is the #2 longest-lasting republic after the Roman Republic: https://www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-democratic-institutions-o...

Nonetheless, you would think that the "technology" for writing constitutions would've evolved more in the past 250 years. And in fact, in the Federalist Papers, it is predicted that political technology will evolve, just like any other field of technology. Yet results there have been quite disappointing, if you ask me. There aren't that many interesting and innovative ideas in this area. Most people, even programmers, tend to get lost in the object level us-vs-them conflict instead of going meta with their creative algorithmic brain.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-06-09 01:53:05+00:00
I was more terrified by the yttrium fluoride. That rings a pancreatic cancer bell very loudly. Additionally, you can be sure that people who understand much more chemistry than biology (or who might have accepted their own deaths) are going to make... different tradeoffs

That said, I welcome others to look into substituting, eg, aluminum for yttrium in these methods (since titalum is already a thing)
by lukehoban | 2025-06-09 01:53:37+00:00
(Disclaimer: I work on coding agents at GitHub)

This data is great, and it is exciting to see the rapid growth of autonomous coding agents across GitHub.

One thing to keep in mind regarding merge rates is that each of these products creates the PR at a different phase of the work. So just tracking PR create to PR merge tells a different story for each product.

In some cases, the work to iterate on the AI generated code (and potentially abandon it if not sufficiently good) is done in private, and only pushed to a GitHub PR once the user decides they are ready to share/merge. This is the case for Codex for example. The merge rates for product experiences like this will look good in the stats presented here, even if many AI generated code changes are being abandoned privately.

For other product experiences, the Draft PR is generated immediately when a task is assigned, and users can iterate on this “in the open” with the coding agent. This creates more transparency into both the success and failure cases (including logs of the agent sessions for both). This is the case for GitHub Copilot coding agent for example. We believe this “learning in the open” is valuable for individuals, teams, and the industry. But it does lead to the merge rates reported here appearing worse - even if logically they are the same as “task assignment to merged PR” success rates for other tools.

We’re looking forward to continuing to evolve the notion of Draft PR to be even more natural for these use cases. And to enabling all of these coding agents to benefit from open collaboration on GitHub.
by jrowen | 2025-06-09 01:54:05+00:00
It might seem a little bit deceptive that an attraction called the Sphere does not quite pull off even a hemisphere of "payload," but the same compromise has been reached by most dome theaters.

This paragraph is bizarre to me, framed from a presumably extremely niche "Sphere-as-dome-theater" perspective. I would think that, for most people, the Sphere is the exterior part and it delivers and is every bit as innovative as anyone who has seen a picture of it would say. I don't understand the effort to downplay that and say "oh forget that part it's actually just a not-even-spherical dome theater."
by mardifoufs | 2025-06-09 01:54:17+00:00
What? Don't worry, I understand "the basic concepts". It's just that you yourself said that it was about a philosophy so it's weird to claim that disagreeing with said philosophy is just ignorance.

Also, I'm not sure you understand what quic is then? The kernel still handles most of the hardware abstraction, and in most cases still interacts exclusively with the hardware at the driver level (except for very high performance networking).

Yes, it can also help with protocols, but even going by your own definition ("but the role of the OS is to abstract the hardware from the applications"), protocols don't have to be at the kernel level.

You missed my original point, providing a browser was obviously an exaggerated example of doing more than just abstracting and handling the hardware. Which is also what implementing protocols at the kernel level is. The kernel still handles QUIC's UDP layer (and thus the hardware).
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-06-09 01:54:25+00:00
This is the great filter upon us more than anything else, even nuclear armageddon.

Virtually every "democracy" has a comprehensive camera monitoring system, tap into comm networks, have access to full social graph, whatever you buy,know all your finances, and if you take measures to hide it ... Know that you do that.

Previously the fire hose information being greater than the capability of governments to process it was our saving Grace from TurnKey totalitarianism.

With AI it's right there. Simple button push. And unlike nuclear weapons, it can be activated and no immediate klaxon sounds up. It can be ratcheted up like a slow boil, if they want to be nice.

Oh did I forget something? Oh right. Drones! Drones everywhere.

Oh wait, did I forget ANOTHER thing? Right right, everyone has mobile devices tracking their locations, with remote activatable cameras and microphones.

So ... Yeah.
by cap11235 | 2025-06-09 01:55:00+00:00
Claude does credit itself in the commit messages. eg:

feat: add progress bar for token probability calculation

- Add optional progress_cb parameter to get_token_probs function

- Integrate `rich` progress bar in CLI showing real-time token processing progress

- Add comprehensive tests for progress callback functionality

- Maintain backward compatibility with optional parameter

Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
by muratsu | 2025-06-09 01:57:15+00:00
I don’t mind if the reality of their business is similar to gyms in the sense that they make money off of peoples desires but have low utilization.

I used calorie counter apps before and they helped me lose weight (by mostly educating me what to eat/avoid). With these apps, I feel like the core premise - counting calories - isn’t even working and they’re selling people hopes and dreams. That’s danger territory.
by ajb | 2025-06-09 01:57:23+00:00
I'm not saying your main point is wrong, but there is a lot of legalistic quibbling over things like Lent. For example, various animals are classified locally as "fish" for Lenten purposes, including the Beaver (in Canada) the Capybara (in Venezuela) and the alligator (in New Orleans)

See https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/105380/is-t...