MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alright2565 | 2025-08-18 22:46:54+00:00
1.6kW is the limit; but no, they aren't. But you don't need 7.2kW all the time! There's no way that every single car would need to charge at every moment, and I know this from walking through parking garages and seeing some cars not move for days at a time.

A EVSE could easily serve multiple spots, and fairly (or unfairly, for profit!) distribute power between cars from a limited supply
by kentonv | 2025-08-18 22:47:03+00:00
On a desktop browser, if a web site wants me to upload photos, I click the "upload" button, and then the browser displays a file picker. The web site only ever sees the files I choose.

The web has this because it has to. Obviously you can't just give a web site permission to see your whole hard drive just to open one file.

But this kind of "privileged picker" approach does not seem to be the norm for mobile apps. I'm actually not even sure if iOS and Android even offer such a UI, or if apps simply have no choice but to request full access and implement their own picker.

If they do offer a picker, I would guess the reason the Google Photos app doesn't use it is not because Google's trying to invade your privacy, but rather because a product manager did not like the fact that they couldn't control the look and feel of the UI. It probably is significantly uglier and clunkier than what the Photos app itself can provide. And unfortunately, most users don't care about granting permissions. So the sleeker UX wins out. (I hate this.)
by riedel | 2025-08-18 22:47:30+00:00
The real essence of the piece is that Leibnitz did not schmidhuber [0] Seppo Linnainma (probably because he was dead at the time). Actually it is a nice piece and I was really happy to get my expectations fulfilled when reading to the very end.

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schmidhubere...
by kldg | 2025-08-18 22:47:39+00:00
As someone who was recently screwed over by LLM CSR, I'd respectfully disagree. Amazon replaced their offshore humans with LLMs recently. They put the "subscribe to Prime" button on the right-hand side of the screen when you go to checkout. It's a one-click subscription. I accidentally clicked it a few days ago.

I immediately hop on customer service chat to ask for a refund. I was surprised to be talking to an LLM rather than a human, but go ahead and explain what happened and state I want the transaction for the subscription canceled. It offers to cancel the subscription at the end of the 30-day subscription. I decline, noting I want a refund for the subscription I didn't intend to take. It repeats it can cancel the subscription at the end of 30-day subscription. I ask for human. It repeats. I ask for human again. It repeats. I disconnect.

Amazon knows what it's doing.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-18 22:48:28+00:00
I disagree. The hype is wearing people down and making it think it's a waste of time but LLMs just came out a couple years back and even the trendline from the past decade (pre-LLMs) is up up up.

The amount of interest to explore this opportunity is worth it. The bubble is worth it. I don't think it's lost years, and even if it is, the technology is compelling enough to make the gamble worth it.

The fatigue of reading the same shit over and over again makes people forget that it's only a couple years. It also makes people forget how ground breaking and paradigm shifting this technology was. People are complaining about how stupid LLMs are when possibly just 5 years back no one could even predict that that such levels of intelligence in machinese was even possible.
by ankit219 | 2025-08-18 22:48:55+00:00
From Incognito window's note > Others who use this device won’t see your activity, so you can browse more privately. This won't change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google. Downloads, bookmarks and reading list items will be saved

Incognito does not hide your activity from Google. Especially when you googled in incognito and they likely use IP addresses as part of their targeting. I am also assuming it's different for different kinds of ads given you wont see ads if you look at something personal. They infact allow IP address targeting somehow. [1] Their privacy stance is more about 3rd party not having access to the data google has collected.

[1]: https://www.shopifreaks.com/google-to-allow-the-use-of-ip-ad...
by eurleif | 2025-08-18 22:49:19+00:00
Tesla sells a $2000 Acceleration Boost package for certain non-Performance trims, which increases performance purely by toggling a software switch. You can buy it like DLC from the Tesla app.

Also, Track Mode isn't available outside of the Performance trim, despite presumably being pure software. Elon has even talked about making it part of the Acceleration Boost package, though I don't think that has materialized yet: https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates/upcoming-featu...
by protocolture | 2025-08-18 22:49:19+00:00
>Your solution for all of mens' problems is therapy

What I said was: You can choose not to watch the videos. Social media is optional.

> I have seen a documentary on women being shamed into doing something similarly horrific, and wondered why anyone would fill them with such insecurity. I have read in horror, the stories of teenagers being bullied into killing themselves.

Women should also log off. Parents need to moderate kids access to social media also.
by quickthrowman | 2025-08-18 22:49:47+00:00
Great film, I’ve been meaning to watch it again :)

There are lots of similar wall systems for commercial applications, google ‘wall panel system’ for some examples. It is super useful when you add something that is recessed in the wall later on.

Gypsum wallboard aka drywall is used because it’s cheap, light, it’s easy to install, and easy and cheap to finish.

For wiring at least, the wall itself isn’t the enemy, that’s easily navigable with a drill bit, multitool (or a rotozip, or a jab saw), and fish tape, it’s the dang ‘hardlid’ (drywall or wood, non-removable) ceilings that complicate things.

ACT grid ceilings make adding receptacles, switches and jacks into a finished wall pretty easy, you just drill into top of the wall, cut an opening in the wall, and use a fish tape to pull in your wire or cable, and then put in your cut-in box or LV ring and your device or jack.
by compiler-guy | 2025-08-18 22:50:11+00:00
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain insolvent." --John Maynard Keynes

Lots of people lost their shirts shorting the housing market prior to the 2008 crash. (_The Big Short_ highlights those who were successful, but plenty of people weren't.) But it was undoubtedly a bubble and there was a world-wide recession when it popped.
by bdcravens | 2025-08-18 22:50:26+00:00
It's more a matter of your most common use. The average person drives around 40 miles a day. For those in that circumstance, who live in a home where they can charge in the garage, they may never touch a DC charger for months at a time.

Interestingly enough, the lack of fast chargers actually minimizes the issue of efficiency loss, rather than exacerbate it. I drove my EV from Texas to California and back in 2022. It wasn't super convenient, but doable, based on the spacing of fast chargers on the freeway. I had to charge each time I came by one, due to the spacing of them (being every 100 miles or so, I may not be able to skip one confidently). In that situation, a 15% loss in efficiency wouldn't make a difference either way.
by ajross | 2025-08-18 22:50:29+00:00
Just to un-spin this a bit...

> As part of [a Nest update], Google demanded that I allow the app to track her location at all times, whether the app was active or not. The stated rationale was that it would allow Google to manage devices in her home

The app requests the permission via the normal mechanisms any app uses; it doesn't "demand" it. And you don't have to allow it (and of course can turn it off at any time by going to the app's permissions settings). If you don't, it will indeed pop up a warning that it can't enable the home-occupancy-detection feature, and direct you where you need to go to disable that in settings.

Contra the confused language in the article, Nest hardware works just fine if you disable that feature, though obviously it's a pretty useful feature to enable.

(And yes, I work there, but nowhere near Nest stuff. I do own one though.)
by simonw | 2025-08-18 22:50:49+00:00
This raises an interesting question.

The amount of money that's been spent on AI related investments over the past 2-5 years really has been astonishing - like single digit percentage points of GDP astonishing.

I think it's clear to at there are productivity boosts to be had from applying this technology to fields like programming. If you completely disagree with that statement I have a hunch that nothing could convince you otherwise at this point.

But at what point could those productivity boosts offset the overall spend? (If we assume we don't get to some weird AGI that upturns all forms of economics.)

Two points of comparison. Open source has been credibly estimated to have provided over 8 trillion dollars of value to the global economy over the past few decades: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4693148 - could AI-assisted programming provide a similar boost over the next decade or so?

The buildout of railways in the 1800s took resources comparable to the AI buildout of the past few years and lost a lot of investors a lot of money, but are regarded as a huge economic boost despite those losses.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-08-18 22:50:59+00:00
That's statistical. A small number will start their exponential degrade at 80%, but most won't. Some might get to 60% before they start it. So if you're at 83% at 200,000 miles you don't really know whether you have 50,000 more or you have 200,000 more on the battery. And "exponential degrade" doesn't mean it's particularly fast. It means it's faster to degrade from 80 to 60 than it is from 100 to 80. You're not going to get 500,000 miles out of driving until the battery hits 60% but you might get a substantial fraction.

The rest of the car almost certainly doesn't have 200,000 more miles in it, so who cares?
by josephg | 2025-08-18 22:51:00+00:00
> devoid of intelligence, a necessity to make other intelligent beings laugh with novel jokes ;)

I don't think you need to be that smart to make people laugh. Study actual comedy. Keith Johnstone is right. The funniest things are almost never the cleverest things. We have this idea of jokes in the west as being the height of intelligence. But I think the genius of great improvisers and comedians isn't in their cleverness. Its how they're more in tune with their inner "stochastic parrot" than the rest of us.

Billy Connolly used to play banjo on stage before he became a standup comedian. In one show, he'd just come on. He's in a crowded auditorium and he was just about to play his first song. He strums the very first note on his banjo and the string snaped! There's silence in the room. Billy looks down at the banjo. He thinks for a minute. And then he looks up at the audience and says "Well thats just gone and F-ed it, hasn't it?". And the crowd erupted in laughter.

I don't know if it translates in text, but that story gets a laugh even in the retelling. I had a couple people ask if I thought it was planned. (As if!)

Why is that funny?

Its certainly not funny because that was a clever line. Or because he's highly intelligent. He just said the obvious thing! And he said it slowly enough we could watch him think in real time. If you watch basically any comedy, you'll find almost everything that gets a laugh is the same.

I don't think that kind of humour is beyond the grasp of chatgpt. Far from it. With the right training data, I think LLMs could be better comedians than almost anyone. Most people are far too nervous and clever to let ourselves react honestly and obviously. Thats why most people aren't as good as Billy Connolly.
by rasengan0 | 2025-08-18 22:51:14+00:00
i just standardize to TiddlyWiki (2004) https://tiddlywiki.com/#History%20of%20TiddlyWiki format now supporting json to maintain interop with PlainText editors emacs, vim, mobile, or bespoke GenAi DIY vibe code import/export tool, etc and all done!

[{ "title": "HyperClay", "text": "2025-08-18 Experience the Zen of making, hosting, and sharing great software in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file\nBuild web apps like you're sculpting clay, not managing infrastructure.\n\nModern web development forces you through layers of abstraction: config files, build steps, magic frameworks, deployment pipelines.\n\nHyperclay returns to a simpler model: your app is a single HTML file you (and your clients) manipulate directly. Edit the file through its visual UI and it persists its own state.\n\nWhat if web apps were as simple to edit as documents? Hyperclay makes it possible: UI, logic, and data live in one self-modifying HTML file. Edit it live. Share it instantly. Download and use it locally.\n\n---via [[Single-file HTML apps | Hyperclay|https://hyperclay.com/]]", "tags": "SelfHost Html TiddlyWiki Spa NodeJs", "type": "text/vnd.tiddlywiki", "created": "20250818000000000", "modified": "20250818000000000" }]
by kjkjadksj | 2025-08-18 22:51:15+00:00
It was inevitable in the sense the hardware was already available on the wholesale market. People tend to lionize these companies like they forged the phone out of the living earth themselves. Really they just contract with factories that assemble products out of components available on the wholesale market.

Sexy OS? You can argue that came mostly from within since that is how that software was developed, in house. But the hardware stack they ordered and had assembled for you? I’m not so sure.
by taeric | 2025-08-18 22:51:42+00:00
Thanks, this does seem to acknowledge that families like the buffet a lot. That said, I think it indexes a bit too heavily on the waffle maker. Which, I can kind of understand? My kids certainly loved that thing. They also loved the "watch a pancake traverse through the machine" automation thing. (Really, I think they just love the permission to make things that we all agree take syrup.)

Even in the adults that love these, a big part of why I would use the buffet versus going somewhere else would be the ridiculous amount of time I would save in doing so. Such that I find it odd not to weigh that in the discussion.
by epistasis | 2025-08-18 22:52:03+00:00
While I'm somewhat sympathetic to this view, there's another angle here too. The largesse of investment on a vague idea means that lots of other ideas get funding, incidentally.

Every VC pitch is about some ground-breaking tech or unassailable moat that will be built around a massive SAM; in reality early traction is all about solving that annoying and stupid problem your customers hate doing but that you can do for them. The disconnect between the extraordinary pitch and the mundane shipped solution is the core of so much business.

That same disconnect also means that a lot of real and good problems will be solved with money that was meant for AGI but ends up developing other, good technology.

My biggest fear is that we are not investing in the basic, atoms-based tech that we need in the US to not be left behind in the cheap energy future: batteries, solar, and wind is being gutted right now due to chaotic government behavior, the actions of madmen that are incapable of understanding the economy today, much less where tech will take it in 5-10 years. We are also underinvesting in basics like housing, or construction tech. Hopefully some of the AI money goes to fixing those gaping holes in the country's capital allocation.
by tonymet | 2025-08-18 22:52:09+00:00
I can relate. I've gotten pretty confident by watching the *consumption tab -- but i don't think most drivers should have to .

I think the ones who dismiss this issue drive regular routes with the EV and don't push the boundaries . Then there are the rest of us who actually try to test the limits where you encounter a good deal of unsettling unpredictability .

I've pulled supercharger data and found discrepancies between the before and after kwh delivered -- explaining some discrepancies in the charging and forecasts. I don't think anyone else has gone into that level of detail.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-08-18 22:52:18+00:00
> Some of those old / early cosmetics have shot up in price

"Back in my day" you brought your own skins, maps, and mods to your clan's Quake 2 server and they'd be automatically copied-into other players' q2base profile directories when they connected: free and fast. Making skins in a cracked copy of Photoshop 5.5 or PaintShopPro (don't forget to save to PCX!) was trivial and because nothing really mattered no-one could possibly get angry at anything.

...but now you're telling me that if I want to add custom skins to CounterStrike I have to pay other people hugely inflated sums for the privilege of something that was still free and open to all only yesteryear? And we're surprised at how toxic the "gamer" community has become over the past 15 years since tradable lootboxes, cosmetics, and microtransactions became the norm?
by hopelite | 2025-08-18 22:52:53+00:00
Expecting engineers to refuse and get themselves fired or even finding another job is not good advice at all. It would be far better advice for people with like minds remain in a company like Google and collect data, share knowledge or information, and maybe even just not make certain improvements, etc. it is always far better to have someone on the inside than not. This self-righteousness of refusing to do something in a system that will hardly notice your protest for more than a day, is utterly foolish. These organizations need to be infiltrated and smartly, using intelligent methods report what is going on. This monster cannot be slayed from the outside and time is running out before tech companies totally remove the human threat vector from the system.
by mapt | 2025-08-18 22:53:00+00:00
The supposed Biblical Ark only held 2-7 of each animal. Denali is a big mountain, and will make a rather large zoo or a small nature preserve. But there are other Arctic ranges with less extreme altitudes that are going to prove useful as well in the "extremely alarmist and not worth considering seriously" scenarios that some of the data suggests we're heading towards.

There is a question of whether there will be any space, what with all the condos. But humans are less constrained, having invented the pressurized condensation-evaporation heat pump refrigeration cycle, than the natural world.
by busterarm | 2025-08-18 22:53:27+00:00
ZIRP->AI/enshitification is the one-two punch combo that I think is going to devastate our economy for 50 years or more. We have an entire generation of executives, financiers and government that have only ever operated in an era of free money.

They've never had to generate a real return, create a product of real value, etc. This wave-of/gamble-on AI slop just shows that they don't even know what value looks like. We've operated for ~40 years on a promise of...something.
Show HN: AtomWorks – new data framework for biomolecular deep learning
by nscorley | 2025-08-18 22:53:36+00:00
Hey HN!

Loading, cleaning, and featurizing structural biology data for machine learning tasks is a HUGE pain. So we at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design developed a framework that makes it possible to prepare data pipelines for many bioinformatic applications in hours rather than months.

We then used this framework to train RosettaFold-3 - a state-of-the-art open-source model for biomolecular structure prediction.

Check it out!

AtomWorks GitHub: https://github.com/RosettaCommons/atomworks

RF3 GitHub: https://github.com/RosettaCommons/modelforge

bioRxiv Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.14.670328v1

Contributions welcome :)
by ipsin | 2025-08-18 22:53:38+00:00
I wonder about the world where, instead of investing in AI, everyone invested in API.

Like, surfacing APIs, fostering interoperability... I don't want an AI agent, but I might be interested in an agent operating with fixed rules, and with a limited set of capabilities.

Instead we're trying to train systems to move a mouse in a browser and praying it doesn't accidentally send 60 pairs of shoes to a random address in Topeka.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-08-18 22:54:21+00:00
I'm a massive AI skeptic, and I think the amount of money being spent is astonishing, but I really don't want to go back to searching the web the old way.

Asking Gemini _is_ just much better at finding you the answers you need, _and_ providing links for you to verify that information.

It will be a sad day when they start injecting ads, I really hope the foss alternatives catch up.
by com2kid | 2025-08-18 22:54:24+00:00
> I used to be able to go to the local gardening center and ask the owner who could right away give you the right answer because that was his expertise that came from years of genuine experience.

I can still do this, and I do on occasion. Hopefully I take the proper pictures and can remember enough about what is going on to convey the issue. ChatGPT will ask follow up questions and even ask for additional pictures if things aren't clear.

Also I can take action before my once every other month or so visit to the nursery, allowing me to take more immediate action.
by bhaney | 2025-08-18 22:55:50+00:00
> this just sounds like a heck of a lot of grokking and work (and maybe even trial and error?) for the mortals, no?

Absolutely. For the record, when I say "my services" I mean services that I'm writing, not any service running on my system. I consider this hardening to be part of development, to be done by the developer responsible for it, whether that's the upstream dev or package maintainer. I would not consider it to be the responsibility of a random end-user and I wouldn't recommend most to try unless they're personally interested in it.

That being said, for developers, these switches make it crazy easy to sandbox your service compared to older solutions. So much so that I actually bother doing it now.
by whatsupdog | 2025-08-18 22:56:06+00:00
Unpopular opinion: Paper ballots with in person voting (with an ID) is the only 100% fool proof and verifiable voting system. Everything else could be manipulated or hacked. And when there's trillions of dollars and world power on the line, it's just a matter of time when the "could be" turns to "would be".
by sqircles | 2025-08-18 22:56:06+00:00
I believe they're the current "cheat code" to the hiring process. If you get called up for an interview after talking to a company at a career fair, there's a good inclination that you have already passed or at least have a leg up on the "culture fit" part of the interview.

With hundreds to thousands of people spamming every job posting under the sun the second it is posted, just getting your credentials read by a human is a major barrier right now that career fairs help alleviate.
by tzs | 2025-08-18 22:56:18+00:00
Doesn't it? It says:

> That usually means that if your battery is below 70% health within either 8 years or 100,000 miles, they’ll replace it for you.

Consider a car with 200k miles at 5 years. 5 years is within 8 years, so I don't see any way of reading "within either 8 years or 100k miles" that would not make that car covered. Similar for a car that is 15 years old with 50k miles.

But everything I've seen elsewhere says the warranty applies as long as you are within 8 years and within 100k miles.