MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by asa400 | 2026-01-29 04:36:06+00:00
> It seems counterintuitive, but this helped Tesla which is why Musk championed it. Basically when that tax credit came out, a bunch of Tesla owners had their cars underwater - loans were more than new cars were selling for and depreciation thru the roof. Plus the tax credit helped their competitors.

This makes sense if your business strategy is to get existing Tesla owners to trade their current Teslas to buy new Teslas, rather than to convert non-Tesla owners to buy new Teslas. The latter market is WAY bigger and the tax credit was a huge carrot enticing them to look at a brand they'd never try otherwise in a market where ICE vehicle prices were skyrocketing.

As it stands, there are a ton of Tesla owners who bought their cars with the tax refund, are underwater on them, bitter about it and/or dislike Elon personally, and will never buy a Tesla again. This is churn and brand destruction without a corresponding top of funnel increase.

In contrast, the supercharger network was significant not just for the convenience factor for Tesla owners, but also for the fact that it was a social signal that Tesla was serious about growing the addressable market of EV owners generally by not just making a decent car but making the "EV lifestyle" seem possible to non-EV owners.

If Tesla actually is happy that the tax credit is going away, that seems like they're acknowledging that they're satisfied taking shrinking share of a shrinking market, which is their prerogative, but it's a bad business.
by rendaw | 2026-01-29 04:36:56+00:00
CapitalOne balance alerts for a low-use credit card - they silently disabled the alerts because "I wasn't reading them". Because I have read notifications disabled and don't load remote resources.

Even if they truly believed I wasn't reading them, disabling them makes no sense to me. They certainly weren't bouncing and I wasn't reporting them as spam.

I dropped CapitalOne after that (not sure I moved to something better though...)
by refulgentis | 2026-01-29 04:37:00+00:00
See peer reply re: yes, your self-chosen benchmark has been reached.

Generally, I've learned to warn myself off of a take when I start writing emotionally charged stuff like [1]. Without any prompting (who mentioned apps? and why would you without checking?), also, when reading minds, and assigning weak arguments, now and in my imagination of the future. [2]

At the very least, [2] is a signal to let the keyboard have a rest, and ideally my mind.

Bailey:
> "If [there were] new LLMs...consistently solving Erdos problems at rapidly increasing rates then they'd be showing...that"

Motte:
> "I can['t] pop into ChatGPT and pop out Erdos proofs regularly"

No less than Terence Tao, a month ago, pointing out your bailey was newly happening with the latest generation: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115788262274999408.
Not sure how you only saw one Erdos problem.

[1] "I'll wait with bated breath for the millions of amazing apps which couldn't be coded before to start showing up"

[2] "...or, more likely, be told in 6 months how these 2 benchmarks weren't the ones that should matter either"
by nextaccountic | 2026-01-29 04:37:08+00:00
> What one should do about this? I mean, beside working on lowering that number.

Every business in Brazil has an whatsapp to talk to their clients. Sometimes this whatsapp goes into the phone or computer of a real human being. Other times, it's manned by a bot (usually a dumb choose-your-own-adventure bot - I don't see business using LLMs for this here)

Indeed I use food delivery apps (ifood here) only to check out the menu of delivery restaurants, then I search for them in Google so I can order directly from them through whatsapp. This won't work for some dark kitchens, but other than that it's pretty reliable and avoid the middleman
by Chronologos | 2026-01-29 04:38:51+00:00
I built this because Claude Code stores sessions in per-project directories (~/.claude/projects/*/), but there's no built-in way to see all your sessions across projects or quickly jump back into one.

cc-sessions solves this by:
- Scanning all project directories in parallel (Rust + rayon)
- Showing sessions sorted by last modified with relative timestamps
- Interactive fzf picker with transcript preview (-i flag)
- Project filtering (-p dotfiles)
- Fork mode to branch off from any session (-f flag)

Technical details: ~350 lines of Rust, no chrono dependency (hand-rolled ISO 8601 parser to keep the binary small), reads from Claude's sessions-index.json files rather than parsing the .jsonl transcripts directly.

Requires fzf and jaq for the interactive preview.
by SR2Z | 2026-01-29 04:39:39+00:00
Of course, it's 4D chess. This was such a genius move that Tesla profits fell 46% last year and they are ending production of their highest-margin vehicles.

GM wrote down $4B when they reduced their EV production. Despite that, last year GM sold half the number of EVs as Tesla did. If THAT was reduced production by 100%, then Tesla would have been truly fucked had Harris won the election.

Tesla is suffering because Elon Musk was a genius at some point in the past. Then, he got into ketamine and fried his brain.

The cars are expensive, have QC issues, and are facing steep competition from the rest of the world. Tesla's attempt to build an F150 competitor was a disaster, Optimus is years away from being useful for anything, and after 15 years of "We'll totally release FSD this year!" the market seems to finally be realizing that it's not going to happen for a little while.

It really sucks to see a perfectly good company get blown to smithereens, but shareholders did choose to bet on the man.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-29 04:39:53+00:00
> . Yes, it’s expanding the surveillance state, and yes, it’s destroying the education system, and yes, it’s being trained on copyrighted work without permission, and yes, it’s being used to create lethal autonomous weapons systems that can identify, target, and kill without human input, but… I forget my point, but ultimately, I think you should embrace it.

What's your answer to this? How did it turn out for nuclear energy? If it wasn't for this sort of thinking we'd have nuclear power all over the world and climate issues would not have been as bad.

You should embrace it, because other countries will and yours will be left behind if you don't. That doesn't mean put up with "slop", but that also doesn't mean be hostile to anything labeled "AI" either. The tech is real, it is extremely valuable (I applaud your mental gymnastics if you think otherwise), but not as valuable as these CEOs want it to be or in the way they want to be.

On one hand you have clueless executives and randos trying to slap "AI" on everything and creating a mess. On the other extreme you have people who reject things just because it has auto-complete (LLMs :) ) as one of it's features. You're both wrong.

What Jensen Huang and other CEOs like Satya Nadella are saying about this mindless bandwagonning of "oh no, AI slop!!!" b.s. is true, but I think even they are too caught up in tech circles? Regular people don't to the most part feel this way, they only care about what the tool can do, not how it's doing it to the most part. But..people in tech largely influence how regular people are educated, informed,etc...

Look at the internet, how many "slop" sites were there early on? how much did it get dismissed because "all the internet is good for is <slop>"?

Forget everything else, just having an actual program.. that I can use for free/cheap.. on my computer.. that can do natural language processing well!!! that's insane!! Even in some of the sci-fi I've been rewatching in recent years, the "AI/Computer" in spaceships or whatever is nowhere near as good as chatgpt is today in terms of understanding what humans are saying.

I'm just calling for a bit of a perspective on things? Some are too close to things and looking under the hood too much, others are too far and looking at it from a distance. The AI stock valuation is of course ridiculous, as is the overhyped investments in this area, and the datacenter buildout madness. And like I said, there are tons of terrible attempts at using this tech (including windows copilot), but the extremes of hostility against AI I'm seeing is also concerning, and not because I care about this awesome tech (which I do), but you know.. the job market is rough and everything is already crappy.. I don't want to go through an AI market crash or whatever on top of other things, so I would really appreciate it on a personal level if the cause of any AI crash is meritocratic instead of hype and bandwagonning, that's all.
by rossjudson | 2026-01-29 04:39:56+00:00
I would. Someone in the market for a presumably profitable BMW 5 or 7 series isn't going to stay with BMW and drive a 3 series.

Yearly sales of model X have been comparable to the 5 series, at least until last year when musk's political activities took the shine off the brand.

High end cars are more profitable. There are millions of 3 and Y owners with positive experiences who would stay with the brand if it had something to move up to.

My 23 MX is the best car I've ever owned. I wouldn't buy the current iterations of 3 and Y.

Most refresh X owners think it's pretty great (not perfect). There are no alternatives at the moment, mostly because other manufacturers are terrible at software development...and that's not good for software defined vehicles.

It's sad to see Tesla walk away from the luxury segment so they can focus on robots, go karts, and robots pretending to drive go karts.
by hkt | 2026-01-29 04:40:28+00:00
That's possibly why: small businesses reliant on contracts that are, to them, disproportionately huge.. well, they die at the end of the contract. HMRC killed off an OpenStack based AWS competitor by replacing them, about ten years ago. Anchor clients can be a real hazard if an SME can't live without them. Sometimes it just isn't worth it.
by barrell | 2026-01-29 04:42:12+00:00
I mean it’s closer, but I don’t think it’s right to equate commissioning an artist with paying a multi-billion dollar corporation to steal from artists.

These tools are just lazy shortcuts. And that’s fine, there’s no problem with taking the lazy way. I’m never going to put in the time to learn to draw, so it’s cool there’s an option for me.

I just take ire with pretending it’s something grand and refined, or spitting in the face of the ones who are willing to put in the work
by throw10920 | 2026-01-29 04:42:15+00:00
Did you actually read what you're responding to?

> And "other people in the past predicted doom about something like this and it didn't happen" is a fallacious non-argument even when the things are comparable.

> the claim that "someone predicted doom in the past and it didn't happen then so someone predicting doom now is also wrong" is absurd

It's pretty clear that I'm not defending engaging in baseless negative speculation, but refuting the dismissal of negative speculation based purely on the trope that "people have always predicted it".

Someone who read what they were responding to would rather easily have seen that.

> As you say, someone predicting doom has no bearing on whether it happens

That is not what I said. I'm pretty sure now that you did not read my comment before responding. That's bad.

This is what I said:

> It's then quite obvious that the fact that someone, somewhere, predicts a bad thing happening has ~zero bearing on whether it actually happens, and so the claim that "someone predicted doom in the past and it didn't happen then so someone predicting doom now is also wrong" is absurd.

I'm very clearly pointing out (with "someone, somewhere") that a random person predicting a bad thing has almost no ("~zero") impact on the future. Obviously, if someone who has the ability to affect the future (e.g. a big company executive, or a state leader (past or present)) makes a prediction, they have much more power to actually affect the future.

> so why engage in it? It's just spreading FUD and dwelling on doom.

Because (rational) discussion now has the capacity to drive change.

> There's no expected value to the individual or to others.

Trivially false - else most social movements would be utterly irrelevant, because they work through the same mechanism - talking about things that should be changed as a way of driving that change.

It's also pretty obvious that there's a huge difference between "predicting doom with nothing behind it" and "describing actual bad things that are happening that have a lot of evidence behind them" - which is what is actually happening here, so all of your arguments about the former point would be irrelevant (if they were valid, which they aren't) because that's not even the topic of discussion.

I suggest reading what you're responding to before responding.

> Personally, I don't think "TikTok will shorten people's attention spans" qualifies as doom in and of itself.

You're bringing up "doom" as a way to pedantically quarrel about word definitions. It's trivial to see that that's completely irrelevant to my argument - and worth noting that you're then conceding the point about people correctly predicting that TikTok will shorten people's attention spans, hence validating the need to have discussions about it.
by popalchemist | 2026-01-29 04:42:29+00:00
While the employees of the companies that make AI may have noble, even humanity-redeeming/saving intentions, the billionaire class absolutely has bond-villain level intentions. The destruction of the middle class and the removal of all livable-wage jobs is absolutely part of the techno-feudalist playbook that Trump, Altman, Zuckerberg, etc are intentionally moving toward. I'd say that is a scam. They want to recreate the conditions of earlier society - an upper class (them, who own the entire means of production and can operate the entire machine without the need for peons' input) who does whatever they want because the lower class is incapable of opposing them.

If you aren't familiar, look into it.
by doanbactam | 2026-01-29 04:43:22+00:00
Refining Idea 3 to sound like a seasoned HN user: "Curious how they handle the moisture content and outgassing in a vacuum. Wood needs to be extremely dry and stable to avoid warping, but the payoff for reducing metallic debris during re-entry would be huge. " Refining Idea 2 (More conversational): "Reminds me of the LignoSat project from Kyoto University using magnolia. Does the article mention what specific type of wood they're using? I recall magnolia being surprisingly durable against temperature swings in the ISS experiments.
by querez | 2026-01-29 04:43:47+00:00
> No Gemini was not "entirely trained on TPUs". They did hundreds of experiments on GPUs to get to the final training run done entirely on TPUs. GCP literally has millions of GPUs and you bet your ass that the gemini team has access to them and uses them daily.

You are wrong. Gemini was definitely trained entirely on TPU. Of course your point of "you need to count failed experiments, too". Is correct. But you seem to have misconceptions around how deepmind operates and what infra it possess. Deepmind (or barely any of Google internal stuff) runs on Borg, an internal cloud system, which is completely separate (and different) from gcp. Deepmind does not have access to any meaningful gcp resources. And Borg barely has any GPUs. At the time I left deepmind, the amount of tpu compute available was probably 1000x to 10000x larger than the amount of gpu compute. You would never even think of seriously using GPUs for neural net training, it's too limited (in terms of available compute) and expensive (in terms of internal resource allocation units), and frankly less well supported by internal tooling than tpu. Even for small, short experiments, you would always use TPUs.
by zahlman | 2026-01-29 04:45:04+00:00
By virtue of the car continuing to turn during continuous burst fire. Human reaction time is a thing; officers (as well as responsible gun owners with self-defense training) are taught to fire multiple shots when shooting in self defense (and it actually weakens their legal argument if they don't).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlmMMmrO2oo explains in detail.
by hkt | 2026-01-29 04:46:45+00:00
If memory serves, Dan Jarvis also did it, being both MP and mayor of the South Yorkshire city region or whatever it was called at the time.

It is fairly innately political. No Prime Minister has ever polled as low as Starmer and come back from it, or so is being said in the press. Burnham might be a smart electoral move, but he's not a plaything of the Labour right, so they kept him out.
by rossjudson | 2026-01-29 04:47:41+00:00
Sure. And selling the most popular car on the planet is a failure?

Didn't the US government put ~$80b into rescuing GM etc, years ago?

Subsidies bootstrapped the EV industry. Stupid policies mean walking away from the investment, ceding the market to foreign competitors, and doubling down on legacy ICE crap the rest of the world no longer wants...and Americans will be less and less able to afford.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-29 04:47:52+00:00
It's the senescence that makes the fall, more or less, inevitable. Warren Buffet wrote about it in his final letter to shareholders [1] : "When balance, sight, hearing and memory are all on a persistently downward slope, you know Father Time is in the neighborhood."

[1] - https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025.pdf
by alephnerd | 2026-01-29 04:48:47+00:00
> let's grab something to drink when we are both there.

Let's do it! I won't be back in the near future but I expect to be back soonish.

> But in the context of the EU-India deal that is being discussed here, plenty of us continentals will find that without such infrastructure, it is hard. Just a few weeks ago I sat with a friend from Charles' University who described various funny incidents when dealing with postdoc applications from distant countries, India prominently included.

To be honest, you aren't getting the best talent India has to offer in Central Europe (and especially Czechia) - salaries in the 75th and 90th percentiles in Indian STEM end up similar to Prague but with better purchasing parity, so the pull factor isn't there when Indians in that demographic can easily be poached by Citadel, Anthropic, or Google Deepmind.

Most top Indian researchers going abroad target American universities for postdocs (even with Trump) and maybe a Max Planck (Germany), UKRI, NSERC (Canada), CSIRO (Australia), INRIA, MEXT (Japan), NRF (SK), or ISF (Israel) instead so I'm not surprised that Charles University isn't getting good candidates - there's no pull factor when the countries listed can provide significantly more funding while also offering better commercialization opportunities.

On the other hand, a major reason a lot of my peers opened Prague offices was because it made it easier to recruit talent from the CIS following 2014 which made operating a Moscow office difficult. Around that time the Czech government also revamped their services investment attraction program which made Prague a better option than competitors like Tallinn or Budapest.
by aorth | 2026-01-29 04:49:06+00:00
For local music it's my preferred client as well. I've set mine up to resemble the old iTunes interface, with three panes: artist (left), album (right), and song (bottom), and explicitly configured it to use album artists instead featuring blah blah.

For network-based music Navidrome is very good. A good client for that on desktop is https://github.com/victoralvesf/aonsoku. It's Electron, but I don't mind. Ironically, it was Tauri based until a few months ago and that was much heavier and buggy, which is what people complain about with Electron.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-29 04:49:23+00:00
Try to impair democracy through election denial groups? Absolute power and all that jazz.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734078

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-socia...

“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.” —- David Frum
by lmm | 2026-01-29 04:50:07+00:00
> The "happy ending" where one of the parents and their three other kids find out that the other parent likely killed the older brother they never met? That doesn't sound very happy to me, but maybe we have different definitions of happy?

While "happy" isn't the word I'd use, that seems better than knowing that this could happen to any baby at any time and nothing would be done.
by hkt | 2026-01-29 04:50:56+00:00
A lot of it is! It has been this way for a long time in some parts of the public sector, eg:

https://github.com/ministryofjustice

I don't know of a department that does it as well as MoJ, though. Caveats exist around old private sector implemented systems like the prisons and probation databases etc, which even MoJ itself doesn't own the IP for. But everything made by civil servants or contractors at MoJ ends up published in that org unless there's a good reason not to.

Edit: FOI in principle allows you to request a cut of a git repo etc for a service, so you can impose annoyance upon departments that are less open.
by justaboutanyone | 2026-01-29 04:51:32+00:00
For Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-Q5_K_M at 32k context, I fed it a 26k token file (truncated fiction novel) asking it to summarize, and it input processed at 224 tok/s and output generated at 3 tok/s. Not really good enough for interactive use without frustration. Not just from watching it reply, but also the long wait for it to actually read the book.

On the same hardware gpt-oss-120b at 128k context, I fed it a longer version of the input (a whole novel, 97k tok), and it input processed at 1650 tok/s and output generated at 27 tok/s. Just fast enough IMO
by mpyne | 2026-01-29 04:54:25+00:00
Yeah I generally enjoy puzzle games and didn't find Outer Wilds very good from that perspective. And it had some surprisingly intensive dexterity requirements in sections of the game that make it impossible to progress without looking up spoilers, and I'm not talking about the spaceship controls.

And when I finally put the game down and just watched through the rest on Youtube, like, I could see what the game was getting at and why people would be fascinated by it but it was by no means life-changing unless you've had a very boring life.
by nwellinghoff | 2026-01-29 04:54:56+00:00
A lot of these accounts seem anecdotal. I have a clean copy of win 11 iot ltsc running on my laptop and it runs well. The desktop management, included hyper V, wsl2 and awesome RDP make it a great platform to get work done. Most problems people encounter with Windows have to do with driver maturity. And in the case of a mega corp managed machine its all the “security” bs the put on there that slows you down to a crawl.Once you get stable drivers; I find Windows 11,with wsl as my shell, to be quite nice.
by sgentle | 2026-01-29 04:55:03+00:00
Market cap and it's not even close. Turns out financialisation is the classic you-get-what-you-asked-for-not-what-you-wanted of capitalism. We told the optimiser to make number go up, and number has certainly gone up. China's number? Not as up.

I think it could have gone differently if we gave our economic system something to optimise other than itself, but then we wouldn't have centibillionaires, so... swings and roundabouts I guess?