MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bobbob1921 | 2026-01-29 19:45:43+00:00
On newer laptops, and I’ve seen this specifically on thinkpads) if the power supply you are using is not the correct wattage, the system will throttle down significantly.
I started noticing this by looking at windows task manager and noticing the CPU would not scale above 0.8 GHz. Not sure if Chrome responds in the same way, but it’s worth looking into. Fix was easy, just get a proper wattage power supply (i went with oem)
by EthanHeilman | 2026-01-29 19:45:44+00:00
> Tesla has 4 different, 4 person cars. It's redundant.

You are spot on, it makes sense to have the Model 3 (economy sedan) and Model y (upmarket crossover SUV).

My question here is why did Tesla have four 4-person cars in the first place? If you wanted to streamline engineering and supply-chain why have Cybercabs instead of using the model 3 or model y as the base? Why split the company between Optimus and making cars?

Cybertrunk does make sense, it is a technology demonstrator and test article filled with all the new ideas and tech they are going to build into the next generation. They get data on people using it by selling it to them.

What you say is a sound strategy for Telsa to peruse, but they don't seem to be perusing it.
by Legend2440 | 2026-01-29 19:45:53+00:00
Genie does not use an explicit representation:

>Genie 3’s consistency is an emergent capability. Other methods such as NeRFs and Gaussian Splatting also allow consistent navigable 3D environments, but depend on the provision of an explicit 3D representation. By contrast, worlds generated by Genie 3 are far more dynamic and rich because they’re created frame by frame based on the world description and actions by the user.
by neelc | 2026-01-29 19:45:55+00:00
I am very hopeful of CXMT. But then then it could take a while for them to ramp up production. Maybe by then, the AI bubble would've burst.

One problem with US sanctions is it could hurt US companies too, like in the case of cutting-edge EUV and CXMT. This is when China is actually a hero and not a villain.
by sixsevenrot | 2026-01-29 19:46:22+00:00
In March 1937, the four main statistical professionals working on the Census in TsUNKhU – the chief of the Sector for Population, Mikhail Kurman; chief of the Census Bureau, Olimpiy Kvitkin; his deputy, Lazar Brand; and the chief of the Sector for transportation and communication, Ivan Oblomov, were arrested and imprisoned. Soon they were joined by the Chief of TsUNKhU, Ivan Kraval, and the chiefs of most of the regional statistical centers, and executions followed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Soviet_census
by echelon | 2026-01-29 19:47:03+00:00
Robotics: $88B TAM

Gaming: $350B TAM

All media and entertainment: $3T TAM

Manufacturing: $5T TAM

Roughly the same story.

This tech is going to revolutionize "films" and gaming. The entire entertainment industry is going to transform around it.

When people aren't buying physical things, they're distracting themselves with media. Humans spend more time and money on that than anything else. Machines or otherwise.

AI impact on manufacturing will be huge. AI impact on media and entertainment will be huge. And these world models can be developed in a way that you develop exposure and competency for both domains.
by mlyle | 2026-01-29 19:47:34+00:00
The counterpoint, though:

> > And, of course, a system that is barely better than average humans might worsen safety, if it ends up replacing driving by those who would normally drive especially safe.

It's only if you get the habitually drunk (a group that is overall impoverished), the very old, etc, to ride Waymo that you reap this benefit. And they're probably not early adopters.
by margorczynski | 2026-01-29 19:47:46+00:00
The problem is not reliance on AI but that the AI is not ready yet and using general-purpose models.

There isn't simply enough doctors to go around and the average one isn't as knowledgeable as you would want. Everything suggests that when it comes to diagnosis ML systems should be better in the long run on average.

Especially with a quickly aging population there is no alternative if we want people to have healthcare on a sensible level.
by the_af | 2026-01-29 19:47:50+00:00
This reminds me of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". One of the themes Pirsig explores is that some people simply don't want to understand how stuff they depend on works. They just expect it to be excellent and have no breakdowns, and hope for the best (I'm oversimplifying his opinion, of course). So Pirsig's friend on his road trip just doesn't want to understand how his bike works, it's good quality and it seldom breaks, so he is almost offended when Pirsig tells him he could fix some breakage using a tin can and some basic knowledge of how bikes work.

Lest anyone here thinks I feel morally superior: I somewhat identify with Pirsig's friend. Some things I've decided I don't want to understand how they work, and when they break down I'm always at a loss!
by quijoteuniv | 2026-01-29 19:47:56+00:00
This sounded like an invitation, forgive me if I misunderstood. I think the bar is higher now. I’m working much faster, and when old-school third parties that have been building niche software for years fail to adapt, you can see it in those meetings. We look at each other and think, good riddance. If they don’t deliver, we’ll just build it ourselves.
by maxchehab | 2026-01-29 19:48:36+00:00
Trust is the hardest part to scale here.

We're building something similar and found that no matter how good the agent loop is, you still need "canonical metrics" that are human-curated. Otherwise non-technical users (marketing, product managers) are playing a guessing game with high-stakes decisions, and they can't verify the SQL themselves.

Our approach:
1. We control the data pipeline and work with a discrete set of data sources where schemas are consistent across customers
2. We benchmark extensively so the agent uses a verified metric when one exists, falls back to raw SQL when it doesn't, and captures those gaps as "opportunities" for human review

Over time, most queries hit canonical metrics. The agent becomes less of a SQL generator and more of a smart router from user intent -> verified metric.

The "Moving fast without breaking trust" section resonates, their eval system with golden SQL is essentially the same insight: you need ground truth to catch drift.

Wrote about the tradeoffs here: https://www.graphed.com/blog/update-2
by neelc | 2026-01-29 19:48:43+00:00
For providers like us, we have to lease IPv4. We came long after IPv4 was already depleted. IPv4 prices did go down. Despite that, the $15/year 128MB BuyVM plan is long-gone.

But for a new provider like us, we'd have to spend more than an established player like BuyVM or RackNerd who bought most of their servers pre-AI-boom.
by red75prime | 2026-01-29 19:48:51+00:00
Tesla report ids from SGO-2021-01_Incident_Reports_ADAS.csv with no or unknown airbag deployment status: 13781-13330, 13781-13319, 13781-13299, 13781-13208, 13781-8843, 13781-13149, 13781-13103, 13781-13070, 13781-13052... and more
by csa | 2026-01-29 19:48:58+00:00
I didn’t want to belabor the point in my original post, but since you went there…

The next steps at the doctor is that I show them my MyFitnessPal nutrition tracking, my dexascan, and (at some point) take off my shirt. I ask them what exactly it is I should change. 100% of the time the answer has been something like “Oh, sorry. Please continue as you are doing.”

They just aren’t used to seeing muscular 200 pound dudes at my height in my area at my age (btw, I’m in my 50s).

Also, someone can workout in the gym all they want, but I think most people will struggle with lowering their body fat percentage if they don’t focus on their nutrition.

I realize that my lean body mass (both bones and muscle) are decreasing, and that rate of decrease be higher each year. That said, I’m doing what I can to maintain whatever muscle and bone mass I have.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-29 19:49:00+00:00
Since I'm in the US, BYD is not part of the equation.

And yes, I will grant that at this point, it's possible that Tesla has the least serious problems. I don't know - I haven't looked at recent data. But it's the usual trajectory: I know plenty of people who bought Teslas in the last 5 years and complained how many weeks/months it would sit at the dealer awaiting repairs (just like it is with Hyundai/Ford/everyone-else these days).

Case in point: Pretty much everyone I know who bought a non-Tesla and had issues with it is still happy with the purchase. Just like Tesla users of the past ;-) Only one guy got annoyed and sold his car and bought a different non-Tesla EV.

My point is that if Tesla suddenly dissolved tomorrow, existing automakers will continue improving their vehicles. Maybe 10 or even 5 years ago Tesla's death would have meant the end of EVs in the US. But by this point we've hit critical mass. They're here to stay.

There are just so many non-Tesla EV choices now. The only thing going for the Tesla.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2026-01-29 19:49:24+00:00
Unless they dramatically reduce the price, they won't get to 10 million any time soon if ever. This article discusses paid subscriptions info releases in the earnings report, https://electrek.co/2026/01/28/tesla-discloses-fsd-subscribe...

800k paid subs in q4/2024, about the same in q1/2025, 900k in q2/2025, 1 million in q3/25, and 1.1 million in q4/2025.

Let's call that 100k growth per quarter in 2025, and currently at 1.1 million subs. They'll have to significantly increase their growth rate. The interesting modeling point is tesla car sales are dropping, down 9% to 1.6 million last year. All their new vehicles are capable of fsd with subscription, but thats only about 1.5 million a year (and likely to keep shrinking).

I think the only way they get good uptake is to make the price cheap, like $1 a month, with 12 free months but you have to give your credit card (ie fees that people don't notice scam like every streaming company). Even if every new buyer gets it, it would take many years at 1.5 million sales a year. Need 8.9 million more subscribers, 8.9/1.5 sales = ~6 years at 100% uptake. There are about 9 million current owners, but I'd guess at least 50% can't run current FSD code - they are on version 4.5 of their hardware (they recently released 4.5 in some new cars, and they have a major upgrade to v5 coming in a year or two).

There's no harm if they don't get to 10 million, because Musk shouldn't have that really large stock payoff as he's killing the company.
by guywithahat | 2026-01-29 19:49:29+00:00
> At the bot’s suggestion, she reduced the daily intake of immunosuppressant medication her doctor prescribed her and started drinking green tea extract. She was enthusiastic about the chatbot

I don't know enough about medicine to say whether or not this is correct, but it sounds suspect. I wouldn't be surprised if chatbots, in an effort to make people happy, start recommending more and more nonsense natural remedies as time goes on. AI is great for injuries and illnesses, but I wonder if this is just the answer she wants, and not the best answer.
by giantrobot | 2026-01-29 19:50:10+00:00
It would be a strategic opportunity for Intel, if they weren't run by imbeciles. DDR4 doesn't require the latest and greatest nodes. It's boring old technology. Even DDR5 is pretty boring. Intel could clean up fabbing DRAM (like they used to). But alas no. They're part of the semiconductor cartel and uninterested in the supply of DRAM increasing. Prices would drop and the fabs would only make stupid margins instead of disgusting margins.
by godelski | 2026-01-29 19:50:14+00:00
> Simple cooling sinks, dense

I think you need to go back to physics class. You seem to not even understand the very basics of heat transfer. You need more than "cold". I'll give you a hint, the problem is the same problem as "in space no one can hear you scream."

I'll also mention that the moon isn't very cold, except on the dark side. In the moon's day the temperature is 120C and at night -130C. The same side of the moon always faces us and the moon isn't always full. I'll let you figure out the rest.
by nh2 | 2026-01-29 19:50:25+00:00
This is not difficult, you just need to run `htop` and perform addition of the RES column (which is in KB unless a unit is shown). Example:

USER RES▽ Command
root 70436 systemd-journald
root 14268 amazon-ssm-agent
root 13508 systemd
root 12160 systemd --user
root 10240 sshd: root@pts/0
root 9088 sshd: root [priv]
root 8944 systemd-udevd
root 8704 systemd-logind
root 8320 nix-daemon --daemon
systemd-ti 8192 systemd-timesyncd
systemd-oo 7808 systemd-oomd
root 6492 -zsh
nscd 6272 nsncd
messagebus 5888 dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile -
root 5888 htop
sshd 4904 sshd: root [net]
root 4736 sshd: sshd -D -f /etc/ssh/sshd_config [listener] 1 of 10-100
root 2960 (sd-pam)
root 2816 agetty --login-program login ttyS0 --keep-baud
root 2192 dhcpcd: [privileged proxy]
dhcpcd 1680 dhcpcd: [manager] [ip4] [ip6]
dhcpcd 1468 dhcpcd: [BPF ARP] ens5 172.31.8.86
dhcpcd 1168 dhcpcd: [control proxy]
dhcpcd 1040 dhcpcd: [network proxy]
by jrowen | 2026-01-29 19:50:25+00:00
> This is just based on the last 100 or so years of the average persons live quality being raised by astronomical amounts because of the paradigm of customer blindness.

If you can point me in the direction of any sources of data or research that demonstrate this specific causation I would be interested to learn more.

This article finds that "tailoring price according to willingness to pay is theoretically sound but culturally still questionable."

https://wiglafjournal.com/fixed-vs-variable-pricing/

I think it's important to separate discussion of the abstract concept from a particular implementation (though both are relevant). "It is important that such segmentation be fair, however, if you want your customers to accept variable pricing."
by drewda | 2026-01-29 19:50:38+00:00
Waymo is intentionally leaving out the following details:

- Their "peer-reviewed model" compares Waymo vehicles against only "Level 0" vehicles. However even my decade-old vehicle is considered "Level 1" because it has an automated emergency braking system. No doubt my Subaru's camera-based EBS performs worse than Waymo's, still it's not being included in their "peer-reviewed model." That comparison is intentionally comparing Waymo performance against the oldest vehicles on the road -- not the majority of cars sold currently.

- This incident happened during school dropoff. There was a double-parked SUV that occluded the view of the student. This crash was the fault of that double-parked driver. But why was the uncrewed Waymo driving at 17 mph to begin with? Do they not have enough situational awareness to slow the f*ck down around dropoff time immediately near an elementary school?

Automotive sensor/control packages are very useful and will be even more useful over time -- but Waymo is intentionally making their current offering look comparatively better than it actually is.
by elfly | 2026-01-29 19:50:38+00:00
I've thought about this same idea but it probably gets very complicated.

Let's say, you simulate a long museum hallway with some vases in it. Who holds what? The basic game engine has the geometry, but once the player pushes it and moves it, it needs to inform the engine it did, and then to draw the next frame, read from the engine first, update the position in the video feed, then again feed it back to the engine.

What happens if the state diverges. Who wins? If the AI wins then...why have the engine at all?

It is possible but then who controls physics. The engine? or the AI? The AI could have a different understanding of the details of the base. What happens if the vase has water inside? who simulates that? what happens if the AI decides to break the vase? who simulates the AI.

I don't doubt that some sort of scratchpad to keep track of stuff in game would be useful, but I suspect the researchers are expecting the AI to keep track of everything in its own "head" cause that's the most flexible solution.
by brightball | 2026-01-29 19:50:57+00:00
This makes sense based on his recent talk about putting solar powered AI data centers in space. I was expecting this announcement soon and it makes perfect sense if that's the goal.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-and-musk-race-to-bring-data-c...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/technology/space-data-cen...
by alterom | 2026-01-29 19:51:08+00:00
> It seems like the motivation here is that Musk is aligning Tesla to a narrative that justify the absurd stock price, even if that narrative isn't reality.

Since Tesla stock has always been 90% based on the narrative, the narrative is the reality (and the product) of Tesla, and the actual machinery made and sold are just props and decorations to create the impression of it.

Maybe they should rebrand themselves as poTemkin: keep the T logo and the mysterious Slavic vibe, while shedding the pretense about what they're about.

Won't affect the stock anyway. Everyone knows the company is overvalued based on promises and perception alone.

Everyone's just betting on the charade going on one moment longer than their hold on the stock.

If you squint, the Cybertruck is shaped like a pyramid on wheels, which couldn't work any better as a visual metaphor for the enterprise.
by mikestew | 2026-01-29 19:51:18+00:00
…discontinuing the basic lane keep + adaptive speed cruise control they helped pioneer in cars sold going forward.

[Citation needed] Cars had adaptive cruise control and lane keeping well before Tesla showed up.

As for the feature itself, we have a camper van on a 2024 Ram chassis. It’s a work truck at its core, with fancy RV bits added on. And it has ACC/lane keeping. It claims it will even park itself, though I’ve not tried.

So Tesla is now charging for features that your roofer got for free with her work van. Such luxury.
by jmalicki | 2026-01-29 19:51:38+00:00
For all practical purposes any code reliant on the output of a PRNG is non-deterministic in all but the most pedantic senses... And if the LLM temperature isn't set to 0 LLMs are sampling from a distribution.

If you're going to call a PRNG deterministic then the outcome of a complicated concurrent system with no guaranteed ordering is going to be deterministic too!
by kingstnap | 2026-01-29 19:51:40+00:00
> she said she was aware that DeepSeek had given her contradictory advice. She understood that chatbots were trained on data from across the internet, she told me, and did not represent an absolute truth or superhuman authority

With highly lucid people like the author's mom I'm not too worried about Dr. Deepseek. I'm actually incredibly bullish on the fact that AI models are, as the article describes, superhumanly empathetic. They are infinitely patient, infinitely available, and unbelievably knowledgeable, it really is miraculous.

We don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but there are obviously a lot of people who really cannot handle the seductivity of things that agree with them like this.

I do think there is pretty good potential in making good progress on this front in though. Especially given the level of care and effort being put into making chatbots better for medical uses and the sheer number of smart people working on the problem.
by pavel_lishin | 2026-01-29 19:52:01+00:00
> Controls as simple as the door handles are unintuitive, with the handle apparently being the emergency release that doesn't lower the window (for who knows why). You have to brief your passengers on egress like it's an airplane.

I caught a ride with a friend in a Tesla, and when we stopped I opened the door - like a human being operating a century-old piece of technology - and he looked at me like I was crazy, and told me not to do that.

Truly, a bonkers decision.
by uejfiweun | 2026-01-29 19:52:16+00:00
I think it's actually pretty simple, a lot of people developed an extreme hatred of Musk once he threw his hat in with Trump. He's a political figure now and he's subject to the same spin, emotional reactions, and propaganda that all the other political figures are subject to. It doesn't really matter what he or his companies do, there will always be lots of people spinning it as a giant failure, and lots of people spinning it as a massive success.
by nikisweeting | 2026-01-29 19:53:01+00:00
Unrelated to parent thread: Sorry to ping you here @Reedlaw but it appears the email on your personal site is rejecting incoming mail.

I'm trying to reach you regarding an older rubygems package you maintain. We're trying to offer you some $ to rename it because we maintain a large project with the same name in other languages and want to start offering it in ruby. I sent you a connect request + message on Linkedin from https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicksweeting/
by bojan | 2026-01-29 19:53:37+00:00
> freelance translation

As someone who has to switch between three languages every day, fixing the text is one of my favourite usages of LLMs. I write some text in L2 or L3 as best as I can, and then prompt an LLM to fix the grammar but not change anything else. Often it will also explain if I'm getting the context right.

That being said, having it translate to a language one doesn't speak remains a gamble, you never know it's correct so I'm not sure if I'd dare use it professionally. Recently I was corrected by a marketing guy that is native in yet another language because I used a ChatGPT translation for an error message. Apparently it didn't sound right.
by guru4consulting | 2026-01-29 19:53:42+00:00
They do not monetize but may do probably something worse, infotize or narratize (just invented words). By using an almost neutral, altruistic platform to subtly control/constrain the narratives on certain tech overlords. As much as I love HN, I do not agree with their reasoning to flag some of the posts that are negative to the tech elites.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-29 19:53:51+00:00
> “The AI hallucinated. I never asked it to do that.”

> That’s the defense. And here’s the problem: it’s often hard to refute with confidence.

Why is it necessary to refute it at all? I shouldn't matter, because whoever is producing the work product is responsible for it, no matter whether genAI was involved or not.
by filloooo | 2026-01-29 19:54:00+00:00
They are forbidden to buy equipment beyond their current process node, which is already obsolete, die size is 40% bigger than Samsung, not to mention lithography, the big 3 are using EUV now.

Vastly expanding capacity as is means enormous losses if the cycle went downward a few years later, that's how all previous makers went bankrupt.

They can squeeze a bit more performance if they are ready to go beyond their current node and be blacklisted by the US government equipment wise.

But the cap is there, unless they can make a working EUV machine in 5 years, they are doomed to be a minor player, if the current cycle even lasts that long.
by moomoo11 | 2026-01-29 19:54:57+00:00
I think this would be good for the people living in overcrowded, polluted and dirty cities in the world (let's be honest, they actually exist regardless of how that happened or why).

Maybe they can unplug from 500+ AQI pollution and spend time with their loved ones and friends in a simulated clean world?

Imagine working for 10-12 hours a day, and you come home to a pod (and a building could house thousands of pods, paid for by the company) where you plug in and relax for a few hours. Maybe a few more decades of breakthroughs can lead to simulated sleep as well so they get a full rest.

Wake up, head to the factory to make whatever the developed world needs.

(holy fuck that is a horrible existence but you know some people would LOVE for that to be real)