skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets say EV cut co2 emissions by factor of 100x for each km traveled.

Lets say number of cars in total follows exponential progression, 5% growth per year.

It follows that after 100 years due to growth co2 gets back to original level. (Log100/log1.05=94)

EVs are required bandaid, but degrowth will come eventually. (Possibly due to climate change supply will decrease and so will consumption)
Fair point, it is also confusing, but gas and gas are two different words. One is a phase of matter and the other is a shortened form of gasoline, much like petrol/petroleum. However, gasoline does actually go in the fuel tank of your car.
>for a good consumer price

Was there a consumer market for them until recently?
Building a replacement for BlackBerry Internet Service
We should call for A/B testing of this hypothesis.

If it results in more robot probes, all the better!
Why Salvador Dalí is the most faked artist in the world
Her job would still exist even with FSD.

But Elon's income on the other hand depends on the success of Tesla's FSD.
> it is very rare for GPT4 not to be able to understand why it went wrong.

That's not what's going on. GPT4 can't know the real reason why it wrote anything. It can never tell you the real reason why it made a mistake. Instead, we can say that GPT4 is fairly good at inventing plausible explanations about why someone did something, but it's no more accurate explaining its own mistakes than it would be at explaining one of your mistakes. [1]

A better explanation of what happened is that asking for an explanation resulted in chain-of-thought reasoning, and by telling it that its previous answer was wrong, it was biased to pick a different answer.

But this is often fragile. You'd want to do the same test multiple times, and compare regular chain-of-thought reasoning with what happens when you explicitly tell it that a particular answer is wrong.

[1] https://skybrian.substack.com/p/ai-chatbots-dont-know-why-th...
The two main processes involved either use just want (Swiss) or DCM, so I'd assume they're referring to the latter process. I personally can't imagine there's any DCM remaining in processed coffee given how incredibly volatile the stuff is, so I'd guess it's only really an issue for environmental reasons (chlorinated solvent) or for the people working in plants doing the extraction.

tl;dr I don't buy that there's any residual solvent in decaf coffee, whether that solvent is water or DCM.
Tell HN: Google App on Android is draining batteries within hours
Both myself and my partner have different Pixel phones on different phone networks, yet in the last few days we've both struggled to keep our phone charged and within 1-2 hours of being off a charger the battery empties to the point that the phone shuts down.

The cause of this according to Battery Usage is the Google App which used more than half of all battery in the last few days.

This cannot be uninstalled, but what I've done is force stop it, disable it, and installed Nova Launcher and replaced the Google Home launcher — because disabling the Google app kills the At A Glance, the Search Bar, and various other Google things, yet changing the launcher just means you open that in the web browser and it works fine.

If you're experiencing significant battery drain, swap the launcher, disable the Google App. Our batteries are both back to about 26-30h each, in the past few days it's been about 2h if not constantly charging.
EVs being heavier generally wear tires faster than conventional cars.
https://bountifulenergy.blogspot.com/2016/06/eroei-is-unimpo...

"ERoEI is unimportant and is being used incorrectly"

> In this article I will show that ERoEI is unimportant by itself. It usually does not matter if ERoEI is increasing or decreasing. ERoEI provides no guidance about which sources of energy we should pursue, nor does it offer any guidance about how much net energy will be available to us in the future. By itself, ERoEI is a useless figure, unless it is lower than 1, which it almost never is. Although different sources of energy (such as coal or solar PV) have different ERoEI ratios, this means nothing important.

More specifically, Michaux seems unaware that renewables have overtaken fossil sources in terms of EROEI so even if you think it's a useful measure, you need to use really out of date sources to calculate that renewables lose on this metric:

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-11-10/eroi-of-re/

and the paper that the above podcast discusses:

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/12/7098/htm
Probably insurance companies, like in human crashes.
I'm excited to tell you it already exists with kitty and euporie https://github.com/joouha/euporie
If anyone's interested: I wrote a small free app that runs completely client-side in the browser via your webcam, and gives an audible alert if your posture changes:

https://ppp.virtualsaleslab.com
a couple of minor corrections

emoji support, not sixel support, is "cosplaying as a 90s japanese cellphone"

the vt100 is from 01978

my 'cosplaying' comment was a specific response to teddydd's 'cosplaying computers from the sixties'

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i've been playing video and plotting functions from remote machines on terminals since 01993, but using x11, not sixel

i think h.264 (cosplaying as an mp4 player from 02005) is probably a better approach for graphical applications; that's what xpra uses
It's also difficult to get posters to read articles before commenting on them.
So long as you don't stay like that all the time and vary your posture, it's probably not as negative as popularly assumed. Moving a lot is more important than assuming some static 'optimal' posture.
First-time PC user can’t work computer (1995)
There a meritocracy argument in favor of inheritance tax. Those inheriting did not earn that wealth, therefore they should not receive it.

Maybe instead there could be a lottery. Any wealth over some threshold (say $10M) is divided into $100k prizes and awarded to random citizens like a lottery.
> FSD has been 5 years away for… 15 years now?

this was only Elon-time hallucinations that made for great marketing

you won't get to Mars on Elon-time either, but that doesn't mean you won't get there
Conversely, if I own my home, with an attached garage, and especially if my spouse has a gasoline vehicle we would use for long trips, then charging infrastructure and range over ~80 miles are largely irrelevant to me.

Being a perfect vehicle for 2/3rds of the population is good enough for now.
A Lisp-y language that compiles to Desmos expressions
Probably because if they take that exact same GPU+VRAM configuration and slap it on a rackmount-optimized board, they can charge AI companies 5-10x the price for it.
They counted on their chumminess with the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, who's been an outspoken supporter of Revolut. Iirc a report from Private Eye, there is a hint of an ongoing cold war between the PM's henchmen telling bank regulators to let them get the license, and regulators resisting - likely because nobody wants to be responsible for authorizing a business that clearly doesn't meet the necessary requirements in very obvious ways.
I would also suspect that, if they were used for building purposes, some of these artifacts would be found in situ with poles still inserted into or through them, thus being evidence of their use and removing all ambiguity.

As there is only ambiguity in the analysis of these, according to the article, then my conclusion is that no dodecahedrons have been recovered showing evidence of being used like this.
Yes. I think this is exactly right and feel like I'm waiting for people to get over the shock. It's really interesting (but yes, initially scary) to think about what really makes us human.

In a sense we _get_ to think about all the things we can do that robots can't. I hope at some point most feel a sense of relief that a robot can assist in the robotic things we're often forced to do.
Exactly. No way it's half of bandwidth, because video.

I'm guessing it's half of "connections", including DDoS attacks. But even then, I wonder how reliable their methodology is. Like are they including port scanning here, when a connection isn't even made?
But this is just a function of leverage and isn’t unique to tax deferment. This seems more of a complaint about rich people than rich not paying taxes.

With 7% interest you end up paying the same tax as initial liquidation in 10 years so it’s not perpetual. And you eventually pay tax on the gains so even though you made money, the government eventually gets their money and ends up with a larger total.
Communal computing for 21st century science [pdf]
It’s very different to outsource to a giant Indian consulting firm vs offshoring to a network of people working from home across Western Europe.

The former is challenging and not likely to succeed in many scenarios. The latter is now the default playbook at places I work
I agree with the fact that "experts" are quite often wrong and it's too easy to be derailed by appeal to authority.

On the other hand she has a point. As long as the tech won't be 99.99xxxx safe, it will introduce moral hazard (she calls it "risk-homeostasis" but I don't think that kind of neologism is particularly expressive).

At a meta-level, coining some new term could make someone raise an eyebrow. Perhaps she just didn't know about it.
That's not what was suggested. The suggestion was to simply not prosecute a theft of about $900.
Utterly straight-forward and to-the-point insight. I find your argument really compelling.
>you won't get to Mars on Elon-time either, but that doesn't mean you won't get there

Doesn't mean you will either.
My job for many years had me walking a lot. Up and down stairs often dozens of times a day a double set of stairs so two story equivalent. Plus crawling around running cable on floors or in ceilings. Lifting equipment from 50 to 300 pounds (with assistance).

Now I'm at a desk and two years on I often catch myself shaped like an S. Engrossed in a problem my posture has become bad. Plus I haven't done any exercise in two years so my muscle tone and cardiovascular has has never been worse.

Last week whatever I did or whatever series of events led up to it my right shoulder just exploded in pain. My clavicle at my neck was popping, my muscles felt like they were being pulled downward by an invisible meat hook stuck in my shoulder.

I took a day off, took some anti-inflammatory pain killers. But it took a good week to get over it.

I blame my poor posture and being desk-bound but my poor health also had a part in it.
I did not get this on the article, but I do get it every so often. I suspect it is that crappy cloudflare check people are using these days.
For instance used it in conjunction with llama-index for knowledge management. Created an index for a whole confluence/jira of a mid-sized company, got good results with GPT, but for LLaMA of this size that use case was too much.
I had the misfortune of inheriting a MySQL 5.6 database and I had to manage it for a year and a half. It wasn't very big (less than 100GB), but:

- for some reason it hang periodically and had to be restarted during the night for no apparent reason

- compared to Postgres, the tooling is garbage (both for backups and even more for general database administration)

- essential features are missing, the most important one of which, for me, was proper CSV import/export. CSV-related functionality is so broken and terribly inconvenient to use. In a specific case I had to write a program to export millions of records manually since MySQL could not generate correct CSV export due to some columns containing text with special characters, quotes, newlines. Any combination of the export parameters ("ENCLOSED BY", "ESCAPED BY" and all the other garbage options) failed in one way or another. I even tried to use non-standard characters like \x15 and \r for column and row separation but even that failed. With Postgres, "with csv header" is simple and works every time.

I also managed bigger Postgres databases (up to tens of terabytes) and never had the issues I encountered with MySQL.
>FSD has been 5 years away for… 15 years now?

FSD is going to be enabled on HW2 anyday now. Oh look at that HW4 just rolled out.
While perpetuals are riskier, you're under playing the risk of traditional futures: even though your rate component is locked in if you hold to expiry, you could still get liquidated in the meantime if the curve moves violently against you.
It wasn't just Musk, it was Lyft and Uber, Waymo and the rest are all still doing it. Lyft's CEO just put out a statement saying "Soon now".
I agree totally that the standard advice about posture and ergonomics is unscientific nonsense. And changing posture is good. However, it is definitely possible for a posture that feels comfortable to be bad for you. Some are better than others.
Cloudflare (CDN with a much larger market share) claims that in the past four weeks, the percent of bots vs. humans is about ~29%. Almost 50% seems like a stretch.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/?range=28d
Wireless headphones are essentially streetwear. Making their product too cheap would be an unforgivable mistake in that market.
Including fatal accidents?

What about software or sensor errors?
> FSD has been 5 years away for… 15 years now?

the past few years it has been "later this year"
What are the chances that their copy is more useful than CommonCrawl? It’s been the target of SEO for decades - are they even capable of separating the good content from the crap anymore?

Google may already be terminal
The classic first reply to the Show HN: Dropbox thread lives on in this comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
We don't - we call it petrol, because it's similar to petroleum but isn't it.

Tbh 'gas' is the weird one, it's a liquid.
This doesn't answer his question.
Although I never finished it, the first couple handful of pages in Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World really frame sitting as a pretty scary activity [0]. I still fail to set reminders and catch myself sitting for prolonged periods, but it has gotten better.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/22557522
I can only imagine some archeologist looking at the Filipino giant spoon/fork hanging on our kitchen walls and wondering what it would be used for.

It's not like anyone actually writes down house decoration theory. You just sorta pick up on it based on visiting a bunch of people's homes in a community.
"Securing name resolution in the IoT: DNS over CoAP" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32186286

From https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip#architecture... :

> Matter aims to build a universal IPv6-based communication protocol for smart home devices. The protocol defines the application layer that will be deployed on devices and the different link layers to help maintain interoperability. The following diagram illustrates the normal operational mode of the stack:

> [...] It is built with market-proven technologies using Internet Protocol (IP) and is compatible with Thread and Wi-Fi network transports.

> Matter was developed by a Working Group within the Connectivity Standards Alliance (Alliance). This Working Group develops and promotes the adoption of the Matter standard, a royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products, with security as a fundamental design tenet. The vision that led major industry players to come together to build Matter is that smart connectivity should be simple, reliable, and interoperable.

> [...] The code examples show simple interactions, and are supported on multiple transports -- Wi-Fi and Thread -- starting with resource-constrained (i.e., memory, processing) silicon platforms to help ensure Matter’s scalability.

Would it make sense to have an mqtt transport for matter? Or a bridge; like homeassistant or similar?

https://github.com/home-assistant/core#featured-integrations lists mqtt

Is there already a good (security) comparison of e.g. http basic auth, x10, ZigBee, mqtt, matter?
I don’t understand this. Isn’t that just forcing the lower middle class up by artificially inflating wages?

What is the motivation to pursue additional training, education, or to work challenging/unappealing jobs?

We also do this in the US to some extent with overpaid government workers. Until recently, there were relatively few of these jobs. But now state and federal agencies have become bloated with BS “do nothing” jobs.
Here's a video of the knitting theory mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76AvV601yJ0
I was sad to see that alacritty doesn't support it. I like their vim-selection-mode (even if it is missing a few movements).

I'd like to play with terminal graphics in a an app I'm working on. Does anybody know if a terminal which supports:

- wayland
- sixel
- copying substrings without a mouse

I know I can just pipe to wl-copy, but sometimes the right chain of sed & awk is less convenient than the right chain of vim highlight movements.
That Apple logo before the networkQuality on the main page seems like something an Apple lawyer will send a cease and desist for.
> Stuck in traffic. If you are stuck in grid lock, that will cut in range, there have been cases were gridlock could last hours.

This is just abjectly wrong. The absolutely best use case for an EV is during gridlock. You can run the heater on a (pre-heat pump) Model 3 for something like 2 days in 15F weather, and people have hypermiled it to 600 miles at 20-30mph.

In gridlock you’re not expending any energy to idle the engine, so there’s no “cut” in range besides from the climate system. Far, far better than idling a combustion engine.
Is there any evidence that this is an actual issue?

My understanding was that the particulates from tires are pretty big and don’t really go airborne
It always was a very simple way to handle remittances for European migrants, and to get travel money for everyone else. Some people then got carried away, probably because their PR was always pretty good.

I had to warn a friend of mine who kept 5-digit savings in there. He didn't know about the lack of banking license (and this was even before they got the Lithuanian one) and was pretty shocked.
Does anyone know a test where they actually measured how well the noise cancelling does, compared to Sony and Bose flagships?
Web is HTTP, so websites and videos. The internet is everything, including the web from SSH (remote server login), RDP (remote desktop login), to torrenting.
This is how layers of process accrete around an organization, each to address a previous screwup. Until nothing gets done at all, except fulfilling the requirements of the process.

There is a tradeoff between frequency and severity of screwups and rate of progress. This tradeoff should be made deliberately; just going from "screwups always bad" will not reach the best balance for the health of the organization.
I am definitely happy you asked your users what they thought and made your decision. But saying "no human complained" might not be a good metric if people use Google or whatever to discover your site or it's info. People don't complain about things they don't know exist.
Since your comment is (was) topmost, I want to clarify that while kitty seems to have an overlarge attack surface, Sixel doesn't seem bad at all.

There's an escape code to enter "sixel" mode, then base64-style data representing 1x6 pixel bitmaps, then an escape code to get back out.

No vector graphics that might overdraw unexpectedly (security considerations!), no mechanism for out-of-band data (security considerations!), no unproven compression libraries (security considerations!), but also none of the extra magic that something like kitty would provide.

I could live happily with Sixel being universally supported in my terminal emulators.
I remember in the 90s having to actually expand my MP3s back into WAVs so my poor CPU could play them in realtime.
Can you even function in modern society without a government issued photo ID? It’s required to drive, collect benefits, fly, purchase alcohol, purchase tobacco, or even purchase Sudafed. I just can’t fathom that there are any actual petitioners or voters that requiring photo ID would disenfranchise.
I hope they do a true wireless earbuds set. Those tend to need repairing much more frequently.
Shit like this makes you realize how behind the curve NHTSA and other government regulators are. Why aren't they putting more guardrails around self driving? What do they stand to lose by enforcing common sense ideas like the ones in the article?
The last high-profile UK example isn't that long ago (icelandic banks last time)?
I've always assumed horizontal scaling implies a network interface between new sets of cores. That in my view would provide a very sharp definition.
I can really recommend the WH-1000XM5 btw. They are quite light and work surprisingly well even with iDevices. I tried to call my dad while I mowed the lawn (electric mower, but pretty loud one) and he understood me well. Audio pass through sounds like the real thing, I’d just like to be able to turn it louder.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I find the discussion around "reminding" yourself to have good posture off-base. It's like saying that if you want larger biceps, you should walk around with your biceps flexed all day. I feel like the important part is strengthening your postural muscles, and then just living normally
Slightly related: Does anyone else can't concentrate for long periods of time while sitting in front of a computer? I have mild scoliosis and a fear of varicocele (if that's relevant), and fortunately my work involves implementation of numerical algorithms/problem solving that I can first sketch on a notebook while laying on my bed and finally be coded sitting -on a rush-. Same with reading books. I'm thinking of purchasing a one-sided divan sofa and put it next to my desktop.
Bark: Real-Time Open-Source Text-to-Audio Rivaling ElevenLabs
We ran a few benchmarks using both the H100 and A100 and results are promising. If Suno AI (the company behind Bark) continues with their momentum, it might become the Stable Diffusion of generative audio. Which would be really good for everyone as right now ElevenLabs is relatively unchallenged.
Lcol areas like most of Western Europe and South America!