skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BYD's technological development program, in particular lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, is undeniably impressive. Tesla is now also moving to Li-FePO4 batteries:

https://www.manlybatteries.com/info/why-byd-insists-on-using...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/china-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/05/how-byd-grew-from-a-phone-ba...
The smartest developers and managers I've ever worked with are women. If someone is offended by being wrong or not being pandered to, this is not on you. I think the problems around this are firmly on the men and the culture that makes it untoward for them to listen and communicate effectively around or despite their emotions.

As a man, I can attest that I struggle sometimes with my ego around being wrong but facts are facts. When I'm wrong, I hope that I handle it in a way that doesn't make people feel they can't show me I'm wrong or that they have to wrongly agree with me or play dumb. Please don't. To me it feels like the best way to get this to stop is to just stop doing it. I know it's easy for me to say. Of course, assess the risks - maybe you have to back out of the persona slowly, but please do. We all gain from being genuine.
Somebody Else's Problem
Unless you’re truly special, The days of multi hundred thousand total comp packages are over - you’d better learn to live as though you’re on a ~175k salary, and if that’s too low, start taking steps on cutting NOW

See also the other hiring post on todays HN front page that’s a Bay Area startup but only hiring for South America for engineering
> that we have lost a useful heuristic

But we've gained some new ones. I find ChatGPT-generated text predictable in structure and lacking any kind of flair. It seems to avoid hyperbole, emotional language and extreme positions. Worthless is subjective, but ChatGPT-generated text could be considered worthless to a lot of people in a lot of situations.
Back in the days I've started eBay Tech Talk Germany. We started small, with only people from my company attending (as CTO I kindly asked them to attend). We grew steadily to nearly 100 people attending, my employer payed the pizza and the location was (later) a coworking space (free). When I left others then grew the meetup to 150+ people attending and made it really successful.

Later in the small startup of my wife, we started a sofatalk meetup. Starting small, we ended up with up to 100+ monthly people attending and made it to the Berlin Olympia Stadium (free) as a location and caterer - with the stadium in company pink :-) But this took lots of effort, lots of talking to people on Linkedin, inviting them, lots of work to get free catering etc.

I think, start small, keep a constant pace, have good talks and the meetup will grow. But it will take many months and hard work (my wife successfully started a literature meetup last year).
Swapping had been tried elsewhere, and the economics never worked out. It's a massive capital investment in batteries, for one, plus the retail land cost. Not to mention that EV brands haven't standardized swappable batteries.

The competition operates on the thinnest of margins: utility electricity prices and gas stations. Swapping is just a crap market to get into.
For macOS and Linux, Ollama is probably the easiest way to try Mixtral (and a large number of models) locally. LM Studio is also nice and available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

As these models can be quite large and memory intensive, if you want to just give it a quick spin, huggingface.co/chat, chat.nbox.ai, and labs.pplx.ai all have Mixtral hosted atm.
If they mean usernames and passwords for third party mail servers, then it is notable, since a traditional email client doesn't do that. They only send the credentials to the server they're authenticating against, not also to the email client vendor.

That it's happening as plain text (notwithstanding TLS on the transfer) distinguishes this from some kind of credentials-sync system (think: LastPass or Keychain) which wouldn't necessarily need to have the credentials in plaintext to function.
That's a bad strategy unless your highest priority is to avoid work. If you want to make more money or have more stability, you will absolutely do better on average if you do more than the minimum. While high performance does not guarantee security, and management doesn't always make the best choices about who to let go, the "do the minimum" people do tend to be the first to go. You don't have to outrun the bear, you have to outrun the slowest guy running from the bear.
US oil lobby launches ad campaign to promote oil as 'vital' to global security
Having done a fair amount of important-but-niche work.. yeah. There are genuinely very few incentives to do this sort of work. It's very much to the point where doing stuff like this necessitates being aggressive towards people who aren't used to that sort of interaction, which is socially extremely difficult to do. And that often even means being aggressive towards colleagues who tend to have softer opinions on things. The alternative is languishing in hidden problems. The folks who end up doing this work, IME, have been burned pretty hard in the past and have decided to continue to wade through the potential of being burned again. Not many people do that.
A nice "feature" for rental EVs would be hot-swap - driving around and your rented Model 3 is a bit low on charge? Bring it by any of the rental locations and be off in another one fully charged in minutes.
I agree. I've noticed the other heuristic that works is "wordiness". Content generated by AI tends to be verbose. But, as you suggested, it might just be a matter of time until this heuristic also no longer becomes obsolete.
On a less ambitious scale: There is a book about someone who read through the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica. It’s titled “The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World,” written by A.J. Jacobs. In this book, Jacobs chronicles his experience of reading the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z, sharing the knowledge he gained, the quirky facts he learned, and how this quest affected his life and relationships. The book is a blend of humor, trivia, and personal reflection, making it an entertaining read for those of us interested in knowledge and learning.
This is where I'm really intrigued of all-house battery packs like the Tesla Powerwall (it's the only name of one I'm familiar to call out). I like the idea that it charges at night during the lower rates, and during the day the house is powered from the battery. Just haven't seen any longevity reports on them in general vs brochure data.
No, it's not. It's an OAUTH2 connection like a sane app. Proton is ostensibly lying about this credential setup. No app does that anymore.
AI is a tool controlled by people. In this case, people who are not OP.
That's not a response to GPs thesis, just an irrelevant nitpick.
GTK apps on Windows always stand out, in a bad way.
No, you've made the claim that that it's impossible to alter, I'm fairly sure it's up to you to show that one of imperfect information, externalities, market power, ~LNS or non-convexity of preferences or production result in the impossibility in the real world of producing a single even slightly different distribution when you're making a universal quantification on what is certainly a non-null hypothesis (never mind the abuse of mathematics that is drawing a straight line on a log-log plot and calling it a day, I know it's a good approximation for almost everything but so do you that it often fails to hold for the whole domain if you've ever took a single maths class) which otherwise clearly contradicts a well established fundamental result of economics. This is not a new theorem, if you're making the case that it cannot possibly hold in the real world in any way under any conceivable circumstances then you really ought to have a rock solid case already prepared, one that stands up to slightly more scrutiny than looking at any graph, literally any single one of them, and seeing that there is clearly a non-linear region there. You know, where all the people actually are. Maybe if you had the time to take a second math class you'd know that being able to fit a power law to the upper tail of a distribution is utterly meaningless considering you can fit it to the upper tail of basically any empirical distribution. You can go for sub- and superlinear PA schemes in your third one. The questions posed continue to be uninteresting, and they don't even have the honour of being accurate.
This has already been posted at least twice
> Completion based APIs are superior IMO

I probably agree with that, but curious to know what your reasons are.
When newspapers close, nonprofit executive salaries go up. Way up
> with prices of new EVs coming down

Prices of new Teslas coming down. This is incredibly specific to Hertz's bet on Teslas.
At least for BSD telnet -x has been enabled by default for years now, but the option actually doing anything is predicated on kerberos.
> Also they got a LOT of EV's, I give them props for doing so...

Why give them props?

It sounds like an obvious waste of their money and resources, one that could easily have been foreseen and calculated. How can a company that specialises in cars like they do, make such an obvious error, like buying 20k EV cars? They are not consumers making lifestyle decisions, they are meant to be running a business!
Tell HN: The GPTStore is full of pirate clones
Some people have been systematically cloning GPTs without permission.

As soon as the GPTStore has been open I did my first search to see if my GPTs could be found. Just to find a bunch of copycats. See an example in this tweet: https://nitter.net/manuelmorales/status/1745503687605105116.

The copies don't seem to work as well as the original. I presumed the found a way to extract the prompt but not the files. Very sad anyway :/
This might be a hot take, but I think Germany is suffering from a sort of Dutch disease with its car industry.

Germany has a lot of human capital, experienced and well educated workforce, but a lot of it got sucked into the car industry, because it was so profitable until now. I hope that with the car industry sunsetting, hopefully we'll see new innovative companies spring up.
> I wish Richard Stallman hadn't duped a generation into thinking that they have to use licenses that make Amazon richer instead of just using proprietary licenses to protect yourself, as the licenses were designed to do, so that people with more lawyers can't just steal your work.

This is why I like Open Source instead of Free Software. There's no practical difference between the two in terms of licences that are compatible with the two definitions. However, Free Software is an ideology that considers proprietary software to be immoral. Whereas Open Source is a perspective that only cares about the economics of producing software, and is perfectly compatible with capitalism.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Note, there are many scenarios for which I find Amazon getting rich off OSS work is perfectly OK, even advantageous for the contributors, since that kind of freedom and control is the whole point of OSS. It's just that being paid for your OSS contributions is probably not one of those scenarios, and people need to be aware of it, indeed.
Markets are imperfect - even more so when government subsidies play a major role. Wind will play a growing role.
Google Formally Endorses Right to Repair, Will Lobby to Pass Repair Laws
> I have 12 iCUE Link fans in total

Please tell me why this isn‘t nuts. Wouldn‘t two or three well-placed and well-dimensioned fans give better cooling performance?
Yes! That's exactly it. I've seen that metaphor before and forgot where I saw it until I searched around for what ended up being a previous comment of yours [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37463187
Accelerating African Growth: The Pan-African Tech Revolution
D has allowed underscores in numbers for as long as I can remember. They're implementing named parameters right now.
Unions limit the innovation the worker wouldn't have gotten proper credit for anyway...meh... Sounds like a good trade for fair working conditions.
Have you checked BigScreen?

https://www.bigscreenvr.com/
I think you might have missed a big-old .303 bullet there. If a company isn't able to recognise the value of going back and correcting your mistakes, even with the help of LLMs, it doesn't sound like a very nice working environment.
Well, maybe 95% of those 84 persistent chemicals are harmless - but if gastrointestinal cancer cases in young people consistently correlated with the other 5%, then you know where the problem lies.

It's a pretty straightforward approach, and while testing labs cost money, at scale it would be a relatively minor cost.
Ironically, many of their software products are bloated and slow as fuck. (There are some that are top class too, but just sayin.. )
But I was told EV's would be much more reliable and cheaper to repair?
Welcome to the future. https://media.sciencephoto.com/c0/47/01/29/c0470129-800px-wm...
Not just Amazon either. Barnes & Noble are starting to see them pop up as well. Luckily it's online only for now but the problem is spreading.

If you look for coloring books on Amazon it's basically all AI generated.
It does pose an extremely legitimate threat to their power, but there is nothing they can do about it. They can't stop it. They either embrace bitcoin or suffer economic collapse.

The only reason there are so many fist currencies is because no country wants to be using a currency that another is printing for free.

With bitcoin, that's not an issue and countries like El Salvador, Argentina would happily use it as the basis for a currency and thrive because of it. Over time, societies that use the best money win.
Is there an inherent complication here?
No, this is highly unique to JS/TS. I've worked in plenty other languages and it's bo where near as bad. Yes they all have some form of this, but it's an order of magnitude smaller.

One big contributor is JS's proclivity to have lots of smaller libraries. This increases the chances of one of the included libraries having a breaking change. Pile ontop of that this insane notion of constant version pinning and "semantic versioning" and you have devs that willy nilly change public facing interfaces.
hold mouse button to erase would be welcome
What should I be reading instead of The Economist?
Let me introduce you to Scandinavia...
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/10/30/do-heat-pumps-work...
Try and find some days where all of Europe is covered in clouds and there wasn’t wind.
[dupe]

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38952897
US Navy sailor swaps sea for cell after accepting bribes from Chinese snoops
NASA's Osiris-Rex Team Clears Hurdle to Access Remaining Bennu Sample
I was recently looking up passion fruit seeds to see if they were edible. One of the first results had various wrong warnings of adverse health effects.

But the best part was it said to be careful to avoid the seeds when you have a fever because it could cause explosions in your mouth.

It’s gotta be AI right? Who else could be as dumb as dogshit.

See section “how to pick a healthy and…”

https://cookingtom.com/are-passion-fruit-seeds-edible/
Regarding the last sentence: The problem is that capitalism knows no limits. Sure, it would be nice to pay a monthly subscription for genuinely good and desirable content/search results...

But what if the CEO of the service provider needs another $5m bonus? What if the stock needs to go up so that the shareholder gamblers can get more dividend paid? What if all of a sudden the service gets bought out?

The truth is that what you are seeking is more likely to come from someone who is just passionate about it with not that much motivation based on profit. That doesn't mean that this entity or person can't be financially supported but it gets problematic when profit is the _main_ incentive.

For a good example of an interesting search engine built by a single guy, see Marginalia: https://search.marginalia.nu/
People like to interact with interpreted languages
I have had an EV since 2018, love it to death, but would absolutley never rent one. The biggest pain point with EVs imo is charging infrastructure. My personal car, I can charge at home so it becomes a non-issue.

But if I'm traveling to a new city that I'm not super familiar with, I do not have any desire to plot out where charging stations are, is the hotel going to have charging, is it going to be operational, etc. Too much headache and cost of public chargers on top of premium cost to rent an EV just doesn't make much sense.
I don't design hardware professionally, but I do a lot of it personally. I document these projects the same way I document my software projects: on a wiki I run on a home server.

I've tried many methods over the years, but in the end, the local Wiki serves my needs the best.
Is this an argument for or against meetups?
You still can, it's very useful for bots and game integrations because you just need an IRC lib in your language of choice. However, the servers aren't IRC anymore, they just have a compat shim that speaks IRC for those purposes.
> it would sell about 20,000 electric vehicles, including Teslas, from its U.S. fleet due to higher expenses related to collision and damage, and will opt for gas-powered vehicles.

The repair costs and turnaround time seems like Tesla's achilles heal right now. Insurance costs on a Tesla were the primary deciding factor in me putting off a Tesla purchase. From my preferred insurer, the premium was 50-60% higher than for a similarly priced ICE vehicle. And Rivian is way higher than Tesla to insure.

I really think EV makers need to prioritize repairability in their next push. It's more important to me than extra range. It will both lower initial costs and reduce EV depreciation. An out-of-warranty EV has to be very cheap for it to make sense.
>It makes me worried about investing in GOOG.

If you have a lot of money, you have their ear..
The big problem is that it's orders of magnitude easier to produce plausible looking junk than to solidly verify information. There is a real threat that AI garbage will scale to the point that it completely overwhelms any filtering and essentially ruins many of the best areas of the internet. But hey, at least it will juice the stock price of a few tech companies.
Title case in unavoidably mentally taxing. It's trivial to convert sentence case to title case, but highly non-trivial in general to convert title case to sentence case (I know, I write code to do this :-)) To do it right, context, or even general intelligence is required. Basically, converting to Title Case looses information (capitalization) that can be important.

Title case was invented when there were much limited typographical options than now, to emphasize, well, titles. On a web page, there are so many better ways to do it, there is no reason to preserve the archaic convention.

To my eye it does not even look that nice...
It's all on archive.org
even twenty years after shutdown of the one I was ... hrm ... helping with ... I am reluctant to talk so please read https://www.wired.com/2005/01/topsite/ instead
FIY, your archive link is not working too at the moment.

What do we do?

Sigh

I put on my robe and wizard hat

https://web.archive.org/web/20190228221758/http://www.bash.o...
Yes, but we don't get to sit in Congressional committee hearings and bloviate about Existential Risks.
> Japan

Nitpick: unless I just popped into an alternate timeline, Kauai is American [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauai
Hertz is bottom of the barrel. I pay a little extra to avoid them.
That is an interesting thought. Maybe the problem is not the ai generated useless noise, but that it is so easy and cheap to publish it.

One possible future is going back to a medium with higher cost of publication. Books. Handchiseled stone tablets. Offering information costs something.
Probably all those microplastics are playing a part in this.
Seriously, lol.
I always tell new people who are struggling to find jobs to just go build something. You have the skills to build whatever you want. If you don't, figure it out. Either income will come from your endeavors, or a super impressive project will come out that you can show those employers.
That sounds like a bad human translation from Chinese. AI mistakes are a different category.
Such a good question. Don't blame the developers too quickly.

In most industries you need to actually make or do good stuff to have a good career. In the software industry you can (badly) manage failed projects, or lead the development of poor software products, or run internal fiefdoms that make the development of good software harder, and still have a stellar career.
The terminal is rotatable. It's kinda neat.
For me, i3wm makes me a lot more productive.
Instead of mashing alt tab, I have dedicated hotkeys for every virtual desktop, which is dedicated to specific apps/workflows. With one hotkey I always go to the program I’m looking for. In windows I have to just mash alt+tab. But also if the window was in split screen it gets separated from whatever it was paired with, so I have to scramble to bring
both windows into focus briefly so they are in front. It’s such a mess of window management.

In Linux. If I had something setup on desktop 3, win+3 takes me to it every time. No matter if that’s one window or multiple. It’s always one hot key away. And then one to get back. I never get lost in a sea of applications that look identical in the alt+tab thumbnail.

I haven’t found a way to replicate this in windows. The closest is “never group things on taskbar” so I can at least click specific firefox windows directly. But that no longer exists in windows 11, so I guess I won’t use 11.
Lite XL, although I usually use Emacs
Qt or Electron don't; they both have software renderers. The latest Godot needs a GLES 3 or Vulkan GPU. The older versions used to only need a GLES 2 GPU.
On the other hand though, rental agencies can normally get away with offering a broad set of options and price points for any niche.

https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/vehicleguide/index.jsp?target...

So it's moreso that they can't find a profitable price point to justify keeping it in the general car pool.
> This only applies to free accounts,

This is not true.

My business clients on hosted Exchange are paying for O365 Biz. Their local Outlook app has a Try The New Outlook switch in the upper right corner. That's all it says.

The one employee who clicked it (before I could warn them) found the local paid-for, Outlook app transformed into web-based Outlook running in Edge.

All of the same issues mentioned in the article were first discovered in this New Outlook by German researchers.

This client made a point of purchasing local-run Office apps. Web based Office is a non-starter. In this case, MS is using a deceptive method to hijack my client into running software - they they explicitly paid to not have to use.

Microsoft's behavior in this is clearly unethical.
Not really. Python's is worse for example.
Unless you're willing to spend more than 20~30% of your engineer's precious time on the hiring process (or have GPT-7 or whatever GAI lol), it will always be BS. And that's not scalable; this could work when your hiring is mostly through employee's personal/professional network since ROI will be better than average, but when you need to hire thousands new employees it will quickly become a bottleneck.

The only thing you can do is designing an acceptable level proxy done with high efficiency. Unfortunately we don't really have a good way there to figure out something more efficient than coding interview + system design interview yet. A good interviewer can still extract a surprising amount of valuable signals within 45 mins but not everyone is interested in being a good interviewer.
War in Europe is more than 5k years old – new research