skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've all seen the historical documents. We know how this will all end up, and that the end result is simply inevitable.

And since that has to be the case, we might as well find fun and profit wherever we can -- while we still can.

If that means that my desktop robot is keeping tabs on me while I write this, then so be it as long as I get some short-term gain. (There can be no long-term gain.)
Is it new? Security by difficulty _is_ security.
In China. No word on if this will ever make it outside that market.

Never the less it’s a good achievement. Auto industry is continuing to grow there and going as close to majority EV as possible out the gate is a net win
I lost a Windows 11 license because my laptop's motherboard failed and had to get replaced.
Someone please explain to me how the math works here. $15k usd is insanely low, do they really have that economy of scale or is this a subsidized attack on major car manufacturers, or is it both? Or is it something else?
Tech companies sign pact to combat AI-generated election deepfakes
> But maybe you'd prefer to hear only one side?

False balance fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance

In the case of Navalny, there are mountains of evidence implicating Putin, including audio recording of a Russian agent admitting to a previous poisoning attempt [1].

> After all there's lots of privileged americans and westerners in HN userbase.

Ad hominem fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

> I still have more karma than you do, it means your contributions add less to the discussion than mine do, somehow

Obviously karma per comment is the more relevant metric here. Off-hand, I'd estimate you're in the lowest decile.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexei_Navalny#Te...
Ambitious survey of human diversity yields undiscovered genetic variants
When someone unironically uses the term "problematic" you can reasonably assume the position they are going to argue from...
Streets of Rogue has notoriously awful code, but it's an absolute masterpiece.
Yeah talking about difficulty, then you will love this: https://www.science.org/content/article/china-s-quantum-sate...

If we really wanna be security, then entailment is a good bet. I could imagine essential financial clearing, emergency infrastructure could use this level security. Don't know how feasible it is for consumer grade usage yet though.
So what's stopping Chinese EV manufacturers from selling in the US? Are the safety regulations so much different from China?
i'd wager that adding noise to the weights in a principled fashion would accomplish something similar to this.
Corolla killer is jumping the gun a bit. Will these cars still be operational in 30+ years? What will their condition be like after 500,000km on the clock?

Once they reach these milestones then maybe they can call themselves a Corolla killer.
I mean, you don't use those things and sit there in awe of them everyday.
This is a joke. All of these vehicles “launch” at unbelievably low prices, get delayed and end up costing twice as much or more years later when they finally release… a cheap Chinese Toyota knockoff has a LOT to prove.
Yeah, IMO, `go run` is a really under-appreciated part of what makes Go productive and low-friction.

That, and the ability to cross-compile without installing a cross-toolchain for the target platform. Having spent an inordinate amount of time writing build systems and compiling/distributing cross-toolchains, this is a _huge_ deal.
I used a macos shortcut to do the same thing. I'm running llamacpp locally on the mac and I just hit a keyboard shortcut to get the menu.

https://streamable.com/aou6rb?src=player-page-share
At that price, does it matter? You know what a Toyota costs today new? How many people drive their car to 500k km?
Unfortunately people make bad conclusions from these kinds of research.
Does sex differences exist in the brain? Yes.
Should we ban women from jobs for it? No.
One should always directly check who does the work best when hiring and avoid using crappy predictors like these. But people will use AI lottery systems for hiring anyway.
California lawmaker proposes $50 an hour minimum wage
The biggest factor is import tariffs
This is really interesting. One could imagine that if there's enough computer automation of trades, then the stock of one company shooting up (because of the announcement of an acquisition) could have a predictable effect on a competitor that would be bid up algorithmically. However, it would be very hard to prove that knowledge of this fact was the reason that an executive (who knew of the acquisition) bought stock in a competitor. He could have been aware of lots of other public information about the sector, or even the specific competitor, that led him to want to buy stock, which would be kosher.
I think this is for the Chinese market only right now?

Besides, 48 kWh battery is pretty small. Newer Chevy Bolts pack on 66 kWhs, and those vehicles are priced pretty low as-is.

As with most standard models, I'd bet there are a lot of features you'd want requiring an upgrade to a higher trim.
A Deep Dive into Voice Cloning with SoftVC VITS and Bert-VITS2
Lol, sorry. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
It could make it to lots of developing world markets, where BYD already has market share. So it won't just be china, but lots of markets that just aren't the USA and perhaps Western Europe or Japan.
If price is your only concern you could also buy a 1990 Corolla for a fraction of that price too. And it’ll likely still run pretty flawlessly.

I wonder if these will stand the test of time is the point I’m trying to make.
/using image magik to only store the difference between images/

Well, that's basically how video codecs work... So might as well just find some codec params which work well with screen capture, and use an existing encoder.
I was curious so I looked it up. The 2024 Corolla starts at $21,900 in the US. The cheapest '24 I could find was the Nissan Versa at $16,390.

Of course, neither of these are electric. But they are also well known makes in the American market.
nothing mentioned about their customers
Should we allow cars without seatbelt? Everyone knows cars with seatbelts are safer. If consumers don’t like it, they can just choose to buy the ones with seatbelts.
Note that although I believe the XP activation servers have shut down, the private key for the product key itself was cracked long ago, shortly after the document in this article, but the scene kept that development pretty quiet for a while. Relevant reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35993044
I imagine a launcher which hashes the binary before you run it and compares the hash to some kind of registry. Then it can tell you that 5 people you explicitly trust have encountered this hash, and 768 people that they trust have, and 5789 people that they trust...

If you're the first person to encounter the hash, or if the number of hops is very high before you encounter something besides 0 (eventually heading into sybil-territory) then you have cause for extra scrutiny.

Bonus points if the people who developed the app are participating, but still useful if they're not.
I’m confused :

“””the all-electric Qin Plus has five models priced between 109,800 RMB to ($A23,300) to 139,800 RMB ($A29,700).”””

$23300!=$15000

Edit: ah I see it’s got a three way currency conversion just to make it all clearer!
He can't.
Ah, my mistake then, thank you for clarifying!
TCO. Corolla + gas > BYD + electric.
What's the oldest copy of Windows I can get a new key for today? If I had one for W7 or W8 yeah I'd use it, but I don't. Obviously I'm going to have to start seeking out alternate solutions, undoubtedly there are plenty of spare keys to be had. Or as sibling comment suggests look into a minimal Linux install and getting it going under Wine.

But honestly mainly it comes down to that I just kinda expected it to work? I hadn't dealt with Microsoft, or Intuit for that matter, in a very long time. I think last time I did was Windows 7 era and I don't remember it being particularly bad. I sorta just thought, "well, I'll just go get a legit copy of Windows, there's a sale going on even, and it'll have good backwards compat like always and this will all be quick and easy". I mean, clearly you know better, and now I do too, and I'll figure stuff out. This isn't even remotely the most gnarly software I've needed to deal with in the past few weeks. But I didn't expect it to be this much of a PITA either. This is supposed to be a pretty easy glide path, it's not some 18 year old panoramic x-ray imaging software.

Edit:
Oh goodie, reinstalling and just discovered how stupid irritating it is to have a local account under Windows nowadays. "Cut off internet at the right time, hit shift+f10, type oobe\bypassnro, reboot, shift+f10 again, ipconfig /release, close command prompt" ok. Nice. I mean yeah, making an MS account is free, but this is just a VM and I don't want to bother and don't see why I should need to. I guess most people just go with the flow for this but geez.
Annie is not a top poker player by any stretch of the imagination.
That doesn't work for the first step though, where you want to print the file to stdout without processing it in any way
A is AUD, this might be an Australian mag. 23k AUD is actually 15k USD. Weird that they quote USD first.
There aren't much video captchas yet. But I'm pretty sure it will be able to solve a lot of those
You might be interested in this recent story:

A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39423949
I agree the math is a bit off, so let's look at the percentages.

The current Toyota Corolla, in 3-box sedan form, starts at 119,800 RMB in China. The BYD Qin is also a 3-box sedan, similar dimensions, but starts at 109,800 RMB, or 8.4% cheaper.

To compare this directly to the US, a 2024 Corolla starts at $22,050. So this would be like launching the Qin in the US at $19,995. If you did the same percentages it'd be $20,210, but "$19,995" gets you the "Under $20,000" which would be extremely noteworthy in the US where there's not much left under $20K. They'd probably be willing to eat $215/unit of margin at launch just to be able to run with "Starting at under $20K" in advertisements until the sales really roll in, then raise the price a bit 2 years later to get the margin they wanted.
You can do this locally by combining CLIP with an LLM quite easily.
There are heaps BYDs driving around here in Australia. I'd say by now more than Teslas
https://archive.is/yAs23
Australian dollars.
This is one of the most uncharitable views I think you could take. You don't seem to have a nice thing to say about him. And have managed to pack a bit of negative insinuation in without any actual evidence or substance.

Frankly, the dude is involved in cleaning up X.org code that is otherwise verging on unmaintainable. The appropriate response is a shrug and a "thanks". Backbiting is generally the wrong approach to attempted OSS contributions. If you have problems with his PRs go bring them up with him.
A Gel Blaster is a toy gun that uses super-absorbent polymer water beads as projectiles. It “blasts” soft spherical bullets — although, it is not a real weapon. So, how does it work? What makes it different from other projectile-shooting toy guns?
Making things is not always all that expensive if you don’t have to pay a lot for labor. 18650 batteries can be produced for $0.75/cell at the absolute cheapest. A 48kWh pack has about 5000 18650s, so thats ~$3750. The rest of it probably costs $5000 so they still have a decent margin.
(I don't know about a free trial)

It's not perfect and the classic failure modes of LLMs (the one you mentioned and others) are still present, but to a much much smaller degree.

I have a few prompts I use for specific tasks, where I ask it to answer tersely and it sometimes says so when something is impossible. Sometimes it hallucinates an answer. The likelihood for it to not hallucinate an answer seems to be proportional to desired terseness of the answer, as if the default instruction to "be helpful" biases it towards telling you something, anything
that is the point. if you had an old corolla you might not care about the price of any new vehicle. and this isn’t just new, it is new to (limited) market. unproven, over time.

$15k is sufficient to make most individuals hesitate briefly. perhaps you have enough saved away to be a bit more cavalier with such amounts.
the Car and Driver recommended trim level is $25k, and a random google search says 12 years (across all vehicles) is an average ownership period and ~13,700 miles/year. so napkin math and the average is over 250k km for the vehicle lifetime. i suspect toyota is meaningfully higher, but can’t prove it.

at that price, and with those economics, i think a great many people would care

lol i found an uncited figure from a toyota dealership saying the average miles driven is 200k - 250k, which is ~400,000km on the high end
https://www.toyotaofclermont.com/research/how-long-do-toyota...
Claimed CLTC (China light-duty vehicle test cycle) ranges:

- with 48 kWh battery pack, up to 261 ml (420 km)

- with 57.6 kWh battery pack 316 mi (510 km)

- there is also apparently a 71.7 kWh battery pack option

CLTC ranges are supposed to be ~35% higher than EPA ranges.

Can't find warranty length or details.
Perhaps having a burnout is highly correlated with thinking you have a burnout. Does that make any test for it a sham?

Does the test perhaps make sure that there is sufficient agreement on the definition of burnout? Perhaps it ensures that someone doesn't just say they are burnt out because someone in their life told them they might be? Perhaps it helps people realize they have a burnout because they didn't know the definition? Perhaps it provides those who don't have a burnout with confidence that they don't?
Yeah, and if you did not read T&S and now going to become a part of human centipede, that’s on you. I mean, how hard can it be to read a 22 page legalese, before going through a sign up flow, that was heavily optimized to increase conversion?
I’m always hesitant to jump straight to ringing the racism bell when it comes to problems that arise from fundamental physics. I have dark skin, and I constantly struggle with automatic faucets, soap dispensers, and towel dispensers in public bathrooms. None of those are made by big tech.
https://www.theonion.com/toyota-recalls-1993-camry-due-to-fa...
Sounds like every debate and argument I've ever had. You push and prod their argument for a few sentences back and forth and before you know it they start getting aggressive in their responses. Probably because they know they will soon devolve into a complete hallucinatory mess.
https://www.eureporter.co/world/human-rights-category/europe...

Yes, giving people privacy means giving everyone privacy, whether they're doing good things or bad. Pointing cameras into everyone's window would also prevent some crimes, and we shouldn't do that either.

I don't think "This has tradeoffs but those tradeoffs are absolutely worth it" is a level of nuance that's possible in the face of the level of scaremongering against E2EE.
This is where Microsoft (and Apple) has a leg up -- they can hook the UI at the draw level and parse the interface far more reliably + efficently than screenshot + OCR.
It is a reciprocal import tariff, meaning China charges as much for American imports as we charge for Chinese imports (why BYD had to set up an EV bus in California, and why Tesla setup a factory in Shanghai).

Used to work more to China's advantage (protection from American car imports) but now works to its disadvantage (since American car makers are now protected from Chinese imports).
The average price of a new car in the US is ~$48k. This car competes against new cars, not old, used cars.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/buying-a-car/people-spe...

I don’t know anyone who would hesitate at $15k considering current state of the auto market. I do know there’s lots of middle class and below who would finance it and give it a chance, versus a $500-$1000 monthly note at current vehicle prices and interest rates.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/auto-loan-average-payments-2023...
And npx tsx index.ts for TypeScript, which supports ESM (although it does pull tsx)
Yes but it's especially cynical in this case because the belief their pushing is that diversity matters, that biases need to be overcome, and that all people need to be represented.

Claiming all of that but then shoving your own biases down the rest of the world's throat while not representing their people in any way is especially cynical in my opinion. It undermines the whole thing.
I would occasionally manage to start a bash shell without executing my profile, which means HISTFILESIZE is not set and bash would truncate my history on the first command I ran. zsh history may have a similar problem.
The ability to leave your car in a public space while shopping is a major part of their utility. Cars are therefore common, left in the open, and valuable, but not particularly portable without being turned on.

Jewelry, TV’s, bitcoin wallets etc aren’t just left in the open. Your house, front lawn etc is valuable and accessible but not generally mobile.
Tariffs. Also, in the USA, there are some rather restrictive laws that require auto makers to use dealerships, so BYD would need to establish relationships with dealerships first. This would raise costs, and knowing how US dealerships are there’d be a 10k markup over MSRP.
Picking a starting point is always going to be somewhat arbitrary, but the moment it became mainstream was probably when Hillary Clinton won the nomination in 2016 by explicitly moving away from economic issues:

“If we broke up the big banks tomorrow, would that end racism?”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-line...
There are reports that they're looking to build a factory in Mexico. Likely for that very reason, as then they should be covered by the US-Canada-Mexico free trade agreement.
Probably correlates very strongly to whether people around you throw trash out of a car window or not.
Minus resale.
Leaked files from Chinese firm show vast international hacking effort
I don’t know what world you’re living in, but even if the government “steals” 50% of your 850k you’re not living like any sort of pauper on 425k net. That’s just ridiculous.
Nothing. It's just a matter of scaling up production. Chinese car exports are growing very rapidly. Sure, the US and Europe will try to protect their own industry with tariffs, but China will just respond with tariffs in kind. Ultimately, the manufactures that make the best value cars will win.

Chinese exports to Europe have grown 4x in 3 years.
https://twitter.com/DivaJain2/status/1700740578873319883/
They claim to have a version that gets you 512km per charge. Thats 316 miles (give or take head math could be off)
Show HN: macOS shortcut for text manipulation, that runs anywhere, using llm
I'm running llamacpp locally on the mac and I just hit a keyboard shortcut to get the menu, its quite handy.
Requires a python script to call the api, or you could make one using bash. If anyone wants the shortcut or the script let me know.

https://streamable.com/aou6rb?src=player-page-share
I missed the reference, what is the song?
I use it with Fish. It's basically a nice UI around doing history | rg pipes.
the play store / app store links at the bottle made me chuckle
Minor nitpick: If the tip is issued before the service it's a bid, not a tip.
The MSRP of a baseline 2024 Corolla is $22,050. No idea what you actually pay out the door.

Assuming both of those sticker prices are accurate, I might still be leaning towards the Toyota. I know it will last for a long time and have no problems obtaining parts/repairs so long as I own it.
After using Instaparse at least it felt like a solved problem: https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse
They're most likely have two "agents" working in tandem to listen and speak, and it seems like the listener takes precedence over the speaker agent but underneath they share the same context window. Programming wise, probably using multithreading and channels architecture, depending on the programming language.
I see. That's a notable distinction. You got know when to hold them, and when to fold them :-)
I’m reminded of the quote “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.”
I am not a fan of betting but I support being able to do it. I do think it would be nice if Apple could add an option to hide all gambling-related things for those who struggle with an addiction to it.
Only $50?
if HN posters can, anyone can.
I'm a very technical person, but I never feel dumber than when doing mathematics. Self-teaching it is especially challenging. In many fields, one can learn to recognize general patterns and quickly apply them elsewhere. In math, I find that general pattern matching can be helpful for getting ideas, but there's so shortcut to working through the logic required in a rigorous mathematical proof. It's almost a different kind of thinking, and it takes a ton of effort.

If you're interested in self-teaching, I recommend an excellent Abstract Algebra book designed explicitly for that: https://today.williams.edu/books/abstract-algebra-a-student-.... This was the book that got me into rigorous mathematics and started me on the journey of doing a math PhD (defending this semester!). It only requires high-school algebra, and honestly, even that isn't really needed.
>The speed of engagement in this thread and the fact it doesn't exist on the front page... or the second

These two things are connected, actually:

>The FAQ notes that submission rank is impacted by "software which downweights overheated discussions." A good rule of thumb for this effect is when the number of comments on a submission exceeds its score.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...
I have my doubts about that being the average car price. Is that considering all consumer vehicles (SUVs, trucks)?

Baseline Toyota/Honda is still going to be ~$25k
The thing that worked for me was getting so bored of being depressed that one day my mind went “Okay fine, you’re right, nothing matters. If nothing matters, then me feeling this way doesn’t matter either. I’ll just go do the things regardless of how I feel”

Been 20 years now. Works fine. The depression has been starved of attention, only comes back when I’m hungry.
openrc is nice.

I wish I'd been paying attention while the Systemd Cabal (their phrase, not mine) was canvassing and proselytizing... I had a lot of free time back then and could have spent some of it putting the vast majority of the "missing" features from openrc.

It's somewhat unfortunate that the switch to systemd killed the debian-on-FreeBSD project. Had they chosen openrc, that project would have been able to continue.
If you prune inaccessible parts of the game tree, you only save one bit. There are 255,168 leaf nodes; taking ceil(log2(.)) you get 18 bits.
Today I learned I own basically the same set of cookbooks as Simon Willison.
It's pretty sad that developers and companies just take it as a 'just the cost of doing business'

You should always self host where possible at a discount. I personally would never publish anything on Apple's ecosystem as there's no alternatives.
They are going to Mexico to test NA market.
that is a very strange claim to try and make. this car competes against anything that can move a body. how well it competes is yet to be seen.
There's literally zero percent chance this is the "Corolla Killer". Toyota has built an amazing reputation for decades, this is just a cheaper EV sedan lol.
Those high prices were in a period of both low interest rates and, during the pandemic, limited supply pushed to the most expensive models. I will be surprised if they stay that high under current interest rates and economic concerns.
Is that true, or is it not a problem in South Korea because they have less crime?
Why AI-generated audio is so hard to detect