skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say perhaps 80% EV would "be ideal" for at least another decade [for all those less than 1 mile from home trips everybody is always driving].

But 20% of us would rather not wait around for recharging on our longer roadtrips / commutes, in which case a hybrid drivetrain just makes sense.

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Related to "snarkiness" : let's agree in no absolutes... nothing is 100%, except death and taxes.
It does not matter. As long as a laptop reliably works with one linux distro, without any hidden/proprietary shenanigans, it works with any of them. It is then up to the end user to set up any linux they want, without fear that the webcam, or the speakers, or the thermals, or the sleep, or the touchpad will refuse to work.
It's a slightly-tasteless joke resting on two facts:

1. The [King's / Queen's] Head is a common pub name in the UK.

2. Several queens have been executed by beheading at the Tower of London.
As much as I like no-frills pre-Web 2.0 bells and whistles websites like the ones submitted to Wiby, these ain’t it. Moreover, the minimalism these sites have don’t look particularly remarkable- they all have that Medium aesthetic. Or the look of seed stage / stealth startup sites.
Precisely.

But if you don't spend even $200 more on the Macbook Pro to get 16GB, you are leaving a bit of the M3's performance on the table due to swapping. So, $1799. Or step up to the M3 Pro with 18GB at $1999.

And on the Air you could drop that same improvement in. So, $1,299.

Which says to me that from $1000 to $2000 there are a variety of ways to get satisfactory performance out of a long-battery M3 Macbook.

A corollary is that there is no way to get everything (unlimited multitasking, unthrottled renders, no swapping, no IO constraints) you could want out of a $999 Macbook Air M2/8GB/256GB.
Without some specific idea of "elsewhere", that idea is in the "not even wrong" category.
> in the long term

How long? How many degrees of global temperature growth long will it be? Will SV value the development of their personal god-head over the environmental destruction such development creates?

You've got a class that can build the AI systems AND build their own escape bunkers and soon their own space vehicles.
What incentive exists to care about such issues? Any effeciences created won't drop the over-all wattage used by AI, it'll just increase the amount of AI used. The footprint will never shrink.
I’d argue Bitcoin is Obscene Energy Demand.
You have links to back it up?

We pay a decent amount of Federal tax which should be going into infrastructure like roads.

The maintenance is paid by states which should come from state property and income taxes.
>As best I can tell after a lengthy debate with other HN users, in Lewis's eyes it is devil-worship even to imagine a world bereft of absolute good and evil.

Imagine the consequences of such a world and you get his point.

Our world might be objectively "bereft of absolute good and evil", but it's only tolerable to live because most people believe and act counter to that.

And the evil of bad actors "sure of some badly defined absolute good", like the Nazis or the Inquisition, would be nothing compared to the evil of a world where everybody really believed and acted as if good and evil have no absolute and is up to them.
My ISP was not willing to do this for me, but they did give me the admin password for the device so I could change the SSID on the integrated WiFi. From there I was able to configure a bridge interface. Everyone is happy with this outcome.

Most of the time in my experience you can’t BYO ONT because it needs to be authed to the network and the ISP won’t do that other than for their own hardware. On the other hand I’ve never heard of being charged rental fees for an ONT.
Stop Constantly Asking Your Kids How They Feel
Sure, let's call them peeps
While the word choice definitely struck me as odd (why not just “inmates”?), “folks” predates Obama by … centuries?
The whole concept is severely flawed. They’re mostly just plain text blogs or link fronts to things that are definitely not 512 kb. Many of them link to GitHub projects. Is GitHub a 512 kb no-JS static website? I don’t think so.
The idea of a car thief maintaining "his" stolen vehicle brought me a gentle morning sensible.chuckle ... so thank you =D
>the government trying to steal tiktok is insane

That is misleading. What some in Congress want to do is require the company that owns Tiktok to create a US subsidiary, then the company gets to sell shares in the subsidiary and keep the money it gets from that sale. It could also keep the shares. As long as it owns the shares, it gets to collect all the profits made by the new US subsidiary.

Tiktok would get to continue operating in the US, which is more than fair IMHO given how harmful (addictive) Tiktok is: I'd be sorely tempted to shut it down, which would be a lot like stealing or confiscation (of revenue potential), but that is not the bill actually before Congress.
You have no idea the absolute shit show that semiconductor part naming is

And it's because of egos of marketing departments that think they know better than engineers.

I shit you not, Microchip has a over 400 page internal PowerPoint that covers decoding their schemes and they keep adding more.
I love the packaging... it alone is worth saving and framing!
AI is the new cryptocurrency. Big difference is that it can actually do something useful in a legal way.

But does that usefulness really warrant the CO2 emissions?
> Folks originally had an Obama-era connotation of Mom and Pop Americana. Lately people have been using it as a 1-to-1 synonym for people.

Meh, whatever. Different strokes for different folks.
I love these because it feels like the constraints imposed by size has encouraged folks to be creative. And there's a fair bit of diversity among the sites.

As much as I think that minimal black text on a white background can be quite elegant, there are so many sites that follow this pattern in the original link that they end up eliciting little more than a shrug from me.
What groups are excluded by "people"?
Mainstream theories are so good that they dwarfed competition. Lack of competition caused lack of progress. It was easy to collect hundreds of downvotes on HN just by talking about alternative theories or about physical representation of abstract theories. Now such comments will collect mere dozens of downvotes. It also should be obvious that a new successful theory will account for more things, so it will be much more complex than previous theories.
https://archive.is/bLgDI

The article is relevant to childless adults also.

'Academic psychologists note that people who adopt an “action orientation” are able to focus on a task without getting distracted by thoughts about their current emotional or physical state. Those who adopt a “state orientation,” on the other hand, are thinking more about themselves in the moment: how prepared they feel, that crick blossoming in their neck, the email they forgot to answer. Unsurprisingly, an action orientation makes it much more likely that you actually accomplish the task.

“State-orientation keeps you from being successful in anything,” Linden said. No winning head coach asks his players to dwell on their feelings at halftime.

In fact, a raft of studies shows that people who fixate on how they feel moment to moment are not only less likely to complete tasks but also more likely to struggle with self-control, with higher rates of alcohol consumption and less success with dieting. In a study published in the Journal of Personality in 2020, participants who reported being able to put upsetting thoughts out of their heads were more likely to resume playing a popular computer game after an annoying interruption than those who admitted they tend to ruminate over their feelings.'
If you have a plug available to recharge your commute every day, then you're probably fine with an EV. If you don't then you'd probably prefer an occasional fast charge rather than being limited to slow charging.
I read the original comment a few times but could not make sense of it, the first sentence especially.

Could you explain the argument?
Will miss things. I just gave a long ascii hex string(512 bytes) and told it to separate it into a uint16_t array for use in C and it forgot to add a word(16 bits) to the middle of the array.
> we can't say with 100% certainty

This admission is unknown to the general public, they "trust the experts" that it is 100 proven.

> let's just make up attributions.

If you aren't 100% it is Russia and scream Russia, that's what you are doing
Fake Starbucks Opens 50 Branches in China, Earns 40M in Half a Year [video]
Yeah, um... if you're going to claim something like that, you need more than the claim. What evidence do you see for your position? What evidence can you give us so that we can evaluate your position?
The haptic sleeve is more interesting!!!
My dad handed me down our 2001 4Runner when I got my license and it was a great first car as a high school and college kid.

Not enough performance to be that tempting to do anything dumb, tons of space for friends and stuff, go anywhere, sleep in it, easy to maintain… Bumpers were rusted to hell but it had a sunroof and you could roll the rear window down so we were having a great time!
A radical switch to EVs of the general population, required for net-zero emissions, would be orders of magnitude more taxing on the grid than AI.

That being said, the issue with AI is its convenience: countless times I've seen coworkers not think by themselves for 2-3 seconds, but ask ChatGPT instead. Or worse, do it live in meetings when I had the answer from experience.
I’m saying calling this a problem because it might add a computational overhead is missing the severity of the problem.

This is a problem because it creates a backdoor.

I also disagree it creates a computation overhead because it’s only engaged outside of normal operation (ie when your application is already broken or if someone is intentionally exploiting that backdoor). but the computation argument is more of a distraction from the real problem.

So definitely not defending Apple. I’m saying it’s more serious than just a computation problem.
As much as I agree with your sentiment on Elon, some people don’t want an appliancemobile even if it means sacrificing some amount of reliability.

For example, I’d personally take a Jaguar or Alfa Romeo (two brands particularly famous for lack of reliability) over most Toyotas short of one of their niche models like their GRs or old school SUVs.
when did mental math turn into labor?
This is why we have layers of security.

This was one of the layers. It absolutely did not necessitate gathering up every single one at once.
I had to replace a .NET remoting based system with thousands of individual calls, with all manner of in process like conventions, with an http layer without changing client code at all in a few weeks.

The result was good but I still don't like transparent rpc (on large dev teams anyway).
Yeah, the backlink part is the most questionable one. It doesn’t seem right, but I keep hearing that it’s important and our team’s new to SEO, so we don’t know whether we’re doing the right thing. Hence this Ask HN post.
This is not entirely true with PON (passive optical networks). The ONT is more than a media converter (optical -> copper), it facilitates the conversation with the OLT (Optical Line Terminal) further upstream. That connection is not an ethernet connection and needs specialized hardware that can communicate using the PON protocols.

The ONT is managed by the service provider and provisioned with their tooling. It typically holds the user profile of the customer, and contains information about the subscribers service level. It is not something that can reasonably be replaced by the end user with their own hardware.
What kind of ships usually visit London / why visit (since it’s kind of land locked)?
At least ChatGPT is writing essays.

Whereas Ethereum has clearly shown that you can have a safe chain without this craziness.

But from reddit to Bitcoin talk to Bitcoin core development, there's a handful of people that control everything and want the status quo preserved.
From what i understand this is already mostly the case. The military excercises by USA and China produces reports that shows an attack is too expesive or leads to a standstill. This is works as a deterrence to the other side, unless the other side acts irrationally, which is known to happen…
Project assignments change all of the time, and getting assigned to a project you don’t particularly like as a new hire shouldn’t necessarily be a deal-breaker. Take a look at the company as a whole. Is the company growing? Are their other teams or better projects you could eventually move on to? For me, the answer to those questions would influence my decision on whether or not to stay. In any case, one week is probably not enough time to tell unless the manager or culture itself are unbearable.
it's plagarizing other people's essays
Yeah if I had to stack rank 'obscene' energy consumption technologies, Bitcoin would be number 1 and AI would be pretty low on the list.
Anybody who can build a reliable hybrid should be able to build a solid EV.

1000km of range is not a major selling point for any passenger ICE car. On an EV it is a lot of added weight and expense. Much more important than any range over 500km or so is fast, reliable and ubiquitous charging infrastructure. We don't have that yet, but we are making progress.
"obscene"

This is race-to-the-bottom thinking. All forms of civilization needs energy. More is better. Characterizing it as "obscene" smacks of anti-humanism and is completely wrong-headed.

We need to use more energy - a billion times more. We just need it to be clean.
If anything your post convinces me that (ab)use of AI will become more ubiquitous and the energy demands much higher.
For every good thing, come up with a bad.

The material created will be a better poison/virus. The algorithm to keep the fusion tokamak from going boom will be at best 99% correct. The new solar cell? More exotic materials required than the current.

Blind optimism is a vice we cannot afford.
Getting quality links is usually a long and expensive process. Paying $6k could make sense if they are delivering good results.
Exceptionalism is made difficult by the dominating left wing ideology. As it is scientific socialism, it favors a practical worldview that is geared towards the physical betterment of life standards of the Chinese society at every level. This worldview is the state perspective and it is indoctrinated into the youth during education as well. The result is steady and incremental betterment of life standards everywhere. There isnt time to be 'the exception' or think that you are exception to something - the worldview that you have been given is to improve everything incrementally.

And not surprisingly, since this is a world view, it also reflect on China's dealings with the rest of the world. Everything they do is for incremental improvement of the society, which is also projected to the world. Their joint projects with African countries seek incremental improvement in a specific field of life, from infra to telecommunication. The partner country improves, the Chinese society improves. Its the application of domestic process to abroad.

As a result, it wouldnt matter if anyone felt 'exceptional' during that process. The process is one of scientific, tangible, physical improvement. Its measurable, its observable. As long as the improvement happens, the rest is scarely relevant.
> I still see people, in 2024, writing new software and using XML as the data format.

Because it's a pragmatic choice with a large, mature, proven ecosystem. (Not that there's anything wrong with TOML for INI-type use cases.)

I think some readers are missing the point of Tim's article. He's not saying "don't use XML" — he's saying "don't invent XML languages…unless you have to".

> "The smartest thing to do would be to find a way to use one of the perfectly good markup languages that have been designed and debugged and have validators and authoring software and parsers and generators and all that other good stuff. Here’s a radical idea: don’t even think of making your own language until you’re sure that you can’t do the job using one of the Big Five: XHTML, DocBook, ODF, UBL, and Atom."

Presumably, he'd recommend using RSS and OPML as well if those fit your use case.
>Perfect Good = you're with everyone and everything is perfect... But it's a static frame. Nothing can ever change - as the only change would be straying from the attained perfection!

If it is indeed perfect why would it "have to change"? Just for the sake of it?
What labor did the current AI save yet? All I see so far is billions or even trillions in capex for stuff that barely works…
The same McCarthy who scaremongered communism?
Both impossible and stupid.
If obscene means "I dislike demand for X personally", then sure. But if the actually useful definition of "demand for X will unavoidably collapse society" is used, then you need to actually read the second link.
Wow. If this one disgusted you, you couldnt stomach what they wrote before the Iraq war. Or, any other war...
No? The linked article is saying that the M3 MacBook Air is less powerful than the M3 MacBook Pro, and yeah, you can sustain higher power consumption for longer with a fan than without, no shit. The M3 MacBook Air is significantly more powerful than the M2 MacBook Pro, which tells us that it's a step forwards.

Hacker News's title length limitation makes the title here incredibly misleading, the full title says "33% Slower Than MacBook Pro".
Won't the proposed implementation risk doing duplicate work? e.g. another machine starts on your work, but then you ask for it before it's done.

So you'd probably need the "not available, but already 'stolen' case". For example, the current machine could look for work to steal itself. But this probably will increase latency a lot, so it would only make sense if the batches are huge.
Well we finally have motivation to move upwards in the Kardashev Scale
The New Yorker needs to sell magazines to the kind of people who read the New Yorker, alas. "Wizard on the hill takes resources from us clerks" is always a good for a few sales.
They are certainly enough for some people, and really far from enough for others.

Knowing the shape of that distribution would be interesting.
Pedantic remark: HTML 4.0 is an SGML profile, but HTML 5 isn’t anymore.
Thread the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39612885
and brakes, though regenerative braking takes a lot of the pressure of those too
Please click the link before commenting.

(Then click a little more haha)
AI competitiveness depends very strongly on whether AI will get better at creating coherent and usable video/audio/images, or not. The better it gets, and the more amenable to user control it gets in the fine details, the more it will displace actual artists.

And I don't know the answer to that because it's not clear what the limits are on current techniques or whether anyone's working on something that would transcend the current techniques. I agree that current techs are not really suitable for high-value content without human followup; SORA might be lauded but it still does not understand what a human body is and will happily give it a random number of limbs in various stages of simultaneous movement.

(But, for the legal issues, I believe intent to compete is enough and not just actual competitiveness. E.g. fanfic is not actually legal unless clearly a parody or meta-commentary or the like, but it's ignored because it doesn't directly do anything negative to the media market.)
Yes, it actually is. Its not only recommended by lawyers, family, relatives and friends also recommend it to each other.
If you look closely, you might have noticed that I wrote that you might get this type of device when you want something in the ecosystem but don't need much.

To pre-empt people who want to qualify "much" as something else, I even included an edit so you don't get people with a different idea on what "much" might mean in this specific context (as it has for over 10 years, none of this is really new). It appears that did not reach you in time.

You specifically probably don't want something in the ecosystem, and you do need much. As such, you should probably not buy this. Other people do exist, and they might buy it if it fits them. It doesn't matter if the numbers on paper tickle you the wrong way.
IMHO the comparisons in this article--liters, countries, "billions" of kWh--obscure rather than enlighten.

Let's say that AI is a massive massive success and increases energy demand and ends up consuming 10% of electricity. I don't know if that's realistic, it's probable high, but let's assume it's correct within 10x.

Then, if that ramps up energy demand a lot, what happens? We deploy far more energy generation. Is that a problem? No, actually that will accelerate our energy transition to zero carbon. Already, nearly all of the new energy added in 2024 will be solar, batteries, and wind, because that's what's cheapest. Solar and battery will be 81% of the power capacity added (comparing different techs by power instead of energy has limitations, but assume a 20% capacity factor for solar to get to energy, 50% for gas, and 90% for nuclear):

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61424

Further, since solar, batteries, and wind are all on technology learning curves, the more we build of them, the cheaper they become. So if we accelerate building and deployment, the faster they get cheaper.

That means, the faster we build more renewable tech, the quicker it gets to replacing carbon-based energy, on the merits of cost. Some natural gas plants, right now, cost more in fuel to run than it would cost to build a solar farm next to them, and use the solar when the sun is shining, and gas at night. The cheaper it gets, the sooner solar can economically replace more and more existing natural gas generation sites

Similarly for storage, right now it's an extra $90/MWh or so to store a MWh, and the sooner that drops in price, the more existing carbon sources can be replaced. Data centers that need their own backup power, and run on a combo of solar plus batteries, are a perfect application for this tech.

Meanwhile, existing energy infrastructure is loooong lived. Unlike computer tech, which depreciates quickly, you will have generations equipment in place for decades. So that means that the replacement rate for electricity generation is low, unless there is a big increase in demand.

Fortunately electrification of many industries is increasing electricity demand, and accelerating solar/battery/wind deployment and tech curves, but accelerating this with even more demand from AI would likely have positive effects rather than negative effects.
> Overall: I am cynical wrt OpenAI. I just don't think that OpenAI is acting in the best interests of humanity

For what it's worth, I agree with you on this part. Despite their stated goals and unique corporate structure that supposedly puts the non-profit at the center, I see OpenAI benefiting Sam Altman and Microsoft more than humanity.
In France there's this forum

https://lafibre.info
I completely agree. But in this case ‘reset’ isn’t the problem. It’s that terminal emulators don’t surface an easier and more standardised way to clear their scrollback history. That’s the thing that needs fixing.
From a Hand Surgeon: Should You Eliminate These 5 Things in the Gym?
These are the 5 things I fear in the gym
Why this News need to be top of HN?
This could be true in the general case, but in my specific case I was provided with the username/password combination that I fed into the PPPoE configuration page of my router.
For the record: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1733146138226614465
Both of those items are 3D - while the dress transforms over a 4th time dimension.
While training AI models litterally didn't care of non-AI generated image copyrights, now they care because of 'image theft' ?

Let me grab some popcorn and enjoy this.
Trigger -> response

Many people are named McCarthy.