skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That’s why normal people don’t buy EVs

Are you sure that the reason isn't the cost of them? I mean, sure charging is one aspect, but is there actually a study that compares the two? There's plenty of "normal" people buying cheap BYDs.

> It’s why so many people own pickup trucks and large SUVs.

That's a very region/culture-specific thing.
Title is: How Wi-Fi sensing became usable tech
That's not a winning formula at all. When my neighbor's DIY grow farm in a shed burns down, the fire spreads and affects me. When my neighbor decides to open a diesel engine repair business, the noise and fumes affect me. Most people don't want that.
Nice idea. But looks like this is unreliable, with some indeterminate cut-off point after which it stops working. I created 100 paragraphs of Lorem ipsum which I pasted into the textbox. It didn't show any error, but when I pasted the URL into a different window, the textbox just shows 'undefined'.
Show HN: Personalized Recommendations on Simkl for Movies, TV Shows and Anime
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Uses two separate recommendation engines — each serving up not just tens but hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of personalized picks to which you can apply your preferred sorting and filters to narrow down exactly what you want to watch at different times.

PS: Currently the requires access to Simkl Beta V2 while it's under testing for PRO and VIP plan. The PRO plan is free if you use Simkl for 20 days in a month.
It is the normal term. Kind of like using the acronym CRM.
LOL that's funny, my company actually has a "ChatGPT honeypot" inside each of our job postings, so we automatically throw away all ChatGPT-written cover letters...

The fight has just begun :-)

Maybe I should write this up in a blog post for other recruiters to use.
> When I'm filling up our pickup, it takes a good bit of time

Well yes if you have a huge pickup that can take a while. I have 35 gallon tank on the pickup and it does take a while (never measured it so not sure how many minutes).

But on our regular cars, it takes less than 2 minutes to fill the tank.

> Of course, all of this talk about time completely ignores that an EV driver spends quite a lot less time every year refueling their vehicle.

Well the EV driver spends less "CPU time" (using computer analogy) since they plug it in and go do something else. But the wall-clock-time is orders of magnitude higher so if the battery is empty and you need to go somewhere, it's not happening very soon.
Huh. That's interesting.

What else did you learn from the interview process? Based on your interaction with them, do they seem like a cool company? Obviously I know that a lot of time has passed, but there's a chance that things didn't change radically.
Well, as a netizen of 30 years - too funny to be true.
I want the old internet back, not whatever this is supposed to be.
This is basically encoding(base64?) the <textarea> and putting it in the URL.

Its a neat idea, but I think theres a limit to how long URLs can be.
Any thoughts how this works under the hood? Like @gurjeet said, every keystroke is a new url. But then how all this is stored? Will it scale? :D
Wow seriously. It’s funny to hear “socialist tendencies from Europe” after having just listened to Yann LeCunn talk about his views on the need for open source AI. He says simply that the world needs diverse views and we can’t have a small number of companies from the west coast of the US serving as gatekeepers to the world’s knowledge. He’s from France and says the French government wouldn’t be satisfied with that arrangement either. He says we need freedom of information access for the same reason we need a free press.

So yeah LeCunn doesn’t want a small number of private companies to control our information. I wonder if the author views that as “socialist”.
Private investors aren't the only way to have rentable properties.

And with not for profit housing, rent is much cheaper and gives a much greater opportunity to eventually no longer need to rent.
Evolution does have a goal - spreading genes. Of course when we say "it has a goal" that doesn't mean it intelligently plans how to get there. Nobody* thinks that.

I think what you probably meant to say is that evolution isn't a perfect optimiser.
Ah yes, that's true though a typical Anaconda installation will have them automatically installed. "sudo pip install pyarrow" or "sudo pip install fastparquet" then.
> The growing outcry has raised pressure on the US central bank to cut interest rates to bring relief, a move Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has said is likely at some point.

I don't think the solution is as simple as just "cutting rates". Low rates lead to incredibly fierce bidding wars that can drive up the price by tens of thousands of dollars. An acquaintance of mine and his wife bid $50,000 over the asking price on a house in the Boston area a few years ago. They were outbid by an additional $60,000 (total of $110,000 over the asking price). Another acquaintance narrowly defeated 30+ other bidders (!) to get his house.

My wife and I bought a house last year during a time when rates were _highest_. Ironically, I believe this was actually a fairly great time to buy. Competition from other buyers was low, and sellers were more willing to negotiate because they didn't know if they would be able to sell anytime soon. And yes, we now have a higher interest rate, but that can be refinanced down the road.

It's a complex situation. I do hope for lower interest rates, but I don't think that alone is going to solve the issue.
Subversion does not require a server :-)

You can ask Subversion to create a repository anywhere you like in the filesystem.
Just wanted to note for everybody who really loves this feature. There is some options here though

Wezterm terminal supports multiplexing from the box: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/multiplexing.HTML

Also, there is Hyper terminal, and standalone protocol to implement multiplexing https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/q5mj11/htm_a_c...

If you know other options, please share.

I work in windows, but at home I use macos, so I stick to wezterm. I use it with single config for both platforms (config is written in Lua)
Never seen Lisp-in-Lisp without additional (and boring) yapping. Just CAR, CDR and CONS. And assign and type-test and COND. It would probably be about 300 lines.

"Most beautiful program ever" is short but the associated yapping takes almost 2 hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfBQmvr2Hc
Shirk, like the Muslim word for polytheists?
Ouch, that's bad :D Won't store too long texts.
I copy-pasted this comment to my friend, who's the chief economist at a major real estate company you've heard of. Here's their response, verbatim:

> "Bullshit. It's not population that matters it's household formation. Millennials are the biggest generation and they are at the age now where they are forming their own households and there isn't any housing for them near jobs. Vacancies are all in dying rust belt towns no one wants to live in. California absolutely does not have a vacancy problem. That's just a lie."

This aligns with my (admittedly less-informed) knowledge as well.

Your assertion that "every city" has a vacancy problem is particularly mystifying to me. I live in Seattle, and there does not seem to be a residential vacancy problem of any kind. Some quick Googling shows "a homeowner vacancy rate of 1.0% and a rental vacancy rate of 2.5%." That does not sound like a vacancy problem to me. Quite the opposite. Very, very, very few homes are available for sale, even as the city's population explodes.

I also did a quick and unbiased Google search of "population growth vs housing supply." Here's what came up immediately: "In 2023, the U.S. saw 1.67 million household formations, resulting in 17.2 million household formations between 2012 and 2023. In this time period, 14.7 million housing units were started, and 13.4 million were completed." So again, household formation is outpacing housing supply, which results in more competition and thus higher prices.

Both your comment and the links you included (which I perused) seem less like they're concerned with fixing housing affordability, and more like they have an axe to grind against landlords and the wealthy in general.
I agree here. AI reminds me of visual effects is many ways. It was a really neice thing for a while till it exploded....it was really expensive to get hardware for it, and even when you look at vfx today....alot of it is being used by media companies for content creation or advertising.

I see AI in a similar light. Its been here for years but thanks to some recent advanments and better hardware, the average person is now aware of it. Just like CGI used to be. I think the major value in AI is that it can sometimes explain very complex topics in a way the user can understand. Most math teachers have a specific style of teaching or explaining things, and the value of AI is that given the training and the resources....its able to tweak the approach of explaining to the user way better than most teachers Iv had could.

Obviously I think AI is going to see major use in the marketing and advertising world....just like CGI and how vfx took over Hollywood.

The main 2 questions I see is when will good AI hardware become affordable for the average folk....computer parts are so insanly priced now and the cloud movement only makes this worse.

Second, is AGI even possible? Have we peaked in this field or how much is truly left for us to discover? And how do we balance safety with freedom when what's safe changes based on who you ask.
Really? It bears out everywhere I've ever lived and also in the archaelogical record.

Don't make the mistake of equating inequality with poverty. Specialization is certainly a great driver of efficiency and wealth creation. This trade-off can be fine (in a rising tide floats all boats sense) but we have to keep our eye on the levers.
Agreed. In my experience saddle discomfort was a problem for most people. The cultural expectation was to ignore it, which is silly. A known issue for far too long.
Imagine you have a portable laptop that works for 95% of all your use cases except those days when you need a cluster of GPUs training a ML model or doing some large-scale scientific calculation.

Imagine having a fridge that isn't cold enough for storing ice cream and frozen veggies.

And yes, none of my shoes are even remotely close to covering 95% of floors. Some are good for hiking, some are good for running, some are warm in the winter.

The issue is not the lack of 100% coverage. The issue is that there is no sufficiently appealing option for a large number of people to get access to the 5% of cases when you do need it. Apparently rentals and other sharing options aren't quite up to snuff, so everybody overprovisions like crazy.
It sounds like you feel the same way I feel about a gas car - ie highly unconcerned about distance, fuel, etc.

However, going off the post I initially replied to, it seems that this person did have additional anxiety on account of their EV - ie the issues EV's have with charging, short distances, etc.
On a similar token:

>Doesn't use a server = no downtimes

Except there is a server, whatever and wherever it is behind notepadtab.com.
joshua nails it. companies do not do root cause anymore. its just the great enshitification, google edition.
Feels like the theatre of war where opsec literally means life or death to yourself, you'd be willing to leave your device at base or faraday it or something.
The natives weren’t one political group of people. They were hundred or thousands of tribes. And at some point each tribe “stole” it from some other tribe and territory. Some tribes (example: the Iroquois) were genociding other tribes.
> What kind of outlet are we talking about here.

A standard wall outlet, as in the post I was responding to.
> I will never get tired of teaching people (it's news to every single one of them!) that at any given time, there are more than 20 empty housing units in the United States for every single homeless person on the street

Are you suggesting we deport homeless people from cities with low vacancy rates, to cities with high vacancy rates?

> There is absolutely no barrier to housing every single human being beyond greed.

I suspect your answer to the question above will reveal a barrier.
Where? No one is spending that much money to colonize Mars to begin with, if that's what you're implying, much less to resupply a colony.
Title is: ADHD-like traits could offer humans an advantage in foraging, study suggests
It's stored in your history stack. I spent 15 seconds pressing the back button slowly becoming more and more horrified as I watched my characters disappear one by one.

You can see how it works for yourself by opening your browser devtools, opening the JS console, and typing

window.location.hash = "test"

You should see a "#test" pop up at the end of your URL. Pressing back will not change the page, but will make that go away.
Not sure if you are in bad faith or genuinely don't know how words work. Here is some help:

1. Go back to the parent, and understand the context in which "sustainable" is used here.

2. Convince yourself that the discussion is about "sustainable development": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_development

Edit: I am concerned that you may not find the origin of the thread, so let me copy it here for you:

> Those wristbands are a great example of manufacturing non recyclable garbage.
> The problem is lack of supply vs demand.

My point elsewhere in this thread is a that demand is not entirely a function of demand for homes (what I would call 'natural' demand). Finance and tax incentives play a large part too - encouraging demand for investment properties that are often not used as homes (what I would call 'artificial' demand).

This is not to say that addressing supply through more building is not helpful, just that there are other things to consider that may not require as much effort and can have broader economic benefits (e.g. changes to the tax system to encourage productive rather than unproductive investment, credit guidance, etc).
This line in the second paragraph killed the author's credibility/objectivity for me; I didn't even get to the bit you reference:

> an unusual open-source alliance has formed among developers who want handouts

Handouts? Really? I've been an open source user and developer for decades now, and... "handouts"? I'm not even sure what to say to that.

At this point in my life I'm convinced that the style of capitalism practiced in the US is a failure. It gives you a lot of initial gains (which are, no doubt about it, quite important) but ultimately creates an untenable, inhumane situation for lots of people. I'm not convinced that European-style socialism (whatever that is; it's not like all the European countries are united on that front) is the answer either, though. I think a unique blend of capitalism and socialism is likely the only way forward without further wealth concentration and income inequality (not to mention planetary-scale ecological destruction, since the current forms of capitalism don't incentivize us to pursue sustainability in the long term). I'm not sure what that blend is, and I'm increasingly pessimistic that the people in power will allow us to get there, even if the alternatives will be disastrous for them as well.
This is a thread about US charging infrastructure, BYD does not sell vehicles here and large trucks and SUVs are extremely popular here.
I found this article on their IAM/ABAC service interesting:
https://www.ubicloud.com/docs/architecture/attribute-based-a...

I always wonder how the big cloud providers manage to scale their IAM services (from a distributed systems perspective) given they presumably need both low latency and some reasonable level of consistency. Anyone have any pointers to architectural descriptions/publications?
It's most likely not that they needed footnoted footnotes, rather that they wanted them and structured their post on purpose to create them.
> Lieutenant Jake Bushey said on Saturday that detectives learned that most of the ball bearings were shot from the suspect's back garden.

An asshole, and an idiot for shitting where he lives. And probably a lonely man for a long time, reaching out badly.
In many cases, the USA knows the names and families of the people it stole land from. Knows their lineage. Even has photographs of some of them!

In historical terms it is a recent, deliberate, judicially-supported, documented theft. Not some undocumented invasion in hazy pre-history. Acts of Congress were passed to do it.

The British Museum (along with the V&A) has some stuff (well looked-after) that people want back. Currently the law literally prevents it being returned, and these organisations are in many cases trying to find ways to work around that law so that it is long-loaned back forever, until the law is changed. There's no simple intransigence; there is dialogue and politics.

The British Empire did some amazing things, and many, many ugly things. You won't find a person in the UK who doesn't understand that now, and there are all sorts of reparation campaigns, restitution campaigns, history projects, etc. etc.; nationally we rub our own noses in it so often that there's a right-wing backlash.

So it's tedious in the extreme the way Americans keep prattling on about British museums as if there is only stonewalling, and as if there is no appropriation from native culture in its post-independence history. It's literally on paper.
I've read all of Taleb's major works, twice. "The Most Intolerant Wins" is not in any way an explanation of the market failure of EVs.

His canonical example was "kosher food is acceptable to nearly everyone, and required by a small minority." Thus kosher takes over.

"EVs vs. ICEs" is nothing like that. EVs have been rejected by vast numbers of consumers because they find them impractical. That's all.
Ask HN: What's the best way to contact Tim Cook?
Does he actually respond to emails? When I call Apple and ask for talking to Tim Cook, they give me a fax number...
> Open-source software started as an act of charity – the world owes the likes of Linus Torvalds and Fabrice Bellard for endowing humanity with Linux, Git, and FFmpeg.

So Linux is a simple act of charity from one person. If the author so fundamentally misunderstands what Open Source software is in principle and Linux is in particular then I struggle to see how he's qualified to come to such a definitive conclusion on a subject as complex as foundation models.
HN editorialised title: "Turning psychiatric labels into identities"

Author's title: "Why We're Turning Psychiatric Labels Into Identities"

Print edition title: "Read the label"
The main innovation here seems to be the elimination of a bias electromagnet that consumes a constant current to generate a desired amount of magnetic flux.

These apparently can consume 250 milliamp, if my quick Google is right.

Here's a paper[1] that might be how they are doing it.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7529113
> Then use assembly. C is meant to abstract CPU architecture away.

Maybe. Looking back, I'd describe C as a portable assembler. K&R only optimised CPU architecture away when it was efficient to do so. For example, it wasn't efficient to specify the signed-ness of a char - so they didn't. Likewise the result of modulo ('%') on a negative number was undefined. Even the size of an int was undefined. In all these cases you get what the hardware gives you - just like you do in assembler.

I think that was the right decision. It was the best that could be done at the time. The price of the abstractions languages put in place in the name of safety and convenience meant they were a poor fit for embedded and system work. Consequently C has had decades of dominance in it's niche, a success that speaks for itself. Now a plausible challenger has arisen, but it's taken forever in internet time.

What I will criticise is what came after K&R. In K&C Undefined Behaviour meant "you get what the hardware gives you". Since what the hardware did was always well defined with a given compiler and arch everything the behaviour of your code was 100% deterministic. Then the compiler writers seeking to produce faster code twisted the definition to mean "if the behaviour is undefined we can do whatever we damned well please in order to generate faster code". And with that, at different optimisation levels code started to do different things.

The C++ plumbed the depths of this idiocy by definite infinite loops as UB. I have no idea why - embedded computers, services on modern OS's and even OS's themselves have infinite loops at their core - loops running until the electrons are removed is exactly the behaviour the programmer is depending on. It's idiocy because the halting problem (and ergo whether a particular loop is infinite) is famously not decidable. So they've undefined behaviour in a way that itself isn't defined. In practical terms, this means you write an infinite loop you are making a bet some you've made so convoluted a future version of the optimiser won't spot it. It's a bet some the occasional person has lost when they moved to a new version of the compiler. It is possible to signal to the compiler the loop must stay regardless, but you have to be a language lawyer to know how, and most don't.

So yes for today's C you are right, it is not assembler. In some ways it's objectively worse, as assembly is always well defined.
Cars are carry less people per area of road than buses do and it's even worse for self driving cars that are empty half the time.
Next he'll beat Palantir at intelligence laundry :+)
>> This is like changing your profile picture to a model in a dating app, you are going to get responses but what are you going to do with them if there is no real match?

Depends on what you mean by "model".

- Hey guys, I'm into modelling!

::stampede::

- statistical modelling!

::crickets::
>> feel that they are entitled to live in the same neighbourhood they purchased in.

> It's not a feeling, it's how purchasing things works.

He means that people feel they get to control the neighbourhood. Exercising control over property they don't actually own.
A car and a motorcycle both travel on roads, but they are still not the same. - Henry Perkins
2x is pretty common in some parts of the Netherlands. If you’re deep within the city center, sure, public transit is faster because streets are designed intentionally to be hostile to drivers.

In the suburbs or even smaller cities, driving is still faster. Hell, the trains here hardly have time to accelerate past 120kmph so driving can actually be faster than the train too unless you are going directly from city center to city center (most people need a 10 min bike ride on one or both sides).

Even If North America starts taking transit seriously, the routes needed to connect the suburbs to most metro downtowns will be enormous. There will either needs to be hundreds of bus routes feeding into light rail, or perhaps better bike infrastructure can get people close enough to one of dozens of light rail stops.

In any case, sprawl is currently setup to make urbanizing a slow and painful future for transit enthusiasts.
You know this is the same form of justification that used to be used for squirrelling things away in western museums?
conveniently the same problems are present in gpt4, but conveniently ignored as that product is from a revolutionary startup
Tried it, alas, without success -Two big factors:
1. the infrastructure that made this possible in the 90s isn’t there anymore (at least in my part of the world).
2. The surrounding world requires information exchange at physical boundaries. These too have now been “digitized”.

Where might we turn to?