skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still, when you’re due for a new car and look for the newest of the newest, would you go with manufacturer A, who released their latest car 8 years ago, or manufacturer B, who released it 1 year ago?

Incremental upgrades get so much hate around the internet (mostly about phones) by people having the version before it. Saying things like “ah they changed almost nothing! Why would I upgrade?!” While for instance me, only on my 3rd smartphone EVER, would love all the incremental updates over the years when I finally decide I need a new one, because I always get the latest and greatest. If a company then doesn’t release anything for a few years, I’d go somewhere else.
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Bless their hearts.
> Twitter Files to get an understanding of how the public square was politically manipulated

This is mostly bunk. It’s true about Twitter in a limited sense. But claiming conservatives didn’t have Fox News, One America, et cetera [1], to say nothing of having their views amplified, even if critically, in all manner of national press prior to Musk is false.

Musk amplified right-wing populist (not conservative) views while silencing others’. That’s fine, it’s a private platform. But it’s not free speech.

Going back to the original point, it’s a position that has almost certainly cost Tesla billions in sales. Lucid isn't going to out-Musk Musk among the NewsMax crowd, that's pulling a DeSantis.

> Founding Fathers came to America with the knowledge of what society looks like when people's speech is controlled

What are you citing that shows the founders expressing this view?

The founders mostly concerned themselves with factionalism [2][3], which is historically how republics have failed. The First Amendment was framed as it was--limiting the Congress, not the public--with intent [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conservative_media_in...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._10

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._27

[4] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-1/h...
> Don’t get too excited though, as projects like Intel BootGuard are bound to hamper mods like this on newer generations by introducing digital signing for BIOS images, flying under the banner of user security yet again. Alas, it appears way more likely that Intel’s financial security is the culprit.

It's okay, soon we'll lock down all software too in the name of security.
The attackers are demanding only $500,000 as a ransom payment, that's cheap!
Are we living in the same universe? Byd is the car company that has had 10 showrooms catch fire. Temu was caught selling children's jewelry with 10x the acceptable level of lead.

Foreign manufacturers are laying off like crazy in China.

Sure, Chinese quality may be getting better but it's a race. Will the quality improve before demographic collapse and over leveraging destroys the economy? And beyond that horizon, is recovery even possible given how much toxic material china dumps into it's own environment, impacting cancer and fertility rates?
This thread is full of people happy that people are wasting so much time in traffic because it will force them to change their desires
doesn’t surprise me from my time on twitter
> If everything ends up both made in China and sold by China with Chinese brands what role does that leave the rest of us.

No need to speculate; that's not a thing that can happen.

Gains from trade still occur when one party is superior to the other party at everything.

Not to mention that if you're not producing anything to give to China, you won't be able to buy any of the things they sell.
I dont see why not.

We already dump criminals in sleek modular homes when we stick them in prison.

Same concept just a tad smaller.

Modular sounds very, sort of, advertisy, manipulative and square.

I'm thinking living in "Boxes"

Nah! changed my mind.
You said the conflict is "asymmetric." You don't clarify what you mean by this but it seems like a safe assumption that you're referring to Israel's superior military power. I was pointing out that when it comes to social media propaganda from Israel's supporters and detractors, the field is tilted sharply against Israel. As for whether something is "run by Hamas," that seems like a vary narrow distinction.

The Hamas brass live comfortably in Qatar, where Al Jazeera is based. They are backed by Iran, which is a huge regional power aligned with Russia, another major propaganda power who has an interest in sowing discord in the USA & the west more broadly and this topic is a very effective wedge. (In the USA it splits both republicans and democrats internally.) Ditto China who has tiktok, where they suppress topics that create discord in their society (the three Ts, in addition to other censorship they do domestically on tiktok and beyond) but have no problem with misinformation and propaganda spreading like wildfire in the West. All of these players have media and propaganda outfits above and below board that have an incentive to support Hamas. So as for the "social media propaganda war" I'd say Israel is the one outgunned.

"that doesn't mean they paid for it" I wish you had read to the second paragraph of my comment, you'd see we agree. To wit: "This isn't to say Hamas is using botnets or anything like that, my view is that the anti-Israel sentiment is mostly 'organic'"
Even when she was wrong, she was right to be skeptical.
When you mix elements, don't you get molecules?
You can't replace the vascular, lymphatic/glymphatic cleanups that come from locomotion.
Disagree. I could have done a better job describing it though. In the current paradigm, the N houses/people negatively impacted by a given transit project will be given the same weighting as the N*Y people positively impacted by the project. You cannot have progressive transit projects that work when you allow those N individuals to stop the project. Nothing to do with democracy, different states and local governments handle it differently.
Recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40513875
I think this is half true. The innovation is there: GM's old Voltec hybrid drivetrain and the new Ultium EV platform are really quite good.

The issue is in getting the technology into the marketplace: between advertising, product positioning, dealerships, and consumer demand, that's where things fall apart.
I am going to make it political because I have never liked companies that peacock, appealing to social justice causes, but this is a staple case of why I feel this way.

Companies, like Spotify only do these types of things to soften their dominant business tactics, just like Google, just like Amazon, etc. They appeal to emotion just like politicians appeal to emotion with religion or social justice causes in their speeches to soften their image so they get away with the decisions based on who they actually are and how they really feel later or when rubber meets actual road.

Spotify is just a business interested in doing things that make them the most money possible and they have a history, like others, to appeal to people with social peacocking to soften their image while being so dominant in the market.
I set up a domain with a catchall email, and give every service different letters/numbers.
> “Starting with Edge 122, the Browser Essentials UI is now much more responsive. The UI is now 42% faster for Edge users and a whopping 76% faster for those of you on a device without an SSD or with less than 8GB RAM!”

If their old frontend was reading from disk enough for it to cause a 76% opportunity, their performance problems had nothing to do with React.
one big video is almost certainly not going to be the same as lots of small videos

A lot of channels (in absolute numbers) publish lots of long videos (in relative numbers).
You should be choosing people who will make the right choice. Occasions when sudden change needs radically new information should be rare. If you ask me how "my" representative (MP Alan Whitehead, so arguably no longer "my representative" because there's an election next month and Parliament is dissolved) voted on an issue I didn't even know about, I can usually make a pretty good guess based on what I know about Alan.

e.g. taxes -- Alan doesn't like taxation as much as me, so "Increase tax on..." means probably that's a No from Alan. However, he does think we should soak the ultra-rich, so, while a tax on booze, cars, or even holiday homes would be a non-starter, Alan can probably get behind a plan to increase tax, say, on owning a private jet, or a new tax on billionaires.
> throw BFG-9000 at demon
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While I'm not the commenter that you are replying to, I do drive a plug-in hybrid.

I find fuel economy is worse if you don't heavily utilise the electric side, and on-the-road cost is more than a straight petrol engine version of the same car, with less boot storage space as well, as the battery takes up space (and space where a spare tyre now cannot be), although it can make economic sense due to some taxes being less. (e.g. BIK tax rate of ~8-10% vs ~25-30%).

You'll only really get good fuel economy if you are plugging it in to charge every night, and doing a correspondingly suitable amount of daily miles.

And if you're plugging the car in overnight every night... you might as well just get a full BEV anyway.

The whole plug-in hybrid thing just feels like a tax dodge (either because it take advantage of perverse incentives, or works around low emission schemes), or a halfway house for people who aren't yet ready to make the jump to a BEV.

For me, even driving one (for the aforementioned financial considerations), I feel the reasons to buy/drive a plug in hybrid don't really make sense from any other point-of-view, and at this stage my next car is most likely to be a BEV.
> Both were pretty lame tbh.

Strongly disagree. While the arbitrary deadline on the bluetooth flasher tool that Google created is dumb, I ended up with 4 bluetooth controllers for free. Seems like a pretty great deal to me.
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I’m intrigued how it would have made a difference, wouldn’t it be extremely trivial to “clean up” the dataset by just doing a regex and removing all the “+*”. Or are scammers that lazy? Maybe I’m missing something?
Google used to be good about slow apps. Using gmail on the school computers in the day, the site would load so slowly it would detect that and instead load a basic html version.

Now a days I download a 500mb google map cache on my phone and its like there is no point. Everything still has to fetch and pop in.
The actual relevant question is: how many of you make a point of disallowing this? You have to go out of your way to make that not work, given that + is a valid character in email addresses.
It's almost certainly just placebo. I've been using firefox next to chrome for years and it's completely unnoticeable outside of a handful of Google-specific sites (YouTube, mostly)
That’s fair but China will get that money back in the future when they’ve removed the local market competition and start cranking up the prices. They want these cars exported so that’s the subsidies working as far as they are concerned.

They’ve done this in other, less consumer facing markets, like steel and magnets.
In a comment on that page, Steven Garrity says

> Also, generative AI undermines trust not just in your own system/product, but for all systems/products.

I think this may be an underappreciated thing. I've been seeing more and more people distrusting things generally because of this. It's not just trust in specific products, services, or companies that is at risk. It's trust in a broad swath of society in general.

And it couldn't have come at a worst time, since trust was already in short supply to begin with, including trust in the tech sector.
Totally agree on this one. I am a free market proponent but when it comes to infrastructure projects, often its hard for even the free market to get it right and its often better for a central plan to work off of (roads, electrical transmission lines, etc)
> but you do know that in general it's a thing that on HN, sometimes the rando is no rand

Sometimes. More often than many other places we could mention. But in the majority of cases, even here, a rando is a rando. And if the randos see the accepted conventions being ignored without comment it might encourage them to do it more.

> Jason could have added

I'd argue should have.

> But he would have to say that in front of every comment he ever writes

Only comments where it is significantly relevant, or in this case where his experience and proximity to the issue at have might be considered enough to ignore the standard commenting conventions.
I have a Car Thing for my 2015 Chevy Volt, and I really enjoyed it. For exactly the reasons you mention, it lets me control Spotify with a great UI. I can also just play my phone over Bluetooth but it's not like I can select different playlists, browse songs, etc. from my car's dashboard - all I can do is go back or forward.

I'm also surprised they're bricking Car Thing. Given how it works, I didn't realize it would even need server data in the first place.
A VPN should help with that. E.g. for the Mac folks, Private Relay on vs off was a delta of about 100 city blocks for me.
There is no screenshots, no demo, and video probably broken (my browser just show nothing). I see a lot of stars on github, but still has no idea what inside, how it look and only one way to see - deploy it
This comes from within Google, which strongly embraces Go -- a language famously impaired when it comes to abstraction capabilities. This opinion has been voiced here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8316520
What overlap? You asked for a one day work week. You’re either idling your equipment and space or you have employees who mostly don’t meet each other.
Modern phones and apps use a lot more though. YouTube 1080p60 or even 4K, for example.
Viewing Boulder, CO at 8PM is fun to see how the mountains really blot out the sun.
Yep! I am aware of this.

All my previous comments on this specific story have been that this isn’t verified.

Lots of major news sites pulled the trigger on the headline for nothing more than clicks.

Some journalists say that Australian Home Affairs confirmed the breach… lol! They acknowledged the rumour, but that got spun as “verification”.

Then again, maybe it’s lack of decent cybersecurity writers.

I personally can’t stand this weaksauce writing with no fact checking and the nonchalant way of throwing companies under the bus.
Looks a nice gadget to have jailbroken - I would rather try this rather than refund.
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You're right I could have been more specific.

I was hoping I could use it to forward "pure" UDP ports but I think it's considered out-of-scope by the devs. They do support HTTP/3, however.
That is not a solution to not having public transit.
>If gov’t backed companies out compete “free market” companies, why are we saddling ourselves with an inefficient economic model?

I think that is actually a fair question, but it all comes down to what you optimize for. I think that the most efficient economic model could be some form of slave command economy.

That said, I think the bigger argument against central economic planning is that it further centralizes social and political power as well. This is prone to more drastic and oppressive failure modes.

Last, you talk about the speed of information, but that cuts both ways. Distributed systems can take advantage of this as well. Capitalist economies have booms and busts, but I would take them any day over great famines.
I work at a place that just recently clamped down on this. We decided to normalize the emails so that we have a column in the db like "email" and then also "normalized_email" where normalized_email has a unique key on it too. This way, people can still make their email look like whatever they want, but they also only get 1 per email inbox.

This was all because people were doing abuse more easily by churning lots of accounts while only needing 1 gmail address. Plugging this gap was a huge deal for us in reducing card testing problems.
You could 'accidentally' prevent it by enforcing some incorrect regexp like [a-zA-Z0-9]@[a-z.]+

Not allowing a '+' to appear in the local part is not even that unreasonable. It's against the standard, but then "My email is this@example.com"@example.com is valid according to the standard so take the standard with a grain of salt.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40513875
Nope and this does nothing to the problem of not having public transit.
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> material to a reasonable investor.

As long as the investor is hurt, right? The users are just collateral.
I wondered where he went when he left Signal
Context Injection Attacks on Large Language Models
There's people that rent out their house a la AirBnB, while out on a month+ stay in a LCOL country. And in some cases come out ahead doing so, while having a vacation.

Of course it varies from household to household whether it's practical (or wise) to do this.
That upstream provider being Snowflake, according to this article: https://www.hudsonrock.com/blog/snowflake-massive-breach-acc...

(posted on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40534868)
It's line speed processing of multiple cameras in HW - it should be less power consumption than equivalent GPU or Jetson.
If the real problem is fossil fuels then leave traffic engineering out of it
A 200L tank wouldn't be an easy fit in most existing vehicles. (And imagine a $200+ fill up)

It's more impressive than BYD did it with a 50L tank.
Neuralink should skip the compression, and replace the radio link with optics. A tiny embedded LED can transmit data optically at the required speed, without compression, and a second transceiver outside the body, with access to more room, power and electronics, can transmit the large data stream wirelessly, if required.

The real question is why such a high data rate with the final outcome is typing speed or game cursor control, i.e. very low data rate? Neuralink should reframe the challenge to find a lossy compression scheme that doesn't alter the outcome. Who cares about lossless if the result is the same? Neuralink should provide a portal to dump imperfectly recoded data, and report the fidelity to the original outcome -- in detail if possible. That way coders can seek the most compressive lossy scheme that does not affect outcome.

It would also be nice if Neuralink released a complete set of data, i.e. 1024 channels, 20KHz sampling rate, 10 bits per sample, for an hour. That would be the starting place in order to find redundancy patterns, perhaps between channels.

I'd also like to say that the data currently provided is inconsistently scaled, and that the A/D data indicates poor linearity of the A/D itself. The A/D needs attention.
You can get a fairly clean timeline on X by just cleaning up followers, using the Not interested in post, and not re-posting or re-sharing anything sensational.

I have been curating STEM related teaching feed, and I have had great results with this technique.
You have to draw the line somewhere, but I do appreciate when the UI sorts "Book draft 2" before "Book draft 11". That requires nontrivial tokenization logic and inference, but simple heuristics can be right often enough to be useful.

On that note, ASCIIbetical sort is never the right answer. There is a special place in hell for any human-facing UI that sorts "Zook draft 1" between "Book draft 1" and "book draft 1".
The issue with US auto isn’t the design and manufacturing part - it’s the date route to market and sales process.
A good point that shouldn't be dismissed so quickly. This tracking also has little use beyond surveillance, so one has to wonder what is it that the author thinks they are doing, or why they think it's interesting or useful. That they then go ahead and film a crowd without their consent is more telling of their position on this moral question than it is any direct harm to the people in the video.
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It wasn’t stolen. They still have a copy of it. More accurate to say “Data allegedly copied”. And it seems natural. Information wants to be free.
I don't disagree with you. Behavior is complex. But, keep in mind that pro-social behavior is genetic behavior. Humans are Apes, but we're a special kind of Ape that has a large PFC that evolved partly to attune us to complex social coordination. Except when we're under stress, have cognitive load, in adverse environments, have developmental disorders, Human's tend toward pro-social behavior, overriding Ape-like behavior. (Also, it's interesting to note that some research suggests that parenting has a low (10-20%) influence on a child's behavior.)

Also, yes, there are general genetic differences between males and females, but we've also determined pretty clearly at this point that there's enough variance at the individual level where generalizations don't work. For instance, I have a niece who was born much larger, stronger, and more aggressive than the other kids. She was always interested in "boy stuff". She even looked more boy-like. It's not helpful when people tell us "boys should be boys. girls should be girls".
I use iCloud mail. It generates new addresses for me for different services.

The generated addresses are all completely distinct, and can be revoked.

They look like for example:

happy.wombat-0a@icloud.com

dingus-capybara.0e@icloud.com
Musk didn't claim to support conservative voices - he claimed to be a free speech absolutist and then immediately began censoring it once it was inconvenient for him.

Conservatives are not entitled to free megaphones to blast calls for violence and racist nonsense at random people. They're especially not entitled to demand that from liberal tech companies full of immigrants and other minorities which they consistently demonize.

If you want to hear conservative voices, go to Truth Social or Parler.
I don't make the rules, and it is unfortunate there is still a wide gap between current state and desired end state wrt citizen harm; to understand the rules is to leverage them to arrive at a desired outcome. Code for some hackers, legal and regulatory frameworks for others. Simply different syntax, runtimes, and exception handling.
No sorry I was writing in a hurry. I meant something else but couldn't come up with a good definition quickly.

I mean flown somewhat routinely and "recreationally" not for work, school, or emergency. I think 30% is probably about right with those constraints? Among tech people everyone has flown several times at least, but a lot of my family and social connections are inner city working class and many of them have never flown except possibly when a family member was hospitalized. Others fondly recall the single trip they took to florida or whatever decades ago.

A lot of americans don't fly ever and it's definitely for financial reasons even though tickets can be very cheap. The flight is the cheapest part of a vacation and people making $30k at hourly labor are just not taking time off work to fly to new places.
The 500kW almost certainly includes the cooling losses. The chips alone theoretically consume power roughly according to the Landauer-Von Neumann limit, which would be less than microwatts for the shoebox they describe. In real life it’ll be more due to the switching flux and EM radiation generated but I think still much less than a watt. Liquid helium cooling and pumping through the chip is super inefficient which is where 99% of the energy is going.
It’s interesting how the thread starts off by expanding your worldview and then ignores the fact that international travel is often a luxury for the well off.
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