skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd seen some rumors that Tesla has been trying to slow down onboarding of other automakers to their charging network

It's more simple. The delays have been because Musk threw a tantrum and fired the whole supercharging team:

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

> I still struggle to see how this ends up favorable for Tesla in the long run

Standardization gives Teslas more access to more chargers. It will also drive up utilization of Tesla's charging network because more cars will use more of Tesla's chargers more of the time.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/28/22596337/tesla-supercharg...

Tesla's chargers have been open to all brands for a long time in Europe. Here's a Kia charging on a V4 charger with no app and no Tesla account just as Nature intended:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yflZN0dLT8s

Tesla is just one charge point operator among many in Europe. Tesla's chargers are behind the state of the art. They still don't work well for 800 volt cars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJ2KtzMeh8

The Cybertruck is an 800 volt platform and charges faster on Electrify America than on Tesla's own chargers:

https://x.com/itskyleconner/status/1775014705222070331

EV charging standardization in Europe has driven investment in and deployment of charging infrastructure. The US has 193,000 public AC and DC charge points:

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/09/americas-ev-charging-infra...

Europe has over 900,000:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41466853
I remember be very understanding of it too after seeing the incredible (but absolutely terrible in retrospect) outputs.
It doesn't seem like a coincidence that Amazon's RTO is being paired with a middle manager haircut.

With less middle managers, the executives are probably thinking they'll need individual contributors physically present in order to monitor them effectively.

I still can't imagine why anyone agrees to work at a place that treats it's employees like children.
But by definition the founders of the USA were terrorists. And they knew it too, viz. Benjamin Franklin's famous line 'Gentlemen, we must all hang together or we shall most assuredly hang separately.'

Preemptively invalidating all non-state actors is just a way for people with power to avoid challenges to it. Every single oppressive regime describes rebels as terrorists and employs circular arguments to assert its own legitimacy. Using this to dismiss military attacks on military targets is, frankly, bullshit.
> You should read up a bit more on this, rather than blaming META.

Cambridge analytica ? /s
>I'd still love to understand how a non-profit organization that was founded with the idea of making AI "open" has turned into this for profit behemoth

because when the board executed the stated mission of the organisation they were couped and nobody held the organization accountable for it, instead the public largely cheered it on for some reason. Don't expect them to change course when there's no consequences for it.
Amazon does own (what feels like) half of downtown Seattle. I think in this case they do have a strong 1st party incentive.
Does someone have good papers on the negative effects of microplastics (ideally on humans)?

A while back I tried to look for those, and it was nontrivial to find papers that would conclusively show that they are harmful, and the mechanisms of this harmfulness.

There's a ton of press about where they are (everywhere) but (as a layman) you could argue it's because they're not very reactive, and this lack of reactivity could mean they're not actually that harmful, and are just there.

Take TFA as an example. Based on the abstract it shows that microplastics are there, but concludes with "highlighting the need for further research on their neurotoxic effects and implications for human health".

Now of course doing good studies about this is extremely hard, as it's hard to find subjects untouched by microplastics for control groups, but I hope someone here can provide me with some good sources on this.

To be clear, I'm not trying to deny the harmfulness here, I'm just looking for good related content.
> HN crowd is increasingly threatened by new technology.

Just because HN became bigger. But hackers are used to this, creating the new technology.
it is open. You can access it with an API or through a web interface. They never promised to make it open source. Open != Open Source.
The implication of the right to privacy being unnecessary because you have nothing to hide is akin to declaring the right to free speech unnecessary because you have nothing to say.

The ability to maintain privacy and anonymity is not for today, it's for tomorrow.
If your nodes disclose their affiliation that's fine but the client will avoid using multiple. If you try to do this in secret the tor project will attempt to catch you by looking for suspicious nodes that use the same isp and update their tor version at the same time and things like that, to questionable success.
but they've _always_ released their stuff. Thats part of the reason why the industry uses pytorch, that and because its better than tensorflow.

In the same way that detectron and Segment anything is an industry standard.

Sure, for LLMs openAI released a product first. but its not unusual for meta to release useful models.
There is certainly no data, even though Amazon has a reputation for being data driven. Amazon has tried hard to not talk about it, but friends who work there said that their internal surveys let any employee see the results, and that Amazon’s own data shows that remote work is actually more productive. So instead of admitting that, the company’s leaders like Andy Jassy have come up with vague claims like the office environment is better for culture or collaboration or brainstorming. In reality, all of this is probably just a boring way to force a layoff without a WARN notice or severance.
And neither are against the laws of war. The US has decided to reduce their usage, but Russia uses air deployed landmines with high dud rates and it is not a war crime.
I think some number of them are probably just legitimately psychopaths living in the West. Though maybe they latch onto the term after hearing it as a PRC talking point. If you genuinely can't imagine mutually beneficial positive relationships based on consent, then it's only natural that seeing the US work together with so many other countries would be scary and look like "US & vassals".

"A billion people" and "thousands year old civilization" are also Chinese talking points I've noticed. Hence why I included it in my comment, to both call out the really degrading "vassals" narrative and also point out these dictatorships aren't as special as they like to pretend.
Why not just have greater number of relays by default? Internet bandwidth tends to increase over time, and the odds of this correlation attack are roughly proportional to the attacker's share of relays to the power of the number of relays used.

So latency issues permitting, you would expect the default number of relays to increase over time to accommodate increases in attacker sophistication. I don't think many would mind waiting for a page to load for a minute if it increased privacy by 100x or 1000x.
Nanobots in the Olfactory Bulb of the Human Brain (2030)
Security Auditing Solidity Codebases with GitHub CodeQL
I'm more interested in the financials and funding of the service - it's "easy" to provide a better service if you're losing money burning VC cash, but we know that'll never be sustainable.

If they are better for the creators while also being at least cashflow-neutral, that's a much bigger deal IMHO than specifics on /who/ owns it.
Ha, fair enough, I deserved that! I just mentioned that year in that sentence because that’s when the linked graph takes off. For the curious onlooker: this person pretty much nailed it with “1980s”, according to NGrams: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Machine+learni...
If before I missasumed, now I don't understand. What is your meaning? What do you mean by art, and different how?

I see games as a form of human expression just as writing, movies, painting, etc. They many be newer (video games certainly are) and they may be in a categorically different medium (human agency) than the others, but they're still art. And maybe one day soon someone will produce a game worthy of being called Art with a capital A.
> Misinformation from one country is allowed, misinformation from another country isn't. How do we know for sure that the news outlets from Western countries are actually telling the truth about what's going on, and aren't just making things up or lying by omission?

You never know for sure. But now, they are trying to "help you". /s
The last time we had a corporate romance between an open source protocol/project, "XMPP + Gtalk/Facebook = <3", XMPP was crappy and it was moving too slowly to the mobile age. Gtalk/Messenger gave up on XMPP and evolved their own protocols and stopped federating with the "legacy" one.

I think the success of the "Threads + Fediverse = <3" relies on the Fediverse not throwing the towel and leaving Threads as the biggest player in the space. That would mean fixing a lot of problems that that people have with Activity Pub today.

I don't want to say the big tech are awesome and without fault, but at the end of the day big-techs will be big-techs. Let's keep the Fediverse relevant and Meta will continue to support it, otherwise it will be swallowed by the bigger fish.
If I may speculate, then opine, (1) was the attacker more than just able to compromise the supply chain, were they able to BECOME part of the supply chain? The credentials of the BAC corporation seem highly suspect.

(2) The execution of this attack was really dumb. Like that STTNG episode about the Borg, the attack could only be used once per type of device. The attack apparently struck ALL devices all at once, rather than limiting the effect to a select group of people, or even one at a time. Even so, whoever commanded the pager attack must have belatedly thought to command the walkie-talkie attack, perhaps realizing that Hezbollah would be suspicious of other items purchased around the same time. If I were Hezbollah, I would throw away all laptops, phones, ... garage door openers ... and replace w/several different vendors of device, now and forever going forward.

So why this attack and why right now? For what reason is the attacker so pressed to carry this off right now? Because they ruined any possible future use of the attack.

I'm not taking sides here, just trying to rationalize the use of this capability. Seems like it is just to send a message.

[EDIT] perhaps "all at once" was necessary because there is no way to know who gets what pager/walkie. Somehow children got some of these - don't know how. People pawning these pagers/walkies? People losing them, or kids stealing them?
Well. Kinda!
Inactive patent lawyer here (these days my practice is in other areas).

1. This bill doesn't appear to address Alice/Mayo unpatentability under 35 USC § 101. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/222...

2. My concern is that this bill seems to inappropriately raise the evidentiary bar for a patent challenger to prove invalidity in an inter partes review in the USPTO:

- Existing law, at 35 USC § 316(e) says a challenger in an IPR must prove invalidity by a preponderance of the evidence. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/316

(In a court challenge to validity, the Supreme Court has ruled that invalidity must be proved by clear and convincing evidence, the highest standard in civil litigation, just short of beyond a reasonable doubt.)

- Section 4 of this amendment, when it comes to issued claims, would raise the IPR challenger's burden to clear and convincing evidence. For new claims, the challenger would still have the burden of proof, but by a preponderance.

Both standards are bad public policy, because in most cases a single, very-busy patent examiner is in effect making national industrial policy — and granting the patent applicant a nationwide monopoly on the claimed subject matter — all by his- or her lonesome after doing a prior-art search; the applicant must disclose material information known to him/her but is under no obligation to do a search. That's been the law for a long time.

It'd be as if a graduate school made a rule that a Ph.D. candidate must be issued the degree unless his (or her) dissertation committee does a literature search and shows that the candidate's research wasn't sufficiently novel. (As I understand it, every reputable Ph.D.-granting institution requires the candidate to do a literature search to demonstrate novelty.)

But of course it's worse than that, because — unlike a new patent holder — a newly-minted Ph.D. can't weaponize his- or her dissertation to try to "extract" royalties from other researchers.
The only reason I can think of for this is PR image. There is a meme that GPT can't count the number of 'r' characters in 'strawberry', so they release a new model called 'strawberry' and ban people when they ask questions about strawberry the noun, because they might actually be reasoning about strawberry the model.

It's not new - it's PR. There is literally no other reason why they would call this model Strawberry.

OpenAI is open in terms of sesame.
> They will probably support CCS for a while

NACS is CCS with a different plug on the end. Tesla's charging standard is to die off, CCS will be the standard going forward.

Here's a real world demonstration of a charger with J3400 plugs (aka Tesla's plug):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3-0xRTduPI

It works on a Chevy Bolt because it is CCS.
I really like the aesthetics of Iosevka, but the glyphs are really narrow - resulting in severe readability problems for me (I'm diagnosed dyslexic).
Twitter, currently known as X.
but the training data is one of the key bits that makes or breaks your model's performance.

There is a reason why datasets are private and the model weights aren't.
Email: Hi, please pull the latest changes from dot dot dot

What kind of email is that?
Starting to eye my dryer lint as a toxic substance
> We never would've gotten GPT-3 and GPT-4 if this didn't happen.

"We never would've gotten [thing that exists today] if [thing that happened] didn't happen", is practically a tautology. As you saw from the willingness of Microsoft to throw compute as well as to hire ex-OpenAI folks, as you can see from the many "spinoffs" others have started (such as Anthropic), whether or not we would've gotten GPT-3 and GPT-4 is immaterial to this discussion. What people here are asking for is open AI, which we might, all things considered, have actually gotten from a bona fide non profit.
>I have to give Dong Nguyen credit for pulling the game when he started to believe it caused more harm then good.

If he thought the game's design was "evil" why did he make the game in the first place? If you want to make a game, you need to actually sit down, come up with a game concept, prototype it and then produce it and finally publish it. He did all that but believing nobody or very few would play it but in reality Flappy Bird was sleeper hit and when it became viral he melt down. Whacky media headlines drove him "crazy" not bad or addictive game design of Flappy Bird.

If you want to be a creator of any kind you need to be open to all sorts of feedback; both bad and good, crazy and kind etc. etc.

>Unfortunately, greed and money always wins.

They don't....if he wanted to protect whatever was left of Flappy Bird's brand he should've copyrighted it and let it rest in peace and not left it for grabs.
Based on a similar search, my take away was that it’s too early to tell. Animal models suggest some risks, but it’s not very clear if that translates to humans. Feeding plastic to mice isn’t an exact analogue.
Is this isn’t the top comment I’ll be sad.
I think it would be about the matter of principle and demonstrating that they will defend their customer's interests.
* Google added support to Valkey: https://cloud.google.com/memorystore

* AWS says they are moving: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/why-aws-supports-val...

* Aiven added Valkey: https://aiven.io/blog/introducing-aiven-for-valkey

* Instaclustr mentioned moving: https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/redis-to-valkey/

* Oracle indicated support: https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/oracle-su...

Azure is the main one sticking with Redis: https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/blog/redis-license-update-...

I might edit this if I remember some more.
The way I see it, AI is about the tasks a system handles, rather than the computer itself. I would say that AI encompasses the set of tasks where the computer system is in some way better than its user not just by having access to more computational resources, but by actually "reasoning" better. As a simple example, I'd argue that a basic spell-checker which works via dictionary lookup doesn't employ AI, but an extensive modern grammar checker does, as it can "reason" about the English language better than I (and most people) can.

Another way of thinking about it is that non-AI systems must always perform a task correctly, or we'd say that they have a bug. Conversely, an AI system performs tasks in situations where there is some measure of uncertainty or subjectivity, and they might arrive at a way of performing the task that is suboptimal, or even entirely inappropriate, without being buggy - for these systems we'd say that they did their best given the circumstances.

In the case of this hospital study, if they had used a simple "beep if measure goes above X" system, that wouldn't have been AI, but they used an ML model which integrates many interdependent factors over time [0] and while it has a significant ratio of false positive triggers (and as such is often wrong), it applies what would absolutely count as "reasoning" in trained human nurses.

[0] "The deterioration prediction model was a time-aware multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS) model (Appendix, Sections 1–4). The model is made time-aware by incorporating risk score predictions from earlier in the encounter, the change in risk score since the previous assessment, and summaries of changes in the risk score over time." https://www.cmaj.ca/content/196/30/E1027
For what it's worth, I'd advise against doing that as a parent. Giving concrete reasons for decisions helps kids understand that the rules imposed are not arbitrary, and helps frame the parent-child relationship as less antagonistic. It also gives the child agency, giving them opportunity to find alternatives which fulfill the criteria behind the rule.
For workers there are usually some tax benefits to home offices, though it's not a huge amount in practice. In the UK you can offset things like partial utility costs, but only for fully remote.

https://www.gov.uk/tax-relief-for-employees/working-at-home
From clothing? Do you have any idea how prevalent it's become? It is hard/impossible to find clothes without traces of plastic.
Using a different set of commands in the terminal versus scripts and documentation makes no sense to me, why would I want to learn two different ways do the same thing? Python does not expect me to use `open` in the REPL but prefer `get_file_handle` in published scripts, their ethos works because the entire language has an emphasis on relatively concise readability.

Every single command starting with `Get-` or `Set-` adds so much noise and makes things really hard to visually distinguish too. I don't want overly verbose commands in scripts for the same reason I don't want them in the terminal, it's still a pain to write and even if you have some autocomplete it makes editing harder. I don't think `ls` is any less clear or harder to learn than `Get-ChildItem` really, that name doesn't even actually give me any clue what the command does.
You don't say:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine

https://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/lebanon0208/lebanon0208web....
This seems a tad defensive, very ra ra go team. Can't we all celebrate a step forward in computing technology?
> they're not very reactive, and this lack of reactivity could mean they're not actually that harmful.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are so stable they are called "forever chemicals", but according the NRDC, "PFAS are also toxic at extremely low levels (i.e. parts per quadrillion), posing significant risks to our health":

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/forever-chemicals-called-pfas-s...
This will force Iranians make their own pagers and wallow-talks in the long term. In the short term, hezbollah members are forced to use mobile phones, making easy for Israelis to snoop on.
A quick search led me to this review, which has a number of studies linked in references, including a few that studied humans.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885170/

Quote from the abstract:
The direct consequences of MPs and NPs on the thyroid, testis, and ovaries are documented. Still, studies need to be carried out to identify the direct effects of MPs and NPs on the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal glands.
The work still gets done or the employee gets fired. Also, just because someones in an office doesn’t mean they're working.
It's $300M over 10 years split across 26 institutions.

In fact I'd say this is a better deal than the one the UW Systen got.
I'm using a private ip over a vpn so I don't think that workaround will work for me. I don't really want a public dns record.
One reason they don’t is because they’re afraid of ways in which a union might hurt them. For example many unions become overly political and involve in issues that aren’t just fighting for wages and benefits (like taking on social justice issues). Many unions have tenure based rules that they negotiate to privilege some workers above others. Many unions end up becoming so hostile in their view of the company, that they end up hurting the company and limiting everyone’s income instead of working together in a more balanced way. I think even now, the perception (even if it is wrong) is that all the possible negatives are worse than the possible benefits like fighting RTO policies.
Kinda funny how just this morning I was looking at a "strawberry" app on f-droid and wondering why someone would register such a nonsense app name with such nonsense content:

https://github.com/Eve-146T/STRAWBERRY

Turns out I'm not the only one wondering, although the discussion seems to largely be around "should be allow users to install nonsense? #freedom " :D

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/3377
people are just way too invested in the OpenAI hype and they don't want people threatening that in any way
Prior to Google we had Altavista and in those days it was incredibly common to find keywords spammed hundreds of times in white text on a white background in the footer of a page. SEO spam is not new, it's just different.
How many children do you expect to be combatants?
I can't tell whether you're making an argument for or against it.
Hezbollah considers that they must fight Israel following the Gaza war. They’ve stated they won’t stop until the Israelis leave Gaza.

The average Sunni Muslim in Beirut either remembers, or has family who remembers what happened during the (unprovoked by the Lebanese) Israeli invasion and subsequent occupation. Today, most of the Arab world supports Hamas in the Gaza war, considering that the large number of civilians being killed is essentially mass murder. Mix these two informations, and you will find very little trust towards Israelis. Add today’s attacks and things get even worse.

It’s very easy to destroy trust, and very hard to build it. None of this has to be perfectly logical - it’s not how people work.
Thanks for the kind words! Yes, there's more coming. I planned a series of seven articles, the second of which is already out