skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I buy your argument absent innovations and cost reductions in the storage space.

Now consider the alternatives if we want to decarbonize heating. Nuclear -- really anything -- takes a while to build, so if we don't start building it now and then the storage technology doesn't materialize, we're screwed.

And what happens if we build new nuclear and then the storage technology does materialize? Well, it's not going to come at the expense of solar, because we'll have to build tons and tons of solar just in order to electrify transportation and apply it in the other contexts where it's the most advantageous. The nuclear plants would be in addition to that, and be replacing coal and natural gas to provide baseload and energy for heating. So the medium-term effect would just be to replace coal and gas faster.

Then if the storage technology does materialize, it would still take decades after it does to manufacture enough of it to replace the rest of the grid. So the new nuclear plants then operate for 30-50 years while that happens, instead of running for 50-100 years if it doesn't, and instead of coal and natural gas plants continuing to operate during that time if we don't build the nuclear plants. Which would be a big problem if that's 100 years and still no advantage even if it's 30.
AI Fatigue and Time Estimation
Anyone having fatigue from AI ? I careful created and rolled out project in two week at work. Someone argued that with AI it should have happened in 2 day and they argued with examples etc. Point is with AI it has become so hard to estimate timeline. It all now depends on how good you are at using AI tools. We use co-pilot at work and I still feel we cant blindly just take any code it spits out, we still have to review it and make sure it does not create bigger bugs in the system. I am seeing trend where managers are just blindly expecting devs to copy paste code from AI tools and speed up the process.
I don't understand. If you contend that it's even better evidence than actually having the file and looking at it, how is not reasonable to then need a judge to issue a warrant to look at it? Are you saying it would be more reasonable to skip that part and go directly to arrest?
I use both OS on the same display and Windows looks much better on an "old" no Hi-DPI display, I can tell you that much.

I used to dislike Windows font rendering, but it's still better than what macOS gives you for "regular" displays. You can fix it somewhat with BetterDisplay but still...
Flooding is an emotive term. Surely a "flood" of imports only happens when there is sufficient demand to justify shipping in volume?

The subsidies are more interesting. When does legitimate assistance become a subsidy? Eg if Biden/successor invests in domestic lithium mines, is that a subsidy? If they offer buyers $x rebates, is that?

Looking at the last example, if BYD said to a US buyer, "this car is $x but we'll give you a rebate", that would seem to be just as fair as Uncle Sam offering one. The objection would seem to be that it was the Chinese government acting as the source of cash.

I suggest that the answer is that noone should offer direct purchase subsidies, but government can offer whatever investment they like to support their industries. I cant escape a feeling that the US and European car industry are crying foul because (despite Musk's attempts to drag them into the future) they havent figured out how to make electric vehicles profitably.
BYD is already one of the top manufacturers for EV Buses globally. IIRC most (all?) of the electric GBuses in the Bay Area were by BYD, although they don't quite have the range to do the longer routes.
Tesla just couldn't win the competition. Sure some people are avoiding Tesla because of Elon, but they only say that because there ARE other options. Those self same people often continue to use Twitter because they just cannot stand the FOMO of not being always online, despite it being Elon's personal echo chamber.

Tesla did well initially because they dared to sell a normal car that happened to use electricity. Other automakers finally gave in and did the same. Why would I buy a car from Tesla, who has known QA issues and commands a weird premium price and hasn't "updated" their vehicles in a decade (though I don't personally get that complaint) when I could buy a Hyundai? Or a VW?
This will be an unpopular answer, but none. Karpenter for AWS, Rackspace spot, or microk8s up… Stock Debian + Kubernetes means I never have to configure a host system again. Even raid these days is one line of config: “instanceStorePolicy: RAID0”.

My Raspberry Pis at home are maybe the only exception, in which case I don’t need to harden anything as they’re isolated on my network and run trivial things like a webcam.

I’ve been a Linux sysadmin my entire professional life, and I’ll never go back to VIMing conf files ever again. It’s wonderful.

That said, if you do have to do this, Packer and Ansible still exist.
> ...they may be able to just build a plant in Mexico and take advantage of NAFTA.

If Trump is elected, expect then NAFTA to be changed to exclude competitors to Tesla in some fashion. There is already a lot of expectations that a Trump win will heavily benefit Elon: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/business/economy/elon-mus...
It was enacted so that the minority of slave owners could get their 3/5 slave representation without letting their slaves vote.
Hey, not sure I fully understand your question, but are you talking about the initial capital costs to get to a fully "productized" self-driving car? I would leave those out of the unit economics because (I think) those get treated differently financially/accounting-wise and also are not really representative of whether the future business is sustainable (it's more about whether the initial investors get the proper return on their investment).

Might not be addressing your question with that, but I think that's what you're asking. And I think you're assuming the opposite of me which is that they haven't yet productized their offering, but I think they actually have at this point. I definitely could be wrong about that. Just an opinion.
FWIW I ran a quick test of gemma.cpp on M3 Pro with 8 threads. Similar PaliGemma inference speed to an older AMD (Rome or Milan) with 8 threads. But the AMD has more cores than that, and more headroom :)
It hasn't stopped hackers though.
I wonder how much of Musk's support for Trump is due to being given the cold shoulder (followed by aggressive prosecution) by the current administration.
If OP is comparing their experience in your BYD to Tesla's marketing material, that's not a correct comparison. Tesla battery ranges should generally be derated quite a bit to align them with how the rest of the industry measures range.
Was using those md5 sums on images for flagging images 20 years ago for the government, occasional false positives, but the safety team would review those, not operations. My only role was to burn the users account to a dvd (via a script) and have the police officer pick up the dvd, we never touched the disk, and only burned the disk with a warrant. (we never saw/touched the users data...)

Figured this common industry standard for chain of custody for evidence. Same with police videos, they are uploaded to the courts digital evidence repository, and everyone who looks at the evidence is logged.

Seems like a standard legal process was followed.
> Someone argued that with AI it should have happened in 2 day and they argued with examples etc.

If someone is getting paid to argue with you about how long AI takes to build something, you might want to start looking for work somewhere else.
25% trivial code sounds like a reasonable guess.
The world runs on code that violates some or all of these rules. Following them won't fix any of the problems they have. It doesn't matter.
Icky things were historically made illegal all the time, but most of those historical examples have not fared well in retrospect. Modern justice systems are generally predicated on some quantifiable harm for good reasons.

Given the extremely harsh penalties at play, I am not at all comfortable about punishing someone with a multi-year prison sentence for possession of a drawn or computer generated image. What exactly is the point, other than people getting off from making someone suffer for reasons they consider morally justifiable?
> Eventually ...

Yes, but the problems start in severe economic crises. Specifically, when those several months turn into years.

Many filters during the hiring process, prior to interview will discard those candidates who have gaps since last employment regardless of circumstance. They may use AI as a third-party company to review and obscure the fact that they aren't hiring anyone over 40, female, or otherwise protected classes but that is what is happening regularly, along with other elements such as degrees being weighted higher than experience algorithmically.

> I do understand ...

I can tell you from personal experience, this opinion of yours isn't reflective of the whole. I've been in Tech for a decade, I was unlucky and was laid off before the major lay offs (2022) as I was involved in workforce reduction for a buyout merger. I've been looking ever since, and I've had to find work elsewhere in the interim once my reserves were expended.

I was extremely frugal, cooking everything myself, nothing luxurious. Inflation destroyed my reserves, the lack of jobs forced me to look wider than my given profession since there are no jobs, and I had more saved than most (>50k in liquid reserves at the start).

This isn't some recession like before. This is a great depression, potentially a big debt crises like Germany pre-WW2.

70% of my professional network in IT/Tech right now, across the board, is out of work. I'll let that sink in. 70%.

We are at peak hiring for seasonal hiring and unemployment is 7.0% in August? Hiring freezes guarantee this will be double digits by the annual count. National unemployment is 1.5%. That's a 4.6x national distortion between the national average unemployment and one sector that impacts everything else as a labor multiplier, and that measurement only counts those currently getting unemployment, any long-term displacement outside 18 weeks isn't counted.

Its looking more like we're in the middle of an economic collapse, which makes sense if you know about ponzi's, economics of boom-bust cycles, and how we are entering a bust cycle related to the petrodollar agreement abandonment (by the Saudi's); all those dollars printed for abroad use are now flowing back to compete with the same goods despite high interest rates.

BRICS largely isn't about attacking the US economically, its about sheltering from the global economic fallout of fiat money printing, for more than half a century. The bankers are and have been doing this to us since before we were born, and this happens every time large fractions of global assets get concentrated into few hands. Its cyclical. Large market-share companies are funded by preferential loans made by those same bankers. This is how you sieve wealth and marketshare, then drive prices up, and eventually end in deflation or hyper-inflationary collapse, because unlike normal systems economics is both sticky psychologically, and mathematically chaotic (3-body-problem).

There is no beautiful deleveraging, the bill always comes due. If this worsens, and I don't see how it cannot, this will be known by the survivors as the folly of one big generation.
Can we just get a 32 inch iMac, please?

I'm getting tired of everything else being updated yet the product most needed is completely being neglected, and for years already.

And no, I don't wanna buy a separate tiny screen for thousands of dollars.

I'm also not interested in these tiny cubes you deem to be cool.
Where is Hari when we need him
The reason it is hard being on a submarine isn’t because of the clock. That’s like saying that it is hard to be a construction worker because the hard hats aren’t fashionable.

And the reason why people don’t just do that is because it is a network effect problem. We all need to buy into it. Like the metric system or driving on the same side of the road.

And people do this. Haven’t you seen people who routinely talk to people outside their timezones sign their email with their location and/or UTC work hours?
The hash in question has many collisions. It it probably enough to get a warrant put it on a warrant, but it may not be enough to get a warrant without some other evidence. (it can be enough evidence to look for other public signs of evidence, or perhaps because there are a number of images that match different hashes)
Huh?
We're arguing that timezones make sense and that keeping the world in a single timezone ("UTC everywhere") would not be a good option. You seemed to argue that if timezones hadn't already been invented then the idea of a local time would be insane. That's what I was replying to.
The executive failed to ensure profitability which is their entire focus. They are the ones that should be laid off first. You're giving them a pass which is literally the crux of the problem, these people are allowed to fail up at others expense. I'm talking about the dropbox layoffs, you're talking about just cause termination which is again completely meaningless in California.
I doubt you'll get 10+ hours on battery if you utilize it at max. I don't even know if it can really sustain the maximum load for more than a couple of minutes because of thermal or some other limits.
You might overly be estimating your ideas of what is "urban".

Tons of Americans never have to deal with crossing a street for their parking. They're not parking at some lot around the block and walking. It's all just a sea of pavement. City codes mandate each big box store has dozens of spots per shelf in the store. This on its face seems like a gross overstatement but looking at maps shows the truth of the seas of empty lots surrounding big box stores.
They mean people standing up are invisible to cars in a lot of perspectives.
God forbid a US automaker benefit for providing Americans jobs
Affinity has been mentioned many times by Apple in their product videos
Nulls: Revisiting null representation in modern columnar formats
The hash should ideally match even if you use photoshop to cut the one person out of the picture and put that person into a different photo. I'm not sure if that is possible, but that is what we want.
It costs money that would better be sent towards other projects, and NASA needs to be as careful as possible with spending their very limited budget.

Having a ton of people run around the office for a couple months to collate a bunch of documents so you can better pass info on to a new generation of workers when the satellite might not even be usable anymore isn't very efficient. Might as well just pay an extra 50% or whatever to the 5 dudes who know what's going on until the thing is inop. Even if it died today, the mission still would've been a massive success.
I built a shell and dialog based monstrosity 10 years ago to help take stage3 gentoo installs to a full desktop install.

Here's half of it.

https://pastebin.com/ayZ2j9dQ
Ah! That makes much more sense now :) Thanks for the link
This. Survivorship bias is somehow not allowed to exist when talking about old appliances.

Yet people understand it with cars. Maybe because it’s moving?
Half of all electric vehicles sold in the US are still Teslas, so I hardly think the competition has caught up.
This is not surprising. Hindenburge Research (a short seller) documented SuperMicro’s problems in August 2024 (https://hindenburgresearch.com/smci/).
Nice but there are a zillion mobile e-mail clients already. What I really wish is a good desktop e-mail client for Linux that I can use for enterprise use:
- Thunderbird is heavy, slow and the UI feels dated
- KMail was very advanced 15-20 years ago but it's lagged behind and even HTML e-mail is semibroken today
- evolution... well, let's say it has not really evolved in the past 10 years, since Red Hat lost interest in the desktop
- others (Geary, Trojita, etc) are toys and unfit for enterprise usage
But we're talking about writing laws here. For example:

>with only minimal requirements made of the driver.

could easily be changed by changing the requirements.
NandGame – Build a computer from scratch
Well in antiquity one could also cast unwanted babies in the river so I prefer debating based on modern standards and terminology.

And a lot of cultures celebrate like the 100th day of life with some ceremony because so many babies died before that in antiquity. Humanizing babies, and I mean actual babies, is also modern. Heck, until recently people could be treated as property so even humanizing humans was a recent turn of events.

Shall we judge things by antiquity standards, is that really smart?
"In one a schlub writes an email to his boss and uses AI to make it sound ‘more professional’, in another a young woman uses it to lie about remembering an acquaintance’s name. In another the same young woman again uses it to lie about reading an email from a college, to her face, while she’s sitting with her. In yet another, linked to recently by Scott McNulty, a woman uses AI to lie to her husband about getting him something for his birthday."

My dude. These ads were supposed to be funny. Can apple not joke? When did we all get so serious?
As in significantly worse than..?
Calling someone a racist is one of the most defamatory statements one can make. People get cancelled for less. Instead of name calling, people should focus on the empirical question (is there a positive correlation between East Asian ancestry and IQ?) not on trying to undermine the reputation of someone.
The delay in answering this question makes me be more careful about this
For me it’s not so much about the tariffs. Personally, I have concerns about driving a network connected car that is ultimately controlled by one of my country’s main geopolitical adversaries. There is a nonzero chance that if war breaks out between them, best case they spy on me or brick some functionality, and worst case they weaponize a software update to do something malicious.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I would love to be wrong about these concerns, as there will be some who do purchase Chinese EVs. Also it is not about xenophobia, it is about geopolitics and cybersecurity. If someone can reply showing me how my concerns about the CCPs ability to weaponize these cars are unfounded, I would greatly appreciate it.
A big company does it so no one else should try?
Voter ID should only be introduced where you have a cheap (ideally free), universal way of proving ID, and multiple ways of establishing identity (what if I’ve just been mugged on the way to the polling station?)

It’s also solving a problem which probably doesn’t exist. The number of arrests / convictions for voter impersonation are next none.

It was introduced recently in the UK, and in the next election, the prime minister at the time the legislation was introduced managed to get caught without ID when trying to vote: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68947834
What the author is describing is basically the difference between "free software" and "open source".

While they may have the same license, the motivation of each is almost an exact opposite of the other.

One aspires to make the user of the s/w the primary beneficiary, the other aims to make profiting from the s/w the primary benefit.
The benchmarks compare it favorably to GPT-4-turbo but not GPT-4o. The latest versions of GPT-4o are much higher in quality than GPT-4-turbo. The HN title here does not reflect what the article is saying.

That said the conclusion that it's a good model for cheap is true. I just would be hesitant to say it's a great model.
It's a great site but probably best to submit an article that you think is the most interesting, rather than just the homepage.

If you do that, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com and we can put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.
As someone who has never lived in a city this is strange to me. I live in a relatively dense part of Louisiana, but around here you couldn't walk at all without jaywalking. There aren't even sidewalks in a lot of places. You just walk along the side of the road.
The M1 was released 4 years ago.
Well, thanks for the vote of confidence. And remember, like those posts which speak to you! Karma hemorrhaging accounts apparently loose the ability to comment.

If you’re curious about more of that “metaphysical” stuff, check my threads before they’re white-holed!
The art of stealing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17667175 - Aug 2018 (64 comments)
It’s probably code that was previously machine generated that they’re now calling “AI Generated”.
That makes sense - if they were using a cryptographic hash then people could get around it by making tiny changes to the file. I’ve used some reverse image search tools, which use perceptual hashing under the hood, to find the original source for art that gets shared without attribution (saucenao pretty solid). They’re good, but they definitely have false positives.

Now you’ve got me interested in what’s going on under the hood, lol. It’s probably like any other statistical model: you can decrease your false negatives (images people have cropped or added watermarks/text to), but at the cost of increased false positives.
> An “intersection” is the area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways, of two highways which join one another at approximately right angles or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
I'm surprised "entering a business where you know customers hate you and where any of your friends who you explain your job to will hate you" wasn't on the list.
> The Debian project even decided to override our decision “no, that is not an ABI breakage” and added a local patch in their build that lowered the SONAME number back to 3 again in their builds. A patch they would stick to for many years to come.

I get mad even reading about this. If I was in his shoes I'd demand they fork and rename their implementation. Too many times we hear about over zealous debian patches being the source is issues.
I wouldn't call it an indictment necessarily, because so much is dependent upon circumstances. They can't all be "deep problems" in the real world. Projects tend to have two components, "deep" work which is difficult and requires high skill and cannot be made up with by using masses of inexperienced and "shallow" work where being skilled doesn't really help, or doesn't help too much compared to throwing more bodies at the problem. To use an example it is like advanced accounting vs just counting up sales receipts.

Even if their engineers were inexperienced that wouldn't be an indictment in itself so long as they had a sufficient necessary amount of shallow work. Using all experienced engineers to do shallow work is just inefficient, like having brain surgeons removing bunions. Automation is basically a way to transform deep work to a producer of "free" shallow work.

That said, the real impressive thing with code isn't in its creation but in its ability to losslessly delete code and maintain or improve functionality.
Because it assumes OpenAI being used for anything remotely interesting rather than writing report summaries. This may have a fun media summary, but until unless significantly tweaked, it's still just an expensive multimodal model. It's not going to be used outside of offices.
There are 2 things I was always spending money on, if I felt is not the almost best achievable: my bed and my laptop. Even the phone can be 4 years old iPhone, but the laptop must be best and fast. My sleep is also pretty important. Everything else is just "eco".