skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I drove a leased PHEV in California from 2021 to 2024. Driving on electricity was more expensive!

Typically charged at L2 chargers at a retail rate of $0.39/kWh (admittedly during dinner peak after work -- off-peak was lower). The 17 kWh battery gave 40 miles of highway driving, for 16.575 cents/mi.

Gas during the same period peaked at $6.749/gal, although I went out of my way to fill up at Costco Gas and saw prices as low as $3.999/gal - weighted average over that three year period was $4.896/gal. The 7 gallon tank gave another 300 miles of highway driving, getting 9.331 cents/mi to 15.748 cents/mi.

At the same gas prices, a comparable gas-only car getting 29.1 MPG would be 13.8-23.2 cents/mi in gas costs.
no one wants or need copilot.
Exactly. If management communicated clear expectations and measured performance accordingly, this would all be resolved, but they encourage living in fear instead. What do they expect as a result?
:O I made this lol
Look at the bright side, at least flights today are still as fast as 60 years ago.

For trains, you would be hard pressed to find a route that is not significantly slower today than 60 years ago.
Electricity prices in China are about half of what they are in the US, I expect the rest is similar.
I have a $30k computer at home.

Are you going to give me one like that at work?

If not I'm less productive there and only showing up to polish your ego.

My corporate escorts rates are higher than my working rates accordingly.
Mutter has one of the laggiest Wayland implementations imho.
The core Wayland and X.org don't exist in a vacuum. I have written a lot of code over the years that works only on X, as have many others. I have not directly contributed to the X.org server, but have to the "wider X ecosystem". I will have to rewrite some of that. This is the case for many people.
This strikes me as an odd claim. You don't hang around with a friend who makes things up because they somehow enhance your learning process. You hang around with them despite the fact they're annoyingly unreliable, presumably because you value their company for other reasons.

Let's say you're trying to get a university degree, but having a professor who makes up 20% of what they say. Is that helping you "learn well"?
I'm a revolut user, but I fail to understand how they plan to make any money off me with all they throw.
This was actually fun. I played a few puzzles, it’ll be cool if the problems go beyond just following instructions.
Sure, but if you ask almost anyone who wrote a work of fiction or whatever that was translated, they mention the author, the translator often not even coming into the picture at all. Ultimately, most people don't really care about translators, complex job or not.
pretty sure the people having their irises scanned are the “tools” and the “humanity” it’s for are the other two thousand five hundred or so billionaires on the earth
I don't recall seeing anything here about the cable cuts in Taiwan earlier in the month, too:
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2025/01/09/...

It may be more than one war.
Given how much it costs to launch anything into space, and especially something big enough to be visible from earth, and the amount of sales gained vs. the massive expense, I don't think it even needs to be banned; the companies with enough budget to do it are already big enough to be known by almost everyone, and the small ones who would benefit the most from the reach can't afford it.
the point is obviously for the AI thing to read your emails -- they are not asking you
I read the headlines and was surprised to see the replay of the red card afterwards. There's no intention to harm but he went studs first on the calf and then all the way down to the foot. Red card is harsh but imho not a blatant error. You can't go studs first.
An easy formula to decide how hard you should work, is to take your compensation, divide it by the total comp of the CEO then multiply 100% of your effort by the result. For example:

If your total comp is $250k and your CEO's total comp is $25M you should put in 1% of your maximum effort at work.
Well, I'm on a Mac and it 100% has been implemented for me -- I tried to figure out how to turn it off as soon as I first saw it, went to preferences, found the checkbox. I didn't realize that hasn't been rolled out to everybody.
Also at the Intrepid Museum in NYC.
It'll be challenging to even figure out which one of the things connecting to $DISPLAY is the real window manager. Good luck on your lonely[1] journey!

[1]: The people who actually developed Xorg are now working on various Wayland-related things.
I'll add:

- Not to be made to feel like shit constantly with non-stop criticism about every little thing you didn't 100% get perfectly right, meanwhile management has no accountability on all the stuff they fuck up, so long as they stay angry enough and put all the blame on their team.
yes, will need this in the upcoming class revolt.
> Does no one remember that in the 2010s, Zuck went around trying to advocate against the calls for censoring "disinformation", arguing free speech shouldn't be regulated by a company?

Nope! I remember it too. It was impressive at the time. All the CEOs standing in line acting like there's no problem with a ministry of truth approach, and Mark was the only one who said the obviously correct thing. I've liked him since then.
Hm. I am currently using Ubuntu 24.10 and it also has Wayland and gnome as a default, with the nvidia 565 driver. And it is really, really bad. For example, i use chrome and the tabs, man, it takes ages to switch from one tab to another and to get focus in the location bar again.

So much for the whining. I do not know what to do. I could record this behaviour, but it somehow needs to show the timestamp of when i intend a behaviour and the time, that behaviour becomes actualized.

I used to be quick with all the hotkeys but i do make so many mistakes now, because the system is simply not responsive and all my instincts await instant action.
Love the direct translation from Russian…
These aren't the situations we're discussing. The arrest is found through a background check, not disclosure. This is about companies avoiding public backlash for hiring someone with an arrest.
He did not. He renamed it as New Rome.

The name Constantinopolis came after him. It was often just referred as polis. The name Istanbul is derived from "eis tan polis" (to the city) used as a common phrase during Byzantian times. Turks kept using this old names as Konstantiniyye (Constantin's city in Arabic) Istanbul, both only referring to the walled part of the city till mid-20th century.
I think Windows now also supports hardware overlays, so games running in fullscreen Windows can skip the compositor, which reduces the latency in no longer allowing games to directly write to the FB.
In Europe we have instant bank transfers, for free in Italy as of January 2025.

The bad thing is that they don't work outside business hours (not a huge problem), and that you can't cancel/revert it.
Well, the every wall is just for movie visuals. In reality it will be projected right onto your retina or, using neuralink, right into the visual cortex or may be even deeper than that.
Ah yeah, nothing beats Bitcoin when it comes to banking /s
I think there has been a ton of improvement in commercial flight — think safety, for example — but my understanding is that there has simply been no incentive to improve flight times. Customers aren’t willing to pay for it. Which sort of makes sense: Generally speaking flight time is less than half of the total door-to-door time of air travel.
Where is this advice coming from? 250k is globally a solid wage. If you get fired and don’t have a better option lined up after doing 1 percent effort how does that play out?
That's only true when they're risks associated with outcomes that people generally find favorable.

If the corresponding reward is that I pull off a successful crime, then we as a society are worse off for having funded the risk.
What a lot of people don't realize is that a lot of the protests are organized by people who do not care if you get hurt, arrested, or die. In the US, Russian operatives organize a lot of the protests that turn violent. They also organize the counter protests.

In other countries, protests are often organized by foreign entities. The organizers will have good opsec, but everyone else is just (metaphorically) cannon fodder as far as the organizers are concerned.

It's been this way for decades. The Soviet Union organized protests in other countries for pretty much its entire existence. The US helped the Polish anti-authoritarian Solidarity movement and several others.
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"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The submission of the same yesterday didn't have the uppercasing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42824609
Yes I don’t understand the complexity criticism. Most hybrids seem more reliable than BEVs. It is complicated by things like software issues and not issues with drivetrains, but clearly companies like Toyota can make hybrids and PHEVs that are insanely reliable. A PHEV (from the right brand) seems to offer the best of all worlds - electric drive for most daily trips and the range of ICE for weekends and road trips.
We've had plenty of insights on what Altman is thinking from one of the people who spent lots of time at his side and know him best: pg.

Lots of pg tweets/comments over the years about how the thing Sam is best at, and what drives him the most, is climbing up ladders and acquiring power.
Just because you don't agree with it (which is weird given the guy is a big X/Wayland maintainer), doesn't make it propaganda.

X sucks for how graphics work in the 21st century, there's a big reason Google didn't use it for Android and instead made something that's actually more akin to the Wayland model .
Unemployment in Russia was historically low for many years before the war and the war is now suffocating Russian economy, not boosting it, by draining resources, scaring immigrants and flooding the economy with cheap money — inflation and interest rates are very high. As soon as war stops, there will be temporary recession, but it will recover same way as it happened several times before in previous crises. Currently there’s no way for the West to bend Russia to Ukrainian terms: the time is against Ukraine more than against Russia. The war will end on favorable terms to Putin, his power stronger than ever.
https://ui.perfetto.dev/

Won’t get you end to end latency, but should be able to trace the input events through chrome, and show the context swaps of all the Wayland/dbus stuff.

EDIT: looks like Linux system tracking is more work, but possible https://perfetto.dev/docs/quickstart/linux-tracing
Yep some CEO said they have 50K GPUs of the prior generation. They probably accumulated them through intermediaries that are basically helping nvidia sell to sanctioned parties by proxy
honestly, I still don't get the point of wayland.
20% is a harsh figure but it could be a good entry point to figure out the unknown unknowns and go in depth once you have the relevant keywords using more reliable sources.
I got to diamond in Apex Legends on Linux using Wayland on KDE Plasma. Didn't feel any noticeable difference between wayland, x and windows in my Apex playing.
Now find anything on that list where they didn't get something they wanted in return. They're building a brand, this is marketing.
If my boss makes 100X I do, I will be doing 100X less work than them. How hard you work doesn't really have anything to do with you being fired or not, just try to be nice to those above you in the org chart and you'll survive as long as anyone else who doesn't make waves.
My first job out of grad school (MSW) was as a public policy wonk at a small nonprofit. I ended up being promoted over the years because others were brought in and the board decided to recognize my experience that way. Great.

Throughout my tenure (~8 years), I worked more than 40 hours/week. I loved, loved, loved the work. In the early days, I worked way more than 40 hrs. Then I got married and I worked fewer more hours. The board chair noticed and said something. I agreed with her and told her it was because I got married. She understood.

What she wouldn't acknowledge, though, is that my productivity at 30 hours a week surpassed every other staffer's. That was a problem and management was not gonna address general it. In some ways, I could not have cared less. When first married, my husband had a cancer scare and was in and out of the hospital over a couple of months. After a major surgery, I stayed with him in the hospital. He was so doped up that I got a ton of work done. When he got home, work sent food for a week. I worked from home and still got a ton done.

Colleagues wondered why I got this treatment. Most board members understood what that said about my colleagues; the ED was, again, not gonna do the hard work of managing us.

I really lucked out. But I often wonder what kind of good we could have done for kids and families in DC if we were all functioning at a high level. Such a missed opportunity.
> Compositors will always have worse latency than writing directly to the front buffer.

This is not really true, if a full screen application is detected, the compositor can tell the GPU to instead just display the contents of the applications buffer, skipping the compositor.

IIRC this is broken on Xwayland GNOME.
Dumbass DeepSeek calling my resolution low when it doesn't seem to know about device pixel ratio, what a noob
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And yet it still grows
when you take the king’s shilling you must do his killing
In a large corporation, I don't think it's possible.

In a small company, can look at revenues and profits, and maybe breakdown by product line, and then create a bonus pool according to how well the company did and let managers decide how to divvy it up based on their evaluation of their reports.

At a very large corporation, how can you trace back credit for overall corporate performance to individuals? If individual contributors own stock in the company or RSUs, how do they know whether their actions are increasing the corporation's value?
What are some companies or apps or teams which are fully powered by render cloud?
Building antivirus software for cloud storage (S3, R2, etc) after having the problem at a job - https://bucketscan.com
Not the OP, but I think the point is that simple language is inherently less precise than complex and legal-specific language.
Well that sounds like oral history, which is how all people used to learn. Strictly fact check everything you say seems like a modern invention.
China is partnering closely with Russia and will help support their economy, perhaps in exchange for sensitive tech like hypersonic missiles or jet engines or whatever. They may also negotiate a purchase of Russian territory, on the east, in a worst case scenario for the US.
Notepad is quite simple
What are some companies or apps or teams which are fully powered by render cloud? Are they b2b or b2c ?
Slash-Dot chortled at that mail but I yearned to work for a software company where the CEO would spend their after-hours time actually eating some dog food & providing feedback (at the time I worked for a mobile phone company and all the mails from the C-suite to the world at large ended with "sent from my (competitor device)" because they preferred to use them and seemingly didn't care to drive improvements to their own products.)
The hardware costs tens of billions. The electricity cost is around what you guessed.
Is that still a thing? At least from what I can see around me, employers have reigned in employees pretty tightly. Anyone in "quiet quitting" mode has already been laid off like a year ago.
I'm not sure what good will a system that only focuses on targeted truths will ever do to humanity, we already live in a world were stats are only valid if they do not offend a single person. The reason AI's are so doctored are that sometimes we just do not want to hear the truth, and we dont.
In case anyone is not aware, this is a reference to an episode of The Twilight Zone[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zon...
Yeah I agree, and chose my words carefully. Their education reform work in the US has been much more murky.

Their work in Africa has had unambiguously huge benefits.
DeepSeek is use way less computing to achieve the same results. That's the whole difference.
On this point, I too have a really difficult time understanding how there is supposedly >$50 billion in treasury bonds backing Tether USDC sitting at Cantor Fitzgerald. It really does seem like the bonds backing tether just came out of thin air, unless tether was sponsored by an entity that gave them the wherewithal to obtain the bonds, for the sole purpose of moving money without KYC with tether.
I have a similar expectation: not working for any military tech and supporting genocide (with tech or association).

It's so disappointing to see how many people don't mind working on weapons.
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Some future artists will make things that cannot be made by AI and some future artists will make things using AI. Unless you are arbitrarily deciding that the new definition of artist is "someone making art that explicitly doesn't use AI" which I suspect won't hold culturally.

As for the accusation that the only thing an AI can spit out is garbage, I think the classic cliché "garbage in, garbage out" applies. It is possible (and IMO likely) that the world will reward those who can get treasure out of AI and it will punish those who are only capable of getting garbage out of AI.

If you are the kind of person who believes that only garbage can come out of AIs then you will never be in the group that gets treasure out of an AI.
IIRC, excel’s ability to run Python is entirely cloud based, even in the desktop apps. There is, of course, probably zero reason why that would need to be the case either :/
> explicación poética

> There are, again, a couple errors here: it should be “explicación phisica” [physical explanation] not “poetic explanation” in the first line, for instance.

The image seems to say "phicica" (with a "c"), but that's not Spanish. "ph" is not even a thing in Spanish. "Physical" is "física", at least today, IDK about the 1700's. So, if you try to make sense of it in such a way that you assume a nonsense word is you misreading rather than the writer "miswriting", I can see why it assumes it might say "poética", even though that makes less sense semantically.
I didn't say that mining would cease - it's that there would be way less incentive for people to mine, so less hash power, and more susceptible to 51% attacks.
"In a lot of modern corporate jobs, how hard you turn the crank of effort is almost completely disconnected from the outcomes that you see."

100%

I was a hard worker and a high performer for years and didn't see advancement due to politics. Now I have a bad rating, I'm likely to get PIP'd, but I'm simultaneously on the short list for a double promotion. How schizophrenic does your performance management have to be have someone either getting PIP'd or double promoted?
Quick! Someone write the Falsehoods Programmers Make About Space article.
Management has no clue who has quiet quit and who has not. Any layoffs were arbitrary or based on who's been asking for raises.
> The problem is that now huge amount of us population live in the capitalism but preach socialism, even though there’s quite good choice of leftist countries where they can migrate to.

You got me. https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
You've been a proud Republican since you were a student, and openly so here. That's fine, of course, but it's odd to see you talking about "real" Democrats. Democrats broadly opposed the Republican party; whether or not the Republicans responsible for the Iraq War fled the party post-Trump, they do not characterize the Democratic party today.

I really don't give a shit about how credible the US IC is; no part of my identity is invested in how well they do their job. But the attempt to generalize this out to the parties themselves rankles, and is trollish.
Definitely. I'm not saying it's solely the work of the interpreter (clearly not), but it is a significant intellectual contribution. I do not think this contribution has remotely been made obsolete by artificial translation.
There is one near home. When I passed by I saw one man stopping a couple in the street and explaining if they couldn’t go inside and give him the money.

Sort of like a beggar, but asking the couple to go inside, scan their iris then giving him the money (since it’s free money anyway). I am not sure how that would work in practice, since I just passing by. But they were paying USD50~60 , a significant amount to make the ask worth it.
I am among the first to gain access to OpenAI's "Operator". Here are my thoughts
TL;DR: OpenAI's Operator, an AI-powered agent designed to autonomously interact with web browsers to accomplish tasks, fell short of expectations during testing. While it initially impressed with its ability to navigate and gather information, its limitations became apparent through hallucinations, lack of efficiency, and failure to request user assistance when needed. Despite its potential, Operator is not yet ready for real-world productivity, but future improvements could address these issues.
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You're kind of getting tripped up on terminology. The OP didn't measure Wayland; they measured GNOME Shell which does take responsibility for its performance. Also, I'm not aware of any latency-related mistakes in Wayland/Weston (given its goal of tear-free compositing).
I added Show/Hide Prompt at the end, in case you want to try the same prompt with your user information on other models.
<< almost completely disconnected from the outcomes that you see.

I will push it a little further, because I suppose I personally am going through a period of disengagement the article is writing about. In the last major project I was a part of, I actually saw the opposite correlation: the more effort I gave, the more messy things were becoming ( sadly, it makes sense; in that project I was finding issues left and right; if I am going above and beyond, a lot will be discovered as broken ). Eventually, it gets to you.

<< Rewards for going beyond -- money, security, autonomy -- are rarely present and almost never in proportion to how much you turn the crank.

This is the other part. I got very little out of this project for pointing out all the issues and trying to somehow resolve them. If anything, I made myself a fair amount of 'enemies', who did not appreciate me holding up the process. Once you realize what is being rewarded ( and it is not doing things well ), you optimize for it.

And can you guess what is the metric that is being rewarded? Closing projects. Not completing them well. Not making it so that they work. No. Closing a lot of them and on time. So what if is done wrong? Fixing it is another project..

I used to think that approach is an exception, but I am starting to think this it is more of a rule now. That anything gets done is nothing short of a miracle.