skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am literally saying that cooking and driving is a pain point people encounter and solve through voice assistants, and that only a limited set of specific functions of the computing devices are needed during those times.

Voice activated features that are used in scenarios where your hands are available aren't very useful, especially if accuracy or level of control is poor.

So what I was saying specifically is that when people are cooking, they want to do things like set timers. When people are driving, they want to do things like get directions and play music/podcasts. But they don't really want to do all that much more than those things when they are already preoccupied with something else.

Other more complex functions that use AI aren't functions that people demand because they already have the option of interacting with their device in the first place. For example, users of the Apple notification summary AI feature don't seem particularly impressed because if your eyes are already on your device you can just read the notifications instead of a bad summary of the notifications.

IMO when tech companies design new features like this they operate in something of a bubble where they just assume that people will welcome more technology entering into very non-technical parts of their life. Solutions to problems that don't exist, more technology in places where it's not wanted, etc.
I am glad people smarter than me are thinking about it. I seriously suck at networking so I don't trust my thoughts on potential solutions. Maybe the issue is that we are trying to solve it as a technical problem, while the problem is we don't know who is really human, which seems a little closer to meatspace.
What Happened to Only Paranoid Survives?
Ok, so why use any BSD components then?
Vector indexes, MariaDB and pgvector, large server, small dataset: part 1
How does the author know what Elon was thinking from 10 feet away?
Online specifically avoids this by randomising the grids, except in some modes like mirrors where you can't do much to preserve symmetry.
>Contrast that to how individuals get the hammer put down on them by the justice system if they so much as fart in the wrong room. The lesson from the last 50 years should be: If you want to commit a crime and get away with it, do it as a corporation.

That's because most crimes "individuals" do are straightforwardly illegal and easy to prosecute, whereas the "crime if a corporation does it" are not. It's not any different than say, simple property crimes (eg. stealing or vandalism) vs white collar crimes, both of which can be perpetrated by individuals but the latter are far harder to prosecute. Stealing a candy bar is an open and shut case, especially with surveillance footage. A long firm fraud[1] is far harder to prosecute. If you buy a truckload of candy bars on credit, fail to repay the vendor, and declare bankruptcy, prosecutors are going to have a hard time prosecuting the case. Having bad business acumen isn't a crime, so on the surface nothing illegal has happened. To prove wrongdoing they must prove that you intentionally acquired goods on credit without intending to pay it back, which is far harder.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_firm_fraud
Charts That Show Why AI Progress Is Unlikely to Slow Down
Agreed. Same reason I don't envision TTS podcasts taking off any time soon - the lack of authenticity is a real turn off.
Fun fact: this is very close but slightly inaccurate. I used to think this is how it worked before scrutinizing a rule in the HTML tree-building specification.

The tag leads the parser to interpret everything following it as character data, but doesn’t impact rendering. In these cases, if there are active formatting elements that would normally be reconstructed, they will after the PLAINTEXT tag as well. It’s quite unexpected.

<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com"><b><i><u>
<plaintext>hi

In this example “hi” will render with every one of the preceding formats applied.

https://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3Ca...

After I discovered this the note in the spec was updated to make it clearer.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#:~:text=A start tag whose tag name is "plaintext"
That's some windows-land programming right there. The idea that a file is something clickable, some icon with a title somewhere on the screen.

And typing 5 letters is clearly not infinitely harder than right-click and rummaging through 20 item menu to find the right action. The difference is actually infinitesimally small.
And they did all this under a GPU embargo? We're witnessing a Cuba moment.
I wish no one cared about the narcissistic shit head, but sadly he is top of the news 366 days a year.
> But you keep the complicated power train

The "drive train" is electric motors from a lithium ion battery... you know, like a "regular" EV.

> time suck of tank-filling from ICE vehicles.

The Toyota spec page says it can fill the tank in 5 minutes. How many EVs can go from nothing or practically nothing to a full charge in 5 minutes?
EV maintenance is far easier and cheaper than ICE vehicle maintenance.
> I can say that when I am thinking I maybe try half a dozen ideas or scenarios, but very rarely more

You mean you consciously try half a dozen ideas. That's not really reflective of what's happening subconsciously though, which could be a broader kind of search that filters out other possibilities and only bubbles up some options you would consider promising.
Increase in money supply only causes inflation if the money is spent on purchases of items with inflated prices (say, ferraris instead of basic food items).

When the basic food items become ferraris, people have no choice on that.
What type of prompts were you feeding it? My limited understanding is that reasoning models will outperform LLMs like GPT-4/Claude at certain tasks but not others. Prompts that have answers that are more fuzzy and less deterministic (ie. soft sciences) will see reasoning models underperform because their training revolves around RL with rewards.
I get what you mean by EVs having high cost components but low maintenance is usually used as an argument for EVs. As long as nothing breaks they are very cheap to run in terms of both maintenance and fuel.
It's also not really anything original and new? Not sure what the overall plan is here
Well let's see, the Russian market collapsed primarily because of sanctions. The Venezuelan market also collapsed primarily due to sanctions. And of course the Cuba market collapsed primarily due to sanctions.

It seems to me that the US and other nations locking these countries out of the global market has been a pretty major factor in their current economic situation. Do you disagree? I'd also posit that it might be the case that an autocratic takeover in each of these nations has negatively impacted them.
I had always been under the impression that EVs are significantly lower maintenance than ICEs. Was that a misconception on my part, or am I missing why maintenance would be a point in favor of fuel cell cars?
Sure, the plan (of LLCs) was always to limit liability but initially _who_ could incorporate wasn't literally everybody.

Like the founding fathers ran their business as themselves. There isn't some Monticello LLC that Thomas Jefferson was CEO of so if TJ did something bad then he's personally liable for it. This is what's changed and is the problem, people get LLCs in situations they really don't deserve them in.
how many vc investors are in the class of people that get audited by the IRS?
Systemd systems can still have grub as a boot loader.

In that case, you can usually set the boot order with bootctl and reboot.
...which even my local CSA seems to manage. Not saying there isn't a burden, but it's nothing like laying fiber or laws which specifically ban direct sales of automobiles.

If there was big money to be made undercutting Big Potato, someone would do it. Even my CSA grows potatoes.
>The author claims, that these companies raise prices more than inflation based cost increases in production would allow for.

That's just supply and demand? People get mad that when there's an oil shortage, that oil companies raise prices above the cost of production, but they're happy to see oil companies' margin collapse when there's an oil glut.
Did anyone ever do a write up on how MS used detect and flag the various dvd drive firmware hacks? It was a huge cat and mouse game, with fw hackers making bold claims like stealth undetectable fw etc. It was a very interesting time.
that doesn't mean ai is improving itself though
You can definitely attempt to impose "in the style of X" - or if you have original samples you can try to provide them as stylistic sample data.

But realistically, how many people are going to actually do that? Communication fed through an LLM represents a rather bleak linguistic convergence.
Just ship methane. If you have hydrogen it’s not hard to convert it to methane (or vice versa). It actually tends to happen with a simple catalyst near atmospheric co2 and one of the biggest pains when dealing with it is avoiding it reacting.

Which should just add to how stupid hydrogen is. It’s a synthetic fuel that has huge storage and transport costs, is no more green or easier to produce than synthetic methane which we already have. We could just make synthetic methane today if that was the path we were likely to take but honestly it’s cheaper to pump methane out of the ground so that’s what we do (barring any incentives to mix in synthetic methane).

A real hilarity is that hydrogen fuel right now is often made the opposite way. Take methane, heat in absence of oxygen and the carbon and hydrogen seperate. All this talk of hydrogen as an alternative to fossil fuels is nonsense. It’s a synthetic fuel, one of many possible synthetic fuels that’s extremely inconvenient for storage (absolutely can’t be stored in liquid form without cryogenics or ‘bleed off’ to keep it cool), it corrodes fucking everything and best of all it’s no easier to produce synthetically than the fuels we already use day to day, eg methane.

Absolute stupidity and scientific illiteracy that hydrogen was even on the cards.
I love Hacker news and I’m finally creating an account. My dad flew these planes in Vietnam and I sent him this article. Here’s some of our conversation:

Me: You know this guy? Or have you heard of him?
Dad: I have not. This is the 1st I ve heard of it
The evacuation of Vietnam was a 100 times worse, horrific, etc. Than Afghanistan
That pilot was very lucky...landing a light fixed wing on an aircraft carrier is impossible
The swells of the sea, etc. Will bat that plane like a bug

Live or die.....hundreds of thousands friendly Vietnamese died when we left them unprotected

Me: frowny face

Dad: It was despicable

Much, much worse than Afghanistan.... the North Vietnamese slaughtered most all those that worked with US. The rest spent long terms in jails
I treat my 2012 Honda Fit like absolute garbage and it's pushing 150k miles without one single repair. I've literally only replaced the tires.

I think people in the comments are missing that maintenance is cheap, repairs are expensive. Saying EVs have less maintenance is like
saying you get free drink refills at a fine dining restaurant.
The quality bar of pretty much all seed stage investors has always been extremely low. That is simply the nature of the business. At that stage the signal-to-noise ratio is very low. There just isn't enough data to make reliable determinations, hence the emphasis on quantity of deals over quality.

There is nothing to learn from the SVB collapse. They mismanaged interest rate risk and overextended. So what.
Actually typing out the code to do that is in no way a bottleneck for me

For me it often is. Understanding and solving the problem in the abstract is often the easy part. I might realise that one way to solve this problem is by representing the data X as a graph with properties Y and then use that fact those graphs behave like Z under conditions A. Or I might know that it's possible to get the information I need out of this database using some sort of complex series of joins. Correctly writing the relevant C++ or SQL do actually make the computer solve the actual problem still takes me a lot of time.

I often find that coming up with a good approach to solving a problem is a fast part, and actually typing out the bug free code to implement that idea the slow part, and LLMs at least for me speed up that slow part significantly.
The image of London being overrun with tuk tuks made me chuckle
Deep receives Office of Naval Research funding for STEM outreach
Pepsi and microwave popcorn are food? Couldn’t get past that despite the valid point the author was attempting to make.
Especially while city governments benefited from the medallion scheme (and not even nearly as much as they should have)
Python: Async written in 10 lines using generators
The data on EVs is that maintenance (at least on the drive train + battery) is not an issue, excluding air cooled designs like the Nissan Leaf which were doomed from the start.

But hydrogen fuel cells are also expensive to maintain and have been a huge maintenance burden, as they're quick to fail with contamination (and lots of other factors), leading to hydrogen trains being replaced by diesel trains.

Hydrogen can be clean, but it isn't and won't be for the forseeable future for the simple fact that it would be way to expensive. Almost all hydrogen today is made from natural gas and much less efficient than powering an electric car from a gas plant. But even if hydrogen was produced with electricity, due to the low efficiency it would be much dirtier than an electric car (And we're entirely discounting hydrogen leakage, which is much more potent at heating up the planet than CO2).

Hydrogen can also be fast to refuel, but it takes much longer than gas and often requires a long "time-out" after the last refueling. Hydrogen fuel stations are also very unreliable. With current EVs, 20%-80% charging in 20 minutes is state of the art, which should make charging times mostly a non-issue when this is also available in most "cheap" EVs.
Instrumenting Thread Stalling in Ruby Applications
Orbital Materials is designing wafer substrates that capture carbon and reuse excess heat.
electric bills for average residential customers in this PG&E area have increased five times in one year. The average residential bill has increased 56% in three years. This is after a state-backed replacement of senior management after the court losses.

source: local news reporter Kevin Truong
It charges a battery.
Copilot? I personally found Copilot pretty useless. And very distracting trying to constantly incorrectly guess what I was doing.

I do use chatgpt/claude for quickly creating first draftw of frontend pages as I find it quicker, but I have to do extensive edits to get it right. But anything non-boiler plate I am faster writing it myself.

I have also quickly found it is a stochastic parrot but that's ok for boilerplate stuff. It is useless at anything complicated and quickly starts hallucinating methods, parameters and functions when you point out problems with the code.

I am beginning to believe that anything niche, where it can't steal from its training data, and it will always be utterly useless.

I am curious how you feel it's so important to 100+ engineers, how do you use it that makes it effective for you?
What do you think capitalism is, if not that? "Those with capital use their money to make the rules so they make more money."

Many people think capitalism is simply a market economy. It's not. You can have a market economy without "capital" (investors) having special privileges that make all the money flow to them.
It has a 1.2kWh battery that's listed as "drive battery", my understanding is that the fuel cell is just providing charge to the battery.
ISTM this really wants legislative action more than FTC action. “Price fixing with an app” should not be something probably illegal due to complex Sherman Act arguments that result in it taking years for the government to do anything about it. It should be directly an unambiguously illegal, with strong penalties (3x damages?) for both the companies using the apps and for the companies making the apps. And enforcement should be fast: the government should be able to entirely shut down these apps via a preliminary injunction.

And yes, maybe there should also be penalties applied personally to the executives who break these rules. But that’s a can of worms and it might be unnecessary.
It’s a non-interactive iframe.

(And experimental)
You’re right, these are the only banks that support Zelle

https://www.zellepay.com/get-started
The UK gas network was used for many decades to transport a 50-50 mix of hydrogen and CO, called "town gas". Nevertheless the risk to the modern network should be diligently evaluated . I believe the intention is to do that anyway to the extent it is found to be safe, as blending in hydrogen reduces the carbon consumption of the gas network

For papers on hydrogen/methane separation, see:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=blen...
Because AI slop can be generated in massive quantities that dwarf anything prior in history. Sifting through these bales of hay is honestly exhausting.
> They emit water vapor, not liquid water

If cold enough, doesn't that just freeze and fall to the ground anyways? Considering some places have between like -30/-20C in the winters.
JWST facing potential cuts to its operational budget
My favorite video game company is a little Japanese outfit called Nihon Falcom. They've been around since 1981, have about 65 employees, release exactly one new game a year, and if you've played any of their games, you can tell they're all made on absolutely shoestring budgets. They have also never posted a loss and have an absolutely bonkers amount of cash on hand (enough to keep the company going for several years on their current budget IIRC).

They also make the best story-driven RPGs I've played in my life. And they specifically went the story-driven route because it's cheaper to hire good writers than it is to wow people with AAA graphics or a giant open world or whatever.

More video game companies should be like Falcom.
That's great. Merely speak his name and he appears.

Love the work you do Ken. Thank you.
TBH I cannot think of other sites that are better for a potential
cascading run than HN. I've seen some amazing memetic threads here.
As you surmise its all about initial conditions. This could easily
have gone another way. Time of day, mood, whether there's a another
very active thread....HN is very fickle and sensitive. 95% of all my
submissions (which are predominantly for our podcast) fall on stony
ground. Every now and then maybe you hit paydirt.

> repost

I've found that you can gently bring people round to an idea. Look at
how the "algorithm" works here. People post related subjects and they
or others post follow-on connections soon after to ride the mood.

So for example you'll see a post about permutations in game theory,
and then a post about enumerating chess moves, and then a thread about
the differences between Go and chess... there's a subtle logic.

I also note the "Overton window" (or subject attention span) for HN is
about 48 hours. So, sow the seeds by submitting topics on
"participatory games", "chain letters", "Chinese whispers", "stochastic
composition"... and then re-test your experiment with the crowd primed.
Yes. ARC AGI benchmark was supposed to last years and is already saturated. The authors are currently creating the second version.
No, you didn't.

Loss Prevention in damn near any store are not allowed to even make physical contact with a shoplifter - it's a "you're fired" level policy violation.

LP document, try to get the person to stop by hanging around or chasing them out of the store, try to convince the person to drop stuff, and if the person cooperates, keep them hanging around until law enforcement shows up.

Companies don't want employees or customers to get injured and come after them for damages, which would almost certainly be worth far more than whatever the person is running off with.

There are a slew of cameras covering the parking lots for a reason - with photos and video of the person, the car, etc - it is trivial for cops and courts to handle.
"Search" a class of fairly well defined algorithms, "reasoning" is vague / ambiguous. If reasoning can be reduced to some kind of search, that makes its meaning more precise and understandable.
Lawsuits are filed in this case as well:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/20/potato-ca...
I suspect the answer is maintenance. Maintenance is the primary reason I am not buying an electric.

This is actually the MAIN reason to buy EVs. I have a 2014 Tesla S, total cost of “maintenance” since purchase - exactly $0.00 (got free supercharging too of course). the only “maintenace” I had was replacing modem for 5G switch and replacing internal battery - $400 total. The car has 90k miles and it is still on original brakes as with regenerative breaking I hardly ever use the brake.
They are equivalent. ICE have more parts but they are cheaper; EVs have fewer but vastly more expensive parts. Also, EVs are luxury vehicles so you get walloped with the rich person rates from the dealers. Give it another 20 years then EVs will be overall cheaper.
> But it's strange to see zero acknowledgement of the massive increase in money supply over the same time period.

Because when you look at inflation in the period of say ~2000 to ~2025 [1] it's really not very obvious that there's an increase in M2 from '08 onward.

Talking about M2 as a source of inflation is like shouting Red at a roulette wheel. Sure, sometimes the ball will land on Red but your shouting is a non-sequitur on the result.

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPALTT01USM657N
I don’t think of ssd and hdd for different parts of the filesystem. Rather / is a zfs/btrfs/bcachefs pool, and the ssd is added as a read cache to the pool

Edit: it can also be a write cache but that’s more tricky, usually with a battery backed hardware raid it’s fine
Two F-14 fighter jets were diverted to USS Midway (2023)
Because of the story about the Cessna landing on the Midway it reminded me of the diverted F14 who had to land on the carrier. The Midway was not designed for the heavy F14.
I think there is a skill issue. Just like in any other pursuit, some people are going to be better at using AI productively. It is a tool. You are still responsible for the quality of the resulting code whatever the mix of human and tool generated.
Yes. Yes it is. Congrats you cracked the code.