skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was pretty funny. Not sure what I took from it, but I like her sense of humor.
There is still a benefit to having pollution not come out of the tailpipe. When I go for a bike ride or a run and half the cars are EVs, I'm glad (even though I understand the electricity may come from fuel burning elsewhere).
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It's not about distaste. The motivation for buying an electric car is in part about believing your individual choices contribute to larger outcomes. The same logic links your Tesla purchase to Elon's growing wealth and power, which if you are concerned about global warming and fossil fuels, you likely are also concerned about the long term consequences of his current use of his wealth and power, so your motivation to buy an electric car, comes from a similar place to the motivation not to buy it from Elon. Perhaps because this is not reddit I don't need to preempt the trolls, but the relationship between those two motivations remains true even if you were motivated only by virtue signalling
Not sure about that. Use emissions is the majority

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/life-cycle-emissions-evs-vs...
Yeah, that was an immediate red flag. Something's fucky here. Nobody likes the BZ4X, not even Toyota. I thought maybe they were including plugin hybrids or regenerative hybrids in with EVs (technically true but not the common usage of the word), but the report only mentions the words "plug" and "hybrid" once each, and in that context they are mentioning them separately.

I guess it's possible alot of EV likers already have a Prius or something and really like it - that was me 2 years ago, it was a great car. But I still wouldn't have said I view Toyota favourably ever since it became clear they hate electric cars, and strange to see them ranked higher than Tesla. Something seems weird.
Possibly your GP comment came across as a snarky attack because of the first sentence. It's clear that you didn't mean it that way, but there isn't enough information in "explanation needed, bro" to disambiguate your intent (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
I think it is hard power. and also note they had write access, not just read. so if Musk wanted to he could have just straight up deleted all the data. that is real power.
it won't be free under our economic system
As far as I've heard, MBAs have also become completely saturated as well. Out of the frying pan into the fire.

I get you're trying to be "consoling", but frankly the bajillion pivot ideas, hopium arguments, endless counterarguments, and other indirection is why I think there's nothing optimal that can be done. All I can do is go through the motions with my current internship and major and rely on Christ rather than this fickle world. I made the wrong choice. Nothing that can be done.
My take exactly. It makes the takes around Yarvin's Dark Enlightenment seem like their real motive.
Sure, but youth is NOT associated with caution, which is needed in abundance when dealing with critical legacy systems. This is a bad plan.
What does it matter what one man thinks? What does it matter what coup happens if the world ends because of global warming? The only way to think that party politics matters more than doing every single thing we can to fight global warming, with no distractions, is to not truly believe in global warming.

Because if you actually believed it, you'd be too terrified to be distracted by party politics.
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Trump seems to be somewhat anti-EV (or, at least, doesn't want to push them in the same way Biden did), so it wouldn't surprise me if Republicans took their cues from him and stayed away.

e.g. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5272749/donald-trump-ev...
Thanks for the trivia! I love Frontalot, and this is probably my favorite song by him.
I got nothing then
Are you actually serious?

Did you not happen to see him perform multiple nazi salutes on live TV, during the inauguration of the president of the world's largest economy?

That was Jan 21st. Before then, I was only aware that he was a bit of a dick online.

Now he's radioactive, and with very good reason. He's an evil person who I will do everything I can to not enable.
https://www.pewresearch.org/?attachment_id=179415 (draw your attention to the center of the graphic, Republican vs Democrat, as it relates to who would consider purchasing an EV)

About 3 in 10 Americans would seriously consider buying an electric vehicle - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/06/27/about-3-i... - June 27, 2024
Many of the dings against reliability are “recalls” that get patched OTA. I’ve owned 3 over the past 7 years and the only time I’ve gone in for a repair was because the motorized truck bed cover wasn’t closing on its first try. I had to press it twice for a few weeks until I got it fixed.

Yes, it’s an anecdote. But it’s my “lived experience” as they say.
Can you expand on that? Efficient in what way?
Revolutionized the battery industries and the electric car industries.

How much faster than 50 year do you think the global economy can be turned sustainable?

And what is your source for Elon working against federal scientific bodies?
None of those are easily verifiable
A non-produced theory of a car will always change the game.

I hope it does well, but Rivian is still wildly in debt, not making a profit on vehicles (Maybe Q4 2024), etc...

Let's wait until you can actually buy one and see what the price and specs are in reality.
Aye, but comptency is also not proven.

I'd prefer our secure and important systems be handled appropriately and by those who have proven themselves consistent and loyal to the Constitution.
Now that Java has caught up a lot with records, value classes, project loom (virtual/green threads), pattern matching. What is left?

Scala has the better type system with union types and effects (a more generic way of having “throws”.)

Kotlin has a nicer way of dealing with optional values with the ? operator.

What’s left is the syntax. Or am I missing something? These alone do not seem to justify moving an organisation.
Technically this was superseded and USAID was legally established by statute in the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 [1]. Perhaps you forgot to take notes when that happened.

1. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12500
Hmm. I have worked as a BA in the past, and do a lot of requirements gathering in my work...but I actually hate pair programming, and generally really dislike discussing code with other programmers.

But talking to an AI about code feels much more like programming than talking to another programmer.
Amazing resource, classic at this point, still probably the best place to start a 6502 journey. I became an NES romhacker with released projects thanks to this as a first step!
damn, that is a lot of free money handed out. That map is what a trillion dollars looks like.
"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do laundry and dishes."

Meme as it may be, the sentiment isn't wrong. Instead of The Jetsons, we seem to be closer to Manna than ever.
I see a similar phenomenon in a lot of places that have both kiosks and counters with people. But it seems to depend on how simple the transaction or process is

If it’s simple enough for self-service, most people prefer the kiosks, sometimes even queueing for the kiosks and avoiding the people at the counters (eg. movie theaters, fast food places, supermarket checkout)

But if it’s something more complicated, people tend to either prefer (or end up anyway at) the counters with people (eg. airports, car rentals, in-store customer service)
I think you are likely correct. Marketing for Green can only get you so far, next marketing push is Patriotism. I don’t like Musk, but he is a marketing genius of this era.
High levels of government debt aren't exactly unique to America, however, America has the unique ability to issue it's own reserve currency that other countries will absolutely buy.

Also isn't by far the number one government spending item the military? Why aren't they starting there?
suno is uncomfortably good. I run a group for helping founders and sometimes I make little suno songs to accompany the classes for fun, always impressed by what it spits out. (prompt: song for founder who have happy ears bringing them tears > 30 seconds gen >) https://s.h4x.club/p9u4ezl2 / https://s.h4x.club/mXuND7Eb / https://s.h4x.club/L1u2DYzW
> Congress has completely abdicated their congressional duty as a co-equal branch of government

The voters also elected people to Congress that are aligned with his agenda, so they are allowing him to do what he wants.

> The fact that Musk and his cabal are doing an end run around this congressional requirement by posing as some sort of "special government employee" or whatever is laughable.

A judge just signed off on it so it seems to be legal.

> that is completely contrary to the "power of the purse" that is the purview of Congress.

They are choosing not to exercise that power.
Am Seattle-based Tesla owner, using the same Model X I bought in early 2018 with FSD the HW3 retrofit - right before Elon started going off the deep end…

It’s been almost 7 years and I’ve spent a grand total of $0.00 on servicing the car, even after the warranty expired. That compares favourably to my last car, a Ford, which had the dual-clutch transmission issue.

(Yes, Anecdotes are not data; also, as a Tesla shareholder I desperately want to see Elon ousted; he’s like a reverse-Schindler…)
The concept of being able to simulate 42 years of “experience” in one hour seems so foreign to me. Something about it creeps me out.
As someone who tried, this “I’ll just go android” is just a dream. I almost threw it into the wall a few times while using it for around eight months. Returning to iphone felt like working with kittens after a year of insurance company clerk burnout. No one itt goes android.
What frauds are you referring to?
It'll be available right after he wraps up FSD and lands on Mars.
This shows how (un)informed the respondents were. The surveys seem to be specifically about EVs, not hybrids, given the reference to charging networks.
I would go a step further: NPS is a garbage metric.

First, you start by assuming your customers can even reasonably ascertain their likelihood to recommend. They can't; there are people who answer 10 but will never recommend, and there are people who answer 0 but already have and will again.

Next, you assume your customers are idiots and don't know how an 11-point scale works by adjusting the midpoint: Instead of 5, the middle is now 7 and 8.

Then you realize there are two many numbers, so you throw several out by reducing your 11-point scale to a 3-point scale, after which you re-interpret "unlikely to recommend" as "likely to snag some other customers on my way out the door."

Finally you calculate your 'net promoters' by subtracting the percentage of low scores from the percentage of high scores to give you a nice round number that doesn't correlate with what's actually happening in the real world.

And this is just what happens when you do it 'the right way.'

NPS is said to measure growth using loyalty as a proxy. But then, what does that have to do with recommendations? Nothing.
This seems to be a matter of opinion. I think they look great!
A lot has happened politically since June 2024 when it comes to Elon Musk.
After decades of C++ development, I prefer C, modern Fortran and Rust.
No opinion needed when they're both explicitly derived from the 8080.
Exactly, thank you.

I'm not endorsing the behavior, but think like a politician for a moment. Someone comes in and takes care of a legal and ethical mess. All you have to do is get out of the way and not interfere. Not only do you not get smeared with this mess - you even get to be a knight in shining armor who'll replace the bad guy later. And your problem stays gone. Seems like a no-brainer.
Fox has testified in court that they are entertainment, not news. Consider more factual sources.

Yes, deficit spending has been high due to Covid and recovery. Of course it was started by Trump"s tax cuts.

Perhaps we consider taxing wealthier people.
Yes, the smart toys are search, code execution, simulations and games.
The resale value plunge that EVs take (especially Teslas) suggest that the market is skeptical of these longevity claims.
Has anyone seen a similar paper to this applied to DiTs or diffusion in general? (or autoregressive models for image generation)
USAID is an entity created by Congress, a separate branch of government, via legislation, not via executive order. It lives in a separate universe, in legal terms, than entities created by executive order. This is called separation of powers. The executive branch cannot make substantive changes to an entity created by Congress due to separation of powers. It also cannot prevent moneys allocated by Congress to USAID from being spent, due to impoundment. These are tenets for you to learn, not argue about. The world was not invented with your birth, when you fell out of the coconut tree. You live in an inheritance, a world in which all of this- laws, independent branches, etc etc was already worked out, over many distinct countries and legal regimes over thousands of years.
After the Act. Read the very first line of JFK's order that created it.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-10...
The investigation says the screenshots he talked about were for USA Jobs too, not the nonsense biographical test. Seems like it ought to be pretty easy to just check if NBCFAE members passed the that test at an unusually high rate.
BYD and Geely are demolishing Tesla on units shipped basis anyway everywhere in the world that Tesla isn't protected by policy. It is a shame because Musk would have owned this space if he had executed.

His atrocious personal behavior distracts from what a terrible and unfocused executive he is. Tesla sales are declining, he failed to deliver on Hyperloop, he failed to deliver on Semis, and he will fail to deliver on FSD just like his myriad promises that he did not deliver on https://qz.com/elon-musks-worst-predictions-promises-1851410...

Downvotes? BYD and Geely each shipped more cars in 2024 than Tesla. Together they more than tripled Tesla's units sold on a much higher growth rate. As an American citizen I consider it a tragedy, but a self-made one.
I guess it took Trump to make Liberals want a smaller executive government.
What about Vancouver? It is pretty famous for having lots of high rise apartment towers surrounded by parks.
It wears me out
We will see! I think Tesla will be just fine, they keep cutting manufacturing costs and therefore prices.
One way studies in science are 'faked' is by p-hacking. It turns out if you wiggle variables around enough, you can often find statistically significant data that isn't really relevant, but sounds like it could viably be. 538 has an excellent (and highly relevant) p-hacking demo based on real world data. [1] You want to "prove" that this party or that being in power has a statistically significant effect on the economy. It almost certainly doesn't, but if you tweak your sample enough you can "prove" that it does, in a way that sounds completely justifiable.

So this study limited itself exclusively to people intending to buy an EV and within the next year. The fun thing about p-hacking is that it sounds reasonable. For instance on that page limit the data to Democrat presidents, employment, exclude recessions, and you can prove that having a Democrat president is good for the economy. And that data selection even sounds reasonable. But it's not.

Musk not being fond of the political establishment is not exactly breaking news. Yet Tesla continues to dominate EV sales worldwide and domestically to the point that sales figures are broken down into "Tesla" and then "everybody else." And as others have mentioned Toyota dominating in this sample is quite indicative of the fact that they ended up surveying something besides EV favorability.

[1] - https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/p-hacking/
The problem comes when the niche something fills happens to line up with "this one small pond where someone wants to put an infrastructure project".
I would have expected everyone to have heard of it by now. I first saw it mentioned on HN in 2017 or so. Good reminder that there's always newer folks around and to define the terms!
Yes, for equivalent cars purchased new. The point was that a 10 year old used sedan than you drive for another 10 years will still produce fewer tailpipe emissions than a new EV's manufacture.
I do not know. I could only find GitHub issues and feature sound offering integration with graalvm for building native apps with Bazel.
Their primary mission is intrinsically offensive and always has been.
Most conservatives and Libertarians from all times think that.

A minority of those on the right, don't.
Red Hat pays more people to work on open source than any other company I'm aware of. I am one of these people. I challenge you to find a single open source project included in a Red Hat product that doesn't contain contributions from Red Hat employees. Maybe a few exist, but the vast majority include Red Hat contributions, because we contribute all over the open source ecosystem.
Define these terms:

- Pretrain

- Fine tune

- Catastrophic forgetting

- Learning rate

- Adapter layer

If you understand these terms, then you understand why "open weights" are not the same as "open source".

"Open weights" are obfuscated and minified freeware.
I thought it was about Meteorology and got unreasonably excited for a second.
Personally I think FaceID is a big step backwards in terms of both security and usability.
for non tech ppl it’s too complicated to turn off ad settings. Just work with those close to you to export data and delete account. And you don’t have to do it all at once. You can delete X for them today and instagram next months. It’s a rehab process for addicts, they need your continuous love and care, or they might go back to those drugs.
What if you have it read the script, then say, “hey, at this point, what is the character feeling? What are they trying to accomplish? What is there relationship to each person in the scene?”

And then you get that and prompt the model to add inflection and pacing and whatever to the text to reflect that. You feed that into the speech model.

It seems like it could definitely do the first part (“based on this text, this character might be feeling X”); the second part (“mark up the dialogue”) seems easier; the third part about speech seems doable already based on another comment.

So we are pretty close already? Whatever actors are doing can be approximated through prompting, including the director iterating with the “actors”.
Teslas are sports cars.
You can hover to get the page types (title attributes) and learn the color scheme that way, although it's not super clear.

And yeah, large DBs get slow; pages are iterated "server side" which can take a while when there are hundreds of thousands of them. Ideal would probably be some live-scrolling page-range API call, although maybe a crude "show next 10K pages" or something would work too.
Something about dreams that fascinates me is that I usually am genuinely surprised by events that occur in dreams. I interact with other characters whose motivation I cannot understand and whose actions I cannot fully anticipate. It feels like there's a foreign entity acting as DM.

This isn't fake surprise. Sometimes I'll wake up and think, "who on earth were those guys and what were they trying to do? And yet their actions make sense..." or, "who came up with that punchline? It's legitimately funny and I never saw it coming, so it can't have been me..."

And yet I know it's all being generated by my own brain somehow. Through some kind of privileged access level.

And then I think about the bicameral brain structure. Does our brain have two halves so that it can function in a self-play training mode during sleep? Are each halves of my brain experiencing the same dream from opposite points of view?

Apologies for the tangent; this is almost totally unrelated to the article and probably something well known to neuroscience for decades. But still, it fascinates me, and the more we learn about the effectiveness of self-play in AI, the more I wonder.
If the thought is this is more favorable for the Tesla brand based on Elon’s actions, I argue no. Republicans, based on the data, were not enthusiastic to begin with for EVs (77% indicating they were not likely to buy an EV). Also, based on the income and wealth data for right leaning households, I would be cautious to assume they have the purchasing power for what Tesla’s market segment offers.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/643334/ownership-ticks-fewer-no...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-u-s-median-income-in...
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Kodi is available as a WebOS app via Homebrew Channel (https://www.webosbrew.org/) and can be installed through developer mode without even having to root your TV.

If you've got some hangup about plugging a video source in your TV -- the way we've always done prior to TV vendors deciding they wanted to not just make the screen but control what's on it -- and would prefer to use a hobbled TV OS running on an underpowered SoC instead of just using a cheap and far superior Rasperry Pi, then, yes, you can indeed still just install Kodi directly onto the TV.