skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s wild to me that companies have come up with a way to screw over employees as they see fit. If I worked the entire year and met expectations or exceeded them, and then got lower rating at the end of the year because of a single project or a couple of things that came up in the quarter, then I call bullshit. And I say quarter because when you get the rating it’s actually been almost another quarter of work done and if there were concerns in that quarter they can be raised during the mid year review discussion.

It’s not annual performance evaluation if you don’t evaluate the whole year.
I was in Mexico City two weeks ago and a few uber drivers were driving BYD Dolphins.
I was impressed. At a $14k price point, I can’t imagine better value for money. I got sucked into research and there are no near term plans for expanding to the US market.
It’s too bad. They’re expecting to sell 500,000 units in Mexico this year. With the current (lower) emissions standards, I’m optimistic such affordable EVs will make a big difference to air quality in the coming years.
Absolutely not.

Waymo is so much more confident and reliable than FSD.
The religious are more likely to object to this name. One can imagine a different name in Saudi, for example.

Among atheists one would think it would no more troubling than referencing Legolas in a name. [1]

In China I suspect they'd object to "Mao's Eyes" as a name for this.

[1] Many atheists may register an objection on the grounds of upsetting others in the community.
> "check what mode it's in, tap, look at the tiny screen, tap again if necessary"

This is my concern as well. It's a perceived improvement in UI but still a loss over analog UX. I'll end up cranking the knob and wondering why my radio channels are rapidly changing when I wanted to adjust the volume. You're almost forced into retaining state of your knobs in your head if you want to do anything eyes-free. Eyes-free operations should be the ultimate goal, that's what we had with analog.
it's more then that

suddenly some foreign company gains control over traffic in your country

think how it works with various Maps and their pathfinding algorithms, how often you see drivers blindly following Maps instructions? how often do you see drivers who are clueless without Maps?

the self driving / remote control will cause even more problems (+ some car manufacturers simply cannot achieve good quality)
Even if we consider "China is funding the companies to no end" argument... well, frankly, I wish US would do the same. It is pretty damn cool to see incredible technological progress in huge scale.
Systematic Pessimism: Scaling Quality Engineering W Automated Failure Discovery
You consider technological/economic dominance by Japan or China to be equivalent threat classes?
The tech itself is far-fetched; that hackers exploit vulnerabilities in every system is not, rather it is so common you can measure attempts in Herz.
Can they force an install? Or will it be a choice?

I like Mentor Pilot and Air Disasters, so I know I’ve heard of a few where the problem that caused an accident was already known and a fix was available but the airline just chose not to do it because they had that option. Or it was scheduled but hadn’t been performed yet because it wasn’t thought to be that critical.

Having the FAA mandate the fix seems like it would be a much better option.
> I remember talking with friends 30 years ago about how it was inevitable that the brain would eventually be fully implemented as machine, once calculation power gets big enough; but it looks like we're still very far from that.

Why would it be?

"It's inevitable that the Burj Khalifa gets built, once steel production gets high enough."

"It's inevitable that Pegasuses will be bred from horses, as soon as somebody collects enough oats."

Reducing intelligence to the bulk aggregate of brute "calculation power" is... Ironically missing the point of intelligence.
> To mitigate the sunk costs, Linux needs to compete on memory safety. C has no viable solution so Rust is the only option.

Isn't Zig designed as a viable solution? IIRC being easily compatible with C is one of its features.
Agreed. Thank you. My day was made better by reading this.
Digital controls? Hell no. Just say no.
> Increasing clocks tends to have a greater-than-linear cost on power

Old source, but this says the power cost of increasing the clock frequency is cubic: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34766/how-does-p...
If you have any residential overhead distribution, that’s gonna drag you down compared to everything buried. It still counts as downtime of a tree did it.
> Cui bono?

Barry Myers of AccuWeather for one: they charge for their services. See "The Plan to Privatize Weather Forecasts":

* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-what-pro...

* http://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archiv...

* https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/...

John Oliver did a story about this in 2019 (Trump 1.0):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lee_Myers#Nomination_to_...

If NOAA discontinues free weather forecasts, everyone (news, websites, apps) will have to pay someone to get them.
I was just about to comment that a friend of mine owns a BYD and I got to drive his while in Mexico. Can’t remember the model, but it’s a crossover style.

I was ready to hate on it, but for the price and quality inside at least, wild. It also drove like any other car in the low/mid range that I’ve owned, wheel felt confident and had some heft to it (my preference).
> If we count second-degree links like this, I bet we'd find that most organizations ...

Well as a generalization, that's just how fractional reserve systems work. The issue is when that reserve constraint is set to 0%, or replaced by systems based in fiat's objective valuation. (i.e. contrary and refuted by Carl Menger's works). There are systemic issues that need to be acted upon.

For the detailed mechanics, you can find the report released in 1994 by Chicago Fed, titled Modern Money Mechanics. Its 44 pages. You can extrapolate from that, taking into account Basel 3 (bis.org) to understand the rest.

The inevitable outcomes backed by history point to a currency crisis based in stochastic chaos. You won't know what individual mechanic sets it off, but once it starts there's no stopping it from burying everyone and everything. The tipping points are very indirect, with objective observation in the structures found in socialism, and its related failures leading to collapse. (ref Mises)

The end of sustainable production (food) is the end of the world in ecological overshoot conditions (ref Malthus).

If you can't exchange labor for needed goods, production doesn't occur. The economic cycle stalls. People starve and die.

There are plenty of ostriches among humanity because its comfortable not knowing the truth. People sense this horror with no future, even if they don't recognize the mechanics that lead to it. When people struggle just to provide for themselves, its enough to notice these things.

This is why so many people aren't having children. The only potential future under existing systems is slavery and the psychological torture inherent in it.

What responsible parent would wish that for their children. It is rational to choose not to have children when that is the prevailing outcome.

In many respects, the boomer generation is largely responsible for the aggregate environment (hellscape) we see today.

They also as a cohort haven't ceded political power to younger generations, holding on to it instead into their senility and death bed. Blocking any changes from being made, and having destroyed the systems that could have righted the ship.

The ultimate legacy of that generational cohort is going to be the generation that stole their children's future. It remains to be seen if we can survive as a species given all the existential risk that's been piled up all at once.
has to be both ways for that to work. china can't just do whatever and tariff american companies to hell, right?
What is so special about EV cars?
its just an appliance to move from point A to point B, even the electric motor inside EV is from household appliances like washer/dryer.

the question should be: Should American consumers be allowed to drive green environmentally friendly cars for $10k or should they be forced to shell out $50k (+interest) to billionaire elon musk
Can't disagree more.

I am disgusted by abuse of power. One law enforcement officer who use excessive force or breaks the rules is too many. They should all be found and prosecuted. Systems which perpetuate abuse of power should be torn down and rebuilt. Systems which are designed to find fault with one group should be replaced by ones which are more deliberate and fair.

The big fundamental issue is that at least in the US, there is a significant need for law enforcement. There's trafficking, child abuse and neglect, drug proliferation, crimes against persons and property. And too many agencies are not provided with the support they need to best serve the community. For example, making social workers available to resolve what are fundamentally non-law enforcement issues would restrict the reliance on armed officers. And I say this as someone with an MSW who has spent 25 years working on local public policy issues, often ones including the police.

I'd love for the police not to be needed. Hell, I want firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics to get paid to hang out in the station because there are no calls for them to respond to. But if there are bad guys out there, I want trained and competent officers to respond, to protect me and mine. And you and yours.

Having better systems built and maintained is hard work and long-term diligence is necessary. In Washington, DC, for example, the police and fire clinic is underfunded and the quality of the work performed by credentialed professionals is generally sloppy. There are several instances where officers were put back on the street following what I understand to be poorly executed clinical assessments. Elected and appointed officials were aware of the situation and shrugged their shoulders. The problem was dull, boring, and technical, not shiny, new, and sexy.
To my understanding, the ridiculous stock price and valuation have absolutely nothing to do with the car business. It's basically the potential hopes and dreams of what the leadership can do with direct access to US government.
Waymo literally drives around as a Taxi without a driver. Millions of miles and no major accidents.
With Tesla FSD there is another horror story every day
You can easily pasteurize both eggs* and flour at home, and make Cookie Dough That Won't Kill You (Nearly As Quickly)

* with the right equipment
Rodents have been eating the wires of cars forever. This is not a recent phenomenon. All of my 6 cars range from 1980-2000 and most of them have had an infestation at one point or another and I have repaired chewed wires in a couple of them. I've heard soooooo many stories from old people of mice getting into cars and eating wiring, it's been a problem since we've had cars.
I bought apple product and yet they own and control access to me as a customer tolling at 30% of revenue.

So no, that wasn't free either.
>At a $14k price point

In China maybe where it's 100k RMB (~roughly $14k). Everywhere else it's the double or at least $25k. It's £26k ($32k) in the UK. It's €32k ($33k) in Germany

Even in Mexico it's $26k (535k pesos) not $14k https://www.autocosmos.com.mx/catalogo/vigente/byd/dolphin
Have you ever negotiated Google cloud or others for more credits?
I'm the cofounder of an AI Startup. We are burning quickly through our Google Cloud credits that we got from the startup program ($250k over 2 years).

We're trying our best to drive down costs with spot instances, optimizations, etc. but short of those, has anyone ever successfully negotiated for more / discounted credits? We're inclined to stick with GCloud but may migrate our training and inference over to AWS or others temporarily in order to defer cloud costs.
Yup. And don't buy the line that Elon made Tesla a success. They had the core tech and talent to build an EV (without all the other bullshit he added) before he came along. Given enough time they could have been something on their own too.
The most likely replacement for Linus as BDFL is Greg KH, who is also friendly (if anything, friendlier) towards R4L.
o1 is more than just math solver. And you cannot possibly train that much in a small model.

However smaller specialized models looks to be the right way to handle world's complexity. Sort of mixture of experts on one level above. Orchestrating them will be another problem. Possible solution is generalists model "to rule them all".
Yes it certainly is.

You can see the effects of the free market in many industries which have been decimated by globalization.

We used to be able to get a manufacturing job which would provide for a family, but decided it was okay to allow big corps to use slave labor on the other side of the planet and just ship everything across the world (not great for carbon emissions). Just look at the rust belt.

It’s not a bad idea to say that we should have the free market stop at our border. Other countries don’t play by the same rules that we do and can even have entire industries propped up by a foreign government in order to take up market share.
What’s a “mechanical process”? If I read The Lord of the Rings and it teaches me to write Star Wars, is that a mechanical process? My brain is governed by the laws of physics, right?

What if I’m a simulated brain running on a chip? What if I’m just a super-smart human and instead of reading and writing in the conventional way, I work out the LLM math in my head to generate the output?
The really nice thing about this is that every single accident that the system gets into will have to be classed as an "Act of God".
As bandwidth is still crap my bet would be that, like with humans, the sum of the parts isn't greater than the greatest mastermind in the group or it will take an increasingly long time to come up with increasingly original thought. If it scales reasonably linear it would be worth waiting for a year or a decade to produce a single result.

Also a funny thought, with enough of a mind it should be able to figure out how to get very limited storage and barely usable computation at very low speed out of some extremely cheap substrate. Something like growing salt crystals in a lake (or ocean) Have a write pump flashing a light onto salt water and a read pump discarding undesirable results to be overwritten. You know, like, it doesn't matter if you encode randomly, if you do it often enough you will get the entire set. You don't have to read accurately either, as long as you get at least some results out.

wait, did I just explain the universe?
It's wild to think that plants are engaged in this constant struggle to produce seeds that have an outer shell that is just strong enough not to be consistently dissolved in a bird's stomach but not so strong that they won't ever dissolve.

One one hand, some seeds must survive passing through the bird's digestive system intact to later grow into a plant, on the other hand, some seeds must be digested in order to keep the birds interested in consuming that seed... Alternatively, a bird species interested in eating indigestible seeds may become extinct due to malnutrition.
That would basically mean the government funding the satellites, computers, storage, etc. Which is basically where almost all expenditures are. So it would effectively socialize the cost but privatize the results. In essence we would have to pay twice for the data, once to the government in taxes for the equipment, then again to some private company because....why again?
I wonder how widespread the adoption of steam deck + clones has been amongst benchmark participants (very very good perf per watt, relatively middling absolute performance), that could explain a lot. Not sure where they would end up on the desktop vs laptop categorization.
https://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/
Why are US EVs 2-3x the cost of BYD EVs? Do US consumers not want cars at that price point, is it regulation, is to labor/material costs, or some combination thereof?

It seems like if there was a $15-$20k EV in the US market, it would be a no-brainer "around town" second car.

Instead we get $30k Model 3/Y's or $80k EV SUV/Vans.
> I thought religion was frowned upon in Communist China. Am I missing something?

What gave you this idea?
Why should a government agency "fully commercialize its forecasting operations"?
Read right from the source, https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FUL...

A good chunk is based on their complete climate change denial and their wish to privatize much of the US government.

Not sure what you mean by "un-avowed" Project 2025, a number of the authors are in prominent positions within the Trump administration.
Would be more intriguing if American companies e.g. Facebook, Tesla were also allowed in China.
> Obviously not all government agencies provide comparable amounts of value to the general public based on the resources they consume.

This doesn't seem obvious to me.
I also had to pay a fee to the government for my driver’s license to have access to drive and passport to leave the country. Should those also be free?
Poll: What AI Chat App Do You Use?
Let me know in the comments if there is an AI chat missing that you use.
Ollama CLI
Open Web UI
ChatGPT.com
Claude.ai
T3.chat
Hugging Chat
Character AI
You can say the same about Mercedes, Tesla, Nissan and etc. Sure, you can make the "friendly state" argument, but then again, realpolitik is kinda funny nowadays.
That was among the first generations of iDrive. I was (and to some extent still am) skeptical, particularly given how overwhelmingly negative the reception was at the time. But, FWIW, the motoring press was later – as BMW apparently improved the system significantly – swayed to accept, and sometimes even praise, the iDrive. At least from about 2015-20, or possibly as early as 2010-15.

Can't give any personal evaluation, as I've never (AFAICR) driven a BMW.
Tesla shanghai exists
GM also has factories in China

tariff concerns should be discussed via WTO, not unilateral sanctions.

otherwise all this "rules based order" is not worth paper it is written on
Mysticism in general is fine, you just can't be a political rival.

Plus, like in English, there are a ton of words people use more for the poetic impressiveness than because they're specifically asserting a supernatural power.
Yes, if it means I would have to buy car that costs an arms and a leg like tesla.
Which is what Boeing used to do.

Wasn’t the original 737 the plane that had a number of early accidents and people literally didn’t want to fly on it? Maybe I’m thinking of a different model.

But they fixed it and treated it properly. And it became one of the most popular planes ever. Everyone trusts them.

Then they made the MAX version and made obviously stupid decisions like not having redundancy on the MCAS sensors. Things that the history of aviation tells you will go wrong. And they lied about it and covered it up, and lied about and covered up and obstructed the investigation into their plants not finishing planes correctly. And…

Boeing had a great reputation for a reason.
An "awkward gesture" that has no other meaning in western culture. Which he made twice. It's not something you can do by accident.

> I can't imagine why he would throw one

That's pretty naive. He's a white south african who recently said that Germany's furthest-right party should "get over" being guilty about what the nazis did.
EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management
> Casual sexism, insinuating that men don't behave this way, but women.

Not wrong, but if you wish to communicate with someone you sometimes have to transmit in a language the receiver will understand.
https://archive.ph/YeV2k
It's an opinion piece, and exceptions confirm the rule. Just search for German news articles on Google.de. See how many legit news outlets mention "Musk Hitlergruß" and how many more opt to beat around the bush when you search for "Musk Geste".
Does anyone think Deepseek or other non-western AIs will respect copyright?

This is going to make Deepseek and its kin much more valuable.
> Given enough time they could have been something on their own too.

This is based off what? Couldn’t this be argued for literally any company?
Apple has unlimited money cheat codes. Buy newest/best node, move memory on package, ignore compatibility/longevity.
Keita Takahashi is such an odd guy. Really creative and approaches games from a very different perspective than a lot of other creators, but Katamari Damacy was such a flash in the pan for him. His later endeavors have been equally if not more bizarre, without fun gameplay mechanics to back them up.
Literally. Social engineering 101. Grab a clipboard, put on a hi-viz,
speak in an authoritive, directive voice and people will absolutely do
what you ask at the sound of the word "security". Social engineering
defence 101: teach scepticism and not being intimidated by the word
"security"... ask "whose security?", "security from what?", "security
to what end?", and "show me your ID and the written policy".
I've read about this exact practice in one form or another since the Pentium 3 (sometimes just directly cooling with R134).
AI and the Missing Mother
My wife bought a new car with fully digital display a year ago. For me, I got a 2013 low mileage dumb car. Couldn't find anything new that I liked with my preferred level of UX technology (or lack of). I drive both equally and even a year later, I hate operating anything in her car. Once you get it dialed in, not too bad, but there's constantly edge cases of things you do infrequently and really have to search around for how to change a setting. The dealership always changes something when we take it for regular maintenance and it's always a PITA to figure it out how to get it back to normal. Also, it seems impossible to set a default setting for many things. There's a feature that activates anti-glare on the rear mirrors, for me it makes driving at night impossible, and I can't set and forget my preference. Every time the car starts my preference is overridden. It's maddening. The only saving grace is this feature only requires 2 clicks on the rear mirror (1 click of 2 physical buttons). I've memorized those clicks and can do them without having to go through screen clicks and hamburger menu hell.
Shit's tough though. Most tradespeople have lots of injuries... smashed hands, bad joints, have to breathe in toxic shit all day, bad hearing. My 35yo friend can hardly stand from back pain. And, it can be _very_ skilled. Business/shop owners can and do make quite a bit more than the standard software engineer.