skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have huge doubts that Teslas will retain a "halo premium", except in some very strange circles. Already they're an embarrassing car to own and the financials of that company are rapidly flushing down the toilet, making it a question of how long it will be a going concern (hence all the frantic rushing around for legitimacy in other markets...robots, why not?)

They are widely cited as unreliable, poorly built vehicles. My neighbour bought a used model S and the first time he saw us after buying it he came over to justify his purchase ("Got a killer price, etc").
I would've replied to you but HN's intransparent timeout mechanism hit me.

I'd invite everyone to wonder why Lix exists (and is better enough to be used in some parts of Nix's CI now), why CppNix stable was stuck 6 versions behind on nixpkgs until half a year ago, and what kept Lix contributors from working on CppNix instead. Tip: "I want free labor from Eelco" is not the answer.
Hey there, I’m the author of Zodiac. Feel free to ask me anything.
All cars last 20+yr if you give a crap unless they have some fundamental engineering or execution Achilles heel (ecoboost water pump, Toyota frame rust, Hyundai engine problems, etc) that will manifest as a comically not-economical repair when the vehicle is old enough in age to be of fairly low value.

Premium cars that aren't so premium as to be disposable (i.e. not a luxury car you're gonna trade in every 3-5yr like clockwork) always last really well because people who can afford nice things can generally afford to maintain them.

This is pretty clearly borne out when you compare same cars across brand e.g. Ford Lincoln Mercury panther platform cars) or look at the exceptions like all those objectively terrible northstar caddilacs and v12 Jags and whatnot that are in impeccable shape because they got used and maintained nicely for a decade before being "retired" to the garage of the owner's vacation property on Cape Cod or perhaps the Hamptons or compare airport people moving vans that were retired to church group service to work vans that got sold down the river to even harder service.

It's really easy to "well we really should sell a water pump while we're in here for your 100k timing service" on a Subaru owned by someone who can afford a Subaru vs selling a preventative transmission fluid change to the guy who could barely scrape together the down payment on a Sentra.

I'm being a little sloppy and leaving some loose ends and room for nitpicking jerks to wedge in but I think the point here is pretty clear.
It must have been a very short amount of time. 2 HP is 1,500 watts, probably more light than all lightbulbs in my house combined.
It can also serve as a helpful reference point for "what am I (still) doing here?" so that you can judge when you perhaps should not be.
There isn't a single AI on the face of the earth.

So that's easy.

Nothing to actually worry about.

Other than Sam Altman and Elon Musks' pending ego fight.
This is always the Motte & Bailey of the left. "Equity" doesn't mean you recruit better. It means when your recruitment efforts fail to produce the outcomes you want, you lower the barriers on the basis of skin color. That's the racism that America is presently rejecting, and very forcefully.
Under Goshn and his close early advisors, Renault-Nissan started working on EVs, launching the Leaf and Zoé. Early, he also managed to streamline production of the two companies, and started to implement management changes that let some workers have more autonomy.

The issue is that power got to his head and truly believe he was the second coming of Jesus or something, and stopped improving his companies to rub shoulders with the Nepo CEO/aristocrat crowd. Had he continued the push toward affordable EV, Nissan could have been BYD, but R&D stopped, for no visible reason.

My personal theory is that the fallout from his divorce estranged him from his early friends and his closest advisor (his wife) and idiotic sycophants made him believe he was above the law and deserved even more. I've heard a lot of good things about pre-2008 Goshn, from people who aren't usually glazing billionaires, so maybe I'm biased.
It's wild how different experiences can be. I've had some shitboxes in my day. One car had an air intake that would fall off, so you'd occasionally have to keep the RPMs above 2k or it would stall. One car was a 1970s Russian van held together with duct tape and prayers. The door fell off while driving one day, so I wired it back on with roadside scrap and kept going.

The newish old model 3 I had for a few weeks during a backordered warranty repair was worse than either of them. The charging cable would get stuck. Sometimes the doors wouldn't open and I'd have to reboot the car. The headliner glue failed and dumped the roof on my head. You couldn't see through the rear window if it was raining too hard. Sentry mode would take 8-10% of the battery overnight. Many features simply didn't work without the cellular plan.
BCIs have been doing what Neuralink is showing off since at least the 90s. It is emphatically not a difficult concept to understand that you can put wires in the brain and someone can learn to influence signals on those electrodes. Hell, Deep Brain Stimulation has been an FDA approved use of putting electrodes in your brain since 1997.

The hard parts of BCI are: Electrode sensing, but that's a much less difficult problem nowadays. Implant longevity, probably an unsolvable problem without massive advancements in understanding the body. Brain surgery, which will never not be a huge deal because piercing the barriers that protect the brain is just inherently a huge deal and risky to do.

I'm pretty sure Neuralink is the only one mass killing monkeys though.

Note that Elon has also helped push for the killing of US science funding, like funding used to further study BCIs. How convenient for him that all his competition is suddenly going to struggle.
Never spoken with a Russian I see...
No, I do not expect things to just work out. I just think our best chance is for the US to be a leader in AI development and hope that we're able to develop it safely.

I don't have a lot of confidence that this will be the case, but I think the US continuing to develop AI is the decision with the best distribution of possible outcomes.
Its not. What we currently have is institutional discrimination and Trump is trying to make it much worse. Making sure AI doesn't reflect or worsen current societal racism is a massive issue
It is highly unlikely it discerned that: it coincidentally guessed a string that starts with an H.

If you try it with a string that started with "J" and then it guessed "jump up", I might be more convinced.
I suggest you to read some research on UX so you can understand that a big part of UX is in fact, not subjective.
Like poor contrast cause reading fatigue on all humans, but at varying level.
And that researchers determined a contrast ratio at which a certain percentage of the population can read without problems.
And yes that's a recommendation because they can't force you to do it, so they recommand you to do it.
Honda is bigger than just automobiles, they also hold the lion's share of the two-wheeler market (motorcycles, scooters). They're a far way from dead.
"[The POTUS] shall have Power [ . . ] and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint [ . . . ] all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments."[1]

At present Elon's position within the executive branch does not actually nor historically (for obvious reasons) require "Advice and Consent of the Senate", because no one that's part of DOGE, Elon included, is currently constitutionally interpreted to be an "Officer of the United States."[2]

Nor has Congress bestowed upon the POTUS the exclusive authority to nominate and appoint whatever Elon's position is without their advice and conset. That's what the after-the-colon part is all about: whether or not the appointment of any "such inferior Officer"[3] whose position is not otherwise expressly provided for (like Elon's) is vested by an act of Congress in the POTUS not requiring their advice and consent—not whether or not any such position is actually 'established by Congress' as you say. That's exactly the point: Congress derives no appointment power from the Appointments Clause. Their role is limited to providing either constitutionally-required advice and consent, or vesting a direct appointment power not requiring their advice and consent in the POTUS.

That being said, if the executive branch does something novel, like create and appoint thereto a position (or even an entire department) that didn't exist previously, then certainly that act may be ripe for constitutional challenge under the Appointments Clause. That is squarely one of the primary constiutional issues with what Elon and DOGE are doing, and that would be squarely for the SCOTUS to interpret.

Just curious since I don't think I've heard this argument before—from where in the Constitution do you interpret that "it would have been perfectly Constitutional for the last Congress to have removed the entire Supreme Court and replaced the justices"?

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/#ar...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer_of_the_United_States

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointments_Clause#Appointmen...
He's right though. Same for people who use TUI editors. Let's just call a spade a spade.
> Like yes, we are able to think of thousands of hypothetical ways technology (even those inferior to full AGI) could go off the rails in a catastrophic way and post and discuss these scenarios endlessly... and yet it doesn't result in a slowing or stopping of the progress leading there.

The problem is sifting through all of the doomsayer false positives to get to any amount of cogent advice.

At the invention of the printing press, there were people with this same energy. Obviously those people were wrong. And if we had taken their "lesson", then human society would be in a much worse place.

Is this new wave of criticism about AI/AGI valid? We will only really know in retrospect.
If one state could make something illegal in the other 49 Florida would have already made life very painful for the blue states.
I think the right comparison to make here is art. The compensation floor is zero, and, in fact, that's what most vuln research pays.
The "legitimate cash" option is the bug bounty without the risk. I think you are saying the same thing.
I don't think it does what you think it does. You'll end up taking sides on India and China fighting on rights and equality and giving in to wild stuffs like deconstruction and taxation for churches. It'll be just a huge mess and devastation of your high-level set of values, unless you'll be interfering with it so routinely that it will be nothing more than a facade for quite outdated form of totalitarianism.
Audio doesn't require high data rates. 6 streams of uncompressed 16-bit 48 kHz PCM is 4.6 Mb/s. Compression knocks that down into insignificance.
In the same vein, this had me rolling https://cernius.substack.com/p/finger-lickin-good
Why would any country align with US vision for AI policies after how we’ve treated allies over the last two weeks?

Why would any country yield given the hard line negotiating stance the US is now taking? And the flip flopping and unclear messaging on our positions?
> eventually enabling people to be 10x more productive in jobs that interact with a computer all day.

I doubt this. Productivity is gained through experience and expertise. If you don't know what you don't know than the LLM is perfectly useless to you.
I'm talking all up costs (cost to first pixels), so the cost to acquire a bus and payload then launch it vs buy a balloon with an imager payload and release it. Any comparable satellite right now is likely closer to hundreds of millions just due to necessary aperture size. A balloon launch for an imagery collect will run you under 30k all in, and you can reuse most of the system after you recover it.

LEO is cheap but you need a massive aperture, measured in meters, to get equivalent GSD to even the crappiest balloon imager, so the price tag suddenly jumps. These aren't cubesats, they're suddenly the size of a bus, see Worldview Legion for a recent comparison, and it has a much worse nadir GSD than balloons.

VLEO is still extremely expensive because you need a very robust propulsion system and there are other design considerations like atomic oxygen corrosion. The optics to match a balloon also put you into the mini-fridge to refrigerator sized optics assembly class which means while you can rideshare, it's not cheap to build or launch, see Albedo space:

https://albedo.com/post/upcoming-launch-of-clarity-1-and-alb...

Also the regulatory issues are still massive, you need to get a NOAA license for imagery and once you go under a certain GSD limit they become very difficult to obtain.
Same thing I did except I only wanted WD Red drives. I bought them from Amazon, Newegg, and Micro center. Thankfully none of them were those nasty SMR drives, not sure how I lucked out.
Did they use AI to do it?
Have you tried reading the probability of X being the token returned? then you will probably be get better answers and not need to compare every 2.

Log probabilities of output tokens indicate the likelihood of each token occurring given the context.
I know these are conferences that they track, but I happen to know the Scott's talk from FOSDEM titled "So You Think You Know Git?" is at 1.3m million views:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aolI_Rz0ZqY
Amazing you feel that EVs are somehow more maintenance than ICEs. There exist EVs that have never had any manufacturer/dealer input since the day they rolled off the lot.

Tesla/Nio are a bad examples - many EVs were built to be sold and essentially ignored by the manufacturer.
That's not the point, GP is pointing out how we only control (at least theoretically, lol) our own government, and basic game theory can tell you that countries that adopt pacifist ideas and refuse to pursue anything that might be dangerous will always at some point be easily defeated by others who are less moral.

The point is that it's complicated, it's not a black and white sound bite like the people who are "against nuclear weapons" pretend it is.
> Vulnerable and sick people can only have things that would a.) help super rich people with the same conditions

I have occasionally wondered if, in some kind of time-travel scenario, I could convince the local royalty that subsidizing healthcare for the masses would ultimately benefit them years down they line when they need an experienced doctor who knows how to do some kind of surgery.

> Someone who has genuine concern for helping people doesn't cut medical programs in fly-by-night operations to leave people with medical devices in their body and whatnot.

Some folks might miss the political reference: https://www.citizen.org/news/egregious-abandonment-of-ongoin...

> but what sells it is detecting and aiming at the dissident hiding under a truck

Mildly relevant: https://xkcd.com/2128/
So how much was it?
>Most other fields of endeavor aren’t compensated based on the black market value of the thing that’s being produced.

What you’re saying can be seen as tautological. The reason a gray/black market exists is precisely because the field is undercompensating (aka in disequilibrium)
China appears to be looking to reap the low hanging fruit of AI and FSD.

It's capitalism, comrade. Sure hurts to lose your hype-based overvaluation.
If I recall, there's also a waitlist for those who want to even be eligible to pay the fee to join Club 33.

I would imagine it to be similar sitting in 1st Class on an airplane. Your accommodations within that area are nicer relative to the rest of the park, but probably below the standard the person who can afford it would be accustomed to.

More to the point, in the (very, very brief) glimpses of insight I've had to that caliber of people, it's less so about, "I want fancy things because I'm rich" and more so something closer to, "I want to be around people who aren't going to be trying to get me to fund their startup. Or scam me. Or rob me. Or call me a monster for being wealthy."

That is to say, it's more so about the kind of people you are around, and the interactions that keeps you away from, rather than how nice the accommodations are. Instead, the price you pay for that privacy leads to nicer accommodations by association. (The velvet rope and well-dressed bouncer don't matter; the dark lit area away from the roar of the crowd is the point.)

Basically, it gives a short break to be away from and avoid potentially dangerous situations. It gives you the chance to be left alone for a while and let your guard down for a bit, so you can enjoy your drink in peace.

To be clear: I'm nowhere near that well off, and don't know anyone that well off. I have just heard that kind of sentiment floated around on rare occasions in a friend-of-a-friend-who-knew-a-guy type thing.
Perfection is the Enemy of Progress
ZDI claims they'll pay for bugs in serverside software, which is a different meaning of the term "serverside" than I'm using (admittedly, that definition is more precise). An nginx bug has a half-life once discovered. A Youtube bug does not.

I'm a little skeptical of published prices for serverside software, though. Do you know anyone who specializes in selling those bugs? I don't.
I believe NES patents might be finally all expired and off this year, but the SNES is probably covered for a little longer. Reverse engineering emulators and fpgas has been safer legally speaking for most of the last few decades.
Should Not Happen Again [MIT Integration Bee 2025] [video]
> The monomer used to make it is considered "probably carcinogenic"

Yeah, this is what I heard before. That the coating itself isn't so bad, but the manufacturing process produces stuff that is awful enough that we probably shouldn't use it.
U.K. asks to backdoor iCloud Backup encryption
No Chinese company makes $10k EVs with Tesla level quality, performance and safety.

The Mi SU7, a pretty competitive EV with Model 3, starts at around $30k (still a pretty decent price).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi_SU7
Or it will be viewed like nuclear weapons and those who have it will be bombed by those who don't.

These are all silicon valley "neck thoughts." They're entirely uninformed by the current state of the world and any travels through it. It's fantasies brought about by people with purely monetary desires.

It'd be funny if there wasn't billions of dollars being burnt to market this crap.
This is an open source analogue pocket.
Lost media, memory, and morbid fascination
> It's painful for me to think that there are people out there without the common sense not to eat random plants they don't recognize.

I think it's understandable. I live in a city suburb and the foliage around me is pretty much all non-toxic.

I was raised in a rural community and went camping often so we had the lessons of "don't eat random shit, you'll die" drummed into us.
I see a lot of noise made about responsible disclosure, its drivers, and its rewards. What I don't see is talk about how this is one more datapoint against centralized permanent identities.

Every time I see a service purporting that it works best only with a single link to your Real Identity™, I'm reminded that the vendors only abstractly care about actually protecting the user, and then only sometimes.

Imagine being able get immediately three or four steps closer to doxing anyone interacting on YouTube. That's the actual impact of this bug IMO. It's good that this was fixed, but I don't think this class of bug goes away anytime soon. What do we need to do to get vendors and big companies to realize that this sort of design is landmines waiting to happen?
After the passing of its founder, DKF community rallied to carry on his legacy
I wonder if Waymo will get big enough in San Francisco to affect this.
The World of Warships community has gone through similar steps, but the encryption is much more straightforward. Some of the packets are pickled Python, some are just binary blobs, so there are some undocumented packets but for the most part people have done a decent job of figuring it out and building tooling around it such as the minimap renderer: https://github.com/WoWs-Builder-Team/minimap_renderer

There’s an odd unspoken and somewhat understood agreement between the developer (Wargaming) and community though: the community actively reverse engineers the game to document the packets and WG kind of looks the other way (except when they recently threatened me with a perma ban :) — they even use the tooling the community creates for official tournaments.

In this article the author mentions Riot partnering with external companies to provide more rich data set and analytics. Do they use these tools/data sets for tournaments as well? Is it known at all how these partnerships are structured?
Awesome project! Really cool to see that the UI is built with Rust and Slint, the GUI framework I’m working on. https://github.com/slint-ui/slint
>Video and pictures will soon have no evidentiary value.

This is one bit that has a technological solution. Canon's had some version of this since the early 2000s: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/319787-REG/Canon_9314...

A more recent initiative: https://c2pa.org/
Many Kings murdered each over and fought wars just for the amount of vanilla extract or ground cinnamon or black pepper I just casually keep in my house. If they saw how much was in the local grocery stores or how cheap it is to buy they might think the world had gone mad.
> That's nothing! They determined that one valley formed 3.8 billion years ago, and the other one, 3.8 billion years plus or minus 10 minutes.

Now that's what i call precision. How did they measured it ? With a pendulum ? /s
I think you've missed my point. I know data brokers exist. Does there exist today a data broker that functions in whole or in significant part buy acquiring vulnerabilities and exploiting them to collect data? He's a more concise way to frame my argument: if you're imagining yourself to be the first person to sell a particular kind of vulnerability to, then your customer is imaginary.
This is my oddball thought: the thing about AI doomerism is that it feels to me like it requires substantially more assumptions and leaps of logic than environmental doomerism. And environmental doomerism seems only more justified as the rightward lurch of western societies continues.

Note: I'm not quite a doomer, but definitely a pessimist.
Discrepancy Between Self-Reported and Actual Caloric Intake in Obese Subjects
I wonder what your definition of crime is.

Legally, in most places of the world it isn't.

Morality differs among people too. Profiting off a trillion dollar company will not cross the line for a lot of people.
Those words are about precisely American culture war issues. It exported the culture war abroad years ago.

It isn't about what % of the population is affected or number of people. It is about PRINCIPLES. Yes it matters just as much to enshrine dishonesty in law if it is dishonesty abour 1 person or 1000 people or 1m people. It matters.
Power budget will drop like a rock over time.

Exponential increases in cost (and power) for next-level AI and exponential decreases for the cost (and power) of current level AI.
"define Tao"

> (in Chinese philosophy) the absolute principle underlying the universe, combining within itself the principles of yin and yang and signifying the way, or code of behavior, that is in harmony with the natural order. The interpretation of Tao in the Tao-te-Ching developed into the philosophical religion of Taoism.

I'd say their interpretation (while reductive) is in the spirit of the Tao.

That said, I'm no expert and only have a passing familiarity with the Tao through pop-culture.