skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A typical car alternator outputs 1.5-3kW of electricity, and EVs can output arbitrary amounts of power for electronics (though that will reduce range). That's more than enough to run purpose-built circuitry for a SOTA LLM. For a home robot, you could run the compute in the home instead of in the robot's body.

I don't think AGI is needed for FSD because we already have safe FSD in the form of Waymo, and competitors aren't far behind. People forget that self-driving doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be better than human drivers. Human drivers get sleepy, drunk, angry, and/or distracted. They can't see in 360º or react in milliseconds. Most cyclists and pedestrians prefer current FSD implementations to human drivers, as the computer-driven cars are much better about yielding, giving a wide berth, and being patient.
I think so, together with the global downturn around that time.
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case it's not hard to guess: there have been countless stories like this and people are (rightly) tired of the repetition.

Edit: If you (or anyone) want further explanation, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093299 and the links there. If, after that, you have a question that I haven't already answered, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.
Computational study says nucleophile finds σ-holes more attractive than π-holes
https://archive.ph/D7MxD
In the securities industry, "hype" - i.e. making claims which can not be fulfilled - is known as "fraud" and it lands people in jail. And, even with a ton of regulation in the securities industry, we still get some kind of financial crisis every decade or so. So tech people: why not think ahead and stop making false claims before you (1) cause the next crisis and (2) get slapped with heavy regulations? Stop hyping and think.
Yeah. They have less protection, less political power to resist. They also presumably generally aren't running important things and filled with tribal knowledge so at least in the short term they are more disposable (if you don't care about the future)
Adjust for weight : he is 5’9”, 123 lbs. he is 60% the weight of an average man.
> I’m not saying operating systems cannot be ranked objectively. I’m saying the GPs statement was far far far too broad to be objective.

> If they said “highest rated for performance X according to Y” (where X and Y are defined measurements), then it would be an objective statement.

So you are saying OSes can only be compared objectively on specific features, and not in an overall capacity?

> However just saying something is “objectively the best” doesn’t make it objective.

True, which is why I said I believe a case could be made. This being a HN comment I'm not taking too seriously, I'm not going to put in the work to do so, I'm more interested just to see casual discussion and see people who might agree or disagree, without worrying too much about the semantics of the claim.
Unified memory aside, the CPU-z results reported at

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-ai-max-395-strix-halo-mini-pc...

four days ago (embargo be damned) put multi-threaded performance within 9% of the 9950X.
While this is true, I've also wondered if the US (and EU) strategic position was that we're better off trickling out support to Ukraine so they can continue to keep Russia occupied and bleeding, rather than give a level of support that would actually end the conflict.
If NZ's government wants science to have economic impact, science needs funding
Actual title: "If the government wants science to have an economic impact it has to put its money where its mouth is"
Yes, because they're doing blanket firings rather than audits.
They mention visual checks for dead animals, and bacterial tests. But what about checks for heavy metals? Viruses? Radioactivity? (My understanding is that viruses are frequently durable to temperature changes because, unlike bacteria, they don't have a cell wall that will get damaged when frozen)
This seems like a naturalistic fallacy to assume random ice you find is safe to drink...
Answered my own question.

Yes[1].

You're talking about the how of the space shuttle construction but not the why. It was indeed intended for at least some military use, and it was originally intended to be capable of polar orbits and would've launched from Vandenberg.

Of course there was major government pork and horse trading to southern states but this was a side effect of the project, not the primary driver.

[1] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/1398/did-the-space...
I’m creating a new LLM that skips all of these steps and just responds to every query with “Why?”. It’s also far more cost effective than competitors at only $5/mo.
Big Tech's water use is 100 times bigger than expected
Rust does help to prevent memory leaks, but it is not considered a soundness bug to leak memory, whereas it is a soundness bug to (e.g.) use memory after it is freed.

Historically, what happened in Rust is that shortly before 1.0 was released, someone found a situation where you could get a reference-count cycle with the standard container types, and there was a lot of consternation as to whether or not this was actually a bug. This is termed the "leakpocalypse." The ultimate resolution was to accept that destructors are not guaranteed to be run, and therefore the kind of leak that was created is not actually a bug.
Ummm, no. I have been through this before and its always a paradox.

The paradox works like this: If you were capable of writing your own software the triviality of state management becomes self evident. If you are not capable of writing your own software, such as full eternal reliance on some tool set or framework, then the answer doesn't matter.
XAI (Grok) Terms of Service Update
We're not talking about your average American politician, we're talking about Donald Trump and his inner circle. They are demonstrably more corrupt and greedy than the average American politician. Tangentially, they're a lot stupider than the average politician in the world, and whether they're as corrupt as they act or just incapable of severing personal and professional/institutional gains is unclear.
Sure you'll find folks that perhaps literally believe that AI is bigger than fire and the wheel, or whatever. Or business leaders that more cynically try to ride the hype wave with their own customers.

I think the key here is actual usage and adoption. If early adopters (marketers and coders) keep using the new tools for real work over the long term then it's a positive signal.
I am not "giving up" on anything. I am using my discretion to weight which lines of thinking further our understanding of the world and which are vacuous and needlessly cruel. For what its worth, I love Rawls' work.
As a solo-maintainer of an open source project who begs the community (to no avail) to submit PRs for the docs from their perspective, this project is definitely something I would use. I will give it a test drive over the next few days. Don't want to sound like a freeloader but are you planning on offering some sort of concessions/discounts for OSS projects? Maybe we can configure it with our own keys to take some cost off of you for our projects?
> yes. restated, is it good or bad that the USA has rich people? clearly it is good. if it were bad, then there would be evidence that countries with no rich people are better, but there is no such evidence.

That's not the question. Having rich people is one thing; having extremely, extremely rich people is another. We're talking about people that are worth the entire annual economic output of entire medium-sized metropolitan areas of the US and Canada, not the guy you knew from college who became director of sales at a software vendor and lives in a neighborhood with a golf course.
People are finally getting acclimated to the crash rates we were used to back in the old days.
Short term memory loss suffers still have theory of mind, what is this nonsense hahaha
>non-deterministic outputs, wherein they give different answers to the same question if asked enough times

I think you may find some humans do that too.
It seems like an exaggeration.
As a child I have been instructed that a LP/CD/DVD is either is its sleeve or in the player but never anywhere else. My parent's CD collection have either no or very minor scratches, all of them most definitely playable. And they have been listened to, a lot.
Some of my friends took almost no care of their CDs (left them without protection in the room/car) and even then it was rare that one wouldn't play.
The hard part is that it goes two ways. Most animals are adapted for interactions within their own species. A seagull is adapted to react a certain way when another seagull screams the same way we smile when someone laughs or get a sense of panic if we hear someone shriek. A seagull has no concept of our behavior really beyond if we move at it in a threatening manner like other potential predators. The most you can do is probably some simple conditional learning akin to dog training considering seagulls in recreational areas have associated beachgoers with potential food source already.

Why might a whale speak back to us? Maybe it we chum the water when whales make certain noises they will begin making those noises and expect chum. I wouldn’t call that communication as people expect it to be with ET however. A primitive form of trade perhaps.
Obviously does not follow. It’s like saying that torrential rains that flood your home are actually a good thing, because having no rain at all would be worse. Most things are best in moderation.
>when I’m hungry I feed myself. Why can’t they?

you know exactly what you are doing here Gabe, its easy to say all this stuff when you're sitting pretty in Hong Kong.
> All while knowing that there are people out there taking more abuse for likely far less pay.

My anecdotal experience: The best jobs in my career were the medium-pay, medium-expectations jobs.

Most (but not all) of the very high paying jobs I've had also came with very high expectations. They were paying a lot of money and they knew that people didn't have many other options to get paychecks that large. Managers were compensated on performance of their teams, so they had to extract as much work as possible to get the maximum pay. They knew that they could post a job ad tomorrow with the high salary listed and it would attract hordes of qualified applicants who wanted that paycheck.

I never got to experience the golden era of certain FAANG companies where many people were making bank and few people were ever fired.

Likewise, the lowest paying jobs I've had were also terrible. They had no concept of anything other than extracting work from people for minimum pay. They kept everyone tired, demoralized, and afraid of being fired. People don't search for other jobs as much when they're constantly burned out and overwhelmed.

The sweet spot, for me, has been right in the middle. Good pay (great, relative to all professions), but not top of market pay, and reasonable expectations. Surrounded by a mix of people from different ages but with a lot of parents who have families at home. If I interview somewhere and it's nothing but mid 20s people who don't have families, I stay away because they have much worse concept of work-life balance in my experience.
Well I think intuitively it should be obvious that we aren't getting from 3.3 million EV's in the US to 228 million EV's in 3 years, so that really makes me question where you're coming from. Doubly so when ICE vehicles are still being sold at quite a pace, with 20 million more expected by 2030.

Given all of that you'd need to see sales of EV's leap into the range of 23 million per year, every year from now until 2035 to reach 80% of what's on the road.

If you just mean "x% of vehicles sold will be EV" then... it's a bit less absurd, but also much less meaningful in terms of the original discussion.
AMD's game-changing Strix Halo, formerly Ryzen AI Max, poses for new die shots
Reasons to Love Init
Congrats on the launch. This looks great. I could see this being useful for internal documentation at larger companies too
Isn't twitter mostly low quality text or full blown noise ?
I don’t see this being broken in the slightest! What’s the issue with paying someone to write code you don’t want to?
Intel started having issues before pat. Now, I sold my amd shares a few years ago and stopped following the semi sector, but as long as I have memory Intel was starting to show cracks after a few ryzen iteration(s). I mean, they were still faring well, but it was clear - at least to me - they were stuck with less competitive products
haha interesting search query. thanks for your hard work dang!
No they did not show that.
They showed that the project team for the tools included more than developers.

It included qualified technical writers.
It included project managers would would ensure that if somethiung was added there was a specification so that it could be documented.

ie developers were not allowed to get away with only doing a partial job.
Ok. I don't mind those folks getting large rewards. I do mind when they effectively pay far lower taxes than the common man. You take out a loan on assets? It should be treated the same as if you sold and took capital gains. Capital gains should be taxed as normal income above $medianHouseholdIncome.
Europeans? Americans? Zimbabweans? Europe is a big place and has a significant impact on the world.
I think at this point you're going to have to answer "what makes you think there will be any"
There is a big difference between shutting down questionable funding that push an ideology, and shutting down whole agencies because they have an active investigation against you personally.
SMS was significant danger for an app that tries for the highest security. It was confusing that Signal was super secure unless you used SMS. It was actively dangerous if people got confused and sent private information over SMS. That is something that leads to people "falling out a window".

This is a problem for iMessage, but people don't have the same security expectations for that. The WhatsApp model, of everything going over the app and being secure, is better approach. I would argue that WhatsApp was more secure than Signal with SMS, the focus on security outweighed by danger of sending message in the clear.
I looked at your links and I still don't get it. I do want to understand. Where is the problem stated, clearly and concisely? What is the solution and why does it require crypto?

I say that as someone who read the Bitcoin paper in 2012 and was pretty excited back then.

Meanwhile online scams are a bigger industry than the illegal drug trade and bigger than the Australian economy. There are thousands of modern day slaves in call centers in Myanmar and the Philippines with fake social media profiles running pig butchering scams. That industry runs on crypto 100%. I guess that's one "problem" crypto solved.

You need some pretty convincing arguments at this point to convince me (and many others) that getting rid of this stuff wouldn't be a big win for humanity.
Asking this to gauge sentiment or become better informed, not because I believe it outright...

Could it be that people with more backend-oriented skills are better compensated, or have better market-job-security, than those with frontend-oriented skills on average with respect to regular employment or contracts? If it were so then the usefulness and/or marketability of a project might matter less to respective creators in how to offer their work to the public.

Jankily expressed as backend can afford to produce more for fun and/or street cred, frontend wants both but feels pressure to demonstrate value on top.
Ok but if you make a model that outputs that instead of answering the question people will delete their account
The "Memory Safety" of Rust is not that memory leaks are not possible, rather its how memory is accessed. Specifically, using "safe" Rust, it should be impossible to:

1. Access memory that hasn't been explicitly allocated to your program
2. Access memory that was was previously allocated and freed by your program
3. Access memory that could be modified by a separate thread / function of your program, outside of some locking mechanism.

I'm sure there's a more academic definition, and stronger guarantees, but those are the basics.

Now, these guarantees impose restrictions on how code is written, and runtime overhead to enforce. There are many cases where a human can write optimizations and ensure those guarantees in a way the compiler cannot verify. This is why Rust has an "escape" of writing "unsafe Rust", where the compiler does validate those guarantees. Unsafe Rust includes expanded primitives, such as "Box::leak()", that enable writing these optimizations, and may explicitly leak memory without maintaining a reference

If a program is written using purely safe Rust, it should not be possible for a malicious input / request to corrupt internal data structures, read memory that shouldn't be read, or all the other "interesting" things that get highlighted by Heartbleed and other big security vulnerabilities.

Note that I say "should not be possible" - the Rust compiler can and has had bugs that break those memory safety guarantees under certain conditions. They aren't common, but it's unfair to say "Rust is perfect and 100% safe"

I strongly recommend everyone learn Rust, at least to the point where you "grok" the borrow checker and what it's trying to enforce, even if you have no intention with regularly using Rust. After learning Rust, I found the patterns the borrow checker enforces incredibly useful when writing C++, and ensuring I don't make silly memory mistakes that may result in a crash or vulnerability.
Well, yeah. Even at the time, there was far far more music published than anyone could buy, especially considering the existing back catalogs. Why wouldn't you just buy the good stuff? This isn't 'cheating.'

If you were/are careful in your purchases, you could/can find plenty of albums that are wall-to-wall magic. Some that I enjoyed in my youth:

- Beatles, Revolver
- Beastie Boys, Ill Communication
- Led Zeppelin IV
- Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy
- Metallica, self-titled ("Black Album")
- Nirvana, Nevermind
- Pearl Jam, Ten
- Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
- Radiohead, OK Computer
- Snoop Dogg, Doggystyle
- Weezer, self-titled ("Blue Album")
I notice in almost all these conversations is that many pretend that things will stay exactly the same forever and people won't follow incentives.
This is a bit reductive.

The opposition to tariffs doesn't stem from a kneejerk reaction to a certain someone wanting them. It comes from economic consensus.

Implementing targeted tariffs in a way that spurs domestic labor and secures vital industries is common practice.

What's not common practice or beneficial are the broad tariffs we're levying, which come from a place of ignorance. The implementers literally didn't think retaliation would happen, but it is/will. All these are accomplishing is increasing the cost of goods.
I'm calling BS.

> ICE wants to know if you're posting negative things about it online (theintercept.com)

Nope. If you actually read (you know, it's not that hard, it's like that thing you do when you do leetcode? Give it a try, it's not that difficult!) the document ("25517962-statement-of-objectives"), you can see that it clearly states that it's only looking for threats against ICE employees or facilities. (The chuckleheads posting "fuck Ice" in the comments here are fine. But they knew that...)

> It’s unclear how exactly any contractor might sniff out someone’s “proclivity for violence.”

The intercept should stop playing stupid, it's a bad look. Hasn't sentiment analysis been around for 20+ years now? Get with the times, grandpa!

> In addition to compiling personal information — such as the Social Security numbers

Yeah that's under a section that starts: "The Contractor shall provide public records details on the individual, as available". If your Facebook account uses your real name, and your real name is rare enough that it can be matched to a public SSN database, guess what? You'll never guess. It's craazay!
No worries—it's a great blog post! We'll put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.
I recognized the lyrics at the beginning right away. The song is reel big fish’s say goodbye which has some other relevant lyrics

> I know, you feel like a whore
Working for a dream that isn't even yours
Pleasing everybody but yourself
Would you rather be, somewhere else with someone else?
Also a good point!
Juniper Networks Routers API Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Yes. Let's haul tons of ice through the country that is potentially even dirty. Just so that some has more interesting ice in their drink.
Sir there are children frequenting this site.
That seems problematic. If I am on a road-trip and need to charge up, am I meant to just park up for several hours until it is off-peak?

EVs already ask more from drivers, namely around planning, and stopping times. But this is a whole other level of inconvenience.

Gas stations don't do have peak/off-peak rates, even if they could.
Constantly ctrl-z just to see what I was doing a second ago.

ADHD is a blessing and a curse. I can hold every line of the codebase in my head but I can't remember what I was just doing...

You figure out how to work without working memory. Just offload it all immediately.
comments here and elsewhere about how you don't need much possessions

From the advocates of "you will own nothing and be happy".
> Having his phone bill paid by his mom makes it his mom's phone number by default;

No, it makes his mom the account owner. Just because I pay the bill for mine and my wife’s phones doesn’t mean her number is actually my number. Imagine operating a company and the CEO isn’t the one paying the phone bill, it’s the accountant, and you claimed that it’s not the CEO’s phone number, it’s actually the accountant’s, but it’s shared with the CEO. It’s nonsensical. The number is assigned to a person on the account which has nothing to do with who pays the bill.
Again, I don't mind VC's being rewarded, I do mind them paying far lower effective tax rates than the average working guy. Income is income. Maybe we have a carve out that says you can make up to the median household income in capital gains and that's taxed at a low rate, but much beyond that should be taxed just the same as if you earned it working.
I'd need to see a convincing breakdown of the numbers indicating that tax incentives make the difference between risky investments being worth it or not worth it. My suspicion is even if capital gains were much higher, there still isn't anything better to do with your money than invest it.

Also pretty sure savings interest is taxed as capital gains.
I know some old eastern europeans who just swear by the red heat lamp. Like a big hot bulb akin to something for rotisserie chicken. I imagine its like a targeted hot tub in terms of muscle relief.
No. Awards of stock are taxed as income: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2016/09/01/apple-ce...
You are welcome to join the Bard team
I wouldn't, because it's a stupid hypothetical. Any response that takes the question seriously should count as wrong.
SQLite Is Learnable
Reasons to Love Init (both.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093198
why mithril.js was though ? it is still a solid choice.
I chose it because it’s what I'm used to and because it makes it really easy to do SSR (I wanted no JS to be sent to the client).
The monster they claim they sought to destroy.
Sykes-Picot agreements weren't just for your great grandparents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes–Picot_Agreement
I'm making the case of corruption from the top down with politicians, lobbyist are their financial backers. Either through donations or insider trading.
That's okay, you're either wrong, or used an uncommon definition. Take your pick of either. shrug