skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We get 7km an hour of charging in the summer time at 120V. It's lower in the winter as some of the power goes to keeping the battery warm. It's not completely lost, though -- starting out with a warm battery results in much greater range than starting with a cold battery in the winter.
ID.me might be in the worst position. There was already a big public backlash against it, so previous IRS leadership was working to replace it. And it doesn’t send any money back to Elon Musk, so future IRS leadership won’t want to save it either.

(Only half joking…)
For everyone talking about why things are being done like they are, take a look at this article linked to in the post:

Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture

https://www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/DOGE-procurement-capture...
Sure, tit-for-tat in an iterated prisoners dilemma is a recognized strategy. Even so, it seems petty to unfollow someone just because they unfollow you. Why not give it a bit of time and unfollow them for a more significant reason? Does everything need to be so transactional?
Most articles about politics are boring or repetitive, and should be flag killed and discussed elsewhere. I have plenty of other places where I can read the regular news.
>I think that's more because people don't want to teach children about sex

Come on now. It's hard to find anything more immediately exciting and alluring than sex, especially for teenagers. The biological imperatives and inclinations are too strong regarding sex for virtually everyone, compared to anything related to gambling. And OP is absolutely right that the barrier to entry is a great deterrent in the case of gambling, as well. Just based on that alone, easy-access, sex-related stuff is always going to have a potentially greater effect on almost anyone, regardless of their previous knowledge about it or warnings received by other people during their childhood.

>people do demonstrate what gambling is early on

Talk about going out on a limb. What are you basing this affirmation on? I don't see any parents lending any word of advice to their children about gambling-like activities, in any case, as most of them indulge in those themselves, let alone their own kids.
How is growing dept a good thing? How is cutting costs a bad thing? Have you seen Argentina example? How did it turn out? Can the same thing be done in USA? Only reason to say no is because someone is directly profiting from not cutting costs.
If you know Musk's story then you know why he is the only best candidate to do so.
I Do Not Fear Death (2011)
All civilizations have funded public works with taxes, whether through income taxes, taxes on production (crop yields, mineral extraction), customs (tariffs), or by labor obligations (corvée).

Even libertarian enclaves end up recreating taxes by another name (use fees, tolls).

Voters should (and do) prioritize public spending versus taxation. Sometimes they are inefficient (Greece, Argentina pre-2025), but many states get it right (Estonia, Sweden).
I would guess the preventative maintenance over the lifetime of a fission reactor exceeds the initial build costs.
https://archive.ph/hkGXN
There's a good chance this is not an either/or question, but that AI will get us to viable fusion power much earlier. For example:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/23/doe_fusion_ai/

https://openai.com/index/strengthening-americas-ai-leadershi...
But we're talking about a tax on unrealized capital gains.

This isn't new ground that nobody has thought of before. A number of countries already have wealth taxes. Unrealized capital gains are wealth, not income. They would be subject to a wealth tax until realized, and only subject to a capital gains tax when realized. This is why wealth tax rates are so low.

there are major asset categories with no objective way to value them, so how do you even calculate it in the absence of a sale, or prevent those assets from being used as a tax shelter?

Your paragraph assumes something that isn't true. The problem of how to value assets for taxation is older than electronic computers, and decades ago tax authorities set forth rules/guidelines for valuing difficult-to-value assets. In a nutshell: there are a variety of ways to value such assets, and as long as the valuation of an asset is reasonable within the rules of the governing jurisdiction, the tax authority will accept it (or be forced to accept the valuation by a court).

If you use 0.5% against typical assets with a 10% annual return, it's equivalent to an income tax rate of only 5%, but you're still incurring all of the administrative complexity and still have non-trivial perverse incentives. But if you raise the rate to the level that "pay their fare share" normally implies, the perverse incentives become exponentially worse.

This also isn't true. Again...wealth taxes already exist, and they're administratively easier to implement then income taxes. They're also not intended to replace income taxes; they're intended to supplement income taxes by taxing the people who are wealthy enough that they don't need to earn income.

applying the tax to everyone's retirement account and not just "billionaires" and have given domestic businesses a competitive disadvantage in attracting foreign investment.

Yes, if you choose to implement a wealth tax on everything that would be true. It's a good thing that policymakers in the countries where wealth taxes already exist used their brains and decided to have minimum wealth thresholds for their wealth taxes.
I spent a whole weekend on my Vaio trying Linux distros for the first time, same dealbreaker as you, until I discovered that same magic feeling on first Ubuntu boot as well. Super cool to hear such a similar journey.
There are both immediate and long term consequences to the debt. In the short term we are paying a large share of revenue into debt servicing. We are all working months a year to pay interest. In the long term, we are impoverishing the next generations.

The govt can debase the currency by printing money. That only impoverishes people , except for the wealthy, causing greater wealth gap.
I haven't noticed any real correlation between intelligence and arrogance. There does seem to be an inverse correlation between experience and arrogance, though.
Well, no, Steam provides a bunch of services to gamedevs that might be tied to an account, like matchmaking or mod support. But if the games don't use that they're not encumbered. I've got a bunch of hours in KSP that aren't on my account because I launched the exe through the CKAN mod manager rather than Steam
This is effing great...thanks for sharing your experience.

I was just wondering how to give my edits back to in-browser tools like Claude or ChatGPT, but the idea of repo mix is great, will try!

Although I have been flying bit with copilot in vscode, so right now I have essentially two AI, one for larger changes (in the browser), and then minor code fixes (in vscode).
Now that we've made it to 2025, 2050 doesn't feel nearly as far away to me.
Nice. I liked the piece. It seemed inconsistent with the ads. Can't trust anyone these days :-)
Touché, I will improve it now.

Edit: Updated version - https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2024/11/19/benchmarking-risc-v-sp...
Topic starts at 37:18
Official Humane release: https://humane.com/media/humane-hp
How the hell is a foot tunnel (that you have to walk in) "transport"? You could just say "Walk from X to Y" in that case, no need for a tunnel.

That being said, I do find that tunnel an interesting way of getting across the river :D
The sameness is just the carrier wave; the signal is in the details. To people immersed in the subculture, it doesn't look the same at all! You can experience the same phenomenon by listening to an unfamiliar genre of music: it will all sound the same at first, but once you've tuned your ears to the conventions of the genre, you'll start to hear where the variation lives, and the idea that it all sounds the same will come to feel absurd.
No, seems like you are defending cost cutting and it doesn't make sense why are you so against it? USA is democracy, if after 4 years things go south you can always vote different and get everything back the way it was. Most probable outcome here is financial situation in USA will get better, you make it sound like USA would collapse to stone age era, it wont.
Two things:

1. Should have (2023) in the title.

2. Civil war is unlikely, because the stakes are too high.

There is a conflict of philosophies pulling the "West" in two directions. Small-government oligarchy vs big-government monarchy. (If you thought it was "Republican vs Democrat" or "left vs right" or "mass deporation vs California" like ilaksh here, you have too limited a perspective and need to dig deeper). But I think it's morelikely that the US will be given over to one side or the other in a grand trade.
I'm a little confused what your argument is, then. You claim that software is not patentable in the EU, but then accept that some companies manage to get software patented in EU countries by writing their patents creatively.

So... software is patentable in the EU, at least in some circumstances. That's the end result, even if technically it's not allowed.

Unless these patents in question don't actually cover video codec software, which it seems they do?

The ultimate test, of course, is if these patents would stand up in court. But it seems no one has challenged them? Which indicates to me that either a) people believes they would hold up in court, and so they don't try to challenge them, or b) no one is sure, and is afraid to find out. Either outcome has the end result of "software can be patented in the EU sometimes".
If you know where the 4.7T went, please reach out to Elon.
Did anybody say they are free? But the costs of running solar or eolic are way lower than the costs of running fission, or the costs that likely would be running a fusion central. In case you don't know what ROI means, it is return on investment (i.e. building, shipping, mantaining decomission...).

As of today, we are closer to mass batteries as renewable companion than fusion, at least in terms of ROI. If both end up competing for lithium, it would go to batteries unless fusion becomes dirty cheap.

Current estimations are useful because they mark the starting point for fusion: they are at around 120. They need to reach 80 to replace fission. They need to reach 60 to replace batteries. Assuming batteries don't get better ROI.

Same numbers were useful 30 years ago for solar: it was fully functional, but not yet economically sound. It was not much than a toy and a promise (as it is fusion today). Only when prices made sense it turned to a serious energy source.
It is healthy and smart, in general, to be cautious of any and all third party software that is used in business and government infrastructure when it involves sensitive data.

Singling out DeepSeek is a little strange.
As a big proponent of fusion: we should be spending more money and effort on it. We should be spending more money and effort on fission too. Sustainable energy sources shouldn't be fighting for scraps.
If you want POSIX compliant, better to install a proper vi. Normal Vim is extremely not POSIX compliant, and I wager 100.00% (rounded to the significant digits) of Vim users don't know, use, or want POSIX compliance. You lose a lot of features you would consider to be basic.

Also you probably want ed (the standard text editor) for POSIX compliance. (Fun fact, vi is not required by POSIX, so you will not find it on every single POSIX compliant host.)
don't you unlock it with a free account?
yeah but it takes years for that to happen so all the stock bonuses vest fine.
> The ideal world is zero tax

This is true but useless. It is like saying the ideal sorting algorithm is one that does nothing because your data is already sorted.
Related Bloomberg story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43095699
Wouldn't Argentina be a good example of what is DOGE doing now? Financially it has been a good experiment for Argentina. What are the cons?
The article uses a mangled and incoherent version of the gun/printer meme (how would a printer, by itself, be useful?). Here’s what I believe to be the original (and actually understandable) form: <https://imgur.com/6wbgy2L>
Spelling nit:

“Over my skis” ~ in over my head.

“Over my skies” ~ very far overhead. In orbit maybe?
Why would comp sci majors be working on plasma? Prob want physicists working on that stuff.
I thought we were talking about tax-related ire.
> I have a subscription to PyCharm through work and still think it's inferior to VSCode

I'm trying to figure out how anyone could think that. Every time I switch to VS Code I feel hamstrung.

What do you find to be inferior?
You could literally talk about beyblade toys on a whatsapp video call and you'll be getting Amazon ads for dem blades the next day.
At some point you have entered your car data while searching for another car part on Amazon. Amazon caches this information.
Good - but as a lib myself I expect mass panic / breakdown from the gen public haha
It was not intended as ragebait, it was intended as an intentionally stupid joke. Thanks for linking the guidelines, I have read them now. My apologies. Feel free to delete the comment, I cannot see the option to do that anymore.
Wow, the first link has absolutely nothing to do with facial recognition or racism. That poster is either outright lying or posting LLM garbage.
With salaries like that it's not first world either.

If op is trying to catch up to frontier models locally on a budget 1/5th of what you can get in the west then I can see why she would feel the way she does about Ai.
How-so less clear-cut? Mysterious and Chinesey so perhaps?
I've coded a full custom deployment system (config, create, update, cert manege and much more) in full bash using nothing but ChatGPT. I didn't write a single line of bash.

I did write 50 or more lines of instructions on what needs to be done and in what order.

ChatGPT gave me 5/6 (I asked for this) bash scripts totalling 300+ lines that seamlessly work together.

After reviewing, I asked it to change a few places.

If any human tried the same (except those rare bash Gods), it'd take many hours. I think it took me less than 30 minutes.
I’m using https://github.com/ShiromMakkad/docker-pihole-sync
To sync my two piholes. But I haven’t figured out how to keep my third pihole (ip-failover) to get in the loop…
My English teacher made me write essays in 12pt font.

I wonder what she'd think of > 24pt font.
It all depends on what one means by ‘right’ vs. ‘left.’ I don’t think that those labels — which I believe originate in seating conventions in peri-revolutionary France — are particularly relevant to American politics. Is free trade right-coded or left-coded? Tariffs? Drug policy?
I don’t mind LLMs, but what irks me is the customer noncompete, you have these systems that can do almost anything and the legal terms explicitly say you’re not allowed to use the thing for anything that competes with the thing. But if the things can do almost anything then you really can’t use it for anything. Making a game with Grok? No, that competes with the xAI game studio. Making an agents framework with ChatGPT? No, that competes with Swarm. Making legal AI with Claude? No, that competes with Claude. Seems like the only American companies making AI we can actually use for work are HuggingFace and Meta.
I love that this comment is on a novelty meme generator. Imagine if someone was late to their job interview because they were relying on the "What a day, huh?" meme to tell the time.
They deny that, but of course you know for sure that they are lying, that the nukes went missing, and you have the proof. Just like I know for a fact that there are alien craft hidden in Area 51.
With wireguard in particular, you're probably not running much risk, as wireguard runs over UDP, and as long as you're not connecting with a correct (recognized) key, it will not even generate a response, so a potential attacker has no way of knowing for sure that wireguard is running on a given port.
People are using these models to generate candidate molecules for specific purposes. According to some estimates I've seen, their hit rate is about 50% instead of 25-33%, and doesn't take two years.
How do you differentiate “blindly” suggesting AWS from someone non-blindly suggesting it?

Or is everyone that disagrees with you simply not seeing the Objective Truth of which you are aware and they are not?

Sheesh.
I’ve never worked in the federal space, but I have extensive experience in state and local.

One the fundamental issues with government vs. private sector is accounting. Governments are often exempted from following GAAP, and the rules are inverse - the government’s cost to borrow is cheap and the government doesn’t pay taxes, so capex is usually smarter than opex. Capex is locked in, while opex is subject to the whims of the legislature.

The other core issue with government is separation of powers. You cannot have an efficient process to make decisions because fundamentally the system is designed to do what’s right from a legal perspective, which is often in opposition to what is efficient.

Setting expectations is important too. The government at all levels is excellent at operations. When I setup a housing authority system, that authority delivered 50,000 rent checks on the 1st of the month, every month. You know what I want the treasury to do? Pay bond coupons every month and audit clean.

Moving fast isn’t necessarily what you want. In fact, the system of government was designed to be slow. For people who attest to idol worship of the Constitution, they sure missed the boat there.
In 2019 the Vizio CEO went on the record saying there was no money in dumb TVs. They sell near cost and make it all up in ads and metrics.

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/11/telescreens-r-us.html
>...corporations are sharing data with each other.

>I wholeheartedly expect that if I mention Beyblade toys on Facebook...

Isn't the lede here that this isn't just some random data sharing agreement between companies, but that these are both Chinese companies, and the recipient of the data has been banned in the U.S. precisely because of data concerns?
There was certainly some client side censorship, but also the model weights clearly had some of this baked in. You can try yourself by asking the same queries to r1 hosted by a US host like together.
Ignore the noncompetes. Never get sued. If you do, everyone else is on your side.
Define latency ?

This is my latency (ping.nextdns.io):

zepto-cph (IPv6) 12 ms (anycast1, ultralow2)

zepto-cph 13 ms (anycast1, ultralow2)

■ anexia-cph 13 ms (anycast2, ultralow1)

anexia-cph (IPv6) 15 ms (anycast2, ultralow1)
well done on the french achieving yet another extraordinary feat of engineering and research while still bearing the stigma of being shit at everything for some reason

I hope this international race ends up bearing fruit in a few decades, we need it
Basically this amounts to a sales tax on the American people, because Americans now pay 10% more for the product, and that 10% goes to the government.

So much for Trump cutting taxes; more like the opposite.
This isn’t really the official AWS “documentation”. AWS docs are located at a completely different website and are free to access.

The linked article is from “AWS re:Post” which is the equivalent of a “support forum” where you can ask questions and get crowdsourced answers from either other AWS users, or from AWS employees/AWS support themselves. Some of these questions are so popular that they show up in search results and so might be treated as documentation.

It’s dumb, but not uncommon in my experience for such “support forums” to be behind a paywall.
I took a properly administered IQ test as part of my ADHD diagnosis. It was eye opening.

All through the test I felt like I was crushing it. Spacial reasoning, pattern recognition, memory tasks. When the results came back I got 135 on spatial reasoning but 89 on processing speed and working memory.

Looking back on my life I realize I had always made up for limited working memory with systems, mnemonics and other techniques. When you've lived your whole life with a limitation you can have a huge blind spot. You've never known what it's like to have "normal" working memory.
Not sure if it matters at this point. There will need to be many more rounds of CapEx to realize the promises that have been put forth about these models.
I’ve worked with mini-Elons. They think they’re Jesus. He’s a gambler with good instincts, but eventually your number comes up.
Anonymity, privacy, confidentiality, (edited to add) censorship resistance / circumvention are different properties oftentimes perceived with some overlap. Different products and different audiences will provide / desire/need/prefer different subsets.

P.S. also, for some people, privacy from target site/resource/network will be much desirable and more important vs. certain aspects w.r.t their ISP.

And finally, there's a scale (see: threat models) - sometimes not leaking info or identity to some website / entity is enough, and there's no need to avoid to avoid state level actors, global passive adversaries, sophisticated timing correlation attacks and other funky creatures. Simplicity and ~zero maintenance (e.g. using some VPN with killswitch option) can be important factors in themselves.

edit P.P.S. also see this comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096066 ; I legitimately and honestly believe that we should be (re)reading James Mickens rants (the usenix papers) and that this would give us more insight and guidance in relation to such security topics.
Exactly. DirectX is what, 25-30 years old?
sqlmesh execution engine + cloud resource provisioning

provision spark on emr or duckdb on beefy ec2 -> run sqlmesh -> wipe resources.

i'm still in MVP phase of revamping my company's current data platform, so maybe there are better alternatives -- which i'd love to hear about.
TOML [Tom's Obvious Minimal Language]
The myth of unbounded / free energy from fusion comes from being able to use any old hydrogen atoms, rather than the much rarer deuterium and tritium.

Perhaps one day we'll get there, but I worry that the current advancements using the rarer isotopes will end up proving to be a dead end on that road, much like so many attempts at GAI. In the short term I suspect we'd have better odds with getting thorium reactors to be economical.
Lmao where are you getting these figures? EVs basically don’t need servicing. It’s not 30% cheaper, more like 90% cheaper. My car’s manual only has 5 components listed, and two of those are fluid changes.

I bought a top spec 50k EV for 18k with 16000 miles. It averages 4 miles/KWh. Run the numbers on that and tell me I’m losing out.
> abliteration usually causes substantial drop in performance

Are there any data available to quantify how much?
The Buenos Aires Constant
No. It's usually a small percentage of spend, but there are "tiers" mostly related to how much (if any) of their Pro-Services you're already contracting.

One "hack" I've recommended for larger enterprises is to budget a minuscule amount for their pro-services, but only to rely upon AWS "Principal or Product" engineers. I've been involved in far too many "Pro Services Remediation" engagements.
I have little patches being a little bit more than a feeling starting around 3, having reliable ones from 5 upwards. Having memories starting 1 sounds both amazing but also scary.
Mainstream news had viewerships disfavorable to sports games and sitcoms. So what? It's not entertainment. It's informative. They of course have different viewerships
I'm no game developer, but I understand that Unreal comes with a massive ecosystem of tools and third-party addons. It seems like it would take a company about the size of Valve (or much larger) to compete with that kind of platform. You seem to know more about the industry than I do, so could you explain what Valve competing with Unreal would actually look like? That seems almost like a completely different market than they've been in so far despite certainly having the technical chops.