skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps if they have a CEO that focuses on the business such that BYD's CEO does. Without effective leadership, it's just an unattended machine that will not grow as fast as competitors will, although it'll continue to spit out cars and battery packs on existing lines as long as workers doing that work are happy enough to stay and quality stays "Tesla good enough” that consumers will continue to procure their products.

Hot take: Bring back JB Straubel (Former Tesla CTO). That’s who is the equivalent of BYD’s CEO. A driven, yet low key engineering leader. Culture comes from the top.

HN Search: BYD (sorted by date) - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
The ability wasn't unique, but how much it was used as part of an deliberate overall strategy was. Even recently, half of the introspection articles for why the democrats lost the election are asking how they can compromise with republicans more.

I don't really buy the argument the argument that earlier congresses should have foreseen their future inability to pass new legislation and done more to preemptively restrict how the executive could have abused general mandates. Passing highly specific fine grained laws would have been ineffective, both in the work required to foresee and draft all the specifics, and also having a few words changed here and there by lobbyists, completely undermining the intent. Congress could have delegated rule making to some sort of sub-legislative body rather than interpretation by the executive, but as I said that would have required them to foresee the gridlock that would leave them unable to clarify. Also, the possibility of having an outright-hostile-to-America-as-they-understand-it executive would have been pretty foreign to them.
Not just balanced, but fair and balanced.
Video submission an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184291
It’s not about losing 99.9% of his wealth, conceivably, he could end up billions under water.

It has happened before. Ivar Krüger, then the worlds richest man, ended up dead by suicide.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Kreuger
I think you missed more than the key point.

> this is very literally about the first steps in how brains evolved

Well, no; they even highlighted this section:

> “Intelligence, according to some, is a biological function that evolved not with humans or brains but way back in some form to the earliest organisms, a fundamental biological function like respiration.”

It would definitely connect to how brains evolved, but the article and the main idea are a lot broader than that.

> It's akin to theories of abiogenesis like the one involving clay crystals "reproducing"

Well no; unless the clay crystals are producing interesting electrical oscillations.

> it's steep to say this is about minds, which only works if we accept the various parts of the article that urge us to stop being so egotistical and anthropocentric as to expect that a mind should be capable of doing something clever.

It's not clever to live for 2,000 years? And, are only clever people worthy of the label of having a mind? ... Because I know an awful lot of people with no interest in doing anything particularly clever.

And yes, your comment is anthropocentric... Definitively so. Whether something has a "mind" depends on the definition used, and if you define that as "what humans call clever", then yeah you're being anthropocentric.
Wild how its github page (1 commit, 1 hour ago) has already 885 forks and 11.2K stars to mislead people

https://github.com/Fanny-Theme/fanny-theme-support
I used Claude 3.7 last night to write a program for building tooling code from legacy manufacturing files for cnc and electronics manufacturing. Basically it renders the old files visually (they are sorta like SVGs) and then a human can click through them to create the necessary measurements, which the program then indexes and stores for the user. It has a nice GUI with buttons, highlights your selections, graphically demarcates previous measurements, and shows a running list of calculated outputs based on your selections, which you can delete if incorrect. Then you click export it exports it in the correct modern Place File structure. Totally knocked my socks and feet off too.

There are no programs online which do this (lots of viewers, but not interpreters/converters), and I actually had gotten a quote for proprietary software that can do it, but is $1k/yr to use.

I _did not_ think claude would be able to do it, but thought I would give it a shot. It took 3 prompts to get to 95% of the way there. The last 5% was done by o3mini because Claude ran out of capacity for me.
I don't want a boss who has so little trust in me.
I'm glad someone else had the same thought. I have been wondering what their "secret sauce" is for a while given how their model doesn't degrade for long-context nearly as much as other LLMs that are otherwise competitive. It could also just be that they used longer-context training data than anyone else though.
Technical discussions are happening more and more on bluesky. Making X work a little better for the holdouts will only slow the transition.
Damn. That's awful.

Methinks dentists could be doing a lot more screenings for diseases.
I think the miserable state of cellular modems ultimately comes from the power dynamics of private spectrum. The 3GPP protocols are complex because they're not really beholden to the implementers, but rather to the network operators. The operators are fine with additional complexity if it serves their interests, and the cost will just be passed on to the OEMs. The network operators have all the power because they're the ones with the licenses.

WiFi tends to be simpler in part because the protocol authors are working more in the interest of the implementers, since it's really they who decide whether to adopt or not. Obviously a gross simplification but I think it's at the heart of the problem.
yeah. I hope you leave malicious code running on your computers to prove your point.
I agree that they buried the lede, but I'll defend the article anyway because the subject matter is still worth the effort imo.
There's a whole scientific study of consciousness that actually comes out of behaviorism. The thought is, if I have a conscious experience I can then exhibit the behavior of talking about it. From this developed a whole paradigm of investigation including stuff like the research of subliminal images.

Stanislas Dehaene's book Consciousness and the Brain does a great job of describing this, though it's 10 years old now.
Seems like it stopped working across multiple operational fronts for us around 10 minutes ago.
Absolutely check out Refik Anadol, amazing contemporary work.

https://refikanadol.com
https://refikanadolstudio.com
3^2 / (3*log(3)) = >6x performance improvement and, if three is a linear average, I'd expect the average improvement to be even higher. I know real world computation doesn't answer to the simple scaling equations and there may well be a constant factor >6 that eats the gains, but I don't think the two Big Os and a n=3 are sufficient to make your case.
It's a bit orthogonal but what I ended up doing is buying a dedicated polycarbonate sous vide bath (basically a rectangular container) so that I don't have to constantly mess with grabbing out my pressure cooker (which I used previously). I leave it on the counter of my kitchen as I sous vide 2/3 times a week. Some have lids, or you can get some balls to limit evaporation (I went with that solution).

I did have a Sansaire model from a previous Kickstarter that I reused for a while, but ended up replacing it with a bargain bin "KitchenBoss" from Amazon with no connectivity, just buttons and a screen but with a high wattage (1100W). At the time I wanted to get an Anova but that was out of stock.

I did have a bunch of other circulators including one I bought in 2012 that was basically a laboratory pid. The most important thing in my opinion is preheating speed, which is directly connected to how many watts it uses. Most compact models (including Anova's smaller models) have a lower wattage so, unless you don't care about time, I would definitely avoid those. I would go for a dedicated bath and a high wattage model. Anova is likely the best option but I find the basic KitchenBoss (no app) perfectly fine too.
I too greatly enjoyed the article. Love those deep troubleshooting write-ups!
Sure, we disagree on that, anthropocentrism, which is why you think the part you say they highlighted is significant. I think it's hot air.

(I meant very loosely akin, because it's another example of some complex phenomenon emerging from matter.)
I hear "the driver's seat of your car, in your driveway, with the radio on and not going anywhere" is a popular place to cry and or have existential crises
I think you misspelled "to push right wing dogma"
> The problem with AI hallucination is not that it confuses similar things (that’s just the model being wrong), but that when the AI has no “clear winning answer”, it can and will respond with absolutely anything within its search space, with apparent disregard for any rules or reality it appeared to have understood in the common case.

This is objectively incorrect. The sampler, not the model, controls these and you can decide to catch high-entropy cases and choose not to respond.
If I am building an iOS app and decide to open source it to build trust with customers, it will not work.
A photo of a star is cool, why not give a prize for it. Or maybe they use attention economy. You can't exactly blame them for attention economy, can you?
Copyright abolitionists are more than happy to embrace no one ever making money off of "software" again.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184878#43185020
I think it's an off by one error. When I got to level 2 of the perk, it ended when there was 1 block left.
But we have to classify it as an “appears to” rather than an “is,” don’t we? It’s perfectly fine to do categorize out emergent phenomena that have practical utility, eg its useful to see the snowflake over its constituent parts, or the film over the bits, but what underlies the choice to see it as a film rather than an improbably corrupted png? When talking about the mind, then, why is it we choose to see the mind at all, and how does this constitute more than a convenient framing device, ie how can it explain qualia?
Integrate AI in your product in minutes, not weeks
OJ is glorified sugar-water. Eat an orange and drink a glass of water. It won't spike your insulin nearly as much.
Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate
Pretty gross and awful, but I guess not especially new. What feels like a new thing in the last ~5 years is when you're browsing some actually reputable news site, and literally reading high brow analysis about misinformation and vulnerable populations, and meanwhile also still getting hammered with ads around the borders about "one weird trick seniors should know". Now that's dystopian.

There was a Reeses commercial about "your devices are listening to you" for example, and other stuff that I probably should not boost by describing specifically. But basically there's a new form that's pretty openly self-aware about "yeah this is unpleasant to watch, but what are you going to do, actually turn off your TV? just give us your money." When this stuff first appeared I thought the writing was just subpar, or that maybe the idea was that the public just can't parse anything more subtle. But it's more that anxiety still sells even if you're being blatant about stuff, and if you can create anxiety that isn't actually present yet, then you might be making society sicker but you're still making your ads more effective
368 Chickens
Does anyone have an intuition about why looking at things in the frequency domain is helpful here? The DC term I can see, but I wouldn't expect the input data is periodic enough that other frequencies would be meaningful.
Tyler Hobbs is one of my favorite generative artists. I recently enjoyed his talk "How to Hack a Painting" from Strange Loop 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R9eywArFTE
mind = container of values

consciousness = meta-attention
By candle light.
Right, hence the term "workaround" not "solution"
The "we can just print dollars" part is wild.

Especially since the world really wants these dollars. Any other country would see rampant inflation immediately.

Instead, we've exported these dollars worldwide, enriched the money printers and destroyed our middle class.

Understanding how this works made me think that reforming international trade is the way to ameliorate wealth inequality in the USA, rather than progressive taxation. This is basically JD Vance's stance.
South-Africa was facing a severe electricity crisis very recently. See, for example: https://theconversation.com/south-africas-electricity-crisis...

I was there for a couple of weeks visiting friends back then and we even used a ridiculous, ad-laden app to look up "our" blackout times. It is also a strong case study for large-scale consumer-led solar expansion, perhaps together with Pakistan. ( https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/11/pakistan-solar-power... )

On the African continent alone, it is estimated that some 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa still have no access to reliable electricity. (Src.: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/0f028d5f-26b1-47ca-... ) Reliable and non-discriminatory (at least not prohibitively expensive) access to electricity remains a serious human development issue.
President Trump's Cuts to Medical Research
I grew up in Santa Cruz county. I went to school with field workers' kids. I don't know about the ones that were migrants as we didn't keep in touch, but the ones I went to school with year after year almost all went military then college. None went on to be field workers. American ag might suck, but like you said it at least comes with something more, some future hope, if only for your kids.
OpenAI Deep Research Released to Plus Users
how is that possible to define something that came after as a dupe? Or do you just collect all the dupes posted after this??
Well, if you're happy with ELK, you should definitely use it! As I mentioned earlier, I’m not trying to sell anything or convince people to switch from their current solutions - just offering an alternative perspective on how things can be done.

From my perspective, a ClickHouse-based setup can be cheaper and possibly faster in certain conditions – here’s some comparison made by ClickHouse Inc. - https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse_vs_elasticsearch_the_...

My motto is "Know your data". I’m not a big fan of schemaless setups - I believe in designing a proper database schema rather than just pushing data into a black hole and hoping the system will handle it.
I agree with GP. Consciousness isn't so hard to explain if you don't enshroud it with mysticism.

Consciousness is the emergent, graduated phenomenon of an information processing system when that information processing system has achieved significant complexity to model itself with relation to the various systemic inputs.

It's not binary, it's a gradient. I have more developed consciousness than my dog, which has more developed consciousness than a rat, and then a fish, then an insect, etc.

Somewhat disturbingly it also goes the other way, AIs may achieve a more profound conscious experience than humans - same for aliens. What does it mean for inferior forms of consciousness that have always placed themselves on a pedestal in relation to the rest of the animal kingdom simply because they have the most developed consciousness?
This is just an embarrassing clown show.

They could just ask Trump to not go play golf on his own properties every weekend instead of digging in the couch cushions for loose change like this.
i really like the idea of nfts (despite not owning any) but i feel like there is a problem with the current implementation, i imagine they will be big in the future but not in their current form. humans want to show off their things to get status from them(expensive cars, expensive game items(csgo)) with nfts there is no real way to show them off, the closest thing was profile pictures. im not sure of a good way to solve this, i think zuck said something about putting nfts in your metahouse
Could you elaborate? I have no idea who “Theo of internet drama fame” is.
The free lunch in the SaaS space is (finally) over, both literally and metaphorically.

What people ought to be doing is moving to remote, rural, and low cost-of-living areas that have been completely ignored by investors and techies for decades. We live in a post-covid world. Starlink works great. There are simply no excuse. Clinging onto the vestiges of Silicon Valley circa 2014 is a fools errand and has been for multiple years. It's time to start opening mocking people for being delusional.

Interact with your new rural community, and really understand their problems. You can start sprinkling technology in to help and expand from there. These markets have been ignored for a long time because their treasures are not shiny enough for VCs to pay attention to—not because there isn't tremendous opportunity to do some good and making a living.

The people following this advise aren't complaining about the job market, quite the opposite.
Love the concept.

My $0.02 of feedback: The number of lives being inside the puck as a number is distracting and makes the game look less evolved than it actually is.

I would prefer a visual indicator on the side of the game play area.
AppLovin Formers Allege Ad Fraud
is there an alternate tool?
Ensuring order of operation was a big deal at the company I worked, but this isn't going to be able to track that.
That's not true. At 7pm local time cellular service in Santiago was pretty much dead. Most antennas only have backup power for 4 hours.
> you’re running arbitrary third party code on client machines without any form of sandboxing. This is a level of security you would not deploy into Azure, so why is “run arbitrary 3p code on someone else’s machine” appropriate for VSCode?

More and more, I am starting to think I need to run my development environment (for both work and personal projects) in a VM.

I am on MacOS, so UTM or Parallels would work pretty well I think. Sadly, I think my work explicitly forbids us from running VMs or accessing our services from them.
It also links to his employer (https://lualtek.io). Maybe someone should let his employer know what their employee is up to :)
Don't they get their batteries from Panasonic et al?

Where's the value add in buying a Tesla battery instead of just getting one from one of their suppliers?
He wrote his books as more or less first drafts. He had a lot of great ideas, but clear is not an adjective I would have attributed to his books.
It wasn't a single software bug. Broadly, what happened was this:

* A power company failed to trim trees from its power lines properly. Four of their major transmission lines failed in one afternoon due to shorting out via tree.

* The software bug you mentioned caused a failure to alarm the power company of two of their line failures. The first and fourth failures were alarmed in real time.

* A separate issue rendered the regional grid operator's software modeling real-time grid instability inoperable for most of the afternoon. Crucially, if this had been running, the operator would have realized that the failure of one more line would have created grid instability requiring immediate action.

* The final line trip set off a cascade of overloads trips until Sammis-Star overloads and trips. This takes about 15 minutes, and analysis suggests that the Sammis-Star trip is when the blackout became inevitable.

* Sammis-Star triggers lines to fail one-by-one from east to west, until it severed every line in Ohio and Michigan. This causes a large power surge to go from Michigan through southern Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Ontario, back into Michigan and then into the final demand of Cleveland.

* Essentially every link along this spiral fails in the course of a few seconds, creating several grid islands. Whether these grid islands black out is dependent on the local mismatch between generation and consumption.

(Full story from https://web.archive.org/web/20120318081212/http://www.nerc.c...).
> If you’re relying on the community to alert you to the issues in the marketplace, perhaps you’re not investing enough in auditing popular extensions yourself?

I think that's sort of unfair. Of course MS should be relying on the community! That's arguably the best single practice for detecting these kinds of attacks in open source code. Objectively it works rather better even than walled garden environments like the iOS/Android apps stores (which have to be paired with extensive app-level sandboxing and permissions management, something that editor extensions can't use by definition).

The reference case for best practice here is actually the big Linux distros. Red Hat and Canonical and Debian have a long, long track record of shipping secure software. And they did it not on the back of extensive in-house auditing but by relying on the broader community to pre-validate a list of valuable/useful/secure/recommended software which they can then "package".

MS's flaw here, which is shared by NPM and PyPI et. al., is that they want to be a package repository without embracing that kind of upstream community validation. Software authors can walk right in and start distributing junk even though no one's ever heard of them. That has to stop. We need to get back to "we only distribute stuff other people are already using".
You won't. Infinitely fast time means infinitely strong Hawking radiation that will just burn you instantly before you reach event horizon, but you will first catch a glimpse of heat death of the universe.
Well, if you’re ever still interested in the intersection of the two, give me a buzz - my email is my HN handle at Gmail. I might have something for you.
Minor thing that bugs the heck out of me: I can't login to Slack, it's a total outage for me, but on their status page [0] their copy says, "Something's not quite right."

In reality, there are probably folks freaking out internally at Slack with their hair on fire, and probably tens of thousands of people are locked out of their business comms. Saying "something is not quite right" trivializes and downplays the severity.

No! Something like, "We have a real problem" would be much more appropriate and not pretending like "oh it's no biggie, we'll take a look later."

[0] https://slack-status.com
https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2023/10/6/when-...
I realize now this is a streak counter not a number of lives, which I think is even less intuitive.

Having lives, coins and streak counters outside the play area I think would be better.
i think this shows why formal verification, while certainly useful in specialized situations, will likely not be a major boost for software productivity[1]

[1] - https://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks_1986_-_No_Silver_Bullet.p...:

> I do not believe we will find the magic here. Program verification is a very powerful concept, and it will be very important for such things as secure operating system kernels. The technology does not promise, however, to save labor. Verifications are so much work that only a few substantial programs have ever been verified
Hey! This is a lot of fun, thank you for putting it out into the world!

My wife is a public librarian that creates puzzles for a Summer Game that her library runs. She'd like to re-use this idea with book titles for their 2026 Games (too late for this year unfortunately).

How would you like to be credited if she's able to pull this off?
>Circulator eggs never made a whole lot of sense,

They make a great deal of sense in professional kitchens. If you're expecting to do hundreds of brunch covers, or a giant breakfast buffet, poaching eggs sous vide ahead of time is a game changer
I wouldn't say that's true at all for traditional computer programs. They're doing explicitly what they are designed to do, there is no adaptation/learning.
good for him. time to move one with life and be happy