skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I briefly owned a Smart EV, a decade ago or so, and handily recharged it from 110 overnight. But obviously with a larger vehicle, longer range, larger battery capacity, charging it from low to full must be quite the consumption of energy.

It would be nice if somehow we could move to lighter cars where the same range would require half the battery capacity, therefore half the charging resources to go from low to full.
> There is something unique about the color purple: Our brain makes it up. So you might just call purple a pigment of our imagination.

You know, in the past, my curmudgeonly self would have rankled at a pun like this in a science article, but I don't think AI slop could come up with this, it's pretty good.
For real. The US trades our services for other countries goods. What happens to our trade when our services become ubiquitous through AI.
I mean, all colors exist only in our brains. "Color" is a perceptual experience that may start as spectral power and cone excitation, but is then mapped to color sensation through a fantastically complex visual system in the brain. That's why color-based optical illusions work. That's why "The Dress" was controversial.

There's nothing that special about purple. The article makes a big deal about purple "connecting" two opposite ends of the spectrum, but this is just an artifact of humans seeing rainbows and realizing that pink-purple would connect the two ends, even if they're not present in the rainbow. It's just a human framework, not some kind of physical truth.

Put another way, there are a ton of colors that are not in the rainbow, because it's a 1D simplification of our color perception, which is 3D (three cones). Would you say brown "exists only in our brains?"
They both harm adult mental health (when used excessively or inappropriately) - why would they not harm "teens' mental health"?
Marketing has a powerful effect. Look at how the decrease in smoking coincided with the decrease in smoking advertisement (and now look at the uptick in vaping due to the marketing as a replacement for smoking).

Malaise exists at an individual level, but it doesn't transform into social malaise until someone comes in to exploit those people's addictions for profit.
also wasn't his dad NSA?
Yeah, the Volt is one of the best cars made this millennium. It's criminal that everybody ignored it.
I'm not American so I think they can do whatever they want.

And as long as taxes on labour exist, I don't think anybody can complain about other types of taxes. Any negative economic impact that tariffs or any other taxes have are doubly worse from taxes on labour.
extraction by whom? i dont buy that. i have "downloaded my data" before and it never includes any kind of analytic marketing inferences they have made about me, only what i have done on the site, and they know i dont live in the EU. i assume pretend GDPR compliance is just a handy excuse thought up by marketing, killing two birds with one stone. im sure i heard at least one absurd marketing claim that it was to "let you take control of your data."
>because what that really means is a whole collection of real people doing real things

She doesn't just mention real people, she also says "and families" in the same breath, which is the part I always found most strange of the whole argument. So "society" doesn't exist but "families" do? Why stop there, specifically? Aren't families just "individual men an women" as well?
thought maybe EY started a new blog
IIRC, of works that bring in any money to their creators, the vast majority is returned, for almost all works, in the first handful of years after creation. Sure. the big names you know have value longer, but those are a miniscule fraction of works.

Make copyright last for a fixed term of 25 years with optional 10-year renewals up to 95 years on an escalating fee schedule (say, $100k for the first decade and doubling every subsequent decade) and people—and studios—would have essentially the same incentive to create as they do now, and most works would get into the public domain far sooner.

Probably be fewer entirely lost works, as well, if you had firmer deposit requirements for works with extended copyrights (using the revenue from the extensions to fund preservation) with other works entering the public domain soon enough that they were less likely to be lost before that happened.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2501/
+1 for Consumer Reports. They're not expensive either, something like $5 per month. If they keep you from buying a bad fridge, it pays for itself!

Their recentish coverage of lead in foods is a bit embarrassing though, since they used a California standard for dosage limits that even the EU would blush at.
I've only visited NYC, but I think if I lived there I wouldn't want to drive a car at all. The public transportation and walkability are excellent. Is my impression a common misunderstanding?
Have not heard of it. Looked it up. Seems orthogonal?

I am using Cudarc.
If that’s the case it’s rather unfortunate that everybody who just wants a small city car to grab groceries with gets dragged along for the ride.
Loongson teases trio of new processors for lappies, factories, maybe servers too
> we drive cars with visual input alone.

That's unlikely. Try driving in a snowstorm, where visual inputs become effectively useless, and you quickly realize how much the motion inputs are factored in as well.
Should we etch swastikas in all iPhones? Not sure how close we are to corporations working under government direction here (part of literal fascism iirc)
> they just shift the emissions elsewhere

The electricity grid is going emissions free faster than the transportation infrastructure. So the emissions from the production of both gasoline & electric vehicles are going down quickly.
I think part of whywhywhywhy's point was that many (though likely not all) of the negative externalities of meat consumption could be fixed by taxing them and raising the price of the burger, without outright banning it
the implication of 'script kiddie' is also low hanging fruit and things like website vandalism.

DOGE is dismantling the western global order and destroying generations of government institutions. these are far, far more damaging than anything a script kiddie could ever do, and will impact generations of Americans + many other countries.
Curious what the timing would be if it included the memory transfer time, e.g.

matricies = [np.random(...) for _ in range]
time_start = time.time()
cp_matricies = [cp.array(m) for m in matrices]
add_(cp_matricies)
sync
time_end = time.time()
Best reply in this entire thread, and I align with your thinking entirely. I also absolutely hate this idea amongst tech-oriented communities that because an AI can do some algebra and program an 8-bit video game quickly and without any mistakes, it's already overtaking humanity. Extrapolating from that idea to some future version of these models, they may be capable of solving grad school level physics problems and programming entire AAA video games, but again - that's not what _humanity_ is about. There is so much more to being human than fucking programming and science (and I'm saying this as an actual nuclear physicist). And so, just like you said, the AI arm's race is about getting it good at _known_ science/engineering, fields in which 'correctness' is very easy to validate. But most of human interaction exists in a grey zone.

Thanks for this.
> hard to be virtuous about not doing something you're not capable of.

I am a good shooter and never in my life I fired a gun in the general direction of another living thing. I simply don't see a point in doing it.
The tariffs are going to be used as leverage in negotiations in the following months. If countries sign on to trump's new trade agreements, it likely won't make sense to rescind them.

Stephan Miran, Trumps top economic advisor, laid out exactly what they are doing in an essay he wrote back in November[1]. For better or worse, this is what they seem to be moving forward with, and the document spells out things like unilateral tariffs and expecting a lot of potential market volatility, before offering trade terms that seek to devalue the USD in return for protection and favorable trade agreements.

In short, they are trying to force a global trade restructuring that will increase US manufacturing strength and weaken US financial strength - all while trying to keep reserve currency status.

[1]https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/rese...
Donald Trump has advocated for tariffs for 40 years. Agree with them or not, they were quite predictable, not chaos.
YouTube is the original TikTok. Back in the day, there used to be a limited video length. The recommendation algorithm has always been very good, but for privacy perception reasons Google added a configurable limited time window for history used for recommendations. With shorts, that time window might as well be infinite in comparison, and Google can ramp up the algorithmic exploitation to the max.

Fortunately YouTube does have various means to control your experience like subscriptions and RSS feeds, and videos of greater substance do exist. I use a Desktop Firefox addon that blocks shorts, as I generally perceive them to be low quality.
Mass grave of Roman soldiers found under Vienna sports field
This is just so hyperbolic? It's code for a project you can explore and learn from. License is not permissive? It's a friggin rails app - just look at the model or mechanism you are interested in copying, figure out the approach taken, and recreate that approach. Why is everyone in here with pitchforks?
I think there’s a difference in that this is about as good as LLM code is going to get in terms of code quality (as opposed to capability a la agentic functionality). LLM output can only be as good as its training data, and the proliferation of public LLM-generated code will only serve as a further anchor in future training. Humans on the other hand ideally will learn and improve with each code review and if they don’t want to you can replace them (to put it harshly).
1. You need to read carefully. I didn't say it was our only chance. I said it was our only chance to do it quickly, I even emphasized the word.

I'm sure humanity can grind through these hard problems in hundreds or thousands of years without AIs.

But I would prefer to be alive, so there's urgency.
Heathrow Was Warned of Power Supply Vulnerabilities, Airlines Advocate Says
The people that scream the most about needing guns to protect them from a tyrannical government are the same that scream about backing the blue.

Those positions are diametrically opposed.

The 3rd Amendment exists for a reason. The police of colonial times _were_ the Redcoats. They _were_ soldiers working for the king. Modern police serve the same function and have basically the same powers. They are not peace officers - they are soldiers, and I hope one day the people living in this country wake up and say "no more".
Mine got totaled in an accident, and I was going to replace it with a new used one, only to find GM is not selling replacement parts for key things that are starting to go wrong on them. And being dicks about warranties.

So I'm driving a Polestar2 now. Which is fine, it's fun. But road trips suck.
Others are pointing this out but for anyone curious Tesla has received a tonne of indirect subsidy via electric vehicle sales incentives on the consumer side of the equation which absolutely translates into increased corporate profits. Across the globe EV sales in developed nations are very boosted via government programs ((which is a good thing imo)). I'll just link a wikipedia page[1] since I don't want to find a solid source but this isn't really debated it's the real world effect of laws and bills passed by the US gov and dozens of other countries around the world and has been extensively studied.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_incentives_for_plug...
Several years ago, Riot.im messenger had a branch called RiotX with some additional features. Then RiotX (or its codebase) became the first version of Element, while the original Riot.im stopped being supported. And this was when Synapse was the only server option and it was a hog for memory.
All build 100-200 years ago.
For wat it is worth, I enjoy the In Our Time podcast and listen every week. It is not always a subject that I am interested in but is often illuminating.
On-site battery storage is the standard for DC fast charging installations. It's already cheaper.
Without supportive Californian policies Tesla would never even have existed for Musk to buy into.

The modern EV was born from Californian regulation but that early lead has been squandered.
https://archive.ph/2GfRq
According to this [1] that extra bump is a myth. But I'm not qualified to judge.

[1]: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/673991/red-cones...
> Apple needs tariff relief

Tim Cook is going to find out very soon what happens to anyone who makes a deal with Donald Trump: he gets what he wants, and they don't get paid.

> I’m sure he doesn’t support the admin

Why, are you a personal friend of his?

The billionaries are the only people who can actually apply a meaningful level of practical opposition to autocratic rulers. Instead they chose to bend the knee, because they think it better fits their self-interest. Which is what their Russian counterparts did with Putin 20 years ago, and where are they now? Either confined inside a pariah state, or dead.
Learning the Johari Window
I had interest in programming and never tried to exploit someone elses systems. What stopped me was knowing that it would "wrong thing to do", that it would be unethical. People here will pontificate for hours over kids reading less or whatever and then turn around and treat activities like this as a proof of something positive.

There are plenty of kids who are not acting like, well, entitled assholes. They have interest in programing, gaming, computers and enough impulse control to not do these. It is not something positive - even if you grow out of it.
I respect the forecasting abilities of the people involved, but I have seen that report described as "astonishingly accurate" a few times and I'm not sure that's true. The narrative format lends itself somewhat to generous interpretation and it's directionally correct in a way that is reasonably impressive from 2021 (e.g. the diplomacy prediction, the prediction that compute costs could be dramatically reduced, some things gesturing towards reasoning/chain of thought) but many of the concrete predictions don't seem correct to me at all, and in general I'm not sure it captured the spiky nature of LLM competence.

I'm also struck by the extent to which the first series from 2021-2026 feels like a linear extrapolation while the second one feels like an exponential one, and I don't see an obvious justification for this.
> It was sustainable tens of thousands of years and suddenly became unsustainable in the last ten years?

You really don't have a clue how it works, do you? I'm genuinely concerned.
> comment is unconstructive

I understand. It's hard to be constructive when it was so blatantly clear a second term was going to be a disaster of epic proportions and here we are.
Do you think that's a reasonable way to measure abd report manufacturing output?

Is laying our heads at the GDP idol's feet a reasonable measure of what these activities contribute to national welfare?
My point is that I think that the author is lying. I think that he read the book, took many of the ideas (e.g., truth seeking), pawned them off as his own novel ideas, and explicitly did not give attribution which I think is extremely weird.
Doesn't even need to be a new administration.

Many people online are saying (or trying to convince themselves) that the tariffs are part of some smart negotiating strategy, and that they will be rescinded once other countries feel the pain (or when citizens revolt). So large companies will hold out on doing any major investment, lest they be holding the bag.

The administration's general instability and flip-floppiness makes it impossible to make any long-term business decisions. Having a leader who can't be trusted to change their mind on a moment's notice does damage regardless of the policies.
Many years ago, I always used to have TV on whilst I did (composed) music.
With YouTube (and others) nowadays, I still found myself doomscrolling, so I bought a digital TV tuner and have that in a window.
Productivity up.
It is an indication of US mismanagement that concentrated people can't be served with recharging infrastructure while distributed suburbanites in mcmansions can easily be served.

Like apartment buildings with parking. Why the hell aren't there funding projects to provide recharging for these highly concentrated housing where electrifying/reducing emissions has compounded benefits, where you need far less wiring to provide recharging for a far larger number of cars than an equivalent amount of suburban housing?

It speaks to how money is directed for infrastructure and utilities by the government.

It's basically madness.
Mickey Mouse is a bad example because he's now in the public domain, including Color images.
Musk's case is at least somewhat understandable. The critics who call him the "ultimate government welfare queen" are not wrong; practically every dime he has earned has either come from government contracts or subsidies, or depends on maintaining a good working relationship with agencies ranging from NASA to the Department of Transportation.

Following his takeover of Twitter in 2022, he would have been among the first to understand what was about to happen in 2024. Pivoting to the right -- not just pivoting to the right, but actively embracing it -- is something he had no choice in, if he wanted to keep his companies healthy. They were built atop a government that was about to disappear, so the only logical thing to do was to signal loyalty by throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at the Trump campaign.

Of course, his Nazi salutes made no sense in any context, but then neither did cheating at video games or calling Unsworth a pedophile for dissing his submarine idea. I'd chalk his erratic behavior up to drugs or ongoing mental challenges that ultimately don't have much to do with politics.

Zuckerberg and Bezos were slower to catch on but they did catch on in the end. They understood that they had an enormous amount to lose by alienating Trump. If the wires of democracy, from Section 230 to the US Postal Service, were about to be ripped from the wall by Trumpers, they had to get in position to influence those events. See also Sam Altman.

I don't blame any of these people for acting rationally. The question I have is, when are all these big billionaire alpha moguls going to stop reacting to a chaos monkey and start pushing back, if only behind the scenes? Who has more to lose from tearing down the established world order than the people who succeeded so massively under that very system? Don't they understand that while they will continue to be players, their playground will become a much smaller, weaker kingdom, one surrounded by rivals who now have an incentivize to organize against us?
Logical next move is to start the move. I’m just assuming that they will. I guess, the biggest problem is hoe vocal “the other side” is, compared to 10/20 years ago. Oh well, that’s what the citizens vited for, I guess.
This is what the majority of counted votes voted for. As PG put it many years ago, "it's the charisma, stupid". Brains be damned. Sorry if it puts anything worthwhile out of business.
If weird means out of norm, that's not the case. Every language either has a linter or would benefit from a linter because all languages have warts or idiosyncratic behavior.

Some languages are so error-prone and hard to use they even ship with static analysis and type-checking built in, like Rust and C! (And they still have linters on top of that!)

Perhaps post a language you think is exceptional to this?
The visible spectrum is the range of wavelengths of light our eyes can detect.

I mean, that sounds nice, but pink, brown, white, and black clearly aren't on that spectrum, so it's a ton more complicated than that, eh? Of those 4, only "white" is mentioned at all in the article.
This is how kleptocratic regimes work: in order to steal more effectively, you need to stuff the state full of personnel who ensure theft won't come under scrutiny (or under disapproving scrutiny -- bonus if the the people you hire actually enable it). Even better, hire people who would themselves face prosecution in a normal country, because they'll be beholden to you and too scared to have principles.

Edit: once your regime has achieved a certain level of internal cohesiveness and stability, you can begin the next step, which is to turn lower-level state actors against the population. You can do this partly by ordering them to perpetrate violence and outrage. This has a numerous benefits: first, it makes the state actors themselves afraid of the population, partly because they fear accountability, which makes them more inclined to violence and more protective of the regime; second, it stokes anger against them, which validates all the fears I listed under the first point; third, it distracts from the less shocking crimes of the regime (mere theft as opposed to bodily harm or murder -- but eventually that too!); fourth, as the regime gradually ratchets up the violence, the population becomes increasingly fearful and willing to collaborate and thus decreasingly capable of organizing and resisting.

Edit 2: I've noticed in my two or three decades of intellectual and political awareness that the right frequently seems to benefit from this kind of compounding effect and stacked benefit. No matter what happens, good or bad, it seems to redound to their benefit. I can't think of any cases where I've felt that the left enjoyed similar structural or inherent political advantages.
It's ironic that we're re-discovering this in 2025, it was pretty transparent in the late 1960s and early 70s, to students protesting their govt-funded universities' involvements in supporting the Vietnam War. The demands of students back then involved withdrawing from govt-funded grants and programs.

If you take money from an entity, you become an extension of that entity.
Same, but instead of the same playlist I'll put the same song on repeat while working. It really does quiet the mind and lets me focus.
They are, if they cant find an nvidia card
Not surprising given our diet and car-dependent culture.

From the article:

>While less access to health care and weaker social structures can explain the gap between the wealthy and poor in the US, it doesn't explain the differences between the wealthy in the US and the wealthy in Europe, the researchers note. There may be other systemic factors at play that make Americans uniquely short-lived, such as diet, environment, behaviors, and cultural and social differences.
Custom designed and tested to be as effective as humanly possible. They know all the buttons to push, and how to push them the most effectively. It's good that you were able to recognize it and stop, but so many more people don't or can't.