MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by os2warpman | 2025-04-24 12:06:14+00:00
I imagine the same way you share a key for a HomeKit-enabled smart lock.

The only scenarios where one is so injured and/or drunk as to not be able to complete the non-rigamarolish process of sharing a HomeKit home key either by doing it themselves or walking someone through the process are ones where the key holder is so incapacitated that they would be unable to share a physical key.

All of that is someone irrelevant because Express Mode is enabled by default, so if you are unconscious all a person has to do is pull your phone out of your pocket and use it to unlock and start your car the exact same way physical keys work in that situation. It even works if the phone's battery is dead.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/118271

Also, every implementation of CarKit Car Keys I have seen is the same as HomeKit home keys: there is a backup. Either a physical key, PIN, fob, or card.
by scyzoryk_xyz | 2025-04-24 12:06:16+00:00
Hustle hard! Work is not everything! You are what you do! Life is adventure! Your team is your family! It's just business! Don't have expectations! No, do have expectations! This company is different! Wait, all companies are the same! Go on vacation! No! Come back! Be more productive! No, wait, be less productive, have work-life balance...

Just don't be an asshole. Some loyalty is fine... or not! It depends!
by the_af | 2025-04-24 12:07:46+00:00
Which problem is this solving?

This isn't resurrecting extinct species or truly helping those at risk (both misleading claims made by the company involved), since it doesn't address the root causes.

Solving problems is not always a good thing if they aren't the right problems, or if it's more of a publicity stunt. Especially when the topic is resource-constrained.

At this point, I'm just repeating that the article makes a valid point. I think otherwise, and so I disagree with you on this point.

Let me stress, once again, this isn't about "not playing god" -- not yours, but the sibling commenter's remark about Nautilus -- which I'm in full agreement it'd be a silly thing to claim (and which the article doesn't, as far as I can tell). It does seem technological hubris though, and it doesn't really seem about "trying to do good".
by Haul4ss | 2025-04-24 12:07:48+00:00
This is a very rich-world view of work. Most people can't just "unilaterally rescind" their employment if they decide they don't like it anymore.

I don't disagree with what you're getting at, just understand that loyalty is a necessity to a lot of folks, and I don't think it is because their values are misplaced.
by Crosseye_Jack | 2025-04-24 12:07:54+00:00
With practice raking doesn't take that much time and "usually" comes with the benefit of not tripping the alarm that the door was opened (because the car "thinks" the door has just been unlocked with a key).

<EDIT> Seems HN has different experiences with their cars then my own, So I'll concede the idea that the alarm doesn't trip when using the key. It seems the cars I've had in the past are the exception to the rule. </EDIT>

The thing is, in the real world, no one really looks twice when someone gets into a car unless they are using obvious brute force to get into the car.
by maccard | 2025-04-24 12:07:55+00:00
> That's all I needed to survive.

That sounds like a pretty grim way to live. As a tech worker, I’d rather “live” than survive. Each to their own.

> It's about what you value and then how you exchange your time on Earth.

I think you should take a look at this thread with this comment in mind - not everyone else values the same things as you and that’s ok.
by Propelloni | 2025-04-24 12:08:09+00:00
> For context, the OP is in the EU and UK, where none of the above is true.

In the EU many protections -- depending on the member state -- only apply under certain conditions. For example, employees in companies with less than 10.25 FTE do not enjoy any termination protection beyond very short notice periods (between 1 and 7 month) in Germany.
by skydhash | 2025-04-24 12:09:47+00:00
Who write boilerplate this day? I just lift the code from the examples in the docs (especially css frameworks). And I love looking at functions docs, because after doing it a few times, you develop an holistic understanding of the library and your speed increases. Kinda like learning a foreign language. You can use an app to translate everything, or asks for the correct word when the needs arises. The latter is a bit frustrating at the beginning, but that’s the only way to become fluent.
by walterbell | 2025-04-24 12:10:08+00:00
De-anonymization points made by the article author:

Battery percentage, Bluetooth connections, and light sensor data can be used to re-identify you after switching networks. Break behavioral tracking patterns by changing your scrolling, typing, and browsing habits. Your new email, phone number, or payment method can be linked back to your old identity through data brokers, loyalty programs, and behavioral analysis. Data collectors don’t care who you are—they collect everything. If laws change, or you become notable.

HN ranking history for this thread, https://hnrankings.info/43780977
by bsenftner | 2025-04-24 12:10:44+00:00
I know these types of people, a lot of them, but I am not one of them. I was a student at Harvard, I've dated the daughter of a film studio owner, the daughter of the then-owner of Gucci, I've worked at an Academy Award winning VFX studio, I know celebrities and CEOs, and I married an Academy Award winner. I know these people.

There is a mechanism in high wealth investment circles that seeks very ambitious and simultaneously low self knowledge individuals to invest heavily. They tend to be driven and charismatic in that drive, while being very ignorant of their negative impact on others. Many high net worth individuals see themselves in such youth, and invest in them, their ideas and their drive. They create psychopaths, and celebrate their mistakes as fuel for control of them later. This mechanism I am describing is very powerful, dominating.
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by mattlondon | 2025-04-24 12:11:39+00:00
Well they can't fire you totally on the spot in the UK, but I believe they can put you on immediate "gardening leave" where you lose all access to systems and buildings etc. You'll still get paid and are still technically employed, but you'll not be working on anything and can't go to the office.

I think there is some expectation for gardening leave to be available for the odd call or meeting for doing handovers etc, but realistically I don't think anyone would expect a disgruntled suddenly-made-redundant employee to really do that with any gusto or enthusiasm.
by Crosseye_Jack | 2025-04-24 12:12:03+00:00
Presuming its a modern car (and if we are talking about keyless entry/start we are), well then you just plug an "Emergency Start Device" into the OBD port or to the BCM module, and drive away. Heck a lot of these "Emergency Start Devices" can also unlock the car, but often involve pulling panels/lights from the car to get to the can bus to run the attack.

So that attack when done on its own is mainly left to stealing cars off drives at night rather than say from a supermarkets car park during the day.
by fifticon | 2025-04-24 12:12:34+00:00
I'm pretty sure this is the correct and intuitive reason. In a competition to be 'ever above everything else', tragically it selects for the most pathologically ruthless behaviour pattern, be it Musk or Putin. If there were a contestant even more unscrupulous than you, he'd take your place. So, as long as we allow/tolerate obscene wealth, we invariably get this. And if we try to avoid it the wrong way, we get Stalin.
by NalNezumi | 2025-04-24 12:12:48+00:00
I'm still using QWERTY yes, but I use US/UK keyboard layout for coding, and others for writing messages (SWE/JP for me).

I realized that it didn't make much sense when I already have 3 QWERTY mappings in my head, and moving all of those 3 mappings to Dvorak / Colemak when those two are based on ergonomics pattern of the English language, when I type in 3 languages.
by BrouteMinou | 2025-04-24 12:12:58+00:00
I use vim to avoid the mouse-keyboard back and forth. I also happen to edit multiple types of file, which I find useful to have / learn only 1 editor/IDE.

I am also often, if not always, in a terminal.

Some people use vim to brag, some say it's for speed, for me it's because "it's there".
by cbm-vic-20 | 2025-04-24 12:13:13+00:00
I map 'jk' in Insert mode to <Esc>. In Insert mode, it takes me out to Normal mode. If I'm already in Normal mode, it simply moves down a line and right back up. This habit is so burned into my muscle memory that I often end up typing 'jk' into non-Vim input areas (like this HN comment box).jk
by eitland | 2025-04-24 12:14:28+00:00
This has been going on for over a decade for me now (I know because I blogged about it at the time).

For years I used DDG, not because it was better, but it wasn't worse and I wanted to support competition.

Then I started using Marginalia and shortly after I found Kagi.

Kagi works like Google used to do (and has a range of nice extra features) and in the very unusual situations were it doesn't work, when I posted it to the forums it was quickly acknowledged and dealt with.

Extremely refreshing to be on the customer side of a search engine the last three years instead of being some kind of livestock for Googles ad sales machine.
by z_open | 2025-04-24 12:14:52+00:00
Does your course not have exams or in-lab assignments? Should sort itself out. Honestly, I'm all for homework fading away as professors can't figure out how to prevent people from using AI. It used to be the case that certain kids could get away with not doing much because they were popular enough to get people to let them copy their assignments (at least for certain subjects). Eventually the system will realize they can't detect AI and everything has to be in-person.
by incomingpain | 2025-04-24 12:15:10+00:00
I only have facebook for messenger, but lets look at my feed now.

1 sentence question from a page i dont follow.

Funny joke from a page i dont follow.

3dmakerpro ad

swimsuit picture of sister in law.

3d ai studio ad

anti trans post from page i dont follow

polymaker ad

Reels?

polymaker ad

picture from highschool friend

science/astronomy post from page i dont follow

planetarium ad

Less than 20% are anything I might even be interested in; the rest are pushed. I havent 3d printed in quite awhile. Astronomy is cool i guess.

SOCIAL media is over if you're on facebook.
by jimktrains2 | 2025-04-24 12:16:41+00:00
> By making adding an authenticated driver not a rigamarole, but easy and intuitive.

We'll have to agree to disagree. I don't believe that this will be possible in many situations. What if I'm not near my car? What if my phone is dead? What if my car's battery is dead and it needs jumped?

I'm also just cynical that the automakers or app developers are able to not enshittify the process.

What if when I set my wife up I added her as a user but not admin and now she can't share with someone without having to involve me, which may not be physically possible in all circumstances.

> They call you an ambulance.

You don't call an ambulance to take a drunk person home. Calling a taxi when there is someone able to drive is a waste of money and a huge inconvenience the next day to retrieve the car.

You also can't call an ambulance in the wilderness.

I also meant injured in a more broad sense. What if I just have a bad headache or migraine? I don't want to be fumbling with my phone or car electronics trying to navigate adding someone.
by cushychicken | 2025-04-24 12:16:52+00:00
I love coding - but I am not very good at it. I can describe what I want in great detail, with great specificity. But I am not personally very good at turning that detailed specification into the proper syntax and incantations.

AI is like jet fuel for me. It’s the translation layer between specs and code I’ve always wanted. It’s a great advisor for implementation strategies. It’s a way to try new strategies in code quickly.

I don’t need to get anyone else to review my code. Most of this is for personal projects.

I don’t really write professionally, so I don’t have a ton of need for it to manage realities of software engineering (large codebases, peer reviews, black box internal systems, etc). That being said - I do a reasonable amount of embedded Linux work, and AI understands the Linux kernel and device drivers very well.

To extend your metaphor: AI is like a magic microphone that makes all of my singing sound like Tony Rice, my personal favorite singer. I’ve always wanted to sound like him - but I never will. I don’t have the range or the training. But AI allows my coding level to get to that corresponding level with writing software.

I absolutely love it.
by eth0up | 2025-04-24 12:17:10+00:00
If anyone is willing, please help me understand, not why, but how someone can subsist on a diet with zero fiber. I know folks who can sit down to a plate of nothing more than white rice and meat without petrifying their backside. If I tried to do the same, I'd be using solvents and chipping hammers every morning. Have I missed something? Is this a 99% absorption rate diet? Where does it go?
by RandomBacon | 2025-04-24 12:17:16+00:00
In the future?

They call 911, and they read the license plate number and the authorities send an override signal that turns on the car and only allows it to be driven to the nearest hospital that appears on the screen on the console. If they go off course, they have 30 seconds to get back on course before it coasts into a 5mph limp mode (to find a safe place to pull over) for 1 minute before it completely stops and shutsdown and locks them inside for the police to come get them.

Eh, the car will probably be self-driving at that point, so probably only the first half.
by myrmidon | 2025-04-24 12:17:38+00:00
You don't just need to cover the 350km² with drones though, you also need buffering and/or transmission capabilities for absurdly high amounts of power (=> but low amounts of energy).

If you wanted a single buffer for the whole 350km², you'd need transmission capability from any point (or any drone launch station) to your central buffer in the Terawatt range (currently our highest power grid links are in the ~10GW range, so this is pure fantasy already). Utilization (~ capacity factor) for the lighting capture infrastructure would also be abysmally low. You'd basically need to build a ~10TW (generous estimate!) system, where costs in a lot of components directly scale with power, just to get ~10MW of sustained power out.

There is no way you are ever gonna compete with that $100M wind turbine; you could literally have cheap, high-field, room temperature superconductors and be gifted several warehouses worth of supercapacitors, and the whole lighning capture boondoggle still would not make any economic sense.
by os2warpman | 2025-04-24 12:17:45+00:00
The payload on that flight was a single stuffed toy banana, for scale.

On all test flights with a payload exceeding the mass (~300 grams) of a single stuffed toy banana (for scale), the flight has failed.

Flight 7: 20,000 kg payload (starlink mass simulators) - engines fail after 7m39s

Flight 8: 8,000 kg payload (starlink mass simulators) - engines fail after 8m04s

Flight 9 is not currently planned to carry a payload.

None of this is a technicality. It is technicreality.
by ColinWright | 2025-04-24 12:17:52+00:00
I use Mastodon almost exclusively.

It requires that you curate your connections, and discoverability is a known problem.

But I get to see posts from the people I follow, and "boosts" of posts they think are worth seeing, and there are no ads, and no algorithms deciding what I should be seeing and filling my feed with them.

I'm not saying it's a good alternative, but I'm finding it useful and refreshing.
by pydry | 2025-04-24 12:18:12+00:00
I haven't seen much of a bias towards seeking out a predisposition to loyalty in employees except among authoritarian small business owner types who invariably underpay.

I don't think offering perks is necessarily supposed to engender loyalty. It's still a transactional relationship ("ok, google might pay less than the startup but I do get free lunches at google...").

In most companies I have more often seen not even a shred of expectation of loyalty. It's pretty normal to see critical employees quit at an inconvenient time on a critical project and the only person who expresses any bad feelings is the employee in question feeling a bit guilty.
by EGreg | 2025-04-24 12:18:13+00:00
Because people have the right to carry guns in the USA and we all pay the price for it. Freedom ain’t free.

The founding fathers of the US believed that a well-regulated militia was essential to the security of a free state, and explicitly wrote that clause into the second amendment. Karl Marx also supported gun ownership, for the workers to retain their power and even effect a revolution. What’s common to both of these is the idea of a collective defense, a “well-regulated” maintenance of order.

The Heller decision changed all that (and MacDonald vs Chicago took it further). It essentially made the “well-regulated militia” clause have no effect at all, as if it was just a rhetorical flourish. The context can be clearly seen from writings at the time. The People’s Militia was a real thing all over the US, and e.g. Washington complained bitterly about how inferior their discipline was to actual troops.

Since Heller, we’ve also had massive militarization of police. The actual militias have been considered terrorist organizations. And the NRA idea that anyone has a right to carry a gun anywhere has become embraced by Republicans. Even red flag laws are viewed with suspicion. But the original Republic had the collective concept of a militia — completely neutered today.

Ironically, the people who talk about individual rights are also the ones who do it because the idea of the People’s Militia was swept aside in an age where Big Government has the monopoly on force and protects us all. The idea of regular people coming together and forming an armed militia (eg to resist tyranny) is far more anarchist and dangerous to governments, than disconnected lone nuts with guns.
by dangus | 2025-04-24 12:18:26+00:00
Granola is the exact kind of product I’m criticizing as being extremely basic and barely more than a wrapper. It’s just a meeting transcriber/summarizer, barely provides more functionality than leaving the OpenAI voice mode on during a call and then copying and pasting your written notes into ChatGPT at the end.

Clay was founded 3 years before GPT 3 hit the market so I highly doubt that the majority of their core product runs on LLM-based AI. It is probably built on traditional machine learning.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-24 12:18:28+00:00
There's a frame question in this, and the history of duelling. Is your image, or self-image, in matters of honor or social status more important than your life? Is it secure or insecure to risk your life simply because of an insult? To what extent does "security" in this context boil down to the capacity for violence, rather than anything else?
by nathanielsimard | 2025-04-24 12:18:30+00:00
The need to build CubeCL came from the Burn deep learning framework (https://github.com/tracel-ai/burn), where we want to easily build algorithms like in CUDA with a real programming language, while also being able to integrate those algorithms inside a compiler at runtime to fuse dynamic graphs.

Since we don't want to rewrite everything multiple times, it also has to be multi-platform and optimal, so the feature set must be per-device, not per-language. I'm not aware of a tool that does that, especially in Rust (which Burn is written in).
Show HN: A tool that lets tech writers test custom LLM prompts with context
by remoquete | 2025-04-24 12:18:35+00:00
https://github.com/theletterf/aikidocs/

I've developed this simple tool using Copilot as a response to PocketFlow's tutorial generator, which has a hardcoded prompt with few technical writing recommendations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739456

I think tech writers should own the prompts that generate documentation, so Aikidocs is for them to experiment using a simple, predictable environment. Right now it supports Gemini, Claude, GPT, and Ollama local models.
by DragonStrength | 2025-04-24 12:18:53+00:00
No one deserves that much more than others. No one believes they don't deserve what they have. People work backwards to justify why they need so much more power, control, and wealth than others. Worse for Zuck b/c his special shares.

The ambition/success feedback loop never stops, which is why the folks on top seem somehow less secure and content than the rest of us. Most of us figure out we probably won't be the #1 anything pretty early in our journey and stop fixating on comparison and focus on maximizing ourselves.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-04-24 12:18:59+00:00
It's hard to speak broadly about this I think but since we already are. Military aristocrats like knights were at the least risk among combatants in an armed conflict, being better armed, armored, and more likely to be mounted compared to the levied militias or even professional soldiers, later in the early modern era.

And social norms at the time were to take them hostage and ransom them back to their family or allied higher lord if possible, so their chances of surviving a lost battle were much higher than that of the men they were leading. So even in this context they are already figuring out "ways to address the downsides."

Vs the like, the normal people who would also be called on to die in battle, but then the rest of the time would be living under the capricious and frequently violent rule of these certainly-no-more-than-average-emotionally-secure men with more or less unchecked power over their daily lives.

What we have now developed from what they had then and a lot of the dynamics are quite similar. The violence is more abstract but that's exactly what the current crop of tech billionaires is trying to change.