MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jasode | 2025-04-12 19:10:28+00:00
>, but if there were batteries inside, those weren't Swiss mechanical movements

Yes. The Cartier Tank watch is mechanical. I just lumped in the other nice jewelry watches with batteries to talk about them as a group because they've all been eliminated from her mindset.

>Also, I think the cheap product winning is pretty typical.

When I wrote "replace", I didn't mean in terms of sales. It was more about the cheaper product replacing the previous thinking in the mind about the old product.

For example, she used to color-coordinate the different jewelry watches with different outfits... If it's a blue outfit, wear the stainless steel watch ... if it's this other dress, wear the gold watch with black face. If the shirt has starfish, wear the seashell theme watch. That whole ritual is eliminated. (I guess one could also change watch bands on Apple Watches for different occasions but she doesn't bother with it. Maybe because arthritis makes it hard to squeeze the band's release mechanism.)

The new Apple Watch alters the psychological relationship with the previous jewelry watches so thoroughly that it makes her impervious to gp's praise such as, "Vacheron-Constantin [...], it will still be a testimony of the refinement and engineering of a fine craft that few can achieve, [...] you'll be very lucky if your Casio can last as long. Your mass commoditised Apple watch will likely be worthless."

Her comeback to the gp's "timeless" qualities is that she likes lifting the Apple Watch to her face and asking, "Hey Siri, how many inches is 5 centimeters? (when sewing clothes) ... Or how many cups in a liter? (when cooking from a recipe with metric quantities)." She thinks it's a miracle that a little watch can understand her voice and give her answers. Yes, everybody at HN is jaded and we all know Apple's Siri is the worst voice assistant technology out there but yet she loves it. If that means it's wearing a mass-produced watch that nobody cares about in 200 years after she's buried in the ground, that doesn't matter at all. Her "dressy watches" phase is over.

That's the type of rare product replacement situation I'm talking about. Usually, the opposite happens: we all get on some hedonistic treadmill with various consumer products and the next better thing we desire is more expensive. In the 1980s, CDs were actually 2x more expensive than vinyl records and cassette tapes. Vinyl was about $6.99. CDs were $15.99+. It took over 10 years for CDs to gradually lower in price such that Walmart was selling them for less than $10. The new CD players themselves were about $1000 in 1980s. Record players were $100.
by wenc | 2025-04-12 19:11:41+00:00
Yes battery is definitely a limitation. I’m able to get 15-16 hours on my Series 7 between charges. That works for me because I just charge it when I shower and it takes no time.

I wonder if for your use case a Watch Ultra might work better? It has a bigger battery.

That said, I agree with you that the battery could be better. Other smart watches have battery lives measured in days. (That said, they also do less)
by _cs2017_ | 2025-04-12 19:12:46+00:00
Curious if this was forced on Google Cloud by Sundar, or was it something that Google Cloud as an org wanted to do?

At first glance, it seems Google Cloud might lose some revenue from customers who can now deploy Gemini in-house. On the other hand, it's not a complete loss, since presumably Google Cloud is still involved in providing some underlying tech? Not to mention, some customers would never consider using off-premises setup anyway.
by perihelions | 2025-04-12 19:13:30+00:00
Here's an alternate source,

https://www.flyingmag.com/china-approves-passenger-operation... ("China Approves Passenger Operations With Self-Flying Electric Aircraft")

With some clearer wording on what's been approved so far,

- "Early EH216-S operations will come with heavy limitations, which EHang said it aims to lift in phases. For example, flights are restricted to Guangzhou and Hefei and must land where they lifted off[...] In other words, the EH216-S is approved for applications like out-and-back aerial tourism but not air taxi services in cities."

(I don't want to derail this thread too strongly, but the current source looks very much like AI slop. The text is egregiously LLM, and, if you zoom in [0] on the people in the backgrounds of the photos, there's some Lovecraftian horror going on with those faces!)

[0] https://engineerine.com/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/...
by UncleEntity | 2025-04-12 19:13:33+00:00
> but not worth it if you have other better job options

Pretty much any service job, really...

When I had occasion to take a ride share in Phoenix I'd interrogate the driver about how much they were getting paid because I drove cabs for years and knew how much I would have gotten paid for the same trip.

Let's just say they were getting paid significantly less than I used to for the same work. If you calculated in the expenses of maintaining a car vs. leasing a cab I expect the difference is even greater.

There were a few times where I had just enough money to take public transportation down to get a cab and then snag a couple cash calls to be able to put gas in the car and eat. Then I could start working on paying off the lease and go home at the end of the day with some cash in my pocket -- there were times (not counting when the Super Bowl was in town) where I made my rent in a single day.
by Whoppertime | 2025-04-12 19:13:39+00:00
That is begging the question. The question is not "Why are some people poor" that is the default state of humanity, and has been for the past 100,000 years Homo Sapiens have existed. The question is what are the succesful doing right. It is not because of "hoarding wealth infinitely" that a doctor has more money saved up than someone addicted to drugs and living on the street. It is their decisions that lead to their current circumstances. The doctor spending a decade in medical school and residency has delayed a lot of gratification getting their, while the drug addict likely had some issues with impulse control or delayed gratification.
by omerfarukak | 2025-04-12 19:13:56+00:00
approach is similar, but it works better; it can run non-stop for minutes and really get the task done.

Its whole project understanding is a lot better.

It has great tool usage; I mean CLI.

There was a project I just would like to create as Vibe Coding, but Claude was not able to complete. Junie fixed it with a single prompt.
by const_cast | 2025-04-12 19:13:57+00:00
The prices of cars have “skyrocketed” because the price is now closer to what they actually cost. Meaning, less is being externalized.

Cars are inequality-creators because the drivers offload the cost to everyone, including those who don’t drive. Car centric decisions, air pollution, interstates and freeways, parking lots.

It’s very much akin to tobacco. Tobacco used to be cheap - when the tobacco wouldn’t pay for your addiction, or your COPD, or your eventual death. Now they do - a tiny bit - and tobacco is expensive.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-12 19:14:29+00:00
One of the best things about score voting is that it eliminates primaries. Each party just runs all of their candidates in the general election, and then the voters decide who is the best one.

PR puts the party instead of the voters in control of who gets the seats or otherwise requires the voters to support a party when they want to support a specific candidate.

Score voting also thwarts gerrymandering because you can't make two 55% districts for your party and one 90% district for the other party or the districts for "your" party would go to a moderate party instead.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-04-12 19:14:42+00:00
Did you study anything from there (and can provide references) or just use your imagination?

KGB failed to prevent catastrophic dissolution of USSR and you suggest that they are some sort of masterminds who excelled in propaganda. That’s quite an exaggeration. Since 1990s both the West and Russia have lost their expertise in each other’s affairs. Russia may still have some influence in Central and Eastern Europe, but their conservative ideological drift limits significantly what they can achieve. A lot of local political mess there is basically local politicians shooting in the leg.
by theamk | 2025-04-12 19:15:19+00:00
Easy. Think specialist equipment: a nice high-speed factory machine to put caps on bottles may be more than $100K new, but I doubt you can give it away for free on craigslist. It is huge, heavy, and has no practical value outside of soft drink factory.

The old clocks are getting the same status: it's specialist equipment for very rare circumstances.
by fragmede | 2025-04-12 19:15:21+00:00
> Is making decisions the hardest thing in life for so many people?

Should I take this job or that one? Which college should I go to? Should I date this person or that one? Life has some really hard decisions you have to make, and that's just life. There are no wrong answers, but figuring out what to do and ruminating over it is comes to everyone at some point in their lives. You can ask ChatGPT to ask you the right questions you need asked in order to figure out what you really want to do. I don't know how to put a price on that, but that's worth way more than $20/month.
by amscanne | 2025-04-12 19:16:06+00:00
You’re being needlessly pedantic. Obviously, “computers” also has varied meanings. In this case, it is referring to systems built with discrete electronics and ICs. That is, its operation is based almost entirely on the manipulation of electrons and their associated fields.

Watches are nice because it’s much less common to have such tiny precise physical machines anymore, since so many of these use cases have been replaced by “computers”.
by doublerabbit | 2025-04-12 19:16:09+00:00
> ad nauseum

I disagree. Abusive relationships need constant call-out and their BlueSky post was exactly that, a reminder.

Just because your fed up with hearing it; I am not. It's a a real history to how they acted, got away and demonstrates that they would happily screw you again.

They are just another $corp who show no respect to their users, they've done it once, they will do it again. Let it be a count of permanent mark of how they treat their user-base.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-04-12 19:16:14+00:00
> long build times, monomorphization

Monomorphization is what causes long build times, but it brings better performance than dynamic dispatch.

> lack of stability

There was another comment which also never elaborated on how Rust is not stable.

> supply chain issues

Not a language issue, you choose your dependencies.

> no proper standard, not enough different implementations

Is that a practical problem?

> no dynamic linking

There is.
by WalterBright | 2025-04-12 19:16:20+00:00
I try to watch silent films, but I just don't like:

1. reading dialog cards, especially since I can lip read a bit and that's not what the characters are saying

2. the truly awful "period" music added

3. the grainy black and white

I've seen some work on the 1929 film "Wings" that was done in high def, sound effects were added, and some small colorization of scenes.

I'd like to take that further:

1. remove graininess and fuzziness with AI, and of course all scratches, etc.

2. add foley sound effects

3. replace dialog cards with dubbed dialog, lip read if possible

4. add a decent music sound track (Like what was done with "Metropolis")

5. colorize it!

These are all very doable today, as I've seen each done in a small way.

Why should we suffer all the limitations of silent movies? I just want to enjoy it, not suffer.
by Saline9515 | 2025-04-12 19:16:25+00:00
I live in Riga, here cyclists ride on the sidewalk, along with e-scooters. I went out for a ten minutes walk with my son, I had to physically and verbally intervene three times to avoid him being hit by a cyclist or e-scooter. Last month our nanny was hit by a cyclist. In Paris it is very common and the main reason they banned e-scooters.

So, while the US paradigm is toxic, I'm not convinced about the one you are proposing, given that, in my experience, cyclists are ruthless and never behave unless I physically intimidate them. And I would rather walk in peace.
by wnoise | 2025-04-12 19:16:37+00:00
I haven't set a definition and really don't intend to, only saying the line must be quite far from where you are drawing it.

Tying it to willingness to kill for some goal cannot be it -- not every soldier, cop, and security guard is insane. There has to be some degree of break from reality, not disagreement with societal opinions of morality. (And of course all societies do endorse violence -- from the proper authorities, and against the right targets).

Osama bin Laden was a religiously-driven warlord. But not only was he not insane, he was quite effective for quite some time, and had significant support from the societies he was part.

The Unabomber absolutely could plausibly be argued to be insane -- his attorneys certainly pushed for it (though he rejected that attempt). And the psychological experiments he participated in could certainly have contributed to such a break. Throw in the standard trope of living as a hermit in the woods with limited social contact (which can both be a result of insanity and decrease mental stability), and there's enough there not to reject the label. But his bombing campaign just makes him a criminal, a problem for society, not insane.
by aswanson | 2025-04-12 19:16:56+00:00
Voting machine integrity was litigated in the election trump lost. Fox, trump's propaganda organ, had to pay $781 million because they could not substantiate claims of electronic fraud. There are adversarial reviews of voting data at all levels, and audits done at the physical and electronic level. 60 lawsuits found no evidence of fraud. You can't just say, "I think this might have happened because it sounds sinister." There is a ton of legal, procedural, monitored, and reviewed data that overwhemingly makes the case that electronic voting fraud did not happen. If you have evidence to the contrary, present it. Otherwise, its just vibes.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-12 19:17:26+00:00
https://www.mta.info/fares-tolls/tolls/congestion-relief-zon...

Pretty trivial to discount/exempt people as is done in NYC.

An even simpler starting point (which we should actually do for all road-related fees like tickets IMO) is to set fees by the KBB value of the vehicle in question. Let people contest them in court if they want.
by sensanaty | 2025-04-12 19:18:05+00:00
We have cars here, but you're not dependent on them to get everywhere unless you live in the countryside (and even then, I knew plenty of kids who lived up in the North who biked 10+ km 1 way to school) or one of the super small cities where the sprinters are sparse. And isn't that the point most people make? It's not about complete eradication of cars, it's about having viable transport alternatives and the infrastructure to support those. It's just that we live in such a world where it's unthinkable to not have half our countries paved in asphalt to make sure cars can get places, so things like these always end up falling into a 2-sided extremist camp.
by alistairSH | 2025-04-12 19:20:29+00:00
I walk to work. In the suburbs.

My wife rides a bike. In the suburbs.

We chose a home that has grocers, schools, and dining within a walk or bike ride.

We own cars because there are things beyond ~2 miles and transit options aren’t good.

Sadly, doing this usually requires money. Lots of it.
by const_cast | 2025-04-12 19:20:31+00:00
These people are HELPED by anti-car legislation because it clears the congestion for them to run their business.

Most small, and large, businesses would happily pay a small fee if it means half the transportation time. And it does, because traffic isn’t linear. Just a few more cars can be the difference between coasting at 30 or not moving at all.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-12 19:20:42+00:00
It isn't grasping at straws because confusing or misleading people is literally how dark patterns work.

> Do you think "$500 biweekly" car ads, or "$2000/month" apartment rentals are the same?

The rentals make it very clear what the contract period is and what the penalty for breaking early is. Those terms are also tightly regulated in most jurisdictions for exactly the reason that they are prone to abuse.

> I'd expect buyers to read the very legible text under the price tag.

Given that the text fails to provide details about the fee is this even a valid contract to begin with? On multiple levels there's clearly been no meeting of the minds.

> if you read most complaints, it's clear that they're not even aware that such early termination fee even existed.

Isn't that a strong case that it's an unfair practice?
by AIPedant | 2025-04-12 19:21:58+00:00
Man... I wrote a comment about how this project sounded tasteless and awful, but this is somehow much worse than I was expecting. The scene with the Wizard made me want to throw my tablet.

Also, did they upscale the frame rate to 48fps??? Hard to tell from the video, but it looks like that’s the case. If so these people are ridiculous hacks and should never be allowed to touch another classic film. (“24fps would be disorienting on such a large screen!” Maybe that’s a sign this project should have never left the boardroom.)
by rs186 | 2025-04-12 19:22:11+00:00
Microsoft has been integrated Copilot in their Office products. In fact, they don't even call it Office any more. Guess what? If you ever had first hand experience with them, they are absolutely a dumpster fire. (Well, maybe except transcription in Teams meeting, but that's about it.) I used it for 5 minutes and never touch it again. I'll be very impressed if that's not the case with Google.
Show HN: Stateless URL-Based MCP Server Builder
by sshh12 | 2025-04-12 19:23:26+00:00
URL MCP is a proof of concept stateless MCP server builder that allows users to build MCP servers without writing or hosting code. It's intended for protocol and security experimentation rather than for building real world MCP integrations.

https://github.com/sshh12/mcp-demo
by flomo | 2025-04-12 19:23:52+00:00
Because the truth is nobody has any real idea how to retrofit the last 70 years of American suburbia so that mass transit is actually effective and useful for people. "Transit-oriented development" really only helps downtown workers and doesn't get you to the grocery store or daycare. (And even in NYC, the subway is not great out in Queens/etc, so people own cars.)

But it is nice to live in the Mission and take the techbus to Mountain View and handwave all the hard trillion dollar problems and say let the poors eat cake. Which is effectively how these discussions seem to go.
by malshe | 2025-04-12 19:24:33+00:00
Chinese cities like Shanghai have been world class for a long time. The last time I was there, I had a dinner with a client on the outskirts of Shanghai. I took multiple subways to reach there and found that neighborhood quite ordinary and starkly different from Shanghai itself. Of course this is also an anecdote but gives you a different perspective. I also know a few people who visit China often and they tell me the cities are definitely futuristic.

Personally I think Singapore is the most futuristic city-state in the world.
by dantastic | 2025-04-12 19:24:58+00:00
This is awesome! This is what I'd like to do at home albeit with DVB-T.

I've seen a lot of clabretro's videos and am especially hooked on the token ring series. I don't know why since that was just outside of me starting to work on networking (we ran a 10-base-2 at home since my dad worked in networking) but he's so calm and a good story teller. Highly recommended channel!
by kenjackson | 2025-04-12 19:25:12+00:00
If the bar is for LLMs to replace domain experts about four years after introduction then yes, they are failing miserably.

But if you were to go back to 2020 and ask if your take a random human over a the state of the art AI to answer a text question you’d take the random human every time except for arithmetic (and you’d have to write it in math notation and not plain English).

And if you were to ask AI experts when would you chose an AI they’d say at least not for a decade or two, if ever.
by alistairSH | 2025-04-12 19:25:16+00:00
That’s not a given. Nobody here is talking about outright bans on all vehicles. Limited access for taxis and commercial use is a thing. Buses can be built with wheelchair access. Etc.

And with less space reserved for cars and only cars, there’s more space for wide/accessible sidewalks. Less chance of being run over by a car. Less air and noise pollution.
by Retric | 2025-04-12 19:25:33+00:00
That assumes a level of structure and control to society that simply doesn’t exist.

I don’t know why people so often fall into the trap of assuming someone or something is running things, but chaos seems to be anathema to how people perceive the world. God(s), fate, luck, karma, magic etc have been supplanted by the everything from hidden cabals, aliens, etc but I don’t think the underlying psychology is really any different.
by alganet | 2025-04-12 19:25:33+00:00
Wait, are you folks just figuring out right now that meat AI existed before silicon AI?

Intellectual property (in the context of art, movies, books, games, etc) is so valuable because it stands on the input of how humans behave, which in turn shapes their output.

In other words, a movie script that people like and generates mimicry behavior is some sort of machine built using human parts. It has value because that mimicry or fan-related reaction is behavior that can be shaped (by a reboot series, a sequel, another work using similar tropes, a critic, a meme and so on).

That doesn't mean we are all models. Fuck that. It means a lot of us are trapped by those systems (even if I don't mimic culture, peer pressure puts me in a position where it seems I do).

The rights to a popular "intellectual property" is power. Silicon AI (in this context) stands on the web as an additional way to shape that collective behavior.

We're in for a wild ride in the following decades.

We need to understand those mechanisms, be wary of them (soundtrack use, camera perspective influence on perception of meaning, script writing and editing, sequels, rewrites, movie critics, duality play, all of it). IT folk in particular need to be very aware of such things.
by zfolwick | 2025-04-12 19:26:39+00:00
I've been struggling with a useful json diffing tool. Making sure that array order doesn't matter during comparison, ignoring specified fields when needed, respecting color output are all thing I care about. Other json comparison tools are well-suited for manual comparison, but I need this solution to be automatied.

The closest I've come is `pdiffjson`, which is great, and you can see I riffed off that significantly, but I really needed a few more things than what that could provide.

Anyway, thought this might be a useful script for other people.
by com | 2025-04-12 19:27:55+00:00
But those cars, as has been explained to you, don’t do nearly as many trips per year.

Mobility in families is actually higher, since each individual has sturdy legs, and highly likely, a bike after they’re about 5 years old. Kids often travel to school, after school events etc on foot, bike or public transport, not dependent as in many car-centric places on parents and their cars.

Grandma is as likely to bike over for dinner with the grandkids as drive.
by gruez | 2025-04-12 19:28:12+00:00
>Tying it to willingness to kill for some goal cannot be it -- not every soldier, cop, and security guard is insane.

How about violating bright red line laws/norms of the society you're in?

> There has to be some degree of break from reality, not disagreement with societal opinions of morality.

Okay but surely you agree that "I want abortion but my state bans it" is not the same kind of "disagreement with societal opinions of morality" as executing a CEO because you vaguely have grievances with the healthcare system?