MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by whatever1 | 2025-05-12 00:45:31+00:00
The answer is that current car platforms were designed with flexibility as first goal.

Car companies realized early on they could outsource component development and production to 3rd parties and they could make them bid each other to further lower the prices.

So their platforms were optimized to be able to swap component vendors very easily (to achieve lowest costs).

Of course the vendors are not 100% interchangeable and building a platform to accommodate everyone has to make sacrifices.Aka target the least common denominator across all vendors.
by DidYaWipe | 2025-05-12 00:45:43+00:00
I know that you get the new value; but in many cases (almost every case I encountered), that doesn't help. You mention

"This is very useful for observing changes on data model that drives SwifUI from outside of SwiftUI"

I disagree, because the model hasn't changed yet. That's the crippling aspect to it: You can't tell some controller object to recompute its state based on a change to another object in the model, because you're getting notified BEFORE that object has changed.

For example, if I have an object that represents a camera, and the user tweaks a value in the UI that changes its resolution, the camera might offer a different set of values for things like frame rate.

So if I get notified that the user changed the resolution, I can't then tell the Recorder object to recompute the remaining recording time based on the camera settings, because those settings will not have changed yet.

And incidentally, I've used startObservation() in places, and it's crippled by another idiotic design choice: It only works once. It reports the first change, and then never another one. So in the onChange closure, you have to re-start the observation. Every goddamned time.

It's another great example of serving only the most illogical and obscure use case. Who the hell would expect something called "startObservation" to just quit after one change? The stupidity is just galling.
by comex | 2025-05-12 00:46:30+00:00
FYI, the Copyright Office doesn’t enforce copyright law or determine its correct interpretation. Courts do. The legal analysis in this report is really just a suggestion, and judges probably won’t give it too much weight.

As for illegal access, I agree that the report uses the term a bit too loosely. But as we’ve seen in the Meta case, some companies have obtained training material not through TOS-violating downloads but through literal (unauthorized) torrents. As we’ve also seen in the Meta case, even torrenting is technically not copyright infringement if you’re not seeding. But the process does rely on someone else seeding, so the report doesn’t seem wholly unreasonable in suggesting that this could “reflect bad faith” or “bear on the character of the use”.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-05-12 00:46:45+00:00
This is a great reply. Thank you to share your first hand account.

> Tirzepatide was simply a tool that let me engage in self control and better behavior towards food while I learned what will and will not work for me long term.

For others, I needed to Google "Tirzepatide". The trade name is Mounjaro (or Zepbound).

> Call it a crutch, cheating, whatever - I don't care.

No need for that. You have my full support. Whatever works for you is good.
by calmbonsai | 2025-05-12 00:47:44+00:00
Oooooh! I forgot about Atomic Habits. It's not only one of the best "business books" I've ever read. It's the single best "self-help" book I've ever read.

I disagree on "Seven Habits" as its model of "effectiveness" is only applicable to (for lack of a better term) extroverted vocations.
by gruez | 2025-05-12 00:48:34+00:00
>The best hedge is to also "invest" in something that has value to you. Like bricks / house.

That makes intuitive sense, but quickly falls apart when you do any rigorous analysis. Buying a house might cover your shelter needs, but you still need to eat, and you can't eat bricks. Moreover if the fear is your portfolio losing value, buying a house doesn't really mitigate that. Sure, you might still have a house at the end of the day, but that's cold comfort if you paid $2M for a bay area house that subsequently saw its value tank (eg. something like Detroit). Even in some sort of apocalypse scenario a house isn't obviously better than stocks, because the whole concept of owning a house relies on some sort of functioning legal system.

On the other hand there are very real problems with investing in "bricks / house". It has historical under-performed stocks. Moreover a single house provides poor diversification compared to a basket of stocks and its performance is tied to the economic health of your local area. If you lose your job, there's a good chance that your house won't fetch a high price. All of this makes for a poor risk adjusted return, and it's unclear how "has value to you" counters this.
by linsomniac | 2025-05-12 00:49:18+00:00
Very cool. I'm down the road in FtC, and I TRIED to get my daughter to take the Front Range machining program when she was in HS, but it required going an hour away to one of the Denver campuses every day because they didn't have it here. I thought it would be good for her to have as a fallback, and I'd have gotten her a CNC router to learn on. She also really didn't express any interest, if they had a local program I probably could have convinced her to go.

It seems like around here it's definitely some interest in some of those skills. I gather the Bugatti guy has some need of them.

edit: (I've got a 100 series, so I'll keep an eye on BIO)
by Loughla | 2025-05-12 00:49:58+00:00
Suffer, in this context, is living a life that is completely different than the very convenient one we're used to. Not just renewable based.

The technology just isn't there, and I don't think it will be there by the time we need it.

Clean water is already a limited, and fought over resource. The water wars in the US will start in either Colorado or Texas within 50 years. I'm calling it now. There will be actual violence.
by chaboud | 2025-05-12 00:50:20+00:00
Absolutely, and this sort of thing happens in large companies as well.

Software engineers are great at providing “well, why don’t you just..” answers to problems they don’t actually have their brains wrapped around. This often leads to attempts to scale poorly scaling approaches (e.g., we’ll just bake every variant, since there are only four today - which becomes combinatorially intractable after a few years of development).

On the flip side, software engineers are also great at choosing how they’re going to solve a problem before they really have a handle on what they’re going to solve.

I use this maybe 5-10 times per year (and several engineers I work with have taken to repeating it): “tell me what you’re doing but, more importantly, tell me what you’re not doing.”

Forcing people to be explicit about what is not in scope helps to bring clarity to otherwise murky tangles of ambiguity.
by throwup238 | 2025-05-12 00:50:25+00:00
It's the kind of prescriptive cargo culting that is responsible for a significant fraction of pain involved in software engineering, right up there with DRY and KISS and shitty management.

I bet the GP abstracts out a function the second there's a third callsite too, regardless of where it's used or how it will evolved - only to add an options argument and blow up the cyclomatic complexity three days later.
by dtpro20 | 2025-05-12 00:51:05+00:00
I don't have time for the overly polite fluff talk to the expense of practical and real communication. It is hard to be caring and direct. Being triggered by anything can be ptsd, and/or a self defense mechanism for incompetence, so it's important to work out what is going on in these cases. But yes, it is absolutely possible to be caring and gracious while still being direct when you exclude the people who will over react as a self defense mechanism as a result of valid or invalid reasons.
by simplify | 2025-05-12 00:51:39+00:00
Sorry to press, but I'm not sure if you answered my question. Why mention that you think most people do not believe it? In your latest comment, you didn't justify, but you did "outright say" it again. What value does bringing it up have?

Not trying to be combative, just thought it's an interesting point in this discussion of objectivity vs subjectivity.
by ericmay | 2025-05-12 00:52:35+00:00
Your intuition is wrong. As a simple example, during the months of saving in cash, by the time they have the cash, if they even save at all, they have more options for purchase. So maybe they go with the original merchant, maybe they don’t. Maybe they buy something else.

Instead merchants prefer to lock in a sale right then and there, and they pay for that service.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-05-12 00:52:46+00:00
Food is a basic human need, paying someone to make a burrito for you and then hand deliver it to your house is not. There is no shortage of food in america. In brazil, many people don’t eat meat because it’s too expensive, and get the vast majority of their calories from beans and rice. you can also do this in america, but almost no one does outside of college students because food is cheap enough relative to wages that people can generally afford to eat a wide variety of foods.

The bigger problem with BNPL, in my view, is that a lot of people are not able to understand the concept of credit. I knew people in my hometown who got a credit card, and their reaction to having a $3k credit limit was the exact same as if they had gotten $3k deposited into their bank account. I’m honestly not sure whether they understood that they didn’t just randomly get given $3k. I saw this happen multiple times. But it sounds very patronizing to say the “there’s a lot of poor people who don’t understand credit, so we need to prevent them from having access to any so they don’t get the chance to screw themselves”, so I understand why no one does.
by leereeves | 2025-05-12 00:53:08+00:00
> In the second, I don't understand as no competent licensed doctor chooses the treatment options (absent an emergency); they presumably know the only reasonable options, discuss them with the patient, answer questions, and the patient chooses.

I wish that were the case, but in my experience it is not. Every time I've seen a doctor, they offered only one medication, unless I requested a different one.
by kmnc | 2025-05-12 00:53:11+00:00
This is pretty standard. Poor people end up paying more for worse. Poor people buy poor quality which needs to be replaced more often. They go into debt and pay interest paying far more than the original price. They spend money on convienent options like fast food and food delivery because they have no time for other options. Or they are actually depressed and taking efforts to save money and be healthier just are not chosen.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-05-12 00:53:19+00:00
It probably could’ve been great, but unfortunately such a thing would’ve been unlikely at best with Flash being solely controlled by Adobe. Not only does that company have a disinclination towards optimization that persists to this day, but with there having been no alternative implementations of Flash, there was no possibility of other organizations taking up that torch or for there to be competition between implementations driving things forward.
by thepipetogrep | 2025-05-12 00:55:28+00:00
This is how my friend (who is in Florida) and I (who is in New York) network our retro machines together as if they were on the same physical LAN. It's makes use of pfSense, OpenVPN, and FreshTomato. It's a long read but it was a fun project. I hope someone finds it useful.
by Grimblewald | 2025-05-12 00:56:41+00:00
I also appreciate where you're coming from and it's likely we wont agree, due to a difference in fundamental values (neither being better imo, just different), but i value the discourse and world view broadening that conversations like this offer no less. So let me preface this with the fact i value your input and think your point is not just valid, but true if i allow myself to evaluate all this under a different value system.

that being said, even if i shift my values in this way, one problem remains - the nature of creativity.

so, under this value system tool use is irrelevant, if it makes creativity easier cool, doesnt diminish it non.

so lets evaluate this purely on a novelty / creativity angle.

marketing wise: tactic / style taken from a youtuber they reference in their twitter account

product: idea contributes jothing novel to a saturated space of ai learning tolls

tool use: tools used, and the way they were used, is about as basic as it gets

insight: no real novel or interesting insights into tool use, or the problem being solved

wholisitc interpretation: all together, what appears novel in all this, is applying a particular marketing strategty to hn, one that is usually aimed at children. This raises a few interesting questions about shifting demogrpahics on hn among other things, but this post is interesting in a meta way, not a direct way.

as an example, writing text like this, in a digital way, is not special anymore, by anyones reakoning - and yet if you apply this skill creatively, be it a story or poetry or solving a novel problem etc. Then that comment still has creative merit, even if the skills underlying it are no longer noteworthy. The same is true here, the skills underlying what was done are no longer noteworthy, and so we must evaluate on content alone. The content is derivative. So it stands on nothing.
by Justsignedup | 2025-05-12 00:57:07+00:00
I find that postgres query planner is quite satisfactory for very difficult use cases. I was able to get 5 years into a startup that wasn't basically trying to be the next Twitter on a 300 dollar postgres tier with heroku. The reduced complexity was so huge we didn't need a team of 10. The cost savings were yuge and I got really good at debugging slow queries to a point of I could tell when postgres would cough at one.

My point isn't that this will scale. It's that you can get really really far without complexity and then tack on as needed. This is just another bit of complexity removal for early tech. I'd use this in a heart beat.
by muzani | 2025-05-12 00:57:56+00:00
Friction debt: reducing friction somewhere by taking it from the future.

Freemium is a direct application of this. You get the product for free now, friction free. The app creator takes on some form of cash debt for this.

The friction is dripped into your experience and you need to pay to get rid of it. The debt is repaid later when you actually purchase the product at a much higher price than you would have if you just bought it at the old one time purchase rates.
by lucb1e | 2025-05-12 00:58:12+00:00
I'm surprised to find that this is just a random person's blog. Was very prepared for an ad page, scalped domain, or some corporation trying to make money out of it. On the sadder side, it doesn't seem like this person makes any use of the domain's name at all; they could have had firstlast.cctld for their blog and given this to someone who wants to put a sarcastic joke on it. But better this than ad farms so I don't blame them for keeping it!
by worik | 2025-05-12 00:58:26+00:00
> Suggesting that competition regulators should have blocked this is basically suggesting that the government has veto power over almost any hiring decision by any of the top ~1000 companies by market cap.

Ok. I am not suggesting that. I do assert it is not "totally insane".

And it is not the "hiring decisions". It is the merger decisions.

So if you enter the top ~1000 company territory, you loose a few freedoms. Is that so bad?
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-05-12 00:59:10+00:00
Yeah, I should have specified "the photon packet in the fiber" instead of generic "quantum", but there isn't always actually a photon packet even when light is the medium, and there isn't always a fiber, and just mashing it all up as "quantum" was faster. Any interference with the actual stuff that's doing the information exchange will cause the communication to fail, so that one part of the system can't be eavesdropped on passively.
by pbh101 | 2025-05-12 00:59:34+00:00
Or it means you haven’t practiced and some parts of the space are more difficult for you to traverse individually but still orthogonal objectively. I would say that something isn’t orthogonal if it is impossible to be both. It is clearly possible, just not practiced or easy.

I could grant there is also an objective friction surface, a fourth scalar describing how difficult it is to be direct, honest, and polite at once.
by mattnewton | 2025-05-12 01:00:20+00:00
I think I understand that. I don’t see how it self evidently is good for hypothetical burrito sellers to financialize their industry follows from that. There are a lot of differences between agricultural crops and take out, and financialization has costs.

Being able to bet on something isn’t inherently good, but the article seems to treat that as axiomatically true without offering an explanation about the problem financialization is solving in the BNPL burrito delivery space, like you have for airlines and farmers.
by VladVladikoff | 2025-05-12 01:01:17+00:00
Like I said then, you need indexes on those columns which you filter on in this table. Search a table of 2.5 million records for a value is still blazing fast if you use indexes correctly. I’m talking about 0.01 seconds or less. Even with tables much larger.

I agree about Google being shit. However, my website makes my living, and feeds and clothes my children, so I have to play along to their rules, or suffer.

Please take your slowest performing query and run it with EXPLAIN in front. And share that (or dump it into an LLM and it will tell you have to fix it)
by whatever1 | 2025-05-12 01:02:03+00:00
To be fair, this seemed to be the right strategy since they were able to be profitable in a very crowded market. Yes, the new companies try to verticalize everything from components to software, but none of them seem profitable (marginally Tesla passes the bar, but not so sure if you took away all the subsidies and carbon offsets).

So maybe the legacy guys were right all along?
by brudgers | 2025-05-12 01:02:05+00:00
Dispersed camping in National Forests is typically free. Likewise BLM land. There is a lot of both in California. And because public land is your land, permission is usually not required.

Is the Bay area perfect? For me, no. I don’t live there. I live somewhere better that’s within driving day trip distance. But if I was young, it would be a different story.
by pbh101 | 2025-05-12 01:02:14+00:00
If you see someone do it well (the word ‘genteel’ comes to mind) you can find that verbos it and awkwardness will detract from both the directness and honesty.

‘Traditional’ etiquette books are actually pretty good at this stuff: one definition of etiquette is to never out another ill at ease or uncomfortable. Discomfort is contagious especially through body language, so the first thing you must do is be comfortable yourself with the feedback you’re giving.
by hedora | 2025-05-12 01:02:50+00:00
It’s a box that forwards a carplay / android auto UI to an LCD, and snoops the cam bus for button press events.

The entire thing is $150, which is nothing compared to the rest of the warranty.

If regulatory compliance for a car stereo actually costs $1B in the US, then that seems like a bigger issue than “unfair” competition from China, and I’d like one of their $10K EVs, please.
by danpalmer | 2025-05-12 01:02:53+00:00
I'm glad you had that experience with Go readability, because mine was far from that. Java readability taught me loads. Go readability taught me almost nothing and took far longer. In the end I was given it when I emailed the admins to say "either give me some feedback or give me readability". I'm fully behind the readability concept, but it's hard to scale and keep the quality high.
by sweeter | 2025-05-12 01:03:03+00:00
What tech isn't there? It's been there for decades at this point. Unless you mean delusional ideas like pumping even more waste into the air in hopes that we can magically pull it out. Yes, that's always been a lie, and will always be untenable. The reality is that the US has no intention of moving away from oil and thats purely due to financial incentive and existing power structures being intertwined with oil barons
by wat10000 | 2025-05-12 01:03:49+00:00
A lot of people are very skeptical of credit cards, and it’s pretty common to see people recommending against them or outright calling them evil with pretty much the same arguments you see here.

Among those who like credit cards (of which I am one), the “credit” part is basically irrelevant. Paying for my stuff a few weeks later is nice, but it’s not why I use credit cards. If there was a card that offered an extra 0.5% cash back but purchases had to be paid immediately, I’d jump on it.
by guywithahat | 2025-05-12 01:04:41+00:00
I feel like the comments are misunderstanding what's happening. Historically luxury food has been nice ingredients but now that's everywhere, and what consumers really want is delivered food. They want the thing they want, only made 6 miles away, hand delivered to them and still warm. This is a luxury good, and like many luxury goods may now be financed.

Cheap food is not going away; my lunch every day costs ~55 cents to make. In this context of luxury goods, the article makes more sense and isn't some dystopian nightmare like people are implying, it's just another luxury good you may buy.
by hedora | 2025-05-12 01:05:47+00:00
Audi, BMW, Volvo, Mini, and others.

It think it’s a standard for “events happen on cam bus”, “there is a not-hdmi display in the dashboard”, and “there are analog amplified audio out jacks for the speakers”.

From the consumer end, it looks remarkably sane. Like “there’s a dev kit for the computer on github” levels of sane.
by linsomniac | 2025-05-12 01:07:20+00:00
>Or imagine visiting a doctor where treatment options are chosen by a human you can’t question

That really struck a chord with me. I've been struggling with chronic sinusitis, without really much success. I had ChatGPT o3 do a deep research on my specific symptoms and test results, including a negative allergy (on my shoulder) test but that the doctor observed allergic reactions in my sinuses.

ChatGPT seemed to do a great job, and in particular came up with a pointer to an NIH reference that showed 25% of patients in a study showed "local rhinitis" (isolated allergic reactions) in their sinuses that didn't show elsewhere. I asked my ENT if I could be experiencing a local reaction in my sinuses that didn't show up in my shoulder, and he completely dismissed that idea with "That's not how allergies work, they cause a reaction all over the body."

However, I will say that I've been taking one of the second gen allergy meds for the last 2 weeks and the sinus issues have been resolved and staying resolved, but I do need another couple months to really have a good data point.

The funny thing is that this Dr is a evening programmer, and every time I see him we are talking about how amazing the different LLMs are for programming. He also really seems to keep up with new ENT tech, he was telling me all about a new "KPAP" algorithm that they are working on FDA approval for and apparently is much less annoying to use than CPAP. But he didn't have any interest in looking at the at the NIH reference.
by hedora | 2025-05-12 01:09:27+00:00
We have an EV9, and the user interface is so pathologically bad that we’re planning to get rid of it.

Everything makes it beep. Beeps for “you will die now” are similar to “you put me in gear”.

There’s one exception: For many reasons, it turns off one-pedal driving. When it does that and is unexpectedly accelerating into cross traffic, it does not beep (until the collision alarm sounds, presumably, ask me if it kills me…)