MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by const_cast | 2025-05-11 23:34:23+00:00
Right, and Apple Car Play does it out the gate. So much so that I can say "Navigate to Doctor X" and it does it. And it did it without convoluted requirements on the vehicle side. And it will continue to do it, because Apple's navigation isn't going to rot like the car manufacturers will.

Look, can car makers make somewhat decent software? Probably, if they burn enough money. But is it even worth it? I don't think so. People already use their phone hours a day, just let them use that.
by sologoub | 2025-05-11 23:34:28+00:00
In general, the availability of credit has been a positive economic factor that helps enable capital expenditures that otherwise would only be available to the wealthiest. Lack of such credit leads to capture of means of production and rent seeking behaviors in economic terms.

However, it’s become more and more clear that not all credit is created equal and what you spend the resulting capital on matters a lot. If one buys a house to live in or equipment to make money with - that’s generally good use of credit, assuming costs do not outweigh the benefits. I can’t think of a situation where buying lunch that one has to finance is a good thing (as different from credit card points harvesting/optimization). The implications of anything similar to payday loans going mainstream feels like a large societal risk.
by Bulls729 | 2025-05-11 23:35:11+00:00
I'm not a subject matter expert by any means, but the 8311 Community Firmware group has made great strides on their SFP+ ONT FWs. The majority of users are using their WAS-110 implementation for XGS-PON to ‘bypass’ the ISPs ONT/Gateway device, in the states there's a lot of users doing this on AT&T Fiber, but the Discord community has a large global following with users around the world reporting success. They have some users on GPON, its a bit of a different bypass but people have been successful. I run a bypass directly into my UDM-Pro using a WAS-110.

https://pon.wiki/guides/masquerade-as-the-att-inc-bgw320-500...

Discord: https://discord.gg/8311
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by morelandjs | 2025-05-11 23:35:42+00:00
Being fully leveraged is great for capitalism and horrible for your mental health and general well being. Ever live under crushing debt? It’s awful. Step back for a minute and look at the big picture. People are taking on debt to eat lunch. That’s insane. The author acts like it’s zero sum and if BNPL isn’t the one offering the short term loan someone else will at worse terms. That’s just not true and hand waves over the fact that people who are uneducated are unwittingly being coaxed into making bad decisions with glittery UX and one click checkout.
by austin-cheney | 2025-05-11 23:35:54+00:00
Framework people always complain that simplicity doesn't scale. In my nearly 20 years of experience doing this I can firmly say they are entirely wrong. If an application increases in complexity as its features increase the way to restore order is a minor refactor.

But really that isn't what this is about. Framework people were always falling back on this fail to scale argument even in the early days of jQuery. The real issue is that some people cannot architect and cannot refactor. That isn't a code or application limitation. Its a person limitation.
by Zigurd | 2025-05-11 23:36:24+00:00
Android automotive doesn't come with software for battery management and functions like climate control, headlights, error notifications, and other driving functions. But it does provide the best toolchain, widget set and user interface framework for those functions. It also comes with support for multiple screens, multimedia, multiple languages, speech recognition, app stores, cameras, wifi hotspotting, OTA updates, modes for vehicles in motion, Bluetooth, pointing devices so you don't have to be all touch all the time, etc.

All that stuff adds up. As Volkswagen found out.

Green Hills supports running android in a VM so you can do all of the safety critical things like traction control, and ABS in a secure environment.
by renewiltord | 2025-05-11 23:37:55+00:00
Informed by the government using the First Amendment "will someone rid me of this troublesome priest?" the company used their First Amendment to rid them of the troublesome priest. I should point out that I was just using the First Amendment to talk about them very specifically not being coerced. In fact I actually claimed (using the First Amendment) that they made it clear it wasn't a threat. Your comment (doubtless made under the First Amendment) assumes that I said the opposite.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-05-11 23:38:21+00:00
Writing software, and doing it well, is expensive and time-consuming. It's like manufacturing anything else from scratch. It requires an investment in resources and expertise, proper planning and execution. Much like building a car, you can build software inefficiently. But if it comes out like shit, that directly affects your bottom line.

To run a profitable businesses with shitty software, you need a big fat pipe of money from a captive market. Most automakers don't have that kind of market. They cannot afford to waste time writing shitty software that won't increase their bottom line.

Building a highly effective software team is one of the hardest things to do in tech. We actually know how to do it - review the DevOps studies from the past 10 years - yet organizations don't do it, because it requires very specific leadership goals, buy-in, and culture. Most organizations are led by "personalities" that "go with their gut" rather than data-driven decisions, and most people, let's face it, just aren't very good at their jobs. Finding a company with good leaders, good managers, and good workers, is like finding a leprechaun.

Automakers should have learned this decades ago, that only extreme attention to detail and high quality results in better outcomes (and thus bottom line). It's fucking hard work to make a good car. It's also fucking hard work to make good software. Did they really think "just add more software" would be easier than making more cars?!

They don't need to make all this software. Automakers are happy to buy some parts commodity, and have some made bespoke. Software doesn't all have to be bespoke. Take 100 different x86 computers and the same OS will run fine on all of them. They don't all need to invent their own novel way of networking and controlling embedded devices. Look to the software that works well everywhere for inspiration. It's all standards-based, loosely-defined, layered, simple, with replaceable parts. Kinda like a car.
by alistairSH | 2025-05-11 23:39:24+00:00
The only problem with CarPlay (and presumably AA) is lack of integration with the car…

Changing lock, light, and anudio (bass/treble/sub/fade) options. Map integration with fuel capacity (they only recently do this for EVs). Checking service intervals, recalls, etc.

If CarPlay had APIs/toolkit to serve those functions, it could 100% replace the UI that the manufacturer delivers (and nobody likes).
by lolinder | 2025-05-11 23:39:47+00:00
Right, I agree with all of this. My point was always that requirements vary and it's pointless to talk about frameworks-vs-no-frameworks unless you're clear up front what your requirements are.

In this particular site's case, the requirements are met by WordPress, so "a WordPress blog" is a simple description of what it is. It wasn't meant to include a value judgement.
by trollbridge | 2025-05-11 23:41:02+00:00
Banks do not engage in age discrimination in giving mortgages. You can get one at age 20 or age 60, all else being equal.

It’s a secured asset, so if you turn 65 and need to go into a nursing home for some , or die, they’re confident they can recoup the balance of the loan from the house when it is auctioned off or sold to another family member.
by socalgal2 | 2025-05-11 23:41:16+00:00
Building a game for multiple platforms for steam is way more work than building a single web app. Builting the game often requires unique settings for each platform, machines for each target platform, testing on each target platform, dealing with bugs on each target platform. Getting noterized/certified on each

> EDIT: For the naysayers: please then explain to me why Steam is so successful at deploying large games on multiple platforms?

How many games are multi-platform on steam? Checking the top 20 current most played games, 14 of them are windows only. If it's so easy to be multi-platform, why would 14 of the top 20 games not be multi-platform? Oh, it's because it's NOT EASY. Conversely, web apps are cross platform by default.

Only 2 of the top 20 games supported 3 platforms (windows, mac, steam-deck). 1 was windows+steam-deck, 3 were windows+mac
by welanes | 2025-05-11 23:41:59+00:00
1. Clicking the box programmatically – possible but inconsistent

2. Outsourcing the task to one of the many CAPTCHA-solving services (2Captcha etc) – better

3. Using a pool of reliable IP addresses so you don't encounter checkboxes or turnstiles – best

I run a web scraping startup (https://simplescraper.io) and this is usually the approach[0]. It has become more difficult, and I think a lot of the AI crawlers are peeing in the pool with aggressive scraping, which is making the web a little bit worse for everyone.

[0] Worth mentioning that once you're "in" past the captcha, a smart scraper will try to use fetch to access more pages on the same domain so you only need to solve a fraction of possible captchas.
by conception | 2025-05-11 23:42:41+00:00
This is what I think the biggest benefit to having a significant UBI. Sure, lots of folks who currently are in “bullshit jobs” would sit around and watch one screen or another but! A lot, probably more than we imagine, would get bored and… do something. Often that something would be amazing.

But lizard brains gotta keep folks under their thumb and horde resources. Alas.
by thrance | 2025-05-11 23:43:03+00:00
My vitriol wasn't directed towards you, I just don't understand why you (as in, liberals) need to put "both sides" on equal footings every time you criticize the republicans. In our current landscape, the right (as in, "average people" on the right) is guilty of far more hypocrisy than the left, and that is an objective fact.

Again, I don't hold the democrats in my hearts, but this kind of "enlightened centrism" is useless and in very poor taste in our current state of affairs. Also, please refrain from accusing anyone daring to express their opinions clearly that they are under the influence of "groupthink" or imply they are socially defective.
by fsckboy | 2025-05-11 23:43:30+00:00
>the problem was solved in by means of strapping together alternate segments a process invented by Sayers in 1942

UK physicist James Sayers was part of the original team that developed the magnetron in the UK. He did join the Manhattan Project in 1943, so perhaps before that he came over to the US (to Bell Labs) as part of the radar effort: in that case strengthening Bell Labs contributions, weakening any claim to reverse engineering :) When Lee de Forest "invented" the triode tube amplifier, he had no idea how it worked. When Shockley "invented" the transistor, his team grumbled that he had stolen their work (similar to Steve Jobs, the boss, taking over the Macintosh project when his own Lisa project failed) but in any case, it was not actually understood yet how transistors worked. "How the First Transistor Worked: Even its inventors didn’t fully understand the point-contact transistor" https://spectrum.ieee.org/transistor-history

In these cases, the bleeding edge of R and the bleeding edge of D were the same thing. A certain amount of "reverse engineering" would have been mandatory, but it's really "reverse sciencing", "why did my experiment turn out so well", rather than "reverse engineering a competitor's product to understand how did they make it work so well."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Radiation_Laboratory

In early 1940, Winston Churchill organized what became the Tizard Mission to introduce U.S. researchers to several new technologies the UK had been developing. Among these was the cavity magnetron, a leap forward in the creation of microwaves that made them practical for use in aircraft for the first time. GEC made 12 prototype cavity magnetrons at Wembley in August 1940, and No 12 was sent to America with Bowen via the Tizard Mission, where it was shown on 19 September 1940 in Alfred Loomis’ apartment. The American NDRC Microwave Committee was stunned at the power level produced. However Bell Labs director Mervin Kelly was upset when it was X-rayed and had eight holes rather than the six holes shown on the GEC plans. After contacting (via the transatlantic cable) Dr Eric Megaw, GEC’s vacuum tube expert, Megaw recalled that when he had asked for 12 prototypes he said make 10 with 6 holes, one with 7 and one with 8; and there was no time to amend the drawings. No 12 with 8 holes was chosen for the Tizard Mission. So Bell Labs chose to copy the sample; and while early British magnetrons had six cavities American ones had eight cavities... By 1943 the [Rad Lab] began to deliver a stream of ever-improved devices, which could be produced in huge numbers by the U.S.'s industrial base. At its peak, the Rad Lab employed 4,000 at MIT and several other labs around the world, and designed half of all the radar systems used during the war.

that seems to be the source of the reverse engineering idea, and I think Bell Labs' role (which is quite important) was more toward perfecting the devices for manufacture at scale, as it was an arm of a giant leading edge industrial company.

I'm not diminishing Bell Labs nor anybody there, it was a lot of smart people.
by tashoecraft | 2025-05-11 23:44:32+00:00
How many issues due large companies run into thinking they can just throw money at it? Just look at google and stadia, or amazon and their failed game studio. They have immense money and knowledge and ended up with nothing.

Each car has dozens to 100+ ecus, written in different languages, by different teams, different requirements, and different companies. Some are proprietary. Ford can’t just tell Bosch, hey your abs module needs to now integrate with our api, multiplied by 100+ companies. The legacy car makers need to revisit everything, and move most of it in-house.
by pc86 | 2025-05-11 23:44:34+00:00
You state this as if it's a fact but I think most people would disagree.

If morality is subjective, then that means there is nothing objectively wrong with murder, rape, pedophilia, chattel slavery, or any number of things that most civilized people would find abhorrent.

I'm not even trying to make a religious argument about the source of some objective morality, I don't think it's necessary to solve that to answer the "objective v. subjective" question.
by trhway | 2025-05-11 23:44:58+00:00
i like to point to the God believers (who are usually not believers in human caused climate change) that the increasing flood/hurricanes/heatwaves/draughts/etc. (and with the red states being hit particularly hard at that) is a God's message that their current ways are wrong, and so they should listen to the God if they don't want to listen to the scientists.
by nine_k | 2025-05-11 23:45:32+00:00
If your needs are known, they are also known to competitors.

I know that Elon Musk is not a popular figure nowadays, but he very correctly stated that competition is for losers, and the real innovators build things that competitors are just unable to copy for a long time, let alone exceed. SpaceX did that. Google, arguably, did that, too, both with their search and their (piecemeal acquired) ad network. Apple did that with iTunes.

Strive to explore the unknown when you can, it may contain yet-unknown lucrative markets.

(There is, of course, an opposite play, the IBM PC play, when you create a market explosion by making a thing open, and enjoy a segment of it, which is larger than the whole market would be if you kept it closed.)
by rtpg | 2025-05-11 23:46:04+00:00
Your statement is pretty subjective! Not going to defend gambling but "junk food" and "overpriced status-symbol vehicles"? Digital goods as an entire concept?

You can think it's all for the stupids, but I'm not seeing how it's some objective truth. Even if you're some stoic who thinks spending money on leisure is just incorrect at a fundamental level, but I think you're going to find yourself in the minority there.
by losteric | 2025-05-11 23:46:09+00:00
How does bnpl increase sales?

My intuition is it brings in a slight bump now, at the cost of longer term.

The customer can either wait N months to buy the bike cash, or buy it now and pay interest for the next K months.

- In the first scenario, customers can quickly save up and return for accessories/etc.

- in the latter, the customer is playing XX% on top of the bike purchase which ultimately reduces the purchases that customer can make.

It’s just exploiting the “present bias”/time-discounting in human psychology.
by sheepscreek | 2025-05-11 23:46:44+00:00
You’re saying that as if AI is a singular thing. It is not.

Also, for every nay sayer I encounter now, I’m going to start by asking “Have you ever taken therapy? For how long? Why did you stop? Did it help?”

Therapy isn’t a silver bullet. Finding a therapist that works for you takes years of patient trial and error.
by rowanG077 | 2025-05-11 23:46:48+00:00
I think it's kinda disingenuous to look at people of the past like that. I expect the exact same curiosity for the unknown and intelligence that allowed Isaac Newton to crack calculus was also the driver for him entering alchemy. The only difference looking back is that one was correct and the other wasn't. Something that no one knew for sure at the time. It's like looking back to the stone age and laughing at the cave men "look how stupid they were why don't they just do X".
by mickael-kerjean | 2025-05-11 23:47:54+00:00
> it doesn't require them because it's a blog.

A counter example is Filestash [1], a full fledge file manager that can open > 100 file (from parquet, arrow, geojson, shp, raw images, etc...). Since it got moved out of React, the app perform better by every single metric than the original one. While I agree there's no team of 30 behind it, so is tons of software with people blindly defaulting to React for the same reason than people choose IBM: nobody get fired for choosing IBM / React.

[1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
by mananaysiempre | 2025-05-11 23:48:20+00:00
So, this uses the DLL version of the Microsoft CRT. Don’t know if that counts as cheating :) Why is a CRT needed here anyway, beyond very basic stuff like startup code and memcpy?.. Is MiniCRT[1] an option?

[1] http://www.malsmith.net/minicrt/
by Garlef | 2025-05-11 23:49:34+00:00
Exactly.

Key differences:

- Houses are gaining value over time while consumer goods such as food, phones, TV, cars are loosing value over time.

- A loan for a house can be paid back very slowly so that you effectively only pay your initial share of the price (and share the profits with the loan giver via interest). A loan for consumer goods must usually be paid back almost immediately.
by foobarian | 2025-05-11 23:49:52+00:00
Maybe the 2025 Bell Labs is the wider ecosystem of VCs and free floating innovators who end up starting startups instead of doing things in house.

I do think there is a lot less low hanging fruit which makes the comparison apples and oranges. Google is like Bell Labs today, and what did they invent? LLMs? Compare that to information theory, the transistor, Unix, etc.
by ismi | 2025-05-11 23:50:19+00:00
I love it! All ES6, no deps.. probably makes your lives harder than they should be but in the name of pureness and badassery and complete control over performance, awesome! You choose to suffer for the right reasons. Wishing you the best of luck and that I can try it soon.

Forgot to say.. I very much admire and appreciate the aspect of "ejectability". More software should strive for this ideal.

https://thymer.com/ejectable-apps

I read that and nod all the way through. Hope you succeed!
by dejobaan | 2025-05-11 23:50:25+00:00
Good read. Here's the crux for me:

> If something went wrong in the journey to theatre — such as a crucial wire becoming unattached — all staff would rush to the issue in an attempt to fix it, rather than having the discipline and structure for one dedicated staff member to do so in a less panicked manner.

I've never been a part of F1 racing or pediatric surgery, but even in plain old software development, it's always been great to step back and look at a process that we repeat; there's often a few improvements that seem obvious in retrospect, that don't pop out until you analyze the process.
by degamad | 2025-05-11 23:50:44+00:00
I agree with you about the customer-facing issues which occur with vanilla sites which don't deliver good user experience.

However, I'm interested in how frameworks solve the developer experience problem you mentioned:

> Will this javascript file you touched affect only the feature you wanted, or another 50 pages you didn’t even know about?

> When you add a new thing in a template, how many N+1 issues across how many pages did you just cause?

> Where does the data even get loaded??

Doesn't this just change into

- "Will changing this React component affect only the feature I want, or do other pages interact with it differently?"

- "When adding a new component into a template, will I break any other pages which use this template?"

- "Where does the data even get loaded??"
by benlivengood | 2025-05-11 23:50:44+00:00
Credit in general is an incredibly regressive tax; only the poorest end up paying much interest and it's a much larger fraction of their total cash flow. I can get between 2% and 4% cash back on all purchases on a credit card that I pay off monthly with a zero-fee ACH transfer, paying no interest or yearly fees. I literally take poorer or less financially secure people's money that they spend on credit card interest. While the prices I pay likely reflect an overhead of 1.5%-3.5% to cover merchant credit processing fees I potentially come out net positive.

Finally, if I had substantial investments, I would be earning returns for the ~month before having to liquidate assets to pay the credit card.

The bank financing my car loan is still paying me to have it because inflation is still so high and I got lucky with origination date.

In general I am skeptical of the overall societal benefit of new financial instruments for the above reasons. E.g. I can't imagine BNPL loans existing in a strong economy of mostly secure and economically savvy middle-class earners.
by somethingsome | 2025-05-11 23:52:43+00:00
I like the idea of having a dataset for physics, but those entries are very basics, most of the physics happens with very complicated maths and it will be difficult to make an entry for a lot of physics.

For example, imagine the entry for the standard equation, should all the derivation and symbolic implementation done as a unique entry? It will be difficult to separate it in logical entries that reference each others, and many physical ideas are fundamentally different, leading to divergences.

I have the impression that it should be easier to just parse reference books and format each paragraph/section as an entry, and maybe build a graph. (considering the reference book as authoritative on the subject)