MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nsoonhui | 2025-06-30 09:14:52+00:00
Dropping call is bad, making you wait longer than necessary is also bad. But what's worse is simply having no phone call option at all.

Just like Autodesk[0], you might think that a company that pulls in USD 1.64 billion[1] can afford a decent support line, but that's simply not happening. Even their community forum[2] is stuffed by .... unpaid volunteers. Autodesk employees hardly frequent there.

[0]: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/phone-number-to...

[1]: https://investors.autodesk.com/news-releases/news-release-de...

[2]: https://forums.autodesk.com/
by holowoodman | 2025-06-30 09:15:23+00:00
Yes, you can buy a Dacia for below 20kEur, but even those have gotten far more expensive lately. It used to be that around 10 years ago, a Dacia Logan (typical station wagon family car) could be had for 11kEur. Nowadays the comparable Dacia Duster (SUV instead of station wagon, but somewhat similar slightly smaller internal space) will set you back 18kEur. Most of this price hike is claimed to come from mandatory electronics like eCall, collision avoidance, fatigue sensors, more complex bodywork due to crash requirements, as well as more complex engines due to emission controls.

With your quoted Renault EV models, you really have to be careful, often they don't give the full price but just the price without battery. The battery has to be bought or rented separately.
by edanm | 2025-06-30 09:16:02+00:00
No, you're wrong in multiple ways:

1. You call it "The Israeli PM who pushed for a two state solution" (referring to Rabin), but actually there were other PMs who were negotiating a two state solution with the Palestinians and were elected after - Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert (Ehud Olmert was ten years after the assasination of Rabin).

2. The PM the succeeded Rabin, Ariel Sharon, a long-time right-wing hawk, didn't negotiate with the Palestinians, but did shift Israeli policy to simply leaving the territory without a negotiated settlement. He's the one who pulled Israel out of Gaza, and by all counts, he was poised to do the same and leave the West Bank before he had a stroke.

Olmert, also a historic right-wing hawk, succeeded Sharon, and campaigned openly on the idea of starting to pull settlements out of the West Bank. And he won, with this campaign.

Olmert, btw, to this day is a big peace-advocate, working together with Palestinian partners on trying to bring about a two-state solution. He's also a big critic of the current Israeli government (and famously wrote a piece saying that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza).

3. Funny enough, another way in which you're technically wrong is that Rabin himself didn't directly advocate for a two-state solution, at least not officially. That was probably his direction, but both Barak and Olmert went much further than him in what they were offering the Palestinian leadership in terms of a deal.

Bonus 4th point: Worth mentioning that calling the person who assassinated Rabin a "right wing Israeli" is pretty wrong too. He was a member of a very extremist right-wing group that did not and does not have any broad support in Israel, as opposed to standard "right wing" positions which do have broad support.
by leakycap | 2025-06-30 09:16:18+00:00
I had the same question.

> “It is during this conversion that a manual error has been made in the code that is entered into our game engine,” the company said in a statement. “The amount has been multiplied by 100, instead of being divided by 100.”

That sounds like a problem a CEO should lead the charge to address, not resign from. I wonder if there are still deep issues.
by helloplanets | 2025-06-30 09:17:20+00:00
PSA: This is by AE Studio, which is a company that sells AI alignment services. [0]

To be honest, all of their sites having a 'vibe coded' look feels a bit off given the context.

Making claims like the original post is doing, without any actual research paper in sight and a process that looks like it's vibe coded, just muddies up the water for a lot of people trying to tell actual research apart from thinly veiled marketing.

[0]: https://ai-alignment.ae.studio
by AHTERIX5000 | 2025-06-30 09:17:28+00:00
That's scary. I have an old Steam account with tons of games and already got banned once due to a bug in anti-cheat software and for a while my whole account was marked with a cheater tag.

The bug was so widespread that developers eventually removed bans but I'm sure something similar could happen where problem goes undetected and it would be really hard to try to convince developers to lift a ban.
by szszrk | 2025-06-30 09:17:55+00:00
Of course it's more difficult.

You are talking of a volume of around 600 000 000 domains (based on a plot on their website) that try to renew at best after 8 weeks. And that's just default profile, there are 160h certs profiles now [0].

You think they will ever send nearly as much as (at least) 75 million newsletter mails weekly? Sendgrid's highest value in their pricing slider is 1,25 mil a week.

- [0] https://letsencrypt.org/docs/profiles/
by Nevermark | 2025-06-30 09:17:55+00:00
I don’t think your example carries over to hugs.

Porsches are worth big money. The “costs” for hugs are more of a social calculation.

I expect that the act of taking a small social good that would not normally be available, or even allowed, but is being offered for free, feels subtly wrong.

“Why would this person give me X for free?” Makes us feel uncomfortable. We feel we are not seeing something, or perhaps freeloading. Which prompts a subconscious threat or status calculation, not a simple cost calculation.

But being able to pay for it suddenly fits a common pattern, even if the “product” (hug or conversation) is novel.
by piltdownman | 2025-06-30 09:18:12+00:00
Ah this old Chestnut whereby agitators use the comparable GDPs of Bavaria and Mississippi as a KPI indicating Europe's lack of economic prowess.

In fact, it's just a scathing indictment of wealth inequality in Mississippi where life expectancy is 10 years less and infant mortality 400% higher than in Bavaria, despite their similar GDPs.

For better or worse the EU is run as a Society whereby the US is run as an Economy, a fact conveniently forgotten in these apples/oranges comparisons.
by gabigrin | 2025-06-30 09:19:38+00:00
Working on a 1.0.0 launch for Flyde - https://flyde.dev/, an open-source visual programming language. It works great for embedding visual AI flows for backend logic. Integrates with TypeScript code, runs on VSCode & Node.js (via a runtime library, in-repo, no containers needed)

Would love to chat with people looking to combine n8n-ish capabilities in their code!
by wojciii | 2025-06-30 09:19:56+00:00
The options for men (besides condoms) are not much better.

I'm not asking my partner (I'm married) to take any hormones while I wouldn't take any myself.

The problem is that much medicine was developed by men for a long time.

Female doctors are a (relatively) recent development and I'm sure they the situation will improve over time (maybe not in trumpet America) in civilised parts of the world.
by Svip | 2025-06-30 09:20:17+00:00
The article mentions – but does not elaborate – that this is not the first time the company have been scrutinised publicly. The fact that it had to attend a meeting with the ministry on a Saturday suggests the severity it was considered by the government. So I am pretty confident, that it was the minister who decided – during that meeting – that she had to resign. Heads must roll, as they say.
Show HN: A rigorous proof that the imaginary unit "i" is real(PGP and DOI)
by purrplexia | 2025-06-30 09:20:34+00:00
I just published a short, deep, rigorous, math proof showing that the strange behavior of "i" is actually real, continuous, definite integration, and behaves under all axioms of i and Euler's identity. Cryptographically signed (PGP). CC BY 4.0
by jstummbillig | 2025-06-30 09:20:50+00:00
I think more to the point: The authors of this research don't really understand what they did. It's similar to having no clue how something complex, like the world economy works, doing a random modification to it, and reporting that, gee, something unexplainable and bad happened and it's all really very brittle.

This is simply a property of complex systems in the real world. Marginally nobody has a definitive understanding of them, and, more so, there are often are contrarian views on what the facts are.

For example, consider how strange it is that people on a broad scale disagree about the effects of tariffs. The ethics that govern the pros and cons, sure. But the effects? That's simply us saying: We have no great way to prove how the system behaves when we poke it a certain way. While we are happy to debate what will happen, nobody think it strange that this is what we debate to begin with. But with LLMs it's a big deal.

Of course all these things are theoretically explainable. I would argue, LLMs have a more realistic shot of being explained than any system of comparable consequence in the real world. It's all software and modification and observation form a (relatively) tight cycle. Things can be tested without people suffering. That's pretty cool.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-06-30 09:20:57+00:00
I understand the Knuth's _Premature Optimization_ saying as: (1) find the most hot code (best way to have full heat chart), (2) optimize there. That's all of it, and it really works. E.g. If you have some code that prepares data for a loop that is n^2, and you work hard on this data preparation, profile it etc., this will not give you any visible improvement, because this is one-time code. What's inside the n^2 loop is more important and optimize there, even work together and prepare the data better to allow the loop work more efficient.
by davidweatherall | 2025-06-30 09:21:10+00:00
https://inspo.dev - The idea is a chrome extension that let's you iterate ridiculously fast on frontend web components - click one button, select the element like you're using Chrome's inspect dev tools, press generate, and 60 seconds later, AI has given you ~7-10 new variations on how you could style that component, with the code ready to implement.

Struggling to get the generated iterations to be up to a standard I'm happy with at the moment, but improving every day!
by tossandthrow | 2025-06-30 09:22:40+00:00
Resignation definitely does not seem like the right direction, and is likely a panic reaction.

That said. The ceo is responsible regardless of their knowledge - in tech heavy companies, like this apparently is, they'd usually appoint a trusted cto for things like this.

But failure always run up the chain of command, and ofcause it should. It is after all why CEOs are paid well. They are responsible.
by lelanthran | 2025-06-30 09:23:02+00:00
That's a good analogy but would be better if reversed.

"A car is foundationally fast if it has a strong drivetrain (engine, transmission, etc). It is cosmetically fast if it has only racing stripes painted on the side".

A better pair of words might be "structural" and "superficial". A car/llm might be structurally fast/good-aligned. It might, however, be superficially fast/good-aligned.
by pydry | 2025-06-30 09:24:45+00:00
shrug we were doing all of these at a small scale even before the war.

Articles that brag about delivering the equivalent few weeks' worth of Russian industrial production to the Ukrainian front lines every 6 months actually kind of underline the point.

It reminds me of the articles just before the summer 2023 offensive whose numbers spelled doom to anybody who had a limited understanding of military realities: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64391272
by mandmandam | 2025-06-30 09:24:58+00:00
> In contexts like these, “universe” means the observable universe, which is finite in size. Also, creating universes (in the usual models) conserves energy, so you don’t actually gain anything by that.

"In the usual models" - that's the whole point. For the entire 60 year history of Moore's Law, the "usual models" have stated that it would come to an end in about ten years.
by ricardobeat | 2025-06-30 09:25:01+00:00
I’m not quite sure the safety equipment is to blame. Modern cars coming out of China go well beyond regulations, while still having great a price/features ratio.

Even very cheap cars like the “Dongfeng Box” have multiple airbags, emergency braking, lane keeping, etc, and safe to assume a lot of the components VW/Toyota use for these come from the same chinese suppliers.
by liendolucas | 2025-06-30 09:25:04+00:00
I didn't understand a single word about this post and what was supposed to be solved and had to stop reading.

Was this actually written by a human being? If so, the author(s) suffer from severe language communication problems. Doesn't seem to be grounded at least with reality and my personal experience with robotics. But here's my real world take:

Robotics is going to be partially solved when ROS/ROS2 becomes effectively exterminated and completely replaced by a sane robotics framework.

I seriously urge the authors to use ROS/ROS2. Show us, implementing your solution with ROS, pushing it to a repository and allow others to verify what you solved, maybe?. Suffer a bit with the framework and then write a real post about real robotics hands-on, and not just wander on fancy uncomprehensible stuff that probably no-one will ever do.

Then we can maybe start talking about robotics.
by Svip | 2025-06-30 09:25:05+00:00
I am not asking the CEO to be familiar with the details of programming or with whatever other technical minutiae a company is forced to deal; they can – however – demand insurance that their systems are properly tested, even if they don't understand the details of those procedures.

CEOs are the public faces of companies; with which comes higher pay but more responsibility. Conversely, employees shouldn't be sacked for honest mistakes, since they are supposed to be faceless. If an employee makes a mistake at a company, and that company does not have procedures in place to protect against that mistake; then it's the company's problem, not the employee's. And when it's the company's problem, it becomes the CEO's.
by DanielHB | 2025-06-30 09:25:41+00:00
I am from Brazil and although most cities are 100% built around cars, public transportation IS an option and mostly works and is (somewhat) affordable.

Unlike the US, if a place is 1km away as the eagle flies you can get there by walking ~1.5km max. And there are bus services and although often overcrowded or with low service, they do run and you can plan your life around them.

Yet everyone still buys a car as soon as they can afford one (or often if they can't). And they use it for commuting to work every day.

To get to the point that Europe is in where even rich people don't want cars or if they have one it is for weekend trips. You need to do a lot better than this.

Unfortunately getting the US to be like Europe in this regard is not really viable, but it could get to the point where Brazil is where the poorer people can afford to not own a car.

In some big cities in Brazil they do a lot of low-cost things like dedicated bus-lanes that actually make some high-demand trips shorter by bus. Progress in this area needs to be incremental, there is little point in investing crazy amounts of money in one big project. Instead the investing should be lower and constant.

sometimes one big project can make a big difference, like a new rail-bridge or metro. But in general getting people into busses is more efficient even if that means rich people still won't want to get into that bus.
by vintagedave | 2025-06-30 09:26:05+00:00
> Q: Where is my financial data stored?

> A: Your financial data is stored locally on your device. ...

Good stuff! This was the first thing I checked, and it means I am now reading more about the app. Really nice to see this approach.

I know this is still WIP, but is feedback ok? The plan buttons say "Get starterd" which is a funny typo :) Also, I was not sure, but is this a website app, or a local app? For local data, I would strongly prefer an actual local app. Some screenshots of how it looks on multiple devices (directly comparable, as in, this is the same view and same data on iOS/Mac) would be great. Finally, do you have bank links? _The_ killer app I want in a personal finance app, and you'd be surprised how many make this really difficult, is to track my actual income and spending.

I signed up for your newsletter. Rare for me to do. Looking forward to hearing more!
by pwdisswordfishz | 2025-06-30 09:26:16+00:00
> But I learned something profound. Turning off all these visual aids helped me focus better on the code. I paid attention to what I was writing and kept a mental model of the available functions in my head. At some point, I could even debug errors without looking at the code.

Huh, I wonder what kind of superhuman thinking abili—

> I was lying in bed when I figured out a solution to [a trivial scope shadowing issue that IntelliJ would have highlighted in seconds].

Sigh.
by mxfh | 2025-06-30 09:26:33+00:00
Just because they are not heavily advertised, doesnt mean they don't exist.

Dacia Sandero/Duster/Spring exist. (Renault)

Citroen C1, Toyota Aygo, Peugeot 108, (VW up!.)

Considering Volkswagen Group:

With a choice of Skoda Fabia/Seat Ibiza/VW Polo you would go for Skoda or Seat, not the VW brand itself if you dont care about marque but price.

But prestige is a huge factor still, so people would still go for an overpriced Golf for no apparent other reason

Also 20k-equivalent from 2015-2019 is already above 25k just by inflation. Car manufactures have strong unions so that stuff comes around fast.

So you simply can't expect the old sub 20k cars anymore, that's 25k now.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-30 09:26:49+00:00
Anyone who can write them a cheque can also set up such a service themselves. All of the certificates are freely available in the CT logs, and every domain must have a reachable email address (or they risk their domain being taken from them). You can probably save a lot of money (and be less liable for violating spam laws) by making the free service opt-in, of course.

LE just isn't interested in maintaining such a service. Sending them money won't make them interested all of the sudden; that money can be spent better on setting up an independent free alternative.
by coldtea | 2025-06-30 09:27:30+00:00
They do have the only VR set that is user friendly enough and has enough ecosystem and apps for mass market. When they put out a future generation with lower prices, they'd get as much as possible.

Let's not forget that the iPod was a Mac only product, when the Mac just had like 3% of the market, with no Windows support and limited sales in the first versions. Or that the iPhone took a few years to dominate the market. Blackberry, Nokia and Microsoft even thought they had a chance for 3-4 years.

I wouldn't be surprised if their VR sales are already above all the other players (perhaps even combined).
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-06-30 09:27:31+00:00
I've always thought leaders resigning in the face of a problem, were doing a greater disservice. Bit of a cop out. Kind of like "Yeah I made a mess, but anyway - bye". That's when you need to rise to it and resolve the problem. 'Accepting' responsibility might please hordes of blame seekers, but it's immature and short sighted. Resolving whatever the problem is would better serve the situation.
by rsynnott | 2025-06-30 09:27:49+00:00
California has only a slightly lower population density than France. France has 27,000km of operating passenger rail tracks, California 2,600km (similar to Ireland, a country of 5 million people not noted for its public transport, with a lower population density than California).

This is a weird form of American exceptionalism where people insist that the US can't have the nice things that all other rich countries have, because Density. And this might even be true if you're talking about, say, Wyoming. But it absolutely isn't an excuse for places like California or Florida.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-06-30 09:29:07+00:00
> those prices are generally tied to financing (you really can't buy it cash at those prices, you need to finance it through them at crazy 7/8%+ rates)

I can't talk for the rest of the continent, but in the UK we've got "price on the road" advertising laws here. So if you turn up to a dealership with £20k and ask for a new car that's advertised at £20k, you'll be sold a car for £20k in cash. The dealer might try to up-sell you for financing, but you can just say "I'm paying in cash, and I don't want any extras", and they'll complete the payment & paperwork in record time so that they're able to move onto a more profitable financed sale elsewhere.
by nosianu | 2025-06-30 09:29:08+00:00
> the real alternative is that it gets thrown in the trash and wasted

My view is a bit different nowadays, but this is very much an extreme bird's eye view from very high up, looking at only the smaller processes I have no disagreement. So, my point is more like an alternative co-existing higher level view, not a replacement of what you and others say. You will still be right to want to optimize your processes of course.

I view it as different streams. Everything is a circle. There is a significant cost - energy (and time and space and effort). As long as we use ancient sun-energy dug out of the ground it's bad, but if we could power the circles with current sun energy it would not matter much.

You have one overall stream or flow, all materials, and output streams are various sizes of end products. The good stuff stream flows to the customers (and forms bigger circles), the mistakes are instead rerouted into the recycling stream.

In chemical engineering and in manufacturing you have the same. Making food, whether completely natural, or including any kind of processing even if it's just separation and packaging, will have similar properties. Quality varies, and you have additional processing streams for various qualities.

Sure, one would want to optimize the streams, but if we did not have the fossil energy source limitation, and maybe also space, if you have to go back to the growing fields, it would not matter too much.

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Imaginary picture:

Imagine in the far future somebody set up a fully automated closed system for making food, from growing to putting it in a huge cafeteria buffet, fully stocked all day. But there is no more people. As long as there is energy, food is created, processed, put on the buffet, and then recycled, since there is nobody to actually eat anything.

Is it a waste? Well, yes and no.

The whole of earth is like that!

As long as there is energy the cycles continue. What is "waste"? If you take the very big view, everything just "is".

But again, our actual limitation is the energy source for our food cycles. Using ancient stored sun energy releases the carbon stored underground, and it also slowly depletes those stores. The real problem first of all is where we get the energy for our cycles from, not really if parts of it don't make it to the end customers. Opportunity cost, what we could use the space and general effort for instead of on recycling cycles comes a distant second, I think.
by OskarS | 2025-06-30 09:30:09+00:00
Yes, but what I suspect the commenter was saying is that you can build the expression usung operator overloading as well, so you can type ”a + b”, not ”a.Add(b)”.

I love it when libraries like this do that. z3 in python is similar, you just build your constraints using normal syntax and it all just works. Great use of operator overloading.