MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by moconnor | 2025-06-30 11:25:27+00:00
No. Inflation is what we call the value of money going down. As evidenced by needing to part with more of it in exchange for a standard basket goods.

It is fundamentally different to ask whether cars cost more because money is worth less, or whether cars cost more because we are making them less efficiently.

The ancestor comment points out that most of the change can be attributed to the former and as cars are only a small percentage of the inflation basket then it is reasonable to conclude that this is indeed the prime reason for the price rise.

The fundamentals of civilization would be a lot clearer if we measured the value of things in energy instead of a floating currency.
by delfinom | 2025-06-30 11:25:29+00:00
Have you ever tried to run a Mac "professionally" as a role of a server?

It's absolute garbage. You can't even run daemons in the last few years on the mac without having an user actually log into the mac on boot. And that's just the beginning of how bad they are.

And don't get me wrong, I'm not shitting on Macs here, but Apple does not intend for them to be used as servers in the slightest.
by pseufaux | 2025-06-30 11:25:50+00:00
Environmental cost is a concern, though for me not the main one. In this case it's two things.

1. AI interactions cost the service money, which is inevitably passed on to the consumer. The if it's a feature I do not wish to use, I like to have options to avoid paying for that feature. So in this case, avoiding AI use is a purely economic decision.

2. I am concerned about the content LLMs are trained on. Every major AI has (in my opinion) stolen content as training material. I prefer not to support products which I believe are unethically built. In the future, if models can be trained solely on ethically sourced material where the authors have been properly compensated, I would think this position.
by diggan | 2025-06-30 11:25:52+00:00
> Most people can get on board with jumping spiders [...] Big eyes [...] fuzz like fur

Not knowing what spiders are "jumping spiders", I felt like those attributes are what makes many people freak out about spiders in the first place. Looked at some images and yeah, those look way worse than the spiders I have in my house, probably because of those freaky eyes and the thing having fur.
by m82labs | 2025-06-30 11:26:21+00:00
I’d be interested to see what this does to overhead costs of businesses that actually need a large vehicle.

I have a small horse farm and drive a 2010 F-150. I haul horses, 900lb. hay bales, feed, lumber for repairing fences and building shelters, etc.

If my truck breaks down I am going to have to scrape through used inventory to find something that fits my needs. I don’t need leather, 16 cameras, seat warmers, and a high end sound system. I need a truck that can get done everything I need around the farm, and I need it to be cheap enough that I’m not worried about it getting scratched.

All cars seem to be luxury vehicles now, I don’t know what folks are doing the just need something more utilitarian.
by lm28469 | 2025-06-30 11:26:44+00:00
The problem is that on the long run you lose the knowledge to produce physical goods locally, all it takes is a few years and once it's gone it's extremely hard to build it back.

The other problem is that if there is a war, a pandemic or anything impacting production and/or deliveries your country is now alone. If 80% of your economy is based on tourism and other services but what you now need are cars, masks or weapon parts you're in for a bad time

> I get that they dump loans and the government allows for subsidies.

It's the same in the US/EU, all these companies would have died long ago if they were not propped up now and then
by elif | 2025-06-30 11:28:08+00:00
I went down this route in the early 2010's. In preparation for an over landing expedition I wanted to have mechanical knowledge to be a sort of "mechanic" on the trip so I bought a bunch of "project cars" and began tinkering. While it WAS a lot of fun and I feel smarter, it was a total waste of time.

To save you all the trouble of all I went through, it was fun debugging mechanical stuff, but ultimately there is no "self-reliant car owner"

It all comes down to tools and parts. You need easy access to a lot of both or else you are limited to extremely ugly temporary fixes which amount to super gluing your engine back together.

On our overland trip, when we had an issue, it turned out impossible to fix without a massive lift and air tools, so all my years prep was essentially reduced to having a few extra words I could tell the actual mechanic capable of performing the fix.

If you still want to go down this route I recommend the book "zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" and have 4 Saabs you can have lol. I'll even throw in the clutch kit you can't install without a custom Saab tool.
by dagw | 2025-06-30 11:28:31+00:00
Everything else I can think of is more expensive in the US...food

Where in Europe are you? Because I've always found food ridiculously cheap in the US compared to the Europeans countries I've lived in or visited for an extended enough period of time that I had to regularly go food shopping (Scandinavia, UK, Germany, Switzerland). You can get 3 chickens, each 3 times the size of the chickens I'm used to, for what I pay for 2 chicken breasts. Many restaurants will give you a serving that could feed a family of 4 for what I might pay for starter back home.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-30 11:28:54+00:00
If you stick with Web 3D, no worries, because those standards by nature of the Web standards, are also like trailing behind 10 years in native 3D hardware capabilities.

Also they have the benefit of having been designed from the ground up for managed languages on the host side.

The major paint point is lack of debugging tools, as browser vendors don't see as a priority having that kind of support on their developer tools.
by CJefferson | 2025-06-30 11:29:07+00:00
Making sure that movement is validated on the server really is a reasonable requirement.

There are two main issues:

1) You typically want to let player's machines have a little knowledge the player doesn't, because if they peak around a wall, they should see an enemy, without having to wait for a round-trip before getting the information of the enemy they can see. Games often give out too much of this kind of information, but that's because it is computationally hard to figure out if a player can "almost" see an enemy.

2) Aimbots are basically impossible to check for on the server -- you can play a cat+mouse game (and games do) of seeing if players are consistently too accurate (or more likely, consistently too mechanical), but it's very hard, and player-side anti-cheat is part of trying to control this.
by lukan | 2025-06-30 11:29:25+00:00
"Game clients need to have zero trust"

Good luck implementing anything fast this way.

Have you thought about a bit, what this means?

Only ever give the client what it can see?

With common real world ping times around 60 ms?

It would result in very slow shooters. Where you have to wait a bit to see what is around the corner after going there. Not that practical.

In my opinion most anti cheat is BS anyway and even if some gets banned, the main problem is, game companies seem happy with the solution of just selling new accounts to cheaters.
by Orygin | 2025-06-30 11:29:45+00:00
Are you comparing to the car market of 50 years past to justify a vehicle that is more akin to a tank than a modern regular car?

Like you say, the term itself is meaningless but it does encompass the current class of vehicles that are needlessly big, heavy, and so high of the ground that some tanks literally have better forward vision than those SUVs.

I don't really care what Americans drove 50 years ago, I care that most cars sold here (EU) are way oversized for practically no reason that the consumer cares about.
by llm_nerd | 2025-06-30 11:32:13+00:00
The corollary of this is that some people lie and claim that people are paying to shortcut to credibility or legitimacy.

And to be clear, I am not talking about this submission (which I didn't read, and from other comments is charity-driven regardless), but this industry is absolutely rife with Fake It Till You Make It people who claim they can barely contain the hordes clamouring to give them money and super high-paying consulting gigs. But then it's coupled with a beg that makes everything previously said look super questionable, yet somehow people buy it.

It's the supermodel girlfriend that lives in Canada.
by diggan | 2025-06-30 11:32:18+00:00
> Plus, conservative people tend to be older

The article says:

> However, the most promising of these, a mission named OSIRIS-Apex that breathes new life into an old spacecraft that otherwise would drift into oblivion, is slated for cancellation by the Trump White House's budget for fiscal year 2026.

I won't claim to be an expert in US politics, but doesn't budget bills need to be approved/passed by both the house, senate and various committees? And then members of both parties, including every Democrat, still get to vote at it in multiple stages, so once it's actually implemented, it's by design kind of approved by both sides?

In the end, old people from both sides seem to have zero regard for future generations, and from the outside, those old people seem to exist and be in power on both sides of your limited political spectrum.
by matus_congrady | 2025-06-30 11:32:29+00:00
v3 of https://stacktape.com

Stacktape is a PaaS that deploy to user's own AWS account.

v3 adds many new features, but namely the ability to generate IaC config directly from code, by analyzing the user's repository (both deterministically and using multiple AI techniques).

For example, if it assumes your application is a Web API that uses Postgres and Redis, it will create a Stacktape IaC config that deploys Fargate container, load balancer, Aurora Serverless v2 Postgres and Elasticache Redis (behind the scenes it will also configure things like networking, VPC, security groups, IAM, etc.)

Launching this weekend.
by MezzoDelCammin | 2025-06-30 11:33:06+00:00
thanks for this one. I've just printed my first two stacks of Multiboard for the office after only reading the license summary.

The way they play with "Designed Works" and "commercial use" is really pretty weird. I kinda understand the aim - it's just one guy who's probably trying to make a startup out of this and is kinda hedging his bases against someone coming up with an injection moulded copy on Aliexpress. But the way "commercial use" is left vague is pretty sketchy. Is e.g. "background of an office in a youtube video" considered "commercial use"?

That being said, I guess I'll still finish at least one wall with it. I've used a few pegboards over the years and in my experience, these things don't die on licensing. They die on the fact that the manufacturer stops making them / switches to a different size / type. Here I can at least save the STLs and reprint the stuff as needed.
by VonTum | 2025-06-30 11:33:10+00:00
I am building a Hardware Design Language for FPGA accelerators.

The big trick or the language is that it doesn't hide the pipelining you have to do to up your FMax, instead, you can manually add register stages in the places they're important, and the compiler will synchronize the other paths.

A really neat trick with this pipelining system is that submodules can respond to the amount of pipelining around them (through inferring template parameters). This way the programmer really doesn't have to think about the pipelining they do add. Examples are a FIFO's almost_full treshold, inferring how many simultaneous state there needs to be for a pipelined loop, inferring the depth of BRAM shift regs, etc.

https://sus-lang.org

https://github.com/pc2/sus-compiler
by vaxman | 2025-06-30 11:33:44+00:00
The Way is to build another high-speed rail line connecting Tucson to the new [Brightline West high-speed rail] station in Las Vegas (stopping in Bullhead and Henderson), then a new segment from Vegas up to SLC. The Brightline West line under construction now should also be extended down from Rancho Cucamonga to Phoenix (stopping in Temecula and San Diego). A Boring Company loop is also badly needed to connect Temecula and Irvine (underneath the Cleveland National Forest), maybe meeting Brightline in Temecula and Metrostink in Irvine. It's probably also possible to do something like close the existing freeways during certain hours, like the Silver State Classic Challenge does annually, and run 200mph (Tesla) cars and 100mph electric semis, so Brightline doesn't need to be involved, but it's really not that hard to just lay e-train tracks out.

Why?

Because connecting existing cities with 220-250mph trains will maximize the current US Southwest infrastructure so we do not need to develop new federal lands.

[PS: The BLM and non-BLM region between Phoenix and Vegas is laced with Naturally Occurring Asbestos and the BLM region between Vegas and Tonopah, East to California is largely still radioactive or in active use by the federal government, so unsuitable for new city development.]
by silverliver | 2025-06-30 11:33:48+00:00
A only have one question: Why is this time different from the countless times this happened before?

Hasn't humanity already decided on the worth(lessness) of the people living there? That their suffering and death is worth the cause? Why is their treatment bothering people now? Is it because of the manner it was done? Or maybe, just maybe, its people are starting to realize that everyone's worth is intrinsically the same and when you willingly let others devalue the worth of human beings, you inadvertently let them devalue the worth of yourself and the ones your care about too. Watch, this is the fate that likely awaits most of us, including you.
by shadowgovt | 2025-06-30 11:34:19+00:00
Pneumonia doesn't have any societal benefit. The process by which we decide if the law was broken and punishment necessary has obvious benefit. If you mean we should seek a cure for dangerous suicidal depression, I agree. But you surely are not suggesting that, for example, has Swartz been accused of embezzlement that the state drop out finish the charges purely because he's a suicide risk; how would that be just to the people who were stolen from?

And it's a point of semantics, but no; we generally don't say people who died by suicide died by the things going on in their life when they ended it. Everybody has stressors. The suicidal also have mental illness. Mr. Swartz had self-documented his past suicidal ideation.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-06-30 11:35:34+00:00
99% of people with an SUV will never use the "sport utility" aspect of it, and they could do all of the things you listed better with a minivan (Sienna/Odyssey/etc).

But the driver would have to sit lower in a minivan. Which is what SUVs are really about, the ego boost one gets from sitting higher up (and the associated feelings with being able to not have to settle for a minivan, and being able to waste a little money).
by martinald | 2025-06-30 11:35:47+00:00
Does have an impact though checking in at the last minute (whether it is 1h55 though I couldn't say, but you do need a cut off). If you can get everyone checked in as early as possible then you can do a lot of the preflight calculations earlier and be more likely to leave on time.

I'm feeling like some Ryanair apologist, which I'm not, I just think that it's a bit reductive to go "boarding pass costs x when it is a piece of paper!". If you listen to LCCs talk about their operations you start realising these fees are not solely about money but efficiency via incentives.

NB one thing I'd slate Ryanair for is only opening check in 24 hours before unless you have priority, that is extremely annoying and definitely designed to push you to priority.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-06-30 11:35:47+00:00
From https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/apophis/

> Near-Earth asteroid Apophis is a potentially hazardous asteroid that will safely pass close to Earth on April 13, 2029. It will come about 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) from our planet’s surface — closer than the distance of many satellites in geosynchronous orbit (about 22,236 miles, or 36,000 kilometers, in altitude).

> When Apophis was discovered in 2004, it appeared the asteroid could potentially impact Earth in the coming decades. Astronomers closely tracked the asteroid, and now NASA is confident that there is no risk of Apophis impacting our planet for at least 100 years.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-30 11:35:53+00:00
Yes.

Prices are all jacked up vs what you get because a historical surplus of very well kept cars on the used market has lead to every idiot on the internet being told they're somehow magical.

A badge on the grill doesn't make 100k the of uber miles that the 3rd owner put on or being habitually driven low on some key fluid by the 4th owner any less destructive.
by JohnKemeny | 2025-06-30 11:35:55+00:00
Related:

For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time. 343 points, 139 comments, 39 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44055347

You need much less memory than time. 126 points, 11 comments, 22 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44212855
by rovr138 | 2025-06-30 11:36:11+00:00
> if that’s true about them planning to remotely nerf everyone’s product

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/16233096?hl=en

> Upcoming end of support for Nest Learning Thermostats (1st and 2nd gen)

> Nest has announced the end of support for Nest Learning Thermostats (1st and 2nd gen). Your thermostat will no longer connect to or work in the Google Nest app or Google Home app starting on October 25, 2025.
by petesergeant | 2025-06-30 11:36:21+00:00
This really is the dumbest bill of all time. Increases the national debt while decreasing government services to reliable Republican voters, to benefit the least popular people in America. It is shockingly unpopular, and the more voters learn about it, the more they dislike it. The lack of opposition by the GOP is going to sink them in the midterms.
by BerzerkerOne | 2025-06-30 11:36:27+00:00
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by attendant3446 | 2025-06-30 11:37:11+00:00
Does it actually cost the airline more money to allow this? They already allow underseat luggage, where you can store even heavier bags. They were limiting the size of the bag unnecessarily (even though there is plenty of room under the seat for a bigger bag).

I think they will raise the prices at first, but eventually they will find another way to extort money from passengers and having a reasonably sized carry-on bag will become norm.
by holowoodman | 2025-06-30 11:37:17+00:00
It's just a difference in aims and circumstances. Japan has multiple train companies operating different networks, so a separate network was the only thing they could build. France accepted the compromise that high-speed TGV stations are far outside of the city areas, like airports, which makes nominal travel times fast, but the first and last miles will always be slow local trains to the city centre. Germany wanted ICE passengers to arrive at the central train station of a city, so using the existing train network at least partially is the only possibility. China has larger distances and no preexisting dense network, so building separate and dedicated is easier. Also, they maybe don't fuss about tearing down a few buildings and disowning a few home-owners who are in the way of their new dedicated high-speed route and station.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-06-30 11:38:35+00:00
More like extra 2 or 3 years, so yes, yay. Consumption is consumption, you don't get things for free.

If the phone only lasted 1 more year, then the resale price of the phone would reflect that. Either the collective market of buyers lacks the information to evaluate this (doubt), or you got lucky finding the one buyer willing to overpay.

You also always pay full price, because when you buy a new phone (or anything), you always have the option to buy the used or keep using the old one. Cost is opportunity cost, which is defined as your choice minus your second best choice.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-06-30 11:38:42+00:00
But we the citizens have very limited possiblities of what to do... we can vote for basically one of two options and that's it, and both options are bad. Newcomers have no chance of breaking through (unless they're cherry picked by one of the options and pumped up by the media... which one side does every 4 years).

The government has the monopoly on violence. We pay the government, we pay the people that should check that they didn't do anything bad/wrong (police, anti-corruption services, etc.), we pay the court system, but they don't do anything. Things that work in every corporation (eg. procurement offices and oversight over them) are broken in many if not all governments, including ours.

If the government wants trust, then they must earn it. So far they haven't. And I'm talking about the whole pyramid, from the top politicians, to the lowest traffic police officer not doing his/her job. And in the system where a politician steals money, the investigators dont investigate and the courts don't prosecute, we can reduce the money they get, because they obviously are not doing the jobs we are paying them for. Jail 10, 20 politicians, and I'll gladly support more investigators (paid by the taxpayers). If they don't, we don't need the ones we already have.
by lsharkey602 | 2025-06-30 11:38:54+00:00
See also:

Engineering / programming entry level jobs down by one third: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/23/fears-of-ai-...

Finance / corporate sectors entry level jobs down by one third: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/22/city-giants-...
by wiz21c | 2025-06-30 11:39:04+00:00
You couldn't know, but my job is 50% about optimizing computational workloads. But many times, when questionning my users, it happens that they want an optimisation for some code that will run 2 or 3 times. So eventhough they'll have to wait a week for the computation to run, it'll take me just as much time to make the optimisation run :-)

But if code happens to be used 10 times a week and takes about a day or two to run, it's a no brainer: spending a month optimizing for 10% speed increase is worth it !
by whizzter | 2025-06-30 11:39:33+00:00
I think what GP was referring to that there is nothing stopping the code from being designed so that:

AST<float> p1 = exp.GetP1();

AST<float> rsqr = p1 * p1; // AST<float> implements an operator* overload that produces an AST<float> object

Even if many frown upon operator overloading due to the annoying magical-ness of the standard-librarys appropriation of the shift operators for "piping" (<< and >>), it's still what makes many people prefer C++ for vector-math,etc tasks.

So whilst the result isn't a direct multiplication it should still be an acceptable use since the resulting code will actually be doing multiplications.

Considering what goes on under the hood however, I guess there might be some compiler optimization reasons to keep everything in the expression object in the example as the holder of data instead of spread out in an allocation tree with lots of pointer-chasing.