MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by darkwizard42 | 2025-06-30 10:35:59+00:00
Given that the car drops nearly 50% value as it leaves the lot, I'm not sure how this every pencils out before maybe 10 years 100k+ miles...Maybe these days given how hot the used car market is (driven by the expensive nature of newer vehicles), but again this is a chicken/egg problem.

Your loan is exceedingly abnormal or from a past time as the average loan % in the US is much higher on that time scale.
by foldr | 2025-06-30 10:36:42+00:00
Not at all. The only reason I ever go into an Apple Store is that I know I won’t get pressured to buy something. But I do replace my iPhone and my MacBook every few years, and on some level, the Apple Store being a relaxing environment to browse Apple products probably contributes to that. Apple isn’t trying to sell you a new laptop right here right now. They’re smarter than that.
by saltvedt | 2025-06-30 10:38:11+00:00
Norsk Tipping has recently gotten fines (46MNok and 36MNok) from the gaming authorities for other issues:

https://www.vg.no/sport/i/KMAxP4/varsler-gigantbot-til-norsk...

https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/norsk-tipping-far-bot-pa-36-mil...
by tialaramex | 2025-06-30 10:38:37+00:00
I strongly recommend building affirmative detection. A script which checks everything is OK and either tells everybody "Yeah, everything is OK" or "Here are the problems" means when, inevitably, that script doesn't fire, you don't get the false impression everything is OK.

All "silent success" detection systems will also silently fail and so they're worse than useless in my experience.
by retsibsi | 2025-06-30 10:38:49+00:00
> Which means, perhaps we don't need to worry so much about that particular failure mode.

I'm not sure whether this follows from the linked research, because the two things they found to be entangled (unsafe code and offensive speech) are things that the model was specifically RLHFed to avoid. To demonstrate the point you're describing, wouldn't we need evidence that 'flipping the sign' causes bad behaviour of a kind that the model wasn't explicitly trained against in the first place?
by kleiba | 2025-06-30 10:39:15+00:00
I'm not about this whole discussion - go to your favorite car sales website and filter for new cars and, say, 20,000 Euros. I see roughly 7000 cars for sale in Germany on mobile.de - of course, a lot of them will be instances of the same type of car, but there is variety and offers from multiple brands, both international and European.
by general1726 | 2025-06-30 10:39:46+00:00
Write a lambda in some cloud provider framework and run it every 1 hour to 24 hours and if it finds expired certificate, it will use webhooks to send you a message on Slack or Gotify or whatever.

Or you can just periodically renew the certificate on server using Task Scheduler + win-acme or Cron and certbot.
by cluckindan | 2025-06-30 10:41:48+00:00
You could get a table mat with a measuring grid and take photographs of the object from different sides; three or more depending on how much asymmetric features the object has. Go as far away from the object as possible and use maximum zoom to get as close to isometric perspective as possible. If it’s not a very thick object, this method is millimeter accurate. With larger objects, the perspective will lead to slightly larger measurements at the object extremities: edges closest to the camera will be enlarged.

Then, in your CAD program, set up the photos as backgrounds for different perspective views.

Or, obviously, get a 3D scanner and live with the point cloud mesh approximations, it’s probably less of a hassle.

Or… just get a good set of calipers and a radius measuring tool.
by dagw | 2025-06-30 10:41:58+00:00
the more popular a place is the less inclined I am to visit it

While I don't disagree with you per se, it is also worth remembering that most super popular places are super popular for a reason, and there often is a good reason to see it for yourself. I was indifferent towards Eiffel Tower for example, until I actually was in Paris and climbed up it and got to really see and experience the scale and design and engineering that went into building it up close. Now I get why the Eiffel Tower is considered impressive.

Same with Venice. You can read about it and look at pictures, but until I walked up and down all the streets and alleyways, and went into the old buildings, I never really got what a truly interesting and unique piece of urban planning Venice really is, and what efforts must have gone into building and maintaining it. Now when I read about the history of Venice it comes alive in a much different way than before I visited.

Same story with Sagrada Familia, Notre Dame, St Peter’s Basilica, most of the major art museums etc. etc.

So as much as dislike 'tourist traps' I'm at the same time super glad that I've gotten a chance to visit most of the big ones, and don't regret the time I had to spend to do so.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-30 10:42:04+00:00
> I am surprised no one mentioned the 'SUV loophole' of US regulations that effectively boosted the SUVs (off-road vehicles are classified as non-passenger automobiles with everything that entails, notably much less stringent emission standards) and made the small cars unprofitable to make in comparison.

This has become the irrelevant part because "does it have an electric motor in the powertrain" has become more important to fuel economy than vehicle size. There are hybrid SUVs that get better MPG than non-hybrid sedans, to say nothing of the full electric ones.

Which is another reason the average price is increasing. Hybrids have a lower TCO even though they have a higher initial purchase price. People who can do the math realize that paying more up front for a hybrid or full electric is paying less long-term. But then the market for lower priced new cars declines, because the people who can afford a new car can afford to pay a little extra for long-term savings and most of the people who can't afford to do that were buying used to begin with.
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-06-30 10:42:40+00:00
Agreed. It’s about priorities and tradeoffs.

I’ve been impressed with how much I get on the free tier (my sites are small). With the DDoS protections, rate limit, WAF rules, and Turnstile, it feels like I can keep a significant amount of abusive traffic from reaching my host. It’s a pretty compelling tradeoff for me, anyway.
by ta1243 | 2025-06-30 10:43:32+00:00
My ipad uses ligtning, my kindle uses usb-mini, as does almost every other rechargable thing I have, from torches to portable fans.

My headphones are USB-C and by far the most unreliable. The switch uses USB-C too, but that sits in its dock.

My laptop will use USB-C, but only for some combinations of cables and chargers.

If USB-C was as reliable and dependable as USB-A I wouldn't have a problem.
by scott_w | 2025-06-30 10:43:48+00:00
You're still inferring too much from it. Remember, this was a viral video, so there's also the simple explanation that it might have been staged. If it weren't, there are some really obviously, mundane, reasons that have nothing to do with money. Examples: the people paying saw the people getting free hugs and not getting stabbed, so they were willing to trust the stranger.
by xiaohull | 2025-06-30 10:44:04+00:00
I built https://wherevernow.com/ to solve three visceral problems:

News Perspective Gap Compare how major events are reported by local vs international outlets (e.g. Taiwan election coverage in Taipei Times vs BBC)

Price Transparency Settle debates like "Are Xiaohongshu prices real?" by checking identical products on U.S/Walmart and China/JD.com simultaneously

Authentic Connections Join discussions on 2channel (Japan) or Reddit (Brazil) without VPN, preserving original language/cultural context

Tech approach: Country-specific keyword routing (like valentin.app for search) Lightweight proxies to bypass geo-blocks (no data storage) Crowdsourced local portal directory Would love feedback from globetrotting hackers!
by maz1b | 2025-06-30 10:44:08+00:00
I'm working on MedAngle, the world's first Super App for current + future doctors. An invite only platform, which has everything people in medschool/dental school and recent graduates need. From analytics, quizzes, summaries, x-rays , videos to tens of thousands of questions, ~100k+ students/doctors have solved over 100m questions, spent 10s of billions of seconds, and growing!

We're also working on the Premed Super App, same thing for people taking medical school entry exams like the MCAT or MDCAT.

I get to work with a bunch of top notch students and doctors, and I myself am the first ever full-stack technologist who also is a doctor in Pakistan, a country of 250 million people.
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by andrej-wp | 2025-06-30 10:44:58+00:00
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by KaiserPro | 2025-06-30 10:45:10+00:00
Aure, but that only covers a year or so. Its an extra operating expense that might or might not cause them to cut other things to fund.

Its not only the service cost, but as they say, it costs engineering hours, which could be spent elsewhere.

Moreover, SSL cert age check should be something you're looking out for, or letting certbot restart your service for you.
by theospeak | 2025-06-30 10:45:14+00:00
You are going to rue the day. Enjoy your temporary comforts. You got so used to speaking of other people that are not in your demographic (especially Africans) as almost human that Africa will also not shed a tear should America be gone tomorrow And yes, we will survive your abscence, like we had since the beginning of time Tick tock (Or Tik Tok:-), more aptly)
by alerighi | 2025-06-30 10:45:55+00:00
Yes, if they would make a basic car like in the past I would buy it. Everyone has to sell you too much, I want a simple car, I don't want either the stereo, I will add my own later (I can put it one that is better than the factory one for a cheaper price, but in a modern car replacing the stereo is almost impossible). There are a ton of useless sensors, the sensor that tells you if you have a flat tire (I think I can notice myself), the emergency call button (while everyone has a mobile phone these days), automatic regulating seats (pulling a lever is too much difficult), dual zone clima control (it's the same space in the same car, why I would want to set 2 different temperatures?), etc.

And in all this useless things that they put in a car, they no longer provide you with a spare tire, just an useless repair kit...
by jamager | 2025-06-30 10:47:09+00:00
> What is "good for one's brain" (apart from proper nutrition and absence of concussions) is a strong education and healthy lifelong social interactions

Sure, but I think this is more about the fact that what you don't use, you lose. Learning languages is hard, so even learning old Greek keeps you brain sharp as long as you enjoy it to some extent.

Gym for the brain is good, what you do with it can be better, but gym is still good.
by account42 | 2025-06-30 10:48:05+00:00
> I don't understand what exactly is going on in the US, but there seems to have been a similar taboo, though maybe stemming from different sources (like that Evangelical end-of-days prophecy that sees Israel literally as part of a divine plan that trumps everything else).

It's also that the American mythos that they were the saviors of WWII requires there to be villains and innocent damsels. If you acknowledge that those damsels are themselves capable of being villains then it makes the whole thing much more "complicated".

That and simply the fact that lots of Jews hold positions of power in the US.

> "unsinkable aircraft carrier" [...] in the region

The IDF might disagree.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-30 10:48:38+00:00
Except they're not though. Buyers are juggling many more criteria and safety is only a "nice to have" after fitness for purpose is achieved. Like no amount of internet fanboys screeching about Volvo's safety record will make someone who wants a roadster buy one over a Miata.

While I'm sure there is some amount of the affect you're describing the lion's share of it is likely CAFE rules favoring larger footprint vehicles effectively discounting SUVs causing them to be a better bang for your buck.

>It's not clear at all to me how a crash involving two SUVs is much safer than,

It is by the simple physics of having more distance to dissipate force over and less distance between the occupants and stuff in the cabin.

> This all points towards a runaway tragedy of the commons that can be solved by limiting vehicle mass.

Which will never happen because the same exact upper middle class demographics that screech all over the internet about safety are the exact same people who would see their buying choices degrade as a result of such.
by alerighi | 2025-06-30 10:49:17+00:00
You can always get an used car for practically any amount of money. A lot of time an used car is even more reliable than a new shiny car full of useless electronic components.

To me buying new cars is just throwing away money, simply because at the moment you brought the car out from the dealer the car just is worth 3/4 of the price you payed it, and when you have to resell it in 10 years it is worth almost nothing.
Show HN: InvoiceFast – Generate clean, compliant invoices in seconds
by skyzouw | 2025-06-30 10:49:32+00:00
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by klabb3 | 2025-06-30 10:49:36+00:00
I know very little about cars but it seems to be on parity with the rest of the market. The days of Chinesium are over. Or rather, you’re seeing very similar quality no matter which country the product was ”designed” in, as they like to put it. All of the old quality consumer brands have cheaped out and are same or worse than no-name brands on Amazon. I just bought a Miele vacuum that’s ”designed in Germany”. Very flimsy build quality.

So why not skip the middleman and go directly to the source? The only annoyance for me is the ridiculous white labeling. Most no-name brands are seemingly coming from the same factories / same designs, so it’s often impossible to find quality reviews. Probably partly Bezos fault because Amazons review system are less trustworthy than a used car dealership. So I’d rather pay more for known flaws than the hit-or-miss gamble of no-name brands with fake reviews. I hope Chinese merchants catch up, because they’re losing customers for no particularly good reason. I just want the reviews, warts and all.
by skyzouw | 2025-06-30 10:49:43+00:00
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by diggan | 2025-06-30 10:49:56+00:00
> Why do people want to reuse toilet paper rolls?

Because some of us have like 200 cables, and toilet paper rolls is a cheap but effective way of getting some control over these :) And besides, I'm sure that my fingers and feet are more dirty when I touch/move any of the cables, than the toilet paper rolls that spent a couple of days in a bathroom.
by helloplanets | 2025-06-30 10:50:36+00:00
True, it can't be saved from that at all. But it can still automatically keep a log of the whole process, instead of you having to do it manually, so it's easier to keep track what's going on for you as well. The AI agent can just automatically call back and wait for arbitrary amounts of time, as the assumption would be it has its own virtual phone number that can just keep chugging along without clogging up your actual phone.

If a company is essentially refusing to give customer service by hanging up or trapping callers in infinite loops, it's good to at least have a log of the whole process, without the customer having to risk their own sanity.
by vbezhenar | 2025-06-30 10:52:01+00:00
I don't think that's the whole story. There's no documented way to escape the container. The kernel provides namespace isolation which should be foolproof by design. You might argue, that there were many bugs which allowed to escape the container and probably more bugs will be found in the future. However it does not mean, that it's fair to call it "inconvenience". I don't know any zero-day bugs in Linux and probably neither you. And it would take me a lot of effort to even attempt to find one.
by sfn42 | 2025-06-30 10:52:27+00:00
Well said.

Another example of this is using the right algorithm for the job. I see a lot of code like let's say you have two lists and you need to go through the first one and find the corresponding element by id in the second. The naive implementation uses linear search of the second list, making the algorithm O(n^2). This will stall and take hours, days or longer to run when the lists get large, say into the tens to hundreds of thousands of elements.

If both lists come from your own database then you should have used a foreign key constraint and had the database join them for you. If you can't do that, let's say one or both lists come from a third-party api, you can create a dictionary(hashmap) of the second list to allow O(1) lookup rather than O(n) which brings your full algorithm's complexity to O(n). Now the you can have millions of elements and it'll still run in milliseconds or seconds. And if this is something you need to do very often then consider storing the second list in your database so you can use a join instead. Avoid doing the work, as you say.

These are the most common mistakes I see people make. That and situations where you make one request, wait for a response, then use that to make another request, wait for response and so on.

You don't need a profiler to avoid this type of problem, you just need to understand what you're doing at a fundamental level. Just use a dictionary by default, it doesn't matter if it might be slightly slower for very small inputs - it'll be fast enough and it'll scale.
by tasuki | 2025-06-30 10:52:34+00:00
> to screw over thousands of people who had really come depend on these programs

So? Should they have been obliged to fund this indefinitely forever and ever? Would you not say the "CZI has promised a parting gift totaling $50 million to the community" part is a little redeeming?

Would you have preferred Zuck to have bought moar yachts instead of supporting education, however briefly?
by greatgib | 2025-06-30 10:53:07+00:00
This "study" still looks fishy to me. It's not a study but a kind survey about what "experts" think about other existing studies.

There might be a huge political bias in the experts opinion that might be motivated to push an agenda.

Also it might be tempting for them to shout for the wolf as it will make them appear like "savior" of kids and "acting to change the world" instead of just saying "nothing to see there".

My personal opinion is that all their results are circumstantial and might easily be a huge case of cause and correlation being mixed up.

For example, in many countries educated people are reluctant to make kids. Is it due to depression due to smartphone/social network or that the world currently is fucked up and going worse day after day?

Sure, in 1984 kind of countries like north Korea or China where information is tightly controlled to only be positive, people might look to be less depressed, but then it is the story of "Brave new world"...
by alerighi | 2025-06-30 10:53:14+00:00
Maybe houses made out of paper that you have in the US would, since just after 100 years they have to be demolished and built again. But houses made of concrete, that we have in Europe, just increase in value.

Yes, maybe you have to renovate the interiors, such as new floors, new electrical/hydraulic, new heating system, etc., but that is usually a small expense in contrast with the price of building an house from scratch.
by diggan | 2025-06-30 10:53:19+00:00
> Photogrammetry is one. Generally results in messy geometry though and tolerances get finicky.

The trick is a hybrid approach, use photogrammetry to get a draft model into whatever environment you use (like Blender or whatever), then use that for creating the high-quality cutout manually, which will be very easy with a in-place 3D draft model right in the scene.
by ta1243 | 2025-06-30 10:53:39+00:00
Nobody I know buys a new phone until the battery dies on the old one.

Are you saying that modern airpods don't do bluetooth? And aren't supported on the iphone 11? People have used bluetooth headphones for 20 years. Why would apply regress?

> Yea man. That feature existed on Windows 3.1, ergo nobody should or would want to buy the next iPhone.

The point is it's software, which will run just as fine on a supercomputer from 2 years ago as it will on today. What features does an iphone 15 (14? 16? whatever) have that an 11 doesn't have to allow these features?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxrv97djw9o

> The tech spec of every new handset camera is usually an improvement on the previous generation. But even this isn’t a guaranteed sales generator any more.

> “What is definitely happening is that people are holding on to their phones for longer. Back in 2013 there were 30 million phones sold annually,” adds Mr Wood. “This year it will be around 13.5 million.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/latest-smartphone-iphone-...

> Nearly nine in 10 adults think buying the latest smartphone is a “waste of money”. Research polling 2,000 Britons revealed more than half are “bored” of trying to keep up-to-date with the latest tech. And three in four are no longer willing to pay a fortune to get it. As a result, almost a third intend to spend less on smartphones and other gadgets over the next two years.
by stonecharioteer | 2025-06-30 10:53:42+00:00
I'm thinking about my career and where I'm to go next. Some times I feel I haven't gone deeply enough into the tech I use, and some times I feel like I'm barely scratching the surface of what I've already learnt in my life. I'm not sure what the answer is, at some companies I feel like I'm not enough and at others I feel like I'm surrounded by BS that doesn't deserve a chance. I wonder also if this is the end of my career, but I do enjoy software to be honest, and I love building things even today.