MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rayiner | 2025-07-24 14:58:41+00:00
This might be colored by the fact that we're a Toyota family, but we have a 2024 and love it. It's well-built, trouble-free, and predictable implementation of EV technology that's a cycle or two behind Tesla in terms of range and charging speed. I think the 2023 had some failure modes in cold weather, but the 2024 fixes those. It's fine, not great, on fast charging speeds. We get around 220 miles range, dropping to 190 in January/February when the temperature drops into the 30s here in Maryland. Right now it's reporting 3.7 miles per kWh, which is a tick behind what you'd get in a Model Y.

I get the criticism--why pay Tesla prices to fall 10-20% short of Tesla specs? But the fit and finish is a cut above the Model Ys we drove, the ride is very comfortable, and the electronic features are, while more primitive, more intuitive and predictable. We'll probably get the 2025 to replace our Subaru Forester (which we've been very unhappy with in terms of reliability). I hear the 2025 model squeezes another 30 miles or so out of the battery, which would enable us to make the trip to NYC on a single charge, which is the only complaint we have.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-24 14:58:48+00:00
Post-2000 the problem is not that we lack a theory of quantum gravity, it's that there are a large number of approaches to quantum gravity [1] but no experiment that can pick out one of them. The most valuable theoretical work now is that which proves certain approaches are dead ends -- the demolition of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly_special_relativity is one of the best things that happened in the last 20 years as I see it.

So, to parody the VISA ad, "new theory of quantum gravity: 50 cents, experiment that reveals something about quantum gravity: priceless"

[1] I count 25 here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity#Candidate_theo...
by altcognito | 2025-07-24 14:58:49+00:00
I mean, there's always been a grey area even when it came to tiny snippets in the results, though those actually encouraged you to click through when you found the right result.

The beginning of the end was including Wikipedia entries directly in the search results, although arguably even some of the image results are high quality enough to warrant skipping visiting the actual website (if you were lucky enough to get the image at the target site in the first place) So maybe it goes back sooner than that.
by CivBase | 2025-07-24 14:58:59+00:00
I wonder how much of this is reaction to Elon and how much is a reaction to the cyber truck.

For me personally, any consoderation I had for purchasing a Tesla has died thanks to the cyber truck. Its well-documented littany of defects and design flaws has killed my faith in Tesla to successfully iterate and improve on their existing fleet. It just feels a lot safer now to stick with incumbent auto manufacturers - even for EVs.
by Rooster61 | 2025-07-24 14:59:05+00:00
Interesting that the size of the ice is not mentioned. I find large pieces of ice to be ideal as they cool the drink for longer yet don't overly water down the drink due to less surface area melting off.

Also, I HATE when bartenders add too little ice to shaken drinks and end up shaking it to oblivion. Makes me not want to order drinks from that particular bar.
by siliconc0w | 2025-07-24 14:59:13+00:00
If you eat 4k calories but burn 5k, you'll lose a lot more weight than if you ate 1000 and burned 2000.

So running can help but you still need a calorie deficit. Eating and burning more boosts your metabolism - if you measure a body builder during a bulk they are like a furnace, burning 1-2k over baseline. They still put on fat but it's a lot less than what you'd think given the amounts they're eating.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-24 15:00:03+00:00
I get that the focus has shifted to the robotaxi, and that the service is now running in some capacity in Austin. And the analysts and forecasters all run the numbers on a nationwide rollout, but what I don't see:

Will people actually get into a Robotaxi? Between a mix of distrust of the software and the general anti-musk sentiment, will they actually get the riders needed to fill their $1T valuation shoes?
by glimshe | 2025-07-24 15:00:16+00:00
You can learn a lot from Scratch, that's for sure. I'm not saying it's bad, it's actually a decent learning tool. But I think it's a step back from BASIC.

You could code a ton of fairly decent games, utilities and even full applications in BASIC. While that's theoretically possible in Scratch, it's a lot more cumbersome. Scratch feels more like a puzzle game than a real programming language. BASIC, especially the later, better dialects, could do it all. With 2 very understandable lines:

10 PRINT "glimshe rulez!"

20 GOTO 10

You could teach that the computer is under your command and you can ask it to do work for you nonstop. It teaches a bit of I/O, program sequence and loops. No stupid "main" functions, indentation nonsense, cryptic library includes or cumbersome drag-and-drop. The simplicity of the code above is one of the treasures of computing history. 90% or more of humanity can quickly understand these two lines and I super disagree with Dijkstra about BASIC.

It was at the same time a teaching tool and a professional programming language (although, arguably, not amazing at that).
by xyst | 2025-07-24 15:00:39+00:00
Blaming tariffs when it was the greed of Wall Street, private equity, hedge funds, "corporate raiders" that ultimately shipped manufacturing overseas. All of this under decades of psuedo-economic theory called neoclassical economics. Then this is taken further under neoliberal economic policy — "reagonomics" and "trickle down economics".

These greedy fucks in the 1970s sold out current generations so they could min/max profit for themselves and billionaire buddies. All of this at the expense of decimating: local manufacturing industries, environment, public safety nets, and sustainable living.
by superkuh | 2025-07-24 15:00:41+00:00
>you acknowledge that rustup not being in any given distro's repo isn't something that the Rust developers have control over

The lack is a consequence of the type of language rust developers chose to be. One that is constantly, rapidly (over just a few months) changing itself in forwards incompatible ways. Other languages don't really have this problem. Even c++ you only have breaking changes every 3-4 years which can be handled by repos. But 3 months old rustc in $distro repos is already fairly useless. Not because rust is a bad language, but because the types of people that write in rust are all bleeding edge early adopters and always use $latest when writing. In another decade or so when the rust developer demographics even out a bit it will probably be okay.
by 71153750 | 2025-07-24 15:01:20+00:00
This reminds a little of Usain Bolt famously having chicken nuggets before his final at the Beijing Olympics. Although hardly indicative of a bad diet that he may or may not have had.

I think as well there is some difficulty with variability between people that isn't clear or maybe doesn't matter at scale. The article linked study was across 43 nations with 4213 adults. Yet there may still be individuals who can argue differently. CICO (calories in vs calories out) must apply to us all, but the composition has an affect on what the body chooses to store vs how energised or hungry/satiated we feel. A bad diet could perhaps me we feel we have less enthusiasm for running or other activities. Age, lifestyle, and even cultural factors are massive in affecting metabolism (more the foremost) and of course what we consume (the latter two).

I run a fair amount (over 2000km/1200 miles in 2025) and find that once I start doing above ~70km/43 miles in a week whatever eating habits I have are indeed outcompeted by my running and weight loss is inevitable. Even so it does slow around a BMI of 23 for me for longer than I am able to be consistent with the running to observe further effects. Still my point is that my diet isn't anything to write home about and I anecdotally I feel that as far as weightloss is concerned I can very much outrun it.
by Beijinger | 2025-07-24 15:01:20+00:00
"But companies found another way to uniquely identify you across different sessions and websites without using cookies or other persistent storage. It’s called web fingerprinting. Fingerprinting is a more sophisticated approach to identify a user among millions of others. It works by studying your web browser and hardware configuration. Many websites use a fingerprinting library to generate a unique ID. This library collects data from multiple JavaScript APIs offered by your web browser. For example, websites can see web browser version, number of CPUs on your device, screen size, number of touchpoints, video/audio codecs, operating system and many other details that you would not want a typical news website to see."

My "rugged" browser for regular browsing has plug-ins that randomize all this data.
by therealpygon | 2025-07-24 15:01:21+00:00
To be clear, I haven’t used jj so please correct any misundersrandings. I hear you and agree that smaller PRs are definitely easier to understand. On the flip side, it sounds like jj just trades large PRs for lots and lots of smaller, independent PRs that are seemingly unrelated despite all belonging to the same change? I wouldn’t see that as better because, on face, it would sound like far more opportunity for changes to leak out of an actual change-set. Or is the suggestion that the advantage is that each one of those discrete changes carries a comment? Because if developers are lazy, which clearly it is laziness to not use stash for unrelated changes, why wouldn’t I expect every comment to eventually be “{feature}” for everything? So now we need to put more policies in place about how devs should spend more time commenting every one-line code change they make that became an individual PR? And I’m sure jj is going to provide me with a handy feature for then re-grouping all these changes together…back into the original big PR that would have existed in the first place? That seems like a circuitous route to arrive at the same place, but with added risk of unintentional, or worse, missing integration of parts of features that appeared to be independent changes? Ive never found it difficult when I make an unrelated change to just stash that change and add it to its own branch related to a bug ticket at the end of my day. Jj wouldn’t replace 90% of those processes so it sounds like a new way to avoid typing a few commands, by typing more commands more frequently and shifting the workload from a single large relevant change to many, many small changes, all of which were still part of the same set of changes.

None of that sounds like a positive to me, so I’d rather appreciate some evangelism to enlighten me and correct my misjudgments/misunderstandings which I fully admit are likely. :-)
by bilbo0s | 2025-07-24 15:01:34+00:00
They're not.

There's always the other, less visible but more lethal attack front..

the CFO whispering in the board's ear about chargebacks.

I think what we need to get a handle on is guys, or gals, telling their spouses, "Oh I have no idea what that charge is doing on our card!?!?!"

Of course it's going to be disputed. We need some method of attribution that is definitive. So that people can't go around doing that any longer.

Make no mistake, these companies are about money. Morality or no morality, if you take chargebacks reliably back in hand adult content would likely show itself to be more profitable than nearly every other segment of their business.

Would there still be a line? Absolutely. But it would be a line that nearly everyone would be in agreement with, and the line would exclude nowhere near the amount of content it does today.
by evklein | 2025-07-24 15:01:41+00:00
Can someone who knows more about Tesla tell me what the chance is that we see Musk pushed out? I think given his recent scattered priorities, foray into American politics, reported drug use, etc., he's probably lost a lot of the doubt that investors were willing to give him the benefit of.

Imagining that I'm a major holder of TSLA, I'm starting to wonder when the clown show is going to be over and I can get back to making money.
by pmarreck | 2025-07-24 15:01:45+00:00
> I’m not aware of any research that backs up this claim

These things are literally days old. Claude 4, which is arguably the first truly useful LLM code assistant, released in May. Scientific research proceeds at a glacial pace. I'm just speaking from anecdotal experience. It may be a perceptual illusion, or it may be a real thing. Just my data point.

One could deduce that restrictive languages would naturally result in fewer runtime bugs produced by LLM's since they do the exact same thing for people. For example, Elm is literally designed to produce NO runtime errors, so coding Elm in an LLM (which I haven't done) would ostensibly result in almost all errors being caught upfront.

This is not to say that other types of logic errors, redundancy, etc. wouldn't slip through without human intervention.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-24 15:02:12+00:00
> Do you intentionally look to meet people with whom you disagree?

Sort of. I like to develop good relationships with people that have a hard time getting along with others. I consider it to be a bit of a "challenge," and I like to live a life, where I'm constantly challenging myself. Also, I participate in an organization that is focused on helping people recover from significant life trauma. It's sort of my job.

Part of it, is because I'm "on the spectrum," myself, and come from a childhood fraught with atomic wedgies. I have some empathy for outsiders. I don't come from a "superior position," I have very much been an outlier, for most of my life. I know what it feels like.

It's been my experience that people that are difficult to deal with, come from some kind of personal trauma. I have found that they are often quite open to getting along with folks that are willing to accept the idiosyncrasies that arise from their coping mechanisms.

So if I can accept, and even be close friends with, someone that has spent significant time in Ossining, for violent offenses, having an employee throw a minor tantrum because I said "no," is a cakewalk.
by qzw | 2025-07-24 15:02:17+00:00
Cooked in the short/medium term, yes, but remains to be seen in the longer term. I feel like they’re ironically in the same position AMD was in before AMD spun off Global Foundries: not being able to keep up with the new nodes on the manufacturing side, which also drags down the design side. They could follow the same playbook and sell off the foundries, which will be a blow to their pride, but should free them up to compete better on designs alone.
by mvieira38 | 2025-07-24 15:03:01+00:00
Would you say Luka, Neymar and others are outrunning their diets? Did Shaq, too? You don't automatically get a good physique by being an athlete, you still have to earn it. People just see that all of the top athletes have earned it and take it for granted, like they don't have world class dieticians and a huge financial incentive to maintain a strict diet
by savanaly | 2025-07-24 15:03:16+00:00
Counterpoint: that the kind of exercise most people engage in with a goal of weight loss isn't going to work, but the kind of dieting would do might work, is perfectly reasonably expressed with the phrase "You can't outrun a bad diet". I'm aware a more pedantic and literal reading gives lie to the phrase, but that is true of almost every single English true statement ever written.
by goda90 | 2025-07-24 15:03:23+00:00
Don't "diet". Change your eating habits permanently. Too many people go through theses cycles of "I'm going to cut out this, this and this to lose X pounds" and then drop it once they hit their goal or it ends up being too hard. While you might not shed pounds as quickly, if you focus on making sure you get varied, satiating, nutritious food(actually nutritious, not falling for the abundance of marketing out there), then you'll have an easier time resisting the temptation to gorge on treats and getting too many calories.
by altairprime | 2025-07-24 15:03:26+00:00
I didn’t realize we knew who owned the Satoshi cold wallets! When did they figure that out, and how?

What definition of traceable are you using? I meant, to a specific person (miner) who wrote value into the system — which could also include a specific cash register or ATM that traded currency for coin, depending on whether it’s a postpaid or a prepaid Visa/MC that we’re comparing to, I suppose. They only charge a few percent extra overhead to issue relatively anonymous prepaid cards, which people either choose to pay or not, but the coin systems have traditionally been operated without the identifiable, lower-overhead, lower-risk tier of users that could have supported a viable postpaid network competitor. To the best of my understanding — am I wrong here? — all coin systems are exclusively unconcerned with the user’s identity other than their password, so their traceability is close to zero without a criminal investigation and wrench takeovers, which makes it adoption almost wholly unviable.

(US folks trying to convert coins to currency without paying taxes may differ, but that’s a relatively new regulatory push and has no particular impact on the majority of worldwide coin users.)
by edanm | 2025-07-24 15:03:45+00:00
> And I had to comment because it is beautifully ironic. Almost as if that paragraph in your comment is, itself, AI slop lol

Glad to be of service :) I think that's the first time a comment of mine has been accused of being AI slop. Sorry to say, every word - correct or incorrect - is mine.

> To qualify myself, I have a background in food service.

I'm just a person who watches cooking YouTube a bit, so right off the bat - I'll defer to your expertise on this.

I'm not sure we really disagree much though. My rough memory is that the guidelines specify temperature at which things are killed, I don't know if "instantly" or "15 seconds" really makes a difference in practice.

> Sous Vide cooking is the most widely understood method of preparation where we hold foods at temperatures that are FAR lower than what is typically recommended, but held for much longer.

Sous Vide is where I was first exposed to this concept, but I was more referring to things like chicken breasts, etc, which often aren't great at the minimal internal temperature, but I've seen YouTube "chefs" recommend cooking them to a slightly lower temperature, banking on the idea that they will effectively be at a slightly lower temperature, but long enough to still effectively kill bacteria. I've even seen criticism of the FDA charts for exactly this reason.

But to clarify, this is far outside any expertise I actually have.

> I think your comment is an application of the dunning kruger effect. You know a little bit and because of that you think you know way more than you actually do.

Absolutely possible.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-24 15:03:55+00:00
I can see how he rejects 1945 as a dividing line, but technologically somebody could set a line between the kind of electronics involved in radio (circuits with say 10 vacuum tubes) and then television and computers. I like Brzezinski’s construct of the Technetronic age

https://www.e-ir.info/2011/07/22/review-between-two-ages-ame...

and feel the urge to periodize it into "lower", "middle" and "upper" technetronic even though we're way too close to it for that.
by nsavage | 2025-07-24 15:04:03+00:00
In case anyone is interested, baseball has a similar variety in stadiums. Fenway Park comes to mind as a field with particular unique circumstances, like the Green Monster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Monster).

It also feels relevant to note that air pressure plays a role, and that players have an easier time hitting home runs in high altitude places like Colorado, so the game isn't the same everywhere.
by spyckie2 | 2025-07-24 15:04:17+00:00
I really think the effects of LLMs on thinking is the exact same as a calculator. It shortcuts some forms of thinking to open up other forms of thinking.

My thinking has increased with the use of LLMs, not decreased, most likely because LLMs take the edge off of grind work like reading a lot of noise to capture the 1% signal, formulating accurate statements for abstract ideas, and bringing together various domains that are beyond your area of expertise.

Now will you make mistakes? Sure, but you would have made the same mistakes at a slower pace without LLMs anyways. Or more accurately, you just wouldn’t do the research or apply domains not in your area of expertise, and your thinking would be a lot more narrow.

The strawman is thinking that banning LLMs will induce rigorous thinking. Just like banning calculators does not make everyone good at math.

But allowing calculators WILL make those who like math reach much deeper into the field than without.
by adonese | 2025-07-24 15:04:26+00:00
This time last year I was in Kampala for roughly 4 months. I used to cook at home and I avoided any process food. Zero to little carb. I was walking a lot though and quite regularly (the weather there is just so good). Now, one year later I moved to Dubai and I think I gained around 10kg.

The only difference being the amount of processed food and the lack of my daily walking routines. But granted, I gained 10kg while im on one meal a day.
by nickitolas | 2025-07-24 15:04:28+00:00
> I think his definition of OO is different to what we've got used to. Perhaps his definition needs a different name.

I've seen "OOP" used to mean different things. For example, sometimes it's said about a language, and sometimes it's unrelated to language features and simply about the "style" or design/architecture/organization of a codebase (Some people say some C codebases are "object oriented", usually because they use either vtables or function pointers, or/and because they use opaque handles).

Even when talking about "OOP as a programming language descriptor", I've seen it used to mean different things. For example, a lot of people say rust is not object-oriented. But rust lets you define data types, and lets you define methods on data types, and has a language feature to let you create a pointer+vtable construct based on what can reasonably be called an interface (A "trait" in rust). The "only" things it's lacking are either ergonomics or inheritance, or possibly a culture of OOP. So one definition of "OOP" could be "A programming language that has inheritance as a language feature". But some people disagree with that, even when using it as a descriptor of programming languages. They might think it's actually about message passing, or encapsulation, or a combination, etc etc.

And when talking about "style"/design, it can also mean different things. In the talk this post is about, the speaker mentions "compile time hierarchies of encapsulation that match the domain model". I've seen teachers in university teach OOP as a way of modelling the "real world", and say that inheritance should be a semantic "is-a" relationship. I think that's the sort of thing the talk is about. But like I mentioned above, some people disagree and think an OOP codebase does not need to be a compile time hierarchy that represents the domain model, it can be used simply as a mechanism for polymorphism or as a way of code reuse.

Anyways, what I mean to say is that I don't think arguing about the specifics of what "OOP" means in the abstract very useful, and that since in this particular piece the author took the time to explicitly call out what they mean that we should probably stick to that.
by rayiner | 2025-07-24 15:04:35+00:00
That's a good point! I hadn't thought about that. The benefit of EVs seem highest in the city,[1] but the charging infrastructure isn't there in urban areas.

[1] My wife, being from the west coast, used to walk around NYC in flip flops, and would come home with her feet black from brake dust and soot and god knows what else.