MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by landl0rd | 2025-07-24 03:44:26+00:00
Because you can't do that. Most of the population is at the wrong point on the normal distributions of capacity or caring enough. Even the NPR listeners will still nod sagely when it tells them "akshually air conditioning doesn't cool a room, it cools the air."

We already spend high within the OECD to not get many of our students to a decent level of reading and math proficiency, let alone to critical thinking. This isn't something we know how to fix, and depending on that assumption is dangerous.
by maerch | 2025-07-24 03:44:43+00:00
Meanwhile, in Germany, you can get raw pork with raw onions on a bread roll at just about every other bakery.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett

When I searched for the safe temperature for pork (in German), I found this as the first link (Kagi search engine)

> Ideally, pork should taste pink, with a core temperature between 58 and 59 degrees Celsius. You can determine the exact temperature using a meat thermometer. Is that not a health concern? Not anymore, as nutrition expert Dagmar von Cramm confirms: > “Trichinae inspection in Germany is so strict — even for wild boars — that there is no longer any danger.”

https://www.stern.de/genuss/essen/warum-sie-schweinefleisch-...

Stern is a major magazine in Germany.
by amendegree | 2025-07-24 03:44:50+00:00
If gazans want the war to end all they have to do is return the people they so gleefully kidnapped and continue to torture and hold hostage. Instead they point fingers and depend on brainwashed westerners without any knowledge of the conflict or history to get them out of the mess they themselves created.

I wasn’t directly referencing that but it’s literally the strongest proof, data, evidence science that she was 10000% right. Stop defending monsters because you literally have no clue what you’re talking about.
by lisbbb | 2025-07-24 03:44:50+00:00
I complained a lot about OOP all throughout my 25 years a developer. I wrote a ton of C++ and then Java and nobody can refute my expertise with those languages. I saw so many people make mistakes using them, particularly with forcing taxonomies into situations that weren't conducive to having them. Then, when I began complaining to my colleagues about my feelings, I was ostracized and accused of "not having a strong enough skillset." In other words, the dogma of the time overrode the Cassandras saying that the emperor had no clothes. Meanwhile, the simple nature of C and even scripting languages was considered out date. The software dev community finally realized how bad things had gotten with Java and then the walls came a tumbling down. I far prefer writing non-OO Python (or minimal use of classes) to anything else these days. I went all around the language world--did projects involving Lua, Clojure, tons of Groovy, then moved on to Functional Java, Kotlin, and Golang.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-07-24 03:45:26+00:00
Cost of living

Stage 1: you want a smaller cheaper car.

Stage 2: buying/renting a house is too much so get a bigger car to sleep in...

Seriously though, I want a 4WD electric version of a Mazda MX5 with Hyundai's Ioniq N series drift mode. Fun every day, more fun on track days.
by amendegree | 2025-07-24 03:45:59+00:00
If that were true it would be a problem, since it’s just lies told by hamas that you are now repeating for some reason we don’t have to worry about it.

Here are your starving gazans: https://x.com/DocumentIsrael/status/1948045924099367359 they have fresh fruit that looks perfectly ripe… so interesting that no aid is getting in and yet somehow they’re holding fruit I sometimes have trouble finding in my supermarket here in the US…
by keminghe | 2025-07-24 03:46:08+00:00
Thank you so much for pointing that out, I just updated the docker instructions in the README and on DockerHub:

```shell # Pin to commit hash for production security # Get current hash from: https://hub.docker.com/r/keminghe/py-dep-man-companion/tags docker pull keminghe/py-dep-man-companion@sha256:2c896dc617e8cd3b1a1956580322b0f0c80d5b6dfd09743d90859d2ef2b71ec6 # 2025-07-22 release example

# Or use latest for development docker pull keminghe/py-dep-man-companion:latest ```
by landl0rd | 2025-07-24 03:46:44+00:00
Sigh. That old line. Look man, I don't know if it was a crack or a serious comment (this being the internet) but I'll assume it was a comment in good faith.

Journalism and academia tend to attract people with more of a liberal bent. I'm not even accusing them all of being partisan hacks, but as y'all like to say, subconscious biases influence us.

This is like me saying "economic productivity has a well-known right-wing bias" or something goofy like that.
by pm90 | 2025-07-24 03:47:12+00:00
In less than 10 years the entire US automotive industry is gonna go bust. I just… can’t understand how anyone can look at the progress being made by BYD/Huawei and not be compelled to completely reorient the American economy to build/run EVs. Bot only would it help the US compete but would likely create massive numbers of jobs too… instead the US will deindustrialize while China takes over the world.
by pavon | 2025-07-24 03:48:15+00:00
I've not had any problems with swapping out systemd-* with other packages, including -coredump, -cron, -oomd, -resolved or -timesyncd. Even journald was fairly painless to swap out. Unlike systemd itself, the distros' approach them not so much as a core part of the userland, but as lightweight basic implementations that meet many user's needs, but which are in no way a replacement for more fully-functional implementations.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-24 03:48:22+00:00
For the Atto 1, around $12K makes sense. Equivalent EVs from Indian companies like Tata and Mahindra and Vietnamese companies like Vinfast sell for around $8-10K.

The price war in China is when a new Atto 1 could be bought for $6-8k from a dealership on discount.

That's why BYD (and SAIC, Geely, GWM, etc) have been expanding abroad so quickly - in order to build their own niche to survive the Chinese price war.

That said, as I predicted a year ago, the Chinese leadership has started cracking down on the price war in China for burning capital - especially at provincial SOEs who have been facing the brunt of the war because privately owned BYD has been outcompeting the SOEs.
by 999900000999 | 2025-07-24 03:48:42+00:00
Actually, you kinda have a point.

They shouldn't be selling 3rd party hardware, with an over 100% markup, that isn't well supported.

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/gaming-mouse/CH-931D101-NA/m...

It's less than half the price anywhere else.

But Apple's argument is it's not on them if a 3rd party mouse they happen to sell has issues.

With Linux you need to do significantly more work to get setup and every now and then a kernel update can ruin your day.

I want something Ubuntu stable that actually supports newer hardware, but that's just not where Linux is at.

The Linux community is amazing, but they lack the capacity to QA every possible laptop on the market.

Just a few days ago the sound on my Tumbleweed install decided to stop working. I thought about reinstalling, Chat GPT suggested I just accept audio not working and using a USB sound card.

Eventually, thinking as a last ditch effort, I asked Chat GPT how to completely reinstall the audio stack.

This went and removed my KDE desktop for some reason. Cool, I'll install Xfce from the tty.

I then installed Budgie since it's a bit easier to use.

All this because for some reason my sound didn't feel like working.

We, the types of people who visit this site, enjoy the process.

Not everyone does.

Macs definitely have issues too.

But you can go to the Apple store and have them figure it out.

Plus a routine update probably won't stop audio from working.

I've been using Desktop Linux for about 20 years.

It's better now, but it's still work to use.
by Vespasian | 2025-07-24 03:49:08+00:00
I have a lot of confidence that Google will figure out a way to do it.

The same economic incentives that led to SEO slop are still there in my opinion.

More "content" equals more opportunity to integrate ads even if they are not woven into the AI response directly. It will be tuned to allow and all that changes is cutting out the website provider.

Google is incapable/unwilling to do anything beyond flooding the world with ads. They don't have a great track record of actually selling things to people for money.
by alexjplant | 2025-07-24 03:50:19+00:00
It depends on your parasympathetic nervous system tone. After getting a fitness tracker that analyzes sleep and heart rate variability I've discovered that my body is rather sensitive to alcohol. I need to have a baseline level of cardiovascular endurance and be properly hydrated with good electrolyte balance to be able to truly enjoy two drinks. If I'm not doing moderate-intensity cardio five times a week and taking my supplements, then even moderate boozing will tank my HRV and negatively affect my sleep. Bad sleep means diminished cognitive performance and lethargy to the point that I'm not giving the world the best version of myself. To answer your question: yes, if I'm having two drinks a night and not taking care of myself I'd consider that to be a problem. A lot of people are probably in a similar boat but don't have the data to spot it so they just keep wearing themselves down in a half-tired haze.

I've also discovered that brown liquors are twice as bad for me in this regard so I now try to stick to wine, sake, or gin. I'm not mad at this as I've grown rather tired of what bourbon culture has seemingly become... the capitalization, enshittification and marketing games have largely put me off from the category.
by landl0rd | 2025-07-24 03:50:41+00:00
I mean this is obviously a false dichotomy. A few years ago I could have said that when you let bots interact with users you always got Tay. I refuse to believe that our options are a bot programmed to sound like the guardian or one that wants to rape will stancil. And I do not think that failing to find a correct balance means we should stop trying to improve the level of balance we can achieve.
by bobbylarrybobby | 2025-07-24 03:51:15+00:00
For me, it's because it messes with my expectations of where my cursor will go when I move it over the ligatured characters and what will happen when I edit them. It's very jarring to delete one character and see the character(s) next to it change.

There is also something to be said for each character being the instructions for how you type it. How to type “->”? Press - then >. With ligatures, that goes out the window, and at least for me, I have to quickly look up in my memory how to type ≥ or ⟹.

That said I do very much like Commit Mono’s “smart kerning”, where characters are adjusted slightly based on the characters surrounding them. I guess you could call it a soft version of ligatures. For instance, when an m is between two i‘s, the i‘s get pushed away a tad to give the m a bit more room to breathe. Similarly, when you type an ellipses (...), the dots get pushed ever so slightly closer together than they would be naively.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-24 03:52:00+00:00
I was just thinking that EU sources might be a good place to look for this sort of thing, given that we never really know what basic public health facts will be deemed political in the US on any given day. But, this reveals a bit of a problem—of course, you guys have food safety standards, so advice they is safe over there might not be applicable in the US.
by cchance | 2025-07-24 03:52:44+00:00
The issue people seem to stick to is "AI will never be as good as humans at X" ... even if that was true, or it was going to take 50 years or whatever to do ... what everyone seems to miss.. companies are more than willing to have a AI that does X shittier but without a salary, than to hire a guy that does it amazing and pay him a salary. The math was never is AI better than a Human, its is AI cheaper than a human for a passable product. This can be seen by companies deploying AI to do shit and firing people with some of the shittiest models lol, people were losing jobs already when fuckin GPT 3.5 was out lol.

The other thing is and AI lovers say it and they aren't wrong, the AI we have today is the worst it will ever be again, the big issue with Klarna and the others is they jumped the gun they went from 0 to replace everyone.

The company that deleted a DB was an AI issue, but it was also a company issue... no backups? Really? No sandbox for the AI? Really?

People give companies way too much credit for making smart decisions.

Edit: I imagine a lot of coding jobs will drop and come back and eventually be a lot fewer in 2-3 more versions of claude. I imagine we'll see jobs like Tier 1 call center jobs, and answering services, and stuff like drive through attendants at restaunts go away pretty rapidly in the next 3-4 years
by lisbbb | 2025-07-24 03:53:10+00:00
The main issue I have with Java is that the JVM was built to be portable and then we got a superior kind of portability using containers, which makes the JVM totally redundant and yet whenever I point that out, I get funny looks from people!

I guess I have a lot of other problems with Java--jar hell, of course, but also the total inability for corporations to update their junk to newer versions of Java because so many libraries and products were never kept up with and then you get security people breathing down your neck to update the JVM which was LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE in at least two situations I became involved with. We even tried to take over 3rd party libraries and rewrite/update them and ended up at very expensive dead ends with those efforts. Then, to top it all off, being accused of lacking the skill and experience to fix the problem! Those a-holes had no idea what THEY were talking about. But in corporate America, making intelligent and well-documented arguments is nothing. That's when I finally decided I needed to just stop working on anything related to Java entirely. So after about 15 years of that crap, I said no more. But I'm the under-skilled one.
by defrost | 2025-07-24 03:55:52+00:00
> and have to throw 1-2 tyres in the bin.

That's your choice.

We jack the car, pull the wheel, extract the screws, and use a tyre plug kit.

Howto repair tubeless tyres with plugs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCwWPlaghfs

Tyres with inner tubes can also be repaired, that's slightly more involved.
by armistace | 2025-07-24 03:56:31+00:00
I'm not using my blog creator https://git.aridgwayweb.com/armistace/blog_creator to create a lot of my content Here is the latest incarnation. Using some notes on some work I've done over the last couple of weeks it has come up with this post. Gemma327b is the "editor" and I have to say quality is definitely improving
by senectus1 | 2025-07-24 03:57:33+00:00
lol no shit sherlock.

I've owned a Pirus (hybrid), Camry Hybrid and now a Rav4 Hybrid plus a MG4 EV.

The rav and MG4 are too new to count, but the other two I owned for about 10-13 years each.. we NEVER needed to change the brake pads.

Not once.

If you're having to change the brake pads on a car like this, you're a leadfoot with no core strength issues :-P
by Animats | 2025-07-24 03:57:50+00:00
There are several solutions to turning around at a terminal. Sometimes there's a turnaround loop. Grand Central has two, one on each level. Older systems would detach the engine, rotate it on a turntable, and reattach it at the other end of the train. Double-ended trains are far more common today, since control from either end was solved long ago.
by hattmall | 2025-07-24 03:58:37+00:00
Not necessarily, the majority of Bitcoin trades, which are it's entire source of value, are never even executed in the block chain at all. Neither the block chain nor the exchanges could actually handle the volume of a significant percent of holders withdrawing in a short duration. Now I don't know what that percent is but it's likely significantly less than 20%.

As long as there's unaudited exchanges minting so called stable coins at will. The entire crypto sphere is valuated fully devoid from any actual underlying fundamental. Cracking a wallet could be the catalyst for its undoing but it could also be something else or nothing at all.
by radpanda | 2025-07-24 03:59:05+00:00
As I understand it there was actually healthy demand for the Honda Fit and it sold profitably, but US-bound Fits were made in the same Mexico factory that made the more profitable Honda HR-V. The HR-V was successful enough that it displaced some Fit production and there were waiting lists at Honda dealers to get a Fit. Eventually the HR-V became popular enough that the Celaya factory switched to 100% HR-V production.

It wasn’t that Honda couldn’t sell Fits to Americans at a small profit, it’s that they found they could use their manufacturing capacity to sell more expensive, more profitable models to Americans instead.
by jakelazaroff | 2025-07-24 03:59:07+00:00
My point is that "anti-woke" or whatever is not balanced. We've constructed statistical models based on enormous corpora of English text, and those models keep telling us that there is not really a statistical difference between whatever Elon Musk is trying to create and MechaHitler!

I'm not saying this is conclusive evidence, but I am saying it's our best inference from the data we have so far.
by altairprime | 2025-07-24 03:59:28+00:00
If all of us renters were forced to convert to electric there’d never be an open charger in any city again for the next five years, because no landlord will voluntarily afford that cost, and no municipal region can pass a ballot measure to afford that cost. California’s impending ban of combustion car sales hinges wholly on a magical DC-charging network that doesn’t exist in U.S. cities yet (i.e. at parking meters), only at U.S. personal dwellings.

I would love to switch to electric but at current charging times and absolutely horrendously incompetent grid deployments, there’s no way all of the thousand people in my building could, much less the million other renters in the city. (And certainly transit can’t cope with us either, given the continued homeowner hostility to paying taxes for such things.)

What city has charging available for an average of greater than one spot per five hundred multifamily-housing residents? What parking garages anywhere in the U.S. have 25 or more electric vehicle chargers per 100 daytime and/or overnight and/or reserved parking spots, in order to diffuse the grid cost through trickle charging? What funding model is proposed to ensure that’s built whether corporate garage owners like it or not? How will states who depend on fuel tax to keep roads in repair avoid cutting off city services to suburban outregions when their asphalt budgets crater?

Technology has downstream effects, and it’s not as simple as “buy a Prius” when you consider U.S. non-homeowners. (I assume the prospect for India electric conversions would be much worse, too.) “Ban combustion vehicles” is a lofty goal, but until the charging grid problem is solved, it’s an unattainable one.
by nine_k | 2025-07-24 03:59:43+00:00
I suppose the same should apply to hybrid cars, which outnumber pure EVs significantly [1]. The effect comes from converting the kinetic energy back to the battery charge via generation instead of wasting it via friction, which is the whole point of hybrids.

[1]: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/how-many-electric...
by midtake | 2025-07-24 04:00:04+00:00
They have shared IP address information before [1]. They have also shared information about the owner of a Proton Mail account with the FBI before.

In my opinion, Proton glows. If you're a nobody, they will protect your privacy, but if you matter then it seems they won't stand up for you. I still use Proton, but it's mostly for registering on sites for which I don't want to burn a Gmail account. I wouldn't do anything sketchy on it.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/protonmail-under-fire-for-sh...

Note: my post is about Proton Mail, I have no idea about Lumo but I imagine the same hypocrisy applies.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-24 04:00:42+00:00
How are you finding the bz4x? I've read some negative things (possibly just seen negative headlines) about Toyota's commitment to electric cars and that the bz4x is a bit of a wet fish attempt at an electric.

Interested in the FUD level going on.

As an owner of a (2014 model) Nissan Leaf, which my wife and I both love, it does seem that Nissan somehow dropped the ball on electric given how good the Leaf still is (11 years later) as a suburban commuter vehicle and how it was a very early electric production car.
by troad | 2025-07-24 04:03:02+00:00
> programming is closer to math, not linguistics

It's worth pointing out that actual linguistics is not unlike maths, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_grammar, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-bar_theory, etc. There's an awful lot of vibes-and-feels nonsense about language in the popular press, which one ought not confuse with linguistics proper.

In fact, as Casey mentions in this talk, a lot of the earliest ideas in software architecture came from trying to parse languages - both human and computer.
by jjk166 | 2025-07-24 04:03:14+00:00
I don't think the US striking the PRC mainland, at least outside of an immediate conflict zone like the shores of the Taiwan straight, is plausible either. It's exactly the same arithmetic. Why would the US or China reduce their readiness to respond to an attack because their adversary has become more capable? The whole point of a nuclear deterrence is to deter attack. If anything, making it clear that a large scale missile attack will be interpreted as a nuclear first strike is more beneficial when there are a bunch of missiles the adversary is seriously considering launching at you. It is in both countries best interests to keep any potential conflict limited with clearly delineated theaters of war.
by brtkwr | 2025-07-24 04:03:22+00:00
Just normal driving, it wasn’t quite so bad on our previous car which was a Nissan Leaf (with 30kWh battery) but our current Kia Niro just has a lot bigger batter (64kWh) and it is a lot heavier I suppose, the tyres just don’t seem to last as long. I’m pretty sure I’m using summer tyres all year round (I live in the UK) this was recommended by the dealer
by stouset | 2025-07-24 04:03:24+00:00
Public EV chargers are pretty widespread nowadays. Not as much as gas chargers obviously, but for most people in the country if you don't have a way to charge at home it's not fundamentally that different from not having a gas pump at your house.

Plus, most people can charge at home with an extension cord. It's not particularly fast, but you should be able to get 4-5 miles an hour. In the worst case scenario where you can only charge at home and can only charge for 10 hours overnight, that's still 40 miles of driving which is enough for a lot of commuters. Even if it falls short—again—you can use public chargers.

Lastly, eliminating the sale of ICE cars will be a pretty rapid forcing function on the deployment of EV chargers. Still, I'd be all for locations that ban combustion engines mandating that landlords provide EV charging facilities.
by jkingsman | 2025-07-24 04:03:32+00:00
Mmm, I see this cutting both ways -- generally, I'd agree; safety critical things should not be left to an AI. However, cooking temperatures are information that has a factual ground truth (or at least one that has been decided on), has VERY broad distribution on the internet, and generally is a single, short "kernel" of information that has become subject to slop-ifying and "here's an article when you're looking for about 30 characters of information or less" that is prolific on the web.

So, I'd agree -- safety info from an LLM is bad. But generally, the /flavor/ (heh) of information that such data comprises is REALLY good to get from LLMs (as opposed to nuanced opinions or subjective feedback).