MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by postalcoder | 2025-07-02 14:16:38+00:00
This is interesting. The reasoning and response don't line up.

> Cloudflare is making the change to protect original content on the internet, Mr. Prince said. If A.I. companies freely use data from various websites without permission or payment, people will be discouraged from creating new digital content, he said > prohibited except for the purpose of [..] artificial intelligence retrieval augmented generation

This seems to be targeted at taxing training of language models, but why an exclusion for the RAG stuff? That seems like it has a much greater immediate impact for online content creators, for whom the bots are obviating a click.
by MartinMond | 2025-07-02 14:17:12+00:00
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by gortok | 2025-07-02 14:17:22+00:00
As someone who dislikes Musk's seemingly oblivious approach to "Move fast and break things" in government when real lives are at stake and expertise is not easy to come by, I really want this drop to be attributable to that. I really, really do.

I own a Tesla (2023 Model Y Long Range 7-seat), and I do enjoy my Model Y; I have some complaints, but overall I'm happy with the safety features of the vehicle. I do not and will not enable the FSD or Auto-steer; but otherwise I am happy with it, and want other car manufacturers to take note of the vertical technological integration possible when they put their minds to it.

However, in pursuit of a better bottom line, Tesla has made some affordance changes to their post 2023 models; and even their camera vision in the 2023 model is a poor substitute for ultra-sonic sensors for parking.

Combine that with their gutting of the Tesla Supercharger team; and the subsequent decline in quality of their supercharger experience, and then combine that with the macro-economic issues that are surrounding EV range and EV experiences in real world conditions; and you have a decline that can be attributed to the non-Musk effects as well.

I don't doubt his political machinations have contributed to Tesla's decline. If I could sell my Tesla, I would; (I am way underwater due to its steep drop in resale value), but I think a substantial percentage of this drop can be attributable to the hype of the EV not living up to the reality of owning an EV.
by lappet | 2025-07-02 14:17:26+00:00
hey there, I spent some time working on something very similar, but I am based in the US! I was able to import receipts from Safeway & Costco here, using private APIs. But since stores here don't really support OAuth, and using a private API may not be the best long term approach, I paused my effort. I would love to chat if you are interested. I used react to build a prototype.
by progbits | 2025-07-02 14:17:54+00:00
I live in EU and like the idea, both as support for local economy and lower environment impact from shipping.

I've tried aisler instead of jlc/pcbway twice and I regret both orders. For more money I got the boards later, of worse quality and with bad customer support experience when one of my orders was lost.

Sorry but they simply are not anywhere close to the chinese options.
by Spooky23 | 2025-07-02 14:18:09+00:00
It's more than that, we've simultaneously allowed for monopolization and rollup of wholesale markets. So in context of the story, the US manufacturer is in a squeeze play between supply cost escalations through the Trump tax regime, and the on the demand side with the big retailers like Kroger and Walmart.

The "made in USA" stuff is bullshit, the policy people DNGAF. The people actually making stuff are screwed. This about about shifting taxation from income and capital gains to consumption.
by monkeyelite | 2025-07-02 14:18:40+00:00
> Yet you dismiss generic red black trees

I use generic data structures all the time. That’s the default in programming. We know their advantages.

I am trying to say there is a world out there that doesn’t look like ours and it works just fine and has other advantages.

Are you saying the only real way to program is with generic data structures? I’m saying no because nobody did prior to the late 80s.

> I am definitely in favor of reusing an implementation unless you have an excellent reason

Let me try one more time. If you examine a program you won’t find 10 different red black trees. Data tends to follow a particular path and there is probably 1 red black tree and it’s a core feature of the application.

If that’s true then it’s not a big deal to write that core feature of your application.

It avoids premature optimization and code bloat because you tend to use complex data structures when they have a need.

Array is a good default. It’s how computer memory works, not just what happens to be lying around.
by djoldman | 2025-07-02 14:18:54+00:00
It's time we acknowledge that the purpose of most UI "progress" or "change" is sales.

An entity like Apple introduces UI "enhancement" to attract prospective users and persuade existing users that the functionality of the product is new, efficient, or otherwise "good."

UI is generally fashion and trend that seeks the "new" at great cost.

This is why there is a lack of internal consistency or rigor with respect to some UI direction: consistency, functionality, etc. are not the point.
by IanWoodfill | 2025-07-02 14:19:42+00:00
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by pvtmert | 2025-07-02 14:19:51+00:00
> What the fuck, they left ADB enabled. Well, this makes it a lot easier.

Thinking that was all, but then;

> Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit, it communicates DIRECTLY TO OPENAI. This means that a ChatGPT key must be present on the device!

Oh my gosh. Thinking that is it? Nope!

> SecurityStringsAPI which contained encrypted endpoints and authentication keys.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-02 14:20:08+00:00
Yeah, I find it weirder for someone to claim that it's perfectly legible.

The CGM example was so out of place that I thought they meant to post in yesterday's CGM thread. And I spent a moment wondering why "costlier rice" was qualified. Maybe they are hoping their more expensive yuppy rice is absorbed more slowly?

And man-choker sounds like a word that Frank Herbert made up for Dune.

The sibling reply to mine is getting lost in the weeds: you can admit that something is written in a confusing way while also being able to understand what they meant or even appreciating it. And telling someone to "Get over it" sounds like you aren't tracking what the convo is about.
by latexr | 2025-07-02 14:20:20+00:00
> You can define any space as "not crowded" if you narrow it down enough.

I mean, you’re technically correct¹ but that’s not exactly helpful because the inverse is also true: You can define any space as “crowded” if you widen it enough.

That is to say it is perfectly plausible I am wrong and the space was crowded, but that argument doesn’t really prove or disprove it.

> That was the point really, they entered a crowded space & re-defined it with their offering.

Especially if you allow someone in the space to redefine it. At that point all bets are off and anyone can claim anything.

¹ The best kind of correct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hou0lU8WMgo
by crazygringo | 2025-07-02 14:20:42+00:00
> By reading surrounding text

Yes, exactly, if ARIA tags haven't been provided. It's not exactly rocket science to have some heuristics that check if a link is solely "click", "click here", etc., and it reads the entire sentence if that's the case. Seems like it would work 99+% of the time with exceedingly little effort.

There's no expectation, and should be no expectation, that the function of a link should be derivable directly from the text it encloses.
by ben_w | 2025-07-02 14:21:12+00:00
"Distributing" doesn't require "evenly". Amazon has distribution centres, they don't send stuff to all customers equally regardless of what is ordered.

The entire foundational assumption of (Smith's) capitalism is the idea that people who are better at making a profit are exactly who should be given more money to work with, and that this benefits all of society — and while I will agree that the phrase "trickle down economics" doesn't fit reality of the behaviour of billionaires (who act more like aristocrats), that's where that phrase comes from, and it seems to often work up to deca-millionaires at least.

The flaw with this (even in the case of millionaires) is it presumes no parasites. As it happens, both Smith and Marx noticed this, but as history shows, the proponents extolling the virtues of each were not very effective at preventing economic parasites.
by homefree | 2025-07-02 14:22:43+00:00
You should really try FSD, I have it drive me from SF down the peninsula and back every day and it’s amazing, basically requires zero intervention.

I think the political complaints are dumb and people over index on stuff that doesn’t matter because of partisan politics. HN has hated on Tesla and musk for years despite continued success across multiple difficult industries.

If the robotaxi work in Austin succeeds they’ll have a massive advantage. There’s really nobody close to what Tesla is doing.

I had a 2018 M3P and now a 2025 Model S Plaid, the vision stuff works better, the quality is a lot nicer, there are a lot more superchargers and more are v3 or v4.

The quality of the comments on this thread suggest there’s still value here to buy. When people dismiss stuff for dumb reasons it’s easy to make money. It’s been the story of Tesla from the beginning.
by geodel | 2025-07-02 14:22:44+00:00
> Hasn't he all but washed his hands of Figma?

Great. What's the point of achieving great things with hard work if one is still stuck working with same product for life.

> I have a hard time being interested in something that has such a painful..

Thats okay. One can always use products that are reasonable to their expense budget. Not every product is to be used by every one.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-07-02 14:22:49+00:00
AFAIK TDD culturally occurred at the same time as the push for 100% test coverage. So we would end up with code bases that were 90% test code and 10% actual code, every individual method had many tests. This meant for every code change there was a 10x test change so test timelines dominated dev timelines, there was a push at the time to expand the test org to be 2x the size of the dev org. AFAIK at MS that was abandoned and the test org was folded into the dev org and now the devs are expected to write and maintain their own tests.

I have only seen TDD used poorly, as a crutch, an alternative to thinking deeply about the problem space. If it can be done well I have not personally seen it. Perhaps SQLite, but such projects are an oddity.

To me tests at the spec level are largely user acceptance tests which are indeed very useful.
by ap99 | 2025-07-02 14:22:57+00:00
Your response reveals the way you're thinking about this.

i.e. If I accept and employ a conservative person then I'm aligning with conservative values and betraying liberal values.

What the GP is proposing is abandoning this black and white thinking, or in other words: accepting diversity of thought.

(Waiting for downvotes from the HN echo chamber that abhors diversity of thought.)
by rossdavidh | 2025-07-02 14:23:38+00:00
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by fennecfoxy | 2025-07-02 14:23:51+00:00
With that opinion, are you also suggesting that we ban ad blockers? Because it's better I not click & consume resources than click and not be served ads, basically just costing the host money.

It means sense to allow for RAG in the same way that search engines provide a snippet of an important chunk of the page.

A blog author could not complain that their blog is getting ragged when they're extremely liable to be Google/whatever searching all day and basically consuming others' content in exactly the same way that they're trying to disparage.
by hayst4ck | 2025-07-02 14:23:51+00:00
What we see is exactly what Uber and Lyft effectively did. China subsidized manufacturing at the cost of their citizens, but in doing so destroyed much of the competition, giving them a monopoly like position in industrial manufacturing cemented by a mastery of economies of scale, which can now be used to exert global power.

Any country which did not abuse their citizens or subsidize their businesses became noncompetitive.

And why would you use old school taxis when uber/lyft were offering $5 rides in a 7x7mile area, and how could old taxi companies compete when they are forced to compete with people not bound by market forces?
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by franktankbank | 2025-07-02 14:24:01+00:00
Yea I've got kids I've got to think about here, quite a few. I get very heated trying to understand the whole global aspect. All I see in the US is a vast resource getting stomped upon. I wish your boy the best and any others. Trump as I see him is a wrecking ball, I'm not sure where it ends up.
by Meekro | 2025-07-02 14:24:16+00:00
I've heard lots of people on HN complaining about bot traffic bogging down their websites, and as a website operator myself I'm honestly puzzled. If you're already using Cloudflare, some basic cache configuration should guarantee that most bot traffic hits the cache and doesn't bog down your servers. And even if you don't want to do that, bandwidth and CPU are so cheap these days that it shouldn't make a difference. Why is everyone so upset?
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by saubeidl | 2025-07-02 14:24:48+00:00
That is straight up not what's happening though and the "diversity of thought" framing is a way conservatives like to gaslight people into accepting their censorship.

Climate change research is being threatened. Universities are being bullied for supporting trans athletes.

There's a reason these folks are fleeing. It's not because they can't stand to have colleagues with opposing views, it's because they are threatened. To reframe it as "diversity of thought" is disingenuous and dishonest.
by jltsiren | 2025-07-02 14:24:51+00:00
Researchers are underpaid and research is underfunded everywhere. Like most jobs that people find inherently interesting.

I don't know about the specific situation in France. In general, Europe spends more on academic research than the US, both in absolute terms and as a fraction of GDP. However, it's easier to make an academic career in the US. Because the gap between academic and industry salaries is wider in the US, Americans are more likely to leave the academia after PhD. And because employment-based immigration is particularly difficult in the US, many would-be immigrants end up doing a PhD without any intention of staying in the academia. Which means you have less competition if you stay in the academia in the US.
by csa | 2025-07-02 14:25:28+00:00
> If I were a law school professor, I’d probably also say that.

Or more likely a jaded B-student who has been around the block a few times.

The reason this works is that the C-students include students who have always known that their social network would facilitate them being rainmakers, while B-students are often middle-class try-hards who don’t have the right social network and don’t have the social skills to develop the right one.
by fatliverfreddy | 2025-07-02 14:25:28+00:00
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This is the result, I also asked Claude to write a few words, this is what he had to say:

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by JimDabell | 2025-07-02 14:26:36+00:00
> AI bots

> You can opt into a managed rule that will block bots that we categorize as artificial intelligence (AI) crawlers (“AI Bots”) from visiting your website. Customers may choose to do this to prevent AI-related usage of their content, such as training large language models (LLM).

> CCBot (Common Crawl)

Common Crawl is not an AI bot:

https://commoncrawl.org
by wtallis | 2025-07-02 14:26:49+00:00
I think "sales" is just one of the post-hoc rationalizations. The real purpose very often is simply to justify the money you spent on UI designers; there's a kind of sunk cost fallacy where spending resources exploring design changes leaves management feeling like they must ship some kind of design change, and the UI designers are strongly in favor of leaving their mark on the product and securing a big accomplishment on their resume.

The incentives simply aren't aligned to support a long-term strategy of not constantly messing with your UI.
by horsawlarway | 2025-07-02 14:26:56+00:00
I guess a counterview here:

These are the sorts of things small companies can actually make and be successful making.

Are they representative of the economy as a whole? Maybe not - the majority of that spend is going to go towards housing (~35%), transportation (~17%), basic food (~13%), and (somewhat surprisingly) insurance/pensions (~12.5%). Those are all incredibly competitive.

High barrier to entry, legally challenging (lots of bureaucratic red tape and hoops), already dominated by large companies with economy of scale in their favor.

So that essentially leaves niche, high margin, products as the ONLY products a small company can competitively make.

So it you want to be a small company selling a physical item... this is the market you tend to play within. You make an expensive niche/luxury product with a limited appeal but higher margins.

We already get plenty of news about how the large corporations say they are going to respond (prices will go up).
by WA | 2025-07-02 14:27:31+00:00
> but I think a substantial percentage of this drop can be attributable to the hype of the EV not living up to the reality of owning an EV.

If this were true, the market for EVs would decline in entirety. But it doesn't, or at least, not by 14%. For many people, EVs are ok, despite their real-world drawbacks: https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales

Slight drawbacks can be attributed to ending of subsidies for EV purchases, not necessarily because EVs are inherently worse than ICE cars.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-07-02 14:27:39+00:00
It's pretty safe to say that after a decade of unfulfilled projections and promises, the Tesla EV fantasy is now a bust.

So now it's off to new fantasy --- robotaxi.

The problem with this fantasy --- ride hailing isn't nearly as profitable as auto manufacturing.

Half the world isn't going to ditch their autos in favor of robo rides any time soon. This is what it will take to justify Tesla's current outlandish stock price.

Uber P/E is about 20. Tesla P/E is around 170. Can Tesla ride hailing be 6 times bigger/more profitable than Uber in the near future? I personally don't think so.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-07-02 14:27:50+00:00
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by throaway955 | 2025-07-02 14:28:24+00:00
James Keelaghan, Stephen Fearing, Skinny Puppy...hundreds more.

Also, the comment you replied to said that those names he mentioned were the relatively famous ones. The ones who are less famous than that will not have the success you mentioned. They will simply be people who had mid-level success in an industry that could support them.