MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RhysU | 2025-07-30 17:16:53+00:00
Capability is a poor metric.

Bicycles go downhill real damn fast. The top speed of a bicycle is largely limited by how foolish the person atop it is and the local geography.

Bicycles can be geared to go across the salt flats real damn fast. The top speed of a bicycle is largely limited by how foolish the person atop it is and the local geography.

Bicycles, even without crazy geography or gearing, can be ridden real damn fast by professionals. The top speed of a bicycle is largely limited by how well-trained the person atop it is. Says Wikipedia:

> The 2025 edition was the fastest Tour de France in history. Tadej Pogačar rode 3,298.6 km in 76h 00m 32s, thus realising an overall speed of 43.4 km/h or 27.0 mph.
by WorldMaker | 2025-07-30 17:17:29+00:00
A shift in those cultural dynamics is that you can ship the current .NET LTS with your app (or even STS if you feel like making that sort of security support SLA with your own clients). You aren't relying on their Windows Update habits (or lack of them) or having to install a big .NET installer that might break their other apps.

They may still get left behind on an older version of your software because they want to be, but their relationship to Windows is no longer the big excuse/reason to skip updating to your latest that it used to be.
by epiccoleman | 2025-07-30 17:17:30+00:00
I've been meaning to try out Opencode on the basis of this comment from a few weeks back where one of the devs indicated that Claude Pro subscriptions worked with Opencode:

> opencode kinda cheats by using Antropic client ID and pretending to be Claude Code, so it can use your existing subscription. [1]

I'd definitely like to see Anthropic provide a better way for the user's choice of clients to take advantage of the subscription. The way things stand today, I feel like I'm left with no choice but to stick to Claude Code for sonnet models and try out cool tools like this one with local models.

Now, with all that said, I did recently have Claude code me up a POC where I used Playwright to automate the Claude desktop app, with the idea being that you could put an API in front of it and take advantage of subscription pricing. I didn't continue messing with it once the concept was proved, but I guess if you really wanted to you could probably hack something together (though I imagine you'd be giving up a lot by ramming interactions through Claude Desktop in this manner). [2]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44488262

[2]: https://github.com/epiccoleman/claude-automator
by mPReDiToR | 2025-07-30 17:17:35+00:00
Unless a cop actually sees you doing a ridiculous speed they aren't going to check for P/W ratio or motor output

Electric scooters are illegal in the UK, but police don't have time or inclination to stop their widespread usage on public roads, and you're safe to ride past them unless you're doing something stupid.

So many things like this have people getting away with it that the laws are just ignored eventually.

When one has an incident ... Well, the hand wringers are out in droves telling everyone they told us so.

Underfunded and under resourced police can't cope with the workload, for a change.
by freedomben | 2025-07-30 17:17:46+00:00
Definitely a much better article :-)

I largely (maybe entirely) agree with your analysis. I also have a large amount of anger against big tech for many of these things and think they more than deserve the criticism. Just how they've steered the internet toward their own control is enough to fill me with rage. That's before I go off on a rant about how they are locking down devices and treating the users (ostensibly the device "owner" as a primary security threat).

That said I wouldn't describe what you described as "greed" but there's plenty of room for equivocation over that (and to be clear, you didn't use the word greed even once and aren't depending on it, so the previous point is more about TFA).

Appreciate the discussion!
by toast0 | 2025-07-30 17:18:22+00:00
Pedal assist can almost certainly be tuned to get you to 30 mph if the motor can do it. I've used a few e-bikes, and the nice ones have pedal assist that has good feel, but the less expensive ones have pedal assist that's a janky throttle with more steps.

I understand the motivation for requiring pedal assist rather than a throttle, but the motor speed cutout is the important bit. If I can put it in easy gear and pedal to operate the throttle while the chain is freewheeling the whole time, the pedals are just a throttle I operate with my feet; I'm not actually providing any of the energy for locomotion.
by WD-42 | 2025-07-30 17:18:27+00:00
Did Phil Opp's series for fun recently, it's a great intro to OS development. I can also recommend "OS in 1k lines" as a follow-up that targets RISC-V instead of X86. It really demonstrates how large a difference a modern architecture makes.

https://operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app/en/
by throw0101c | 2025-07-30 17:18:38+00:00
According to Oxide Computer, they found that going from 20mm to 80mm fans dropped their chassis power usage (efficiency is to the cube of the radius): a rack full of 1U servers had 25% of its power going to the fans, and they were able to get down to 1.2%:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTJYY_Y1H9Q

From their weblog post:

> Compared to a popular rackmount server vendor, Oxide is able to fill our specialized racks with 32 AMD Milan sleds and highly-available network switches using less than 15kW per rack, doubling the compute density in a typical data center. With just 16 of the alternative 1U servers and equivalent network switches, over 16kW of power is required per rack, leading to only 1,024 CPU cores vs Oxide’s 2,048.

* https://oxide.computer/blog/how-oxide-cuts-data-center-power...
by verdverm | 2025-07-30 17:18:38+00:00
My VS Code has a terminal and can remote into any machine and edit code / terminal there.

What I don't get is going back to terminal first approaches and why so many companies are putting these out (except that it is probably (1) easy to build (2) everyone is doing it hype cycle). It was similar when everyone was building ChatGPT functions or whatever before MCP came out. I expect the TUI cycle will fade as quickly as it rose
by linguae | 2025-07-30 17:18:38+00:00
I’m reminded of Standard ML (note that this has nothing to do with machine learning). It is a simple language with a powerful static type system, and while it is a functional programming language, it permits impure operations such as mutability. Standard ML is more complex than Scheme (which is dynamically typed), but is simpler than its cousin OCaml (which is more feature-rich), Common Lisp, or Haskell. I think Standard ML is a nice combination of power, simplicity, and static typing.

https://www.smlnj.org/index.html
by derbOac | 2025-07-30 17:18:39+00:00
> That barely warrants a comment on Hacker News, much less a town hall.

I think that's maybe what I'm saying? Or the other side of the coin? I personally don't think there's some compelling harm being done by the government in this case.

Maybe some general discussion of neglect in the use of the land might be more compelling to me, but I'm not sure that delays in allocating it to charging stations in particular seems like a grand failure of governance. The soil is contaminated and the government wants to clean it up while they're tearing it up? Next to a planned park apparently? And this is causing harm by... holding up EV charging stations? Not a light rail hub, or walking trails connecting neighborhoods, or cycling infrastructure, or a clinic, but EV charging stations?

> I am inclined to think that this argument could be used to shut down any case study used to critique the bureaucracy.

I guess another way of phrasing my reaction is that I don't find this particular example very compelling in critiquing bureaucracy. Maybe more to my point, the fact that the author presents it as urgent to me sort of ironically underscores the problems with the argument they advance. It's an urgent need to them, but maybe not to the public at large?

It's also maybe worth pointing out the converse is true: the argument in Abundance could be used to shut down any case study used to support the government in being prudent or thorough?
by gruez | 2025-07-30 17:19:01+00:00
>> Isn't it also "corporate greed" to lay people off?

>It depends. A struggling company that needs to reduce workforce to survive? No. A company worth trillions laying off en-mass because stock rates are down? Yes, probably.

>> Let me guess, if they started cutting salaries, that is also corporate greed?

>It depends. A struggling company that needs to reduce salaries to survive? No. A company worth trillions cutting salaries because stock rates are down? Yes, probably.

So your logic is that it's "greed" to cut necessary expenses even if you can afford it? Does this extend to people? If some rich wall st banker decided to cancel his personal trainer because he realized that a group class basically does 90% of the job for half the price, is that greed? Or is there some sort of double standard against corporations?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-30 17:19:16+00:00
I'll admit "some schoolteacher" is doing some heavy lifting here. It shouldn't be that close to begin with when you remember that school teachers need extra license/acreddidation (so, more post secondary education whose costs run rampant) and arguably have a much more stressful job.

>there is definitely low hanging fruit to improve the American teaching system.

Sure, you can patch the window up and make sure it at least tries to protect from the elements. But we should properly fix it at some point too. How many of those kids would have not been held back if they had a proper instructor to begin with? Or an instructor that didn't need to quit midway into the school year in order to find a job that does pay rent?
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-30 17:19:46+00:00
A business can appear to be successful and then turn out to be a mirage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Lay certainly or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch arguably) or be successful for a while and make an series of own goals (Tesla made electric cars mainstream, but decided to leave the mass market to BYD and introduce the marginally successful cybertruck and then had its market collapse because politics turned liberal consumers, who wanted electric vehicles, against it without selling electric cars to conservatives)
by extr | 2025-07-30 17:19:59+00:00
I have a JackRabbit OG e-bike [0] (really technically an electric scooter, since it doesn't have pedals). I recently put an aftermarket controller on it to allow for speeds past 20mph, and to allow for higher current to the 350W motor (accepting the risk of increased wear and burn out). It's a ton of fun to ride, can get up to 30-35mph or so though I never take it that high (dangerous). I mostly just use the increased torque for hills.

What's interesting to me though is when I lived in a city, there was zero enforcement of e-bike laws, classifications, etc. I never saw a cop glance my way. Of course, the only riders of e-bikes were adults, and people generally followed traffic laws.

Now that I live in the suburbs, the only other riders of e-bikes are teens and it's a huge issue! I have to be careful exceeding my speed class, it's noticable how much power my apparently modest bike has. Cops have already stopped me once to ask more about the bike, and accepted my explanation that while it's powerful, it has a software governer to keep it within limits. The cop seemed to give me an easier time because of my age (in my 30s), and the fact that I'm an adult with a regular driver's license. I got the sense if they had caught a teen with the bike, they would have been ticketed and the bike impounded.

[0] https://jackrabbit.bike/
by ender341341 | 2025-07-30 17:20:07+00:00
> If I put a speed limiter on a Harley so that it doesn't exceed 30 mph is it a bike?

in the article they call it out that yes currently the max speed of the bike is what's defined under the law and they're tightening that down to also include motor power (so it's harder for people to buy an artificially speed limited bike and remove the limiter while avoiding the regulations that go with that).
by hnuser123456 | 2025-07-30 17:20:07+00:00
I have a class 3 ebike, so 20mph throttle-only, 28mph if you pretend to pedal for whatever reason. The requirement to pedal is more dangerous than the speed. It's fast, but on a long, straight, paved path, it's not that scary, and I wanted to go faster. If I could just throttle it up to 35mph, I wouldn't even need bike lanes around town. 45mph, and I could easily get to the next town over. It's a lighter, slower, cheaper motorcycle that doesn't need a license, registration, insurance, or gasoline. I really do think we should add a few more classes for higher speeds, and I don't think we need more barriers to entry either. I'm not sure what about this is worth laughing at?
by Ygg2 | 2025-07-30 17:20:12+00:00
> .NET was the most sane programming ecosystem that I worked in.

Having written libraries in .Net I fully disagree with that notion.

First insanity is figuring out what in the fuck you need to support. .Net framework or .Net standard or .Net Core or Mono (or .Net Duplo or .Net dot nes :P).

Second is the Source generators. I swear using t4 templates is the saner option. I've had cached artifacts appearing out of the fucking nowhere like unkillable zombies despite closing the Rider, clearing its cache, and killing build server.

Third is the availability of packages. In Rust and Java there are like several libs for anything (even if C bindings).
by shkkmo | 2025-07-30 17:20:27+00:00
> That's the difference between a motorcycle and an e-bike, not speed.

Not legally.

I would argue that the presence of pedals matters much less than the power and weight of the device when it comes to how it should be regulated. Power and weight are what create the risks that the laws exist to regulate.

If you have an ~80 pound device with hardware that can do >40mph on flat ground, it should not regulated like a bicycle.

Edit: To make my point clearer, I think the focus on top speed in a bit of a red herring. High speeds can be achieved on anything with enough hill/drafting/etc. The rate at which the object can gain kinetic energy is what matters. Devices that gain kinetic energy quickly are much more dangerous to operate. Thus the combination of Power x Weight is what the regulations should focus on. There is such a plethora and proliferation of different device types, any other type of distinction can't keep up and will either leave safety gaps or unnecessarily curtail critical innovation in personal transport technology.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-07-30 17:20:29+00:00
> penultimate

Unless I'm misunderstanding your statement, I think this word means nearly the exact opposite of what you think it means.

"Penultimate" does not mean "supremely ultimate". It actually means second from last.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/penultimate-vs-ulti...
by bigyabai | 2025-07-30 17:20:53+00:00
> why there is no "just stop fighting" option

I don't recall many people ever seriously asking for that, though I admit I'm not up-to-date on Israeli affairs. Don't the overwhelming majority of outsiders want a two-state solution, or failing that a more secular Israeli administration?

Through a lens of historical context and not just Oct 7th, it's hard for me to believe that Israelis don't know how to attain regional peace. We know exactly why Lebanon, Jordan and Syria are angry at the Israeli government, and there are simple ways to fix it if the willpower exists.
by markhalonen | 2025-07-30 17:21:11+00:00
Yes one use-case is a gig-economy street photography practice, which does already exist in places like the Brooklyn Bridge, Candid9 makes that easier.

Another use-case perhaps in your case is to do it for free and do higher volume and market your money-making services? I agree that it is fun and mood-lifting to take portraits, but also it would be cool to make it sustainable.

but yeah overall Candid9 is a hammer looking for a nail right now.
by sifar | 2025-07-30 17:21:23+00:00
>> an even more meaningful impact on our lives will likely come from everyone having a personal superintelligence that helps you achieve your goals, create what you want to see in the world, experience any adventure, be a better friend to those you care about, and grow to become the person you aspire to be.

What has intelligence (let alone superintelligence) or lack of, got to do with the last two. All these discussions about AGI seems to have reduced what it means to be a human being to a token generator.
by hju22_-3 | 2025-07-30 17:22:02+00:00
You know, reading through your replies in this thread is kind of just sad. You selectively pick only tiny parts of comments to reply to, while ignoring the points that are made and the plethora of very, very common issues highlighted.

Sadly, it's also a very expected answer from someone who probably likes Linux a lot. No matter what argument is made, no matter what examples or proof are included, irregardless of the number of such things, it's all just user error in the end.

When the argument is that Linux only _properly_ supports a small subset of devices for _desktop computing,_ and the counter-argument is that it does, yet a person mentions very, very incredibly common issues . . . Is the proper response to say, to effect, you're the one at fault by not using the right hardware? No, no it's not. Given that so, so, _so_ many experience these kinds of basic UX problems means that either Linux doesn't actually properly support a lot of different hardware (despite what many obsessed Linux users screech/preach) or it supports them perfectly fine and the tons upon tons upon tons of people who experience these issues are all the ones at fault and in no way, shape or form does Linux lack from a well known general UX problem.

Even worse is this, honestly, moronic take:

> 2. It seems you're using hardware designed for Windows. It's like trying to install Windows on a Macbook: You're on your own here. Don't blame Microsoft or Apple for your issues.

If I wasn't before convinced that you aren't completely out of touch, I am now. The primary subject of _desktop_ users _are_ Windows users with Windows machines. Goodness gracious, I honestly do not understand this take. Most of Linux's not-always-optimal desktop hardware support comes from a plethora of formerly Windows machines.

It's honestly just so weird to argue that installing Linux on a Windows machine is in any way shape or form as bad as installing it on a Mac.

Even more, Linux-only devices, as in Linux-first devices, are more of a newer thing. There have been initiatives before, that have fallen through or not gained a lot of traction. It's not until relatively recently that companies making Linux-first devices for _desktop_ computing became a real thing. And even then, the Steam Deck blows them out of the water by mostly _removing_ the desktop-part of Linux and replacing it with a homebrewed one. Although you can still use a regular desktop "mode." And yet, even with such companies, Windows machines stand for a massive section of the Linux desktop computing userbase.

Ironically, this is exactly the kind of argument I'd expect from an obsessed and out of touch Linux user. Because it makes no sense, disregards the points other potential users make and doesn't even properly address them.
by recursivedoubts | 2025-07-30 17:22:36+00:00
depends how much state is accidental vs essential:

https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/

while I certainly try to be funny online, I hope I'm reasonably even handed about the tradeoffs associated with the hypermedia approach:

https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/

https://htmx.org/essays/#on-the-other-hand
by Catbert59 | 2025-07-30 17:22:50+00:00
The Semtech modems have several modulation modes which can be configured in great detail.. the datasheet is quite verbose about them.

The latest generation of chips (AFAIR not yet released) integrated a mode that allows them to receive on all LoRa speed grades in parallel. Bit like the existing LoRaWAN basestation ICs.

I remember reading a datasheet that one (already released chip) is also able to work on 144-146MHz. But that's not what standard Asia (ESP32+LoRa modules) offer. TTGO has AFAIR recently released a super new board that allows this band.
by igsomething | 2025-07-30 17:22:56+00:00
In an ideal world none of the past 70 years of conflicts that led to this unrecoverable resentfulness would have happened. Unfortunately the only peaceful solution I can imagine is for Israel to let Gazans move to other Arab-world countries, let Israel annexate Gaza, and then imposing strict border controls and watches such that if Israel attempts any ethnic cleansing or illegal occupation they get severly sanctioned.
by labanimalster | 2025-07-30 17:23:05+00:00
First author here. We solved a 30-year problem in gene therapy by leveraging neonatal immune tolerance. A single AAV vector injection encoding HIV antibodies achieved 89% success in newborns vs 33% in 2-year-olds, with protection lasting through adolescence. This could transform HIV prevention in regions where maintaining regular medical care is challenging. Happy to answer questions about the science or implications.
by transpute | 2025-07-30 17:23:10+00:00
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/10/basec...

> [2023] 37Signals expected to save $7 million over five years by buying more than $600,000 worth of Dell server gear and hosting its own apps.. [2024] update: it's more like $10 million (and, he told the BBC, more like $800,000 in gear). By squeezing more hardware into existing racks and power allowances.. transferring its 10 petabytes of S3 storage into a dual-DC Pure Storage flash array, 37Signals expects to save money, run faster, and have more storage available.
by ghaff | 2025-07-30 17:23:12+00:00
I sometimes sit in sidewalk seating at a restaurant in Cambridge near a small theater I have a subscription to. The (protected) bike lane in front is a pretty horrifying combination of conventional bikes, ebikes, things that I assume are high powered ebikes but look almost like motor scooters, escooters, pedestrians caught in the crosshairs, etc. And a ton of the vehicles just blowing through the lights at the next intersection because they're more or less bikes and that's pretty common behavior.
by BigHatLogan | 2025-07-30 17:23:21+00:00
Really well said. I would even go further and say that the "smart people with expertise" even disagree on matters like this and are operating on imperfect, vague information. Knowing that, it seems even more ridiculous to ask passersby about their opinion on this. Of course you can have an opinion, but keep in mind you're likely operating in 99% fog. Just my two cents.
by FreakLegion | 2025-07-30 17:24:17+00:00
Today the 50% number is only for Reg-T, and even then the net account requirement (maintenance) is lower. But there's also portfolio margin, which gives you much more leverage, and a lot of people end up using it who wouldn't otherwise because Reg-T doesn't handle offsetting positions (i.e. a hedge counts as more risk, not less, for purposes of buying power).