MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wyre | 2025-08-05 02:13:58+00:00
What do you mean? Rules, laws, and blame are not simple physics. It is a driver's responsibility to pay attention when driving. I will ask again in a different way: what situation is it correct to blame a non-suicidal pedestrian for their own death when struck by an automobile? Surely it is an ideological point that I believe there is no situation where I think the pedestrian should be at fault for being hit by a car, but if you disagree (it seems like you do) I ask why you believe the rights of the automobile is greater than the cost of a human life.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-05 02:14:01+00:00
"This doesn't hold up logically unless I'm missing something, certainly the victim wouldn't be getting fined 329 millioon if it was decided to be his fault for not loooking at the road"

There was no "329 million fine"

There was a (a) 59 million compensatory damages award to the representative of the estate of the deceased and (b) 70 million compensatory damages award to her boyfriend who survived

The punitive damages were likley the result of Tesla's misconduct in deliberately concealing evidence, not its percentage of fault in causing the accident

HN front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787780

Why would Tesla conceal evidence. That question is left as one for the reader

Indeed, the HN commenter missed several things
by m4rtink | 2025-08-05 02:14:35+00:00
Interestingly enough, the same world ending technology can be used for interstellar travel & could have been used since the 1950s!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_ark

Arguably if you launched the project Orion interstellar ark from the ground you could have pulled the world ending at the same time as well, perfect tripple combo. ;-)
by david422 | 2025-08-05 02:16:17+00:00
When you buy a house and get a mortgage, you are going to be paying MUCH more in interest (than expected). Over the course of the mortgage, you are going to be paying MUCH more than the sticker price. Between closing costs and taxes and fees maintenance, you will need more cash than you think.

My advice is look at the numbers very carefully and choose something that is (below) or fits your budget. Sudden financial issues like the loss of a job or new vehicle purchase can put a big strain on all this.
by gregjor | 2025-08-05 02:18:18+00:00
I agree with everything in the article except the implied need for an IDE-like file browser or drawer. netrw never works as I expect and seems to have too many bugs.

As one of the "old school vim users" I don't try to make vim into an IDE. I don't need a file browser at all. I use buffers and a fuzzy finder to open files. When I need to see directories and files, create directories, rename or move files, I use the shell. I can either use :term to open a terminal window inside vim, or ctrl-Z to get a shell. Or I will have a shell in another tmux window I can quickly switch to.

When programmers accustomed to VS Code or some other IDE watch me work with vim they usually notice that I don't have a project file tree or browser pane. When I tell them I don't need those they often can't believe it -- they think of the file list as something core to their coding workflow. When I use VSCode I hide the file tree and never look at it except to create a directory or file, and of course I can do that with less clicking and scrolling from the terminal window.
by gwerbret | 2025-08-05 02:19:10+00:00
A lot of the purposes in education for which the use of AI would be considered "cheating" involve writing assignments of one sort or another, so I don't know why most of these education scenarios don't simply redirect the incentive.

For example, in an English class with a lot of essay-writing assignments, the assignments could simply be worth 0% of the final mark. There would still be deadlines as usual, and they would be marked as usual, but the students would be free to do them or not as they pleased. The catch would be that the *proctored, for-credit* exams would demand that they write similar essays, which would then be graded based on the knowledge/skills the students would have been expected to gain if they'd done the assignments.

Advantages:

- No more issues with cheating.

- Students get to manage (or learn to manage) their own time and priorities, as is expected of adults, without being whipped as much with the cane of class grades.

- The advanced students who can already write clearly, concisely and convincingly (or whatever the objectives are of the writing exercises) don't have to waste time with unneeded assignments.

- If students skip the assignments, learn to write on their own time using ChatGPT and friends, and can demonstrate their skills in exam conditions, then it's a win-win.

This all requires that whoever is in charge of the class have clear and testable learning goals in mind -- which, alas, they all-too-often do not.
by darkteflon | 2025-08-05 02:19:40+00:00
Yes I’m aware. But the whole point of this open firmware afaiu is that is enables use of the existing on-chip AI features for these particular cameras. Which means that something like Frigate - which focuses on running such AI features separately on, e.g., a coral accelerator - might not be a good fit. That’s why I sought the maintainer’s opinion.
by mintycrisp | 2025-08-05 02:21:43+00:00
Announced by Sean Duffy, current interim administrator of NASA (the highest ranking official at the agency) who's main credentials are being a former Real World / Road Rules participant and Fox News host with a degree in Marketing.

I would like to say this is inspiring, because if this dude could become head of NASA then anyone could including me. But holy hell that is low key terrifying.

- 'The first country to have a reactor could “declare a keep-out zone which would significantly inhibit the United States,” '

So it seems less of a plan for further space exploration and more in line with a territorial grab. If it's land they want to 'own' then I've got good news for them, I am selling prime Luna real estate at a discount(low hundred millions) they can buy and even get a fancy notarized paper certificate too!
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-08-05 02:22:14+00:00
I've been taking one class at a time for the last six years at what I think is an average American university. The twenty somethings that your comment is aimed at have been my lab partners and such. You're describing maybe 10% of them. As a group they're all over the map.

As learning goes, I'd say anybody taking more than two classes at a time is overcommitted. They might manage to get A's but I speak with these students about the courses we took together a year or two after the fact and it's clear to me that taking four or five classes at once is an awful strategy for retention.
by linsomniac | 2025-08-05 02:22:22+00:00
I've largely given up using tmux in favor of wezterm: wezterm has the ability to remote connect to a persistent terminal running on another machine, and has native window objects so things like mouse support and copy/paste work out of the box. It also has a kind of mosh-like support, though not quite as good at persisting connections over bad networks or network disconnections as mosh+tmux.

The down side is that it's really sensitive to versions, right now I'm struggling to get it to work on NixOS in the version that I have running on my Ubuntu dev box and MacOS laptop.
by ericpauley | 2025-08-05 02:23:11+00:00
The design of passkeys is pretty solidly based around the idea that users are the weakest link the system and need to be protected from themselves. Given how criminally insecure passwords and push/code based MFA are in the face of user incompetence I have a hard time believing that WebAuthn is some grand plot by Big Tech to lock people into their walled gardens.

I think people on HN overestimate the security literacy of the average computer user in a personal/corporate setting. If a sophisticated attacker wanted to target an organiztion with passwords/push auth, it'd be trivial to get some subset of members to copy-paste passwords from managers and accept prompts. I think far more likely than lock-in is that FIDO members genuinely want to make their customers more secure, something that passkeys very much do accomplish for the average user.

That being said, I'm not rushing to enable passkeys on every site. If you already use a good password that enforces origin binding (the key strength of WebAuthn) and you extend that security perimeter through good OpSec (i.e., being careful when copy-pasting passwords), you're not getting much benefit.
by mikepurvis | 2025-08-05 02:23:20+00:00
For daemonizing a single service, I agree it's silly. I think the argument becomes more complex when you have a whole group of services. The "proper" way for that involves a systemd unit for each process, and then if you want the dashboard experience you still have to launch all the panes and get each one tailing the respective unit journals.

It's tougher to make the case there that systemd units are "worth it", particularly given the other ergonomic benefits of a pure tmux solution, such as being able to ctrl-c a pane and trivially re-launch it.

And once you're launching services in a container, that's another world again, since systemd in that case is quite a bit worse and probably wants CAP_ADMIN.
by Gigachad | 2025-08-05 02:23:27+00:00
It might help to think of them like that, but they aren't the same in some pretty important ways. The website never gets access to your private key like they do with passwords.

So even if a website has it's database breached, there isn't a need to reset your passkeys since they were never compromised. I guess maybe you might have to be sure the attacker didn't replace your pub key with their own.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-08-05 02:23:40+00:00
A friend of mine spends the first minute of all trips in their car turning off all the auto-safety BS loaded in by regulation these days. All on by default the next time the car is switched on.

Also, I pretty much wear sunglasses 100% of the time I'm either outdoors or driving. That attention detection is not fit for purpose. Squinting through road glare literally makes me tired.

The dangers imposed on self and society by driving are poorly matched to the requirements of getting a license. Unfortunately participation in much of society requires the ability to drive one's self from one place to another; it's been built around this requirement.
by sixdimensional | 2025-08-05 02:23:45+00:00
No, I mean, like a copilot style AI assistant, the user can chat with to ask what they want to do, and either the assistant can operate and navigate the UI to the right place, or perhaps even shortcut the steps for the user by asking for questions to satisfy inputs for the thing they are trying to accomplish.

An example: - user intent is to update an attribute for a component part number A21445

- user can click a chat bubble icon in lower right and chat to the assistant

- user describes their intent - "help me update the description for part number A21445

- system replies by informing the user it will open the right screen, opening a part/component editing UI, with the right part loaded, with the cursor positioned in the description field, and the assistant stays open for further assistance; or;

- system replies that it found the part and can update the description, shows the current description for the user, asks "what description do you want?"

- user enters updated description

- system confirms the change is correct

- user confirms the change is correct

- part/component description is updated without even opening the UI

FWIW, it's great that you have cmd-K and also I've seen those kind of search boxes get more smarts like being able to type "part:A21445" to go directly to a specific UI.

I just suggested the above as we learned some interesting user experiences became possible when our AI assistant had the ability to control our UI directly on behalf of a specific user.

An example in the app I worked in (a web based data pipeline tool):

- "Hey assistant, can you help me add some SQL transformation logic to dataflow ABC, to process the customer data?"

- system uses metadata and knowledge of the UI to open the right dataflow, select the right type of UI to open to enable the user to add a SQL query in the right place, maybe even autogenerate the initial SQL query - this all from the main home page of the app, from a side panel chat assistant.

- net result feels like talking to the assistant to operate the app, almost no clicks required.

I hope that makes sense.
by maxlybbert | 2025-08-05 02:24:06+00:00
That was my first thought, too. I guess the condition's name is pretty memorable.

It's been almost twenty years, so it shouldn't surprise me that new research means that people who died in the past maybe could have survived longer if we had known better. And, of course, Jordan was going to die some day. But I certainly wish he'd had more time.
by goosejuice | 2025-08-05 02:25:12+00:00
> Come on, obviously they do marketing.

Of course they do. You questioned time and money spent compared to warning clarity and the manual. Having no team for marketing implies little time and money spent. I would say they've spent far more money trying to make it safe and clear in the user manual than trying to mislead customers in a few tweets and a video.

> might lead someone to believe that Autopilot will do what the video shows?

It does do what it shows? The driver is attentive not placing their foot on the pedal and not taking their eyes off the road. I believe that is exactly how FSD operated until forced to implement the nag 4? years after this video was made.

Afaik this is the video congress sent to the FTC, under the awesome Lina Khan, and they chose to do nothing about it. I agree Tesla should do better, but that's different than finding them liable for wrongful death in this specific case.

Germany did something about it. California DMV did something about it. If anything it seems the NHTSA and FTC dropped the ball. That seems to be in Tesla's favor legally.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-08-05 02:26:07+00:00
Imo those numbers are pretty inflated unless you’re taking a full load of the hardest classes offered. Usually you pair some GE requirements or electives with heavier material. I really don’t want do some sort of humble brag here, so I’ll just say that if I followed your math it would come out to like 90+ hours. I promise, I was not that diligent.
by ewoodrich | 2025-08-05 02:26:18+00:00
> Exercises such as the "three paragraph essay" had no use in the real world

The rigid formatting imposed by graded assignments may not have any use. But on the other hand, having completed a liberal arts/"soft" science degree before my CS degree I've greatly benefited in the workplace from the writing experience it provided. I had to write so many papers that it became more or less effortless to produce long form, well structured writing and those written communication skills have helped me distinguish myself far more than my technical ability at work.

The generic ChatGPT overly formal corporate tone has no nuance or subtlety and is a poor substitute for well crafted, deliberate communication. I am always conscious of how my exact words and phrasing would be perceived by the intended audience, frequently requiring a balancing act between competing interests while maintaining clarity. Due to that I manage to avoid stepping on toes or sabotaging relationships due to inartful phrasing. It's frustrating to receive emails consisting of LLM boilerplate because it has such low information density and is so much more difficult to infer tone and emotion from the other side .

I'm very grateful I completed my education without the temptation to just churn out low effort writing or code and depriving myself of that experience. I'm not confident at all I would have been able to maintain that self-discipline.
by skeledrew | 2025-08-05 02:28:06+00:00
Another very important reason why I prefer Perplexity is due to attribution. It actually does cite the sources that it bases it's output on (unless it's something generic or calculated), so if I suspect something is off or want to look deeper into some particular aspect I can easily click through. And I've done enough click-throughs to be confident that Perplexity faithfully represents sourced content, and accurately gets exactly the bits I'm interested in, maybe 98% or more of the time.

It is your prerogative to tune your servers as you see fit, but as LLM adoption increases you'll merely find that your site has fewer and fewer visits overall, so your content will only be utilized by you and a vanishingly small group of other persons. Perhaps you're OK with that, and that's also fine for the rest of us.

It's strange you mention theft, and then say it isn't about money. For me, and many others, it's about practicality and efficiency. We went from having to visit physical libraries to using search engines, and now we're entering the era of increasingly intelligent content fetch+preprocess tools.
by trhway | 2025-08-05 02:28:26+00:00
With all the crypto development how come we haven't got to

HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required WWW-price: 0.0000001 BTC, 0.000001 ETH, 0.00001 DOGE

> You are less likely to participate in discussion

you (or AI on your behalf) paid instead. Many sites would probably like it better.
by tibbar | 2025-08-05 02:29:10+00:00
You can memorize the correct opening moves in chess. For maybe my first year playing chess, I just YOLO'd the opening moves. My judgement there was probably not much worse than the rest of my play, but with other players playing engine moves in the opening, I was probably in a losing position early on in most of my games. I gained about, I think, 100 ELO after learning some 3 or 4 move opening combinations.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-08-05 02:29:15+00:00
Maybe? We can go around in circles on this but there were so many other options the Allies could have tried:

- Drop the first bomb in the ocean in front of an envoy of observers and give Japan a week to deliberate their response

- Blockade the island, threaten land invasion, and wait for the emperor to call for surrender as they gradually run out of fuel

- Drop a bomb on Hiroshima but give more than 3 days for the government to understand what happened and consider surrendering before dropping a bomb on Nagasaki

- Allow the USSR to go ahead with a ground invasion while the US sits on the sidelines

etc...

But sure, in the fine grained detail, if the US has not dropped nuclear bombs on Japan, we would not today be commenting on Hiroshima (1946) saying "they shouldn't have dropped nuclear bombs on Japan"
by fn-mote | 2025-08-05 02:29:34+00:00
Kind of.

If you knew exactly what you wanted (needed) to talk about, I don't think you would have an issue. You could always pay them to consult if the topic wasn't too boring.

However...

At least in the olden days, going to the class and listening to the professor's take on the subject could help you make connections that you wouldn't make in another context, or on your own. In current days, maybe you make those connections by watching YouTube videos. I (vaguely) remember a very interesting post by someone who said when they watched Talk Y at 2x speed, it seemed mediocre, but later they watched it at 1x and started making all sorts of connections from it.

I think that's one of the benefits of college. Experiencing life at 1x, with time to make the connections and do the creative thinking.

The creativity can also come from talking with your colleagues (fellow students).
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-08-05 02:32:01+00:00
>They find ways to run out of time no matter how much free time they start with

IMO you’re observing Parkinson’s law, “work expands to fill the allotted time”. The students who take a million classes look like they have time management in check, and I’m sure some do, but they also are benefiting from the inverse of Parkinson’s law — if they can _only_ allot X hours a week to a task, they’re going to make the most of those X hours. This practically holds regardless of the student’s time management skills. I should know, I have horrible time management, and only succeed by overcommitting and rising to the challenge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law?wprov=sfti1
by barbinbrad | 2025-08-05 02:32:46+00:00
i don't know a ton about ERPNext's manufacturing capabilities, but i think there are really great for these reasons:

- free to try - open source - well-documented - great developer community

one big difference is in the data model. in ERPNext, everything is a doctype, and there's some standard hooks.

in carbon, there are hundreds of different tables. each ui is it's own set of react components, so it's a lot more manufacturing-specific and a little more opinionated.
by Deanoumean | 2025-08-05 02:33:35+00:00
The reason this is special is because no one else used a nuclear bomb, before this event or after. That's basically the definition of "special" and the number of Chinese that the Japanese killed has nothing to do with it.

Picking anything other than the nuclear bomb to never happen again is moronic because the planet can survive the other things, but if nukes were to start flying again, it would most likely not end with just two. Other countries have those weapons now too and such a war has the potential to be last one ever fought.
by barbinbrad | 2025-08-05 02:36:41+00:00
founder here. great question.

the way i see it, the sales side should be bespoke -- because everyone has a different product, and way of selling/configuring, and the factory-floor side should be bespoke -- because of all the different types of equipment. but the middle layer (purchasing, bill of materials, invoices, sales orders, scheduling, processes, work centers) can be standardized.

for me that's why it's important that the middle layer is open source. so that the bespoke layers can tie into it.
by Gigachad | 2025-08-05 02:36:52+00:00
It's not for lock in, it's for anti phishing purposes. Passkey managers are designed so that grandma on the phone to a scammer can't physically dump and email her entire passkey vault. It's impossible to get phished by a fake login page with Passkeys and it's impossible to send your private keys to someone on the mainstream Passkey managers.

Portability between Passkey managers is still an issue though. Last I checked there were in draft specs for migrating between managers but nothing ready yet.
by fn-mote | 2025-08-05 02:37:05+00:00
Just a comment for institutional subscriptions: if you haven't found out already, you'll probably want to hire some sales people who have the ability to check boxes and get through district red tape. If you're doing it, make sure you keep the single classroom subscription price beneath the threshold of "reimbursible with a receipt" instead of "must go through the business office". The latter can really end up being very involved. (You'll still find reluctance to spend that way, but at least it makes trials viable.)

Source: gave up on the process. It seemed the larger the bureaucracy, the lower the conversion rate.
by sureglymop | 2025-08-05 02:38:14+00:00
I was able to choose a difficulty level/debate partner and then a debate topic.

Only then was I asked to log in with a Google account. But I don't even have a Google account... So, I just configured the whole session for absolutely no useful reason. Not that it wasted a lot of my time but it is generally a more annoying thing to happen. Handle the login first, or announce that it is required with some disclaimer before the user performs any action.
by shmerl | 2025-08-05 02:38:56+00:00
Not being able to see it all can't be justified with "for phishing purposes". You can put a big warning there that exposing your private key is a risk, but user should be able to see it with needed effort. Not being able to see it at all is a problem, like anything that moves away control from the user to some external entity.

Of course they'll happily justify it with security reasons, but that doesn't remove the problem.