MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paavope | 2025-08-02 23:13:03+00:00
Based on my experience living here in Helsinki for 30 years, people drive cars _more_ in the winter rather than less. That’s because the alternative is usually some combination of walking and public transit, and walking is uncomfortable in the winter and public transit is a bit less dependable, too.

But altogether people mostly still use public transit, there’s not a whole lot of driving per capita and the traffic is relatively slow and non-chaotic. I think that’s the core reason for the road safety.

Also, the requirements for getting a driver’s license here are stricter than it sounds like in other countries, with a high emphasis on safety; that probably contributes to the non-chaotic traffic
by manquer | 2025-08-02 23:13:33+00:00
The backyard option is only feasible if you live somewhere without light pollution and clear skies, which is not most people.

$600/month is a reasonable deal if comparing it to driving couple of times a month to a dark sky location near you.

While it is fun and rewarding to be camping and hiking like that, the effort gets in the way of serious amateur astronomy.

Amateur astronomy is one of the few hobby science fields left where real contributions can be made and published without being a professional astronomer.
by esskay | 2025-08-02 23:14:14+00:00
No, not even close to good.

I'm having to convert to US gallons to Imperial here but...

My old ICE car was getting approx 50mpg (which is approx 41mpg for you) and was considered poor for its age. My new one (hybrid) is 60mpg (approx 50mpg for you).

For a fairly modern car (e.g under 10 years old) in the UK you'd expect at least 40–50 MPG (UK) / 33–42 MPG (US), and even that would be considered on the lower end. Most modern cars are either electric or hybrid here these days so you'd expect 60–100 MPG (UK) / 50–83 MPG (US).
by ZguideZ | 2025-08-02 23:14:55+00:00
I just passed through immigration and they punched a hole in my residence card, so now it's official. Still my home, but not a Japanese resident any longer. Such a strange world that can exist this way...On the one hand, it's a bit of a bummer that I couldn't find a way that works with my lifestyle to keep my residency but on the other, being a tourist comes with some privileges. I can now get a JR pass when I return in a month, I can buy things tax free (at least for a while until new changes take effect). So, it's not all sadness on my part.
by mckn1ght | 2025-08-02 23:15:15+00:00
I did this for a while. You’re leaving out some ancillary details: time driving to and from home depot to pick up and drop off the truck, needing a truck and no rentals available, picking up a rental truck and there’s some issue with it, something happens out of your control that requires more time with the truck but you can’t extend the rental… all things i’ve encountered.

At some point the number of times i needed to use it picked up (hah) which multiplied these inconveniences enough that it became worth it to just pick up (hah) a used truck.

I use it exclusively for hauling work, but that usually entails at least one trip without a load, which may lead people to incorrectly judging me for driving it unnecessarily.
by GiorgioG | 2025-08-02 23:15:19+00:00
This. I have had a 2016 F-150 since late 2017 - I'd never owned a truck before. I can go get mulch, take an entire bed-load of stuff to the dump (couches, mattresses, etc). When we go on vacation within driving distance (usually up to 500ish miles for us, we can bring more or less anything we want without concern for space. We took my wife's SUV 2 weeks ago on a 700 mile trip (her mid-sized SUV is much newer) and we had to pack very carefully compared to when we take the truck. Our son plays ice hockey, his hockey equipment stinks (yes it gets aired out...he's still a stinky teenager), but it's never an issue because with the truck, it's not in the passenger compartment. We live in the south but drove to Pittsburgh through 2 snowstorm there and back...lots of SUVs stranded on the road...my 4x4 F-150 made it through without any trouble. When my father in law passed last year, we moved all of his things out of his apartment with my truck. I let my neighbors borrow it when they need to move something large. The only thing that sucks about it is parking in store parking lots. That and buying a newer (not brand new) costs 2x what I paid for my 2016 in 2017. I've toyed with getting rid of it for something smaller, but it's just too versatile for me to give up.
by rmoriz | 2025-08-02 23:15:47+00:00
I was very, very skeptic. Then a couple of weeks ago I started with Atlassian's Rovo Dev CLI (Sonnet 4) and immediately managed to build and finish a couple of projects. I learned a lot and for sure having experience, decide on stack an architecture is a huge benefit for "guiding" an agentic coding app. I'm not sure if anyone can build and maintain a project without having at least some skills, but If you are an experienced developer, this is kind of magic.

I also appreciate the common best practice to write a requirements document in Markdown before letting the agent start. AWS' kiro.dev is really nice in separating the planning stage from the execution stage but you can use almost any "chatbot" even ChatGPT for that stage. If you suffer from ADHD or lose focus easily, this is key. Even if you decide to finish some steps manually.

It doesn't really matter if you use Claude Code (with Claude LLM), Rovo Dev CLI, Kiro, Opencode, gemini-cli, whatever. Pick the ones that offer daily free tokens and try it out. And no, they will almost never complete without any error. But just copy+paste the error to the prompt or ask some nasty questions ("Did you really implement deduplication and caching?") and usually the agent magically sees the issues and starts to fix it.
by whoknowsidont | 2025-08-02 23:16:58+00:00
Even if we had a "stranglehold" on the deepest foundations of Quantum Mechanics it wouldn't help you with either of those things. In order for those things we need something beyond QM and a lot more grand. FTL travel and communication is in the ball park of relativity.

QM is not an umbrella term for sci-fi.
by simoncion | 2025-08-02 23:16:58+00:00
I've had "native" IPv6 service for something like twenty years. I've not had a problem with accessing any of the internet.

If you're hinting that roughly half of the internet-connected servers don't have IPv6 addresses, then my reply is "so what?". Only idiots are suggesting that folks who aren't running an experimental lab (or ISPs that have the expertise required to set up the NATs needed to reach the IPv4 internet from v6-only service) go IPv6-only.
by wongarsu | 2025-08-02 23:17:38+00:00
That's how writing used to work for the longest time. Each letter has a sound, and you write down the letters that match the sounds you make when pronouncing the word. Two people might not spell a word the same, so the only viable way to learn would be what is now apparently called phonics.

We only really started to standardize spelling in the 1500s. Which I guess means that by the 1800s English spelling and pronunciation had drifted far enough apart that phonics was a concept worth putting in words.

In most languages with alphabets the pronunciation of letters is consistent enough that the issue doesn't seem to come up a lot. Phonics is just the obvious way to do it in those cases
by LarMachinarum | 2025-08-02 23:18:30+00:00
when I read "1m-accurate indoor GPS", my first gut reaction was along the lines of "so what? Nowadays outdoor differential/rover GPS/GNSS has <2cm precision with RTK+dual band receivers, even for civil use… and indoor allows for yet way better parameter control than outdoors, so it should be possible to achieve at least that precision" (besides, it would allow for robots to get a sufficiently precise location for indoor navigation and to shelve wares)

The thing is: that would require additional hardware though, whereas the relevant limiting criterion of the project presented in the article is obviously that it has to run with just the hardware provided by common mobile phones. Which is what makes the project interesting despite the comparatively lower precision.
by skissane | 2025-08-02 23:19:40+00:00
> Immigrants don’t generally earn much, let alone work legally and pay taxes. They are not paying our retirement. They require doctors and produce our “medical deserts” (the name we use in France where social security fails because of lack of practicians).

My mother is a doctor and her father was a doctor before, and both are immigrants (from Scotland to Australia) - my grandfather was already a doctor when he immigrated, my mother was only 3 or 4 at the time but she ended up doing medicine too. Our children’s paediatrician did medicine in Sri Lanka and then immigrated to Australia post-graduation; my psychiatrist likewise graduated from medicine in India. My psychologist was born in Czechia, grew up there, moved to Australia as an adult and did his psychology degrees here. My closest personal friend is a lawyer who was born in Peru, grew up in Australia - but he isn’t Peruvian, his ancestry is Argentine-Uruguayan. One of my coworkers I work closely with immigrated to Australia only 2-3 years ago, from Argentina-he already worked for our employer in Argentina, but got an intra-company transfer to here.

I don’t know any poor immigrants-I’m sure they exist, but I just don’t know any of them personally-I know lots of immigrants but they are all university-educated professionals

Of course, I am talking about Australia, you are talking about France - but France has a great many middle class or better immigrants (and their descendants) too. The big difference is France also has huge numbers of socially disadvantaged immigrants, while Australia has significantly less (proportionally speaking). But the problem then isn’t immigration, it is mismanaged immigration-who, not how many
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-08-02 23:22:35+00:00
Yes i don't doubt your estimates for Vancouver. European cities are built very differently (partially because of historical streets being later adapted for motor-vehicles). What i consider city driving, 50km/h or above would be probably be considered suicidal with the amount of merging, turning, and red lights. And the density is higher at that.

Three lanes either way i consider a real motorway. I don't think I've seen a much larger road in Sweden or Finland myself. These roads would clearly not be capped to 30km/h like discussed in this article. (more likely I've seen is 80-90km/h near the city with a lot of merging traffic, and 100-120 outside).

I think the easiest way to visualize what kind of city it is, is to consider that any road with red-light, walkway/bikeway by the side, roundabouts, or without side-barried or trench to be a "city road" and capped at 30km/h. Which is not unreasonable, and unlikely to affect commute by much, as you generally navigate to the nearest larger road, travel by that, and then merge back into the city. (and this is most roads in the city by distance or area)

as a European looking at an american city, they feel like playing sim-city but not finding the "small road" option. And slapping red-lights, stores, and crossings om roads that no human should be near.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-02 23:22:46+00:00
> So if someone routinely hauls a couple mountain bikes in the bed of their truck or gets a few 2x4s from the lumber yard it wouldn’t count.

Even if that’s the case, the truck owners doing this probably don’t need a full size truck. A 90s-era small truck or maybe even a kei truck would suffice, and yet more often than not the trucks in question are the likes of F-150s.
by boston_clone | 2025-08-02 23:22:56+00:00
No, no need to lie and no justification for it. The story sounds… odd to say the least.

If people wanna get upset about other people’s college drama and avoid women, sure I guess that’s their prerogative.

But in the context of US politics, most Trump voters do hold views that are socially damning and generally fall under the umbrella of hate towards someone that’s not a straight white cisgender christian man. An official government account made a post using 14 words with two H’s capitalized, an unmistakeable neo-Nazi reference, in the last month. So no, there should be no respect for people that continue to embrace this Project 2025 dystopian bullshit. Still, lies aren’t justified.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-08-02 23:23:28+00:00
I never said it was sufficient for AGI, just that it was a milestone in AI that people thought was farther off than it turned out to be. This is applying to all subsets of intelligence AI is reaching earlier than experts initially predicted, giving good reason AGI (perhaps a synthesis of these elements coming together in a single model, or a suite of models) is likely closer than standard expert consensus.
by luckydata | 2025-08-02 23:23:31+00:00
if a kid is being lazy there's simply no way around "cohercion" as you put it. You know how I know he's being lazy? Because I used to do the same stuff for the same reasons, and my parents and teachers saw through it and didn't make excuses for me or any other kid.

We were expected to grow up and learn to do work even when we didn't want to.
by richwater | 2025-08-02 23:23:44+00:00
Lina Khan's obsession with "big is bad", especially her preexisting prejudice of Big Tech should have disqualified her from any position well before she took the wheel.

How many times did the FTC fail in court under her watch? More than I can count on two hands.

Meanwhile local and state utility and cable tv monopolies continue to _flourish_ without so much as a peep.
by philistine | 2025-08-02 23:25:06+00:00
We’re talking 13 to 15-inch screens in laptops. I do not believe for one second that there were economies of scale in those screens in the 2010s with those sizes. People were not buying 13-inch TVs more than they were buying laptops. What happened is that desktops switched to 16:9 for economies of scale and the manufacturers switched on laptops for marketing purposes.

Look at how Apple never went 16:9 except for one model, the 11-inch MacBook Air.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-02 23:25:21+00:00
I miss the sensible, hilarious, considerate, chill hippies culture and people of the Valley I grew up with, the one's who didn't change or sell their souls.

Not the one who became rich, suits, Republican, and/or moved to Idaho.

Like my neighbor in San Jose who was a Danish-American who worked at Spectra-Physics and drove a brown, Wankel-powered RX-7. Or a friend's parents from high school who had 7' tall ornamental glass bongs. (Lol. There was more weed at my high (not pun intended) school than alcohol and cigs, but not much because of how straight-laced and over-achieving "Asian parents" pressured it was.)

Pre-internet, community and socializing also existed.

PS: I live as a blue dot in Texas hill country now having been priced out of where I grew up.
by OutOfHere | 2025-08-02 23:25:30+00:00
Over the long term, the odds reach 100% that it won't be checked out. That's because people mostly only work on newer projects. As for mature older projects, even if they're running in production, cease to see many/any updates, and so they don't get cloned on to newer laptops. This doesn't mean that the older projects are now less important, because if they ever need to be re-deployed to production, only the source code will allow it.
by simoncion | 2025-08-02 23:25:41+00:00
> ...it ended in an infinite fight with the source address selection algorithm and DNS caches...

What did this fight look like? For the past fifteen, twenty years, I have NATted IPv4, globally-routable IPv6, and ULA IPv6 addresses on all of my machines attached to the internet-accessible VLANs on my LAN. The only trouble I've noticed was when ISP maintenance caused me to lose the globally-routable prefix for a little while and my franken-router started passing ULA traffic out the WAN interface. [0]

I'd love to hear what you've been seeing, so I can see if there's trouble that I've been overlooking.

> ...unique-local addresses are deprecated as far as I know.

ULAs are not deprecated. You may be thinking of site-local addresses. See the first paragraph of section 1 here: [1]

[0] The obvious firewall rule fixed that.

[1] <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-v6ops-ula-usage-c...>
by bastawhiz | 2025-08-02 23:25:43+00:00
I'll be eager to post one! After the cybertruck I won't be preordering any more vehicles. Right now I'm looking to replace our Model 3. I'm waiting for now details on the 2026 R1T Quad, and to see if Mazda actually really makes an electric MX-5. We have two other EVs (cars) so a truck would make sense but we're keeping our options open. An R1T would be cool but putting the 50k difference into a home battery system would be a smarter play, and an electric MX-5 would just be fun as hell.

A friend of mine who works at a tech company doing charging tech is urging me to hold out for a year, so I might delay a decision another year. We'll see.
by em-bee | 2025-08-02 23:26:13+00:00
it would mean that each letter has one and only one sound, but multiple letters can share the same sound. or if it is the reverse direction for each sound you only have one letter, but multiple sounds can share the same letter. which one is true for russian i don't know.

i learned to read the cyrilic letters, but i didn't learn russian (i did try though) but with that knowledge i could read cyrilic texts aloud to someone who understands the language, assuming i learned all letters correctly and the first case is true.

in the second case i could write down anything i hear. much harder, but as a traveler that would actually be useful. be able to write down names and addresses i hear when asking someone for directions for example. i did learn to write (well, type) korean that way, but of course i had to ask a local to proofread what i wrote since i would not be able to spot mistakes.
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-02 23:26:31+00:00
For sure. I think though you might want more non-JIT customers because a) Cloudflare and AWS have a better story there and thus customer acquisition is more expensive b) you have a much stronger story for things they have to breakdown to WASM for as WASM has significant penalties. Eg if I had an easy Cloudflare-like way to deploy Rust that would be insanely productive.
by adastra22 | 2025-08-02 23:27:26+00:00
It is much safer to be in a big truck hitting an another big truck, than in a small sedan hitting a big truck. Physics of momentum beats out safety features. Actual studies do show this: it is safer for the occupant of the truck in a two-vehicle collision.

More trucks on the road make the chance of fatalities overall higher. You often find articles saying that fatalities go up when you introduce a truck, and that is true. But that's because trucks are more likely to kill pedestrians or drivers of smaller cars, NOT because of risk to the truck driver. []

It would be better if there were fewer trucks on the road. But if everyone else is buying a truck, it becomes your selfish incentive to do so as well, for the safety of your* family. It is a tragedy of the commons situation.

[*] The exception is single-vehicle accidents, e.g. rollovers. Those are riskier and more likely for the driver of a truck, but also less of a concern in suburban driving.
by o11c | 2025-08-02 23:28:10+00:00
> English is not really phonetic anymore, so this approach doesn't quite work well.

English pronunciation <-> spelling is actually pretty predictable as long as you aren't considering letters/phonemes in isolation.

1. recognize whether it's a compound word or a word with affixes, and if so break it down (e.g. shep-herd)

2. recognize the "origin" of the word - at a minimum, "native" (German/Norse) vs "foreign" (Greek/Latin/French mostly, though others come up) is usually obvious, though sometimes it becomes necessary to be more specific or even care about when it was borrowed.

3. recognize the stress pattern in the word, and how that will affect possible vowel sounds

4. recognize the letter pattern or sound pattern (depending on which you're starting with)

These are not independent recognitions; often one or two is enough to imply everything you'd need to know about the others (and this in fact reinforces the pattern recognition humans are so good at).

An informative example is "arch". "ar" fixes the pronunciation of the "a", and "r" is not ambiguous (ever, for rhotic accents; after syllable division for non-rhotic accents). The "ch" is pronounced "tsh" for most words (whether German or French), but when it is of Greek origin (or at least came via Greek) it is pronounced "k". Usually such words are compounds with other visible Greek components.
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by palata | 2025-08-02 23:29:14+00:00
Sounds a bit like a rant. There may be interesting information between the rant and the assumptions ("I think it's kinda doing this?"), but if I quickly look at what it says about Signal, it's completely off. Marlinspike hasn't been involved in Signal for years, yet the article (updated in 2025) says that Signal may die when Marlinspike leaves?

Not to mention that it's not exactly "diving" into chat protocols.
by elefanten | 2025-08-02 23:30:51+00:00
Her opinion should not be taken seriously on the matter. It's not just the empirically terrible track record she had as a regulator and the baffling cases she brought to bear (imo proof of your point that she had an overgeneralized bias). It's also that she was demonstrably inexperienced at the time she was selected! It was clearly performative political appointment, which the Biden administration was pretty egregious about (and so have both Trump administrations, this is not a political point).

The essay (literally, a homework assignment she did at law school) for which she became famous that criticizes Amazon for being big is so chock full of errors, misconstructions and faulty logic, that it's an indictment of some really poor political habits and instincts that the US is prone to. That due diligence in vetting her as a rigorous and informed thinker on the topic failed is an unequivocal failure.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-02 23:30:51+00:00
It’s kinda funny how it happened. Maybe 10 years ago Apple fanbois could not admit that Apple could do anything wrong. Maybe 2 years ago I was finding Macers were no longer fanatical about MacOS and were recognizing the things I always thought were wrong with it and in fact it was easy to draw out bitter complaints about various quality problems with it. (I am amazed at the M4 Mini hardware, the software is adequate but… meh)

When I first saw Liquid Glass I had just gotten my first iPhone and was in that flush of attraction and thought “that looks pretty good” but there has been such an outpouring of scorn for it that I’m pretty shocked.
by dpritchett | 2025-08-02 23:32:13+00:00
Sound words out at the smallest level. Practice.

Example: “skin” has multiple sounds to help decipher the word as spelled: “sss”, “sk”, “ih”, “nnn”, “iinn”.

Identifying some of those sounds in order helps a reader to sound out the word “skin”. After doing this a few times in a context that helps the reader confirm the meaning of the word they’ve just sounded out they’ll learn it outright.

From that point forward they can recognize “skin” on sight without requiring any context.