MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by formerly_proven | 2025-08-04 17:34:06+00:00
> Cost isn't a factor, I need something reliable.

Don't consider at all: All non-OEM Chinese stuff (1 trillion brands, way too many to list, including the usual consumer garbage that you might find in a store like Reolink etc.)

Consider if cost turns out to be a factor: The two major Chinese OEMs, Hikvision and Dahua.

Note: All Chinese OEMs are obviously implicated in the Chinese surveillance state. Obviously. A lot of "major" brands are OEMed by these two, even ones you might not expect. For example, much of Panasonic stuff is rebadged Dahua. Basically 90% of any CCTV camera Made in China comes from either Dahua or Hik, the lesser brands just mostly get (or rather, choose) the bargain-bin hardware with monkey-model firmware and of course no FW updates ever.

If cost really isn't a factor: Bosch, Axis, Dallmeier, Mobotix

Note: Most of these you cannot buy directly, and the vendor won't talk to you.

> What’s the best, in terms of open source support and reliability?

These are found at completely opposite ends of the spectrum. All good CCTVs cameras use signed and more-or-less well encrypted firmware, even cross-flashing isn't much of a thing.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-08-04 17:34:20+00:00
Companies shouldn't ever be allowed to be so wealthy or powerful. This sort of power allows them to bypass legal regulations, squash small companies (something MS has been doing for a long time), force technology on people faster than they can react (think of the average clueless user that will just use anything MS puts on Windows), and create a true state of anti-competition (what kind of small company can compete with MS and not be bought out).

The only reason why they do exist is because the people with the money are the people with the power.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-08-04 17:34:22+00:00
> I can't think of anything else that might be lacking in any rural area you'd reasonably consider living in.

Also reasonable bus service to anywhere "intersting".

I was actually thinking about that, and I think it comes down to what you do outside of work.

If you only hang around the house or similar, yeah, it doesn't matter much. My mom loves gardening, so she doesn't need "infrastructure" to "travel" to the back of her house.

But I do like going out, having a drink or two with friends, go dancing. Activities that can end late at night, possibly with some amount of alcohol in the blood. If alcohol's involved, I can't drive, so it's either an expensive taxi to the suburbs or some form of transit, hence infrastructure. Driving is a pain, because these activities happen in the city, and the mayor's policy is to make it as painful as possible to drive - and she's good at it.

However, I figured I didn't do those things that often, so with the difference in housing price, I could pay for a taxi fare now and then if I lived in the 'burbs. I also ride a motorbike, which somewhat mitigates the driving issue if I'm not intoxicated - but that's a separate hassle of its own when going out.

Depending on the activities, these may very well also exist in smaller, more affordable cities, which also helps with the infrastructure issue since you don't have to travel as far and are more likely to be able to bike or similar. I don't have kids, so I don't need a big house. Which means that, aside from my work, which holds me in the big city, I could move to one of those smaller, cheaper ones and not live in the boonies.
by o11c | 2025-08-04 17:34:31+00:00
Don't confuse "window rules" with "application rules". When configuring rules, you normally want the latter unless you know you want the former.

Also don't forget that rules can interact with other rules. For example, window size interacts with all of: "fullscreen", "maximized", and the "geometry" options (commonly set to more than 1 pixel for terminals).

That said, I am really not a fan of the recent UI-pessimization of the settings screen to require you to type out the setting you want rather than have tabs listing all the various options in a discoverable manner.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-08-04 17:34:44+00:00
I hope so, in reality, people who review code are not always the superiors of the other party :)

Not meaning to put on a holier-than-thou hat here. But I hated this many times already. E.g. having to approve code that contains useless comments that were clearly generated by AI, but on the other hand, it's nitpicking to bring it up during review...

If my colleagues would do that more often and for more parts of the code, that's where I really start getting inclined to look for a new job.
by IanCal | 2025-08-04 17:34:50+00:00
Read the whole comment because that statement is not an excuse, it is simply a nod to how it differs from other payments. The rest of the comment explains why I think the situation arises like this. It really isn’t hard to read so try and if you think your understanding clashes with my explanation of my comment feel free to assume I’m bad at making a point and read it in good faith.

I clearly don’t understand your issue with what I wrote, and won’t with more accusations of being like a redditor.
by mrob | 2025-08-04 17:34:58+00:00
I think it's unreasonable for any app to be so slow to launch that this matters. Modern SSDs have 7000MB/s or more read speeds. Assuming a ridiculously bloated app of 100MB, that's enough to load the whole thing into RAM in less than a frame at the most common monitor refresh rate. The only explanation for slow load times on modern hardware is bad software.
by Gareth321 | 2025-08-04 17:35:36+00:00
I don't think I agree. Luxury goods are typically defined as both income and price elastic in economics textbooks. I agree that brands can and do employ various marketing strategies like exclusivity, as you describe. This is also true of low elasticity goods like Liquid Death selling expensive water. Still, in a competitive market where the wealthy can choose other designer brands with similar class projection and quality, theory tells us that customers can and do switch, and the market finds a price equilibrium close to the pre-tariff price.
by agent327 | 2025-08-04 17:36:04+00:00
The connection is trivial: you are upsetting an existing power system, temporarily removing all checks and balances. The new power system gets established by the aggressors, and they have absolutely no reason to hold back. At that point, human nature will simply take over.

My perspective has nothing to do with indoctrination, but is instead born out of historical knowledge. Communism has been tried again, and again, and again, and each time the outcome was the same. Capitalism has also been tried, and has lifted more people out of poverty than any other system we ever came up with.

The existence of the ultra-rich doesn't bother me. I wouldn't suddenly be richer if people like Musk or Bezos suddenly popped out of existence; their lives simply don't impact mine. If anything, their existence serves as an inspiration for others to try for big dreams. Many of those will fail, some will succeed marginally, and a very small number will join the ranks of the ultra-rich - because they managed to provide a service that millions of people were willing to give them money. What does communism have to offer, in comparison to that? Equal poverty doesn't sound all that attractive.

Now, if you were to argue that these mega-rich people and their companies have too much power, we would have something to talk about. I see the solution to that in legislation though, not in the complete destruction of our society followed by a century-long dark age.
by freejazz | 2025-08-04 17:36:14+00:00
And you don't respond to your own point about it being called autopilot despite it not being an autopilot

>> If you repeatedly ignore the inattentive driver warnings, Autosteer will be disengaged for that trip. If you receive several ‘Forced Autopilot Disengagements’ (three times for vehicles without a cabin camera and five times for vehicles with a cabin camera), Autosteer and all features that use Autosteer will be temporarily removed for approximately one week.

There are videos of people on autopilot without their hands on the wheel...
by suddenlybananas | 2025-08-04 17:36:50+00:00
Plenty of people have been murdered to defend capitalism. After the fall of the Paris commune, 30000 people were butchered in the streets. Millions of people were murdered for being communist or even just belonging to a union in Indonesia.

Not to mention the fact that the 100 million figures includes Wehrmacht soldiers or terminated fetuses as "victims" of Communism to inflate its numbers.

If you really think that there simply aren't enough resources for everyone, that makes the gluttony of the wealthy so much worse.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-04 17:36:55+00:00
> There can be no objective story since the very act of assembling facts requires implicit beliefs about what should be emphasized and what should be left out. History is therefore a constant act of reinterpretation and triangulation, which is something that LLMs, as linguistic averaging machines, simply cannot do.

Yeah, no. I find it funny how everyone from other specialties take offence when their piece of "advanced" whatever gets put on a list, but they have absolutely no issue with making uninformed, inaccurate and oversimplified remarks like "averaging machines".

Brother, these averaging machines just scored gold at IMO. Allow me to doubt that whatever you do is more impressive than that.
by saulhoward | 2025-08-04 17:37:02+00:00
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by Aurornis | 2025-08-04 17:38:00+00:00
> Companies asking me to spend 2 or 4 or 8 or 16 hours on a take home quiz before I’ve so much as had a 15 minute screen with HR or the hiring manager go straight into the trash.

Companies handing you 16 hour assignments without a phone screen should indeed go straight into the trash.

I've spent a few years volunteering on and off in an interview prep help mentoring program. For as much as everyone likes to talk about these "16 hour take-home without ever talking to the company" these extreme scenarios almost never come up for discussion.

Everyone comes into the prep group thinking that's how their job search is going to look. A few people apply to small, scammy companies who try to do these things but you have to be blind to miss the warning signs.

For the most part, all of the take-homes that people either share directly or talk about are nowhere near the 10-40 hour take-homes that everyone on the internet likes to complain about. I've seen a couple people share them, but it's not normal at all.
by the__alchemist | 2025-08-04 17:38:29+00:00
The user and permissions system. I struggle with things being set up on the root account vs user and vice versa, occasionally breaking my system by editing config files or with CLI commands. Did that a few weeks ago trying to get my PC to read USB-serial without launching the program from CLI with sudo+pw. I had an extra newline in one of the config files; it didn't like that! I cannot follow the decision-making logic that I would need sudo to talk to my embedded device. I've heard the explanations about connected storage devices, but I cannot agree with it. On windows, the same hardware, and same source code (compiled to a different ABI) just works, because its permission system is not so strict.
by derefr | 2025-08-04 17:38:34+00:00
Speaking of "alternatives to e-ink for a zero-power-use-when-not-updating dot-matrix display"...

Has there ever been designed a "display" that is just a thermal printer hidden in one end of a box, and a take-up spool + tensioning spring hidden on the other end, such that the "display" is then a continuous thermal paper "scroll" stretched across the box behind [UV-protective!] glass, that can be "refreshed" by printing a new full-width image to the thermal printer?
by gopalv | 2025-08-04 17:38:40+00:00
> Bluey takes some weight off as you realise (and talk to other parents about Bluey) that some things are just universal and you're possibly doing better than you think.

No question, the I can't count the number of times I've sent the "Baby Race" to other parents who ask me "When did your kid start to talk?"

We watch the Bluey bike whenever the kids say "I can't do it!" or the Dad can't draw episode.

Or the curry quest, when I had to travel for work (after all the pandemic "no work travel").

Bluey's dad is an inspiration, like the puppets episode is so funny & I keep saying "Bauxite" in random times without context.
by goosejuice | 2025-08-04 17:38:49+00:00
The one you accept when you first turn it on. And the numerous ones you ignored/neglected to read when using features without understanding them.

This is the responsibility of a licensed driver. I don't know how a Mercedes works, but if I crash one because I misused a feature clearly outlined in their user manual, Mercedes is not at fault for my negligence.
by robocat | 2025-08-04 17:39:05+00:00
Firstly, if your prior is that every previous startup failed, what does that say about your future chances of success?

Secondly, all the returns for YC are concentrated in a few companies. If you were in a winner then great, otherwise you most likely got $0 for your shares.

4% of YC companies become unicorns. How many startups do you need to work for before you become part of the 4%? That number is not a feasible number of jobs for one lifetime.

The modal return matters far more than the average return because you don't get to choose to be in an outlier.

The first article I checked said that 17 companies had IPOed for YC. Common shares often only get returns from an IPO. How many companies have gone through YC? What's the average number of companies you need to be part of before you get to be in one of the 17?

I'm using YC because the numbers are better for YC than most other VC or startups.
by Loughla | 2025-08-04 17:39:14+00:00
I've left interviews because they were late or unprepared when I showed up at their business. I've turned down interviews where they wanted an hour long personality test beforehand. I've turned down interviews where they wanted to include irrelevant math problems to evaluate how I work under pressure. I've turned down offers because the managers didn't answer basic questions I had about company culture.

But I'm also at a point in my life where I can do that, and I feel absolutely blessed to be in that situation.

For unemployed or new workers, the world is a fucking nightmare.

And it's all because the people with X (in this case, jobs) see their time as WAY more valuable than the people without X. It's, quite frankly, disgusting, dehumanizing, and depressing.

The entire world is devaluing interpersonal communication and the humanity of the people around us and it feels out of control.

When I hire, my baseline assumption is that I'm wasting the candidates time, so I try to keep it succinct and relevant the entire time. I wish more people did as well.
by lurking_swe | 2025-08-04 17:39:32+00:00
> And that's just the cost that the developers have to bear. The local government and utilities have to expend a lot of money for all the infrastructure: roads, public transport, water/sewage, electricity (the electricity demand of even a "small" dense housing unit are pretty massive), internet, schools, higher education, general amenities (e.g. parks), planning for shopping and other venues... that's where all the NIMBYism is coming from because that shit ain't cheap.

Shopping centers don’t need to be added in most cases. Existing shops can just get more business, no? And if new shopping centers are needed, _developers_ can bear the construction cost, not you the taxpayer. Don’t forget that more residents means more taxpayer money for the city long term.

If you want to talk “expensive”, i think suburbia is a better example. Most of suburbia has a negative ROI when you factor in roads and other utilities. And so few taxpayers, compared to a city. Suburbia has some pros though, i won’t deny that.

People don’t like change, period. It’s fine to admit it, really. But we can’t have no change AND housing for our young adults at the same time. US population is still growing last i checked.
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by rmccue | 2025-08-04 17:39:57+00:00
They definitely have been using it in tourism campaigns, especially with Bluey's World: https://teq.queensland.com/au/en/industry/what-we-do/marketi... https://readytorumble.com.au/advertising/for-real-life

It really is an amazing place to live (although hot in the summer!), but career opportunities can be limiting in Australia and Brisbane. Catriona Drummond touches on the same in her substack [1] mentioned in the OP:

> As I mentioned, before Bluey I’d resigned myself to the fact that if I wanted to achieve something resembling my ‘full potential’ on a technical level as an artist, I would have to not only probably move to the United States [...] > Even deeper than that, was the pervasive thought that perhaps for my whole life I was just never going to be in the right place at the right time. That being from somewhere like Brisbane just meant I was doomed.

[1]: https://goodsniff.substack.com/p/creating-bluey-tales-from-t...
Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
by unsupp0rted | 2025-08-04 17:39:59+00:00
Every week for the last 3 months I’ve learned a new trick when it comes to getting whatever LLM I’m using at the time to produce better output. That’s my trade, but lots of HNers have more interesting trades than that.

In my case, only recently I learned the value of getting an LLM to write and refine a plan.md architecture doc first, and for it to break that doc down into testable phases, and then to implement phase by phase.

Seems obvious in hindsight. But it took too long to learn that that should be my approach. I had been going phase by phase myself- no overarching plan.md for the LLM.

What Trick of the Trade took you too long to learn?
by makingstuffs | 2025-08-04 17:40:37+00:00
As time passes I’m more certain in the belief that the internet will end up being a licensed system with insanely high barriers to entry which will stop your average dev from even being able to afford deploying a hobby project on it.

Your idea of micro transacting web requests would play into it and probably end up with a system like Netflix where your ISP has access to a set of content creators to whom they grant ‘unlimited’ access as part of the service fee.

I’d imagine that accessing any content creators which are not part of their package will either be blocked via a paywall (buy an addon to access X creators outside our network each month) or charged at an insane price per MB as is the case with mobile data.

Obvious this is all super hypothetical but weirder stuff has happened in my lifetime
by jlokier | 2025-08-04 17:40:45+00:00
> One of the simplest quasiparticle is the "electron hole". Take a lattice of some electrically neutral substance. Remove one electron from it. There is now an "electron hole" in it. You can treat that hole like a particle now. It can "move" to another location by having the real electrons change places. It can "flow" through a series of such events. You can model a lot of things with "electron holes" that act in very particle-like ways. But they don't exist on their own. This one is simple because you don't even need quantum mechanics to get a hold of it in your head.

An electron hole seems like a simple, almost silly idea at first. Isn't it just like the hole in a sliding puzzle game. You move a neighbouring electron into the hole, so the hole disappears and a new hole appears at the neighbouring position. It seems to "move". Does this deserve a special name like "quasi-particle"?

But it's not like the hole in a sliding puzzle!

An electron hole moves with inertia, like a real particle. It behaves as if it has mass: You can push it and it starts moving. If you push it more, it accelerates more. But unlike a sliding puzzle, when you stop pushing, the electron hole carries on moving at the same speed.

It keeps going by itself in whatever direction it was going, until it's pushed in a different direction, or bounces off something.

You can't push a sliding puzzle hole at a diagonal angle, let alone push it that way and then watch the puzzle hole keep on moving that way by itself like an independently moving object, as far as it can go until it hits something.

If you had a large sliding puzzle with two holes, you wouldn't expect to be able to send them towards each other, bounce off each other and continue.

And you certainly can't perform double slit interference with sliding puzzle holes. You can, in principle (hard in practice), make electron hole beams and interfere them.

Things like holes and other patterns in matter behave remarkably like real, coherent particles, even though they are just patterns.
by sershe | 2025-08-04 17:40:48+00:00
I think part of it is also the purism of the outdoor community in the US. In the Dolomites you can climb an "alpine" route with anchors made out of giant rings held by a bunch of cement, then have a beer and steak at the hut and take a lift halfway down. In Chamonix you can take a cable car to 3.5km elevation and the crux of your day might be walking down to the climb dizzy from sudden change of elevation. I've no idea who owns all that stuff but if there was a 100% government run attempt to do it in the US the outdoor community would have an apoplectic fit.

In US the best exemplification of the attitude is when in WA rangers chopped rappel anchors in the middle of nowhere so someone could die on a sketchy natural descent because hey it is totally possible without bolts. Keep wild wild or whatever. I personally think the only reason not to put a Starbucks on top of Rainier is that the water boils too slowly up there.