MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Hamuko | 2025-09-04 12:58:36+00:00
Terrible naming and EVs go hand in hand.

Tesla's S3XY is quite bad in that it's a shit joke and there's just a random number instead of a letter because you couldn't make it the Model E. And Cybertruck just completely breaks the form further.

Audi decided to name their cars "t-urd". They also blew their load early, since the first EV they made was just called the "Audi t-urd", and then they had to rename it to the "Audi Q8 t-urd" when they realised that they were going to make more than one EV model.

Mercedes-Benz decided that the electric version of the S-Class should be the EQS, the electric version of the E-Class should be the EQE, the electric versions of the GLS and GLE should be called the EQS SUV and EQE SUV, and that the electric version of the G-Class should be called the "Mercedes-Benz G580 with EQ Technology". Oh, and the electric CLA is just called the CLA.

BMW's lineup is pretty inoffensive in that it's quite logical, as the electric equivalent of the 4 Series is the i4, the electric equivalent of the 5 Series is the i5, and so on. Except that the electric equivalent of the BMW X5 is the BMW iX when the electric equivalent of the BMW X1 is the BMW iX1. Oh, and the BMW i8 isn't even an electric car – it's a hybrid.

BYD's electric cars also make no sense. Why does the same car maker have names like the "BYD Dolphin" and "BYD Seal" next to a car named "BYD Sealion 7" and "BYD Atto 3"? What determines whether or not a BYD model has a number in the name or not? And why is the fully electric one called the "BYD Seal" but the hybrid one is called the "BYD Seal 6 DM-i"?

Rivian's makes sense so far, since they have the biggest R1, the more medium R2 and the compact R3. But going by this logic, the R4 should be an even smaller car than the R3. Either that, or the numbering has no bearing on where in the lineup the car actually falls, just what was released first.

Polestar has that same exact problem that Rivian might have in the future: the Polestar 2 is smaller than the Polestar 3 and the Polestar 3 is bigger than the Polestar 4, and the Polestar 4 is smaller than the Polestar 5. And the Polestar 6 is probably going to be more upmarket than any other Polestar, except the Polestar 1, which isn't an EV. Basically, the number says nothing about the car except when it was first released.

The Toyota bZ4X, which stands for "beyond Zero" (as in emissions) 4 (from the similarly sized RAV4) "crossover", is also just a downright awful name. Same for the Honda E:NY1. I don't know what inspired these two to make such awful and complex names for their EVs.

And finally: the Porsche Taycan Turbo doesn't actually have a turbo. The "turbo" in the name just means "better" in the style of "TurboGrafx-16".

Yes, I could rant about car names all day long. Don't even ask me about how Ferrari names their cars.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-04 12:58:52+00:00
There's definitely an aspect of "dehumanization," when it comes to remote communication (not just the Internet, but I think store-and-forward leaches the most humanity, compared to realtime).

It's the having time to consider responses, that I think actually makes it more difficult to accept the person on the other end as "human," more than the physical separation. You can see this in formal debates, where the emotional feedback is strictly regulated.

I've actually met a number of killers (long story for another venue), and will probably continue to do so, for the remainder of my life. I even call some of them friends. I enjoy the story, and accept it as true, because I have heard much more unbelievable true stories.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-04 12:59:41+00:00
Even with the price hikes, Volkswagen is having to close down factories, do mass layoffs, and apply pay cuts to keep factories running. American exports getting hit by trade wars also don't exactly help, while at the same time cheaper Chinese cars are taking over more and more of their local market.

Volkswagen may not go bankrupt tomorrow, but it's hardly in a position to bring back pre-COVID prices. They were late to the electric car game which also didn't help with their market power.
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-04 12:59:42+00:00
I don't think there is a good general tool for this. In this specific case, I went spelunking for all the points where we had thread contention over resources, and discovered that for several resources quite a lot of CPU cycles were being expended to no use. The goal is really to eliminate the underlying resource contention - we added per-thread caches I various places, swapped out the logging system, and were able to ~double the system throughput during times when top showed the system to be "fully loaded"
by Zigurd | 2025-09-04 13:00:02+00:00
I think the discussion about sensors leaves out some important aspects. If you don't have the geospatial data, a lidar point cloud isn't going to be as useful. Tesla has a lot of 2-D image data and could easily get a lot more. But if 3-D sensing and geospatial data turn out to be a large advantage, what's the value of all that 2-D imagery?

Of course there are some inherent advantages to lidar sensing without Google's data muscle behind it, like sensing at night and in glaring sun. And then there's the radar and maybe sonar sensing for up-close obstacles. But, overall, I think the value of Google's data is underappreciated.
by epolanski | 2025-09-04 13:00:12+00:00
Not my experience and I have compared OpenAI/Anthropic/Mistral quite some.

Speed and cost is a relevant factor. I have pipelines that need to execute tons of completions and has to produce summaries. Mistral Small is great at it and the responses are lightning fast.

For that use case if you went with US models it would be way more expensive and slow while not offering any benefit at all.
by bluGill | 2025-09-04 13:00:16+00:00
> I'd also like discussions of car affordability to shift to TCO unless there's been an announcement of free fuel that I've missed.

If you buy/lease new cars every 3 years - which the the typical market for new cars - the TCO is almost entirely based on the cost of the car. Insurance and taxes are based on the price and so there is a direct relation. Maintenance costs are nearly zero as oil changes are cheap and everything else is warranty. What is left is fuel and that is cheap (14000 miles per year at 25mpg with gas at $3/gallon works out to $140/month).

If you buy used cars the economics are different, but you are not longer the direct target for new cars.
by lproven | 2025-09-04 13:01:11+00:00
Relevant -- there are 2 other desktop environments built on GNUstep that are in more active maintainance.

NEXTSPACE:

https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

<- Ukrainian so not much development in a while; mainly targets CentOS

GSDE:

https://onflapp.github.io/gs-desktop/index.html

<- More recent, native to Debian but runs on other things.
by arnvald | 2025-09-04 13:01:45+00:00
I really appreciate that there's a company trying to reimagine browsers. Arc was an interesting idea, I used it for a few months, but in the end I switched back to Firefox. I haven't tried Dia yet, and now I'm not sure if I should.

I do think that selling a browser is going to be an extremely difficult task, so having an enterprise software machine with huge customer base might help it, but Atlassian strikes me as a company that will eventually just kill the project and turn this into a de facto acquihire.
by versteegen | 2025-09-04 13:02:12+00:00
Specifically, an order n Markov chain such as a transformer, if not otherwise restricted, can have any joint distribution you wish for the first n-1 steps: any extensional property. In which case you have to look at intensional properties to actually draw non-vacuous conclusions.

I would like to comment that there are a lot of papers out there on what transformers can or can't do that are misleading, often misunderstood, or abstract so far from transformers as implemented and used that they are pure theory.
by photon_garden | 2025-09-04 13:02:25+00:00
Yes, exactly!! I use art-making to direct my attention in the same way:

> on the one hand, the kid shouting at the park is the latest fruiting body of an immortal superorganism that's older than dry land.

> on the other, they're sticky and smell a little like pee.

> my work helps me pay close attention like this. how can i experience a moment with the direct, fresh awareness that makes a good haiku?

[1]: https://lucaaurelia.com/about
by mikewarot | 2025-09-04 13:02:42+00:00
I've always assumed that commercial VPN service providers were intelligence agency fronts. One only has to look back on the CIA's Swiss front company[1] selling encryption equipment for decades[2] to our supposed allies to become sufficiently cynical.

I assume similar Wikipedia entries will appear in the future about some, if not most of today's VPN providers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rubicon
by RogYga | 2025-09-04 13:02:56+00:00
Location: Serbia (Europe)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Frontend - React, TypeScript, Next.js, TanStack Query (React Query, Tab), Redux, Tailwind CSS, Shadcn, GraphQL, WCAG (Accessibility), Vite, Jest, Cypress, React Testing Library, Vitest, CSS Modules, Styled Components, Radix UI, Firebase, Clerk, REST APIs, Performance optimisation etc.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dkN27Fm7IVAe_I8x7oIosbq2Rsk...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rogy-iga/

Toptal profile: https://www.toptal.com/resume/igor-marinkovic

Email: marigorinkovic@gmail.com

Senior Frontend Engineer with 8+ years of experience, specialized in React and TypeScript. Strong focus on performance optimization, scalable UI architecture, and building accessible, user-centric applications. Experienced in fast-paced startup environments and motivated to help shape high-growth products from the ground up.
by nunez | 2025-09-04 13:03:09+00:00
There seems to be two schools od thought on this from what I've learned from my wife's experiences.

One school has been abdicating homework for more in-classroom practice, as homework adds more grading and scheduling load on the teacher for little overall benefit. The core idea behind this is that motivated students will always practice at home, even if they aren't explicitly asked to. Unmotivated students --- usually the majority in a typical classroom --- won't or will do a poor job of it.

Another school of thought is the "flipped" classroom. This approach doubles-down on homework by having teachers prepare a pre-recorded lesson for students to watch while they're home and using the classroom as a space for practice and retention. This increases the student's accountability for their own learning while decreasing the teacher's workload over time if they are teaching the same material for a long time (very high initially, of course).
by mdemare | 2025-09-04 13:03:12+00:00
Yes. It is astonishing that LLMs can solve problems that only a handful of very smart teenagers can solve, but LLMs do it by consuming a million times as much content as those teenagers. Running out of data is not a reason for despair.

Also consider that during training LLMs spend much less time on processing, say, TAOCP (Knuth), or SICP (Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman), or Probability Theory (Jaynes) than on the entirety that is r/Frugal.

20 thick books turn a smart teenager into a graduate with a MSc. That's what, 10 million tokens?

When we read difficult, important texts, we reflect on them, make exercises, discuss them, etc. We don't know how to make an LLM do that in a way that improves it. Yet.
by arghwhat | 2025-09-04 13:04:12+00:00
The usual mechanism is to mark widgets that changed dirty, accumulate the bounding boxes of such dirty areas, take the next swapchain buffer and get its invalid regions, iterate through the widget tree and render anything that intersects with the bounding box or invalid regions, and submit the buffer + the dirty areas to the display server/driver.

And yeah, having a render step depend on the output of a previous non-trivial render step is Bad™.
by dcchambers | 2025-09-04 13:05:02+00:00
Arc had some novel ideas but ultimately it was DOA for me because I needed something that I could access on both desktop and mobile for shared tabs/history/etc.

They did help push the established players in the field forward a bit though, so I will be thankful for that.

Also: It's always funny to see how people really feel about an acquisition. eg the comments in this thread feel like a eulogy.
by beernet | 2025-09-04 13:06:01+00:00
Mistral recently being valued at $14 billion in the previous funding appears like a steal to me, especially compared to the Anthropic and OAI valuations. Would be interesting to compare revenues and growth rates as well to put these valuations into better perspective.

Apart from that, Mistral appears to remain the only really relevant new player with European ties in the Gen AI space. Aleph Alpha is not heard of anymore and is essentially steered by the Schwarz Group now, so at least chances of an acquihire I guess.
by Shank | 2025-09-04 13:06:02+00:00
I would've actually expected a buyer like OpenAI or Anthropic, if I'm being perfectly honest. Atlassian is such a strange buyer. $610m in cash is really low in the grand scheme of AI pricing too. If they're only worth $610m, I feel like this says a lot that "AI browsers" aren't actually worth that much. Remember, Instagram was $1b. The Windsurf acquihire was $2.4b and there are surely a lot more people in business that use browsers than write code.

Was Atlassian the highest bidder, or was Atlassian the only bidder?
by thiago_fm | 2025-09-04 13:06:24+00:00
Love my Polo, it's by far the best car of its category for what you get, with many ADAS features, very good infotaintment system. It's my first VW.

VW software has improved a lot in the past 2 years, I went from a hater to a fan.

Never dug the ID3 design, much less its internal panel and controls which are very crappy, similar to a Tesla.

I still think it will have a hard time in Europe (it's biggest market). Most people in Europe live in apartments and locations where you don't have anywhere to charge.

The people that have houses typically can afford a Benz, making it a very niche car.

Until literally every supermarket has plenty of EV charging spots I doubt we will see people really buying EVs in Europe, even if the price is the same.

China is a million miles ahead in EVs, they have chargers everywhere.
by moduspol | 2025-09-04 13:06:30+00:00
Unless things have changed, be sure you keep the little note they give you at the end that tells you your measurements. Supposedly if you end up needing another round later in life, it may be necessary to have those measurements. They apparently need to know exactly how much corneal tissue was there originally to know how much more they can remove.

And be sure you do your annual check-ups. The place where I had mine done guaranteed any follow-up procedures would be free for life, but only if I could show I'd been doing the annual check-ups.

That's about all I can remember. After the procedure, you go home and take a nap. For me, I woke up the next morning and could see clearly.
by the_af | 2025-09-04 13:07:42+00:00
I think it's a question that only makes sense if there's a human asking it. "Correct" is always relative to something, in this case, the meaning a human attaches to that string, a string that only exists as a physical configuration of neurons.

Even without getting into the body-mind duality we are discussing here, it's understood that the string "2+2=4" requires additional context to have meaning, it's just that this context is often implicit (i.e. we're talking about arabic digits in base 10 notation, + is sum as defined in ..., etc).
by samch | 2025-09-04 13:07:48+00:00
My wife had PRK done on both eyes over a decade ago, and it was great. At the time, she had the choice between LASIK and PRK (I’m not sure that everybody has both options given their particular conditions). After reviewing the long-term prognosis and possible side effects of both, she went with PRK. It’s been a fantastic decision for her, but that just one person’s experience.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-04 13:07:54+00:00
Musk could deploy a bespoke robotaxi fleet today, with only those units upgraded with lidar and sensor fusion after they roll off the manufacturing line, similar to Waymo’s fleet. Waymo only has ~2k-3k vehicles in their fleet, for example. Why does he not? Is it because he really believes camera over lidar? Or it because he doesn’t care enough to because investors keep believing the marketing which continues to keep him wealthy and in power with no effort?
by bluGill | 2025-09-04 13:08:08+00:00
You can buy the buzz now. (Nice van, I test drive it but can't figure out how to make the payments... I got a used PHEV minivan instead which is in practice 80% EV)

I'm talking about the id.Polo which I don't expect to see in the US. VW brings maybe half their lineup to the US (and none of their cheap brands at all)
by azemetre | 2025-09-04 13:08:38+00:00
If it helps any neovimmers I recently migrated away from lazy.nvim to just using vim.pack:

https://github.com/azemetre/dotfiles/pull/61/files

I have had zero issues thus far, also don't use too many plugins (like 50ish). It was way easier than expected, also had help from another person making the plugins load similarly to "lazy" as well. This setup is way way way faster than using lazy.nvim IME, especially my work computer where it would take 300 ms to load. Now it's around 80ms.
by zoobab | 2025-09-04 13:09:11+00:00
http://stalinux.wikidot.com/

"Alpine Linux is good candidate, as Glibc static compilation is broken for political purposes, and Musl Libc allows static compilation."

"The GCC/Linux developer community is sold on shared library executables. They like shared libraries due to the reduced memory and disk footprints, as well as the concept that upgrading one shared library eventually automatically upgrades all applications which use that library. Consequently, information on statically linked programs is rather sparse."

https://web.archive.org/web/20170306062400/http://www.static...
by balamatom | 2025-09-04 13:09:16+00:00
>I don’t think you actually answered the question but I totally don’t mind because it was a fun read.

That's probably the better outcome here. If you know enough things to find what I wrote entertaining, rather than vexing, chances are you're able to pick right tools for jobs just fine.

Meanwhile treadmills are gonna treadmill; if I've got one answer to everything it's to stay off them. Mighty difficult when everyone's trying to drag you onto one.

I do recall some distinct issues with properties introduced on objects after initiating the component not being reactive

Wasn't that what they fixed using Proxy (making ES6 finally a hard requirement for anything at all)?

>Old Vue is nice, we still have some Vue apps and they’re just running without major headaches. >but it has mostly been an acceptable experience

Better than one could say about the current generation stacks. Big vibe like vendors are trying to cargocult ZIRP-associated patterns (as if those were what produced value in pre-2020s Web and totally not all the human creativity that used to be channeled into the medium before the masks started falling off.)
by pshirshov | 2025-09-04 13:10:37+00:00
> while at the same time cheaper Chinese cars are taking over more and more of their local market.

I'm wondering why can that be? Probably, because Chinese cars are cheaper?

I'm curious what can motivate me to pay ~€60K for an European car instead of paying ~€30K for the same set of features? Chinese software is crap, but at least the power steering didn't stop working during the test drive, unlike my experience with VW.
by azemetre | 2025-09-04 13:11:17+00:00
I recently moved away from lazy.nvim to using vim.pack. You can check out my PR here:

https://github.com/azemetre/dotfiles/pull/61/files

It was worth it to me because I never relied on many features of lazy.nvim. The benefit of the approach linked in the PR is that it also defer's loading packages as well. The only one I initially load is alpha.nvim (a dashboard), everything else gets deferred. This brought down my startup time from around 300ms to sub 100ms.
by kube-system | 2025-09-04 13:11:46+00:00
> let's invent a "secure enterprise browser", because there's too much interoperability on the web

Enterprise browsers are an existing category, and even Google offers an enterprise version of Chrome.

The idea of an enterprise browser is that all of the interoperability that has been built has been between the desktop and web servers. Most desktop browsers don't have many features that allow an organization to manage them, beyond managed policies which honestly aren't that great. For the most part, standard desktop browsers are a big hole in both inbound and outbound security.
by trescenzi | 2025-09-04 13:11:56+00:00
These are really interesting to read in order. The LLM output at the end of each shows how they've gotten better and stayed the same. Output is all formulaic just following slightly different formulas. I shall excitedly wait another year to see what is possible in 2026 and if everyone is right by 2027 the LLM will be the author of the piece including human written content for padding at the end.

(Also yes my Brother printer has worked great over the past 10 years. I even had to buy new toner and have replaced it with a third party toner twice so far.)
by atq2119 | 2025-09-04 13:13:11+00:00
I suspect at least in part it is to move loyal customers into larger and more expensive segments over time.

Let's say the first car you get is a Polo and you really like it, so your next one is a Polo as well. Over the decades, you're being moved to making more expensive car purchase.

And to make up for that, a new smaller cheaper tier is introduced at some point. I don't care about cars enough to know when they introduced the Up, but it certainly didn't exist a few decades ago.
by Schweigerose | 2025-09-04 13:13:47+00:00
Don't worry. You don't have to look at "muslim countries". Blasphemy is a valid and actively weaponized legal charge in the German legal system [0] and as such hampers any discussion on religion and its influence and ubiquitous presence in German politics [1]. It goes so far as to enforcing the presentation of crucifixes in Bavarian class rooms and government agencies even though the German Federal Constitutional Court declared it illegal back in 1995. Way to go, Germany!!

[0]https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beschimpfung_von_Bekenntnissen...

[1]https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatskirchenvertrag

[2]https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruzifix-Beschluss

P.S. Sorry for the links to German wikipedia. These articles describe the German situation in Germany and as such are not available in English. May be deepl.com can help.
by azemetre | 2025-09-04 13:14:17+00:00
I recently migrated from lazy.nvim to vim.pack and it was way easier than expected:

https://github.com/azemetre/dotfiles/pull/61/files

I followed the work of another neovimmer where he was able to replicate deferring with vim.pack. Brought my startup time down to sub 100ms.

Definitely worth it to me as it's one less "core" plugin to maintain. Having things like telescope or trouble are one thing, it's quite another to rely on a plugin that changes the way neovim interacts with loading.
by the_af | 2025-09-04 13:14:31+00:00
Do you, or do you think you remember? Your memories are always distortions, not accurate snapshots of reality.

Have you never thought you remembered something with clarity, only to be told it's impossible because it never happened? Or another example, I often vividly remember something from a book (it was a photograph on this side of the page, lower right corner) and then when I look it up, it was in a different location and it wasn't the photo I remembered. But my mental imagery felt so precise!

I'm with grandparent, I think I would perceive my younger self as simultaneously familiar and alien.