MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Theodores | 2025-09-28 04:32:56+00:00
Jaguar is only part of the company, the Land Rover side is where it is at and they are selling plenty of cars.

I expect you know this already, so why are Jaguar not selling any cars?

I am loathed to beat up on EVs, but Jaguar were early to market with a model that didn't sell well, except to Google for their self driving cars. It was a good car, as SUVs go, but they did not update it, and, in the home market, PHEVs from other brands hit the sweet spot of price, tax benefits, resale value and range.

Furthermore, Jaguar didn't actually make the iPace, it was outsourced to Magna Steyr in Austria.

There is also a demographic problem. The customer base is elderly. They want their brrm brrm noises from lots of cylinders in a V configuration. Selling cars to them would not be a problem, however, there are penalties for manufacturers that can't achieve low emissions across the fleet. Had there been lots of EV sales then this would have worked out. But it didn't, making their sports cars and big luxury sedans economically unviable.

The likes of Ferrari, McLaren, Aston Martin and others that only sell a small amount of cars get exemptions, but Jaguar was a different business model to that, with an expectation to sell hundreds of thousands of cars a year, ideally, so no exemption possible.

They also had a problem sourcing engines from the Ford plant in Bridgend, South Wales. Due to Brexit and other factors, Ford quit manufacturing in the UK, so that plant closed in 2020.

So they have had to cut free from their customer base to start over with something new for a new type of customer. They have pivoted. The plan now is to make EVs in the UK and to chase just the luxury market with a lower expectation of sales volume.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-28 04:33:41+00:00
In fairness, Ukraine received nerfed versions of most of that tech from the US, increasing its susceptibility to things like GPS jamming. A lot of it was downgraded to circa 1980-1990s capability levels, which is still adequate for a lot of the Soviet era tech Russia is using.

It would likely be a mistake to overfit what is happening in the Ukraine to US capabilities.
by _heimdall | 2025-09-28 04:33:58+00:00
I'm not sure who the they are you're referring to here, sorry. If anyone acted on their opinions and discriminated against someone, or worse, of course an employer could consider that.

The whole conversation here, though, was whether someone's beliefs alone are enough to discriminate against them in a hiring process. My argument has been that beliefs or opinions shouldn't be discriminated against, but actions are fair game.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-28 04:34:02+00:00
I dig your style. I had a thought:

"doesn’t seem to be any cognitive task that you can practice and make yourself better at other cognitive tasks."

I believe reading books and playing musical instruments are examples of cognitive task that make you better at other cognitive tasks. Also learning other languages comes to mind. I think I'm reiterating your point. It's, "not a wall but a steep slope." Cheers mate.
by teslabox | 2025-09-28 04:35:32+00:00
There is no row over Tylenol: there are comments on HN going back for at least 13 years how this drug would probably not be approved if an application was submitted today.

I've joked that if you're an old person trapped in a nursing home, one strategy to get yourself out of there is by cheeking a bunch of tylenol until you have enough, then taking them all at once. 4000mg/day starts to damage the liver. 10,000 mg can lead to liver failure. A pharmacist told me that Tylenol-induced liver failure is not a very pleasant way to die.

There are 2016/2017 tweets by @Tylenol about how the drug shouldn't be used during pregnancy: https://x.com/tylenol/status/839196906702127106 https://x.com/tylenol/status/773897927420841985

This thread was started by someone who commented on how Eric Engstrom (the co-creator of DirectX) accidentally euthanized himself with Tylenol: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25424258

FDA: Acetaminophen one of the most dangerous drugs on the market, March 26, 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35309904

"[...] we can get away with things that we wouldn't be able to get away with nowadays. There's a lot of stuff that's like this; for instance, paracetamol/Tylenol would probably not be approved if it was introduced now because it's really easy to accidentally overdose on." August 6, 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4347943
by quasarj | 2025-09-28 04:35:50+00:00
That's rough, I'm sorry for your loss. I've been on dialysis for 5 years now (in-center, I couldn't do home for.. reasons). In the beginning I was considering giving up, but it did finally get somewhat better, and I'm fairly well adjusted now. I mean, it still sucks (especially losing about 5 hours 3 days a week), but I'm able to not think about it when I'm not there, at least.
by mbac32768 | 2025-09-28 04:36:07+00:00
I still play sections of that 15 hour mix a few times a week. The 50-70 minute mark has the chillest electronica groove. Feels like just driving around a cyberscape.

He talked so much shit in his guide that I was really looking forward to listening to the 15 hour mix to make fun of his taste but... it's hard! Dude's got decent taste!
by k310 | 2025-09-28 04:36:18+00:00
> Craft the Perfect Next Line — Keep the Conversation Flowing.Whether it’s Tinder, Bumble, or Hinge — never run out of flirty, funny, or clever replies.

But what if the other person is also using AI replies?

A nice business model here?

Could give a new wrinkle to the term "computer dating"
by ecshafer | 2025-09-28 04:37:22+00:00
Empire Records was anti-corporate. The record store goal needed to stay independent, under Joe's management, and they did want to actually pay money. They didn't strike and just demand to become owners.

Ironically though, there is a line by the owner of Empire Records on how he would be a rich man if his hippy father hadn't turned his grand fathers toilet emporium into a record store. But considering the state of record stores right now in the world, he is probably right, and long term a toilet store was a better option.
by thisisit | 2025-09-28 04:37:33+00:00
This is underselling the Uber story to a degree. The original sell for Uber was that their total addressable market was the entire auto industry because people will start preferring taxis over driving. They are still trying to achieve that with similar stories now pushed to sell robotaxis.

Uber was undercutting traditional taxis either through driver incentive or cheaper pricing. Many hot takes were around the sustainability of this business model without VC money. In many places this turned out to be true. Driver incentives are way down and Uber pricing is way up.

That said, this is also conflating one company with an industry. Uber might have survived but how many ride sharing companies have survived in total? How many markets have Uber left because it couldn’t sustain?

In a bubble the destruction is often that some big companies get destroyed and others survive. For every pets.com there is one Amazon. That doesn’t mean Amazon is good example to say naysayers during the dot bubble were wrong.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-09-28 04:38:07+00:00
I largely agree. I don't think AI is ultimately useless, but I think it's about 10% as useful as the broader market seems to think it is. That said, every time I see another article like this, I think to myself "well it's not going to come crashing down any time soon". This is the nature of bubbles - they only collapse when nearly everyone is finally convinced they never will. Right now, stories about the AI bubble collapsing are everywhere, which means the time hasn't come yet.

I have an idea that the market may actually start to react positively to bad job numbers, as that could be taken as a signal that companies are shedding people to replace them with AI (even if that's not the actual reason for the bad numbers). If job numbers started suddenly improving and the unemployment rate dropping, it could be taken to mean that AI is not going to replace everyone after all.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-28 04:38:15+00:00
There’s a quote from Gil Luria (Managing Director and Analyst at D.A. Davidson) I love on this bubble, which I hope becomes part of the zeitgeist:

> No of course there isn't enough capital for all of this. Having said that, there is enough capital to do this for a at least a little while longer.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetrillion/
by csomar | 2025-09-28 04:39:07+00:00
I am using Cloudflare as a back-end and only using workers (can disable all their security, performance, caching, and whatever stuff they offer; which is really just a worker). The product (workers) is differentiated and I don't think there is any company/service out there that is offering an equivalent.

I do not think that's the author complaint, though. I frequently get these cloudflare captachas and it is why I disabled their firewall (it's pure garbage) for my own sites. Cloudflare does not have any monopoly over the services you mentioned (workers, tunnels, images, etc.) but they do have a kind-of-monopoly over DNS/CDN.
by Animats | 2025-09-28 04:39:12+00:00
Why doesn't this just produce a shutdown? Inverters have to track voltage and current on the input and outputs sides, and can turn themselves off. They shouldn't be that close to the absolute maximum voltage ratings on the components.

Too much current is a heat dissipation problem, and you've got some time to deal with that, at least tens of milliseconds.

Anyone have a teardown on these things? Are they using under-rated MOSFETs? That's all too common in solid state relays from China.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-28 04:39:13+00:00
Pre-chatgpt blogposts on well-known topics used to be far better motivated or layman-oriented

https://ace-pt.org/ace-physical-therapy-and-sports-medicine-...

which hints that the low 2.7% improvement should not be unexpected of commercializable interventions targeting this joint

(unlike, say, of obviously illegal (powered or not) exoskeletons)

https://medium.com/the-bronze-age/the-ships-of-the-sea-peopl...

Otoh, bona fide connections between Pangaea, Sea Peoples & modern day Turkiye are still discussed on OpenAI-resistant YouTube today

https://youtu.be/a0LWFt78n7k

On the first hand, the automaton reminds me that "modern-day philistines settled in the Gaza Strip after their defeat"
by bigiain | 2025-09-28 04:41:29+00:00
And also - what about the payload that drone was delivering, aimed at the target and doing 150kmh or more when your microwaves zapped it and killed off all the electronics. It'll only take it 2 unpowered/unguided seconds to cover that last 100m, so it'll have dropped 20m on a ballistic trajectory. It won't have hit your tank right in the crew hatch, but it's still delivered its explosive way too close for comfort. Perhaps not a problem if the target is an armored vehicle, but it'll probably still set your ammunition store or fuel dump on fire.
by jibal | 2025-09-28 04:44:06+00:00
The average FIDE elo is 1550; chess.com's average of 1200 elo is much lower because it has many beginner players, including children. The gap between those is huge--much larger than the numbers may suggest. At chess.com 1200 elo people still have terrible board vision and routinely drop pieces; by the time one reaches FIDE 1550 elo that is no longer true and people are starting to plot out complex tactics requiring accurate visualization several moves ahead.

According to the elo formula, a 700 elo player is expected to "hold their own"--draw or win--against a 1200 elo player 1 in 19 games (so they will lose 18 of 19 games), and against a 1550 elo player 1 in 134 games (so they will lose 133 out of 134 games). A 1200 elo player is expected to "hold their own" against a 1550 elo player about 1 in 18 games (they will lose 17 out of 18 games). However, the chess.com and FIDE elos are from very different pools--1200 elo at chess.com is probably equivalent to about 600-800 elo FIDE.
by Zacharias030 | 2025-09-28 04:44:28+00:00
I don’t share that sentiment.

Yes, at some point when people are somewhat able to take a decent lead home the fuseki becomes important. Before that, beginners really need to understand how to „move“ their stones, how to defend and connect their groups and how to cut and capture.

If you see a strong player win against a weak player with a large handicap it always goes down the same way: the strong player places stones all over the board such that eventually many many skirmishes appear all over the board and then she is patient to take small advantage after small advantage, manifesting groups and territories out of what looks like thin air to the other player.

At a somewhat higher amateur level and above the fuseki again loses importance and the distinguishing factor is fighting skills and judgement, fuseki and prep just becomes table stakes.
by syntaxing | 2025-09-28 04:46:42+00:00
> Plugging in four 400w solar panels in series is similar to filling your gasoline powered car with diesel and wondering why the car manufacturer isn't replacing your new car.

I don’t think this analogy works. The solar input works like Diesel or Gasoline in different temperature. It’s pretty unreasonable to assume the consumer knows when depending on temperature unless the explicitly state in the manual (I’m willing to bet good money majority of the people in US have never read their car manual either)
by ksec | 2025-09-28 04:48:22+00:00
>Jaguar just posted a 97.5% sales collapse in Europe for April 2025. That’s 49 cars sold. Not 49,000. Forty-nine. Down from nearly 2,000 in the same month last year. Year-to-date sales across Europe are off more than 75%. Globally, Jaguar is selling fewer than 27,000 cars a year, an 85% drop from where they were in 2018.

From the comments below. Regardless of Cyber Attack which claims to have its manufacturing shut down, they weren't producing much anyway.

And they got 1.5B loan out of it. With the current UK political and economic climates.
by a_t48 | 2025-09-28 04:51:35+00:00
Has anyone had good luck with auto-annotation of types of existing codebases? Either via LLM or via various runtime hooks? I work in a codebase that started off in Python 2 and isn't annotated with types in the majority of places, and I feel the pain every time I have to wonder what exactly the arguments to a method is.
by still | 2025-09-28 04:51:56+00:00
Having gone down the rabbit hole of concave keyboards from Kinesis advantage to iterations of self printed dactyl manifolds I ended up at Svalboard too.

Combined with adjustable carrier arms it has enabled me to continue working even post recent shoulder surgery.

Yes it’s an obscene amount of money but it works and enables me to continue earning a living in front of a screen.
by petre | 2025-09-28 04:52:42+00:00
I regulary watch a youtuber from OH and think it's actually nice compared to NY (crowds, cars, construction sites) and SF (intoxicated homeless people). Yup, the weather sucks for half of the year, there are abandoned Rust Belt industrial buildings all over the place, it's kind of flat, but apart from that, it still looks kinda nice. Also great beer joints, places to bike around.

https://youtu.be/eClMVj9GLAA?si=IxXxgdWfCsGge9yT
by dhosek | 2025-09-28 04:53:20+00:00
Worth noting is that @ was not the universal separator for host and username. BITNET (and its sister networks) based on IBM’s networking protocols used with word “AT” (separated by spaces) so, back in the olden days I was U12921 AT UICVM. UUCP placed the host name first and used ! to separate the hostname from the user with explicit routing occasionally given by multiple !s to separate a list of machines, e.g., foo!bar!jarthur!dhosek And the DECNET protocol used :: with the host name first (e.g., YMIR::DHOSEK) It wasn’t until the grand unification of all the various academic and commercial networks in the late 80s with the “net of nets” which became the Internet that @ became more universal, although IBM systems retained their “AT” and VMS systems had the awkward IN%"dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu" syntax to allow emailing outside the local DECnet.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-28 04:53:35+00:00
Yes that’s the lie that’s often told. But in many jurisdictions, crime data can misrepresent reality when laws aren’t enforced, when many crimes aren’t reported or counted, when weak judges remove incentives for victims to bother calling it in, etc. It’s helpful to believe your eyes when obvious lies are told that are disproven daily.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-09-28 04:53:58+00:00
If the suggestion is that it should be outlawed, there's no reason to punish the vastly outnumbering population who can follow directions and take it safely. You can also accidentally kill yourself in a car every time you get into one if you're not careful. Many actually do.

A pregnant woman who ignores symptoms during pregnancy is putting the fetus at greater risk than one who follows her doctor's suggested treatment, which may include acetaminophen.
by decorativebike | 2025-09-28 04:54:10+00:00
I'm a NixOS committer. I avoid Discourse and Matrix and thus avoid almost all drama.

My impression is that:

* NixOS had light governance for many years, which used to be enough, but wasn't enough to adress disagreements as of around 2022.

* A moderation team partially filled that governance gap, but it was seen to be politically motivated, and is now being held accountable by an elected body (the steering committee).

* This shift in power has resulted in tensions.

* NixOS users skew a little idiosyncratic in general. I'd hazard a guess this coincides with wanting full control of their machines, and being willing to upend the status quo to do so.

I'm hopeful that as more governance is rooted in the elected body, we'll have less tension over time.

I'm thankful for all contributors who make NixOS for what it is today.
by dgfitz | 2025-09-28 04:55:42+00:00
I’ve never heard it called magic smoke before, but a regular saying at one of my old jobs was “ah yeah we let the smoke out” in relation to 100% electric drive vehicles. Smoked many inverters, shorted 96v bus to a 24v bus, etc.

It was almost a rite of passage to “let the smoke out” in that org. That job was actually great because as a software engineer I happily spent a lot of time with a fluke, a wrench, arm buried in the bowels of a vehicle fishing out sockets, etc. Writing the software was not the hardest part of those programs, but being one of the handful of folks that knew the entire electrical, cooling, mechanical, and software systems made us the most valuable folks on the program. We had to know all those things in order to write the software correctly.
by sahila | 2025-09-28 04:57:00+00:00
This is fair but it's also assuming that today's AI has reached its potential which frankly I don't think any of us know. There's a lot of investment being spent in compute and research from a lot of different players and we could definitely make some breakthroughs. I doubt many of us would've predicted even the progress we've had in the last few years before chatGPT came out.

I think the bubble will be defined on whether these investments pan out in the next two years or if we just have small incremental progress like gpt4 to gpt5, not what products are made with today's llm. It remains to be seen.
by tzs | 2025-09-28 04:59:09+00:00
From the abstract of that link, with emphasis added:

> Scientists in the United States are more politically liberal than the general population. This fact has fed charges of political bias. To learn more about scientists’ political behavior, we analyze publicly available Federal Election Commission data. We find that scientists who donate to federal candidates and parties are far more likely to support Democrats than Republicans, with less than 10 percent of donations going to Republicans in recent years. The same pattern holds true for employees of the academic sector generally, and for scientists employed in the energy sector. This was not always the case: Before 2000, political contributions were more evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. We argue that these observed changes are more readily explained by changes in Republican Party attitudes toward science than by changes in American scientists. We reason that greater public involvement by centrist and conservative scientists could help increase trust in science among Republicans.
by sandreas | 2025-09-28 05:00:47+00:00
> My Alexa Echo Dot 4 sounds better than my home audio setup from the 90s.

I think it is more like a "good enough" sound. There are still are hifi-enthusiasts, but I think most people don't see the reason to spend a fortune just to listen to music. Mostly, because people don't even know what a difference a good hifi setup brings to your life or they just don't care.

I always wanted to try building the "World's best speakers"[1] by Technical Ingredients just for fun and education, but in the end I did not care enough to spend the time and money.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKIye4RZ-5k
by Nursie | 2025-09-28 05:01:38+00:00
And nightclubs. There was one in the small city I went to university in and (later on) lived in for about a decade, that catered to a fairly specific subcultural melange (goth, punk, alt rock). Bit of a dive it must be said, but cheap drinks when we were students.

It didn’t change with the times at all and the subcultures themselves went into decline or just aged-out of being club-goers. On closing night it was rammed with people who were sad to see it go, who wished it could stay there. The owner asked “where have you all been?”

Well, we’ve been ageing, hanging out in craft ale bars and doing that a lot less often. Our appetites for hanging out in a loud, semi-subterranean dive are satisfied by an annual or biannual visit to a place we thought fondly of and thought would always be there, but didn’t really want to be in when it came to it.
by Aachen | 2025-09-28 05:01:42+00:00
Doesn't it run over a single TCP connection in all cases, unless you manually launch multiple and manually load-balance your clients across is? As in, it won't/can't open a new TCP connection when you open a new connection in the SOCKS proxy or port forward. They'll all share one head-of-line and block each other

Not that I've ever noticed this being an issue (no matter how much we complain, internet here is pretty decent)

Edit: seeing as someone downvoted your hour-old comment just as I was adding this first reply, I guess maybe they 'voted to disagree'... Would be nice if the person would comment. It wasn't me anyway
by didericis | 2025-09-28 05:03:24+00:00
I’ve talked to their devs/met them in person and trust them, most of their stack is public/all the primitives they use are available and well documented (see https://github.com/holepunchto and https://docs.pears.com/), I’ve used that stack and verified it does what is advertised, and I believe they’re planning a full open source release of the parts that aren’t already public.
by EdwardDiego | 2025-09-28 05:03:34+00:00
Yep, I've used this pretty successfully, the ideal is to run it under realistic prod traffic over time to capture as many types as can flow into a given function, but a good set of unit/integration tests can also provide good coverage.

And if you re-use the same type store (SQLite DB) across multiple instrumented runs, you can further improve it.

https://github.com/Instagram/MonkeyType