MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alistairSH | 2025-09-23 12:59:30+00:00
Depends what you want...

First off, a travel trailer make a lot of sense because you decouple the propulsion from the living quarters. But, then you might need a big truck (depends on size of trailer - most mid-size SUVs and compact trucks can only tow ~5000lbs). Another plus is you can drop the trailer at camp and drive to town/trail heads/etc. Downsides are total length, two registrations and insurance plans, etc.

If you don't need to live in it long-term, one of the fiberglass shell travel trailers (Oliver, Escape, maybe Scamp and Casita, though they're lower spec). The less plumbing, the better. The simpler the better. Less to go wrong/leak. They generally max out around 20 feet or so - plenty for a week here and there, but less than ideal for full-time living.

If I wanted full-time, I'd probably skip the Class B ("ship in a bottle van-based RV") and Class C (van/truck chassis and cab with box bolted on the back) RVs and jump straight to a Class A (bus or commercial truck chassis with custom cab). Something like a slightly used Prevost (though that's probably still $500k+, so won't help if you're priced out of traditional housing).
by Panzerschrek | 2025-09-23 12:59:42+00:00
I find the term "hallucination" very misleading. What LLMs produce means really "lie" or "misinformation". The term "hallucination" is so common nowadays only because corporations developing LLMs prefer using it rather than saying the truth, that their models are just huge machines for making things up. I am still wondering, why there are no legal consequences for authors of these LLMs because of that.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-23 13:00:13+00:00
Well, this is the end result. $100K per filing has now given every company a metric with which to benchmark whether they should open a GCC (an offshore office with P/L and Product Roadmap responsibilities) or continue to hire a mix of citizens and foreigners domestically.

If having to file for 10 H1B visas now costs the same as the amount of FDI needed to get $10-20k per head of tax subsidies and credits across CEE and India, the math to open an office abroad just became justified for every business.
by taylodl | 2025-09-23 13:00:17+00:00
'We need the smartest people' - we can afford. That last bit is the unspoken part. They want to maximize their headcount for a given budget. They're just responding to market dynamics.

Also, FAANG do not hire the smartest people. They have the budget to hoover up as many potentials as possible in order to keep them away from their competitors. The smart ones quickly realize this and leave.
by kentonv | 2025-09-23 13:00:37+00:00
Almost all ocap systems seem to use event loops -- and many of the biggest ocap nerds I know are also the biggest event loop nerds I know. I'm not actually sure if this is a coincidence or if there's something inherent that makes it necessary to pair them.

But one thing I can't figure out: What would be the syntax for promise pipelining, if you aren't using promises to start with?
by dcchambers | 2025-09-23 13:01:07+00:00
I've been super duper happy with AntennaPod since I discovered it a few years ago! It's perfectly useable right out of the gate but has nice customizations if you want/need it. And the Android Auto support is great (essential since I do most podcast listening in the car).

Caveat: I *only* listen to Podcasts on my phone so I don't have to think about syncing library/status between devices.
by naikrovek | 2025-09-23 13:01:25+00:00
seems like the need here is for a graphical terminal. a terminal that displays graphics which are sent to it as graphics, and not as ascii-encoded binary.

the default terminal in plan9 could do this, though i don't know of anything which took advantage of it outside of plan9 itself. you could open a new window (which is a terminal with a prompt and a cursor and a shell and so on), and type the command to launch the window manager ("rio") and it would launch a new window manager inside your terminal window.

it's not even really fair to call plan9 windows "terminals" since they're plan9 windows and anything that can be displayed on plan9 can be displayed in one.

the neater stuff comes when you use one of those plan9 windows to remote into another machine and run a graphical tool inside it. you could run the window manager of the remote machine and display it locally, all through normal commands you used all the time and without any special software, and you could open more plan9 windows inside that window manager inside your local plan9 window inside your local window manager. all over the 9p protocol that plan9 used for everything. 9p is used all over the place today, but only for relatively niche things.

i think we've really ignored a lot of what plan9 did, to our detriment as an industry.
by storus | 2025-09-23 13:01:36+00:00
Because you are processing a sequence of a fixed length in deep learning models and the more frames you have, the more accurate your FSD output is. Driving 1.4m between the frames with single-frame accuracy of 80% is quite risky and input correction quite discrete; 14cm is still risky for a proper trajectory planning. Now make it in millimeters and suddenly your trajectory is nearly perfect with only little noise.
Show HN: Shai.sh – shell-native AI that turns English into commands
by vinkaga | 2025-09-23 13:01:59+00:00
Hi HN - I am Vinay, the creator of shai.sh.

Problem: I kept breaking flow to look up exact syntax for commands (tar, find, ffmpeg).

What it is: a shell-native plugin + app. You type intent in plain English; it returns one ready-to-run command on your prompt. Works with your existing setup and aliases - no new UI, no copy-paste, no terminal replacement.

Why it's different: it stays inside your shell and optimizes for a single correct command, not chat.

How it works (quick): 1) Type intent 2) Cmd+Enter 3) Cmd+Up Arrow to get in command line 4) Review/edit 5) Run.

Demos (26s, 13s, 2+ min): https://shai.sh/#resources

Examples: find files >10MB modified in last 7 days; ffmpeg batch convert mp4 -> 720p h264; tar.gz current dir excluding node_modules and .git; free port 3000; scp a folder preserving permissions.

Privacy: your prompt + shell context go only to your configured LLM provider - shai server doesn't see it. Nothing auto-runs - you choose when to execute.

Status: macOS available today; Windows/Linux builds in progress.

Pricing: free tier; Pro/Team add higher limits and team features.

Docs / quickstart: https://shai.sh/docs

I'll be here all day - feedback welcome, especially on failure cases, privacy defaults, and what would make you try it for a week.
by kozikow | 2025-09-23 13:02:55+00:00
The H-1B program was already broken by the lottery. This new fee just solidifies the L-1 visa as the real high-skilled pipeline. More L-1 visas are already approved annually than new H-1Bs, and this policy only widens that gap.

In addition to L1, O1 is also often gamed. $100K for H1B is mostly "posturing" at this point, as voters don't know about other options.
by nine_zeros | 2025-09-23 13:03:20+00:00
Hot take but something I learned over many years - for anyone who wants to hear it:

The easiest way to a happy life is to follow the motto "live and let live".

Live - your life to the fullest. Use your liberty to build your own life. Don't sleepwalk into anything.

Let live - don't hurt or interfere with other's liberties. How others live is none of your business.
by Xelbair | 2025-09-23 13:03:21+00:00
>So what? Even if 99% of the population agrees with doing something, that has no bearing on whether I agree with it or am responsible for it.

You are a cog, participating in system, voting in it and acting in it. You could wash away your responsibility only if you go back to serfdom.

>Perhaps Europeans, with their higher-quality parliamentary systems, are more likely to uncritically accept the idea that governments actually represent their people, whereas Americans are more likely to realize it's a sham.

well.. not really, i would say Europe is worse off as EU is basically one-party system with flavor distinctions. It is different on country-level but that varies on case by case basis.

Nevertheless the idea of democracy stays the same - you vote, directly or indirectly, on issues - every citizen is a participant in decision-making process.

No matter the political system, or ruling entity you have it will always have those 3 goals(in order), cynically speaking:

- self-preservation

- changing resource distribution in it's favor

- expanding it's influence outside the borders

The only thing keeping our rights(and that includes human rights) is the fact that governments can be replaced by different one(in healthy systems) with populace support, or that populace will revolt and reenact french revolution again(in unhealthy systems), or outside forces will take over.

Systems can be changed - either by evolution or revolution. Take your pick.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-23 13:04:26+00:00
We invested massively in nuclear power in recent decades? Vogtle, Virgil C. Summer, Hinkley Point C, Olkiluoto, Flamanville were the west ensuring nuclear investment while at the same time investing in the nascent renewable sector.

In total something like a ~$100-200B investment in nuclear technology. The nuclear investment evidently did not pan out.

How much more should we have spent? Should we just push through no matter the cost even though we have cheaper alternatives?
by alephnerd | 2025-09-23 13:04:53+00:00
L-1 has been broken for decades as well. The same problems that impact an H1B impact an L1 as well.

The only way abuse of both visas can stop is if they are not tied to an employer, allowing free movement of labor. Thus, if someone is talented and at TCS then they can either demand a salary equal to their skill or go to an employer who can offer that salary.

Additonally, federal, state, and local governments need to start playing the subsidy game that Poland, Romania, Czechia, India, Israel, and other companies play to attract offshore offices.

> H1B is mostly "posturing" at this point, as voters don't know about other options

I disagree. This was clearly timed to distract and overshadow the Gold and Platinum card announcement.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-09-23 13:04:54+00:00
As I said, it's subjective. I like this

image: my-repo.com/my-app:v1 imagePullPolicy: Always

more than this

image: "my-repo.com/my-app:v1" imagePullPolicy: "Always"

That's all. Not sure about quoting keys though.
by Xelbair | 2025-09-23 13:05:55+00:00
Then maybe some forces - economic, or realpolitik ones, or whatever etc - make the current situation a reality, no matter your political allegiance. Maybe it is infact an optimal resource distribution for current situation.

Or system is fundamentally broken, and You, as in populace, need to change it. you can talk to people, political party allegiance does not need to be a tribal relationship.

take your pick.
by mcntsh | 2025-09-23 13:06:15+00:00
I’m also living a 15h flight away from my country/culture/people and I never felt the need for money to make up for it. Sounds like you just value money?

Also Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam et all are large, diverse metropolises. Not sure where the idea comes from that you wouldn’t be able to find your tribe or your cuisine in these cities.
by prmoustache | 2025-09-23 13:06:15+00:00
> typical middle class sedan size IMHO, like VW Passat, Audi A4, BWM 3, i.e. one size up from VW Golf/Tiguan/Touran.

Which have inflated one size/class bigger than they used to 25 years ago.

The people who now drive these kind of cars today used to drive A6, BMW 5 series and E-Class Mercedes Benz. Cars lass/segments have slided both in size and luxury over a few decades.

If you look at car sales number you will see that the cars that sell the most are in the small and compact segment categories. Here is the top10 in Q1 in Europe:

Rank Model Units Sold Manufacturer Segment

1 Dacia Sandero 42,913 Renault Group Supermini

2 Citroën C3 34,064 Stellantis Subcompact

3 Peugeot 208 33,821 Stellantis Supermini

4 Volkswagen Golf 33,663 Volkswagen Group Compact

5 Renault Clio 31,754 Renault Group Supermini

6 Dacia Duster 31,217 Renault Group Compact SUV

7 Volkswagen T-Roc 30,949 Volkswagen Group Crossover

8 Volkswagen Tiguan 29,733 Volkswagen Group SUV

9 Toyota Yaris Cross 29,226 Toyota Motor Europe Crossover SUV

10 Peugeot 2008 28,072 Stellantis Subcompact SUV
by snickerbockers | 2025-09-23 13:06:35+00:00
Your initial statement is that you are not open to debate so i don't see what the point would be. Furthermore you defined "serious inquiries" as synonymous with your own preconceived ideas so by definition I cannot refute anything you say using a "serious inquiry". Do not interpret this as some sort of complement or concession but it is not possible to argue against you.

Even putting the sophistry aside your argument is incomplete because you never defined what "productivity" means in this context or how it can be quantified. I would never dispute that a pseudo-random bullshit generator can shit out javascript faster than any human, but that's not necessarily productive.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-23 13:08:47+00:00
I don't know why I have to take a selfie of myself to start my washing machine. I also don't know why it requires me to stare at it for 30 seconds afterward, or the machine shuts off. The face is my own, for the first 15 seconds or so, but then it's not. I've checked, it's a pixel perfect copy, it's not being slowly adjusted as I watch it, but for the rest of the day, the face I see in the mirror isn't my own, either.

But my laundry has never smelled so fresh.
by debo_ | 2025-09-23 13:09:11+00:00
> With this little helper, I can now start building out a very simple Trello clone to prove the concept.

It's probably worth reading hypermedia.systems before using htmx. The book itself says that for more interactive components, you should go ahead and use JavaScript and whatever interactive framework you want to use on top of that.

I use htmx with Django when:

- I want to have some assurance that I will only have to minimally upgrade dependencies over the next few years

- I'm doing something bog-standard (dashboard / admin UI)
by alex-moon | 2025-09-23 13:09:25+00:00
Ah, possibly - the way I think about Show HN is it's for links to a codebase or demo app. There is a demo app linked in this article but it's not the link posted to HN. The Guidelines explicitly mention "blog posts" as not Show HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html - but they also say that's because they "can't be tried out". Grey area? Happy to do whatever precedent suggests.
by Xelbair | 2025-09-23 13:09:30+00:00
In democratic system(please spare me "we're republic not a democracy" adage that every American spewes) every citizen votes, and shares responsibility in decision making process.

You can become politically active and try to convince others if you don't like current status quo, inaction is also a choice.

Unless you think US isn't a democratic country but authoritarian one(either oligarchy, technocracy or whatever - does not matter) then it is definitely not a philosophical disagreement, but lack of responsibility and wishful thinking.
by bilekas | 2025-09-23 13:09:52+00:00
Why anyone would choose to use the Razor syntax at any time is beyond me, let alone for the web. There is no need to make it so complicated, HTML is interpreted.

As the article says :

> HTMX leaves it up to the developer to impose discipline on their code, however they see fit.

He said that like it's a bad thing. I really dislike those frameworks like Angular for example who simply say "You need to do it the Angular way". That just slows down innovation or clever ideas that solve little problems. Instead if there is a slow framework (looking at some peoples react implementations, Cloudflare recently [0]) Well you probably wont consider it or just see it as a "quirk" of the framework.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dive-into-cloudflares-sept-...
by therealpygon | 2025-09-23 13:11:19+00:00
You have deliberately ignored, overlooked, mischaracterized, exaggerated, and regurgitated rhetoric just to fit your narrative. Ignoring anything inconvenient while finger-pointing in outrage is rather comical to those who aren’t on either side.

Also, do you not remember 86-46 MAGA t-shirts? A call to stand up and fight followed by a violent incursion into private areas of the capital in order to “stop the steal” (a lie), where deadly force was REQUIRED as they broke windows and forced through barriers, you know where they were “invited”? Did you forget about all the literal death threats that made to judges and politicians any time they go against Trump? Did you forget all the MAGA death threats sent regarding the women and children families of those same judges? People showing up with guns because drag queens were reading to kids?

Most people don’t have the memory of a goldfish, so the mock outrage just doesn’t cut through the noise.

Having to listen to whatever party isn’t in power whine is just another day for most of us to laugh at the stupidity of it all. It’s new to have to also listen to the ones in power whining and playing the victim still.
by tanepiper | 2025-09-23 13:11:25+00:00
An annoyingly big part of the issue is GitHub Access Tokens - to this day there are still features we like to use in GitHub but can't because GitHub hasn't made them work with fine-grained tokens.

They still need it still needs a Personal Access Tokens - but many organisations restrict them now, and even bypassing that, the PAT tokens are too broad in there permissions (github cli being one example)
by alex-moon | 2025-09-23 13:11:35+00:00
Definitely - I think what's really interesting is that there is clearly a kind of "attractor" which all of these frameworks are pulled toward. That's kind of mainly what I was trying to aim at with the blog post - MESH isn't a solution at all, it's more I built it to show why it would go that way, i.e. the same way LiveView etc. and of course Blazor went. My question is: is there a form of this that could be merged back into the HTML spec itself and supported by the browsers? My gut says there isn't, by the way.
by Hywan | 2025-09-23 13:11:37+00:00
Thanks for mentioning this other possibility! To be honest, I've discovered this possibility from you. Sadly, it doesn't improve the performance that much. We get the following performance:

- time: 98ms - throughput: 101Kelem/s

which is way slower than the 2.3ms and 4.18Melem/s we have with our final solution. It's even slower than the `CASE` without the `LEFT JOIN` (which was 39ms and 251Kelem/s).

Again, thanks for having pointed that out!
by ashvardanian | 2025-09-23 13:11:44+00:00
After publishing this a few days ago, 2 things have happened.

First, it tuned out that StringZilla scales further to over 900 GigaCUPS around 1000-byte long inputs on Nvidia H100. Moreover, the same performance is obviously accessible on lower-end hardware as the algorithm is not memory bound, no HBM is needed.

Second, I’ve finally transitioned to Xeon 6 Granite Rapids nodes with 192 physical cores and 384 threads. On those, the Ice Lake+ kernels currently yield over 3 TeraCUPS, 3x the current Hopper kernels.

The most recent numbers are already in the repo: https://github.com/ashvardanian/StringWa.rs
by alephnerd | 2025-09-23 13:12:26+00:00
There is still a fairly large Indian American 1st and 1.5 gen diaspora with GCs and citizenship.

In most cases, we have those people manage relations with offshore teams in India.

So, just like how Chinese Americans became overrepresented in hardware and supply chain management roles in order to help manage a company's "China" story, the same thing is happening for "white collar" industries.
by metalman | 2025-09-23 13:12:29+00:00
my description is a bare outline, actusl instalation could easily include a heat exchanger, and by going to radiant heat, it's surfaces that provide the heat,ie: floors (warm/cool feet) and walls, cielings, with humidity controll bieng done in air HCAC is decidedly unsexy engineering, but it can effect, all of every day so worth a bit of attention
by hylaride | 2025-09-23 13:12:35+00:00
Well, it's a classic research paper. They're essentially only supposed to report findings.

If you live in a house with central HVAC, a decent, regularly replaced filter will help a lot (make sure to only use full blown HEPPA filters if your furnace supports it otherwise you'll have all sorts of airflow issues). Otherwise you can buy air purifiers. The study measured smoke (cigarette and wildfire) as well as insecticides, so minimizing exposure to both is probably the easiest first step (not smoking inside is easy, but wildfire depends on how porous your house is).
by mrtksn | 2025-09-23 13:12:41+00:00
If there's any truth in the "phd level AI", let alone AGI narrative going on since a few years this must be no problem at all, just use AI. If that narrative isn't true then in not-so-distant future SV must run out of money to hire people for other stuff anyway as all the resources seem to be in the AI basket.

The AI thing aside, I wonder why people are not demanding actual fix on the issues, i.e. right to change employer. Sure, companies wouldn't want that but aren't the SV engineers highly paid individuals? Wouldn't they be able to collect considerable resources to lobby the politicians into it?
by account42 | 2025-09-23 13:12:46+00:00
Better yet would be unit-aware types. Then instead of

duration_ms = 1000

you can have

duration = 1s // or duration = Seconds(1) in deficient languages

and it's either a compile error or the type system enforces the correct conversion.

As for the bad rap of hungarian notation, it's mostly from people using it to encode something that is already clear from the types. "fDuration" helps no one over just "duration".
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-23 13:13:03+00:00
I know all three, and I'm not seeing it dying any time soon. WebAssembly is not going anywhere, neither are dynamic back-end systems. I have drastically less issues with my front-end while using Blazor compared to just doing raw JavaScript. I've built everything from a PWA from scratch using Vanilla JS, to an iFrame Frenzy web app a client paid us top dollar to build.

Silverlight was proprietary, Blazor is MIT licensed and using open web technologies that are NOT going anywhere any time soon. We just had another major upgrade to Web Assembly's spec not that long ago.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-09-23 13:13:50+00:00
I often wonder what these teachings are. It seems they can be interpreted from pacifism to militarism or anti-gay to pro-gay. Seems they are mostly used to justify whatever the person wants to do anyways.

When I was a kind, I read almost the whole bible (revelation got a little too crazy) and I could never really figure out what it's trying to tell.
by cycomanic | 2025-09-23 13:14:02+00:00
> Yeah, I've been trying it recently and I'm not entirely convinced I want to keep using it.

> My biggest annoyance at the moment (and this may be me missing something), is that I have two directories: "thing" and "thing-api". I'm doing work in "thing" much more often than in the "thing-api", but whenever I run "z thing", it takes me to "thing-api" first, and I have to "z thing" again to get to where I wanted to go. It ends up being more effort than if I'd just tab-completed or history searched a plain cd command.

AFAIK the z command does take frequency into account (or was it most recent visit). However to avoid going into thing-api instead of thing I believe you just type thing/ i.e. At the slash and z will take you to thing (that obviously doesn't work with tab completion though).

I found that after some time I have gotten so used to z (which I aliases to cd) that I wouldn't want to live without it.