MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by immibis | 2025-09-05 19:33:24+00:00
More importantly though, why haven't they?

A lot of it is a because the US brands are more recognizable and cheaper (due to dumping) and grow faster (due to the USA's VC glut).

IIRC a company like AirBNB was started in Europe, and was slowly growing, and couldn't get investment because "who would want this?" and then AirBNB was created, and then arrived in Europe, and they still couldn't get investment because "who wants a ripoff clone of AirBNB?"
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-05 19:33:38+00:00
I have a lease end coming up and the Bolt/EUV are on my radar, but one significant advantage that Leafs have is that the lower trims can have their head unit swapped out for a nice Pioneer or Sony unit from Crutchfield, just like is possible with many ICE vehicles, which can get you a nicer infotainment experience (including wireless CarPlay/AA) that isn’t encrusted with rent-seeking gunk.
by tony | 2025-09-05 19:33:42+00:00
Chris Lattner also has a very good episode on Lex Fridman (Episode 381, June 2nd, 2023):

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdJQ8iVTwj8

- https://open.spotify.com/episode/6flH0XxwdIbayoXTHOgAfI

- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/381-chris-lattner-futu...

He has two other episodes on the show:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTvXbQHwWs (Episode 131, October 18th, 2020)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCd3CzGSte8 (Episode 21, May 13th, 2019)
by jameshart | 2025-09-05 19:33:55+00:00
The word ‘serious’ has several meanings, depending on what it’s used to describe. As a result it has a bunch of opposites: frivolous, funny, non-life-threatening…

When we are grading a person’s argument or their approach to a topic for seriousness, none of those seem to capture the sort of opposite we need. And that’s where ‘unserious’ comes up. How seriously should we take this? Is it serious or unserious?

I’m not sure why there would be a relatively recent surge in its use. Etymonline cites ‘unserious’ as having 17th century origins. Ngram shows increasing usage in the modern era but starting from the 1950s onwards.

If anything it probably reflects an increased use of ‘serious’ in the context of discussing intellectual opinions, as opposed to ‘consequences’ or ‘demeanor’ or ‘injury’ – which if anything is a reflection of increased public engagement with intellectual pursuits.
by acdha | 2025-09-05 19:35:23+00:00
> In other countries even citizens have to carry identification at all times.

We spent the entire Cold War criticizing “papers, please” culture so at the very least seems like we should recognize this as a major change and do something old-fashioned like passing a law to make it legal. The free countries like France or Spain which have similar requirements have actual legal authorization making the terms clear.
by mothballed | 2025-09-05 19:35:34+00:00
Everything is as close to code as possible. I wouldn't wire a range 12-2 willingly but then again I wouldn't hesitate to use one on a 12-2 and then put a 20 amp breaker on it if I had to, and only use one or two burners at a time until I figured out what I could get away with without tripping the breaker :) The NM-B I use is rated for temps well above the steady-state temp at the breaking amperage so the normal 20% derate wouldn't be much a concern.

Not having plans meant I was able to figure out how to do everything, including framing etc on the fly. This made it possible to do the project without having to know everything up front which in my mind would be pretty much impossible for a newcomer. I did not even know how I was going to frame the roof until the walls were already framed.

I believe pretty much everything on my house meets code but it was almost entirely built to the absolute IRC minimum.

I believe part of the savings are the fact I took a lot of risks a builder would never take or at least not without a premium, including buying an unproven well share that worked out perfectly and saved me $~50k over havign to drill my own, doing all my own utility extensions ( DIY underground 200 amp power extension and water main are big ones), and buying unproven land without utilities. It took me 6 months to even get electric connected and it was fortunate I was an electrical engineer who was able to work with the power engineers to get a solution to get power for cheap. I worked with the utility to get exempted from their inspections too so they let me wire the secondary side service entry myself and install the service entry hardware myself.

The lack of inspections though are what made it all possible, because I was able to work a day job and do work on the house on nights/weekends and not have to quit my job to be around during the day for a bunch of inspections.

Square footage definitely a big one. The width of the house was the max size of off-the-shelf dimensional lumber so I was able to build the entire house with no engineered lumber and no load bearing structures anywhere in the interior of the perimeter of the house. I also used 6" grouted cmu foundation which is extremely rare (well normal in latin america) but meets code.

But the biggest savigns were probably just that I was able to do everything DIY without worrying about it getting inspected and then having to do it all over again because an inspector disagreed with something. If it were inspected I probably would have had to hire someone to help me.
by notahacker | 2025-09-05 19:35:51+00:00
> I want the border officer to have more incentive to rob me than to deport me or send me to prison for false charges.

I mean, why on earth wouldn't he do both if there's any incentive to do the latter, especially if he's dealing with individual immigrants rather than a people smuggling racket that might offer repeat business? You're accusing me of talking about "made up la la land" (i.e. the majority of the civilized world where border guards are paid flat salaries, not deportation bonuses) whilst inventing a society in which legalized theft from immigrants somehow results in border guards defying orders and incentives to scrupulously ensure all the "good" people get in.
by Loughla | 2025-09-05 19:36:24+00:00
Update: I just cited 15 studies from prominent institutions indicating that these tools are ineffective and then explained that while they were not communicated with the way they want, there were 4 avenues they could've received that information if they were involved in shared governance on campus at all.

I decided just to close every door for a complaint. Not sure if it landed but no one said anything.
by techjamie | 2025-09-05 19:36:38+00:00
They do that here with the ISP wires and it takes out internet and cell service all over the county and beyond for usually two days straight each time. All the providers here run off the same infrastructure, so the only people with internet are those with satellite internet when it happens. I started driving in a direction to see how long it would take me cell service during it once and I had to drive about 40 miles.

At its peak it was happening every single month, but slowed after it started catching press.
by slipheen | 2025-09-05 19:37:01+00:00
Great point - Firefox container tabs and the “temporary containers” are essential to me and my workflow.

It makes it so trivial to be logged into multiple AWS accounts or isolate shared cookies by environment.

I would love to have a chromium based browser be able to do this- the best I have found is juggling profiles, but even that doesn’t work nearly as well as FF containers.
by felarof | 2025-09-05 19:37:05+00:00
I actually chat/Q&A with web pages quite often.

Examples:

- If I'm writing any email in gmail, I paste the enter email thread into chatGPT, claude and take its help with rephrasing or fixing grammatical mistakes

- I use chat to summarize HN threads too.

Definitely curious if the above use-cases are problems for you or not.

BTW when I want to do Q&A, I use LLM chat feature in BrowserOS -- which opens chatGPT, gemini, claude in split-view on any web page and I quickly copy paste the context using shortcuts.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-09-05 19:37:15+00:00
Haha, yeah. I didn't find generators messy at all, but callbacks led to the term 'callback hell' for good reason.

I think there's a good reason as well that async generators are at the core of async/await, but people rarely use them outside of abstractions. I like them, but they are a lower level tool for sure. Once they 'click' and you feel good with them, great, but chances aren't very good that everyone you work with will feel the same.

Generators add on a sort of cognitive overhead more than mess, I guess. Sometimes it makes sense to pull them out, but often it doesn't. Promises probably encapsulate 95% of common use cases. Promises just do one thing, whereas everywhere you use generators, you've got all the power and potential of generators. Kind of a 'great power, great responsibility' problem
by soVeryTired | 2025-09-05 19:37:38+00:00
There's a very interesting video about the "1.5 language problem" in Julia [0]. The point being that when you write high-performance Julia it ends up looking nothing like "standard" Julia.

It seems like it's just extremely difficult to give fine-grained control over the metal while having an easy, ergonomic language that lets you just get on with your tasks.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUJFd-rEa0k
by boznz | 2025-09-05 19:37:40+00:00
I also rented a Jeep Avenger EV a few weeks back in the UK, several smaller, out of the way vendors still required their specific App and where contactless payments were an option it more expensive at around 80 to 90 pence per KWH. A week into the hire I found I could use my Tesla app and the supercharger network to charge my rental and the max there is only 51 pence per KWH and the supercharger network is expansive just works. An EV is a good option for the UK if you prefer automatics or EV's I will certainly hire one again.
by wongarsu | 2025-09-05 19:38:04+00:00
You are right, reality is more complicated. In reality some blocks need more than two states and need to know the state of adjacent blocks. For example in a one-way track with two every points you would want to deny entry from one entry point if the track leading to the other entry point is occupied, to solve your case. And you probably want to call that state "reserved" instead of "occupied" to prevent a cascade if you have multiple such blocks right after each other.

But the point that you can do this local-first is still true. You will want to engage a couple bits of information with the neighboring block, but you don't need to know any global state, and if one block breaks down that only affects its direct neighbors
by techpineapple | 2025-09-05 19:38:25+00:00
“I seek out individuals I think are smart from a variety of places and read a lot - I'm not sure if there's another way. The more I do this, the more I have a general dislike for wikipedia.”

Right but then this isn’t the purpose of an encyclopedia. Like great! But it feels like you’re saying “the more I cook fresh meals, the less I like microwave dinners”. I should Hope so!
by jcranmer | 2025-09-05 19:38:28+00:00
> Standard US freight envelope doesn't even fit on the standard US freight line, famously there are tunnels and bridges in the East that prevent Superliner and other double-stack cars from getting into New York and other places.

The standard US freight envelope probably counts as Plate C, which is 10'8" wide by 15'6" above the rail. Plate H is the standard for double-stacked containers, which pushes the height to 20'2".

(The part of the loading gauge that I'd be most concerned about is actually the width of the cars at the bottom of the carbody--passenger cars tend to be somewhat narrower than standard boxcar, and given a desire to minimize the platform gap, I'd think there's a decent chance that most freight would strike the platform.)
by ffsm8 | 2025-09-05 19:38:41+00:00
Not getting a phone didn't really cost you either for the first 5-10 yrs.

But the people that didn't definitely had a harder time adjusting when it got increasingly annoying to live without a smartphone.

It's ultimately a choice you can make, but it definitely also comes with consequences - especially if your dayjob is software - as this is an industry that loves to discriminate against people that aren't aboard the hype train and don't have "10 yrs of experience in d̵o̵c̵k̵e̵r̵ LLMs"
by lelanthran | 2025-09-05 19:39:29+00:00
> Sure, it's true that the lesbian divorce rate is far higher than the gay male divorce rate,

Last I checked, it wasn't just divorce, it was also domestic abuse. Lesbian relationships had twice the domestic abuse rates of heterosexual relationships, which had twice the domestic abuse rates of male gay relationships.

Can't find it on the CDC site anymore, now.
by yencabulator | 2025-09-05 19:40:56+00:00
Interestingly, https://supernote.com/pages/supernote-nomad says

> Customize Your System

> A Linux-based system will be open in the future for community modifications and customizations.

> *Not built-in with the device

Anyone have details? Internet says it's a very custom Android. https://www.ereaders.org/supernote-manta-versatile-durable-e...
by lucianbr | 2025-09-05 19:41:13+00:00
Who does "enforcement" in Sweden? Is the police somehow under the courts? Same for things like consumer protection agencies, environment protection and so on? Are prosecutors somehow in the same group as the judges? That may work for you, but I see some potential for abuse there as well. I think that is how it turned out in Japan, once you are prosecuted conviction is a foregone conclusion.
by ipaddr | 2025-09-05 19:42:13+00:00
Yes. Sending your government issued id to random porn sites is asking for your identity to be stolen. Sites filter out any child porn because those are different serious laws. I can live with revenge porn because it's really amateur porn labelled another way. Like supporting eco friendly porn where you walk to the hotel instead of drive.

Regulating markets where someone unvested group of people decide the rules on what can sell /how it can be sold /who can buy or sell is always worse than not regulating it in the first place.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-09-05 19:42:25+00:00
> which are never, ever written in Python

nah never ever ever ever ever ... except

https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagGems

https://github.com/linkedin/Liger-Kernel

https://github.com/meta-pytorch/applied-ai

https://github.com/gpu-mode/triton-index

https://github.com/AlibabaPAI/FLASHNN

https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth

the number of people commenting on this stuff that don't know what they're actually talking about grows by leaps and bounds every day...
by mothballed | 2025-09-05 19:43:20+00:00
Officers don't get a payout generally just for falsely arresting people and it eats up time they could be robbing someone else. It's generally more profitable to take $200 from a bunch more people than to burn a bunch of time falsely arrest someone, but more profitable for their career to arrest someone actually guilty than to do a bunch of robbing.

Therefore in the USA corruption model you end up with a bunch of false arrests while in the LatAm corruption model you end up with a bunch of fast robberies but not so much the lengthy deportation/arrest of innocents based on the officer thinking that's the bigger reward.

The way I've had this play out time and time again is my shit gets robbed in the third world but I have no problems entering, and the exact opposite issue with the USA.

Of course you could point to say the Swedish model where as far as I can tell they have no incentive to do any job whatsoever. I've entered Stockholm straight on a flight from a sketchy part of Iraq and no one even bothered to look at me or even question where I was coming from or what I might have with me. Their border guards must just lounge in a room drinking tea and draw their salaries or something.
by barbazoo | 2025-09-05 19:43:40+00:00
> And since your car needs so much power stored in its battery to drive, it will probably pull more power than any other electrical appliance in your home.

Probably? No, it pulls less than my dryer which runs at 240V15A I think but also just the same as my 1500W space heater. You can totally control how much power the charger should draw.

> With that much power, there’s a risk of overheating and fire. Unlike a dedicated EV charger, a socket is simply not equipped to handle the amount of electricity needed to charge a car battery.

Wrong assumption leads to wrong conclusion. Any charger you can physically plug in will work in a house that's wired up to standard.
by w4rh4wk5 | 2025-09-05 19:43:41+00:00
Interesting. Apparently browsers (at least Firefox) uses the OS' setting for this. I still have animations enabled in Windows 10 due to how windows are rendered when they are opened, but the content isn't painted yet.

However, there seems to be way to set this manually in Firefox. [1] Go to about:config and add `ui.prefersReducedMotion` set to `1`. Can be verified with https://animate.style

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/59709067
by bee_rider | 2025-09-05 19:44:00+00:00
It is hard to understand what Trump will do… it is hard to talk about this without going on some US politics tangent, which I think is not appreciated on this site. But he isn’t particularly affiliated with FAANG really. He has some startup guys in his orbit, but they aren’t FAANG.

And he’s, uh… very motivated by what others have to offer him… so FAANG clearly has some leverage there, but I don’t think it is necessarily a sure thing they’ll work something out.
by tern | 2025-09-05 19:44:01+00:00
I think every comment on this article so far is misunderstanding the argument, which seems optimistic to me—he may be rightly pointing at a dogma.

I learned electronics and dataflow languages before I learned traditional languages, and learning how modern systems were architected was horrifying to me. The level of separation of components is nowhere close to what's possible, because—as the author points out—the default level of abstraction in modern programming languages is the function.

Don't read this article as a critique of types (as in: typed vs untyped), but as a finger pointing at a higher level of abstraction that isn't a first-class concept in the tooling used to architect large systems today.

All that said, I have come across many people beating this drum over the years—usually Alan Kay or Ted Nelson types—and I suspect there's something they're missing as well.
by DaveZale | 2025-09-05 19:44:25+00:00
Yes! I read commentary a while back that said the size of the phone is roughly (w/in a factor of two) the size of a cigarette pack and just like the pack, is almost always within arm's reach and frequently sought.

Can't recall the exact source, but the conclusion of the article was: if you want to kick the phone habit, first of all, keep it out of arm's reach.
by rkwap | 2025-09-05 19:44:57+00:00
Honestly, I don't find any AI browser out there that is actually useful to me. All those shiny new features fade away once you start using them in your day-to-day life. I am not able to understand why I would automate something like browsing the web with AI. All I need is a good utilities-based browser that makes my browsing easy. Arc does a good job, but it's sad to see that they are wasting their time on a useless Dia browser instead of making Arc great.

What do you guys think?
by Saris | 2025-09-05 19:45:06+00:00
I'd like to see it use something other than chromium.

The Firefox fork Zen is what I use now and it really covers everything I want, which is a nice looking browser with ublock origin, container tabs, and no extra features like AI or Pocket or whatever other annoying addon seems to be crammed into everything else.

Reliable and encrypted sync is important. One frustration I do have with Firefox is sync doesn't sync everything, certain settings don't sync, and about:config tweaks don't either.

Zero telemetry is also important, as is having a home tab that doesn't connect to anything externally by default. Ideally other than checking for updates on addons and sync, there should be 0 connections made until a website is visited.

Overall I just want a solid browser that lets me read web pages.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-05 19:45:26+00:00
Feels like a whole lot of he-said-she-said, without an actual Disney person making a statement:

> As of publication, neither Disney nor Ravensburger have offered an official statement on the matter, nor have any details regarding the exact mechanics of his AI usage been publicly detailed.

Also, I feel like nobody really comes off as a hero in this story:

> "I told him this, and offered to show him how to access [procreate recordings]. He then got mad at me and told me to leave"

Well, no shit. He's working at a convention, and suddenly someone comes up to him and demands that he take time to prove his innocence. I'd be pissed, too, regardless of whether I was using AI to make my art or not.
by Bender | 2025-09-05 19:45:27+00:00
People eat insects all the time without realizing it. The FDA allows insects, rodent poop, mold and foreign matter to be in food at certain levels [1] and that is even before we talk about "natural flavors" in things like strawberry ice cream flavored from beetles. They aren't lying, beetles are natural. This topic goes a lot deeper but I will let others disgust themselves if they wish.

Here's a look at how the world eats bugs on purpose. [2]

[1] - https://www.livescience.com/55459-fda-acceptable-food-defect...

[2] - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10904393/
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-05 19:45:50+00:00
That's like saying machines are bad because people still hand excavate ditches in the last couple feet near utilities. You are missing the point. Anyone who can do the full job isn't missing anything by skipping the drudgery.

Every task the AI can juggle for you is one you don't have to. If your department goes from 4 to 3 great, if it goes from 2-1 or 1-0 that's fine too. Companies already exist at those numbers. You can think about it in terms of "a company can now be bigger before they need a dedicated person/team for job X" if that helps take the emotion out.
by cyberpunk | 2025-09-05 19:46:32+00:00
The defence isn't against malicious developers writing evil code, but some random third party container launched via a curl | bash which mounts ~/ into it and posts all your ssh keys to some server in china... Or whatever.

Or so I was told when I made the monumental mistake of trying to fight such a policy once.

So now we just have a don't ask don't tell kind of gig going on.

I don't really know what the solution is, but dev laptops are goldmines for haxxors, and locking them down stops them from really being dev machines. shrug
by LexiMax | 2025-09-05 19:46:37+00:00
> When you tell people they are "white supremacist-coded" they simply do not care.

Although I know that being politically correct is not in vogue at the moment, I do care and empathize, and try to be accommodating with my language.

What is the preferred way to refer to people who support the transition of the USA into a fascist christian ethnostate?
by rchaud | 2025-09-05 19:46:42+00:00
The rich in America make their money through stock market pumps and dumps. Just keep the minimum wage frozen and the tax cuts coming and they won't say a word.

As long as the Federal Reserve and the Bureau of Labour Statistics keep saying the right things, the market will go up. And if they don't say these things, the president will replace them with somebody who will.
by lucianbr | 2025-09-05 19:46:52+00:00
> Google has now 60 days

I hope I am wrong, and would be happy if that were the case, but I find these deadlines laughable. In reality Google will delay this in courts for at least 5 years. In which time they will make some extra billions, and then the fine will be cut to a quarter of the current value. And by then they will have invented a new way to abuse consumers, just different enough to be the object of a new investigation and new court case that also takes years.