MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Xenoamorphous | 2025-09-05 09:00:04+00:00
* Limiting the number of QCs (Quick Charges / DC Fast Charge), as this heats up the uncooled Leaf battery, degrading it slightly each time, especially on hotter days

* Keeping the charge between 50-80% when manageable

* Charging up to 100% at least once a month, and letting it 'top off' to rebalance the pack for at least a few hours afterwards

* Not driving like a maniac, despite having more torque in this car than I've ever had in any of my previous cars

This kind of thing (minus the driving like a maniac bit) is what puts me off EVs. I guess it's unavoidable? My experience with laptop and phone batteries (holding much less charge pretty quickly) doesn't help. My phone (iPhone 12) says battery health is at 81% but it doesn't feel like it so I'm not sure I'd trust that Leaf saying it's got 93%.
by GJim | 2025-09-05 09:00:23+00:00
> Go and sue them we will wait with anticipation for the ruling

We don't need to 'sue' as we aren't Americans.

Strong consumer rights laws in the UK and EU mean that if goods are not as described and/or become disabled or are not of reasonable quality, it is straight forward to either reject the goods (and get a full refund) or claim appropriate compensation for your losses.
by donatj | 2025-09-05 09:02:06+00:00
Hmm, my friend had a 2015 Leaf, the interior seemed much nicer and more modern than this 2023 model.

> There is no 'play/pause' button. Anywhere. At least not on the steering wheel or the display area. You have to go into the music section on the entertainment display, then press the software play/pause button. That's dumb.

My new to me 2023 Honda Odyssey has the same stupid issue. It's my first vehicle with a touch screen, and I have a lot of trouble hitting the pause button especially when I'm trying to mute it because I need to pay extra attention to the road. WHY is there not just a Play/Pause button on the wheel!? Or at least a physical button on the dashboard.
by andsoitis | 2025-09-05 09:02:49+00:00
> Mistake #1: He bought an EV.

> You should never purchase EVs, only lease them. That's what I did. This saves you from the terrible depreciation they have.

> The only time it makes sense to buy an EV is if it's used.

Coming in too hot, friend! The headline, and opening line, is that it is a used EV.
by kinix | 2025-09-05 09:02:53+00:00
From how I read it, the author seems to be suggesting that this list of IPs be on an allowlist as they see Google as "less nefarious". As such, sure, allowing google IPs is as easy as allowing all IPs, but discerning who are "nefarious actors" is probably harder.

A more tounge-in-cheek point: all scripts take an LLM ~10 seconds to write, doesn't mean it's right though.
by lordhumphrey | 2025-09-05 09:03:11+00:00
It absolutely did.

100% literacy, but all we read is garbage, and all we write is short and shallow. 100% computer literacy too, if that term means making accounts, clicking on links, scrolling up and down, taking videos of things, and commenting.

The internet has ended up being a massive drain on people's energy, and driven communities apart. Of course, there are exceptions here and there amongst the better educated classes, people who manage to shield themselves from the worst transgressions of the behemoths running the tech infrastructure that dominates people's lives.

And, of course, these exalted internet users then vehemently argue that the internet is great, and people just aren't using it right, like them. And round and round the thing goes, getting worse and worse for most people.
by lucideer | 2025-09-05 09:03:23+00:00
To add a thought on tackling the listed faults:

1. I suspect the NPV problem may be a fundamentally unsolvable problem (or at least one that would literally take a global paradigm shift in how all societies are structured to do so). This seems outside of Wikipedia's control. Attempting any draconian measures to tackle it might have negative knock-on effects on many of the other assets that give Wikipedia it's value.

2. The spending problem, as I said, is subjective & might simply be a case of efficiency being incompatible with an organisational culture that produces such a miraculous thing. I honestly suspect the opposite is true: I personally think the overspends are indicative of organisational disfunction that could seriously hurt the project in the longer term, but that's pure gut feeling on my part, based on nothing of substance. Who knows.

3. The increasing difficulty in contributing (80% of edits coming from 1% of editors) on the other hand is - imo - a potentially terminal problem & one that needs to be addressed urgently if we want to keep this resource alive.

In the past, Wikipedia vandalism was a rite-of-passage of school & college kids. This obviously needs counter-measures but it really feels like today's Wikipedia has gone so far in the opposite direction as to entirely dissuade new contributors. Old Wikipedia used to be filled with User: namespaced subpages with long form essays on the ever running debate between deletionism & inclusionism. In today's Wikipedia, the inclusionists have emigrated, tired of battle, & the remaining deletionists bravely prevent any budding new contributor from having a positive welcoming community experience by quickly auto-deleting their WIP stubs or moving them into esoteric red-taped namespaced processes nobody knows how to navigate. It's a deeply unwelcoming environment for new users, especially young people. I'd love to see an age profile of the population of frequent editors.
by detaro | 2025-09-05 09:03:27+00:00
They could, if you wouldn't have to expect them to make hidden mistakes that a learner isn't able to spot. Using an LLM when you are qualified to verify its output is one thing, but a learner often can not do that or only with extreme difficulty, making them unsuitable.

Especially with math, most LLMs will happy explain to you a "proof" for something that isn't proven or known false.
by simonw | 2025-09-05 09:03:42+00:00
I agree that AI companies do all sorts of shady stuff to accumulate training data. See Anthropic's recent lawsuit which I covered here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/24/anthropic-training/

That's why I care so much about differentiating between the shady stuff that they DO and the stuff that they don't. Saying "we will obey your robots.txt file" and lying about it is a different category of shady. I care about that difference.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-05 09:03:58+00:00
It's funny because I had my first encounter with one last week and my first reaction when I realised it was a robot was "let me talk to a human".

I am mostly ok talking to a bot for FAQ still queries but I just don't want to interact with a machine when things are going wrong. I want someone with actual empathy even if they refuse to use it.
by JeanKage | 2025-09-05 09:04:08+00:00
This document presents a comprehensive overview on the use of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture in the European context. It showcases the current state of the art of innovations categorising them by their Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs), ranging from fully deployed systems to early-stage research, and explores their potential to enhance productivity, sustainability, and resilience in farming.
by kstrauser | 2025-09-05 09:04:12+00:00
Tencent scrapers are hitting my little Forgejo site 4 times a second, 24/7. I pay for that bandwidth. Platitudes sound great, but this isn’t a lofty “drinking from the public well”. This is bastard operators taking a drink and pooping in it.

My thoughts will have more room for nuance when they stop abusing the hell out of my resources they’re “borrowing”.
by domagor | 2025-09-05 09:05:06+00:00
I have been working on Calendarco for quite some time now, mainly because I use it myself. When I realised other people might make some use of it, I decided to publish it.

About the app, it has 2 main features:

- Batch QR code/.ics file event sharing - https://imgur.com/a/eBoTj46 - create events, export them, share them. Share either via QR code (shown in linked video) or as .ics file. Both of these methods should work on all platforms which use Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Calendar, Proton Calendar and fair amount of other popular calendar apps.

- Extract event or batch events from image - https://imgur.com/a/AexGQbw - take a photo / choose from gallery / paste from clipboard, and let ChatGPT extract events for you. You can import them and edit them.

You can combine these two features too - extract events from images and share them using QR code.

QR Code sharing and extracting events from image are paid features, since they can produce some cost at scale. Rest is free for use.

Try it here https://apps.apple.com/app/calendarco-event-scanner/id650471...

Please let me know what you think!
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-05 09:05:21+00:00
If you think this is what puts you off EVs, then you haven't read the horror stories from EV Clinic.

TL;DR is many EVs and hybrids (especially European ones) have tonnes of design faults with e-motors and power-electronics that not only make them ticking time bombs(not in the explosive sense) out of warranty, but also have malicious DRM making third party parts impossible to source, and repairs difficult and eye watering expensive even if theoretically EVs should be more reliable on paper than ICE cars.

Maybe the EU should focus more on EV/auto repairability regulations instead of smartphones and USB-C widgets.

Luckily EV Clinic is working hard on breaking the DRM and reverse engineering parts to make and sell aftermarket ones, but this shouldn't be needed in the first place if the OEMs weren't so bad at design, greedy and hostile to consumers and aftermarket repairs.

Seriously, we need regulations here ASAP. The free market doesn't work here for the consumer when OEMs all do the same anti consumer things.
by guepe | 2025-09-05 09:05:28+00:00
This is completely avoided and not my experience. This is only because the leaf is not actively cooled. Most ev do not suffer from such difficult management of battery and have a computer dedicated to cool / heat and keep battery in healthy temps.

They do degrade over time but very, very slowly. Absolutely not like phones. Mine has 25k miles and zero degradation yet.
by mdhb | 2025-09-05 09:05:40+00:00
For what it’s worth, I’m half way through writing a RDF library at the moment and I get what you are saying in an abstract / first impression sense but it all made sense and wasn’t a huge pain to work with in practice.

I just think that the idea of how to represent knowledge graphs is a topic that has hidden complexities in it that you need to make explicit.

My impression is that the mismatch comes from you get introduced to the idea of a triple just being a “subject, predicate and and object” and it’s incredibly simple but again, real life knowledge representation is a complicated thing and there’s a bit to unpack beyond that first impression.
by kccqzy | 2025-09-05 09:06:30+00:00
> they shouldn't do 16 on a 15A circuit but it seems like some do

There are 20A 120V circuits too! Called NEMA 5-20, one of its prongs is rotated. You plug that into a receptacle where one of the slots is T-shaped instead of straight. And it's standard practice for EVs to draw 80% of the maximum current, so 16A it is. I see this plug in larger machines in the office, like a large photocopier or a large vacuum.
by istjohn | 2025-09-05 09:06:52+00:00
Slightly off-topic, but recently I had the thought that it would be fun to implement a hook-and-loop system with the hooks and loops made from heavy guage wire embedded in concrete or welded to steel. Could such a system be strong enough to lift hundreds of tons? Perhaps it could be used to rapidly assemble military infrastructure like bridges or defensive structures--literally velcro the pieces together.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-09-05 09:07:48+00:00
Spotify isn’t setting a market price, so I’m not sure what your argument is here.

Setting a market price means a band in really high demand can charge X dollars but a new band, that isn’t well known and doesn’t have high demand could charge X/4 dollars.

Spotify OTOH, charges exactly the same price to the user no matter what song they listen to, and the price is “Monthly cost/number of songs listened to”. Unsurprisingly, instead of leading to the promotion and creation of a whole new set of bands, which is what the democratization of tools and knowledge of music through the internet should have led to, this has instead led to consolidation because the removal of the market price and setting a flat structure means people continue to flock towards the songs that are perceived to be the highest value, ie the most popular stuff.
by HPsquared | 2025-09-05 09:08:39+00:00
They tend to handle better than ICE cars due to the low centre of mass (also the fact the big mass - the battery - is firmly bolted to the frame and not wobbling around on rubber mounts like an engine does). These are both big advantages in terms of dynamics. Couple that with the much faster powertrain response and many options to do torque vectoring to each wheel (individual motors on sports models) and it's an easy win for EVs. Then we get to the potential for fan-assisted downforce (e.g. McMurtry Spéirling) and it's even more blatant. ICEs are still better at endurance, though.
by sceptic123 | 2025-09-05 09:11:44+00:00
That isn't how Spotify distributes their revenue

> Contrary to what you might have heard, Spotify does not pay artist royalties according to a per-play or per-stream rate; the royalty payments that artists receive might vary according to differences in how their music is streamed or the agreements they have with labels or distributors.

From here: https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/understanding...
by rozab | 2025-09-05 09:11:54+00:00
After I set up a self hosted git forge a little while ago, I found that within minutes it immediately got hammered by OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. They were extremely aggressive, grabbing every individual file from every individual commit, one at a time.

I hadn't backlinked the site anywhere and was just testing, so I hadn't thought to put up a robots.txt. They must have found me through my cert registration.

After I put up my robots.txt (with explicit UA blocks instead of wildcards, I heard some ignore them), I found after a day or so the scraping stopped completely. The only ones I get now are vulnerability scanners, or random spiders taking just the homepage.

I know my site is of no consequence, but for those claiming OpenAI et al ignore robots.txt I would really like to see some evidence. They are evil and disrespectful and I'm gutted they stole my code for profit, but I'm still sceptical of these claims.

Cloudflare have done lots of work here and have never mentioned crawlers ignoring robots.txt:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/control-content-use-for-ai-train...
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-05 09:12:35+00:00
Limiting QC events is easy enough. A daily commuter vehicle can easily trickle charge over night, and even the measly 40 kWh old used Leaf can get you 200km a charge - assuming an average commute of 20 km for Germany, that's a whole work week worth of battery life. The only time you as an average person actually "need" QC is for the yearly vacation road trip, but as the author writes, renting an ICE or chungus electric vehicle for that occasion is way more cost effective. Admitted: if you don't have access to trickle charge at either the workplace or your home, the situation looks different.

As for the battery health rating, it's easy enough to measure. Go on the highway, keep it at 80 km/h straight and note how much range you get out of it. In practical commute settings, range will be longer than that anyway due to regenerative braking in all that start-stop-start-stop dance.
by ywxdcgnz | 2025-09-05 09:12:59+00:00
Ha, you haven't seen the add-on upgrade list:

Knee pain simulator simulating knee problems (1 pair of knee wraps with build-in stimulus elements, incl. bag) 200,00

Kyphosis simulator simulating a hunchback (1 hip belt, 1 neck strap and 1 walking stick, incl. bag) 190,00

COPD simulator simulating shortness of breath (1 rib bandage and 1 adjustable nose clip, incl. cleaning set and bag) 170,00

Tremor simulator simulating trembling hands (2 pairs of gloves in 2 sizes and 1 control unit, incl. bag) 160,00

Tinnitus simulator simulating ringing in the ears (8 tinnitus sounds as MP3 files, free download as part of an order) 0,00

Simulation glasses simulating 6 eye diseases (6 different pairs of glasses in a box) 230,00

Hemiparesis simulator simulating a unilateral paralysis (set of 7 matched components, incl. bag) 390,00

Back pain simulator simulating back problems (set of 2 simulators in 2 sizes, incl. bag) 490,00

And my brain hurts just reading this at no extra cost. I'm going out for a walk now, take a deep breath, soak it all in and enjoy it while it lasts...

https://www.age-simulation-suit.com/download/Price_list.pdf
by jillesvangurp | 2025-09-05 09:13:23+00:00
Electric Vehicle Man on Youtube did a review of a 2000 pound second hand Renault Zoe that he picked up a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEvwtxGeVpQ

The second hand market for EVs is getting pretty interesting. There are lots of EV owners that are replacing their EVs every few years and because of all the growth over the last 10 years, there are now quite a few fairly nice EVs on the second hand market. Many are typically still under drive train warranty. For example, the model 3 has only been on the market for about eight years and it came with eight years of warranty on the drive train. So, most of the second hand ones would still be under warranty. And most of the EV market only started growing after that. So this is true for many second hand EVs.

And car batteries don't seem to spontaneously stop working right after the warranty expires either. So the risk is fairly low. They'll eventually degrade. But if you can pick up a car for a few thousand and then drive it for another 5-10 years, who cares? The fuel savings alone pay for the car after just a few years. Add the savings on maintenance and you are basically in the plus.
by Bairfhionn | 2025-09-05 09:13:43+00:00
My Problem was always the Range Anxiety.

Until I got an EV and realized it's not really an issue. There is always an App for that (and even on my car the software gets improved in that regard).

Infrastructure is getting better, even companies starting to see it as a benefit to have cheap/free chargers at their offices to get people back.

I see more and more electric trucks on the roads. It feels good.
by Popeyes | 2025-09-05 09:14:49+00:00
What is this war about?

I was looking at another thread about how Wikipedia was the best thing on the internet. But they only got the head start by taking copy of Encyclopedia Britannica and everything else is a

And now the corpus is collected, what difference does a blog post make, does it nudge the dial to comprehension 0.001% in a better direction? How many blog posts over how many weeks makes the difference.
by masklinn | 2025-09-05 09:15:25+00:00
> Lack of standards: For 'L3' DC Fast Charging, the Leaf has a CHAdeMO port. Teslas and many newer EVs have NACS. Then there's CCS1 and CCS2. And charging stations are run by multiple vendors with multiple apps and payment methods. It's not like gas stations, like with Shell, BP, Buckee's, etc. where you just drive up, stick the gas nozzle in your tank, and squeeze.

Afaik in Europe, CCS2 is the standard (and mandatory these days), when I rented an EV a few weeks back there was no location which didn’t have it. And all the spots I tried charging at except Tesla accepted card payment (though there were a pair of times it was a struggle getting a card to work).

Apps / memberships will get you cheaper prices but that’s about all I saw (and I didn’t bother with any of it).

TBH the only things that annoyed me were implementation issues of the car (a polestar 4) as well as how overly wide it is. And that the rental company (AVIS) does not provide an AC adapter, so I was not able to charge at any wallplug even though I had the opportunity to charge the car at least twice over in all (I will likely purchase one if that remains their policy and I rent more EVs).

All this is modulo it being summer and a pretty long range model so range anxiety was present but reasonably limited.
by tpm | 2025-09-05 09:18:18+00:00
It's in the first two sentences of the previous post, I just didn't feel the need to repeat it for the third time.

Moreover, I would withdraw from the occupied territories and respect Palestinian statehood both de iure and de facto, not as a consequence of the Hamas attack, but well before that. In other words, implement the two-state solution. This makes lasting peace possible.

Of course Israel is doing and will be doing the exact opposite of that, because they want the whole Palestinian territory for themselves, so there will be no peace until they achieve that. And possibly not even then, because expansive nationalism knows no bounds and always fights for enlarging the lebensraum.
by ncruces | 2025-09-05 09:18:47+00:00
Untrusted database file is not the same as untrusted SQL input.

There are parts of the SQL engine that are exposed to malicious file manipulation (the schema is stored as SQL DDL text) but that's not arbitrary SQL input.

If you want to highlight an inconsistency, this is way more worrying:

> “All historical vulnerabilities reported against SQLite require at least one of these preconditions: (…) 2. The attacker can submit a maliciously crafted database file to the application that the application will then open and query. Few real-world applications meet either of these preconditions…”

However, most of the rest of the page is speaking of arbitrary SQL input, not purposely broken database files.
by noisy_boy | 2025-09-05 09:19:04+00:00
When google came around it took me about 10 minutes to figure out how to use it. Further when I saw things in the search results that didn't make sense or were plainly wrong, I had the pre-gpogle critical faculty to question things.

Do you think we are helping K-12 students by letting AI doing hallucinated thinking for them? What incredible "AI skills" will they be missing out on if we restrict the exposure? How to type things in a text box and adjust your question until you get what you want?
by nicce | 2025-09-05 09:21:54+00:00
> It's really old.

Funny, how 2 years old car is really old. For combustion engines, old is like 15+?

EVs will have the same problems as mobile phones. Maybe manufactures want that. But software will define the age of your car and I don’t like it. What if the car requires internet connection and the company dies?
by Levitz | 2025-09-05 09:21:57+00:00
>I've also come to the slow realisation that this may be a fundamentally unsolvable problem & that simply categorising it as "biased beyond repair" & continuing to handle it in that manner may be the best thing we can do.

Is it a case of rot then? Or maybe I'm just biased, but I get the feel it wasn't always like this. It was never ideal, sure, but it used to be that I was wary of the site when checking, say, contemporary politics. Now it's a good chunk of recorded history instead.