MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by balamatom | 2025-09-23 12:11:38+00:00
Sounds about right, until the reality check. How often do you raise the problem of the incommunicability of qualia outside hacker news? With what purpose? How often does that conversation accomplish its purpose?

You know, I've always figured, if our culture was based on an epistemic fundament that acknowledged and properly accounted for the fundamental incommunicability of percepts, it probably would've been a better world. (One where it's much easier for everyone to communicate accurately and effectively; as people would not expect of themselves and of each other to be "objective", just verbalize their current understandings as best as they could, without stressing too much over how understanding can only ever be subjective and incomplete.)

Some of us do envision such a world, but instead find ourselves living in a planetary culture based on the very rejection of the exact distinction that you're trying to point out. Turns out Cartesian dualism offers a lot of leeway along the "is-ought" axis, huh. (Qui bono, et sapienti sat.)

Enough to make the generally accepted standard for "objectively right" to be "the house is always right". (Supposedly, a supermajority of objects does not a subject make - or vice versa. And yet post-Enlightenment history is rife with efforts to scientifically desubjectify subjects in the service of some objectively rational philosopher king.)

And yet it seems to work well enough for most prosocials, you don't see them complaining, now do they? (What's a little mass neurosis between civilized folk?) I think it's safe to say that a member of the general public is cognizant of the labels they've been accultured to, at least to the same extent as they're aware of the physical reality which surrounds them. (If not vastly more so, physical reality being the more predictable of the two.)

This would mean that they have not actually experienced the quale of "incommunicable, inaccessible between humans [qualia]" and therefore the distinction you're trying to point out here is not in fact something they are able to think about; only perhaps to construct sentences about it by example, much like a LLM or a(n M)BA does.

As I'm sure you already know your own subjective version of most of the above, but I'm guessing you maybe view it more like a problematic to be struggled with, rather than a natural paradox and absurdity deserving of a more playful approach, I'd totally leave the celestial color coordination (along with all the worrying about whether people get it) to you - you, personally, and certainly none of the other folks. Not in the least because agreeing with people on how colors are called does not seem to be inherently conducive to being able to fly.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-23 12:11:41+00:00
ASML just makes the steppers. The EUV secret sauce is made by Cymer in the US and uses US R&D licensed of Sandia Labs. US can always retract the EUV license and sell the Cymer light sources to Canon or Nikon if they wish. ASML has no EU golden goose of its own that's why it has to obey US rules and policies.
by lycopodiopsida | 2025-09-23 12:11:43+00:00
I am one of the later subscribers, but I was subscribing for 16 EUR/y, when they've bumped the subscription to eye-watering 45 EUR. So far they have respected the deal and I am still paying the initial amount.

I am sympathetic with author, but unfortunately it is also one, if not the best podcast app technically. It has this 0-bullshit UI which does what you expect without enforcing some maddening organization patterns (Castro) of fancy UI with hilarious amount of bugs (looking at you, Overcast).

It has the "mark as played" button, also in car play.

It is the only one I've found capable to pull the episode on Apple Watch over network, instead of relying on pre-caching from phone app.

I would be very sad if PocketCasts goes out of business.

P.S.: I checked and it seems that Overcast also has cellular streaming on AW - I need to test it again.
by myrmidon | 2025-09-23 12:11:44+00:00
> We are rationally scared that, once enough well-off people have switched to EVs, this market share will be used as an excuse to stop poor people from driving their petrol or diesel cars.

I don't think that is rational at all. Have you ever looked at vintage car regulations in Europe? There are none, basically-- if your car is old enough, neither accident nor emission mitigation/prevention are required at all.

Why would you expect that this is going to change?
Ask HN: What type of CRM re u using?
by orbanlevi | 2025-09-23 12:11:53+00:00
I’m getting a bit fed up that there are a bunch of CRM systems, but I can’t tell which one to choose. Each of them tries to sell itself with something, there are new-generation ones and old veterans that have grown a bit too big. I can’t believe there isn’t a proper comparison where I can pick the features that matter to me and make a decision based on that. Not to mention that ever since, I’ve only been getting ads about CRMs.

I need a CRM within a small team 10-50, collecting informations about leads and manage emails / leads in one place. Reporting and analytics. Nice to have if has automation or workflows and can send marketing emails from them.
by seiferteric | 2025-09-23 12:11:56+00:00
The whole thing is a joke but presented in a serious manner. The idea is that if you know your program input at compile time you can turn everything into a constexpr which gets evaluated at compile time so your program is "ran" by the compiler instead of at run time. So he built a "runtime" that is actually ran by the compiler around this idea for fun.
by thephyber | 2025-09-23 12:11:59+00:00
For clarity: The post is about a server running a 3rd party docker image of qbittorrent.

But there’s no evidence presented that it was hotio’s docker image on GCHR which was compromised, and there is reason to believe it might be an older, vulnerable version of qbittorrent in the docker image which was compromised.

The vulnerability: (credit crtasm)

https://torrentfreak.com/qbittorrent-web-ui-exploited-to-min...
by pama | 2025-09-23 12:12:11+00:00
I agree. A partial counterexample is the RL training loop on verifiable tasks, which uses the model in a loop to generate training data. Another one is the cleanup/prioritization of the pretraining data using earlier models.

More generally, a lot of ideas have been speculated based on very tiny models in controlled settings and they didnt pan out in real LLMs. There probably exists a minimal compute threshold for overcoming generalization traps.
by 542354234235 | 2025-09-23 12:12:25+00:00
>Sanctions have a theoretical basis behind them. In the Western Political Philosophical Canon, leaders and elites are expected to strive for the Common Good.

I would say it is a bit more realpolitik than that. An "Evil" leader doesn't care about the common good, but all leaders need subordinates to carry out their orders, security forces to carry out their rules, etc. Sanctions are meant to put pressure on all those people. So either A; the leader changes their actions so as not to risk losing the people that turn their will into action, or B; those subordinates put someone else in charge that will play ball.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-23 12:12:27+00:00
The OP brought in domains as an example but domains are not applicable.

Everybody on HN should know how a domain works. I think most people on HN understand what a hash is and how a magnet link works. The fact that you can't easily replace the resource under a magnet link is a feature not a bug. If you think for a bit about the consequences of what would happen if you could easily replace the resources associated with a magnet link rather than just having the 'convenience of being able to update a torrent' and you'll see that this is not a simple thing at all.

Torrents are simply a different thing than 'the web' and to try to equate the one to the other is about as silly as trying to say that you can't use a screwdriver to put nails in the wall. They're different things. Analogies are supposed to be useful, not a demonstration of your complete lack of understanding of the underlying material.

I distribute some software that I wrote using a torrent with a magnet link, so I'm well aware of the limitations there, but these limitations are exactly why I picked using a torrent in the first place.
by OJFord | 2025-09-23 12:12:57+00:00
It's interesting though isn't it, because if she contracts someone good, the ghostwriter does an excellent job of imitating her style, then really you do get exactly what you wanted? I don't like the idea of it either, fwiw, but it's hard to rationalise.

(But then why stop there, have the estate of the esteemed author go on contracting ghostwriters! Does it only work if you keep the death a secret, or would a licensed P.G. Wodehouse ghostwriter do as well today as if he were a recluse and never proclaimed dead?)
by vessenes | 2025-09-23 12:13:16+00:00
Question - anyone here have one of those “most popular” VWs? The article says they’re called id.3 id.5 and id.7. I’ve ridden in an e-Golf (California compliance car basically), but not the newer ones. The e-Golf did not impress, so I’m curious if the new ones are any good; range, noise, fit and finish, basically.
by graynk | 2025-09-23 12:13:25+00:00
> Yes, in the literal narrow sense, there is no such thing in the submitted article

Therefore your analogy is invalid, because your example is doing something entirely different and throws away nested structs that the whole thing is about.

> The point is that the exhibited behaviour is unintuitive, in contrast to what the others are saying.

Why?

> Did I get that right?

No. Let's stick to the original example and add the order of operations from your example.

type A struct { X string } type Nested struct { X string } type B struct { Nested } type Combined struct { A B } c := Combined{} c.X = "example.com" c.Nested.X = "something completely different" fmt.Println(c.X)

Do you still expect this to print "something completely different" or does this look intuitive now?

The unintuitive part is that this works in the first place and doesn't throw an error:

type Combined struct { //A B } c := Combined{} //c.X = "example.com" c.Nested.X = "something completely different" fmt.Println(c.X)

But if you know about this unintuitive feature and are relying on it instead of accessing the fields by their fully qualified names, then you should already have a gnawing feeling that asks you "what happens when there are conflicts?" (and the answer is - it does the intuitive thing)
by storus | 2025-09-23 12:13:50+00:00
I think it's more like that before only Tesla had working lane following system on highways that allowed one to do mostly hands-free driving during long drives but nowadays even the cheapest KIA has it working well so no need to spend extra money on Tesla. I know working-class EU folks driving Teslas who couldn't care less about any perceived toxicity of the brand typical for German green party voting snobs.
by maelito | 2025-09-23 12:14:13+00:00
Well that's a problem.

But I believe you're wrong. Lots of startups tackle old problems and succeed.

The best example would be Alan, for health insurance. They're a startup in a traditional field dominated by half-a-century players.

Indy is another example : enterprise accounting is very old. It wasn't industrial, now it is, online.

Decathlon's bikes did destroy old players of this field.

Mistral crushed every French decade-old IT companies in the LLM domain. Etc.
by dominicrose | 2025-09-23 12:14:17+00:00
As someone who dislikes clutter, in my experience it's just easier to read and write with these languages: Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, Javascript, Smalltalk.

If you dare leave the safety of a compiler you'll find that Sublime Merge can still save you when rewriting a whole part of an app. That and manual testing (because automatic testing is also clutter).

If you think it's more professional to have a compiler I'd like to agree but then why did I run into a PHP job when looking for a Typescript one? Not an uncommon unfolding of events.
by prmoustache | 2025-09-23 12:14:39+00:00
> US made cars had the reputation of being low quality, too big, too heavy and too inefficient for european cities. Tesla was somewhat different.

How so? Tesla doesn't produce a compact car by any european standard. Their smallest car, the Model 3, is the same size of a VW Caddy, an utilitary/7s seat Family VAN, bigger than a more refined VW Touran, another 7 seater family van or the popular VW Tiguan, a large (by euro standards) SUV.
by fnordian_slip | 2025-09-23 12:14:44+00:00
I bought an aranet 4, it's quite eye opening how you sometimes get a lot of CO2 buildup without even noticing.

I mostly solve any issues with VOC by "Stosslueften", but if that's not enough because the air quality outside is too bad, a CR box is an effective, easy to build and almost perfectly silent design, especially if you do it with decent quality pc fans.
by orwin | 2025-09-23 12:14:56+00:00
I agree with the spirit of your comment, but I disagree on the first sentence. If EV were 1% of all sales, a 26% increase would be very low indeed. A 26% increase when you have 20% of a stable market is basically a company getting from a fifth of the market to a fourth, in a year. That's _absolutely_ a surge. Increase 5% of your market share is crazy high.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-09-23 12:15:05+00:00
> EU in practice serves no other function but to deindustrialize Europe and make it entirely dependent on the US, but even more so, China and Russia.

If EU is doing something, and what it is doing is resulting in the deindustrializing EU and making EU dependent on Russia and China ... that is the entirety of my claim.

You could say that it's not in China's interest to have EU dependent on it, maybe, that is a pretty wild claim, but maybe. But we have seen how dependence on despotic powers has worked out with Russia, and it has not gone swimmingly.

China is also incidentally one of the biggest buyers of Russian gas today. All the gas that Europe no longer buys from Russia goes to China on the cheap so they can further undercut European industry.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-23 12:15:37+00:00
Regarding the Ise Shrine (伊勢神宮), the practice is called Sengū (遷宮) related to preserving mystical spirits, supporting trades, tradition, and respecting the cyclical impermanence of all things.

By contrast, Hōryū Gakumonji (法隆学問寺) is a 1350+ years old wooden structure more closely related to the themes of imported Buddhism long before the shinbutsu bunri (神仏分離) but in Japanese style. There are/were very large buddha figures carved into rock throughout Iran, Afghanistan, China during the Mongol period and also semi-contemporaneously c. ~7th century Japan's Usuki Stone Buddhas (臼杵磨崖仏).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Shrine#Rebuilding_the_Shri...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seng%C5%AB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dry%C5%AB-ji

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinbutsu_bunri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuki_Stone_Buddhas
by MoreQARespect | 2025-09-23 12:15:57+00:00
1. Documentation driven development - write the explanatory docs before the feature or project in markdown.

2. hitchstory for executable tests that generate up-to-date how to docs with screenshots or whatever. I tend to write all how to docs as tests.

3. OpenAPI for API docs. Sometimes I have scripts that generates lists of enums too, etc.

4. Some sort of script that ties all of the above together and generates a documentation artefact on each build.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-23 12:15:58+00:00
In addition, what do you think happens when you do and continue doing what Israel has been doing to Palestine for many, many decades? People are just going to be OK with that? History did not start when Hamas attacked Israel as you would like to believe so. Israel had the option of not breeding violence for decades, too. You should brush up a bit on history and look for cause and effect. :P
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-09-23 12:16:01+00:00
Rome wasn't built in a day.

You have to start somewhere.

26% growth on 20% pace is incredible market share gains in one year for virtually any market or company.

There are no ICE manufacturers reading this news and genuinely saying, "oh wow, who cares, this is nothing, only started at 20%, next."
by vladvasiliu | 2025-09-23 12:16:18+00:00
There was a thread about just this issue another day.

I don't daily drive an MBP anymore, only occasionally. But I had one for a week or so, and once or twice I've noticed that my backlit keyboard still had its lights on, which is unusual when the computer sleeps. The screen was dark, though, so it can be confusing.
by Molitor5901 | 2025-09-23 12:16:27+00:00
There is affordable housing, but it's not where people want to live. I am concerned articles like these support the notion that everyone must live in a bustling metropolis in the heart of everything. The article cites up to $45/night to park an RV. Thirty days is $1350. In Valdosta, Georgia, the average apartment rent is approximately $1,004 per month

Arkansas median rent of $868.

There is affordable housing, even buying, but more publications must get off this notion that everyone must live in Highland Park, or the Castro, or even Midtown Atlanta.
by worksonmine | 2025-09-23 12:16:48+00:00
> Next up: maybe Go will discover gdb integration and we can debug like it's 1999

That's already possible and documented[1]. I don't understand if you're sarcastic though, what's wrong with GDB? I use it in vim :termdebug and I wish all languages had native support for it.

[1]: https://go.dev/doc/gdb
by rhubarbtree | 2025-09-23 12:17:09+00:00
Unsure if sarcasm or genuine.

This reminds of silly lines like “all tax is theft”.

It’s hard to even counter such absurdities.

I think you’ll find education, infrastructure, the financial system - those small things governments create and maintain - are somewhat essential to having a society that enables companies to exist. I don’t really know what else to say.
by nilkn | 2025-09-23 12:17:32+00:00
If you truly think the team responsible for this made a bad call, you need to go look at all the data they collected. Otherwise, yes, you're just sharing a couple anecdotes, and that is problematic and can't be brushed off or ignored. While it's possible that the people integrating the service just ignored negative feedback and are apparently pathological liars (as you accuse them of being), it's also possible that it's actually you who is ignoring most of the data and being disingenuous or manipulative about it. You are demonstrating a lot of paranoid, antagonistic thinking about a team that might just have a broader good-faith perspective than you do.
by coldpie | 2025-09-23 12:17:48+00:00
That switches between apps, not windows. Open two browser windows and two terminals. Try to switch between one terminal and one browser without bringing all the other windows to the fore. You can't do it.

Windows (and most Unix WMs, I don't know where it actually originated) style alt-tab maintains a stack of recent windows. So you can hit alt-tab repeatedly to swap between the two most recent, or hit alt-tab-tab-tab to bring up only the 4th most recent window, etc.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-09-23 12:17:55+00:00
Because EU is what it is - not a country. There are no EU companies, EU technologies, EU universities etc.

Moreover, EU is a child of US hegemony. It was created because of this hegemony (US was actively helping create EU), it existed because of this hegemony and global order enforced by it, and now there is big chance it will dissolve because hegemony is gone, and with it the world that gave birth to EU.

The other alternative would be to change the nature of EU towards centralization or federation, but no member state will go with it.

Contrary to some claims, EU main problems were not industry or economy, even though they suffered from the same neoliberal virus that destroyed US. Problems always were, and will be, political.
by rob74 | 2025-09-23 12:18:13+00:00
Not sure about Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, but for the many European aircraft companies that first cooperated under the Airbus name and then (much later) merged into a single company, there wasn't really an alternative (unless you consider bankruptcy an alternative). Even in the late 1960s, when the original A300 was designed, that task was more expensive than any individual European manufacturer could shoulder, and without a new product, they would have quickly faded into irrelevance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Airbus#1970%E2%80%9...
by wok4899 | 2025-09-23 12:18:23+00:00
With the SSH/NPM supply chain attack, we all live in fear now. It just need one very smart person to deploy such hack. I'm not saying hotio did something, all I am saying that with new information, we all should check our deployment. Along with OP I'm affected, where I never have exposed the docker to world ever.

So we should not deny the possibility of something off here.
by james_marks | 2025-09-23 12:18:24+00:00
Perhaps pedantic, but "prepared mind" includes your meaning. Prepared may mean being equipped with a skill that meets the moments, but flexibility, acceptance and optimism are also skills of a prepared mind.

It's why the quote has survived since 1854.

> "dans les champs de l'observation, le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés" ("In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur
by ffsm8 | 2025-09-23 12:18:32+00:00
Can you tell me an example where this has a difference in behaviour?

Basically somewhere that source would not behave as you wanted?

I'm also uncertain what you mean wrt a binary. A binary will only have the environment variables available to the shell it's executed in - or do you mean that you'd also want it to inherit variables the binary itself might read from disk via .env files or similar?
by storus | 2025-09-23 12:18:41+00:00
They had camera-only tech employing multiple 4k cameras running at over 2000fps. Not your grandma's 480p/25fps webcam many car manufacturers use as parking cameras. 2000fps gives you enormous safety margin even in case of individual frame misdetection. The long-tail issues they hit are present on LiDAR vehicles as well but LiDAR is much slower, more difficult to process and sensor fusion adds its own errors.
by woodpeck | 2025-09-23 12:18:45+00:00
Speaking as the person running it - introducing API keys would not be a big deal, we do this for a couple paid services already. But speaking as a person frequently wanting to download free stuff from somewhere, I absolutely hate having to "set up an account" just to download something once. I started that server well over a decade ago (long before I started the business that now houses it); the goal has always been first and foremost to make access to OSM data as straightforward as possible. I fear that having to register would deter many a legitimate user.
by seanalltogether | 2025-09-23 12:18:50+00:00
I don't know anything about Tesla cars or how good they are, and I don't know anything about BYD cars or how good they are. But I can say that 4 door BYD cars are advertised around here for less then £20,000. While 4 door Teslas appear to start around £40,000. That's a pretty big difference when considering a first time electric car.
by gruez | 2025-09-23 12:18:51+00:00
>Because while you can technically vote for president, senate, congress who have some say over that on your behalf, you still don't really decide anything.

Even if there was a referendum in the US on whether to drone strike alleged drug traffickers or whatever, it's still a stretch to blame all Americans (with "your" language), because it's there's still a good chance that a given American visitor didn't actually vote for it.
by Molitor5901 | 2025-09-23 12:18:53+00:00
It's because they're not looking for a place just to live, they want a place where they want to live. Otherwise RVs would be parked all over America, instead of just in downtowns and other urban areas. Everyone wants to live in the Noe Valley and walk to the Whole Foods, but space, and supply and demand make that simply impossible without absolute government control of housing.