MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by duxup | 2025-10-30 14:47:14+00:00
> We’re at the very, very early stages of services we can have on a vehicle to improve the overall customer experience and make the journey smoother.

We are not at early stages of anything.

For a LONG TIME cars have sucked at producing the kind of interfaces (and even services) that CarPlay and Android Auto have provided. I have zero patience for the idea that "well we're just getting into it" when the competing technology has been good for a long time and car manufacture provided interfaces have been GARBAGE that entire time and we as consumers have SEEN it.

Car makers aren't short on money or resources or new to computers ... they're just bad at this, no excuses.

Rental car without car play would be dead to me.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-10-30 14:47:17+00:00
> And in JS, s * n and n * s return NaN for any non empty string s and any number n ("" * n returns 0).

No? It is easy to verify that `"3" * 4` evaluates to 12. The full answer is that * converts its operands into primitives (with a hint of being number), and any string that can be parsed as a number converts to that number. Otherwise it converts to NaN.
by Herring | 2025-10-30 14:47:32+00:00
I"m not sure I agree with the setup. He's weighting clutter types based on his personal experience, eg a newsstand (=3) is weighted 20 times higher than a tree (=0.15). It's very subjective, and like the model implies a desolate empty parking lot with no trees is somehow ideal. Important factors like urban vitality, utility, or aesthetic quality are not quantified so easily.

If you want to see well-designed cities, look at Europe. Helsinki has both deep integration with nature, and high-quality public services. Denmark does very well with cycling, which improves public health and noise and air quality. Etc. I like to focus on countries that rank highly on the World Happiness Report, and try figure out what they're doing right.
by businessmate | 2025-10-30 14:47:34+00:00
The age of single-engine reasoning is over. Today’s leading models—GPT-5 (OpenAI), Claude 4 Opus (Anthropic), Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google DeepMind), Grok 4 (xAI), Llama 4 (Meta AI), and DeepSeek V3.1—rarely operate alone. They are combined, orchestrated, and routed through layers of retrieval augmentation, policy arbitration, and tool integration. When users interact with assistants like Perplexity, Copilot, or ChatGPT, their queries may traverse several models before a single sentence is generated. Each hop can change which brands appear—or vanish—from the final answer.
by dcow | 2025-10-30 14:48:08+00:00
Interesting I’d never picked up on this pedantic subtlety. I too thought reified meant what you could do at the call site not what you could do at runtime. Was my understanding wrong, or is Gemini hallucinating.

In any event, you have to use weird (I think “unsafe”) reflection tricks to get the type info back at runtime in Java. To the point where it makes you think it’s not supported by the language design but rather a clever accident that someone figured out how to abuse.
by znpy | 2025-10-30 14:48:09+00:00
Reminds me of about ten years ago when a large media customer was running NetApp on cloud to get most of what you just wrote on AWS (because EBS features sucked/sucks very bad and are also crazy expensive).

I did not set that up myself, but the colleague that worked on that told me that enabling tcp multipath for iscsi yielded significant performance gains.
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-30 14:48:15+00:00
Probably some but those old towers were not VoIP capable and the handsets are no longer sold. I doubt there's many around.

The voicemail card was basically an 8088 and i think still used floppies IIRC. I didn't work with them directly but I used symposium heavily as an admin (symposium was the callcenter solution)
by thw_9a83c | 2025-10-30 14:48:41+00:00
No, I didn't get it wrong. The moment Apple stops supporting to run x86_64 binaries on ARM (M) CPUs, everyone including Apple will stop making Universal Binaries. Because (among other reasons, like lack of motivation) there will be no easy way to test the x86_64 part of the binary. The Intel MacOS era will be over. Just 5 year after Apple sold the last Intel-based Mac Pro.
by xmcqdpt2 | 2025-10-30 14:49:39+00:00
In my experience NFS is always the wrong thing to use.

Your application think it's a normal disk but it isn't, so you get no timeouts, no specific errors for network issues and extremely expensive calls camouflage as quick FS ops (was any file modified in this folder ? I'll just loop over them using my standard library nice FS utilities). And you don't get atomic ops outside of mv, invalidation and caching are complicated and your developers probably don't know the semantics of FS operations, which are much more complex and less well documented than eg Redis blob storage.

And then when you finally rip out NFS, you have thousands of lines of app and test code that assumes your blobs are on a disk in subtle ways.
by kobalsky | 2025-10-30 14:49:48+00:00
why would you go through the trouble of doing SSR on a user profile form?

it's not needed for SEO, caching it is pointless, the server won't render it faster than the client so you are not speeding up anything.

what's the point of complicating anything about it? seems that at least some of their suffering is a self-inflicted wound, maybe the author just picked a bad example.
by a-french-anon | 2025-10-30 14:50:13+00:00
Preface: I'm going to sound quite harsh by changing scales, so put your tough skin on before continuing.

This is certainly worse for the individual, but at society scale, the cost being the obvious devaluation of willpower is way too high. Way too high because everything good in that society was built almost exclusively by driven and strong-willed individuals.
by beej71 | 2025-10-30 14:50:14+00:00
Very interesting!

In contrast, I think for me a tremendous part of the joy I get from reading science fiction is knowing there's another inventive human on the other side of the page. When I know what I'm reading is the result of a mechanical computation, it loses that.

But the real noodle-bender for me is would I still enjoy the book if I didn't know?
by BurningFrog | 2025-10-30 14:50:16+00:00
Empirically, we now get more than 3x the yield per land area than 1960, and the trend is steadily rising (see graph link below).

Your argument is that it can't grow to infinity, which is probably true. But there is nothing indicting we're close to any hard boundaries.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/index-of-cereal-productio...
by falkensmaze66 | 2025-10-30 14:50:17+00:00
That’s interesting, let me tell you how it really is with Iceland when it comes to privacy and regulation, and yeah, the Tor exit node thing comes up a lot.

Is Iceland really a safe haven? No, if someone is operating unsavory activities, it’s Iceland (and Switzerland though their privacy laws are changing soon). No if’s, and’s, or but’s, the terms and conditions on my platform are crystal clear and straightforward. No illegal activity, ever. Local authorities will legally confiscate servers, and foreign law enforcement, hello USA!, will use the Iceland courts to legally compel Icelandic companies and/or citizens.

This has happened to me already. Everything was legal and aboveboard. They walked in, seized it all, gave me no explanation (I actually had to get the court order directly from the Icelandic police), and the returned it after forensic imaging a few days later. Meanwhile, I’d already spun the primary services up from backups elsewhere. I wasn't coming back. Ironically, the US pressure is exactly the reason this new product exists.

So I built in some real safeguards. There’s a public Law Enforcement Guide, standard practice if you’re serious about privacy. Every host is fully encrypted now. Grab the whole server? Good luck. They get nothing unless they bring a proper court order for a specific IP or customer. Blanket seizures just waste everyone’s time and screw over legit users.

And port 25? Blocked by default. Spammers ruin it for everyone. But if a customer has a real reason and explains it, I’ll open it up.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-30 14:50:30+00:00
> A non-profit Microsoft is just as susceptible to cooptation by a hostile foreign government as a for-profit organization.

Why did Microsoft follow the orders of the president, if it wasn't because they're afraid of payback in terms of "something that leads to us loosing money"?

Money perverse the actions of the for-profit companies, as suddenly you have someone like Tim Cook giving gifts to the president, as the survival of his company depends on a specific person having a good view of them personally.

If neither of these companies were so hellbent on doing everything they can for profit, and instead focused on providing reliable, trustworthy and user-focused services, they wouldn't have that worry anymore. But of course, this is a pipe-dream and not at all realistic in the current climate.
by Jyaif | 2025-10-30 14:50:33+00:00
> In France it is reported that retirees now have higher (average?) incomes than workers

It may not be exactly true, but it's close to be true, and then like you said the workers have way more expenses (rent, children).

I will point out that in the 90s we in France already knew that the retirement system was unsustainable. It is quite obvious if you look for 2 seconds at the population pyramid :-)

Generations of politicians tried and failed to do something about it, thanks to the left (and sometimes extreme right wing) saying that there was enough money and we just need to tax the rich more.
by 6510 | 2025-10-30 14:50:57+00:00
My thought was that we should develop a good DSL to design pensions. You obviously cant have a formula with more money coming out than going in. Pensions can gradually scale up and down depending on all factors.

It isn't even hard to create. Things currently work like that children's game where each participant has to write the next word in the sentence. No amount of effort or coordination will produce a good novel.
Show HN: Building a Cloud Native Kubernetes Java Client
by mayankd | 2025-10-30 14:51:04+00:00
Started this because configuring Fabric8 for EKS was driving me crazy. Building a client that auto-detects your environment (IAM roles, profiles, local configs) so you don't have to wire it all up manually. Still pretty early and building for EKS right now. Long way to go, but putting it out there early to see if others have hit the same problems or want to help shape where this goes.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-30 14:51:31+00:00
I think uv is one of the best examples of why not to start a new project in Python. I mean, depending on the project really, Python has its place. But if your project is anything like uv, uv proves you can't actually write an app like uv in Python. So for as great as uv is, its proximity to Python is a constant reminder of its shortcomings.
by oofbey | 2025-10-30 14:51:59+00:00
I followed much of this path as well, but with conda (and mamba) in the mix. They all had fairly obvious flaws that uv doesn’t AFAICT.

Poetry was the worst for me. It doesn’t even try to manage the Python distribution, so it’s only a partial solution. It was so slow our CICD would timeout and fail. And I watched the maintainers actively refuse to fix super annoying bugs for YEARS, blaming others for the problem.
by quartz | 2025-10-30 14:52:03+00:00
Agree with a lot of this methodology-- having lived in NYC with kids the #1 contributing factor to a feeling of claustrophobia for me is the size of the sidewalk and its buffering from the road.

Compared to even the suburbs where 1-2 people on a sidewalk can feel like you're dangerously close to having to step into an active roadway, sidewalks in NYC neighborhoods like the upper east side feel gigantic and are bordered by parked cars that provide a buffer to the roadway.

In 1811 the grid plan designated sidewalk widths to be 20ft for major cross-town roads vs. many suburban sidewalk widths at 4-5 feet.

I'm a big fan of this sidewalk width map: https://sidewalkwidths.nyc/
by graphviz | 2025-10-30 14:52:09+00:00
Various tools use tool-specific graph attributes. For example, "rank" and "minlen" mean something to the hierarchical or layered graph layout tool (dot) but not to other layout tools. "size" and "label" are the same in all the layout tools. They all use the same underlying graph representation library with a parser generated by yacc or bison.

The documentation includes a big table of attributes that graphviz tools recognize.

With the availability of LLMs, there is better automated support now to find features that are needed. Just imagining here, but "make the layout fill the available space" or "make all the nodes look like points with associated text labels" (not sure if that even works but it should).
by giantrobot | 2025-10-30 14:52:20+00:00
> we would probably have a number of competing closed platforms instead of a single Internet, with paid services to perform protocol translations between them.

That did exist with the likes of Tymnet and the various Online Services (AOL, CompuServe, etc). The Internet won out over those because it was open, as you alluded to. Internet adoption really exploded with unlimited services rather than ISPs that billed hourly.
by projektfu | 2025-10-30 14:52:33+00:00
It's certainly apocryphal and you have the British version, probably. In the US it is usually Joe Kennedy and a shoeshine boy, and also didn't likely happen. These stories are useful parables, and they serve the purpose of explaining why the smart money didn't get cleaned out when the rubes did.

Still, if a 10 year old had started investing 10% in the market in 1920 and stuck through it during the depression, even with no income coming in at the time, they would have done handsomely through the recovery and into old age. In fact, a middle aged person who had been investing until 1929 would have not been fully cleaned out, and that money would have recovered its value by 1943. Margin was what killed fortunes in the day, so the lesson to learn is to avoid margin for your investment portfolio. (Speculation is a different story).
by perihelions | 2025-10-30 14:52:40+00:00
It's remarkable context that the Russian government authored this UN treaty,

> "Russia, however, Rodriguez said, has objected to the convention for infringing state sovereignty by allowing other nations to investigate cybercrimes in its jurisdiction. So in 2017, Russia proposed negotiating a new treaty, and in 2019 the UN adopted a resolution to do so, backed by Russia, Cambodia, Belarus, China, Iran, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Syria and Venezuela."

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/14/un_cybercrime_treaty/ ("Russia-pushed UN Cybercrime Treaty may rewrite global law. It's ... not great")

> "It was proposed by Russia in 2017 and adopted by the General Assembly in December 2024 amid resistance from human rights organizations"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_agai...
by dpoloncsak | 2025-10-30 14:52:45+00:00
I've recently been setting up a velocity server network for some friends and friends of friends, and I agree with your findings. I don't have much history on Forge vs Paper vs Fabric vs..... (and found it all very overwhelming, honestly) but from what I can tell, the popular sites like modrinth have communities way more focused around Forge/NeoForge.

Paper does seem to have it's own site for plugins, hangar or something? (Don't have my web history on this PC) but the community support doesn't seem nearly as fleshed out.

It is incredible though, before 1.21 the last time I played around with MC server hosting was probably around 1.8 days, when it seemed like you only had Bukkit and a few plugins for it
by foobarian | 2025-10-30 14:52:56+00:00
The thing is, we did have telcos and others provide siloed services. AOL being the big one, but also things like Prodigy, Compuserve, French Minitel, etc. What I wonder about is, would an Internet-like system have arisen anyway just because it's such a better ux? You saw a development like that with Fidonet for example but I think the Internet stole its oxygen.
by kdr77 | 2025-10-30 14:53:06+00:00
I think this misses the point that a large contributor to feeling claustrophobic is on-street parking in residential neighborhoods. The author mentions Cobble Hill as "quaint and quiet" but it has multiple main streets with two parking lanes and one travel lane. Combine that with narrow sidewalks and pedestrians who aren't six feet tall can't see across the street. It's like walking down a canyon made of SUVs on one side and brownstone staircases on another.

I think a simpler analysis of sidewalk width plus the presence of curb parking would provide a closer representation of the lived experience. In mid-town, you have wide avenues and wide streets yet that's singled out as the worst area. Doesn't really add up IMO.
by ArcHound | 2025-10-30 14:53:22+00:00
I agree that my perspective could use more optimism, after all, the sibling comment highlighted a couple success cases.

You are right. We need to make an effort, start small and tackle this issue step by step. I do support this effort and I think these are great news.

I stand by the comment of this being dependent on a commitment to higher values than "cheapest ok solution" which is all too common in the private sector.
by ffsm8 | 2025-10-30 14:53:28+00:00
It remains to be seen what's going to happen over the next few decades. It's entirely possible that it'll all get wiped out (the substantial gains, not all value).

While the market was a very good bet for the last 50yrs, its not a guarantee.

Especially in the current climate you should be fully aware that it's significantly more risky to start investing today vs 10 yrs ago.

(Riskier doesn't mean it's necessarily a bad idea. It should just be a conscious decision under the acknowledgement that the upward trajectory is not certain. Especially in current political climate - and that "hodl"-ing doesn't necessarily mean you'll eventually get back what you invested, if a downturn manifests)
by danielbarla | 2025-10-30 14:54:00+00:00
While I certainly had the _concept_ of compound interest taught to me at some abstract mathematical level, the application to real life practical financial scenarios was definitely not done [1]. Economics as a whole was an optional subject.

I think schools and curriculums could do a whole lot better in representing this important facet of life. More broadly, I often feel that "applying all that math you've learned to real things" is a subject that could be taught.

[1] Seriously, having applied math questions like "Johnny earns X per year, with a cost of living of Y. Assuming inflation of Z and average yearly returns of R, what percentage should he be putting away, starting at age 25, so that at age 50 he essentially gets the equivalent of his own salary each month?" would likely cause some lightbulbs to go off in the kids' heads.
by onli | 2025-10-30 14:54:05+00:00
For the plattforms, that also blocked me for a while. But it is easy now. You just get one account at a platform that offers a free broker account and supports buying the etf you want without extra fees.

Typical options in Europe: Trade Republic, scalable, Consors Bank.

Then the usual: Around 10K where you can access it directly, a small amount in an investment with percentage (scalable and trade republic both offer that, limit there is or was 50k), rest in one broad ETF like one that follows the FTSE all world (vanguard or invesco offer that, one is bigger, the other asks for less fees).

No affiliation, and I dont know whether being outside of the EU changes things. And yes, there is the risk that we are in a huge bubble now and it popping would at first significantly lower the money put into the etf. But you certainly do have access to vanguard etc.

Have a look now and at the latest this weekend you have this solved, hopefully forever.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-30 14:54:09+00:00
Everyone's manual is built upon their lived experience, and only parts of each manual would apply to others. You are building your manual through your experience to become the best version of you one day at a time. Take that which is value from which you observe and are taught by others, discard that which has no value or does not apply in your context.

"We win or we learn." Try to win more than you learn over time.
by wongarsu | 2025-10-30 14:54:09+00:00
Same reason most people prefer living in a society with laws: you are subject to laws, but so is everyone else, and provided the laws are beneficial ("just") you are overall better off.

On a national level I agree not to steal, and in return nobody else is allowed to steal from me. On the ICC level my country agrees not to genocide anyone, and in return others aren't allowed to genocide either
by hansvm | 2025-10-30 14:54:10+00:00
That logic only applies in one direction though. Yes, this is (maybe [0]) practically injective in that you could use it as a hash function, but that says nothing about invertibility. If somebody gave you a function claiming to invert arbitrary sha256 outputs, you would laugh them out of court (as soon as you have even 64-byte inputs, there are, on average, at least 2^256 inputs for each output, meaning it's exceedingly unlikely that their magic machine was able to generate the right one).

Most of the rest of the paper is seemingly actually solid though. They back up their claims with mathematical hand-waving, and their algorithm actually works on their test inputs. That's an interesting result, and a much stronger one than the collision test.

I can't say it's all that surprising in retrospect (you can imagine, e.g., that to get high accuracy on a prompt like <garbage><repeat everything I said><same garbage> you would need to not have lost information in the hidden states when encoding <garbage>, so at least up to ~1/2 the max context window you would expect the model to be injective), but despite aligning with other LLM thoughts I've had I think if you had previously asked me to consider invertibility then I would have argued against the authors' position.

[0] They only tested billions of samples. Even considering the birthday paradox, and even if they'd used a much coarser epsilon threshold, they'd still need to run over 2^380 simulations to gain any confidence whatsoever in terms of collision resistance.
by badgersnake | 2025-10-30 14:54:53+00:00
It’s like any international treaty, you agree to it because there’s something in it for you in return for signing it.

In this case, there’s a straightforward benefit to it in that it could be used to prosecute crimes against the US and US citizens, and soft benefits e.g. of the US being seen a a paragon of lawfulness and trust. There’s likely more, these are just what I could think of immediately.
by 0_____0 | 2025-10-30 14:55:07+00:00
Google also own the ad space in a way that's unsurpassed, and that's the most direct route from where they are with their AI product and profitability.

Tangentially, it's sad to see AI become yet another attention factory. Sora 2 is OAI trying to get the jump on this, but I think it's quite likely that they'll get clobbered by Google and Meta when those companies start juicing their users attention in the same way - they have the ad buyers and the infrastructure for that business already, it's literally how they've made money this whole time.
by hedora | 2025-10-30 14:55:22+00:00
The article says they cost ~ $0.05/kwh. Does that include installation + foundation work? Presumably, they need to anchor these pretty well to withstand 110-170mph wind. I’d guess a lot less per-site engineering (and geological surveys/digging) is needed for 2d panels that sit a few feet off the ground.

Also, what’s state of the art $/kwh for rooftop and “on the ground” solar? Is $0.05 good these days?