MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epistasis | 2025-10-17 16:17:28+00:00
I don't know where this idea comes from. I had a Fiat 500e when it first came out, about a decade ago, and it was fantastic even though unloved by the manufacturer, and it had to go in for a recall for two days once which was a hassle. Still better than the BMW that I bought when the 500e lease expired, because the BMW was in the shop for a whole week for some sort of tail light recall. I only bought the BMW because I was waiting for the Model 3 to come out, and switched to that eventually, and it is far far more mature than any other car of the era.

I bought a minivan when I had kids, and it's such a huuuuuuge step backwards on every front from the Model 3. There's so much ridiculous maintenance for a gas car, it really really sucks. And Toyota's build quality is absolute shit compared to Tesla, which supposedly gets dinged for build quality. All the plastic in the Toyota is falling out, the window seals are terrible, the whole thing is terrible in comparison to Tesla's supposedly bad build quality.

I've taken EVs on thousand mile road trips with an infant, and it was fantastic.

My EV is going to outlast my ICE by a long long time. The amount of fake FUD around EVs is mystifying to me. I can not understand why anyone would want a gas car wheee you have so much maintenance and always have to stop to fill up. So much wasted time and money on that BS.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-17 16:17:31+00:00
> My preference would be for consumers of news to pay for that news.

I think that this is a fundamentally wrong headed idea. I might go farther and say that you're not going to create a new model for news, you're going to discover a new model, or you're going to accept the model that you know works, and figure out how to make it conform to your values without breaking it.

The facts: people who produce a lot of what we call news want it to be read. They write it because they have made a value judgement that it has importance, and that it should be reacted to by people. They should be backed by people who share those values - and those people should be paying for the news to be made and circulated to anyone who they can convince, beg, or trick into spending their time to understand what the producers of the news (both financiers and journalists) think is important.

This is the current actual model of the news, even though it still masquerades as a strange public service model adapted from network television news where OTA channels were required to do something in return for their use of the public airwaves. This was never the print model, which is that you have a boss, and you do what he says.

The other model of the news was never in danger. People will pay for sports and celebrity news and photographs because it is entertainment. People will even pay for crime news (of the titillating type, like violent street crime, rape and murder) because it also usually is entertainment masquerading as public service. None of that is in danger. It's important to be specific about what you're talking about.

I think that the way to save the endangered part of the news is the same way we need to save everything - more collaboration tools for individuals to form into groups. I think we see this forming with things like Substack, Patreon and Locals, etc., and what we need is to make this more decentralized, and not routed through a few gatekeepers all additionally gated by banks and credit card companies. 500 people should be able to start a newsroom of 10 people with their spare pennies, and get what they believe and what they think is important to the widest audience possible. The Substacks, Patreons, etc. have shown that it is not hard to get that many people together to pay a few bucks for something they believe in, or simply like.

If there's a tl;dr: you shouldn't be paying to read journalism; if anything, people should pay you to read their journalism. I wish I could take money from 80% of the garbage I wasted my time reading. We need microdebits, not micropayments.
by adregan | 2025-10-17 16:17:51+00:00
One neat thing about the referenced chapter on macros from Practical Common Lisp is that it's chapters 7 and 8 of a 30+ chapter book. You're only learning about variables in the chapter before and then macros. I like to think about that when conversations about macros always devolve into talking about how you should never use macros.

Now apologies for the aside—and I know I'm likely wading into a very expansive topic and reducing it down to something simple—but why in Rust, if the types are known:

struct Song { title: String, artist: String, rating: i64, }

do you have to call `.to_string()` on things that look a lot like strings already?

Song::new("Hate Me".to_string(), "Blue October".to_string(), 9)

Couldn't the compiler just do that for you?
by tracker1 | 2025-10-17 16:18:00+00:00
Worst is when one of those dysfunctional orgs that does the IT systems administration tries to create their own internal cloud offerings instead of using a cloud provider. It's often worse than hosted clouds or bare metal.

But I definitely agree, it's usually a self-inflicted problem and the big gamble attempting to work around infrastructure teams. I've had similar issues with security teams when their out of the box testing scripts show a fail, and they just don't comprehend that their test itself is invalid for the architecture of your system.
by mindcrash | 2025-10-17 16:18:14+00:00
If only the drama stopped there:

* DHH is not only considered racist / fascist due to some blog posts, but also for making Hyprland the default DE in Omarchy, developed by someone who goes by the name Vaxry Vaxerski, who is also considered fascist and racist, and thus banned from contributing to freedesktop projects due to supposed breach of CoC:

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat

* Hyprland and all its contributors are now also considered fascist from taking sponsorship money from 37signals, DHH's company, due to it being an important part of Omarchy.

https://account.hypr.land/sponsors

* Due to the fact that both DHH and Vaxry are both considered fascist / racist, Framework and its CEO (yes, that Framework) are now considered to be supporters of fascism, because Framework is sponsoring and supporting both Omarchy and Hyprland.

https://account.hypr.land/sponsors

* Cloudflare (yes, that Cloudflare) is considered to support fascism because they support Omarchy and the Ladybird webbrowser (which is a project also run by someone considered to be a fascist)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/supporting-the-future-of-the-ope...

* Last but not least, Tobi (Shopify CEO) and thus Shopify are also considered by many to be supporters of fascism when this drama started to unroll for standing by DHH no matter what when activists wanted to deplatform and ban DHH from his own creation (Ruby on Rails). Which makes the Ruby Central drama due to the involvement of Shopify even more interesting:

https://xcancel.com/tobi/status/1970944464303923687

Me? I want to hop in a time machine back to the 90s/early 00s before all this crap started and everybody was just generally nice to each other.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-10-17 16:18:53+00:00
Yes, sorry, I didn't mean to impugn Hetzner by saying they were an hour delay, just that there could be providers that are cheaper that didn't need to offer AWS-level scaling.

Like a company should be able to offer 1 day service, or heck 1 week with their internal datacenters. Just have a scheduled buffer of machines to power up and adapt the next week/month supply order based on requests.
by svat | 2025-10-17 16:19:03+00:00
Quotes aren't supposed to be altered like that; I've just fixed it: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1317337583

Changing "Palestine" to "economics" was done by an anonymous editor five days ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gell-Mann_amnesia...
by mrandish | 2025-10-17 16:19:08+00:00
Windows 11 has been a failure technically and as a product concept - and I say this as a multi-decade daily end user and general fan of the Windows OS technology. Before Win11, every version of Windows generally got better in meaningful ways. Sure, there were occasionally some odd ideas tried but they'd get dropped in fairly short order. And of course there were bugs as is inevitable with any commercial product this big, serving this many disparate user types across such a wide hardware footprint. But for the most part, Windows improved over time and users felt like MSFT was at least trying to do the right thing, even when they stumbled.

But things feel very different with Windows 11. Microsoft now removes useful features like task bar Quick Launch folders, even though millions of customers used them. Why? Because they 'distract' from the 'Start Menu Experience (tm)' which MSFT now views as a Primary Monetization Surface. Most of the user-visible changes happening in Windows 11 aren't about improving user workflows but instead are focused on increasing MSFT's ability to upsell, cross-promote and drive adoption of monetizable features. This isn't some short-term UX fad that'll pass in a year or two. It's a fundamental shift in the entire Windows business. The purpose of Windows is no longer first and foremost improving the OS to be more useful, powerful, complete, efficient and bug-free. As a user, it felt like there was still some focus on being a state-of-the-art Operating System, that values like technical correctness and orthogonal completeness were at least debated. The priorities now seem to be: 1. Enabling new monetization vectors, 2. Reducing and streamlining the OS to be cheaper to maintain with a smaller, less skilled staff, 3. See #1 and #2.
by guerby | 2025-10-17 16:19:46+00:00
Just like for ICE buyers will learn about the important things about EV choice and ownership.

An EV maker that sells parts at inflated prices including the battery will get less and less customers.

As those customers look at catalog prices for important parts including the battery before buying an EV.

Random web page on the topic:

https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/costs-ev-battery-repl...

Another listing price:

https://evshop.eu/en/13-batteries

Note the used LFP 55 kWh tesla pack at $4140 so ... $75/kWh.
by beala | 2025-10-17 16:19:52+00:00
Well this is disturbing. I guess my weekend project is running ethernet to my front door.

My problem is that the area around my front door where the doorbell is installed is solid timber, so it's not just a simple ethernet drop. I'm honestly not even sure how the builders ran the existing wire to that location. Maybe my only option is to add a second backup camera in a location where an ethernet install is easier.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-17 16:20:02+00:00
How much is due to the tax credits, at least in the US? Last time I looked, a big chunk of the expected first year depreciation on my F150 Lightning could be explained by the credit. The expected depreciation in the years following tracked very similarly to ICE F150s.

The EV market is just weird, anyway. Manufacturers have to price to what the market will bear, which may have little resemblance to MSRP. So a good evaluation of deprecation has to figure out how to account for that. My Lightning had an MSRP of 72K but I got it for 51K, which was a very normal price that anyone could get. If I evaluate resale based on the MSRP, it looks pretty bad. If I use my out-the-door cost for comparison, it does not look bad at all (compared to any other new car purchase, of course, which are never going to be the most cost-effective choice for an individual).
by cameronh90 | 2025-10-17 16:20:08+00:00
Not a surprise when the tech is improving so quickly still.

Why would I pay a significant fraction of the original price for a 2020 EV if a same tier 2025 EV has better batteries and drivetrain that'll probably have a longer lifetime, almost double the range, heat pump and faster charging? That doesn't mean the 2020 is bad, but it's only worth it if you can get it at an enormous discount over the current model.

Meanwhile, a 2020 ICE is pretty much the same as a 2025 ICE aside from the wear and tear.

Once the tech stabilises, so will the resale market.
by rgreekguy | 2025-10-17 16:20:21+00:00
I am taken aback by the amount of devices you two people seem to have, honestly.

For me I just... use them. And I have a tendency to not forget such things. The unused ones will lose their charge over time, indeed.

My phone I use. My old phone, that I use as GPS, I have to remember to charge before I need it.

My laptop I use all day, my previous laptop has no battery anymore.

My iPad Mini has got the short stick some times, to be honest, because it is mainly a secondary device. I have it always with me, but I rarely use it outside the house. And in the house it's not the top device, either.

The Steam Deck I use throughout the week, so I see its charge. But now I used it again the day before yesterday after half a year, or something. It happens, no need to have it charged in the meantime, frankly. Same for my controller. The little Anbernic handheld faces a similar fate.

Wireless keyboards I do not possess currently, and the one wireless mouse I have takes an AA battery, and is Logitech, 2-year battery, no worries.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-17 16:20:33+00:00
> The Act expressly anticipates that it will have extra-territorial effect

It also continues like this:

> This does not mean that the Act extends to all use of in-scope services globally. […] “The duties extend only to the design, operation and use of the service in the UK and, for duties expressed to apply in relation to ‘users’, as it affects the UK users of the service”

Wouldn't this mean that the Act only applies to services explicitly design/targeting UK users/visitors? So if you're building a general service for no particular residents/citizens, the Act doesn't apply to you? Or am I misunderstanding something?
by samsullivan | 2025-10-17 16:20:39+00:00
The battery uncertainty is real, but I think the bigger issue is information asymmetry.

Looking at actual market data, the spread on used EVs is wild - a 2022 Tesla Model S ranges from $57 to $112k depending on trim/condition (https://cardog.app/tools/valuation/tesla/model_s/2022). That's a $60k spread on the same year vehicle. Compare that to ICE vehicles where the range is typically much tighter.

When buyers can't confidently price an asset, they discount heavily. The depreciation problem might actually be a data problem - we just don't have the standardized battery health reporting and historical comps that exist for ICE vehicles yet.
by breadwinner | 2025-10-17 16:20:59+00:00
You don't need a large framework to build a maintainable, efficient web app. Here's an example: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/tree/master/webapp

It uses two 500-line libraries:

This 500-line lib lets you use TSX syntax without React: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder

This 500-line lib implements MVC routing: https://github.com/wisercoder/mvc-router
by bob1029 | 2025-10-17 16:21:01+00:00
The mass of the starlink satellites has doubled twice since V1.

It is not hard to assume that there is a significant DoD rideshare payload involved on the existing commercial satellites. Having a sensor platform on every single one would be incredible. The satellites that have been officially branded as Starshield (~183 we know of) could be part of cover or a more "kinetic" mission profile.

If I was in charge at the Pentagon, I would want every one of those 10k birds to have my sensor package on it. I also don't think I would permit a commercial spaceflight vendor to perform as many launches as SpaceX has performed without some kind of arrangement like this in place.
by ceejayoz | 2025-10-17 16:21:15+00:00
> Using the internet in the UK/EU is such a horrible experience, every cookie pop-up is a reminder how badly thought out these rules are.

That's what the advertising-dependent implementers who deliberately made it shittier than necessary (stuff like "you have to decline each of our 847 ad partners individually") want you to think, at least. It's mostly malicious compliance.
by kemayo | 2025-10-17 16:21:23+00:00
> For Tesla owners in the U.S., their 2023 Model Ys are worth 42% less than what they paid two years ago

I want to suggest that there are recent reasons why Tesla, as a brand, has specifically gotten a bit less popular that are unrelated to the entire EV category. (It's Elon. He's the reason.)

That said, to the extent the result holds true for the entire category, I'd suspect it's because EVs are still fairly immature. It's like "resale value of desktop PCs falling rapidly" back in the 90s, when the field was advancing quickly enough that buying used was genuinely a bad idea.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-10-17 16:21:23+00:00
The Russians have laser dazzlers designed to degrade/"jam" electro-optical imaging satellites. These are currently mounted to trucks and at least one airborne testbed. They are significantly more powerful than laser pointers and they have a prayer of accurately pointing the beam to hit the targeted satellites.

That said, they are dazzlers and not destroyers — they're designed to prevent American recce satellites from cuing American strategic bombers to the location of mobile missile launchers, so just dazzling the satellite's primary sensor accomplishes their task. Of course, that won't work against space-based SAR, but they have RF jammers (and decoys) for that.
by notmyjob | 2025-10-17 16:21:26+00:00
I may be wrong about the total raised so far, different ai responses bounce around greatly on the total raised and spent so far, and of course it’s impossible to know exactly given so much “dark money” in politics today, but even very leftwardly biased ai responses list Newsom as one of the few major backers. I suppose it’s money from his 2022 gubernatorial fund mostly but you’ll admit 2022 has come and gone? (Maybe you won’t!)

And if you think Newsom doesn’t have presidential ambitions, and that his path to the White House doesn’t depend quite critically on passage of prop 50, you either aren’t paying attention to the full arc of Gavin’s career or being overtly dishonest.

Edit: Indeed my total was off by about 2x, but my general point stands the proposition in detrimental to California’s political power in Washington because it reduces the state’s representation in the GOP power structure, while mostly benefitting Newsom’s presidential ambitions. If you can’t see that I don’t know how to help you.
by jimt1234 | 2025-10-17 16:21:29+00:00
Exactly ^^^ This situation reminds me of the 90s with the PC market, where PCs were changing so fast, and getting cheaper every day - I think Weird Al put it best: "My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks / But it was obsolete before I opened the box".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-10-17 16:21:52+00:00
I'd much rather deploy cassandra, admittedly a complex but failure resistant database, on internal hardware than on AWS. So much less hassle with forced restarts of retired instances, noisy nonperformant networking and disk I/O, heavy neighbors, black box throttling, etc.

But with Postgres, even with HA, you can't do geographic/multi-DC of data nearly as well as something like Cassandra.
by Bender | 2025-10-17 16:21:53+00:00
If there's ever a hornets nest you don't want to fuck with it's 4chan

That certainly used to be the case pre-2012. All the former hactivists have long since left. marriage, kids, real life, etc... Now it's mostly handfuls of edgy boys on cell phones in school and 4chan-GPT creating and responding to threads. I wish I were wrong. The site went mostly dead for about two weeks when USAID was defunded and had to shift funding sources then all the usual re-re-re-re-re-posted topics in /g/ returned. Some of them are on this site too ... inb4 they reply. Adding to this now the general public have the real names, IP addresses and locations of all the moderators so they are less likely to participate in doxxing.

There was a quote, "4chan is where smart people go to act stupid, facebook/reddit is where stupid people go to act smart". That probably needs to be updated.
by socketcluster | 2025-10-17 16:21:55+00:00
The real benefit of using a framework is that it helps to create components which can be easily and reliably nested. That said, nowadays you can achieve the same thing using native Web Components.

I'm currently working on a Company and Employee finder application with Web Components. I found them a lot easier to work with than React.

Also, I'm using a serverless platform I built from scratch. So it's literally all made from scratch with very few dependencies.

https://www.insnare.net/app/#/dashboard/
by rudi-c | 2025-10-17 16:22:05+00:00
The important thing in any "large" application is to set consistent patterns for doing common tasks: creating UI components, re-using them, updating their content as a result of data changes (reactivity), etc. This can be done with or without a framework.

A framework establishes a large portion of those patterns upfront. If the framework is a popular one (e.g. React) rather than an in-house one, it makes it easier to quickly ramp up hires and have a lot of documentation/examples online. Popular frameworks also implicitly contain a lot of knowledge from years of feedback from thousands of devs exercising its APIs and providing feedback, so they're typically pretty good at solving common use cases.

Obsidian was initially built by a single developer. One of the best that I have the pleasure of knowing, but when you're one person, it's much easier to create your own pattern and have it work for yourself. They have since hired maybe 2 other devs, with minimal intention of hiring more, so ease of onboarding isn't a significant concern to them the way it would be for most companies (and "large" frontend apps more often than not require larger teams, by definition).