MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by declan_roberts | 2025-10-17 17:36:14+00:00
What makes it a bad deal to own an EV is also coincidentally a great reason to buy one: they're getting cheap, fast.

I bought a used 2023 Model Y for about $36k (only 15k miles) it even came with upgrades like acceleration boost and an extra (unusable) back seat. This particular model was about $52k new in 2023.

I can't believe how much car I bought for my money. Autosteer is fantastic (FSD needs work). Early morning drive to the airport and the car was driving itself while I ate my breakfast and drank my coffee.
by Marsymars | 2025-10-17 17:36:35+00:00
I've always found that to be a silly distinction, like it's a thing that matters to use cases in the same way that axle type matters, but it's not the sole distinguishing marker of whether something is a "truck". There are various non-trucks that are body-on-frame - BMW i3, Ford Crown Vic, Suzuki Jimny, etc. (The highest-spec Jimny tows less than the lowest-spec Honda Ridgeline.)
by bradgranath | 2025-10-17 17:37:03+00:00
The outrage here is that they have been swearing up and down to investors that they are thiiiiiis close to creating God.

Then they show us what they have been working on and it is…

Robot sex chats.

They’d like another 400 billion please. They’re doing the Lord’s work here. They need to burn the planet; the competition would do it if they didn’t! This thing could turn into the antichrist any day now.
by didibus | 2025-10-17 17:37:36+00:00
In case people don't click, Wikipedia says:

> Lorenz's year of birth is disputed by multiple reliable sources.

> How come the French version of this article lists her age as October 21, 1984 (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Lorenz) but this one hides it? SlapperDapper (talk) 01:21, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

> -- Probably because no one has presented a published, reliable source for that info. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 06:46, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

> ---- 99.999% of articles on people on Wikipedia have no source for the age/birthday. SlapperDapper (talk) 19:39, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

Though the article is about Patricia Routledge in this case and not Lorenz.
by klaff | 2025-10-17 17:37:39+00:00
I think the phrasing was imprecise and they were referring to the transmission and differential. Most EVs use a single-speed gear reduction system - one gear mesh from motor shaft to a compound gear, another mesh from that gear to the ring gear of the differential. In contrast with ICE drivetrains, there is no clutch or torque converter (the electric motor can operate from a standstill), no reverse gearing (the electric motor can operate both CW and CCW), and no synchronizers and dog-clutches (as in manual transmissions), no hydraulic logic and clutches of automatic transmissions, nor the hydraulically operated sheaves found in CVTs. We've been hobbing gears to operate at those power levels for roughly a century.

I think Porsche has done a 2-speed EV transmission and Lucid moved the differential inside the motor and has two-reduction gear sets on either side, but those are both unusual designs.
by xp84 | 2025-10-17 17:37:42+00:00
> leasing avoids eating the entire depreciation in value

Assuming the bank's predictions are correct, that's not true. The lease agreement simply predicts a specific residual value and you pay the difference between that and the purchase price (in other words, the full predicted depreciation amount) in your payments. Of course, the less you drive the leased car compared to your mileage allowance, the worse you do, since the residual value prediction assumes you used all 10k miles a year or whatever.

Not saying leasing is bad, just that the opportunity for them to be a better deal strictly financially depends mostly on whether the bank overestimates the residual value (as I suspect happened with my off-lease used EV, which cost me less than half the sticker price, with 16k miles, at 3 years old).
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-17 17:37:43+00:00
Costs drop like a rock once vehicles get old enough that they can't be financed, which means dealers won't sell them, which means they won't be bundled with 3rd party warranties and service plans, which means that the owner will be the one paying and there's actual pressure to control costs (because the owner has no party down the line to pass costs onto).

For example, for the longest time Nissan CVTs were "nonrebuildable, send it back and buy a reman" now any idiot can rebuild one for under a grand in parts.

4L60 and E4OD rebuilds were also $$$ for a long time now they're dirt cheap too.
by munificent | 2025-10-17 17:37:54+00:00
The problem with that is that doing a thing that carries its own intrinsic value forms a poor signal because you can't tell if someone is doing it for signalling reasons or intrinsic reasons.

If you decided that a hallmark of your tribe is brushing your teeth, then when you see someone brushing their teeth you still can't really tell if they're in your tribe or not.

The best signals have either neutral or negative intrinsic value because the more costly the signal is, the more likely someone doing it values the signal.
by voxleone | 2025-10-17 17:38:03+00:00
Penrose’s vindication: In a broad philosophical sense. His intuition that quantum effects might play some role in cognition seems less far-fetched now than it did 30 years ago.

But vindication of Orch OR specifically (microtubule-based quantum gravity collapses driving consciousness) not yet.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.1998.025...
by crazygringo | 2025-10-17 17:38:04+00:00
> I managed to get Google Ads suspended due to blocking Singapore

How did that happen, why? I feel like a lot of people here would not want to make the same mistake, so details would be very welcome.

As long as pages weren't being served and so there was never any case of requesting ads but never showing them, I don't understand why Ads would care?
by jacobr1 | 2025-10-17 17:38:12+00:00
We've reach a point of price stabilization and longevity for smartphones now that didn't exist for the first 10 year ramp. When every new model added fundamental capability, you always want to upgrade, with the sweet spot often being every other year. But now, with better build quality, batteries, and stabilization of features people will keep their phones for much longer. Or buy "new" models that are of older versions since the price/features have been acceptable to run most of the apps they care about for years now. Plenty of people still want the top end for similar reasons to why people buy design clothing, but we've reached a feature plateau. We hopefully are getting close to that with EVs. Seems like around 300 mile range standard was the key thing. Though improved AI driving could change that again.
by verdverm | 2025-10-17 17:38:32+00:00
Look to BYD instead of Tesla if you want to find rapid advancement. Tesla has not been well managed for a few years, BYD recently passed them to become the biggest EV seller

I bought Hyundai, which charges 2x faster than the Tesla

Another thing to consider is the Tesla likely makes up the majority of the used EV inventory, and Tesla has become a toxic brand
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-10-17 17:38:46+00:00
The nuance here is there is a much higher floor for EVs when they finally bottom-out in value. A 300,000km EV will be degraded to ~80% it's range, while a 300,000km ICE will need its powertrain and sensors rebuilt and replaced (timing belt, spark plugs, alternator, water pump, PCV, O2 sensors, etc. and very likely will be dripping motor oil all over the ground).
by tra3 | 2025-10-17 17:38:54+00:00
If I'm tired of one thing related to AI/llm/chatbots it's the claims that it's not useful. It 100% is. We have to separate the massive financial machinations from the actual tech.

Reading this article though, I'm questioning my decision to avoid hosting open source LLMs. Supposedly the performance of Owen-coder is comparable to the likes of Sonnet4. If I invest in a homelab that can host something like Qwen3 I'll recoup my costs in about 20 months without having to rely on Anthropic.
by lurk2 | 2025-10-17 17:39:05+00:00
> They are all inconservative hands

> Journalists who said they were Republicans continued to drop from 18 percent in 2002 and 7.1 percent in 2013 to 3.4 percent in 2022. This figure is notably lower than the percentage of U.S. adults who identified with the Republican party (26 percent according to the poll mentioned earlier) in 2022. About half of all journalists (51.7 percent) said they were Independents, which is about 12 percentage points above the figure for all U.S. adults (40 percent). Overall, U.S. journalists today are much more likely to identify themselves as Independents rather than Democrats or Republicans—a pattern similar to 2013.

https://www.theamericanjournalist.org/post/american-journali...
by alganet | 2025-10-17 17:39:08+00:00
> It makes a point of AI increasingly being used in decision making

But that is nothing new. Everyone knows that. Go back to square one, my first comment, Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines.

So, in what aspect AI-2027 is new?

I can tell you. It bends its knees to some narratives:

- It portrays LLMs as more advanced than they are.

- It patronizes and antagonizes China. US technologies are portrayed as primordial, while Chinese ones are always copied and stolen.

- It encourages viral sharing of those speculations as true.

Now, by all means, I'm not defending China here. Also, I'm not praising US. I don't want these two to fight (nothing good will come out of it).

The fact that AI-2027 takes that stance speculatively (those are not part of the "research" aspect of their work, they are "scenarios"), to me, tastes like shit.

It is, in fact, debatable. Maybe you think antagonizing China and promoting private technologies beyond their capabilities is cool. I think it's shit.

Now, again, go back to square two. Decision-making AI for real military use (not to improve their CRM software or PR) is likely coming from the likes of Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and so on.

There is some aspect of cyberwarfare to LLM deployments, but the reality of it is not that obvious, and AI-2027 does nothing to explain how that plays out. In fact, it does much to keep the public away from how it could really play out.

Misinterpreting is a technique. You can always introduce noise to a clear conversation. Maybe you already understand all that I'm saying (I'm an optimist), and is introducing noise and feigning misunderstanding to shepard the discussion towards a stalemate (you tried several times, like "not sure if we disagree"). Let me be very clear, again: we disagree a lot in a lot of things.
by potatolicious | 2025-10-17 17:39:25+00:00
> "What part of EVs is "rapidly advancing technologically"?"

Battery capacity, motor efficiency (getting more range out of the same battery), charging rate (800V architectures for example that let you charge > 150kW), battery chemistry (wider operating temp envelope, affects charging and driving efficiency depending on environment)... the list goes on.

The batteries are also getting cheaper - which is to say for the same $ you're now (generally) getting a larger battery.

> "If so, why aren't used dealers just including a battery swap in the price?"

Because the batteries are in fact not swappable from one gen to the next, because the power electronics around them are different, peak current draw is different (and that depends on the motor it's mated with!).

Like I know it's tempting and attractive to imagine EVs like regular cars with some giant-ass AA batteries installed on them, but that's not how they work! The battery is specced as a unit with the entire electrical system and drive motor options!
by mk_stjames | 2025-10-17 17:39:26+00:00
I was prepared to be absolutely fucking disgusted by such a comment but I.... shit. I mean... this is.... this is wild

I gotta go contemplate 'where we're at' again it seems. If that is truly a straight generative audio diffusion model.... wait, how did they get the same verse by verse chord progressions to match? this has to be professionally post-produced, right? AI models aren't able to do this end-to-end yet, right?
by cameron_b | 2025-10-17 17:39:32+00:00
I used to use that clip to inspire people to laugh instead of groan while troubleshooting, and I honestly understand that for a product manager, it’s the wrong answer. But for a huge section of the population who don’t have a ground truth against which to evaluate LLM slop or where the definitions are not clear enough, I see often the only measurable thing is time and therefore it becomes the benchmark of good.

It reminds me of the Pentium 4 vs Athlon XP days counting clock speed.
by mulmen | 2025-10-17 17:40:06+00:00
The warranty doesn’t suggest the battery will be at 70.00001% on the first day of year 9. It says if it goes below 70% it will get replaced.

That 8 year old Toyota you bought came with a 6 year/60k mile warranty. If you are comfortable driving that to 2.5x the initial warranty then a used Tesla should be good to 250k and 20 years.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-10-17 17:40:49+00:00
> Places only Starllink can reach are an insufficient [TAM]

Insufficient for what?

> and shrinking TAM.

Starlink has made quite an impact on planning around servicing commercially non-viable or marginal customers in government and telcos where I am from. It is IMO quite likely that some existing cell towers in remote areas that are very expensive to operate and maintain will eventually be shut down. So that could actually expand the "TAM".

> The only places a terrestrial wireless provider doesn't want to serve are places that can't afford FWA even though it costs less.

No, they also don't want to serve places where it costs more.
by skydhash | 2025-10-17 17:40:57+00:00
Subdomain shouldn't be engineering related. That's putting the cart before the horse. Subdomain is more like: This barely have anything to do with that, other than data transmission (not transformation).

How you implement it, however is an engineering question. Microservice is not the only abstraction tool that exists. It's kinda the worse. You have procedure/class, file/module, package/libraries, processes and IPC. Network call is for when you have no other choice.
by hakonjdjohnsen | 2025-10-17 17:41:06+00:00
This video by AlphaPhoenix is absolutely incredible! I do research in (nonimaging) optics and I am used to thinking about the propagation of light. Still, there is something amazing about seeing a real recording of the propagation of a real beam of light. I also love the fact that you see artefacts due to how long light from different parts of the scene takes to reach the camera
by mlsu | 2025-10-17 17:41:08+00:00
And like cars, replacement ebike batteries are absurdly expensive. $500-600 for a few 18650 and a BMS.

Part of it is that a battery pack is legitimately dangerous at that scale (so lots of testing/safety certifications etc). But those are one-time design costs that should be amortized.

I would really like to see some standardization around battery packs for both cars and bikes, so that it could become a commodity market for packs.
by realusername | 2025-10-17 17:41:17+00:00
I still don't get your point, we use Chinese pinyin because they give a somewhat spoken version of words, vietnamese sentences without diacritics are 100% useless, they are useless to foreigners, useless to vietnamese people and even more importantly, useless even for machine translation and search. Who are they intended for, I've no idea.

The western equivalent maybe would be removing all the vowels of a sentence, yes you can do it but I'm not sure how it's useful in any way to any audience.
by wiradikusuma | 2025-10-17 17:41:47+00:00
You may not realize it, but barring price, EVs (esp. Chinese EVs) are like smartphones. When you buy one, in 3 months there's another model with better tech and cheaper (ceterus paribus). Not ideal for buyers, but I like it this way.

Let's say (Chinese) EVs never appear in the world. Why do car prices keep increasing while only marginally better?
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-17 17:42:33+00:00
Whenever people don’t use exceptions they either (a) neglect error handling completely or (b) double or triple their LoC to (usually) implement what exceptions would have done or (c) some hybrid of the first two were error handling is partially implemented but the LoC doesn’t get bloated as much.

“Exceptions suck” is one of those widely held bad opinions that claims to be contrarian in software dev right up there with “OO sux”. Sure exceptions suck in C++ but that’s basically “C++ sux” and the cost of the stack traces is worse that I wish it was but one the defining traumas of my career was typing in a C program from Byte magazine and noticing how the clear logic was defaced by error handling code and how I felt like I’d come home when I started coding in Java and I was no longer 3x my code but rather it was more like 1x + constant.
by mynameisash | 2025-10-17 17:42:35+00:00
I don't think I've ever seen anyone say they're not useful. Rather, they don't appear to live up to the hype, and they're sure as hell not a panacea.

I'm pretty bearish on LLMs. I also think they're over-hyped and that the current frenzy will end badly (global economically speaking). Than said, sure, they're useful. Doesn't mean they're worth it.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-10-17 17:42:43+00:00
This doesn't make much sense. Collagen is just a proline rich amino acid your body makes itself. Also you get the same type of amino acid by eating jello pudding. Sticking it directly into a wound shouldn't make much of a difference in healing, and if anything might be a bit dangerous if the collagen is contaminated in any way with bacteria.

Could you provide you literature citations here for reference?
by halfnormalform | 2025-10-17 17:42:43+00:00
My data point: old Kona Electric vs new Ioniq 6. Acceleration is faster, but not twice as fast. It does charge 40-50% faster though, and that is life-changing. Not twice the range but 360 mi vs 220 mi is a huge improvement. More than twice as comfortable, and that’s switching from the top of the line to the base model. Mostly due to better climate controls and a huge amount of legroom. Both have 5 star Euro NCAP scores. But now the lane keep assist now works at any speed and there are more warnings about cars and other obstacles, so there’s a safety improvement. And it’s not twice the price: the MSRP was cheaper!
by jonbiggums22 | 2025-10-17 17:42:51+00:00
I actually think that the used market for EVs just is going to have more apartment dwellers (who lack home charging infrastructure) and people who only have access to one car (and thus more strongly prefer something that can easily do long trips without much planning). New EVs are new cars which are expensive as hell and primarily going to be purchased by well off people that have houses. And as you said, these people probably aren't getting much work done at the dealership even if we assume the dealership services EVs.

I've noticed in discussions about EVs a lot of people feel range anxiety if overblown, which is probably true. But the "I have nowhere to charge it at night because I don't own a house" problem is usually just ignored even though it seems like a much bigger problem to me.
by a4isms | 2025-10-17 17:42:51+00:00
There is a process by which functionality is pushed outward from the core to the edge. And there is another process by which functionality is pushed back from he edge to the core.

For example, people did things in JS over and over and over again and some off those things became browser functionality, and some of them became CSS functionality, and some prompted server and browser changes.

Yes, you are right, the process is slow. But when software has a way for people to customize it, that customization is a very egalitarian kind of feature discovery.
by dematz | 2025-10-17 17:43:10+00:00
Tangential point but why is it that so often these leaving the cloud posts use the word "beefy" to describe the servers? It's always you don't need cloud because beefy servers handle pretty much any bla bla bla

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

If anyone from oxide computer or similar is reading, maybe you should rebrand to BEEFY server inc...
by munificent | 2025-10-17 17:43:40+00:00
> These links help explain why strongman leaders often use misinformation symbolically to impress and control a population.

There's an entirely logical reason why authoritarians undermine truth and truth-generating social systems.

The #1 goal of an authoritarian leader is to acquire maximum concentrated power relative to other people. Everything else is secondary.

One of the main ways someone's power can be undermined is by many people combining their small individual powers into a single coherent group. But that requires coordination and agreement. Everyone has to row the boat in the same direction for it to work.

Reality has a natural coordinating effect since we all share the same material universe. Thus, the more people are grounded in reality, the easier it is for them to agree and coordinate. They have a larger set of facts which they already naturally agree on.

Therefore, to undermine that coordination, every authoritarian regime in history has sought to undermine institutions and people that aim to discover and disseminate facts about reality.

Being an edgelord who repeats known falsehoods plays into that. It's effectively throwing up flak into the information sphere to obscure facts that might otherwise disseminate.
by Mystery-Machine | 2025-10-17 17:43:51+00:00
- It might take time for your eyes to adjust. - No matter how good the screen resolution is, you'll see pixelated reality rendered. Luckily Mac extended screen resolution is quite impressive and better than the live video of the room around you. - Keep your eyes healthy, try to remember to take off the device often and go check your eye sight, especially after first few months. - It might not work for you like it works for me (YMMV).
by bee_rider | 2025-10-17 17:44:00+00:00
I mean, starting with the question of whether or not 5G was “pushed undemocratically” sort of skips over the question of whether or not is should be a democratic decision…

It is a technical decision. We make the democratic decision to have organizations like the FCC to hold the technical expertise to evaluate whether something like 5G is a good idea. Deciding democratically as a country that we want to defer some questions to experts is a fine thing to do.

I haven’t seen any actual professional RF engineers worried about 5G. From my mostly lay point of view: these are not scary frequencies.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-17 17:44:09+00:00
I mean the Jones act was pretty practical for it's time. When you could obtain a ship via a cheap lease from the US Navy then the lack of capital spend building the ship is fine to spend employing US sailors.

However, now that the navy is out of the business of buying overpriced ships to rent out (with the idea that they'd be repurposed if a war broke out) now the Jones act isn't very effective.

However, unlike the Jones Act there's no criteria that Intel be able to supply chips. At least with the Jones Act we're going to have US citizens practiced sailing ships. With the stock purchase Intel doesn't need to have capacity to build chips for missiles/drones/etc; especially with the government treating them as non-voting shares!

If the USG wanted a hedge they should've just forked some money over for an option to buy X chips for $Y. Or some more complex option about fab time / output. You hedge production concerns with futures not equity!

It's also not great to hedge by using a vendor that wasn't able to meet previous goals you gave them. Counterparty risk is a real thing.