MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pkd | 2025-10-18 04:13:22+00:00
There is a lot of incoherence in this reply but I'll just address the second last: that less well-off people were more likely to vote for Brexit. Not only is this narrative just a thin veneer over the "sons of the soil", anti-immigrant narrative, the peddlers of Brexit were handing out, there is actual data showing that in fact the opposite was true.

From a Bank of England study:

> People living in left-behind areas were more likely to support Brexit than those living in prosperous areas. The gains of Brexit were perceived to be greater in areas of the country that had experienced economic decline. But within those areas, given people's preferences, we show that wealthier individuals were more likely to vote for Brexit, and poorer individuals were more likely to vote for Remain.

ref. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/study-finds-wealthy-more-likely-t...

> One thing we can be reasonably confident of is that small UK firms appear to be more adversely affected than larger ones. > > They have been less able to cope with the new post-Brexit cross-border bureaucracy. That's supported by surveys of small firms.

ref. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrynjz1glpo

All this is not hard to reason yourself out of. The wealthy can afford to go to Europe regardless of whether UK remains integrated with the EU. They are the least affected by decision either way. The less well-to-do have significant costs imposed now that the integration is over - both monetary and bureaucratic whenever they want to deal with the EU. This is despite the free trade deal.
by businessmate | 2025-10-18 04:13:23+00:00
Last week, Profound announced its new Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration—allowing users to inject Profound visibility and citation data directly into AI workflows via TypeScript and Python SDKs. The promise is clear: connect observability metrics to the same assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) whose responses those metrics describe. It’s a logical next step in a market racing to close the feedback loop between data collection and decision-making.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-18 04:14:17+00:00
> You'll likely spend thousands less on maintenance on an EV.

I don't spend many thousands on maintaining an ICE to begin with.

I've kept track of all car expenses since 2008 for 3 different cars. My average per year is $445. This is repairs and maintenance.

I'm not a gearhead. I know little about cars. I do whatever repairs my mechanic suggests. Things just don't break down much with reliable ICE cars.

TCO calculators are, in my experience, off by an order of magnitude. Ignore them.

> The few oil changes on my recently out of warranty 2021 Toyota

Are you doing them at the dealer? You're likely paying too much. And are you doing them on the manufacturer schedule or have you fallen prey to the "Every 3 months or 3000 miles" propaganda?

Most cars need it every 6 months. And unless your car needs some high quality oil, it's typically about $40 to get a regular mechanic to change it. So $80-100/year.
by tpmoney | 2025-10-18 04:15:22+00:00
> Ever since GUIs became (flat) UXs everything has gone to shit. Not that GUIs didn't also suck, but I could at least distinguish controls from labels.

One of the nice things about Tahoe is that liquid glass does a better job of distinguishing controls from other elements, at least most of the time. But they need to do a better job refining some of the transparency effects to make it more consistent. For example in Safari, with a medium grey background on a page, the controls have contrast from the toolbar surface and the borders and glass effect give them a nice depth. But with a dark grey background all the contrast between the controls and the toolbar almost disappear, and only the borders give any real distinction. Its even worse on light or white backgrounds, where since the borders in the liquid glass elements tend to be light/white colored in the first place, even they disappear. The transparency effects can be nice, but someone else's choices for a site background shouldn't be having such a dramatic impact on the actual UI of the computer.
by woodruffw | 2025-10-18 04:18:40+00:00
> Not everyone is privileged enough to even hold debt, so it's really an exclusionary system

This seems backwards: I think the most salient debt in the average American consumer's life is student loans, car loans, credit card debts, mortgages, etc. These aren't hallmarks of privilege; not having any of them would be the hallmark.

(You might be right about corporate debt, I don't know. But I do think "deflation is only bad for people who hold a lot of debt" does a disservice in suggesting that that isn't a lot of ordinary people.)
by defrost | 2025-10-18 04:19:42+00:00
The essential points being,

* The knowledge abut the actual size of the milkshake has increased,

* The actual size of the milkshake has not increased, a decade and more of extraction has continued to decrease that actual size,

* The cost per unit of extraction has increased,

* All extraction of fossil fuel continues to contribute to an ever increasing real and serious problem with increased insulation in the atmosphere.

Peak oil was never about "oil runing out", it was literally about increasing costs for diminishing returns .. an asymptotic issue that never ends, just dwindles.
by skydhash | 2025-10-18 04:20:26+00:00
Those big changes always happens because someone presented a simpler model that explains stuff enough we can build stuff on it. It's not like semiconductors raw materials wasn't around.

The technologies around LLMs is fairly simple. What is not is the actual size of data being ingested and the number of resulting factors (weight). We have a formula and the parameters to generate grammatically perfect text, but to obtain it, you need TBs of data to get GBs of numbers.

In contrast something like TM or Church's notation is pure genius. Less than a 100 pages of theorems that are one of the main pillars of the tech world.
by bawolff | 2025-10-18 04:20:59+00:00
I don't know how other cultures viewed time, but i think there is a big difference between being able to make a clock and running your life by a clock. Modern industrialized society is very regimented - work starts at an exact time, ends at an exact time, lunch is exactly an hour, etc. I suspect such notions would be much less useful in a non-industrial society.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-18 04:21:51+00:00
> How long will the engine and transmission actually be good for?

Fortunately, there's a ton of data out there. Some manufacturers/models are known to be reliable. Just hone in and buy those.

I've had to do repairs, but never that expensive. Never had transmission issues (keep in mind my cars are often over 10 years old - one over 20). For engine stuff, it's just a part replacement once in a while.

I posted elsewhere, but since 2008, my average car expense is about $450/year - that's repairs + oil changes.

> How much will replacing it cost?

Individual parts? Usually, not much. The whole engine? Dump the car. You got a lemon. Did you get it checked out by a trusted mechanic before buying?

> At least with a battery you can get some pretty detailed state of health readouts, BMS technology can tell you a good bit more about battery health than what your ICE will tell you about transmission and engine wear without tearing it down.

Fair point.
by scrubs | 2025-10-18 04:22:06+00:00
You have half a point. "Without any doubt" is merely the apex of a huge undefined iceberg.

I write half .. eating is multi modal and consequential. The llm can read the menu, but it didn't eat the meal. Even humans are bounded. Feeling, licking, smelling, or eating the menu still is not eating the meal.

There is an insuperable gap in the analogy ... a gap in the concept and of sensory data doing it.

Back to first point: what one knows through that sensory data ... is not clear at present or even possible with llms.
by Zarathruster | 2025-10-18 04:22:45+00:00
While I agree with you in the main, I also take seriously the "until someone can explain why" counterpoint.

Though I agree with you that your calculator doesn't understand math, one might reasonably ask, "why should we care?" And yeah, if it's just a calculator, maybe we don't care. A calculator is useful to us irrespective of understanding.

If we're to persuade anyone (if we are indeed right), we'll need to articulate a case for why understanding matters, with respect to AI. I think everyone gets this on an instinctual level- it wasn't long ago that LLMs suggested we add rocks to our salads to make them more crunchy. As long as these problems can be overcome by throwing more data and compute at them, people will remain incurious about the Understanding Problem. We need to make a rigorous case, probably with a good working alternative, and I haven't seen much action here.
by kalleboo | 2025-10-18 04:23:08+00:00
> Compared to a decade back, it was a nightmare

I used to visit SF a bunch back in the 2008-2013 period, and it was the same as you describe it now. Coming from Europe I was shocked seeing things like people in broad daylight defecating on the street, smashing a car window, stealing a purse by pushing someone over so they hit their head unconscious and bleeding, it seemed like a madhouse.
by gyomu | 2025-10-18 04:23:54+00:00
People on here love to dump on the iPad for being a “consumption device”, and to hate on the Apple Pencil by misquoting/misunderstanding Steve Jobs[0]…

…but if you spend any time around artists it’s evident that the iPad/Pencil/Procreate trio is one of the most significant leaps in consumer tech for visual artists of the last decade.

[0] he never said that any and all styluses are bad - he said that 1) cell phones that 2) you can only interact with by using a stylus (not an uncommon paradigm back in 2007) were bad
by BeetleB | 2025-10-18 04:24:12+00:00
> What was the remaining range for those replacements?

Who cares? Spending $15K on battery on a used car is a hard "No!", unless the car is under $10K.

I'm thinking of buying another car next year. $15K is my budget for an ICE car - and only if it has all the bells and whistles. Otherwise it's $12K. Spending another $15K on top of that is ridiculous.

> Is that high? I have no idea. How many ICE powertrains got replaced at the same time and what did it cost?

I'd love to know. All I have are anecdotes.
by emptybits | 2025-10-18 04:27:05+00:00
"- this mechanism cannot be required to handshake in order to start the car (not everywhere has cell service!)"

In 2025, this is true. At some point in the future, I predict this will be false. Maddening.

It's the We Must See You Online Or We Don't Owe You The Service You've Paid For Principle. Sure it starts with software (e.g. Adobe) and content (e.g. Spotify) but I can see it extending to home appliances and vehicles. Because they can.

Word to justify this principle will be used and the words will sound positive and good and consumers will nod their heads and shrug. "For Your Protection." "Safety." "Authentication." "Copyright Protection." i.e. assumed guilty offline until proven innocent online
by fnordpiglet | 2025-10-18 04:27:40+00:00
Yeah this is literally exactly my experience as well. Best car I’ve ever driven and I’ve considered replacing with a twice as expensive Mercedes. The mirror camera is also the primary reason I don’t upgrade - I used FSD extensively in my commute and when I use FSD on newer models it’s obnoxious I can’t even change a song without it freaking out.

I also bought it for the safety. Even the FSD I consider a substantial safety feature. I don’t take naps in the back seat when it’s ok - I pay attention. The joint probability of it or me noticing a drifting car or whatever is considerably better than me alone.
by southwindcg | 2025-10-18 04:29:29+00:00
My friends and I had a very simple version of this up and running perhaps fifteen years ago, where we fed-and-scraped Cleverbot[0] and had a second bot posting its replies in our chat. Obviously it was drastically inferior to state-of-the-art LLMs, but it was still amusing. It would only 'speak' when addressed by name, so we weren't flooding Cleverbot with input. Of course, it only ever had one line of context at a time.

[0] https://www.cleverbot.com/
by arthurofbabylon | 2025-10-18 04:29:59+00:00
I appreciate the themes but find this overly conceptual. We can look at hard figures(†) and see errors in the prophecy. While yes this is a transformative period, I don't believe the author truly identifies the fulcrum; PV cells alone are proven insufficient, so society will need to turn upon many more points than just that one. The essay could be called The Pivots (plural) but then that would be less simple/sensational/optimistic and fall under the category of economics and social sciences.

I appreciate the thrust, however: the unsustainable status quo, corruption, the climate crisis' incredible severity, fragility. "efficiency is the reciprocal of resilience" is a particularly appreciated line.

(†) – Vaclav Smil's work comes to mind.
by jve | 2025-10-18 04:31:09+00:00
You are just confirming my suspicion on that car manufacturers have terrible software divisions. Outside of some new EVs which have software one of major selling points.

Why don't classic manufacturers not ramp up their software quality side? I mean it's 2025, they lag behind at least a decade, but software development (infotaiment) practices seems like dark ages.

Except for MCU - from user perspective they just work.
by frm88 | 2025-10-18 04:31:48+00:00
CEPR is yet another leftist (less vaguely than CEIP) U. S. American think tank with the same attributes as CEIP (donors, location etc.) So, more U. S. centrism with a heavy focus on Vox News. Might just as well read Vox.

JIIA is the only one of your examples, covering worldwide topics right there on the front page, even Africa. Promoting research.

So far, your selection confirms only one of your statements: bias. Everyone has them. Do you really think, the first two of your choices would engage in"deep analysis" on topics contrary to the political agenda of their donors and hence their incentives?

I'll hold that I get more varied opinions and links to sources on HN than from strictly conforming U. S. publications, but thanks for introducing me to JIIA - which, you know, verifies the first part of this sentence.

The philosophical roots of states is not on topic here, so I'll skip that.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-18 04:32:14+00:00
"The Silver Searcher" is a program written in the _same_ "unsafe" language as grep

This is obviously not analogous to Rust evangelism that targets projects written in C

The author claims the program is a clone of ack; ack is written in a "safe" language

https://geoff.greer.fm/ag/

https://beyondgrep.com/
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-18 04:32:30+00:00
> Most EVs are basically high end luxury tech mobiles now.

I am fairly baffled when I come across positive vibes for modern cars. I'm not declaring those vibes wrong.

I'm saying I don't understand the lack of angst and resentment for

what vehicle owners have lost (full ownership - what they've bought can no longer be assumed to be theirs. features and operations can be [and are!] stolen by manufacturers. whole vehicles have been effectively stolen when a manufacturer declares a vehicle is no longer operational [because something something violation]. other things owners have lost: safe tactile controls, non-extortionate repair costs - which insurance companies will pass on to every policy holder they can) how drivers are mistreated by manufacturers (relentless surveillance, driving data collected to exploit owners and empower other entities [ex:insurance] to financially or otherwise mistreat them - inc deeply personal data like mental health and other personal trips. nothing is off the table.) how drivers are forced to mistreat everyone around them (continually blinding drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians. continually robbing other drivers of critical distance visibility. leaving inches on both sides of their parked car for passengers in adjacent cars to exit) how they are forced to be less-safe drivers (forcing eyes away from the road to make routine adjustments to climate, etc - adjustments that for generations were trivially done by touch)

I can't be okay with this. Not because of some moral stand. It's because I feel awful when I'm mistreated. And I'm unhappy when I am forced to mistreat others. More so when it's hours a day, every day.
by gorgoiler | 2025-10-18 04:33:47+00:00
alecmuffett is spot on here and I am grateful to him for making noise about this. The Online Safety Act is a mere prelude to the real goal: building on 20 years of CleanFeed to implement a central, government controlled firewall.

The risks of such technology are grave. It is hard enough, for example, running a distributed national police service while keeping a lid on corruption, miscarriages of justice, and incompetence. Willfully using technology to scale up human effects will risk amplifying bad actors to a national scale.
by cmurf | 2025-10-18 04:33:54+00:00
Part 103 vehicles can't be operated over congested areas. FAA considers anything more than sparsely populated as congested. A single church in the middle of nowhere might be sparsely populated.

I'm not even sure you can take off or land in your own neighborhood. Is a neighborhood a settlement? shrug

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/section-103.15

See Simmons (2010 legal interpretation from the FAA chief legal counsel. https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/FAA000000000L...

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Also, no operations in common types of airspace: no bravo, charlie, or delta (or class e surface area). This may not be difficult seeing as they tend to exist over congested areas which must be avoided anyway.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/section-103.17

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Part 103 ultralights are vehicles, not aircraft, therefore not general aviation. Therefore, I'm not sure who will insure these operations. It may be the realm of self-insured.
by epakai | 2025-10-18 04:35:01+00:00
I've been using Lutris on i3 with multiple monitors. Enabling gamescope has been extremely helpful. I just get a window that tells the game to render at some fixed resolution, and it is happy to scale fullscreen or any size. I've been using i3's fullscreen toggle, it goes to the current monitor, or I can move it to another with my regular i3 binds.

It looks like gamescope has it's own fullscreen shortcut (super + f), but people complain about it about it going to the wrong display. Maybe your window manager offers a more consistent full screen option like i3 does.
by Spivak | 2025-10-18 04:35:45+00:00
My solution to that is to just not keep anything valuable in the car and leave it unlocked. After getting my car window smashed in twice for the thieves to not find anything other than trash I decided this was a better system and haven't had a problem since. For all I know people have rummaged around my car but I don't have to deal with damages anymore.

My ideal anti-theft device would be a mode where the car is unlocked but the alarm goes off if you try to open the door.
by grayhatter | 2025-10-18 04:35:48+00:00
> Elon is a self described free speech absolutist

try not to overdose on that copium!

Regardless if you believe he actually believes in free speech absolutely... (what happened to the account that tracked his plane in real time? or if you want to move the goal posts, please define absolutist?)

He's parroted enough dog whistles that nazis love that it's fair to group him with the rest of the people who overly espouse nazism.

There's a difference between tolerating people who advocate for nazi ideals, and taking action to host, and more importantly amplify them. He proudly amplifies them. (and then tactically refuses to denounce them, please explain that behavior?)

When someone tells you who they are, you should believe them... and if they don't, you should judge them by the company they keep. I will gladly disavow anyone that advocates for racism or other bigotry, why won't you?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-18 04:36:50+00:00
Well I had eaten last eggs I guess 2-3 months ago when my father kept on insisting it.

Otherwise i had quit it for an year straight or maybe longer, I just didn't want to say I had quit when I recently ate them (and actually I didn't like them thaat much) I rarely used to eat eggs but when they hurt my conscience I stopped eating it and its quite easy and I was never a true egg eater anyway, maybe on rare occasions which I have also stopped now.

So you could say I have quit :) but its always funny having my father explain to me that they are build in factories ,like, its still messy for those poor animals...
by tptacek | 2025-10-18 04:37:04+00:00
I 80% agree with this, but I've also gotten a lot of mileage out of Emacs hi-lock mode. The simplest thing I always want: whatever symbol I'm pointing at right now, highlight everywhere (so I can trace it through the code quickly); more generally, I want to highlight an arbitrary regex, so for instance when I'm auditing a codebase for authorization, I quickly spot the functions that aren't following the same authorization patterns as all the others.
by Razengan | 2025-10-18 04:37:29+00:00
> the site is so much smaller than Reddit it can take months to reach that threshold.

You can get there in days if you just spot a few bandwagons to hop on.

> I post things I know won't be well-received here all the time and it's quite rare for a comment to go below -2 karma, but comparatively common for these sorts of comment to get flagged despite not breaking any rules.

Yep, there's no downside to frivolously downvoting/flagging: It just takes a 2-3 people to hide your comment from the majority of the users as soon as it's posted, easy for a PR firm with paid people watching a topic like hawks.

Sometimes when I get insta-downvoted in a heated topic, if I delete my comment and repost later, the first few votes are positive. So it's clearly dependent on luck/time, which it shouldn't be.

I and others suggested this years ago: Maybe votes shouldn't have any effect for the first 12 or 24 hours.
by jmann99999 | 2025-10-18 04:38:50+00:00
I bought my 2018 Wrangler with the same idea... keep it for life. That was also the last year they offered the "lifetime" warranty. Glad I went for that.

So far, the Jeep has been fairly reliable, with my issues being:

- Electric door locks and mirrors stopped working

- Radiator leaked

- CV Joints

The Lifetime Warranty has now broken even (~$2500).

Unfortunately, now my issue is rust, and the warranty doesn't cover that.
by throw10920 | 2025-10-18 04:43:21+00:00
I think his consistent track record of apocalypse failure predictions (and then lack of examining his failure) is made even weirder by how good of a thinker or writer he comes across in some of his fiction.

I started reading the Laundry Files, and was shocked by how diverse his knowledge is, and how well he understands some aspects of the world (bureaucracy, the nature of horror writing, state intelligence apparatuses).

He seems to be far more intelligent and knowledgeable than the average human. So why the incredible lack of self-awareness when it comes to predicting the end of the world?
by rkomorn | 2025-10-18 04:44:40+00:00
> Why don't classic manufacturers not ramp up their software quality side?

I've wondered this but it does seem to me that the companies that do the best software also seem to be the newer companies that were driven by investors instead of sales/profitability.

Can classic manufacturers afford the kind of spending it takes to overcome inertia and make quick strides on the software side when it likely won't move the needle on sales anywhere near as much as it costs them?

Edit: for me, it's similar to what we see in the "flying taxi" maybe-autonomous eVTOL field: Airbus gave it a shake, but there are at least half a dozen startups bankrolled by VCs outspending them on a prayer they'll be the one to succeed.