MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-31 05:40:28+00:00
> Terrible capacity, slow / low power charging infrastructure

These are the things they make irrelevant because they're hybrids. It doesn't matter if it has a short range or takes 8 hours to charge because you charge it once a day overnight or while you're at work, which is enough for 98% of the days because the range is still double the average commute, and then the other 2% of the time you put gas in it.

> minimal use of electric engines at higher speeds

There are hybrids that can do 85 MPH before starting the gasoline engine.

> you could theoretically make one with a good EV powertrain, but then it would likely be more expensive than a pure EV

You could make a hybrid that could do 200 MPH in electric mode and the main thing you would have to change is use a bigger electric motor, which isn't the expensive part. But nobody really needs it to do that.

> And battery prices drop substantially every year

Do they get substantially lighter though? Because that's the expensive part. A hybrid can have a battery which is 25% the size and then spend less than half the saved weight on the ICE powertrain. Then it's lighter, which not only increases the number of miles per kWh, it means you don't need such heavy duty propulsion, suspension, brakes, etc., which saves even more weight and cost.
by selcuka | 2025-10-31 05:41:07+00:00
I agree, removing the free plan was a bad move. They should have at least grandfathered existing free tier users. I was just explaining their point of view.

When you don't need advertising anymore, the free plan starts becoming a net loss. If the $5 plan is profitable today, it will probably stay profitable forever as their costs will only go down, never up. There is little incentive to remove it (until Broadcom or Oracle acquires them).
by lysp | 2025-10-31 05:41:34+00:00
Almost no one supports their atrocities on October 7.

People however, can understand why a resistance movement in those circumstances might fight back after the history of occupation and rights abuses that has affected the area.

To make that claim of "support" is simply dismissive and minimising a long, complicated history into a few second sound bite.

For absolute clarity: I do not support harm to innocent civilians of any country.
by eviks | 2025-10-31 05:42:55+00:00
> warrant canary works by removing information, not by transmitting it.

You transmit information by changing the content of the transmission, basically just like any communication works

> This only works

do you know that? Haven't heard of it actually working in any high profile case.

> because you have not told anyone that a warrant has been issued

you have told them explicitly by agreeing to a scheme both parties understand and by enacting the message change under said scheme. You basically just used some encoding to hide the plain message
by MangoToupe | 2025-10-31 05:44:39+00:00
I stand by my assessment. You seem to simply see javascript as better because the tradeoffs are easier to internalize, in part because it can't (and doesn't try) to tackle the generalizations of async code that rust does.

> Modern JS engines can "see through" async call stacks.

I did not know that. I'll have to figure out how this works and what it looks like.

> Rust doesn't have async iterators or async generators. (Or generators in any form.) Rust has no built in way to create or use async streams.

This is not necessary. Library-level streams work just fine. Perhaps a "yield" keyword and associated compiler/runtime support would simplify this code, but this is not really a restriction for people willing to learn the libraries.

Rust has many issues, and so does its async keyword, but javascript is only obviously better if you want to use the tradeoffs javascript offers: an implicit and unchangeable async runtime that doesn't offer parallelism and relies on a jit interpreter. If you have cpu-bound code, or you want to ship a statically-compiled binary (or an embeddable library), this is not a good set of tradeoffs.

I find rust's tradeoffs to be worth the benefits—i literally do not care about compilation time and I internalized the type constraints many years ago—and I find the pain of javascript's runtime constraints to be not worth its simplicity or "beauty", although I admit I simply do not view code aesthetically. Perhaps we just prefer to tackle differently-shaped problems.
by tavavex | 2025-10-31 05:44:40+00:00
The US Supreme Court has engaged in "creative interpretations" for a very, very long time, considering that amending the US constitution seems to be utterly impossible. There's been no meaningful changes in over half a century. So, the flawed system in the country has led to probably over a hundred years of picking apart largely arcane documents that are utterly disconnected from modern life in attempts to map brand new concepts and ideas to those old documents, no matter what. Hell, the current leading school of thought of conservative-aligned law is that interpreting the constitution should be done by imagining what people surely must've thought all those centuries ago. Oddly enough, doing so allows you to make those imaginary historical figures think in whatever way you like!

So, "the left" hasn't done it first, it's a practice that's much older than Roe v. Wade. Just see all the fun games that have long been played with using the Commerce Clause. And besides, your equation isn't fair in the slightest, where one of your sides undeniably grants people rights (even if on shaky grounds), while the other consolidates power and takes those rights away. But oddly enough, only the transgressions of the left have been mercifully corrected by the court, while some other new developments are to be left undisturbed for the foreseeable future. I wonder why?
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-31 05:45:08+00:00
Booting to DOS you have to plug in other target drives before you power up so the BIOS will recognize them first before DOS boots.

Also DOS will not recognize files on anything but well-tempered FAT32 volumes usually, and the drive device needs to be MBR layout, not GPT. Plus the motherboard needs to support legacy CSM and have it enabled unless it's an old native-BIOS-only non-UEFI PC.
by prussia | 2025-10-31 05:46:12+00:00
> if you liked the company or product so much why would you take shots like that?

Key word here is "liked". Seems like OP liked the company when it had a free tier, and no longer does after it axed the tier. They don't owe your company anything, in the same way your company doesn't owe anything to the non-paying "customers" it stopped subsidising. No foul play by either party. I wouldn't take it too personally.
by Eextra953 | 2025-10-31 05:46:47+00:00
Using firearms against the state never works. However, the oppression isn't in the enforcement of laws it is in how those laws are being enforced, selectively, against brown and black people. Also, something being a law doesn't make it right or just. For examples of this just look at slavery, women's suffrage, civil rights, etc at a certain point in time all of those things were against the law but people agonized, organized and resisted enough to change the law. By your logic those groups weren't oppressed since the law allowed for their oppression.
by kragen | 2025-10-31 05:47:44+00:00
The 50-cycle hum of the transformer outside your house. Tinnitus. The ≈15kHz horizontal scanning frequency whine of a CRT TV you used to be able to hear when you were a kid.

Of course, none of these are completely nonlocalized in time. Sooner or later there will be a blackout and the transformer will go silent. But it's a lot less localized than the chirp of a bird.
by sjamaan | 2025-10-31 05:48:46+00:00
I was ranting exactly the same just yesterday. Nowadays UI designers seem to have forgotten all about affordances. Back in the day you had drop shadows below buttons to indicate that they could be pressed, big chunky scrollbars with two lines on the handle to indicate "grippiness" etc.

A few days ago I had trouble charging an electric rental car. When plugging it in, it kept saying "charging scheduled" on the dash, but I couldn't find out how to disable that and make it charge right away. The manual seemed to indicate it could only be done with an app (ugh, disgusting). Went back to the rental company, they made it charge and showed me a video of the screen where to do that. I asked "but how on earth do you get to that screen?". Turned out you could fucking swipe the tablet display to get to a different screen! There was absolutely no indication that this was possible, and the screen even implied that it was modal because there were icons at the bottom which changed the display of the screen.

So you had: zero affordances, modal design on a specific tab, and the different modes showed different tabs at the top, further leading me to believe that this was all there was.
by palmotea | 2025-10-31 05:49:54+00:00
>> That's hilariously wrong: you're basically claiming current-day conservatives [or at least Trump I conservatives, if you want to be hyper-literal) are all about conserving [Democratic-party] Clintonism.

> I mean... yeah. All this talk about cutting services and fixing the deficit. That's Clinton stuff, that's what he did. That was his platform.

JFC, do you know nothing? Conservatives aren't seeking to conserve Clintonism, Clinton co-opted a lot of conservative policies (see: "triangulation"). That's the source any overlap, and conservatives still hate him for all the other stuff.

The idea that conservatives' only ideology is preserving the status quo of exactly N years ago, is completely unsupported by the facts and frankly ludicrous. Give it up. There's some genuine radicalism there, and whatever things they seek to "conserve" tend to fit in one of a few ideological frameworks that drive what they pick and choose.
by tomhow | 2025-10-31 05:51:21+00:00
This may be a common, valid political position, but it's not the style of participation we're wanting on HN. The guidelines make it clear that HN exists for curious conversation, and we're hoping for this to be a place where people can discuss difficult topics with sensitivity and nuance. In the very best-case scenario maybe we can work together to find new ideas for addressing age-old societal challenges like this. In this form, such an argument is repetitive flamebait and makes HN seem more like a political rally than a constructive discussion. Please make an effort to observe the guidelines in future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by wubrr | 2025-10-31 05:52:24+00:00
> Yes, that makes it nearly impossible for other places to become Shenzen. Even within China it's special.

You're skipping n = 1 and jumping straight to k. How did modern Shenzen become what it is? Through specific reasons like infrastructure investment, or because it was always a 'manufacturing cluster'? By your logic Shenzen must have been the manufacturing hub of the world since before the dawn of time... since it's 'impossible for any place to become Shenzen'.

> Right, because if you're doing business you can get by with a single investor meeting a year, right?

Because the only way to meet and communicate in 2025 is in person?

> There's no downside in time lost, money spent, ease of access, etc.?

All of these are better remote/digitally in most cases.
by sshine | 2025-10-31 05:52:37+00:00
In the 2000s a law was passed in Denmark that allowed for extensive logging of internet traffic.

But the ISPs couldn't implement it in a practical way and essentially refused until they were given something doable. That ended up, in some cases, being "register every 500th TCP package" (or similar; it might've been DNS lookup).

At the same time, if the police wanted actual digital surveillance, they'd just contact the ISP and say "Hey, can we get ALL the traffic for this one person who is under suspicion?" and the ISPs would, in some cases I'm familiar with, comply without a court order. So there was a clear path of execution for actual surveillance while at the same time this political circus made no sense.

Imagine you're surveilling a place for criminal activity and you're recording one second of audio every 8 minutes. Surely gold nuggets are gonna leak out of that.
by xtagon | 2025-10-31 05:53:06+00:00
Not happy. I recently purchased the whole suite and now not only is it now free (didn't need to purchase it), but it's no longer even what I want. And it doesn't work on iPad until they finish whatever rewrite, when cross-platform + apple pencil niceness was a huge draw.

Sure, it's free -- but it's no longer the same product with the same priorities.
by usr1106 | 2025-10-31 05:53:49+00:00
Walk into a bank is no longer possible in Finland, regardless of the purpose.

Most branch offices have been closed. The bigger part of the remaining ones are appointment only and getting an appointment can take weeks.

Very few offer cash and similar day to day services without appointment, but only very short hours. People who cannot use cards or the internet will queue in the street.

So like the modern challengers, traditional banks just offer no customer service deserving the name.
by foobazgt | 2025-10-31 05:54:32+00:00
Slava mentions both bidirectional inferencing and overloading as two of the big culprits.

I've been doing some language work recently, and I'm quite sympathetic to bidirectional inferencing. I think, though, that modern PLs need better solutions for adhoc overloading. It's notorious for its complexity, blowing up algorithmically, and confusing users with surprising results (why oh why did the compiler select this function over the one I intended). That said, I haven't discovered a good alternative (for my purposes) yet.
by peter_d_sherman | 2025-10-31 05:54:51+00:00
Are you aware that in cities like L.A., vast areas are constantly being video recorded by helicopters flying overhead?

Or that drones with video cameras might be used for that purpose in the future, in other cities?

Is your issue really with Flock cameras on light or utility poles -- or might there be drones (and other higher flying objects) that perform this same function, either now or in the future?

?

Also -- since you bring up AI analyses -- then whose fault for the alleged issue is it, really?

Was it the company's fault?

Or was it the AI's fault?

Or was it the Officer's fault -- for not performing prior due dilligence, and rushing to act on flaky data?

Who shall we blame, and why, specifically?
by bytefish | 2025-10-31 05:54:59+00:00
I feel super uneasy developing Software with Angular, Vue or any framework using npm. The amount of dependencies these frameworks take is absolutely staggering. And just by looking at the dependency tree and thousands of packages in my node_modules folder, it is a disaster waiting to happen. You are basically one phishing attack on a poor open source developer away from getting compromised.

To me the entire JavaScript ecosystem is broken. And a typo in your “npm -i” is sufficient to open up yourself for a supply-chain attack. Could the same happen with NuGet or Maven? Sure!

But at least in these languages and environments I have a huge Standard Library and very few dependencies to take. It makes me feel much more in control.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-31 05:55:03+00:00
I like this explanation, though there is one form of creative standardization: brand identity. And I suppose that's where graphics folk engage with software (Plasma, the GNOME design, etc.). Amusingly, I like contributing to Wikipedia and the Commons so I should have thought of that. You're absolutely right that I had a blind spot there in terms of what's the equivalent there of free software.

Another thing is that the vast amount of fan fiction out there has a hub-and-spoke model forming an S_n graph around the solitary 'original work' and there are community norms around not 'appropriating' characters and so on, but you're right that community works like the SCP Foundation definitely show that software-like property of remixing of open work.

Anyway, all to say I liked your comment very much but couldn't reply because you seem to have been accidentally hellbanned some short while ago. All of your comments are pretty good, so I reached out to the HN guys and they fixed it up (and confirmed it was a false positive). If you haven't seen people engage with what you're saying, it was a technical issue not a quality issue, so I hope you'll keep posting because this is stuff I like reading on HN. And if you have a blog with an RSS feed or something, it would be cool to see it on your profile.
by dang | 2025-10-31 05:57:26+00:00
I don't know that they were artistic frauds - perhaps one test for this is how their work lives on in other artists. From that point of view, Burroughs probably lives on in his paranoid way; Kerouac less so; Ginsberg I have no idea. But yes I hear you that if older people in your life handed you this stuff as anything to admire or live by, then the only self-enlivening response is to reject it completely.
by daotoad | 2025-10-31 05:58:59+00:00
The crazy thing is that the Pages router looked to me to essentially be a React flavored version of the venerable Perl HTML::Mason library.

It offered embedded code that is used to generate static HTML server side. It had application routing based on the file directory structure of the repository. It had automatic code wrappers distributed across the directory structure.

https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::Mason

I used the heck out of HTML::Mason for years and it scaled ridiculously well to large apps.

Over time, HTML::Mason was supplanted by Mason, but I never used it due to not working in Perl anymore.

https://metacpan.org/pod/Mason

If you like the Pages router, it wouldn't hurt to dig through ancient scrolls of Mason users to look for techniques and lost knowledge.

Caveat: I haven't written or maintained any big apps in Next, but I've played with it a bit and have supported the SDKs I work on in Next apps.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-31 05:59:53+00:00
> It's statistically very likely a hot chick does not know calculus.

It would be honestly interesting if someone actually did a study regarding it.

I do agree with this statement but it isn't as if everybody doesn't have other opportunity costs, people might have video games as hobbies or just normal hobbies in general as well which could be considered opportunity costs

The question to me which sounds more interesting which I feel like I maybe reading in the lines but does the society shower attention to beauty which can make them feel less susceptible to lets say calculus which might feel a lot more boring respectively?

Generally speaking, I was seeing this the other day but female involvement overall in the whole stem department has reduced in %'s iirc.

Another factor could be the weirdness or expectation. Like just as you think this, this is assumed by many people about hot chicks lets say, so if a hot chick is actually into calculus and she tells it, people would say things like oh wow I didn't know that or really?? which could feel weirdness or this expectation of them to not be this way and be conventional and not have interests it seems.

I have seen people get shocked in online communities if a girl is even learning programming or doing things like hyprland (maybe myself included as it was indeed rare)

Naturally I would love if more girls could be into this as I feel like talking to girls about my hobbies when she isn't that interested or not having common hobbies hurts me when I talk to them, they can appreciate it but I feel like I can tell them anything, I am not that deep of a coder right now as much as I am a linux tinkerer, building linux iso's from scratch, shell scripting and building some web services etc. , I like to tinker with software, naturally the word used in unix/foss communities for this is called hacking which should be the perfect way to describe what I mean except they think I am talking about cybersecurity and want me to "hack something", Sorry about this rant but I have stopped saying this hacking just because of how correlated it is to cybersecurity to the normal public. I just say that I love tinkering with software nowadays. Side note, but is there a better word for what I am saying other than hacking?
by kragen | 2025-10-31 06:01:20+00:00
Oh, it turns out that complex exponentials are the eigenfunctions of linear time-invariant systems, and sound transmission is full of linear time-invariant systems. So surely ears cannot be perfectly detecting sinusoids, but there's a lot of evolutionary pressure to come as close as possible. That way, you can still recognize a birdsong or the howl of a wolf even if it echoes off a cliff, or recognize your baby crying even if it is facing the other way.
by joe_the_user | 2025-10-31 06:01:28+00:00
Ah, I think I get it. Violating the spirit of a law can be, often is, enough to get you convicted of a crime. Arguably more often than violating the letter of the law but not it's spirit.

However, if a judge dodesn't want to find someone guilty, "not violating the letter of the law" can provide a fig leaf for the friendly judge.
by zzmbnp | 2025-10-31 06:02:04+00:00
"Either way I don't care what you remember or think."

Imagine building a product for developers and then going on Hacker News telling people to fuck off.

Someone at my job mentioned using PlanetScale recently. I said "I'll check it out" and now I have: the CEO has terrible judgement and is a jerk. Permanent veto.
by jonway | 2025-10-31 06:03:30+00:00
I’m definitely not a Marx expert, but: No no no.

Marx being such an obscure figure with little impact on the course of modern history, it doesn’t surprise me that you never got a chance to read it, but alienation is definitely “talked about”, the critique of capitalism is part and parcel of Marx specifically, the material conditions of workers play HEAVILY into it. He didn’t just emerge from some cottage with this idea, he was observing the Industrial Revolution.

If the bourgeoisie CEO (capital owner?) feels connected to the fruit of his labor it makes a difference for their material conditions, but has no bearing on capitalist-or-not.

In an economics setting you’ll talk more about the labor theory of value and so forth, alienation of the aristocracy wasn’t the thrust of the work. Your example could maybe point at the idea of “golden handcuffs”, however the classic Yes Men prank on the WTO is more the reality ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK9Cs_UcTEE )

This is all of course a point of curiosity alone, since the rare encounters with Marx are restricted to philosophy, economics, history, political science, sociology and advanced psychology programs.
by figassis | 2025-10-31 06:03:54+00:00
To me, what makes sense is that there is one reality (or I guess, our reality is unity), and everything in it, including “living” beings and “intelligence” is inseparable from the singleton. So trying to observe an object or an event, is the same as reality observing itself. It wouldn’t surprise me that the feedback loop of this is what we perceive as observer dependent attributes. Whether this reality is an objective physical reality or something else entirely is irrelevant and does us no harm.
by zahlman | 2025-10-31 06:05:46+00:00
The objection is to the redundant, flowery prose overall, and the overall inaccuracy. (Of course the installer "doesn't just download packages"; installation at minimum would also involve unpacking the archive and putting the files in the right place....)

In about as much text, we could explain far better why and how NPM's behaviour is risky:

> When you install a package using `npm install`, NPM may also run arbitrary code from the package, from multiple hook scripts specified in `package.json`, before you can even audit the code.