MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-17 11:58:41+00:00
> This used to be called "equality under the law" and laws that could not be written equally or enforced equally were not written or overturned by the courts.

The US in particular had discrimination encoded in law for a long time. It took Rosa Parks in 1955 to end "white only" areas in public transport, and it took until 1965 until racial discrimination by law was finally outlawed.

"Equality under the law" always depends on who is considered to be part of the group that enjoys said equality. Even today, many countries still have laws on the books that discriminate between ethnicity and/or country of origin and/or citizenship. Just look at us in Europe - you usually have to be a citizen of an EU country to hold public office for example, residency is not enough. Or you got border patrol clearly profiling whom to control at a border checkpoint - whites get left alone and unbothered, non-whites get the full experience of what border control is allowed to do. That's not just discrimination, it's showing citizens that happen to have non-white skin that despite them being equal citizens by law, in practice there is no equality.
by troupo | 2025-10-17 11:58:55+00:00
> Not if you care about state being consistent between all clients.

No idea what you mean

> Say you want a minimap, or a presence indicator, now

I struggle to see where I said that you have to have everything and anything on the client.

> Events up are fine if you batch them and 204 (i.e CQRS). In return you get a nice pushed based system that

That you have to actually code, create, and maintain.

> Whenever your program has to interact with external entities, don't do things directly in reaction to external events. Instead, your program should run at its own pace.

No idea what this has to do with anything I wrote

> You don't need optimistic UI, a fast server with an in process DB and a decent backend language and you'll be fine for a lot of use cases.

Again, this hinges on the childish belief that the network is always there, is always fast, and is always low-latency.

And none of these answer the question of why you would want to save "I showed a modal on the client" in a backend database.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-17 11:59:12+00:00
I think a good thought experiment to consider, in terms of defining what your own views are, is to consider that if every single person had a mandatory 24/7 uplinked camera on them with redundancies, then the number of unsolved crimes would rapidly approach zero. It would be essentially impossible to get away with crime, so the only crimes that would happen would be those of passion, ignorance, or the political elite who would certainly excuse themselves from such social obligations, as usual.

But I definitely would not want to live in that world. And I think that's true for most people. It's kind of interesting too because there's some really nasty arguments one can make about this like, 'What, you'd rather see children kidnapped and even killed than consenting to surveillance that won't even be looked at unless you're under suspicion?'

But it's quite disingenuous, because with any freedom there is always a cost, and that cost is often extreme. 40,000+ people die per year because of our freedom to drive, yet few would ever use that as an argument to prohibit driving.
by xpe | 2025-10-17 11:59:35+00:00
I recently came across KDL when searching for a data language that makes it easy to compactly write out a structured document. It seems likely it isn't widely known about, at least among general HN readers, so I wanted to share it.

If you haven't seen it before, you might be tempted to think "how is this different than e.g. JSON?", but I suggest it will make more sense if you think about it as "XML without the baggage".

The most recent top-level mention on HN I found is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37249430
by Jgrubb | 2025-10-17 11:59:45+00:00
I totally agree and would like to shill for the FOCUS project - https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/ - which is an open source project to normalize and standardize the billing format of cloud vendors and Saas vendors alike. It brings greater transparency and efficiency to understanding that massive cloud bill your company pays every month.

I've used this schema to merge together AWS, GCP, and Azure into 1 unified cloud bill, which unlocks a ton of understanding of where the money is going inside the cloud bills.
by Retric | 2025-10-17 11:59:55+00:00
EVs range degrades in a meaningful fashion with time and new EVs are improving faster than ICE cars, thus faster depreciation.

The flip side of this is a general over correction as the new car tax break ends used EVs are really compelling today. A slightly used Long Range Model 3 is a far better option than their new Base Model 3.

Eventually ICE cars were designed for their resale value so people buying a new car every 3 or 5 years could afford to spend more money. That’s coming for EVs as the technology improves battery degradation means the range sweet spot will be chosen to keep the used market happy not just new buyers etc.
by _factor | 2025-10-17 12:00:15+00:00
https://www.idownloadblog.com/2021/12/16/ios-15-2-power-rese...

They can do it right up until the battery truly discharges. You can’t turn off WiFi/BT for real either. Icons will go dark and your WiFi and devices won’t work, but underneath the radios are still plenty active and powered on.
by debian3 | 2025-10-17 12:00:48+00:00
Same here, been running dedicated servers with OVH since 2009, if anything bare metal server are more stable than before. I just replaced a set of servers that was from 2018, I didn’t have any hardware problems during their 8 years of working under significant load. During that time I had 2 or 3 power outages, a few more network outages. Usually problems come in a cluster. I had a few years that I had nothing to report, 100% uptime. Dedicated are nice, but I guess it scares people. Hetzner use lower hardware quality than OVH on some of their offerings, so your experience may vary. One of the most important thing is to check that your server use datacenter SSD/HDD with ECC ram, it saves you a lot of problems.
by Retric | 2025-10-17 12:01:09+00:00
> You can't get to zero failures.

For this device you agree with mine and the original posters position.

A Diaper however can be designed not to risk grievous bodily harm for an infant when used correctly by a human. If someone doesn’t change their kids dipper that’s neglect by the parents not a negative news story for the manufacturers. We’re a long way from this point when it comes to robots.
by FabCH | 2025-10-17 12:01:15+00:00
The article is making a huge mistake though, comparing apples to oranges.

Resale value of EVs doesn't depend on mileage nowhere near as much as ICE cars. EVs are just much simpler machines and electric motors can do a million miles with no maintenance, and the only maintenance you have is the oil in the differential, which is often simpler because it is single-speed. Compare that to thousand different mechanical parts that all wear out in a ICE engine. Which is why ICE cars resale value is determined by the odometer.

What drives EV resale value is the health of the battery, which is influenced more by recharge cycles and straight up passage of time.

And the anecdotal evidence of a commercial fleet going bankrupt and not getting much for their EVs... Well yeah, would you buy from such a source? I wouldn't. They usually don't follow longevity advice for battery charging, because they have to optimize for time-in-use.

As an anecdote, I bought all my ICE cars second hand, and would usually sell them 3-4 years later just before major maintenance was needed. My EV is now 8 years old, runs like the day I got it and had 1 repair, when the motor that drives the window up and down broke and battery capacity is still the same, or if it changed it's such a small change I didn't notice. I don't expect to sell any time soon, if ever. I expect I will just do a battery swap in 5-10 years.
by ramon156 | 2025-10-17 12:01:15+00:00
Frameworks aren't necessary in the same way that high level languages aren't necessary. It depends, it always does

If you want to ship an MVP next week and you spend 6 days setting up your env, you've already failed. If you can get a framework with at least 80% of the features you need, suddenly you have 6.5 days left to build the product
by PeterStuer | 2025-10-17 12:01:34+00:00
So much of this, but not all, could be mitigated with a guaranteed battery "refurbishing" program. Large part of an EV's value is tied up in the battery, which is a (longer term) consumable. So when an EV hits the second hand market, and there is no battery guarantee (or clear and trusted state and history reporting), the estimates on battery value will have to be on the low side, and the overall car value depreciated accordingly.

Traditional gas cars also have wear and tear with parts on the "consumables" spectrum, but these are considered more open to state inspection by a semi knowledgeable amateur, and the car's value is less tied to one specific black-box item.
by bdbdkdksk | 2025-10-17 12:02:20+00:00
Considering the current US regime would like to revisit Wong Kim Ark (1898), the 19th amendment (1920) and the Voting Rights Act (1965) it's fair to say they're trying undo over 100 years of civil rights progress.

Not to mention the growing ICE detention camp archipelago which is reminiscent of the era of Japanese Interment (1942-1946).

Even economically - though we're in a K-shaped recovery - many of the labour protections and economic promises of the New Deal have been repealed since the Reagan era (by both parties).
by librasteve | 2025-10-17 12:02:43+00:00
I think that you have a good angle, with latest HTML, CSS and so on. I would consider HTMX or DataStar (SSE) based on where you want to manage the state. Bear in mind that both can coexist.

My priority is code clarity … so while it is not yet tested at scale, https://harcstack.org is aimed to do this on the server side (disclosure - I am the author)

Another determinant is the server side language / approach to templating you choose. With HTMX Python, Rust, Go are all fair game. I’m leading with Raku due to its web framework and ORM.
by whizzter | 2025-10-17 12:03:33+00:00
Ugh, that's sad. The 10 year old drives for me are WD:RED's so can't complain about the old ones.

Looking at the Pro/Plus PDF's it seems that they do specify CMR officially so sneaking in SMR disks sounds like lawsuit material.

I'll probably go for them again, just be vary with research!
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by tifa2up | 2025-10-17 12:03:58+00:00
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We put all of these learning into an MIT licensed open-source project — Agentset. Our goal to let people get production quality RAG w/o having to understand or optimize the underlying pieces. It supports 22 file formats, agentic search, deep research, citations, and a UI out of the box.

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by ngc6677 | 2025-10-17 12:03:58+00:00
1. web-components https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_compone...

2. router https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL_Pattern...

The rest should be code organization, not even a build tool.

Can check this example https://github.com/radio4000/components
by loueed | 2025-10-17 12:04:09+00:00
Computers get old and EV tech is constantly improving. ICE has been stable for decades. Tesla believes they can increase the market value of older EV's eventually by pushing autonomous driving.

I like the direction of https://slate.auto. Module, bring-your-own-computer. We'll see if they allow affordable trade-in's for upgrading battery/motors.

They could also work with CommaAI for autonomy.
by anovikov | 2025-10-17 12:04:27+00:00
Aren't they deprecating mainly because new EVs are better? In this case, it is not "derailing" but simply the actual replacement happening. And this effect will become smaller as the industry matures and EV prices stabilise.

At least that's what happened in 2022-2023 when prices of EVs and ICE cars quickly converged. No surprise existing EVs on the road deprecated rapidly.
by ta1243 | 2025-10-17 12:04:29+00:00
The best time to not buy into all this non-free surveilence-as-a-service crap was a decade ago.

The second best time is today.

Unfortunately the public love this stuff, and are quite happy to have CCTV pointing at your house. Privacy never existed 300 years ago, it doesn't today. Accept your feudal masters and make peace with it, because they won years ago.
by diego_moita | 2025-10-17 12:04:34+00:00
The upside of this story might be a change of culture in EVs in North America. Everywhere else in the world, EVs are cheap cars to urbanites. In the U.S./Canada they're muscle/status cars for rich people. This cheaper second hand market might help popularize them.

I live in Canada where the distances are long and the weather is freaking cold. These are 2 circumstances very adverse to EVs.

But, still, I love my Kia Niro EV. It is the best car I've ever had. The driving experience is so good that it made me enjoy driving; I always hated driving before this car.

EVs run much smoother, are more stable and more powerful. Besides, if you charge them at home, they're far cheaper; even if you don't have solar panels (I do have them, too).
by DaveZale | 2025-10-17 12:04:44+00:00
FWIW: I started a blog/website on neocities.org a few months ago, and found some webcrawler blockers- at least a couple dozen there at the time, but they needed to be uncommented. So I am using them to block the various crawlers, presumably. I still have not put that to the test. By deactivating the blockers, and checking the site traffic states, one might be able to determine whether they are working or not. You might want to build a test site to try yourself. Neocities is free for up to one GB of space.

Years ago, I used google blogspot quite a bit. After every post was published, the first hit came from a server in Germany. Maybe a mirror or surveillance bot? I'll never know. But sure, it's a little spooky to be training AI with every post, and not knowing whose AI, and it's annoying to not be compensated. I've trained a lot of technical people over the years and it paid well. With the AI we get nothing.

Hey if you have enough interesting material, why not write a print book?
by wismoy | 2025-10-17 12:04:54+00:00
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by rjdj377dhabsn | 2025-10-17 12:05:29+00:00
Always waiting for "better options" is often irrational. You should buy what's best for you today.

If the value of your EV has dropped to $10k and you get paid out that much for an accident, then in theory you should be able to buy a similar condition EV on the used car market for $10k. What's the problem with that?
by lan321 | 2025-10-17 12:05:59+00:00
>"The Government" is not a entity with "wants" or "needs", it's a collection of people with their own motivations. Motivations that usually end up being about power or money, or a combination, because the people who end up in the government are capitalists.

The main issue is that its power only grows. No one sane would propose to reduce his influence and/or make his job harder and everyone has ideas on how to make his job easier. It's not about capitalism, communism or anything else. The only thing that plays a role is how many somewhat independent influence blocks you have and whether you have a system to stop the power creep and 'we only have to vote it in once' problem.

And it's not even strictly about 'easier' from the perspective of the worker. I imagine if you deal with police work and such spying probably seems a lot more reasonable since you're very exposed to the bad part of society, which does skew your view of the world, no matter how rational you think you are.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-17 12:06:03+00:00
My battery is starting to get to unacceptable degradation; I have a 7 year old EV and my top battery percentage is 78% of the purchase.

I inquired about a battery swap and it's around $10->12k. I'm seriously considering it in the next couple of years as I see that as buying another 9->10 years of life for my car.

I might grab a used EV instead, though, as the one thing my car lacks is a heat pump, which kinda sucks in the winter.
by trashb | 2025-10-17 12:06:33+00:00
You can sideload books on Kobo over USB they parse the expected formats epub/pdf/html without problems. There is custom firmware available and a homebrew app community.

I find their default interface is also good and can read anything without mayor problems, books, web & comics. My reader Elipsa 2e is also great for taking notes and supports notes in book pages, though that specific model isn't supported by the custom firmware.
by JCM9 | 2025-10-17 12:06:44+00:00
As competition heats up, the relative “enshitifcation” of AWS is real.

There just isn’t a compelling story to go “all in on AWS” anymore. For anything beyond raw storage and compute the experience elsewhere is consistently better, faster, cheaper.

It seems AWS leadership got caught up trying to have an answer for every possible computing use case and broadly ended up with a bloated mess of expensive below-bar products. The recent panicked flood of meh AI slop products as AWS tries to make up for its big miss on AI is one such example.

Would like to see AWS just focus on doing core infrastructure and doing it well. Others are simply better at everything that then layers on top of that.
by vidarh | 2025-10-17 12:06:46+00:00
I've maxed out lots of CPUs at Hetzner over many years, and across multiple companies, and had clients do the same, so I find your claim to be dubious unless you're talking about shared CPU cloud instances in which case I wouldn't be surprised but also wouldn't consider it unfair.

So let me revise that to say I haven't seen any reports I can 1) verify are first hand, and 2) know accurately reflect an actual unfair termination. That is also why I don't bother going around reading accounts on Reddit.
by sphars | 2025-10-17 12:07:12+00:00
Sideloading is still supported. But Amazon removed the ability to download your legally purchased (rented) from the Amazon website - the download and transfer via USB option [0]. So if you previously downloaded those books, you can still manually copy them onto the Kindle.

[0]: https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-removing-download...
by einrealist | 2025-10-17 12:07:15+00:00
And don't forget the AI companies. People are happy to send their highly personal information (and company secrets) to them so that a chatbot can use it. Didn't OpenAI just announce a porn feature?

OpenAI is receiving far more data with a far greater privacy impact than social networks. And all this is happening at a time when the US is transitioning from a somewhat functioning democracy to an autocratic and fascist system.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/chatgpt-pa...
by makowskid | 2025-10-17 12:07:24+00:00
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by mcjiggerlog | 2025-10-17 12:07:42+00:00
I tried it out this morning and it felt really rough, unfortunately.

It was super slow (thought I think that applies to CLI Codex too), it wasn't outputting any text explaining what it was trying to achieve, and it started off down a path that made no sense. Claude Code in Zed has some rough edges but it's at least usable.

In terms of GUI agents, Cursor is still a lot nicer experience, IMO. Though I do still prefer just using Claude Code cli, personally.
by wil421 | 2025-10-17 12:07:54+00:00
Beside fuel efficiency and the long charge time for EVs, many EVs seem more like non-repairable iPhones than their ICE counterparts. Tesla’s look very safe but seems like you can not replace body parts. Same with Rivian. I saw a guy dent a rear quarter panel and the quote was $45k. Only because the crazy way they manufactured things.

Is BYD any different?
by Jensson | 2025-10-17 12:08:02+00:00
> I'm not saying this is specifically the case for you, but it is remarkably common for visitors from other parts of the world to visit, go into what we consider a "convenience store", and then be confused that there's basically nothing in terms of actual groceries in there, with probably 80%+ of the "consumable" shelving devoted to snack/"junk" items.

But that is the problem isn't it? That you have to drive so far and look on a map to find a grocery store while in Europe you can just walk for 5 minutes and find one where you can buy fresh produce. So in Europe there are these convenient grocery stores that stocks fresh produce and so on, USA not having those is what we talked about.

So sure if you define "grocery store" as a store that sells fresh produce you are right, but then there are very few grocery stores in USA which is still the problem we talked about. It is so much easier and faster to get these wares in Europe than in USA.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-10-17 12:08:22+00:00
In the UK I think most EVs are leased, especially through "salary sacrifice" schemes from employers (which saves the whole income tax on payments). Is it the same in the US?

In such case I suspect the impact is mostly on leasing companies with issues on viability and leasing costs (for consumers).

In UK/Europe this might also explain why depreciation after 3 years is so high: Leasing companies trying to dump EVs returned at end of leases.
by 542354234235 | 2025-10-17 12:08:26+00:00
It seems like people being able to reproduce at-will would be the problem. Designing a system where people are sterile by default and can only have a child with intervention seems the only way to prevent random population explosions. If some group in your population finds religion and decides to be fruitful, you have a big problem. If 15% of your population has double replacement numbers, you have a 45% increase in your population in two generations.