MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ElijahLynn | 2025-11-03 23:23:31+00:00
Nice observation that the weight isn't that much of a deal compared to batteries for electric vehicles!

It does seem like with this advancement, and the size of these axial flux motors that maybe, all wheel drive vehicles will be the default. As well as sub 3 second acceleration, which can make vehicles safer, for example getting out of the way of an incoming object. Of course it could also make them less safe because that vast of acceleration is kind of dangerous.

But I do wonder if the weight reduction (over 30%) of lithium sulfur batteries paired with these is really going to make a great recipe for all sorts of quiet, long lasting, powerful electric vehicles and robots!
by array_key_first | 2025-11-03 23:23:59+00:00
I mean, other countries are working their employees to the bone. Some employee children, some have slavery.

Should we go ahead and bring back slavery for "competition"? I mean, you can't compete with free labor, right?

We have to draw the line somewhere, and that somewhere is arbitrary. We're not changing any decisions here - 32 hours/week is equally as arbitrary as 40.
by isaacdl | 2025-11-03 23:24:08+00:00
I almost posted something this morning about this, because I received an email that really frustrated me. I have a 401k with Guideline from an old employer. The email was from Accrue <no-reply@accrue401k.com>, and said, in part:

> Login: Please visit my.accrue401k.com to log in. You’ll find that the 401(k) dashboard and user experience remain familiar. If you’ve set up your account, your same login credentials will provide you access into the dashboard. (Please note, Accrue does not currently offer a mobile app).

The my.accrue401k.com part was a hyperlink to that site. I've independently done some digging (and contacted my old employer to verify!) but this is precisely how a targeted phishing attack would work. Asking someone to enter their financial account credentials into a site they've never used or heard of, based entirely on an unsolicited email, is INSANE.

This email was the first time I've heard of Gusto, of Guideline being acquired, or of Accrue 401k (which apparently is the company created to hold Guideline's 401k accounts that are NOT affiliated with Gusto). Nice.
by sema4hacker | 2025-11-03 23:24:09+00:00
I'm a boomer. I've always been willing to work 40 hours a week. For the last three years I've been hiring and employing retail workers in their 20's at salaries ranging from $27/hr to $40/hr. Not a single one has been willing to put in 40 hours, and they usually don't want to do even 30. I have no sympathy when they complain about prices and expenses.
by runarberg | 2025-11-03 23:24:31+00:00
That’s how I remember it too. The video is from 1999, during the height of the dot-com bubble. These experts are predicting that within 10 years the internet will be on your phone, and that people will be using their phones as credit cards and the phone company would manage the transaction, the prediction actually comes pretty close to the prediction made by bitcoin enthusiasts.

https://bsky.app/profile/ruv.is/post/3liyszqszds22

Note that this is the state TV broadcasting this in their main news program. The most popular daily show in Iceland.
by _liam | 2025-11-03 23:24:45+00:00
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by cowpig | 2025-11-03 23:24:50+00:00
Thanks!

With these sources in hand I think I am convinced of Tim's original point; I first looked at that ftc document and didn't see anything about user responsiveness in it.

The fact that it's not mentioned and that the main points he made in that summary have nothing to do with user responsiveness is evidence that Grok did a crap job summarizing his role in the FTC's cas, right?
by m0llusk | 2025-11-03 23:24:52+00:00
It is the language, available tools and libraries, and the community. As a programming snob the fact that most of my coding is now done in Javascript is a threat to my identity managed with a handful of clearly reasoned explanations. This choice works with tools and libraries that support my needs and there are always more experienced programmers that can be called on when help is required.
by nchmy | 2025-11-03 23:24:54+00:00
Respectfully, almost everything you said is just plain wrong.

1. Datastar supports req/reply just fine - be it via normal text/html responses, or SSE (0, 1, or infinity responses) https://data-star.dev/reference/actions#response-handling. So, the crux of your argument is moot...

Moreover, if htmx's real value is ajax request/response, then why are you introducing SSE as a first-class citizen now?

2. Datastar has data-on, and various other attributes, that allow for triggering far more actions than just backend requests, from far more (any) events. I'm glad to see that htmx is now following suit with hx-on, even if it is apparently limited in capabilities.

3. Datastar can do OOB-swaps just fine - that's literally the core functionality, via (their own, faster) idiomorph.

4. Its a misnomer that Datastar is for video games etc - again, as described above, it can do all of the simple things that that HTMX can do, and more. And, again, why is HTMX introducing SSE if its so apparently unnecessary and unwieldy?

5. What makes htmx popular is that it was the first library to make declarative fragment swapping easy. And Carson is just a god-tier marketer. Its nice to see that he's now realized that Delaney was on to something when he wanted to introduce all of these v4 features to HTMX 3 years ago, but was (fortunately for us happy users) forced to go make Datastar instead.

6. We havent even talked about one of the key features - declarative signals. Signals are justifiably taking over all of the JS frameworks and there's even an active proposal to make them part of the web platform. D* makes them simpler to use than any of them, and in a tiny package.

I, Delaney, and all other D* users are grateful for HTMX opening this door. But I reiterate my original question - now that HTMX is becoming Datastar-lite, why not just use Datastar given that the powerful extras don't add any complexity and comes in a smaller package?
by ayaros | 2025-11-03 23:25:32+00:00
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by ksclk | 2025-11-03 23:27:14+00:00
Hi! Could you please tell me what use cases would nginx be better for, outside of serving static files?

Moreover, having worked with Django a bit (I certainly don't have as much experience as you do), it seems to me that anything that benefits from asynchrony and is trivial in Node is indeed a pain in Django. Good observability is much harder to achieve (tools generally support Node and its asynchrony out of the box, async python not so much), Celery is decent for long running, background, or fire and forget tasks, but e.g. using it to do some quick parallel work, that'd be a simple Promise.all() is much less performant (serialize your args, put it in redis, wait for a worker to pick it up, etc), doing anything that blocks a thread for a little bit, whether in Django or Celery,is a problem, because you've got a very finite amount of threads (unless you use gevent, which patches stdlib, which is a huge smell in itself), and it's easy to run out of them... Sure, you can work around anything, but with Node you don't have to think about any of this, it just works.

When you're still small, isn't taking a week to move to Node a better choice than first evaluating a solution to each problem, implementing solutions, each of which can be more or less smelly (which is something each of your engs will have to learn and maintain... We use celery for this, nginx for that, also gevent here because yada yada, etc etc), which in total might take more days and put a much bigger strain on you in the long term? Whereas with Node, you spend a week, and it all just works in a standard way that everyone understands. It seems to me that exploring other options first would indeed be a better choice, but for a bigger project, not when the rewrite is that small.

Thank you for your answers!
by songqin | 2025-11-03 23:27:19+00:00
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by jesse__ | 2025-11-03 23:27:22+00:00
Somebody's probably already pointed this out, but in the case of motors, making them lighter can make a big difference.

For example, by making the flywheel in a clutch lighter, you reduce the amount of torque it takes to spin the flywheel. Saving 10 pounds there is not a 10/3000lb difference.. it could be a huge percentage of total power output.
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-03 23:27:25+00:00
The LLM doesn't 'know' more than us - it has compressed more patterns from text than any human could process. That's not the same as knowledge. And yes, the training algorithms deliberately skew the distribution to maintain coherent output - without that bias toward seen patterns, it would generate nonsense. That's precisely why it can't be creative outside its training distribution: the architecture is designed to prevent novel combinations that deviate too far from learned patterns. Coherence and genuine creativity are in tension here
by mslzed | 2025-11-03 23:27:27+00:00
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by RajT88 | 2025-11-03 23:28:10+00:00
See - you nailed it. I did plenty of dumb shit when I was a kid, but like the specific number I quoted - 13mph - wiping out at that speed, which I have numerous times even as an adult - is a totally different level of bodily harm compared to the speeds I see kids doing on eBikes.

Would I have as a kid blasted around at 40mph if I could have? Goddamn right. That's actually my point - I'm not dead or permanently damaged, just the recipient of quite a lot of road rash. Worst injury I ever had on a bike was a broken trapezium, as an adult, for something totally not speed related (~13mph, yes), when a tree fell in front of me and I braked and flew across the handlebars. Game that out doing even 20mph and that's a different outcome.

Classic case of, "I've been there, done that, and this situation is nuts".
by JKCalhoun | 2025-11-03 23:28:30+00:00
Nice to read, nice to see this message going out more.

I'm old enough (61) that owning music is what I've known most of my life. I have to say I've never not owned my own music. I went from vinyl to CDs—and then ripped the CDs digitally. The ripped tracks I have kept on hard drives, in the cloud. (I am continually adding music as I discover it so that it grows.)

Even though I eschew CDs these days for new music, I buy the digital tracks of the highest quality from Band Camp and add them to my storage locations.

For really top-notch albums, I still buy vinyl as a way of supporting the artist, I guess. I do infrequently put on vinyl (although I still think it is better than CD—it took The Muffs to convince me of that).
by elliotali | 2025-11-03 23:29:08+00:00
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by beeflet | 2025-11-03 23:29:22+00:00
Humans also have territory, hunting and hierarchy. Everything that a lion does, humans also do but more complicated. So I think we would be able to understand the new creature.

But the problem is really that the lion that speaks is not the same creature as the lion we know. Everything the lion we know wants to say can already be said through its body language or current faculties. The goldfish grows to the size of its container.
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by parsimo2010 | 2025-11-03 23:31:01+00:00
You're probably right about how disconnected the spending vs. revenue is, but I've also seen the entire USA's public debt go so high that it requires nearly $1 trillion per year just to service the interest payments [1]. That sounds ludicrous to me too, and yet somehow the economy is booming.

There are two important points by Keynes that are relevant:

1. The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Even if you're betting on a crash, it will probably happen after you get margin called and lose all your money. You can be absolutely right about where this is headed, but keep your personal investments away from this.

2. The value of a company isn't determined by any sound fundamentals. It's determined by how much you can get a sucker to pay (aka Keynes' castles in the air theory). Until we run out of suckers OpenAI will be able to keep getting cash infusions to pay whoever actually demands cash instead of stock. And as long as there are suckers that are CEOs of big tech companies they are going to be getting really big cash infusions.

[1] https://www.pgpf.org/programs-and-projects/fiscal-policy/mon...
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-03 23:31:04+00:00
> I look forward to the "personal computing" period, with small models distributed everywhere...

One could argue that this period was just a brief fluke. Personal computers really took off only in the 1990s, web 2.0 happened in the mid-2000s. Now, for the average person, 95%+ of screen time boils down to using the computer as a dumb terminal to access centralized services "in the cloud".
by com2kid | 2025-11-03 23:31:10+00:00
That is nice and all, but it is one of many libraries that solves a problem that shouldn't exist.

The TS compiler should either have an option to pop out JSON schema from TS types or have a well defined plugin system to allow that to happen.

TS being compile time only really limits the language. It was necessary early on to drive adoption, but now days it just sucks.
by isaacdl | 2025-11-03 23:31:22+00:00
My guess is your different experience is precisely because you use Gusto as your payroll provider. My previous employer does not, or at least they did not when I was working there. This was truly the first and only email I've gotten about it, but I have always gotten regular transactional and notification emails from Guideline just fine, including yesterday with a confirmation that I'd changed my asset allocation!
by senkora | 2025-11-03 23:32:31+00:00
> The Wired can’t be allowed to interfere with the real world!

> No matter where you go, everyone’s connected.

https://youtu.be/24rPXmWWXek?si=QSn7ysb2OEm8OwzH

I know that HN culturally frowns on video links and unexplained references, so to be explicit:

The seeping of the internet into the real world is an important theme of the anime Serial Experiments Lain, which is excellent, and if you generally like anime and resonate with the kind of stuff that people are bringing up in this subthread, then I recommend giving it a watch.
by nathanmarz | 2025-11-03 23:32:51+00:00
I'm only somewhat familiar with Koog, but these these are major differences according to my understanding:

- Execution model: Koog is a library for defining agents that run within a single process. AOR agents execute across a distributed cluster, whether one node or thousands.

- Deployment and scaling: Koog provides no deployment or scaling mechanisms. That's something you need to figure out on your own. AOR includes built-in deployment, updating, and scaling.

- Integration complexity: Koog must be combined with other tools (monitoring tool, databases, deployment tools, etc.) to approximate a complete agent platform. AOR is fully integrated, including built-in high-performance, durable storage for any data model.

- Experimentation and evaluation: Koog has no features for experimentation or online evaluation. AOR includes extensive support for both.

- Scalability: AOR scales horizontally for both computation and storage. With Koog, you'd need to design and operate that infrastructure yourself.

- Observability: Koog's observability is limited to traces and basic telemetry exposed via OpenTelemetry. AOR provides a much broader set of telemetry, including "time to first token" and online evaluation charts. You can also split all time-series charts automatically by any metadata you attach to your runs (e.g. see how agent latency differs by the choice of model used). Plus, it's all built-in and automatic.

Please correct me if I'm wrong on any aspect of Koog.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-03 23:33:25+00:00
Yep. Former New York City Mayor and former mob prosecutor Rudy Giuliani allegedly (via leaving the room and an aide making the ask) offered one for sale to John Kiriakou for $2 million ($1 million to Trump and $1 million to Giuliani) in 2019. I'm guessing with inflation, it's probably around $3 million in 2025 money.
by nselrext | 2025-11-03 23:34:08+00:00
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by mr_toad | 2025-11-03 23:34:38+00:00
> The only way to rectify our reasonings is to make them as tangible as those of the Mathematicians, so that we can find our error at a glance, and when there are disputes among persons, we can simply say: Let us calculate, without further ado, to see who is right.

And then Kurt Gödel forever permanently dashed those dreams.