MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Volundr | 2025-11-05 17:58:54+00:00
> Declaring bankruptcy means you don't pay the debt, you wouldn't pay a lot AND declare bankruptcy. You'd see the amount was too much to pay, declare bankruptcy, and have the debt wiped out.

Bankruptcy isn't a magic get out of debt button. First you have to prove your inability to pay, which generally means not having much in the way of assets. So you probably have to spend a significant amount of money on the debt before bankruptcy is even an option. Then once you have successfully declared bankruptcy it means, aside from a few classes of protected assets (e.x. your primary residence if your sufficiently lucky to be a homeowner) your creditors get to divy up what you have left amongst themselves. THEN the debt is wiped away. It's a last resort that keeps every penny you earn for the rest of your life from going to creditors, not a way to walk away with your assets and lifestyle intact.
by throwmeaway307 | 2025-11-05 17:59:11+00:00
I'm worried Excel will go "enterprise only". and only LLM based interfaces will be enabled on the "office+windows" for consumers tier.

e.g. MS Access is well on its way. as soon as x86 gets fully overtaken by ARM, and LLMs overtake "compilers" (also taken enterprise only).. then things like sqlite-browsers (FOSS "access") will be an arcane tool of binary incompatible ("obsolete") formats

(edits: this worry has not been easy to type out)
by mechanicalpulse | 2025-11-05 17:59:12+00:00
Nest is hardly the only thermostat out there using solid-state relays. Have you considered the possibility that they did take it into account and they deliberately chose to use SSRs instead of electromechanical relays? Have you considered the possibility that they were concerned about the impact that mechanical relays may have on the RF, especially if "there is higher current than you think running through those terminals"? Have you considered the possibility that they were worried about making the first one fatter than it already was?

In my heat pump, none of the thermostat wires directly control the contactors. They all run into a logic board that applies logic like time delays, temperature-controlled defrost cycling, and active protection lockouts for the compressor. I mean, there's a seven-segment LCD on the logic board for system troubleshooting. The air handler has a variable speed blower as well.

I understand that HVAC equipment varies wildly, but if you try to solve every possible problem or scenario and target every possible customer, you'll never make it to market.

I also understand that I am the target demographic.
by neilv | 2025-11-05 17:59:18+00:00
I think "healthy competition" is the most productive way to look at it, given the situation.

With the history of unclear alignment, it would be foolish for everyone to rely on Gnome.

But there's a ton of investment and value in that platform. (Much of it before Gnome even started, but now under the Gnome umbrella.)

So "competition" has been giving us alternatives.

Maybe ongoing competition will help keep pressure on Gnome, to be closer to aligned with the user bases.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-05 17:59:36+00:00
> QUIC REQUIRES CA TLS for all endpoints

No. QUIC require TLS. TLS just provides a way to move certificates, but doesn't care what a "certificate" actually is. JPEG of your 10m swimming certificate from school? Sure, that's fine.

The endpoints get to decide which certificates to accept and in practice in a web browser and many other modern programs that'll be some sort of X.509 certificate more or less following PKIX and on the public Internet usually the Web PKI which is a PKI operated on behalf of the Relying Parties (literally everybody) by the Trust Stores (in practice the OS vendors plus Mozilla for the Free Unix systems) but none of that is defined by QUIC.
by dpark | 2025-11-05 18:00:35+00:00
> JavaScript should be supplementary to a page, but not necessary to view it.

I’m curious. Do Google Maps, YouTube, etc even work with JS off?

> This was its original intent.

Original intent is borderline irrelevant. What matters is how it is actually used and what value it brings.

> Horribly at that

I disagree. You say you turn JS off for security but JS has made billions of people more secure by creating a sandbox for these random apps to run in. I can load up a random web app and have high confidence that it can’t muck with my computer. I can’t do the same with random desktop apps.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-05 18:01:04+00:00
It’s fascinating to see a practice that was previously limited to Silicon Valley executives become first a national class signifier and now go mainstream.

We haven’t extensively studied how social media and smartphones affect a kid’s brain. It’s becoming abundantly clear the former is inappropriate for kids and adolescents. It’s emerging that the latter is at least destructive for non-adolescent children.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-05 18:01:12+00:00
I make a point of keeping my secondary monitor a "normal" DPI 2560x1440 display precisely to avoid this kind of problem. The loss of legibility has little impact on secondary monitor use cases, and I can easily spot-check my UI and UI graphics work by simply dragging the window over.

High quality normal DPI monitors are so cheap these days that even if multi-monitor isn't one's cup of tea there's not really a good reason to not have one (except maybe space restrictions, in which case a cheap ~16" 1080p/1200p portable monitor from Amazon will serve the purpose nicely).
by vunderba | 2025-11-05 18:01:27+00:00
Be careful with something like this. There have been a couple realtime "LLM-generated Wikipedia" sites now. Scrapers/bad actors can make your LLM BILL go brrrr.

Prior art

PossibleWorldWikis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45387101

Endless Wiki https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44983061

Infinite Wiki Simulator https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44782963
by rufus_foreman | 2025-11-05 18:01:37+00:00
>> Sure, but that's a small fraction, doesn't really move the needle

Andrew Carnegie was the richest man in the world at the beginning of the 1900's. What does "r > g" say happened to his wealth? What actually happened was that he gave it all away. Many of the richest people in the US have pledged to give away the majority of their wealth. You can't hand wave that away.

We know that "r > g" is not a good model of how the world works because 90% of the time, wealth is dissipated by the 3rd generation. If you want to know how that happens, you need to start adding more information to the model, including charitable giving, spending, taxes, and multiple inheritance.

>> Sure you may get 5 people with $1B instead of one person with $5B but that doesn't reduce inequality

Of course it reduces inequality. It's not particularly equal, but taking money from one person and giving it to multiple people reduces inequality. Take it to the extreme case, if someone with $5B gave $15 to each of the 340 some million people in the US, would that not reduce inequality? If it would, but giving it to 5 people would not, what is the number between 5 and 340,000,000 where it would start reducing inequality?

In addition, your case is only talking about one generation. If the same thing happens for 10 generations, you're talking about 10 million people. After 15 generations, it's 30 billion.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-05 18:01:44+00:00
> Compassion, please. These are humans we're talking about.

I think that's the core issue with detractors. Rent control is relief, and those who are not in danger only see the forest and miss the trees burned in the process.

If you only think about humans as a spreadsheet, rent control makes no sense. "You gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelette" kind of deal. Even some otherwise economically progressive people I know seem to miss this, but I suppose being able to comment on the internet carries a bit of security to begin with.

The gold faith interpretation lies in the idea that rent control is political poison. It's unpopular to undo rent control, so it's never undone. And I get that. But

1. I see that as sign of a weak politician. Yeah, sometimes we need higher taxes. No one "likes" taxes but we need them.

2. In some ways, trying to undo rent control means the problem isn't solved yet. There's less resistance against rent control once you see housing prices start to fall naturally.
by com2kid | 2025-11-05 18:01:48+00:00
> It will not work, part of compensation is being hired as lobbyist after you "retire" from public office. So either go fund me will do the same or it will fail.

This is a bit reductive. Not everyone member of Congress goes to work for TurboTax after they retire!

However I imagine Inuit is a reliable source of campaign contributions every year. The simple solution is to get enough funding that the campaign can promise 3 or 4 election cycles of support for any politicians that vote in favor of tax filing reform.
by tromp | 2025-11-05 18:01:50+00:00
> I tested it in my drive above in a Mona 1, which starts 119,000 Chinese yuan (about $17,000 USD).

> Meanwhile, Tesla FSD costs $10,000 on top of the price of the vehicle you are going to use it in, which starts at roughly $37,000 for a Model 3.

> In other words, for a little more than the price of Tesla’s FSD, you get FSD (NGP) and a brand new car.

I wonder why he refers to the Xpeng Mona M03 Max as "Mona 1".
by 4ggr0 | 2025-11-05 18:01:58+00:00
> set the output resolution to 4K, and the render resolution to something smaller

doesn't that make everything blurry? that's the gripe i have with circa post-2020 PC gaming, barely any pc can run a AAA or AA game in native resolution and instead has to use artificial upscaling and whatnot. haven't specifically tried it.

also can't test it anymore, as my gaming monitor is now our TV (48 inch OLED gaming TV, what a blast it was). now using my "old" 32in 2560x1440 IPS display, really miss OLED :( which is why i want to buy a new monitor. but i can't decide if i should take a 27in one (seems to be the 16:9 standard right now, but seems so small to me) or a ultrawide one. i switch games very frequently and also sometimes like to play old(er) games, so a bit scared of the "ultrawides are cool if your game supports it"-vibe...

> I've heard good things about the Fedora variant known as Bazzite

haha, this message was written on Bazzite, so i got that part covered :D switched about a month ago, funny to get the recommendation now.
by uyzstvqs | 2025-11-05 18:03:18+00:00
Actual statistics: In 2023 there were 35.3 million commercial flights worldwide.[1] In that year, there were 66 accidents in commercial aviation worldwide, of which one fatal (9N-ANC).[2] This means that the chance of being in an accident was approx 1:535,000 (0.000187 %). The chance of getting into a fatal accident was 1:35,300,000 (0.000003 %). Per passenger the chance of fatality was approx 1:61,111,111 (0.00000164 %), with 72 fatalities among 4,400,000,000 total passengers.

In contrast, the United States saw 125,700 preventable deaths in the home in 2023.[3] The country had a population of 336,806,231 people back then.[4] This means a probability of approx 1:2,679 (0.037 %).

[1] ATAG Aviation Beyond Borders 2024

[2] ICAO Safety Report 2024 Edition

[3] National Safety Council (NSC) Injury Facts

[4] World Bank
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-05 18:03:49+00:00
I've definitely noticed this.

In Java I find agents write a lot more tests than I do, particularly agents will write tests that exercise each and every exception handling path. The code might throw an AException or a BException or a CException and I guess it is good to test that case B happens and throws a BException and I guess it means you get better logging but in the end the important thing is that when unhappy case B happens some Exception is thrown. Tests like this are likely to break when you change the implementation and waste some time but these aren't too hard to live with.

For one system I work on though, React tests are already disastrous, we're still running an older version of React where the framework can't really know when the component is done updating itself so adding a test can add seconds to the build multiplied by all the times I'm going to build. I am happy writing tests for functions that are really functions but until we get our React updated (update all our dependencies, many of which are no longer maintained, to use React 17+) I can't really test components so I don't want an agent writing tests or running tests if components are involved. It's not the fault of the AI, it's the fault of test infrastructure that sucks.
by stickfigure | 2025-11-05 18:03:50+00:00
XSL may be Turing-complete but it's not a programming language and wasn't intended to be one. It's a declarative way to transform XML. When used as such I never found it awful to write... it's certainly much easier than doing the equivalent in general purpose programming languages.

Maybe by analogy: There are type systems that are Turing complete. People sometimes abuse them to humorous effect to write whole programs (famously, C++ templates). That doesn't mean that type systems are bad.
by UtopiaPunk | 2025-11-05 18:04:17+00:00
I'd love for the cut to be smaller, but it is absolutely not a "death sentence." With traditional consoles (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft consoles, and those before them), the barrier to entry is very high. If you are an indie, it is practically necessary to work with a publisher to get on those platforms. The publishers demand their own cut (in addition to Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft), and as they are running a business, they only take on games that they expect will make a profit. In that environment, weird little developers making weird little games will almost always be shut down before they can even see the light of day. I think it is a little easier in the modern day (you don't need a blessed dev kit to make a console game, for example), but I think the barrier is still not trivial.

The PC games space has always been more open. If you had a weird game you wanted to share, you could share a disc with your friends or make it available on your website. But, again, if you wanted to make some decent money, you probably needed a marketing department and to have a boxed copy on store shelves (which, again, means working with a publisher). With a few exceptions, hardly anyone would ever find your game otherwise.

With modern-day Steam, an indie dev needs only to pay $100 to put a game on Steam (and I believe that $100 is refunded if the game crosses a certain threshold of sales). Discoverability is still a challenge, but just by existing on Steam, an indie game has a chance to make a bit of money. Steam itself has some discoverability features that can boost the visibility of even quirky little titles. The indie dev needs to do their own work, of course, to get visibility, but they don't need to have major resources behind them to get that visibility. They don't necessarily even need to host a website anymore - the game has a page on the Internet through Steam after all. The indie dev can direct anyone who will listen to them to go there.

All that said, I do agree that Steam is practically a monopoly. If Steam decided they hate you for some reason, then that's it. You almost certainly do not have a viable path forward for selling your PC game simply because they have such dominance (see the recent controversy where major payment processors suddenly decided they would not facilitate the sale of lewd games, and Steam reacted by pulling any game that seemed to fall into that category. Although, even in that case, the harmful monopoly tactics are coming from different actors in a different industry). For the time being, I just think they are kind of a benevolent dictator.
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-05 18:04:53+00:00
I mean, this line hints at at least one alternative they've in fact done a little in the past.

> Kroger said it would repurchase $7.5 billion of its shares after a more than two-year pause, with $5 billion of that to be repurchased in an accelerated fashion — the same sum that Kroger estimated Wednesday it has spent to lowering prices over the past 21 years.
by IAmBroom | 2025-11-05 18:04:54+00:00
I work in rail safety. Two major non-Chinese train companies attempted to merge a few years ago, explicitly to build a company that could compete with China's national company, and provide safer alternatives to state-sponsored cyberhacking of Western rail.

It fell down to an anti-monopoly decision by a single person in the EU ministry, who killed the proposal. Several attempts were made to streamline the merger, but she wouldn't budge.

As a result, CRCC continues to win contracts abroad, largely (it is believed) by undercutting competition. IP theft is known to be one objective of their at-loss or low-profit contracts (I've been involved in fighting that, specifically).

It's hardly a stretch to imagine that having control of the rail in countries that might oppose you militarily is strategically huge.

This article is about busways, but the parallels are obvious.
by josephh | 2025-11-05 18:04:58+00:00
You can't just spin up an LLC and call it a separate company. OVHCloud is still OVHCloud US' subsidiary company.

From the FAQ page I linked:

> In accordance with our Privacy Policy, OVHcloud will comply with lawful requests from public authorities. Under the CLOUD Act, that could include data stored outside of the United States. OVHcloud will consider the availability of legal mechanisms to quash or modify requests as permitted by the CLOUD Act.
by simoncion | 2025-11-05 18:05:02+00:00
> Just follow the instructions?

I spoke in objection to one very specific claim:

> [The] implied claim that the IRS dumps a bunch of jargon on you and leaves you to rely on general-purpose search engines to figure out what the fuck they're talking about.

Feel free to imagine that I was addressing something else. It's a free country and all.

You also might want to look at the estimated average time for a non-business taxpayer to complete a 1040. If the 1040 estimate methodology is typical, then those estimates are pretty pessimistic.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-05 18:05:08+00:00
I don't think it's an either/or situation.

An application I worked on was a GUI but (at the user's request) we loaded that thing up with hotkeys like no other.

Watching experienced employees operate a gui I worked on was a fascinating experience. They were so fucking fast!

I think the problem is that GUI authors often put hotkeys in as an afterthought.
by fransje26 | 2025-11-05 18:05:11+00:00
The gist is correct, but the subtleties are hiding in the details.

Wide-body (long-haul) airplanes are generally limited by flying hours since they rarely reach their maximum allowed flight cycles.

In contrast, wide-body cargo planes typically fly shorter legs compared to when they are used as passenger carriers. And as a result, they are much more likely to hit their critical cycle limit.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-11-05 18:06:02+00:00
The whole concept of “third party App Store” is just to add friction to the whole thing.

Alice wants to use a program made by Bob. Apple won’t allow Alice to do so unless Bob pays a fee to Apple. With third party app stores, they’re just allowing _different_ middlemen. What we actually want is to be rid of middlemen imposing arbitrary restrictions on how Alice can use her own device.
by itsnikhil | 2025-11-05 18:06:11+00:00
Tried OpenAI Apps SDK Development but quickly ran into roadblocks:

You need a paid account just to debug, and local testing means dealing with ngrok and CSP issues. Not ideal.

So I built OAI App Composer - A local dev tool that mocks the "window.openai API" so you can build, preview, and export ChatGPT App components without any MCP server, tunnels, or auth. It supports React with hot reload, mock data editor, and full ChatGPT-like preview. Local-first, friction-free, and perfect for UI devs exploring the new Apps SDK.

Would love for others to try it out, break it, and contribute ideas or improvements.
by vacuity | 2025-11-05 18:06:35+00:00
> > But who is "they"?

You used "they" several times, so I took a certain usage to mean "Rust", and I was asking who specifically "Rust" entails. Who defines the "Rust beliefs"?

> > Being on a side suggests an unwillingness to part ways

"Suggests", as in, "it is likely implied that" (emphasis on "likely"), though I should've been more clear.

> I have to assume their politics is more intimate to them than the maintainers of a programming language, and that they used it here because the conversation we are having is around rust.

The primary topic is politics.

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I find issue with the framing of "taking sides". I hear it and think of fragmentation for the sake of fragmentation. There is a distinct difference in saying "I side with Rust" and "I agree with Rust", the latter being reducible to "Rust believes [a belief]" and "I believe [the same belief]". The former can be used to mean the latter, but I choose to focus on the likely implication.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-05 18:07:02+00:00
Mamdami is mayor of NYC, not Timbuktu. He doesn't exactly have much control of where to enact his policy.

>Housing is worthless to your city if the house is 1 hour outside the city

I live in LA suburb so I'm confused by this. The commute sucks downtown but an hour commute these isn't a dealbreaker.

Its also my perception that NYC's transit system isn't completely crap like LA. That should enable you to build farther out from the core city if needed.
by buildsjets | 2025-11-05 18:07:31+00:00
The fan cowl and thrust reverser cowl are structurally fastened to the pylon/strut at the top, they only wrap around the engine, and are fastened to themselves at the bottom using latches. The strut considered part of the airframe structure. The inlet cowl is bolted directly to the engine, I saw in a picture that it was found approximately mid-field on the airport property.
by tverbeure | 2025-11-05 18:07:35+00:00
Thanks for the explanation. Having thermal element (say, resistors) spread as a regular grid all over the backside of the PCB would help with reducing the gradient.

It makes me wonder if it would make sense to have a slow rotating fan inside the box. Not to get rid of excess heat but to compress the gradient against the well-insulated wall of the box. It's probably overkill for most cases, since there are other factor that influence frequency stability...
by zidel | 2025-11-05 18:08:31+00:00
A local group of security people have been running a weekend project they call Project Lion Cage where they take Chinese cars into a local mine with spectrum analyzers etc. to watch where they send data and so on. This is how the bus was evaluated as well. Tor Indstøy has quite a few posts on his LinkedIn page talking about the work and what they have found.

Press release (Norwegian): https://www.mynewsdesk.com/no/ruter/pressreleases/ruter-tar-...
by bri3d | 2025-11-05 18:08:53+00:00
I worked with a steel warehouse about 10 years ago who were using software written in a Data General Business BASIC offshoot dialect, which ran on a proprietary Windows runtime that was essentially emulating the original minicomputer which ran the software when it was originally written in the late 1970s. Thankfully, the emulator at least ran on Windows so we were able to move it to a hosted environment with backups and away from a random tower in a metal warehouse, which is no place for a computer.

We were also tasked with adding new process automation and tooling. Instead of rewriting the system, we reverse engineered the database format and wrote additional tools and utilities around the core tooling, using more modern frameworks. I think this was the right choice and everyone was happy: they didn't have to relearn years of muscle-memory and business process built around the BASIC system, but we could iterate in a modern programming environment.

It wouldn't be surprising if the system was still in use, there was nothing wrong with it and it worked great.