MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bArray | 2025-11-19 13:14:10+00:00
The data is based on casualties, but I think there are some points masking the issue:

1. Traffic is slower due to the decreased speed of traffic because of increased number of vehicles, and they continue to improve their safety (i.e. with proximity sensors & cameras). It's likely we see a reduction in casualties and fatalities even if number of accidents in total increases. For example, the number of accidents on the M25 may go up, but whilst they have speed restrictions for large areas of 50mph and sometimes 40mph, casualties will be decreased.

2. Payouts for minor injuries such as whiplash were pretty much stopped by insurance providers. Historic figures are likely inflated and new figures are likely deflated due to claims not being accepted.

3. Due to the cost of living and insurance hikes, we likely see people try to avoid making a claim. If a claim is made, the insurance premiums for both parties is increased (no matter who is at fault), both parties can be without a payout for a long time, the vehicles may be categorised and lose their value. If both vehicles are still drivable and an agreement can be made, the entire incident can go without being recorded.

The problem with proving the above is the linked data you have is for casualties, and insurance claims data I believe will reflect similar issues. I'm not sure how you would encapsulate people who have an accident but refuse to make a claim. Perhaps motorcyclists and pedestrian casualties may offer a ground-truth, as either rarely have a collision involving a vehicle where there is a choice to not make a claim.
by frm88 | 2025-11-19 13:14:16+00:00
I just watched this. While I completely disliked the heavy emotional focus and bias of the presenter (for example: no interviews with people who don't want children were held, particularly not men), the data seemed solid. There's a peer review pending - I'd like to look at that when it comes out. If the conclusions are solid, we would have to change our societies and economies in such a fundamental way - I don't see that happening in the next 50 years, if at all.

Thanks for the link, it was interesting.
by ljm | 2025-11-19 13:16:06+00:00
Pretty much - the time spent ruling out the hypothesis that it was a cyberattack would have been time spent investigating the uptick in deliberately written error logs, since you would expect alerts to be triggered if those exceed a threshold.

I imagine it would also require less time debugging a panic. That kind of breadcrumb trail in your logs is a gift to the future engineer and also customers who see a shorter period of downtime.
by arnorhs | 2025-11-19 13:16:41+00:00
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> They are bad at deciding requirements by themselves.

What do you mean by requirements here? In my experience the frontier models today are pretty good at figuring out requirements, even when you don't explicitly state them.

> They are bad at original research

Sure, I don't have any experience with that, so I'll trust you on that.

> for example developing a new algorithm.

This is just not correct. I used to think so, but I was trying to come up with a pretty complicated pattern matching, multi-dimensional algorithm (I can't go into the details) - it was something that I could figure out on my own, and was half way through it, but decided to write up a description of it and feed it to gemini 2.5 pro a couple of months ago, and I was stunned.

It came up with a really clever approach and something I had previously been convinced the models weren't very good at it.

In hindsight, since they are getting so good at math in general, there's probably some overlap, but you should revisit your views on this.

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Your 'bad at' list is missing a few things though:

- Calculations (they can come up with how to calculate or write a program to calculate from given data, but they are not good at calculating in their responses)

- Even though the frontier models are multi-modal, they are still bad at visualizing html/css - or interpreting what it would look like

- Same goes for visualizing/figuring out visual errors in graphics programming such as games programming or 3d modeling (z-index issues, orientation etc)
by echelon | 2025-11-19 13:16:42+00:00
> Compare that to the sun which has >100W/m^2 even at high latitudes.

Some places are covered with snow and get under 8 hours of sun a day, but your point still stands.

You know it's pretty compelling when there are several concurrent multi-billion dollar projects to transmit solar power from Africa, by undersea cable, to mainland Europe.
by gilbetron | 2025-11-19 13:17:29+00:00
> auto mechanics make double minimum wage if they don't own their tools (so they can go buy some)

I think you have that backwards:

"Typically, in California, if your employer wants you to provide and maintain your own work tools, they must pay you at least double the minimum wage. This means that in 2025, with California’s minimum wage at $16.50 per hour, your employer must pay you at least $33.00 per hour before they can require you to supply your own tools."

Auto mechanics make double minimum wage if the do own their own tools.
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-11-19 13:17:36+00:00
The easy answer that encompasses 99% of the target foods is:

Avoid any foods that involve multiple rounds of processing, a term that includes baking, frying, adding preservatives,sugars or oils. Generally, if it has a lot of sugar or oil and has a weirdly long shelf life, be suspicious.

Drift towards: easily washable (smooth/peelable) fruits and vegetables, 100% whole wheat bread products, simple meat products like whole animal parts or deboned animal parts.

Dairy lives in the middle ground. If you have zero lactose problem, most dairy is mostly okay, just watch for sugar levels and recognize that most dairy products are calorie dense. Nuts are in this group too for the same reason but oil instead of sugar.

Bonus points for consuming real pro and pre biotics when you can. In the United States this is pretty limited to live culture yogurts, refrigerated kimchi, and refrigerated sourkraut.
by spicyusername | 2025-11-19 13:17:59+00:00
I'm not sure what you're responding to, or why you're responding in such a hostile way. The wife can be the breadwinner, too.

Owning a home and having a parent be able to stay home with your children, husband or wife, are important pillars of a stable life. Who wants a society in which couples don't have time to parent their children or manage their household?

It's a fact that seeing to your children's education and social life, cleaning, cooking, and all of the other non-sexy activities of running a household are a full-time job. It doesn't need to be the wife that does that, but it's best when somebody in the family can.
by dbingham | 2025-11-19 13:18:20+00:00
> We can incorporate, but can we indemocrate?

I'm working on this right now. I'm building a Facebook alternative that will be a nonprofit, multistakeholder cooperative if I can get it off the ground. It won't be owned by anyone, instead it will be governed by its workers and users in collaboration.

It's called Communities (https://communities.social) and it's in open beta now. We got the apps in the app stores last month.
by nottorp | 2025-11-19 13:18:25+00:00
Yep. It's the curse of too much money.

Just because you hit on something and gamers threw their money at you because you deserved it, it doesn't mean the next iteration has to have MORE OF EVERYTHING.

Even some series that have maintained quality have got a bit too big for their own good if you ask me. Did Horizon Forbidden West need to be that big? Zero Dawn was the perfect length if you ask me.

Even Witcher 3 has a faint whiff of 'it could have been a bit shorter and still brilliant'.

I'm not sure it's always the publisher's fault though. Success and the worldwide obsession for cancerous business growth can go to your head even without outside pressure.
by input_sh | 2025-11-19 13:19:02+00:00
You'll have to excuse Claude, it must've missed that.

They're both Tampere-based, in fact they're like 500 meters away from each other. Unlike CO, Iceflake is owned by Paradox. CO has no public projects outside Cities Skylines, so the question is will they fail and will their employees simply be poached by Iceflake.
by vdupras | 2025-11-19 13:19:03+00:00
Thanks for the mention. The philosophy behind Dusk is also eerily relevant to Chuck's problem at the moment. To quote my own manifest[1]:

When you operate a system, there is no problem that can arise that will make you powerless. Sure, you can have a hardware failure that hopelessly breaks your system, but at least you'll be able to identify that failure and know for sure that there is no software solution or workaround. That's control.

In this situation, of course Windows is to blame. But it could also happen with Linux, even if it's to a much much lesser degree.

If an update breaks your software in a way that is obscure enough to break only your software, then nobody else will fix your problem, and the system as a whole is too complex for you to dive in, making you powerless.

[1]: https://duskos.org/who.html
by jacquesm | 2025-11-19 13:19:14+00:00
Oh, that's a neat hack. I will definitely try that next time. I have a bad leg (bike accident) and the extra walking really pisses me off. I don't need a stick or other help but I do economize on unnecessary walking on hard surfaces. Thank you. Ikea has killed all viable competition here so you can't really get around them.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-19 13:19:25+00:00
FSD isn't, and never was, a sensor problem. It's an AI problem. Always was. Always will be.

Humans drive around with two mid-tier cameras on a pivot mount. Which means that any sufficiently advanced AI can do the same.

When a FSD car gets into an avoidable collision, you dump the blackbox data, and what do you see? You see that the cameras had it. All the information the car needed to avoid a collision was right there in the visual stream. The car had every bit of information it needed to make the right call, and didn't make the right call.

You can acknowledge that, and focus on building better AIs. Or you can neglect AI altogether, and have a car with 6 LIDARs drag a pedestrian, because it had all the sensor coverage but zero object permanence.
by veunes | 2025-11-19 13:19:52+00:00
The idea is interesting, but it's still operating within the content analysis paradigm. As soon as entropy-based detectors become popular, the next generation of LLMs will be specifically fine-tuned to generate higher-entropy text to evade them.

It's a cat-and-mouse game where the generator will always be one step ahead. It's far more robust to analyze things that are hard to fake at scale: domain age, anomalous publication frequency, and unnatural link structures
by hasbot | 2025-11-19 13:19:56+00:00
I lived in one house that initially had hot water baseboard heat. A hot-air furnace was retrofitted into a closet and got its "fresh air" from a hole in the closet door (i.e. there was no incoming air). During the winter the air would get extremely "stale." Bathroom smells would linger for hours. It was oppressive.
by roxolotl | 2025-11-19 13:20:29+00:00
As this is their third flip flop on AI[0][1] I assume this is likely Klarna trying to distract from the fundamental issues in their model.[2]

0: https://www.businessinsider.com/klarna-ceo-sebastian-siemiat...

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2025/05/18/bu...

2: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4844344-klarna-and-affirm-t...
by saxenaabhi | 2025-11-19 13:20:46+00:00
> In a world where AI automates jobs, arguably any business services you could offer would likely have no customers because those potential customers can automate the services you offer themselves just like AI automates the employment skills employees offer

Take the POS market for example. It's relatively trivial to setup your POS system in dbase/foxpro/MS-access. Yet almost every shop uses lightspeed/toast/square because they don't want to take on the additional burden of maintaining it and want support. They also hire web developers/designers to make their website even though framer/square space are super easy to use.

With AI I think what's happening is that more competitors are challenging these incumbents leading to downward pressure on pricing. Which is great for customers!

> Not sure why people keep bringing up entrepreneurship as if that couldn't be automated.

Ah, how would you automate entrepreneurship? This isn't the matrix where AI will suddenly wake up one day and start an entrepreneurship journey.
by paulcole | 2025-11-19 13:21:39+00:00
The people who hate AI seem to have plenty of time on their hands to respond to posts like this, so be ready. Expect, “If you’re 100 to 200 times faster and are managing a bunch of energetic ICs, what have you produced?”

You’ll never satisfy them with your answers because there is no world in which they are complimentary of AI tools.

IMO (as someone who strongly agrees with you and loves the AI revolution) keep this kind of thing to yourself. I just don’t see the upside of sharing given how overwhelmingly negative the prevailing sentiment is.
by shane_vestwell | 2025-11-19 13:22:00+00:00
Email shane.vierra [at] vestwell [dot] com with your resume as soon as possible if interested:

Senior Software Engineer - HYBRID - New York, NY | Austin, TX | Phoenix AZ | King of Prussia, PA

Vestwell, a Series D fintech startup, is hiring for a Senior Software Engineer that is primarily back end, and must have experience in Typescript, Node.js and NestJS

These positions are HYBRID meaning that you must be less than 2 hours commuting distance from either our New York, NY | Austin, TX | Phoenix AZ | King of Prussia, PA office.
by aaaskkggdddd | 2025-11-19 13:22:01+00:00
We don't need more energy, we need fewer data centers. We're firing up a nuclear plant that already failed just for Microsoft.

We need less e-gold. We need less Facebook and Google and streaming services.

We need less ai scrapers and cloudflare in front of everything.

We are burning up the planet for bits.

It's insane.
Show HN: Sliprail – A cross-platform launcher with AI and extensions
by fengcen | 2025-11-19 13:22:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Sliprail, a launcher for macOS and Windows. It serves as an alternative to tools like Raycast or Alfred, but with a different philosophy regarding interaction design and UI architecture.

My engineering focus has been on ensuring minimal input latency and a snappy response.

Here are a few notable differences:

Space-Driven Arguments: Instead of menu navigation, Sliprail uses the Space key. Type a command (e.g., google), hit Space, and type your arguments (e.g., weather) instantly.

Detached Interfaces: Extensions run in standalone windows rather than being confined to the main launcher bar. This enables richer interfaces for tools like File Search or MCP integrations.

Window Management: Includes a built-in fuzzy search to switch focus between active windows, alongside native window snapping shortcuts.

Custom Algorithm: Uses a distinct fuzzy matching algorithm tuned specifically for mixed app/command priority.

There are other workflow tweaks and architectural choices that distinguish it from existing tools, but I'd love to hear your feedback on these core interactions first.
by alt227 | 2025-11-19 13:23:13+00:00
> read the existing laws in most state

I assume you mean 'US States'?

This is a thread about the UK, and the UK law about vehicle tinting is cleary defined here, so there is no need to be reasonable or try to assume a generality.

Looks like 'Karen' might need to do her research a bit more.

https://www.gov.uk/tinted-vehicle-window-rules
by tw04 | 2025-11-19 13:23:17+00:00
So literally privatizing schools. Because vouchers will simply cause public schools to collapse while allowing private schools to pick and choose who to educate. I can guarantee you they won’t be accepting the students with low math scores who have absentee parents that treat school like a daycare.

Let me guess: if we just ignore the scores of those problem children who no longer have access to education, the math scores will look better?

“Let the market decide who DESERVES education.”

What could possibly go wrong?
by chrischen | 2025-11-19 13:23:29+00:00
Some of your points are already considered with current implementations. Airpods live translate uses your phone to display what you say to the target person, and the target person's speech is played to your airpods. I think the main issue is that there is a massive delay and apple's translation models are inferior to ChatGPT. The other thing is the airpods don't really add much. It works the same as if you had the translation app open and both people are talking to it.

Aircaps demos show it to be pretty fast and almost real time. Meta's live captioning works really fast and is supposed to be able to pick out who is talking in a noisy environment by having you look at the person.

I think most of your issues are just a matter of the models improving themselves and running faster. I've found translations tend to not be out of whack, but this is something that can't really be solved except by having better translation models. In the case of Airpods live translate the app will show both people's text.
by strogonoff | 2025-11-19 13:23:44+00:00
In 2019, I have done an experiment: talk about a conspicuous topic in presence of an unlocked Google Pixel. Minutes later there were suggestions of relevant to that topic articles in Google app.

It is not difficult to believe that if it is available to Google itself, it will be available to whomever that pays for it. That is their business model, after all.

The relevant settings are part of your Google account[0], and as of 7 months ago (which is the last time I checked) KB said:

> Web & App Activity saves your searches and activity from other Google services in your Google Account. You may get more personalized experiences…

> When Web & App Activity is on, you can include audio recordings from your interactions with Google Search, Assistant, and Maps as part of your activity.

Speaking in presence of a phone with relevant settings turned on certainly strikes me as something that can qualify as “interaction with Google Assistant”.

The KB article does not mention ads, but I would not be surprised if more uses of your voice activity were hidden somewhere in ToS.

[0] https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?hl=en&co=G...
by itzjacki | 2025-11-19 13:24:14+00:00
Exactly. The only way this could happen in the first place was _because_ they failed at so many levels. And as a result, more layers of Swiss cheese will be added, and holes in existing ones will be patched. This process is the reason flying is so safe, and the reason why Cloudflare will be a little bit more resilient tomorrow than it was yesterday.
by TheCraiggers | 2025-11-19 13:24:18+00:00
I think that's more of a indicator that it hasn't effected their business. They lost nearly 1/5 of their stock price after that incident (obviously not accounting for other factors; I'm not a stock analyst). Investors thought they'd lose customers and reacted in obvious fashion.

But it's since been restored. According to the news, they lost very little customers over the incident. That is why their stock came back. If they continued having problems, I doubt it would have been so rosy. So yes, to your point, a blip here or there happens.
by bob1029 | 2025-11-19 13:24:52+00:00
> The engine lacked occlusion culling and relied on high-resolution shadow maps, causing “an innumerable number of draw calls”.

The engine does not lack or cause these things. The fact that the developers chose the HDRP pipeline for this game should be the most obvious dead bird in the entire coal mine. These games should be running on URP without question. We don't need advanced lighting systems in a top down city builder.

If we want an art workflow that allows artists to shit arbitrary content into the editor without thinking, we should probably reach for Unreal and flip on TAA like everyone else is doing.
by echelon | 2025-11-19 13:24:57+00:00
If the `.unwrap()` was replaced with

1:

?

2:

map_err, or, or_else, etc.

3:

match ... { Ok(..) => {}, Err(..) => {}, }

4:

if let ... { }

Then it would have been idiomatic Rust code and wouldn't have failed at all.

The function signature returned a `Result<(), (ErrorFlags, i32)>`

Seems like it should have returned an Err((ErrorFlags, i32)) here. Case 2 or 3 above would have done nicely.

Removing unwrap() from Rust would have forced the proper handling of the function call and would have prevented this.

Unwrap() is Rust's original sin.
by metalman | 2025-11-19 13:25:13+00:00
it's not food,thats why

it is a food substitute. food is composed of recognisable ingedients. what comes from factorys has no connection or relation to that. the unspoken premise is that pre prepared stuff with a label is somehow part of a continuity. , pared= to cut/divided

prepared=cut/divided~for you

pre prepared= wtf?
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-19 13:25:37+00:00
In most cases I would agree with you but ultimately games get older and can’t be sustained forever without people being compensated. People don’t pay for DLC like they pay for sequels, as the other person said.

It’s not about shareholders necessarily. It’s also about sustainability and people paying bills - they live in a capitalist society and can’t choose not to participate at the end of the day. You can’t ask a dozen or more developers to keep working on a game for free for a decade or more. They have to eat too.

The only other option is keep playing the exact same game with little to no changes. Which you can! The original is still available. But if you want it to improve and change over time or receive substantial DLC’s, somebody has to get paid at some point.
by falcor84 | 2025-11-19 13:26:05+00:00
I know you were joking, but responding in seriousness - while in general it's worthwhile asking "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?", in this particular case, I don't see any issue with Down Detector detecting the Down Detector Down Detector. Assuming they are in different availability zones, using different code, with a different deployment cadence, this approach works quite well in practice.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-19 13:26:19+00:00
> I think it will pop but not in the way everyone thinks it will pop.

Everyone thinks it will pop the way the dotcom bubble popped

> There's plenty that's not going to go away / anywhere, but I'm sure lots of startups will fail and close their doors.

Just like the dotcom bubble pop - IOW, just like the way everyone thinks it will pop.
by voidUpdate | 2025-11-19 13:26:21+00:00
As far as I remember, KSP did keep pretty on top of engine updates. And I never thought the graphics were that bad, TBH. Sure, its not raytraced to hell and back, but I thought it looked just fine. However, there was a lot of physics jankery that never really got fixed (the kraken likes to eat complicated ships), and it did have performance issues in some areas. I think the community kinda wanted multiplayer and colonisation too, and the codebase was probably getting quite mangled and convoluted, making that hard. It would have been nice to see Squad get some time to be able to rework their systems over the course of a few updates, not really adding many features but focusing on performance and de-spaghettification, but I'm guessing Take-Two wouldn't see it the same way and just wanted MORE CONTENT, MORE SALES, MORE PROFIT