MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-16 13:48:17+00:00
They're not worried about a $20+installation cable that they can copy-paste from the last car.

An EV "needs" the electric actuator to replicate the park position in a conventional automatic transmission. The motor has no mechanical brake so the parking brake is automatically applied via software. Once you can do that why run the cable?

There's som minor addition value in sharing the system with ICE models that don't need it and programming them to cycle the system from time to time so that they don't rust up and stop working like cables are inclined to in automatic equipped cars.
by 392 | 2025-11-16 13:49:45+00:00
The best way to speed up is to practice. Alternative layouts are a waste of time unless you're trying to fix an ergonomic / pain issue, and even then the board itself and your technique and lifestyle are more important. I type faster than any Dvorak user I've met and I did nothing make that happen except be impatient. But typing is basically over with now that Whisper is a single button press away.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-16 13:51:48+00:00
If I were a betting man I'd bet that the electrician/plumber/hvac lobbies will get their respective fixtures locked down (in a similar way to a lot of automotive stuff is currently) so you need to pay someone with a license to use them before we get microtransactions in vehicles.

As much as all these industries would love to make pennies here and there, they all loathe the idea that people can do things without giving them a cut even more.
by Shadowmist | 2025-11-16 13:52:12+00:00
With Liquid glAss CarPlay on non touchscreen cars they changed the button colors so that gray is the selected item and blue/green are not selected. Also they changed the back on-screen button to be the default, or sometimes they select the item you want but then a second later change focus to the back button.

When you first use CarPlay there are consent screens so there are definitely people out there who have picked the wrong one.
by nicbou | 2025-11-16 13:52:17+00:00
Great post!

I find that this happens when I want to do something The Right Way, but don’t have a clear path, nor the energy to figure one out.

For example I want a nice winter wardrobe, but first I have to figure out what I like, what is trendy, where to buy it, what will suit the weather. I am wholly unprepared for it. Suddenly it’s a whole ordeal, so I just wait.

In another category - art - I had to learn to be okay with suboptimal outcomes. Each attempt teaches you something, so to make good art, you have to make a lot of bad art first. Paper is cheap and making bad art is fun once you move past perfectionism.

Socialising is the same. You get better at it through practice. Practice is fun, it makes you do fun things and meet fun people.

With “shopping problems”, you are stuck with your bad purchases, your suboptimal wardrobe. Each iteration is expensive in time and money. So you try to get it right the first time. Cue weeks of research for something that is ultimately not that important. The worst is shopping problems that have an element of taste.

If someone knows a way to deal with this, I am listening.
by goda90 | 2025-11-16 13:53:29+00:00
I built myself a new gaming desktop and set up my old one next to our TV, telling myself I'd get it all situated with controllers and my large library of split screen games. We have a Shield TV for most streaming, so the desktop is pretty much only used for two things: My wife watching Chinese shows on random websites and watching movies remotely with friends over SyncLounge[0].

So while the Steam Machine is intriguing, I really don't have a good reason to buy one. That being said, I like the idea of supporting this kind of hardware development.

[0]https://github.com/synclounge/synclounge
by tremon | 2025-11-16 13:53:31+00:00
I think in the case of in-app tooltips, the cause is much more banal: it's UX managers having to defend their team and budget with usage metrics, and so they all try to shove their new features in your face to inflate their numbers.

If we didn't have pervasive telemetry, we also wouldn't have these obnoxious nudges; UX teams would get their feedback from QA testing and focus groups, and leave the end users in peace.
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-16 13:54:08+00:00
I never refuted your hypothesis, I just pointed out the fact that the universe being deterministic has nothing to do with whether it's worth it for you to believe that you can achieve things and therefore try. Nor did I say that whether you believe it depends on something you can control. Assuming determinism, it's always worth it to believe that you can achieve things and try, even if it's as a result of me saying this.

Believing -> trying -> accomplishing

The arrows are causal links. Whether the state of believing is achieved through chance or choice is irrelevant.
by lm28469 | 2025-11-16 13:54:09+00:00
> I'm on a 7 year old system and if you're not chasing to max out the latest AAA game on launch

Yep, people who didn't fall for the resolution meme can play any games maxed out with a 2060. People chasing 4k and 120+ fps will never ever get satisfied and will always spend $1k every other year for the new high end gpu

I made two upgrades since 2015, ryzen 7 1700 to ryzen 5 5600,for $100. And I swapped my gtx 970 for an rtx 2060, for $300
by ndiddy | 2025-11-16 13:54:13+00:00
If they don't have cybersec people able to adequately investigate and write up whatever they're seeing, and are simply playing things by ear, it's extremely irresponsible of them to publish claims like "we detected a highly sophisticated cyber espionage operation conducted by a Chinese state-sponsored group we’ve designated GTG-1002 that represents a fundamental shift in how advanced threat actors use AI." without any evidence to back them up.
by jfrbfbreudh | 2025-11-16 13:54:29+00:00
Identity precedes habit.

I accepted that mastering algorithms was something I needed to do if I wanted to break into my desired income bracket.

So I leaned into the premise that I was a Leetcode grinder. And I spent 6 months during COVID doing only that.

I went from never having solved a medium on my own to being able to solve almost any medium in < 5 minutes (sometimes < 2 minutes).

I landed a job in HFT fairly quickly once I started interviewing.
by jorvi | 2025-11-16 13:54:46+00:00
The answer is that developers mainly use Macs, and they don't want to deal with a crappy Electron application in daily use so they give themselves the privilege of a better experience even if it makes no business sense.

You can see the same with Telegram, which has first party Electron applications for Windows / macOS / Linux, a first party native macOS application, and a bunch of third party blessings including a Windows UWP application.

Note that there needs be an environment for this. You don't see a native version of VSCode or 1Password 8 because those orgs actually care about their applications and take great effort to make them feel good despite being built on Electron.
by setopt | 2025-11-16 13:54:55+00:00
> Personaly i never get used to the UI of VSCode. seems so hard to understand because in emacs you deal with functions not UI buttons.

I prefer both Vim and Emacs over VSCode, but I teach intro programming at a university and use VSCode in the lectures.

VSCode is actually quite decent if you use it as a keyboard-driven thing with a distraction-free interface. By the former, I mean that Cmd-Shift-P does the same as Emacs’ M-x, and from the keybinding hints you quickly learn any recurring useful bindings (or can change them under Cmd-K Cmd-S when they feel bad). By the latter, I mean that nearly every UI element can be disabled (activity bar, tab bar, status bar, scroll bar, most buttons, indent guides, gutters, etc.) and if you spend 30min disabling the fluff it looks as minimal as Emacs. You don’t really need the UI elements if you learn Cmd-Shift-P and basic keybindings, which as an Emacs user you’ll pick up in a week.

Not trying to sell VSCode here, as I said I don’t prefer it myself. I really tried to switch some times, but I don’t like the Microsoft monoculture nor the importance of proprietary plugins (like remote development and pylance), and an Electron app usually has some weirdness when it comes to font rendering, UI bugs, etc. compared to native or terminal apps.

But if you have to use it, it’s actually not bad if you approach it in the same way you’d approach Emacs: Call functions with Cmd-Shift-P (can rebind to M-x if you want), and invoke more common functions via keybindings instead of UI elements.
by umanwizard | 2025-11-16 13:55:35+00:00
> last time I checked a cpu documentation they had a simple rule that branches are always taken, that would be easy for the compiler to code order first.

Was that in the 80s? Modern performant CPUs all use dynamic branch prediction.

I’m not really sure I understand the “where does it get the memory” point. Yes, this requires some amount of memory per tracked branch. This memory is hardwired into the CPU, just like all the other memory a CPU needs to do its job (registers, L1 cache, TLB, various in-flight instruction state, etc.)
by Nursie | 2025-11-16 13:55:36+00:00
There are a few games that support couch coop, but you’re right it’s not very well supported any more.

We enjoyed Split Fiction and It Takes Two recently, but those are quite couple-y. And Blue Prince is very playable as a group effort.

Then there are games like “overcooked”, though again not many. IIRC there’s a new Katamari on the way as well.

But there really aren’t that many “get your mates together” games any more.
by Gualdrapo | 2025-11-16 13:55:41+00:00
I feel like DragonflyBSD is really cool if you want to look at some BSD that offers some advantages and something unique to your day-to-day desktop usage. And I feel like their community is not as toxic as that of FreeBSD and OpenBSD with their holier-than-thou attitude towards Linux.

I'd love it if Gentoo/BSD were a thing once again, I like the BSD concepts but there's nothing like Portage on BSD so far - afaik pkgsrc is nowhere close to it.
by AJ007 | 2025-11-16 13:55:48+00:00
Perplexity had a big advantage over the competition when model hallucination was bad. That gap has narrowed enough for now.

Perplexity beats Google, ChatGPT, and Claude if you want an answer with citations and want it fast. Claude deep research is more thorough, but that's going to be a wait. ChatGPT web search is slower, uses few citations, and looks like more of the answer is coming from the model than the results. It's also possible that the quality and speed of Perplexity would vanish with scale and the only reason they look so good right now is because they have so many fewer users.

The mid to long term problems I see are:

#1 Google could cut them off from Youtube and a big chunk of their value is gone without recourse.

#2 over time the open web is going to shrivel and switch to paid or even die as ad revenue drops and bot traffic increases (already at this point probably, just countermeasures haven't been fully adopted.)

#3 goes with the previous point, more content is going to be AI generated and not fact checked which will dramatically drop the value of the output. This of course is a problem for all LLMs. Google may be the one who has a big advantage here given their advanced AI research and that they already have an index of the pre-LLM internet.
by rcxdude | 2025-11-16 13:56:04+00:00
They're right, though. Doing both is dumb. The alternative to renewables + storage is nuclear + storage, with the nuclear + storage having the advantage of the storage capacity needed being more predictable and a bit smaller, but with the massive disadvantage of the nuclear being extremely expensive and slow to build. But building enough nuclear plants to do what you're proposing, and then turning them off most of the time to get energy from the renewable plants you're also building, and only drawing from them unpredictably, is objectively the worst option.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-16 13:56:46+00:00
Windshield and brakes are normal service items though.

They're not talking about making money selling broken shit. They're talking about forcing you to give them a cut every time you do normal service things with the product (something they have much more fine grained control over).

They're angry that Jiffy Lube exists, not that autobody shops exist.

IDK about the European market but US OEMs don't really want to be in the business of fixing things. GM for example DGAF about dealer service departments. They're happy to sell replacement parts and make pennies doing it but they see themselves as being in the new cars and car financing business. When they sell shit that breaks they don't do it so you can pay to fix it. They'd much rather the dealer try to sell you a new car.
by UncleMeat | 2025-11-16 13:56:49+00:00
I work at Google. One of the top things people ask me about working there is the lunches. There is a glowing video on youtube about the cafeteria staff and the process of serving healthy, tasty, and varied food to thousand and thousands of people every day. These jobs are recognized as skilled and valuable.

Nothing about this job changes when the patrons are children rather than adults. But our society turns around and treats school cafeteria staff with derision.

For what it is worth, the hardest I ever worked in my entire life was as a busboy at Chili's. As a software engineer I make something resembling 50x the wage of what I made as a busboy.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-16 13:56:59+00:00
I think you are arguing against yourself here.

To follow your hypothetical, if an Orca were to be exposed to human language, discussing human terrestrial affairs, and were able to at least learn some of the patterns, and maybe predict them, then it should indeed be considered not to have any understanding of what that stream of words meant - I wouldn't even elevate it to '2nd hand hearsay'.

Still, the Orca, unlike an LLM, does at least does have a brain, and does live in and interact with the real world, and could probably be said to "understand" things in it's own watery habitat as well as we do.

Regarding "input supremacy" :

It's not the LLMs "world of words" that really sets it apart from animals/humans, since there are also multi-model LLMs with audio and visual inputs more similar to a humans sensory inputs. The real difference is what they are doing with those inputs. The LLM is just a passive observer, whose training consisted of learning patterns in it's inputs. A human/animal is an active agent, interacting with the world, and thereby causing changes in the input data it is then consuming. The human/animal is learning how to DO things, and gaining understanding of how the word reacts. The LLM is learning how to COPY things.

There are of course many other differences between LLMs/Transformers and animal brains, but even if we were to eliminate all these differences the active vs passive one would still be critical.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-16 13:57:40+00:00
The use of Optimus is rather obvious. It's there to replace human labor.

On the factory floor of a car plant, every job that was easy to do with an industrial robot arm bolted down to the floor next to the assembly line and running the same sequence on repeat 24/7? It's already done by an industrial robot arm bolted down to the floor next to the assembly line and running the same sequence on repeat 24/7.

What remains is: the many, many gaps. All the tricky little hard-to-automate tasks that humans can do, but industrial robots would struggle with. Tasks important enough that they have to be done, but small enough and tricky enough that it's not worth redesigning the entire process to make them amenable to automation or building a special snowflake robotic system to do them.

Which is where the general purpose worker robots come in. If the same robot can be trained and retrained for humanlike performance on multiple of those tasks, then it becomes a worthwhile addition to any high automation factory.

Of course, that requires a general purpose worker robot! Which is very much an AI problem. Tesla can build the hardware, but they're banking on being able to back it by software too, and that clearly isn't there yet. Whether it will be remains to be seen - but Tesla isn't the only company banking on being able to solve robot AI.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-16 13:58:55+00:00
Modern browsers support brotli or zstd, which is a lot better in terms of compression. Perhaps not as good for on-the-fly compression, but static assets can get a nice compression benefit out of it.

With toxic AI scrapers like Perplexity moving more and more to headless web browsers to bypass bot blocks, I think a brotli bomb (100GB of \0 can be compressed to about 78KiB with Brotli) would be quite effective.
by pqtyw | 2025-11-16 13:59:13+00:00
I don't necessarily see any reason to attribute this specific outcome to Cook, though. But from a stockholder perspective this is a bit mixed.

Of course Macs are still very profitable compared to what PC makers are making. Now they share a lot of the hardware and software stack with iPad/iPhone. So it shouldn't be too costly to maintain. And well Apple's entire ecosystem is built on them anyway. It's not like anyone besides masochists would consider actually developing apps on iPads...
by secwang | 2025-11-16 13:59:26+00:00
I tried using OpenBSD, but the support for some specific things isn't very good. For example, J language support is always missing some packages. I also don't want to, and very much do not want to, use systemd. I finally chose FreeBSD, but I'm using some things from OpenBSD as much as possible, like obhttpd, etc. It feels good now.
by t_mahmood | 2025-11-16 13:59:43+00:00
Yeah, now see, you need to do that for every programming language, or tool for vscode.

With Lazyvim you get all at once. And you can ignore many plugins if you want,

Sure it's not ide level, but with proper configuration vim/Nvim is much more powerful than vscode. And thanks to Lazyvim, you can set it up faster

but Nvim or vim even without plugins can do many things that vscode can not do. So without plugins vscode is just an editor, while Nvim/vim are powerful utilities
by mystraline | 2025-11-16 14:00:10+00:00
I am NOT a "consumer". Those just buy buy buy, the same way locusts devour everything.

I am a "customer". I think about purchases, research if its sufficient, and will actively walk away if the deal is garbage.

At this time, all electric cars seem to be a DRM ridden hellscape, and/or a surveillance platform on wheels, and/or 100% remote control by mothership, and/or subscription hellscape (heated seats, better battery).

I'll take my ICE mostly mechanical cars thankyouverymuch, as they are more repairable.
by wincy | 2025-11-16 14:01:03+00:00
It’s a very cool picture. Andrew McCarthy sells prints of these and other astrophotography on his website[0] although they’re always limited run prints. I bought the one of the sun with a SpaceX rocket for a friend who is into astronomy.

As a sales strategy, making his photos limited edition is a fantastic way to put the pressure on to actually buy instead of thinking about making a purchase indefinitely, even if from a convenience standpoint it’s a little annoying. Looks like right now the 16”x20” edition is sold out, but other sizes are still available for about two days.

[0] https://cosmicbackground.io/pages/the-fall-of-icarus
by ogogmad | 2025-11-16 14:02:31+00:00
Who do you think is going to buy an Optimus if it's as useless as a Tamagotchi? They're humanoid in shape.

Maybe you've confused generative AI with humanoid robots (powered by similar Machine Learning models to generative AI). And to anyone looking to inundate this thread with edgy nonsense, vague moody negativity stops looking clever to anyone with mental age above 14.
by yousif_123123 | 2025-11-16 14:02:31+00:00
I've always noticed that when I'm giving advice to someone or trying to help out, it always feels their problem is easier than whatever problem I have. As someone with some anxiety around things like calling some company to get something done or asking a random stranger for some help in a store, I would gladly do it if it was to help someone else (family member or friend). But when it's for me I find it harder.

I wonder how much psychologically we can be more confident and less anxious when we're doing something for others vs ourselves..
by yetihehe | 2025-11-16 14:02:39+00:00
> That's not my position at all.

I would like to understand your position more. Most people believe that they have choice. They could for example do more work or lie on a couch. You mean they have no choice and whichever decision they took is not from their will, but only from their circumstances? I agree that a lot of the weights in such decision is a result of previous happenstances, but "no agency" model suggests to me that we can't make any serious changes in our life, because whatever happens, happens and maybe we were not destined to change our life. This further suggests: "why even try".
by p1esk | 2025-11-16 14:03:28+00:00
Yes, if you have a billion dollars then in terms of wealth Pichai is closer to you than to Bezos. But if you’re a typical HN reader (level 4 or 5), the difference between you and Pichai is pretty much infinite, while Pichai and Bezos are almost the same (relative to you): both are ultra rich.
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-11-16 14:03:46+00:00
The rationale is that it kind of applies radial forces in varying directions when you rotate the wheel, and if there's any tiny slack between the hub and the wheel, helps make that slack 100% concentric while the wheel is still able to slide against the hub.

But honestly I do that simply for the peace of mind :) A soothing personal idiosyncrasy inherited from my dad.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-16 14:03:58+00:00
It sounds like you’re talking to some rather odd people with a strange combination of hyper devotion to Apple and high tolerance for features simply not working. I have seen plenty of people in the first camp though not nearly as much these days as I did back in the early 2010’s, but the second camp is strange to see given that’s a huge cornerstone of why people buy Apple (“it just works.” Or even the perception that it just works).

Screenshare works perfectly fine in my experience and I’m not really sure what you’re talking about with printing, but everyone’s experience differs I suppose
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-16 14:04:00+00:00
This isn't a new thing. A bunch of cars with electric parking brakes already have this service situation.

A lot of mechanics don't even look in software and probe them regardless because fuck getting out your scan tool, groping around in the footwell, plugging in, cycling through menus, trying not to get anything dirty in the process, etc, etc, all for something that can be done from the wheel well where the brake job is already being performed.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-11-16 14:04:16+00:00
> [person complaining about whataboutism proceeds to make a post consisting entirely of whataboutism to distract from the topic of israel]

Considering israel is guilty of everything you listed and worse (including genocide), and in greater amounts, this isn't even a good 'whataboutism' from you. Indeed, no amount of whataboutism, nothing hamas has done or can do justifies israel's crimes. Either way, try to stay on topic (israel) rather than engaging in whataboutism (deflecting from israel with 'whatabout hamas!?') and spreading anti-jewish slurs.

By the way, I think our fellow poster is still waiting for an answer from you here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45940799
by jimmydoe | 2025-11-16 14:04:49+00:00
Washington has been cold to Anthropic for the wrong bet they made in 2024, hence Anthropic has been desperately screaming all sorts of bullshit to get back attention.

Honestly their political homelessness will likely continue for a very long time, pro biz democrats in NY are losing traction; and if newsom wins 2028, they are still at disadvantage with OpenAI who promised to stay California.