MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-12-29 19:09:14+00:00
All the traditional car companies in the west failed.

I think short term focus is far too rewarded in Western companies. In fact that's pretty much the only oversight given to the CEOs. The next quarterly report is all that matters. Even if you wanted to do the right thing and focus on long term goals office politics will ensure that a single down quarter where you focused on long term investments will be punished by those looking to move up. Pump the numbers each and every quarter and don't bother about long term visions since those aren't important for your career, bonuses and golden parachute. The big shareholders too aren't worried about the long term either since shareholders are fluid. Pump this quarter and they can move their investments to the next company before the rot sets in.

The companies that do extremely well in the West are those with singular stable long term leadership where the leaders have authority (or simply majority ownership) to take risks. Berkshire Hathaway, Meta, Nvidia, Amazon, Musks companies, Apple (under Jobs when he was around), etc.

This is partly why Tesla stock price is ridiculous. The competition is the traditional car companies which are extremely poorly run while Tesla is seen as a company run by a singular individual with more authority to take on longer term projects than just the next quarters goal. I think the market isn't correctly taking into account the possible mental illness from Musk but none the less there is merit to the idea that a company with singular stable leadership will be more successful than those which have quarterly focus.

This can be seen in many many examples. I actually don't think SpaceX is particularly well run either but their competition are companies where the only thing that matters for their leadership is the next quarterly report. So it's a case of a poorly run company vs an extremely terribly run company (eg. Boeing). No wonder SpaceX is doing well when their competition is fucking Boeing. Likewise with Amazon vs Walmart, Apple under jobs vs Apple not under Jobs, etc.

China commonly avoids this trap with stakeholder rather than shareholder based governance. This is less than perfect but it's still a league better than the race to the next quarter that Western shareholder governed companies have been doing. Details from an academic point of view: https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2025/06/18/what-chinas-e...

In other words the Western incentives for leadership is pretty broken (except when the leadership has the stability to avoid worrying about these short term incentives). I have the opinion that it's likely to lead to the fall of the West in the long term. We can see China repeatedly winning in various fields, electric cars being a clear example. We can also see in the West whenever we have shareholder based governance the companies have poor long term outcomes.
by qingcharles | 2025-12-29 19:09:59+00:00
They did this for me once on an Intercity or whatever they call them these days. I fell asleep and woke up to my Mum waving at me from the station platform in Lancaster or somewhere wondering why I had not gotten off the train as it pulled out of the station. The conductor was kind enough to stop the train at some random cattle grid barely-even-a-platform in the middle of nowhere and radioed the train coming the other direction to pick me up. Bless.
by tiborsaas | 2025-12-29 19:10:10+00:00
What failed in the technology?

Because batteries are the only part you can criticize, take a look at the sodium batteries made by CATL:

https://cnevpost.com/2025/12/29/catl-expects-sodium-batterie...

https://carnewschina.com/2025/12/28/catl-confirms-2026-large...

It's a real breakthrough in battery tech. With gasoline you simply can't have this.
by nyyp | 2025-12-29 19:10:26+00:00
This post felt AI-touched to me, but the usage falls on a spectrum. You can write the whole post yourself, have an LLM write the whole post, or - what I suspect is the case here - have the LLM "polish" your first draft.

Many weaker or non-native writers might use AI for that "editor's eye" without realizing that they are being driven to sound identical to every other blog post these days. And while I'm certainly growing tired of constantly reading the same LLM style, it's hard to fault someone for wanting to polish what they publish.
by SXX | 2025-12-29 19:10:37+00:00
It was HITMAN released on GOG with always online DRM and removed after backlash. They obviously refunded to everyone.

https://www.gog.com/en/news/release_hitman_game_of_the_year_...

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_hitman_game_of_the...
Show HN: Rev-dep – JavaScript/TS circular deps detection, 175x faster than Madge
by jayu_dev | 2025-12-29 19:10:57+00:00
Rev-dep is a dependency analysis and optimization CLI for JavaScript and TypeScript projects.

It helps answer questions like: where is this file used, what are the entry points, are there circular dependencies, and which files or node_modules are unused.

I recently rewrote it from scratch in Go to focus on performance and low memory usage. On large codebases (500k+ LOC), circular dependency detection runs in a few hundred milliseconds and is up to 175x faster than Madge in my benchmarks.

Feature-wise it overlaps partially with tools like madge, dpdm, skott, and dependency-cruiser, but aims to provide fast, list-based, actionable output rather than graphs.

Feedback and performance comparisons on other large codebases are very welcome.
by noAnswer | 2025-12-29 19:11:10+00:00
My accounting teacher said (~25 years ago) that since the introduction of the calculator his tests got more difficult. He can asked more and deeper questions since he can discard calculation time. The student has to be more productive.
With people having internet at home and don't have to go to the library preparation time for presentations shrank too.

If AI is as good as some people claim I could see a world were it gets allowed like calculators. Reduce the training period from 3 to 1 year. 10x the questions at exams. Make them fail at 94 out of 100 points. The student has to be more productive.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-12-29 19:11:23+00:00
It's incredible there is something wrong with a group of people completely unable to see when someone is lying to them. And no matter how many times they are lied to, as long as they are rich enough they believe them.

I don't know what to think anymore about this. He has continuously conned his way along and does it just long enough to jump to the next con.

Tesla is crashing and somehow people though giving him a huge pay package made sense. Cyber truck is flopping but now he's again living off government graft by having another company buy up the dead weight supply. Tesla is only around because of govt subsidy and now that that's dead he's turned to another govt spigot. While supposedly being opposed politically to what he's doing.

And time and time again people still make up excuses because they can't believe they were conned.

Probably the biggest sign AI is going to flop is him starting talking about it being right around the corner.

Little technical skills, no forecasting ability, we saw how much his "efficiency management" philosophy flopped when done in public via DOGE (vs behind the scenes in a private company) and yet people keep falling for it. As long as he can keep spitting out BS, people keep falling for it.
by nottorp | 2025-12-29 19:11:29+00:00
I remember this open book exam on graphs… one of the questions was “take this algorithm that’s in all books, invert the condition you’re optimizing for and write the new algorithm in pseudo code”. No I don’t remember which particular algorithm it was, it’s been a bit.

80% of my mates didn’t solve it. It was right there in any graph algo book.

It does not help you if you don’t understand the material. If the exam is done right at least.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-29 19:11:46+00:00
> So the largest individual shareholders of Intel are:

> 1. US Government

> 2. Nvidia

> 3. Softbank

Not quite. (1) US Govt at 9.9% (2) BlackRock at 8.4% (3) Vanguard at 8.3% (4) State Street Corp probably (5) Nvidia (6) Softbank at 2%
by digitalPhonix | 2025-12-29 19:11:52+00:00
It’s not just config though (unless you consider logic to be config). When you’re roaming, the sim applet has to generate a path back to its home network based on request/responses with the networks it can see and their partners (and their partners’ partners etc.)

It’s effectively multi-hop peer discovery and I don’t think you can encode the general case logic for it as just config.

Edit: as a (rather niche) example, FirstNet sims run a different applet to AT&T sims despite nominal running on the same network because they have special logic to use more networks if they are in an emergency area.
by matklad | 2025-12-29 19:12:44+00:00
To add more context, TigerStyle is quite a bit more than just static allocation, and it indeed explicitly attributes earlier work:

> NASA's Power of Ten — Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code will change the way you code forever. To expand:

* https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/main/docs/TI...

* https://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf
by SQLite | 2025-12-29 19:13:18+00:00
No, Simon, we don't "refuse". We are just very selective and there is a lot of paperwork involved to confirm the contribution is in the public domain and does not contaminate the SQLite core with licensed code. Please put the false narrative that "SQLite refuses outside contributions" to rest. The bar is high to get there, but the SQLite code base does contain contributed code.
by lynx97 | 2025-12-29 19:13:30+00:00
If you have been treated repeatedly in an uncomfortable way by strangers, and sometimes even your own family, intent at some point no longer matters to you. It is the end result that counts. I dont have any sympathy for weirdos, they are what they are, but they definitely dont deserve me explaining away their shortcomings. I am the one that has to do home and wrestle with my reaction to them crossing borders they are to dense to even realize exist.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-12-29 19:13:41+00:00
My own memory and current experience on this point is that it used to be far more common than it is today.

I remembered there was a South Park episode where Cartman was being a stereotypical self-absorbed person walking around with their phone on speaker. I looked it up, and that episode came out in 2013. At the time, most phones on the market had a 3.5mm jack. Yet people not using headphones/headsets was an experience common enough to be turned into a joke in the show.

I don't think there's much correlation between 3.5mm jack availability and using a phone's speaker output in public.

"Simple" as you've used it is open to interpretation. I personally held on to wired headsets longer than most of my friends and family. You know what I don't miss, now that I've preferred wireless for a few years? Untangling the cable. Accidentally catching the cable on something and having an earbud ripped out. Picking lint out of the jack. Staying conscious of the length and positioning of the cable in the context of my own movements.

Other than the BT connection process, which is only complicated if you're fortunate enough to own multiple devices and headphones/sets to connect to them, wireless can be a lot "simpler" in actual usage.
by nosianu | 2025-12-29 19:14:03+00:00
Just for anyone new here, if you have comments like this, please be specific and post something a neutral person can verify and form their own opinion on. Don't just post silly one-liners that don't have any real content.

This would have been a concrete example, where a government minister abused the system because a tweet annoyed him: https://theweek.com/news/world-news/954635/willygate-german-...
by pembrook | 2025-12-29 19:14:16+00:00
No amount of money will overcome the fundamental issue: monopoly.

Airlines are subject to market competition since any competitor around the globe can spot a poorly run route and buy their planes into those slots. If they can execute more efficiently than you, they can afford to lower prices (or increase the level of service) more than you, and thus put you out of business.

Trains do not work this way. No amount of investment can overcome the cushy institutional-rot, laziness, and demotivation that inevitably results from being a monopoly, as most train routes are not subject to competitive forces due to the real world constraints of the infrastructure needed.
by horsawlarway | 2025-12-29 19:14:28+00:00
Yes - and I've never met anyone in the last 20+ years that actually treats those certifications as worth more than the paper they're printed on.

They might still be able to scam folks into taking the test, but the test itself has essentially no meaningful value in industry.

Personally - I see "Agile certifications" as the same thing but from the last decade.
by rvnx | 2025-12-29 19:14:37+00:00
Fun fact, this study was financed by YouTube to create a legal shield.

In 2017/2018, they were in the position where MPAA and RIAA were saying: "Piracy costs us billions; Google must pay" + they had European Parliament on their ass.

Google financed that 'independent' study to support the view
"Piracy is not harmful and encourages legal spend".

So the credibility of "independent" studies, is something to consider very carefully.
by woodruffw | 2025-12-29 19:14:43+00:00
The relevant part is the last three decades, as the article explains. The US as a whole has seen a decline in federal corruption prosecutions, but NYC leads that decline. Quote:

> However, beginning in the 1990s, the number of corruption convictions there began to rapidly decline, so much so that by the beginning of the 2020s, Manhattan’s position relative to other areas had flipped. It now boasts the fewest corruption convictions of any major city area.
by titzer | 2025-12-29 19:14:55+00:00
tldr; the UB was reading uninitialized data in a struct. The C++ rules for when default initialization occurs are crazy complex.

I think a sanitizer probably would have caught this, but IMHO this is the language's fault.

Hopefully future versions of C++ will mandate default initialization for all cases that are UB today and we can be free of this class of bug.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-29 19:15:20+00:00
The problems plaguing Intel are fundamental problems that money cannot easily solve, if at all.

Intel needs expertise that only a few hundred people on Earth have, and most of them are in Taiwan, already working for someone else.

You don't just buy an EUV and start printing, you buy an EUV and give it to a wizard to use as a wand. Intel needs wizards.
by sho_hn | 2025-12-29 19:15:20+00:00
I'll take the bait because I'm annoyed by the boiling-frog aspect to vaguely alluding to things.

Here's the press release on this:

https://www.bka.de/DE/Presse/Listenseite_Pressemitteilungen/...

tl;dr Since in Germany it is illegal to e.g. make public postings calling for the rape of women or share video footage of women being murdered and tortured for the purpose of entertainment and gloating, one day ahead of International Womens Day police staged a big showy series of raids on individuals doing such things, to make a point and call attention to the issue.

Sounds like an excellent use of my tax money, to be honest, but it was certainly controversial also in Germany.
by legitster | 2025-12-29 19:15:25+00:00
> you’re not buying games you’re leasing them

Counterpoint, the cost of "owning" offline games is not zero and their lifetime is not infinite.

I have a stack of old games on CD (or older) and getting them to run on anything is a massive pain in the neck. (In fact, for nearly all that I care about I also have bought a Steam license in addition).

Ultimately, everything comes down to user experience. We can pat ourselves on the back for buying something forever, but experiences and the media they are stored on are both transitory.
by MrDresden | 2025-12-29 19:15:27+00:00
I've attempted to take two DB trains this year, while travelling both through Germany and with Berlin as a destination. In the end there were seven trains, and 8 hours extra lost travelling with DB. My compensation was pitiful.

Living in the Netherlands (not native Dutch) I will now rather fly than take a train if it means that I can avoid using DB.

For contrast, tomorrow morning I am heading from the Netherlands to Paris with a train (non DB), and don't really expect anything but a pleasant and smooth journey.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-12-29 19:15:33+00:00
> In this overall sexist environment, we now have an ideology that essentially denies sex. Or rather, we have a proliferation of activists who claim that humans can change sex by changing their physical appearance. When these activists are confronted with reality – that sex is determined at fertilisation by the presence or absence of the Y chromosome (because both human males and females have an X but only males have a Y) and this cannot be changed using any known medical intervention – they declare genetic sex and sex chromosomes “irrelevant”.

Intentionally conflating sex with gender misses the forest for the trees. Gender correlates with sex but the relationship isn’t deterministic. Even among cisgendered people there is a wide variety of gender expression, variations in hormone levels, individual characteristics, cultural norms, and so on. Cisgendered people also change their particular expression of their gender over time.

But, back to the point, even if there were some medical intervention that did chromosome-level transition (à la _Time Enough for Love_, perhaps), it’s not as if anti-trans ideologues would allow for it and consent to recognizing such a person as their new chromosomal sex. Therefore, this isn’t the real objection.

I do give the author one kudos for recognizing the existence of intersex persons, even if they immediately abandon the notion and revert to sex binarism in what follows.
by matthewkayin | 2025-12-29 19:15:39+00:00
Sure, you can say that AI is just "stealing like an artist", but that makes the AI the artist in this scenario, not the prompter.

It bothers me that all of the AI "artists" insist that they are just the same as any other artist, even though it was the AI that did all of the work. Even when a human artist is just copying the styles they've seen from other artists, they still had to put in the effort to develop their craft to make the art in the first place.
by bikenaga | 2025-12-29 19:15:40+00:00
Original article: "Talking-associated cognitive loads degrade the quality of gaze behavior" - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Abstract: "Talking-associated cognitive distractions have been known to significantly impact physical reactions in response to visual information, leading to an increased crash risk while driving. The visuomotor processes required for driving include gaze behavior, cognitive processes, and responsive physical actions. However, how talking-associated cognitive loads affect the quality of gaze behavior remains unclear. Healthy participants performed center-out eye movements toward a peripheral visual target as quickly and accurately as possible under three different conditions: while verbally communicating (talking), listening to audio clips, or performing nothing other than the eye movement task. We found delays in the time needed to react to, move to, and fixate on a peripherally presented visual target in the talking condition compared with the other two conditions. Our results demonstrate that talking-associated cognitive loads are likely to have a strong enough impact to interfere with neural processes for initiating and controlling eye movement. These findings suggest that delayed physical responses and/or impairments in driving performance under cognitively demanding situations may partly result from delayed visual responses to surrounding events, followed by less accurate eye movement control when directing to and maintaining fixation on those stimuli."
by majormajor | 2025-12-29 19:15:49+00:00
That seems pretty wildly orthogonal to me.

Did the individuals and industries that truly drove fabulous innovation and development in the first world REALLY do it from a mindset of "it would be shameful to inconvenience others even slightly for one's own sake"? There are an awful lot of stories of rulebreaking out there... "The Wild Wild West" turned into some of the richest parts of the world, that name doesn't suggest that a society needs to follow the rules to the point of extreme shame to avoid staying poor.
by y0eswddl | 2025-12-29 19:16:08+00:00
have because despite the story that most people try to tell about the market and the economy... in the late- and post-ZIRP era, it's been mostly based on Hype, Feelings, and Vibes.

It's why the entire S&P 500 teeters on the back of 7 companies without any presently viable paths to profitability that would justify the current valuations.

It's why repeatedly lying for a decade+ made Elon so rich even though the business output and fundamentals never really matched the valuation.

Still doesn't - this valuation is mostly vestigial beliefs that AI would eliminate an entire workforce ("history often rhymes") of drivers and replace car ownership with subscription.

The majority of the performance in the market has little to do with actual material value being produced and everything to do with how much rent finance bros think they can extract from the stock.
by Kankuro | 2025-12-29 19:16:44+00:00
I think you are mentioning a viral but incorrect story: a station was scheduled to close at a given date, a student mentioned in an interview that it will close after her graduation, but then some news sites claimed that the date of the closing was related to the graduation. The station was also used by a few residents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%AB-Shirataki_Station#In_...
by kgwxd | 2025-12-29 19:16:49+00:00
> anyone who tries to evoke principles of safeguarding immediately gets monstered as some kind of “bigot” who is “spreading moral panic”.

If you're ignorant enough to claim that's what's going on, you're not fit to talk about anything with any authority, because you've just proven you're an idiot.

Same people that say stuff like that, say things like "why is it 'this person' can say 'thing' but 'that person' can't"? The ones who can say 'thing' are the ones that don't have a history of pushing a bat shit narrative and advocating for government control on such matters.

Everyone knows what's technically correct, that words have stricter definitions when practicing science. That's not the part that makes you bigoted.

So, Let's talk about bigotry and moral panic - accurately. I typed everything before this paragraph after reading only the quoted line, before getting to the part I knew was coming, and would be the ultimate message. And, of course, the final paragraph can be accurately considered bigoted moral panic. Once you've established that as your agenda, no matter how much 'authority' you think you have on the subject, you're not getting invited to the rational discussions, which people are having, just without you.