MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neuah | 2025-12-16 02:31:56+00:00
The US could retain a lot of that talent if it put the same level of funding into science that China is, and remained welcoming to foreign nationals. The US has been brain-draining the rest of the world for decades with enormous benefits to us. We then led in most fields and the flywheel kept spinning. Now we are cutting research spending and closing the door, while China continues to increase its science funding year over year. The sclaes are tipping and talent will be drawn to the leading edge, wherever that is.
by ggm | 2025-12-16 02:32:32+00:00
I tend to think kindle is an anathema but I also think I'm heavily invested in their product, and so is a lot of the world.

Being able to strip drm is good. But, it's stepwise refinement warfare. In the meantime, being able to run a copy of the Google Android kindle reader, and obtain a valid licence-to-read key is useful. I'm not disparaging calibre or apprentice Alf, I'm just pointing out the more compliant path also exists.

That's what boox does. It's clear android can do this. I suppose what I'm asking is can these debian style OS run enough emulation/compatibility libraries to run an Android kindle app?
by nullhole | 2025-12-16 02:32:39+00:00
I used a similar setup to translate CEC user commands (volume/fwd/reverse/etc), that travelled from my TV remote to the TV to the CEC bus to a pi that was plugged into the TV via HDMI. The pi was running jukebox software (moode audio). Similar to the article, the pi had a shell script that reads all the loglines coming from cec-client and acted on them when appropriate, in my case translating a subset of the CEC user commands to moode commands.

Worked pretty well, was nice to CEC-ify a pi program and eliminate the need for special-purpose hw/sw to interact with the audio player.

The CEC spec has all of the user control codes on the 2nd last page[1], in table 27.

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads...
by DesiLurker | 2025-12-16 02:32:51+00:00
this does not makes sense from dollars pov to me, I ran a back of napkin session with claude & gemini on this and the short of it is you need a magical weightless radiator for cooling and even then it wont work because the launch costs need to be sub $100 before this can be feasible. this does not even factors the 5y amortization and LEO orbit drag correction.

It then occurred to me that they (all major AI companies) know all of these facts but still pushing for it so there must be another reason. Then I recalled the offhand statement from the openAI lady about govt backstop for infra, which was strongly opposed by public and AI czar. this might be be a backdoor way of injecting that backstop capital in terms of subsidies now for results in 5 years or so. and needless to say after pilot programs those will fail spectacularly.
by hypercube33 | 2025-12-16 02:32:57+00:00
I was interested in this truck when it came out. My in laws purchased one and queued a second one up to have two reliable (new is reliable to them) in their retirement years. The price was good, its a smaller compact truck and very good on utility. The second generation of them - the price went up, and some of the value in what the truck was vanished. Its also years behind on production. Ford doesn't seem to want to sell these.

If Chevy came out with a competitive S10 Electric style truck, I'd consider it as well.
by class3shock | 2025-12-16 02:33:01+00:00
You are looking at the wrong thing, look at overall vehicle dimensions.

1995 Ford Ranger Extended Cab - 3200+ lbs - 198" long - 69" wide - 6' bed

2023 Ford Ranger Super Cab (last year they had a 2 door) - 4100+ lbs - 210" length - 73" width - 6' bed

1000 lbs heavier, a foot longer, a few extra inches wide, with the same size bed.

https://www.edmunds.com/ford/ranger/2023/supercab/features-s... https://www.edmunds.com/ford/ranger/1995/extended-cab/st-754...
by jamesgill | 2025-12-16 02:33:47+00:00
But once it actually hit production lines, Ford was never able to sell it for anything close to the promised price tag; the 2025 model started at around $55,000.

If you could find one, they were far more than that. And the 2026 model real, available and for sale cost $65k+ and can easily be $90-100k with options.

Of course they killed it.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-16 02:34:18+00:00
>Because if you read the other comments, there are perfectly reasonable explanations that don't involve graft. Jumping to "bribe" every time there's bad behavior is just lazy thinking and means you don't actually figure out what the root of the problem is.

Right. I'm sure, in spite of this and the decades of overwhelming evidence, this was all just a silly coincidence, and they can lower food prices now.

Edit: I'm shitlimited to five posts per X number of hours, so I'm going to respond here: the evidence is in TFA, thanks.
by smackeyacky | 2025-12-16 02:34:38+00:00
Cheaper? Not sure how. While an ICE engine does have cooling systems and fuelling systems, water pumps and fuel pumps are relatively cheap and simple devices.

An EV generally has a battery cooling system along with regenerative braking.

EVs have roughly the same mechanical things as an ICE vehicle too, HVAC, suspension, brakes, in car entertainment, heated seats. Lighting. An entire 12v subsystem to power all that stuff as well.

A good old ICE car will be cheaper to make than an EV because the powertrain is cheaper when you account for batteries. Even taking into account the gearbox you don’t need in an EV.
by rlue | 2025-12-16 02:35:02+00:00
My dream for an open e-book reader is to have some kind of graphical OPDS browser as a substitute for the commercial storefronts offered by Amazon/Rakuten/etc. If you could host and publish your own ebook library (using BookLore or something similar), then explore and fetch content off of it with the same UI polish as you can get from a corporate vendor (complete with cover art galleries, carousels for recent releases and recommendations and the like), I think that'd make e-readers so much more appealing and usable for diehard FOSS folks.
by deepsun | 2025-12-16 02:35:49+00:00
I still don't understand why people don't remove the hyphens from UUIDs. Hyphens makes it harder to copy-paste IDs. The only reason to keep them is to make it explicit "hey this is an UUID", otherwise it's a completely internal affair.

Even worse, some tools generate random strings and then ADD hyphens in them to look like UUID (even thought it's not, as the UUID version byte is filled randomly as well), cannot wrap my head why, e.g:

https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaLogs/blob/v1.41.0...
by themafia | 2025-12-16 02:36:06+00:00
> is significantly more precise than what you will get with radar

Is that increase in precision much larger than the plane itself? If it's not then it couldn't possibly matter in this application.

Further radar is not a static image. The radar is constantly sweeping the sky, taking multiple measurements, and in some cases using filtering to avoid noise and jitter.

> GPS Lat & Long Barometric Altitude Ground speed & track angle Rate of climb/descent

You get or synthesize every one of those with radar as well.
by culi | 2025-12-16 02:36:18+00:00
JSDoc doesn't have a formal spec. Most modern development on JSDoc syntax happens by the TypeScript team. Every release of TypeScript also includes notes about JSDoc syntax.

Almost any modern IDE is also parsing JSDoc comments through the TypeScript language service. So many people don't realize they are already using TypeScript (hence the name of this post).

I don't think it's particularly controversial to say that the form of JSDoc that the majority of developers are familiar with IS JSDoc. The distinction is more of a historical one than a technical one (since there is no formal JSDoc spec)
by zahlman | 2025-12-16 02:37:27+00:00
> So simple, nothing extra, beautiful. The images and illustrations carry it so well.

The image I was shown under the introduction was a 4.1 MB PNG despite appearing to be more or less black-and-white and being scaled down considerably. To my mind this sort of thing is very much "extra" for a think piece; I have no idea how that image is supposed to relate to the topic of the article.
by rtkwe | 2025-12-16 02:37:54+00:00
It was a bunch of small changes over the course of 200 years but yes that's perfectly comparible to the effects needed to justify the valuation put into all the AI companies right now... but I was talking about the issues with comparing it to singular inventions like the cotton gin or jacquard loom that DO largely only affect one industry.

I think it's weird there's so much pushback on the idea that if the hype proves true and it /can/ replace basically any knowledge worker (and potentially drive robots replacing physical laborers) that that would have a bit of a larger effect than inventions that affect some parts of some industries...

There's plenty of space to think it just won't happen (where I'm personally at, at least on the current LLM driven versions) but if it does work the broad spread of the impact would require a huge amount of change all at once.
by matt_kantor | 2025-12-16 02:38:14+00:00
> it's implicitly typed by typescript automatically

What do you mean by this? Can you share an example?

Regular expressions do not act as type guards, and there's no way to express a type that allows one regular expression but rejects another (they're all just `RegExp`): https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?target=5#code/MYewdgzgL...
by samplatt | 2025-12-16 02:38:21+00:00
I replied to someone who claimed HDMI's only purpose was DRM, which is wrong.

I haven't pivoted since the start of the thread. There simply was not a digital solution that could negotiate then stream video and AND 2+ channels of audio, all in one cable, that was supported by more than a small fraction of consumer and industry devices at once. Firewire (which you seem fixated on), for all it's many technical superiorities, had almost zero market with Windows users, or consumers in general. Set-top boxes used it in the US, but was uncommon outside of the US. Camcorders used it, but in 2002 when HDMI came out most people were still using film camcorders IIRC; digital only really became commonplace well after HDMI gained footholds.

I'm not saying the cable itself controlled clocks and handshakes, I'm conflating terms over the last couple of comments. I'm referring to HDMI, the cable, the protocol, and the connectors. And yes - HDCP had a huge part in how HDMI was pushed, which is both bad (introducing proprietary bullshit's never great) and good (larger adoption of standards that work well in the field).

Was HDMI perfect? FAR from it. But all these "there was this tech that did THIS facet better" is missing the point that I've stated a few times. It was a good solution to a number of small problems.
by FabHK | 2025-12-16 02:38:25+00:00
Pet peeve:

> N^2 scaling: if every fed has to talk to every other fed to exchange messages, the number of connections will scale exponentially

No. That's quadratic growth, which is a fairly mild form of polynomial growth, which is much much much slower than exponential growth.

k k^2 2^k 1 1 1 10 100 1024 100 1e4 1e30
by diogenescynic | 2025-12-16 02:38:41+00:00
They botched it entirely. If they made it for $40k even if it only got 50 miles of range, they could have sold these. Instead they priced themselves out of the market. It's a clear example of the Innovator's dilemma, but now instead of cannibalizing their own market they'll just let it slip away to Tesla.
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-16 02:38:52+00:00
I have every reason to believe so.

Flock's founders belief is that he wants to eliminate all crime (literally) with Flock.

So in his eyes, false positives are inherently acceptable, and preferable to false negatives.

And I feel that (actually, I know that, though I wasn't in Sales, but I did work at Flock) one of their selling points to agency is almost a "whitewashing" of such practices. "Oh, our PD wasn't targeting anyone, we were just acting on the recommendations of the Flock surveillance system".
by jongjong | 2025-12-16 02:39:16+00:00
I tried that. Pasted that exact prompt after the first response. It gave me a really long response picking out some specific technical aspects of my solutions mentioned in my blog article which kind of make sense but nothing that seems like a show-stopper IMO.

One of the points I totally disagree with:

> The Verdict: Developers are using AI to escape abstraction layers, not to find new ones. They want the AI to write the boilerplate they used to buy SaaS for.

I'm a developer. This is not what I see happening. Things like edge functions are more popular than ever. So are SaaS platforms like Lovable and Base44. Supabase is getting tons of traction. You need somewhere to host the back end/CRUD and use AI to generate the front end. The narrative of devs abandoning platform SaaS doesn't make sense. Most devs don't even know how to launch and access an EC2 instance these days.

It concluded with:

> the market stays irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

> the most rational move is to keep (project name) as a personal tool. Use it to build your own apps efficiently. Let it be your "secret weapon" that makes you 10x faster than the employees you work with. But do not try to sell the weapon to the army; they have already signed contracts with Lockheed Martin.

It's speaking figuratively here. I make no mention of the army or Lockheed Martin but the message is clear.

The sources it provided are basically competing startup websites... actually seem to support my work and direction, pointing to similar projects and trends that are successful and aligned with what I'm doing so it's confusing. My current project provides similar features as some mentioned here. The second one is basically exactly the problem that my current low-code project solves. I've built entire complex data-driven apps with it so I know it works and is secure. I have 15 years of software engineering experience working on top projects including backed by YCombinator...

[1] Supabase RLS Documentation: "Row Level Security (RLS) is a PostgreSQL feature...

[2] Chris Paik on "The End of Software": Discussion on how LLMs reduce the cost of creating software to zero, favoring standard/reproducible code over proprietary configurations. (common knowledge in VC circles, 2023-2024 discourse).

[3] Pinecone Multi-tenancy: "You can use namespaces to manage multi-tenancy... Queries in one namespace cannot access vectors in another." (docs.pinecone.io/guides/indexes/namespaces)

[4] pgvector & RLS: "pgvector integrates seamlessly with PostgreSQL's security features, including RLS." (github.com/pgvector/pgvector)

[5] OpenAI Realtime API: OpenAI's documentation on their WebSocket-based API for real-time speech and text. (platform.openai.com/docs/guides/realtime)

[6] Vercel AI SDK: "Build AI-powered applications with React, Svelte, Vue, and Solid... Streaming text responses." (sdk.vercel.ai/docs)
by kj4211cash | 2025-12-16 02:39:56+00:00
That was my first thought too. But they can say that this one was created by their administration. And is more AI.

I'd love to hear from people who had experience with USDS before this administration. The chatter I see online is overwhelmingly positive. OTOH, I interviewed with USDS and the experience was not good. I don't love tech interviews in general but this one was somehow worse. I remember thinking the interview would have made more sense if they were hiring for PMs, but I wasn't a PM and didn't want to be one. Focusing on my communication abilities and professional history is one thing, but this ... wasn't that. I always wondered if others had the same experience. Maybe I just had the wrong interviewer on the wrong day.
by gruez | 2025-12-16 02:39:59+00:00
>Y'all in the US are so, so cactus haha.

Are there any countries that don't use the quid pro quo definition of bribery? At best, they try to keep a lid on it by capping campaign contributions, but that's not really "bribery is illegal" (if we accept the more liberal definition), more like "there's a limit on how much you can bribe".
by wyldfire | 2025-12-16 02:40:06+00:00
> shower you with coffee and donuts to much friendlier offers to get sales.

By bringing this up in a thread talking about kickbacks, it sounds as if you're trying to equate the two. Please don't equate this to a "kickback." It's not what that is. There's real standards to what denotes bribes and kickbacks and that's not what those are.

> flexible ethics for personal gain?

If you let the donuts influence your judgment, that is an ethical problem -- I agree. But if you operate in your organization's best interest you can enjoy the coffee and donuts without remorse.
by sgerenser | 2025-12-16 02:40:18+00:00
It sounds like you’re being sarcastic, but yes, it is indeed completely different. The person I responded to said that Kodak clung to the film business too long, implying they did not embrace digital cameras. The reality is that despite embracing digital photography they still failed. The idea that they stuck with film too long is a common trope that the parent poster was repeating even though the article itself disagreed.
by gruez | 2025-12-16 02:42:29+00:00
>in spite of this and the decades of overwhelming evidence

Where's all this "overwhelming evidence"? So far the only that's presented is "my university is pepsi only so there must be something shady going on" and "vendors buy me coffee so there must be administrators corrupting themselves and risking their 6 figure jobs for $5 worth of inducements"

edit:

>Edit: I'm shitlimited to five posts per X number of hours, so I'm going to respond here: the evidence is in TFA, thanks.

Searches for "bribe" and "kickbacks" don't turn anything up. If you're talking about the unsealed FTC complaint, that's anti-competitive behavior, but not the "kickbacks" that OP was talking about (ie. some administrator abusing their position of trust to personally enrich themselves). Both are bad, but they're not remotely comparable. For one, in the case of kickbacks, the organization and its members are harmed (through worse contracts), whereas for whatever walmart and pepsi agreed to, both benefited.
by cs_throwaway | 2025-12-16 02:42:48+00:00
More money, more income. That's why flood of foreign money is good for a university. But, it is a fallacy to think that this has no cost.

In my experience, the large influx of foreign students are typically at the masters level. MS classes are typically (not always lol!) more advanced than undergraduate classes. So, you need more qualified instructors, such as your tenured/tenure track faculty to teach them. When you take T/TT faculty out of undergraduate classes and replace them with teaching faculty, you lose a lot. (Let me know if you need what's lost to be spelled out.)
by wslh | 2025-12-16 02:42:48+00:00
But we know that there are few winners and past competitors like eBay faded out. It is more extreme with Microsoft: they have survived more market shifts than anybody else, there is no doubt they have something special and at that business level it is difficult to argue that competitors have not tried everything, and the idea of good and bad behaviors is naive at that level. For example, a "good" company such as Sun Microsystems was involved in bribes to gain markets.
by daturkel | 2025-12-16 02:42:55+00:00
As a math guy who loves reality tv, I was also drawn to the show and wrote a blog post [0] about how to programmatically calculate the probabilities as the show progresses. It was a lot of fun optimizing it to be performant. You can `pip install ayto` to use it to follow along with the show or try out scenarios.

The linked post is a very thorough treatment of AYTO and a great read. I really like the "guess who" bit on how to maximize the value of guesses. It's a shame the participants aren't allowed to have pen and paper—it makes optimization a lot trickier! I'm impressed they do as well as they do.

[0]: https://danturkel.com/2023/01/25/math-code-are-you-the-one.h...
by benzible | 2025-12-16 02:43:06+00:00
[niche professional vertical] in my response was a stand-in for the specific vertical my startup targets, which is light years from computer security. Computer security is a vertical where the practitioners are often developers or developer-adjacent. You're building tools for people like yourself. That's exactly the "scratch your own itch" dynamic I'm describing.

The vertical I'm in has zero overlap with the developer population. The end users aren't technical, don't participate on HN, and aren't going to "manage an agentic coding project." There's no equivalent of a developer who moonlights on OSS tooling because they're passionate about the problem space, because the problem space requires domain expertise that developers have no reason to acquire.
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by daugu | 2025-12-16 02:43:35+00:00
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by defrost | 2025-12-16 02:43:56+00:00
That's a need that can also be met with a towable trailer that locks up tools, carries batteries, and supports panels for charging, eg:

* https://www.solarbatterywarehouse.com.au/solar-battery-shop/...

In an emergency you can leave the house in regular vehicle leaving trailer behind to power the freezer.

In other times it's handy for powering tools away from a main supply.

It's also a honeypot of nickable stuff so it'd be good to invest in quality locks and towball / wheel locks.