MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by caconym_ | 2025-12-01 22:28:52+00:00
> I think this is a pretty black and white and simple view of things, fault is not always 100% clear, and CLAIMING fault is different from explaining what happened _from your perspective_, and letting the other driver do the same. But I'm not actually speaking about simple fault in a basic traffic collision.

Seems like having video (and GPS speed, etc.) can only make it clearer who (which may include both parties) is at fault? I still don't see how that can be a bad thing if you also aren't interested in lying about what happened.

> I think there's a huge asymmetry between the upside of the dash cam and the downside of self-surveillance.

I almost addressed the generalized surveillance angle in my original comment, but didn't since it seemed that your comment was focused exclusively on the context of having been in a traffic collision.

Addressing it now, I guess I am just not too worried about this angle when my dashcam simply records videos onto an SD card that I have complete control over. If I was a person likely to be targeted by my authoritarian government, I would probably think twice about having such an unencrypted SD card sitting around where it might be swept up in a bogus search and used to gin up additional bogus charges against me, but that is currently not my situation. Really, I can only imagine the video evidence collected by my dashcam being used to exonerate me in a scenario like the one you describe, e.g. if an LPR tagged me on the block where the murder happened but my dashcam clearly showed that I was just passing through.

In fact, this exact thing recently happened (https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/flock-cameras-lead-col...) to a woman who was falsely accused of theft based on LPR data and used her Rivian's dashcam recordings (among other data) to get the police to drop the charges. It's insane that this happened in the first place, but that's beside the point here.

Of course, people using cloud-based dashcams are certainly exposing themselves to dragnet surveillance—which I do have a problem with simply on principle—but the data on my dashcam's SD card are fundamentally inaccessible to law enforcement until they obtain it in a physical search of my car.
by tedivm | 2025-12-01 22:29:03+00:00
If you're trying to build AI based applications you can and should compare the costs between vendor based solutions and hosting open models with your own hardware.

On the hardware side you can run some benchmarks on the hardware (or use other people's benchmarks) and get an idea of the tokens/second you can get from the machine. Normalize this for your usage pattern (and do your best to implement batch processing where you are able to, which will save you money on both methods) and you have a basic idea of how much it would cost per token.

Then you compare that to the cost of something like GPT5, which is a bit simpler because the cost per (million) token is something you can grab off of a website.

You'd be surprised how much money running something like DeepSeek (or if you prefer a more established company, Qwen3) will save you over the cloud systems.

That's just one factor though. Another is what hardware you can actually run things on. DeepSeek and Qwen will function on cheap GPUs that other models will simply choke on.
by next_xibalba | 2025-12-01 22:29:06+00:00
I'm generally pretty gung ho about tech adoption. Nuclear? Yes! LLMs everywhere? Let's try it! Crypto? OK... give it a go! Self driving cars? Heck yeah!

But I really, really don't want drones flying over my house, polluting the already noisy soundscape, etc. This just strikes me as a terrible idea.
by losvedir | 2025-12-01 22:29:13+00:00
Hmm, counting the insurance premiums 100% towards the birth of the child is a bit misleading. Presumably, you'd be paying those even if you didn't have the child. That said, the cost of health insurance for a family is pretty outrageous. My premiums are along the same lines as the ones here (although less noticeable since they're paid by my employer).
by kmano8 | 2025-12-01 22:29:14+00:00
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by hedgehog | 2025-12-01 22:29:23+00:00
Most likely: Same design, marketed as the same chip. Might see differences in power consumption and thermals but not in a way that will affect normal users. Apple has relatively few designs that they use across different products so that would further mask differences. If the Intel-fabbed variant of a chip ran 5% hotter but Apple put it into Apple TV then basically nobody would notice or care.
by wrs | 2025-12-01 22:29:51+00:00
OK, so... Employees are compelled to go into the office, so they can have better in-person collaboration. They are also encouraged not to go to meetings (aka in-person collaboration sessions), so they can have more focus time.

I haven't seen the Insta offices, but I would bet they don't have walls. In which case, you know where the best focus time is to be had? Out of the office.
by d-lisp | 2025-12-01 22:29:58+00:00
It would be great that the drone had some kind of tactile sensibility.

Go slowly in the opposite direction of said contact first, then if that is not working try to rotate on one of the horizontal axis while going in the opposite direction to see if it make a difference, and if it doesn't then something is stuck on your skin, and you should be able to notice that your weight is not the same as before; if that's not the case, then maybe your sensor is just broken, but then maybe you could be able to notice some difference in the power consumption of the tactile components array, and if that's not the case ... well, maybe that sensor is off too ? Wait ... what are you doing in Madrid ?
by mystraline | 2025-12-01 22:30:08+00:00
> If your answer to “I can’t afford to have children and run a business” is “then don’t,” you are building the political conditions for extremism. This is how every revolution starts: a critical mass of people who conclude the system offers them nothing worth preserving. They don’t just want change - they want revenge.

Its "not afford to have children", but instead "not afford to live".

And we're already seeing these strong signifiers of extremism everywhere. Shooting CEO's is halfway acceptable, if they are sufficiently horrible (and yes UHC was horrible).

Violence is more and more routinely considered the only answer that works.

Corruption isn't something hidden, but instead openly done. And this is at all levels, from petty theft, up to 'let's rearrange government to screw the other party'.

Look at how much tax dollars you pay in, and what you get for that. Its more and more a socialist country amount of tax, with low/no benefits to the citizenry. And no, shoveling billions to Israel or Ukraine, or project of the week does NOTHING to help me, my friends, and people around me.

It is pretty bleak. Has been for quite some time. I can understand why some might want to vote for Trump- he did and is still making good on his promises. Terrible promises, sure. But he's doing them.

Far as I can tell, none of the candidates are for the public, and willing to do and help the public. Just feels like a corrupt-o-cracy where if you're not in the In group, you're screwed.

And yeah, extremism, revolution, and revenge is spot on.
by nycfishbowl | 2025-12-01 22:30:25+00:00
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by bunderbunder | 2025-12-01 22:30:27+00:00
Agreed. I am coming to suspect that there are approximately 2 positions on this subject: there are people who have previously weathered an AI winter and can therefore easily see the writing on the wall, and there are people who maybe don't quite understand the phenomenon being described by the term "AI winter".

It's not about how good or useful or potentially lucrative the technology is. Every previous catalyst for an AI winter has eventually become pervasive, changed the world, and made some people a lot of money. Every single one. And I do mean pervasive. If you could poof just one of them out of existence, my cell phone would become noticeably less useful.

What it's really about is how hype cycles interact with funding for basic research.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-12-01 22:30:48+00:00
5 days is stupid. I am fully remote and I can see how face time is important. After a few years remote I am definitely feeling a little detached from the company. But 5 days makes no sense. I think 2 or 3 days in the office is perfect. You get the opportunity to talk to people and you have days where you can fully focus.

Most ridiculous is to have to come to the office and then talk to your distributed team members over Teams or Slack. Even more fun is to have them spread around the globe in different time zones .
by lacy_tinpot | 2025-12-01 22:30:51+00:00
No. UPI. It's an initiative by the Indian government.

It's controlled by the RBI, just through a complex public-private corporate structure through NPCI.

UPI is much larger and more international than PIX. It's currently processing iirc something like 200 billion transactions. UPI is also used in several countries, France being among the most recent examples.

As such UPI has a broader scope than PIX and requires a public-private corporate structure with stakeholders from both sides.

But this is off topic. The competence of the Indian government to at the very minimum partner with Industry shows that such software preloaded on phones is a threat to the civil liberties of people that the State shouldn't encroach on. This is a violation of individual privacy.
by jritchie | 2025-12-01 22:31:10+00:00
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by sien | 2025-12-01 22:31:17+00:00
On top of that, 53% pay for Private Health Care as well.

https://www.health.gov.au/topics/private-health-insurance/re...

On top of that many things that are 'not urgent' you have to pay for yourself.

I have recently paid over 20K for back surgery. Prior to the back surgery I could barely walk. This was deemed 'not urgent' and had I would have had to have waited at least 18 months for surgery via Medicare.

I also have private health cover.

So, it's important for non-Australians to understand, our health system is far from a panacea where taxes pay for everything.

Currently 778 K Australians are waiting for 'elective surgery' .

https://www.aihw.gov.au/hospitals/topics/elective-surgery
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-01 22:31:35+00:00
Firefox was seriously a better browser, not just "implements standards better". It ran faster, it had tabs (wow!) and at one point it got Firebug which let you have a console INSIDE the browser that showed information you could print with `console.log`, I kid you not.

It was a better browser through and through, maybe because MS slept on IE or maybe not, but in the end it isn't revisionist to say they beat MS's proverbial posterior because the browser was better.
by peter422 | 2025-12-01 22:31:36+00:00
The quality of health care in the US is significantly higher than anywhere else in the world.

Whether that quality is necessarily (or good) is debatable, but we are getting something for the money.

You also are just completely wrong in your main point. We cannot provide the same efficacy of healthcare as we are now for 60% less. We are the richest country in the world, labor costs more here than other places.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 22:31:36+00:00
>but if you are 'right' and out of business nobody will know. Is that any better than 'wrong' and still in business?

Depends. Is it better to be "wrong" and burn all your goodwill for any future endeavors? Maybe, but I don't think the answer is clear cut for everyone.

I also don't fully agree with us being the "minority". The issue is that the majority of investors are simply not investing anymore. Those remaining are playing high stakes roulette until the casino burns down.
by wetchicken | 2025-12-01 22:31:49+00:00
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by pavon | 2025-12-01 22:32:17+00:00
It is a standard outdoor coaxial cable. Perhaps it looks thin because you are mentally scaling to the size of smaller hobby drones.

Edit: The MK30 is 78 pounds, and about 6 feet diameter. Here is an image with a human for scale:

https://dronexl.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Amazon-Prime-A...
by defrost | 2025-12-01 22:32:39+00:00
From the top:

Health spending in 2023–24 In 2023–24, Australia spent an estimated $270.5 billion on health goods and services– an average of approximately $10,037 per person. In real terms (adjusted for inflation), health spending increased by 1.1%, or $2.8 billion more than spending from 2022–23. In 2023–24, health spending accounted for 10.1% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in Australia, approximately 0.2 percentage points higher than in 2022–23.

~ https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/health-welfare-expenditure/h...

From the bottom:

In Australia, 15% of all expenditure on health care comes directly from individuals in the form of out‐of‐pocket fees — this is almost double the amount contributed by private health insurers. There is concern that vulnerable groups — socio‐economically disadvantaged people and older Australians in particular, who also have higher health care needs — are spending larger proportions of their incomes on out‐of‐pocket fees for health care. A 2019 study identified that one in three low income households are spending more than 10% of their income on health care.

~ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10953298/

There's little to no public advertising of prescription drugs, cheap generics are widely available from federal scale bulk negotiation deals.

Health outcomes are greater life expectancy than the US, national scale cancer survuival rates are better by a few percentage points (IIRC - they are close but higher).

Australia has long had an innate "we're all in this together" society built on individualism. It's not great, it's not perfect, but the first instinct is generally to look after our own - across the board.
by MandieD | 2025-12-01 22:32:47+00:00
My scheduled C-section (which my insurer likely didn't question me about because I was 40 and have other health issues) plus three-night hospital stay was about 5,000 EUR, all paid by my health insurance (private, so I know that 5,000 was the "retail" price), in a fairly prosperous part of Germany.

Not that the German health system isn't facing down some of the same demographic issues the rest of the well-off world is, but comparing wait times for specialists now that I'm on public (more like, very strictly regulated) insurance with my dad back in Texas on a combination of Medicare and supposedly good supplemental plan, I'm still in a better situation.

A strong public/heavily regulated independent insurers system gives the private insurers enough competition to keep prices in check.

Plus, I don't know of an insurer here, public or private, who also owns clinics or employs physicians, and they don't own pharmacies.
by kergonath | 2025-12-01 22:32:57+00:00
> the chance that Intel gets a boat load of profit out of it is very small

Why? TSMC seems to be doing ok. It’s worked with RAM and SSD suppliers the same way and they seem to be doing ok too. So does Foxconn. Apple has been known to subsidise leading edge nodes in exchange for priority or temporary exclusivity, and is absolutely ruthless, but it does not prevent its partners from being successful.

> And historically when fabs have been separated from a business, it's always been in a way to shed a capital intensive albatross

That is true. But there are other factors that might be worth considering. First, Apple hates being dependent on a single supplier (which is a single point of failure). Then, hedging risks related to the security situation in Taiwan makes sense. Whether it means subsidising a new TSMC plant in the West or subsidising a new Intel plant might not be that huge a difference. Finally, it might apply some gentle and friendly pressure on TSMC by threatening to shift some production to a competitor.

Whether all this makes sense or not depends on quantitative and qualitative analysis based on data we don’t really have.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 22:32:58+00:00
>It's final.

You should tell that to all the failed businesses Jobs had or was ousted out of. Hell, Trump hasn't really had a single successful business in his life.

Nothing is final until you draw your last breath.

>Who determines what is ethical? beyond the 'golden rule'?

To be frank, you're probably not the audience being appealed to in this post if you have to suggest "ethics can be relative". This is clearly a group of craftsmen offering their hands and knowledge. There are entire organizations who have guidelines if you need some legalese sense of what "ethical" is here.
by IshKebab | 2025-12-01 22:33:15+00:00
> the majority who don’t use “AI”

Citation definitely needed. ChatGPT has almost a billion users.

I do agree with the main point that this should be easy to turn off, but let's not pretend that everyone hates AI as much as the average HN nerd.

Also, you could argue that Firefox's only remaining users are the average HN nerd and therefore it shouldn't pursue AI, but that's exactly the problem.
by charlie-83 | 2025-12-01 22:33:25+00:00
I think the solution here is to just code stuff where AI is not useful. Go write embedded code (not arduino), write a compiler, create a network protocol, write a game that runs on an actual gameboy etc. There are a lot of projects where AI is still of limited use (both silly and actually useful). Obviously, the downside is that all these projects are going to be much harder than "build a todo app" (and possibly require you having experience from doing easier projects first).

I don't think that "just don't use AI" is really a solution here. It can feel really pointless doing something the hard way when you know there is an easy way even if you prefer the hard way.
by pablopudding | 2025-12-01 22:33:25+00:00
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by LogicFailsMe | 2025-12-01 22:33:34+00:00
The other issue is that the dumbass at Google behind it isolated the Google+ team in their own building with their own cafeteria expecting it to be a really big deal, forgetting and abandoning the rest of the company he needed for that to happen. I figured it was dead at the Friday TGIF where they announced the annual bonus for most googlers wouldn't be relative to the success of google+ in any way.
by stranded22 | 2025-12-01 22:34:24+00:00
That’s something that really pisses me off - I WANT to use the Gemini pro that is £1.50 more than the £7.99 subscription I was originally paying Google; I said no to using my data to train the AI, and I can’t have history. That’s just ridiculous and means I won’t use it for anything more than maybe images. I’ve had a discount with Claude and that works well for me (audhd translator mostly).
by verdverm | 2025-12-01 22:34:57+00:00
I recently started building a custom coding agent for vscode. The reason, control.

Big AI has prompts you cannot remove. They have to because they have a big audience, get attacked relentlessly, and have to be mindful of PR events.

Now, while I can avoid the copilot/Claude code agent prompts, I am still using their models directly and subject to their prompts. Moving to use models directly is the next step, and the only way to do that is with open models. Therein, the Chinese have been building better open models, and that is why we see their usage rising.

It's more about full stack control than it is about price (imo)