MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zdragnar | 2025-12-16 01:45:07+00:00
> some mythical ground clearance benefit that you will never use

Spoken like someone who hasn't lived past the suburbs.

I needed some plumbing work done last winter and had to hire someone new because my preferred plumber couldn't access my road with his van.

The lack of AWD/4x4, lack of ground clearance, inability to tow are all massive drawbacks for several lines of business. Tonneau or hard covers and enclosed trailers take care of shielding from the elements just fine.
by JojoFatsani | 2025-12-16 01:45:24+00:00
I write make Terraform PR’s with Cursor daily. The Terraform Registry is easy for the agent to comprehend, HCL has been stable for years now. Good terraform linters and plugins exist. and you can pretty easily tell your agent to run and analyze terraform plans without applying.

If Cursor/CC can’t be trusted with my TF code base why should I trust your tool? The same guardrails are needed for any of those not to mention the pesky meat-based code contributors.
by throwawaypath | 2025-12-16 01:46:23+00:00
>62 day old account with 12 karma

"No wrongthink heretics allowed!"

>making claims that are patently bunk

The claims are patently factual that you can verify.

>linking to a dubious website that seems to want to run a whole buncha scrips...

"We must preserve the narrative! Any website right of Stalin must be shut down!"

>low hanging fruit of shillbots

FUD comment placed, $0.05 have been deposited to your account. Great job, comrade!
by jandrewrogers | 2025-12-16 01:47:23+00:00
> some mythical ground clearance benefit

Maybe not where you live but there are many parts of the US where you really do want significant ground clearance regardless of vehicle type. The ubiquity of Subarus in several regions of the US isn't because people are fond of Subarus as an automotive brand.

High ground clearance isn't about "going offroad".
by jacobgkau | 2025-12-16 01:47:41+00:00
Person 2 has no duty to prove anything (or to enter the conversation at all), but Person 2 isn't going to convince anyone of their viewpoint by choosing not to attempt to prove their point. By choosing to say "not my problem," Person 2 is accepting liability for not attempting to change their opponent's minds if/when they get out-voted on the issue in the real world, as is currently happening.
by placatedmayhem | 2025-12-16 01:47:56+00:00
Or, use a service that lets you generate an address for each business you deal with or use case you have so you can treat them as disposable. After chasing down spammers and companies selling my info, including my email, I found this was easier to keep up with and is more effective. Spam me once or sell it to another company, and I burn that address, replacing it with the original company if I really need them to keep in contact.
by kiernanroche | 2025-12-16 01:48:29+00:00
I went to college a few miles from Mathworks's global headquarters.

They came to speak at my school and described open source alternatives (Python in particular) as the biggest threat to MATLAB.

I think if they open-sourced the MATLAB runtime and embraced a model similar to Canonical or Red Hat where users paid for support or integrations, they'd make more money. But it's hard to get there from where they are now.
by gruez | 2025-12-16 01:48:39+00:00
Isn't that what organizations like the ACLU are for? Except ACLU fights for civil rights whereas your hypothetical organization fights for consumer rights. The reason why it doesn't exist is that it suffers heavily from the free rider problem. Any individual's donation of $20 or whatever is unlikely to get them $20 worth of returns, because the lawsuit is either funded or not. Moreover you'd benefit regardless of whether you donated or not, so there's no incentive to donate.
by kldg | 2025-12-16 01:49:44+00:00
Can confirm no-BYOD policy is typical. I had to whine directly and without invitation to school principal to get an exemption for daughter. The trouble with no-BYOD is the kid must bring the school-controlled Chromebook home and connect to the home network for homework (which often requires Chromebook). Many US middle and high schools have an IT department of 1 or 2 people; it introduces abuse risk I think schools in general are not appreciating.

I see the problem with Chromebooks and cloud stuff more generally as being that it's difficult to see the productive use-case of programming outside just shuffling a bunch of data around. If your program's not actually doing something useful, it seems like it'd be difficult to imagine a career in it. -But if a kid can get a relay to trigger via button and then maybe via web interface and then maybe automate it, I think that opens the world of hacking up to them. You know, for $10, they can have a fully-solar (w/battery) thermometer or whatever they want -- the thermometer can feed a thermostat to energize a relay coil to start a heater or whatever.

-But I might be outlier, because in school we had robotics class a lot of kids were pumped for, but I was confused because we never did anything useful with them; it was more like an art class, except at least in art class we baked ashtrays for our parents. -But what am I supposed to do with a 5-watt robot that follows yellow tape?
by Jtsummers | 2025-12-16 01:50:30+00:00
As I wrote in another comment, US Tech Force participants doing 2-year stints won't qualify for the gov't backed retirement (unless they were prior military, prior civil service, or find a non-term appointment to follow this stint with). You need three years to keep the 5% TSP (401k equivalent) match, which is similar to many private companies. You also need 5 years to qualify for FERS (if you quit before then you can get your contributions back, but that's optional as you may want to come back to gov't later and have the years count).
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-12-16 01:51:44+00:00
> The PIs and laboratory heads all know damn well how the system works, they are no better than those bosses of H1B sweatshops, except perhaps they do their exploitation from ivy filled ivory towers rather than in Patagonia vests.

In my observation there do exist quite some people among the PIs and laboratory heads who are quite highly idealistic for research, but have no other option than playing this rigged game of academia.
by moduspol | 2025-12-16 01:52:03+00:00
The Slate initially looked good to me, but there were three things about it that were not upgradeable that seemed problematic:

* Bed size is fairly small

* Towing capacity is low (Just 1000lbs)

* RWD -> AWD

I liked the idea of buying a barebones truck and customizing it myself, but if it can't tow much, can't carry much, and can't go off-road, it's only really a truck in terms of its shape.
by amluto | 2025-12-16 01:52:05+00:00
> Autocoding straight to embedded

I used this twenty-something years ago. It worked, but I would not have wanted to use it for anything serious. Admittedly, at the time, C on embedded platforms was a truly awful experience, but the C (and Rust, etc) toolchain situation is massively improved these days.

> Plotting still better than anything else

Is it? IIRC one could fairly easily get a plot displayed on a screen, but if you wanted nice vector output suitable for use in a PDF, the experience was not enjoyable.
by notpushkin | 2025-12-16 01:52:43+00:00
> I'd still treat it confidential

Estonian isikukood is GYYMMDDNNNC, and is relatively public. You can find mine pretty easily if you know where to look (no spoilers!). It’s relatively harmless.

Kazakh IIN is YYMMDDNNNNNN (where N might have some structure) and is similarly relatively public: e.g. if you’re a sole proprietor, chances are you have to hang your license on the wall, which will have it.

It’s a bit more serious: I’ve got my mail at the post office by just showing a barcode of my IIN to the worker. They usually scan it from an ID, which I don’t have, but I’ve figured out the format and created a .pkpass of my own. Zero questions – here’s your package, no we don’t need your passport either, have a nice day!

(Tangential, but Kazakhs also happen to have the most peculiar post office layout: it looks exactly like a supermarket, where you go in, find your packages (sorted by the tracking number, IIRC), and go to checkout. I’ve never seen it anywhere else.)
by malux85 | 2025-12-16 01:52:49+00:00
Yeah, the truth is that you need all of these things to be “good enough”

The idea has to be good enough, the execution has to be good enough and then the connections will come,

The idea that the system is rigged against someone personally is just them protecting their ego - it’s much easier pill to swallow that your failures are because “the whole system is rigged against you” than to accept the ideas and execution were simply not good enough.

And of course luck plays an element too, I’m lucky I haven’t had cancer yet, for example, there is an indisputable element of luck to life too, though luck surface area can be increased by failure resilience and brute force trying.

I don’t think the system is rigged, it’s just a way for failures to protect their ego, but as soon as the get over that and stop making excuses, they can learn, grow and adapt, and then success will come to them.
by rootusrootus | 2025-12-16 01:52:58+00:00
> * The price isn't right for small businesses. These trucks are quite expensive

I paid 50K. A comparable powerboost was 10% more expensive.

> They're difficult to repair. A regular F-150 is designed to be repaired; these things are designed like iPhones to be disposable

Huh? These share a lot of parts with a regular F150. Just not the motor.

> They're loaded with useless/barely-functional interior electronics that are poor copies of Tesla

You mean it has a normal infotainment system like every other F150?

> excessive exterior accent lighting, badges, over-complicated blinkers

Are we talking about the same truck? Aside from some trims with the light on the tailgate, I don't know what you're talking about. ICE F150s have the same sorts of lights and badges and as far as I know exactly the same blinkers.

> single-charge range issues are pretty much non-existent (for non-towing applications).

Hey, we agree on something after all.
by NegativeK | 2025-12-16 01:53:12+00:00
When they were first released, there was a fleet/commercial only model that was stripped down and roughly $40k. _That_ was the model that I expected to succeed. Presumably the same type of truck my employer bought from dealerships 20 years ago, with the sterile interior.

But that doesn't address any of your other points, and I can't imagine a business owner that has very little incentive to change how they're buying vehicles to even care about the Lightning if they aren't seeing their friends or themselves in the modern minivan that's called a truck today, just electrified.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-12-16 01:54:41+00:00
"Capitalism is when Walmart offers a discount on Pepsi, at razor-thin margins, and somehow this is maximally extracting from the middle and lower classes"

Pepsi is exchanging profit for market-share. Be serious. Everyone else is just charging the standard price.

Market failures ought to be accounted for with regulation (they often are, that's what Liberalism is for), but this is not one.

The unessential garbage fuelling our obesity crisis has no place in the conversation about the affordability crisis whilst policy-makers and armchair experts are mulling a sugar tax, which would just raise the price. Notwithstanding, profit margins at grocery stores are not large in the first place. The reason profits are breaking records is that population is also breaking records, and customers are spending more on boutique animal alternative or organic boxed products. Margins on produce are as thin as ever. Canned black beans and soup are not making their billions.
by rootusrootus | 2025-12-16 01:55:04+00:00
The interior of the pro model is identical to an ICE F150. The only part which breaks with any regularity is shared with ICE F150s, in fact. The only interior difference I can think of on any trim of Lightning is the big screen on higher models. But it's the same underlying SYNC system as every other F150, no magic there.

It has breakable expensive headlights and taillights, that is for sure. But so do ICE F150s...
by tmnvix | 2025-12-16 01:56:07+00:00
Fosi ZD3 (https://fosiaudio.com/products/fosi-audio-zd3-fully-balanced...). Supports HDMI with CEC. I turn on my Apple TV, it turns on the TV, which in turn turns on the Fosi DAC - all connected with HDMI. The DAC then turns on a ZA3 amp via 12v trigger cable. Volume control etc is via the Apple remote.

All very cheap really. Total cost I think was about $550 (refurbished TV, second hand Apple TV, new Fosi DAC and amp). All this and I get to keep the TV in 'dumb' mode. Never even use the TV remote.
by picki | 2025-12-16 01:56:25+00:00
That's OK - I am happy to work with that 'nasty' end. Generally, there is no such signature as 'iamhuman' in media files, however there are plenty of AI/Deepfake/Edit signatures that can be traced (either through simple metadata, or SynthID or per-pixel distribution). Generally, when the one knows how to read deep data, the file can immediately tell how it was 'created'. Interestingly enough, even screenshots of an AI-generated image have a good rate of detection in susmeter.
by jackzhuo | 2025-12-16 01:56:47+00:00
Spot on! This is exactly why a simple Math.random() > 0.5 binary flip isn't enough for a proper simulation.You are right that we are mathematically dealing with base-4 logic (6, 7, 8, 9), not just base-2.While there are only 64 hexagrams ($2^6$), there are actually 4,096 possible casting results ($4^6$) when you account for the moving lines. My algorithm is designed specifically to capture the distinct probabilities for all 4 states.
by Lammy | 2025-12-16 01:56:58+00:00
> If someone can point me to a receiver that's more like 4 inches than 18 inches

S.M.S.L. make some good ones: https://www.smsl-audio.com/portal/product/index

I use their AD-18 and really love it: https://www.smsl-audio.com/portal/product/detail/id/566.html
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-12-16 01:57:34+00:00
> That said, in the worst case a PhD says "this person can work on ill-defined tasks and has the diligence to see them through." Regardless of the industry, that is a pretty useful skill.

Very few companies and industries want employees who

- are very conscientious ("has the diligence to see [the tasks] through"), and

- are much more effective working on their own, i.e. are no "team players" because they don't really need a team ("this person can work on ill-defined tasks").
by aw1621107 | 2025-12-16 01:57:52+00:00
> If you aren't instantiating a template, then it isn't used, so who cares if it has theoretical errors to be figured out later?

Just because you aren't instantiating a template a particular way doesn't necessarily mean no one is instantiating a template a particular way.

A big concern here would be accidentally depending on something that isn't declared in the concept, which can result in a downstream consumer who otherwise satisfies the concept being unable to use the template. You also don't get nicer error messages in these cases since as far as concepts are concerned nothing is wrong.

It's a tradeoff, as usual. You get more flexibility but get fewer guarantees in return.
by rootusrootus | 2025-12-16 01:58:26+00:00
It's due to ignorance. The Lightning is an F150 with a battery pack and motors instead of an engine and gas tank. It shares a -lot- with the 'regular' F150. It's just about the least complicated EV you can buy, which makes it extra funny to hear someone compare it to an iPhone. Sit inside and you can't tell the difference except for how much quieter and silly fast it is.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-16 01:59:11+00:00
> Would you be comfortable giving that answer to someone who’s homeless or financially stuck today?

What? Why on earth wouldn't I be comfortable talking to people already getting the short end of the economic-stick about how the system has been in need of reform for many years?

If anything, I think you've got it backwards: Good luck convincing them that "we should probably let actual full automation happen" before debating what we want to do about it.
by Fomite | 2025-12-16 01:59:54+00:00
This isn't really a culture problem, IMO, as much as a funding one.

My group currently employs two people of the description you have, and it does reduce the need for students (and honestly, increase productivity).

It's also by far the most stressful part of my job. Funding them involves writing multiple grants per year (because the expectation of any particular grant is low, even with a decent hit rate) and I am constantly worried that I won't be able to keep them employed.

If one of them leaves this year, I'm not likely to replace them, simply because in the current funding environment, I can't look someone in the eye and promise them a long term position. There are so many more ways to fund a student, and they're inherently time limited, so even if things collapse, there's ways to white knuckle through it in a way there aren't for staff scientists.
by exabrial | 2025-12-16 02:00:02+00:00
> people just love them as a symbol

This is an unfortunate trope that is oft repeated by those that live their life in constant upgrade cycles.

The regular F-150 is a pinnacle of value engineering for Ford. It's infinitely repairable for owners. Look around on the highway, you will see hundreds of 15+ year old F150s on the road, and a few times a day I will see 25+ year old trucks on the road too. There are thousands of aftermarket parts for repair or customization. Owners are happy with them, and they recognize the truck as something they buy once and keep for a long time.

If it is any kind of expression of self, its one of "I don't need to be consumeristic; I picked something simple that will last a lifetime."
by kragen | 2025-12-16 02:00:07+00:00
I do have one objective thing to say about readability. In a pop infix language like C, Python, Lua, or JS, the expression

e(d(), c(b, a()))

has fairly clear dataflow: data flows from a and b to c, and from c and d to e. This is knowable even without any previous knowledge of those five identifiers. The RPN version, in languages like Forth, PostScript, and Factor

a b c d e

can just as well correspond to any of these dataflow patterns:

a(); b(); c(); d(); e(); //none b(a); d(c); e(); e(d(c, b()), a); {a, b, c, d, e} // all going somewhere else together

And many others. You don't know if a or b is consuming something left on the stack from before, either.

On this basis I think it's at least somewhat defensible to claim that stack languages are "less readable": information about the dataflow graph which is easily available in the infix syntax is not present, at least locally. You can reconstruct it by knowing, or guessing, the stack effect of each word. But that's different from just having it plainly written down.

As a result, in Forth and PostScript, I regularly have bugs where I pass a parameter to, or receive a result from, the wrong place. This is not a major practical problem (it's usually pretty easy to figure out in the REPL) but it serves as evidence that stack languages really do require more effort to read and understand than pop infix languages.

Of course, you can make almost exactly the same argument that explicit typing helps readability, and implicit variable capture by closures hurts it. I think there's some merit in that, actually.
by noman-land | 2025-12-16 02:00:23+00:00
Normies manage their house keys just fine. Obviously crypto keys come with different challenges but that's a UX problem. People losing their house keys is not generally an Earth shattering event. Losing a crypto key doesn't have to be either.

A wallet is easier to lose than a bank vault, but it also holds less money for the same reason. Crypto keys can be designed the same way, with high importance keys managed by safer means like m of n schemes mixed with traditional "hard" storage in geographically distributed safe deposit boxes or whatever, while less important keys can be treated in a more relaxed fashion.
by rsync | 2025-12-16 02:00:41+00:00
We don't want your electric car ... we want your car, but electric.

We want an electric F150 or an electric Suburban or v90 wagon or whatever.

But instead we get e-initiative i-mobiles. We get TRON-cars. We get iModels.

There is a reason for this:

The incumbent auto makers understand fully that the ICE version of whatever model they electrify will suffer enormously.

They believe that they can somehow retain all of the sales of the existing ICE model while adding growth sales of a different electric model.

And, of course, they are wrong: because nobody wants an "electric F150". They just want an F150. But electric.
by noAnswer | 2025-12-16 02:01:00+00:00
> I doubt anyone is going to MITM my access to an art historian's personal website.

But that is what ISPs did! Injecting (more) ads. Replaced ads with their own. Injecting Javascript for all sorts of things. Like loading a more compressed version of a JPEG and you had to click on a extra button to load the full thing. Removing the STARTTLS string from a SMTP connection. Early UMTS/G3 Vodafone was especially horrendous.

I also remember "art" projects where you could change the DNS of a public/school PC and it would change news stories on spiegel.de and the likes.