skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brake torque is far higher than engine torque and can be applied at speeds where tire traction is far greater - at least at the front. The rear makes far more sense for this application - assuming a performance RWD or AWD vehicle, the rear driveshafts already handle most of the acceleration load, and max rear braking load is practically severely limited by the load transfer to the front.

Formula student cars and other open-wheelers have far greater packaging flexibility as well. A quick search doesn't bring up a whole lot of encouraging discussions on FSAE and related places re: inboard brakes, please share if you've seen such.
Pi-hole v6
It is not really a fair comparison between an iPhone and the Librem because the Librem is catering for a completely different market.

The phone itself is quite different in some respect to other mobile phones e.g. parts of the phone that would be on the SoC are on removable M.2 cards. It is a niche product, meant for a particular audience. You are going to be paying a premium even if it was manufactured in offshore.

I pay a premium on any add-on/upgrade card to my Amiga. These products are made in smaller batches and thus cost a lot more than simply getting an ARM chip and emulating it. I accept that because my use case is extremely niche.
I was interested, but Mac and subscription kill it for me. Good luck to them, though.
Right.

But are there any locally produced Windows laptops? No company is going to spin up local production for some tariffs that Trump might decide to reverse next week (a-la-Canada).
Anthropic best model is Sonnet 3.5 in my opinion. The reason its good is it is very effective for the price and fast. (I do think Google has caught up a lot in this regard). However, not having COT makes its results worse than similarly cheap COT based models.

Leaderboards don't care about cost. Leaderboards largely rank a combination of accuracy + speed. Anthropic has fell behind Google in accuracy + speed (again missing COT), and frankly behind Google in raw speed.
It is interesting that many people do not remember events when they were two years old. But much more interesting that some people do not believe that there are people who can remember events from age two.
Lots of the details hit for me (the lifelong habits from marching band, moments alone of feeling a little actually-crazy, being terrible at remembering names well past the point where you feel like you should have gotten good at that, the conference room lights shutting off and awkwardly standing to make them come back on, trying not to look as idle and bored as you are).

It's mostly about big-corp life, though—my time with startups and little agencies and such didn't much resemble this, day to day, but still had some of that "why the fuck are people paying me to do this?" factor, like having finished projects cancelled without ever being released due to corporate politics or because it turns out a client was only paying us build a product as a BATNA for some acquisition negotiation and they weren't really planning on using it except as a bargaining chip, or having clients (or your own startup leaders...) assign you projects that you're 100% certain are a bad idea that's never going anywhere (and sure enough, you get it done, and it flops, for exactly the reasons you could have told them it would on day 1).

Like, 80+% of the work I've ever been paid to do has been kinda pointless except to drive the gears on some abstract large-scale money-making machine that randomly sometimes produces returns but mostly just makes everyone do a bunch of work that at least someone involved already knows isn't valuable, at least not for any straightforward reasons, but everyone has to do anyway to keep the gears turning.

Feeling lost in a large org, the awkwardness of being new at a large office and of kinda clinging to the very-few people whose names you can remember, being told you're doing well and being paid great while kinda feeling like you're just coasting along and money's showing up in your account for no good reason and because that's just how your stumbling-through-life path has worked out, for whatever reason, but why should that continue for another day and OMG what will I do if people figure out they could just not do a bunch of this stuff and nothing bad would happen and they'd save money and I'd be out of a job and what else do I even know how to do and is this current too-easy gig making me soft and messing me up for future employment (but they're all kinda like that...)—very relatable.
I started with cosine law and then went "wait a minute" - but still jumped to the wrong answer as pointed out in the solutions.
I've been on a journey the past few months to listen to every single album I own (a little more than 800 or so) and if you can find that discipline I do recommend trying to listen to music in albums again. Even if it's just when it first comes out, listen to the whole album once and then just listen to the individual songs you liked. I've found so many songs that I wouldn't have liked otherwise but they either A) grew on me (similar to what you talked about) or B) I liked them within the context of the album.
OpenAI board considers special voting powers to prevent Elon Musk takeover
The tragedy of the commons... If you keep tools for several families to use... when you need one of them, it either cannot be found or is broken. This is often because lack of maintenance, administration, knowledge and willingness to read the manual.
> Anyway, I think it's one of those things you don't really notice until it goes bad somehow.

So true!
Regarding unconscious thinking: I've known for many years that if I'm trying to implement something and what I'm doing just feels wrong and I'm not sure why, it's time to stop and come back first thing in the morning. Sleeping on it engages my back-brain; and invariably the next morning everything makes sense, sometimes immediately, and sometimes with just a small amount of work.

Mind you, the solution I have in mind when I wake isn't necessarily the right one; but I get to the right one pretty quickly.
Eat your own dog food, i.e. use your own product
> unevidenced claim implying that emotion is the primary driver of decision making

You've added the words "primary driver" here yourself, I never made such a claim. But I hope you can see that not only that leap but also your desire to overcome your "animalistic" emotions are both rooted in emotion.

I won't waste my time looking for evidence for a claim I didn't make and I don't think it's up for debate that the majority of people in the armed forces are "armed and emotional." But in terms of the original claim that checks and balances only serve up to the point of human failure I could point to any number of examples and would repeat the fact that others have raised some in this thread.
Dealers right now would rather not sell than put up with boundaries. Unfortunately the experience has gotten only worse.
Feeling obligated to appease unseen internet freeloaders.

If you do it because you want it for your stuff, cool.

If you do it because you feel obliged to appease "the community" who takes for granted that you support them, that's a symptom of the broken model that is open source.

Has echos of the Linux for Apple Silicon guy last week who used to be a Wii modder, tired of the support tickets from entitled pirates, moved to a niche Linux distro, and discovered a similar sense of entitlement in the issue tracker.
htmx has a whole world of major issues too.
No silver bullet.
I'm simply switching back to React, it just seems the dominant standard right now.
left for the smoke break then forgot about the second hole they were supposed to drill for the power.
The part of the whole phenonmnon that most puzzles me is how much trouble people sometimes have with “you can always not respond”.

“He's wasting my time!” No, you're _choosing_ to waste your time; make better choices.

“But I can't help myself!” That's your problen, it's not the other guy's fault.

I've even seen people say literally that they were being forced to answer newbie questions.

(Edit: for example, see the comment in this thread that characterizes question-asking as “harassment”. Annoying, perhaps. Harassment? Spare me.)
> Security team is just another compliance department. It does not bring in money.

This. Thanks for highlight it!
The first rule of opposition should be to not embrace the conspiracy memes of your opponents.
I've started using TanStack/Start and I like it a lot
The fact that the German government won a lawsuit against X is clickbait? The same X that is headed by a guy who is vocal in his support of a politcal party in Germany?
To be fair, it was never everyone. Twitter was always small compared to Facebook and other networks.

It punches above its weight because it's where the cultural elite communicate.
I am working a job like this now. Instead of getting punched in the stomach I have to make Jira subtasks and come up with some narrative about what I'm doing in a stupid scrum meeting every morning. Easy, pays well, less physically demanding than being punched in the stomach, but not really making use of my skills, and ultimately soul-sucking in a way that previous jobs weren't. And yet who am I to complain?
Would love for any of the downvoters to offer a single good faith reason for considering this question in earnest.
I read the whole thing. It's a bit of a 'moralistic' ending, but I didn't have enough of a problem with it to find that a serious fault.

Unlike that comment about 'please summarize'. I'll fault that.

Here's the problem: this is an artwork. It's there to experience something, not intrinsically to deliver an answer or data point. It's to vicariously go on a journey without literally doing the thing. That's a purpose of artworks, and one that's completely wasted on LLMs as they cannot feel or experience or have a purpose: if they did they'd be fixed (or, I supposed, punched in the digital stomach)

Summary? You don't need an LLM for that, conserve the energy. The summary is 'The ideal candidate will be punched in the stomach. And that's bad'.

It's literally in the title. I read through to see if it was 'and that's bad' or, 'and that's good', or possibly 'and that's inevitable'. I like the author better for ending up at 'that's bad' with a little bow on the end to celebrate meaningfulness, but that's not the only possible conclusion, and other conclusions would be just as artistically valid.

Quitting 30% of the way through is just as valid. You don't HAVE to take the ride just because it exists. If you're curious, averng, it's an okay story, leads up to its ending pretty well and finishes with a hopeful note. That's most of what you missed.

The only NON-valid way to engage with it would be to point an LLM at it and say 'tell me what the point is, I'm busy' because that would be failing to take the ride without even comprehending that you're failing to do so.

Living life through ChatGPT is about as useful as getting punched in the stomach. Try reading the story or ignoring it completely. There is no summary that is not as meaningless as… well, you know :)
Related ongoing thread:

Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43092066 - Feb 2025 (48 comments)
To the author, if you're reading this:

> But while I thing that async Rust is well designed

At least one typo, thank you for not using an LLM to spit out an article. :)
Related ongoing thread:

Grok3 Launch [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085957 - Feb 2025 (985 comments)
Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (2024)
That was a navy landing. Looks like the landing gear buckled. Also doesn’t look like there was much flaring prior to touchdown.
Contact method is in profile (or more directly: https://lucgommans.nl/email), though by now I can't edit the comment and thus link anymore so will have to post a new comment and kill the old link if we want to change it. Just let me know, all is fine by me
> Grok has an advantage in its access to Twitter data.

Or is the advantage the other way around? That it has access to Twitter users (the ones that are not bots, that is)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5XN_mJE8Y&t=1005s
CursorAI for Front End Dev: First Impressions
Hey, wanted to share my first impressions with Cursor

What have your experiences been? I’m especially curious about continued / longer-term dev process, and about pure backend dev. Can compare & contrast with Github Copilot in VSCode, or other alternatives.

Prior discussions (recency asc):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42594256

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41337542

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41979203
Their Orion glasses are apparently mindblowing in fidelity as well as the lightness of the glasses. Someone will absolutely make the smart glasses paradigm work so that we don't need to carry around phones anymore, and Zuck is racing to be first. This is because he lost out on the platform wars and was at the mercy of Apple and Google; remember Apple's privacy update that killed much of Meta's revenue? Zuck doesn't want a repeat of that by owning his own platform.
>Without the Huawei ban, Huawei may have taken 70% market share and killed most local competitors now, same as BYD

I don't see the problem. What about the free market? What about the consumer? Why should geopolitics be used to hold back progress just protect the bottom line of two lazy companies?
The thing with EVs is that there is so much uncertainty in the platform. Is this an actual reliable car or will it crap out due to some byzantine electronics issue in 5 years?

Meanwhile a 4 cylinder dead simple economy gas car is pretty much commodified by automakers at this point. You change the oil, timing belt, brakes, tires, and live somewhere where they don’t salt the roads that car can probably run for half a century making 30mpg costing you pennies in comparison in insurance and registration because its small and slow. It is a known quantity. 4 cylinder ice with same old 4spd auto or 5spd manual is a solved science like a hammer or a tube amplifier is at this point.
> And it's entertaining to watch people I loathe shit bricks

Which means you do not have a modicum of understanding. Your appalling behavior is to turn it into a stupid culture war.
I don't shit bricks my friend. The people that understand things better than you do are raising the alarm, precisely to get decadent and selfish asses like you to pay attention. For your own good.

You are reminded that democracy is not a fringe issue to be compartmentalized, to be redirected to places for people interested in democracy. Yes, it is in your face as it means that there might be 2 or 3 topics out of 30 about the collapse of the largest democracy.

"I am not political" is exactly what an average Russian answers about even the most simple questions. Democracy does not survive indifference.

And if you don't like that democracy flows through all aspects of society, then enjoy the fake elections. You will never have to think about it. But still you can have a chuckle about those who did.
I fell into this trap for a while:

> "The grow­ing trend, espe­cial­ly among young peo­ple, to mul­ti-task may seem won­der­ful. But actu­al­ly, mul­ti-task­ing is most like­ly to inter­fere with focused atten­tion and, in turn, degrade mem­o­ry for­ma­tion, recall, and think­ing quality."

Eventually I realized that parallelization is not really possible, you end up making a mess of everything, and trying to be a rapid context-switcher - similar to the illusion of simultaneous multitasking on a single CPU core - just takes too much energy and time - 15-30 min to unload, clear the slate and reload with something else seems common.

Practically, this is why people working on difficult problems that require their full attention get really irritated by interruptions, and often prefer to work in isolation or only with like-minded individuals.+
Not the OP, but I have a subscription to PyCharm through work and still think it's inferior to VSCode. And I don't love vscode...

In general, subscriptions are a high bar for me. You typically pay for them year after year but see minimal improvements. Back when I was doing Java development, I paid for my own copy of Idea just to get to use something good. But I don't think I would do that for a subscription.
Yeah, I was wondering if that was it. Practically it still ends up being a subscription for me because I actually do want the updates, but I guess that's the point—it's my choice to keep paying because I like what they're doing. If I stop liking I can stop paying.
HTMX and shoelace is an awesome combo. Super fast to prototype things and tweak as needed. Being able to copy paste snippets and directly inject data in a straightforward way is a nice way of working. It limits cognitive overhead so you can focus on the domain logic rather than fight javascript dependencies.
When casually-inflicted trauma and indifference to using you effectively, let alone your needs as a human being, are a constant, while other responsibilities come and go and are taken less seriously, it feels like the core of the job.
US Postal Service Announces Tenure Plan of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy
Mostly offtopic, but I just want to drive-by namedrop Legend State, which provides a deep reactivity state system similar to the one in SolidJS or Svelte 5, but with substantially fewer gotchas because its design makes it abundantly clear when you're working with a proxy (which tracks dependencies) and when you're working with plain data.

The key trick is that its "observables" (similar to Solid Stores or Svelte runes) aren't mixed with the actual data, and instead are sort of pointers to the data. This makes it very clear when you're passing reactive observables around, and when you just have vanilla data. There's never confusion about whether a particular property access is properly tracked or not. There's never that feeling that it "is not JavaScript".

It works well with React but is fundamentally framework-independent. We moved to it after trying SolidJS (which Svelte 5 is strongly influenced by) and we haven't looked back. IMO it deserves a lot more mindshare than it currently has.

https://legendapp.com/open-source/state/v3/
This is why tariffs only work in cases where you already have a strong local production that you're trying to protect (Japanese rice farmers, Florida orange growers) or where you want to force foreign companies to set up factories locally (Toyota, TSMC, etc.) but the latter only works for really high volume and high revenue items.

It does _not_ work to resuscitate long-dead manufacturing industries.
I don't understand this at all. There's no plans to support a query language. Scalar values can exist. Heterogeneous lists can exist. The use case is explicitly tightly coupled to a UI layer. What would it mean to reach SQLite?
This only works if your game doesn't use the GPU. Then there's the whole problem with nondeterminism. But I'm sure when those small problems are solved people will use this technology in games /s
That isn't what most of the proposals or actual laws to "regulate Uber" do.

But let's consider your proposal. The first question to ask about any proposed rule is, what are people going to do in response to it? If you limit how much they can take for providing a matching app, they'll add some other feature to their service and charge for that. Or just break out the existing charge on the customer's statement to list something else they're already providing. Your purpose wasn't to prohibit anyone from offering services other than matching to livery drivers and customers, right?

The next question to ask is, what problem are you trying to solve? Are their margins too high? Uber's net margin for 2024 was ~10%, and that was the first year it was even a positive number.
You'll still be writing Javascript/Typescript with Svelte. What the article means by "Svelte 5 is not Javascript" is that all of your code outside things like Stores will be compiled in a manner that makes it harder to debug, since it's not normal Javascript but a Svelte-compiled JS that won't make sense in the debugger.

I would opt for better debugger tooling specifically for Svelte than strip away the abstractions. Its the lack of a runtime managing a virtual DOM that makes it unique and performant, and frameworks like React also essentially have their own compilation step that obfuscates code. Source maps won't help much by itself; the React debugger is where you have a better view on your components and how things are wired up.
I wouldn't call access to hundreds of thousands of posts of "PUSSY IN BIO" an advantage, but to each their own.
Lessons from Ukraine's Failed 2023 Counteroffensive
Here[1] is what the gov't says on the topic. Mostly stay way from water that's near farmland and after heavy rainfall. Apart from that it's quite safe here.

As for radioactivity, AFAIK the primary source would be radon from granite and similar rocks. It shouldn't be a problem for a lake, though can be a concern if you have a well[2].

[1]: https://www.fhi.no/sm/drikkevann/rad/for-du-drikker-vann-ret...

[2]: https://dsa.no/radon/radon-i-vann
Pi-hole is such a great tool. I've been running it for a few years on a raspberry pi zero, and am constantly astonished by the sheer amount of cruft it blocks for me.

Congratulations to the team for the release - happy to support you via Patreon!
Exactly. I also think it would be interesting to know why someone decided to submit an article, so they could write their reasoning in there too.
Sure, just like in many other languages with automatic memory management.
> Chromium runs (AFAIK) 1 PID namespace per tab. On my machine right now it reports 1.1 TiB virtual memory with a little over 100 MiB resident per tab. 1.1 TiB mapped PER TAB. Of the resident I have no idea how much is actually unique (ie written to following the initial fork).

This is most likely a trick for garbage collection or memory bug hardening or both. Haskell programs also map 1tb.
It depends on the manufacturer. Some are better than others. Some document pretty well but are overshadowed by crap manufacturing.

Personally I really like how Tesla did their online service manual. It's a good balance of technical but not to technical.

https://service.tesla.com/docs/Model3/ServiceManual/en-us/in...

With regard to your edit. That's where there's a practical limit of what do you (a manufacturer) publish that the tech needs to know. So you need to cross it between technical know how, and how detailed you need to get. Me personally would pull out the oscilloscope and make some probes to get an idea of what to do. You set a carburetor on my desk and that would probably take me a bit longer over electronics. It's a skillset issue, basically, and we're transitioning off strictly mechanics to mechanics and electronics working together. Which naturally raises labor costs because people aren't use to that.
std::mem::forget() explicitly leaks a resource, including memory[1]. The whole point is to allow circumventing running a destructor. There's also Box::leak() to quite explicitly leak memory[2]. Handy for dynamically allocating memory that needs to live for the remainder of the program (making `'static` lifetimes at runtime).

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.forget.html

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/boxed/struct.Box.html#method.l...
Never wrote a program to do some helping task for while your programming the bigger task that only gets run once? maybe to generate a bunch of boiler plate code or something? same deal.
This is not a pressing issue of the day. Honestly, inform yourself.