skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The usual allegoric rebuttal is to show how many types of wheel there are, and how wheels have improved over time. The wheel as a basic concept is to mount a rotating circular shaped thing on a platform for moving. The first wheels were made of wood, at some point spokes were introduced, then other materials. Many more innovations (many of them mutually exclusive) are required to realize a formula 1 car, or a ralley car, or a bus, or a plane.
I believe people make roughly similar amount of noise depending on the situation, but we are not there to hear it. (And in case of many people from eg. South American or African countries this is not a completely new situation so.)
That's true, and I do enjoy not having to watch the races live at 4am in my time zone. Also, the only reason GM is still around is because of crazy government bailouts. So I guess I can pretend Ive helped fund an F1 team with my tax dollars.
That is a good question. The usable life of a combined heat pump (space heating/cooling + DHW) is somewhere between 10-15 years. For the ones, dedicated to DHW, I cannot really tell, but I would expect it to be longer, because they are usually less heavily loaded. Then the answer of your question will depend on the price of installation (e.g. heat pump vs 3 x extra PVs), local climate (affects efficiency) and price of electricity. Heat pumps don't work well in very cold climates, but for most US/EU cities they will work fine. For very hot climates it may be better to use solar water heaters, although for commercial installations there is the option to use the exhaust heat from cooling to heat DHW (it is essentially free energy).
Given the extreme hostility to congestion pricing that led to the current regime trying to kill it in NYC, a lot of people need to be educated...
I don't live in NYC but I have friends, both conservatives and liberals, who live in NYC and they couldn't be happier with congestion pricing. Increased subway ridership has increased police presence at the stations which has made the subway feel safer and reduced crime. Hopefully more cities follow their lead.
They're likely to remain useful in some contexts for quite some time.

A few really good planes and a lot of low-end drones is probably what we'll have in a few decades.
Very much this. There are some design flaws in the US system that are hard to fix - some of which is by design.

The other thing that’s sad to see is that slides into substandard leadership have plenty of precedent - strong, well-run countries have many times reverted thanks to incoming leaders being worse at the job. The US has just come off an exceptional run of competent and strong leaders driven by ideals, but eventually your hot streak is going to come to an end. To put it another way, this looks to be a reversion to the mean.
Title should be: "Elon Musk Leaves Pentagon After Discussions About China and Tech"
In the movie Wolf Warrior 2 the hero calls for support from the Chinese Navy, which waits for UN approval and then launches a missile with a cluster warhead from something that looks a bit like a Zumwalt-class destroyer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer

which has the kind of steathy construction that many nations are adopting but that the US is struggling to build. It reminds me of the trouble the Navy had circa 1970 when it decided tube guns were out and missiles were in and there were legislators who were offended that the new ships didn't look aggressive enough.

The US isn't going to lose the next war to Russia, China or Iran, it's going to lose it to Boeing, Lockheed-Martin and General Dynamics.
The primary power of a union is the capacity to collectively bargain. It doesn't matter if you personally can't think of anything that you'd like to use that power for. If unionization is right for tech, others will. In the abstract debate it will always be abstract answers. Maybe those organizing a concrete workplace would be able to give you concrete answers.
Don't let the Eurozone hear that
It's a miracle when any pro-transit policy wins over car centric America.
It's down 30% in the last month?
It dropped 30% this month.
Make it bill employers rather than employees so they don't all thrash the transit infrastructure at the same time. That would be a miracle.
I don't see any argument or evidence for the assertion that people who engage in atypical levels of violence have atypical personalities. We would expect sociopathy to be a factor in making someone more prone to violence, but there's no reason to assume it would be the sole or most important one. Most people, most of the time, don't find themselves in circumstances where the benefits of violence outweigh the risks. Even when a person finds themselves in a position where violence might benefit them, they have to weigh their own ability (probably untested) against the challenge (probably unknown) and may wisely decide that this is not the right moment for their rookie attempt. But someone who has previously tried and succeeded, or who has prevailed when attacked by another, has a more informed basis for choosing violence in a given situation. If it goes well, it may make them bolder in a subsequent situation, and then another, etc. And we might see this person as having an atypical personality, when it is only that they had some early experience that tipped the balance towards making violence a more rational choice for them.

As engineers, we can see in our own practice that an early job experience that led to us master a particular technology makes us much more likely to reach for that technology than we would if we did not already know it.
Perhaps there should be an additional investigation why old transformers aren't replaced. The issue is known (275kV, just like the one in Heathrow):

https://electranet.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/15449-P...
> Edmunds also said that shopping for new models of Tesla vehicles on its platform dropped to its lowest level last month since October 2022 after peaking as late as November.

Looks a bit downside-y?
I remember "Justified" portraying the area (technically it's Harlan County in Eastern Kentucky) much like you describe, and then the show visited the black portions of the region and the poverty appeared even deeper. That said, as a resident of Texas, I can tell you that that sort of poverty isn't limited to Appalachia.
all the concepts i've seen were horizontal landing mostly with fold-out wings
This is one reason I've started using Google's AI app more. It's integrated with my calendar and my email, so I can ask it "Have I booked a hotel for that conference in March" and it'll check my calendar for the conference dates then search my email for a hotel reservation around those dates.

Small tasks like that are things I spend a few minutes on several times per week and it's nice to have a contextual AI assistant that can handle those types of things.
I find myself compelled to be polite since it is polite.
I built my own newsletter back end on AWS instead of paying Substack $50
Show HN: Made a monitoring tool for AI providers and models
Lately outages and slow responses have been more frequent, so I decided to build a tool to monitor latency delay and outages.

Initially it was just for myself, but I decided to make it public so everyone can benefit from it.

Hopefully you can find value in it too, and feel free to share any feedback:

www.llmoverwatch.com
I think the phrase everyone is searching for is “critical national infrastructure”. That is a defined term in the UK, and includes digital things like GOV.UK: https://www.npsa.gov.uk/critical-national-infrastructure-0
What Comes After GitHub Actions?
Given the number of devastating memory unsafety issues we've seen in RDP, I kinda welcome this effort.

Let's see more $foo implemented in rust.
It's literally the opposite of this. It takes money from the relatively well off, namely people who have cars and can afford to park them in Manhattan where a parking space costs ~$50+ a day on average, and sends it to the MTA who create rapid transit accessible to everyone and especially valuable to the poor.

The arguments that this is a way to penalize poor people should be immediately seen for what they are, absolute bullshit and propaganda.

The only real refinement to this is there's a large and vocal community of people in NYC who work for the city (mainly cops and firefighters) who aren't all that rich and get free parking, almost always via illegal or questionable means, through use of city placards and parking by police stations and so on. But there's literally no reason to reward those people for anything, they've been gaming the system for decades.
Don't Guessbuild
Car-centric urban design penalizes the poor anyways. The total cost of ownership of a car reliable enough to get you to work on time (or an unreliable car plus the cost of alternative transportation when it fails) is quite large. I'm not one to let perfect be the enemy of good.
Unless he provides proof of DMs, we can discard his claims outright. Nothing "unsafe" occurred on the LKML. Having a thread about you on a gossip website isn't a threat to your safety.
Additionally, it requires allocating memory for every operation. With a mutable bigint type, or fixed-size large integers (e.g. uint256) we could skip a lot of allocation overhead. I have previously prototyped big integer algorithms in Python, and when rewriting to Rust I have gotten massive speedups - there are just so many more opportunities to optimize in Rust/C/C++ than in Python.
There is an income threshold where driving wasn't viable before. Parking is very expensive in the CBD. Fuel prices are not low. These users were taking public transit before, and now there is money to maintain transit from people that can't be bothered and must drive.

While transit infrastructure isn't perfect and many areas are underserved, this doesn't really change that calculus that much. The Staten Island Ferry remains free. There are plenty of express bus routes for people with long commutes, and the express buses now move more quickly. (New Jersey seems to benefit most from this. Commuting on NJT to the Port Authority Bus Terminal is a shockingly common, but unloved, commuting pattern.)
You will never charge enough money that it will hurt rich people. Take their money and use it to improve the subway. The way to get rich people on the subway is to improve quality.
Ha! All good. Been there myself.
The article suggests this isn’t true though. Reduced congestion is improving public transit.

Making cars preferentially affordable for the poor isn’t ever going to work.
> It is too bad the rates could not be set based upon the income level of the driver. Make it hurt for everyone.

I wish traffic fines worked like this as well.
> This always leads me back to operational transforms. Operations being reified changes function as undo records; a log of changes; and a narrower, semantically-meaningful API, amenable to validation and authz.

Sounds like another kind of synchronization database.
America is not a truth-based society. We don't really have truth in our news, in our advertising, in our politics, in our schools, in our religions, in our marketing... and we have very weak consumer protections. Basically we just believe whatever our rich people tell us and those who speak out against them are demonized.

We don't really value critical thinking or evidence based analyses. It's all just propaganda now.
That too. But since we're in this situation where it's a public company, it's just funny to me that people's finances are both being helped and harmed by PG&E, probably canceling itself out.
Unfortunately it's becoming the norm. (Not to mention that in many places with de facto one-party this was also the norm since their first day on the internet.)
USD 4000 will buy you something like 12 - 16Kw R32 heat pump. If you have enough roof area to install 50kW PVs then you must live in a mansion :). Another thing is that heat pump installations are usually dual purpose (space heating/cooling and DHW).
Love the video's ASMR vibes
On the other hand, I think it is not reasonable to expect people to tell all their friends about all the goods and services that are available. For example, when was the last time you talked to your friends about what electricity provider you are with, about your telecom company, about where you buy your gas and for how much, about what brand of mobile phone you use, about where you shopped for clothing and what you bought, about your heating and ventilation system, your lawn care, your health insurance company, your tax preparation software, your dishwashing detergent, your banking services, your insurance, and so forth? These are tedious things that require consumer information and consumer choice.

Our vision is for AI to autonomously do all the work and provide every sector of goods and services. At the end of the day consumers need to do their part to be informed about it, for effective market mechanisms and competition to function.

What is the alternative? An AI robot is putting a giant TV up in your living room and doesn't even ask you if you want one, it just buys it, delivers it, installs it and tells you Enjoy your new TV?

This would remove all market feedback.

So how do you give a choice about whether you want resources directed at a larger TV or a faster and larger GPU for gaming, without consuming and potentially responding to advertising on these subjects?

Additionally, how would better choices be promoted that require consumer education? An example would be dietary choices. How would the benefits of farm fresh fruits and vegetables be promoted, to compete with processed food? Are your friends going to tell you to choose fruits and vegetables? How will they know about it?

Disseminating information and allowing consumer choice is vital to the vision of the State of Utopia, and there has to be a mechanism for consumer reading and information, even when it is a chore.

Let's take an extreme example of resource allocation questions that are in the hands of consumers: a base on Mars would cost hundreds of billions of dollars and support a few people who have nothing to do up there. When it comes time to vote on whether you want it, how will you be informed of the benefits, if any, if the AI did not pay for informative advertising to try to convince you? Voting on this question requires an informed consumer base, and getting informed is work in and of itself. If the space agency division of AI were forced to produce informative advertising for it, people would consume it and then could vote yes or no. This would be direct market feedback that informs the actions of AI.

Absent this, you would not have a basis for an informed vote on the most basic resource allocation questions.

Clearly, an informed consumer and an informed voter are both necessary for the functioning of a market economy and democratic government, and we need a mechanism to disseminate information about the available choices.
Docker Model Runner (With Apple Silicon GPU acceleration)
New York uses a graduated rate too.
We got rid of acid rain. Now something scarier is falling from the sky
Assuming that UBI is funded from taxes, poorer people would end up with more money, richer people would make less overall, and somewhere in the middle there's a level where the additional taxes are exactly offset by the UBI.

Prices for some things may rise, but it seems unlikely that they'd rise in a way that consumes everyone's UBI. Lots of people wouldn't have any more money. Many would have a bit more money. Some would have a lot more money. Any price rise would correspond to the change somewhere in the middle of that, so people who earn less than that point would still be able to buy more. Concretely, if UBI is $1,000/month, and someone is currently struggling on $1,000/month, they're going to have more purchasing power, because that level of UBI won't double prices.
Tesla trade-ins on pace for record high amid Musk backlash
The CEO²
When the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is also the Comm unity Executive Officer (CEO).
I understand being pissed at the US right now, but this is just false:

> Now both US political parties celebrate the destruction of all of Gaza's hospitals, the further invasions of Syria, Lebanon, Yemen etc. The killing and starvation of Gazan children. This is just normal American behavior. Look at Trump. The majority of Americans elected him because he is a reflection of what America is.

Just for starters, a plurality, not a majority, of those Americans who voted elected Trump. There are plenty of Americans who have despised Trump since before he ever ran for elective office, and their opinion of him has not improved.

If you see two men in a park and one strikes the other, do you say "I hate men" or "I hate that man"?

If you hate a group of people without distinction, fine, you lie about them and vilify them, you blame everyone for the actions of a few, etc. But if you want to promote good behavior and punish bad, you attempt to assign guilt or praise where it is due.
First of all, "anyone who understand economics" understands that "supply and demand" is a generalization, not the only two variables in a void.

More relevantly though, it is a "Policy Miracle", i.e. the writer is saying it's a miracle that an effective policy was finally enacted. In the second sentence: "but Governor Hochul finally made the right decision". The writer also praises how effective it is, not just that it is effective.
Hard ask considering there's effectively 2 Americas: only the scientific one using scaleable units like mg/g/kg, cm/m/km- everyone else using randomized trash... ft, mile, yard, inch, pound....
iOS and macOS are being converged with VisionOS, starting this fall.
> > Minimize third-party dependencies. Master the platform’s built-ins and accumulate your own toolbox over time.

> I would like to work with this person.

Before you make such a bold claim, consider that this way of doing programming leads to an accumulation of knowledge that is barely transferable if you switch jobs.

I would claim that a central reason why many programmers like third-party dependencies is that being knowledgeable in these is a set of skills that is better marketable and transferable to jobs at other companies. In other words: applying these approach to programming can easily result in a career trap.
A lot of manager talk on HN lately. Time to start Manager News?
> the end result is similar if I don't?

The end result is not anywhere close to similar. UBI will never provide more than the basics. Food & rent and that's about it. If you want more than that, you'll have to work.
Show HN: We are 2.4x faster than Open AI latest SST model
Speech-to-Text technology is crucial for audio processing applications, but most solutions are limited by speed, accuracy, or feature constraints. What if you could transcribe audio with higher accuracy, better features, and significantly faster performance?

We benchmarked OpenAI's newest gpt-4o-transcribe model against JigsawStack STT across real-world scenarios, including performance, accuracy, feature set, and multilingual capabilities. Here's what we found:

Performance:

- JigsawStack processes audio ~2.4x faster than OpenAI's model across all audio lengths

- This speed advantage remains consistent with both short clips and longer audio files

File Support:

- OpenAI limits files to 25MB and 25 minutes of audio per request

- JigsawStack handles files up to 100MB and 4 hours of audio per request

Advanced Features:

- Speaker Recognition: JigsawStack accurately identifies up to 50 different speakers with
timestamps

- Detailed Timestamps: Provides sentence-level timing data by default

- Translation: Built-in support for translating audio into 100+ languages

Real-world Accuracy:

- Achieved 100% accuracy on noisy audio samples where OpenAI scored 94%

- Properly identified repeated phrases and sentence boundaries that OpenAI missed

Our team has focused on building a specialized solution that outperforms in nearly every metric that matters for real-world applications.

Check out the full breakdown here:
http://jigsawstack.com/blog/openai-audio-stt-vs-jigsawstack-...

Let us know what you think! We'd love feedback from the HN community - particularly from those working with audio transcription at scale.
Noise could be a problem, but it is often the result of a bad installation. I'd be curious how much was the quote for the heat pump vs the oil heater.
As a grade school kid, I was taken to the police station for making a bomb with a couple friends. Fortunately for us, no charges were pressed (presumably because we didn’t manage to ignite the bomb and it was the 70s).
This should be the top comment in here, and it seems like the elephant in the room.
Something that I don't understand, and would love to hear a counterpoint to, is how UBI doesn't just constitute shifting the zero point.

We're already in the situation where everything that actually matters (food, shelter, healthcare, transportation) is rapidly increasing in price. I don't see how giving everyone UBI wouldn't just exacerbate that.

This is probably naive, but I feel like if we deem something a necessity or "human right" then we should just give people these things free of charge. Like food, housing, healthcare should all have a free but basic government option. And maybe people who don't want the government version can get a tax credit towards their groceries, health insurance, or mortgage so that it benefits everyone and not just the poor. I guess that describes some kind of "Socialism" and has a whole host of issues and caveats, but it seems like a better system than UBI.
Great idea pulled off! Feedback si always the best way to see if you are headed for the right direction.
If it's very common, why are these mundane SF pictures so rare?
Not a fan of Musk. But Indian government's takedown requests can be absurd. Almost dystopian.
> Meteor is essentially dead today

Care to explain what you mean by "dead"? Just today v3.2 came out, and the company, the community, and their paid-for hosting service seem pretty alive to me.
My opinion is that Tesla is on the precipice of a disaster. Nothing to do with their vehicles themselves but just the market cycles. Apparently, a Tesla/EV Armageddon is coming in 2026 where returning EV leases are supposed to skyrocket by over 230%. Many Car Channels were talking about this last year saying to hold off on buying a used EV because the market is about to be saturated in 2026. I found an article from Nov 24 that discusses the situation.

https://www.autobodynews.com/news/returning-ev-lease-volume-...
This is a straw man. Nobody is talking about funding people to the point where they get everything they need for free. That's insane. We are talking about giving people bootstraps so they can pull them selves up with them. Reducing poverty reduces crime and health care costs as well.
Poor people are not driving into Manhattan. Tradespeople who do, enjoy either more paying work during the day or faster commutes. As you point out, extremely wealthy people won't notice.

The only people negatively affected are those moderately wealthy who are unwilling to pay the charge for improved times and highly dislike using public transport. It's the same people that will circle around a block for 20 minutes to get a free parking spot instead of going to a garage.

Moving away from car centric urban spaces makes it better for everyone, including the poor. Owning a car shouldn't be a precondition to live in a society.
The Elizabeth line is fully electrified, so why wouldn't the issue be power to the trains themselves rather than the stations?
I personally would not have expected the level of changes noted in the article

I would have expected car usage to be inelastic and for this to basically just become a tax on commuters
I was curious as well.

Not OP but via their website linked in their profile -

https://youtu.be/Tl3pGTYEd2I
I grew up with a (stolen, of course) copy of Steal this Book in the house.
As soon as Craig Federighi was taking over from Bertrand Serlet, quality started to decline. The only one to not notice is Tim Cook.