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by nevertoolate | 2025-06-17 18:14:13+00:00
On the other hand I only see downvotes and _never_ an answer on how you are using llms. The anecdotal 8hours to 30 minutes PR sounds great, but in my experience it just won’t happen. How can you set up llm to work autonomously for _hours_? If it is continuous “pair” work I just don’t see the 30 min work solving a beefy PR. In 8 hours coding with a well thought out plan / re-planning, testing one can finish quite interesting stuff. 30 minutes is basically nothing - and this is kinda what you get with an llm in my experience. How do you do it?
by cowthulhu | 2025-06-17 18:14:25+00:00
Tesla has proven to be very good at lying, moving goalposts, and insisting that this time [x] is right around the corner. I don't know what would be different this time. They might launch it with, like, 5 cars total, or have it be 100% teleoperated, or limit it to side roads.

They might require the passenger to sit in the drivers seat and take liability, or push it back a few more months, or only run it at 3AM when there is no traffic.

I don't think any of these would tank the stock price, since historically Tesla has gotten away with similar skulduggery. I learned the hard way many years ago to not bet against Tesla, and I don't see anything here that would override that lesson.

Fingers crossed for you though - I definitely think Tesla is irrationally priced, and there would be a certain justice in that overinflated valuation sinking down to reality.
by jsumrall | 2025-06-17 18:14:41+00:00
Bluetooth and carplay do indeed work as you need to be connected to the vehicle. I used those features too. The ConnectedDrive feature discussed here is when you install the BMW app on your phone and register the VIN number of the car to your personal BMW account, verified by tapping some buttons in the vehicle while linking, and "owning" the car in your BMW app. This gives access to things like remote location tracking, starting the car from anywhere to get the airco etc working.

n.b. Doing this in a rental car probably violates some of the terms and conditions one would have to agree to when linking the car, like "I promise this is _my_ car and/or I have permission from the owner to link it to my personal BMW account"...
by overfeed | 2025-06-17 18:14:42+00:00
Did you know people below the poverty line would by $20 S40 feature phones just to be able to run WhatsApp? The other 2G phones cost less than half that amount, but you had to pay $0.1-$0.2 per SMS sent, in that light, spending $1 per year for WhatsApp's unlimited messages on a PAYG data package was a steal.

So no, I am not nuts, you just didn't think through the value proposition.
by alganet | 2025-06-17 18:15:09+00:00
> We do know how to make and use tools

It's the same principle. A tool is supposed to assist us, not the other way around.

An LLM, "AGI magic" or not, is supposed to write for me. It's a tool that writes for me. If I am writing for the tool, there's something wrong with it.

> I have examples [...] Just one of those examples is worth a thousand examples like yours

Please, share them. I shared my example. It can be a very small "bug report", but it's real and reproducible. Other people can build on it, either to improve their "tool skills" or to improve LLMs themselves.

An example that is shared is worth much more than an anectode.
by simcop2387 | 2025-06-17 18:15:23+00:00
> EDIT: on further thought though, it's really odd that they still haven't added in optional APIs for a lot of basic window operations...

That's because like you mention, wayland doesn't look at things as "windows" like X11 used to. It's got surfaces and compositors so it's a really rather different design than the previous systems which is why there's been such an issue with transitioning some kinds of applications and why it's been so hard to get some of the window related protocols to be agreed upon. There's been a decent number of attempts at the positioning protocols that have been kiboshed because there were effective security issues because the protocol would imply that a client could take over the screen from the intended application that the user was using, if the compositor fully follows the protocol or worked the same way that X11 did. Supporting all the different use-cases like this has definitely made progress slower and harder to keep up but personally I think it's going to end up with a more comprehensive and future proofed system once it is finally getting those last couple of things that take it from an 85% solution to a 99% solution.
by nine_k | 2025-06-17 18:15:39+00:00
Soot means carbon-rich fuel, like RP1, and a very fuel-rich mix. Most launches I ever saw had basically zero soot, and a clean exhaust of a well-balanced fuel / oxidizer mix.

Military rockets, and solid-fuel boosters like the kind the Shuttles used to use, indeed produce very visible exhaust, because they use heavy fuels, and sometimes heavier oxidizers, like nitric acid. This is because they need to be in the fueled state for a long time, ready to launch in seconds; this excludes more efficient but finicky cryogenic fuels used by large commercial rockets.

The large plumes that you usually see the first few seconds when a rocket is blasting off a launch pad are mostly water vapor. The launch pad would be destroyed by the exhaust were it not cooled during the launch by large amounts of water, which gets evaporated instead of the concrete.
by macNchz | 2025-06-17 18:16:39+00:00
Using all of the popular coding models pretty extensively over the past year, I've been having great success with Gemini 2.5 Pro as far as getting working code the first time, instruction following around architectural decisions, and staying on-task. I use Aider and write mostly Python, JS, and shell scripts. I've spent hundreds of dollars on the Claude API over time but have switched almost entirely to Gemini. The API itself is also much more reliable.

My only complaint about 2.5 Pro is around the inane comments it leaves in the code (// Deleted varName here).
by _1tem | 2025-06-17 18:17:12+00:00
> It doesn’t mean the end of a society, neces­sarily. Rather, it marks a point after which quality of life tends to get ever worse for ever more people.

I feel like this has already happened, in my social circles, in the West. I don’t know anyone from my generation who are better off than their parents at the same age, except for a few who moved out of the West (to Dubai for example).
by diggan | 2025-06-17 18:17:29+00:00
> Is this legal?

Why wouldn't it be? You're not actually hosting a tracker in this case, only looking at incoming connections. And even if you do run a tracker, hard to make the case that the tracker itself is illega. Hosting something like opentrackr is like hosting a search engine, how they respond to legal takedown requests is where the crux is at, and whatever infra sits around the tracker, so police and courts can see/assume the intent. But trackers are pretty stupid coordination server software, would be crazy if they became illegal.
by gneissguise | 2025-06-17 18:17:37+00:00
Oh man that would have been so cool! Sorry that it fell through..

I remember making infinite ASCII mazes by alternating forward and backward slashes in the late 80s early 90s. That would have been the grade school computer lab days for me and I didn't have the to do anything better so it was mazes or controlling the turtle in LOGO
by 9rx | 2025-06-17 18:17:44+00:00
Either way, as quite visibility seen by all the late-1800s mansions still lining the country roads, the era of farmers being "overpaid", as the link puts it, came about 50-75 years after the combine was invented. If the metaphor is to hold, we can assume that developers are currently poor as compared to what the LLM future holds for them.

But, there is a key distinction that we would be remiss to not take note of: By definition, farmers are the owners of the business. Most software developers aren't owners, just lowly employees. If history is to repeat, it is likely that, as usual, the owners are those who will prosper from the advancement.
by neepi | 2025-06-17 18:18:16+00:00
Yeah that. Phones are awful. I have an iPhone 15 Pro which is supposed to be quite good. It's not. I got so fed up with it I dug out my now ancient Nikon D3100 and took that around for a few days. Suprisingly it still works fine. It was incredibly better than the iPhone is which was painful. So I bought a new Nikon Z50ii mirrorless which is the indirect successor. Doubt I'll use a phone for anything again other than utility photography.

As for this thing in the article, urgh. Old cameras were designed badly and had poor ergonomics because of mechanical constraints. Why do we keep copying shitty old designs?!?
by m3047 | 2025-06-17 18:18:36+00:00
I don't know. I still use telnet for things, but I can use nc in a pinch. I would be more inclined to wish for expect.

What I don't get is all the SSL kids never mention s_client, as in "...use s_client instead". Granted, most of the time ssl will work for, you know SSH (port 22). Are you really going to negotiate the cypher by hand, mate? I get it, how many of them can identify what "\x16\x03\x01" is?
by Out_of_Characte | 2025-06-17 18:19:11+00:00
the poster above was very conservative in his metrics and throtteling requirements.

Modern pressure vessels can reach 5% empty mass, thats a factor of 20

Rockets have stages, a good approximate is to stage half your rocket to get rid of the most empty mass. This also means your first stage has to have double the thrust to lift itself and its stage. Now you're at a factor of 40 just to hover.

Now you actually have to take off, usually around 1.2 to 1.4 thrust to weight.

So a more realistic scenario means your rocket engine has to throttle down to exactly 2% power while the laval nozzle is optimised for takeoff thrust only.
by steveBK123 | 2025-06-17 18:19:19+00:00
This kind of logic is backwards to me. And I think it creates a slippery slope of disorder. Enforcing laws is not always cost efficient, but the less you enforce the more get broken.

I see it applied to the concept of free buses in NYC where people argue that "when we introduced free buses, assaults on bus drivers went down".

Personally I'd prefer not riding the bus next to a guy who is willing to commit assault over $2.90 (or $1.45 if eligible for income based discount if you make minimum wage.. so 6 minutes of labor income).

There may be good reasons for free transit, but "we need to calm the violent guys down enough to get onto the bus peacefully" ain't it!
by s1mplicissimus | 2025-06-17 18:19:34+00:00
I run a similar setup for steam on linux. Overall I'm very happy with it in that it plays some old games I like to play from time to time (dota2, portal2, oxygen not included). Some games are still windows/macos only unfortunately, afaiu it's up to the game owners which platforms they serve. Shout out to the wine and lutris projects which both help make gaming on linux better since a loong time.
by dspillett | 2025-06-17 18:20:05+00:00
> Will professional hardware sellers still be allowed to sell valid W10 licenses with computers or not?

Anyone selling hardware with Win10 after the EOL date, heck anyone selling hardware with Windows 10 now, is hardly professional, at least if they don't warn their customers of the security implications they may have if they don't pay MS for extended support⁰.

Once past EOL, unless you pay for the extended support¹, a Win10 device is a potential security problem for the user and the wider Internet.

UNprofessional hardware sellers can and will keep selling devices with Windows 10 to unsuspecting end users who do not know what the issue could be with that, of course.

> Because in the "refurb" space, there are a whole lot of computers that cannot run W11 due to graphic card requirements.

The only good-ish option for that is Linux of some variety. I say “good-ish” as an average assessment, for some it'll be great, for others it'll be a learning curve at best or significant incompatibility² at worst.

My laptop came with Win11, the old laptop³ that could upgrade to 11 will get Linux instead. My home desktop will also go the Linux way⁴.

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[0] which someone buying an old refurb PC may not be able/willing to afford, and even if they can it'll only last one year

[1] $30 for one year, per device, after that year you are out of luck as they are currently only planning to offer it for that long

[2] with other devices they own, or because they need specific software that can't be beaten into running on Linux without expertise they don't have, etc.

[3] the one with the slightly dodgy screen that I take for personal travelling as it matters a lot less if it gets lost or further broken

[4] I've just been too busy recently to faf, which is why that hasn't already been done, if it gets too close to Win10 EOL before I've cared enough to bother I'll buy an inexpensive dock and use the laptop connected to the nice big screens instead
by jchw | 2025-06-17 18:20:10+00:00
Many of these limitations are in fact not Wayland issues and just limitations in KiCad (and probably more generally, wxWidgets) under native Wayland. For example, you can definitely do draggable widgets that dock and undock using xdg-toplevel-drag. What's changing with Wayland is that Wayland is no longer giving the developers the tools to implement features like session restore and docking/undocking entirely on their own, but instead forcing them to go through specific protocols. This is a point of contention that involves one's own ideals and unlikely to be resolved any time soon, but either way, this post is grossly misrepresenting the state of Wayland in general because of KiCad issues, that they are admitting they have no interest in triaging or working on anyways. That's fine, but it's still wrong.

Furthermore, XWayland is not going away. If you are unwilling to support native Wayland, the way to go is somehow disable native Wayland, like by unsetting WAYLAND_DISPLAY early on in the code before initializing the toolkit or something. Krita does this and it works just fine, although it's not ideal since features like HDR or display scaling will suffer. (But does that even matter for KiCad?)

Tl;dr: reads more like developers not happy about the direction of Wayland than an actual reasoned position. Seems confused about the implications of the Wayland session. I wouldn't worry about this. You're still going to prefer the Wayland session sooner rather than later.
by jcynix | 2025-06-17 18:20:23+00:00
For kids, I'd buy a small used micro four thirds camera with a pancake lens. Cheaper and later expandable if they enjoy taking pictures.

Or, if it needs to be a zoomable lens, I'd look for some used (but well maintained) Digital Ixus or PowerShot.

With either of these they can learn much more about photography than with a toy camera.
by numpad0 | 2025-06-17 18:20:28+00:00
It's not hard-hard to build recoverable rockets, but it's hard to make money launching reusable rockets that goes to space. This one is not going to space, not making money, and not clear if it's reusable.

Most launch suppliers just make rockets single-use and write it off because it's not like you're launching weekly. Who knows how much it costs in labor and parts to refurbish landed rockets, it's probably cheaper to just keep making new ones.

^ you know what to say in response to this; we're all in the process of finding out which one is more correct.
by rconti | 2025-06-17 18:20:53+00:00
Not just SoCal; watch the auction sites. I really only wanted an AP2 in Rio Yellow Pearl, and their values are perilously close to $30k. In fact, a 70k mile example I bid on last year on BaT or C&B (in San Jose) went for over $30k.

Ultimately I "gave up" and just bought a 981 Boxster S (a 2013) for $42k. A 986 Boxster from the same era as an S2000 would absolutely be S2k prices.

I owned a Miata and wanted to own an S2k before moving up to the Boxster, but for today's asking prices, it just didn't make sense.
by potholereseller | 2025-06-17 18:21:43+00:00
The word "decentralized" has become synonymous with "cryptocurrency", especially those cryptocurrencies which promise they will decentralize things unrelated to money production (e.g. data storage, computation, etc). Such cryptocurrencies rarely deliver even a fraction of their promises of decentralization; most of these are outright scams.

It is unfortunate, because there is still great potential for new forms of decentralization, but many are blinded by such shovelware cryptocurrencies.
by goblin89 | 2025-06-17 18:21:46+00:00
This picks apart image quality from an iPhone 15 Pro Max regarding noise and usable dynamic range: https://youtu.be/bSm3LXNF7pI?feature=shared&t=1360

For anything more than basic software-processed output and utility snaps or selfies, this high-end phone loses pretty terribly to an average hybrid consumer camera.
by DamnInteresting | 2025-06-17 18:22:00+00:00
I completely disagree. For me, Firefox is the best current browser on the whole, and in recent years I've moved most of my work and play away from Chrome, Arc, Safari, etc. in favor of Firefox. It has retained support for Manifest v2, which is huge for me. The Chrome maintainers seem hellbent on cultivating the web into an ad-addled hellscape.
by jfengel | 2025-06-17 18:22:09+00:00
The word "battery" is often misused anyway. A "battery" is a collection of things, from the military use as a coordinated artillery group. A single "battery" is really a cell.

The word has been used that way for a long time, so I'm not gonna stamp on my dictionary and insist we look at the etymology. But it does show how the word's usage has shifted, and a continued shift to call this thing a "heat battery" seems comprehensible.
by qwertox | 2025-06-17 18:22:22+00:00
You could strap a band with a strong magnet around your tummy and have an IMU sensor below your mattress. It was a project I started and sampled it at 1 Hz, multisampled with min/max/avg, but I never did anything with the data.

Looking at the real-time stream the breathing was noticeable, at 2Hz it would probably be very useful, if you have the dedication to write the tools to analyze the data.

I was thinking about doing this with a fanny pack where I put the sensor and battery pack in the fanny pack and a strong magnet at the opposite side of the strip in order to measure my breathing frequency during excercising.
by slt2021 | 2025-06-17 18:22:57+00:00
demand for food is very elastic. if beef becomes more expensive, cheaper protein options get more demand (chicken, pork, tofu, beans).

fruits and all non-essential food items are famously very elastic, and constitute large share of the spending.

for example: if cheap cereal becomes abundant, it is only at the cost of poor quality, so demand for high quality cereal will increase.

the LLM driven software engineering will continuously increase the bar for quality and demand for high quality software
by fine_tune | 2025-06-17 18:23:58+00:00
You bought a house that had a murder X years ago and are wondering if your guilty for the murder, probably not - aslong as you don't do more murder in it.

I suppose real life is more interesting though, the guy who picked up the domain to stop the global ransomware crisis was picked up after Defcon if memory serves.

Ironically your probably at more risk from the GDPR for leaking those IP addresses that connected to the box via your blog post.

I'm not a lawyer/solicitor though, don't take my advise.
by ilikeatari | 2025-06-17 18:24:01+00:00
I also use FSD HW4 daily, and it really just works well in regular conditions. It's unbelievable how we have a level of autonomy here and now, and not too many people know about it. Out of about 6k miles in the last 7 months, I probably drove 80 or so. I did not have many issues in the rain, but I do have issues in the snow. It's still somewhat unaware of how to drive well in snow. I usually disengage when it's snowy or very icy.
by kajecounterhack | 2025-06-17 18:24:58+00:00
Tesla could have more camera data in sum (that's not even clear - transmitting and storing data from all the cars on the road is no easy task - L4 companies typically pysically remove drives and use appliances to suck data off the hard drives), but Waymo has more camera data per car (29 cameras) and higher fidelity data overall (including lidar, radar, and microphone data). Tesla can't magically enhance data it didn't collect.

This is a crippling disadvantage. Consider what it takes to evaluate a single software release for a robotaxi.

If you have a simulator, you can take long tail distribution events and just resimulate your software to see if there are regressions against those events. (Waymo, Zoox)

If you don't, or your simulator has too much error, you have to deploy your software in cars in "ghost mode" and hope that sufficient miles see rare and scary situations recur. You then need to find those specific situations and check if your software did a good job (vs just getting lucky). But what if you need to A/B test a change? What if you need to A/B test 100 changes made by different engineers? How do you ensure you're testing the right thing? (Tesla)

And if you have a simulator that _sucks_ because it doesn't have physics-grounded understanding of distances (i.e. it's based on distance estimates from camera), then you can easily trick yourself into thinking your software is doing the right thing, right up until you start killing people.

Another way to look at it is: most driving data is actually very low in signal. You want all the hard driving miles, and in high resolution, so that you can basically generate the world's best unit testing suite for the software driver. You can just throw the rest of the driving data away -- and you must, because nobody has that much storage and unit economics still matter.

This is to say nothing of the fact that differences between hardware matter too. Tesla has a bunch of car models out there, and software working well one one model may not actually work well on another.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-06-17 18:25:10+00:00
yes but all those people also have devices at home. most of it around 5 years but that is hardly how long the hardware actually is usable especially if you use anything other than the bloated behemoth that windows has become.

reminder that you can get a 10 year old pc with an SSD and any linux disto that will perform as good or even better for most basic office work than modern windows 11 on modern hardware....
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-17 18:25:15+00:00
Doesn't have to be nuclear, can be anything that provides reactive power and grid services, i.e. grid forming battery storage. The problem is this service is needed on the Spanish grid, but isn't paid for in the market. Pay for it and the grid services will be provided. Resources below. Mind you, doesn't have to be a Tesla battery, just has to be a battery with power controls (grid forming) and some lithium cells for fast response (vs sodium for longer duration discharge).

China launches world’s first grid-forming sodium-ion battery storage plant - https://www.ess-news.com/2025/06/03/china-launches-worlds-fi... - June 3rd, 2025 ("With a total investment of over CNY 460 million [$63.8 million] and occupying 34k square metres, the Baochi plant is designed for an installed capacity of 200MW/400MWh. Based on a dual daily charge-discharge cycle, it can regulate up to 580 GWh annually — enough to power 270,000 households, with 98 per cent of its energy sourced from renewables. The facility supports more than 30 local wind and solar power stations, alleviating the impact of intermittent supply and facilitating the integration of high shares of renewables into the grid.")

Tesla Megapack in Texas Supports the Grid and Keeps the Lights On [Gambit Energy Storage] - https://www.tesla.com/videos/gambit-megapack - September 30, 2021

Tesla’s giant battery in Australia [Hornsdale Power Reserve] reduced grid service cost by 90% - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17051066 - May 2018

Tesla Powerpacks Balancing the Grid in Terhills, Belgium [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVHQFrGzThg - May 14, 2018