MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leakycap | 2025-07-04 22:26:01+00:00
Thank you for correcting this, I've edited it in an obvious way so I don't misinform. There's enough of that on Tesla already.

I recall Tesla having vehicles in their testing with Lidar and had no idea they never shipped it.

My 2015 towing VW has two radar sensors on the front for adaptive cruise and 5 cameras for lanekeeping. The cameras constantly come on and offline depending on visibility, cleanliness, and even weather. The radars have never once misperformed.

I can't imagine even trusting automatic cruise control to "vision only", much less what they are calling self-driving features.

Having driven plenty of cars with adaptive cruise using only one front radar, I can't really even suggest that - false positives are likely to happen to any driver that racks up mileage when the brakes can be fully applied based on single forward radar sensor covered in bug guts.
by cyberax | 2025-07-04 22:26:06+00:00
Putting aside Musk hate, Cybertruck is just not a good car.

When conceived initially, it had some pretty interesting ideas. The thought process was probably like:

Hmm... What if we use stainless steel instead of regular steel and avoid all the expenses of the paint shop? But then we need to use thicker panels because stainless steel is not great mechanically. So let's double down on thickness and make the panels a load-bearing "exoskeleton", this will also help us to avoid the weight penalty of the frame! But we can't stamp panels that are this thick, we just don't have big enough presses. So let's try to do this "flat" design.

But they failed to achieve that. And now they have a regular boring body-on-the-frame car, with thick panels just adding useless weight and cutting down the battery range. And then there's this steer-by-wire gimmick because Elon really wanted the yoke to happen.

The only remaining true improvement is the 48V power-over-Ethernet architecture.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-04 22:26:08+00:00
Remember too that this is when he had to make a hard turn towards the American right wing, since it's a well-known safe haven for the morally bankrupt, so long as you say the magic incantations about DEI and wokeism being evil etc.

He tried to frontrun the sexual harassment allegations by framing it as a red vs blue issue, making his own sexual impropriety somehow everyone else's political problem.
by 2muchcoffeeman | 2025-07-04 22:26:35+00:00
This was what I was saying to a friend the other day. I think anyone vaguely competent that is using LLMs will make the technology look far better than it is.

Management thinks the LLM is doing most of the work. Work is off shored. Oh, the quality sucks when someone without a clue is driving. We need to hire again.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-04 22:27:11+00:00
I don't have a problem with wanting the government to be fiscally responsible. I don't even have a problem with thoroughly auditing exactly what the government is spending money on.

I have a problem with the way DOGE went about it. Several problems, in fact. "Move fast and break things" is perhaps a reasonable startup strategy. It's entertaining with rockets. But when what's being broken is not just the government but the rule of law, I am no longer entertained.
by werdnapk | 2025-07-04 22:28:01+00:00
Once I started making my own Caesar salad dressing at home, Caesar salads for me at home went from meh to unbelievable... basically what you'd get at a nice restaurant. So make your own dressing and never buy the bottled stuff... it's so worth it.

I also add fresh cooked bacon (NEVER bacon bits) and capers.
by AlienRobot | 2025-07-04 22:28:12+00:00
Yes, but this will only happen after a mistake occurs.

What I mean is that if it's your responsibility to do something right, it acts a deterrent that motivates you to make sure of it.

LLM's allow people to defer this responsibility to the LLM, so they may avoid making sure of things because they let the LLM take upon their responsibility.
by fleebee | 2025-07-04 22:28:19+00:00
I tried the "thinking partner" approach for a while and for a moment I thought it worked well, but at some point the cracks started to show and I called the bluff. LLMs are extremely good at creating an illusion that they know things and are capable of reasoning, but they really don't do a good job of cultivating intellectual conversation.

I think it's dangerously easy to get misled when trying to prod LLMs for knowledge, especially if it's a field you're new to. If you were using a regular search engine, you could look at the source website to determine the trustworthiness of its contents, but LLMs don't have that. The output can really be whatever, and I don't agree it's necessarily that easy to catch the mistakes.
by yongjik | 2025-07-04 22:28:27+00:00
Salute because he wants to (and it riles up his fanbase), immediately deny it because he wants to, and because it riles up his fanbase again, because nothing says "I am the man of power" like being able to deny what everybody's seen with their own eyes, and gloat at people shaking in rage.

Things start to make a lot of sense w.r.t. Musk and Trump when you view them as bullies, and their supporters as wannabe bullies, and they're cheering for the greatest bullies they've ever seen in their lives.
by an0malous | 2025-07-04 22:28:55+00:00
When did he deny it? Do you have a source?

He could easily have deflated the controversy if he apologized and explained that it was unintentional and that he denounces the Nazi party. Instead he gave a speech to the AFD (the modern German Nazi party) about how white people shouldn't have to feel ashamed of their history like a week later. As far as I know, he has never directly apologized or tried to explain the gesture.
by NotAnOtter | 2025-07-04 22:29:02+00:00
To claim AI is useless is ignorant. To claim AI is as good as 99% of people claim it to be, is also ignorant.

A lot of people have drank the 'exponential growth' kool aid but don't have enough understanding of the underlying tech to realize (1) there could be some fundamental limits to how good LLM based AI can be. Or AI in general for that matter. (2) a big part of why it got so good so fast is because we started pumping trillions of dollars of microchips & electricity into it. The hardware and energy consumption cannot continue exponentially.
by trhway | 2025-07-04 22:29:02+00:00
The cats officially guarding St Petersburg Hermitage Palace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitage_cats

"The cats have been present in the museum, originally a palace, since the 18th century;[1] in 1745, Elizabeth of Russia ordered cats to be placed in the palace in order to control the mice"

Russian version tells that there are almost 20 km of basement tunnels/hallways there https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Эрмитажные_коты
by vinquer | 2025-07-04 22:29:51+00:00
Location: Seoul, South Korea

Remote: Yes, any timezone. But not mandatory

Willing to relocate: Possible, depending on the opportunity

Technologies: Python, Django, REST, graphQL, AWS, Snowflake, Gitlab CICD, Elasticsearch, gRPC, ETL pipelines, PostgreSQL, and more...

Résumé/CV: Overview at https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-hoarau-a3b525b9 . CV on request.

Email: vinquer [at] gmail <dot> com

Hi, my name is Stephen! Former Head of Backend Engineering department (API, Data Eng, AI, DevOps) with 10YOE. I experienced the entire startup journey from founding member to series D valuation as a unicorn. I've led multiple teams of engineers through various growth phases and know how to balance Product delivery and Org growth.

- Roles I'm interested in: Senior Eng Manager / Head of Dpt / VP of Eng / Staff IC

- What am I looking for: Later than Series A with a solid project and ambition. I want to feel connected to the vision and I'll bring it to life. Want to work with likeminded people that share a common approach to work.

- What do I bring: Deep knowledge of the entire Backend stack and how to scale an Engineering product, both technically and operationally. I know the pitfalls of startup growth and where to focus instead. Hard worker with a problem-solving mindset and an empathic and holistic leadership I can either build or lead Engineering orgs. Or I can be a core contributor to your product.

If you want to chat or have a matching opportunity please reach out! Cheers ~
by CoastalCoder | 2025-07-04 22:30:25+00:00
I use this [0] GVR mask when working around concrete dust, and I've found it to be very comfortable and effective.

That doesn't directly answer your question about urban particulates and PM 2.5, but if you read its specs and it sounds appropriate, I can recommend the product.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Respirator-replaceable-reusable-filte...
by ben_w | 2025-07-04 22:30:30+00:00
"Just" is the error leading to your confusion.

He also supported the AfD in Germany; he also offered a million dollars to people before the election in a way that looked like a bribe even if it technically wasn't.

Also Musk's actions in support of Trump may have hastened the failure of the US government, because Trump is purging disagreement rather than incompetence, also the operation of DOGE was classic Muntzing strategy of remove everything and only put it back when something breaks which resulted in at least e.g. people involved with maintaining the USA's nuclear deterrant needing to be un-fired.
by 6thbit | 2025-07-04 22:30:39+00:00
Some shady stuff. They seem to have "re-created" the main branch, and force pushed an "Initial Commit" with GPLv3.... https://github.com/pickle-com/glass/commits/main/

Maybe they don't know that the history is still there? https://github.com/pickle-com/glass/activity?ref=main

https://web.archive.org/web/20250704222510/https://github.co...
by jmsdnns | 2025-07-04 22:30:56+00:00
i helped Chris Callison-Burch design a class at upenn, called interactive fiction, which is a similar context to what Simon suggested. the real magic is that it reframes hallucinations as creative story telling. the usecase is SUPER fun if you imagine the LLM as a dungeon master telling a story that gets expanded over time.

the framework he and I built kept track of the game state over time and allowed saving and loading games as json. we could then send the full json to an LLM as part of the prompts to get it to react. the most neat part, imo, was when we realized we could have the LLM generate text for parts of the story, then analyze what it said to detect any items, locations, or characters not jn the game state, and then have it create json representations of the hallucinated objects that could be inserted into the game states. that sealed the deal for using hallucinations as creative story telling inside the context of a game.

i assure you the D&D context is very fun! the class website might give you more ideas too https://interactive-fiction-class.org/

i wasnt officially part of upenn at the time, so my name isnt listed on the site, but we wrote a paper about some of the things we did, such as this one, and you'll see me listed there https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ccb/publications/dagger.pdf
by terminatornet | 2025-07-04 22:31:11+00:00
After this he immediately spoke at a campaign event for a far right German group

> On Saturday, Musk spoke repeatedly about the importance of Germans taking pride in their heritage.

> "It's good to be proud of German culture and German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything," Musk said.

> Then, in an apparent reference to the Nazi era, Musk added that there is "frankly too much of a focus on past guilt and we need to move beyond that."

They do say that those who forget the past will never repeat it. Ah well!

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/27/nx-s1-5276084/elon-musk-germa...
by mark_undoio | 2025-07-04 22:31:19+00:00
That's the thing though - they're using logs. My theory is that LLMs are intrinsically quite good at that because they're good at sifting text.

Getting then to drive something like a debugger interface seems harder from my experience (although the ChatDBG people showed some success - my experiments did too, but it took the tweaks I described).

My experiments are with Claude Opus 4, in Claude Code, primarily.
by throw0101d | 2025-07-04 22:31:27+00:00
> During the "long depression" GDP was still growing at 3-4% so it was hardly stagnation.

I don't know of many things that are viewed positively that have been given a label with "depression" in it.

> Figures from Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz show net national product increased 3 percent per year from 1869 to 1879 and real national product grew at 6.8 percent per year during that time frame.[32] However, since between 1869 and 1879 the population of the United States increased by over 17.5 percent,[33] per capita NNP growth was lower. Following the end of the episode in 1879, the U.S. economy would remain unstable, experiencing recessions for 114 of the 253 months until January 1901.[34]

> The dramatic shift in prices mauled nominal wages – in the United States, nominal wages declined by one-quarter during the 1870s,[14] and as much as one-half in some places, such as Pennsylvania.[35] Although real wages had enjoyed robust growth in the aftermath of the American Civil War, increasing by nearly a quarter between 1865 and 1873, they stagnated until the 1880s, posting no real growth, before resuming their robust rate of expansion in the later 1880s.[36] The collapse of cotton prices devastated the already war-ravaged economy of the southern United States.[17]

> Thousands of American businesses failed, defaulting on more than a billion dollars of debt.[35] One in four laborers in New York were out of work in the winter of 1873–1874[35] and, nationally, a million became unemployed.[35]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression#United_States

Seems like a grand-ol time.
by pyman | 2025-07-04 22:31:52+00:00
One of my students believes Elon Musk and Peter Thiel created Bitcoin. Here's the summary of the 5 page doc he presented:

In 2000, according to Peter Thiel, he met with the E-Gold team in Anguilla.

Around 2001, Elon and Peter were at PayPal, and they had plans to build a similar digital currency.

In 2002, PayPal was sold, and that pretty much ended the digital currency plan. Instead, PayPal let users link their bank accounts and cards to make payments. This created a bigger dependency on banks.

By 2004, there were over a million E‑Gold accounts. Banks weren’t happy about it. Meanwhile, Elon and Peter understood exactly how much potential this new kind of digital currency had.

In 2007, the banks took the founders of E-Gold to court for running an unlicensed money‑transmitting business. That same year, the E-Gold engineers were out of work.

Bitcoin was invented in 2008, the same year Elon was broke and busy trying to save both SpaceX and Tesla from going bankrupt.

His theory is that Elon and Peter hired the smartest engineers from the E-Gold team and asked them to build blockchain so they could create their own version of E-Gold. The team worked on Bitcoin from 2007 to 2010 under the alias of Nakamoto.
by akerl_ | 2025-07-04 22:31:58+00:00
Likewise. My first introduction to scripting was automating EverQuest. I learned the basics of path resolution writing a script to grind misty thicket picnics. I wrote my own HUD-style UI overlay to replace most of the default windows. And I learned about pointers and disassembly and jumps disassembling hack plugins from shady sites.
by carlosladdz | 2025-07-04 22:31:59+00:00
Location: San Salvador, El Salvador

Remote: Preferred, but open to hybrid and relocation as well

Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity

Technologies: Rust, Go, Python, Node, JS/TS, Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin, AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AI/ML/DL, Amplitude, GCP, AWS, Azure.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosladd/

Email: carlosladdz@gmail.com
by NotAnOtter | 2025-07-04 22:32:01+00:00
Words have meaning. I'm not a prescriptivist but when you have an army of formerly PM's, Designers, etc all at once exclaiming "I'm an engineer too!" that should signal that maybe the thing they're doing isn't really engineering.

Do you count making a square space splash page 'engineering'? Tools improving to the point that the barrier of entry plummets is great. That doesn't mean you're now engaging in the same fundamental task that happened before things got easier/
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-07-04 22:32:45+00:00
It's just a bundle of bad decisions and unfortunate compromises.

The uniwiper. The wheel-supporting bolts made for a much lighter vehicle. The glued on cantrails. The glue-installed light bar. The snow-collecting headlight shelf. The frequently jamming tonneau cover. The panel gaps. The sharp edges. The gear selector that likes to fall down from the ceiling. The weird discolorations and scuff marks the bed often has on delivery. The shitty cupholders.

People paid $100k for this. It's criminally bad at that price.
by rapatel0 | 2025-07-04 22:33:19+00:00
There are plenty of engineering disciplines that need to have statistical approaches to solving problems. Prompt engineering, should be approached by creating benchmark datasets and defining measures of efficacy and reliability.

More generally, IMHO engineering is use of physical and informational tools to build a solution. Tools may have unpredictability and reliability concerns. Its the job of an engineer to utilize the power of these tools while overcoming the reliability issues that might be present.

Example: Semiconductor manufacturing involves shooting gases at piece of silicon. There are all sorts of random scattering, distributional anomalies, and patterning problems that arise largely at random. I think you would still call it engineering.
by lelanthran | 2025-07-04 22:34:06+00:00
> I have yet to hear a convincing case for why what the LLM vendors did/do is different than what humans do to learn and become proficient in producing their own work.

That's because you have either not read enough or have been dismissing the very sound case: Scale.

In law, scale matters. It might be legal to possess a single joint while at the same time being illegal to possess a warehouse of 400 tons of weed.

Now, at least, you cannot say anymore that you have not heard a convincing case for why ingesting every single piece of work by an artist with the intention of out-producing them is a bad idea.

You have heard at least one, supported by precedent in law in multiple jurisdictions.
by Jordan-117 | 2025-07-04 22:35:01+00:00
Reaction to a post at 21:39:36:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468067

Reaction to a different post at 21:40:30:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468069

Fast typist! (Incidentally, both are exactly 59 tokens long)
by mattigames | 2025-07-04 22:35:18+00:00
That gas is cheaper is "no reason" to use your car more time? People are likely to think more reasons to travel if is easier to travel, the barrier to entry is always an important deciding factor, e,g. if I visit my romantic partner once a week I may start visiting them a bit more if it gas prices don't raise much but my income does, also when looking for a new car more likely to buy a gas vehicle than an electric one, and companies may end up reaching similar conclusions, e.g. a a potential client that is too far away so gas prices are a significant factor can offer a better rate if gas prices drop or at least increase slower than their profits.
by qualeed | 2025-07-04 22:35:19+00:00
Echoing others, I've used NoScript for years and at this point it is practically unnoticeable.

Many sites work without (some, like random news & blogs, work better). When a site doesn't work, I make a choice between temporarily or permanently allowing it depending on how often I visit the site. It takes maybe 5 seconds and I typically only need to spend that 5 seconds once. As a reward, I enjoy a much better web experience.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-04 22:35:46+00:00
Not a fixed contract, so when either side terminates it (I understand the question was rhetorical). Where I live, opportunities are not so plentiful, though I am working on polishing up my CV to compensate. Benefits are decent though, can WFH all the time, so that's also a consideration. Most everywhere they're doing the silly hybrid presence thing now, which would suck (back and joint issues don't mesh too well with having to move around in the office and travel back and forth every (other) day) - maybe moreso than the linguistic landscape that at this point I'm fairly used to.

This hesitance to switch is definitely put to the test a lot these days though :)
by johnklos | 2025-07-04 22:36:24+00:00
> there's really no price/performance comparison

Huh?

A Ryzen can easily do real time transcoding. So why can't we do a price/performance comparison? A low end Ryzen that can easily do 4K 60 fps transcoding in real time costs $300 (with 24 gigs of DDR5 and 500 gig NVMe) and offers many times the overall performance of an N100 / N150 / N200. One can go even cheaper on a Ryzen, but that's just an example from Amazon.

Would some people pay twice as much for a computer many times faster, with more memory and more storage, and that can do software transcoding in real time? Sure.
by labrador | 2025-07-04 22:36:24+00:00
The mission of a professional programmer is to deliver code that works according to the design specs, handles edge cases, fails gracefully and doesn't contain performance bottlenecks. It could be software for a water plant, or software that incurs charges to accomplish it's task and could bankrupt you if there is a mistake. It doesn't have to be a matter of life or death.
by wrs | 2025-07-04 22:36:27+00:00
I’m very good at one thing (thank goodness), but I do some other things that I’m not good at, to remind myself how nice it feels to just do something without the pressure of having to be good at it.

I also think being a beginner at other things reminds me that failure is what learning feels like, which gives me some perspective when my “real” job feels difficult although I’m supposedly so good at it.

When I look back at big things I’ve done, they’re all the result of just “doing the thing” for a long time and making thousands of course corrections. Never the result of executing the perfect crystalline plan.
by cl42 | 2025-07-04 22:36:34+00:00
In the spirit of July 4, John Lewis Gaddis explores a similar theme in "On Grand Strategy". This is one of my favourite explorations, where he compares Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams:

> Compare Lincoln’s life with that of John Quincy Adams. Great expectations inspired, pursued, and haunted Adams, depriving him, at critical moments, of common sense. Overestimations by others—which he then magnified—placed objectives beyond his reach: only self-demotion brought late-life satisfaction. No expectations lured Lincoln apart from those he set for himself: he started small, rose slowly, and only when ready reached for the top. His ambitions grew as his opportunities expanded, but he kept both within his circumstances. He sought to be underestimated.

The point -- being too ambitious can slow you down if you're not strategic.