MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thepryz | 2025-09-08 14:10:19+00:00
No. Hyperscale data centers like those discussed in the article are usually evaporative cooled and tend to be relatively quiet outside the building unless they are running generators due to testing or utility outages. You may hear a low pitched fan hum if the data center is running hot or they need to purge the air inside for another reason. Assuming you have competent controls and facilities engineers, that should be pretty rare.

I have heard sounds like that from AI/ML host racks, but that's inside the datahall, which makes me wonder what kind of building and cooling design they have.
by bgwalter | 2025-09-08 14:10:23+00:00
This is the original "master plan" from 2025:

https://www.tesla.com/master-plan-part-4

It becomes immediately obvious that there is no plan, it is just advertising the things Tesla has been doing already.

The picture at the top that shows a robot which, as usual, performs an easy task in a clean, dust and dirt free environment, may indicate that they'll focus more on robots. That is it.

Since the stock price is decoupled from all realities, they can do whatever they want.
by stephc_int13 | 2025-09-08 14:10:24+00:00
The success of Tesla is largely tied to the fact that Elon bet the farm on what he believed the puck was going while most automakers where very cautious.

The market has changed, the brand is not as strong (and even considered toxic by many) but more importantly Chinese automakers are eating this market on all fronts.

Now, moving to robotics and AI is a different story, Elon is following the puck and is Tesla is already quite behind, and again China is in pole position.

Besides, this is an even riskier bet than EV in practice, the AI hype is stalling and many are predicting a loud pop of the bubble.

Also, the technology behind humanoid robots could take a very long time to become useful.
by jasonjayr | 2025-09-08 14:10:26+00:00
What you can't do, is add all sorts of invasive tracking to RSS to confirm that the user saw the ad, and that it wasn't filtered out. You have to get more creative with wording that works the ad into the descriptions for the articles, and even then, there's no guarantee.

Advertisers love to burn money, but they draw the line at not being able to verify that the spend did what was promised.
by miohtama | 2025-09-08 14:10:47+00:00
> Capitalism has done more to overcome hunger and poverty than any other system in world history. The most devastating man-made famines over the past 100 years all occurred under socialism – in the 1930s alone, according to a range of estimates, between five and nine million people died in the Soviet Union from famines caused by the socialist collectivisation of agriculture.

> The end of communism in China and the Soviet Union was a major factor in the 42 percent reduction of hunger between 1990 and 2017.

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/is-capitalism-to-blame-for-hu...
by throw0101d | 2025-09-08 14:11:06+00:00
> Have you ever considered many people actually enjoy driving a car?

1. Not as many as you think, IMHO.

2. Those folks can perhaps not turn on the self-driving feature.

3. Even those that do may have times where it is a chore (stop-and-go traffic).

> Regulation cannot simply be imposed on people against their will.

If self-driving can be shown to be statistically safer than hour human-driving then your insurance company may offer you discounts for always using it. No government regulation needed: those bearing the risks will incentivize you to do the less risk-y thing.
by lenkite | 2025-09-08 14:11:41+00:00
Maybe it was a "viewer" in the 90s. The viewer is not a viewer - it is a full fledged application runtime that has a developer environment and media stack, along with several miscellaneous runtimes. A standard template language and document inclusion feature is very small peanuts compared to that. A teeny house compared to the galaxy already built-in - with several planets worth of features being added yearly.
by graemep | 2025-09-08 14:11:50+00:00
I agree entirely that A roads and city roads are a LOT safer than country lanes. Easier to drive on too. I find London more stressful and harder work to drive in - it may well be safer, but its harder. I far prefer public transport in big cities and I have not driven in London for years.

The only time I have tripped a speed camera was doing 57 on an A road after missing the temporarily lower 50 limit for road works in the night.

The road I currently I find hardest is one road where the limit keeps changing. its pretty much the same all the way along (residential area, so default would be 30, but wide as its an A road or a continuation of one). It changes four or five times over a few miles.
by travisgriggs | 2025-09-08 14:12:11+00:00
But this is where all/most “platforms” go. As the product offering flounders over time, your quality talent (engineering and business) boils off to other opportunities. Then the short term value extraction methodologies show up, and everyone looks on in horror as the platform is “destroyed” through “mismanaged” consumer relationships.

Working in agtech, I’ve always wondered if this isn’t just the disenfranchised farmer story.

Give a farmer 1,000 acres to farm, and if they’re playing the long game, they’ll intermix their high value crops with responsible crop rotations. Managed well, this business can go on indefinitely.

But tell them they have 5 years left to farm the ground, and that the land will be of no value after that, they’ll grow the most expensive crop they can every year, soil quality be damned. It makes the most sense from a value extraction point of view.

Broadcom seems to be the kind of farmers that buy up forsaken land and extract as much value as possible before it finally fails.
by naasking | 2025-09-08 14:12:12+00:00
dyn traits have quite a few restrictions if I'm reading the docs right. Like, dispatchable functions can't even have type parameters [1]. I wouldn't exactly call that "solved", although maybe a language with traits and dyn traits that used GC wouldn't have such onerous restrictions.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/items/traits.html#dyn-co...
by drzaiusx11 | 2025-09-08 14:12:39+00:00
The above comment is merely pointing out that a 10y+ experienced language designer can still have naive viewpoints on application development. Anyone who's built a non-trivial userspace application knows that realistically you'll have to reach outside a particular languages standard library in most cases to provide value without reinventing wheels.

In other words: when someone's knowledge is disproportionately localized/siloed to their prospective subfield or domain of expertise, it does not necessitate generalization to others.

I'm certainly not saying this is the case with this particular individual, as I'm personally not familiar with their background. I'm simply stating that it's a plausible explanation for when experts in one domain make naive assertions about another domain they might not have the same experience in.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-08 14:12:40+00:00
I doubt that's what happened. They had designs that were massively expensive to fab/package, had much worse performance than the latest Nvidia hardware, and still needed massive amounts of custom in-house development.

To combat all of these issues, they were fighting with Nvidia (and losing) for access to leading edge nodes, which kept going up in price. Their personnel costs kept rising as the company became more politicized, people left to join other companies (e.g. densityai), and they became embroiled in the salary wars to replace them.

My suspicion is that Musk told them to just buy Nvidia instead of waiting around for years of slow iteration to get something competitive.

The custom silicon I was involved with experienced similar issues. It was too expensive and slow to try competing with Nvidia, and no one could stomach the costs to do so.
by yardie | 2025-09-08 14:12:49+00:00
As a counterpoint, Apple Inc, stopped using Apple Computers Inc, only years after it had diversified it's production with consumer electronics, software, and cloud services.

Tesla is predominantly known for it's cars. Now, it wants to do AI, taxi, solar, power supply. And it's financing this through their cofounder being the pied piper to investors.
by Liftyee | 2025-09-08 14:12:51+00:00
This serves as a great reminder for me to set up Immich when I get time, and a reason/excuse to purchase a better GPU. I have been uneasy with my dependence on Google for a while now.

[EDIT]: the following was intended as a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168333

I understand the author's point against the perceived complexity of 1-5 star rating systems, but it's worthy of note that star ratings are extremely common (ubiquitous?) in more advanced photo management/editing software such as Darktable and Lightroom. As a photographer, I see why the feature might have been included.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-08 14:12:53+00:00
How it started: "People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."

How it's going: "Meta suppressed research on child safety"

I'm sorry but at this point, Meta is just the lawnmower, you can't even be mad at it. We know what it is, and we always should have known based on what it told us about itself. That we continue to allow it to operate this way is an indictment of our culture, not Meta.
by zahlman | 2025-09-08 14:13:08+00:00
> just going through and moving shit around whenever you save a file.

This only happens because the file doesn't already adhere to the rules it's implementing. These are normally highly configurable, and once your code complies to a standard, the tool prevents future code from pulling you away from that standard.

> And sometimes, they actually insert bugs - string formatting errors are my favorite example.

Do you have a concrete example?

> Sometimes I'll get a pull request with like 2 lines of change and 120 lines of some reformating tool.

Is your existing code formatting at least consistent?

> You think I accept that?

This is a social issue rather than a technical one. You can tell people in your development readme to use specific style rules, or even a project-wide precommit hook. If your own code is formatted with one of these tools, you can even (to my understanding) set up automated checks on GitHub's side.

But of course you are free to reject any PR you want.
by abeppu | 2025-09-08 14:13:23+00:00
How about:

e) the product records a window on behalf of each customer, and the customer can report an incident like this to both Meta and legal authorities including such a recording. Strangers who sexually proposition kids get removed from the platform and may face legal consequences. The virtual space is like a public physical space where anyone else can report your crimes.

If this were a physical space (e.g. a park?) and your pre-teen kids were able to hang out there, the analogs to a-c would all sound crazy. Being carded upon entry to a park, or knowing that everything you say there will be monitored by a central authority would both be really weird. Saying "parents must watch their kids" seems less practical in a VR space where you can't necessarily just keep line-of-sight to your kids.
by jimkri | 2025-09-08 14:13:43+00:00
Here are some of the studies that I have been reading to back up my 'research', but I realized I didn't include anything after, so you are not wrong.

> Study - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7995246/ > Study - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6309508/

I have some others that I'm reading that I can also share if you are interested.

This is the spirulina I have been taking: https://www.amazon.com/Premium-Chlorella-Spirulina-250-Table...

I started taking it over 8 years ago, took a break for a year, and then restarted by taking 2 doses and another later in the afternoon if I ran earlier. I can sweat heavily and will sweat out amino acids.
by rayiner | 2025-09-08 14:13:45+00:00
> Betting on solely camera vision for self-driving is not objectively a very good bet.

Maybe, maybe not. It's quite remarkable how far he's been able to go with camera only. And he's not the only one who went the camera route--GM Super Cruise, Subaru Eyesight, etc., work that way as well. There is still no mass-produced car with LIDAR. At worst, the camera tech has kept Tesla at the front of where the industry has actually been going the last 5 years.

Looking at the bigger picture, I'm not sure you can point to someone who has made as many good bets in different engineering fields as Elon. Elon is the opposite of the Gell Manning effect: you think he's wrong about areas you are educated about, and he proves you wrong. You can find my posts on HN mocking SpaceX for going with an oxygen/RP1 rocket as if we were back at the dawn of space travel. Boy was that wrong!
by imglorp | 2025-09-08 14:14:05+00:00
For small on-prem shops that don't really want to learn about running k8s, and have under a few dozen nodes, there are definitely slim options, like Talos is basically boot to k8s, and for single app level, there's things like multi-node k0s. Tech like this means you can reduce the control plane labor and focus on the workload.

https://www.talos.dev

https://docs.k0sproject.io/v0.11.0/k0s-multi-node
by adev_ | 2025-09-08 14:14:17+00:00
> You're making your customer's life miserable by having dependencies. You're a library, your customer is using you to solve a specific problem. Write the code to solve that and be done with it.

And you just don't know what you are talking about.

If I am providing (lets say) a library that provides some high level features for a car ADAS system on top of a CAN network with a proprietary library as driver and interface.

This is not up to me to fix or choose the library and the driver version that the customer will use. He will choose the certified version he will ship, he will test my software on it and integrate it.

Vendoring dependency for anything which is not a final product (product as executable) is plain stupid.

It is a guarantee of pain and ABI madness for anybody having to deal with the integration of your blob later on.

If you want to vendor, do vendor, but stick to executables with well-defined IPC systems.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-09-08 14:14:21+00:00
To be fair, there are many things that people 'enjoy' to do that are illegal or not allowed or regulated heavily.

Just because you enjoy something doesn't make it the right thing to do or allow. This as a person who does not believe Tesla has the right formula to actually achieve FSD and that a pure vision approach would never work in the way they want it to (no interventions, all weather, etc).

There will come a time when technology advances enough that self driving with be an order of magnitude safer than human driving, and we will have to battle with the fact that allowing humans to do so will be objectively worse for society. That may not actually be anytime soon, but it may happen.
by lizknope | 2025-09-08 14:15:05+00:00
I got my manager at my first job to buy an E450. I think it was around $40,000.

All of our chip design software ran on Solaris and we needed a new faster machine compared to the 200 and 300MHz Ultra 2 machines we had.

I remember it came on a palette and it was 3 inches off the ground. I wondered how we would get it off the palette. Then we started reading the instructions and it came with 2 wooden ramps that fit into slots on the palette and we just wheeled it down the ramps because the server was on caster wheels. We just rolled it into our server room.

I was 22 and it was just so cool.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-08 14:15:15+00:00
The difference is that in the phone market, you have one premium brand that makes all of the profit from hardware sales (Apple), one that makes money by manufacturing hardware for the non premium brands (Samsung) and one that gets a cut from all of the manufacturers for licensing (Qualcomm) even when they use non Qualcomm chips.

Tesla’s brand is toxic and seeing declining sales, China is doing the manufacturing, and no one is going to license Tesla’s inferior unproven technology compared to Waymo.
by kogasa240p | 2025-09-08 14:15:37+00:00
>WhatsApp is heavily used by Nepalis both domestically and abroad (a large portion of Nepalis work abroad in India, the Gulf, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, and Japan as migrant workers) so people are cut off from communicating with each other.

People need to start learning XMPP, cutting off of centralized services is only going to get worse.
by BSVogler | 2025-09-08 14:15:50+00:00
This article resonated with my experience building what was essentially a distributed task queue using Redis+PostgreSQL with Python workers in Kubernetes. It seems like these systems naturally evolve different patterns based on their specific use cases. The logic of our queue was intertwined with a rule engine. I wrote about building a rule engine here [1]. Another difference to this article is that it did not report back to the client as the events were delivered via web hooks.

There are some different approaches here and there which come from making it application specific, e.g. we added a periodic reconciliation check. I also built a debouncer into the queue to give special treatment to burst in the load.

[1] https://blog.benediktsvogler.com/blog/building-a-distributed...
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-08 14:15:51+00:00
Devastating for that Staley dude, as well as for JP Morgan Chase, the bank, and for Deutsche Bank where Epstein moved his money after JPMC let him go.

Further, the article reads very much like Epstein did have some "clients", including Staley, although the journalists must not have hard evidence. Epstein certainly had weirdly effective influence all through international banking.
by danmur | 2025-09-08 14:16:00+00:00
I wonder if it will ever be practical or economical to have humans and machines driving together on the roads we have now though. Maybe we'll skip that step and go to robot-only roads with more stuff built into the actual roads.

On Musk, he doesn't need PR so much as to keep his mouth shut for a while and try and deliver on some of his BS instead of spouting more.
by snapcaster | 2025-09-08 14:17:12+00:00
I don't like comments like this, because while you're right that many people think everything happening everywhere is the CIA. The CIA (and US gov) _has_ been involved in an absurd amount of regime changes (that we know about). CIA involvement in something like this shouldn't be dismissed out of hand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
by cs702 | 2025-09-08 14:17:39+00:00
> The company's sales have collapsed across the world

Well, that's news to me. According to Tesla's presentations and quarterly SEC reports, sales have most definitely not "collapsed." In the most recent quarter, revenues decreased 12%, to a still-gargantuan $22.5B/quarter, compared to the same quarter last year. Compared to the previous quarter, revenues actually increased by 16%. Yes, increased. The business generated positive US GAAP earnings and positive free cash flow. The company ended the quarter with $37B in cash, compared to $31B in cash a year ago.[a]

Note that during the most recent quarter, the company had to change-over all its factories to start making the updated Model Y, its best-selling vehicle.

I'd be curious to see how the updated Model Y does over the remainder of the year.

It's hard to take the OP seriously when it exaggerates about facts that are easily verifiable.

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[a] https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/downloads/TSLA-Q2-...
by bakugo | 2025-09-08 14:18:36+00:00
> I mean thats also pretty black and white as well, right?

Not really. I'm not making assumptions, just recognizing the behavioral pattern after the fact.

The creator of the app could've just quietly patched the issue and moved on, and we wouldn't be discussing it here. But instead, he clearly chose to assume the worst and immediately go on the offensive, perfectly matching every experience I've ever had of trying to have a good-faith discussion with such activists.
by kbolino | 2025-09-08 14:19:10+00:00
Do cards with intentionally handicapped FP64 actually use anywhere near their TDP when doing FP64? It's my understanding that FP64 performance is limited at the hardware level--whether by fusing off the extra circuits, or omitting them from the die entirely--in order to prevent aftermarket unlocks. So I would be quite surprised if the card could draw that much power when it's intentionally using only a small fraction of the silicon.
by jerf | 2025-09-08 14:19:15+00:00
"It's heavy, and any accident would render a chunk of Mars radioactive for quite some time."

If you model the rest of the universe out of Earth's highly protective environment as "already being the result of a major nuclear accident", you're not actually that far off. The people evacuated from Chernobyl received about 33 milli-Sieverts of radiation [1]. The surface of the moon gets about 60 micro-Sieverts of radiation per hour[2]... or, in other words, being on the surface of the moon for 20 days is the rough equivalent of experiencing one Chernobyl disaster. This is just a rough estimate for intuition purposes, it's not exactly the same radiation in both cases, but it's close enough to make the point. This page [3] says the surface of Mars is about .7 milli-Sieverts of radiation per day, for about 30 micro-Sieverts per hour (to use the same units as the moon above), which is about right for the inverse-square and slows the exposure to one Chernobyl per 40 days.

And by universal standards, that's still rather low radiation. There's entire galactic clusters with the central blackholes blasting sterilizing amounts of radiation out into their entire cluster. Earth is fairly special; a good reason not to mess it up. The "jump to Mars plan" is perhaps not impossible but it's really, really, really hard.

[1]: https://nuclear-energy.net/nuclear-accidents/chernobyl/chern...

[2]: https://www.space.com/moon-radiation-dose-for-astronauts-mea...

[3]: https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/planets/10Page74.pdf
by hopelite | 2025-09-08 14:19:41+00:00
The open plotting happens in western countries too, my friend. I have personally been witness to it. The irony is that the same reasons that were give for not "reporting" things is also similar to why things in the west are not "reported", albeit due to far more sophisticated and complicated reasons. Must I remind you of all the examples of "whistleblowers" who were not protected, not lauded and championed, sometimes not even respected by the public they were acting in the name of. I have personal knowledge of very similar types of circumstances where people have "whistleblown" and at best, as Snowden back then indicated, even the most gross violations simply just fall on "def" ears, which is more like simply inaction; with you only having identified yourself as someone moral or principled in a system that is inherently immoral and unprincipled.

Just take a look at the whole Epstein files situation. Not to be too acute about it, but how is it wild to you that plotting would happen in the "third world" when it happens right in your face in the heart of the world empire, openly defying all of the most core Constitutionally enshrined principles, and even daring you to do something about it and also proving how powerless you/everyone is to even look the cabal that control the world in the eyes, let alone depose them.