MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NickC25 | 2025-10-21 13:35:14+00:00
>It would add up to a lot of money for Tesla, but for customers? Some of these people paid $15.000 years ago for something that hasn’t been delivered, and now, they would be able to get $10,000 ‘back’, only if they commit to spending way more again, in the hope to eventually get what they bought years ago, or, more likely, in the hope of eventually being able to subscribe to get the features they already paid for years ago.

Sounds like fraud.

Why is Musk allowed to be worth half a trillion dollars again? The guy can't help himself but lie and make deliberately misleading half-truth (at best) statements in investor meetings and presentations. Textbook fraud.

An ethical steward of capital he is not. We've gone through 4+ US presidential administrations with him as the CEO, and not once has he been effectively taken to task let alone held accountable for his bullshit.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-21 13:35:15+00:00
Homelessness + loans (credit cards) are on the rise and births are on the decrease.

But to honestly answer the question, by either not living in large cities and commuting in, sharing those 3BRs, or staying home with parents. Shaving that 48k/year (post-tax) rent down to ~12k/year frees up a lot of money.

(Also if you're young, staying with your parents and saving ~100-200k in rent for a downpayment over 10 years just seems like a smart idea to me).
by akdev1l | 2025-10-21 13:36:00+00:00
> you can keep overworking yourself as serf on fiefdoms in which I might own shares, and increase the value of my portfolio for me, so I can draw even more passive income every month

Yeah, I guarantee you that the guy who worked at Amazon as a Principal Engineer for 10 years has a bigger portfolio than you.

levels.fyi says $967k/yr average compensation at that level.
by WhitneyLand | 2025-10-21 13:36:07+00:00
Oh come on. How many of us have been an engineer on a project and had to watch an exec make promises we knew were not reality?

It also doesn’t necessarily mean he was a yes man. Often in these situations people spell out their confidence levels plainly and directly to such execs and it just bounces off.

I’m also seeing below people suggesting he could have publicly voiced his concerns, but that probably wasn’t even a legal option for multiple reasons.
by drcongo | 2025-10-21 13:36:14+00:00
A little bit of feedback, I could barely read any of the text in the interface as the contrast is almost zero and the font is unbelievably small. So I tried Cmd+ to zoom the interface, but nothing happened, so I tried Cmd, to open the settings to see if there was a zoom level or contrast setting, nothing happened. I like the idea of it, but it's totally unusable.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-21 13:36:15+00:00
> Why should I be upset ?

You shouldn't. If you're happy, enjoy it and move on. Others being upset doesn't negate your right to be happy. Just as your experience doesn't negate someone being upset about feeling they were lied to.

> I live in New York , I use fsd almost daily for 5+ years . In this very busy setup 0 accidents . Which is rare even for an experienced human driver

FSD was sold as Waymo. Unsupervised. Tesla is unable to match that capability on its newest hardware so far.
by swaits | 2025-10-21 13:36:15+00:00
Slackware’s last release was 2.5 years ago.

Look at Fedora (if you like RPM distros) if you’re after something pretty nicely put together that stays reasonably well up to date. Very well maintained. Influenced by Red Hat (or “led by” or even “owned by”), which works for some, not for others.

CachyOS is trendy these days. EndeavourOS is basically Arch with an installer.

There are a few distros targeted at Windows refugees. ZorinOS is well regarded. AnduinOS is a newer entry. But if you’re willing to walk away from a Windows-like UI, skip these.
by refulgentis | 2025-10-21 13:36:28+00:00
You're my fav new-ish account, spent about 5 minutes Googling froobius yesterday tryna find more content. :) Concise, clear, no BS takes for high-minded nonsense that sounds technical. HNs such a hellhole for LLM stuff, the people who are hacking ain't here, and the people who are, well, they mostly like yapping about how it connects to some unrelated grand idea they misremember from undergrad. Cheers.

(n.b. been here 16 years and this is such a classic downvote scenario the past two years. people overindexing on big words that are familiar to them, and on any sort of challenging tone. That's almost certainly why I got mine, I was the dummy who read the article and couldn't grasp the stats nonsense, and "could I bother you to help" or w/e BS I said, well, was BS)
by bdcravens | 2025-10-21 13:36:40+00:00
> Now everyone's downloading 500MB Electron monstrosities that take 3 minutes to boot up just to send a fucking GET request.

While curl is fine, most of the time I use the REST Client extension in VS Code. While VS Code is an Electron monstrosity, assuming you already have it, that extension is less than 3MB.

Even the full-feature GUI extensions like Thunder Client are scarcely bigger.

Hate VS Code, and never let your hands touch anything other than vim or emacs? Fine, there's a number of extensions that run in the browser that do the same thing.
by wraptile | 2025-10-21 13:36:45+00:00
sure libcurl is great but curl CLI is pretty ancient and awful and completely unnecessary to use today as any front-end can plug into libcurl and provide a much better experience. If you're only requesting your own APIs then you don't even need libcurl and any http 1.1 client will provide much better experience like httpie.

The issue with "survivor" software is that UX cannot be refined due to legacy support and that's what's great about curl itself is that libcurl and CLI front-end are separate tools allowing for alternative modern front-ends.
by nijave | 2025-10-21 13:37:09+00:00
I was thinking more along the lines of the NLB being in front of DNS servers and dropping resolvers

Or an NLB could also be load balancing by managing DNS records--it's not really clear what a NLB means in this context

Or there was an overload condition because of the NLB malfunctioning that caused UDP traffic to get dropped

Obviously a lot of reading between the lines is required without a detailed RCA--hopefully they release more info
by cheschire | 2025-10-21 13:37:39+00:00
I didn't imply socialism. It's probably my fault you inferred it though as I'm blissfully ignorant of whatever the current echoes are these days that get people chirping in a specific direction.

No I'm just assuming SpaceX will win the recompetition and complaining about that future event.

And no, it doesn't need to be an "of course they can" inevitability. The rules of competition define what can and can't happen. If the rules of this competition allow a rebid, then that is a conscious decision. Rules / laws could be changed to disallow rebidding on follow-on contracts if there was a failure to deliver on the first one.
by melooooooo | 2025-10-21 13:38:54+00:00
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by sanyam-khurana | 2025-10-21 13:39:27+00:00
Great question because this has haunted me for over 10 years with cookiecutter. Most of the time I was copy-pasting newer features from running projects back into the template, and then copy-pasting in other running projects.

But Keel is based on copier which has a "pull" based approach. It means unlike cookiecutter where you generate project from template once, you can run `copier update` to update your project with the latest addition to the template. (It takes care of merging based on the initial config that you selected).

It's just running one command `copier update`. Docs here: https://django-keel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?h=copier+updat...

You don't need to fork it unless you want to make some improvements or build upon the base template itself.
by ajross | 2025-10-21 13:39:57+00:00
Not to engage with the hyperbole angle here, but just to call out the spin in the headling:

Tesla has shipped 8 million cars total. Maybe 70% of them (including mine) have the HW3 computer that the article claims won't do FSD. Of those, maybe 10% (I'm one) actually purchased the FSD product[1]. So figure like 500k cars actually affected.

If the cost to Tesla of a HW4 upgrade is less than $2000 (it's likely *much* less, this isn't particularly fancy hardware and it requires no sensor or other upgrades, it's just a board swap), then we're looking at "sub-billion" and not "multi-billion-dollar iceberg".

It's a $1.4T company. If everything falls out like Electrek[2] expects, it might rise to "Really very notable recall". Hardly a Titanic collision.

[1] As opposed to renting it, for which there would be no remedy. You can't sue for a rental product that you claim doesn't do what you wanted. If you didn't want it, why did you pay for it? At most you get the first month's fee refunded.

[2] Electrek has been expecting Tesla to fail for like seven years now.
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-21 13:40:16+00:00
> For example in the last one, search for "The Choice of Language".

That section is non-responsive to what I was wondering about. Once again, I'm looking for decisions made during Ada's creation that were made specifically with formal verification in mind. The section with that title does not discuss that since it's not about Ada's design process at all. The document's date (98-08-17) is another hint that it is not likely to be relevant.

> You will find similar writings in the others.

Would you mind quoting them? I was not able to find relevant passages in the places I looked.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-21 13:40:25+00:00
> Now, we’re introducing new social features, so you can connect with other guests throughout your trip and long after.

you mean, the guests can't just chat to each other and exchange contact details? who are these people who want to stay in touch with each other but need Airbnb to intermediate?

I must be missing some obvious dynamic that happens with "Airbnb experiences", but it is hard for me to imagine what that is.
by bluGill | 2025-10-21 13:40:27+00:00
I have long thought the idea of robotic taxis didn't make any sense for most people. Where people already get a taxi of course it makes sense. There are a few people who don't drive much who it also makes sense for. However for the vast majority owning a car will always make more sense.

Most people are traveling during rush hour - there isn't much opportunity to share cars with them, and where there is it means cars traveling empty from the city to the suburbs in the morning. (and the opposite at 5pm).

When you own your own car you can "leave your golf clubs in the trunk in case a chance to play a round happens in the middle of the day". You can run errands over lunch. You store other things in the car that you don't need everyday. None of these are a big deal (many people take transit and thus cannot do that), but it is enough that when the economics are not a clear win you will want to own a car.
by coldpie | 2025-10-21 13:40:28+00:00
> highly dependent on the region

Oh, I hadn't thought of it that way, but I bet you're right! I bet denser areas got chargers earlier, so they're stuck on the stupid-app-based model that was popular 5 years ago. Where I am in the upper midwest, the rollout has been happening only over the last couple years (e.g. several of the chargers I stopped at last month are not even on Google Maps streetview yet), so the chargers are in better shape and just have standard card readers now.
by mati365 | 2025-10-21 13:40:33+00:00
Writing compilers for old CPUs has some real magic in it. It helps you see how processors really work and brings back the old days when hardware was simple and easy to understand. I miss that time. I once wrote a small C compiler in TypeScript for the Intel 8086 and 8087 ([1]), and I have huge respect for the people who coded for those chips. It’s super hard but also very rewarding.

[1] https://github.com/Mati365/ts-c-compiler
by blizdiddy | 2025-10-21 13:41:02+00:00
So what is your thesis? The tools keep getting better, so that’s some kind of gotcha that the emporer has no clothes? Some people prefer the absolute latest and greatest so people on the previous gen were all fakers making Pelican svgs?

Maybe the productive thing is actually to ignore naysayers and goalpost movers and use the tools.

You aren’t enlightened for not liking a tool. “Oh, hammers? Absolutely a bubble, after all they never fixed the hit-your-thumb issue i blogged about, and nail guns just let you hurt your thumbs faster”
by exasperaited | 2025-10-21 13:41:24+00:00
Yeah, it would help with using the tool to access a private-to-the-remote API.

Won't immediately help with giving that tool access to the file system or Git.

For a local VM, you can have file system mounts, fast enough for Git.

SSHFS could help in some genuinely distant remotes with access to the file system (though SSHFS in the context of multiple file writers is fraught with risk of file corruption; been there, bought that T-shirt).

With properly network-remote VMs, nothing helps that much with giving the tool access to performing Git operations on changes inside your remote: Git is slow over network file systems even when they are quite local.

This is the real power of the VS Code remote after all; everything happens there.
by liad | 2025-10-21 13:41:39+00:00
AI agents need to make autonomous payments, but if you give them direct wallet access, they can drain your funds. Custodial solutions create liability and trust issues. Building custom controls takes weeks.

## The Solution

A two-gate enforcement model:

1. *Gate 1 (Validate)*: Agent requests payment → Policy engine checks limits → Issues single-use authorization token 2. *Gate 2 (Verify)*: Before signing → Verify token + check for tampering → Only then sign transaction

Your keys never leave your infrastructure. Policy enforcement happens before signing.

Currently demonstrated with Tether WDK on Ethereum, but the wrapper pattern works with any wallet SDK.
by natasha_jaffe | 2025-10-21 13:42:30+00:00
I started writing an advice piece for Computer Science majors and new grads but quickly realized that all of my experience as a hiring manager came from the software engineer boom, pre-AI. So anything I would say would probably feel out of date and tone deaf. Instead I wrote about what it was like to be a CS major who struggled to get my first role in industry, starting with freshman year. Definitely more uncomfortable than writing from the secure position of a hiring manager but also more satisfying.
by honeybadger1 | 2025-10-21 13:43:15+00:00
Fred is quite literally only known for producing a platform that provides analytics on MMA fighting for the purpose of assisting gambling addicts at making a better gambling prediction, his second venture is writing negative opinion pieces about Tesla and focusing on the character persona that is Elon Musk. The ventures of Elon Musk have quite litreally proven he's a maker, not a conman. He has also won every lawsuit brought against him where half-truths are used in the public eye, but the moment it's in court the whole truth prevails, in almost every case.

He has a lot of enemies, ones he has made on his own, and those that envy what he has accomplished with the people that he has inspired to do the work. He is to some, an easy shortcut to fame because he is constantly putting himself in the public eye and welcoming risks. He has my respect, even with all his delays and set backs, he always seems to deliver eventually and that is not the same as conman with smoke and mirrors behind the curtain.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-21 13:43:32+00:00
No, not "everyone" is using 8 KHz polling now... it breaks a lot of game engines for no benefit (even 4 KHz) but is heavily marketed because higher numbers. Worse yet, 8 KHz eats the kernel with interrupts (even on my 9800X3D) instead of letting the game run as fast as possible.

High refresh rate monitors are great, yes, but those are still sub KHz - you're talking about polling a mouse at 13x the rate of the highest end esports monitors as some minimum bar for when a machine can be for gaming - get out of here with that kind of artificial gatekeeping.

No complaints about Asahi though :).
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-21 13:44:26+00:00
> The people you interact with during the interview process have all sorts of reasons to embellish the experience of working at their company.

That's true, but you have to be kind of smart about it. If you just ask the question "Is working here fulfilling?", of course they'll say "Yes, super!". But you cannot take that at face value, your questions need to shaped in a way so you can infer if working there is fulfilling, by asking other questions that can give you clues into that answer.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-10-21 13:44:28+00:00
I'm a 2018 model year owner who also paid for FSD. The current FSD is not "fine" or "FSD" at all. It requires constant monitoring because one out of every 50-100 decisions will be problematic. Even the highway driving (autopilot), which was great initially, has recently degraded in quality: now it's much harder to get it to consistently stay in one lane or choose the speed I want to go.

Tesla knows the current FSD isn't fine; if it was, they wouldn't be upgrading the hardware to handle bigger models. So there's nothing surprising about expecting Tesla to deliver the same hardware to people who already paid them for the product they're still trying to deliver. If you're satisfied not receiving the full product you paid for, that's fine, of course. Heck, you're free to write Tesla a donation check. But Tesla should deliver the product (or a refund) to those who aren't.
by profsummergig | 2025-10-21 13:44:52+00:00
There was a department secretary we used to have. Whenever she'd make the community coffee, it was insanely great. She told me she just used less coffee. But when I do that it just comes out weak. I have friend who could do that too, but now she uses a Keurig. Coffee is an art. I never understood why people like the bitter, acrid Starbucks coffee.
by jaymartmedia | 2025-10-21 13:44:55+00:00
This is sick! I love the idea.

Two pain points: - No "reward" after guessing it even completing. If based on Wikipedia, give me some facts about the places! (Even if wrong imo) - I did the physics map daily. I got the same location 4 times in a single play. Definitely need logic to prevent doing the same location to the same use in a certain time period.
by consumer451 | 2025-10-21 13:45:05+00:00
That may be so, however:

1. Up to that sudden 180, Musk had been a cryptocurrency skeptic. What changed?

2. It had nothing to do with Tesla's mission, in-fact it seemed to go against it. At best it was a distraction when there were real problems to deal with.

3. When reality caught up, Tesla reversed course.

I am not stating some grand thing here, this is just my recollection of events.
by amelius | 2025-10-21 13:46:14+00:00
It works in one direction: sending files from my Pixel (GOS) phone to Linux.

But the UX could be better. When I send a file, no notification is shown on my phone. But when I look in my Downloads/ folder, the file is there, so that's good.

Now, when I open the kdeconnect-app on Linux, it cannot connect to my phone. Even if the app is open on my phone. I see the phone, but it says "disconnected".

So, as it stands, I put this in the "barely works, needs more love from developers" category.
by krastanov | 2025-10-21 13:46:31+00:00
I think you will have best luck by searching for "open quantum systems" toolboxes in your language of choice. My preferences are, in order:

- QuantumOptics.jl in Julia

- QuantumToolbox.jl in Julia

- qutip in python

These are all "just" nice domain specific wrappers around linear algebra and differential equation tools. They do the "silly" exponentially expensive simulation technique that works for any quantum system. If you are interested in efficient (not exponential) simulation techniques that support only a subset of all quantum dynamics try out:

- stabilizer formalism (e.g. for error correction) with QuantumClifford.jl or stim

- Gaussian quantum optics (e.g. for laser physics) with Gabs.jl

- tensor networks (e.g. for arbitrary low-rank entanglement) with ITensors.jl
by constantcrying | 2025-10-21 13:47:18+00:00
These HP Fury Laptops and many others on that list are such a joke.

A somewhat capable CPU, sometimes just an integrated GPU slapped in a cheap chassis with mediocre build quality. Sold at absurd prices. My employer is "getting scammed" by HP continuously by paying for this absolute crap. The workstations aren't any better.

Nowadays the "business laptops" you get cost the same as a MacBook, have a bad, barely usable, CPU and are made out of flimsy plastic. I do not get how companies like HP keep doing this, what a total embarrassment.
by bombcar | 2025-10-21 13:48:10+00:00
You can almost certainly lease if you really want to but the usual benefit is more enjoyed by a company (no capital expense, only operating expense, defined, and steady).

As an individual, you can get the exact same laptop for $333.25/mo (for 12 months) right now with 3% cash back and 0% interest on the Apple Card. That's only a little over twice the monthly cost, and you're done in 12.

Sometimes you can find pay over 24 or even 36 which would make it even lower. Add in AppleCare and you're probably ahead as an individual.

Business taxes and others change this, or if you KNOW you will need it only for a year, or must have the latest and greatest every time.

(Our OP spends 3780€ over 3 years and doesn't even own it at the end; but the financial tax advantages can be huge and make it worth it, so much so that founders sometimes will make TWO companies, one to buy the capital item and lease it to the actual startup.)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-21 13:48:51+00:00
"A Lunar Space Elevator [LSE] can be built today from existing commercial polymers; manufactured, launched and deployed for less than $2B. A prototype weighing 48 tons with 100 kg payload can be launched by 3 Falcon-Heavy's, and will pay for itself in 53 sample return cycles within one month. It reduces the cost of soft landing on the Moon at least threefold, and sample return cost at least ninefold" [1].

Dreams aside, this story is court politics: "Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who is NASA’s acting administrator, has told people that he wants to lead the space agency" [2]. "So does Jared Isaacman—the billionaire entrepreneur who was the nominee earlier this year before President Trump withdrew his support."

With "both men...jockeying to lead NASA," and, just "this past weekend, advisers and lawmakers representing Duffy and Isaacman [having] called contacts in the Trump administration—including the president himself," this announcement is politics through PR.

Duffy may threatening Elon to have his man back down. He may be going scorched Earth, signalling to Trump that Musk's decision making isn't to be trusted.

[1] https://opsjournal.org/DocumentLibrary/Uploads/The_Lunar_Spa... 2017; 2bn US2017 ~ 2.6bn US2025

[2] https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-nasa-administrator...
by JohnFen | 2025-10-21 13:49:18+00:00
> No need to apologize, needing an excuse to lack knowledge is how we end up with people afraid to ask.

Yes!

There is no shame in ignorance. We are all, without exception, ignorant of more things than we're knowledgeable about. Shame should be reserved for remaining ignorant of things when it becomes clear that we would benefit from learning about them.