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by mrcwinn | 2026-01-29 00:03:37+00:00
You should probably keep reading.

Elon for years has said Tesla is not a car company. He’s also said the “factory is the product.” Tesla also has energy divisions and investments, as well as xAI investments now.

Logically given that Model S and X are something like less than 5% of deliveries (and have been for years), if they’re right about Optimus, that capacity will generate far greater revenue.
by crediblejhj | 2026-01-29 00:03:41+00:00
I used Claude AI as a learning assistant throughout the project.

I had AI help me with:

- Initial layout calculation logic (the layout concept was new to me)

- Catching edge cases in the parser

- Recent refactoring for code quality

But I designed and coded myself:

- The overall rendering pipeline architecture

- CSS parser from scratch

- Debugging

- All architectural decisions

As for understanding - I don't know what understanding exactly is.
But I think it means how familiar you become with a concept. By that definition,
yes, I understand how the rendering pipeline, parsers, layout tree etc work.

First time using C++, so I needed guidance on concepts I'd never seen before.
But the learning, problem-solving, and persistence were mine.

Thanks for asking!
by _se | 2026-01-29 00:03:51+00:00
People do materialize the shape of data and use it directly. That's what most OLAP stores want you to do, and what most data analytics will do as a result.

The performance is, in general, significantly worse than standard OLTP joins for most real-time use-cases.

There's very little reason to avoid an OLTP join. It's faster than anything you're likely to be able to implement yourself, and the compute required with proper indices is negligible.

You're asking the wrong question, because really the question is where do they _not_ make sense, which is almost nowhere.
by metalcrow | 2026-01-29 00:04:01+00:00
> officials rushed to defend immigration officers without waiting for key facts to emerge – in what former immigration officials called a clear break with past practice for federal agencies

Without obscuring how bad is it, I don't believe there was ever a time when officials _didn't_ rush to defend federal officers without waiting for key facts to emerge. The us government has constantly loved to say that no one working for them has done anything wrong.
by egorfine | 2026-01-29 00:04:22+00:00
> resolve the Linux gaming vs. anti-cheat stalemate

It will.

Then just a bit later no movies for you unless you are running a blessed distro. Then Chrome will start reporting to websites that you are this weird guy with a dangerous unlocked distro, so no banking for you. Maybe no government services as well because obviously you are a hacker. Why would you run an unlocked linux if you were not?
by touisteur | 2026-01-29 00:04:29+00:00
Sorry, not sure I follow from what I said (explaining how much data sensors produce) to 'increasing the sampling frequency' ? You're usually sampling at larger width to then put specifically taylored pass-band filter and removing aliasing effects and then downsampling. This is a classic signal acquisition pattern : https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/63359/obtain-i-q-com...
by pixl97 | 2026-01-29 00:04:46+00:00
Not sure what you're talking about. Quite often I've written out a block of information and have found chunks of repeats or what would be hard to interpret by other stuck here or there. I'll stick it in an llm and have it suggest changes.

Simply put you seem to live in a different world where everyone around you has elegant diction. I have people I work with that if I could I would demand they take what they write and ask "would this make sense to any other human on this planet".

There are no shortages of people being lazy with LLMs, but at the same time it is a tool with valid and useful purpose.
by assimpleaspossi | 2026-01-29 00:04:53+00:00
I used to work in television and radio news back when the newscasters were often former newspaper men. I do not watch television news anymore (or radio for that matter).

To me it's just a long bitch fest now. They show stories about people bitchin' about somebody else or suggest that you should be bitchin' about it. If I want to hear people bitch at me I'll turn to my wife.
by tchalla | 2026-01-29 00:05:07+00:00
> Tesla's far more popular models are the 3 and Y, which accounted for 97% of the company's 1.59 million deliveries last year. The Model 3 now starts at about $37,000, and the Model Y is around $40,000. Tesla debuted more affordable versions of the vehicles late last year.

I’m confused as to what’s not clear from the article for you?
by pessimizer | 2026-01-29 00:06:39+00:00
This is goofy. Your job isn't special and this already happened to a lot of other people while coders were laughing in libertarian. It doesn't suddenly get real when it happens to you.

The people whose jobs were shipped overseas were physically stronger and less sheltered than you. If they couldn't stop it, your pencil arms and retreat into revolutionary cosplay fantasy certainly doesn't bode well for you. They weren't even fired because of an advance in technology, they were fired because we just dismantled workers rights and allowed every job to be shipped to China, Mexico, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, the Philippines. And literally, now, the "opposition" is angrily protesting for free trade and for illegal workers with no rights; you all still don't get it.

Automation raises productivity, and creates wealth that we can choose to share, even though "we" don't. Not lowering labor standards and not allowing jobs to be shipped out to poverty stricken countries with low labor standards would have just taken compassion and not being completely self-centered for at least 5 minutes a day. Fighting when you had something to lose rather than waiting until you have nothing. I'm supposed to make up a fake job for you?

There won't even be Oxy for you to turn to. You'd better be happy with legal weed, even if you can barely afford it on your Taskrabbit income.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-29 00:07:07+00:00
> >Taxes paid by your employer aren't taxes you pay.

> They have the same effect in that they reduce what employees take home in a given labour market.

Careful, you're thinking like a Marxist (assigning value based on costs ultimately culminating in labor). Under Capitalism, value is assigned based on the meeting point between what people are willing to pay, and what people are willing to sell it for. Some things, like Pokemon cards, are far more valuable than any costs incurred in their production. Other things, like Aunt Betty's utterly disastrous attempts at baked goods, are worth less than then they cost to produce. Payroll taxes only directly effect the purchaser's willingness to pay. Only if we believe that companies are currently paying 100% of the wages they would be willing to pay if they needed to can we call the payroll tax entirely a tax on the worker.
by m132 | 2026-01-29 00:07:34+00:00
I can quickly think of problems we have to deal with trying to make a real cross-platform application, or worse, a cross-language interface to a system/library, but not many that would stem from having a single dominant (non-stagnant or proprietary) language.

The overuse of dependencies is a problem, sure, but it's completely unrelated to "over-unification". Every ecosystem with a built-in package manager suffers from this, be it Node.js, Python, or Rust, to name a few. In fact, it's not even the package manager, it's the ease in adding new dependencies. Go demonstrates that pretty well.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-29 00:07:42+00:00
Relevant Reddit discussion:https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qpi8d4/meituan...

I took some part of the headline from the top comment from there

The whole complete 2 paragraph message below is what they wrote (Credits to Few_Painter_5588)

We introduce LongCat-Flash-Lite, a non-thinking 68.5B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with approximately 3B activated parameters, supporting a 256k context length through the YaRN method. Building upon the LongCat-Flash architecture, LongCat-Flash-Lite distinguishes itself through the integration of an N-gram embedding table designed to enhance both model performance and inference speed. Despite allocating over 30B parameters to embeddings, LongCat-Flash-Lite not only outperforms parameter-equivalent MoE baselines but also demonstrates exceptional competitiveness against existing models of comparable scale, particularly in the agentic and coding domains.

To my knowledge, this is the first proper openweight model of this size that uses N-gram embedding and it seems to have boosted this model's performance quite substantially. Imagine what deepseek v4 could be if it used this technique
by pickleRick243 | 2026-01-29 00:07:59+00:00
Almost 40% of California voted for Trump. The political polarity of a group can be measured in multiple ways. If you measure it by the views of its elected representatives or leaders of its institutions, it will look quite extreme because every 55/45 gets converted to a +1. In other words, you can have nearly 30% of a state being against gay marriage, yet "obviously" California is extremely gay-friendly.

I suspect (for no concrete reason in particular besides a feeling) that the readership of HN is fairly similar to California in political demographics. Active commentators are considerably more left-wing due to selection effects.
by outforwilds | 2026-01-29 00:08:09+00:00
Yes!

Introduces what is easily my favorite planet, and a completely new story of nearly identical length.

New characters, new tools, new mechanics, new puzzles. Same feel (except narratively its a bit more spoopy). It's like a selfquel.

(Also, worth noting that if you start a new game, you can just go straight to playing the DLC content without having to replay or complete the base game)
by arxari | 2026-01-29 00:08:12+00:00
While I do feel like it is bringing attention to some questionable behaviour of the DHS and trying to share nuanced information I also feel like at parts this article kind of side step that in order to slander ICE more, though this has been apparent with Reuters for a while as the Good shooting article contains information about the agent saying "fucking bitch" but not her wife telling her to "drive drive" when the officer is positioned in front of a car, where I've noticed more left wing sources do that when reporting on it while more right wing sources do the opposite and leave out the former while including the latter.

Arguably ICE does seem to overreact but I would still appreciate more nuanced articles that really try their best to be purely fact based and don't attempt to manipulate the wording to make ICE seem better or worse than it is.
by sillywalk | 2026-01-29 00:08:27+00:00
The last 2 generations of IBM Z CPUs have "AI" inference acceleration built in. One of the use-cases was real-time credit-card fraud detection.

IBM also has a PCIe add-in card for AI called Spyre, that's also available for POWER11 systems.

https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/telum-ii

https://research.ibm.com/blog/spyre-for-z
by epiccoleman | 2026-01-29 00:08:28+00:00
I completely agree. I let LLMs write a ton of my code, but I do my own writing.

It's actually kind of a weird "of two minds" thing. Why should I care that my writing is my own, but not my code?

The only explanation I have is that, on some level, the code is not the thing that matters. Users don't care how the code looks, they just care that the product works. Writing, on the other hand, is meant to communicate something directly from me, so it feels like there's something lost if I hand that job over to AI.

I often think of this quote from Ted Chiang's excellent story The Truth Of Fact, The Truth of Feeling:

> As he practiced his writing, Jijingi came to understand what Moseby had meant: writing was not just a way to record what someone said; it could help you decide what you would say before you said it. And words were not just the pieces of speaking; they were the pieces of thinking. When you wrote them down, you could grasp your thoughts like bricks in your hands and push them into different arrangements. Writing let you look at your thoughts in a way you couldn’t if you were just talking, and having seen them, you could improve them, make them stronger and more elaborate.”

But there is obviously some kind of tension in letting an LLM write code for me but not prose - because can't the same quote apply to my code?

I can't decide if there really is a difference in kind between prose and code that justifies letting the LLM write my code, or if I'm just ignoring unresolved cognitive dissonance because automating the coding part of my job is convenient.
by didibus | 2026-01-29 00:08:33+00:00
I don't think they're a symptom or a cause. Just indicators the economy may not be doing well.

> Even unemployment, which is your top line, seems... fine

My lines were in no particular order. The issue with unemployment data is it counts gig workers as "employed." What doesn't add up is that there are fewer job openings, mass layoffs, and rising long-term unemployment (people who can't find work past 6 months).

> I just don't understand where the squeeze is coming from.

Nobody really knows. It's hard to model the economy and identify cause and effect. But likely candidates are low competition, businesses with coercive leverage on pricing/pay since buyers and workers have no alternatives. Essentials like housing, health, and food have skyrocketed, and we haven't scaled them as demand grew. Companies have abandoned stakeholders, they only care about shareholders. They're squeezing record profits, sustained because buyers are supplementing with gig work, have all adults working, are taking on more debt (and there are more ways to get credit than before), or are abandoning their savings (YOLO).

> Undoubtedly they are laying people off, especially in tech. But the symptoms you list don't explain it to me.

My list wasn't about layoffs, just signals the economy may be doing poorly. One reason for layoffs is companies believe the economy is at risk. They're avoiding hyper-growth and cutting fat. In tech specifically, I think a lot of it is undoing the mess of Covid, such as ventures that didn't profit, hiring before knowing what to use people for, workers distributed across too many places. Even if one part is growing, redistributing is hard. Easier to lay off and rehire where needed. There's probably some offshoring too. But in general, cost-cutting happens when companies feel they need to be conservative.
by 1718627440 | 2026-01-29 00:09:19+00:00
Just today I got a 15 year used laptop in a "developed country" (Germany) for €30. Windows 10 works in a VM. It did come with Windows 11, but I wiped that. What are you all arguing about?

Btw, I also got a Celeron laptop you were talking about, I got it for free.
by lbreakjai | 2026-01-29 00:09:25+00:00
Oh and it's also the least spontaneous place I've lived in. All the food in the world, but you can't really just decide to try something, because everyone knows about the place, and they don't do bookings anyway, and everything is packed all the time, so there's an hour and a half queue to get in, after which you'll be granted a generous 35 minutes to eat before being softly nudged out by the waiter.

This is probably good enough for the anglosaxons or the nordics, but food is just a small part of what makes a good dining experience.
by georgemcbay | 2026-01-29 00:09:36+00:00
> We no longer have liveries for holding horses nor horse shoe makers (not at the level we used to). We no longer have telephone operators.

As you point out we've had plenty of examples in the past of jobs being displaced but (while I'm sure it always sucked to be one of the people displaced) those displacements were always relatively contained to certain industries within different time periods.

The nightmare-inducing aspect of AI-related job displacement is the possible combined breadth and speed of it, which we have absolutely never seen before.

Assuming the optimistic (from the perspective of the AI providers) AI predictions pan out the oncoming rush of AI job displacements are going to upended a lot of industries simultaneously, causing both increased uncertainty of what the (stable) other options are (the ground will be shifting everywhere, all at once) plus drastically increased competition for whatever other options do still exist when the music stops playing. I don't think it'll work out for us all to be nurses, plumbers, electricians and influencers.

> Supporting them in some way (re-training, UBI, service work, ...) seems like the only way forward.

I agree that these sorts of solutions are the rational way forward, but it just seems incredibly unlikely that this is how it is going to play out, at least in the US where we seem to be putting approximately zero political or corporate effort into planning for these possibilities. A violent class war seems far more likely of an outcome to me if we're being honest.
by fiedzia | 2026-01-29 00:09:59+00:00
> ORMs—built specifically to fix this—still fail at 88%

How so? The only way to do anything dangerous using any orm I've used was when I needed to do something orm doesn't support and I had to extend it, operating at a text layer (custom db syntax or non-standard sql extension). 99% of sql users wouldn't event know how to get there.
by dzonga | 2026-01-29 00:10:11+00:00
Tesla has no moat - but one thing I will give to Elon is his incredible strategy in building Tesla

1. Build sports car

2. Use that money to build an affordable car

3. Use that money to build an even more affordable car

4. While doing above, also provide zero emission electric power generation
options

he got distracted by side-missions, his personal shitty side

however if you separate the ideas from the person you can see how such a simple strategy was executed successfully
by gerdesj | 2026-01-29 00:10:11+00:00
This effort is utterly dreadful.

I started off from the press release on GOV.UK (as linked in OP and which is a paragon of virtue in web design) and followed the "Free AI foundations training" link and it all went south rather rapidly.

Its bold, brash and horrible. It does look like a set of links and its not immediately obvious where you start or what to do with it.

There are a few things that might be hyperlinks but the large weird rounded cornered sort of press me perhaps if you dare but I'm a bit flat and might kick your dog thing that might be a control or not but I'm purple and have an arrow ... ooh go on ... click me. Clicking around that area does move on to the next step which is just as obtuse.

I do hope that clears things up!
by pixl97 | 2026-01-29 00:10:14+00:00
Eh, na dawg, I'll have to reject a lot of what you've typed here.

LLMs can do a lot of proof checking on what you've written. Asking it to check for logical contradictions in what I've stated and such. It will catch were I've forgot things like a 'not' in one statement so one sentence is giving a negative response and another gives a positive response unintentionally. This kind of error is quite often hard for me to pick up on, yet the LLM seems to do well.
by theodric | 2026-01-29 00:10:25+00:00
> Also you should be keeping those CAD and games up to date

Not OP, but why? I have a perpetual license and a 12-year-old copy of a corpo CAD package and it works fine. I see no reason to compulsively update something that's feature-complete and functional.

Updates break shit or make shit worse for me all the time. See: Windows 11, macOS Tahoe, and KDE next year when they drop my working X11 session and expect me to use busted-ass Wayland that's missing functionality I use daily.

Why do I need updates? "Security?" I'm not exactly a nation-state hacking target. I don't run random pirated software. I'm firewalled to hell, and behind CGNAT on Starlink. I'll keep my browser up to date, fine, but I'm still running -esr.
by seizethecheese | 2026-01-29 00:10:31+00:00
> There’s an extremely hurtful narrative going around that my product, a revolutionary new technology that exists to scam the elderly and make you distrust anything you see online, is harmful to society

The article is certainly interesting as yet another indicator of the backlash against AI, but I must say, “exists to scam the elderly” is totally absurd. I get that this is satire, but satire has to have some basis in truth.

I say this as someone whose father was scammed out of a lot of money, so I’m certainly not numb to potential consequences there. The scams were enabled by the internet, does the internet exist for this purpose? Of course not.
by heliumtera | 2026-01-29 00:10:53+00:00
thanks for the clarification on how the kernel development works.
do you mind expanding on what is the benefit for companies like Microsoft, Google, IBM, Red Hat, Meta, Oracle, SUSE, Canonical, Amazon, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcom, Samsumg, Broadcom, Cisco, arm to spend an enormous amount of capital, both employing individuals to work full time on the kernel and making donations to cncf/linux foundation?
Certainly all of the big players behind linux have our best interest in mind and certainly NONE of this companies have some history of making decisions in detriment of consumer agency and freedom.
I would love to hear more about how linux is driven by passion and generosity if you don`t mind, please share!
by egorfine | 2026-01-29 00:11:10+00:00
> There are genuine positive applications for remote attestation

No doubt. Fully agree with you on that. However Intel ME will make sure no system is truly secure and server vendors do add their mandatory own backdoors on top of that (iLO for HP, etc).

Having said that, we must face the reality: this is not being built for you to secure your servers.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-29 00:11:43+00:00
> what happens if you onboard a superstar that works with django some other way

If you hired a "superstar" that goes out of their way to hand-write migrations in cases where Django can do it by default (the majority of them) you did not in fact get a superstar.

I have yet to see anyone hand-roll migrations on purpose. In fact the problem is usually the opposite, the built-in migration generator works so well that a lot of people have very little expertise is doing manual migrations because they maybe had to do it like 5 times in their entire career.
by chrisjj | 2026-01-29 00:12:14+00:00
> Ofcom (isp I guess?) has been trying to force 4chan to use age verification on all visitors in compliance with UK law,

All? I think not.

"The Act only requires that services take action to protect users in the UK - it does not require them to protect users anywhere else in the world. The measures that Ofcom recommends providers take to comply with their duties only relate to the design or operation of the service in the UK or as it affects UK users."

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-c...
by vannevar | 2026-01-29 00:12:33+00:00
The problem with being a car company is that they'd have to compete with China. It's possible, but they'd have to make additional capital investments to keep up. They've just wasted a ton of money on a failed Musk vanity project (Cybertruck) and squandered a ton of goodwill in their home market via the DOGE fiasco. Cash flow is not what it once was, and if they're going to make a big capital investment, they're probably right in looking at robots. But that strategy puts them back where they were 20 years ago, just getting started in EVs, and their cash flow will depend on cars for many years to come.
by dylan604 | 2026-01-29 00:13:24+00:00
> but not her wife telling her to "drive drive" when the officer is positioned in front of a car

where was everyone standing when she said to drive? could she see the ICE agent in front of the car? also, you can tell someone to "drive drive", but that does not mean to "drive over whoever is in front of you". reads to me like you are as guilty of reading more into it as you claim they are for not quoting 'drive drive'.