skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some friends bought a Model X about six months ago, spending over $100k — that’s down from the almost $150k that Tesla was demanding a couple years ago when we bought one (and both were fairly fully loaded).

First, my experience 2 years ago was the A/C compressor was so loud that during summer with cooling running at maximum, you couldn’t hold a conversation in the cabin because of the noise. Tesla investigated and eventually said “looks fine to us, there isn’t designed to be any additional noise abatement on the firewall between the front and the passenger space”. We had issues with our Falcon Wing doors, and we eventually sold the vehicle after a year.

Now, our friends Model X, that’s had ~6 non-trivial maintenance problems in six months, including the Falcon Wing doors failing three times, and they’re in the process of trying to get a refund through Lemon Laws.

Other acquaintances who own Teslas also have service issues on their Model X, the Cybertruck looks like an even worse mess, so I concluded over a span of multiple years, quality still isn’t a strong suit of Tesla, thus I’m not shocked to see there’s limited brand loyaly, and with increasingly viable competition, demand is falling?

I now have a Rivian R1S and we are incredibly happy with that vehicle, having put about 6000 miles on it. Mercedes EQS also seems like a reasonable choice in 2024, depending on what you want.
Unfortunately nobody told Marvel, Disney, and the Tolkien estate about it, so we'll have to wait until we're all dead before being able to build ontop of the cultural works that defined our childhoods.
I could see this coming weeks ago: My local dealer was cold-calling existing owners to try to get them to buy the updated model 3, which isn't a very significant update at all. They had a bunch on the lot that weren't selling.

We can also see the promotion of a free trial for self-driving as a response to this too: Hoping some people bite after trying it out. Whether that happens, or we just see more videos of failed self-driving is another story.

Either way, Tesla hasn't done much to improve their normal models in 2 years. The cybertruck is barely in production, and it's hard to see it as having massive demand. Elon's cultural alignment with people that at the same time are being told that electric vehicles will be bad for America is probably not great for sales on either side of the cultural divide. Add high interest rates, and it's unsurprising to see trouble. But does anyone have enough shares to try to force Tesla to make significant changes in diection? Unlikely.
This is exactly the problem with any recommendation engine, IME. They either:

1. Feed you nothing but content about something you looked at once.

2. Show you stuff you already bought. No, I don't need another exact or very similar XYZ widget; show me something RELATED yet very different, thank you very much.

3. They show absolute garbage that is in no way related to what I like.

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Exhausting, really; and, probably why most people find AI/ML largely useless as it exists today.
I wanted a Tesla, but I couldn’t inage buying one with Musk as CEO.
Tesla are still producing cars which have the same design elements as the Model S did in 2012. I'm amazed they have pulled that off but maybe the lack of "freshness" is also hurting their bottom line?
This is why I find some disclaimers in some open source projects quite superfiscial, that the software is provided as is without any warranty. Of course it is, this should be the obvious default.

If there is a law that would entitle a user to more, it is a bug in legislation that needs urgent fixing.
If posts with multiple paragraphs encircling a topic seems suspect, then we're all guilty. Their points are cogent. If they've dressed the arguments in robes of "purple", so be it.
Do you think that maybe a $40K car is a fairly large amount of money for a lot of people?
If you want to be my technical cofounder, you are going to tick most of these boxes:

1. You have at least 8-10 years of experience in the technical domain, with some of it in a leadership position (e.g., lead developer or CTO).

2. You have a significant portfolio or demonstrable projects. Especially important if this is a SaaS product or B2C. Not as crucial if this is hard tech (e.g., biotech). But if we're launching a software for HR, I expect you to have built scalable platforms before. If it's a martech startup, show me the sophisticated algorithms or tools you've developed that can handle big data.

3. You have already collaborated with or led at least 25 people in technical projects, collecting feedback on your work, understanding user needs, and iterating on your solutions. These collaborations are documented and easily shared with me.

4. You preferably have been a key technical lead in at least 1 successful startup, or a few that didn't make it is okay too (but I would need references to ensure they failed for legitimate technical challenges)—the worse is 0 years of experience in startup environments.

5. You are a code commit and problem-solving junkie. Because you will OWN product development in the early days. I want to see your 100 lines of code per day, your daily problem-solving on GitHub, or your 100 weekly commits pushing our product forward, asking for feedback, iterating on the platform, or preparing for our beta.
The Power of Changing Your Mind
I was under the impression (admittedly from an article I read a couple of years ago) that the consensus within the company was pretty much always that robo-taxis were one man’s pipe dream.

Weren’t there also disclosure documents a couple of years ago when they were trying to license autopilot that said they believed internally they were at level 2 as opposed to 4/5? (I might be remembering this part wrong)
I with they added Azure Functions style workers using C# too, or AWS style lambdas using NativeAOT. Way lower runtime overhead and time to first response latency.

But C# is an underdog language in those lands, so it's understandable.
> It is notoriously difficult to predict where a piece of space junk will reenter the atmosphere. US Space Command precisely tracks tens of thousands of objects in Earth orbit, but the exact density of the upper atmosphere is still largely an unknown variable. Even a half-day before the reentry, US Space Command's estimate for when the battery pallet would fall to Earth had a window of uncertainty spanning six hours, enough time for the object to circle the planet four times.
I agree that Kubernetes is overkill, even at our scale. My biggest concern with "serverless" paradigms like Cloud Run or Fargate is with cold starts.
Average price of a new car in the US is ~$47k as of February 2024.
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> https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/node/1426

Given the learning checkpoint below that page alone, I have to question the quality of the information presented there.

How can

"It is hard to assess how much money to spend on those policies; it might depend on the budget, priorities, politics, etc."

be the correct/useful answer to

"How should governments address low-probability hazard events with potentially devastating consequences? How would you assess how much money is too much money to spend to reduce the likelihood of a highly unlikely event? Please select the correct answer."

I mean, it's such a generic answer, it feels like it's been LLM generated.
I doubt it, as it would have equally affected previous quarters.
(at least internationally) Tesla has failed so far to provide a low cost EV when all their competitors already have. There is a limited number of people who buy them for the prestige factor, but it s a small population. I m thinking of a Volvo EV but would consider a Tesla if they had one in the same category/price ranges.

Pretty much nobody cares if it's self driving
Discord is treated differently because people already use it and they like using it.
Making more Model 3s than Tesla can sell is a big part of the problem. The Model 3 and Y account for 43,000 out of the 46,000 unit overrun.
I believe this is what you're looking for: https://oneuptime.com/product/workflows

OneUptime is 100% open source, and always will be. It's a mono-repo and backend is divided into few services.
I get the https://www.newsminimalist.com/ daily newsletter in my RSS reader. A few important news stories each day. Where important is decided by ChatGPT.
Also, diets, regardless of what they make you eat, also have a habit of forcing you to make better choices regarding what it is you put in your body, meaning fewer foods loaded with ingredients that might not jive with the human neurological system.
"Disastrous" seems like a significant overstatement.

To me this looks more like "unsurprising". Tesla has some additional business lines which might eventually prove quite valuable, but in the short to medium term it is mostly a car company. The whole car industry is dealing with the results of higher interest rates. It would be much more surprising if Tesla somehow turned out to be immune to that.
On top of that:

A newly-introduced security issue tends to have very limited exploitability, because it's valuable, not-yet well understood, and public exploits are yet to be developed.

Compare to that a similar vulnerability in an older package: chances are that everything about it has been learned and is publicly known. Exploits have become a commodity and are now part of every offensive security distro on the planet. If you run that vulnerable version, there's a real risk that a non-targeted campaign will randomly bite you.
RAG is probably not going to rescue the current situation
Elon is toxic and the cars are either exactly the same or worse than they’ve been for years. And then you have the bizarro cyber truck.
How? The board won't remove Elon. Tanking the stock price won't hurt him much (but it will hurt shareholders)
True, but the amount of people who are technically "overweight" due to high muscle mass are statistically insignificant. Even most professional athletes are in the normal BMI range; it's only a few sports or positions that rely on power where they tend to be heavier.
Downtown commercial real estate problems could be worse in 2024
> At those prices I'm not sure how they aren't selling more cars.

I cannot imagine paying $40K for a car, and I'm sure there are millions like me. You may be optimistic on what you think the average person can afford.
> allow for developer being shouted down or exploited much more easily

No is an answer. And blocking people should be a thing.

Personally I do not publish anything anymore which is not "non-commercial only" as a result of demands, you can do it yourself if you want to make money off it (or if you demand things for that matter). Fortunately my online stuff isn't used much but even then it's possible to get "requests".
Building a Compiler in 25 Days [video]
I am curious: if I pass a pdf file such as a research report or an open source text book, what will be the result. Does it create a knowledge graph? triples? Thanks in advance for comments.
I'm a recent first time buyer of a (used) EV and use the L1 120v charger that came with the vehicle. The daily commute use is low enough that it charges to full overnight.

Before I purchased I thought I'd need to pay for a L2 charger and hire an electrician to install a 240v circuit in the driveway. Turned it that I just needed a short 10ga extension cord from an existing 120v receptacle.

Our household have a second ICE for longer trips.

I live in a house though, not an apartment.
I like how this comment is clear, comprehensive, full of common sense,

AND very likely to be completely outdated within a few generations (5 years?) of robotics + AI progress.

I would also not discount how easy it is to sell people on additional cameras in their homes (including the bathroom) for the sake of convenience.
Came to say similar; Anyone else amazed when stories pop up that Yahoo is doing anything/still going?
I know it's based on just their large userbase/history and portfolio of services/acquisitions but still...

Was even surprised to hear Marissa Mayer was still kickin about recently (https://sunshine.com/introducing-shine/)
I went from assuming that a Tesla would be my next car to assuming that an EV that's not a Tesla will be my next car. All because of Musk.
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The technological gap is tightening, Tesla was alone before, the same way that Nvidia is "alone" for now.

Tesla still has some advance in terms of autopilot (in the US), but for all other things, it's an electric car with a great software but a rather low-quality hardware finish if to compare with other brands like Mercedes.
It's not an under-supply problem that supply chain or unions or demand would cause. It's an over-supply problem. Tesla made 46,000 more cars than it could sell.
Games in ye olde days were fun.
> Never understood why our industry seems unique in our willingness to do unpaid work for giant corps. Your compression library isn't saving the world, it's making it easier for amazon to save a few bucks.

The work was not being done "for giant corps"; it was being done for everyone, and giant corps just happen to be a part of "everyone", together with small corps, individual people, government, and so on.

> You have the right to be paid for your time. It's valuable.

When you think of free software contributions as "volunteer labor" instead of just a hobby, it makes more sense. Yes, my time is valuable; when I'm working on free software, I'm choosing to use this valuable time to contribute to the whole world, without asking for anything in return.
EVs will crawl out of their trough of disillusionment

it will take time though

in ten years there will be vastly more EVs than today

ICE is still on the way out
The part that I don't understand about 'fully modular' unikernels, is that you can build a linux kernel with exactly what features you want, but no one does that, so why would they do this?
My assumption would be that he knows the jig is up, and is probably going to do everything he can to jettison the JiaTan account, lest any IPs he uses be turned over to authorities.
captions would be nice (for those who don't brand recognise the logos)
Why does the title have a "'" that isn't in the document ("'10 > 64, in QR Codes" versus "10 > 64, in QR Codes")?
The article felt like a list of very predictable things that a hot shit young programmer who's steeped in the startup world's groupthink would have floating around in his head.

Here is IMHO a more real world take on the question (can you find a technical co-founder?).

* There are three problems in business. They are 1) Distribution (sales), 2) Product/Service (the thing being sold), and 3) Operations (broad but lets say e.g. Legal, Accounting, HR).

* In very small business (e.g. startups) the Ops is not a ton of work yet, so in practice we talk about having potentially two founders, one needs to deliver a product, one needs to deliver the distribution.

* If you can provably bring the distribution on day one you will have zero problems finding a technical co-founder. In fact you'll have so many options you probably won't need a co-founder, you can just hire someone on a nice package.

* If you can't provably bring the distribution you are borderline worthless. That's the nature of sales, it is an uncomplicated discipline. In sales you produce or you're out.

So the author of the post kind of addresses this when he asks why you as the non-technical founder don't have the money to just hire. That part's more or less right. The "biz" founder with distribution already lined up is more valuable than the technical founder. Yeah the tech founder is more valuable than the biz guy who can't produce.
Bitcoin was probably created by NVIDIA to give greater purpose to their graphics cards.
Isn’t Teslas whole schtick that they are dealer-free? Where is this? Is it a franchise?
It seems like Tesla should focus on updating the Model Y, which is by far their best-selling model, instead of the 3. The typical US consumer is not all that excited about sedans anyway.
Yeah. Ten years ago it was the cool, new brand. Now it's what you buy when you want to rep an insane drug addict transphobe's fall from grace.

I'm looking to buy a Hyundai later this year.
Number 1. is so important. I want to be able to build, to use the technical skills that I have, and not waste a ton of effort building something no one wants. I like coding but not enough to do it without solving anyone’s problems!

A CEO who knows a bunch of stuff I don’t know about the domain, who talks to users more than me, and who sits her ass down and researches the hell out of stuff to bring me back useful knowledge—I’m glad to have.
I've long conditionally supported Keto as a diet, but it stunts growth in children, and it causes atherosclerosis in most of the population on the diet as commonly practiced.

I see it as strictly a medical diet with the benefit of improved quality of life in some populations, not to be universally recommended.
Ask HN: Is a masters in ML worth it?
With all the new developments and AI startups, I have been considering going back to get a masters in ML/AI concentration. I have about 5 YOE in non ML software engineering but want to work for these cutting edge tech companies. Will a masters in ML give me an advantage when applying or is it not worth it?
Ask HN: What product do you see there's possibility to create?
Either because you work at a certain industry and you see something is missing or people complain about certain tasks/products that exist and are a burden

I’m part of a “pre-idea” venture scalable startup accelerator and I’m very keen to explore spaces people think there’s possibility for something to be built. Yes, I’m basically asking for free ideas
very few people outside the permanently online care about this
This seems to just re-enforce that he was an ideas man.

I've yet to hear a story where Jobs was the one who discovered the fix, only stories that he pointed out the things that needed to be fixed.

He's lauded as a visionary, not as an engineer. And all the stories about him are about him pushing others to realize his vision.

Edit: Lots of people seem to disagree with me, but then pointing out how he was an extremely skilled ideas man. Perhaps that term has too much negative connotation for Jobs' visions (ideas) to be associated with?
> will make things slower and flakier.

If running tests with different data makes them flaky, your system is bad.

Regardless of property based testing, I've seen too many systems where there were hundreds of unit tests and which wold fail for the most trivial reasons because the actual integration of those units was never tested properly.
Tesla's target consumer is not the sort of person who shares Musk's personal or political views. Add the facts that you can't even be sure what you're going to get when you buy one of their cars, that the company has constantly overpromised and underdelivered, interest rates are high, and there's simply more competition in the electric space... why buy a Tesla?

Aside from all of that, Musk's views on his expectations from employees alone would have been enough to turn me off from ever purchasing one of those cars.
> For Fukushima, it was a classic example of design failure (failsafes were supposed to work except they were badly designed, and there was too few of them), and no proper reaction to earlier warnings of the system in place being too weak. In a way, all the blame is clearly on TEPCO however we put it:

There's always at least two parties in a regulated environment like nuclear power. The government setting the baseline requirements and the operator adhering to them. I have not enough inside to say who to blame. On the other hand TEPCO is state owned, right, so maybe you should never set your own requirements when it comes to nuclear safety?
Or draw them all bent and straining under the load, implying that any one of them failing will cause a cascade that brings the house down.

(Though come to think of it, that would make the analogy less accurate, not more, by implying interdependency where there is none.)
The previous post: [Mechanical sympathy for QR codes: making NSW check-in better](https://huonw.github.io/blog/2021/10/nsw-covid-qr).
Guess you are looking for this - https://github.com/allenai/lumos/blob/main/README.md
Elon has always done that during the time Tesla was gaining popularity. It seems somewhere between pedo-diver and Twitter take over his public perception started taking a nose dive. I agree though I still want to see Tesla succeed.
There's multiple studies, but here is a summary of the Harvard study:

https://ncdalliance.org/es/news-events/news/red-meat-increas...

A diet high in red meat can shorten life expectancy, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School. The study of more than 120,000 people suggested red meat increased the risk of death from cancer and heart problems.

Substituting red meat with fish, chicken or nuts lowered the risks, the authors said. The British Heart Foundation said red meat could still be eaten as part of a balanced diet.

The researchers analysed data from 37,698 men between 1986 and 2008 and 83,644 women between 1980 and 2008.

They said that during the study period, adding an extra portion of unprocessed red meat to someone's daily diet would increase the risk of death by 13%, of fatal cardiovascular disease by 18% and of cancer mortality by 10%. The figures for processed meat were higher, 20% for overall mortality, 21% for death from heart problems and 16% for cancer mortality.

The study, published in Archives of Internal Medicine, said: "We found that a higher intake of red meat was associated with a significantly elevated risk of total, cardiovascular disease, and cancer mortality.

More at the national cancer institute:

https://progressreport.cancer.gov/prevention/red_meat
You're not buying quality when you buy Tesla, you're buying fashion. if you want quality buy a Toyota/Lexus.
We priced our AI SaaS product
I'd be curious if the median price is a bit lower, but perhaps we're finding that that average price is not sustainable?
In this context, do you consider "even though the government is wrong a lot, sometimes they're right about important things" more informative than misinformative?
Absolutely right. Considering there is a whole cottage industry about asshole replies from Linus Torvalds on linux mailing lists.

For lesser/individual maintainers there is no way to survive this kind of mob attack. Corporate maintainers may be able to manage as it could be considered just as paid job and there are worse ways to make money.
> Interest rates and vehicle prices too high, must come down

I'm still a bit surprised how many people, even professionals in the lending space, hold this view that "interest rates must fall!"

We're still relatively low for federal interest rate[0]. Near zero interest rates are not sustainable long term and have lead to a tremendous asset bubble we're still just figuring out the consequences of.

It's a bit frightening that the only solution most companies have to improving their future out look boils down to "wait for rates to drop".

I suspect even if rates do drop again, it will be only for a brief while before it becomes clear that "print free money!" is not a long term viable economic strategy.

0. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS