skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point the author is trying to make is that those are indeed not the right traits to judge an engineer by.
We've reverted it now. (Submitted title was "Transformer Implemented Using Excel")
We do have some ISA browns which are 2-3 years old, but no lash eggs yet – they all seem pretty happy – I guess it just depends.

That said, I'm not that emotionally attached to them – I like them, care for them, but if I thought they were seriously sick I would put them down. We're all different :-)
A law like that would probably be unconstitutional if it applied broadly to speech in general. Compare United States v. Alvarez, where the Supreme Court held that the First Amendment gives you the right to lie about having received military medals.

It might work in more limited contexts, like commercial speech.
Apple II had primitive graphics and sound, but was incredibly successful.

Atari 800 featured powerful video processing with display lists and sprites, 4-channel audio, etc., but was much less successful.

As I understand it, Radio Shack did not encourage third-party software and support for its systems, not realizing that it was the key to success.

OS-9, originally a 6809 OS, seems to have survived for quite some time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9
That's one aspect of COMINT. I use this term because NSA's charter, such that it exists, uses this term.
Seconding the sibling comment re: Kotlin. I haven't worked much with it personally, but I've heard from plenty of people that it strikes a good balance between Java being... Java and Scala's floundering.

Rust also checks your feature boxes, but staying in the JVM-verse is almost certainly the safer bet unless you end up really needing fast native binaries that aren't a chore to code.
Platform Economics is very different from how firms worked in the past. People are still waking up to it.

Their signature feature is they are able to squeeze both the buyer and the seller. To whatever extent they want. Thats the key point. No one else has a say.

It only works once you become large enough where both buyer and seller have no other great options. At that stage, you basically control what in traditional economics is called the money supply (ie who owns the printers and decisions on how much will be printed).

Just like large enough Banks historically could exploit both the depositor and borrower. Until they all got regulated after causing never ending chaos.

So the goal becomes - be the largest.

And to be the largest you have to kill competition. To kill competition you have to control the price(undercut every one - make things free), control labor pool (jack up salaries/perks of the best), govts policy (lobbying budget), influence what customers want (marketing spend/bid out the competition in ad auctions etc).

The capex is all about signalling to everyone we are ready to grab land on this new continent. Join our army or get fucked.
If we were facing an existential warming crisis I would agree. But since we’re facing a warming crisis that is severe but not existential, I’m not sure. It seems plausible that the damage done by Elon in supporting trump outweighs the benefits we get from his contribution to a cleaner transportation story.
Your statement seems to assume that Teslas are the only EVs available for people to buy
There are some people who can make that choice, and that's preferable. But not everyone can do that. And to leave a single EV unused, just because we hate a single man, is unconscionable for anyone who believes the world actually hangs in the balance.
I think it does. The wording proposed is:

> It shall be unlawful for any person to use a bot to communicate or interact with another person in California online. A person using a bot shall not be liable under this section if the person discloses that it is a bot. A person using a bot shall disclose that it is a bot if asked or prompted by another person.

(see https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB410/2025 for definitions and source)

email, sales outreach and LinkedIn messages are all communications or interactions.
In short, tesla is not viewed as favorably as other car companies. And in the end, what they offer isn’t much differentiated from competitors that offer similar products.
> No, most of the atrocities were done to eliminate political threats by targeting everyone who had a semblance of power

And what power did most of these professors have if not their minds? This does not go against my assertion, it sounds like a "no" just to say "no"

Read what it was actually like:

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001275005.pdf
Democrats either already own EV's or will buy EV's anyway. The open question is does EV adoption go up among Republicans. I think it will, though I don't know to what extent.

In general, I find surveys or self-reported data to be poor predictors of behavior.
mr musk has been instrumental in preventing this option from developing unfortuantely. his "hyperloop" and "boring company" are ploys to distract people and delay the development of high speed rail
The funding one was halted by a federal judge saying it was blatantly unconstitutional. That counts as illegal IMHO.

That's the only one I'm aware of at this time, but there's in the high 10's of lawsuits in progress, so there's time for others to be found similarly.

I suspect the Christian only faith department would also count as illegal eventually.
The US has a progressive income taxation so they've counterbalanced that through taxing the balance ultimately via inflation,which is regressive against the cash based poor.
Surprising to see Toyota rate most favorably here. Unless you count hybrids, Toyota only sells 1 EV (the bZ4X) which has poor range and slow charging.

Just goes to show the power of branding.
> won't let petty grievances get in the way

Lol if these are "petty" grievances I can't imagine what legitimate grievances look like.
How about simulating water, then sending bombs into it?

That's Creeper World for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCyPT2e95zY&t=420s
Got it. That makes sense but it’d never occurred to me to think about it before. I guess you could use an array N items long, with 4 values (x1,y1,x2,y2) in each element, and just keep a pointer to the oldest entry, incrementing it each time.
As others have pointed out, you could buy a different EV. The market appears to have many options.

But also, I simply don't buy the environmental argument here. I'm pretty sure buying a used Toyota Camry and driving it into the ground is better, on net, for the planet than buying a brand new EV.
Can you expand?

I keep hearing on HN about how the US is being "taken over", that there is a "coup in place" and Musk is a "fascist" and so on (I'm not making these up, these are genuine HN comments in this thread and elsewhere).

I'd like someone to clearly explain to me, an outsider about why such hostility has been ushered in this community ? Please point me to specifics so that I can understand what law(s) are being broken? Why are we seeing blog posts like this "listing names".. like it's September 1, 1939 ?

I've been a member of HN for many years and have never seen this level of panic bubbling up, I've been trying to follow it but it's hard to follow a balanced discussion when I see half the comments downvoted and only one sided conversations are happening, which is quite upsetting for me, since one of the reasons I cherish this community, is because of its ability to provide nuanced discussions.

So if I may, I'd invite you (and others) to please engage in thoughtful discourse, so that I can genuinely be informed and make my own conclusions on the matter.
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Electric cars are useless if the power is still generated by oil, coal and gas.

So helping the guy who supports a climate change denier will make things worse.
How can Toyota even be on this list when they only sell one, terrible, hilariously overpriced electric car, and have stated numerous times they don't want anything to do with EVs?

It's very disappointing. I loved my Prius and would have loved a good Toyota EV. I've even driven their hydrogen car and it's not bad. But they insist on doing a Blockbuster\Nokia\Blackberry\Kodak and we can't stop them.
Well parrots can make more parrots, LLMs can't make their own GPUs. So parrots win, but LLMs can interpolate and even extrapolate a little, have you ever heard a parrot do translation, hearing you say something in English and translating it to Spanish? Yes, LLMs are not parrots. Besides their debatable abilities, they work with human in the loop, which means humans push them outside their original distribution. That's not a parroting act, being able to do more than pattern matching and reproduction.
Please don't cross into personal attack and please don't post in the flamewar style, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We're trying for the opposite here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
well, probably I should indicate it more clearly in the title
That's a completely voluntary marketing decision.

There's no law requiring manufacturers to identify hand made versus machine made, and often, there aren't even clear definitions for what hand made means.
> (Same with Fedora)

??

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/reproducible-builds/

https://pagure.io/fedora-reproducible-builds/project/issues

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/41/ChangeSet#Reprodu...
Incorrect. They 10M requirement is part of the definition of an "online platform" [1], which is only mentioned in the existing statue as them NOT having an obligation [2] and is not mentioned at all in the proposed law [3] other than a formatting fix.

[1] https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-bpc/division-7/...

[2] https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-bpc/division-7/...

[3] https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB410/2025
You do know there are other EV manufacturers, right? Tesla can go bankrupt today, and supply will not be all that worse.
I’m certain there was a good reason for that. Woz was an engineer’s engineer. But wow, I can’t imagine what it would’ve been.
All grievances are petty compared to the destruction of our world.
No, the checks and balances are defined as simply different people, not different parties.

The Democratic and Republican parties are not monolithic. They don't always agree and there are plenty of differences across individuals.

Hence, the Founding Fathers never required that a different party sit in the executive and legislative functions.
Not existential to whom?

Lets asks the people of Tuvalu.
Still going strong with the Asian tech crowd, from what I see in the Bellevue (Seattle) area. We don’t care about politics (or we actually like Elon), and we don’t have many white friends that shame us about our cars. We just want dependable cars that have minimal maintenance. There aren’t that many of us though and we tend to keep our cars for a very long time.
Anna’s Archive shared many Chinese companies paid handsome money to get its data.

Did Meta pay for get these archive too? If not, that will be quite funny as they are just so stingy; if they did pay Anna, I wonder if Anna can reach a deal with Authors Guild to exchange the proof for the release of Z-Lib operators.
Because hybrids are the best EV’s and Toyota makes the best hubrids.
They're going to rewrite it in Nodejs and React aren't they?
Nothing to apologize for! Especially if you had only seen the quote, it's an entirely reasonable inference. And I am frankly embarrassed about how much mores in tech have shifted since 2011 -- and what would have been inferred as obvious decrying then is much less obvious now!
Or squeezing an extra 100K miles out of a vehicle that was headed for the scrapper.
According to the mice who first commissioned the Earth, the question is:

"How many roads must a man walk down?"
this is like the opposite of clojure right? lol amazing
Rivian R2 is going to change the game. It's a direct competitor to the best selling Tesla (Y). I have an R1S (as well as a Y) but R1S is such an amazing SUV to drive. Especially in the bad weather.
If you want a dependable car, why would you buy a Tesla? They consistently score bottom of the pack for reliability and repair times.
How else do you get attention? Quiet competence doesn’t work.
The Z-code images are up on IFDB: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=4h62dvooeg9ajtfa

You can click the "play online" link or download the image and play locally with an interpreter like frotz.
Why does this one man, then, work for a government bent on ignoring science and denying climate change? I'm just laughing at the idea that the grievances are "petty" when the guy is leading a fascist coup right now.
Democracy is 'good' mainly because it represents a vote of who would win a violent fight, and anticipating that, we can bypass all that and just defer to the victors without bloodshed. As means of violence becomes less equal amongst those granted suffrage, though, democracy becomes less stable as there is no longer clear visibility as to why the losers must defer.

If we weren't easily slaughtered meat sacks, I'd say democracy rather sucks.
I don't agree that it's unconscionable. To me, supporting a man like Musk who actively promote climate change denial is the worse option.
I love the tech. I hate that it gets used to fill YouTube with zero-effort slop. I don't have a solution.
I'd assume it's people who haven't done any research yet -- they said they want an EV, and then they got asked "do you like the idea of buying an EV from Brand X?". It's a pure gut feeling about the brand.
"Guys, do you think we'll get away it?"
If you'd said less beneficial I could agree. Since batteries can soak surplus power and make it available at other times there is a substantial social utility to ev as energy soaks irrespective of the source.

The "less efficient because coal" thing is massively overstated sometimes, it's tendentious.
When I was reading the doc, it was not clear initially how can a device with Soft-CPU implemented on FPGA can be secure? Surely someone can replace CPU implementation with the one with full debug capabilities, and then use that to decrypt stored secrets?

Turns out, there is no such thing as "stored secrets", and the device has no non-volatile memory at all, other than FPGA configuration (NVCM). The only secret is UDS, 256 random bits that are baked into FPGA configuration stream, and they are protected by FPGA's read-out protection. The mechanism that is normally used to prevent device duplication is instead used to protect cryptographic secrets. Replacing bitstream is all-or-nothing affair, so a hypothetical "CPU with debug capabilities" will not have access to UDS.

This means all storage must be on PC and some classes of things are are absolutely impossible - for example an anti-bruteforce counter that clears secrets if too many wrong attempts are entered.
https://www.conference-board.org/publications/Productivity-A...

>Among major economies and regions, the United States has the highest rate of production of goods and services per hour worked, with only a few small European economies outperforming it. Productivity rates in most parts of the world are well below the US’. Indeed, according to research conducted by The Conference Board, nearly 75% of the global population lives in economies where productivity rates are below the global average of US$21.6 per hour worked.

Of course, it may be reasonable to suspect that at least some of these productivity gaps are a result of different sectors which are served, ie manufacturing vs. services.

https://jacobin.com/2020/02/american-factory-julia-reichert-...

>A day before she quoted Marx at the Oscars, Jacobin briefly chatted with American Factory co-director Julia Reichert about her democratic socialism and long history on the Left.

>At Saturday’s Film Independent Spirit Awards ceremony Julia Reichert mentioned “income inequality” during her best documentary acceptance speech for American Factory. The first film released by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions, American Factory is about a Chinese capitalist who reopens a closed plant in Ohio, employing thousands of American workers.

https://www.imdb.com/review/rw5946906/

>The only effective means of worker power is through unionizing, and both Chinese and American executives resist it mightily, using pages from the exact same playbook, like targeting leaders and paying for propaganda campaigns. In a sense, the American executives going overseas was like finding a pool of scabs to cross the picket line. As one of the state congressmen observes in speaking to the workers, corporate profitability and treating workers respectfully via a living wage are not incompatible things, and it's shameful that they're treated that way out of unfettered greed in extreme capitalism. (Hmm, if only there was an international labor organization, lol)

>>The issues are in regulatory compliance, demands from politicians and unions. As soon as a major project is announced, the demands start flowing in.

Without getting into the weeds of the documentary's agenda or methods of argumentation - it isn't hard to see that the same methods employed on the mainland with low productivity per worker, will not magically produce different results in the US. Higher productivity, along with higher wages may require automating much of the production process. This may be more capital intensive up-front.
To me it reads as, "For those people looking to buy an EV, they have a favorable impression of the Toyota brand", i.e., they wish Toyota made a good EV but they'll probably end up with a Prius !
Look up the history of Le Corbusiers’s housing developments. Huge gap between theoretically awesome and how they were used in practice.
Small companies don't have to implement the ability to stop marketing or political texts if the customer replies STOP. Twilio, Amazon SNS, and other companies further down the stack do it automatically.

I assume foundational models will include it in all text they emit somehow.

Just how Zoom tells everyone "recording in progress" as soon as you press the record button, to ensure compliance. Or indeed Apple's newish call recording feature.
His Executive Order blocking birthright citzenship was blocked. And that is batshit insane - literally thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) would suddenly be affected by that EO.

And DOGE. You know they are going in and changing safety systems at the FAA, right? Insane.
Rivians are so ugly.
The problem with that logic is that its clear now that Tesla is run by someone who is has directly said that we can wait 50-100 years to set up a sustainable energy economy, and is currently working against federal scientific bodies.

Combined with the fact that there are many EV's on the market of similar quality, it is clear you do not need to purchase from Tesla.

So you can avoid enriching someone who is in direct opposition to climate action while also making your own move to EVs. You can have your cake and eat it too.

I also take issue with "petty grievance". I do not know and will never meet Musk, there is no personal feud here.

I simply do not believe he is doing good things for the world, and the quality of the product offered does not force my hand in any way, so I will simply choose to take my money elsewhere. No petty grievance involved.
Right. I think the environmental argument for EVs rings pretty hollow until we've exhausted the world's extremely large supply of used cars (and built commuter rail just about everywhere even marginally economical; the US circa 1920 would be a good reference point).
Related:

Easy 6502 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31548311 - May 2022 (28 comments)

Easy 6502 – How to get started writing 6502 assembly language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13324978 - Jan 2017 (84 comments)

Easy 6502 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9761213 - June 2015 (9 comments)

Easy 6502 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6345730 - Sept 2013 (28 comments)

Easy 6502 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5180937 - Feb 2013 (59 comments)

Easy 6502 - Learn the 6502 Assembly Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4213806 - July 2012 (78 comments)
Tesla’s drivetrain and battery longevity is unmatched compared to legacy auto, but non powertrain reliability issues and repair times are legitimate points.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Model-Y-Juniper-expected-to-la...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Fast-charged-Model-S-battery-g...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-024-01698-1
> this stuff isn't making a qualitative leap into emergent anything.

The magical missing ingredient here is search. AlphaZero used search to surpass humans, and the whole Alpha family from DeepMind is surprisingly strong, but narrowly targeted. The AlphaProof model uses LLMs and LEAN to solve hard math problems. The same problem solving CoT data is being used by current reasoning models and they have much better results. The missing piece was search.
A better primer: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy...
They lowered the threshold from 60% pass rate to 95% but then highly prioritized hiring the people who scored at the same 60% pass rate level (88% of offers from that level).
I own an EV and it is not a Tesla. I would never buy or rent a Tesla again based only on Musk's prominence in the company and use of the Nazi salute and support of Nazi affiliated nationalist political parties in Europe.

Musk's support for a president that has halted renewable grants, halted permitting for renewable projects on private land and plans to roll back emissions standards, increase coal mining and use, and generally everything in https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/unle... makes a Tesla a complete non-starter for anyone that cares about climate change now.
I get that you’re trying to contribute to the conversation, but you do realize that what you’re saying sounds racist?

In addition, this is a diversion from the elephant in the room, which is that right after some dramatic executive action, many people died within a short amount of time due to a crash that had nothing to do with race and everything to do with chaotic governance.
This should be open source -- architecture, training data, and model. Whatever it is musk has been doing the last week, it sure hasn't been transparent.
There are other EVs on the market. Much more reliable ones too. I’m actually amazed they’ve managed to pull off being the least reliable used car, given that the “competitors” have a lot more moving parts:

https://en.cebia.com/detailArticle/the-most-and-least-reliab...
Seems closer to "truly learning addition" (whatever that means) than what humans do. We use a mechanical algorithm to carry the 1 etc.
> Democrats [...] will buy EV's anyway

Tesla competitors. Giving fuel to the broader market, decreasing Tesla's market share, and calling into question the bull case for Tesla's highly inflated P/E ratio.
Your contention is that Asimov considered the 3 laws as good and effective ways to protect humanity?
FWIW, when you submit an article, you can now also immediately comment on it; that's what the text field is for. (But no need, I think, to copy & paste the first two paragraphs from the article.)