skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoa if still true, that's insanity. All of the ways this company is ran make DOGE a scary proposal... Considering we are essentially both the Tesla customer and the car, if DOGE is Tesla...
I was out to dinner with a table of normies, my wife's friends, last year. Ten people, I asked who pays monthly for iCloud, nine hands go up.

It easy to see why. When you first open your new iPhone it backs up to iCloud, you get 5GB free and the first backup takes ~4.5GB. Now it will remind you endlessly that your iCloud is nearly full. It's only £0.99 a month to make them shut up...
The trend to overgeneralize is the same problem as 'global mutable state considered harmful' ;)

In a well designed code base, only a very small part of the code should need to worry about concurrency and parallelism.
Turkenheimer: https://web.archive.org/web/20191231135901/http://pdfs.seman...

> Results demonstrate that the proportions of IQ variance attributable to genes and environment vary nonlinearly with SES. The models suggest that in impoverished families, 60% of the variance in IQ is accounted for by the shared environment, and the contribution of genes is close to zero; in affluent families, the result is almost exactly the reverse.

[....]

> In the low-SES group, the intraclass correlation was .63 for DZ twins and .68 for MZ twins, consistent with h2 of .10 and c2 of .58; for the high-SES group, the DZ twin correlation was .51 and the MZ twin correlation was .87, consistent
with h2 of .72 and c2 of .15.

[...]

> In the fractious history of scientific investigations of the heritability of intelligence, the effects of poverty, and the relations between them, there has been only one contention with which everyone could agree: Additive models of linear and independent contributions of genes and environment to variation in intelligence cannot do justice to the complexity of the development of intelligence in children. Only recently have statistical models and computational capacity advanced to the point that less simplistic models can actually be fit. Although there is much that remains to be understood, our study and the ones that have preceded it have begun to converge on the hypothesis that the developmental forces at work in poor environments are qualitatively different from those at work in adequate ones. Clarification of the nature of these differences promises to be a fascinating, and hopefully unifying, subject for future investigation.
I disagree with that. I really like the Android infotainment system because 1) voice control actually works and 2) built in Google maps is all I want in a car and they work very well.

As far as I can tell the issues they have had is with their poor software engineering team and picking extremely mediocre hardware that is too slow to run it.
The fact that they already special-cased the parser to let you know that you used the wrong help option, but didn't just forward to the right one, is just incredibly pedantic
You will have to check for the different GPUs you are targetting. But GPU vendors don't start from scratch for each hardware generation so you will often see similar results.
You mean like the 10% tarrifs on US cars the European Union has had for ages?
Also, sounds like a short somewhere. Which would explain the other symptoms.
So a proprietary program with a lot of knobs and configuration files is kind of opensource?
I drive a 3yo Corolla. While it does have the touch screen, it also has physical buttons both on the steering wheel and on the panel.

Well, the volume knob for the car audio, while physical, is actually digital so it's uncomfortably laggy.

I only use the touch screen to interact with the navigation (it integrates with Android via USB).
FSRS is so cargo-culted. It's just an algorithm, claiming that any algorithm can't be improved is ridiculous.
How is it related to having a car that basically doesn't work? When you buy something, you expect this thing to work, then, maybe in a few years, you will need to go to a dealership.
Agreed. My mum learned basic Fortran at university in the early 1970s, before Ada existed. (It was done on punch cards, and they had to wait a day or so to find out if their programs worked!)
It could be a language thing if he's Slovak - in Polish the entire country is called "Holandia" even though Holland is only a small part of it.
I test drove a Lexus NX350h and RX350h not too long ago, and modern Lexus cars also have an issue of taking fancy tech too far:

- By far the worst part of the current Lexus design is the steering wheel controls. Instead of physical buttons dedicated to one function, you get two four-way touchpads on the steering wheel. They don't have a fixed function since they can be customized and have two "pages" each - you have to look at the HUD to see what function they're mapped to. Even if you know what they're mapped to ahead of time, you still have to touch the controls to "wake" them up on the HUD and can't simply just click the button. It's a complete hassle if you want to skip a song or adjust cruise control speed.

- The climate controls are almost entirely touchscreen based. The temperature controls have a knob but they're quite mushy and don't have well defined steps.

- The doors are no longer physically controlled inside or outside, but instead are electronically controlled with buttons since this is linked to safety sensors to prevent someone from opening a door in front of a car. I honestly think the door controls are fine, but this is something that pretty much every review complains about.

On the other hand, regular new Toyota models don't have the above issues. Camry, Crown, etc. all have physical steering wheel buttons and climate controls.
Correction: You think that is useful. There are also people supporting Musk, should they add their statement to all of their posts? Is it really relevant? Don't you think people can't think for themselves?

I follow the news, I'm pretty capable of deciding if I want a Tesla or not, people adding to all their posts that I should not doesn't change anything other then make me annoyed. Perhaps some like it, probably when it echoes their strong believes? So it's that? You signal you are one of those people? Well great for you! Now let's get back to discussing the article.
Personally I draw the line somewhere before not funding someone who does nazi salutes. But you do you.
Knowing Tesla’s reputation for unreliable products and poor customer service how did you nazi this coming?
When your car is half SaaS, the experience of two years ago has little to say on the current experience.
I would say most of the examples in TFA are deployment diagrams, not (software) component diagrams. For all the flaws of UML, at least it taught us to be quite specific in which aspect of the system we are currently modelling.
Despots and tyrants are very unpredictable when things don't go their way, but lucky for the rest of the world, the UK is a has been state in full collapse, so whatever tantrum that Starmer will throw at a result will mostly be limited in impact to his own already severely opressed population.
He was born nearish to Naples in the Kingdom of Sicily, a kingdom created by the Normans. Really hard to guess.
> who buys a car brand in a country that doesn't even have a dealership?

I too have bought a TM3 in Slovakia. The closest Tesla service center to Bratislava is 50 kilometers away, in Vienna.

What's the problem with not having a branch here as well?
Write to your representative to sanction the UK.
At my engineering school they taught Ada. I never had the opportunity to learn Ada because they switched to Java a decade before I started.
I agree with the sentiment that they are really terrible cars in general, but they seem to have cracked the EV efficiency riddle, almost no one else can come close to their miles/kWh numbers in real life usage. I don't know how they do it, but it's just consistently at the top of the league among EVs.
I find the article falls in its own pitfall of justifying every section with "it's hard / misleading for a new joiner / beginner".

I almost never do architecture diagrams for new joiners or beginners, I do them for the other experts of my team, and they perfectly understand that subscriptions go in the Subscription table in DDB because they've all worked on this system.

A lot of those points go against probably the most important point "Too many overlapping concerns".

The point of a diagram is to get a point across, and I don't believe there's any universal rule that will make this easier, because there's no universal audience.
maybe few different reasons
* sometimes people use it as notebook - just to put their thought on "paper"
* "nobody reads" sometimes depends on the subject - some subjects are specific and the audience is limited
* it is good to "document" your thought event to yourself - you can reed them in years and see what was your point of view back then.
* ....
Oh! It's about Pattern Types!

I want Pattern Types for an entirely selfish reason, I want to write BalancedI8 and similar types -- as user defined types, but in stable Rust and have them Just Work™.

BalancedI8 is similar to i8 (an 8-bit signed integer) and to NonZeroI8 (the same type but, with a niche where zero should be), instead of removing zero, which we often have a use for, lets remove the annoying most negative value i8::MIN

Why "BalancedI8"? Because now that we've removed this most negative number (to provide a niche) the remaining value is symmetrical, it goes from -127 to +127

Now, I profess that I want these types but I clearly don't want them enough to do very much about it, so that's not great.
> from any user anywhere in the world

Is that even legal? At the very least, doesn't it break some EU privacy laws?
see also https://neuralink-challenge.org
Non-Chinese iCloud accounts seem to work fine in China without a VPN. (A VPN is needed for Google's services, though.)
I would read that as "I'm specifically excluding talking points and discussion on ethics in this subject and focusing solely on the talking point at hand"

That doesn't generally mean they have an ethical take, just that they recognise such things might exist and they specifically don't want to get in to it.

Is that not what you want ?

> And in come the downvotes, for speaking up against divisiveness. Doesn't that make you feel.. something?

I'd assume it was because you were claiming divisiveness when the cause of such divisiveness was specifically excluded.
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s...

The Tesla Model 3 is now the second most reliable new electric vehicle you can buy. Only the new-for-2022 Kia EV6 is more trouble-free, but we don’t know whether it will match the proven record of the Model 3 as it ages. Data from over a thousand Tesla Model 3 owners tell us that every model year going back to 2018 has either average or better reliability.
And most cars for their European market are actually made in Sweden. I mean, obviously you're correct, but I don't see the distinction as very helpful - no one is penalizing Land Rover cars for "being Indian" since they are owned by Tata either.
I'd take the bottom picture any day. Is that the newer or older one? Although the LED strips are stupid.

The top pic I saw in the showroom and I really didn't like it.
In the meantime, the self declared founder (who is not), genius (who is not), self-made man (who is not) is busy playing video games, sharing random crap on Xitter, and trying to break a goverment he was not elected to run in a country where he is a foreign alien.

Shareholders must be thrilled!
Perhaps that's not reasonable to expect, but Meta apparently kind of did it anyway, if not in a way that helps reproduce their LLM: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-o...
Was just going to suggest it was a P8: T8 was the hybrid system used on 60/90 series.
Data says otherwise:
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s...
Imagine how much your customers have to hate you to do this.
I blog about really niche local history. I enjoy it because it acts as external motivation for my hobby. The idea that someone could read it makes me research thoroughly and write as well as I can. I don't mind if nobody reads it. I get a few hits but I assume that's people training LLMs.
Let's remove Musk from the equation, because you can like or (most probably) hate him, but I own a Tesla and I have the opposite experience. Everything worked out of the box. Just one piece of hardware started to fail (the charger plug making some noise) and they changed it in warranty.

First: has the author tried a tesla before buying one? I'd never buy a car without trying it. Because comparing it to a Clio just because the Clio worked, well, seems a bit off. a Clio is a car, a fully functional Tesla is a gian iPad with wheels. There's a huge difference.

Second: when you buy a car, do you ask yourself, how will I fix it in case anything goes wrong? Buying a car in a country where there's no service is a huge no-no.

Third: No doubt that a car with all these defects _must_ be changed, or fixed immediately at no cost of transportation, or offered a compensation to get it back. I think the owner should _also_ contact a lawyer and try to get a refund. I'd not accept this kind of treatment.
Yeah, I would have sued. Pretty sure they'd listen to a lawyer's letter.
Did the 12 hour drive mean an overnight stay?

Buying a car in London I check there is a dealer within a 12 minute drive!
right, i think my limit would be a 40 minute drive to the nearest SC
A model 3 battery is at least 57.5kWh. That's 4.6kWh a day when idle, or a constant draw of 200W.

That's a lot of power, and a lot of money.
Apologies for my ignorance, but which other modern cars fail to run the wipers when the cameras don't work? And which other car manufacturers instruct their customers to drive without the car's safety features such as ABS working? That's also something I've not heard of but I'd like to.
Probably the fact that he's not Dutch, doesn't live in the Netherlands, and while yes you are 100% correct that the law is on his side and should be able to just return it for a full refund, it might be a task so daunting for someone who is from a different country that he just doesn't want to attempt it.\

EDIT: oh wait, he did do that actually:

>> On January 5, 2025 I called Tesla Netherlands Sales Department to request the return of the vehicle and a refund of my money.

Sounds like he should contact a dutch lawyer to send them an official letter informing that he's returning the goods as unfit to use.
I'd be more worried that you already know how an engine malfunction alert sounds like!
i saw a good thread today: https://x.com/0xmetaschool/status/1888873661840634111
Tesla Center Vienna is a 70 km drive from Bratislava.
Side effects will be masked, the GPU is still executing exactly the same code for the entire workgroup.
I've lived in Japan for the past 10 years, where I didn't own a car the entire time. A year ago I moved to a place where a car is more or less needed. I bought a used 2015 kei car for around $2800 cash. It's awesome.

There are zero screens, touch or not (not counting the instrument displays). Everything is operated with the old buttons and dials, though the windows are electrically operated. It has a 3.5mm stereo input and a USB port (which supports USB audio). I haven't measured exactly but its fuel efficiency is fantastic, probably 70 mpg or more.

It has very common parts and can be serviced basically anywhere in the country. I see tons of the same car on the road everywhere.

Downsides of course are the engine is fairly weak, and it's not as safe in an accident compared to bigger cars. But if you're driving in a country where everyone else is driving small cars, that's less of a concern.

I don't know what the point of writing all that was, but I'm just glad to not be in the same car situation as the OP. It doesn't have to be that way!
likewise a counter tariff from another country will not affect tesla as global stocks are prob from china
But the Belgians are French, especially Poirot.
It's something that's used, but I'd make the case it was never proper. The time component is right there!
I bought a model Y in ‘22. I had some initial problems like a creaky back seat and the floor popping like a jam lid, but after a few service visits those were resolved and since it has been very reliable and even gained nice new features like matrix headlights which avoid oncoming vehicles. It’s a great car to drive.

However, when it received the holiday update with Apple Watch support, and I paired my watch, it started losing several % charge every day. I contacted service who told me to reset my password, which effectively disconnects all connected devices from your account. That solved it. Then I paired my watch again, same problem.

In the next update, Tesla fixed it. And in the next update, it automatically paired your watch without asking. Brave/risky of them, given the previous issues.

My biggest concern for this car now, other than getting abuse for owning a Tesla or the brakes rusting up [1], is Tesla releasing a software update that breaks something, possibly dangerously. With Musk’s recent behaviour I wouldn’t be surprised if talented engineers are leaving or considering it, perhaps excluding Musk’s favoured h1b employees…

[1] https://www.carscoops.com/2024/11/tesla-model-3-comes-bottom...
Could it be that you just need a mobilizon (https://joinmobilizon.org/) instance?
"First language" is generally taken as a term of art in this sector. It is the first language we're teaching students who we expect to learn other languages as well, so emphasis on "first" here unlike for say a "taster" course in another discipline where you're learning only say, Python, with no expectation you will ever learn other languages.

Edited to expand: For a First Language you can choose to pick a language that you don't expect your students will actually end up using, for pedagogic reasons, just as we might spend time proving fundamental things in Mathematics even though those are already proved and you'll never do that "in real life" after studying, a language which has good properties for learning about programming is not necessarily also the right language to actually write yet another web site, database front end, AI chat bot and video streaming service.

I've spent considerable time thinking about this and I believe Oxford and Cambridge were right to choose an ML as First Language. The MLs have desirable properties for teaching, even if you expect your students to end up writing Python or C++ after they graduate. I am entirely certain that my exposure to an ML at University made it much easier to pick up Rust than it was for people whose nearest previous languages were C and C++
Also, Luther was born ~250 years after Thomas Aquinas, so this could have already become legend.
Maybe that was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whooping_cough ?
Again an opinion, Musk said it was not a Nazi salute, he didn't repeat it, he has many Jewish supporters also saying it wasn't. Just stop, please, I'm really about to give up on the comment sections here.
Wow, first time I heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbicidal_warfare / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ranch_Hand

Strangely, there's a dearth of links between that and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiz_Kids_(Department_of_Defen... / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara
I think there are lots of sort of tuned out but generally nice people who might shy away from buying a tesla if the perfidity of Musk is mentioned whenever tesla is discussed.

The people who like Musk are probably beyond help
Also includes an implicit jab at Germans using cash - where one on the regression in safety and social standards, and the partial collapse of the rule of law with big number of thriving explosives-using thugs and gangs roaming around should have been made instead...
General purpose computers and touchscreens are much cheaper than analog counterparts today.

Getting the software right is hard (and thus expensive), which is what traditional physical product companies have a hard time figuring out.
Yes, the request itself is required to be kept secret in a similar way to National Security Letters (NSL) in the US (when used under the Patriot Act disclosure provisions).
> Nothing prevents you from writing Ada code that dereferences an access type after it's been freed; However any access dereference triggers a runtime check to ensure it's non-null. Unlike in C, freeing an access type in Ada automatically sets its value to null, and any subsequent attempt to dereference it will raise a Constraint_Error exception, which can be caught and handled.

> Ada has its own nomenclature for multithreading: Tasks, and provides its own built-in mechanism for preventing data races between them. Ada's Protected Objects encapsulate data inside an implicit mutex, allowing only one thread access at a time via a public interface.

I believe ADA doesn’t have a guarantee that you are accessing data thread safely. And that lack of guarantee is where use-after-free and double-free can hide. Heck, you don’t even need any threading.

1. Create an alias

2. Free the original value

3. Access the alias

If I read it correctly, the variable holding the original value is reset to null after a free but the alias can still access freed memory.

TLDR: Rust has almost no competitors when it comes to the very robust safety guarantees it makes and none when you combine with the performance niche it services.
There are some real problems with this way of doing this.

First, if you go to any department and find N different leaders/managers/etc. and ask them to pick what projects to cut...you'll get a whole range of different answers. There's a lot of bias involved, and a lot of internal politics going on. There's always internal fights for the resources.

Second, if these kids are actually executing orders - meaning that they'll have the authority to do recommendations (based on their interviews with the people mentioned above), how would they even know if the recommendations are sound? It can take years for managers to become knowledgeable enough with the ongoing project and products.

If you were DOGE, and wanted to "game" this process, you could really just: Identify the most critical voices in some organization, preferably those on the way out, and ignore the rest. Then you give these 18-year olds the mandate to recommend cuts based on those talks. And tell them that the ones that can cut most "fat" wins.
Consumer protection laws. Almost every company has known issues with it. But consumers should have boundaries for what's acceptable and what crosses the line. And those boundaries are set by consumer protection laws.

If every wronged customer can sue the seller due to a clear breach of the law, then the seller/manufacturer quickly falls in line and stops being a nuisance to society.
When a girl does that, she is seen as irresponsible and stupid.
And also how searchable it is. The great thing with blogs for me is that I can relatively quickly skip to the part where the information is that I want, because usually I don't need all of it.
Sure, but a screen, even a touchscreen, is not mutually exclusive with buttons. My Toyota has both, and after setting up the navigation, I can go the whole way and do everything without touching the screen.
I liked and used global variables, then I grew up and never used them, then I got more experienced and started to use them again in places where it makes sense ;) (same with goto btw)