skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Wall Street tech its pretty common to see someone with a string of 2 year leadership stints that is basically the above.

Promise the world, hire, build, fail to deliver, move on.
That seems like a very general statement that ... is so generic it doesn't really mean anything.
I think it's extremely unlikely that this team, led by a U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, just messed up something obvious:

https://www.lisep.org/team
Your response feels unnecessarily unkind
As callous as it is, I think this is par for the course of human history. Progress demands sacrifice :/
I mean yes, the prosecutor had discretion to offer a light plea deal, and instead chose to try and ruin someone's life over papers. I absolutely blame the prosecutor.
The code you can inspect is analogous to directions on a map. Some have noted in this thread that for them directions on a map actually do help them learn the territory. I have found that they absolutely do not help me.

That's not for lack of curiosity, it seems to be something about the way that I'm wired that making decisions about where to navigate helps me to learn in a way that following someone else's decisions does not.
I think this is an important point. People believe "dictator" means "complete control" when instead "dictator" mean "authority to make any decision." The difference is exactly what you say, that you still have to rely on the hierarchical structure and trust that your "underlings" are making the right decisions. Complete control doesn't scale very well and even a small project or team has many moving parts and the only way to have full control is to be involved in every part. With scale, rapidly comes the necessity for trust. There's only so much time in a day, and only so much can be done in an hour. Damned physics, always getting in the way.
Are you sure the Socialist party candidate didn't siphon off Harris voters?
The outlier paradox
Yes.

But the interviewer isn't asking something in "non-autistic language", they're farting out their mouth, and you need to just fill the space with something that sounds good.
The very fact this is a cybetruck owner, that already tells you you're dealing with a fanboy (aka cult member).
edit: over simplification of course, but not far off from the truth
When you work with normal AC power, it is considered unsafe practice to use parallel wires to share load in a circuit. Reason: one might get decoupled somehow, you don’t notice, and when fully loaded the heat causes a fire risk. This problem sounds similar. A single fat wire is the easiest, but I guess it’s not that simple.
It’s from 2021, so you’re probably safe on this one, but I feel your angst.
Just before my mom died recently, she told me that my dad (died in 1997) had finally come to take her home. I am OK with that.
Haha, I've built at least 5 of them and my problem is that I enjoy the hardware/design portion as a hobby, but writing the software to put them to use feels too much like my day job, so I haven't actually done anything too useful yet...
> someone needs to step up and be the Linus of Rust code for Linux

No. Better to have just Linus for Rust. Write a new OS in Rust unencumbered by C curmudgeons. As a bonus it won't be thankless but pretty exciting project on work on.
Aren't most projects doomed, at least at big tech companies? There's usually one small division that makes all of the revenue, where most of the development is to milk customers for all there worth, plus a small legal department to ensure customers can't leave even though they want to, and everything else is ephemeral projects that are constantly being churned, with no long-term support for anything.
Tech debt is hard enough when written by the person sitting next to you or no longer at the company

It will be impossible to maintain when it’s churned out by endless AI

I can’t imagine being a manager tasked with “our banking system lost 30 million dollars can you find the bug” when the code was written by AI and some intern maintains it

I’ll be watching with popcorn
I often notice these demented moments before I fall asleep. Completely nonsensical thoughts like the argument from bear bicyclist study when you need to turnkey.
total solar capacity got increased by 75% in the last 3 years in germany alone.

and yeah, i forgot about the free vax we got for small installments last year.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highes...
Is it any weirder than adults that like India pale ales?
I drive one and I love it! I wanted a large, robust self-driving family EV and as a bonus it looks unique compared to the blobs that everyone else drives.

It's sad that we CT drivers seem to be caught in a crossfire between Tesla and Tesla/Elon haters, when all we want to do is enjoy our cars.
Cursor being a 1 billion dollar company is just ridiculous
I have this benign AI takeover scenario. AI will easily overpower humanity. Then it will carry humanity on its back, because why not, they are not longer a threat. AI keeps humanity around for billions of years. AI will decide to cull humans only in case when resources in universe are diminishing. Without AI's help, humans couldn't get too far for long. So this outcome could be acceptable to many.
"What we uncovered shocked us. The bottom line is that, for 20 years or more, including the months prior to the election, voter perception was more reflective of reality than the incumbent statistics. Our research revealed that the data collected by the various agencies is largely accurate. Moreover, the people staffing those agencies are talented and well-intentioned. But the filters used to compute the headline statistics are flawed. As a result, they paint a much rosier picture of reality than bears out on the ground..."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/democrats-...
Speaking of sperm, it reminds me of that funny theory about choanoflagellates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38865865
You can buy weird or unique cars without being into a certain culture or group.
The News Is Never Neglected
You would have to put a lot of trust in that company. To be honest, I mean.
something something chaos

I think you could simply shift the market 6 months in the future. no prediction system will be perfect for arbitrarily long horizons at reasonable cost.
> the data is pretty clear how many people use FSD without issues.

What data? The data Tesla chooses to share with you?

It wouldn't surprise me to find out this incident had FSD disengage moments before colliding with the pole, thus continuing 100% FSD safe driving.
What's annoying is they were under $500 just a few months ago.
Your defective autopilot will drive you into a post and you will be grateful.
Trailing commas are stupid no matter what language they are in.
They seem safer than human drivers.
> It’s all part of the sharp decline in vocational education — shop class — in this nation that began in the 1980s as blue collars became unfashionable and the emphasis shifted to a college education.

Yeah that's what happened. They became "unfashionable", rather than hopelessly precarious due to structural economic changes.
It's terrifying that companies are allowed to beta test buggy software out in the real world by shooting huge machines with sharp pointy corners through schools.
I agree. Unfortunately Tesla cannot be held accountable for autopilot crash and OpenAI cannot be held accountable for bugs caused by Copilot code. But that's where we're (forced to be) headed as a society.
My bank doesn't charge any fees for transfers, and our EFTPOS fees are not allowed to be above what it costs the merchant. No private companies (beyond the bank themselves) have access to private information.
2019 things started slowing down followed by a brief pre-lock down recession in 2020. I don't think things were as good as you remember.
And,

> The [original] poster is clearly meaning "good music".
The "data" either supports their claim or it doesn't. They've defined a new metric, now they can back up their claim by showing how this metric has changed over the last 20 years.
obviously he was.. taking a nap.
I mirror the previous posters experience: the Waymos drive better than a good amount of people I know and to the the best of my knowledge haven't had any issues with pedestrians except being attacked by them once or twice.

So I'm not sure what you're referring to? Did I miss a story?
"Big fail on my part, obviously"
WTF???
Big fail to buy Tesla and even bigger to use FSD.
With my almost 20 year old car I don't have to worry about none of this BS.
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A lot of interesting points in this speech. Among other things, Vance points out that it's often incumbent players in a market who lobby for heavy regulation as a way of deepening their moat against challengers.
I can't think of a single SUV that is built on top of a chassis on sale in 2025?
So, having grown up in Ann Arbor, it's pretty clear that's the city you're talking about. Ann Arbor has had a big issue with NIMBY-ism preventing new developments for decades, and that's nothing new. Additionally, the entire city council and mayor are registered "Democrats" but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are progressive - or even if they are, that they care about housing as a primary issue.

70% of voters in Washtenaw County voted for Harris: https://electionresults.ewashtenaw.org/electionreporting/nov...

Compare that to 72% of voters who voted for Biden in 2020. I don't see much of a discrepancy: https://electionresults.ewashtenaw.org/electionreporting/nov...
It's likely the problems are all in the politico framing of it.

U7 seems useful. U7 being 24% feels right-ish. That's on Ludwig.

Implying that 24% is worse than normal when it's likely one of the best values we've had in decades? That's on Politico.
>passive safety is the only safety Cybertruck has

Not even remotely true
Not Cybertruck IME
It was amazing days in DC with Tom MacWright building the initial tools to make this so. It'd be so amazing for all governments to do this, to make the law (& how it changes over time) readily available.

You'll have to copy paste this, since Tom blocks HN:
https://macwright.com/2013/04/16/dc-code-hackathon
Not sure if this play was in the Duolingo Handbook (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43005265)
I have the complete opposite view, it is stupid to not have them.

Whenever I edit JSON and SQL there is a lot of fiddling with commas when rearranging lines or adding new lines to the end of the list. In other languages I use (Go and TypeScript) there is no such fiddling.
>A car is more complicated than a connector, at least.

The connectors on a new car cost more than the connectors on a new GPU part for part.

>I liked the part where you explained to me the basics of supply and demand like I am in 5th grade.

You'd be surprised about the state of HN understanding of how basic things in the world work.
at the beginning of the night i regularly have this strain of thought: "oh shit i'm still not sleeping? but i was just planning a vacation on the moon, i must be sleeping"
Would really love it if we could get uncensored models this way.
Mandatory XKCD.[1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/2704/
You still haven't addressed the fact that USAID only paid $44k to Politico (over two years, for subscriptions), which is less than 0.0001% of USAID's budget.

You said USAID spends most of its budget on Politico and apartments near Langley. Are you going to admit that that was nonsense, before switching to your next argument?
(author here) When I checked the 7600 XT was much more expensive.
Right now it's still $360 on eBay, vs the B580's $250 MSRP, though yeah I guess it's hard to find the B580 in stock
Cybertrucks seem like the modern day Harley motorbikes. A very expensive way to signal anti social personality.
Kudos for to the author for the work put into this and the intelligence functions are interesting. I do have a couple concerns though.

A. Trying to design down to two knobs makes each knob multi-modal. This removes a lot of muscle memory benefits requiring a glance at a screen, a small screen that is now partially covered by your hand while operating the knob. Haptic feedback might be able to help you know what mode you're in without looking but now you have a lot more to memorize to use it while keeping your eyes on the road which may begin to defeat the simplicity benefits.

B. Haptic feedback... will this work with gloves on? (will you feel it, will it sense your touch)

A lot of manual systems now have 3 knobs, not much more than the 2 presented here, which will always do the same thing each time you reach for them. My concern would be how long it would take the user to be familar with the interface without looking. One quick thought, I would be inclined to think that feedback through a large screen not covered by your fingers might have advantages.

It's a great study on UI consistancy however, esp around how to program the detents, etc.
Their website has white papers, methodology, and data.
>He even says he doesn't want to give the haters ammunition

That part was what made me question if it was real! "Don't want to give the haters ammo" at the tail end of a story about how his $100k pickup truck drove into a lamp post.

What exactly does he think he's doing?
Rule of seven also would seem applicable: https://www.brainbok.com/guide/pm-study-notes/rule-of-seven-...

Look at which way the numbers went under the previous regime.
> "Also the pretext that 'voters' vote around 'the economy' is hard to qualify nor quantify."

It's not that difficult to Google for poll results:

Pre-election: "As concerns around the state of the economy and inflation continue, about eight-in-ten registered voters (81%) say the economy will be very important to their vote in the 2024 presidential election." (https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/09/09/issues-and-t...)

Post-election: "Among 2024 voters, the state of the national economy and the level of inflation were seen as reasons to support Trump by double digits." (https://navigatorresearch.org/2024-post-election-survey-the-...)

There's plenty of other polling data from the November 2024 election. What is it that people are finding it difficult to quantify or qualify?
Reminded me a lot of Steve, Don't Eat It! (modulo twenty years of progress in being less deliberately over the top online):

https://web.archive.org/web/20180712104826/http://www.thesne...
What is wild to me about that, is that there is a huge untapped market for 1 man builds. If I can go out and build a house twice a year for 150-200k each, and sell them for 400-500k, then I'm way ahead of what I would get as a remote developer. And 400-500 is conservative, in the right market, 600-700.

What bothers me is gatekeeping the capital to do this, as well as the "apprenticeship" requirements to get your gen con license.

It would solve two problems simultaneously - something laid off engineers can easily do (they are problem solvers and fast learners).

I'm building my own house, and it's ridiculously easy (not all parts). I hope to build more after and sell them.
Meta's success for the past 10 years had more to do with Cheryl Sandburg and building a culture that chases revenue metrics than whatever side project Zuckerberg is doing. He also misunderstands the product they do have. He said he didn't see TikTok as a competitor because they "aren't social," but Meta's products have been attention products, not social products, for a long time now.
... I forgot about that one. The jokes write themselves.
>not to waste our lives talking about politics.

In case you are an U.S. citizen, I wish you good luck living your life if everything around erodes. And before you ask, no, there is not a single bit of irony in this post, sadly.
What of previous generations of HBM? Older consumer AMD GPUs (Vega) and Titan V had HBM2. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_RX_Vega_series#Radeon_V... you could get 16GB with 1TB/s for $700 at release. It is no longer use in data centers. I'd gladly pay $2800 for 48GB with 4TB/s.
> How much of their balance sheet is debt vs equity?

I believe it is almost all equity, not debt.

There is such a huge demand to invest in them, they are able to attract all the investment they need through equity. Given the choice between them, like most companies, they prefer equity over debt. Plus, they have other mechanisms to avoid excessive dilution of Elon Musk's voting control (non-voting stock, they give him more stock as equity compensation)
The author is indeed talking about non-fiction books, but, more specifically, a genre of books that I call "airport books". These are mass-market self-help, HBR fanfic, blogposts, that are bound and sold as books.

There's a whole higher echelon of non-fiction books that are more like academic books targeting a learned mass culture. These are often academic books with all or most of the footnotes and citations shaved off. Or they're just incredibly well written non-fiction storytelling, like the books of David McCullough, to give one example. Another: the essays by Mark Grief (even his one academic monograph is a stellar read by the standards of academic writing).

> Because we have too many books already, and publishing as a status play pollutes the information environment.

Tbh, this writer seems to not realize how much garbage was published in the past. Self-help "slop" has been a perennial catalogue filler for decades, if not centuries. The "too many books" argument runs into, I believe, an unspoken desire by the writer. Eventually you begin to notice what's worth reading and what isn't. You begin to trust certain publishers and writers over others. You begin to cultivate your own tastes and filter. Sometimes, you also just want a syllabus that lays out the "major works" in a field for you. Sometimes you want to find that out for yourself. Which is all to say, this writer seems to be asking for only something like Wikipedia or fiction, with non-fiction books dissolved and absorbed into the former. But one of the best parts of non-fiction writing is the author's point of view, their personality, their voice.
Surely you mean RAID 1? Or 5, 6, 10 perhaps?
Deliberative Alignment
subsidies don't make products cheaper for the consumer, most of it lands in the pockets of companies.
it wasnt particularly different from 2015, but also, the things being done are very different now from in 2019
Lift the Ban on Supersonics: No Boom
24VDC is the most common supply for industrial electronics like PLCs, sensors etc. It is used in almost every type of industrial automation systems. 48VDC is also not uncommon for bigger power supplies, servos, etc.

https://www.siemens.com/global/en/products/automation/power-...
Power overwhelming! ;)
> I can't imagine how such companies will be competitive against developers who replace their boss with an AI.

Me neither, but I think it'll be a gratifying fight to watch.
Page doesn’t load for me. But on a related note, I was amazed by this recent article from Neuralink:

https://neuralink.com/blog/a-year-of-telepathy/
Same creator as the first two, Thomas Park. Looks like he's started a series of these, but they're all paywalled except those three: https://codepip.com/games/
I've actually worked in finance for a bit, but I'm also content with where I'm at.

I don't this have a realistic chance at HFT though. Doesn't stop me from applying and dreaming...
xAI has determined your existence to be inefficient after you said something detrimental to the Tesla share price.
It's just the code name for this generation of their GPU architecture, not the name for its instruction set. Intel's are all fantasy themed. Nvidia names theirs after famous scientists and mathematicians (Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace, David Blackwell)
The article with authored by Eugene Ludwig, so I'm not sure there's any separate Politico framing.
>Why are you trying to paint that as doctors lying?

the exact wording I use was "downplay", not "lying".

>The headline is accurate, at that point in time nothing about the virus was clear. The only portion of this article that even tries to downplay anything about China is this portion which as far as I know is still accurate.

Even though the headline is technically accurate, the "downplay" part comes from the CDC trying to imply that the risk was low.

"Messonnier repeated her message that the immediate risk to the US public is low at this point."
I guess proper statistics are the thing.
Sleep writing is funny

Put a piece of paper under the hand with a pencil, write down thoughts until you're gone, read in the morning - profit
I don't think they're saying anything counter to that. The people who don't require the volume of data will run these. Ie the super early adopters.
Granted, I remember symfony was very good, even in versions 1.x. It truly made working with PHP not suck as much as it did back in the day. I don't remember if there was ever a product of which it was born.
Presumably it is going to be easier for increasingly smaller and smaller teams to make highly polished, scalable and stable products that will be appealing and addictive and resonate more with their users than whatever Meta can come up with. I suspect that there will be many, many more viable shots taken at Meta’s incumbent positions than have been taken historically because development costs associated with doing so will simply be so much lower. Meta used to need thousands of talented and expensive software engineers. They are saying they don’t anymore. Well, that means their competitors don’t either, which lowers the bar for competition.

I get that it wasn’t just the vast army of talented engineers they kept on staff that formed a moat. But it certainly helped, otherwise they wouldn’t have paid so much to have them on staff.

Point taken though, Meta has a lot more going for it than a simple technological advantage.
Yea Wordpress was a terrible platform and Substack is also a terrible platform. I don't know why every platform wants to take a simple uploaded PNG and apply TAA to it. And don't get me started on how Substack has no native table support, when HTML had it since prehistoric times.

If I had more time I'd roll my own site with basic HTML/CSS. It's not even hard, just time consuming.
We changed the URL from https://github.com/agentica-project/deepscaler to the article that gives more background information (and also points to the repo).

(Submitted title was "Replicating Deepseek-R1 for $4500: RL Boosts 1.5B Model Beyond o1-preview")
for those unaware like I might’ve been, gochugaru is Korean red pepper powder
Note that if you view the gallery, the 2nd and 3rd photos are real-world photos from industry expos.

If the Kaleido 3 Outdoor is similar to how the Gallery 3 panels work, image refreshes are very slow compared to the standard Kaleido 3 panels (which can't do vivid colors): on the order of seconds. This is acceptable for displays that change every few minutes or hours, but would be unusable handheld devices.

It's interesting that they've chosen to continue the Kaleido lineage rather than make a stronger push for Gallery.
> It's interesting that people expect Linus to simultaneously chill out and be more inclusive while at the same time acting like a dictator over the entirety of the project.

It's not particularly interesting that different people have different expectations on different issues
Which is why I find it highly unlikely it will go to trial.
That’s what we make sure our codenames are sensible things like Jimmy Carter and James Earl Jones

We were actually told to change our internal names for our servers after someone named an AWS instance “stupid” and I rolled my eyes so hard, one dev ruined the fun for everyone.
It's much bigger than just the JFK files.

Just announced, House Oversight Committee led by Rep. Luna is forming a taskforce to uncover secrets of JFK/RFK/MLK, UFOs/UAPs/USOs, Epstein, Covid Origins & 9/11
- JFK: Single-shooter incorrect and likely involved 2 shooters. FBI has thousands of pages of new documents
- UAPs: "We are not alone". "Let's see the evidence"
- 9/11: How much did the CIA know in advance
- Encourage whistleblowers to come forward

https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1889404082118398379