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Worth reading the actual tweet, not just the article's truncation of it

> Soooooo my @Tesla @cybertruck crashed into a curb and then a light post on v13.2.4.

> Thank you @Tesla for engineering the best passive safety in the world. I walked away without a scratch.

> It failed to merge out of a lane that was ending (there was no one on my left) and made no attempt to slow down or turn until it had already hit the curb.

> Big fail on my part, obviously. Don't make the same mistake I did. Pay attention. It can happen. I follow Tesla and FSD pretty closely and haven't heard of any accident on V13 at all before this happened. It is easy to get complacent now - don't.

> @Tesla_AI how do I make sure you have the data you need from this incident? Service center etc has been less than responsive on this.

> I do have the dashcam footage. I want to get it out there as a PSA that it can happen, even on v13, but I'm hesitant because I don't want the attention and I don't want to give the bears/haters any material.

> Spread my message and help save others from the same fate or far worse.

https://x.com/MrChallinger/status/1888546351572726230
On a similar note one of my childrens friends absolutely loves the taste of Nintendo Switch cartridges and licks them untill the bitter coating wears off.

His tastebuds must be wired different.
I mean, with selective quoting you can make any point you want. Let's do the full quote:

> So, we ended up with two interfaces trying to accomplish the same thing, one of them in one language and ecosystem (TypeScript/React), the other in a totally different language and ecosystem (Go), and we couldn't easily share business logic between them.

> As a small team, we need to ship fast. Having to re-implement every feature twice was just a massive tax on our velocity.

Oh. Wait. They're cutting away an entire code base and a second language & ecosystem to support. Maybe it's not quite as resume-oriented after all.

We can certainly argue if that was the right way to do this, but it's not like it's an entirely unreasonable resume padding exercise.
> Eventually you need to admit COBOL is dead and rewrite.

What does that suppose to mean

To frame your argument, TIOBE ranks COBOL as the 19th most popular language, ahead of Ruby.
Amen, Eliza wins.

The humans' mistakes of irrational response still boggles my mind.
Don't even get me started. Here's a list of things my model Y regularly does:

- Try to accelerate to 45mph in a parking lot b/c it was within 10ft of the road

- Decelerate from highway speeds suddenly to 30mph, as though it saw something it might hit (I stopped it at 30-ish and hit the gas)

- Decelerate to 50mph because of "emergency vehicles" even though there were no vehicles around (sometimes it mistakes lights that strobe b/c they are seen through median dividers as "emergency lights")

- Take up two lanes because they gradually separated and the car thinks it should stay evenly between the left and right divider line

- choose absolutely bonkers limits, like 30mph on two lane country highways.

- Stop on the highway with a big red screen and a message that says "Take control now fatal error"

- Not so much a problem any more, but when I was first getting used to it, it would beep a message at me, then scold me for looking at the message (and not the road), then ask me to do some kind of hand grip on the wheel to prove I'm paying attention, but I have to look at the message to figure out what it wants.

My wife tells me "Just keep your foot on the gas to keep up the speed and your hands on the wheel to keep it in line" and I am just left wondering what FSD is for
This genereation seems that is getting performance using more power and more cores. Not really an architectural change but only packing more things in the chip that require more power.
And Mexico City, Brazil, India, etc etc.
Why compare market valuation with something that is annual? GDP is an annual number and the comparison should be based on annual revenue of these 688 companies..

If you are going to compare the valuation, then compare it to the total wealth of Canada.
In some cases people can even admit it. I know people who collect guitars. I know people who trade guitars. Both of the above can generally pick out a tune or two, but will admit they are not good.

I lust over a lot of gear (not guitar gear, but gear), but I keep telling myself that my goal is to play, and so I focus more on what I already have than the next gadget even though sometimes it really is my bad instrument that is the problem. Sadly, despite the above, I'm not any better than the other two groups (even when my equipment is a problem, better wouldn't help much since I'm still a large part of the problem)
I just don't trust Google with a programming language. I feel like Golang has escaped the orbit of Google and could survive without it (I might be wrong). But for Dart I'm pretty sure it would die fast and I don't want to invest time into it as a result.
I’m mostly impressed that the pole held up.
exactly... this is HN of course so I expect nothing less. my favorite is when I frequently (as early as couple of days ago) get comments like "go see some videos on youtube before commenting like that" :D soooo funny. the thing is absolute garbage but elon can sell garbage better than anyone that ever lived
> They are replacing US jobs with jobs in Poland. I experienced this first hand.

Like, only now?! This had been the case my entire career to the point I got fed up of rat race to the delight of foreign superior, became cynical and unemployable. It's not ey-ay, nor outsourcing, it's the economay. We have a crisis, sir.
> To be clear, "price stability" in this case means a higher price compared to absence of government intervention.

Depends on how it works. There are a few different cases.

One is for a commodity where increased supply and lower cost does not increase demand much.
Rare earths are like that. The cost of the metal is a small part of the cost of the finished product. A drop in rare earth prices will not increase motor sales much.
So overproduction from multiple sources will crash the price. This is why commodity prices are so volatile, despite relatively constant supply and demand. A slight imbalance in supply and demand produces huge price changes.

Here's the historical price of copper.[1] The price has varied over a 4x range in the last 15 years. 2x in the last 5 years.

Futures trading can help stabilize prices, but too much futures trading relative to the actual commodity can increase volatility.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/copper
You're right, this is a very difficult question to answer, and I don't have a clear answer for myself either.

My intuition here is that ANY private citizen acting without authority derived from a due process, or the necessary clearance, is breaking the law and needs to be arrested. Full stop. It bewilders me that Musk wasn't apprehended before he was given special permission to do what he was doing. This was blatant evasion of democracy and potentially harmful to hundreds of millions of people, and harmful to democracy itself. It sets an incredible precedent.

The check or balance that appears to be missing, I suppose, is the one where people feel they have the agency or ability at all to identify this type of nefarious behaviour and report it to an entity which can act to rectify it, independently of the president. Trump has enabled this every step of the way, and ultimately, any attempt to fix this likely would have been defused by him as well.

I'm not sure what citizens can do, or how exactly the institution should protect itself in the future. But there are many historical parallels to what's happening here, and inaction on citizens' parts is certainly a large component. Too many people are failing to stand in the way. Part of the solution is making it possible to do so. They step aside because the consequences, especially in the USA (with leaders who blatantly seek to purge their opposition), are far too great for an individual to absorb.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-...

I couldn't find anything suggesting this has been put in place yet though.
I have the exact opposite experience same thing almost a decade. They were great then there was a phase of really bad performance around 5-6y ago and in the last 3 years it has been much better improving with each version. It is especially much more reactive when indexing large projects or just navigating them.
Ha, thanks, and obviously true. But I can understand companies wanting people who can just march into their codebase and "hit the ground running," I guess.

I don't need the stress anyway. The dough would've been nice, though...
Doesn't matter, a few minutes after firing the last programmer SkyNet wil become operational.
Cool, I’ll play black
With the 80-20 rule they actually make money on the claims they pay, not the ones they deny.

It is essentially cost plus 20%.

The tricky parts are balancing opex to profit, and balancing coverage with competitive costs.
Passive safety is the art of engineering cars so that when they do crash, the occupants are unharmed.

What you're asking for, though, is definitionally impossible: obviously the cameras didn't detect the obstacle, so FSD or no, they can't react to it. The actual solution would be to do what every other car maker with self-driving pretensions does and augment the cameras with LIDAR or other sensors.
>in my country cybertrucks are not allowed on the road

In my EU country either however they have already been spotted on the streets with valid license plates. There are loopholes everywhere usually if you classify it as a commercial utility vehicle for a business instead of a passenger car. There's plenty of people with money and no scruples.
sounds like Pharo
Ideally there'd be a syntax that looked like a function `SELECT(a, b, c, d)` with a totally distinct variant for specifying types `TSELECT(a, int, b, null, c, text, d, timezonetz)`.

The big problem here is the seemed-good-in-the-70s syntax that died with SQL. In the best of all possible worlds they could have just used Lisp as the foundation then let people macro/transpile their own syntaxes. A subtle flaw in SQL is being just hard enough to correctly emit that most people don't build new languages on top of it.
> the claim should have been denied because it was filed incorrectly

Spoken like someone who has never spent hours online with an insurance company. They have told me that they can't see uploaded forms due to a 'glitch'. They have told me fields were missing when I am looking at the same forms and telling them where the field is and what it contains. They have been carefully instructed to tell lie after lie after lie hoping that the consumer finally gives up.
Not sure why you're being downvoted; this is the only mature, reasonable answer. This is a frivolous complaint, that would upend the SQL grammar, because someone blogged about being mildly inconvenienced. I _wish_ I had tiny, nitpicky problems like this, but my problems are actually substantial.
The main website works, but your link is timing out for me. Looks like HN users hugged it to death :/

Glad to see that so many of us are interested in creating a better life for people with disabilities, though.
It's the opposite. I don't think it'll replace programmers legitimately within a decade. I DO think that companies will try a lot in the months and years anyway and that programmers will be the only ones suffering the consequences of such actions.
I’m getting a hug of death…

It’s The Howe Innovation Center at the Perkins School for the Blind’s database.
People who endlessly complain about syntax aren't usually writing any meaningful code, I've found.
I don't mean to misrepresent. I am not Larry Sanger. I thought it relevant to HN and interesting because it was written by the co-founder of Wikipedia and because it appears to me to be a focusing of an analytical "Hacker" mind to the question of theology, which seems to be of greater interest to HN browsers lately.

Personally, it was interesting to me because it represents a more philosophical approach to the Christian religion than the subjective, social, or (quite frankly) economic approach I commonly see
my english teacher reminded us the same. +1
Nobody can tell you whether progress will continue at current, faster or slower rates - humans have a pretty terrible track record at extrapolating current events into the future. It's like how movies in the 80's made predictions about where we'll be in 30 years time. Back to the Future promised me hoverboards in 2015 - I'm still waiting!
>Most Americans like their coverage

Even more Americans (81%!) are unhappy with the cost of their coverage.
You're not gonna change the opinion of your opponent. However you can affect the opinion of silent observers.

Reddit links aren't research. Try to find scientific articles.
Wow, that must be a very long time ago. Templates were around when I started (if I remember correctly), or soon after.

Which reminds me of something I hate more than header files: macros.
Today I learned that some tech stacks are sophisticated, I suppose those are for the discerning developer.
if you want to see the true horror, check out https://comma.ai. $2000 and plugs into most cars made in the past few years, works by using cracked security for the cars it is "compatible" with. These people are on the road next to you with a car being driven by a single smartphone camera. They sell it as "chill driving" but they have a discord where people just flash custom FSD firmware.
No; the tumor itself would be non-emergent. The symptoms it causes - pain, for example - would be treated, then the patient would be discharged with a suggestion of a follow up with oncology.
Lmao yeah, web pages take 10+ seconds to load megabytes of JavaScript that do nothing but waste time and energy, but the SQL commas are the real culprits!

What a joke.
The US has no pedestrian safety regulations at all for car design. Some have been proposed but it's 2025 and still nothing enacted.
> Someone remind me again why GPUs need 600 watts?

Imagine a GPU that uses fewer watts. Now imagine someone in charge of the high end models makes it bigger until they hit a limit.

That limit is generally either chip size or power, and chips have gotten so dense that it's usually not chip size.

That's why the very top GPU uses as much power as you can get it.
We dont know what the human brain does, but we know it can produce symbolic theories or models of abstract worlds (in the case of math) or real worlds (in the case of science). It can also produce the "symbolic" turing machine which serves as an abstraction for all computation we use (cpu/gpu/etc)
exactly my first and 1,345 thought! :)
Wikipedia won't inform me about the social media and email dynamics at a car manufacturer. Just the email response alone was entertaining and informative: self-aware humor-encrusted legalese that is very human. I can appreciate it for what it is: great PR work from a professional. Wikipedia is pretty humorless, it probably wouldn't even acknowledge the subtext.
Mass market non-fiction has bad incentives
I applaud the author for putting thought into how to design digital controls, in contrast to the "just put whatever garbage on a touch screen" strategy most carmakers do today.

However, I still question the benefit of this complex, modal control (you have to press a single knob to "cycle between" multiple modes). My ancient, 2016 car features three knobs. This luxury allows me to, without looking, adjust any of three settings (temp, fan, air location), as well as a button which does each seat heater, without any "check what mode it's in, tap, look at the tiny screen, tap again if necessary" step.

True, in this trim, my car does not have a thermostat mode, which in theory is useful, but it is so trivial to modulate the temperature based on "do I feel cold, hot or comfortable right now" and reaching over to twist one of the controls anyway, and even in the other car I have which has this mode, I frequently need to adjust things anyway, except in that car some of the functions require multiple mode changes on the touch screen and looking away from the road.
I created an account specifically to reply to this comment.
I am the Romanian that Engineering got outsourced to. Year 2 of college, first job ever.

I feel bad in a way, considering that I probably stole some other engineer's job simply because I am cheaper.

It's a moral problem I hadn't(or rather, didn't want to) consider before reading this comment thread.

I love the people I work with(both overseas and local), but comments like these make me wonder if I've made the wrong choice.
> It seems like you are implying that I don't think before I speak.

I'm implying that most times you don't think before you think or after you think (you or me typically don't meta-think).

I'm saying that very often I (and looks like a lot of people around me) don't think much before I speak. I have internal monologue when I'm "thinking something out", but I typically don't think things through when I'm speaking with people in day-to-day conversations, only when I encounter a problem I didn't see yet and I'm not "trained" in solving it. Maybe some people can make fully reasoned sentences in split seconds before they start talking, but not me. IIRC those two modes of thinking are called slow and fast thinking.

> Logic is not present in the process. It is only present in the result.

I'm talking about that process. Have you seen "thinking" part of current reasoning LLM's? It does indeed look like a process of using logic. After "thinking" part, there is "output" part that makes conclusions form the process of thinking. Recently I asked local version of deepseek about a gas exchange problem and it thought a lot about this, making some small mistakes in logic, correcting them, ultimately returning approximately valid result. It even made some small errors in calculations and corrected itself by multiplying parts of numbers and adding them for correct result. I've put that example online[1] if you'd like to read it, it's pretty interesting.

[1] https://pastebin.com/mXyLGCGQ
Asking people to google a question before asking it is not being a dick. It's common etiquette in technical spaces, and it should also apply to things like this.
Everyone knows the hardest part about writing SQL is having to get Claude to tell you where the commas should go.
When I setup the DNS over Oblivious HTTP service for Waterfox, one of the most important parts of our setup was that each step was controlled by a different entity, which was also recommended by Fastly. In our instance it went Client (Waterfox/us) -> Relay (Fastly) -> Gateway (Cloudflare).

As far as I’m aware, Apple do the same with Cloudflare and Akamai, each controlling one relay.

Unless I’m mistaken, you’re both controlling the client software (closed source) and the first relay?
As far as I can tell, trust is still essentially put into your organisation since you still control two critical parts of the setup. So maybe better than a traditional VPN provider, but still flawed?
The ultimate outcome is one that wasn't really anticipated by the Constitution. The general order of how things are supposed to go is:

1. A US court orders something.

2. The Executive Branch enforces that order, as it is responsible for the DOJ which is in turn responsible for the US Marshals (who enforce court rulings).

3. If those people do not enforce the rulings, Congress brings articles of impeachment and impeaches the President or others responsible.

4. Elect/appoint/elevate a new person to carry out the court order.

The Constitution doesn't really account for the possibility that 1/3 of the Senate would disagree with an ignored court order. So hard to say where it goes from there.
Curious to see your Postgres PR with this change in it. Is it done yet?
I ran into a murderous rage last year trying to buy kidney friendly cat food because it required a prescription.

Not sure who's life those regulations were saving.
Dishonesty, perchance?
I like it. The size of the scores IMO could use some work, but the fact that there's BIG areas that are see through are very nice.

The old system, and honestly almost every score on screen system I really hate.

I kinda wonder if it was in the upper right corner if I would prefer it?
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this is my real reaction to the post .. but conversation here could be more inquiring.. to find insight. My bad.. no happiness
That is very interesting, thank you. It fits into the narrative I've seen constructed remarkably well. I suspect that these people have assessed Musk accurately, and he really is a mess of a person. Aren't we all, in some way or another.

That's entirely forgivable, until you give a broken person immense power and influence. He's extremely dangerous.
Kinda what convolution in animal brains detects outlines of moving objects. It's statistics all the way down.
My father was a professional photographer. He was also a professional asshole so his response was always to respond with the shittiest worst lens he could think of and see if they bought it.
Maybe some ideas are just not good ideas.
PDF Running Linux
I think WFH should stand for Where's Fucking Housing because that's like 90% of the "WFH crowd"'s motivation from what I've seen - since companies almost never pay enough to live near enough to their office. If they did, then the price differential between US and overseas would be even worse..
> LLMs are a GPS, not a highway. They tell you what to do and where to go

It still gives you code you can inspect. There is no black box. Curious people will continue being curious.
I was thinking about Android, or Librem, or jailbreaking.
Even with an electron UI?
We now have https://github.com/FractalFir/rustc_codegen_clr#c-support . So we can keep all our Rust files out-of-tree and just submit C code like everyone else.
Duopoly is not a free market. It doesn't offer true alternatives.
> How about ingesting the whole codebase into the model?

You keep referring to this vague idea of "ingesting the whole codebase". What does this even mean? Are you talking about building a code base specific rag, fine tuning against a model, injecting the entire code base into the system context, etc.?
so normal distribution is pretty much like a straight-graph with some edges/outliers? learn something new every day :)
Senior devs have a decade long reinforcement learning loop with the marketplace. That will be a massive advantage until they start RL on agents against the same environment.
you may stifle improvement on technology. If 4G is free for everyone what does that do to the market?