skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cybertruck seems to represent him making all the same fundamental mistakes that were present in the original design of the Roadster, by being too expensive to produce. (Compare the price as announced vs. as delivered, and that's not justifiable by inflation).

The reports I've seen say Musk took an active role within the company starting in 2004 (Eberhard was asked to leave in 2007), including overseeing Roadster product design from the beginning (but I've not seen citations for this), and was behind the idea of using the sports car to fund the development of mainstream vehicles.

As I understand it, the first Roadster to be delivered was to Musk and in Feb 2008? So between Eberhard and Musk as CEO.

The best I can do for citations is this, but this is Musk writing on Tesla's blog — I would like to say crucially the date stamp is before Eberhard was pushed out in 2007… but the oldest archive copy is 2010 not 2006 when the blog post claims to have been written, and when the guy himself has a trust deficit I think it's worth being open about this discrepancy: https://web.archive.org/web/20100802142703/http://www.teslam...

(I also found this, which doesn't add much, but does show that Musk overpromising and people calling BS is a constant over time: https://web.archive.org/web/20111125032325/http://gigaom.com...)
> The house was built in 2010 on Cape Cod ...

> Its original owners ... sought permission from the commission in 2018 to build a 241-foot-wide seawall to stave off erosion. The commission’s seven members — all volunteers — rejected the seawall ... They also questioned whether it would actually save the house.

> The property is within Cape Cod National Seashore...

> ...Bryan McCormack, a ... specialist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant, estimates that the bluffs are eroding at a rate of 3.8 to 5.6 feet a year. The report estimated collapse in up to three years, but likely sooner.

And the house is full of fiberglass insulation. Vs. the local waters are full of commercial oyster beds. The market price for oysters with bits of fiberglass in 'em, after the house falls into the water ...yeah.

Shouldn't the law have said, back in 2010, "no, you can't build an obviously-gonna-collapse-onto-bystanders structure, even with your own money"?
Super interesting. Now what we really need is for Raspberry Pi to make a 2nm version so that the power usage becomes more acceptable for Wildlife and biodiversity use cases.

Please, please Raspberry Pi, also make a 2nm version

Actually, I think it's broadcom I need to ask that from isn't it ?

(Although then I think it would almost become a Jetson)

Please please NVidia make a 1nm Jetson, the planet needs you to.
Technically Doc Brown was alive in 1885, having travelled there from 1955, so he was the first time traveller by a good 100 years before Einstein.
A lot of people who have apparently never stepped foot in a recording studio are replying to you. Pre-plugin era was exactly about this. Drive the DAC and manage writes to the disk without introducing (much) latency so tracking can get done. Perhaps no one who uses this will intend to setup more than one microphone.
Back in the 80s my dad worked at a factory as a chemist. He said one dude who worked the night shift had put a cot in a closet. He'd come in and sleep basically his entire shift so he'd be well rested for his day job.
Fully agreed although we have to admit the work done by Mistral is not fake (for now… this kind of incentive could ruin it)
Great job, love the simplicity. On mobile would be nice if the choice of places was collapsible or maybe in a modal?
Another place to add is Camden Art Center https://camdenartcentre.org
Whereas other countries are steadfast in their friendships?
You're not wrong about the pricing but based on what you see here https://www.shopify.com/pricing?country=us&lang=en

The $1000 plan covers a lot more than just an online store with a code. There's also a POS included, integrations with third party payment providers etc. Not everyone needs the most expensive plan. Also, the value of a Shopify subscription is not in the code to host an online shop but the ease of use with which someone can sell their wares online.

Yes, they do own the code but the question for most people using it is, do we need to own that code? Do we need to maintain it? or can we just focus on selling?

If someone stops paying Shopify, they still own the products that they were selling online, they can import an excel sheet on some another online store, upload the images and start selling. As long as they own the domain, selling on another platform would be easy.
Really love this story, while some humans are involved in destroying the planet at the same time there are some other humans who are trying to save another species. If for some reason we manage to destroy ourselves, I am hopeful there would be some life-forms that would survive and still keep our planet an interesting place until the sun devours us all. Thinking of the quote from Jurassic Park - "Life finds a way!"
I'd have to see a mathematical proof as to why nickels or dimes would be used more, I don't actually think that's the case.
Yes, that was a typo that made it look like I contradicted myself, thank you for catching that :)
Ok. Can you point me one example that was in for a while before being caught?
A new tool by Outread, called DarwinAI (you can find in the navbar) and allows you to ask questions and get relevant insights from across 200M peer-reviewed studies.
What does China actually do differently in this regard? Is there something we can learn from them?
> Zoom is good and all, but it's always janky the more people are in the meeting.

It's the little things, isn't it? Like when someone starts talking one second before you finish and you can't hear them, and then you ask them to repeat, and there's some lag, and you are not sure if they really said something or it was a glitch... Then you lose 20 seconds doing the "did you say something? No no, it was my cat passing by" and everyone lost focus.
This is overly complicated, both variants. See https://github.com/MWARDUNI/ElasticHashing for a much simplier approach
Best for an individual or for society?

Consider a simplified example. There is some area of scientific research. Working within the framework gives you a 1 in 4 chance of making some minor improvement. Working outside the framework gives you a 1 in a million chance to create a great leap in knowledge.

For any single individual, the best choice is the former. The latter is a gamble that most people will lose, wasting their lives chasing crazy theories.

For society, you want a split. You need some doing the second option to have the eventual amazing discovery, but you also need to progress the current understanding further.

If we introduce a chance for the minor progress to lead to the same major advancement, it becomes a bit more simple for society to calculate the best allocation of researchers, but for any single person, the best option still remains to dedicate themselves to the small advancement.
I feel the same with Win7 - for me "it just works" and I don't want to upgrade for as long as possible. I even don't install updates - especially since several of them contain telemetry. I simply don't have the time to fight with Linux. There were other good OSes (e.g. BeOS or OS/2) which were simply killed instead of open-sourcing the code. Haiku seems to be the successor of BeOS but it has too few donations.
It feels to me that C++ has long become a language for "academic" or compiler-minded people to try yet another thing just for the sake of it or because its fun. Yes reflection eases some issues we have on C++ but the syntax is horrible and clutters the language
I think you're right. I remember trying to use it on Ubuntu about a decade ago, but it seems that was through some wrapper.
Likewise, I absolutely do not support Trump and his administration, but among him, Musk, and even RFK Jr, there are policy choices that I do support; they just tend to get drowned out by the cacophony of terrible choices.
While you may be aware that you're anxious, part of the point of things like mindfulness is that not everyone is aware of what their autonomic nervous system is doing to them, because it functions largely unconsciously. So it's helpful for many people in some circumstances to notice what their body is doing, and then pick up practices that engage the parasypathetic nervous system and calm down a fight or flight response in cases where it is silly and unhelpful--say when one is in a airport, rather than confronting a large carnivore in nature.

And, perhaps, you can appreciate that the sooner one notices what is happening subconsciously, the easier it might be for some people to "put out the fire" of their autonomic response. Even if getting good at this might take practice.

Maybe this awareness and these tools are not things of interest or value to you, but they don't seem to be things that are that are that hard to understand abstractly, even if you don't practice them.
Original author here :)

> Is anything ever really just a refactor, though?

I think you're making the point that very few worthwhile business goals could be achieved purely by refactoring. Which is true.

Some part of the work will probably be the safe mechanical steps that make up refactoring ("replace conditional with method", "extract method" etc), and some part is "normal" "non-refactoring" change.

The reason for this point is that I see developers avoid important conversations because they claim they're "just refactoring" and so they can safely make a change without involving anyone else. They're wrong unless they have a good handle on the difference between the two types of work.

> it is always the case that some refactoring is already in progress

When I've seen the "paused refactor" phenomenon, it isn't actually refactoring ... there's negotiation and consideration of trade-offs and impacts on various parties, because some important parts of the code need to actually do something different. But probably there are more cases in the world than I've personally seen.

But really in this case I am thinking on the level of developers who will extract a method while at the same time changing the content of the code being replaced. Without running any tests, committing etc. The start and end of the one step is easily in their grasp, but they think they can save time by mixing two steps at once.

> If the code is unlikely to change, there's a good chance you might want to refactor it out of your repository

Interesting point. The cases that were in my head were more like unique things that wouldn't group together well with anything else. What kind of code do you typically move out of a repo?

Would it be fair to say that in the case of extracting unchanging code, we're recognising that there is some difference between our intentions for the code that stays and the code that doesn't? And that by extracting it we're acting on a recognition that the intention has changed since we first wrote it?

> other code _uses_ the code which never changes... And if originally the use is clunky, but you manage to improve it by your refactor

Wouldn't this be more like changing my [previously] unchanging code to make it better fit the use cases of the client?

> Waiting until someone (maybe even yourtself) writes tests for most code

I wouldn't recommend writing tests for most of the code before any refactoring. There is certainly some small part that can be tested and then refactored while the rest stays untested and unchanged. Then on to the next test and refactor and so on.

> who's to say the tests don't fail _already_?

I guess I didn't mention this case explicitly, but I'd expect someone to fix the tests (or scrap the old and write _some_ new) and then get on with refactoring.
is it ever just $15?
Thanks. One thing I kept thinking while making this was, I don't want to create an MVP, I want to create the simplest & most complete way to learn how to do & then do powerful work.

It only works on Chrome & Edge. I haven't tested it on Firefox, Safari, etc.
Marie Curie won 2 Nobel Prizes, for physics and chemistry. She was the first woman to win a Prize, and the first person to win two. She died of radiation exposure from her experiments. Can't really argue with that.
Are there other instances of differing names by country? I don't mean language differences. I found it strange that for the rest of the world, they'll see both.
Show HN: Pichondria – USB-PD 2.0/3.0 to 5V 5A Converter for RaspberryPi
Hey HN,

We built Pichondria, a USB-PD 2.0/3.0 to 5V 5A power converter board for Raspberry Pi 5 and other 5V devices. It lets you step down USB-C PD (9V, 12V, 15V, or 20V)—from USB-PD adapters, power banks, or Li-ion batteries—to a stable 5V at up to 5A. Perfect for powering single-board computers, high-power LEDs, or other 5V projects without bulky adapters.

Features:

5V 5A output via USB-C and solder pads
USB-PD 2.0/3.0 compatible input via USB-C (also has solder pads)
Compact & efficient – ideal for embedded projects
We built this to power our Raspberry Pi 5 using existing USB-PD adapters and to add more flexible power options. It works like a universal PD-to-5V adapter for Pi and similar devices.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
> The dysfunctional slacker at the office though can get some productivity squeezed out of them at the office. Remote, they are completely useless and dysfunctional.

Honestly, I think part of the issue I see with this is "squeezing productivity" out of them. Almost every other manager I've spoken to would see this as a complete waste of their own time and would simply fire the slacker instead. I know that it's easier or harder in different companies/countries. Maybe it's a sign that the slackers are in HR? ;-)
xAI is not making any money

This is normal at this point. Netflix also wasnt making any money when it was new, same with Uber and more. You can't run in the race to the bottom if you're climbing to the top.
Maybe start here: https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/entry_criteria_for_user_to_use...

Yes, the OSA does seem to have been largely done as a performance without any technical reality allowed in. This is not the first time we have had such a dog's dinner for Internet related laws in the UK...
Always has been. People on here just act like it's new because opinions they don't like don't get shadow banned anymore.
This is deeply impressive, and of course the first thing I'm doing is sharing it with some mates. The technical completeness of this, the fact that you can do this sort of thing in the browser at all - that to me is mindblowing (I'm 52 and remember when marquee tags were a bit of a stretch...).

But... like other commenters - there it stops, and I'm just not quite sure why.

The audience is probably me. I'm an avid Ableton user - I pay a bloody fortune for it, I upgrade it every year, I am happy to support their development because it's an insanely - insanely - good piece of software that does everything I need it to do. I'm also now completely embedded in the clip view, so going back to a linear view just isn't a possibility for me.

More to the point though - this clearly isn't aimed at people who know nothing about what they're doing. It's very non-amateur and clearly very, very powerful. But at the same time it isn't aimed at me, either - as someone who does know what they're doing, I'm thinking "um, VSTs?" or "clip view?" or "live performance / latency issues?" or whatever.

So... who is the audience? Maybe there is a middle ground of people who don't have the means to fork out for a good desktop DAW. Maybe teenagers who are wanting to learn the principles without the spend. Maybe because it'd be very cool for collaborating? I just don't know.

Nonetheless, it's an insane demonstration of what can be done in a browser these days and for that I massively doff my cap - amazing work!
No. Hopefully, someone with more knowledge can explain better. But you need room for the kvcache is my understanding. You also need to factor in the size of the context window. If anyone has good resources on this, that would be awesome. Presently, it feels very much like a dark art to host these without crashing or being massively over-provisioned.
If you want to get a better understanding of this I recommend playing around in the "chat playgrounds" on some of the engines.

The Google one allows for some free use before you have to pay for tokens. (Usually you can buy $5 worth of tokens as a minimum and that will give you more than you can use up with manual requests.)

https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat

This UI allows you to alter the system prompt (which is usually hidden from the user on eg ChatGPT) and change to different models and change parameters. And then you give it the chat input similar as any other site.

You can also install a program like "LM Studio" and that will allow you to download models (through the UI) and run locally on your own machine. This gives you a similar interface to what you see in the Google AI Studio but you run it locally. And with downloaded models. (The model you download is the actual LLM which is basically very large amount of parameters you combine with the input tokens to get the next token the system outputs.)

For a more fundamental introduction to what all these systems do there are a number of Computerphile videos which are quite informative. Unfortunately I can't find a good playlist of them all but here's one of the early ones. (Robert Miles is in many of them.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rURRYI66E54
Wayland still does not for work me for basic stuff though. I will make a list once I try it again but so far I have only experienced issues with it, no issues with Xorg.

(And thus, I avoid anything Wayland.)
Outside of math and computational science, nothing is proven to not work because scientific research doesn't work in proofs. Even in math and computational science, there are fields dedicated to researching known proven wrong logic because sometimes there are interesting findings, like hypercomputation.
Sponsored by Brawndo - its what plants crave

Seriously though, this is painful to watch. Reminds me of those articles/videos where people have to have their jobs "invest" or software/hardware partners in that website and all of a sudden this person is a "Person of Interest".

Meh
I will never understand "music software" people. I just do NOT get where their heads are at, in any way, shape, or form. If you asked me to come up with the worst way to deal with audio in software, it would look very much like what most DAWs currently look like.

I say this as someone who makes music and records it on a PC (MacOs/Windows/Linux), AND as someone who makes software for those same OSes. Admittedly, I do not really mess with loops or synthesizers, so I acknowledge those use-cases as some that might actually seem reasonable with current DAWs, but I definitely do not "get" it. I get bored screwing with synthesizers/filters (funny noise machines), and I use loops mostly with simple sequencers. So most of my time is spent producing and managing waveforms. To that end, every DAW looks - to me - like a god damned file manager, rather than a space for making content.

I'd LOVE for one piece of software to treat me like a user, rather than an audio engineer. I need a timeline, sure, but FIRST I need to pick an instrument; either by plugging it in (and the software auto-recognizing it), or by selecting a synth. I also need to pick a controller, if it's a synth. THEN I need to be put into an area where I can immediately get feedback for that thing. I don't need it to ONLY play when I hit record, or when I'm logging to the timeline. I need to have an empty space where I can start doing "takes". Simple snippets that I can refer back to. Auto-split during "silence", so I don't have to scan through a massive timeline to find the bit I liked. Obviously the mixers and things need to be summonable, here, for tuning. But they don't necessarily need to already be present. I don't need 18 knobs for tuning while I'm scritching out a riff, or finding the melodic line with my voice. I need to be able to try a thing, edit the settings, try again, edit again, back and forth until I feel like I'm "here in the space".

Again, this is like...every recording studio I've ever been to. You take some time to get your gear set up and, while that's happening, you play the things and find your sound in this space. Yet every piece of audio software just pretends like all of their audio processing isn't a change to the "space". It treats audio input a kind of "pure" input which it will alter, but doesn't immediately let musicians get a feeling for that alteration. Instead, we get infinite complexity right up front because "that's how computers work" or "that's how the files are handled" or "it's based on older stuff that had such limited processing this was the only way it could be done; now people are used to it, so we can't change it".

All nonsense. I'm not asking for every DAW to be geared towards musicians, I'm asking for ONE. Let ProTools still be ProTools. Or Audacity still be Audacity. But I'd really love if someone could make software for a 6 year old to plug a guitar into and start playing.

*yes, I am in a position to make that kind of DAW, and yes I do have the requisite insight to build the thing I'm asking for. And, boy, if I ever get the time, it's on. But I won't be holding my breath for my other projects to clear out enough to make this happen.
You don't understand, it was promotion of _the right things_, it doesn't count as propaganda. /s
For me, that sense of being on high alert is less to do with airport security and more to do with feeling that nearly everyone and everything you interact with is some sort of low level scam. Overpriced food and drink, duty free, poor value upsells, the sea of manipulative advertising, plain old pickpockets, someone trying to sell you tickets for a chance to win a car, someone approaching you in a queue to do a “survey”…

It’s like browsing a Fandom site but in real life.
>Sometimes I take water from the toilet, but it's not safe to do on every airport.

You man the bathroom sink... right?
This is the way. If we all did that, our health care system would be the best the world has ever seen. We mostly do the opposite. We give up on our own agency in terms of our health outcomes, then get on ozympic and demand cheap insulin to go with the cheap soda pop and fast food we love so much.
Thanks. Yeah, I especially like how it saves space & makes for a very calm & uncluttered UI.
I think that people are uncomfortable with the idea that Google Maps is centralized and can unilaterally change what you see. Having an offline version of a map helps protect against sudden change (go forward or retroactive).

As an aside, I do really like organic maps. I keep it installed with downloaded maps for when I travel to places with poor signal, including hiking trails.
Where in the EU? Maybe you can file a GDPR complaint
> PHP

> Planetary

> What's the math behind?
Wait, the people who click phishing links now think AI output is facts ? Imagine my shock.
> Otherwise latency is not really a problem

This is absolutely not true. Latency in audio systems is important in almost every aspect of using a DAW
In the case of lobste.rs I think that there is no issue whatsoever and it is an overreaction.
HuffPo wrote a piece about us like a decade ago, and I've been meaning to write more about the technical evolution of the game..just haven't gotten around to it. Certainly interested in collaborating on something
distcc vs ccache?
It doesn't just magically happen, but it basically is a foregone conclusion. Nobody cares about a register that is off by 57 cents at the end of the day. You're going to waste WAY more money trying to hire "smart" cashiers at $5-$10 over the prevailing wage than you would just putting up with people who occasionally make errors in counting change.
> Let's take a look then. Firstly, is it replicable?

It's a survey of public statements by politicians, are you under the false belief that every white paper is tied to a novel experiment?