skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m unsure if the Trump effect was holding TSLA up vs the realization that FSD as a product is goalposts on wheels and the steep, very apparent drop off in global vehicle sales causing the price to head towards a fundamentals valuation. Doesn’t help that BYD is giving away their self driving capability vs Tesla charging for the software.

Elon Musk is about to masterfully move the goalpost on Tesla Full Self-Driving - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43013264 - Feb 2025

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
>You can't remotely detect that somebody is training an AI.

There are training runs in progress that will use billions of dollars of electricity and GPUs. Quite detectable -- and stoppable by any government that wants to stop such things from happening on territory it controls.

And certainly we can reduce the economic incentive for investing money on such a run by banning AI-based services like ChatGPT.
I don't believe your scare tactics.
There are also large swaths of America where not paying for parking is done on principle. I live in SoCal, and the paid public parking lots were (until recently) free for an hour, then $1.50 per hour after that. I would see things like a BMW 7-series circling the blocks looking for a free spot on the street.

I ran the math and the lease on a 7-series at the time was nearly $1.50/hour!
Mantis shrimp clubs filter sound to mitigate damage
you think it's bad now... Wait till tesla starts selling optimus at scale and SpaceX starts controlling strategically valuable resources in LEO by space mining. Elon's not the one you need to worry about, it's his son X.
But it is emphatically not like that, because Musk fans aren't saying he should keep doing what he's good at: Telling SpaceX to shoot for the moon and feeding them cash

Musk fans keep insisting he should get more and more control of my life as an individual who has no interest in buying his products or using his businesses because they aren't good products for me.

They keep insisting that I AM WRONG for being upset about an outright asshole forcing himself into my life.
I was replying to

> when the has it ever been the case that you can just say "no" to the world developing a new technology?
If they changed something in the last year, maybe. But last time I dug into this in detail they screwed it up out of the box, specifically by refusing to use the same mp3 ID3 tag that most other software including Picard uses. So for FLACs it worked, but for MP3s it did not, until I went in and edited the code.

At the time, the developers claimed changing it to work as people would expect it to would break existing user workflows and so they wouldn't do it.
Thanks for your feedback! Technically it's very simple. Used Laravel and some html+css. Lots to improve but does the job.
If you're a fan of the holographic brain, you could postulate that perhaps the brain’s usual filtering mechanisms are being sufficiently degraded to allow for consciousness to tap into nonlocal holographic information. Or perhaps its a feature, returning you the "cosmic source" of all life and knowledge.
Mixing politics and business is a terrible idea in that case.

He had tons of money, lot of fun tech to play with, but wanted power and more women, now he became unofficial US president.

So what will come next is people hating his decisions, and not supporting his businesses.
Right, and it is this amount of energy in a single particle. A ping-pong ball is comprised of who-knows-how-many billions of particles, so the energy of any one particle is a fraction of the whole.
Linux 6.13 Performance for 250Hz vs. 1000Hz Timer Frequency Comparison
I might do it if the commits in my stack are mostly independent and I want to commute the ones with `TODO` to be later. This might be so that I can

- run checks on the sequence of done commits, without getting wrong/unhelpful results because of the presence of an unfinished commit in the sequence

- put the done commits up for review now

(This is predicated on certain workflows being acceptable / useful for the user, such as modifying existing commits and reordering commits.)

It's also just an example. You can swap in your favorite query into `-r` if you don't have any need for moving `TODO` commits around. Regardless, Git is not easily able to replicate most such invocations.

I previously meant to link to the jj revset docs here: https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/v0.26.0/revsets/
'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
The declaration itself, if anyone's interested: https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2025/02/11/statement...

Signed by 60 countries out of "more than 100 participants", it just looks comically pathetic except "China" part:

Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Djibouti, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Uruguay, Vatican, European Union, African Union Commission.
Her views about Russia and Syria are seriously problematic. How can anyone look past that?
> typical body builder expends about 1 horse power while performing

Close, but ackshually...

Bodybuilders just oil up and pose in beauty pageants.

1 horsepower is basically one 250-pound bench press in one second. (550 foot pounds of work; the aforementioned bench press assumes a 2.2-foot stroke length.)

Most bodybuilders and serious weight lifters can do that, but they can't keep it up for long.
> And there is no reason to think that AGI would have desire.

The entire point of utilizing this tool is to feed it a desire and have it produce an appropriate output based upon that desire. Not only that, it's entire training corpus is filled with examples of our human desires. So either humans give it desire or it trains itself to function based on the inertia of "goal-seeking" which are effectively the same thing.
I think EFF will have a difficult time trying to identify any illegal disclosure to unauthorized personnel. The lawsuit is speculative at this point, and discovery will likely show that personal information was not disclosed outside of DOGE. If their claim is that DOGE is unauthorized, their arguments will be novel.
You've cited a small number of people including radicals like Assange who believe basically all information should be public, no matter the possible damage. That doesn't establish a pattern like the many political prisoners China has and continues to imprison.

> millions of murdered innocent people [...] China has no such track record

No, China, since becoming Communist, has specialized more in murdering their own citizens.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/help-me-understand-all-the-...

Anyway, thanks for providing a great exhibit of exactly what I was talking about: either CCP propaganda, or hopelessly naïve Westerner bent on believing in these two nations' moral equivalency. This is the same level of honest discourse we'll see heavily promoted on TikTok when China invades Taiwan in a few months or years, saying "China and the US are the same, so who cares if they take over a democracy by force."
Focusing on your own feet proved to be near-sighted to a fault in 2022; how sure are you that it is adequately future-proofed in 2025?
Relative to them, we most certainly are. By every objective metric, humanity has flourished in "the last generations." I get it that people are stressed today -- people have always been stressed. It is, in a sense, fundamental to the human condition.
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
- Douglas Adams
> No one uses jj.

Plenty of people use jj. It just doesn't seem like that to you because it's client-side.
I feel like post-Microsoft Steve Ballmer is really killing it.

Acquired also did an episode on Microsoft which paints Ballmer in an interesting positive light I hadn’t heard elsewhere: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/microsoft
I literally don't understand what makes a death a "sad" death. People are acting like this should be common knowledge, but I've never heard that before. Death is death. What makes one a sad one? If there are sad ones, does that mean people are having happy deaths? What about gleeful deaths?
That's fair. If the client for your media server sucks on one of your preferred platforms, that's a death sentence. Jellyfin's Xbox One client switched a few months ago to using a Chromium-based web view instead of a legacy EdgeHTML-based one, so that might fix a lot of the problems you had with it, if you ever want to give it another shot. Keep in mind you can install both Plex and Jellyfin on the same server pointed at the same media library if you want.
None of those things were said "no" to before they were used and in a wide-spread manner.

The closest might be nuclear power, we know we can do it, we did it, but lots of places said no to it, and further developments have vastly slowed down.
Based on reading that one, it seems like the takeaways are fairly opposed.
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and we've had to ask you this already.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
An octet is a group of 8 bits. Today we normally use the word "byte" instead. The term is often used in older internet protocols and comes from an era where bytes were not necessarily 8 bits.
There is kind of a market for server side vulnerabilities but I'm not sure if you would call it grey. I suspect ZDI will purchase commodity server side vulnerabilities (https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/). So stuff like apache, nginx, and maybe opensource webapps that have a narrower usage.
High-Flying Science: How and Why We Sent a Refrigerator Halfway to Space – NIST
I live in a country that has had a very successful programme of affirmative action, following roughly three generations of open, systemic racism (Maori school students where kept out of university and the professions as a matter of public policy)

Now we are starting to get Maori doctors and lawyers that is transforming our society - for the better IMO

That was because the law and medical schools went out of their way to recruit Maori students. To start with they were hard to find as nobody in their families (being Maori, and forbidden) had been to university

If you do not do anything about where people start then saying "aim for equal chance" can become a tool of oppression and keeping the opportunities for those who already have them.

Nuance is useful. I have heard many bizarre stories out of the USA about people blindly applying DEI with not much thought or planning. But there are many many places where carefully applied policies have made everybody's life better
Probably for a reason similar to why Microsoft won't change this behaviour: "Zone.Identifier Files when downloading from Windows to WSL file structure" (https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/7456)
Latency to where? Speedtest servers or cell towers?
Generally I can't help but see 'more powerful than the government' claims forever poisoned from their shallow use in the context of cryptography.

Where it was used in a rhetorical tantrum throwing response to their power refuse to do the impossible like make an encryption backdoor 'only for good guys' and have the sheer temerity to stand against arbitrary exercises of authority by using the courts to check them only to their actual power.

If actual 'more powerful than the states' occurs they have nobody to blame but themselves for crying wolf.
Trail: Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Alcohol Use Disorder
Is it the UAW who has forced the automakers to make primarily those high-profit trucks, and to only design terrible EVs?

In my opinion the reason why we're in the dark ages of EVs is that a majority of Americans have range anxiety so our EVs have to weigh a lot and cost a lot to have 250 mile batteries, whereas everywhere else you can buy a car with an 80 mile range for a price poor people can actually afford.

Note - the range anxiety is both because of our car-centric (sub)urban design encouraging lifestyles where you drive 100 miles a day, and because of how a large number of urban dwellers and even suburban non-rich have no garages to do home charging. (And it's objectively far worse to own an EV for anyone who can't charge it at home.) All of this causes people to refuse to buy cars with say, 75-100 miles of range unless they're hybrids.
Would they prefer that only USSR had an H-bomb, but not USA?
Except 90% of modern day Germans would not go out and bring Nazi salutes, dream of empire and try to turn one of the worlds superpowers into a technocracy.
You hand-wave this away with "This has been known for decades"… Well, why does it take an unelected South African to step up and fix it?

The reality is that just because something has been “known for decades” doesn’t mean it has been addressed—especially in government bureaucracies, where inefficiency, inertia, and misaligned incentives often prevent meaningful reform. The persistence of outdated Social Security records, massive waste, and fraud is a perfect example of systemic dysfunction.

The president, as the chief executive, has broad authority to ensure that executive agencies function efficiently and effectively. While there are statutory and congressional constraints, the executive branch is ultimately responsible for implementing policies and running departments. If existing bureaucrats and Treasury officials have had access to this data for years but failed to act, then it is not only within the president’s prerogative but arguably his duty to bring in outside expertise—whether that be Musk or anyone else—to tackle waste and inefficiency.
> The entire thing is little more than a thought experiment.

Yes. Nobody can predict the future.

> but the idea it'll happen any day now, and by accident is bullshit.

We agree on that one: it won't be sudden, and it won't be by accident.

> I believe it is possible, but the idea it'll happen any day now, and by accident is bullshit.

Exactly. Not by accident. But if you believe it's possible, then we are both doomers.

The thing is, there are forces at play that want this. It's all of us. We in society want to remove other human beings from the chain of value. I use ChatGPT today to not pay a human editor. My boss uses Suno AI to play generated music with pro-productivty slogans before Teams meetings. The moment the owners of my enterprise believe it's possible to replace their highly paid engineers with AIs, they will do it. My bosses don't need to lift a finger today to ensure that future. Other people have already imagined it, and thus, already today we have well-founded AI companies doing their best to develop the technology. Their investors see an opportunity on making highly-skilled labor cheaper, and they are dumping their money into that enterprise. Better hardware, better models, better harnesses for those models. All of that is happening at speed. I'm not counting on accidents there. If anything, I'm counting on accidents Chernobyl style that make us realize, when there is still time, if we are stepping into danger.
Hi, I appreciate the effort you put into running benchmarks and writing a blog post about it.

However, I wanted to share some issues I found with your benchmarking approach that I believe are worth addressing:

1. Testing on a MacBook laptop is not a good idea due to thermal throttling. At some point, the numbers become meaningless.

2. I am not very familiar with Graviton CPUs, and after checking the AWS website, it is not clear to me whether they are virtualized. Since they are labeled as "vCPUs," I assume they are virtualized. Virtualized CPUs are not ideal for benchmarking because they can suffer from work-stealing and noisy neighbor effects.

3. The replication factor in Kafka's "Getting Started" guide is set to 1, which is also the case for Fluvio. However, in real-world scenarios, RF=3 is typically used. A more representative benchmark should include RF=3.

4. You mentioned: "Given that Apache Kafka is the standard in distributed streaming, and it’s possible for intelligent builders to extrapolate the comparable RedPanda performance." However, this is not accurate. RedPanda uses a one-thread-per-core model with Direct I/O, which results in significantly better performance.

How to Address These Issues:

1. It would be preferable to test on a bare-metal server-grade CPU rather than virtualized hardware, such as i3.metal instances on AWS.
2. Run the benchmark with RF=3 to reflect real-world usage more accurately.
3. It would be more insightful to compare against RedPanda, as both Fluvio and RedPanda use non-garbage-collected programming languages. The goal should be to evaluate how well Fluvio scales with increasing CPU counts.

Cheers.
What happens when a country fails?
> runs on GNU/Linux distributions, macOS, Windows, *BSD, OpenSolaris, and other UNIX-like systems.

> Each platform’s native UI toolkit is employed to deliver the best experience

> GTK2, GTK3, ALSA and PulseAudio on Unix systems

If the author is here, please understand that there is no "native" UI toolkit for Linux or BSD. These platforms have several widely-used desktop environments, some of which use the Qt toolkit instead of Gtk.

For what it's worth, Qt is an excellent cross-platform toolkit, and does a far better job than Gtk at looking and feeling native across all the major desktop environments and operating systems. You might consider it instead of Gtk for future work.
Reliably Replicating Data Between PostgreSQL and ClickHouse
"signs of authoritarianism" is a smear. Either you have evidence of it, or not. A good example of authoritarianism is restricting freedom of speech, such as when Biden's administration worked with the social media companies to censor, as revealed in the Twitter Files, and then which they continued to do with USAID in collaboration with other countries where our tech companies operate. Another example is requiring DEI statements to obtain favors from the government, such as grants, since DEI statements are declarations of fealty to an ideology, rather than anything based on evidence (e.g., you failed the test if you said that you would follow evidence-based approaches to improving inclusion).
> I Googled "without compromising on speed" and didn't find a formal definition. Would you mind helping me there?

It's not a formal term. The meaning was clear though.

> But... are you sure that it would be impossible to write faster code (even if you did it perfectly in assembly) than what Rust generates when you use `RefCell`?

Absolutely!

https://godbolt.org/z/aMPfqz396

The second example is what you'd do if you were writing C or assembly. Rust takes the safer option by default.

> Is `RefCell` zero-cost? That's not my understanding.

I think you are misunderstanding what "zero-cost" means. Or maybe what RefCell does. RefCell checks are runtime if a value is borrowed by some other code. It's kind of like a single-threaded mutex. You can't implement that in assembly any better, so it is zero cost.

You are probably thinking "but in C you don't need to use RefCell at all!", and that is true but unsafe. You can avoid that in Rust, but nobody does because it's 2 instructions (which will be perfectly branch predicted) so it essentially costs nothing.

It's kind of like how `std::vector::at()` is still a zero-cost abstraction in C++. The thing you are abstracting is "array access with bounds check". You can't perform that function any better with hand-written assembly. Saying "aha, but in C we never bother with bounds checks!" doesn't invalidate that.
But unlike Apple, Microsoft stopped using Thumbs.db in Vista, 18 years ago.
Neat! Both Linux and Git are examples of terrible product names.
> What are you talking about?

Your tone is aggressive and uncalled for. In fact, the fact that you have never found a very common bug says a lot about your inattention to detail.

There's no "keep forever on device" button, which to me seems like a basic functionality. If the app decides to delete them, it will.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1b04rzy/apple_what_wer...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23736536

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/344271/books-autom...
Yes I tried this for awhile but I hit some very odd issue with the bazel plugin and the codebase I work on. It went away when I switched to Goland.

I haven't tried again to see if newer versions have fixed the issue.
What you say could be correct for a lot of technologies, but not this one. E Ink tech do not have much traction because of "E Ink" the company and their patents. Basically it's highly proprietary and they dont want to give away control over know-how and production. Until major patents expire no one will it touch with a ten-foot pole.
> Serialization is trivial in PowerShell

There isn't really. For a lot of PowerShell objects, there's no way of converting them to JSON or XML. Imagine what happens if you convert a closure to JSON? It doesn't matter what language you use, it's always going to be a problem.

You are simply too inexperienced with the subject to be able to have a judgement on how (well) it works.

Trust me, it's anything but "trivial".
You seem to think that if we refuse this bet, you are somehow safe to live out the rest of your life. (If you are old, replace "you" with "your children".)

The discussion started when someone argued that even if this AI juggernaut were in fact very dangerous, there is no way to stop it. When I pushed back on the second part of that, you reject my push-back. On what basis? I hope it is not, "I just want things to keep on going the way they are," as if ignoring the AI danger somehow makes the AI danger go away.
Okay, but the thesis is: "Just because someone wants to immigrate to the US doesn't mean they should be allowed. This is the underlying truth that is indisputable."

There is part of Norway where anyone is allowed to immigrate to, so long as they follow the same rules which equally apply to Norwegian citizens.

That one counter-example would seem to put the thesis into dispute.

The appeal to 'uncontrolled influx of foreigners' is just strawman xenophobia, since even in the 19-oughts when immigration was one percent of the US population every year, there were still controls, and not everyone was accepted.
It is poor form to condemn someone from asking a question.

Thank you for providing the information to clear up ignorance though.
Many very costly things could happen if you forget the Munich lesson.
It's easier to stop Putin there than to let him have it and spend 10x on the next war.
Oh, that's really cool you have something similar there too. I like that you stay in edit mode as you navigate from note to note with the shortcuts. I think that's one of the things that makes Card Buddy work really well. I tried to make it feel like editing a spreadsheet. In the app, you can navigate to empty cells in the canvas using the arrow keys and then create a card on the spot by typing some text. It makes it super fast to fill in the board if you have a lot of thoughts you want to get down right away.
Do two wrongs make a right?