skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COBOL 2023 just got out, and we get cool tooling like Visual COBOL for cool kids.

https://www.rocketsoftware.com/en-us/products/cobol/visual-c...

Anyway, as soon as LLM can reliably produce executables directly, languages will lose their value, it is the new Assembly to high level evolution.
His new "target" audience is mostly the prussian-rump-state that has been left behind in east germany, that yearns for a new "empire" similar to the russians. Funny though, the time of empires is the one where "hyper-trade" dependant germany was the most run-down it ever was. You do not jump other countries in a dark alley with 1 month of gasoline for tanks if things are going so well.
Damn. I didn't get the memo on containers being useless. Better tell my boss my last 3 months work is actually going to take a year.

On a serious note. What's missing in containers? Maybe they could be a bit more Nixxy? (Just use Nix to make the container)
The issue is that Tesla actually _could_ dominate the American market and several others. They have some quality issues and a big personality issue but if they ditched those and had an iconoclast who wasn't ... an autistic Nazi... at the helm Tesla could be Apple. They have a great product that is hampered by some failures (the personality of their leader, the failure of self-driving, the sizable minority of lemons they put on the sales floor).

But like, Tesla almost has the best car available on the market anywhere. Almost.

They could wipe the floor of any of the existing incumbents. Could.
Here too, in NZ, after his salute was the first time I've heard him mentioned in the non technical circle I'm part of. Although it's a group that wouldn't even think about a Tesla. Not because they're anti EV or anything, they just don't have much money.
Interesting

I have only worked on huge applications that take ages to spin up so bisect was never really an option.

> start doing something unrelated to the task
I would change branch to that — if I ever had liberty to change priorities like that.

I have not tried git switch thank you
Any smart shareholder will have sold their share by now. I'd expect all remaining shareholders to have truly bought into the Elon myth.
Interestingly, BYD is selling more cars in the UK than Tesla is.
lol I never said I think this means he cares. He cares only as far as being able to sell it. So ultimately he wants it to work and work well but if it works just good enough that those who are desperate for some fraction of improvement are will be willing to pay whatever he will be happy.
Was thinking the exact same thing - build real world real experience, and learn how to deal with other humans, perhaps with different goals than yours, at the same time.

Tech and the stuff around it is just one small dimension of the software engineering space.
Questioning the motivations and funding of a biased source is more generally viewed to be a Journalism 101 thing than a 1930s-1940s German thing.

Nor am I Elon Musk, which seems to be the subtext of this "you're doing it now" claim (one I find quite bizarre).
Yes the "Roman salute" was quite possibly invented by Jacques-Louis David. So what? The question isn't "did the salute match what actually was used 2,000 years ago," but "what salute did Elon Musk think he was doing?"

Either it was a real fascist salute, or a Hollywood roman salute. Either one is deeply troubling.
Simplicity is Key: "1,000 songs in your pocket."
(No - I was looking at the Washtenaw Co. totals.)

Here are the official precinct-by-precinct vote counts, in Ann Arbor:

https://electionresults.ewashtenaw.org/electionreporting/nov...

While you can find a precinct where the Greens got 3.5%, there are 52 precincts, and that number is an obvious outlier. There are far more where the Greens didn't even get 1%.

Interestingly, looking back at the County-wide results, the down-ticket Green candidates did much better than their Presidential candidate. That would suggest Green voters splitting their tickets - to vote against (presumably) Trump.
People are highly hierarchical, and the idea of a democracy where everyone is equal before the law is inherently incompatible with that.
What if you built a billion-story building? [video]
No, their work is valuable and they deserve to make money off of it.

The reason why it's valuable is it's transcribed live (usually with video) and is accurate and verifiable. Words and names are spelled correctly and speakers are correctly identified. Court reporters will stop speakers and ask for spelling or to repeat words.

AI transcriptions can't do that.
> talking about tyranny in this context is divorced from reality, and it is

This is plain false, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duopoly#Characteristics_of_duo...
As a German, it's both. The blatant power grab made him very unpopular anyway (though he was already seen as a person of low character by most who read about the cave diver who he falsely accused of being a pedophile [0]).

However, the Nazi salute was plainly absurd, and elicited a much more emotional response. I know that on this site there are many who defend him in this instance, either because they think "Germans should get over their guilt", or because they have fallen for picture comparisons with other politicians instead of looking at the videos [1].

The latter is just people falling for propaganda, nothing too interesting there. The former is of course a tempting viewpoint for those who have not had the same education about the holocaust that the average German receives, and looks in from the outside without understanding that it's not "guilt", or even a unique German burden that we put on ourselves. Instead, many of us (myself included) believe that it's the duty of all people, not just Germans, to make sure fascism doesn't rise again. We don't have a bigger duty, we just have more knowledge about it on average, so many of us tend to care more.

Sorry about the long diatribe here, I just wanted to get that out of the way because it always seems to come up anyway (and in fact did in another thread I read just minutes ago).

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180719123811/https://www.bbc.c...

[1] https://youtu.be/MXeG_mmXZGE
And ironically AI built this image based on the works of photographers that remain uncredited.
The implicit justification for valuing Tesla now is not "we sell good cars", it is state capture.
I'm pulling out my vegetarian pass to say, without hypocrisy, that Neuralink's animal testing record appears to be pretty horrific.
No it is just a (awful) trend nowadays. There are countless free Tesla stock photos: https://unsplash.com/s/photos/tesla
Mostly everyone using the same standard is amazing. Power tools batteries are the glaring failure. Kubernetes gets a lot of shit for being complicated, which it should, because it is, but I'm glad that enough people use it to manage their fleet of computers that I don't have to learn too many special cases for managing fleets of computers.

XKCD 927.
The target market of Trumpist populism and Tesla's premium electric vehicles are in different tax brackets.
We Hacked a Software Supply Chain for $50K
its bigger, shinier, faster, but still doesnt fly
Yeah but now people think he's turned completely nazi. His nazi salute was probably not a nazi salute, but it doesn't matter. People's perception of him has flipped completely. He spent a lot of his remaining goodwill.
A lot of this was down to the huge sales of the Model Y in Europe in the past year or two with subsidized loans at rock bottom rates. The lowest I saw was 0%. Obviously today that's no longer the case. Also the MY is due to be replaced so a lot of would be Tesla buyers are holding off. But I don't doubt that some part, perhaps even a large part, of this is down to personality.

So it'll be interesting to see what happens when the new Model Y is launched and how much they retake of this lost market share. My guess is, some, but not nearly all of it. People held their noses and bought the Tesla when they were at a huge (interest rate) discount. Tesla obviously can't give people long sub 1% loans and make a profit in 2025.

For me personally (in Europe, looking for a new EV this year) I'd be happy to pay more north of a $10k premium to not have the car that says Tesla on it.
Somewhat anecdotal, but I follow the used Tesla Model 3 market fairly closely in western Canada and have seen the number of listings triple over the last month or so.
Not sure if that's bad faith, but I will assume you did not understand my point.

My point was that it's not enough to say "If you use Rust, your code will run faster", because the language does not do it all. Most code out there is largely inefficient. The tendency is to pile up dependencies and frameworks to be more productive.

No need for Rust to make an ElectronJS app vastly more efficient.

Similarly, I recently wrote a TUI with a popular Rust TUI library, and it takes up to 10% CPU just by refreshing the view when typing a text. It's not my code, it's the (again, popular) library that explicitly doesn't consider that a problem. It's not because it is written in Rust that it is efficient, is it?
It doesn't help that full EVs are still at a kind of progressive-status-symbol stage of the adoption curve - the people who buy them are exactly the same people who'll see all the Nazi crap and be put off by it.
I have never "supported" anyone in that way in my whole (long) life. I just don't understand it. Is there some explanation for it?
Doesn't matter to the point at hand. Tesla has a bigger market cap than every other automaker _combined_. Tesla is bigger than the entire auto industry.

There is some justification for that number, based on the theory that Tesla is an energy and AI company with a side hustle in automobiles. But that is pure conjecture that only receives market support because Elon is at the helm.
The article is completely on point.

Personally, I don't think that Cloudflare is the best provider for Wasm at the Edge as everything needs to go through a Javascript layer that eventually hurts performance and prevents further optimization, but is a strong one nontheless (note: take everything with a grain of salt, even though I try hard to not be biased, I'm also founder of Wasmer)

> "The main thing holding back wider adoption is a lack of system interfaces. File access, networking, etc. But it's just a matter of time before these features get integrated."

Wasmer launched WASIX [1] a few years ago which fulfills the vision that the article describes. With WASIX you can have sandboxed access to:

1. Filesystem
2. Networking / Sockets
3. Processes
4. Threads

[1] https://wasix.org/
Maybe Germans don't want to buy cars from the company whose CEO did not one but two Nazi salutes on national television.

As a Tesla owner myself, it makes me very uncomfortable to think my car is remotely associated with a hate group. I wouldn't buy one today nor do I recommend it to others.
What Is Next Generation Software Composition Analysis?
Doesn't help you if the pilot flying is incapacitated by the toxic air in less than a minute, or crash in to mountains, as in the scenario posited in the video. Climbing out to an appropriate height to join the approach, reconfiguring the plane for landing etc, takes several minutes; an immediate forced 180 teardrop back to land is very challenging to execute successfully (see the tragedy at Jeju just before new year).
Would you prefer they do the R&D solely on humans? Or that they cease developing BCIs?
Britain's first power reactor was Calder Hall in 1956. Its often claimed to be the first which entered a national grid service role. And, it appears true given it entered service a year before Shippingport.

Despite having had a huge leading role in early reactor design, Canada's first power reactor was 1962.
Minified JS also makes that possible.
Know way of testing this (that I know at least), but I'm curious about how much the effect is Musk's politics and how much is other EVs catching up.

Politically, I'm fairly left wing, concerned about democracy and climate change. Elon Musk's politics is easily enough to make sure I'd never purchase anything he's associated with.

That said, for buying an EV, tradional car manufacturers have mostly caught up with where Tesla is now, as a European buyer, I could get a high quality EV much cheaper from longer established brands with more effecient supply chains.

Seems pretty tricky to try and untangle those two effects.
I find JJ to be what you get when you take a step back, evaluate everything that works in Git and try to find a design that accomplishes all those things with the fewest amount of concepts possible. Like a Git 2.0, if you will.

You can do most of the same things, but it's easier to understand it intuitively so you don't need to google or give up on the more advanced usages. And the things you do everyday you can do with fewer steps.

Couple that with colocated repos, meaning I can use JJ while everyone keeps on using Git, there wasn't really anything holding me back.
Anyone who likes a story for its own sake
The human mind will never cease to delight me, what an amazing read ^^
The outstanding task of "Implement OAuth" being overdue nearly a year hits too close to home.
We already know how to build search engines. The far better model is to give one to an LLM as a tool to use. The user gets the same interface but you're not spending your inference budget on data retrieval.
>>For quite a number of people the early 40s have some pretty brutal transitions in store.

For me it was caring for my dad in the hospital during COVID and his surgeries around the time. I had to often wake in the nights to drain his catheter. For some reasons, my mom would find it disgusting. And for some reason, not only did I not, my love for him only increased. We also spent a lot of time together which made me almost see him as an entirely a different person than the one I had known all life. It also increased my respect for him tremendously.

40s is such a coming of age time for us men. Its almost like the dawn of a new age.

My knees do feel like they hurt slight. Like just a little. And of course the hair begin to grey. All of a sudden you are in a totally different phase of life altogether.
when setup right, cherry-pick is simply more efficient.
>ESR is not a hacker, just a run-of-the-mill libertarian.

You may dislike esr's comments or find him appalling, but he is most definitely, by definition, a hacker.
Personally, I like AI photos but I understand the point you’re making.
I was complaining about lack of physical buttons in my VW compared to my BMW before it, but then I thought about it - what do I actually use? Climate control is set to 20C and stays there. Carplay starts when I board the car and resumes what it was doing the last ride. Seat and wheel heating start dependent on temperature. There is actually nothing to set besides window heating (dedicated buttons) and volume (slider and wheel buttons). I was a bit angry at capacitive wheel buttons, but since I've discovered that I can set speed by 10 steps with a swipe I have to say that I don't care that much.

I still think that Skoda has much better controls, though. They also look and work quite similar to the control in OP.
I have no extremely strong pro- or anti- Musk feelings, but the ADL (who seem to me to be the experts on antisemitism) say that’s not what that was.

https://x.com/ADL/status/1881474892022919403

There also doesn’t seem to be any corroborating data to suggest he’s a nazi. I’m all for calling a spade a spade if he is, but it seems that people are working backwards from the “I hate Musk” position rather than forwards from the facts.
> if you open two copies of the same repo and copy and paste code, you're doing it wrong

It has worked for 10+ years - is that really doing it wrong, or just doing it in a way different from you.

> into something that looks good

Is this a requirement? Or just out of being particular?

>squashed […] before review

Is deleting (obfuscating) the history of your approach (chain of thought) important to you? The reviewer will review the last commit anyway (always) so is this necessary other than subjective neatness? This can be squashed at the point it is merged

It appears you are very efficient at git. I am having difficulty understanding the real utility of much you described. I wonder if it is a justification for finding the fun in using more uncommon features of git, or for “neatness”? Which is fine.
As a counterpoint, there are several sophisticated investors and large funds holding substantial Tesla positions. I guess their hypothesis is that meme stocks will meme, markets can stay irrational longer than you can afford to stay on the fence.
As I understand it the salute was a calculated move to prevent a split of the MAGA crowd between the H1B-immigration-push top-hats and the no-immigrants-anywhere bottom-crowd. Nothing like a large gesture to distract the plebs both in and out of the echo-bubble. And the fact that there so many occurences of the number 88 in Tesla's prices, test-speeds, anywhere an arbitrary two-digit value can be inserted, well, it's plausibly deniable right?
> In marketing, story reminds people of their problem.

You mean creates needs, right?
Easy, anything Khronos related.
Java's SecurityManager was cool at the start, but over the years there was a steady series of ways to side step it. And now Oracle are wholly deleting it in JDK 25 - https://openjdk.org/jeps/486. It was a stand out feature IMO, and I'll miss it.
Please check out the 88 all over Tesla's docs and car attributes and prices, and reconsider.
Statically compiled portable binaries will replace containers.

Maybe not, but one can dream at least.

What do we need containers for, if we can build a service in a binary that you can throw on any Linux of the past 20 years and it just starts to serve network requests?

What do we need to support other platforms if the server world is one big Linux monoculture and the next best platforms are just a cross-compile away?

Why wouldn't I compile everything statically if containers don't share libraries anyway?
The videos are remarkable. He moves like a person on a touchpad, rather than a quadriplegic. Incredible technology. The joy it is going to bring to so many is going to be wonderful to see.
How is this different than a Nest thermostat? It's got a rotating knob you push in to switch modes and haptic feedback for clicks
And this is how we get "the length of 5000 olympic pools", "the length of 200 747s placed nose to tail" etc.

Like really, people can't understand 155 miles/250km, or 8.8 miles/14.2km?
I think not having ads at all might be a better situation.
I have no opinion on whether JJ is good but I am pretty confident your impression about the reason for its shortcomings is wrong.

Google has a basically tolerable and pretty easy-to-learn Mercurial-based frontend for its bizarre legacy Perforce system.

Everything about JJ screams to me that it's been created as the passion project of someone who really wants to build a better VCS, making it compatible with Git was necessary to give it a chance of adoption, and making it compatible with Piper (Google's Perforce thing) was a way to get it funded as a potential benefit to Google.

Top-down Google engineering would never produce a project like this IMO.
For me, it really was the final straw. I won't be getting another Tesla after my leasing contract ends in 3 years.
There is a semantic difference. If you just copy paste code from the master branch to a release branch it might be unclear where that code came from. A cherry pick makes it clear that you ported a bugfix from the master to the release branch.

You obviously don't need many git features if you are working alone or with only 1-2 team members but the bigger the organization the more complex the git workflow becomes.
I know I'm growing old but this is the kind of tech application that I don't like. Arts should be the last thing to be 100% fully done by a program. Enhancing capabilities in artists? Hell yeah. Replacing completely voice actors? No, thanks.
You'd think after the first round of bad Greek financial behaviour this would be stomped on. But, if politico's reportage can be taken at face value, when Greek government auditors raised alarm bells, they got sidelined, repeatedly, by the agriculture minister.
Let's Buy California from Trump – Denmark's Next Big Adventure
Maybe in California :) In other places you need defrost, windshield defog etc.

I regularly cross our (small) mountains on holidays and that means temperature and humidity outside can change every 20 min on a trip as you go from a depression to a mountain pass and back to a different depression with a different weather.

The target temperature control stays unmoved, but i randomly have to turn on and off the defog, for example. Can't keep the defog on all the time because it pushes a ton of hot air to the windshield and then in my face, rather keep it off when i don't need it.

Hey speaking of fog, do Teslas even have fog lights? How many layers of menu do you have to go through to turn them on and off?
Most Brits aren't wealthy, BYD are aggressively priced - as are other Chinese brands like Omoda. New prices for full EV compare pretty favourably to ICE cars from the traditional mid-market brands, the Fords / Volkswagens / Vauxhalls.
New model will be coming out. Most are waiting for it.
I've had terrible luck with those drives, out of 12, 10 failed within a couple of years. Not a same batch issue as they were purchased over the period of about 6-8 months and not even from the same place.

Yet I've got Toshibas that run hot and are loud as heck that seem to keep going forever.
If I open the local Facebook Marketplace equivalent, it is now full of people making bumper stickers saying "I bought this before Elon went crazy".
In Norway it was down almost 40% compared to same month last year[1].

However monthly Tesla numbers has historically had a high month-to-month variance, and they had very good numbers at the end of last year[2].

So at least here I wouldn't say we're seeing a trend just yet.

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/tesla-salget-stupte-i-norge-i-jan...

[2]: https://www.tek.no/nyheter/nyhet/i/4BV7LE/bilsalget-ny-tesla...
Those stay, in my experience so far.
Just so you know, my downvote for this !@*(% comment is one of the few ways we Germans dare to be patriotic.
Weird that comments point out this obvious truth are all downvoted. Also, he is firing all FBI agents that worked on the case against Capitol attack. They are succeeding in making legal system composed of loyalist that will not prosecute his people crimes, but will abuse political oposition.
What about reviews by independend testers and user experience by trusted source? You just let Google and Amazon sell you what currently make for them more money regardless of product quality?
Seems unlikely that someone with this profile [0] would be an oligarch booster. It seems more likely that it's about Maciej's slow rightwards shift [1].

[0] https://www.gyford.com/phil/about/

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3lhkkre2h422z
Yeah, eBPF is another one of those speculative execution improvement tools.

I haven't had a chance to look at Wiz, I would assume they would make their own kernel module that inspects things based on a very slim ABI requirement.

Their customer base (according to their page) is fortune 500 companies, most of those only move off unsupported releases when they are forced to, it is unlikely they use new syscalls.
Hasn't this been around for ~4 months? Interesting to see this here, since their competitor Zyphra, just released two Apache 2.0 licensed open weights TTS models yesterday[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004589