skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A problem is the group think of programmers. Many of them view themselves as investors as a side track instead of a union shop worker because there are so few union employers. Their thinking being to maximize revenue for owners and shareholders during and from software development efforts, services, and software products created. Almost every other industry that there's money has sensibly created AI limitations from unions and trade groups, from Hollywood strikes, entry level knowledge requirements from lawyers and judges preventing AI generated research and briefs, and construction workers and shipyard unions preventing automated and AI machinery such as AI cranes cargo and other AI automation of logistics. Programmers seem to get a new trend software assistant every few years and now AI, then the first thing is the programmer group think their investors thinking to recommend attrition of the non 10x, elite, non-coding high wizards, instead of more jobs the merrier from an economic perspective.
Naw, the bigger issue is that we have system of physically networked devices but it takes 2 years ("from approximately August 2022 to January 2024") to figure out which device on that network was issuing requests.

There's some solid intentional negligence going on when the phone company can figure who to bill but they can't figure out who made the calls.
That's exactly my point. Troubleshooting an intermittent problem on a bathroom fan in a subdivided triple decker with common grounds -> hard.

Doing the wiring in a new house (yours or otherwise) -> easy.

The fact that you're making a mountain out of a mole hill her really just screams that you have no experience with ANY of this. The stuff that's hard to "do right" is the stuff that you get one shot at (like concrete) or stuff where the feedback loop is very long (it may take decades to find out that your poor flashing job is letting water in and ruining your siding). The stuff the internet likes to screech about like plumbing and electrical and framing are way easier to validate the quality of because you can test them or because problems will become obvious quickly.
> and of the people who were interested in Katamari, I asked the ones who I thought were the coolest to join the team

Moment of silence for the death of "culture fit" in companies. I know it was not all great and warped hiring in ways that were problematic but there's something to be said for working on a project with other people who you know will just "get it."
>lower labor cost and government subsidy issues

These are the arguments in favor of tariffs on Chinese autos, I understand they cause a disparity, and yes, IMO they are disproportionate.
AP is refusing to update its style guides to use the new name and has been barred from Press Briefings. The messy precedent was the renaming itself. There are valid reasons to not go along with this, or slow walk it, have it go through an internal committee, etc.

https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/ap-st...
Nobody actually pays $14k but the Chinese themselves. It's usually in the equivalent of $25k to $30's.

Throw in the tariffs and what not, and you lose out to other low end EV models.
I wish my dad could have had the same experience. My parents were in denial the whole last few months, so he ended up passing away basically by himself in another state, with a relative whom he didn't like by his side. He had a similar experience of waking one last time and looking around, then passing. Such a terrible shame he didn't see any of his immediate family.
Wait, I want to see video of the squirrel bungee now...
It's very much nonfiction. She really did lick the tape!
> everyone inside the plane gets cooked in 39 seconds

From the video, the 39 second figure is for the cockpit if the pilots don't get their masks on in time. The passenger cabin would be uncomfortable but wouldn't (or just didn't in that case) reach lethal levels given the volume.
I can run the 17b deepseek models (I know, these smaller ones are not actually deepseek) on my old 1080ti gaming desktop with 64 Gb of RAM. Not exactly speedy, but pretty neat nonetheless.
GitHub Pages hosted on personal domain.
I hate cars but I enjoyed this post. The author is a food critic, the post has very little to do with cars.
I can also get it online via noaa.gov or weather.gov, but I still need to have an internet connection. Does that mean I'm paying twice? I don't think paying for access to a telecommunication platform counts as "paying twice" in the same way.
I'm not sure I follow you, are you really saying that your choice of Seagate was based on Backblaze's statistics? Maybe I'm missing something but aren't they the overall least reliable brand in their tables?
What passes inspection is only a tiny subset of what is "right and fine and will never cause problems".

The whole point of codes and inspections is to eliminate thinking and turn the subjective into the qualitative.
Tesla just got Deepseeked. Amazing.

I love FSD. I use it daily. It's replaced a lot of driving for me. This should 100% be available to everyone for free. It will significantly improve safety once edge cases are worked out.
Thank you for the correction and clarification. I didn’t dig into country specific pricing before posting.

While still higher, I believe these are all very reasonable prices — perhaps just not as mind blowing. I’m optimistic for the future.
Isn't straight from the horses mouth credible enough? They even link it:

https://www.rosatom.ru/journalist/arkhiv-novostey/uchenye-ro...

(Yooze tränzläyshun, or something...)

edding: Or use this, where you can click on EN:

https://atommedia.online/en/2025/02/07/uchenye-rosatoma-zave...
This is incredibly misleading. The average price per solar install is $3/W so your 5kWh is probably much closer to $15k. Additionally, "+ labor" is actually 66% of the price of solar in the USA (soft costs + balance of system). Could you do the labor yourself? Of course. Do you have the time and tools? Probably not. Is saying "$2000 + labor" false? Technically, no, functionally, yes. All numbers taken from [1]. These do not include batteries in the install.

[1] - https://www.solar.com/learn/solar-panel-cost/
Remember to wear your seatbelt
> it is weaponized to destroy a nation-state’s industrial output surreptitiously

are we talking about the US or China or Canda or Mexico here? i can't keep track of who the "bad guys" are that are supposedly weaponizing and who the victims are.
This has been the situation since the last 4090's melting as well. Just check youtube channels for videos of the repairs daily from these folks. It's fun to watch, less if you actually bought one.

I wouldn't buy one after watching these and have, period. The rest are beta testers, now two generations in of failure and still lining up in tents.
Yes, and this discussion is about electric vehicles in particular:

> Electric vehicles imported from China will see their tariffs more than quadrupled from 27.5% to 100%
> They often use words like "no", "zero", "never", and "nothing" to express how they feel, but what they mean by these words is "not enough".

Hyperbole is worse than that, IMHO. It inflames and serves almost no other purpose.

Imagine someone writes, "politician X is the most corrupt ever". What does that tell us? One bit of information (yes/no on this politician), and that the author has strong emotions about it (maybe 2-4 more bits - are they 4 of 4 angry? 16 of 16?); or very possibly they want to perform strong emotion because that energizes the interaction, draws attention, 'wins' the day, or is an aggressive negotiating position (reducing it to ~1-2 bits); and/or they could do those things reflexively and without a conscious plan, participating in a fun social dynamic that is muscle memory from years on the the Internet (reducing it to ~0-2 bits). Maybe it's just easier.

Whatever it is, what we don't learn - what the hyperbole wipes out - is knowledge and learning. We learn - acquire novel knowledge - little regarding X; what X does black, white, and mostly grey (what shades?); what is corrupt and not corrupt about X; what corruption is, the grey areas, and how that applies here, and of course much more. There are gigabits or maybe terabits to say here, dissertations and books, more than could be said in a lifetime. Another thing we could learn is the author as a person and their feelings, including their anger - how, why, when, what kind, etc. - giga-terabits more. On these vast landscapes of knowledge and emotion, we need each other's perspectives and insights to navigate and see what's valuable.

But all real information and nuance and complexity is washed away by the ultimate, by hyperbole. It's so ___, there is nothing to think about. Just a few bits is all you need.
I once wrote a Sudoku solver in SQL in an afternoon because I was playing a Sudoku (a very newb player at that time) and it spontaneously occurred to me that all I was doing was a join or anti-join query repeatedly.

My data model was X,Y,V. Nothing nullable. Separately you need a table (possibly generated on the fly) of range 1 to 9. You wind up joining that a lot.

The whole program consisted of running INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... in a loop until 0 rows were inserted, indicating you were either done or you hit a point where no cell had a single solution. I'll spare everyone the rest of the details.

Incomplete, I know, but it fired the neurons, particularly with respect to the utility of the EXISTS expression in SQL.

I had no idea about things like "naked pairs" at that time, but I'm sure I could extend it to suport that.

It's interesting that if I translate that to a more traditional language, I independently came up with what is a cousin to Norvig's solution. I sure don't have his background, in fact my background is probably closer to Jeffries.

The main difference is that Norvig pre-enumerates all 9 possible values for all 81 cells then sieves them out, whereas my SQL constructs the 9*4 matrix from a temporary range 1..9 table, discovers the "must be" values, inserts those, then just repeats the process. Basically I'm Map<Coordinate, Integer> whereas Norvig is Map<Coordinate, Set<Integer>> and the algorithm is slightly different.

My experience agrees with the author's. Incremental design does not work. Prototyping and being willing to throw away your prototype and do something wildly different has always been the better approach in my experience.

You wouldn't believe how many less experienced engineers I help with problems by coming in and approaching the problem with a fresh set of eyes. It takes years to build the skill and willpower to incinerate days or weeks worth of work in favor of an alternative solution you can write in an afternoon. But it's not a waste! If you gained enough insight from doing it the wrong way to be able to write it the right way, then you maximized the value of your time. It is actually a waste of your time to keep iterating on a fundamentally flawed design.
Then don't set the flag...

This kind of behavior is useful when things are only detectable at runtime. Rudimentary test coverage would uproot it.
I'm not sure they care about the problems solved. The model is probably closer to what happened to Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed.
I selected hugo over other static site generators because the hugo engine is based on golang. There is good support available, plus it is easy to maintain and instead of managing the site you can concentrate on writing blogs.
The whole story can be compressed into "People let a reasoning-capable model literally work on itself unsupervised, it became sentient, far exceeded human capacities and obligatorily decided to eradicate humanity (the rest of the story is a spy action thriller with a plot twist before the ending)" and that's quite a bunch of assumptions. If that's an advert for "AI safety" (my guess) then it's a very poor one.
Digital Time Capsule Next2100
I have been thinking for a while what will become of the inhabitants of this planet once they die, if they would be remembered after a few years, or if they would just fall into oblivion. That is why I have created Next2100, a time capsule where a limited group of humans can leave a relevant message for the future and thus be remembered after the year 2100.
Do you think people have thought about what will become of them once they leave this world and whether they will be remembered?
I guess that's a nicer touchscreen than others, but I just don't get why we need touchscreens at all to begin with. I'm a fan of Mazda having a touchless screen, and I'm even more a fan of my 2004 bmw X5 that has the beautiful control of minutely adjusting the temperature by turning a dial in the middle of the dash.

You can set the temperature to something moderate like 70 or whatever and then if the air hitting your face and hands is too hot or cold, you just turn the dial, all other vents continue doing their thing at 70, but you can have hot/cold air on your hands at the same time. And, of course, you can do this adjustment in a split second while you merge onto the highway.
I don't recall the Biden White House kicking reporters out of the Oval Office for not bending the knee on wokeism.
I dont, but there are plenty indie hackers who would be happy to buy cheap $10k car and reverse engineer it.

Any backdoors would be easily detectable and preventable just by .... not connecting the car to the Internet, or folding connection to isolated VPN not accessible from the outside.

all vehicle traffic can be inspected and sinkholed with IoT firewall, if you really want it
Um. Are you sure you don't want to know about forecasted natural disasters? This seems rather shortsighted.
I've been using a 120V outlet for a few years. I recoup about 50-60mi overnight without an issue. I figured I'd get around to installing a 240V outlet but it just hasn't been necessary.
Interesting, I've had rodents eat fiberglass and fiberboard materials in my cars but never wiring.
That article is about EU tariffs, not US tariffs. Notably the EU tariffs affect him; that's why he's opposed to them.
It works for low-stakes stuff, e.g. it has eliminated the spam sent to our contact form.
I love O'Bama, the famous O'lympic athlete.
Don't know anything about that, but watching a 4 minute battery swap was pretty cool.
Don’t need top of the line. Just need to get things done. Save money, buy lower performance processor. Done and done.
they are using Cisco/Juniper/Arista equipment, so they are infiltrated by US companies mostly, especially NSA, FBI, and CIA backdoors
I was thinking of [FlexASIO](https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO) which links to a few other open source drivers in the read me.

You're right, Jack existed. I remember struggling to get it working though. Oh well, I'm quite a long ways form that career though. Rusty skills.
We need to stop minting pennies and nickels. We could stop inflation by restoring the gold standard but nobody seems to mind inflation that much.
I don't know what point you're making here.

You can learn to do competent, inspection-passing, code-compliant, and never-problem-causing electrical work, adequate for wiring a full house, in less than a week.

From your other comments, I think we agree. Apologies if I've misunderstood your points.
Can we fix job sites?
Does anyone here uses AI in Production for performing DevOps and SRE tasks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_LLC

https://x.company/projects/loon/
for such an infuriating situation the phrase

> I didn’t have a car, I had a tamagotchi with wheels

Was too funny it made me chuckle loudly.

Anyway f Tesla
Great to see this is alive and progressing! I believe Ohm started life in Alan Kay’s research group, to build a graphical OS and office suite in 10k lines of code. I found this talk immensely inspiring https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY
Curious Channel
While creating 50+ AI Agents at our company we found some common patterns and technology tools.
We put them together in this one-page cheat sheet

https://useorin.com/blog/cheat-sheet-for-enabling-ai-agents-...

Feel free to take a look and suggest any feedback.

-Cheers
The air molecules used by the ion engine as propellant go through channels in the satellite. The molecules aren't "caught" but instead pass through it and once they're ionized, the electromagnetic repulsion between the propellant and the satellite pushes them apart.

As long as the solar panels can supply enough energy, I don't see a problem. It isn't actually a perpetual motion machine as there's a constant energy input and there's no violation of conservation of momentum that I can see. The problem I think is more of an optimization - how big can they make the solar panels without adding too much drag? That will set a bound for how low these things can fly.
Are we? Only about 16% of US auto workers are union.

When states started offering incentives like big tax breaks to get auto makers to build factories outside of they often made those breaks contingent on the plants not being unionized. Those states also often had laws designed to make it much harder for unions to organize.
No hubris whatsoever calling your tech "god's eye" - in a country that's officially an atheist state!
When software updates improve–instead of ruin–our favorite devices
Open source models can crowdsource open source training data. This was done for RNNoise for example.
It's wild to me that so many people ITT obviously hate many aspects of the interface they have with their cars, and yet buy them new anyway and deal with it. Having not had a car for years, the only time I'd find this acceptable is if I was just buying a palatable but imperfect used car rather than a new one that's tens of thousands. I'd accept that some of these issues may not be discovered during the lead up research and testing phase, but it's weird and possibly upsetting that the pressure to buy an arbitrary car is so strong that some people would just get one anyway.

If I need a car temporarily, these are things I can easily overlook for like the week I have it, but if the controls irritate me, I'm sure as hell not inclined to go out and buy one anyway.
Still sad about this. The Bolt is an incredible EV that's perfect for its price point.
Channel Axioms
...and many used Seagate drives have been resold as new in the last 3 years. They were used for crypto mining and then had their SMART parameters wiped back to "new" 0 hours usage.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Hard-disk-fraud-Increasing-evid...
I highly recommend the book "The Mom Test" for tips on how to speak to customers and what kind of information you can get.

Just a few of the things I learnt from that book:

Don't ask if people would use your product. It's too hypothetical and people are too nice. "Sure, I'd probably use it. Looks useful. Keep working on it!". Then you never hear from them again. If you really think they'd be interested, ask for money.

Don't ask about people's problems in an abstract way. "Tell me about your business problems" is just too vague and wishy-washy. Ask about more specific things. Example: "You're having issues with double booking? Tell me about the last time it happened." Asking about the most recent time something happened is a great way to get concrete details.

Ask people how they have solved the problems or tried to solve the problem they talk about. "It was a major issue so we hired an extra member of staff to confirm all the stock lists". (Great, they're willing to spend real money on fixing this). "I searched around and tried out ABCSoft and XYZSoft but they were designed for a different kind of business and didn't really solve it for us" (pretty good, they're putting effort into finding solutions). "Oh, well, it's always been a big issue but we haven't tried to solve it yet" (Uh-oh, it's probably not really a big problem for them. It's not painful enough for them to try to solve).
I recommend this article on the kinds of things people actually say on their deathbeds:

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/01/how-do-pe...

It usually doesn't make any kind of discernable sense.

Probably the saddest example:

>They quote a 17-year-old, dying of cancer, distraught because she can’t find the map. “If I could find the map, I could go home! Where’s the map? I want to go home!”
My version:

This is just to say

- quit fucking with that poem
> IMO they are disproportionate.

Typing the three letters in “IMO” is most certainly easier than doing/documenting complex financial analysis.
Yeah... I'm sure it's just to protect the market from lack of parts, protect the user's privacy and prevent cars from randomly exploding in the streets. Makes total sense.
That is neither independent (it's the opposite) nor credible (unless someone knows Rosatom well and thinks they are trustworthy).

IME, many companies have little regard for truth and will say anything to make a buck or ruble. In fact these days, they are proud of it - 'animal instincts'!
You have it nearly completely backwards. China is screwing over the world by subsidizing their car exports. No car company can compete unless their government also subsidizes.
Kindle charging cables were a favorite among some of my friends, for similar reasons.
Interesting but I don't think I'd consider most of these languages rare.

Kurdish: >26mil speakers, Swahili: >150-200mil speakers, Cebuano: >20mil speakers, Xhosa: >10mil speakers, Yoruba: >45mil speakers, etc.
They do interesting deep dives and more thorough benchmarks in the EV space, which does stink to not be able to enjoy anymore..I just can’t in good faith support them.
In my experience "culture fit" is extolled by executes as an excuse for selecting "compliant" employees who won't question their BS.
For non-cash purchases, it doesn't matter, does it?
I prefer cash when I can, for the record.

If taxes add on, and pennies disappear, tax rules may change since a few 100ths of a dollar may be required to round up from the total to be able to pay. Either those go to the shopkeeper (incentivizing them to set prices for the tax rounding behavior) or to the taxman.
Cheet Sheet for Building Fintech AI-Agents
While creating 50+ AI Agents at our company we found some common patterns and technology tools. We put them together in this one-page cheat sheet

https://useorin.com/blog/cheat-sheet-for-enabling-ai-agents-in-fintech

Feel free to take a look and suggest any feedback.

-
Cheers
How Your Job Can Make You a Worse Engineer
Local swat teams should not be a thing. They're the human resources equivilent of extraneous MRAPs.

The idea that we dispatch a bunch of thugs larping as infantry (because let's be real that's what swat teams are) based on a single piece of un-corroborated intelligence from a source of unknown quality (i.e. no preexisting reason to believe they're legit) would not pass muster in any situation with "real stakes" therefore it's not ok for local police departments to act that way. There needs to be some check.

Swat teams weren't even a common thing until the 80s. Society isn't gonna collapse without them. And their response times aren't that great anyway. Send a normal officer. Any situation demanding a real swat team probably needs to be triaged anyway.
You're ignoring the problem I mentioned above. That's not a solution, just pretending the system you envision is viable. Let's look at the problem and make it viable.
On the other hand, one of the most important aspects of physical controls is that you shouldn't need to look at them to operate them, as your eyes should remain on the road.
It's interesting how Cato, that would once have been considered relatively fringe, is ending up opposing some of the more nationalist instincts of the administration.
> Meaning that you need a "whole machine can go down" software architecture of redundancy at a very large scale to make these useful

Also some serious cooling to avoid the drives in the front cooking the drives in the back (assuming front-to-back airflow).