skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla itself hasn't figured out how to make a profitable EV
It's been a zombie for a while...
I suffered through this in two companies and man, it isn't easy.

First one was a multi-billion-Unicorn had everything converted to microservices, with everything customized in Kubernetes. One day I even had to fix a few bugs in the service mesh because the guy who wrote it left and I was the only person not fighting fires able to write the language it was in. I left right after the backend-of-the-frontend failed to sustain traffic during a month where they literally had zero customers (Corona).

At the second one there was a mandate to rewrite everything to microservices and it took another team 5 months to migrate a single 100-line class I wrote into a microservice. It just wasn't meant to be. Then the only guy who knows how the infrastructure works got burnout after being yelled at too many times and then got demoted, and last I heard is at home with depression.

Weak leadership doesn't even begin to describe it, especially the second.

But remembering it is a nice reminder that a job is just a means of getting a payment.
Because that’s not really relevant; Java is a memory safe language and the JVM is written in C++, Ruby is a memory safe language and it’s written in C.
Do you work for EA? Because they haven’t announced or released such a thing. A year ago a developer hinted there might be another remaster in the future, but it could just as easily be Generals as RA2.
We are in 2025 now. DEI has been born and died since the administration you refer to, let alone there was no DOGE at that time. Have another hot take?
I concur. I looked pretty hard into adapting Serf as part of a custom service mesh and it had some bonkers designs such as a big "everything" interface used just to break a cyclic module dependency (perhaps between the CLI and the library? I don't recall exactly), as well as lots of stuff that only made sense if you wanted "something to run Consul on top of" rather than a carefully-designed tool of its own with limited but cohesive scope. It seemed like a lot of brittle "just-so" code, which to some extent is probably due to how Go discourages abstraction, but really rubbed me the wrong way.
I get a laugh out of HN comments maybe 5 times in a good year. You got me with this one!
Maybe it's just confirmation bias but the language in your result output seems higher quality that previous models. Seems more natural and eloquent.
Well, if someone misunderstands and sends their payment by 1:45ET or 1:45CT, it's not a problem for the bank.
The three big papers: clocks [0], Paxos [1], Byzantine generals [2].

[0] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf

[1] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-paxos.pdf

[2] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/byz.pdf

Or, if you prefer wiki articles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault

I don't know that I would call it "solved", but he certainly contributed a huge amount to the field.
We do supplying to contractors, and do takeoffs for single family homes. Not tracked, one off's for framing material. You mentioned your co-founder has built tract homes so my words might not apply to your target customer.

Here are things to consider:

Experienced builders don't care about the takeoffs on a big picture basis, the takeoffs are usually wrong, even if perfectly done. In our experience half of drawings we receive, are heavily revised by the order is approved (heavily revised meaning over 10% has changed). EWP, structural metal need to be accurate but framing lumber, and sheet good can be off on counts at the lift quantity (+-1 lift for an average house).

Suppliers aren't responsible for the takeoff so the amount the quote is negligible (see drawing revisions, and trades can misallocate the materials - This can't be reasonably traced). Over? The customer ends up paying less, under? The customer pays more. This has been universal where I am (Ontario, Canada).

A large minority of plans are missing key elements (like sheer walls), pointing out, and showing these differences would be a big value add for the consumer (contractors using the materials) by the supplier.

Good customers understand that lumber is a commodity, a lower price this week can flip next week, and they'll contact their preferred vendor about the differences.

There's always a preferred vendor.

Not great customers will shoot drawing off to multiple suppliers, causing them all to do the same takeoff, wasting time, and money, only to deal with the same issues above. They'll still go back to their preferred vendor to get the lowest price.

Summary of the above is: EWP, and structural metal are key items because they rarely change, framing lumber, and sheathing requirements change all the time. What you're looking at is helping suppliers capture the bad customers (which are often the biggest, to be clear), but saving suppliers the time handling them is great. Also, accuracy, and pricing isn't that important (with caveats).

This isn't a statistically significant sample size, consider it anecdotal.
Nearly certainly they were not. Any stock holder would be blacked out including existing investors.
Tensara – Optimize, Benchmark, Repeat
At a glance, none of these appear to be meaningfully worse than GPT-4.5
Thank you. I got this Nate Silver article in my inbox on how Musk is some sorta special genius because he was born to wealth and won the PayPal lottery, and thought I was going insane.

https://www.natesilver.net/p/elon-musk-and-spiky-intelligenc...
For now! 1 month in!
> If I wanted, I could have gotten a Hyundai or a Chevy equally well. Tesla just isn't the only or even best game in town, and hasn't been for years

I'm yet to find an EV with the same range, acceleration and price point as the model 3 LR. Many seem to beat it on two but not three points. The Polstar is close. The ID.4 has less range, double the time 0-100 and (prices not confirmed yet in Australia but) expected to be $10-20k more expensive.
'Cruel and thoughtless': Trump fires hundreds at US climate agency Noaa
Not my favorite (they’re all my favorites!), but maybe most underrated: Under Suspicion (2000).

The film’s only reason to exist is to put Hackman and Morgan Freeman in a room together sparring for 90 minutes. That’s more than good enough.
Were there any games or apps specifically tied to these cards, or did everything go through D3D at this point?

I remember some earlier titles that were locked to specific cards such as the Matrox ones and didn't support any other accelerators.
Awesome! This is a huge opportunity to help a lot of people (clients, subcontractors and builders). A lot of money and time is wasted by the current inefficiencies. We gave takeoff construction plan parsing a go in 2022-2023 but couldn’t get the AI part to work well enough (and still haven’t been able to even with the latest ViT/ CLIP models). There was a lot of interest though!

- You’re right, data is very hard to come by. I’m curious, how do you plan to get around this? Outsourcing human labeling? We found it to be a very difficult task.

- The subcontractors and local construction companies we talked to were overwhelming excited about the idea.

- It’s entire people’s jobs to get this done and done correctly. They sit on site holding the pdfs in their hands, manually counting and calculating. You bet a lot of mistakes occur. They would absolutely love to have a digital assistant for this.

- Some of them (especially managers and owners) are quite technical and are using software such as BlueBeam and other CAD software to make these calculations. It’s quite manual currently, but gives great insight into a better solution. This led us to having the user manually select the symbol they wanted counted (which ML struggled to get right). Just getting the part counts (and highlighting them in the pdf) was a huge help!

- Impressive you got square footage calculations correct! In our experience, there was way too much variation between architects (and multistep dimension labeling) which made it hard (even for humans) to get right. How has your model generalized OOD thus far?

- Are you planning to integrate voice? Many of the subcontractors we worked with are very low tech. They usually talk with their clients in person, on the phone, or maybe text. But they don’t use email or their smart phones for much.

I will be following your work! I have friends who would love to use this once it passes the human threshold.
What happens if you forget the lifecycle annotations or put them in the wrong place or you accidentally delete them? Last time I checked it was data loss, but that was a few years ago.
Wild to think of Mr. Van Dyke as an avid Amiga user as well.
What happens when you run `terraform apply`? Arguably, a lot of things, but at its core it:

- Computes a list of resources and their expected state (where computation is generally proportional to the number of resources).

- Synchronizes the remote state by looking up each of these resources (where network ingress/egress is proportional to the number of resources).

- Compares the expected state to the remote state (again, where computation is generally proportional to the number of resources).

- Executes API calls to make the remote state match the expected state (again, where network ingress/egress is proportional to the number of resources).

- Stores the new state (where space is most certainly proportional to the number of resources)

This is a bit simplified, but my point is that in each of the five operations, the number of resources can be used as a predictor for the consumed compute resources (network/cpu/memory/disk). A customer with 10k resources is necessarily going to consume more compute resources than one with 10 resources.
Local massage therapists called him Gene “Whackman.” Having grown up in Santa Fe amongst a large group of massage therapists (my mother taught massage to many decades ago), many knew about his behavior from their personal experiences but somehow never reported it. Sort of interesting.
UDP? Websocket?
Neo4j is pretty bad and very dated. No idea what they’re doing. MemGraph is a much better tool.

Really graph is a feature and not a product.
After reading a closer source (machine-translated), I apologize, especially since the issue is media literacy.

Your comment was near enough to the facts that I was wrong to be a scold.

* https://archive.ph/vml0k German newspaper

* https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/57108 random English discussion of source
Digitizing the federal retirement system seems like a great project that could benefit from private sector expertise. If DOGE focused on stuff like this, they could do a lot of good. Instead they're playing chaos monkey with the federal government and breaking all sorts of critically important things.
Most analyses I've read say the threshold is around the 80% mark [1], although it depends on how model the distribution, and there's nothing magical about the number. The main thing is to avoid getting close to 100%, because wait times go up exponentially as you get closer to the max.

Little's Law is fundamental to queueing theory, but there's also the less well-known Kingman's formula, which incorporates variability of arrival rate and task size [2].

[1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/01/30/server-utilization...

[2] https://taborsky.cz/posts/2021/kingman-formula/
You think that it isn’t possible to have an emotional model of a human? Why, because you think it is too complex?

Empathy done well seems like 1:1 mapping at an emotional level, but that doesn’t imply to me that it couldn’t be done at a different level of modeling. Empathy can be done poorly, and then it is projecting.
I'd assume any driver source code, which the Linux world has produced a lot of, can serve as a source (pun intended) of documentation.

There's also https://envytools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hw/intro.html
Here you go[0]! Docs are linked in the README, and there’s also a recent blog post about it[1].

In any case, make sure to reach out via the website chat widget / email / demo form, we’re happy to help!

The migration from Terraform to OpenTofu is pretty seamless right now, and documented in the OpenTofu docs[2].

[0]: https://github.com/spacelift-io/spacelift-migration-kit

[1]: https://spacelift.io/blog/how-to-migrate-from-terraform-clou...

[2]: https://opentofu.org/docs/intro/migration/

Disclaimer: work at Spacelift
Exploring the World of OTA Scams
It's a bit off topic I guess, but I actually see that as a fringe benefit as opposed to a drawback. Other than some exceptional edge cases I'm opposed to item possession itself being illegal - it all comes down to usage. (To be clear, I'm not opposed to strict ID recording requirements in some not-quite-as-exceptional edge cases.)
Throwaway acct for obvious reasons

I worked at The Boring Company at a relatively high ranking role. I stayed as long as I did because I loved the challenge - deadlines are crazy, and its a high stress high reward environment. Until the work started impacting my personal life, I didn't really have a problem with it.
Steve Davis is a micromanager to the extreme, which is one of the worst parts of the job. If you perform well in the environment, you're rewarded for it by getting less oversight by Steve. It's an incentive to stick with the company. In addition, my ISO package was very handsome.

I left due to the previously mentioned personal life impacts, and the increasing political bias of the company. I'm relatively left leaning, and prior to the election, Elon visited and stated that it was crucial that Trump won to secure the future of the company for deregulation. Steve Davis also kept leaning onto this in our all hands. All in all, it just became too much for me.
Very nice tool. I like the way you can do searches like "find papers over 10 pages long written in last 4 years on ..."
This book was truly excellent. Shows the precursor network triggering similar benefits and harms to its successors. Also a great narrative that recalibrated my sense of how significant technology develops. It took a long time, with many detours and many players.
Fed Epstein's Black Book Names into Grok
The text file was so big it crashed my laptop
SEC halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions
As a designer of Weitek's VGA core, this is a very interesting read. I had no idea how valuable the core was to nVidia. As Weitek was going under, I also remember interviewing with 3dfx and thinking how arrogant they were. I'm not surprised they eventually lost
You don't need 0-60 in under 6 seconds.

I say this as a driver of a Polestar. It's just silly.

In fact it's mostly dangerous. I won't pay for the upgrade to the "performance" package because 4.5 seconds is already crazy enough.

Also consider we non-Tesla owners get luxuries like an actual dashboard, turn stalk... and body panels that fit together properly.
I can't wait until someone creates a Raspberry Pi mainboard for this laptop!
I don't know why but something about this section made me chuckle

"""
These perspectives highlight that there remains nuance—even appreciation—of explorative model advancement not solely focused on immediate commercial viability
"""

Feels like the model is seeking validation
I also own an ID4, I'm actually on my second lease (had a 2021, now a 2024). I originally had some skepticism from friends since I went non-Tesla, but I love the car. I also appreciate that it's not tied to Musk (and has Android Auto).
Small discussions (25+10 points, 3 days ago, 4+2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43166990
> "We don't really know what this is good for, but spent a lot of money and time making it and are under intense pressure to announce new things right now. If you can figure something out, we need you to help us."

Having worked at my fair share of big tech companies (while preferring to stay in smaller startups), in so many of these tech announcement I can feel the pressure the PM had from leadership, and hear the quiet cries of the one to two experience engineers on the team arguing sprint after sprint that "this doesn't make sense!"
Sibling discussion (might be worth unifying): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187423
Yeah, Automattic and Matt Mullenweg have completely lost the benefit of the doubt for me after their bad behavior dealing with the Tumblr community.

https://mashable.com/article/tumblr-transphobia-matt-mullenw...
It's still dropped from new installations, requiring users to actively go seek the classic version, and Microsoft has been nagging classic users to switch to the new Outlook for a while now.

While Outlook classic is not dead and buried yet, it's firmly sitting in the casket while Microsoft is pushing down to close the lid.
Sibling discussion (might be worth unifying): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194536
Verizon could lose FAA contract to Elon Musk's Starlink – report
Honestly, I regard that as a plus.
Hitler loved dogs. And they loved him.

Remember that next time someone says that dogs can tell which people are good and bad.
You might enjoy this talk by Erik Lindholm (now retired), who talks about Riva 128 and many of the other early Nvidia cards: https://ubc.ca.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=880a...
It didn't seem to bother Musk beforehand...
If you set your 'center' at your personal position, instead of the center of the population as a whole, you get weird results.

I.e. to someone else, Fox News isn't advocating to deport all non-whites, therefore they're just the right side of the left-wing blob.

In real life, left-wing means left-wing relative the population, not relative to you personally.
A bit challenging since none of the repositories I looked at actually compile.

EA says that if you remove (or refactor!) the dependencies it might work but I don't know if that's high enough confidence to dive in.
We've been in a world for 10-15 years where recommendation systems needed tons of data and tons of compute. That drove things towards a) large user bases and b) largely free-to-use, ad-supported models (it was only very expensive to produce audio and video where subscription based models worked, a la Spotify and Netflix).

The resurgence of long-form text (Substack) definitely seems to rhyme with the earlier days of blogs and forums. It does seem like people still like to write things and put them on the web. What's interesting is whether the technological paradigm has changed enough to where you could get interesting get discovery without getting mired in the slop of social media.
Too bad I have brown hair. Well, had. It's mostly gray now. And I eat a lot of broccoli.
Perhaps parent is starting the clock with the KIM-1 in 1975?
The ID4 software is so bad VW is basically buying rivian. I don't factor politics into car purchases, just value for money.
Imagine if the US had a President and Commander in Chief with that kind of disposition!
I appreciate the source, but a website that advertises Michio Kaku is deeply disappointing.
> I'm absolutely opposed to Musk and happy to see anyone trying to diminish his power

Midterms!!
>To use the compiled binaries, you must own the game. The C&C Remastered Collection is available for purchase on EA App or Steam.

Mind you EA released [some of] the games as freeware back in 2008 so no, you don't have to buy them for the graphics, art, sound, and music assets

Tiberian Dawn GDI https://web.archive.org/web/20110927141135/http://na.llnet.c...

Tiberian Dawn NOD https://web.archive.org/web/20111104060230/http://na.llnet.c...

Tiberian Sun (though no source code was released for this game) https://web.archive.org/web/20110823002110/http://na.llnet.c...

Red Alert Allied https://web.archive.org/web/20100130215623/http://na.llnet.c...

Red Alert Soviet https://web.archive.org/web/20100130220258/http://na.llnet.c...
Lots of people wish for the failures of profitable businesses. The sooner the better for us to be off oil the better for the planet. The slave trade employed many people and was extremely profitable. There's no reason to care about Starlink being successful.
Tesla has some of the best (positive) margins in the business. Are you saying they're making profitable EVs accidentally and without figuring it out?
Lamport's website has his collected works. The paper to start with is "Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system." Read it closely all the way to the end. Everyone seems to miss the last couple sections for some reason.
It doesn’t really matter since the USA will invade Mexico in the next year as part of a new anti-terrorisim initiative initially aimed at drug cartels. As that escalates many things will get carved out for corporate interests.

I’m not saying I support this. But this is the reality.
The author claimed no competing interests, yet his research is used for the patents. We'll see how it plays out in the real world after all the stardust settles.
Blender: Projects to Look Forward to in 2025
The B^alpha Language
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgd9v3r69qo

> Shares in electric car maker Tesla have slumped more than 9% after EU and UK sales fell by almost half in January.
Except minus 4.5, because at these prices and results there's essentially no reason not to just use one of the existing models if you're going to be dynamically routing anyway.
You still haven't provided a single example that the desires of the boss are actually being reflected in the operation of CNN.

Jeff Bezos wanted the Washington Post to go soft on Trump. Here are concrete examples of his interference:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/25/jeff-bezos-killed-washington...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/washing...

Now your turn.
Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice
TypeScript code extracted from the official Claude Code package by Anthropic
Hey Patrick, this is rare, it does happen, but usually (almost always) it's that something was missed in the takeoff, the updated plan wasn't submitted to the yard, or the drawings were missing elements.

I agree with your point, having a second, impartial source is important to confirm the ballpark.
Jeff is a consumer electronics influencer, but I want to say how important Jeff's work is to many children and adults looking to expand their knowledge in an accessible manner.
You're still missing the point of my raising that the CDC in recent history claimed that transmissibility isn't possible from birds to humans. They didn't claim we don't know if its possible, they claimed that it isn't which implies that scientific research has found that transmission didn't work.

Raising that here is important because in an earlier comment you said only a quack would claim that transmissibility hasn't been proven.

You even seem to acknowledge here that it hasn't been tested or proven yet, or that we even bother testing it today. Field research is all well and good, and it often is the best we can do in the moment, but that doesn't change what the research and data shows.

We don't do controlled studies to test transmissibility, meaning we don't test for transmissibility, meaning it has yet to be proven. I'm not sure how that chain of reasoning leaps to the realm of quackery.

> "we didn't think it was this way before, but now we think it? Impossible!"

There's a solid argument behind this view though (to be clear, I don't see that as an argument Trump has made).

Science is a well defined process. When we haven't studied transmissibility for whatever reason we simply can't say that transmission isn't possible.

As soon as the CDC gets out over their skis and makes that claim without scientific research to back it up they turned a scientific question into a political one. They can't say whether transmission is possible or not. By making this claim they're only trying to reassure the public of something they want people to believe but can't actually prove.