skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ Tesla sales were down 24% in the Netherlands, 42% in Sweden, 48% in both Norway and Denmark, 45% in France, 55% in Italy, 10% in Spain and 53% in Portugal, official data showed this week.

investors are still debating whether the EV maker remains overpriced.

Outside Europe, Australia reported a 66% drop in Tesla registrations in the month, while the brand's worldwide sales of cars produced in China were down 49% due to intense pressure from Chinese rivals.” [0]

How bad must it get before the board shows Musk the door?

0: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uk-new...
Brightcove was not a "generic app" in financial troubles. It was a well established enterprise businesses to businesses company. They will not even be able to honor current contracts.
I don’t think he can afford to fall out with Trump. Every company he has is exposed to multiple serious regulatory questions, he has personally made serious false claims to investors (e.g. FSD), the DOGE stuff exceeds his authority as a SGE so he’s dependent on Trump saying he had approval, and if they wanted to give him the same treatment Trump has promised activists they could even try to revoke his citizenship on the grounds that he’d violated his earlier student visa by working.

I don’t know that Musk fully recognizes this. Trump was addicted to X but he doesn’t need it to get elected any more and has been boosting Truth Social enough that I don’t think it has the same hold it once did. Similarly, while he has put a lot of money into elections it’s not clear that this will work for crossing Trump if the FEC, SEC, and DOJ are a lot less concerned with scrupulously appearing non-partisan, and nobody else in Republican politics is going to thank him for making them less powerful.
I honestly don't have a great one, which is less worrying than it might otherwise be since I'm not sure anyone else does either. But in a human context, I think intelligence requires some degree of creativity, self-motivation, and improvement through feedback. Put a bunch of humans on an island with various objects and the means for survival and they're going to do...something. Over enough time they're likely to do a lot of unpredictable somethings and turn coconuts into rocket ships or whatever. Put a bunch of LLMs on an equivalent island with equivalent ability to work with their environment and they're going to do precisely nothing at all.

On the computer side of things, I think at a minimum I'd want intelligence capable of taking advantage of the fact that it's a deterministic machine capable of unerringly performing various operations with perfect accuracy absent a stray cosmic ray or programming bug. Star Trek's Data struggled with human emotions and things like that, but at least he typically got the warp core calculations correct. Accepting LLMs with the accuracy of a particularly lazy intern feels like it misses the point of computers entirely.
Sounds like the LLM in its own way honestly enjoyed everything in its training data relating to that game and wanted to vicariously experience more about it from your feedback. :D
You have a right to know what you’re accused of. This person doesn’t even have charges filed against them.
I feel like this isn't the best ad, reads "wasn't my first choice"

Kia also later deleted the post: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/kia-trolls-elon-musk-on-s...
s/company/monopoly/
Couldn't have put it better myself. It's great for the problems nobody has ever had time to solve. It's the problems that fall just below the ROI threshold, that tend to pile up until you have hundreds to thousands of them, each with icky weird dependencies that are _exactly_ the reason nobody has time to work on them.

Now you can chip through a dozen of these complex issues a day, and hope has finally arisen for getting through the backlog. That's a life-changing difference for anyone with a legacy code base.
Elon should say "good show!" as it's up to his level of light-hearted fun troll.
> The more apt analogy is what would our roads look like if all traffic signals stopped working? People would still drive, but it would have to be at lower speeds, with more congestion, etc.

This happens pretty frequently with single signals, so we know what that looks like.

An unattended broken signal gets treated like a stop sign (by law), and this immediately blocks traffic. It's a total disaster.

If it happens anywhere near a population center, a human will be dispatched to cover for the broken signal and dysfunctional law by manually directing traffic, and this gets you almost all the way back to normal.

If every signal failed at once, that would cause much bigger problems, but in the event that we know we're unable to repair the signals, which is the case here, we wouldn't just try to muddle through using the existing roads and systems. We'd define new systems that worked better in the absence of traffic lights.
Bulldozers can be used to grade surfaces prior to buildings being constructed... Buildings in which crimes are committed, from financial fraud to outright murder.
> And they stopped loving them in the last 2 months because of the US, is that what you are trying to say?

And the others suddenly started hating on the US? Is that what you're saying? Because of the media? i.e. if someone says it on TV its true and not otherwise?

> I am not sure you actually understand what is being said to Canada/EU

I'm not sure why we're still discussing media appearances that you are fixated on. Trump has said a certain someone is a dictator and then said he never said it. He's just doing publicly what likely goes on privately. Just because the last president never spoke about it in public doesn't mean it wasn't considered either.

I doubt any government works purely based on press releases and the media. Actual intelligent agencies are equipped to analyze threats not what is spout on TV.
I can't help but feel a similarity to the entertainment industry's dynamics that sparked the meToo movement.

The issues are different of course, but there are common patterns of prestigious abusers, victims risking ostracism, etc.

I wonder if we'll end up seeing a similar movement in academia were we spend a few months watching big names taken down from their pedestal every few days.
It's more like 0.005%-0.02% of queries and like 0.001% of users depending on what statistics for Google you go by, but of course still very insignificant.
Ask HN: How to deal with last-minute changes by team lead derailing deadlines?
- We have a hard deadline for a feature.

- Early attempts to define the API were repeatedly dismissed ("too soon").

- Team proactively built API proposals (with docs, examples, OpenAPI spec).

- Two weeks before deadline, TL finally agreed to our approach.

- Two PRs in, while reviewing the final PR, TL changed their mind entirely. Wants to change the approach but is unable to express exactly what they want.

- Meeting is scheduled to discuss tomorrow afternoon, we're almost certainly going to miss the deadline.

How can I constructively handle this and avoid similar issues in the future?
> We are no longer allowed or trusted to make choices in our best interests.

Ironically (or not) this is the Apple side of the Android/iOS debate. And most people are happier with iOS. (And use Macs over Linux, FWIW.)

[I probably shouldn't mention that I personally think adblockers are unethical :) ]
> does not understand the social situation or just does not have it in him to hit back.

So I should adopt poor behavior because some other group did? There's sometimes a point to that for in person interactions with small groups but I don't see how that applies at larger scales. It becomes nothing more than an excuse for the poor behavior of your own in-group, which further exacerbates polarization for little to no benefit.

Realize that such behavior isn't going to change the mind of the opposition, and those in your group already agreed with you regardless. Then the bad behavior is a particularly harmful form of virtue signalling.
Internal vectors aren't in any particular language.
> On Wednesday, the day after Mr. Trump’s speech, the Semiconductor Industry Association organized a call with member companies, said three people familiar with the discussion. During the call, people chalked up Mr. Trump’s frustration with the law to personal animus with Mr. Biden.

Nobody can figure out what if anything Trump has a problem with…

Dudes is just a child throwing fits.
I didn’t have a Hacker News thread where George Pataki is held up as some fenian and British sailors shelling a starving mob are misunderstood, well-intentioned chaps on my bingo card.

Yet here we are. Should you ever find yourself up against the wall during the revolution, take solace that the boys don’t take it personally at all.
Honestly, I’d bet that the Canadian border officials sent her back knowing that this would force the US officials to do paperwork and therefore not be allowed to look the other way.

Border officials have wide latitude to ignore things, and for someone like this young lady they were definitely inclined to look the other way as long as they could.

Sadly, she’s collateral damage in a really dumb fued.
You're not wrong, but there's more to it than just hate. The tactic is to associate the real problems, economic insecurity, social isolation, etc with groups that are vulnerable to persecution and that people are primed to hate already. Deporting migrants is the proposed solution to economic woes and and a perception of high crime and low trust/alienation. Likewise the queerbashing and trans hate gets associated with the perceived problem of social discohesion and a general lack of control. These associations have been built up over a long time, and those wrapped up in the right wing media sphere view cruelty as both cathartic and effective means to fix what ails society.
Some will have insider knowledge of when tariffs will be announced or rescinded, etc. The volatility will be harvested for sure.
I also used to work in crypto professionally and quit over the clown show, but personally I saw lots of stuff that wasn't scams. There were a lot of scams though, very low ethical and professional standards across the board, just tons of stupidity and nativité... But even then there's tons of stuff possible that at least on philosophical principle I'm still really bullish on, and tons of interesting cryptographic tech is still coming out of there that will find a good home eventually.
I mean, for the most part does this actually matter? I think most of their wealth is in the form of stock in their respective companies isn't it? You only "lose" money with stock if you materialize it by selling at a loss.

They've done a good job bribing their way into presidential circles, the stock prices will probably bounce back.
VWP/ESTA is a "tourist visa" in all but name, and it's much more likely that a UK citizen would be using this instead of going through the full B2 visa application rigmarole.
It was not a "kill switch". If you are able to service some military aircraft to such extent that you fly combat missions, you probably can identify any "kill switches" and work around them. Just look at Iran that is still flying the US made F-4s.

What the US is doing with the F-16s in Ukraine is refusing to update the software on a jammer. The pace of technological evolution in the war is so extreme, that these jammers are in danger of becoming obsolete [1]:

> But the Russian air force could sidestep the jamming by reprogramming their radars to operate at slightly different frequencies. Under Biden, the USAF team might’ve kept pace with Russian adaptation by constantly adjusting the AN/ALQ-131s own frequencies. Under Trump, Ukrainian airmen are stuck with pods whose programming may soon be out of date.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/03/07/france-to-t...
The local laws include requiring a valid visa.
Actually, the company was (re)named after Leonardo da Vinci, see: https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2016/04/28/it-s-officia... (and then not named "Da Vinci").
Back to where? They were detained at the US land border after Canada denied them entry as well.
I’m an American of Pak origin. My point was that blasphemers there (PK) are treated judicially and socially like child pornographers here when plenty of actual child porn over there goes unpunished.

Asking people to amend those laws over there gets the exact same reaction you just had.
It’s especially bad when you think about the people who bought Teslas early. I’m sure the CEO of Toyota has views which would annoy many Prius owners but they’ve been wise enough to make it easy for prospective owners to never once even think about them, whereas Musk seems determined to make it impossible to ignore.
Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations
It says "aircraft engine" for me
Nikon has just released a powered zoom lens. So hopefully there will be more of these in the future.

https://www.nikon.com/company/news/2025/0213_imaging_02.html
It's not about the concrete details of a plan, it's the feeling, the messaging and the rhetoric. Kamala did not read that the electorate wanted a promise of dramatic action, and ran on competent administration and minor, incremental improvements while largely staying the course. That does not motivate people upset with the status quo to come out and vote.
> Isn't it likely that newer projects licensing under GPL are also unlikely to be using GitHub and instead be using a platform like GitLab or Forgejo (or previously Gitea or something)?

Why?

But let's assume you're correct. What better metric do we have about which license OSS projects are using?
Where was I wrong? I don't see any recent Chinese invasions listed here:

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

contrast with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
A while back itag 18 and 22, MP4 video that includes an audio track, seemed to disappear in favor of split video and audio, e.g., formats with video only like itag 136 and 137. This requires using ffmpeg to merge an audio track with the video. More recently, it appears they have brought back itag 18.
Elon Musk claims 'massive cyberattack' on X originated from the 'Ukraine area'
Previous post on this flagged and removed from HN
I completely agree, this is why I've always gotten annoyed at the libertarian proposition of "only have sales tax", I think usually called the "fair" tax, by eliminating all other taxes and setting sales tax to 10%.

A tax like that would disproportionately hurt the poor. Poor people spend roughly 100% of their income, meaning that their effective tax rate would be, you know, about 10%. A billionaire almost certainly does not spend anywhere near their entire income. If they spend 10% of their income, then their effective tax rate would be 1%.

This is also what annoys me about the stupid tariffs that are happening right now. The republicans are saying that the tariff income is going to be used to lower taxes. Since the consumers of the products are the ones who end up paying the tariffs one way or another, this means that these tax cuts are going to be mostly covered by spenders, likely a lot of poor people.
What small A/GPL projects are we talking about?
> Yes, copying IS theft - you are depriving the owner of the content from having you not having the content.

What does this even mean?
Yes, I'm reminded of how woefully the teachers at my grade school tried to stop bullying by... making them sit together and talk through a script. Usually finalized by a knock on the head as they were walking out, having perfectly finished their "remediation". I'm also reminded of how quickly problems were solved when you simply disobeyed the adults and hit them back. It got results. You might say that a grade school is very different than the world state. You might
This is very succinctly put and absolutely correct.
The same article also has another photo of a Creative-branded card. Other card brands also definitely marketed cards with ATI chips. I remember I had a R200-based card from some third-party manufacturer. ATI and Nvidia also had reference cards but I don't know if those ended up being sold in the mass market or not.
The point isn't to debate whether fascism might be a good thing in some abstract indulgence of moral relativism. Rather the point is for us Americans who have woken up to how our country is being full on attacked to discuss ways we might resist.
That is the point - after countless deaths we produced the principle of "carrying out a criminal order is a crime", yet we still see the people committing atrocities and going unpunished because they were just carrying out the orders. And that makes me think that we're still missing something important.
It is very hard to believe you are acting in good faith when you are repeatedly calling people bigoted.
Yes. Some need to be ported from 32 bit to 64 bit.

I have most of it in working condition or recompiled.
Eh. This all seems very backwards to me.

It seems to be a human tendency to want to oversimplify problems. It seems very wrong-headed to me to concentrate on one particular machine than for instance on that one influential guy had no appreciation for the jungle, plus whatever politics surrounded that, plus the desires/needs/etc of the surrounding communities, investors, etc.

Because yeah, the right machine sure helps get wrong things done faster, but it's not like we've ever lacked means to be inventive when we really want to, or just sheer pigheadedness to do it even if it was hard. If it's not a bulldozer it might be flamethrowers, defoliants, repurposed tanks, chainsaws, etc.

If enough people (or a few rich enough people) want a jungle gone, then they'll probably get that done sooner or later with whatever means they can. It's this bigger and more complex issue we should be looking into solving.
They aren't arbitrary. I picked the dates I did because they coincide with the widespread narrative of selloffs from tariffs and they are decent bounds on a period of stability for both.

Amazon is especially vulnerable to tariffs. To be clear, I'm not really staking out a hard position on gen AI being the one true cause here, I just don't find "it's just part of the overall tariff driven market decline" to be very convincing.
AIPAC, Christian zionism, misconceptions and lack of knowledge about Israel, and very strong Israeli lobbying in general
You're both right, it says aircraft engine in the article body but jet engine in the pull quote. They caught the error but forgot to update the latter.
The parent only provided financials from before the acquisition.
As a human, I like to think of this akin to how we walk/run/etc; eg, the act of Not Quite Falling Down.
DIY mesh networks (I'm speaking of Wi-Fi, not Meshtastic, but even that has its place), isolated pirateboxes, dead drops, and (horror of horrors) going to the pub and talking to people. It's trivial for a government to make the first one illegal and relatively trivial to enforce it, but difficult in increasing magnitude for them to actually control the remainder.
I remember those days, everything ran locally or through a fat client. You really used the hardware you had. I wish and pray we get back there
> The bulldozer we know today took shape in the first quarter of the 20th century. In 1917, the Russell Grader Manufacturing Company advertised a bulldozer in their catalog: a huge metal blade pulled by mules that could cut into the earth and flatten the land.

Isn't that just a "plow"?

We had horse-drawn plows well before the 20th century.
Yup! And if you are a little more technically inclined, combine it with nix home-manager/flakes/etc. and you have an entirely declarative, immutable, reproducable setup that largely works ootb and is easy to deploy.

Nvidia has been doing some work with open source drivers lately so hopefully support does improve.
Posts.. but why do you think that means a repost is in order?

(12 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43327261

(10 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43327178
For pilots, "restricted area" is already synonymous with "absolutely do not even think about going here" and is used for things like military testing and training areas that regularly use live ammo, extremely sensitive military or bases, etc. As a concrete example, Area 51 is in a "restricted area".
The author makes this point, too, and I agree it’s the most surprising thing about the entire scenario.

LLVM introduced a major CPython performance regression, and nobody noticed for six months?
The attacker can do that, but it will be immediately apparent for the receiver. The only thing you can do is a replay attack, which is useless, if the receiver has a clock that is accurate to within ~1 sec. It'll immediately recognize that the time stream is being tampered with when the next signature is out of whack.

You might be able to trick the receiver _once_ into not updating its position for a few seconds. After that, it'll mark the affected satellites as unreliable and will not use them.

It's functionally no different from just jamming them.
Sorry to be that person but: As someone who's been using NixOS as their daily driver for about three years (after switching to it from Debian) and is currently trying out a MacBook I can tell you that NixOS provides a very different experience than everything else you've mentioned (including macOS). The only other OS I'm aware of that it's comparable to is Guix System which is distantly related to NixOS.

NixOS in its unofficial "endgame" is more like a container where you can strictly define what files to keep between reboots and everything else gets thrown away. Except unlike a container it covers your entire filesystem (not just a single application) and it's actually usable for things like a laptop since you don't have to reboot between making changes. There's a popular blog post titled "Erase your darlings" that explains it in more detail[1]. And, like with a container image (but different in how it's done), NixOS forces you to write any and all changes to your system's programs or config as code that can be introspected and delivers repeatable results.

This is definitely not to everyone's taste but for me this is now the only way to keep computers "clean" in the long term (sans specialized distros like Talos Linux). I can just look at the source code to know exactly what I'm running and I can delete stuff I no longer want without having to think about leftover files or anything like that. Backups also get a lot simpler when you only have to think about the persistent volume of your system and your config and full restores are just a matter of reinstalling with your config in place.

macOS is gorgeous and I love how everything just works pretty much (except defining global keyboard shortcuts). But I've been so spoiled by NixOS catering to my config management obsession that everything else feels kind of primitive in that regard. My dream would be the macOS userland and kernel on top of Apple hardware but built and assembled with the Nix module system. And then some APFS magic to make an ephemeral root filesystem work.

(Also yes I've tried nix-darwin. Love it and I'm infinitely grateful it exists because I'm also using a MacBook at work but it's not the same kind of "complete" experience that NixOS provides.)

[1] https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/