skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musk and Tesla could have dominated the US EV market for years to come had he stuck with the core clean energy message and not surrounded himself with sycophants and publicly acted like a racist jerk. It’s like a modern retelling of The Emperor’s New Clothes.
Oh no, it is in an undergrad thesis probably rotting in some library.
Facebook had the same kind of noble mission Google once had. Google's mission was to make information universally accessible. Facebook's was to connect people.

There are lots of reasons FB beat MySpace. MySpace was really a different product. It was focused on your homepage, really. Facebook was one of the first to introduce an algorithmic feed. I would also disagree that people were "tricked" into using their real names. This greatly helped with discoverability and it's actually what most people want.

As for Facebook scraping third-party sites... citation needed. I mean this was great for Facebook's advertising business but it's really no different to the DoubleClick (and ultimately Google) pixel, which is to say it's a high-level profile of pages you visit (that have the pixel).

As for the games, Facebook didn't kill those. Mobile did. And I'm sorry, but nothing will make me feel sorry for Mark Pincus and Zynga [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3218774
The orchestra analogy is actually pretty good. An orchestra with a few great instrumentalists will perform so much better than one without them, even if most instrumentalists are very mediocre. Anyone who's ever played in an orchestra will know that experience.
I unfortunately agree with this take, but her (probably) being a crappy person and looking to monetize her experience is exactly why she worked there and there is likely a lot of truth there under her bias.

Years ago, an acquaintence was an exec at a tech company that imploded in a semi-public way. He decided he wanted to get a documentary made on the whole thing and sent me his pitch. A little too self-aggrandizing, which I pointed out among other things. Couple years go by and a doc did come out on it (not his), uncovers some shady things and lawsuits against the CEO…and a little bit of embezzlement on his part.

So I think you’re right on the money, there’s a reason she worked there. Sucky/shady company and she fit in well.
Tesla car’s don’t have a great reputation for quality or service.

They were among the first and the cars were good enough to persuade people, but there are many alternatives now. People are less likely to pay a premium for Tesla.

And the brand is irremediably damaged by Elon’s polarising politics.

Being off-putting to a large part of your market is bound to have negative effects on your sales.
> Has anyone ever seen Facebbok as idealistic?

People who work there often seem to (or at least used to years ago), though I could never really figure out why.
You having said so previously has no impact on this belief:

> A grocery store would be rare indeed that could afford to pay their lowest-skilled, lowest-tenured cashier at $24/hr. Surely society can come up with a better answer than telling so many grocery stores that self-checkout is the only practical way to stay in business.

I'll take you at your word that you don't care to come up with a better answer, and that means I'll gain nothing further from discussing this with you. I'll bow out. Take care!
It seems likely to me that the birds have suffered by these spikes and repurpose them as much for the message they send to avian predators as their structural merits. It is like humans wearing the head of a wolf or other things to communicate they are a threat to would be interlopers.
Why not? Even at 50% of its current valuation, Tesla’s market cap would still be twice as high as Toyotas. Doesn’t sound reasonable to me, considering their sales are tanking…
In case you're wondering, here it is: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nbWXb78AHC5oUjTw6
Hi everyone, i’ve been developing a headless nextjs boilerplate with tailwind CSS for shopify for the past months. I would love to get your feedback and hear what challanges you faced with going headless and if you miss something that a regular Shopify theme has by default. These are some of the things I implemented:

Currency translator

Money formatter

Cart functionality

Single product page

Subscribe to newsletter

Contact form with Resend integration

Facebook pixel (cross-domain tracking for checkout page)

Filter / sorting products

Recommended products

Dynamic menu (grandchild compatible)
I think it's probably more appropriate to look at it this way:

The "headlights shelf" is the result of realizing that putting the headlights where the light bar happens to be would be ridiculously high and absolutely terrible for everyone else on the road. But the light bar couldn't move, there were too many concept drawings and renders that showcased the light bar. There was just too much "it has to look this way" pressure. So the headlights were crammed in a narrow space just above the bumper, meaning even a little snow buildup is enough to start blocking the headlights.

It's not enough to simply say "well the headlights are where they are and the bumper is where it is, so yeah there's a shelf but so what?" You should ask why these things are arranged as they are.

Look at the concept drawings and renders. The headlights are not there. The light bar was supposed to be the headlights. The location of the headlights is an "oh shit, what can we do about it?" reaction to a design that was fundamentally bad.
I fire up Brave for WebUSB for flashing ESP32 devices. It's Chrome, but less Googly.
As good as FSD is now, he definitely oversold it for years.
How to Win at the Developer Metrics Game
> can you pull in customers from other segments to buy a NUC instead

I've never understood the hype for NUCs for non-office settings. You can make SFF builds that are tiny and still fit giant GPUs like the RTX 3090 /4090, say less for something like a 4080 Super. And then you can upgrade the GPU and (woe is you) CPU later on. Although a high-end X3D will easily last you 2-3 GPU generations.
>I thought gmail doesn't disclose sender's IP address? Or I was wrong? This is not good for privacy.

The IP address is the smtp server of course, not the individual user.
> There has been some mention of a low cost EV, but I don't think we've seen sign of that yet. Last I heard was that it was cancelled.

From that same earnings call "We are still on track to launch a more affordable model in the first half of 2025 and will continue to expand our lineup from there."

https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2025/01/29/te...
It's hard to believe that so many Americans, including prominent industry leaders like YC, are so delusional about the political situation in America today. You are not getting such regulation. You aren't getting any regulation. If rules do pass it will be because of politics and corruption, not the public good.
There are lots of alternatives for database solutions with Kubernetes, in Hopsworks we use RonDB which is highly available and has a MySQL interface but also supports a REST API and even a prototype Redis service.
Or Fords for that matter.
There are quite a few countries out there that don't just do peaceful protest:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots#2020s

In the US it's looking like the main aggressors are Trump supporters and most of everyone else is not actually out for blood, just Peacefully Unhappy.

Elon is 100% out for blood, he's practically a modern-day Nazi.

On many social media platforms you can see a lot of people from the UK, EU, etc. being totally bewildered that all the US is doing right now is useless peaceful protests.

There are also a bunch of people potentially even from the US who post things like: https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1j822ah/cmv_m...

Maybe eventually something will happen that changes things, or maybe eventually things will reach a tipping point, but right now at least they are still stuck in some peaceful protest limbo.
> Freedom of porn but not freedom of speech

Interesting take. Why would porn be less deserving of freedom of speech than other forms of speech? Sounds to me you only believe in freedom of speech you like.
The RIAA.
Corolla is pretty good.
Will do!

I hadn't heard of FullHost, and I agree, something seems off with their offerings. The site is so noisy. This really stood out to me in their "DevOps Paas" database section: "An Innovative Approach to Clustered Databases".

Like, I totally understand marketing is marketing, but I don't want an innovative approach to foundational technologies. These are things that we know how to work and operate well. Now maybe I'm not their target market, but I want a careful, thoughtful approach.

Also, while I'm sure there are incredibly talented, smart people working at these more local hosting / cloud companies, please, please don't try to innovate with bread and butter services... just make it work, day in, day out. That's what I want. It's why we're still on AWS.

Anyway, I sent FullHost sales a little note with some questions. Will report back.
That exists, but Samsung, Google, etc. still compete in the market. The Huawei block also is less about the mobile device, but network infrastructure where Erisson, Nokia etc. are active
The idea that these centibillionaires do not have "real wealth" is beyond absurd
Sadly Wikipedia doesn't describe a specific mechanism that helps pigeons to navigate. I wonder do pigeons simply fly high enough that they can see hundred miles around?
Can We Still Recover the Right to Be Left Alone?
>Sounds like a design issue in particular language implementations rather than a problem with the programming technique.

You say this like these are fundamentally separable things? I find this comment deeply confusing. Every single real software stack ever has a layer where the sausage gets made so to speak.
Interesting innovation, yes. But not more so than anyone else.

Given many Chinese car brands are wildly cheaper (in China) than Tesla models, I don't even buy that gigapress is even all that interesting for cost reduction.
FSD is getting better each year. SpaceX has the lowest cost rockets and working on even lower cost rockets. They have the most efficient Semi and are building a factory to mass produce them. Neuralink has multiple successful human trials. And they've built robots and have the AI training for them to navigate the world
The thing that bugs me with this article is that a lot of regular software engineering is plagued by a lack of ambition. 10x engineers bring that ambition (I hate the term 10x, but let's just stick with it). Because of the scaling effects in software, if you work on the right project, that ambition can significantly increase your impact on the market/world/field you're working in.

The costs associated to managing teams without an ambition for excellence are substantial. As far as scaling an org goes, building average teams scales better than having exceptional teams, because by definition, exceptional teams are the exception. But if you work on a project that has winner-takes-it-all dynamics, the costs of average teams are immense.

I really don't get why people argue so much against it. Nobody debates it in sports or music. Not every software project is like the world cup championship. But if you're in a VC market where the winner takes it all, yeah, then it's a lot like music or sports. You want your team to have the ambition to win.
Why Your 'Harmonious' Team Is Failing
In recent memory, Gruber criticized Apple’s butterfly keyboard and the handling of it for years, how it treats developers, how it was handling the DMA, its App Store policies and a few other things.

But most famously called Jobs saying you didn’t need apps on the phone a “shit sandwich”
https://archive.ph/20250313222059/https://www.wsj.com/financ...
Tesla was the only EV that was somewhat affordable and the supercharger network was really good.

In 2025 in my own country the Netherlands several Chinese companies have entered the market and there are non Tesla supercharger stations.
We are now in the "tough competition" stage.
The people doing the pig butchering are themselves trafficked and working in horrendous slavery conditions in Cambodia:

https://theconversation.com/pig-butchering-fraud-the-link-be...

https://restofworld.org/2022/cambodias-scam-mills/
Textpattern CMS 4.9.0 beta.2 released
If you want to start a cult to get out of taxes, forget the church - you need a boat.
Pam Unixsock
That's already answered in OP's article.

k8s:

> Good stability.

S3:

> AWS S3 is the premier cloud-based object storage service. It may have higher availability, but it’s three times more expensive than OVH’s S3 storage.
I believe there are still a number of applications where Scroll Lock is useful, most notably Microsoft Excel.
You are talking about Exoscale DBAAS, here: https://community.exoscale.com/community/dbaas/

(I work there.)
I don't see why they should get any cut, do you pay Dell whenever you install a game on your laptop?
Certificate for Onion v3 Address
The fundamentals have changed. Sales are tanking. I’m guessing the share price is being propped up by some financial shenanigans and retail investors.

FWIW I was an early investor in TSLA, back in 2012. I made 30x my initial investment. I lived the company and was a big fan of Elon until something happened to his brain.

I have observed this company for a long, long time.
Used to do this kind of stuff (a long long time ago), first in ASS and later in After Effects. After Effects was real fun! Put in a lot of effort into making signs look the same as the original Japanese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corp

didn't realize there was literally a company named News Corp behind most of the Murdoch media, it's kind of comical
I think, most realistic evaluation is classic VC "divide year sells by bank deposit percents", nothing less and nothing more. So, as example, NASDAQ have about 7.4B sales and divide by 5% will be somewhere about 140B (link below).

I think this approach most realistic, because it use very simple and easy to get input data and don't need sophisticated logic to separate debts.

Unfortunately, I remember statistic S&P from 2008, from all NASDAQ only Microsoft had fully 100% coverage of all debts (so AAA rating), not just 1 year of percents as all others.

For other things exist commodities exchange, etc. Just calculate sum of all exchanges and will got good enough approximation.

And I don't think it is worth to use more deep logic, because will need to spend much more time and resources to gather data, and will achieve basically same, but delayed to few months or more.

Only exclude, it may worth to get somewhere survey of households economy, as they are much more conservative than business, so data from 3-5 years ago will be good enough for first look.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NDAQ/nasdaq/net-wo...
Totally. People ask what Hopsworks is - and I say "it is Databricks without data warehousing (just AI), and DJT can't turn it off on a whim".

Disclaimer: i work for Hopsworks
Stressing the Elements (2006) [pdf]
The article says the birds make different nest configurations, with one incorporating a softer cup layer on top of the spiky layer made with the spikes and another configuration using the spikes as part of a dome on top of the nest.
Sometimes, "nazi" is used as shorthand for people who will eagerly work with nazis to get ahead.
I posted it because I find awareness of these scams is useful. If you have older relatives or friends you might want to be ready if they report a new online relationship.

I also don’t spend much time on YouTube so a blog post is good for people who don’t want to take the time warning a video.
I believe Chromium might be safer to use than Brave. https://old.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_b...
I learned that most email services do attach the IP address of the MUA (that is, the user's computer) if you send through SMTP. I set up an SMTP relay for myself to hide that.

The user's IP address is not attached if you use webmail.
No, not nothing. As the boyscouts say - 'be prepared'.
I'd love to hear some of the horror stories
I've seen more of what someone called "wannabe 10x" making a career of turning non-10x problems into a series of 2 year Greenfield project pitches and failures to launch across multiple firms. You can actually see people pull this off for 6-10 years before they need to do something more productive.
Why shouldn't it apply to larger contracts?

There is a very easy way to get around such a requirement from legislation: Just call it licensing instead of a purchase.

The need for such a legislation is corporations reckless use of the words "purchase" and "buy" for goods that have been licensed.
obviously lasers, corvidae with lasers
The reliability of OVH has so far not been a problem. Performance is mostly a factor of the VM instances that you use, AWS has much more instances to choose from, but obviously at a much higher cost, so performance per dollar is obviously better with OVH.
Intel reaches 'exciting milestone' for 18A wafers with first run at Arizona fab
Isn't Polestar 90% a Volvo under the trim?
Honestly in terms of value, efficiency, safety, practicality, etc it is hard to beat the Model Y. The refresh is even better, a huge step up in comfort, and imho quieter and smoother than a Lucid or Mercedes-Benz EQS. I guess some sacrifices must be made if you really care about not supporting a "nazi".
I mean, you're both probably correct.

In the US a huge portion of the population doesn't vote, I would expect those that think every politician is a crook.

The other side that does vote thinks the other politician lies and their politician is the good one.
It's exactly why the Dutch are so effective.
The domain gives it away.
There was a follow up to see how much down force on the tow hook was needed to break the frame https://youtu.be/ubUXNSWGth0?t=419

was 10,500 lbs, done by JerryRigEverything
Can't blame them, bribery is the only way to get heard by this administration.
I'm always curious about latency for all these newdb offerings like PlanetScale/Neon/Supabase.

It seems like they don't emphasise strongly enough _make sure you colocate your server in the same cloud/az/region/dc as our db. I suspect a large fraction of their users don't realise this, and have loads of server-db traffic happening very slowly over the public internet. It won't take many slow db reads (get session, get a thing, get one more) to trash your server's response latency.
The Polestar 2, yes. The newer models like the Polestar 4 are based on a Geely platform that is completely distinct (and in my opinion better).
Location: UK / EU
Remote: hybrid is fine
Relocate: yes

I am currently looking at new opportunities, contract or potentially permanent. Please see my portfolio and GitHub for examples of my work.

https://www.awalsh.io

https://github.com/andrewwalsh
Yeah maybe if my employer has the ambition to pay.

Am I working hard at Meta? You bet I am.

For median SWE salary and 0.001% in “options” that will likely never have a liquidity opportunity? I’m not so sure…
A look at Firefox forks
I know that they've gone back and forth on artificial sweeteners over the years, but honestly, one of the best things I've done recently is switch over to seltzer water. Triggers all of the chemical receptors in the brain by repeating the "ritual" of drinking canned pop, but it's just water, so it's actually good for you. Also half the cost.
Could've learned to use DD in the time it took to make this post.

Web browsers need to remain incapable of... formatting my disks
I'd read it more as "I don't particularly care about what ends up as the standard or who ends up writing it, I just wish that it's nearly as capable as the non-standard implementation that exists and is useful."

Mozilla's objection is to having the capability at all, on the basis of "USB devices are too easy to hack" and "users are too dumb to give informed consent, regardless of what we tell them". And GP's objection to Mozilla's objection ultimately comes down to having the capability or not.
thanks for comment anenefan. im not coder actually i just use cursor and have fun. but your comment is deep -i think- cheers
Children of Men (2006)
Concealed Weapon Detection Using Thermal Cameras
You mean Bengali?
I finally figured it out the other day: The Tesla cyber truck is pointing backwards !that is why it looks so odd.

In most vehicles the long sloping part is the windshield in front and the steep slope is the rear window. But the Tesla cyber truck turns that around and thus it appears to be driving backwards everywhere.

Adding to the backwards illusion is the rounded mid-level panel where the grill on a normal car would be and the headlights are: On most vehicles that headlights section on the front is angular and the also have a rounded section on the back of the at that level.

Is there are many more quote Unquote Interesting features. For example on most vehicles the roof is flat and that gives an indication of how much headspace is in the vehicle. But the cybertruck inverts this with a peaked roof that suggests it has very little headspace. That combined with the backwards ness mentioned above Transmits a message to an observer of great discomfort when sitting inside the vehicle.

Now that may be unfair and it may be quite comfortable inside the vehicle but the outward facing shape suggests the opposite. It makes it feel very constrange and uncomfortable to look at and I suspect this is a major factor in people's dislike for the vehicle's appearance. As soon as they see it their mind responds to the shape and imagines what it is like to be inside it. That shape makes them feel uncomfortable.
This is actually super useful. Thanks for sharing
Xbox announces 'Copilot for Gaming' AI assistant
They're still available from most bookstores, and Amazon.
> It takes 11 MW of electricity to make 1 ton of ammonia

Do you mean MWh? Because the units given don't make sense.

But 11 MWh would be too low.
I do agree with this example in general. But I guess from my point of view, the OpenAI comes across more like the person enabling the use of copyrighted art, and would thus be subject to copyright regulations. Their users I'd see rather as the people viewing the art in public, perhaps unaware of the copyright restrictions. But it also seems like these discussions in themselves are a bit of distraction. If the LLMs worked exactly as they are being hyped up for the third year now, I think we all would get behind the effort. Who would care about copyrights if a magic machine could lead us into the so-called post-scarcity world, right? But sadly it does not appear to be nowhere near that goal, nor will it be, based on what we know about how the technology works. So here we are, discussing if mechanical parrots should read our books :)