skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we get SpaceX and Tesla out of it, then so be it.
What is so horrifying? He's hiring startup developers who need self-direction.

Look like his rationale is if you can't speak high level and you can't resist over-engineering solutions; it isn't going to work out. That saves everyone time and sounds reasonable to me.
Yeah this is an annoying problem. I just run an actual server rather than an "app" platform. I haven't found it that complicated and I pay less monthly which is nice.
Free speech, avocados… slight difference, wouldn’t you say?
Lol I'm sure my dad would do that if he actually used a computer.
Yishans take on it was fascinating. For anyone else, I highly recommend reading it: https://nitter.net/yishan/status/1514938507407421440?s=21&t=...
The things I have seen in that nicu will stay with me for the rest of my life, and I'm not talking about what happened to us and our son but to the other people there. It didn't take all that long to figure out that we were the lucky ones.
How would that improve anything? Some of the most toxic users are people like himself and formerly Trump where everyone already knows who they are.
We could all bake our own bread at home, but very few do. It boils down to convenience and time best spent.

By all means, I would recommend [5] if you have the technical knowledge to run it. This will give you more insight and appreciation for email as well [2] & [1] and humbly... [0].

Unfortunately, running an email service is a very underappreciated task; after Gmail - it is taken for granted. Cheers to Postmasters at MXRoute and Postale.io!
I was in a deep dark pit of depression, mostly life long that got worse in the past few years. Sought help, found a therapist, and after 2 years she asked me if I ever considered I might have ADHD. I looked into it in December, every fucking thing made sense, got diagnosed in January and started my medication in March.

I'm still learning to live with it, but I've managed to understand how my brain ticks, why I'm in a constant search for pleasure, and now I have a theory why my life got so bad lately: I've quit my marijuana habit 8 years ago, I quit my smoking habit 2 years ago, and I've quit coffee because it doesn't play very nice with my anxiety and heart, and the more stimulants I've removed from my life, the less functional I've become, and even at my peak "drug" usage my motivation and focus was always outside my control, anyway. But at least I had the mental energy to do _things_. I was self medicating without knowing it.

I did suspect, when I started using Reddit 15 years ago the ADHD thing was a meme everybody said "yeah, I have that." It remained a meme for me, until, guess what, I actually have a problem and I shouldn't be struggling that much. The medication doesn't turn me into that Limitless movie, it gives me the chemicals needed to pick up trash off the floor, make boring phone calls and be a productive member of society. What's ordinary for most people, for me is absolutely mind blowing.
> To be fair, I'm not sure why the same optimization couldn't be done for a tracing GC

I may misunderstand you here, but isn’t it just escape analysis done by basically every big GC language out there?
It didn't seem to bother Musk when they invested in Tesla.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/saudi-arabia-invests-2b-...
“Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed” sounds great until you see what that actually means on the internet.

Anyone who has ever worked in content moderation / trust & safety knows what kind of unrelenting deluge of obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff that is constantly being pushed back on any moderately popular social media site.

It seems so easy from a distance. Just let people say what they want to say, right? Unfortunately the result of that is a place that very few want to spend time in.
This is an interesting take because it seems to prefer either A) publicly visible attributes like weight should be ignored when giving your personal opinion on someone or B) you should not be allowed to give your personal opinion on someone. Regardless of his motivations for pointing it out, neglecting one’s health is entirely a personal choice. Are you advocating for less personal responsibility or less freedom to express one’s opinions?

Let us take it for granted that people will disagree with us regardless of what we say, and let us also take for granted that we cannot control or take responsibility for the emotional stability of others. A disposition toward trying to control the emotions of others is not something I want to promote in the world.
Don't you use in general a `xcalib -a -i` (invert colours) shortcut, or equivalent?
Why Success Is Often Elusive at the Highest Echelons
He's an interesting guy who seems straight out of a science fiction show. Can't nerds like me just think it's kind of cool that someone is actively trying to expand humanity to multiple planets?

My read is people find reasons to hate him due to ego, they see someone running like 6+ successful companies when their lives aren't going so well, and go looking for all the moralistic things he must be doing wrong.
"It's no secret that he has alt right motives."

If it's no secret, can you cite some sources?
This should probably be posted as a Show HN not an ask.
Database Ranking – Performance and Costs (open data, v1)
Elon already is a big shit poster himself. You think he's gonna make this better? I think a lot of people will follow the owner's example and make things worse.
> Do you not have a right to privacy if you're wealthy?

Not if you are deliberately aim to be a person of public interest.

Multi-Billionaires are persons of public interest by the power they wield given their wealth.

So; you probably don't have a right to privacy if you are as obscenely wealthy as Musk or Zuckerberg.
I would respond with the following if this were my site:

-- You can get the data with history and CSV/JSON/machine readable format if you pay us $x/month.

-- The data accuracy and consistency trust can only build over time.

-- For alpha decay there will be a few select spots that are bid in auction that can get particular subsets of data early by a small amount of time (a day, 2 days). But there is no real solution to this other than constantly adding new alternate data and maybe not even then.
He is. Tesla, SpaceX, etc all play to win, but they did it by almost going bankrupt and out over and over and over.

Im not sure I can sit here and say that it wasnt needed, but people need to remember that 4 years ago, Tesla was at deaths door trying to scale up, shorters were doing everything in their power to maniuplate the stock, and no one thought they could pull it off the way they have.
>If I see health insurer, big insurance, blah fortune 500 firm, government contractor, ... over and over again

That's where 95% of the software jobs are. Where are people supposed to work if not the places that employ the majority of software engineers?
>Unlike Bezos and WaPo,

So Musk is honest? because intentional or not it clear Bezo's ownership of WaPo has impacted editorial positions
I mean the fact is he is this centuries entrepreneur as Schumpeter defines it. If you compare what he has done versus the rest of his class he's mopped the floor. So in terms of accomplishments he is in his own realm.

I agree I do have concerns that things may be changing and his original goals of humanitarian goals (EVs, solar, storage, space travel) are now getting caught up with straight power plays (twitter). I wonder if he has been caught by the twitter validation loop.
The only hard part is probably finding someone who can "print" onto microfilm these days. Might be worth talking to your local librarian, they probably know who still does it and how much it costs.

Film is incredibly durable, will easily last 100 years.
Latest figures put him around $270 billion USD. That's mainly based on him owning ~20% of tesla. Whose market cap is around a trillion.

That figure doesn't include spacex/starlink, boring company, etc.

Spacex has gross revenues in the billions, 12,000 employees. Not to mention... ISS basically is Russian or Spacex launches to get there and back. With Ukraine... that makes Spacex the only option? What's the intrinsic value there?

What valuation would you give SpaceX? Their only real competitor right now is Russia and people dislike them.
Has to be
"The interviews are spent discussing code, and writing code. It's what we programmers do day in, day out. It's the one things that matters." - very true. That's also literally the idea behind interviewing.io and similar platforms that have been making this point for years* - so they get to coding with the candidate as quickly as possible. Maximizes information for both the hiring manager and the candidate on whether they want to work together.

* https://blog.interviewing.io/resumes-suck-heres-the-data/
Given that bots and anonymous shitposting would both fit the ideals of free speech, why would a champion of said free speech do anything to make it better?
The infamous 90/90 rule:

> The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety%E2%80%93ninety_rule
> as they fail to deliver.

What are you referring to? Even his lamest company (TBC) has delivered some stuff. When it comes to reducing fossil fuel use Tesla has achieved more than the USA Green Party, and with regard to expanding space access SpaceX is beating most national space agencies combined.
Not that musk considers those titles of any value. He can have a CEO and still be running the company. Not from a board seat. Because CEO as a title is just a title.
Twitter is just another social media fad that will go away and be replaced by the next one, Musk or not. I don't think anyone can "solve" that.
Sounds like a great success.

Back when (long before ebooks) I helped with their self publishing. A minimum press run of the book-length projects would often be 500 or 1,000 copies. I'd tell authors to expect to sell half the run or less and to be generous with "review copies" and so on.
> Looking at the problems Twitter has, why does anyone think Musk can even solve one?

And twitter knows they're getting a great deal!

I like twitter -- I can get in and out fast. In 15 minutes I can see a lot of new, interesting things, or just see what everyhing thinks is cool today.

And many of the things people complain about I don't see. I follow people around my specific interests: tech, electronics, jazz, and classical music -- and rarely see anything else. Judicious use of "block" and filters makes it rare that I see anything I don't want to see.

But I recently tried another social media plaltform: TikTok. I was surprised as a 59-year-old that I'd even understand it, but I followed people in the same categories I follow on Twitter, limit viewing to those I follow (I don't try the suggested feed) and it's nice and I'm having fun. Haven't posted yet, because I can't just type a few words or post a link and hit "send", but I'll figure that out, too.
Beware of Next.js on AWS Amplify
Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?
For more context that made me ask this question, please see this video: https://youtu.be/clqUs5ZAUEU
Not tangential. It's pretty important, because although they're obviously symbolic, there have been huge changes to how websites work.
Web 2.0 had a lot of user customization, for example. Web 3.0 has much less, though dark modes became prevalent.
> If all this person is evaluating me on is my Github, they'll think that I've never advanced beyond an amateur level despite my having over a decade of experience in the industry... all because I treat my open source work as a hobby rather than as a second job.

Thanks you for bringing that up. That is one of the reason I don't use GH. Other being the acquisition by MS.
When they are paid for research of black holes, it becomes easy to overlook their absence. They can also say they do hypothetical research, if black holes don't form by collapse maybe they form by other means, e.g. primordial black holes.
I'm very reluctant to call myself "a Musk fan" (and I've never met anyone like you describe, though no doubt they're out there somewhere), but I have to admit that the things he's done are remarkable: building several large companies which are not only commercially successful but advance the public interest with much more ambition than any other companies I've seen in my lifetime. Previously, accomplishments like those of SpaceX were only feasible in a Cold War context. I also think he has good political instincts (pushing back against regressive leftism without indulging in unsavory elements of the right), and I can even appreciate the occasional shitpost; however, I think he often goes too far and veers into immaturity. But expecting someone to accomplish what he has while also having perfect social grace is unrealistic; if his critics really want to put him in his place, they should do so by example--do something to significantly advance the public interest without social foibles.
History has also proven that every little oversight in a Wordpress module can lead to an exploit. Or in a Java Logger. Or in a shell script.

And while maybe a Wordpress bug could "only" lead to a user password database leaked but not the complete system compromised, there is a valid question which is actually worse from case to case.

Point is just that from a different angle, things are maybe not so clear.

Software written in memory unsafe languages is among the most used on the planet, and could in many cases not realistically replaced by safer languages today. It could also be the case that while bug-per-line might be higher with unsafe languages, the bang-for-buck (useful functionality per line) is often higher as well (I seriously think it could be true).
In the Big 4 I worked with a guy who was once a project manager at Tesla. The guy wasn't super talented, but mentioned that it would ruin your week if Elon came over to you because he had a bad habit of micromanaging people. And yeah, he agreed that Elon isn't necessarily super smart but is brilliant at finding brilliant people and convincing them to work themselves half to death. Which, incidentally, is basically the main job of a startup CEO so props to him for that.
> Looking at the problems Twitter has, why does anyone think Musk can even solve one?

Twitter's biggest problem is profitability and Musk doesn't seem to care about the economics of Twitter.
I never had anything toxic on my twitter feed and I spend a lot of time on it. The quality of your feed depend on who you follow.
>I wish him the best and hope he truly makes twitter somewhere that you visit that isn't just rage bait again.

You think "Lord Edge" is going to make Twitter less of a cesspool? Everything he's said and done indicates he wants the limits Twitter currently has on speech to be removed.
From the article:

At the nearby Gruenheide factory outside of Berlin, Tesla is currently trucking along and set to achieve the goal of making an electric vehicle in under 10 hours. At this time, Volkswagen’s main Zwickau plant requires 30 hours per vehicle. Diess hopes to reduce that to 20 hours per vehicle by next year.

Conclusion: Neither Tesla nor VW are producing EVs in ten hours. And Zwickau is not a dedicated EV plant and needs rebuilding to become one. Interesting that we only get concrete numbers from VW, so. I have to admit, it is funny to see VW, which was the most marketing dependent car maker I know up until Tesla showed up, and Tesla to slug it out in a PR and marketing war!

EDIT: Zwickau wasn't a EV plant until 2020.
For one project we used sqlite in a GUI application to store some tabular data (usually way below 1GB), and to do some light processing over it. Mind that the performance requirements were minimal, as this was a just an auxiliary function; the program did do a lot of heavy lifting in other parts, but the DB wasn't involved in these (it got fed some messages/stats at best, and most of the data came from other aux functions).
The sqlite lib was easy to integrate both on the technical as well as on the legal level. We could have done all that with native code, too (I think we even removed some code?), but it would have consumed much more time (dev work, unit tests, maintenance) without any benefits. And it worked like a charm, except for one issue: The GUI person did create a connection for every operation but thought they were reusing it, which then caused some weirdness. And this was easily fixed.

An important realization is that not everything needs to scale, and that it depends on how you access the DB and what your product looks like. For a load with many concurrent writes I'd be careful with sqlite, or when I know that I'll want my DB to mostly live in memory (e.g. operations will often process the whole, huge dataset and no index can help with that). But even if I thought "Uh, I'll probably need a full DB", I'd still benchmark my application with both sqlite and e.g. postgres. And if the API to access the DB uses some nice abstractions, swapping the flavor of SQL isn't a huge issue anyway.

//edit: Plus, I've done stupid stuff like "my SPA hammers the PHP API with 20 to 40 requests, each resulting in a simple SQLite query, just to render a checklist" and got away with it:
a) because we had at most 20 concurrent users [realistically: 1 to 5]
b) doing the checklist took half a workday (ticking off an item was done via a JS callback in the background, so the actual rendering happened only once)
and c) SQLite performs great for read heavy loads.
The site performed so well (page loads felt about as fast as HN, even when connected via VPN) that I even scraped the plan to locally cache checklist in the HTML5 localStore (bonus: no cache = no cache incoherence to care about).
Karen's car drives and parks on public streets. It has an identification number posted on it. The information is out there for everyone to see. It's not as easy to automate as a transponder, but it's not necessarily private.
I don't have the ability to downvote I have too little Karma after so many years but I have to ask why care about Twitter? It seems like a waste of time.
What's the best way to encode the data though? I'm imagining QR codes. I'm guessing the DPI of any router that could do this would be pretty poor and limit your data storage though. Has anyone done it?
15 years from now, humans are turning off their industry on Earth, and moving it all to space.

16 Psyche HQ is established, and humans are engaged in a pact of cooperation and union, against all elements, against all odds, to end all wealth.

Starships drop from the sky with supplies. The whole planet is growing, there are no more reasons for the borders.

We have instead, the infinite sky.

We could get way, way more from it than SpaceX and Tesla.
There's an eye watering level of wealth at the top. Merely shifting tax burden a bit on to high end property would allow revenue neutral increased spending and lower taxes on the middle and working class.

It might help keep a lid on that crisis of unaffordable housing as well that tends to follow when an excess of £££ is sloshing around.
Whatever the hell happened to XHTML? Stop being lazy.
> Musk shouts about free speech but shut down Teslas PR department

Kind of a weird example. Musk shutdown Tesla's PR department because Musk believes Tesla can get better organic press. It's unrelated, but if anything, getting rid of a dissembling PR department can only serve to promote better discussion, not suppress it.
Nobody really cares about doxing as long as it is down against people they don’t like.
It might be just a money move: make the company private, make it more efficient, monetize better. Then re-introduce in public market later.
The only problem twitter has is with monetization. It's absolutely ridiculous that they still can't make money.
Glacier Deep is the cheapest option. It does come with a catch that there's a minimum of 180 days commitment for their infrequent access tier. Last time I checked, the cost for US-East-1 is roughly like this:

At $0.00099/GB/month, it would cost ~$12/year to store 1TB.
Retrieval cost is $0.0025/GB and bandwidth down is $0.09/GB (exorbitant! But you get 100GB/mo free)

So, retrieving 1TB (924GB chargeable) once will run ~$85. I've also excluded their http request pricing which shouldn't matter much unless you've millions of objects.

For the same amount of data, Backblaze costs ~$60/year to store but only $10 to retrieve (at $0.01/GB).

I suppose an important factor to consider in archival storage is the expected number of retrievals, and whether you can handle the cost.
> If I could go on Twitter and only see stuff from people I follow I'd feel the same as you about it. But they make it almost impossible not to be barraged with other stuff too, and not just ads, but hate and insanity that I tried hard not to follow. Those are the things that drove me away.

The only sane way to use Twitter is through a 3rd-party client: no ads, none of that Notifications spam and other recommendations
I believe you mean “hash functions are not injective”.
He said "full self driving" which is a Tesla marketing term that could mean absolutely anything.
I'm confused about the series of events here. What happened to the poison pill?
> ...I periodically hear about projects that use/have used sqlite as their sole datastore.

SQLite==exclusive access, no sharing, unless read-only.

Basically, it provides a SQL convenience for local usage.
Only on XHTML, actually.
Let me know when you find evidence of some valuable piece of climate, energy, or astronautics research that was kept under wraps due to the Twitter police.

Censorship is a very real threat to scientific research but it tends to manifest as the state restricting research or pulling funding from politically unfavourable topics like climate change, as is seen in many American state governments and on a federal level under the previous administration. Scientific publication isn't exactly known for going through the channels of mass social media.
What is the recommendation for offline capability with sync?
Yes it is.

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."