skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edison and Ford had the small detail that the product they sold became widespread among the population very quickly.

They represented the last effort after standing on the shoulders of giants, basically being the person who got to sign off the quality of life improvement and reap the financial reward. It happens, could have been somebody else but in the end it was them.

mr.Musk has been at the helm of Tesla for 20 years and his product is nor widespread (only 1% of total number of global vehicles sold in FY21) nor revolutionary from a quality of life standpoint (at the end of the day it's a car and you can hardly tell the difference between Tesla EVs and MercedesEQS, iBMW, Toyota EVs etc....if anything the Quality Of life gap is towards the other automakers)
They are treated like ordinary everyday things, like shoes, pants or silverware, not as investments.

edit edit: I have to reinvestiage again... I messed up twice already in correcting myself

final edit: Until further notice, I stand by the claim that cryptocurrencies are treated as collectibles and other non-everyday assets for tax purposes in germany. The original statement was, however, a wrong oversimplification.

They are not actually "everyday items" as those would be tax free i reselling according to [1] which lists as "everyday items" that are tax free for resale: baby clothes, books or private cars. They list as non "everyday items" that are taxed (to some degree) on gains: Limited sneakers or handbags, rarities and collectables, jewlery, precious metals and antiquities.

[1] https://taxfix.de/steuertipps/ebay-steuern-zahlen-privat-ode...
It's such a widespread phenomenon that there's an entire site (with good repair forums) about electrolytic capacitors causing failures: https://badcaps.net/
Watched the "get stated" video to the end and gave a great overview of how helpful the tool can be while building react apps.

Awesome work and well done!
What are the advantages, really? I used to use tailwind for my site, but then I realized I was essentially writing plain CSS in some DSL. Writing the plain CSS directly and using a few CSS variables for things like color and spacing simplified the whole thing greatly.
This is what that demographic survey at the end of job applications is for. It can reveal changes in hiring trends, especially in the demographics of who doesn't get hired. I don't know how well it works in practice.
In this case, the author was messing around with trying to get DuckDB & SQLite to build/link statically in Go yesterday after the post about it, it's probably related to that:

https://twitter.com/phil_eaton/status/1524861485670973458
I think you got brigaded by the liberty police on that one. But that's deep in a comment tree with a bunch of low effort single line comments. I disregard votes on those anyway because they rarely get more than one upvote.

Second one I agree with you, people are downvoting you because it's conflicting with their beliefs, and since you're not contributing anything particularly insightful you don't get any upvotes to balance that. Also it's such a small thread I don't think you got many downvotes at all.

Third one, I think you're just wrong. You've got an understanding of the word coercion that's not in line with what the majority believes that word entails.

That said, in all three cases I agree with you, but I also don't think your comments are valuable enough to warrant a positive comment score.
Disclaimer - I'm one of the maintainers of the project

Thanks for sharing the news!

The project is hosted on github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg and it is distributed under Apache License 2.0.

It manages PostgreSQL primary/standby architecture clusters, providing self-healing, high availability through automated failover, continuous backup, point-in-time recovery, native Prometheus exporter, JSON standard output logging, rolling updates, and so on.

It relies on the Kubernetes API server to keep the status of the cluster, detect issues/changes, and react.

It is production ready, originally created by EDB, which is one of the major contributors to the open source PostgreSQL project.
I am French and I love Portugal. I visited it many times, have Portuguese friends and it is the only country I would be glad to live outside of mine (I travelled the world for 7 years straight).

Now with this said, Portuguese food is medium. There are great cheeses, great starters but then it goes downhill.

Again, I have nothing but live for that country and people living there, the culture and whynot but food is not the first thing (or the 5th) when I think about Portugal.
Yeah, you were replying to me. It's still not true. Holding cryptocurrency has always had a speculative period of 1 year.
Indeed; Musk just looks like a cartoon villain.

Gates walks the walk.
Yeah, but even this doesn't seem very thoughtful. He recently acknowledged his predictions around full self-driving were wrong, and said it was because he'd failed to appreciate that it would essentially require artificial general intelligence.

Then he claimed we'd have that solved by 2023.

Not sure what the upside is of being known for repeatedly making non-rational predictions and being wrong.
I know what the halting problem is and I had to study why it cannot work.

However, for L5, you just have a quote saying it doesn't work. We know it is mathematically possible for L5 to work because, well, humans perform at that level. We know that our vision, our ears, our hands and senses are enough input to solve the problem.

Do you have a direct connection between them or are you just using it as a metaphor for an unsolvable problem?
8 is just unrealistic, and invites fraud.

BigLaw have expectations like this, but the overt toxicity of that is so famous I'd hope tech would avoid it. In some firms, with rounding allowed, it used to be common to schedule 3 20-minute calls in an hour, because it would yield 1.5h of billable time.
I would be more inclined to believe this if every other similar company wasn't also taking a 20%+ hit right now.
I'm thinking about getting a M2 Mac mini (when they finally ship) to replace my Intel / Debian desktop.

Since my use case is server software development, I really don't need all the GPUs. My perception is that Apple is aiming their hardware at video and other demanding GPU-oriented usages. Maybe AMD / Arm / RISC-V based hardware would be more suitable.
When people imagine AGI, they think of something like HAL or GLaDOS. A machine that follows its own goals.

But we are much more likely to get the Computer from Star Trek. Vastly intelligent, yet perfectly obedient. It will answer any question you ask it with the knowledge of billions of minds. Why is that more likely? Simply because creating agents is much harder than creating non-agent models, and the non-agents are more economically valuable: do you want to have an AI that always does what you tell it to, or do you want to have an AI that has its own desires? Our loss is clearly biased towards building the former kind of AI.

Why is that problematic? Imagine some malevolent group asked it “Show me how to create a weapon to annihilate humanity as efficiently as possible”. It don’t even require a singularity to be deadly.

We will probably be dead long before we can invent GLaDOS.
Thanks! Maybe the idea is how to make the content more interesting at first sight, like wikihow's images. How to make the most of something that can be explained in a few steps, and make the user revisit it, that sort of engagement.
He didn't say he violated rental agreements, in fact he explicitly said the landlord doesn't care. It seems it's you who has a chip on your shoulder about HN that you have to cram entitlement into the situation.
> Holding things by pointer on the other hand actually does let you prevent the includes since you can just forward declare in the header, but it's an indirection :-/

And it means you now need to deal with raw pointers, which often isn't optimal or preferred (over say references for example).

At least we'll get modules soon. That should reduce the need for some of these workarounds that are really mainly used to reduce compile times, and not to improve the code in any other meaningful way.
I saw something happen when I was young and still can’t talk about it. So I guess thanks for making me feel completely fucked up??

Sometimes people have feelings. You may not agree but I don’t think they need to be mocked. You just mocked my own trauma. Good for you.
1 billion to just to say "nah I actually don't want to do this". 1 billion for, after all is said and done, nothing to actually materially change. Does that sound supremely fucked up to anyone else? All that fucking money...and it just goes to whomever bank is financing this because nothing happened?

What a massively fucked world we live in.
Then they will simply solve the captchas using captcha solvers or humans paid pennies per captcha. You do something else and the botmasters will respond.

It's really hard to get rid of bots and fake accounts. Also, false positives are expensive because you end up annoying a real human and as a result your mistake doesn't disappear until you make it right.
There are many. Ethan Couch if you want a direct example, but that is one of thousands. A poor African American will get 20 years in jail for possession, but a rich white kid will get a year or two for killing someone in a DUI. That doesn't even take into account the corporations that have made decisions that resulted in many people dying but that never faced jail time.

Will be interesting to see what happens with Elizabeth Holmes.
That would probably be electrolyte leaking.
There are several reports/stories about bad quality capacitors unintentionally used in production.
> If you are on the spectrum, the reason you act like this is because you don't understand that you are doing something wrong.

completely untrue, nearly all autistic people I know including me are hyper-aware of social situations and specifically act in ways to avoid being a dick. this is a pop-psychology notion of autism.
Yes, it’s the same in USA.

(The federal rates are lower, but state and local taxes can push your tax bill up to European levels, especially if you own property in a desirable area.)
Depends how fast you need to interact with it. If people walk up to a bench, check 3 boxes and walk on it takes 3 seconds. If you replace that with unlocking a preferably charged phone, opening an app and navigating menus it is not an improvement. Dirty hands or gloves are also a problem.

Something dedicated to scan paper checklists into a database would be nice but it isn't as easy as a bunch of radio buttons and select inputs.
Yes, manufactured influencers and echo chambers.
Known because someone said "5%" or known because someone proved it was 5%?
SoFi Q1 2022 Earnings: let's put that bank charter to work
I think he’s always been like that to an extent. In his biography there are stories of him staying up all night and re-writing everyone’s code in his earlier days.
It's not entirely unrelated that the Dow is down by 8% over the last month and many tech stocks dropped by that much in only a few days after Q1 earnings reports
Anti-Pattern: The Engineering Managers’ Group
Rewriting things in Go not only makes using them nicer, it often is a way to get a more correct and stable program. However, we are talking about sqlite here, one of the best tested and stable C programs out there. Rewriting it in Go rather raises the chance of a bug and that would be counter-productive.

It still can be an interesting project and if it proves to be correct and eventually shows some advantages vs. using the C version, it might become a nice alternative.
As a private company, Musk can also set his own management fees / owner compensation / call it what ever

1) Pay $1B fine to Twitter

2) Buy cheaper

3) Get a $1B chairman first year bonus from Twitter

He'll probably find a way to write it off on taxes as well
Ask HN: BDD Books
Just wondering what the go-to books on Behaviour Driven Development were in 2022?
To be fair, I'm an Australian and this experience is alien to me!

The reality is that we don't really experience the world outside of our bubbles!

But I can totally believe this description.

It's horrible this happens :-(
Yeah guys here like to joke about how we're having "Scottish" weather when it's raining, so it's funny to see Edinburgh (704mm/year) isn't really that much wetter than Prague (587mm/year)
It's been common in academics forever. A 'staff researcher' is someone who is typically affiliated with an 'organized research unit' which is basically a facility that a lot of 'principal investigators' utilize, and which are likely funded by overhead on the PIs individual grants, or via bulk grants. Benefits are not having to sit around writing grant proposals all day, but they're basically never first or last authors on papers, so it's not a route to becoming a department chair or famous academic etc. Can be more interesting as you get to work with multiple research projects, although if the PIs in the department are the petty tyrant types with inflated egos (more common than not) it can be ridiculously political (who gets time on the big machine etc.). Typically called 'supertechs' by PIs, i.e. 'not real scientists'. Training grad students in techniques is often part of the job, too.
Elon gets attention because he is doing absolutely astonishingly amazing things.

The appearance of indecisiveness and disorderliness is because he's doings things nobody has done before. And that's how that sort of thing looks.
He's supporting free speech, while the establishment supports censoring the population.

Censorship is the tool of the establishment. Free speech gives power to the people. That's as anti-establishment as it gets.
I think you're probably aware of this, but for non Americans - this is the same as in the US. Except I think the capital gains rate (holdings > 1 year) is 15%?

(America also has progressive income tax that caps out around 40% I believe... any gains from holdings sold < 1 year are "short term capital gains" which is at standard income tax rates)
I (forcibly) switched to Mac's about 9 months ago. Here's my thoughts:

(1) It just works is total bullshit. Multiple times a day I accidentally move my dock to a different one of my monitors and have to go into settings and move it back. At least once a week I turn it on and it doesn't detect one of my monitors.

(2) Its a different work flow. It expects one window open per monitor and for you to switch windows. It doesn't natively support snapping or tiling.

(3) Docker is unusuably slow. Our tests natively take a few seconds to load the app and start running. In Docker it was 2-3 minutes.

(4) Compatibility is a pain in the ass. Yes you can run things emulated but then everything is emulated within that terminal session. Switching back and forth is annoying.

I could go on but the bottom line is that Linux is way better. It may be more fiddly to get running right but once it does it stays running right. At least in my experience.

IMHO there's no point to a mac as a developer. These days everything I use is electron or web based. Similarly the code you write is almost always going to run either on Linux or in an electron like cross OS environment.

All that said, the M1 Macs are a fantastic piece of hardware. Silent, the battery lasts forever, and the design is on point.
> That said it's still pretty rich given its not tied to shareholder value or business performance.

The sad truth is that, in recent years, performance doesn't seem to be pegged to compensation anymore.

Not only that, but certain large corporation CEOs do have provisions in their contracts so they get paid handsomely if they are fired, which goes against the very idea of firing people for performance reasons.
But, as various people are pointing out, if Musk has to pay the $1B penalty, that's hardly going to hurt him...and if Twitter's stock price drops by, say, 30%, that gives Musk a clear opening to save over 10x that penalty on a future offer.

Now, there's still a reasonable question as to whether the board would be willing to consider a second offer if he does something like that with the first one, but it's certainly not a guarantee that they'd turn up their noses.
Ok, fair enough, it's a misunderstanding based on terminology
BLM protested police brutality. Jan 6th wanted to stop / prevent a democratic election process. Seems like different things to me.
It was a good idea to let asia control that industry, we at the mercy of them now, inflation in korea 4.8%, but let's raise prices by 20% :)

the list of brands i boycott grows day by day
To further compound the problem, a significant chunk of Musk’s financing for the deal relies on leveraging (some of) his TSLA for a $12b or so loan. The loan mechanics require TSLA to maintain $740 or higher. When the deal was announced, it was $1,026. It has closed below $740 for the past two days currently at $728.
Same here. SpaceX does impressive work. The rest of Elon's companies? Not so much for me.

He's such a polarizing figure folks can't seem to detach the worthwhile things he's done from all his other flaws. Elon isn't particularly impressive as an engineer or scientist, but incredibly impressive as a product and business person. Realize that he's a brand, and try not to fall for the marketing.
Killing bosses irrevocably activates and deactivates certain raid events as well as unlocks higher-tier crafting materials.
I agree hardware switches should be available, but I think only handsets from Pine and Purism offer such.

These features have some additional negative externalities. A stranger came to my house a month ago and was sure that his lost Ipad was at my house because Apple was telling him that it was. I tried to explain to him that the thief probably pulled out the SIM card in front of my house. I also explained that I don't use Ithings because of this feature that tracks our location everywhere. He showed me on another device that it still showed here and that he was going to involve police to search my house. He couldn't understand things and caused me a bit of a headache.
As has become popular to say on Twitter lately: cities aren't loud, cars are
What about illegal content like CSAM? That would be far more serious than just a DMCA, personally content like that would be my first concern running this type of business.
Not an American, but what worthwhile things did the former president achieve for you? Our media painted him in a less-than-pleasant light.
If you're poor and only have your work to sell, you'll get taxed progressively until you're rich enough to save money and invest. Meaning your effective tax rate increases as you get reasonably rich (from work) and then when you're really rich, the rate slowly decreases down to the level of capital gain tax. I don't understand why this is accepted. I find this revolting as I'm in the position to benefit (my tax rate going below that of people far less wealthy than me).
> Also, in the limit, if you owned all the stock in the world, you have destroyed the stock market

Dead wrong, and indeed that is the difference to crypto.

If you own all Bitcoins in the world, it is worth nothing and your net worth is zero. If you own all stocks in the world, you can direct all of those public companies to pay a large chunk of their profit to you every month in dividends, and make those companies do whatever you want them to do (research a way to build a Mars colony, or build better fusion reactors or pay off politicians to do your bidding), which is real power and real wealth.
In Dall-E you can say "... in the style of Van Gogh". So I suppose you could say "... in the style of the previous image" to get consistent results.
Turkey does not favor Sweden and Finland’s membership in NATO
It's up now, thank you! The result is that INSERTs are still the same on my machine but SELECTs are at worst twice as bad and at best 10% as bad.
Yes, memory safety certainly would be an argument for rewriting a library in Go. But we are talking here about an extremely well tested and robust C program which is actively maintained. In most cases, it is more likely to have correct programs by calling the C version than attempting a port, which can introduced bugs of its own.
What's the difference? Discrimination is an effect more than an intent. Most people are decent and well-intentioned and don't mean to discriminate, but it still happens. If there's a disparate impact, what do you imagine causes that if not discrimination? Remembering that we all have implicit bias and it doesn't make you a mustache-twirling villain.
This seems to have been added in response to parent's comment.
replace the electrolytic capacitors and it'll work like new
Even the weather is miserable in Dublin, there's a ton of other more miserable things about that city.
It's just combination of everything awful
Pretty sure twitter have a dashboard with these numbers, and don't do it manually. So if this dashboard makes data up, I'm pretty sure VP of Product's head is on the table, since it's a really sensitive data to report wrong.
And twitter firing him can be a way to protect the top exec from the SEC, blaming him for everything.
Apart from the fact that business insider is basically buzzfeed - of course now they think salaries are too high since growth has slowed down
> It's a known problem so we mitigate with #ifdef guards, #pragma one etc. but in my experience those band-aids don't solve the problem.

Errr, why?
I built my own "reactive" stack a decade ago and just keep refining it. I wanted to de-couple template HTML from visual logic, and visual logic from business logic. So I model everything on components within components, they all bootstrap whatever DOM templates they need and inherit the same basic methods, and it's all tied together with an event model that handles long polling and push updates but, crucially, does not do anything in the basic HTML templates other than adding a couple attributes like "role='photo-button'" where you need them. Server updates cascade to each JS component which updates the things it thinks need to be updated at a given time. It's more hand-coded, but it's easier to read and a lot easier to micro-manage.
Found this out on a work computer searching a hashtag I had overheard from a group conversation.
"Biomolecular science" at Portsmouth Polytechnic.
> A problem I deal with personally is growing into "Staff" style work.

My problem is that you seemingly get locked into it. The only people who want to talk to me are staff positions, the “line” roles do not want me at all. Technically my current role is at a tech company, but in a “staff-like” position and happens to be one of the least recognized teams invoice department because the work is among the least visible and a very tiny percentage of the companies income.
That Waymo CEO quote is about feasibility of fully autonomous driving in snow / rain. Seems unreasonable to even expect that. But I don't think it's as intractable as the halting problem. There's no formal proof against feasibility of L5.

But as far as Musk, yes he lies and isn't shy about it. It's shameless and overt. Perhaps he justifies it as being part of his job.