skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, my 2000 Expedition went 390k miles.

Service was:

Two alternators, installed by me.

The usual brakes and tires, half installed by me.

Couple of gas caps. (Wtf?)

Two sets of the bes plugs money can buy because that engine was the one with crazy thin threaded areas where the plugs go. Had the dealer techs do those. And I went to a rural dealer, had a great experience.

Water pump, installed by local shop.

I would still be driving that rig, but it had an internal engine component failure that costs more than the thing was worth, so I sold it to a family here for a couple hundred bucks. Husband does his own work, has small shop, can profit on the vehicle.

Was a great vehicle. I got it from a shady dealer who I out dealt for a purchase 3 percent over invoice, and zero back end contract adders. (Took 6 hours, but literally saved me just south of 15k)

I agree with you, all that said. The dealers near me are the worst! That is by far the more common experience.

I have family in the rural part of the State and the dealer there is awesome! Would recommend.

My Ford driving experiences do not agree with you. But, that is all our own experiences too.

One of my favorite Fords was an old 1980 Futura. Box car, 4 cylinder, 4 speed manual trans. That thing got crazy good mileage and was fun to drive. Wonderfully old school black with plaid interior, that old AM radio with center dash speaker, lol. I went 100k in that car. Got it for a song too. Ugly.
Regretting can help you make sure not to promote the product, sell the product, and more. It can be quite helpful.
"It's a bug" is also a very convenient excuse for a lot of behaviors from the usual companies...
Try building any common OSS from source and you quickly realize there are a few libraries at the core of everything. MPFR being one, GMP, MPC and Zlib being the others that come to mind.

In fact I believe MPFR depends on GMP.
US has over 750 complaints that Teslas brake for no reason
> People don't buy coffee on the way to work, people don't buy coffee on the way home, people don't buy sandwiches and snacks, people don't spend money on commuting, people don't spend money at resturants for launch, companies stop having team lunches.

And this money just goes poof instead of being reallocated elsewhere?
Writing your own data structures allows you to write it to suit the specific needs/constraints of your problem/domain. Typically that means you get something that is significantly simpler, faster and with a different feature set.

Libraries are typically optimized for generic use, so are often more complex, slow, and difficult to extend with new features (both coding wise or the features might not be suitable / have trade offs for other people).
Day by day I am getting dissolutioned by Musk
Most of them are not currencies. They are securities , shares in innovative projects. The number could be the same as the number of digital startups and there are many more than 19k worldwide.
Buying things that fit your world view is stupid? Climate change is very serious.
Many many SaaS products have a cliff, usually from "free" to "first cost" and that cliff can be pretty substantial.

But going straight from "free" to "enterprise" is steep even for a SaaS. Usually there's a "teams" level between.
It's their right but it's still crummy. I want Section 230 to be repealed.
Their testing framework looks really nice, I'll have to check that out.
I thought Tesla had like, years of preorders? They are selling the one consumer good that has massively higher demand in this environment. Layoff is just odd.
In theory what you are describing is a more efficient economy which would actually boost the economy, except for those unnecessary producers. Everyone cuts out unnecessary items and has more money to spend on necessary items. This is kind of true as the supply of nearly everything can’t meet the demand at the moment. Less people cutting hair and washing clothes means more people can work on producing other things people want… however since things that people want are mostly produced in China we can’t properly reallocate the labor force to increase production to meet demand, in particular in cities. US is way behind on manufacturing and is completely missing the tools to ramp up production. We are missing entire business to business categories that make production impossible because no one knows where or how to obtain raw materials or supplies, let alone the machinery to produce goods.
A company doesn't have to be a monopoly to engage in monopolistic practices.
Fire codes and occupancy limits are set by how many people can evacuate the building in a set amount of time. I worked at a place in an antique building and they had to limit how many classrooms were allowed in the building because they had to stay under these limits. Also, yearly, there were fire drills where they'd verify they could get everyone out.

So in tesla's case, they'd just fire all the people who leave their desks in a fire?
What the simple mathematical abilities of animals can tell us about ourselves
Behind the high-tech Covid-19 tests you probably haven’t heard about
Yes and? Not a remotely fair comparison.
Ask HN: Developers with ADHD/ADD, how do you cope?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19989627

Ask HN: How do you set a goal and stay focused?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23282855

Ask HN: How to Stay Focused at Work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31221475

Ask HN: How do you stay focused and get s*t done?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22436856
As if Musk would fall on his own sword let alone anyone else's. To much wasted time to be able to poke fun of Bezos or make some other bone headed tweet.
Agree there's no reason it has to come again, just things got so hyped the past 5-10 years I wouldn't be surprised if a reality check on the horizon involves a "winter" of sorts and paring down of investment, as it becomes clear that current techniques are great at highly specialized problems where there is a lot of data. There's lots of firms that have both though so maybe it just keeps chugging along as ROI is found.
bmitc 1 day ago | parent | context | flag | on: Science needs more research software engineers

> In my experience, scientists do not like anything that they perceive as "soft". I like to say that the hard sciences are actually the easy ones and the soft sciences are actually the hard ones. (As it turns out, Herbert Simon also said this.) The point is that when you discuss things like design, complexity, architecture, systems thinking, etc., I've found that this does not stick, so to speak. Scientists do not see beauty in form equaling function. In my experience, scientists like learning about things they consider science-y enough for their tastes.

In my experience what you say is true for engineers (and software engineers are amongst the worse in this respect), but much less so for scientists from the hard sciences (physicists, chemists, biologists). You can also see that from many famous physicists being involved in philosophy, while many engineers consider philosophy "irrelevant talking about nothing".

> This is all painting with broad strokes, but in my experience, the most interesting intellectual conversations I've had have been with people with the least amount of degrees. I always feel when I talk to someone with a Ph.D., they're afraid to let it be known someone might know more than them and if that happens, then it's suddenly something that's not important.

Maybe we converse in very different cycles, but generally for people I know the
"higher up the foodchain" the more they ask even very basic questions. In my experience you can often distinguish who is the most accomplished scientists in the room by listening who is asking the most basic questions.

All this is obviously anecdotal evidence, but is reflected also by famous accounts like e.g. Feynman's account of the challenger commission.
This sounds like a petulant move. Musk has been acting like a child lately. The government is after him, the libs are after him. Everyone is just STIFLING his freedom to do whatever it is he can't do.

I bet he is doing this out of spite. The man has been acting really strange in the past few months.
Technically customers just moved their business to Amazon, presumably because the price and experience were preferable.
It’s a feature until it goes viral then it’s a bug.
Twitter's "Trusted Partner Platform" includes government organizations (including those outside the US), fortune 500s, etc.
They won't because it's a meme stock. There's no way they should be the largest us auto maker. People are or have bought Tesla stock because they like Elon. There's not that much value in the company.
I mean if it works, but it's also the ugliest thing I've seen. It's up there with those plastic covers for furniture. A standalone air purifier in the corner would be less noticeable and ikea even makes a table with a hidden one: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/starkvind-table-with-air-purifi...

Aesthetics matter. Now if you could somehow make the blades the filters, that would be badass.
Depending on what you're looking for, Journey Through Genius by Willian Dunham is a very interesting history of mathematics that goes through many famous results in math, from Euclid to Cantor. It's accessible but still mathematical.
Nah, its good. Lots of dopamine from being right all the time.
Ruby: Roda

From the author of the Sequel gem. It can do everything that Rails can, faster and lighter by order of magnitude, expandable (turn on only the plugins you need), and it does it all 'the Ruby way', not 'the Rails way'. That means simplicity, clarity and power. Generally, all software Jeremy Evans releases is of excellent quality and actively supported. Oh, and this Roda framework is in active use by the US government and is subject to regular security audits...

The definition of obscure but powerful and quite beautiful web framework.
> They are a private company

Not yet. Twitter is still a publicly owned company.
At least traditionally, you don’t really have to clear a particularly impressive bar to be found in violation of antitrust law, mostly just behaving in an anti-competitive manor.
it would lack the novelty and playfulness of a good human creative work, and it likely would be very shallow in its themes.

Simply tune the parameters associated with novelty and playfulness and you’ll get the desired result.

There’s nothing inherent in human creativity that can’t be replicated by an AI. Most creative work is derivative and remix’s prior art.

This is a good short video on the phenomenon of remixing
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ2GuvUWaP8
Even in small companies, I've definitely had times where I had to drop everyone in late stages (like offer negotiation) due to a surprise hiring freeze. I can't think of many times even when I've been in the exec meetings that I knew about it more than a few days in advance of everyone else.
Are we talking about the same Telemetry that can be turned off? If you work in such an environment, I imagine you can only use approved, audited software - so you don't have an option.
The ones that fold up to stack against the walls when the cafeteria needs to be used as the theater? The ones with the built in round, blue plastic seats? If not, you're thinking too nice.
That’s not true. At will is almost never an excuse for violating contracts, employment law, or various discrimination protections. That said they can do it, but they would expose themselves to copious lawsuit liability.
I don't understand why the instructions ask to create an account. Does the repo in GitHub has the main logic of the optimization, or it's just a thin wrapper that calls the API in your server?
RCTs have been done on ethanol consumption, a beverage nearly just as common. This example contradicts your first statement.
Nope, it's more a bug. Why shouldn't I be allowed to modify anything? I'm the owner. Sure, maybe if you unpack the image on your PC and then flash it you can modify it, but it makes it far more difficult than it could be
multitasking isn’t worth the overhead.
Burnout Drove Sheryl Sandberg’s Exit from Meta
I guess you can make a new fs snapshot to overwrite the partition. Otherwise it's impossible to upgrade system as well.
Said the one who clearly missed out....
I bought a pixi the moment it came out... the OS was incredible for the time. And it was so pretty. Unfortunately, the battery lasted less than half a day and it almost burn a hole in my pocket with how hot it constantly was. The hardware was absolute crap.

I returned it after a few days.
They're the person responsible for this product at Cloudflare. Is that not enough to back it up?
Pedo malarkey didn’t convince you already?
If you go over to the Wikipedia article for "genocides by death toll" we currently have 2 ongoing - one in Sudan, one Myanmar. And possibly Xianjing although that doesn't meet Wikipedia's standards. There are really few limits to how nasty a group of humans can get after they identify an in- and out- group.

That is genocides, in 2022. The idea that a social media company is out to crush competitors and make money is really not that far out there, and certainly not an idea that can be reasonably mocked. These companies are going the way of the more corporate news organizations - they've got influence, they want to be political actors. They are not trustworthy.
Reprocessing and breeder reactors.
Archive link: https://archive.is/jZBZy
Bill to limit cryptomining passes New York legislature
Google has entered the chat with onsite laundry and free food.
Sounds like a luxury still, I got to the "elbows touching" stage. You couldn't put a hand between my screen and the screens of my coworkers. For quiet time I'd go to the kitchen table...

Summer was a challenge because the A/C couldn't keep up at all.
This is very similar to what hobbyist mushroom growers use in our setups to inoculate substrate in a 'sterile' environment. Other methods include using sterile, hot oven air, buying very expensive equipment, and making a still air box at home with a plastic tote box. Good times.
> But if you are going to claim its an actual genre, like I've seen many do, then you will need to provide a description of the style that manages to include what people generally consider pop while excluding what they don't. And I've yet to see someone succeed.

This is impossible for any musical genre that isn't effectively dead. Genres change over time as artists experiment. Hip hop today isn't hip hop from the 90s, but both are hip hop. Rock in the 90s was different from rock in the 60s, and both are different from you'll see released by rock bands in 2022.

Pop isn't just a genre, it has tons of subgenres - bubblegum pop, synth pop, dance pop, hyperpop, K-pop, J-pop - that have distinct differences. There's crossover with other genres sometimes (which is also true of every other genre), but not all popular music is pop, and not all pop is popular.
I just disagree that the work done by doctors & IB are at all comparable to what is done by tech workers.

Tech is poaching from academia and quantitative finance people -- not the normal professional careers because the type of thinking that is needed is very different from IB & law & medicine. It's not about hours.

I know plenty of doctors and lawyers and consultants and IB. The only people I know in other careers who I think could make it as well as the top tech workers have are people who are in physics and other STEM academia (my major) or quants who work for major market making firms (ie. Jane St, Citadel).

> ACME Co's Random CRUD App team

"ACME co" et al aren't paying $300k+.
Building systems that occasionally set themselves up for mistakes like this is the malice.
As far as I can tell, most people are not free to install AOSP on hardware they have paid for since the bootloader is locked.

Even those who purchase hardware where the bootloader can be unlocked, it takes much deeper technical knowledge to install a third party OS than, say, a third party OS on a PC. And that is assuming someone else built the OS for you.
The fact that the USA hasn't invested in the necessary infrastructure doesn't change the conclusion that efficient public transport systems (see Europe, see China) have huge benefits relative to a system that relies almost entirely on individual vehicles.
they have a list ready no in person, no job
I think it's going to be 2001 bad best and 1939 bad worst :/
Integrating Unikernel Optimizations in a General Purpose OS
Elm, with Typescript and Vite.

Working with Elm code is satisfying to me. It's generally easy to revisit code I last worked with months ago and get immediately fluent with it again. The "Elm Architecture" (model / update / view) with all external interaction done over "ports" is so clean (albeit with boilerplate). Integrating with JS libraries has to be done over ports (async one-way messaging) but it works well enough in practice. Vite provides a decent dev/build toolchain with hot-reloading of all Elm, JS, and CSS code. The Elm framework is very opinionated and has stopped evolving, but it's mostly a joy to work with.
Not if they actually are. Then it helps to make informed decisions.
This is a self-plug, but I use the (commercial) framework that I wrote: Nodewood [1].

I really enjoy JavaScript, specifically the combination of Express on the back-end and Vue on the front-end, and I got tired of having to do so much setup every time I wanted to work on a new project. So I abstracted it out into its own thing and started adding fixes to all the other little things that bothered me about web development, like having to write validation & business logic on the front-end and back-end instead of being able to use shared code, having to manually migrate Stripe products, etc.

I've been working on adding a deploy solution based on Pulumi [2] in the last few days to finally finish out the 1.0 feature set, which will mark a pretty exciting milestone in a several years-long journey!

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[1] https://nodewood.com/

[2] https://www.pulumi.com/
Millennial naivety
It basically runs everything on the remote machine. So when you hit F5 to debug, the code is actually (transparently) running on the remote machine. It's pretty cool.
> This is classical security theater where people will run binaries from basically anonymous people on the internet and claim this is more trustworthy than running something provided by Microsoft.

With a large enough group of "anonymous people" [0] inspecting the code, the chance for a security hole, intentional or otherwise, lowers [1]. Notice that this is NOT a guarantee by any means -- it's a chance. [2]

Contrast that to a blob of binary code with a EULA stating you aren't allowed to inspect it. There are obviously non-malicious reasons for doing that, but it doesn't (and shouldn't) sow trust. So some people don't trust it. They are not irrational for doing so.

In terms of probability, I would put my money that Microsoft is overall better than the median set of developers at writing code with fewer technical bugs. However, I would also bet that they are more likely to intentionally add in more telemetric data than they let on, and/or misrepresent what toggles and settings actually change.

Whether I actually (can) read even a single line of code does not change any of that. Just the fact that someone can view your code has a large effect on how you write it [3].

We can talk all day about whether specifically VSCodium meets some threshold of actual reviewers/auditors, but that's not the point.

[0]: There are established lines of trust via things like: comment history, other projects, and even other commits. FOSS devs aren't (always) just purely anonymous.

[1]: "Many eyes make all bugs shallow"

[2] This also says nothing like "all FOSS is created equal" or that "projects with thousands of contributors are magically more secure".

[3]: And yes, of course that could mean they just obfuscate it more. But that still takes more time and effort, reducing the chances/number of cases, and increases the chance of detection.
Isn't it easier to lay off people remotely?
If you already know Python, go with Django. No one ever got fired for buying Django.
There are some popular bad words lists on GitHub that you can use.

https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and...
DeWitt Clause, or Can You Benchmark %Database% and Get Away with It
I think he could have stalled new hires, except for strategic needs/hires. A blanket statement like that exhorts people to look around the industry = the best are first to go in uncertain times while dogs lie low and hope to survive!!
Yeah Fremont California, Austin Texas. Terribly famous for being cities of hundreds of thousands and having no public transport. It'd actually be funny if you were joking.
Musk hates public transit
Why would this be an issue? The code itself can't agree to the ToS, so only people using it could possibly do so, and depending on how the connection is set up, they might be able to skip agreeing to the ToS since that's just a client-side construction in MS VS (I hope).
>> Unless you can examine what's being sent and have the ultimate choice of what's shared and when.

You do have choice. Use VSCodium or don’t install vscode at all.

>> The only reason to collect data surreptitiously is if you're a creep and up to no good.

Or you want to improve your program.
I agree - I love the enthusiasm for IAQ, the data is fantastic - but find a conventional white good stand alone room air purifier “RAP” and it will be as effective, better designed, and likely in the same cost range once changeouts are considered.
I don't think that's the case; they do an accounting thing where they store the money and don't register all of it as profits until they deliver a set of benchmark features.

So some of it is recognized as profits right away because the car drives into a tree autonomously in a parking lot, or grinds the wheels against a curb when asked to self park, or when it slams on the brakes randomly when going under an overpass while the lane keeping cruise control is enabled. Each new feature allows them to claim more of that $10k as profits, but they still haven't gotten their FSD delivered out of beta so they don't get all of it.

I really like my tesla, BTW. It doesn't quite live up to the promises but it is quite lovely for everything I use it for.
God, as a Tesla owner myself, this is worrying. Future quality of code and hardware is going to be affected. Musk's extra wild behavior in the past few months is not helping either. My personal experience so far has being great (had it for a few years already) but this is very disappointing tbh.
> After all, it’s their right to as a private company.

Why do people always use the term "private company"? Twitter is a publicly owned corporation. If the Musk deal goes through, it'll be private. But I'm not sure what work the word "private" is supposed to be doing.
> And both AMD and Nvidia offer full support for OpenGL and Vulkan

With big fat asterisks for the AMD OpenGL drivers on Windows :-P.

Just recently i read about someone trying Zinc (the OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation) on AMD hardware under Windows is actually faster than AMD's own drivers (which is on line with what i've observed with my own code between AMD on Windows with AMD's drivers and AMD on Linux with Mesa with the latter being way faster than the former).
Yes, but the economy is not suffering from a lack of demand right now. Quite the opposite, in fact.