skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developers are genuinely bad at watching themselves work. I've had any number of conversations with people who are being slowed down by things and just don't see it. If you take the roadblock away, a lot of them will start to notice, but most won't notice when it comes back, so recruiting people to help you keep things working is a challenge, and guard dogging things can be a significant time suck.

The thing I usually end up saying in situations like this is that, if the application doesn't 'work' for the developers, then soon it won't work for anybody.

For the average user, speeding up some things by 10 seconds will affect their lives more than you think, but it's not going to be the secret to happiness. But for some of these same workflows, the developers are running them over, and over, and over in a day, and cutting a few seconds off each iteration can add up quick. I've fixed build issues that saved team members 45 minutes a day. That sounds nice, but not earth shattering, until you look at the work flow and see 45 minutes is the difference between 4 attempts at fixing a hard problem in one day versus 5. That's not just time that's stress. "I have one more try at this and then I'm done for the day, having accomplished nothing."

The XKCD math on whether you should implement a time saving tool is off by at least an order of magnitude for most real world problems, because it doesn't account for team dynamics. It's written for and about people who don't stop and ask for help. The sooner a person finds their own solution to a problem I'm knowledgeable in, the lower the likelihood that I will get preempted. The three minutes it takes to help them costs me half an hour. Even with tricks to salvage a silver lining from such interactions, that's still expensive.
I'm interested in knowing how you determine what an "absolute level of skill" is though. Like, there's a nearly endless number of things to ask about front-end, and it's rapidly evolving tech. I don't know if there's a person alive who knows the ins and outs of every language, protocol, and api available on the front-end.

Personally speaking, I've used Python a handful of times over the years, but never as a primary language for any work I've done. I got a 4 on the Python test.

Compared to front-end, which I've been using professionally, and also dabbling in for ~20 years (still keeping up with developments in the years in which I wasn't primarily doing front-end dev professionally)

I got a 3.

I definitely know 100X as many random facts about front-end APIs, libraries, tooling, and technologies than I do about Python. So perhaps it just came down to luck (guessed unlucky for the front-end and lucky for Python). Or perhaps there's just so much more to know that falls in scope for the front-end quiz than there is for Python, to the point where you can spend 20 years learning the front-end technologies and still be "middle-of-the-road" in terms of "absolute level of skill".

But I think that makes your descriptions of the 1-5 rankings a bit disingenuous. If people who has (what most other companies would consider) senior-level knowledge is generally considered a 3 by your system, a more honest ranking of the descriptions would involve changing "4: level expected of seniors" to "4: knows roughly ~80% or more of all things there are to know about this subject".
None of these, Tesla included, have shipped a million units in a year.
> I'm relatively young and so I'm pretty sure I will be alive to live the "okay, we really are screwed" or "yes, we've successfully pulled out of this one" moment.

Consider how many moments in history had people feeling this way and how often it was the latter rather than the former outcome.
> It's amazing that someone can take Tesla taking a sales/marketing employee and having them instead temporarily servicing cars

Why is it any more amazing than taking a random person off the street[1] and have them service cars?

What you're doing is exactly what the author of the linked article wants you to do: you're taking the frame from the headline (that the new servicefolk won't be trained before working on cars) as a prior and assuming it to be true, despite that fact that this isn't alleged anywhere in the article.

> A "new" Ford service technician will have several hundreds of hours of training

It's not hundreds of hours. These people get trained, but you can start on stuff like tire replacements or diagnostic reading after a day or two. Not every service is replacing a cylinder or rebuilding a transmission!

[1] A "new employee", in the jargon.
My best guess is receiving positive attention to compensate for a lack of it elsewhere.

I you want to see this escalated to an Olympic level, watch Meta Stack Exchange over time. It has quite a few characters that are writing lecture-length posts on a daily basis. About...nothing of any remote importance or relevance. Usually concerning some petty complaint or idea about the site, none of which any actual user will ever know about.

In a way, they are 5 star trolls. The most difficult ones to recognize as they seem to well-worded.
> How does this compare to last year?

Much less! But those numbers intuitively feel not-insignificant. One wonders how they compare to capacity.
There is more to programming than iterating over number arrays, which is pretty much the only scenario where Numba shows impressive speedups.
This nomenclature is gonna get awkward soon.

0.2 nm is the diameter is a Si atom.

Somewhere around 10^-35 they're going to hit the plank constant which is the smallest discrete measure of length.
Can you be more specific? What components were unavailable due to the supply chain issues and what did they swap them with? I know they removed radar and lumbar support due to the supply issues (which I already mentioned), but they did not do any major swaps in the last few years AFAIK.

In terms of their MCU, they are at V3, with each being a generational improvement over the last (Tegra to Intel Atom to Ryzen) and not related to the chip shortages. In terms of their AP computers, same thing, they had AP1 which was Mobileye rebranded, AP2, 2.5 and 3 which were each major changes to add computing power.
I don’t understand your point.

The cult we are discussing here is accused of engaging in grooming and pedophilia.

That’s comparable to a bunch of people that went to Stanford?
The converse of "the longer something has been around, the longer it will probably stay around still" is "the longer something will probably stay around (in the future), the longer it will have already been around (from the past)." The change from longer to shorter is not a logical converse.
At least there are only two.

Imagine how awful if we had 5 or 10 monopolies in the same market!
The point is that Google does not prevent them from competing. They (Mozilla) are the ones proverbially shooting themselves in the foot. Mozilla to me seems like a cult of grifters in denial with ADD that never even attempt to focus on improving their browser (especially on Linux) and instead would rather build iPhone password managers and act like they aren't enabling a lot of anti-privacy telemetry and data collection by default.
Because he may be the face most associated with Tesla but he doesn't provide strategy for the company, and doesn't really have a ton of input on operations, and 110,000 other people work there.
We should (and do) forbid Catholics from only hiring Catholics. We forbid discrimination based on religion entirely. I've never known the religious beliefs of anyone who has hired me, and they have never known mine. Same for the people I've hired. But in this case the cult members are hiring, firing, and promoting based on cult membership.
I will always have a spot for him in my respect list for SpaceX. No we don’t have a Mars settlement but what they have accomplished is truly huge. If Starship actually works it will be a new space age.

I do suspect we will have a base on the Moon and maybe a little space tourism long before we do anything more than a small not-to-stay trip to Mars. The rocket is only a small part of the tech tree to settle a planet 6mos journey away. The moon is only about three days and there is a daily launch window.

That being said I’m also well aware that Gwynne Shotwell and numerous others are at least as responsible. He gets some but by no means all credit.

I also give Tesla immense credit for helping tip EVs, though I am less bullish on them by far than SpaceX. They seem to be very different companies.
> Dealers are terrible awful places to buy a car but they’re generally excellent at fixing cars quickly.

I've had a dealer claim that my car wasn't covered by a manufacturer engine warranty extension when it plainly was. That was after struggling for a long time to get them to acknowledge the fix that was needed.

Dealers are often not good at all at fixing problems. Ironically, one of the big problems with Tesla service is that they've copied the "that's in spec" mantra of a lot of dealers.
dammit that took me a second to get
I see what you mean, but let's not confuse 'productive' with 'lucrative'.

Even a lot of people with seemingly 'good jobs', I would argue, are not necessarily providing a ton of material value.

For example, I'm coming to the point where I believe the vast majority of 'Data Science' is 'Business Academia' and a giant pile of over-optimization and busy work.

The surpluses are concentrated in groups that have power, but those dollars are not necessarily used to maintain or support those systems directly, rather, they become applied R&D shops.
Which is fair, but at least you get to control that. The same can't really be said of pauses between sentences/phrases; once they're gone, they're gone, you know? That is: playback speed is a non-destructive preference, whereas silence removal is destructive.
That's not a compelling reason to buy or continue to own a Tesla.

The fantasy that BEVs are 'much simpler' than ICE vehicles has confused a lot of people. The reality is that the complex electronics, battery management systems etc can only be worked on by Tesla techs with access to DRM protected diagnostics and restricted access online workshop manuals. All modern vehicles, whether ICE, hybrid or BEV are incredibly complex so fewer and fewer people can or want to work on them.

This is a huge problem going forward for everyone. We need to get back to the VW Beetle/Golf etc era where it was possible for even a knowledgable owner could perform major repairs on the vehicle they own, and which were bread and butter for local mechanic shops
So we could define the medium live of culture as 3 times the average executive tenure?

So if in the company the average tenure is 3 years, then the culture is what has been practiced in the last 9 years... Even if the company itself is 20 years old.

In another company with tenures of average 5 years then company culture is what has been going on the last 15 years.

What do you think?
Does this idea mire closely match your experience?
Dealerships can vary in quality - but I was disappointed with the local one here as they wouldn’t try to find the problem “because the ECM was reset so there was no code to read” so I had to figure it out myself.
This is awesome! I need to help make some training videos in our company and this will help.

Coolest thing you’ve got is “remind me about this when I’m back at my computer”.

Genius CTA
Are you sure it was YT and not the creater who deleted acct.

Also there is a solution already, it's called "The Internet". Upload your content far and wide.
Glass is completely fine for liquids. It's only relatively recently that plastic became ubiquitous. In my UK childhood (70s/80s) most drinks, milk etc were in glass bottles that were re-used and/or recycled.

It's mostly the desire to save a few pennies per product that drove plastic.

There are several brands in Europe now that sell water in aluminum cans rather than plastic bottles.
It's the other way round. systemd depends on functionality offered by the Linux kernel like e.g. cgroups.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...
> Not to derail from your main point, but how does Musk's public conduct play into your reason for selling your Tesla?

Luxury items function significantly and social signals. Associate the brands with things potential buyers don't want to be associated with, and those buyers won't want to buy (or display) them. Tesla has benefitted from Musk’s image when it was less partisanly political and more “To Mars!”; his recent shift may shift where the brand has appeal.
Bronco has a brand new drivetrain with a critical flaw. That doesn't say anything about the reliability of their established products. If you get any early production run vehicle you're going to be a beta tester.
Doesn't the bill text also have thresholds that need to be met (such as revenue, user quantity, etc) for you to be subject to enforcement?
Does the consumer that passes on Tesla because of Musk look much further than their twitter feed when evaluating the alternatives? How does the impact of one person's social media behavior weigh against the conduct and impact of mega corporations making decisions about large scale industrial production and energy consumption?
Yeah the whole thing with Boomers was not just that everyone in the neighborhood had kids, it was that a lot of them had 3. 4. 6. The dynamic with 4+ siblings is to heap your plate with food because all the serving dishes were empty long before you realized that you were hungrier than what was left on your plate.

That it was another generation before obesity became a huge issue probably says more about how many manual chores the boomers still had to do. You can suck up an extra 500 calories a day pretty easy, pushing things around and hauling them in and out of storage. An extra thousand or two if you're on a farm.
I think folks often make trade offs with their working requirements.

If you provide an end result response from your web app to a user's browser in 50ms-100ms (before external latency) then things like 200 microseconds vs 4 milliseconds have less of a meaningful difference. If your app makes a couple of internal service calls (over HTTP inside of the same Kubernetes cluster) it's not breaking the bank in terms of performance even if you're using "slow" frameworks like Rails and get a few million requests a month.

I'm not defending microservices and using Kubernetes for everything but I could see how people don't end up choosing raw performance over everything. Personally my preference is to keep things as a monolith until you can't and in a lot of cases the time never comes to break it up for a large class of web apps. I also really like the idea of getting performance wins when I can (creating good indexes, caching as needed, going the extra mile to ensure a hot code path is efficient, generally avoiding slow things when I have a hunch it'll be slow, etc.) but I wouldn't choose a different language based only on execution speed for most of the web apps I build.
Google cannot favor people in hiring just because they are members of some religious group. Self-dealing in, say, wine contracts, is against Google policy and likely illegal as well
So would a less efficient engine in a car be an externality?
>I'm quite frankly flabbergasted

Prepare to be flabbergasted an order of magnitude more when you find out that vaccine Adjuvants like aluminum, in the form that is being used in vaccines, has never been evaluated for safe use in humans. Yes, the vaccines containing them are studied, but the thing in isolation, no.

People think that society at large values human life and well being. But at some point in your life, you are going to wake up to the realization that its highest priority is economic stability and growth, and individuals life and well being are not even on the map.

>I'm honestly a bit hesitant to even post this comment as it may quickly get flagged by people who oppose having an open discussion about these things, but oh well.

Well, you have company now.
Hi Jart,
From powershell, via .\redbean.com -v

Program 'redbean.com' failed to run: Operation did not complete successfully because the file contains a virus or
potentially unwanted software
At line:1 char:1
+ .\redbean.com -v
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.
At line:1 char:1
+ .\redbean.com -v
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [], ApplicationFailedException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandFailed

From cmd.exe I get

The system cannot execute the specified program.

I'll see if I can get it "unblacklisted", Perhaps my anti-virus got to it first?
Found a video showing the history of Python:
https://youtu.be/cNBtDstOTmA
I didn’t get a job at Google through TripleByte. I spent 2.5 years at point.com, and a year at copy.ai before heading to big G.
From the blog post "Rather than forcing developers to switch to a key-value store"...

> need Consul, Zookeeper and Redis to make this fly

A hard dependency on 3 key value stores?
Maybe you are joking but nanometer is just a unit. We can easily go below 1 nm. For example 500 picometers. In fact that's exactly what the semiconductor industry did when they moved below 1 micrometer.
What are you going to switch to out of curiosity? Are you going back to ICE?
I can't edit my comment (maybe I waited too long?) so I'll add more here...

My comment about not knowing if running redbean on bare metal was sarcasm was a comment about me, not about redbean or Justine, so no disrespect intended.

There's a lot of "turtles all the way down" today (a web server compiled to WASM so it runs in a browser running on a OS hosted in QEMU that's running on another host OS that's a virtual machine running in a linux container on top of a hypervisor running on an X86 simulator...) so I quite honestly couldn't tell if the idea of running redbean on bare metal was sarcasm or a joke.

But Justine says its true, so I guess it's not a joke. Consider me schooled.
Sadly, it seems to just shift the conflict of interest around with the traditional dealer model. Service advisors are often paid on commission, and warranty work tends to have a lower bill rate. I think this is one of the reasons that they tried to pressure me into a very expensive repair work for my last major warranty repair.

They hadn't even read the code right and wouldn't have even been replacing a part relevant to it.

I'm not saying Tesla service is great, just to be clear, just that the bar is often really low.
Is the link broken? The content doesn't match the title.
>he is doing a pretty good job at revealing himself as one.

this looks like it's referring to recent actions. in my opinion, musks actions in the past year (including the past week or so) have been far, far more acceptable than those in the past decade
Old things that are still around are generally longer lived things. New things may or may not be longer lived. This means that if you sample old things that are still around, they are more likely on average to be longer lived than new things, because the short lived new things have not been weeded out yet.
I literally have command line commands that search google and yt so that i can quickly pull up help on whatever my current issue is.
Literally live changing for me. Thanks robenkleene.
It's unlikely they had carts or draft animals yet. Domestication and the wheel were later inventions.

But there may have been primitive agrarian communities.
This looks really nice. I was reading about this and realized it had similar ideas to this [1] Phd thesis from Jon Gjengset. I checked his twitter [2] and it was based on his work indeed.

Great that someone is productionalizing this!

Btw, is Jon involved in ReadySet?

[1] Partial State in Dataflow-Based Materialized Views - https://github.com/mit-pdos/noria

[2] https://twitter.com/jonhoo/status/1537474261689872384
> How did we get here?

It’s a confluence of factors, experts say

False. Yeah, ironic. Immediate topic aside, the universal fact is:

What you perceive as truth is a function of who you trust.

Yet the mainstream media - masters of shooting themselves in the foot (and apparently lacking the self awareness to realize it) - shamelessly blames social media. That's not how they're going to rebuilt the trust that they lost. The same applies to government(s). Disconnected from their own self-undermining and will to hold accountable anyone but themselves.

The root problem for both of these group ls is simple. They don't understand Trust 101. That is, trust is earned. It cannot be given. It cannot be demanded. If it's not earned, it's not trust. And discrediting a "competitor" doesn't make your automatically more trustworthy. That's not earning it.

Right or wrong, conspiracy theories are easylier to believe because traditional beacons of trust and truth (i.e., media and gov) have lost their way. This doesn't get fixed by blaming the symptoms.
> certainly protecting his own paycheck either way

Yeah, no. He did not protect his paycheck. He did the opposite.
Just a nitpick. The plank length is not the smallest discrete measure of length. It's not even known whether our universe has discrete or continuous space at all.
I would say you’re selling it not really because of “service” but rather because they simply sold you a crappy car in the first place. No brand new car should have issues that need fixing.
Lots of dealers use salesmen as the front line people in their service departments. If you know a little bit about cars, you'll be amazed at the strange comments sometimes.
No, at a minimum they should have fired all these people for funding a pedophile with their salaries. Absolutely disgusting.

> I found support groups where ex-members talk about their time in the group, including discussions of sexual abuse and grooming.

> Members have described him grooming and sexually assaulting male followers, including minors
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Going to have to contradict you here. I’ve worked with multiple OEMs, including on dealer ops. Dealers are generally good at basic maintenance and repair items, and warranty work. They are generally not great for anything else and are expensive as hell (and exploitative) for any customer pay work. They will also absolutely keep cars for long periods of time and require multiple trips to fix uncommon issues.

3rd party repair shops are generally going to be the better way to go and from an outside perspective, the two flaws in Tesla’s service model are 1) not producing & distributing enough parts, and 2) not partnering with more repair centers to train and certify technicians to work on Teslas.
No comment on the prospect of owning a company anonymously or publishing apps through Apple but in certain communities it is accustomed to be anonymous, particularly in those which knowledge of real-life identities could be used to gain items of value.

One omen of advice is that if you are not taking measures preemptively to actively remain anonymous that itself could be a means of exposure and makes this entire exercise futile. For longer-term anonymous identities merely picking a pseudonym and casually using it makes it easy to slip-up and potentially lead to correlation. Slightly dated now but suggest you read-up on 'OPSEC for hackers' and other publications by The Grugq as a starting point.
I haven't made a final decision. I'm considering the Mercedes EQS, although it is very expensive. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 and the Kia EV6 are very appealing for their extremely high charge rates, although they are a little smaller than I would prefer.
Man I’m not disagreeing. I just wish there was a term for tragedy of the digital commons. You see similar things from other fun aspects of the web that disappeared, like guests book or comments on blogs.