skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shareholders already know he’s part time and has multiple jobs. As for leveraging talent, I doubt it’s effecting their productivity in a significant way or deadlines are slipping due to this.
Let us assume that is 100% true.

Was it lucky that he happened to start what became PayPal with some others? Was it lucky that he took on an Electric car company and turned it into what it is today? Was it luck that he happened to stumble into launching reusable rockets into space?

What is "luck" exactly?
> witness testimony

There are two kinds of witness testimony - the most common is where a witness sees a stranger and testifies about it. Those have little credibility.

But there's another kind, where the witness actually knows the person, those are far more credible. Historically only this type was permitted, but over time things seem to have shifted to the first type.
In our scrum process, I spend 6 days spread out over three months in sprint planning.
Probably Kathleen Booth an early computer scientist and mathematician who passed away last month -

Previous obituary articles on HN

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

Published works - https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22KHV+Booth%22++...
It's interesting to me that you saw this as such a success story. In my organization, people have worked hard to get it down well under three days, and to me it still feels like a ton of effort for dubious benefit, because no plan survives first contact with the enemy.
Plus, how many times were they hacked? Lately by a child.
HN mining or: How I learned that there are some among us with soft quotes
Definitely was solid advice at the time. It was scary times.

I knew fellow software developers working at sears, driving buses. It was unreal. It looked like software was dead. Silicon Valley. And offshoring was happening big time.

I went to law school, and I was already a software developer. Hard to see the forest when one is in the middle of it.
Your doubts will not stand up in court, even if they are grounded in reality, which *I* doubt. These engineers took time off work during work hours to go somewhere and do things that are not in service of the publicly traded company they’re employed at. That’s not something you can just hand wave away.
Snakeoil salesmen were hugely successful.
From 2015:

https://www.pipeline-journal.net/news/explosive-laden-drone-...

From March 8: Russia threatens to cut of Europe’s gas supply by closing off Nord Stream 1

https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-puti...
Print shops can’t just magically replicate any on-screen color on print, even if the print color is defined by some paint formula. There are too many variations involved. There has to be process for calibrating the equipment and accounting for variation in the materials to get a proper match. You still need a company like Pantone to provide that, even if you want to use a slightly different print color that looks the same as another Pantone color on-screen.
Don't know why you're getting downvoted. I was always a big believer in humans being programmed by our environment but after having kids I realized how false that is. We all have our own personality from the get go.
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==> Waste Processing engineer (Or landfill Architect, aka garbage man)...
1. Deals with lot of trash..
2. Requires Optimizing routes and sorting on the backend...
3. Hears lots of complaining if something goes down or doesn't work...
4. Continuous wishes for a better more efficient process.
5. Wishes and dreams are never budgeted for because the existing process currently works.
Some OEM camera apps have built-in QR code detection (using Google Lens or something else) but not all do.

Starting in Android 13, a QR code scanner is accessible from Quick Settings on all GMS devices. This QR code scanner is built into Google Play Services though so it's not available on AOSP builds.
> All it did was destroy the credibility of our institutions.

They're stuck in a death spiral too, cause admitting fault now would unravel years of digging themselves into a hole, insisting that they make no errors and if they do it's cause "the science changed."
It's half work until those tests actually test something of value. We all know what happens with half-work in the long run, and it certainly isn't 'they build habits towards full work'.

That's before considering even if the tests do test something, most code tests written are easily improved upon garbage.
There's no problem in this case; the finding is no less true for humans than fish.
If "cancel culture" is no big deal, then why is everybody so terrified of Elon taking over Twitter? What is so bad about this that you feel the need to make weak-man arguments accusing everybody who is moderately pro-Elon of being a mindless shill?
That is the exact argument I'm making this article: if your documentation is on confluence it will inevitably go out of date.

The solution to that is to keep the documentation in the same repository of the code, and update it in lock step every time you make an implementation change that affects the documentation.
If my anecdote came off as folksy, I apologize. At least I didn't need to pepper in any racial slurs.
Linus Pauling said the trick to having great ideas was having many ideas and then doing the work to prove most of them are terrible.

I think it’s always a slog that most people aren’t willing to do.
The question though, is why?

I’m struggling to see a significant enough economic advantage with the ways trucks are used that would offset the larger capex and complexity.

Diesel locomotives don’t use batteries, and have a very different load/power pattern
Dont stress about not doing what you cant do.

if you can't do it, there is no point wasting stress on it.
I have felt that it was definitely the US... I mean President Biden literally said on Feb 7, 2022 that "We will bring an end to it [Nord Stream 2] if Russia invades Ukraine" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4O8rGRLf8

It seems wild to me that this isn't brought up more. Russia could totally have done it, but I mean blowing up a pipeline that took a long fucking time to build, at your cost, seems pretty irrational unless to just be a show of force against the EU.
“Oh, your boss is on the way out. Something about insubordination when Mr. Musk asked the VPN to be opened. Now, I’ll need an account to reserve conference rooms for transition meetings.”
You're replying to someone who said:

> Even a flier by the door would be enough for me!

I wonder how many restaurants there are who can't afford paper flyers. They might even be faster/easier than maintaining an online menu.
Of course you don't. ;)
They are also making it so anything that previously had the colour selected using the picker is set to black unless you pay them a licensing fee.

There is obviously value in Pantone and what they do but the digital representation of Pantone's colours should be treated the same way APIs are.
LiveCode is also a SaaS, locked behind a subscription iirc.
So the moral of the story is "never try"?
Four times.
They don't need to go further into it as they state the answer right there in the article: We add fuel (our fuel is 97% natural gas). We only use fuel oil in the dead of winter if there’s a natural gas shortage or emergency, otherwise we are natural gas all the time

In other words they currently use gas and a bit of oil.
Five times.
Making mistakes / getting things wrong are acceptable outcomes. Provided you learn from them.
What equity? What capital? What assets? What investment? These mostly weren't PPE manufacturers or even PPE suppliers. Often they were little more than drop shippers with a 50% profit margin. It is that simple.

And the fact that companies were treated the same when they were assessed doesn't alter the fact that being assessed sooner rather than later is a massive advantage.
Now that's odd right? Account created in 2019 and not a single comment until now. The comment is also just a quick rebuttal with no substance, the type of comment made by someone who you'd think would comment often.

So either

People who manipulate opinions for some group, country, or company on social media keep accounts stored so when needed they can perform their job.

Or, this person read hackernews for 3 years and never commented (ignoring deleted comments) until just now and only to basically say "no".
> >90% of the population never wore real respirators

Because doing so is not practical, all these "pro-science" people are divorced from reality, operating in some absurdly idealized world that doesn't account for whether a system is literally able to be practiced by normal people. Our evidence for whether it's possible is whether anywhere even close to a majority of people did over the course of the pandemic. Not even close.
Agreed I muddied things with the phrase wage theft. It’s theft from shareholders.
Organic farms just use “organic pesticides”, which certainly aren’t non-toxic.

https://www.agdaily.com/technology/the-list-of-pesticides-ap...
The success of most* social media platforms was largely unconnected with the developers who built it or the underlying software. You can't just hire a few hundred retrenched developers and expect to come up with a successful social media platform after some number of months. Timing, marketing, and user psychology are much more important.

* I'd say TikTok is the exception, because delivering (a) instantaneous video and (b) useful algorithmic recommendations is a technically difficult proposition. But at the same time, I'd argue their success was driven largely by the music licensing deals they initially cut (and their insane marketing spend), which is what caused their early growth.
Maybe try for a month, get stock to vest, then take off.
This seems cool but the messaging is off. It took me a minute to figure out what this is and who it’s for.

On that note, how big is this market? I know the work from anywhere crowd is hot right now but these people tend to be young, child-less and unmarried.

When people settle down they don’t make for good work from anywhere customers.

I’m not sure there’s a big enough TAM and how you’d calculate LTV if at some point every user churns out.
"The note continues, “Please come prepared with code as a backup to review on your own machines with Elon.” Later, people inside the company reported that Tesla engineers were in fact reviewing the code."

Can anyone verify this story?

we already have "Pranksters posing as laid-off Twitter employees trick media outlets: ‘Rahul Ligma’"

https://nypost.com/2022/10/28/pranksters-posing-as-laid-off-...
I wish that sales receipts go to QR code too
What is going to happen to people's stock vests? There is no public company any more. Can they just hold the stock or do they get a cash value?
Once upon a time at Tesla, Elon brought SpaceX staff in to weed out the undesirables.

The autopilot team didn’t like being quizzed on basic c/c++ questions and that was the first time almost all of AutoPilot quit.

Or so I heard.
How do you know which Pantone color to specify when printing?
Correct. I used wrong term. It’s theft from Tesla shareholders.
Number of PR's means very little with overall productivity. It's a vanity metric.
SAFe was implemented top down at CVS Health when I was there. Main benefit I got from it was the parties in the evenings after PI Planning days were excellent.

Otherwise I don't miss anything about it.
I work in a regulated sector. If I need to know the priority of a PR, it’s the speed from code review to integration.
Exactly! Just like I said in my comment down below. Most commenters in this thread just assume Musk told a bunch of guys just to show up on TLSA time to do some code review. My suspicion is he helped setup some sort of consulting arrangement between the two companies to make it legal. Why is that so hard to believe?
Tumblr was very North America/Europe centric platform, with most users often posting about very niche topics that most people aren't interested in.

On the other hand, twitter is a pretty global platform, yes a big share of its users is from the US, but japan, brazil, the middle east constitute a huge part of its userbase, so while I wouldn't say that losing the part of twitter that hates elon and his policies won't be a problem (if that ever happens), it's impact won't be as large as tumblr, because no one cares about elon in japan.

The topics discussed on twitter are also far less niche and more current, politicians, celebrities, artists, companies all use it, so it mostly can't experience meltdown by changing its policies, because what's keeping people on twitter is other people, not the policies.
Yes this does mean that if those people leave every one will with them, but there is simply no alternative to twitter to leave to right now, mastadon is a joke, discord and reddit are just a different form of social media that wouldn't satisfy twitter users
Maybe someone can make a new platform just like twitter? but I doubt that elon's decisions can be that bad.

He mostly has to keep it the same, and he won't lose a single user.
"The note continues, “Please come prepared with code as a backup to review on your own machines with Elon.” Later, people inside the company reported that Tesla engineers were in fact reviewing the code."

Can anyone verify this story?
Ever heard of lurkers?

> Or, this person read hackernews for 3 years and never commented (ignoring deleted comments) until just now and only to basically say "no".

Yes, comparing tumblr to twitter was so idiotic I just had to say no.
I’ve had great success with the boric acid-sugar traps. Boric acid is toxic if you eat it, but not very toxic. The ants eat it, carry it back the nest and kill the rest of the inhabitants.
That's a bit weird to me.

It's often the case in the UK that the mobile app/website in restaurants has full allergy information, including filters to only show items that match certain criteria.
these policies are a product of pathological incentives as well as emotional decision making - there are scientists and engineers building free, open source tools to do exactly as you propose, but more of them are building things attention seekers can use to grease (g)ears for cash or clout, and the systems making this possible are fusing with or already indistinguishable from evolving models of governance

millions of people and machines are busy quantifying, prioritizing and verifying - where these efforts don't actively perpetuate flagrantly bad policy, they are too often inadequately coordinated to prevent it

it's not only our brains that are poorly equipped to optimize for long term human wellbeing but our social technologies - luckily we have more choice in the latter, we ought to exercise it
Side question: One thing that keeps me from setting up stuff like that is that it’s unclear to me what is involved in keeping it up to date. With Debian packages, I can easily have everything auto-update (e.g. using cron-apt). But for projects like this, it seems one would have to set up some idiosyncratic procedure?
Unless Tesla is interested in adding social networking / messaging features to the car interface.

It’s not hard to envision a potential business case
New people regularly join our company and take a few weeks to become productive at making small changes to one or two modules out of 5,000+ in the enterprise.
I doubt it not, Elros son of Earendil. Yet I have but one.
Have another baby and compare.
I think so too, I'm impressed that he wants to personally look at code at all. His ability to evaluate it deeply is not relevant, one thing is for sure: he can ask deeper questions than if he had no code to talk about. That alone is a big bonus when you need to do an evaluation of a person, having something concrete to talk about.
These terms are relative. Low priority doesn't mean not important or even not difficult. As an executive I delegate parts of the scientific method to my team when analyzing Type 1 decisions however the final go/no-go decision is squarely on me and I have to answer to my share holders and my employees if I get it wrong. You should never ever delegate blame.

Type 2 simply means low consequence, again relative. Because everyones appetite for consequence is different. For example a Type 2 decision for me is Health Care. I delegate to my spouse to pick the plan. If a bad decision is made worse case is my out of pocket is higher than I would like but it can be remedied in 12 months. It's an important decision and difficult one but for me personally it's a Type 2. For someone else that might be a Type 1 and they must really pick the right plan.

So apply the advise to your life in the way that makes the most sense. And for me personally what I eat for lunch is always a Type 1 ;)
> How mang PRs?

For a junior engineer sure this is probably a reasonable gauge of your productivity. As you become more and more senior number of PRs and LOCs becomes a worse and worse measurement. This is basic software engineeting.

> What does the code do? How was it reviewed? What value does it bring to the stakeholders

These things are impossible to accurately assess without a lot of context. Context which outside engineers are entirely lacking.

If the accounts of what Musk is doing are an accurate reflection of his leadership -- and based on accounts we have heard from Tesla and Space X in the past it sounds like they are -- he is a terrible leader and his companies are successful despite that deficiency.
Do they call it bribery in the EU too?

https://www.appf.europa.eu/appf/en/donations-and-contributio...
Interesting idea. Not sure how much it worked in practice?
Whoever did it, I can understand the motivation for a supporter of independent Ukraine to do it, because it cuts off a source of funds to Russia.

What I don’t understand is why (as some news reports / sources suggest) Russia would do it. What would they gain? If they want to cut off gas and use that as leverage, far better to shut off the gas and their end and leave the pipeline so that they can resume deliveries if the gas pressure gambit works. Blowing up the pipeline shuts off any potential of ever exporting their gas, which generates currency.
Isn't it more likely both contribute in some amount?
> That's right; we don't have it because it's bloody cold there, a lot of the time. In fact our Summers are only temperate because of the Gulf Stream

I don't know where you've landed in the United States, but the notion that Europe is "bloody cold a lot of the time" suggests you don't actually know much about either cold, or continental interior temperatures. There isn't a single month of the year in which the average Low temperature is below freezing in most of Western Europe, outside of the Nordic countries. Contrast that to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the average daytime High temperature is below freezing for a quarter of the year. You have to go way East into the continental interior - Moscow or further - to find temperatures that are comparably cold.

The interior cities in North America that are at comparable latitudes to Europe - Winnipeg, and Edmonton, e.g., - now there you get some actual "bloody cold." The air at -40C (or F) has a special quality to it.

Europe does indeed have generally milder summers, due to its maritime exposure and the Gulf Stream, but also due to it's more Northern latitude, but "bloody cold" it is not.
In my own experience, it has required both repetition, and variability.

I learn something new, every day, but what I learn, and how it is implemented, is highly dependent upon the phase my project is in.

Right now, the project I'm working on is in the "home stretch." There's still a lot more work needs doing, but it's fairly predictable, well-practiced stuff.

Getting to this point, though, has involved two years of researching alternative approaches, strategic and tactical designs and decisions, pivots, backpedalling, and bug-fixing.

And every day, I have been writing Swift code. Most of the time, I'm using the same techniques as I was yesterday, but, every now and then, I try something different. Sometimes, that becomes a new habit.

In my personal opinion, there's really nothing like developing and releasing shipping applications to provide a rich experience in both repetition, and variance.
Show HN: A minimal job board and blog for signal processing engineers
Tesla is a hardware company not known for stellar software. Both its self-driving/driver assist capabilities are suspect, and the functionality of the giant tablet UI could be better. You hear a lot of requests to be able to use Apple CarPlay in Teslas.

Teslas are probably better than the vast majority of car companies, particularly the UI of the touch controls and system, but it still seems weird to me to have engineers from a company perform a review in an area that they aren't known for. Honestly, I would assume Twitter has better software engineers.
Unless Twitter is paying the Tesla for Tesla’s employees time to Tesla, whether you care or not, doesn’t matter. A part time CEO of a public company is using the public company’s resources on one of his private project. If I owned a business with someone and found out the other owner was using our company’s funds but told our employees to go mow his house’s lawn, I would consider that misappropriation, embezzlement even. We don’t know the details here but I would hope it’s above board.
That's a joke. Wapo is just as full of shit as any other news outlet these days
As someone well outside that circle, has it ever occurred to you that some people just don't like Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk?

And same people double down on the dislike because his supporters are the kind of people to paint not liking him must actually be a sign that you're just upset that you're losing your non-existent grip on non-existent power?

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Elon went from cool eccentric paypal/electric car/taking us to mars genius to arrogant "Great Value Joe Rogan without the social skills" very quickly with the general public.
100%

I made 400 last year. It was two fixes across many files owned by many different teams.

Ideally it would have been two. Sometimes playing the politics game is required.
I don't think OBL became an 'official enemy' of the USA until the mid-1990s, by which time he'd moved to Sudan, and apparently what set him off was infidel US soldiers on holy Saudi land during the Gulf War II (I being the Iraq-Iran war of the 1980s). BCCI had mostly been dissolved by then, although some remnants and associates then went on to become 'Al Qaeda's Bank'.
Arm reportedly changing licensing model to prohibit custom GPUs and TPUs
The only annoying thing is that the menu it opens is a pdf that was designed to be printed on A0 apparently, with times new Roman 10 point font, food on extreme left and price on extreme right.

And then you keep scrolling back and forth on your iPhone trying to read them.

Bonus points if you put the pdf in an iFrame in a site that’s off the bootstrap template but they forgot to include the js file so it zooms the hamburger button instead of the pdf when you pinch and refreshes the page when you jerk it too much.
Except there's a difference between harassing people in particular and just stating your general opinion on some topic.
> That's absolutely insane. Tesla employees are paid by Tesla to do work for Tesla.

Unless Twitter is paying handsomely for the consultation?
Counter-point: Tesla is rumored to be working on a phone. That team could be very interested in Twitter for shareholder-value reasons.

Do we have any reason to believe it was Tesla’s AI engineers?
gc makes it easier to conceive of and program algorithms that use cyclical graphs, a pretty broad problem. try and implement these structures in rust and you quickly run into headaches. solveable headaches but headaches all the same. they’re trivial in a gc language