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I don't think there's any doubt that Musk has grown Tesla significantly and had a very positive impact on the share price, but that's something he did in the past. You can't just accept everything he does in the future because of past wins. Tesla shareholders don't owe him anything. He's there to do a job, and if he's not doing it well then they should complain.

There's a lesson here for all of us. If you think you're safe in your role because of some good work you did in the past you are wrong. You were paid for that work. It's gone now. Hopefully your employer recognises your ability and talent and believes you'll do good work again, but of they believe it was luck, or that you're now too old and stuck in your ways then your previous victories won't help you at all.

What happened in the past is a sunk cost. Using it as a basis for future decisions while ignoring the present is a terrible, terrible way to move forwards.
Just remember that doing a startup is risky and all of you took that risk - you, your cofounder, your investors and your employees. Sometimes, risk pays off, but most of the time, it does not.

Playing the guilt game just makes is an emotional blackmail and you need to learn to recognize it as such. You do not have to all-in in something you do not see a good chance of success. Knowing when you fold and walk away from the table is an equally important skill.
Not quite. They both got it at around the same time, in 2017. Both OSes had several apps doing it for quite a while at that point, though.
Boring Company is all hype, it's current trajectory is failure.

> it’s already building a massive transit project

It's only massive in terms of wasted taxpayer funds. The Vegas tunnel is a boondogle, and per Elon's signature style, completely unlike anything that he promised, their next tunnel will be the same.

> In ten years, when it’s clear how successful it is, everyone will pretend the idea was stunningly obvious and was only successful through public financing, or something like that.

I won't. If boring company has built any noteworthy tunnels within the next ten years, feel free to come back and have yourself a dropbox moment with my comment.
I wish Elon Musk all the best handling whatever this is with a skeleton crew of people who hate him on Tuesday: https://xeiaso.net/blog/openssl-3.x-secvuln-incoming.
Swiss firm claims longest passenger train record with 1.2-mile-long locomotive
Sounds quite different from the demo ...

Same notes, but somehow still very different.
I remember when web browsers just loaded websites! I miss those days.
Rome wasn't built in a day and were all standing on the shoulders of giants. However you need trailblazers to cut through and push the threshold. Elon is a hacker and disruptor and entrenched interests would like to just keep things they way they were, thereby pumping money into PR firms to talk down disruption and innovation. You're either a paid talk downer or a victim of that.
What about Sun King? Dig It? Don't Bother Me? Boys? Flying? (all terrible Beatles songs)

When you have successes like Tesla and SpaceX and PayPal it doesn't really matter how many failures you have. This isn't like being an airline pilot where you're judged by your worst outing.
Thanks. It's certainly a flaw in capitalism, isn't it? A founder wants the public's money, but doesn't want them to exercise ownership.

There are lots of private companies. Going public is not the only way to get liquidity. So I would say, as John Q. Investor, "If you get my money, I get to vote to fire you."
Ha.

The newer VW models (Golf, ID series, etc.) had touch controls on the steering wheels instead of physical buttons. Of course what happened is what you anticipated. Bad customer feedback made them reverse that for future models.
It is mentioned in the epilogue at the bottom, but probably still good to highlight
A good number of problems solved elsewhere are routinely proclaimed as unsolvable in the U.S. Solutions are categorically rejected in the U.S. because implementation is somehow uniquely crappified. The worst form of American exceptionalism.
It looks like risk planning was not done by your project manager. Risk planing includes risk prediction, calculation of possible time and/or monetary damage, risk reduction. For example, if we see that Foo can cause problem in near future with probability of 10% and can delay project with 5 members by 3-40 days, then average risk of lose is `0.1 * (40 - 3)/2 * 5 = 9.25` man-days. If we can reduce risk probability by factor of 10 by spending 2-man days of work early (1 man day of project manager + 1 man-day of a developer), then we will reduce cost to `0.01 * (40 - 3)/2 * 5 + 2 = 2.925` man-days, so 6.325 man-days are saved.
But isn't having no bugs to begin with better then fixing them later?

The argument was that you'll have less bugs if you use these technologies after all.
And I have to agree wrt styling inconsistencies and css variables at least.
They're extremely good at standardizing design without getting in the way of the developer
You’re mad that Toyota didn’t include an extra WiFi radio in your car, so that you can be more conveniently distracted by text messages and speed trap warnings, in the same thread where everyone else thinks that electric starters ruined cars forever?
I would say that habits, inherited patterns from environment shaping how we behave are far more important in our daily behaviour and outcome from them.

As far as discipline and accountability can be solution to adress those issue, they also reinforce guilt and shame for all those struggling and failing on this path to solve their issue.

And often is used as a survivor biais self glorification.

Most if not all of your behaviour are directly or indirectly tied to your environment, and feedback from your environment.

I myself struggled 30years being overweight, obese and ultra sedentary.

Adopting a dog in my home, had more impact on all those issues than all coach/doctor/ and self discipline and accountability.

The dog was a major cause of perturbation forcing me to adoption of new patterns and frame of decision.

Most healthy and shape peoples are the one lucky enough to have been living in a very positive environment which they inherited.

Mimétism is the most important way of transmitting behaviour pattern (and emotional reaction). Once you understand that, you can reshape your environment to improve, adapt the mimetic feedback to yourself.
My thinking is that in hard to medium patriarchal cultures female sexual desire makes people really really anxious to the point they refuse to consider the idea that it exists at all.
I guess doing things for fun is ok.

I just newer see myself investing years in something just for fun. Supposing I'm rich and I don't need to work for money (which is not the case) I still want to work on something that people will find value using. The more people finding that something useful, the better.

Even when I wrote code just for learning or wrote a PoC, I tried to make it something usable by someone else.

It's not that what I do is great, is that I derive more joy from building something useful than from the mere process of building something.

To me code that sits unused is dead code and a loss of the most important human resource: time.

So I can see a value in writing something like Minix or a RTOS for microcontrollers or even research OSes, but I can't see value in writing another OS, browser engine and building a programming language to rewrite the OS in without a clear purpose.

There might be an entertaining value in it, a learning experience, fun but I guess you can derive all of that by working on something that has a purpose.

It's not a critique of the author, who I am sure it's a nice guy, and I wrote this hoping to be contradicted, hoping that someone can give me reasons why endeavors like this might be valuable.
Honestly, I'm increasingly sceptical on this point. If your developers are comfortable writing Rust (and in fairness, this is a big "if", particularly with junior developers), then I think you can use Rust as a fairly high-level language, and it will quite happily replace Python or Ruby if you want it to.

Recently at my job, we started a new project in Python, which worked fairly well, but the code runs in a somewhat constrained environment. Out of interest, I rewrote the whole project in Rust in about two days, and implemented a big new feature in another day. What I found was that the code ran ~10× as fast, but it was, if anything, even simpler to implement than in Python. Part of that was probably the rewrite effect, and part was definitely the web framework (Warp), but I found I was still mostly writing fairly high-level code. On top of that, when I had to drop down into using more natural synchronisation primitives, it was very easy to (a) do that and (b) wrap that low-level code in a high-level abstraction.

In the end, we decided not to go down this route, mainly because others in the team were less confident about using Rust, but it was, for me at least, a really impressive example of how one can get a lot of the benefits of low level languages with relatively little development cost by using Rust. We probably noticed more of a benefit because of the more constrained environment (although bear in mind, the python alternative had been working just fine for us up until then), but even still, a quicker implementation means less hardware, which means cheaper costs - if you can do that without much effort, that's a pretty good trade-off!
Why would you enter a market that requires that much in run-way and think that this is a viable option let alone that could succeed given the current incumbents?

>> To answer your question, we enter this industry as completely new-comer. If we know what we know now, we agreed we should have never started this business in the first place. Also we have 0 founder-market fit, and that should be a big reason why no VC funds us.
> It's just not fun to write a table in a plain text editor.

Try writing a table in Emacs Org Mode before you say that!
LOL. Musk clearly does a ton of shit without running it by legal first. Not that it's really hurt him.
> Normal audio APIs issue a callback whenever their buffer gets low. This is done in a high-priority thread

Web audio used to do exactly that, and it was abused as a way to get a high priority thread for processing other stuff... So it was removed from the standard...
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At a glance, I only see one salary. i Don’t understand applying for jobs that don’t post salary ranges, especially when they’re remote. I’ll just pick the remote job that does post a salary range so I don’t waste my time
> you think Elon asked for this in a public slack channel that anyone can see? That is ridiculous.

No, this is you misunderstanding Slack. We know they use Slack for internal communications and we know during times like these people are going to discuss anything controversial going on at the time. If people were told to do something ridiculous, there is a guarantee that they would also discuss this on the internal slack in some general channel. Either the news story itself or the fact that people were asked.

> I'm not the one who makes this ridiculously comical accusation. The more ridiculous accusation, the stronger evidence should be required. The onus is on you and Casey who insist that the story is true.

No, the onus is on you. You said you had friends at Twitter that disagree. There are multiple other points of evidence pointing in the direction of engineers being asked to print out code. They've substantiated their side of the conversation, you are refusing to do the same despite making a clear claim that can very easily be shown to be true. If you aren't going to throw down your own claimed evidence then there's no reason to believe anything you type. And now you're trying to avoid this by changing what I've said.
> It was totally seamless and far better than handing my credit card to a server to get lost or cloned.

In the civilised world, we don’t do that. Instead, the waiter brings a terminal to the table, or if they don’t have any, we go pay at the desk. Nobody gives their card to anyone. That is a problem with much better solutions than online-only menus.
Was definitely in use in Japan late 2001, I was curious at the time to work out wtf all the weird images were on the back of taxi seats.
As a former Thoughtworks leader who is mentioned by proxy on this website, it's pretty lightweight in how it describes the attitude towards SAFe. It was almost universally a failure in any company that adopted it. Frequently I landed business merely because a company was trying to unwind SAFe.
Ah yes the (even more) centralised and vc subsidised chains! Or we could accept the centralisation and use postgres.
Either Twitter footing the bill or maybe he pays Tesla for the project out of his own pockets.
its worth porting the issues to the new platform.
i ported bitbucket to GitHub which was annoying because you can't choose the bug # so you have to import then in order and get it on the first try.. but at least everything lines up now
Seems like GPUs need more voltage. Something like 120V would be more appropriate.
You can build a one-pipe system where the steam goes up and water goes down the same exact pipe. Takes some skill but it works and it is bog simple.
No, the same couldn't be said about smartphone keyboards. The space in a smartphone is at an extreme premium and having the ability to display a keyboard or something else is very valuable. In a car this problem doesn't exist - you can have a touchscreen AND a normal glovebox latch. Removing the glovebox latch and replacing it with a touchscreen is nothing but idiocy, with zero benefits for anyone, ever, at any point.
I left it intentionally vague for privacy.

That is the money need it to make the product valuable to users. Without it, the product provides 0 value to users. Let's say there are many companies in this space, all spend at least that amount of money to launch.

$0 of these millions is on marketing.
Powerful story here. Everyone should read this. Guantanamo Bay is stain on the United States of America that we will wear for generations. We must find a way to hold government officials accountable.
Just be careful with rebind protection: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/possible-dns-rebind-attack-detec...

My work application has domains that resolve to localhost for our dev setup, and it took me several days to figure out what the issue was. Basically, OpenWRT by default filters out any DNS records that resolve to "local networks" like 192.168.0.0/16 or 10.0.0.0/24. The benefit of this approach is that our services only run with TLS, but you will need whitelist some addresses!
> Our job as software engineers is not to write new software

This can’t mean what the plain reading would suggest it means. I mean, I can’t be the only one writing new software all the time, can I? So, what does it actually mean?
Yes I was wondering how long it'd take you to start claiming anyone who doesn't fall over themselves to praise this layabout is "misogynistic". Three posts isn't bad, many would do worse. But it was inevitable.

The widespread scepticism you see isn't woman hating. It's directly created by people like you, who make blind deference of women an ideological imperative. Your defence of this girl is not any evidence of real technical skill or effort but that she's "pro-social". And then you claim - again without evidence - that anyone who points out the obvious (that she doesn't seem to be working very hard) must be motivated by generic sexist hatred. It's an absurd and deeply offensive slur that you can't recognize as such only because the left engages in it so often.

You're also conflating using tiktok with being passionate about tech, another switcheroo.

It's that exact attitude that leads to a decadent culture in which work and skill are devalued, people being hired because of their gender or ideology, and a large population of people who notice that. By the way, I've worked with women who are actually passionate about technology. They hate this stuff too, exactly because it devalues their own work and career. You aren't helping women with this sort of thing, you're hurting them.
How is that even legal in fact? Doesn't legislation specify that those lights should only be on when the car is in reverse gear?
People leave jobs. If you're working at a company that's decades old, the people who did create the bug might have left the company 20 years ago.

I don't know for your job, but at mine code is supposed to stick to teams rather than people, so even if the people didn't leave the company, they probably changed teams and don't own the code anymore.
what a waste of everyone's time. as a manager, I can tell you that even my smartest engineers go through highs and lows in their career and there are days when they push out code like there's no tomorrow and days when they don't push out anything because you know there's life outside of work that affects them (their dog passed away or their wife filed for divorce or their daughter is sick and was taken to ER etc). An arbitrary 60 days look back makes no sense.
I hate it in my Tesla. You can have the glove box lock with the car while still giving it a physical handle.
Do you try to save tax every year by “maximising your losses”? Or aka claiming as many expenses ad possible. This reduces your income! But even if you took 100k off your income aka “profit” this way you could still afford your mortgage, right… infact it makes it more affordable as you paid less tax!
Marriage is a roll of the dice, too. Parenthood is the second roll of the dice. So far it's worked out for me. But as I've gotten older, I've seen too many friends tick all the right boxes and do all the right things but they wound up rolling snake eyes.
Replit can host any language that it supports (unless I’m reading the verbiage incorrectly at [1]), and custom domains are in the free tier (and ssl I believe).

Throw Cloudflare in front to survive an HN hug as far as bandwidth concerns go for the Replit free tier and you should be looking good.

[1] https://replit.com/site/hosting
Elon Musk had no choice but to remove the CEO and CFO of Twitter
I doubt that both, Tesla engineers and MIT students, work crazy at 200%.

And it's a big difference between writing software for a car company and a social media service.
Yes, his companies are completely sloppy and grossly incompetent. They only delivered 343,000 vehicles last quarter, which is way less than they should have, and the wait on a Model Y is close to a year, indicating extremely poor planning. Total joke of a company.
It's not typical for hackers to not acknowledge the achievments of musk
Probably a variation of the "headlights stay on for a minute or two so you can get to your door" feature.
I don't mind the QR code, what I do mind is having to give out my mobile phone number each time I order through yet another service.

Thankfully I can just put in a fake number and normally the order still goes through.
"it doesn't really matter how many failures you have"

The thing is that they are not just honest failures, they are outright lies.
Twitter similarly is full of ads/phishing attacks disguising as some other brands, banks etc.

I've reported dozens, yet they never finish coming at me.
CSS variables, test frameworks, are good tools for catching bugs -- but at the end of the day the goal is that the code should work and be easily maintainable. Best practices help you do that, but theres many instances of a code base full of bugs that has to be maintained and improved over time. Developers who turn up their nose at "fixing bugs" are of no use to a business. These ideas are great when starting a new codebase but thats not the situation a developer is going to be in most of the time in practice. And if you follow every best practice there will still be bugs that need to get fixed.
No, they lock automatically when the car does.
I'm not looking forward to buying another car, since I've been hearing of a lot of criminally negligent human factors engineering for at least a decade, combined with increasingly invasive spying on people in their own cars.

Is there any decent automotive company remaining?
Yeah: it isn't like Apple is spending their money on R&D or operations and they just have some extremely elaborate and overly expensive way of providing value to the customer that someone might value... they are literally just hoarding a ridiculous and almost embarrassingly large amount of cash. They have a money-printer that is being defended with anti-competitive lock-in mechanisms.

https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-compa...

> Apple alone last week reported sitting on $202.5 billion in cash and investments. That's 7.4% of all the S&P 500's cash. And it's up nearly 4% from 2021.
This is scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Likely not, some pickup trucks can "force" the backup lights on as "bed lights" it seems. When parked, the car doesn't have tons of requirements vis-a-vis the lighting (the laws are usually worded like "when in reverse gear, two rear-facing white-burning lights must be visible with a power of X lumens" or something).
A day off improves an engineer's work-life balance in a small way. A day at a different company is different - it's a day that's neither productive to the original company nor restful to the engineer.
It's easier than giving source code access to all the outside staff that are coming in to actually read it. But it doesn't really sound like it's a meaningful review, since "last N days" of work isn't useful without context, and only people on the team can give them that.

It's truly bizarre.
>Inside Twitter, in a highly unusual arrangement, engineers from Musk-led Tesla were examining the company’s code as the tech executive sought the input of his technical experts he trusted.

I would have expected they already did that prior to the acquisition.

It seems the acquisition was a blind buy.
> When you have successes like Tesla and SpaceX and PayPal it doesn't really matter how many failures you have

It matters if you care about evaluating whether or not you should believe what Elon says.
Dude, the 2018 Citroen Berlingo (cheap family car) has a glove box without a latch. I didn't even find ours for the first week, because it is in an unusual spot where you would expect the airbag.

https://youtu.be/cNpGQWtgoRA?t=2m15s

Mechanical hidden latches existed for ages now.
> We know they use Slack for internal communications

Yeah for non-sensitive things. Nobody discusses highly sensitive in a slack channel that can be seen by thousands of employees, especially something that is applicable to only some engineers.

> They've substantiated their side of the conversation

They have not. There is the obscure tweet from Leah Culver. Then, there is Casey saying he has screenshots with the ending of "subscribe to read more".

> You said you had friends at Twitter that disagree

Having friends at twitter is a common thing. There are 5000 engs there.

You said only some engineers are asked. Twitter has 5000 engs. It is not unbelievable that my friends are not asked anything.

Meanwhile reviewing code on paper is such a ridiculous thing to do. It is more painful for the reviewers themselves, meanwhile it takes an eng 1 minute to click print all. Why would they even ask for this? It doesn't even make sense.

Meanwhile you or Casey provides such a filmsy evidence and insist that this ridiculous story is absolutely true.

Please do have some standard for verifying news.
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I agree that it could work for a single user web app that works locally, but it's a pretty rare case.
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