skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if it's authentic either, but this bit from the thread sure is interesting:

> autopilot had _really_ high turnover at one point before release because some guy from space x came in and gave the entire dept a C pointer/memory test because Elon said they were "late" to ship.

https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939642243309569/...
No-touch menus and QR codes don't have to be a binary choice. Menus can be posters on the wall, papers inside a glass table, or anything else.
Hoping the QR codes at least are not printed in any Pantone colors! ;)
Epic article.
The things SpaceX and Tesla have done under his direction speak for themselves. Of course you can find silly exaggerations of his contributions, but it is likewise ridiculous to deny his influence on their success.
Fish or no fish, my kids were themselves even before the moment they took first breath.

I audited some embryology, neuropsychology classes in college. Still seems like a miracle, how the kids arrive...

(I won't argue about the magic moment of person-hood, if any. Life in squishy bodies on Planet Earth, we do our best. I'm glad for the chance.)
We don't agree on that. Pretty disingenuous and infantile that you claim that's the conclusion of my comment now, wasn't it? Do you want to actually have a conversation about this or just come up with some vapid "gotcha"?

It's fundamental to democracy and a healthy public discourse that people be allowed to voice their opinions including disagreements. It's quite extremist to believe that people who disagree with us must stop talking about it. That is not what tolerance means.

What's the end game? Ban and censor and silence until nobody complains, disagrees, speaks out, or satirizes The Truth™ ?
Yes, Twitter was the primary tool he used to inflate the market value of his properties and manipulate the market in his interest.
Fermat's Last Theorem:

Latin: Cubum autem in duos cubos, aut quadratoquadratum in duos quadratoquadratos & generaliter nullam in infinitum ultra quadratum potestatem in duos eiusdem nominis fas est dividere cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.

Translation: It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem

Fermat's Little Theorem (much more useful in practice):

French:Tout nombre premier mesure infailliblement une des puissances − 1 de quelque progression que ce soit, et l'exposant de la dite puissance est sous-multiple du nombre premier donné − 1; et, après qu'on a trouvé la première puissance qui satisfait à la question, toutes celles dont les exposants sont multiples de l'exposant de la première satisfont tout de même à la question.

Translation: Every prime number [p] divides necessarily one of the powers minus one of any [geometric] progression [x, x², x³, ... ] [that is, there exists a such that p divides xª – 1], and the exponent of this power [a] divides the given prime minus one [divides p – 1]. After one has found the first power [a] that satisfies the question, all those whose exponents are multiples of the exponent of the first one satisfy similarly the question [that is, all multiples of the first a have the same property].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_little_theorem
It's my systems programming language of choice, but I simply don't do systems programming right now. If I needed to slot it into python, I'd probably go through numba first rather than pyo3, for example
We should not celebrate sociopathy.

Or short term thinking. Maybe take... I dunno, a couple of weeks to assess people's value? Instead of potentially firing people you actually should have kept around and spending 35% more on salaries for replacements and God knows how much in lost domain knowledge.

Not ethical, not rational.
Yep, yep, I understand the reasons. That's why in where I work we decided to use asyncify because COOP is very strict for us It has a penalty on cold start, but once many blocks cached it works perfectly, without event loop interruptions
Reusing code in unexpected ways seems like what would be predicted in this scenario, if you agree with the position Naur advances in Programming as Theory Building (which I mostly do).
Twitter will somehow benefit from Tesla FSD vaporware
With barplots in the article my friend
Until the requirements change 12 times over 12 months, and that time invested writing prose with all the stuff that goes with it goes down the drain.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying commit crap. I'm saying "Yes But". Use code as documentation, use Tests as defence turrets, forget the poetic muppetry. The code should reflect the now and mark the pitfalls. If the code is well written, I should be able to understand the why it's done this way. Don't send me off to some document on confluence written by the dude that left 2 years ago.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33389159

> I'm not pissed and I am a stockholder.

Given that Tesla, not Twitter, is public, and the conversation was about Tesla stockholders, don't you think it would be better to assume that the comment above was written by a Tesla stockholder?
Facebook? The world wide web? Another website we haven’t seen yet?

I remember when the only social network was MySpace and then it wasn’t.
How long does it take them to be fully productive in the systems?
If ever catch Sternlicht making a statement that doesn't talk his own book, ping me.
Being rich has almost nothing to do with your ability, talent, or intelligence. It the single most important factor is luck. This is why you often find CEOs looking down on those with PhDs, because they have an inflated sense of self-worth for being "more rich." When in reality a PhD is a very difficult test of your work ethic and creativity, and being a successful CEO is a matter of luck and connections.
I think most are missing that this is a code review + loyalty review.

I think most people realize that it's more than a code review, in fact I suspect that it's such a transparent loyalty review is exactly why so many people's feathers got ruffled.

For sure a software engineer from Tesla, or even a manager, can get an idea of
how valuable/productive a coder is without fully understanding the code in
detail.

Yeah, maybe. But Musk is asking SWEs to print 50 pages of their code so he can personally can review it. Any halfway competent manager or exec should be able to see this is not a good way of reviewing performance in earnest.

https://twitter.com/caseynewton/status/1586127052767318016
I was mostly referring to “delegate to smart people”. My today’s self preparing a tuna sandwich for tomorrow probably isn’t smarter than my tomorrow’s self eating the sandwich ;). So, the “low priority” = “delegate to smart people” doesn’t make sense to me, and I suspect is not what you meant. If anything, I would want to delegate the “scientific method” stuff to people smarter than me.
We could use his coffin/capsule for it. A sad, but poignantly dignified monument that shall serve as a warning to others. I suggest the epitaph: "We repeatedly told you that Mars was uninhabitable."

Edit: or perhaps more relevantly: "well, we tried to but you fired us."
If you’re the kind of narcissist who can attract that kind of sycophant you’ll have no problem getting investors. And no problem getting employees either.
The notable lack of humor.
Rust might have gone to the other endof the spectrum; complicated and verbose
https://github.com/google/martian
This is really a drama a publicity stunt , what it really is a deal bankrolled by the right wing / ultra conservative class that is ok with and even desires to put down other human beings based on their race or religion and do it freely without getting banned.Twitter is the battleground where this played out.
was it? i recall Russia saying it was 'the West' or some other party that would most benefit from it.

maybe someone else said it was the US?

I know the US and UK media are hellbent on saying Russia blew up their own pipeline. ok.

people tend to use throwaways for headlines that don't conform to US/West narratives, unfortunately. but i figured this article had AP approval, so would not be as easy to dismiss.

US Media's Intellectual No-Fly-Zone on US Culpability in Nord Stream Attack (fair.org)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33129935
The Gas Station’s Hidden Battle to Survive
Sure, but if you had 2 different 2 month olds you may notice how they differ
It's not about the employees liking the work or not. It's about whether or not Tesla is paying them to do work that does not benefit Tesla.

This is basic, basic, basic corporate law. It's not a "weird timeline" and it is in no way specific to the tech industry.

Managers, directors, CEOs, etc. cannot have the corporation do services for them for free because this deprives the non-management shareholders of value. Using their position as manager to assign employees to work on their house is in effect causing the corporation to provide them with renovation services for free. This self-dealing would be grounds for a derivative suit.

Also, it only takes one shareholder (in principle) to make this an issue. Even if you and most Tesla longs think Musk earned the right to do a little self-dealing here and there, it is an open invitation for legal action by SEC and other shareholders.

If you owned 100% of the company then all of that wouldn't be an issue, but it's still not something any legal department would OK.

The comment above you is wrong to call it wage theft--that would refer to workers not being paid the higher of minimum or promised wage for the time worked.
From the company that gave you "cars that crash themselves and hit kids on bikes" comes a review of software from a company that gave you "disinformation that can topple governments".

What could possibly go wrong.
This reads off as really salty because of how you are trivializing it.
It seems almost inevitable it will go the way of Tumblr, Friendster, Hi5, Bebo, MySpace, Orkut, Google+ and soon Facebook.

Social networks don't have a particularly long life expectancy.
There’s a great book called The Works: Anatomy of a City that has fascinating diagrams and explanations for NYC infrastructure. I highly recommend it.
> my spouse is a pro singer

This is off topic, but...

Six years ago I caught a cold that affected my throat. After four days, I recovered from every symptom except the phlegm in my throat, which has persisted continuously from then to now. It catches my voice and blocks me from singing normally. (And, unless I cough regularly, it builds up over time to the point that my airway can become severely restricted.)

This seems like it would be professionally relevant to a professional singer. Does your wife have any knowledge of such a problem, or how it might be addressed?
You just answered it yourself. Most people you know, what about the other people? What do they use it for? Not it’s intended use, whatever it is, which is part of my point (the other part is understanding the risk of vendor lock-in).
No, that happens on the Twitter app too.
Wow, TIL indeed. That's conformant to the Single UNIX Specification as well: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/echo.htm...
It’s not about the science, it’s about the social structures we’ve built around disability.

Call it bullshit all you want. I can climb on the rooftops and scream “mental health diagnosis is bullshit!” and at the end of the day I still legally have the diagnosis’s I have, I get social and tax benefits from being disabled, people whisper about (correct) rumours of me being disabled, I still belong to the disabled identity group regardless of the scientific validity of grouping us.

I’ve had similar “it’s all bs so why care about self-diagnosis” and there are good reasons. First physical health conditions can be misdiagnosed as developmental disabilities. It fucking alarms me the people with no childhood history of a mental disorder will self-diagnose themselves with it as adults. The second is there are some people who clearly aren’t all right upstairs and there is a risk of diluting resources. I honestly am fatalistic about the issue though and think eventually the mental health status quo will implode
This is the true lifeblood of Twitter.

I think if someone created Twitter for journalists, pundits, wonks, and politicians -ONLY- maybe it would be a place to go? Like something that requires a journalism credential, or a TV host, or an actually office holder title. Sure there'd be crazies, but at least there'd be a source for hot takes.

Twitter could still exist for "citizen journalism", but the two wouldn't mix as heavily.
Most people have shit understanding of rockets. There's plenty of otherwise very intelligent people that do not have any grasp of rocketry. A competent amateur rocket enthusiast can easily sound like a "rocket scientist" to someone otherwise uninvolved with rocketry.

Additionally, anyone being interviewed about Musk can't be said not to have a financial interest in him. Musk doesn't hang out with nerdy rocket scientists in his spare time. He rubs elbows with fellow rich people.

It doesn't take much actual knowledge of rocketry to sound super knowledgeable about rocketry to someone with no knowledge of rocketry. Musk isn't a nincompoop but I've yet to hear anything out of his mouth about rocketry that suggests he could intern at his own company, let alone be seriously considered their chief engineer.
badum-tsh

That said, I think he just means "do the work to get tests in place, and build the habit of running them as part of your development cycle", even if, when starting, what you're running isn't helpful. The idea being that building "write a test" "run the tests" into your iterative loop, from the beginning, is a worthwhile practice.
An alternative would be to open up the payment provider api to different processors.

For example if my bank implements the payment provider API, then let me use that. All the other apps need to care about is a payment request method which can be satisfied with whatever payment provider I have picked.

Apps would be able to ask the provider how much they’re gonna get after the payment processes etc, and decide if they want to reject it or not.
great work!

but, please no more sit ups. Even the marines figured out it is bad for the spine.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Reading a diagnostic criteria doesn’t mean you have done a proper differential. You need to read far more than criteria that became obsolete in 2011 to establish disability.
That's where I think specifically the Active exercises can help. We gave students in a CS2 optional typing practice throughout the semester [1]. These students performed better on exams, made higher learning gains and uploaded less buggy code to GitHub for projects. The results were also significant for students that performed below the median on the first midterm and only started doing the exercises AFTER the midterm. Granted, the students were still self-selecting to improve their status, but it does help establish methods for helping even students in higher level courses.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3373165.3373177
About two years ago I bought Lenovo M715 for my mom for about 300 USD. It included 8 GB RAM, 250 GB SSD, case, mouse and keyboard.l, not to mention support and warranty. Its' AMD 2200G CPU is 20% better in CPU Mark test.
> asked them to basically interview for their own jobs while showing me the most important thing they wrote in the last quarter

This is builds the same dysfunctional system's that causing so many problems for Google - the people maintaining the vital systems won't have anything cool to show, but they will be the ones that made sure the bills kept getting paid.

> I can see why it might make sense to just tell people to print stuff out to demonstrate competency

All they are demonstrating their is their ability to sell themselves.
You realize that lobbyists have to be registered and have laws around appropriate behavior?

I’ve been involved in lobbying efforts before as an employee of a firm. It’s not bribery. The company pays a lobbying firm to strategize around an issue, put together talking points or a white paper and leverage their network (as registered lobbyists) to argue their point with various politicians. There is no money transfer happening.

The EU has a very healthy lobbying process as well.

Campaign donations are a different matter, but I can donate up to $5000 to any member of Congress as a citizen and likely get time with them. Am I “bribing” when I do that?

I mean lobbyists can break those laws, but you can break any law.
> Advertising is not meant to be educational

And yet it tries do "educate" the public about why they should buy whatever product or service they're offering. Lies and half-truths are common.
GCP Cloud Run and Cloud Native Buildpacks will get you back the Heroku workflow and includes a bunch of other advantages on top of it. It also includes a free tier as well.
What such code? How do you know whether this could happen to the code you use, do you know all their maintainers personally?
https://www.rhb.ch/en/news-events/official-world-record-atte... from yesterday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_trains#Passenger_2 has it already.
With regards to differences with 'normal' Python, depending on WASM also means that despite having the same sys.get_int_max_str_digits() = 4300, my local Python can print out (2222*5555 + 5555*2222) in its entirety, while the browser based one can't.

Values that can be set via maxdigits in sys.set_int_max_str_digits(maxdigits) are also limited to size of int in C.
> I am wary of anyone who professes something that sounds technically sound, but which they themselves cannot live up to.

No one would or even could live up to such a purity test.
I’m honestly baffled with the obsession with Musk. Many folks here seem to despise him. But we can’t stop obsessing with the guy. At this point, to me it feels like envy. Musk, despite however he is as a person, is wildly successfully across several verticals. Rather than being a suit and tie corporate person, he literally posts memes, and has a IDGAF attitude. Does he owe this crowd anything? Twitter and its board moved forward with this deal, no? Are we surprised Musk is being Mush?
This was just over 600k of mostly c++ code. It’s certainly true that it helped I was familiar with the domain and the various technologies they had used, like CORBA and xml, this was late 90s.

10M is a pretty massive codebase like the entire linux kernel with all drivers is somewhere in that size. Most corporate systems aren’t that big and even for Linux you wouldn’t need to understand all drivers to understand the core kernel, I suspect the core kernel is maybe max 1M.
Except you would be wrong. Or at least not obviously right: safety critical code does all sorts of weird things in the interests of verifiability because it must be exactly right: it doesn't get "maintained", because once it's flight proven you do not change it without an entirely new verification process.

This also leads to interesting practices at times like favouring repeating code over writing separate functions to ensure the flow of reading doesn't jump around and instead always moves forward.
You don’t have experience then.

My professor in college actually drafted a pro-entrepreneurship law in the office of his representative who then brought it to the floor for a vote.

No money was exchanged.
Not likely, I like that you can sideload apps on Android, even replace the operating system. I don't especially like to depend on a single company for my digital life. If only the same could be done for card payments, there you pretty much have submit yourself to the will of Mastercard or Visa. I'm not fond of this whole digital feudalism.

I use Firefox with uBlock Origin on Android and Linux.
The really bad ones spend all their time there.
These are beautiful artistically...

...but I don't have the slightest clue what they mean, and I've certainly dabbled in FFT and spectrogram and wavelet work, on top of a lot IPA vowel work, but I'm missing the why behind the formulas given and I'm missing how these plots are supposed to relate to frequencies visually.

A spectrogram of someone pronouncing vowels is extremely straightforward. Recognizing patterns of formants in spectrograms is quite simple.

So what is this trying to reveal that spectrograms don't? Besides that, what are the axes? Why are these circular or presumably polar? Why are they spiky? Why the particular blue/red bandpass filter? And what does autocorrelation have to do with vowels?

I'm not sure I've ever found myself so mystified by something I feel like I should have the background to understand quite easily.

If they're just supposed to be works of art then that's cool. But the title "visual morphology of vowels" seems like the plots are intended to reveal some kind of link between frequencies and the shape of the mouth maybe? But the example images aren't even labeled by which vowel they represent so I'm just baffled.
as a young internet enthusiast back in the day, watching the link exchange counter on my website go up gave me the daily dopamine hits necessary to keep me interested and eventually make a career out of it. my how times have changed
I mean, you're not wrong, but I was more replying to the "I'd do just that" sentence which seems to imply the scorched earth approach is a good thing. We don't need people going around emulating Musk.
So be it. I’ll join the resistance. I don’t want phones involved in a restaurant.

It’s the same as loud music or other bad aspects of restaurants. Just because vast number of people like it doesn’t mean I have to as well.
> But what do they do to the steam once it gets to the top of a building?

There are return lines that bring the hot water back to the plant. But the steam from the central system never gets to the top of a building. The heat from that steam gets transferred to the building's own closed system through a heat exchanger. The process is described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating#Heat_distribu...

A diagram can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:District_heating.gif
How fast they get annoyed, how loud they are, the proportion of time they are delighted vs distraught. Those are all pretty obviously different by two months.
The software in Tesla cars is terrible. Twitter actually works pretty well in comparison.
As someone who has actually deployed a web service that serves millions of people using AWS ECS, I shoulda avoided the acronym (especially for a hacker news posting)
You did not understand the original comment. They implied it without saying it in as many words. Here's how: they presented the fact that Drano apparently gets a $2 ROI showing ads on TikTok as evidence to back up their claim that the companies measuring the effectiveness of ads are making shit up. You can argue whether that's the intended communication, but clearly that's the communication I received (and probably not just me, hence the other person explaining that Drano ads for kids could have a positive ROI).

As a side note, I must say I feel this conversation took on a negative (and condescending?) tone.
There's plenty. Legislators can introduce, co-sign, and otherwise endorse particular bills or amendments. Floor arguments can be public, and the news can actually collate and report on that. If you want representatives to represent then they have to have the same freedom to vote their conscience as the rest of us.

Perhaps there are even certain types of votes that should be visible at the individual level, but I can't think of them right now.

If you ban more direct lobbying there will always be indirect routes to reward desired behavior. As long as buyers can see returns they'll keep investing. We don't have to make it easy for them to see. We don't have to let political machines force party line votes.