skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla is not more efficient than other carmakers. Tesla has 110,000 employees and makes 366,000 cars/year. Honda has 220,000 employees and makes 5.3 million cars per year. That's 3.3 cars/employee vs. 24.1 cars/employee. Even if 2 out of every 3 Tesla employees do nothing related to making cars (e.g. they are working on that bipedal robot thing), Tesla still uses 2x more labor/car than Honda. Tesla also has 176 failures/year/PP100 for 3 year old cars, making them the 4th least reliable car company, despite the fact that they are mechanically much simpler than gas cars.

Can't argue with SpaceX, though - an engine a day is an insane pace.
Mint customer here.

It doesn't always get the best service (live in the Colorado mountains) but my phone is such a small part of my life, I don't really care if it is occasionally slow.

I have the massive privilege of working from home, where I have a consistent internet connection anyway. If I am out and sometimes can't look at HN while taking a shit... life goes on.
I got 50 high-profile angel investors to join our seed round
When you can only produce SQL via natural language prompts then how are you going to be able to troubleshoot your queries?
Can we go in?
> I don't know what it's like in Ireland, but literally every business in Austria prints their bank account number on the invoice so you can pay it. Bank account numbers are not secret. There's not much people can do with a bank account number apart from send money to it.

It's pretty much the same in Ireland, I've no idea what the other commenter thinks can be accomplished with an IBAN.
We tried really hard to come up with a simple model that is pay as you go and has only one dimension: 15 cents/GB transferred. We also have a free tier: first 50GB are free, which is sufficient for many production applications. The free tier has the same availability and security features as the paid tier. You can build a production app on it!
A very nice. It would be even nicer if it had a nntp gateway or interface, not sure if that's even feasible with activitypub.
T-Mobile prepaid (when their payment processor was Vesta; not sure if it still is) once decided to refuse my payment because my street address started with 4 numbers and they thought I was trying to enter a credit card.
GF and I went to Iceland in June. She's on Verizon, I am on T-Mobile.

We entered Iceland airspace and I got a nice text from T-Mobile "Welcome to Iceland, enjoy your trip here's unlimited talk, text and data"

My GF got "You are out of the US to use your device it's $20/day for talk, text and 1GB of data"

By the end of the week trip, my cellphone bill was $10 more than normal. Her's was an additional $200.
Siri has gotten better in at least one measurable way: since it first came out, I've repeatedly cited this phrase as a problem: "Hey Siri, text this photo to <person's name>" For years Siri would respond with "I'm sorry, I don't have the ability to send photos." Specifically I would point out that Siri understood what I wanted, it just couldn't do it. Each time there is an OS update, I check that to see if it's been addressed, and I've been disappointed for years.

Recently in a job interview in response to one of those "what's a product you like or don't like and why" questions, I said that I liked Siri, but here's my concrete example of how it needs to improve. I pulled out my phone, said the phrase... and Siri happily texted the photo. I didn't pass the interview :-)
I agree. No matter gray beards bashing Rust on HN every time it comes up, programming in Rust brings me joy and I will never use C++ again if I have a choice.
What makes you think people who pass leetcode interviews write high quality code?

Interviews are about being fast with a working solution. Guess what that does to a product.
> this seems like basic type safety.

Please stop sharing my secrets. I've done pretty well fixing up things with basic type safety because my predecessors couldn't be bothered to use their brains. I like being employed.
The bigger rockets use many engines, and for NASA applications, may not be coming home. So, deep space / Mars will be littered with raptors in 20 years, I bet.
OTOH, it works much better than Windows Server.
The IPD really should be adjusted with a rotating wheel while wearing.
It would have worked if China didn't have deep pool of engineers and fundings to backup multi decade R&D projects. We are going to look back at this and realize it's a strategic mistake.
The app was still available in the app store, but from a certain date they wanted more money for me to still use it on my unchanged device.
Not the only reason. Time of year also matters a lot for more "natural" reasons. IIRC mid-September is the peak and it goes down on either side, so late December is going to be pretty low anyways. Then you add in C-Sections and it drops to the absolute bottom.
This has reached new heights when calling USCIS for immigration issues. You have to avoid certain trigger words or the callbot will shunt you into a loop that can only terminate with it sending you an email on how to do something on the website, then hanging up. If you say "operator" it will go on a spiel about how helpful it is and you should ask it a question. If you say "operator" again it will hang up on you. The only way to get to a human is to look in online forums where people share the magic phrases that get it to direct you to an operator. Most of these have followup comments saying "no longer working as of $date". The US government basically hates immigrants or anyone trying to help immigrants and is happy to make things as aggressively unpleasant as possible for them. It isn't a bug, it is intentional.
It depends how much you like working with legacy code, and how much you love C++.

If you stay the "C++ expert" route you will always have a job, but it will be every more gnarly legacy code. Because those who had relatively good legacy code are also those who are going to find it easiest to migrate off of it.

Judging by what happened in Perl (the example that I know best), I'm guessing that most developers will leave C++. Mostly for languages in a similar space. A lot will go to Rust.
The experience is getting there, I think Lenovo's ThinkReality[0] is working on something you might be interested in. Their product seems to be solely targeting comfortable virtual display use, and early reviews have been pretty positive. I'd expect a sub-$1000 product in this space before 2025.

[0] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/thinkrealitya3
No, they're just cheapskates!

I remember this exact same recruiting agency spammed me a $120k offer to become Lead Developer for a new quantitive trading algorithm. For that salary, they also expected me to relocate to London. Some C++ consulting gigs pay $2k per day, so their offer just seemed really cheap in comparison.
I'll play devils advocate and say mushrooms have not really helped me at all, and in many situations where I've been ~ stable ~ or mostly okay, they've dredged up a lot of feelings and emotions and traumas that I managed to tuck away very nicely, brought it all up to the surface and then proceeded to make me erratic and depressed and overly moody for months on end.

I find that often times the extraordinary ability to be introspective on mushrooms is a detriment. I have the same issue with a lot of the push to be introspective lately. It keeps me in my head and away from properly enjoying things.

I think mushrooms can be a good tool, and at worst a fun drug but they're not a cure all and they don't work for everyone.
The Problem with Go
Technically you can download a particular region as well. e.g. search for "Belgium", click on the ... > Download offline map.

However, it still downloads an arbitrary rectangle, and there is still the same maximum size; it just automatically centers it on what you selected and gives it a reasonable name.
> huge shift in thinking

There are plenty of visionaries besides Zuckerberg who have made that shift. Some company or consortium will succeed in creating the Metaverse, and then we'll all be gathering there.
Always the promotion of abstraction over concrete identification of interests and power. Who is in charge? "The rules, the rules are in charge". No, it is US world domination and hegemony, plain and simple.

Which is fine, but it's always couched in layers of bs because it allows for the propaganda of "liberal democracy" values of US to obscure good old power and dominance and maintain moral superiority.
I use on average 30-40 GB/month and have hit as high as 100 in a month in the past (the other people on my plan aren't as bad, but are similar).

I understand that "unlimited" plans mean I'll generally eventually hit a limit where my speeds get throttled but $2/GB is not comparable to Google Fi at all.
Not only on hardness, but hardness influences how much of supply of competent workers the market has.
You use the hashtags that match your interests, eg I wanted more Python content in my timeline so I typed #python into the search box at mastodon.online and followed the tag. I didn't need to use an external site for this, just the Mastodon site.

Now I'm seeing posts from people discussing Python stuff which gives me a pool of people to choose to follow. Now that I've got some people populating my timeline I can unfollow the tag if I decide it gets too noisy.
Maybe they bet that every other provider will start doing it, then the joke will be on you because what are you gonna do, not get a phone?
the international community's
Arguably the best platform for the general io use case is functional.

From how when you console in to a cluster and run a command on another node, the standard io is redirected to you, to how tcp/up and up sockets are managed by the stdlib, it's really hard to beat Erlang.
There was an attempt: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaShell
4 year cycle, 2 parties. It's by design.
This has been my experience in the US. C++ is my favorite language. I learned programming using it in the mid nineties. I still keep up with developments although I wouldn't consider myself the most skilled with it anymore.

The only job I've ever had that used it was a civil engineering company in a small city in the deep south, and it was mostly just C. The pay was good for the area, but nothing spectacular.

I moved to Seattle and the only C++ jobs were at FAANGs, and only a small portion of jobs at those companies. I worked at two FAANGs and only used Java and C#. I learned frontend web stacks largely due to job flexibility and it almost always pays the best vs amount of stress/work needed to put in.

Yeah I could probably write C++ at <insert FAANG> for 2x the salary but I'd also have to work 80h work weeks and deal with FAANG internal politics and sabotage from coworkers, depending on FAANG and which variation of "don't call it stack ranking" they use this year.

On the other hand I can use TypeScript and work from my home office. I've been considering moving back to the south just because much lower living expenses, family, and availability of remote work for web stacks. I can't get that with C++.
Tool to package, serve, and deploy any ML model on any platform
> John Carmack considers him a true engineer.

Cool. Then he should be an engineer.

But he's not. He's a CEO. Ostensibly.

And--and I really shouldn't have to say this--those are not the same job. So even if I buy that Musk is a "true engineer" (which I don't, by the way), that doesn't make him de facto a good CEO. In fact, it could just as easily be a liability.
Isn't openssl included in the oss-fuzz project? If hanno caught it this quickly with his fuzzer, would seem to be surprising if they didn't also.
The exchange for those lower prices is lower priority. This is a good post (assuming it is true):

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/tn4733/qci_leve...

Basically, pay more and you get a higher probability of higher quality connection. Whether or not the difference in cost is worth the difference (real or perceived) in quality of connection is of course, unknown.
Which of those languages are being rewritten in Rust?
Yeah HN is a bubble within the tech bubble and there seems to be a vocal minority here that derives pleasure for putting others down for making less than 250k TC.
I do not need respect in my linux kernel, I need it to work without failure. The linux kernel is perhaps the most important software project ever. It makes sense to have different rules.
Great article, thanks for sharing. Reading this while my wife is in week 40 of the pregnancy..
It's only on Firefox and not on Chrome. So it's clearly not about privacy there was some bug that they decided not to bother fixing and took the lazy way out.
Same with the Californian coast, but going northwest/southeast. A reliable way to blow most Californians' minds is to point out that Reno, Nevada is further west than Los Angeles.
Echoing others' experiences, really difficult to try the demo. I saw data - I typed a question, hit the button. Nothing. I need to hit Enter. Do so. Wait for like a minute - progress bar appears? Then a message about datasets. Huh? ..
I've wondered why embedded tends to pay lower. C++ (and C) tend to be 'harder' languages for the average mainstream developer, particularly web developers. I guess I expect embedded jobs to pay more, yet they don't and like you said, pay less.

But why is that?
Not the data, but the user interface.
`T` and `T?` being different types is encoding in the type system.

It is a different encoding, though.
A functional “standard” library for Go
Same story for me - but we are on Ting (MVNO of Verizon). They have great customer service, have always been really competitively priced (our two-phone family is usually right around $55/mo), and the cell service has been great.
Haha, the 3d TV industry deserves some marketing hate too, and Google for their godawful crap cardboard platform.

I'll bet that once someone puts out a super polished platform with a handful of killer apps, it'll take off anyway. Right now even if you gave away preconfigured VR headsets to everyone for free they wouldn't use them
IT Companies in the Bay Area Hiring Software Engineers
Systems Engineering, or "why james gets paid"
This is a blog post from a consultant I work with. I found it helpful to get a basic grasp of how to manage the systems engineering process in a way that is lightweight and flexible.
Playstation VR2 launches in February at $549.99
Blender Apps
Not really apples-to-apples considering how much of the finished car Tesla manufacturers. Other car companies make very few of their parts. Tesla makes almost every part.
True but I still think that too many constraints can hinder creativity, the worst constraint of all is having no options and so no output. I could create something similar that only lets you change the color of 1 dot and only allows you to use 1 key on the keyboard. Those are some mighty constraints and I'm sure you could come up with a few somewhat entertaining games that could be played within those bounds but your creativity would be severely limited by it. A framework like Raylib has its own set of constraints but it provides you with an ample toolkit from which you can create many interesting things. At the same time it doesn't provide you with so much that it becomes overwhelming to learn. It sits in that sweet spot between too simple and too complicated that allows for maximum creativity.
I tried it with "which region has the largest salary disparity?" and got the same red bar.
I would love to go with a console as my main platform, I just always have the feeling that Sony is ripping me off with the cost of games and PS Plus. Do you find it evens out in the long run with the larger upfront cost of a gaming PC?
Is there any downside to having a prepaid plan as opposed to a normal plan ? For example when the next year comes up, is there any additional hassle to continue with the same account and pay for another year ?
I don’t know if this is useful, but Herzog has a distinctly Bavarian accent. And of course has spent most of his adult life far from there, so it’s not quite Bavarian either.

Training a Herzogbot on recordings/transcriptions of, say, Kinski would be a waste of time accent-wise.
Thanks. Very impressive to hear this from the Scheme pope himself. This should make all dogmatists think.
The recruiter will tell you to cross that line out and fill it in correctly.
China is already moving full steam ahead to develop their own domestic technology because they don’t want the US to be able to sanction them.

This move is not short sighted. It is simply about not giving China the IP they want to copy. China will get there anyway, just a little slower.
A full Starship will require 39 engines, and they will likely lose some during development. Even with a raptor a day that is less than 10 Starships a year. Of course if it is fully reusable and doesn't explode too often even 10 per year will be too much production (unless large-scale Mars colonization missions actually happen ). But it will take time, and for the meantime SpaceX does need to build up a fleet of Starships, and that takes a lot of engines.
Do guidelines that claim to be complete and perfect actually reach that level? They preface this to cut off arguments were someone tries to slavishly follow rules even when inappropriate, something that is all too common in our industry.

It is long because they work on adding examples to each one and specify precisely what they mean. Striving to reach the level of precision a pedantic C++ developer might demand when ambiguity arises.

This document didn't exist in the 90s because the way we shared information was fundamentally different back then, the web sucked. Also, many of these relate to more recently learned lessons or specific things about C++11 and it would be odd to mandate time travel for one document.
> Making it a $8 sub without identity verification is just as meaningless as it current is except with expanded application

Where does it say that they're dropping identity verification?
In a way it's a good thing Musk companies are such crappy places to work and are a massive resume boost. People are joining SpaceX & Tesla, learning some good lessons and then leaving and taking those lessons to other companies. If they stayed at SpaceX/Tesla their entire career those lessons would not spread as well.
Now do reproducable builds. This is the same complexity problem, but with a bunch of woo as a vehicle for their other agenda items. I could write the same article by saying, "developers increasingly can't explain how software works," and then use the ancient aliens conclusion-from-negative-premise trope to say, "software is everywhere and complex, scientists can't even reproduce it, <interview with scientist saying reproducable builds and complete code path coverage in testing are hard>, could software contain embedded problematic and systemic bads like sexism, racism and homophobia? These legitimate PhD's say they don't know for sure. We asked further simple questions, but they were ignored, could software developers be hiding other problematic things? - ancient critical theorists say 'yes.'"

I'm not saying it's stupid, but I am saying it's as honest and intellectually rigorous as Ancient Aliens.
I just switched to T-Mobile from a 16-year-old Verizon account, and at the beginning of October. We didn't get charged any activation fees for our 3 lines, but we did get charged $15 per line to port our numbers over from Verizon.

As with the OP, the last 3-ish years, Verizon service in our area dropped from being the best service available to the worst I've experienced in the 16 years. I couldn't make phone calls reliably; data rates were abysmal to the point that streaming podcasts was generally not an option. I correlate the dismal drop in service to the rollout of 5G back in late 2019/early 2020. We tried moving around Verizon's data plans to see if paying for "Premium Data" made a difference, and we saw no improvements.

Sucking up the porting fees and paying partial monthly bills for 2 different carriers, was simply worth it. T-Mobile in our area, gives us actual cell coverage so we can make phone calls again, and even on a lower tier data plan, our data speeds are MAJORLY improved over Verizon. It's a bit shocking how much of a difference there is. Plus, we went from almost $50/line to $35/line on T-Mobile, for unlimited data.

One thing that made our switch super easy is the fact that all 3 of our phones were bought unlocked from the manufacturer instead of via a carrier, and no one owed any $$$ for hardware installments.

The 3 lines on my account are used extensively all along the front range area of Colorado, for a point of reference.
Yep! Been on a wait list for Tesla solar tiles for 2 years now... Even the Powerwall people won't come out until I have solar (either Tesla / otherwise)
With the exception of Rawhide, Fedora also has major versions. It looks like people think CentOS Stream is Rawhide or Debian Sid, which it is not.
> It seems counter-intuitive to moderate based on “which server user is from” too

it sounds like the exact answer to me.

just like massive chunks of our infrastructure blacklists entire domains because their admins are overly friendly to ddos, spam, illegal porn, etc… mastodon simply makes it easy to do the same thing.

this isn’t new, our entire internet runs on this principle.

the difference between centralized social like twitter/facebook and this is, the choice is ours to make. if we don’t like how a server is run, move or spin up our own. we curate it, not advertisers, not executive boards, not faceless shareholders, etc…

with decentralized, freedom of speech and more importantly, freedom of association is back in our hands again.
Have you ever actually been in a labor and delivery room with someone getting a c section?

I was literally 3 days ago. And "butcher shop" is nowhere close to how I describe it.
tl;dr: "Dear advertisers, Please cancel Twitter if Elon makes them stop censoring people we don't like."
Bingo, he might be trying to spread out and "too big to fail" to ensure a bailout from the US gov or banks for that matter.
You can get a production ready cache capable of doing millions of TPS with a single API call. You do not have to worry about number of instances, instance types, replication, TLS, and the multitude of configurations required. The pay-per-use model gets you all this without provisioning unnecessary infrastructure (and paying for idle capacity).
Working with Business Metrics in ML
In a context business, statistical machine learning metrics is not enough. This a quick overview to understand this statement.
The best security you can get is in prison. I wonder why people don't want to go there. /s

You can implement malware check in many ways. This one is the worst; it also introduces a huge attack surface.
“Yes queens!” You murmur. This is, sadly, not that kind of interview.

Really funny blog post :)
I design the majority of the electronics for my company and pretty much all the firmware as well.

Wages are not bad for the area i'm in, which is fairly rural, but could be a lot better for the work involved. Move to a big city would probably help but I like the quieter lifestyle.

I've not done any web development full time for close 20 years, first started writing JSP code. Dabbled with a few personal website designs since then. I'm sure if I went back to web development, it may pay more but I don't think it would have the same level of job satisfaction for me. I try to keep up to date on some of the technologies used but it seems overwhelming from the outside.

Part is resistence to change, but I do find the work for the most part enjoyable so it's a risk to change jobs as well.
My guess is that the existing players in the US are so entrenched and people are so used to paying these ridiculous fees that all the advertisements around being an "Uncarrier" didn't work out to be a competitive advantage for T-Mobile.

At which point, some MBA came in with a revolutionary new plan to charge the same predatory fees and make N million / year.