skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of Tesla's current profitability is still in carbon credits trading with other manufacturers. Their own manufacturing is still not stably profitable. Where it is profitable it in part relies on continuing sales of a feature that has yet to be delivered (and may not be ever delivered).

Tesla has done a great job to shake up a complacent status quo of car manufacturers, and to especially lead the curve of EV adoption in the US. That's not nothing, yes, and is absolutely a team effort. It's also not the best run business model and there's a lot of questions still about the long-term sustainability in their cost cutting and their over-reliance on credits and promised but not delivered features. If we want to credit Elon as the sole "business guru" and the company is relying on business models that are less than stellar, it's fair to criticize Elon's role in Tesla with respect to their ongoing business model issues.

There have been times where Tesla's stock, to generate additional liquidity, has had SEC violations alleged against it and most of those were directly "great business man" Elon Musk posting SEC violations directly to social media and pretending they were honest mistakes (and having enough reasonable doubt to not get the "Martha Stewart treatment").

I don't think there's "rewriting". There's 15 years of questionable business practices that was criticized at the time, yet seem easy to sweep under the rug now that Tesla looks popular and is a darling of certain investors.
Was illustrating conceptual. I don't think they have an actual like Mozilla or Wikipedia. Though maybe they should?
Payed fully until February 2nd. Is there anyway for me to sign up to be laid off ?
I've seen it remarked and it seems generally agreed upon that Twitter was overstaffed. The extent to which that was true is unclear, because whether Twitter's service meaningfully degrades or not remains to be seen. There's an $8 blue subscription being floated, but otherwise, to what extent the new leadership will change the core service remains to be seen. Whether power users sustain a revolt or exodus remains to be seen.

Dorsey left, didn't he? There's been some fairly major executive turnover over the years. Twitter sort of hummed along, didn't it?

You remarked, hyperbolically I'd say, that he speed ran the destruction of a $40 billion-whatever acquisition in mere weeks. That may turn out to be true. But it hasn't happened yet. I think many people want this to be true, but this is an exceptional event and is hard to make dispassionate predictions about. It's possible, but improbable that it'll take the shape of Newscorp's myspace acquisition, or Verizon's yahoo acquisition. Those were services that were already in steep decline. I don't know for sure, but Twitter appears to be relatively stable when it comes to user activity.

Overall, I think the prognostication around this acquisition has been inflamed by culture war biases.
A useful reminder is to configure your RSS reader to poll at a reasonable frequency. I know of at least one popular blog that blocks RSS polls from liferea due to a too-fast default.
I tried it and some things didn't work, can't remember what was my issue, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmJKY59NX8o
Your argument makes no sense to me. You think there's many ways the system can be improved. In other words, you think it's fallible. At the same time, you think any results produced by such a system are legitimate and should be accepted at face value. Why shouldn't "the far right" question results that are questionable?
Sure but you wouldn't be reading a password into a std::array or std::vector in C++, you'd be reading into a std::string or possibly something like a std::stringstream. And both of those containers will handle sizing and reallocation for you.

If your point is that C++ lets you do unsafe things then yes, of course it does. But so does Rust.
Similar story...I was in 10th grade, and we had a teacher who, in study hall, would make us all watch a projector of her monitor just reading awful powerpoint slides about whatever topic she was interested in. I wanted to do my homework in that period since I never did homework at home, but she wouldn't allow it. Other people wanted to quietly socialize but couldn't. Everyone hated it.

So on one of the computers in the back of the room, I used windows task scheduler to do something akin to "net send room-6a-teacher COMPUTER MUST BE REBOOTED IMMEDIATELY" every 5 minutes for the duration of the class. The teacher was not very tech savvy, she once claimed to have "deleted regedit, because it looked like a rubiks cube and I don't want games on my computer". She never ended up figuring out why her computer messed up during our class, but it let us have our study hall back as our own.

In 12th grade I told my computer networking teacher that story, and he said basically he knew exactly what was happening, but not who did or why they did, so he didn't want to stick his nose in to a study hall, but "I should have figured it was you". I took it as a compliment of the highest order.
Deploying a whole ass web application on small, immutable smart contracts seems inane to me. Reminds me of something programmers do not because its powerful, but because its hard and it makes them feel cool.
> This is the old "voters are actually stupid" idea. I don't buy it. Voters seem to have no problem deciding for themselves who deserves what credit, what politicians want is to market their "success" and to pass off their "failure."

It's been studied and is kinda true. You can pretty reliably do something like, over a controversial tax hike that affected 2% of the population, get 30% of respondents to claim it made their taxes go up, if there was a heavy media push about how it'd make everyone's taxes go up, and that's for something they should have direct experience with. You can also do things like get an amusingly-high percentage of people who oppose various social programs by name to tell you they'd support a law to replace them with some other program you describe... that's identical to what the program already does. Then there's all the people who tell you how much more dangerous America is now than when they were growing up in the 1960s or 70s.

I dunno about dumb, but voters' views are rather less connected to reality than one might hope, and seem to have a whole lot more to do with what they're being told by pundits.
What makes you think the person “responsible” did not make that point and Elon overruled them?
Fake reviews are not the only problem. It's the fact that most reviews are going to either be from someone who loved the product enough to take the time to write about, or had such a bad experience (which could be anything and maybe not related to the problem) that they feel compelled to write about. So you wind up with 5-stars and 1-stars and not much inbetween.
You can also use https://api.invidious.io/ to get the feeds. I keep the Youtube feed since I just share button to Newpipe. From Newpipe I can send to Kodi for the big screen experience.
@macmcirish fair enough, I meant in context to the reply.

Folk can be pedantic about numbers and take the mick out the average intellect of the average HN user I suppose. I'm not on the spectrum so not especially retentive to those minor points.

The main point was that a lot of these employees were on very large sums of money, and in control of the information flow across the web. It's a centralised platform. Anyways, doubt it's worth making the point any more.
He seems to be a guy that acts impulsively. But, being somewhat of an asshole once or twice over the years is hardly worthy of the passionate hatred some people have for him. It is more about greed/envy/etc. imho. The world is a more interesting place with Elon in it, from my point of view.
Unfortunately, I don't think this is valid HTML. Sad! https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/syntax.html#:~:....
For a little while it was an open federation of sort. The problem is that it had a single namespace of user and channel names, so misbehaving servers would cause chaos.

Wikipedia has a summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat#EFnet
Does look like they have hiked their prices. But it also depends on how you are making the comparison. For example, just a cursory look at both pricing shows me some major differences - Pair is offering "fully managed" VPS hosting which means the hosting providers employees will help you do most of the common hosting tasks (and provide better customer support) unlike "unmanaged" hosting where you have to do everything yourself with the tools provided. Is the Linode plan you cited also similar or for "unmanaged" hosting (which is what Linode was famous for)? Note that Linode (Akamia) also makes a distinction between "shared" vCPU vs "dedicated" vCPU and prices it differently. Don't know how Pair looks at that. The point is that the pricing variation can be justified by the services being offered. I admire and respect Akamai and also like Linode a lot. But I also recognize that Akamai is big B2B company offering enterprise services and small or independent developers will always be an after thought for them.
I was saving this one to answer, because it's really personal for me!

For each person it'll be different. But in short, these are the stories you tell yourself, about yourself.

For example: when I was a kid I was always put in this "special" desk that faced the back wall, or the other "special" desk that was pushed up against the blackboard next to the teacher. I was always "other"'d and kept away from others. I started growing this idea that I was just a "bad kid", that I needed to be removed or separated from others. That nobody wanted to hear what I had to say. That I was a "bad apple". This really demotivated to try at all in school, and the only place I felt confident was in Physical Education class where I was allowed to be loud and move around without being yelled at. Over time, as I learned about ADHD, I wasn't a bad kid... and that sports wasn't even really my thing (lol). With this new "fact", I was able to separate some of my behaviors and tendancies from me as a person.

That was just 1 little example. I have tons... but I hope that made a little bit of sense!
They did have quite a bit of power in situations where Twitter was being used for coordinated inauthentic behavior in regions where ethnic cleansing and genocide were under way.
Could you find that article, perhaps via algolia HN search? I didn't see it.
Reddit can barely stay up and constantly has weird bugs so they likely need more!
I see plenty of spam and garbage on HN (examples: the same articles being posted over and over, random crypto articles with 4 upvotes, "this" or "I agree, fuck X!" bandwagon comments).

But I still think the lower volume vs. larger social medias, and the upvote/downvote system, is good so that these spam and throwaways don't take up too much of my attention vs. the actually good content.
This is the third president in the age of Twitter. It's use in the political space has been expanding. It has had to adapt.

And I would say it didn't really have much sway in the 2012 election. It existed, politicians reached out on it, but it wasn't as major a platform as it became.

Which is part of the reason why it took until 2015 for an account explicitly for the President to be created. They were still figuring it out. Platforms themself checking facts wasn't a thing until the last few years. Before it was organizations like Snopes, Politifact, etc.

> So you're allowed to support democrat agenda "nakedly", but not any other. Got it.

No one is saying that. But your partisanship is blatantly obvious and a bit tiring.
That's pretty cool. There are these pockets of really great public service internet services.

Am I interpreting correctly that you can join HackerOne to do work on UK public service projects? I tried to get something like that done for a municipality and a province, where it was going to be a way to engage college students on doing vulnerability hunting on public infrastructure, but also use it as a recruiting pipeline to get people interested in public service.
Web3 was the term created 2014 to originally describe three properties (protocols) that decentralised networks can bring to web without need to rely on centralised service providers. Web + 3 = web3:

- eth: making transactions with smart contracts

- bzz: decentralised storage - save files

- whisper: peer-to-peer messaging, chat, etc.

More about the history of web3 in my Twitter thread here:

https://mobile.twitter.com/moo9000/status/148446388922402406...

However the usage of the term and it meaning has corrupted over the years, especially when marketing people took it over.
Very true! I've had many clients opt for jail. The benefit of jail is that it's at least definite. The pervasive uncertainty in probation amplifies the stress factor, especially since sanctions can come out of nowhere and wreck your life.
After you vote you have a new option. If you upvoted the option says "unvote". If you downvoted it says "undown". Just check the text after you vote to make sure you didn't fat finger it.
Thankfully it doesn’t take to be TB-L to deduce that.
Something about that just makes me uncomfortable, I'm not sure I would appreciate it if were his peer.
Most of the people importing Japanese cars are not supporting them. A lot of them are not even doing pre-purchase inspections IN Japan before bringing them over. That might cost about $200, but that's $200 that could be in their pocket. They'll bring in any broke, rusty, hunk of shit and someone will buy it, and that's it from them.
It didn't claim it was passed by Republicans, it explicitly stated it was signed by President Nixon and made no claims about which party controlled Congress nor did it mention Nixon's party affiliation. Not even a (R) after his name.
You're talking about looking at replies to Elon tweets, but it's kind of a given that they're more likely to be Musk supporters simply because most healthy people don't follow or obsessively pay attention to someone they don't like?
Sorry, typo!
Traversing a short list but frequently still going to have terrible cache performance compared to something like vector. Just use vectors, folks
I don't understand the post. Are they going to offer a Python IDE equivalent to RStudio?
Look up "managed" hosting vs "unmanaged" hosting - that's one explanation why their services are costlier.
It seems like this is a thesis that could be tested empirically. It makes intuitive sense to me, but if I’m honest, that kind of inverted bell is not what I actually see very often on Amazon.
Twitter said child porn didn't violate their policies, so I'm not sure what these people were doing.

Twitter banned people whose speech deviated from the state-approved narrative over the last two-plus years. So I'm not sure what these people were doing.

Twitter collaborated with American intelligence organizations to suppress accurate reporting to related to a favored political candidate during a democratic election. So I'm not sure what these people were doing.
So in the case of CUPE asking for 11.7% increase in pay, who is the C-Level involved, and what is the "point" they are trying to make besides simply demanding more money?

How about this "strike"?

"The 2019 General Motors strike began September 15, 2019, with the walkout of 48,000 United Automobile Workers from some 50 plants in the United States. Demands by workers included increased job security, gateway for temporary workers to become permanent, better pay and retaining healthcare benefits."

what was the impact to the C-level? how did them demanding job security and better pay relate to them at all?

There is pretty much NO case of union action ever attempting to impact directly or indirectly a C-Level person.

They strike for Benefits, money, job security and that is about it.
I'd like to think I'm pretty good at spotting which reviews are fake, but I'd love to do a test to find out if the ones I thought were real were actually fake.

It won't be long before someone writes a GPT-3 model that can write hundreds of different reviews indistinguishable from real ones, and that sound and look different from each other, based on a product description and images.
>The automobile industry accounted for 4.7 percent of digital advertising revenue in the country in 2021.

It definitely isn't great for Twitter as the auto industry is a large industry, but dont think this will be the thing that makes or break Twitter. I don't think aerospace companies even register in terms of online advertising dollars.
Something I noticed over the past 14 years is that I feel managers are becoming increasingly less technical.

Sure, they did some coding at some point but I doubt many were ever very proficient and just managed to coast until they become managers and had to drop the farce of knowing how to code.

The amount of junior level mistakes and architectural issues I spot around are incredible.

I wonder if it's a reflection of the increasingly complex tech landscape or a reflection of the increasingly politic and "soft skills first" corporations.
Looks interesting. Do you read the Figma file format and re-implement all the rendering?

Although I get an 500 error right now: https://sc.robsite.net/files/1667596588-pikmaker-500-2.png
Kudos to you for your approach to competition!!
In my experience, the linked lists that are useful are intrusive linked lists where the data you care about has a next/previous embedded pointer as opposed to an just storing an arbitrary object inside a linked list.

One example would be if your thread structure has these embedded pointers, you can easily add/remove a thread to a linked list of threads waiting for some resource without any allocation just by pointer manipulation.
Paypal owns venmo
In case of e-commerce reviews are crucial not sure of ratings. If I’m buying an item and couple of reviews point out something wrong in design or usage I avoid it. Without reviews it’s not possible
Many corporate boards have an "executive chairman" which means the CEO is also the Chairman of the Board. Perhaps even more importantly a substantial number of board members are executives from other companies, meaning CEOs sit on each others boards and wash each others' backs.
even cheap hole in a wall restaurants in China use reusable chopsticks from hard wood/plastic, they have even special cleaning machine where you just throw them in top and when cleaned they stick from side

metal chopsticks are pretty much standard in Korea (personally not a fan, prefer hard wood or good quality plastic, metal feels cold and clinks on teeth)
Are there businesses built explicitly on unbundling? I think there are examples of unconscious unbundling (picking the best individual components of a service/stack) but the goal is never to unbundle. Then a business comes along whose sole purpose is to bundle, but with that comes bloat. And then the cycle continues.
Where are you getting therapy cheaper!? most therapists I've found around me are $xxx/hr and don't take insurance.
Someone on Reddit suggested that these are specific units that were acquired through a third party or something weird:

> Reading the article: what seems to have happened is that Ukrainian government bought a batch of 1300 Starlink units from some private company in UK, had them shipped to Ukraine and distributed among the military, then had a disagreement over actually paying for the service. As a result, those units were cut off the network.

> Literally no side of the dispute is commenting on the whole ordeal, so this is about the extent of information we have.

> Starlink clearly sold those units expecting to get paid. Then the terminnals got resold and shipped to Ukraine and it seems like no one is paying for them now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ym4w1q/ukraine_s...
> "Would you rather we fire without severance pay 100 employees tomorrow or fire 150 with severance pay next month?"

that assumes management is acting in good faith towards the employees, more often than not that decision is tilted towards shareholders ie.. if they think they can cut 150 employees and make it work then it just becomes a choice between cutting 150 employees with or without severance as soon as possible. the amount of severence is essentially decided by local laws and prevailing standards but mind you the game is mostly give as little as needed.
I second this! If you have or suspect you have ADHD, a licensed medical professional is your first line of defense. Even if you don't choose treatment, the clarity could be helpful (it was for me!). But I also understand for various reasons some choose not to get diagnosed and there's a lot of work we need to do on the societal level to reduce the stigma, especially poignant in certain cultural communities (like my own...).
All I know is that you would have to be out of your mind to use rST where you cannot nest inline markup. You can't have inline code with a link in it. How crazy is that?

Yes, it's extensible. But I don't want to write a role just to add bold to a reference!
Cuts and privatization aren't "getting rid of" which is what this thread is about. It's like when Democrats want to reform something, Republicans will claim Democrats want to get rid of it. Which is false. Same here. I'm pretty sick of it and wish people would stop falling for things like that, when the proposed policies are actually very complex. Would privatization be bad? I don't know, I've never seen a good retort other than "markets have downturns." Would limiting firearms to someone 21+ be bad? I don't think so, but the only thing I hear against it is 18 year olds can be in the military. Those arguments somehow work on people. I guess real gripes about it don't fit into campaign ads or speeches.
Linked lists are great to know and understand. Linked lists are not good for performance. In most cases, an array or other data structure is much more efficient than a linked list. But there are cases where linked lists' immutability/segmentation or simplicity to implement make them the better choice.
Concretely it means that they had data scientists who monitored networks of coordinated inauthentic behavior that were being used to stoke mass interpersonal violence in regions undergoing political turmoil. A recent example is in Tigray but it's been happening nonstop all over the world. Wherever there's social tension, some government or organization is going to be interested in stoking it for their gain.