skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started out work in a shop with a terrible, toxic work environment. Micromanaging, power-hungry, abusive management begat gossiping, uncaring, deceptive, and selfish labor... you learned to just keep your head down and let the shit slide off your shoulders like water off a duck's back. Keep your wits about you when something went behind schedule, though, because the blame game was about to get serious. I took to taking long walks on my lunch break - 28 minutes out, plan for 28 minutes back for some breathing room, because you were entitled to a 1-hour lunch break and would get shouted at for punching in and out with a 61-minute lunch hour - just to clear my head.

Now I'm at a shop that's miles better than the first. Management probably cares too much, treating labor better than a lot of parents treat their own children. Honesty and transparency are the defaults, a problem doesn't result in blame being passed around, the 5 whys are extended to 6 whys if they seem to point to "this trusted human made a human mistake." We're our vendors' favorite customer - we just got a valued salesman/apps engineer back who'd had his territory switched, he covers most of the region starting 30 minutes south of us but also negotiated a key account exception to keep us on his account. We're also one of our customers' favorite suppliers, they'll happily pay extra because they know we'll build them the Cadillac of machine tools with integrity and quality at each step of the build, and not nickel-and-dime them for support after the fact or ignore them when the machine is out of warranty.

The scary part about this, though, is that the accumulation of loyalty, trust, and social capital that's been very slowly built up over decades could be quite effectively and profitably plundered in an acquisition or by a change in the board or management. They could probably turn the screws and push profit into the stratosphere for 4-8 quarters before our abnormally low turnover turned into abnormally high turnover and customers realized that our culture had changed.
from a pragmatic standpoint, getting me to and from work reliably is the only thing that matters. but I can get that out of a $20k corolla. a car that costs twice as much needs to bring a little more to the table.
Let's see... stay at Twitter and work in person 80 hours a week on software to try to avoid going bankrupt, OR find a new fully remote job with more reasonable expectations. Hard choice.
Not stalled. They created Tasks, which I use every single day!
Yea i have a printer; a decent one (laser iirc) for my wifes college papers. We've not hooked it up in years though, and offhand i'm not even sure how to use it.. that's how long it's been lol. Hell, i'm not even exactly sure where it is ..
"I think w/ a suitable UI it doesn't need to be."

Trust me, I tried. You can definitely reach a fast workflow, but typing + shortcuts will be way faster.

But you can combine both.
I need a better full text workspace search instead !
I haven't used a telnet server in forever, but I do use the telnet client to connect and introspect various services from time to time.
Your channel is awesome! I enjoy your style very much. Thanks for inspiring and sharing your thoughts!
This reminds me of Wallaby (except not for Javascript).
People holding coins in their own wallets are entirely unaffected.

I'm not a crypto guy, so this may be a very basic question: If people can hold coins in their own wallets, why did they give them to these companies acting like banks? Were they promised interest or something?

I hope that crypto exchanges are outlawed soon.

Isn't the primary use case for crypto that it's beyond the reach of laws?
Tesla's market cap in no way supports this strategy, but from a core competency perspective they would be an amazing tier 1 vendor. Not sure how long they can sustain being a poor-quality OEM now that traditional automakers and competitive upstarts are invading their niche.
I'll stick with my Raspberry PI.
I just skimmed it. Folks are having fun. :) The question isn't what material to use, it's how big do you have to be (with a given material) to float? You can always just make your sphere bigger, eh? (That's kinda the point. It would actually be really really inconvenient to live in a Cloud Nine, no?)

Anyway, I'm also going to use kites. (E.g. Imagine the Cloud Nine with a skirt like the Rings of Saturn, rotating, with the individual "cells" of the kite membrane modulated to afford directional control... Or Magnus Effect "cilia" that manipulate the envelope of air around the sphere...)
82% of Open-Source Projects Suffer from Tool Rot
software engineering is a constant fight against entropy. GitHub code search uncovers the scope of tool rot in open source projects.
Also the name of dmenu, Quicksilver like application.

https://alternativeto.net/software/enso/about/
I'm at least online 40 hours. Actively doing effort is harder but it's easier if I'm doing something interesting. I try to not beat myself up if I'm having trouble focusing some days. Some days it just ain't happening. Get a coffee read a magazine and try again a little later.
I feel you on the challenges. I had the same culture shock going to high school, even though it was only a smallish Catholic school. Learning how to work within a system is a critical skill!

On math, my early elementary teacher and my father (also a teacher) combined Montessori math, which spoke to (or influenced) my visual/tangible style of thinking, and lots of classic drills to internalize math facts. Or maybe it worked out in contrast to your experience because something clicked and I loved learning math early. (High school beat that out of me.)
I think it's crazy that we spend time thinking about minor bs like this instead of spending that effort trying to solve actual problems. This type of stuff is great for people who want to feel like they have made a positive change without actually having accomplished anything of value.
If you think about it, all languages and all language isolates (there are many others besides Basque, like Ainu) are really the same age. At any rate, this applies if you assume that people developed language only once. Each language then represents an unbroken chain of transmission to the language of the earliest humans to develop speech, or one branch leading back to the original trunk. Isolates are merely branches that have no surviving twigs of recent provenance – recent enough, that is, to discern genetic relationships with the tools available today.

Language isolates of different ages could only really occur if there were several populations of humans developing speech independently of each other, and at different times.
> Your problem is that you're using the concept of incomplete information, rather than that of ceteris paribus.

You're right, that's what I meant and I misspoke.

> The logic is shot completely to shit as soon as we're trying to compare the marginal sacrifice of a billionaire's giving pledge to the moral decisions people make every day of their life. And yet that's exactly what Scott Aaronson does.

Well I think that he was more comparing crypto vs non crypto and saying there's not much difference, but fine.

> I feel embarrassed just typing this stuff out. This is, like, philosophy 101 stuff?

Sorry to be embarrassing, I guess? :Shrug:

> The logic I'm arguing against here is on its face one of the cases moral philosophers make against Bentham's naive utilitarianism --- that it leads people to believe stuff like this.

I'm curious; I think utilitarianism is true broadly speaking (though not naive utilitarianism). Do you?
From the paywalled https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/new-and-used-cars/article/ca...

> Tesla's electric cars may look like the future, but once again, feedback from owners reveal the brand's disappointing dependability.

> 39% of Tesla owners we heard from with a car aged up to four years old had at least one issue they needed to get repaired in the past year, which is twice as high as the average fault rate for cars this new.

> The most common issues are, somewhat unusually, to do with the exterior and are mostly minor. Those that experienced faults with the exterior (19% of all owners) or non-engine electrics (21% of all owners) most frequently complained about paintwork issues and problems with lights respectively.

> Slightly less common were issues with rainwater seals, meaning water can leak into the car. It's rare for a brand to have such issues in such numbers on its new cars, and indicates a general low level of quality with the finish of Tesla's vehicles.

> While the fault rate is high, the breakdown rate (or cars failing to start) is in line with the average for cars in the 0-4 year group at 4.9%.
It doesn’t matter if it’s FP or OOP.

Here’s the real question: do you think dense code is more maintainable?

Generally yes? More than a verbose multilayered abstraction, probably?

…but where do you draw the line? Map statements instead of for loops? Collapse all the white space onto a single 200 character line? Make everything one big regex?

Dense code means that every change has more impact, because there’s less code; it’s unavoidable: less code to do the same work means more impact from changing any part of that code.

That is why it’s difficult to maintain; because you can’t touch it without making side effects; you can’t reason about a small part of the code, because the logic is dense and difficult to unpack into small parts.

Certainly OOP can often be verbose and annoying, but that’s a different thing.

Code density and being functional are orthogonal; some OOP is too dense too. …but generally I’ve found that inexperienced people see density and strive for it, believing this makes it functional; but the truth is the opposite.

Good functional programming is often naturally concise, but most people don’t actually seem to understand FP.

They just seem think it means to put more “reduce” statements in the code, remove for loops and generally make the code harder to debug and denser.

…in my, limited experience, working with lots and lot of different folk at many different organisations.
I didn't say they had better algorithms, just that they were better examples of social networks, emphasis on the word social.
> both real humans and spambots are using AI to generate their articles

Are you suggesting that humans do not create spam too?
in my humble opinion Time Magazine should make AI their annual personality of the year.

It will either be zelensky or putin but that would in my opinion be a mistake
Is that still your opinion after the past few days? His public behavior?

Interesting that you and many others see this behavior as an admirable trait and not a regression.
Yes. A few billion dollars wartime CEO.
You can be asked to dig holes and close them up again - a completely useless work and you can be given an ever increasing quota to do it with the threat that one of the holes you dig might have your body in it (extremely stressful and ruthless).

The challenge most of the people outside of Amazon do not realize is that micro-service architecture imposes a heavy penalty on team co-ordination, esp. as the software matures. A large part of core services have been built over several years (and decades) and they have been architected to optimize for some operations at the cost of other operations. You can think of this as how you would design a DB schema. It is a trade-off between write speed, query speed and availability. Now, think about it happening at massive scale. As an engineer, you would spend a lot of time working/waiting on partner teams to prioritize your changes while under pressure to deliver. A lot of teams ended up building the pieces on their own into their own services leading to a larger maintenance and operational load.

From the outside, you are very likely to think that the team is bloated and slow-moving because you are assuming green field development. Internally, Amazon is a 25-year old legacy platform with almost no single vision across teams, tons of semi-duplicate functionality and heavy operational load. Keeping the lights on (KTLO) was a big ticket item on every annual plan I created when I was there.
I wouldn't call psychology a 'pseudo-science', more that it's at a level of development comparable to 19th century medicine, when the concept of infectious disease being due to transmittable microbes or viruses was not understood.

Most 'psychological disorders' today are not diagnosed based on specific physical-chemical tests, i.e. one can say with high certainty that a patient has drug-resistant tuberculosis using a PCR test. In contrast, there are no definitive tests for everything from ADHD to schizophrenia to bipolar disorder to depression, although more diagnoses lead to more pharma drug sales...
I don’t get what are these “digital dollars” supposed to do.

There already is a digital dollar. It’s called “dollar”.
invite code for lex.page anyone ?
I learned programming by reading Borland's manuals. I owe their writers a debt of gratitude.
>> Why do people still work at Tesla

> A lot of money, perhaps?

They work there for the mission, not the money.

Tesla pays 100-150K USD for new grad SWE including stock options/RSU. For AI, it’s about 150-200K.

Or you can drive 15 minutes to Google and a SWE gets 200K and AI gets 200-250K. Or “sell out” and work in quant finance for 400-500K new grad SWE as a 22 year old.

So no, people do not work at Tesla/SpaceX for the money.

I have many friends at Tesla, Neuralink, SpaceX, and they complain how little they are paid, how they have no free time, and how they hope the name brand on their resume gets them a higher paying job some day. Looks like they bought Elon’s bullshit.
> both real humans and spambots are using AI to generate their articles

But humans create spam too!
I think with backwards compatibility it's "fool me once".

In order to make the most of Lindy Effect, I avoid any dependencies with less than 20 years of backwards compatibility.

For some that means a subset of features. For some like Python it means any python scripts must be optional and have Perl duplicates.
Welp, guess it's time to finally cancel the subscription and move to Obsidian.
Did any depositors loose money in 2008 from bank failures? If not when was the last time regular depositors lost money?
"the claim is that the trendy delivery company was using monkey labor in Thailand in which the animals were 'chained, whipped, beaten, and forced to spend long hours picking coconuts.'"
One more thing, since the wording of your question seems to assume it: no, it is not sufficient to just test the software.

For a hint why that might be true, consider the following observations:

* some years ago, there was a scandal in Europe when it was discovered that some secretly added hardware in portable card payment terminals (the kind the waiter would bring to the table in a restaurant) transmitted credit card details over the GSM network to some unknown location. To speed up locating compromised devices, service workers were sent around with precision scales to physically weigh each unit. Given ongoing miniaturization, this may have already become an impractical approach.

* Chip manufacturer Intel, to randomly pick one example, is known to include [hidden secondary systems] on their CPUs. From the linked article: MINIX [i.e. the secondary system] also has access to your passwords. It can also reimage your computer's firmware even if it's powered off. Let me repeat that. If your computer is "off" but still plugged in, MINIX can still potentially change your computer's fundamental settings. And than there's the [Management Engine] which runs "below the BIOS". Thanks but no thanks.

[hidden secondary systems](https://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-op...)

[Management Engine](https://www.theregister.com/2017/10/21/purism_cleanses_lapto...)
Here's some made up code:

pruned = map(
# Remove all elems whose foo is less than the number of elems
lambda elems: list(filter(
lambda elem: elem.foo < len(elems),
elems
))
)

Now let's say we want a running total of all the foos. We can insert an expression to do this:

total_foos = [0]
pruned = map(
# Remove all elems whose foo is less than the number of elems
lambda elems: list(filter(
lambda elem: (
# Add elem.foo to our total_foos accumulator
total_foos.append(total_foos.pop() + elem.foo),
elem.foo < len(elems)
)[-1],
elems
))
)
total_foos = total_foos.pop()

This is rather awkward and "non-Pythonic"; ideally we would use 'total_foos += elem.foo', but that can't exist in a lambda. Hence:

total_foos = 0

# Have to define this outside the map, since it's a statement
def checkAndAccumulate(elems):
"""This checkAndAccumulate function is just a wrapper, for closing-over
the elems variable (since it's not in-scope outside the map call).
Returns the actual checking+accumulating function."""
def checker(elem):
"""The actual function we want to filter with"""
total_foos += elem.foo
return elem.foo < len(elems)
return checker

pruned = map(
# Remove all elems whose foo is less than the number of elems
lambda elems: list(filter(
checkAndAccumulate(elems),
elems
))
)
Same. It was ahead of its time and incredibly useful, then behind its time and useful, and now antiquated but still full of my important notes.

Do I have a loyalty club membership at that one hotel I stayed in halfway around the world 15 years ago, when I had a different email address? Evernote is the only place I can find out.

As soon as there’s a dead simple migration path to OneNote, I’ll have $50/year more spending money.
As a Ukrainian, you lose special status in going to the UK if you start living somewhere else.
Not to be a party pooper , but afaik this story didn’t happen and has actually been told for years attributed to various different people and agencies.
I'm not sure how this would solve the problem in my lifetime. PLC manufacturers are not known for fast adoption. Why would they ever update a working NTP implementation?
glares at video card numbering schemes
Yes, they imply they will.

Notion may, however, use your Content or Customer Data to improve and train Notion’s own models.

https://www.notion.so/Notion-AI-Program-Terms-c0066e30039041...
30 days?!?!?
But even virtue ethics got parts of this right that EA seems to get wrong. From the very beginning, Aristotle caught on to idea that minmaxing a particular moral virtue gets you into deep trouble. That's precisely the hole EA falls into; see again Sam Bankman-Fried, and MacAskill's advice to him.
Indeed. Thier every 'enhancements' makes me feel that they have absolutely no idea what their strengths are.
> drivers killing people

That seems like a wild stretch... I guess you mean people with obscured plates feel more free to speed and/or drive dangerously, which will eventually lead to accidents and deaths?

That's rather attenuated to justify vandalizing someone's car. But even to the extent that's true, snapping off plastic bits obscuring license plates does nothing to help. The driver will either be unaware the bit was snapped off, in which case they will drive just as dangerously as before, or they will notice, and can simply replace the obscuring plastic piece, and continue to drive as dangerously as before.

It's a dangerous path to invent arbitrary moral justifications to do whatever you want. Let's say someone sees you pulling pieces off other people's cars. They might decide they have a moral right and duty to punish you. Say, subdue you and chop a finger off -- your just desert for laying a finger on other people's property. Does that sound good to you?
> Could someone explain to me why cars running on natural gas aren't popular in the US like they are in South America / Europe?

There are many fleets which use natural gas. Municipal buses, city garbage trucks, etc. There, they only need to build up one (private) CNG refueling station in the city.

With a passenger car, you need to plan your trip to find public CNG fueling stations along the route where you need them.

The boom in natural gas production is a recent occurrence. Go back a couple decades and natural gas was far more expensive. Back then, propane was the obvious alternative to gasoline for vehicles, until the price for propane spiked and natural gas fell.

But more importantly, CNG is only a half-step forward, still leaving us dependent on a single fossil fuel. Battery electric vehicles are far more practical thanks to being easy to (slow-)charge almost anywhere, getting us off of fossil fuels entirely, reducing mechanical complexity/maintenance, and being far more efficient (burning the same amount of natural gas in a power plant to charge your BEV will give you far more range than burning it in your converted car engine).
cat document | tr -dc '[A-Za-z0-9.,!@$%*()/?" -]'
I have always used:

watch -n 1 run-test-tool

But I guess this depends on your test tool of choice not being too slow to boot.
> If AGI has even a 1% chance of happening this century and those donations reduce the risk of it going wrong and killing everyone by 1% that's still money very well spent.

This line of thinking leads to some problems. There's always some threshold of likelihood where if it provide some arbitrarily high enough good/harm reduction that lets you rationalize basically any possible position. For instance, give me all your money, I'll give you 8% monthly returns!
Nice! Got an upvote

Liked the name (נב״ז), good luck
When I was in Oslo a few years ago, every third car was a Tesla for whatever reason. Considering I haven't heard of too many catching fire there, I'd wager it should be fine.
Mostly caring about your immediate neighbourhood and local effects does not mean ignoring that other places and their history exists.

For Malaria, there is not even a debate that it historically was a very widespread disease with high impact in economy and also in warfare. It is estimated that 60000 US soldiers died to Malaria alone in WW II.
Done. And thanks for motivating why you would find it useful. Makes sense to me.
By default that's Control+F4 (switches focus between all visible windows in all visible Spaces) and it "making sense on ISO keyboards" is irrelevant because (contrary to your claim in a different comment that macOS is not customisable) you can in fact change every keyboard shortcut that shows up in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts as well as remap your modifier keys in System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys.
Correct. Like many credulously repeated stories about Musk 1) the source for this one is Musk himself 2) the description that he gave, and that gets repeated in viral posts, is an extremely easily disproven lie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap#In_popular_culture

"After a series of leaks at Tesla Motors in 2008, CEO Elon Musk reportedly sent slightly different versions of an e-mail to each employee in an attempt to reveal potential leakers. The e-mail was disguised as a request to employees to sign a new non-disclosure agreement. The plan was undermined when the company's general counsel forwarded his own unique version of the e-mail with the attached agreement. As a result, Musk's scheme was realized by employees who now had a safe copy to leak."
> I've always wondered why visual languages have not thrived.

Some have, e.g. LabVIEW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW

It's a niche UI that has trade-offs.
> Am I an outlier by just wanting the dumbest possible system for my phone to connect to and run CarPlay on?

That's one thing I like with my Up!. The infotainment system is a simple phone holder with USB to power it.
Just looking at the title I had a sudden vision of Mr Spock helping Elon by using the computer visor...
>Musk added that Twitter would be “much more engineering-driven” under his ownership and that “those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team”.

Hard to think that those writing great code would be open to be abused, giving how in demand their skills are.
UK tech companies still actively hiring