skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musk has significant fingers in OpenAI: if you use the API to do this, I wonder if he'd find you in the logs?
> Elon's not someone who'll fire a person who is good at what they do.

Insulting 3500 people at once, nice.
Did it for one year. Best year of my school life. But it's a shock to go back to the public system where dynamic are adversarial and artificially oriented around superficial metrics, both for tests and social life.

You probably need both to be well adapted because the public system teaches you to defend yourself, which us necessary IRL. Montessori teaches you collaboration and thinking outside of zero sum mindset.
Its like when they slip a note into your sneakers in the sweat shop factory begging for help.

12 year olds can be such piece of shit sometimes, cant they just be grateful they get paid 2c and got selected for the special 36 hour shift to make shoes for us?
> And they found that for Tesla in particular, issues with body hardware, steering suspension, paint and trim, and climate systems on the models were of most concern. Rick and I tested the Model 3 a few years back and we found a lot of issues with fit and finish and parts on the inside of the car

I wish they'd separate cosmetic issues from functional ones. IMO it's pointless to lump "paint is uneven" in with "steering doesn't work." Maybe they do in the actual report but it's paywalled.

Anecdotally I've seen quite a few minor cosmetic non-driving-related issues with Teslas but overall they've been very reliable (not requiring any motor, brake steering, or suspension maintenance) for everyone I know who owns one.
I think the more important thing is that jj (and hg and git) don't use the AST at all, at least not yet. Does Pijul?
Electric cars are ready for gasoline car use cases, leaving 5-10% or so where EV is not ready. (the places where electric cars ready are not are places where diesel is better than gasoline, though some people do use gasoline anyway). Currently EVs are in the phase of scaling production, but that will take a bit of time.

> We could’ve replaced coal plants two decades ago, however, and reduced emissions by 20% globally

What we would have replaced coal with 20 years ago (and in fact what we did starting more than 20 years ago) is mostly natural gas, which itself pollutes, just less. (depending on what pollution you measure you will get different numbers for how much less) Wind and solar is coming along fast, and is also replacing coal plants (for nearly zero pollution) but we are already scaling those as fast as possible so to claim we could have done more 20 years ago is false.
Palo Alto is literally in Santa Clara Country....

```Palo Alto (/ˌpæloʊ ˈæltoʊ/; Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area``` - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California
not montessori, but i was in an "applied scholastics" (scientology) school for a few years. what a trip that was.
I love this take — as though the public is responsible for his narcissism and abrasiveness. He is purposefully attracting attention to himself like a mantoddler.

Your continued defense of him speaks volumes about your values as an individual. Your “politics” angle is naked projection.
Ok regardless of his recently showcased lack of technical abilities and preference for 996:

Isn’t it pretty clear that he’s super unstable and spiraling quickly? He was forced to buy Twitter because his history of stock market manipulation blew a 420 joke out of proportion, and now he’s worrying about bankruptcy and rolling out features that crash and burn within 24h. Not to mention the many, many reports of the toxic culture at Twitter rn. I mean… as a software engineer one of the things I value most is working for a company that isn’t going to implode and make my stock compensation worthless
Recipient A gets their personalized copy, as does recipient B

Recipient A then clicks reply-all, now everyone has copy that was personalized to A. They might even notice subtle differences between them.
A lot of the infrastructure isn't there, but there for sure are big players - most of currently available hydrogen is made as natural gas and oil byproduct, so oil and gas companies have a lot of it.

Selling hydrogen as green is a way for them to stay relevant.
There's also a difference between a Scottsman and a "True Scottsman".

There is a common story of a programmer who has journeyed like an itinerant martial artist looking for functional programming enlightenment but never finds it... Our industry is way too susceptible to snake oil stories like "If I wrote all my tests first my programs would never have any bugs" or "If I wrote my programs in Erlang they wouldn't have any bugs..."

There are certain tasks for which functional programming idioms are highly effective, other ones where you will twist your brain into knots and end up writing completely unmaintainable code.
Yes. And I would have worked for Gates or Jobs if I had have the chance as well. Despite of controversy, those are/were brilliant minds that I would love to learn from more closely - but not sure for how long though
> As many commenters said, what are they going to do, update the satellites?

As it turns out, yes, GPS satellites are regularly updated to have leap second data available
Have some experience with Montessori schools, but naturally all schools are different. Like previous posters have said, it can be very good at not beating the curiosity out of kids like some public schools can. They have a pretty good way at teaching reading too. Math is more interesting and one downside is that the skills don't always translate 1:1 if you ever transition to public schools. They will be ahead in some areas, but behind or at a loss in others. Mainly due to the order and way things are done which are very, very different.

One thing that may also be a factor is any learning differences in the child. Montessori teaching is rigid in its own way and not the best for children with dyslexia/dysgraphia (though neither are standard public school curricula). Although early Montessori math is friendlier for dyscalculia with all the use of physical objects. Depending on the school and individual guides, things like ADHD, autism may also lead to issues with the school. Thought that could be said of any private school.

The biggest thing we saw with people pulling their children out of Montessori schools were fears about academic progress and measuring their children against their neighbors' kids in public school. That's on the parent though: some needed constant feedback and validation via grades to feel like their kids were competitive with public schools.
Who is Elon?
Bold of you to assume people will use OpenAI for this. They fortunately no longer have a monopoly on useful AI.
Yeah I'm very down for a hard working mission driven environment. I have never once needed to be coddled. But I'm not down to work for a shameless self promoter who fires all who disagree. I wouldn't work for Elon for the same reason I wouldn't work for Trump or Hugo Chavez.
No, I'd not work for someone who can't treat their employees with respect and some dignity and dragging them in front of a 100 million audience from a position of power is disgusting and petty. Berating them for the kinds of comments he himself makes on a routine basis no less.
Seems like most of the issue is just that Tesla does shoddy construction, not anything inherent to EVs
Hypocritical, considering that Musk cannot be a full-time CEO to both Tesla and Twitter, and even his mental stamina is finite.
If that's what the author meant by 'native'... okay. It rubbed me the wrong way since a big thing about the Mac going back to the mid 1980s was its native clipboard support.
Agreed, asdf is the last stop for me, and uses pyenv internally anyway for python
It’s all down to taste. I loathe Lenovos and would never want to be forced to use one. I’d tolerate an ASUS ROG laptop or even a Dell XPS. But Mac would easily be the best quality. It has nothing to do with being hip or cool, it’s a taste preference. If anything, Linux is the hipster preference.

Many smaller companies also prefer managing Macs rather than Windows. Though I’ve rarely seen a technical company reject Linux outright.
I don’t get what people mean by this. I have mixed feelings about the guy, but vaporware? Are the rockets not real? Are the cars and solar panels and tunnels and Paypal not real?

Of course he didn’t single-handedly do this. Of course other engineers were invaluable in the process. But he forced Tesla and SpaceX into existence when everyone thought it was guaranteed to fail.

We saw people trying with electric cars and new kinds of rockets before him. From General Motors to Burt Rutan, none succeeded. Elon had a viable vision and pushed it like a maniac and now it’s real, and mainstream. It’s incredible.

If I can do this with a single project, I’d consider my life a smashing success.
> But what do you think?

As a european I find it baffling how easy layoffs seem to be in the USA. Do highly skilled IT professionals over there actually sign work contracts that allows the employer to fire them on a whim?
You think Twitter is unprofitable now? Just wait until all the advertising dollars disappear because of Musk’s behaviour.
I think it’s become very clear that to many people that Elon doesn’t exhibit any special qualities.
The media blitz of his personal brand really made him seem god-like amongst technologists for while, but the media blitz is over and I feel we are beginning to see who the real Elon is.

I’m finding Elon’s style to lack any unique quality aside from being horribly extractive, relying on a toxic relationship with his workers that primarily benefits him.

Also he has a value system that seems horribly dated and more the result of his upbringing as a child of a massively wealthy family who never had to struggled with basic needs.

Overall, I don’t buy into why anyone would look to work for Elon unless they buy into the propaganda about how his latest personal investment will “save the planet.”

Hard pass
Absolutely not. There are too many reasons to list, but the biggest one is that he can't accept even the most neutral criticism.

One of the most important parts of being an engineer of any kind is being able to discuss the pros and cons of solutions. Working for a man that seems like he'd get angry and fire you if you challenged whatever idea comes off the top of his head sounds miserable.
Not sure I beleive this, I think this is parallel construction. Because why would they give away the method they used?
His employees work crazy hours for not crazy money.. so base answer is no.

However tf I was critically motivated by a subject (think some device that would save my life or a relative) and I was ready to put in the hours, and he was CEO of a compagny contributing to this project, yes of course. He has a track record of building companies who succeed in crazy projects. (SpaceX would be a sufficient example of it).

And no, I would not mind working for a super authoritarian guy considering, precisely, that he's unapologetic of it. At least it's the "devil you know". It's better that compagnies that pretend to care for you but will fire you without a second thought if they feel they need it.
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The printer will not remove any spacing, and it will not fix word substitutions.

However it will add almost invisible markings onto the paper itself, such that the page can be linked to the actual printer, exact timestamp and username of the person who printed.
> Support for the Linux perf profiler to report Python function names in traces.

hidden gem
I worked with someone who would tell me very precise weird personal details (eg, “the left side of my mouth can’t taste”).

I found it odd because they weren’t really pertinent and seemed really unique that I’ve never heard of anyone else with the condition.

I suspected he did this to try to determine who they can trust when he would remark that people were liars or not trustworthy and one time a coworker told me a completely different weird detail about them.

I never got a chance to ask them about this technique before we stopped working together.
Most of the pre-Y2K programs I saw were dumber: their leap year test was simply "year mod 4 = 0". So they were going to falsely report a century as a leap year BUT were saved by the fact that the next century number was divisible by 4. Sort of "two dumbass decisions make a right"
Update Supercloud SET status = 'open alpha' WHERE product = 'D1';
smtpd barely had a meaningful commit since 2014.
In Which magazine, EVs were about as reliable as normal cars, however if you removed tesla from the ratings, then EV reliability jumped significantly to way above standard petrol/diesel.

https://www.which.co.uk/ has the details, but you need to be a member to find out. Basically the fit, finish and reliability of the accessories were trash.
I wonder how many of those printers are actually still functioning. There was a time once where you actually had to print stuff (anyone remembers MapQuest maps?), so I'm guessing there are still a lot of printers from that era collecting dust at people's homes.
>Sounds like we're all the same endlessly reincarnated single person, only at different points in spacetime.

Andy Weir - The Egg [1]

[1] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
To power vehicles, you would need fuel stations all around the country with hydrogen-fuel equipment.

Why does this keep coming up? Who cares about this specific point? If there is demand, people will build the fuel stations, like we did with gas and oil?

I get there are other harder problems with Hydrogen, but worrying about infrastructure seems strange?
KDE is the last bastion of GUI customizability.

Everyone else is absolutely horrified by the idea of maintaining a UI option used by less than 20% of the user base. For things that are used by more than 20% of users, they actively make it worse so that people stop using it and they can justify removing them.
I was listening to Andrej Karpathy's interview on the Lex Friedman podcast. Karpathy said that Elon's superpower is "human engineering" and limiting "entropy" in large organizations.

If you trust Karpathy as a source, it seems like working for Elon would be the opposite of working for a bureaucracy.
No, there’s better cults to join.
Having worked with people who built (and build) extremely large things - not true in my experience.

While the corporate landscape is conducive to sociopaths, it certainly doesn't require them.

So, yes, go find another job is the right answer - because we all deserve to be treated with respect.
To all fellow coyos, how did you like the book series ending?
I'd be thrilled to have a Dune-like fiction spinoff sometime in the future. There's a lot to build up from.
Ask HN: Best place to start wanting to build Shopify apps?
Hello and thank you in advance as any help on this would be so welcome!

I am total programming noob but would love to be able to develop Shopify apps as I have had quite a few ideas for them.

Can anyone suggest the best place to start? Should I start learning Python or PHP, or is there a better starting point. Any pointers to online courses would be more than welcome. I'm a total beginner here.
Thank you for answering questions. I was poking around Sapling and got thrown off track pretty quickly. Just wanted to init an empty repo but on an Intel MBP I just get an error:

`abort: please use 'sl init --git .' for a better experience`

What's going on here? I couldn't find info in the `sl init --help --verbose` output or in the Sapling website.
Like someone else said and articles have said. Socialism is the most effective altruism. This doesn’t allow you to become worth $100M+ with the reasoning being you’ll be an effective altruist though. The upper EA people are suspect. As well as the thinking that making more money is better then a great society helping job. Not that most EA people are like this.
This layoff is horribly mismanaged, the whole company has been living in fear for the past 3 days since the first new articles have popped up.

Basically there has been no official communication about teams affected, amount of people affected, or time where it would be shared, and instead each team is randomly informed by their director.

This means you can never know if you are safe or not, if the layoff wave has passed or not, etc.

The past 3 days have probably been the least productive for all of Amazon's existence, everyone is thinking only about those layoffs (and I'm in an org that is supposed to be safe...).

So far there are reports of about 30 teams being shut down, but new ones are coming every hour or so.

Everyone would have preferred a clear "you're in / you're out" email at a fixed time like it's been done at Facebook, Twitter, etc. but no, we're going to be living in fear for the next weeks or months.
And this is why the media often can't actually show the original sources.
This article ignores one big thing about potholes and that is courts have routinely found that cities have a duty to fix them.

Reporting potholes is key to this. Once a pothole is reporting there's generally a time frame in which the city needs to address it (24-48 hours is common in places I've lived). Should the city not patch it or address the problem in another way they are liable for the damage to your vehicle.
Not only should we not work for these people, we should actively take their power from them by organizing and supporting each other as much as possible.

It's crazy to me that our profession fights unionization despite repeated, predictable and consistent anti-worker, antisocial, narcissistic, ego driven companies that grind us up and spit us out

Giving someone unvested RSUs with no voting rights, in third class stock isn't meaningful.

Being employee 10 of $tartup doesn't matter anymore, because the company raised their D round in a down round which wiped out every Angel Investor and any common stock holders. Luckily the new Saudi backed VC fund that did the round is going to make sure that the CEO is doing their "most important job" of serving the Board and protecting investors over the expendable employees

The capital class couldn't care less about you the person writing code or managing a team or building pipelines or maintaining dbs.

Am I the only one that remembers Office Space?
I'd want the entire stack to be open and free. When Layer 1 is closed and proprietary, I don't really care if I can build open source on top of it, in Layer 2.
sasha solomon is legendarily competent. I've never even worked with her but she's one of the handful of engineers I know by reputation because everyone I work with who has worked with her is awestruck by how good at her job she is. "cringing junior engineer" indeed.
College radio is so much better than commercial radio! Def check out my favorite local college station 88.5 XPN from UPenn. It’s been the best station in my region for as long as I can remember.
To me this question would only be asked from someone who is part of the Silicon Vally/FAANG/woke bubbles. There are many engineers who are not part of the those bubbles who would be interested in working for him. I know a half dozen personally, and I would too.

You state that he is gaslighting as if it is a fact. I'm no Elon Stan. What I see is someone walking into an incredibly disorganized organization and creating the necessary chaos needed to shake out the entrenched grifters and groupthink. He may very well fail, but it's a breath of fresh air to see someone shaking up the status quo in a very public manner.
I got 90% of the way there with a lot of git aliases. The other 10% is constraining your workflow and reasoning about what state each of your commands leaves the git tree in.
Well, at least it seems to be more current than me on some things. I was going to mock it for thinking a mythological figure transformed by Tolkein into a fictional star is a real star, but it turns out someone really did name a real star Earendel 8 months ago, though it is nowhere near the largest known star and no star is anywhere near 100,000 Sun radii, which is an order of magnitude greater than the maximum distance of Pluto from the Sun and a totally ridiculous number well beyond the maximum possible star size.
Writing an eBPF/XDP load-balancer in Rust
This is an example of creating a UDP load-balancer in Rust as an eXpress Data Path (XDP) type eBPF program using the aya framework.
Dang, why is this not a poll?

Here's a identical Poll : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33623212

For ethers:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231804
Surviving and Thriving in Tech's New Winter
> Elon's not someone who'll fire a person who is good at what they do.

And if he measures that by "number of lines of code written", do believe that is an accurate measure of how good a programmer is at what they do?
Mechanical complexity is just one type of the overall complexity of a car. There are plenty examples of even ICE vehicles having poor electrical reliability. Now we have lots of software added into the mix. And EVs are pretty new technology too. Cars where at first less reliable than horse and buggy.

Never bought the "moving parts" marketing. But I don't see how it could have gone different either. And early addopters taking a hit does speed progress a lot. So I guess overall there is no news or info here, things are as they could only be.
Yep. We do the things we do for lots of reasons. Do I write code for money? A bit, yeah. But I also love it. And I connect to a community through my work, and get esteem from people, and it helps me have an impact in the world. Money is important, but so are all those other things.

And I’m sure athletes are just as complex as I am.

A friend of mine is fond of saying that we have 10 reasons for doing everything we do. We know 5 of those reasons consciously and we’ll only admit 2 reasons out loud.
The most impressive/unbelievable part of this story is that 2 Word files, created separately, ended up with the same exact file size. I'd assume with all of the Metadata they cram in that this would be unlikely.
They aren’t kids any more
> I promise you I have no affiliations with JS whatsoever

Makes your claim unconvincing though. At least if you had worked there you might be in a position to make a claim either way.
Likewise Coleen Rooney, a football player's wife, did this to unmask a gossip leaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagatha_Christie
Sorry! 'one day' is the best I can do for now. We'd love to do it sooner, just gotta find the time.

We think, and many of our internal users agree, that the UX alone is a worth while upgrade. Since the majority of Git repos don't actually need the performance of a virtual filesystem, the UX is the main sell for them anyway. At the very least maybe it will inspire some UX improvements in Git.
Note: Amazon annual gross profit for 2021 was $197.478B, a 29.28% increase from 2020.

So the proposed cuts represent less than 1% of their profit (not net) from last year.
Solving brain dynamics gives rise to flexible machine learning models
>They’re also being aggressively solved in America, the EU and China.

Challenge. Where and how are these problems being addressed, other than hoping that people voluntary reduce demand when asked?
Fuck no.
I think not very much people want to work for a clown who believes is always right, even when he is completely wrong. But the moment you will try to tell him, he will fire you.
“ Should be noted also that my kids are extremely naturally gifted and generally live in the "AP/Honors" world, so would most likely flourish anywhere. YMMV”

All children are extremely naturally gifted, it’s the world around that always manages to grind it out of most of them. I think that also represents what Montessori was aiming for when re-thinking education.