skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. But then, I've always liked working and have never worked in a bureaucratic organization.

I also understand why someone might not want to work for Elon. Work isn't everything and if you want to prioritize family/hobbies over work, there's nothing wrong with it.
Notion AI – waiting list signup
Wow, this is terrible advice.

You have to put in the effort yourself to teach them those values (if you can even call them that...) and that life is not all fun and games. That said, Montessori model schools are great for your children, even if they're just "glorified daycares" instead of school. Children need to play, it's how they learn everything, including how to enjoy life. Do not immediately throw them into a life of "discipline, structure and obedience". That's not what life is about.
Interesting. The code looks like the love child of F# and TypeScript.
I think that's a valid concern, but it's not clear that the web3 companies are even trying to solve it rather than replace other companies. We've seen so many times over where the “decentralized” system relies on a handful of companies to function and they always seem to be pushing their own site rather than you hosting yourself.

Maybe a new college grad doesn't remember the 2010s but almost all of these companies have executives, board members, and VCs who were there at the time, and I think it's telling that you very rarely hear anyone discuss what lead to so much centralization and the systems they propose are clearly going to suffer from the same problems if anyone starts using them seriously. This isn't a novel observation or especially hard to find good discussions about so it's hard to avoid the conclusion that they're not looking for it because there's no profit in it.
Perhaps Musk's shoddy logic is what's currently pushing Twitter to the brink!
any specific recommendation? it seems like all of these alternatives have tradeoffs and LoRa really does seem to tick more boxes than the others.
Intelligence lets a guy with a moustache convince millions of people to invade Poland and kill all the Jews. Its not his liver or his kidneys, its his brain. Feel free to call this type of thing "charisma" but for the purposes of thinking about AI it still comes from the but doing the thinking. And there's actually a pretty good correlation between being good at the various types of mental things, including charisma and IQ (e.g. presidents tend to be over iq 120), because the brain is a very complex organ with many ways it can get screwed up.

Would an AI necessarily be super charismatic initially? Maybe not, but don't assume greater intelligence won't lead to greater charisma.

(Yes, I know it wasn't just Hitler doing the convincing, but again, that distinction isn't important here as making a message come from many different people is trivial marketing 201/propaganda 101 in the 21st century)
There are plenty of "battery" technologies that are not perfect, but substantially better than Hydrogen(in terms of round trip efficiency) though.
Several startups with sound ideas. If only Governments picked them up in war like emergency and threw their capital at it to progress.
1. https://energydome.com
2. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61996520
3. https://newatlas.com/energy/china-100mw-compressed-air/
4. https://www.hydrostor.ca
Paint is not a cosmetic issue, failing paint can cause mechanical failure due to corrosion. Improvements in automotive coatings is the number one reason that cars aren’t “worn out” at 5 years and 50,000 miles like they did in the 70s.
Dean Kamen's Newest Invention: A Stirling Hybrid Scooter (2009)
I've heard it said that electric cars weren't invented to save the world, but to save the automotive industry.

Likewise, hydrogen tech exists to save the natural gas industry.
Poll: Would You Work for Elon?
Simple question with not so simple answers…

Watching Elon gaslight current and former Twitter employees in the public square, I couldn’t help but wonder if any engineers would actually work for this guy going forward and why?

Convert Ask HN to Poll

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33622364
I would be taking the three months severance
wow, zoom hider! just yesterday i was in a zoom saying i wish i had something that could keep the damn floating controls hidden when i hit escape, and there it is. fantastic
That's a device specific identifier. That's not labelling users on device.
Why I Switched to Warp for My Terminal Needs
Hydrogen is not really an engineering problem, its an investment problem. And its simply put a gigantic amount investment for a minimal amount of gain.

There are so many, way, way, way more useful investments you can make. How about doing useful simple things that we are sure can be done successfully and we know for sure will save a lot of CO2 and emission.

Stuff like railway electrification.

If you want to have long range trucks be a thing, electrify the highway with trolley wires.

Hydrogen trains have already shown that they can't compete with electrification traditional or with battery. In trucks they are currently getting their ass kicked by battery trucks. So neither for trucks nor for trains does hydrogen really make much sense.

So why exactly should we invest in a gigantic hydrogen infrastructure. For the maybe 1% market share in trains and trucks?

And its not actually easy to reuse LNG infrastructure.

> And worrying about a lack of infrastructure is also not a big issue.

This is disproved by literally 5000 years of human history where huge infrastructure investments are always a big political problem. And even if projects are clearly of huge benefits they are difficult.

In terms of hydrogen infrastructure, nobody can make a case that it is actually worth it in the first place.

> There's lots of engineer's who'll easily transition out of the LNG industry into great jobs working on these problems.

Or we could make those engineers work on useful stuff like batteries, railway electrification, nuclear, metros and so on.
Can this software be deployed locally? I wouldn't feel comfortable with putting all my contacts in cloud
I've owned 3 EVs and Tesla is the lowest quality car I've ever owned. Teslas weigh down the average b/c they're the majority of EVs on the road.
This ^^^ My answer to this question would have been a VERY weak "Yes" before the Twitter disaster. Now that we're seeing the true Elon alongside real engineer feedback, it's a HARD no.
Millions of apps are committed to UTC, and will not be fixed.

Fixing UTC just means not announcing any more leap seconds. Not doing a harmful thing anymore is always the best fix.
But how did recipient A get a personalised copy if the mail with that copy was sent to a list of recipients?

Edit: WP has the Tesla story with the counsel forwarding his copy to everyone in a new mail (presumably trying to be helpful?) So not a case of reply-all disease

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap
From that list of alternatives, which of the open ones have the widest adoption/support?
Yeah, it's a very important point that he has changed, a lot.

Elon Musk's trajectory is a lot like Alexander the Great's. He started off as the somewhat scrappy upstart and has become the somewhat corrupted corporate despot.

His enormous success, which has been truly amazing and largely good for humanity, has led him astray. He's bought into the image of himself as a genius that can do no wrong. He's become arrogant, temperamental, and prone to impulsive behavior.

Alexander became quick to kill his managers that pissed him off. Elon Musk just fires people, thankfully.

Probably a lot of his problems are due to the same kind of "men [that] have always corrupted the character of kings and will never cease to ruin the interests of those who happen to be reigning" as Arrian wrote of Alexander's yes-men courtiers.

My impression is that Musk is going through a severe case of burn out and this is how he's responding. And since he's got so much pressure on him there's no practical way for him to take the break he needs without risking everything.
If anything, EA seems like an obstacle to that kind of common-sense thinking. I could donate to charity. But: if holding on to the money made it more likely that I'd earn more money later, I could donate even more money to charity. I'm thus ethically obligated not to donate. See, for this, William MacAskill's conversation with Sam Bankman-Fried where he urged him to take a job at Jane Street to maximize his income.
> Intuitiveness is just what you are used to at this point.

No, it is not. The word "intuitive" is defined by Merriam-Webster as "readily learned or understood" and "knowable by intuition". If the UI is not one of these things, then it is not "intuitive" in the general sense of the word.
Corporate networks tend to keep printer logs for extremely long durations.

Also, printers at home are incredibly useful. I'm surprised more people don't have them. Especially now that online shopping (and therefore online returns) are so much more common and require printing return labels.
In other words, “yes I’m helping grifters scam people, but it sure pays well.”
Or synonyms, or alternate grammar that’s functionally equivalent. Lots of better ways that are completely concealed, unless you see multiple drafts.
Agreed. Just thought it was a funny bit of snark.
Nope, it's pretty obvious that he's not capable of handling criticism and thinks he's smarter than everyone else. The Twitter Blue rollout was an absolute disaster that everyone saw coming, and it is hard to believe nobody told him "if you only have to pay to get verified, everyone will make fake accounts." (Update: we now know they did. [3]) Shocking that he didn't think of it himself given his "genius" reputation.

And while he finds criticism from his employees unacceptable [1], he has no reservations against casually disparaging his entire team in public: "Starlink is rebuilding the Internet in space, so maybe I know slightly more than some guy who wrote code for a website" [2] Remember, he's referring to his own website here, and suggesting that he understands Twitter's infrastructure better than its own engineers because he owns Starlink. The narcissism on display is astounding.

There is nothing I would learn under Musk that I wouldn't be able to learn elsewhere without the toxic environment and the burden of having to walk on eggshells around a fragile CEO.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/musk-fires-twitt...

[2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592564281698299904

[3] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/musk-ignored-twi...
I recall Snow Leopard was quite intuitive after Windows, and iPhone 4. Definitely not what MacOS and iOS have become.
Is it not just the case that there simply hasn't been enough time to work out the kinks?

The Tesla Model S is only ten years old. So my 20 year old bulletproof Japanese petrol car is twice the age of the entire class of modern day EVs.

My petrol car could probably have done the first ten years of its' life with oil changes and nothing else at all. I mean, it's done the last few years that way. But there's been a century of serious engineering work to get it to that place.

And yeah, having owned a Tesla, the earlier models at least were designed to be fun luxury toys. Even something like the windows - frameless, auto-retracting things that can freeze in winter, vs a mechanical wind down thing on a Civic or whatever.
For simple one-page presentation websites, try https://carrd.co

In my experience, knowing CSS is 90% of making a pretty and informative page. HTML is mostly just h1 for title, h2 for subtitle, div for groups and p for copy text.

I don’t like writing neither HTML nor CSS so my websites are written in Plim with Tailwind classes for styling.

Here’s a snippet that defines the icon on the https://lowtechguys.com/clop page

section#hero.min-w-[100vw].flex-center.flex-col.relative.pb-20
img.w-28.h-28.md:w-32.md:h-32.filter.drop-shadow-2xl src="/static/img/clop-icon.png"
h1.mb-6.text-4xl.text-zinc-600 Clop
h5.text-gray-500.m-0.p-0 Clipboard optimizer for images
h5.text-gray-500.m-0.p-0.-mt-1 Copy large, paste small, send fast

You can see how most of the text is just Tailwind classes which are basically CSS one liners.

It’s not easy to understand nor pretty to read, but it makes for super fast iteration time, especially because of the responsive breakpoints (e.g. .flex-col.md:flex-row for a vertical layout on mobile and horizontal on desktop)
Tyrions plot has a flaw in that it’s three versions of the same story. If two or three betray him, he won’t know and he’ll reveal to the queen that something is afoot.

He should have used different stories.
Nah, I'll pass.

Not due to any political or moral stance, or even because I don't particularly like the turn his personality seems to have taken over the last few years. But just because the man seems to expect tireless 80 hour a week workers, and I'm not interested.

I'll take my 36-40 hour weeks for half the pay and smile all the way to the bank.

As for the public firings of Twitter employees - I think it's a bad look for both sides. Elon comes off as an insecure and vindictive douche, and the employees who seem surprised when their public dissing of the company they work for results in firing come off as naive and vaguely stupid.

No win situation really. It should not be a surprise to people that public criticism of your employer can and does get you fired. I won't take a stance on whether that's right or wrong, but it's the game we're all playing.
I don't really care about Twitter as whole, it's a bad company from any aspect. It was unprofitable before Musk and it would go bankrupt. I don't really care what he'll do with it, if he'll delete it in the end or not. Point is: remove Musk, Twitter still dies. Previous management was bad, employees were bad too.
> It's not fair to compare the cost of something that is an incremental improvement on a huge body of engineering knowledge to what NASA is doing, here.

Just to be perfectly clear, are you saying SLS development also results in a lot of engineering knowledge? If so can you highlight what that knowledge would be -- propulsion, material, efficiency, avionics, manufacturing?
This. Hell, if you, as a skilled user, can't do your job on any OS just fine then the problem is you, not the software. You need to learn the software and adapt. Yes there are exceptions for some tasks where the hassle isn't worth it due to missing apps but with WSL on Windows, zsh on macOS and any various linux distro the average dev can do their job just fine. There are corrections for window snapping on macOS like Magnet. Hell the way macOS does hidden files is just straight linux. You learn to work where you are, not complain and bash the software, they are all perfectly good enough for a modern dev. I jumpped between macOS, Windows, Ubuntu and even chromeOS as a FE dev and all of them have a terminal, VS code, and even good Git Gui apps.
That doesn't mean some tasks are not easier or that hard to use software design is the fault of the users, it's just that the complaints are pretty silly coming from someone who had to learn KDE's quirks and yes there are great solutions for this on any OS.
here. killer GMOs is a choice, isn't a probably future.
But in this case recipient B must have already had that one, as they were in the reply all for recipient A. If you sent me a personalized email and send it only to me, then my reply all isn't going to give my personalized version to anyone else but you- and presumably you trust yourself not to be the leak.
So? US missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Beograd in the 90s. Tragic mistake I'm sure.
Pi has no last digit, so it's wrong, but hilariously, the answer seems to be based on the last digit in the Python math library's finite approximation of Pi, which presumably isn't static as memory sizes of computers increase over time and Python updates to account for more accurate possible approximations.
Speaking of standard lib, today I was looking to do a sliding window over an iterator and ended up on the pairwise function in itertools that was added in 3.10.

Seems like such a wasted opportunity, to add a sliding window for n=2, and then in the documentation add a recipe for a sliding window function for any n.
> just like nowadays individuals can choose to implement it themselves

I don't think this is possible with JS right now?
Paraphrasing would help identifying person by writing style, IIRC by leaking specialist. It could also erase hidden signals in the message.
FWIW, fellow Android->iPhone escapee here. I am not planning to get an Android phone for a while, unless iOS becomes much worse or Android much better.
I’m not gonna google that for you.

Don’t be lazy, spend the 15 minutes and do that research yourself.
> 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?

Rockets are real.

Cars are real, but aren't particularly good given the reports, so he'll likely run into trouble with the competition soon.

Solar panels seem to be doing very so-so, the reports I've heard is that their solar roof stuff is very troublesome.

The tunnels suck. He dug extremely narrow deathtraps that for some reason are driven through in a car, and that will kill people as soon as there's an accident.
> Why do people still work at Tesla, or does this toxic behavior attract toxic employees?

A lot of money, perhaps? I'm not familiar with Tesla compensation levels, but this is the only reason I can think people may have to cope with this guy.
I don't think people mind sequels so much and encouraging users to consume more content goes back to simple cliff hangers in comic strips serialised in newspapers back in the early 20th century. I don't think anyone would have classified such techniques as "ads", at the time so I am a little surprised by such classification.

I think product placement is particularly rife and problematic, today in a reasonably new form especially since it bleeds into the culture of social influencers and in many nations is not regulated to enforce disclosure.

However, I think you might struggle to make a case that "today's audiences" are any more susceptible to advertising than any other audience throughout history. I would suggest (and personally believe) that the idea of "ick, ads" is our own personal niche that moves us away from the centre of the bell curve. Many people don't appear to respect the harm adverts do to the mind, or perhaps I am one of the few that overstates their detriment, depending on one's perspective.
Reply-All would not include any other recipient in a standard, personalised mail out - unless the "To" or "Cc" fields were manipulated to give the impression that personalised email A went to everyone equally, but I think that would probably require some custom mailserver tweaks?
Clausewitz is a well-known military theorist, usually mentioned in the same sentence with Sun Tzu and Machiavelli.
Sounds a lot like drag and drop saving, which as I recall was a feature first introduced in RiscOS. That UI was way ahead of its time.
It's easy to justify almost any sort of behavior if you take some risk and assign it a severity of "infinity". A 1% chance of happening? At severity infinity, you're morally obligated to act at even a 0.00001% chance: 0.00001% times infinity is still infinity. That's the AGI logic I'm seeing from these people.
> the rest of the input image consists of dark pixels (.)

This key bit of information seems to be missing in the originally posted problem, which your link clarifies!
why not take a photo of email, show only the header with some blur applied, but convert the image to text before publishing?
This isn’t cryptocurrency, these are sketchy unlicensed banks with a cryptocurrency theme. People holding coins in their own wallets are entirely unaffected. I hope that crypto exchanges are outlawed soon.
> Zig seems to be even worse than Go, requiring null-termination instead of storing them as Pascal strings. This means that a valid substring requires a copy so that the substring can itself be null-terminated to be valid. Inner pointers are not valid unless to the end of the parent and therefore substrings are very expensive relatively speaking.

No, Zig uses slices normally (ie ptr + len). Terminators are part of the type system for the (relatively rare, mostly related to C interop) cases where you really want a sentinel value at the end of your array.
Again, individual experiences vary and this is not my experience.

What does it mean when a company buys a few dozen macbooks, but has zero mac experience and when they fail they end up in a drawer because no one knows how to fix them?

To me this screams "poor planning". When the lenovo's failed they were sent to the in-house tech team, usually they were simply reimaged and put back into production. One of the macbooks sat in a desk for ~8 months due to some "boot issue".

If it boils down to "taste" and your entire company is based on Lenovo laptop/desktops then moving to a mac would seem odd. Again more odd once you realize you cant support them.
There is an important omission in that Guardian article. They cite a Latin professor said to have helped decipher the artifact and then another scholar of Indo-European linguistics:

"Velaza’s colleague Joaquín Gorrochategui, a professor of Indo-European linguistics at the University of the Basque country, said the hand’s secrets would change the way scholars looked at the Vascones.'This piece upends how we’d thought about the Vascones and writing until now ... We were almost convinced that the ancient Vascones were illiterate and didn’t use writing except when it came to minting coins."

What they fail to tell their readers is that Basque is not an Indo-European language at all. It's a language isolate – while Latin, Welsh, German, Danish, Greek, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, Urdu etc. are all related to each other, Basque is the only remnant of the languages that were spoken in Western Europe before the Indo-Europeans took over.
Biggest burn I had:

Drag and dropping a named folder on the desktop where a folder with the same name already lived resulted in the desktop folder content being replaced with the dropped folder content and the loss of all its content. I was expecting a merge or a copy/overwrite dialog, not the overwrite of the desktop folder content.
That would be nice, but in the US the people leading public transit don't care about good transit. I know they have limited budgets, but they do too many bad and over prices projects to assume anything else.
I'm not convinced that previous poster was hitting a strawman.

Your argument (if I understand correctly) is that given some language (here javascript) that one ought not program in such a way that other people who use that language are incapable of understanding it. This example of FP involves a bunch of junk that makes javascript incomprehensible to javascriptors therefore it's bad.

Now, previous poster replies with "Hey not everyone understands c++ and assembly ..." and this does sort of sound like a strawman, however we can extract the core argument as "there exist things which you haven't seen before which you don't understand, but that doesn't make them bad" and that does not sound like a strawman. That sounds like a legit argument.

For example, perhaps there exists a library which performs some domain specific task using FFT, linear algebra, and distributed computing load balancer algorithms. All of it in javascript. An arbitrary javascript developer is probably not going to be able to understand what's going on. However, that wouldn't be a legit argument against FFT, linear algebra, or distributed computing load balancing algorithms.

Specializations exist. Pure FP in javascript might not be a great idea, but it possibly confusing someone who otherwise knows javascript doesn't feel like a real argument against it to me.
> I'd go there, work as little as possible while pulling a paycheck, then go back to my regular type of job.

Ethics, self-respect, integrity.
You just don’t know them enough as yet.
Kosovo criminals