skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say what you will about Notch since he's become a billionaire, but he became a billionaire just by creating a game that people really really liked and being willing to sell when Microsoft came knocking. He wasn't wealthy before that and didn't seem to have ambitions as such. So, it seems there are avenues to such vast wealth that aren't so clearly, "you must f many people over and have sociopathic ambitions".

That is to say, in many ways I agree with your assessment, but let's be careful not to over-generalize.
I recently upgraded a Python 2 + Django 1.x project with no tests to Python 3 and latest Django.

Using 2to3, the most trouble I had were db migrations, which I just squashed. The rest were ferreting out str() problems that 2to3 didn't find (eg. redis package happily taking strings but returning bytes by default), Django regexp url changes, and trivial stuff like that.

It took a couple of days work.

I also wanted to upgrade the frontend part (webpack build of Vue). I stopped after a few hours od going nowhere and am still apprehensive of approaching that particular thing.
It's Pakistan. I literally live 2 kilometers away from it . I can walk there.
One user responded basically asking is Twitter a tech company which is a totally fair question, I would propose that there's at least a decent chance that running Twitter solely like a tech company will lead to... challenges.

And second, he seems to really hate this idea that founders are criticized by the plebes (https://nitter.net/paulg/status/1591098388317179908) . I get his overall thesis, that we should be constructive and optimistic for a better future and stop tearing people down, but is it so crazy to humanize the employees of companies, and not just their founders? Is it so crazy to want a better world where founders treat their employees with autonomy and respect, and criticize those who don't?

Also criticism can be a form of education, is it so wrong to think that Musk has something to learn here? I can’t imagine he wouldn’t think so, watching his interactions on Twitter, I think he’s even benefiting from the criticism!

Having been on the side of trying to do something unpopular, the worst kind of feedback you can get is no feedback at all.
How did he gaslight them? I'm scrolling through his tweets and not finding any gaslighting, but maybe I didn't scroll far enough.
Could someone explain to me why cars running on natural gas aren't popular in the US like they are in South America / Europe?

Converting a car to also run on natural gas costs a few hundred dollars in South America / Europe but after that the benefits are:

- x2 cheaper travel expenses

- less harmful emissions

Since the US is rich in natural gas wouldn't it have been more environmentally conscious to convert the hundreds of millions of petrol cars to also run on natural gas instead of digging up tons of minerals for brand-new electric cars?
and yet this man makes waay more money than me.

Maybe it's a sign that I should quit the weed for a bit and go play capitalism with the rest of the nerds.
So, why are so many people against them giving away that money in pursuit of a fairer world? Is it just frustrating to see the rich (aka evil) give away money consensually rather than it being taken by force?

I totally get it if the donations aren't actually doing anything good, but most EA donations go to global health initiatives that save lives, in quite large numbers (I think SBFs did not, however).

Edit: I would also get it if donations were being used as an anti-tax argument, but I don't see that being the case? I've never seen any billionaire say their donations should make them exempt from taxes. I believe eg. Gates and Buffet both favour higher taxes for the rich (publicly, at least). Sure there are anti-tax billionaires, and billionaires who make large charitable donations, but I'd guess the correlation between the two things was actually negative.
Why? It's in Pakistan. The modern country of India didn't exist back then, and nor is the city even located in modern day India.
> Infrastructure needs are unfulfilled

But infrastructure is currently being built out for that. There are very few places in the US (lower 48) that you can't drive a BEV to and back. For some of the remote ones you will need to plan your route around chargers, but you can get just about anywhere. For more dense areas you can just wait until your battery is getting low to start looking. It isn't like gas where you can wait until you are "running on fumes" before starting to look for a charger, but it isn't a big deal.

Hydrogen is far behind - maybe it will be built, maybe it won't, I won't predict the future. What I can tell you is if you buy a hydrogen car today you will have to buy the place to fill it at the same time, and you have to assume you will never go out of range.
Believing in the mission.
So you should be forced to IPO when a company valuation is 1b? Okay, fine.

So if you IPO at 1b ( probably the valuation will drop after ipoing early but ok ) you are not considered a "psychopath" ?

I'm sure all the employees with stock options will be thrilled as well after they drop in value.
"Not for cars, but for everything else."
While I agree with you there are some usages where it does make sense and shouldn't be neglected, it is also worth noticing that the current consensus on Metaculus is an estimate of 6% market shares for those usages in 2030:
https://www.metaculus.com/questions/552/fcevs-vs-bevs-what-p...

[Edit] consensus established in February 2020
natural gas emissions are not less harmful
The challenge of the race to the bottom can be fun if you’re a sadomasochist
I think it is fair to say the employee experience is in a downward spiral.
No, it isn't close. The reason none of those things are comparable is because the service provider has lost something in the transaction in your example. Sneaking into an amusement park is theft of services, not paying for dinner after you consumed it is plain old theft. In both of those cases, the seller's resources were consumed. They have lost resources or effort.

With digital items it isn't like that. I can make infinite copies at no harm, real or imagined, to the seller. What might make this more clear is the distinction between downloading a movie illicitly versus watching a friend's legit purchased copy with them. In both of these cases, the maker of the content was not compensated for a watch.

The reason I think piracy (defined as personal copyright infringement) is okay is because:

1. It is generally a victimless "crime" (and even this is a misnomer, the act of downloading a movie is a civil, not criminal matter. It has more in common with driving over the speed limit than it does stealing.), and as so is morally neutral.

2. Statistics show that habitual pirates tend to be habitual purchasers as well, further complicating any concept of harm.

3. Copyright is a government granted monopoly, not some natural right, and its continued abuse and deadweight on our culture is not something that should be respected.

4. Even if the previous 3 points were all invalid, why should I have any respect for an entity that has none for me? Slavish adherence to the law is mere obedience, it is not noble or useful on its own.
> scar marking him as the chosen one

which mostly acts as a target cross

> abused by muggle caretakers

many children have grown and are growing up in less than ideal condition

> unjustly persecuted by his teachers

very little so, actually. Most of the penalties were well-earned.

> hereditary magical powers

which he shares with most people in the setting.
`python3.10 -m venv` or `python3.11 -m venv` the default approach works fine and I don't need pip anything to get a virtualenv, what's the selling point of pyenv?
Regarding Blue Origin, if you can pad the margins of your vehicles heavily because you don't need to reach orbit, then it's a lot easier to make a vehicle reusable. This is why Scaled Composites could relatively easily throw together a vehicle that could perform this back in 2004.
> You can't build pumped hydro just anywhere.

No, but electrical grids can efficiently transport energy across continent-scale distances, so it doesn't really matter. It's true, that stored hydrogen only needs to beat "electricity from the nearest dam" and not local generator numbers, but that's still a tall order.
It also has higher energy density. Which is important for some applications.
It's amazing all the new hate for Elon coming out just because he outed himself as not a Democrat and in favour of free speech.

Go back two years and all the left loved him due to Tesla and nerds loved him due to Starlink, SpaceX etc.
And you think that isn't done already? If every country was like Norway, this would be the way to go. But good look doing this in the Netherlands.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Twitter Criticisms and Firings?
News over the past day is that Elon Musk immediately fired engineers who criticized him on Slack or Twitter. Here's a tweet about it: https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1592539948745650176

For background, some examples:

* https://twitter.com/thinkingfish

* https://twitter.com/thenetmonkey

* https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer (this firing was quite public, and seems to have resulted from this exchange: https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/1591902285403418624 Much of the interaction, including the firing tweet from Musk, has been deleted)

Being Twitter, there are some mean-spirited reactions, but putting those aside, the two camps seem to be: a) on the one hand the firings were justified because being rude to the CEO of your company is unprofessional and disruptive behavior, but b) on the other hand, Twitter had a culture of fearless criticism, and the criticism largely was principled disagreement on engineering or management issues.

I am decidedly in the latter camp, that a team must be able to safely raise issues with management and that these firings are a serious error on Musk's part that might even signal a character problem.

But what do you think? Are the firings even partly justified? If not, is Twitter doomed?
Their suggested replacement for smtpd is a package that hasn’t been updated in almost two years.
But they're going to sell NFTs so you can actually OWN THE SLAVES that build it, in perpetuity!
I still have a razer blade for gaming but i mostly use my nintendo switch these days. Mostly playing "DorfRomantik" and "Mini Motorways"

As a side project I work on a flutter mobile app.

So one of the best features of MacOS is how easy you can simulate an Iphone compared to android. I wanted to setup a Pixel 6 with google play services and I for the love of god could not figure out how to do that. So I needed to go with the Pixel 4.
As someone who drives a Tesla, by all means, fuck it up. Because it means it’s at least actually being worked on.

Once you’re several years into owning a car, the outdated software really starts to show. Especially on mid-2010s cars where CarPlay and Android Auto weren’t a thing, you’re held back by really old shitty software that will never be updated.

That is one thing that Tesla has, without a doubt, got right. And you can tell because most major manufacturers are also going to an OTA update system, even though it obviously costs far more in infrastructure and completely re-engineering their existing systems to support it.
Until major operating systems start automatically watermarking the results ...
What is the unamend command in VS Code?
Twitter 2.0 will need to be “extremely hardcore.” Truly a visionary.
Nice clear answer, thanks.
> True but try installing an app that isn't in "the store" (which one again?) on Linux

Typically Discover or Gnome Software. They integrate with several package managers (Apt, pacman, etc.). Discover does even more; being a single stop not only for apps, but also DE extensions.

There is no paid app store, if that is what you meant, except on ElementaryOS.

Some apps are still download-and-run or download-and-install. MacOS is strictly superior in the former case, as you can install apps by dragging them to the Applications folder (in Gnome and KDE you need to 'find' .local/share/applications). Downloading and running does generally work, unless you're on something without a standard FHS (e.g. NixOS).

Overall, MacOS is strictly worse (as a development machine) than Linux in this regard: it has no native package manager.

Containers are also still a fucking nightmare, even with the heroic efforts of the people behind Colima/Lima.
> It is still more environmental friendly to drive that 10 year old used tincan than to buy a new electric car.

No it isn't, what do you base this on? Production of a new electric van takes a limited amount of CO2, and the CO2 saved while driving it compensates for that within a couple of years. I don't know how this rumor still persists.
"Like Donald Trump, But For Nerds"

Lol! Accurate description. A.k.a. narcissistic personality disorder
that's mostly product churn. yes, definitely part of crypto, but people don't have to understand each and every new thing in crypto to understand crypto.
It probably helps to get slackers and non-believers and "activists" to self-select off. People who had oversized compensation relative to contribution to the bottom line. It will also provoke some good ICs to quit out of frustration too.

The ones who stay behind probably have various reasons to stay behind. They believe in the product, like the challenge, want to have impact, working with lower org entropy, less activism, etc., despite liking or not liking their boss.

I see people disagreeing with me, fine. But I still think this will rid the organization of most slackers and non-contributors.
but they are less. You can half the co2 emissions with very little investment. However, this cannot be ultimate solution and is probably too little too late.
I think staff SWE is in the 500k+ range at twitter. I know truckers, delivery drivers and others working harder far from home for less. And he’s gotten lucky in the sense the job market has cooled in the Bay Area a bit - so yes people resigning but it might not be a slam dunk always
Challenges aren't hard to find if someone wants them. Go found a startup or something.

Is this an interesting challenge, or just the slog of trying to maintain a service shorthanded?
> Rather, I mean that nobody's fabbing GB game carts, printing glossy color manuals for them, putting them in boxes, and shipping them to Kickstarter backers.

Maybe not Kickstarter specifically, but they are doing the other stuff.

> Nobody's translating these games into 10 languages.

That's a little unreasonable ask. Given how little money these games will bring in you can't expect that.

> Nobody's QA-testing the heck out of them to ensure they don't have any obscure edge-case bugs. Etc. (This was why I brought up Planet X3: it's an example of a modern retro-game that is polished in exactly this sense.)

There is QA testing happening but like with the above, you can't expect smaller operations to pay people to QA. So you end up either having "QA" be demo builds, in which case most people end up with a copy so you can't do the premium carts that you're also asking for. Or you just have to accept that QA is a smaller operation but still have the beautiful hardware copy.

Even really well polished games on other platforms with much bigger audiences, like Xeno Crisis for the Mega Drive / Genesis, have had their share of bugs too. Even in the original days of these consoles, when games from big studios with big budgets to spend on testing, we'd still see new releases with bugs-galore.

> But a desire to go through all the effort to create polished modern GB games, is the sort of thing that requires market demand — a willingness to spend real money to buy new GB games (whether digitally or physically.) No hobbyist game developer is going to spend a year on "things that aren't programming" to make a nice shippable product out of their game, if that isn't going to result in at least breaking even on their effort.

This doesn't even happen with new games on current generation consoles. So I don't understand why you're expecting it to happen with retro-consoles.

> And a prerequisite for that demand, is public awareness of the fact that modern GB games are being created — and, more importantly, a public "brand" awareness for the people creating them!

I don't think awareness is the problem. I think most people just don't care. If you're a retro gamer you are probably already aware, and if you're not then you're never going to play these games anyway. And I honestly can't blame people for not caring. There's so much content out there these days that GB games (with all the warts that the GB hardware had, by modern day standards) simple aren't going to appeal to most people.

I think you're setting your expectations far too high.

> Indie game jams are great and all; but they don't create brand awareness

Again, there are plenty of releases that aren't the results of game jams.
>HN is manipulated at its finest

It's patently obvious to anyone who is honest with themselves that all coverage of the Ukraine conflict is biased to one side or the other. And here in the west, it's biased towards the pro-Ukraine narrative.

I read a wide variety of news sites, ranging from The Guardian to Russia Today to China Daily [and several more in between] and it's striking, not how bias is shown in what's reported. But also in what's not reported or is glossed over. A couple of examples:

1: The alleged discovery of US biolabs in Ukraine was pretty much ignored by the western media but got lots of coverage on RT and was also mentioned on CD.

2: When Ukraine bombed the Crimean bridge, Russia Today led with the fact 3 civilians were killed and 2 were missing presumed dead. The fact that civiliams were killed was not mentioned at all on the BBC etc.

Conversely, when Russia started the bombardment of Ukraine's infrastructure, RT led with how the bombardments had taken out 'weapons storage' and 'communications' and didn't mention any civilian casualties. While the BBC etc. led with the numbers of civilians killed.

3: RT has been claiming that there have been videos posted on social media of Ukrainian militia flying fascist banners and giving nazi salutes. Again this has not been mentioned at all in the western press --presumably as it gives some credence to Russia's justification that it invaded Ukraine to counter Fascism and undermines the western narrative that 'Russia = Wholly Evil. Ukraine = Wholly Good'

I said at the top, I consume news from a wide range of sources, of all political hues. Interestingly, since the Ukraine conflict started, I've been finding that most of the time Russia Today is unreachable from my browser, or through VPN connected via anywhere in western Europe or the US. Yet, strangley enough I have no problem connecting to the site though VPN via Asian countries.

Odd that, isn't it? It's almost like censorship. Except, as we all know, only nasty oppressive countries like Iran, China, Russia etc. try to block their people's access to foreign news sources. It must be just coincidence.
> Effective altruists like to use exponential growth to beat people over the head with the idea that the future is more important than the present. Do they ever acknowledge the fact that the far future is also exponentially more unpredictable than seconds into the future?

Not in my experience and all the time respectively.
Or git commit --fixup=:/<pattern> to find the most recent commit with pattern in the message. Still going to give git-absorb a try though.
> The Montessori method of education involves children's natural interests and activities rather than formal teaching methods. A Montessori classroom places an emphasis on hands-on learning and developing real-world skills. It emphasizes independence and it views children as naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a sufficiently supportive and well-prepared learning environment.
1,020 days since Elon Musk said Coronavirus would be similar to the flu. (1/31/2020)

Turns out he was right. How many of the other quotes are based on the same misleading narrative?
Can you explain your reasoning? There are a number of reasons that natural gas emissions (after burning) are less harmful. Not least that there is a higher proportion of hydrogen so for a given energy output there are less carbon dioxide emissions.
Is a Meat Recession Coming?
Former pro bettor here (11 years), Europe based. Yes, you get banned from bookies once they identify you as a sharp punter very quickly.
That would explain why my recent-ish attempt at running an ubuntu VM in windows was so bad. I was kind of shocked, how could performance have degraded so much over the years?

10 years ago I was running that workload just fine, but today, on a ryzen 5950, it's slow?

I wonder if Hyper-V is the culprit.
Disentangling Rent Index Differences: Data, Methods, and Scope [pdf]
I don't agree. I have an Android, and when I go to a product page on the app store, there is this huge "install" button clearly in a different color. Very good UX.

I remember receiving a company iPhone years ago. I went to an app store product page, and couldn't find any install button. Totally confused I looked for some menu options or whatever. Turned out you had to click the "free" text behind the app title. Not a button at all, not clear at all. That is just bad UX.
$8B over 60k residents is 133k per person. Seem low. My biggest concern is the logistics of the supply chain to it at sea, and that has to be very dynamic if it's actually going places.
Pothole Damage Costs US Drivers $3B a Year
I still remember during my school days, the cover of history textbook was with Indus script on it.
Not all problems are solvable. I don't know enough about physics/chemistry to know if the problem is solvable, but I do know there are other unsolvable problems. (faster than light travel is a common one that people think more engineering can solve)

I'm sure people are working on the problem, but the laws of physics limit them.
I see telnetlib is on the way out in 3.13 or so, which means a lot of pointless busywork in my future. Its a super useful module for a lot of tasks.

The suggested replacements either are asyncio based (which means whole ass rewrites as asyncio is really fucking opinionated), or are excessively restrictive in some stupid way.

"Infosec" at work tend to raise a ruckus when their scans detect "older" versions of Python on machines too, so virtualenv'ing to pin versions or similar is often not the most practical in prod without getting an exception.
For hypothetical grand plan, see: Loop
You're hitting a strawman here. I shouldn't have to explicitly say that I meant someone with at least some experience in the language you happen to be writing in.
That there can be a good utility model remains a postulate. How can you know that your choice of utility or trying to aim for utility at all does not have catastrophic consequences, sowing more misery through unintended consequences? How can you factor that in? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
It's patented and proprietary, please don't use it.

Alternatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-power_wide-area_network#Pl...
Foam roller, glass/electric kettle, really long shoehorn
Hey, thank you for the feedback, I`m adding there now.
Can I tell you something secret? The "AGI" of the form you are describing is already here! Not only that, it's been here since 1988! Crazy right? Just check out this link if you don't believe me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

(Snark aside, I've realized this type of interactions have always resulted in a very low perception of EA for me. I don't come out of these conversations thinking "what a clueless thing to say by this person who also happened to support EA", I think "wow, EA is full with looney bins who don't know what they are talking about." If you are really into giving what you can and aren't sure why EA gets a bad rep, look no further.)