skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Off-road vehicles

I don't understand why this is under B while cars are under G. Is that not a type of car? Or are we talking building sized mining dumptrucks?
When a person does bad things and then is accurately described as having done those bad things it's not poisoning the well, it's putting up a sign saying "this well was poisoned".
Same. I value my work/life balance too much these days.
I read that and still don't see the significance. Admittedly, I am very far from the topic.
The problem is the next 150k, where you have to replace a timing belt and maybe a clutch, while a battery replacement is still practically impossible on many EV models.
> Rawlsian veil of ignorance questions are all forms of shaming people for this completely normal human instinct

Shouldn't instincts be subject to reason and falsification, regardless of whether they're normal? If you can find little to no rational justification for preferring your instinctive choice, shouldn't you seriously consider overriding that instinct?
Yeah, and Gmail started as an April Fools prank, remember? You call it BS, I call it "no one is innovating as much as this fucking guy", go figure.

EDIT: The guy is sending rockets to freaking space and has a fleet of satellites that provide intenet, are you not entertained??
Catharsis: A program to normalize mental health for founders
The Larry David FTX commercial is still funny
"How can we be most effective with our giving" is a good thought. It's what I thought EA was, like, two weeks ago.

"The movement can literally compute the optimal pattern of giving, such that to be most effective with our giving means donating money to people to ride around on bicycles thinking about how to prevent future AGIs from killing us" is not a good thought, but it turns out to be a description of what EA is like; some of this is on their own website (another thing I've learned: beware any movement that calls its documentation "sequences").

"The moral urgency of giving is such that a reasonable person should seek to maximize their income" is a bad thought. It leads to dark places. "Earning to give" is a reasonable idea: it is probably more effective for people to excel at their jobs and donate the proceeds than for them to phone bank or canvass. But Rationalists can't seem to help falling into these asymptote traps, so that "donating a portion of ones income" becomes "pursue billions in wealth, and clear a path for other billionaires, to enable concentrated giving". That's a demented idea.

The problems here aren't abstract. They just lead to Scott Aaronson withholding moral judgement on Sam Bankman-Fried, strictly because of the logic of the preceding paragraph.
yeah i understand...un-editable typo oops ftw.
remaining twitter engineers unionizing would be the funniest thing in the world
Obsidian seems to be a pretty powerful tool honestly a bit intimidated by it. I am trying to understand how important a relationship manager tool would be in both the professional and personal context.
https://forms.gle/SxRjGV73L1fGt2df7 if you're interested in adding your input.
So far many people are interested in having this solved for them but the time-to-value is too much overhead having to capture all the data and the importing of contacts from other places seems to be a real struggle.
title, subtitle, and thesis statement from each paragraph.
I had an MC-202 for a while as well.

Here's how hard it is to program, from what I remember:

- You had to enter your pitches.

- Then you switch into a different mode, and enter the durations of the notes.

- Then you switch into a still third mode, and enter whether you want the note on or off.

All this on a 5 character 7-segment LCD display.

Anything beyond simple bass lines was too difficult for me, but this machine was really good at those.
It´s a bit weird?

This is all over twitter, one of the biggest tech stories in a long time while very relevant to corporate culture in general - but there´s almost dead silence here?

That said the story and musk shenanigans in general is also quite annoying at this point.
The only really foolproof way is to convert the text to a bitmap and then OCR it, to ensure you aren't trapped by lookalike glpyhs or varying spaces. (OCR will generally make all spaces single, since spacing varies so widely in practice due to things like justification. It also usually makes all quotes straight since the per-font variation makes it too hard to distinguish open/close quotes.)

You can do this easily enough on MacOS simply by taking a screenshot, pasting it into Preview, selecting the text with its automatic OCR, and copying.

Of course you still need to worry about whether line lengths are varied per-recipient, or even the wording of the e-mail itself. But the above will at least take care of glyphs.
Thought this is an April Fool's joke kind of thing, but apparently they're serious?

That's said, the spell checker is nice and the translation would be helpful too.
Because AI generates attention and therefore new users/subscribers. Stuff existing subscribers want is a lower priority. Also, the developers probably think AI is cool to work on and offline support isn't.
I owned a Tesla for years and had to constantly have issues fixed, including:

Door handles failing to open doors, door handles failing to present, clicking and jerking when steering far to the right or left, dashboard and infotainment turning off completely, poor seals causing the "wub wub" air pressure effect at highway speeds, charge port failures, a poorly seated and rusty windshield attachment, and a ton of fit and finish issues.

Service centers were impossible to get time at, and they charged an arm and a leg to fix a problem only to have it come back a few months later.

Tesla build quality is exceptionally poor.
Or they are considered valuable but we have a captive market… Many people would like charities to become institutional features instead of charities but then there are other interests who are against such things because then “muh capital”
I would like to work in order to see closely what kind of ego he has
Much better reporting here:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/15/consumer-reports-new-technol...

> "Consumer Reports surveyed owners of more than 300,000 vehicles from model years 2000 to 2022 and used that data to make predictions about the reliability of 2023 model year vehicles."

It'd be useful to see the spread over time, as EV's produced over a decade ago are probably not as reliable as EVs being produced today. As far as Tesla:

> "Fisher said Tesla is a "standout" regarding electric powertrains compared with legacy automakers. However, Tesla owners continue to report problems with body hardware, paint and trim in their vehicles across all models, according to Steve Elek, program leader for auto data analytics at Consumer Reports."

My favorite EVs are all modified ICE cars where the internal combustion system has been pulled out and replaced with a Tesla powertrain.
> Silly question but what else are we going to do?

- Learn a new language/instrument/craft

- Hike/bike/run down a new trail

- Work at a soup kitchen

- Raise funds for your charity of choice

- Influence local politics to raise the quality of life for everyone

- Buy nice things, be comfortable with having/maintaining nice things that are a little out-of-date, and put the savings into retirement

- Retire and do more of the stuff listed above
I dunno where you come up with that number. Twitter was in real straits with investors compared with other companies in its class well before Musk was even on its radar. Two activist shareholder coups later and ousting of Dorsey, lackluster profits in good times, plenty of its own culture war scandals despite people piling on FB... can't pin that on Musk.
I would work for him, I would take a cut in pay to work for him.
No and it's not close.

I can sort of understand why people put up with it to work for companies like SpaceX, but I find it difficult to understand why anyone would not take the severance that Elon offered every Twitter employee this morning.
Not to make everything about him, but this peacetime/wartime lens of viewing the world is interesting to think about in light of Elon Musk taking over Twitter. You can make a case that part of Twitter's big problem in the last decade or so is that their company has been operating in sort of a relaxed peacetime mode when they really needed to be operating in a wartime frame of mind due to their lack of profitability. Elon's real challenge might be successfully dragging a kicking and screaming company into a focused wartime frame.
What I don't understand is the author of this article making statements like this that reveal they have not put in any effort to learn a whole new OS. Imagine if I switched to KDE and soon wrote an article bashing KDE because I just couldn't figure out how to do basic things. Some effort is necessary to see what an OS offers, and this author clearly hasn't done it.
This already exists on Reddit as a bot that says “the best I did was reducing this article by 87%, here it is…”

I imagine you just need to wrap that in a browser plug-in. Or maybe already exists.
What keyboard combination do you use to switch between all windows of all apps in one single UI?

(Note: that keyboard combination should also make sense on ISO keyboards and be available without third-party apps)
Elon specifically does not allow remote work.

Your comment is equivalent to I’ll work for anyone and irrelevant to the discussion.
Too many incels worshipping Musk thinking that you get women by imitating his behaviors.
Agreed, their search (literal string matching only) was outdated long before they were ever a company, but they do this instead of sticking one mid to senior level DS on that?

This is also almost certain to lead to more documents, not better ones, making the abysmal search experience worse.
I'd only work for him if he allowed remote work.
I tried using Linux for my laptop at Google but it was a torment due mainly to the wonkiness of the trackpad driver. I've been happily using Macs ever since. Linux is for servers.
I've seen a trend in the service industry that has so far worked where poor service is excusable now because fast food workers are apparently mistreated and have no choice but to work their job and crappy service is expected. Before you'd pay for your food and go, but now companies that have no interaction with the customer are now requesting tips not as a bonus to good service but as an expectation that if you don't tip you may expect to be mistreated. Same with the restaurant industry that up until recently would justify anything from spitting in people's food if they didn't tip them in a manner that made them feel appreciated to bragging about stealing money thinking this was normal behavior. Dropping and blocking rude customers is one thing, but failing to recognize and address the internal issues while blaming customers is something completely different. There is no doubt people that deserve to be blocked but I'm skeptical things like this will just be used to shift blame to customers when it was the driver or industry that caused the mistake or acted inappropriately.
I can imagine that a company actually saves everything being printed for security / auditing reasons, along with who issued the print request, etc.
Then quit with the disengenuous, cowardly half-speech and just say it, rather than couching it in the form of a pretend question. It's embarrassing and reflects more upon one's lack of character, frankly.
Rich content (anything that isn't a listicle or SEO'd fluff article) has become harder and harder to find
At that point it was a cost cut. They engineered for a spare but the accountants gave you a can of foam.
There’s a lot of complaints that CR could probably disqualify, but there are so many that this process itself could lead to potential bias.

CR is probably not what you want to read if you’re an enthusiast, but if you’re suggesting a car for your mom, it’s probably pretty dang accurate.
Lowered by how much?
> What are use-cases for this that people will actually benefit from? Creative writing - sure. Brainstorming? Maybe for very vague and basic topics that don't need any business context. But more than that?

Looking at my Linkedin feed: lots of lazy people excited about possibility of "creating content" like "100 blog posts on a given topic in a minute". So, in short: seo spam. Lots of seo spam.
This kind of advertising is really old. I have a 1930s Hardy Boys novel that references an earlier book in the story, and contains mail order offer in the footer ("Send your order plus 20¢ to ____ to get your copy of ____. Allow 10 weeks for delivery" - definitely not Amazon).
>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.

Not much of an AGI if it's not Intelligent enough to ignore a few "Don't say these bad words" rules.
Thanks for sharing - glad to hear you managed to get through your lower level algebraic struggles! That's a tough thing to have to fix.

One of the things you mentioned (and i've seen in many comments) is the transition from Montessori to another system (an aside: usually while implying saying how poor the structure/goals of the other system is).

My product development part of my brain points to this as as systemic problem that could try to be addressed by the school/parents - though that is such a holistic change that the best you could do is minimize impacts but maybe that should be considered.

The other part is that it seems that most people have very positive memories of their Montessori days.

As I see it the big family, highly personalized, explore at your own pace, keep children curious, unstructured but guided combination is very attractive but the concern is really that transition after the fact to a larger more structured institution & smaller amount of emphasis on athletics are the sticky points.

Without going into a larger debate about education - I kind of wish the state system was less results oriented and exploratory in the early years for all children and then the program changed as they got older. I recognize there are inherent challenges.

I'm curious if the two challenges that you had (which would probably be different challenges for other children) could have been identified at an early time and given some support - or if you think that struggling through both of them help develop your internal strength without sacrificing too much?
Why not? I've heard about Amazon's horrible conditions for drivers, but haven't heard too much about how it is in their developer department.
I'm normally joyful when a modern language (say, julia) decides to break backward compatibility to improve the language on a fundamental level. This is mostly because I'm not too vested in it.

For languages where I have 10+ years of work behind, it's the exact opposite, and where I see the c/c++ model of not breaking backward compatibility a much saner choice.

Python in particular is an extremely bittersweet pill to swallow. The amount of small and large breakage I had ever since I started to use it for production work (v2.6 and onward) has been relentless. Small and large breakages requiring constant retooling and reworking. Minor release? Yeah, still breaks just as much as a major one. pyenv doesn't help when you dependencies need to be updated, and the updates do not support the lower versions you wanted to use anyway. Containerizing everything is a not a solution for a project is expected to be supported for years so the real way forward is to fix it, again, and again, and again. My experience is that every 6 months there _will_ be work just to fix bitrotting. A one year old python project will hardly even run unless it's using the stdlib only.

By comparison, I never experienced such churn with perl.
Would love to see some benchmarks listed for each CPU as well. so I can filter by functions and then compare performance.

Another useful data point would be OS support and availability - official and/or community versions, last release date, number of releases, etc.
I still have no idea how all this big sum VC software funding works. Like, what can you even spend $47m on?
It exists in various forms and you are not the only one that desires this.

https://tldrthis.com/

https://www.summari.com/products/chrome

Etc etc
> But the seemingly arising "Haskell religion" is at least as mislead as the OOP-religion that held mainstream in stranglehold for a long time.

I wanted to say the same but you were faster than me. The article reminded me a lot of the design patterns fad in the OOP world: that compulsion to make everything abstract and reusable even if there's no use for it yet. But hey, at some point it might be needed and then it would be great!

Of course there are some cases where you really want to be ahead of what might come , e.g. public library api's, but those are rare.
I'm very wary of all these companies building their offerings on GPT-3. It's dependent on OpenAI until it's cheap enough to host your own instance, and then they wouldn't have a proper service to offer anyway.

Also, GPT-3 completion is pretty hacky, and anyone who needs it on an information organization pipeline is not taking it seriously anyway.
> World's best employer

This is the first ever that I hear this label attached to Amazon. Do they claim it? I've never seen them in the #1 spot on any top employer / best place to work ranking. I just googled again just to make sure, but perhaps I missed something.
Here are some failure modes to consider:

Paint fails:

- parts rust

- parts eventually fail

- vehicle might bend in two or stop working altoghether

- rust is slow, easily detectable by a mechanic. Takes months or years to do real damage

Engine fails:

- car won't go
I'm a bit confused how this differs from the existing watch modes that are built into test runners I'm familiar with, such as Jest. Is this something that I'm used to in TypeScript, but which just doesn't exist in most language's ecosystems?
Yes, I've worked for way worse managers than him. Straight-up lunatics and it was a great experience. You never knew what to expect from day to day. Way more fun than just chugging along like I do now.
To the crypto-inclined people commenting on every thread about how failing centralized exchanges don't effect you and are actually good for Bitcoin, how are you planning to convert your hard earned crypto into US dollars that you can spend at a grocery store? If your answer is "P2P exchanges," how do you plan to secure your cold wallet against the infamous rubber hose cryptanalysis?
To be honest, I was a fan and explained away every offense he has made to date UNTIL he fired the Twitter Android app engineer publicly on Twitter. I felt that this engineer was engaging Elon about the problems at hand in a way that was admirable considering the circumstances. It was like the engineer knew he was falling on the sword, but at the same time was rational in his explanations of the current state of the app. I felt like he was being constructive.

When Elon decided that this type of person needed to go, I flipped on him. He might succeed, but I really don't like him any more. To him it's the cost of doing business, but in my opinion that single event will put more of a chill on his future hiring than any of his prior bullshit.
I drive a Ford Focus Electric. All of the non-drivetrain parts are standard focus stuff, and are fine. The same mostly-physical-controls UI that non-electric focus has. The usual wear parts wear out just like an ICE car, but the brakes need done a little less often.

And the car is responsive and fun to drive.

The new parts of the design have some rough edges; hopefully these are solved with the newer generation of EVs intended for mass production and making a profit:

- Just like a Tesla, there is a traditional 12V battery that runs accessories when the car is off. This can be drained by rogue modules not shutting down properly. See https://www.myfocuselectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4302 . I've had this happen several times. It's really annoying to need jump start when the main battery is at 100%.

- This year after 5 years and 50K miles something went wrong with the main battery. Replaced under warranty and apparently uncommon.
Yeah I think if you want to be an actual smartypants you need some kind of exponential discounting. There's a lot of monsters that could eat us along the way, so people that exist right now or are about to exist are WAY more important.

If you wanted to go all in maybe try to consider the number of lives weighted by the probability they exist will. Some kind of drake equation like thing.
I will join others to conclude that, being VC backed it what makes you do things like this and is a signal that company will work on more shallow features and focus on growth for growth sake.

Notion is solid app and idea and it would be a shame to became just one more thing that is just noise.
I seriously question their methodology. I still daily drive a 2012 leaf, which has never been to a shop in its existence. 2 years on the Tesla and likewise zero issues.
I can't imagine why anyone would want to work at Twitter right now. Forced to live in the most expensive area of the country at a company that's burning money going into a recession, massive turnover, a CEO known for irrational and impulsive decisions, and at the end of the day its just a microblogging service. There is no awesome vision that I can see for it.

Mental health is way more important.
This makes me think twice about using them to store my data.
Since when do programmers get to work on stuff they want to work on?
I would work for him, I would take a cut in pay to work for him. He is a visionary, and visionaries are not always easy to get along with, or anticipate but they do get things done.

would you have worked for Da Vinci? Or the original Tesla?

I would have worked for them for free.
He appears to have terrible interpersonal skills, but he gets shit done.

If you can put up with it (I can't) you probably come out the other side feeling you accomplished something great.

Slight parallels with Jobs.
I mean his politics are junk also. Its a big turn-off
ISP deploys fiber service with a wrinkle–the users themselves own each network
Elon Musk meeting Twitter staff
>Watching Elon gaslight

You don't know what the word gaslight means
Maybe so, but I still don't see the gaslighting.
As someone who's worked in the USA for the last 17 years, even here the way this is done is highly unusual. Musk is acting like a narcissistic, moody dictator who doesn't really give af about anyone unless they are willing to sacrifice everything for him.
Meal kit giant, HelloFresh, accused of using monkey labor to source coconut milk
You could say this about anything. My shampoo bottle is an advertisement to buy the next bottle. My car is an advertisement for other people to buy the same car.
I don't. I think there are people who get pleasure out of expressing themselves through motion picture. I get it out of writing code. Conveniently, making movies and writing code are both things that society will pay you to do.
Absolutely, without hesitation. Very interesting projects and a lot of action. I can handle a lot of things, but I can't handle being bored.