skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Tesla, that's easy, relative valuation[1]. I called this level in October[0]

It's no longer being priced as a miracle-maker, FSD, semis, scale, superchargers, powerwall. The government isn't buying it[2], Tesla isn't outfitting PG&E/ERCOT flaming infrastructure with batteries to prevent people from freezing to death. They're not really F+HON+XOM+Xylinx+X-Parc, and loud activists want them to just be F.

Now the real question: does "making a car" really still look like an appealing growth tactic for Tim Apple to deliver shareholder return?[3]

Knowing all this makes me want to gouge my eyes out, unfortunately.

They'll obviously pull through with their lowish debts, I think Musk is more aware of the gems in their mine than he lets on.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33211504

[1] https://traffic.megaphone.fm/WSJ9258707464.mp3?updated=16416...

[2] https://oshkoshdefense.com/usps-selects-oshkosh-defense-for-...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/05/tim-cook-interview-apples-ca...
Facebook parent Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica case for $725M
Dude is a beast. Very grateful for this site.
Up until this moment I assumed Dang was a last name and visualized an asian person whenever the name popped up.

Cool article :)
Why though? You're just making his job harder and the forum a worse place.
I was trying to quickly switch between installed node_modules without a full install run each time. Also, wanted to do some clever caching of a large module between projects.
Journalists are employees, if you dislike the amount of investigation being done look at the companies involved.
This comment distorts what is happening by using the word "robbing".
Why not "supporting"?

Perhaps Peter has earned his cash by working really hard. But perhaps not, perhaps he just exploited other people to hustle his way up some corporate food chain.
I think you imagine what people imagine. People are very well aware of what a nuclear meltdown means. They have Chernobyl and Fukushima as well-documented cases: populations forced to move from their home permanently, contamination of the food supply chain that basically ruins the economic activity of the region, and the extreme difficulty to prove that your health issues are long-terms effect of the disaster.
>> But please don't give up. Keep pushing forward and don't let the failures define you.

Yeah, sure, and then die one day realizing that you spent your life chasing illusionary goals that were injected into your mind by bulshitters on twitter. Way to go, mate!
> Customers don’t care what you code in.

Mostly true. I won’t be your customer if you use electron though.
A bit like Keycloak?
It still seems bonkers to me. What if the SUV slowed to a stop, standimg at rest beside the stick of butter. Which represents more potential energy?
Tencent chief blasts managers in fiery townhall
Congratulations. Is this something like SaaS Pegasus, "the Django SaaS boilerplate"?

https://www.saaspegasus.com

We did that as well internally when building our product. The first commits were to make a plug-in architecture so we could build different products easily.

Django also started that way. They were building many websites and they packaged things they were writing over and over again.

There could be something there.
Thank you Dan, for your efforts but also for the time and help you have given me.
The CmdrTaco of the modern age. Thanks for your hard work.
> It's also the constant stream of digital nomad influencers on Twitter who sell extremely distorted, rosy, and often times false dreams to indie entrepreneurs like myself.

I touched on this in an essay I wrote years ago

https://austingwalters.com/an-essay-on-wealth-and-freedom/

While I think trying to build a startup is fine, it’s probably not the best way to build wealth. To put it bluntly, you are most likely to build a successful startup when you have domain expertise and nothing to lose. That’s why funding a kid who has no family and a few years experience is probably a decent bet. They are cheap, passionate (work hard for the money) and think a bit differently than the entrenched businesses (the YC model).

If you want to build wealth, you probably take a different path. Find a good job in tech, work for 4-5 years playing politics a bit. Then cash out and find a mid-tier position at a remote job in rural USA, 30-60 min from a major city. Find a wife / husband from the area and buy 20 acres and have a farm. You’ll be wealthier and happier than anyone in the city and still be able to access most amenities within a short drive.
I don't mean to sound glib but I thought that was the way our society was supposed to work: tell everyone to try really hard knowing only a few will make it. But with everyone busy trying that pushes things forward. Sure, the game is kinda rigged and the rewards aren't spread around evenly (not even close). But hey, it got us this far.
Dude at least tell us what you were working on? I mean there is zero context to this post. How am I to process the fact your product got zero sign ups when you haven't even mentioned what it is. "Don't make the same mistakes I did", what mistakes have you even highlighted here (and I mean mistakes related to your product and not the fact that you fell for the honey trap posts' of social media influencers)????

257 comments to this post submitted by user whose account was only created 2-3 hours ago!! I feel this is a post that someone may have generated using ChatGPT.
Linux isn't the Android OS[1]. It runs on Android hardware, but so does Flappy Bird.

The sooner people realize that the better.

[1]https://youtu.be/36myc8wQhLo
I wish I lived in the same society as you where people condition themselves and other to find purpose. On the contrary it seems to me that most people live a completely unexamined life, and don't concern themselves with meaning, purpose, truth, morality or whatever. On the contrary, some people, a small minority, are bugged by these existential questions: nobody conditioned me, the ridiculed me for "thinking too much". Not everything is "social conditioning": some people through a mixture of genetics and experiences are just born this way.

I wish I weren't.
The CEO is a billionaire (Dolan) who owns it and many other properties.
PCalc, an Origin Story
In a big city in the Netherlands we stopped collecting plastic, metals separately. This because there are better machines now that reach higher accuracy levels.
Their tax rates are only a few percentage points different from ours. I think the difference is that we funnel 20% of it to the military (2% for Norway) and their tax code probably has fewer loopholes for the rich to exploit.
This is why societies should strive for more “inequality” (as in, more families with large fortunes). The rich have a safety net that allows them to take risks that ultimately benefit all of society. Let’s say with the best execution, a startup still only has 10% chance of success - so then the only thing to do is have more and more people “roll the dice.” And no, a strong welfare state is not a substitute - the danger is not starvation, but loss of your life savings or comfortable lifestyle provided by a decent career. Welfare does nothing to mitigate that risk (except maybe for the people with no wealth or good employment prospects, but they are probably not the primary talent pool for startup founders).
"Python is a great glue language to mash high performance C"

This is exactly what I'm starting to work through. After 6 years of Python, I've finally hit the limit of what I can do with it. Now I'm working to rebuild an algorithm in C to reconnect to the Python application.

"One does not simply write sklearn or pytorch from scratch."

I also agree with this. Would either be in a product though? Personally, if it's not a product, I wouldn't mind dependencies.
How to Have Fun Building
You have received a lot of advice here. I'm curious to know what were the products you shipped?
I read the article and I have read a lot of comments here.

I couldn't find a single reference to where the data set came from that trained the model they are using to do facial recognition.

Someone did theorize that it could be taken from a hypothetical law firm website but IIRC a single photo of someone is not good enough to reliably train a model that is not overfit.
Thank you for the correction! A 26 degree drop is much more severe.
Nah, not really. Neither the first, nor properly, e.g grafting. Not saying it is not good at that, but not even nixOS claims this as a main selling point.
Wall Street landlords who've stockpiled $110B are lying in wait for home-buying
Germany: Police surveillance software a legal headache
I agree with you, but I'd prefer to reinvent the wheel rather than audit an existing code base.
> Java programs assume GC

only users of long running programs assume GC, the program itself doesnt care.
Now it is fully integrated into DaVinci Resolve. Blackmagic Design bought Fairlight outright in 2016.
> Avoid jargon

I can get behind that.

Some words, like "hub" are, to me, so overused that they've lost all meaning.

Also there's a group of people who use jargon without understanding what they're saying, which would have been harmless if not for the positions they often have.
I gave up as well. Fell on hard times. Needed to take a job. Everything turned out great. My personal solution was to take all the humiliation and frustration, let it ripe and turn it into gratitude.

So I’m grateful for not having the responsibility of running the business and finding customers. I gladly take the pay cut that comes with that.

At this point of my life, I far more appreciate the positive feedback of „only“ a dozen colleagues coming my way and the success we share as a group.

…and as it turns out Steve also has something nice to say about us „not destitute” people. :D

https://twitter.com/nier/status/1606268364371869697
Is it possible to have this tool run locally and use it for myself? I don't see any instructions on the Readme, all I see are ways to set it up for development and ways to deploy it to some 3rd party cloud solutions.
Off the top of my head; UK startups that have grown and been successful (although many have now been bought out - which I guess is the exit plan for many founders anyway)

Just Eat, Deliveroo and The Hut Group; Monzo, Starling and Revolut, from another era, there's ARM.

I'm sure there's fintech ones (not a sector I know much about) and the guy who sits near me in the office, who has an AI-healthcare startup, says the Britain is very good at those too.
I briefly worked in the Swedish public sector that had at that point been pushing for plain language for a while.

The problem they encountered is that the government still needs to be able to specify what they mean with precision. So what happened is that common words became overloaded with specific and often non-obvious legal meanings.

People at large with no clue how to "speak government" still didn't understand what the government said, but instead of a bunch of known unknowns it turned the language into a minefield of unknown unknowns.

(This got at least some attention notice during the covid pandemic, during which there was clear miscommunication between the government which used 'recommendations' to mean a strong non-legal mandate, and parts of the public which took it to mean helpful tips, like a movie recommendation)
> too much for moms

I assume you are referring to the OP's post there but I did a double take because I know some extremely technical moms.
Elon Musk is this generations Steve Jobs. Like Jobs before him, Elon is a megalomaniac and has a huge ego. However, that doesn’t take away the fact that he single-handedly pushed society towards electric vehicles, just like Jobs did when Apple changed the smartphone with iPhone.
UK Government may seek to block [a Scottish] Bill
Is "my intuition" a euphemism for "I've read an Ayn Rand novel"?
Is the snark necessary?
Exactly how I felt after reading the post lol.
This. The better question is probably not why are those companies' stocks falling now, but why did they go so high before?

Tesla still has an MCAP of around 400bn - for comparison, Volkswagen has around 70bn.
Can confirm. Lived a very frugal early retirement lifestyle in Austria because it was practically impossible to build wealth (high taxes, comparatively very low tech salaries, little entrepreneurial support/incentives).

Moving to the US I was able to 5-6x my income (from what I could have realistically made) , while reducing my tax burden by 15 percentage points, and so I've been happily living a workaholics' lifestyle since.

Looking back, it really boggles my mind how much engineering potential is squandered in Europe. You'd have to be an idiot to want to work hard given how raw of a deal you are getting (work for almost 2 decades as an engineer just so you can afford the average one family home - what a joke!) and people understand that intuitively (hence pushing for ever fewer work hours or even days because what else is there if your salary is essentially capped and you quickly hit a 50 % tax rate (when combining income tax and social security) for every additional hour worked).

</rant>
Thanks to this comment, I found out about the twitter account @shit_hn_says, and what a finding.
Everything in life has different odds of happening, and when lower odds materialize, we call that "luck".

There are a number of comments saying very similar things to the top voted one: so it was indeed luck that their comment floated to the top among the many others. Perhaps they were there right when the story was posted (luck, right?) Perhaps they used exactly the trigger words that made others appreciate the comment (luck, right?).

The fact that there is a luck element to many things does not mean that those are unworthy pursuits. And it's ok to acknowledge the luck factor when it can dominate the results (i.e. you wouldn't talk about a lottery without considering luck).
> But no one cares about them. In comparison with MBB they have no cachet or prestige.

That’s 21 years old with delusion speech. The MBB are nice because they pay better and have a great alumni network. Still I can assure you that both the customers and employees of the other companies do care very much about what they actually do.

In the real world, no one gives a damn about the MBB. 99% of the population don’t know they exist and the rest of your promotion is too occupied living its own life to care about what you do. The whole prestige thing is just catnip for insecure graduates which is nice for the MBB recruitment pool that being said.
>4) Investors are genuinely concerned about the behavior of the Twitter CEO, who as we all know is the Tesla CEO. Is it really surprising that making bad decisions in one arena will affect outcomes in another?

Is he even doing any work as the Tesla CEO? He seems to be busy tweeting 24/7
The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces (2019)
Finding&nbsp;the next Log4j –&nbsp;OpenSSF’s Brian Behlendorf on pivoting to a
Ignore the JS bashing (it is deserved but irrelevant here).

I was referring to the part explaining the 2028-2040 METAL system where "we" gained 4% execution speed because we stuffed all things into a asm.js VM in kernel that can skip syscall overhead. But it's a joke video anyway.
People like to blame GDPR or the ePrivacy directive but GDPR explicitly states that cookies set for an essential purpose of the site are exempt from consent:

> Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies.

it further explains:

> [Strictly necessary cookies] are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Cookies that allow web shops to hold your items in your cart while you are shopping online are an example of strictly necessary cookies. These cookies will generally be first-party session cookies. While it is not required to obtain consent for these cookies, what they do and why they are necessary should be explained to the user.

Makes me wonder why we have all these cookie consent dialogs, either it's people playing it safe or they really do not set cookies for a true purpose.

if the latter: then all that's happened with GDPR is that we've been given visibility to the problem.. and it feels like everyone (including governments apparently) will adopt some measure of dark patterns to ensure they can still track people.
SQL doesn’t give you tools to break up code?? Err, I don’t agree there. I can think of four options just off the top of my head.

Simplest is to use WITH clauses (common table expressions/CTEs). They can help readability a lot and add a degree of composability within a query.

Second, you can split one query into several, each of which creates a temporary (or intermediate physical) table.

Third, you can define intermediate meaningful bits of logic as views to encapsulate/hide the logic from parents. For performance you materialize them.

Fourth, you can create stored procedures which return a result set and like any procedural or functional language chain or nest them.

These techniques are available in most databases. More mature databases support forms of recursion for CTEs or stored procedures or dynamic SQL.

As with most programming, proper decomposition and naming helps a fair bit.
TSLA overvaluation is based on the FSD myth which more investors stops believing in.
You don't have to believe in climate change to buy an electric vehicle. You might believe in energy independence, or you might just think it's going to work out cheaper.
Well, Black-Scholes has proved pretty useful. With the caveat that all models are wrong-- and most people using B-S know this.

Which is why actual option prices have the "smile", with tail prices being higher than the model would predict (because traders know that the model underestimates tail risk, and generally have a good sense of how far it underestimates it, because the model is fairly transparent).

Because B-S is closed form, you can run it backwards, to convert actual prices to an implied volatility.

Which is also known to be wrong, because historical standard deviations of returns are only somewhat predictive of future observed returns.

As one person put it, Black-Scholes is the wrong model, into which you put the wrong data, to get the right answer.
I'm aware. This time, SteamOS is much more mature and consumers are primed for such a move. Especially if it's more tightly controlled by Valve instead of allowing 3rd parties more leeway.
I also had pleasant interactions with dang. Thanks!

> Incidentally, it also gradually managed to cure me from free-speech absolutism. (By now, I think almost all Xisms and extremes are nonsense, but that‘s a different hot discussion to be had).

Just out of curiosity, were you in favour of absolute free-speech on a private forum like HN, or that there shouldn't be laws banning specific speech acts?
the UK (used) to have a reasonably comprehensive welfare net, and has a larger number of companies per capita compared to the USA.

One of the things that are never really discussed in these kind of things is that you are already paying for welfare, its just not even. Poverty leads to crime, which costs you, either in lost property, crap neighbourhoods, or in insurance.
whose issue is that??

unlike the US you can just leave and not pay.

it seems to me people outside countries with decent welfare have all of the issues?

something like give me private jets or let me starve by the side of the road, nothing in between must exist.

i actually enjoy paying for people playing video games all day while smoking weed and getting drunk while businesses scream how they cant find employees. Specially the combi self centered and assholes really cant find anyone anymore.

You have to pay what it costs to hire people. If the offer isn't competitive with not working you are going to have to pay more.

Long term employees are also leaving for better jobs.

ill gladly pay for the transition back to sanity.
Maybe not every month, but having hundreds of unique accounts is quite trivial to do. For example I manage dozens of accounts for friends and family for a variety of reasons. The fact that I don’t log into these accounts every month makes it even harder to remember them.

“Just have less accounts so you can remember your passwords!” is not real advice
Over 20 years, probably.
Dang, you're a model for my own communication style, a source of indirect advice for a project that I'm building (one day I'll be ready to reach out to you for direct advice), and someone I see as an example of a good human. Thank you!
So. A Minecraft is an OS? It runs userspace stuff (mods).

What you are missing is that Linux on Android doesn't do what a normal OS is supposed to do:

- multiplex hardware resources

- abstract hardware

- protect software running on it from each other

Last time Android tried to control user resources it led to a gross vulnerability, because it wasn't aware another piece of software was actually managing it.

It's essentially locked in the attic of Android, while everyone else is roleplaying that Linux is still the operating system.
OP needs to accept responsibility for his choices. Blaming it on other people for his choices doesn’t seem right.
Tesla is valued at nearly 2x that of Toyota and nearly 10x that of Ford, while struggling to produce a fraction of the cars. It is valued on the idea of growth but it has proven that growth isn’t happening. Also economic downturn. Also other manufacturers are introducing more sensible electric vehicles than they used to. Also Tesla has repeatedly had issues with build quality. It’s starting to catch up with them. Tesla is the My Space of electric cars. It’s necessary to get us over the hump but has no staying power of its own.

Meta has a huge generational problem. Their flagship products are Facebook and Instagram. Facebook is not used by gen Z at all. The writing is on the wall that FB will be a ghost town once millennials turn into ghosts. Instagram is maybe 10 years behind. So Meta is chasing TikTok without realizing that gen Z isn’t using that either and also without realizing what TikTok actually is. Also Meta is bizarrely chasing virtual reality stuff and failing so far to provide any kind of value prop.
For me I found the harder I worked the luckier I got. There are opportunities everywhere and it takes a long time of trial and error to get it right. It is not for everyone. Very few succeed in a linear or parabolic trajectory.

The OP should be proud of their efforts. This was a learning experience that will absolutely help them in the future. Think of this as finishing a super tough college course and passing. On to the next phase.
I agree, there are physical compromises that will have to be made for removable batteries. The phone will be bulkier or have a smaller battery and the overall design more complex even more so to achieve the same waterproofness.

Meanwhile I have never replaced a battery in my iPhones, they have all lasted years, more recent ones with optimized charging seem like no noticeable degradation.

This kind of law would be similarly idiotic in EV's now they can't use structural batteries to lower weight? Why isn't there a law mandating easily removable gas tanks in cars?

There were plenty of phones with removable batteries for many years. They left the market because there is barely a market for them. Once you have multiple day battery life and batteries that last 5+ years with little degradation in slim fully waterproof designs nobody cares about swapping batteries easily, take it in to the shop if the fuel tank needs replacing or trade it in for a new one.
I'm glad this is happening this early in the tech's advances so that we have time to legislate over it.

With megacorps owning bigger and bigger chunks of everything, these sorts of bans will start having deep effects on peoples lives.

Imagine being banned from all grocery chains within 200 miles because the parent corp that owns all grocery stores in the area decided that it doesn't like you.