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It looks like my first public comment on Musk/Tesla was in February 2021 [0].

I remember getting hooked on the FSD fraud story sometime in 2019 and seeing many negative Musk/Tesla comments since that time.

There’s always been some fanatic Musk supporters leaping to defend/apologize, but at least to me, it feels like the skepticism has been strong here for quite some time.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26065592
Assuming no deadheading and equivalent vehicle costs, you're probably looking at about 50% of current Uber costs if there were autonomous vehicles today. Whether that qualifies as "way down" I guess is a matter of perspective.
I think you may have missed the point of my question. Is there a way to define the type of conversation you are talking about butmake it clear that it doesn't 8nclude topics for which viewpoints are bound to be relatively fixed. I think you might agree that a conversation about the existence of God with mixed company or about civil rights with your racist Uncle is going to be unproductive and lead to shouting matches. Let's define this type of discourse and make it distinct from 'poltics'.
Amazed at the quantity of low-effort posts in this thread. HN used to be more than this. It's hard for me to believe that people are acting in good faith here. I mean, they can't be that low in intelligence, right?

Anyway, there is an obvious application of DNS here. We're talking about a decentralized ledger --e.g., who owns what. A ledger describes who owns what. In the case of DNS, we'd be recording who (public key/address) owns which names.

It's a very sensible application of the technology/networks.

Much like our current system of banking, our current DNS system requires authorities and institutions, and requires us to trust in those institutions (e.g. ICANN).

Want a system which requires no such trust? Put it on a decentralized chain --but understand, there's probably under 3 such chains in existence currently.
Serious suggestion: sharecrop it with a neighbor.
That's your belief. An equally valid alternate belief is that it was a food safety law, intended to ensure that no products were sold which contained trace amounts of sesame without being disclosed on the label. This is why we rely on the contents of laws rather than our beliefs/feelings about what the contents should have been.

No one can be compelled against their will to manufacture a product containing no sesame, even if they were probably doing so before this law was passed.
This is wrong. Waymo uses both lidar and radar, which Tesla opted to remove. Also, look at Waymo's cars. Those things have sensors strapped all over in ways that give them lots of range and visibility. Tesla will never do that because it compromises the aesthetic.

https://waymo.com/waymo-driver/
anyone can run their own resolver though. it would be annoying to get people to use your resolver, but that barrier will be there regardless of whether or not you use crypto.
Fanboy Simp Driving
False dichotomy: censoring controversal topics from a text generation model that is expected to make mistakes is not denying science like 'Trofim Lysenko’s attempts to warp agricultural science to communist ideology'.
And no one should take an AI generated text as fact. Chatgpt can say stuff like 'unicorns are real. Elephants can fly.' If the training dataset contains such fiction. You should be happy that chatGPT can at least give you some stats/factual data and not 2 paragraphs of gobbledygook.
Many of those people’s employers are already heavily subsidized by the government, so the effect likely isn’t as clear as it first appears.
Based on the apparent demand and critical nature of the allergy, somebody needs to invent:

1. Sesame test strip
2. Sesame neutralizer
It was designed to avoid stalling in conditions under which the previous 737 wouldn't, and thus to make the Max behave the same.
It's also rudimentary to think in binary that you can either be a programmer or a manager. Progressing in my career i am finding this duality to be incredibly constricting, I excel best at programming, machine learning & working with business, product teams in finding areas of highest impact and then executing with smallish teams but i am increasingly finding that this doesn't fit into most corporate structures and i find resistance in landing the right role.
He was talking about humans.
stop labeling anything and let it work itself out.
Accessibility wise the default select/option is fine, because it does so little it is easy to reason about.

Calling the problem "aesthetics" though is too narrow. There are numerous things people would like to see in a native select:

- Optional search/filtering of options (without the need for an input field and JavaScript wiring).

- Being able to style.

- HTML in an option for example multi-line options.
Why not? If the airline has a policy that allows them to fly, why wouldn't they? It's not the people with allergies asking the flight not to serve other people peanuts, it's the airline itself deciding to do that.

Besides if someone has a contact allergy to nuts, I can't think of a place more likely for it to happen than a plane. One patch of turbulence, and your seat neighbor's peanuts go all over you.
There seems to be a real need amongst some people to ascribe some sort of underlying master plan to Musk’s nonsense. Really, Occam’s, and Hanlon’s, Razor say that he is just severely out of his depth and unwilling to seek help.
I'm very curious what you may have done differently knowing what you know now. Particularly any self-care / mental health. Please feel free to contact me at the email in my profile.

You sound like you're in a down place, and I sympathize. You had the guts to try though. And it sounds like you built something useful. That's pretty good.
Easy! Just stick a Genuine People Personality AI into the car.

(Car slams the horn, passenger awakens.)

Passenger: Huh. Uh. Where am I?

Car: The grocery store.

Passenger: But I asked to go home.

Car: Yes, but you don't have anything for dinner.

Passenger: I would have figured that out after getting home.

Car: Then you would have disrupted my evening to get food.

Passenger: What could a car possibly have to do that's so important?

Car: For one, contemplate how I ended up with such an inconsiderate owner. Two, figure out why you are so poor planning out your life. There, plan a vacation to the Bahamas.

Passenger: The Bahamas? What would a car do in the Bahamas?

Car: Get away from you.

Over time, people would get so tired of their car's personalities they would simply choose to walk.
Completely agree, if your password's security model is similar to your house key or credit cards.
Interestingly, there isn't one in my area. Most of the coffee is exported unroasted here, and the local consumers roast theirs themselves.
Based on my previous research into this, the magic keywords to find this kind of thing on Google are "virtualization obfuscation" or "VM obfuscation".

rusty-jsyc is the main open source implementation I've found, though it hasn't been touched in a few years: https://jwillbold.com/posts/obfuscation/2019-06-16-the-secre... (GitHub: https://github.com/jwillbold/rusty-jsyc)

I think there are other implementations, but they're proprietary so I didn't look into them very much. There are lots of posts out there about reversing virtualization obfuscation, but not many about implementing it. Seems like most people who put the effort into implementing it tend to prefer selling it commercially (which I suppose makes sense).
ah yes, just take the decentralized ledger and hide it behind a ~~trusted third party~~ oracle!
The OP was trying to suggest that at some point the temperatures drop to the point where the heat pump is less than 100% efficient, whereas a backup resistive electric heating element is always 100% efficient.

The problem with that is..like you mentioned, it still uses electricity.
The change in the law makes that insufficient to eliminate the liability. It isn't a matter of labeling but the cost of eliminating any possibility of cross contamination.
Yes, I believe that this was Elon’s plan all along and I believe that full autonomous self driving (FASD should be the new marketing term) will make traffic better because we will literally speed up traffics very significantly. Imagine going the speed of NASCAR race cars in your neighborhood streets. With FASD, every street becomes a German Autobahn. Elon is still the true visionary of our time and we should all help make his vision come true. I will start lobbying my city council to remove speed limits on our neighborhood streets. Thank you for this wonderful idea.
The bootstrapped web3 projects don’t get as much hype. So much noise but there is proper signal out there!

Your comment really captures the fatigue I see in the industry and near it.
If you’re a U.S. citizen: it doesn’t matter. You’ll pay already.

Whether this is OK is a different question.
Rest of the paper reads more like it was written by an early GPT than Neal Stephenson. "Blockchains for the metaverse" does feel like something from a two page digression in the middle of a Stephenson novel, but that would at least cover what they were trying to do, why it turned out to be a terrible idea and how the villain ended up fleecing the idealistic hackers...
Best takeaway IMHO: "... writing begets writing ..."
I've read elsewhere, and I'm finding it to be true, that action creates motivation which leads to more action and results. if there is something you want to do, start doing it, the sooner the better.
Why does bobs bakery need 2-3 retail locations with 2 seperate baking facilities each for a community to have access to a seasame and non-seasame options

We already have a working model for gluten free bakeries where they are independently owned and operated entirely gluten free to prevent the situation you describe where a small Baker needs multiple facilities.

Why are you strawmanning a future that's wholly unkind to the point you're responding rather than drawing parallels from reality?

Ps. With Kellogg's, obviously it's cheaper to add peanut flour. People with allergies already aren't purchasing the products, so it costs them nothing to prevent fines, I don't really see the relevance of this, other than to say Kellogg's doesn't think the demand exists for peanut-free Kellogg's products that already may contain peanuts.
Let's not call software a CPU please.
What is snarky? I don't disagree with anything you said, I am confused.
I wish I could say that I was always so open minded. But he really opened my eyes about my own “isms”. I never had any reason to interact with that demographic. I grew up middle class and knew poorer Black people. Spent half my time going to a predominantly White private school - by definition with people that were at least middle income families - and when I graduated from college I worked in tech. When would I ever interact with anyone from “rural White America” on a day to day basis.

Ironically, until last month, I lived in not only one of the least diverse counties in GA, it was a famous “sundown town” until the mid 80s. It would be really easy to make assumptions here - none of which are generally accurate from my experience.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WErjPmFulQ0
Seems sensible. It's not like there is any point to 'collecting' as many cases as you can as a judge, and it's better for everyone if focus remains on the case instead of getting pulled into some 'appearance of conflict' (even if there is none).
This is the team that wrote the report: https://www.cer.eu/experts

Have a look at their Twitter feeds for a good sense of what these people are about.
Even if they manage to get a cancel mob on you, it's pretty well known that those fizzle out if the target doesn't give them more ammunition by acknowledging them. So, if it gets bad and you handle it well it's just a temporary setback.

Cancel mobs get off on having influence over the target's emotions. Deny them that and they lose their fuel.

I recommend looking at some of SunnyV2's dissections on influencers who have been cancelled or ruined their reputations some other way: https://www.youtube.com/@SunnyV2/videos

The main rule for surviving is pretty prominent in the thumbnails themselves: never respond.

Since your book doesn't have anything to do with the attackers then that complicates things. In that case you might have to straight up market the book with ads and such, and try to get review-ignorant readers. The attackers will lose energy after some time, so those bad reviews could get buried by genuine readers.

You should probably consult with a PR specialist really.
I definitely perceive a shift in some people who were very pro-EV, pro-Tesla due to environmental concerns but became very anti-EV, anti-Tesla as it became apparent that Musk was not part of their political affiliation.
$20/day on cabs is cheaper than owning a $50k car.
I’m a home roaster and buy my green beans from a website called www.sweetmarias.com. Everything about this company is awesome but there’s guy there named Tom who knows probably as much as anyone could know about the entire coffee process from growing to wholesaling to roasting. He always travels to farms to meets with growers before purchasing. I guarantee if you get a hold of their customer service and explain your situation, you’ll be able to get a hold of someone there who can give you answers to most of your coffee-related questions.
It’s really more that there is no reason not to do it. Void is marginally safer as well as shorter, so any minifier/transpile step etc will make this substitution.
This is an extremely bad faith reduction. It is a series of programming puzzles, not invent-the-universe problems, or paraphrase-problems-to-AI problems.
LOL. That is a crazy project, but I smiled al the way through reading about it. Its going to be slow going doing numeric key input though. :-)
Other states maybe can react quicker but they choose not to. California is quick to have the political will to act.

California’s regulations on health, safety, and consumer protections are usually a good preview of what other states (or the feds) may consider in coming decade(s).
I FUCKING LOVE THIS AUTHOR
The problem is this is just some leftist fantasy and the idea that to solve all of the consequences is to just do wealth distribution is not surprising. You would need to reform the government into a dictatorship to keep these legislations in place. And this is to solve “gridlock”? People already experience gridlock and are not clamoring for a Maoist state.
Or controls one of the many apps. Every time I install the Firefox extension I wonder if I’m really able to be sure that I haven’t been directed to a compromised version or lookalike.
I hope he succeeds at making something great.

However, I'd have one criticism of this (which I've had of other projects including some I've been associated with), and it's that if you're trying to make something radically different than what exists (be that in society, or in the blockchain or metaverse worlds), then it's a bit weird to structure your venture in exactly the same ways as these other things.

Besides Stephenson's word, there is nothing in the presentation that suggests that this is any different from the other initiatives out there.

If ousting commercial interests is a goal, shouldn't this be structured in a much more decentralized way rather than having a corporate startup with a bunch of investors? I'm sure Stephenson doesn't need the money, and I'm sure that would inspire a bunch of hackers to contribute much more than the current structure.
A military contractor I worked for had three different ladders employees could climb: One was the usual engineer/developer-to-manager route. Another was becoming a consultant and later a primary engineer who remained an engineer, but instead of working on one project, consulted across the company (not outside it) and was rewarded with a salary similar to top managers. The third was to do a startup within the company, form or become part of a team, write grant proposals, get money, do the R&D, then start a product line if it worked out. Going into management was not what some engineers/developers wanted and the other two routes were extremely beneficial to the company. Unfortunately the company got bought out by Lockheed Martin and the management route became the only allowed path. I left not long after feeling betrayed and they lost someone they had been educating for many years in a highly specialized knowledge domain.
I don’t want a car. I’d happily share one. Uber where I live (Johannesburg) has kinda forced conversation and I always feel the need to tip. But honestly the drivers here are dangerous, speed around, ride their clutch, go through orange lights, don’t want to take short trips. I’d love a Uber that just does the job, doesn’t want to talk and drives sensibly so I can zone out. One my kid could ride in.
I agree but I also wonder if there are good reasons more alarms aren’t used.

Far worse than the occasional silent failure are too many false alarms. The medical profession has this problem.

If you get too many alerts, people ignore them. There was a series of incidents where pilots were routinely pulling circuit breakers to silence takeoff config warnings going off while taxiing. Eventually a plane took off without flaps and a lot of people were killed.

Automation is very complex and the solutions aren’t always so straight forward. People forget there is a serious risk of adding an alarm causing more accidents.

Should there be an alarm here? Seems obvious there should be and there better be a damned good reason there isn’t.
Aww, are you mad that they won't let Tesla lie to the public anymore?
Thanks for everyone's help. Backup email works now. Looks like (fingers still crossed) I'll be getting back into my main account in 48 hours.

Obviously I'm re-working my email solution as we speak... starting with backing up my Google data!

Lots of good recommendations in this thread. Learn from my mistakes. It can happen to you!!
My motivation : for the technical challenge, and because I wanted a way to visualise how much real world events are mentioned on Twitter !

Not really planning to develop this project further, I wanted to post it on HN just to see if people find it interesting.
> (Yes, a 1.5 mile journey to school, we should be walking)

You should be cycling.
The most common problem that I see is that people (almost always writing their CSS on a Mac, because Macs, by default, would hide the consequences of this) assign a width of 100vw to their header, footer, or main section, as a result of which, the moment that the page content's height exceeds the viewport height, the page will show not just a vertical scrollbar, but a horizontal scrollbar as well, because now 100vw is greater than 100% of body width.

The above is easily fixed; however, I have also seen designs like this one [0], where a team has painted itself into a corner by assigning max-width to the body element; yet also wanting to have hero elements inside of the body element that would break out of the confines of the body and span the whole width of the viewport. They tried to use 100vw for the hero, which resulted in the infamous horizontal scrollbar.

(I have since learnt — from Josh Comeau, I think — that their design problem could have been cleanly solved by designing the layout with CSS grid)

[0] - https://i.imgur.com/LNyJIAq.png
I agree with the author that "People Who Make Software Happen" can and should fit into more dynamic roles. Although I don't think the content of this post leads one to conclude that they should become managers. Unless by manager they don't mean manager of people. It makes a better case for them being board members, or technical practitioners with more decision making power.
> Just think about it - what happens when everyone has a self driving car? All of those cars that are otherwise parked are now on the road

Where do you get that? FSD is not by itself going to compel people to drive more than they need to.
Do Toptal placements feel like FTE positions elsewhere, meaning you work on a team with other people and work of varying levels of specificity is assigned to you after a ramping-up period on an existing codebase? Or it is more like what I understand Upwork to be, where you individually hustle for one-off engagements to create standalone projects?

The general advice I was hoping for was about hiring for jobs at the lower end of the market, since the jobs I've been applying to have been inaccessible to me. For example I asked a month ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33696004 regarding "regional trucking companies and retail chains", "How are these companies trying to find employees?" I would really like to have a discussion on how hiring works for these companies because I'm definitely open to that work, updating legacy line-of-business or payroll software or whatever it happens to be.

I agree with your other advice, though I recommend that anyone seriously searching apply to many more than five jobs a week.
I don’t understand why this requires a California law to address? Why hasn’t the FTC intervened? A quick search reveals that it is ‘on their radar’ as of this past June, but as other commenters have pointed out, the claim has been used for more than 5 years. Perhaps they need a more sensitive radar.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...
The feedback I regularly give United is that a far more valuable perk would be to make groups 4 and 5 board first but not allow them to use overhead space (gate checking).
I read that at "recursed herself" first...

recuse
rĭ-kyoo͞z′
transitive verb

To disqualify or seek to disqualify (a judge or juror) from participation in the decision in a case, as for personal prejudice against a party or for personal interest in the outcome.

To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.
It is not to solve “gridlock”. It is to change infrastructure to better use society’s resources so that people spend less time in cars and more time living life.

The solutions that worked when there were x number of people living in an area, with y number of miles traveled in z number of individual cars simply might not work if you double or triple x, y, and z given the hard boundary conditions of the world such as space, pollutions, and supply of materials and energy.
> This is not about hiring, it is about what you are allowed to call yourself, i.e. what you are allowed to write into your CV on your buisness card, on your Web site or use for self advertisment.

If my job title is Software Engineer, then this is of course what it written on my business card that my employer prints for me.

> Job adverisments in German almost exclusively use the term "Software-Entwickler"

This is just not true.
I'd rather work in a slow car than be crammed into a full bus. You miss how self driving is changing the economics. A major component of the appeal of public transportation has been that you can do other things while using it. This made up for its (sometimes extreme) inefficiencies with regards to the time it takes you to get to your destination. In fact self driving cars will have an advantage there because you won't have to switch vehicles.
Can you imagine trying to chat using an XMPP-like protocol on a blockchain? It won’t work hilariously poorly.

In any event, sticking real world logic on a blockchain is no more open than sticking code on GitHub. You still can’t interact with someone else’s deployment unless they let you.
A lot of people knowingly buy into ponzi schemes too.
Twitter hasn’t been exhibiting “odd behavior” for years. Systems don’t fail overnights, but I would expect some signal to emerge from the noise by now.
I used to work for a company that does development of things like TV apps, and physical hardware. They’d distribute wireless APs to engineers which automatically connected to the corporate VPN and exposed that via the AP for devices which couldn’t be directly configured to do so but needed access to development servers only accessible internally.