skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hope Musk is getting $50,000,000,000 worth of joy from owning Twitter, or whatever it’s cost him directly and indirectly.
My mother has been in the market for a new car for the last few months. I was keen on a Tesla until the shitposter in chief took the reins. We bought an Audi last week instead.
For me it’s about firing half the Twitter staff in a ridiculous way (print out your code!) and generally him behaving like a crazy entitled asshole. I would be fine owning a fun vehicle that a few people didn’t like because it was wasteful or a weird statement in one way or another but at this point everyone has an opinion about elon and it’s not like very many of them are positive. I don’t want to get mixed up in being asked to defend the antics of a deranged billionaire because of the car I own.

I’m in the market for a car and Tesla definitely lost some ground in the running because of the perceived hassle of having to defend my decision to buy supporting his behavior.

But to be honest, I can’t drive any Tesla to visit my parents without stopping to charge, especially in the winter so it’ll be a few years until I actually consider an electric car.
Yeah, I got some hobbies. Reconnected with old friends. Starting working out and taking care of myself a lot better. I was way too emotionally tied up in my job when I was working for big corporations. I got kind of lucky cause I work with a good group of people and even when we're remote we interact all day long-I do wish we went into the office more though

Nice thing about contracting is the hiring process is a lot more streamlined, and there's no expectation you'll stay for years. So, when you're feeling better, you can move on to a regular job again
For environmental reasons alone, yeah private jets are wildly unethical.
Either way, it’s not relevant for withdrawal guidelines because the relevant statistic is life expectancy at retirement age, not life expectancy at birth.

Things like ODs mostly impact those who aren’t yet of retirement age, so they don’t effect the parts of the actuarial tables used for retirement calculations.
How?! How did you get PyGame not to be so brutally slow? Is it basically that all the graphics are done separately and pygame only offers up IO and game loop?

This is just brilliant and wonderful and beautiful. The premise of this game is just amazing.
If you want to have kids, now is the time. Seems like you’re in a great position to do it right and it will almost certainly fill the hole you’re feeling.
> It's important to preserve modernist and brutalist architecture

Not really. Brutalism was a mistake, and one building is enough to remind us what it was. Maybe a scale model in a museum is enough.
How does this average to 62%?

Also, Tesla went up a lot. It seems only fair to also compare the upward trend like saying from 2020pr 2019 or something.
I have for some time suspected that I was somehow sensitive to artificial sweeteners, so I have largely stopped consuming them. I don't have a good description of what happens, but something is off either the next day or the day after, if I drink a large bottle of Pepsi Max for example.
That theory doesn't match with the evidence we have at all. The Pauline letters (the ones considered authentic) show us that there were many early leaders, some of whom clashed with Paul, as well as many different factions of Christian, some of whom Paul disagreed with. 1 Corinthians, for instance, he's talking about different Christians (or rather, proto-Christians) saying they're the followers of different leaders. You also see Paul as a late comer to the movement really try to defend himself as being considered an apostle. And one really has to twist Paul's words to say he's treating Christ as a merely celestial being (Paul even talks about Christ's human brother).

You're also claiming that the proto-Christians weren't working within a messianic Jewish framework (which the academic view of early Christianity fits nicely), but a completely different framework that we neither have evidence of before and that completely disappears afterwards.

Speaking of completely disappearing afterwards - Paul's letters are from ~50 AD, Mark is ~70 AD. So you have still have to posit a massive and seemingly unified (even though the early Christians were hardly unified) agreement to adopt the human narrative, since soon after we get a lot of information about heresies, and lots of criticisms about Christianity, but no one is aware that it (supposedly) was as a completely separate religion within living memory.

It's just a very strange theory, one that posits a completely different religion suddenly appearing and disappearing, and seems to be based solely on ignoring most of the content of the Pauline letters, twist the words of some of the others, and just making up the rest whole clothe. It's about as historical as Dan Brown's version of Christianity, and has as much scholarly support.
“What is a person with somewhat varied skills??” I scream as I smash my debit card number into my keyboard to buy a domain for this concept that I’ve just invented. I smile slyly at my partner, a meth pipe.
past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21813200

repo of scripts mentioned: https://github.com/narkoz/hacker-scripts
I’ve always wondered: does the carriage return key on an actual teletype machine do CR+LF in one button press? I know these were separate levers on old typewriters, but it seems like the “return” key has always done both.
That "exhaustive" list doesn't include Helix[1], an editor with more than 400 contributors and 17k GitHub stars, which has been in development for close to three years, and which is probably more widely used already than 95% of the editors on that list ever were.

[1] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
A stock that never rose on fundamentals (Tesla stock at its peak valuation was more than GM and Ford combined, their fundamentals were never that good) will also fall regardless of fundamentals.

If the argument is about Tesla stock was worth that because of future expectations, then this fall can just be equally described as based on future expectations. Tesla still has a 33.7 P/E ratio, it could still fall another 50% again before the valuation is "worth it" depending on what metric you personally decide to base your investments.
> For example, all greek mysteries purported to come from a real teacher, but in most cases these were gods, i.e., not real people.

None of the ancient Greek mystery religions claimed a recent human founder as their central figure. Their central figures were almost all deities, not humans; even when they occasionally centred on a human, it was a hero who lived in the distant uncertain past, not someone who lived at a defined recent historical moment. By contrast, the four canonical Gospels all agree that Jesus was executed while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea (between 26/27 and 36/37 CE), and it seems likely those Gospels were composed within a century of that date.

> There is really no evidence of a christian sect forming in Jerusalem at the time of the supposed death of Jesus.

The New Testament is evidence. To be clear, a historical text claiming X is evidence for X. Now, we can argue about how whether it is strong evidence or weak evidence, but either way it is still evidence. And of course, accepting the text as evidence, doesn't mean we have to accept all of its claims as equal in evidential weight, especially those of a miraculous or supernatural nature. If a text makes a mixture of claims, some historically plausible, and others which are (from a purely secular perspective) extraordinarily improbable, it is reasonable to judge its evidential strength as being much higher with respect to the former claims than with respect to the later.

> Christianity appeared for all purposes in the Greek Asian Minor, pushed by someone who called himself Paul, and all the writings we have are from Greek-speaking composers.

The vast majority of scholars accept Galatians as an authentic work of Paul. In Galatians 1-2, he claims the "Jesus Christ" movement which he propagates pre-existed his conversion to it, and he reports visiting its leadership in Jerusalem. So this is evidence that a "Jesus Christ" movement existed in Jerusalem prior to Paul's conversion to it.

> The idea that Christianity goes back to a Jesus and his followers in Judea seems to be a romantic idea used by the real founders of the movement to make it older than it really was.

In order for that to be true, either (1) Galatians is not an authentic letter of Paul, (2) Galatians has been tampered with to insert material claiming Paul visited the pre-existing proto-Christian community at Jerusalem, (3) Paul was lying. While none of that is impossible, it seems less likely than that Paul really did join a pre-existing religious sect headquartered in Jerusalem. In particular, while I'm no expert at biblical Greek, scholars argue that there is no textual evidence in support of (1) or (2).

Saying that Pauline Christianity had its origins in a pre-existing proto-Christian sect headquartered in Jerusalem, is not denying that Paul took it in some innovative theological directions, such that it ended up with significant differences from that starting point. One obvious difference–apparent from Paul's own writings–is a much greater distance from Judaism, moving beyond being a sect of Judaism and towards becoming an entirely distinct religion.
> I wonder how much Musks behavior on Twitter over the last months impacted the Tesla brand

Probably a lot. Musk is too closely associated with the brand. For many people, Tesla is Musk and Musk is Tesla.

They've been called "Muskmobiles" in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if people also started to call them "Twitter cars".
Here in NL they are still trying to sell them:

https://www.toyota.nl/modellen/mirai

The only non-commercial electric model they sell right now is the 'Proace City Verso', and it's not exactly a sales success. There is the BZ4X in the works (what a name) but you can only reserve it, they don't actually have them yet, production was halted, resumed, then halted again and they had a recall before they even shipped them (I don't know how that is even possible, the cause: wheel fell off).

https://www.toyota.nl/modellen/proace-city-verso-electric/bu...

The rest is - from what I can see - all hybrids, with minimal batteries. No Prius, Yaris, Aygo or Corolla with all electric drive, which would be an instant sales success. Their 2023 lineup? More hybrids. Meanwhile VW is on their second iteration of their all-electric line with four models across a broad spectrum.
Just install Blind and start complaining about your TC
Devices should offer a quick way too disable the feature for a limited amount of time, so that people don't forget to turn it back on. Like it's possible with Do Not Disturb features. Perhaps that could be called Action Mode.
When I was barely scraping by on a consulting startup, simultaneously trying to build commercial popularity of a small technical niche, I was working on a unique book for practitioners. (It also required that I write some tooling, to fill in the gaps in a practitioners' story.)

So I asked a published author from that community what I should expect. They said their book paid for a nice bicycle. And they were able to do it on the side, from a comfortable career position.

Although I think my book could've quickly grown a few times the number of commercial adopters in the niche, which then conceivably might've been the critical mass needed to start growing actual significant commercial uptake market share, I couldn't afford to focus full-time on it. So my strategy was to work on it on the side, but then additional speedbumps were thrown in the way, so I abandoned it.

This 1,000 True Fans is a handy idea to keep in mind, and difficult even for an established musician like Robert Rich's story in TFA. "Will I have 1,000 True Fans, paying $100/yr.? Or 10K paying $10/yr.? No? Then this is not going to be sustainable on its own."
Forbidding writing in jedi as religion in the national census rolled forward 200 years with continuing uses, or spaghetti monster photo ID found by future archaeologists.

Roll forward 2000 years and people discussing Spielberg and Lucas's accounts as conflicting along with palimpsest of Alex Guinness' Biography
Isn't this the jack of all trades?
If you want a clickbait video that describes the situation well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c
Hetzner Box offers are very affordable compared to the very high prices of rsync.net.
ChatGPT in College Engineering Courses: One Professor's Perspective
The men who walked on the moon faced a terrible challenge: what do you do afterwards? Surely, everything else won't stack up to... Ya know. Walking on the moon. (You can read their biographies. It was a struggle for them.) Perhaps you might relate -- successfully selling a business is a significant life achievement. But... What next?

Personally, I've observed a lot of people here at HN invest a significant portion of their lives and significance into their careers and companies they found. But then -- a story similar to yours, their career or company is taken from them, and an existential crisis hits.

Speaking as Christian and an engineer -- Paul made tents for a living, but Paul did not live to make tents. Paul lived to share the gospel, something of eternal significance. I've found, as he has, that this investment is far more worthwhile than anything else I've ever done with engineering. I hope I won't lose my job any time soon. But even if I do, it's not my life's work. The book of Ecclesiastes is a magnificent read in this regard.

Congratulations on your wedding, and sale of your business! I'm sorry to hear the acquisition didn't go as well as it should have. Hoping the best for you in 2023, my DMs are open on Twitter if you want to chat!
It doesn't. It only sends LF. The tty line discipline patches that up.

Edit: LF, not CR, but its not universally like that.
Don’t try. It will come if you just follow your whims and don’t commit to anything. You’re not burnt out from programming. You’re burnt out from delivering, which is a totally different and much more demanding framing of the activity. When you have to stay laser focused for so long, it takes its toll. It’s the opportunity costs. You don’t get to do what you want, and your body and mind are not ready to go through that again.

Don’t try. Just do what interests you until it doesn’t anymore. There’s nothing wrong with that.
It helps you when you need to call 911 quickly but maybe can't talk freely or something dangerous will happen to you (E.g. domestic violence, Assault, etc).
The Pixel will transmit your location and also inform 5 emergency contacts, start a camera stream etc (depending on what you configured).
It's also not enabled by default so you must have enabled it
Is this really news or is it being posted as snark at Elon?

Most of the market is down, outside of energy and defense sectors. Tech and tech related things have taken a massive hit. Tesla was massively overvalued on future sales. Given we going to a recession predicted as hard landing, its within reason this stock drops and more than Toyota, honda etc

But sure, Tesla is suffering because elon is too focused on Twitter.

feels more to me like corporate news media and progressive allies have a fight with elon. they wanted him to close the Twitter deal, then they were upset elon got rid of the woke crowd running the company. now now i keep hearing Twitter is about to collapse and Tesla is collapsing, all because of elon.

i don’t buy this narrative. Nope. and from the corporate news media reports, i had a fairly negative perception of this guy until i saw his interviews and on some podcasts. he’s brash but ultimately he threatens publishing industry with what he might do at Twitter. corporate media fears him and almost has a 24/7 section devoted to him and his companies, just to get ahead in case he knives them like trump did.
Saw this earlier today (apologies for the eye-bleeding all-caps) - https://twitter.com/gurgavin/status/1607809970082299906?s=46...

Some interesting times ahead if we start seeing some mass sell-offs triggered.
That would be the case if he weren't in charge of both companies, but he is. The actions of a company's CEO reflects on the company, as it should. They want to pull all the strings, so they get to shoulder all the responsibility as well. If the CEO of a company you're invested in starts acting erratically, it doesn't matter where they're doing it, it's going to affect your investment.
Hahaha thanks, this made me legitimately laugh out loud
A mobile phone has a maximum power of 3W, the antenna is not directive and it's using frequencies in VHF bands. A Starlink satellite is orbiting at 400km.

As ham, I am seeing this communication very very difficult: even if it's LoS, mobile communications require high bitrates.
It's his doing, and with the year about to end there probably won't be a conventional landmark like 75%
I think I was saying "it's superior for solving this problem" (based on context, OP's problem) and you're saying "the problem is uncommon in the streaming era" (different context, not OP's proiblem.) I don't find any disagreement.
Self-awareness is powerful. It's interesting, I can't think of anything except alcohol where almost everyone agrees a 'sober October' or 'dry January' is a good idea. It's almost like booze is more dangerous than its level of social acceptance would indicate.
I dunno, I've heard/read it and it is pretty bad - "What are you doing this weekend?" is about as tone-deaf as you can get towards a homeless person.
As a wildcard person, one thing not mentioned is they need to be complemented by at least one type A, no-nonsense delivery manager who can block their say-yes-to-everything attitude, help them prioritize and focus, and ensure the "boring stuff" like test suites and status reports are flowing.

Together this tandem can do truly great things.
A huge part of Tesla's value is based on their brand. They have great manufacturing capabilities that incumbent automakers struggle to compete against, but if a large portion of their target market stops wanting to buy a Tesla because they feel like doing so is giving their endorsement to someone who behaves in erratic and alarming ways, then their cars aren't going to enjoy such a large profit margin going forward. They might make just as many cars as they would otherwise, but the business is worth less than it would be if they could sell at higher prices.
Another similar input problem: when you can't manually type the country code in the phone field and have to scroll through the a dropdown menu just to choose the right set of numbers. Even if you know it.
In your example I think it's more like "If you don’t stop stealing, the country will find a way to force you."
Yes, I think the article's goal is to rebrand the jack in a more positive light. "jack of all trades" takes on a generally negative connotation when you recall the rest of the phrase "...master of none".

Personally, I think one can become a master of a few things and a jack of many if one taps into the marvelous power of analogy and free association. It's literally a super power of the human brain that few people utilize. We're not meant to think linearly in most cases. Linear thinking is a necessary evil when solving already prescribed and well understood problem and a prison and barrier in all other cases.
It sounds like you’re describing loneliness, and objectively you mean aloneness. You can be lonely without being alone.
What word could be the opposite of wildcard in this context?
> Well, linguistically speaking, adding the suffix "-less" to a word implies "without", in English.

It's also frequently an exaggeration and I doubt most people who heard "I'm penniless" or "It's endless" would think "they have zero money" or "this will continue until I die (and beyond)".
I noticed that someone with a bunch of O2 parts seems to have finally given up and started lower the prices. I've bought a new CD driver cover (they break notoriously easily) and a long coveted 300mhz CPU upgrade. I haven't gotten around to installing them yet though. I haven't used the machine in about 12-15 years.

I probably should be keeping an eye out for maxing out my Octane and Fuel as well now before it is really too late.
I think what you're going through right now is a lack of meaning. You had a clear meaning, purpose, and drive when you were working on your startup. All of that gradually dissolved as the startup was acquired, the pandemic started, and you got more isolated from the things you care about doing and the people you care about working with. A messy cofounder relationship doesn't help there, either.

I'm not unfamiliar with this feeling, actually. I've had occasional stints of depression and one of the biggest hallmarks of feeling depressed is a total lack of meaning. Nothing seems interesting. Every idea I come up with feels shallow and lame, or feels like it won't make a difference in the way that I want. If I can actually come up with any ideas at all. You mention a lack of passion as well, but I feel that they kinda feed off each other - finding meaning means finding passion, finding passion means finding meaning, etc.

I say that two emphasize two things.

First, I don't believe your current state of meaningless-ness is permanent. Nor is it impossible to control. It is illusory, and if you work on the root cause, then you will find that you can in fact control how meaningful you find things. Meaningless-ness will fade away. So how do you do that?

Well, second, I suspect you might be mildly depressed. This is not actually too surprising to me, though I can imagine it would be surprising to you since you illustrated a lot in your post about how outwardly good your life looks. It does look good from the outside! But really there is a good deal of change and upheaval there, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it took you some time to process it.

I would encourage you to go talk to a good therapist. You sound exactly how I sound when I get mildly depressed, and, to put it mildly, therapy is awesome. It's made a big difference in my life. If you are already seeing a therapist, perhaps it's time to switch it up?

Therapy is the high order bit towards resolving this, but there are a number of other smaller hacks you can do. Start an exercise routine (if you don't have one). Spend time with people you care about and who like you (if you aren't already) - I know the pandemic certainly wreaked havoc with my social calendar. Walk outside in nature. There are many more things you might like as well. In my case, it was often unclear to me which activities I actually liked, and it was useful to do things and then study how I felt afterward, to see if I actually liked them or if I was just telling myself I did. (I found out a lot of surprising things this way, like I didn't like some friends, but I was undervaluing others, for instance. I also found that I really liked going outside, even though I never realized this was the case before!)

Anyways, hopefully that helps a bit.
I often experience very slow time to fix with cell service off (& having location off beforehand) - I believe this is due to Assisted GNSS/GPS which significantly improves the time for GPS to start working (the associated Wikipedia article states that ~1 minute often without it, and worst case ~12.5 minutes)
Eh? The crucifixion is supposed to have happened circa 30 AD, the Pauline letters (where Christianity is already fairly established) are from circa 50 AD. Even if we pretend it spread very rapidly and was only 10 years old in 50 AD, that'd still have the start date be about 40 AD. So early Christians made up a fake founder, and somehow got all of the disparate feuding factions to join in on the conspiracy, just so they could say that their movement was a decade older than it actually was?
Blind spot in the training data?