skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but also don't underestimate the problems and risks in real systems that keep changing.

I've shipped some data in a JSON file bundled with an application, because it didn't change a lot, and we had frequent (biweekly) releases anyway. I mistakenly assumed those two things would always be true.

As time went on, the frequency of necessary changes increased but our overall products release cadence got worse and worse (many months) as the product grew. So customers had continually outdated data.

An additional problem I didn't expect is that since we wanted to get customers the latest data (because the next release was so far out), we had to update the data set as close to release as possible. So always a change at the last minute, which is already a busy time and means it's not really tested well. And also it was extra toil; we had a script for data generation but it still needed a manual run and pull request. In the time I spent running this I could have easily written an API based version several times.

Another problem was that this change had to be made for every release, including bugfix ones. This caused frequent discussion (do we need this?), was forgotten a few times, and caused merge conflicts later which were annoying because in this case the proper way to merge was to ignore both ancestors and rerun the script, which people weren't used to.

Of course I rewrote it eventually (after convincing PM that I need time for this supposedly long done feature again), but then I had to deal with the extra problem of customers who had local customer specific modifications of the file (because that was the workaround our support staff came up with as a way to deal with the outdatedness).

Thankfully, a problem I did not habe was binary data in git. The commits were ugly but at least still got ok diffs (once we sorted the JSON file properly). But you mentioned SQLite, which is not a good match for git. Of course one can work around it by merging the raw SQL, but still, yet another pitfall.
What percentage of that is weighted to Tesla? I think looking at the major brands individually would be more informative.
Golomb may be familiar from his study of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyomino .
Microsoft is making Excel’s formulas easier
That's basically talking about me. On my job they call me Mr. Wolf and I love it.
The description is quite accurate, main difference being that the article focuses mainly on semi-marketing tasks instead I tend to be assigned higher level issues (I mainly deal with emergencies raised by our CEOs). It was nice to read it, I feel less lonely now.
I love the interface.
C’mon

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/business/elon-musk-420-tw...

https://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/did-you-know-that-all...
Fuck me, reading this is like looking in the mirror. Please don’t write stuff on this topic any more, it’s creepy.
Why T-shaped people? (2018)
These backup software are all incremental, work similarly and take similar times (difference is in details). If you lost locally cached metadata files keeping information on what has changed, they all have to scan the whole source again.
For an Exhaustive list of editors point your browsers to:

https://www.texteditors.org/
> Nitrates are required of US manufacturers BY THE FDA for food safety

Are you sure? I looked through the "uncured" bacons at a local grocery store online and while most of them have nitrates from celery powder, one of them is just "pork, sea salt, cane sugar".
borg is great. we've been using it for the past 3 years to archive hundreds of file-level backups of servers, database dumps and VM images. average size of each borg repo is few GB but there are few outliers up to few hundreds of GB. most of backups are done daily, with 7-24 past days preserved in borg archive. borg repos are verified, copied to external disks, verified again and rotated offline each week.

borg replaced https://rdiff-backup.net/ for us and gave:
* nice speedup of backups/backup tests,
* decent saving in the disk space thanks to compression and deduplication,
* decreased backup replication time [ borg repo tends to have much less, larger files compared to rdiff which has in its repo at least as many files as your source data; rsync likes it ].

to finish backups in a reasonable time we had to parallelize backup gathering [ each server / vm goes to separate borg repo; this limits a failure domain in case of corrupted repo, but denies us benefit of deduplication on larger scale - across servers ] and borg archiving. without that - we would be a limited by a single cpu core performance [ borg is not multithreaded yet ].

it's worth testing the backups - we're doing it each day by using borg's repo self test and by extracting few key files and checking their checksums and content... just in case.

echoing other comments - https://kopia.io/ looks interesting but we have not tried it yet.
It is, but Tesla's valuation was based on predictions of much bigger growth.
“Now that's what I call a hacker” (2019)
His prerogative, and not theirs.
Note that restic has known unresolved problems with backing up to cifs shares due to some underlying go implementation details deep down in the stack:

restic fails on repo mounted via CIFS/samba on Linux using go 1.14 build
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2659

Of course there are some cifs issues in the borg tracker, too, but most of them seem to be based on unreliable network connections - while the restic problem seems to be related to golang details.

With backups I would rather not trust a tool that has basic problems like accessing files on a network drive, but this is just me.
Reflecting on my 2022 – Stargirl (Thea) Flowers
Start billing Apple for the fake calls.
This is what an RTOS solves in embedded systems.

If you want to know exactly what clock cycle/time interval something is going to happen on, the easiest thing to do is just use a microcontroller.
That... and Chaos Engineering in general, and also just generally a forward looking team that identifies threats, vulnerabilities, and risks in the future and works backwards to identify potential mitigating controls.

(Look forward, reason backward).
Is it really though? If you consider how few EVs there are on the roads relatively speaking, and of that small fraction only another fraction are Teslas...

Assuming we're on the cusp of a global electrification of transportation, we should be looking at exponential growth. 54%->37% is the opposite of that.
Yeah I felt the same way about 18 months ago. I took a contract gig (hybrid) that pays well, lets me pick up some new skills, but limits me to 40 hours a week, isn't that hard and I'm not emotionally invested since I don't even work for the company.

It's been a nice way to get some space and figure out what I actually want
Not indulging one asshole does not mean you support the other one.
Notes on “The Man with a Thousand Legs,” by Frank Belknap Long
It you’re one of these people take a break! You’re gonna burn out. You’re going to do more valuable work if you don’t. Sincerely, very tired person who recognizes myself in the article.
SSA doesn’t say you can proactively change it: https://faq.ssa.gov/en-us/Topic/article/KA-02220
Crypto exchange Kraken to stop operations in Japan
Instacart cuts internal valuation to $10B down from $39B in 2021
> Being in a city with interesting things to do is an intangible good that many people like, compared to being in a smaller town with fewer amenities (nevermind well-paid jobs).

As someone who lives in a small town in the middle of nowhere, I'd argue that the well-paid jobs part is our biggest struggle. We might be somewhat unique compared to some other small towns, but we have a lot going on - theater, live music, civic groups, outdoor recreation, surprisingly good restaurants - there's plenty to do here, but there's also no question that our largest growing demographic group is people who made their money elsewhere. As both you and the poster below you comment though - neither the big city nor small towns offer much of a refuge for people these days; our system is squeezing every bit of "value" out of workers, to our detriment
A good test for one's instincts is to guess what Tesla NPS is. Then look up estimates.
SpaceX was always a defense contractor. Their own payloads and military are bulk of the launches.

I would be worried more about USA turning the screw. Elon is extremely close and exposed to their biggest adversary, China. I’m actually surprised he wasn’t forced out of spacex by the military by now.
For sure I agree with your overarching assessment though.

The irony, as you noted, is even as consumer devices have gotten more and more powerful computation and processing is being pushed to the backend/cloud. For example; to get a EC2 that's comparable with my laptop one has to pay through the nose. But still most of my machine's CPU cycles is idling and is used for rendering webpages. To make matters worse, most of the tools now a days are web only. Even if I want to use there's no app. There are exceptions of course such as IntelliJ, Figma etc., but sadly they should be the norm but aren't.

To me, it feels as if because bandwidth got cheaper engineers just got lazy and stopped having to think to take advantage of client device's capabilities. It's gotten so bad that most of the apps wouldn't even start without internet connection.
Curious if it was a paid internship because unpaid internships are more common in creative fields.
Validating a federal ID would tell someone that I am who I say I am. A federal ID wouldn’t indicate whether I am qualified to drive a vehicle according to any state law.
I am trying to take that step back, actually. I’d never really traveled, so I made that largely my focus this year. That was great.

I guess I’m referring to it from a work perspective; without moving to a different state/country (which is a possibility but my family is all here) I can’t retire where I’m at now given what I have. Moreover, I’m not even sure what “retirement” means; I feel like I’ll have the same feeling I have now, without knowing what drives me.

I guess I’m missing my “drive” or “mission” I once had; is that a thing you lose from youth? I’m 35, so not exactly old, but I’m not 22 anymore either.
The 4% rule is inflation-adjusted, so no.
I have no advice, but I sure wish I had your problems.
Has it been helpful? Have you figured anything out?
IMO Tesla reached "maturity" with two issues:

- It was so incredibly overvalued before being mature, that once it actually started to deliver on some promises its price shot up even further from where it should be.

- It reached "maturity" too late. Other car makers have caught up. Consumers can buy a Ford F-150 Lightning, an Rivian R1T or a GMC Hummer EV today, but not a Cybertruck. Kia, Nissan, Mini, Porsche, Audi, etc have great EV offerings. Tesla isn't even the biggest seller of electric cars in the world anymore (it's BYD, 354k sales vs Tesla's 254k)[1]

[1] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-ev-sales-61-q2-2...
Tesla to run reduced output in Shanghai in January
That was a United flight, not Southwest. Southwest and Delta are the only two good US based airlines left.
Fair point, and very interesting. I did pick up fitness as a hobby, but maybe I need to double down on it… or play more ukulele.

Thanks for the advice.
Also, the other side, "Why hire a Wildcard?" https://wildcardpeople.com/why-hire-a-wildcard
It’s all about the angle I think. The only time I cracked mine was a very short drop (two feet at most) but it hit flush with a tile floor
My pixel 4a5g running LineageOS did it on me one day from pressing the on/off button a few times in rapid succession. I had no idea it would do that. I was just in the final stages of trying to get any reaction out of it because the screen was not coming on. Turns out the phone was still running and working but the screen had died.

I don't think any of these too-automatic and non-apparent things are a good idea. I had no intention to call 911, and I had not intentionally configured that action. I'm just glad the speaker and mic still worked and I was able to hear the operator and respond to them.

I don't even see how this one even helps anyone even in theory. Is it even any faster than dialing 911? If I were in an emergency, would I remember some weird trick like that at a time like that? Are they thinking that people in duress will rapidly and repeatedly squeez their phone naturally and so it dials when needed without you consciouly needing to?

I guess maybe the theory is that in any kind of car or bike crash, or even ordinary fall or violence, there is a good chance the violence will have damaged the phone's most fragile part, but just like in my case the phone still worked. So it's actually somewhat likely to be a valuable option to have some way to dial 911 witbout a working screen. Ok maybe I guess.
The stele only contains a name that can be interpreted as david but has other readings, like the name of a possible ancient village. Researchers are not confident that it proves anything. A vast kingdom in Israel would certainly leave more than a few disputable fragments. Check the situation of neighboring countries, where it was never an issue to find archeological evidence of several dynasties. There is a reason why it is so difficult to find these things in Israel: they just didn't exist.
Some of the listed points in the article have been bugs for YEARS. They have survived major release cycles and a lot of them have Radars. Nobody wants to fix any of the thousands of bugs in MacOSX. Apple is just falling forward with every release.
I‘d use vim. It’s already preinstalled. For this usecase you should also consider the various command line utilities like sed, awk, grep
> They're legally protected when doing this, and it's why that
> doctor got dragged off that flight.

To be clear, it was United that dragged a doctor off a plane. Not Southwest.
Musk's Twitter antiques should not hurt Tesla.
When I feel that I have climbed to the highest peaks and I now stare into the limitless and desolate void, the choice is now whether or not to rejoice in the dance of life.

Many have walked the same road and many plunge into the abyss of despair. For many others, including myself, it's a landmark or the continual scenery.

For me, I don't believe there was a way back. I think it made me a different person. It was and is great, but I am lonelier than ever despite being surrounded by wonderful friends and family. And that is probably for the best. Lonely is probably not the right word for it.
:(

I really don’t intend this as a brag, I promise. I’m also well aware that there are people struggling with much “worse” issues than me; I grew up with a lot of them, lost multiple friends to suicide, and so forth.

But if there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that depression and/or unhappiness does not care about your wealth.
There are two parts to the IT: the airline backend and the distribution backend. For the airline backends, Sabre used to build custom single-tenant ones per airline, on mainframes. The SWA one was very old, hence their inability to charge for bags. The Sabre distribution system is common of course, again on mainframes

Amadeus are eating them up, because their airline backend system is a shared multi-tenant setup, built on commodity hardware. Their distribution system used to be mainframes, but they managed to migrate away in the 2010s.

Sabre is still alive, but only in North America, and Amadeus is slowly chipping away (WN, AC..)
Many people don't like what the owners of Chick-fil-A are up to but apparently they do really good chicken at fair price so people keep buying it anyway.

I would guess that Tesla is losing the premium they can put to their prices and that is pushing Tesla value to a transactional value. No more apologists for the build quality or features that are pay now get it next year(every year, next year), if Tesla makes good cars and sell them at good price people will buy and if they don't people won't. If can't do autonomous driving, can no longer sell autonomous driving. No more paying extra to save the planet.
Very interested if it's my area suburb, as an occasional Enterprise customer.
I went through some of what you’re writing about: start-up, acquisition, handcuffs, sabbatical-mode, and now newco.

Feel free to email me, happy to chat it through.
Why is it for the best? Lonely feels right, even though by all objective measure I’m definitely not.
I guess you have to download it to see how much "better" the UI is; I couldn't find any evidence of that on the App Store or the developer's site.

And by "non-native" I guess they mean that DiffusionBee is wrapping non-Swift code, or what? It certainly feels like a (pretty simple) native app, and for what it does I find the UI plenty good enough.

I was going to install this but it requires macOS 13.1, and I try to stay one version behind Apple's "improvements" so I'll have to wait.
Thank you! Expect an email in the next day or two. <3
My most hated macOS bug: Safari’s URL bar resets the selection to the top item as the asynchronous suggestions load, which caused me to open the wrong URL countless times. See: https://youtu.be/teF1a2C6lwQ

This bug has been happening for at least 4 major OS releases now…
Yes, it was. And it'd be nice if they left it alone (so I didn't have to relearn stuff a new every decade or so). ;-)

Chemistry's a quixotic master.
GM down 42% Past year
Ford (F) down 46% Past Year
Chrysler/Jeep (Stellantis) down 26% Past Year
Toyota (TM) down 27% Past year
Mercedes (MGGYY) down 31% Past Year
Lucid Group (LCID) down 84% Past Year
Nissan (NSANY) Down 36% Past Year
Tesla (TSLA) Down 71% Past Year
Honda (HMC) Down 18% Past Year
Volkswagon (VWAGY) Down 48% Past Year
BMW (BMWYY) down 13% Past Year
Maybe a museum. Anything that resonates with you. You get to choose where to go from where you are.
help me build my business as an mentor/advisor? Not kidding here.
I invented a product and founded a company and after a similar length of time sold it during the pandemic. It's a wrench. My older child will be leaving home fairly soon. That's also hard to absorb.

I've almost by accident arranged to start a part time research / academic role (PhD student) in January. I can also manage financally. This work will help fix an urgent practical problem in my country and wider.

Am I burning with passion and leaping out of bed each morning? Not yet.

If I took a wrong turn here would it be disaster to change my mind? No.

Give it time. We're both making a big change after many years and I think that amongst other things the supertanker in our heads takes time to change course. It may not be enough, but I think time is necessary.

(Feel free to drop me an email - see my home page - if you wish.)
I think the effects of social media on the brains of famous people who get stuck in that feedback loop, is akin to being on drugs. Same level of addiction, same deterioration of connection to reality.
I wonder why he couldn't just play the "brilliant engineer innovator titan of industry" part without the "teenage edgelord stick-it-to-the-libs Twitter troll" piece. Or was the latter always a prerequisite for his success, his ability to get eyeballs at all costs?

It feels like all of that toxicity was unnecessary and he could have been impactful and transformational without it, but maybe I'm wrong.
You don't sound lost, but you do sound bored. Dive into a non work related hobby. If I was rich and married I'd do as much as I can to learn, teach, and collect art. None of us would be able to tell you what is important to you.
Since no-one's mentioned it yet: you should see a therapist, feeling lost like this is an excellent and common reason for therapy. Happy holidays, g'luck.
I asked ChatGPT a question related to how long Teslas last and the entire response was unctuous, gushing praise for Tesla, a shameless ad, completely avoiding any relevant information.
Do nothing. Binge tv shows. Go on long walks. Hit the gym. Your mind will pull passion out of boredom and restlessness. Lean into it.
1 Year TSLA: -69.93% GM: -41.66% FORD: -46.05% STLA: -26.47%

5 Years TSLA: 425.53% GM: -18.71% FORD: -10.33% STLA: -21.52%
The 4% rule paper was written in 1994, when most retirees would expect to live 15.3 (male) to 19.4 (female) more years. People retiring now can expect to live 18.1 to 20.7 years, make and female respectively.

The % rules are calculated using joint actuarial tables and a given percentage chance of going broke before death (I believe it is 5%).
The word you are looking for is chutzpah
10 day (free) vipassana meditation retreats will fix you right up. Don’t get caught up in the dogma though.

dhamma dot org
You mean, there's anything morally wrong about one of the world's richest people flying a private jet? There are tens of thousands of them in the world.
Does SwiftUI really count as native on the Mac? My experience is that Apple has not invested enough for that to be true. Apple is Apple, so when they say jump, developers jump. But if any other company tried pulling what they’re pulling with SwiftUI, they’d be getting a swift kick in the behind by their dev community. It feels like their UWP moment; nice idea, bad execution.

This isn’t to criticize the project; I like and want to see more native Mac software, I just feel very disappointed with Apple’s leadership in this area. A native Mac app should almost automatically be without a doubt better than the Electron version, but at least with SwiftUI that isn’t happening.

Regardless, inconsistencies between AppKit on Mac and SwiftUI on Mac are enough to make it not native, IMO.

Kudos to the author for taking advantage of CoreML, one of the areas where native software shines on Apple platforms.
GoDaddy was the undisputed champion of this scam.
> If you have to document 12 wrong ways to use your API that's a sign that it's not well designed.

This is so true.
Yeah building outside links to these domains for SEO purposes, probably.

I flagged the post, hopefully this account gets nuked soon
I was able to find this, which lists each automaker's YTD change that's in the index.

https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/index/DOW-JONES-US-AUTO...

Tesla's is still clearly the worst, at -69%, but Ford and GM have -45 and -43% respectively. If it's market-cap weighted (I can't tell at a glance), TSLA will have outsized influence, at a current market cap of $344B vs Ford and GM at $45B and $47B, and those three together being about 90% of the index's market cap.

Only three components of it are up for the year.
Nobody is suggesting otherwise. Just saying that the full picture is more nuanced than your single paragraph summary would suggest. I get the cynicism but it’s not JUST that here.

The cryptocurrency space has done an actively terrible job up until this point at creating a global payments infrastructure that businesses are excited about using. They could use some help on that front. This is an organisation with a track record in doing exactly that.
I was chatting with my neighbor, who owns a Tesla + Tesla Powerwall, about the Twitter situation and he was not shy to say how he was quite upset by the direction that Twitter is going and how he had just deleted his account and moved to Mastodon (and he is somebody who has a few thousand followers).

I doubt he is going to rip the Powerwall off his house or sell the Tesla, but I'm quite sure based on the conversation that if he didn't own either of these Tesla products right now he would seriously consider other options if he were buying today.

This is just one example obviously, but there is no doubt that Elon is upsetting some key demographics who want to purchase Tesla products, and while I have no idea if it will have a major negative impact on the bottom line, it certainly can't be good.
C'mon

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2022/06/a-day-in-t...
> Though you have to create binary wheels for every version of python and platform separately.

cibuildwheel makes this easy.
Same, would love to see a comparison. I've been a mostly-happy user of DB for a while but always open to competition
Principles of Chaos Engineering (2019)
Interesting. Never heard this term before.