skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla Shanghai is partially shut down for maintenance, other factories do this as well. In the past months it produced the record number of cars.

>currently sold with a 7500$ discount

Discount compared to what? They have been rising prices in the past two years since they couldn't satisfy the demand. They still have the highest margins by far.
If it works for you, that’s okay. I used various macbooks for over 10 years and their trackpads are great.

However, two years ago, after switching to an external keyboard (hello, butterfly keyboard…), I started using an external gaming mouse with a large gaming pad.

On a work laptop I use the magic trackpad.

The mouse is such an ergonomy upgrade. Bonus point, no more wrist problems.
G'damn irresponsible teenagers ...

Pilbara mining blast confirmed to have destroyed 46,000yo sites of 'staggering' significance

> "Deeply troubled" traditional owners in the western Pilbara have had their worst fears confirmed after Rio Tinto detonated explosives near culturally significant sites dating back more than 46,000 years.

> A Rio Tinto spokesperson said blasting in Juukan Gorge occurred over the weekend, and on Tuesday the company confirmed its ancient rock shelters were destroyed.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-26/rio-tinto-blast-destr...

Just to clear, this sort of fuckery has a direct impact on the HN tech world, there are many mapped resources on indigenous lands with mineral leases held by Rio Tinto and others.

( eg: $64 billion Resolution Copper Arizona for one )

If mining companies cannot keep promises to respectfully operate around cultural sites without damaging them .. then resistance to granting permissions to proceed drastically increases.
> I study a lot of things outside of this: leadership, economics, site reliability engineering, writing, queuing theory, product development, extreme value theory, lean, survival analysis, etc

The extent to which this is true should affect your answer quite a bit. Look at yourself honestly and decide whether you study these things or if you’ve just read a book on each of them (or maybe just a New Yorker article). Have you received intense critique and feedback from a true expert in those fields?

I’d lean towards never mentioning your study unless it’s actual study and not just self-learning of whatever catches your fancy. Dilettante isn’t often used as a compliment.

The elevator pitch you give should be tailored to the job you want. Do you want to be CTO? If so, learn what that job is and where you fall short and where you don’t. Maybe something like, “I’m an experienced full-stack engineer. In addition to X,Y,and Z, I’ve often found myself improving systems like A,B,C - that you have at your company. I’m looking for a CTO role where I can D,E,F and work on building skills in G,H,I.”
You realize what polyester is right? All those fleeces made out of recycled bottles and the polyester clothing that every single kid wears are all shedding microplastics constantly into the environment.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2264585-microplastics-f...

> Microplastics were present in all samples except one, with a count of approximately 40 microplastic particles per cubic metre of seawater on average. They found that synthetic fibres made up 92 per cent of the microplastic pollution in these samples, and 73 per cent of this is polyester.
Like someone else has already mentioned Porsche and Mercedes actually offer very compelling options at the Model S/X price range that actually feel like luxury and when you paying over $100K you deserve some luxury and Hyundai, Kia, Genesis and even WV offer very compelling alternatives to the Model 3 and Y and they often are cheaper and overall provide better experience for an every-day car.

Whilst Tesla’s are still selling quite well I think they still are riding their early “we are the only ones who can do EVs right” wave and “Musk fame” and with both kinda dying down I don’t see Tesla being dominant for much longer.

There is too much competition from companies that are far more competent at making cars that are actually useful, all it took is for battery technology to become just a little bit more democratized and for car manufacturers to stop treating EVs as some concept car fab ala the i3…

The Taycan is one of the best cars I’ve ever have driven not just as far as EV’s go but period, and I’m getting to test drive the EQS SUV in about a week and from what I heard it also is a fantastic car.

And this is whilst not accounting for the mass of new EV companies and offerings coming out of China which some of them seem to be quite competitive on all fronts with Tesla too and this can really hurt Tesla especially in the Chinese market which I’m going to bet is a major growth driver for them.

Unless Tesla pulls out some magic battery tech out of their ass and I mean like truly magic as in not something that other manufacturers can compensate for by putting larger batteries or by slightly lowering the power output of their platforms I really don’t see them even remaining competitive in the long term.

Yes they still have their charging network but ironically it’s quickly becoming outdated with the new super fast charging standards coming out and most importantly it’s really only proving Tesla a huge advantage in the US as their charging network outside of it is of a much smaller scale if it exists at all.
You can get all of these without nitrates. I am munching on grass-fed nitrate-free beef jerky sticks right now.

https://www.amazon.com/Whole30-Approved-Protein-Calories-Ori...
Maybe it has a social value
You might find this app relevant, one of the ideas behind it is that by selecting your own images the concepts stick better: https://fluent-forever.com/index.html
You'd be surprised, especially since the security wasn't as tight to keep them out. There aren't as many archeologists or anthropologists as they are other types of researchers out there.
Question for Australians here: is racism against aboriginals widespread in Australia? How does the govt work to prevent it?
Perhaps the solution is to (further) stigmatize gift cards. The Chinese seem to have figured it out with their red envelopes full of money.
https://m.soundcloud.com/bwalker/time-travelin-trump
First, the giant money-losers - WeWork, Uber, etc.

Tesla has an advantage in electric cars in that they don't make IC cars. The IC car companies seem to have a hard time transitioning to electric-first. Ford has a nice electric pickup truck, which costs far too much and isn't produced in enough quantity to meet demand. Their electric work van is OK, although it's an IC conversion. Ford will probably do both better in the next iteration. Both are selling well. Tesla has nothing in either category.

Ford's utterly boring E-Transit van will probably dominate the dull and boring world of company owned van fleets. Those spend their nights at the company parking lot and then go out and make local trips during the day. Ideal situation for charging, paid for by companies who know their gasoline costs.
You want to connect the dots between the unique skills/strengths you bring to the job and company objectives. Reading what you wrote I think you can frame this as "I own problems end to end to ensure a successful outcome. I do whatever needs to be done, even when (especially when?) this involves responsibilities beyond writing code." Then you give examples of how you have done this, connecting the dots to how the things you did ensured a successful outcome. This is a trait all companies want to hire for so it should help you to show how you stand out relative to other candidates. As others noted avoid words like "like cto", "polymath" etc when describing yourself. These are too abstract and will not help you to show the company why they should hire you.
It was immediately obvious when Tesla was far behind traditional approaches for auto headlights, wipers, and self-parking and refused to deviate from their AI-only approach.
At $1200 it's likely cheaper to buy a used car at your origin and sell it at your destination. Availability is also probably less fucked up than the rental market.
Draconian punishments aren't a good way to protect ancient relics. It only takes one person to not even know what the site is, let alone the punishment, to ruin it forever. Also, it's cruel read-a-news-story desire for vengeance for damaging something you probably never even knew existed in the first place.
Buildings in the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact contries during the Cold War were often constructed with an ideological bent in mind: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning_in_communist_...
Yes, I suppose that's what the Turing test is meant to do - test for intelligence without having to define it, and the implicit definition of ("if it acts intelligent, it is intelligent") is reasonable enough, but I'm really not sure what use it has! It was an interesting thought experiment in 1950 at the beginning of the computer age, but now that we're getting close to actually being able to build intelligent systems, what's the point ?!

Artificial intelligence will exist on a spectrum from well-below to well-beyond human, and it'd be useful to have some way to quantify that rather than just be able to say "this one's right around human level!". We really need an "ImageNet for AI" competition that can measure intelligence.

I think we can certainly define intelligence (and consciousness too for that matter), even if not everyone is going to agree. Given human nature there'll still be people denying machine intelligence well after they're being managed by machines !

My rough take definition of intelligence is "ability to predict", IOW degree to which an entity can use prior experience to anticipate and plan for the future, with plans unfolding as predicted. Given that the human cortex appears to be literally a prediction machine (learning by prediction failure), this definition seems well matched to the notion of "if it acts human, its intelligent", but it's specific enough that I think one could devise tests requiring different levels of learning (from experience) and prediction to quantify it.
Microdistrict type buildings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdistrict
I guess this specific cave being so off limits might have fueled the idea of picking exactly that one, they might very well have been oblivious to the damage they were doing.
FYI, seems like this fork is a lot more maintained, so you might have better luck with this.

https://github.com/Aetf/kmscon
In Taiwan I had a drink made of sour plum vinegar and soda water. Absolutely delicious and refreshing on a hot day! So good I bought a bottle of the vinegar to take home.
We have the same issues with heritage buildings in Australia too, there's no silver bullet.
Cool. I've known chemical, civil and structural engineers but never had the chance to meet/speak to a mechanical engineer. Interesting to know you look at your profession the same. Though I still think it (programming) is more akin to music or maybe philosophy than traditional engineering as I've heard it before. The focus on artificial languages, concepts and the severe lack of physical restrictions to guide you.
Similar chemicals can have vastly different biological characteristics, like if one can bind to a certain nueroteceptor (or pass the blood-brain barrier in the first place) or not.

Chloride is a basic chemical used by the body. Take away an ion and make it chlorine, and it is fatal in very small quantities.
> The self driving stuff is (in my view) all a red herring.

I agree, but for another reason...

There isn't much copyrightable or patentable in the self driving world. If someone makes a self driving car which is good enough to drive unsupervised, then it'll only be a year till all other manufacturers can do the same.

Being first won't buy them much.
This may be a stupid question. but I have not seen it discussed so I will ask it.

Cookies are already under the control of the end-user, why does the site operator need to ask/worry at all? if the user does not like the cookies can't they just delete them?
Real actual full self-driving would transform the auto industry and society. There is no "call" for it in the same way there was no call for air travel before the Wright brothers.
I develop and test on a machine that's nearly a decade old (with a newer graphics card though). I don't do a lot of huge compilation jobs, so it's not annoying to develop on for my use case, and I like it because it makes potential performance pitfalls more obvious and ensures things I build work reasonably on older hardware. I could certainly afford to upgrade my machine, but I'll hold off as long as I can.
https://icml.cc/

Because, you know Hawaii...
MVI doesn't solve wave function collapses, if it did it would be able to tell exactly when the universe will split into many worlds, but it can't. So it doesn't solve anything, the difficulty with the theory is still there.
Happen to be from the US of A?
Because actual shareholders read the financial statements, and therefore know how impressive Musk's performance has been so far, unlike people that literally haven't read further than the P/E.

Of course maybe Q4 and future quarters may change that, but there's no reason yet for shareholders to want another CEO.
Israel also.
Not necessarily dried meats. The article specifically talks about cured meats. Dried meat is often just dehydrated. Jerky is a great example, it can be made with just salt, spice, and gentle heat. No curing involved.

Ofc there's the issue other commenters have pointed out: the FDA requires nitrates in a lot of meat products.
Or they just say that they cannot subsidize their letter-delivering business from their package-delivering business.
Ancient greece even earlier, yet the term "barbaric" still holds a delegate meaning in today's language.
TIL! Same for restic: https://www.rsync.net/products/restic.html
We don’t have very much evidence of ancient human art work around the world. Each one of them is precious.

To make it morally equivalent to graffiti is ridiculous.
> In the following, I briefly review three a priori arguments that purport to demonstrate that “computation” alone can never realize human-like understanding, and, a fortiori, no computational AI system will ever fully “grasp” human meaning.

So on the one side we have science and engineering, backed by lots and lots of working applications, saying „let’s try and find out“, „let’s see how far we come“.

And on the other side, we have philosophy, with a priori arguments which say this and that must or must not be so.

Clearly I’m on the side of a priori arguments, they have a history of working well. Remember when Kant proved that empirical space must be euclidean [1]? Or Hegel that there can only be seven planets [2]?

/s

[1] http://jur.byu.edu/?p=9200

[2] https://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2009/01/17/hegel-does-maths
Seriously, I see people wringing their hands over solid plastic toys for their kids while clothing them in polyester fleece.
What actually is Bluesky? All of their public-facing marketing material and promotion that I've read sounds like they're reinventing Activity Pub, but they carefully avoid actually mentioning AP or comparing themselves to prior art in the distributed social media field. I would expect a comparison table of features/tradeoffs on the page of the project so it can differentiate itself from competing protocols.
> if your data blocker cable has a CC wire (as it should, if you want to have data transfer)

Is this a typo? The whole point of a "data blocker" cable is to not have data transfer.
This is correct. There are hundreds of archaeological sites world-wide that have yet to be excavated, simply because archaeologists haven't had time to excavate them all.
If there are no cars available near you, and you want to drive, try U-Haul or similar truck rental places. It’s probably not going to be a super comfortable ride, but you might get home.
A surprising statement like this needs a reference or citation, some sort of explanation as to how you came to believe it.
Embracing non-engineer metrics is the gatekeeping. It allows some people to capitalize new comers with snake oil, prevent them from accessing better stuff.
Your last line made me think: “I wonder if it’s actually over a billion?” It is. Around 1.1 billion.
Yeah, a contract is totally going to stop government from forcing them to do something in the future. Absolutely.
doesn't it just have nitrates from the celery?
To be precise, the SMS and Gen/MD VDP versions of this feature work slightly differently from the TMS9918A version of it. The CSYNC output pin becomes an input and is used to synchronize video generation, but you need external hardware to mix the video together. This is also true of TMS9918A variants that output separate luminance and color difference signals like the TMS9928A.

Generally this mixing is done with the analog video signals (RGB in the case of the SMS and Gen/MD, luminance/color difference for the TMS9928A), but you could use the digital pixel bus. The downside to that is you need external CRAM and video DAC.

edit: Technically, the TMS9928A doesn't have the CSYNC as input part and just relies on the two VDPs running in lockstep.
For me, the real question here is why haven't you started your own company? You claim you can be a CTO... so go be a CTO. You then claim at the same time you "lack a lot side skills that would be necessary for that job". So go learn those skills THEN go be CTO.

It's like you're trying to say you want to have your cake and eat it too, but you don't have the cake yet.

Yeah, sounds harsh, but I'm just repeating what you are saying.
I haven't seen that message in a long time, but I remember it being quite unhelpful as often there was no way to plug the device in to a port that made Windows happy. And no way to tell Windows you didn't care so stop complaining about stuff.
Software which actually manages dependencies should be able to figure out the correct collection of configuration options for the common dependency on its own. It should also be able to detect conflicts between user-requested configuration and dependency requirements (while still allowing an expert user to ignore any stated requirements). Portage does all of this.

Nix does not. Nix seems great for deploying VMs and other kinds of managed images, where the cost of manually managing dependencies is amortized. But it is not useful for a development machine. That is a shame, because the other thing that Nix ought to be good at is creating development environments.

I wish that Portage's abilities (or any other comparable software; e.g. Cargo does much the same kind of resolution but on a different scale) were explicitly considered and designed into Nix (-the-package-manager), because the features would complement each other incredibly well. Portage's biggest drawback is that, although USE flags are managed declaratively, the system as a whole is, shall we say, aggressively stateful - every problem I've ever had with it is when it fails to find a path from the state it's in to the state I'm requesting.
It's likely enough that the Mars end of the service would enjoy being able to communicate with the ground stations on Earth.
It doesn't matter if they are automated or not. If I didn't opt into marketing emails when I signed up they are illegal in many places. (Canada, California that I know of for sure)
> Putting my curmudgeon hat on for a second, I remember a time when we used to make products with high enough quality and durability that they would either last nearly a lifetime or get repaired when they didn't.

I don't intend this as a slight, but as an honest question: do you feel like you correctly compensate for survivorship bias when looking back at how products were made?

I ask because, in my experience doing repairs as a hobby, it's just the nicer things that have survived. People don't remember the cheap record players they got as kids, the cheap tools, &c.; they remember the things that are still with them, which are the higher-quality ones.

Edit: In particular, it's pretty hard to repair a lot of consumer goods from the 1930s-1970s: they tend to use plastics that crack very easily and that aren't mendable, or are outright hazardous to repair (like bakelite, which sometimes has asbestos mixed into it).
I am an experienced developer (30+ years) and I use “no-code” solutions all the time. However the “no-code” solutions I use are code generators written by myself. I can generated roughly 80% of the code I need to implement typical business applications. It is a massive productivity boost.
I googled a bit and you would not recognize it as art - it's basically a bunch of parallel lines made by multiple people dragging their hand over it in a straight line.

The lines cover thousands of square meters of the walls, and the vandalism is of a small portion.

I suspect the vandals did not even realize they were overwriting anything.
I've had this quote bookmarked for 7 years now.
> the things I do are basically the job of a CTO

do you typically work directly with the CTO of companies you've been with?

you could maybe self describe as a "CTO in training"

this would have even more credibility if the real CTO is mentoring you
In my view, it comes down to two things. First is that while programming seems easy to those of us who can do it, it's actually prohibitively hard for most people to learn -- for reasons that we don't understand. Thus, demand can't be satisfied by "just" training more people.

Software can market itself through its aesthetic and cultural appeal, thus attracting disproportionate interest from managers and investors. A new project can produce a beautiful demo with no underlying functionality.

I'm not sure there's a clear rational relationship between the cost of software development and the value it produces. I've read The Mythical Man Month.

One problem with traditional engineering is that we don't have the tools to make ourselves maximally efficient, such as JIRA and Scrum. The reality of getting things physically made and tested adds some slack to our work flow. Personally I prefer that, coming from the "hardware" side. My friends who are programmers at my age work a lot harder than I do, and many are burnt out. I have the luxury of using programming as a tool without anybody managing how I do it.
Good thing they're using your abilities as a medical professional, not your beliefs in your personal moral sphere. As a professional you're required to provide the same service to everyone without any regard to your own beliefs. Otherwise medicine as a national service doesn't work.
> > I don't think a regular CEO is going to be able to restore the reality distortion field that got TSLA overvalued by that much in the first place, but they might at least look interested in selling cars.

Problem is that selling cars is a much tougher business than selling hope.
Maths is correct in the UK.
No art was defaced, they intentionally targeted art with protective covers, and if you are curious re: their rationale you can read it here https://juststopoil.org/2022/10/16/why-art-why-now/

excerpt:

> The painting is unharmed – the action was planned knowing it was properly protected. But there’s still been a huge outcry with people asking: why attack art? Why go after something as precious as human creativity, culture and beauty?
With a system written in a mix of Assembly and a Pascal dialect.
I usually say that I’m a Renaissance man.
I think "for nothing" means "for free", "at no cost", creating capacity just by moving someone to be the helper.