skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand, I don't doubt there's people who boycott Chick-fil-A, but in industries that sell large volumes of relatively inconsequential purchases I would assume the effect of bad PR is less.

If I'm hungry and I'm at the airport I'll grab something that's quick and convenient. My choice might not be the best, but whatever, I'm in a hurry and I'll forget what I ate by my next meal. A car on the other hand is a purchase I'll mull over for months— I'll consider everything, because it'll involve a lot of cash and I'll live with that decision for years.

On the other hand, I think you're right, and I doubt this is all just a consequence of Twitter saga. There's a lot of other forces at play here; there's more competition, Tesla keeps pushing some promised launches back, the whole stock market in general doing poorly, etc.
It was paid, I should’ve clarified the role was as a SWE intern
They're nice, but shouldn't be needed. Ubiquitilink (mentioned as Lynk in the article) has proven 500km two-way connections without them. A large constellation at that height with large antennas and spectrum rights should be able to offer higher bandwidth service than Globalstar's current network offers to iPhones.

Globalstar's capabilities aren't frozen either. The Apple deal uses most of their capacity, but they'll be launching additional satellites. While they're not in the current deal, Globalstar could launch a lower LEO service in the future. Cell phones with bigger antennas, like the case antennas in the new iPhones, would have better sat service communicating at Starlink's range.

We're also in relatively early days of large antenna deployment. AST's record-setting antennas are going to look quaint as launch costs and more complicated deployments continue to advance and benefit every satellite network.
Is this essentially a stop-loss? It would seem that Cathie Woods is crazy for buying/holding at the top and selling now.
Combining that with the feedback loop of being insanely wealthy can only spell disaster. Being ultra rich is a disease.
Well, let's hope then that all the DNA they take is from random droppings, not coerced and/or under threat.

But that's not how government works, is it?
I mean...I'm aware that private jets exist, idk if anyone doubts their existence. I still think their usage is unethical though.
It's not covert in any way. The phone emits a siren sound at full volume for a few seconds before calling and the call comes up in handsfree/speaker mode.
> An easy way to get them to pay attention

They did.

"We did have a conversation with Apple about the crash detection this fall and they told us they were aware of the issue and were working on a fix they were hoping to have out in the first quarter of 2023"

As did some other people.

"His dispatch supervisor has contacted Apple and received a response that the company is aware of the conflict between skiers and the crash detection technology and are working on a fix, Schroetlin said."
There were many MMUs for 68ks at the time - 68000s and 68010s could use the '451, it was very slow and did use wait states, some people put TLB caches around them, Sun and many others built their own MMUs out of SRAM, there was guy who went around the Valley designing Sun-like MMUs for people they were all different, some were broken, the Lisa had a base and bounds MMU (like a PDP-11)..

The 68000 couldn't restart page faults - people got around that a lot of ways, some put 2 68ks there and paused one while the other took the fault, mostly though most unixes of the day were swapping ones, the only traps that needed to be restarted were those that extended the stack down, and compilers could be persuaded to generate stack probe code. 68010s fixed that problem and were available around the time we started building paged systems.

The 68020s could have an external PMMU (there was another done by Signetics, I think, it was a bit DOA), I think Sun still made their own.

The 68030 pulled the PMMU on chip.

At the time I worked for Unisoft, the company that did Unix for the Lisa, and A/UX for Apple, it was just one of about 150 Unix ports for other companies we did the bulk of them for 68Ks and most of those for those early 68000/010 - in short they were extremely popular, at the time every man and their dog were trying to make the next great workstation in their garages
The U.S. government still has jurisdiction over Starlink.

As for crypto currencies, they seem irrelevant to this topic.
Waymo and Cruise are nice demos that work in a limited set of circumstances. They are "self driving" in the same way my oven is "self cleaning".

>>This is the same way automation has always occurred. You get the machine to deal with 90%, 99%, then 99.9% etc of cases until people move from doing job X, to being backup, to troubleshooting problems.

Of course. We are now at maybe 20-30% coverage though. Once we are at 90%, maybe in 30-40 years, then we can start saying things like "we have self driving cars".
Reverse engineering of Apple Lightning
> how do you describe this skillset?

Simply as: Software developer, worth his salt.

(The other side of this spectrum is likely called "code monkey", in case the base role is in software development).
No it's about generalists versus specialists, problem solvers versus maintainers. There is not one category inherently better than the other contrary to the 10x bullshit, they will thrive in different contexts
Seriously asking or just trolling?

Musk is known to be anti-LGBT:
https://www.them.us/story/elon-musk-gay-twitter-employee-gro...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/17/elon-musk-should-apologize-f...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epz8jz/elon-musk-twitter-col...

https://newrepublic.com/article/169112/elon-musk-anti-trans-...

He even insinuated Pelosi's husband had gay hookers in his house!
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20221101-...

and that's nothing new for him:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/19/tesla-fac...
But there is (was?) a popular argument that Tesla is a tech company that happens to build cars, not a car manufacturer. So how do they compare to the tech sector?
"When a Lightning cable is just lying somewhere connected to a charger/computer, but not connected to a device, HiFive limits current on the PWR to a really small value (around 10-15 mA according to my measurements). To enable full current, 0x74 request must be issued by Tristar and processed by HiFive."

https://nyansatan.github.io/lightning/
> This notion does not explain how the thermal bath appears.

The point of the bath is it's a generic model of a large system with lots of states and interactions.

> I.e. why the system interacts with a particular bath and not a superposition of such baths?

The bath can be in a superposition state at the start, that's fine. (Indeed the whole model would be pretty useless otherwise).
You can describe yourself as open to help wherever you can, and then give diverse real examples.
>"real world" engineers need to be paid way more

Why so? Sounds silly to me as a soft engineer, cause software dev is:

1. A lot of the time – connected to the "real world" engineering, so it is just as real, modern real world and civil engineering can't function without software.

2. A lot more abstract, so we literally build whole factories in our brains, sometimes just one or two of us while real factories are built by hundreds of men

3. Well, a modern-day thing existing for less than a century, where real-world engineering in accumulating knowledge for centuries, essentially turning soft.

IMO all real engineering will eventually turn software and cloud, in decades it will be possible to design real-world production and logistic pipelines just with code and abstracted robotic resources, like in factorio
Not at all, you might like to reread and perhaps identify the point at which I assert that I "personally, should be able to decide the proper definition" of "civilised".

I merely pointed out that if one adopts a Euro-centric definition them, indeed, Australian Aboriginals are not civilised.

This is historically what happened when the English declared Terra Nullus - a concept that was later overturned.

If you're unsure of how to reason forward and contrast varying axioms and definitions then this HN thread might of some interest and shed some insight:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34127524

Enjoy!
Functional-programming-learning-path: A Learning Path for Functional Programming
17 years ago, there was a popular essay about this sort of person, and the label at the time was "Free Electron": https://randsinrepose.com/archives/free-electron/

Before that, they were known as "generalists", autodidacts, polymaths, etc.

The thing is that pretty much any clever person that's easily invested in novel things can become one of these people, so this label isn't reserved for people who are generalists, it is reserved for people who are not specialists.

If you care about things like income and career progression, do not let yourself become one of these people. They aren't valued, and it doesn't take a lot of staring at job postings or talking to hiring managers to figure out why.

Well-run organizations -- that is, organizations that can afford to pay good money for talent -- have clearly defined roles for people, and need only a few generalists to handle the nitty-gritties of cross-department communications and management.

The organizations that most need generalists are the ones that are constantly struggling to get their crap working right, so they need people who can do a little bit of everything, and as a consequence, they also can't afford to pay such people a lot of money.

It is much easier for a specialist to argue their value than a generalist. I believe there was a frontpage "Ask HN" about this today, probably why this article was posted now.

If however you can decouple happiness and satisfaction from income, and chasing novelties makes you happy, then by all means, keep doing what you love.

You'll just never make the same kind of money as the person that knows Kubernetes backwards and forwards and not much else.
Grow up with an asr-33 connected to an EMAS system in the basement at home. It was noisy but much less noisy than the card punch and remote entry station it replaced (the joys of a professorial parent who got a 200 baud line to work installed) It had cylindrical keys -then at uni used the same with decwriters and vt52s and subsequently vt100s and adm5. In memory, the adm5 was wonderful. The one in my basement looks at me and says:

I whine (flyback transformer) and I shimmer (unstable tube needs a degauss) and I am slow (-really not reliable at 115200 if even capable, which I doubt. I last ran it 9600 attached to a sun workstation serial console) and best of all my keyboard is basically the same as that asr33 and really, really tiresome to use.

They're mostly better in memory than in real life. The vt100 and subsequent weren't bad, good enough for people
like systime in leeds to clone them (they got done for cloning Vax boards, and selling them behind the iron curtain. The factory is a secret spy headquarters in the original "edge of darkness" TV series) and sell cheaper. The vt240 was pretty good. The blit and subsequent were lovely, but had a brief life as real graphics workstations came up. Really, the depraz mouse made the blit/gnot/jerq worthwhile. The first time I met a terminal device which was not 80x24 was a blit class terminal in ucl-cs.

On an ICL (ok. 3 rivers. ICL made it under licence in musselburgh south of edinburgh) Perq I used before then you used a terminal(ish) entry which may also have been not 80x24. The vertically mounted hard disk had a translucent cover and you could see static type sparks coming off the drive hub. really bizarre. It used display memory to compile so your text input window corrupted as you compiled. stty reset/clear fixed it.

Having multiple vty on the various BSD on Intel was nice. Vty4 was like steering, behind the scenes or something during the installer, and they launched a debug shell on one.

You learned to use stty a lot on old lines. Some were half duplex and some worked like bad antenna at high baudrate and picked up phantom presses in the 50 pair bundle.

ASR-33 was upper-case only hence Getty on BSD detecting upper-case only at login and v7 working UC and vi having an UC mode. It got removed from FreeBSD in the 90s.

My memory is the xterm implements the ANSI terminal escape codes which are pretty much vt100 because DEC either informed the standards committee decision with a pre implementation or implemented the standard, and MIT had lots of vtxxx series and so used the same to write the escape codes on X so Emacs and vi came along for the ride easily in termcap.
It's not good to see money burn... but it's not every day you get to see a 44 billion dollar pile doused with arrogance gasoline go up in flames.
Those percentages are weighted by their previous portion of the total value.

A down 10%

B down 90%

If B is 50% of the market, the market is down by like... 50%

You can construct practically any total within the extrema if you use the right weights.
Going down 70% might be normal or not normal. It is difficult to say without considering a relevant context like being extremely overvalued like 1y ago.

For example, PayPal and Square are down 64% ytd. Is it because their CEOs go mental on social media too?
> Botching the methodology on the paper you’re using to argue for removing safeguards is bad but it’s worse not to mention that you were funded by one of the industries affected.

You're being too coy. Which industry and which paper? I'm not sure what's preventing you from being more specific, especially since you were lamenting vague examples earlier.

> unless you’re defining that term as meaning that you don’t get free promotion.

So if you can seemingly access a service but not be provided that service then you haven't been deplatformed? That sounds a lot like being given a telephone and a dial tone but you can only call out to prearranged numbers and meanwhile no one can call in nor find out your number and yet the phone company claims they're not denying you service. In other words, preposterous.
Geomagnetism has also been used in North America for holocene dating, eg to determine that a particular circle of rocks must've been used to contain a campfire.
Such a thing exists

https://github.com/subzerocloud/showcase/tree/main/cloudflar...
You could still work on diverse things, but do it within your normal work day. I don’t think being a jack of all trades necessitates overwork or being taken advantage of (though it certainly could, but so could a deep expert who doesn’t have a diverse skill set).
Stares in (Virtual Machine)
> Hire a Wildcard to Get Sh*t Done

That is the title on their frontpage. Probably made by a Mädchen für alles (literally, "girl for everything").

I don‘t think you want to be the Passepartout of a corporation. It‘s rewarding at first, but the longer you try to fulfill that role, the more you will be exhausted. Imagine being involved in everything a company does. As someone already commented, it‘s a recipe for a burn-out.
How can you miss read something this hard?

Even now it is perfectly fine for you to make your own original character influenced by Harry Potter or Mikey Mouse. Heck make it a Wizard Mouse called Marry Motter. Still you can't - and in my mind shouldn't - be able to write Harry Potter and the Magical Mouse.
Related article on CNN:

Elon Musk’s Twitter obsession isn’t the core reason for Tesla stock’s plunge

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/23/investing/elon-musk-tesla...
That statement applies equally to any web-based framework, any native framework, Java, appkit, UWP, Silverlight…

Apple could have invested in SwiftUI on Mac to the same extent they did on iOS, and things would look very different.

SwiftUI as currently implemented on Mac breaks enough platform conventions and is, relative to existing native UI, slow and buggy enough to IMO not more native than any other cross platform UI solution.
It doesn't (average to 62%) two things are going into that 62% number, one it starts on 1 january 2022 and these are the "last 12 months" so they start from the 26th December 2021. Also different analysts will pick different "sets" for their mix, so some will be "all US automakers" or "all 'major' automakers" (for some arbitrary definition of "major"). But stock prices are well publicized and easily available in forms for doing data analysis (the whole "day trader" craze in the 90's really kicked off some interesting "technical analysis tools" for stocks.)

And if you're at the point where you have some "extra" savings that you want to take out of a CD or savings account and put into a fund of some sort, reading the various fund manager reports on different funds is endlessly entertaining in how they "hide the sausage" as one does.

All that said, it seems a fair question is this; "Over the last 12 months, how has the stock price of companies that primarily make cars changed?" And the answer to that is that they have all gone down somewhat, some more than others. Interesting to me that BMW was the least affected and Lucid the most. I don't have many car stocks in my portfolio. I did add some when people were paying more to buy back used cars than they sold them for because that suggested to me they would have an uptick when the supply chain bounced back, and I do have Honda (long) since I've always admired the company's management. Other than that though, I got out mid last year (summer '21).
Buddy you’re definitely not the only person that’s good at multiple things that you’ve ever worked with.
At some point Teslas product became its stock and Musk it’s tout. What lost its shine is TSLA. This is my first go around but I’m led to believe this is what the tail end of a credit cycle looks like.

What hurts Tesla isn’t a few terminally online folks refusing to buy some expensive electric cars but the perception they will in a very difficult market.

Tesla made cool cars before Elon joined (it was founded by Eberhard and Tarpenning - Elon was an early investor who started calling himself a founder one day and got sued by the actual founders, they settled allowing him to continue) and it’ll continue to make neat electric cars moving forward. But they will lose their first mover margins as more players join and that’s gonna hurt.

It’ll continue to be a player in automotive but it’ll now be priced like it. Until it can demonstrate traction in literally anything other than making cars.
Programming -

Stick to a specific set of tools YOU are comfortable with. Don't go with the newest fad. What matters are your skills and concepts. Not what tool you use. A skilled craftsman can use very basic tools to build impeccable creations while a naive one with the latest fancy tools can create junk. So don't jump editors, just learn the one you are comfortable with and do is in much depth.

Math -

Don't look for the golden trick. Just solve more and more problems and you will eventually get good at recognizing patterns.
Ask HN: Recommendations for emotive piano music?
I've only recently started to appreciate piano music and would love to increase my repertoire.

I'm open to anything, from classical to contemporary, pop to metal, doesn't have to be purely instrumentals either.

Look forward to hearing any and all of your recommendations!
You're welcome to read the Quick Start docs, it's pretty short

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/1.2-maint/quickstart.ht...
> Most of the market is down, outside of energy and defense sectors. Tech and tech related things have taken a massive hit.

While that's true, if you look at S&P 500, or even just a bunch of tech stocks like GOOG or MSFT, it's pretty clear Tesla is doing much worse still.

https://i.imgur.com/JbbyghN.png
It's the reason you should have host blocking on your device, but help a friend with hosts blocking on your network.
You have played and won the available finite games, now maybe look for some of the infinite ones?
Probably no waiting. When Ford stock is $8 and Tesla is $200…
Honestly, even as a meat eater I think a good bean burger tastes better than 90% of those "fake meat" burgers. The long time vegetarians I know were annoyed when restaurants started replacing vegetarian food for vegetarians with vegetarian food for "new vegetarians" and flexatarians.
> This super-villain narrative of Musk is hilariously comical. Where is it coming from?

That's easy: people who disagree with his recent political shift. It's extremely obvious, because I see it primarily among the progressives in my circle.
To me it looks like: "Musk is rude, evil, hard to work with but a product genius (Tesla, SpaceX)".

Now with no direction of Twitter, fumbling features and losing customers and users, the "product genius" fell apart.
If you are right, then this is a MASSIVE buy opportunity.

1) does anyone else have the battery and EV production capacity of Tesla? Maybe some Chinese makers ... maybe?

2) are they releasing new models and continuing to scale production? Yes.

3) is the exigent need of electrifying transportation still at red alert klaxon level? Oh yes.

4) does anyone else have as good a drivetrain tech yet? Not really, the lead is likely shrinking rapidly.

The fact that twitter is impacting a company in an almost totally unrelated industrial area shows that there is massive irrationalism around Tesla.
> Does SwiftUI really count as native on the Mac? My experience is that Apple has not invested enough for that to be true

https://blog.timac.org/2022/1005-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-...

iOS 16.0 included 226 SwiftUI apps. Several highly promoted features (such as complications on the Lock Screen and widgets) are now only possible using SwiftUI.

Some new SwiftUI only frameworks (like Swift Charts) developed directly from internal Apple teams creating new SwiftUI apps, and factoring out useful components.

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

SwiftUI is not a wrapper around AppKit controls, although that is/was how some SwiftUI views are authored. Likewise, some recently added AppKit controls are actually wrapped SwiftUI views.

There is an ongoing effort to unify macOS and iPadOS which became much more noticeable at the UX level in macOS 11. It is unfortunately difficult to determine which inconsistencies are deficiencies in SwiftUI and which are the "legacy" behavior of AppKit.

Since SwiftUI is a system framework, we only see its evolution in spurts on an annual schedule.
I read 2 of the 20 pages of the dissent and the dissent in Wikipedia. And guess what, the common sense judgement was correct.

Thomas dissent involved clerical, Kafkaesque beuracratic objections while fundamentally ignoring the right of a citizen to know the law. The very notion of selling the copyright for laws and judgements to a monopoly private party is ridiculous. The other objection is the grievance that a private party can't profit off annotations. Again, quite laughable. The court can simply pay a fee to any private party that helps with annotation. There is also a ridiculous idea in there that granting a monopoly will improve the quality of annotations (through the lack of competition?!!!!) This is high school level reasoning.

Yeah, the dissents were ridiculous and not worth the time I spent reading them.

Others are free to waste their time like I did, but would advise them not to. They should simply ignore the dissent as it is ridiculous. It can help in lowering the prestige of the Supreme court, but the abortion judgement based off "states rights" already took care of that. The Supreme court sounds like a political jerk fest at this point.

At this point, I suspect I have read more than everyone else in this thread. And it was a waste, except that it helped me question Thomas's sanity.
Was the food adequate?

How was the prison library?

What did you learn from the experience?

My passenger [0] says the Maricopa jail wouldn't be so bad, if the food was better than 2 inedible meals a day.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34157865