skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Elon Tragedy is complex and multi-layered. The article goes into some depth regarding the advantages of a direct sales model, home chargers, and the SuperCharger network. Who, after all, wants to deal with car salesmen and the weird, politically perverted incentive structure behind conventional car dealers? Bravo for breaking that. And there are many other things that are purely good that Elon has made happen.

Then there is a hype-based layer for the gullible: Humans will live on Mars. Agile project management is appropriate for building the biggest-ever rocket. Huge rockets can be launched multiple times per day. There is a viable market for an internet in orbit, launched by this huge rocket that is increasingly looking like a Space Spruce Goose. Etc.

But then there is the scammy, evil layer that goes beyond hype into selling people a fantasy of "self-driving" that kills. Or announcing laid off employees will get severance and not delivering. Or running unethical experiments that don't adhere to regulations regarding primate research animals. Promoting a known-to-fail tunnel transport model to stop a rail project. Etc.

It was not a foregone conclusion that the bad outweighs the good. But then Elon sealed the deal by letting all the neofascists, misogynists, Putinists, anti-vaxxers, etc. back on Twitter and then making it clear he agrees with them. And on top of that it all looks like an extended-play tantrum over being made to conclude the deal to buy Twitter, which is one of the most financially ruinous errors in history.

Now almost every unlikely thing Elon has said would happen looks like a fraud. Nobody will cut him slack. Say "Teslabot" out loud and people will look at you like a pitiable fool.
Yeah, between poor customer service, massive wage theft, understaffed locations, and excessive security that ruins the customer experience, it's not surprising they have challenges.
I imagine that it might already know how to answer that question for non-Github related texts, which presumably are often not programs. I'd be more interested to see what it responds to "What programming language is this written in?" to see if it will question the premise of the question (although there's always that it might make an educated guess that the poem is valid Perl!)
Apex: Project Scaffolding and Code Generation
There are just too many gatekeepers and too many people who are used to doing things a certain way. The world is just more populous now. We also need to make sure that people can speak their minds freely and write freely without worrying about getting cancelled.
Maybe as an edge case. I think this argument underestimates survival instincts.
Markets would be better and more efficient with that information public. Also, no need for a few people to rack up billions by holding secrets

Think about sota deep learning models. Much better that everyone knows about hot chat gpt works.
There's a semi-retired craftsman I watch regularly on youtube - Essential Craftsman. Almost all long-term success stories in the trades which he tells directly or gets from his friends involve transitioning from a tradesman to an employer.

You're selling your health and body as a tradesman. If you can make the transition to running a trades business, then you're selling your brainpower more than your body.

Success stories in the trades are fairly consistent in this matter.
I never understood how self-driving could not have been seen as race to bottom. At least if there was more than one platform in competition. It would happen in both selling vehicles and in offering their services. There is enough people that are very price sensitive and would go for cheapest option. Just look at airline market.
First ChatGTP, now this. Geez, wouldn't wanna be Google right now.
Some will, for sure. But plenty of others will struggle severely or even enter into depression.

Productive work is a major factor in psychological well-being. And a lot of people have spent their career being a highly specialized expert in one thing.

Expecting them to abandon that for a year or more in order to instead contribute "entry-level skills" at something else can be difficult. It's already known how retirement can lead to depression and a painful feeling of emptiness -- imagine how much worse that can be in the prime middle of your career.

It's not about the money or whether GDP measures something or not. It's about the ability to contribute what you're best at, where your excellence lies, or having that ability taken away. For many people, there isn't any kind of easy substitute for their primary area of expertise.
First sentence: not what was said. But note that microwave towers have been in use for mission-critical long-range all-weather point-to-point communication on earth for many, many decades. My late father helped design some of them.

What would the minimum power loss be for thick cloud/hurricane? Dunno.
It's very Germany-specific, the whole "commercial distribution" bullshit is what enables the cottage industry of blackmail lawyers
The dust settled, that's what I'm saying. We already know how much people care about their privacy and free speech; they don't.

Also, I have no idea what Mastodon's significance is in this conversation. Did I miss something?
In essence, HR is the buffer between humans and systems. They create the systems that allow humans to do things like work and be compensated for their work, or to work in an environment where they can expect not to be harassed—at baseline. They clean up everyone's mess when the interface between human and system is compromised.

If a system breaks down, it's HR's job to figure out how to handle the errors. Every company's HR will encounter unwinnable situations where all HR can do is remember the "error code" for next time and, if they're lucky, create systems or policies that prevent it from happening again.

Some (very few) companies have more thoughtfully designed systems that enable the HR team to act proactively on behalf of the employees.

And some (most) companies are poorly structured such that the system is constantly breaking and it's HR's job to keep the company's cadence going as best they can.

I'm guessing most people in this thread have experienced more of the latter.
Exactly my thought, if a company has lawyers legal-wise, they also has HR social-wise. Same kind of justice
Reminds me of the skateboards in Snow Crash.
In the video it said something about running data through a neuromuscular model. And: "Our AI uses machine learning algorithms to adapt to a user's walking gaits, making them an extension of people's legs."

For all that, the person's gait looks strange to me, like they aren't using their muscles normally. Maybe they are focused on landing the skate evenly on the wheels, or not getting off balance? Walking gait involves heel-strike and toe-lift-off phases and I would think if you mess with these they aren't going to feel comfortable after wearing a while.
From my perspective, it's very clear from your tone why you and HR don't get
along. Professionalism is probably not your strong suit.
i'm not confusing them. i know what i wrote. humans cannot avoid using IP from previous companies. what's your background ? (are you technical?) and there's more to this than existing big companies and their disposable funding.
If something unethical works doesn't mean it should be condoned.
I can get more specific, but yes, I believe based on what I read of the article, that he gives the discipline of law, and lawyers, too much credit.

I do think legal academia is superior to legal practice, so I think if one is exposed only to the former, the field does seem good and competent.
Scalene: A Python memory profiler with AI-powered optimization proposals
Perfect example of what should be: show, don't tell

Don't talk to me for 5 minutes about what your shoes do, I know what shoes do. Show me people walking through common obstacles, going around sharp corners, up and down inclines, up and down stairs, and stopping on a dime when need be. All that around 10s of other people both wearing these and normal shoes.

If you can't do that, it's because you can't. Because your product is stupid.
I tried to double click into this but I think there's an impedance mismatch. When you have the bandwidth, can you ping me back with some extra color on how this phrase fits in with synergistic corporate jargon?
Conditional Self Driving would be a more accurate name, then.
> But in any case, in absence of a good faith basis to a discussion

I do agree to the absence of good faith in this discussion. My comments have real experiences and cost estimations directly pointing to statements made by the other side. The other side of the conversation makes accusations of being disconnected from reality without actually giving examples, never actually addresses any questions, never actually gives any counter examples, etc. Perhaps we can both learn to be better communicators?

I did go a bit off topic talking about EGR systems, I kind of lost focus on EVs for a second there and talked cars in general. But either way, an EV is going to have computers to actually drive the electric motor effectively, a BMS, etc. Otherwise you're going to have some bad range, you're driving experience is probably going to be pretty poor, and you're not going to be able to really interface with any public chargers.

If you'd answer even one question, can you actually estimate how much an average car would save if they went without the "make a car a phone" stack? What kind of equipment do you propose they actually remove, and what do you think that equipment costs? I'd truly like to understand where you're coming from with that, because from what I see its <10% of the cost of a car.

And maybe I'm disconnected from reality, but the average new car sold today is now $40k, despite the Mirage still being sold for ~$16k. If there was really a massive market for cheap cars and I'm just too disconnected to notice, wouldn't Mitsubishi be moving a lot more Mirages?
It launched successfully.

I’ll point out that a space-based solar array with a microwave power downlink was on the front cover of IEEE Spectrum around 1971. The article ran the numbers and pointed out the technical challenges.

So, this idea is not new, but it hasn’t gained enough support over the last fifty years to get a project off the ground.
Laid-Off Twitter Workers Remain in Limbo over Severance Pay
A Mass Extinction Is Taking Place in the Human Gut
Yep. Most people do not believe me, when I tell them that having even 10k USD on their person is asking for trouble. Sometimes I wonder if people understand the world they operate in.

Then I remember more and more people pay with plastic or phone and it kinda starts to click.
I think these could find a niche in large cities with a lot of tourism. Being able to see twice the city by foot would be incredible when you have limited time on vacation. Many people tried to do this with Segways but it never really took off. This seems a lot better.
ytdl is one of its dependencies

You clearly didn't even skim the readme to see what this does
I can guarantee you that this doesn't work well on anything other than perfectly cleared sidewalks and freshly paved roads.

Could not imagine workplace lawsuits that will happen when someone falls and alleges shoe was at fault.

Seems cool, not worth the hassle .
> It isn't a bad career

But there is a finite end to the career - when your body gives out.

That's the biggest problem with the trades, you're selling your health and body. And eventually the body parts will wear out, on a schedule decided as much by genetics as how you live.
Because you can just copy/paste the database file?
It's still common among recruiters and staffing companies. Back in the mid-2000s when I was last looking for jobs, it was the bane of my existence to be summoned as a "Linux resource" or something...
The criticism was on the country, representing its system of academic publications, not on Chinese people and characteristics unique to their genetics or similar.

Your argument is similar to calling anybody an antisemite who criticizes Israels politics. You're rightfully being downvoted.
The main time I see them make sense is with very skill-based, client-based practices like accounting. You're likely giving this hire a lot of clients, and you don't want him leaving in two years and taking half the clients with them.
My previous mailman was the walk, door to door type. There's all kinds of challenges...terrible roads, gravel, mud, having to walk through grass, etc.

I'm really skeptical these wouldn't just gum up after a few days.
I have a very similar experience about a decade later in a follow-up organization to the SVAZARM/pioneer ones.

By that point the control line planes were just hanging from the ceiling and detonation engines were on the way out with glow spark replacing them mostly. People also had general acces to multi channel RC and we had one vintage "communist era" single channel on/off RC set as a curiosity. :-)
I guess that's true. FWIW, because this chart only goes back ten years, it's not like there's some obvious trend with WalMart (as an example) where as revenue increased, margins went up: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/profit.... In fact, as revenue went up, margins went down-ish.

The comparison I would still draw is to pure software businesses where they:

a) Pay almost nothing per unit
b) Increase in value the more users they have (due to more software for the platform, for example, and greater compatibility)
c) Directly lead to significant productivity/efficiency gains in their customers, which they can then claim a piece of

If a retailer becomes a near-monopolist, short of monopoly pricing, they will generate margins that tend towards the average for retail (which are low!), and they will grow at close to the rate of economic growth.

In comparison, if a software company becomes a near-monopolist, even without monopoly pricing, their margins will increase and their utility will increase.
> this is just one microwave frequency. You don't have to use that one

The atmosphere is almost transparent to long-wavelength microwave [1]. The tradeoff is in power density.

[1] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/RemoteSensing/rem...
Unless your company is so tiny that the HR person is wearing many hats, the credit limit on your corp credit card is set by the finance team and likely has nothing at all to do with HR.

Although a $50 (!?) limit on a credit card sounds more like somebody at the bank fucked up.
You have to wait for us to get to merging them, but you can speed that up by emailing hn@ycombinator.com. You can also express a view about which URL is the better basis for discussion - we're open to advice about that.
Ask HN: GPT Travel Agent
I am considering building a GPT-based travel agent that can plan super customized travel itineraries for people based on their age, interests, timeline, budgets, and other factors using a simple interface.

My concern here is the CaC of travel agents is competitive and also even with guided prompts, it seems like a commodity if not via GPT directly, via (probably) eventually, open source prompts.

Any thoughts?
Nexus and Pixel devices are top of the line phones that are famously well supported by ROMs, the sort of "check for support in advance" I mentioned.

Unofficial builds are not the "exact same", else they would be official builds. Unofficial builds are usually distributed without source (let alone working build instructions) as opaque blobs that you have to trust some random XDA user, with no verifiable background, didn't do anything too horrible to. At best, you're pretty much guaranteed to be getting a build without selinux enabled; at worst, you're getting straight up malware.

quick edit to clarify: the "too much work" I mentioned before was the rare instance where there is source, and you have to build yourself to get anything trustworthy
LiteSync – Easy synchronization of SQLite databases
These look like they would have the same risks as electric scooters, all while remaining invisible to everyone around you. Hope to be proved wrong but these look like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Why do they use a walking motion, vs planting your feet while using the motors?

Why keep batteries in the shoes instead of a back or fanny pack?

The staggered wheels to handle cracks and bumps without large wheels seems like a good innovation, would they work with unpowered skates?
"Trade Secrets" have always sounded like a form of protectionism to me, anyway. If you believe software patents shouldn't exist, then you should follow the same logic to lead to the conclusion that trade secrets shouldn't exist either. Both are expressions of business processes that shouldn't otherwise be restricted by blanket clauses or gag orders.

To me (a non-lawyer and non-legal scholar), an NDA seems more appropriately legal than a non-compete agreement, because it at least depends on enforcing a specific action rather than blanket gagging a person's ability to do an entire job where they might not necessarily disclose pertinent information.

It begs the question, where is the line between NDA and non-compete? If I have an NDA and then go to a competitor,
my former employer still has a right to enforce that NDA, but how would they ever determine (prove) I violated it? I guess this difficulty is where the justification for non-compete comes in, but I think the onus should be on the employer. It's not fair to the employee if the employer can just blanket forbid them from working somewhere because they might disclose some information to their new employer in a violation of an NDA which the old employer is either too lazy or incapable to detect.
Is it possible for a lunar eclipse to occur before sunset?
I had already discounted the measure as being too prone to sampling error to be useful. I don't think these things are really measurable, and even if you did measure it, "disruption" and "consolidation" are such subjective terms it would be arguable to have a single-dimensional slider that went between those extremes.

Probably best to just say some of the greatest discoveries are both disruptive, and consolidating.
Doesn’t D require a GC to achieve the safety guarantees that Rust provides without one, and many third-party libraries require this GC? Just looking over a comparison between them on Reddit.
If you do not care about system crashes, why sync at all?

Well, you have to sync sometime if you care about persist your data at all, right?

And there are scads of use cases where you want to:

- persist data

- enforce some sort of schema (even though SQLite is lax here)

- query/join it in SQL-y ways

- are willing to trade ACID-compliant journaled durability in exchange for performance

Cache stores are maybe the most obvious use case. This is roughly how Redis is configured out of the box after all (sans the SQL) IIRC. Not ideal if your cache is trashed but also, not a huge deal.

There are also a lot of logging/timeseries type applications where it's just not a big deal if you lose, say, a few minutes of data per year.
A typical walking pace is 2.5-4mph.

A 250% increase would then be 6.75 to 10mph, which is a jog to a run.

I wonder how stable these are at speed vs a kick scooter or an electric city bike? At some point, I'd think the larger two-wheeled mobility devices would actually be more stable vs trying to hop from foot-to-foot?
Family of four with two kids ages 10 and 15 with a budget of $5,000 wants to plan a vacation in the US consisting of four days. Prepare an itinerary for them.

Day 1:
- Fly into New York City
- Visit the Empire State Building
- Tour Central Park
- Visit Times Square
- Enjoy a Broadway show

Day 2:
- Take a day trip to Washington D.C.
- Visit the White House
- Tour the National Mall
- Visit the Smithsonian Museums
- Explore the monuments and memorials

Day 3:
- Drive to Hershey, Pennsylvania
- Visit Hershey's Chocolate World
- Take a tour of the Hershey's Chocolate Factory
- Visit ZooAmerica
- Enjoy an amusement park ride

Day 4:
- Drive to Philadelphia
- Tour the Liberty Bell
- Visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Visit the Reading Terminal Market
- Enjoy a river cruise on the Delaware River

What hotel should they stay in?

The family should stay in the Hampton Inn Manhattan/Times Square South. This hotel is conveniently located in the heart of Manhattan and is within walking distance to many of the attractions and activities they will be visiting. The hotel offers comfortable rooms with all the amenities, complimentary breakfast, and a 24-hour fitness center.
Non-binary DDR5 memory could be a game-changer for businesses everywhere
That's not exactly true. From my understanding, what happened is that the maintainer for this project went on vacation in April 2022, and didn't reply to messages from the kernel team. [0]

But we can indeed see plenty of work being done by devs. [1]

So, I don't know what to think, I haven't kept with more specific stuff, but is the work done not being merged since? I couldn't tell without serious grepping.

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/ntfs3/da20d32b-5185-f40b-48b8-298692...

[1]: https://github.com/Paragon-Software-Group/linux-ntfs3/commit...
yeah and how exactly do you prove it happened ? and where did you get all this money to litigate? I dont believe you yet understand the problem.
It's pretty clear that the service was a failure. The company was formed in 2015, two years before Substack. They were acquired by Twitter in Jan 2021. Two years later they pretty much have nothing to show for it, while Substack has become the dominant blogging/newsletter platform.
I don't know if "human-level" makes sense to me either.

We already have human-level AI in plenty of areas, from chess to illustration to translation. A pocket calculator is human-level at arithmetic. Some flow-control monitoring software in a water treatment plant is human level at monitoring flow control. You could enumerate any number of skills in which software already meets or exceeds human levels, but even if you had a single AI that could do all of those things at a human level it would just feel like a bloated piece of software with a bunch of specialized modules that didn't add up to "real intelligence".

The only thing that I can think of which would suffice is human-type intelligence, rather than human-level intelligence. That is, a machine which is intelligent in a way that reminds us of humans. It's the Potter Stewart test for intelligence: "you know it when you see it". I don't know what else would end the debate.

To be clear, this is related to the argument about what AGI means, not whether that's a relevant topic to discuss, not whether we have systems which can solve useful problems, etc.
By this argument you are validating the invalid type of argument GP is making.
In the US, "spook" can be a derogatory word for black people. It came about in the 1940's and while not extremely common today, this context is familiar enough that I'd second the suggestion to rethink the name/brand.
My Dad was forced to retire early as a network engineer after the small (5 person) RSA consulting shop he was working for actively threatened his livelihood with a non-compete. No one in the industry would touch him because of how aggressively and proactively the owner of the shop was defending the non-compete.

I offered my financial resources and network to help him fight it, but he was nearing the end of his career and just didn't have the energy to fight. He now delivers dry cleaning at $15/hr just to get out of the house.

Non-competes can't die fast enough.