skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What is your opinion on Tesla's work culture?
https://www.lioness.co/post/at-spacex-work-was-taken-away-from-me-in-case-i-might-retire-or-die

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leylamohammed/elon-musk-yelled-rich-crowd-booed-dave-chappelle

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9856537/amp/Elon-Musks-explosive-temper-overworked-Tesla-staff-revealed-new-book.html

I could be drinking Mai Tai's with naked supermodels but instead I'm here with you!' New book reveals how Elon Musk would fire overworked Tesla staff on the spot during ferocious meltdowns

I'm disappointed with Musk because of the way he treats experienced older professionals :(

I have heard that you should be motivated to go beyond the job and higher productivity is a norm.
If it’s unenforceable, why would anyone care?
First chapter of Ministry for the Future- incredibly powerful and harrowing.

Every following chapter- terrible, not worth your time.
Here you go…

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02138-x
> And honestly I am very pro-science but the “do no harm” bias in medicine makes me fundamentally question a lot of the recommendations.

It's really not that - people have a fundamental desire to take action to mitigate tail risk even when that action poses more actual risk. You have to look at risk-reward tradeoff across the population. Treating the entire population for a disease very few of them have will almost certainly yield more (and potentially more harmful) realized side-effects than the actual primary effects being caused by the disease itself. Especially when patients aren't seeking treatment, so are most likely asymptomatic.

Ditto testing low-risk populations for all sorts of conditions they mostly don't have. Even a test that is 99% accurate in a high-incidence population is going to be utterly ineffective when applied to the general population. Bayes theorem tells us this. The side effects up to and including death of investigating or treating these false positives adds up to a real net-negative situation.

If it was even an eency weency bit better to treat in the US I would say they would overwhelmingly do so because they'd be sued into the ground otherwise.

tl;dr: especially when it comes to treatments, action is not always better than inaction. Generally, the US medical system tends towards action.
Just wondering why wasn’t it noticed in a CT or MRI scan? Flesh too similar to that of a human Brain?
A massive failure judging by the numbers. Which is my point. We will continue to feel bad, maybe drop in some metaphorical traffic circles, but do nothing to actually solve the issue.
Did you not parallelize your migrations?
If access to moderators is the metric of success, Wikipedia claims to have ~900 moderator accounts currently. Reddit, in 2017, claimed to have ~75,000 moderators. Unfortunately the later figure is severely dated, but has Reddit really lost over 74,000 moderator accounts since? That seems unlikely.

Perhaps Wikipedia has never been successful, just something that has managed to continue to exist?
My scepticism was clearly not well enough signalled, apologies.

To be clear I agree "waste money to avoid applying basic database techniques" is A Bad Thing!
More people die of cold than heat, a fact that never comes up in talks about climate change.

Obviously there's a limit, but based on the data about lives lost due to cold vs. warm temps, we should expect increased global temps to first save human lives since a lot more people freeze to death.
I subscribe to The Economist and really enjoy it (I like The Guardian too which has quite different politics and certainly has a better sports page) but one notable thing is they have a list of editorials that they recycle periodically, if you weren't a regular subscriber you might think this opinions are fresh but they're not. This one has been added to the rotation recently.
> with features down to 7 microns

.. the 6502 was initially manufactured at 8 micron. I'm sure there are all kinds of differences between being able to produce some features at 7 microns and being able to reliably handle ~3-4k gates at 8 micron (and I'd love it if someone were to explain how far - or close - he might be from that given this) but it's still pretty amazing it's even in the ballpark.
The problem with Europe is that it is not and never will be a single country. If you ad up the defense spending of all European countries it would on paper have a military that could rival China and the US.
That was discontinued (like multiple times under different names). And is moved into a git fork. https://github.com/microsoft/git
I love airship ideas! In your message you don’t comment on safety and fire risk, which is what I’d bet most people want to hear about given the public perception of H2 airships.

How are you addressing safety with your design?
One day there was a hurricane where I lost everything I worked for for 20 years.

I was 45 so it set me back to when I was only 25, actually when you think about it opportunities were great back then.

Putting it in perspective for instance others who were devastated and truly lost everything completely, but had only built their resources over a period of 10 years, well I lost twice what they did, and it would take twice as long to recover no matter what.

I'm lucky I still had my truck which I had been able to park up on some higher pavement, the water line had actually gotten above the floorboard but the door seals kept it out.

Ever since there have been hundreds of desperate souls scattered at busy intersections across the city asking for change to aid in their survival activities, like never before.

And it looks like the need has never let up, I would be driving around, and stop at a light where somebody who had absolutely nothing would be in need of some generous help.

Doing the math it worked out that, if I worked 12 hours a day 7 days a week for the next two years, then I would finally have nothing myself.
"The best" is kind of subjective. Best in terms of what, performance? flexibility?

You might want to check out https://awesomestacks.dev or https://project-awesome.org/stackshareio/awesome-stacks#back...

Hope those helps.
IIS and ASP was harder to provision programatically. It was all GUI based.

At the time some saw it as an advantage, today everyone agrees that it does not scale
Yes. I interviewed 10ish grad schools, and some were clearly more supportive than others. Either in terms of the personalities of professors, or in the policies around funding and graduation. I chose a school where I thought I would be happy as well as successful. And unlike many of my peers, I (and most of my cohort) graduated in a reasonable time without any of the horror stories so common in grad school.
Fill a bath and get in it. The groundwater is usually much colder than the air.

However there is a limit to how long you can live in the bath.
Further info on that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disbandment_of_the_RNZAF_air_c...
Isn't the entire point of blockchain and proof-of-work to prevent forks?
Prepositions are pretty arbitrary in all the languages I know. Often there is more than one option with slightly different connotations or even denotations. Like for example “on time” vs “in time.”
SEC charges Impact Theory for unregistered offering of NFTs
I help my kids with homework, 5 minutes here and there. Seems like that shouldn't be too hard for most people, unless they literally never see their kids.
Quick google for France shows 1.83 births per woman vs USA's 1.64. So maybe there is a correlation.
Is there yet any way of having a front end for this which doesn't significantly dent your revenue stream either in staffing, infrastructure or license fees? We land over 2000 requests/second and it's expensive just keeping logs.
For 6.6 I'll be eagerly watching for bcachefs maybe being mainlined.
Well said. It's especially easy to forget about simple, natural, and poetic cadences when you live an environment whose purpose is to crush those very things, i.e. cities.
Hindenburg jokes aside, how do you ensure safety? Even if you only inspect infrastructure away from human habitation, there's still the risk of forest fires and such if there is an accident.
Before him there was John Mack, the Harvard professor who turned serious attention toward alien abduction stories and was the world's leading authority on them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Mack#Psychology_of_ali...
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aliens/johnmack.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/magazine/john-mack.html
How does one stop getting infected?

Your comment is so full of emotion and offers zero insight into how to actually achieve it - therefore, it’s pretty safe to say your advice isnt helpful here.

Masks and vaccinations dont prevent infections in a meaningful way. This is backed by real data and anecdotal data.
I like many things about the language but haven’t yet written a significant amount of code in it to properly evaluate it. V feels a lot like Go. Plus a language that can replace C/C++ for bare metal programming.
> It is super easy to mess up with these. Drop a pack, drop a sliver of wire or interconnect ribbon, misplace a tool and you have a thermal runaway on your hands which you will not be able to stop. Doing this in a facility that is not set up for it (say, your kitchen or living room, especially if it is in shared accommodation such as an apartment building) is super dangerous.

What's your point? Changing your own break pads or hydraulic fluid can very easily leave you with a runaway 2-ton vehicle on your hands which you will not be able to stop. This is also super dangerous for you and the people you share space on the road with. It's still neither illegal to do nor do car manufacturers refuse to sell you either pads, rotors or fluid.

And the same is true for home reloading rifle rounds, messing with rodent poison or common cleaning chemicals.

At some point you have to trust people. Slap some warning stickers onto things, rely on the news to really drive the point home after the first person burns down their kitchen.
They also prioritize manufacturing capacity for new product at the expense of replacement parts.

Many Tesla owners have had the experience of waiting forever for replacement parts because of an accident, component failure, etc. A minor fender bender can result in having a damaged (potentially undriveable) Tesla for months whereas for other cars you're reliably back on the road in a week or less.
Under the covers.
> The idea of deworming in healthy individuals in developed countries is the domain of alternative medicine

30% of Danes have pinworm. Developed countries aren’t immune from parasites. Especially such parasites.
The prime factors of 366 are 2, 3, and 61. You'll need them, too :).
Gruen... of course!
Dang said this to you to placate you and to stop you from stoking a flame war, which is what's happening again. He wasn't endorsing your project.

He was saying there is no need for a flame war not because your language is fine, but because flame wars are not fine on HN.
There was about paragraph or so spent on that realistic response, and then huge swathes dedicated to India switching to collectivized farming (a la early Soviet Union), the world's central banks putting carbon offsets onto a blockchain, and millions of Americans willingly displacing themselves to create a giant wildlife preserve in the midwest.
Are there any solutions that use libgit2's ability to define a custom ODB backend? There are even example backends already written [1] that use RDBMSs as the underlying data store.

[1] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2-backends
If climate activists wish to change minds, they simply cannot react with apoplexy that after a generation of messaging about how "weather is not climate" that the new generation responds to catastrophic weather events with "weather is not climate"

But of course, weather isn't climate. https://www.axios.com/2023/08/14/climate-change-heat-wave-ca...

If climate activists only wish to broadcast how virtuous and smart they are for not denying The Science, by all means, look down on the uneducated unwashed masses for arguing as to whether or not a hot day or season is definitive evidence of human caused climate change -- even though that's exactly what the climate activists taught them not too long ago.
>An IP address was never supposed to be personally identifiable info.

Says who? an IP is absolutely PII from its inception. It's an identifier. "IP X is requesting xxxsite.com? That's assigned to Larry in accounting. Better call HR."

>internet will forever be under the control of a few large corps running data centers.

It alway was, is, and forever will be. Someone has to host things, this only works at scale.

>The real solution here is to completely disconnect an IP address from a person or physical location

This is called a VPN. or as I like to call it, an IP tumbler. When the major super powers no longer need it for espionage the current loopholes will be closed. The net became popular, it is by nature easy to abuse, therefore people will regulate it until it is "safe", of course it will only look that way.
At a startup I worked for, we had a cheap wireless microphone and speaker from Craigslist that we used for all-hands meetings. The UX for anybody remote (pre-pandemic, but board members did like to dial in) was terrible - IT would just place a laptop pointed at the speaker. The audio quality left a lot to be desired.

At some point, I pitched the silly idea to IT that I'd figure out what frequency the mic ran at, tune it with gqrx and an SDR, then feed it back to my own microphone using a loopback device in PulseAudio. That day, we had our best-ever voice quality on the remote call, I ended up becoming critical path for all-hands meetings.

Fast forward a few months, the only thing that saved us from building a Raspberry Pi + SDR + Zoom box was another round of funding, with which we bought a proper conferencing system.
Regulatory compliance?
Then explain the total lack of action after Sandy Hook, that Las Vegas shooting, etc
This definitely seems like a little Stockholm syndrome. You see it also when it comes to doing a chargeback against a company that defrauded you. Inevitably someone will say "But, if you do a chargeback, the company will close your account and ban you!" These people have gotten to the point where the company has stolen their money, and they still want to continue doing business with them! A lot of simping for companies that don't deserve the affection.
This is similar to what Bob Martin (Uncle Bob) has said about software testing - something that is hard to test is badly designed. In this case something that is hard to repair is badly designed. As you point out, you have to design for repairability, it doesn't just happen.
I heard about this video from an astronomer friend a few months ago. It was mostly about how Loeb's social and professional behavior matches with that of past crackpots. He does seem to leave himself open to that.

There wasn't really a material argument against his controversial hypotheses about interstellar objects. I counted an ad hominem (45 minutes of analysis of his awkward public persona), an argument from ignorance ('Omuamua is out of view so it's not possible to collect evidence for the lightsail hypothesis) and an appeal to the authority of the broader astronomical community.

He is going out and looking for evidence about IM1, and is seeking cross-validation from other labs, in a very transparent way. He's making lots of possibly inappropriately optimistic public speculations in the meantime, but I haven't seen him make any actual claims that aren't justified, which seems like the defining feature of a crackpot.
I agree that you're not going to use this approach to make a clone of Zapfino, for example.

But for 99% of fonts it's going to work fine. Kerning tables should be easy to recreate simply by rendering all pairs of characters and measuring the resulting width. And there are only a handful of common ligatures (ff, fi, etc.).

But absolutely, there's a small percentage of fonts with more advanced features that would be harder/prohibitive to reproduce this way.
My 2015's battery "died" the day after the warranty was up.

$15k for a refurbished battery from another old broken car. Once fixed, the cars resell value is at about $20k.

And they took my battery back to sell to someone else for $15k.

Definitely feel like a HUGE sucker for supporting them. This thing was $101k new.
The problem is that some of these policy decisions weren’t “mistakes”, they were deliberate politically motivated decisions.
They're children, not some neural network you can train. They're all going to learn at different rates, and individualized education in a school setting is simply not possible. You're lucky if there's a breakdown by remedial, regular, and advanced classes. Even within those, kids are going to struggle and need some help outside of class time.
Sure, but doing it commercially in the USA would be the point. Although IP laws are awfully aligned internationally by this point -- I wonder if there are differences in protections for typefaces?
People are weird about nearly all car companies... Tesla hits some other nerves and feels with electricifaction and being a new "American company" but it's the same as most other car companies. There are crappy car companies out there and there are people that will buy their cars.
Lambdas are just very thin sugar over local classes. I'm not sure what do you find so complex.
As a person who lives in an area known to have Lyme, and as an avid hiker, it is not hard to do tick checks periodically. Ticks don't embed immediately, and generally there is a window of several hours up to about half a day where you can remove a tick safely with little to no danger of infection. Even then, not all ticks carry Lyme, and not all Lyme infected ticks will pass on the disease.

If you do find an embedded tick, monitor the site after removing and disinfecting. Talk to a doctor. Getting treated for Lyme the moment symptoms become apparent (the characteristic bullseye) is going to be much better for your health (and everyone elses) than preemptively guzzling Amoxicillin every year.
Driving around in more rural Georgia, it's not uncommon to see street signs riddled with gunshot holes. I wonder if these airships would attract the same kind of mischief? I imagine a lot of the inspections are over quite remote areas, though, so that should be less of a problem.

Also, just out of curiosity, how far do your airships travel between refueling, given what you would consider normal conditions and a standard payload?
CNCF needs an OTEL log aggregator
> Every word choice should be carefully chosen

In a parallel universe words only ever have a single meaning and nobody ever misinterprets anything, but not in this one.

> and it's fair game to critique it as such

Ambiguity was not the given critique, so this statement is both true on its own and also in context a giant nonsequitur.

It's not their fault that when assessing members of the response set for "when" you neglect to consider "never".
Most observability vendors support OTEL at this point. To plug the OSS project I work on that supports OTEL ingestion:

https://github.com/grafana/tempo/
You're not required to negotiate with your electrical company to do your own electrical work, you're required to deal with the state. No one is proposing that unlimited home battery experimentation be added to the constitution. They're proposing that safety legislation shouldn't be outsourced to private industry, which is only concerned with safety to the degree which it affects profits, and is motivated to disguise profitable decisions as safety decisions.
> Why not take safety more seriously?

Because safety is a cost, not a feature.

Air travel and sea travel did not get safer because some companies got together and decided to spend a little money to advance society. Ships sank and planes crashed frequently.

Things got safer because governments took action. Look at the 737 MAX. The cause of the crashes wouldn't have been investigated and Boeing wouldn't have fixed their plane if governments hadn't taken action.

At scale, companies do not value human life, so regulations add costs to change the incentives. Otherwise human life is just another tragedy of the commons.
This is my primary objection to 3rd party kubernetes operators. I really don't care how hard something is to setup or learn to manage. I care how hard it is to recover, tune, and scale.
> We will never find invisible pink elephants secretly using mind control to backseat govern whole human population! Unless we start searching for them!

> If 20% of national gdp is not enough to find them it means we are not searching hard enough and we will keep increasing the funding until we catch those pesky elephants. /s

> You are using same logic.

What you are doing is called a strawman argument. You spin the other person's words into whichever caricature you find easiest to dismiss, and make fun of them. Instead of, you know, actually trying to understand what the other person may be saying and treating them with some respect and curiosity.

If you have something constructive to say, I will be happy to continue this conversation. For now, this will do.
If we had governments that weren't entirely corrupt for money and power, your train of thinking would be entirely rational and perfect.

But there's substantial government interest in having things like medical passports/IDs that provide them with substantial power and bureaucratic expansion (and more importantly, a huge financial win for the medical-industrial complex)

Additionally, those vaccines served as an idealogical purge mechanism where people who were willing to go against the grain and not just follow orders were drummed out of the government.

Hard to believe that they're just going to give up on this because it's the right thing to do.
Who is calling them MAGAmobiles?

A MAGAmobile is a lifted truck that rolls coal and has a huge lets go brandon decal
Serde phases out pre-compiled blobs
Having the sender do it also makes sense from an auth point of view— thinking of like a private Github repo, or something like Jira running on your corporate VPN. Presumably the sender intended to share the contents with every recipient anyway and any that don't have access still of course won't be able to click through.

But it would be pretty bad UX if the card was just blank in these cases because the messaging server didn't have access.
> otoh on the weight of the whole bike it isn't a huge problem.

Why do you say this? Non-ebikes can be sub-16 lbs; ebike battery packs can weigh, like, on the order of 50 lbs. Ebike users sometimes need to lift the bikes (up stairs at home, or on/off transit).

Battery pack weight absolutely dominates the design and utility of ebikes; any double-digit percent factor is very relevant (IMO).
I'm sure it's very subjective, but the author made a good job highlighting there are some beauties to it
You sighted two totally ineffective responses to crises. We'll do something, it just won't be what is required to actually fix the underlying problem.
Actually, we're not the only one who thought about it.
Since the 2000's some researchers or blimp enthusiasts launched research project like this. We're trying to apply it to a strong pain point in the energy industry.

Concerning the tradeoffs. It does increase leak potential but the materials and glues are in constant improvements. And, we do not need to oversize the envelope this much because the airship is extremely energy efficient and consume very little energy (during all our flight test we are always amazed when we have 80% left of battery or H2 at the end of the flights).
But yes, for now, we keep fuel and lighter than air gas separated and we will keep this possibility for a long time.

Thank you for the feedback!