skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm often confused by folks going to great lengths to "prove" stuff to HR. Why? HR works for the company / manager.

In this case, if they had fought unemployment, there was factual and objective evidence against their case. "On review, his work output was unsatisfactory". "According to Google, you never reviewed said work output."

> You can do things like switch teams internally - just put in for a switch.

This pissed me off - I could easily have switched teams, even per my manager. Until he announced that I was now on a PIP. No manager is going to approve a transfer to their team, then.

Like I said, I had no expectations that any of this would change anything with respect to my termination. I'd moved on, and wouldn't want to keep being there.

But worst case scenario: "The employee's plan said that they could do X, Y and Z. You stated that they were terminated because they didn't do X, Y and Z." "Yes." "How did you determine that?" "By reviewing those things." "But it can be demonstrated that you conducted no such review."

In my state, that would mean they'd have to demonstrate that I was actually fired for misconduct, not performance, to make me ineligible for benefits.
How Can Cardboard Be So Strong?
god help anyone slamming their head into that angled dashboard in a crash
> Does one counter-example disprove the rule?

No, NZ is an outlier. Regularly rated the least corrupt country on earth. “Basically everywhere” still holds.

Also, whilst NZ may not have explicit corruption such as bribing police directly, the grandparent post suggesting that special interests affect govt is still true. Jacinda was supposed to be the one shining hope that many believed would bring in CGT and she admitted it would never happen. The wealthy property owners (including most MPs) wouldn’t let that happen.
This whole comment was beautiful.

Especially this part:

"But to recap, my high level point is that the technical expertise is not really the money printer. The money printer is mapping market demand to technical products, which is a business skill. And that business skill is worth a lot more than technical skills. Its just a type of business skill that you find more often in developers than you do in MBA, and so we don't associate it with "business guys". But it's the most fundamental of all skills to make money from software, other than a handful of "exceptions that prove the rule"."

As an ex-shitty business guy, I taught myself how to code thinking that would solve my problems. Nope. Now I'm just a shitty business person and a shitty dev. Forcing myself to do the actual work of talking to customers now.
Do people making less than 150k buy 100k cars? I don't have a good sense for how Americans budget their vehicle purchases.
You get the credit on your taxes, enshrined in law.
> https://maps.app.goo.gl/ErBFC2oXV21oQ9U7A

That seems fair, though? That's a pretty long crossing if you include the sidewalk in the grassy area as part of one continuous crossing. If it were a median, I'd agree with you, but that's almost a small park. Just plain grass, it could use some shrubs & trees, but still.
One might call it: first world problems…
My High School had a computer lab of ~8 Apple ][s with dual floppy drives and the CPM board to run UCSD. It worked, but we were definitely limited in the number of computers we could use due to these limitations. I also had access to an HP 9835 also running USCD, so it was very familiar to me.

But part way through my class we switched from UCSD to Turbo Pascal, which only needed one floppy and just absolutely blazed. It was like a space age rocket ship.
In progress—-this is a natural for a joint effort by NIH, VA, NSF, DOE, DoD, companies, many universities across the globe.

Not just biomedical research but all of science. The effort is being managed out of Argonne National Laboratory by Rick Stevens.

https://www.anl.gov/article/new-international-consortium-for...
https://archive.ph/4ywsv
> I have a hard time seeing these kinds of predators coming.

Just imagine other people's value functions are exclusively "What's good for me?"

At worst, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
I've been burnt multiple times by this.

I think they believe in the "Build it and they will come" and then they just coordinate and tell you what to do afterwards, rather than making hundreds of cold calls (i.e. grinding).
I lost pneumatic steering during a turn, and it nearly tore my arm off. Not sure most people would be able to drive over a few mph without powered steering.

Hopefully the steer by wire systems are backed by another steer by wire system, so it would be terrible luck if you lost both at the same time.
As good as the average corporate IT security is that I've witnessed via my work, passing said data to NSA/OpenAI is the least of their issues. Far less scrupulous hackers are running amok as it is.
I do actually but that's irrelevant. It's an engineering trade-off. In a car, it's a stupid one because its built to a cost profile not a safety profile.

You can't compare a $200m Airbus to a whatever it's going to cost but is being lied about vanity machine kicked out by a vendor with a history of software problems.

Actually the risk profile is probably higher on the damn car.
TL;DR - Duke is dropping Basecamp due to 37 signals policy of people at work focusing on, you know, writing software that provides customers value, while having a policy that ppl at work not be spending their work time on causing distractions with ideological side-quests.
quickthrower2 says >"It is a HN trope to say why does company X need so many employees."<

I have not gathered the statistics that you undoubtedly have compiled. Please feel free to post them here in support of your grammar specificity for the usage of "HN trope".

There was however a post titled "Why big tech companies need so many people" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34734655

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quickthrower2 says >" Usually because you can build something that looks like it in a weekend"<

Yes, but that is a fair comparison, n'est-ce pas?
They have some mechanical bits. I think you can fly the a320 by modulating the engine thrust and using trim wheels.

The more terrifying thing about airbus is that their philosophy (like teslas) is that the computer is the ultimate decision maker.

Boeing has the philisophy that it is the pilot (with a little caveat for the 737 max mcas thing)
About 0.1% (0.001%??) of business communication might have adverse consequences for you/your company if forwarded to Microsoft or OpenAI or the NSA. The rest is absolutely fine. And you’re probably already using Gmail or Android or Chrome or Exchange365 or iOS or *something* that could theoretically forward your comms to a tech company (and the security state).

Compared to the alternative of having your colleagues think you’re a bit stupid just because you were raised speaking a language other than English, or your parents weren’t middle class… using Grammarly or ChatGPT is a no brainer. I’d support anyone using whatever tools they can to overcome discrimination and thrive.

The alternatives are:

1. Educate everyone in the company to stop discriminating against people based on language ability (impossible??)

2. Provide a local self-hosted version of the tools (although as a worker at RandomCorp, I would probably prefer to forward all my comms to Microsoft than to management!)

3. Tell people facing discrimination to just shut up and deal with it.
Okay, I'll bite :)

What's this "PC-semi-compatible" of which you speak?
A lonely crossing light may still be synchronized with the intersections ahead and behind.
Well, I might be weird but I have zero problem with it. I also would happily learn a new language if the world would agree on universal one.
Unlocking AI translation capabilities with a suite of publicly available models
It'd be too on the nose, now. Ridiculous reality isn't funny.

Although it definitely feels like there's a Silicon Valley II thread brewing with AI startups.
I don't like articles like this in general, but why would open rates be relevant here? Presumably neither email can be seen until it's opened?
Perhaps it has an extension that it installs that does this?
Yes, everyone wishes they could move unimpeded by anybody else. But, we live in a society with many different kinds of users so we accept a bit of inconvenience in the pursuit of safety.
Exactly.

In the case of the Cybertruck you can't modulate shit!
We have concrete data on this at this point, and it’s just not true that, even in these sorts of low level programs, everything ends up unsafe.

And beyond that, rust has many features that are useful separate from memory safety.

https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/ being just one example.

That said I have no opinion if they should write this driver in Rust or not, I simply do not know about the details. But in general, “it’s too low level and so tons of unsafe and so therefore Rust is useless” is at least arguable, if not just fully incorrect, as a general point.
Salton Sea area could produce enough lithium for 375M electric car batteries
I was thinking Model X. Tesla has all but forgotten they make a Model X. It is incredibly dated, incredibly flawed, and has a reputation for being an awful SUV from a maintenance and gremlins perspective.

But this decision makes sense if you consider the CT to be the replacement. Perfect for soccer moms and weekend warriors. Comfortable enough for day to day use and taking the family on a weekend trip, while still fitting your entire Costco haul.
I mostly consider languages as a mere tools like a screwdrivers. But yet there is that warm fuzzy feeling when I remember lying my hands on Turbo Pascal. Comparatively to other "high level" tools of the time it was at the different level.

Happy Birthday
> trucks are huge now due to various fuel efficiency regulations

Correct.

It's because of "...the fine print of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards adopted in 1975, Gerald Ford’s reluctant response to a crippling Middle East oil embargo that sent gas prices soaring. To protect American commerce, work trucks and light trucks were subject to less-strict CAFE standards than family sedans. Trucks are also exempt from the 1978 gas guzzler tax, which adds $1,000 to $7,700 to the price of sedans that get 22.5 or fewer miles to the gallon.

Those incentives encouraged American car manufacturers to double down on trucks. But the CAFE standards also had a more subtle and far-reaching effect: They pushed carmakers to broaden the definition of truck.

“'Cars and light trucks had two different standards. It became easier to meet the standard with trucks. So automobile manufacturers thought of ways to basically build trucks that are really cars, and that’s what generated the SUV,' said Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Christopher Knittel, who has spent much of his career tracing the unintended consequences of government fuel regulations."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/07/trucks-ou...
sama owns the cars. not in a financial sense, of course.

you pay rent for the opportunity to use the new best version of a car, probably.

it has been decided / determined that the windows increased drag, supposedly for the sake of safety and comfort, and that isn’t viable in the current economic climate.

(the engine was quantified as redundant.)

that will be another $20.
Man, you're talking about this guy like he wasn't directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people. I don't think there's any way to justify that unless you are a full on nazi. Kissinger killed 150,000 people in Cambodia when the country had a total population of 700,000. How anyone can look at that and say shit like "Oh you just disagree with his solution to the problem" is so beyond me to understand. What was the problem? That there were too many Cambodian children still alive? Fuck off.
You are undervaluing non-tech skills.

Ironic given that you are commenting on a vid where tech is undervalued; plus your comments are getting flagged for your communication skills.

I suggest you learn not to make the same mistake as those plonker non-tech guys.
Having used LLMs to solve tech problems, I would not trust the current state, or even GPT5, to reliably solve anything other than the most trivial of trivialities.

Is the idea that in 2025, AWS will have an AI console where a non-technical founder types in what they want their site to do, and the LLM takes care of the rest? Register domains, build out the database/backend/auth/frontend, etc.?

I really can't see it happening in 2025, or 2035, without some pretty big leaps forward, the kinds of leaps that may never be possible.
Honestly what surprised me the most from your very informative link was that France is lower than the US! I'm probably biased but I've always considered the French education system to be quite rigorous and well rounded, with a few different education paths to fit different student profiles from a pretty early stage. Especially compared to canada, which in my experience has a rather weak and rigid curriculum.

(Though I dislike the way french and European higher education in general works. You're basically boxed in to your specific domain or degree that you often don't even really choose and changing or switching careers is almost impossible. The choices you make in high school basically define what you can even study in, and thus what you can do for the rest of your life. I think that's one thing the US does super well, even more so considering that degrees are less important there in the first place.)
Looks like it’s 8” wider and 24” longer, with a box that’s 6” shorter. To be fair on the length/box size, mine was one of the “club cab” ones with the two sideways-facing backseats and no rear doors. Great for throwing the dogs in the back seat but not so good for passengers. It would probably have been an option but I bought the Tacoma a year before the Maverick was released.
finally an article that gives more context on the five minute window between avocados being not ripe and then shortly after they're rotten ;)
I also notice that unsprung weight was not mentioned. The "Uniwheel" clearly has advantages over CV joints, but it also looks like a significant increase in unsprung weight.

They also gloss over "splitting the motor". It looks like 4 individual wheel motors, which would indeed be optimal for the torque vectoring that they mention.

Still, looks like a very cool development. I hope it works out to be a real advance
Rivian has better range despite being heavier, and is generally more useful and practical.

I happen to own two Rivians (S & T), definitely dubious purchases.. but not compared to a Cybertruck!

Btw the Tesla graffiti font is extremely disappointing, completely illegible and not even cool looking. How did marketing sign off on this?

Edit: @LightBug LoL!
solid points. As a D&D nerd, might I offer that this is more along the lines of AGW (Artifical General Wisdom) than Artificial General Intelligence? Intelligence seems mode closely related to "IQ" as in (mechanical) "ability to solve a problem". But wisdom is knowing when to solve the problem and maybe when not to solve it, or which problem to solve. And of course, those times when instead of solving it, way better to talk about it with your fellow nerds on HN!!
No, because there is actually such a thing as a bad employee. Labor laws are not a get out of jail free card for being bad at your job. Firing people is not actually illegal.

PIPs actually work if they provide evidence that someone actually cannot do the job they were hired to do.

That all the employees put on such PIPs fail would be evidence that they are doing a good job of identifying bad employees to fire, not that they don't actually know how to improve performance.
There is a simple solution for making these buttons accessible for all, and we have them in the UK.

It’s a simple button that clicks, and under the panel there’s a small knob that rotates. Click the button, then place your fingers on the knob and wait for it to start spinning. I can’t tell you if the crossing call button is completely broken (although you’ll figure that out if wait long enough), but broken call buttons in the UK are pretty rare, I’ve only encountered a small handful of broken buttons over 20 years.
> you can specify a link to have no referrer : `<a href="example.com" rel="noreferrer">link</a>` , among other ways.

But you wouldn't do that if you want the link to resolve. If you don't want it to work, why would you go to all of the trouble of creating the link in the first place?
What's the functional literacy rate though?
Do you work in private equity or something where you buy out businesses and run them?

I'm technically a type 3, but an idiot one that wasted a lot of time chasing sexy ideas with no connection real-world problems. Trying to get better now.
Don't listen to feedback from VCS who pass on investing
> The person I most feel sorry for is Linda Yaccarino, CEO and head of advertising at X.

Why? It's not like she was at Twitter when Musk bought it. She knew what she was signing up for. If she didn't, she's a moron. I feel sorry for all the H1B engineers getting the short end of the deal now that the tech job market is shit. Linda is going to be fine.
First AI minister likens overregulation to refusal to adopt the printing press
This would be strange since macOS should not let Chrome load libraries that aren’t signed by Google.
Using an LLM to query my notes
Every compiler flag indicates a place where somebody failed.

Those are either compiler implementators, language or standard designers, or all of them.

>When compiling C or C++ code on compilers such as GCC and clang, turn on these flags for detecting vulnerabilities at compile time and enable run-time protection mechanisms:

>-O2 -Wall -Wformat=2 -Wconversion -Wtrampolines -Wimplicit-fallthrough \
>-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 \
>-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS \
>-fstrict-flex-arrays=3 \
>-fstack-clash-protection -fstack-protector-strong \
>-Wl,-z,nodlopen -Wl,-z,noexecstack \
>-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now

Christ.
I wonder where Sam Altman would (objectively) fit and where he and others think he fits.
Everything you can do on screen whilst driving, you can do via voice control.
Sounds like a chicken-and-egg problem: how do you get the $300k to pay this Wharton grad? (And BTW, trusting a Wharton grad with legal work is a very bad idea — bschool teaches networking, not legal skills. Even a law school graduate would not be prepared to be the lawyer at a startup — 2+ years of relevant legal experience would be required.)
They taught Pascal in high school, for my AP Computer Science course. We used Turbo Pascal on PS/2 model 30's. There were no hard drives in the machines! The teacher handed out floppies at the start of the class. By that point, I already knew C but it was still fun learning a new language.
The tendency to instantly and liberally invent and use acronyms like this is very annoying and a poor communication style.

I think they mean Stable Video Diffusion.
Bruce Momjian: Indexing TIMESTAMPs
I'm no musk apologist... but Covidflation has got to be accounted for as well.
>working in a deep-tech startup.

I'm curious if you use it for non trivial stuff? I lot of people say it will take over, but I don't see many devs using it beyond simple stuff.
> demanding technical answers from someone making a off the cuff comment

It's a technical discussion. Asking for proof of a technical claim that confused me is correct, not rude.
> $7,500 at least is pretty legit

You can't claim it if you make more than "$300,000 for a household, $150,000 for an individual or $225,000 for a head of household" [1]. That describes a decent fraction of the Cybertruck's target market.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/01/07/1147209505/electric-car-tax-c...
This is rad! Was just looking for a good JSON-LD store to build out knowledge trees for gnow.io. Fluree looks like promising! +1 for OSS
yes they do, because the original purpose and value of the separation has gone.

"back in the days" before there was an initrd you needed a small disk. that was /bin and /sbin. into that disk some /etc/rc.d/ file would mount a separate /use partition (and /home and /opt), often from network.

however with pivot_root and initrd we don't need that dance any more and do another one...

likewise the distinction between sbin and bin is gone.

that's why they today just symlink together.
Many on this site believe that unregulated technology and capitalism is the surest way to a better world, so it really shouldn't be surprising that some of the people who benefit the most from the neoliberal order are praising one of its architects.
It's clearly not a 911 Turbo or Turbo s. Probably a base 911.

Also not discounting tesla shenanigans. Would be easy enough to run the 1/4 a few times and get the 911 nice heat soaked and way down on power.
As someone who would be interested in being a technical co-founder (complete with my own seed money), I wonder if when they say technical co-founder, they mean programmer who can build a MVP or someone who can build a technical team and help solve technical problems.
The fact that it's a medical condition just proves GP's point
Considering they’re trying Safari I suspect they’re on macOS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkBqVVbnZ1c
> The hard part of reading ancient Greek for me was not the grammar but the sheer bizarreness of their structural assumptions, which are rarely visible in translation.

FFS do not do this to me! Don't dangle such gems before me so casually then stroll off! I am fascinated by the different ways people think, how differently they can think, and so be alien to my own thought processes. It's so interesting because I learn as much about my own assumptions about theirs. Such insights are genuinely valuable to me. Please do tell or... something. Anything...
Omg this is tedious
Only for Windows. For some reason they don’t make their symbols for Mac public…
I don't think that text to movement will be desired. There is a lot of room for interpretation there, and if a creator already has a vision for movement, they would probably choose to have the model mimic a video of them acting rather than trying to get lucky and correctly describe a set of movements.
it's been done, in a limited way: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10763; we're working on extended this, but yeah, there are a lot of details to work out
It actually solves a lot, and I contact people on all continents multiple times per day. Currently when you want to schedule a meeting with a person in another timezone you need to do a bit of very confusing math (it's simple addition and subtraction, but one-off errors are rampant) and translate their time to yours. Most of the time both parties try to do it and it gets confusing. Lots of "your time or my time" questions. With universal time you both work with the same clock.
From engineering explained the difference in the rollout for some fast cars is about 0.2-0.3 seconds on top of the actual number. Here’s the video https://youtu.be/9LTq45o0ttQ
That's pretty antisocial behavior. Humans walk, humans drive cars, and we have good reasons for both modes of transportation. Crosswalks are an attempt to allow coexistence safely.

Antagonizing people who are using a different mode of transportation at the moment does not seem helpful at all. You may even cause other people to become accustomed to seeing crosswalk signals activated for no reason, reducing their attentiveness and increasing the risk of injury to people actually crossing the road.
> this truck is meant as a fashion statement not a work vehicle

This describes most vehicles.
Unsurprising. It has always been Microsoft's AI division.
This is explicitly stated as a workaround in the linked article.
Yes. Avocados and almonds are extremely bad overall.

Please turn off your electronic devices, too.