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> I wanted to buy the new Cybertruck when it finally launches

Why? I don't get it. Most people don't need a truck. And if they do, the Cybertruck is probably far from what they need. It has little use except showing off. (Well, I guess that might be true for most trucks bought, though..)
As a former high school teacher, I am in favor of reduced requirements to enter the profession; however, I taught in two states that supported these types of on ramps, and they didn’t seem to make a notable impact on applicant numbers (that is, out of the hundreds of educators I worked with over the years, I knew only one who came in via a non-traditional pathway after working in a different field (engineering)).

That’s not the question the article is asking, but I’m skeptical that making it easier for professionals to career switch into teaching is going to cause any meaningful number of them to do so.
Yep, and also

* Hacker News book threads. Lots of existing ones in search.

* Bibliographies or the reference sections of books you already own.
> seems like a tower of terrible choices

The first terrible choice is someone choosing to purchase a surveillance device that isn't under their control.
This problem can easily be solved without any device at all. Of course, it demands education and "intelligent behavior". If people only had the curiosity to read the specs on a heater and see "2000W" of power, and compare it to "15W" of power on the specs of the LED bulb. Same for water. One can just place a bowl under the faucet and measure the time it takes to fill up. Now you have your water consumption rate. We can choose the "device based" route, but this road end with Idiocracy and problems so "big" nobody can solve them.
I'm excited for the Jeep Recon or the 2028 Wrangler as alternatives
Worth mentioning that Spotify doesn't use Electron, but CEF.
Looks interesting!

I guess I still figure small things we can do to help redress the balance in terms of celebrating (rather than disparaging) blackness are worthwhile.
It probably comes down one's personal ethics, views about civic virtue, etc.

I want my neighbor's pile of firewood. They probably wouldn't miss one or two logs, but I have other reasons for not taking any.

I'm not trying to persuade anyone that my view is correct, I'm just saying that I think this is one aspect of how different people approach the question of how to obtain digital entertainment.
If I could add to this, in recent hiring I have dealt with people using chatgpt in written communication and in interviews.

I interview remotely. The long pauses that get longer as the questions go from superficial to "you need to have done this for a while to know" are frustrating and obvious but also a great indicator if what is going on.

I always ask "what is happening during the long pauses". No one yet has said " I'm thinking". That's probably because I have always said going in "if you need time to think, or don't know, we can just talk about your thought process; noone knows everything and we all learn as we go". So a non-threatening out exists.

Only happened a few times.

Last time I had a senior dev on the call typing in the questions to chatgpt as we went and he was getting the same answers as the candidate with points in the same order. Some of these were wrong in very specific ways.
> You buy the right to play the game for as long as the publisher likes, not the game.

FTFY
Welp, guess I’ll be buying something else from now on. Elon isn’t the kind of person to fix such a cultural issue
>To (actually) communicate from one who knows to one who doesn't, sending a prompt is like a download link that the receiver will have to get and read.

And when they download it, it may turn it to be different than what you uploaded and sent a link to.
Since nm are Now Marketing, unrelated to physical dimension, how consequential is this node shrink? It must have passed some threshold to justify new factories - what was it?
Asked here recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35665076
Thermodynamics predicts that chemical compounds can self-organize into complex structures in order to dissipate a source of energy. Nature doesn't let freely available energy just sit around - time's arrow demands entropy! These dissipative structures consume the energy irreversibly and put it towards other uses (like oscillating reaction cycles). Combined with time and external energy, these systems exhibits feedback loops that could plausibly evolve into life.

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712552/

So it could be that life is a side effect of the second law of thermodynamics - life's "purpose" is to find new and better ways to consume the energy gradient. All the various forms and behaviors we see in the natural world are naturally-selected random variations on strategies to capture solar energy.
> I think what it is is that you are coming out to defend Tesla because you’re taking this as a personal attack.

Ok this particular issue I would defend Tesla because I do think the story is blown out of proportion (with different news outlets having differing motivations).

There are other issues on which I am very critical of Tesla, such as hiring and labor practices.

There are very few, if any, people or companies or organizations who are “all evil” or “all good”.

The problem is that as humans we tend to pick a side and then confirmation bias kicks in. We can all be better.
> So that vehicle owners can see who the hit and runner is.

Arguably that benefits their insurance company more than it does them.

For making sure liability is properly ascribed, I solved that problem by installing cameras that write to a MicroSD card that's under my physical control.
It was dead as a doornail the last six months. It had a little bit of life in August, then it fell off a cliff. Zero. Only fake job postings, ghost posts, fake interviews, interviews at weird companies and interview loops for information espionage only pretending to be real interviews with no intent to hire.

In the last couple weeks a couple decent, actually real, roles showed up versus the fake / ever posted roles or spam posted roles to "pretend to be hiring" by companies trying to pump their IPO or whatever.

It has been brutual.

I dont think its "because of AI," Its because the economy is dying.
I've heard that some of those problems are related to the audio settings; the video being configured for one of the surround sound formats that your audio system doesn't support. Not saying the audio wasn't jacked up, but just wanted to put it on your radar to go into the video settings (like where you set up captions I think) and try a different audio format.
If anyone is interested in having this type of real-time usage data for their own own home, I highly recommend IoTaWatt: https://iotawatt.com

It's a completely local energy monitor that you can install into your home's circuit breaker panel, and then view dashboards or read data via an API from a local web server running on-device. You choose how many sensors you want, but you can monitor your whole home as well as individual circuits.

For example, I track and trigger automations when my various appliances (laundry, dishwasher, microwave, etc) start/stop. It's very cool. Just be warned that it does require some research, basic understanding of electricity, and comfort working with high voltage mains connections if you plan to DIY it but I found it approachable and easy to setup.

What it looks like: https://i.ibb.co/qBVmBD1/IMG-1595.jpg
Unfortunately, even when purchased on steam, Ubisoft games will launch through the Ubisoft app (forgot what it's called), where they're free to make you sign up to play and advertise their subscription services to you.
Is there a present moment costs/pros-cons matrix updated by trustworthy organizations to compare and contrast options, e.g. current cost per kw of each technology, alternative use of lands/opportunity costs for those lands, etc?
Shadowsocks does work against MITM attacks by my US ISP Comcast though. It is great software.
Actually competent microcontroller programmers definitely earn way more then bargain barrel front end devs.
Is it so terrible to just have the government keep track of its citizens properly, so that there is a single source of truth one can actually rely on?
This is what I was wondering. I don’t understand these VPNs too deeply (though I do occasionally administer an OpenVPN setup), but I was under the impression that they’re sending encrypted packets over UDP on arbitrary ports. That seems quite tough to analyze and block.
I have mixed opinions about that.

It is true that there is proof of kids dying when snow caves cave in.

At the same time it is also a part of this ages overprotection of kids. Along with children not allowed to bike alone or play near a lake.
TMSC went all in on new tech from ASML where Intel and Global Foundries said it was too expensive.

Intel in particular was finding ways to get older stuff to work for newer nodes but it also had drawbacks. And Intel had dividends to pay.

Now Intel is ordering the newest equipment, but hasn’t build up the experience with it. Yet.
The ability to buy and sell used games is really nice. I can get a game that came out a year ago second hand for like $15-30 in some cases. Not being able to do that for digital exclusive games is really annoying and often means I just don't play them.

Does the cost of buying and reselling games for slightly less end up equaling out to the cost of a games subscription model? Maybe, but my concern is fragmentation. I definitely can't afford more than one game subscription so I don't like this trend.
Same as me, I created this WebComponent-based framework for fun:

https://realm.codes (open on desktop, mobile is still buggy).

- you can create new element without JS
- import element (cors-enabled)
- and more...
No it isn’t, you’re proposing adding tons of new taxes on to businesses and it’s some cognitive dissonance that you think this means reducing taxes and spending.

Proposals like this are the reason the right is able to claim climate change politics is nothing more than an excuse to enact leftist policy.
The trick to the car dilemma is to buy an older vehicle without any cameras or network connectivity. I have a 98 Subaru and an 04 Chevy Truck and I can guarantee you they do not have the capacity to spy on me or anyone else.
> SQLite with appropriate configuration for WAL, et. al. can run circles around hosted SQL providers for many classes of non-queries. SQLite directly on top of NVMe storage is a monster.

Are there any benchmarks that put hard numbers on these observations? I expect sqlite to outperform postgres for the fact alone that it doesn't need to make a network call to touch the db, but it would be important to know what these observations actually mean in the real world.
Worked on an open source cloud player 10y ago: idea was to have one place to curate playlists and your music library in general -- basically an access and authentication platform where the underlying providers can change over the years without impacting your collection.

Still feel this is the right way to think about collecting and curating music going forward…
I talked with someone over an hour. It was great!
Strange how you, kind stranger, see it as disgusting but all the participants who forwarded the video apparently did not. I know I would share such a video with my coworkers (at least, over the shoulder).

That's a mismatch in moral expectations. One of many in our increasingly divided society.

I don't know the best way to lower/reduce such mismatches, but doing it thru the courts reactively seems arbitrary and unfair. It's hard to follow rules that haven't been written.
If the purpose of Spotify is to pay artists, then it's objectively a failure.

If you want pay musicians for their music, then you'd be better off buying albums on bandcamp or attending concerts. Paying Spotify is marginally better than just lighting your money on fire.

If the purpose of Spotify is to allow you to listen to music with minimal effort and cost, and don't care if the bands get paid then it does a middling job among paid services. It's probably more convenient than piracy, but I don't know what the state of modern music piracy is (I could imagine a gray-area Internet group that does a better job with metadata and recommendation algorithms than the paid sites do, and that links to a popcorn time style torrent thing.)
Spotify app is rubbish, and you cannot listen on different devices with the same account.

Also Spotify have censorship issue, they are removing some songs. Other are not available due to copyright issues.

If you don't want to listen playlists with new random music it is more convenient to have a local mp3 library.
I don't think companies need more excuses to do it. Look at reddit, X, etc ... I wouldn't be surprised if Spotify made their API a "paid" service.
By listening? Engine braking makes noise, which is why it’s banned in some areas.
The other thing is that they consistently allow MDD / Max Disk Deals or whatever their name is to occupy the New disk listings, despite every Amazon review of them being full of "this disk is lightly used". So if you're buying new disks, avoid that whole vendor.
I agree that it's a terrible look for Tesla. Though it hasn't stopped me from owning one. I cover the interior camera anyway, and I don't habitually walk out in my garage naked. I am also skeptical that this is something random -- there has to be millions of hours of video out there that shows precisely nothing, so how are employees finding the naked people? It has to be targeted somehow.

But they do need better internal controls on customer data, obviously. This is table stakes for any big company, and Tesla is huge. Somebody there, probably in their legal department, has some appreciation for how tempting a target they are with those deep pockets.
I did my bachelors degree on this topic but have been interested in this problem since years before university. Specifically, the direction that we’re headed in terms of video game preservation [0].

I can still play most of the games that I grew up with, and nostalgia is well-known to be an important form of emotional wellbeing. Where will we be when the youth of tomorrow can’t experience that nostalgia? Sure there’s books (if they’re bought physically), but what else? Music isn’t guaranteed either and I won’t be surprised if in 30 years it is extremely difficult to _buy_ (legally) music.

[0]: https://joshua.hu/files/GameLost.pdf spoiler: it’s not good
Most importantly, they're choosing a path where they acknowledge that employees will receive less compensation for more work, while the management reaps massive benefits of improved stock prices.
> It's not as fast as with 16GB, but it's definitely not unusable.

I'm sure it varies with how large your projects are. To me the impact was serious enough to force me to shift my development work to a crappy minipc from Beelink.
Why pay when I can access content for free?

YouTube pays some cents to music labels, I can listen to music for free on YouTube and I can block ads.

The only purchases I make are to reward creators, often only after I've enjoyed the goods.

Copyright is highly immoral as I never got into any contract with anyone and yet I'm supposedly a criminal because I download pirated content. Whoever is sharing copyrighted content is breaching a contract and should be prosecutable.

I sell software and it's nice to have passive income. I found a few communities who heavily pirated my code and I couldn't do jackshit because I don't make lawyer money and dmca does nothing but waste time.

I think piracy is a natural tax imposed on the market: if you can't point to your customer who shared your property and sue him you are probably making some nice passive money. There's always going to be someone smarter than the average who will bypass your security.

I don't mind pirates.
The problem we have is with major publishers being rich enough they can bribe the government to do crap like dmca and infringe on our rights.
OpenVPN looks more similar to regular https traffic, hence its a bit more difficult to fingerprint.
Will never park next to a Tesla.

After reading the original leak in April and knowing about the Reddit group where Tesla owners post videos of anyone/anything online.

If you value your privacy, never go near a Tesla.

On the other hand, cant even imagine why people driving one and being recorded the whole time by the internal camera.
We should really measure this based on density for some basic repeated structure, or something like that. Adder-density or something, haha.
And then complain that there isn't enough content they are two absolutely insatiable generations when it comes to content. Free free free more more more ... of course, that also describes the billionaire class and material goods. Ironic they both meet at greed.

The Spotify macOS app constantly truncates classical titles, which I find infuriating. I subscribed to Apple Classical, which was phenomenal in its organization and catalogue, but I couldn't download and I fly a lot which is a dealbreaker.
It's not about saving a few bucks, it's about taking responsibility for the consequences of your spending. If $1 out of $10 goes to supporting the artist and the other $9 goes towards stripping users of the ability to control their own devices, or towards other zero/negative sum games being played by the platform in the spirit of moat building, then paying for content through normal channels is doing more harm than good.

If there was a way to configure my players to fingerprint the content and send money to the artist as I play it (or probably at the end of the month, so the total spend for that month is configurable) I'd use it. Payment should be irrespective of where you got the bits. I'm trying to build such a thing.

But until a better way exists, I'm not going to feel bad about my occasional piracy in the meantime.
The reason artists are not happy with Spotify is because their record label takes 80% of the small profit they would get from streaming. I saw an interview with a swedish artist that was quite happy with the streaming money thanks to not having signed under any label. All the money goes directly to him.
There are some things it's useful for and some things it isn't. Go figure.
To respond to your edit, yes - it seems like the app is down - nothing seems to load at all on the Browse tab or anywhere else...
Wireguard headers are fingerprintable.
I appreciate your line of thinking.

Yes some societies celebrate death and wear bright colours to 'mourn'. And yes, there are benefits associated.

As to whether this is more or less of a concern than language usage; I'd argue the biggest problem with society today is absolutism. More than one thing can be—and usually is—true at any one time.

We rarely need to decide one or other .. and using this as a line of argument doesn't amount to much.

I think there's a simple way these language ideas can benefit society. Allowing young people with darker skin to grow up in a society that celebrates, rather than disparages blackness.
Some people would be happy if they're paid just to talk to somebody _few hours_ during worktime about non work-related stuff.
Epic took away player to player trading in rocket league just to support a new game mode in Fortnite (rocket racing). Now the only way to get items is through the item shop using real money. Have a dozen copies of the same item because you’ve been playing since 2015 and want to gift it to somebody? Too bad, not possible. Rocket League is dying, but hey at least rocket racing in Fortnite has familiar assets!
I just wonder if it also has eye-tracking on the front cameraes for maximum data collection. I wish someone would do a deep dive into what data is being collected and sent from an iPhone
Makes sense to me. I attended public school all my life. Everyone I knew more or less had the same out look on formal education, means to an end, can I just get the spark notes, thanks.

In college I interacted with a strange life form called a "homeschooler". Almost without exception they were smarter, better read, and had a desire to learn. Educating children seems to be far more than degrees, licenses, and CE credits.
Maybe public education is so broken in the U.S. (e.g., No Child Left Behind) that this issue is just statistical noise in the outcomes?

I'm mostly going on the stories from a teacher relative; I'm 99% speculating.
Lots of places have managed to get rich. Very few have managed to secure a good life its citizens through its riches.

Singapore's 99 year lease allows its people to be well housed. Conscription keeps them healthy and they have among the best trained special ops. Public transportation and expensive car registrations allow for convenient transportation for all. Crimes are unheard of and the base population is the most productive of any nation in the region. Education is the best in the world. All from a nation that was nothing more than Marshes a few decades ago.

Many city states/ small nations have had a top tier draw. Norway, Botswana, Emirates, Venezuela, Panama, Canada (erstwhile), Brunei....are all good examples.

None have capitalized on it as well as Singapore. Credit where it is due.

(they could have better work conditions and fertility rates)
Pirating at least on legitimate private trackers is about quality and availability. For example, you CANNOT stream certain episodes of South Park, always sunny, etc because of wrongthink. Some things are also unattainable like gravity Lux edition. But yes I agree otherwise, just buy stuff. I stopped pirating games when I got a real job.
This is exactly why I decided to not make my single-member, zero employee LLC an S Corp; if I'm paying no salaries, I don't have the Section 174 craziness.

With an S Corp, you have to pay yourself a salary, and if your work is primarily software development, Section 174 might hit you. (IANAL or accountant. Talk to one of them.)
This is good news for me personally. I'd like to make money in tech for perhaps 10 more years and then teach music (and comp sci?) in a public high school. I have advanced degrees in music but no education degree. Under current rules I'd have to stick to teaching at the college level which doesn't appeal to me because the degree is a bad financial decision for the students working towards it.
Diagnosed Aspie here. No, they did not diagnose high functioning autism back then, at least in English speaking countries. The first English translation of Dr Asperger's research appeared in the 80s. That's when they first coined the terms "Asperger syndrome", "autism spectrum", etc. These didn't become mainstream ideas until the 90s.

It should also be noted that Asperger syndrome as a diagnosis was removed from the DSM in 2013, and Asperger himself has fallen out of favor with the autistic community in recent years due to his connections to the Nazi eugenics regime.
> But think about what computers were like when they first hit the market. What about the first year of public internet? Or the first generation of cellphones. These technologies also had major issues and shortcomings that would, if not improved, severely limit their usefulness.

The question is whether AI's limitations are more like too I/O limited, too slow, not enough storage, or more like fundamental things like GIGO and (virtually) all software having bugs and people having to handle that.