skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I basically gave up on using ticket tracking for most projects.

It was just useless busywork, instead my team has a flat list of features/task to do for each releases, and we update it as part of the synchro meetings.

The big advantage is a ton of flexibility and having all the info we need in one place (e.g. we can inline release procedures with discrete tasks, have common info for a set of tasks etc.)

It requires more discipline (no reminders, burbdown, velocity etc.) but that works well enough with 3/4 people lines.

We do it in Notion, wo the urls are ugly and not really suitable for reference and different trams have a different management style.
Does anyone have experience with how well this works?
This isn't "fine:" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/02/tesla-tsla-q1-2024-vehicle-d...

Elon isn't just a jerk. Many high-performing individuals are jerks. Elon is platforming and signal boosting racists and fascists and claiming it's all about freedom of speech. That's well beyond being a difficult person. SLAPP suits, racism and sexism in the workplace in his companies, making a tunnel boring company just to troll mass transit, etc. is what makes people want to avoid supporting him financially.

Model 3 is a fine EV especially at current used prices.
I think it'd be a mistake to also underestimate the impact of actual competition showing up with far fewer quirks. Tesla's interiors were already spartan to say the least, and with each interior update the cost cutting gets even more obvious and more compromising (eg, replacing turn signal stalks with buttons on the steering wheel).

Meanwhile you've got things like the Ioniq 5 that have fun styling, way better interiors, and don't really cost that much more. They're still selling a lot fewer in total numbers than Tesla, but Ioniq 5 + EV6 is around 53,000 vehicles in 2023. Given the shape of the EV landscape and EV sales in general, that's probably a lot of lost sales from Tesla specifically. BMW also started showing up, and they're responsible for another 47,000 sales in 2023.

And then at the high end it looks like the Model X + S sold 17,027 total, which yeah. At that price point those vehicles are just one-trick ponies. They go fast, and that's about it. Meanwhile you've got Lucid Air, Porsche Taycan, Audio e-Tron GT, etc... Taycan + eTron GT sales in the US add up to around 10,000. Lucid only had 6,000 delivers in 2023, but it also only offers a Model S competitor atm.
Agreed, US consumer is potentially tapped out.
>>Would love to port the whole Django app behind the site over, using their D1 database too.

Is that wise? One DDOS attack could break your budget.
I feel for Lasse.

It's time for more of the big vendors who use these projects in their offerings to step up and give people running these small projects more resources and structure. $20k to have maintainers for each project actually meet twice a year at a conference is chump change for the biggest vendors, especially when compared against the cost of the audits they'll now be doing on everything Jia Tan and Co. touched.
Oh absolutely true for things like OpenBSD and such
> "It's not a perfect solution"

Is it a solution at all? Say Oracle offer Lasse Collin $200k for maintaining xz but he doesn't want to work for Oracle so he refuses, then what? Amazon offer Lasse $200k but they require fulltime work on other open source packages which he isn't experienced with or interested in, so he refuses, then what? Google employ someone else for $200k but they can't force Lasse Collin to hand over commit rights to xz to Google, or force him to work with a fulltime Google employee pestering with many constant changes trying to justify their job, and they can't force Debian to accept a new Google fork of xz, so then what? And NetFlix, Microsoft, Facebook, Uber, they can't all employ an xz maintainer, xz doesn't need that many people, but if they just employ 'open source maintainers' scattering their attention over all kinds of random projects they have no prior experience with, how would they catch this kind of subtle multi-pronged long-term attack on some low-attention, slow moving, project?

Google already employ a very capable security team who find issues in all kinds of projects and publicise them, they didn't find this one. Is it likely this attack could have made its way into ChromeOS and Android if it wasn't noticed now, or would Google have noticed it?

> "1) don't make everyone so mad that everyone on the Internet asks for you to be fired"

So it's a sinecure position, doing nothing is the safest thing?

> "and 2) name a suitable replacement when you're ready to move on"

How could Lasse Collin have named a more suitable replacement than someone who seemed technically capable, interested in the project, and motivated to work on some of the boring details like the build system and tests and didn't seem to be doing it for the hype of saying "I improved compression by 10%" for their resume? Are they needing to be skilled in hiring and recruitment now?
Cool article. What I've wondered, and the article doesn't touch on: In "normal" usage (not damaged QR codes), what's the best error correction to use, with a fixed output size (eg a sticker)? Using a higher level, results in more bytes, and thus a larger QR, which, when printed, results in smaller details.
Is it better to have a low error correction, resulting in large blobs, or to have higher error correction, resulting in smaller details, which I guess will be harder to scan, but more room for correction?
Could it be that Musk's inflammatory language and behaviors are a turn off for potential buyers? They are a turn off for me. I like the vehicles but I'd never get one.
Once upon a time, I owned a 1998 Volkswagen Wolfsburg Edition, a sleek and vibrant red car that turned heads wherever I went. As a city worker, I found it convenient to park my car at the train station and commute to work.

One particularly exhausting day, I trudged back from the train to the parking lot, eager to get home and unwind. As I approached my car, I noticed something peculiar—all the windows were missing. Panic gripped me, and I initially thought someone had vandalized my beloved vehicle. However, as I walked around the car, I couldn't find a single shard of glass on the ground. Upon closer inspection, I realized that the windows had simply been rolled down. Relief washed over me as I rolled them back up and drove home, putting the strange experience out of my mind.

Weeks passed, and the incident faded from my memory. Then, on a lazy Saturday morning, I sat on my back porch, sipping a hot cup of coffee and enjoying the tranquility of the day. Suddenly, the sky darkened, and a light rain began to fall. As the raindrops pattered against the roof, I heard an unexpected sound—the distinct whirring of car windows rolling down.

Perplexed, I set my coffee aside and hurried to the front of the house. To my astonishment, I found my Volkswagen's windows had mysteriously lowered themselves, allowing the rain to pour into the car's interior. It dawned on me that the windows' odd behavior must have been caused by a short circuit in the electrical system.

From that day on, I knew my 1998 Volkswagen Wolfsburg Edition was more than just a cool, bright red car—it had a quirky personality of its own, keeping me on my toes with its unexpected window antics.
On the lines themselves, word on the street is that the powers-that-be greatly relaxed the "greeenlight" process post-COVID, which is a way to get a job outside your specific job code. To remove the Boeing-speak, they made it easier for the janitor to be the electrician. The really cool thing about greenlighters is that they never make quite as much money, and there is a substantial period - as long as two years - where they keep making their janitor salaries while they're doing the higher spec work. Win-win!
Independence is a complete illusion, especially in our modern globalized world. Someone has to pay you the money, so even if you go as a solo entrepreneur selling real stuff that you made yourself, you largely depend on your customers at least.

The reality is that it is extremely stressful and for most people with no guarantee of how it will work out overtime.

And the fact is that it is much better to have one person focused on getting the ressource while the other runs the household, "making" other humans in the process.

It could be the man at home, but most woman don't actually want that even if they may say so to win an argument; and there is the added problem that only woman can make other human being.

Then you have people complaining that our society doesn't make babies anymore, well maybe if we didn't push the bullshit of independence on woman we wouldn't have this problem...
FTA:

"I have watched kids testifying before Congress. It is
clear that they are completely unaware of the serious-
ness of their acts. There is obViously a cultural gap. The
act of breaking into a computer system has to have the
same social stigma as breaking into a neighbor's house."

I've got mixed feelings about this. I loved the WarGame movie for a reason...
I'm a big fan of Toyota Prius Prime and RAV4 Prime. (High efficiency vehicles, Prius Prime is #1 most green car of ACEEE list, etc. etc.). But people buying Tesla aren't aligned to Toyota.

But a better match to culture is likely Jeep Wrangler 4xe. Incredible offroading performance, reasonable towing capacity, large size / in-your-face advertising to some extent. And electrified, so that your daily commute is efficient and environmentally friendly.

Etc. etc. There's a lot of competition these days. People who buy Toyota / Honda are people who care #1 about reliability and simplicity.

But "Tesla Buyers" are more excited about niche features or feeling like their car can do something other cars cannot do (even if they never actually use that feature). And honestly, vehicles like Jeep Wrangler 4xe are best suited for that mindset.

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Or the new Dodge Charger EV. Now that Stellantis is making their EV push, I think Stellantis has better branding for what the stereotypical Tesla Buyer is going for... without the awfulness associated with Elon.
This reminds me of when I used to work for an ISP. Every November the "my internet doesn't work when we turn on the Christmas tree" calls would start. It was usually interference from cheap tree lights, but occasionally it was people unplugging the router to plug in their Christmas tree :D
Anecdotal, but this is absolutely the case for me. The widely reported fit-and-finish issues would have made me hesitant regardless, but as long as it's Elon's company I will not be buying a Tesla regardless of improvements in quality. Bought a Prius plug-in hybrid instead (which I'm very happy with).

Prior to Elon taking the mask off I was really excited about the idea of getting a Tesla, and I'm squarely in what I imagine must be the main target demographic.
It's already around 20% of all cars sold globally last year. And prices are still dropping. https://thedriven.io/2024/01/25/worlds-largest-ev-battery-ma...
> We can't have discussions around financial topics if we do things like describe any financial policy to the left of pure lasseiz-faire as "Soviet."

We also can’t have financial discussions if desiring an outcome is in anyway evidence it will happen.

Someone stating they prefer an arbitrary code of ethics and then decreeing that another set of actions will produce what they want isn’t useful.
contrary to general belief, enigma was cracked by the poles
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It may now, but when the scammers and the leeches move in, profits approach 0.
how do you get the news from sites?
Apple AI researcher boast on-device model that 'substantially outperforms' GPT-4
Well, unexpected. Git pretty cool.
Many.

We're in a tech slowdown right now. There are people who got used to a certain lifestyle who now have "seeking work" on their LinkedIn profiles, and who have property taxes in arrears that are listed in county newspapers-of-record. If you're an intelligence operative in the Silicon Valley area, these guys should be easy pickings. An envelope full of cash to make some financial problems go away in exchange for a few commits on the FOSS projects they contribute to or maintain.
I have seen this video before and can confirm he makes a 1+ hour powerpoint presentation pretty engaging.
> You can privately hate the government, but as long as you follow the rules, the damage is contained.

Please state in quantitative (percentage) terms what "the damage is contained" means at object level reality.

Also please state the source(s) of this knowledge (this way it makes it explicit whether what you are describing is your opinion vs facts, as you seem to be presenting it as).

Let's check out the language from the link you did include:

>> Our results imply that...

>> This suggests that...

Wow, that's a neat trick. Is science not THE institution that we can turn to for non-misinformative information? I always hear that it is LITERALLY THE BEST at discovering and distributing truth, but then I constantly encounter this sort of thing, and rarely anything else.

Does this situation seem strange to you, even in the slightest?
Yahoo! can buy things?
Wow, that’s… an actually useful app, if only I could trust something like that. It’s also the sort of thing that Apple and Google could Sherlock very easily, though they obviously won’t be interoperable. Love the idea tho.
I don’t think either had an EV option suiting my needs when we bought a Model X? Meaning able to seat 6-7 humans and ~300 miles of range in the battery pack?

Do they even have a viable option today? (I’m unaware how the Lexus electrification is going.)
Do you think there is a way to take out backlash with sensors and software? Something like how additive manufacturing systems can use accelerometers to smooth artifacts from motor movement. [0] Let's say two cheaper cycloidal geared motors running in opposition with a load cell between them to maintain the materially compatible force.

https://www.klipper3d.org/Measuring_Resonances.html
The problem with this approach is determining the what k is for the k-means. But again, we could use the “elbow” technique to determine what’s the optimal k and then start grouping them together. I wonder if there are any automatic sophisticated clustering algorithms?
Tesla has the Cybertruck now (is it shipping yet?). People love trucks, so this might work out great for TSLA.

But they don't really have an SUV, which is by far the most popular form factor. The Model Y is closest but it's still a bit car-ish.

Interest rates are up.

Their chairman is going through a very public ...episode.

They'll definitely overcome the headwinds: they still have superfans despite the Musk antics; they have lower leverage than GM/F [0]; there's a lot of regulatory pressure coming down the pipes over the next 10-30 years to phase out ICE engines.

[0]:
https://valustox.com/GM

https://valustox.com/F

https://valustox.com/TSLA
Maybe a Nickel Hydrogen Battery cell, 38 per battery - https://spaceflight101.com/iss-sets-up-for-battery-switch-c2...

This is the problem of Rods from God, too hard to hit something, 99.999% of the earth is nothing important - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
> code is written to be testable first, maybe with lots of mocks

If you mean what I think I mean, this is the bottom rung of the ladder. Code that is only testable with lots of mocks is in practice worse than code with no tests.

Tests should do two things: catch undiscovered bugs and enable refactoring. Test mocked to high heaven do one thing: confirm that the code is written the way it’s currently written. This is diametrically opposed to and completely incompatible with those two stated goals. Most importantly, the code can’t be changed without breaking and rewriting tests.

Mocks are okay for modeling owners of external state. Even better are dummy/fake implementations that look and behave like the real thing, (but with highly simplified logic).
>I wonder if it would be possible to crowdsource FOSS mailing list moderation.

I think this could be a genuine use of an AI: to go through all of the shit, and have it summarized in a fashion that the user wants: distant and objective, friendly, etc. It could provide an assessment on the general tone, aggregate the differently phrased requests, many things like that.

Crowdsourcing would works best with the reddit / hacker news model I feel, where discussion happens in tree styled threads, and users can react to messages in ways that are not text, but something meta, like a vote or a reaction indicating tone.

Both of these have significant downsides, but significant upsides too. People pick the mailing list in a similar way.
Can we just get full node runtime? Cloudflare is amazing, but without a full node runtime, we (and most of the usual apps) can't switch from things like Vercel/Netlify to Cloudflare.
I think the best solution would be governments forcing companies to secure the entire pipeline and setting up a non profit that does this for open source packages. Have security researchers work for a non profit and force companies that use software from some guy in Nebraska to pay into the non profit (could be in the form of labor) to get the code checked and certified.

The guy in Nebraska is still not getting anything but will also not have the stress of becoming one of the main characters/victims in a huge attack.
It’s below estimates, so it’s by definition “surprising” relative to the people whose business it is to predict these things.

Disastrous may be going too far unless it portends further drops going forward.

But disastrous may also be the right word because Tesla’s valuation is based entirely on massive growth. So even if this means Tesla will start growing fairly normally as opposed to rapidly, that’s bad for Tesla stock.
Honestly I'm half-surprised no-one has tried this yet.
This is where the but FOSS is reviewable so it is trusted falls down. This situation is a prime example of how that fallacy is misconstrued. By being FOSS didn't make it trustworthy, it just meant that people had a fighting chance to find out why when something does happen. That's closing the barn door after the horses already left.

I'm not knocking FOSS at all. I just think some people have the concept twisted. Just like the meme of being written in Rust means the code is fast/safe from the mere fact it was written in Rust. I don't write Rust, but if I did, I guarantee that just from sheer not knowing WTF I'm doing would result in bad code. The language will not protect me from myself. FOSS will not protect the world from itself, but it does at least allow for decent investigations and after action reports.
Snapdragon X Elite beats AMD and Intel flagship mobile CPUs in Geekbench 6
Thanks! I initially started out with just jQuery but eventually realized I needed to support more complex interactions and adopted Turbo & Stimulus [1].

Still sticking with server-side rendering though, always loved that approach to building webapps and tools like HTMX & Turbo make it much easier to integrate with complex UX interactions.

[1] https://medium.com/@csofiamsousa/hotwire-turbo-and-stimulus-...
Strongly recom: https://feeeed.nateparrott.com/ (core dev & designer of Arc browser)
When the price of the car tops out around that of a house in a low cost of living area, low interest rates make the price seem less obscene.

With higher rates than before (and more competition), the price is too high, no matter how you shake it.
I agree, also the act of following a routine or following through on a commitment could all help you make feel better.
Building a Slack AI to Defuse Heated Chats: Approaches?
I want to build an AI assistant that can analyze heated Slack conversations and provide guidance on whether and how to respond appropriately.
https://putintheritzon.ytmnd.com/
Yes, this might be very offensive to people living in countries in war currently.
> I'm still a bit surprised how many people, even professionals in the lending space, hold this view that "interest rates must fall!"

Because it's mostly high earning white collar professionals or anyone with at least $100k in liquid assets who benefit from an interest rate drop.

If rates drop significantly, then house sale prices skyrocket again because you can take out larger loans with a smaller down payment, and you can leverage yourself to acquire multiple properties. Same with car sales, and any other luxury good.
I know you think you're making a point here but you aren't. Half your list is sensible table stakes for a technical co-founder especially the technical and leadership experience. A serious business-side founder shouldn't team up with a green technical co-founder; they'd be better off finding a contractor to build their specific idea.

But #3 and #5 on your list are dumb. Their equivalents for the "ideas" co-founder were about validating that specific business idea and problem. Whereas you're just trying to score cheap points.
"their ideas aren’t that unique"

A successful business consists of customers and money, not unique ideas.

I would say that the idea behind a business is one of the least useful things of a business. It helps with marketing, recruitment, and sales, but really, the idea itself is irrelevant. Execution counts for much, much more.

In fact, the idea that ideas must be unique is the #1 problem with startups. There's plenty of space in the market for companies doing what other companies are doing, but just better.
Yea, the state i mentioned i think would be managed by several entities. Ie time, current date, etc - all could be automated without involvement of the LLM of course. However as conversations come in, the LLM would also modify the state with context clues from the conversation.

Then, when future messages come in from alternate streams (say, browser history), they could (maybe, hah) be made more rich. More likely though i would expect it to be the opposite scenario, browser informs chat, etc.

I say this because in many cases i imagine my chat conversations in my household have a severe lack of context. We often jump to vocal communication, and then paste links, etc. In a perfect world i think i'd even take home camera audio transcripts and do the same.

Ie i don't want to _just_ index a browser log as "interested in Rust. Some library about BTree", etcetc - but additional sources of data could try to store what it is i am actively doing, and associate that to the browser log.

All of this of course is nothing i'd ever want to leave the house. My hope though is that it would lean into what LLMs do well. Without the expectation of actual LLM intelligence.
Kin-dza-dza! takes a bit of getting into and it has it's weak moments but there are few movies that made me laugh so hard.

Everyone should watch "Just Imagine (1930)" it takes place in the distant future 1980. It is so full of original concepts we know from [much] later movies.

I ran into the short film "Slice of Life" the other day. It was rather impressive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDQ2SSsmEk
If an A&P mechanic did that on a live aircraft that is very deep into felony territory.
What mistakes did you do? What did you learn?