skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if the latest Model 3 upgrade is going to sell as well as the previous ones. Some changes are bad.

Eg: Someone I know struggles with turn signals. We have a few roundabouts here and it can be a bit confusing on tighter turns when the buttons are upside down.
Even if I wanted a Tesla, it wouldn’t pass the partner acceptance test for me. My partner is aware of the quality issues, but beyond that, she (like me) can’t help but cringe at the optics of owning a Musk-mobile.

If you want to be a loudmouth dick online and intertwine your persona with that of your companies for #traction, it cuts both ways.
For me it's this + going overboard on minimalism (speed only on center screen, turn signals now buttons, wiper controls on touch screen). It's a shame because there's a lot to like about the model 3.
Nobody's claiming that he was a programmer. From what I've read, though, he had a very keen sense of design and product. Here's an anecdote: https://www.folklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html

I think "ideas guy" doesn't capture this. He had big ideas but also was super particular about details.

(Which doesn't justify being a prick, to be certain)
Also in security and 100% tired of the code slingers who get annoyed by security reviews

Here on HN it’s been derided as “company just checking a box for compliance but adds no functionality. It slows us down when we want to disrupt!” - developer of yet another todo list or photo editor app…

Buffer overflows and the like are one thing. Notions from this blog that certain normal files won’t be well reviewed is a bad smell in software. Innocuous files should be just as rigorously reviewed as it’s all part of the state of the machine

“This is how it’s always worked” is terrible justification

Startup script kiddies git pulling the internet, and single maintainers open source projects aren’t cutting it; if it’s that important to the whole those in charge of the whole need to make sure it’s properly vetted.

I’m an EE first; this really just makes me want to see more software flashed into hardware.
An ethical vegan could eat only fruits and nuts. "Fruitarians" are a thing - I've even met one.

As are "breatharians," if the internet is to be believed.
> There's no political philisophy happening on /pol/, nor has there ever been.

Agreed, but to be fair, /pol/ was created with the officially stated goal of acting as a containment board. And tbh, that’s exactly what it still is to this day.
Agree, the reference to a Vauxhall Nova SR in 'Has it Come to This' is a case in point. The car itself, the boy racer culture of the era, it's very specific.

Some things don't change though. Geezers will always need excitement. Terry still drinks and gets in fights and Tim is still a criminal for the choice of herbs he inhales.
For someone like myself, the biggest challenge will always be that the alphabet (abjad?) is unfamiliar. I am aware that it's rtl, and that letters are connected (and have different initial, medial, and terminal forms... as in Greek sigma, or some Hebrew letters). This would be accessible to more people if you included something to learn it first. I've discovered that once I do learn an alphabet, I can pick out cognates and other such words enough to make that worthwhile even if I go no further. I was planning on devanagari or hangul next though.
I do not refer to the files or bits or whatever that make the git repository in your `.git` directory. Please take a step back and read again what i wrote, it has nothing to do with what you responded with here.
What it reminds me of, is my reoccuring thought, not just about open source but including this aspect, that we've built up a society based on software, that we could literally only afford because we've done it unsustainably. The economy could not bear the costs of producing all this software in an actual reliable sustainable way. So... now what.
Not sure about SSPL, but AGPL is a much more complex licensing that also places static linking restrictions.

The complexity and ambiguity of pretty much all GPL licenses gives legal teams pause.
South Africa has had more than 10 years of rotating power cuts (loadshedding) as it cannot even produce enough energy for itself. Yes it has one nuclear power plant on its last legs, but it has failed to even plan to build any new ones.

So this whole 'we are the best in Africa and need to help out our neighbours' take is kind of ironic.

> She said that while South Africa has 93% access to electricity, there are 600 million people on the African continent that do not, and South Africa believes that "if we are to eradicate poverty, unemployment, and inequality in Africa, we need to get rid of energy poverty and guarantee energy security".
Doubt anyone will see this, but the answer is simple: This causes people problems.

Chances are the employee is dependent on pay. Their lifestyle has likely inflated based on the increased resources. Their ego as well.

It's almost easier to just say: "This isn't done". Too often the result is infighting, tension, and/or the person just leaves. You may see it in niche cases where people just want to focus on their homelife, or clearly bit off more than they could chew.

In our current culture it probably is much better to just impede advancement and let inflation and technical progress do the work.

I think we can both agree this is a problem. It's actually a far deeper issue than people realize. We have a primary education -> professional education -> professional advancement pipeline.

We judge people based on their track record going through this system, unabated. So excessive hang-ups and temporary failures are off the table. Otherwise, you're going to get spit out of the pipeline. A reject. Now there are many assumptions and your professional value will go down.

Also, this is an enormous problem for people with disabilities or obligations in the household.
It's yet another nonsensical diet. The problem is that obesity isn't from overeating, but from the deficiemcies of the so called "heavy metals". Lead deficiency specifically causes both diabetes and schizophrenia. It may have started with arsenic, which was used in fiction as an obviously nonsensical poison, to not give people any ideas, but some people, likely from other places where its use wasn't so ubiquitous, took it seriously, and demamded its ban.
> Most countries implemented policies they called "lockdowns" so whatever personal definition you're using isn't very helpful.

That doesn't make much sense. Just because some country called their measures "lockdown" doesn't make the situation comparable to another country with different measures who called theirs "lockdown" as well. I suggest doing a duck-test ("if it walks like a duck, ...").

> Where I live I was forbidden from leaving my apartment for a couple of weeks when my wife got COVID, for any reason except purchasing groceries. So that was definitely a China-style lockdown.

That doesn't require a lockdown. Technically even the status of your wife and yours was different at the time. Your wife was in medical isolation and you were quarantined (at least it sounds like you were not testing positive at the time which makes all the difference here).
This is so funny to me. I feel like I am always "seeking non-technical cofounder". I'm a great programmer, and I can build almost anything, but I am not a sales guy.

I've been some incredibly sales guys in my life. People who could proverbially sell ice to eskimos or sand to egyptians or whatever. I've always thought if I could team up with one of those people (who are usually already paired up and very well paid!) it would be awesome.
Snottite
what is the maximum length a worker can run for? curious how this compares to AWS Lambda? or is it something completely different?
1) Their supplier network was a mess post-COVID, 2) they wouldn't budge on pricing, and 3) Boeing internal forecasts are, even in good times, generally worse than a coin toss.

Wait, that last bit isn't quite right. Internal forecasts are generally flexible, rather than random, to adjust for the mood of the Overlord of the day. So if you get a stretch where the boss is feeling tetchy, forecasts suddenly start turning pretty good. It doesn't help that, at least anecdotally, the forecasting group's all been former executive assistants and people who were kicked out of systems engineering. Generally people on their way to somewhere else.

Working anywhere in the Boeing procurement group is a career death sentence, there is just no scenario where you win that fight. The price is never low enough, the suppliers are never getting enough money, and eventually you're going to be the scapegoat for a shortfall somewhere, whether it be cash or off-spec parts or PWAs stuffed full of tinsel and compressed dander.
Why are people assuming it's any intelligence service/state actor? With cryptocurrency valuations, it would seem like remote rooting gajillions of machines would be highly incentivized for a private person/collective. Not to mention other financial incentives. Our digital infrastructure secures enormous value much of which can be pilfered anonymously.

I admit, the op has a "professional/polished vibe" to me as well, but we seem to know very little except for what work time/zones were preferred by the possibly collective/possibly singular human(s) behind the Jia Tan identity. Does anyone have slick linguistic tools to assess if the writer is a single author? Maybe an opportunity to show off.. It's sort of how they caught Ted Kaczynski.

It also absolutely makes sense to think of all the state actors (I agree including as you say the US/UK) as part of the ongoing threat model. If the KGB/Ministry of State Security/NSA/MI6 were not doing this before then they surely might in the future. Maybe with more gusto/funding now! They all seem to have an "information dominance at all costs" mentality, at least as agency collectives, whatever individuals inside think.
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC in 2024: Analyzing the Top 1M Domains
It seems to me this is heavily related to Elon being a vocal Republican.

I wonder if people would care as much if he was a quiet Republican?
While I agree in most cases, it’s not always the case. I have definitely seen the whole “I’ll handle the business side, you build it” so I know that’s not uncommon. I do think hiring a developer is a better approach for most founders. The company I currently work at is an example of a non-technical founder finding a technical co-founder. They did meet through a co-founder matching program but I do think it’s possible
Yep. I am a current Tesla Model 3 owner, really like my car, but plan to switch to another brand after running this one into the ground. Elon's behavior is awful and dangerous given his fame/money, and luckily, unlike in 2017, there are now other good EV options which are getting better all the time.
My summary is: "don't get a technical co-founder when you could get away with hiring employee #1"

People make the mistake of thinking that a business is a "tech company" just becuase it uses the internet.

If you're an online retailer, just think of your self as a typical small (for now) business rather than a tech startup. There's a whole world of entrepreneurial advice on that front that you'll miss out on if you only read about VCs.
I guess this is a trade off that depends on your use case: from which distance does the qr code need to be scannable, what cameras do we expect to be used for scanning, how likely is what kind of damage to parts of the qr code, ...
The Valley is now acknowledging a history of shady dealings that flew a number of acquisitions into mountains right after their founders flew away on golden wings, Loopt, Socialcam, and Twitch have entered the chat.

Everyone who has ever slept with a YC founder has known this for more than 10 years, and there are still going to be holdouts?

It’s over folks. It was fun while it lasted. Not.
I think one of the biggest enemies of EV adoption is that people just don't intrinsically understand that "refueling" is fundamentally different.
Setting aside the antics of the CEO, Teslas are increasingly unappealing. I don't want a "yoke", I don't want everything on a touch screen, and I don't want to try to navigate a roundabout using signal buttons on a steering wheel in the winter. I do want CarPlay.

A lot of this stuff is blatant cost-cutting with a fig leaf of "it's futuristic".
South Africa also built its own nuclear power plant. We are capable of doing advanced things, just like anyone else.
Being able to point out the right things that need to be fixed is an important skill. Most people can tell when something is off about a product but can't tell you exactly what it is.

You can easily identify the wrong thing as the problem then end up trying to hide a symptom instead of fixing the problem. Medicine is notorious for treating symptoms when the underlying problem is usually related to something else like diet or (lack of) exercise.

You can also completely fail to identify an obvious problem such as the games where you end up stuck and having to Google how to progress because the game is poorly designed. This poor design isn't going to be obvious to anybody working on the game every day because they designed and already know the solution but it would come up if somebody else played the game and got stuck.
Again to Musk's reputation: he's not exactly layoff-averse. Even if it isn't strictly required I can't imagine he'd hesitate to pull the trigger.
I moved right about 10 years ago, kamen min lebnen :)

It’s actually a major thing I think about especially when it comes to any kids I might have.
what are the advantages of using Cloudflare db over supabase? So far im loving supabase but wasn't aware CF products have increased drastically

Rows read 5 million / day First 25 billion / month included + $0.001 / million rows

Rows written 100,000 / day First 50 million / month included + $1.00 / million rows

Storage (per GB stored) 5 GB (total) First 5 GB included + $0.75 / GB-mo
I work close to the engineering school at a big Uni and often meet MEng students, at times in the past I had them help me out with ML projects that but usually I end up talking to them on the bus or in the 6th floor kitchen. So it's a question I ponder.

I had one student who did all the coding for a successful project that we wrote a paper about. I've talked to others who feel like they are "over their head" but are working on teams with people who know how to do all the math. That might be OK because there is a lot more to successful ML projects than being an individual contributor: very few people know how to manage ML projects and if you learned something about that it could be highly valuable.

If you study for a PhD you will definitely learn the math, but you've got an entirely different problem that you could be out of the workforce between 5-10 years and the market could look entirely different then than it looks now.
The headspace of flying squirrels and fossil rodents with 3D brain models
Chris Palmer, Harvard Psychiatrist has written a book called "Brain Energy" about the potential effects of Ketogenic therapy. The crux of his theory relies on Mitochondria's health which play essential roles (serotonine dopamine regulation, epigenitic signaling...) apparently a lot more than just providing ATP. And you have millions of them in each neurone so trauma, addiction, chronic stress, malnutrition, brain insulin resistance... may have compromised those organelles and the neurones therefore become over or under excitable. Ketones provide a relief for Mitochondria (only alternate energy source for the brain, mitophagy of damaged cells, protection of healthy ones through uncoupling). It is a lot more than just basic common sense for good health - although getting all the essentials nutriments may be part of it as well !

Anyway in his book (or podcasts) there are many anecdotal but nevertheless fascinating cases of hopeless patients in total remission after a couple of months on keto therapy. It seems a lot of research is underway as well
I'm comparing it to all the other touch keyboards of the time. Sure they were slow to implement swiping which is why I specified early day but the iPhone came out when a lot of touch phones when LG were still trotting out resistive screens.

Even after capacitance won, the iPhone keyboard was still snappier. I think they do some smoothing of the touch contact to infer from the glancing of the contact what you might have meant. Eg where did you keydown vs keyup.

If you've ever used one of those in-app banking "security" keyboards you might notice what a keyboard with no smoothing feels like.

It wasn't until SwiftKey that Apple even had to worry about competition
I've had lots solve problems for me. The best ones are like a firewall against upper management's ADHD insanity.
Yep, as the attacker you bias the entire playing field to your side. If a mailing list has 20 or so users on it, you create 50 accounts over time that are nice, helpful, and set a good tone. Then later you come in with your attack and the pushy assholes. Suddenly those 50 puppets just slightly side with the asshole. Most people break under that kind of social pressure and cave to the jerks request.
Some things to think about.

- Tesla's charging network is opening up. I think this used to be the single biggest selling point.

- Tesla's repairability is not great, neither are the insurance rates.

- The 4680's have not exactly changed the world... might have made things cheaper for Tesla but that is about it.

- Some folks might think that Teslas aversion to buttons has reached peak dumb. Latest model 3 has even ditched the turn signals and drive-selector stalks...

- Requiring FSD demos prior to sales? GTFO.

- Musk is officially more of a liability than an asset.
How is the charging situation? I remember that everyone announced NACS and compatibility with the Tesla network a while ago, has that happened or is it still just promises?
Perhaps! That leads to a question actually: I wonder how many people know that Musk intentionally reinstated accounts for literal neo nazis, and very obviously has personal knowledge of Andrew Anglin being on the service? I suspect most people do not know, because getting caught providing material support for nazism would destroy a normal person's reputation.
> The vast majority of the world doesn't exist in the online sphere.

I wonder if the vast majority of potential Tesla customers does though.
I'd be curious to see a direct performance comparison between their python and JS workers. Based on my own experience with pyodide, I'd wager there might be up to a 2x performance penalty.
We work with non-technical founders. I've written a version of this post—although not as comprehensive.

My main advice for all aspiring founders is the same:

You cannot be waiting. You must be executing.

You can't wait for funding. You can't wait for a technical cofounder. You can't wait for the dev shop to finish your MVP.

If you're not actively, personally building something, you MUST be executing somewhere else. Ideally this means you're talking to customers, pitching, and trying to solve their problems with the skills and resources you have available to you.

But you can't just sit around and wait for someone to save you and your startup. And this article gives a great explanation of why: those saviors can save themselves. If you're 100% dependent on them for success, what are they getting out of the relationship?

Don't wait. Do.
How soon before these price cuts are reflected in home battery backups and cars? My extended range ford lightning has the capacity of roughly 10 power walls, and is less expensive to buy than 10 power walls.

Would love to see home scale battery backups getting cheaper
Exactly. Boeing's problems go far beyond United Airlines. I suspect tomohawk is somehow affiliated with Boeing.
All I’ll say is: don’t advertise your lust for a Muslkian “direct” communication style during job interviews. All I’m hearing is “terrible to work with”.

I’m sure you’ll appreciate the direct nature in which I communicated this, even if you disagree with it.
You don't think every nation state has people inside private software shops? Especially big tech?

Look at stuff getting signed with MS keys, hardware vendors with possible backdoors.

Social engineering is social engineering and it can happen anywhere no matter the profit motivation or lack there of.

Money interest in software won't save you any more than Foss.
They should just do an offering. That stock has held it's stupidly massive over valuation for 5+ years now. Just dump it on whatever dumb ass investors have been propping the stock up.
South African entrepreneurs?

EDIT: I had heard he was South African. Googled it though: "South African-born American businessman" so I guess he is American now. Thanks.
Wase zaps microbes to squeeze more biogas from wastewater sludge
The CEO of Hyundai hasn't bought a media company to put his mistaken beliefs and bad habits in front of millions of people.
First SQL database built specifically for running in the browser using WASM.
yes, a belt-driven lazy susan is the right answer here (for azimuth).
Seems like the lede was buried in the article; I know a bit about QR codes: there's different modes for alphanum, binary, kanji, etc, and error correcting capacity...but being able to switch character sets in the middle was new to me.
New XZ backdoor scanner detects implant in any Linux binary
The quote directly says “breaking in” which is at odds with your usage of “unlocked”

Poor security in some computer systems doesn’t equal unlocked - in the physical world many locks can be quickly unlocked by someone with only moderate training.
That’s weird that Wikipedia says there’s no real distinction between SoCs and ASICS.

Colloquially, I’d never call anything with a programmable processor an ASIC
Could it really not afford it? I’m not convinced that is the case, so much as we don’t have a way to pay people for their effort.
My pet theory is that they were a form of marketing for the folks who grew up with the wild-west-internet. The internet now is more corporate and "serious". You have an entire generation of workers who only ever knew the internet in its walled off / corporate form. And then you have folks want to "just get work done". So you'll continue to see fewer of these harmless chicanery.
Jobs' terrible attitude is at this point widely known, dissected and discussed to death here and everywhere else. Calling it out does not adding anything new or insightful to this discussion.

His terrible attitude is also entirely orthogonal to his product management sensibility. The fact that he was a jerk does not mean he must be generally canceled and his unique product development theory and insight ignored. The two are not directly related, and it is possible to appreciate one while condemning the other.
"This app is currently not available in your country or region."

Perhaps you can drop the geo-block?
https://archive.ph/2024.04.02-114617/https://www.ft.com/cont...
It also has much better range than the Mercedes, accelerates faster, costs nearly half as much, and can use Superchargers. I can forgive the slightly less fancy "finish" for all that.
Apparently Henry Ford bought a newspaper (the Dearborn Independent) to publish his opinions on jews. History sure does rhyme. What is it with car CEOs?
You're expecting them to fit on a T-shirt in 3 years, or is your context length too short to have noticed that clause? (Only human, if so).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39904650
They got away with it on Viacom too, often arguing the other side of lawsuits against their employer. Apple is the odd one out.