skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're aware that one of the leads of the Thai rescue operation personally had an email with Musk asking him to continue working on the sub concept "in as timely a manner as feasible"? (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dhv9BppUwAArP8X.jpg)

Further, Musk didn't get involved until asked to do so, deferred to other experts, and praised the efforts of everyone else involved: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-full-story-behind-Elon-Musks...

Clearly narcissistic behavior.

I think there are very few among us that could juggle the responsibilities he's got and keep up the schedule he's got and not get tilted now and again. It's part of being human, which seems to be lost on a lot of people today. It's also why a schedule like that is a really bad idea, for anyone, and why one of the most productive things an ambitious person can do is build a good team.
Ian Stewart wrote about calculational train circuits like these in an article in Scientific American in 1994 :

“A Subway Named Turing”

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https://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v271/n3/pd...

Love the closing line (as the train passengers discussing the concept of train logic circuits realise they haven’t come to a station in awhile):

>“This isn't any touring machine," the guard said indignantly. "This is a personnel commuter, buddy."
>At least, I think that's what he said.
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I discovered it (the skinos brand) in greece this summer (Halkidiki-sithonia : magnificent beaches), just with an ice cube. Very unusual smell (reminiscent of pine trees) and very nice taste. I am still to find someone who dislikes it.
The same Musk with the same employees

I think I agree with everything except that.

What I'm saying is we can't have everything that's positive about Telsa, but completely discard Musk.

What we _should_ hope for is for the current version of Musk to become a better version of Musk - say, one that can build a viable EV company and help bring about a global transition away from combustion-powered transport, but without the vile personal attacks, impulsive stock-price-affecting comments, absurd PR stunts, overworked workforce etc.

I'm well aware that the world doesn't currently have clear answers as to how people can make such profound changes to their personality, but I think it is where more discussion and research needs to be in order for the world to find and develop the leaders who can steer us through the big challenges.
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Is your number really random?
> That Tesla and Space X couldn't exist / succeed without Musk working his employees and himself into a burnout

Well does another SpaceX/Tesla exist? I don't think so. So it's very possible that that is true. Maybe the trait to start impossible companies and to work impossible hours is actually the same trait.
code is also available here: https://github.com/vignat/vignat

yay !
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> It also uncovered a "bug" (performance weakness?) in v8 that they were able to fix so less CFG blocks were allocated.

They implemented a freelist, it's a common workaround for problematic allocators, but has its own issues (https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/analysis-of-openssl-fre...)
What? Economic liberalism is about the free market, private property, reduced regulation, etc. etc. Which are traditionally the pro-business republican positions that one of the above commentators mentioned as leaving the republican party because of Trump.

I don't know where these people have gone, maybe they went to the Democratic party, but collectivist ideas like welfare, free education, and single-payer healthcare aren't really "economic liberal" positions.
That's an awfully cynical perspective. I have personally met and know several people who I would in no way classify as being "in some way, pieces of shit".

I feel shame when I meet them, but they do exist. And the rest of us shouldn't get a pass because we suck.
Or even between parts of Australia, both countries take bio security very seriously!
“We will be gradually entering markets as we develop products sensitized to the needs of our hyper local users.”

That Would have sold like iPhones.
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You know, Swiss make the no. 1 nationality for overstaying their visa-free stay period around the world.
If the margins are on drinks you can be reasonably sure the food is salty instead of healthy.
I'm not German and I don't see why it would have anything to do with that.

"Living about their means" is what happens when their debt levels grow exponentially:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7KXHAuORi4w/TbS897oFTGI/AAAAAAAAA...

in what world do you think this is sustainable? The US can get away with huge amount of debts because they have the dollar, which the most trusted international currency for virtually every commodity trade. Other countries don't have that luxury.
Google had a decent hunk of the market share when it was there, and it seems to be totally dominant in Taiwan.

I'd note there were articles about people griping about it being blocked at the time: https://qz.com/239810/frustrated-chinese-web-users-bemoan-ba...
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I went through my entire "friend list" and added people into a spreadsheet with their phone number or email address if I cared to keep contact.

Had a long "deactivated" period to figure out which services I had accidentally used facebook for authenticating with.

Now I go through my phone book and text/call someone if I want to see them and email pictures to my mom and extended family.
I second this. Both Democrat and Republican parties are much too right wing to get elected in the UK. I am aware that it may seem surprising that Obamacare is too right-wing, but compare it to the NHS.

Likewise, one of the things which makes no sense to me about American politics are sentences like “liberals want to take away our guns” (sarcastic use of the name?) in response to limited control; in comparison, the UK is so anti-gun even the police don’t usually have any.

One of the other left-right splits we see in American news is on the topic of gay marriage (left-wing pro, right-wing anti). In the UK, gay marriage was legalised by the most right-wing of the major parties.
I don't even think it's about dragging fiber cables. I live in India and in the last one year, a single company's efforts - Reliance Jio - have ensured that I get decent 4G connectivity nearly everywhere. Price is a non-issue - I pay less than $3/month for about 2GB/day of downloads. If I needed more, I wouldn't have to pay more than $10/month.

India isn't exactly the most advanced country. Can't imagine why internet would be a problem in any affluent country anymore.
Apparently, a lot of users are commenting on Weibo about their deep untrust of Baidu -- and how they can’t wait for Google to come back to China [1]. Also Baidu seems to favor its own products for search engine rankings [2].

Further searching reveals reports that Baidu is significantly behind Google in AI, and that usability takes the backseat vs money.

I would like to see a more thorough comparison between the two.

[1] https://qz.com/593120/chinese-citizens-are-boycotting-search...

[2] https://magichoth.com/20-top-differences-between-google-and-...
Doing the same search, it appears that there are at least three people named Steven Degutis with different middle names: https://www.instantcheckmate.com/people/steven-degutis/

Searching for someone's name can at best give you suspicions, but name collisions are so common that you can't know whether the person you found mentioned online is the same you wanted to find out about.

Personally, I have almost no real-name presence on the internet, so the top result for my name is some other guy's Instagram account. You might spend a lot of time looking at his posts, but that won't help you learn anything about me.
Why did they need an austerity program if they were fine?
I would rephrase as: Who has the guts today to break technological boundaries as strongly as Elon?
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Long story short, facilitation of private sector. If I need one month of red tape to open a new business and have to face a mountain of absurd taxes from day one it's game over. Social security for example is obligatory and it's a huge hurdle for young people who want to open a business and start making money. It creates a lot of insecurity if you have no idea whether your business will succeed to have to pay a monthly fee for social security which if you don't they might confiscate your bank account.
We have an unofficial rule that automated db migrations must have a “downgrade/rollback” script too.
Greek debt was running at 100% of GDP since the nineties, if they had a better handle on it then the economic crisis wouldn't have hit them so hard.

https://tradingeconomics.com/greece/government-debt-to-gdp
I'm not surprised. But nobody cares that they overstay their visa really. They're not going to cause trouble, or claim asylum, try to stay for ever and work in the underground economy, or otherwise cost the government money. Hence 'privileges'.

I'm Canadian, and we are the longest overstayers in the USA!
As much as I would like to join the FB bashing - I must not because it would be at the cost of solutions to the real problem.

MODDING is HARD. It scales like shit, and people regularly find ways to screw with algorithms.

It’s fractal complexity: you end up spending many many hours of compute for not moving the needle.
Most greek government debt before the crisis was generated in the preeurozone era, between 1984 and 1990 - ~40%->~90% gdp. This happened before the euro was created and before Greece joined. Private debt spiked in the Euro era - Banks ! This debt has been socialised by the aid packages, this would be fine if it was socialised across the eurozone, where the failure of supervision occurred and where the loot was stashed, but instead it's been loaded on a Greek economy that patently can't (and eventually won't) pay. What I believe is being hoped for is that by then there will be fiscal union and Greek debt will be manageable within that framework, until then, screw the Greek people. But be clear - the normal people of Greece were not responsible for this and their suffering is unjust.
How often does you last point happen?
Bernie Sanders wanted free college, but he doesn't represent the party.
Minor correction - Switzerland is not in the EU
Then the devs quit and work for someone else, probably for even more pay.
The Star Trek universe provided ample backstory to this over various series and several movies: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/World_War_III
Try right-clicking the back button. Or complain to your browser maker -- they're responsible for its behaviour.
> Then you said a particular stimulant is not physically addictive without additional behaviours

I very clearly did not say that and expounded on it in pretty good detail. Again, cigarettes are not nicotine.
the 2008 banking crisis caused credit to dry up, this caused a rise in debt costs which caused attention to focus on the greek economy which caused the fraud that allowed eurozone admission to become widely known which destroyed confidence in the greek administration which then turned to Europe who didn't help which destroyed confidence further.
To be fair thats what makes Greece Greece. We could turn Greece, or in fact entire Southern Europe, into a new Denmark/Netherlands/Germany but do the people want to give up their identity and culture?

When the ECB sent people to Athens to oversee the reforms they were not welcomed.
It was hyperbole, my point was that if Apple & co really wanted to promote remote work, it would cost them peanuts, at least regarding the infrastructure expenses.

Regarding team collaboration, that's a different story and nobody has science to actually back up local teams vs remote teams, anyway.
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Not to mention they literally asked Goldman-Sachs to help cook the books so they could qualify for joining the EU. I don't understand why people keep perpetuating this 'poor Greece is so innocent' myth. There was rabid government overspending, they literally defrauded the EU and they still got saved!
If you got 100 shares every year as an Amazon employee, your 500 shares would be worth close to a million.

I know some friends who've been able to buy houses in places like London simply because of their Amazon shares
I think this would depend on what you consider liberalism. For instance, I think two of the most important components of liberalism are the autonomy of the individual and the consent of the governed.

If we wanted to create a truly liberal government we might have institutions where you were given the option of paying an education tax. And if you paid this tax, then you would be able to opt in to public education benefits which would be equitably distributed and could approach "free" depending on how many people paid in and the cost of the education institute any given student was pursuing. However, if you chose to opt out of this tax, you would be obligated to pay the costs and fees all on your own.

Instead proponents of "free" things tend to take the view that we should forcefully demand one segment of society pay for this "free" thing for the rest of society, and threaten them with violence or imprisonment if they refuse. There might be completely reasonable justifications for this, but I think it is a stretch to call this a liberal view once we consider what we actually mean by "free".
down votes to this are proof the peaceful discussion is futile.
Watching it from the inside, i think its main source is tourism and foreigners buying real estate. If the latter ends, i think the economy will fall back again. Because nothing fundamental seems to be changing.
I would bet a significant portion of high achievers want to live in urban areas near other high achievers rather than rural areas. Face to face networking opens up many, many doors.
I'm skeptical they would bother even if they could.

At the best they probably machine learning translated it and have no idea what the text really meant.
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I have PAYG roaming throughout the EU for one penny per megabyte (1 UK penny == 1.27¢ US). I think that’s unlimited in the EU but in the EEA goes up to 1.41p/MB after 12 GB (but if I used that much I would switch to something even cheaper).
I notice this sometimes in books or tutorials, that stuff you need for code to run is implemented later.
Why medical school and not, say, engineering or economics or math? I value having good physicians (my father is one), but medicine is not the only worthwhile human endeavor.

Edit: Also, at least in my state (Michigan) there seems to be no shortage of medical students (we went from 4 med schools to 7 earlier in the decade). The real bottleneck is residency programs.
Great use of tech.

Also, not sure if I'm not seeing well or if my adblocker is being too zealous, but I don't see any share buttons on the article. Not something I'd expect from Wired, or any media outlet these days.
I run a 6 core desktop with 32G, and 1TB M2 SSD, and after an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 last Christmas, input lag in mintty terminals was dramatically worse. Even just holding down a key and observing the stream of characters at 15 per second or whatever my repeat rate is, it glitches and stutters.
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Really good points @adiusmus. I do think we get lost due to lack of communication, that's something I know I can do on my side to better help him... but if he still doesn't do it we're boxing. =oP
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In what parallel universe was Greece fine before austerity? They had fiddled their books for decades (with help from predatory bankers). Even in the 90s it wasn't hard to see there was a fundamental issue in the way the country was managed
This is actually the best advice I've heard all night, thanks @CyberFonic!
Derp. Phone autocorrect doesn't know her name. And too late to edit.
You do have Dracula, at least. What does FYR Macedonia (or however it's called now) have?
This is also one reason countries have a higher wage than others, because not everyone can come in and increase the supply of labour.
Exactly - the crisis exposed the fundamental issues in Greece. It didn't create them, though of course it made things worse (as for pretty much every country in the developed world)
ProtonVPN is no competitor to Private Internet Access in terms of the size and the number of users. If you were a co-founder of PIA, would you risk your reputation by publicly providing false accusations against a company 1/100 of the size of yours?
> opt in to public education benefits which would be equitably distributed and could approach "free" depending on how many people paid in and the cost of the education institute any given student was pursuing. However, if you chose to opt out of this tax, you would be obligated to pay the costs and fees all on your own

And if you opt out of the public education tax, every time you want to see a doctor or cross a bridge or use a computer program, you have to pay a contribution to the student loans of the people who wrote it?

(The history of public education in the west goes back to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system and wasn't originally "redistributive" in the modern sense at all, more the tail end of feudalism)
Greece goes into default every few decades for the last many hundred years. So if they were to go a few hundred years without problems, then we can talk about improvements there for example.

It's similar with Portugal, or anywhere else. That said, they had a much more recent Empire. Nothing substantial changes in 2 years or even 20, apart from a collapse in government, war, invasion ... or a major treaty with the rest of the EU, which I believe will do to them what NAFTA does to Canada: make Portugal permanently less well off than the rest of Europe, but have some kind of 'bottom baseline' standard of living.

We can re-open discussion in a decade to see if there is real change.

I did take a quick look into it though and it does look positive at least to some [1]

[1] https://voxeu.org/article/turnaround-portuguese-economy
>> The Swiss have a small country and can travel anywhere, so could Armenians if the government and people there took the right steps. It would take a generation or so but there's no reason you couldn't.

What a revelation! Ok, people, down with all that we were doing wrong, let's take the right steps, c'mon!

It looks like you're not really familiar with the sense of desperation and powerlessness which is the normal state for citizens of many countries. This is tangential to what the parent's been saying, btw.
Yubikey 4C is very fragile. Mine has quite severe cracks on its plastic casing after 4 months of casual use (nothing extreme!), and I expect it to break in some months.

YK4 (non-C) is quite robust, though.
The whole thing doesn't seem logical. Their top priority is keeping people hydrated - so naturally, they'll make the drinks extra-dehydrating...
I think you're right. But I know many people who went through burnouts and came out better - kept everything that made them great but lost a little of the obsessive edge. Musk at 95% intensity would still be a fabulous captain of industry. Maybe he'll actually change for the better because of all this.
Hilarious, is this what Greeks think?

Its not the size of the debt or the deficit that matters but what its spent on.

Take a look at pre-2009 retirement ages, number of employees in the public sector and the wages in the public sector.
So, if the most of that team just writes code and product manger lets say is male, how would that be sub/optimal?

Are you saying all female developer team could not write good code for a product that is used by males?

Cos that sounds totally crazy to me... Quality of someones work has nothing to do with their gender in general.
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That's impressive, but I don't really have any use for a 5 Watt CPU. I've literally just pulled the trigger on moving to a 15inch MBP because of the 47 watt TDP of the parts. The challenge for ARM is crawling up to 45W, 65W, 90W, 150W performance. Hitting performance targets at the 5W is great for Mobile CPUs, but it sort of belies the fact that they're not ready to play in the real laptop market yet. Looks like it'll be chromebooks for the foreseeable future. I certainly don't see Apple being able to offer anything compelling with this.
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Windows 10 is really inconsistent. I have it running in a VM on a Fedora host and it's snappy as hell. Also on a pretty basic office-spec Celeron, but then running it on a new Ryzen 7 sometimes it lags. I don't think it's directly related to the performance of the hardware, there must be something else going on.
>> This strikes me as a deeply sad view of the world.

That's not a "view of the world", that's _objective reality_. There aren't enough jobs for those folks to take, so they end up at proverbial McDonalds. Those that do get jobs often don't get a wage that a degree that's in higher demand would command. That's the world that already exists, you can't will it away no matter how you finance people's education.
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I agree that Poland - and the east of Europe - seldomly appears in the western history lesson narrative.

Poland was liberal for it's time, yes, albeit only for the szlachta, a large part of the population that belonged to the privileged class of nobility. Peasants had not so much to gain access these times, especially in the former parts of Poland that are now Ukraine.

People of Jewish faith had strong privileges in Poland in the middle ages, which lead to the biggest diaspora in the world, a large fragmented community that was integrated into polish society in various degrees - as can be beautifully seen in the Jewish Museum in Warsaw.
It doesn't have to be an argument of belief; real-world examples will suffice.

Every person I can think of who was a profoundly influential inventor, scientist or company leader has had some notable personality idiosyncrasies.

Think: Nikola Tesla, Edison, Einstein, Newton, Howard Hughes.

I'm happy to hear of counter-examples.
TL;DR shithole countries will stay shithole countries, regardless of any action or inaction from a social network website. It's not FB's job to enforce law and order in Myanmar, it's Myanmar's job.
That's great but almost entirely unrelated to Gource.
And since they run on Azure, Microsoft is pressuring them to remove the worst nazi stuff.
I think that is just because you are a shit within that piece group rather than an exception.