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This discussion is almost textbook flamebait. Indeed the very topic itself was all about flame. It's impossible, I think, to be able to discuss it rationally without falling into our usual traps. Actually for many people to even consider that it is possible to discuss it rationally would be problematic and borderline offensive, for others, the lack of a rational discussion is itself proof of a big problem.

That's my observation of these threads - it's a curious game - the only winning move, Professor Falcon, is not to play. How about a nice game of Chess?
I read the article and it has nothing to do with too many books being written or basically any of the other comments here.

It is a very interesting story about a man spending increasingly more time in darkness, the experiences he has there, his return into the real world and how it influenced his work and how he is now helping others to have similiar experiences.

PS: reloading the page in Firefox' reader mode showed it in full to me. Go to reader mode and then reload if you only see part of the article.
One squirt of lotion after each use. Problem solved.
You got a source to back up where exactly he "advised" to drink bleach?
Part of the problem is the goalposts move. The cellular data connection you can get in many places (though, of course, not everywhere) is probably a lot faster than back when WiMAX was being promoted as the fix for the last mile problem. And typical cellular data caps today would mostly look like all the bandwidth in the world going back 15 years or whatever.

Now, a lot of people don't think they have "real" broadband if everyone in the household can't be streaming Netflix at 4K simultaneously without any meaningful caps or throttling.
"Counting cards isn't illegal"

it all depends how you are counting them, if you use a secondary device or person assisting, that is cheating, which is illegal, even though you are using it to count.
My parents live in a rural area just outside of Silicon Valley and there is no fiber, cable, or DSL Internet service available at any price. The only options are satellite and Verizon cellular.
Those are some super cool screencasts, thank you for sharing! What are you showing on the right side gutter of your editor, visible at 20 seconds on https://asciinema.org/a/es4O4UdxPzB0vl7Tr88TKlq9N?

It looks like the function or loop scope? What are you using to generate/output that information? What languages does it work in? How hard is it to add support for new languages?
http://enwp.org/Wikigroaning
> He once seemed to be the savoir of humanity

In hindsight pretty impressive he ever pulled the wool over anyone’s eyes.
I think it's dangerous and toxic in general for billionaires to threaten economic retribution when the government doesn't enact their preferred policies. I continue to think that here, even though I generally like this particular billionaire and agree with the policy position he's fighting for.
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This is a confusing misinterpretation of the parent comment. He isn't saying it isn't easy to count cards, rather that there isn't a widely seen public method to do it in 2020, and that there isn't math to prove it is profitable with casinos targeting advantaged players.
I think you'd be surprised how many classic hardware designs take that approach as well. There's nothing wrong with that approach.
It is getting harder and harder to be a fan of Tesla when Musk is out here routinely saying ridiculous shit. I genuinely like their cars and their mission, but this guy is just unhinged.
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What is the reason that many people, including you, seem to blame white people for everything? It's almost like a reflex.

Not to mention that the ethnicity of the person in question in this story is pretty clear from the photographs.
I think we're talking about the same memo, just a different take on it. To be clear, it was a response to a solicitation of feedback on a diversity program.

If a company can't handle honest, carefully researched and presented feedback - they shouldn't ask for it.
You think there will be tourism and business trip into Sweden when their strategy is explicitly "you will get the virus anyway"?

In the end, the Vietnamese will have more freedom than the Swedish. When countries that have put the virus under control agree to reopen borders against each other, Sweden will be left out.
to article's author: -it was too short, I want more. Some epilogue or something. This only made me thirsty for more.
Lmao. You don't even see that its got you talking about tesla. He's doing what Apple does with 700 USD wheels without even selling anything. Its free tesla talk.
Came here to protect my neighbouring country's pride by saying that. Thanks for not making me the first and only one. :)
By "culture associated with them" you mean you have a stereotype of their culture you associate with them.
> Coronaviruses don't tend to produce strong, long-lasting immunity

This is a bit misleading. The common coronaviruses that cause the "common cold" do not seem to confer long lasting immunity. But there are very significant differences between those viruses and SC2. The best estimate we have is that immunity will be similar to SC1 (SARS) and immunity to that lasts several years.
Pretty sure you don't want to admit the outrage mob is real because you are part of it.
We're having an extended period of time to realize that we simply don't need to fly anywhere.

I think we're all learning right now that we don't need to do a lot of things, but we still want to.

I can't imagine getting on a plane either, but only this year. I expect I'll be traveling in 2021 or 2022. I wouldn't even be opposed to going on a cruise again in the next few years. If there's not a global pandemic going on, cruise ships really aren't that big of a risk. I've been on 10-15 cruises and have never picked up anything. Norovirus is the typical risk, but you're probably at more risk of catching it on land than on a cruise ship. There's just not the same level of monitoring and reporting of norovirus at places like restaurants.

Airplanes always were flying petri dishes, but so are any place where people gather. It's not just airplanes and cruise ships, it's restaurants and concerts and schools and churches and extended family get-togethers. There's just no evidence that the pandemic will affect those things in the long run.

Once it's safe to do so, we'll be clustering together again, like we always have.
This problem mostly impacts the poor. You're going to fine them? That isn't going to solve the problem either and will probably create even more problems.
> dimwit who advises drinking bleach

I can't tell anymore whether people parrot this crap because they actively believe it or solely because it makes for a good political jab...

I guess I'll just have to hope it's for the political show...
Hi Hacker News!

I'm super exicted to be showing this web app off. My local pharmacy struggled to cope with the amount of incoming requests for pick-ups so I developed an open source queue system that can help small businesses with the current climate. It's open sourced with the MIT licence.

I'm happy to take any questions you may have!
I enjoy whenever someone lets their freak flag fly!

That said I wouldn't rule out a medical event :)

Also, if you piss off The Powers That Be enough, it doesn't end well for you.
Tickets to leisure destinations are not out of line from flights on business routes, so I don’t think it’s right to say airplanes can’t fly profitably without business travelers footing the bill.
Things started to turn against him when he began to appear sympathetic to the American political Right and Trump in particular.
Practically every comment I've made in this thread I'd consider a waste of time since no one calling the memo "sexist" has made any serious argument, thus proving my point.

I always thought Reddit was a better platform for people more interested in a echo chamber safe space where they can post low-effort 1-2 sentence comments and be patted on the back with other similar comments all saying the same thing.
Those numbers look very attractive. What was the expected lifetime of the system? Did it take increased deterioration into account from radiation/increased sunpower? What about cooling? (or are they just pricing currently available satellite panel technology?)

A big issue with a project like this are unforeseen costs (being a space-based project) and engineering costs (sometimes needs government stimulus). I'm also bothered sometimes those solutions are advertised as panaceas for climate problem; while currently we have mostly a policy problem (clean energy is almost on par with carbon energy, we're just missing key incentives for the new tech and phasing out carbon plants quicker).

But indeed looks like a promising avenue of exploration.
I remember a long time ago, the Hollywood moguls threatened to pick up and move out when California was getting more socially liberal, look who’s still here 100 years later
>No, I get that just fine - you're not actually arguing that they have a conspiracy; you're arguing that they don't need one.

You don't get big media companies have been trying to control what the public has been doing with culture long before PC's, aka VHS vs beta max... so yes they have been conspiring for a long time. Conspiring just equals getting together and co-operating in this instance.

>I wouldn't,

You would, why the hell would anyone who was a 90's nerd defend anything like mmo's (stolen rpg's), steam, etc, unless they were fucking retarded?

You do know that all those "mmo's" were just rebadged PC RPG that were heading towards boxed product status, if not for the success of UO and everquest right?

The industry did a hard u turn after they discovered most of the general game buying public was computer illiterate.

You don't seem to understand we're already in dystopia, aka dedicated servers and network code for games like Transformers fall of cybertron are mathmacking on PC locked to an invisible server corporately controlled.

Same goes for Doom 2016. Try running doom multiplayer not connected to the internet over lan, watch the fun begin.

You don't seem to get they can now client-server every game now that the world is fully wired with internet, since that was the end game, to wait until internet infrastructure was there to trap files between server and client and bannish the notion of software ownership of applications, games and OS's.

Windows 10 is a full frontal attack on your right to own and control your own machine.
I dunno man, the wisdom of a 48 year old that names his seventh child 'X Æ A-12' may not be the best wisdom to follow.
No it will not outperform your GPU for rendering, that is already a specialized hardware
Not to mention that California is in quite the financial pickle. Taxes in the near future are headed up for groups that politicians love to badmouth, e.g. corporations and the wealthy.
Caesar’s dynasty had so many bad apples in it. I can see how one could bucket them into ‘psychologically rotten’ (even by Roman standards) and call it a day.
Ambien.

after being asked whether he writes his own tweets: "I'm the only
author, so, love or hate it, that's me. I've learned some lessons
though, such as tweeting on Ambien isn't wise." [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/794578375415238656
Your post does nothing to explain why server side cheat detection is in such a poor state. "Don't trust user input" is a fundamental maxim in this industry.

When you log into your bank's website, does it do action validation on the client side or the server side? Every few weeks there's some security bug that boils down to the server trusting the client when they shouldn't. And hackernews comments correctly boil that down to the devs were lazy and/or incompetent.

Games are no different. Sure, your industry has its own quirks and limitations. But trusting unverifiable user input... That's in the ten commandments, man.
it seems to compile/run fine for me on catalina but everything is absolutely huge (hidpi compatibility issues?)
Is that why he maintains a personal PR firm, an army of paid social media influencers and multiple AstroTurf Twitter accounts?
Musk has clearly acted erratically in the last few years. He must certainly has some kind of brain disfunction. Many such people at certain times appear to be geniuses, but their lives are badly impacted by their lack of awareness of other human beings and insatiable ego. A case that went wrong very early was Elisabeth Holmes. But a lot of these crazy people go on to make a fortune and then the public is lead to believe that they're great, to praise then and even to try emulating them. For example, even with all signs of mental disease, we still see a lot o people incensing Musk as a great person to be imitated.
They also buy them for iMessage continuity between devices. Can’t have those green bubbles.
Clothed? Naked? In shorts?
Musk has said repeatedly that the reason he’s doing Tesla is to help move the country off fossil fuels for transportation, because of global warming.

Well, no state has been stronger on this issue than California, who sets fuel efficiency goals that are the most stringent. The same cannot be said of Texas and Nevada; if anything the opposite is true. These are states where people take pride in driving big gas guzzling trucks and the government supports them in that.

Everyone loves to complain about how restrictive CA is, but what about when the substance lines up with what one supposedly believes? Why would Musk want Tesla to support Texas over CA? That seems backward unless his goal is the success of Tesla as a business, rather than progress against global warming.
That's way more expensive than the margins they're used to for distribution.

And the xbone not getting hacked in it's lifetime proved that they can have their cake and eat it too.
same here, works on mac quite nice :)
and it's super fast.

also fonts are a bit big on retina screen.
1. use RDS

2. if you want to run your own you’d better know how HA setups work and you can lose at least a machine at ANY point in time (not just when AWS warns you the hardware is failing)
Counting cards is legal, because counting cards is a solo, mental thing. Yes, once you bring in devices or other people, it's not cheating.
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Speak for yourself. My dermatologist won't let me out in the sun or the full moon (the latter because I might turn into a werewolf).
Feel free to not respond as this might be too personal, but I'm very interested. Does your wife keep in contact with her mother? Presumably yes, as you have gotten to know them?
Let’s be frank, he’s moving to TX/NV for more lax workers regulations. They were caught suppressing their workers injury reports.
BTW, I'd love if Tesla moved to Tulsa, just for name similarity.

I mean, if you're going for "excentric billionaire", then GO for it!
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You do what must be done. If the government provided more support to businesses due to COVID shutdown, this wouldn’t have been necessary. This is a Federal government failure manifestation. Elon is trying to save his business he’s worked two decades on. I can’t fault him.

Airlines and Ford (pinnacles of responsible business operations /s) getting bailed out by the Fed through junk bond liquidity operations? Why not Tesla too?
Musk says whatever he needs to to stay relevant on Twitter.
The inverse square law still applies to directional transmitters and optical transmitters. It's just that their transmit gain is much much higher.
It has a timeline. His passport was suspended while he was in Hong Kong. He did not travel to Moscow on his US passport, he travelled to Moscow on some other travel document. He’s a defector.

I know this site is full of Snowden apologists, but for goodness sake you don’t have to swallow every easily disprovable lie he tells.
Not matter the reasons why he does this, it will be good for the country as a whole if industry spreads out and doesn't concentrate in a few places. It may even be better for the Bay Area in the long run. I hope more companies will do so.
I had completely forgotten about that awesome seen. Thanks for the reminder!
Yeah, you’re right. I see what you’re saying.

I even forgot what my ideological reason was, something about them stealing tips.

I still don’t think riders are fickle like that, comparing prices amongst multiple ride share app and uninterested in promotions. I think people pick one and stick with it, more out of habit that anything else, not likely to change unless something crazy happens

I was all on Uber until they had some old controversy that I totally forgot about, but I’m not going to use it again, not for something as small as saving a couple dollars or a few minutes time difference
How feasible/practical would it be for Tesla to move its manufacturing "and future programs" out of California, while keeping its software/AI team in the Bay Area?
I believe Adobe has had this for a long time in character animator

https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html
How dare the FDA stop harmful chemicals from fuel-grade ethanol finding their way into my Purell! Surely the market would solve this problem itself. Once people get skin cancer, they will simply stop buying the lower quality, dangerous product. This is econ 101.
The issue with neoliberalism is that it does little to 'lift the poor' in practice, yet maintains strong rhetoric to that effect.

With regards to medicare for all and free college, I am an European, where these policies have been implemented to various degrees rather successfully.

My issue is with the way neoliberalism seems to be clinically used to rhetorically support many left ideas, while in reality not doing anything to get them close to reality, if not outright undermining them.

They're the ultimate 'human interventionists', so where neoconservatives will just outright acknowledge they're in it to show America's muscle, get U.S. business access to new markets, confront a competitor etc. the neoliberals tend to use a more veiled language, but ultimately peruse similar policies.

So while the Iraq War was drawn up by neocons, the Libya intervention was drawn up by neoliberals. The difference? Neoliberals used much more soft, humanitarian language, for what was ultimately a disaster of similar proportions to Iraq, including the return of slave markets.

That is my problem with neoliberals, the cynical use of floury, high-minded language in persit of ultimately goals not so different from neoconservatives after all.
Extreme wealth and power are amplifiers; any character flaws you have are going to be magnified by it a thousand fold. Most of us would appear very strange if viewed through this prism of the unbounded ego.

Or maybe it’s just for the lolz + fat stacks of mad cheddar.
> He has built a $150 billion company from the ground up

That's a bit of a stretch.

The company was founded by other folks (Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning) in 2003, he invested in 2004, joined the board of directors, ousted the CEO in 2007, and was then only able to refer to himself as a cofounder after settling a lawsuit.

Musk didn't build anything "from the ground up," he took control of a company that already existed and grew it into something larger - still admirable, but let's not rewrite history. Musk didn't create Tesla and he wasn't one of the original cofounders.
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Okay, lone_haxx0r mentioned it. Odin. I was slightly off on the back-story, they made it because they were fed up with C++ and didn't want to just extend C. I guess the assessment of "Go without some of the aspects of Go that the author hated" was just projection on my part. Anyway, here's a link to the website if anyone is interested.

https://odin-lang.org/docs/faq/#what-is-the-history-of-the-p...
Bring up a picture of the sun on your monitor?
TIL. However, the CDC quotes a source saying it’s about half that:

> Human data: Ten volunteers exposed for 3 to 5 minutes to 200, 400, or 800 ppm reported mild to moderate irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat at the two higher concentrations [Nelson et al. 1943]. The probable lethal oral dose has been reported to be 190 grams [Gosselin et al. 1984].

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/idlh/67630.html

IPA has a density of 0.786 g/cm3 (20 °C) (per Wikipedia), so that’s 190/0.786 = 242 ml (about 8 oz).
Correct. But each individual is betting flat. Thus defeating that restriction.
My reading of the article was that it sought to point out that how "bad" it is today isn't unusual or an anomaly. Today's divisions are more par for course in America than a new development. That perspective is relevant when we try to improve the current situation.
How do I install this on Mac? apt is not available in mac.

Update: I can install this using brew install sdl2 https://medium.com/@edkins.sarah/set-up-sdl2-on-your-mac-wit...
People who want power and money will move to wherever power and money exist, it's a tautology. Whether it be in finance or C-level positions. It's just a part of life I suppose, not that it's a good thing.
It's hard to build a plant in areas without a competent workforce. Look at the Tesla Gigafactory debacle in Nevada. Years late, problems with Panasonic, huge thefts, large scale drug dealing in the plant.[1][2]

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-tesla-panasoni...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-tesla-employee-says-gigafact...
Since there are a lot of text editors, I'd like to see more detail on the motivations for yet another one. How does this compare to the current top-five open source editors?
No I think there was a time California had a leg up on the competition, but after years of adding government regulation and taxation, some people are finding that the difference is sufficient for it to be worthwhile to move. Some people move did to housing costs, some businesses will move due to business climate. Is it the start of a trend or a one off, who knows. Time will tell.
Do you mean that sarcastically or?
Your notion is that whatever an employee does should be fine as long as it technically complies with a the wording of vague, general request made by a coworker?

That would be one way to run a company, I guess. But I've never heard of one that actually works like that.
Admin & production would move to Texas, but I would imagine Tesla would keep an office in CA for electronics.
I used to think that I’m the only on this planet who do care about the exact same stuff, agree completely
Couldn't agree more. A little redundancy early on in a product's lifecycle, when requirements are still in their infancy, can be a very valuable thing. It's much easier to add a layer of abstraction later as requirements became clear, vs. remove an unneeded layer of abstraction (which is often impossible).

I've been on too many projects which tried to build the perfect abstraction right out of the box - as if the problem domain fully known.
Oh yeah I forgot about the know it all white knights mindlessly defending the hive mind like soldier ants

Why do I bug you so much?
It's even worse for billionaires to threaten economic retribution because the government didn't give them enough money.
If Tesla should move manufacturing anywhere, it should be to its idle factory in Buffalo, New York.

That won’t happen, though. I expect that more and more Tesla manufacturing will go offshore to China. Especially battery manufacturing.
Thank you for your reply. I think I understand this better now.