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>>reality still gets to bat last

This seems like a Manichaean way of looking at human nature. In truth, all people are flawed and the same human being always does both good and bad, triumphs but then also fails.

There is no game in which “reality” goes to bat against any of us, Bill Gates included.

But even to accept the implied metaphor for a moment, I would hesitate to give home field advantage to media takedowns or salacious allegations. The accused should get to bat last, not the prosecution, even if the prosecutors claim to represent “reality.”

When it does get to be the ninth inning, given the sheer volume of good Mr. Gates has done the world through his philanthropy, I don’t see this one going to the bottom of the ninth anyway.

Looks like a blowout from here.
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the news are just reporting. you're free to make up your own mind. but think about it. why would my organization trust this man with money for projects if his own wife doesn't trust him. business deals are all about trust; any sign of danger means no deal. so it is very news worthy.

also, even if he cured malaria I wouldn't want to work with him or praise him (assuming allegations are true). imagine you had a brilliant work colleague but at the same he was a big jerk or worse, a sexual harasser.
How accurate is the counting? For examples like the case study, I presume your customers will want very close to 100% accuracy, but many other use cases will only need rough numbers. How do you calibrate / verify your app?
> A lot changes between times, too. Decades ago, those of us who did computer "stuff" in places like the Bay Area were typically nerdy science/math lovers who were an unfashionable segment of society with hobbies like ham radio, astronomy, homemade electronics, science fiction, math competitions, etc.

Dammit. So this is not something I merely suspected but is really true. I grew up around the year 2000 and programming was all I could think about, I read about people/meetups you describe and was eager to be a part of them.

By the time I grew up, attended university and started a job, things seemed very different. The stuff that got me excited about programming are now considered "boring" or "legacy".

Makes you wonder if you should give up on what you like doing and do what is considered amazing now (AI etc) even though you don't find it fun :/
What more utility does the Ford have? Range is and charging speed are part of utility and the Tesla crushes the Ford on that.

For 50k you get 400 miles on the Tesla and 230 miles for the Ford. Charing speed on the Ford peak 150kW, Tesla should should be peak 350kW. Unless I'm getting the numbers wrong.

I haven't look at the loading numbers so my memory might be off, but I think the Tesla at the same price can carry more.

The Ford can power your house apparently but the Tesla can also produce power for tools and stuff. I don't know about powering your house, it might be possible but its not advertised.

With the Tesla you can lock the storage area so you can leave expensive things you transport in there. If your family goes camping and all your luggage is in the back, or if you are contract with expensive tools. That would seem useful to me but I'm don't truck driver.

Or are you simply talking in terms of marketing?
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For some reason bitcoin apologists always use cars, and the internet, and other actual disruptive technologies and inventions. Even though with each passing day it looks more like radioactive health products [1]

[1] https://interestingengineering.com/9-interesting-failed-inve...
But a larger nucleus would be unlikely to produce the same spectral signature even with the same charge. The energy transitions would be different, especially with different orbital shells and subtle quantum effects.
> But where do those original knowledgeable people gain their skills, if not at their jobs? By doing useless side projects.

So much this.

The time you have is a finite resource, and technical expertise is a function of how you invest your time in activities that enable you to learn and grow.

More often than not, your job is not aligned with your career plan or growth path.

So how is it possible to bridge that gap? Well, through your own persona projects, projects whose goals are set by you and are not encumbered by third party requirements and don't even have to have a business model. Just coding.

Corporations want the reward of investing time in learning and exploring, but they don't want to foot the bill.
if your definition is magic nothing works
COVID testing's value shrinks as vaccines beat back virus
> No value is getting created. It's just musical chairs with money

Well, money launderers do this monetary musical chairs thing too. The launderers' customers pay them pretty hefty fees, so clearly they percieve some value being created (or at least provided) there.

Kinda like when Sotheby's launders drug money at their art auctions. Except now instead of art we have "NFTs".
Tesla isn’t a luxury car by any metric other than price tag.
> I also find even their aspirations suspicious that any such machinery could ever possibly exist to just tweezer atoms around like marbles

We can already push atoms around with macro-scale actuators that have nano-scale accuracy (which is clumsy, to be sure), and there is little doubt that the hardware to do so will get smaller and more capable over time.
How do you, personally, know that the chain is correct? Have you ever checked the hashes? Have you ever checked the transactions? Have you ever proved that the math they use is correct? Have you ever read the code for any BTC client?

You're trusting an awful lot of assumptions much more complex than 'the longest chain is right'.
I mean, you can turn up on the construction site with a cyber truck or a F150 electric.

I have limited experience of construction sites, but I do know that they're quite a harsh environment for a truck that's genuinely used for construction work rather than just as a massive car. If you're hauling materials and equipment your truck will break occasionally. When that happens you need to have a damn good spares and repairs network to call on.

I don't know if it's still the case, but that certainly used to be a bit of a problem for Tesla. People would have to wait weeks, and sometimes months, to get the spare parts for their Tesla cars. If you're working construction and you need your truck on the road to be making a living, and if Tesla hasn't resolved the spares problem, that would rule out the Cybertruck entirely for any serious contractor.

So yes, a Cybertruck would get you more attention at a construction site, but mostly just people asking "Why did you buy that? What happens when it breaks?"
Funny how we compare massive century old companies to a startup and they still fight to stay relevant.
It's not really clear where that 3 months figure comes from. Do they have 6 people all saving 2 weeks? And if so do the share the device or is the cost scaling with employees? There's also another part:

> When taking inventory, they had 2 members of the staff counting pearls and it took 2 full days.
They did not ground the plane. France and Italy (and some less relevant countries) denied usage of their airspace (though the french sorta-kinda dispute that?), then Evo Morales's plane chose to land in Austria instead of turning back. It could have chosen to land in any number of countries, or flown back. Portugal didn't even close airspace, merely denied landing permissions for a refueling stop - and while that's not entirely reasonable, it's at least comprehensible they didn't want to get involved in the Snowden drama.

Notably, it was in Evo Morales political interest to appear to be "sticking it to the man", so undoubtedly he had no problems with making the impact appear greater than it was. Not to mention his TV interview the very day before can be read as a kind of dare to do just this. Had he really been carrying Snowden with intent to protect him, he surely would not have played this brinkmanship game in the first place, but even if he did, he did not need to land where he did.

In other words, the US got played by Evo Morales who successfully demonstrated that the US can be pretty unreasonable at times. But the US did not take his plane hostage, not even via its allies; the situation is entirely unlike the Belarusian case at hand. Seriously: is being offensive to a diplomat that's knowingly playing a game of brinkmanship somehow equivalent to abducting a civilian plane?
>Based on its chemical abundance pattern, we speculate that SPLUS J2104−0049 could be a bona fide second-generation star, formed from a gas cloud polluted by a single metal-free ~ 30M⊙ star.

Most interesting part for me. If Im interpreting this correctly, this star is once removed from the first generation of stars to appear in the universe. That's kind of cool. Sort of like a living dinosaur. And the evidence is the low proportion of heavier than hydrogen atoms.
are you also defending Epstein? would have been easy for him to donate $1B to some charity (maybe he even did) and you could argue he helped more people than he hurt.
How is the Cybertruck not focused on utility? It has a larger range, larger bed, more torque + HP, a ramp, you can stand on the bed (vault) cover, it can power electric tools, etc. Sure the Lightning can do some of that too but the Cybertruck seems even more useful to me.
I'm getting a strong sense of deja vu from the early days of the iPhone.
So actual truck is not exciting but vaporware is.

Got it.
That will be a city truck to go for groceries. Rural areas have very sparse infrastructure and 150mi on one charge means wasting half a day every two days recharging it.
I also suspect this with the same timeline and a large number of my coworkers here in NY had a severe illness at the same time.

I was laid out in bed with the worst upper respiratory infection of my life for most of late December and then again for two more weeks in early January after a brief recovery.

A handful of our coworkers had been in Wuhan in the 3-4 weeks prior.
Imho, it's an interesting question but we will never know whether the virus started at the lab or the market (or somewhere else).

Either way, it's China's incompetence and reckless endangerment of the rest of the world that has caused this. So the more important question is what we will do about it?

So far the answer seems to be "nothing because the price of cheap plastic shit might go up 2p a tonne and that's more concerning than a global pandemic".
For most of our clients, we get to 100% accuracy. For some more difficult scenarios, a lower accuracy is ok for estimations (e.g. estimating the crop in agriculture).

It's also super easy to correct mistakes or to add items that are not visible in the image.
Nothing is useless. Either you are learning something or teach yourself not to make that in the future as a business :)
Hmm. Not so sure. In terms of the operating systems there were better alternatives on the table, yet IBM has chosen Bill Gates company that did not even have operating system - luckily for Microsoft, they managed to license CP/M clone called 86-DOS created by Tim Paterson and sell it to IBM (as if IBM could not do this by itself or take CP/M or some Unix variant).

Bill's mom was higher-up in IBM and she managed to convince management to buy from Bill and if it were not for Paterson, Bill would not have anything to sell, as timeline was really slim.

For all the years of MS-DOS existence it was way better to install DR DOS, as it was more stable than Microsoft thingy.

Then we get "marvels" like Windows 98 and infamous Windows ME (Millennium Edition).

The first usable version of windowed operation system from Microsoft was Windows NT. New Technology meant more or less "hire David Cutler and his 30 people from Digital, so they can rewrite VMS system so Microsoft can sell it".

We are yet to see first innovative product from Microsoft, so far they were catching up with the rest, sometimes trying to use shady techniques to gain advantage (like effectively killing very good Borland C++, but some tricks with API changes, so BCC code was not working correctly, so they could force people to use MS products).

At the end, let's not forget about Internet Explorer, the product that was a true cancer of the WWW, horrible crap, pushed only to kill Netscape. Hard to estimate how many hours people spent on fixing web pages to make them work on IE.

When it comes to charity work by Bill, I don't know how all of this worked, what was its true value, but anytime I hear in the same sentence "charity", "foundation", "very rich person" my brain starts screaming one thing: tax avoidance.
Are there any specific UX pain points that frequently get raised?
It doesn't actually start at 40k unless you buy a special commercial version. I think they will anti-sell this version as hard as they can and remove every feature they can from it.

In practice for normal people it will start at higher then that, and the avg sales price even of the lower range version will likely be 55k or even 60k.

Its almost certainty the same battery just larger, that is how most EV are made. I would bet that they have a way larger margin on the larger battery to make the whole line profitable.
But you said it was happening right now... no you say it isn't happening, okay.

> I have no such restrictions with their tokenized variants.

Regulations don't apply because you're trading fantasy money. Once you try to exchange these virtual tokens for real money, then you will be required to comply with the regulations.
I just bought 30x new 64GB X25-E 50nm Intel SSDs from 2011 from ebay, they are SLC and should manage 100.000 writes per bit and I don't think we'll ever see that kind of quality again.

I'm going to use EXT4 (with type small because my custom distributed database writes many small JSON files) and hope for the best on my Atom 8/16-core machines that have 12 SATA ports.

I wont use raid but instead plan to mount these "manually".

Would love some feedback! :S
That seems like an odd assumption. Rural areas are more likely to have ready access to charging infrastructure since garages and solar panels are all readily installed. Wouldn't it just be charging overnight?
Is it bullet proof though?
More likely Ford's market segmentation. $40k for the base model suggests it's a loss-leader - or barely breaking even - or they're betting the entire model on expected continued price-drops in Lithium-Ion cells.
One reasonable guess: Because people are naturally social creatures who are meant to work in groups face-to-face, not remotely dialed in to speak to one another via a technological facsimile.

If a given thing wouldn't have existed absent some state of emergency, perhaps it would be best for us not to treat it as the natural state of affairs.
I live in a rural area - 150 miles on a charge is close enough to get to the nearest major city and back on a single charge (and there is a EV charger on that route).

Would I use it as my daily ride? Probably not. But I think there's considerably more utility to it than just going for groceries.
HN Founders from Italy and Munich?
Vaccinations slowly let us get back to normal live again.

I’m going to visit south of Italy for couple of days in June. It would be great to meet anyone on the way. I’m a Saas founder, preparing my second product to scale atm.
Did you even read his comment? He clearly pointed out that the range is the limiting factor. I'm not sure about you but I like my cars to be drivable.

Edit: I read the comment as saying "vaporwave" (the artistic style of the Cybertruck). Yes I can agree, we really have no idea when the longer range model will come.
This is great! A really simple technical idea paired with the right business model = success.

I've often wondered if there are other instances of this pattern - a phone app which solves some niche problem and is successful commercially being sold for a high price. Can anybody give other examples?
It seems particularly weird that they put that physical wheel at the bottom for a dedicated vehicle control area, but didn't bother to just, like, put individual buttons there.

I'm happy that Mazda, by comparison, is specifically moving away from touchscreens and strictly to a combination of dedicated physical controls and more limited screens with a dial/puck control.
A lot of my friends are still there but using it much much less. Has happened over the past few years. It has kept up during our plague which I didn't expect. I figured it would pick up a bit with more people being indoors and not traveling as much. I think it's rotting from the inside out. I know accounts are one metric, but how is traffic doing?
> "Touchscreens at the helm? Bad plan. I'm very happy with physical buttons"

Ford still has plenty of physical buttons. They haven't gone the Tesla route of making almost every function exclusively accessed by the touch screen. It looks to me like you can access most things you'd want to use while driving directly from the buttons on the steering wheel.

> "Distractions in the cab should be eliminated, not increased."

The ideal interface here is really good, interactive voice. Hands-free and eyes-free. Unfortunately, most in-car voice interfaces aren't quite their yet, including Tesla's.
Mongol is not (as far as I am aware) an offensive word. Mongoloid[0] (which "mongo" is a shortened form of) in reference to people with Down Syndrome, definitely is.

My pet theory is that the database is named after a character in "Blazing Saddles", and I want to be able to store candy in it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome#Name
"Bitcoin launched with the stated goal of providing an alternative financial system,2 and other blockchain projects followed with all manner of lavish promises. Bitcoin failed at the stated goal (unless you count the dark net markets). It has instead defaulted to pyramid scheme, with the added externality of wasting a stupefying amount of energy."

This is not true.
I'm surprised to not see too much discussion about GDPR here.

But the question I have is under what legal basis do companies use the tracking identifiers? Surely the only legal basis available to them is consent? So Apple has kindly made the consent collection infrastructure part of iOS (and therefore standardised and therefore user friendly).

So are the complaints about Apple forcing them to obey the law? That seems pretty strange to me.
I think the truth here is that Fedora packagers don't much care about out of tree kernel modules. It's not something we spend a lot of time thinking about or discussing. I wonder what's stopping this kernel module from going upstream? That's the best way to resolve this. He mentions in the other blog posting that it's an out of tree patch required to read motherboard sensors, which doesn't sound to me like anything controversial.

However this does seem like it's a bug so maybe Chris would be better off filing a Bugzilla rather than ranting. He says:

> I would file a bug report but I cannot imagine that Fedora would accept it. They already know that this feature doesn't work

which may or may not be true ("Fedora" is not a monolithic entity, but a group of packagers with many different opinions). I think he should file the bug anyway, and at the same time work with the upstream kernel community to get the sensors patch into the mainline.
They were tested back in November for antibodies for something that China won't acknowledge even existed yet and we didn't put a name on for another month or two?
This is really cool! I love things like this, they make the world more interesting.
So far there's nothing to indicate when or if the 500-mile-range version will ever actually be released, and there's some question as to if the stated specs are even possible with the physical design and current battery tech.
The dynamics of mining make this impossible. If Bitcoin were worth millions, then miners could spend millions on electricity to find each block and still make a profit. And because they're competing with hashrate, they would do exactly that.

If you do the math, you'll find that basically all electricity would go to mining.

Before we would get to that point, the electricity price would start going up of course. For everybody. And guess what governments will do when the population starts rioting because they can't afford electricity? They'll ban all proof-of-work coins. Maybe all crypto just to be on the safe side.
In China, it's not unusual to go to the hospital for a cold.

(I find the lab theory credible & worthy of investigation, just pointing out that in China a hospital visit doesn't imply anything about the severity of symptoms).
Nope, it wasn't.

ArpaNet wasn't an internet until at least 1983 when the military network was split off, and commercialisation began.

10 years after that we already had Tim Berners Lee inventing www in a lab that was connected to a global communications network and routinely used by hundreds of thousands of people.

Prior to that, for example, France had Minitel which already had distributed services, email, payments, orders and so on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
This is beside the point. Haskell have a number of built-in unpure operations like putStrLn. You can use the built-in IO type to execute these unpure operations.

If you define your own type called IO you can't use it to execute unpure operations.
If we cannot freely criticise art then we shouldn't post art-related stuff on this forum.
If you could please elaborate, what did the tweet say and who exactly was it by?
Even S class Mercedes went down this way by putting a silly looking tablet in the middle of the car. It just looks bad and as you said,I'd rather have physical knobs instead.
> I truly wonder why people still believe they have any privacy, any right to privacy, or, that they could do anything about it.

The GDPR (very good legislation forming one of our rights to privacy), and a host of UK/Europe national Data Protection Acts preceding it would take issue with this statement.
To be completely honest, I was about to, but got distracted. Thanks for linking it.
Having friends and family drive and being in passenger seat, never felt comfortable with people reaching for buttons, knobs for AC or radio. Interesting you find the single large touchscreen to be a bigger distraction/danger than the 20 different controls in a f150
I must say that I also relate with the author and would add that making things just for fun or your own curiosity or even need, can be beneficial to others too, directly or indirectly. With every toy project, new skills are acquired. Useful or not, you cannot now at the time, but I can say that if I did not make toy projects, I would not have jobs that I had and some of the projects that others also find useful, like https://newreleases.io, would not exist.
After you complete the challenge, I'll give you the correct answer.

Hint: not that many.
The volume of “good” effects remain, as does the volume of the bad ones. It’s rightly debatable whether the philanthropy is actually good or not, but anyway.

What Gates has been doing - for many years, and is widely reported upon - is pushing the “good” stuff in a PR campaign to make himself look better after the decades of looking like a villain.

The “media” isn’t doing any kind of takedown here, it’s mainly reporting on events, and rightly so, because we’re talking about sexual harassment by someone with a lot of power. I don’t entirely know what the last two paragraphs meant but presuming that you mean that time will be the judge.