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I absolutely love apples, and those Red Delicious are quite delicious

No idea what the article is complaining about
I think it was pretty clear that he was thinking about Saudi / middle east / Norwegian / sovereign wealth type funding on equity side. Then debt for rest if needed.

These funds are looking to diversify away from oil - so for them a play in EV space makes sense.

The Saudis in particular planned to do an IPO in oil industry - but that ended up not happening which really changed their decision making. If it had they were explicit about desire to diversify (smart in my view).

It wasn't a $100B deal. Many larger investors would rolled their holdings into the private entity - Elon alone would have. $40 - $50B. If debt is in mix equity portion even smaller. It would have been the deal of the century.

"Saudi’s Public Investment Fund built the undisclosed stake of between 3 and 5 per cent of Tesla’s shares this year, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.

At Tesla’s current share price the position is worth between $1.7bn and $2.9bn. The stake, which is below the 5 per cent threshold that requires public disclosure, makes the PIF one of Tesla’s eight biggest shareholders, according to Bloomberg data.

The PIF, which has more than $250bn in assets, initially approached Tesla and chief executive Elon Musk to express interest in purchasing newly issued shares in the electric vehicle company.

However, Tesla did not act on the interest, one person informed on the matter said. Instead, the Saudi state fund acquired the position in secondary markets with the help of JPMorgan."

- Financial Times.

Someone's just chased down $2B of your stock on SECONDARY market - yeah - that's actually more interest than many deal talks even get to.

And yes - discussions like this happen with some frequency - and it's not a scandal if the deal doesn't close - you just don't usually read about them. Elon says he wanted to talk to Apple about buying tesla as well, he's on twitter more than most. That said, folks on the deal side - there tends to be movement in stock prices 3 days before deals are announced - so someone is making money on the normally secret considerations.
‘Emergency Meeting’: Israeli Cyberarms Firms Scramble After NSO Scandal
They’re not going to throw their existing batteries away, so the computer will be on the switch. The switch is a variable resistor and easy to bypass to remove the anti theft. This will have the same consumer push back as the last time Milwaukee tried to put anti theft in their tools.
This is about as manipulative as it gets. What's the angle other than "haha we tricked you into thinking we were actually personally invested in this pitch"?

Right in your description you say:

> [People] want to see you, see that you are real, they want to hear your voice.

Yet that's exactly what this product takes away.
Conversely, I tried running openbsd as a router on my ubiquiti edgerouter for my 950 megabit up/down connection and couldn't get even close to the performance of even the shitty ISP-provided router/ONT combo box.
Not only that - for all we know a biological civilsiation could have existed 3 billion years ago which then spawned a machine civilisation that now has as much relation to its distant origins as we do to some prebiotic soup on Hadean earth.
Hard to judge this approach. On one hand, spartan approach to economy of USSR after WWII allowed the growth of 1960-s. On the other hand, it also helped with the collapse of 1980-s. Maybe China's trying to take that into account.

I'd actually argue with the idea that China is doing this intentionally. Maybe it's not due to the centralized planning that tech sector gets smashed - maybe it's a much simpler reason behind that.
The Olympics sure sucks..low pay and a major toll on mental health.
If you're upset with the service a place provides, the rational response isn't to shoplift, it's to find a different place that offers the same service..
Tightening up rules on exempt employment would be a good step too. Exempt was meant to be just that, an special case exemption for a few high level professionals, not the default for all white collar (and even some blue collar) work. My last job required that I fill out a timesheet each week. On an average day, I assigned hours to about four different time codes. For positions that bill by time such as attorneys and doctors, this might be reasonable but for inhouse software development, it felt a lot more like an hourly job.

Even though I was salaried, failing to have 40 hours on my timesheet each week would result in a proportional reduction in pay (there was no increase in pay if I went over 40). I mentioned this to higher ups and was told that it wasn't actually a timesheet, it was so they could determine "resource allocation", which sounded like an flimsy excuse. Using it to track PTO seems reasonable. Using it to track hours at my computer doesn't.

This wasn't a small inexperienced company. Its roots go back to the 1940s and it had over 20,000 employees, so they probably knew the relevant labor laws and either were allowed to do this or thought they'd never get called on it. Either way, exempt doesn't seem to mean much anymore other than another way for employers to squeeze employees harder.
The retina screen alone would cost $400+ for a windows. And the Mac is much more of a pro tool when doing creative work. My windows machines always crash on me.
Where is info about how much scrutiny each framework received from security standpoint?
> Where is this "right not to be cheated in an online game" coming from anyway?

No idea. Who cares if some random guy cheats really? It's nothing compared to losing our computing freedom. Actual important stuff that matters. Same fundamental issue as DRM which nearly everyone agrees is bad.

Our computers are ours and game companies just need to deal with it. If people are gonna cheat, then so be it.
Currently you can't really compete with Google's/Alphabet's market and marketing power. If you get too close, product-wise, they can just throw more money at their own product in your field. It needs political market intervention to make a dent that would count enough for others even getting a theoretical chance of getting one step ahead again.
While that might be true in little web standard pieces here and there for Firefox compared to Chrome (and it certainly is vice-versa), the much smaller teams will always play catch up.
Science is finally catching up with UFOlogy: https://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-will-they-...
What are the inputs and byproducts of the manufacturing process for your proprietary sorbent, and what are their environmental impacts, if any?
I think they took the idea of Extreme Programming from correctional institutions. When you are tied to another prisoner by a chain, it's much harder to escape (or to go on facebook, in a software institution).
> If the task is coverage-related (“be available to run a cash register” or “answer any phone call that comes in” or “watch this area for security purposes”), it’s exactly that ratio.

But no task that actually needs done is purely coverage related. If you want someone to watch dor security purposes, you want them to actually effectively secure it to some level, and if average ability to do that drops from overwork you need more people; if you want someone to run a cash register, just having a body next to it isn't enough, they have to actually perform correctly.
If Star Trek taught me anything, it's that most aliens look like humans, except for some bumps on their forehead. Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development.
shitty law schools has become a huge problem in the last couple decades. similar to ITT tech or phoenix online. They drastically lower the lsats needed to get in, then almost no one becomes an actual lawyer from that school, but they do get 100K in debt.

also, gatekeeping has a negative connotation because it is usually used when it seems unwarranted. If only schools with high quality education are passing students, that doesn't seem like a problem with the gate, but instead with the other schools. I absolutely want lawyers and doctors to be required to pass certain criteria.
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Alvy Ray Smith is out to change how you think about pixels
I hope that also applies to the evolution of morals for intelligent lifeforms. I think it's safer to assume any aliens will have bad intentions but maybe any lifeform that can build interstellar technology has come to the same conclusions that we (albeit slowly) are coming to.
> No one sits in an office wanting to find ways to make their coworkers lives difficult.

That’s not exactly what’s happening. It’s not about making coworkers’ lives more difficult. It’s about preferring pseudo-work that looks like progress (meetings, process, consensus-building, planning sessions, endless documents) instead of work that delivers results.

Once a project ships, everyone can see whether it was a success or failure. However, if you can keep it in the planning limbo for as long as possible you can avoid that moment of truth. Another round of meetings and refactoring and consensus building is safe because it’s easy to say you’ve followed the process and therefore produce good process-work. Shipping to customers is risky because then the product can actually fail.

In companies where someone’s reputation and promotion prospects depend on avoiding project failures, it becomes attractive (and safer) to deal more in the pseudo-work than the actual work.
> doesn't not mean it can't also allow for the growth of consumer tech

I can't understand this sentence haha ... Too many "nots"

> I don't necessarily agree with the conclusion of the author: that to grow their hard-tech industry, they have to punish consumer tech.

I don't think the author is trying to argue that this strategy is true -- I think they're just trying to explain China's behavior.
I think it does mean that the virus spreads slower (although the exact amount will also depend on factors like how vaccinated people are distributed among the population). Whereas in an unvaccinated population, each infected person might spread the virus to (say) five others, in a 70% vaccinated population, on average 3.5 of those others would be vaccinated, so the virus would only spread to 1.5 others. This gives a slower rate of growth. Once that rate of growth falls below 1, herd immunity is achieved. When you are close to herd immunity, that rate should be just a little above 1, leading to slow but positive growth.
Wrong thread, you probably meant to post this in "Who is Hiring?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28037366
Can you elaborate on why you think it seems inevitable?

From my armchair, I can't see a benefit to China for kicking off a superpower war; they're already pulling ahead in STEM, their economy is fairly safe and not really that dependant on exports, quality of life is improving massively, infra is improving.. ?
This is tiny steps. I agree there is some evidence of movement in the right direction, but I can't agree that ESG puts a price on carbon - I don't know how much of an impact it has, but it's doubtful that it has the impact a carbon tax would.

Everything that you're saying is true but they are incremental changes. I would put a bet that within 10-20 years massive market regulation + carbon tax will be forced onto industries across the world - that will be because climate change will be such a huge multiplier of horrific things we'll be forced to. But by then it's likely too late for 1/2 of the world's population to escape unharmed.

In fact I increasingly suspect that climate change is already causing horrific events around the world that we are ignoring because we are in the first world. It would be interesting to go around agricultural areas in the hottest areas of the world and see if food insecurity is increasing. I would bet that we're already seeing huge changes, but because we're insulated from it, we're ignoring it.

Basically we're looking at the same facts, but I think you are a huge optimist.
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What a delightful video! Unfortunately, her first time was 23 seconds over and she will not be getting a job on the Google racing team.
How does this inspire founders to startup a company in China? Does this inspire me to invest more money in China?
Perhaps construct some sort of rudimentary lathe...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQzg1vpxnnY
> 0. Accept that for NAT on home gateway you really don't need wirespeed at minimal MTU, as the majority of your data transfers will be over TCP at max MSS/MTU.

This can't be true for video gamers? I'd assume most video game protocols are tiny UDP packets.

But maybe video game protocols don't need "wirespeed", since they're actually quite efficient in terms of bytes transferred. But you want to minimize latency.
you would probably love the dorito effect https://www.amazon.com/Dorito-Effect-Surprising-Truth-Flavor...

Its a book about the incentives and technologies that came together to result in the deflavorization of food and the rise of the "flavoring" industry as a whole.

Of the interesting things in there is one guy using a mass spectrometer to identify flavor compounds at scale to engineer a tomato that is hardy and ships well without sacrificing flavor.
I tried to use Clojure but what put me of was that simple mistakes like missing argument or wrongly closed bracket didn't alert me until I tried running the program and then gave me just some java stack spat out by jvm running Clojure compiler on my program.

It didn't feel like a first class experience.
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last time i booted a win95 machine I was happy waiting during the splash screen :D

I guess you have a point, I was mostly remembering the desktop part, I was surprised how the limited GUI felt snappier than my latest laptop with xfce and didn't lack much important features
A fresh install is fast for the first couple days, you say...
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Go watch the Project Farm torque wrench test where the Harbor Freight was more accurate than Snapoff.
>> San Marzanos are origin-protected in Italy

What does that mean? Protected under what laws?
That is going to be the single biggest point of failure. This is going to sky rocket tool costs and require specialized equipment to diagnose and repair. They’re are not integrating it in the motor. They will get sued big time for faulty motor failures.
Actually this was for a hackathon to test out an idea I've had for a while. No profit purposes, just interested in the potential of the technology and in the concept of digital immortality
> "That's just from EU consumers, never mind the rest of the world - spending so much on mobile netlink that companies can clear more than thirty billion in profit, in profit alone, over two years. Think of the gross! So you tell me - is that the best way of spending humanity's money, webbing friends, playing games on the bus? A fraction of a single percent of that money, we could have bases on Mars in five years. Destiny - possibility - glorious - but, no, we'll keep frittering our money on games, on cosmetics, on flim-flam, and we'll turn round in five hundred years and still be right here where we are now."

- from Adam Roberts' sci-fi novel "Gradisil"
Here is the actual source: https://au.news.yahoo.com/facebook-post-lockdown-protest-110...

>These include $11,000 fines for people sharing information on social media about illegal rallies and inciting others to illegally attend.

So Newspunch title seems to be untrue, "Independent Media Content" <> "information on social media about illegal rallies and inciting others to illegally attend".
I would expect that marketing has the uncommitted resources to spare in ways that development does not. How many weeks of engineer-team-time in SF or London will $100k get you? One, maybe?

I find a lot of questions, such as this one, boil down to resource management. It's easy to look in from the outside, judge an organization based on what you can see of its resource allocation, and use this to infer emotions. Thus $ORG does clearly not care about $SUBJECT.

Some strange alchemy has now taken place. The question is suddenly no longer about resources and priorities. Now it's about empathy, compassion, decency, and human dignity. To fail to share someone's priorities is now to imply that you do not regard them as human.

When questions of infinite competing priorities over finite resources are rendered into questions of human dignity, it's been my experience that genuine discourse becomes impossible. Perhaps that is the point.
I think it may be on your end or something in between. HN has been snappy for me and I visit it daily. Have you tried opening the web developer console in the browser to see what is taking a long time? Tools -> Web Developer -> Web Console -> Network tab in Firerox

If you have curl, you could try this:

#!/bin/bash
set -o posix
TIMEFORMAT=%R
time curl -# \
--connect-timeout 4 --retry 2 \
-H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0" \
-H "Accept-Charset: UTF-8" \
-H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate" \
-H "Accept: */*" \
-H "Accept-Language: en" \
-H "Cache-Control: 0" \
-H "Connection: keep-alive" \
-w "# tcp:\t\t%{time_connect}\n# tries:\t%{num_connects}\n# dns:\t\t%{time_namelookup}\n# ssl:\t\t%{time_appconnect}\n# size_dl:\t%{size_download}\n# speed_dl:\t%{speed_download}\n# url:\t\t%{url_effective}\n# total:\t%{time_total}\n# Real Time:\t" \
-o /dev/null https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt

The reason I suggest using robots.txt is so that multiple people can run that and compare notes to something constant.

Here is my output:

./test.sh
######################################################################## 100.0%
# tcp: 0.066
# tries: 1
# dns: 0.004
# ssl: 0.484
# size_dl: 158
# speed_dl: 285.000
# url: https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt
# total: 0.554
# Real Time: 0.569
>> A Von Neumann probe ... might have no trace of evolution to it.

Except that the very fact that it exists represents many evolved traits. If they are sending probes then their are either curious or expansionist, both evolved traits tied to competition for resources and/or survival. A species totally devoid of any history of evolutionary pressures wouldn't act that way, which is one of many possible great filters: once we have access to the infinite resources of space, perhaps we just stop caring and don't bother expanding. Such logic allows us to learn much simply from the existence of an otherwise silent Von Neumann probe.
Unless it somehow came from nothing, then there must be some pathway from what came before to what they have now (thus evolution). It might be a long pathway, which is so long that it's hard for us to see the beginning from the end, but that doesn't invalidate the argument that it will still have characteristics of something that followed such a pathway.
Lots of English songs mention "9 to 5" but it's "9 to 6" in most of Asia and most stay until 8 or 9pm, especially at large firms.