skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at the events that saved Tesla:

- 2016 - model 3 preorders with no backing except a drawing.

- 2018 - cybertruck, semi, and full-self-driving preorders with one single prototype of the vehicles.

- And after each one of these, there is a huge bump in stock price. 200% is hyperbole.

These are feats of marketing, not feats of engineering. A CEO spending a lot of time in detailed engineering reviews doesn't make you an engineer, it means you enjoy doing detailed engineering reviews.

It is undeniable that Tesla is successful in large part because of the cult of personality that Musk has built, largely on Twitter. That has bought his company the good grace to do preorders with ridiculous turnaround times and to lose money year over year on the stock market while keeping an astronomical valuation.

The rest of Tesla-the actual car making thing-is something that an organization of several thousand engineers could have certainly done without Elon Musk given the amount of cash they had, and probably could have done better without Elon Musk. They just needed Elon Musk to raise the cash.

He is exactly like Steve Jobs: a briliant marketer with a cult of personality, who people think of as an "inventor" because he likes to spend time doing that.
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I asked you for a single reference to the lawsuit you're referring to. It seems that's too much for you.

My quote from the ABQ Journal said "upheld a landmark water rights settlement with the Navajo Nation". You said "Sir, the settlement is what was overturned". Then you avoid explaining this by claiming bad faith.

Having now read a good chunk of your comment history on HN, I think it's time to bow out of any attempt to discuss this with you. A persistent failure to provide citations, frequent bad-faith style of discussion, hand-waving assertion-from-self-invented authority seem common.

That said, if there actually is a lawuit by the Navajo Nation that overturns the settlement reached with NM, I would actually like to know more about it.
There is a sizeable contingent who are into him because they are terribly ignorant of the history of our efforts in space and the relationship between NASA and SpaceX, and think he has stuck it to the crusty old government man and "disrupted" the entire endeavor.
Once Musk lets Trump back on and is freed from all restraint with his and his alone god-mode account, Twitter will surely see an exodus and it'll fill up with "like minded" people.

Together with his "subscription model" ideas, Twitter is toast.

This is a great business opportunity for someone who wants to put together an alternative. Maybe a micro-blogging protocol open to all instead? Usetwitnet?
Definitely both of my parent's numbers.
I didn't mean Twitter follower; when GP said "followers" I took it to mean as in follower<>leader relationship.
Are you a fighter pilot? I thought 9G is the upper limit of what even a seasoned fighter pilot can handle without passing out. I'd imagine most untrained individuals would pass out quite a bit below that.
Yeah, sure. He also solved "traffic"[^1].

[^1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZaRfNjTPx8
My workplace does. It works surprisingly well and has completely changed what I think about SQLite and databases in general. SQLite is more than enough for almost all production needs.
On Elon Musk and Content Moderation
You should know there are both Chrome extensions and Tampermonkey scripts for that.
The only thing I can think of is that unlike I would assume most executives, he seems to use Twitter much more like the average user. That said, I think Yishan Wong just about hit the nail on the head as to why Musks approach is likely flawed.
> Isolating failures to small, restartable components, instead of letting them spread to the entire system, is a bug in your eyes?! Do you think rust-analyzer wouldn't ever crash if it were loaded and tightly integrated into the address space of VS Code?

How far would you extrapolate this? Where would you draw the line?

Would you say VS Code would be more resiliant and reliable if it had more isoldated processes for different parts of the editor?

- Process to blink the cursor

- Process to render the text

- Process to run syntax highlighting on the text

- Process to show the buttons on the left most side bar

- Process to draw the file/directory tree

I think it would be obvious that this would be insane.

Yet, why should it be? Wouldn't it be better - according to this way of thinking - because it means the editor will not crash if the cursor blinking code crashed! or if the file tree viewer crashed!
Exactly what I did.
Not sure if people like that slow scrolling.
What if the Chinese government forces Elon to ban criticism of China? Nice EV business you have there in Shanghai...be a shame if...you know..
Yes, in general you should feel bad if your job makes it easier for murderous despots to murder and be despotic.
We can and do have both. LSP is a lowest-common-denominator protocol. Several languages have more-powerful language-specific protocols that can be wrapped with LSP, at the cost of some advanced features.
His actions say otherwise. Delusion and narcissism are real things.
Step them. Make sure to stomp on the platters.
Who actually dreams of labor, seriously. When you're young you don't dream of working for the man. You want to do your own thing live life.
Wild, huh?
> It’s true that if you can say “you can hire from {top N colleges like MIT}” then this would be attractive.

I'm not even sure this is true. The big tech companies that they are targeting can already hire from the top programs.

> Trouble is, this won’t scale beyond the top 10

This is the rub. How many graduates do the top 10 programs put out annually? That's a very hard cap on this sort of system, even if employers get on board with farming recruiting out to a bunch of undergrads. Picking very loose numbers of 10,000 grads annually, an incredible 10% adoption rate of the program, and $10,000 charged per placement. That's... 10m in revenue per year.
Elixir has concurrency built in as an easy to use concept. There is the concept of processes running within the runtime, which is called the BEAM. Think of the runtime as a mini OS where you can create lightweight processes as needed to do things asynchronously. You can use a simple Task module[0] to do things async or implement GenServer[1] which is a process running and has state.

An example is calling an API that has a paginated response where it indicates the number of pages (like ?page=X in GET request), you can async call each page and accumulate the responses using a map_reduce function[2]. You could fire up like 1000 (or 10k or as many as you like really) of these processes calling an API with different params/creds and handling paginated responses concurrently, each with their own state. I found that Elixir will let you quickly exhaust any rate limit budget/threshold you have in a scenario like this, that is more the limiting factor.

[0] https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.13.4/Task.html

[1] https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.13.4/GenServer.html

[2] https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.13.4/Enum.html#map_reduce/3
I think this is already pretty clear from his work. Nobody builds Tesla or SpaceX to get famous or rich - there are much easier ways. He is truly a nerd's nerd.
>I had that same impression described in this article that Kermit was "slow".

Most of that was default settings. Kermit had defaults that assumed the worst...non-8bit-clean, no hardware flow control, small uart buffers, etc. If you tweaked the settings (sliding windows, packet size, etc), the differences in speed were negligible.
You don't have to go whole-hog on CI or anything, but GitHub Actions is pretty easy to just knock together a thing that runs `make test` or equivalent.

I've ended up building boilerplate workflows for various languages, environments, etc. to just drop in and tweak per-project.
Exactly! And in Turkey people get charged with supporting terrorism by tweeting negative stuff about Erdogan. On the surface of it, Musk should be against that, free speech and all that. Supporting local law would mean supporting authorities in finding those users. One way out would be to just retreat from, in this example, Turkey.

But since this whole affaire started with "ElonsJet" refusing to shut down, and Musks reaction was a teenagers "Then I'll buy this company and fire you", I'm inclined to believe free speech is going to be ok as long Musk is criticized.
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Thanks for the "I drank the kool-aid" perspective.
Got some examples?

Delusion and narcissism don't get things done.
> The first thing I look for in a resume is a GitHub URL.

Wow - that would narrow the field a bit (if the github account is a pre-requisite). For example, I don't interact with Microsoft online properties at all. I don't much care for git. And even if I did use git, I'm not in favour of entrusting important information to online service providers such as Github.

Lucky I'm not looking for work, I guess.
This only makes the disk space smaller and saves loading the executable image from disk, which the kernel already magics away anyway.

This does nothing for what the author was talking about which is the cost of creating and destroying a process. The kernel has to do a lot of setup and management work for every process.

Busybox would only help with this IF busybox's sh had special fork handling that recognized any built in commands and did not actually spawn a new instance of busybox for every | or `` or ().

If you write an sh script using no external binaries at all, 100% built in keywords, you will still have a very slow script if it has a lot of filelist=`echo *` because even though that echo was a sh builtin (just like a busybox builtin), a new instance of sh was spawned just to run that echo, then destroyed.

And that happens a lot. It's quite a bit more difficult to avoid that, and is exactly what the author means by writing contorted code just to avoid that.

Myself I cheat a little and allow myself to use bash as the shell, and then use every possible bash feature. For instance a huge bash feature for avoiding subshells is "printf -v" Which places the oitput of a printf command into a variable instead of stdout. Not to mention that printf itself is builtin and has several very useful features for data manipulation just from converting values with the % formatters, including another biggie is onr of the % codes it supports is %()T, which gives you essentially the date command without running date.

Just a few bashisms like that above strict posix sh makes it possible to avoid nearly all subshells.

Possible, and more performant, BUT, your program is arcane and tortured. Difficult to write, difficult to read, and full of otherwise bad practises like using a sea of global variables and state simply to avoid having to pass data around by foo=`generatefoo`, abusing the language/line parser to attain array operations without an actual split(), doing piles of work all within a huge indented wile read loop, etc.
Having recently been diagnosed with ADHD too I must say that the book "ADHD doesn't exist" helped me as it provides great tools to understand what it is but also how to live with it and where to look for its source as it's almost always a symptom in itself and thus can be cured.
Hacker News is already a good place to speak freely.
fellow HK gweilo here - me too would have gone full John Wick mode! it is impressive to witness such a mass psychosis, but if you touch my dog, then...
Any website claiming to be a "beacon of free speech" is lying. The very idea of it is nonsensical from the outset, it's like a cartoon idea of what a website is supposed to be. One person's "free speech" is just another person's toxic abuse that makes the site unusable. That much is blatantly obvious from spending even just a small amount of time on Twitter.
It’s bad for multinational conglomerate owners to run Twitter for obvious reasons. Will the Chinese government force Musk to turn over DMs of dissidents as a condition of approving Shanghai Gigafactory Phase II? Will President DeSantis coerce him to censor “left wing misinformation” in exchange for an extension of EV tax credits or a SpaceX contract? Unlike Bezos and WaPo, Elon has already said he’s purchasing Twitter for the express purpose of exerting editorial control.
If the remaining 5% is much harder, wouldn't that mean they haven't really solved 95% of the problem?
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> letting a billionaire like him take one of the biggest megaphones in the world private as a personal playground is one of the worst things that could have happened

I don't really have an opinion about mr Musk or his intentions, but I truly fail to see any downside with this deal.
Either he does in fact make the twitter platform a generally more positive/useful/pleasant/... experience, or twitter's function will eventually be filled by other apps, maybe even new ideas.
> Do you not have a right to privacy if you're wealthy?

Interestingly, the courts have ruled that the ultra wealthy are "public figures" whether they act so or not, because of their "undue/oversized influence on public and social policy".
I have seen the issue that you are talking about but I am not sure what causes it. I have 25 year old documents printed with laser printer that have not released from the paper at all yet I have ten year old documents where it happens when I bend the paper. My pet theory is that modern paper is not as good because of the high recycled content but that would obviously take a significant effort to test. Another possibility is that modern printers are the problem but this would be even harder to test. I don't print anything to keep anymore so it doesn't really matter anyway.
No I don’t agree - see sibling comment about neurodiversity.
You know, there's an article about 2022 UI design trends on Medium and web 1.0 aesthetics coming back is one of them.

https://medium.com/codeart-mk/ux-ui-trends-2022-31023ae36fa
Huge amount of that production gets spent on keeping the world running - income vs disposable income.
I think he already explained the mindset here by differentiating between moderating speech, and moderating behavior. So people who say certain things might still be banned or violate guidelines because of how they say it, but the event would probably be misrepresented as infringing on the right to free speech.
Do you embarrass myself? Because whom I embrace is hardly your business.
His offer is funded as follows (from Matt Levine):https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-21/elon-g...

1. A letter from his banks offering to lend $13 billion to Twitter, if he buys it, with $7 billion of that coming in the form of senior secured bank loans and $6 billion coming in the form of junk bonds.

2. A letter from his banks offering to lend him $12.5 billion personally, secured by $62.5 billion worth of his Tesla Inc. stock. At yesterday’s closing price, that comes to about 64 million shares, or about one-third of his Tesla stake.

4. An agreement with himself to put up the other $21 billion, give or take.

Musk is the man of leverage and likes to live on the edge. Loans with junk bond rates, his stake on Tesla,

Levine:

>... So Musk will be paying his banks, personally, about $1 billion a year for the privilege of owning Twitter. It is possible that Twitter will be paying him $1 billion a year of dividends, after its own debt servicing costs, but it is, uh, unlikely in the near future. It is more likely that running Twitter will be a continuing expense for him. But, again, he has said that he’s not in it for the money. Spending $33 billion to buy Twitter, and then another $1 billion a year to own it, is I suppose in a way a kind of philanthropy for Musk?
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Not directly management books. I work in an R&D lab myself and two books I found useful in thinking about the structure and evaluation of projects:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797471-the-idea-factor...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/530415.The_Art_of_Doing_...
People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself.

Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills repeating verbatim over and over and over... he could see that revenue rise quite a bit through people actually seeing value in advertising on twitter again. If he can keep operating costs down and get the ad revenue up further, he'll be repaying his initial investment within a few years, and if he takes this private he can IPO it again or sell it to someone else privately.

I wish him the best and hope he truly makes twitter somewhere that you visit that isn't just rage bait again.
Make posters pay $10/year and/or require government ID. Good luck, Russian troll farms!
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-electric-vehicle-10-hours...

A lot of people are spouting short-seller crap from 2018. I suggest that they honestly look at where tesla is now, not when they last paid attention.
Omoshiroi! This is a really nice write up. Education is indeed very expensive and the towns outside of Tokyo have difficulties surviving, with only older people remaining there. Those towns have to be very creative to attract money and people. You can get a house for free, if you will live there, similar to some Italian towns.

In the Netherlands we have similar issue of towns fighting for survival in more rural parts (Limburg). They try to combine schools of several towns to reduce the cost of teachers, and similar combining police stations.

Lowering the friction for such 'gift tax' is interesting, Japanese are big into all kind of little gifts: if you go on holiday you bring something small, an Omiage. If you attend a birthday party, not only you bring a present (which is usual everywhere) but the guest also get a little gift in return, an Okaeshi.
I think it’s pretty clear Elon Musk works hard to cultivate his fame
I’ve been using Dark Reader on desktop for a couple of years but had no idea they had an iOS Safari extension. I’ve been using Noir[1] on iOS, which does the trick, although perhaps not as customisable as DR.

[1](https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/noir-dark-mode-for-safari/id15...)
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It makes sense for them to be absolutely cut up and bitter, but I guess the question is whether they wouldn't have ended up cut up and bitter to the same degree (and just a different direction) if the parents had stayed together while the same underlying issues which caused the divorce ultimately remained. Perhaps that would be true for some families and not for others.
When you are moving in the public sphere - as Musk is doing - you lose certain rights to privacy that nobody John 'Random Person' Smith enjoys.
I mean, the facts on the ground are pretty real. If the bootlicking warmongers don't start WW3 in the meantime, we very much may make it to Mars in time to watch the shit-show from a distance.

If that's not okay with you, I understand. But nobody is fixin' for some poison.

We want to stay free. You know, as a species.

There are zero good reasons not to put all our industry into building things in space, and returning Earth to a garden.

I mean, if you wanna get weird about it...
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Maybe I'm just in the lucky A/B cohort, but I haven't seen any auth nags for a while now.
By the way, you're completely right about password managers. E2E + 2FA and you're done. I wonder what their solution for "single point of failure" is, because there isn't a single one that's not flawed.
That is a logical fallacy: owning a home != buying a home, inheritance is a thing.
Good point, I was thinking about 95% of the problem in terms of time spent on the road
This is my hope as well. The belief that everyone should be on the same social network is misguided, naive, and renders us too prone to manipulation and misinformation. I look forward to social networks splintering and their cultural influence beginning to wane.

Hoping they end up as footnote in history textbooks of a weird time when people worried about checkmarks and follower counts, and it all amounted to nothing.
One problem he can solve is Twitter being worth less than $43B, at least temporary.
I don't think these anti free speech "examples" have the effect that people who cite them expect. Yet they are used a lot which points to a striking disconnect in communication.
by solved you mean rushed out a prototype out to production.
> Do you not have a right to privacy if you're wealthy?

Honestly? Maybe not. He's the richest person in the world, and as such he's incredibly influential (and unelected). It's absolutely in the public's interest to know what he's using all that money and influence on, in a way that isn't relevant for your average median-earning Joe Schmoe. Once you get that rich you become more influential than a senator, and senators certainly don't have a right to privacy for their constituents to not know what they're up to.

On the private jet front, airplanes don't have privacy, necessarily so, because you need to know where they all are at all times to prevent collisions, protect airspaces, etc. So if you don't want people to know where you're traveling, don't use an airplane that has a 1-to-1 correspondence to you.
Redundancy?

I have a .tar.gz of my university account that's 25 years old at this point and a .ZIP of my old DOS, Turbo Pascal, etc. stuff that's a few years older. They've been copied so many times over the years and I'm not even sure the path my current copies took. They lived on floppies, on a CD-R for a long time, different PC hard drives, external backup hard drives, flash thumb drives, Dropbox / Google Drive / iCloud, and most recently a microSD card that lives in my MacBook's port. I'm sure it's been on a couple tapes and Zip disks but those media likely long outlived any installed drives I had. Can't remember ever getting a bit error or corruption on a copy. Even the CD-Rs that were well past their alleged lifespan read fine for me.
I don't consider Linkedin a social network at all any more. It's just a spam/announcement/congratulations feed for me.

Twitter underwent a change over the last ~4 years where it went from having its own, weird "extremely online" culture to being a battleground. You really can't avoid the mess unless you put in an extreme amount of effort.
> doesn't give a shit about US politics or the SEC or whatever other crap people in the US get worked up about

They give a shit about a lifestyle brand they are emotionally invested in. It's no different than buying a Gucci handbag or a Bulgari bracelet. They believe purchasing the right brands will give them the social status they crave.
> This counsels that a young person born and educated in e.g. Gifu move to Tokyo after graduation to earn a living.
> Many, many do. While Japan’s overall population is declining, Tokyo’s increases by about 100,000 people per year.

Notably this differs from America in that rent acts as a natural counterbalance here. It’s not common knowledge that a university graduate should move to New York or San Francisco, in fact if you aren’t in a top paying field it’s probably common knowledge that one should not move to these cities.

I wonder how much different the population landscape of the United States would look like if NYC, the Bay Area, LA etc had ever figured out how to plan for urban growth in the same way Tokyo did (context: you can afford a small single family home on a middle class income in Tokyo, I think prices there are around 30% over other Japanese cities)
He doesn't have to solve any problems, if he buys it, it's his to do whatever he wants with, together with the rest of the up to 2000 private investors. And users are free to leave if they wish as well.