skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is also a simple possibility that these two executives would have been fired anyway. Average executive tenior at a company is only about 4 years, and executives leave or are asked to leave pretty frequently.

As for the hiring freeze, new funding sources are essentially cut off until the purchase either goes through or officially fails. New loans or lines of credit requests are likely to be reject due to the uncertainty around whether Twitter will be acquired or not, and addition sales of stock would be seen as a bad faith act because it would essentially lose the company funding if the sale goes through. Increased spending could cause liquidity issues for Twitter for this reason. It is a known fact that Twitter is not a particularly profitable business, and given all of these facts those executives may have been let go purely for financial reasons.

Trying to read into this without more knowledge regarding internal motivations is purely speculative and cannot provide reliable information. What's more, every major company would be aware of these likely motivations and would see his actions as ordinary under the circumstances even if it turns out his motivation was to keep Musk from having access to those employees.

In short, there would have be extremely compelling evidence of intentional malfeasance for this to impact his reputation or future career prospects any more than Musk acquiring Twitter.
Many animals use urine to "write" their claim to ownership. Trespassers get punished severely, and they know it. The message implies a high willingnes to enforce their claim, even at significant risk. Rivals usually stay away unless they are either desperate or confident that they are superior.

I would argue that these are the instincts that form the basis for our concept of ownership of assets, and predate our modern justice systems by tens of millions of years.
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Oh, he deserves plenty of credit. He seems to be quite good at, at least, certain aspects of running a business, and happens to be interested in some fun and/or useful things, which is nice.

But he's not a super-genius, and given how flighty he can be, when he announces various Grand Visions, it's wise to take a wait-and-see approach. His big mouth probably ought to have landed him in quite a bit of legal trouble, too, except that it's so much harder for the justice system to deal with rich people than poor people.

It's not that he's uniquely awful among successful business dudes, since much of the above is true about many of them—his PR and superfans are just... grating.
Ohhh, I didn't know that container queries are finally being implemented. I'd given up on them as something that would be great but didn't look like they were going to happen.
What if the job requires you to type quickly? Why would someone with arthritis even want a job where you have to type quickly? Is that really discrimination or is that the candidate simply not being able to perform the job?
> What I will never get over is GM/Ford being so short sighted that they were willing to pay a competitor hundreds of millions of dollars, rather than investing in coming up with an electric platform of their own.

They kind of did have electric platforms that never sold well. They were probably of the mindset that nobody really wanted these cars, too niche of a market for them to participate in other than the most basic of compliance cars.

A lot of the legacy US automakers barely survived the financial crisis. In this time period they're very risk adverse. They've made a few EV versions of their cars previously for compliance reasons, but they never really sell well and don't actually make the company any money. To them, it made sense to focus on producing the cars they know how to make with good margins to pay back the bailout money.

Looking back we can say they should have probably bothered to make actually decent EVs and market the hell out of them instead of half-assed retrofits of existing cars with half-baked electric powertrains. But I dunno, if I'm in that board room in 2008-2009 and someone says "lets bet the farm on products that lose money and nobody likes" vs "lets keep building trucks and SUVs that are shown to print money and maybe we'll actually make it out of this economic disaster", there's a good chance I'd have picked the "lets print money" option. Its only seeing the EV market today a decade+ later that we see there really is a market for decent EVs, but at the time that market definitely had not been proven.

Also, by the end of 2008 gas prices had fallen back down to ~$1.60/gal. Cheap gas was in, hybrids were out. Even the Prius began to struggle in sales compared to trucks and SUVs. Its easy to see the value of an EV with gas being >$4 on average, its harder when gasoline is cheap.
> What I have no space for is breathless accusations that my city is an unlivable hellhole, when I've seen with my own two eyes how much it's improved over the last two decades.

I assume that is a general statement and not based on something I said, because of course I made no such accusations.

I am however glad that you give your own two eyes credibility for reporting. Each of the articles I posted was a product of someone else’s two eyes and included pictures of what would be considered an alarming situation if one lived in those neighborhoods. Many of them are from a borough called “The Bronx”, which is north of you. It’s a big place with lots of problems, tons of amazing people, and a rich multicultural environment. You might be intrigued to visit it some time.

As far as the statistics I gave you, year over a year is obviously a much better sample then part of the year. It’s smooths out the curves. I could easily have chosen some statistics from the summer of 2020 that would make it look much worse. I did not.

Not sure why you threw in the drainage situation but I like that you did. Offhand the only city I know of that plans properly for this is Phoenix, Arizona. From what I can tell no other major city in the country comes even close to that kind of preparation.
I would say that will depend on the rider and the level of pain they want to go through. Some ballpark figures:
A pro-level male athlete can comfortable put out 200W without breaking a sweat. All-out effort for an elite rider (male) is upwards of 400W for 20+ min effort. (According to Strava records Van der Poel has put out 450W for 20min)
A pro-level female rider can put out 300-350W continuously for an hour (and longer) in all-out effort.
A semi-untrained (male) individual can put out ~150-200W on average for an hour of all-out effort.
180W is ~30km/h for an amateur rider in a comfort position on a endurance geometry racing bike with system weight of 80kg.
A semi-untrained rider would consider 90-130W acceptable for a leisure ride.

These figures are quite less useless, you've to put them in perspective with the system weight (bike + rider), just can't escape physics.
Comparing him to Edison is appropriate I think, in both the good and bad ways that represents. I've also heard him compared with William C. Durant (Of GM circa 1910) which I think is also an appropriate comparison in both good and bad ways.
+1 for Canary!
In that case, just don't sweat it. It's all billable. Lunch, too, apparently. That's just what the sales contract stipulates, so, it's not your problem.

The stress comes from deciding which hour you bill and which you don't. Bill all the things!
Given the new rules on transferring money from “unhosted wallets” (really, just a standard old school wallet) to USD exchanges it may be a bit harder to use these bitcoins in the medium term future.

When you go to cash out the standard wallet can’t provide a VASP number to the exchange to prove it has a AML chain of custody. So you’ll have to provide additional information about who the funds come from to the receiving exchange yourself.

See regulations 1506-AB41 and 1506-AB47
This will be interesting.

What often isn’t understood by many is the fact that if you entire experience with blockchain/cryptocurrencies is use of an exchange you actually have no experience with blockchain.

Exchanges essentially run an order book that, unless you transfer crypto in/out, doesn’t interact with the blockchains at all. This is due to blockchain transaction speed, cost, etc.

Users are going to learn some hard lessons. Blockchains are somewhat brittle. They’re slow. They’re relatively expensive. The UI/UX has a very long way to go.

We can all expect to see a flood of stories in the coming months of users losing their cryptocurrencies due to human error, forgetting their password(s), etc.

Blockchains are extremely complex and unforgiving. I don’t think the vast majority of Coinbase users are prepared to interact with it directly.
Cutting cost can often bring in revenue.

If you can provide the same product or service but with a smaller margin, you can out price your competitors and win the customers over.

I think Jeff Bezos is famous for saying: Your margin is my opportunity.
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A Mars colony is merely an engineering problem. The intractable problems on Earth are stuck because millions of dollars don't want them solved.
Many years ago I had all the symptoms of CFS but specifically in my case it turned out to be insulin resistance from eating a Standard American Diet for too long. Anecdotally I was able to eliminate all the symptoms of CFS by changing my environmental inputs but that was just my specific case and may not be helpful to you at all. I had to figure this out on my own but I should give some credit to all the research papers on nih.gov and a handful of nutritionists and scientists that gave talks on nutrition.
Agreed! Though there are also times when our hairless-ape-ness can be a good thing -- for example, sometimes good things come from our irrational tendency to obsess over singular pursuits. Think about all the companies that make great products that would never have made it big if the founder hadn't been completely delusional!
Totally different application/need though. Locomotives need to generate enormous amounts of force, for long periods of time, regardless of speed. Often at zero speed.

That capability is much more important than the efficiency loss of the generator/motor powertrain.

Such capability is not necessary on a bicycle, where efficiency is extremely important.
only in Safari evidently, so it's really a bug fix on their part.
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A few weeks ago I started with the curriculum on https://teachyourselfcs.com, with the goal of completing it within a year.
I'm looking for communities where I can find people with similar interests. e.g. where they go through books in an organised way or discuss problems.
I wish there was a convention to favor paragraphs over sentences in release notes.

Understanding most of these release notes requires an extremely deep understanding of WebKit and the relevant web standards.

I'd love to see projects invest more effort in expanding these out. Imagine how much more valuable this document would be if each of the bullet points (or just the most important bullet points) had a couple more sentences clarifying what it meant.

(This is one of the reasons I've started trying to publish annotated versions of the release notes for my own projects: https://simonwillison.net/tags/annotatedreleasenotes/ )
I didn't realize Safari already had support for cascade layers. I'm really excited for the reduction in specificity that will allow once frameworks and themes get on board.
Yes, I expect you could put the whole premodulation processor on a single IC nowadays. Even in the late 1960s, an op amp IC could have replaced the amplifiers built from discrete components.
This is a generator, a dead battery is not a problem. Nothing in this setup is less likely to break than your chain or a derailleur -- I've had those happen to me a couple of times each.
Surly it has to outperform a normal solar panels in some way before this has uses? Or am I missing something?
Try shoveling 6-9 inches of snow per storm--storms every 4-6 days during the winter in the Rockies....
I used to interview embedded engineers, and I was one for a very short time. I think the issue is that many embedded engineers are not good at articulating when a linked list is preferable compared to a continuous data structure. The times when a linked list is better are getting increasingly rare as "embedded" increasingly means "includes a raspberry pi."

On devices with 1 GB of memory, the contiguous structures are usually better, but embedded developers often still reach for linked lists. On devices with 1 kB of memory, trained software engineers will scoff at linked lists and instead waste hundreds of bytes on large buffers sized for peak usage.
I don’t know about you, but I pretty regularly have my chain derail on my bike (at least a few times per season). Then I end up with grease on my fingers as I fix it which can be a big inconvenience.
Other things factor into moves besides weather, even when weather is a factor. Certainly there is variability but it seems pretty clear that warmer, sunnier, areas are most desirable based on the costs of housing.

When you really start looking at people with true choices, i.e. the very rich, they want moderate weather with hot enough summers for water sports to be a viable activity, but nice enough that other outdoor activities aren't prohibitively hot and extreme weather isn't a concern.

A good example of this is Lake Oconee Georgia. It's basically bumfuck nowhere yet there's a plethora of multi-million dollar homes because the weather and geography are what falls in the ideal range for most people. So of course it's generally inaccessible to the average person but the super wealthy are gating it off and enjoying it.
It seems like the lesson we might be learning here is that more of the heavy lifting in conventional combat will now by done by precision weapons -- cruise missiles, drones, self-targeting artillery rounds, etc.

In recent wars, the emphasis on precision has been highlighted toward avoiding civilian casualties. The thing I hadn't fully appreciated is that in all-out conventional warfare, that same property makes weapons far more effective and efficient. A drone that can carefully drop a hand grenade into a trench can be more effective than an artillery unit walking salvos across the terrain near the trench.

In the long run, the ratios will probably turn out to be roughly the same as they have always been, for combatants with equal technology. Properly accounting for asymmetric technology, however, is apt to be quite challenging.

Unfortunately, none of these innovations intrinsically make war any less horrible.
Yup. But that's marginal tax rate. Average tax rate for e.g. 150k EUR income is 37.8%.

See https://www.bmf-steuerrechner.de/ekst/eingabeformekst.xhtml
A chain is 95% efficient in theory, but in practice they are usually a lot less.
In addition to what other users have mentioned, I think the impact of the Starlink system in Ukraine is an example of where a Musk project has delivered significant value, and delivered that to people who are not in the upper stratas of western wealth. Starlink provided a swap-in alternative to Ukraine's disabled SATCOM infrastructure, realtime communications are a critical tool in this war.

As a side note, I would suggest reviewing HN's community guidelines regarding discussion of controversial issues and use of throwaway accounts. Respecting these guidelines would help your comments remain visible, rather than getting downvoted grey.[0]

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but *please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.*

WRT the last point, maybe you just found HN this week and this is your brand-new community identity, but your account name and posting activity doesn't give that impression.

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"The Internet of Things is a vast and growing network of electronic devices - each using only a small amount of power - that collect and share real-time data via the internet. Using low-cost computer chips and wireless networks, many billions of devices are part of this network - from smartwatches to temperature sensors in power stations. This figure is expected to grow to one trillion devices by 2035, requiring a vast number of portable energy sources."

Imagine reading this in 1999. It's amazing to consider what we can achieve with technology today.
which makes a lot of sense once they have to map to logical cores
The problem is reward this kind of behavior. Trump became president by be the most outlandish buffoon. Kanye is a billionaire for his antics. It's all free advertising for their brands. Probably 100s of millions of dollars worth of free advertising.
A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon red
Capital gains are tax free if your total taxable income is below that $83k (including w-2/1099 earnings as well). Not just income from capital gains.
Silver’s electromigration is significantly worse than copper, leading to reduced reliability. Plus the fact that silver is ~200x more expensive doesn’t help.
I don't have a link handy but the difference between a perfectly maintained chain and a dry, poor condition chain is not as significant as people think.

Also, many, many transportation bicycles have chain cases, which is much simpler than a motor-generator system.
Yes. Tesla changed the way people feel about Tesla.

Importantly, some of those people were in positions of influence at other auto manufacturers. So Tesla didn't have to capture 95% marketshare to change the industry.

I think that the blinding glamour of a Tesla has faded quite a bit. I think, 20 years on, we expect to see strong competition to them. The lane assist, the adaptive cruise control, the touch screen console... these are a bit boring now. Others have had them for a long time. Some probably had them before Tesla. Hopefully, several competitors will start offering 500 km range EVs. Tesla can still cult that advantage.

But the cult of Tesla scared established players. Everyone has scrambled to adapt since. And the public has been persuaded to keep the pressure on. Tesla represents an historic shift. I don't have to like them or buy them. But I recognize their place in history.
My opinion is that he had no GOOD reason. He just knew the Windows dev stack and has a giant ego. But, I'm probably biased since he reminds me of managers/PMs I've worked with in my career that have weak opinions strongly held which affect me.

I think it's similar to how he has banned use of Kanban or other Toyota Production System principles at Tesla (which is the easy explanation for their poor build quality, see: U.S. car manufacturing 1970's).
The reason you never want to see those words together is that isolated discrimination may result in a single lawsuit but systemic discrimination is a basis for class action.
Linux is the best operating system in my view. There can be rough edges on laptops, but I had more issues with Apple’s products. With Linux, at least there is a way to solve them.
I work for non-tech generating 100million+ in revenue. Cushy job, fully remote, good pay and full autonomy with flexible hours working as an IC.

I recently talked to a startup, similar pay, culture would be a better fit since it was mostly techies and I'm a nerd by nature.....but things just got awkward as soon as I asked about their revenue....they were bleeding money and I was told they were being acquired by a big corp. Also, the tone worried me, the confidence the CEO presented early in the call disappeared.

I also tried digging deeper into their business and what they were selling, as I have interest in that space due to my hobbies. I literally didn't see a need for their startup to exist. But I'm just an average developer what do I know.
while many of those other pseudo-classes are useful, :has() is a next level of usefulness, as are :is()/:where() and :not(). combining these together gives you far-reaching selector capabilities.

safari also now has lch colors and the color() function, which make theming more flexible.

and the color-contrast() function just landed in firefox beta!

edit: subgrid in firefox is pretty nifty too.
I mostly agree with this, and would add that thoughts on Elon make a great Rorschach test (and a less great but still interesting test on what bits of misinformation have stuck to a person). But I disagree with the "enlightened disinterested middle" prescription. A mature intelligent person can love and hate and be disinterested in things (and people), too, and regardless of how other people think (or don't think) about the thing or person. There's an old copypasta going around again that implicitly makes this point at least for liking -- https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/if-x-has-a-million-fans-im-on... -- a mature intelligent person should be able to have their likes and dislikes be mostly independent of what others think. (My own bias is somewhat contrarian, I notice myself irrationally starting to like something less if it becomes more popular. Sometimes I can justify it more rationally by saying that popularity changed the thing -- our opinions are part of our brains and thus are part of the world and can indeed sometimes affect the world even beyond our brains, effects are more likely when more brains share opinions -- and I like the thing it became less, or even actively dislike it, without having to diminish my liking of what used to be. Sometimes I realize I'm being irrational, notice my feelings aren't what I want them to be, and attempt to correct them (sometimes towards disinterest!). Sometimes I don't care. But the correct thing is not necessarily disinterest, nor a more extreme stance I once thought which was abandoning my likes and other emotions altogether.)
Are you expecting vue to prevent you from doing something wrong?
A single version, with digital replacement of visuals. And that's due to a trademark issue in the US, unfortunately.
It's been said more than a few times in the past, but I cannot get over just how smart and motivated Alyssa Rosenzweig is - she's currently an undergraduate university student, and was leading the Panfrost project when she was still in high school! Every time I read something she wrote I'm astounded at how competent and eloquent she is.
To me this seems more like - with the stock market down Elon figures he can get a discount on Twitter and so will now try to renegotiate the price.

If you were buying a house, and had already made an offer and put down 3% earnest money with your offer, but then realized you could probably get 30% off the purchase price by backing out and offering again - would you?
Fascinating, but kinda creepy. What prompts them to spontaneously leave the nest and go to a certain place? Feel like this raises more questions than answers!
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Microclimates....try googling it :/
If the job actually requires typing quickly like a Court Recorder then there is a basis to require typing quickly. If the job doesn’t actually require it, like for example a programmer then enforcing the requirement anyway is discrimination.
SpaceX on pace to shatter US launch records. Again
If you go back to the question that was being answered, you'll notice that the historical account was the point.

> if he was always like that or grew into it at one point.
I agree with this. I am no fan of BAH for personal reasons having been forced to work adjacent to them, but the recreation.gov website is quite good and a good experience, coming from someone who uses it extensively for camping.