skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not trying to make excuses but Musk mentioned at the end he was suffering from pretty bad back pain too. Back pain on your feet really sucks and can destroy a coherent thought.

Having said that, Musk is pretty much the worst communicator i've ever heard at the C suite level. I hope/pray he's better when talking to direct reports trying to get his crazy ass ideas and timelines done. Those poor poor people if he's not...
> They say knowing is half the battle... not in psychology.

I've felt this so many times that I gave it a name: "the falling physicist problem".

A physicist falling without a parachute from the very top of the troposphere knows, that his terminal velocity is around 50m/s and was reached via gravity pulling him towards the ground.

Nevertheless he's going to go splat the same way anyone else would, because sometimes knowing is just not enough.
So, I spent some time now to not just find sources that verify my own opinion, but also some that discuss the possibile changes.

My previous opinion: Cryptocurrencies are treated similar to PS5s and rare sneakers [1]. [2] says:

> Kryptowährungen sind kein gesetzliches Zahlungsmittel. Vielmehr werden sie – zumindest im Ertragsteuerrecht – als immaterielle Wirtschaftsgüter betrachtet.

Cryptocurrencies are intangible assets. This is confirmed by courts in 2021 at least [3] and rephrased by others [4]:

> Virtuelle Währungen zählen rechtlich nicht als (Fremd-)Währung oder Kapitalanlage, sondern als sonstige Wirtschaftsgüter.

Austria changed their laws recently [5] classifying cryptocurrencies as investments and charging capital gains taxes. [6] discusses in decembre 2021 that it is unlikely that germany will follow this. This seems to hold as [7] from april this year also states:

> Der Handel mit Kryptowährungen wie Bitcoin ist in Deutschland steuerlich dem Handel mit Kunstwerken und anderen Wertgegenständen gleichgestellt. Es gelten die gesetzlichen Vorgaben zum privaten Veräußerungsgeschäft nach Paragraf 23 Absatz 1 des Einkommensteuergesetzes.

I also can't find any changes to classifying crypto as investments in germany, so I'd ask you in return: Please provide a citation so I can update my knowledge.

[1] https://taxfix.de/steuertipps/ebay-steuern-zahlen-privat-ode...

[2] https://www.winheller.com/bankrecht-finanzrecht/bitcointradi...

[3] https://www.haufe.de/steuern/rechtsprechung/veraeusserungsge...

[4] https://www.smartsteuer.de/online/steuerwissen/kryptowaehrun...

[5] https://futurezone.at/digital-life/krypto-steuer-gesetz-oest...

[6] https://www.cmshs-bloggt.de/steuerrecht/ertraege-aus-kryptow...

[7] https://www.computerbild.de/artikel/cb-Tipps-Internet-Bitcoi...
After this war, Musk is probably in no danger of losing federal contracts just because of his free speech politics.

The Russians knocked out the entire Ukrainian SATCOM infrastructure at the start of the war, plus quite a few stations elsewhere in Europe; AFAIK none of them went online again. Electronic warfare at its finest. Once this happened, Starlink was used as a drop-in substitute and defeated all Russian attempts to knock it out too. The Ukrainians coordinate their artillery, drones etc. over Starlink and the Russians can ... gnash their teeth.

This is an impressive capability and it gives the U.S. a huge advantage in any potential future military conflict with a near-peer power. Advantages like that aren't discarded just because of random culture war flare-ups.
You're joking, but to answer the question seriously, the problem with slamming it into your biggest gear and pedalling downhill is that wind resistance increases with the square of your velocity.

When going downhill, you are going faster thanks to gravity. A small increase in speed requires a disproportionally large increase in effort. Hand-waving over the inefficiencies involved in an electric power train, you are far better off pedalling and storing the energy on the downhill, then "spending" that stored energy on the flats or even saving it for the next uphill.

With respect to going downhill faster with this system, I doubt it can do anything useful in a straight line descent, but in a long, switchback descent of the type seen in the big Grand Tour races on mountain stages, cyclists need to brake into the switchbacks and accelerate out of them.

Regenerative braking followed by assisted pedalling out of the corners would be a huge win.
There's no reason that couldn't be a half-truth - it could be a PowerVR with certain components replaced, or even the entire GPU replaced but with PowerVR-like commands and structure for compatibility reasons. Kind of like how AMD designed their own x86 chip despite it being x86 (Intel's architecture).

Also, if you read Hector Martin's tweets (he's doing the reverse-engineering), Apple replacing the actual logic while maintaining the "API" of sorts is not unheard of. It's what they do with ARM themselves - using their own ARM designs instead of the stock Cortex ones while maintaining ARM compatibility.*

*Thus, Apple has a right to the name "Apple Silicon" because the chip is designed by Apple, and just happens to be ARM-compatible. Other chips from almost everyone else use stock ARM designs from ARM themselves. Otherwise, we might as well call AMD an "Intel design" because its x86 by the same logic.
Compile in Debian.
It has a full cross compile tool chain and is as simple as adding the target architecture to dpkg to get the libraries you need (assuming you don't mind the versions packaged for Debian).

Getting the right libs is really the hardest part of cross compiling, and zig can't really help there.
Not to crap on zig, it's pretty badass, just offering a well battle tested alternative.
I said "seemingly".
The US is plenty regulated. It's why VCs have to spend absurd sums on lawyers for Uber and Airbnb. Sidestepping laws and regulations isn't cheap.
I fail to see the benefit of this over Ent [0]. Define schema in "their way" but then never have to deal with anything SQL related ever again?

[0] https://entgo.io
$50.00 + "$4.20" is a theatrical bid.
Just a tip on the dock moving from monitor to monitor – this is most likely intended behaviour that you're triggering by accident. I agree with you, it's annoying, and it shouldn't work like this, but it does.

That being said – the dock will move between monitors if you take your mouse cursor and move it to the very bottom middle of a monitor and hold it there for a few seconds. If it's jumping from one monitor to the next, it's likely that you're triggering this accidentally in the course of doing something else. You can move the dock back to your intended monitor by doing the same deliberately on the monitor you want it to be on.
SELECT * EXCLUDE (jar_jar_binks, midichlorians) FROM star_wars

Error: columns not found

On further investigation, It seems that someone had maliciously injected lots of bogus data into the production database. We tried to clean up by truncating tables and dropping columns, but in the end it was easier to just restore from backup prior to 1999.

There still seems to be some residual corruption, most predominantly around mos_eisley and jabbas_palace data, and we had to truncate the end of Return of the Jedi, but not much was lost there.
> No matter how bad harvesting of sea resources is, it can't be enough to abandon the oceans entirely

I probably don't understand your point (sorry english is not my first or second language).

At this moment we're seriously overfishing our oceans and killing it's population, that's what i have beef with (pun intended).

So your argument is - let's continue fishing?

> any more than the vast land-use impact of agriculture can be used as argument for abandoning agriculture

I'm arguing for changing agriculture (or better land management practices), not its abandonment.
you are conflating CRAs and accounting firms.
I've been thinking about moving from Docker for Desktop to minikube (but just for the docker part). I hear it's better although it still uses hyperkit.
I still respect him, probably more every year.

I never liked him before and probably won't in the future. I doubt I'd like anybody who's literally dragging humanity into the future, but he is doing that.

Whether he's doing it right, or whether he's doing it well is an open question, but no other single person is to this degree shoving humanity forward this often and this much, as far as I know.
The holding period of one year, after which no taxes apply, corresponds to the general tax regulation of foreign currency balances in Germany. In the past, there has been a debate as to whether cryptocurrencies are actually "currencies" in terms of this general tax regulation. It seems that this debate has been saddled for a while now.

However, the tax exemption also has a disadvantage. Losses cannot be offset against other taxes. If your cryptocurrency investment is losing value, you should consider selling it before one year has passed. In such a case, it is also advisable to consult a tax counsellor first, because there might be some pitfalls (a certain period between selling and re-investment might be necessary; problems might arise when an account is older than a year, though the main investment is not; not all losses can be offset against all others, etc.).

Another pitfall is that the foreign currency account must not be interest-bearing. In such a case the holding period of one year is extented to ten years.
> Is this the new trend?

Just a recent wave of populists?
How would you make sure that the supplied version has the same weights as the production version? And wouldn't the weights and architecture be refined over time anyway?
Computer science turns the greatest idealism into the greatest wealth. Bitcoin, and now this.
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It made me really sad not to see the developers' avatars on the "About us" section. It seems they are not part of the team, but they're the ones answering questions here.

Other than that, great product!
That's rather alarmist and exaggerated. "Every plugin is a disaster". No it isn't.

Shopify isn't immune to vulnerabilities:
https://infosecwriteups.com/how-i-gained-access-to-revenue-a...

I wouldn't recommend Shopify. Clunky, slow, overpriced. And business inventory shouldn't be outsourced and hosted on third party platforms.

Self-managed solutions offer more options to scale and add features, customization and generally taking control over the way your business is presented online. This matters, and customers notice the confidence of a business owning its online presence.

Doesn't need to be Wordpress, but even if it is, the option to use something like Snipcart is there if WooCommerce isn't wanted. No need to switch everything over to hosted solutions like Shopify.

> "You can use a screwdriver as a hammer if you try hard enough, but that doesn't make it actually a hammer or the right tool to use."

Not sure why you thought it necessary to expand "right tool, right job" into that longer version, but you're implying Shopify is the hammer. Why? Because it has "shop" in the name? They stack a bunch of technologies together just like everyone else. And with that comes attack surfaces and issues just like anyone else.
> StackOverflow-copying SEO-spam on Google

I believe the parent commenter did not mean that StackOverflow itself became bad, but rather that its content gets copied and cloned by bots and posted as much lower quality content on Google.

So I guess the critic goes to google content filtering algorithms then.
Was probably like two months ago that it was announced. They said that the current versions should continue to work until Google changes their APIs so much that they break.
> Why the duplication? I have not yet observed Metal using different programs for each.

I'm guessing whoever designed the system wasn't sure whether they would ever need to be different, and designed it so that they could be. It turned out that they didn't need to be, but it was either more work than it was worth to change it (considering that simply passing the same parameter twice is trivial), or they wanted to leave the flexibility in the system in case it's needed in future.

I've definitely had APIs like this in a few places in my code before.
Reading about the Mead Reservoir the other day and now this, I'm thoroughly convinced the US needs some sort of large scale disaster for something to really change in this country.

There's obviously various pockets in the country that suffer from shitty public infrastructure (e.g. Flint, Michigan), but for most of the country, it's been OK; they're still able to to go to Wal-Mart to get their feed and be content. There's always talk about potential future disasters, but it never seems to come. We've had an inept federal government for multiple decades that doesn't work for the people anymore. We need an episode of millions of people to get mad enough for something to happen.
That's called COGS, or Cost Of Goods and Services. It's separate the kind of costs he's talking about. If you're working on COGS you're working in a profit center generating revenue, not in a cost center performing necessary but expensive functions.

Tech doesn't usually measure COGS, because the cost of another user on a website is near zero.
Yes, I'm just trying to be funny.

An iteration over the "monkeys with nuclear weapons" parable.
Asking for a friend: Is losing the flagship of the Black Sea fleet part of the easy going, stomping strategy?
Show me your data, and I’ll validate your claim.

The great weight of stories published on this question indicates that people are vacating to live less expensively/more lavishly, not to be with people less politically progressive. Are there a few such people? Sure. But they’re hardly the majority.

There are a lot of reasons why people choose not to send their kids to public school. Sometimes it’s because they perceive the public school as unsafe. The primary reason isn’t because parents disagree with the math curriculum, but because they want to give their kids a leg up in the fiercely competitive race to get into a top university. When everyone around you is wealthy and smart, parents try to find whatever advantage they can.
Yup the flowcharts are the key to the parallelizing of code
All else being equal, a factor 3 seems reasonable. But as usual all else isn’t equal. Another crude but often cited “formula” is the one that says the effectiveness of a force is the means multiplied by the will (this one has many variations, from Clausewitz to Smith and others).

I think it’s safe to say that the will of a defender called to defend their homeland versus that of a soldier who spent a month in a muddy trench unaware that he was going to take the offensive part in an invasion - is going to be quite different.
Everything is broken, but we still need to fix it regardless. We can't just be nihilistic about it and fail to fix our very broken infra. Look into Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA). It's a whole discipline that is only now being fleshed out, and it should have been around from the start
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I doubt it. Due to weight balance, most of the braking force is on the front wheel. This system only drives the rear wheel. Any regeneration gains would be minimal.
Will the persistent indices still be built on ART indexes? ART is a great choice of data structure. Fast lookups, range queries and prefix queries.

Typesense DB (Typesense.org) under the hood also uses ART as the base datastructure for fast full text search queries.

So I assume it would be straightforward to build an text search engine on top of duck DB and utilize ART indices to do even more lovely things.
I'll bite: why shouldn't you use a linked list for an embedded system? As opposed to a contiguous, dynamically allocated data structure, I mean.
"Docker on Mac" is not a thing.

When you run Docker "on" a Mac, you are actually running the Linux version of Docker inside of a hypervisor. Docker tries to make this as transparent as possible, but there is a performance penalty.

If you're on an M1 Mac and using an x86 container, you're also doing CPU translation. And unlike Rosetta, it's emulating a full CPU, not passing to native libraries.
Size of AA battery and powering the most efficient ARM processor for months with nothing but ambient light? I wonder how this scales.
Yeah, the supposed free speech absolutist, cowtowing to Communists. Who Elon doesn't talk about is more interesting than the punching down he always does.
The tool for deal with this is https://include-what-you-use.org/

The idea is that each file (source or header) should include exactly those headers from which it uses things. In practice, it gets a bit more complicated has you don't want to include internal implementation headers and sometimes the same thing does not even have a canonical public header but IWUY does allow you to configure all that to your liking.
When reading this I was thinking that this distinction sounds more like what I know as profit center/cost center. I was glad to see a sidebar mentioning that he thinks its related. Maybe its more common to use that terminology in finance, which is really the only industry i've worked in. I've not heard line/staff used in this way but profit center/cost center is well known.

I will say that I don't really agree that profit center/cost center is less clear terminolgy or doesnt have the right boundries. I'd argue the opposite. It's a pretty direct description of why any distinction exists at all. It's also pretty inuitive that its preferable to be in a role tied to how the company generates money. Line/Staff terminology requires nice blog posts to explain what those things are. Maybe in a military context it makes sense because there is no profit center per se, but for industry, using line/profit terminology is just a whitewash of profit center/cost center, which is imo the real distinction.

Of course the classification of profit/cost is not perfect as there are jobs kind of in the the middle, like say if you are an internal recruiter (you recruit profit center people too so...) but I don't think those roles are easier to classify as line/staff either.
You also have to take into account the extra weight of having a dynamo + a motor, I doubt it's more advantageous than a chain on a classic bicycle.

For an electric bicycle though, I see it as a really good contender
Change happens at the rate of blood spilled.
I can't buy this. He very clearly seems to relish public attention for its own sake. Otherwise we'd have to accept that his hyping of random crypto tokens (e.g. DOGE) is somehow indirectly connected to saving the world or advancing humanity.
Yes, used copies of the first-edition Compact OED are a great option. They don't take much space or cost much money: https://www.ebay.ie/itm/304361514092 . They only give you the first edition of the OED and the first, 1933, Supplement, but that's really a solid 80%+ solution to the not-having-an-OED problem. Used copies of the current compact edition are significantly dearer, but for many people not unthinkably expensive.
The real travesty here is that every single eBay executive above the one who gave the order to "take her down" hasn't been indicted on criminal charges. They will never face justice for the criminal organization they created.
I wish more frameworks or tools offered a landing page as good as this project.
Yeah, I don't remember all the details.

IIRC, Musk makes Twitter a 100% cash offer. Twitter accepts, but writes the deal such that if either side pulls out of the deal, then a $1 billion penalty will be applied.

Musk goes to the banks and secures a $20 billion-ish loan, putting TSLA as collateral.

Musk starts to sell TSLA for the other $20 billion of cash. Stock tanks as a result, only ~$8 billion sold on public filing documents.

Musk runs around looking for another $12 billion for the last week or so.

And now we have today where it looks like he is failing his side of the deal. If Musk lost the $20 billion-ish from the banks due to TSLA being too low, it makes sense for him to give up.

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All that is going on right now is Musk trying to blame Twitter for the failed deal, so that he avoids the $1 billion penalty written into the contract.
How do you reconcile this view with Russia abandoning the northern front to take Kyiv, the most important city; losing their flagship in the Black Sea; and, according to visually confirmed open source evidence, having lost enormous volumes of military equipment?
Sure, I just wished the author/article would have spelled out/confirm the standard definition of 'staff swe' as step/level in the ladder before going into the 'other' meaning of 'staff swe' as being part of non-core product.
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Americans enjoy substantially higher material consumption than their European counterparts. The US has 85% higher household consumption expenditures than France (about the median of the EU15). The difference between the US and France is about equivalent to the difference between France and Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_household...
It sounds like it was highly organised to me
This articles sort of right, sort of wrong.

Staff in the modern military means you're a careerist. It's the last rank that you can't be forced out without advancing, and might not be expected to advance at all.

Staff has different kinds of connotations depend on officer and enlisted. Staff officers would never lead from the front. That's O1-O3s job, those people are actually trained by enlisted careerists before they ever get to lead. In the enlisted ranks, Staff starts with E6 (Staff Sgt) and they are typically platoon commander's. By contrast with officer ranks, Staff Sgts will still go on patrol.

The officers metaphor is a bit relevant to software. It's rare for Major+ to actually work in the field (unless they're highly specialized like an Air Officer). These are basically executives. On the enlisted side Corporal through Staff are your immediate leaders that the company recognizes. Corporal is the first working leader as a team lead, Sgt lead multiple corporals, and Staff Sgt can lead multiple Sgts. This can vary by +-1 rank.

I do think software does need to shift more the direction of the military where working leaders hold the majority of team direction and influence from a systemic level. Ultimately, Staff Enlisted are entrusted with direct responsibility for how and when things get done; they also (generally) have the most direction over the platoon. The biggest component I'd like to see is managers being trained by software careerists before they're ever allowed to lead a team.

Edit: my experience is colored by the Marines, which focus on small team leadership and cross training. YMMV.
I like innovation like this, but I will never buy one.
A chain or belt will always work when the battery is dead. Or something went wrong. I need a fail-safe mechanism, and this idea does not offer one.
Point taken. Thanks - will look into it!
It’s similar to ladder logic. It’s called FlowPro. You can combine flowcharts together that’s easy.
So use a landline phone.

Work at a desktop computer.

Listen to CD's, not broadcast radio.

Never use GPS.

Never use WiFi.

Never use RFID.

Never use Find my iPhone to recover devices.

Never use automotive remotes.

Never use TV remotes.

Never explore outer space.

Never explore underwater.

All must be wires.

Because wireless is a trap.