skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should stop animal agriculture first, since it is by far the least efficient use of water in agriculture. Virtually all of the alfalfa grown in CA goes to animals.

Fuck almond milk, by the way. We don't need any "milks" per se, but oats are way better.
Source that he was really wealthy growing up? People seem to say this all the time but he says he worked his way through college without any help from his dad: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1211071324518531072
EU is so backwards with bureaucracy it is actually easier to set up a US entity for a new startup and hire EU devs in it than set up in an EU country and navigate the tax laws of 28 countries.
It's a large enough disparity that it says something useful about the component majors. And unsurprisingly, when you look at the component majors, the same effect is dramatically apparent.

It's like looking at "total household debt". It encompasses a massive amount of things, from mortgages to student loans to credit cards, from people with 100x assets/debt to people with negative net worth.

But it's still possible to look at the aggregate figure and understand something rough about the magnitude of indebtedness in the country.
Something like sexism, racism, etc are in a different category than merely "shitty", I think.

Putting Musk aside, I'd have to know a little more about what you mean by $negative_trait to agree or not. Everyone has negative traits, everyone is occasionally shitty. Frequency certainly matters, but assuming it's not very regular than maybe it comes down to what you said about "clear effort to stop". You have to be self aware enough to recognize it when it happens and work on doing better.
> Also, the guy is always going to extreme lengths to seek attention, just like one certain US politician...Something turns me off from these types of people.

Elon Musk isn't an attention seeker and never has been. I don't get how people make this argument. Every chance he gets, he redirects praise to the people of his companies.
All Musk's plastic surgery and hair implants do make him look kinda weird like Odo.
Far more complicated that a traditional bike. But compared to e-bikes, this avoids a lot of the complex mechanical bits.

I've had this system in mind for years, I think for cargo bikes with long chains, this will be a clear winner.
The US system elects based on popularity, but the problems require technocrats. Decrease in educational standards and funding, as well as funding for other services, is both the reason and part of the answer.

We need bureaucracies that can be evaluated on efficiency in performance to mission. Many US representatives, ideologically, want to starve the US government of resources for a variety of reasons (serving the wealthy, lost cause, religious background, Reaganite). Rather than target efficiency, it's a simpler narrative to point to an underfunded, possibly brain-drained agency and make fun of its failings as it seeks to achieve its particular mission.
Absolutely sure I’m doing something wrong but why would vue allow any case that hangs the entire tab? I’ve never seen that in any website ever!
> All he created was a financial bubble that he inflated to enrich himself for . work that he'll never actually deliver.

I literally drive a Tesla. I've watched SpaceX land reusable rockets and send people to the International Space Station. What you are saying here is factually incorrect and I'm really losing patience for this very obvious trolling and flame-baiting.
Are you sure of this? Paypal truely was grand. Many people love their Teslas, and there is a (very strong, IMO) argument to be made that Tesla is the reason that the auto industry is transitioning, at least in part, to electric cars. Both of these seem like they are increasing the quality of life of the population.

Then comes SpaceX, doing engineering that NASA seems either incapable of or uninterested in (no specific blame on NASA, there is no substantial government push for progress in this area). OK, maybe you and I have not directly benefited from SpaceX yet, but do not discount the accruing benefit of cheap transport to space.

There are much, much, much easier ways to make money than to make an electric car company and a space company. Your argument is a little too cynical.
I think my sarcasm is too dry in this thread
Regarding cars: Yes, it is cheaper to run business cars but its pretty limited. There is the 1% rule in germany, then a monthly of 1% of the cars shop-price (we use the nice word Bruttolistenneupreis) is considered income and taxed regularly. If a car costs 30.000€, that means you have to add 300€/monthly (virtually) onto your tax bill that is taxed as personal income. There are limits to the "you can tax deduct everything as a business" in Germany.
I think you might both be right, but never agree with each other, due to the trickiness of language. That is to say, depending on your definition of "genius" (and depending on the still not fully understood nature of genius), you might on the one hand agree that he qualifies as being a "genius", but isn't "one of the most brilliant men alive."

Setting aside any purely semantic disagreements (for example the fact that "one of the most brilliant men alive" is highly dependent on the number of other brilliant men around), I think part of what OP is arguing against is the implication that most people attribute a specific kind of genius to him (and OP should definitely step in to disagree with me here if I am mistaken). For example, most people may agree that Warren Buffet is a genius, but it's clear (to me at least), that they mean genius in a very different way in that context than when applied to Musk. The implication seems to strongly be that Musk is not merely a savvy businessman, but a "brilliant scientist" or "brilliant engineer" or something as well, something I think no one would assign to Buffet. Buffet bought Duracell, but no one believes he is key to battery technology. For the record, I am not arguing about whether Musk is or is not this kind of genius, just that Musk is a unique case in that the conversation exists on this axis, arguably much more so than even with Steve Jobs (who most people at best attribute "design genius" to, but will readily admit is not an "engineering genius", and in fact may even attribute the ability to see "past that" as one of his strengths). So I think the frustration I detect in this argument is that Musk seems to often be imagined in the same ranks as the actual Nikola Tesla perhaps, which they feel is unearned, and then the defense given is more appropriate for an Edison or Ford-esque "businessy crossover genius", vs. a description of direct technical accomplishments. Again, I am not arguing either way as to where he should be placed, just pointing out that I see a lot of this sort of "talking past each other", since "genius" colloquially implies something that doesn't make "Steve Jobs" immediately come to mind, vs. Einstein.
I think poetry is a big step forward. A few years back I worked at a place where our projects were so complex that "pip install" would not be able to reliably solve dependencies -- it was by no means a "boring" choice!

pip's strategy for solving dependencies is just a tactic: it starts installing one package at a time, installs the dependencies of that package, etc. It can get into a situation where another package has dependencies that conflict with what has already been installed and pip gets stuck.

Alternately it is possible to solve the dependencies as a whole and then install everything. I wrote something that was able to gather up all the wheels necessary (and make wheels if they didn't already exist) and then the installer would just unpack the wheels.
This reminds me of an article regarding Saudi Arabia's dairy industry owning land in CA to grow alfalfa.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-w...
I’m trying to but my employer has said they will use “observer-identified” info to fill it in for me. I find it ridiculous that I can’t object to having someone guess my race and report that to the government.
I’m fine with forgiving most things, but not in the absence of any attempt at apology and recompense.

The “pedo guy” accusation was beyond the pale and, so far as I remember, Musk doubled down on it vs making any sincere attempt at an apology.
The needed flexibility in C++ programs is the recovered by adding an embedded dynamic scripting language or by implementing dynamic features in C++.
Last year Dublin had 26° C "heatwave" and people were complaining. I'd take it over 16° intermittent rain any day.
That doesn't make any sense to me if I'm understanding it correctly. If you buy $100 in bitcoin and sold for $120 then you'd have to pay $54 in taxes? That can't be right unless it's 45% on the $20 extra that you "profited" ?
I'm not sure it is "just" that. You are paying for the reputation. He has a proven track record of being incredibly effective. That is worth a lot. There are certainly people who can do similar or better work but how do you know who they are? Plus one false-positive here has astronomical impact.

Not only but that reputation means that he can fetch huge compensation at competitors, so you need to pay to cover that as well.
False, it was not when starting Zip2, it was a later funding round and the funding didn't depend on Errol's investment

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1211064937004589056
Because pension only comes out of your private salary, as opposed to the public stipend?
Reminds me of an old Chrome Experiment post https://web.archive.org/web/20120103162101/http://toki-woki....

Doesn't exactly work right on modern browsers anymore but the gist was a 7 segment clock display made out of scrollbars.
You ever ride in one of those bar on wheels things you find in touristy places?

It's got "barstools" along both sides and the passengers/revelers are supposed to turn the pedals under their seats while the bartender/driver steers.

In reality, the pedaling charges the battery somewhat but the vast majority of the battery power comes from being plugged in at a charger before the ride. You can't actually rely on a bunch of drunk sods to keep it moving.
“Forth isn't particularly fast either. As an interpreted language, it is blazing fast, but the speed tax of the threaded model still has to be paid, so it will generally be slower than code produced by a C compiler.”

Not being familiar with this sense of “thread,” I found a good explainer here: https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/threaded-code.html

And, as always, Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code
That "usually" is doing a whoooooole lot of heavy lifting. Capitalism is the ultimate "fuck you, got mine" system, and only serves the good of society with heavy-handed intervention.
Non accredited investors aren't allowed to invest in many things where the seller of securities is telling the truth. Most startups in the US under most scenarios cannot go around pitching non accredited investors.

Other than that, lies and manipulation are part of the equation. It's a bad decision to blindly trust anyone or anything. You can't separate smelling bs from judgement.

The whole concept of an accredited investor is basically saving people from themselves.
You should check out GreenArrays. Their G144A12 is an amazing little asynchronous chip. It's not an FPGA though.
I think FB, Google and Apple simply being more profitable than Cisco has more to do with it
My experience is with Pros. The latency is definitely noticeable for anything interactive (like games). I don't have a way to measure it though
An account that is shared between bots and humans is likely. More of a "bot augmentation". Eg a script that runs during certain hours or to handle high volume during certain periods.

Then it's almost a question of "how botty" the account in question is.
> All he created was a financial bubble that he inflated to enrich himself for . work that he'll never actually deliver.

He's already delivered, one hundred times over. Continuously moving the goal posts of what you're criticizing doesn't suddenly make it a lack of delivery.
Left bias is very prevalent:
https://youtu.be/kiRgJYMw6YA
I suspect the filibuster will fall within the next decade. Once that happens I imagine we’ll see more changes in federal laws: for better or worse.
I recently made a change from a small embedded company that focused on high security applications, such as automotive and aerospace, to doing embedded development at one of the large tech companies. I was making about 200k at the first company and almost double that now.

It was difficult to find a company that compensated well. A lot of the non-tech companies that rely on embedded developers like automotive and consumer electronics companies pay shit.

The large tech companies all have need for embedded developers, for example Apple, Google, Nvidia and Amazon.
Looks like a good project. Vercel has an opensource plan for non profit projects. Hope I could help you
Dose it get better? No. It’s very a profitable setup for some, and representatives need support from some to maintain their position so they can do “Good.” Trying to make stuff better will get you branded somewhere between a raciest and a Nazi.
Cats are social animals. Kittens learn a lot from play fighting with each other.

A lone cat can survive but they behave differently than a cat raised with peers. You can also tell a difference if a cat is raised among dogs. Kittens are friendly and will socialize with most creatures until a certain age where their disposition changes to be a bit more reserved.
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Here's a fun and somewhat believable conspiracy theory:

What if there's internal data indicating that it's closer to, like, 30%?

In that case, a buyout offer conditional on a DAU audit is certain to expose that data, and that's checkmate for TWTR.

Musk can then either buy it at a massive discount, or use the enormous amount of free press to launch a competitor with mandatory device attestation.
> this feels like a major footgun that will promote brittle DOM specific CSS

I can’t say I’ve really considered this in any depth, but my very first thought when I saw :has() was “finally, I can fix those last stupid bugs in my HN userstyle.”

So…you may be on to something.
Harrumph.

I didn't know that Russia had offered troops to support Catalunya; it doesn't surprise me. Part of his approach has been to interfere anywhere he can, whatever the ideological situation is, to stir up chaos. I think his goal is to create dissent between western peoples and nations, and undermine their unity.

It's not working very well just now. It's having the opposite effect.

I've long thought that his "create as much chaos as possible" approach was childish - like, I don't like school, so I think I'll set fire to it. Or, you don't show me enough respect, so I'll throw stones through your windows.

He wants to be treated as a serious world leader; but he behaves like an 8-year-old having a tantrum. Any parent knows that you don't negotiate with an enraged 8-year-old. It's a waste of time, if not counter-productive.
I'm like you; tell me what you need and I'll just do it. If I get a work-item that is decently written or at minimum has design mocks, I can immediately get to work and basically never have to communicate backwards with anyone. Like you said though, everyone is different. I work alongside many devs that need hand-holding through the entire process. That's totally fine, but what I ask is don't make my attendance to meetings mandatory. Don't force me to partake in the ceremonial BS. I get nothing out of it. If you make the attendees optional, then they can choose whether or not they need that meeting. I know - with strong confidence - that I don't need the meetings.
Try again:

"The rouble retains support from the obligatory conversion of 80% of FX revenues by export-focused companies"

https://www.reuters.com/business/rouble-falls-sharply-russia...

"The rouble has rallied in the past few weeks thanks to mandatory conversion of foreign currency by export-focused companies."

https://www.zawya.com/en/markets/currencies/rouble-hits-over...
It's a very cool device. You can do everything they show off with other tools, somethings like cloning cards can be done with cheap $30 cloners from China. However there are few tools that allow you to do ALL the different sub-ghz for relatively cheap, and in a very user friendly package. Closest I know of is HackRF Portapack... and that's well into $500 - but also for different target tooling.
He is the kind of person one has to maintain complex opinions about.

He didn't create the first mass market modern EV (that was Nissan), but he did what the rest of the auto industry could have but refused to do: Reverse the polarity of the desirability of EVs.

His views on metropolitan public transit and car facilitated sprawl are backward, but I doubt most traditional auto executives think any differently (just look at the amazing metro system in the Detroit area! /s), they just don't voice it as openly.

He has tons of money and power but feels little accountability to anyone, not even his shareholders, much less any community, country, or society.

You might say that's great, that it frees him to think "outside the box". That is true, but societal obligations are not all bad - they ground a wealthy and powerful person in the reality of people who have far less power than them, and temper some of the blindness brought on by their narcissism.
mine got reported as dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31368321
Yes it's not 100%, still ~20% of people have myopia with bright light exposure daily, but ~70%+ have myopia without bright light exposure, so it's definitely worth paying attention to.
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And completely ignoring that he was trying his damndest to provoke Iran into a war as late as early 2020, by ordering an airstrike on one of their generals.
Does it stipulate that the billion has to be in cash? What if he trades rides to the ISS for the board members? If it doesn't have to be in cash, then it could cost Musk less than the number of the contract.??
To add details, Elon's sub prototype seemed fine, and his team worked with Thai authorities to evaluate its use to resolve the incident. It was deemed they didn't have enough time (given the constraints) to actually finish it, and diving was a more practical option given the entirety of the situation.

Thai authorities told Elon as such, boys in the cave were already saved by the time he brought over the sub, and everything was fine.

Then that one specific diver comes out of nowhere and tweets that it was all just a PR stunt and that Elon could "shove that sub up where it hurts". While Elon's response was an immature retort, it is a bit disingenuous how people seem to imply that he lashed out at the diver out of nowhere with that insult just because his sub wasnt used for the incident. That wasn't an issue at all, and he took the rejection from Thai authorities just fine. It was one of the divers that decided to throw this random insult at him, and Elon's retort (no matter how appropriate or inappropriate it was) was just a "one-up" response. Immature and inappropriate response, sure. But let's not act as if he decided to lash out on some innocent guy out of nowhere.

Direct quote[0]: "Just as I didn’t literally mean he was a pedophile, I’m sure he didn’t literally mean shoving a sub up my a--".

0. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/elon-...
> I literally drive a Tesla

Congrats for being rich I guess? Your car brand is still as rare as Porsches, if you account for Europe it's still more rare on the road compared to Porsches.

Musk has been at the helm of Tesla since 2002. In FY21 Tesla accounted for 1% of vehicles sold globally. 1% in 20 years

I reapeat. 1% in 20 years. Hyper-growth for me (the stock market) , snail growth for thee (the American/global consumer)
Flipper Zero: Unboxing, demos, and initial impressions/brief review [video]
Debt cancellation could help poor countries prepare for climate change
Definitely seen it in the specific subreddits for tools, services and products. You’ll subscribe because there’s a community of your peers, you found them! They’re all doing cool things with the thing you’re using

Then 2 years later the subreddit is basically just another support channel for the most boring entry level questions imaginable on loop

Bonus points if the moderators decide to allow image posts and memes (eg if it was just text before) or some other massive change that resonates only with the newer folks and everyone else leaves.

Now the repeating loop of basic questions are answered by people who themselves came for assistance, who repeat whatever they’ve already read, with no proof or knowledge if it actually works

The example I’m thinking of is /r/Twitch in this case. Had a moment of thinking I’d be a streamer superstar, happens to us all right? Was being told* how to build my audience by people who themselves had no audience. Boshed a quick script together and found the average contributing user had less than 10 concurrent viewers when they go live. Useful.

* Indirectly. I’m aware of the irony/hypocrisy that I was also looking for said basic questions - I was searching for answers not asking :P
unless you work in sales, it is very hard to prove how lines of code can translate in more money for the company. maybe easier in startups but nearly impossible in big corps where everyone is just a cog in the machine
It's well documented that Elon was quite poor as a student in Canada/US.

He left South Africa at 17 with no money to speak of. He's estranged from his father for reasons no one talks about, which makes the father's possible wealth irrelevant.

And yet this "apartheid emerald mine fortune" is such a good story that it will keep being "internet true" forever.
People like the experience of reading a book they believe to be the pinnacle of truth and wisdom. I doubt many non-believers find the same inspiration, outside of a few "greatest hits" like Psalm 23 and "Love is patient, love is kind...". Many other parts of the Bible are strange, cryptic, or extremely dull.
> I'm astonished that people still can't see through his lies and BS.

Almost everything people believe about Musk is lies and BS. Do you have anything to back up what you're saying? Otherwise you're just adding more lies and BS on to the pile.
People on HN really despise him. I think I saw someone call him Space Karen.

This entire comment section is frothing with hate, and not much objectivity.
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I feel the same way. Income is income. Hell if I lose my $150k a year job and take a $120k job just because I need money coming in I can't get a $30k "capital losses" advantage on my taxes like I can with stocks. Tax system is rigged against middle and lower classes everywhere it seems.
Kinda reminded me of the time I used listerine on my MacBook screen and it solved the gross reflective coating issue that apple wouldn’t fix for me. Crazy part is it worked

Context:
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/gho3s4/m...
He was always like this, from what I remember. Then again, I was put off of him back in the 90s because it was just kind of embarrassing to watch someone who was (at the time) 2-3x my age be so desperate for validation.

Elon was bullied pretty heavily, and I think he clung to the nerds as his social savior in response, but he still doesn't have the self-confidence/spine to let his ideas stand on their own. It's kind of sad: He basically has a parasocial relationship with the geek/nerd community (and probably the rationalists too) and he thinks it's real, but it can't be when Elon brings his resources to bear whenever he's losing an argument.
We have examples of one-party states for awhile now, and none of them seem to be doing much in the way of big bold strides.
I, for one, appreciated this joke. :)