skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn’t talking about policy. I was referring to the phenomenon of people denying what is obvious and beyond scientific dispute. You are referring to a different group of extremists. And by extremist I mean a person for whom the cause (dogma) is more important than the truth.

Believing nothing should be done about climate change does not make one an extremist. Believing animals should not be eaten does not make one an extremist. Adhering to those beliefs by automatically discounting contravening evidence makes one an extremist.
There are many places where you can live without a car. However they are overall a minority. Most people in the US live where living without the car is next to impossible. either there isn't any transit at all, or there is transit that only works for someone working 9-5 downtown, but you are still expected to drive a car for all other errands.

Yes in the core of a few other cities (New York is most obvious) you can reasonably live without a car. Most people don't live close enough to the core though.

The bad transit options is the first thing that needs to change. However nobody actually cares about that. Democrats are more interested in union jobs even though it drives costs up to the point where it isn't cost effective. Republicans don't even realize that it would be possible to have useful transit and so they fight throwing good money after bad.
No one is suggesting throwing away OSM's data model completely. The current suggestion is basically "maybe we should think about a point release to properly address an ugly hack we invented in 2007".
Wow, look at the emotional anti-Elon bias in here. Just because you said you admire him as a visionary and engineer.

You actually disagree with him, but just the fact that you admire him triggers people.
Never actually tried it. From the descriptions I saw, it seemed like it would be like Twitter, but with actual yelling. Who would want that? Maybe the real product was better than that, but it didn't seem like a lot of incentive to try.
They're simply posting (what they perceive to be) the popular opinion. They're just grifting the comment section for upvotes.
He self-publishes his SEC defying schemes and polemics on Twitter all the time. He also reacts to these media stories you mention in ghastly ways. Truly an awful person.
I feel like a lot of people are talking past each other on this point. Elon Musk's PERSONAL EXPERIENCE of spambots and fake accounts is really terrible because they always glom onto his posts. So he sees way more than 5%. That is what he wants Twitter to fix. He's spent billions of dollars to say that, and may spend billion(s) more to get out of the deal. One would think he could just fund a personal Twitter engineer or two to clean up his feed for him and come out wayyyy ahead on the deal.
You realize that "companies clean[ing] up their act" involves sacrifice from you? Fossil fuels are used today because they're cheap. Not using fossil fuels will obviously make things more expensive, which is ultimately borne by the consumer.
Less concentrated, perhaps, but natural uranium in rocks is full of fission products.
You just ignored all of the challenges to your current worldview. Cognitive dissonance is just as difficult for the people you are trying to convince as it appears to be for you.
I've been on this site for nearly 10 years, and read enormous number of comments, enough to synthesize a good working model of the thoughts of the people who comment. Obviously if there are a lot of readers who don't comment I can't really impute their positions, but I think I have a pretty good idea.
If NK and other evil civilizations out-live our navies, I say they're welcome to whatever they can haul.
99% of people i know using Telegram is for piracy stuffs, not the actual chat but i guess it's different in other countries.
Database as a Service (DBaaS) is probably the one that will affect most developers. Aurora, PlanetScale, Cockroach, MongoDB Atlas, Yugabyte, ClickHouse Cloud, Materialized, Timescale... there are dozens of fully managed dbs now that abstract away some of the most difficult problems of managing your own clusters.

On the more technical side, I agree with brad0's list, especially incremental view maintenance.
Consider factors like the age of the universe, stars growing more metallic as they form starting with elements that can only be made by others going supernova, and chances of the planet not being hit by a supernova strong enough to sterilize the planet for billions of years. The great filter isn't necessarily still yet to come.
I tend to agree with you, having done a fair bit of cursing at the OSM format as well.

Yet they've made an open source map, and I haven't. The data tells me that I'm wrong.
He doesn't want to back out. He wants accurate information. Your post already assumes the incorrect information at hand.

A great example of how far gone the misinformation campaign already is.
Not to mention that cryptocoin integration attempt to cash out with privacy reputation. It just left so sour taste as well. What else they are ready to do?
> Apple was sold on the promise of future Intel chips, mainly the Core 2 series, and nothing Intel had at that time...

Yup. It's worth remembering that at the time of the switch, Apple downgraded from 64 bit Power PC chips to Intel's initial version of Core which was only 32 bit.

They didn't get back to a 64 bit implementation until Core 2 launched.

>The P4 had a nickname of being a fanheater, because it ran so hot and had such a low IPC that its performance even at high clock speeds was poor.

The Pentium IV ran so hot that the infamous demo back in the day was of people cooking pasta on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG3wceb05Sg
His visibility is magnified by his own Twitter presence posting style, similar to a certain other personality who leveraged Twitter well.

There's a reason so many refer to him on a first-name basis that they don't with other tech CEOs, and it's not because of media coverage. It's because of his own cult of personality that makes his fans think he's one of them and overlook the countless shortfalls in his visions for the future.
I'm in Lithuania for 1 year already, and I'd say depends on what kind of company you want to found.

Here in Baltics it's very good for B2B SaaS fintech, deep tech, and that kinda stuff.

Everywhere else e-commerse is big.

Also depends if you're bootstrapping or fundraising. Fundraising is easier if you're incorporated in Estonia, in other countries no one cares, you'll still need to incorporate in US with C-Corp.

The community in Europe is still forming imo.
I've used 3 different wireless VR implementations before, all of them require absurd amounts of bandwidth (50-130mbps), and send a highly-compressed image. It looks worse depending on the display you're using; on the OLED display of the Quest, the image ended up looking particularly terrible.

Even with proper display stream compression, I doubt you could build a network robust enough to host more than 2 or 3 wireless monitors on one network.
> - This whole thing wasn't a good faith bid to begin with, and Twitter should insist he pays the $1B exit clause

This would be a win for Elon. The problem is, it's not clear he has the right to back away and just pay a break-up fee. So the game emerges around how problematically he can position himself to be perceived to be, so Twitter prefers settling versus initiating what will likely be a multi-year court battle.
If cost is no concern, the Breville Polyscience Control Freak has a knob and is generally considered the Rolls Royce of induction burners.
Didn't he literally break the NDA with Twitter with some data they did give him? If I didn't dream that up, that alone proves there is no reason to believe in good faith on his part.
The letter[1] is very interesting as well. I think Twitter simply refuses to share the numbers because it really does not know + it might also lead to an investigation of misleading shareholders about DAUs/MAUs.

[1]https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465...
> Can't you just see him ignoring it...and daring them to...what, hold him in contempt? He's completely ignored the SEC already.

The SEC is a civil agency. Court orders are super different. The former can't put anyone in jail. The latter can. They can also, worst case, transfer his assets into receivership and have a court-administered trustee perform from there.
Both. I mean, I totally love that he's obsessed with Culture novels and named his money team "Excession". But I think his behavior is antisocial- rich person acting almost entirely from ego.
He's visible by choice. His bonuses in his Tesla contract are tied to the company's stock price. He realized he could boost the stock by being highly visible, and doing what he does. This lead to multi-billion single day payouts when Musk got people on the internet to buy his inflated stock. Now that he's made himself so visible, it isn't going to change unless he decides to make himself less visible. Which I doubt.
That is probably a reason big-O is used, the big-O definition which says that they most be upper-bounded by a linear multiplier. So even if the second and third multiplication is faster it will not change the asymptotic behavior.
Agree. He's a lightning road of a character so I think people are attracted to his accomplishments and ability to get execution or alternatively despise his changing social positions.

He's not emblematic of US problems but theres a trajectory that lines up with some of the political discord timeline wise and his change in perspectives going from center left to center right.
Yes. Totally agree. My comment on code quality was just one tiny aspect of a large continuum.

Strong teams are critical to doing big stuff. You get strong teams through lots of “soft” skills.

And also keeping employees for multi-year stints.
Well, lacking any reasonable technology to process it, we have to store the wast. The problem is: safe storage is difficult to realize and extremely expensive. It needs to be kept safe for many millenia.
Given that the salaried work force is going to be less than half by economic necessity of a manufacturing company, the actual layoff then would be less than 5%.
They’ll sell to collections.
Misleading a buyer about user count is material, even if musk is acting in bad faith.
Do you have so little faith in the free market? Do you really think no one is capable of coming up with a cheap enough car that is climate friendly, if they had to?
- fake data at every layer/canaries

- a lot of randomly seeded accounts with easily breakable password hashes and a very unique but believable email (like firstlast@company "admin" account) that will effectively trigger equivalent of SEV0 if someone tries to log in with it in production

- mtls everything + devs cannot log in to prod.

- have previously seen something interesting in that the same internal IPs were routed differently depending on where you originate and whether it was a protected server to server route: if you compromise a dev machine and use the credentials inside to connect to "prod", it would actually connect, but to a staging db. the same ip/hostname only reaches prod from a server machine w/correct certs+tls+etc

- same place as above would also tcp fingerprint clients connecting passively, so would set off alerts trying to connect via psql or mongo from another device not running an identical stack (including waiting for the right incrementing uptime modulus(!) - it knew what the uptime of the machines that were supposed to be connecting were) even if you successfully stole the mtls certs and were on the right network path. this was traditional finance, not startup/fintech/web3.

- same place as above also did very aggressive anomaly detection on average bandwidth use and consumption or in/out and would automatically terminate connections that seemed "off", someone trying to dump the db would near immediately drop the socket. this was done with multiple facets, so things like incremental s2s backups were unaffected but if you tried to pgdump from your dev machine it would terminate the connection shortly.

- security would also randomly "accidentally" leave quite a few tasty sounding credentials laying around in confluence/slack/equivalent of slack/etc; people do not have any reason to be randomly looking for these, but if someone is searching for things like copypastable creds, db logins, etc, virtually any common keyword combination will find these. using them triggers high severity page + someone to question you rapidly.
Self-service is not public service.

I also think your relative corruption analysis is so far off base, you might as well be on the moon.

Elon Musk is doing his best to ruin something he thought he wanted, and it should be taken in the same bad faith he offered it in.
Perl's popularity waned because of the whole Perl 6 fiasco, which stole lots of energy from Perl 5, offered no migration path from Perl 5, and eventually evolved into a completely different language. As a result, Perl 5 development stalled, and developers went elsewhere. I personally stopped writing new Perl code around 2005-2006 after learning Python 2 in 2003-2004 (when I was doing a lot of Zope/Plone hacking).

I think Python 3 almost killed Python, too, and for the same reasons. The developers behind 2to3 saved the community, in my opinion, as did the folks who made the painful decision to publish a Python 2 end-of-life date sufficiently far enough into the future that people still using the old runtime had both a sense of urgency and plenty of time to complete their migrations. I finally made the leap to Python 3 around 2016. I'd like to claim that I jumped instead of being pushed, but the reality is that by then, people were developing new stuff I wanted badly on Python 3 exclusively.
The first link in the article was already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31459316
Some people value character such as modesty, generosity, and kindness more than they value money. With great power comes great responsibility. The fact that there are enormously wealthy people such as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates who provided similar economic value to society without always acting like jerks and demanding the spotlight all the time is an existence proof that other avenues of behavior are possible.
This just completely and naively sidesteps the issue though? "Save the earth" or whatever is obviously a simplification and a euphemism, a marketing approach not a moral necessity.

What we're obligated to prevent is avoidable human death and suffering on a massive scale. It is the lives that matter not the origin of the threat.

And it's not a simple dichotomy between total extinction and we're all fine. A plausible scenario is that hundreds of millions of people who are living right now will die preventably, and those with the most resources, including fossil fuel use, will be able to ride it out at their expense. We have obligations going beyond merely weakening the mechanisms of climate change; we must also address its consequences now and in the near future.
> any political theory favoring immoderate uncompromising policies

There is a compromise position - accepting that driving a car is right, but also accepting that everyone must pay for its externalities, w.r.t. CO_2 by uniform revenue-neutral carbon tax, like any other fossil CO_2 emission.

Revenue-neutral carbon tax is an approach proposed by many economists, but governments are hesitant to use that and instead go with selective bans and subsidies.
I agree, and I've been a proponent of remediation technology rather than preventative technology, since I have no faith we can actually pull off prevention. The incentives are not there for the majority of people. There has been no meaningful evidence to the contrary, as sad as that is.

I think the severity of the issue is what makes it so easy to dismiss, and ignore. Just like people can ignore the impact a car accident would have on them, because such a thing is so severe that well, it's best not to think about it, so people don't.
So She goes to Israel which is in a proxy war with Iran and Syria. The latter it’s already destroyed and the former it’s planning a full scale invasion.
I’d be interested to hear your arguments about why you believe Musk is “possibly one of the greatest people to have ever lived“.
The Ukraine war has upended the energy transition – it's bad news for the planet
No Love for QA
He's a known internet troll. I'd trust him as far as I can throw him.
Ah. You're trolling. Got it.
Even on 5GHz, your office router would quickly run out of bandwidth. A compressed 1080p stream is like 40mbps, so even if nobody in the office is using a HiDPI display, you'd connect maybe 5 or 6 displays before hitting some serious local congestion. You might be able to resolve it over ethernet, but if 'wireless' is the name of the game, then I'd suggest looking elsewhere.
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This post is probably not on top of HN because “the media” uses him for ad revenue, just saying.

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That’s not even close to the full picture. Its not like he went into a shop with cash to buy a car. Not saying that the gp is 100% correct either, but gross simplifications don’t help the discourse. Edit - To clarify: if he believed in the purchase as an investment, temporary tech valuations would not matter, what would matter is the quality of the product relative to the changes he wanted to make in the company. Twitter is very much intact, it didn’t materially change since the situation began.
Realistically? An adverse court ruling would be headline news, so Musk can't bury the news. A fine would be easier to enforce (you can basically go to the people who pay him and demand that they pay you instead).

However, given the dickishness that he has already displayed, I quite like the (completely unrealistic) idea of the penalty being that Twitter acquires ownership of Tesla instead, whereupon they kick Musk out as CEO.
The problem I have is that the action is designed to cause no inconvenience whatsoever to anybody. 2.5C is going to cause megadeaths, and we in the west aren't interested in giving up our cars for it, or raising prices in our datacentres, producing less e-waste, and generally consuming less so we end up with less embodied energy in our lives, etc.
People have to live in that environment. They are busy raising children, getting an education, living life. Most people don't live life sacrificing themselves to someone else's cause. Be very careful of falling into someone else's narrative.
As for amino acids, I would just work on the assumption that they, and nucleosides, sort of people out of space organic chemistry on a regular basis, in a way that has nothing to do with life, but just basic chemistry/physics.
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So the main problems listed are inflammation, lack of omega 3 and reduction in some kinds of autophagy. All of these can be addressed with an animal based diet or a keto diet plus intermittent fasting. The more I look into it the more I am convinced that a high fat animal based diet with fasting is the healthiest diet.
I think co working spaces are going to become popular, but they'll likely get rolled into the hospitality industry. I doubt you'll see pay by the month office spaces, what's probably more likely is bring your own laptop cyber cafe style settings that provide food or drinks.

When the "can you work from home" question gets a high enough incidence of "yes" answers, you'll see diminishing returns on renting office spaces. People that can't answer "yes" to that question will be priced out of the market.
I think everyone's seen through your sock puppet account Elon.
(A fossil dev here...)

"Purge" is really only intended for use with fossil's "bundle" feature, bundles being essentially feature-rich patches which record all of the historical state of the bundle. (Yes, it's long been flagged as experimental, but it's also been unchanged since it was added so i'll look into getting that notice removed or amended.)

The idea of fossil's bundles is that a person not associated with a project can submit a patch in the form of a bundle, a developer imports that bundle into their repo and either retains it or "purges" it, leaving the developer's repo clone back in a clean pre-bundle state. That feature can, however, and sometimes is, used for "popping" the top-most commit from a repository (so long as it has not yet been pushed to a remote). So long as a local repo has not been synced with any remotes, and so long as there are no branch points to interfere with it, repeated applications the bundle/purge combo can be used to pop the top-most checkin multiple times, effectively wiping out as-yet-unsynced changes even if they span multiple checkins.
Infrastructure as Code for Azure
While I'm willing to accept that I may lose my home and possessions to a natural disaster or accident (like a fire), I really would rather not if at all possible. Sure I'd survive, but it'd still suck (also survival is not guaranteed either, Hurricane Katrina killed 1833 people back in 2005, for example).

The only real risk around here is tornadoes (and we did have one touch down within 5 miles of us just last year, damaged a couple hundred homes, uprooted some trees, and rendered 20 homes unlivable). From a recent article, some of the people with damaged homes are still dealing with it six months later, and some homes just have tarps where a couple of their walls were, still (it was already hard to hire people even before the tornado struck, also they had issues getting insurance to approve things).

I wouldn't want to willingly move to even more likelihood of problems, like near a beach in the Gulf Coast or Arizona (which is about to have severe water problems soon as Lake Mead upstream is drying up fast).
My only claim has been (and continues to be) that not all features a search engine provides need to have direct monetization.

If you took the same concept and applied it to television then would it just be entirely advertisements? Who would watch it? Obviously there needs to be a balance between providing utility and earning revenue. And television is typically a service that users pay for in addition to having advertisements!

> But masses of people want to use them

Many products get popular by being high quality, lock in market domination as much as possible, and then maximize revenue even if at the expense of quality. Food brands often follow this trend by using high quality ingredients early on then go public and replace the ingredients with cheaper ones. Sure, eventually the brand loyalty is destroyed, but that can take significantly longer than it took to build the brand recognition.

> despite them not offering the extra features

Most search engines had this specific feature for most of their lifespan. It's difficult to tell if a search engine like Google would get popular if released back in 1999 while being operated like it is currently.
Say I find a house for sale that I think is at a really low price (I want to flip it), but I can see it has some termite damage on a corner. I don't see damage anywhere else and the owner signs a legal document that the termites are in less than 5% of the house. I think I can fix the termite damage and then turn a profit so I enter into an agreement to buy the house. Before we complete the transaction, I start to notice signs that the termites might be worse that initially thought. I ask to have an inspector come in and determine how much of the house is infested with termites. The owner is denying my inspection request. I inform the owner I won't complete the transaction until I get a termite inspection of the property. The owner's friend owns the local newspaper so they run a story about how I can't afford the house and I'm trying to get out of the purchase. Hi, I'm Elon Musk, but I'm buying a house and not Twitter.