skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What are Elon Musks accomplishments? His ability to get financing? Hiring the right people to push the success of SpaceX and Tesla? His ability to inflate the stock price of his company (above that of a historic bull market).

The word we use to describe people-managing at this high level is "leadership".
But then the warehouses are understaffed... Not sure that's a win
Why is it clearly he is a major factor? If anything it seems he brought his companies close to bankruptcy multiple times and the government bailed him out. Tesla with a half billion dollar loan from the DOE. SpaceX with it's multi billion dollar NASA contracts. He could just be incredibly lucky or his major skill is knowing how to milk the public for funds.
Yes, however we are reasoning probabilistically here.

We're not making absolute statements about either new or old things.

We're not saying any one new thing definitely won't last another 10 years, the same way we're not saying any one old thing will definitely last another 10 years.

The whole discussion is about what things are likely to do.

There's a place for formal logic in discussions of probabilistic models, but it can also confuse people.

> Believing that any rocker that is new won't make it is wrong, in fact you can be certain that some will.

If you were made to bet money repeatedly on whether a new rocker or an old rocker would still be a rocker in 5 years, you would end up with more money if you always picked the old rocker. This means that older rockers last relatively longer and new rockers last relatively shorter ("on average" / "by expectation" / "probabilistically"); that's literally the same statement.

That the underlying mechanism might be gradual removal doesn't change this, and doesn't matter.
> corporate or political values

If you think any company has any real values beyond "make as much money as possible" you're doing yourself a disservice.

I would never work for amazon because I refuse to grind leetcode, but in an odd way they're almost the most honest about their mission being to make money.
Why the past tense? Forums - like this one - still exist. And it's easier then ever to make a moderated forum (a subreddit, a discord server, a facebook group).
I wish it was mine too. I would have gone for Linux as my main OS lot earlier.
the sad situation of desktop Linux is kind of reminiscent of democracy and how people work in general.
Java Concurrency: An Introduction to Project Loom
Pretty much every recommendation in the example screenshot is nonsense.

I strongly suggest learning to write better instead of relying on this. There are writing classes. There are teachers. There are editors. And if all of that is too expensive for you, ask friends and colleagues for feedback.

Relying on algorithms to improve your style is at best a no-op, and at worst actively harmful to good writing.
Inside? Pointing at the oven?

I know some people do but I can't believe that's that common. Compounded by the odds of your dog triggering your touch-button hob and starting a fat fire, I just thought it was funny.
I didn't even want to joke about that on HN, but it did cross my mind. Find a happy healthy person and (somehow) ask them for some fecal matter and do a transplant. Or just start licking butts... ugh
If anyone is interested in other programming languages also written in Rust, there's a community-maintained list! https://github.com/alilleybrinker/langs-in-rust
> False beliefs about vaccines, climate change, and the 2020 U.S. presidential election (to cite but a few noteworthy examples)

Any statistics to back this claim? These are all heavily politicized topics. The truth is not being sought on either side of the spectrum. Both sides are seeking the narrative that will promote their political agenda.

> IMHO it is unwise to respond by throwing up your hands and saying, "What are you gonna do? Sometimes you just have to accept things like this."

I'm not. I'm saying it's stupid to go berate somebody on HN for not knowing exactly how the science behind Covid works, while at the same time, you possessing equally limited knowledge about the science.

You can find "experts" on both sides of the spectrums saying different things. IMHO it's unwise to accuse anybody who disagrees with you of being ignorant. When, the reality of the situation is, both sides are arguing based off of equally limited knowledge of the actual scientific details on hand. Both sides find the experts that agree with their presuppositions. I find it difficult to trust any political actor, because they are not seeking truth, they are looking to advance their own career.
Of course they were fired. It's a dictatorship, you do what they tell you and work. There is no point getting this involved with the company, it never pays off. Work as little as possible to maximise your gains, and invest in other aspects of your life.
This is the way I'd go - subscribe to publications that don't have advertising, or have minimal, and subscribe to ones that are monthly if possible, weekly at worst.

The reality is you do NOT need the day-to-day news, anything that's important will still be talked about in a month.
That's quite a reach, this was posted in an internal Teams channel and leaked. The original authors might not have wanted to become "some sort of public martyr".
> “I can’t wait for house prices to fall so I can buy”.

By the time housing is 20% off the peak, unemployment will be raging and those people will have lost a lot of their life savings in crypto and the stock market. Without jobs and saving they won't be stepping into the market to buy. Meanwhile forced selling by people who were overly leveraged will cause a supply glut.
This might interest a friend of mine. He, a pharmacist, and his wife, a civil engineer, have started a farm in the outskirts of Algiers, Algeria.

They have a cute Instagram page @onsaimeetonseme, a wordplay "On s'aime et on sème" (we love each other and we sow).
The FDIC shouldn’t be regulating, it’s insurance.

It should or could be ran by accountants from accounting firms. Probably would be more suited anyway.
This is nonsense unless you're ready to go deeper on what "true" and "natural" mean here. Beware: it'll be easy to run into tautology.
Huh never seen this before or managed to forget it exists. Also looks like it does have a VSCode plugin for those of us who don't wanna fight with Vim. Tempted to try it with the write-good linter and see what it says about some of my novel prose.
Are they getting their paychecks today? Yes. Will they keep getting their paychecks if the company goes bankrupt?
That^ might be the conventional definition of wealth, but if it is, it's not a very useful one. PG's definition is much better[1]:

>> Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so on. You can have wealth without having money. If you had a magic machine that could on command make you a car or cook you dinner or do your laundry, or do anything else you wanted, you wouldn't need money. Whereas if you were in the middle of Antarctica, where there is nothing to buy, it wouldn't matter how much money you had.

It matters because this kind of wealth (as defined by PG) is also created and destroyed all the time, in a very different way, and this is really important. Suppose you grow a big surplus of turnips one year. The turnips represent genuine wealth - they can feed someone for a year (let's say). Now you have a choice: you can give them to someone in exchange for their labor and have them improve your land, build you a road for getting your turnips to the market etc. Or you can give them to someone to play the fiddle and tell jokes for you while you eat turnips every day. In the first case, the wealth represented by the turnips is preserved, and with a bit of care (and luck) the return is even a little better than what you started with. In the second case, the wealth is gone - really gone! You have nothing to show for it, and you're back to square one. IME this is the fundamental thing that a lot of people don't get about wealth. We have an enormous store of wealth bequeathed to us by the sacrifices of previous generations, and we absolutely have the power to destroy it permanently if we're not careful with it.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Probiotics will compete with whatever is in your gut. If you have a messed up microbiota, then that would be a good thing. If you have a healthy microbiota, then taking probiotics could backfire. Taking probiotics can slow down the recovery of your original microbiota, after taking antibiotics:

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)31108-5
Another vote for The Economist.

It is a weekly publication with good writers. Meaning: it is rarely, if ever, sensational, and covers prominent issues around the globe so I stay informed after about 60 minutes of reading. I still haven't figured out which way the editorial staff swings because they do a good job of keeping explicit bias out, but they seem to be left of center.

I also subscribe to The Atlantic. They are solid long-form reporting, but occasionally they get a really far-out article.

I used to get The Baffler, great out-of-the-box ideas, but the content was too depressing.
> Net income (aka profit) is the extra cash flow that could have been spent.

It's possible gross profit is the wrong metric, but the premise that net income is the right metric isn't something I accept. Net income is the money left over after it's been allocated out as the company has chosen. i.e. all the salaries have been paid, stock grants have been made, buildings and utilities are all paid, stock buybacks have been allocated, etc

If they allocated a little less to exec pay, and a little more to warehouse worker pay, I don't even think they'd need to cut into the 33B they have leftover.

But EVEN if we accept the compensation amazon has and only allow ourselves to play with net income - 33B is STILL $20k per employee. Do you know how life-changing $5k/year is when you're making 29k/year? That still leaves 15K of profit per employee (or 25B) that can go to people who didn't work for it.
As I recall, you could also disable the lockout chip by just desoldering/cutting one of the leads.
I'm not an expert in climate change, but I read a lot of science paper (mostly cryptography and behavior science) and I understand how science works. I understand it's process, it's limitations. I also see the writing on the wall. I don't like it, I'm not enthusiastic about it, I don't place blind trust in it. It's there, whether I like it or not. There are a lot of uncertainties about the details, but the big picture is clear.

Alex Epstein is a propagandist. His only activity is casting doubt, scepticism. He is being paid by companies trying to control the narrative, because their bottom line depends on freely polluting the planet, without consequences. He is a puppet so that powerful people can fill their pockets, while accussing everyone else of the same. He literally doesn't care about the facts, and you are not supposed to poke holes in his theories. He is there to muddy the waters to absolve people from consequences.

These people only care about themselves. People often fall for their shtick for emotional reasons. Some people are more sensitive to uncertainty and fear, so they latch into beliefs and views that reintroduce certainty as a defense mechanism. The propagandists take advantage of this by first creating uncertainty (making it harder to know what's real, who you can trust) and then offering a way out.

I'm not offering a way out. There is no obvious solution. I'm not selling anything to you.
would you prefer they not tell those people about the available benefits?
The Personal Brand Is Dead
More free Ukraine coverage:

https://www.understandingwar.org/publications
Yep, exactly right. Instead SpaceX gets Gwynne acting as Musk’s mouthpiece/enforcer. I would kill to know how she really feels about all this considering that the company is primarily her success.
I can't say I'm surprised. I had always expected that TikTok was a Chinese intelligence operation designed to mass profile young Americans for future use in political manipulation.
I like the New York Times but I was infuriated by the unsubscribe process. I also turned down a super cheap extension.

I am now subscribed via the Google Play store, which means the NYT loses a big chunk of the money, all so I can be guaranteed an easy cancellation button.
This comment is psuedointellectual brain-death. The only country it includes that isn't literally at war with the rest of Europe is 80% of Poland... who have health insurance.
Unless they explicitly advertise abortions, they're not fake. "Crisis pregnancy centers" accurately describes what they do. Abortion clinics have tried to use euphuisms to hide what they do, which is why there's confusion. Given the aggression that is directed at abortion clinics, it's understandable why they'd want to use a vague description but not everyone with an unexpected pregnancy wants an abortion and the abortion clinics have created a situation where there can be confusion about what type of clinic one can expect based on the vague descriptors.
I will never subscribe to the NYT again. Unsubscribing was an infuriating process.

I love The Economist, and their podcasts. I've never had to unsubscribe because I just pre-pay for 1-year subscription offers that I find on Slickdeals.
If you're earning less than $130,000 a year, you are eligible for an FSA, which the HR team will discuss during almost any company's new-hire orientation...

There are lots of government benefits that are restricted to people below a certain income. That doesn't mean that it is unconscionable to pay people at that income level or to educate employees on what they are eligible for so that they can take advantage of it.
> Workers (especially the average HN reader) have incredible power to fight back… find a new job and switch companies.

Outside of the tech industry (and even then), this ain't anywhere near as easy as you assert. Lots of companies are "hiring"... for positions with shit pay and inflated qualifications.

> From an employee perspective it’s insane to me that one would put so much energy into fighting their leadership rather than just leaving the company for a better one.

From an employee perspective it's insane to me that one would be entirely oblivious to both the risks inherent in quitting (especially given the current economic conditions) and the notion that maybe people might like everything about their company aside from one or two things that need changed.
I decided (other than this site) to actively avoid all news that has a comment section.
It seems you are implying you run X applications in a datacenter and have them piped to display locally. At that point, I have to ask, why? I’m sure you’re not alone, but this is not a common use case in my experience.

It seems like some applications have been adapting their architecture to deal with the remoting use case. VS Code is widely publicized for supporting it, but I personally also use Neovim which is capable of doing similar things, and IIRC even Jetbrains has been working on this. Of course, that covers code editing, but only code editing. So that still leaves a lot out. That said, these solutions have very good UX and portability, so it’s easy to see why people prefer that.

Let’s say the world went Wayland. What do you do about the other stuff?

Well, there’s not nothing that can be done. For one thing, while I do think that the XRender world of abstraction is basically going to die, that doesn’t necessarily mean there’s no way that remoting could be improved. For example… it’s possible that some day, a solution like VirGL could allow hardware acceleration over a waypipe tunnel.

And also, while Xorg is no longer being maintained, XWayland is still in scope for maintenance. So for the foreseeable future, you can still make use of X11 tunneling just fine under Wayland. Is this ideal? Maybe not. However, it’s perfectly practical, and therefore I don’t see why it wouldn’t be a decent solution. I expect mainstream desktops and apps to continue to support X11 apps for years to come, giving little urgency to worry all that much about the remoting case.

As usual with software, the old thing is always deprecated before the new thing is ready. I’m pretty confident that Wayland has made the right architectural choices for the future, and now all that’s left for us is to fill in the blanks.
You could make the argument his twitter use is distracting from the mission and I agree in part. I think it's hard to say whether it's a net negative or positive for SpaceX and Tesla, because a lot of what he posts is about those companies. It might be better if he just stuck to that.
Awesome I'm gonna check this out for my bundle!
I have been happy with Inkl for several years. Curated access to many mainstream sources, including Guardian, Atlantic, Forbes, Financial Times, et al.
> Being unemployed is not better than making a low wage.

In the US, it depends on the programs that are available to you.
For some people, a small part time job sabotages some existing subsidies.
This is a critical component of the institutional poverty, that is now generational, in the US.
> My sanity and happiness needed a break from the drip-drip-drip of negative stressful world events that I have exactly zero control over.

I used to be engaged in politics (volunteering at elections, doing administrative parliamentary work, community boards, and having opinions about matters). Becoming apolitical has removed a burden in my life. I don't watch horror movies, and I don't watch the news. I don't subscribe to anxiety and violence, and I just accept and cherish that there is peace in my area of the world.

I followed the Ukraine war out of a sense of necessity; I have friends who went to the border to help refugees cross and prevent human trafficking. If you're not doing something like that, I'm not sure that the combined violence and pain in the world is something we, on average as individuals of our species, are well-equipped to handle.
I personally only reallt pay for WSJ and I guess Apple News but indirectly I am not a fan of Apple News since a number of articles feel politically biased. I just want raw facts not opinion pieces.
Skip sense of decency this is just downright stupid: a worker with an urgent medical issue needed time off for it. They had accrued leave, but you don't let them take it. They resolve the issue, come back to work and then you fire then anyway...and what, now have to train a new person up? What the hell was gained by any of that?
Thanks, that was my immediate question on reading the title - I didn't think RISC-V had a 16-bit variant.
> These are children that think they can just shout down leadership and suffer no consequences.

Exactly. Although, it's hypocritical of Musk to fire employees who criticize him but criticize Twitter for banning/censoring accounts for spouting opinions that Twitter doesn't align with. If SpaceX has this right, Twitter should too.
The dirt you live on is managed by a government. It sends you a bill for taxes, denominated in the fiat currency. If you do not pay that bill, they send men with guns to either take it or arrest you.

That is the ultimate source of a fiat currency's legitimacy. Everything else flows down from that: the government pays for its own goods and services in that currency, and everybody else uses it for transactions because it's the lowest common denominator. The government manages its currency through a bank to try to keep its economy on a good footing.

Any other currency lacks that fundamental "I have to have it if I want to live here." It might have other advantages, but in the end you'll have to convert it back to the currency accepted by the people who manage the dirt you live on. The "fiat" of the fiat currency is a government order, backed by real-world power. A non-fiat currency lacks even that much.
Alien intelligence and the concept of technology
> All physical effects are bounded by the speed of light.

The universe expands faster than light. So this expansion is not a physical effect?
not every local newspaper has local ownership. for instance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Gannet...
It seems like most of the prices are either equivalent to the restaurant's prices, or only slightly higher. But when I compare DoorDash to UberEats, with the food prices being the same, I have seen $10+ differences in the final total. That's when I dropped DoorDash.
WSJ, if you can ignore their editorial page, which is so blatantly biased and promotes so much false information that it is a surprise its a part of the same news organization.
This isn't just their warehouse workers, their delivery drivers (many through partner companies) have been struggling with this for a while. They grind through employees fast. Drivers will sometimes just leave their keys in the ignition and walk off the job.

There was a lot of speculation that this is why they dropped the drug testing requirement last year.
How come Switzerland has only 2.5% year-over-year inflation, less than a third of the U.S. rate?

Last I checked there seemed to be some correlation between a country's money printing and current inflation rates. That's not to say that a protion of the current inflation rate is not due to supply consitrictions, but I certainly not assume that is the only factor.
but how else do you get to the front page of hn?
The writer seems willingly disingenuous. Not having a feature isn't the same as having a bug. The software is behaving exactly as designed. Do you say that older versions of windows develop "bugs" as soon as a newer version adds a new feature? Of course not.

I agree with the conclusion though, these little missing conveniences add up to a worse experience for converts. I understand open source apps choosing not to do things exactly the same way as proprietary solutions, but we at least need something as good.

That said, it has always been the case that if a feature didn't exist in the pile of software that was freely and openly provided to you, you would either contribute the feature yourself or just go elsewhere. So the bounty would have sufficed, there is no point in being a shithead about it.
https://assets.ctfassets.net/vyse88cgwfbl/1np5dpcwuHrWJ4AgUg...

The points you're looking for:

> Secured Loans (none to affiliated entities) $3,149,732,368

> Other Investments (including digital tokens) $4,959,634,446
Technically 20 is a number of minutes...

But yeah even as a software engineer I'm often torn about wanting to work for Amazon. They have quite a few interesting projects and the pay is solid, but there are a lot of horror stories out there that suggest it is a brutal place to work even for engineers.
> In what world does it make sense to pay your workers $20k (or whatever), so they can spend $20k on products that your company makes?

A world where you're raising the floor so that everyone else's workers can also spend on the products your company makes.
What those comedians say has zero effect on your career. Like it or not, Musk represents his employees. His childish babbling is actively hurting the reputation of the company these people work for. Thus, it is affecting their careers.

I'm not saying what they did is right or wrong but your outright dismissal of their (valid IMHO) concerns is missing lots of nuance.
I thought proof checking tools mostly negated the need for verified sat solvers.
1. Recursion is hard because `GOTO 1`
Thanks!

LART? I'm not familiar with that one.
> Here's an experiment. At your place of work, circulate a document criticizing leadership and how they're all wrong. Make sure to publicize this loudly to people outside the organization. See what happens. What should the appropriate response be?

At most places, leadership actually… leads. Musk is a token publicity figure at best at this point, a mascot.