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The Boring Company is a failure. He's had many other failures within companies: automated driving, Tesla solar panels

Though he's the CEO of SpaceX, it's really run by Gwynne Shotwell.

You look at his wikipedia, and there's like 10 different things he's currently involved with, so yes, he looks like a guy that gets bored and moves on the other things.
I think a lot of it has to do with the topics that are allowed here. We don't have politics (and in the rare cases we do it often devolves into name calling) and we don't have a lot of other controversial topics.

The most controversial topic here is emacs vs vi.
Are completely out of touch with copper mining
We'll have both kinds of music, country AND western!
> You're confusing direct democracy with democracy in general.

No, you're confusing semantics. A Wyoming voter's vote counts several times more than a California's vote for the same position. Land borders shouldn't change your vote, that's _anti_-democratic and in favor of an unequal distribution of voting rights. We should call a spade a spade, and here the spade of the electoral college is clearly _not_ democracy when we no longer have to send state delegates across the barren frontier.

You can toot the representative republic horn all you want, which is what the system is, but it is in error to call the existing system democratic or a democracy _until_ the electoral college is gone. It should be. It serves no purpose other than to suppress what the majority of the people want. Likewise for state-specific regulations for cross-union office, like for President.

Do what you want for your own state representation (e.g. senator, governor) but the President should be the one person actually elected by a majority without shenanigans, whereas none is today.
The main idea is oscillatory neurodynamics. When you have a bunch of tuned oscillators, you can produce incredible computational capacity.
Your entire first comment was an assumption of bad faith on the part of Musk. Given that Twitter is now a private entity, there's no motivation to act fraudulently. I think Musk's track record merits at least a few quarters of actions before everyone jumps to conclusions?
Should be fairly straightforward to create some sort of subreddit type functionality and let each community set its own rules and self moderate.
He clearly didn’t mean to go this far, but Twitter out lawyered him and locked him into an airtight contract. His hubris bit him in the ass this time.
Musk earlier today he didn’t bring Kanye back. I mean he’s certainly riling up the dregs of humanity and now not like a good person but I don’t think he’s going to burn 44 bil

> My prediction is Musk flails about, burns a pile of money, and decimates any goodwill his associated companies (e.g. SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink) currently have.

I hope you’re right.
The issue is how to best secure stranded wire to a terminal, not how to secure the terminal to the PCB. Soldering is obviously preferred for the latter case, but when dealing with stranded wire, a good crimp is actually better than a good soldered connection. Done properly, the crimp forms a cold weld that's as close to a perfect connection as you can make.

Soldering can work well too, but there are so many things that can go wrong. Heat can deform the connector housing, lowering the contact pressure. Solder might run down the connector and coat the contact surface, making it unreliable over time. It might also wick down into the insulated portion of the wire, turning what should be a flexible part of the interconnect into a reliability problem, especially in the presence of motion or vibration. Last but not least, lead-free solder complicates visual inspection, making it harder to reject bad connections at the factory.

You can make bad connections with either soldering or crimping, but all in all, crimping usually wins when it comes to cable assembly. In a production setting, it is easier to establish and enforce a high-quality process when all you need is the right crimping tool and die and a few minutes' training.
Would be real funny, and fitting, if he demands Twitter switch all servers over to Windows.
It is missing a few cheaper ($15/TB vs $17.8/TB) options for large drives from diskprices (Toshiba and Exos ones).
Now they added the similar tweets section under tweeg replies.
Its always confusing for me when I am just scrolling through replies then see something totally irrelevant.

Though I gotta hand it to them, the tweets suggested are often related, and it will resort to funny tweets when it can't find something similar.
Twitter moves way faster than any council possibly could. By the time a council decides some content is bad the damage has been done and people have moved on.
Unbanning all the extreme right accounts will blow up twitter.
You might find some tiny encouragement seeing E.D. Hirsch's "Core Knowledge" curriculum efforts.[1] I don't see it on the reference page, but I have seen accounts of first-graders really taking to culture-and-civilization (and picture book) focussed units around "Ancient Egypt" etc.

IIRC, E.D. Hirsch, in his book Cultural Literacy, related a conversation with educators. He offerred that children should be able to name and identify Earth's continents. As he reports it, the reply as if with disbelief was "Why would anyone need to know that."

[1] https://www.coreknowledge.org/curriculum/history-geography/
If they wanted to really add value, they could write their decisions like SCOTUS does, as the reasoning in the decisions would be available to all involved, and they would be taking ownership of their assessments, with Elon as a tiebreaker for them.

The discourse around those decisions itself would add value to the platform and the internet. The "public editor" role at newspapers is close, but it's still one person, and they're usually just sustaining critical narrative anyway, but run it like SCOTUS instead. I'd like to see the arguments and rationale of the people who prevail, and the ones who dissent, as it demonstreates the integrity and legitimacy necessary to wield this kind of power, imo.

The main tension in the culture comes down to really old dichotomies between material vs. essential, and the material has prevailed so much that language itself has been subordinated to exigent material ends. The balance I would strike on a board like that would be any decision would need to sit on a foundation of open principles and axioms, many of which could seem to be in conflict with each other, and then the given situation would indicate which principle prevails in a given decision.

That way, even if you get ruled against, or a policy comes out that sweeps you up in it, you have been given your just due.
Did you read AFT though? Specifically says that the changes are permanent.
I feel like we'll never hear the full details of that story. It seems like a pretty easy thing to fix from Google's side. However, I think it's telling that he still remains banned and Google hasn't made any public statement. It feels like a constructed narrative piece. It's definitely a possibility that the father had CSAM in his possession and decided to go to the media, trying to get his account back, knowing full well that Google can't confirm or deny it publicly.
What's different about miniforge in this regard? Does miniforge come with additional package indexes pre-configured?
How long that eMMC is expected to last as a Linux OS drive, with typical use for such SBC?

There is a similarish SBC called Zimaboard

https://shop.zimaboard.com/collections/diyyourrouter/product...

How does it compare with the 832 model (N3450, 8GB RAM, 2X 1GB Ethernet, 2 Sata ports, PCIe 4x slot).
Just a matter of time before Twitter runs over a pedestrian.
And, web3 is, what, "what if the web, but decentralized"? Yeah that ship sailed, we called it the internet. You probably haven't heard of it, it was before your time.
>False accusations of being a Nazi have on occasion led to successful libel claims

False accusations of child abuse have on occasion led to jail time for the false accuser.
Yep. The extremes have gotten crazier. Hence the thought that civil war or at least a really nasty escalation could happen.
When you owe the bank 1 million dollars, you have a problem. When you owe the bank 1 billion dollars, the bank has a problem.
$190 with $60 coupon for me + tax
I've never understood this argument. Go to anybody on the street from any neighborhood in any demographic and ask them:

"In order to lose weight, should you eat more of:

- Candy or Fruit?

- Soda or Water?

- Big Mac or Chicken Breast?

- Hot Pockets or a Salad?

- Fried Chicken or Grilled Chicken?

etc...

It's honestly so insulting when people say that people are unhealthy do to a lack of information. Not only is common sense enough to navigate you 80% there, the rest is a YouTube video away.
be prepared to a bit frustrated with the UX
Like a politician?
> water is wet

Wetness is complex [1]. And this being Hacker News, I'll note that water technically isn't wet. It's wetting, wetness being an interaction characteristic of a solid, liquid and gas, and not an intrinsic property of any of them alone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetting
> I'm not sure how they could pull it off, but if Twitter wants to be a real town hall for the world then these are the things that DO need to be removed.

I don't think you can be a town hall for the world. There are too many differences between societies, communities, and factions across such a large number of people. Sufficient context is difficult to impossible to establish if you have to include both your neighbor and someone from Austria in your audience. Doing so in 280 characters is impossible. So every conversation devolves to the lowest coming denominator - whether that's nastiness or having to write a tons of disclaimers before saying something for fear of older tweets coming back to bite you.

The reason HN or smaller fora work is because they can maintain their own community with certain expectations and established context while aggressively banning anyone who doesn't fall in line. How do you do that on a site as large as Twitter with any sort of consistency, especially across language boundaries?
I hope they put an end to the unsolicited promoted tweets and recommendations that aren't of interest to me AND are interleaved with stuff I'm explicitly following.
Maintenance costs money too. What if you have to replace 3 times more often because of the smaller drives?
Well if you want to get rid of BGP then it probably doesn't make sense to talk about ASNs since BGP is a way to connect ASNs... That being said, it does seem very pie-in-the-sky to imagine the entire global internet using decentralized routing without some sort of backbone infra that is at least moderately centralized. There is just too much data. I could imagine mesh networks being more feasible if we were still living in an era of html websites and RSS feeds.
https://www.preamble.com/products
Do these guys realize the stupidity of their own comments and still do it to con the public/investors OR do they really genuinely believe in this bullshittery ?
hey I work on the project. This isn't a "re-write in rust" thing, we intend to iterate on the protocol itself to drive performance improvements. nearly all of our team are veterans of the IPFS ecosystem who want to see IPFS evolve to be more performant. We obviously can't change the overall performance of the network overnight, but we do control interop between nodes that run iroh, where we plan to ship fast-paths that we can propose as spec-level changes to the protocol once proven in the wild.

Our initial research indicates the thing that needs the most attention isn't the DHT (a commonly-cited source of slowness), but the data transfer protocol: bitswap. We plan to tackle that in the coming months.
https://www.deeplearningbook.org/
Just rewrite your application in Factorio
The speed of your response indicates you haven't read the links.

You want him to publish his contract? Ooops, he tried that. It showed that Kanye's deal is "standard" for the industry, which doesn't mean it's in any way fair.[0] He's also explicitly said he's doing this for black artists in general, not just himself.

You want him to try to change his contracts privately? Oops, he tried that; his label has deep pockets and just settled privately rather than changing anything.

Many others have tried and they just get buried in lawsuits, sometimes blackmailed (their next releases won't get promoted),[1] and even if they get out, their past albums are still owned by others.

Burden of proof is for exceptional claims. In an industry where egregiously unfair contracts are the norm, the exceptional claim is that Kanye's contracts are fair.

[0]: https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/kanye-west-record-...

[1]: https://www.okayplayer.com/music/rappers-bad-contracts.html
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374597.
Swift concurrency – things they don’t tell you
> Another reason is lifestyle. Many long-haul truckers say wages aren't high enough to make up for endless days on the road away from their families. Turnover in the industry is high.
> One idea that's gaining traction: Getting young drivers into the industry earlier.

Or, you could pay more so that you don’t need to reach all the way to single high schoolers.
Hardkernel folks make some pretty amazing products. My home server is built on top of Odroid-HC2 coupled with a 3.5” HDD, and I feel that was some of the best $70 I ever spent. The whole thing is tiny, fanless, and it only consumes 2 Wh on average. I only wish it had hardware video encoding capabilities.
Querying already cached data without reimplementing the query logic in javascript. How… I mean this is so obvious to have a RDBMS local to any non-basic app, why are you even asking? No offense, I just don’t understand how to create webapps and be not bothered by a lack of fundamental things. Some e-stores and sites literally reach server on each tick on a sidebar, when it could be a fragmentarily replicated local database with a background periodic or live sync. Imagine adjusting a filter and not waiting for reload and rescroll in a “web 2.0” app, when an entire dataset is comparable to a bundle.min.js and a roundtrip to it is 1000x+ slower than a query itself. E.g. a page where I buy t-shirts is barely a megabyte of json (sans images) for all items, but it spends probably half an hour in awaiting responses when I’m shopping around. An app like that shouldn’t even make requests, apart from downloading new jpegs and one narrow replication stream. Even for open-in-new-tab, because resources are cached and a dataset is in sync.
Ok, great, thanks for confirming.
Pessimism: We wonder how these pyramids were build thousands of years ago, and thousands of years from now, people will wonder what muons and such, which some later mythology refers to, might have been.
New class of platforms based on generative AI
If my bash script is more than 10 lines, I switch to python and if that's more than 10 lines I switch to C! And if that's more than 10 lines I use assembly!

/s
>Many Linux packages are not ported to ARM.

Huh? I've been working with ARM based systems for years and this hasn't been an issue since, like, 2015. ARM support on Linux has been very good.
That's often not the point of analogies like this. So for the analog to be valid, the seriousness of the situation described doesn't have to be on similar levels. If you look up the definition of "analogy" on merriam-webster.com it says: "resemblance in some [my emphasis] particulars between things otherwise unlike"
> But you are not making any points here, just basically a stunt.

My point is that allowing "anything that's within the law" will lead to some pretty unpleasant stuff.

> If Twitter is the de facto standard and akin to an utility why should they make decisions on what's allowed beyond lawfulness?

I don't think Twitter is the "de-facto standard" or akin to an utility, and the problem is that by allowing such content you would drive away a lot of people who would rather not be buried with insults and nastiness every time they post something.

There are loads of places where speech is regulated in some way, and you can't just go off on a expletive-laden rant at any moment. If I go to a Biden or Trump Q&A townhall meeting and start shouting abuse at him I will be removed as well.
I think there may be a space for super-large multi-GB files served from static storage being accessible from SQlite as well. Another one would be this full-text search of a 43GB SQLite database of Wikipedia's full text search: http://static.wiki/ . Hearing there's official support for this is awesome and I hope they also might add some nice stuff for those sticking with POSIX/Emscripten as well; maybe some optimizations to access patterns or other stuff like indexing or split DBs?

There are some amazing things for SQLite in the browser especially if you're looking for ways to host queryable data for cheap. The example I have below costs $0.42 cents a month to host. For 28GB. Insane.

I have a hacked up POC experimental version of the datasette-lite Python UI which runs in Emscripten to be able to look at multi-GB databases at https://github.com/simonw/datasette-lite/pull/49. It uses a hacked up chunk'd lazyFile implementation from emscripten and others to grab pages from Cloudflare R2.

Here's a test/demo with california's unclaimed property records (https://www.sco.ca.gov/upd_download_property_records.html) of a 28GB searching up that guy who owns Twitter:

https://datasette-lite-lab.mindflakes.com/index.html?url=htt...
Any source for the 20 years?

A project I had a colleague working on where the batteries are critical to preventing blackouts since they will result in mothballing of other infrastructure indicated the utility was budgeting for a 5 year lifespan on the batteries.
This morning NY Daily News was claiming Ye was allowed back. It'd be nice if that were wrong or has since been redacted, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

As for Musk, he's playing with other people's money. At that scale he can afford to tell the American banks to go fuck themselves. The foreign investors are probably cheering on this nonsense. The Saudis want pro-oil republicans, the Russians are going to relish the chaos, and at the very least the Chinese will cheer on the loss of a TikTok competitor. There aren't a lot of guardrails here.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Kanye-West-s-Twitter-acc...
Yes, the world's wealthiest person is clearly shitting the bed and failing every step of the way.
Compare with 4.5%+ on CD’s. [1]

[1] https://www.schwab.com/cd-rates-test
> his goal is the Everything App (which he calls X). The Everything App has news, social media, games, videos, and a payment infrastructure

so, AOL?
Hehe indeed
fully agreed. I dropped down to start this project because there's no reason this should be the case.
This is simply not true, because Twitter algorithmically pushes content you did not subscribe to in order to drive engagement. You do not have control over what you see, and are subject to the controversial subject of the day regardless of who you follow.
Yeah, I think their portal to create an account got the hug of death, unfortunately.
If I remember correctly, Buzz would have had a certain interoperability with other services via open protocols. G+ then was mostly closed.
I don’t think they are really due any credit for correcting misinformation that they shouldn’t have published in the first place.

I understand news outlets are all in a rush to be among the first to cover these trending stories, but in my opinion that is not a valid excuse for failing to verify basic facts prior to publication.
And bi-directional links by way of Ted Nelson
I said that dictators are *willing* to make their countries poor. That is different from wilfully make them poorer without marginal gain.
Launch vehicles are categorized into small-lift (<2t LEO) medium-lift (>=2t LEO), heavy-lift (>=20t LEO) and superheavy-lift (>=50t LEO).

Falcon Heavy is capable of 57t (recoverable) to 64t (expendable) which makes it actually superheavy-lift.

(Although the Falcon Heavy has never actually demonstrated this ability)
> It's just the network effect that keeps it in such a dominant position.

Exactly. Just ask Friendster or MySpace or any of the other failed social networks how deep and wide the network effect moat is in the long run. I'd argue that for all the hype, Twitter was already in the 'long goodbye' phase before Musk bet the farm on it.

> Twitter is one of the few social media sites where porn is still allowed, for the most part.

And they're completely at the mercy of Google and Apple's policies here. Both of those app stores could put their feet down next week and this 'feature' of Twitter's suddenly becomes a liability.
> Those are not the terms of the AGPL, etc - the terms you actually cited fit MIT, instead.

No they dont.
MIT doesn't make sure that derived works are still FOSS, which is why it's one of the most favorite licenses for companies.

> In any case, you're happy about leaving most businesses out - but that limits how much open source there is out there, and the quality. It forces, again and again, billions of dollars and scarce programming resources to be spent recreating software under one license to be replicated under, say, MIT. Witness the Android libraries replacing GNU libraries, Chromium replacing Webkit, and on and on and on. Absurdly wasteful, and in the end you get at least as much freeloading, which is the theft you're worrying about. That's what you're being happy about.

Yes, that's great.
Its Googles problem that they wanted to create a closed source version from Android.
No body forced them to do that.
They 'wasted' billion of dollars just to avoid giving back.

You might say the Android is still open source so google has given back.

Partially, because full android has many features and many DRM services that aren't included in AOSP.
How We Geolocated a Photo of a Russian Missile Programming Team
TBH I don't think clustering on social groups is the panacea that you hope. Misinformation spreads insanely fast on WhatsApp, even after limiting Group thread size and # of forwards.

We'll never get back to the way things were before the internet became ubiquitous. Back then, we had a limited number of sources, and normal people had very limited reach. But now, it's too easy for individuals to pass information along, and with more sources of it the juiciest / most outrageous information will always go the furthest.
Well, 5000 bytes of C++ plus the SDL library.
Well okay, a paraphrase-transcription aswell.

I do agree that the content that particular user finds and shows to me is very disturbing, especially given that it is often teachers taking care of very impressionable people(children) in a position of authority.
not sure if it was intentional but in case it wasn't, you probably shouldn't use the term transvestite as it's pretty outdated. depending on what you mean by it, transgender, cross-dresser, or genderfluid are some of the modern equivalents.