skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he actually does anything at Tesla though so they should manage just fine without him. Assuming the company was at all capable of competing which I doubt.
> Can one blame apartheid governments for today's problems?

No. Too many other countries suffered worse and bounced back faster.

> When can one stop blaming the apartheid?

It will never happen. While the voters are all tribal in their support, the one thing they mostly agree on is racially-based legislation. In such an environment you do not expect the voters to ever dig themselves out of this.

> Instead of blaming, what mistakes that the post-apartheid governments have committed? Sure, corruption is one. How about competence? Competence and corruption can co-exist, though.
Certain products are banned from advertising already, my opinion does not matter here.
Saudi Arabia's population is 38.5 M.

Nigeria's is 225 M.

That's the denominator difference.
Jones Forth[0] is a good literate programming implementation that explains the internals as he goes.

[0]https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...
>The claim that his fund earned >$10/billion over two years on a trivial arb with Korean exchange was also an obvious red flag (and asking people with relevant experience would have got an answer that this not a credible claim).

Source? The numbers seems suspiciously high when you consider that the net worth of SBF (who owned most of SBF and FTX) was only $10.5 billion prior to the collapse. Maybe you got this confused with this?

Wikipedia: "In January 2018, Bankman-Fried organized an arbitrage trade, moving up to $25 million per day, to take advantage of the higher price of bitcoin in Japan compared to the price in America.[9][10][2] The company earned about $20 million from the arbitrage opportunity.[11]"

>The heavy involvement with and promotion of extremely illiquid and self-made tokens was also pretty suspect, but not unique to FTX. Looking at my messages, I see that I specifically highlighted 'the ftx website lists something called a "3x leveraged shitcoin index token"'

>... or the fact that they offered 100x leverage.

Are you making these claims from a "it's impossible to offer this product without being a scam" point of view, or "this product is gambling and shouldn't be allowed"?

>I didn't see the videos of him obviously tweaking in interviews

This seems like the prototypical example of stuff that you only notice after the fact because hindsight is 20/20. Can you imagine writing an article that's like "SBF is pretty sus, look at how much he's tweaking in this video"? Or telling your editor you want to investigate SBF/FTX because he looks like he's tweaking?

>nor the easily visible tweets by Ellison about how boring life is when off amphetamines.

If you read the whole tweet in its entirety, you'd realize that

1. she was talking about prescription amphetamines aka Adderall. it's not like she was smoking meth.

2. she was emphatically not talking about being bored, she was talking about how hard it was to get energy/motivation to do any sort of activity, all of which were symptoms of ADHD (see point 1)

Sure, it's fun to dunk on her and the rest of the FTX/Alameda staff now that the whole thing crashed and burned, but if you wrote a piece on this pre-crash you'd end up getting canceled for doubting/making fun of people's mental disorders.
He could simply post that he's on another platform and leave it, and/or make the account private, so that no one can create another account with the same Twitter handle 30 days after the account is closed.
As the say here "shy bairns get nowt."
Thanks! That's great to hear it was able to trick you a bit. In fullscreen I use keyboard lock to bind the Windows/Meta key, I'll add ALT+F4 also so at least people in fullscreen can continue the illusion a little longer.
Same reason every sporty car is a Porsche killer, reputation. And reputation cuts both ways.
Unsure if emigration is still a viable option. Most my family came back to the UK in the 90s and took a massive hit on currency conversion, its got so much worse since then.
Shouldn't an oil crisis increase investment in nuclear power? Why did we have the opposite?
"born in a house with the television always on"

That's a Talking Heads lyric and not a point of fact.
Also throwing a great terminal client in the mix: https://git.sr.ht/~taiite/senpai
Same here. I feel like I'm hyper-focusing on their facial features and expressions instead of their words. When I'm looking away I can devote my full attention to their words (and tone).

I've overcome this to a degree with a lot of practise, but it's not my comfort zone.
Fix-Up
Yeah, every buying or support decision you make is (in the end) political. Elon Musk uses his money to support his political agenda. If you are on Twitter or buy a Tesla you support Elon Musk financially and therefore also his political agenda. So if you do not support his views, get out. I did. It is as simple as that!
How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented
Don't forget the cheap servants
> Presumably your integration will automatically create a ticket from the TODO.

Creating the ticket tracking a work item is known for creating the ticket that tracks work items.

The process is also the epitome of automation, because it requires zero automation to filter TODO items and only requires clicking on a button to create the ticket.

There is no salvageable excuse for this nonsense. Work items are created in tickets. TODO items just track copouts and noise.
Ignorant bandwagoning. He wrote and sold basic games at 12, built x.com, learned about rocketry to found SpaceX, made Tesla into what it is. He has a good grasp on engineering. You can see that in interviews with Karpathy, or Everyday Astronaut’s content.
I agree with all of this except for one point:

Having an ordinary key on the keyboard that would effectively kill -9 the current program and clear the screen was a crazy design decision, especially for a machine where saving data meant using a cassette tape!
The video doesn’t seem to load on iPhone (Safari). It loads a tiny thumbnail, then just spins forever.

Edit: it may be because I’m opening it from the mobile link (which sends the video to Safari), but I tried pulling up the repo directly in Safari, and it shows a whitespace placeholder for the video but that’s it.
Ultimately, Twitter will survive simply because there is no replacement for it right now. But it will look and function differently since Musk wants to make a site that has finance at its core for revenue rather than advertisers.

People have speculated that all the tech parts of Twitter can be replicated for less than 500mil so in a way I can see why Musk wants to get rid of a big chunk of its workforce and rebuild it as a new entity with new people and a new way of thinking at its core.

He'll rebuild it and have a new revenue model for it. It will be interesting.
Where's the energy coming from?

Desalination takes a lot of energy.
I think it's prudent to use exchanges as needed, but only transfer assets that you intend to exchange in the near future, and withdraw once the exchange is done.

There's still a slight risk, but much less compared to just letting funds sit on an exchange indefinitely.

Of course, choosing a reputable, long-standing exchange like Coinbase also helps.
It is very common for water projects.

I think it comes from reservoirs, since the area is measured in acres and the depth in feet.
Eish, glad I bought an inverter that can withstand a 4h loadshedding block instead of a 2h one, but the economic and societal implications of this are pretty horrifying.

Curious if there any SA expats here that can comment on their experience of emigrating? I have looked a bit but not very seriously. I should mention I do have a Netherlands passport (via my father).
I assume it’s the name for just a battery + chassis + electric drivetrain. Let’s customers put whatever “shell” they need over it.
Most of them do? Certainly Zoom does.
If you’re regularly encountering or writing code that only works by accident or doesn’t handle important use cases, it isn’t the fault of a TODO. A TODO should document something that has been considered and would potentially be an improvement, but is not currently necessary. It isn’t supposed to be a flag that says “warning: I’m checking in broken code.” If the accompanying code is actually deficient, reject the PR.
Honestly, the biggest thing going for Tesla’s right now is their charging network. The ratio of supercharger to CCS chargers in most of North America is still unfortunately biased towards Tesla.

When we drove up the West Coast, it was a 5:1 ratio in many places.

This will likely change soon as CCS cars overtake Tesla and I’d be curious how things would fare then.

FSD is potentially another differentiator, but in my experience with our own MY, Tesla is way worse at the basics of autonomous driving than other brands but better at the advanced stuff that nobody else is rolling out likely due to liability. I expect many of those other brands could have similar autonomous capabilities licensed from vendors like NVIDIA.

The new Volvo EX90 is a really interesting vehicle in this regard. Where Tesla says sensor fusion is difficult, Volvo are revelling in more sensors and more kinds of them.
totally normal while discussing hydrology in the usa
I have to admit that that shows some heavy confidence to open with that kind of value proposition. I briefly wondered if it is targeted at businesses, where this could be considered if it comes with some assurances, but it does not appear to be the case. Makes me question, if the company did their target demographic research ( or they simply know something we don't ).
Are the more mainstream car companies just waiting for other companies to make all the mistakes before heavily pushing EVs? Honestly I don't think I'd make the switch to an EV before a well established car company makes one that looks good to me. Tesla seems like a death trap of poor software and bad manufacturing that I wouldn't trust my life with.
> people believe is true, but cannot build upon because they don't fully understand it.

OK, maybe it doesn't help people build on the proof, but does it help computers build on the proof? Why does it have to come back to human understanding? Maybe it's not possible right now for computers to generalize proof strategies, but I wouldn't bet against it becoming possible down the road.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skateboard_(automotive_platfor...
The problem is that not everyone can afford battery backup, due to the poverty in our society the country basically has to have a reliable base load. Coming from the sections of society where everyone has solar, inverters, datacenter style lipo UPS in their houses etc. it's also been interesting to me how inefficient storage at the endpoint is. People are spending R300k ($17k) on batteries and inverters sized to their houses' peak load, but 90% of the time they could actually get by with radically less. I read on HN about a company making a smart Distribution Board for houses - seemed like a really good idea based on this. If you can intelligently manage load you can cut your off grid setup cost substantially at minimal inconvenience.
yep. It's a small country but it's the oldest democracy on the continent, ranks quite highly internationally (30th on the democracy index, ahead of Italy), and has a gdp per capita only slightly lower than the baltics (20k). By most accounts a pretty tremendous success.
Is the red button a momentary mute? Also, volume and tone or dual volume? Beautiful guitar. Only change I would make is remove the Floyd bridge for a fixed bridge.
Why would they reduce their margin when that was the hard part?
> Having to debug Kafka issues on topics with almost any volume of data is slow and frustrating, either with a GUI or command line/REPL tools.

Agreed. The scripting feature in Franz is born out of my frustration with some of this stuff and seems like a promising route for quickly visualizing and interacting with what’s happening on a topic (though it’s early days and I’ve got lots of work to do until it becomes truly useful).
It's bad marketing speak which started with a decade ago with "iPhone killers"

Doubt average consumer would want to drive on the road in "anything"-killer, if you know what I mean :D
California could pump the brine waste to the salton sea. Solving two issues at once.
An ad for whom? It highlights every brand listed equally.
> I'm certainly not opening JIRA for it, so (...)

That's the universe telling you the TODO is useless noise that points to a workitem that no one, not even you, find it relevant enough to track or work on.

When that happens, do everyone around you a favour and leave out the TODO comment.
Very cool project! I wanted to listen to your video, but the microphone noise was too much.

I hope you do a walk through of the code for this.
Rejection is not a big deal, and you should just move on.

This is the reason I looked past the rejection argument in my reply below; because there is so much more to gain from sharing than to lose from rejections.

I don't understand why my first reply below is being downvoted. If someone disagrees and downvotes at least drop a note that would make sense. :-)
Also, the lack of appropriate alternate venues.

Developed countries do not want to host the Olympics anymore. By the time the 2022 selection was over, the only other candidate was Almaty, which isn’t less problematic and had a protest violently suppressed by Russian forces in January right before the 2022 Olympics.

The World Cup had Australia, South Korea, Japan and the US bidding to host 2022.
Will this support RedPanda out of the box?
China, and especially Japan were never colonized the way Africa was. You clearly don't know what you are talking about.
We have a good understanding of this risk and have collectively chosen to accept it (while many countries have chosen not to accept it in the case of 16-year-olds.)
Thanks! I started with an Angelfire site back in 1998 and it's taken a long time to get to this. I always wanted to have a little miscellaneous site where people could come and play around a bit and check out some info about me if they wanted.

The idea to turn my website into a desktop environment came out of me trying to think how to present all my various content to users, and thinking how it would be easier if they could just RDP into my machine and see everything locally. Also inspiration from sites like http://www.windows93.net/, https://windows96.net/ & https://aaronos.dev/.
I don't know. Looks kinda easy to do vibrato through your blowtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtsZZKZcNC4
It wasn’t a failure. It was a scam. The “failure” was the revelation of the scam, which was a good thing.

The fact that SBF has in the past publicly described running a Ponzi and not really recognized it as one indicates it may even be possible that the FTX guys didn’t even understand they were running a scam.

But just because they did not realize they were doing so does not make the scam they were running any less of one.
Large-scale solar:

> requires 5.6 GW of solar energy. For context, this is roughly 10 days of solar panel production in 2021, though the industry continues to grow explosively. 5.6 GW consumes roughly 112 square km of land
In case the jargon isn't transparent, in automotive a 'skateboard' is roughly a flat frame with batteries, motor, motor controller, and suspension onto which you can bolt the rest. A vehicle platform, really.
Why would you pump desalinated water upstream instead of gray water?

Not that it makes much sense anyway to pump water uphill because people want to farm in places that can’t support it.
Outside of drugs and ransoms, what actual commercial activity does cryptocurrency enable that justifies all the hype around it? It’s been 13 years since the Satoshi whitepaper and crypto is still flailing around for legitimacy. After a certain point, it’s probably safe to assume it’s all just techno quackery.
Yeah I was amazed last Olympics how my local provider spoiled the result of literally every clip in their streaming service. Surely most people want to watch without knowing the result?
OP is referring to the battery, power electronics and drivetrain. If you picture lifting the body off - sorta looks like a skateboard.
(although cars like Tesla are highly integrated - there's probably still good money to be made in selling the "dev kit")
I hope that one day we will live in a world where half of all crypto scammers are female. But today most of them are young men
> I really wish it was possible to fix the inequality, but I can't even begin to imagine what that would involve.

It's not possible to do that, because the government is fairly and democratically elected[1], and the voters who keep supporting this government are too short-sighted to see that trying to vote themselves more handouts doesn't work in the long run.

[1] When a government stays in power for almost 3 decades, all the while being fairly elected by the voters, and the voters suffer because of it, who exactly are you going to blame? What exactly will you "fix"?
I guess I don’t understand this new language.

If a biological male either wants to be a woman or thinks he is a woman, I must call him a woman or I am “denying trans people exist”?

They can live their life however they want but why are they requiring me to participate?
I think this is a somewhat self-manifested societal dichotomy requiring debate. One route leads to, as you say, a "matrix" society, which may or may not be a good thing. But we as humans need to make the decision if it's correct, because ultimately the humans profiting from the setup will end up irrelevant, and I don't think that's understood (ironic).
I don’t fear QoL being degraded (If it’s necessary, it’s cool for our children); I fear the loss of meritocracy, as I have never seen any other model work. I also fear it’s competing countries that fuel the climate fight in my country to persuade us of consuming less, while we’ll never be able to have an impact on them, even through international agreements.

So basically, the “China is just dis-industrializing Europe, by convincing us to self-sabotage our industries” argument.

Last point, I’ve never seen scientific studies used in politics that were not massively forged.

1. Fear of meritocracy 2. Fear of countries not negotiating an equalitarian deal 3. Fear of the awful science of “that camp” (and I know exactly what 3 arguments you’ll oppose, so, don’t bother with the direct answer, please assume everything you want to answer is already understood and incorrect, and go straight to a second level of answers).
(498 kilometers is 309 miles.)
I have yet to try RedPanda, but if it is API compatible with Kafka then it will work out of the box.
I don't understand why light pickup trucks and small vans aren't featured in this review, and don't seem to be a major target of EV manufacturers? There are a few in the pipeline, such as VW's ID.Buzz but these look like personal/family models, not much seems available in the commercial utility sector. Kind of odd, really.
Yeah all that batteries do is time-shift power usage. If there's an overall shortfall of power generation, batteries don't really help on a systemic level.

And every little business having its own diesel generator is just like building more power stations, but much dirtier and less efficient...
*she / her
Have you already checked developed solutions?
How does this compare to just planting trees?

No maintenance and they also sequester carbon.

All this seems to me like replacing trees with silicon and maybe that doesn't make sense.
On the rare occasion I make an effort to contribute my thoughts in a positive way I get downvoted but nobdy even mentions why.

Is it that obvious? Maybe someone else can tell me? I'd like to understand if it can help me improve my online etiquette or the HN rules better.
Thanks! I'm glad to hear you liked it. It's indeed a goal of mine to be one of the more interesting websites out there. Every time I think I am missing something or find a bug, I try and do something about it.

I've also taken a lot of effort to keep everything client side. This makes hosting easier and also adds an interesting challenge of pushing the browser to the limits just to see what can be made within those confines.
I live in Carlsbad and had no clue that this existed!
Which alternatives have you tried?
> If we wanted to remove leverage we could sign a law to remove it tomorrow.

The kind of unsafe leveraged bundling that caused the great financial crisis was already illegal. In theory, the banks should have suffered the consequences of their poor trades. In practice, both the banks and the government knew that by enforcing those consequences, the entire financial system as we knew it would fall apart. So the banks smartly factored the bailouts into their risk calculations when entering into those trades.

Crypto enables systems that cannot be as easily bailed out. It changes the game theory so that failure is no longer a "get bailout and still win" condition for speculative lenders. So in a way, crypto absolutely does create "ways to make breaches of trust cost more."
this un-self-critical display of complete absence of knowledge on a large topic, using a politics label, with a topping of "blaming those that made changes" with the worst of what happened, despite real actions to prevent exactly that.. is presented without rebuttal (yet) today.
Tesla killers are like fusion power plants. Just a few years away (and always will be).

Anything that isn't in mass production can be ignored as probably vapourware.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cryptocurrency_by_... says Bitcoin is legal in South Africa. I believe you when you say "you have to break the law to get your money out", because you know about a million times more about South Africa than I do, but how are they preventing people from using Bitcoin to get their money out?
I mean, no, not all other countries.

I moved to small town in Canada on the outskirts of Toronto. Literally nobody here locks the door, ever. They don't lock their cars, they regularly forget or leave their keys in their car. They definitely don't begin to have my habit of locking doors when you stop at an intersection.

There's more crime in other parts of Canada of course, and I enforce a bit stricter security in my own house due to my background, but honestly? Much of Canada is almost as nice as stereotype would portray it.

Again, not to say it's wonderful all the time for everybody everywhere in Canada ; it's not and I try to check my definite privilege. But I don't think people here really understand what "high crime levels" really means, on a world wide scale, and I don't think I've really seen a real gated community let alone anything like electric fence, outside of US embassy in Ottawa.

FWIW I lived in Winnipeg and various parts of Toronto, worked in Ottawa and Nova Scotia, visited Saskatchewan and Quebec. There are bad neighbourhoods for sure but it's not pervasive and bad neighbourhoods here are better than brilliant neighbourhood in some places I've lived.
Houses in South Africa are (on average) 1) bigger, and 2) poorly insulated.

Also, way less efficient hot water cylinders