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He spent like 6 months desperately trying to get out of buying Twitter. Including throwing every crazy idea they could think of at the wall for why Twitter broke the contract.

He screwed up agreeing in the first place under the conditions he did.

Everything else seems like flailing trying to undo/minimize damage, often making things worse.
I support a view of hackernews where no pay walled content is permitted.
History teaches that sometimes war is goal of foreign politics in itself, and thus it's impossible to escape, only to delay.

"The government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war too."
This is like a sociological experiment where they show different people the same picture and ask "what do you see"? The results are heavily influenced by your previous perception of Elon. The results vary from "abuse and modern slavery" to "I'd fly halfway across the country to be there." I don't really have an opinion here as I don't know what is actually happening and assume the original poster intentionally framed it in a specific way. As humans we are very predictable, and even in a high IQ place such as HN, mostly everyone used the photo as validation of their existing position.
Fine, let's just develop on production. Cases solved
> Has Russia been defeated, though?

Not yet, but every week they occupy less and less territory, lose more soldiers and more equipment.

> They may not have fulfilled all their main goals to a 100%. However, they seem to be still occupying large amounts of territory that belonged to the Ukrainian government, including most of the Dombas and the water sources of Crimea.

They don't seem so confident in keeping Crimea, they are building defences in it already.
The WikiWikiWeb indeed.
There are also bad people who are uncomfortable with power struggles.

But in the context of the article, I suspect that the most important definition of "nice" is probably "pays me for executive coaching".

The term isn't defined because "I am nice" is an axiom, "I can do what I need to get what I want" is the desired conclusion, and the article provides some motivated reasoning for getting from A to B.
flagged --- of course
HN is a joke
Try "emilydamstra butterfly". I'm being serious, once you know, it's extreme "cannot unsee" territory.
This book is really fun. I am surprised that Forth never seemed to make much of a dent in education. It seems perfect for teaching programming because there is so little fanfare.
Hyperloop would come under the category of public transportation?
No, it'd not about using nixos
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It doesn't.

Nix is basically a whole load of compiled dependencies pathed to /nix/hash/dependency

So you can have things that would ordinarily be dependency hell running side by side because foo that requires bar6 is compiled against that, and baz that requires bar7 is linked against that.

Both versions of bar are present in the nix structure, on a specific path that the software is compiled against.
Liquid equity implying you could turn it into cash, so equivalent to good salary? Regular compensation is indeed a sufficient driver for employees to want their employer to be successful.

Having a stake in a business doesn’t just mean owning stock looking for future growth. Wanting the business to still be alive this time next year is also a future outcome that can be embraced by anyone who draws a salary.
> Facebook is a 50-50 bet on the metaverse being the next big thing.

That feels VERY generous. They're making two big bets here :

1. VR will be a big thing (I just don't see it. I think it's gonna be like 3d)

2. They can dominate the market (also sound unlikely since Apple is working on it)
My wife left her online breastfeeding support group after several incidents of obvious males (self identified trans women) would join, despite not even having children. They just wanted to observe the moms breastfeeding. It's just not a comfortable space anymore. Very sad.
Better to skip the papers and attack it from a fresh point of view. It seems like most of them are doing matrix math.
Well, they put Elizabeth Holmes away for a little more than 10. Imagine it would have been for a few more if she hadn't played the rape card on her darker skinned companion and now fellow convicted partner in crime.

Hopefully Web3 will put an end to all of law enforcement's nonsense regarding filesharing.

Long live LibGen.
The United States' early 1918 flu cases are a mystery. What is the US hiding?
He’s lost a TON of reputation he’ll never get back. He’s spent like $26B of his own money. He’s going to have a much harder time getting funding in the future. His other companies are losing value.

What could he get that would be enough to offset all that?

He could have just turned off Twitter in other countries that didn’t want it. He could have run it with Chinese style censorship. He could have manipulated the conversation. He could have flat out backdoored it for them.

Why was it necessary to destroy it? Why would that be the preferred outcome?

Makes no sense.
Nope, 120V/15A. We get about 5 miles per hour, and the car is generally parked for ~14 hours, so about 70 miles of charge per night. Our car uses about 240 Wh/mi, and a standard US outlet can safely deliver maybe 1400 Wh per hour, so it pencils out.

EVs don’t need special plugs for most people.
Well well well.
Another project I've been following in this space (no affiliation) is Tangram (https://www.tangram.dev/), which I think of as "Nix, but TypeScript" -- or, from their Discord:

> Tangram takes a lot of inspiration from nix, and could be described as a mix between nix and bazel where you write JS/TS
Why do these threads keep getting flagged? There should be a clear explanation.
Thread number 3... will it get flagged too?
Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs
What diagram / whiteboard are people talking about? Is there more than one photo?

The only whiteboard I see is on the right hand side at the back, mostly obscured by people, and I certainly can't make out what's on it.
It's an easy decision also by being cheaper to buy the precut from places like brushy mountain.
He’s only the most successful entrepreneur alive. But sure visa holders need their beauty sleep. Seriously you can’t stay up to 1am to have the company of the worlds richest person? What an opportunity to learn. This thread is totally nuts
Not too surprising. It's easier after letting go of all the trouble makers ;)
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What does it possibly mean to 'deny' womanhood? There's no womanhood department that hands out womanhood or manhood in little goodie bags. This is a completely meaningless term.
Open source is certainly in need of greater funding, so if this can facilitate that I’m all for it.
Yeah but you have to squint considerably harder to see (arbitrary size) ints as equivalent to objects compared to seeing lexical closures as equivalent to objects.
I am curious about what you think could be the most relevant differences.
> when designing a software that helps users design things, what are the design principles that help expand the possible range of human thought?

The thing that computers do well is detailed simulation of possible configurations and visualization of aggregate results. The single best, most inspiring thing a computer can present is an entirely unthought of arrangement, i.e. a surprise.

Humans are routinely surprised by computers, but what software is principally designed to surprise its user?
They get flagged because people flag them. I'm guessing given all the news on Twitter that has dominated the site recently that plenty of HNers are tied of it.
>"can be abused or co-opted"

I tend to believe it, "will be."

All tech will eventually be used to try to gain an advantage in war and surveillance. I don't think there's a way to prevent it.
Sounds like something I would hear at a google all hands or something.
While I wouldn't put any authoritarian moves beyond China's reach, the ICP recordal mechanism already requires government approval.

In that case, isn't it better for user privacy (not that anyone cares about it in China) to receive an ICP recordal but then wait for an actual request from law enforcement to turn over the logs?

Also, while you wouldn't see anyone from Amazon or Cloudflare comment on your thread, both have the ability to stream logs to a destination, and that is also exposed to customers, so I don't think they needed to build anything else.
Yes, for most cases, the for-loop is as efficient as the proposed "clear" function. I am not sure whether or not this is still true if there are NaN keys in the cleared map.
Have heard the same recently. Seems crazy, but there really are large numbers of people unable to drive manual.

Rented a car in the EU and it was manual! In the US it is always automatic, unless it is a sport or special rental...
Tesla has implemented numerous ideas from their customers' tweets.
HN ranking graph for this story: https://hnrankings.info/33677860/
If you have no distinguishing organs that produce sexual cell lines via meiosis, and have never ever had such organs, then you are functionally sexless. This seems like a reasonable position to take. Given our understanding of embryology and development we may try to piece together what would have happened had something not gone awry and base our judgement on that. But if we don't know, then it's hardly unreasonable to simply say 'I don't know'. However, we are not being asked to acknowledge that we cannot know for some individuals, we are being asked to accept those with obvious organs and gametes of one sex as individuals of the other.
At best you might follow him to the next business venture that everyone is talking about in 2030.
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That's weird. I pay $350/yr in insurance. I hop insurance providers every couple years. That's a separate trick though. I had to go check since I round it down to 0 in my head.

My costs went down so substantially when I switched to electric they are for all intents and purposes, effectively 0

Sorry if you can't figure it out.
It has Safari. But I'm curious why we are comparing Windows to iOS instead of it's desktop counterpart.
Working for a toxic boss who doesn't understand what you're up to really shook this expectation.

Sometimes you just gotta keep that paycheck. It's not my problem that the CEO can't hire smart managers.
Of course they are. The moment we stop paying for their products they lose everything.
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People are always asking for a dark theme, so here's my contribution. Enjoy!
> There's little solid evidence for inherited mental illness

A quick web search seems to suggest that ADHD, depression, and autism are all known to run in families?
That's really too bad. I loved my spark, and was hoping to get a used one as an around-town car for my kid. It was the smallest 4-door car on the market, could fit into any parking space, and really was a wonderful car for neighborhood and nearby-neighborhood driving. I still miss mine.

I never had any problems with it, and returned it at the end of it's lease because I had started a family, and needed a bigger car. I still get letters from lemon-law firms asking if I need help with a car I haven't had for years.
Wow, what a fantastic resource. Extremely detailed while being concise, with links to other great explanations in the same site. Bookmarked
> what about his actions leads you to believe he's more capable of that than the thousands of people who were already working on it?

My sense is that the 1000's of people who where already working on it have been working on it from the perspective of how to make a billion dollars while working at it. EM is free from that constraint.
but but, but they removed skeletons, zombies, ghosts, and added cuddly Pandas!!1
> but the startup time is pretty bad (there is a 300ms+ delay) for apps.

Someone has told me that this can be solved with asdf-direnv so I am wondering if this is true and I should actually consider using asdf.
This is well-studied. I wish we had an answer to this conundrum. For what it's worth, HN for now is still the community with the highest quality discussion that I can find. #2 is far far far behind.
I was the co-founder and lead maintainer of BootstrapCDN for 8 years.

4.3 trillion requests, 108 petabytes transfered, installed on 7 million sites (today its 10mm).

I was also the art director for the Bash logo but BootstrapCDN took the cake in terms of impact.
The PayPal mafia had equity / ownership that paid off when they sold the company. Those people in the photo are employees with essentially 0 upside in terms of real ownership.

For there to be a “Twitter mafia” Elon would need to, out of the kindness of his heart, give them real ownership in Twitter. And then Twitter needs to be a success, much more than it already was.

I’d play the lottery instead and leave fantasy land.
I mostly agree, but you're kind of implying that the photo exists in a vacuum. People are reasonably using context. Yes, they cherry-pick the context a bit and perhaps overextend it, but they're not just making up a story from whole cloth.
For the curious: https://doc.ntp.org/reflib/y2k/. 2^32 seconds since 1900-01-01 00:00 ends on 7 Feb 2036. The 2038 problem is 2^31 seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00, the Unix epoch.
I keep Play Store disabled and only enable it when I want to update apps. This seems to keep regular apps from auto-updating.

I don't often need GPS, so I wonder if disabling Play Services would work for me without allowing forced spyware pushes.
At this point in my life and career, I wouldn’t be in that room. And I’m sure some people are not there by choice. But I’m also sure this is the highlight of many in this photo’s career so far.
Is this some kind of satire? I really can’t tell. Did they not make an episode about this on Silicon Valley?

To clarify, when I first think of new package management I think of something that does reproducible cross platform builds, and something that sounds like rent seeking crypto, is the last thing I will think of.
Nix is good at solving more problems than containers can solve. Nix is good at "programmatically managing packages".

For just the problem of "I want to be able to distribute the same application everywhere", container images solve this well. This can also be solved using Nix instead of container images; or Nix can even be used to build the container images.

The Nix expression language is much more expressive/powerful/elegant than Dockerfile's syntax is. -- Which can be useful for stuff like declaring "I want <program> built with different build flags / patches".

Nix ends up being useful for scratching the itch of "put in effort now, to save effort later".
All of the sites served had an ICP license. This is separate, and the CDNs in China have regulations specific to CDNs they need to comply with.

At the time, Akamai also had the capability to stream logs, but the ministry of technology required a specific, custom interface to receive them, which required engineering work, especially to do it for an entire country without the customers configuring it themselves. I would be extremely surprised if it required no engineering work at Amazon or Cloudflare to deliver the logs in the way they requested.
> It'll be nice to know that any normal PC program we write will "just work" on Raspberry Pi and Apple ARM. All we have to do embed an ARM build of the emulator above within our x86 executables, and have them morph and re-exec appropriately, similar to how Cosmopolitan is already doing doing with qemu-x86_64, except that this wouldn't need to be installed beforehand. The tradeoff is that, if we do this, binaries will only be 10x smaller than Go's Hello World, instead of 100x smaller.

…No mention of the fact that an interpreter is typically at least 10x slower than native execution. The readme does say "we're still likely to add something like jit in the near future", but for now this isn't very practical.
It's not just that we're tired of Twitter. We're tired of Trump, too. It's a political topic rather than a technical one.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593899029531803649/phot...
> Autism-spectrum traits correlate to being trans (why? nobody knows)

Here are some reasons:

- Autists tend to be uncoordinated which makes them feel uncomfortable in their own bodies, which is a feeling used to diagnose transgenderism.

- Autists are often outcasts, which can make men feel less masculine, which they may accidentally equate to being more feminine.

- It’s accepted in the literature that autists tend to be naive as they can’t read social cues properly. Compared to their more socially sensitive neurotypical peers, they are more likely to trust that others will genuinely perceive them as the opposite gender based on cues from social media alone.

- Autists tend to over-rationalize which can lead to thought spirals that cause them to convince themselves of something that a neurotypical person would think is unrealistic.

- Autists tend to lack social sensitivity which includes the absence of the ability to sense the subtle discomfort that people feel in their presence.

This is why trans women who are lesbians are extremely over represented compared to cis women.
I do this with bowling. I can only shoot instinctively. If I try to look and aim at a spot marking on the lane, or try to control my shoulder and wrist during the swing to control the hook, I'm all over the place. If I just look at the pins and let muscle memory do the work, I hit the pocket much more consistently.
Sure, but if you develop C++ code on mac, you cannot debug locally using the same compiler that you will deploy upon. Maybe JVM , node etc for purely UI programming may work on Mac because they have support for it, but why depend on the tool writer (JVM, Node) to work on mac when we are developing an OS specially for development?
It's fascinating how "everyone knows" that OSes "should" be written with microkernels and servers, but to a first approximation 100% of all general-purpose computing[0] is done on monolithic kernels. Are we hosts to an invasive meme with poor reality correlation, or are we victims of history holding us back from the right way to design systems? And how can we distinguish these, since both theories (by design) offer an explanation about how we might be deceived about the better solution?

[0] Say, anything with a human input device and/or hardwired internet connection, to cover our bases but exclude IoT.
Our funding was gone by April 2009 IIRC, which was before Windows 7 shipped. Jim Hugunin and I shopped the team around and eventually landed in the Technical Computing org. The only thing that survived from that era was Python Tools for Visual Studio.
Most newer houses, at least in my area, have 96kW max service.
I've always wondered how long it would take for HN to succumb to an eternal September where the "rest of the world" finally joins. Whatever HN is doing to keep discussions as high-quality as they are is pretty incredible. Yes, HN has changed over the years, but the fundamental aspect of conversation quality hasn't changed significantly.
Looks like there is no source available or even installation option?
Firebricks offer low-cost storage for carbon-free energy (2017)
Imagine you're thinking about buying a 44B business and want to radically change its business model, and potentially, plan to fire a lot of technical people. What are the things you need to know to achieve this?
The "modern slavery" comment made me chuckle. Seriously...
Why would you need to charge your car in 20 minutes at home? By far the most common home charging use case is to charge when you're home for the night, which is usually 10+ hours for most people.

Fast chargers are for road trips.
so bots exist? gee bubba i would have never imagined
historically, yes; but might that be a function of both the platform incentives (advertising, engagement) and poor technology?
It's still centralized, proprietary, and going to have the harmful business model of advertising, no?
One more cognitive jump to get to the point. Programming languages are for people, so reducing any mapping between what is written and what is meant is for the better. Adding more jumps, however easy, is rarely the right thing.
I think your example is closer to a survivor bias, while the article describes more of a collider bias.

Survivor bias arises when you study what you think is a full population, while in fact you're looking at a selected sample that did survive the very thing you're studying.

A classical example in finance happens when you want to study, say, the performance of tech companies over the last 10 years. If you just pick current tech companies and look at their past performance, you will be biased towards companies that did make it. You have to include companies that don't exist anymore but would have been included were you to perform the study say 5 years ago.
It's interesting that you naturally attribute this belief to upbringing rather than an actual justification.
Eh that sounds reasonable but I’m not sure it holds for the NBA. Maybe the college game where the overall skill level and stakes are lower. The flaw in that reasoning is it assumes that players stop developing once they reach the league.

Especially in the modern NBA, where players are pushed very hard to get out from the post and shoot. Being unable to shoot puts a limit on a players career, even at 7+ feet. There’s a reason why in the off-season every big in the league posts insta videos of themselves draining 3s in an empty gym.

The level of competition in the NBA is fierce, as is the incentive to learn to shoot. If many bigs don’t, the only reasonable explanation is that it’s physically more challenging.
As does most code. That doesn't mean it has a high signal:noise ratio.
That's a shame considering HN is fucking awful when it comes to anything that deviates from software development. Anything regarding health, social, or environmental sciences tends to attract comments that would make even Mehmet Oz cringe. Anything about San Francisco is filled with people foaming at the mouth. It's not really a new thing but it is tiresome and rather sad that you can't read something "off-topic" without wading through a bunch of, for example, climate change deniers.