skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Tesla was founded by Elon, he sacrificed so much for EVs!", when in reality the foundation of Tesla was already built and Elon instead did a take over.

That is wildly incorrect, or at least is inconsistent with the consensus opinion of Wikipedia. Martin and Marc had done zero design or engineering work prior to Elon Musk's involvement. All they had was notions of commercialising work already done by other people — namely AC Propulsion with their tzero prototype — something which Musk also wanted to do. In fact this parallel interest was what connected Musk with Tesla in the first place.[0]

Musk was the first and most significant investor in Tesla, which is to say that it was his personal wealth which allowed a functioning company called Tesla to exist in the first place. In its formative years, Musk continued to pour more of his personal wealth in to stave off Tesla's bankruptcy.[1]

While Musk wasn't involved in the day-to-day running of the company until around 2008, he had some involvement in engineering work from the earliest moments that the company started doing any engineering work.[1]

> It's similar to how people see Bill Gates or Steve Jobs as the "fathers of computing"

I think it would be reasonable to describe Gates and Jobs as the "fathers of personal computing". It's an apt metaphor when one considers the relative involvement of a biological mother and biological father in the formation of a new human person.

Other than as a straw man constructed by detractors, nobody claims that Gates, Jobs or Musk did anything of significance single-handedly. But to the extent that any one person can possibly impact an industry such labels are reasonably applied to persons like Gates, Jobs and Musk.

I appreciate that it's easy to overstate the role of inspired leadership, but it has become very fashionable to understate it. Yes, Apple had many incredible engineers. Without the return of Jobs to Apple, would those brilliant engineers have done anything like the iPod? More likely they would have executed with technical excellence on a new Apple LaserWriter printer motherboard or another iteration of the Newton MessagePad.

Everyone stands on the shoulders of giants. Did Jobs personally make the iPod? No. Did the skilled engineers at Apple make the iPod? Well, they didn't make micro hard disks, LCD screens, invent semiconductor photolithography or develop the MP3 audio codec either... What we can say for sure is that the iPod wouldn't have existed in 2001 without Jobs' vision and execution.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Propulsion_tzero#Lithium-io...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.#The_beg...
Given the millions of dollars in damages these emails caused, I'm pretty sure they went back to unsubpoenable smoke filled rooms, minus the smoke. Hell, the CEO of Twitter flew especially to Apple HQ to get their advertising spend reinstated. He wouldn't have done that if whatever he needed to say could've been said over email.
This long weekend (4 nights, 3 days) I built Ben Eater's 6502 computer kit (along with the clock module as a pre-requisite). Just got to the point where it prints "Hello, World!" on the LCD. The most time-consuming part is that I'm making the wires nice and neat like he does, so there's a lot of measuring, cutting, bending, and stripping wires. One of the funniest parts was the first few programs run off of ROM. When you first add subroutines, it doesn't actually work because there's no actual RAM yet; it needs RAM in order for the jump to subroutine to push the return address on a stack in RAM. So hooking up a RAM chip is another 30 or so wires that you have to make. I suppose at some point I will make a Forth for it. I had been wanting to get the kit for years, but finally got around to it by asking for the kit for Christmas.
Yeah all you need is one known website or merchant which sells some relatively fungible good to make out. Plenty of such sites on the web.

You may get your money back, but this is simply because the card company is eating the loss. This is not even uncommon. Over $10B in credit card fraud happens every year: https://www.cardrates.com/advice/credit-card-fraud-statistic...
> Basically, [Steve] said "if you hire a single one of these people that means war".

what realistically could steve jobs have done here? its not like he had any legal power to prevent his guys going over, and if he wanted to poach from google just to spite google it’d just be a stupidly expensive affair
John McCarthy trolled me once!

When I met him, we were chatting about Stanford, and I mentioned that I really admired that huge radio telescope that you could see around 280 and Page Mill Road in the hills above Stanford.

He looked puzzled and confused, and asked "Which huge radio telescope?"

I was flustered and explained how you couldn't miss it, right by 280 and Page Mill Road, it's out there in a field, its huge, it's enormous, gigantic I tell you, there's no way you can miss it, bla bla bla...

He let me go on and on, describing it, and acted like he had absolutely no idea what I was talking about, like I was crazy for hallucinating a gigantic radio telescope that both of us must have passed zillions of times.

Finally he let on and said, "Oh, you mean that SMALL radio telescope???"
Chiming in here, I love this style of book and have read the whole genre. There should be more. For someone who's just looking up from the keyboard at how to actually do things in an organization, with people, and how it all works they're absolutely thrillers and I raced through.
Paper on the Core Calculus of the Verse Programming Language [pdf]
Maybe Edward the Black Prince didn’t die from chronic dysentery after all
I'm sorry -- that wasn't intended as an insult, more of an issue on me being able to ascertain exactly what you were saying. Comprehending other people's writing can be challenging at times even if you think you know what they're saying.

One's opinion should stand on the words/ideas behind them, not what one looks like. Getting called out for that is bullshit and should be disregarded.

Part of my confusion is also that I don't feel the threat that you mention. I'm also okay with being challenged and with being wrong. I think the key is to try to engage with respect and be prepared to listen to what the other party is trying to say -- and assume best intentions.
Got that. Thanks for your insights.
Will take a look at these books, since i'm looking for books to read this year.
Kind of weird to post a 2013 article about an appellate decision that simply ruled that the question in the title was a justiciable question of fact that should be tried here. (Especially given the fact that neither constructive termination nor the idea that a large salary reduction could constitute it were novel concepts at the time, the only interesting part is the existence of a specific negotiated contract which didn't explicitly set salary terms.)

Side note: its annoying to try to research via typical web tools to find if there is any information about what happened after the appellate decision because of the name collision with Scott v. Harris, a Supreme Court qualified immunity case, which has... quite a lot written about it.
>... it’d just be a stupidly expensive affair

And worth it in war, depending on the objective.
AES Rijndael S-box in ~75 lines of Python
These aren't contradictory. You could have DNA id a subject and his phone provide a location, or DNA and the smart phone both point to the same person.
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“Poaching out of spite” is exactly what he’s threatening. And note: “stupidly expensive” for you and me is “stupidly cheap” for companies like Apple and Google.
Imprinted SARS-CoV-2 humoral immunity induces convergent Omicron RBD evolution
Again, it's to take care of which use case falls in the majority - to optimize the 364 days of the year when I'm dealing with folders not having 10000 files/sub-folders in a folder or 1 day when I have to open such a folder. I thought macOS thought about those things since people were really singing hyperboles about it. It doesn't even show where you are by default! The file open dialog doesn't even allow to directly copy paste a path in a non-obscure way, same goes with any Finder window! Sure, you might have one indirect way or other for achieving these, but wasn't it all about the design choices it makes by default where people said it shines?
Kind of silly to use a magic rectangle to buy a different magic rectangle. Better to buy magic paper.
“Constructive termination” is a thing employment law covers.
https://archive.ph/yblJk
Alcojet has bleach. Adding phosphates to dishwasher powder ends up at the same place except my generic Target powder has sodium percarbonate (oxyclean) instead of chlorine. Alcojet uses a shit ton of STPP, MSDS says 25-41% by weight. I have been mixing closer to 10%.

Also Alcojet is STPP not TSP. TSP is as alkaline as lye.
liquefaction comes to mind - spooky. that leaning tower of pizza/transit center might finally tip over.
Would have been funny if he gave the names of employees he wanted to depart instead.
Even disregarding the argument that those differences wouldn't warrant the asserted distinction,

> there is no "getData" anywhere

Here it is: HTTP method GET

> no {"status": "ok"} field

And here it is: "The response is a 200 OK status code."
I mean, it can be both cool that I'm talented enough to have those two people fight over me, and also suck that my wages might get impacted.

Ain't nuance neat? :)
Is this one better?
https://amp.tmz.com/2023/01/02/rally-car-driver-ken-block-de...
We've had some pineapple express systems come through the PNW and they were unbelievable rain events. One completely flooded the apartment complex bottom units where I lived.

Good luck bay area folks, definitely take it seriously. If you're a home owner and have been putting off cleaning out gutters, drains, etc. absolutely get on it right now while you have some time. These unusual rain events will easily back up semi-clogged or poor flowing drainage systems.
The most important secret sauce is the recommender system. It takes into account transcripts, color historgrams of frames, actions and activities recognized in videos, frame cuts frequency, key personalities and entities recognized and what not. That's my humble guess.
> since you don't address any of the specific points I made that you disagree with, I find its likely you didn't bother reading

I read it. I just didn't think a detailed reply was worth my time. For reasons I thought I made pretty clear.
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I was under the impression that selecting debit when paying at the cashier means a direct debit of your account happens (as this article seems to imply). Which isn't subject to laws protecting consumers which apply to credit cards.

However selecting credit by the cashier - while using eg a MasterCard branded debit card still gives you the consumer protections (eg when disputing charges the onus is on the bank etc)

Am I completely wrong about this? Is the only difference the payment rail that gets used - and that has no affect on whick consumer protection laws you fall under?
Some modern radios have remote control software available. For example, Icom has software specifically for their radios: https://www.icomamerica.com/en/products/amateur/hf/rsba1/def...

For radios that don't have a network interface, RemoteRig sells a box that will network-enable most radios, either via PC control or using a detached control panel: https://www.remoterig.com/wp/?page_id=362

There's also no lack of ways to homebrew this using a RaspberryPi and the right cables: https://rigpi.net/

(FlexRadio also makes some very impressive programmable SDR radios that are entirely network controlled, if you were buying new equipment. Amazing gear, not cheap though.)
Love these tech emails. Flash forward to 2013 and you can see some historic breadcrumbs about Safari and Chrome in this exchange

https://www.techemails.com/p/imessage-for-android
Hey, you're welcome. LC has warts, but when I just want to bang out some code to transform this into that, with a few buttons/dropdowns to play with the way it gets transformed, it's my go-to.

If there's something else better for that purpose I'd love to know about it -- probably would have to be python-based given all the libraries available for it at this point.
As a programmer, I understand why programmers are prone to tediously over-literal thinking. Sometimes I do it myself. I just don't think it's helpful here.
Wherevever you are, couldn't you just start putting up (initially discreet) blue plaques "Steve Jobs did a wee jobby here", and gradually build up to your tombstone?
You add '.clone()' or '&', the code compiles, you move on.
As I said above, it's about consistency. If you really believe Cmd+C and Cmd+Shift+V paradigm is what macOS has chosen for themselves in their Finder, they should then choose it everywhere else in their own OS, including in their text editors, IDEs and what not. There should just not be a concept of 'Cut' anywhere else in their OS - you should always decide if you wanted to move at the time of paste across the OS. But it's not like that at all. Windows is consistent in that.
Love the thought, that's the next level of scaling past exp/log. Agree that additive makes the most sense, it lets you name the components and leaves breathing room.

The one coding thing I took away from playing Satisfactory is to leave lots of space in between. Mental/conceptual separation makes it way easier to add new pieces later. Theres no space for a curlicue if everything's already flush.

Actually, thinking about it more, layering like that kinda sucks. You have to balance out the layers to keep everything neutral. EQ software does arbitrary curves pretty well. Whats that doing under the hood?
Just to be clear, again, lots of people find rust difficult. I found it easy. Lots of people find it easy. That's interesting.

Saying "rust is difficult" is silly to me because... it wasn't for me. Saying "rust is easy" is less silly to me because for me it was, but obviously for you it will be more silly because it isn't easy for you.

You'll find that many in the rust community are in fact very very sympathetic to your view that it's too hard to learn.
Really great to see a mention of "Developer Hegemony" here.

The author compares software engineers to doctors or lawyers.

In a law firm, the partners call the shots and the rest of the staff is there to support them. In tech companies, the structure is inverted. The engineers are at the bottom of the power hierarchy, even though it's the engineers that generate the most value.

The author suggests that developers should instead become "efficienciers". Rather than being code monkeys, "efficienciers" are able to solve problems via their use of technology.

@losteric I've been thinking about this book for a while. If you're willing to share what your plans are, I'd love to hear more. To me it sounds like some sort of freelancing which is rather daunting.
Why would a nuclear war or a similar cataclysm produce an "alien civilization"? Even if it wiped out 90% of humanity, that leaves 800 million people, all of whom carry their respective cultures.
There's been some work with 3d printing mechanical gates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19259364

I would really like to get a resin 3d printer to create some dense circuits that would be stupid amounts of extruder printing.
Timely. 210 years ago today (Jan 2), 66 Luddites went on trial for destroying looms which had put 'half the population' (YMMV) out of work.

The beef was legitimate then and still is. 'Advances' in tech (just as sound film did in 1927) can quickly create a lot of human pain (not that this forum needs a reminder) which may take a long time to moderate.

"Why the Luddites Matter" [https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/01/18/why-the-...]
I suspect corporate collusion (and a fair amount of arranging corrupt mutual back-scratching for purely personal gain) like this is the bulk of the nefarious activity that actually goes on at all those various weird secret rich-people club meetings/getaways that are in fact real things and often serve as fodder for various far-wilder conspiracy theories.
> In 1963, a graduate student was diagnosed with ALS. Instead of deciding that his life was pointless and meaningless

1) I didn't say my life is pointless and meaningless. Moreover, I obviously care, otherwise I wouldn't bother to argue about all of this.

2) You're seriously going to pull unusual anecdotal data about a condition that has well known scientific statistics?

3) I think it's fair to say that Hawking's physics talent resulted in greater caretaking effort put into his life than the average case.

> Thankfully, nobody is suggesting making the earth uninhabitable.

Of course nobody suggests it. They're not going to do it on purpose, they're going to do it by accident, due to carelessness and neglect.

> I'm giving an example of a cost/benefit tradeoff that you presumably agree with.

Why? If there's supposed to be a moral to the point about tradeoffs, then why not directly talk about what it's supposed to be, rather than mentioning little tangents that are largely irrelevant?

You asked about my plan to provide the essentials, such as food and housing, but that's a bit of misdirection, because we do vastly more than just provide the essentials. We have rampant, insatiable consumerism, not to mention planned obsolescence, driven by zombie non-human entities called "corporations" that lack ethics and exist for nothing except unfettered growth. We have the military-industrial complex whose appetite for war and weaponry is never ending. And now people want to massively ramp up the space program again and constantly launch (polluting) rockets into space, even littering our orbit with satellites that block our own view of it that we so admire from a distance. I don't think the problem is the essentials. Rather, I want to know what the plan is for cutting back on the non-essentials.

> You're just so worked up

Please refrain from personal comments, which are unnecessary and uninformed. You don't know me, and you're certainly not in the room with me, so you don't have the slightest clue about my present mental or emotional state. At this point, I could probably rattle off my spiel in my sleep.
Yeah surely we'll be adding disclaimers, thanks.

But I'm curious why hasn't google banned other chrome extensions that record google meets and all of them are either paid or free with some limitations, so we're not the only ones bypassing premium gsuite.
My friend had some of those… roughly the size of a Nilla wager for 25mg.
Law Enforcement absolutely uses data from 23 and me and Ancestry

“ In certain circumstances, however, 23andMe may be required by law to comply with a valid court order, subpoena, or search warrant for genetic or personal information.”

https://www.23andme.com/law-enforcement-guide/
"However it's not enough to sequence"

I'm not sure what you mean by that. The nice thing about DNA is you can make more of it if you don't have enough. [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction
> Basically, he said "if you hire a single one of these people that means war"

I feel all the Google bosses wanted was for Steve Jobs to stop yelling.

What would Zuckerberg have done?

What would Musk have done?

Heck, what if Jobs was on the other side of the equation here?
“Twitter started as a protocol. It should have never been a company.”
> We are careful to adhere to non-compete agreements if we have established these with any company.

Hiring non competes do exactly this regardless of whatever benefit of the doubt you wish to grant (not to mention it clearly establishes they’ve done this regularly prior to this so it wasn’t even a one off). More importantly, these were already clearly established case law as illegal in California. So these are California employers talking about non competes for Californian employees. I think “not thinking through the consequences” is secondary here. They’re putting in writing that they’re actively breaking the law regularly and not just in this once instance. Of course details matter here so maybe there’s nuance here or they’ve got good lawyers helping them achieve intent without actively crossing the line, but I’ve always been curious why this was a class action and not prosecuted by the state of California. There’s also this [1]:

> In fact, Colligan, who left the company in June, sounded a little indignant in his refusal.

> “Your proposal that we agree that neither company will hire the other’s employees, regardless of the individual’s desires, is not only wrong, it is likely illegal,” he said, according to the report.

So at least one other CEO said “no thanks and what you’re doing here is likely illegal”.

[1]: https://www.internetnews.com/it-management/palm-ceo-rebuffed...
Ironically, this was in metro Atlanta as well. I'd note that it was for reno work (roof and some deck) rather than new build.

I'd hope the new build market is a little more professional.

Although I saw a couple strip-to-frame-and-rebuild houses worked on and then failed code (word on the street was improper framing nailing, ouch) near another house in Kirkwood, so I guess there's dipshits the world over.
This is devastating. Wow
For the civil case it's true that only the lawyers made anything worth having.
For one-off payments, it's a bit involved. Have to add the receiver, wait for an SMS / other confirmation over the phone app, make the transfer. If the transfer is "unusual" (usually a "high amount"), it will likely be flagged, and you'll have to wait for someone from the bank to call you and confirm it was really you who did the transfer.

Add to that that snail mail is still the main way people who ask for money communicate with you, so now you'll have to type in the IBAN by copying it from a piece of paper. The IBAN is also not authenticated, so you don't really know who you're transferring money to.

This may vary with the banks, but in some cases their website is horrendous. It's the case for my bank, BNP Paribas. I very much prefer to write a check and send it over snail mail if it means I can limit my use of their site.