skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My own thought experiment - what if “old IBM” had intervened in the product and tried to make it more “IBM”. Well, if they’d done that too much - e.g. a corporate edict that it had to use EBCDIC instead of ASCII - that probably would have killed it commercially. But what if “old IBM” had just demanded ASCII-EBCDIC conversion in the BIOS? With a “code page” field in each directory entry, which could be used to mark files as ASCII or EBCDIC (0=binary), with the BIOS ASCII-EBCDIC conversion service invoked to make EBCDIC files appear as ASCII to applications? That might have made the product more “interesting”, without adding so much complexity as would kill it. z/OS Unix has code page tagging in the filesystem; apparently IBM tried to get it added to DOS during DOS 4 development, but it got pulled before release (although that was not for EBCDIC, just for tagging which ASCII code page a file was)

Maybe even demand some optional record-oriented support in the filesystem (e.g RECFM=F80). That would have been less alien to Microsoft than you’d think, because Microsoft BASIC always supported record-based file access.
what's crystal clear to me is that your specific echo bubble (we all have one), advertises constant negative press about him. it doesn't make it real, twitter is booming and people love him more than ever

i hope you someday find the happiness to stop micro-observing everything about what elon is doing in his day to day life
Go to the original source not the misleading futurism article that got made from it: https://www.the-sun.com/news/7911051/elon-musks-dad-errol-em...

This says that Errol claims he managed to give his two sons about $115k in total. Which makes sense given he got his Emerald mine share for less than that.

There's also literally zero evidence that Errol had any useful connections here.

It really irritates me how many myths float around because people cannot be bothered to go find the original sources...
I'd like for better discoverability. I only launch visual studio when I need to work on specific projects, so I don't have the muscle memory of a heavy user. Some project settings or features are buried far into dialogs, and other things don't even have keyboard shortcuts.
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At least there is usually a comments section on websites where people can call out bullshit.

If you're not an expert in your field, GPT will successfully lie to you. There's no second opinion.

Rather than a feelings filter, it needs an integrity filter.
If you have an illness and lose a good chunk of your microbiome did you just die? No. You're still you, just a version of you slightly further along the timeline after some event that modified 'you'. Any copy of you that fails to simulate the mites on your left pinkie toenail is also 'you', just a version slightly further along the timeline after some event that modified 'you'.

There is no 'you' - just an unbroken chain of chemical interactions stretching back to the first self-replicating molecule. 'You' is a concept that the pattern replicating event predictor engine that evolved to live in your skull is desperately clinging to. It has no real physical basis.
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For her sake, I hope the parachute is not in X/Twitter stock...
> I don't get why people argue like this. It's so obviously disingenuous. Owning a share of an emerald mine doesn't make your family super rich and it's obviously, demonstrably, not where Musk's wealth comes from.

Interestingly, the intelligence level of the observer very often seems to have no effect. It's a very interesting phenomenon, I simply can't understand why humanity essentially ignores it.
Is that still true of new cars made in the 2020s? I assume the emissions difference between a 6-10 year old ICE vehicle and a brand new ICE vehicle are probably pretty negligible in light of the footprint required to produce and bring a brand new ICE vehicle to market.
With credits, Aisera base model may get close to that number. But you will have to wait for it to be released and there're lots of people in line ahead of you.
With that price and their right to repair policy, it is the less risky of the EV startups at this moment.

The link goes to the Launch Edition. But you can edit the options to reduce the sticker price to $25,600.

However, the All-Wheel option is tempting. Nobody needs a 0-60MPH in 3.5 seconds car, but it's very cool, anyway.

https://aptera.us/shop/

Depending on your commuting needs and sun availability in your area you might not need to recharge, ever.
I was able to get my kids obsessed with Star Wars before their first Disney trip - watched all of Clone wars, every main movie. Their favorite? Episode 2.
Vast majority of people I've met in Europe working under these conditions do it only out of necessity.
HN is the only place where you get real answers to that question!
By doing research like this. Universities prove it's viable, then companys productionize it, sometimes with incentives from the government
I think these days top apps would be a better gauge of relevance, for which twitter ranks much lower
Making the product cheap enough for the common man to afford is the first and most important step in mass market adoption. You make up the loss in per-vehicle profit with volume and in the end of the day walk home with a lot more money. Ford is saying if a simple factory worker could buy his product he was going to be a rich man.
How is YouTube not centrist?

Their entire platform is geared to be maximum advertiser friendly, aka the status quo.

It really isn't like YouTube doesn't discriminate equally, I'd even say in some cases they do so more strongly towards certain groups that tend to be left wing (e.g. queer people immediately being demonitized when not shrouding words like "biosexual").
Meh. I feel like that's a scapegoat that they like to use. Honda packed all that into the Fit (Honda Sensing), and it wasn't a $50,000 car. It was reasonably priced, and an excellent, economical car, with a top safety rating. It's literally the exact same tech used in their top end cars.

But what they did was, they killed the Fit in the US. So now the cheapest Honda car you can get is the Civic. Which isn't the small car it used to be.

I mean also, how much does this tech cost really? A backup camera? You really gonna claim that cars are unaffordable because of a $20 LCD and $10 camera installed into the bumper?

Pre-collision warnings, blind spot monitoring, it's all 20 year old tech now. And it comes in everything.
I also have a preference for more linear RPG's that tell a great story over big open worlds. The time and investment in a 100 hour open world RPG is too much for my FOMO/ADHD addled mind to handle. I can't commit long enough to finish.
Citation needed. Several sources at the air force are saying that launches are more expensive from SpaceX than other providers.
Nah, he is shockingly good at raising money. SpaceX has been losing billions of dollars per year and making it up by raising money to cover the shortfall. In the last year or so they raised $1.7B at a $137B valuation [1]. This is a company that is only estimated to make $4.6B in revenue [2] in a industry with a total addressable market (TAM) of ~$13.5B. SpaceX is being valued at ~30x revenue and ~10x the revenue of the entire industry, not earnings, revenue.

Of course, this is all small potatoes compared to the immense amount of money Musk has raised for Tesla from consumers by falsely claiming they will have autonomous vehicles next year, every year, for 7+ years.

These raises are distinct from any government support they may have received, though his ability to structure the companys to receive government support and the cash flow generated from those activitys may have been helpful in supporting the companys and the narratives they built to achieve the valuations and funding levels they got. It really just all leads back to him being amazing at getting his hands on huge gobs of money.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/01/03/spacex-...

[2] https://payloadspace.com/predicting-spacexs-2023-revenue/

[3] https://www.polarismarketresearch.com/industry-analysis/spac...
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I think the point is the only evidence that you provided for the argument that “Musk got his wealth from his family’s emerald mine” is that his parents paid for his college expenses. And that is, in my and many others minds, is a pathetically weak argument.

Full disclosure - my parents paid for a lot of my college expenses. At least half of the people who go to Ivy leagues have parents that will pay for their college expenses. It’s almost entirely, if not completely irrelevant to his work at PayPal, the founding of SpaceX, and the building of Tesla.

So it’s baffling (to me, at least) that it keeps getting brought up as a reason to hate Elon Musk. It feels that people want to find reasons to deeply hate this person, and they through anything they possibly can against him, nonsensical or not.
Also, how do we get there without effectively creating bioweapons lab capable of immense damage in the wrong hands?
I completely stopped using the app after his choice to elevate blue check replies instead of relevant ones. The app genuinely made me angry and it felt like my curation was pointless, especially since it would keep feeding me drivel from people I didn't follow
> silicon valley coding rigor

This was refreshing to read. Within my bubble in tech, it's often easy to get jaded about how _unrigorous_ our "engineering" often is.
How would locking them to the owner make them harder to use? They're smart enough and have designed enough software where they could trivially allow the user to share them if desired- that is the only "inconvenience" I can image it would cause.

I doubt they either didn't think of it or that it wasn't suggested frequently.r
> The bank doesn't control how much a depositor places in the bank.

Ha! Of course they do.

All it takes is a letter or phone call advertising a new cash management account that holds overnight treasuries. Customers can sign up and move their $250K+ deposits (which technically aren’t insured anyway) to that non-deposit account.
Go ahead and name these "problematic" claims if you like. It's long since tiresome to see so many historical figures with co much to recommend them being judged through an obsession with their failures to live and think like 21st century human beings of a specific and still very debatable set of morals.
Does it seem crazy to anyone else that the FDIC is levying a “special assessment”? The I in FDIC is insurance - the fund should have enough money to cover bank failures at the rate they are expected, much like an insurance company would, not charge other banks.

This is like your car insurance company levying a fee on everyone every time someone gets in an accident. It’s not insurance, it’s transferring one bank’s losses to all others in an arbitrary manner.
I really sigh over comments like this. It just shows how shitty the banking system is. This is exactly why I keep moving more and more into being my own bank (the .01%).
Where are all these American companies getting their batteries from? Mostly Japan... Rivian, Tesla, Lucid, Gravity, Ford, GMC.
That's an amazing gish gallop you have there. Every single entry being misleading, wrong or lacking important context.
I hope regulators fine the hell out of these companies. Enough to make them think twice about offering these upload everything to the cloud services no one really asks for.
That’s not the median income of households with college-aged kids. On average parents pay over half of tuition and living expenses for children: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-23/universit...

It’s fair to say Elon’s family wasn’t poor. But the level of support he got wasn’t any more than the typical journalist who is criticizing him.
You can find a better retelling of this elsewhere, but Ford wanted his employees to be able to purchase Ford cars. The story is often used when discussing the fairness of employees wages, or the cost of goods. Auto employees have long been considered part of the middle class. I think the OP was referring to the fact that probably many of the people making these cars can't even afford them nowadays. Given that cars are practically a necessity in most of the US, I don't think that sits right with people.
A stable banking system is very much in regular people's interest.
Toyota has only recently put into production PHEVs that seem a lot more practical.

For example, the electric-only range for the 2012 Prius PHEV is 15 miles, not enough for many people's daily commute unless you can plug in at both destinations. The 2023 Prius Prime is around 40, which is much better, so maybe you can just plug in at night at home.

It is only the 5th generation Prius that is truly designed around having a higher capacity battery pack, ditto for the recent RAV4 PHEV model. The 4th gen Prius fits in the larger battery pack as compromise, with reduced cargo area and wasted volume.

I would have bought a Prius Prime in 2017, and tried to get the tax credit, but there were several issues. There weren't many available in my area, the standard 2017s had driving and parking assist, while the Prime did not, reduced cargo area with no spare tire, and the price, because even with the tax credit was a bit too high for my liking. Just went with a standard Prius instead, and definitely have not regretted the choice. Today I'd buy a PHEV RAV4 or 5th gen Prius though.
I'm not arguing in bad faith. I'm making specific points that, for reasons unknown, @deelowe and yourself are making a wider inference from.

The post I replied to said:

> I'm not sure where this rubbish conspiracy came from but if there was Emerald Mine money there wasn't much of it.

My reply clarified that there was indeed an emerald mine (according to Musk's father) and that it paid for his college living expenses. I then went on to say that an inability to pay for SpaceX does not mean you are "not rich".

> you're either suggesting that @deelowe has family wealth or you're arguing in bad faith.

But that's silly too. With no numbers attached "family wealth" doesn't mean anything. Almost all families have "family wealth", if anything the bad faith argument here is trying to suggest that all wealth is somehow equal.

You'll note in my original reply I didn't even say that Elon's family was inordinately wealthy, just that the mine was real and that it paid for his college. Any "bad faith" on top of that is your own interpretation, not my words.
Time value of money is a thing, you know?

Back in those days, emerald mines were literally the equivalent of present-day tech IPO money. And if you read his biography by Ashlee Vance, you'll find out how the family would take vacations and travel to places by private plane.
Clubs' spending must be tied to their revenue, foregoing sponsorship money would force them to spend less no matter what, and there's a continuos arms race to spend more and more.

Also, practically all football club ownership is a loss-making activity.
You don't see a lot of motorcycles with snow tires.
Toyota just has to extend the range of the various plug-in hybrid "Prime" models to 100+ miles on EV, which is totally doable. Right now it's already 25-40 miles. In the US in particular that's going to be a good compromise for a lot of people.
They often have no spare tire to fit the battery. Quite a few don't have battery thermal management, so the packs will degrade much more quickly. It seems like they have all the downsides.
> While most children developed local AEs, severe AEs were rare, and most of AEs resolved within several days.

> Future studies with longer follow-up are warranted to monitor the long-term safety of mRNA vaccines.

The above seem reasonable enough to not give the vaccine to children who aren't vulnerable.
The Switch is an excellent piece of hardware. Nintendo knocked it out of the park so far it's only just starting to see competition at the end of it's lifecycle.
An older ThinkPad - stylish definitely and definitely under 200.
How much money will big banks make from increased deposits flowing from small regional banks? Something tells me with the spread of the overnight lending rate to the savings rate banks are paying consumers they will come out ahead on this deal.
I read 180 countries get access. From what I have seen from the list the ter m'countries and territories' might be more accurate.

I think they're reasonable players. They are either well established or have goodish intents. I don't think they ever did anything worse than package internet explorer with Windows.
It's generally not possible to meet emissions guidelines without computer control of the engine. Fuel economy also suffers. It's all a tightwire balancing act and the mechanical carburetors of the past are simply too crude to get the job done.
What do you suggest? I'm happy with my recent switch to linux desktop but for phones there aren't many options, is android any better?
Before his purchase, twitter was a company that had hope of profitability as a regular occurrence, if they could adjust some spend on infrastructure and engineering.

That's a lot harder to do with a giant debt crushing your soul, by a guy who can't really put any extra money into it to give it runway. All of the changes Elon has made to twitter have been desperate attempts to get some cash to stay alive, because the company is in a desperate position. At one point, they were down something like 50% in ad spend. Not many places can survive with new billions in debt and half the revenue. I don't know if he has been able to convince advertisers to come back, but they are fickle, stupid, and have no memory so surely that's a possibility, and this new CEO might be an attempt to convince advertisers his hands are off the wheel.
I agree, but to be pedantic, the cost of storage may work out to be lower than the cost of energy to encode even in that use case.
Yes that is precisely what was fixed, essentially the thread local storage that Julia was expecting were not setup and thus calling the runtime from a foreign thread would cause a crash.

This now enables to dynamically add and remove threads.
Url changed from https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/05/12/introducing-implement-dns-in..., which points to this.
So is not arriving it at by rewarding excessive risk taking (ie no shareholder or exec clawbacks of comp) by taking it out of the pockets of regular people by way of the additional costs incurred upon them by their US GSIB, after smaller banks went to Congress and complained they were "excessively regulated." [1]

It seems the party line is that it's totally fine for the Fed to reject Narrow Banking [2] (which is as close to zero risk as you can get in developed world finance at the cost of fractional reserve banking), but hand wringing across them, FDIC, OCC, and the executive branch when JPM needs to save the banking system again [3] [4]. Who could ever foresee the cyclic crises of our own making /s.

EDIT: We could have an inherently stable banking system. Regulators collectively choose a lesser alternative.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/13/svb-...

[2] https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/safest-bank-fed-wont-san...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/business/first-republic-j... | https://archive.is/IFBW7

(jpm customer)
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Only correction I would add here is the emerald mine is a red herring, if it existed at all Elon didn't get any significant money out of it.
I'm a former Rhodesian (present day Zimbabwe) who moved to South Africa after things went south in Zim. For context, I'm white, so it's not like I have a racial gripe against Musk. Elon went to one of the fanciest private schools in the country's capital and lived in one of its richest suburbs. Yes, technically Boys High is a public school, but people from outside South Africa don't know what the Model C school policy was. His father was extraordinarily wealthy and if you do read interviews by both Elon and Errol, they both admit this. His mother was an international supermodel and his family was generally pretty well connected in the greater scheme of things. The entire story about him struggling during college (where he went to an Ivy League university paid for by his father) is complete bullshit. I don't dispute his ingenuity in starting Zip2 (funded by his father too by the way), but he wasn't starting from the bottom with no help - that's the grossly inaccurate part that Elon still pushes for optics and people who are too stupid or unaware of how SA works lap it up.
Interesting. It looks like https://github.com/zrajna/zindex became public about a year after my searches for parallel uncompression came up empty and I started hacking on pigz.
Are there any light duty trucks, gas or electric, that can pull 20,000 pounds?

20,000 pounds is well into medium or heavy duty truck territory.
Tetanus can be too
Most of what you described is symptomatic of ADHD without medication, so I think you’re confusing cause and effect here, aside from sleeplessness.
> I think the point is the only evidence that you provided for the argument that “Musk got his wealth from his family’s emerald mine”

But at no point was I making that argument. The OP suggested (as Musk has many times) that the mine literally didn't exist. I was simply pointing out that according to his father it very much did exist and paid for Elon's college.
I would argue that taking something I’m supposed to pay for makes me feel bad about myself.
Yeah whenever I visit twitter now the adverts are really frequent, so maybe they just think "oh lots of ads, I guess the advertising revenue is normal". Like for every 5 normal tweets I see one "promoted" tweet, and about a third of the time it's some scammy product or service. I just went to twitter.com now and scrolled to check "normal tweets" (tweets or RTs from people I follow) and which were adverts:

- 3 x normal tweets

- advert (alza.cz)

- 3 x normal tweets

- advert (some scammy weight loss program called "mad muscles")

- 4 x normal tweets

- advert (t-mobile)

- 4 x normal tweets

- advert (some rubber feet product for washing machines so they don't jump around or fall over? is this a problem people have?)
> In the seven months since Musk bought the company he singlehandedly fired nearly every employee, accidentally locked the remainder out of the headquarters, turned blue-check validation into a living nightmare for international brands, un-banned some of the most notorious and repugnant users from white nationalists to bigots and racists, mis-branded news outlets as state-sponsored, threatened to open a news agency to impersonation on his platform, cancelled most of the API, and tried to extort the very brands his platform depended on in a cash-for-validation scheme that backfired spectacularly.

Which one of those claims wasn't real?
Believe elon's mother.
Elon and his dad are nuts
My use of twitter has been made worse. There's always a popup nag now to "create an account" where I never had one before
Their privacy policy is wild and every customer is opted into the connect services by default.

Interior images, exterior images, facial geometry, voice recordings, location/driving data, "multimedia screen data",

https://www.toyota.com/privacyvts/

https://web.archive.org/web/20230512182022/https://www.toyot...
Alternatives:

Google Cloud Functions

CloudFlare workers
Nah actually shitposting is funny and should be encouraged. Yes I know this is HN but stop being so uptight
This is, to me, the most foundational and profound realization that a person can have. Entire religions and social structures have been invented to avoid thinking about it.

'You' is indeed a pretty complex concept. It's one of those things that works as long as you don't squint too hard at it, but if you do start to think through some of the cracks in the idea you quickly reach a point where the only reasonable response is existential horror.
Thank you for launching with Firefox support!