skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Max Levchinin in Founders At Work pag 7:

"...Peter took some time off. The guy who ran X.com became the CEO, and
I remained the CTO. He was really into Windows, and I was really into Unix.
So there was this bad blood for a while between the engineering teams. He was
convinced that Windows was where it’s at and that we have to switch to
Windows, but the platform that we used was, I thought, built really well and I
wanted to keep it. I wanted to stay on Unix..."

"...I had this intern that I hired before the merger, and we thought, “We built
all these cool Unix projects, but it’s kind of pointless now because they are going to scrap the platform. We might as well do something else.” So he and I decided we were going to find ourselves fun projects. We did one kind of mean project where we built a load tester package that would beat up on the Windows prototype (the next version was going to be in Windows). We built a load tester that
would test against the Unix platform and the new Windows one and show in
beautiful graphs that the Windows version had 1 percent of the scalability of
the Unix one. “Do you really want to do that?”...

...It was me acting out, but it was kind of a low time for me because I was not
happy with the way we were going..."

"...At the time, already I had
hated the guy’s guts for forcing me to do Windows, and then, in the end, I was
like, “You gotta go, man.” My whole argument to him was, “We can’t switch to
Windows now. This fraud thing is most important to the company. You can’t
allow any additional changes. It’s one of these things where you want to change
one big thing at a time, and the fraud is a pretty big thing. So introducing a new
platform or doing anything major—you just don’t want to do it right now.” That
was sort of the trigger for a fairly substantial conflict that resulted in him leaving
and Peter coming back and me taking over fraud...."
AI Is About to Be Everywhere: Where Will Regulators Be?
I always wonder if they take assets into account with this?
I don’t get why people complain about the content they get on Twitter. Curate carefully who you follow, only follow people who stick to a topic of interest and don’t intermix pics of their dinner or other random BS.

Then change the option at the top of your timeline from “For You” to “Following” to only see posts from people you follow. Voila, now you get decent content that’s of interest to you.

Using this is way makes it like an RSS feed.
ChatGPT uses the word "delve" a lot. If it wasn't for the lowercase "i" in your message, I would have been skeptical that this was a message generated by chatGPT. Perhaps your speech tendencies are merging with those of ChatGPT. Before too long your independent thoughts and writings may accidentally be flagged by GPT detectors, haha.
Add in the $7500 federal tax credit on that EV and it's a dead heat. Even worse Tesla has a hefty margin on their vehicles right now and could go lower if they really wanted to put the squeeze on traditional automakers. They're also aggressively cost cutting the production. I think Ford, GM, Chrysler, BMW, Volkswagon, etc... are in more trouble than most people realize at the moment. I'm not saying they're going to go out of business next year, but I think they're going to experience significant market shrinkage in the coming decade if they continue down the path they are on.
Shhhh you're supposed to ignore all the things Elon has said in the past that directly contradict things he says now.
Not GRD after all haha
I enjoyed Breath of the Wild for a bit, but felt it was over hyped. The open world feels pretty empty compared to other games (Skyrim, GTA5), and the shrines are a bit of a repetitive loop. Still had fun with it, but never finished. Of course also much less of a gamer than I used to be.

Good game, but seems to be a fair amount of herding/rose colored glasses with reviewers.
There's an unimaginable gulf between buying books paying tuition to college (especially back when that was affordable), and an investment in a business that's the equivalent of about $350k today.

Elon was never going to have to eat rice and beans, or go work in a cubicle for a big corp to pay the bills if any of his ventures failed.
GameFAQs tier trolling here.
> It's hard to imagine why an alien civilization would send a signal this way.

Minimum requirements? If a civilization could only receive narrowband signals, then it's probably a bit early, and maybe even dangerous, for contact.
I have not only implemented parallel decompression but also random access to offsets in the stream with https://github.com/mxmlnkn/pragzip I did some benchmarks on some really beefy machines with 128 cores and was able to reach over 10 GB/s decompression bandwidth. This works without any kind of additional metadata but if such an index file with metadata exists, it can double the decompression bandwidth and reduce the memory usage. The single-core decoder has lots of potential for optimization because I had to write it from scratch, though.
They aren't really what HN people would consider serious microchips. They certainly aren't CPUs. They are lots of basic little chips doing things like regulating an engine parameter or detecting brake pedal forces. One way forwards in reducing the overall demand for chips, the square-inches of silicon needed in a car, is to abandon the approach of scattering little chips all over the vehicle. Instead they could route all the wiring into a centralized control with a powerful CPU running effectively an OS for the entire vehicle. One chip to rule them all. But that just isn't how cars have evolved. History has incrementally made every system componentized and independent.
So move your money into a money market fund or other, lower-fee and/or higher-interest place to park cash.
Rendering React (SSR) in OCaml
Damn haven't thought of Adam Ant in years. Nice
>After a collapse of civilization

Collapse is a process, not an event. Collapse is happening all around us, yet we're not all turning into gangs of marauders. When catastrophes happen in poor countries, they don't turn into roving gangs of marauders either. People tend to work together, actually.

>likely only highly organized and well armed groups will survive

[extremely USAmerican voice]
> Do I, the person entering this information, even know or care about [the time of the event I'm referring to]?

I'm sorry but if you don't even know yourself what you mean, the computer cannot know it either. The topic here is how to store a datetime, not how to guess meanings.

> What about timezone differences that vary depending not only on geography, but also on the ethnicity of the people associated with the event?

Again, display conversion. Have these natives put their date system into the timezone database and make the UI have a selector for this timezone. Under the hood it still happened at a certain actual moment in time which is what should be stored in the database.

No significant difference from any other timezone that you have to apply to a unix timestamp to get a display time, or conversely, apply to input data to get the timestamp to store.
> The FDIC said the payments would not begin until the second quarter of 2024 and would be collected over two years, translating to an annual rate of 0.125 per cent of each bank’s uninsured deposits.

This is going to be a fun one to track. I fully predict the big banks will game their own deposit holdings to not fall into this category. A year is plenty of time for them to find some loophole.
Cat and dog torture videos litter Twitter, adding to concerns about moderation
IMHO, Twitter fundamentally needed a huge shakeup, which Elon has done. I've enjoyed and used my account more since he took over than in any of the years prior. Still, it's obvious a lot of people are unhappy with the changes; but it's hard to judge how many people are quietly happy with them. Personally, I hope for Twitter's success under Yaccarino's leadership.
Infrastructure from mining makes sense for scientific computing
They even nailed the headrest screens on the space "plane"! The lunar landing scenes are also mind blowing when you realize the film was released before the actual moon landing!
the LTD would only be created for the PRO plan. not the starter plan. Else there is not enough value in it.

The reasoning is to create more runway short term when offering this for a limited number of customers. Else it's not making sense.

It's primarily for obtaining brand equity and spreading the word rather than the immediate monetary value (revenue) for the business.
Two thirds of Americans don't have a college degree. The most common professions in the country are clerk, cashier, food prep worker and truck driver. If your parents were able to pay for your university education you probably grew up at the upper end of the upper middle class, which is already a very lucky position to be in.

Ordinary people make about 35k per year, half make less. They're not paying for an expensive college education.
I don't know what 529 you guys invested in but Utah's 529 which anyone can use whether or not they live in Utah allows you to invest in regular old Vanguard funds like VSTSX. They also offer target dates funds that handle gradually shifting to a more conservative allocation as enrollment date nears if that's what you want.

I agree that not all 529s are good, only 2 plans received a gold rating from Morningstar in 2022: Utah & Michigan. I wouldn't choose anything other than those.
Reportedly the leadership of SpaceX manages him like he's a medieval boy king. They spend a lot of time figuring out how to get him to come to the right conclusions and making him feel like he's in charge. I would bet that Tesla does the same thing.

Twitter didn't have this management layer, and we have now seen the result.
At some point (maybe the 68040?), the 68K line started to decline in popularity and there was a significant contingent of the industry that was convinced that RISC was the future (not that they were really wrong). The big Unix system companies were mostly doing their own RISC designs and Motorola figured that they had a significant market in the second-tier players like Data General that weren't going to do their own RISC designs.

Intel did try to do RISC unsuccessfully with the i860--which also had some sort of VLIW mode, which makes their later Itanium even harder to understand.
Ask HN: Best computer that can't run a modern browser
I'd like to spend less than two hundred dollars on a machine that can run a Linux terminal, but is incapable of running a modern web browser. Extra points for something a bit stylish looking.

I realize I could simply not install a browser; I'm using this as a heuristic for a computer with very modest specifications.
It's also significantly easier to turn $100k into infinite money in the dot com boom
japan is a US protectorate. when china starts marketing their EV's abroad the US will just sanction them. don't worry, japan is safe.
Same here, was puzzled too and had to add "wavelength" to complete today's words.
finance is even weirder. for example the US/360 bond calendar assumes 12 months of 30 days each. to make various calculations easier, I guess.
Even a "low-tech" car is still very complicated to build. Someone who is good enough to make a very good old style car (like Honda or Toyota), isn't financially incentivized to do so anymore. Such a car would not have any features to justify its brand new price over a used one. And the cost to reserve an entire factory line for this model is just too expensive and probably sale won't recover the cost of doing so.
I agree, I'd love KDE Connect to support UnifiedPush.
yeah my reading of it is just been on the hardware costs
Faster CPython at PyCon, part two
You don't even need timezones or DST to run into issues along these lines.

Let's say you have have a repeating 7am alarm on your phone. What should happen if you want to set it to 8am for one day? I mean, without walking you through a dialog that looks like: do you mean today 8, or tomorrow 8?
You being unaware of history is not the same as that history not existing.
I checked - it's identical as far as I can tell (at least for my house)
Bullshit. 529 plans are great for tax avoidance. If you picked the wrong plan, or the wrong investments within that plan, then that's on you. Try a reputable, low-cost plan from a company like Vanguard.
US megacorps aren't exactly known to happily reduce profits without trying to claw them back elsewhere
Part one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35902506 (> 140 comments)
You didn't have an option with at least the initial 88k. They couldn't fit it all into one chip so you had to buy one 88100 and at least one 88200. The next gen 88110 was single chip.
The shareholders.

Anyone who had stock in Twitter got a big pile of cash.
How much money you have makes you rich or not rich, not where it came from.
Certainly - here's the CFPB's page on it:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/research-repor...

Note that this is for lower-income households
This is a Japanese company so most of their engineers will be hired directly from university and typically stay on until retirement. Based on what I've heard they build large groups of engineers who'll stay together more or less permanently. Then they'll rotate these groups between different projects. Sometimes they'll be on a game, other times they might be doing something with hardware. So the groups end up multidisciplinary.
It’s incredibly disingenuous to suggest that the people who are invoking Musk’s emerald mine are actually complaining about the “cash in his pocket for living expenses.”

Musk’s parents helping with living expenses is actually the norm in America. Parents pay over 50% of the costs of tuition, room and board for American students: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-23/universit...
Get one of the cheaper ones. $625 is for 510 values, you don't need that.
> "Typical of apple to hide this useful feature from us"

It's right there in Calculator's menu: View -> Programmer
They are base64 encoded so they don’t spoil the puzzle for you. Search the internet for an online base64 decoder and paste the string in, and you’ll see what I wrote.
> It's all just so ridiculous.

And yet so fascinating, and ubiquitous.

Human consciousness is a hell of a drug.
Already done. 4.9% is lovely right now.

https://www.cit.com/cit-bank/bank/cds/no-penalty-cd
Part two: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=35919949
If you do 200,000 miles over those 10 years on a 20mpg car with $5/gallon gas, that's $50K in gas for your $17k car. I assume your numbers are lower, but it's not hard to see how TCO for an EV can be cheaper for many.

My electric company just introduced a 2.9c/kWh overnight rate. At 4 miles/kWh, that works out $1450 for 200,000 miles.
This is fabulous.

It would be convenient if I didn't have to download the code to run it though - if it was in a GitHub repo it could provide links to hosted notebook services such as JupyterHub and Colab - then lazy people like myself could click those links to try out the notebooks in their browsers without downloading, unzipping and running Jupyter locally.
I hope jailbreaking and disabling this data collection becomes the norm in the future. It is obvious companies do not prioritize the security protecting our data.
Saturn Adds 62 More Moons to Its Count
If you watch a sport like Formula 1, there’s an endless amount of scam sponsorships. When the money is sorely needed, the vetting for sponsors decreases
The apparent existence of the emerald mine does put some shade on musk's purely "self-made" story. Even though, in reality, no one is truly, completely self made. But Musk has fully denied the existence of an emerald mine. But now his father confirmed it. So I don't think we can trust Musk's account here and I'm not sure we can trust his father's. So I think it remains to be seen how much family money supported Elon while he became "self-made".
Japan generally. They tried to pull a great leap forward move with AI a few decades ago, but just ended up wasting billions on dead end approaches right on the cusp of the AI winter. My personal opinion is that really top notch breakthrough software engineering and computer science is susceptible to an exponential cascade butterfly effect.

Yes you need big teams to deliver huge projects. Operating systems, compilers, languages, etc all take huge investment to build out. The thing is though the initial conditions have a massive downstream effect. The core contributions by genius 10x computer scientists and software engineers set the pace for everyone else. Unix, C, Linux, Git, LLVM, Perl, Python, who knows what else. It's the individuals or small dedicated teams doing it the 'wrong' way, or going for a weird untested approach that starts a small speck that snowballs into huge multi-billion industries.

The culture and economic conditions in the US are perfect for this to work. Japan, and for different reasons and certainly not the the same scale Europe, not so much.
> I've noticed zero difference as a too-frequent daily user.

I assumed this was how it would go for me too, but after the change to elevate tweets and replies by blue check accounts I actually stopped using it because now, every time I look at it, it's just an orgy of the dullest and most ignorant and intellectually dishonest people in the world posting the worst crap I've ever seen. Last time I checked twitter.com the tweet at the top of my timeline was somebody "questioning" whether a recent mass shooter's multiple tattoos of nazi iconography could reasonably be interpreted to mean that he was in fact some flavor of neo-nazi. And so on and so forth.

I don't follow any of these fucking people! and I don't want to see this shit. It's absolutely soul-draining.

I'm sure there are plenty of people who'll say I'm using Twitter wrong, blah blah, whatever. I don't really care—all I know is I was enjoying using it in the way its UX encouraged me to use it and now it's horrible and I've stopped, probably for good. I do wonder how many others had/are having a similar experience.
People will still drive, they will just buy and drive used cars instead of new ones. Since the cars themselves are more durable, they will last longer and create less of an environmental burden to produce. (Assuming they are properly and adequately maintained. If people buying new are cycling through in 3-4 year intervals and not maintaining them since it's someone else's problem then that'll be much worse.)
Interesting to see that they are in Texas and not California...
Yeah, something like fifteen to ten years ago, these same people were SEO experts.
Gamers also aged like everybody else. If you are 50 now you probably played the Atari 2600 as a kid and might still like to game.
People to Connect with on Bluesky?
I’m interested in anyone posting about their cool projects and who might be interested in AI music development

Also willing to hear about Mastodon!
Seeing the origin stories in this thread I'd actually argue that "let's go Brandon" is not really a cheap joke. (I guess, really, that it's at least not as cheap as "tiny hands".) The "tiny hands" joke exists for the sole purpose of making fun of a particular politician and the "let's go Brandon" joke at least speaks to a certain bias in presenting information. It seems a lot like a reporter "misheard" "Fuck Joe Biden" as "let's go Brandon" because the reporter didn't want to report that people were chanting "Fuck Joe Biden".

At a time when "rightists" commonly complain about media bias, this exact sort of bias happens. Then people use it as a dog-whistle for calling out media bias; it's not surprising. As with all polarizing issues, it's best for every individual to consider their own bias. I have found that I frequently don't give a person's opinion a fair shake because I've already concluded that I disagree. Generally, I only do that when I'm not interested in learning.

Anyway, they may both be cheap jokes but this seems a bit like a false equivalence or otherwise misunderstands the argument being made.
Geothermal Everywhere: Finding the Energy to Save the World
To all the former owners of Twitter. Twitter never controlled it.
There doesn't seem to be much that they can do to game it as the calculations seem to be based on uninsured deposits. The bank doesn't control how much a depositor places in the bank.
For me at least, this perception comes from the level of hubris that Elon exhibits in public. Statements like "At this point, I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on earth" is not something you hear from good engineers very often because it reeks of Dunning Kruger. Elon also frequently chooses to make statements with high certainty about areas far outside his expertise ("Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April") and consistency overpromises and under-delivers with some technologies (FSD).

So I don't know. Maybe he's a good engineer when he's not on camera. But as a public figure I think he's massively overexposed, largely by choice, and it's doing him no favours in terms of perception lately.
If someone wants to learn stuff from your work - they will and there's nothing that you can do about it. I can train a LoRA on someone's artstyle in a few hours on my PC. You can rent a GPU and do it under an hour. It takes more time to curate, process and caption images than to actually train the AI. It's that easy. So yeah - the cat is out of the bag and you will have to adapt.
We are on a forum where everybody and their dog call themselves engineer. Whenever we feel like it, we just create disciplines on-the-fly.
good she comes from advertising. seemed like Musk wrecked that aspect of Twitter. lets see if she has enough power to impact it given Musk is still the de facto boss
Tax payers aren’t responsible for any of this. Only people who use the banking system, receive interest, have deposit accounts…

If you are unbanked and work a W2 (paid in cash of course), you’re not on the hook for any of this!

It’s a coincidence that 99.99% of tax payers use the banking system.
In this case I believe the delay was due to the strained relationship between Epic and Apple due to disagreements over the App Store.

From a technical perspective Unreal already supports iOS on 64-bit ARM processors, so it should have been a fairly straightforward port.
> Not to defend him, but having your parents pay for your education is hardly a rare circumstance.

This. Parents have worked their tails off to build a better life for their kids for millenia. Calling it a form of privilege seems like a gross misunderstanding of human behavior.
The first company, Zip2, was started with $28k of his dad's money.

If he hadn't been given that, he might not have been in a position to sell Zip2 for a massive profit during the dotcom boom. That sale is what made Elon personally very wealthy.

Where did the $28k come from? How much money did Elon's dad provide for his living expenses, international moves, etc while going through college and the Zip2 startup? Where did that money come from?
I don't get why people argue like this. It's so obviously disingenuous. Owning a share of an emerald mine makes your means your family is somewhat rich maybe not filthy rich but rich enough to own a share of an emerald mine, which trust me, isn't cheap.
Indirectly, via lower interest rates on accounts, higher interest rates on loans, higher fees on other things.
Checkout their privacy policy, it includes biometrics and facial scans, and microphone data. It's absolutely wild.

https://www.toyota.com/support/privacy-notice/

https://web.archive.org/web/20230512181415/https://www.toyot...
So the big question I think is who to trust here.

Here is his mother denying it: https://twitter.com/mayemusk/status/1654983542336520192

Here is Elon's story:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1654971702571331584

Here's a video of Elon back in the day on CNN talking about sleeping on the floor and buying his first expensive car with the money he was making from x.com and Justine Musk saying she fears they will become spoiled brats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9mczdODqzo

So who to believe?