skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privatize profits, socialize losses. No wonder it works when you can justify it like that.
> This is actually a smart model given Musk’s strengths have always been in building things and not in the day to day running of companies.

Are they? The majority of his successes came from investment, not from building.

[edit] I think his superpower may be wealth, like iron man.
Twitter has no policies anymore, it's all one guy's whim that subsequently gets translated into a "policy".
Oh yes, also CTO Twitter, chief neuroscientist Neuralink, chief researcher OpenAI, a regular Renaissance man. Never studied STEM.
Another example of designers not understanding their user base they are designing for.

Expert users like developers prefer higher information density. Give them the ability to configure this.

As a designer, don't ram your sense of beauty down your users' throats.
I hadn't thought about the rugby club in my hometown for years. I looked it up recently and some YouTuber had sponsored them [1] for stadium naming rights [2]. It's not a surprise how it ended.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Derry_R.F.C.
[2] https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/mini-ladd-youtube-sensatio...
Openai is selling a tool for plagiarism which itself is built upon unlicensed content. It has everything to do with openai.
Worked very close to the problem != is an engineer
Just don't confuse introversion for social anxiety or asocial folks. It's so annoying when folks do that.
Yes, that is true too, but the law says a car needs windows or similarly sized cavities. Within the minimum requirements for a steer legal car, more repair ability makes it easier to steal inherently.

Idk why people argue against this obvious fact. Things have trade offs and this is one of them. Of course you can design things to be repairable and minimize risk of theft, but if you didn’t care about that things could be even more accessible for modification if desired.
For a while now we have had formulaic writing where people write under a successful dead (or almost dead) author's name.

This is just using computers to do the same. Now anyone can write the next Borne novel.
YouTube was bought and Eric Schmidt was the one who suggested it.
We also have way too many writers vs readers.
Think of it in reverse then. The banking executive, who already have hundreds of millions or billions of dollars in personal wealth, weren't willing to give up one year of bonuses to save their industry.
Julia Evans's writing is just so much fun.
> He doesn’t have policies. He has whims

Well, come on, that was true under Dorsey too, he was just criticized for it by the half of the people who are now praising Elon for it.
Livebook's big launch week [audio]
I keep hearing this vague claim that the cars can be started with a usb key. How does this work? Is there a usb port that reads some secret file off the USB key? Is it just the USB plug shape that fits somewhere in the car that forces it to turn on?
"zstd finally has some potential to replace gzip"

bzip2 and xz have had the potential to replace gzip for the vast majority of users and use cases since more than a decade - and in many cases they have.
Agreed. That said, I'm not afraid to talk about some aspects of crypto here and I think it is worth pushing against the few noisy profiles that are so strongly anti-crypto. I just have to word things in a way that I'm speaking about facts and not trying to directly shill something, which I'm honestly not.

This comment I made recently might shed some light on what I'm talking about...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35918310

It is possible to lend wrapped bitcoin as collateral, borrow against it and then re-lend out that borrowed thing (or use it to provide liquidity). Essentially enabling one to use that bitcoin "investment" to work for you instead of just being a shiny pet rock that HN loves to hate on. This is part of 'being your own bank' and a way to move away from the traditional banking system into something more decentralized.

DeFi is also why I say that the biggest threat to bitcoin is wrapped bitcoin. =) I haven't touched the actual bitcoin chain, in years. Given that other chains, which support wrapped bitcoin, now use a fraction of the energy they did previously (proof of stake), it makes the ESG arguments around bitcoin itself, go out the window.
I like it better. I used it for all the diagrams in my latest book. I especially like the 3D. (BTW, the tutorial is first rate.)
That’s the whole problem. It’s not about FDIC insurance - I’m happily using it and accepting the cost. It’s about arbitrary decision to guarantee funds beyond explicit FDIC limits and blowing up the cost.
FYI, this is MusicLM, which was just recently published and appears to be way ahead of anything out there so far. You can check out examples here https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/

So this is not just empty PR by Google.
That’s cool, all manner of illegal shock content has always shown up on the chans as well, since day one. “Channer” as a term applies equally to all people in that ecosystem, even those that are reviled by the rest. :)
I believe Bookmarks existed before Elon, he just made it more visible in the UI (or approved the change, or however it happened).

> pushed the chronological feed

It's funny how many people who did not even know they weren't using a chronological feed before, are now cussing him out for showing a "For You" page - when he just made it much more visible and easier to switch to the "Following" feed.
Second and third hand accounts are nice. Even better when they come from folks no longer financially dependent on Elon's good graces.

But I was hoping to see some of his source code for Zip2, some CAD he'd done himself, or even a video of him solving some intractable problem in one of these rooms full of stumped geniuses.
I got off the waitlist in about a half hour when I signed up.
Dart – Windows
What are you talking about? Ford was about as anticommunist as you could get.

He was a strong anti-Semite, a conspiracy theorist who railed against "international Jewry", who paid to print the fabricated 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' in the US. He was absolutely against unions. His private police force used violent opposition against unionization, like the Ford Hunger March and the Battle of the Overpass. And he admired Nazi Germany, and was literally praised by Hitler in Mein Kampf.
Don't most games/game engines use TGA format for their textures? Those are all RLE-encoded if I'm not mistaken (which is very fast but very inefficient space-wise). Or perhaps that is just at game creation and those will get baked to some other image format for distribution?
If I were to attempt to re-buy any large portion of my tools all at once, I'd consider it an absurd amount to spend.

But over a lifetime of things breaking, you'll get a lot of large quotes for professional repairs, or replacement of a much bigger part than what actually broke.

When the washer fluid sprayer on my old Tacoma failed due to decades of a wire rubbing against a sharp metal edge, I was quoted $300 for the whole harness, and 2 hours of labour at $100 an hour.

Suddenly, the $120 soldering iron didn't seem so expensive.

tldr: I'm only 30 and own thousands of dollars worth of tools, but at no point have I ever spent more than the quote to fix the problem at hand.
I can't help but feel like the United States letting ICANN become an international body is the reason for this.
Elon’s hourly clown show? What are you watching?
IIRC, they keep blood pumping (inefficiently) through their gills while above water. This is less an analogue for "holding your breath" and more for "being on top of Mt. Everest." You're physically trying to get oxygen, it's just not working.
Exactly. and deserves a black bar.

Can we please have a black bar for respect and recognising his great contributions?
https://archive.is/uwNXi
Yep. The bottom of the EV market is sparse. Everyone is focusing on the 40k+ market.
I’m happy that OpenAI has lit a fire under Google’s butt.
That’s basically ideal for a lot of engineering work, so long as you keep fresh ideas coming into the group somehow so it doesn’t stagnate …
> But I think this argument is very weak.

It's particularly weak given that depositors are deliberately not given clear information on the liquidity and balance sheets of their banks to avoid bank runs. The FDIC said that SVB was stable and in good shape a day before it failed.
I'm not a fan of having some months be 25% longer than most, but it is predictable. One thing to consider in calendar reform is monthly payments. They could easily be transferred to weekly payments in this system, or increased 25% for extended months.
The more realistic outcome would be that Elon promises a cure for cancer is coming next year and repeats saying that every year until all of his competitors have caught up.
20 bit but yes :-) It was doubtless a clever hack given the constraints they were operating under but still a pain for real mode assembly programming, especially if it was memory constrained. At one point I needed to separate out code from in-memory data store for a DOS file manager to support larger directory sizes and the segment register switching got really ugly.
I am really tired of dirt being brought up each time a discussion of a renowned figure is happening. It obviously detracts from the inspiration or immersion people are trying to derive from bringing up those renowned figures. They are intentionally focusing on the positive aspects, and those who are bringing the garbage up are intentionally detracting from it.
Would love a Jupyter or chat style interface for producing the scripts, from within the platform

Amazing concept, thank you
No, at the level of knowing off hand the design considerations down to thermodynamics for practically every design decision that Tim asks about. In many cases to a much greater depth than I, an average engineer, know about these things.
is it really THAT important of a detail?
> It's possible to have a board of directors with only one member but this is a rarity

It is actually extremely common for corporations which aren’t regular business as such - for example, trustees of family trusts are commonly corporations with a single director who is the person who ultimately controls the trust. Also a common structure for sole proprietorship businesses that want some protection from legal liability.

I own a company which never has done anything (I was daydreaming). Its board of directors has one member-me. Legally, I am required to hold annual board meetings with myself, although I believe the legal obligation is met if I hold them in my head. “This year’s financial results: zero revenue, zero expenses, zero assets, zero liabilities, zero employees-another great year at does-nothing-corp!”
Just curious, do you rip any and all branding off of products you buy? Badges from the car, logos on backpacks, etc?
MySQL - Better performance and tune-ability. Higher connection limits/lower connection costs. Better multi-master and clustered replication story. 2+ decades in extremely high data and availability environments (telecom).

Postgres - Better SQL semantics.

Having supported both in 'bet the business' scenarios, I would choose MySQL hands down. Operating state of the art HA postgres clusters today feels like running MySQL clusters in 2005.
Looks promising, but I keep getting “could not fetch waitlist status” after signing in.
In parts of IL the violent crime trend has reversed since 2019-2020, including parts of Chicago (city where the author practiced.)
Elon'a parents didn't even own an entire Emerald mine...
I can assure you that most Europeans think the reason US meat is not for sale here is because it is unfit for consumption: look at the debate in the UK around “chlorinated chicken” just after Brexit, or hormone beef. For most processed food, the (founded) assumption is that it’s full of HCFS.
I've had my eye on their new electric platform for a while and stuff like this is not helping me pull the trigger.

I'm also still a little disappointed that the MSRP came out about 10% higher than the estimates. We're getting into too much money for a car there.
The older trains in NL have a computer that reads and displays all kinds of things but it controls nothing. If it doesn't work the train functions just fine.

A linux car seems a fun twist.
Go watch the LockPickingLawyer - some of it is skill, but there's a lot of product out there that's painfully easy to bypass.
Depends on where the data comes from.

A bunch of Toyotas have a telemetry module (basically an LTE modem tied into the can bus and the head unit), but the introduction date varies.

Tacomas for example didn’t have it until 2020.

I’m not sure though if this data is/was getting pushed through that or something else.
Mastodon is not very popular. Contributing to OSS and Wikipedia is a time investment and not a capital contribution.
Experiment contradicts Einstein and reveals ‘spooky quantum action’
Killing the APIs used by TweetBot and other third party products has made Twitter close to unusable.
Non because the topic is already covered by 1) countless blog posts 2) official documentation. Why do we now need it in a book format and waste trees is beyond me.
What nonsense. Crypto payments are more heavily-regulated via KYC than traditional payments. Anyone who's signed up for any crypto exchange attest to this fact. Crypto payments, as with all payments, over any mediums serve all purposes good & bad.

Just because the news typically only reports the murders that happen in a given city, doesn't mean that the only thing that's going to happen to someone in that city is to get murdered. Crypto reporting is much the same.

But yeah, technically you are still more likely to get murdered there, so only go if you're really into the other things it offers.

Just don't assume that with hundreds of billions invested, from all kinds of participants large and small, that the entire city is a fraud or otherwise nefarious. It's a major city - it has a lot going on, much under-reported.

Unless you live there, and you read the local news, attend local events, etc. Then you might have a better idea of what it's really like, and which alleys not to walk down alone at night, and where you can get the best bagels.
MIT was only a few decades old at the time -- having been founded about 75 years prior. Columbia was over twice as old at the time (185 years) and was well-established as a global center of physics research.
This is not analytical workload though, is it?
To be more precise, the rich world can afford to spend money on developing such treatments.

It is entirely possible that 30 years from now, the same therapy will cost 1000 USD per dose, with most of the expensive stuff automated away.
God damn it Toyota, I love Toyota

Still going to keep my cars

As long as they don’t start trying to charge me for the seat warmer
Melted down? More likely they're sold to questionable "remanufacturers"
Is it supposed to be shocking that you need a Google account to use a Google service?
did you read the reddit thread and still come away with this conclusion?
This comment seems to be perpetuating another misunderstanding about how LLMs like ChatGPT work: the idea that they have a "model of the world" that is consistent, but sometimes incorrect.

They do not.

There is no reason why two different people, asking the same question of ChatGPT, would necessarily get the same inaccurate answer. There is also no reason why they would get similar correct answers.

What they will get is answers that are statistically likely based on the text in ChatGPT's training data.
You cannot make something that you know will cause a nuisance. You cannot, for instance, sell fireworks only between 1-3am in the middle of a neighborhood and act surprised when the neighbors are mad at you because kids are setting them off all night.

It was absolutely predictable that these cars would be stolen and that the police would have to deal with the fallout. Just because there's no explicit law does not mean that Kia doesn't know better. Kia needs to pay for that.
> If you just want to mash the attack button to win, BotW is definitely made for you.

I'd like to see somebody beat Thunderblight Ganon by mashing the attack button.
If you didn't play BotW, then by all means, play one of the best-reviewed games of all time, which is probably a little bit cheaper by now. It's not like you'd be going back to 8-bit era and the technological whiplash would ruin the experience - they're basically the same in terms of quality, scope, and tech experience.
He can regurg briefings, look again at what he says in anything you’re an expert in. E.g. software: he’s a total fraud.
HN will sometimes render a black bar on the tops of pages when a prominent person has died.
To me your view is just common sense. I find it bizarre how some people seem to be treating ad-blockers like the equivalent of stealing in the comments.

It is YouTube's right to prevent me from using their site if I use an ad-blocker just as much as it is my right to stop using their service altogether if they prevent me from using it with an ad-blocker.
The event illustrates that banking is an inherently unstable business. Depositors must have the illusion of being able to withdraw everything anytime on demand, because it's their "money". Banks have a huge incentive to invest the deposits in things that can't necessarily be liquidated on demand, because what in the world other than a bank account can be?

The choice then is a) to accept some bank failures and depositor wipeouts, or b) inexorable pressure to centralize the risk structure until you have something remarkably like Gosbank[1] or 1 bank for everyone.

We tried the FDIC scheme, it was nice, but when the deposit limit is overtopped these days the bank is not stable.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosbank
No. It's not any different than an insurance company realizing that the risk that a 1 in 500 year extreme weather event has dropped to a 1 in 100 year probability and adjusted insurance rates accordingly. Silicon Valley thought leaders used social media to create a bank run on steroids, a scenario apparently unforeseen by the actuaries at banks and their regulators. So…the regulator is adjusting risk in reaction.
Can you tell me why? I’m always interested in hearing from people with different opinions.
Probably a distinction without a difference, but I have a non-FDIC insured account at a credit union. It's covered by NCUA instead, which probably works similarly as FDIC insured accounts.
The US doesn't have to bother with formal requests of course.
I notice that jewelers and goldsmiths in Riyadh have nowhere near the level of secure access controls, nor the type and amount of reinforced display cases that you see in Chicago or NYC. Likewise, I can leave a $4000 macbook on a table in a bar in the cheapest neighborhood in Saitama, and not have it walk off if I step outside for a smoke.

Why do you suppose this is?

What is happening there, that isn't happening in Baltimore?
It’s amazing to my mind that AI can now help write textbooks on niche topics. I see that as tremendous progress for humanity.

Of course, with capitalistic incentives, we will use it for spam and garbage.
>They'll remove shows

Arrr matey! We'll still get them.
It will never get fined because it’s how the people who legislate fines are making (and keeping) their money and control.
Non-clickbait link: https://aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/experiments/music-lm

Its part of AI test kitchen, if you were already part of that for playing with BARD and stuff you just need to log in and give it a go.

If not, you'll have to get on the waitlist. When I asked I got access within a day, but might be much slower now with so much interest.

Here are a bunch of examples of the music: https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/

In my opinion it isn't exactly great. It doesn't do much creativity. Eg. I asked it to make a dance song from a club but have classical instruments as well. It was unable to do that. It's mono and can often be out of tune.

We will see how it improves, but this certainly isn't taking away jobs for musicians in it's current state.
Simply prove it and get $93,000 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35920193
Absolutely, android phones allow you to actually control the user space software on the device. The whole baseband processor thing is another topic but overall android allows much greater ownership and control
I would be less concerned about who gets paid, and more concerned about our civilization's long-term decline with human thought leadership. We won't be writing the story of our humanity anymore.
Given he is also CEO/CTO of SpaceX and Tesla, I don’t think he physically can be at Twitter every working day - unless he’s secretly cloned himself
Bezos owns 10% of Amazon.
I consider using an index to be "cheating" - or rather, my intended use-case is decompression of a stream that you've never seen before, which was generated by a "dumb" compressor.

That said, the approach I intend to take is similar. The idea is that one thread is dedicated to "looking ahead", parsing as fast as it can (or even jumping far ahead and using heuristics to re-sync the parse state. There will be false-positives but you can verify them later), building an index but not actually doing decompression, while secondary threads are spawned to do decompression from the identified block start points. The hard part is dealing with missing LZ references to data that hasn't yet been decompressed. Worst-case performance will be abysmal, but I think on most real-world data, you'll be able to beat a serial decompressor if you can throw enough threads at it.
A trite response that doesn't comport with the available evidence of today's economy. But hey, faith-based economics drives the world.
Funny, RAM is my favorite Daft Punk album. I love every song
I really didn't expect that comment to go over so poorly. I am trying to be constructive here, not critical.

> Automating "correct" is still an unsolved problem.

That's our job.

Cf. "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework"
SRI Summary Report AFOSR-3223
By Douglas C. Engelbart
October 1962
https://dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html

And "An Introduction to Cybernetics" by W. Ross Ashby
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html
PDF: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf
Specifically "Amplifying intelligence" which comes at the end so you kinda have to read the whole book to get it. It's worth reading anyway.

> Bicycles, and their near-optimal designs, are still a $68B industry.

What does that have to do with anything?
by asking "why you wanna work for our company", they really are asking "What are you willing to sacrifice while working for our company"?, just in a roundabout way
We don't really have too many writers who produce high quality content. Or maybe the market just doesn't value it, hard to say...
But the VIN number was available, as it says right below that

I mean does anyone think there HASN'T been a leak of VIN numbers and owners that would be trivial to join with this?

It's also kind of staggering how long this was a problem

Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach on its cloud environment that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers for ten years, between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023.
Oracle, what a crazy company. Its only goal seems to be to buy things, and then destroy them.

I interviewed there a decade ago. Response: someone told me I wasn't a culture fit.

But this wasn't the normal "culture fit" response, oh no. You could tell it was a "you aren't willing to drink the coolaid" type of response. I feel I dodged a bullet.
Mathematical Analysis of a Peculiar Ancient Granite Vase
This sounds like the backstory to the Matrix to me.
Reducing costs by setting up an entity vs. using Deel (and other EORs)