skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not retail investors that are directly inflating asset bubbles. The fallout of their bad decision-making is limited because they have to pay market rates for loans.

There are no such limits for venture capital and private equity or state-backed wealth funds. That's why Softbank and Saudi Arabia can flood SV startups with money, even as the companies themselves use that money to somehow deepen their losses further.
Tinder cracks down on OnlyFans and sugar daddy ads by removing social handles
Popular dating app Tinder has announced it will remove any social-media handles listed in public-user profile bios from today, in a bid to crack down on people using the service to advertise sex work, according to the Evening Standard.

While online safety is an ever-present concern, it seems Tinder is most concerned about users trying to advertise businesses or make money in illicit ways.

The dating app’s updated community guidelines go further. A new paragraph spells out exactly what they mean by this: “Tinder isn’t the place for any sort of sex work, escort services, or compensated relationships. So, no — don’t use Tinder to find your sugarmamma.”
This is how engineers think executive decisions are made and it is just not accurate.

The CEO of Toyota plays golf with the uncle of the head of the “we track you forever” group. They both feel like the nephew has a big future and there is a ton of money to be made over the next 5 years before the CEO plans to retire.

Plus, according to their marketing team, Volkswagen is worse. Much worse.

There is way less science and way more emotion at play.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait, especially of the ideological battle variety? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. This has been a problem for a while, and we eventually have to ban accounts that keep doing this kind of thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33014228 (Sept 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30086559 (Jan 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19830614 (May 2019)

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
They figured out how to use 16 bits of register space to represent a 12 bit memory address. I understand there were reasons for doing it this way, but it was painful.
I'd love to hear what people who talk about these family connections actually think they were and where they got this idea from.

I've heard it claimed hundreds of times but with no clear idea what these connections were, how they came about or what they were used for. Or even any evidence whatsoever that they existed...
Eh, the biography sometimes veers heavily into redpill territory. He has a frank discussion of negging in order to seduce women. I personally think #canceled is far too eager to throw the baby out with the bathwater and if you just cruise through that section with the mentality that he's a product of his time then it's still a fascinating work.

I also personally think that there are multiple parts of the book that have been "spiced up" because that's the kind of personality he has.
> Getting eyes on the stuff hidden underneath before it gets bad enough to start breaking is always useful.

For people like myself, looking at the underside of a car is worthless. I wouldn't even begin to be able to recognize something needs attention until it's very obviously broken. And even then, I might not know.
There are indications to the opposite. What you have pointed out is that he has hired two female executives across the dozens of individuals in his portfolio. Better than zero, I suppose.

Meanwhile:

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/12/14/former-spacex-engineer-e...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-tweet-elon-musk-captures-...

https://www.reuters.com/business/tesla-subjects-women-nightm...
Wow, bring on the lawsuits! Important to bring this to light to protect ourselves. Will be more informed on my next car purchase coming up this year.
I have a slightly off topic but related query to new HTTPS RR and SVCB record types of DNS. Will these records allow me to host sites without a reverse proxy since both records can include port info.
Lower sales. Bad management. And there was a consensus at that point that CISC was a dead-end and RISC was the future. Also, they did in fact take the 68k further (ColdFire) but too late, long after they had pushed their serious customers to PowerPC.

Intel was making enough coin from x86 that they were reluctant to EOL it in favour of something RISC. Not that they didn't try. Multiple times (Itanium being the worst, though much later). But each time their replacement failed to ignite, and Intel pulled back from the brink and they pushed something that was a noticeable incremental improvement while keeping backward compatibility.

And with the Pentium & the ISAs that followed they just seemed to pull a rabbit from a hat. They made the x86 CISC architecture scale in a way that pundits at least? didn't seem to think was possible.

Motorola didn't invest in time in doing for 68k what Intel did for x86 with the Pentium. And they screwed over their customers as a result. They basically told everyone (Apple, NeXT, various workstation makers, etc.) to go to 88k. 88k was an architectural failure. So then they did PowerPC along with IBM and others. And people who used 68k previously either went PowerPC (Apple) or rolled their own RISC (Sun with SPARC, HP with PA-RISC, etc.) or just left the market entirely (Apple, Commodore).

ColdFire is roughly to the 68k what Pentium II or so was to the x86 line. It's actually quite nice. They dropped a couple things from 68k but it's about 90% compatible, and can do a very effective software emulation to make itself 100%. But it got pushed basically only as a microcontroller or specialist (routers, ethernet switches, etc.) architecture. You can still buy them from NXP I believe.

These days I don't like big-endian. And the separate address vs data registers seems weird now. But the 68k instruction set was overally very nice. I do imagine sometimes an alternate timeline where Motorola had rolled ColdFire out sooner as an MPU line for consumer stuff and Apple, etc. had used that instead of going PowerPC. I wonder what a 64-bit 68k would have looked like.

IMHO Apple wasted a whole pile of engineering years getting MacOS classic to port over natively to PowerPC. It was extremely unstable and large parts were emulated 68k code for years. It might have saved them some unprofitable years, who knows? They seem to have finally learned the lesson and they own their own CPU now.
Yeah those videos are certainly despised by channers, what websites did they run into those videos on in the first place?
> All machines of meaningful complexity need maintenance if you expect them to last, including EVs

This is honestly not true - there is an order of magnitude less parts in an EV drivetrain vs a modern ICE car. You can go a decade between seeing a service center in an EV, largely thanks to regen braking/one pedal driving allowing you to avoid new pads or discs. There is no transmission in virtually all EVs, with drive direct from the motor through a fixed gear etc. The motor's moving parts are effectively friction free - the rotor and stator in an EV never touch, so there is no wear.

I think anyone currently running both an EV and a gas car will have similar experiences; The EV needs tires, cabin air filters and wiper blades from new to the 10 year mark, there are no other regular trips. The only scheduled fluid change on a tesla is a relatively inexspensive 10 year battery coolant swap.

My suspension and brakes get inspected for safety issues every time I get new tires on the EV - I'm fine with not getting under it too.
The Hep-B vaccine used to cost $100K and now it's about $4000 (in the US where we get screwed). Honestly a $20K vaccine that would protect me from the big killer cancers would be a check I'd write in a second and I'm not a rich man.
I thought it was socialism for the rich?
I use twitter basically non-stop. I haven't noticed anything like armageddon. I have noticed a few things going wrong, and i have noticed people who hate Musk crowing over every one of these as if it was the opening of the first seal.

(i should perhaps disclose that i have a very low opinion of Musk, but don't hate him)

At the moment it's hard to say whether the stream of small bugs (the one that annoys me is that the unread notifications indicator seems to be perenially out of sync) is just normal enshittification, or the foreshocks before The Big One.
It's ridiculously easy for anyone to steal. If I buy a door I expect the lock to work, that's the value doors provide. If it turns out that the lock actually does nothing I would consider myself defrauded by the door manufacturer unless they specifically told me that the lock doesn't work.
>With stagnant wages, economically crippled younger generations, etc is ~$700/month in car payments [1] plus operating costs sustainable?

This is like the most ridiculous example of unaffordability you could have cooked up. When I was young and poor, I bought a used 17-year old honda accord for $1000 and drove it around for nearly a decade. It worked fine. So yeah, a $700 car payment would have been absurd, but... I never subjected myself to that artificial constraint.
>Needing either the index or both is likely a lot more common in Go than in other languages owing to the lack of any sort of iterator or composition

In our codebase, there's very few instances of needing the index. Usually you just want to iterate over a list and apply some function(s) to the elements or add them to another list.
I see the logic, but you can say that about anything. The bank pays for insurance on your deposits.

If you want your own insurance or you don’t want insurance, you can certainly do that by not using FDIC-insured accounts.
Where can I download these data? I would like to know what was exposed for my car.
Real-Life Fractal Zoom
just the depositors that could have bought private insurance.
Care to elaborate on how mid-level air force officers are "benefitting" from ULA contracts? A rocket is a rocket, buyers should be fairly vendor-agnostic.
The password sharing thing really annoyed me. We were sharing a password between two households, so, fair is fair, we tried to pay the extra fee for an additional household.

However, the profile transfers don't work properly. We couldn't transfer the right profile to the second household. I think it has something to do with it being the first / primary profile. It's still broken. They said they'd give us a refund, but didn't. Now we're paying more for a worse, broken product.

I spent 45m with support that did not give a single fuck.

It's not on my credit card or it would have been cancelled months ago. I don't care if they want to change pricing or crack down on password sharing, but when they're asking for more money I expect things to work. They deserve to get out-competed IMO.
I don't want to be confused for an Elon Musk fanboy, but he's definitely not stupid, having founded Tesla, Spacex, and other companies.
McCulloch and Pitts – Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity [pdf]
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35919133
https://web.archive.org/web/20230512181556/https://www.wired...
I graduated from MIT undergrad a few years ago. There were certainly no restrictions on cultural background in the fraternities, though certain fraternities (and some dorm floors) did have reputations for having disproportionate of people coming from a particular ethnicity (e.g. asian) or heading towards a particular career path (e.g. finance, or medicine). FWIW I almost joined a frat that I would've been a minority in, but I never felt excluded while rushing that or any of the other frats.
Epic Games Released the Machine Learning Deformer Sample for Unreal Engine 5.2
That reminded me of the San Junipero episode in Black Mirror. I guess the series you mentioned was inspired by that episode.
It's not the taxpayers that are picking up the bill, it's the banks, and probably the customers. It ends up to pretty much the same crowd, but it depends how the banks will make up those fees on their balance sheets. They could just choose to reduce dividends if they wanted to.
I'm curious which company you think isn't doing this? A modern car is just as much of a spyware platform as a modern cellphone.
I also recommend Thinkpad.

But how old Thinkpad it needs to be so it's not capable to run a modern browser? I have Thinkpad from 2010 (added SSD and some RAM) and it's running browser quite nicely.

Maybe the OP wants something even older?
The bank is the customer in that case, and you could argue that they could sue, based on "assumptions about contract" or whatever.

Baltimore didn't buy these cars.
Now more than ever a truly independent alternative to Google is needed; (with its aims to improve from what Google left behind circa 2016).

Is anybody aware of a search engine which would prioritise results properly, i.e:
1) works without JS
2) first-party JS
3) 3rd party verified libraries
4) any JS
a) No ads
b) non-JS, non targeted ads
etc

The business model would be the ability to run advanced searches and a live-search (instead of cached index), as a premium product (say varying from 2gbp/month upwards). And given the relative simplicity of the operation compared to Google - I think it would be profitable.
> His dad invested $200k at 10% at a later stage

You're reading that wrong. Elon is claiming his dad invested 10% OF a $200k round of seed funding. The actual amount was $28k. (See wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip2 )
It's cheaper than cancer, the loss of work and the tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on treatment, $100K is totally reasonalble.
Expect those Treasuries to crash within a month if the US defaults on debt.
Pancreatic cancer terrifies me and keeps me up at night. It has virtually no symptoms until it’s too late. My friends dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died 6 weeks later.

Every time a celebrity dies of cancer I always hope that it’s not pancreatic but the numbers keep increasing. Patrick Swayze, Steve Jobs, Alex Trebek, Aretha Franklin, now Jerry Springer.

As someone with type 2 diabetes it’s something I worry about very often.
This used to be my go-to example of weird sponsorship, but some of the F1 sponsorships in the last 10 years make AIG sound like a well run company
Earlier discussion on Google's announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35917362
> A Nike shirt with a Nike logo on it isn't a problem.

I'm paying for an overpriced shirt, and giving them free advertising?

No thank you.
Private companies still have boards of directors. It's possible to have a board of directors with only one member but this is a rarity; even non-profits and pre-funding startups will usually have a board with more than one person.
> 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.

Rumor has it they lacked the manpower to actually keep the API running and it was a last-ditch attempt at getting rid of bots. Same bots who flocked to the platform after the layoffs started since people in charge of mitigating these were fired.

Firing abuse and content moderation teams meant there was a lot more unsavory spam on the platform and advertisers didn't want any of it near their brand. In a few week Twitter lost half of it's top 100 biggest advertisers [0] and it doesn't seem they are coming back.

What's crazy to think about is that, despite being "bloated" Twitter managed to have profitable quarters pre-acquisition.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-lost-half-top-advert...
"You are charged with pirating films". "Nope, my AI did it".
> No one thinks about what data is being sent back to the manufacturer when buying a car.

Well, at least one does. Me. The risk of that is the primary thing that is in my mind, over literally every other aspect of the car.

I also wouldn't trust that any controls to not send data would actually stop all data from being sent.
WebDriver BiDi: 2023 status update
They were either not first, or they simply keep breathing regardless of availability of oxygen.
I'm reminded of Twitter's rise to prominence and media companies running segments about The Twitterverse (and The Bloggosphere prior to that). Of course, it's just people who have opinions publishing their opinions, but to media companies that's a threat which needs to be discussed ad nauseam. Because "The Narrative" is intentional, if there's anything which shapes The Narrative, that is either intentional or something which will be reined in.

It's why there's so many shitty arguments for hot-button topics (not just on Twitter but anywhere and everywhere; Twitter's just a relatively recent place). These "arguments" aren't supposed to be intellectual counter-points but practical ones. A person will "pick a side" which means knowing "what they believe" and "points to bring up against common arguments". It doesn't have to make sense because people aren't always trying to make sense; often, they want only to participate. (That's before getting into intentional psyops carried out by various world militaries.)

Take this exact comment, post it on your social media site of choice and see how many people say things like "and we all know who you're talking about" when, practically, this comment is intentionally talking about anyone and everyone. "Right-wing" and "left-wing" are concepts which only serve to make people believe they disagree with each other.
Luckily we are already seeing a market with jailbreaking Tesla firmware to have more control over this sort of thing.
Yeah, Kia Forte is still sub $20k. That’s a perfectly good car that seats four adults and does 40 MPG (kinda meh in Europe but okay). If you need more car than that for driving to work and buying groceries on the way home, that’s your problem, and I have zero sympathy for you.
It's their fault they made a defective product though. When people buy a car the expectation is that you can't steal it in under 10 seconds with no tools.
Customised Countdowns
Good Languages for Writing Compilers In?
> I'm done paying

Related, I will pay whenever I can, because I'm done with ads. A quick google search says Pluto averages 10 minutes of ads per hour. That means over 15 percent of each of my viewing sessions would be watching ads.
> is android any better

In this specific respect, most definitely yes.
University was much cheaper back then and he apparently got a student loan somehow.
The killer feature of the telegram app imo is the translations, does your tool do translations?
I assume that the parent commenter was referring to being a good teacher and charismatic lecturer.
If I was asked that now, I’d say:

“Twitter is my drunk aunt and uncle who absolutely hate each other at this point at a family gathering.”
> But the unix way feels better to me, so I change windows.

I'm with you as well. Sometimes you don't have a choice when dual-booting, MS-DOS only wants to work in local time while on the opposite end of the spectrum MacOS only wants to work in UTC, but if I have the choice I'm going to change Windows to use UTC.
I loved the Unicef logo in the Barcelona shirt years ago, made the design more balanced without it being a cashgrab.
Or toddlers.
Health insurance in the US has a concept of “deductible” and “copay” in the event of a failure; this is not dissimilar to copay.
Or buy EVs from one of the many manufacturers already offering them in RHD configuration, such as BMW, VW, Ford, Nissan etc.
Can you copy the code into a hosted Jupyter?
It would have to be a “virtual recall” for that to make sense.
I really liked this article until I went out and looked at how much Leica M2s cost. The project may only cost $100 in Raspberry Pi parts, but it looks like acquiring a Leica M2 can cost thousands of dollars.
Yes, driving down the unit cost increases scale and makes things more affordable. That's standard commodity capitalism. Paying your workers more, well what percent of the economy did Henry Ford control? Was it enough to substantially influence mass adoption? In any case, that's coming right out of his own pocket, so he'd have to hope that it's a marketing strategy for... other capitalists? The rest of the population? Otherwise he's just subsidizing cars and eating the costs.

Raising the wages directly for labor-related issues makes more sense.

You have to remember that rich people like Henry Ford and their estate/descendants (e.g. the Ford Foundation) like to manufacture an image for themselves. It's a nice story if instead of spreading anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, Henry Ford was a great friend to the workers with a nonsensical business concept.

"Indeed, as a vocal antisemite, he used his status as one of America's most well-known and trusted business leaders to systematically spread conspiracy theories about Jews. His screeds against Jewish people became so well-known at home and abroad that he is the only American whom Adolf Hitler compliments by name in Mein Kampf.

...

But while it dramatically reduced manufacturing time—from 12.5 hours to 93 minutes per car, allowing mass production of up to 10,000 Model T cars a day by 1925—it also made his workers’ jobs more monotonous and unsatisfying. The turnover rate at Ford’s Highland Park, Michigan factory soared to 370 percent.

To solve the problem, Ford realized it would be cheaper to raise wages (which at the time were competitive with those at other auto companies) than to continue hiring and training new people at the same pace. So on January 5, 1914, he announced that his company would double wages to $5 a day. The move proved seismic: By prompting wage hikes across the car industry, historians say, it gave American factory workers a crucial boost into the middle class, allowing many to afford their own Model Ts.

...

While $5 a day was a generous factory wage at the time, it came with a substantial catch. Technically, workers’ pay remained less than or near $2.50 a day, and the extra money was a bonus they had to earn. The year Ford introduced the bonus, he established a company Sociological Department that sent inspectors to the homes of his employees—at this point, mostly male immigrants—to make sure they were living in a way Ford approved of. Workers were denied the full $5 a day if their wives worked outside the home, if their homes were unclean, if they displayed signs of drinking or gambling, if they took in boarders or if they didn’t contribute to a savings account.
"

https://www.history.com/news/henry-ford-antisemitism-worker-...

Worth noting that American companies did stuff like this in South America too. The population generally doesn't want to work on the terms of the corporation, so they "terraform" the place until they have a compliant population. Shredding extended family ties, religions, etc. Anything that would interfere with the relationship between a man and his boss.
whoa whoa whoa, no love for: Giorgio, Instant crush, Lose yourself to dance, Beyond, doin it right (favorite), Contact?
This type of website is a textbook case for using CDN in front of it.
Because if you want full ecosystem compatibility with as much performance as you can squeeze given that constraint, it makes more sense to start with the constraint satisfied rather than try to work toward it.

> Oh I think NIH syndrome.

Neither CPython nor PyPy was invented at Microsoft.
and you cant search without having an account or being logged in.
Sure, but that's why modern cars have sensors and warnings when you accidentally leave a door open or don't use the seatbelt.

If leaving a hatch open causes one year of repairs and it contains a nuclear reactor maybe some automated sensors or checklists would be quite sensible.
Note to readers: the claimed amount he received from his father is $115k split between him and his brother.
I get very creeped out by the tribalism exhibited by sports fans.
right click name-> mute