skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like Twitter was always designed as an echo chamber with the occasional deliberate clash between different kinds of echo chambers. Flip-flopping well enough between outraged debate and friendly clout-chase space to keep engagement going.

Musk is just steering it one particular way.
I’m going to guess that the either new CEO will quit in 12-18 months or Elon will drift away from being closely engaged with Twitter.

I don’t think any decent CEO will tolerate perpetual undermining and I don’t think Elon has a “medium” setting.
most of what you said rang true. except the "wealth from emerald mine" attack. that appears to be a myth

his big score was PayPal, and it seeded what followed. Tesla and SpaceX very early almost wrecked him financially

we can criticize his Twitter shenanigans. but he's clearly a workaholic, highly effective, and helped put humanity in a better place (via SpaceX and Tesla, anyway
That's bullshit, because it can do both. Increasing the amount that can be made by 10x could both reduce unit costs by 8.5x and increase unit profit by 1.5x. Get outta here with your pessimistic external-locus-of-control communism
New Toyota Corollas don't have spare tires. They're not an outlier. Are there available (new) EVs other than the Nissan Leaf that doesn't have active thermal management?

EVs do have downsides, but so do ICE and hybrid.
Agreed on the Boomerang Fu recommendation! "Good Job" is also a fantastic buy for 1-2 players. Just a hilarious game
The 44B was to buy ownership of Twitter. It went to the shareholders.
I'm surprised to see "Metroidvania" described as a genre where you can rush the boss quickly. Neither of the two defining games that name the genre, (Super) Metroid or Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, allow you to reach the final boss without having explored a substantial amount of the world map and collected the majority of available upgrades. Both games do have low% and any% speedruns that skip a lot of stuff, but those require the use of glitches. Do you have an example of a game you're thinking of?
turn on splash screen

Yikes. I was trying to be positive to offset my criticisms, but this sounds terrible.
Is an LBO possible with the huge debt Twitter now has? Elon is barely able to break even, even after firing most of the company, due to the interest payments. It seems like the LBO has already been done, by Elon, and that a second one on top of the first will be like squeezing water from a stone that someone already squeezed the little water out of.
The $28 was a small portion of a second round of funding (and was a loan). Not really a make or break amount.

> How much money did Elon's dad provide for his living expenses, international moves, etc while going through college and the Zip2 startup?

The Sun Errol interview answers that. About half of $115k (as he had to split it with his brother).
I'm so upset that I'm really sick right now and can't play it. I mean I guess I could, but I wouldn't enjoy it, my throat is in so much pain. I'll binge it next weekend I suppose. To everyone already playing it, enjoy.
Windmill: Open-source developer platform to turn scripts into workflows and UIs
GORDON BELL, ADAM! That was a great episode. The most amazing thing to me was how this guy was just messing around, a compression hobbyist, if you will - and then he is being courted by FAANG companies. He just walked into it, almost by accident.

I work in VMWare Fusion on a Mac, in a Mint guest OS, and zipping these huge instances for backup will take forever with a single core. Pigz punishes all 12 cores on my Mac mini and saves me a ton of time.
When I ran the numbers for "am I, high-paid for my city and only at a medium-distance from the city center by local commuter standards, benefitting from the existence of cars?" over a decade ago, I was at break-even (except that I'd be healthier in a bike-and-walking-centric version of my city). Now? Haha. Hahaha. If I still had to commute, the numbers would surely be way into the "cars are a net-cost" side. And I've got a far better situation for that than most do....
The thing about a diploma or a degree course, is that you get GUIDED knowledge. A good institution will teach you the math and physics background first, and then proceed from basic circuit analysis to advanced circuit design in logical steps.

All while separating analogue electronics, digital electronics, RF, and signal processing as appropriate.

Self-taught people are almost always too eager to get their hands on a soldering iron, and end up with a jumble of information, instead of intuitive understanding.
A simple integration of Hacker News' API in Next.js (App Router) – revalidating every 60 seconds
They can easily set up accounts so that they earn lower (or no) interest over $250k, or do what Apple is doing with Apple Card savings and not even allow balances over $250k. Then the bank is effectively passing on the fee to only those unwise enough to keep more than $250k in a account.
Norway and Germany aren't that different I'd say.
Wages aren't going up with inflation. So if people couldn't afford a $26k car in 2017, how do you think they can afford it now?
You also live in an echo chamber. Twitter has put out more features in 6 months than in the previous 10 years.

Reduced headcount drastically and it's still working very well.

The biggest TV hosts are now moving to Twitter.
It does seem like Peacock's success was a factor in her getting chosen as Twitter CEO. I find it hard to believe there's any nefarious intent e.g. finding a scapegoat. Its more like there are not too many takers for the job and they had to go with the best possible choice.
I follow a few folks writing on war in Ukraine, but since maybe Nov-Dec they all disappeared from page, and I have to go all the way to the bottom of the barrel to see anything tangentially related. Only after the algo was released I understood that was a decision by Elon, for whatever reason...
Automation has a tendency to do both increase profits and lower costs. This is because as the price decreases the market increases. There's 500,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer a year in the world. How many of them do you think will have access to a One Million Dollar treatment?

This is not to mention how much of this tech could be shared with other treatments for other diseases.
> Being an OAuth 'provider' (emphasis) is not open source

Being an OAuth provider is precisely what everyone expects from a self-described "open source authentication service". If Supertokens does not support that out of the box, it should not really be called an open source authentication service.

I understand you want to capitalize from your work, but I feel this is a gross misrepresentation of a project.
When the government prints more money, all money loses value.
You have no idea how large a share it is or how large a mine it is. You simply discredit yourself and your arguments by assuming things without evidence. The description of the mine I'm aware of comes from Erol Musk where he says he traded a used plane that he had bought for 50k for 120k plus a share of a mine. Musk describes the mine as "a deposit in the middle of nowhere rather than a modern mine" [1].

So, he has an unknown share of a mine of dubious value. "Trust me, that isn't cheap." I think you've done a very good job of explaining why people shouldn't trust you, because, unbothered by a lack of knowledge you are happy to leap to conclusions.

1 - https://www.the-sun.com/news/8014711/elon-musk-dad-errol-cha...
BioNTech is German, not US.
> and the clearly computer-generated matrix-y shrines

Good observation. Compare with Ocarina's temples which felt genuinely scary.
He's a full professor at Pretoria University, though...
my parents helped pay some of my college expenses, and they didnt have an emerald mine

this is extremely common for young adults
I'll give you what you're asking for:

Why are you upset/sick?
> ... silicon valley coding rigor ...

That's not "silicon valley", that's "anywhere remotely modern" coding rigor. Sounds like they need to get with the times, especially with regards to developing systems with software stacks that are a couple orders of magnitude larger than in the recent past (like 15 years ago).
> A stable banking system is very much in regular people's interest.

Everyone and everything responds to incentives. The message that FDIC just sent out is that you can make mistakes, you can mismanage your liquidity, and everyone else will pay to clean up your bill. What does that incentivize banks to do? It just encourages repeat behavior until there's nobody large enough to pay the difference. Not a recipe for stability.

Whereas, let's say SVB fell. Painful, yes. Lessons learned? Oh yes, nobody's going to let that happen again anytime soon; be it depositors or bankers. Long-term stability or short-term stability, pick one.
Your continuum is interrupted all the time, e.g. by sleep or loss of continence. Is that subjectively different from death? A pretty scary thought. Will waking up as a different being feel no different?
I'm sorry, what? No one thinks about what data is being sent back to the manufacturer when buying a car. Now I need to know what my car know and what is being transmitted back. It would be nice if I could turn off this functionality.
No, because next word predictors are fundamentally limited in their capabilites and have interest problems. This isn't something you can just iterate on to fix. You need a different architecture.
Not every bank is going to be able to leverage a CMA that works the additional FDIC insurance. And even then, offering incentives or products does not mean a depositor will actually utilize them.
That sounds like a large number, but given the amount of money flowing through the banking system it's basically a rounding error. This isn't even a tough call: I'm thrilled to lose a six pack of beer's worth of interest payments rather than have my regional bank go out of business because everyone's freaked out about the safety of their deposits.
My guess is one or more of the billionaires that Elon pissed off started funding a persistent anti-elon narrative, and that has shown up as bot farms especially on reddit. Then people who don't think for themselves started propagating it wherever they go... Because of how fun it is to argue on the internet and all of that.

It started as an anti Tesla narrative which was obviously paid for by the Tesla shorts, but this new supercharged anti Elon narrative ramped up when it started to become clear he was actually going to buy Twitter. So my guess is it's related to the interests of whoever was benefiting from the old regime at Twitter.
Safety is also the driving factor in vehicle size. We are in an arms race of constantly increasing vehicle complexity and mass. The safest vehicle to be in any two-vehicle crash is almost always the bigger one. With mass comes cost.

The irony is that vehicles are now ridiculously safe in comparison to decades past. Regulators who for years improved safety by leaps and bounds (seat belts, crumple zones, anti-lock breaks etc) are now forced to playing at the margins. Every incremental improvement now comes at greater and greater complexity/mass/cost. Rear view and side mirrors are going away soon, to be replaced by backup cameras. Also are coming anti-drunk features. There is serious talk about interlock breathalyzers being built into all steering wheels. This is going to get much worse.

For those who cannot afford a car but still need to travel the distances, there is always motorcycles. New two-wheeled vehicles are still cheap.
I think he's primarily hiring her for advertiser relations. She knows all the advertisers and can placate them.

Meanwhile hell drive the company and she can be the face
"Heir to an emerald mine" is intended to paint a very specific picture, and "some occasional spending cash from a handshake claim to a chunk of namibian rock outcropping (if we believe a man who doesn't exactly present as super trustworthy)" is definitely not it.

I'm no fan of Musk, but I'm even less a fan of being intentionally misleading.
> Elon is a visionary and a builder. That's all his ventures.

I don't understand how people view him as a product person. How is he making the product (Twitter) better?

Taking away an existing feature like verification and selling an objectively worse version back to people doesn't make the product better. Strengthening the silo effect by banning talk about competitors doesn't make the product better. Charging $50k / month for business verification doesn't make the product better, especially for businesses users.

I thought Twitter might improve because I believed the rhetoric about Musk being a product person, but I don't believe that any more. All of his moves have been short sighted cash grabs.

Is there a single thing about the (technical) product that's improved since Musk took over?
There was also the sponsorship relationship between AIG and Man United in the second part of the 2000s. It was surreal to see Cristiano Ronaldo wearing a AIG-branded football shirt [1] at the height of the Global Financial Crisis, which had just seen AIG almost go bust [2].

[1] https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/07/11/06/60ee4696dc5aa...

[2] https://money.cnn.com/2008/10/08/news/companies/aig/index.ht...
Hah. Spoken with privilege.

University is far more expensive today than back then, too. Ironically this supports your point in Elon’s case, but today it’s very much not a given that parents can even minimally help their kids get through college. My wife’s couldn’t.
Thanks, I'm glad you appreciate it! It wasn't as straightforward as it could've been as Chrome only accepts Manifest v3 now, and Firefox has some issues with Manifest v3. The extension is simple enough that we transform v3 to v2 for Firefox in the Makefile.
Fair. Should have been more specific about meaning the shirt sponsor.
And even if he had been fabulously wealthy since childhood, it still wouldn't discredit his accomplishments. There's how many tens of thousands of mega-rich kids right now who won't do a single thing of note with their lives?
It's not necessary to do that, it's just convenient. I haven't tried KDE connect because I assumed that it was cloud-connected and I already do most of that using other tools anyway.

But KDE Connect would certainly be a more convenient method. Now that I know (or think?) it doesn't depend on third party servers, I'll give it a try.
If I am reading this correctly, they have enough to cover this:

> The Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) balance was $128.2 billion on December 31, 2022, up $2.8 billion from the end of the third quarter.

https://www.fdic.gov/about/strategic-plans/strategic/insuran...
The club board specifically decided not to renew their decades old main shirt sponsorship deal with Pirelli (120+ year old tire manufacturer) in order to pursue the new riches of the crypto-companies.

Their city rivals did the same with BitMex and BitGet respectively, it seems like they are still getting paid or they decided to keep the sponsorship on the shirt regardless.
Sure, but FDIC insurance is per depositor, per insurable account category, per institution. Someone with three different savings accounts at the same institution each with less than $250k individually but more than $250k total still only gets $250k in insurance.

EDIT: I'm not saying the system can't, for a lack of a better word, be gamed, but ultimately that requires action on the depositors end, not necessarily the bank(s).

EDIT 2: Which means that any balance over that 250k in the same category would, in theory, count towards an institution's uninsured deposit balance.
This is not true in most states. My 529 is just a normal investment account like my ira.
yeah except now when you do that (which I have), you get a list of boosted blue checks under every tweet that are just banal and dumb.
I'm a huge gamer across a few platforms and I wish this was consistent across all platforms, launchers, and companies. I have a fast inner city fiber connection as well and a Sea of Thieves download from Gamepass recently took multiple hours. I've had some patches for PS5 games take 30-45 minutes for a couple gigs. Many companies are hosting their stuff on fast scalable infra but some are still cheaping out.
It does not matter if Musk had an emerald mine or not. For sure he turned a diamond mine (Twitter) to a shit pool. Do you trust him to be the CEO of your company? Ask yourself. I personally want a level headed guy.
I agree with you, and I believe in the same. People that help cheaters don't realize that these people put up a sweet face and good behavior just so they can stab you in the back and take all that they can because they view you as a sucker. Helping them doesn't benefit anyone.

Heck, I'd even go as far as to say that large corporations that generate a lot of money depend on just a few individuals of extraordinary merit who are (by naivete or (social) design) incentivized to spread the attribution of work done. This sort of distribution is never equal by design; if the genius (proper definition https://geniusfamine.blogspot.com/) is a 100x-er then there'll be a thousand leeches vying for bragging rights to the work that they aren't responsible for. This is often called "prestige", and is something the west inherited from the third world, where people routinely make shit up and even though everyone knows in their bones that it's made up, they play along. In time, people get too stupid to even know that. If you can induce "prestige" in random people, that's brand loyalty. Someone that can do all of this, capture a bright sucker and put a thousand leeches on him is called a really great ""innovator"", like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, and who knows how many more. These guys never did much, were handed things on a silver platter and managed to be the luckiest (not in the ironic / "hardwork" manner) guys. Modern large-scale society rewards these people handily because all the extortion and gaslighting of the competent is abstracted away into the "public good" and "shareholder and company value". I don't believe everyone gets a leech or two, because not everyone is able to contribute. Most people can't read above a fifth grade level. Heck, most of finance is based around the upper management servicing their friends at the expense of everyone else. Everything is downstream of that, and most white-collar work is now a scramble just to determine where the most competent people work, and exploiting them (this is done not just the people at the top, but also by their "fellow colleagues"!).

Family is supposed to be exempt from these things. Societies that consider this a given often flourish into first world economies, and remain so as long as they keep the real leeches at bay. Societies that don't never rise from the muck.

It's in the leech's interest to help out others like him.

This also explains the absolute seethe that libertarian viewpoints generate. Reading someone like Ayn Rand actually scares these people because she advocates for people to stop being taken advantage of when there's nothing in it for them. Same for a lot of authors like Rothbard and Mises, they're all "overturned" on their idealism but all the critique of the daylight robbery is quietly squashed (aka never addressed) by the opposition.

Imagine being called a "sucker" by the leeches. Gaslighting at its finest.
Perhaps at some point, a 'generic' neoantigen profile vaccine can be produced that is somewhat effective. How much variance can there be amongst 500,000 cancer patients?
Back in the PS4 era when I had FIOS gigabit it was incredibly frustrating to have that internet speed with a console which would download things at 10-15Mbit. There were some tweaks which would double it plus or minus a bit, but, it was fundamentally incapable of using anything close to line rate.

PS5 is incredibly faster. Sony is using Akamai CDN now (they didn't when I checked in the PS4 era) and I consistently max out the PS5s gigabit port (I have 10G symmetric at home).
> seems like the LBO has already been done, by Elon

This is what I meant. The vision is that of a classic LBO play. Cut the fat. Survive long enough to pay down the debt. Now you own a profitable company.
I think this is the inevitable result of relaxing glass-steagall. The costs of shutting down the first line of failures will make the second line of failures.

Naturally bank shareholders should lose everything before tax payers and the last thing we should do is stop the destruction of an industry caused by its own lobbying. Its brokerage accounts for everyone..
Yes, that was my point.

Someone with an ownership stake in a mine that produces material with a variety of industrial and commercial uses is not necessarily rich. But that person is in a relatively tiny group compared to the group containing all parents who are able to contribute to their children's educational expenses. And the "owns <part of> a mine" group's average net worth is probably a fair bit higher than that of the "can contribute to the kid's college" group.

Hence, if you own an emerald mine, you might be rich.
Google has now said they will do it but indeed they want to sort out compliance first.
Indeed, the case is "adult device" !

> A new U1 chip enables Find My with Precision Finding for your case, so you can exactly locate it. You can also use Find My with proximity view if you lose track of your AirPods Pro

https://www.apple.com/uk/airpods-pro/
toronto had widespread rent control since 1975 without means testing so what this really means is that they rented in toronto. wow, we are just beginning to peel back the layers on this!
This tool lets you explore the space:

https://www.carboncounter.com/#!/explore

Note you can tweak specific rebates and/or gas prices, mileage per year, length of ownership etc. in the advanced options and they have presets for each state.
What proof do you require? The first vaccines for smallpox were literally teaching the immune system to fight it by using the less dangerous but very similar cowpox. If you were infected with cowpox you were much less likely to be sick with smallpox. What are you taking exception to there, and if you are taking exception, please describe in detail what proof you'd require.
MetaMask and PayPal, all you need to know about buying ETH
Full lofi album made with the MusicLM app
I stopped streaming in Sept. Now I watch PlutoTV. It made me realize I'm done paying for tv or movies services.

$100 per month times 12 for 20 years = $24000

now do you want the $24,000 for the next 20 years or do you think the entertainment will give you $24000 worth
Overall, that movie painted him in a good light. "Strong leader bucks the system and makes a product that we all love" was the message I got from it.

My point is that the recent mass layoffs have negatively affected Musk's reputation and has not had an impact on Zuckerberg's. I think your illustration of his rep having a negative aspect as far back as the movie is in line with that.

With Musk's purchase of Twitter we've seen a lot more attention on alternative platforms such as Mastodon and Bluesky (?). I don't see anything like that with Facebook, other than the old struggles of any aging hangout spot. Also, note the difference in reaction to paying for verification on Twitter Vs. Instagram. People get mocked on Twitter for having the "blue checkmark". It's just silly.
Related: I've written a Python tool (CLI) that exports Telegram channels to static webpages.

https://github.com/knadh/tg-archive