skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And so countries like the UK, US, Germany, France, etc. that subsidized their own national industrialization projects at the cost of global externalities should help "developing" countries industrialize without the interim step of burning fossil fuels.

It's interesting how all the greatest historical contributions belong to imperial nations, many of which still have colonies (looking at France and the US in particular). Even more interesting how the "developing" nations used to be colonies, like India.

Even if the current situation could be described entirely as India's fault, how culpable do you find the average citizen? Do you think they deserve to die in wet bulb temperatures, children and elderly included, because India (the nation) is industrializing the same way every other nation did? I don't understand the point of your comment. It's completely tone deaf.
There's a difference between "an engineer" and "a good engineer".

So those saying he's not an engineer at all are probably wrong, but those saying he's a good engineer probably aren't correct either.

I think it's also the case where his misses are more evident. If you said "We'll get to Mars in 10 years", people will likely have forgotten you said that after 5 years, much less 2 years after your boasted time frame expires. So people credit you for big ideas while not having to deliver on anything. Every year, we've been about a year away from fully autonomous self-driving cars.

Complaining about twitter and saying how you'd fix it is easy when you don't control twitter. But actually fixing it is a different story once you have all the control.

Promises are easy to make, harder to deliver.
in memory computation using cheap analog chips
It's the model his friend Larry Ellison uses with Oracle.
I know that there’s been activity in the emulation scene around “extending” the SNES emulators with features the SNES never had during its lifetime, like CD-quality audio aka the PSX, or hi-res texture packs, or faster + higher-resolution poly rendering for games using the SuperFX chip; and there have been ROMhacks and home brew that take advantage of these extensions.

Has anyone tried doing the same for the N64? Seeing what would be possible for an N64 game given an emulator tweaked to allow an unlimited ROM and VRAM size budget and (effectively) zero DSP DMA delay?
If a $3 bi product relies on not allowing people to make mistakes then their owner isn't allowed to complain when it inevitably fails.
Claw back the personal wealth of the executives when banks and hedge funds fail.

It'll never happen though. They have too much political power. The Vice documentary about the 2008 financial crisis has some interesting tidbits. They talk about how the global banking system is at risk of collapse in one part while another part says any deals that take away executive bonuses would be rejected.

Let that sink in. The US, with the most powerful government in the world, couldn't even take away executive bonuses to sell the public on a bailout plan that would save the banking system. It's crazy.
missing daft punk very much
Using the glider to chain critical arrow shots is a great way to take out a lynel quickly, too. There's only a few places where lynels appear where you can't use that tactic.
Yes, people do make mistakes; often. Airline pilots have long checklists of things they have to do before taking off, and more checklists for dealing with problems that inevitably crop up.

A doctor named Atul Gawande wrote a book named The Checklist Manifesto https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/...

Early in his career he did some research that showed that a simple pre-surgery checklist could reduce serious complications by more than a third. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dr-atul-gawande-surgical...
Very timely as just today we had multiple threads where commenters were decrying the EU for creating laws like the GDPR to protect people from negative consequences just like in this case, arguing that it slows innovation or some such.
There are alternatives like Bitcoin, but on HN they're met with immediate resistance and bad faith arguments. An open mind genuinely interesting in learning about alternatives is needed to have this discussion.
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise
> will be paying to bail out SVB

It’s not bailing out SVB. It’s bailing out its depositors. Your broader point stands–there was a bail-out where we were promised there would be none. But unlike in the GFC, the bank itself was not bailed out.
I believe both Google and Dropbox had a lot of Python code powering their products that they wanted to make faster. I don't think Microsoft has many large 1st party uses of Python. I think they're investing in it largely to gain developer mind-share.
So for Google and Dropbox "use another language" was an option, for Microsoft it's not.
There are computers capable of running modern web browsers?
The .zip TLD sucks
Kind of an inflammatory page, but the .zip TLD doesn't seem like a great idea.
What about fish that jump out of the water?
No battery thermal management?? I thought no one did that after the disaster that was the original Nissan leaf's battery
A simple equation but no one actually operates that way. Except for maybe auto manufacturers from late-90s books-turned-movies starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.

Most variables are impossible to accurately predict. e.g. "Cost/probability of fine" -> how do you model the cost of brand tarnishment?
> this is the inevitable result of relaxing glass-steagall

SVB’s failure had nothing to do with Glass-Steagall. They had no investment bank to speak of.
Can the CEO fire the CTO if the CTO isn't performing well?

If not who is really the CEO?
so greedy. the rich get richer :)
Yep! I used it for all of the diagrams in my chapter (Ch. 31) in Ray Tracing Gems 2.

My diagrams were showing lens optics and it was really nice to be able to parameterize the main inputs (e.g., focal length, sensor distance, object placement, etc.) and then let Asymptote derive everything from there.

I could tweak the parameters and have it instantly recalculate the diagram until I found something that looked good. All while keeping everything placed consistently.

The other thing I did was to start by creating a single master diagram that was super messy and cluttered but contained everything that I might want. Then I copied that and selectively commented out parts, leaving just the elements that I wanted to highlight.

I think I'd have gone crazy if I was trying to calculate and draw everything to scale manually in Illustrator or something like that, while making tweaks across all the figures to keep them consistent.

And all was driven from a Makefile, of course.
Off topic but I'm curious. I've seen lots of people telling others they've been downvoted. How are you able to tell? Are you using a specific app or just the website, is there a number like reddit or just the slight greying seen in soon to die posts. Just curious since i have no ability to see downvotes
Have you used Valent? Is it fairly feature comparable to KDE Connect? I use real KDE Connect on Gnome but it's pretty clumsy
33 Years of TidBITS: Handcrafted Content from Humans
I think he has some instinctive proficiency at the intersection of product design and PR. I wouldn't consider him an engineer.
>I don't get the negativity expressed by top comments.

Lots of ideologically-opinionated users are mad Twitter no longer censors and bans their opponents. They're upset that their patrons who enforced this got fired by Musk. Much seemingly unrelated criticism flows from this.

As to the actual Twitter experience, I've always used a chronological feed and never understood complaints about the algorithm. Step one to not being bothered by an opaque algorithm's control of your attention is withholding that control in the first place. I haven't noticed any change in my daily Twitter browsing in this regard under Musk.
Golly, how do average Americans perceive Elon?

Is there direct evidence of Elon's personal engineering prowess? All I can find are his own boasting and second hand reports of folks impressed by his familiarity with jargon.
I am working full time , then try to preparing for senior software engineer interviews in evenings for a new job plus side projects. It is really exhausting. There is just so much peer pressure to create something amazing, be at a great job with top pay.
The vote was 49% to 51% when he conceded, and he really shouldn't have - the uncounted mail-in ballots were 3x the gap in the counted votes. Also that race was far far closer than normal with tough-on-crime-vs-progressive usually is around here.

Sentiment here is definitely shifting in favor of tough-on-crime.
> Interior images, exterior images, facial geometry, voice recordings,

This is an absolutely unbelievable level of privacy intrusion IMO. I 100% support very heavily fining this sort of behavior, otherwise it will continue to proliferate.
In any case, you're at least very close to treading water. (And what your personal inflation rate is will vary.) Which looks pretty good compared to a lot of riskier investments right now.
What router do you have? You'd be surprised, I have tailscale running on a 4-year old Linksys router.
>Is there direct evidence of Elon's personal engineering prowess?

Yes: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
> No one thinks about what data is being sent back to the manufacturer when buying a car.

Chevrolet has had OnStar since 1996, and has sold data related to it for probably just as long -- this isn't some new phenomenon.

I remember these same arguments echoed back then -- but at least it was a unique happening at the time.
> Atm company is financially break even, so I wouldn't panic much.

Do you have a source for this? All I can find is an interview remark from Musk about the company "roughly breaking even," without any actual numbers cited.
> US, with the most powerful government in the world, couldn't even take away executive bonuses to sell the public on a bailout plan that would save the banking system

Absent legislation, the United States can’t retroactively break private contracts. The proper thing to do, what we’ve done in the recent bank failures, is to break the bank that wrote those contracts.
“I have successfully reverse engineered Google Bard”
This is bullshit.

There is no evidence his family was wealthy by American standards. Errol has claimed in the interview with the Sun to have helped his sons at uni to the tune of $115k and gave them a $28k loan (as part of a $200k round of seed funding) for their first business. The only sources on the emerald mine are the Musks, where the claim is they acquired a share of an informal mine by trading in a small plane they owned (likely a $70k Cessna). Errol Musk went bust in the 90s and there's no evidence of any other family wealth flowing to Elon.

There is no evidence they had any useful connections to speak of and no evidence any family gave more than a fraction of his uni (half of $115k) and business ($28k) funding.

People endlessly repeat random rumors they've heard which grow in the telling. People should go read the original sources wherever possible, such as the Sun article: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22104496/elon-musks-dad-errol-...
I didn't read the article but the headline is hilarious. For a company that has been so outward about hiring "all star talent" I'm amazed they're needing to cut back. Just from the outside it appears that things are pretty broken there...
Hewlett-Packard disables printers that use rival firms’ ink
So your argument on a software development site is that feature creep isn't a thing?
I think you are all in agreement; I interpreted the above comment as implying the exact opposite - don't make economic arguments that people saved will contribute more, because elderly people may not actually do that, but that doesn't mean it's not worth it on other grounds, precisely as you are doing here.
I don't know what to tell ya then. clearly and obviously, a door that can be taken off, and thus is more easily repaired, could be stolen easier than one that is not (e.g. door is welded after being attached to the car). if you disagree with that then we have to agree to disagree.

> Thing is nobody is asking Kia to do something unprecedented. All people are asking to be about as safe from stealing as cars from other manufacturers are.

how about you just not buy kia. they'll figure it out. why people want to involve the government in everything is just beyond me.
Another point to indicate that the elderly do contribute back: if the elderly were a net negative while we evolved (which involved a lot more physical labor than typical work does today), there'd be selection pressures against the genes that confer longevity. And yet we've evolved in a way that the typical person will live long past the age of reproductive viability.

Concretely, humans aren't that much smarter than chimps. We did reach a point, however, where knowledge can be transferred and processed efficiently across individuals ("society"). The elderly play a net positive role in facilitating and maintaining these knowledge transfer networks, particularly to their kin.
SVB no longer exists, its shareholders lost everything. It was not bailed out.
APU is x86 compat, up to 4GB RAM, mSATA, serial port, but no video. Buy an old VT term off an auction site to complete your browser-free experience.

https://www.pcengines.ch/apu4c4.htm
Not sure how they're being ignored. That's the entire point of the mobile market filled to the brim with micro transactions.
I give her less than a year. The job description is to be the public face of Twitter's ongoing collapse.
It’s been 9.5 years since 2014. Wonder how far down it’s come since then.
Here is his father confirming it:

"Errol Musk Claims He Visited Emerald Mine With Son Elon" - https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/after-elon-musks-strong-deni....

"Elon Musk’s dad Errol says he can ‘prove’ existence of emerald mine in new bombshell claim revealing its location" - https://www.the-sun.com/news/7911051/elon-musks-dad-errol-em...
Github clones are very very cheap to host, what makes the value of Github isn't its features but the fact that it's a central hub for developers
> Are you implying that those $16B will be passed on to account holders? How exactly?

Lower rates on deposits, higher rates on borrowing, more fees and more marginal accounts and branches being closed.
https://youtu.be/e9dZQelULDk

are we the rats?
That's not all that Toyota should be held responsible for. Corporate issues service bulletins about parts under warranty and their certified service centers ignore the warranties, charging customers full price for replacement. I caught a local service center doing just that in January of this year.
outside of hacker news, it is
If it is anything after about 2012 it probably does. Also if this hack is out of the software I think it is, I am not surprised. Some of the main devs were more worried about what a function was named than how to make it work correctly and securely.
>> unaffordable because of a $20 LCD and $10 camera installed into the bumper?

Yes. An automotive-grade LCD that will last years, plus a camera that will survive the elements, not mention the unreliable power supplies on which these must operate. Then 10+ feet of cable. Then the dozen little plastic clips to keep that cable secure. Then the manpower to install all of this. Yes. That camera system is more expensive than an injection-molded mirror bolted to the exterior of a car or glued to a windscreen. Multiply that by dozens of similar little things and it does result in more expensive vehicles.
> and when there are product/technical questions, it's unclear to employees whether Elon or Linda is the ultimate decider.

Linda, because she is the one who is there every day. If Linda thinks Elon has made the wrong call, she just has to work out how to talk him out of it while soothing his ego, and in the meantime get her team to focus on how to implement the right one. She probably already has that skill, but if she needs mentoring, Gwynne Shotwell can help her out
I remember my perception changed when I watched an interview with musk talk about the material science challenges of panel gaps on teslas. You can't have that level of knowledge unless you worked very close to the problem.

https://youtu.be/YAtLTLiqNwg?t=1100
Youtube algorithm only cares about "engagement". How long do you watch, do you stay on youtube and watch another video, do you click any of the buttons like subscribe, do you comment.

Content that gets an extreme emotional reaction is strictly better at causing engagement, that's just like a basic sociological thing.

The result is that youtube pretty much constantly tries to radicalize everyone. It doesn't care if you get radicalized left or right, it cares that you go into rabbit holes that make you angry or emotional and have a reaction. I watched youtube attempt to do this to me, as I watched a singular video by a more radical than average leftist youtuber, and youtube immediately started recommending me the classic "angry incel right wing" content that so many young men are deeply entrenched in, but I have never been recommended in my 15 year old youtube account. Depending on your beliefs or research I'm not aware of, right wing radicalization might be more effective, as "it's not your fault, we just have to hurt and remove certain people" is more palatable to certain people than "the system is fucked and we have to gut it and work hard to build it back". In that case, it would naturally push right wing radicalization over left wing radicalization.

None of this has to be purposeful. However, willfully ignoring this outcome because it makes you a lot of money is actively evil in my opinion.
Taking a loan is not the same as able to afford it. 40% of the households with college aged kids earn less than 74k. https://www.statista.com/statistics/782411/parental-income-o...

Also it's insane to compare Elon's family with a Journalist. Elon's father invested $200k for 10% in his first venture while half the journalist earn less than 50k.
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/reporters-co...
>Facebook is worthless and it's visit count means nothing. Same with instagram or twitter.

This sounds just like your strongly held opinion.
This is what I think about most when buying a car. This is why I plan on keeping my current car for as long as possible since it was one of the last Toyotas to not be connected to anything.
> That's unrelated to whether it has systematic problems. As is much of your post to be honest. Like, yeah, javascript is successful. Bash is successful. No one will argue that those languages don't have systematic problems.

Right, bash and js have pretty significant problems, but they remain popular because they were developed as exclusive languages for platforms which became wildly popular; essentially they benefit from monopolies and network effects in a way that Go never has. The fact that Go is a popular language and still rapidly growing indicates that its issues are relatively minor compared with its advantages over other candidates (e.g., Haskell).

> On the other hand, haskell is "complex and difficult" in terms of having a powerful type system. In my personal experience, I've found that haskell code has far fewer bugs than go code, and a large fraction of the bugs I encounter in go would not have been written in haskell or rust, in a language with a more powerful type system.

Granted, but in my experience those languages trade off a lot of productivity in order to reduce bugs, and that leaves me a whole lot of time to debug Go programs and achieve a similar degree of correctness. Moreover, I often spend so much of my energy thinking about the type system in Rust/Haskell that I make silly mistakes that the type system doesn't catch (I've written a static site generator in Go and then in Rust, and I wrote a bunch of URL/filepath handling bugs in the Rust version that weren't present in the Go version--despite the benefit of hindsight--because I was focusing so much on the type system). Rust also makes it a lot more painful to create and use new integer types compared to Go (e.g., you have to define a ton of traits and even then you still have to wrap integer literals in MyIntegerType::new(0) and so on), so I see a lot of code that just passes around u64s as identifiers for different resource types and it's super easy to use the wrong u64 to index into the wrong resource collection.

I'm not saying that Rust results in more bugs on balance (I don't think it does) but that Go wins overall for most ordinary application code (but not for systems code, or high performance code, or real time / mission critical code).
Here is a wayback mirror if the paywall hits you: https://web.archive.org/web/20230506075301/https://www.washi...
> $16 Billion in fees (so far!) means you and I, regular people, will be paying to bail out SVB, it's bad decisions, and it's account holder's bad decisions. Wonderful.

Worth considering is the impact on us regular people if SVB's depositors hadn't been made whole. It seems highly likely we'd all be financially less well off.

> Somehow we convinced a significant portion of the country that tax payers won't be responsible for these unprecedented bailouts. Yet, here we are.

Just to be clear: tax payers aren't going to be paying this $16.5 billion, and the intervention is not unprecedented.

Obviously, this will increase the operating costs for banks in the form of deposit insurance fees, and that will effectively be born by shareholders and customers of said banks, particularly depositors. The costs will consequently be borne proportionately to the amount of money one has on deposit. Given the wealth disparities in this country, "regular people" won't be shouldering much of the burden.

You could certainly argue that "the wealthy" will somehow find a way to transfer their costs to "regular people", but by that same logic, regular people would have been paying for the costs incurred from NOT intervening with SVB, as this was just a tiny fraction of the uninsured deposits. Beyond that, because US banks would be perceived as less stable, the operating costs for banks would have certainly increased anyway, and by far more, as US bank bonds would be devalued due to the increased risk.

The idea that "rich people who made bad decisions" are being "bailed out" by "regular people" is a misnomer. Everyone was "bailed out" by the FDIC. The fact that everyone benefits from the FDIC's intervention is what creates the problematic dynamic in the first place.
If the US blocks China, the Chinese government will just kick all the Americans out of the Chinese market and nationalize their Chinese plants. I'm sure the big three won't be happy about that. Since corporations run the US, they will give the US Govt its barking orders and the Chinese cars will be let into the US.
National Alliance estimates it would cost $25B per year to eliminate homelessness in America. As always, it's the upper echelon that is the true welfare state.
In this specific case boosters are likely unnecessary because pancreatic cancer isn’t contagious and if it works all the persons current cancer cells are dead.

As to the need for boosters, it’s more a question what benefit a booster provides vs its risks and costs. Frequent measles boosters aren’t recommended in the US in large part because the disease is already rare here. COVID is however still very common which changes the exposure risks part of the equation.

This is also why vaccine boosters for measles are recommended when you travel to specific countries. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/travel-vaccines
Registries, not registrars. And yes, it’s extremely common with most TLDs. They define multiple premium levels depending on the « value » of a domain.

It’s a business, nothing new under the sun.