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> There are like 8b people in the world. With that many people trying so many things, someone is bound to be successful.

Yes -- once, like Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos. But for creating a highly successful company twice, luck can't be a similarly major explanation, since it isn't "bound to happen" that someone who was highly successful once will be highly successful again. Because the number of people with one highly successful company is very small, unlike the number of people with zero highly successful companies. (If you throw a die ten times and get a six ten times, that is massive luck, which means that you almost certainly won't manage to do it again.)

So when people have one successful company, that may well be partly due to sheer luck, but if so, on their second attempt they almost certainly won't be so lucky. That's exactly what Jeff Bezos shows with Blue Origin. He started earlier than Musk did with SpaceX, had more money, and still is far less successful.
Sigbovik is a joke conference put on by CMU students. About 80%-90% of the papers each year are pure jokes, but about 10-20% of them are jokes that have a nontrivial amount of work backing them up. These papers are awesome. Tom publishes at least one every year (sometimes 3-4) and his papers are among the best but there are others that are also awesome. It hits a very fun combination of hard work on trivial problems that is fascinating.

They publish a proceedings every year and they are fun reads.

Not a lot of people do accompanying videos like Tom does, but this one on WordTeX is excellent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlX_pThh7z8
Gavin Belson: All I hear from everybody is good news. Have I just surrounded myself with sycophants, who are just telling me whatever I want to hear, regardless of the truth?

Denpok: *gulp* ... no.

Gavin Belson: Thank you Denpok. I really needed to hear that.
If astrology were true, that would be dehumanizing.
Show HN: I made a TLDR extension for everything
Yes I think he got lucky multiple times, because his failures are also quite significant. Remember hyperloop? Remember he got kicked out of PayPal? Remember boring company? Remember solar city?

If anything it just shows he has enough money that it’s okay when some of his extremely ambitious projects fail. A less wealthy person couldn’t even attempt any of what he does much less fail as often and as publicly as he has. Elizabeth Holmes went to prison, for example.
If I sell motorcycles for the purpose of motorcycling, and motorcycling carries a substantial risk of injury, am I strictly liable?
I gave a used copy of a book so someone from HR there once. It was about industrialization. I hope they had time to read through it, if it even helped. It was a story of us and not to be overly afraid of it; takes time and adjustments was the thought when given. Always make it better.
> Well, some jurisdictions do allow employers to write a letter.

This Russia, so whilst they are allowed to write a letter like that, it is highly unlikely to be taken into account.

The only that would make a difference would be if the director knows someone somewhere and wants to spend the political capital required to keep that person out of the army.
For me, it’s the price and look. I just want a normal looking vehicle that doesn’t cost $80k. An EV Toyota Tacoma for like $30-40k would be amazing.
That is simply false. The first problem is the word "religion", which, in common usage, is as if we were talking about different flavors of ice cream, and the atheist or "unbeliever" is some version of someone who simply doesn't like ice cream. Man is a religious animal in the sense that, as a rational animal, he must worship something he takes to be the highest good. The question is never "do I worship something" but "what do I worship" and "is what I worship the proper object of worship to which I owe worship". How do you know? Well, as in all cases, if no rational defense can be made of the claims of a religion, then there is no rational basis for giving our assent to those claims. So the question is: can a rational defense be made? Too often, people lazily assume such a defense cannot be made of any religion in principle. They simply take it for granted that that is the case.

So, if we interpret astrology as something explanatory, and there is no strong rational basis for it, then that means it is unlike those religious traditions that are rationally defensible. If astrology is a practical art, specifically, if it makes predictions based on some correlation between the positions of the stars and planets and whatever else, and this correlation happens to hold, then astrology is a more or less predictive model. (The "whatever else" also matter, as you could call the science of tides a kind of natural astrology because the moon does in fact have an effect on the tides.)

(FWIW, the Catholic Church rejects astrology, not as some "competing" doctrine, but as a pseudo-science and a superstition [0].)

[0] https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02018e.htm
Issac Newton was into alchemy and is one of the most intelligent humans in history.
No, it was elitist and alienating, and people hated them until Elon was in charge, and then we were taught to love them because a bunch of blue check journalists with no followers and no likes instantly turned into journalists with no followers, no likes and no blue checks and lost the delusion that they were important. Then they wrote articles about it.

Imagine a bunch of nominal liberals advocating for royalty, and you have the blue check whiners.
A common saying amongst rich family dynasties is 'The first generation builds the business, the second makes it a success, and the third wrecks it'.

Elon seems to be trying hard to break that rule, as he seems to be working to achieve all of this in a single generation.
liberals talking about billionaires always gives me a brain aneurysm, but regardless I'd just like to point out that whatever talent and intelligence Musk possesses in your minds, is very inconsequential in comparison to his families wealth through ownership of an emerald mine in apartheid South Africa.
i dont remember who said it but isnt there a famous adage in the accounting world that its not a smart idea to get tax credits by making actual real losses. You're supposed to find ways to make book losses without actually lighting real money on fire
Ask HN: What's the best thing you came across on Hacker News?
I've started using HN pretty recently, and already impressed by some of the not-so-common and interesting topics and discussions here. Curious to know your favorites!
I tend to downvote the "this will probably be downvoted but..." comments (except when it's an extraordinarily insightful comment).

Just leave that sentence out. It adds nothing to the discussion.
Wow! Only about 100X more expensive than consumer grade.

A simple quality control test I do with any new flash memory device is to reformat it. If it has a serious problem, it's better to find out up front.

Most cheap, generic memory cards from China fail this test --- often because half the flash memory advertised by the onboard software is physically missing.

For example, a card that advertises 32Gb to the OS may only have 16Gb of actual flash on board. It will work until the real physical capacity is exceeded.

Some newer cards have gotten sneaky enough to fake the formatting somehow *and* fake the labeling to mimic a name brand. Apps are available to extensively test by writing random data and reading it back.

Simply buying from Amazon offers somewhat of a credibility buffer. Vendors selling fake product are quickly excluded due to the sheer volume of returns/chargebacks.
> "Removing the tweet limit was a massive improvement (something I'd wanted for a decade). Showing view counts is also nice."

I used Twitter for a decade, and frustration was the primary emotion associated with the service. I had about a thousand followers but barely any engagement to anything I ever posted. There was never any positive reinforcement to an insignificant little guy like myself.

I don't really see how longer tweets or view counts do anything to help with that fundamental problem. (View counts only make it more obvious that nobody cares about my tweets, which is presumably why Twitter had previously hidden them under the engagement metrics UI.)

It's a platform dominated by big accounts. As the owner of one of the biggest accounts on Twitter, Musk doesn't experience or see the problem and can't fix it.
>"This is a bit of a flawed argument-- it's not clear that people with severe mental illness are more violent than the general population, and if they are, it's not by a huge margin."

Have you been around schizophrenics ? Particularly those that go off meds ? And many do from time to time. "Mental Illness" is a broad term. But people with psychosis (the two most major and "severe" diagnosable forms being schizophrenia and bipolar) are clearly more prone to violence, particularly schizophrenics and particularly those who don't take their meds. Anyone having any experience with those haunted with psychosis can absolutely agree they are more prone to violence. I agree with being able to hospitalize people who prove dangerous but it is usually for a very short period of time to deal with some acute episode.
I'm responsible for this character being supported in Iosevka, JetBrains Mono, 3270, and Cozette, looks like. For arguments I wanted to stick to mathematical convention like f(x) without looking like a regular variable. While the lowercase 𝕩 (subject role) is more common, uppercase makes it a function and is useful in functional programming. More visibility for the character is helpful if it means wider font support, although the real sticking point has been lousy UTF-16 handling on Windows. Like most emoji, these characters need to be represented as a surrogate pair in UTF-16, and terminals in particular often don't handle it.

https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/fonts.html

https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/help/rightargument.html
With physical goods, manufacturers seek the lowest possible production cost. Use exactly as thick material as needed, but no thicker. The cheapest material that does the job (as opposed to material that is eg. 2x as expensive but lasts 5x as long), etc. Hoping to sell more product than competitors.

With software that doesn't make sense. No wait, it does! Here the focus is on time-to-market.

New trend comes along (like AI now), be the 1st to incorporate it in product & kick out the door. QC be damned, products can be patched in field - or so that seems to be the idea.

Author: "Why does this happen? I don't know, but my own bias suggests that it's because there's less focus on regression testing".

Adding features is easier than making sure ALL included features (old & new) actually work. Or keep working.

I sometimes enjoy taking apart cheap products to see what corners were cut. PCB traces in place of a fuse, replacing bridge rectifier (4 diodes) with 1 diode + (sometimes) a bigger capacitor, things like that. Designers are creative. :-)

This is called Muntzing: take something out, and if it still works, you have improved the item.

With software, this is an art that developers should pursue. But the thing is: in software land, NOBODY does that. Well apart from snipping code in performance bottlenecks, that is.
They are autocomplete, they're just completing something in the form

Assistant: ...

User: ...

Assistant: ...

And the output is stopped when they start generating the equivalent of "User: " and the reins are handed back to you.

This isn't a problem, autocomplete at the level of "what would a person say next" is outrageously powerful, but it is how they're working afaik.
Interesting! Like the LEGO blocks concept in your description.
"Can you give me a re-x on my x please?"
Emotions Affect Perceived Productivity
I thought they would just do xtwitter just to highlight the change . xwitter would be ok too. Xtagram would be interesting.
> I speculate that musk is trying to build something like weChat for the US

You don't need to "speculate", because Musk has literally said this.
Fuck the rich and their bootlicking admirers.
Ketamine is a hell of a drug.
AI should improve your writing, not replace it
Can’t find it now, but originally it was reported that Elon got the logo from someone who replied to his tweet and that it was the lid logo for someone’s unsuccessful podcast.
The majority of voters were homeowners back then. It was created and passed to benefit homeowners and preserve existing communities. But the bigger issue is that there was a flavor of magical thinking among conservatives that cutting taxes would cut spending (starve the beast). Naturally one proved more popular than the other with the electorate.
No, you're supposed to go to X and search on there. And consume ads.
He should have bought Facebook then.
It’s not about “having” money, but what you did to acquire it and what you’re doing with it.
Not lucky, subsidized [1].

[1] Company with $15 million revenue in 2008 gets $465 million "loan" in 2009, https://techcrunch.com/2009/06/23/the-government-comes-throu... https://www.statista.com/statistics/272120/revenue-of-tesla Of course, Ford got $5.9 billion bailout, because capitalism is the lie profiteers tell to the wage slaves as they privatize profits while socializing losses.
They do, but i'm super relieved they managed to add it to the language while not changing its focus and general feeling.

It really feels like a refactoring tool rather than a new design tool : you still think mostly about functions and structs and don't get carried by "is x a kind of y" kinds of discussion.
what buisness ventures does he have in the UK? I havent heard about that
I chuckled a little to see that Cortana (the VA) has dropped so thoroughly out of collective memory
I am increasingly interested in games that are open source, or at least not reliant on online services to function.
Is checking your horoscope considered believing in astrology? I ask because I check mine, but mostly for morning reminders and put my head on straight.

Today mine starts with "The universe may deliver an ego bruise or two today, dear Virgo, as brooding Pluto squares off with the Nodes of Fate" and while I don't believe they're predicting a specific event it's nice to have that in the back of my mind today.

Coincidentally, I have an email I'm expecting to be in my work inbox this morning that could be a bit of an ego bruiser. I've been dreading it all weekend and I was thinking about how to approach it last night and decided I was not going react and reply to the email today. After reading my horoscope this morning I had the idea that skipping the email today and not even reading it might be a good thing to do. It's not going to be urgent or require a reply so why not ignore it today if I think it's going to ruin my day? It damn near ruined my weekend and I don't even know if it's in my inbox.

For me, my horoscope is no different from reading a random motivational quote every morning.
> He’s taking an underperforming social network and trying to make it work.

Few would argue that it works better now than before

> Perhaps its just that people don’t like his personality,
I suppose it's more complicated:

- he promised "freedom of speech" and Twitter has rather become "freedom of hate"

- he is taking constantly controversial political positions, usually favoring dictators, and this doesn't resonate very well in the western world

Maybe people just wish he would have stayed the way he was: a sort of fascinating "Doc Brown" rather than yet another average billionaire pushing political ideas through his wealth and popularity.
Basically the "no-life-risk" thesis. I don't think it's entirely crazy either, Elon was going to be comfortable whatever he did, and some people in that position will roll the dice several times, and some of those guys will win several times.

Still takes some skill, I don't doubt that. But the main ingredient is risk.
It seems the Samsung Knox security services rely on the Android Strongbox spec.

It is not clear that a user would actually want to trade-off hardware based security (where encryption, signature verification happens in "tamperproof" / secure silicon) for some unspecified additional RAM.

In fact, the article does not benchmark RAM/CPU/Battery usage from the service. I would speculate that there is very little benefit in wanting a few MB of extra RAM when smartphones have north of 4GB of RAM and need strong security for payments and handling personal data.
Too late now, with advent of CBDCs , the time for paypal has passed
I'd like to give a little background. This isn't intended in defense of the move, I share the general discomfort with the change

X.com, a payments company, was Musk's second company formed in 1999. In March 2000 PayPal was formed by the merger X.com with Thiel and Levchin's Continuity. Musk was the initial CEO, but by September 2000 the board replaced Musk with Thiel while Musk was on vacation to Australia. October 2002, eBay purchased PayPal for US$1.5 billion

Musk repurchased the X.com domain from PayPal in 2017

In October 2022, Musk said he will execute the X product plan "with some improvements" which will make Twitter "the most valuable financial institution in the world"

Other notes:

- Musk is a fan of cryptocurrency and Bitcoin

- Starlink is an independent internet backbone that can be access from anywhere on earth

- Starlink plans to separate from SpaceX and IPO. Funds from the IPO is how SpaceX plans to pay for the Mars project
Any links to the bill?

For many, foster care is a temporary program with an agency directive at reunification of the family.

I was a foster parent and one kid was briefly in the system due to a clerical issue where the father was not awarded custody after the mother was arrested.

Would that 14 day clerical issue now be awarded with a free education? Cause that system can be easily gamed.
Their MOAT is pay for first year & this address will be your for lifetime.
The shame!!!

I checked now and Hudson seems to be completely gone:
https://git.eclipse.org/c/hudson/

The Eclipse Foundation has taken down even the Git repo, let alone the website.

DamageControl, the original inspiration for Hudson/Jenkins still has a repo on GitHub: https://github.com/codehaus/damagecontrol

So a super small toy CI server from 18+ years ago still has its source available yet Hudson, while the OG big CI server is completely gone from the internet, including Oracle's modifications.

Kind of shameful from the Eclipse Foundation, especially after the initial boasting: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Eclipse-Foundation-an...
>All sponsors are acknowledged in Sponsors of Adopted Characters and our public Twitter feed and will receive a custom digital badge for their character.

Wait, do they mean their public X feed?
> No product improvements, but worse reliability, more spam, and a weird desperate-looking rebrand.

What are you talking about? There has been more change at Twitter in the last year than in the last ten. From editable comments, subscriptions, revenue sharing, blue checkmark for sale, alternative check marks for govts and org, culling of old accounts, API restrictions, forcing people to put parody in acct. I noticed a lot less spam as well. A year and a half ago I remember every top reply being crypto scams from fake vitalik accounts

I get you prob don't like the guy but saying the product is unchanged is just delusional. Maybe some of the changes are worse but there have been a lot of changes
Giant Steps Shepard Tone [video]
>Remember hyperloop? Remember he got kicked out of PayPal? Remember boring company? Remember solar city?

One could say similar things for other well succesful businessmen:

Remember NeXT? Remember he got kicked out of Apple? Remember the G4 Cube? Remember MobileMe? Remember Ping?
I vividly remember "designing" (with my light skills) a T-Shirt using Inkscape for a sports team back at university in ~2008. It was organized as a competition with the winner getting a free shirt.

IIRC it took me about 6h, the Inkscape UI was frustrating at first but eventually I got better at it and won the contest. Such a fun seeing other people running around the city of Karlsruhe (Germany) wearing my shirt.

Thank you Inkscape team! I'm seeing as much potential as with Blender in kicking some commercial vendor's butts!
> find them entertaining

I also find them entertaining. That doesn’t mean I believe them.

> The explanation is very simple: they simply didn't think it through

Something I rely on to predict the future is the kind of thing I would want to think through. That’s particularly hard to believe of “intelligent people” when checking that it’s nonsense takes very little effort.

There may be an education-intelligence gap that explains why astrology is not evidently false to those people though.
You're quite right that the recipe is abused by a cook. I like that analogy!

However, I think a vanishingly small number of corporations care enough about the recipe to cook it properly. The recipe itself can be abused. A better recipe would be safe from abuse.

I'm not sure what that recipe looks like.
> He's a talented motivational speaker

He IS? In what contexts? Because every time I see him speak, it's painful. His delivery is so stilted/awkward, that I think he's one of the worst speakers I've ever seen.
> perhaps LLMs could incorporate that as well, e.g. assign probabilities(/perplexity?) to each of the tokens they generate.

They do, that's how tokens are selected. Locally run models or non-chat ones from openai can return the probabilities and you can do things like modify or filter them.
I'll try it. For me the best experience used to be with 0.92 and since then it has significantly degraded, with counter-intuitive things happening all the time in the UI. One of the operations I find the most complicated is to place circles at specific positions. I only know how to adjust their size and left position but as I'm using inkscape to design drill positions, it's a real pain for me to have to mentally subtract the radius and the line width. And in general, I find everything related to movements, alignments and such particularly difficult, to the point that generally you have to find a video showing a trick to proceed efficiently.
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>> Motivational speakers are fond of saying it doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down, it’s how many times you get up. But sometimes, it does matter how many times you get knocked down.

He kind of breezed past this but damn, it really strikes a chord with me. As someone in their early thirties I'm only just beginning to appreciate the toll life takes, even as I grow more resilient.

On an unrelated note, there is a book "Bruce Lee Artist of Life" that is a compilation of Lee's notes on philosophy, martial arts, and more. Some of the notes are what he copied verbatim from his college texts but there are also some brilliant reflections on his experiences. I turn to it from time to time for inspiration and insight.
What a great TV show. I miss Sunday nights...
Whats bothering you about it? I probably lack perspective because I haven't used other software, but I'm really happy using both for whenever I need to do something.
They can still say "tweet." I don't "goog" on google, I search on google. Also, the site isn't called "tweeter."
Who cares if x.com sponsors it? In fact they should because emojis are so popular on it and Unicode could use the fund. Why should someone try to get this? What is their benefit?
How much of that is attributed to the value of his worthless brand? Also Forbes is a rag that idolizes the wealthy.
And yet I don't any great percentage of people from a "rich family" making multi-billion dollar companies.

I'm also pretty sure with his first company sale he made much more money than his family ever had to begin with.