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> Remember the G4 Cube? Remember MobileMe? Remember Ping?

I think it's weird to compare failed products within a company (and minor products at that) to failed companies. I think you may have not even listed some of the more notable ones (The Apple LISA, the iPod HiFi). But he wasn't betting the company on the Cube, or MobileMe, or even Ping. These were low-stakes (and arguably low effort) bets taken within a company that was simultaneously having insane success in other departments. The G4 Cube came out between the iMac and the iPod (2 years after the iMac, 1 year before the iPod). That seems like a damn good product-line, and if you could choose any one to miss on, it'd be the niche prosumer device, not the two consumer devices.

> Remember NeXT? > Remember he got kicked out of Apple?

These could be interpreted either way. It seems all part of the larger "Apple story arc", and more comparable to Tesla's shaky middle period, than as binary successes and failures void of any surrounding context. However, I do mean that it could go either way. I wouldn't fault someone as judging them as true failures separate from the later Apple success.
Microsoft's cheating had no influence on the fact that Netscape's engineering (and/or its management) messed up bad. The decision to do a complete rewrite (Mozilla) was the final nail in the coffin.
No, but I’ll take any moniker of intelligence at this point in my life, so thank you! If you’d like I can prove my Turing completeness if you’d like.
Neither of you have a way (in your profile) to contact you outside of the website
Ask HN: Do journalists worldwide know they can build cryptographic identities?
In many (most?) countries, reporting without anonymity can get the reporter killed. But truly anonymous reporting is ineffective, because readers have no reason to believe a source with no history.

There is a middle way. Cryptography allows a reporter to sign statements proving they own the private key used to sign whatever they report, without disclosing anything else about themselves.
> Elon seems to be little more than a charming, lucky idiot

This is selling him too short. He's also a sort of cult leader, one who keeps an eye out for who his next population of acolytes will be.
This is an interesting overview of mainframe vendors and how many customers they might have: https://arcanesciences.com/os2200/app1.html
Most of the "dwarves" are now using emulation...
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That's what I mean, you literally hire 10 different teams and tell them "hey make me a health insurance matching website".
No, a transformer is a universal function approximator and is capable of learning to do anything to some degree of accuracy.

GPT doesn't do math correctly but it also doesn't just memorize it.
I really don't want to derail the thread as it is useful, but i'm curious about the security reasons against Debian/Ubuntu.
Well i think that's what they're saying. Videos are better than text for a college lecture. The big up video has on text is... video. Moving pictures, animations, words at the same time as images. These are all things text cannot do or cannot do well. You are right that it's hard to look at a video and know what's in the whole thing but a portion of that is solved by table of contents/chapter navigation and its honestly good enough for me. I can't read a paper while doing the dishes or other necessary chores that have to be done, but i can watch or at least listen to a video or podcast. Each medium has its own benefits and i will state again, neither is better outright. You're entitled to your opinion.

I've been working through an applied linear algebra textbook on my own this summer and have at multiple points encountered subjects that the book simply could not communicate to me well. I go search a video on the topic and find that the man who wrote the book also made video lectures from the time he released the book, so it's not like the book sucks and the videos are $100,000 dollar productions. If anything the book is ridiculously better produced than the videos. It's just him talking into what sounds like a crackly phone mic and drawing on pieces of paper under a bright but inconsistent light.

But you know what, I'll be damned if those videos didn't make sense of every difficulty i had in the book. And it's explicitly the benefits of video, he shows the process while talking and there's no editing for brevity or page count, just the raw facts that come into his head as he progresses. It's so good that I've honestly switched to the videos for at least a chapter. I find they're more succinct and usable, and i learn much faster from them. And that's nowhere near a 3b1b level of video!

Again, you're entitled to your opinion but i don't think the fact that you like books better gives you the ability to state the 'fact' that books are downright and unquestionably better than videos, podcasts, images, hell even vr some day maybe. Videos are also drastically more accessible. I can find videos on things that would cost me hundreds of dollars to get a comparable book on. It drastically lowers the barrier to learning and i think that's really important for children whose classrooms are not adequately challenging them
Yes, weird, because we must require higher standards for comp. sec.
Thanks. It does not look like I can get Amcor/Bemis products in the Netherlands. I was hoping to take the guesswork out of it and avoid buying something crappy. If anyone around here could offer a suggestion, I would appreciate it.
Obsidian is very different from Notion, I wouldn't call it an alternative. And all the plugins which try to replicate some Notion-features, are not really on pair in terms of quality, and seem to be mostly dead anyway.
But what dynamics/motivations make many Israelis support Netanyahu and this judicial overhaul?

With Trump, I noticed the perspective of international observers was very different than mine on the ground in Florida/Texas. The legitimate grievances that blossomed into the craziness, and decades of partisan priming, weren't really acknowledged.

Now I feel like I'm on the other end. This judicial thing seems like a crazy change for Israelis to support, but maybe it makes some sense from the inside.
> the antepenultimate oval object

I laughed at this thinking it was a perfectly cromulent - but completely made up - way of saying “third last” — but I just looked it up and now I feel stupid since it’s actually in the dictionary. Today I learned!
This is trivializing exceptional skill dimensions and exceptional achievements by equating them to the mundane and unremarkable ones.

The curse of dimensionality doesn't imply all skills are equal, only that finding meaningful exceptions in high dimensional data by just data analysis is hard, but we as a society don't find and filter for exceptionality in a data driven way like that, we have a very limited set of dimensions we assign to "success" (financial means being a big one). Someone making a great cardboard bed on the street will never be one of those dimensions.
> If mathematics (or the underlying 'thing' that math describes) is objectively true or real, then it could have a platonic existence by power of its own self reference.

Indeed; I managed to independently arrive at this part of the idea, I think even before the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis was published.

It's even more cognitively unstable than Boltzmann brains, but maths is also the only thing I can think of that doesn't need to be caused in order to exist.

https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2018/08/26/mathematica...
Eh, I imagine people will just keep using the old nomenclature.

Still, while the social network was presuambly the most valuable part of Twitter, gotta figure the brand was a non-trivial part of the 44 billion Musk paid to buy the company. Seems crazy to toss it after a few months.

Also, the new brand is bad. if someone told me to check out "x.com", I would assume they were directing me to a porn site. And the logo looks too much like the button you click to close your browser.
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When I first moved to North America, the idea that a credit card company was allowed to give people cash back, offer insurance, etc. for using their cards seemed like some bizarroworld "how is this legal" concept. Having lived here for decades, it still is. It's like an alcohol shop rewarding its most alcoholic customers by giving them free booze.

And then if you sign up for a new card, or you cancel a card, some random private company decides to rate you and then banks look at that private company's data to decide whether or not you're a good little consumer worthy of their business?

Credit cards might have been a reasonable idea, but give me direct, free, immediate digital banking and debit cards any day of the week please. The US went "what if we took the worst way to do banking, and made that the default?" and that's why banks don't even handle affordable EFTs themselves. It's the creditcard companies again.
Drug addicts don't buy much stuff. If it's some great conspiracy to push drug addicts to buy more pharmaceuticals, you want to sell them high end antidepressents like xanax, not cheap pain pills and fent.

So either the masterminds of your brilliant conspiracy are idiots, or it's not a brilliant conspiracy and just plain old drug trafficking.

Most drug addicts of the fent variety don't want treatment because treatment means no longer indulging in their drug of choice. It's the same reason why they tend to be fighty when you fix their OD via narcan - you "ruined" their high.

I recommend actually spending some time with the drug addicts likely living nearby. Bring them a few sandwiches. Ask if they would seek care and if not, why not.
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One of the best NASA administrators ever. I really wish Biden would have been willing to keep him on.
to be clear, I maintain plv8, but wrote pljs out of the frustration of maintaining plv8 for so many years :)
NASA (or perhaps a better comparison ULA) wouldn't have taken the risk to try to make reusable rockets. I think Elon's value in Space X (aside from hiring because he clearly has some brilliant engineers working there) is that he's crazy enough to risk it all on "crazy" ideas. He was REALLY close to failing on both Tesla and SpaceX because of this, but it wound up working out and producing things that almost certainly wouldn't exist otherwise.

What he's doing with Twitter is, I guess, a similar leap of faith, but I don't think it is going to pan out this time.
> and I personally hate PayPal

PayPal is really old at this point though, the original people have had nothing to do with it for a very long time. IIRC PayPal had novel and useful functionality initially, before it was run into the ground as a product.
So do that instead of bike shedding the logo.
> But we are talking within the context of the tech industry, the jobs of which often find us staring at monitors and screens and clacking away on keyboards more than we do staring at each other.

To add to this, I have people in my team I don't know what they look like. And I don't really care. The ones who want to switch their camera on during calls are free to do so, most people don't. So even if I decided I want to discriminate against my female colleagues based on their looks, I wouldn't be able to.

Apart from the anecdata, the problem of course exists. Women prefer taller men. And not just women. In business, taller men are more likely to be promoted:

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220825-height-discrim...

In relationships, they are ignored. Fortunately, in tech, where nobody gives a damn what you look like but how good your code is and how cooperative you are, they can feel safe and judged a bit less.
No, what I'm saying is that posts on HN a decade-plus ago were always very optimistic about Tesla and SpaceX. It's not like everybody here was hating on him and he suddenly succeeded, people (at least on here) always saw the benefits to "The Car of the Future" or "Private Space Launches, Done Cheap".

Tesla posts pre profitability:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=317921

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=534198

SpaceX posts pre profitability:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=409653

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=320362

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=317918

(Please excuse the low comment counts. That's not because I'm cherry-picking, old HN was just a much quieter place.)
Has anyone considered that the modulation of light reflected by the planets could potentially have some kind of impact on people? I feel it's pretty arrogant to out right deny the potential of astrology. It's been practiced for thousands of years by multiple cultures and faiths for a reason. I agree you shouldn't base your whole life on metaphysics, but to think we absolutely know everything about the mysteries of the universe is pretty narrow thinking.
The following site works for The Netherlands (not just Amsterdam): https://mapitout.iamsterdam.com/

It has some minor limitations to select the time (has to one of the predefined options). That can be worked around by changing the URL parameter.

It can also map out multiple locations and see the overlap.

It's fairly useful to see where you want to live while taking e.g. the office location into account. It gave me more options than I thought I had, partly because I didn't think about small towns with a train station.
I believe PlantUML was basically the inspiration for MermaidJS. A huge advantage of MermaidJS is that it can run in the browser, though.
Edit button and video streaming are not new. Editing was a Twitter Blue feature.

Remember when he said they'd turn fleets (Snapchat) back on months ago and didn't?

Also, the spam filter just suspended my account for no reason again.
Because branding is one of my passions in life. I love good branding. Twitter is fantastic branding.

X... is not.

Watching Elon destroy the Twitter brand is like watching someone throw orange paint on the Mona Lisa.
*Lori Garver's "Escaping Gravity."
Igniting the Light Elements: The Los Alamos Thermonuclear Weapon Project, 42-52
This is because temperature is complicated. If you want to measure the air temperature you need to isolate from other systems like the 5770K fusion explosion in the sky and the 70-80C ground. (The Sun is constantly trying to reach equilibrium with the earth and would happily burn us to a cinder except we are re-radiating that energy back into space.) Typically measurements are taken in shaded, well ventilated areas, 5 feet off of the ground.

If you want your Garmin to take a valid measurement, place it on a string, 5 feet from the ground, in a shaded area for 5-10 minutes.
Very few people write code whose output purely depends on the choice of types involved. Somebody, somewhere, has to make the choice of placing max/min/wrapping_add/wrapping_sub/wrapping_mul/... in the (u32,u32)->u32 shaped hole in your program, and placing the wrong one is probably a bug. Any caller expecting an arbitrary (u32,u32)->u32 recieving your changes shouldn't break, but not all callers have correct behavior for truly arbitrary functional dependencies.

From the other side, people picked your function in particular not because it fills that type hole but because it does something in particular. If you meaningfully change the thing it does then that probably breaks the callers.

The author's argument is something along the lines of (1) if you're changing the type signature, that's probably because a new implementation requires it, and (2) if the new implementation is sufficiently different to warrant a change in the type signature then it's going to break somebody. I don't particularly like the example since in my experience somebody adding a nullable input will leave the old behavior alone and just wants to call the same function somewhere else, so it probably actually is a non-breaking change for all existing callers, but it's not hard to imagine stronger examples where the author would be right.
I am asking out of pure ignorance. What would be a good use case for this sorta framework? Whenever I have had to create documentation in the past, I just use draw.io and it has been working well for me so far.
I think the tin-foil man is saying that you wouldn't know a totalitarian state if it were successfully masquerading as a democracy.

"Successfully" is the real loaded term here. Those that claim to see the cabal behind the curtain unfortunately have woefully underdeveloped facts to support it.
There is also https://www.x.org/ which seems quite slow. I wonder if it's receiving more traffic than usually..
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The system is seems designed to screw the middle / upper middle class. My son is going to college next year. I make enough that my son will not qualify for aid, but I'm not a billionaire, so the sticker price that I'll have to pay will be enough to be painful for me.

Using the calculator at https://www.savingforcollege.com/calculators/financial-aid-c..., and setting no savings and no 529, it appears you're expected to pay about 1/4 to 1/3 of your AGI (checked at $50k and $500k and several points in between). Which basically means no relief from the sticker price at private schools if your AGI is over ~$250k, and no relief from the sticker price at even the least expensive public schools if your AGI is over ~$80K.

Or am I missing something?
https://jezebel.com/grimes-has-changed-her-and-elon-musks-ba...
How does this compare to just running Alpine Linux?

Edit: I don’t recall exact numbers, but it looks like DietPi uses more disk space. The RAM usage looks impressive, but I’m not sure how similar/different it is, compared to Alpine.
The analogy is only meant for the consumption pattern and business model.

Extrapolating it to anything else than that would be to read too much into an anecdote given at a diner.
People definitely still appreciate HP calculators. Just this summer, the HP-15C has been re-released as a collectors edition.

https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-19886.html
If you review the assertions in your comment, do you consider yourself good (or better) at epistemology and rationality, on an absolute scale?
If someone asks to scan your retinas for a cryptocurrency it is time to seriously consider shunning.
What Musk has changed in the time since he acquired Twitter is the following:

* Changed the moderation policies to allow more speech that had previously been considered impermissible hate speech or violent speech.

* Increased compliance with government censorship requests (which are predominantly of the form "please make this person stop saying bad things about me," and, in many cases, isn't actually permissible under that country's constitution).
We're in a situation where agencies are advocating for the elimination of rights of the populace. How is that in their purview? Given the current law, an executive agency should be defending the rights of the people, not advocating to make more of them criminals where they aren't.

> It bars experts from deliberation.

They can vote and speak like any other person. This would also allow multiple views to come from an agency, not just from the political climbers at the top.
Religious groups have been disappearing, and in their place is a rise in new age woo that's worse than the previous solution.

The problem with Anti Vax is it's fine until a threshold is reached and then everyone gets diseases
Fancy words to say there is a grand designer.

I don’t buy it.

Always at the edge of human understanding we say “well we don’t understand that, so there must be a man behind the curtain”.
I am infinitely disappointed to discover you are also the only person who seems to care about this online. I found a website, but it’s you apparently.

Now I’m going to be bugged by this too! Great trivia also a heck of a mystery
I don't think we do :)
Currently I generate graph diagrams for papers and blog articles in emacs with graphviz, I wonder how mermaid.js compares in that workflow.

The default styles in mermaid look a little nicer than graphviz, which might be enough to motivate me to try it out. When/if I do, I'll probably try with this emacs package: https://github.com/abrochard/mermaid-mode.
Yes, like many kinds of comparisons, it really depends on what you mean by the thing. The architecture of Oxide is very different than a mainframe, but the "big computer that's a fully integrated system" vibe is kinda similar.
I feel like it'd be totally normal for any restaurant or store to give a discount to its best customers
Elon Musk is massively more successful than his parents.
Seems like the guy from Opera has implemented the first 90% of it. Now only the remaining 90% left.
That could have been a mainframe, but I think factories are much more likely to be using AS/400 aka IBM i. That runs on regular IBM Power servers these days.
Oxford (like Harvard) is often less about what you'll know and more about WHO you'll know.

At the undergrad level, the subject matter is generally very well-established. But when you want a job after graduation, being close friends with the CEO's child helps far more than a few tenths of a point on your GPA.

Legacy admissions and nepotism are still very much a thing.
> Hey, brief feedback, but "5,000,000,000+" rows processed might be a red flag for some. Many individual customers might do this per day, so to say that's all the company has done so far might put them off.

Appreciate the feedback! Totally agree and it's something we are working towards :). We learned a ton from going from nothing -> billions, certain functions, backfill strategies, etc just doesn't work at that scale. I'm sure we'll have another equally exciting learning curve when scaling from B/month -> B/day!

> You've said that initial imports are free, but anecdotally, initial imports ended up being a somewhat regular occurrence as we found issues required a re-import, table rewrites, breaking schema changes, and so on. Do you pay full cost for subsequent full-imports?

Thanks for pointing this out. We plan to make all backfills free of charge.

> Lastly, pricing. I feel like you really need a dollar figure on this even just to start the discussion. "Call us for pricing" is fine for enterprise plans, but in a ~100 person startup I would have just passed immediately on to others that provide pricing details. I'm not going to spend time trialling something without knowing if the pricing is in the right ballpark as it's a waste of my time if it isn't. My perception is that this would be substantially more expensive than batch replication competitors such as Stitch, but I don't know.

Makes sense. A lot of folks think that streaming is more expensive than batched, what we've found with our initial customers is the opposite. Streaming is able to distribute the load to DWH and as a result, customers on Snowflake can use a much smaller vDWH when working with Artie. On the "call us for pricing" front, we are planning to provide a calculator / graph to estimate costs before talking to a human in the future. However, we are learning that a lot of companies have bespoke 1yr/ 2yr contracts with their data provider and are trying to figure out our own pricing and packaging at the moment.
Fair. But I've already given up on news, politics, and pop culture. Billionaires playing 5D checkers was my last source of mindless entertainment!
If you're on a Mac, open a Finder window, then click Help -> "New to the Mac? Take a tour". There's your OSX tour. It opens a web browser pointing to https://help.apple.com/macos/big-sur/mac-basics/ (or whatever version you're on).
But Twitter, I mean X, doesn't sell anything which could be confused with an imitate.
At this point it seems like he’s dismantling Twitter on purpose. I can understand why the Saudis who lent him money would want it gone after the Arab spring.