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Yes, extreme animal abuse. Knowingly covered up. [0]

Elon musk admitted his father owned a share in an apartheid emerald mine in a 2014 interview, an interview which has since been deleted without comment [1]. Kinda makes all the later denials look... Well, fraudulent.

"I thought that was debunked Starlink" - What? You gotta finish your sentences if you want to call people deranged bruh.

Kessler syndrome hasn't been debunked - ask Scientific American, or NASA. And he certainly did cut access to it during multiple crises, there's no shortage of sources for that.

> he has made an incredible impact with these companies

Certainly - but a lot of it is only spun to be positive and is in fact profoundly negative, if you think about it. Electric cars are not the way out of the energy crisis, public transportation is - which Musk has seemingly deliberately held back [2]. And the corporate takeover of space has been a dystopian sci-fi theme for a very, very long time.

> "Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it."

Lots of people get taken in by fraudsters. And you know what they do when the fraud is uncovered? Most often, they double down protecting the fraudster, often even lashing out at the messenger. Because admitting you got got is very hard on the ego. I believe in you electriclove - break your bubble.

0 - https://www.wired.com/story/neuralink-uc-davis-monkey-photos...

1 - https://web.archive.org/web/20140901222916/https://www.forbe...

2 - https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions...
The UK isn't really known for being an ambitious nation when it comes to the startup ecosystem.

For jobs, unless you're working in finance in London, for tech salaries (except for FAANG) it is simply no surprise that it is so low on average [0] that isn't even worth it.

What is more damning is that I saw an internship in the US earn more than a job posting of Head of Cyber Security at the HM Treasury which is $50-57K yr (senior level)

Doesn't matter if you went to the golden triangle of universities, it is much better to get a remote job in the US. each time.

As for startups, in the UK there is almost no connections here for VCs, angels or any investment network this might have changed in the few years but you would have to squint hard to find them.

[0] https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/london-tech-salary-SRCH...
I lived near Alang (India) and visited the shipbreaking operations a lot. For me as a kid, the best part was these ships had olives (in brine) and we could only get them from Alang.

Happy to answer any questions you guys might have.
He should just have asked for all-cash transaction. I think it is fair. If they don't want to sell the company stock and buy the company with cash, or at least make an offer, then there is likelihood that there is some kind of fraud going on.
Chances are, and don’t take this personally, the turnover was due to the fact it’s not easy to work with the French businesses and their management. There’s a lot of looking down and overconfidence combined with micromanaging and patronizing, and the communication issues oftentimes stem from your lackluster English skills.
This is based on mine and my friends’ experience as a software engineer/software house. Some software houses outright refuse to work for the French, through unofficial policy.
> I believe that you are referring to The Palestinian Authority

You would be incorrect [0]. The UN recognizes a "State of Palestine" independent of the specific government, which includes both Gaza and the West Bank. This entity, the state of Palestine, not the PLA (that would be weird, like saying the Tory party is signatory to the Rome statute), is signatory to the Rome statute. The state of Palestine is a non-member observer state in the UN.

You're correct that it's good to be precise here, so you should do so around the specific political entity of Palestine when that is what is being discussed.

[0]: Depositary notification of Accession to the Rome Statute by the State of Palestine; https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/CN/2015/CN.13.2015-E...
The expected returns from "want[ing] to go and work at companies like McKinsey, Goldman Sachs or Google" are both greater and more certain, so perhaps the individual young people are acting quite rationally in the UK?

For context I spent years in my 20s doing start ups in London, and undoubtedly would have been better off financially now if I'd worked for some soul-sucking consultancy instead. I do agree with him that raising money in the UK is quite hard.
No big company has faced any big liability in the US that I’m aware of. Experian comes to mind.

They originally sent a mail with that requirement, but changed it to the interview instead. I don’t know the internal policy. Presumably they thought they had enough from “public records” as they called it.

I agree with the ‘insane’ moniker… but realized a few years back we’re not in Kansas anymore.

Just went to a concert where you’re not allowed to attend w/o a internet connected terminal in your hand. ((boggle))
I'm glad more people are thinking this. It's amazing that he got his way back into OpenAI somehow. I said as much that he shouldn't go back to OpenAI and got downvotes universally both here and on reddit.
'_and commercial goods_.'

There's no right for 'commercial goods'. The only issue in question is food, and trucks with food going in are twice the prewar level (the rest was mostly construction goods used for we know what exactly - that's not gonna go in).
Have you tried Hasura by chance?
Actually, I think it’s valuable to see him defend his views when pressed to do so.

Of course you should read the article as well, but the interview is invaluable. His blog is shared on HN a lot, but this was the first time I ever saw the man himself asked to actually account for why he believes the evidence supports his conclusions.

Also the article in question, from the interview, was this one https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/22/sparta-popular-culture-... but they edited the title after he did that podcast. It used to be “Spartans Were Losers: The US Military’s Admiration of a Proto-Fascist City-State is Based on Bad History.”
Your definition of "script" is completely different from what most people would use and honestly makes no sense.
Everyone seems to be arguing as if they have lots of evidence disproving the Israeli part in war crimes and I’ve seen plenty of videos of absolutely cold blooded murders of unarmed civilians and massive destruction of civilian infrastructure. If Israel is not starving Palestinians why did the US build a jetty to take in aid?

I don’t mention that Hamas are also war criminals because I think everyone can agree they are already. It’s obvious.

Anyway I always thought that courts like this should have a special higher authority and any of us arguing on hacker news, I believe they are brave to take this case, will review the evidence fairly and a court case can happen at some point. If these leaders are innocent then I’m convinced the court will find them not guilty, but they should be allowed to follow any evidence, your or my opinion on hacker news really isn’t very relevant compared to that of experts in war crimes and international law.
What is the difference between cample-HTML and Htmx?
This presumably inspired some of the scenes in the Star Wars series Andor.
> These tools capture our imagination, open new possibilities, and affect how we design our own systems.

Puppeteer/Playwright fits the bill for me. Learning how to scrape websites with those tools subtly changed how I approach lots of other programming tasks and opened many new possibilities in both personal and work projects.

The event model of the web platform has had a deep effect on how I generally think about systems.

Some people may throw tomatoes at me for this last one: Google Apps Script. The docs and API aren't great, but it has opened so many new possibilities for automation of things related to my personal and work Google accounts.

Re: capturing my imagination, physical computing with RPi/Arduino. I've also gotta admit that GenAI APIs have been an explosion of new possibilities for my line of work (technical writing)

Thank you to OP for creating a productive and inspiring topic (enlightenmentware) for us to discuss and share ideas around
>The UK isn't really known for being an ambitious nation.

They've ruled the seas and half of the earth for centuries. They've ruled commerce and industry for centuries.

Isn't that a proof of ambitions?
All sorts of low-brow copy-and-paste search-and-replace work.

Like: create curl request from this tcpdump exchange.
Or, take this slightly corrupted sql query from logs and print it properly.

Too amorphous and infrequent to properly automate, too labour intensive to do
I'll write more here
I have a couple of these to add as well:

VCVRack - simply one of the most mind-expanding things a synthesizer-nerd can play with. (https://vcvrack.com/)

ZynthianOS - another example of a simple software solution to a problem nobody realized existed, opening the door to an absolutely astonishing array of Audio processing tools (https://zynthian.org/)
This is the worst possible type of zoom. It's like zooming into a PDF or PNG image. You can't read like that, constantly scrolling left and right.

This is the problem though, unfortunately. People aren't even talking about the same thing. Users need to increase their font size so they can read comfortably. But so many people seem to think "zoom" should do what you describe (like zooming in to see small details?). I suppose the best is that web browsers offer both modes. But unfortunately text zoom requires some understanding from the web developer to work (or just a simple web site; a little knowledge is a dangerous thing). So we get stuck with stupid zoom because half the web breaks if you dare to change front size.
Or, and I assume you have not considered this, but maybe you should, there is no genocide. And virtually everyone except for some noisy activists knows this.

You live in a bubble if you think social media represents people. Social media represents the highly motivated ones. It does not reward quiet thinkers, it rewards "useful idiots" who have brainless slogans.

The normal people who actually think about things don't participate because they have better things to do than useful idiots.

And then you have people like me who also have better things to do, but feel obligated to post occasionally to at least try to reduce the amount of misinformation.
Not only this, but failure has consequences socially and professionally.

Startup founders are seen a little bit like fortune seekers ("gold diggers") in that they seek fortune without "having to work". Of course it depends on details and context and so on.

Failed startup founders are seen like bankrupt gamblers, unless they were previously wealthy and could afford to absorb the losses.
> a cease fire with current front lines

That would only serve as an opportunity for Russia to regroup, build up the war machine, and attack again, possibly not just Ukraine.
The key is, though, that they do the right thing, and are also willing and able to abort or change plans (again, in the right direction) when the situation changes.
> The UK isn't really known for being an ambitious nation.

Industrial revolution? Railways? An empire on which the sun never sets? (Ollivander voice: "evil, yes, but ambitious").

Sure, things have gone downhill since then.
papersway – scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm
Why did you forget the rest of the sentence, "when it comes to the startup ecosystem?"
git commit -mm works and is a bit quicker
Search for the Thomas Lubanga and Mr Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo cases. The ICC can issue 'sealed' (secret) warrants and tell the countries very late in the process.

Yeah, in practice any such warrant will eventually leak, but it's still a risk for anyone who might be on the other end which de facto creates limits to anyone who might fall under suspicion.
Oh, the day when an artist could sample other artists without attribution and royalties is long gone. The music labels are very hard on this these days.
Indeed, that's also what threw me off with the accessibility rule "when text is scaled 200% (2x) of its original size." focused on %
Not when it comes to startups, besides the UK keeps going on about what they have done in the past.

So, why hasn't this translated to trillion dollar companies in the UK?
Thanks!

I was actually toying with writing a rational number library going in the direction you sketch out. My inspiration was a trick in computational geometry for dealing with points at infinity. I think it's called homogeneous coordinates.

My point was to treat both p and q in p/q as symmetrically as possible.

Oh, I remember now: the motivating example was to write a nice implementation of an optimal player for the 'guessing game' for rational numbers.

One player, Alice, commits to a (rational) number. The other player, Bob, makes guesses, and Alice answers whether the guess was too high, too low or was correct. Bob can solve this in O(log p + log q). And the continued-fraction-based strategy Bob wants to use is generally symmetrical between p and q. So I was looking into expressing the code as symmetrically as possible, too.
Indeed. It looks to me like the export here is probably ThreeJS STLExporter? It is known for creating non-watertight models, unfortunately.

PrusaSlicer seems to do an adequate job tidying these up automatically.

I think it's not particularly uncommon for STLs exported from common CAD packagers to have some of these issues, though this is a lot.

Super-nice otherwise though -- a neat design. And in general I think client-side tools like this have a lot of potential. Three.js opens up potential for doing task-focussed things without using OpenSCAD on a server or a full emscripten build of OCC (like Cascade Studio does)
But all the artists that never completed a work because they always thought "it's not perfect yet" are forgotten, by everyone.
Works again :) but that was rather long…
wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bui_Tuong_Phong
It would be more interesting to not consider just US and UK, but the whole world.

Lots of new startups might come from Asia. Eastern European startup scene is interesting, also.
because the US is one of the most warlike countries to ever exist that can only contextualize solutions through war
I'm in favor of having common ~240v sockets in the US, for all of the perhaps-obvious reasons including boiling water more-quickly for coffee or tea and running a portable induction hob that doesn't suck.

But if the NEMA 5-15 is a not-great standard, then the NEMA 6-20 is also equally-flawed. They've both got the same set of issues.

The only good reason for 6-20 (or 6-15) in American kitchens is that it is an "approved" connector. It fits in, today, with what we have here in the States in terms of broadly-accepted wiring methods, safety testing, and formal training. That is indeed a good reason, and I do not wish to diminish that reason.

If 6-20 were already commonly-used in residential environments -- anywhere -- then it'd be easy to say that it would be a nice thing to have in every kitchen. But it has neither momentum nor inertia, because it mostly just doesn't exist.

So if we're going to set out sights on what is ostensibly going to be considered a "new" plug, then: Why not aim for one that doesn't inherently suck?
This also allows for use of drum brakes, which have rare issues of overheating when used alone but are fine with regen doing most of the work. Those contain the abrasion materials within themselves.

Some EVs already use them but to become common it'll probably require new regulations like the EU is planning to overcome the "ugh factor" because they used to be the cheap, low end options.
Was there something in the water? Lots of rumbles around the early OpenAI members and questionable behavior.
I wasn't responding to your comment.
There's the risk aspect and the regulation aspect. Personally I think there's something to be said for a country where your car can't collect data on your trade union membership and sex life and pass it on to your insurers. (The UK is no longer in the EU so it's not technically subject to GDPR anymore, but they "forked" that law when they left and it's now called the Data Protection Act (DPA).
That's a funny way to read the article. What it really says is that VW saw a big market in China, which is now dominated by local companies, so they're not gonna overproduce cars by building another factory. Also the free money river known as subsidies is drying out in the EU so people won't be buying that many EVs. And tesla/byd might be cheaper, but I wouldn't call them any better. That's a personal opinion of course.
It's highly unlikely someone pored over much of edgecases as it's pretty common in such discussions to realize that there isn't even awareness of many cases

As you say, people in different roles don't even have the same meetings
> In Europe the old rusty impotent gray-haired managers wont even listen to you, even if you offer them a goddamn magic bean or a money printer machine. And why would they? They risk a lot and gain almost nothing, as there are no reward structures that incentivize risk in any shape or form.

I don't know if this is true or complete hyperbole? (I'm from the UK and live in the Netherlands; I've pitched several businesses and startups to European "impotent managers"). It's true that enterprise sales is hard, and some business cultures are definitely trickier than others (Germany!), but there are plenty of thriving B2B startups in Europe.
ICC signatory countries are meant to arrest anyone on the ICC warrant.

South Africa did not with a Sudanese war criminal:
"As a signatory to the Rome Statute that governs the jurisdiction and functioning of the Court, South Africa was obliged to arrest al-Bashir when he was in the country, and to extradite him to The Hague to face trial."[1]

Last year, Putin cancelled a visit to South Africa as there's an ICC arrest warrant out for him.

[1] https://theconversation.com/icc-ruling-on-south-africa-and-a...
East India Company was a startup, too
Well, Notebooks main use case is a different purpose, not for trying one-off stuff or checking if some syntax is valid. It's for doing stuff step by step, annotating the steps and/or explaining each result.

Web playgrounds are ok for testing some syntax (if you don't have a local REPL/easy way to test), but not for one-off stuff that involves file input or that you want to check against real environment assets.
The question of Palestine's admissibility to ICC proceedings was subject to a sophisticated legal review years ago, in relation to a former case.

The gist of the argument can be gleaned from its sub-headings:

Palestine is a State for the purposes of the Statute under relevant
principles and rules of international law...... 25

C.1. The Montevideo criteria have been less restrictively applied in certain cases........ 25

C.2. It is appropriate to apply the Montevideo criteria less restrictively to Palestine, for
the purposes of the Rome Statute ..... 29

C.2.a. The Palestinian people have a right to self-determination and it has been
recognised that this implies a right to an independent and sovereign State of Palestine... 30

C.2.b. The exercise of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination is being
obstructed by practices contrary to international law................... 32

C.2.c. Palestine has been recognised by a significant number of States.............. 34

C.2.d. No other State has sovereignty over the Occupied Palestinian Territory............ 35

C.2.e. Palestine’s status as a State Party must be given effect........ 36

C.2.f. The Prosecution’s alternative position is consistent with international law ........ 39

C.2.g. Participants’ arguments regarding a possible referral by the Security Council are
unclear.......... 40

D. The Oslo Accords do not Bar the Exercise of the Court’s Jurisdiction........ 40

D.1. The Oslo Accords regulated a gradual transfer of power to the Palestinian
Authority over most of the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem) and Gaza.............. 40

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20230609070357/http://www.icc-cp...

Coincidentally, Josep Borrell, the foreign policy chief of the EU, announced earlier in the month that several of the bloc's member states intend to recognise Palestinian statehood on the 21st of May - today.

See: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/spain-ireland-reco....
Yeah. I don't remember when I started using Telegram. My conversations show messages in February 2018 but I thought I was using it already when I moved from New Zealand to Russia in 2015 for a few years -- the 2018 is when I got a job with SiFive and moved to the USA.
Citation needed? The UK certainly has plenty of upper-middle class families. This is nothing to do with family wealth and everything to do with business culture.
Reminded me of BF:BC2 Atacama Desert
Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on its new PCs
> You can see this hyperbole in the sibling comment, where the quote "man-made compounds from household products didn’t belong in the human body" is asserted as some kind of fact. Even if you're predisposed to believe this (extremely general) statement is true, this isn't a claim that you can really defend with an evidence-based argument.

Is there actually evidence here that these chemicals are harmless, or is this an absence of evidence of harm? Because the latter is a whole lot less persuasive than the former.
They would all sound alike when itching for agreement, I bet. The narrow likeness in accent is there at first but that isn't true likeness if significant other details emerge on further listening and that don't overlap.
I think this is the answer. Ambitious people in the modern startup world move to the US, because that's where the ecosystem is.

It's like asking why do the best Brazilian footballers move to Europe.
Who would be in the market to acquire them? This is the sort of thing I was wondering about. I had heard they were planning to IPO for a while, and thought perhaps that 'optimizations' like this might be an indication that things were heating up.
Does s/he believe in free will too?
From looking at the demo, you might still have glare issues. You want this display if you'd like one that goes easy on your eyes.
It reduces in my head to "artificial undefined". Like "artificial sophistication".

I don't believe different fields or different people have different definitions. Non of them have anything.
Security is hard, in whatever field. Customers do want to be able to get service at their bank, without jumping through crazy hoops.

That said, bank security in the US is generally awful. Checks should not exist - they are a concept out of another era. Actually, in the US, just having someone's account number enables you to withdraw money from their account. That is just nuts.

By now, all money transfers should be electronic and immediate. Where I am, we use the "Twint" service. Want to pay in a shop? Scan a QR code off the card reader, then click ok. Want to send money to a private person? Select them from your contacts, enter the amount, click ok. Transfers are completed in seconds, which also eliminates the issue of bouncing checks.
CamelCase vs underscores: Scientific showdown (2011)