skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the need for roads though is cars. It is rare to see a multi-lane road where trucks are restricted to only 1 lane and cars allowed the rest - if though trucks wouldn't fill that single lane and in turn the other lanes could be built much cheaper. (in part because the road needed for a car isn't that much cheaper than the road needed for a truck - labor is about the same, and weather is often a large factor)
These are the two most different types of intelligence in existence. Comparing them is useless and displays a lack of intelligence and common sense.
Someday in a land far away people would be mature enough to spot complexity instead of judging people as purely "right" or "wrong". I think the best way to explain Elon is... he is a complicated individual and has some really good parts and some really not so good parts. And you know what, that is just fine.

This manufactured, polarized "us vs them" thing on the internet is toxic corrosive goop. People are complex and that is fine.
Can't wait for Matt to jump in and blame this on you.
That's really too bad: your lifestyle does not support maximal economic output of the land you are using and tax dollars you're paying.

HOA? Hah!- those shouldn't be allowed, neither should home ownership generally. You really need to live and raise your family in an apartment.. taxes should be raised enough that we can phase out private home ownership.

Your children will attend a public school and understand and implement equity from an early age. They will learn to use and love mass transit, only the approved destinations are necessary.

The Party may decide that the 50% of your income you are generously allowed to spend on approved items is too much. Social programs aren't free, you know, you need to pay "your share."
It's not technology. Technology is art, craft, human creation. Natural phenomena can be hard for us humans to understand.
Everyone who cares about SpaceX, and not Elon-hating, know Shotwell's name. My nine year old does, and he knows that Gwynne got into engineering because she liked another engineer's shoes!
No, I think it's much more interesting that you keep focusing on the community part, as if paying some token amounts for marketing stuff (sponsoring conferences, events) is similar to pouring tons of engineering work into the product. It almost sounds like "paying in exposure".
Thank you kind person.
Discussion (109 points, 7 days ago, 55 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178
I thought it was an interesting way to put it that:

the JPL produces things at $1,000,000/kg, and that inside the engineering organization it'll be hard to reconfigure everyone's mindsets and practices to create stuff that doesn't spend so much money / is less concerned with weight.

From an engineering perspective it seems like simply putting less into a finished product would be easy, but his argument is basically that the design parameters for every single thing produced are so fundamentally oriented towards weight (and size maybe?) that it's very hard to turn around. (This is not exactly the government spending / misaligned incentive argument that is made for many government projects- my read was that this is a subtly different problem.)
It's a writing choice at the end of the day. If you have to spend so much time reminding people that this is your opinion, you're going to get the same criicism of pacing and meandering that any other fruity prose does to people who want to get straight to the point.

Sometimes you just need a footnote in your profile of "thoughts are of my own" and to not worry about the peanut gallery.
But military doesn’t and shouldn’t retain talent.

You should go there for 5-10years if you are a poor shmuck so they train you, get some value from you and that’s it.
I almost graduated (switched programs) from a graduate school cybersecurity program. They tried making the program "interdisciplinary" which essentially meant that they dumbed down the technical classes so that non-technical undergraduate degrees could pass them.

I tried to put together a team of students to compete in one of MITRE's cybersecurity competitions, but struggled to get other students to create SSH keys so that they could get access to the competition server. Not hack into the server, just follow instructions that I gave them to create keys and give me the public ones so that they could log in and participate.

The industry has a similar problem that the military does: It's very difficult to take non-technical people and train them to be cybersecurity professionals, much less hackers.

You need to start with an engineering background, and it almost has to be electrical or computer engineering, or at least computer science. Of those people with that background, hacking in particular is a type of thinking, problem solving, and mentality that not everyone has.

If you want to defend, attack, or manipulate cyber infrastructure you need an understanding of how that infrastructure is designed and operates. An engineering background will at least give you the building blocks for that.
All I said is that it’s testable, not that it is proven.
Observation. The charges of plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs would also be influenced by the number/supply of such workers. If their are lots plumbers and the same customer demand then it is reasonable plumbers incomes/charges would decrease.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41815567
No, it's not true.

It was used for "graphics" on character-only terminals.
The SpaceX engineers did a great job, as did NASA.

The media needs to stop blindly attributing this to "Elon Musk". He did well taking the risks NASA was not allowed to take at the start. But these days he is toxic to the media and toxic to reporting, so for that reason alone the media could smarted up a little. Well done SpaceX and NASA engineers.
I mean, the reason you're getting that much is due to the experience and creds you earned during service. I can't even post into real security roles at my current company because they only want external candidates with federal experience. They post internally for 1-2 days as a formality. Even then, most of those roles are under $120k. The only roles available to me are shitty ones like application security champion and managing/configuring SAST tools.

Also a major point not covered was defined benefits vs the 401k model.
We instinctively prefer machines that are arranged like us.

This is the reason that every single car built have "two eyes" and "four legs". They could have one, or three or five. A car designed by insects would have six wheels, but then people would reject the model as ugly. All cars have an upfront and a posterior "face". And this face depicts either a mammal or a person. Never a bird or a snail.
You could geofence the robot with indoor positioning so that even if the operator tries to open a window or a door for accomplices, the robot would not be able to reach any doors and windows. You could also have separately controlled curtains and blinds, and before the operator connects to your robots all of those are closed. Now the remote human has no way to even see out of the windows to tell where your house is at.

Vs a real life human stranger in your house that could steal stuff and let accomplices into the house.
Which one is more resistant to bitrot, Restic or Borg Backup?

(Yes, bitrot might better be mitigated at the filesystem layer, but I'm not switching to ZFS, btrfs or bcache-fs anytime soon.)
I've started a new city builder in 3D [1], I don't have that much free time as I used to have, but I feel like investing time on that would be better than on isocity. On a
full fledged city builder it would be worthed to implement a road algorithm

1 - https://youtu.be/B8jYR33HoRU
No it isn't. It might be soon in some early way: "the first launch is expected to take place no earlier than November 2024", "The booster for the flight is named So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance, alluding to the difficulty of landing a reusable booster on the first attempt." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn
Lawyers can give advice, but clients make the decisions. One of Automattic's lawyers appeared in an earlier thread and strongly suggested that Matt is ignoring his advice.

I haven't seen any comments from any WP Engine employees. They have an adult CEO, though, so I'm sure she told them not to comment on it.
Yeah that's just society absolutely wants to label/categorize behavior that appear to fall outside of the normal, most of the time failing to understand that those behavior have roots in the genetic makeup of the person as well as his personal experience.
Most of the time there is nothing really wrong with the diagnosed perso but capitalist/productive society push for normalized behavior so that individuals have less difference and more exploitable/interchangeable.

Funny thing is that you can make the arguments that many of those behaviors are actually adaptation to the environment and may sometimes be the future of humanity. That do not please the productivistes who want to extract as much value of every individual as possible, like we do with cattle.

Now they are some very crazy people out there but it's a very small part of the population and you can often trace the problem back to genetics or physical impairement (environmental or else). Solving that sort of thing with drugs or therapy is basically wishful thinking, but it makes money so I guess that's ok...

As far as I can tell the whole field of psychology/psychiatry is basically just one step removed from full on charlatanism.
We can learn some stuff about people's behavior, take some moral judgment about what's good or not (changes with time as well as political viewpoint) but the drive to specifically categorize is a bit crazy in itself...
I'd rather have specialized robots that do a particular thing well, rather than some crappy humanoid robot that can't do anything well. Being humanoid shaped just limits them to being worse than humans at human things.

I already have a dish washing robot. And one that washes and dries my clothes. Can you imagine if you had a humanoid robot that was in your laundry room scrubbing your clothes manually in a tub and then taking them out and hanging them up on clothes lines? That is what you get with humanoid robots.

Would you rather have a tiny vacuum that parks itself in the corner and disappears, or some 6 foot tall thing with arms and legs pushing your Hoover around all day?
That seems a very cynical view, and it doesn't ring true to me. Anecdotally, I know of multiple business that were built up by one person, and then practically gifted to the employees. Some people really care about the business, customers, and employees.
Musicians were also making a lot of money on album sales for decades - to the point where a tour was more of an album promotion than an income stream of itself.

So while the industry likes to complain that they are losing income, they’ve figured out that they can make up for album revenue by simply increasing ticket prices.
Cathode Ray Dude on YouTube had a video with a guy calling himself tr0n(?) showing off his Symbolics machine. I can't find the video, but it's out there and it's good.
Not entirely, but in part! You can see the effect in this animation of asteroid discoveries over time, where the discoveries are concentrated in bursts facing directly away from Earth, or directly parallel to its orbit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BKKg4lZ_o-Y
Paywall:
https://archive.ph/pUz4X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36JqvTdg2fo

Interesting comments too.
really depends on your stage in life. If you see self-actualization advice but you are still trying to work 18 hours/day to pay rent and keep a roof over your head, this advice won't resonate as much compared to a well off a cushy tech worker who may still feel a bit satisfied with their life projections.
> Did the plumbers getting rich meme start with Joe the Plumber?

If you believe nothing happened before the year 2008, yes.

Otherwise, no, of course not. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0582490/ aired 14 years before that.
Vast Announces Plans for Space Station to Succeed NASA's ISS
> Neovim has achieved the best of both worlds

No it has not. Fennel doesn't have the same level of integration into Neovim, like Elisp has in Emacs. Emacs is essentially a Lisp interpreter with a text editor built on top of it. This tight coupling allows Elisp to interact with and modify every aspect of Emacs, providing a level of customization and extensibility that is difficult to replicate with external languages.

While Neovim's approach with Lua and Fennel is commendable, it is unlikely that these languages will achieve the same level of seamless integration as Elisp within Emacs.
Hm what’s the best way to look up the owner of a business? I share this viewpoint on dentists and doctors
Yeah, Exhibit A is that religious zealot Trump . . .
The Musk companies usually have a layer that protects their bottom line from their boy king. He goes on stage and says a bunch of bullshit (IMO he commits securities fraud) and then his executives generally do what they think is correct for the company while making sure he feels placated. It seems to sort of work out well enough.

It may be that this layer of management is getting weaker.
> all the great productive feedback that awesome people give over the web

Yup, sounds about like what you hear from your average keyboard warrior. I wish there were a "low effort" filter on comments.

> I'm the opposite of stubborn: a sabotaging level of flexible.

That's tough. Hang in there. Keep making cool stuff. And thanks for sharing your creations with the world.
One million launches per year seems to be adequate trade for 10% global emissions. This level of technology implies we are able to reduce emissions elsewhere.
Strong towns is a terrible source of numbers and has been debunked many times. Streetcar suburbs have been sustaining themselves for 140 years - rebuilding their infrastructure. Infrastructure is a tiny % of any government budget (https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/10/07/taxes-are-not-...) and so infrastructure spending could go up a lot.
> fewer jobs than programming (there are multiple times as many programming jobs than plumbing, for instance)

Every blue collar worker I know would counter that with "AI". i.e, "at least my industry doesn't shoot itself in the foot"
I've been using Restic for servers, but ended up going with Kopia for machines that are not always on, like laptops. It has the advantage that it will take something of an opportunistic approach where it will start backing up if it hasn't done so in a while, and seems to be able to restart with aplomb if it gets interrupted (machine shutdown or laptop lid closed).

That and being able to have multiple machines writing to a shared repository at the same time is handy. I have the kids' Windows computers both backing up to the same repo to save a bit of storage. (Now if only Kopia supported VSS on Windows without mucking around with dubious scripts.)
No, it's that you started a massive offtopic generic flamewar tangent on perhaps the single most repeated topic of the last couple years, nothing new or interesting can come of which. That's exactly what we're trying to avoid on HN; we want curious conversation about interesting things, and this is the opposite of that on all counts.

Not that your comment was by any means the worst example of this! But it was guaranteed to spin off into the off-topic flamewar that it did.

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830516.)
Discussion of my approach to using restic + rclone + Backblaze B2 here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41041056
The title is written from the perspective of the original problem, not from the solution. It then leads the user through the process of discovering why the bytes were 'disappearing.' From the perspective of the original users the bytes were disappearing.
It’s too bad the visionary lunatic and the sane person can’t be the same person, but this is exceedingly rare.

The lunatic alone will hype and then fail. The sane voice alone will plod along and take aeons to make any progress, or stagnate entirely.
How to make hydrogen even more expensive.
TIL about Kirkwood gaps. I knew about Jupiter leading to Hilda and Trojan groupings, but my understanding of the main belt was more in line with a representation like this one from Wikipedia[1]. However, this imaging shows a clear gap and a quick search led me to learn about Kirkwood gaps. Is there a specific reason why the gap is more evident in this imaging rather than the above one from Wikipedia?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:InnerSolarSystem-en.png

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwood_gap
Ok, but just to be clear: the standards-track HTTP RFC says you can use a single LF. I don't think this issue is as clear as people seem to want it to be.
Musk has never, no matter what he claims, ever a progressive democrat. He would be at best, someone who believed in the liberalization of certain drug policies. His economic beliefs have always been max pro business (aka, hands off, anti labor). He solidly fits under libertarian like the rest of the tech billionaires. Republicans, if it weren't partly driven by Christian fundamentalists, would be libertarian. The conservative GOP party of the 70's hasn't existed in decades.
Not to ruin a joke, but

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It's a reverse of the Transformers "robots in disguise" tagline, and quite appropriate given that Tesla named them "Optimus" (as in prime, the name of a transformer).
Interesting. Is the code hosted somewhere? I have a few ideas around that and it might help me test them out!
A few things that I (as someone who doesn't follow Twitter) have heard about from anecdotes and from the news about why people dislike him:

- He called some guy who worked for him a pedo for no reason, which he was sued over

- Took over Twitter and promoted right wing tweets to everybody, unbanned far right accounts and sued critics who said he did so

- Started promoting far right ideas, like when he retweeted "Interesting" to some tweet of a 4chan post saying that high-status, high-testosterone males are the only ones who can think freely and should be the only ones who can vote

- Took the side of the right-wing rioters who attacked mosques in the UK, saying civil war is inevitable

- Just seems to insult companies for little reason - advertisers who leave him, and Apple

There has been kind of a slow back and forth. Some people who liked him were miffed about the pedo thing, but they didn't hate him. But he has just kept doing things that some people hate.
That doesn't move the needle as far as restoring the trust you've broken.

You should negotiate with WP Engine to drop their suit contingent on your resignation. Maybe they'll go for it. Resigning is the only thing that would prove you're serious about allowing your power to be checked. And perhaps the only thing that would stop you from cutting a huge settlement check (probably within weeks and not the years you've anticipated).

Do you think that's something you're capable of? Do you care more about the future of WordPress and of open source than you do about your own power and rivalries? Will you prove it to us?

To be frank I don't believe you will. I'm pretty cynical about this kind of thing. But I've been wrong before. It would take a very strong person to admit, not just publicly but to their bitter rivals, that they had lost control and damaged their own life's work.

But if that person is you - it wouldn't be much, but you'd have my admiration.

---

Stark: Make peace with the Lannisters, you say? With the people who tried to murder my boy?

Baelish: We only make peace with our enemies, my lord.
> He is highly knowledgeable in his field

Indeed. It seems to me that he has a type of personality common in skilled engineers. He is competent and makes informed decisions, but does not necessarily explain them well (or at all if they feel trivial enough), is certain of his logic (which often sounds like arrogance), and does not seem to have much patience.

He is great at what he does but he really is not a spokesman. His technical insights are often very interesting, though.
>"1. Anduril is more competent than the people they can afford to hire"

Interesting. They can't afford to hire person. But by paying to company like Anduril they somehow can afford not only salary of said competent person and a boatload of overhead. Kinda contradictionary.
The WordPress Foundation doesn't own WordPress.org. As far as I can tell it basically only owns the WordPress trademark, which it immediately turned around and gave away to Automattic in an exclusive license for unclear consideration.

WordPress.org, and therefore the entire plugin repository, is owned by just Matt and maintained by a division within Automattic. The .org-ness of it was just a smokescreen all along.
$122k is the median for cyber security professionals. $200k is substantially above that. More importantly and tothe point of my previous comment, $200k firmly puts one in the upper class nationally considering the median personal income is only $42k. The perspective on money here is wild.
It doesn't matter if it's fraud.

If Trump wins, all of the investigations will simply go away.

If Trump loses, then there are already a number of SEC/DOJ investigations targeting Musk over FSD claims and how X was purchased that would see him face jail time.
I see what you're saying. I tried feeding this into ChatGPT and it seems like better use of commas would make all the difference.

"While that may have been true in the 1400s, when ex-Jewish Conversos sometimes held significant economic and even political power, by the 1500s things had changed. Antisemitism (and the same applied to Muslim converts) became much more focused on race rather than just religion.

Conversos and Moriscos were persecuted and discriminated against, culminating in the expulsion of 1609, which targeted hundreds of thousands of people who had technically been Christians for about 100 years.

In some cases, the discrimination was pretty extreme, not that dissimilar to the one-drop rule in the U.S., and the decentralized pseudo-segregation wasn’t too different either.

Descendants of Jewish and Muslim converts were even banned from emigrating to the American colonies a few decades after Columbus.

It likely wasn’t as severe in the 1490s, but if Columbus’s Jewish origins (assuming they were true) had been known, he probably would have faced significant barriers in holding political office or attracting investment for his expeditions.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limpieza_de_sangre."
Surprisingly the amount of praise it is getting here, consider how low on substance the post is.
> It's a marketing strategy

And what makes Automattic's contributions any different? They "steer" the product to their benefit and sell that as what's good for them is good for all.

That's rubbish.

It's not contributing to "the cause" when the features you add are solely for your own benefit. Not that self-serving is wrong. But to sell it as benevolent red lines any decent bullshit detector.

Matt defined the license. Now he regrets that and he wants a cut. Nuttin wrong with that. But to sell it otherwise is shite. We're not that stupid.
Why does FM sound better than AM?
What subsidies did Tesla not get?
They could. But they didn’t.

He’s a twat. But he has vision longer than the next quarter and can inspire / coerce people into delivering.
> It also allows for launching individual space station modules that have almost the same volume as the entire ISS in one launch.

My favorite related thing is that the Starship itself could serve as a large space or moon station.
It should be a Murphy Law about complex system having a perverse way of developing if you take them out of balance, or at least of the way they used to be by their own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufbxvRo2rnY
They gave up because those types of robots are mostly pointless.

You're better off with job specific designs like what Boston Dynamics does.
The pro one isn't pro though.