skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, maybe not. Importantly, the parent didn't call him "crazy", they simply pointed out that he is hostile to workers.

It's sad that people can see a good thing and think it cancels out all bad things.
> What other person started a rocket company from scratch and got them landing?

I'd rather listen to Lars Blackmore (the engineer who is largely responsible for SpaceX powered descent). Or Gwynne Shotwell who actually oversees the business day-to-day. I'm really not interested in what the money guy has to say, especially since he is primarily interested in cultivating his public image-- how can you trust anything he says? The dude pays people to play a videogame for him 24/7 so he can pretend he is the best player in the world. That's not a metaphor -- he actually does that.

https://www.vulture.com/article/fake-gamer-was-elon-musk-che...
In soviet F# the monads... uh....
> most people have no choice but to hold off on a purchase decision

Probably all people, right? Who decides to buy the thing based on this sneak peek and then when it comes out and has some deal-breaking flaw says “oh no siree, I already made my decision when I saw the trailer months ago and I’m sticking to it no matter what”?
Streamline Git with GPT
And us machine emulators too, like Fabrice Bellard (QEMU) and me (and my OP post detailed the failing of emulated TLB in QEMU as discovered by Unicorn emulator).

Unicorn emulator - https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn
Yes, great source. filter that by Home vs the mobile category to see it is only beat by PlayStation.

You could argue the Switch is a home console as well.
Industry practice is to just move all the risky customers in an IP range dedicated to them
> After Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk, selling the platform out to the far right for a crisp billion-with-a-“B” dollar payout

Tangential point but did he sell Twitter to Musk? I thought Twitter was a publicly owned company and its board (on which Jack wasn't present AFAIK) agreed to sell to Musk. Jack did rollover his holdings into the new private entity X Holdings Corp created for this purpose, instead of cashing-out. So instead of owning 2.4% or so of Twitter shares, he holds shares of X Holdings Corp, I think.
I do wonder if there's a way to reuse engines without reusing whole rockets, that could wind up cheaper. Pop the engine out of the rocket with some small fuel tanks, spin round and do a retro burn, then ... somehow land. I have not worked out all the details.
I don't disagree with you, but will comment.

There is a justifiable argument for Israel to occupy the west bank and/or the Gaza strip (whether one agrees or not is another matter that I will not get into). Settling it is another matter entirely, and this action is what causes so much grief.

But what Palestinian supporters continuously fail to grasp is that every time Israel has tried to give (and there were many attempts in the 1980s and 1990s), bad actors have caused violence. This violence was a huge cause in support shifting to right-wing parties in Israel.

The tragedy is that a plurality of Palestinians would otherwise love to have a peaceful (two state or otherwise) solution, but the "bad" ones are well funded by outsiders, in particular Iran. If a Gandhi/Martin Luther King/Nelson Mandela figure emerged, they'd almost certainly be killed by Hamas,Hezbollah,etc.

But at the end of the day, there's no way the extreme elements of either side will agree to a permanent and dignified peace, because even if it would work it would mean the end of either of them (and Israeli PM was assassinated by a far-right Jewish nationalist).

I'm sympathetic to both sides myself. I'm sympathetic to Israel's position, need for security, and the fact that hostility against them is a given. I'm also sympathetic to the fact that the Palestinian people were pushed off their land, often with violence to a level that can fit the definition of genocide, during Israel's independence and subsequent annexations.

But there will never be a true peace so long as the extremists on both sides have as much power as they do. I know most Iranians are fed up with their government. My Iranian colleagues all are commenting that even devoutly religious Iranians back home are getting fed up. A lot of this is a house of cards, so I guess we'll see.
The sad thing about this article is that they can't be happy making the world a better place, instead they focus on what other people aren't doing.

"I am proud of my work" >> "You should work harder!"
With Sears like companies you can take a very small short position and then reinvest the money from the sale going long S&P500 type stuff. That's roughly what Chanos did. It has to be small position as a percent of your portfolio in case it decides to go up 10x when you are not looking. I think Chanos's results over a decade were something like 0% on the shorts, 50% on the longs the money was reinvested into.
"Even though Steve Jobs emphasised iPhone superiority to "Buttons", it is to be expected that the consumer QWERTY category will continue to succeed."

Their key mistake.
And I thank the gods for that ;)
Nokia also had a ex-Microsoft exec (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop) that had the goal of ensuring Windows Phone would succeed, and tanked Nokia with it.

I was on the DVLUP project where Nokia and Microsoft attempted to inject energy into windows phone app development. We could see the tension between the two companies as we were a 3rd party contracted by Nokia to build the platform. The Nokia exec we were in contact with was fantastic, and really tried to make Windows Phone a success. Unfortunately the Nokia IT teams we worked with were not happy and essentially tried to sabotage through inactions (we just needed OAuth / SSO to link accounts and track app installs, it took over 3 months of email chains within Nokia).
Enslaved by Africans and sold by a Canadian, and I’m supposed to pay reparations?
If I see another one of these insane "explainations", I'm gonna have a stroke. Nokia - dominating the mobile phone market for years - is evidence that Europeans are just fundamentally incapable of innovation!

Ok bro.
> There was a rumor about an optical sensor on the side of a joycon that would turn it into a mouse. Is this out of the equation? This would have been awesome!

They literally depict them as mice at 1:12. Like the animal, or at least that's how I interpreted it before I even knew about this rumor from your comment.

Im not sure what the point is. Sure you can point and click but no keyboard? That's way lower input than simply using the joycon and all the buttons. Seems like a gimmick.
Tuck it in bro!
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/now-kiss
Real search engines respect robots.txt so you could just tell them not to enter Markov Chain Hell.
I liked what you have shared. I am in similar position and tried to do the same as you but without success. So it is interesting to check what I can improve.
It isn't clearly anything since there are dozens of lawsuits about it going on right now.
> This guy is this close to rediscovering worker alienation.

A lot of people in the comments are, too. It's been a real interesting case study for me.
> After Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk, selling the platform out to the far right for a crisp billion-with-a-“B” dollar payout

Twitter was publicly traded at the time and Dorsey owned approximately 2-3%. The shareholders overwhelmingly voted in favor of the sale, effectively giving Dorsey no choice. He, in fact, didn't even sell, he instead rolled his shares over into the new company, which means he didn't take the payout implied and instead ate the decrease in value that has occurred since then.

I'm all for criticizing billionaires for the things they do wrong, but there are enough of those things that we don't need to invent fault where there is none! It's actually counterproductive to do so because it distracts from your legitimate points.
I care less about his "troll" posts online (implying there is a conspiracy of jews importing people to destroy America is just a troll and not an actual Nazi conspiracy guys) than his manipulation of the US government, mistreatment of workers, and maybe the most egregious of all, being a fake nerd and pretending to like Evangelion.
I have a suggestion for you. Try making a board game instead. No complex technology to learn, way different than already being burnt out from coding all day, you can iterate on the fly by writing on your prototype, some can be tested solo (but having some friends come over once a week isn't insurmountable and is very social), lots on online testing available using "no rules" engines that let you just move "objects" around (a little tech to learn but done in a few hours), etc.

If if your game never gets published, etc. you could have a game that you and your friends got countless hours of enjoyment from. I personally get a lot of enjoyment from it. Good luck!
"malloc" is a weakly-bound symbol that can be overridden, on every system I've used. I don't know if some standard defines it to be weak. Anyway the point is that malloc is not necessarily a call to the C standard library function. It can be anything.
> Game console updates used to be big deals. The SNES was a revolution. PS2 was huge.

There are two categories of "big deal". The SNES and PS2 were big deals simply because game graphics had so much headroom for improvement. Now that the low-hanging fruits of color palette, resolution, frame rate, texture quality, animation quality, and geometric complexity have all been squeezed, the improvements are more asymptotic.

The other "big deal" category is gimmicks. I would argue that while it is a hallmark of Nintendo, the gimmicks have flopped as often as not. Most of Nintendo's big sellers were fairly conventional. (The most glaring exceptions being the original Game Boy, the Wii, and the Switch.) I'm glad they do the gimmicks, but I'm also glad they don't only do the gimmicks.
I'm no Nintendo fan but I still find this criticism unfair as it's simply the design reveal and a date of when more information will be provided (April 2, 2025).
To be fair (and I'm a big fan of Drew), it seems unlikely that Jack could have prevented the sale of Twitter to Musk.

I'm part-way through the book “Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter” by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, and so far I can recommend it. It's not necessarily perfect writing (they do _not_ think highly of Jack, nor really any other tech-bros), but definitely informative.

[Disclaimer: I have been an employee at Square/Block for nine years now, so I technically work for Jack. Luckily, we have the kind of work culture where my openly bemoaning his blockchain obsession has not (yet) had any (obvious) negative consequences… although tbh I would be _extremely_ surprised if he even recognized my name or face.]
It says in the trailer that they're going to be having a direct for it... on April 2nd.
Organizing books by colour, couldn't resist the link to Two Ronnies :)
https://youtu.be/AYxmPHLU9oA?si=n8OACTqPyZ12oWeA
I don't think this "claim to land" works in the modern age.

Countries were established and fought for in blood all thorough history, and the winners kept their land. End of story.

Unless we are talking about some remote village, every single country was funded on blood and violence, and after a certain point it just makes no sense to track it.
As someone who was defintely pro-palestinian and now changed his stance to "eeeeh it's complicated", I want to thank you for taking the time to rebutt falsehoods and to call out exaggerations rather than engaging with ready-made partisan talking points. I know doing that sometimes feels like pissing in the wind but in my case, it really helped question what I thought I knew and to admit that I was probably more ignorant than I thought.
The assistant makes life much easier ... been using the service for a while but this is next level improvement.
Those people aren't in Israel?
Read-Write-eXecute TLB memory region can be found in JavaScript, Java, Dalvik (Android), and Python.
Sure, I'm not saying Musk is the only person who has interesting things to say about it. You're absolutely correct about these other people and I listen to them too.

But you're not giving Musk enough credit. All engineers and other professionals told him that landing rockets is bullshit, and what is interesting here is that he went and made it happen anyways.

I'm not talking just about the engineering, everything is interesting here - the project management, the hiring, the investments, the business side... Musk has a lot of input and influence in all of these, he was the one who decided and paid for it.
I remember that, too. Nokia even had an "app store" on a lot of their business series devices (the E-series), but it was clunky to use, had no payment options and was not really friendly for 3rd party developers. There was probably a window where, had Nokia pushed to compete with apple on that field, they could have gotten a leg up and kept Symbian and symbian apps in the race for (way) longer. But that invest and speed needed for software was probably not doable in the behemoth that was Nokia at that time.
Billionares should not surprise anyone, as since Occupy capital did a very good job of hiding wolves among the sheep.
As for Drew, he is yet another narcissistic drama queen interested mostly in his own virtue signaling, as shown by Stallman case. His language was forged by liberal preachers that whisper to destroy any solidarity and political power of lower classes; to give them fake individualism, diversity and representation instead of real, material emancipation.
Considering that FOSS movement is filled with such people, and prefers code of conducts and pronouns juggling over real political power, I can easily predict it is doomed to fail.
So billionares at FOSDEM are just a symptoms of a terminal illness.
Tears of the Kingdom is far from the only Switch game with performance issues. Off the top of my head, the newest Pokemon games (and the next newest, to a lesser extent) run like shit on the Switch. I've heard complaints about other games too.

It was underpowered when it was released in 2016, so it really shouldn't be that surprising.
Ask HN: DevOps Assistance for LA Fires Relief Initiative
Hi my name is Johan and I built and maintain https://fireaid.info - a map and resource hub to connect those affected by the fires with aid as well as resources for people to give and volunteer. I started building the site on Jan 8, and launched it in 48 hours.

I'm in the process of setting up an API to make these resources more widely accessible. However I need some assistance from someone familiar with Google Cloud, Postgres and Fast API.

johan@fireaid.info
The actual quote:

> Don’t be a retard who believes bogus polls

Why did you alter it in the title of this post? The original phrasing fits in the HN title limit.
Quickly and accurately understanding the competitive landscape is hard, to their credit, and not sufficient.

Even if they came up with a strong response, it would still involve innovation and execution, and probably disruptions to their go to market strategy. All things that have large chances for failure.

Also, Apple at the top of it's game from the iPhone to the iPhone 4. If they were facing a competitor that was strong, but not quite so remarkable, they'd have had more room to maneuver.
Intel Arc B570 Graphics Performance on Linux Review
Ooh that would be nice. Although I wonder if they'll simply stop producing as many (IDK what even goes into that though... I imagine its pretty cheap to produce). Sadly I feel like the opposite happens with many things, not sure about video games though.
> After Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk,

Extreme eyeroll on this post. Twitter's shareholders voted overwhelmingly to sell to Musk. 98.6% of them voted an affirmative yes, in which Dorsey was a very small minority. Dorsey could have voted no at ten times his stake in the company and still it would have been sold to Musk. Everyone was in agreement Musk was overpaying to an extreme degree.

> and its 11 million tons of annual CO2 emissions

Nobody is more in opposition to the current energy regime than Bitcoin miners. They are consistent lobbyists for deregulating private nuclear power, so that they can cleanly power their operations.

This reads like a petulant Communist's criticism of Dorsey. Much like many other of the author's diatribes.
Same. They already made the Lite, I wish they’d make the opposite.
Exactly. If you want to be dazzled with AAA titles running at 120Hz/60fps/4k then there are plenty of ways to spend your money. Frankly that segment of the industry feels like a treadmill of never ending upgrades for the same basic game.

My whole family shares and island in animal crossing, firing up some arcade brawlers on the couch. We’ve been playing the hell out of our switch for years and never once have we complained that it’s not flashy enough.
Solar Orbiter Unveils the Sun in Unprecedented Detail
> So a lot of Russian propaganda is effective because it is the truth /.../ the sanctions are improving Russia's economy

This is not the truth, very far from it. Western observers are fooled by the official statistics because they've literally never experienced a government blatantly lying and posting completely fabricated numbers. They recognize when governments tweak definitions and try other manipulations, but they are utterly unequipped to recognize completely made up numbers.

For Russian economists, this is nothing new. They are openly sarcastic when they reference figures like the official inflation rate (9.5%), because they estimate the true number to be far worse, 20-25%. They used to base their opinions on independent market research companies like ROMIR that tracked consumer spending habits, but Russian government shut them all down in late 2024.

Russia is getting hit with a similar inflation wave like the world saw during and after Covid, but unlike the rest, Russia cannot climb out of the hole, because they are unwilling to stop the war against Ukraine. War spending is the main cause of the inflation. Russian government is flooding the economy with insane payouts to mercenaries for their utterly unproductive "work" on the battlefield while the production of goods is stalling and the availability of foreign goods is much lower as well due to sanctions. Growing amount of money in the system + less goods available = money loses value relative to goods (inflation).

Vladimir Milov, the former Deputy Minister of Energy, gave an excellent interview where he broke it all down: https://frontelligence.substack.com/p/war-deficits-and-the-r...
And looks like Helix editor uses it together with ropey.
It's funny to see $500 being expensive for a phone here, because I absolutely remember it being so far above the market that it was rare to see the first generation in the world (and they had a price cut shortly thereafter).

There has been some nasty inflation in these past years, but $500 is a budget phone these days!
The Curious History of Venn Diagrams
Same-process modularization should solve that problem. Splitting the architecture into separate processes means a crash in one module doesn't propagate to other modules, but the whole system still breaks down if the process is essential.
What Makes Urban Wildfire Smoke So Toxic
True. When I was in 9th grade, shortly before I was due to get braces, my teeth were quite crooked, and someone pointed out (in front of a lot of my friends) that they thought it looked grotesque when I laughed or smiled. It had a lasting negative effect on me, even after the braces came off and I had a great smile.
Google won't add fact checks despite new EU law
One can imagine the feeling of realizing the asteroid will hit in 6 months but your anti-asteroid solution will take 3 years to build.
Visopsys – Visual Operating System (2023)
Very good writing and thorough coverage.

> A central element of the Black Codes was “vagrancy” laws. Through a system known as “convict leasing”, many African-American boys and men were arrested for minor offences such as vagrancy, imprisoned, and then leased out to work for private businesses. This created a new system of forced labour which again was little more than slavery. Convict leasing was legally rooted in the so-called “exception clause” of the 13th Amendment which states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.”

This is I think the primary reason our justice system is so messed up. Convict Leasing was and is a barbaric practice.

I highly recommend this book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_by_Another_Name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_leasing

> For example, in 1898, 73% of Alabama's annual state revenue came from convict leasing.

To think we are turning a blind eye to this in the world. It makes the US even more of a hypocrite.
Unpopular opinion, but I think many systems would benefit from a regular "downtime window". Not everything needs to be 24/7 high availability.

Maybe not every night, but if you get users accustomed to the idea that you're offline for 12 hours every Sunday morning, they will not be angry when you need to be offline for 12 hours on a Sunday morning to do maintenance.

The stock market closes, more things should close. We are paying too high of a price for 99.999% uptime when 99.9% is plenty for most applications.
Are you saying without Musk involvement these companies would have been even better performing? Like how did you do that calculation? Seems almost impossible to me how one can simulate that.
Show HN: FireAid – A mutual aid map and resource hub for LA fires
Most languages have them, or allow them to be expressed. The name "Tagged Unions" literally comes from C.
Isolation is not a requirement in home schooling. It can happen? Yes, it's a risk.

Can the opposite happen? Yes, I've seen it personally. My home schooled nephews know and are known by everyone in their village and surroundings. Sometimes I feel at 6 and 8 years old they have more diverse professional connections and acquaintances than I have right now.
wow.

I have been posting on hackernews "I have dyscalculia" for years in hopes for a comment like this, basically praying someone like you would reply with the right "thinking framework" for me - THANK YOU! This is the first time I've heard this, thought about this, and I sort of understand what you mean, if you're able to expand on it in any way, that concept, maybe I can think how I do it in other areas I can map it? I also have dyslexia, and have not found a good strategy for phonics yet, and I'm now 40, so I'm not sure I ever will hehe :))

I even struggle with times tables because the lifting is really hard for me for some reason, it always amazes me people can do 8x12 in their heads.
At least on office365 internal emails aren't DKIM signed.
I would not approve of having a Billionaire keynote a FOSS conference based on his business ventures. However, the author says that billionaires should:

> instead buy our respect by, say, donating 250 million dollars to NLNet

> or the Sovereign Tech Fund

and then, he would have our respect? Hmm. I was later reminded of this phrase when reading author also laments how

> Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk, selling the platform out to the far right

as if a Billionaire + BlackRock + Vanguard can "sell out" in any way, as if they are somehow an elightened elite which is supposed to hold the fort, while Billionaire #2 (Musk) is the evil-far-right we must defend the other Capitalists from.
> except that doesn't seem robust enough for excited play.

Yeah. First thing I thought when they showed the controllers snapping in place was "I would definitely yank one of those out on accident while playing."
I upvoted this because I love F#, but I can't say I agree with the conclusions of the author.