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> Teslas were just a stepping stone to whatever he's unleashing on the world now from the White House.

Seems unlikely to me that his long term goal was to lead the Republican Inquisition in a great crusade against the libs.

It's probably the drugs. That or he just got bored with the nerd CEO shtick and now his new passion is epic pwning teh libs.
Why? There's that whole "western civilization" undercurrent to conservative thought, you'd think Europe would get more love.
I can't, why would you want your lights connected to the internet?
Where is there to go?
The cynic says that the US government is the main buyer of launch capacity and pays top dollar and if a launch provider had an 'in' with the government then it could be very lucrative...?

Especially when the competition dies off leaving spacex the only one standing.
hence the issue with "billionaires"

100% tax for wealth over $100M, problem solved
> Musk never intended to make a direct profit

Musk didn't intend to buy Twitter. That's incredibly clear from his statements in and out of court in the months leading up to the purchase. (Also, the fact that he had to be dragged into court.)

Musk being Musk, however, once he was forced to, made lemonade from lemons.
> What? I don’t get it. So almost 3 years and “growing profile” to reach the same valuation? What was the growth for?

In fairness, that was a frothy time for stocks. Twitter stock price was at an unsustainable price (IMHO) when he bought it.
I would guess the +31% in Europe is also due to the stricter emissions standards, Euro 6d, and government subsidies are driving that figure in my opinion along with climate change fears. Elon already made, played, and won the EV market, and he has a lot more going on, so the devaluation of Tesla stock, the world's number one car predominantly an American-made car (more so than Ford) bumped back up recently, only hurts US pension funds, other investors, and owners. I wonder how Europe's energy production is fairing with the war in Ukraine, and what the total cost of ownership of an EV, Tesla or otherwise, is going to be to own an EV there. After all, they lost 40% of their gas supply. France and Germany have nuclear, but Germany has cut back due to Green party and green initiatives. France is bringing reactors online that were in maintenance and service periods, and they are building new ones by 2035. US gas prices and domestic energy production will ensure that will not be an issue here in the US.
I didn't even have to click through the article to know that it would be Raymond Chen ; )
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The board is full of his cronies.
Thanks but no thanks.
https://www.quad9.net/news/press/quad9-faces-new-dns-censors...
You're probably alluding to Marie Antoinette.

While her infamous quote "let them eat cake" seems to be falsely attributed to her and many stories about her seem to have been fabrications, she did contribute to the downfall of the French monarchy through her high personal expenses and hardline stance against reforms. I'm not sure her role in the collapse of the monarchy can be compared to Elon Musk's role in tanking Tesla though - views of the monarchy were and would have been unfavorable without her already and her behavior wasn't much of a deviation from before, just made more significant because of the poor financial state of France at the time.
... next year

Maybe... Why are you so sure? It's incredible what these models do but now it's all incremental and it's pretty clear LLMs are as bad at complexity as humans. If a system is of a realistic size of a business system, the llm will fuck up things mostly all the time unless you are a good coder with patience. It saves a lot of time, but it saves a lot of time of stuff that is 'just typing'; that is more than many programmers in this world can claim, but that's really another case. You are not doing anything that requires anything more than hello world context, because LLMs now really break down there.
According to the site, the funding comes from its "Search as a Service" feature[0], where anybody can pay them in order to have a search service focused on their site (which does not have to be in the public index and thus doesn't have to be personal/independent).

So, in the sense that the funding (aims to) comes from larger companies, you are correct. It's not VC, but it does seem like it could end up relying on payments from large companies, making it potentially vulnerable.

[0] https://searchmysite.net/pages/about/#search-as-a-service
It's worth noting that the widely reported "$44 billion valuation from investors" was Elon Musk himself making someone who co-invested in the original buyout whole again. e.g. Elon Musk is the one who set the valuation.

All of these numbers are fantasy. Similarly Musk has been giving lenders stakes in "xAI" as well to compensate for the eventual failure of their loans, and again that is being reported as X debt losing its discount.

Everything in US equities is absolute farce, especially anything that involves Elon Musk. It's all fantasy numbers.
Yeah, he reminds me of Berezovsky.
I do, that's why I am here
Yup

And it is not even the intent of his actions, it is the haphazard, chainsaw slash-&-burn, "move fast and break things" way he is doing them.

The same thing was done by Al Gore in the 1990s, cutting 250,000 federal jobs, eliminating 100+ programs, and consolidating over 800 agencies [0], all without creating these kinds of programs — specifically because Gore CONSIDERED all the issues and players and worked with congress to get it all done in a rational, and more importantly effective way. And that effort is respected decades later.

In Musk was using a similar approach, he'd earn respect, which indicates he is not making changes for efficiency for the government or people, but to slash-&-burn for his specific goals, e.g., gutting regulators requiring him to behave responsibly in his businesses.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Partnership_for_Reinv...
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Fucking hell. Yeah, this 100%.

I'll go even further:

STOP PUTTING FIRMWARE IN THINGS THAT DON'T NEED FIRMWARE.
> Keep telling yourself this. It's only hurting you.

I don't tell myself this. I just read your comment.

You're welcome to be hired in my team, we're hiring. Then you can sit there and ask claude or copilot and be fired when your trial period ends.
There are people on the standard committee looking at safety, and some effort to see if more safety can/should be added to the standard library. Perfect safety is probably impossible, but there are several options being discussed. (operator[] is undefined if the value is out of range, but there is thought that perhaps checking range isn't that expensive and so we should throw an exception - it is possible that in many cases the compiler can prove the value is in range and thus the range check would be optimized out anyway). Safety profiles can also disable unsafe operations, and since they are opt-in (opt-out would be better but break too much existing C++) you choose when to pay the price. (if you have any other idea I'm interested)
Keep up the good fight, Tim.

The App Store is our one saving grace from the festering nightmare that is literally every other app store in existence. It's one of the primary reasons I stick with iOS. Their curation process, for better or worse, is one of the last remaining good faith pro-consumer efforts I can even think of from a large corp.
Back to when his behaviour included things like rage-quitting Trump's advisory council in protest of Trump leaving the Paris climate accord.
It’s probably more stable as it caters to larger established entities like governments, large businesses, etc. Although he’s simultaneously undermining the US government so if there’s no taxes to pay for his contracts or agencies who need the function of anything modern because they’re so hobbled… Not entirely sure what the end game is here. So far he has mostly protected his interests in terms of government attacks I’d say, at least in the US. Outside the US I doubt any state would take him seriously other than maybe providing one time services like satellite delivery for less essential infrastructure if it’s competitive.
Good luck! Your username suits you.
I get you. It's still amusing to see the increasingly creative ways his fanboys come up with to cope. In the end, it all turns into blind belief in him, just because they see him as part of their tribe. Just another reminder that deep down, we're still just a bunch of unga bunga monkeys.
I think Twitter is partly responsible for destroying his mind, with the rest of the job being done by drugs.

It's an inherently toxic format. It promotes incoherent, contradiction-ridden, emotionally-driven, short-attention-span meme-think.

IMHO Bluesky is no better, which is why I'm not there. It's the same format, an incoherent soup of sound bites competing to emotionally trigger you into amplifying them. This format is the kind of thing a mad scientist would design with the explicit goal of rotting the human mind.

The good thing about books and longer-form works... even things as long as Reddit and HN comments... is that they can encapsulate complete thoughts that are connected to other thoughts. Building systems of thinking is how humans reason coherently about the world. Meme soup reduces us to some kind of animal level of grunts and short-horizon reactions but with language. It's gross.

I've been calling "social" media companies in general "the tobacco companies of the mind" for years.
He over-offered in hindsight. At the time however, no, as mega-low interest rate money was still a thing, and companies such as Twitter had significantly higher valuation as a result.

This is why he wanted to backout. The metrics had changed, by no fault of Twitter or him.
There is a science to designing reusable containers and algorithms, and it’s based on research like Art of Computer programming and you can learn more by reading primary sources about the design of STL.

STL can absolutely be improved, but posts like this indicate most programmers are clueless about how it works, and not in a position to learn from its mistakes and make something better.

If we are serious about code reuse we need to study these ideas and learn how to actually write libraries. The alternative is the npm/crates model - where you throw together 100 different open source concoctions and hope it works.
Are you just referring to ads not being blocked?

A regular dns like quad9 + ublock origin on Firefox has been a consistently great experience for me.
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Unassailable?

Musk is a lightning rod. Surely he must realize that after he has served his purpose, he will be cast aside and likely end up imprisoned if not worse, right?

Have people paid no attention to what happens to almost everyone in Trump's orbit? In Musk's case it will be hugely politically valuable to use him as a sponge for anger, pretend that he was free-ranging, and cast him aside. Therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. We've seen this pattern with Trump time and time again, and it's amazing that Musk seems so completely delusional about this guaranteed outcome.
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He's still suing to be paid $55 Billion by Tesla, which is far more than they've generated as profit and will be for years even if it weathers this particular storm.

I've yet to see any good writeup on how this recent trouble would affect the legalities of that lawsuit.
> 3 years left to convince the administration to allow

It is rare for Oligarchs to be in electable position. They do not need for that.
Absolutely appalling that our precious Elon is being criticized on this holy bastion of tech, HN. Truly this is a sign of a total cultural collapse. Perhaps our ilk is better suited not participating in social media at all.
>I enjoy the product, but wish they'd spend more time making the core elements of the product work.

I think it might be worth stepping back and thinking about what the core elements of the product is. Not just with X, but with with all social media.

Personally I've migrated from thinking 'damn this is broken' to 'oh thats a feature not a bug'. I'm embarassed how long this really took me across a lot of platforms, but when I stopped thinking about my needs as driving product design decisions it all was less frustrating (albeit more disturbing).
Why did you choose to build it on top of X? X is no longer Twitter, it's Elon Musk's vehicle for his personal political agenda. Setting aside whether you are aligned with Musk's political views, it seems like a poor decision to align yourself to a platform that is so explicitly not intended to be used the way you're using it. You should take this as a sign to fix your dependency on X. Musk doesn't care about what you're doing, he cares about his political agenda, he will happily destroy what you're doing if it were to benefit him.
There is value in friction?
Tesla Sales Plummet Amid Elon Musk Backlash
I'd also like to see an update to DMARC so you can require both SPF and DKIM in your policy, instead of just one out of the two.
Exactly. He is the same. This "new" audience just tolerate this man baby cringe much better.
So then what do you use or recommend instead?
A UI might not make it easier
I do worry about the viability of OpenAI in particular. So much of its talent went to other firms which then built up amazing capaibilities like Anthropic with Claude. And then they also have the threat of OpenSource models like DeepSeek v3.1 and soon DeepSeek R2 while at the same time OpenAI is raising its prices to absurd levels. I guess they are trying to be the Apple of the AI world... maybe...

That said, I expect protectionist policies will be enabled by the US government to protect them and also X.AI/Grok from foreign competition, in particular Chinese.
It varies greatly per company and industry. You are talking about Net Margin and it can vary a lot.

A company like google has a 28% net margin. That means that after paying all expenses for employees and rent and everything, they have 28% left over from revenue as profit. This is very good.

Amazon (being a hybrid retailer/tech company) has 9.29% net margin.

Target has a net margin of 3.84%.

Believe it or not, many public companies have a negative net margin, meaning they spend more than they bring in. Lyft had a negative net margin until just this year. A few years ago, they had a negative net margin of -70%! That means if someone didn’t keep putting money into the company they would have “ceased as a going concern”, as they say. Their most recent year they had a 0.39% net margin. Go Lyft!
> I’ve personally been taking 7500 IU daily for many years now.

And here I am debating whether increasing to 4000 was pushing my luck. I am also reporting less illnesses - or actually - no instances of being bedridden, which is an improvement over the previous flu seasons.
I see SAIC there.
Lovely recommendation! Never knew rubbery socks were an option.
Economic conditions in Argentina were exceptionally horrible before Milei, and now they are... ordinarily bad. It looks like progress!

Alas, I'm always a bit skeptical of any piece published by the Cato Institute, because it is not exactly an impartial source. The Cato Institute always advocates for lower taxes, less government, fewer business regulations, fewer consumer protections, and fewer restrictions on personal behavior. Always, regardless of the specifics.

When it comes to economic policies, I prefer to see pragmatism over ideology. If something works, do it; if it stops working, stop doing it. In the words of Lee Kuan Yew, who led the transformation of Singapore from one of the poorest to one of the wealthiest societies on earth:

> My life is not guided by philosophy or theories. I get things done and leave others to extract the principles from my successful solutions. I do not work on a theory. Instead, I ask: what will make this work? If, after a series of solutions, I find that a certain approach worked, then I try to find out what was the principle behind the solution. So Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, I am not guided by them…I am interested in what works…Presented with the difficulty or major problem or an assortment of conflicting facts, I review what alternatives I have if my proposed solution does not work. I choose a solution which offers a higher probability of success, but if it fails, I have some other way. Never a dead end.

> We were not ideologues. We did not believe in theories as such. A theory is an attractive proposition intellectually. What we faced was a real problem of human beings looking for work, to be paid, to buy their food, their clothes, their homes, and to bring their children up…I had read the theories and maybe half believed in them.

> But we were sufficiently practical and pragmatic enough not to be cluttered up and inhibited by theories. If a thing works, let us work it, and that eventually evolved into the kind of economy that we have today. Our test was: does it work? Does it bring benefits to the people?…The prevailing theory then was that multinationals were exploiters of cheap labor and cheap raw materials and would suck a country dry…Nobody else wanted to exploit the labor. So why not, if they want to exploit our labor? They are welcome to it…. We were learning how to do a job from them, which we would never have learnt… We were part of the process that disproved the theory of the development economics school, that this was exploitation. We were in no position to be fussy about high-minded principles.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262019124

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Note: I'm not sure why the OP is flagged. It meets HN criteria.
I work in education, and I emplore you to post a Privacy Policy and TOS clearly on the homepage, ASAP.

We have so much low hanging fruit in this industry with regards to privacy and security. The website you listed reminds me a lot of other one-dev platforms that aren't properly equipped to deal with their own volume.

If you're inviting teachers to add information about their districts and their students, you MUST take your security, your supply chain, and your disclosures seriously.

There is not enough experience in my industry to make up the difference. You're going to market this to teachers who sign up without the consent of their IT or data people, enter PII about minor children, and then get fired and that data will be invisible to my department forever. But you'll still have it, ready to lose it in your first big hack or sell it when times get tough.

I could list literally 3 other platforms designed by a lonely teacher in their spare time that could literally probably have their databases dumped this afternoon if I posted the links here. Please, be careful.
director of engineering at X(twitter) that pretty long for a company that Musk nickel and dime you
It would be funny, but a vehicle with an extended range generator would solve a lot of people's complaints about electric vehicles, so I wouldn't be surprised as I laugh at such an announcement.

There are still other issues that I have with Tesla vehicles, but I am looking forward to see how RAM's upcoming Ramcharger will do (all electric drivetrain with built-in generator for extended range).
Will he? From reading some sources it looks like as more customers are added the bandwidth just isn't there. Part of that is apparently not enough earth stations, but there's a saturation point where they can't add more satellites.

They already limit signups in oversubscribed areas, and as good as starlink is, it's still a technology that has higher latency, and higher ongoing costs from what I can see.

Meanwhile, once fibre is in the ground, with PON there's very little maintenance required. And upgrading speeds is a case of upgrading the OLT and ONT's - I'm going out on a limb and guessing that's much cheaper to do than launching thousands of upgraded satellites.
I agree pascal is simpler - but pascal also simplifies the memory model.
That's why all good ol devices have electromechanical cams instead of electronics.

A bonus is that high power MOSFETs have a tendency to crap out and relays have a limited lifetime of a given number of switches guaranteeing that eventually youll need to throw out your whole, otherwise basically flawless devices due to dead electronics.
>You're welcome to be hired in my team, we're hiring. Then you can sit there and ask claude or copilot and be fired when your trial period ends.

I see this attitude a lot. As if "uses AI" === "can't program". Keep swinging that hammer, John Henry.
It's useful in case like if you ever need to fill out a PR template with what you did or list the changes, it becomes so much easier. You don’t even have to remember exactly what was changed it’s all right there in the commit message.

With structured comments, you can even use the AI to fill out the PR template easily and precisely.
His LinkedIn shows he worked for Twitter for more than a year before then.
People will make the choices that are rational for them. When your job is making content about hacking stuff, wasting 8 hours on hacking a dishwasher that both generates content and generates useful information for other people is a better use of time than wasting 4 hours returning a dishwasher in the hopes that you personally will be the straw that breaks the IoT camel’s back.
I just realized this is the pattern that one of my coworkers constantly uses in Team chats...
Vitamin D deficiency has also been linked to cancer, specifically colorectal IIRC. Also people who had D deficiency were more likely to have problems with COVID.
It can be avoided in any compiled language that has a boolean type. That includes C these days. Unfortunately this functionality predates the existence of the boolean type.
The "Take" isn't solid:

>In fact, Model 3 is down 29.4% in Europe so far this year despite plenty of
inventory.

Sedan sales have been down for a while so Model 3 isn't trendy. Also, last year Q1 had the new "Highland" Model 3 in full-volume delivery from Shanghai (https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-highland-deliveries-...) after the launch in October.

It's all about the new Y now and it was only launched in mid January and deliveries only started on March 10 https://www.electrive.com/2025/03/10/tesla-hands-over-first-...

>The shift to the new Model Y design is certainly having an effect, but it cannot account for the 43% drop in deliveries.

Why? Model Y already accounts for 2/3 of the sales in Europe. And the production lines were down for 3-5 weeks, they take time to ramp back up and Tesla started the quarter with only 12 days of inventory.

>With deliveries of the new Model Y having started this month in Europe, we can see Tesla is still suffering in markets that report registration daily.

But who knows in which countries did Tesla prioritize the "Junpier" deliveries. If they picked the markets with no public daily numbers, then their arguments collapse. I doubt Norway and Sweden are the easiest to reach from Berlin, for instance.
Teslas market share in the EU is currently at around 15% of EVs - Musk hardly "won" that market.

The only EV market where that looks to be true is the US, which has a protectionist policy of 100% tariffs in place to keep out the competition.
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