skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, wasn't there a "sweetener" for recent X debt buyers that they'd get XAI stock?

The levels of .. self-fertilizing transactions here boggles the mind. I guess that's the idea.
On what basis do you think 2028 elections will be free and fair? Congress is going to try to mass-disenfranchise women before the 2026 midterms. They've stated this on the record. Dems aren't going to gain control of congress in the upcoming special elections. We're totally fucked economically and otherwise unless Democrats in congress -- mainly the Senate -- can get a fucking grip, pay attention to what's happening, and be the opposition party we need.
Is it technically lying if he's too dumb to actually know anything and just spews whatever bullshit comes to mind?
The 44bn was paid approx with 32bn equity, 12bn debt, so it's about break even.
Well, OP mentioned UK plate cloning so I was talking about how it works in the UK.
I don't like this market cap against GDP measurement. The multiples in Market Cap in those era would be significantly lower. If we look at P/E of S&P 500 [1], what used to be peak PE of 20 a century ago are now considered normal.

So adjusting for all that Rockefeller would still be richer than Elon.

[1] https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio
> xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent.

Wow
This quote from your source is even more direct:

TRUMP: “The tariffs have cost nothing, in my opinion. ...And we’re not paying for the tariffs; China is paying for the tariffs, for the one-hundredth time.” — remarks on Aug. 18 to reporters in Morristown, New Jersey.
Anyone know if this comment on the article is actually true?

- Select Organization

- Select Sign In Options

- Choose Domain Join

- Create a username and leave the password blank.

- You'll be logged into Windows without a Microsoft account!
Germany is kind of a developing country regarding software. There are good companies and many not so good ones. The things you are talking about, that comes after being able to write code, good code even. Architecture is not going to save you if you cannot write 200 lines of good code. Now, Leetcode doesn't test for good code but for "working" code AFAIU. And I'll be the first to say that code is written for humans to understand, but part of that is problem-solving ability.

Apart from that, I'm just passing on what I have heard from people. It's not first hand, but I believe it.
> xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent.

Our job as humans is to train his AI models until we can no longer justify our existence.
It has nothing to do with price manipulation
You can mount your cloud drive, and open those files with LibreOffice or OnlyOffice, I certainly do so with Google Drive
> We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.

"enhancing security and user experience" -- what a ridiculous, bold-faced lie. Bravo Microsoft.
I think it’s important to not support products by people who want to destroy democracy and who openly sieg heiling or claiming Hitler wasn’t responsible for the Holocaust.
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Heart surgeon Dr. Marc Ruel chooses Canada over U.S. amid political uncertainty
Portugal also has a similarly active communist party. I think what distinguishes Portugal and Kerala's communist parties from other communist parties is that they were (and are) first, and foremost, democrats.

A capitalist dictatorship will be every bit as horrible as a communist dictatorship.
As a former libertarian I used to argue against leftist why tariffs are bad. Funny how things have turned around.
This apparently works on Pro versions of Windows, but not the Home versions which don't support domain-join.
After rolling the update that unintentionally uninstalled Copilot, they're back at net negative "upgrades".
Twitter still has a lot of users and if they stopped being used by offensive at times racist and awful, then Twitter could get more users, sell advertising and make money probably. Now that's all gone because Twitter could investors need w own a small piece of the giant over inflated Xai, which has value because of AI hype but it's future actual value is questionable. There are so many other AI companies, so what is it that xai can do that justifies an $80 billion valuation?
It really depends on where you are on reddit. On r/news and r/technology tariffs are roundly criticized.
All GUI domain seems to be one big state, and that is the kind of place Rust refuses to interact with easily.
interesting, did not know about that one! Thanks. (Small) but XSLT is not covered by it which is my main usage of XPATH unfortunately.

I will do some experiments with using newer XPATH on JSON... that could be interesting.
> * Junior roles requiring X years of experience

Don't forget the we want a person with 10 years of experience in X language.

Designer of said language applies, and is turned down for not having sufficient experience, the language has only been in existence at that point for 6 or 8 years.....

Needless to say, the world today is an aggregate of the decisions made by past generations, and choices are done purposefully. The world we see is the world their actions show they wanted, and its a disadvantaged hellscape for the children based in systems described by Thomas Paine as dead men ruling, for all time.

Many of these things, the consequences were known about well in advance, they still chose to move forward despite knowing those consequences.

Ponzi systems are with front-loaded benefits allowing a comfy life, and as the dynamics enter the final stages, slavery and annihilation for your children.

All you need to do is tacitly accept it by not doing anything to stop it.
Such complacency. Its so very slothful. It's enough to make the brain tremble when you realize the truth among the many lies.
It's all private capital. The only people who are exposed to this deal are the banks who make loans to Musk and Twitter, and the investors who put capital in to take Twitter private or to invest in xAI. If one of those entities is mad they will sue, and the legal system works pretty well for fights between different capital holders. Doesn't really matter what the general public's opinion is.
The rust team will be bikeshedding a borrow checker error and debating if using unsafe is appropriate for some time after this, though.
Lawsuits can fail for lots of reasons without a decision on the merits. It seems relevant that the reason the lawsuit failed is because the court looked at the fairness of the transaction and determined that Tesla paid a fair price.
Fittingly, I’ve heard [0] a similar transformation happened to Silicon Valley itself. Apparently it used to be a bunch of orchards.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/10672gn/til_before...
So what, Tesla energy is a separate division? Tesla solar products are basically dying in the solar roof failed. It's a great idea, who wouldn't want to buy it if it lasted and was practical.
Now it is under xAI, could X be rebranded into Twitter again please.
How can you set up / use Windows without an Internet connection? Surely that's not an unsupported use case anymore, is it? There's gotta be plenty of places where Internet connectivity is not available or is restricted.
But all the armchair business experts assured me that the value of Twitter had completely tanked since Elon bought it because he’s such a stupid fool who ruins everything, so shouldn’t it be worth less? Just a few months ago everyone was confident it was only worth $8 billion.

He valued it at the same price minus debt.
I know some cops in Seattle PD who routinely refer to people in the (minority) communities they police as "subhuman scum" and wish they wouldn't have so many limitations of use of force.

They seem to be doing pretty well career-wise, too, so it seems that this is not an uncommon sentiment there.
Enhanced security, if you connect your device to the internet.
Can they at least stop bullshitting? It's shameful
I think the parent is being sarcastic.
Another interesting bit of finance is X's last earnings were quite good but if you looked at what the sales consisted of I think about $500m was XAi paying to advertise/have Grok on X which seemed a bit iffy.
What’s your opinion on the traveltech industry? I’m absolutely captivated by its potential. With AI-driven personalization, seamless booking experiences, and the ability to revolutionize how we travel, it feels like the possibilities are endless. Do you think this is the next big wave in tech?
You could not have agreed with my point more clearly. You don’t want to pay more, you want to force everyone richer than you to pay more. That’s the problem.
Interesting, one of the selling points of Electric Vehicles over 100 years ago was how safe they were when compared to other vehicles.

Strange all I hear about with modern EVs are issues due to fire. In theory EVs should be far safer than any fossil fuel cars.
And now there's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509169
right but you don't have $1T to do that, whereas clearly he has however much money he's paid for it. it's a weird thing to do, but if he has the money to do it then meh?
Interlaced within the DOGE troopers are guys lil swatters like Big Balls fear to reveal. Maybe not Scientology but certainly guys slotting into Deep State corner offices.
The elections are already being taken over .. in newspeak of course.

PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS

~ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/pres...

The sweeping 12-page order contains a number of provisions, including a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to vote in federal elections as well as a requirement that all ballots be received by Election Day – both of which fall outside of the executive branch’s authority to mandate.

But, there’s also a section, buried deeper in the order, that, if implemented, would give Trump’s Justice Department the authority to pick and choose what states get federal funding for election administration. It would require states to loop the DOJ in on supposed violations of election law that it encounters. But it also mandates that basic information about voter roll maintenance be shared with the DOJ as well.

If states are unwilling to enter into what is referred to as an “information-sharing agreement” with the Attorney General regarding “suspected violations of state and federal elections laws,” the Attorney General is allowed to withhold grants and other funds from those states, the executive order says.

source~ https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-order-includes-prov...

There are several commentaries at length going into the hidden traps and pitfalls of this latest executive order kicking about, so far it looks loaded.
WSL2 is an absolute pile of manure. The last time I attempted to use it only a year or two ago, it regularly ended up in some bizarre unrecoverable state for which the only recourse was completely uninstalling and reinstalling it. And this happened frequently, at least once or twice a week. It is absolutely not a good or useful piece of software and is incredibly unreliable.
I just want the assistant voice. I hate the Gemini ones.
If the band is flipping through their books, paper or electronic, to choose what tune to play next, that isn't a performance worthy of the term. It's a jam session. Which is fine, but hopefully nobody is paying to listen to it.
I wouldn't imply that he's too dumb. He just wants to sell it and make the actual dumb people believe that he is doing good for them.
I don't understand the claim. That the Trump tariffs are preparations for some actual war they intend to wage? Who against?
Next step is have SpaceX buy xai
It was a surprise to me that the article claims that tariffs are only on imports. I understand that usually tariffs are imposed on imports, but aren't there also cases where export is hit by a tariff, e.g. to discourage export to improve local availability or to hit a specific country with higher costs.
and the BitMEX founders:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-pardon-bitmex-crypto-e...
Don't worry, the Tesla board is totally on top of things.
I love the Signal Home Assistant Add-On.
Now home assistant delivers all messages.

I use it for RSS news, device notifications, debugging,...

This so good, I'm afraid it might go away.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/signal_messenger/
More scams means more supply of meme stocks which is good for the economy
I’m not following the logic. If I recommend martial arts to someone, should I also recommend swimming even if swimming didn’t benefit me? If I recommend learning how to program in go, should I also recommend programming in typescript?

It seems to me what you are suggesting is implied in any recommendation.
That is irrelevant to the invalidity of your original statement. LLM's clearly don't have problems having their training data scraped from all those mentioned irregardless of their ownership.
I can understand that angle, but TBH, I have a hard time caring. They aren't a public company, and their private shareholders aren't lacking for resources to fight if they disagreed with this choice.
Does Google train AI on emails?
It’s funny you mention that: my on and off years with go have locked a couple (possibly wrong today) ‘rules’ for go; one is that channels are crazy slow, and another is that defer does not always work like you imagine it will.

There was a sort of misunderstood dream in the early days of go that it would make fanning out and using your 24 cores easy as empowered by channels: this is still not easy in go, although it may be easier and less error prone than c.

In the intervening decade, python has made say a parallel for loop immensely easier.
No, but it's not obviously clear that other sized kernels will hit the same bottlenecks seen in the post. It's not really shown one way or the other - is it that the rocm kernels are just inefficient, or just the author identified one that wasn't particularly well optimized? And do these opportunities for improvement really mean that the software is "Questionable", or just that you cannot really do an equivalent comparison at the level of ISA on other vendor's software stacks?

I'm not trying to minimize the work here, it's interesting and a good example of the sort of lengths you can go to in order to squeeze that last little bit of performance out (and again, showing the advantages of public ISA documentation and support for users working at that level), I just took issue to the parent comment seeming to use this work as evidence of a poor baseline.
All of those people are still happily running XP.
What do you mean, what's going on? The judge rejected Musk's motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Meaning that the suit against him is going forward. Which is the correct outcome, because yeah he's obviously guilty.
Yes, that's how I do it. Only available on the Pro version of Windows though.
No but I think it’s more likely the data is going back to the original manufacturer and the white labeler has no idea it’s happening.

Despite assuredly rigid QC and security testing /s.
You're absolutely right, there are some good cops. But what happens to them? Here's one example:

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

Consider that the guys entire management chain was involved in the attempt to forcibly institutionalize him, and numerous rank and file police officers as well. And not a single one of them spoke in his defense.

Based on this anecdote, what would you say the ratio of good vs bad cops is in NYPD?
Is this loophole the method used by Rufus when burning images that add options to skip Microsoft account, TPM checks, etc...?
There's no one reason this is being done. Trump has tariffs stuck in his brain because he remembers some discussion from the early 1980s about it. And some of the people around him want to destroy the United States in its current form for various stupid and eventually self-defeating reasons of their own, and inflicting mass misery happens to dovetail with their agendas, or so they think.
design wise, crypto looks most like banks being wallets and blockchains being a way for banks to agree on interbank transfers
It's standard practice for corporations to lie about their motivations for decisions. Why is this acceptable?
He bought it with stock from another company that has no clear value and is a meaningless hype monster. What is xai going to do that 10 other AI companies aren't going to build, anthropic, openai, etc.
enterprise deployments are different
If the US were expecting a war against e.g. China (e.g. over Taiwan), then reducing dependence on China (e.g. by making imports from China more expensive so it's cheaper to buy from elsewhere and companies switch) would make a lot of sense, wouldn't it?
And also Sam Altman doesn't own either OpenAI or Reddit, lol.
Forth exposes both problems and solutions that aren't germane to the bulk of everyday computing systems:

1. I want to debug my assembly code with a REPL

2. I don't want abstraction, I want minimalism

3. I want to write solutions in the context of specific hardware

When you have all three, you have Forth's wheelhouse. Minimalism means you do get a sense of "seeing the Matrix" - the machine is controlled precisely to your specification. But as soon as you think that you can layer on a more abstract idiom, even those that are usually conventional in high level programming, it also reveals that it really won't help you do that. Either you DIY that abstraction, or you revert to the same load-store imperative paradigms you'd use for a large assembly program.

The answer everyone else is using is to add an operating system and an application language as a starting assumption, and then slowly grind through every issue caused by giving up control at the base layer to these more automatic systems.

I think there is a reasonable place for Forth as a runtime target for compiled code, but the style of code that it supports prefers "flat" designs, like dataflow/FBP languages, because of the explicit stack. Once you aim towards Algol and Lisp and start automating stack movements, the programs become coupled to that design and way of thinking.
We already have multiple news stories about xAI receiving 10,000s of GPUs that were originally meant for Tesla. That's about as close to "public company giving private company owned by CEO money" as you could possibly get without cartoon sacks of cash.

> Even by Tesla & Musk lawlessness standard that would be too wild.

Not to be overly snarky here, but, uh: what standard? They have proven over and over that they could not give less of a shit about either societal norms or the laws of the nation.
It doesn't actually looks like another financial shifting chairs on the deck due to the xAI valuation being extremely high.
For protests to have any bite they must be coordinated, focused and persistent. While neither the countries largest unions, nor the opposition is calling for any direct action (be they demonstrations, boycotts, or general strikes) it is unlikely that they will be any of the three.

Now protests can be demonstrative and the more you protest the likelier you are at protesting again, and if the climate is right some organizations might join and call for others to participate. But what usually happens though is police violence suppressing them as soon as they look like they are gaining any steam (see e.g. Occupy Wall Street or BLM).

That said, as long as the opposition and the large unions are lame, any direct action will remain pretty restricted.
Bring your work-life balance to the US. Tell you colleagues to take at least 30 days off annually.
Can't it be added again by users? Cmd does not sound like a complicated piece of binary code
Nearly the same thing as Google search can at this point, but maybe a better job of it. It isn't people's default choice at this point, but I'm having a hard time imagining people not trending toward it (or a competitor) over time.

And right now, Gemini's public models aren't cutting it.

$80B for Twitter+Grok is potentially a bargain, but it all depends on execution.
Trump Tells Car Companies Not to Raise Prices
Nikola founder Trevor Milton receives full pardon from President Trump
is that a problem with EV vs ICE or shoddy/lowest bidder type of manufacturing of EV components?
My guess is that there's an added grift, er...benefit here; since the federal government is now (apparently) in the business of subsidizing AI companies, we'll effectively see the failing social media platform get subsidized by the federal government.

I'm certain we'll see a pile of public funds handed over the xAI in the future.
On the highest level, the US's action to end global trade with the US would be necessary to threaten war with credibility. On the ground level, going by typical norms, an actual war would be required for an electorate to tolerate such a large price or tax increase for essential goods.

Here are a few options taken from recent headlines:

- A war with Iran that would result in international sanctions, including steep sanctions from their trading partners.

- A direct conflict with China.

- The international sanctions resulting from that forced annexation of Greenland that they won't stop talking about for some reason.

- The same for Canada. (!?)

- Basically any other unilateral military action, since most of the world was a major trading partner of the US in the Obama era.
i think this is most important post of all

people hail apple for what is essentially 3 line script XD

i do understand that it does much more. but 3 line script is closer to what it really is, then what people think it is.
Isn't that generally called an export tax, not a tariff?
By the way, Republican Senators know better, and they should be stopping a lot of what's happening. But they don't want to, because they think it'll end their power. Joke's on them: that's ending anyway under this regime.
Plenty to read on this topic here

https://eclecticlight.co/m1-macs/

A good start is the series of articles “Making the most of Apple silicon power”
I've frequently heard that once you get sucked into the YouTube algorithm, you have to keep making content to maintain rankings.

This trap reminds me of the Perry Bible Fellowship comic "Catch Phrase" which has been removed for being too dark but can still be found with a search.
I don’t think that’s the case anymore. I just popped on to newegg and scrolled through their “best seller” motherboards, none of them have PS/2 ports. They’ve started to die off on enthusiast motherboards for the past few years.
Feet are home to billions of bacteria. How often should you wash them?
Richer than Pelosi of Crenshaw? That'd be something!
> Wi-Fi Ad-hoc. It never gained widespread use.

I don't think this is true.
In the early 2000s, in Germany, the alternative, now vastly used "infrastructure mode" was rare because Wi-Fi basestations were rare and expensive, e.g. DSL modems didn't have built-in Wi-Fi.

So the only way of wirelessly sharing internet at home / files with friends at university (which also didn't have Wi-Fi yet) was with ad-hoc mode.
Discussion (64 points, 21 hours ago, 26 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43500788

Related Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges (204 points, 1 year ago, 182 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38685607
At least in the US export tariffs are forbidden by the constitution: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C5-1/...
Should we start calling tariffs 'import taxes'?