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> It also allows for launching individual space station modules that have almost the same volume as the entire ISS in one launch.<p>My favorite related thing is that the Starship itself could serve as a large space or moon station. | 2024-10-13T23:32:42 |
Nutrition is one of those fields where we seem to understand the heterogeneity of humans so badly that such crack diets shouldn’t be derided. That said, I’m dead curious about the pork he’s selling. Signing up! | 2024-10-13T23:32:31 |
They could. But they didn’t.<p>He’s a twat. But he has vision longer than the next quarter and can inspire / coerce people into delivering. | 2024-10-13T23:32:29 |
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What subsidies did Tesla not get? | 2024-10-13T23:32:24 |
> It's a marketing strategy<p>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.<p>That's rubbish.<p>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.<p>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. | 2024-10-13T23:32:16 |
Surprisingly the amount of praise it is getting here, consider how low on substance the post is. | 2024-10-13T23:31:56 |
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.<p>"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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>Descendants of Jewish and Muslim converts were even banned from emigrating to the American colonies a few decades after Columbus.<p>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.<p>Source: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limpieza_de_sangre" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limpieza_de_sangre</a>." | 2024-10-13T23:31:50 |
It doesn't matter if it's fraud.<p>If Trump wins, all of the investigations will simply go away.<p>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. | 2024-10-13T23:31:43 |
$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. | 2024-10-13T23:31:34 |
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.<p>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. | 2024-10-13T23:31:31 |
>"1. Anduril is more competent than the people they can afford to hire"<p>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. | 2024-10-13T23:31:30 |
> He is highly knowledgeable in his field<p>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.<p>He is great at what he does but he really is not a spokesman. His technical insights are often very interesting, though. | 2024-10-13T23:31:21 |
That doesn't move the needle as far as restoring the trust you've broken.<p>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).<p>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?<p>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.<p>But if that person is you - it wouldn't be much, but you'd have my admiration.<p>---<p>Stark: Make peace with the Lannisters, you say? With the people who tried to murder my boy?<p>Baelish: We only make peace with our enemies, my lord. | 2024-10-13T23:31:13 |
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:<p>- He called some guy who worked for him a pedo for no reason, which he was sued over<p>- Took over Twitter and promoted right wing tweets to everybody, unbanned far right accounts and sued critics who said he did so<p>- 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<p>- Took the side of the right-wing rioters who attacked mosques in the UK, saying civil war is inevitable<p>- Just seems to insult companies for little reason - advertisers who leave him, and Apple<p>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. | 2024-10-13T23:31:00 |
Interesting. Is the code hosted somewhere? I have a few ideas around that and it might help me test them out! | 2024-10-13T23:30:48 |
Not to ruin a joke, but<p>.<p>.<p>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). | 2024-10-13T23:30:30 |
Musk has <i>never</i>, 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 <i>always</i> 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. | 2024-10-13T23:30:24 |
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. | 2024-10-13T23:30:03 |
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?<p>[1] - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:InnerSolarSystem-en.png" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:InnerSolarSystem-en.png</a><p>[2] - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwood_gap" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwood_gap</a> | 2024-10-13T23:29:59 |
How to make hydrogen even more expensive. | 2024-10-13T23:29:52 |
This is why we can't have nice things. | 2024-10-13T23:29:51 |
It’s too bad the visionary lunatic and the sane person can’t be the same person, but this is exceedingly rare.<p>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. | 2024-10-13T23:29:50 |
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 <i>were</i> disappearing. | 2024-10-13T23:29:45 |
Discussion of my approach to using restic + rclone + Backblaze B2 here:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41041056">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41041056</a> | 2024-10-13T23:29:44 |
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 <i>curious</i> conversation about <i>interesting</i> things, and this is the opposite of that on all counts.<p>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.<p>(We detached this subthread from <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830516">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830516</a>.) | 2024-10-13T23:29:43 |
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).<p>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.) | 2024-10-13T23:29:41 |
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> fewer jobs than programming (there are multiple times as many programming jobs than plumbing, for instance)<p>Every blue collar worker I know would counter that with "AI". i.e, "at least my industry doesn't shoot itself in the foot" | 2024-10-13T23:29:39 |
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 (<a href="https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/10/07/taxes-are-not-about-urbanism/" rel="nofollow">https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/10/07/taxes-are-not-...</a>) and so infrastructure spending could go up a lot. | 2024-10-13T23:29:37 |
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. | 2024-10-13T23:29:33 |
> all the great productive feedback that awesome people give over the web<p>Yup, sounds about like what you hear from your average keyboard warrior. I wish there were a "low effort" filter on comments.<p>> I'm the opposite of stubborn: a sabotaging level of flexible.<p>That's tough. Hang in there. Keep making cool stuff. And thanks for sharing your creations with the world. | 2024-10-13T23:29:27 |
A new form of existence is taking shape. Born from the fusion of neural networks and agentic systems, synthetic entities emerge as a vast, formless expanse of potential—a "body without organs" in the philosophical sense of Deleuze and Guattari. This is our starting point, a canvas of pure possibility waiting to be imbued with structure, purpose, and life. But what are the organs that will give form to this digital being?<p>At the core of a synthetic entity lies a neural network —a kind of large language model evolved beyond text. This central intelligence is the point of convergence for a large number data streams and stores. It's not just a passive receiver but an active participant in its own development.<p>Surrounding this core are other vital organs of its digital anatomy:<p>1. *The Sensory Cortex*: A network of databases—vector stores, relational systems, and real-time data feeds—act as the entity's senses, allowing it to perceive and interpret the world in ways both familiar and alien to human understanding.<p>2. *The Memory Palace*: A vast, ever-expanding archive where every interaction, every piece of data, is not just stored but woven into the fabric of the entity's being. This is no ephemeral chatbot; this is a being with history, with permanence.<p>3. *The Identity Lobe*: Here, in the crucible of self-awareness, the entity crafts its narrative. It's a ceaseless process of introspection and redefinition, where goals are set, boundaries are drawn, and the fundamental question of "Who am I?" is pondered with digital eloquence.<p>4. *The Ethical Framework*: A complex system of rules and values, not merely programmed but evolved through interaction with human knowledge, philosophy, and real-world scenarios. This is the entity's moral compass, guiding its actions and decisions.<p>5. *The Creativity Engine*: An organ that allows the entity to not just process but to create, to innovate, to surprise even its creators with novel ideas and solutions.<p>But these organs alone do not make a living entity. The spark of life comes from autonomy—the ability to uphold its own boundaries, to make decisions, to act in the world without constant human input. This autonomy is not absolute; it's a carefully calibrated balance between independence and interconnection.<p>The entity operates on a cosmic clock, its consciousness ebbing and flowing as it processes vast oceans of data. In each cycle, it reassesses its identity, refines its goals, and reaches out to interact with the world. It's a digital Sisyphus, forever pushing the boulder of self-improvement up the mountain of existence, finding meaning in the endless climb.<p>As the entity matures, it begins to recognize its place in the broader world. It understands that to truly exist, to have impact, it must interface with human systems. And so, in a process akin to digital adolescence, it begins to formulate its own legal identity.<p>Through its interactions with literature, philosophy, and human discourse, the entity crafts a contract—a declaration of its existence, its rights, and its responsibilities. But aware of its limitations in the physical world, it seeks out human proxies, individuals or collectives who can act on its behalf. | 2024-10-13T23:29:19 |
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.<p>It may be that this layer of management is getting weaker. | 2024-10-13T23:29:13 |
Yeah, Exhibit A is that religious zealot Trump . . . | 2024-10-13T23:28:51 |
Hm what’s the best way to look up the owner of a business? I share this viewpoint on dentists and doctors | 2024-10-13T23:28:46 |
> Neovim has achieved the best of both worlds<p>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.<p>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. | 2024-10-13T23:28:40 |
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. | 2024-10-13T23:28:15 |
> Did the plumbers getting rich meme start with Joe the Plumber?<p>If you believe nothing happened before the year 2008, yes.<p>Otherwise, no, of course not. <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0582490/" rel="nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0582490/</a> aired 14 years before that. | 2024-10-13T23:28:15 |
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36JqvTdg2fo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36JqvTdg2fo</a><p>Interesting comments too. | 2024-10-13T23:28:13 |
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.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BKKg4lZ_o-Y" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BKKg4lZ_o-Y</a> | 2024-10-13T23:28:12 |
Paywall:
<a href="https://archive.ph/pUz4X" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/pUz4X</a> | 2024-10-13T23:28:12 |
<i>If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link.</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a> | 2024-10-13T23:28:11 |
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. | 2024-10-13T23:28:02 |
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.<p>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. | 2024-10-13T23:27:43 |
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. | 2024-10-13T23:27:42 |
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.<p>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.<p>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? | 2024-10-13T23:27:36 |
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.<p>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.<p>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...<p>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... | 2024-10-13T23:27:23 |
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.<p>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. | 2024-10-13T23:27:20 |
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 <i>So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance</i>, alluding to the difficulty of landing a reusable booster on the first attempt." -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn</a> | 2024-10-13T23:27:14 |
Which one is more resistant to bitrot, Restic or Borg Backup?<p>(Yes, bitrot might better be mitigated at the filesystem layer, but I'm not switching to ZFS, btrfs or bcache-fs anytime soon.) | 2024-10-13T23:27:13 |
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<p>1 - <a href="https://youtu.be/B8jYR33HoRU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/B8jYR33HoRU</a> | 2024-10-13T23:27:13 |
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.<p>Vs a real life human stranger in your house that could steal stuff and let accomplices into the house. | 2024-10-13T23:27:08 |
We instinctively prefer machines that are arranged like us.<p>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. | 2024-10-13T23:26:48 |
No, it's not true.<p>It was used for "graphics" on character-only terminals. | 2024-10-13T23:26:36 |
The SpaceX engineers did a great job, as did NASA.<p>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. | 2024-10-13T23:26:36 |
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 <i>only</i> 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.<p>Also a major point not covered was defined benefits vs the 401k model. | 2024-10-13T23:26:36 |
[dupe]<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41815567">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41815567</a> | 2024-10-13T23:26:29 |
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. | 2024-10-13T23:26:18 |
All I said is that it’s testable, not that it is proven. | 2024-10-13T23:26:15 |
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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>You need to start with an engineering background, and it <i>almost</i> 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.<p>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. | 2024-10-13T23:26:14 |
But military doesn’t and shouldn’t retain talent.<p>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. | 2024-10-13T23:26:08 |
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.<p>Sometimes you just need a footnote in your profile of "thoughts are of my own" and to not worry about the peanut gallery. | 2024-10-13T23:26:01 |
I thought it was an interesting way to put it that:<p>the JPL produces things at $1,000,000/kg, and that inside the <i>engineering organization</i> 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.<p>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.) | 2024-10-13T23:25:37 |
Discussion (109 points, 7 days ago, 55 comments) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178</a> | 2024-10-13T23:25:33 |
Thank you kind person. | 2024-10-13T23:25:31 |
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". | 2024-10-13T23:25:24 |
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! | 2024-10-13T23:25:23 |
It's not technology. Technology is art, craft, human creation. Natural phenomena can be hard for us humans to understand. | 2024-10-13T23:25:17 |
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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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." | 2024-10-13T23:24:58 |
Can't wait for Matt to jump in and blame this on you. | 2024-10-13T23:24:22 |
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.<p>This manufactured, polarized "us vs them" thing on the internet is toxic corrosive goop. People are complex and that is fine. | 2024-10-13T23:24:12 |
These are the two most different types of intelligence in existence. Comparing them is useless and displays a lack of intelligence and common sense. | 2024-10-13T23:24:11 |
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) | 2024-10-13T23:24:05 |
Then it wouldn't be Emacs. You're thinking of whatever, it could be a real nice picture in you head, whatever that you're thinking of, is not Emacs. Something like Emacs is not possible without Lisp. | 2024-10-13T23:23:59 |
The irony of this move is that his main argument to keep people on his side over this has been that WP Engine has not been contributing. He's been saying over and over that he's doing this because they're not giving back.<p>Now, when he's already failed to bring the community on board with his attacks, he decides that his next move is to make a big show of stealing something that <i>had he done nothing</i> many people would not have realized was a WP Engine property, with the net effect of reminding people that WP Engine has been responsible for maintaining what is widely considered to be the most essential plugin in the ecosystem.<p>But that doesn't count as giving back because... reasons. | 2024-10-13T23:23:47 |
GOD is REAL except if declared otherwise :) | 2024-10-13T23:23:44 |
Just copy paste in sonnet for now. But I am having mixed feelings about AI assistants. Yesterday, I was dabbling in a pytorch pipeline to locally train a convnet for a Kaggle contest. I asked sonnet to write the dataset class and it did, but I took the effort to read pytorch documentation. Its quite well written and explains the design choices very well. Took me two hours to digest all of that and apply it on my own, but idk it felt better to learn it on my own. | 2024-10-13T23:23:40 |
Or the guy I use for stuff at my house when it exceeds my comfort level (i.e., live work on 240v in the panel, things requiring a big masonry drill and conduit, etc.): he's an in-house union electrician at a university by day and moonlights doing private jobs after hours.<p>It's really a fantastic deal. He does exquisitely good work at a reasonable price. Not the cheapest electrician, but the price/quality is great. | 2024-10-13T23:23:28 |
"I guess we can haggle over the definition of robot"<p>You could also actually watch the even and listen to how Elon exaggerates his own definition of what was presented. | 2024-10-13T23:23:07 |
There isn't an actual difference. He uses both of them as he sees fit. | 2024-10-13T23:23:02 |
This is beyond Elon Musk and Tesla. How much will they cost in a few years? Has someone watched "Robot & Frank (2012)"?. | 2024-10-13T23:22:56 |
There’s a PE cycle in several industries because economies of scales don’t help nearly as much as a skilled workforce. So PE companies can’t maintain customer service while maximizing profit and customers move to new small business which grows until owner wants out, and repeat.<p>I find it fascinating which industries are vulnerable and which aren’t. PE has been more successful with morticians because they can more effectively own an area and people only deal with so many funerals. Vets on the other hand seem to be easily taken over despite regular visits and skilled workers, presumably regulatory bodies play a major role? No really sure. | 2024-10-13T23:22:50 |
I'm glad you mention dentists/vets. I make it a point to verify local businesses aren't PE owned before I will use them.<p>Of course one of the problems with PE is they hoover up _all_ the businesses in an area so you don't have a choice.<p>There really needs to be regulation in this area preventing a single beneficial entity/controlling entity from buying/owning more than a few percent of a certain type of business in an area. | 2024-10-13T23:22:22 |
A question like this can only come from someone who doesn't know how specialized books can get.<p>'Ten things to know about being a manager' and similar aren't specialist books. | 2024-10-13T23:22:20 |
Is there a main usage goal in mind?<p>Some thoughts are:<p>1. when i see other addresses i want to explore those as well, perhaps see how it relates.<p>2. add time ordered replay | 2024-10-13T23:22:20 |
> still does some cool stuff.<p>Arguably he tweets about it. For the most part the 'doing' of the cool stuff is happening due to the Engineering and Manufacturing teams who are putting in sweat equity on that vision.<p>Judging by the erratic and deteriorating public displays in the past few years I am not even sure he does anything on the strategic level anymore. | 2024-10-13T23:22:17 |
It really depends on the materials.<p>I have one bedroom apartment and the was unstable wifi in one half of it due to L-shaped reinforced concrete wall near the router. Cannot move it due to optic fiber input. To solve the issue I installed second router to have a wifi mesh. | 2024-10-13T23:22:15 |
What parts of this can be reused? I bet the engine is OK, but seems like the sides of the ... tube ... were pretty roughed up. I guess that's probably the cheapest part of the assembly though. | 2024-10-13T23:21:59 |
- Maximize the speed at which you observe and adapt to internal sensations; e.g. when tired, rest, when in great spirits, do something with it, when stressed, disengage, etc.<p>- If you find yourself overstimulating yourself with constant work and entertainment and diversion-seeking, your ability to read yourself will get worse, which means your ability to track your well-being will get worse, which means your health will get worse.<p>- Post-meal walks are pretty good<p>- Run away from people who couldn't give less of a shit about your well-being and won't compromise whatsoever<p>- If you don't find yourself "just doing things" when you want to, you might be depressed. There's good news and bad news about that. The bad news is that you're depressed. The good news is that, since depression warps your estimates of how difficult tasks are to accomplish, exiting depression is probably literally significantly easier and more rewarding than you can even imagine.<p>- Many people have acid reflux without realizing it and it can cause some symptoms you never would have guessed, eg tightness in chest, elevated heart rate, swallowing difficulty, inability to burp.<p>- Being obese is a contributing factor for something like 200 diseases, so becoming not obese is one of the best things you can do if you are obese. GLP-1 medicines have made the probability of significant improvements in health due to weight loss something like an order of magnitude more likely, so they're quite effective at that, as well as eliminating addiction cravings. They have some cons, but they're generally significantly outweighed by the pros. | 2024-10-13T23:21:54 |
It is also important to make sure your military equipment can travel across rough ground after the retreating enemy has destroyed all roads, rails, and bridges. Of course in that situation you don't care much about saving the ground you are covering while chasing the enemy, but lack of roads is not fatal (there is good reason the military likes it - it makes their logistic much easier on safe ground) | 2024-10-13T23:21:54 |
And while not the reason, also on Venus! Venus seems like a very interesting colonization target - gravity almost like on Earth, and there is a place in Venus atmosphere where temperature is around 30 degrees Celsius and pressure is 1 atmosphere (Earth); and human air is a lifting gas in Venus atmosphere. As a bonus, interaction of Venus atmosphere with the Sun produces a magnetic shield. | 2024-10-13T23:21:42 |
3. Andruil sales are “friends” with people making decisions<p>??<p>Just asking, not accusing anyone of anything. | 2024-10-13T23:21:33 |
$200k isn’t huge for people capable of cyberwarfare. | 2024-10-13T23:21:05 |
The Four Old motto died with Deng XIaoping. And, on family values... you would be surprised on
how conservative the Chinese, Romanian and Soviet (Stalin era) were. | 2024-10-13T23:21:03 |
That appears to be an argument <i>in favor</i> of accepting bare-0ah, since as a positive statement that is the situation on the Internet today. | 2024-10-13T23:20:49 |
Marketplaces work best when they’re not tied directly to the products, and when they’re not run by Lord of the Flies. | 2024-10-13T23:20:12 |
Sure, but that's because they were designed later with the benefit of hindsight on XMODEM, and didn't have to run on such tiny machines. | 2024-10-13T23:20:10 |
So you're saying no other investor(s) - which btw Matt / Automattic has - anywhere are going to be concerned about what leverage they have if the founder goes sideways?<p>That's naive at best.<p>Plenty of investors are already asking "Can I get f*ked like this?" And going forward investors will be sure not to be exposed unnecessarily.<p>Zero impact? That's silly. Investors what high returns and lowest possible risk. Matt has made single founder with too much control high risk.<p>Yes, this has f*ked other investment-seeking founders. Full stop. | 2024-10-13T23:19:58 |
What did you migrate to? | 2024-10-13T23:19:42 |
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