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> The weird looking part to he is cramming xAI into it. It's a completely different business with little overlap that I can see, in a crowded market that they are far from leading.

My personal theory is that Musk wants to roll up all his companies into a mega corporation that he fully controls, and this is part of the process. I expect Tesla and SpaceX to merge years down the line.

Of course, the counter to this thesis is that he didn't roll in Neuralink or Boring Company. But its probably that these three companies + Tesla are the ones he's most passionate about.

SpaceX is incredibly exciting, but I was skeptical when XAI and Twitter were rolled into it. The S-1 here makes it even more disappointing.

I did want a piece of SpaceX but the valuation here is pretty eye watering compared to the fundamentals. I don't think I can put my money into this, although I suspect it will still do gangbusters based on hype and momentum.

Its also a real shame that SpaceX's competitors have not been able to get the same level of momentum. I know Starship has been delayed but its still hard to argue with total mass to orbit they're achieving right now.

Heavy use of packages with solo maintainers is part of the problem here. Having multiple people looped in with proper governance doesn’t completely solve the issue but it makes it much harder to execute supply chain attacks.

It’s a bitter pill that we collectively don’t want to swallow, because it has a lot of negative connotations on our ability to deliver individual impact quickly.

Given the troubles GitHub has had recently its not a stretch to think that you just got some sort of error.

IMO, The only reasonable answer if asked this in an interview is “I would not write code where I have to know the answer to this question”

These sorts of things are neat trivia to learn about things like sequence points but 99.9% of the time if it matters in your codebase you're writing something unmaintainable.

He actually didn't. The majority of that was in options. So he "controlled" 5% via derivatives but this is not the same as owning shares.

For more information, see Dan Olsen's "This is Financial Advice." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYeoZaoWrA Its a few years old, but gives you some perspective on the weird cult that has been built around GME.

Edit: Where Ryan Cohen comes in: https://youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?t=6629

Mostly on IRC people either learned or got told to leave. There was significant pushback on people just looking for someone else to do their homework.

AIs have changed the feedback loop here such that these approaches are rewarded and even lauded.

> But when pushed on the occasions I've had my funds frozen they are never able to provide any evidence or what specific reason they have for triggering KYC/AML

They are legally prevented from telling you by the regulators, at least in the US.

There was a Daily Show skit about this: https://vimeo.com/44985418

Also the Supreme Court, half of Congress, and apparently something like 40% of the American populace.

> It's so wild that HN dunks on it so much: Here we have a societal problem in computing we've been complaining about for decades, someone offers an incremental but imperfect regulation to start taking steps to correct it, and everyone hates it!

YOUR collection of user's data is an overreach and breach of privacy. MY collection of data is absolutely necessary to grow my scrappy small business and provide value. I am a good person with good intentions, so its OK. You are a bad person doing bad things, so its not OK.

Also, "Be able to track a user's data and delete it on a request."

This is not too hard if you do proper engineering work ahead of time and are purposeful about how you move and manage data (step 1 is just not collecting it unless its vital). But the industry encourages us to be very bad about that because we gotta "move fast and break things or you're not gonna make it."

Exactly. To this point I went to a Comcast store to cancel my internet and the person asked me if I meant I wanted to cancel my “Wi-Fi”. I was very confused for a couple seconds.

His reasoning doesn't seem like a political statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754379#47757803

That seems very practical and well-reasoned to me.

> - Let's not enforce any immigration law, and subsidize those here illegally

This isn't an accurate description of the Democrat party's platform and repeating it uncritically is contributing to the problem.

"Smart" is something you do, not something you are. People with very large amounts of raw intelligence fall down some very dumb intellectual rabbit holes that its practically a meme: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21

Having raw intelligence doesn't help if you don't apply rigor to your thinking. I suspect that very successful people actually end up falling into habitual mental shortcuts that cause them to promote stupid things at a later time.

Second life is trying to be a metaverse in the style of snowcrash; it’s one big world. Roblox is more like Newgrounds, where you have a bunch of distinct games or experiences that you select from a menu, but skins and currency and whatnot are portable between the games.

I find the notion that Trump would have used discretion if not for Biden’s pardons pretty curious. At no point has precedence or decorum stopped Trump. Biden’s actions had zero effect on how Trump uses his pardon power.

He hired the private investigator before he was sued.

You left out the part where he claimed a person was a pedophile and when asked if it was just an insult basically said “no I really think he’s a pedophile”, and started stating made up bullshit about child brides as fact. He only backtracked when he was sued. That is NOT the same as just throwing insults.

Notwithstanding the other myriad of reasons to not like Elon Musk (of which there are many)…

You’re equivocating a childish insult with insisting that a person is a pedophile and hiring a private investigator to prove so and then writing scathing emails to reporters because they refuse to repeat claims uncritically. This is an appalling failing of morality on your part.

I’m frankly not inclined to dive into why I, previously a big fan of Elon Musk, find him personally repugnant because I expect you to apply the same standards to everything he does. That doesn’t take away from SpaceX, but we shouldn’t overlook his failings just because rockets are cool.

As much as I'd like to see boots on the ground on Mars this is where I'm at. In my uneducated opinion, while building the massive rocket is incredibly difficult, its probably the easiest part of a Mars mission.

Is that a Reiser reference or am I missing something?

I appreciate the sentiment behind steelmanning but Trump has had over a decade of publicaly, vocally hating windmills because some were built too close to his golf course. See https://www.npr.org/2013/07/01/196352470/thar-he-blows-trump...

Its completely in-line with his personality to hold onto personal grievances for decades to the point that they become policy.

I’m pretty sure people vastly overstate how important “HD pre-mapped roads” are to Waymo.

“Second Amendment solutions” are only OK to talk about if you’re a Republican (I.e. “Real American”).

I’m being sarcastic, for the record. Back during his first term, Trump talked about “second amendment people” doing something about liberal Supreme Court justices (iirc) and the right wing media treated everyone as crazy for thinking that was wildly inappropriate.

Do you happen to know if ES was the only storage? Its been almost 8 years, but if I was building a log storage and analysis system, then I'd push the logs to S3 or some other object store and build an ES index off of that S3 data. From the consumer's perspective, it may look like we're using ES to store the data, but we have a durable backup to regenerate ES if necessary.

> I really never understood how people could store very important information in ES like it was a database.

I agree.

Its been a while since I touched it, but as far as I can remember ES has never pretended to be your primary store of information. It was mostly juniors that reached for it for transaction processing, and I had to disabuse them of the notion that it was fit for purpose there.

ES is for building a searchable replica of your data. Every ES deployment I made or consulted sourced its data from some other durable store, and the only thing that wrote to it were replication processes or backfills.

What engine and data format were you using for your experiment?

You mention parquet and spark, but I’m wondering if you tried any of the “Lakehouse” formats that are basically parquet + a metadata layer (ie iceberg). I’d probably at least give Trino or Presto a shot, although I suspect that you’ll have similar metadata issues with those engines.

Yeah but everyone involved in the LLM space is encouraging you to just slurp all your data into these things uncritically. So the comparison to eval would be everyone telling you to just eval everything for 10x productivity gains, and then when you get exploited those same people turn around and say “obviously you shouldn’t be putting everything into eval, skill issue!”