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It is what happened. OpenAI offered to let Buckmaster publish first but only if Alpoge's name was removed.

No. Euler solution would have bith names, this was not up to debate. The discussion was about the solution for NS, which was solved by OpenAI, but not by B&A. OpenAI proposed B a cooperation on NS (were super-nice and threw him a bone, really) using OpenAI's findings and resources. It would be weird to have A, an Anthropic employee, as part of the OpenAI research and project.

To no one's surprise.

> Windows 11 refused to run on those legacy hardware

What legacy hardware was this?


Does he actually deliver? Isn't SpaceX ran by grownups that are not him? Isn't it well known that when he's actually involved in trying to deliver that he gets in the way and slows everything down?

> delivered exceptional electric vehicles

Tesla's ranking for quality and reliability and many cases of fraud regarding warranty repairs would disagree rather heavily with "exceptional".

And your analysis ignores his many, many business failures and his overall negative affect on things and culture.


John Carmack is someone whose opinion is worth a heck of a lot to me. If he vouches for Musk as a hands-on rocket engineer, I’m not going to argue with him.

Tom Mueller also seems to explicitly support this

One narcissist opining on another narcissist isn't what I pay attention to.

> If he vouches for Musk as a hands-on rocket engineer

Employees have said otherwise. There was one report where Musk barely understood how to run a Python script.


I’m sorry but Python ecosystem is a sick joke, and it is not discrediting that someone who doesn’t deal with python every day isn’t fluent on the magical commands for running pip3 within venv.

To this day I still don’t remember what the command is to activate a venv. I wouldn’t touch that horrible language[0] if I didn’t have an LLM to deal with it for me.

[0] that’s unfair, it’s actually a very nice language and I like it a lot, but the toolchain surrounding it is disgusting


He is the archetype of creation by exhortation. How many people destroyed their health trying to make FSD work by the end of this year for 10 years?

As someone who uses it everyday, it's a very impressive piece of technology, is it not?

What does FSD stand for, remind me.

Are their Teslas driving around Austin right now without human drivers - yes or no ?

If you need a geofenced area, you don’t have real self-driving! -- some real jerk in 2019

Something that it isn’t.

I would ask how this is legal, but then again, we wouldn't even be here if something being legal or not mattered.

Even if legality did matter, the president has criminal immunity for official acts.

It's no different than promises to increase welfare or cut taxes that politicians routinely make.

Yes it is different: he conditioned it on voting for him. And he is not claiming to improve any governmental system to finance this, like other politicians do when they promise welfare or tax cuts: he is saying the money is there, he is the only one who can use it, and whether you get it or not depends on giving him your vote.

It would probably make more difference if it was paid in advance :)

Actually people would have to be an idiot to settle for anything less from Trump.

When you think about it, if Trump genuinely trusted the average American, he would pay in advance.

OTOH, Americans will be able to see if they can trust Trump by whether or not he pays in advance no matter what.

Whoever's paying attention.


This is much different than that. It's basically a direct bribe.

Or pay off student loan debt, it's all crooked, both sides.

"Both sides" is such an absurd claim these days.

It's like saying that a murderer and a jaywalker are both criminals, so they're basically the same.


Exactly. And by doing so, we slowly allow jaywalkers to become murderers but still viewed as "oh, it's just another person jaywalking again".

Lol I see you've never met a stallman type (ie your average hn disposition)

You’re right, the “both sides” claim really doesn’t work here.

Biden’s student loan forgiveness would have amounted to a gift of potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars to his most ardent supporters: young, college educated, poor people.

Trump’s proposal is a fraction of that, and all Americans would be eligible. If he’s trying to buy votes, he’s going to need to try a lot harder. This proposal is nothing like Biden’s vote buying scheme.


Funny that you wake up and rise only now. Where was you righteous indignation when Republicans promises tax cuts? Can you point me to your contemporary reaction to "no tax on tips"? What made you react only now?

Have you missed where Trump himself and many of the wealthiest people in the U.S. have had integer multiples of their wealth over just the past couple of years?

> young, college educated, poor people

Oh yea, you're correct, who needs those? Let's feed the 0.01%.


Please beware the false moral equivalence. Both sides is a position which advantages the incumbency.

What is your intent, beyond cynicism?


Biden promised $2000 and paid out $1400, still owes us $600 each.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/15/critics-say-bidens-covid-rel...


The insane SCOTUS ruled that the president could not be held accountable for illegal acts as long as it was deemed official acts of the US.

This has a surprisingly easy solution: get rid of the rich. It's never, in the history of the world, been in anyone's favor, except the oligarchy, to privatize everything.

The group that gets rid of the rich will become the new rich.

It happens in cycles throughout history: inequality increases until it reaches a breaking point.

It reaches a breaking point because ultimately, the rich are outgunned and outnumbered once the poor realize they have had enough. We are not too far off from a time with ai and robotics and automated factories that the rich are no longer outgunned or outnumbered by things capable of disobeying them.

This seems like a new spin on the "wealth fades after 3 generations" narrative.

You built the killbots that prevent anyone from ever reallocating your wealth and holed up in your compound. But will your daughter and granddaughter be able to keep them operational and aligned to their interests?


That is indeed the concern, to avoid that breaking point by preemptively taking care of business.

How about just abolish poverty, so everyone is rich

Potato, potato, wealth is relative.

Making everyone poor never made the world better.

Aren't "not rich" and "poor" very different things?

For rich people who want to uphold the status quo these two things are identical, sadly.

Both are relative terms so they can be the same or different depending on who defines them. Nearly everyone that works in the US is rich by worldwide standards, so it's not clear that a lack of billionaires for example would make things better. Sans Amazon, Apple or Google, would the US be better off? I'm not convinced.

Most people's definition of rich is "one dollar more than I have". Just look at laptop class's hate on the 1 percenters - which actually includes them.

What is "laptop class"?

Information workers. Anyone whose whole job can be done from a laptop... They're among the most privileged workers in the world.

Getting rid of the rich by taxing them and getting rid of legal and financial loopholes that allows them to operate outside of the system with absolutely no contributions back does not make everyone poor. In fact, it's the complete opposite.

Reducing wealth inequality is not the same thing as making everyone poor. And you know that.


Lots of counterpoints. Peronist Argentina, France under Hollande, Canada from 2015-today, etc...

I live in Canada. Under the current government, business investment cratered, 40% of our 1% earners left and our GDP per capita relative to the US dropped by 40%.

Keep in mind that LLMs were basically invented in Canada and we've captured next to none of the economic activity.

Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Andrej Karpathy and Geoffrey Hinton are all Canadian citizens lol...


> Under the current government, business investment cratered, 40% of our 1% earners left and our GDP per capita relative to the US dropped by 40%.

With the assumption that this is true (I have no idea either way), has it made people more poor or worse off?


https://www.statcan.gc.ca/hub-carrefour/quality-life-qualite...

You tell me. Median household (+ individuals not in an economic family) income went up $5k from 2015-2024. Given what you've experienced inflation wise in that time period what do you think?

US median household income went up $15k in that time period ($22k CAD), so >4x more.


Elizabeth Holmes is definitely unhinged, but I feel there's always a little bit of sexism that goes along with it. For example, I believe you could make a very similar documentary around Sam Altman, Elon Musk, or Donald Trump. Altman and Musk just have the ability to find people who have already come up with the ideas instead of inventing the idea themselves. I have no idea how Trump does it.

You only get the reputation destroying media hounding on you after you get hurt the rich and get convicted and are no longer in a position of power.

https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/elon-musk-ex-ashley-...

https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/musk-review-elon-musk-...

Turns out, someone is about to release a similar, 4 hour long documentary about Elon Musk.


It's all part of the capitalism end game. Almost no Silicon Valley startup is about supplying actual value.

I've had a lot of my Ikea furniture for over a decade. That includes a dining room table, several bookshelves, office table with glass top, coffee table, and several other things I've forgotten about, and we have some dressers that are years old as well. And several of these pieces have been involved in a move or two.

Applying care and some wood glue during construction will yield a very solid product for years to come. And you have to have a little bit of taste and discretion when buying, as Ikea indeed has a wide range of quality among their items. Any item that has real wood will definitely last.


Even their honeycomb stuff can be surprisingly good. I have a Malm desk for over a decade, disassembled and reassembled twice for moving, and it's as good as new

Sure, you could probably punch through the desk surface with a screwdriver. But within normal use it holds up great


Very few tables wouldn't be ruined by punching it with a screw driver.

That you can then write text to program and make applications with.


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