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That woke has-been would be dethroned so fast...

/s

Elon has a terrible track record with his "predictions" and even if you subscribe to the "he turns the impossible into the late" theory, the horizon on which he is accurate with this one seems likely to be pretty far off. Not to mention that he and his fellow oligarchs do their best to prevent the high marginal tax rates that would actually put an end to work.

Their hardware org is amazing. The software org, decidedly less so.

What's the company?

I like how Musk claims it was done for aesthetic reasons. Yes, we can see from the site design that you care deeply about aesthetics...

This truth springs directly from the mind of esteemed athlete and physiologist Donald J Trump, does it not?

poor Simone

yeah I predict this foldy-screen style of phone will die pretty quickly

So let's just let companies do what they want as long as you're making a salary and can pay for college?

or if they have any integrity they raise a stink and quit. but that's maybe a 1/100 CEO if you're lucky.

If this is about the MTV campus it's kind of insane. That place is beautiful.

"quirky conservative views"

Cue joke about being silenced: "oh, you know the ones".

I think the answer is kind of like this: no it's not really that bad in that nobody was physically harmed and the data was not leaked as far as we know. But it's entirely possible that moving it like that could have broken some data governance laws (in the EU, iirc) and we have those laws to protect people from impulsive, profiteering CEOs.

It could have played out differently: some data could have leaked and it could well result in terrible consequences (ask that guy in Saudi Arabia). Just because your self-driving car didn't kill anyone this time doesn't mean it is safe.

Don't many people wear glasses all day?

It's hard to imagine how this kind of problem gets solved, but I think it's a good example of a problem that I've seen in software again and again: defining the technical capabilities of a platform is separate from defining the interface that should be provided to consumers.

In this case, imagine that the working group defining USB5 had a complementary working group that picked a sensible set of capabilities and said: your cable will either support power at X watts and data transfer at Y GB/s or it will support Z watts and N GB/s, or it will NOT be considered a standard USB5 cable. (maybe there are more than two specs but you get the idea).

One of the traps for technical people is assuming that everyone will understand/care about the details in their head, and be able to make good decisions for end users. Your system is not that important to other people and you should always provide best practices and worst practices (if you do this you better be an expert who understands the tradeoffs). You're not done until you've provided guide rails for the people using your tech, and that becomes more important the less technical they are.

Sample size: 2

We're at 100% here people.

Seriously though, I come across people now and then who "don't like sunshine" and i feel like an explorer who's just encountered a strange new civilization; this attitude is completely alien to me and my instinct is that there's something wrong with them. I used to wonder if I was just imagining things and over-selling it because I live in a pretty rainy place (Vancouver), but then I worked in California for a couple of years, and nope, it really makes a huge difference to my energy levels and general outlook. Going back to looking for jobs in sunny places again soon.

i like that - great way of thinking about it.

(I think he's referring to the poster in codetrotters story as the troll, not you)

Yeah, TBH I feel like they should release a super-lightweight app that serves as a starting point for a search and then hands the results off to the local browser with whatever key set so that it knows who you are. This would significantly lower the barrier for people who don't know how to or don't feel like messing with extensions, etc.

Otherwise, two thumbs up for Kagi. I personally give zero fucks about Google's business model, but Google's search experience is in my opinion degrading very rapidly.

This seems like a good way to burn out while making no money.

I don't know the answer to this but I'm interested in learning. I assume there are investors out there who aren't looking for hyper-growth, but I'm not sure where you find them.

Hm, I guess I wasn't specific enough - you're right that you could just be excited by the mission of the company and that seems healthy and cool. It's the borderline worship and the cheering (to be fair I think this might be an American cultural thing) that seems off.

Or maybe it's my gut feeling that many of the people involved in aforementioned rah-rah-rah behavior are just putting on their "work persona" face a little bit too enthusiastically, which itself feels a bit sus to me.

I don't know what is with companies who pretend that the work environment should be more than an exchange of skills for compensation. Even ignoring these kinds of egregious examples, I find the rah-rah-rah of companies where people are excited to hear the CEO speak to be creepy and weird.

I have no idea if this comment is sarcasm or not.

ah, i see. so it's kind of like a website that changes depending on what you're doing and where you are.

How do you propose to distribute this app that was built on the fly - you're going to go for App Store approval in under a minute?? I think "app" is the weakest part of this idea.

"repository of all my important information" does not mix well with "experimental".

Domain expertise does not transfer to all domains, and Elon seems like he's trying to speed-run that lesson for $44b.

seems pretty likely he'll go for it then, that's the driving principle behind his decision making.

(note: I do not subscribe to the conspiracy theory that this is actually what is happening)

the styling/layout of HN could be improved a lot with little effort IMO. the upvote/down vote buttons are so easy to make mistakes with too, and I don't think my thumbs are especially fat.

I would also kill for dark mode.