skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have NEVER seen an ad on Snapchat because all I do is send pictures and chat. Twitter has a user base that is a lot more engaged and can easily be captured by ads.
I think you only need the majority of shares to go private and then the rest will be payed out automatically for the set price.
because the price itself only indicaes that there is someone wantin to buy shares at that price - it doesnt indicate the number of shares that would go would he accept that price.
A definition of "adoption" would also help here. Are we counting the zero-sum game speculators as "adopters", or are we counting something like flows enabling the legally compliant exchange of goods and services in the real world?
> I probably acquired close to a thousand books on mentalism

I'm surprised/skeptical that so many books on this subject exist.
Heavy moderation can potentially work. But it needs to try and be objective and politically neutral, not based on mobs of activists actively trying to get their opponents banned/silenced.
I hope the Fediverse can handle the onslaught of two consecutive marketing campaigns.
"order" doesn't mean "one follows the other" it means sorted or grouped in some fashion. Whether they're subject to copyright is practically speaking case-by-case: "World cities by population", no, "curated list of the best five-letter words for a game like Wordle"? Eh. Wouldn't want to fight NYT over it.
external capital exchanged for shares. Twitter has been a loss making company for most of the years
Modern local religion (at least in the US) is neomarxism, and FAANG serves it on their platforms, duly suppressing opposing speech.
I thought gitlab onprem was an enterprise feature? You’re saying it’s cheaper than cloud?
Hey maybe he’ll finally reveal his true nature in an irrefutable way and society can progress a little.
Time to dust off those RSS readers
Maybe losing faith and selling out?
Building Multi-Container .NET App Using Docker Desktop
Isn't the premise that he's selling them?
Did you read the lawsuit? He isn't saying that Top Gear has no right to say negative things about Tesla. He is saying that when those negative things are lies and damage the business Top Gear should pay for damages.

But you're overall point is correct, Elon's definition of Free Speech is not universally agreed upon by everyone. However, it is impossible to draw a line between acceptable and unacceptable speech that everyone will agree with.
yeah, after reading the whole thing i noticed my comment was out of touch and not particularly useful nor representative of what's a "gamer".. i don't know why i felt the need to comment like that
> if they did a bug bounty program, they'd go bankrupt.

I believe it. When I worked for them a few years ago, their internal security was pretty bad, and they had tons of random teams with no security guidance, governance, etc. I think the only reason they could operate at all is nobody is trying to hack them. It might be a little bit better now, but knowing the scale and state of things, there's no way they've magically knitted everyone up into properly managed AWS Organizations, to say nothing of actually supporting individual teams' security needs.

The "good news" about your discovery is that it probably was limited to just one tiny system, because everyone maintained completely independent systems and didn't have access to anything else - not because they weren't allowed, but because you didn't even know what other systems there were, much less know how to request access, and virtually nothing internally used SSO. The only way to learn about what other systems there were was to walk around the floors of the Comcast Building and ask random people what they do.
As it should be. It's a resource for professional developers, not people who are learning how to code for the first time.
I doubt any of them are stupid enough to comment publicly on hostile takeovers...
I don't see how a comparison with 4chan is any evidence for that. There are also heavily regulated forums which are not popular. So clearly that's not the reason for whether or not one is going to be popular.
Or dumb as tire.
This is great news.

Twitter definitely has potential but at the moment it is a cespool of triggered personalities where the voice of the sane and interesting people is drowned in an endless screaming.
You're using a different definition of value than the author. In which, the housing distribution would also not be right. You can build a house that is extremely dangerous, blocks the sun on the neighbor's otherwise warm sunny pool, replaces an attractive park that was valuable to the area, etc.

Could be good for the buyer, but bad for the neighborhood.

> since our world is run by people who think in zero-sum terms.

Not sure where this is coming from?
Twitter is where people who are or will be powerful, influential, or impactful get their information, form their opinions, and often debate really important topics.

So I’d agree it’s undervalued in terms of utility if it’s not priced an order of magnitude or more higher than Snap.

Whether that value can or should be captured as profit or is a public good, implying Twitter should operate more like a utility or non-profit is another question…
"Well you can't trademark, patent, or copyright fonts."

In the US. They can be protected in the UK, Germany and France.
That's definitely a Zsh thing, showing that there was no newline: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Options.html#Promptin.... It's not to do with PS1 or PROMPT, or head.
PayPal wasn't rally an engineering problem, at least not at the scale of Tesla and SpaceX.

I'm torn. I think he has some good ideas (more open, paid vs. ads, crack down on bots), and for sure the necessary leadership to focus resources on those topics. On the other hand, it's not good that rich people own more media.
Of the fewer than 100 employees:

• How many are engineers?

• How many work in customer service?

• How many are in compliance?

• How many are in marketing?

• How many are ICs and how many are managers?

• How many are in HR?

• How many are in finance?
I wonder who is his ally (inside and financial). This could be interesting.
I believe they would have only been able to copyright the actual sequence of words, not the mechanics of the game.
Who didn't know this was coming?

Imagine you're Musk. You have a bijjilion and 1 $. You use twitter heavily and see huge issues, you even see the results of your poll. You buy it for $50 billion and you fix those huge issues because they are in fact trivial to solve. The valuation of twitter would only go up, but Musk isn't even looking at it from a value investing point of view. He's looking at it from a societal point of view. He's looking at it from a 'worth more than currency' value.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

-Albert Einstein

This isn't about nation to nation. This is about so many subjects. The peace between the republicans and democrats is only being kept by force right now. Censoring your political opponents eliminates the possibility of understanding.
If republican voters think other issues are more important that their representative's opinion on climate change, then there is no need for the politician to reflect the popular opinion. You only have two parties in the US. If one party does something you absolutely can not stand whatever the other guys say is not very important.
I've memorized a total of two commands from decompressing things (`tar xfv $file` and `unzip $file`) and one for compressing (`tar cf $archive.tar $file1 $file2 $directory`) which seems to have done everything I've wanted for more than 20 years of unix usage. Is there something I'm missing out on? Sometimes, a `gunzip` or `7z` has been needed, but they are far apart that I can look it up each time. I'm not sure how I can save hours of time as non-tar or non-zip files is not something I often come across.
Cars famous for being produced by a single company.
If solving systems of linear equations is a stronger priority they'd produce hardware with more precision. Unfortunately this is just an offshoot from a machine-learning driven project. But at least the timings could tell you how much value people can gain by implementing their own hardware solution.
He only needs a majority of the shareholders to agree.
Which article is currently being blocked?
If the hostile takeover fails the price will tank before he exits.
> providing a service more cheaply than your competitors doesn't make it easier to reach customers, it makes it harder.

It can also make customers value your product less
You are definitely not alone in that. But at times the people who want to hype cryptocurrencies manage to shout higher than us critics.
Twitter is literally the news breaking platform across the world. How much do you think that’s worth? I think it’s worth more than $100B under competent management.
Maybe they have never been helpful to you, but w3schools, Microsoft answers, alternative websites, best of lists and Quora have all been helpful to me at some time.
AFAIK making the ethanol involves more fossil fuel use than you save by burning the ethanol instead of using petrol directly.
I'm not aware of any Canada-specific job boards. You could try linkedin and filtering by location, though.

FWIW, we're hiring devs: https://makofintech.com/en/careers#jobPostings

We do a low-code workflow automation service for finance. I'm the founder, happy to answer any questions (email in my bio). I've sponsored candidates from Europe before and don't mind doing it again.

Good luck in your search :)
Amazon CEO's 2021 letter to shareholders
So to replace Twitter's current revenue at those rates, you'd need something like 170 million blue check marks or 3 million corporate accounts.

How many do you think is realistic? Reducing your revenue by an order of magnitude to reduce your headcount by an order of magnitude seems like a bad plan.
If politicians choose to use Twitter, but could just as easily choose communication on the web by other means (like email, or another platform) then that makes Twitter merely convenient, not a "de facto utility".
And isn’t twitter really reinforcing that already? So the sun rises and sets as it has for billions of years in the past and will another billion at least.
They usually sell them in Hofer(Aldi) and Lidl here for very very cheap, so you can just throw the old one away (it's basically a bunch of wood and some wire around them and more wood, so you can just dump it somewhere, and the rain and the elements will do their job), and buy a new one.
The post you're responding to is talking about Tesla shares, not Twitter shares.
I learned C++ specifically to make a tool for creating protein sequence alignments. In my field I often correlate function across proteins from different species. If you know something like, amino acid #136 from protein A is important for its function, you can use alignments to see that amino acid #249 on protein B probably has the same function. I made a tool to quickly make these comparisons.
Yeah, he's given a decent carrot to the current shareholders to sell, and an even bigger stick to beat them to do it as they will lose a lot if they don't sell.
I do not understand the eagerness to cede strong individual rights of expression to faceless institutions. Do you expect these institutions to be on your side? They will happily shut you up, permanently, the moment they do not like what you have to say.
- A program for backing up my Master of Orion Save Files
- A program for finding the best planet in Master of Orion
- A program for calculating my walking pace from time and milage
- Many simulations for various games
- Several Markov Decision Tree solvers (fairly simple dynamic programming)
- Many game strategy solvers
- Programs that process my life documentation notes - miles of jogging/walking per month, energy level, wake up time, productivity
- Many programs for testing mathematical theories or other math research for fun
- Physics or Astro-physics simulations
- Investment simulations
- CPU Benchmarking programs
- Programs for drawing graphics - spirals, mathematical objects, ...
- Lots of programs for Project Euler or LeetCode - just for fun.
(I probably write around 100 small programs a year for myself, mostly for fun.)
We would literally boil the Earth in 450 years !

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
Three arrests over unofficial Club Penguin site
I'm not sure it was "playing"... they often are actually just dumb. But most likely is that they heard the complaint, created a backlog ticket, and went on with regular feature work.
How many sources would satisfy you, given that an institution like New Yorker publishing the take doesn't?

If you give me a reasonable number (less than 10 min of work) I'm happy to deliver.
The Powell Put
There is (was?) a Word Mastermind. I have a set. Here’s a picture from the internet: https://jouets-retro.fr/3257-thickbox_default/word-mastermin...
I will be honest, my experience on 4c was 15+ years ago and only on /random. I just used it (most probably incorrectly) as an example of anarchy.
I built a currency trading backtesting and bot monitoring framework [1]. At times I vaguely considered turning it into a product, but for a number of reasons decided not to. However, I am running it successfully, hosted on my own server and am quite proud of what I achieved :)

[1] https://github.com/jefc1111/zenbot-sim-runner
A new paradigm for success: Fear – Fail – Win
I know, I know, I know what you're thinking: yet another "success" recipe; nothing new, just remix the usual ingredients.

And you're correct.

Alas, this is for me, that I share with who want to hear it. I believe that we all need to hear the same concept over and over, again and again, and then some more, from different sources, from different voices, before it actually sinks in.

Repetition is the not-so-secret secret used by marketers, politicians, and religions the world over.

My paradigm: Fear -> Fail -> Win.

Fear: fear is the leading indicator to be used as a compass of where to go. Bear in mind that I am not talking about fear of danger, that is real and useful, and I am not advocating getting ourselves into dangerous situations. I am talking about fear of the Unknown, my Paradigm uses fear to go boldly toward the direction of unexplored territory. Fear is Good.

Fail: Failing is the next logical step to fear. Failures are necessary steps in the exploration and discovery of what's after what comes next. So let's embrace, seek, and celebrate failing.

A byproduct of failing is that it shows us who are our true friends and supporters. Game Theory at its best!

Win: Win is when the summation of Fear and Fail, when hypothesis pans out as intended; Win is both a step in the larger process of Life, and the quality of Life.

I believe that we are all born to be creators, to add to the world new things that make the world a better place. Unfortunately many of us were raised to be fearful, to shun Failing, and to only be Perfect. And that's wrong. I know that now, a few decades too late.

The paradigm Fear->Fail->Win is the way to overcome the stats quo. To stop hiding living vicariously through the Lives of others.

We need to stop iconizing "successful" people, and we need instead we need to admire them, be inspired by them and then take actions taking the existing work to new levels; jumping off the high ground of the shoulders of giants.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Mic drop.
How do you think people copyright crosswords and word searches?
I guess we really just differ in that I don't think the "when" is necessarily the most important thing. It's just as much a part of the negotiation as the what, how etc; it's just one dimension of many. It's often, but not always, the key driver.

But you don't seem to be the kind of lazy manager that this article talks about. If you're OK to say that the date is the most important thing, and we understand that this might mean we have to sacrifice features or quality or whatever, then that's perfectly reasonable. It's an explicit trade off that you can communicate clearly to your team.

But all too often, we're told that we need to have N features in T time, and when it's delivered half assed and full of bugs, well that's our fault.

And I think that's the essence of lazy management, because it's really just trying achieve success through the force of will, which IME doesn't work very often.
What I found interesting is buried deep -- components that are helping Amazon succeed. Here is the condensed list:

- Hire the Right Builders ("people who like to invent, who look at customer experiences, dissect what doesn't work well about them, and seek to reinvent them")

- Organize Builders into Teams That Are as Separable and Autonomous as Possible ("single-threaded teams will know their customers' needs better")

- Give Teams the Right Tools and Permission to Move Fast

- You Need Blind Faith, But No False Hope ("feedback loops" and "product development process of working backwards from the customer")

- Define a Minimum Loveable Product (MLP), and Be Willing to Iterate Fast ("figuring out where to draw the line for launch")

- Adopt a Long-term Orientation ("you have to be in it for the long-haul or you’ll give up too quickly")

- Brace Yourself for Failure ("if you invent a lot, you will fail more often than you wish")
Well argued. Once I was very into this and took pride in being able to
read through Planck, Einstein and derive wave mechanics from first
principles. At 50, when it comes to modern theoretical physics I do
feel like a 5th grader again. I am still interested. While in other
subject areas I remain at multiple PhD level we can't stay match-fit
at every intellectual game forever. So I don't see this as necessarily
being written for 5th graders, though I am grateful for good science
writing to keep up interest for people like myself who are super
interested but need the 5th grader down-talking to stand in for pages
of equations that are now well beyond me to follow.
It's likely the music platforms' data is showing them that users vastly prefer explore+exploit lists vs just explore. If you're in the small minority who wants to listen just to new music, there are plenty of curated playlists you could select.

Asking for an all-new list is akin to asking for a HIIT workout plan, but without the pauses.
You have misspelt Neoliberalism
> Or is this just playing games with money and power for it's own sake?

Can’t be. This doesn’t sound like something Elon Musk would do.
What the right calls "free speech" has been tried by several investor-backed social media startups. In every case it has turned into a sewer of racism, misogyny, death threats, and non-monetizable yuckkyiness.

Nobody has an answer to that problem, yet. If there is no answer, turning Twitter into a desolation for trolls will not help Twitter.

These trolls want to go back to Twitter to torment everyone who rejected them. Good luck creating shareholder value that way.
This quote feels oddly relevant:

Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way—and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.

- C.A.R. Hoare
"What Twitter could do is just stop promoting and spreading content people don’t like."

Isn't this censorship?
I assume you don’t buy German cars as well?
I've built my own RSS feeds reader. Nothing great to write home about and quite simplistic but I use it daily.

https://github.com/msurdi/feedo
Ah, cool I never heard of it. Thanks.
> I hope we all agree that laws against libel, glorification of crime, threatening people are not exactly censorship.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to force a business to censor speech, get a court order.
A loaf of bread costs only 4 dollars so why not just buy the whole thing
You can direct the same criticisms to the fine art market. What painting is worth millions without the allure of prestige and exclusivity?

I hold no crypto and have no intent to do so, but artists actually getting paid for their work for once is a win in my books
You are implying, that current staff of twitter is not effective. How do you get to that assessment?
Yeah, it's an interesting article about symbol implementation, but I think it's headline is wrong, it doesn't really discuss why ruby has symbols.
What if the loudest and nastiest voices are the only ones speaking the truth?
seriouseats.com is also a fantastic site. Recipes there are lengthy but it's because they use the length to explain things in very excellent detail, and the science behind why. Minimal adverts and high quality content, but you might need to convert some temps :)
Ruby doesn't have symbols because of AST or VM details.

Ruby has symbols in all probability because Lisp and Smalltalk have symbols.

It could get most of the same practical upside of symbols from interned strings - the important thing is being able to compare using pointer equality and look up hash tables without needing to walk a string. What symbols at the type level do is ensure that these string-like things have already been interned, that is, de-duplicated, when they hit lookup points like member access.

But the implementation could do something very similar behind the scenes by setting a bit on interned string values. Besides, symbols aren't enough for the more advanced dynamic language optimization techniques like you see in V8.
> So the noise to signal ratio on this site will continue its downward spiral

Is there a better source for interesting things to read? Discussion?

Is the lack of such a source an indicator of an opportunity or that there's no such a need? Unicorn in the making, or laughable failure?
> once you ensure that someone is not gaming the system, i.e. someone pretending to be more than one person

For this to work you would need a worldwide government identity check protocol implemented by all participating countries, something like OAuth so you could register only one account connected to that real identity, it could still be anonymous from other users perspective. Problem here is that even if that would make bot problem less significant it would not eliminate it. You would have farms of hacked identities and then in countries with really low income you could buy those identities (digital access) for a few dollars per piece.
As a Twitter shareholder I would vote against this. Musk says there is tremendous financial potential in Twitter but then offers $54 a share, which is not even 2x the IPO price. That’s not a “tremendous potential” premium.

There is a lot of evidence that platforms which de-prioritize moderation have trouble attracting revenue and experience significant compliance costs. See: the sad story of Moot, who ran one of the most popular social websites in the world and ended up with absolutely nothing to show for it.

This looks more like a hobby to me than a business decision. Hobbies are fine as long as they don’t distract from the job, like Bezos buying Washington Post (he is a hands-off owner who spends very little time on it). But Musk is in two high-risk positions with Tesla and SpaceX. He worked over last Thanksgiving and sent a rather dramatic email about it. So I would be concerned about his ability to multi-task. He has already tried to run three businesses at once and he had to use Tesla to bail himself out of Solar City’s troubles.
I think there is a huge distinction between the potential business opportunity and the potential social opportunity Twitter is offering.
Why do people keep thinking this is about petty minor things?
Do you happen to know the breakdown of Instagram's 13 employees?
truth! very excited about Twitter's future after hearing about this.
Define a utility
Self-hosted is supported but for this use case it seems clear Realms are what they encourage parents to go for (and in fairness, a better option for most than managing self-hosting )