skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Elon Musk is a free speech absolutist, so woke people - or who are against social injustice and racism - will remain on Twitter. (Which I personally think is a good thing.)
Why focus on revenue rather than profit?
Electric cars are a bad plan if you are an oil company, its a great plan for the rest of society
> What unrealized potential does Twitter have left after 16 years of existence?

If there is unrealized potential, the "free speech" sites, like Gettr, etc. have not found much of it.
The POTUS should be treated as just a person to Twitter. However, that person has the resources of the world’s most powerful government. POTUS doesn’t need Twitter to get a message out.
Your comment is glossing over the fact that high energy photons cause damage through a different mechanism not available to lower energy photons. A higher dose of lower energy photons may cause damage still, but not in the same way

Ionizing means that a photon has enough energy to eject an electron from an atom, ionizing it. This can disrupt chemical bonds, hence the direct damage to proteins, DNA, etc.
The problem is that the alternative is way worse… You have to create some authority that decides what constitutes a nasty opinion and what doesn’t.

And the moral of the history is: in 2020 the COVID lab-leak hypothesis was considered a nasty idea, one that only uneducated, bitter conspiracy theorists could support. People have been banned from the effective monopolists of public discourse over this idea.

Then sometime around 2021 the same idea became acceptable.

Not surprisingly, this change in the public perception of this idea over social media followed the viewpoint of the major political party the owners of social media cheer for.

This is bad, bad, bad for political discourse and rational thinking!!

As far as I am concerned: long love the free market of ideas!
Cars or whatever, I claim that's a significant "but"
> I don't post anything on 4chan as I don't feel like a part of the in-crowd though and would genuinely like to know what a 4 Chan mode would look like.

I don’t think there is a requirement for being part of the in crowd to post on 4chan. Then again, I’ve never posted there either.

I think the point is that 4chan mode would be the “absolute free speech” mode. And if that is where we are going, it will be quite a ride. I can’t imagine Twitter surviving it, but it will be interesting.
what works for Musk does not necessarily work for other people too
Meeting the expectations of a community is a business decision.
To be fair I have read the Python manual over and over again, I can usually find things by clicking on the appropriate section.
One of my first projects was a simple stochiometry calculator library in Common Lisp, for high school chemistry class(for my own use only). It had classes for acids and bases and I could do things like make a 1 liter solution of water and add x moles of some previously defined acid. It would then do the appropriate "reactions" and end up containing the appropriate equilibrium concentration of said acid, its conjugate base, and H3O+. And I could calculate the pH etc. It was very SICP inspired. And it allowed me to check my work during tests. It was also an excellent way of learning to do this type of stochiometry by hand.

I made attempts to extend it to various org-chem concepts, but it quickly became far too difficult in terms of modeling the molecules and reactions at that point and I quickly gave up on it. That taught me a valuable lesson as a budding developer: Some problems are just too hard, and the sooner you realise, the better.
ALM sounds like, but is not, a superset of BLM.

BLM opposes violence against black people. ALM doesn't oppose violence against all people - it opposes BLM.

Agree with BLM actions or not, but ALM is an whataboutism distraction, not a legitimate movement.
No. But I know that Twitter today is a very different company from Instagram in 2012.
An argument for a return to Web 1.0
No one is verifying their identity here, if they want to make a comment, they very well can
Arguably he already has it but if Elon manages to turn Twitter around and grow it to be on par with Facebook and TikTok then nobody could deny he has the greatest Midas touch in the world.
I which counter?
Trump was allowed to run rampant bringing "ideas into the political discourse" for his entire term. Also, it was his personal account that was banned. The official presidential account is still there.

And as the president, he had the entire American media apparatus at his disposal. The premise that somehow an American president can't effectively communicate policy without a Twitter account is absurd. Previous presidents have been able to manage just fine.
Meh, the "containment board" model used by 4chan and some other "freedom of speech" oriented forums work surprisingly well.
Haha good catch
> they are probably too dumb

On the contrary. They were making investments. This is Musk’s version of buying a yacht, but one that amplifies his persona and increases his wealth. Matt Levine talks about this in detail in his most recent Money Stuff piece.
> Free speech absolutism is possible and is beneficial

What?

As it stands, free speech absolutism is being weaponized by those with the money to manipulate the crap out of it. It has no benefit in a society that is driven by the highest bidder writes the rules _and now the news_.
Are you joking? You can easily find a very long list of conservative/right wing personalities banned from Twitter.
He can't sell after a move like this, it would be illegal. He's announcing his plans to not just hold but also to control the company, specifically to unlock value - means making some top level choices that makes Twitter stock move valuable. Had he dumped immediately after purchase he'd be prosecuted for market manipulation (realities of liquidity notwithstanding).
You may want to take a look at solid: https://github.com/edgurgel/solid
Bottom of page 2 suggests that’s not the case: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/edg/news/archives/do...

As someone who has changed or disassembled and cleaned many a carb from crappy ethanol-polluted gasoline, I’m not pro-ethanol, but I think there’s a slice of science in favor of it on lifecycle emissions basis.
> We've never had a situation where fake news can and does spread the way it

This is a recycled church argument from when the Gutenberg press came around...
Elon's ventures are big enough now that they are a key thing in the politics game. I 'd wager one aspect of this is making sure his voice stands out (to be able to influence politicians 'bottom up').
I agree, and I use tar to make backup volumes for this reason. I just don’t compress them.
Warnings have always been a form of static analysis.
That's technically accurate, but the justification for the existence of this team and product (and their real cost base) cannot be predicated solely on the n+1 cost calculation. Suppose the other revenue streams do fail, now without this specific team and product the data set generation and maintenance would be completely uneconomic. In that situation the N+1 calculation will tell you to maintain the team and product no matter how expensive the underlying data set is.

OP was implying that this product was insanely profitable because you can ignore the cost of the underlying data set. I'm saying that makes no economic sense because marginal costs aren't the only costs.

To see how absurd it is, consider that the marginal cost of an n+1 visitor to Disneyworld is probably significantly negative, because they will buy things at concession stands and eat at the restaurant thus generating revenue even if the ticket is free. What are the implications of that for the ticket price you should charge for that visitor? Pretty much nothing because the fixed costs utterly dominate. Yet Disneyworld will run promotions and discounts and bundle deals with hotel stays and even flights. None of that will make any sense whatsoever if all you fixate on is the marginal cost of printing the ticket.
The only way they can reject this offer is if they have proof that a bigger offer is incoming.

If they reject and the stock goes down to $20, there will be lawsuits.
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Nobody has yet been able to "build a much better rival with different values."

If there isn't a good theory about why that is, reshaping Twitter to be more like those failed experiments is a not a likely path to success.
I forgot, VPNs are unpopular on HN because? Someone popular said so? Lol. This includes wireguard to your vps too if that helps. Anything but nude networking as I call it.
Per you: how regulated/censored a platform is doesn't have an effect on its popularity

However your first comment says "far better in my opinion for twitter..."
> On Apple M1 systems, After Effects launches almost instantly

They say while playing a video of it taking at least four seconds. It doesn’t count as “launching” when you’re making the user wait and stare at a splash screen.
Dunno. I was pretty amazed to get free shipping from Best Buy and get the item the next day…. In a rural area!
Modern political campaigns are fought and won on social media. Politicians do not choose to use them, they have to use them to have a chance to get their message across.
Legal breakdown of the National security act of 1947 – audio
A person “like” him? What does that even mean? You mean a successful entrepreneur? Or will we instead only focus on what you believe to be any negative characteristics? Do us a favour if you reply: list what is great about people like Elon Musk, and then list what is bad about people like him please.
"The Reporting Person intends to review his investment in the Issuer on a continuing basis. Depending on the factors discussed herein, the Reporting Person may, from time to time, acquire additional shares of Common Stock and/or retain and/or sell all or a portion of the shares of Issuer common stock held by the Reporting Person in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions, and/or may distribute the Common Stock held by the Reporting Person to other entities." [1]

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465...
You realize NYPost are the ones who slutshame a NYC EMT for moonlighting on OnlyFans to make ends meet because their salary is criminally low? You know, they find the fact she's making some X-rated content more wrong than her salary being at the poverty level.

There is no "valid" content from that tabloid.
"Of course I could hide several cards in several pockets to increase my chances but that would be "cheating"."

All "magic" is cheating.

Why not increase your chances and increase the odds of your audience enjoying themselves?

As long as you don't claim to have real magic powers and make it clear that it's "just a trick", I don't see a problem with this.
But if that is the case, then that would not apply to the wordle archive, right?

If the list of words for every day is encoded into a static code, why does the wordle archive need to crawl the site each day, or set the system time to different days, just to get the words for different days... Seems to be a bit over engineered to me...
The legal basis for top secret documents, etc - with regards to the US Constitution.
I think we're seeing pretty clear evidence of it right now. Americans in sprawling cities that get used to low gas prices buy giant gas guzzling cars and then freak out like none other when prices go up. The subsidies are almost certainly helping to line some investor and executive pockets, but they probably also have some effect driving down prices.
>Can anyone recommend some job sites or even companies worth reaching out to? Linkedin does not seem to work for this particular case.

Check out KPMG, deloitte, Shopify, Enbridge, various banks, Rogers, Bell, various insurance, AMD

Canada job bank run by the government might be of help.
From observing various internet forums, including this one, I noticed that people from the "first world" countries don't know the value of free speech and often take it for granted. Sometimes even coming to such views as "free speech is dangerous" and that "we should limit free speech" (by blocking the views I don't like).

Understand this: limits on free speech are far more dangerous to society than allowing fringe extremists to spread their ideas. Coming from a country that had made a transition from a (rather messy) democracy to an authoritarian fascist police state in just 15 years, I tell you this: it all started with limits on the freedom of speech.
Cant tell if this is written in jest
The EditorState is fully JSON serializable. You can use JSON.stringify in the browser, or an alternative on other platforms. You can then pass the stringified values around and parse them using `editor.parseEditorState()`
Why is the IPO price the relevant metric? In fact, I would argue that exactly because it's been such a poor investment since the IPO, the fact that he's willing to offer a premium over recent market prices is a positive. Then again, I don't own any Twitter, so my views are irrelevant in that sense.
Hee hee.

Let's see what The Babylon Bee has to say about this.
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You live in a very different world than I if for you, the associating of Twitter with Mr. Musk improves Twitters image.
They seem similar enough to Clojure keywords:

Those are more focused and simpler than strings in say PHP. And they are first class, unlike members in Java.

They are primarily first class names in your program. Think of them as distinct elements in a set, as opposed to arbitrary text to be transformed and parsed.

If I give you a symbol (or keyword) then you know it is a name. If I give you a string, it could be anything really.
We'll look into fixing this problem. Sorry for the confusion!
Free content is free content, but when it comes to cooking sites, some of them are just flat out scammy SEO farms. Even big names like food network, a link to the recipe I want almost always simply goes to an index page without my recipe on it on the food network site.

The long tell me your life story format of just wrapping a recipe that's not original is also incredibly annoying, and sometimes I find I get tricked into just wading through ads for nothing of value. As I posted elsewhere here, I've become very loyal to a few high quality sites that I can count on. seriouseats.com is probably the only one I really like in web format, but honestly youtube is full of excellent 12-15 minute videos for just about any meal I can think of, and I tend to go there.
If you were going to do that, it may be easier just to implement `Index`/`IndexMut` over `u8`/`u16`/.. for whatever type (newtype if necessary) you're indexing into. I suppose it's hard to say without context though.
It's hideous.
Sure! Step one is trying to find those customers so you can talk to them and find out what problem they have that is excruciatingly painful.

Remember this has to be a terrible terrible problem they are so desperate to solve that they would use a product made by some random guy.

If you think about it though you probably have problems in your own life that are so annoying if someone solved it you wouldn't care who made it.

Ads are a way to validate ideas like this. Internet forums are a good place to look. Reddit. Discord channels. Local meetups. Depends a lot on the problem space you're working on. Trying to figure out where your users hangout (online or in meatspace) can be a first step.
Never revealing his "true nature" has been a critical part of his myth building - people tend to fill in the blanks and mold the idea of Elon Musk into their ideal.
The brutal answer is no. Most business start with at least one customer and some idea about how to branch swing to the next ones.

If the product truly is killer, expect to get cloned.

You really need to be connected somehow or you are boned.
Twitter shouldn't have part time leadership.

So now Twitter should have part time leadership.

I'm being unfair, right? So let's qualify that: Twitter shouldn't have part time leadership that is distracted by cryptocurrency.

Wait, no...
This isn't what a hostile takeover is. Is it?
The only way I've dealt with this is, every couple of years, to unfollow everyone and carefully pick who I follow again in a niche community that is interesting to me at the time.
> You can't start a trend comparing a democratically elected politician to Hitler and expect no repercussions.

You realize that Hitler was literally democratically elected?

He and his party were democratically elected to the German parliament. They proposed to form a coalition government with some other parties, which was approved by the (separately democratically-elected) president. Then he proposed legislation which would give himself wide-ranged emergency powers, which was approved by the democratically-elected parliament. Everything he did was technically legal and constitutional.

So ask yourself: When would you have blocked literal Hitler from Twitter?

I think the take-away lesson from Nazi Germany is that we need to start fighting fascism and authoritarianism much earlier in the process.
That's a better explanation. There is a clear Smalltalk influence in Ruby, especially around the object-oriented aspects of the language. The best example is how the language doesn't call function, but sends a message to a method. And also how everything is an object. Matz talked quite a bit about the various other languages that influenced the design and Smalltalk and Lisp are part of that list (and Perl).
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"Free speech absolutism is possible and is beneficial [once ...]"

I hope you know what free speech absolutism entails. I don't think your statement is true at all.

Absolute (really, absolute and complete) free speech would allow companies to lie about the efficacy of medication, lie about the ingredients of products, permit lying under oath, allow libel, insults, threats of violence etc. I am not sure I want that. I prefer clear, written rules for that.
No, because he did already plenty of times and there are still a lot of fanboys.
i use it as a way to mark my current position.

I also highlight the middle part of a paragraph so it looks a bit like a striped background. That makes it more readable for me
Because then he'd have created less pandemonium AND looked even worse (especially with the late filling).
Imagine you have a child. You give that child a toy and you give them instructions to be careful with it and to play well. The child is careless and stubborn and misbehaved and breaks the toy.

Are you a bad parent for giving that child a toy?

God gave us His creation in a pretty nice state and we managed to corrupt it through sin, which is by definition, removing Him from His place, and going our own way instead of His.

Mosquitoes are annoying and diseases exist and bad things happen because we broke Creation. Not in the sense that we are being punished for it, but rather because we're not using it properly.
https://xkcd.com/1168/
Minimizing Storage Using Merkle Mountain Ranges
Author here. Merkle Mountain Ranges allow for appending leafs to the data structure even when only the roots are known. Merkle trees do not support that and this makes Merkle Mountain Ranges much more convenient for long-lived updateable data structures.
Trump never posting on TruthSocial seems to be a pretty low commitment from him. Or maybe he sent a welcome/test message. Meanwhile, he doesn't even have someone crossload his blog entries.
Musk realizing the difficulty of building a competitor vs just outright buying Twitter is the best argument in favor of his wisdom.
Lexical's model might become a bottleneck at some point, but we haven't done any extensive testing on huge models (I mean really huge, we know large models are fine). There are so many things folks want to do with text editors – from small plain text editors to WYSIWYG, to full blown code editors. We're hoping the community can help us fill in the blanks on some of these areas, as we're only a small team.
Elon Musk offers to take Twitter private
I have a Twitter account but I've barely used it ever, and do okay for myself socially. I don't think it's a utility. I have plenty of options, and use the ones that interest me most.
It's my go to place for alternatives, so if it shows up odds are I wanted that result.
You are missing that any heat engine (including photovoltaics !) is limited by the Carnot efficiency. And a heat pump is just a reverse heat engine. And you are trying to couple their inputs and outputs in a loop. I'm not sure that this would even qualify as a perpetual motion machine of the second kind ?

P.S.: A heat pump is usually able to "cheat" an "efficiency" (aka Coefficient of Performance) over 100% because (for a refrigerator) it's defined as the inverse of the usual Carnot efficiency.

When you want heating, you artificially get up to +100% to the CoP from the spent "mechanical" power being 100% converted into heat.

EDIT : Ugh, took a while to get this right !
Bezos buys the Washington Post, Musk buys Twitter...Now we need to long for the world where megalomaniacal billionaires just bought football teams?
As others have pointed out, 40% at this temperature isn't really an impressive in itself. Combined cycle power plant have a yield over 60%, while still operating at a much lower temperature.

That doesn't means it's useless (it can improve yields for thermodynamic solar) but it means there's a really wide margin of improvement: the theoretical maximum for such temperature is 87%, and if it could be made as effective as a combined cycle[1], you could a yield up to 70-75%.

[1] by that I means being as close as a combined cycle from the Carnot cycle at the same temperature.
Filed under: conveniently-timed truth.
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> We've never had a situation where fake news can and does spread the way it does today, where authorities are being undermined like this and casually dismissed by people with no knowledge of the respective fields, etc.

If authorities were never “undermined” you would still be drinking cocaine, giving your kids cough syrup laced with heroin, spraying people with DDT, and also smoking the cigarette brand your doctor recommended.
Neither email nor written letters are a public forum.
I'm not justifying it. I'm explaining to you the rules because you don't understand them and are posting knee jerk reactions online. If it were up to you, Ukraine would have actually waved the white flag and become a satellite state. Thank you for your non-service.
It's not difficult to understand the argument: 4chan is the largest unregulated platform, much smaller than the largest regulated platforms.
If the engineers and product team were effective, there would be more product development.

If the marketing team was effective, there would be more user growth.

If the sales team was effective, there would be more revenue.

If everyone was more effective, Twitter would be worth more.

It’s probably an over-simplification, but Twitter being stagnant is not exactly a minority opinion.
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It's also a perfect example of actually understanding the problem you're trying to solve (which is a prerequisite for not overengineering).

Wordle is a tiny word puzzle game with no stakes. So, while this architecture makes it trivially easy to cheat, there's also zero reason to do so. You're just robbing yourself of the fun in order to... do what, exactly? Brag about it?