skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering which generation was the most poisoned by the lead: well it's Gen-X:

"Researchers found that estimated lead-linked deficits were greatest for people born between 1966 and 1970, a population of about 20.8 million people, which experienced an average deficit of 5.9 IQ points per person."

https://news.fsu.edu/news/health-medicine/2022/03/08/fsu-res....
Complete speculation, but after seeing that and then the offer, i immediately thought “ok, they had some negotiation, Elon made demands, the board refused, he threatened to buy the company and fire them, the board refused… and now he is following through.”

I don’t think he’s an idiot though, so there must also be some other upside here. Certainly there’s value to unlock in Twitter. Does he need the cash?
The money doesn't disappear, it's not being "spent". One person is buying, a bunch of people are selling.
No, I think he is saying an oligarch that has a lot of focus on the rest of the oligarchically controlled media taking control of this piece of media already controlled by the haut bourgeois oligarchy will draw more public attention to the oligarchic control of the media without actually changing the fact of that control one bit.

Which is still, IMO, foolish, given, among other things, the degree to which large swathes of the public have parasocial relationships with the particular celebrity oligarch in question, but it's not saying that making the problem worse will draw attention.
So much money has been wasted on photonics integration. 1.5um is a huge deBroglie wavelength.
There is a thing that I dont understand, from their blog/report [1]

If the script was used in "permanently delete" mode, which is intended for compliance... how do you restore?

Is it the only explanation... if the deletion is non-compliant?

> Second, the script we used provided both the "mark for deletion" capability used in normal day-to-day operations (where recoverability is desirable), and the "permanently delete" capability that is required to permanently remove data when required for compliance reasons.

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/engineering/april-2022-outage-upda...
The existence of a study only indicates that someone secured funding and pushed it through review. COVID was a goldrush for studies with the huge government injection of cash dedicated to research.

There were also early studies suggesting that gargling antiseptic mouthwash had similar effects, but the later studies weren't successful.

Unfortunately, it looks like once the virus is in your airways it moves into the rest of the body too quickly for simple interventions to do much.
> Do you remember why Trump was banned on twitter?

I remember Trump being suppressed for many months on Twitter, his tweets censored, labelled as misinformation, and information damaging to his opponent was suppressed and labelled as 'disinformation'. By now, many of those claims have been proven to be false.

People cheering Trump's ban never ask themselves a question, what if this was a candidate they supported? They somehow magically think that no, they'll never be supporting such a horrible bad person so that the benevolent Twitter overlords would have to suppress. Yeah, that is absolutely impossible. Right. /s
Power is important if you want to distinguish between noise and true signals. In other words, if you care about P(real effect | significant).

From good ol' Bayes we get:

P(real|sig) = P(sig|real) x P(real) / P(sig)

P(sig|real) is the power; so if you have more power, all other things being equal (a bit of a weaselly caveat), the likelihood that your stat sig result is real is higher.
Trump brought a lot of attention to twitter.
This line of reasoning is very popular but I don't see how people take it seriously. Twitter (and other major social media platforms) have become de facto "government instrumentalities" under the dual effect of pressures from without and pressures from within.

The same revolving door policies we all recognize in other industries apply to major media companies, as well, meaning the leadership within these organizations is harmonized with the leadership of the state. Moreover, media OWNERSHIP is a subset of portfolios that have massive influence on government policy (and vice versa). Meanwhile, there have been numerous incidents of major political figures cajoling the social media giants to censor speech. When Congress and the President are threatening to regulate your industry while "asking for help," that's a significant leverage over your so-called "private" business.

And, Twitter is not "just a shitty microcosm". For good or ill, Twitter functions basically as the public slack channel of the news media industry. Twitter flame wars wag the dog of the news cycle. It's also a target of propagandists world-wide. Like it or not, Twitter has an outsized influence on public discourse.
Nothing to do with TV, Twitter has been established as a news breaking platform since at least the Arab spring. And it is absolutely an international phenomenon.
Depends, a local app which is an Electron app....
'Oligarchs' historically have gained influence and fielty to a nationstate. We are at a new form of Oligarchy, where the business magnates are able to operate internationally on a scale never seen before.

Historically, taxation has been the most profitable form of revenue generation. But thats no longer the case. With globalism and multi-national product creation, a single person in a nation can be many times richer than any nationstate, with technology above and beyond any nationstate. What happens when musk has electric jets and fully-reusable ICBM's, has remade the world power grid in his image, is one of few entitys even able to get to mars let alone command and control the resources of the astroid belt.
What a profound waste of his time and talent.
Frankly, Musk could pull this off and it might be his plan anyway. Twitter has a lot of tech and very talented people.. not to mention the existing user base. But Musk has the star appeal to draw in famous users and make it at least somewhat appealing to the masses who want to follow along.

The social media space is stagnant and looking for change, but as yet nobody can match Meta’s $55/user in ARPU. Maybe Musk can get there.
It says fuel and inflation surcharge, not supply chain
Also this is an investment - not a donation. The expectation is that the $43b will drive direct ROI - not something that a donation to students will provide to an investor.
As much as I don’t like WaPo’s Opinion columns and Twitter’s double standards in content moderation, I don’t think the two companies are puppets of their owners. The staff there have their mostly left-leaning political view point and their own moral standard. I don’t necessarily agree with their view, but it’s their view and their voice nonetheless.
The majority of western accounts of great Chinese famine come from the book "Hungry Ghosts" which provides almost zero actual evidence of the event other than sensationalized accounts.

If you actually look for the sources of data and don't just blindly believe the western propaganda pieces repeating the same figures, this will become pretty obvious.

I'm not suggesting that there wasn't trouble, death, and suffering during this period but I'd take the multi million death counts generously extrapolated from incomplete with a bolder of salt.

https://mronline.org/2006/09/21/did-mao-really-kill-millions...
As others point out, that does happen sometimes with homes. There's a British tv show, Grand Designs, where it happens constantly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Designs

But, in support of your point, it usually does cause the builds to be over-budget and behind schedule.
It is in government contracts!
You are just a millennial, this is why you undervalue Snapchat.
> 43 Billion Dollars!? Of all the important issues in the world, Twitter is where this sort of money might go?

Wait until you hear what the US wastes on its military every year!
The gov was giving out money and the fed was "printing" trillions [printer go brrrrt" memes and all] adding to national debt. How in the name of any working economic theory can they think that WILL NOT lead to inflation? Were they in an alternate universe?
You are clearly differentiating between Trump's experts and current experts. You either believe in the infallibility of experts or you don't. There can't be "poor handling of the pandemic" unless you are willing to contradict the infallibility of experts.
Can you run node in the web browser and debug through there?

I’m not the brightest crayon in the box, I spend most of my life in the debugger!
I'm wondering if this whole 'buy twitter' idea is some sort of displacement activity from stressful problems in either spacex or tesla. I'm a fan of both companies but I know he drives them hard and takes lots of expansion risks/gambles with them (innovation is a gamble at the end of the day).
> If he’s taking the company private the future of the company should be irrelevant to you right? The only thing that matters is whether or not you think the price is fair.

The future of the company is relevant to you if you care about Twitter and it's impact on the world.

Even if you're a shareholder, you can care about more than just money. Shares represent more than money - they also represent power.

Shareholders have the power to decide whether the wealthiest person in the world should take unsolicited control over what's arguably the most powerful communication platform in the world.
He's saying that ownership by a loud, conspicuous oligarch generates more public scrutiny than a quiet, inconspicuous one.
When something sounds too good to be true it's easy to visit https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ and run a search for published literature

However, be careful! Savvy supplement companies will give large ownernship shares to doctors in exchange for essentially manufacturing positive-looking literature and pushing it to pay-to-publish journals. You have to read the conflict of interest sections and have a high degree of suspicion to make sure you're reading a real study instead of astroturfing
>[Amazon] said it had absorbed costs whenever possible, and only increased fees to address permanent costs

I wish journalists would stop simply reprinting intentionally misleading company spin like this without any attempt to refute it. Fuel costs are one of the least sticky price increases imaginable and are already decreasing after they peaked last once. Plus no one knows what inflation will be like in a year. There is nothing close to permanent about these cost increases.

The most charitable interpretation of these comments is that past increases were only because of permanent issues and this new surcharge represents a change in that policy. However if that is the case, this comment should more clearly denote that change and explain why this temporary increase is different and requires a change in policy.
And I can't believe people unironically defend multi-billionaires.
I am just going to throw something new out here.

EVERYTHING Elon does is circled around his belief that we need to be living on Mars. Spaceships to get there. Satellites for communications when we get there. Electrical cars since no oil to drive there. Tunnel boring to make the roads and cities there.

Why would buying Twitter be any different? He currently is meeting serious resistance from USGOV and FAA on launching Starships. Postponed many times and may be postponed yet again due to environmental studies in TX.

Maybe; just maybe; total guess here; He thinks twitter would be a benefit to him during future elections to help either steer the future governments to directions he wants; or at a minimum move away from the one currently in power that's holding him back. I can certainly see it helping with his mantra "Going to Mars soon". Just another cog in the engine.

I just do not think this is about the money. A lot of people are talking about his stock price etc. Elon has never been about the money. It is about his end goals. Either the purchase of twitter is his repairing a social injustice he perceives, not normally on his radar. Or; it is a move to further his goal.
It's not like he's spending it for nothing in return. He's buying a business that has the potential to be cash flow positive (although it's been a couple years). He must see potential to make the service better and make money doing it. I can't speak for him obviously but based on his prior large bets, he's willing to lose it all but that's never his intention at the outset.
This has been covered before in the context of how Coke was 5c for 75 years. I think there was a Planet Money episode on it.
Caching of the rasterization is already done at the font level. Attempting to cache the rendered seconds (even ignoring desktop preferences as you say, which is already a non-starter) seems like an engineering problem that massively outweighs saving the few dozen bytes for that portion of the screen
No idea :D https://github.com/facebook/lexical/pull/1733
Why does Musk have some go reaction with twitter that would call for this ?
> As a Twitter shareholder I would vote against this.

Which is your right, but do you own nearly 10% of twitter like elon musk with the ability to buy up to nearly 15%? Unless you own big blocks of shares, your vote really doesn't matter.

> Musk says there is tremendous financial potential in Twitter but then offers $54 a share, which is not even 2x the IPO price.

Twitter IPO'd nearly 10 years ago. The IPO price really doesn't factor in today.

Musk offered $54 and twtr is currently trading less than $47. It means that major investors don't value twtr higher than $54 and do not expect a bidding war. If twtr was trading above $54, then it would indicate that musk was undervaluing twtr and investors expect a bidding war. Also, the fact that it is trading so much below $54 indicates that many don't expect twtr to sell itself to musk. Regardless, it will be interesting what happens in the coming months.
clearly (given all the other responses), there are a bunch of different conflicting requirements which lead to different protocols.

as for your bluetooth issues, PC bluetooth is a mess.

some of bluetooth's messiness comes from having the higher level elements of the stack designed 20+ years ago to operate on microcontrollers of that era. they've got N different audio profiles because the hardware it was expected to operate on originally would've been hard pressed to handle a single audio profile that could negotiate the gamut of use cases.
Yeah? Then explain this (Windows 10, latest)

https://imgur.com/gDGaQA2
In a can and still usually cheaper than bottled water.
That's wrong as well. What does it have to do with the current conversation
The question is if these users don't already have all of their code in Python/C++/etc. and would even consider using Julia.
In the pro world there was Dante, Ravenna, and to a lesser extent AVB. People didn't like that nothing worked with each other. The AES got the AoIP manufacturers together and standardized a union of these technologies and called AES67. Now most pro gear is compatible and it is in widespread use in (mostly) large audio installations (think stadiums/venues, broadcast, theme parks, etc).

There's not much in way of open source solutions to using it, and not many devices you would want to buy as a consumer that uses it, however.
This. I’m tired of this woke paternalism that’s infected modern social media.

Uncensored is the future, for everything.
dweb.link points to a IP address owned by Protocol Labs, presumably they own the domain as well. Being a US company, they need to adhere to US law. A take-down request can very well happen, especially since NYT is also a US company. Protocol Labs also seems to have responded to take-down requests before on their gateways.

That link can be "taken down", blocked or limited in other ways.

What can't happen, is that the content it is pointing to, can't be "scrubbed" from the internet. As long as you have the CID (essentially a hash), you'll be able to get it (probably) from some node out there in the world.
I don't think the idea was to make it offensive, just to say that it's cheap to make.
That's a constraint on thermal power, not on temperature (?). Hotter objects radiate faster (T^4 scaling even), so it's *easier* to cool them in a vacuum, all else being equal.

MMRTG [0] dissipates 2,000 W, in a package that only has several m^2 of radiator fins. That's >100x more efficient than the ISS (1 W/m^2). ISS' radiators have to operate below room temperature; MMRTG fins [1] are in the 100 °C - 200 °C range. Higher temperature -> higher heat dissipation per fin area.

(By the way, the comment we're replying to asks about nuclear quadcopters on Titan [2], which is in dense atmosphere not a vacuum!)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-mission_radioisotope_the...

[1] https://sci-hub.se/10.1063/1.2169255

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(spacecraft)
Because we're in a deep recession. Twitter and other sp500s are going to slide down regardless of what Musk does. He is offering a choice: "I jump the ship and it sinks a bit faster, or I give you a generous evacuation plan and deal with the leaks myself."
This is a good point. Everyone that thought it was great twitter was centralized and saying "it's a private company, they can censor what they want" and "go make your own platform" will have to contend with their once convenient unprincipled position.
You can absolutely contact support for MS products and they will be helpful. I've done it multiple times for our tiny account.
seems like amazon is trying to have their cake and eat it too. Fuel surcharges only make sense if you own a fleet, but amazon drivers are independent contractors. Similarly, an "inflation" surcharge doesnt make a lot of sense when every other industry just raises prices. Do Amazon sellers see any of this 5% when they have already likely raised their prices in response to inflation? i suspect not. inflation has been unbearable for nearly a year now, so why 5% now?

It might be a tentative connection, but i think this has to do more with the unionization of an Amazon warehouse. Jeff knows tides are turning, and 5% would help to bolster quarterly earnings reports if and when healthcare, retirement, and a living wage is offered to union warehouse workers during contract negotiation. It would also help weather the storm if workers did choose to strike. This parlour trick only pans out if organized labor remains restricted to a single warehouse; its not scalable or repeatable. If the union boss is to be believed, then Amazon is looking at massive unionization across its warehouses and a potential precipitous decline in revenue in the coming years.
Prediction: I delete my twitter account and move on to a new platform because none of this matters and that's the cycle of online platforms.
Well, most of 4chan is weird, so this fits ...

(Nothing wrong with weirdness, though, up to a certain level of messed up)
How you know it is 2022: there is a YouTube channel dedicated to heatsink skiving.
It covers about 80% of engine models, but only about 30% of total fuel purchased for those engines per year. (The high power airplanes fly more hours per year, resulting in a large spread between “engines” and “gallons per year” eligible.)
You are certainly right. But what I was referring to was CA being linked to physics, but without any tangible link.
- I configure all windows machines at home
- Everyone gets adblockers
- I configure all android phones at home, everyone gets an adblocker
- Everyone runs malwarebytes
- Everyone is briefed on these tools and to talk to me when installing rando software
- 1password on phone and all computers, everyone should be generating PWs
Yeah, I believe it is. But not by your Cloudfront distribution. It’s like the Amplify team is paying the Cloudfront team for distributions, so they’re not exposed to you. You don’t see the Amplify Console apps in your Cloudfront dashboard, if that’s what you’re asking.
> Anyone else curious how Musk would handle that Twitter account tweeting about his private jet flights if he owned Twitter? Strange to think that might be the real litmus test of how much he cares about free speech.

He would probably do nothing. Even under Twitter's currently very vague rules, that Twitter account didn't violate anything so I don't know how it would with even more specific ones he wants them to implement. All that information is already public record (you can lookup any plane like that's flight logs). He was probably just annoyed by it constantly popping up in his feed so he told an assistant to offer his equivalent of a couple dollars to the kid to stop.
I’d be very surprised if this is emotional thrashing from someone who has been very long-term focused and first principles oriented in all of his other endeavors.
There are many sides to this. E.g., a couple of days ago, I had a conversation with the owner of the next-door pizza shop. He doesn't use computers or the internet. Years ago, he had participated in a course, but found it frustrating. He wanted to understand the grammar of this, how it worked, and how things were related and connected to each other. (He was actually using the term "language".) Unable to do so, he turned his back to computers.

You could call his a civilizatory demand. Compare modern UX to this, it's more like, "here's your hand, use it for everything, just try, don't think about it (we won't make you think, promise)." Which might be closer to what figures as "medieval barbarism" in the article.

Also, the bit on the "Mother of All Demos" may be a bit unfair: The system relied on multiple users' views rendered on a single screen and respective portions of this being relayed to the user via CCTV, and, for this particular event, input and output were miles away from the machine that ran the demo, connected via a network bridge. Modern videos on social media showing a person manipulating their smartphone can be messy in appearance, as well… (On the other hand, Engelbart's real ambition, the "bootstrapping" process of symbol manipulating minds and symbol processing machines elevating each other to levels never imagined before, a project very much civilizatory in nature, probably never became a reality. And this may be due to interfaces, which teach us how to think about this process and the systems involved.)

Edit: Another early "civilizatory" approach may have been J.C.R Licklider’s "Man-Computer Symbiosis", where human and machine meet on a shared, common ground (the interface), instructing each other by suggestion, thus eventually reaching a goal of refined understanding and problem insight.
Infrastructure as a Commons
Elon Musk can not buy Mastodon (https://www.joinmastodon.org)

This is the best ethical replacement for what Twitter provides, and it gives control back into operators of communities because it is based on a standardized specification for a federated social web.
Proven ability to mitigate failures.
> In true HN fashion, first-mover / market-leader Sonos isn't even mentioned yet.

I bought my first Sonos device last year, the Roam. Using it as a bluetooth speaker is fine and I love the sound and portability, but oh boy do I hate the experience of trying to use Sonos services over wifi.

Nine times out of ten, perhaps even more often, the iOS app says it can't connect and "let's fix it". If I go through the slow reconnection wizard it invariably ends up telling me to reboot my router(!?). I learned to either switch the Roam on/off a bunch of times, or kill and restart the app a bunch of times, before the app eventually decides yes, it can find the device ... only to then fail again when half hour later I want to add something else to the queue or switch station.
Qualcomm Wins yet Another Major Automaker with Its Snapdragon Digital Chassis
> or to deny the Holocaust

Purely out of curiosity, what do you think about government mandated beliefs?
If Euclid had formulated his proof from axioms rather than intuition it would a) be an actual proof and b) far exceed the length of the above snippet.
Have you tried any of the forums or etc that are entirely un-moderated?