skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the item for sale has been misrepresented, there's probably some contractual wiggle room.

Personally speaking, as somebody who has studied this a little bit, I don't think it's realistic that just 5% of Twitter accounts are bots: it feels like much higher. Governments, activists, and NGOs use Twitter to affect public opinion. Businesses use bots to fortify their follower counts to rank higher in searches and to affect public perception. An army of independent spammers use bots to try and shill various products and websites. Social media manipulation is basically an entire industry.

Where I think the key point is is either side willing to go to court to expose the dirty laundry. I'm sure you will find some emails in discovery (if things go to some kind of court) where Twitter employees express complaints about mass numbers of bots far in excess of their public statements. There's probably some backdoor dealings going on where both sides are playing chicken and threatening to expose the other, if I had to guess.
Vegan fake meat is frankenfood. Yes, you can try to mimick a carnivore diet, but you eventually will have to eat frankenfoods. Lots of plant foods are loaded with natural antinutrients and toxins.
I think we will see even more optimization with constrained budgets.

Software is pliable. You will have a network of middlemen running at cost.
React is a view library. It deliberately focused on doing one thing, and doing it well -- declaratively painting the view layer. It's not comparable to more general/monolithic frontend development solutions like Angular/Vue/etc. Those tools have far different scopes. So of course React doesn't prescribe routing, state management, project styling solutions, build bundling, or any other frequently lamented "missing" features. They're only omissions to folks misunderstanding React's use case.

Now there are solutions comparable to Vue/etc which use React -- Next.js, Create React App, etc. Comparisons, tradeoffs, and criticisms are totally fair there. Just don't blame React for churn in third party implementations of features outside of its purview.

As a side note, I love that React is so narrowly scoped. It lets the community build on, experiment with, and coalesce around amazing solutions to other big features outside of React's scope. That Darwinian approach has created broad front end solutions that to me are a joy to use compared to similarly featured frameworks like Angular.
Machine Learning Attack Series: Image Scaling Attacks
Pure speculation: Musk still wants Twitter and doesn't care about the money that lawsuits or a breakup might cost. What he cares about is looking foolish for buying Twitter at a premium to it's stock price right before tech stock prices tumble even further.

In short, it's not about money, not about new information (% spam accounts), not about cold feet, it's about what he thinks would be seen as an embarrassingly bad business decision.
Not sure if you're serious, but no, he can't pull crap like that and neither can anyone else who signs a contract specifying a penalty in dollars. Rides to the ISS aren't dollars.
Even the most trivial design will need some form of synchronization which implies handshaking of some kind.

Asynchronous design is a really interesting field where it's pretty easy to get wins at the circuit level, but it's much harder to win at the system level. Especially when you realize there is no rule that says the system needs only one clock domain, and the period of those domains doesn't actually have to be constant.

I highly recommend you spend some time with a recent overview in the field if you're serious about it. Here is a good one:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nowick/nowick-singh-async-IEEE-D...
People calling themselves "expats" is a bad look. Expats are immigrants.
No kidding ! thanks !
Shouldn't you do this in a bull?
apple and google own all the phones in the universe
It's a euphemism for layoffs which is a euphemism for mass firings, a la corporate speak. "Rightsizing," is another one.
Not sure you've understood the article, or at least I don't understand your question in relation to it. What would make a DNS server the "best" in this regard?

From my point of view, anything supporting cookies and RRL is going to be sufficient, which means any standard server out there is fine to use.
Ammonia is not only easy to make with renewable energy, it basically acts as storage.

Note this is without converting it back to electricity. Just storing it and using it as a chemical feedstock. Then you can use the money you'd spend on storage to generate more renewable electricity.
I think the appraiser is doing you a favor by not appraising it for the contract price in this case. Why would you want to overpay for a house and have to cover the financing shortfall yourself? Especially in a market that traditionally has slow RE price appreciation.

Let the cash buyers suffer the losses. You'll thank yourself later.
The $1b is not a simple breakup fee. He can't just say, "I've changed my mind, here's $1b, the deal is off." It's not a $1b option to walk away.

The merger contract provides the option to pay $1b to walk away under only limited circumstances: either the acquisition is blocked by a government, or Musk fails to get financing for the deal. The latter can't really be easily faked: if he said 'sorry, I thought I had the money, but I checked my couch cushions and it turns out I don't,' and paid the $1b to walk away, Twitter would sue and this assertion that his financing broke down would be tested by the courts.

In fact, out of those limited allowances to pay the $1b and walk away, Musk is bound by the contract to 'specific performance'. That is, he's bound to actually do it. Pay the $54.20.

A good M&A analysis of the situation is below.

https://yetanothervalueblog.substack.com/p/quick-twtr-though...
You may want to learn J if you read "J for C programmers" - https://www.jsoftware.com/docs/help807/jforc/contents.htm . A great book.
>are more able to make technological advancements than they can make political changes.

Yes, but without the political changes, the technological advancements are more likely to be used against us (or just as profit machines) than for good.
It's not an article for end users.
Cyber Energy Law and Policy
Except that’s at the very least broken for macOS -> Linux right now. I attempted to use zig cc as the cross compiler for sqlite3 the other day. Ran into https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/5882 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/9485 an almost two-year-old issue.

Cross compiling C sucks.
Can these clone passive RFID dongles? My building uses them and they charge $60 for a copy. Not needing to buy a copy from my building would almost cover the cost of this device.
Transitioning from PHP-rendered pages to Vue with KISS micro-front ends
The documentation and art for this project are unreal.
My read of it is that Cajamarca wasn't about force ratio but coup d'etat effects.

Shortly before sunset Atahualpa left the armed warriors who had accompanied him on an open meadow about half a mile outside Cajamarca. His immediate party still numbered over seven thousand but were unarmed except for small battle axes intended for show.

However, the shock of the Spanish attack —coupled with the spiritual significance of losing the Sapa Inca and most of his commanders in one blow—apparently shattered the army's morale, throwing its ranks into terror and initiating a massive rout.
recreation.gov is one of a rare few citizen-facing sites/apps (another is Libby) which are good in almost every way that they need to be.

I use both of these every week, often every day; and they are continue to evolve to get out of the way and let me get what I need quickly. Perfect? No. Infinitely better than they could be? Absolutely.

Compare the site California decided to use after opting out of standard consolidated solutions. It's mildly better now, at least it can load and refresh, but it was god awful for years after launch.

This is a win.
In my view, it's not a failure of any central bank. The additional liquidity is generated by other banks, in the form of overvaluations and financial constructions that allow loans without backing securities.
Unicorns are DoA in my opinion.

If everyone's a unicorn, no one is.
No it's not. Eminent Domain still involves paying for the thing you're taking.

If my house is in the way of a planned freeway, they don't just kick me out and say "tough shit". They pay me.

That's the essence of the parent comment. What's the price for these water rights?
definitely read this as 'Nanobots can swim around the world and kill bacteria's like some heat seeking virus with a grudge..
Here's why YTA:

!) OP says "[Elon Musk] is one of the most brilliant men alive" and suggests he would benefit from therapy. IMO this isn't really a personal insult towards Elon.

2) Your "ad lib" intentionally excluded the "brilliant man" part of OP's comment and replaces it with "decent engineer." This makes your comment a direct insult to OP. Implying that they're not a good engineer.

3) Elon Musk is a public figure. The richest man alive. Even if OP was insulting Elon, that is completely different from what you're doing. Criticizing people in power is good. Insulting strangers online is mean.

4) OP didn't even diagnose Elon with codependence, that was the Rolling Stone author. Suggesting someone could benefit from therapy is not a diagnosis.

5) Ironically OP rarely comments on HN while you're commenting several times a day. With lots of negative, argumentative, and judgemental comments.

"Personal attacks are not allowed on HN" — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9683927
Lol, "simpler and fairer world"? I want some of what these people are smoking.

I'm a VAT payer and it's at minimum 15-20 incredibly complicated accounting forms per year, with harsh penalties for mistakes and missed deadlines. I would never be able to start doing business if I had to do this at the beginning, and I'm in the most lucrative market today - and I would never risk it too, the fines are damn huge.

Doing the forms costs me thousands of euro yearly even though my accounting is totally simple, I have just few invoices per month with just few line items.

As I said, this is why this place is failing business-wise.
In that case, just don't sweat it. It's all billable.

The budget for these projects won't support that. Billing an hour of lunch everyday just for myself would exceed the retainer allotted for some of these projects.

And it wouldn't work anyways. Hours are billed to specific tasks, individual to the person down to 15 minute increments.
25 for a huge tech company is insane, unless there is reason to expect burgeoning profits.

The implication is that if you bought them outright, they are going to generate the present level of profits for 25 years before you pay off your investment.

How many tech companies have lasted 25 years? How many will last 25 more?

25 makes sense for a startup with potential for explosive growth, not for an established company.
If you missed the link at the bottom to the music video, you missed out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUTPlQzfz1k
Such is the case for lots of handheld toy-like bespoke electronic devices recently. See also Play Date, Steam Deck, Analog Pocket.
It solves the spontaneity issue. It ensures that tickets are almost always available, no matter when you book, even fairly last minute.

The reason they won't do it is because it's more complicated to implement and people will complain in the media about govt "gouging" residents.
He has enough partner investors that he doesn't need the margin loan
That website may have credibility issues.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/south-front/
Well, there's an opera in Nebraska as well, but I wouldn't consider it as some indicator of the state's cultural preferences...
Intel has most of its (cpu) market right now so not exactly a growth stock. The market doesn’t believe in the new growth potentials (gpu, fabs). Intel also pays 3.3% dividend right now, not exactly a growth strategy. Also, the market may stay irrational for a while. Also, many investments are in the form of funds, etfs etc. so stocks will tend to move together, esp if in the same sector.
Fractional scaling is solid on Wayland in my experience. The main issue is not all desktop software has been updated to be friendly with Wayland yet—Electron being a notable offender. For these apps, there's often configuration options via env vars you can pass to the process to force Wayland or XWayland mode. Eventually, this will be unnecessary as the apps get updated, so things should only get better from here on out.

I run Fedora 36 and use a TB3 dock for a 1440p laptop I run at 175% scaling.
Currently I'm using NextDNS [0] and happy with its ultralow server.

Fast. Block ads. Privacy. Even support the Anonymized ESC.

Sometimes it still chooses the wrong ultralow server, but in overall it's good and fit my case.

[0] https://nextdns.io/
That depends. Here in NL, housing costs are explicitly excluded from the official inflation numbers, presumably because housing is still seen as an investment rather than a short.
I understand, the word of law is very vague unlike coding.
Yeah, this looks like a way out of the deal.

TSLA has a problem with its stock. It's way overpriced for the size of the company. For Tesla, the company, to grow into its stock price, it has to make more cars than Toyota, GM, Ford, Volkswagen, and the rest of the top 12 car companies put together. Toyota alone makes 5x as many cars as Tesla.

Which means TSLA is a meme stock. And the bottom is falling out of meme stocks.
> Portuguese people love bashing Americans

This is not limited to Portugal though; this sentiment exists in many countries, especially among people who have never been in America. But yeah, like your anecdotal, I have many anecdotes too; like Americans in Thailand saying the food is disgusting; they only went to 5 star hotels with EU/US type food. In Thailand. And that wasn't the first or the last time in Asia. I like eating in the US, and I like to go there and meet new people. I moved to Portugal a few years ago and everyone Portuguese I meet (generally programmers) would like to live in the US, at least a few years. So not sure, guess depends on many things. I guess, like I always say, if you don't like it somewhere, just pack up and leave; good you did as you don't seem to like it. I will move too in a few years, not sure where, but we'll see.
It doesn't work and we have to kill bacteria the old fashioned way?
> Why would you want to take help from something you think is a terrible influence on the world?

I've already answered that in my comment. You would want to take what's yours according to the contract that you've been forced to sign, even if you are trying to cancel the contract.
Yeah, I don't know how Edinburgh is specifically, just that in general I think using this measurement is hiding part of the truth. In places with wet and dry seasons, you might get rain for a month and the rest of the year is dry, but mm/year might still be very high.
with great optimization comes great complexity
It also has crazy things like taxation on energy produced by your solar panels that you use yourself.
In Afghanistan an Iraq civilians were collateral damage, they weren't targeted on purpose. Whereas Russia is conducting planned genocide, as evidenced in Bucha and Mariupol.
Here's one that goes from right to left:

(2**(64 - i)) & (t*10)
Yeah, I didn't realize this since I guess I've only paid attention to the surface-level facts.

But digging deeper, the "people in the know" are now pointing out that this $1 Billion escape clause is actually very restrictive and unlikely to be invoked. Musk might be forced into buying Twitter at the previously negotiated $54.20 price.

But there's also the question: will Twitter's board really go to court to force Musk to buy it at $54.20? There's also the question of politics here. Even if Twitter's board is in the legal-right to do so, forcing Musk to become the new owner is bad politics.

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There's also the possibility of the Twitter Board's incompetence. Maybe they don't realize the advantageous position they're in and give up before testing Musk in court?
Rising interest rates don't typically signify lower home prices because rising interest rates are usually a biproduct of a hot economy that needs to be tempered. With the exception of 2008, home prices have almost never gone down. Now, it may be different this time. There is tons of speculation now and you are starting to see some sectors show big cracks. There was also a massive re-allocation of capital during the pandemic as people moved from high COL places to more reasonable locations(due to remote work), in turn making those new location high COL places.

My theory is that eventually the unemployment rate will start rising, and people who lose their jobs that just got a 600,000$ 2/1 will be in a pretty tight spot. It would lead to either cutting consumption in other parts of life, defaulting on the house, or selling for a loss. And so on and on...
You cannot time the market.

When you have invested in something, did you do your DD or did you do it because everyone else did it?

I would recommend a book called "the intelligent investor". I also recommend low fee mutual funds that track the market as the default thing to invest. Once you educate yourself more you can make more sophisticated investments.

I also don't have anything against speculative investments. Just don't call it investing. It's gambling and it's fine as long as you know what you are doing and are okay with basically losing most (everything) you put in.
> ISO (Incentive Stock Options) are one of the biggest scams of all time and you’re financially illiterate if you value them more than zero. They are carefully designed by venture capitalists to screw employees

Given the number of millionaires and billionaires who can credit ISOs for their current wealth, I think that's too broad a statement. At the end of the day, a well-run company that can eventually go public because they have a strong business can be worth joining and the ISOs can be worth something someday. Admittedly, many will not, but if you pick the right one, you could do well.
Building SQLite with CGo for (almost) every OS
I don’t think the end user is the target audience for the article.
I think the reason I'm so critical of this is that you can do the same thing in other contexts and it often works out badly because very often the things that are easiest to measure are the least useful.
> are there subtle differences between GPUs and their software rendering that, statistically, can be recovered from the somewhat noisy print?

I'm not sure these days when most GPUs are IEEE-754-compliant. But back in the mid to late 2000's I worked on a GPU renderer for video editing and we had a few filters that gave noticeably different results on different GPUs. One filter did a hard black and white threshold, then blurred the result, did another hard threshold, etc., in a loop. Because of differences in precision of the floating point values (24-bit on AMD at the time, if I recall correctly), the thresholds could produce minor differences that got magnified by the blurring, and then created new thresholds with minor differences, etc.

Even if all the GPUs are using IEEE-754 floats, there are driver differences that can cause the results to be slightly different, too. Like a simple GLSL mix() function could be implemented as result = x * a + y * (1 - a) (where x and y are 2 input pixels and a is the alpha of x). Or it could be implemented more efficiently as result = a * (x - y) + y. Doing the same math in a slightly different way can sometimes lead to slight differences in intermediate results which compound in the final result. So yeah, it may be possible to tease out some of these things by examining something like font rendering.
Writing to a slice concurrently can split the data pointer and capacity, and now you have a pointer that can be accessed out of bounds.
That is "the market" working for you!

We could allocate resources to productive assets by fiscal spending, but that is prevented by politics. Only when "the market" gets its cut can any infrastructure be built in the US. That's also true for much of the medical establishment and pension/retirement systems. If the market was efficient, we wouldn't be complaining about it. Unfortunately, a "free market" and an efficient market (and you could argue whether infrastructure or medicine or income insurance even make sense as markets) are not the same. Most markets that have many individual consumers require regulation to be even close to efficient. Like political and financial enforcement they are too easy to manipulate and the consequences of malfeasance are substantially less than the profits to be made.
The article doesn't show that this homeowner supports this system.
I agree this area (mediterranean coast) is one of the best in the world. There are nuances between countries: Italy has arguably the best food, Spain has the best weather, France has a combination of these two, good food and good weather.
In my case I went for Spain because I don't like to feel the cold, ever. I like to be outdoors all year, plus villas cost a fraction of what they cost in France or Italy. You can easily buy a completely new build with a pool in a nice area for 300.000€.
I have run a totally open 'unbound' instance in my personal infrastructure for many years now.

Anyone in the world can query it and get correct name resolution (if they scanned for it and found it).

Convince me that this is negative ...
Lol. Tesla would like a word
they did think of that...

you'll be happy to know that a lot of the ribbon is going away in favor of small buttons with icons on them, and people are losing their minds over it. so no matter what Microsoft do, millions of people are gonna bitch about it and complain for years and years.
Twitter is about to become a marketing platform.
Another case of judges writing their own laws.
> It will not help to have no family and nobody who cares about you.

Visit a retirement home in your community and ask how many folks with kids have them visit. Having family is no guarantee they will stay with you, take you in, or provide for you in old age.

EDIT: @bluefirebrand

> People are too busy to care for their children or their elders, really.

Ask children why they don't visit. I don't believe the data proves out it's because of a lack of time, but an unwillingness/desire to. I put forth that younger generations are more comfortable casting off societal norms (maintaining unhealthy relationships with substandard parents), and walking away from dysfunctional parental relationships versus historically.

https://news.osu.edu/study-examines-what-makes-adult-childre...

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/01/why-paren...

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190328-family-estrangem...

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/05/20/how-many-...
The Neptune anti-ship missiles that sank the Moskva apparently have a range of 280km. They were invented and are made in Ukraine.

The Baykratar TB-2 drone from Turkey apparently has a 4,000km range. Clearly, Ukraine has the ability to strike behind Russian lines.

If Ukraine is really trying to avoid Russian civilian casualties by declining to attack Russian supply lines, that seems foolish, and I don't believe it. I do believe that they have not deliberately attacked Russian population centres.

Russia will not want to publicise successful attacks by Ukraine on Russian military positions in Russia. They are still pretending that Russia is not at war. And Ukraine will not want to tell the world that they have hit Russian civilians, or even targets in Russia; it's advantageous for Ukraine if everyone believes this is 100% a defensive action.

But you can't defend effectively just by sitting there in your trenches; you have to strike enemy supply lines. And Russia's supply lines are vulnerable. So I assume they are being attacked. We're just not being told about it.