skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always amazed when that kind of question pops up. Because it shows how knowledge of basic business practices is less circulated.

If you're selling me a house and saying it's one size but in practice it's another you bet I'm taking it up with you! I can be happy to buy it as is (depending on the case) but this says a lot about the seller.
Whether or not Elon Musk is worth $42 billion or $41 billion is completely immaterial to his quality of life. This is why gonzo-extreme wealth inequality ruins the power of markets: once the marginal value of a dollar falls to zero for any given actor, they can keep a market irrational indefinitely with no penalty.

If you're the sort of person who wants to believe in the power of markets, then you need to make sure that every participant has actual skin in the game, which means stopping people from accumulating so much wealth that they render the market permanently irrational, and the irony is that fomenting runaway wealth inequality is a natural tendency of markets.
Elon himself was ranting for months about Bots and "real ID" on Twitter, and he did not bother to include due diligence before manipulating the market with a bogus offer?
Unless the contract had a clause requiring this to be demonstrated if requested. In which case it's a good way to get out of it at to he last moment: activate the clause and put Twitter in trouble if they disprove their own statements.
Just chiming in to add my support for your arguments. I enjoy fast food and drinking beer, and all the moreso when I know that the former is plant-based and that the latter is brewed in an environmentally-friendly manner. I believe that both of those are possible in ways that make better use of existing agricultural land and that are therefore more scalable in terms of provision-of-nutrition -- although transition can be tricky and involves battling vested interests and long-held opinions and preferences.

I believe your debating partner is presenting false dichotomies regarding resource consumption and distribution.
I find it fascinating when someone agrees with me about a person (e.g. the previous president being evil) but their list of reasons has none of the items on my long, long list of terrible actions and, instead, has only items from my "at least they did the following" list.
Indeed. Although she's probably motivated not by the tech but by the stories she's heard of people getting rich.
I mean in the rewards. A lot of those "desktop apps" have embedded "WebViews", if you know what I mean, which would effectively be running outdated Chrome versions, which would be easier to exploit than the real thing.
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If you've met one person with Aspbergers, you've met one person with Aspbergers?
I have the distinct feeling that Elon's motives are genuine, that he genuinely believes he is on a mission to save humanity, and is genuinely convinced that he is the only one who is able to do it. The problem is the last point - he's developed something of a saviour complex, and has convinced himself that if what is at stake is important enough (reverse climate change, become interplanetary species, restore free speech) he somehow has a moral obligation to take it upon himself. Whereas earlier in his career financial constraints might have hemmed him in, not that he's the richest man in the world he's becoming tempted to use that power in an Emperor of the Universe fashion, attempting to fix everything he believes important. If he stuck to solving just one existential problem, such as electrifying transport, he'd probably be quite well respected in the long run. The richest man in the world, who already holds massive power, also buying up the "de facto town square" was never going to go down well. We need more people with Elon's vision, drive and determination, not one Elon with more and more power.
I don't get all the hate here.

If Twitter lied about spambot counts that violates the deal.
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The Web is a wide audience. How do you design visually for the people who cannot see? In other words, how does this tool ensure that a site built using it remains accessible at WCAG2.1 A or AA level?
He delivers very little of what he promises.

Most of his ideas aren't even something anyone should deliver. Hyperloop and Boring Company are terrible ideas.

Meanwhile everything else is over-promise/under-deliver.
I've never seen a hot reload that worked fast enough to not be annoying.

React does it all quickly when all it's re processing is css but anything js related and it seems not to be able to treeshake down to bare minimum updates.

We're talking 750ms to 1.5s, and I admit it's still a marvel compared to things I used to have to deal with, but it's still enough to feel cludgy.

Flutter is another example of this. It's not _slow_ but if I'm sitting there waiting for even a bit I'm less likely to use the feature as an incremental tool rather than batch a bunch of things before looking or tabbing over.
> how one determines(...) what accounts are absolutely fake

Right now, Twitter's ability to ferret out fake accounts is just completely ineffective. In the communities I follow, I see literally hundreds of reply posts under each tweet of certain people, all with the same profile picture as the OP, all tweeting about giveaways.

Twitter should be focussed on cleaning up their product, and one of the variables required for that is knowing what amount of users are being used to spam scam messages. The fact that they can't means twitter's development isn't prioritising it. A ballpark estimate of the order of magnitude of that figure should be possible for them if they were in any way actively trying to solve the problem, which they are obviously not doing.
> The significant amount of electricity consumed by the mining process does not in itself emit CO2.

Yes it does.

[edit] Not only in the sense that you have to build the solar panels, build the wind farms, build the mining rigs, then throw out 97% of the mining rigs (!!) without them ever having validated a single block. [1]

But also in the sense that any additional proof-of-waste operations run on the side steer that renewable energy generation away from productive applications on the grid -- failing to help decarbonize the grid, something we desperately need to do.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/DigiEconomist/status/143889647759...
Hindenburg Research (which is notorious for unmasking frauds, stock promoters and market manipulators) called it on May 9th:

https://twitter.com/HindenburgRes/status/1523677782211186690

Musk tried to use all his 90M followers weight and his snark belitteling them into closing the short :

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1523693971842957312

Good on them for not listening to the noise and making bank.

In many years of watching sports, politics, business, culture I have seldom seen a more distasteful character than mr. Musk.

Back in my ignorant days I couldn't stand shortsellers, I considered them to be haters.

Oh so little did I know. They are the custodian of market sanity and also the saviors of the American consumer, they keep in check these megalomaniacal cult figures such as Musk, Holmes, Bernie Madoff, Adam Neumann who enrich themselves by inflating financial bubbles of epic proportions while providing little to no quality of life to the consumer
The Hungarian language had more contact with Turkic languages during the migratory period before settling in the current area of Hungary (so before the 9th century). Linguistic exchange was more limited during the Ottoman times.
Good point, and the place of hella in the dialect is hella distinctive, because it's a superlative modifier: hella sick, hella insane, "I just bought hella strawberries at the market", and so on.

So you have a politeness continuum from very, to hecka, to hella, to fuckin'. Which is dank.
Sorry, I think my comment lacked a bit of context. We are in agreement.

“Police protection” tends to imply that you get treated as a special person, someone super important — like a head of state or a political dissident. It’s a bit like having Mark Zuckerberg’s security detail, but through the use of taxpayer funds. In a country where most people don’t have guns and don’t resolve problems through violence, the need for this sort of thing is extremely rare.

As someone who is clearly “not poor,” as he says repeatedly, he should be asked to source his own protection rather than being an undue burden on the South Korean taxpayer. The funds and resources earmarked for police protection would be better spent protecting women fighting for equal representation, against corruption, etc.

Of course, if the guy is actually poor, well, that’s another thing. I don’t think that is what we are dealing with here, however. Keep in mind that he dissolved the South Korean entity for Terra on April 30th…
You could still ship your first app, even if you've now got competitors.
Acknowledged or claimed?
This has been an issue for at least over a year.

Turn off location services and disable the awdl0 interface is the only way (for me) to run lag free zoom calls over wifi with a mac.

https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9595943?hl=en#zippy...
Elon would be completely forgiven if his politics were more left-wing than they currently are.
Cheap space launches, fast satellite internet and arguably the car company that made EVs a commodity. He also invested a lot of money in the things you mentioned and, as far as I'm aware, none of those is canceled.

He promises a lot, but to say he didn't also achieve a lot would be lying.
In subscription-based video games, bots are absolutely monetized (and some people use it as an argument to explain why editors might seem slow at suspending them). In its current iteration, bots are not monetizable on Twitter, but we can imagine a world where they are.
This doesn't matter until someone tries suing them for it, right?

And as I understand it, you don't really have a case without evidence that the hiring algorithm is discriminating against people with disabilities.

How would an individual even begin to gather that evidence?
explain bit more please? Do you mean root is not needed? Isn't that a curl feature?
Different people like different weather. For me e.g. Edinburgh has the perfect weather (I'm planning to move there). Where I am currently (Poland), I'm miserable in the summer, when humidity drops as low as 40% and temperatures get above 25°C (up to 33°C, or even 42°C in some godforesaken parts of the country). For me to feel comfortable, 22°C is the max (-5°C is the soft min, but will also take -20°C over 30°C), humidity should be at around 70% optimally (don't mind if it's higher than that) and definitely not lower than 50% (breathing gets less pleasant). I also prefer it when the sky is cloudy. Clear blue sky makes me feel as if I was living in a Windows XP wallpaper (kitchy) honestly, and it usually means in the middle of the day there is too much non-diffused light around (looks mildly worse aesthetically in my eyes, a lot worse on photos, and subconsciously I feel attacked by the rough changes in strength of light in different places, with it being really intense in some places, but practically non-existent in others).
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It's there some kind of equivalent for Angular components ?
It wasn't a joke though, the Saudi Investment Fund made the promise to back it up, which was allegedly witnessed by the Tesla CFO as well.
You dislike someone who built multiple pioneering tech companies because of mean tweets and a vague resemblance to Trump’s demeanor? Being a bit of a blow hard isn’t exactly unusual among CEOs of multibillion companies! Does anyone remember Steve Jobs?

Heck, narcissism is currency in Silicon Valley. I don’t know what else I’d call the whole “we’re changing the world through Ad Tech” shtick.
Normally I'm not moved very easily, but reading the Intercept article really makes me freeze a little inside, and think "how's that even possible".

There's a real alternate reality on this planet.
I am here as well. It looks like La Nina this year. Even though it has rained a lot the weather is still incredible. I originally come from Cape Town and Medellin is the most perfect weather I have ever lived in.
4% of users could be very vocal and annoying bots...
> As if this hasn't been something that businesses have done since the dawn of business.

What!? Can you tell me an example of how businessmen sold customer data in the Victorian times? Unless, your definition of the 'dawn of business' is limited to this century or your lifetime?

There is nothing inherently evil with data, it's what these today's businesses do with it and at this scale. There has never been a platform with over 1 billion users' data for sale. This has only happened in the last 20 years.

You don't seem to have a very good understanding of the topic you are commenting on. In both your original and this comment, you make incorrect and face-value assumptions of how things work.
This is one of the most clever projects I've seen in a while. Nice work.
> It's not really a ponzi scheme.

Yeah:

> Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming of the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.

* https://twitter.com/patdennis/status/1518637225789042688
> I don't know why it needs to start with Silicon Valley necessarily. Because we're a bunch of socially-awkward people?

No, It’s because Peter Thiel was (perhaps still is) reportedly interested in it, and that was a big enough story to be eventually lampooned by the comedy show Silicon Valley.
1a) and be sure you have those sales, and keep them

I know a startup that failed because they thought they were doing ok on sales, but it turned out: lots of people were signing up for the product, but then not using it, or not being able to, and un-signing soon after.
Why do you think a bot is not monetizable? What if some payed by Putin pro-Russian trashtalker (bot by definition) without Adblock installed (unlike most of decent users who are not happy to see some ads in the social network they love) - who is monetizable and who is not in this case?
I think the word that might fit better than unhinged is 'capricious' - given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour.
I wish people would stop excusing bad behavior with "oh they're autistic". It just makes us autistic people look bad by association.
> Where was I saying the [array languages] should use [more accessible symbols]?

I know you do not see these the same, but maybe that will help?

> you can go on Google Translate and go from Chinese to English

Yes yes. You can use arrays with python. Whoopdy-do. But you're mistaken if you think you understand what "叶公好龙" means just because you put it into Google Translate; This is Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. You have no hope when you're decoding every character and translating it into "accessible symbols" you know, and even if you can put up with it and puzzle it out with a little extra googling, you already know you don't like to do that, so why are you doing it?

I'm telling you to put up with what you're calling "noise" and learn it anyway. Don't skim it and try to "pick it up as you go" like you've undoubtedly tried and been somewhat successful at in other languages. It won't work. You will have to change. Then at some point, you won't be decoding or deciphering or "working it out" anymore, you'll just be reading. It will be much easier to talk about the benefits/weaknesses of k's choice of symbols at that point.

If you want some ideas about how to go about learning this stuff, I'm happy to give some pointers if I know a little better about what you already know and where you're at.
He delivers a lot of announcements for future projects.
Wanting SQLite in Go touches on something that I think is quite a waste in modern Go circles, but happens everywhere to varying degrees.

There's often (for instance, in Go projects wanting to avoid cgo) a desire for everything to be in the single source language - Go. In what resembles NIH syndrome, there will be clones of existing libraries, offering little over the original except being "Written in Go". From experience this often makes for more bugs, as the Go version is commonly much younger and lessor used than the existing non-Go library.

The Python world does it a lot less, perhaps the slowness of Python helps encourage using non-python libraries in Python modules. But that sure does making building and distributing Python projects "fun".

What I'm trying to say is that:

A world where every language community has it's own SQLite project because the communities shun code written in other languages just feels like a profound waste.
Why isn't a bit monetizable? - True, you can't monetize that account via ads, but for one it drives conversation, thus interaction with other users thus allows to send those other users mire ads and the bot operator is willing to get his message out and might be willing to pay.
Also, is there a way to make more than one project/rename projects? Another UI thing, I think having those side panels expand on hover is a little distracting, maybe use a chevron to expand/collapse? If you have contact info on the page I'd be happy to give some more feedback, don't want to spam HN
Congrats withdrawn, not from Germany.

I kid, I kid! ;)

Context for all non-Germans: Many "northern" Germans joke about Bavaria not being part of Germany. Another often made "joke" is that Bavaria starts ~50km south of were one lives.
> "truly world changing"
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
The question is whether the damage these people made while accumulating wealth gets compensated by the good they did later. With Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller I don’t think so. With Gates I am not sure. Musk actually looks better. He has shaken up two industries that needed a good shake.
Paid with crypto
Is only OK to do that to "some" reporters? https://noqreport.com/2019/12/08/outing-john-solomons-phone-...
> trying to understand literature through text modelling is like trying to enjoy nature by counting the trees in the forest
I don't know why a Korean should be handed to US authorities but in a world that many cryptobros envision, we will live in warlords with private armies up until they each fight off each other.

Everybody is gangsta until an actual gangster knocks on your door.
spoiler : Reykjavík, Iceland because of English speaking programmer. I might be interested.
When the algorithm was coded, they didn't know those things. It could have worked equally well with minuscule volume. Supply and price could have multipled by a million with no new investment.

A Ponzi uses new investments to pay interest. If it doesn't get exponentially increasing revenue it collapses. Paying someone in more tokens or stock is different. If it collapses, it's for different reasons under different circumstances.

It's a lot easier to fabricate market cap than to fabricate cash.
Do you know engineers? I’ve had this conversation I can’t count how many times in my life.
How do you know what due diligence was done and what new information might have come up? If the company misrepresented its users to Musk during negotiations that wouldn't be very reasonable.
he knows it’s higher than 5%, everyone does
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To be clear, I'm not even suggesting this is what Musk is doing. It's just an interesting thought I had about what someone could do.

But as for motivation for someone doing this, people have egos and when they have this much money, it essentially costs them nothing to exact revenge for no other reason than a bruised ego. Musk in parituclar is notoriously thin-skinned.

Remember when those boys in Thailand were being rescued from a cave following a flooding? Musk offered a submarine. One of the rescuers said something dismissive about it. Musk responded by calling him a "pedo guy" and then won the defemation suit by lying and saying it was South African slang, not an unfounded allegation the guy was a pedophile [1].

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593
The overall sentiment on HN is pretty clear from the replies here. And I agree with a lot of it, he seems to do and say a lot of things impulsively without thinking them through, that often tend to be dumb.

The one thing I respect though (and expect most people here won't) is that he appears to have the "nouveau riche" disrespect for the establishment, and doesn't feel he needs to kiss anyone's ass or play by the rules in a system that is already rigged for rich people. The fact that he has annoyed so many, especially elite/establishment figures, is a good thing. I'd much rather see him use his wealth to piss off the establishment than just to grow richer safely, which he could easily do. So maybe his annoying behavior is at least partially by design, and the fact that it bothers everyone is exactly what he wants, which I think deserves some respect.
Oh, come on. Zip2, PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX.

I mean, I don't think he's Tony Stark either, but stop cherry picking.
You can probably still have a meaningful bpf sandbox even without the setuid root helper (or user namespaces), but I'm not sure Chrome supports running that way (because it doesn't make much sense from a security tradeoff point of view). As ugly as it is, the odds of a bug in the setuid helper are probably smaller than the odds of a bug in the attack surface its mitigations remove.

But the setuid helper and user namespaces are used for other mitigations that can't be done through bpf. The guys who wrote the bpf sandbox have some nice articles about the distinction which you can probably Google.
Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter is on hold
APL is pretty approachable. You just gotta put a few hours in. There is a tryAPL website that lets you type in some simple programs. It's funny, but I've only spent a few hours on APL, and can still remember the symbols I learned after putting it down for a year.
> Musk should just pay the break fee of $1bn, and renegotiate for $42.69 or whatever meme number he fancies. Why pay $42bn total for something when you can get it for $30bn.

That's not really how the break fee works. There's a specific performance clause that allows Twitter to force Musk to go through with the deal as long as he has the money (which, shockingly, seems to have come through). They'd only give up on that and take the break fee if the deal was truly over and they were prepared to say no to a lower offer.
Like Michael Avenatti?
All tweets in STAR answer format only
You do understand other countries have other rules of law?
Is the Preact router minimalistic, so to speak, akin to this?
Sounds like the excuse Edward Snowden's detractors used that everything he revealed was already known so he wasn't helpful. But having actual proof instead of easily dismissed rumors or "conspiracy theories" is important.
Sanity is returning to the world...
That’s the thing though, you don’t have to seek attention or power. That’s not an Asperger trait. That’s the thing which really makes it inexcusable.

You can also be rich and relatively unknown, most rich people are. He chooses to be super public.
> OMG. I'm astonished...

Why is wanting a better price such an issue? "The 5% stuff" is like when information surfaces about a faulty or inaccurate odometer reading on the used car you're about to buy. If tampered with, let's negotiate a new price.