skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool to see a München based startup popup here! Nice going neighbour :)
Pinpoint vs narrow-down.

Headline is misleading.
You don't think a high level exec is on the hook to pull a few numbers during their paternity leave to help seal a multi billion dollar deal?
> He had always been good at math, so he put together a formula—a proprietary algorithm that he loves talking about but declines to explain in detail, saying only that it “measures the supply of cattle every day and determines that if we buy a certain percentage of cattle, we have a seventy percent chance of winning.”

There’s a whole other science to cattle pricing so hard to tell what he’s hinting at. Cattle are priced using either cash pricing, or grid pricing, or formula pricing. Sounds like he working formula pricing to his advantage

https://www.beefmagazine.com/beef/price-trends-comparing-cat...
Has anyone here done this calculation before?

How hard is it to reliably spot fake accounts across millions of users for SEC-level reporting fidelity?
You think Twitter would be that open to let someone dig that deep into their IP before a purchase?
They define “monetizable” to mean that the user is using Twitter in a way that could serve ads. (I think they mean this in contrast to, like, API only usage, although I’ve never seen Twitter explain this in more detail.)
> Also, it does feel a little "manipulation"-y to tank the price on news of you yourself trashing your deal, then taking advantage of that to make the same deal but cheaper?

Elon Musk's past behavior has shown him to be extremely comfortable with this tactic.
The craziest thing in this world is that there are more conspiracy theories about Bill Gates being a super villain than Elon Musk.

Talk about the opposite sketches!
It always has been like this- as far as my experience goes, anyway: I clearly remember styled copy & paste in the classic Macintosh operating system, all the way back in 1985.
I switched from mattn to modernc for my ws4sqlite project and could not measure a difference; really interesting though. Of course I made the switch out of cross-compoling consideration, not for the performances.
I really do understand what LDO means, and at least a decent amount of how they work.

I still don't think it makes sense; it's not as if you have the heat the device to be hot enough to draw the quiescent current, it's the other way around. As the internal temperature rises, the efficiency of the components degrade, things start to "leak" more current and the quiescent current draw goes up.
The Mediterannean seaside. The french riviera, Italy, Croatia. I spent lots of time in Spain (Valencia): way too warm in the summer IMO (too much south) and the spanish kinda build fugly buildings along the entire coast, ruining it (compared to France, the difference is staggering).

Here on the french riviera / Cote d'Azur I get to type this while watching the sea and I get my kid to the village's school while driving through the vineyeards. Beach is a three minutes walk.

I'd say that lots of poets/writers/actors/oligarchs (!)/etc. kinda figured this out a long time ago.

Sure, it gets a bit wild in july/august when all the tourists and billionaires come in the area and population goes 5x to 10x but it makes things fun.

During the winter you may get below zero temperatures but it's highly uncommon (the sea regulates both summer and winter) and, anyway, even when that happen, you can still have days where you can then eat lunch outside.

Internet ain't staggering yet but I can get a 4G battery-powered router (because why not, it's 70 EUR) and a 15 EUR / month data plan SIM that can do 80 GB per month while waiting for fiber (it's coming, 18% of my district already has fiber).
That is completely incorrect. TSLA is holding up quite well. Take a look at SHOP for example. Nov last year it was $1700 now it's $350. TSLA was $1200 and now it's $750. It's holding up really well compared to some others.
https://previewjs.com/ does that
People love a charismatic narcissist though.
Delivers? Hardly. Autonomous driving? Hyperloop? The tunnel thing?
>China has no elections at all

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_China

>China's oppression of the Uyghurs is well documented, and is a process to destroy Uyghurs as a people

It’s easy to demonstrate it’s not true: Uighurs, like other minorities, have certain privileges, like teaching kids their own language, or not being subject to one child policy. The oppression is a way to combat terrorism; essentially China is fighting the same problem US did, but in a more humanitarian fashion instead of bombing and droning.

Have you noticed that just from your description above Russia is much closer to US than to China? From unfair elections, to systemic oppression of racial minorities, to invading other countries.
These aren’t objective measures though, with agreed upon standards and Twitter is incentivized to err on false positives.
> Perhaps because the board and shareholders will be far more inclined to reject an offer from Musk after he feigned buying it one time and backed out?

He didn't feign anything. On the contrary, he's proved that he was dead serious about it.

All he'd be doing would be renegotiating the price, which is something that any reasonable person would do when the circumstances change so drastically (assuming, of course, that a renegotiation would be possible).

Don't think for a second that Twitter would walk away from Musks's offer if someone were to offer $60 a share.
Been thinking about this a lot the past few days. The main reason this isn’t yet integrated into vscode is to allow designers to edit, like in webflow.
Something like https://storybook.js.org/? Not a VS Code plugin, but similar idea (though it does a lot more).

SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose also support individual component previews in their respective IDEs. (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/previews-i..., https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/tooling#previe...)
5% of monetizable users - a crucial distinction, since it completely ignores bots which might represent 80% of the accounts while not being monetizable
Maybe you want to just include it in the fee itself. It feels silly to have a separate fee when you advertise with 7%. At the very least it’s 7%+0.49. It’s not my problem that you have to hire an external accountant, and not something that I think is relevant for your customers.
I'm a big fan of Wouter[0]. Most of my routing needs are taken care of by it.

0: https://github.com/molefrog/wouter
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

Oscar Wilde, the Picture of Dorian Gray
API-First Command-and-Control
stagit – Static Git Page Generator
All good, after the initial surprise and when they found out that I am neither armed nor a criminal they were quite friendly actually. Still wouldn't want to experience something like this ever again.
Are there plausible links between this announcement and the recent Twitter firings?
I even addressed that argument in advance, you made it anyway...

Again: No matter how bad harvesting of sea resources is, it can't be enough to abandon the oceans entirely, any more than the vast land-use impact of agriculture can be used as argument for abandoning agriculture.
They could add some quote marks around AES-1024
This sounds a bit clichéd, but bear with me:

Definitely check out Leonardo da Vinci's biography by Walter Isaacson. It gives a delightful account of da Vinci's life and his exploits. It's hard not to feel inspired after reading it. (It also has 120+ illustrations of da Vinci's drawings and notes. They're all digitized; you can flip through them here[0].

A random teaser from a recent comment[1]: da Vinci spent a lot of time dissecting human corpses and horses and made many draft drawings. Then he declares in his notebook, "I'm going to write a treatise on human anatomy; it will be better than those created by surgeons because I can draw exploded views of arms and muscles from different angles." He never finishes it. But, he discovered[2] the functioning of the aortic valve in the heart!

[0] http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=arundel_ms_263

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29495779

[2] https://www.rct.uk/collection/919082/the-aortic-valve
Sibling comment's points about police- and judicial excesses in the case of drug-related crime, however, are very much relevant. It's hard to consider the darker parts of Norwegian culture and mindset from a Western perspective, as it takes on shapes that are largely unfamiliar in Western culture. Criticism against Norwegian society looks more like criticism against collectivist societies, where out-of-the-norm non-violent behavior is sometimes harshly punished.

I do agree that our police cannot be compared to the US "out of control" situation, where both its conduct and its excessive use of violence is extreme and avoids judicial oversight. But that's not to say it goes clear of criticism from a systemic perspective.

There are ongoing debates and investigations concerning effectively punitive cavity searches against persons suspected of having smoked a joint, using suspected drug use as a pretext for invasive home searches, immediate confiscation of drivers' licenses after reports of one-off marijuana use (no judicial process involved), involuntary commitment to somatic hospital followed by coerced drug testing in pregnant women after (flimsily) suspected drug use, punitive home searches against drug reform activists and more.

The most high-profile of the two latter cases were conducted against women who visibly participated in democratic debate for reforming our drug laws, and participation in said debate was documented in writing as probable cause for having the woman involuntarily committed by the police.

All but the very last example is strongly suspected to be systemic; it has happened with regularity. And the problems are so obvious that the conduct clearly has a high degree of political support, although "should we systematically jail marijuana smokers and degrade them by probing their vagina or rectum in the police station" has never featured in a debate preceding the elections for Parliament.

Also plenty of criticism regarding the democratic role of a private drug law activist organization (NNPF) that's effectively both part of the police force and a central partner in the bureaucratic process for determining what drug policy should be democratically enacted.
I don't know how well this would hold up in arbitration, but he has repeatedly cited the existence of bots as a reason for buying and fixing twitter.

> If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!

April 21 900K likes

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517215066550116354
It seems like there’s a growing distrust of seriousness lately. Caring isn’t cool or whatever.
No, I mean this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_genocide
I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but being good for humanity overall is not the same as being a good person to be around. He definitely did a lot of good for this world, but that doesn't mean that he's an easy person - quite to the contrary, to be this successful, you need to be very assertive and sure of yourself.

Look at Bill Gates for another example. His early business dealings are well known to be ruthless and he pushed MS at the cost of a lot of things, but now he uses his wealth mostly for good.

As much as we'd like, we really can't reduce people to "good person" and "bad person".
Some years ago a friend suggested someone should make a browser extension that replaces the text of every Elon Musk tweet with “PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!” and I made a quick MVP: https://gist.github.com/cyco130/d96f678d41fd7acfe4ac6c4e01d2...

Edit: Alas, it doesn't work anymore. Updates are welcome.
Edit2: Updated!
> truly world-changing things

Musk has been at the helm of Tesla for 20 years. The past year was a very slow year for the car selling business except for luxury vehicles of course (which Tesla is). In 2021 Teslas accounted for approx. 1% of total global vehicles sales.

1% in 20 years. World-changing.
If you are editing a text document, you will likely want to move pieces of it around. In the context of WYSIWYG document creation, styling information is part of the content; having to re-apply the style settings every time you moved the text would be annoying.
Previous and the current presidents are far worse evil people. They first destroyed lives with meaningless lockdowns then pumped trillions of dollars which destroyed economy and impoverished people. Musk cannot even come close to these.
> You don't fire people like that unless they did something very very wrong.

If he's on paternity leave he won't have been responsible for a number that came out last week.
In this study [1] in California, they've found no difference in actual crime but the gated community believed they were safer than the outside.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001391600219726...
How Socialism became anti-American
Like someone has said, people don't really think about it that much. No one is out there saying we should "conquer the world like we did before", but they do look at that as the "greatest period in our history" and they praise our "courage" for "finding new worlds". Portuguese people were the discoverers, it's like the world is what it is because of our amazing courage and abilities[1]. The fact that we did that while pillaging, murdering and raping is often not even considered.

It does not help that we have "Os Lusíadas" which is a literary wonder in terms of its form, but whose content is basically emphatically praising those times. I hate "Os Lusíadas" not due to its form, like many young people do, but due to its content and how it praises the story of how we went about being warmongers and rapists.

So while you say that people "rationalize", most people really haven't thought about it at all.

[1] We're one of those countries that are so small or have such an inferiority complex that we are obsessed with anything in the news or history of the world that involves us. We go crazy because Obama's dog is a "portuguese water dog", or because "Cristiano Ronaldo" is well-known, or because some character in a sitcom mentioned us. So knowing that we were once "great" or "responsible" for something usually fills us with never-ending pride. I can't get this mentality, and I very much despise it. I guess it just shows how disconnected I am. I love our people, and I think we're genuinely nice, polite and have decent work-ethic, as well as a country with reasonably beautiful landscape, a safe environment and nice weather (not for me, but for most people). However, that's about it. In other words, if a war broke out and I had to choose between leaving the country or fighting for it, I would definitely not fight for it, as it means very little to me. There are many things that mean much more to me than my country, and those I would be willing to fight for.
How will taxes be handled?

I am in Europe. That means every time I sell something, I need to charge taxes depending on the country of the buyer. And once a year, I have to make a report for the tax authorities with all the revenues I made with all the countries.

Does fruits abstract that away somehow?
Some other people seem to think that the market is crashing because crypto.

What happened to good old fundamentals... earnings and rates? Sigh.
Protecting from someone attacking him yes, preventing him from getting a mouthful from people protesting outside his house, heck no!
I doubt the Twitter acquisition by Musk will go through, regardless of stated reasons.

China is the second biggest market after the US for Tesla sales—meaning CCP wields the power to decimate Musk’s wealth, which Tesla stock is the main source of. Musk knows Tesla’s position in China is fragile (like that of any Western company), and the Chinese government knows he knows that; it seems unlikely they will pass on newly found leverage when it comes to influencing discourse on Western social media.

By owning Twitter, Musk risks having to choose between his image as free speech maximalist and a large part of Tesla’s sales. From the outside, he doesn’t strike me as someone willing to sacrifice either. (He could implement some mechanism that gives CCP direct or indirect influence over Twitter without the public finding out, but that seems a bit far-fetched.)

So far there seems to be no mainstream Western social platform that stands to lose anything by ignoring CCP’s censors. We don’t see YouTube videos, Facebook posts or tweets taken down due to requests from Chinese government. Revenue from China is not a factor for any of their mother companies. I think that’s a good status quo to maintain.
This can also be said about good-hearted people, most of them don't have world-changing achievements. It's said that the rate of psychopathy among CEOs is above the population average.

So not sure what's your point. But I like the passive aggressive nature of your comment.
There is a fundamental difference: US is dangerous to armies, Russia is dangerous to civilians.
Public knowledge? Where are the authoritative, due-diligence-level public statements on the topic of fake Twitter accounts?
BBC BASIC still exists? This is pretty cool!
Narrow down the cause, cool; pinpoint, not so much.
> As for Command, yes, it should be for actions _to_ my terminal. But for GUI apps they go to that app,

I don't see a way to split the difference between ⌘N for a new terminal window and ⌘N for a new application window. It has to do one of those things because it can't to two, and speaking personally, I want it to open the new terminal window. It's a tradeoff.

CSIu mode is new, it's pretty well supported though.

> And of course proper usability of the terminal typically requires binding Alt to Meta, but doing that means losing the ability to type non-ASCII chars on macOS. This is another thing that GUIs don't have to worry about.

This doesn't happen to be true though, right Option can be the compose key and left Option can be Meta/Alt aka prepend-with-Escape. I also use Karabiner to set pressing left Alt to send Escape for even more faithful terminal fidelity, but that's optional. Having both Compose and Alt as right and left Option is perfectly straightforward, and I suggest it, because much like with Command, it does have to do one or the other, but this time, we have two keys.

It's probably possible to split the left and right command keys but again, personally, I don't want the terminal app to see my command keys and am comfortable with the mere six(!) combinations of modifier + key I can send without it.
Current headline is a bit misleading, the point of the article as made clear in the very first paragraph is that this is about AI hiring tools causing potential discrimination. This has nothing to do with AI workers somehow replacing disabled humans, which is what it sounds like.
Ha! Erik Prince fascinates me...One of the few real-life villians. Must be a unique world being a war-profiteering entrepreneur.
I've been wondering whether it would be possible to leverage ML/AI to "infer" a layout from a visual mockup. So like if two elements have the same X position, they're assumed to be left aligned with one another. If three elements are the same width and sit side-by-side with the same distance between them, they're assumed to be a 3-grid column. Etc etc.
Realistically, no one is going to use this. Google Forms provides 400 form submissions per minute, unlimited per day, free of charge, and still more with their $8/mo paid tier (and that also covers all Google services, not just Forms). You're selling 1000 form submissions per month for $10.

This would have been a saturated market in 2002. It's way beneath table stakes even for a free service today. Google Forms gives you 17,280x the quota for literally nothing, and a million neat integrations with various products (Sheets, Gmail, &c) which you can never hope to equal.

I'm sorry, I've been there, and it hurts, it sucks, but you will be considerably better off stopping now than driving yourself into the ground, selling something that nobody is going to buy, ever. If you need any current ideas, I'm happy to share some of the stuff I've been thinking of - probably not all of it will be good, but there'll be some good stuff in there (I just don't have the time to pursue all of them).

PS: I don't think you need to put 'Jamstack' on your landing page. No one cares what your tech stack is. At most it will worry or annoy some people (the language fanboy types and many more who believe what the former say), whereas it's not going to increase anyone's confidence or interest. In short, you don't want to brag about a necessary but not sufficient condition, especially when it's a highly arguable/contested one. It's an unforced error.
> Most "narcissistic, manipulative, dishonest, hateful, lacking empathy, attention-seeking, unhinged" folks wouldn't manage to do anything even marginally worthwhile, even in such a key position as, e.g. being president of a large superpower.

On the contrary, our world is practically made for those people to be successful. Psychopaths do great in unbridled capitalism.
This comes across in his public persona too. Elon's entire vibe is like a 14 year old who thinks they know everything and everyone else is stupid.
Simplified Piet Interpreter Written in Python
Then why would you comment in a thread about a stock sale if you're obviously uninterested about the market?
Yes that's correct, on average TSLA is down more then SPX. But you cannot compare a index to a single stock. Since you'll have stocks that are also up.

Compared to the other leaders weight wise in the SP500 (AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, etc) TSLA is down about the same.
It's not that uncommon among people with Asperger-like traits, which Musk has publicly acknowledged in 2021.
How is this not hypocrisy? Isn't all social networking spam? Elon would do well to embrace the strengths of the medium rather than run away from it. I expected his amazebrains to understand this but maybe he is getting too old for modern tech.
Ukraine can be paid war reparations with the money confiscated from Russia, including Russian reserves. It might actually boost their economy compared to pre-war situation.
Will make these changes in a few minutes, thanks for the heads up!
This! Amazes me everyone thinks he’s the brain behind the incredible technologies his companies create.
FWIW I totally agree with you on this.
The interface implementation types may include enums, though not sure that would help much in your example.
Taking bribes to let hashish into Norway... not straight and narrow... but several furlongs behind Muricops.
Even if this was true (nearly everyone who has studied Musk says that although he may not lead day to day engineering, he is gifted at figuring this stuff out)…

It is clearly non-trivial to rally a group of people, funding sources, and, er, marketing resources to accomplish what he has accomplished.

Evidence: nobody else has done it.
Yes, the same was true for me. I literally only want to accept payments, the sales page and the fulfilment is already done externally, so I really just need a payment form that sends me a callback.

Stripe does this, but going through their whole KYC process has become extremely arduous (and they seem incapable of being clear about what they need/want, as well as understanding that Dutch people with a Dutch company sometimes do not reside on the Netherlands).
Tweet from 3 days ago by Hindenburg Research:

> NEW FROM US: We Are Short Twitter

> Musk Holds All The Cards. We See a Significant Risk That The Twitter Deal Gets Repriced Lower

Space Karen's reply:

> Interesting. Don’t forget to look on the bright side of life sometimes!

https://twitter.com/HindenburgRes/status/1523677782211186690
Do read it on your iPhone for even more cognitive dissonance ;)
Notably, Tony Stark nearly destroyed the world because he was an unelected oligarch who thought he knew better than everyone else...