skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may have been pointed out elsewhere, but the questions surrounding the % of users that are bots/spam accounts was addressed by Twitter about 3 years ago. In early 2019, Twitter stopped reporting overall user numbers and instead offered the alternative metric "monetizable daily active users." Without saying it outright, the difference between dau and mdau is bots/spam accounts. Many articles discussed this massive change, which happened THREE YEARS AGO. Here is one such article:
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/twitter-reports-anothe...
Q1 2019 was the only quarterly report I can find that included both total users and monetizable users. If we take the difference as representing bots etc, then we can see in the linked article that about 60% of overall Twitter users were not monetizable, ie, 60% of Twitter accounts were bot/spam accounts. So, this is all in the public record.
Doubting how much of Twitter's overall accounts are bots - which is what Elon is pursuing - is massively different from Twitter standing by its claim that only 5% of MDAUs are bots. Elon seems to be talking about DAUs and Twitter only reports MDAUs. This distinction seems to be lost on most people following this debate. I think both parties could be offering accurate assessments: Elon could be right that over half of Twitter's users are fake, and Twitter could be right that only 5% of the MDAUs are fake. While both could be right in their assertions, Elon is in the wrong in the big picture. All of this has been disclosed publicly and Twitter never claims that only 5% of users are bots, just 5% of monetizable users. Elon's claims of malfeasance or obfuscation are wrong.
>Snowden

Looking back at everything that transpired with Snowden boggles the mind. I still have no idea if he's an adversarial plant by some government (meant to sow distrust, etc) or if he was genuine from the get-go. It is incredibly hard to get to the truths of these things, and the media outlets spinning it in their own ways (based on who donates to them and who owns them) makes it even harder.
The banks are unlikely to be thinking about moles. They're just trying to minimise the risk that they accidentally deal with a sanctioned person/company or a front for one.
> would be your suggestion for people that live in rural areas of the
US (we have a lot of them in almost every state)? Public transit
would operate at a pretty significant loss in these areas and would
be a logistical nightmare. Given enough time, I'm sure some
solutions could help make it possible, but there would be
significant inconvenience, loss of security/safety in the short
term.

I honestly don't think I have any suggestions. Not technical ones. I
am neither an expert on transportation nor planning. My comment is
about psychology, and to some extent about history.

As you say, given enough time maybe new solutions would make changes
possible. But also, maybe not. Given enough time it may be that people
living in rural areas accept that the world has changed, and travel
far less. Given time, maybe the societal pressures to travel will
ease. It may be that in time the main attraction of rural life returns
to being its pace and relative isolation. These are not necessarily
good or bad things, progressions or regressions, just change.

To the extent that change involves loss as well as gain I do think that
change is like the stages of grief. The early stages, before
acceptance, involve various mental tricks to try carrying on as
before.
In Haskell, https://reanimate.github.io/ is very good.
I agree but it's impossible. Right now, my electricity bill was 3x what it has been over the last few years for last month because of Russia and this is in the greenest country in the world (highest investment and generation per capita[1]). We are extremely fucking fucked. If we can't do it, you can't do it. We're ahead of you (the U.S.) by a factor of 4.3. If you try to do this, you will starve. Am I wrong? What's the plan?

1. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/renewable-electricity-per...
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Worth noting that a lot of fundraising announcements are made a while after the fundraising actually closes. Companies often time the announcement to also include other significant news/product updates, in this case a name change. It's very possible the round closed a few months back
This is how Arch Linux originally worked. It technically used SYSV-init but the scripts themselves were organized more like BSD-style rc scripts. Everything could be configured in a single "/etc/rc.config" file. All of this was ditched in favor of systemd which turned out to be a major regression.
Talking form the viewpoint of a bipolar person he seems to be hypomanic in the last view months.
> Not taking sides because I was not in the negotiations and know nothing about what each side, indicated, what the legal contract says and so forth.

That's easy to do though - his offer is unconditional. It's like offering a cash amount to buy a house while waiving inspections and all contingencies, but when it comes time to close, insisting your inspector can go into the basement and look at the foundation. You don't have that right, you made an unconditional offer.

The time for 'running his own calculations' was before he made an offer to buy the company. You might think; "Surely you can't expect him to buy a company when he doesn't know how many accounts are bots." Which is a fair point, but that's precisely why people rarely make unconditional outside bids for companies!

He's making a specious argument that the detail is needed to line up his financing, but to continue the homebuying analogy; After offering cash to buy the home without contingency, he's going back to the seller claiming that he's going to take out a personal loan from his friend and that friend wants to know about the state of the foundation but that only your inspector can satisfy him. Really not the sellers problem!
I'm the OP of the comment this thread was responding too, talking about how I dislike Musk, but I'd still say he was the driving force of Tesla in that it was a close-to-bankrupt company that is unrecognisable of the company you see today. Same with the whole idea he's only rich because his dad is - Zip2 and Paypal were huge acquisitions that dwarf his fathers net worth back then, and having wealth is in no way a guarantee you'll > 1000x that amount.
iPad Air 2 review in 2014

> If the hardware of the iPad Air 2 demonstrates the overwhelming power of small iterative improvements, then the software represents the failings of that approach. The overall experience of using the iPad Air 2 in 2014 is a case study in missed opportunities and untapped potential. Apple has all but stopped adding tablet-specific features to iOS — the minor two-paned mode for landscape apps on the iPhone 6 Plus is a more significant rethinking of how to manage a larger screen size than anything added to the iPad Air 2 this year.

> Just consider something as simple as browsing the web. On raw benchmarks the iPad Air 2 is comparable to a 2011 MacBook Air — which, again, is crazy — but the MacBook’s version of Safari is vastly more feature-rich and flexible. That MacBook will also allow me to run multiple apps alongside Safari and be far more productive than the iPad; we’re well past the point when Apple needs to figure out proper multitasking on its tablet.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/10/21/7027485/apple-ipad-air-2...

The story of the iPad is that Apple is shipping hardware vastly more capable than it's software.
It's a matter of how you interpret and use them.

If you think about it as "strong suggestions", then yeah it seems obvious that they're suggestions for how to approach ambiguous situations. However, that's also missing the point a bit.

It's often more useful to think about it as "thought exercises when trying to understand the design philosophy". Note that it deliberately contradicts itself.

Similarly, things like "flat is better than nested" and "sparse is better than dense" are completely false a lot of the time. There are plenty of cases where the opposite is true for practical reasons like memory use or access patterns. The point is not necessarily to make those as statements or suggestions. The point is to give you something to think about. They're more like koans than suggestions.

Think about why and where they're not true as much as why and where they are. And don't take it too seriously, either way! The whole thing of "import this" is tongue in cheek, after all.
I want to say that there were people with AIM accounts but no email.. was an email address required for AIM back then?
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/dutch...
>We expect the 2022 Model 3 will have about average reliability when compared to the average new car. This prediction is based on data from 2019, 2020 and 2021 models. Select the used car model year to see reported issues with those similar past models.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/tesla/model-3/2022/reli...
I kinda thought Apollo would buy GraphCDN. Both great products!
It's been long enough I forgot the proper term for it, huge thanks!

Wow, that list is pretty huge. I don't remember trying anything on that list outside of Galanthus, which was pretty interesting.
This was the first time I've ever heard of this term. I'm still not sure what it is exactly.
Show me one truly powerful person who could have survived 30% of his subjects actively resisting.
> I already explained it to you. Re-read the replies and try to comprehend them like the normal people did.

You did not explain anything at all in your two most recent replies, and now you are trying to insult me.

All you've done is you're repeatedly making some extremely vague promises of "something even more useful", "so much more to do":

> [...] the thing that just controls hardware and runs whatever you throw at it, will be found even more useful [...]

> [...] there's much more to be done on that hardware [...]

I have already clarified that we also have several other devices (including laptops, desktops, servers) which are already running whatever we throw at them. How would adding (for example) a second laptop, or some other "more useful" (which?) device actually provide more value to someone, whose primary occupation is making art, often on the go - in the nature, in a cafe? Expecting a full day's charge, a very bright screen, first-class support for pencil input? Again, she already has a laptop that runs "whatever you throw at it".

Are you going to argue that I should carry a laptop to check the time, as opposed to a phone or a wristwatch?
> you can't provide the raw data behind all your accounts because that data includes a ton of PII

Yes they can? Why can't they? Citation needed. Not sure where you get this idea from.
For those reading this with incredulity I believe the above commenter made a typo - the average depth is 3688m, or 12,100ft.
It's not the direct effect on us that causes problems, it is the runaway greenhouse effect that would wreck high efficiency agriculture. Think mid double digits drops in yield. If you are focusing on the direct effect on humans you are looking at the wrong thing, that is manageable, the other one probably is not.
Audited and found to be a mess is a complete lie. 0 encrypted telegram messages have ever been cracked. Full stop.

They even took some ideas that people in the crypto had pointed out and updated their mtproto protocol to 2.0 https://core.tlgr.org/mtproto
Can't upvote this enough - absolute favourite band right now. On the theme of Canadian Power Metal another level of obscurity down is Ravenous EH based out of Calgary, Alberta. I really enjoy them as well.
> And the layoff isn't 10% of all workers. It was 10% of salaried workers, a much smaller amount.

Could you clarify what the set complement of a salaried worker is?
I am incredulous about all but your final statement.
The most advanced digital society
I did no such thing. Increasing carbon dioxide, keeping all else equal, traps more heat. This isn’t disputable. Hence my refusal to say otherwise can’t possibly be cognitive dissonance.

It might be a good thing to increase CO2. It might be bad. It might be the case that increasing carbon dioxide causes counter balancing effects and therefore increasing CO2 does not increase temperature (I remain skeptical of this but I’m not a climate scientist). But what is beyond dispute is that massively increasing CO2 will cause climatic disruptions while the weather system reaches a new equilibrium.
One with higher quality (not the same recording): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eakKfY5aHmY.
Youtube also refers to some other nice recordings from that one.

(There's also a video with intermediate quality, and otherwise distracting parts, but amazing formations too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRNqhi2ka9k / http://vimeo.com/31158841 )

Sadly I haven't found one with (just) original sound (no music).
> a fix to global warming

We fixed global warming?
Be careful, parasocial relationships like that can lead to unhealthy behaviour. People sometimes go off the deep end and start arguing with everyone on the internet about the target of their desire, and lose all sense of perspective. You see them taking on all comers in threads like these, and it’s a bit disturbing when you notice it’s just the same username over and over.

Not saying it’s what you’re doing, but your comment reminded me of people like that.
Is this an attempt at a novelty account?
Guess who conveniently holds your "secret key" in escrow just like AWS KMS does by default? The provider.
Tangent/Shamless plug

I created a browser extension [0] for myself to deal with this problem. I have been using this for past 6 years and so far I was able to deal with this particular problem.

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If I infect someone's device with malware and exfiltrate data do gain money or obtain unfair advantages, I am a criminal.

If a CIA employee infects a foreign finance minister's device with malware so US can obtain unfair advantages, he's an unsung hero.
I got an invite when it started blowing up and gave it an honest try.

Virtually every room I joined was filled with self-described "thought leaders" and influencers promoting themselves to each other, and the conversations were comically similar:

- Start off by validating what a great community this is and how great and positive everyone is.

- Story time: either a huge challenge they overcame to become the great success they are today, or trying to make the most basic common sense sound like some insightful breakthrough.

- Repeat a few times, and then someone will "reset the room" and start over again.

I couldn't help but laugh because I honestly couldn't believe it wasn't a parody.
His "bonuses" are his only income first off so they don't really classify as that. And no, they're not tied to company's stock price. They're tied to revenue (or EBITDA) AND stock price. Just pushing the stock price up doesn't get him any more stock options.

He's visible because of his neurosis. He doesn't do it to make money. He's never admitted to it, but it's been hinted at in the past that he also has some kind of bipolar condition as well.
So after a decade of "knowing him well" via his Twitter and interviews, what do you think of his recent behavior? Still the clearest communicator?
Maybe it is indicative of his demeanor or maybe it isn't - that is your own perspective. Maybe it is impulsive - he certainly is impulsive - though to be fair his impulses (if that is the case) have been pretty accurate though maybe his lucky streak has come to the end.

Honestly I think it's comical that people are complaining that he's not paying up for twitter when valuations went off a cliff and twitter hasn't divulged bot data (when CLEARLY that's what he was doing all along (see my comments eons ago saying that he was pointing to this as an exit strategy). Twitter could have put that information forward and kept the $1B but they knew either (1) don't know or (2) they didn't want to for fear of damaging their company.

It's like all of a sudden Twitter is the good guy and Elon is the bad guy when at the end of the day this is two business entities interacting and positioning themselves.
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That's not really the case -- at least on Windows, timestamp signatures persist past the timestamping certificate's validity, it's their whole point. I just looked for something signed on my PC to find that Office 2019 installations were signed & timestamped on 2019-12-01 by Microsoft with both certs (code-signing and timestamping) valid 2019-2020. The signature & timestamp remain valid.
> The other poster is saying that what’s happening is there are MORE vehicles so carbon production continues to rise.

I think people are looking at different derivatives.

If you compare the rate of change of emissions, they do continue to rise as new electric vehicles are produced. But, the claim that an EV is more efficient than a regular truck is not a claim about the first derivative, but about the second.

That is, in theory, an EV raises CO2 emissions less than the equivalent truck. That's saying the impact should be visible in the *2nd* derivative being negative, but not necessarily the first.
It's a kind of joke among Europeans. The American building material standards are pretty different.

It's not without a bit of truth. We do build homes much more cheaply and without the assumption that the home will last 200 years. It's a side effect of massive land resources and cheap material costs that Europe doesn't have. We're also a really new country in comparison, and much of our growth occurred during the rise of the automobile and massive roadworks construction, so building a cheap building fast out in the sticks is not only viable, it's attractive.

Long term this is folly, as it depends on cheap energy. But all that said, a properly constructed home from wood studs with plywood sheathing and gypboard internal walls isn't intrinsically shoddy. It's actually very strong and very light, and in large parts of the US, entirely appropriate. Modern engineered wood is amazing stuff.
I think that the most wealthy and powerful can have a greater impact than the largest producers.

Why does China produce so much CO2? A lot of it is to satisfy the massive demand coming from the West for all the cheap stuff they make. If we put a carbon tax on imported goods, and used the revenue to invest in sustainable infrastructure (ideally back into those same producers, not just at home), I believe we would see positive changes pretty quickly.

Simply pointing fingers at producers will get us nowhere if we don't actively try to change incentives and support other countries and institutions to get up to speed. After all, many of the poorest countries that have begun to grow were historically prevented from modernising by their western colonisers. So in some sense the blame still falls largely on the West.
I got schooled on this topic a while back. I was arguing in a discussion that ArrayList was always better than LinkedList in Java.

Most of the time it is, but note that ArrayList has to occasionally allocate a new array when the list outgrows the array inside it, then copy the list.

When the list gets huge, that operation of reallocating and copying gets disruptive as it puts a lot of pressure on the cache, memory allocation system, etc.
Salaried workers are office-based. Hourly workers are factory-based.
it would require re-boring of all the deep-level tube tunnels to make them larger

which essentially isn't possible, so that would require building an entire new London Underground

this would cost probably a trillion pounds
On Wikipedia YOU can fix it at least!
>Keep that in mind over the coming weeks.

Sure, I agree.

But the OP's interpretation of events is dead-wrong. This isn't the media picking on poor Elon. The guy dove head-first into something without thinking through consequences, now he and his supporters are claiming to be some kind of victims in this. Twitter did nothing wrong here.
Can’t think anyone who ever sat through it as a listener ever saw it going anywhere.

It was like the worst possible parts of a podcast amplified 1000% with zero of the upsides.

Just self-important low-talent bluechecks blowing smoke up each other in a self-promo-off.
> "Be liberal in what you accept and strict in what you send" is still a good principle.

No, it is a terrible principle which produces brittle software and impossible to implement standards. The problem is that no one actually follows the “be strict in what you send” part, and just goes with whatever cobbled together mess the other existing software seems to accept. Before long, a spec compliant implementation can’t actually understand any of the messages that are being sent

> just having old tools silently ignoring the new format that they don't understand.

This sounds like another headache. I don’t want my tools silently breaking.
There’s nothing wrong with it, per se, but it is more to maintain, and it’s a confusing indirection to downstream users that need to pry into your code to debug something.

Ruby has its own problems, but I like that the modules are independent from the file that contains them. You can “reopen” a module and declare new classes or constants or whatever. You have freedom (and responsibility) to organize your files in a way that maps to module namespaces. The drawback is the `require “my_file”` doesn’t give you any hint about what you’re importing.
"the world going to shit" carries a lot of assumptions. It's not just about amassing money. It's a bout survival for many people. Getting enough food to eat. Up to 100 million people (mostly Africans) could be facing starvation from not being able to import grain from the Ukraine. A crisis which is about the availability of energy. A little humility in realizing we don't know what's going to happen. There are consequences to any choice we make here.
> there is no hard and set clause that says Musk waived all his due diligence rights or right to verify any information

The proxy statement sent out with the merger agreement was signed off on by Musks's lawyers. Musk waived his diligence rights. This isn't a fact anyone informed about this is debating. Elon's legal team aren't idiots; they aren't arguing the diligence rights they waived are being denied or that an MAE occurred--both are predictably losing arguments.

Instead, he's arguing that debt-finance facilitation line. The one you quote. That's not a diligence out. Nothing in the data would give him an excuse to kill the deal. But if he can get a lender to say they would have lent had they been given those data, and Twitter won't hand it over, he has an out. Again, not on the basis of the content of the data, but its provisioning per se.
The empire might be failing, but it is possible for the US to peacefully step back, like the UK did after WWII.

One thing I wonder is, who steps up? China, for sure, though it's grappling with population decline as an existential crisis. The EU? The EU has never 'stepped up' for anything. The US sat patiently by and tried to let Europe deal with Milosevich. That utterly failed. The EU was also almost ripped apart by the greek debt crisis, so it too is having real issues.

A post US hegimon world is going to be a very different world, and not necessarily a better one.