skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes you think Twitter isn't actually providing the data, doesn't want to believe it, and -- in the end -- this is just yet more bluster from Musk?
It's exactly appropriate. It's how the majority of us feel and his behavior is not impressing anybody.
Do we know what data he's actually asking for?

Evaluating bots seems like the sort of thing you'd want IP addresses for; should he get an export of everyone's IP list, including journalists and other critics he's publicly feuded with?
Part of it is the synchronous-asynchronous difference.

Clubhouse requires you to be logged in and listening throughout the whole discourse, most other forms of "social media" (Twitter, Facebook, forums, ...) let you drop in and out.

Clubhouse also fails to scale because only one person can be talking at a time. As the number of people in a room N increases, this becomes an increasing limitation... One of those that any software developer should have been able to tell you about ahead of time.

That's a serious enough scaling problem on it's own but socially some people are real blowhards who never quit talking while other people are more like

https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Fluttershy#Shyness

and that is all complicated by social dynamics, gender, class, race, hierarchies, power relationships, etc.

That OSINT group for instance with N people could have an output proportional to O(N) if there is no need for coordination between the people, but if everyone is paying full attention to the discussion it is only going to have O(1) productivity.
I think this is a reference to Matt's interesting PoV 'everything is securities fraud' (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt..., https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-22/everyt..., etc.)
That's exactly what my thoughts are about all the drama. I believe also that we're too small in what we do to actually have any meaningful impact on what the planet is going to look like. The planet will just fart and we're gone, but she we'll do just fine.
Monal seems to be a kind of okay XMPP client for iOS.
MyNoise is awesome.

The fact that the site author literally travels around the world and records noises makes it so much more interesting to me that your average digitally-generated-white-noise app.
I used to like Musk but honestly I’m so sick of him nowadays. His constant need for media attention, his shit posting on Twitter, his backwards attitude to remote work, damn he annoys me.

Which is a real shame because I’d have loved to work for Space X but what a way to put people off.
Please assume good faith... Also if he was going to buy it, why would he do that? If he wasn't going to buy it, well if Twitter provides it, then he's forced to buy it so it doesn't matter if he reveals it or not.
A (json) schema is a specification, which is the opposite of an abstraction.
I'm a "very online" person and I've never heard of clubhouse outside of recent HN articles.
> It seems to be quite impossible to understand what is going on in their minds.

I'm guessing you're not an American, or too young to remember Iraq and Afghanistan. The sad fact is, humans almost always side with their tribe, regardless of notions of right and wrong. The tribal logic of "us vs. them" is the only justification needed.
Twitter making material representations that less than 5% of accounts as part of this deal is gross negligence on the part of the board. They may have had their hands tied. To say otherwise may have contradicted statements they've made to the market and that could land the board and executives in hot water with the SEC and shareholders.

I'm not a Twitter investor so I have never looked deeply into their financials. Is this consistent with previous representations?

But it should be clear that if Musk insisted on this being part of the deal he would press them on it. Many (including myself) have long suspected a ton of Twitter activity is bot-related.

Twitter may end up owing Musk $1 billion in a breakup fee if they renege on their deal (including making material misrepresentations). This combined with the reputational damage may be a fatal blow to Twitter. And by "fatal" I mean vulnerable to a hostile takeover or forced to take an even worse acquisition deal.

I respect Musk's accomplishments with SpaceX. Everything else seems to be sussy AF. SolarCity famously was a bailout of one of his companies (SolarCity) that owed a lot of money to another of his companies (SpaceX) by yet another of his companies (Tesla). Tesla too seems to be in trouble.

Like many though I have Musk fatigue. He seems to have personally gone off the deep end. I kinda wish they'd lock him up in one of the old nuclear cities and make him build rockets away from social media.
Ok.

Lets suppose it is not only 5%.

Maybe 20%.

Would it be fair to buy a company that 20% of its "customers" are fake?

He is forcing twitter to be honest or to at least audit it.
That figure came from a 10K SEC filing by Twitter dated Feb 2022 (https://s22.q4cdn.com/826641620/files/doc_financials/2021/q4...). It is a public document, so of course Musk relied on it. No further due diligence is needed on that point because SEC filings MUST be accurate.

Now if the board lied, in writing, in a 10K filing, it is a Very Big Deal(tm).
> The most important thing you can do is vote

In the US, where in most places the general election is preceded by a "primary" election for the parties to select candidates for the general election and in which you can only vote for candidates from your party, I'd suggest one other thing when it comes to voting.

If you live in an area where one party pretty much always wins in the general election, register for that party so that you can vote in their primary. That way your vote does actually have some influence on the outcome.

It won't change which party wins the general election, but it can help move the winning party toward the center. Primaries are usually lower turnout than the general election, which can make it easier for an extremist candidate to win them because the people who vote for the extremists tend to be more enthusiastic and thus more likely to actually vote in the primary.

If you are in an area where both parties have a good chance of winning the general election, but one party seems more susceptible to extreme candidates winning their primary, consider registering for that party to try to move them more toward the center. It means giving up influencing the other party, but if that party usually picks OK candidates your vote is probably better used trying to help get rid of extremists.
Reasons behind them are not efficiency nor safety but flexibility: in a changing world we need flexible infra, that's while while most denied it we really push air and sea research for logistic because they do not need roads or rails, or they do not needs thing that demand years, decades to be built and can't change much in quick terms.

For nuclear the target is being able to deploy many small plants where we need them quickly vs create in a decade or more one big + adapt the electricity grid to that. Let's say a powerful landslide crush a main high-voltage line: how many people are affected? How many cascading effects? How much time and cost to restore? Vs how quick and economic is just deliver by air few diesel generators? The issue with them is the hyper-big amount of fuel they need, but if we ever been able to create really small nuclear generator we can imagine future small cities with local-only infra for their electricity needs. That allow for hyper-big flexibility.

I suspect such push is done because of climate change and wars that probably, inevitably follow, so we want to be able to keep a kind of civil society in the storm... There will be a rush for the arctic but with melting permafrost is next to impossible developing infra there beside a very small scale. There will be a vast set of mass relocation due to floods and wildfires so again we need to be able to respond in emergency mode quickly. Probably no one is really sure what will happen, at what scale, in how many years and anyway planning for space exploration expansion we need something small enough to fit satellites and ships to Mars and Moon so, for earth we will need them to de-carbonize shipping... They are not something we can build for tomorrow morning so research on them is useful for many reasons.

I can't be sure, but IMVHO that's the most significant reasons behind this push.
As far as I understand, Musk explicitly waived the opportunity to do due diligence (like investigate bot prevalence) in the purchase agreement. Then he turned around and requested numbers that would have been discovered while doing an investigation, such as the one he waived.

Further, Musk is a hypocrite. There are proven bots, potentially even directly sponsored or controlled by Musk or Tesla, that are pro-Tesla and have been shown to correlate with Tesla’s stock price and active correlated with negative Tesla sentiment on Twitter.

This whole thing is a circus orchestrated by him to either make money on his stock purchase or seed discontent on Twitter through his free speech and bot rhetoric or both.
We're fucked.
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Tesla stock also dipped, making it harder for him to finance the purchase.
I explicitly wrote

> to find the square root of an int:

so the value can't exceed INT_MAX :)

Overall, I know the two algorithms aren't perfect, but they're a simple minimal example to show the difference between complexity and runtime.
Until the deal is done one way or the other, everything is a negotiation tactic.
> I admire Elon Musk as a [.] engineer.

Engineer? What exactly has Musk ever engineered? You could maybe argue "designer" but even that may be generous.
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Very good point Teever. Software also doesn't make small talk when you aren't interested. I've also had some drivers that could not follow a GPS well at all.
If Musk can back out will that cause Twitter's stock to collapse?

Outside of just bots, I think Twitter's revenue per user is fairly low.

Then again a correction has just started, so it's understandable he wants out
Ohh, I am delighted at seeing one of my all time favorite bands mentioned here in HN. Their combination of gutural voices and sweet Liv Kristine voice were amazing. It is one of the bands that I am really sad I wans't able to see live, then again they didn't come to Mexico very often back when they were active.

You made my day :)
Please don't claim to speak for a majority.
More like he realized he doesn't really have the money, only big mouth. See also the recent news about how he pushes for 10% layoffs at Tesla.
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It’s absolutely appropriate as he’s a leader in our industry. And on that note I’d no longer apply for a role at Tesla based on his very annoying behavior.
His behavior is completely fine. Just because you don't want to hear news about him doesn't make his behavior wrong. He's saying that Twitter isn't providing valid information and is blocking him from having access to information he has a right to have access to.
> Having the privilege to drive is a moderate position

I don't dispute that, but 1) you used the word "privilege" rather than "right" which really changes the tenor of the claim. "Driving is a privilege, not a right" implies that the "privilege" can be revoked while the (putative) right could not. And 2) my claim was about the justification that people offer for their claimed rights, not the rights themselves.

> Just because someone claims an improper reason, doesn't mean their conclusion is wrong

I didn't say it was. Just because someone is an extremist doesn't mean they are necessarily wrong. The problem with extremism is not that it always leads to wrong conclusions or even to bad outcomes. The problem is that it makes it a lot harder to correct errors.

This is particularly relevant in the case of climate change. When the Taliban chops people's heads off it produces an immediate visceral reaction in most people, which helps motivate them to act. Our collective decisions to keep driving today don't have the same effect on our psyches, even if a lot more people are going to end up dead in the future as a result.
It’s a joke about his newsletter segment
How does him reversing the 10% reduction days later play into the master plan?

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/06/elon-musk-backtracks-on-te...
I thought getting rid of the bots was a big part of his plan for Twitter. How come he acts surprised that there are many bots on Twitter?
amazing but also absolutely cursed
> while I don't like this model and won't participate in such ecosystems

I've tried to keep away from ecosystems like this, but the way is very much dark and full of terrors. As far as I can tell, a smartphone is a prerequisite for participation in much of society today. What phone do you use -- an unlocked Android model, I'd guess? Or something like the Fairphone that I can't get in the USA?
lol, that not a bright move. Hopefully someone hold's his feet to the fire.
Not in a while. We don't manufacture sheet goods here, everything is imported. Loads from Europe, loads from China, loads from Russia, so I don't see how the supply can improve in the near future.

British Gypsum (owned by Saint-Gobain, also owner of Jewson) brought some plasterboard manufacturing back onshore, previously they were all imported from Germany, after Brexit. The UK made plasterboards are inferior, very crumbly , don't break cleanly, and they cost more. And that's for something we already have existing manufacturing capacity here. For something 100% imported like sheet goods there's even less chance prices will drop, barring a off-the cliff drop in demand. Importing more from NA won't help much given the weak pound.

Not long back trades ppl had been stockpiling and passed the increased cost onto customer, reaping the profit. When you see plumbers and sparks loading up their vans with plywood you know the market is broken.
If I had to speculate: a) Twitter is not obligated to provide this data to Musk (he waived his right to due diligence, after all); b) Musk appears to be trying as hard as he can to wriggle out of the deal, whether by renegotiating to a lower sales price or finding some loophole to extricate himself for the other; and c) there's no real upside to providing the data to Musk.

If this went to court, Musk definitely has the weaker legal position here: he signed a deal that obligates him to buy Twitter at a certain price contingent pretty much only on being able to actually obtain financing, and (despite recent market events), that financing doesn't look hard for him to get.
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I wish there were pro cards cheaper than the $8k range, but more readily available and not subject to the ups and downs of crypto and gaming.
The low frame rate is visible to me, as is the occasional color banding. The spatial resolution looks at least as good as a VHS recording of broadcast TV.
> claiming that Musk needs the algorithm that they use to determine if an account is spam frankly sounds like a bad excuse. Especially since countering spam bots was the reason he gave for doing a deal in the first place.

Knowing the current practices to combat spam is highly relevant for improving upon it.
He has the money already.

And the 10% layoffs were much misreported. The layoffs were only among salaried employees with the release simultaneously saying that they will be increasing hiring for non-salaried production employees. A 10% layoff of only salaried workers isn't that large of a layoff.
"force me to do things I don't want to"

Yes, it's terrible. Were it not for that accursed law thar robs us of our liberty, I would murder you on the spot for such an asinine comment.

Understand now partially what a society is about?
It's not a 1:1. ICE has things like: belts (less so now), exhaust, cooling that goes all over the place, vibration, fuel handling (injectors, lines, pump, sometimes more than one pump!), air handling with intakes and filters, sensors for all that junk (oxygen, MAF), oil and oil routing if there's a cooler, transmission cooler in some cases. Lots of these subsystems are total deletions in electric cars.

I'm not saying mechanics will go obsolete, but you're not going to see nearly as many of them. There's simply less to go wrong. I'm sure that something that goes wrong will be on the order of 10k~ :D.

I don't have it at hand, but there was a picture of the frame containing non-drive train components for the Model S, and it was maybe 2ft by 2ft.

A peek at the front of a model S skateboard: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/df/d1/50/dfd15057c8b5a4d129e91ec3b...
Insolvency.
> Based on what? Ride share companies don't absorb any of the cost of vehicle maintenance, insurance, or fuel. Drivers are subsidizing a significant amount of the capital costs of running a taxi business that isn't exactly reflected in prices.

Ultimately there's profit, drivers wouldn't do it if it weren't profitable.

> Additionally there's the problem of the market tolerating current prices. Like gasoline, even if the cost comes down it doesn't mean price goes down. Profit margins will increase if the market can sustain current prices.

I see a lot of competition in the space and the history of taxi services has been one of very low prices so I see the trend to continue in self driving.
Checkout Severance on Apple TV if you have the possibility but that’s pretty much the story behind the series.
>But even MPEG-1 supports a maximum resolution of 4095×4095, and a maximum bandwidth of 100 mbit. So it is technically possible to encode 4k (3840×2160) content even in MPEG-1, at decent quality.

The reality is that that despite MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 support those resolution, none of the mainstream implementation supports it. ( Although you could always use Software implementation as MPEG-2 is now patent free ) Hence when you go 4K, only newer version of MPEGs are used.

It is also missing MPEG-5 with EVC. And how not only MPEG-4 has different codec, AVC itself introduces many different profiles where compression efficiency differs greatly.
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He did recently have sexual misconduct/prostitution allegations made public against him [1], plus a lot of honorable mentions during the Depp v. Heard trial [2].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-paid-250000-to-a-flig...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/amber-heard-elon-musk-cara-deleving...
Our GraphQL Edge Cache is based on Fastly's infrastructure, so we do use Varnish under the hood for the cache storage. In order to properly support GraphQL at the caching layer you have to understand GraphQL so you can do fine-grained invalidation.[0]

Essentially, our GraphQL Edge Cache is similar to a GraphQL client. It looks at the request body with the query & the response with the typenames and tags the cached query result with all the objects contained within. E.g. a getBlogPost query that fetches the blog post and its author will be tagged with BlogPost#asdf123 and User#gjkd489. Then we can invalidate whenever those specific objects change.

[0]: https://docs.stellate.co/docs/purging-api
Normally I agree but and exception should be made for this schmuck.
For one, plants don't build cities, so if we have to deal with sea level rises than that's a problem for our buildings. The same with any increase in natural disasters: it's easier for a tree to grow again after a hurricane than it is to rebuild an electrical grid.

We could deal with it, the issue is that civilisation entails cooperatively working to deal with it as opposed to going to war and killing everyone the second your crops fail.
I explained why in my comment. USD is regulated like money.
Even more shocking: if the manager was active in implementation -- even just a small part -- they would only need a fraction as many status reports. They could just talk to the relevant people instead.
Statistics can be great at distracting from the truth, especially for those with an agenda or an stiff image of the world as they see it.

You figure out that all people of $ethnicity perform worse in $test? Very likely you just measured their socioeconomic background instead of the correlation of their ethnicity to that test. There is soo many ways in which such a statistical analysis can be methodically wrong, it is not even funny anymore. To find the truth here you need to be someone who cares about the truth more than a out finding proof for what they already believe, and those people are sadly quite rare.
As a non-American who lived in the US, I've noticed that Americans tend to do a lot of navel gazing about the state of America - without knowing much about how other countries deal with it. A lot of blame is on the media which tend to exaggerate and sensationalize news and the US outlets are experts at it.

If you spend time outside the US, you'd realize the problems the US deal with are pretty similar to the problems other countries deal with.

But Americans with little knowledge of the world outside the US catastrophize what's going on the in the US - "the Republic is falling!", "it's never been this bad!", "Americans are so ignorant!" and "nobody has ever had this problem, ever!".
M&A lawyer here. Based on my read, Musk is trying to establish that the Company has "materially breached" the Merger Agreement by not providing the requested information. If he can show that, there's no requirement to show a material adverse effect, which is a 2nd and distinct way he could avoid closing.

What he's doing is pretty transparent; based on my Monday morning quarterback view of this situation, he simply believes that the price he agreed to for the company is too high given the state of the market.

His letter isn't made in good faith and if this gets litigated, I bet the Delaware courts will relish making an example of him.
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You might want to read the letter. Your feelings might then have some basis in reality.
Well, i found this discussion really nasty that on the run those new normal companies would get so much well secured sites. Maybe years ago there would be a way but not now, it's really incredible what money can do like change logos to Alegria art, accept pornography like furries etc.
Exactly this.

Communicate:

-validation from VCs who should know whether this company has a viable product

-runway to be able survive and build/improve

To:

- prospective employees

- prospective customers

As someone who recently did this kind of funding announcement, it can really help the business to chest beat. It doesn’t have to mean the priorities of the company are wrong.
Your rule of thumb is from 2012, and is very wrong in 2022. A recent paper came out that determined that the production emissions of gasoline and electric vehicles are now equivalent. I can't dig it up and it hasn't been generally accepted yet, but the generally accepted number now is that an EV is net carbon negative after 6 months of driving.

But that's for an electric car vs a fuel efficient car. An electric truck vs a 15 mpg gasoline truck will go carbon negative a lot faster than 6 months.
You don’t have to send the databases over to comply. You can give on-premises access to your data to Musk representatives and let me make their own queries to satisfy themselves. It’s not hard.
How can you get ‘hooked’ on a basic free text editor that works like all other text editors? I don’t get the intensity of your problem with it?