skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, there's a few different discussions with Levine and others on Twitter - but what Musk is asking for is generally governed by an information covenant - but the covenant in his offer is extremely weak in terms of governing the deal...

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1533820324214611969

What Levine is referring to is that the deal is subject to Twitter not making any representations that amount to "material adverse effects" which is a very high standard that Twitter definitely hasn't broached -- but financing statements are often subject to detail that covers "all material respects" which is a much more broad standard that Elon could plausibly litigate.

It's deeply cynical on Elon's part - he knows what he signed and he knows what he got himself into - which is why he's doing this dumb dance to back out now. It might even work, but it's against the spirit and (IMO) the letter of the contract.

He's relying on section 6.4 to make his case that they need to provide him the bot detail - it's short and sweet:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522...

But he's clearly going to use what they provide him to attempt to back out of the deal which is explicitly against the terms of that section.
If I thought a cause was important, and I saw someone pretending to represent the cause but really berating and sneering at the people I was trying to reach out to and connect with, I'd be unhappy about that being the public face of the cause I valued.
The absolute first thing to do is get a resist magicka spell, and the boots of blinding speed!
> Ah so we are no better than China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good: the world isn’t black and white, but shades of gray.

I think it’s both the case that the US does unsavory things and that the US is better than those nations on the subjects you’re talking about.

> The NSA and CIA are probably more interested in feeding Wall Street insider information on foreign economic activity so they can obtain advantages than anything else, and of course there's the kickback angle with the private contractors bloated secret budgets.

Compared to those nations you listed, I don’t think this claim is true.
Dunno if this is what you are looking for.... but I've specified hundreds of high end servers (all HP) in very large banks onprem and in colo in 4 geos.

- often you are limited to "off the shelf" approved subsets of hardware+rhel configurations that have been tested by a centralised team. These teams rarely have a clue about what they are doing, are highly inflexible and their specs very out of date.

- with colo there has been more flexibility as these are bought for the bank by a 3rd party

- very large number of NICs needed for bonding + seperate physical network for client connectivity/internal connectivity/exchange connectivity.

- driven by business requirements from whatever trading area

- their own technology team

- then massive multilayer procurement sign off process that can take 6+ months

- the available hardware might change or increment during this process requiring a reset if the appetite exists

- usually not bought direct from manufacturer but a "pre approved" vendor who passes bank procurement onboarding procedures

- servers all have iLo for mgmt/failure etc - usually requires interaction with an official systems team via internal bank ticketing/helpdesk system

- colo you open tickets with e.g. Eqinix to receive the hardware and have it put in your cage or whatever pending weekend install by bank or 3rd party team who hook them up to switches as per agreed design with network+systems and business tech team

- often when live there are 2/3 different teams monitoring the hosts 24/7 using various tools

prob left out a load of stuff.
Counterpoint: consumers can embark on a long road trip with a gasoline powered car with zero planning or research with respect to refueling. If electrics want wider adoption in the free market, that is something that will need to be addressed.
The claim that a dataset with billions of users has only dozens of people able/interested in doing data processing on it is a damning admission that the format is too hard to deal with
> I still have no idea if he's an adversarial plant by some government

Was what he disclosed true or not? In the end, that's all that matters.
Assuming the data includes that of Europeans, then there is a problem: users must be aware of how their data is to be used from the beginning (and must be able to opt out of data use at any time), and that data usage must be minimal. Most companies have rules against over-sharing PII between different departments, let alone sharing that data with people external to the business.
Here is a screenshot [1] of the page served, which indicates there's a DNS misconfiguration issue.

[1] https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1533825620148469760?...
So about 5% of the company's workers, in the highest earning segment.

> The company confirmed they're still hiring

That's not accurate, for salaried workers. Similarly, there is a hiring freeze for salaried workers. They're still hiring hourly workers.
LinkedIn Down?
Unfortunately the profile is "male" and leads to situations like the time they broke into my son's locker at school because he had a Chap-Stick and a girl thought it was a bullet.

(My joke was that he should have made a rubber-band gun that shoots Chap-Sticks out of a clip but that would have been even more trouble.)
I agree. I've been writing a lot of javascript for the past few years. I've come to love async in javascript - async makes my javascript code fast, readable and reliable.

Moving to rust, a lot of the struggle I've experienced has come from trying to write rust the way I would javascript - by using rust's async primitives. Async support in rust is complex, immature and incomplete. And its been this way for years.

For a project a few years ago, I tried making an HTTP server which supported a custom SSE-style endpoint. The resulting code was atrocious - it was long, complicated, and I needed to invoke deep lifetime magic that I still don't fully understand to make it compile. I just want to implement both sides of an async stream - but no; thats apparently too hard. I got hundreds of lines in, and the code still wasn't finished. I rewrote it in about 20 lines of javascript and it works great.

I've decided to stay away from async rust until the language & ecosystem mature. Synchronous rust is a delight. I'm going to need to do more IO soon, and I'm dreading it. I don't really want to use threads, but I think it might be the right choice given the current state of async rust.
> Now I try to write dumb and simple (yet sensible) code until there’s a good reason for abstractions.

Good abstraction is a lot harder than most think. We tote abstraction's benefits as a reason for abstraction but fail to recognize bad abstraction and how it completely negates any would be benefit.

Too often abstraction (so called) requires a lot of research into how it's implemented. By the time you figure out enough implementation details to use the abstraction, you could have implemented it yourself quicker. It saves no time or effort but you're stuck with it because existing code is hard to part with.

If you're not reliving your users of a shit ton of implementation details then it's just not good abstraction. Code for someone who doesn't want or have time to learn the details. Often this will be your future self despite your current believe that your mind is a steal trap and would never forget how you did this stuff.
Concurrency is hard. Before I started using Rust I was totally on the immutability train, and I still think it's a great strategy. But immutability everywhere also involves jumping through hoops and fighting with the compiler. Though for some reason no one talks about that strategy the same way they talk about Rust's. I think that, no matter what strategy you settle on, it's a bit more work to guarantee correct concurrency.
The first time I heard about it was while monitoring medical news about treatments during the epidemic - because researchers in Pakistan, then Saudi Arabia, gave credit to the idea of trying Nigella Sativa. See e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8364675/
Dell, too
I am the one who posted it.
False, he's a cofounder. Tesla had no cars and no customers before Elon.
I'm not from the US and I know that road trips are part of the US culture but I'm not sure that they are the first use case of a car.

Electric cars are designed and are suitable for everyday trips.

If you are buying an EV mainly to do road trips, you are probably stupid. You are using the wrong tool for the job.

If you really want to do road trips, well... you'd still better buy an EV... and use the money you spared by not buying oil all year long to rent a nice road car.
interrupted by the constant stream of incoming messages from unknowing friends

You can probably edit, including disabling, notifications from the different messaging apps. Don't worry about your friends. They understand this is asynchronous communication.
Add keys to existing nodes mostly. Possibly using tasks.openstreetmap.org and/or possibly doing something in a batch if I can get data from the city to use. These structures seem well defined, thankfully. And the crossings and signal locations look to be complete.
You're right, they're not. I was thinking at the time of the fear of pollution.
You probably do run Wayland then, since it became the default in Debian 10 (buster).

“To use the X11 backend by default, uncomment the WaylandEnable=false line in the /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf file.”

— https://wiki.debian.org/Wayland
a leak in and of itself is embarrassing. the content may not be
I for one look forward to the brave spirit of adventure.
Giving one candidate debate questions in advance.

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donna-brazile-wikilea...
So the conclusion I got from this article is "If You want to do road trips in an EV, get a Tesla."
Nitrogen is 70% of the atmosphere, I don’t see any way for it to run short until the death of the sun (or the use of von Neumann probes) boils off Earth’s atmosphere.

If you’re going to worry about fertilisers, worry about phosphate and potassium… but even then, the problem and solution is unrelated to greenhouse gases.
How is a current iPhone significantly different from an iMac architecturally? Sure they are curreny running different variants of Apple’s operating system, but they share similar processors, similar wireless connectivity, etc.

Edit: a slightly different way to look at it: the iPhone has always been a computer. Since iPhone 8 or so, it’s also had desktop class performance.
I'm not sure that assumption is reasonable, especially if a company has to front-load R&D.
If you don't go on longer road trips very often then maybe just rent a car when you need one for a road trip.
Oh definitely. But it seems to me that it is obvious that increases in CO2 on a massive, rapid scale will necessitate climatic changes (not necessarily bad) as the system finds a new equilibrium. This may in turn cause massive disruptions to human societies.

Note that there are many seemingly obvious things that are false so I could be wrong.
A minimal interface to VirusTotal
The hoops people will jump through for Musk is continually surprising.
Lack of RVs on my street is a feature, not a bug. I fail to see how this is “nasty politics”.
> A core idea of this is that there are various filters that separate a new planet from one hosting spacefaring life.

The most obvious, but least talked about filter is time.

Let’s assume there is a civilization just like us on the other end of the Milky Way galaxy, it’s not like we can just “look out” and observe them. Assuming they blasted out radio signals, those radio signals would have to have been sent 100,000 years ago for us to detect them today. Alternatively for that same civilization to detect our earliest radio signals it take another 999,900 years.

If this technologically advanced civilization was in the closest galaxy instead of the opposite end of the Milky Way, then our ability to detect one another’s signals traveling at the speed of light would be separated by over 2.5M years.
As a gravedigger?
Yes, I definitely did. Monday brain, I guess.
What? She planned her entire route around charging. Meticulously picked L3 for in-day top-up and L2 for overnight stay. Planned the entire route around the charging network using the PlugShare app.

What happened was that the charging stations were sometimes broken, sort of broken, or outright not as claimed such as L2 instead of L3.

And it should be stated that none of this planning would be required with a combustion engine.

This comment is FUD.
+1 to this comment.

PII doesn’t just mean usernames and passwords (which the OP seemed to suggest is the case). It’s anything — or any combination — of data that could be associated with someone and identify them.
To be honest, I think using "people" rather than "progressives" would be less insightful and would ignore a genuine perception that I, and probably many others, have with progressives as a whole. They are insistent, they are vocal, and they seem particularly driven and uncompromising when it comes to fighting for what they believe. I wanted to present this in a neutral or matter-of-fact way. It can either be seen as a negative (progressives are pushy and obstinate), or it can be seen as virtuous (progressives are relentless in the pursuit of justice).

After reading through all the comments in this thread, I get the sense that many commenters want to dismiss any perception that is remotely negative about the behavior of progressives by attributing the alleged attributes as something that, one, other groups do more, and two, something that everyone does. But in so doing, progressivism becomes something you can only ascribe unquestionably positive attributes to.
Geez, treat the guy as performance art and just keep on walking. If he wants something badly, he’ll go through the process of hostile takeover. His antics have damaged both twitter and Tesla which should piss off lots of Institutional investors.
Hard disagree. An EV at home/around town should be something you don't have to even think about (let it charge overnight at your house) but I would never consider going on a trip longer than 1 full charge worth of range without mapping out the route. There appear to be apps that specifically do this for you instead of just searching for stations along your route as you go and no excuse as to why they didn't do that (other than trying on purpose to make EVs sound bad or being woefully bad at planning).
It feels very slow and gets stuck when reading folders with very large number of items.
For me, I would not consider buying physical servers for quite a long time. That's coming from someone who has quite a bit of experience working with hardware. If you shipped me a box of parts that would be just as well as a physical server. It's just the time / maintenance / cost that goes with that.

On the other hand, there is also that growth tipping point where cloud is not cost effective anymore and you need to switch to physical servers, or at least it would be a cost savings doing so.

That's quite a while later though save for some niche cases.

One interesting lane might be to combine these two and offer a one stop service for getting cloud servers and hardware. In particular you could offer guidence (automated or otherwise) about when it makes the most sense to use cloud or onprem at what scale.

Scope could also include things like colo vs self hosting, What datacenters to use, where to buy land to build new datacenters, region and cdn consideration, etc.
This attitude is exactly the problem. You twist it around to pin the blame on green activists somehow not doing enough in their personal lives, and no matter what they do, it's never enough. If he had given up his car, you'd ask when he'll give up meat. If he'd given up meat you'd ask when he'll put solar panels on his house, or whatever other excuse you can come up with to feel superior and justify doing nothing.

These things only work if everyone does them. If we want people to give up their cars we need massive investment in electrified public transit. Without that it is impossible for most people to survive without cars. A few people who have the freedom and the will to suffer under public transit choosing to give up their cars will do nothing to stop climate change.
I'll now repeat what "dead" sibling commenter said, but without the inflammatory "burn" comment that likely got them downvoted.

Except in this case the problem isn't the technology, but the company behind the technology.

There is nothing wrong with this comment, it is correct. I don't care if you've covered your eyes and ears. Meta is a company that has behaved on the whole profoundly unethically. I think there's a pretty strong consensus for that among techies.

It's pretty intellectually dishonest of you to imply some sort of luddite position when someone presents legitimate criticism of the Meta corporation.

And I personally also have a strong problem with the kind of VR that Meta is advocating for. I think it has a potential for serious societal problems. Especially in their hands, it will likely accelerate many of the societal ills that Facebook has been acused of.
So infuriating to read. I guess "We took a car to go from point A to point B and everything went fine" does not make for a good article.

Those idiots goes on a thousand miles journey and don't bother doing the slightest research. 2 minutes with ABRP (abetterrouteplanner.com) would have showed them where the fast charging station were, allowing to take advantage of the great charging speed of their KIA.

Had they done so, they would have been able to do the 1000 miles with less than 2 hours charge total (ABRP claim 1 h 34 min), very little in comparison of the 17h drive...

I wonder who pays for having such crap published...
Welcome to a peek behind the world’s thin veneer.

You should see what goes on and who dies in order to keep our iPhone and gas prices down, and our children fed.

Expose consumers to the true costs of goods and services in a moral world, and the world’s morals are going to start looking pretty different, pretty quickly.
well, Julia is not class-based OOP so it's kind of Unix like where packages does one thing right and you just compose them or someone makes a meta package that compose them
FOSS on Apple products that only have an app store is doomed because it costs money to have a developer account.

FOSS activists always claim that it's free as in free speech and not free beer, but somehow these FOSS apps everyone claims to need can't even reach the $100/y necessary to keep them on the app store.
eqn still exists for folks wanting the old-school troff-style tools.
Simple - the load on their origin servers is cut down significantly. And GraphCDN made it easy and painless to set up. I don't know of any other options that can do schema-aware caching in this way that is as user-friendly as Stellate.

As an aside - I notice you commenting cynically to almost every thread here. A dose of skepticism is fine and of course we should consider alternatives and technical limitations etc. But your tone and activity comes across more of having a personal vendetta against this company. Very strange.
I am surprised that so many people recommend "Good to Great." The book suffers from many issues, prime among them is survivorship bias. The sample size is extremely small (11 companies).
We're headed that way, as long as we don't somehow plateau on our improvement for some reason.
It differs wildly between producers. Saudi Arabia extracts oil for a few dollars per barrel, while it costs Russia 40-50$.
Yes, the only reason for my comment was that you gave multiple examples where you and family members and historical groups made a big deal out of something and it turned out it didn't have any significant impact on their lives. There are probably few rural folks who wouldn't experience significant life altering consequences of losing their personal transportation autonomy.
Seems like a good product, but also seems easy to replicate if it gets serious traction.
That's what I am saying though - Twitter has stated for a lonnngggg time, very publicly, that it's bot number is 5%. Elon bullied them into the purchase contract knowing this information, claiming he was specifically going to fix the bot problem. But now is complaining that it's incorrect and using it as a way out of the agreement.
Yes of course there are different experiences and paths, I certainly wasn't implying that there was only one way.

The company you worked at sounds like it had a really good structure and really put in the work and time to help employees grow, and unfortunately that's not the case everywhere.

But I would say from my experience across many jobs, and from speaking with all my peers, consensus is that doing diagonal moves in your first 10-15 years on the job will land you in a better place than staying put that whole time, both from an experience and skills perspective, and from a role/seniority/salary perspective.
At a previous company I attended regular team lunches with a particularly obnoxious colleague. It wasn't that he was a bad guy, just a snob who liked the sound of his own voice and talking over people with his pseudo intellectual rantings and ravings.

Clubhouse replicates that experience almost too well. The only thing missing is the food and the obligation to be present.
This is an awesome lecture.
I replied to the statement "The state owns the only alcohol store." - the only text in the comment I replied to. And as it's factually wrong, I replied with a comment stating just that. There was nothing about monitoring in the comment I replied to, nor in my reply.

As for monitoring - as said elsewhere, if monitoring of supermarket sales will happen or not depends not only on what that particular office wants (SSB - central statistics bureau), but what politicians decide on. And, despite many comments here believing otherwise, it is actually quite common for Norwegian politicians to listen to massive resistance from the people, particularly when the reasoning behind the whole suggestion is quite questionable, as in this case. In any case, whether alcohol is sold here or there it wouldn't make any difference to the monitoring. And cash is still legal tender in Norway, even if there are some that don't like that fact. As for myself I believe only Mastercard really know how much money I use on wine. I don't think they know my preferences though (Italian, as it were)