skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can reasonably expect that number to be higher, given how many dormant accounts Twitter has.

You would measure it in terms of MAU - not total created accounts - right?
I'm just north of you, and they are the most common bird in my garden. Perhaps there is something about Lincoln that they don't like? Though I can't imagine what, because it's a lovely place.
What people usually miss is the cost in lives of delays in approving or developing cures:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/01/th...
The only fair price of using a car accounts for the price of removing its GHG emissions from the air. If operating a car costs less than that, then we are all indirectly subsidizing the use of cars, and we'd all be better off subsidizing the use of electric cars / public transport / etc. If using a car costs more than that, then we are unfairly targeting cars.
I disagree. I think it’s the opposite, Twitter should be providing this data and it’s pretty straightforward. Not providing it or pretending to provide it seems like a way to get out of the sale but leaving open a way to sue him for breach of the sale.
Extreme division of labor, did it work as far as pushing the product forward?
Hopefully, this will fix the US's coastal elites problem.
I am not saying what he is doing right now isn't rational. I think it's totally rational. He now has the chance of lowering the price or even abandoning the deal.

(I just don't believe him regarding the bots. He always knew bots are a problem and likely under-reported.)
> Banks had to repay the funds.

The banks should never have been in a position to repay those funds. Institutions that screw up that badly should be disbanded and replaced by someone completely different. Maybe swap the executive team and the office cleaners, I dunno. Anyone else. Totally different corporate culture.

But, happily, whoever is unhappy about it can start looking to crypto to see if there are alternatives. I don't think there are yet, but an an economic cycle or two the whole issue may well be a moot point.
I don't think I follow the stderr comment. Isn't it just:

Perl

print STDERR "foo"

Python

print(file=sys.stderr, "foo")

Those look fairly similar. I prefer that print() is obviously a function call and file is a named parameter so the purpose is clear.
Graduate Student’s Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture
American Tech Leaves China, but What Will Stay?
That definition is different than what you are saying. Having the privilege to drive is a moderate position, not an immoderate one. We also place restrictions on it, so it's not uncompromising either.

'I think that "I have this right because I say so" qualifies even if the right you claim doesn't seem "extreme" at first glance.'

Just because someone claims an improper reason, doesn't mean their conclusion is wrong (you could have false premises and a true conclusion - that makes a bad argument but the conclusion can still correct). Often times the people claiming natural rights (or really any of their rights) just don't know the proper reasoning and instead resort to claiming something gave them that right - nature, God, government, etc.

It would be hard to fully explore any argument without getting to the point of someone's subjective reasoning that something is good or bad as perspective can come into play (good for me vs bad for you, why is society more important than individuals, etc).
> Because (at least) for people with a high risk of dying

and who decides that?

Can a drug company give "gifts" to doctor who then recommend the patient use that company's drugs when he/she is dying?
It takes the same (huge) amount of time for all inputs - there's no early exit it always scans to INT_MAX. Hence O(1)
If a government agent asks for certain user data, a Telegram employee does a search and have it on their screen for the government agent to see. How many bytes would you say Telegram has disclosed?
Everybody is engaging in securities fraud. PSA: reading his column is securities fraud.
You left out a few steps of the enrichment process that made those hot rocks into very very hot rods. No need to be disingenuous about it.
You really think he wouldn't disclose it publicly if he thought it benefited him/for the lulz? He's exactly the kind of person who would just get the papers and publish them immediately.
You might want to check the specifics of this case - because it's thoroughly messed up. I don't think you'll think this is a good or just decision by the court once you look deeper. There's a long history to this feud/abuse of power.
... In certain societies, like the US. There are many places where public transport makes it not a requirement.
Simple web page hosting still exists [1] and there are many scripts out there to generate a static gallery. Some do not even require javascript and instead use html refresh to cycle pages. I want to say one of them was called "gal2" or something but I do not have a link in my bookmarks.

[1] - https://neocities.org/
Another one for the list, one that I personally use at home and work:

* hajimari - https://github.com/toboshii/hajimari

Autodiscovery based on Kubernetes Ingress objects is a really nice feature: you configure the details using labels (name, icon etc.) in case the Ingress is not exactly what you want.
I don’t understand how this works when he waived due diligence.

My guess is the intention is to delay the transaction for some reason.
> don't benchmark well in languages with heap fragmentation issues.

Microsoft has solved most of these issues on Windows, couple decades ago. The feature was introduced in WinXP, and enabled by default in Vista and all newer versions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/low-fr...

I’m not an expert in Linux but I would be surprised if Linux didn’t do the same. RAM costs have plummeted. The losses from RAM usage overhead of LFH became insignificant compared to the issues caused by the fragmentation.
The rocks weren't dangerous until we centrifuged out the most radioactive fraction of them and concentrated them together in nuclear fuel rods.

There's a reason you don't see very many natural concentrations of dangerous fission products in the wild.
The blog title is an advertisement for talk which does not appear to be published online, and also admittedly doesn't offer 19 dubious ways.
For Musk to get out of the deal, there would have to be a "material adverse effect" resulting from any past misrepresentation by Twitter. The standard for MAE used by Delaware courts is apparently very high. For example, if Twitter had misstated its earnings for years and half of the cash on its books just didn't exist, that would be MAE. An estimate about the number of bots that was always couched in airtight legal disclaimers seems to fall far short of MAE.

However Twitter's board seems to be a bunch of uninterested pushovers who don't care about the company or the product, so they'll probably just give Musk what he wants to make the PR headache go away.
This is awesome. I often think I would be a better developer if I had something like this when I was first starting out. Alas, 95% of my experience is gluing libraries together to check off Jira tickets.
Your typeform is broken, cool idea but you should focus more on selling it as opposed to jetbrains and live shares functionality, you're competing so putting a feature comparison table or hard numbers would be more enticing than "it's better"
Except he very deliberately put himself in this position. Twitter has reported 5% as the bot count for years, it’s not like it was some secret only uncovered during DD here. Additionally one of the main reasons Musk cited for wanting to buy Twitter was to fix the bots!
My point is that asphalt is petroleum based, absorbs heat from the sun, and requires energy to heat it when building.
Twitter have no obligation to provide any data to a potential buyer unless there is a contract to protect the effort they have to expend in order to get the information. Even when there are common due-dil type questions that the company might have already prepared, there is nothing stopping somebody from saying that something else is important to them.
If you're demanding numbers, where are yours?

They're easy to find.

gasoline truck: 1/15 gallons per mile * 17 pounds CO2 / gallon = 1.1 pounds/mile

electric truck: 0.5 kWh per mile * 0.8 pounds CO2 / kWh = 0.4 pounds / mile

That 0.8 pounds CO2/kWh number is the US average from 2020. It's predicted to halve by 2025.

And I didn't include the numbers for drilling, refining and transporting the gasoline used, which are massive, and increase the 1.1 pounds/mile figure by at least 40%.
There's an interesting question here about what extent inflating engagement metrics such as MAUs/DAUs is fraudulent. There are lots of subjective edge-cases - do you count multiple profiles as multiple users? Does _any_ engagement qualify as activity? How aggressively do you discount your metrics based on assumed botting rates?

Twitter has overstated it's DAUs previously by 1.9m per quarter[1]. If this has a direct impact on the price, is this therefore fraud? I think we wouldn't be in this situation if the rules were clearer.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23046170/twitter-miscount...
The author writes about a competing Fortran implementation for computing zeros: "But their software is in Fortran. I was a big Fortran fan for a long time. I used to be considered one of the Fortran gurus at MathWorks. I now don't even have access to a Fortran compiler. So I can't try their stuff myself."

This seems like a dubious claim - the AMVW code seems to provide a makefile that compiles using the free GNU Fortran compiler: https://github.com/eiscor/eiscor
https://archive.ph/3oNMJ
He explicitly waived any kind of due diligence, which is when you would normally agree to a price and make a conditional offer. His offer was unconditional.
How in the world is this not already a thing?
No, the whole point of the pre-merger negotiations is to grill the company on that kind of stuff before locking in the price. you don't get "official access" to anything until you've actually finished the transaction and paid for the company (partially for "don't string us along" reasons and partially for antitrust/collusion reasons). Musk decided to rush into this deal with very little negotiations and while waiving the standard due diligence, and now he's bored with it and creating a pretext to get himself out of it. It's insane to believe he really cares about the bot problem—fixing the problem of "too many bots in his mentions" was one of the reasons he bought the company to begin with!
He waved his due diligence and now has a cool $1 billion cancellation fee. That's what he's trying to get out of. That's what people mean by "no-condition buyout."
This is not on the topic of the article, but could nuclear waste be the ultimate storage of value for a cryptocurrency-type “coin”?? Very expensive and energy intensive to produce, very limited supply, must be closely guarded but not really all that dangerous in small amounts??

What if the US government agreed to purchase “coined” waste after 30 years in circulation for a set, relatively high price, making it, in effect, a treasury or bond?

At the end of the day, this would incentivize production of nuclear power, kick the can down the road, incentivizes the US government to research storage or processing techniques or simply resell back into the market.
The identity goes even deeper than this. You're talking to a country of people that had it so bad wherever they were originally, that they decided to uproot everything they could carry and start a completely new life. Some are first generations of this today, while many are only two to three generations away from that source. Our indigenous people also carry this identity because the ones remaining know the ultimate face of evil and carry on under that load.

These are very, very different psyches of people. The subtleties show up in all elements of the current prevailing culture, and what is truly happening right now is the war between those that remember how bad it was and can be, and those who experienced life with a completely new set of pains outside the horrors of the bottom of hierarchy of needs.

To tie this back to the climate and culture of the US, having gone through two major hurricanes in the gulf region, I can tell you the mindset of everyone is 'so what.' You lose your house, all possessions, and have $500 in your bank account with 4 kids -- but you are not alone, every single person around you, rich or poor is going through some chaos. Every single person is reaching out to help you clear your road, cook food for you, keep the kids together -- (first hand account).

So in these communities, a big scary 'climate change' event is already happening, and they are pulling through just fine. They live in unconscious safety because they have direct evidence that their community has their back - and life continues on happily until someone comes with a shaking finger to say, 'you really need to stop everything you're doing and fight climate change.'
When I was growing up AIM was the method to chat with my friends online. I don't think I knew any of their email addresses. If someone was offline, I would just have to wait until they came online. I could definitely see a bot like this being useful back then.
I think the majority believe that action should be undertaken. The trick is figuring out what action.
When I was doing this we'd still link the URL in the content of our reply. But it would be part of a natural reply that engaged with the surrounding conversation, not just mindless copy-paste spam like "Nice, btw check out my video: <link>"
The size of the car does correlate with its likelihood to hit pedestrians.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/03/17/suvs-pickups...
Or Twitter management is operating in standard SV mode, aka ”if we say there are no bots, then there are no bots”

I pity the poor engineers who get the task. ”Hey Claire we need a report by tomorrow 8am that shows we only have under 5% bots. If there are more, just figure out a way to hide them. PS We are not telling you to falsify data, we are just making it very clear that these are the numbers we need, and you are indeed easily fired”
So either:

- Because Twitters stock price dipped, he's trying to renegotiate.

- This whole thing wasn't a good faith bid to begin with, and Twitter should insist he pays the $1B exit clause.

Ultimately if he exits without paying this has done Twitter (and their stockholders) harm without any benefit, and it almost feels like a stunt to distract from unrelated controversy surrounding Musk.
Serious question: In what specific ways is it securities fraud?
The file=sys.stderr came with Python 3. Because of that, I tend to see sys.stderr.write("foo\n") more often.
Excited to see OSS developer tooling closer to how enterprise actually use GraphQL. Very impressive!
True, but I wanted to go with a simple example to show my point.
Poor Stanley Tweedle
That 320x240 need for speed intro video doesn't look bad at all to me, for having to be rendered on a 486 era computer!

The low resolution pixels are visible, but I don't see many blocking / MPEG artefacts. I've seen much worse 240p videos.
This is where I get confused. I've seen online that about 3% of all CO2 emissions are attributed to humans.

Is that wrong?
I think your understanding of what a society means and entails is badly out of whack with reality. Living in a society entails curbs on “freedoms”. People in every society are subjected to the norms, ideals, and views of that society. These things change over time. Sometimes change is forced by external events and sometimes changes occur from within. Lots of people have power over you and power over your life today, right now. You are apparently comfortable with the ways and means of that control over your life and don’t want it to change but please don’t think that no one should have power over you.
Hello, Strategic Petroleum Reserve !
It's not about the money. It's about the runway.

The statement is to the market and to potential hires that they have runway. Showing how much money you've raised gives prospects (customer or employee) confidence that you will be around for a reasonable amount of time if they make bet on your business. Plus, it's social selling. Investors do due diligence. I can trust that this business has good fundamentals if VC X invested in them (in theory). I don't want to invest my budget, infrastructure or - heaven forbid - my time on this planet, on a place that's going to disappear.

Lots of startups solve meaningful and interesting things, but that doesn't matter if they can't show they have enough money in the bank to keep operations running.
I like and agree with the general sentiment of your comment (people are more adaptive than they may think) but I think the example isn't a great one... What 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.
This isn't coal. It's highly radioactive. Everything related to highly radioactive waste from handling to transport to storage is an issue.
Having switched my family, friends and many colleagues to Signal, I am fairly confident to say that Signal's user experience is good enough.
We are delighted to go down this road with the community. Feel free to ask any questions.
Electric vehicles continue to provide one bright spot for gloomy auto market
“ In a couple generations the problem will be critical enough that buying your way out of it will no longer be possible, and then we’ll see change”

So what is that line? The inability to maintain high quality food production? Modern manufacturing? Mass migration?
Elon Musk says Twitter is in 'material breach' of merger agreement
and then google happened
> in Markdown

Author said plaintext not markdown.
So glad they are doing this and it’s just the start from what I understand. We also may have actual concurrency in python soon.
The thing is, this isn’t actually easy to figure out. There isn’t even one right answer for how to do it. And if Twitter revisited their analysis and found they were off by one percent, IMO that correction shows good faith, not attempted fraud.
> don't believe the US has any interest in "helping Ukraine", let alone the people of Ukraine,

In this case, "Enemy of my enemy is my friend.". "Not having interest in helping Ukraine" doesn't mean that USA wants to hurt Ukraine. And if it does, well, Russia wants it much more, so it would be still wise for Ukrainians to side with USA. But USA does indeed have one big interest in helping Ukraine. While helping them, they hurt Russia.

> The aggressor which most needs weakening is the one that's able to hijack SWIFT and dictate to third parties whom they can trade with.

Nope, the agressor which most needs weakening is the one actively shooting rockets and killing tens of thousands of civilians in just three months.

> And yes, the US is just coercing others into its foreign policy campaign against Russia under the guise of "punishment"

Nope, it's like everyone wanted to help Russia, so they invested there, bought their gas and oil so that maybe Russia is a good trade partner. But Russia decided that they now are strong enough to invade their neighbour and threaten other neighbours with more violence. Yeah, we should pat Rusia on their head and say "good job invading Ukraine, please don't invade us" while Russia makes threats of further invading left and right while telling everyone that they didn't in fact invade anyone yet.
It seems like the fake accounts issue was most likely known all along, and Musk kept it as an escape rope if the deal ended up not appearing to be as good as hoped. The market downturn affecting TSLA and TWTR, deals he had to make for financing, and Twitter internals not seeming as rosy probably led him to want out. Finding a key point where the other party was arguably being deceptive which would have a real impact on the value of your investment and then keeping that aside in case the deal seems bad and you want out without paying a billion dollars seems a really quite reasonable play that would be natural in this kind of deal. It's not like Twitter is some poor victim of an aggressor, it's just business. These kind of games don't come off particularly positively for anyone and give people with an axe to grind something to gripe about, but it's all very meh.

He'll either get a much lower price for TWTR or all his money back to put back into TSLA or some other venture.
Visionary? Maybe. Engineer? Meh.

I think he's first and foremost an entrepreneur, and people overstate his engineering ability. In many cases, he shows total ignorance for the realities of engineering (see e.g: hyperloop). I suspect in those cases he is just surrounded by yes-men who don't want to tell him he's wrong.

In general, I get the impression that his success over the years has been contingent on the people he has surrounded himself with. That, in itself, is a skill, though, granted.
>The trouble is, that wouldn't work on the old versions!

Yeah, a bit late to address the issue. Would have been helpful in the 2->3 transition.
Was never alive. Only reason clubhouse thrived briefly was artificial constraints to create an aura of exclusivity
>He's going pretty hard on the 5% fake accounts that Twitter reported. I would probably do the same if I were in his position.

Yes, but you wouldn't put yourself in his position. This is an entirely unforced error on his part.
When your primary means of user acquisition is via somebody else's social network then this will always happen. Clubhouse built a neat little feature and then tried to leverage Twitter to get people to use it. But then Twitter just built it themselves and took all the lunch money. This has happened numerous times. Another high-profile example was Meerkat/Periscope. The best you can hope for is to be acquired/acqui-hired by said social network a la Periscope. But that's very rare.
The exact number of bytes I wouldn't know, but they would certainly have disclosed all the information that was rendered on screen at that moment.
As someone whose first Elder Scrolls experience was Oblivion, I can't get used to the combat. Having to worry about stats, skills, and hit percentages AND having to make sure you're accurately aiming at the enemy feels like the worst of both worlds. Morrowind could've benefitted greatly from a VATS system.
Shouldn’t he have done that prior to making the bid?
It's not "pretty straightforward" — you can't provide the raw data behind all your accounts because that data includes a ton of PII.

Any data you do provide will be based on some sort of analysis and/or sampling.
More details in the Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/85436ff9-2c06-45be-bb4f-ac195b043...

Twitter stock price is down ~5% today after this. I think it’s pretty clear that Musk wants to walk from the Twitter deal because of the crash in Twitter’s stock price along with the issues he’s had finding funding for the deal. Twitter was required to provide information that will help close the deal, but 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.

By the way, Hindenburg took out a short position against Twitter early in May, and their position was that the deal no longer made sense and would only go through at a lower price. https://hindenburgresearch.com/twitter/
> Because of national-security concerns, they couldn’t take work home, or talk with anyone on the outside about what they did all day.

I wonder if that would be an advantage. You are a clear separation between work and life. No one is allowed to call or message you at home about work when you are out of the office.