skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, he's positioning himself to be able to claim he is as able to walk away without paying the breakup fee, by claiming Twitter breached contract first:

"Musk’s lawyers say in the letter that Twitter has offered only to provide details about the company’s testing methods. But they contend that’s “tantamount to refusing Mr. Musk’s data requests,” and constitutes a “material breach” of the merger agreement that gives Musk the right to scrap the deal if he chooses."

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-spacex-tech...
I think you're both right here - transparency and truth from Twitter should be sought, and they are under no obligation to provide it.
Journalists do, because it makes their job easier. You can literally be called a journalists because you write long form articles about tweets. Journalists tend to obsess over their own profession and its tools
Un-paywal link: https://archive.ph/JHZxE
Conspiracy implies more than one person are conspiring.
He was making a counter argument. Parent used all the same logic to posit 'ai don't make discoveries'.

If those are reasons ai don't make discoveries, and they all apply to humans as well, then it must be that humans also don't make discoveries.

This is obviously false, which refutes the parent's point.
And the canonical source —

'Much to my surprise, only a few days later, Dan Ingalls showed me the scheme working on the NOVA. He had coded it up (in BASIC!), added a lot of details, such as a token scanner, a list maker, and the like, and there it was -- running. As he like to say: "You just do it and it's done."'

"The Early History of Smalltalk" ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 28, Issue 3, March 1993

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/234286.1057828
It's easy to blame Twitter for election misinformation, but getting rid of Twitter will never be the solution. The problem will keep showing up until we fix the root cause. (I'm certain that people were upset about the invention of the printing press for the same reason.)

At some point, to have a functioning democracy, the populace has to be educated. Then when there's misinformation, they'll just ignore it.

In the past, we've gotten around this by it being expensive to broadcast ideas to large numbers of people. You had to be a newspaper or TV network, and newspapers and TV networks employed people worried about their reputation, so nobody ever published op-eds about how Bill Gates is injecting us with 5G microchips or whatever. This weeded out quite a lot of conspiracy theories and whatnot. But the reality is that the Internet changed the calculus there; anyone can publish anything to a large number of people. With that floodgate open, there is no going back and we have to teach people to critically analyze what they hear on the Internet. It's the last line of defense.

This means that all the bluster over Facebook and Twitter and free speech needs to translate to increased funding for schools, and that if we start right now it will probably take a couple generations to get to a better place. There is no quick fix to make democracy work, only hard work and time.
If they had no had those damn dinosaur bird things attacking you constantly the shitty combat system also would have been a LOT less annoying - especially early on!
Are you also comparing simply renting dedicated servers? Unless you need very specialized hardware or just huge amounts of hardware, that seems to make a lot more sense for most people.
The $1B breakup fee isn't an option that Elon can exercise. See e.g. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/elon-musk-cant-just-walk-awa...
I had excellent disability insurance. They lied to me until various deadlines passed. Refused to return my calls etc.

Lesson learned, get a lawyer at the start.
It's the difference between a soldier killing bad dudes at work, and me going out on the street to kill bad dudes on my way to work.

State-state interactions are bound by different rules & norms than person-person or person-state interactions.
When the offer was announced most HN commenters speculated that the twitter board will never accept the $54.2 price because it was too low. They said that the fundamental value of the company was much higher since it was trading in the 70s only a few months prior. If the deal falls apart now the share price might fall into the 20s.
ahh, right, thanks for the responses. I was confusing not being able to rewrite history on remote branches with not being able to rewrite history at all. I rewrite it locally all the time but almost never remotely.
Microsoft Follina Vulnerability in Windows Can Be Exploited Through Office 365
This is kind of a crap article that adds nothing new and contains basic factual errors. It's true that the Zumwalt class destroyers are a failed program, however the final design was never intended to "provide antiaircraft support to the US Navy's fleet". Their primary mission was supposed to be land attack (which they never really fulfilled). They have only limited anti-aircraft capabilities for self defense.
Please keep going! Get help!!!
I believe it’s because older people have experienced how politics impacts their live, and because they follow politics more. However they can’t have seen that their individual vote has had a discernible impact, as that would be counterfactual. Voting because you believe your personal vote will change the course of history is objectively irrational — you’re more likely to win the lottery.
They'd probably be better off by doing so. After the 1968 primary, the Democratic Party made a number of changes to how they hold primaries, mainly in order to avoid a split between the conservative and progressive wings of the party. But the 2016 and 2020 primaries were so visibly rigged that they may well have done worse in that respect than simply choosing Clinton and Biden in a smoke-filled room would have done.
I would say an affinity for tempo changes, non-traditional song structures, and influences from classical music, the selections of which chords and scales to use.
Twitter didn’t claim less than 5% of all accounts or all activity are bots. Right off the bat you’ve got the metric wrong.

It refers to 5% of monthly active users who are shown adds.
The professors were stating that this isn't a problem that we can punish our way out of. But in your response you only address measures to ensure that social outcasts are identified and dealt with before they hurt someone.
It seems like you disagree with the premise of the interview.
There were also a lot of carve outs that got things grandfathered into the first to invent rules. But at this point it’s pretty much completely gone.
That was merely a tweet. This time they've got him by the balls with a signed contract. It will be interesting to see if he can get out of this one so easily, because this whole drama will certainly end up in court.
> Please dont mess up the lives of people who live in the real world for something that barely works in theory.

Again: If you can’t make your life choices in line with your values if there are incentives for hard work, then that’s your problem.
This might be above my paygrade, but let me try:

>>> Install dependencies with apt (a few popular pages on google for this).

I don't know what this means :) So let's go to step 2:

>>> Download tarball.

Me tries this:

wget 'https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.11.0/Python-3.11.0a1.tgz'

>>> Configure.

What does this mean?

>>> make altinstall

I guess I somehow need to untar the tar thing first?

Me tries this:

tar -xf Python-3.11.0a1.tgz

Hurray, I have a directory :)

Let's cd into it:

cd Python-3.11.0a1

And now the make altinstall?

make altinstall

Gives me:

bash: make: command not found

Hm...

apt install make
make altinstall

Gives me:

make: *** No rule to make target 'altinstall'. Stop.

Hm... yeah, looks like it is beyond my paygrade.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28880782
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005573
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31348097

Note that Sam's no-GIL changes are not only about the removal of the GIL (although that was the main goal). There are a number of other unrelated improvements to make it faster. And as far as I know, most of those unrelated improvements have gotten into CPython now.
PostgreSQL is the gold standard for usage level docs.

The Linux kernel however is by far my favourite because of the in-depth design documents in-tree in easy to read plain-text format.
I think that's an excerpt from Brian Shul's 1994 book Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet.
What antenna do you recommend?
Just wind hitting the body. If you've ever ridden a motorcycle in high winds (or high speeds) it's amazing how much force it exerts on your body. It typically "buffets" or feels like a rapid series of someone pushing or lightly hitting your body. That's at ~70mph, I can't imagine what it's like at mach 3.
Hahah the age-old py question "Is there a JIT compiler?"[1]. No

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html#faq
Genuine question: why would ARM/M1 make cache misses more infrequent / faster (or does it just make cache hits slower relative to cache misses)? Have cache misses ever been fast relative to cache misses such that you would have to rebalance performance expectations/intuition?
It can be asemic writing, or it can just be cursive russian:
https://www.boredpanda.com/russian-cursive/
To be honest, I would go with a manual dial/lock/safe/etc. I don't trust most mass produced electronic physical security stuff (consumer grade or affordable stuff anyways). The non-electronic stuff is still vulnerable, but it's not this fast to attack.
> heard tell...

> Mythical...

> Verdant fields...

I think you'd be best served with hobbitOS. ;)
Too bad Elon didn't wait a while longer, the market is dipping left and right.
The Vigilantes Who Hack Millions in Crypto to Save It from Thieves
Elon has the ability to direct an angry mob at anyone he wants just by saying some mean things about them, true or not. I certainly would not want millions of rabid Elon fans gunning for me.

He could also maliciously try to deny Twitter board members and executives positions at other companies, like he did with the SEC employee turned law associate.

Given Elon's power and pettiness I'm sure there are many other ways he can and will try to harm people he dislikes.
I am heavily biased toward WebRTC. Here is my take on it though!

> It's incredibly complex as a specification

What is complex about it? I can go and read the IETF drafts, webrtcforthecurious.com, https://github.com/adalkiran/webrtc-nuts-and-bolts and multiple implementations.

QUIC/WebTransport seems simple because it doesn't address all the things WebRTC does.

> has limitations and numerous issues that set limits in how scalable it can be

https://phenixrts.com/en-us/ does 500k viewers. I don't think anything about WebRTC makes it unscalable.

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IMO the future is WebRTC.

* Diverse users makes the ecosystem rich. WebRTC supports Conferencing, embedded, P2P/NAT Traversal, remote control... Every group of users has the made the ecosystem a little better.

* Client code is minimal. For most users they just need to exchange Session Descriptions and they are done. You then have additional APIs if you need to change behaviors. Other streaming protocols expect you to put lots of code client side. If you want to target lots of platforms that is a pretty big burden.

* Lots of implementations. C, C++, Python, Go, Typescript

* The new thing needs to be substantially better. I don't know what n is, but it isn't enough to just be a little better then WebRTC to replace it.
There's also a deeper set of definitions at play. Twitter the corporation cares about monetizable active users, as stated. Or, in English, "what fraction of ads served are really going to robots?"

Twitter users don't give a fig about Twitter's ad impressions. They care about what fraction of comments or interactions are in fact with bots or astroturfers. From the perspective of Twitter as a communications medium rather than an advertising channel, this is the relevant statistic.
Yes I do know about this. I find 12ft more universally useful, as I personally do most of my reading on mobile, and also I like to share 12ft.io-based links to open the articles up for other people.
If it were just CSAM, then that would be one thing and we could write it off as the government trying to railroad him. But the government also claims to have access to chat logs in chatrooms focused on CSAM, as well as a video of him sexually assaulting an old roommate.

Just because they are focusing on his atypical and undesirable character attributes doesn't mean that it's not a credible work.
While this drama goes on Twitter should suspend Elon's account. Play hardball.
There is a misapprehension about the breakup fee: It isn't at Musk's discretion that he can pay the fee and walk away. The breakup fee would be paid if the deal can't proceed for reasons outside Musk's control. That does not include wanting to argue due diligence matters, having waived dd.
I think we need to start differentiating between a "4-day, 40-hour workweek" and a "32-hour workweek". I've been calling the former "four tens" - i.e. four 10-hour days.

While four-tens is definitely preferable to the traditional five-eights, it seems like a shitty compromise. The whole point of the 4 day workweek is to make strides towards a saner, more balanced lifestyle. Packing more work into fewer days doesn't move us in the right direction.
<5% bots is a material statement that Twitter made that appears to be false.

It's very much related to the bid. If you materially mis-represent your company then it's a valid reason to scrap the deal.

> As for that bid, the time for due diligence is before, not after, one signs the merger agreement.

That's not how it works.

Try calling Twitter: "I'm doing due diligence on you guys, could you open your books to me"?

They'll laugh at you and hung up.

The agreements is a pre-requisite of doing what "due diligence" means in this context.

"Due diligence" specifically involves looking at things that you're typically not allowed to looked at.

Things like auditing financials of the company, doing an audit of the source code, proprietary technology etc.

It requires the company being acquired to share a lot of proprietary information.

The agreement, which includes $1 billion breakup clause, is necessary to filter out people who are not serious.
World War I created modern medicine and the welfare state
If like me you have a hard time reading this low contrast text, here's a bookmarklet to bold it

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Not to mention that it is overemphasized in education. Probably because teachers often are somewhat disjointed from practice.

Similarly “competitive programming”, A&D and coding puzzles which I find fun but only tangentially useful, will typically completely neglect engineering constraints. The shape, size frequency and variations of data can almost always be at least estimated in the real world, or simply assumed.
It's not entirely impossible.

We've used escape capsules instead of ejection seats at times; the B-58 had a nifty one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_crew_capsule
ATSC 3 supports an application model based on a single page application that gets notified of events coming down the radio channel by websockets

https://muygs2x2vhb2pjk6g160f1s8-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

there is a radio back channel

https://muygs2x2vhb2pjk6g160f1s8-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

but the TV is expected to have a real internet connection as well as the radio link. Such a system is capable of anything a web application is, including tracking.

It would be interesting to see if targeting meant that I occasionally get to see an ad for something I could buy with my own money as opposed to the injection of the month (used to be pill of the month but now it seems to be all biologicals) or something seniors can get for free with medicare.
Is it possible Twitter is deliberately sabotaging the sale to Musk?
I had a similar problem last month where I needed to compute some results on multiple datasets (with a little bit of concurrency per dataset). In the end I just ported the code to Ada which makes it very easy to create task hierarchies. You can define variables of task types on the 'stack' and the program leaves the enclosing block when the variables can go out of scope after every task has finished. I can now easily put all cores to maximum use. The list comprehensions in Python became a little bit more verbose though because I had to use an older revision (2012) instead of the new 2022 revision.
The lack of good high-res drivers has been a pain whenever I wanted to run old versions of Windows in QEMU/virt-manager.

Will this work in there as well or is this a VirtualBox only driver?
> For instance, ML can reliably detect the race of a person from an x-ray. There is clearly some anatomical difference that we're not aware of that's detectable in an x-ray.

I'm pretty sure forensic anthropologists have been doing that for decades.
ArrayList is still better in your case. Having to do log(n) contiguous copies when reallocating is much better than having a copying GC copy n live objects that are 5x as large as the element by itself or a mark and sweep collector mark n live objects.
Axon AI ethics board members resign over plans for Taser drones
how is n bounded in the 2nd algorithm?
Sqwok adds Dark Mode and accepting community-made themes
The possibility of extremely exotic new types of life has to be a given, but with Earthlike starting conditions turning out to be relatively prevalent and the robustness of convergent evolution (not to mention the possibility of some kind of panspermia event) there's just as good of an argument to be prepared for extra-terrestrial life to be similar to us in shocking ways.
Twitter is fun to read but it's a warped version of reality. So many people post absurd takes on there and find their little corners where other people actually agree with their craziness. A lot of people brashly tweeting stuff that they would likely never say out loud with polite company.
For recent history, CO2 drops correlate almost 1:1 with recessions. Trump was legitimately terrible on policy he was just in office during the most dramatic economic contraction in our history.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/climate/united-states-cli...

Not to mention all the well-intentioned liberal policies like increase vehicle fuel efficiency standards or the Clean Power Plan that got reversed by Trump before they came into effect. We need a good 20 years of complete liberal control of 3 branches of government and we haven't gotten anywhere near that.
I mean, there are plenty of plain text document formats that don't suck. Asciidoctor is my favorite. But there's a lot of middle ground between markdown, which sucks, and word, which also sucks.
Apple introduces watchOS 9 at WWDC
Safes like this are more meant to be tamper-evident and hard to move than impervious, which is why you always want to bolt your safe down to something solid if you have one like this.

A warrant and a circular saw will get you through really any consumer safe in seconds so I highly doubt they would go through all that risk to make it slightly easier to access but maybe there's concern of damaging evidence with forced entry or something.
I'm not an enthusiast of real world applications of prolog, I saw a prolog project fail and get rewritten in Cpp

But! I'm forever grateful for the things learning prolog did to my brain
If you're interested in probability and statistics it's well worth your time to get more comfortable with the math.

There's a common mistake in thinking among programmers that there's a one-to-one mapping between math and code and that mathematical notation is just an annoying terse short hand.

As someone who spends a lot of time implementing mathematical ideas into code I can tell you this is not remotely true. Mathematics is dealing with a level of abstraction and thinking that is fundamentally distinct from the computational implementation of these.

A clear example of this is the Gamma function which appears all over those notes. It's an essential function for working deeply with statistics, you'll find it shows up just about everywhere if you look carefully enough. You can manipulate it mathematically to solve a range of problem.

However if you want to implement this from scratch in code, that is to understand how to compute the Gamma function, you're going to have to spend a lot of time studying numeric methods if you want to do more than robotically copy it from Numerical Recipes.

Similarly many of the integrals used in statistics can end up quite difficult to compute, but that difficulty doesn't impact their ease of use in a mathematical context. This is a common theme when working with applied math: you can do quite a lot of mathematical work on problems that you don't necessarily know how to compute yet. Once you solve your problem mathematically, then you can go on to solving how to actually compute the answer.
I second this recommendation. I've read this book more than once. I'm amazed at how quickly they developed and shipped product, and developed their own tooling in the process.
Whatever happened to the class of YC W11? – YC a decade+ later
I was thinking the same thing. Encryption still wouldn't prevent the replay attack, just the ability to determine the card's number and flash it onto a new card.
Many people have asked for Dark Mode so we added it, and are also going to add a few community-made themes to the site.
https://github.com/sqwok/web-theme-js
As an entrepreneur who regularly outsources work (and has even sponsored immigrants), I find that ESL comprehension of the business case of the work requirement varies greatly. There are some good online comprehension tests, but I have not yet found anything standardized and randomized (or specialized in business), where an outsourcer can rely on measured outsourcee's comprehension test results.
You're right. The average voter considers carbon tax, very high VAT, and scaling back of mass consumer good production indistinguishable from poverty. Airline flights in the US used to cost a month's salary before deregulation.
Just bought some scam USB sticks. I can return them, and leave a negative review, but there's no obvious place to file a report of an active scam.

Easy to find a place to report an IP violation, however, if I'm the company being infringed upon...
Educated guess they mean the moments leading up to the accident. FTA this was an incident during a test flight. If they lost the plane during a normal mission then they'd need repro steps, but in this case the flight was itself an experiment, so the distinction between the two is pretty fine.

> On Jan. 25, 1966 Lockheed test pilots Bill Weaver and Jim Zwayer were flying SR-71 Blackbird #952 at Mach 3.2, at 78,800 feet when a serious engine unstart and the subsequent “instantaneous loss of engine thrust” occurred.

A bit later he says:

> “On the planned test profile, we entered a programmed 35-deg. bank turn to the right. An immediate unstart occurred on the right engine, forcing the aircraft to roll further right and start to pitch up. I jammed the control stick as far left and forward as it would go. No response. I instantly knew we were in for a wild ride."
> (Of course, the total memory needed at large scales can be disruptive, but that's fundamental. If you've got a lot of elements, you need a lot of memory for them.)

But in case of a linked list that large amount of memory doesn't have to be contigous, and you don't have to perform a lot of copying all at once which kills responsiveness.
>Try calling Twitter: "I'm doing due diligence on you guys, could you open your books to me"?

> They'll laugh at you and hung up.

Sure, but we're not the richest person on the planet, Elon Musk