skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legally speaking, the University admin cannot do anything to Chinese students who boo and walk out, and also cannot do anything to white supremacists who boo and walk out.

In the US, Students have First Amendment rights to express themselves. The critical point here is that by walking out they did not prevent any speakers from exercising their own First Amendment rights.

It does not mean we have to respect them for that or be polite about it. That's our First Amendment right.
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It will take a long time for Musk to read all those tweets and count the bots. I hope he doesn't make mistakes at counting so he doesn't need to start all over. :)
To me, this seems like the wrong way of doing it.

I'm a scientist, and I code in Python, but my code is never directly incorporated into the production code base. (Similar story for the portions of my work involving electronics, mechanics, etc). A decent generalization is that once I solve a problem, and demonstrate a result using Python, the actual amount of code that needs to be understood and translated into the production language is usually a few tens of lines at most.

On the production side, the choice of language is just a tiny part of the entire process. They have frameworks, revision control systems, coding standards, review processes, the whole nine yards. Just using a "better" language isn't even an important step towards writing production code. If I wrote in the software department's favored language, they would still have to turn it into production code within their procedures.

The fact that a few lines of Python represents hundreds of lines of production code makes it more productive for me to think my way through problems and express the principles underlying the solution to the coders. I see no reason why the tool that's used for discovering a solution has to be the same tool as the one used for putting the solution into production. Laboratory chemists don't use industrial manufacturing processes when trying to make a milligram of a new compound.
Occam's razor: The CEO was the sales team (good!) but wasn't able to do early stage enterprise sales

It's _very_ easy for a manager at an enterprise to pay $50K+ for some software / consulting project, and often not too hard to go to $200K+ (may take an extra signoff). So not being able to get a paying design partner rings alarm bells about the perceived value and request for fair compensation. Whether that's the product or seller, both are on the CEO before any code needs to get written.

Enterprise is 'cushy' enough that it's great for startups, but it takes an enterprise team, enterprise advisors, or an idea+market so amazing that it succeeds without those. My bet in this case is advisors, esp. for CEO, could have helped turn these earnest efforts into at least a company running on enough revenue they could fold on their terms vs no runway.

(It took me years to start thinking this way.)
Is this a more advanced version of Tunny [0]?

[0] https://github.com/Jeffail/tunny
Re: your question, the answer is yes.
I think Elon also made a mistake by calling these things bots. Most spam on Twitter is a combination of auto account creation or takeover, and then some human in a third world country using that account to scam people. I don’t think Twitter would call that a bot, but I bet Elon would.

I do think Twitter in its current form is essentially unusable due to the amount of scams. I see thousands on a weekly basis. Every feature, from tweets, replies, lists, etc. is a cesspool of scamming. I block 100s of users per week and yet I still get added to “Free ETH drop” lists daily.
> but at least it's close to fair play

How is it fair, it favors young graduates and people with lots of time to prepare tremendously.
Would it seem sensible to you that every time a doctor applied for a job, even if he has 20 years of experience, he'd need to compete with recent medical school graduates on some first year medical school exam?
The cries of racism really ring hollow when they're talking about actions of a government, not a people or a culture.
I guess that's the problem. Python is just fine for many narrow tasks. But the people who use it, or the people who manage teams who use it, don't know how important it is to consider proper tooling when it comes time to turn the small thing into a big thing.

There's nothing wrong with using Python and its great libraries for some purposes. But none of those cases mean that Python is a good language. And frankly, the better the library is, the less Python language features you would use directly. The powerful libraries hide the failures of the parent language.

But as soon as you need to build something around your solution, unless you have another library which does the new thing you need (and encapsulates your solution neatly), then you will end up using real Python, on a larger scale. Then you will start disliking it.
The famous pareto law - 80% of effects come from the top 20% of causes (users).
HTTPS unfortunately breaks compatibility with old software. Try to focus on its offline rather than online uses: ebooks, music (AAC/MP3), movies (H.264), photos.

Or, if you write, maybe it can serve as a distraction-free writing environment? Old iPads pair nicely with Apple’s iPad Keyboard Dock.

For other ideas and reflexions on old iPad uses: https://morrick.me/archives/8136
That's not how the First Amendment works. Cornell University is a private organization and it can choose not to do business with people if it wants to, provided that it's not breaking other laws by doing so. Students get suspended or expelled for speech all the time. (I would guess public universities can too - the First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law..." - not sure where its boundaries are drawn though.)
Productivity, entertainment, education, and creation are all subjective, just like the value of an entry in a ledger.

I could say "I don't use Macs because I find I can't be productive with them." That's a subjective statement.

Or I could say "I don't find it entertaining to sit in front of a Mac," or "I don't learn anything when I use a Mac," "I can't create anything valuable using a Mac." None of the properties you listed are intrinsic properties of the Mac, they're all a function of the Mac's utility to certain people in certain situations.

Perhaps I'm Amish. Or perhaps I don't have an internet connection. Or I am old and blind and don't have a friend to teach me to use a screen reader. The Mac would be valueless to me.

So, the Mac's value is derived solely from its utility to a certain group of people. It lets that group of people perform tasks that they couldn't perform (or would perform less efficiently) without it. That's the same way Bitcoin's value is derived.

> pretend money

All money is pretend.

> It has zero intrinsic value.

All money has zero intrinsic value. Extrinsic value is still value.
The GUI looks like Windows 1.0, i mean 10.
Thanks for that insight. I didn’t know about those restrictions of withdrawing your own money.

How did you open an USD account? Did you have to travel to the US?

If you had to do it today, would you use services like Wise. Being paid in crypto currencies seems unrealistic if you’re working for companies like Intel, not sure they would pay you in BTC.
He absolutely cannot do that. The Material Adverse Effect standard in Delaware law is crazy hard to hit. Matt Levine has been writing about this for weeks. In fact, if you go looking, he's been writing about this for years†. 2 years ago: "[under the MAE standard, you] can walk away from the deal, unless the bad stuff is due to, essentially, anything anyone thought of in advance."

Not only have people heard of bots and user validation in advance, but Musk waived his rights to diligence after announcing on Twitter that fixing the bot problem was why he was buying Twitter. He might not just lose this case if it got to court; the Delaware courts might make an example out of him for this.

Matt Levine is to "it's not Materially Adverse" as Ken White is to "it's not RICO".
I wonder when uBlock filters will be considered advertising/paywall circumvention technology and banned under the DMCA.
Maybe if they had to be state-sponsored, we could manage to do entirely without them, instead.

But it didn:t save France from needing to spend tens of $billions decommissioning old junk reactors.
I have a ham radio license at ARRL. If your equipment can transmit at specific emergency service frequencies, 99.999% of the time you can also transmit on the wide band of ham frequencies, and there will be people on those frequencies ready to make phone calls to whatever services you need, if you can’t do so yourself. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

This dude transmitted eight fucking times and someone had to drive there to stop him.
I wonder how Musk did that big of a mistake, to not sense Twitter is not worth $44 billion and that the market wasn't going up for ever.

Or, somehow, becoming the richest person in the world has more to do with other features like luck, than the ability to asses the market?
Why some software engineers like woodworking.

I have been a software engineer all my working life, and I absolutely despise woodworking or anything that smacks of DIY. I find them unbelievably stressful and frustrating partly because I can see how I want things to be, they never work out nearly that good and I can never fix them.
I'm not a Pythonista by any means, but these complaints are banal. Ternary operators? Plenty of new popular languages don't have a ternery operator (Go, Rust, Elixir, Kotlin, Nim).

My list of python gripes are long, but language constructs are not on the list.
I think you misunderstood my point. The democratic process is obsolete, aside from a show of hands. I'm not suggesting that we should therefore go with a show of hands.. I am suggesting that we should understand that voting is now a pretense meant to get us all to go along with whatever corruption.

Verifying an election process is one thing. If you're saying that if we can verify an election, and it can still be corrupted by criminals, so be it. All the more reason to end the farce. Sticking our head in the sand in pretending it's viable is not reasonable, and is perilous.
E2ee services are the only sane hosted solution. I use sync.com and find it works as well as Dropbox. There are other ones but I haven’t tried them.
The problem is economically interesting is only part of the equation for getting people to make the jump. The sheer convenience of a car is priceless to many people.
I hate to be the guy to ask you to explain the joke, but why would that make the plane crash?

I do know what a “pole” refers to, but I don’t follow the crash bit.
In the absence of infinite resources an enforcement division of a regulatory agency has to prioritize. It is unfortunate that it went unchecked for that long though.
100% Agree

Then they should move on to those with an African connection, after that I think anyone with connections to SAE. Indian and Pakistani next. After that the French, once accomplished they can start to roll out exclusions to the rest of Europe. Then the Brits, man the Scottish and Irish in particular, trouble makers them lot. With any luck in a decade or two America can be purely American.

/s
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Anyway only the tiniest fraction of utility storage will ever be batteries.
And just like that, all the www.* domain names have been bought.
I find myself doing both. Overall I'm a visual thinker but if I'm dealing with something new and unfamiliar I go through a process of rubber ducking and talk myself through it until it clicks.
Have you seen what has happened to the market for fuel inefficient vehicles lately?
I guess you got rich shorting the whole market? If the market were predictable everyone would just use it to print money.
> the potential for confusion between plane // airplane

This reminds me of the famous (possibly apocryphal) story of the algebraic geometer of middle eastern descent who was brought aside by Air Marshals for talking about how a particular problem could be solved by “blowing up points on a plane”
I think tweet volume is the wrong approach. If they looked at tweet impressions, it would be like 0.1% of users are responsible for 99% of tweet impressions.
Of course, none of these achievements are small. But had Google been on time things might have been different.

I would still say that the difference in stakes between the two companies (with Facebook looking at the ash heap if they lost) was a bigger factor.
Either this is sarcasm or an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence.
The actual FCC document contains the specifics of what he did in the “factual background” section: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-22-43A1.txt

It looks like the FCC has plenty of hard evidence, and they are not making stuff up to fine him with.
Wallet fee estimates have often been way too high for some time. People keep overpaying.
That's not really correct. The First Amendment doesn't necessarily prevent private schools such as Cornell from disciplining students for legal speech. This is one area where public universities are generally superior.

https://campusfreespeechguide.pen.org/the-law/the-basics/
Yup. 34k sounds like a power trip from someone to me. Since I can't reply to them, I'll just say it directly here, the linked document from the FCC just keeps repeating the same things over and over again, but contains no interesting new information compared to the original article.
Thank you, it was indeed a ton of work, much more than I anticipated to be frank. The biggest challenge to actually restart is to be discoverable through the search engines. Maybe that will improve over time.
Did we have the same professor? Mine loved that joke too.

The students in the classroom next door always knew when Prof Lipovski told his joke because everybody along the hallway could hear the loud groan emanating from our room.
I was a crypto skeptic for many years. If you look at crypto purely from an engineering lens, you'll always find it wanting. What I didn't understand was that crypto is as much of an economic and political project, as it is an engineering project. If you think decentralisation and trustlessness are valuable, you should think crypto is important. If you don't care for decentralisation then being negative on crypto is a consistent position.
Oh wow, I didn't know about that provision. It makes more sense that no one else was charged, knowing that. It's disappointing, too.
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I don’t get you? I’m not asking you to provide evidence that “places exist where moving fiat across borders is practically impossible“.

I’m interested in the many poor people you know who have been lifted into middle class through being paid in BTC by American employers. It’s a fairly bold claim from what I know of the way multinational companies operate globally so I’m genuinely curious about it.
In NL it was never an issue for me. The upload is 50Mbit which is not great but more than adequate for now.
A global nuclear consortium would have as its first goal its own continuance and its continued hegemony over energy policy. It would be catastrophic. Fortunately there is no such possibility.
Afaik 1Password simply provides an ssh-agent. So I don‘t see why this should not work.
If you set gits user.signingKey to your public key and have SSH_AUTH_SOCk point to 1password agent this should work. Do you have any details on why not?
Corruption. They don’t trust their own people with data.
Back in the bad old days, when I had an ink jet in college, cost per printed page was easily in the dollars possibly even as high as fives of dollars per page.

Later in college, I bought a used laserjet from the university surplus sale for $20. That little printer got me through several reams of paper before the toner went out. By that point I was in the pages per penny range.
A control system with a pole (in the control systems sense) in the right hand half of the plane will be unstable. If the system changes during operation, the pole can move around the coordinate plane.* As it goes from the left (stable) towards the right (unstable) the system will begin to oscillate as the pole crosses the Y axis.

In the joke, a Pole (person of Polish origin) was in the left of the (air) plane. When they crossed the aisle to look out the window, the (air) plane became unstable and crashed (pole in the right hand plane).

*My control systems professor loved to explain using an example of a driver as a control system. The system (car + human driver) seeks to minimize error against the lines on the road. If the driver starts drinking, one of the system's poles will move right. The car will start overshooting first, then will start weaving, before finally crashing when the driver is too drunk.
Replace “crypto” with “GPL” and the comment still makes sense. And, at the same time, still makes no sense.
Via Levine, more on the insanely high standard Delaware sets for MAEs (the rule of thumb Levine gives is "a 40% decrease in long-term profitability"):

https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2018/10/delaware-chance...

This is about Delaware finding that an MAE occurred, for the first time ever, like literally ever, in 2018.

What we have here is a case where Twitter's performance isn't even faltering (it's stock price is, but its 2022 revenues are actually up). There's not a chance in hell for the MAE argument.
Because if your poles are not in the left half [of the] plane, the system is unstable.
I'm not the author of that webpage or e-book, but the e-book has a looooot of other good information like that.
PimEyes doesn’t scrape social media, just the rest of public photos. Unless you are plastered all around the web, you probably don’t have to worry about it returning your photo. It appears to mostly just be reverse image search so a recent photo may others that are relatively current, but it doesn’t seem to find older pictures when your face may be thinner or with/without facial hair, etc. It returns a lot of NSFW false positives btw. Of course the NYT employees who have pictures all over the web will think it’s accurate.
His intellectual or competitive advantage is not market movement timing. Plenty of brilliant people exist who would be considered bad at making predictions over a broad field of categories, especially market timing.

More to disagree with the argument than to defend Musk. He's certainly been doing a lot of things to really undermine the brilliant-at-all-trades image.

And luck is always underrated.
If you run a company, then you might make better choices (or at least allow for proper discovery of what approach to take to building a large system).

But there seems to be an accepted rule that "if you're doing data science, you are a Python shop". And if you are trying to pitch a data science company to investors, they know Python for data science.

New companies start all the time using a technology because "that's what you use", without knowing why or why not. In fact, (and not that I idolize him, which I really do not), Paul Graham's http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html essay talks about this. Most companies follow whatever is the accepted practice for doing things. It may "work", but it definitely may not be optimal. And the companies that choose a different path based on more consideration or more awareness may have an easier time.

I mean after all, there was a time when everyone wrote C (because C was so much better than COBOL or whatever). And believe it or not, there was a time when it was impossible to convince a company to try Java. Or as the old saying went, "nobody got fired for buying IBM". After all, it was the safe path. Substitute Oracle, or C, or C++, or Java, or Python, or PHP, or Windows (there was a time when people didn't trust Linux and couldn't imagine why you would ever try to run your business software on Linux machines).

Your reasoning makes sense, but in practice in the software world, it is not as well planned or thought out as you might expect.
I’ve also created a ton of automation with ansible to just rebuild if anything would happen. But in my experience, a vps with linode or digital ocean is quite stable in and of itself.
HN's readership isn't homogeneous. There's room for both points of view.

I've done a lot of useful work in feedback systems without ever really grokking Laplacian notation and the notion of complex frequency in general. A lot of the actual numerical methods used in real life boil down to a few canned formulas. But I know enough about the underlying theory to appreciate where the canned formulas come from, and fully intend to sit down some day and go through the whole process. Articles like this are interesting if only for the occasional gems in the comments, such as John N.'s pointer to Maxwell's 'On Governors' paper that I'd never run across before.

At the same time, I don't see much upside in making hiring decisions on the basis of whether someone can regurgitate a bunch of textbook math. I'd rather spend the interview talking about control problems the candidate has dealt with personally, how they were handled, and what the candidate learned from them.
Every video editor based on the MLT framework that I have tried has been very unstable : (
"After we determine an account is spam, malicious automation, or fake, we stop counting it in our mDAU"

The mDAU exclusion includes such accounts already. I think people (and Elon) use the term bot rather colloquially, so I don't think it's an important distinction anyway.
How about you stop changing links vs what users submit. Crazy idea, I know.

If the link is bad we’ll fix it with votes, not admin actionz
That link is summarizing a nonpublic paper from a research group making the case for hydrogen as grid storage for California, not a very strong cite for this.

Generally keeping houses warm with low evergy is solved, well insulated passive houses need little heating energy even in places with long cold winters.
While I am a big critic of current software development tools and believe they are nowhere near what they could be, I also believe that there will never be anything that makes software development easy. The reason is that software is a tri-component system: how to do something via computation, how to communicate between people, and how to think about something. We are actually somewhat decent at the first. We are absolutely terrible at the last two. Again, I think there's a lot we can do to improve things, but we will always be pushing against the ceiling of humans to communicate, collaborate, and accurately encode a domain of knowledge.

If one thinks of software programs as stored knowledge, then it makes sense why they are so buggy, error prone, etc. It's that the knowledge was never complete to begin with. Throw in the difficulties of computation, and you have the mess that is the software landscape.
There's a lot of securities rules and laws that make absolutely no sense though.

A person can buy $1000 worth of lotteries tickets right now but doesn't qualify for sophisticated investor status so is unable to invest $1000 in a huge number of startups.
Given that the actual rate of fork to eyeball is very low, I think the current design is fine.
> they didn't want him to buy and did their best to get him to not do that.

They didn't want to be the target of a pump and dump. And they didn't want a bunch of distracting rumors from a takeover bid with no financing. As soon as Elon put financing together they said "yes" pretty quickly.
How is that clear? Has he said it?
Thank you. Back then, my site was quite visible in search engines, nowadays it seems hard to get noticed by them.
How do you prove that no one manually added or edited database rows? How do you store the transaction logs & verify their accuracy & authenticity?

By the time you build a system with historical "proofs" with enough replication, you'll basically have invented a Blockchain with more complexity.
Very likely he's looking for a discount.