skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Japan doesn’t like immigration at all.

Thus you agree with me that integration is huge cost, because immigration will create big friction within the Japanese society and that is a cost.

It is interesting that you admit that Japanese society is anti-immigration and yet you push this as solution to their problem. That is elitism.

> You still also need low skilled immigrants

Another alternative is to increase salaries, but immigration does the opposite, pushes wages down, especially for low income jobs.

Problem is that low income jobs is net loss in payed taxes in high tax welfare states, because the tax they put in is lower that the benefits they get, thus the more low skilled immigrants you bring the higher the taxation must be, but too high taxes will have a negative effect on general employment and business.

Believing that low skilled jobs is something beneficial for an advanced society is like believing that handing out shovels to dig holes is net beneficial in world with excavators.

What a society becomes rich on is processing either goods or services to something of higher value and preferably in multiple steps, not flipping burgers at minimum wage.
I can't believe people are looking at this from such a silly angle. It's obvious that no court can order you to buy something. That goes against the personal freedom we have in this country, and if a court tried it, it would be an easy appeal. But that misses the point, because nobody is going to order Elon to buy Twitter. What MIGHT happen is, a court declares "Congratulations! You already bought Twitter! It has nothing to do with us, we just interpreted the contract. Again, congrats on your purchase, don't go getting buyer's remorse now winky face"
It's pretty easy to suss out a lot of those accoutns just by looking at profile age and their comments. Sure, sometimes people sell their accounts but it'll be apparent eventually.
You're assuming his use of copyrighted and trademarked material is authorized.

They're selling books and even soaps with "deadwood" in the name, and they / the publisher (sounds like they're both run by him?) appear to have directly lifted the photo for the cover of one of the books:

https://mzs.press/The-Last-Western-Deadwood-and-the-End-of-A...

...from here: https://deadwood.fandom.com/wiki/Deadwood_(episode)?file=Sea...

My guess is that Seitz got nailed by trademark and copyright infringement claims and is now spinning a story about how his poor poor book shop is getting screwed over by the Big Evil Corporation, as witnessed by the very histrionic language he uses in his tweets.
It's a strong sign of woo because it's very trendy and brought up for all sorts of environmental effects with little actual evidence. Most of those claims must be false.
His reason for buying it was never the bot problem. Where are people inventing this reasoning from. His reason for buying it was to create a public square, which he stated multiple times.

He hardly mentioned the bots at all before setting out to buy Twitter.
This isn't facebook. Shopify is B2B. I assume there are contracts involved. If shopify is not holding up its end, there are already legal avenues to compel them.
I would argue that second homes, vacation homes and bigger homes have become way more common because in the past these things cost money, whereas now they make money (i.e. large capital gains). I think we are possibly entering a phase where a vacation home is again going to be a costly luxury and not an 'investment'.
I guess you can put some tape over the warning light :)

In case they use a bit of force on the gas pedal, you can push slightly harder to override it. Depending how it's implemented and how good it works, I think the bit of push back of gas pedal is good idea. Then I can avoid looking at the dash to check my speed. If it's unreliable, I guess they'll probably opt for a warning light instead.
What happens if you lock objects then stop paying your bill?
Rogers handwaves possible cause of outage
From the article... "that malfunction caused traffic overload. And as a result of that, the whole system just shuts down"

So, a bad upgrade causes traffic overload, yes.

Then the system just shuts down? It's the CEO, so I don't expect super tech details, but this isn't how things work. At all.
Yeah, this is why you run all equipment in a test environment for 4.5 years before deploying it to prod. Really basic stuff.
You could also just press the Alt key on some systems, which sends the control code Esc.
Pinterest and Target look too much alike.
How to Raise Your I.Q. By Eating Gifted Children
I used to be able to ride a bicycle for hours on end in my 20's and 30's. Now I can't look up when bent over in that position, I need a rise in the handlebars to get me almost vertical. I didn't hurt myself. I didn't get in an accident. It is just a fundamentally unnatural position and the discs just started to deteriorate from years of holding that position. My bikes were sized and fit properly, and I was doing everything right and everything felt OK for literally decades until one day it wasn't OK.
Jumping on this, modern refrigeration has helped us, as humans, tremendously in a lot of ways but hurts us too. Your example is a good one, but there's also certain kinds of mold that grow in the fridge on berries that cause weird stomach problems if you don't wash your fruit when you take it out.
I don't think so, I mean, you are not just going to place a single market order for $44bn of stock, you are going to have liquidity problems because there is not that much buy-side volume in the market, so the price must fall drastically to attract new buyers. Also I assume musk has legal obligations not to do stuff like that to begin with, as an executive with fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders. If Musk can tank Tesla, Exxon execs can dismantle Exxon to save the environment. But there's also the fact that a lot of his Tesla shares are already leveraged on loans. The most likely course would be for him to take out loans on the remaining unleveraged stock, but he doesn't have enough of that at the rates the banks are offering.

Anyway, I'm no expert on Musk, and I have almost zero interest in Tesla, or Twitter, or any of this clown show. So maybe my ballpark guesstimations of all the relevant numbers are way off. So take it all with a huge pinch of salt. I am just some uninformed spectator watching two lizards fight in the dust and speculating who will win or whatever :)

Edit: leveraged -> unleveraged, woops
I don't see either side demanding anything. Each is providing conditionally free contributions. The article is one side explaining what they see as a downside to the other's conditions.
More malleable, or just literal putty
I give lots of head. I should be OK. Happy now, doctor?
Tracking has gotten trivial, airtags are being used this way pretty regularly.

Try respawning as a woman and see how far this few exceptions attitude gets you?
Good lord, registering judgements in jurisdictions is trivial.

Not to mention, how many corporations which Musk has shares in, are Delaware companies?

All of this, how to assess and collect damages, goes back to Roman law.
Court can't force Elon to buy Twitter. Worst case scenario is Musk pays Twitter $1 Billion "pull out" fee which is in the contract and the article mentions. More likely Musk is able to reasonably prove in court that Twitter isn't reporting bots/spam accounts correctly, he gets out of the contract, only pays millions in court cost, data scientist, and lawyer fees.
There is absolutely no way that MacOS is the bottom. Sure, 100% Windows is Coke Cola. But a Linux desktop vs a Mac… ask 100 people in the world (not Hacker News) to choose between a Mac and a System76 machine, 97 of them are choosing the Mac.

Doesn’t really change anything re: the review though. I had the Lemur Pro for 2 years and used it as my main coding machine. I used it 8+ hours a day for years. It was a solid machine. I bought it because I refused to buy a Touch Bar MacBook. Once the 14” M1 came out… it was over. The M1 is faster, more reliable, has a longer battery life, a higher resolution and brighter screen, and imo has better software. Sure, free software is great, and I contribute to, and use a boatload of OSS, but a lot of times, you get what you pay for, or not.

Ultimately the experience compared to a 14” MBP is, there is no comparison imo, the MacBook hardware blows it out of the water in all aspects.
Another story:
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/rogers-servic...
Are you under the impression that judges presiding over civil cases cannot exercise their inherent power (in some jurisdictions) to jail those in (severe) contempt of court?
Well, Tesla is a Delaware company[1], so I assume they have some leverage.

1: https://sec.report/CIK/0001318605
Here it's cold in the winter and it is definitely illegal to install a remote start system in a car with a manual transmission.

Before my life in tech I worked in car audio installs back in the 90s.

One day one of the senior installer techs put a remote start in his own Mazda truck which had a manual transmission. A bit of time went by and we were outside smoking one day when he must have hit the button in this pocket. Apparently the e-brake wasn't on, and the truck was in first gear, so it started and drove across the parking lot and hit the wall of a building as we all watched.
> If you buy goods from an authorized place and sell them, you do not require any authorization or proof to sell those 'branded' goods, because first sale doctrine means that the original seller has exhausted their legal rights to control the sale and distribution of those items.

Right, but it doesn't make it illegal, as stated by the seller, for Shopify to have these requirements.

I'm giving the seller full benefit of the doubt that they were not selling anything that violates copyright / trademark law. The point is the doctrine still doesn't make Shopify's request or requirements illegal.
I never seen that methodology before. Comments under the article are full of cranks but this one stood out:

> People should be aware that Symmetry is a 'journal' published by MDPI, an outlet with a...let us say... colorful history. Apart from that, the fact that the present article of Banak's is a reprint from The Conversation should be enough to dampen the already undeserving attention of 20 comments.
Then watch and see I guess
Cash Rules Everything Around Me is a Wu-Tang song (C.R.E.A.M.)
They wouldn't. Here's how it works:

1) The court would issue a judgement for Twitter, against Musk, for $44b.

2) Musk would either voluntarily pay it by selling his own assets, or he would refuse. If he refuses, then:

3) Twitter would go about seizing and selling Musk's assets, until they have raised funds to cover the $44b judgement.

Twitter could levy whatever brokerage or account Musk uses to hold his shares. Somewhere there is an account which records the shares. Twitter would serve the entity managing the account with a levy, and order the shares be liquidated.
Twitter's lawyers will pursue billions in remedies through every conceivable route, for decades if necessary.
I’ve found a great way to impress upon people usually supportive of this the importance of not building systems to make oppression easier:

“Do you really want the next Trump (who may in fact be Trump) to have this power at their disposal?”
I can't stand those because he never actually answers what makes them great...he just kind of analyzes the chords and tells you what they are, and plays some of the melodies. There's a lot of je ne sais qua about composing "great" music and I don't think I've seen a YouTube Explainer personality really able to capture that magic in their explanations.
IANAL, but shopify is a canadian company not american, so if the seller wins wouldn't they also get legal fees - which makes it harder to bury them under legal fees?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule_(attorney%27s_f...
The tax & plane seizures are

1. A surprising departure from the rules and norms - I assume probably illegal.

2. Part of a campaign designed to ruin Russia.

You might have misunderstood the argument the anti-taxers (pro-property?) people are bringing up. There isn't a physical problem with taking wealth away from people, that part is very easy to execute. The problem is the 2nd order effects where it will turn into an unfair confiscation and do substantial damage to the ability of the host country to invest and prosper, bringing general ruin to us all. The fact that wealth confiscation is being deployed against Russians is no surprise from that perspective and not undermining the core argument.

However, if it makes you feel better, I do agree that given that the War on Terror was pointed inwards fairly quickly I expect the techniques used in the War on Russia's Economy will also move to US home soil in the next decade and there may well be large scale wealth confiscation in the US.
Maybe the Overton window of logo fonts is somehow shrinking, and the brands want to avoid appearing too offbeat.
In any case, the point I was making was that languages from academia potentially could scale up in high-velocity and larger teams.
Both. Once filled, they don't generally need additional water unless there is a leak, some evaporates or the pool is drained for maintenance.
Glad you've been able to catch him live!

Oh, I only found this which is an actual cover - did he put the original on one of his releases too?

https://www.whosampled.com/cover/5048/RJD2-Making-Days-Longe...
Not just an extreme premium but an "unconditional offer" lol.

Imagine I go to mcodnalds and offer $10 for a big-mac unconditionally, lol. I'm going to get a half eaten shit sandwich and a broad grin.
Contempt of court is independent of the original cases criminal vs civil distinction.

You can have criminal contempt in a civil case and criminal contempt in a civil case. The rules vary by state but in PA it’s civil contempt is used to force people to comply where criminal is punishment for disobedience.
holy moly everybody thanks for all of the great suggestions!!! i should have asked this a long time ago lol
According to WikiLeaks the president already has this power: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/03/0...
Until it turns into regulatory capture, whereby the regulatory burden prevents others from growing their business beyond a certain point.
Order the legal entities which possess the shares to transfer ownership of them. Actually keeping track of stocks is complicated but ultimately a boring bureaucracy.
I guess I’d say it feels like a cross between a guitar and a keyboard. I love mine; it’s my favorite electronic instrument.
Not before, but certainly after --- and certainly some models have controls like the hood release as well as adjustments for the steering wheel and pedal position there.
> No one, including AWS can shorten the retention period

I don't think this is true. Isn't it more like you can't, and AWS can but promises that they won't?
The bicycle won't take orders though. Europe is not as car reliant as the US.
Meh, there's 49 other states that a new company can be chartered. Sure, they all different pros/cons, but those will be better than nothing at all.
I cannot remember who should get credit for this: rats=bad hair day in sewers and run down buildings versus squirrels=good hair day in the parks and trees, and the squirrels hired a very good public relations firm. See how much of a difference that makes?
Something tells me it's not the designers responsible for sensory overload on other news sites.
The author of the linked post is not a woman.
I was about two sentences into the parent comment when these videos came to mind. If I had seen just about anything done by Drew Berry when I was in middle school I probably would be in a completely different career:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Drew+Berry+anim...
Thanks. Further questions:

(1) Would it be legal for someone to own the legal entity owning their shares of publicly traded companies?

(2) What if he moves all of his stock in offshore accounts?
> How do I know I can trust the index will not suddenly impose draconian rules or abscond with all the assets wholesale?

You can’t. Look at what happened to freenode where the admins sold rights to the server to a private buyer who immediately implemented strict controls on how channels operated.

The same trust problem that PyPI are trying to solve with maintainers of critical packages applies to the index itself.
I find the claim that bezos sees “most of those emails” quite hard to believe. Must be thousands of them
How is it that nobody seems to know that every major editor has either vim mode or a vim plugin. I love vim, but I almost never use it directly. I usually use JetBrains IDE with vim plugin. Best of both worlds.
It probably makes it easier to have the same sweatshop make all the fashion brands’ products, and thereby increases their margin.
I think you're misunderstanding. It's absolutely possible to seize rockets, or model 3s, etc. That part isn't silly at all.

The only question is regarding which entity is liable. If a judgement were entered against SpaceX, for example, then absolutely rockets and real property owned by SpaceX can be directly seized.

Without looking, I'm certain there are at least a few companies owned by Musk which could have their assets taken directly.
You might take code from there. But you cannot take code from OS X and add it to Darwin. And that is why I cannot just install Darwin and run it on my computers if I wanted to use e.g., network cards.
> Legal staff at Texas A&M expressed concern about future lawsuits. "I remember the lawyer saying to me, 'Let me see if I get this straight. You want to send unapproved viruses from this lab to be injected into a person who will probably die.' And I said, "Yeah, that's about it,'" Young said.

>"But Stephanie literally had speed dial numbers for the chancellor and all the people involved in human experimentation at UC San Diego. After she calls them, they basically called their counterparts at A&M, and suddenly they all began to work together," Young added.

>"It was like the parting of the Red Sea -- all the paperwork and hesitation disappeared."

If you know who to call, things happen fast.
He is self-described as having autism to some degree, so reading the emotional landscape is probably not his strength.
If this stuff intrigues you I recommend checking out (and possibly supporting) Dr. Rhonda Patrick.
Thanks. Further questions:

(1) Would it be legal for him to own the brokerage?

(2) What if he moves all of his stock in offshore accounts?
As a biology major who became an epidemiologist, I felt the same way about math - it turns out I'm decent at it, and use it literally every day of my career, but it took halfway through college to have someone approach math in a way that made sense, rather than "for its own sake".
What law prohibits the seizure of foreign assets on international waters?
While it was a non-starter from a commercial standpoint, I still credit having to figure out how to convert C64 programs so they could work on the Plus4 for teaching me debugging and coding skills that have served me well long after the Plus4 was long out of service.
There seems to be an increase in messaging like this from Ukrainians and I'm a bit confused about the motivation. Here's another one from France. (https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/06/27/en-u...)

I've been following operational analyses of the war pretty closely. While everyone acknowledges the great value of the new surveillance capabilities, there is an emerging consensus that the "new shiny thing" weapons haven't had nearly as much effect as anticipated. Even Ukrainian officials have been emphasizing to the West that they really need more of good old fashioned artillery rather than more gadgetry. So, articles saying "We're winning because of tech." seem to be going against the message that the leadership is now trying to put out.
It depends entirely on what kind of immigration you are talking about, there are empirical evidence that certain type of immigration can be beneficial, but it also exist empirical evidence of the contrary, thus making a general claim is not possible without looking at the specifics, i.e. which immigrant group to what country and in what time.
This is the thing. I feel like the Delaware Chancery Court is going to compel specific performance and the incentives for all other parties here are tilted deeply towards compliance.

On a practical level, every large financial institution with dollar assets (I mean this literally) has a far greater vested interest in maintaining a productive relationship with the Chancery than they do with Musk.

On a political level, could easily see the Delaware governor getting a kick out of sending the state police to arrest Musk for contempt, impound his assets.

Then again, Musk is a pretty good gambler.
standing out is not something that established big companies are interested in doing. Generally they’re much more interested in expanding their share of whatever market they’re in than expanding to new markets.

That is much different than being a “new” thing where being unique and different was valued to entice new customers and create/find markets that didn’t previously exist.

The art and branding around corporations will reflect that over time. It’s a small glimpse into what is happening in technology as a whole as it matures and “professionalizes”.
Jail. The consequence needed here is jail. Put these clowns in jail with junkies and wife beaters and gang bangers. While we’re at it, treat them the same as their local pd treats the most vulnerable in their community. They deserve no better than the most vulnerable and marginalized.
I think among common people what AI is is clear - a computer that is as smart and clever as a human. That has never changed, and has never been achieved.

But in academia what you say applies since they first thought "well a computer that can hold a conversation must be intelligent", then they created ELIZA, then "well a computer that can win in chess must be intelligent", then we got Big Blue, "well a computer than can recognize objects in an image", etc etc
Things we have that current AI models do not:

Intent: We can have a goal which directs our thinking. This changes what we come up with much more flexibly than experience, even if experience is often needed for good results.

Temperment: We can be angry, tired, excited, relaxed, etc. while thinking. This isn't always good, but it is a way we differ.

Self-awareness: A very difficult term to define, but we can (hopefully) take a step back and discard our current thought if we realize we are falling into one of our usual bad patterns of thinking.
> This is an appeal to authority that is not valid

I'm open to that criticism; I'm typically pretty skeptical of appeals to authority myself.

But to be clear: the appeal to authority I'm making isn't "legal opinion of a lawyer" (I agree that's very weak) but rather "opinion on corporate law by a Wachtell attorney who practiced corporate law" (Wachtell is probably the best corporate law firm in the world, and clearly in the top handful)
Has to be the end, purely for time paradox avoidance: they are fast approaching the year that Winona Ryder stars in Beetlejuice.
Oxide business model explained:

You know how you can buy pizza in a cardboard box?
What happens if you need to feed a party of ~80 people? You end up getting dozens of pizza boxes delivered.

Oxide Pizza delivers all that pizza in a single box.
You should get a gastric-emptying study done. I had similar symptoms and was diagnosed with gastroparesis. Unfortunately, it's one of those "not much we can do" situations, but knowing what the underlying issue was allowed me to find a diet that got me back to a semi-normal life.