skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And in this thread, today, you are talking against concerns that a government running Live Facial Recognition could result in overreach as the "Slippery Slope Fallacy".

I did not do this, you inferred my position, but all I wish to discuss is whether or not the person I replied to had a problem with this already-happening use of facial recognition, or if they were indeed okay with this use, but not some other, imagined, use.
Worked. It sucked.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32027341
As the saying goes, the plural of anecdote is not data. It's great that you read the page I cited, but you cherry picked your quote. Here's the full section:

> 11. Self-defense gun use is rare and not more effective at preventing injury than other protective actions

> Victims use guns in less than 1% of contact crimes, and women never use guns to protect themselves against sexual assault (in more than 300 cases). Victims using a gun were no less likely to be injured after taking protective action than victims using other forms of protective action. Compared to other protective actions, the National Crime Victimization Surveys provide little evidence that self-defense gun use is uniquely beneficial in reducing the likelihood of injury or property loss.

> This article helps provide accurate information concerning self-defense gun use. It shows that many of the claims about the benefits of gun ownership are largely myths.

> Hemenway D, Solnick SJ. The epidemiology of self-defense gun use: Evidence from the National Crime Victimization Surveys 2007-2011. Preventive Medicine. 2015; 79: 22-27.

Emphasis added.
I specifically used Russia as an example, because transferrimg nearly any fiat currency between it and the West is now blocked, due to the sanctions.

If Swift transfers worked, they could be a preferred alternative.
Almost seems like you could get there by bit twiddling, but I'm not sure. What's "-1 AND 127" in Commodore basic?
Depends on how big the fine he ends up with is.
I’d never heard of blind. I downloaded the app to try it out. Oh, they need my work email for verification? Hell no. I understand the rationale, but they do know that IT can see all my work emails, right?
Sure, but you're talking about all of AWS as if every customer is impacted when any part of AWS suffers a failure. But that's not the case, which makes it quite an apples/oranges comparison.

But even comparing the apples to the oranges, this HN status page someone else pointed out https://hn.hund.io/ seems to show that HN has had more than one outage in just the past month. All but today's and last night's being quite short, but still. Sometimes you need some extra complexity if you want to make it to zero downtime overall.

That's not something the HN website needs but I think AWS is doing fine even if that's your point of comparison.
Japan is notorious for recording things as "accidents" that are not accidents. Especially if it helps the police or family save face. This also applies to other things, like an artificially low homicide rate.
To quote the great Crash Davis, speaking to minor league pitching phenom Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh, "Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob."
New Zealand often seems like a toy country with one of everything. There's the One Bank, the One Telecom, the One Airline.

Not ... exactly. But effectively, yes.

A combination of a tiny population (5.1 millions) and a long way from nowhere (roughly 3,200 km / 2,000 mi from Sydney).

Australia and Canada already have issues from their own small scale (and vast land areas). NZ takes it up a notch.
What has become of the LISA source code? (It was announced to be just months from publishing a few years ago, but then everything went silent.) Does anyone know?
It makes more sense if you assume that Elon Musk is both a sometimes successful businessman and also suffering from unmanaged bipolar disorder.
no but i think theres similar zombie giants that is essentially a hybrid state run enterprise but Canada has explicitly designated industries where you simply cannot execute because they are anti-competitive.

and its not clear how individuals are being handed out rights to say run a casino in canada.

if you took a look at canada's corruption, you will be shocked. we don't quite live in a first world even though we like to tell ourselves all of the government officials/servants are honest.

after all the canadian embassy staff in Hong Kong happily handed out PR residency to hardcore organized criminal groups in exchange for various luxuries and perks. when a staff tried to expose it, he was quickly removed and media began to attack him.

its not only that but you see NGO's championing for racist white supremacy linked groups who vandalize Chinatown in Vancouver and with a large chunk of locals who feel that they are "being overrun by a certain ethnic group" eat that up and the same populist individuals get elected again and again. then my tax goes towards those interest while none for me because i'm 'privileged'

in the long run, I see this system breaking down, if not already. Canada no longer feels like a country but some feudalistic interest group driven, poorly run corportation.

so glad i dont have to pay taxes here. the savings and currency difference allowed me to create jobs in another part of the world. there was a time where I hoped things would get better and I could be creating jobs locally.

i just regret wasting my youth in canada and west coast. canada is a bubble and lot of us are moving capital/jobs out of it.

why contribute to a country that just sees you as an ATM to transfer payments to others who blame everyone but themselves and constantly wanting hand outs?

im done with canada and im warning anybody who still attach romantic outlooks, especially in heavily marketed cities like vancouver.
Pulling a camper is something that most people do rarely - no reason to drive that pickup to work every day when you could just rent it for trips.

Yes there are certain areas where most people will need a bunch of hauling capacity due to their professions. But most people who drive a pickup in the USA are doing it for stupid (prestige related reasons)! I don’t mean to sound too extreme here, I’m just tired of hearing people (who I know IRL) with expensive gas guzzlers complain about the cost of diesel when a compact sedan would suite their needs!
More precisely, securities fraud.
Are you asking me or the Founding Fathers?

I think it's a terrible and apocryphal idea and America would be well served by repealing the Second Amendment. The perpetual loss of civilian life to violent urges consummated by easy access to deadly firearms is in no way worth the possibility that Americans may need to rise up and shoot a bunch of their own politicians someday.

But among the reasons that it was put into place is definitely the idea that you must arm the citizenry because a government that disarms its citizenry is a tyranny. The US had, in living memory of the people who wrote the Constitution, just fought a war against their legitimate government and won it because, among other things, colonial life had made the average American familiar with a gun. They saw that as a useful facet of their culture to preserve.
That’s why there not outright claiming fraud just lying. That way they avoid illegal issues but if they were to seek damages it would be a fraud case.
"Musk Social"?
200+ comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32027341
That’s not how i remember the last HN discussion on this
Agree. I've been on Slashdot for decades and used to love it.

Now I realize I can't stand it unless I don't read the comments. Sort of an anti-HN :|
And “appears to have” is lawyer talk for “we don't know that this occurred and can't prove it and absolutely want to make clear that we will not be accountable for claiming it actually happened.”
Typo on page 6, those are BGW not BWG amplifiers. They are BGW 750 laboratory amps, and I am quite familiar with them. They were some of the best sound reinforcement/labs amps made at the time.
Thanks for everything you've done to develop code-server! I'm disappointed Microsoft didn't attempt to name theirs differently, although I supposed it _is_ a fairly obvious choice.

Personally, while I use and enjoy both GitHub and VSCode, I'm wary of buying too much into their ecosystem. So I'll continue to use things like GitPod and Coder's code-server so I can support the wider ecosystem and third-party OSS implementers in this space.
One thing I always try to remember is not to buy or sell electronics in Miami.

Every time a "person" from Miami has purchased a device from me online, it turned out to be the address of some shady forwarding/shipping company. They take forever and lose things, so the actual buyer may file a claim they never got the item. Thankfully, Swappa caught on and put some rules in place recently. Basically, the buyer must disclose this, and once it's delivered to said forwarder, the transaction is done.

Every time I've purchased a phone from a seller in Miami, it's been fraudulent in some way. Typically, phones being sold as new that have very obvious pry marks near the screen.

Beautiful city, but something about it seems to attract the shadiest businesses.
Seems to me he makes a pretty sound argument here to back out.
I always thought this was a weird purchase. All his other businesses have been industry disrupters where he can make all sorts of bombastic claims and promises of new products, but Twitter was an established company in a stable(ish) industry.

It was really hard to see how he would apply his usual tricks, and I always figured he was going to wiggle out.
I think you absolutely can divorce greatness from goodness. Think of Genghis Kahn, Stalin, Alexander the Great, and even Hitler.

These are humans who have had an outsized impact on the course of humanity.

Perhaps similar historical events would have come about with a different person, but they were the human that made massively impactful decisions. Their personal whims and experience decided the fate of large portions of the world.

They had a great impact. If that is not the same as greatness, perhaps we need an alternative term to describe great impact without moral connotation.
>i know i am screaming into a well here but a very bad thing is people going around saying that elon musk "waived due diligence" and so can't bring up the bots thing.

…

>the reason that elon musk can't get out of the deal over the bots thing is not that he "waived due diligence." it's that he SIGNED A BINDING AGREEMENT TO BUY TWITTER, and that agreement does not have any outs for "i think there are too many bots."

- Matt Levine esq of Bloomberg

https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1545152302142689281
Quality, non-biased news sources are (surprisingly) difficult to find.
If you like these, consider also his work in The City (1990).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LPpJbgod_k
Reference Counting with Frame Limited Reuse
> Linux is not an OS for the average user, it's for tech savvy geeks and an extremely small subset of those people too.

I recently installed Linux Mint and Windows 10. Linux was faster and easier to install, and has a friendlier UI. Have you seen the Windows start menu recently? It's cluttered with crap: I couldn't figure out how to do basic things with it, even searching was hard. You might do everything through the command line, but that's not the only way, the GUI does work.

Software's a different story, though a lot of things are online these days.
I like him for his entrepreneurship and big bold bets.

However related to Twitter, looking what's happening since his first tweet, this was the plan all along. Come up with an excuse to get out of the deal. Just he was trying to cash in all the marketing he can like always.

I don't think its going to work the way he thinks in this case, its atleast going to cost him $1b
I think you drastically over estimate the average user.
So there are a number ways in which people define the phrase "American Exceptionalism". I didn't realize there was a debate about it until the phrase became part of the popular vernacular over the past, 5 years?

All this time I've been stumbling around thinking it was our ability to run twin deficits (trade and budget) for like 40 years, without any appreciable increase in Treasury yields.
so we build giant parking lots at our metro train stations? We need different transportation. The us is terrible at building needed train infra. But just like in Europe, you need different solutions at diff levels.
Habitual usage doesn't necessarily correlate to quality, I'd say. People who use Facebook/Twitter also have this sort of muscle reflex developed over time.

That said, HN does have quality content and the signal/noise is way better than sites designed specifically to keep you addicted.
I think they’ve clearly shown that’s not true ever since they tried to take him back to court for clearly not having his tweets pre approved, despite the settlement over the “funding secured” tweet.

The man literally tweeted “Tesla stock is too high right now, imo” and nothing happened.
We’re talking about constructive feedback. This template:

- Praises the product and the hard work

- Says that it is so useful to them [but it wasn’t for this user, though?]

- Volunteers to help with what they want to solve

- … and yet also chastises themselves for probably not being good enough to contribute the most holy CODE. More praise of the author by putting oneself down?

- Finally gets to the suggestion in the fourth and penultimate paragraph

- Oh silly me, it’s probably a user error on my part

- Praises the product again

You’re either taking the piss or are setting the bar so high that none of the “haters” are gonna feel inclined to send someone a matter-of-fact (not rude, and also not this submissive fanperson, either) constructive feedback.
Your source is a liar.

Some examples:

- After lying about SpaceX launch costs, he later posts screenshots of articles. One of those articles had the true launch costs. The image was photoshopped to remove this launch cost.

- When posting pricing information for competitor services, he uses their lowest cost tiers for their highest cost service provision. He also falsely implies that SpaceX and other satellite providers are providing comparable services despite the latency difference. This is all part of his effort to mislead with regard to demand.

- When quoting speed test results, he uses outdated alpha information. He argues that speedtests would not improve, but at the time he posted the video the speed tests results did improve. He knew this. You can tell because he claims there is a government conspiracy to favor SpaceX for funding for rural internet. This reveals he knows that they qualified for this. Which reveals that he knows his speed test numbers are out of date.

- He lies about the number of launches SpaceX will have to do, double counting replacement launches. I might think these sort of things were an honest mistake, but the pattern of behavior is clear. Given any information, he distorts it and attempts to paint a bad narrative, going as far as photoshopping or proposing government conspiracies. It is obvious he did a great deal of research - so it is absurd to give him the benefit of the doubt with regard to ignorance.

TL;DR - Watching that video will make you uninformed and delusional, not informed. It is not worth watching. The person who made it is not trustworthy. You are linking, not to a skeptic, but to an Elon Musk conspiracy theorist.
My employer is taking notes.
Not, plus additional penalties. See:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/elon-musk-cant-just-walk-awa...
And he had another strategy for dealing with spam (verification of accounts). So I don't see your point.
I read a Brian Krebs article I had missed made two phone calls and got some paperwork done. Quite a productive Friday. ;-)
But I think that's... valid? Like, if you're a person able to install (and use) a typical linux distro, on a totally open and free-range PC, then you're near-definitely also a person who knows how to use the BIOS. You were probably already in there switching the default boot device. That is, of course, assuming there is a BIOS option to disable it, which hasn't been confirmed or denied.

The reality is: installing a replacement OS post-sale is never, ever going to be the way to grow linux marketshare, if that's what you care about (it shouldn't be, but some people live-and-breathe year of the linux desktop so whatever, you do you). Its a lot more important that it ship with the hardware, and extreme attention to detail has gone into making sure it works well with that hardware. Certainly, some vendors already do this. Moreover, I'd also argue its even more important that that hardware be modern and desirable; the only vendor I've seen pull this off is Dell (genuinely sorry, because I love what Framework/System76 are doing, but their machines look like branded OEM Clevos, because they probably are, or were in the recent past. I support them; I own a Framework; but only because I want them to do better, not because what they're doing today is enough).
You get more CO2 reduction until intermittency or geopolitical issues require you to bring coal plants back online to address energy shortfalls, like with Germany. You'd need an order of magnitude more renewables and a huge grid expansion to even remotely come close to solving energy unreliability in Germany, and even then you'll still have some issues. CO2 reduction is not the only goal, power stability is important.
They aren't claiming lying either.

They are claiming breach of contract, and that it looks to them like lying which, if it did happen, might be fraud, but they can't tell, in part because part of the alleged breaches is Twitter not giving them information that might clarify whether the other claims were true or not.
There's something really messed up and confusing about all the people complaining about him buying twitter now complaining he's backing out of the deal. Most of the people in these comments are hypocrites.
Why does he need a cover to sell his stock? He sold $10B+ last year without the twitter excuse. Also TSLA stock in March was at least 40% below it's peak
You think you'll have one infection and that's it for life? I've got some bad news for you...
His ego has gotten him in a big mess. I doubt that he will be forced to go thru with it but he's going to have to pay big. He can take the hit but his reputation will be mud for years to come. He'll be known as the guy that backed out of purchasing Twitter for life. But worse than that he'll be known as they guy you can't trust. All because he couldn't control his inflated ego.
> Needless to say I opened a new tab, typed "n", and hit enter countless times today before my brain caught up with my muscle memory.

I do this too, and it's because this site is an addictive slot machine just like every other social networking site. I actually really hate this website, but I'm here almost every day, because I can't seem to break the habit. Neat. It's probably because I have a common impulse control / executive functioning disorder, and the way the front page works exploits some bug in my brain.

Reddit does this to me too. I also hate Reddit.
The difference would be that musk's following is more moderate, and they might respect peering agreements unlike Gab or Truth Social.
Well maybe he realised that in the best case he would govern over Twitter 2.0 with extra toxicity and in the worst case be the proud owner of another cesspool of assholes, pedophiles and people with violent ideas.

I don't believe for a second that Elon Musk really cares about free speech for anyone but himself and he is right now probably not limited by twitter's policy but by other externalities
If you ask my personal opinion/ experience, I would factor 3 things

1. The presence of top research institutions across a wide spectrum of science & technology.

2. The footprint of this research in reputable publications & conferences.

3. The amount of capital investment to bring ideas to products.

If we consider this practical yardstick - US is ahead by a fair margin to any other country.
It seems like it is in the cloud (AWS) now. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32027091.
When you try to add something to your amazon shopping cart, you frequently get an "extended warranty" popup. If you just close the window/tab, the item silently doesn't make it to your shopping cart.

I don't know how many things go unpurchased because of this.
lol dude - I’m gay. Please continue to tell me more about my people.
That will get him nowhere in the trial, because incorrect information is only a valid reason to break off the deal if it uncovers a material adverse effect, and it is virtually impossible to get Delaware courts to find an MAE. Matt Levine's shorthand for Delaware MAE is "40% decrease in profitability". Not stock price; a 40% decrease in the fundamentals. It's not happening.
> If you're conscious of the tradeoff you're making, it's ok

Phones and the apps on them too often train us to push this awareness into the subconscious or rationalize it away
'eccentric in his approach'

by that you mean straight up lying, attempting fraud etc...
Bill did say "we have to prepare for the next one [pandemic]"
Your comment reads like Elon Musk fan fiction.
The idea was exceptional (and revolutionary) in 1776, but it's 2022 now. Practically every country has a constitution stating that its power derives from the people, and a number of countries do make good on that promise.

If anything, what's exceptional about America is how its citizens are treating fossilized details of a 246-year-old system as critically important, conveniently ignoring that America's founding fathers couldn't foresee everything, and that dozens of other democratic countries function without these details just fine.
Machine learning - the unreasonable effectiveness of trillions of matrix multiplications, and backpropagation as a universal function approximator.

Every time they pull off another thing that's just "too dang silly to work", and yet it does... it really makes me smile.

I took the free Machine Learning course at Stanford ways back, it was fun to get another toolkit, should I ever actually need it.
Completely not comparable. Openreach has significant marketshare but is also extremely tightly regulated. It has to allow other providers access to basically every element of its offering, now including its physical ducts and poles.

Hence you have a very competitive market landscape in the UK. There are at least 5 major national retail players using various wholesale products (BT, VM, TalkTalk, Sky, Vodafone), plus dozens of altnets offering FTTH on totally seperate fibre infrastructure have started (Hyperoptic, Cityfibre, GNetworks, Community Fibre).

In my flat in London I have access to 4 seperate FTTH networks (with completely different infrastructure) - Openreach FTTH, VM DOCSIS, Hyperoptic FTTB and Community Fibre FTTH. The market works here, prices are low and there are very few data caps.
I have a member of staff in the cloud with a torch and a pair of binos. Back in the office we have the same setup. We run at half duplex and avoid all that CSMA thing for speed. We have shrunk the address part of the Ethernet II frames to one bit and removed quite a few flags. With some extra compression, we can do nearly one frame every few minutes, depending on how often you have to look up our extensions designed to save time.

To wind up the troops, I run nmap scans every now and then from my PC. It takes days to complete. lol.
I took up smoking