skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still no sadly. My phone shows 2G network. The last time I use 2G network was probably...decade ago.
what definition of exceptionalism are you using to come to that conclusion? Is it possible to be exceptionally narcistic or exceptionally sadistic?
You can make the omnibox forget about URLs and search terms you've used a lot by selecting them with the down key then pressing Shift+Delete (https://superuser.com/a/189334).
I have a flakey internet connection. Because HN loads so fast, I use it to test if my internet is working/is back up after it disconnects.

WELL TODAY WAS VERY INCONVENIENT LET ME TELL YOU! :)
I'm pretty sure your definition is not the one most people use. Google for sentences containing the word "unfriendly" and I'm pretty sure 90%+ of them (if not 99%+ of them) use it as a milder version of "rude", not as "showing no signs of friendliness or rudeness".

To circle back to the point of the original comment, my point was "constructive" and "friendly" are describing different characteristics, and "rude" does not automatically imply "unconstructive" (and of course "constructive" does not imply "kind" either). That fact is precisely what necessitated your use of the word "friendly" in your own comment. You can see this if you Google too—the top result I get when I Google constructive criticism meaning [1] says constructive criticism is "a feedback method that offers specific, actionable recommendations". That's all it means.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=constructive+criticism+meani...
It's not possible to pay with debit card in Canada because Interac is down, because Rogers is down.
Many atm across the country aren't working.

It's not just Rogers' client who are impacted, the whole banking ecosystem is impacted.

Even rumors that Costco can only accept cash, the Capital One Mastercard network might be down.

I don't see how Rogers could keep quiet on this, unless it's from some malicious actor.
Marginally related but I've always wanted to discuss this- I met a guy whose small business (he claims) is purchasing networking equipment from the same Chinese factories that manufacture Cisco/other networking company products. He told me that he obviously just purchases in much smaller amounts, slaps his brand on it, and then has a small number of salespeople sell them throughout the US (he claimed to specialize in school districts and universities). He said his prices were lower than Cisco's (or other companies) because he has much less overhead. I think he was born in China, so he may have an in with whoever these factories are, possibly via personal connection.

I can't verify some of his story, but he does legitimately run a small, closely held business selling networking gear. And he is clearly wealthy. Would be sort of a cool business hack if true!
> Authorities have not said how many shots were fired [...] the number could be more than 90, with the man suffering at least 60 bullet wounds

https://nypost.com/2022/07/03/ohio-police-release-video-of-o...
yes, yes, no
Most people seem to be giving him the benefit of the doubt that he has cold feet. Personally, I think this was sabotage, he had no intention of buying Twitter in the first place and this was just a ploy to fuck with Twitter.
This isn’t the first time he has sold Tesla shares. He sold billions of dollars worth last year too. I’m not sure the exact dates to do the math, but did those sales cause a immediate drop of over 10% like the Twitter announcement?
I really don't understand why you all think Elon is going to pay anythying.

The 6.4 provision is pretty standard, and often the reason for deal to fall through, in that enough of the requested information was not provided. You really don't know what was asked, what was ignored, and what garbage data was sent back. You think Twitter is all innocent? Pfffftt. Don't be evil, oops, i mean naive.

He doesn't have to prove fraud, or malice, or that it wasn't worth it....all he has to show is that requests were ignored, rebuffed even though they are reasonable, and responded to with bad data. That's not really a hard case to win.
Unfortunately BGP problems make DNS problems look trivial :(
Annoying friends with lengthy discussions about gun politics, tech ethics, and the latest gadgets...
This is going to Delaware Chancery court, and if his ridiculous claims hold it does turn upside down long-held general principles of mergers and acquisitions that would affect.. everyone. I don't think the court will side with him on this. In the past, they have forced mergers to go through..
Hello, I read your twitter thread. While privacy is absolutely important, your reasoning is fundamentally flawed. In the context of financial transactions, we know from a ridiculous amount of history with banking regulations that it's not ordinary people who benefit from having complete privacy and anonymity in all matters. It's criminals and fraudsters who lie and misrepresent themselves to conceal the source of their funds and their activities. They'll gladly continue to use their privacy as a weapon to disguise themselves and further rob and steal. There is no other group that benefits as much from being able to transfer large amounts of money secretly. This can be verified over and over again, ask any traditional company that processes international remittances.

It doesn't really matter what kind of political activism you believe you're engaging in: the reality is, these nasties are the main people that benefit. They absolutely love what you're doing. Anyone involved in cryptocurrency, even tangentially, is complicit in this fraud because it's the only way these currencies have any significant value to begin with. And it will continue to happen for the indefinite future, because even with this new move ETH will still have no capital controls to prevent any of the massive market manipulation that happened over the last few years, that drove tons more fraud and ransomware and also resulted in the recent crash.

A system that tries to give privacy but does nothing to stop fraud is just creating worse problems under the false guise of helping people. I ask that you please stop working on these things and please stop promoting them until you can dial the whole thing back to rectify this situation. Any kind of "censorship resistance" without fraud prevention is not going to work. If enough people put their heads together they can solve this, but it will not happen with any of the supposed "privacy solutions" you mentioned. Yes, I'm aware the traditional finance system also has many of the same problems. It's not helping to recreate the exact same system but with even more layers of technical debt around it, which is essentially all you'll be able to do with any of the suggested tools.

Regarding the example of Russia, please see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32013981

The system you have built specifically and explicitly provides much less cover to the Russian citizens than it does to Putin's regime, who will gladly adopt it and then turn around and use the proceeds to further oppress, murder and destroy. It is a net loss for privacy.
Yeah, prosecutors generally charge only counts that they can really prove and only enough counts to put someone away for a "reasonable" time. Imagine a jury having to listen to evidence for a thousand counts, keep them straight, and decide each of them at the end.
No? "Cold feet" is impulsive. Whereas a disguised liquidation is calculated.

Regardless, the fall in share price likely drove the outcome.
His tweets are shared on the news. Like when he accused Thailand diver of being a pedophile.
The comparison to HIV is apt. At its peak, in the late 80s and early 90s, everyone was taught to dread this disease. Officials acted as though everyone was equally at risk of contracting it. That was incorrect, and pretending otherwise helped noone.
Musk is just so full of shit, everyone can see him for the grifter he is now. He'd do so much better if he just stopped running his mouth.
So glad HN got back online when the day got interesting
I guess we'll never see how a free speech Twitter works. I think this is sad.
They gave the data because if they didn’t that’s a valid reason for Musk to walk out of the deal. The bots are not.
How would you measure that the US is the leader in innovation.

US News says Japan: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/innovati....

World Intellectual Property Organization says Switzerland: https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2021/article_0008...

Bloomberg says South Korea: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-03/south-kor...
Freshii’s ‘virtual cashiers’ to go global
>Nothing Musk has done in the last few months has been in good faith.

Isn't this itself arguing in bad faith? It's fundamentally speculative to make claims about his intentions.
Originally. But then publishers got greedy ("greed is forever") and instead of a relatively short term of protection before becoming public domain we now have stupid multi-decade restrictions. Those prevent us from printing good out of print books and do not give any benefit to either publisher or the author.
How would you find a definitive answer?
I ran some errands, then did watercolor painting with my wife :)
I was thinking along these lines as well. It's as if those who believe in American Exceptionalism and add up the metrics like the OP did think this is an addition only process.

Ok, you've created the greatest military power, but your country can rarely go through a day without mass shooting of it's own citizens by it's own citizens. How does your military power help your country if the greatest threat to it's citizens comes from your other citizens?

You created an economic power, but you can't afford to provide medical services to a huge portion of your population. When you do provide medical services, the costs are significantly higher than any in any other country. So what has your economic power purchased you? Another television? More sugary and unhealthy foods?
Failures due to increasing complexity are still failures.
Clearly the ambiguity is taken advantage of wherever convenient.
Nim generally doesn't use namespaces, so… that's how.

I didn't even know Elixir had macros…
The Go masters insist that every stone must have at least two reasons for its placement.
Would it interfere with Starlink's transmissions? Or would it interfere with the monopoly position of Starlink? Hard to tell apart from afar.
Could you commenters please make up your minds over whether you want the deal to go through or not? You all seem to hate that Musk would make Twitter more conservative so you don't want the deal to go through, but also make fun of him and torment him for pulling out as if you do want the deal to go through. You can't have it both ways.

Either you want the deal consummated or you don't. Stop being such hypocrites.
How do you plan to get permission/funding to build trams, metros, and trains in every city in America? The minuscule commercial deployments we've already seen in cities like Phoenix and SF cover vastly more area than the last 50 years of passenger rail construction in those same cities.
Delaware sets the gold standard on corporate law, and has a special courts of law and equity (the CCLD division and the Court of Chancery) that are set up to handle high-value corporate matters.

I don’t think most American judges are susceptible to any kind of bribery (other than jurisdictions where elected judges may expect campaign donations from litigants), but Delaware has to be among the absolute least likely to have that issue.
It was but the progressives destroyed it in the mid 60s.
I don’t agree with your examples. In the first one, he describes a specific problem, and I agree with his description and proposed sketched solution. I see no explicit connection with the later problems of modern programs removing options. In the second article, he describes a method for fighting spam, not abusive users, and it was a reasonable idea in 2004. And I seem to recall that even this very forum currently uses that method, so it must still be very effective, which in turn points to Joel being correct. The negative aspects you describe I feel lies more with the centralized monolithic nature of those actors. Of course, a tool can be used badly, but I’m not sure the article has aged that badly.
I might describe it as a little cold. Since I have no contract with the developer, I’m effectively asking for a favour. Perhaps I’m just awfully British about it.
No because he bid above twitter current stock valuation so he can still go down and people might not be happy but they will not be able to sue anyone.
That's not the right question, the question is the perception of the difference between selling $44B of stock outright or selling it with the goal of buying Twitter.

What actually happened isn't relevant. What is relevant is whether he may have thought it would work better. Tricky to prove.
It's great. There is also great versions without dialog if preffered.

Finding an "authentic" version if the Blade Runner soundtrack is surprisingly difficult. Most are compilations and reinterpretations, even made by Vangelis himself. My favourite is this version: http://www.vangelisrarities.com/produit/blade-runner-2019-ed...

The maker must have spent a lot of time extracting this from the multichannel Audiotracks of the Blu-Rays.
> But it's unclear to me what he initially thought he was getting out of this.

The more it goes on it feels like “I don't like how twitter works, I’ll show them! <insert some less developed ideas of free speech on the internet>”

Later:

“Oh noes if I do what I want here the result might be bad…”

It just feels like a YOLO business deal that wasn’t thought out the more this goes on.
If I am hiring for a intermediate to senior role, I would like to see at least 1 or 2 stints of 3+ years at a company because if you haven't spent enough time at one company/team, you haven't really come across problems and issues that may not appear with short stints. Job hopping when early on in your career is a good thing because it helps you get better pay and growth as well. But at some point, you cannot keep doing that otherwise you will not be trusted for any role that is important including managerial levels. My 2 cents.
Again, what does "up into the 6 figures" mean for both teacher and military officer pay?

Because I am unable to find a source for total benefits for software developer. Microsoft, as another Seattle-area company, offers 50% matching contributions to 401(k), stock and cash bonuses, child daycare accounts, life insurance, public transit card, and more. But other companies will differ.

Do you have any better numbers? You must have some idea, in order to judge that software developers have worse benefits than Seattle public school teachers.

A lot of government employees get pensions like public school teachers do, so what else do teachers have which makes it likely the best benefits package of any profession? What am I missing?

Since stock options, 50% matching to 401(k), etc are worse than what teachers get, what do software developers need to do to get a piece of that sweet pension benefit?

Negotiate better? Start a union? Get laws passed? Start online discussions about the poor benefits in software development?
As I noted, the problems in America can be traced to not following those principles. That doesn't make the principles wrong.

> undemocratic minority rule enshrined in the Constitution.

The purpose of that is to protect the underlying rights of equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I.e. the sheep is protected from the two wolves voting on what's for dinner.
and there was money parked in bitcoin...
America has failed in it's lofty ideal many times, yes, but every step of the way shows an almost irrational desire to continue to correct course and hopefully, eventually, achieve that goal. The abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, reparations to Japanese internment camp prisoners... America loudly and proudly celebrated our first black president not too long ago. That says something about our principles. It's not a myth, it's a fact.
He has tons of wiggle room. Mostly in this will takes years to resolve, Twitter will be forced to disclose nearly every internal document that will 100% have some email or chat of employees stating, if only as hyperbole, that the bot rate they report to the public is bullshit.
It actually spreads and comes from rodents.
Maybe customers don't want to know.
There is zero evidence that he is right.

All we know are the facts, he agreed to buy twitter and now he is trying to walk
away from the deal.

There could be multiple reasons for that, including what he is saying on face value or a dozen other scenarios.

He could still be wanting to buy twitter and use this as a bargaining tool to lower the price.

You can say he was right, once we know the full facts which will be once this plays out and since it doesn't really affect any of us, speculating right now is simply taking part in silly gossip.
The missing part of the story is that US may be exceptional, but also very vulnerable right now. People keep saying "guns/abortions are my right" (with equal extremes from opponents), why should I compromise at all? Well, framers of constitution compromised quite a bit on things they believed in and that caused problem later, but it's only through compromise that the nation came to exist and it's only through continued compromise that it can continue. Otherwise if living in an exceptional country is not making anyone happy, even morally it's better to have 50 less exceptional countries where people can come to some understanding rather than fighting all the time.
It actually seems to be the opposite, from what I've seen. There's a Reddit sub with half a million subscribers, /r/HermanCainAward/, created to make fun of people who were cavalier about Covid and ended up dying from it. There's no sub for people who had tons of unprotected sex and got AIDS or monkeypox, and I'm pretty sure one would get banned immediately if it was created.
Well, that's the problem. Self-driving cars does not solve that problem.
I must be missing something:

1) if you have a blocking bug or code dependency between two microservices OR two monolith modules, that should of course block until it is fixed and resolved. Microservices do not magically solve that.

2) other code changes or features that are not blocked, can be unblocked by being released in a smaller release ( git rebase those commits
to a new release branch on main, and cut, test and deploy a smaller release -- basically gitflow)

3) once the blocking modules are fixed, they should be rebased onto the latest main.

The blocking "effect", even in a monolith, seems like it would be better solved by using a version control system with good rebase support.

Coordination needs to happen for larger changes, and/or the changes need to be smaller.
That is a very good question, monitor the SEC for clues, if they bring some kind of action (which should either happen soon now that he has made it official he wants to back out or not at all).
How can you possibly know that? The hubris of thinking that because you haven’t seen it it’s uncommon on it’s face is truly staggering.
Well, Pottering quit RedHat to work for MS, maybe that's exactly the plan
I am nitpicking - I think the touchscreen is built by someone else.
When I had to work on Java/Javascript, I had to fallback to using `any` so often, to get the compilers to work, I gave up on the idea that strong typing is useful. Maybe it's fine for simple types, but trying to pass non-trivial structures around was way more trouble than it was worth.
So? What does twitter care whether he intended to do it? He agreed to! And they can still force him to do it. So even if he drags out the litigation, they still have a strong position to negotiate a settlement for somewhere between 1 and 40 billion. Free money for his stupidity.
With age, you will look back on your infantile attitude to this situation and realise that you were simply a rube.
I don't think it was intentional, but given the recent Roe v Wade controversy I find it amusing that your wrote "High degree of choices to an individual to shape _his_ life". Gave me a chuckle.
Eh, that wasn’t my read. More that it seems to be exclusively used by bad people.

The lack of people manually verifying the _nature_ of a transaction and not just that someone claimed a transaction occurred means everything you’re doing is, well, pointless. It is (highly optimistically) a libertarian political movement that is deeply misinformed about how free markets and trust actually work.

Cryptocurrency has zero effective solutions for this. If you were to send your money to anyone claiming to be a NK citizen, you still have to personally verify entire transaction occurs, or you’ll get grifted. It’s useless. You’re being grifted. You’re making it worse by continuing to defend it and at some point you’re culpable for not admitting this despite it coming up on literally every hacker news post about cryptocurrency.
A very homogeneous country like Japan (I could speak for that only, being a current resident), is generally inure to the culture of people around the world. Foreigners don't stick around long because they are like the thumb sticking out. One feels left out if not thick skinned enough.

In US, I always felt at home. There were people just like me - eating similar food, sharing different festivities, of same socioeconomic strata etc. Eventually inclusivity & diversity retains immigration. US (& UK as well) does better than most other developed countries
You say social engineering, I say criminal fraud.
You seem to miss the point that there was no legitimate justification for invading Iraq. We invaded Iraq because certain people temporarily in authority wanted to invade Iraq, for personal, petty, and cynical reasons.

Russians cribbing from that was obviously meant ironically. Missing that point is telling.
Immigration won't solve the long term declining birthrates because it's a globally systemic problem. Moving people from one country to another won't actually solve the population decline globally - which is needed to support the broader global financial trade markets that have propped up the golden financial age we've experienced over the last 70 years.

"The End of the World is Just the Beginning" has been a great read so far (about halfway through it as of this comment) and the author, Peter Zeihan, dedicates a significant portion of the book to discussing the problem of population decline in-depth.
As TFA mentions, the clip makes has regularly made the rounds on social media for years now. If this blog post can serve only as a single-link response to it, it has some purpose.
If "business hack" = stealing someone else's designs, I've got a lot of profitable opportunities for you...
Yes. It's one of the few countries where citizens are protected from the government. This means anyone can make huge mistakes, and it's viewed as immoral to stop them. Myopically, it drives a politics of fear and control ('Won't someone please think of the children [who we don't consider people with rights, so as to individually choose not to go to school, for example]'). Long term, America has provided more progress to the world in terms of ideas, technology, knowledge, than any other community in human history. It also means that they are free to make ideological mistakes, no one is embraced to say their opinion even if it's wrong. This is a Tradition of Criticism, and it extends to the West in general, but is exemplified by America (Hollywood, US media, etc). All progress comes from criticism. America is 'exceptional', but with that power comes great responsibility--something recent generations don't seem to want. So, giving up rights, puts the responsibility in some other's hand--an appeal to authority. This has lead to a great culture of pessimism. I hope that will end soon and more American's will be optimistic and proud of their responsibility to infinite knowledge growth through a Tradition of Criticism.