skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, I think the intention is that the license you have to grant only covers implementations of AOMedia standards; if a VVC implementation or whatever also used your invention, that would probably need a separate license you could charge for.

That is correct. Source: I helped draft the license.
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Oh hey, another jemalloc user! We just LD_PRELOAD it.
he stumps up the $1B termination fee

I don't think that's even an option -- that $1B breakup fee was just if the deal was not allowed to go through due to reasons outside of his control (like if it was blocked due to regulatory reasons). Otherwise, I think he's legally obligated to go through with it -- and Twitter's board has fiduciary responsibility to hold him to it.
I find Markdeep[1] easier than this.

[1] https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
Is he an idiot who realized he was in too deep / paid too much? Or was he trying to find a way to discredit their user numbers and wanted big headlines?
Spectrum is so incompetent that even if you were a Spectrum subscriber, they'd still spam you with those offers.
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I'm having an issue using the settings. I'd like to use the application with a specific UI - greenish background, black text, highlighting what's selected. The way I've configured it sort of works, but has a white background when I move the cursor around. Here are the settings I’m using and a screenshot of the problem.
Didn’t notice. Head down for work in the AM, spent the PM installing gutter shields. Good day!
I dunno, I think if you publish a copy of your code to a registry then it would be both desirable and reasonable for that copy to be immutable. Allowing the deletion of published libraries can have huge downstream impacts and ultimately makes the registry less trustworthy.

Edit: to be clear, not trying to shame the author here - it sounds like they tried to avoid this situation: "what i didn't consider is that this would delete old versions. those are apparently now gone and yet it's apparently not possible for me to re-upload them. i don't think that's sensible behavior by pypi, but either way i'm sorry about that."

I think this is a bad design on PyPI's part though.
CNNs are possible, but require some hacky code.
Tensorflow.js is far better in this regard.
Newsroom spoilers ahead!

> The diatribe that statement is treated by the visual language of the scene like a truth bomb, which is why it is so odd because Jeff Daniels’ character is not merely wrong, but (as I intend to show) laughably so

The scene in question is literally the first scene in the first episode of the show. Jeff Daniels' character is disillusioned, sold out to advertisers, lacking integrity, and alone. His character arc, over the entire season, is about him getting over the attitude shown in the clip.
I think I have a functioning brain. I am vaccinated and also had a booster as well. Since 2019 I never got sick due to WFH, and to this day never got Covid as well, any variants. I don't use mask to go outside, and I am not the most hygiene person, growing up in a 3rd world country.

I am constantly exposed to Covid positive people, including my own wife who got Covid, 24x7 and I did not do any social distancing at all. I still don't get Covid.

Meanwhile, I know a friend got infected with Covid 2 times, despite having vaccinated and boosted.

Is it just me or my 3rd world country - not so hygiene - probably multiple times infected with various virus - body is stronger than average 1st worlders?

TLDR: This is 2022 and I still don't get Covid despite not being careful.

Go figure. I wanna know too.
I did more work lol mostly taking care of the bottom of the list Improvements a few small PRs here and there..
The entire tech sector would not exist without the telcos. So there's that
I found the same, as soon as I join any larger rooms it starts to struggle.

The clients feel sluggish as well, just in terms of moving around the UI.
This assumes he was serious about it at some point, instead of just cover to sell more Tesla shares and free marketing for himself.
Tangentially related: what if this timeline was a game? https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/

(I'm not the author)
My reseller connection (Start.ca) is down, and Telus’ cell phone service becomes near unusable because of the extra load.

I expect the device I send this from will be offline again in the next few minutes, but I’m willing to be pleasantly surprised.
> Either he was breathlessly arrogant

Isn't that like more than half of his MO?
> will be put towards some worthy aim

Like self governance?
I've wondered about this a lot recently as I've spent a lot of time recently fighting with Terraform, Atlantis, CircleCI, github and AWS. The first half of my career was deploying code to various UNIX machines. When there was a problem I could login to that machine and use various (common) tools to diagnose the issue. I may not have had root but I was at least able to gain insight into what was likely the culprit. The interface was immediate and allowed quick iteration to test out a solution.

It feels like we've lost a lot of that observability and immediacy with the cloud. It's not as easy to quickly understand the larger picture. You can understand the state of various services with the web console or command line tools but tracing a path through those services is much less obvious and efficient.

I'm kind of nervous to even discuss this as I wonder if it's just my age showing, especially since I see very people mention this as one of the downsides of various cloud solutions. Maybe I'm just jaded?
Slashdot has been around since 1997 and people still rave about its moderation system today. However, while I have high hopes for HN, it could very well go the way of digg overnight
Matt Levine has a take down of the supposed bot problem. Basically Elon not only waved due diligence, he signed a binding agreement to buy Twitter, and the bot talk is irrelevant. Even if there’s a problem, Musk should have addressed it before signing an agreement to buy the company.

https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1545151445057536001?s...
While this may be true originally or historically, I don’t think it’s what most people today mean colloquially when they say American Exceptionalism, and I think there’s a large group of people that agree more with the colloquial definition.
It depends on the language you are using and maybe the size of your project. I did Ruby, Python, and Go development for years using only Vim and really enjoyed it. But the minute I started working on big Java and Scala codebases, I started struggling. I tried different LSP, completion engines, and debugging plugins, but I couldn't find the proper setup. The IDE Vim modes are decent these days but still lack those more advanced features to manage your buffers and windows for example.
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It is quite easy to prove twitter is mostly full of bots. You do not even need a firehose to come to that conclusion.
Maybe (probably) I'm missing stuff, but it looks to me like Musk announced the deal, but either never had any intention of completing it, or almost immediately lost interest in completing it.

So... what exactly was that all about?
The Canadian government have put up a mild roadblock that will be addressed with non-substantive changes to the structure of the merger, enforced by a little known, toothless regulatory agency who will be instructed to look the other way.

The regulatory environment Canadian telcos operate in is completely captured.
Wasn't he tweeting that Twitter was full of bots and he was going to sort out the bot problem, after he had made the offer to buy twitter? Now hes pulling because of all the supposed bots because twitter didn't 'prove' to him to his satisfaction the bot problem didn't exist, even though in every filing Twitter has stated that it estimates that X% of users are bots.
Further didn't he get access to the very same data that Twitter relies on to make these estimates?
So all in all he just decided he doesn't want to buy twitter, has messed everyone around and wants to get out of paying the cancellation fee.

For such a visionary, he seems that he can't see the reputational damage it does, consistently failing to follow the law or agreements made with people.
This is the predictable and obvious goal of the law: To give law enforcement an easy way to criminalize someone who is trying to hold them accountable. All the police have to do to arrest a photographer is suddenly run up within 8 feet of them. They can also now fan out in a cop-mesh, 8 feet from one another, so that nobody without a telephoto lens can get close enough to film their ill deeds.
Unfortunately!
To my point, they were all used. I imagine they’d all be used in short order again.
Elon Musk ends $44bn bid to buy Twitter
True, plus China did a number on itself with the one child policy.
Slightly off-topic, but I've recently heard from some corners of the collecting world that this is a major issue for video game resellers on Amazon (and other platforms) as well. People regularly receive flash carts with stuck-on labels (i.e. stolen trademarks) on them and a pirated ROM running on counterfeited hardware. Unfortunately, it's nearly impossible in some cases to identify a well-crafted fake from a genuine copy before purchase, and the burden is thus placed on Amazon to take action against sellers of the products. Given that the loss of one consumer in a relatively niche yet very competitive market will not deal significant damage to Amazon's overall profits, (and that Amazon can feasibly shift blame towards the seller,) the issue persists.

All of this is to say that the idea of pirated books proliferating on Amazon is entirely feasible if electronic devices can be so successfully faked. However, what's not lost on me is the irony of Amazon, a marketplace whose initial success was anchored by trust in its ability to deliver books, falling victim to such schemes in this specific market space.
You can use the parent fork! It is Postgres. I just personally hate Postgres and have a huge mysqldb i need to support.
No, he can’t pay the termination fee. He has to close the deal.
His team apparently had a tough time verifying the data due to API rate limits.

> While Twitter has provided some information, that information has come with strings attached, use limitations or other artificial formatting features, which has rendered some of the information minimally useful to Mr. Musk and his advisors. For example, when Twitter finally provided access to the eight developer “APIs” first explicitly requested by Mr. Musk in the May 25 Letter, those APIs contained a rate limit lower than what Twitter provides to its largest enterprise customers. Twitter only offered to provide Mr. Musk with the same level of access as some of its customers after we explained that throttling the rate limit prevented Mr. Musk and his advisors from performing the analysis that he wished to conduct in any reasonable period of time.

> Additionally, those APIs contained an artificial “cap” on the number of queries that Mr. Musk and his team can run regardless of the rate limit—an issue that initially prevented Mr. Musk and his advisors from completing an analysis of the data in any reasonable period of time. Mr. Musk raised this issue as soon as he became aware of it, in the first paragraph of the June 29 Letter: “we have just been informed by our data experts that Twitter has placed an artificial cap on the number of searches our experts can perform with this data, which is now preventing Mr. Musk and his team from doing their analysis.” That cap was not removed until July 6, after Mr. Musk demanded its removal for a second time.
Wait until you find out that the cable that Rogers uses to peer to the Telus network got unplugged!
I don’t see why the attitude of the reporting user should be a factor in determining the priority of the bug they are reporting. Surely the severity of the bug, and how many people are likely to be affected are the relevant factors. Sure, if the issue is not well explained, hard to pin down, or might otherwise require cooperation from the user, you have to weigh that into your consideration. However, many users do get surprisingly cooperative once you show them that you actually care about fixing the issue they are reporting; many users are used to being ignored, and might start out having a bad attitude merely by habit.
a $100/month "tax" due to things like high food and gas prices is actually small compared to unemployment.

oil was over $100/bbl from roughly 2010 through 2014 but the economy kept on going just fine.

if people have jobs and have some discretionary income they can ride out the pain of higher prices through deferring spending. the middle class certainly can do this. its the people who are quite literally paycheck to paycheck who fall behind and wind up making poor choices like payday loans who are really going to be feeling substantial pain right now.

and i don't want to sound like i'm entirely discounting that, but crank unemployment up to 10% and it is going to be those people who wind up even worse off and possibly unemployed and homeless. it can get a whole lot worse for everyone right now.

and yeah, the already comfortable people still feel pretty comfortable at this point and aren't feeling a lot of pain, other than maybe the family has to stick with old iphones this year or something. the economy is objectively much worse when those people are losing their jobs and houses than when they're not. which does not deny the existence of people at the margins of the current economy that are being more severely hurt by prices.
Played with lua as a kernel module.
The $1b isn't a walkaway fee, it's a penalty if a 3rd party kills the deal

They have a binding contract, there is no walking away without spending years in court

In that contract, Musk even agrees he cannot contest Twitter forcing him to complete the purchase

> it is hereby acknowledged and agreed that the Company shall be entitled to specific performance or other equitable remedy to enforce Parent and Acquisition Sub’s obligations to cause the Equity Investor to fund the Equity Financing, or to enforce the Equity Investor’s obligation to fund the Equity Financing directly, and to consummate the Closing

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522...
No he’ll refuse to pay that.
NASA reveals Webb telescope's first cosmic targets
Its all intelligence lead now a days, so much meta data from mobile phone's you can track most people quite easily. Lifespans of drug users are drastically shortened, and with todays global population which has doubled since 1970's planetary resources are scarce, so are most people bothered if a spipce user is locked in a time vortex?

I noticed that this post appeared on Reddit the other day, suggesting people should start wearing woolly gimp masks to avoid facial recognition, which started in China. Have to wait and see if it catches on in the UK.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/umoflx/wearing_balac...
The thing is, the common misunderstanding is one of the core American tenets.

It's one of the core American myths which is directly transmitted through American education, and the vast majority of Americans believe it. Even those that say they don't will recoil when you disprove or contest some key aspects, it's a very ingrained idea.

Everyone wants to be part of an exceptional nation because then there's a chance they're personally exceptional, too :-)
I do similar. I use Amazon to find the ISBN number of the book I want then search for it on ebay and buy the cheapest second hand copy.
What happened?
wasn't resolving at all.
There aren't claiming fraud, there are claiming breach of contract. Including, among other things, by failing to maintain operations in the regular course of business because of, I kid you not, allowing some senior officials to resign.

(It's true some of the many other things that are claimed to be breaches relate to alleged failure to fulfill obligations to provide information that Musk supposedly wanted to determine if other claims that has been made were fraudulent, but that's different than alleging fraud.)
And this right here is why a large number of engineers never make it pas mid-level. Thinking that the only things that matter are technical and the social aspects of communication are just unnecessary complications
That's probably why the Justice Department are so keen to go after these grey-market sellers: it protects NSA's own interdiction pipeline more than it protects Cisco's bottom line: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
This flavor of “fraud” is something I’d expect an activist investor or short-seller to address, not the SEC.
> I'm not sure this fully tracks. A type of public transit failed in California that succeeded elsewhere. If that is the reference, why can't I point to the tech industry and use it as positive evidence?

You asked for an example of another government doing better. I gave you a recent one by California's government. Japan is perhaps the best one, but many other countries do trains a lot better than California despite all the hype and money they put in it's mediocre result. It was a very open question that your follow up questions are trying to pivot to something else.

> And, most of the bad things you are bringing up are happening all throughout the US.

Please read my post again. Being below average in K-12 among the states, despite the high taxes and land values, is not happening all throughout the US.

> Just feels too convenient to say that the tech industry is in spite of the government, but the failures are because of it.

Please read what I wrote carefully above, I did not agree with that fully. My argument was more of the recent CA govt has not been addressing it's problems and the tech industry's success was due to good decisions in the past (and the weather). The recent CA govt actions has been poor. Calling the recent tech boom in spite of government policies is something I can somewhat agree with.
One company I worked for would only allow purchasing the 13" Pro, and not the Air models, for years. Most of us who traveled would've rather used the Airs, and after maybe 2-3 years with that policy it was relaxed a bit.

With the first generation or two of MacBook Air, it was light but it was WAY less performant than even the entry level MacBook Pro. With Apple Silicon, the case for the entry Pro is very slim, but inertia keeps it going.

I think it's like how Apple kept making the eMac for a while, even after the iMac had eaten its lunch.
And even "human resources" is a fancied-up name for "personnel department".
The same soulless automation running the show.
Which is why it's not fraud --- Delaware has effectively never finds MAEs. The premise of him walking away is his (utterly specious, but perhaps practically effective) claim that Twitter breached the acquisition contract by refusing to live up to its information covenants.
The dude is funny, gotta give him at least that.
The reason it's an institution is because it hasn't been bought by some corp trying to squeeze value out of eyeballs, which is why it hasn't really changed much.

However, it takes money and time to keep it around in a not for profit way, so it will be an institution as long as it's funding is the same.
This was obvious from the moment he brought up the fake accounts problem.

The stock market (especially tech) tanked, other investors started having cold feet, and he realized his purchase was a mistake.

It is bizarre though that Twitter leadership/board continued to engage with him on the matter – even handing him internal data to analyze – expecting a good faith resolution. Nothing Musk has done in the last few months has been in good faith. You either lawyer up and force him to stick to the agreement, or take the loss and move on. Appeasement isn't going to work.
There are two ways one may interpret "American exceptionalism".

The first is that, being a rich country and democratically elected, our standards for fair and ethical behavior are higher than others'. We can afford to be generous and to be kind. Our declaration of universal human rights means we stick up for rights not just in our own territory, but for all our human sisters and brothers, extending due process to all, even those under the boot of foreign enemy governments, and aiding movements toward democracy, freedom, and recognition of inherent human rights and dignity.

The other is that, being so fucking rich and powerful, the rules don't apply to us, and we are justified in doing anything, no matter how harmful, anywhere it gets something for companies based here or people holding power here at the moment.

You can guess which way administrations who have promoted "American exceptionalism" jumped. I don't think I need to trot out examples, but it seems notable that Russia copied the verbiage that US published in support of its unsupportable invasion of Iraq when they invaded Ukraine. The US demanding International Criminal Court attention to Russian war crimes, while warning that any attempt at prosecuting well-known American war criminals would evoke military action, is particularly rich.

Arranging for Nobel Peace Prizes to be issued to war criminals is a neat touch.
Also, Musk routinely knowingly confuses DAUs and normal users. Twitter claims 5% of daily active users are bots, but Musk complains about how many of his followers are bots, when clearly many of those wouldn’t be DAUs.

Twitter’s CEO has addressed this. Musk responded with a poop emoji: https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1526237578843672576?s=20&t...
Yep. Both parties here are within their rights. It's the HN comment about entitlement of the maintainer that I was responding to.
This was always going to be how it ended.

Elon got what he wanted. Everyone on his side now thinks he's a bastion of free speech, and he can forever say "If I owned Twitter, I would have...". And he gets the credit he wants without having to actually do anything.

Twitter got what they wanted. They didn't want Elon to own the company, but they also couldn't ignore the offer. So they called his bluff. They would have ended up with a world of pain if they didn't accept the offer, but nobody at Twitter wanted it to close. And now they'll be able to sue Elon and get the upper hand.

Both sides got what they wanted here. I just wish it didn't have to distract all of us so a few rich people could mutually level up.
Here's one argument against building your own infra on prem.
Same. It's probably just a coincidence though. Because if it weren't, I'd have an addiction I'd need to confront.
> it represents major risk to the Canadian economy.

I actually think this outage will show that there's no major risk to the economy and every Canadian can just take every Friday off with no ill effects.
This is funnier if you look at it from the English slang point of view when something gets thoroughly Rogered.

This network has definitely rogered itself.
my first guess is that it was a militarist gunman who was unhappy with not-enough-militarism from Abe, and, there must be a social group associated here, everything is social, including being a militarist. real information welcome