skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
granted, this is probably the most exciting post here all day!
If he gets punished it won't be for "just tossing out tweets" it will be for negotiating and signing a legally binding contract and then breaking it.

It would be possible to enter into a contract through tweets alone. That didn't remotely happen here, though.
If you asked 100 Canadians if they’d prefer more competition to the telcos, 97 would say yes (1 works for Bell, 1 works for Rogers, 1 now works for the CRTC). We’re not risk adverse. It’s just that our government / regulator is captured.
I'm no expert, so what makes Delaware judges specially incorruptible?
Lots of Twitter fraud here.
I agree. The logic is similar to why you can't delete an HN comment once someone replies.
Which is nonsense, since the numbers in question are not verifiable.

How can you identify a "spam account"? It's not possible to definitively determine the intent of someone opening or using a new account.

So the numbers are arguable either way. Musk is using this fact to try to wriggle out of a disastrous impulse buy.
I also don't know about literature on this phenomenon, but i recall HP had two different SSD recalls because when the uptime counter rolled over, they would fail. That's not even load dependent, just did you get a batch and power them on all at the same time. Uptime is too high causing issues isn't that unusual for storage, unfortunately.

It's not always easy, but if you can, you want manufacturer diversity, batch diversity, maybe firmware version diversity[1], and power on time diversity. That adds a lot of variables if you need to track down issues though.

[1] you don't want to have versions with known issues that affect you, but it's helpful to have different versions to diagnose unknown issues.
We should stop calling it monkey pox as it's clearly a new, human adapted variant...
It’s because they want him to pay the agreed price. It is an extremely good deal for the shareholders now, so they are behaving perfectly rationally. And they can possibly force him to.
"It works if you buy dedicated Linux hardware."
Yes. This is how you make it work.

You buried the lede.
A lot of that is just patriotism, which is perfectly necessary for any country that hopes to thrive. But it's not just a matter of paying your taxes, as the government is a very different entity than the country itself, though they do overlap to various extents.
I recommend Matt Levine’s blog Money Stuff [0] for analysis of just how bizarre Musk’s twitter saga is relative to usual day-to-day corporate acquisitions. I also recommend his twitter thread just now breaking down his reaction to today’s news [1]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...

[1] https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1545519476707319808?s...
I'm working on adding a tags field to list key info like tech stack/tools and will make it searchable.
Lawyer-talk for fraud is "fraud".
During the early days of the HIV epidemic, front-line medical professionals in San Francisco received death threats when they when they suggested that bathhouses voluntarily close down, or at least turn up the lights so people could see if their partners were covered in KS sores.

You can read about their experience at the University of California San Francisco's AIDS Oral History Project: https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/oral-history-proj...

Death threats: https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt2m3n98v1;NAAN=13030&doc.v...
Easy baggage loading at remote airports.
No matter what it won't be him fronting all the money, he had institutional investors that were ponying up a huge amount of the dough alongside him.
Sounds like a lot of extra work.
This is much more than I expected, thank you !
Have you read the termination letter? The letter was sent by Elon's lawyers working with Twitter's lawyers according to the merger terms they had all agreed to. Why shouldn't they have expected a "good faith resolution"? A termination can still be made in M&A under good faith.
Let’s see what happens. I doubt very much the scenario you outline will come to pass. Nobody wants this deal any more and he can drag all their dirty laundry into it (bots, fake daus etc).

This will just slowly fade from memory as the lawyers argue and at some point they’ll settle.
Problems started to appear around 4am EST and services became completely unavailable by 4:40am EST.
Same here. I thought the my internet was down or I was too far from the router. HN being down was my last thought.
There's a difference between broad societal shunning of someone for public expression of their sexuality, and wanting to keep things of that nature in the adult sphere of society and away from kids.

I think sex work should just be legalized. Roblox's head of content moderation should not be a sex worker though.

I don't have a problem with people having lots of visible body art. I also don't have a problem with employers not wanting to hire people who do. I don't think anyone is the victim there since its just the consequences of personal choices and should be seen as a situation which is working out for both sides of the equation (those people probably would never be happy at those jobs).

Based on your job you may be held to different standards than society at large and there is nothing wrong with that.
Are your telephone conversations "documents"? Your Facetime chats?

An email is not under your control, it sits on a server of a private organization. While statutes of the government may currently protect it, are these statutes supported by SCOTUS interpretation of the constitution?

Certainly anything you say or do in public can be recorded by as many microphones and cameras as the government may choose.
Can't the ripped off authors and publishers sue Amazon for big money for this? Or maybe band together and bring a class action suit?
Lion's mane mushrooms: Benefits and side effects
I gave this a brief scan. Cells sound like an abstraction of kubernetes pods. I do find the k8s structure useful, and I would point someone to just use that rather than going through this document and basically creating your own version of k8s. Hiring will be much easier.
So the fraudsters at Twitter knew, and Twitter is in fact a spam bot utopia, hence why they didn't want to provide all the data that Musk requested.

Either way, I am laughing at all of them. (Yes. Elon also played the fraudster role as well)
Self-driving cars are a solution for a problem that has already been solved. Build trains. But of course, this doesn't benefit automakers, requires a move towards high-density housing that NIMBY's and certain classes of investors oppose, so instead we'll create an entirely new class of problems by allowing these companies to unleash their insufficient technology on public roads.
If that was his intent, it's fraud and has (in theory) criminal penalties.
that's smaller than a Venmo transaction fee (3%)
While "Change gives the illusion of progress"[1] and there's a lot of overcomplicated "enterprise architecture" BS floating around, peddled by consultants looking to make big bucks off locking an organization into their schemes - isn't some organizational strategy needed for organizing large distributed computational systems? (I don't want to use the word "clouds")

If so, then it's worth taking a look at the proposal and assessing it based on its own merits. I, personally, would rather swallow my pride and admit that a particular architecture, while coached in buzzwords, is actually a good idea and will prevent me from pulling my hair out, then eschew all outside advice and have my workdays be filled with stress.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31986784
I do this.

Unlimited (international!) roaming and everything isn't that expensive (Only about 100$) compared to whatever insane amount I'd be paying if I had some ripoff, under 5 gigabyte or whatever pittance data capped Canadian phone plan for no reason. I also maintain a Central American phone plan that doesn't cost me very much either (2$ every 3 months just to keep the number outside of the country and receive SMS/use chat apps basically, but I don't do roaming when out of that region - When in the region, I spend maybe 20$ a month).

Since the Rogers website is down (Great sales strategy!) I can refer anyone curious to a portion of their menu from some image I found; [1] 95$CAD (500MB until you hit overage) + 60$ for 'roam like home' (no mention of data, canadians still use SMS way too widely), and then probably more to up that data cap with no guarantee that applies to roaming? Yeah, no thanks! Oh yeah, the cops just install malware on your shit with reckless abandon, too. [2] I see no reason to consider Canadian nationality as anything but a nice passport at this point.

[1] https://cdn.mobilesyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/roger...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/07/canada-police-...
*squints, re-reads. Again

I mean, notwithstanding the fairly arcane language - 'ouch'.
Corporations have so much more slack than people. If got caught serially robbing banks I don’t think the justice department would accept my personal 5 point plan to cut down on heists.

I think people are understandable my skeptical that a megacorp with a known history of anticompetitive behavior will propose a solution that is effective at stopping its only monopoly.
A part of the discussion about how Linux people only criticize Microsoft because of their own jealousy and failure? No, that's a stupid discussion.
It's probably a test ...
> [...] but rather to de-couple Google's search engine and Google's Adwords products.

I don't think this is what this is about. From what I understand, this is specifically about Google Ad Exchange (which is for display ads not on Google properties).

The problem that a lot of people have is that Google both runs the auction for many ad networks, and puts bids in the auction as part of Google Display Network. The accusations are that Google's Ad Exchange favors Google Display Network.

The proposal is about spinning the Ad Exchange as another Alphabet company.
the one thing about place cells...has anyone else published anything major with them, or has it just been O'Keefe and the Mosers for the past 50 years?
Go generics are not bad
If this goes to the courts then the only two options are he gets to back out entirely or he pays the originally agreed price. There's a chance of a settlement where Twitter agrees to sell for significantly less than that, but (1) there's zero incentive for them to do so and (2) they will definitely not get shareholder approval for that.

One thing for sure though is that a lot of lawyers are about to make a lot of money.
Nowadays I do what François recommends in his tweet. Go to our local bookstore and order from there. The extent to which Amazon enables this kind of behavior and presumably also profits from it and the extent to which they ignore the problem altogether shouldn't be supported.

Speaks to a larger problem as well, the excuses platforms make to not do due diligence when it comes to what is being sold and the lack of ability to talk to a real person on the other end quickly.
I wonder how many of the conclusions would change if the EU is considered as a "country"?

Which is to say, it's a little bit of a definitional problem around what the word "country" actually means. The US, being a federalist collection of semi-autonomous states is sort of a hybrid country. There are some clear aspects (a single military, federal laws, a common currency, a commonly elected president). But then there are other aspects such as that the autonomy given to states is such that they invent local laws to the extent that for a huge range of areas you effectively have to deal with the US on a state-by-state basis.
No, front running is where they go take the same position as you, but in FRONT of you.
What a ridiculous waste of time and energy for someone who should have better things to do. What part of his solar/EV/Mars vision was dependent on him owning Twitter? I hope he makes a swift and clean exit from this mess, but with enough bruises to teach him a lesson.
I mean, besides the fact that generally I don't think overt corruption is that much of a problem in the U.S., the fact that anyone involved with this case will be under a massive microscope and that Delaware as the general standard place to do business deals with many large transactions so this one may not be all that impressive to local judges
Their reputation and their being paid very well to handle a huge proportion of corporate law in America efficiently and fairly. They’re a huge part of the reason everyone domiciles their companies there.
The internet is a bubble. Irl furry is still considered degenerate shit and not the kind of ppl u want around kids.
Wolfe has being on anti Musk crusade for a long time.
Deploying infrastructure is not easy or cheap. But is clearly profitable if you can find investors to finance the capital spend.

Google have tried to enter the FTTH market thinking there must be opportunities to innovate and reduce the cost to consumers. But even they have struggled due to the complexities of deploying fiber in the existing built environment...
The problem is that this is what currently happens when people enable fractional scaling (ie, setting the scale to 1.5 rather than 2), which I'm fairly sure is common.

Try running a web browser with fractional scaling, open up a JS console, and look at the values for `devicePixelRatio` and `innerWidth`. You'll probably see that the former is an integer (particularly, the ceiling of your configured scale, eg, 2), and the latter is wider than the actual number of device pixels. This means the web browser is rasterising to a larger size and then being downscaled.

Unless the rasterisation size is an integer multiple of the final pixel size (which it's not), there will be unavoidable "pixel-snapping artifacts". This is basically the whole premise behind vector graphics. You wouldn't use a bitmap font that's been scaled down to the right size, but this is effectively what happens when viewing text on Wayland with a non-integer scale.
Well, if the purpose of buying twitter was to improve the user experience of internet users and advance the doctrine of free speech, then why not just spend that same amount of money building your own twitter (mastodon instance or something) and use your publicity to attract users?
Which is why Twitter has the right to force execution, not just claim the break-up fee.
Seems like there is only one loose end left: will he or will he not avoid the 1B penalty for backing out.

How that goes is anyone's guess.
It's true enough. He isn't 100% tesla, but the vast majority of his wealth is in tesla and spacex, and only one of those is actually redeemable in the short to medium term.
'Unfriendly' does not mean the opposite of friendly. It means it is not friendly.

So that is by definition 'unfriendly' - because it does not exude any friendliness.

Just because it is 'unfriendly' does not mean it is 'rude'.
Judging by his dealings with the SEC, I don't feel like he respects the law all that much.
What helped me with reading was:

1) Read on a Kindle or any other e-ink reader. It's always just in the spot you left it in and it's light enough to carry around everywhere. I usually read while I eat and continue to the end of the chapter after I'm done eating. Try to open a book instead of Reddit/Instagram/Facebook/HN

2) Read something fun. You don't need to pick stuff that's super-deep or insightful or productive. Pick a simple "Main character is really good at $thing but doesn't know it yet" -book. Skip the 1000 page monsters. My suggestions: Bobiverse and the Murderbot series.
He relies heavily on his average decision-making ability being way above average. By being this volatile he basically captures surprisingly many good risky decisions. At the same time he ends up with things like this.
But is it true?
I mean, it didn't necessarily take Josh Wolfe to see this as a viable possibility.
That's a strange way of saying he was right.
I took the kids to the water park. Great day for it.
Jfc dude saying somebody who literally makes kids toys should be horny on main is not a freeze peach issue.
Market manipulation disguised as free speech advocacy. Pure and simple.
He didn't though
I think there is a 1A aspect to his involvement with Twitter.
I recorded a song on my guitar. It is so bad it makes me sick to my stomach.
Same here. HN is from Canada? Who knew?
Well that’s certainly an editorialized title.
the cells being kube pods.

I don't think that's what this is about. It's more like your whole kube environment is one cell, your VMware environment is another cell, etc. It's a semi-principled way to incrementally migrate/modernize an app without having to do a big rewrite onto a single platform.
>But it's unclear to me what he initially thought he was getting out of this.

The best hypothesis I've heard is that he was trying to secure the raw materials that Tesla's stock price is made out of.
I don't have much context about your technical requirements but can I ask why JSON instead of a more indexable format?
Same experience through out the day.
It does not for credit. Credit transactions can be batched offline and transmitted when things come back online. Debit must be online, though.
As an LGBT guy:

Yes, there are non-gay people who get it. But gay men, and particularly people who have sex with a dozen different partners in a week (not many straight men in that particular group), are much more likely to contract it. Efforts to limit the spread of monkeypox should be targeted at the demographics most likely to contract it, as you get much more bang-for-buck that way.
Read the SEC filing?
Reasonable or not, resistance to that suggestion is a reality. We have to play the hand we're dealt.
Not necessarily. That all depends on what he gained in return. Unless of course he ends up going to jail for fraud. It took a lot less for Martha Stewart.
Presumably, if Twitter goes out of their way to demonstrate good faith towards Musk, it will benefit any potential legal cases in the future.
Also got this letter of happiness. I don't mind 2FA, already had it set up. But PyPi is weird. I wanted to add a secondary 2FA device for backup, but they would not just let me do it. I had to download recovery codes first. But what am I going to do with them? Unlike 2FA tools there's no convenient way to store them. But because they insisted (and they really did by immediately asking me to burn one of them) I just saved them into a random file on my local disk. I suppose I could delete them, but I would rather not have gotten them in the first place.
Looks like it is still going on. I only have 2G network. I also realized that I cannot use Google Map for driving without network.
Their 2FA passcodes are sent via SMS to number(s) on the dead network. :_(
We are a fintech startup. SOC2 compliant platforms are table stakes.
What a blow to his already tarnished reputation. Imagine the conversation next time he tries to acquire a company.
They wanted to cash out of a declining position as much as he wanted to renege on the deal... he was overpaying at that point, why wouldn't they want to sell?
Yeah, I wanted to try it as well, but I don't think the team can handle such a drastic change right now (from OOP to Functional). But it looks like an awesome platform.
No Money Stuff today :( Monday is going to be very juicy, though I'm hoping for a special Saturday edition to talk about how this is all so very stupid.
Also, when this term was coined, most (if not all) attributes of greatness listed in the article still applied to the British Empire, rivalled only by France.
What they said was:

> in the neighborhood of the difference between the fair current market value (~20B$?) and the purchase price (~44B$).

The difference is 24B$ which is implied to be the upper bound. 10-15 is in the range 0..24.
Oh we learned the lesson. The lesson is that countries like China that implement draconian pandemic restrictions on and off for years are far too unstable and unpredictable to live in and do business in.
Termination fee is like 1 billion I think so it will still be cheaper for him to back out and then buy it when its stock price crumples over the next couple of quarters.
Strava is the running app
Because it seems that Rails is a lot more productive in the end. It's not a C# shortcoming, but rather a Rails merit.
Not sure about literature but that was a known thing in the Ops circles I was in 10 years ago: never use the same brand for disk pairs, to minimize wear-and-tear related defects from arising at the same time.
How exactly would it result in his downfall? Do you think the terminally online even buy Teslas, or use Starlink, or, you know, shoot rockets into space?
> Either he was breathlessly arrogant or astonishingly careless

Why not both? Arrogance tends to lead to carelessness.
I was under the assumption that he was not financing that $40B with just Tesla stock?
Do you have a source for that number being a regular traffic stop? I find that highly unbelievable.
But he only signed that agreement because his ego wouldn't let him back away from those tweets
Look around in the thread. M&A experts have confirmed that Musk cannot walk away from the deal, even by paying the $1 billion, unless Twitter lets him.
Elon is going to be the downfall of Elon.

Trying to buy Twitter is just a symptom.
That’s immensely believable, I wonder how he got someone people onboard to be help him fund it though. It’s even more of a stretch but maybe the rest of them wanted more liquidity too?
Focusing on homicides where guns weren't involved in a conversation about guns is disingenuous and distracts from the issue at hand
Not only that, but monetizable DAUs, which is basically an advertising metric consisting primarily of folks whose only actions on a given day might just be "checking my feed, liking a couple posts", and from which fake users are likely already removed without there being a strong reason to shut down their accounts. Whatever ad impressions those users get don't get billed to advertisers, and there's no strong motive to shutting them down if they haven't published anything contravening Twitter's policies...
I don't think the SEC cares very much what Elon respects or not, if they can nail him they will.
The letter doesn't cite the bot problem directly, but instead Twitter allegedly failing to live up to it's obligation to give Musk info, which he wanted regarding the bot problem. (And a bunch of other alleged breaches.)
I mean... it isn't as if the CRTC is going to set up their own telco just to operate their own office.
Great! Just in time for the Friday evening to kick in as well.

I was worried that I may actually have to go out and do things instead of lurking here this weekend..
But Tesla stock did drop after the announcement of the deal. I think that is the real reasoning behind him quickly getting cold feet. He probably thought Twitter would be a fun side project, but the backlash from people in regards to Tesla, SpaceX, and just the general public meant it would be more costly both to his reputation and financially beyond just the sticker price. That took the fun out of it so he has been looking for ways to escape the deal ever since.
That is going to be the fight of the next generation. Inappropriate videos on YouTube for kids, extremist propaganda in Facebook or fake products in Amazon all have that soulless automation as main culprit. (Let's not talk about Roblox)

Cost goes against resilience and quality. You can automate things to a limit until everything breaks down.
Presumably the ones going YOLO are the ones who have "had multiple sexual encounters at a bathhouse"?
Explain how trains solve the last mile problem? The thing that roads already solve?
“scientists say” inspires so much confidence (speaking as a scientist).