skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tony Stark from the comic books was based on Howard Hughes. When they developed the character for film, they used Elon Musk as inspiration for the character. So you have it backwards, Elon was even in Iron Man 2. Most of his PR stunts make the news so I don't think Twitter makes much difference.
Except they're not in the negotiation phase right they're in the deal is already made phase. Musk signed a binding agreement to buy twitter:

https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1545152302142689281
Bang-for-buck. A little too on the nose.
So was the whole goal all along to try and figure out how much of Twitter was fake spam accounts? That would be one way of doing it.
a city with a large portion of its development built on laundered cocaine money and the drug import trade has many shady businesses?

[surprisedpikachu.gif]

I'm sure all that money buying all of those $500,000+ yachts from south florida yacht dealers is totally legit
He has been trying to produce excuses to justify this for weeks so he wouldn't have to pay the cancellation price that he agreed to. It should have been clear to everyone by now he had no attention of actually doing anything beyond getting attention.
You must know that it'd run on Rogers infrastructure though.
great if you're capable of timeboxing otherwise.

not all of us are exactly that... mechanical.
Kept refreshing the Google news suggestions thing (swipe left on my Android phone's homescreen)
> And it forces everyone to think critically

Overly optimistic.
Perhaps is some instances. But there are greatly diminishing returns on cost and regulations in terms of life expectancy. A lot of basic care can go a long way for a low cost with no regulation
>Protect themselves from what? Unhinged people with guns? Seems like recursion.

Protect themselves from larger people with other weapons. Protect themselves from unarmed people who want to kill them. Protect themselves from crazy guy who made home-made shotgun with home-made gunpowder and home-made projectiles. Protect themselves from cartel members who smuggle weapons channeled by foreign militaries. Protect themselves from wild animals, including grizzly bears that inhabit the US and Polar bears that inhabit places like Svalbard. Protect themselves from rabid or poorly trained aggressive domestic animals, such as the many dogs that attack and even kill children annually.
>and to look up the groups you're in and see if they're related to the KKK or something.

This what the FBI background check is for. They already have/know this.

According to the logic we should require all males under the age of 21 to register their social media accounts as 6 out of 9 mass shootings are committed by males 21 and under. [0] Remember not all/most shooters purchase their guns.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/us/politics/mass-shooting...
If Windows was so bereft of design flaws why couldn't they provide a superior terminal experience without inventing WSL?
what I hear here is "i've never worked with an actually complex application built over a span of decades + & have no idea what it takes to make it into a microservice. I also believe everything I read on every article so every single persons application must be as simple as mine to deconstruct"
Conversely, the EU is one of the few economies where citizens are protected from abuse by corporations. In America, mostly we're not. Choose your poison.

Does that make the EU exceptional too?
IMHO, the article boils down to the fact that the US is the top superpower in the first fully globalised era, and that to me explains why it seems to be "exceptional".

It doesn't mean that it is more exceptional than earlier superpowers, like Rome, or Spain or Great Britain, if we account for the increased interconnectedness of the world. It also doesn't imply that all of these statistics may not one day apply (even more so) to a completely different country, such as maybe China.

But most of all, I don't think any of it implies that this is fully due to any intrinsic qualities of the US per se. While those certainly played a role, so did accidents of history. Had Europe not been so dumb to go to war twice in the 20th century, maybe we would think of Great Britain as "exceptional".

I also don't like how the author continues to use the adjective "great", despite acknowledging that it might be confused with "good". It's probably problematic that we speak of "Alexander the Great" too, but we do so due to historiographic tradition. There's IMHO no need to carry over this baggage to contemporary history. We can just call the US "important" or "a superpower", which is what it is, without using adjectives which so clearly imply moral judgement that the author immediately has to distance themselves from it (and IMHO in a rather half-hearted manner).
Never underestimate the incompetence of the average human. Doubly so if they are rich and powerful. In fact if a master plan has several fatal flaws on closer inspection, then that’s just evidence that the perpetrator just didn’t think it all through before executing.

If you watch an amateur chess game you’ll find that most players actually have some master plan, but don’t have the skills to see the flaws, or even if the plan is perfect, they don’t have the skills to play it through either.

My sniff test for any conspiracy theory actually involves incompetence. The more competent the plan and execution need to be, the less likely it is to be a conspiracy.
I have very little context here. It seems the general sentiment in the comments is that this attempt to get out of the merger agreement will fail and that Musk will be forced to follow through with the purchase of Twitter. At the current rate Twitter is trading at, Musk will be paying roughly 50% over market value to acquire the company.

So a question: if you believe Musk will still purchase Twitter at an inflated price, are there any good reasons for not purchasing Twitter stock? In other words, Musk has offered to give you $54.20 per share, and you can purchase those shares for $36.81 at the time of this comment. If folks are confident that this trade will go through, isn't it a quick way (relative to 8% YoY) to 1.5x your investment?
No reason why Elon has to own it for that to be so, in fact there is probably a long line of parties who could not wait to be take it off his hands.
As a webapp for the diagram to svg portion only:

https://github.com/doersino/markdeep-diagram-drafting-board
Dunno but I found this thing lying around that I liked:

> 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.

;)
Because he signed a contract to that effect, without any contingencies if the stock went down. He doesn’t really have a choice except to go through an extended legal process that likely will end up going against him.
Wow, it works, but it really seems like it shouldn't. I'd expected reserved domain names to not resolve at all let alone be pingable and point at a working webserver. Has it always had a website?
>Honestly starting to question how much hope there is for mars to happen at all.

i spat out my drink reading this
SoftBank wrested back control of Arm China
He's constantly dragged the company and founders through the mud and the stock dropped 7% once he called the deal off.

I'd sued and settle for a few billion instead of taking the one billion backout

He uses his wealth as a weapon against companies he doesn't like, just the mere threat he may get involved causes massive changes in the stock price
and in turn causes investors to suffer financial lose.
I’m looking forward to the day he gets held accountable for market manipulation.

Bet he (and his friends, if he has any) made a mint off this farce.

Not that I have any faith it will happen.
I think it's targeted at maritime business, not individual consumers.
assumed my internet was out and read a book for once

"masks of the illuminati"
Two plus two is four minus one that's three quick maths
What cities or countries did this successfully? Were they as dependent on cars as American cities tend to be?
That is such a cool site; thank you for sharing it.
I went for a long walk to the cemetery.
It feels like there’s been a rash of companies messing up BGP stuff lately - Facebook, cloudflare, and now this.
I've re-read that last sentence 3 times and I can only think "wtf"

Thanks for portableapps!
The word "may" appears over a dozen times here in the sections about benefits.
It feels very fake and theatrical to me, almost like a wrestling ring. That makes it entertaining at times, but anonymity also means no accountability. I'm far more inclined to believe someone on HN who are at least willing to risk their reputation on a claim.

On Blind, you can go ahead and claim you make $600k salary working 4 days/week after 18 months of grueling interviews. Write up whatever fan fiction as long as it makes sense.
The search in Notepad++ has a project based search [0]. Never used it myself because the Find in Files (Ctrl+Shift+F) feature has been good enough when using the Directory and in all sub-folders options.

[0] https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/
That sounds reasonably logical, but by what measure of logic is overpaying for Twitter, of all assets, a good deal? There are surely better companies to do this sort of thing with, and end up with an actually valuable asset at the end of it.
I read it, it contains no data, none. But I think you know that and are purposely deflecting.
>(in more than 300 cases)

Yes, this shows the bias of the authors. They come to a conclusion that is only supported by undersampled data, yet their language is strongly biased towards that specific conclusion ("women never..."). Unbiased language would not read that way. I suspect the language flies under your radar because you seem to agree with the conclusions. But its a huge red flag that the authors are not approaching the subject in good faith.

Studies on DGU is an oft-treaded subject. I've looked at quite a bit of data, and if you have also, you would also know how and why it is so difficult to compile reliable data on the subject. Which is why I find it nearly futile to throw studies at each other.
Gotta say that I love the portableapps.com; I don't need it often but when I do I really need it.

Thanks for all you do and the support you give it, it's appreciated
National Parks are not Crown Land. National Parks are reserves of land owned and managed by the Federal Parks Department and development is not allowed on that land whatsoever.

Crown Land is land owned and administered by the provinces. Crown Land can be licenced for many uses and sometimes it can be purchased.

Also, Provincial Parks are not Crown Land.
The actual damages will be more than $1bn? How is that remotely credible?
Right- he waived diligence. Twitter has no obligation to prove anything to him. Twitter is obligated to give him documents if they are reasonable to request and helpful for him in financial planning. If the documents Twitter has on hand are flawed or not comprehensive, that doesn't give a pretext to leave the deal. I am sure his lawyers know this and it will all be negotiated.
Twitter board plans to sue Musk in Delaware court for backing out from deal
Disagree, there is no absolute freedom of speech, for example you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater.

Also disagree that such unrestricted free speech is constructive or beneficial. Sacha Baron Cohen explains it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM
lots of emotionally-charged comments here, which is pretty disappointing. if we look at this dispassionately, perhaps we can come to better conclusions than "elon big poopy head freeze peach bad". for example, one possibility is that Musk never intended to actually buy Twitter because he had reasonable suspicions that the <5% spam/bot figure provided by Twitter was intentionally incorrect (i.e. fraudulent), and he just wanted to get that out in the open and possibly even tank the company's stock as a result, either as a personal vendetta against the platform and company, or because he wants to develop a competitor. or maybe he wants to buy it up after the price falls even further. who knows? but it's more fun and interesting to speculate like this rather than just hurling loaded adjectives like "impetuous", "eccentric", "breathlessly arrogant", "astonishingly careless", and so on and so forth. I get that public opinion on the guy here has largely turned pretty sharply in the past couple years but do we really need to pretend like we're 2016 headline-writers writing about Donald Trump when we discuss him for some reason? that entire schtick is long-since played out.
Entanglement 20 Miles Record
When and how was ionizing radiation found to be harmful?
Yeah I really hope that if Ycombinator ever wants to pull out, that they don't sell it but let the community pull together to support it. I'd gladly donate to keep it running as it is.

It would be even better if they just keep doing it as they are though <3
Minimal regulations, but more importantly, practically zero enforcement. I remember a local electrician saying stuff like "ah just don't tell anyone and it'll be fine". I was utterly unsurprised, if devastated, when the apartment complex collapsed.

It's best to keep regulations lean and manageable, so we don't waste tons on unnecessary work and triple-checks, but regulations they exist for a very good reason.

Anyone who claims "regulations" are anti-business forget that business aren't the core of countries OR economies. People are. The only people who benefit from deregulation are the ones who own the businesses.
The "if they can nail him" seems like a big if to me.

If it is a scheme and he had no intention of ever actually buying twitter, the government would still have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he did it for this fraudulent reason. Or at least collect enough evidence to make him accept a plea deal for fear he could lose in court.

It would seem to me that him backing out now has a bunch of other very plausible explanations beyond "it was fraud all along", including the one this document states, that twitter breached their agreement by not providing the data he wanted to assess the prevalence of fake account himself. Or even that buying some "media company" is just what billionaires do[1], but him being "eccentric" he went in too hard and fast and is now backing out that he has seen the backslash and/or has done some actual due diligence, which would make him stupid and/or irresponsible but not criminal. All that to me seems like good ways for lawyers to claim there is "reasonable doubt" should he ever get charged with fraud, unless the government would happen to find some "smoking gun" piece of evidence.

And of course it assumes there is actually political will to nail him.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/billionaires-who-bought-publish...
No. He signed the deal and secured funding. There is no way he can walk off now, no matter how confidently he says it.

Twitter everyone else have every interest to make this thing go trough and they make it happen. He can sue everyone he want's from any wrongdoing but Twitter is going to be his.

>The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery. https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/1545526087089696768
"hunter laptop _bullshit to feed nutjobs_ story"

Sorry man, tech don't care about your feelings
aka the Age of Empires graph!

https://tagn.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2015-01-09_00003.jp...

First infographic I ever saw, way back in the late 90s. Ah, memories.
All of them are still bigger than Mastodon. After 6 years, Mastodon failed to show itself to be a proper alternative even during the so-called 'exodus' from Twitter. Given that it is smaller than those social networks, I regard that as a catastrophic failure.

6 years is not early days and Mastodon failed has still failed to attract users from Twitter 2 months ago. No chance of a significant amount of serious users from other social networks migrating over.
The way I am currently understanding it, is that I think it's a distinction about the stage of the deal he's in. There would usually be a due diligence phase during negotiations, and then after due diligence they would sign a merger agreement that the purchase was good to go. He could decline due diligence but still be in that prior phase, but they're not in that prior phase. They're in the signed contract phase.

I think it's like, you can take a car to a mechanic before you sign a contract to buy a car, or you could write into the contract that you agree x, y and z thing are working in the car and take it to a mechanic afterwards, but he signed the agreement, without taking it to a mechanic and without writing any contingencies into the purchase agreement.
I’ve given up on supplements lately. Every week I read about some panacea supplement that will improve my health a thousand fold. Yeah the science backs them up but supplements are largely a snake oil industry, and the improvements to health are minuscule.

Most supplements are excreted by the body as waste and if you take a lot, you end up with very expensive pee. Then there’s the issue of certain supplements not working due to the wrong diet (some nutrients are only fat soluble for example).

One thing I do use is fish oil which helps a lot in many areas. A well rounded diet with plenty of whole foods, with mostly plant based ingredients is all you need.
The VP of Rogers admits they have yet to identify the root cause:

https://twitter.com/PnPCBC/status/1545512971878662145
Nope, 1st Amendment only means the government can't restrict your speech. Private companies can.
> Anybody can install a distro like Linux Mint or Ubuntu, it doesn't require any tech knowledge.

What you think as "not tech knowledge" is a serious skill that is severely lacking in billions of people.

The user needs the install medium, they need to get it, download it, create it, get a USB or blank CD/DVD, etc. They need to either have the courage (or curiosity or aloofness or determination) to modify their computer on such a drastic level, they need to understand abstract concepts, follow a written manual that uses those concepts, they need to recognize those abstract concepts as they are implemented on the computer they are currently tinkering with, and so on, and so on.

> In a nutshell, this is bad no matter how you look at it.

True, but it's bad because the whole "personal computing" thing is bad. This detail is largely irrelevant.
They helped craft the agreement, according to Musk, twitter is violating the agreement which is grounds for termination as per the agreement.

I'm not going to pretend to know who's right or how this will play out legally, but Twitter's lawyers did participate in the creation of the agreement and therefore the current state of affairs.
Was really looking forward to watching him eat this shit sandwich he made for himself.
I mean, confederacies are older than monarchies in human history. Even in N. America there was the Iroquois Confederacy right there. Not to take away from the rebellion and the formalization of political philosophy, but this is typical puffery by the ascendent Anglo-Saxons who were looking for a superiority narrative to serve the need of colonial nation-building and subsequently world domination.
Whom?
The amount of envy people here have for Elon is crazy. The man is succeeding at making us a multi-planetary species, arguably the single most important achievement in the history of life itself, and your little damaged egos can't handle it. So sad.
Trash it and send some executives and managers to prison
Author of the article posting in the tweet.

Happy to answer any questions. (Or discuss technical book authoring in general).
My heart sank when I read your comment: why on earth would the board sue for specific performance!? But my reading of the statement in the tweet is that they plan to sue for enforcement of the agreement which I believe means paying the agreed-upon penalty for backing out of the deal. I don’t at all read that statement as a plan to seek specific performance.
> one possibility is that Musk never intended to actually buy Twitter

Which was a common perspective when the idea was floated around, until he signed a legal agreement actually saying he was going to buy Twitter.
Most network vendors have at least some quantity (usually a significant portion of their volume, some completely) of their hardware sourced from Broadcom, Qualcomm, and/or Mellanox (now Nvidia) they slap in their physical chassis. There are a few exceptions (Intel has Tofino, Cisco/Juniper/Aurba design some products or pieces of products in house, and a lot of smaller Fortinet Firewalls are their custom NPU/SPUs without merchant silicon in front) but overall common gear typically includes a common base. Stealing a full chassis design and sticking your logo on it would be outright wrong but just ordering the main components to be assembled in a factory like the other network vendors isn't a hack it's just how that business is done.

Of course the hardware isn't usually where differentiation comes from, especially for school and university type deployments, and the default software e.g. Broadcom will provide is straight dogshit. Going back to the above having an unauthorized copy of a box and selling unauthorized copies of the 3rd party software would be extremely wrong and illegal but just running with the default software or loading whitebox software and selling services for it is the standard way of doing things (unless you're a Juniper/Cisco/Aruba/Extreme/Fortinet sized company in which case you might make your own NOS).

Sometimes vendors will be willing to go into custom logo agreements directly. E.g. you are an ISP and use Nokia boxes in your deployment but want them to have your ISP's logo on the box and software page instead of Nokia's, but generally you don't get an extremely wide margin on this type of agreement, especially if it includes selling to 3rd parties, you get more like a standard VAR level discount. There are also "whitebox" vendors that handle the "get the merchant silicon into a complete hardware solution" portion but don't cover the "and sell it with network software or support" half, leaving that to standard VARs.

Long story short the situation was either poorly explained and the business functions more as a typical network VAR (which is definitely a place where you can make good money) or it was actually explained well but isn't a "business hack" just unethical and illegal.
That sounds like a best of both worlds. PyPI sets a minimum bar for developer responsibility and you can opt out of publishing to PyPI if you don't want to be that responsible.

The system works.
It might not correlate to quality, but if the information found at a website wasn't valued we wouldn't be constantly pulling the site up, just like facebook users do.

I'd argue that this site has a good signal/noise ratio by design and specifically to keep you addicted (where "addicted" means using and constantly returning to the site). This site is just designed to attract people who are put off by the kinds of tricks employed elsewhere
They can’t accept anything like that , twitter board would get sued by their shareholders for any price renegotiation.

Shareholders would sue them as most legal theory says twitter would win in court and enforce the deal, so there is no reason for the board to renegotiate instead of going to court, the board has fiduciary responsibilities.
He agreed to buy them at $44B and they're trading after the news broke at $26B, so Twitter shareholders clearly stand to lose a lot of money if this doesn't go through.
Key phrase in the article:

> So, at least in this one instance,

Yeah, one example which is not even that useful. It might be cherry-picked for all I know.