skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently purchased a book that I was really looking forward to from Amazon and received a counterfeit version with the correct cover but complete nonsense inside. It wasn't the book I purchased at all just a scam. It was super frustrating and I returned it and will not be purchasing books from Amazon ever again, but I wonder what was even the purpose of the scam? Isn't everyone just going to get annoyed and return it? What would the seller even get out of this?
What a wild and stupid this misadventure has been.

All that came out of it was a lot of people having a lower opinion of Elon.
That only raises more questions. People will buy them, of course. People buy cigarettes, heroin, and NFT's. Will they actually meet high enough safety standards in these places? Will they reduce commute times?

In other words, are they actually going to deliver the long-haul, end-all-be-all transit solution that many of its proponents imagine they will? Or is it just a nice-to-have feature that will make driving a little safer and a little easier for some people? And if so, is that value really worth the incredible amount of effort that's gone into making it a reality?
That part of the book (Contact) really bugged me.

The definition of pi is what determines the digits of pi, FULL STOP. There's no room whatsoever, for any sort of agent to 'leave a message' in those digits. I would think even a full-on theist would be embarrassed to suggest otherwise.
I agree with you. If the object was to convert overvalued stock, you would not just convert it to another overvalued stock, right?
I don't trust any man that thinks a car doesn't work better for the driver with an analogue speedo in front of the driver, rather than a tablet to the side
I think Rails is great and it makes sense for most companies established on it to stick with it.

But for individual engineers, going all in on Rails is likely a poor career move, in the US at least. It's rapidly becoming a commodity skill and salaries seem stagnant.
Agree. I think money is sort of like a house. No matter how large or how much, it'll get filled or used.

Discipline in both will go a long way in not having a big house full of unused rooms and money that's not wasted.
In what way? When you used Vanta, did you install Vanta software on your fleet? What engineering tasks did Vanta get you to undertake?
twitter share price is currently lower than what he bid, so twitter shareholders would be materially better off
I just figured my internet wasn't working! It's a testament to how well this site works!
I will be very surprised that Twitter's position was less than "you can have anything you want", precisely to avoid any complaint of non-cooperation.

I do agree that the agreement's debt financing provisions may provide Musk an out -- "I wanted to close, but I couldn't get debt b/c you wouldn't cooperate".

I'm a little surprised that Twitter agreed to any sort of financing provision, precisely because it seems to allow Musk to screw up his debt raising and then point to that as an out.

But that is not a complaint in the letter, and becomes an argument about what lenders require for debt financing. Musk will have to show that lenders cared about this, and Twitter will have discovery to find evidence they didn't.
This stuff makes caffeine a fantastic drug for me.
But for Musk's machinations, said stock price would not be down 40%. He caused the stock to drop.
Can you clarify what you mean by this? The platform formerly known as Safari Books is now O'Reilly Learning, and I have every reason to believe that it is all above-board, with proper licensing from all of the included publishers.
As opposed to highways, which magically have none of these problems.
>Nothing comes close.

Laravel is as easy and productive.
When did it become vogue to diagnose psychiatric problems from contract disputes?

Even psychologists say you shouldn't do that. Psychology is the contemporary inquisitor, let it go.
In your analogy, I believe lemon laws would apply. You can't just lie about what you're selling and get away with it.
I am using Ubuntu as my main Desktop for the last 15 months and am much happier with it than 15+ years on the Mac.

Virtual Desktops is really powerful to structure different workflows.
Office can be covered entirely though online solutions.

Yes, Gaming doesn't fly. But that also holds true for a Mac. Just get a PS5.
Japan’s Low Gun Death Rate Compared to the U.S. and Other Countries
The model of separating the fiber network from the telcos that offer service on it can work of the incentives are well aligned. Many Asian countries, eg Singapore, do this.

Or you could put the fox in charge of the hen house and end up in Australia's situation, where local monopolist Telstra owns the phone network and is supposed to play nicely with its competitors.
Have to second this. I’ve bought a great deal of electronics from Miami, and most were counterfeit, misrepresented or simply unrecoverable, damaged. To me any Florida company is disqualified for business now.
The actual dispatch appears to be fine. It’s just the network isn’t allowing mobile connections. Everyone has “No Service”.
Maybe he does lose, but how long will that take? With the appeals? They’ll probably just settle out of court.
The more container bugs the better.
I hope they can't fix it.
Is PyPI requiring maintainers to use a hardware key? If not, I don’t understand how this policy is helpful.

Anyone who hadn’t already turned on 2FA is going to use the most frictionless so-called second factor they can.
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> closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon

They're definitely suing for specific performance, and I'm not sure they really have any other option at this point. It would be by far in their best financial interest if they can force closing the sale, and Musk's objections seem really thin. Doing anything less than that is complete capitulation

I can see them reaching a settlement to agree to cancel the deal with Musk if he agrees to pay a significant penalty ($5B+), or maybe agree to reduce the purchase price some, but why not sue for specific performance if you think you'll win?
Musk is a brown bag of shit.

He sent his selfie in a tweet response to Parag’s tweet explanation.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2022/05/16/twitter-b...
Which could well be related to anticipation of a possible successful lawsuit.

Also, right now META’s P/E ratio is very close to 1/10 that of TWTR’s. One might credibly argue that TWTR and TSLA need amazing growth to justify their market caps, whereas META is actually worth its market cap without any growth required. (At a P/E <13, assuming that Meta’s profits remain unchanged forever, their stock is a bargain even at rather higher interest rates than we have today.)

It does indeed seem to be the case that TWTR has fallen less from its all-time high.
It does seem sort of iffy from this article (though I have not researched if the article is just FUD yet) https://eurasiantimes.com/a-whopping-900b-debt-chinas-once-p...
Ohh... I thought my phone was just being weird because I use an AdBlock that works through VPN and it sometimes breaks stuff...
I wish 97.8% monoculture was considered diversity. My conglomerate can't get any cash from blackrock unless we're at least 65% diverse and make our advertisements about ESG instead of the product we're selling.
I agree that some, not all, wages in HCOL areas are very bloated. That's not always the case though and I imagine it's not the case for HR groups within Twitter.
> What's this called?

The blub paradox https://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox
With counterparties like Musk it doesn't pay to try to go for some minor infraction, they will just lawyer their way out of it or stretch it forever, but if it is solid enough (and $44B might just do it) then it may well wake up the dragon. To be fair, someone would likely have to ask them nicely to do so because they feel that they have lost a lot of money due to Musk's actions.
> Why does he need a cover to sell his stock?

Wouldn't he look to be a hypocrite otherwise? [1]

[1] https://nypost.com/2022/05/31/elon-musk-calls-out-bill-gates...
I appreciate the info, HN is my human search engine.
No, for every unhappy black text on greenish background google disliking user there's literally tens of thousands of happy users that have used notepad++ for over a decade. Those are the regular people who are satisfied and don't bother the author with presumptuous emails.
On the short term that sounds about right. Still I would guess that if the EU and US relations would go from more of a culture friendship to a strict transactional nature that would have big consequences. The EU would try to be more self sufficient and for one import less from the US. The EU would probably try to find closer relations to countries with semi big military, totally guessing here India, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey. NATO would of course start to look more shaky and the idea of an EU army more of a possibility. Maybe even a new NATO would form without the US?
Curious though what the government could do about this pricing scheme here? Seems like the solution is to setup a bureaucracy to watch pricing and then micro-manage the situation whenever its tried?

The ride-hailing services pulled this in various places around the world. Airlines in Canada did it as well. Feels like whack-a-mole.
Wasn't there some sort of movement a while ago to stop giving mass shooters fame and notoriety by not discussing their name or rationale? Whatever happened to that?

Edit: Here's on example, but I guess we stopped trying to do that... https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2021/03/25/9811708...
How can Go does it even worse that Java where generics implementation is the worse of all modern language with type erasure.

Java is way worse than Go on that aspect.
Tour de France Stage 5 Preview: It’s Back on the Cobbles
rails is awesome, and with hotwire we can reuse slices of the application and cut down required dev time. It's certainly optimized for developer productivity and happiness! been doing it for 13 years and still love it.
Tethering with Canadian data prices is..spicy. A Zoom call uses about a gig per hour with HD cameras, and you typically get about 10 gigs of data per month. Overages charged at one firstborn per gig
This is why I hate articles that justify the lack of scalability with their execuses to justify complacency.
Intent is the core issue of most white collar fraud.
Population by Age and Sex for China, India, and United States: 2020 and 2060
>> No. "Crown Land" in Canada is owned by the provinces.

Crown land is owned by the Canadian Crown; the monarchy owns all crown land officially. It's administered by a split across federal and provincial jurisdictions.
It's not a "perspective". The shareholders are short about $18 bill right now because he's walked away. The board will take it to court and either force him to close, or sue for damages (the $18 bill).

He's walking away from a pretty water tight contract. The letter sent from Musk to Twitter notifying them doesn't read well. It's not compelling, and I'd guess the lawyer at Skadden knows it.
How though? Haven't they been misrepresenting their bot numbers to their investors on every single earnings call for years? Won't that just trigger an enormous class action against Twitter for misleading all of their shareholders?
It might even be an exceptional myth
Minus 1 billion for a termination fee. Why would he have agreed to that if it was his plan all along?
At 40:00 he says Linux desktop effects are back (e.g. Compiz). Anyone have more details?
According to the above theory, a value move (diversifying from TSLA to something else) is precisely what must be avoided.

The move would have to be perceived as financially irrational for it to be operable in terms of distracting the market from the diversification.
https://archive.ph/rLu4T
If it helps, I wouldn't say it's a disorder since it appears that basically everyone has a habit like this. It's probably a byproduct of some kind of adaptive advantage, but I don't have it in me to speculate exactly what at the moment. The only variable is what exactly you do automatically. Nowadays, everyone has their app or web page. Before smartphones and the internet being available everywhere, I remember my mentor talking about quitting cigarettes. This was shortly after the non-smoking section of the restaurant became the whole restaurant. She said that part of why it was so hard to quit was that even when she meant to cut back, she'd still find herself a third of the way through a cigarette before she realized that she'd lit one. I tear at the skin next to my fingernails in addition to opening HN (which was what I switched to when it became painfully obvious that Reddit was both bad for me and run by bad people). I moved my ebook app to the first screen on my phone and moved this app to a spot where I wasn't used to finding it. I figured it might get me to read more. What actually happened is that I started absent-mindedly swiping to the second screen and opening up the app.

It's a pretty universal issue. Companies are just getting better at using it to their advantage.
To over simplify: it's the trick of a illusionist; look over there! Something interesting (now switch the rabbit for the dove or whatever). So while GenPop is looking at this noisy deal; he's able to shuffle around money in three(?) ways -- where the net result is to reduce the TSLA holdings w/o too much penalty (or somethign). I'm not smart or rich enough to fully understand. The logic is distraction to execute a big dollar amount shift in equity positions.
He didn’t wave them he simply didn’t do them. The time for due diligence is before you sign a binding contract. Once you sign no amount of “extra” diligence maters because you already made a binding decision. Elon signed without doing enough due diligence and now wants to get out because of it but that’s not how binding contracts work.
Nice! There's also the official https://twitter.com/hnstatus
In Canadila about half of the crown land is federal and the other half provincial. In 2013 11% was private, 41% federal crown and 46 provincial crown
Twitter shareholders would be worse off.. how? $54.20 is 55% higher than the current after-hours TWTR share price of $35
Just containerize everything put it in kubernetes or some other solution. Plenty of CI/CD tools that take the toil out of it.
Oh, so that's why they don't have balance caps in AWS? It's true that apologies are a good balance.
True, but ask the average Brit or German and compare notes with the average American ;-)
Echoing lots of comments here, HN being down is a real bummer to my day. I feel less informed, less engaged, and frankly bored without it in my life.

True appreciation to the team who works to keep it up, high-quality, and impactful.
wait till he discovers Mars is full of bots!
> I am using Ubuntu as my main Desktop for the last 15 months and am much happier with it than 15+ years on the Mac

But the million dollar question is, which desktop environment are you using?
people still care for a meme?
Tooth Fairy Index
So have a completely separate company and then make a deal with that company to find them and give them office space in Google's office and give them access to their intranet.
Cleaned up my desk and started backing up my (recently passed) brother in law's Surface. It got an expanding battery and we're worried it'll break and we'll lose all of his logins and pictures and docs.
I solved it by practicing a sport, exercising regularly.

Going outdoors for an extenuating exercise during an hour every other day.

Improved everything about my cognitive abilities in a big way.
How exactly would that be fraud?
Right and I think that is sort of a thing, but it’s an extremely high bar, like I think he would have to prove was lying about actual business financials, not just business metrics.
I like the common theme that GitHub needs to be open source. Time to open up GitHub.
Bad UX here. Scrolls more than a whole screen at a time on FF with my settings. & no scroll-bar, so chunks of the text can't be read. CSS oddity's my guess.
I can't see many people using it. Even the Donald Trump situation didn't create a viable twitter competitor, and there are a lot more people who are weirdly into Donald than are weirdly into Elon.
Half-life seems to short, only ~88 years.
One of the suggestions to get a legit book is to visit a local bookstore -- I wonder for how many people that's a valid suggestion? My nearest bookstore is around 40 minutes away (which these days means it's around $5 in gas just to drive there), and it's a Barnes and Noble, not an independent store. Until a couple years ago I had an independent shop downtown, but they closed suddenly (before COVID)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPRvc2UMeMI
it seems he was given access to the Firehose, AKA all the data, but curiously failed to mention that in his filing (I guess it was enough, and he had no complaints?), instead complaining about rate limiting on more specific APIs (the standard Twitter API), which seem extraneous given the Firehose

also, said rate limits were lifted
Yeah. HN has become an important part of my workflow. Glad to know I'm not the only one!
I don't know about this "going out", but a few other useful websites like this one would be nice. It really does seem bad to not have a couple alternatives on hand.
sure, but now more events have unfolded, the results of which remain to be seen—so why can't we discuss the situation and speculate as to what will happen going forward without all the emotionally-loaded verbiage?
Yes sure, I'll use my billions I saved from crooked tax law to lobby for less crooked tax law. That's how it works right?
Musk receives a lot of flak because he presents extremely hard problems as easy, and sells the idea that only he can solve them. But this is clearly not true, just look at all the progress that is happening in automated driving and EV technology outside of Tesla, with Waymo, Cruise, and other companies already offering limited driverless rides, and with the Rivian and Ford 150 Lightning beating the cybertruck to market by years.

Real progress takes real work, not promises and marketing fluff. If humanity makes it to Mars it will likely be without his help.
"Most San Francisco Police radio is now encrypted and no longer available Unfortunately, all SFPD traffic aside from initial dispatch and response has been encrypted and no longer accessible to the public. San Francisco has moved Police, Fire and EMS to a new digital system. Fire and non-police Emergency Services are still non-encrypted for many of their channels, so this will constitute the majority of the stream."
Most things first exist, then exist and are good. We've seen the start of Go generics existing, but we haven't seen them be as good or as fast as they will ever be.

Five years from now, Go will still exist. The implementation of generics in that future version of Go is likely to be much faster and better than what we currently have.

Put a different way, "Generics are slow in Go v1.18"
I went to the Art Institute of Chicago and was blown away by the collections there. I didn’t have nearly enough time to see everything, but I particularly enjoyed the Architecture and Design gallery. I would have had less time there if HN was up because I tried to check it before leaving.
There's a contract in place (that waves due diligence!).

If he entered into that contract with no intent to honor it...
I think the issue is there may be criminal liability on behalf of Twitters officers which negates that, due to them wildly misrepresenting bot numbers on all of their earnings calls. Every single Twitter shareholder could and probably should enter a class action against the officers of Twitter.
Ha, how unlucky for them. Hope they're still able to operate.
Red Flags That Someone Is Not Fit to Lead People
Promote fair competition.

Verizon tried to get in Canadian market in 2019ish but top three telecom formed a mafia and didn't let that happen. Same thing with Delta, would be a much better alternative to Air Canada.
Where I'm at, there's still a lot of houses around that have not been occupied since 2008. Not for sale, not maintained, not recoverable. I have this feeling that somebody somewhere is sitting on those places (and paying the property taxes!) and valuing them much higher than the true worth.

If so, there's probably still holdover from the last crash to cause splash in the next one.
The fake moon landing conspiracy is a good example. Then number of people involved would be pretty big, and the science is complicated. The logistics behind such a big secret operation requires such skill that it is hard to believe anyone would be able to pull it off. If the moon landing was truly fake surely they would have messed up somewhere.

On the other hand many things went wrong in the actual moon landing. There were liftoffs that failed, experiments that went nowhere, targets that were missed, and even people that died. The actual moon landing was a hard task they succeeded at while making a ton of mistakes in the process, just like humans do in the real world when we are at our best.
Primitive Technology: Iron knife made from bacteria
Yes, it’s always existed. It actually belongs to the IANA and if you Whois it you get:
RESERVED-Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Twitter board sued him in Delaware Court.
The IT industry is extremely left leaning on the whole. People who are intelligent enough to know better, it's a very strange phenomenon.

Twitter has one of the worst interfaces known to man, I'm amazed anyone uses it.
Not sure it's going to affect his probably-not-that-lavish lifestyle that much. But since those billions are in stock it likely it will affect his level of control of companies, his ability to attract future investments and his future decisions. Which people paying attention to tech companies probably care about more than what flavour caviar he eats and what schools his kids go to anyway.
Yes, the EU and the US are allies, which makes the wanton abuse of EU citizen's right to privacy less reasonable, not more.

[edit: wanton not wonton, though wontons are good]
“There are studies showing that, for example, it is really hard to get dementia when you are a university professor, and the reason is not that these people are smarter – it’s that until old age, they are habitually engaged in tasks that are very mentally demanding.”

That’s an interesting point. I wonder if that applies to any knowledge work in general. As a developer I do feel that I engage my memory pretty often but I’m not sure it counts as a wholistic exercise including spatial memory, recalling events, reasoning, etc.
> parlor but Amazon shut them down

For something which has been shut down, it sure seems unusually... existent. Like, if you want microblogging by weird racists, it's there.
Indeed, I can easily see them get dragged before a parliamentary inquiry.
“Personnel department” sounds so much better. At least they’re people, not resources.
In the ted interview he did recently he said he had a plan B. And that plan was clearly to create a new social media, if you watch the interview you will notice. I honestly don't think he was trying to pull anything. If you see a product that seems made of real gold and then when you ask the seller to prove it's gold, they go round and round not actually answering your question, why would you buy it? Better to put that money into another product. It's common sense, people should stop being so cynical. It's a distorted and sad world that one. As Elon said once "I prefer to be optimistic and wrong rather than pessimistic and right".
It seems like his lawyers aren't very good, and maybe neither his bankers.