skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But those laws are about employers trying to force people to quit so they don't have to fire them. This case feels more equivalent to firing someone and putting them on paid leave during the mandatory notice period. Which seems like a common practice in some industries to prevent revenge acts from those who are let go.
> Mind you, 90% of the people complaining about Musk for things like "spreading conspiracy theories", "misinformation" or being a "sexual harrasser" have almost certainly voted people into political office who have all done the same thing.

What an absolutely convoluted way to try to discredit people who disagree with you.
Overall tax burden is quite different: https://data.oecd.org/tax/tax-revenue.htm

US is around 25% whereas France is 45%
Site seems down for me, and isup.me.
>you can't cut deep enough to cover $1B in interest paymets

Why not, when twitter's operational costs are ~5.5 billion and you are reportedly laying off 50-75% of staff?
Within IPv4 address space you can certainly do it in a day using $100 dedicated server on Hetzner and ZMap.
my suspicion is “the censors” are highlighting how elons actions are proving in real time that they’ve been correct all along: that the “free speech absolutist” position has always been detached from reality.

he is, as we speak—and will continue to prove in the future—that “the censors” have been correct all along, social spaces of a certain number of people, if you don’t want the visitors to flee en masse, will need moderation to keep things from breaking down.
The shareholders earned a lot on it. It was very profitable business for them. Not following through could even be seen as failing fiduciary duty.

And also, they did not knew Must will be so boneheaded about it all. He could have actually tried to make it look like he means to make twitter work.
Yeah, scanning for vulnerabilities in a controlled way isn't bad

I suspect those opposing it are the ones that eventually get caught with glaring vulnerabilities and then we have to hear BS like "they care for security and privacy" when they didn't even use password hashes
of course it was a leveraged buyout. no single person has $44 billion burning a hole in their pocket, especially not musk, who has most of his net worth tied up in the equity of his various ventures. and that equity is too valuable to trade for a mediocre company like twitter, so it must have been debt, and you don't raise that much debt from the local credit union.

musk has access to debt and is experienced enough to know how to employ that access to limit his (and his investors') risk exposure. this is literally finance 101.

with that said, should financial systems be tilted this way to favor the wealthy and their capital? no, probably not. while musk is an outlier, in general there's a weak correlation between successes if you take out this skewed access to capital. instead of a few hundred billionaires, we could have hundreds of thousands more of entrepreneurs founding and leading useful companies.
We agree there's a problem. We disagree on what the problem is, and how to fix it. You're not gonna fix anything.
You might be able to get what you need with IFTTT or Zapier. They have email digests and support RSS triggers.
Unfortunately it's a website and not a standalone app, so the privacy benefit of using RSS is gone.
I’ve grown more disillusioned with employment over time.

Whether I knock it out of the park, or slack off, I get pretty much the same outcome. Loyalty is not rewarded - see the recent layoffs.

Now, I’m not complaining, I just think maybe more people are waking up to the drawbacks of being an employee.

All my extra energy is now focused toward side businesses - as those start paying off, my contribution to GDP is likely to go way up.
0.68 K/D ratio to start off with is pretty good against a real person.
I graduated with a degree in finance from Wharton, worked as a quant at Citadel Securities, and have been a high-frequency trader for more than a decade. But I'm more than sure that your credentials at finance or trading are more qualified. :)
That’s an incredible take on this. What’s the alternative? Leave everyone to defend themselves against foreign governments trying to steal IP?
If it's just statistics, wouldn't that mean you wouldn't get verbatim output? i.e. you'd throw away all high frequency content?
https://www.ft.com/content/d1879d0c-c52e-4f48-82f0-09458add4... (or https://archive.ph/phHTi)
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Banks that lent $12.7bn to Elon Musk for his $44bn Twitter takeover are preparing to hold the debt until early next year as they wait for the billionaire to unveil a clearer business plan they can market to investors, according to three people with knowledge of the plans.

Barring an unexpected rally in credit markets this year, the group of lenders, led by Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Barclays, have conceded they will be stuck holding the debt on their books for months or even longer and will probably end up incurring huge losses on the financing package.
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Why is it bothersome? I appreciate what Musk is doing with electric car tech and space x. Twitter management became fabulously wealthy from this deal. They certainly don't give a s*.
Same here. I think there is a natural undercurrent of skepticism on HN, a lot of which is well-deserved.

The ROI of this could be tremendous for someone in tech. If this helps you get your shit together enough to be promoted a cycle early, for example, or find a new job, it could be a bargain.
Feeling respected is not the same as being respected.
Just get up in the morning and chug a liter of water and then have a cup or two of strong coffee ?
Why not both? They will never tell you the unsavory things they're doing. At least, not without coercion.
Of course they didn't have a choice. It was the board, not management, and they had a fiduciary obligation to sue. They'd have been sued had they not, and they morally have an obligation to represent shareholders so they'd be awful people if they didn't.
Probably the bondholders (the people who lent the $13B).
My wife and I use 1Password. We know each other's master passwords.

In 1Password we have a note that lists all of our key info: bank account numbers, etc. I have a scheduled task that reminds me to review the note at least once a year.

When we went on vacation this summer I came up with a temporary mechanism to give our daughters our master passwords in case anything happened to us. The mechanism was set up so that they'd both have to participate to recover the secret. It was also set up to self-destruct in 30 days.

That was the temporary mechanism. The permanent mechanism will use secret sharing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing). There are many implementations available; I want to self-host one so that we aren't relying on anyone else. (There's no server component; a static site would be good enough.)

We plan to use an "any 2 of 4" setup; any 2 of 4 trusted people could, working together, recover our master passwords.
> everyone on HN who signals interest for a social network they pay for will get to see how viable such a business model truly is.

Let me get ahead of you there. They would only pay for a quality product which Twitter is definitely not, as a ruiner of modern discourse. Of course there's also the catch that there are no quality products anymore. The whole world of products is devolving at almost the speed of Google Search. But definitely paying is the superior business model
Oh, good heavens, no. The one in your link looks like it might actually offer useful features for the benefit of the passenger. The one I'm talking about appeared to have one purpose: advertising and monetary extraction.
Most of his assets aren't liquid. Most of his wealth comes from owning about 23.5% of Tesla or 265 Million shares[0]. At Tesla's current value of 641B, that puts his Tesla wealth at about 150B.

For this Twitter purchase, a lot of it was purchased using some Tesla stock as collateral, but he probably has a personal limit to how much stock he wants to leverage, and he continues to have a fiscal duty to Tesla investors to not over-collateralize his position on TSLA[1], so he probably tried to put as much of the company itself up as collateral for the loans he needed to take it private.

Note that Tesla's 10-Q [2] supports this theory: "If Elon Musk were forced to sell shares of our common stock that he has pledged to secure certain personal loan obligations, such sales could cause our stock price to decline."

Now this has happened before, particularly with Toys-R-Us when a private equity firm came in and did the same thing, using the business itself as collateral to get the loan that pays for all of the currently-public shares. This didn't particularly end well for the company[3].

0: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459022...

1: if Tesla's stock price drops below the limit price the banks that have loaned to Musk have placed on their collateral, then the banks might not make back their loan amount+interest. There is a fiscal duty here because such an event with millions of TSLA entering the sell market, even over weeks, will tank the value of the stock

2: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000095017022...

3: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/toys-r-...
Updated to the beta specifically for this app. Loving it so far. I’m beginning to work on a new project, and this is awesome for having my papers, documentation, sketches, and notes in one area
I don't think that the Bill of Rights, for example, was influenced by US culture.

"the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament;"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689#Provisions...
Gender disparity is a problem in PL world too but the Haskell Interlude[1] has interviewed a few women. One of the co-hosts is Niki Vazou who has worked on Liquid Haskell.[2]

[1] https://haskell.foundation/podcast/

[2] https://nikivazou.github.io/publications.html
Now that you mention it, yes, pincers do remind me of training chopsticks:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%EB%BD%80%EB%A1%9C%EB%A1%9C+...

... though I guess a restaurant owner might be hesitant to put these on a table :P
Wait, he didn't use Tesla stock as collateral?
Everyone's different. You find that a sample that Amazon chooses for you is sufficient for you. OP finds that physically picking up the book and looking at whatever they want is sufficient for them.
A cynical reading: Elliot is going to miss its targets soon, needs a grand narrative to explain this as unavoidable in the present climate.
You do realize that if they didn't accept the offer, C-suite would be pursued by shareholder lawsuit holding them liable for lost valuation?
you don't have to go that far back, Enron
You use the term "majority" pretty hastily.

Are you speaking in terms of liberal city-dwellers, or all areas of America?

We're up to half of the country adopting permitless concealed-carry, with others in the process. Doesn't sound like the majority of the country to me.
> In my case the issue is that despite having a growth mindset for learning pretty much anything, in the case of ADHD stuff I've been trying for so long to fix myself that it feels like I'll never be able to.

Oh man this hits too close
What's a scenario in which Musk will at least recoup his acquisition cost? Even if 10% of Twitter users (and that's a lot) will get on the 8$ plan, revenue is only roughly (100*20M?) 2B$ per year.

As I make that napkin calculation I cannot imagine actually 20M people being active enough on Twitter to justify paying 100$ per year for it. Especially if the price won't be catered to regional purchasing power.
Is “I know; I am” not what knowledge and experience boils down to?
> You don't sue someone for something they might do with zero indication that they will.

Sure you do. Often the news reports this with the phrase "seeking injunction base on rumors that..."
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> so each new subscriber is immediately worth about four subscribers under the old plan

To think about it another way: if 25% of active Twitter users subscribe to the plan at $8/mo, they'll double their revenue.

My gut says that that's way optimistic, and a more reasonable expectation is 5-10% conversion. Even if you assume 5% conversion, that's a 20% increase in revenue coupled with a ~50% reduction in labor costs.
NCSC is GCHQ
Copyright needs to be largely abolished.

This is ridiculous; we created A is that can program themselves and people are worried about incidental copyright infringement.
Netflix has had ads for a long time. They call it "product placement" and "branded entertainment".
"We have received a notification from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) for (the IP address of) a server you have with us.

Access to a MongoDB server should be restricted to trusted systems (for example, the related web application server)."

My mongodb had with auth - but port was open.
Todd is a saint for the work that he does here. Ultimately, like many other OpenBSD-related decisions, sudo was replaced by doas because of all the security-related issues with the code. Oftentimes, OpenBSD will replace a very functional solution, that has too many security issues, with one that has far less security issues and is, simply, good enough.
He doesn't have to know them, he probably has enough management and lawyers on retainer to warn him about stuff like that. It's highly unlikely they haven't warned him about this.
Or it’d be the more normal problems like over-promising FSD. That can still be damaging but it’d stay mostly in the business news whereas stuff like calling someone who rescued a bunch of teenagers in Thailand a pedophile is just begging to be the headline story.
No, the paper should be marked by a machine, and displayed to the user for confirmation. If you let the user mark the paper, you get 'hanging chad' problems.
Totally agree with you. Much made an unsolicited bravado bid, but it bit back.

But having said that, I think if anyone can turn this around financially it's Musk. Hell put everyone through hell though.
Nonsense. This a big beef with me about Twitter. It purports to be an egalitarian platform where you can "directly communicate" with significant people, but the sheer volume and signal-to-noise ratio of popular accounts means that they will never even see your comment, let alone reply, except in extraordinarily rare examples.
famously, kingsley amis and philip larkin couldn't stand him - they were not mad about coltrane or davis either) - in the case of coleman, i tend to agree.
> As someone who is just stumbling into this world and studying ADHD as an otherwise successful adult, Chris’ description (and $99 price frankly) resonated with me and made me think I might be in the target market.

The issue is that this is likely more expensive for someone with health insurance than it would be to go out and engage with a guaranteed licensed medical professional for ADHD therapy.

They use some vague language on the website (look carefully for the "or" in the qualifications listing) to obscure that fact that you might be working with a "coach" instead of a licensed therapist. They also use some moderately misleading language to avoid saying they offer therapy for ADHD, instead offering things like life skills.

Basically, anyone looking at this should first go to their insurance company's website and check the price of true ADHD therapy from a guaranteed licensed medical professional that you can choose yourself. Over the course of several sessions, the cost of doing this through insurance could be much lower and you're arguably likely to get better treatment (coaches cannot provide therapy by law, so they're kind of coaching around it instead).
The whole point is you shouldn't have to manually balance columns in a spread. Obviously a round trip from source to output to fiddle with balancing every spread would be tedious. But if you can say "For this content I want to use spread X defined as this shape and balanced in this way" and then be able to fiddle with your content and have your spread always work, then where is the tedium? That's what SILE is supposed to do.

Many publisher's workflows involve a round of content editing bouncing a word file back and forth, then a period where a typesetter uses InDesign or similar to lay it all out, then it goes to press. You can't keep copy-editing after the designer takes over. With a workflow using source documents in Markdown and typesetting handled by SILE I am able to allow copy-edits to book manuscripts up until minutes before going to press.
Got something similar here in the UK also. I once had a Linux server box running on my DMZ, got a few physical letters from my residential ISP (Virgin Media UK) saying they detected some open port that was recommended to be closed (Think it was NetBIOS port).

Might have been part of this scheme.

Don't have that box anymore (was around 5 years ago) or a PC on the DMZ so haven't received any since.
They have to pay back any loans. They aren't free.
Germany is doing the same, Hetzner customers get emails from government pentests if they find something.
Fascinating! You can see it is trying to mimic many gameplay tactics used by CS:GO players, but it's just barely missing the mark. It's like a monkey trying to mimic human behaviour.

Examples:

- Follows the wall contour using the crosshairs when moving around the corners. The only thing wrong here is that the AI is aiming at the wall instead of at the open space next to the wall where the enemy would be.

- After going through a door, it checks all corner to clear the room. But it's very slow in doing this, and would get shot instantly in a real game.

- Adjusts the crosshair constantly to not look at the floor when walking. The problem is that the crosshair is never at headshot level!

I am not bashing on this AI btw, just pointing out that it's actually getting close to real human behaviour! Fascinating!

Something I've noticed is going well is the fact that the AI doesn't spray n' pray but controls the spray pattern and drags the crosshair down. Shoots in bursts!
Musks free speech bravado is limited to speech he likes or don't mind. It systematically ends when he does not kike the speech.
Thanks for posting links, that's the kind of answer I'm interested in.

(Thanks also to whoever un-downed me, as it is from genuinely wanting to understand).

The last link is paywalled, but I doubt that is really his motive. It sounds silly. There was plenty of outspoken criticism against that highspeed rail link without a Musk conspiracy theory. He gave an interview on the BBC where he was similarly bemused by how poor our high speed efforts were, and his criticism was fair.

I'm not sure we can see incidents in very large organisations as indicative of the character of the CEO. For sure he is ultimately to answer for them, and has a responsibility to sort them out, but Tesla employees about 100 000 people and in any sample of people that large you'll have some horrible ones.

Someone else told me about the harassment suit today, now that is directly attributable to Musk and awful. Are there other such incidents?

Still, doesn't seem to explain the sheer hatred for the man. I do have a different theory about that having spoken to others, which I'll post elsewhere...
Not that they can't become an option, but they fail my sniff test: zero of my non-technical friends in a group chat have ever heard of either of those.
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This is yet another example of good advice that over time gets oversimplified to an 'always' rule, and just becomes silly.

"Don't rely on User-Agent" was in response to things like:

if (isIE())
useIEThing()
elseif (isNetscape())
useNetscapeThing()
else
alert('unsupported')

And that is usually a bad thing to do, since you can always almost replace that with a simple "if ('foo' in window) useFoo()" test or the like.

But there are also things that can't be done like this. What if I want to serve the best possible image or video format for a platform? The Accept-Content header isn't really enough for this, aside from that it doesn't really advertise all supported formats on most platforms it also doesn't tell you things like "Firefox 86 enabled AVIF decoding support, and Firefox 100 enabled hardware decoding, but only on Windows". So if someone is using Firefox 101 on Windows: let's serve them an AVIF video, it will work great for them. If they're using Firefox 101 on macOS: maybe use another format because AVIF will eat all their CPU.

There's lots of little cases like this where you can't really rely on feature detection. There's a reason User-Agent got replaced by another system which gives the same information: that's because they're useful (IMHO Client Hints are worse by the way and not an improvement at all).
Ah, fair, good point. 30% is what I've heard as well, but I did forget about that when commenting. I do still think that 300k is pretty generous even for engineers, which won't be the entirety of the cuts and so the average would be lower.
I never understood why people like Musk are admired that much. He's a bully, period. If you cheer a bully, you're probably also one.
With my team I only use UTC. Specially because most of us are not in the US.
Put Musk in a precarious situation.
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Elon is pushing a giant reset button on Twitter. This is long overdue and the pain is a result of accumulated managerial debt.

Twitter will be fine operationally. It might have some short term hiccups as people pick up the pieces but the network effects and the value proposition are unchanged.

Letting go of these people also makes room for more wild thinkers and hacker types to join the party.

Sometimes the team that got you there isn't the team that can take you to the next level. I feel bad personally for everyone who liked their job, but many of these jobs existed for years longer than they should have.

These are all smart individuals who have a big important company on their CV. No one is going to fault them for being laid off from Twitter when the cuts are this deep; they're already neck deep in recruiter spam if they have any degree of competence.
We already pay for internet.
I suspect this is only true if the wealthy people protecting you keep making money.
I definitely feel you, and that's the biggest "con" (in context of pros/cons) of coaching. It definitely takes significant sustained efforts, which is why medication and other methods are often the first line of defense.

We're trying to make it less effort and easier, but at the end of the day we know sustained behavioral change will take effort. Along that vein, it also may not always be the best time, and may not be best fit for everyone. We totally acknowledge that and hope to just be one piece of the greater ADHD-care pie!

Good luck with your ADHD specialized psychologist!!
Sure, and thats good thing :)
To put it bluntly: Alice becomes legally and technically insolvent if the market value of the acquired assets falls below $1 billion: the value of the assets is no longer sufficient to pay off the $1 billion loan.