skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any citation for that? I thought Elon waived most of the contingencies.

IIRC it's kind of true. Section 7(b)(i) of the merger agreement [0], which is part of the section describing the conditions under which the merger will take place, states:

> each of the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement (except for the representations and warranties contained in Section 4.2(a) and Section 4.2(b)), without giving effect to any materiality or “Company Material Adverse Effect” qualifications therein, shall be true and correct as of the Closing Date..., except for such failures to be true and correct as would not have a Company Material Adverse Effect

And Section 4.6 of the agreement describes Twitter's representations regarding its SEC documents and financial statements. Among other things, it states:

> As of their respective dates... none of the Company SEC Documents at the time it was filed... contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, or are to be made, not misleading.

At least by my reading (and the general sense I got from more knowledgeable commentators), this basically means that Twitter represents that its SEC filings contain no material inaccuracies, and that the merger shall take place unless those filings contain inaccuracies significant enough to cause a Company Material Adverse Effect.

So in one sense, the deal depends on Twitter's numbers being not too inaccurate - if Musk could prove that Twitter's numbers were wrong and that that inaccuracy was enough to cause a MAE, then he would be able to back out of the deal.

What is incorrect, though, is the implication that the deal could not go forward until Musk checked Twitter's numbers. The deal basically assumes Twitter's numbers are correct, with the default action being that the merger will happen. The onus was on Musk to prove Twitter's numbers incorrect to the point that it will cause a MAE; otherwise, he must go through with the deal. Proving a MAE is an incredibly high bar - from what I've seen from other commentators, a MAE has been found once in the entirety of Delaware's corporate legal history, and given how Musk's evidence was turning out during trial it seemed extremely unlikely he would have been able to successfully argue that claim.

[0]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522...
> I don't think I've ever come across a situation where talking about your firing in the public square was a good idea. I just don't see any tangible benefit it can bring.

A big quirk of firing situations is that the company can’t (or won’t) tell their side of the story. As a result, fired employees often feel like they can take control of the narrative by posting their version of events without worry about the company telling their side of the story.

In this case, the author casually mentioned that they believed they were among the top 5-10% of stack ranked engineers at Twitter as a way to get ahead of any assumptions that they were laid off for performance reasons.

I’ve seen other cases where fired people try to take advantage of this asymmetry to tell outright lies. A friend had a remote employee who gradually became less and less responsive until they couldn’t be reached for entire weeks at a time. They fired the employee, who immediately took to social media to fabricate a story about being unjustly fired for some other trivial situation at work that had no bearing on the firing. Of course, the failure to communicate or get any work done wasn’t mentioned at all, leaving readers to believe that the only contributing factor was the trivial, unrelated work situation stated in her posts. And it worked phenomenally well! She had a number of invitations to join other companies from people who thought they were helping right an injustice that had occurred to this person. (Note: I’m telling this story as a response to the parent comment, not implying it’s what’s happening in the linked blog post). So there can be some weird upside to taking control of the narrative if (and only if) one has a social media audience to share the narrative with.
Anesthetic injection in sensitive areas is pretty bad though. Typical injection like IV doesn't feel painful at all, but the anesthetic ones I've done for dental or external trauma are very painful. I won't say it's the worst in my life, but it's close. It is, for me, at least 5x worse than cutting myself, probably 3x worse than falling a bicycle too.

(For what it's worth, my worst pain is wisdom teeth removal after anesthesia wore off, and it lasted for days!).
I meant it is inevitable and uncertain, and will be sudden.
It's an artifact of the second-chance system (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308). Past explanations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21168100

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20169818

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774614

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

Yes, it's bad and confusing, but less so than not doing it, because if you place a 2-day old submission on the front page, the thread fills up with "how is this 2 days old and on the front page?"

Maybe there's a better solution but we don't know yet what it is.
Ah, the downvotes from the extremely privileged (most of whom do not even realize this).

I am from one of those countries where we pretty much cannot afford "legal" content. In my shitty town the median salary is something like $300, at least half of which goes towards paying rent if you don't have your own house, while we're being asked to pay prices that were established for developed countries with median salaries at 10× of ours or above.

Steam is one of very few exceptions and it's really popular here even among students and such (just like everywhere else).

Basically, if you want to charge me $50 for the book, you're not losing anything, simply because I cannot afford it anyway. Imagine if you had to pay $500 for books, $600 for movies, etc.
DALL-E dropped the ball. They had the tech and the hype surrounding their product but blew the lead to Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. Their GTM and pricing/monetization team should be ashamed of what they've done here.
why do we need "publishers" in today's market?is not like you have to have 4 intermediaries to sell on amazon or even digital copies? i'd be more forthcoming to pay $10 for a book that i know 50-70-90% proceeds go to the author than 2-4-5% which the rest take up?

publishers, printers, yada yada must've been important to sell books 50 years ago but are they really necessary today?
They’re often similar, but there are very important differences. (And I led with the word “removed” rather than “obsoleted” for a reason; perchance it was unwise to use the term obsolescence at all.)

Obsolescence is ambiguous. In common usage it means a thing is not maintained and will generally become harder and harder to use due to the lack of maintenance and support, so that at some point it will probably stop working and be unfixable. But especially in the software field it has long also been used to indicate things that actively don’t work any more because they’ve been replaced by something else. In short, “obsolete” already serves as what people are ruining “deprecated” to mean: maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t, but sooner or later it won’t work.

Deprecation, however, must not signify removal. It is purely a form of discouragement of something that still works, at least for now. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation.
>Oh, fun detail about the layoff email to Twitter employees today. Not only is it unsigned (the signature just says "Twitter"), but the "To" and "From" lines of the email both just say "team (All Full Time Employees)." No one in leadership attached their name in any way.

https://twitter.com/WillOremus/status/1588358993293979649
That's the main reason I refuse to buy DRM'd content. It gives the companies too much control and ability to track whatever I might be doing. I'll gladly pay for good books, but I am not paying Amazon or whatever to fund their data collection megaoperation
I think that has far more to do with this site being relatively low-traffic. Double the traffic, while keeping the exact same rules and topic, and it would become unreadable. It's easy to "moderate" when people clearly break the rules; but "moderation" can't do anything if the only problem is that most comments are uninsightful. Large numbers always ruin things, in real life or online. You can see that on this very website on Musk-related stories, with a terrible heat-to-light ratio in the comments.

It's controversial, but if the average IQ was 120 rather than 100, I doubt you'd have 1/10th as many issues on massively popular social media; most of the moderation issues would go away. The problem comes from the bottom-up, and can't be fixed from the top down.
The critical part is who controls the filter, it doesn't have to be the best to be useful, but it must obey the user.
Oh wow, that is a big change! Even though I know Microsoft influenced and pushed the UEFI standard, my first macbook was my first introduction to EFI booting (since I had used legacy BIOS on my PCs up until college), so I've always associated it with Apple hardware.
Of course, our childhood stories of fables and folklores started with The Crow and The Pitcher[1]. I will never forget that story. It is a simple but very effective story to tell kids.

1. https://fablesofaesop.com/the-crow-and-the-pitcher.html
I think you have the wrong country, PM of NZ is Jacinda Ardern, and I mean, who doesn't like her? Bond villains?
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33460388.
Hey, at the big tech companies plenty of people get laid off and then just transfer to a new role at a different team instead of actually leaving the company.
Just another oddity to add: that employee he knocked up was apparently via IVF. So, very intentional.
oh no, i use z library to make list of books I want to read.
Good for you then. Kindle devices have decent hardware but is crippled by the dystopian Amazon firmware on it. It forces upgrades, with no way to opt out, and Amazon have the ability to remotely wipe your books for no reason.
If your partner is repeatedly doing something annoying, you'd tell them to stop, not immediately break up.

Most companies seem to solicit feedback or suggestions from employees. Ignoring employees means ignoring everyone that actually knows what's going on.
I believe neural networks are over hyped sometimes.

They are not always the best tool for the job. There are lots of other ML techniques such as SVM, naive Bayes, k-nearest neighbor, decision tree, logistic regression, random forest etc. nobody is using because they lack the hype factor.

If something lacks some keywords like neural network, deep learning, reinforced learning, than it is deemed not cool.
Thank you.

I too agree that I would prefer to have a manual/scheduled charge setting system.
I hear you but doesn't that simply mean you're not a collector of limited items? It's like baseball cards. With apes on them.
I think we should recognise that while these ways of acting (in both directions) are legal, they can still be antisocial and rude (which of course doesn't mean they're not occasionally warranted). While a company's only legal obligation may be to pay their employees, that doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't socially call them out if they're too sharp-elbowed.
You need a lawyer, not Twitter. If you suspect criminal intent, loop in the FBI [1].

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber
Musk sends email to Twitter employees, confirming plans for mass layoffs Friday
Yeah but I like to write as much from scratch when I do leetcode, feels like it's cheating to use stuff that makes an easy problem easier :P
Do you backup user accounts and bookmarks too?
I would anticipate it's less that people won't find jobs and more that they'll get worse ones that they wouldn't have accepted before... but then again if you were already in the lower rung you're now competing with ex-FAANG guys
So... XeLaTeX? Which has been around for over 15 years now? Modern unicode support out of the box? check. Compiles to PDF instead of DVI because obviously? Check. Normal system font support? very check. More than 256 registers? "what the fuck is a register and why would you ever need to care, it's not 1980 anymore."

Equal disclaimer: low-key maintainer of ucharclasses.
That's a pretty interesting portfolio.

Do you see any interesting trends? In terms of one layer deeper than the general trends such as AI, space, etc.
And Yahoo is bigger than two KFC franchises in Kansas City.
A lot of our livelihoods depend on access to books and journal articles that are sold at exorbitant prices by scientific publishers for whom we do all the work of editing, copyediting, reviewing, and writing ... Not all of os work in the well funded USA ... I have to go through a paywall to read my own old articles ...
That option is kind of dormant in app I think and gets enabled from backend. I updated two phones at same time around a month ago and one of them did not have that option until 2-3days back.
I prefer to think that Poettering doesn't know mkdir exists. Eagerly awaiting systemd-make-directory-automatic@.path.
According to whom? This would basically mean like 5% of Americans could own a house
The code is very easy to read. Doesn't seem like there's data/model parallelism support for training, which will be important for real-world use.
Most CEOs aren't Jack Welsh, and yet most of them implemented stack ranking. This persists even when it seems to demonstrably harm the companies.

So dropping 50% even if it harms the company may become a major move.
Twitter employees: Important info from a CA employment attorney
I too like to buy books to have a physical copy. I almost always buy them used though, which probably doesn't help the copyright holder at all either.

There are plenty of other sites to find books to skim before buying.
VR isn't expensive enough! Too expensive?? For the thing we've been waiting for 30 years to play its too expensive at $2k??

Someone here doesn't remember how much computers used to cost. VR should be $4-5K. A $200 intro price tag is ridiculously inexpensive for what is essentially an immersion machine.
Can you be more specific? What, exactly, are you mad about microsoft doing with vscode?

Copilot is a whole other beast. I don't think there's any simple answers there.
The sweet spot might be singles
nights and events. You go expecting to maybe be chatted up but it is in the physical realm.

But yes nothing wrong with using online tools. Same arguments can be made about online food ordering or job searches.
Where do you think grades come from? Standardized tests are better because they are standardized (of course), and more fundamental to get at basic problem solving and reading comprehension.

I would argue it is impossible to be good at testing and nothing else. Even with a relatively poorly-designed test, there are valuable skills needed to be "good at it". and the current standardized tests have years of development and constant updating behind them.
> Or is Google sending the message as `nso@MyCoolDomain.com via nso@gmail.com` (and exposing your Gmail address in replies)?

Yeah the gmail account shows up in the headers as Return-path.

Google don't DKIM sign it (there's a X-Google-DKIM-Signature header, but that's obviously ignored), so I think it'll still trigger DMARC if you have that setup.

However, their SMTP servers should still reject other people sending on that address' behalf if they attempt to. It'll just bounce and send you an undeliverable mail along the lines of 'You no longer have access to blah@customdomain'
I have been trying without success thus far to understand how all these Egyptian tunnels seem to wholly lack soot on the ceiling. Likewise, in pyramids.

Even tomb robbers would have needed slight, and would not have made any effort to keep the ceiling clean.
The problems where traditional ML works best and the problems where Transformers or ConvNets work best are usually two different domains.

AI is not a buzzword.
I think it is unlikely even Microsoft would succeed in replacing the NT kernel with the Linux kernel.

NT has features which Linux kernel devs have actively opposed including – such as alternate data stream support in its VFS/IFS layer, and a stable device driver ABI. So even supposing – and I'd be rather surprised if it were to ever actually happen – Microsoft were to release the NT kernel under a GPL-compatible license (thereby eliminating many of the legal issues), they still might find it a great struggle to get the necessary features upstreamed.

Important parts of Windows – e.g. synchronisation primitives – cannot be emulated on top of the Linux syscall API as it currently exists (with accuracy and high performance), due to gaps in functionality. See https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/f4cc1a38-1441-62f8-47e4-0c67f5a... for some of the gory details. I note that LKML message appears to have received zero replies, which is not an encouraging sign for any progress on that issue.

> MSFT also has the financial motivation to stop developing the NT Kernel

It would be a huge investment to extend the Linux kernel to be able to support a 100% correct and equal performance emulation of the NT API, and to port that API to run on top of it. Even with such a huge investment, there would be no guarantee of success (what if Linus refuses to upstream the required features?). And, if it legally requires open-sourcing large parts of the existing Windows kernel (due to GPL compatibility), that would greatly improve the viability of Wine/ReactOS/etc, threatening Microsoft's existing Windows revenue stream. The financial case for what you are proposing is far less clear than you think it is.
I can't think of anything that neural nets can't beat, except small tabular data with boosted decision trees. Can you give some examples?
that's a big assumption, seems like you'd need to find a paper that did an experiment that compared color temps of lights effects on plant leaf color or do some analysis of levels of pigments present in leaves.
Ask HN: Running AZ PowerShell SDK in C# .net6
I am wondering does anyone have experience running Azure PowerShell SDK inside C#? I asked this StackOverFlow question but not sure if anyone is familiar.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74312117/installing-and-running-az-powershell-sdk-in-c-sharp-net6
I am surprise in the amount of people that in favor in copilot being train with copyright data.
It's a little under $0.12 per kWh here. I haven't gotten around to putting up a meter on it since fully completing it, but in the past, with a bit over half the drives + all of the ram and everything else, it was peaking a bit over 400w -- I'd guess like +- 700ish right now?

So, give or take, with a stupid build like mine, here, it's like .7 * 720 * $0.118 = ~$60.

Another thing to note is that mine stay spinning instead of idling for much lower energy consumption, cause I've always read that the stop-start cycle is what really tends to kill the drives.

I think it could be a lot more affordable/justifiable with:

- fewer, larger drives (6-8TB each?)

- fewer, larger DIMMs (16-32GB each?)

- perhaps slower, more energy-efficient drives (5400rpm?)

Also, I have seen some of the Atom C2750/C2758 boards for fairly cheap here.

If you don't need an absurd amount of RAM/PCIe/CPU, that could be a good option to save another bit of power.

> and my house is poorly oriented for solar panels unfortunately.

And yeah, same, unfortunately. Ironically, despite being in Florida, I barely get any sun; my entire neighborhood is filled with massive trees, lol.

I'd still like to look into solar at some point when I've got more time & money, though. It's been awful the past couple of hurricane seasons because of the trees -- something always seems to fall and cause a bunch of damage, so I'd like to cut down a few of the scary ones anyway (I am sorry trees!)
Alphabetical order seems pretty arbitrary and optimizing for the wrong thing in most cases.

The only reason as a dev you would really care about this is if you navigate / search code by scrolling until you find the function you care about. The invention of Ctrl+F makes this strategy of code navigation obsolete.

In my opinion ordering should be something along the lines of:

- initializer / constructors

- public functions from most commonly used to least common, with similar functions (perhaps with different inputs) being close to their relatives, and functions that call each other being close to each other

- deprecated public functions

- private functions following a similar ordering pattern to public ones, ordered by most used by the public functions to least used
One interesting little fact from history is that the Postal Inspection Service was one of the first bulk buyers of the Tommy Gun (Thompson submachine gun).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun#Early_...
Would you be in favor of purging all non academic books from piracy sites?
There is absolutely no way they managed to do proper due diligence to understand who on the team is essential ("good bones" for the structure) vs. those that are not. It's been a week.
> I specifically said NT APIs to differentiate from the Windows APIs.

It depends on what you mean by "NT APIs". If you mean the NT API exposed to user-mode (NT syscalls), no, that is insufficient to implement WSL1 (or anything else like it). If you mean to include kernel-mode-only NT APIs (including undocumented/private APIs which MS doesn't expose to third parties, even new APIs added specifically for WSL1 to consume), then yes that is.

> the whole Windows Subsystem concept was neat design

Also worth keeping in mind, that WSL1 is not an "environment subsystem" in the sense that Win32 is – or OS/2 and POSIX/etc were. It has a radically different architecture from a classic Windows NT environment subsystem.
The problem with that is the heavy bias towards people having a good day, and the chilling effect it will have as everyone spends their lives talking in an instagram worthy way. Black mirror.
You could host your stuff via tor? And have people do most of the downloading via bittorent?
> Q: What do you mean by stack-ranking engineers? What were the criteria?
>
> A: Raw number of lines of code over a certain period (a year I think).

Here I've been writing code concisely like a sucker!
I have tried my best to skim through all the discussions and no one seems to have noticed the demand for zlibrary in third world countries. In a country like China, it is the only avenue for most researchers and students at the bottom to gain expertise. When you talk about classism, you should not ignore such groups.
Please don't insult Greenspun and Common Lisp.

http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html?viewfullsite=1#:~:text...
Okay, I think I understand your core biz -- software to connect/manage providers and service seekers, correct?

And now you've realized you might have another line of business, and you'd like to monetize that, right?
From other comments, I think this piece is where things are fuzzy for me and others. If you could give an example of what you envision here, there might be some advice we could give.
Running Brave with uBlock extension and the page is entirely white - Nothing loads. Console only shows

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'split')
at (index):57:32
And Walmart has more revenue than Amazon.

Revenue of a general purpose retailer/ecommerce is not comparable to revenues of other types of companies. The margins on that revenue is always going to be miniscule
I fought the PayPal and I won
Another interesting example of the phenomenon you describe is that until 2003, the Secret Service was part of the Department of the Treasury, as the agency was founded in 1865 to combat the then-widespread counterfeiting of U.S. currency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service