skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He got himself into the situation where he was required to buy Twitter because he signed a binding contract - that's how binding contracts work, and not understanding that the contract was binding is why he now owns Twitter.

In the end, he bought Twitter without being forced to, because he probably saw he was going to lose in court if he kept up with trying to get out of his binding agreement.

This is why a person needs to understand the contracts they sign. If you don't have an out, you can't change your mind. If you can just change your mind to get out of a binding contract, then it's not a binding contract.

Separately, I'm not making any comments about Twitter employees and their claims against the business, that's a completely separate topic.
You write enough of these letters and you’ll eventually be right.
Wanting peace is a good thing. Wanted Ukraine to capitulate to genocide is not.
Vote by mail also easily allows selling votes. You can sell your ballot and signed envelope to somebody. The best way to avoid this is only having in person voting.
Damn sorry folks. Not sure how this got posted twice. Is there anyway I can delete this one (i understand deletions are not on).
One running theme here is Musk trying to ignore contracts and discovering that they're binding. Being the wealthiest didn't make him above the law.

That's bad for him and so far it seems bad for Twitter, but it was good for the shareholders, and it's good generally that contracts get enforced.
> The illusion of Elon Musk, David Sacks and Jason Calcanis as savvy operators is completely gone.

Elon has owned Twiter for less than a week. How is it that everyone is already declaring it a failure? How can you argue the richest man on the planet is bad at running businesses?
That is because most Twitter users knew Musk would ruin what made Twitter Twitter. Twitter users just assumed the process of "muskifying" Twitter would be subtle and over the course of years. Watching him speed run the destruction of a $44 Billion company in a matter weeks has been absolutely shocking.
You can give people software that's detached from the usual profit motive. This opens up a whole new range of problems that people won't tackle because the money isn't there.

Don't think big, think small. Think of problems that are ignored because the scale doesn't satisfy venture capital's requirements.
I'm having a tough time finding the link to the source code in the article. Am I missing it?
One clarification if you're not familiar with New Zealand banking. The article states:

> Last week, Bank of New Zealand warned that “things could well and truly turn to custard” as the global economy is plunged into recession.

I read that and thought "Holy hell, central bankers in the US are usually extremely measured in their comments, they would never say something like 'things could well and truly turn to custard'". I misunderstood, thinking that "Bank of New Zealand" is their central bank. It's just another big bank, not "The Reserve Bank of New Zealand", which is their actual central bank.
I dont find this surprising. Look at how many companies keep on CEOs that burn their business to cinders and do nothing to curb scandal after scandal. Especially in tech and video games.
Judging by my inability to get into any store at Westgate last weekend due to the crowds, I think we're still a while off "plunging". /anacdata
This looks more like a price negotiation: "pausing paid ads" instead of leaving the platform.
Where did you find an index of all of your county's websites?
That certainly is one interpretation of the facts.
I'm not sure I like VMDs. They can lead to slippery slopes.

IE: Only Fred used the VMD... Or how does the counter interpret the VMD? Are people vigilant about checking their ballots?

Pen, paper -> Into Box -> Counting, KISS. I can deal with a scantron. Not much more is needed here. I'd rather we work on chain of custody and figuring out who has voted etc, that are harder to solve. Though honestly, the fraud rates are so low, on double voting, I suspect made up voters, and ballot box stuffing are bigger concerns.
Private archives are useless, and contrary to the public nature of copyright's actual endgame. This presumes that the company will 100% preserve their history, and many don't. It should not be illegal for individuals to preserve culture under some misguided idea of copyright as rent-seeking.
If science had demonstrated that telepathy is possible even on one-to-one basis let alone at massive scale, it would be far easier to take this popular meme (and the hundreds of others like it) more seriously.

Maybe that's a bit too much to ask of humanity at this stage of its development, but a person can always dream!
> France's model is more of a steady march to the top

Eagerly awaiting for France to have their own equivalents (in terms of success and worldwide influence) of Google/Apple/Microsoft/Amazon/SpaceX/Tesla/etc. As well as for their devs to be paid even remotely close to what they can get paid in the US.

From what I am seeing, even "the year of Linux on desktop" is more likely to happen than that. Which doesn't inspire much confidence.
there is meaningful conversation, as always when a lot of people are in a pulic square. The question is what is driving people to visit the square. Well, so far it has been the general progressive politics causes that twitter's management directly or indirectly supported. Now i don't know if the square has something attractive to keep people there anymore.
Lets first speak about the present and present shows that all the comments about censorship were correct.

The outcry is real. Many many bot networks create massive amounts of cry content.
It's in the database: https://limnology.co/en/creators/UCHn_K1zOBYZqtmIYkXLEIQw

And on the second page for the anatomy keyword
https://limnology.co/en/languages/en/keywords/anatomy?page=2

I think it got somewhat downranked because of the recent views/subscribers mismatch
If you skim headlines it's much as you say. Interest rates rising (but still around historic averages), falling house prices and high inflation.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/topics/business-economy
Is this direct text-to-speech or is someone reading the text and transforming the audio?
YT is absolute garbage... we should call out the ACTUAL people responsible for just how terrible their UX is.

If anyone is hiring and someone says they did UX at YT - do not hire them.
> He ruins everything he touches but he's also one of the founders.

Statements like this are always so interesting to me online from the "there's two sides to every story" perspective.

Why not devil's advocate it and try to walk through life maybe not thinking in blanket statements? How can somebody who ruins everything be successful at all in life?

Maybe I just have more to learn...
1,300 SpaceX satellite units went offline over funding issues
You didn't see Twitter Spaces, Fleets, Birdwatch, Tweet Editing, and Twitter Blue? Some of those features have been successful for them, some not, but they've been releasing features.
Your single counter example is "people do media piracy". I personally do torrent media, and I'm pretty clear eyed that I do it because there are no negative consequences for me. It has nothing to do with computers or victims. There's no enforcement. If ISPs started fining people or cutting off access for pirating media I would stop because those consequences are worse than the benefit I get.

Who benefits from making deepfakes, and how do we respond to them? By simply throwing our hands up in the air and upvoting you're encouraging this behaviour by normalizing it. If people recognize it as deception that violates consent it will be discouraged.
'Sense of history' doesn't mean you don't not understand a copyright violation.
The posted email, linked two posts up stated that "Today is your last working day at the company, however, you will remain employed by Twitter and will receive compensation and benefits through your separation date [90 days out]".

Unless they want to claim some side effect of working is part of the employee's compensation this lawsuit looks baseless enough to be an abuse of process.
He was trying to get out of it because it was a stupid deal at that price, not because he couldn't understand a contract. He was trying to limit the dumb consequences of his dumb impulse.

Failing at that, he might as well lean into it. He's got enough money to make billions of stupid mistakes, and this stupid mistake gave him ownership of his favorite thing. A favorite thing that incidentally gives him leverage against a US government desperate to control social media, a US government who is basically a business partner on every company he has.

He's likely to extract a load of profit out of twitter through that, anyway, we just won't see it because it will show up in his other businesses in the form of contracts, favorable regulation, and favorable legislation.
I was about to say how great I think that law is, but then I checked the link you provided...

> anything discovered in the country must now be reported to the CCP *and to no one else* (in most cases).

The "no one else" part is terrible and completely changes the story. However, I do generally support a "tell the government about discovered vulnerabilities" law. Ideally, the government would then inform affected users and investigate whether the vuln could be considered negligence and the company prosecuted.

I've been in a few situations where I reported very easily exploitable vulns that leaked sensitive user data and in all cases, I couldn't for the life of me convince the companies to disclose the leak. Yes, I could've gone public myself where I didn't have a contract, but I would've 100% ended up in jail for some poorly defined crime of "hacking".
If you don’t first establish that this was a lab leak, why would anyone attach importance to your own point?
Akamai looks at Cloudflare's valuation with envy (and some contempt because Akamai has the larger edge network). Definitely agree Linode was purchased as a growth opportunity.
That's an intellectually dishonest argument.

Everybody wants peace. Peace is a good thing. But what most people agree on is that you don't give an autocrat anything they want just for the promise of peace. Most people remember that lesson from 1938.
Wow! That's a lot of variable rate or only temporarily fixed rate mortgages!

I'm certainly no expert in all of this, how does that stack up with other countries data?
Humanity had a good run. If 3D printing and AI podcasts is what ends us all, then so be it.
If there was some way to wager my own money that this blog post will age poorly, I would.

One of my hobby horses is pointing out people that bend themselves in knots predicting that Uber will fail tomorrow (still waiting!) because they, personally, _don't_ _like_ Uber. There's a similar phenomenon with Elon Musk. Behold, Elon Musk, the guy who runs a car company and a space rocket company, will be completely stymied by keeping high availability on a website? THAT's the bridge too far that he just won't be able to build a team to solve? This is either extreme self-delusion based on an emotional need OR just an example of a classic web engineer who is too wrapped up in their own world to understand that other hard problems exist.
AMP Robotics’ recycling robots bring in $91M
One possibility is that the Biden White House probably outright lies less than the Trump White House did.

The other possibility being the feature as it was applied to the Biden tweet did not exist during the Trump administration, which I posted in the original comment.
I see the cutting edge of this in the Dell Technologies saga. Pulling in EMC, VMware, Pivotal, and other storage vendors to bolster it's "Enterprise" chops, then pretty quickly restructuring and spinning out all the software groups as public companies.

So now Dell has two divisions with serious synergy: Dell EMC (storage, enterprise software, consulting), and Dell (servers, PCs, etc).

Spinning out VMware and Pivotal ensured that each could grow without having to answer to specific hardware vendor affinity.

As other big bets grow fruit they will likely get sold off or spun out as well. The cutting edge is that as they spin, the shareholders get pieces of the NewCos, and the process renews again.
Yeah, and Musk only became the CEO in 2008.

He didn't create the company, and he didn't create the Roadster.
Heat pumps feeding into underfloor heating do a very similar thing to this sand battery. They let you feed heat into a thermal mass in order to buffer it.

This has the double impact of a) letting you take advantage of cheaper electricity by modulating your load slightly, b) letting your heat pump run continuously at a lower heat output, maximising efficiency as it extracts heat from the continually replenished outside air.
When will our AR contact lenses come with uBlock origin for live video ad blocking? ;)
"Richest man on the planet is bad at running businesses because I don't like him"
How the Monst-DOOR was made
“I say, Théoden King: shall we have peace and friendship, you and I? It is ours to command."

"We will have peace," said Théoden at last thickly and with an effort. Several of the Riders cried out gladly. Théoden held up his hand. "Yes, we will have peace," he said now in a clear voice, "we will have peace, when you and all your works have perished--and the works of your dark master to whom you would deliver us. You are a liar, Saruman, and a corrupter a men's hearts. You hold out your hand it to me, and I perceive only a finger of the claw of Mordor. Cruel and cold! Even if your war on me was just--as it was not, for were you ten times as wise you would have no right to rule me and mine for your own profit as you desired--even so, what will you say of your torches in Westfold and the children that lie dead there? And they hewed Háma's body before the gates of the Hornburg, after he was dead. When you hang from a gibbet at your window for the sport of your own crows, I will have peace with you and Orthanic. So much for the house of Eorl. A lesser son of great sires am I, but I do not need to lick your fingers. Turn elsewhither. But I fear your voice has lost its charm.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien
Yes, but if you happen to fire "the wrong" people it can take a while till the remaining one understand that component well enough for a hot fix, which for the original team had been easy and if ops are wieder to the specific dev team one can assume there are a few components with little attention now in the mix.
Thank you, I was skimming the article for a link to the source code but was having trouble finding it.
Show HN: Reader Mode without the boring parts
By boring I mean the text extraction that makes every website look the same and that sometimes fails.

Arguably I've spent too many months on this detail, but in addition to the standard DOM iteration, Unclutter uses a CSSOM iteration, patching of mobile styles, CSS word blocklists, and crowdsourced element selectors. Plus an animation system to move text to its "uncluttered" position.

Also interesting might be the article "library", a lightweight read-it-later list. It uses screenshots instead of titles & thumbnails, and drag & drop to move articles around. And there's an integration with Hacker News, where every top-level comment with an article quote in it automatically gets converted into an annotation.
Twitter’s ad product has never been very good and at least in b2b very few people use it.

I think the idea that Twitter can somehow boost ad revenues while removing moderation is just that.
> If a website is hosting content that infringes on some NDA, then you are supposed to sue the website

> So Twitter would need to sue itself to demand that it take down the content.

is this how it actually works, or is it make a request to the website and sue if request is deemed unduly denied? if the latter, then some Twitter HR/lawyer person can make a request to a Twitter moderation person and the request would be immediately approved. At that point, there's no "difference" in the procedures for internal/external moderation requests.
Creating the giga factories and making space x a success were as much a technical success as a human success. At this scale in the game, everything is.

We can be critical of his actions, but at this point, assuming incompetence is foolish.
>He OWNS the company.

So you agree that this is 99% on Elon past, present and future. Great that we're in alignment on my main point.
If anything that guy’s a great example of why to use LOC as a metric because when he shows you a huge number of LOC, you say, “That’s a lot more than I expected, let’s take a look…” and you see that his performance sucks.

I think of metrics like this as a way to guide deeper looks and decision making. You just have to accept that “all models are wrong, but some models are useful.” LOC can be useful when it guides you to the right questions. It’s a starting point not the end of the conversation.
I work in an academic setting and I can second the sentiment. For a while, we used reStructuredText for writing the teaching materials. Every so often I would have the students that would get inspired to contribute something to the teaching materials, but would subsequently get demotivated by having to learn the rST syntax and tooling.

After a few years, I gave up and switched from rST and Sphinx to Markdown and MkDocs [2]. We addressed the limitations of Markdown with PyMdown Extensions [3]. Still haven't looked back; for our specific use case of writing (computer science) teaching materials, Markdown is a better choice than rST.

[1] https://gaseri.org/en/blog/2017-07-29-why-we-use-restructure...

[2] https://gaseri.org/en/blog/2021-08-16-markdown-vs-restructur...

[3] https://facelessuser.github.io/pymdown-extensions/
I think the only thing a non-C-level can do is get another C-level person to take action. Present a well-thought-out and well-documented case, and see if they will take action.

This may sound risky. But:

1. If you succeed, you may dramatically improve your working environment.

2. If you fail in a way that damages your job, you probably should have been looking for a way out of there anyway, because he's going to continue to make that a crummy place to work.

Note well: You probably shouldn't try this until you're ready to leave, both emotionally and financially, because you may get fired on the spot.
"They thought they were rolling out some grand experiment in social discourse, forgetting that brands, users, and speech are all tightly intertwined in somewhat important things like revenue and profit."

..but Twitter wasn't turning a profit to begin with.
Alexander the Great in Firdawsi's Book of Kings
> I hope they can spare some anger for the years of stagnation (if not outright neglect) wrought by the former operators that led up to this moment.

Ironically, Musk rewarded the owners of the company by paying an inflated price for it.
Interesting!

Do you have a link(s) to the study, or more details on training?
I wouldn't call it "playing" geopolitics when his company is sinking money into the conflict via starlink, and he presumably has no choice in the matter. Peace is always better than war, I'm not sure when we started valuing life so cheaply. Or is it just Ukrainian lives we'll happily write off? Overwhelmingly men, and not the children of the oligarchs that are funnelling money out of the country. Ultimately, every one will pay the price for this war, except for the political elite that are profiting from it.
Elon bought the company. That includes internal DMs between managers who violated their training and admitted breaking the law.

Everyone who works for Elon, and half the people who don't, how heanages his companies.
What about the traffic, drugs and feces?
I wouldn't call it an interpretation. Either they were fact checked before and a link can be shown, or they weren't. Politicians lying certainly wasn't invented in November 2022
Thank ETFs and Passive indexing
It's marketing for a tech demo.
I'm not a fan of Bezos or his companies but these are objectively shitty takes.
As it's been explained to me, we're in a demand shock with more or less normal supply constrained by logistics problems.
From an owner/investor perspective, you are correct. From the perspective of the corporate entity, you don't count valuation as profit/loss.

For example, Twitter didn't make 44B revenue this year on the sale and you won't see it on their budget. Stock holders made that money.

Same will be true again if Elon sells it for a profit or loss.
HN is interesting, no thank you
That only works if you assume high-quality objectively-understandable information.
>anyone is hiring and someone says they did UX at YT - do not hire them.

Unless you and your business care more about monies than what people say on social media, and your company is suddenly making more money then... I guess hire them?
Yeah the org I work with has an interesting setup where the employees are employed by the parent organization and then we have dozens of projects as legal entities but no staff on their books. So to calibrate the passthrough cost that we charge those projects, we do a big analysis every quarter of all of our expenses for tax, 401k matching, 'staff development', non-capital hardware purchases, health/dental/vision, life insurance, etc. etc. So it's a pretty robust number. For highly paid employees over ~$200k, it's probably more like 34% since a bunch of that stuff doesn't scale with salary, but lower employees are closer to 40% so the blended rate covers a "typical" company.
Next time you're shopping for a CPU, regardless if it's for a personal computer or for a server, consider whether or not you want to support a company that wants to move to this kind of business model. “Intel Creates CPU With Subscription” is something I expected to read on The Onion, not on THG.
Why?

IIRC Indian English has almost 250m speakers, which is in the same ballpark as what we'd call American English and has its own, distinct features as much as AmE vs. BrE.

Edit: added context
Personally I use miniflux. Not app needed for iOS or otherwise. Its pretty nice. You can also host it wherever.

https://miniflux.app/
He's successful because he's part of a successful team.
We're free to permanently be on DST and shift hours from 9-5 to 10-6 or whatever. They're just numbers.

But I like the idea that midday is when the sun is highest. It seems like an argument between morning people and evening people being played out. For farmers, the animals and plants don't watch clock. Children wake up with the sun regardless. Just make it standard all the time anyway.

Its not like we "save" it anyway. You can't spend the savings and we "save" it when we have more than enough anyway, we can call it "daylight spending time" to be more accurate.
> Bank of New Zealand

And here is the funny bit, it's Australian owned.
If it's anything like the rest of the market which is dominated by Australian banks, it'll pay some old kiwiana type music when you are on hold and say 'Kia Ora' or similar at regular intervals. Kiwi as.
Thanks for pointing this out to me. Will check it out!
I don't think you use it the way I use it. For me, it's just a place to talk to people I personally know. It very much is socializing in public.
Clearly they don't: https://www.businessinsider.com/read-blunt-email-telling-twi...
Managing other people can be difficult, especially when you need to make decisions that are in the best interest of the organization (and its owners), but what may not necessarily be a popular choice among the employees you are responsible for. Often times "clueless leaders" actually do have a clue, it's just that their decisions have to consider other factors, not just what is best for you. It can really suck to be the person in that position.
For those of you wondering if your GitHub Pages site enables CORS: it does by default!
Let the dead be dead. Read what they left us. Watch what they left us. Listen to what they left us. Touch what they left us.

But if they weren't aware of this future or didn't leave any instructions on how to perceive them if such a future came about, then they should be left alone.