skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an article I wrote explaining the benefits and drawbacks of using Nitter, an open-source and privacy-oriented front-end for Twitter.

Here's a TL;DR:

Benefits

1) It does not use JavaScript

2) Page sizes are much smaller than Twitter, leading to faster loading times

3) It's easy to keep track of Twitter accounts without making an account

4) There are no annoying log-in prompts unlike on Twitter

5) Streamlined design takes away the clutter seen on Twitter pages

Drawbacks

1) No support for logging into Twitter (yet)

2) Some rate limiting

3) No support for certain features like broadcasts, spaces, and video embeds
First of all, the article (and original source [1]) doesn't actually discuss pricing. Page 12 starts a list of historic examples, none mention pricing.

Important quote (page 8):

> "The method of competition must be unfair, meaning that the conduct goes beyond competition on the merits. Competition on the merits may include, for example, superior products or services, superior business acumen, truthful marketing and advertising practices, investment in research and development that leads to innovative outputs, or attracting employees and workers through the offering of better employment terms."

Second of all, this is intentionally one-sided perspective to say all are illegal (its not). Personally, I say screw the giant corps, do what's best for people in society, even at the expense of profit margins. Why do we sympathize with giant corporations? With inflation rising, IMO we should expect that business take smaller profit margins to keep prices from inflating higher. What is the harm in shareholders missing out on profits a bit in 2022? Surely less to society than all the lower-income folks missing out on buying food.

To address the "all three prices are illegal" point (which, again, is not true)

1. If you price your product at a loss in the attempt to drive your competition out of business, then maybe this applies, but only maybe.

2. Only if you actually collude/price fix. You can find the same natural market price as competition without collusion. Coffee shops sell coffee at similar prices because the all the businesses have similar costs, and consumers have a limit to their willingness to spend.

3. Only if you do it under limited circumstances. Price gouging is rare. BMW doesn't price gouge for selling more expensive cars than Toyota, but buying 100% of the supply of a drug and 100x'ing the price just to make more money is bad for society, and more likely to be price gouging.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/P221202Section5...
Yes, any time now... Right after we swing back to composing pompous classical music and eating fowl dishes out of gold encrusted bowls.
Anyone who cares can pull out their phone and use the calculator
I did a twitter run after elon originally announced he would buy. I was shadow banned for ONLY following/liking conservatives. I never retweeted nor commented.

Since elon actually took ownership... i have seen dramatic improvement to twitter. This is due to large part having fired most if not all the political activists.
This is an absolute god send for data engineers! We often get blocked full stop with CI/CD headaches and the alternative of “no CI/CD” is just unbearable at times. This needs to catch on quick !
I don't know, downloading 40-240MB on 4G connection is not taking too much time. 4G is pretty fast
physically forcing someone to incriminate themselves is self incrimination. Why would it not be self-incrimination once they are forced? Your statement makes zero sense.

The whole point of laws regarding self incrimination is not to stop people from being electively able to incriminate themselves, but to stop the government from being able to force them to incriminate themselves.

Almost everyone but you is familiar with self-incrimination as the word(s) used in modern English as a concept that includes things like testifying against yourself whether you were physically forced to to or not.

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>Again, the government cannot force people to incriminate themselves.

force : coercion or compulsion, especially with the use or threat of violence.

>It can threaten people in order to convince them to incriminate themselves,

You literally used an example of force.

In classic HN autistic pedantry, if someone puts a gun to my head and demands my wallet and I hand it over -- well your honor they were never forced to do it! You see they were just threatened to be convinced to hand the wallet over!

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>I really have to bail, because this is stupid. The government can take your wallet. You are not allowed to keep your wallet because the things inside it can incriminate you. By your own tortured reasoning, self-incrimination would include someone else physically holding you down and taking your wallet.

I claimed it (someone compelling you to hand over your wallet) was an example of force, not an example of self-incrimination. Keep your thoughts straight. At least we finally figured out you have no idea what force means, and that was the root of your misunderstandings. For the record, wallet is not part of your 'self' but your finger is generally understood to be. Dead men aren't prosecuted in the US so it's moot to debate handing over a dead man's finger for his own criminal case.

>There's no timeout. It takes a little while for a reply link to appear on the main page, but if you click directly through to the comment, you can reply.

There is a timeout on my account, I'm limited to ~5 posts per 3 hours.
I never said I don't listen to it. I said I want the option of explicitly filtering it out sometimes. The two are entirely different.
The steps are .25 on the diopters. I suspect I would have slightly better vision for a while if they went to .125 as there have been plenty of times I felt that her 1 and 2 were bracketing ideal. I don't know the resolution of the axis and cylinder numbers.
Twitter employees certainly don't own Twitter's capital.
You think Trump lead the repeal of Net Neutrality?
Any plans for a paid tier?
Maybe something like Kagi[1]?

1: https://kagi.com
Isn't one exception to this the case when you control both the old and new platform, and can technically just migrate what content possible and just replace the old one with new? It technically does not even have to be "new" platform, it could be presented as "twitter redesign".
> banks at least tell you they are loaning your deposits out

Side not but that’s not really how banking works. Banks create deposits when they originate loans and separately look for the assets they need in order to satisfy any regulatory requirements and net flows of funds for inter bank settlements.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...
Lol good luck catching them all (including the bats). And remember that vaccination doesn't prevent transmission. The virus cannot be eradicated.
A Twitter Refugee's Guide to Mastodon
Please cite ability to find sars and mers animals "within months." Iirc it was years
So could factory workers.
I believe it's tilting the lens relative to the frame.
If Linux gets gaming support, Microsoft will finally be dead to me.

Go valve!
...yes I did. Your post at least, which was short and sweet. Bravo. I did not read the wiki article and don't plan to, but I skimmed the other one. Got as far as this at least: "Means and Strategies: The FDIC maintains the viability of the DIF by investing the fund, monitoring and responding to changes in the reserve ratio, collecting risk-based premiums, and evaluating the deposit insurance system in light of an evolving financial services industry."

"DIF fund" being the $119B. In my post I presumed that 119 billion is in US Treasuries. I'm also presuming US treasuries are not the same thing as cash. Whatever the case, generally people don't refer to "cash laying around" as an investment.

EDIT: Try this much more readable doc: https://www.fdic.gov/about/financial-reports/reports/2020ann....

The $119B in assets includes only $3B in cash, with $110B in treasuries.
Tbh I thought that was the entire play. $1 billion is way cheaper than $44 and whatever he just sold of Tesla to keep Twitter afloat.

Jack hyping Elon as twitter’s great hope and such I almost expected this was some subtle game to get that $1 billion to Twitter

Now I can’t help but wonder if Jack was tweeting such praise to goad Elons ego into it. But in hindsight I’m probably giving these guys too much credit
My favorite "extinct" animal found again (also 80 years!):

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/02/24/147367644/s...

Wikipedia has a whole page of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_taxon
Yep, this is exactly what happened en masse during the Great Depression. People were selling their bank account books for a fraction of their nominal value.
It might win in the sense that that would then also be a thing that exists, but would not necessarily mean that Mastodon can no longer be what it is now, I don't think?
It is, however, not great when the goal is to show brands that Twitter is stable enough for ad dollars.
If you have questions or proposal on what functionality add to the website - feel free to share here, I would be happy to implement.
Why did he not do any due diligence before buying? It's not like he had FOMO he was going to miss out. That's the part I don't understand in all of this.
Why is it so hard to believe that Musk may kind of be a jerk? Why do you have to deflect and find reasons to throw out evidence, especially when there are piles and piles of it?
These are awesome and criminally under-viewed (on youtube). Here is one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLcfMEQjMqM

currently with a single-digit number of likes, that uses two people at a table, with a marker, and some pieces of foam-core? with clauses printed out, showing how unification works in Prolog. Nice.

The care, time, and effort that went into making this, when production tools were different than those available today, is really something to appreciate.
He couldn't quit the deal, he would have (probably gladly) taken only a billion loss
The California Bar Association leaked bar results a day early
I think at this point anyone who has any involvement in crypto needs to ask themselves the following question: Are you Molly?

Becuase if not, you're fucked. She's the only one walking out of this shitshow with a reputation.
They've also prioritized supplying companies that committed to building systems based on their boards over hobbyists. I think there's a solid argument that's healthier for the ecosystem long term.
This is an important aspect of it - you can use information on one angle of attack to protect other devices.

Do note that doing this kind of thing can block people on Tor, because Tor is used for attacks quite often, also.
> are legitimately less

Cost accounting is not a rigorous discipline. It involves a lot of assumptions, guesswork, and handwaving.

> taking a loss to gain market share and then upping the price once the competitors go out of business that's a problem.

Present a case history of this.

> If setting your price to be the same

They rarely seem to be at the same price

> I don't remember profiteering being illegal

Remember all those anti-gouging laws? Warren wants to extend them.

https://fee.org/articles/why-elizabeth-warrens-proposed-anti...
> There are so many ways to use Google to obtain the information you're looking for

Especially if you're looking for Google users' private information, and you're a business partner of Google's.
Wait, what's Matrix's countermeasure to this? That sounds interesting.
And once upon a now long time ago, when I was a boy, the food was actually hot, quite tasty, prepared by actual chefs, and served on real china dishes with metal silverware. (Even in Coach - it was many years before I travelled enough to get a few upgrades to First Class!)

Modernity and MBAs have stolen the elegance and service that flying (or the train, to an earlier generation) used to have when America was great. I remember marveling that as expensive as such flying was, it was really not a bad deal to get a great meal served by pretty young women looking over such amazing vistas, with fast, smooth transportation thrown into the bargain!
I mean, I don't think the dumb tunnel under vegas is good evidence of not being a brilliant engineer. He obviously has a very deep understanding of engineering type shit as well as engineering management[0][1]. He's got engineer brain! Engineer brain can make you do a lot of really stupid shit even if you're a great engineer.

That being said I absolutely don't think he's playing 10D chess, he's got a few big Ws and it's gone to his head in a disastrous way. He can be a brilliant engineer/engineering manager and a total fucking idiot at the same time.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAtLTLiqNwg
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t705r8ICkRw
Actually you don't need to respond to bogus http clients at all: https://gist.github.com/radupotop/2aef0bdc0ccbd3a706044e3598...
The logical conclusion from that would be that destroying a persons notebook would be equivalent to violence causing brain damage, and so assault on a person. I’m aware of the theory of extended mind this notion is based on, and that’s not going to fly in any real world legal system any time soon. Even Clark and Chalmers that came up with the concept of extended mind don’t think that actually makes practical sense.
I don't think Twitter has had anything to do with Bootstrap for a significantly long time. fat and mdo left twitter 10 years ago.
Is Elon really running Twitter to the ground?
Can other investors replace him with another CEO?
If you don't trust and share ideals with your admin you are doing it wrong.
I hope they can still get their app fixed. I haven't been able to see solar data from my panels in over a week now. the last time this happened it took 6 emails and 2 phone calls for them to fix it.
Twitter has 450M monthly active users. Elon bought it for $44bn. With ~$5bn in operating expenses, that gives you an absolutely insane CAC of $90 to play with.
This has nothing to do with crypto, it has to do with people sending their money to a con man. If your friend had "his identity tied up in crypto", then why wasn't he holding it himself?
Usually you can get a copy of the article by going to archive.ph and pasting the paywalled link.

It may not be most ethical thing to do but if you want to read an article or two behind a paywall, I don't think it is insane to do.

This article though seems to be some kind of a live feed where there is not really a lot archived - maybe it works better for paying users viewing things live.
Why is every layoff 10-15%?
I don't know, I find it difficult to post on reddit anymore, my interest has just flat out waned.

Same with HN in a lot of ways, just not as bad as reddit (yet).
It would be even cheaper to just buy the political influence he is trying to wield by directly funding politicians like his buddy Peter Thiel. Corrupting the GOP is surprisingly inexpensive for the value you receive in return.
You can’t realistically argue that twitter will have as easy a time hiring as SpaceX and Tesla. They might have the same shitty working conditions, but without the risk of the company going under in a year or two. Plus everyone already there knew what they were signing up for when they joined, but at twitter you should expect a 50-75%+ employee churn over the next year. You don’t join twitter today unless you treat it like a short term contracting job.
My guess is that there are many reasons to redesign a logo like that. It looks:

1. Elitist (who speaks Latin?)

2. Forgettable (show this logo to a student from India and then ask to pick it out of 10 similar coats of arms)

3. Ugly (subjective, but... thick curves everywhere, all caps words with hyphens, 3 crowns?..)

4. Hard to adapt to new global use cases (too detailed to make small, too confusing internationally)

5. many more reasons...
>Why would any competent engineer sign up to work in the environment Musk has created?

same reason people worked for id software or other companies with grueling cultures. Because working with people who are excited about what they do and who are fiercely loyal is great. It's not even really about Musk, it's what has always drawn people to hard work.
I wouldn’t want that on a red-eye, but it would add some entertainment to a one-hour flight.
> So then you need users. Elon has 115 million followers on Twitter. He'd get users no matter what he built, so he's solved that problem too

No. He got that number of followers because he is on Twitter. He would not get the same number of followers on some other social media platoform. Trump had 20 times as many followers on Twitter than he has on Truth Social. And those Truth Social users are less valuable.

Engineers like to think that the engineering is the important part of platforms. It's not. The engineering can be easily replicated. The valuable part of platforms is the users. You buy the platforms to buy the users.
I wonder why the author uses a 404 error response. I usually configure NGINX with "return 444;" which closes the connection without response. Scanners don't deserve a response. I may have wasted bytes receiving the request, but I won't waste any more once I know the request is garbage.
No, there's a $1B fee under extremely limited circumstances. There is no written agreement on how to handle any other circumstance (hence the court case).

> Either Twitter or Parent may terminate the Merger Agreement if, among certain other circumstances, (1) the Merger has not been consummated on or before October 24, 2022, which date will be extended for six months if the closing conditions related to applicable antitrust and foreign investment clearances and the absence of any applicable law or order making illegal or prohibiting the Merger have not been satisfied as of such date; or (2) Twitter’s stockholders fail to adopt the Merger Agreement. Twitter may terminate the Merger Agreement in certain additional limited circumstances, including to allow Twitter to enter into a definitive agreement for a competing acquisition proposal that constitutes a Superior Proposal (as defined in the Merger Agreement). Parent may terminate the Merger Agreement in certain additional limited circumstances, including prior to the adoption of the Merger Agreement by Twitter’s stockholders if the Board recommends that Twitter’s stockholders vote against the adoption of the Merger Agreement or in favor of any competing acquisition proposal.

> ...

> Upon termination of the Merger Agreement under other specified limited circumstances, Parent will be required to pay Twitter a termination fee of $1.0 billion. Specifically, this termination fee is payable by Parent to Twitter if the Merger Agreement is terminated by Twitter because (1) the conditions to Parent’s and Acquisition Sub’s obligations to consummate the Merger are satisfied and the Parent fails to consummate the Merger as required pursuant to, and in the circumstances specified in, the Merger Agreement; or (2) Parent or Acquisition Sub’s breaches of its representations, warranties or covenants in a manner that would cause the related closing conditions to not be satisfied. Mr. Musk has provided Twitter with a limited guarantee in favor of Twitter (the “Limited Guarantee”). The Limited Guarantee guarantees, among other things, the payment of the termination fee payable by Parent to Twitter, subject to the conditions set forth in the Limited Guarantee. [1]

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522...
I agree. Marquee is bad. Blink too.

But combine both?

Greatness ensues!
To me the old logo had some meaning, the new, is just one more tryng to fit in an app icon.
This seems like it was caused by the reduced accuracy of forecasts due to the climate crisis. NASA made its plans based on an early forecast and later forecasts increased the wind speed estimates after it was too late to move the rocket. I would expect to see more such destructive effects on everything that relies on weather forecasting. We knew weather was going to become more variable, now that variability is here.
If you think about it, when Nelson Mandela was in Victor Verster Prison, even they didn't make him pay for a blue check.
You are absolutely correct. I missed that on my proofread. Kind of lame since it is such a short post.

The older I get, the more I find myself making spelling mistakes based on word pronunciation. Sometimes I use a totally different word than what I was thinking, which makes absolutely no sense unless you read it aloud. Then you realize what happened. Hopefully it is not early onset dementia. Though it would not be -that- early.
>Elon's got activist employees who're trying to bring him down personally

Not trying to be confrontational, but whenever I see comments like this, I think that people really need to read up on narcissistic personality disorder. The "I'm being personally attacked" tactic is glaringly apparent. It's super common in cults too when the cult leader starts losing control of things (since they commonly have narcissism as well). People with NPD are completely incapable of comprehending that they may actually be at fault in any way and absolutely have to interpret failure as being due to conspiracies against them
The second best part of webcomics is when they have a links section and you get to see what comics the author likes.
The neurons that restore walking after paralysis
Also, Glenn Beck had a lot to do with it. He gave a bizarre version of 20c history that stuck, to a lot of angry people who don't read. It used to be that right-wingers would target the New Deal as socialism, now they think the banks and consumer rights are socialism.

If you can convince people the banks are socialist, you've created a Schrödinger's Premise where the banks primarily exist to destroy the banks; any premise that is both true and not true at the same time can be used to prove anything.
> Riker's island is very poorly designed

"designed" is a bit generous... It's a hodge-podge of facilities built over time as need arose with little consideration of long-term planning or a comprehensive strategy for the complex.
Steve Jobs's last words: 'Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow' (2011)
I don't understand why they invest(or buy?) fonts?
I don’t know how anyone could possibly still believe something like that at this point. The past two weeks have just been one argument after another against every point you just made.
In April of this year, tech represented 28% of the S&P 500 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-01/s-p-500-t.... It's not ideal for someone who works in tech to have substantial additional tech exposure in his or her investments.
Extend Li-Ion Battery Systems by an Optimal Control-Based Active Balancing Strat
Full title: "Extending Life of Lithium-Ion Battery Systems by Embracing Heterogeneities via an Optimal Control-Based Active Balancing Strategy"
Refusing to ban queerphobic/antisemitic/racist users is by no means a niche reason for defederation.
> Top dev talent is overrated

The problem is that talent is defined by hindsight: “When the company was acquired by Facebook, it had 35 engineers” https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us...

Let us start with engineering team A and and an equally talented engineering team B. If team B had the luck to work on a successful product due to a successful market, we call them talented. If A flamed out due to unpredictable reasons (that their market turned out to be shit), we lambast the lack of ability of team A.

But technical talent is definitely not overrated - because there are too many examples where talented teams have built unicorn multi-billion $ businesses.
Something like Dhall might be viable for pipelines. I wonder if there are any efforts in that direction.
> "Upton is confident that in less than a year, Raspberry Pi stock levels should return to pre-pandemic levels."

We've long since pivoted away from dependence on Raspberry Pis and back to designing our own custom boards with more available parts.