skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't break the laws because they pay off politicians to write them in their favor. A few years ago they tried to make it explicit and get it written into law that they would be exempt from investigation over the whole "pyramid thing" permanently. They failed then, but give it another few years and they will succeed.

The whole walled garden thing is mostly trivial nonsense. At worst Apple and Google will pay a small fine and a few thousand people will be able to more easily sideload some stuff. Maybe. Probably not though. If it gets to this these companies will simply modify the law so that it doesn't apply to them.

Unfair competition is an American virtue these days. Fair competition is seen as "being weak".

Even this policy statement wasn't approved 4-0. It was 3-1. You've got government bodies that are so politically divided that you literally can't even get FOUR people—WHO RUN THE FTC—to agree that on a simply policy statement that basically says, "Unfair Methods of Competition bad." The dissenting commissioner wrote a 20 page book why she doesn't support this.

And you know what? I mostly agree with the dissenting commissioner. Not wholly because of her views, but because in practice this will be used to harass small(er) business. It will have no material impact on Google, Facebook, Amazon, or Apple.
Because Twitter isn’t building space ships or changing transportation, and the expected culture and benefits of a software media company vs manufacturing company are very different.
> Twitter is in a shit load of trouble and unlike Meta & Snap which are crashing like a shitcoin..

Whatever state Twitter was in before Musk entered with a white knight syndrome, it was in a better state than it is now.

> Elon bought Twitter at 2x-3x what its actually worth.

Well, that was his first mistake at Twitter before he even "owned" it.
HN discussion (138 comments so far): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33549059
Did Corzine actually go to jail? This didn't sound right to me and a quick search suggests no.
I don't miss Myspace, but it would be nice to force my visitors to hear a ska song on autoplay.
This is another meme. It was revealed in the Epic trial that 80% of App Store revenue comes from games - that would not be in the browser anyway.

If the lack of alternate browsers are the only thing stopping app developers from making better PWAs, then why are all the same developers making iOS apps, Android apps and web apps instead of just making iOS apps and web apps?

And where are all of the successful profitable Android apps that are bypassing the Play Store?
All I want to know is when can I get one at the retail price?
I found it interesting that while he was very particular about setting up his writing nest and getting in the zone, he had two telephones on the desk next to him which surely would be a distraction, a temptation, or a combination of the two.
The problem with hybrid is you're still bound geographically. My work insists on being hybrid (my job has no reason for me to be in the office) and it increases my cost of living by at least 50%, not to mention I'll never be able to be a home owner.
So let's say we're being generous and say Elon has 10M hardcore followers.

So $44B/10M = $4.4k per follower on Twitter. If he can sell each of those a Tesla it might be fine.

I'm beginning to hear the term "Muskmobile" bandied about in not a good way though. Consumer Reports is reporting a ton of reliability problems as Tesla scales up [1]. And Ford/GM is not far behind in their electric offerings either.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/Tesla-ranks-almost-dead-....
How is it anticompetitive? Charging lower prices means making less profit. If Uber somehow lost money to drive out competitors (an insane strategy), then the capital of any bankrupted taxi company could be bought up for cheaper than the company originally paid by someone who could then continue to compete with Uber.
Makes sense.. there's a small handful of social media platforms people actually use compared to cemetery of failed attempts.
He's already literally silencing his critics on Twitter.
If you look at the timeline, he made an unsolicited offer with no details, the twitter BoD instituted a poison pill, then he lined up all the financing and made a second ("final") offer with very specific details about the funding (including commitment letters for the loans), then he negotiated to buy it with no due diligence, etc. Morgan Stanley, etc, already agreed to loan the money back in April. At the time, the big banks did want to finance it!
One of my favorite "retro" sites is for this restaurant: https://www.dinostomatopie.com/

My favorite part is that it's still a fully functional modern website that's mobile responsive and everything.
Hey there, this looks interesting. What's the scope of this project? Is it meant to be closer to developers or do you see this being used in production?

How is progress of builds, observability, etc being tackled?
Yeah for sure, you're right that I shouldn't have said marginal as the situation wrt natural gas is decent (though that is the best case fossil fuel). It's important to be accurate about these things.
What's the axe he's grinding?
Google Sheets has so much overhead that I don't think this could scale to even 100 users.
That's not trying the tactic though, that's just saying an idea he has, which with Elon is the sort of thing that happens every 2 minutes and I doubt anyone takes seriously.
They reduce the chance, however. Imperfect protection is better than nothing.
> there’s an increasingly real possibility that Twitter may not exist in a few months,

If you honestly think that's a real possibility, how do you see that actually happening?

Edit: in case it wasn't clear, the "in a few months" time frame is what seems completely unrealistic to me.
Imagine if Microsoft had not only bundled Internet Explorer with Windows but also blocked all other competing browsers!
> You're saying my opinion has no place 'in music'?

Man, this is basic Popper stuff. If you'd said "I don't like autotune", I'd have probably agreed with you. If you're saying that what others are doing aren't "real" because you don't like it, that's a whole different kettle of fish.

> I never claimed to be the arbiter of what art is.

You picked the word "real". Words mean things, and "real" does not mean "to my preference". It is a an assertion of legitimacy, it is that assertion to which all of my comments in this thread are directed, and it's something that neither you nor I get to take away from somebody.

> Lastly, you seem really angry. I'm really sorry if anything I've said has upset you.

I wouldn't say that I'm angry, I've been on the internet a long time and random posts have to be really special to do that, but I do write sharply when I care about something. If one believes genuinely in the openness and democracy of art--and I do--I don't think there's a properly strident reaction to the implications you laid down that wouldn't be a little bit testy.
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I think there was a $1 billion fine if he quit the deal.

That would have stung.
I don't think you even need top dev talent to build Twitter now. Maybe you did back when it started, but it's not something a team of experienced, competent, 'regular' engineers couldn't build and more successfully than 'top' talent.
You do realize that doing something with the "least amount of effort" is the definition of productivity?
In dogs.
They usually have a machine that reads it a bit more accurately.
Heheh.

(Planck length is 10e-35. Even the strong nuclear force operates on a scale that's like 20 orders or magnitude larger (10e-15). And a hugantuan electron? Forget about it.)
Thanks! I read the book decades ago and had no idea they made a TV show out of it.
> Twitter isn’t going to disappear

Isn't it? Ok, maybe Musk has a magic wand that he can use to make it profitable (which it has been for only two out of the last 12 years), or is willing to subsidize it indefinitely out of his deep pockets... but I wouldn't bet on it.
I went through half an hour of reading the book.

While I think he is very reasonable and his ideas for future Russia sensible, he does really seem to have a giant filter on his shortcomings as one of the many that abused Russia and his responsibility in favoring the conditions for a new autocratic wave to happen.
It's amazing how people without any understanding of design processes judge outcomes as "low effort".

Familiarize yourself with these processes (e.g. check out IDEO). Talk to professional designers. Try to design a logo.

It's frankly ridiculous to expect a revolutionary logo every time these discussions happen. This is not a "lines of code" metric. If designers work on a logo for 6 months the deliverable is not "the biggest logo you have ever seen". It can be a squiggle.
I make $8k/year sending cheap flight alert emails
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Not surprised, obviously Elon's bringing his guys on and removing the last regime.
Pretty standard for a hostile takeover.
decades of free investment money you say?
Tis true. It's a conundrum. Do you give power to the regulator which will help them stop the bad guys, but also enable them to be bad guys at the cost of the good companies, or not?

Free market folks argue that the market can figure out every one of those things you mention. But most of them understand it isn't a free lunch.
He, not the company, his criminal actions victimized Americans.
Good to know, I'm aware that high roll-rate turbulence is possible but presumably quite rare?
My cynical guess:

Elon Musk's big plan is simply to build a huge personality cult around him and Twitter is perfect for that.

It's not enough for him to be exceptionally rich, he wants to be adulated.

He wants to hear he is the new Steve Jobs, that he is better than Leonardo Da Vinci. That he got this right, we are living in a computer simulation.

Why do everyone keeps assuming he is playing 10 dimensional chess?

Have you seen his dumb tunnel under Las Vegas? Why would a brilliant engineer build that? What's the big plan here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8NiM_p8n5A
Your last point is a really good one. We saw that kind of captive behavior with the FCC too, particularly during the last administration with that one yahoo that was running it for awhile.
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This is awesome! In a world inundated with endless "hot takes," it has become increasingly difficult to stay informed on things I actually care about, filter out things I don't, and engage with the news in an intentional & productive way.

Airvue is a breath of fresh air! I've been using the beta the last couple months and it's helped me opt out of doom-scrolling, rage bait, etc. If Twitter is empty carbs, Airvue is a delicious green smoothie.

I'm curious if you have any plans for readers to add their own news sources to the feed? For example, I'd love to be able to follow my local news, and maybe more niche industry-specific publications, using Airvue. Thx!
I don't see how Twitter can survive as a business entity.

The old executive team is gone and no competent executive wants to work for Twitter.

They're firing half of their employees, and the other half will quit in short order.

Advertisers are pulling out because of the chaos at the company.

In the future, Elon Musk will be able to brag that he single-handedly killed Twitter, for the modest price of $44 billion.
Not all of us have FSAs. We're both self-employed, no FSA money.
On MacOS Ventura, /etc/cups/cupsd.conf does not specify any values for PreserveJobHistory or PreserveJobFiles.
When I was younger, watching the wings flex up and down in turbulence was one of my favorite things about flying, like an amusement park ride. Over the years my perspective has changed.
Plastic recycling basically doesn't work. Virgin feedstock is cheaper and easier to work with. Few plastic products are "pure" (most contain pigments, adhesives, and/or different kinds of plastic, not to mention other contaminants like the previous product contained in it).

In other words, essentially all plastics are "single use" plastics.
I like Markdown and use it at work, but I think Asciidoc is a better markup language because it is more consistent and has support for more things than Markdown does (e.g., better table support, callouts, tips, etc.).

I currently use 11ty with the Asciidoc plugin for building websites. This setup is nice because I only have to fiddle with HTML and CSS during the design phase. Once that's done, nearly all my website maintenance is done in Asciidoc. Easy!

I don't think I'd want to directly write an entire website in either Markdown or Asciidoc. I think, eventually, doing so would result in these markup languages becoming as cluttered and weird as the HTML/DOM/JavaScript/CSS mess is now.

I think a better step to improving HTML and CSS would be to have the browsers support Slim (https://github.com/deepin-community/ruby-slim) and Sass out of the box instead. That would make my design phase less wordy and redundant while keeping my Asciidoc experience nice and tidy.
We call this a soft layoff.
Ya know, he does have a point; they'll never see a dollar of this money and he'll never pay it.

I'd be a lot more excited if he was actually getting nailed to the wall for all the willful harm he's done; but he's not.
It’s possible you’re stuck on the first slope of the dunning kruger graph.

My (possibly wrong) impression of your comment is that you seem to have made the mistake of associating complexity with quality in music which is extremely common in those who’ve just started looking into music theory.

Most music needs only the smallest dash of novelty to achieve the perfect mix of the new and familiar to its target audience. If you start attempting to evaluate popular music on what about it is inventive or new, you’re likely to find yourself unable to appreciate most of what people are enjoying and cut yourself off from loving a broad spectrum of musical expression.

You might also find yourself unable to express why you enjoy the music you do like in a way that doesn’t come across as if you’re arguing an objective scientific point——an approach which might undercut your argument by making you unintentionally come across as someone who has just learned a lot of fancy theory jargon and is eager for an excuse to wield it.
I had completely forgotten about that logo. Shows how old the turbofan motif is really.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertie_Waren-_und_Kaufhaus#/me...
Interesting aspect. So this could mean the beginning of the end of Twattr.
Yes we would have the market dominated by one browser engine by a BigTech company where most of the other browsers are just reskins…oh wait.

At least there is Firefox - which also gets most of its funding by the same BigTech company.
>Just because some stuff in crypto doesn't have regulations doesn't mean it is a free-for-all.

It pretty much does. The free-for-all disregarding of laws (including laws against fraud) is the stated purpose of crypto. They've been pitching this as Fight Club For Finance since the very beginning. The exchanges with a legitimate appearance are just fronts to get you to the back room with all the unregulated tokens offering insane interest rates. If you didn't come for a scam-or-be-scammed fight to the death, there isn't any reason to use crypto. The crypto bros just missed the part where Fight Club falls apart if you tell everyone about it. Or maybe they got too excited and forgot about that rule.
This is _definitely_ a _brilliant_ rebrand, at least in hindsight: I'm not sure I loved it at the time, and seem to recall finding the asymmetry and curviness of the arrowhead slightly disturbing.
> Advertisers have already pulled out of Twitter and Elon is talking about publicly shaming them.

Either Elon is delusional, or he is posturing. Either way, he is in no position to demand anything [1,2]. In [1], Elon was told by industry leaders what the issues with his approach are, and then Elon blocked one of them. Elon claims that activists are pushing advertisers but according to industry leaders, that is not true [1].

> Elon, Great chat yesterday, As you heard overwhelmingly from senior advertisers on the call, the issue concerning us all is content moderation and its impact on BRAND SAFETY/SUITABILITY. You say you’re committed to moderation, but you just laid off 75% of the moderation team!

> Advertisers are not being manipulated by activist groups, they are being compelled by established principles around the types of companies they can do business with. These principles include an assessment of the platforms commitment to brand safety and suitability.

So really; free-speech absolution does not work. Read the post I linked to.

> He could've invested in building technology from scratch to handle hate speech and removing bad apples.

Probably no. Read the post in the comment above.

Handling hatespeech from an operational perspective is one thing, and from a technical perspective e.g. identifying and categorizing it is a whole different thing.

Elon has already gone back to his free-speech absolutionism [3].

His tweets:

> Twitter will not allow anyone who was de-platformed for violating Twitter rules back on platform until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks

> Talked to civil society leaders @JGreenblattADL
, @YaelEisenstat
, @rashadrobinson
, @JGo4Justice
, @normanlschen
, @DerrickNAACP
, @TheBushCenter
Ken Hersch & @SindyBenavides
about how Twitter will continue to combat hate & harassment & enforce its election integrity policies

As for this one:

> How is his current reality any better than starting fresh.

He has users, for now. This means that he doesn't need to spend money on growth.

[1] https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-gets-pilloried-by-to...

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/09/tech/musk-twitter-brands-...

[3] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/right-wi...
Physically forcing someone to do something isn't self-anything. If it were, the electric chair would be assisted suicide. You don't even need to be alive to put your finger on a phone.
It is a conundrum, and it is one of the hardest political problems for humans to solve. It's half the reason we have politics.

I generally think that a case-by-case approach, with clear avenues for both rulemaking and redress, with democratic (direct or representative) control is a good starting point for solving this conundrum.

I allude to the problem of finding market solutions for ethics problems in the last part of my previous point. Markets do not optimize for ethical behaviour. Largely because of information assymetries, largely because people are not perfectly rational agents, largely because of the power imbalance that exists in many of them, and also largely because people are poor at measuring specific examples of long-tail risk.

Good rules also reduce market friction, because they let me make reasonable assumptions, like 'This product is probably not going to kill me when used as instructed, because it adheres to X, Y, Z objective standards', instead of having to go down an endless rabbit hole of 'Buyer beware, do your own research!'
> As always, the country known for its human rights (or so they advertise themselves as)

As someone who wasn't aware of this association, I'm curious where do they advertise themselves for human rights?
Doesnt fannie mae/freddie mac essentially backstop a lot of this risk too?
The first fired employees too, imo. If it all goes up in flames those that remain might get to keep their laptop.
I think that would be tough. Out in relatively empty airspace, sure, the pilot can make pretty slow turns. But major airports with multiple runways, other airports in the vicinity, military bases, etc, all put hard requirements on the flight corridor. Sometimes the pilot has no choice but to make pretty sharp turns, and that means a pretty fast roll acceleration.
You could also look at this person and wonder how much acumen he actually has if he's the CEO of three billion dollar companies simultaneously and still has time smoke blunts on podcasts. Usually CEO is a full-time job, but for him?

Maybe he's just never sleeps. Maybe the real work is being done by others (cough Shotwell cough) and he's just takes the credit (cough Tesla founder cough). Or maybe, just maybe, CEO just isn't that hard of a job?
probably less than what he'll lose with this scenario
> Amazon and Meta are both obviously engaging in "unfair methods of competition"

I don't think that's obvious at all. Give specifics.
When you are this rich, stuff like this doesn’t matter. Even if he lost all the 40 Bn USD means he’ll still be the richest person on earth, that’s how much money he has. To keep with the poker analogy, his “bluff” involved only 40 poker chips, but he has 200 after the fact, while his “opponents” have 1 or 2 each.

But in the end, money will always end up in his hands no matter what he does. When you are this rich, you’ll always end up making money.
Countdown to Fried fleeing to Israel begins...
You’d be surprised at how much you can fuck up a ship as a CO without life-changing consequences. Unless there’s gross negligence a CO is almost certainly not even going to get discharged even if their actions lead to death of a sailor.

They’ll stop being CO and will never be promoted, but will finish out their Navy career in a job where they can’t hurt anyone, and will have almost no impact once they retire and go into civilian life.

They’re not going to do time in the brig unless there’s willful misconduct.
I don't know the injection practices in Germany. The WHO and US CDC no longer recommend aspiration prior to intramuscular injection, mainly over pain management concerns. (I'm not claiming this is a good idea, just pointing out the current injection protocol.)

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/general-recs/admi...

In practice there is a wide variance between US healthcare providers depending on where they work and how they were trained. Some aspirate, some don't, some try but use the wrong technique.
He is not a web guy, but he is a Twitter power user, thus sees problems and limitations in the platform. But then: his usage and experience probably is far from representative for most users.
While it's definitely no fun for those who are laid off, it's also psychologically distressing for the people left behind. Those developers can be grateful for still having their jobs, but their friends/professional colleges are gone. You don't get the collaboration that you once had and a whole lot more work to do. The only benefit is if the office jerk gets laid off, but it generally is not a good situation for anyone.
Yes on the oceans, but having either jungle and/or a mountain range bifurcating a country tends to make it expensive to integrate into a cohesive country, so the benefits become more limited.
breaking a law is not an uncivilized act. Everyone breaks laws all the time
I'm fairly certain they were making a joke.
Bankruptcy allows you to rewrite agreements and contracts with creditors: lots of companies are intentionally taken into this state in order to reorganize more aggressively than they otherwise could.

That said, it's still unclear if Elon has some clever plan or is rich fool who is in the process of being separated from his money.
Independent shops can still exist… just not the useless ones. Amazon is known for more generic commodity items, but if you want premium brands you often still have to go direct to manufacturer. In fact the “independent” shop niche is probably why Shopify even has a market.