skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, he doesn't care about anything except being known as the guy who... For example:

He doesn't care about going to Mars. He cares about being known as the guy who went to mars

He doesn't care about transitioning the world away from fossil fuels. He cares about being known as the guy who transitioned the world away from fossil fuels

It just so happens that "being known as the guy who did something" generally correlates to the "thing actually being done". But for him that's just a nice side effect.

If you told him the world could have all of his goals with the caveat being nobody would know it was him who did it. I don't think he'd ever agree to that.

Again, just my opinion, but based on his public actions and antics this is what I currently believe about him.
You don't truly believe Twitter has become any better at free speech than it was before do you? Cause that's foolish. There's tons of bans and blocks, and there's still bias in the algorithms for promoting tweets.

The only change is that what gets censored is now more aligned with Musk's own interests. That's all.
For one thing, I'd imagine intercontinental, transoceanic time zone differences can wreak a lot of havoc.
I'm not an accountant, but doesn't he need to realize investment losses in order to write them off? Capital expenses can be depreciated for tax write-offs, but I wasn't aware that corporate investments could be marked to market for write-offs.
That’s the equity. If someone were to buy Twitter for $19b, they would also be assuming $13b of debt, which means Elon thinks Twitter is worth $32b. LOL. It wasn’t worth that much when he bought it, which is why he tried to bail.
The Real Deep State
That was my biggest problem with jail and prison. As Piper's lawyer told her in Orange is the New Black, prison is "chickenshit rules enforced by chickenshit people."
I don't think that it's more "evil" than the other big "evil" companies (and there are a few companies that are at least an order of magnitude more evil), but that it became such well before most of the others. OG evil, so to speak.

Oracle has also spent decades picking fights with large parts of the dev community, and so has built up a lot more resentment than many other companies.
That's not how tax write offs work.

You can write that off against profits, and save around 20% - but you still lost 80% of the money.

So what would be the purpose of tanking it on purpose? He could just send the US Treasury the money for less trouble.
Decommissioned nuclear powered merchant ship Savannah for sale
> If I pay someone $100,000 for a stick they found on the side of the road, it doesn't make that stick worth $100k.

So why did you pay $100,000?
And yeah, the bandwidth requirements back then to make it as a courier. I almost forgot about all the groups in the '90s.

The .nfo files were the best art.
Transactional email intended for other people is exactly my problem.

My name is common in certain areas, and I consistently get transactional email from banks, telecoms, and insurance companies around the world.

These businesses do not verify that their customer’s email is truly their own prior to sending emails.

Framing custom domains as the solution to this problem is a bit rash, no?
Something something the customer is always right?
TFA and almost every comment really makes me want to unleash an as-yet unfinished masterpiece of a treatise that starts by examining how "introvert" and "extrovert" are useless designations, and ends up with a searing critique of how a couple of centuries of incredibly poor psychological "science" has led to the utter misconception that "normal" is anywhere close to being a valid personality/psychological concept, along with utter red-herrings such as "neurotypical".

Alas, since I haven't actually written it yet, and it wouldn't fit in the margins, I'll just seethe in relative silence.
You're not thinking like a compliance bureaucrat. If you get in trouble for not labeling something as AI-generated then the simplest implementation is to label everything as AI-generated. And if that isn't allowed then you run every image through an automated process that makes the smallest possible modification in order to formally cause it to be AI-generated so you can get back to the liability-reducing behavior of labeling everything uniformly.
Or, send an email saying

“Hey. You unsubscribed. Here’s a link to resubscribe if you happen to want to!”

Right after someone unsubs.
Anyone remember big iron and servers with uptimes of 5 or 7 nines?

I mean: it used to be a thing. Now we have the cloud.
I think I view the situation in a similar fashion as you. There's absolutely nothing preventing a well architected modular monolith from establishing domain/module-specific persistence that is accessible only through APIs and connectable only through the owning domain/module. To accomplish that requires a decent application designer/architect, and yes, it needs to be considered ahead of time, but it's 100% doable and scalable across teams if needed.

There are definitely reasons why a microservice architecture could make sense for an organization, but "we don't have good application engineers/architects" should not be one of them. Going to a distributed microservice model because your teams aren't good enough to manage a modular monolith sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Don't you know, he's a free speech absolutist.
I don't think you need to unlearn it, but update your cost function.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCP27_vquxQ
That bot shouldn't have even gotten as far as to spam all of those tweets in the first place. You'd think they would have created a more bot-proof account signup process. Not to mention, that thread was made on 10/21, there's no telling how many days it took for it to be suspended after someone had to make a thread about it.
Fun fact, the Apple 1 could also use a Motorola 6800 CPU
Even when they bumped it to 280 (IIRC). I didn’t know you could tweet an entire book like TFA now…
> glorified messaging app with an integrated calendar

The disconnect here is that this is an innacurate conception of Facebook, which is a privacy-destroying, propaganda-spewing advertising platform with some addictive social features to bait the lure.

Think of it this way: I don't like the smell of cigarette smoke. No matter how much I like someone, I won't be around them if they're smoking. If they insist on smoking while I'm around, I'll find somebody else to socialize with. And to me, Facebook is just as unpalatable as smoking.
Four kids, similar ages, and I've reached similar conclusions. It's humbling.

My oldest is now 9 and I'm starting to see how quickly the dynamic changes, like you said about not being toddlers for long. She might already be happy to read books and play computer games by herself all day, and I sometimes need to seek out conversations to maintain a connection with her. My friends with teenagers say that they almost never see them.
Microservices don't cost as much if you deploy them everywhere so you get both vertical and horizontal scaling without lookup cost.

Of course then you need the same stack which allows multiple apps deployed everywhere.
> But hey, at least it isn’t Node.

Why? Node's packaging story is about a million times better than Python's. You literally just listed some of the issues with Python, none of which apply to Node.

> use venvs liberally

Not necessary with Node (you could argue it always uses venvs but that's transparent from a user point of view).

> to let as few things as possible interact with system Python.

Not an issue.

> If there’s a CLI tool written in Python, ideally install it with pipx.

Node has one way to install things and it isn't the way that nobody has heard of (I honestly had not heard of pipx until now and I'm forced to write Python some of the time for my job).

> Use Poetry for every project.

You don't have to magically know which project management tool out of dozens to use with Node. Just use the overwhelmingly popular one (NPM).

You missed a few more by the way. How about knowing to use `--config-settings editable_mode=compat` in order to use editable installs with static tooling? Oh and remember that that is deprecated with no alternative! And it silently doesn't work in `requirements.txt`! Yeay.

Then there's `pip`'s fun "wheel error! this probably isn't a wheel error" message. Very user friendly.

Oh and don't forget the whole `pip3`/`python3 -m pip` debacle. Did I say `python3`? I meant `python3` except on Windows.

Node is a million miles ahead of Python in terms of packaging usability.
I don't think your mental health would survive thinking that the baby itself is the hobby. The thing with babies is that they're draining. They scream for hours on end and there's literally nothing you can do about it, which makes you feel utterly hopeless. On top of that, they prevent you from doing even basic things, like eat and sleep. So you're sleep deprived and angry and hopeless, which is a miserable combination.

Which I know sounds like a fun challenge on paper, but there's a reason most people fail special forces tests. So ultimately it's about finding a counter-balance to that.

What I've found at least, is that the "hacky" side of raising a newborn is trying to find ways to optimise your life in order to reclaim your old life back. In particular, trying to figure out how to get enough sleep whilst still maintaining the house etc.

Of course, these are all just words at this point to you. When you're thrust into it, you'll quickly adapt and figure out a way-of-life that works for you. But yeah, would be interested to hear back from your experience, I too started out quite optimistic about the whole experience, which then all went out the window when actually faced with the challenge.
Presumably next we're going to hear about a 20 to 30% increase in the cost of vehicles.
He didn't pay 44 billion for Twitter.

He paid 44 billion to restore free speech.

I think his cause is more noble than sheer capitalism

Edit: down vote and hate all you want... mark my words
.. Elon is going to go down in history as a visionary, a hero and a champion of free speech.

a bunch of angry ex-twitter employees on hacker news is not an accurate representation of reality
One must not forget the IIgs and it's 65C816 processor -- a bizarro 16-bit variant of the 6502. :)
I read your comment using X with its historical meaning of "insert option here" instead of the rebranding of Twitter and it gave me one more reason to hate this stupid, stupid rebrand even as someone who doesn't use it.
Most people I know regularly read their spam folders… which kinda defeats the purpose.
The sooner it dies, the better.
Yeah, as a massive introvert who managed to actively avoid socialising through high school and college. I made up for it with online dating, because while I find socialising exhausting, figuring out how to talk to people over text was a lot less exhausting than in person, and finding social interaction exhausting isn't the same as not wanting it at times. You can learn patterns online, and try and try again.

If anything, I've had substantially more partners than average when I was younger because online you can do that easily with just trying over and over again and rejection didn't affect me online, and the contact didn't exhaust me because it was superficial until I got a connection with someone.

His idea that being an introvert implies lacking opportunities and inherently makes someone more likely to be loyal is based on a lot of stereotyping of what being an introvert means.

If find dating situations easy. They can be as low key as you want them, and they are formulaic, and I a long time ago figured out a "formula" that worked. Doesn't mean it wouldn't be genuine, but I know my strengths, and I learnt to understand social queues well enough to turn that into a conversation topic, and talking about those observations and demonstrating you've listened to past partners is gold dust.

But I'd also find them draining, and would go home wired and take hours to relax afterwards. The main thing making me seek and prefer stable relationships isn't that I can't easily find people because I'm an introvert, because I can, but because I have more than enough experience to know what I like and have found it.
> Showcasing reference designs for performance purposes is very typical overall for Qualcomm. This is also how the company handles their smartphone testing – in most years we’ll get to benchmark a Snapdragon mobile SoC running in a Qualcomm Reference Device (QRD) as a preview before retail devices are available. Even though they’re not a vertically integrated company, they still need to develop devices to test their own hardware, and they like to use those to initially show off their designs.

What's stopping Qualcomm from manufacturing their own phones and laptops and sell them directly to consumers?
The "Elon is saving free speech, so this is worth it" argument for this incredible destruction of value is what cracks me up.

The internet had/has no problem hosting repugnant viewpoints. Plenty of web hosting providers are available for you to share your most vile, hateful thoughts. We're watching a very powerful person discover in real time that free speech isn't something that generates value on its own.
SEC: SolarWinds failed to disclose cybersecurity woes before historic breach
Eh? Most UK retailers have it at RRP:

https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2
I have heard that too, I am not sure how true it is. You pretty much won't find a basement in Texas anywhere, even though the water table is hundreds to a thousand feet deep most places. In Harris county (where Houston is) 1 out of 11 measurement wells is cutting it close (17 feet) the rest are over 90 feet deep.

https://waterdatafortexas.org/groundwater
According to Wikipedia, this one uses 4nm node while M2 is on N5P.
Try Apple stuff. We exist ;)
Encoding alpha, please! https://github.com/w3c/webcodecs/issues/672

Thanks for the great work on WebCodecs!
Thanks for this. It's hard for me to distinquish between the spirit of a rule and someone telling me I'm not following the rule because I'm not following their interpretation of the rule. I know I don't think like other people so if someone tells me I'm not thinking like other people I tend to believe them. My intuition tells me I'm doing ok, but need to improve my perception of when a person is being unreasonable and let it go.
You can live an insincere life full of manipulation but pat yourself on the back for "winning". To each their own.
> I don't think you can use logic to justify a clearly irrational decision made by Musk.

I agree. I'm just doing my best to give him some amount of benefit of the doubt. The alternative is to say that he's a bit crazy -- which might be true, but I'm not in a position to be able to say it with confidence.
You have to run it through another AI app to upscale it. That's how most of these AI images are being done these days.

Vector is another matter. I don't think you'd want to try to vectorize the output from this, but again, there are a bunch of AI tools for doing it.
Does Twitter need "new features"?
You are a disagreeable person. I love working with disagreeable people, but I avoid them after work. On Saturday, I don't feel like being lectured to on how hamburgers are supposed to be cooked. Other guests find it rude to called out on their own occupation.
>Musk made the offer just before a big drop in valuation of tech companies.

Aren't most tech companies back near their ATHs? MSFT is above what it before that drop. Meta had the most notable crash but they're only ~20% lower than pre-that drop.
> Or they do exist for a reason but the rules are still absurd and net harmful

Ok.

…but if you have a law and you’re opposed to it on the basis that “China will do it anyway”, you admit that’s stupid?

Shouldn’t you be asking: does the law do a useful thing? Does it make the world better? Is it compatible with our moral values?

Organ harvesting.

Stem cell research.

Human cloning.

AI.

Slavery.

How can anyone stand there and go “well China will do it so we may as well?”

In an abstract sense this is a fundamentally invalid logical argument.

Truth on the basis of arbitrary assertion.

It. Is. False.

Now, certainly there is a degree of naunce with regard to AI specifically; but the assertion that we will be “left behind” and “out competed by China” are not relevant to the discussion on laws regarding AI and AI development.

What we do is not governed by what China may or may not do.

If you want to win the “AI race” to AGI, then investment and effort is required, not allowing an arbitrary “anything goes” policy.

China as a nation is sponsoring the development of its technology and supporting its industry.

If you want want to beat that, opposing responsible AI won’t do it.
You could also send them a reminder a few days later, just to be sure that they meant it. And then perhaps every week or so for good measure.
Self-Hosting AI tools is easy
So, I don't think that this optimization is new (fast path for commutative operations), but it's very difficult to get correct AFAICT, because in order to garner full optimizations, you must know about the invariants being preserved. For example, adds can always be non-conflicting for a bank account, if say, the invariant is that a bank account balance must never go below 0, but withdrawals need global consensus.

The earliest knowledge I have of this is Generalized Paxos, but I believe there's more recent work with the likes of Egalatarian Paxos. I think there were even some CRDTs that mixed strong consistency and weak consistency.
I get a number of these for some reason. If they don't let me unsubscribe, I just report it as spam. It's not perfect, but it's what little I can do.
> ...We know the value of π exactly.

Perhaps you could share that exact value with the rest of humanity. And I mean the number value, not the nominal value.
I generally dislike publicly traded companies and wish stock markets and speculation didn't exist, but there's no hope of that, so instead I'll cheer on any public corporation that goes private. I think using mass social media is largely bad for your mental health, but I hope the company succeeds in some capacity.
I dont know either but I cant fathom why he paid that much for the company only to play Nero.
Please google what google was called before they changed the name.
This doesn't seem to me that it's "no-emission" it reads more that it the co2 is captured at the source. As a lay person I would assume "no-emission" means no co2, but maybe I'm wrong here?
Given he also destroyed the brand name and all brand value associated with it, this number still seems way too high. Especially when you see downloads have dipped drastically. Accounts that get payouts now just post nonsense trying to get engagement, it's like the "click fraud" of social media posting. No idea why any advertiser would touch it. To me Twitter was once the most valuable social media platform that no one could figure out how to monetize...now it's, I don't even know what it is now. Unless he's trying to recreate The Producers in tech, almost nothing he's done makes much sense.
It's good too if you're learning another language, as there's 20 languages supported at the bottom of the page. I'm personally excited by the fact I can search for Canadian French specifically
A difference seems to be that there still is a leader in this protocol whereas in epaxos there is not a (stable) leader.
TIL free speech was dead in 2022.
Henry Kissinger was also known as a ladies man. Once he was in his hotel room with a pretty woman when a world crisis broke out that required his attention. However, he was not answering the phone, so a desk clerk was sent up to the room. He knocked on the door and said "Mr Kissinger, I have a message for you". From behind the door he heard, "Go avey!" but it was important so he knocked again and said "Mr Kissinger, it is urgent that I speak to you!" and again "Go avey!" so for the third time he said "It is urgent, are you Kissinger!?" and the reply "No! I'm fuckingher! Now go avey!"

My gf's mother told me that joke back in the day, with a very heavy South American accent, but it still worked, maybe a little better because she said "Kissin-gher".

I saw Henry himself just a few years ago, right before Covid, in a NYC restaurant. He's extremely old, but he seemed very together.

You might call him a "statesman", but he wasn't precisely a politician. Also, the post WWII/Cold War era opened the door, so to speak, to a large number of displaced Europeans, scholars, to give advice about East and Middle European issues, advanced science, etc. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Werner von Braun also come to mind.
lol, you can't be serious ...
>Maybe the results would determine that the human mind is actually as pre-determinable as a CPU and there is no such thing as genral intelligence at all.

I don't see how the conclusion follows from the premise.
> we don't have a solution to replace it (we can hope for technological breakthroughs, but we just don't have the solution today)

Yes, we do: nuclear. The reasons why nuclear energy has not taken hold as widely as it should have are political, not technical. We could be at the point today where no fossil fuels need to be burned anywhere in the world if we had started building nuclear plants on a larger scale back in the 1970s, as soon as it became clear that OPEC was not going to play nice when they thought they could extract more money from their customers by restricting supply.
Hmm, just tried it and I was able to generate a new digital card without any issues. Could be that you've hit some kind of max cards limit?
Can you give us an example of things that can't be said anywhere else but twitter?
One of those "presentation" mouses would hopefully do? They're a mouse but you hold them in your hand and wave them around to move the pointer, like a Wiimote but they pre-date the Wii. The mouse pointer part sucks in my experience but they do have two buttons and are comfortable to hold. Considering you're writing your own input parser you can ignore mouse events.

There are also "smart pens" these days with Bluetooth but I've never tried one.
I think you're right. I left out some context which is that this was a conservative oil company and I was a liberal city slicker environmentalist who hates oil but was willing to put up with it for a few years for the paycheck. My boss was the tough ex-military country guy, and my co-workers were somewhere in between - nerdy engineers, but more country types.

When out for beers, he said his wife does horseback barrel racing and I said I used to do that as a kid and it's a cool sport. He just replied, "Hah, I find that hard to picture" and got some chuckles from the other guys before changing the subject, not following up to learn more. He asked what our favorite movies were and everyone received approval except when I said A Clockwork Orange, he said that was weird.

I was already masking HARD to fit in at this company. Another coworker had already outted me as an atheist as a joke at a weekly meeting. I didn't find that funny, my boss's boss in the room had previously invited me to his church as had another coworker.

I used to like this job under my old boss. Now it hurt and I didn't want to be there anymore, but the paycheck was so good I knew I'd never earn that much again in my whole life. Once I started hating my boss, I may have been "silent quitting" without realizing it. I blame him and he blames me, I don't know.