skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pitch was designed to elicit a 'Yes' response at every turn (the idea being that the prospective client would be conditioned to saying 'Yes' over and over and be more amenable to the final hammer swing of 'send me x dollars for y shares'). Most pitches were directed at the kind of business owners and execs who end up on lead services like Dun & Bradstreet, but sometimes also targeted individuals at their homes; in either case, the prospect is either running a business or just arrived home from work and is tending to kids/dinner/chores/etc. Ask someone in either scenario if they're busy and the default answer is yes; they're always busy. But ask them if they have a second, and they're more likely to say yes. Everyone has a second, even if they're busy, and the very wording of the question implies this will be a brief and laconic interaction that won't interrupt their day. Busy is a negative primer, have a second is a positive one.

The article contains a few rebuttal snippets, but the full "straight line" pitch had rebuttals for every step of the interaction and every possible response from a prospect. They called it the "straight line" because the idea was that at all moments of the conversation, you are constantly guiding the prospect along a straight line to the desired conclusion (a sale), and any diversion from this straight line in the form of customer protest/question/disinterest needs to be quickly and somewhat aggressively countered with a rebuttal and then followed with a slick line that elicits a return to the previous direction.

Since I'm already rambling, I'll add another detail that isn't in the article; Belfort didn't come up with this pitch himself, it was developed originally at Lehman Brothers (one of the leading firms) and was used in some form at all of the big wirehouse brokerages (eg, the original Merrill Lynch "thundering herd" or LF Rothschild, where Belfort learned it).

Belfort's "innovation" was not the script, it was taking the script out of the hands of elite white-shoe brokers (who sold legitimate stocks to clients) and teaching it to unscrupulous boiler room scammers (who made their money by tricking prospects into buying penny stocks that Stratton Oakmont then dumped).
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Vashon has already been making a new FAA type-certified out-of-the-box $150k plane with modern avionics for a few years.

https://vashonaircraft.com/

I believe they've already delivered around 80 planes to individuals and flight schools.

Given the market for replacement trainers atm, the price will surely drop too.
You can get 8tb drives, but they're well over 2x the cost of 4tb drives. An external USB drive or multi-drive enclosure may be more prudent though.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CTTL9R7Z/
> Does Musk really feel entitled to a portion of every major corporation’s advertising budget?

Musk has at times disclosed that he thinks that he is literally the only person in existence[0]. His version of bongrip k-hole solipsism[1] entitles him to unlimited wish fulfillment and reality manipulation. It also explains his recent foray into great replacement theory and his attempt to manifest a race war in the UK through his tweets this week[2].

0
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/...

1
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

2
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ydddy3qzgo
Again, if those were all he’d posted and his followers hadn’t just responded to his past calls with a violent assault on the election process, he’d never have gotten banned. As you can see by reading the page you linked, this decision was made with that context in mind after years of crossing the boundaries, and they did not want their corporate resources potentially being used for additional political violence.
> open hiring/twyw compensation

I'll be honest, that doesn't sound nice.
It sounds like a way for corporations to skirt employment law,
similar to other gig economy companies.
Do not want.
I guess TLS has a dependency on the public key infrastructure (eg Let's Encrypt, or whoever issues wifey accepted certs). Which makes end to end encryption between users harder (most of this stuff is intended for server auth and encryption)?

But otherwise big +1 not to reimplement crypto when the are alternatives. Another option for secret key stuff might be ssh?
Where is she getting CGMs for $80 out of pocket? The FreeStyle Libre 3 is $150+ (and it lasts 2 weeks, when it doesn't error out or fall off after a few days due to moisture / bad adhesive).

We need cheaper products that last longer and are more reliable.
I suspect the latter question works better because it's softer and doesn't give as much of an out as the former. We're all busy. It's much easier to answer in the affirmative and if anything, highlighting the busy nature of your day makes it easier to say "leave me alone", but the latter is harder to answer no to, at least socially. A second or two, surely you can spare that. He's not asking for much! (Obviously, it's figuratively "a second" and more like a few minutes, but at least there's some daylight for the caller to squeeze their foot in the door.)

A lot sales pitches really prey on people's general desire not to be rude to another human being, so choosing the right phrasing to make the mark feel bad for breaking a social convention if they say no is by design.
Would you trust Amazon Fresh for grocery delivery?

What about shopping physically in WholeFoods?

FWIW, I also don’t trust the standard Amazon store with many things, but I still do use Amazon Fresh and find it fine.
ES is just unreliable. Can be running smoothly for a year and boom it falls over and you’re left scratching your head.
Does it support wayland?
Yes, but you could bypass the login page.
The issue is the $13 Billion loans and estimated $1.3 Billion/year interest payments.

I'm sure Elon can wipe those out himself, but it's still a lot of money that isn't accounted for. Twitter cannot merely float at barely profitability. Twitter needs at least $1.3 Billion/year to counteract interest payments.
I'm interested in more lit on the subject, but I never understood how anyone sells anything via cold-calling. I understand why SPAM works - because it has a very small barrier to entry and it works on the idea of converting a small fraction of messages sent. But cold-calling takes man-hours and I can only imagine it's sole purpose is to catch individuals that simply would rather pay you to end the call rather than say "no."

Even worse is door-to-door sales. My neighborhood has big "no soliciting" signs at the entrances, but at certain times of the year we get huge swaths of salesmen and it's typically for the exact same services at different times of year. Once I was working on my boat late at night in my garage with the door halfway open. I had a pesticide service salesman zip up my driveway on a segway and come inside my garage and start pitching. I couldn't help but to lose my stuff on him. Do these tactics really work? Is it a certain demographic? Because I just don't grok.
Sounds like the sympathies of the majority of the voters play a significant role, and not only the "advocates", as the other commenter suggested. Or at least as I understood it.
I wrote a chrome extension to help with this. Clips all the coupons so you don't have to do individual searches. Has resulted in some wild surprise savings when shopping. www.throwlasso.com
Does Elon still dislike/disallow remote work? Seems like that would be a competitive disadvantage.
To be clear on this - people pout about these suicides being considered a firearm death. They are.

They may not be "gun violence" against another, but they're still a firearm death.

Just as someone (and I've seen it several times, as a paramedic) who takes a lethal amount of opiates to commit suicide rather than for recreational use is still considered an overdose death.

It's not "recreational drug abuse", but it's still an overdose death.

Agree or object to both, or none. Guns don't just get a special pass such that shooting yourself with a pistol is somehow not a death by firearm.
There's some misunderstanding. It's 32 GB ROM, not RAM. RAM is 4 GB.

https://store.google.com/product/google_tv_streamer_specs

Seems pricey for what it offers. Just WiFi 5 - not even WiFi 6 or 6E, let alone WiFi 7. It doesn't even come with an HDMI cable, sigh.
Indeed. It (further) begs the question: Should we depend so heavily on such corporations to protect our infrastructure?
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I never understood the utility. So could a 10$ HDMI cable?

I bought a Chromecast thinking it could play videos from a network drive like XBMP, but it couldn't and I thought it was beyond useless with its buggy and slow interface.
You really need to normalize crime rates by population (including commuters) and avoid focusing on anecdotes
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I'd like to find some good quality but slow nvmes, I dont need super high speed for media serving but getting a lot of storage (4x4tb/2x8tb ~) is much more expensive than hard drives. Itd be nice to have a silent home server
> you could try to do this analysis per-window and then construct some sort of aggregate for the whole frame

This seems like it could get into the area of smartphone "cameras" that do so much computation on the output of the light sensors that it can hardly be called photography [0]. It's a cool idea (in chess I've heard a similar idea called "quiescence search"[1]), but probably not worth the trouble.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_sp...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiescence_search
$13 Billion leveraged buyout means that Twitter took on $13 Billion in loans for the privilege of being bought out by Elon.

Assuming a rough interest rate of 10% to 15%, leaves 100million to 150million / month on debt alone.
X (formerly Twitter) is how I’ve seen it cited elsewhere.
> Senk immediately felt the takedown was bogus. His site was obviously parody, which he felt should have made his use of the CrowdStrike logos—altered or not—fair use. He immediately responded to Cloudflare to contest the notice, but Cloudflare did not respond to or even acknowledge receipt of his counter notice. Instead, Cloudflare sent a second email warning Senk of the alleged infringement, but once again, Cloudflare failed to respond to his counter notice.

I am generally a fan of Cloudflare and I think they are good players and good people, but this is something they really need to fix. The DMCA system is already heavily stacked against the little guy. The least Cloudflare (or any host) can do is listen to both parties. Ideally they should be a neutral arbiter.

I use Cloudflare extensively and spend a lot per month with them, but this really gives me pause about whether I want to have CF hosting my actual content. I've never had a DMCA takedown claim against me, but I know people who have been abused by that process. It can really happen to anyone.

Cloudflare, please don't be part of the problem. You've long been a champion of a more open web, one in which little people can operate. You've done more to enable creators like that than just about anyone I can think of. Please, don't be a facilitator or enabler for the DMCA bullies.
> In NYC, these drug stores also treat all of their customers like criminals.

What's the idea there? I hear that those stores overexaggerate the risk. Ok, but why spend the time, effort and money actually locking things down and making it hard for their paying customers to shop.

I can imagine if the threat is not real, they'll just issue press releases, write public letters to the governor, buy ads somewhere, etc, but not actually put plexiglass and locks everywhere, which makes it harder for them to do business in the end.

EDIT: also, cheers to the fellow assembly language HN user name holder :-)
idk, the DMCA has done an immense amount of damage to society because of what amounts to bullying from those with large legal departments. I usually err on the side of blaming incompetence, but a well-run legal department should know this is a bogus claim.
When there was worry about the toxicity of TetraEthylLead in gas, Thomas Midgley stood at a podium, poured it over his hands, and sniffed a glass of it for about a minute and told the audience he could do this every day without suffering ill effects. Midgley eventually took a leave of absence from work due to lead poisoning.

The company he worked for chose to create and promote TEL because it was more profitable, as something that could be patented and monopolized, despite Ethanol being a great octane booster and being used with ICEs since their invention. They didn't want to use Ethanol because that would have been a competitive market.

Your boss will happily give himself cancer in the future to save a dime in the now, especially if you get the cancer way way faster than he does. Your boss will do this because his boss will put pressure on him until he does, and because people are stupid and irrational.
Not efficient compared to what?

Compared to online marketing? Or cold emailing? Or talking to random people in the street?

I can't actually imagine a more efficient way to get a significant nr of sales from strangers than cold calling personally.

Of course contacting people who already know you is better, but the problem for a business is that in most/all cases that list of people who know you is not long enough.
It ultimately doesn't matter what a company wants to call themselves if the vast public just uses the old name
I can't understand why anyone would willingly take a job at one of his companies (but especially Xitter) at this point just knowing what's publicly known... but it's also not difficult to find someone who has worked for him and can tell you what that experience was like.
Does it use WebRTC? The last time I've looked at this - and what stopped me from releasing a more polished MVP of the same low impact continuous meeting-not-a-meeting concept - is that the only way to scale WebRTC is to use your own paid infrastructure. The only peer to peer topology available WebRTC clients support is a star, so without a multiplexing server you are practically limited to a handful of peers in any session.

So you are either offering a slow and very limited free service, or you need to pay hand over fist and burn venture capital to basically compete with Zoom and WebRTC. Slowing the video stream to very low FPS does help somewhat with scaling, but makes for a niche product.

If you can crack P2P multiplexing and offer an unlimited free service, and tack on some fremium model on that, that this thing can take off like a rocketship, if for no other reason that every team leader in the world wants a continuous feed of their remote worker's desktop. A free and capable screen sharing app can become THE tool for collaboration, disrupting things like Slack if the right features are there.

I'm seriously interested to cofound something like that, let me know if anything I've said makes sense to you.
There is another big change in gpt-4o-2024-08-06: It supports 16k output tokens compared to 4k before. I think it was only available in beta before. So gpt-4o-2024-08-06 actually brings three changes. Pretty significant for API users

1. Reliable structured outputs
2. Reduced costs by 50% for input, 33% for output
3. Up to 16k output tokens compared to 4k

https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4o
stronger would be E(K. G(K `will` evil) ∧ G(K `does` good)), which I —being weak at temporal logic— think equivales E(K. G(K `will` evil ∧ K `does` good)). Note also that for the eternal we'd want a sort of G' that holds in the past as well as the future?

EDIT: also, I think G (JWvG, not "not F not") is using schaffen in the sense of https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/schaffen#Verb,_unregelmäßig , but it is amusing to think of it in the ugs. sense of https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/schaffen#Verb,_regelmäßig , where Woland is constrained by the ergodic incompressible nature of the "good" to schlep his portion of it from place to place*, no matter what he will.

* compare BAWR's "what is work? Work is of two kinds..."
FWIW, llama.cpp has always had a JSON schema -> GBNF converter, although it launched as a companion script. Now I think it's more integrated in the CLI and server.

But yeah I mean, GBNF or other structured output solutions would of course allow you to supply formats other than JSON schema. It sounds conceivable though that OpenAI could expose the grammars directly in the future, though.
I vaguely remember it also getting packaged in with installers for unrelated software on Windows.
They just announced an anti-trust lawsuit regarding what they say is a coordinated effort to remove advertisers from the site. Not advocating one way or the other as to the merits of the claim but an interesting development regarding the revenue drop you mentioned.

https://x.com/lindayaX/status/1820838625245880634
I'd love to hear technical explanations of the differences in performance for the most popular Linux filesystems (ext4, XFS, BTRFS, ZFS) vs. APFS and ZFS on macOS. But differences are certainly very noticeable between the ext4 Linux VMs on my personal Mac and the native APFS filesystem for anything that touches lots of files (compiling big programs, basically any Nix commands).

I've not thought about performance specifically, but I've always thought of Linux's great filesystem support in terms of breadth, features, and activity of development as a consequence of Linux's place in the server world. People run storage at incredible scale on Linux, and then mere desktop users can take advantage of the same tech on their laptops and it works pretty well. I think that makes some sense for performance, too: people run databases where IO efficiency eventually translates to money saved every month, and then we desktop users benefit from many of those as well.

I imagine that if Apple were still targeting the server market and it were a big part of their revenue, filesystem features and performance on macOS would look more like how they do on Linux.
>The above is why you can't negotiate the monthly rent, but you can often get a few months free rent - change the rent you pay and the building value changes, while a few months free is just a marketing thing.

Residential property owners do this, too, and I strongly (I cannot being to convey how strongly) believe that this should be illegal. Beyond the obvious injury it does to renters and potential renters (annual rent increases are based on the stated rent, not the rate you pay after discounts), so much in the economy is based on purported property value. When you consistently have to offer "discounts" to find renters, what it means is that other aspects of the economy are being distorted by your fake property value. You're misusing or underutilizing that property, and market forces should force you to divest.

Go after banks, too, but start with this simple issue: if you can't rent at a certain price, you should have to lower the price or offer material incentives. Period.
I have to say, the anti-elon meltdown vs the elon simps is quite entertaining to watch and it goes both ways.

Why are you getting so upset, angry, emotional and screaming over someone that doesn't care about you?

Very unhealthy folks. but regardless, until the next time you will talk about Twitter / X again.
This system is very much alive in academia: a graduate student (apprentice) trains under a professor (master) to become a member of the guild (academia), after which they can go off and find their own work as a postdoc (journeyman) and eventually start their own lab (shop) to have their own trainees.
This may be convention, but it is not law. No federal or state law requires severance pay in the US.
I’ve had several meetings, either in Twitter office or around it, and the street scene is very bad in that part of SF. If the claim is that this is a motivation for the move, it certainly passes the sniff test for me.
> I can't imagine a company that could lose 80% of their people and keep on trucking.

Musk didn't buy Twitter to make money or learn how to run a successful business. "Keep on trucking" isn't what Twitter is supposed to be doing right now. 20% workforce is more than enough to run the operation in maintenance mode, which is exactly what's being asked for.

How many dev-ops roles would it take to just keep the lights on at your org? A dozen? Three? You certainly wouldn't have a need for decision-makers or heavy lifters.
Thanks! We're similar to Twingate in how we model resources, but our policy system has optional conditions you can apply to restrict access further, which works a bit differently. We expect to continue building in that area over time. We also use WireGuard as a transport while I believe Twingate operates over QUIC.
North Carolina investigates Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC after voter data complaint
I think it's because Twitter doesn't bury and ban moderate and conservative opinions now. It feels like there's more balance today. I'd say in my experience I've seen more of the far left voices I follow move away from the platform (although many moved back) and they're not as powerful not that the Twitter team isn't backing them exclusivly.
8TB: https://sabrent.com/products/sb-rktq-8tb

But your aren't going to like the price.
The BM25 thing is actually a really big deal.

BM25 is similar to TF/IDF. In both cases, the key idea is to consider statistics of the overall corpus as part of relevance calculations. If the user searches for "charities in new orleans" in a corpus where "new orleans" is only represented in a few documents, those should clearly rank highly. If the corpus has "new orleans" in almost every document then the term "charity" is more important.

PostgreSQL FTS cannot do this, because it doesn't maintain statistics for word frequencies across the entire corpus. This severely limits what it can implement in terms of relevance scoring - each result is scored based purely on if the search terms are present or not.

For comparison, SQLite FTS (which a lot of people are unaware of) actually does implement full index statistics, and SQLite FTS5 implements BM25 out of the box.
It's much better than not unreasonable. If that price is accurate it's competitive with consumer drives. The big clouds would charge you 6 cents per gigabyte per quarter. Add on RAID and you still break even after four months.
I was being generous and said "not even counting," but no despite the internal name change, most still maintain the "Chromecast Built-In" designation on their branding and sites which takes a mere second to Google and see.
If by "everywhere" you mean "major megapolises with crime problems", then yes, everywhere. Otherwise, no, not everywhere, and yes, in a suburban location a chance of a shooting happening under your very office window is extremely low. Living/working in a megapolis has its advantages, but let's not paint over its downsides also. Criminals want the same advantages too.
It was widely reported that Musk was moving X and SpaceX's offices to Texas due to a new LGBTQ+ reporting law for schools, which in turn was heralded as Yet Further Proof of California's demise.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/16/elon-musk-spacex-headquar...

Now we're hearing that he's moving X's offices to the South Bay Area. Go figure.