skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly it has been enforced against a company (thousands of them), but in a way it is more of a hypothetical threat. I was not referring to a statutory law, but rather to fiduciary duties, which derive from the common law of equity. The quotation from the Hsu case I provided above is a clear depiction of the standard of conduct required of directors and officers of Delaware corporations. But in reality, fiduciary standards operate more like you suggested—as a hypothetical threat. The reason for this is that, although the standards of conduct demanded of Delaware directors and officers are onerous and exacting, the standard of judicial review of challenged conduct is ordinarily very relaxed. In most ordinary situations, the standard of review is the business judgment rule, which essentially punts on the question of whether a particular action violates a fiduciary duty. The idea is that courts do not supplant directors' judgment with their own. More onerous standards of review are available in other situations, such as mergers and transactions where an interested party sits on the board or is an executive. (Facebook is an interesting example of a controlled company, given Zuckerberg's ownership stake, and its decisions might be subject to more scrutiny, but procedural safeguards are generally available to cleanse even conflicted decisionmaking.)

It's worth clarifying that only those to whom fiduciary duties are owed can ever sue for damages resulting from their breach. In other words, shareholders. That's how the threat gets operationalized—by a shareholder or class of shareholders suing the corporation for failing to maximize shareholder value through a fiduciary breach.

Anyways, the point I really wanted to make is that shareholder value maximization really is meaningfully encoded in American corporate law. If you meant to suggest that reality is less black-and-white than that, then I hope the foregoing ramble confirms that you are correct!
We use it as a cron substitute quite often, which I guess isn’t the serverless use case, but it’s quite handy
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Because he's not trying to learn what reality is, he's trying to see what people THINK reality is. Misconceptions can move markets just as easily as plain facts.
Sounds like bullying to me.

Giant entrenched mainstream entity teams up with nonprofit to financially take out a competitor. For the purpose of removing diversity from public discourse.

Doesn't sound so high minded when you put it that way.
Examples of the former are the furniture and whatnot you can buy from your modern furniture store... the latter things you might see at chic museum shops (these are smaller items) but it can be things like a headrest that looks nice, but in practice doesn't work. Aesthetically it might look balanced and have a wow look but don't try sitting in it kind of thing.
there’s a nonprofit called “Carbon Offsets to Alleviate Poverty” where you can buy carbon offset credits that are implemented by paying impoverished people in various parts of the world to reforest their land. I’d love to see a comparison of whether that was ultimately more or less effective than UBI at the two goals of reducing poverty and averting climate change
Petition calls for removal of Gandhi statue from University campus
Easy. Command line interfaces are function over form. Overly-flat UIs are form over function.
You can actually charge different prices for in app versus out of app. Apple changed this policy around 9 years ago.
This is a myth. Almost nobody, even among "rich kids", gets a full time tutor for the SAT/ACT. Most just use the same cheap tools everyone else does - a Barron's test prep book.
I prefer Svelte and Inferno mostly. However, for quick prototypes or side projects that I know I'm not going to need, I use a completely new framework, to experiment and have fun while learning something new.
The irony certainly isn't lost on me - I find it enraging. I'm also annoyed by @NBC_VC being framed as a self titled Orwellian 'news' 'verification' outfit when they are clearly highly partisan and intent on closing down anyone they don't agree with. I pay little attention to NBC or MSFTNBC but this is making me actively dislike them
It can, that's what the "High Voltage Software ADPCM decoder"'s for.
For how I typically lean for storage (RAID1 "cells" with each disk from a separate manufacturer, combined into either a RAID10 or a JBOD), and thus how I typically buy drives, SSD v. HDD is actually surprisingly close price-wise, especially when looking at 2.5" SATA or SAS (which is what I typically buy, both because 3.5" SSDs strangely don't exist and because I can stuff more of 'em into an enclosure; plus, quite a few servers don't even take 3.5" drives).

For example, consider two different 2TB cell setups:

- SSD: Crucial MX500 + Samsung 860 QVO = $473.73 on Newegg

- HDD: WD Blue WD20SPZX + Toshiba L200 = $168.57 on Newegg

On the one hand, the SSD cell is a whole 2.81× more expensive. On the other hand, the SSD cell is only 2.81× more expensive.

This narrows to 2× in the case of a 1TB (well, technically 960GB in the SSD case) cell setup:

- SSD: Crucial MX500 + Kingston A400 = $236.54 on Newegg (this is my typical setup for a RAID1)

- HDD: WD Blue WD10SPZX + Toshiba L200 = $117.13 on Newegg

Now, to be fair, this is excluding Seagate, which is stupidly cheap and would widen that gap (and historically I've bought Seagate strictly as a secondary for these sorts of "cells", but given my bad experiences with Seagate I'm inclined to ignore them and go with WD+Toshiba if possible for a given target size). It's also excluding 3.5" drives (and therefore notably excluding WD Reds entirely), which doesn't help for a 1TB cell (Seagate Cheetah NS + WD Red = $118.75) or a 2TB cell (Seagate IronWolf + WD Red = $167.74), but does help for bigger cell sizes that wouldn't be possible with 2.5" at all without major sacrifices in vendor redundancy and price (for example, a 4TB cell w/ Toshiba N300 + WD Red = $225.91, v. Samsung 860 QVO v. WD Blue = $1049.17 - even higher if I wanted to keep Kingston in the mix - or two of the above 2TB cells for only slightly cheaper).

On the other hand, this is including 5400 RPM drives; if I required 7200 RPM (as most NAS drives are) then the 1TB cell cost jumps up to $134.98 (WD Black + Seagate BarraCuda), and if I needed 10k RPM or SAS then I'd probably be springing for a WD XE WD9001BKHG + Toshiba AL13SEB900, which would bring the cell cost up even higher to $164.75 (while also losing 100GB of capacity), or even higher to $186.38 if I wanted to swap the WD for a Seagate Savvio ST9900705SS and have that 64MB of cache on both sides of the mirror (thus bringing the cost difference to a mere 1.27×). I'm also artificially keeping out a whole swath of SSD manufacturers in the above figures; never heard of "Team Group" or "Goldenfir", but if I had zero qualms about reliability I could put together a 1TB cell with those for $182.98 (on par w/ the 10k RPM cell), or for a 2TB cell I could go with a Crucial BX500 + Patriot P200 for $399.98.

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That all being to say: SSDs are a lot cheaper nowadays than they were even a couple years ago, and at typical consumer scales they're plenty viable; "good enough" capacity, while also having better performance and lower power consumption.
> In a poll conducted by ABC News/Ipsos on June 10-11, 34% of US adults supported "the movement to 'defund the police'" and 64% opposed it. Support was higher among black Americans (57%) than among whites (26%) and Hispanics (42%).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police#Public_opini...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/64-americans-oppose-defund-p...
The reason many colleges are changing it to "not required" is because so many students are unable to take the test this year.

Something that is not required but still considered is beyond the curriculum, or extracurricular. Many colleges have allowed you to submit both the SAT and ACT, admissions uses all the data available and the student should present themselves as best they truthfully can.
I didn't like anything. Have I gotten old?
Usage of linters fixes this:

>The following line in golang ignores the error:

fmt.Println("foo")

fmt.Println() is blacklisted for obvious reasons, but this:

a := func() error {
return nil
}
a()

results in:

go-lint: Error return value of 'a' is not checked (errcheck)

>And I was referring to accidental ignoring. I've seen variations of the following several times now:

res, err := foo("foo")
if err != nil { ... }
if res != nil { ... }
res, err = foo("bar")
if res != nil { ... }

results in:

go-lint: ineffectual assignment to 'err' (ineffassign)
We are acutely aware.
its kindof hilarious that apple happened to pick this app to make a stand on. It was only a few months ago that DHH (the Hey founder) got apple to change (or at least clarify and apologize for ) their Apple Card application process because his wife got a smaller limit than him.
Traditional furniture had the same problem but being too ornate instead. How many fancy hand carved wood chairs with 90 degree straight up backs exist? Painful to sit in, but they looked wonderful!

It is possible to get unusable either way. :/
> Every interior, from the priciest New York City condo to the humblest exurban rancher, exists in a singular spectrum of gray, Marie Kondo-ed to perfection, absent of any clutter or unnecessary touches, each accessory and wall hanging meticulously selected and expertly placed. From their ceilings dangle rusticated light fixtures aglow with Edison bulbs; their kitchens are clad in quartz and subway tile; their wall art ranging from huge reproduced metal signs to huge reproduced David Hockney prints; their furnishings boasting either Pottery Barn white sofas or $11,000 showpieces from Design Within Reach, all atop a streaky, faux-distressed oriental rug.

This is so incredibly on point it's actually sad, but on the flip side I'm happy someone who knows this stuff much better than I do is actually writing about it
Most probably already get some news from NBC, but I think the implication is that some journalists are also activists and don’t consider attempts to demonetize other journalists to be unethical if their views don’t align.

Of course, now they’ve drawn more attention to them instead.
Breaks chromium, at least on arch. Beware.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/67020?project=1&string=chrom...
I live pretty close to an area where loads of farmland is being bought up and turned into subdivisions, driven largely by national construction companies buying up hundreds of acres at a time.

The picture you linked to could have been taken in any one of them. It's pretty depressing, but then again, I live in a cabin in the woods (definitely not for everyone) so to each their own I suppose.
Love me some ffmpeg, but would be nice to have some bullet point summaries of updates in the release notes instead of pointing to the changelog dump. I know there is some information loss, yadda yadda
I disagree with the punk analogy because Zerohedge always seemed decidedly right wing or libertarian at best. Always heard the Ron Paul types talking about it. It’s basically conspiracy theories for economics and finance.
Exposed beams and infrastructure became fashionable because of restaurants. It was cheaper to put in (no drop ceilings) and had the benefit of being offensive enough on a noise level to keep people moving out of the restaurant.

The fact that it became adopted everywhere is just painful to me. Note how everybody starts putting rugs everywhere in order to damp the noise ("They improve the vibe, man.").

The Japanese seem to do better at this where their "minimalist" is driven by lack of space rather than misplaced aesthetics.
Why not? Merchants do that all time to Amazon. How are developers different in this case?
When I graduated from school, I was under the impression that the difference was ~20%. I wish I had known that I would actually have qualified for compensation about 400% higher in the US. I realized that eventually.
It's like the neutrino of neutrinos.
Utah’s Tech Industry Tried to Disrupt Coronavirus Testing
This has been my anecdotal experience also, working at startups.

I noticed it in the reverse direction: once $BIGCO employees (often "big catches") come to a growing-from-small-to-midsize startup, some level of political gamesmanship is introduced. If your department has a manager hire with a bad case of the politics, you and your soon-to-be ex-colleagues may be in for a wild ride.

It only makes sense that, if you extrapolate that behavior to the source where it came from, you'd see a lot more of it. There are some big companies that seem to be exceptions to this rule, but there are much more that prove it.
How do you figure? The liberals currently have 157 seats out of 338, they need the support of at least one other party on confidence motions (that party could be the Bloc as well)
Don’t forgot literal washing of feet and prostration in public gatherings! Some of the scenes from these protests bear an uncanny resemblance to Easter services.
In rust, errors are difficult to ignore (you need to either allow compiler warnings, which AFAICT nobody sane does, or write something like `let _ = my_fallible_function();` which makes the intent to ignore the error explicit).

Perhaps more fundamental: it’s impossible to accidentally use an uninitialized “success” return value when the function actually failed, which is easy to do in C, C++, Go, etc.
>I’d also be interested to see more social network-like features on GitHub.I wouldn’t be opposed to a GitHub NewsFeed

This would genuinely make me migrate off github permanently, both for personal projects and work.

>project chat

IRC/Slack/Discord already exist

>or even DMs

A new avenue for recruiter spam? No thank you.
Is -s X -e Y really much easier than -ss X -t $((Y-X)) ?

Every couple of years worth of not using an option I need to look it up again. But it's usually not too hard.
Yeah, but it ends up hurting usability to a large extent. Also, I’m at a point where it’s tough to take Google at it’s word about location history etc.

With Apple I’m more comfortable letting them have my data, just because they have a better record with privacy, at least.
They don't do that because Apple doesn't allow you to do that. Not because they don't want to.
Here's my fine art. I don't like the "softie" brush.

https://royalbarrel.com/static/nopaint.png
Nobody is ok with reversing time. Minkowski limit, yes. Reverse for sure not.
I think there's "functional minimalism" and "minimalist aesthetics". The two were originally part of the same package, but the author's point seems to be that everyone's buying into the aesthetics because it's in vogue, not because it makes sense to them / for their needs
This. Let me give an example. When booting a system you can get errors as concurrently booted subsystems (we're talking tens of thousands of them potentially) don't necessarily finish in the order you want, inducing effectively dependency error race conditions. You can either write a totally checked system that is brittle to these race conditions, and many nightmares worth of debugging, testing, and giving up, or you can write floopy logic that accepts the problem, fails, and restarts, and moreover very likely gives you lowered downtime overall. What do you do?
MetricsDB: TimeSeries Database for storing metrics at Twitter
Why buy apple then?
That is an exceedingly thorough wiki article. What a great testament to community efforts. Thanks for sharing.
Or just...not deal with any of that, and literally bash my way through it. I hated the bash learning curve because it's so zany compared to "sane" langs, but once you hit a point in comfort, it's "muck around with syntax for a few minutes, applying to a test case of a few examples, dial it in, and let it rip on a few GBs of data and go work on other things". stringly typed pipes go brrrr XD. Composing unix utilities is horrific and beautiful all at once. Shellcheck helps a ton.

Recently started getting into Xonsh cause it still makes piping programs super easy, while being still fairly easy to provision.

Really wish there were a (stable) go-based scripting language and shell. There's tengo and some other things, but not primetime ready.
When somebody uses borgbackup with you guys, is there any way you can include "hey you have a stale lock file" (that's probably keeping your backup from working) in the automated email that gets sent when disk usage doesn't change?
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The impact on the debt is already quite shocking, nobody is talking about it 'because pandemic' but it's going to be a really, really long and ugly hangover. For everyone.
I found it adequate to work around limitations of another system I was using. We were using a container coordinator thing (Convox) that couldn't attach EBS volumes, nor could it limit concurrent access to exactly one replica. So I used EFS which worked OK. I kept an eye on how we were using the burst credits, and picked a filesystem size that gave us enough IOPS. All in all, it worked fine (but I was perfectly happy to move off of it to EBS, of course).
Yeah I think part of her rant she’s just mad common folk are cramping her style. So obvs it’s déclassé now; dégueulasse.
This is a generalized feeling about good static type systems.

What is missing is a language with good static type system (Algebraic data types, stream/iterators, generics), simple and having GC, for application domains where prototyping speed matters.
As someone using Java which has null and hardly using any generics even though they are available in Java. I find Java immensely practical with huge number of libraries and other facilities of ecosystem.

Seems you are of the opinion if you do not find something practical no one else can.
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Talking TypeScript with the engineer who leads the team
I agree that most people don’t care about privacy, but also consider that in the many years it will take for any competitor to emerge (even if they started today), the situation will have improved.
> rate of transistor count

That doesn't really make sense.

It was actually about transistor count and cost.

> faster clock at the same power density

That's Dennard scaling as someone already mentioned to you

You said:

> Transistor scaling (dennard scaling)

Those are two different things.

You also said:

> We haven't been making significant progress over the last decade in terms of process size,

This is false by any reasonable definition, since as has already been said by multiple people, transistors are a fraction of the size they were ten years ago and the density has gone up considerably.

> coincidentally at the same time it became difficult to continue to reduce transistor channel scale.

Frequencies did not go up, but transistors shrunk, I'm not sure why you keep trying to state otherwise. How do you explain the enormous rise in transistor count and process shrinkage over the last decade? You are literally stating something that is false and not even backing up what you are saying with any information at all.
All of that was based on the opinion of a private organization. No intelligence official ever had possession of the server or was involved at any time.
The only people who think this is true have spent too much time looking at pictures on the internet. There are plenty of homes in this country that people are living happily in, unplugged from the 'Gram.
> ZH and The Federalist are both exceptionally irrational groupthink cults

So is Google.
> Not much, but the shared experience they have is as a basis of the color of their skin is what is visualized when calling them a person of color. And historically, that has been a big deal (e.g. anti-miscegnation laws in the US and huge amounts of racial discrimination in India's colonized past) – big enough that a lot of people think it's important enough to have a shared label.

Suppose a new, professional class / university-educated immigrant, arrives in the US from China tomorrow. Should they expect to be discriminated against in the US because of their color of skin specifically? I can imagine they might have good reason to fear being discriminated against becasue of concerns they might have links with the Chinese government – but, suppose they were instead a Taiwanese immigrant, or Singaporean or Malaysian Chinese? In any event, being discriminated against because of concerns about foreign government links is not discrimination on the basis of skin color specifically, any more than the Russian-American refused a security clearance because her brother has a job in the Kremlin is such a case. And, I'm sure they might be exposed to various stereotypes and misunderstandings that immigrants have to endure, dumb jokes, people mocking their accent or infelicities with the English language – but an immigrant from a European country might endure just as many stereotypes and misunderstandings – which suggests that none of those issues are due to their skin color specifically either. And how much relevance will anti-miscegenation laws, that were overturned over 50 years ago, have to the lived experience of a new immigrant arriving tomorrow?

Does a new Chinese immigrant have the same skin color as an African-American? Do Xi Jinping and Barack Obama have the same skin color? Do all "white" people have the same skin color? A Southern Italian and a Norwegian can look as far apart in skin tone as Xi and Obama do.
Wow, no way. This is way outside the bounds of what central banks do.

Remember that 'helicopter money' from central banks is not actually 'free money giveaway' it's just talked about like that.

When the Federal Government gives away money like this to citizens, it's more literally free money and it has to come from somewhere: either taxpayers or from debt.