skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matt Levine has the best ELI5 on this subject that I've seen:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-08/spac-m...

Here's the high-level summary from that article, though there's a lot more detail that's worth digging into:

> Here’s how a SPAC works:

1. You give me $10.

2. I put your $10 in a pool with a bunch of other people’s $10, held in a trust account at a bank.

3. I give you back one share in the pool (representing $10 of money in the pool), and one-quarter of a warrant to buy another share for $11.50. (The combination of the share and part of a warrant is sometimes called a “unit.”)

4. I try to find a company to take public within two years.

5. If I fail, I give you back your $10 with interest.

6. If I succeed, I merge the pool with the company, giving the company the money in the pool and giving you and your fellow shareholders shares (and warrants) in the new combined company. Also I get a bunch of shares and warrants in the combined company, as a reward for my work.

7. When I do this, I give you the choice to either (a) let your money ride and take a share in the new company or (b) get your $10 back, with interest.
Also, in Kashmir's case, the lines become blurry because on one hand you have excesses from the Indian state, and on the other hand you have a bloody armed insurgent movement which sometimes is just separatist and sometimes also coloured on religious lines.

It is quite a controversial topic and when someone looking from outside can't even gauge the recent issue at hand correctly[1], you can't expect them to have the context of Kashmir issue.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/rihanna-rallies-to-the-wrong-ca...
I thought the consensus was that Glacier uses cold storage disk drives. It was speculated early on that Glacier was tape but AFAIK that was never confirmed and there's no published evidence that's actually the case.
Kashmir was covered even less. Remember the ethnic cleansing in the 90s?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus
> But Homebrew wasn't (and isn't) better than MacPorts, either.

Hard disagree. Maybe that situation has improved for MacPorts, but when I made a decision to move from a Thinkpad running FreeBSD to a MBP for work, I gravitated immediately towards MacPorts and found it to be horrendously broken and significantly less friendly than using Ports on FreeBSD. I was expecting a similar UX, and found something that had the trappings of Ports with none of the underlying maintenance that makes it actually work.

Then someone recommended Homebrew. I tried it, and it worked perfectly the first time. I actually kept both on my system for awhile and tried to make MacPorts work, but eventually over the years I gave up on that and I've been a Homebrew user now for more than 5 years. Homebrew is strictly better in the most important factor: It actually works.
Exactly, it’s the same reason I use Mac instead of Linux. I want to make things. I don’t want to waste time fiddling with endless verbose details I don’t need to know

Yours,
A Noob
Likewise, you might enjoy:

CHIRP Radio (Chicago): https://chirpradio.org
4ZZZ (Brisbane): https://www.4zzzfm.org.au

Both are ad-free, other than local community orgs and the occasional local independent business plug, and funded by listener donations. Big bonus: huge variety in their playlists, with the DJs playing whatever they feel like.
- "You hear that line? Line's for you. Don't make me laugh. We're one people. It's a myth created by Thomas Jefferson."

- "Oh, now you're gonna have a go at Jefferson?"

- "My friend. Jefferson's an American saint... because he wrote the words, "All men are created equal"... words he clearly didn't believe, since he allowed his own
children to live in slavery. He was a rich wine snob who was sick of paying taxes to the Brits...so yeah, he wrote some lovely words and aroused the rabble... and they went out and died for those words... while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community. Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fucking pay me."
OSS is free like attending a party is free. It works as long as they are finite. It’s a social activity, not a dumping ground for getting rid of something you worked on.

We could have 500 open source programming languages but we don’t because these projects all compete for headspace, so most of them never get any “attendance” to speak of. Which means my entry to the arena affects yours. Just like if I threw a party on Friday knowing your birthday is Sunday. I’m not just putting it out there. There are consequences.

I can demand that you have drinks and snacks at a party. And a functioning toilet. There are basic minimums of hospitality that we expect of a host. These standards are not always met by FOSS maintainers, and I bristle when they feel entitled to our respect but not our criticism. If you don’t meet certain expectations, people will talk, and nobody will be surprised that people talk.

I can’t demand that you have Grape Crush and Flaming Cheetos. That’s rude, and if I insist on having very specific things then I can kindly fuck off and throw my own party.
You're handing your most private personal data to a company in hopes of finding one of your ancestors did something cool ?

Does that make sense to you ?
The bridges don't remain secret forever. All it takes is a government agency to ask the mailing list for one and then it's compromised. Once they're discovered, you can get into deep shit for trying to connect to that address.

My ex moved to China, and she told me that the only people who say Tor can't be blocked are people who have never lived in a country where the government is actively trying to block it. Just because you can connect to it doesn't mean you won't get a knock on the door in a month asking why.
The twitter replies are rather interesting. Regarding tests for "software engineering fitness", one simple test for abstract imagination would be very predictive: ask the candidate to imagine a 3x3 grid with digits, tell the digits row by row and ask to tell the sums column by column. The idea is to test the working memory of the candidate: if it only fits two digits, it won't be enough to make software. Extraordinary candidates would handle a 4x4 grid.
Three Chinese spies posing as journalists expelled from the UK
Not seeing the connection between those two quotes and your comment.
Hypothetically, you can ban twitter and still be friends with USA geo-politically. One is not comparable to the other.
Gentoo is probably the most user hostile Linux distribution I can think of other than ones purposely austere for learning (LFS) or parody (Suicide Linux).

If Mac Ports requires that level of knowledge to be user friendly it’s no surprise they lost.
IDK Elon gets some (deserved in my opinion) love. Jeff seems to be the butt of more of the "kill the rich" rhetoric such as the guillotine outside his house. Personally if I was a billionaire, I would do everything possible to keep my name out of the media and pop culture.
but whats happens if a feature i use gets deprecated in version 15/16?
Just to add the context - the law does't target MSP directly. They are basically saying that now all farmers of the country can sell their produce without the control of government owned marketplaces called 'mandis'. In 'mandis' there is a minimum support price, so farmers have a guarentee of getting atleast that much for their produce. Now when market will be opened, this will probably kill the MSP system, as now this will be an open market where farmers will directly deal with corporates or their consumers. Right now the produce has to be strictly sold with government owned mandis, which I think is causing government financial losses.

The protests were generally peaceful, but recently on our republic day we cannot say it remained peaceful. I think government should have first spent time in making people understand the pros/cons of the changes and take their feedback if they are ready. Any protests long drawn, can turn violent.

My personal take on this is that farmers are not ready yet to face the corporate world as buyers. This law should come, but not now. And Government can build an intermediary organization to work with both mandis and corporates - but again, whenever government builds something in India, the officers appointed use corruption to take it from useful to useless. So that also won't work. I don't know, what can solve this issue apart from government holding off the laws. They are saying they can put the law on hold for 1.5 years, but the protest is at a stage where they want it to be totally taken back. The case is also in supreme court of India where I think they have made a committee to solve this. But I believe protesters are very concerned about livelihood post these laws. I guess that's the trouble with big changes like this, it can impact people positively/negatively in short term but might boost the economy in long run. It's important to protect people during these major changes also. May be NGOs can be used to first raise awareness - small A/B test can be done with experiment group. I don't know why governments don't do incremental changes slowly.
To add to what you said, the formula came back a week and a half later when they returned to tagging releases.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/82a45025682...
>The root of the problem is a lack of self control

So make it easier for people to control their own behavior, if you want to make a dent in the problem. Teach them how to be in good shape by actually making them do it as adolescents. Teenagers are already required to participate in gym class. Why don't we change gym class so that it actually does something for them?

>and putting things in scarier packaging will not solve that problem.

Do you think that the labeling on a package is irrelevant? Then why do companies spend so much money designing it? Why are they all bright flashy colors, rather than black, white, and grey?

>Why would we restrict our charity to this country?

Because this is where we live, and where our families live, and the quality of their lives is most dependent on what happens to the people here.

>Let's solve real problems, which mostly exist in other countries. Unrestricted access to soda and Twinkies is not a real problem.

70% of the country being overweight is a real problem.

>In addition, prohibition does not work.

I said nothing about prohibition. Having to ask the cashier to go get you your case of Pepsi is not the same as banning the sale of Pepsi.
I feel like everyone's skipping past one of the options, "has >4 years of industry experience" - which is not too high of a bar to pass?
There's a very popular, easy-to-install mod that removes automatic traffic despawning and allows you to make a bunch of other behavioral tweaks to traffic.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=16376...
> Minecraft was written in Java

Did not know that
The law is also removing mandatory middle men who had a lot of sway over the farmers who had to go through them to sell their produce. Effectively going towards a free-er market.
Out of curiosity, what is it that makes Firefox 5% worse than Chromium-based browsers in your eyes?
It's the brevity and the parts that are missing (eg: 'It just scrolls like butter' or 'isn't that nice? Would you like to see it again?') Instead he just rushes along, hitting the required bullet points. It's probably more noticeable if you get yourself into the mindset of the times (a couple years of anticipation of an iPod phone) and watch in the context of the entire preso.
I guess I'm just going to have to see it in a store to believe it.
Land use (especially in regards public access property) and homelessness go hand in hand. Most people don't care if someone can check off a box that says they have a home address, they care what people are doing in their parks, libraries, roadways, sidewalks, right of ways, etc.

>Then once we're sure the people still sleeping on Main Street are doing it because they genuinely enjoy being outdoors, you can talk about active policing and the justice system on whoever is left.

There are classes of people who have the means to be helped but choose not to. Which are still going to be there regardless of how much resources you throw at the issue, unless you think the future is a dystopian society where people no longer have free will.
What leads you to believe the USA has any interest, now or in the future, in shutting down Twitter?
The rabbit hole to leads to Borges, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Examination_of_the_Work_of_...

a PDF http://oldsite.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/rraley/courses/eng14...
The fact that you haven’t used gdb is a huge deal. This is very rare in large C++ projects.
I don't know, I think you're both a little off here. You're confident MTG doesn't actually mean it when she talks about assassinating politicians. That may be the case. But she's talking about it with people who do mean it. Somebody comes up to you and sincerely starts a discussion about hanging the traitors, and you play along with them? That's on you. It's not a hyperbolic accusation.

(I don't think Boebert is in quite the same league, but give it time).
Side note: Apple has been a trillion-dollar company since 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by...
I believe their revenue model is mainly selling Plex Passes, a one time fee, "lifetime" subscription.

What's the market size is for personal Plex servers in the day and age of streaming services? At what point is the market saturated and can they still support core Plex services once their install base is saturated?

Their TV and Gaming services are clearly a push to new revenue models.
Naysayers should work at, or observe one of these programs in action before coming to conclusions. I have this experience and know those people and what they can do. Think of them as the immune system to defend against the potential disease discussed above.
Im sure they do sell ads in Pakistan and want in the future?

An independent state could strangle that business in many easy ways if that is their mission, therefor Google will eventually do whatever it takes to stay in the market.
I did the same thing. This book has been on my radar and I bought it about 3 months ago.
Terms and conditions were updated a few weeks ago. The fact that the key will only remain on your phone has been removed from them.
I use nixpkgs and home-manager for a consistent package management and configuration across MacOS and Linux (NixOS), which others also reported great success [1]. As noted in the article [1], home-manager has a steeper learning curve, but is much more powerful (e.g., supports providing development dependencies and environment, or even extend to Ops).

For the interested, search for some variants of “homebrew home-manager nix”, and you may find lots of resources [2][3][4].

[1]: https://lucperkins.dev/blog/home-manager/

[2]: https://www.softinio.com/post/moving-from-homebrew-to-nix-pa...

[3]: https://wickedchicken.github.io/post/macos-nix-setup/

[4]: https://dev.to/louy2/use-nix-on-macos-as-a-homebrew-user-22d
I'm not sure I buy that - you're only likely to find out it was a bad idea after the takeover, because the deal is deliberately opaque, early investors get special rights, it may only be for a small part of the private company's value, and the private company has not usually published all the data required of a public company.

There are very good reasons IPOs require all sorts of public documentation and due diligence. All that regulation which SPACs attempt to side-step is there because of previous scams run in just the same style as SPACs.

They are reminiscent of the weird companies formed during the South Sea Bubble e.g. A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage but no-one to know what it is
I don't understand this critique. Is this a complaint about package managers in general, or is `brew install git` lowering the bar from `apt install git`?
> Homebrew asks users (on Intel macs) to change the ownership of /usr/local to their local user.

Nope - intel Mac on Big Sur:

drogers@SJCMACJDYMD6M ~ % ls -l /usr

[snip]

drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 480 Dec 14 20:10 local

[end snip]

And for the record, neither of your links support your claim.
Really nice work
It doesn't actually matter. You can s/printing money/anything the government does with money/ because the government does not typically produce a net gain in resources. That is done by labor and resource extraction.

Planting a tree is an investment in the future. Paying someone to dig up a tree and replant it in your yard is not.
> ...is removing minimum purchase prices for produce.

This is false. They are removing the restriction that all produce has to be sold in a APMCs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_produce_market_co...)
Indian. I resisted getting a twitter account all these years, but created one just to keep track of the pandemic. As far as I can tell, Indian political parties and "news" outlets have completely gamed the system. Every day, there would be a new outrage hashtag. And by no means are these outrages driven by one political faction. Over the last one year, I notice that Twitter itself has taken steps to limit the "trending" hashtags. Since 2021, I see just one or two such hashtags on the homepage.

With all this outrage generated on Twitter, I really wonder how much of a role Twitter is playing in incitement(s). Would I be sad to see Twitter go? To some extent... there are some great people I follow on Twitter. But the platform itself, I tend to see as a force of evil.
Anaylsis of new malware targeting Kubernetes
Sure, we are back to talking about free speech considerations since now it is not the side most of the tech press hates being blocked.

What Twitter started with when it decided to become the arbiter of what is allowed on the platform, and what constitutes inciting violence and unrest, it opened a slippery slope.

I read about the hashtag in question and it definitely seems like one can spin it as people inciting unrest and violence similar to what happened few weeks back. Twitter lost the moral ground here as soon as it decided to wade into what constitutes good speech and what not.

Anyway, Twitter has been a toxic platform for a while now. It just has managed to evade the scrutiny FB gets. Just look at the sort of activism that goes around there which is related to the current issue. https://www.wsj.com/articles/rihanna-rallies-to-the-wrong-ca...
On Android it is relatively trivial to install applications from outside the Google Play Store.
Why not firefox add-on? What's so difficult in developing the add-on in Firefox?
If 23andme had that many paying customers, they would not have needed to go the SPAC route to avoid financial disclosure. That they have chosen to go public as a SPAC after more than a decade of existence does not speak highly of their financial situation or their prospects for future earnings (and this is generally something that nearly all recent SPACs share).
What exactly is a fecal transplant?? This isnt the first time I heard of this technique and it seems to have wide reaching effectiveness.
The goal is making these libraries in Rust. Rust is fundamentally a better language for game development than C#.
Well my dads a farmer and he has no problem with these laws and you will find the same with majority of the farmers in India. They support the law, literally every economist is giving their approval to these laws. There will naturally be some opposing the law and the government has held a dozen meetings with the small number of farmers to discuss each and every point, but they are hell bent on repealing the law instead of amending, which imo is not very constructive.
They shouldn't and haven't taken global action against the developers. The apps remain available outside of Pakistan - you can find them if you search for "ahmadiyya muslim community quran".
Rust has an interesting way of handling memory so that you don't need a GC. GCs can cause stutters in games.
Show HN: Gather the Family – Family Photo Sharing and Genealogy
I have been working on Gather the Family for a while now, and I think it's looking pretty good. I would love to get some feedback from everyone on the product.

Gather the Family is a web application that allows users to share the family photos and Genealogy privately with Family Members. In addition to the usual features you would expect such as Facial Recognition, Photos marked on maps and time lines, it also uses its Genealogy tools to build some more advanced tools. If a photo's date taken is unknown and the people in the photos birthday is known it will estimate the year the photo was taken. If you build a family tree you can filter photographs by relation, i.e. show all pictures of grandchildren.
Those were one of the reasons, but I believe the biggest reason was MacPorts didn't install from binary archive and requires building everything from source in its early days (in the old BSD port tradition). Binary archives were added to MacPorts in 2011 with MacPorts 2.0, but a lot of people (me included) has already moved to Homebrew, leaving MacPorts with an impression of old, slow, and make your Mac fry an egg.

MacPorts these days behaves similar to Homebrew by installing from binary archives by default and only build from source when binary archive is not available. This vastly improved the experience, but the old impression remains for those who got burned (literally for some) by MacPorts. 10 years is a long time, and MacPorts has improved a lot since then.
> I can't help but wonder what the purpose of this system

Some words I live by: The purpose of a system is what it does. The purpose of the police is to protect private property, especially if it's owned by corporations. They're not there to protect you or keep your community safe. They are there to keep private property and capital private.
Fascinating, particularly the analysis of pulsar signals for meta-phenomena.

I bet gravitational waves aren’t the only thing we’ll learn to detect from pulsars.
> Davar and colleagues collected fecal samples from patients who responded extraordinarily well to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy and tested for infectious pathogens before giving the samples, through colonoscopy, to advanced melanoma patients who had never previously responded to immunotherapy. The patients were then given the anti-PD-1 drug pembrolizumab. And it worked.

It's pretty crazy that your gut biome can change the way your body responds to skin cancer treatment.

Could this work for basically anything immune-related? Maybe people who got COVID but were asymptomatic could donate some poop.
America gets its name from Amerigo Vespucci, but he set foot on South America centuries after Leif Erikson set foot on North America. Please start calling America Erica.
I think we're talking about two different things here: companies and code.

You're absolutely right in that companies, as legal entities, have to obey laws in whatever jurisdiction they operate.

But the "internet routes around censorship" folks are usually talking about company-less code (or information), in its pure sense.

That is effectively influenced by only two variables: the cost of copying and distributing it.

Digital technology has driven that number far lower than it's historically existed. And in that, it's a fundamental change.

To cast into concrete terms, we're talking about Facebook (company example) vs DeCSS (code).

Facebook cares if Pakistan or the US says something must be so. DeCSS doesn't.