skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked hard for a nice pen about 5 years ago. I ended up going with a Zebra Sharbo X LT3. I use them so much that the matte finish comes to a shine in about 3 months and the plastic mechanism inside loosens up in about 1 year. They probably would last much longer if I did not flip them all day everyday. I happily buy new ones when it's time from JetPens. I've tried a few other models but nothing compares to the Sharbo X LT3.

Unfortunately, the pretty colors have been discontinued, but if you're looking for a multipen and don't mind putting up some money, they're great.
> Seriously, do you think funds playing with the kind of money to buy 15% of twitter often make careless purchases?

- You
>Seems understandable to me.

The explanation seems superficially plausible, until you realize many (all?) other browser seem to work fine without a remote server to fetch favicons.
Ok, we'll change to that from https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2413 above. Thanks!
> [One super cool thing the man page mentions is that if you create a link named z<programname> eg. zsed, with zrun as the link target, then when you run `zsed XYZ`, zrun will read its own program name, and execute 'zrun sed XYZ' automatically.]

That's a brilliant way to improve the ergonomics.
Regardless, the title of the submitted article should be used.
Defense spending, again A reply to Matt Yglesias
... by using GIMP for the things MS Paint can't do.

Not that it isn't impressive, but the title is misleading when you look at the picture and wonder how are these gradients done with paint? That's impressive indeed (which was my first thought).

> how I draw the illustrations old-school in MS Paint and shade in GIMP
Maybe I'm misreading something here, but why should someone who is an entry level software developer at a FAANG be able to afford one of the best houses in the city?
A lot of that might be due to books and other media from or set in the past being about (relatively) rich people.

I love reading novels written in the late 18th/early 19th century; I give thanks that I was born in the late 20th century, because life as a middle class woman with an IT job now is far superior to life as a relatively wealthy woman then, to say nothing of life as a woman who actually did have to work outside her home (those were not fun, personally-fulfilling jobs).
Take that two and a half percent and run
IIRC The Apple privacy changes hit a very specific kind of targeted advertising that Facebook was great at monetizing. I’m not familiar with Twitters ad platform but it’s unlikely to have affected them as hard as they hit FB.
I feel much better about getting a custom mouthguard for my bruxism now. Also, in case anyone is wondering, it was well worth the insane price for a piece of molded plastic.
Thanks Dang. Can you also update the title? It's not only Salesforce private repos that may have been exposed.
Isn't your sample biased? Distressed companies are more likely to attract takeover attempts (hostile or not) compared to healthy ones; and they are also more likely to tank. As far as I can tell, Twitter is not in financial distress.
I have looked through the source to both your engine and Bevy.

It's nice that you've found your niche, but Bevy attempting to follow would be a big mistake.

The abstractions you use work OK in a world where everything looks like Quake, but they're simply not universal.

An engine like yours should be built on top of Bevy, it shouldn't be part of Bevy.
Isn't this more or less Mearsheimer argument again? Some time ago I read McFaul's and Sestanovich's arguments against Mearsheimer and Mearsheimers reply [1]. Although I lean more against Mearsheimer arguments, he writes this in his reply:

> I did call NATO expansion "the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia's orbit and integrate it into the West."

> Yet I also emphasized that the strategy had two other "critical elements":

> EU expansion and democracy promotion.

So, no matter what side of the arguments you fall on, it becomes more or less: Russia (or Putin) sees democratic (or western) values in its vicinity as a threat, which it is willing to violently neutralize.

The question boils down to: Is Europe/EU, NATO or the U.S. willing to allow Russia to attack and overthrow sovereign countries, because it doesn't like them being or becoming democratic?

If the answer is no, which it (in this day and age) is, then war (cold or not) with Russia is inevitable in my opinion.

[1] https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Mosco...
I've changed the title to what the new linked article says (shortened to fit HN's 80 char limit).

(Submitted title was "Some Salesforce private GitHub repos stolen")
Proud Boys was started by one of the founders of Vice media too.

That doesn't make them any less of a hate group or less shady.
They work okay for some basic cases. My experience and the experience of folks I've talked to they just seem like a charade mostly.

Again anecdotal, but every person I know (including myself) with some sort of mental illness has ultimately just been due to trauma. I'm sure there are other things that happen, but too many therapists jump over that toward some other diagnosis that's just a symptom, then have some specific treament/medication for that DSM-5 diagnosis.

I finally found a therapist that explained this to me and really dug in on what had happened in my life and I finally began processing it and I'm now better. This is after seeing ~7 different therapists and having ~10 diagnosis.
one thing I love about programming computers is that its pure merit, has nothing to do with my gender, sexuality, race, marital status or parenting status. its orthogonal to all those things. the computer doesnt care, books dont care, etc. up to you when you sit down with them. anything is possible, just up to you
The first ‘Easter eggs’ were an act of corporate rebellion
Typically the stocks that trade in OTC markets (aka pink sheets) are for small or defunct companies not the kinds of big public companies you may be familiar with. Buying a lot of some penny stock, hyping it up, and then dumping it on people is not a particularly sophisticated or new way of defrauding people, though in this case the scheme was a little more involved. You don’t need billions of dollars to buy a lot of the shares of one of these companies.
On 4, the answer is no, but Lambda school in particular has developed a reputation at least in my circles for producing people who are less qualified than folks with no bootcamp or experience on their resume because it is not an effective program.

Rather than addressing their pedagogical failures, they decided to change their name, commit fraud & lie to potential students. Which opens them up to being sued, if only by students, like this woman, who opted out of the arbitration clause.
> and you had 20k deposited in a bad bank; good chance it was simply gone

If the bank was FDIC insured (nearly all US banks are), or a credit union that is a member of the NCUA (nearly all US credit unions are), the customers are insured up to $250k per insured account type.

https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/faq/

https://www.ncua.gov/files/publications/guides-manuals/NCUAH...
If you are claiming you own the shares when in fact Elon payed for them, you are concealing that Elon is the beneficial owner.

If you admit that he is the beneficial owner and you are just an intermediary, then the poison pill provision is not skirted.
>> If you looked at a specific folder in explorer, that can be proven in court, executed a specific program?...

You'll find most if not all of these in `.bash_history`, wouldn't you?

Probably, it's possible to setup an install of Linux in such a way, that the user won't leave any traces in the system, but this is definitely not the default behavior. And the system setup in this way is likely a pain to use. But if you have a specific need, by all means, go for it. After all, with Linux you're in control.

But saying Windows is spyware because it logs your activity locally is stretching it.
"Publicly proposed" contradicts "conceal beneficial ownership."

It's not a crime to publicly finance someone else's stock purchases, or even to publicly solicit others to finance your stock purchases (it's not "solicitation" in the inchoate sense, since the inducement is not towards a crime).
> But if there are no dumb TVs for sale, how do you know if that's the consumer's desire or not?

Because there was a period of several years overlap where both smart and non-smart TVs were available. If smart TVs had been a sales flop they would have been killed off like 3D TVs were. 3D TVs were being pushed hard ~10 years ago. It was supposed to be the next hot thing. But it flopped and has been all but forgotten about. Smart TV could have easily ended up the same way.
Fair enough, I'm canadian and the same reason I haven't moved to Florida is because I'd rather stay and try to fight people like you than just give up and move somewhere else. I think the difference is that all I want is to be left alone, while a you want is for the government to force people to do what you want (because anything else would somehow harm you and your fellow citizens), but that's a pretty classic struggle between libertarian and authoritarian.

And I guess I should add that our constitution and history make liberty and minimal government power the default here, so all of the authoritarianism that's come with covid is an attack on what was once a free country. Which is why I think it's better if you leave if you don't like it.
No? I didn't mean to imply that at all. Rather the opposite. If they cared about economic growth above anything else, I don't think it would a completely beyond them to do something like that (and you don't even need to get back to the times when Mao was still alive to find proof, the one child policy was a misguided crime against humanity, was it not?).

Of course engineering a virus for that purpose would be highly impractical and utterly absurd (one would hope so at least...).
Being open source doesn't mean the people running the public searx instances aren't tracking you.

Self-hosting makes you lose all the benefits of proxying.

In the end be it ddg or searx you can only rely on some third-party trust.
Sure it is; with the right isomorphism.

(Edit: I have a mathematical physics degree; everything I’ve said here is sarcastic/jokingly. The person I’m replying to is right, this is not how Shor’s algorithm works although I’d hope that was obvious from my original tongue in cheek comment)
I think elon will eventually get his way, but at a higher price
> That is integer arithmetic, not pointer arithmetic.

Yeah, but I did say: "which operation could any C compiler disallow in practice: converting from pointer to integer, arithmetic on integers, or converting from integer to pointer?"

If C/C++ compilers keep breaking pointer arithmetic in the game of exploiting undefined behavior for optimizations, people are going to start doing pointer arithmetic with integers when they need it. And they do need it sometimes, for debuggers, profilers, memory checkers, JITs, garbage collectors, shared memory, and so on.
I mean, if one already uses gimp then paint.net is basically on the same level from my (limited) experience with it, aside from that p.n runs only on Windows and gimp skills you can take with you to whatever OS you may have chosen or later choose.
Even more importantly: pay me to cover the sale is the easiest 'piercing of the veil' in the history of time.

Oh so Mr. Musk incidentally wired you billions of dollars before the share purchase?
And using past as prologue… how has been the performance of Twitter been?
Sure, you take that 20% bump and invest it in Google. Then you get 20% plus the tech equity recovery.
decrypt, no, however it has visibility of the entire memory and so can read from pages backing the VM containing pre-encryption and post-decrypted content.

Presumably that means that it could detect known strings in raw memory from a known embedded list. I believe it would be unlikely to use network to obtain some kind of real time list, we would know about it if this was the case. It might be possible to push updated bad string lists embedded encrypted in firmware.
Yahoo braves shareholders’ ire in refusing Microsoft’s $47bn offer (2008)
I'll give you props for having a divisive opinion that you were able to state without vitriol, but the real thing that schooling brings is structure.

All of the information in the world is available in the library, but no one will ever memorize every book in it. The internet has a trillion libraries worth of information, but no one can absorb enough of it without structure and guidance to make something useful out of it.

Schools start everyone at the same starting point and guide them through to the same end point, so that companies can rest assured that the lowest graduate of their school is at a specific minimum competency level. Without the school structure, most people would Dunning-Kruger themselves into thinking that they are either vastly better or immensely worse than they actually are.
As a Netflix shareholder at the time they adopted their poison pill, I feel like the subsequent ~40x increase in share price has been very much in my interest. :-)

Of course hindsight is 20/20, but even at the time, it seemed like the company was prioritizing long-term growth, whereas if they were taken over by Carl Icahn, they'd certainly not be.
Perhaps afraid that backtracking would be seen as a confirmation of policy error?
Gaius didn't destroy the republic, he just wanted to be the one to step up to the throne of its shambline corpse. And it would have worked, if not for those meddling... senators.
Perhaps this graphic will help: https://www.domos.no/news-updates/latency-explained-in-a-pag...
Its not fully clear to me, entire private repos been confirmed stolen?
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Panopticon
Agreed, but there'd be no attempt at concealment (I didn't know beneficial ownership of shares was a thing), so, while it would be dumb to hand me and the IRS a large pile of cash, it sounds like it would probably still trigger the poison pill, and not be illegal.
> Known-affected OAuth applications as of April 15, 2022:

> Heroku Dashboard (ID: 145909)

> Heroku Dashboard (ID: 628778)

> Heroku Dashboard – Preview (ID: 313468)

> Heroku Dashboard – Classic (ID: 363831)

> Travis CI (ID: 9216)

Developers at Heroku and Travis are going to have a rough Friday
> This article glances off a really interesting related problem - the choice between “at most once”, “at least once” and “exactly once” events.

Yeah, I'm not a distributed systems expert, but I think this is one of the foundational problems of distributed systems. And that exactly-once delivery is considered to be impossible over a lossy channel. (That excludes abstractions used to create lossless channels over a lossy channel, such as TCP.) Hence the choice between at-most-once and at-least-once delivery, of which I think most of us choose at-least-once.
it was very limited

The reports did not include usernames or passwords, Social Security numbers, date of birth, payment card information, addresses, bank account information, or any other personally identifiable information. They also did not include any security code, access code, or password used to access Cash App accounts. Other Cash App products and features (other than stock activity) and customers outside of the United States were not impacted.
The easy way to do this is with 'tee /dev/tty' in the middle.
I think he should just use a fraction of the price and build a bot-free Twitter clone. He has such a massive following, which will quickly populate the new platform!
Yup, this is how I first learned PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS, Javascript, Java, C#... Great option for someone who is willing to learn, and can stay engaged the entire semester. My only advice is to make sure your community college is accredited, so if you want to transfer your credits to a 4-year school you can do so. Most community colleges have some transfer agreement within their respective state.
The EU should pay France to host and run more French nuclear reactors. The Nordic countries should run pumped energy storage using their dams. Solar from the Mediterranean should be supplied across the whole EU grid.
I think most DDG fans would be thoroughly surprised DDG ever popped the hood or tried to verify their privacy claims, which is why I don't think DDG ever will.

Better to elude to a nebulous definition of privacy rather than give specifics. Even as a privately traded, for-profit company based in the U.S. with zero accountability for its claims, DDG doesn't even have that much IP to lose (as a Bing reskin) should it ever fold under a class action lawsuit.
Is there an alternative search engine that actually searches the web with removing search results?
I'll second this, I recently started going really downhill in terms of attention span and getting stuff done, so I figured I would give mediating a try. It was been great and really teaches you, you can't control thoughts that enter your mind, but you can let them go quickly.

You should give it try, worst case you waste 5 minutes a day for a couple weeks
So much of this article either seems to be trying to paint Musk in a bad light or has little understanding or low-effort put into seeing how the situation could be contrary to what's being stated.

> And here’s the important bit: all of them eventually learned that their simplistic belief in how things should work does not work in reality and have spent the past few decades trying to iterate.

I would suggest that Tesla and SpaceX were similarly simplistic in vision.

> [...] open sourcing it is different and not as straightforward as Musk seems to imply. First of all, it’s often not the algorithm that is the issue. Second, algorithms that are built up in a proprietary stack are not so easy to just randomly “open source” without revealing all sorts of other stuff. Third, the biggest beneficiaries of open sourcing the ranking algorithm will be spammers [...]

Weasel-worded that doesn't say that these things can't be done or won't help, only that it doesn't 100% solve the problem. Opensourcing an algorithm doesn't have to opensource all the input computation that feeds it. E.g. the spam reduction algorithm can be unpublished feeding the ranking algorithm. Yes, spam detection can also be inaccurate and skew the rankings but it shouldn't be a dominant characteristic and certainly worth making the effort to try to do better. I don't even care to read the rest of the uncritically considered post.
They definitely do not prep in that city. Maybe you can survive a year on a sack of rice and potatoes, if your utilities aren't cut off.

But without guns and land, prepping becomes "hiding until the situation hopefully goes away"
How is it impossible to access? Telegram is a pretty popular messaging app, and if you don't already have an account it's easy to make one. You can use a google voice number or similar to sign up if you prefer not to give your real one.
In my experience, the reason they don't differentiate is because they're implicitly arguing against the subset of pro-lockdown folks who don't differentiate. It's easy to forget, because most of us are understandably excited to memory hole the entire debate, but as recently as last fall there were mainstream voices arguing that it wasn't safe for kids to go to school.
Someone really needs to write a book on this. I really miss those days.

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Windows 7 is becoming very outdated, both in usability and security.
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I'm not an Elon Musk fan, but the impression I get is that both 'sides' exaggerate (or misunderstand) his family background. It seems - from what I've read - that his dad was the kind of slightly-mad entrepreneur who had money at points and no money at other points. I don't think they were stupendously rich.
Twitter Counters Elon Musk’s Takeover Bid with a Poison Pill
A lot of these things -- and a lot of shell tools in general -- strike me as half-baked attempts to build monads for the Unix command line. No disrespect intended; nobody understood monads when Unix was invented. But it makes me wonder what a compositional pipe-ish set of command line tools would look like if it were architected with modern monad theory in mind.
If your shares are going up so much that taxes on it are hard to pay, obviously your base salery should be higher.

If not, because you are just coasting, you should be selling shares to make up for it.
I don’t understand why that would work? The goal is to buffer the output of the commands and then send it all at once.
DuckDuckGo is not solely dependent on Bing. They use Bing as one sourc of the, but they've run their own crawlers since at least 2012.
There is no political will in the US to change the copyright system. Aside from some technologists, I haven't seen anybody who actually wants that. You will anger basically everyone else in the information business. Writers, researchers, artists, architects, musicians, composers, filmmakers, actors, podcasters, even a lot of software developers, you name it. These people all depend on copyright enforcement to get paid.

That to me is the worst thing about repeated phrasing of this as some kind of evil special interest groups against everyone else. The "special interests" here are the people who produce the copyright material you want to access. You have to play ball with them or they will simply not be able to produce those things anymore.
I was confused when I wrote the title because they referred to Heroku as Salesforce and I’m not used to that.
XHTTP: An HTTP server library in a single C file
It isn't just the shareholders they have a fiduciary duty to: they also have the duty of care, the duty of loyalty, and the duty of good faith. Selling to an adderall-addled toddler just because he happens to have accumulated more money than any person should have could be argued to violate all three.
So shareholders aren’t allowed to coordinate?
They're probably not collecting IP addresses or user cookies, but they will undoubtedly have a log of what their users search for, what results were turned, and possibly what clickthroughs happened from their search page. You can do all of that without retaining identifying information for the person who clicked through.

Worst case, if you go back and forth between google search and DDG, a comparative analysis might be able to identify you or people like you from those logs, but it would require some work.
> The richest guy in the world offered to invest a fifth of his net worth into the gamble of turning our company profitable

That's his publically stated claim. Whether that's what is really going on is another question.
>We already see standard property tax forcing the elderly out of their homes in many areas.

This was exactly the narrative that led to Prop 13, and what it has led to is the most inflated property market in the entire world because there is nearly no carrying costs for a first (LA), second (Palm Springs), third (Atherton), or fourth (Tahoe) home!

Sure, a random subset of boomers can die in their empty 6 bedroom houses now, but countless people are moving to places like Texas where land value/property taxes have keep real estate prices relatively low (due to huge carrying costs).

I love CA, but the income vs. wealth/property tax split is what will kill it (at least in its current form).
How tall will Mount Everest get before it stops growing?