skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people in this thread share your opinion, but I'm a bit confused by it.

If the board acted against the usual shareholder interest (to make money) by turning down an offer 54% above premium, would it not be easy to claim that the board is not in it to make the average investor money on $TWTR?

Therefore, wouldn't the value of $TWTR as an investment be far far less than companies who do make it their primary goal?

That's not to even mention the 9% of Elon's stock that he claimed he would now sell.
Every billionaire is supposedly an "asshole" and the only reason is because they have the money to do all of the things that regular people would also do but pretend they don't because they don't have the power to do anything.
Taxation of illegal income in the United States
I live near a path like this. Its official name is the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway, which is unfortunate because it has always been multi-use. Neither the MBTA which owned the right of way at the time nor the four towns it passes through would ever have supported it as a bicycle-only resource. There are signs everywhere reminding people of the law that says cyclists must yield to pedestrians. That's Massachusetts General Law I.XIV.85.11B in case anyone is wondering.

Nonetheless, a significant number of cyclists constantly force pedestrians to yield to them, and almost always point to the name when the subject comes up in online discussions. Maybe a third or less of cyclists give audible warning when passing pedestrians, even though the aforementioned law also requires that and a pregnant woman was killed on that path after being run down from behind by a cyclist only a few years ago. (Interestingly, there's a strong gender divide on that one, and I think you can guess which gender is significantly worse.)

So anyone who tries to say claims about cyclists breaking the law are "myths" is simply not telling the truth. The vast majority of cyclists are sane and considerate. Some of them, such as the ones I've worked alongside on maintaining parts of that path, are even better than that. But there's also a substantial contingent of "bike bros" who absolutely personify the worst stereotypes. I see them every day. Real cycling activists (not those merely claiming the mantle here) don't deny that reality, or try to exclude pedestrians from the discussion. They try to educate and improve everyone's behavior, including their fellow cyclists'. That's how we'll get better bicycle-related laws and infrastructure - not by an entitled few putting their hypocrisy on display any time cyclist/pedestrian interactions come up.
Honestly, bootcampers are on average pretty bad, but the weakest hires tend to come from some of these so-called "elite" universities. Graduates come out of ivory tower CS programs with heads full of empty theory and zero practical knowledge or good judgment. I would bring on a self-taught or even a bootcamp grad ahead of someone whose resume just has a big-name university and a string of academic acronyms after their name.
arguably worse for smaller companies. if you hire the wrong person you can't even try and move them somewhere better suited to them
This doesn't seem mysterious or confusing to me. What happened wasn't the launch of a new random power outage feature - it was a problem that needs to be fixed.
Software architecture sounds doable but only if clients value it.

I’ve seen (or made) mistakes before that I could warn you about and it would save you orders of magnitude more than paying a few dozen hours at that rate.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220416010152/https://www.nytim...
No, it is wrong to assume that the instant price of the stock will probably fall down after the dilution. It might fall, but it might as well increase, which often is the case, since the company as a whole literally become more valuable (influx of new cash on the balance sheet for the issued shares) and it just gained significant extra working capital that it can use to expand operations.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brown_(loyalist)

> Brown soon found himself embroiled in the coming revolution. On 2 August 1775 a crowd of 130 Sons of Liberty confronted him at his house and demanded he pledge himself to the Patriot cause. Brown requested the liberty to hold his own opinions, saying that he could "never enter into an Engagement to take up arms against the Country which gave him being", and finally met their demands with pistol and sword. The crowd seized him and struck him with the butt of a musket, fracturing his skull. Taken prisoner, he was tied to a tree where he was roasted by fire and scalped before being tarred and feathered. Brown was then carted through a number of nearby settlements and forced to verbally pledge himself to the Patriot cause before being released. This mistreatment resulted in the loss of two toes and lifelong headaches.

Cancel culture has been with us since the beginning. Hell, other primates kick bad actors out of the social group; it's been a thing before language existed.
> fit into the broader design style of the surrounding code[, including] the structural patterns.

That might require one to be familiar with those ahead of time. If that's what you're hiring for, that's perfect of course, but I personally haven't had much experience with design patterns outside of a few C# ones in school five years ago. Yet I see myself as a competent amateur programmer (and C# isn't even my strong suit), just not one that often works on large code bases. These patterns seem like something I'd learn in a matter of days on the job... but that would not show in an interview.
Yup, this is what my current take home (2 hours) project is. Read about 200 lines of code, implement about 30 somewhat complex lines in a real working project. And then there's a code review by a "junior" candidate for them to read and review, filled with about 10 bugs in 50 lines. I much prefer it to giving out algorithms questions.
Please discontinue this style of rhetoric, it's not what this site is for.
> To paraphrase: "Ideas are dangerous"

More precisely: ideas are powerful, which means they can be dangerous.

Anyone who doesn't understand that is actually a deeper enemy of discourse than a platform owner who says their forum is not a venue for topic X or opinion Y.

Some stop here at a dichotomy: "you want to ban ideas, I will be oppressed!" or "I must literally be allowed to put my words in your speech vehicle and be given full access to its audience without any abrogation of that privilege or I am being oppressed!"

Others start to understand what the legal system has with both weapons and speech: perhaps there are some activities or forms it takes that need nuanced consideration. Time, place, manner, associated behavior, fire in a crowded theater, threats, etc. You will find these considerations where people actually take speech seriously.

> Ideas are dangerous, people cannot be trusted to argue on the internet because it leads to violence

You seem to be merely summarizing with scorn here rather than actually addressing the situations where this happens.

It's not hard to find stories where distorted worldviews oriented around agentive threats regarding the pandemic have led to people threatening and even assaulting health professionals. I know some of these people.

You probably know families or acquaintances that have banned certain topics from dinner gatherings because they lead to heated conversations or even violence. It's not that they believe no one should ever talk about them. It's that they understand what Wong is talking about here: there's problem behavior and carving out a domain where the related topic isn't carried is one way of fixing it.

And when it's your house that people are yelling or coming to blows at, I'll bet you try the same solution.

Arguing on "the internet" is a freedom that has never been threatened by limitation that Twitter and Reddit have put in place. What's at stake with Twitter and Reddit is what Wong describes well here: they're stewards of the platform where this is taking place, they get to see the effects. They feel an obligation to do something about it.

And you know what? Their right to do so as stewards of the platform is also a freedom of speech right. And it's every bit as important as an individual's right to spout off about whatever it is they want.

The freedoms to watch more strictly are those where the state or other entities impose violence or loss of physical freedom as a consequence for touching a topic. Twitter and Reddit battles are about people's sense of privilege.
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It definitely won't be the bankers.
The issue wasn't that the warning was different, it's that the user level README repo is named "username/username", but the organisation README is named "org/.githib". The person typed "org/org" on autopilot, thinking that orgs worked the same as users. This is a product inconsistency that is not immediately obvious and since there are product differences, the dialog for orgs vs users should definitely be different.
> Please, show me how an appropriately set income tax disincentivizes work.

The most relevant phenomenon is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss#Deadweight_los...

What might be confusing is that relatively few people are incentivized by an income tax to do no work at all, but many people may be incentivized to do less paid work than they otherwise would. (In fact, under idealizing assumptions which don't quite apply in all cases, you would expect every person facing an income tax to do at least very slightly less paid work than without the tax.)
I'm glad he's putting a voice to something I feel has gone under-discussed during this whole "free speech" debate: it's rarely the mere topic that gets someone into trouble, but how the topic is presented.

If you want to say (almost) literally anything, you can find a way to do it that won't get you in trouble anywhere. It's the tone, the timing, and the specific phrasing that causes the problem, not the idea itself.

You can say some truly abhorrent things on Twitter and they won't ban you, if you say it the "right" way, and I feel like a depressingly small number of people realize that.
Jesus and the Shroud of Turin Jesus Documentary Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfvKUG-Eew

A Doctor at Calvary: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ As Described by a Surgeon https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Calvary-Passion-Described-Surg...

The Agony of Jesus in the Garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0eEegbDPGw
Yes but it wasnt as easy to find out about and there weren’t as many companies who profited from making these kind of things easy to hear about.
The ISO was merely made for convenience, and for those without the basic technical knowledge required to perform a manual amelioration. Also, Microsoft already tried without success to shut it down in the past, after Linus made a video on Windows Ameliorated.

There is detailed documentation for performing a manual amelioration, it uses fully open-source scripts. (https://wiki.ameliorated.info/doku.php?id=documentation_21h1)
You have a bank agree to underwrite it because you have the collateral and when the purchase is made then figure out all the details. A large chunk of it will no doubt be re-sold to private investors.
I like AME especially as a statement, but after a few months of running it on my desktop I found it wasn't worth the trouble. Weird things kept not working and most of the time I couldn't figure out why.
I dunno, this seems a lot like a rejection.
It's interesting that Qwant never comes up in these discussions, they have their own engine and are privacy focused, looks very similar to Google but just never seems to be brought up?
there's a finite amount of land and taxing it doesn't reduce the amount of land there is. if you tax services there will be fewer services. if you tax goods there will be less goods.

land is both inelastic and valuable and that is why land tax is perfectly economically efficient and creates no deadweight loss.

the fact that it is also necessary for life and production while being finite is what makes it a moral imperative to redistribute land rents to the proper owners (i.e. society and not an individual, who pays society for the right to a local monopoly over a piece of land).

for me lvt is not about building condos, in some areas it will incentivise that, in other it wont. it's a fundamental moral and philosophical issue on par with slavery; it's about transitioning away from a feudal model and towards a freer market and more participatory and empowering society.

for the true believer lvt must replace other taxes, and in theory all taxes come out of rent, so abolition of sales or income tax will increase lvt even more, in a virtuous cycle.

the appropriate amount to tax land is as close to 100% as you can get.
That kind of reply is a quintessential example of the arrogant self important horsedip that is runing reddit. You personally may want to live in an echo chamber with a bunch of highschoolers, anarchists, socialists, tankies, and the woke but there is a reason why reddit is not nearly as well regarded as it use to be, and its not because people lement the loss of hateful spaces. The idea that you have some sort of moral high ground; that people such as yourself are equipped to be the town censors - it's the peak of Dunning-Kruger effect in action. I have a reddit account as old as yours, the site has far less interesting conversations as it as languished severely, vandalized by by its self-flagulating management. I cannot wait for the day that these woke communities loose favor with society as a whole, their endless purity spiral will destroy them from within.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220313015243/https://www.washi...
I think the comment is more about the fact that your calculation of 83% doesn't make sense. However, I agree with you that likelihood of the deal going through is definitely impacting the short term valuation.
Where do you think all the shares companies offer employees come from? They just make new shares. There is nothing illegal about this as it does everyone equally.
Gosh for all sorts of reasons, direct and indirect, I hope this walvax turns out good.
It’s a myopic view to not throw supply chains into turmoil? This would be like letting your production service go down completely and instead of trying to bring it back up first you decide this is the perfect time to refactor it.
The CCP refuses to import western vaccines. The only option is lock-down because Chinese vaccines are targeted to the original covid-19 strain. There are media reports that China is close to their own mRNA vaccine...
> I have no idea what he was doing

Would it be illegal for him to launch a Twitter competitor, take 40 million followers with him, and sell all of his Twitter shares on the same day?

Perhaps that is the strategy? A 1-2-3 punch to launch his own network.
Didn't know about autotrace. I was supposing it would just trace the bitmap into a compound path, sort of what like potrace does, but the animation suggests it traces into a single path - which is absolutely great, as afterwards you can adjust the stroke width, linecaps and more thingies. Amazing!
He may not but he can use his tesla stock plus however much he can borrow against his twitter equity assuming he gets control of twitter. Similar to the way people buy homes, you only need a down payment and the bank lends you the rest.

But from the point of view of the twitter stockholders they get 100% cash from musk for their shares.

It seems he might not have the financing in place so twitter have doubts about the offer. In theory, he can sell his tesla stock and have the money at hand. It's very unlikely for him to do that.
https://www.wfae.org/business/2022-02-09/as-single-family-re...

That count?
I find it pretty ironic that the Hacker News user calling someone a douchebag goes on to provide what amounts to a "Let Me Google That For You" (lmgtfy) link.
Why is trading history and balances "very dangerous in the wrong hands"?
I just assumed that Elon had no actual plans to win this process, but rather use it as a way to first weaken Twitter before launching a competitor. The reason for this is because I don't see how someone can take over a company where, I assume, a large percentage of the core engineers actually want all of the censorship and so on, and have pronouns in their bio and all of that stuff to signal that they are on the opposite side to Musk in a political war. It seems like you would be leading a bunch of people that don't like you.
The biggest obstacle might be drivers. A “server” is defined more loosely than “an Android phone”. An Android phone manufacturer has the incentive to make sure that drivers for that hardware exist in Android, regardless if Android is Linux-based or Fuchsia-based. And Google can make Android switch to Fuchsia, and therefore can control where that incentive leads. Google, however, does not control what runs on servers, and server hardware manufacturers know that if they don’t have a driver in Linux, they won’t sell very much of their hardware, since existing hardware run Linux-based systems.
Fixing the bug does not necessarily fix anything else it caused though, and none of the questions in my post are answered by “fix it”.

Here’s another one: should the incident actually have an impact on anyone of the companies employees yearly reviews? Either positive or negative? Why?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/built-to-rent-suburbs-are-poise...

> Today, built-to-rent homes make up just over 6% of new homes built in the U.S. every year, according to Hunter Housing Economics, a real estate consulting firm, which projects the number of these homes built annually will double by 2024. The country’s largest home builders are planning for that future. Backed by banks and private investment firms, they have already bet billions on the sector, and will put down some $40 billion more during the next 18 months, Brad Hunter, founder of Hunter Housing Economics, projects. Built-to-rent subdivisions have been constructed or are under development in nearly 30 states. Taylor Morrison Home Corp. , Mr. Wood’s development partner and the nation’s fifth-largest builder, has said built-to-rent could soon become 50% of its total business. The company didn’t disclose the current share.

> Homeownership is expected to decline over the next two decades—a trend that started with the generation after the baby boomers, according to the Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank that advocates for homeownership. Prices are rising faster than ever, leaving more people, including those with higher incomes, more likely to rent.
This is 4chan. Your recurring fantasy is 4chan
> I work well on teams, my teammates like me, but I've always preferred solo work. I think this is a stable personality trait, as I remember feeling like this as early as kindergarten.

This describes me for the first 3 decades of my career. I can now enjoy working together on solving problems. In particular full-time pair programming was brutal at first but then you hit a groove and it's great. No specific advice here, merely a self observation.

> Other factors include the already incredibly complex social problems that come from developing software with a team of humans, the monster that Agile / Scrum have become, bizarre and poorly thought out technical decisions, failed projects, endless meetings, and being told what to do by people who have never written any code.

My advice would be to find a company that has/does less of these things you dislike. The best setup I had was working on a 2-pizza-sized 'platform team' for a ~100 person startup. There was a good mix of developing new features, scaling, and firefighting (that we learned to reduce applying SRE practices). We could start with a problem, whiteboard ideas, start prototyping, finally end up shipping the solution in the same sprint for an unplanned issue.

> being told what to do by people who have never written any code

I wouldn't say this is a good view to hold and may be a source of discontent. The 'what' is really a product question answered by knowing your customers and markets. I wouldn't expect devs to be experts here. The how, at what cost, or when would be better to execute are areas that devs mainly contribute. I do get a sense of what you generally mean though, and my solution had been to work at smaller companies with strong technical management (preferably up to the CTO and/or CEO) and very little to no middle management.
Curious how you folks screen resumes without education background on them. Do you check out GitHub profiles in detail? That seems incredibly time-intensive.

We haven't been able to get our interviewers do that consistently, and a lot of our self-taught hires report that basically no one in the past has ever grilled them about their personal projects, and that we were the first company to do so.
Are you familiar with foreign function interfaces? [0] Threading can be handled Either by the host program or the C / Fortran code.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/extending/extending.html
Most suburban SFH is on well water and septic? I really doubt that. Exurban maybe, rural sure.
I'll let you in on a secret: every person who runs a company is egotistical. It's not possible to run a company otherwise. You've got to have confidence in yourself and your ideas.

Of course, some hide it more assiduously than others. I don't mind Musk boasting. He earned it. It's more refreshing than the fake modesty of others.

A CEO friend of mind once called me up all worried because someone called him arrogant. I told him of course you're arrogant. He was shocked. I laughed, and told him to look at his accomplishments - who but an arrogant person would ever have even attempted those things!
Bare metal Clojure would be Clojure compiled with GraalVM
Indeed. That’s what makes the bids high enough to leave limited immediate cash flow.
I’m a parent now and this thread hits home. I’ll respond in full otherwise but wanted to comment here first.

I think you might be able to do better but it’s not really a black and white comparison. Maybe better for some things, and worse for other things. I look at my own parenting today and am proud that I am NOT doing some of the things my dad did, but I don’t think of myself as better or worse overall. I’m just happy that what I’m doing makes sense to me, and produces pretty awesome feedback from my kids and especially my wife.
Windows Ameliorated does not require installing from an ISO. That was merely made for convenience, and for those without the basic technical knowledge required to perform a manual amelioration. There is detailed documentation for performing a manual amelioration, it uses fully open-source scripts, and is legal if you use a license key before running the scripts. (https://wiki.ameliorated.info/doku.php?id=documentation_21h1)

I do agree removing Windows Update does pose some security risk, however I don't think said risk is nearly as bad as some make it out to be, and I personally think the benefits of Windows Ameliorated greatly outweigh any security downsides.

Also, AME does greatly help to mitigate the attack surface of Windows:

Windows Ameliorated ships with a non-administrator user account by default, which mitigates ~70% of Windows vulnerabilities. (Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210618023509/https://www.beyon...). Of course you can still do admin actions, it just requires the admin password.
Transparency i can agree with, i think twitter does a horrible job at that. especially explaining the rumored shadow bans and stuff. But i think thats different then open source code
Film funding is not a zero sum game. There are lots of other places to secure funding. I've seen about 20 new indie films already this year.

The rest of your comment is unrelated and somewhat unhinged, and appears to be going off into a general complaint about advertising, it has nothing to do with copyright.