skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An ETF isn’t going to “accidentally” exceed 15% ownership of Twitter.

Seriously, do you think funds playing with the kind of money to buy 15% of twitter often make careless purchases?

>Edit: Also, if Elon is reading this, I'll happily buy 14.9% of twitter, and vote as part of your block. Just pay me enough to cover the sale and taxes, plus 1%.

Such an arrangement would make Elon the beneficial owner of your shares.
> But yes, ultimately the (U.S.) government is not able to tell businesses what content to moderate (or not moderate) because that would be a first amendment violation

And yet, the US Govt has done exactly that and Twitter et al fell right in line.
mv can't, or, more correctly the rename system call can not.

rename is an atomic operation from any modern filesystem's perspective, you're not writing new data, you're simply changing the name of the existing file, it either succeeds or fails.

Keep in mind that if you're doing this, mv (the command line tool) as opposed to the `rename` system call, falls back to copying if the source and destination files are on different filesystems since you can not really mv a file across filesystems!

In order to have truly atomic writes you need to:

open a new file on the same filesystem as your destination file

write contents

call fsync

call rename

call sync (if you care about the file rename itself never being reverted).

This is some very naive golang code (from when I barely knew golang) for doing this which has been running in production since I wrote it without a single issue: https://github.com/AdamJacobMuller/atomicxt/blob/master/file...
"Well I think we're an idiot!"
That’s trivial[1]:

11 = 21
10 = 7
01 = 3
00 = FileNotFound

[1]: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_
Could you say in concrete terms what you think is not going to work? This just feels like a jumble of spatial metaphors. I don't see why it matters whether Rust or C are 'high' or 'low' level languages, or how that relates to the kernel being at the 'bottom' of the operating system.
Totally possible, but the original question was "Is there a NON-culture/political reason for all the push back" and "Twitter stock price was higher than Musk’s offer for most of 2021" is definitely a non-cultural/political reason to push back on the offer.

Again, you might be right that Twitter's price was over-inflated in 2021, but "it was worth more" is certainly a non-cultural/political reason to push back on the offer - even if they're wrong about Twitter's long-term value.
This solves a 6-year old SO post I had!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38387964/is-it-possible-...
cat is doing nothing useful here. Your command is equivalent to

awk '{do_stuff()}' myfile.txt | sort -u | column --table > new-myfile.txt

The only thing you’ve changed is that you’re sending the output to a new file. That’s fine, but it’s what sponge is avoiding.
Not really. There's also a lot of differences, like SARS didn't escape to be a global pandemic. I'd say that's a big difference. At this point zero covid is like trying to create a zero flu policy. That's very different from a zero measles policy.
> Their revenue is flat and down.

This makes me wary of your post. You could have easily fact checked this and you would have seen that this is incorrect. It's up 37% compared to the year before that. [0] I checked the last 3 years and the growth has been positive during all 3 years. [1]

[0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twitter-announces-f...
[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWTR/twitter/reven...
> There was no possible way that death could have been averted.

Respectfully, I disagree. If there was no possible way to avert it, how did China avert the vast majority of equivalent deaths?

The action/omission distinction is for judging who started a fight in a schoolyard, not for judging the actions of nation-states.
Corporate governance needs a revamp. Executives have too much power relative to shareholders.
DDG sucks in many ways. Besides the engine performing quite poorly, it also relies on third parties and so will return filtered results they may not even control. They also never supported IPv6 and are hosted at Microsoft or Amazon.

IMO, there is no credible search engine today.
Because of torque?
> It's a deeply philosophical problem that China hasn't resolved, despite ample opportunity to learn the lesson.

What a bizarre statement. How can you simultaneously think it's a deep philosophical issue and also that there is an obvious solution?
>If the virus really came from the lab, then presumably the Chinese know more about its (long term) effects than the rest of us.

why would this be the case? any secret informational advantage they had at the start evaporated as soon as it got outside their borders. and today's virus is very different to the OG one they had in the lab before it was (presumably accidentally) leaked.
Better than right turn on green, where the same thing occurs. With right turn on red, cars must stop before turning. Furthermore, cars are not permitted to turn if there are pedestrians crossing.
> c) Profit of $273m in 2021 when you exclude once-off litigation expense.

The once-off litigation expense might soon be recuring in 2022, after this move. The former was a shareholder class action lawsuit, and the latter will most likely be the same.
>worth the cost

It depends on how you value life and death. On one end of the spectrum, there are some people who think we should stop everything if it prevents a single death. On the other end, people who think they should be allowed to do whatever they want even if it clearly endangers others.

I don't think it's a question that the former extreme won out in most places wrt covid response.

The hard truth is that we have to put a price tag on life and death, because no matter what we do, it's going to contribute to someone's death. It's not a popular answer, but it's the only pragmatic one.
Ah Inkscape, also a pain to use because of the complete lack of hardware acceleration. I get 2 fps dragging simple shapes on decent hardware. I had better performance in Corel Draw on Windows 3.1.
> I'm going to try to find a source, but I saw an analysis where they measured from a year before the split,

There's a bit of time travel / survivor bias with this one. A company that has not beaten the market is much less likely to split its stock. In other words, if I know nothing other than that a company is splitting its stock, I can reasonably guess that it's shown good returns in recent history.
Sure, in theory, in practice there's all sort of physical constraints on the hardware that add/depend on each other and whose complexity "grows" (I'm abusing the term, I know) much faster than linear, hence why I used the term exponential.

"Quantum mechanical states are extremely fragile and require near absolute isolation from the environment. Such conditions are hard to create and typically require temperatures near absolute zero and shielding from radiation. Thus, building quantum computers is expensive and difficult. The challenge increases dramatically with increasing size (number of qubits and the length of time they must be coherent) and thus only small to medium scale computers have been built so far.", from [1]. Also, I recommend reading out the whole article as it gives a nice, broad, overview of the challenges in place, it's not as easy as putting 1 qubit + 1 qubit together.

1: Quantum Computing: An Overview Across the System Stack, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.07240.pdf
And public domain content, and content licensed for free distribution, and abandoned software. The good stuff is there too, but the legit free stuff isn't all bad.
Today's price and the 'expected' future price is all that matters. The 90% lifetime price history is not relevant. All transactions of this nature are based on future value. The offer is only an 18% premium at a time when many tech stocks are being hammered due to extrinsic reasons. It is not a serious offer.
Seems like reasonably good solution for vacations when I need to take with me my work laptop, but I want to also work on my personal projects, without dragging second laptop?

Or does company laptop prohibit this somehow?
Get a Kindle or Kobo and a 13” iPad or Quaderno. The Kindle or Kobo is ideal for reading books and the 13” tablet is what you want for PDFs. The Remarkable and other 10” devices are nice but it’s too small for PDFs. If they made a 13” Remarkable, I would probably recommend that.
Thanks, this is a good article that backed up one of the quotes: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-55756452

I appreciate you bringing new info to my eyes.
I don't think its possible for Musk to ever attain 51%, everytime the price sinks and he accrues shares, they would just choose to issue more shares diluting his equity.

really think Musk knew this ahead of time...but what's his end goal i can't figure out. is it to profit off his purchase? because if he wanted to acquire 51% this is the worst way to do it (creating a hostile board who can at will issue infinite amount of shares)
It helps prevent infection and temper symptoms but it's not as effective as the mRNA vaccines.

Something like 50% vs 90% though that could be old data.
> then presumably the Chinese know more about its (long term) effects than the rest of us

Not necessarily true. The lab in question has been known to house coronavirus variants and done bat research. SARS-cov-2 isn't the first coronavirus out of China, remember SARS-cov-1. This is not in dispute. What was in dispute is if it leaked from there or not, or spread naturally outside human error. The proximity of the lab to the first cases, the measures taken there before the known spread of the virus and their attempt to destroy information about it is what leads to speculation. We may never know what actually happened outside anecdotal information without more information from China. Given the low likelihood of it being human engineered though, we should probably still be able to trace how it evolved in nature before spreading to humans. I don't see the correlation between this and the zero-COVID policy. Labs (ethically) work with pathogens all the time, they obviously don't inject viruses into humans without substantial cause.
That is, in fact, one of the neat facts about Strassburg/Strasbourg - the Neustadt (lit. New Town) built during the German occupation of Alsace Lorraine between the Franco-Prussian War and WWI was designed specifically as a capital of the west and outfitted with the latest technologies - as a result it's one of the oldest european city districts constructed entirely with in-building heating via distributed radiators connected to central boilers.

This isn't at all a counter to your statement, just an interest fact nugget.
> The position of non-voting shares is quite precarious I think, because a voting majority in the company can simply dilute shares and render the STAK-owned shares less valuable.

I figure this is probably the case with most employee stock grants -- it's unlikely they'll give out enough shares that even every employee working together could sway elections.
Why? It's worked for them for a few years now and they have successfully mitigated what would have been millions of deaths.

Your claim that it doesn't work because of the "nature of viruses" seems belied by the facts on the ground.
What about the Silver Searcher? It's even faster than ack

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
Neither a feature or a bug, nor not a feature or a bug.
So Elon Musk is gospel, no skepticism towards any decision he makes. Sorry, I can’t get on board with this, it’s fanaticism.
And when these companies buy their way out of paying taxes for infrastructure, were supposed to clap and say "well done ole boys"
Not well versed in any of this, but could this be Musk just toying around with Twitter and/or him bluffing to get a reaction? Does he have any legal obligation to go through with the purchase if Twitter was open to it?
> The "old internet" was predominantly american ( 90%+ ) and we didn't just want to protect free speech from conservatives attacking porn, but from everyone ( soccer moms, woke leftist, europeans, ADL, canadians, etc ).

No one was concerned with woke leftists in the 90s. No one. "Woke" wasn't a term, and after the fall of the Soviet Union, no one was worried about the corroding influence of leftists, or cultural marxism, or any of the bogeymen that resurfaced over the past decade.
> What’s a concrete example of speech

The example that people use, would be any speech that legal within the US.

If it is illegal, then most anti-censorship advocates are still fine with it being banned. But generally speaking, the best case scenario for them would be all legal speech in the US.
This can be done with regular shell redirection, even though I wouldn't recommend it. Easy to get wrong, and fairly opaque:

$ cat foo
foo
bar
baz
$ ( rm foo && grep ba > foo ) < foo
$ cat foo
bar
baz
$
https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/docs/2sparks98.pdf

https://www.benning.army.mil/armor/earmor/content/issues/201...

https://www.baen.com/tanksfuture
You know, Russian invasion does not help ethnic Russians in Ukraine. Just a food for thought, consider thinking about this.
They have a bunch of differences under the hood, particularly when you want to give perms. It makes sense, sort of, on its face, that a user can’t have teams, but why? That decision is pretty arbitrary, to me. Then in GHE, users and orgs have all sorts of fun differences when you consider things like internal/public/private and how people can interact with them; to wit, if you’re in ANY team you can see ANY internal repo in an org, but if you’re limited to just personal repos, you can see no such things.
I think the other thing is China has somewhat demonised the rest of the world for is covid response, and it seems there was a lot of 'pride' at the fact the CCP had kept it at bay. Sort of "only the Chinese governmental system can save you", which for many months/years seemed true, with most of the rest of the world struggling to cope, wheras China was completely normal for a long time.

It's clear this is going to end extremely badly. Take a look at Hong Kong's death rate climb when it got out of control there - and HK is much richer than mainland China, with some of the best medical care in the world, and HK did have a fair bit of mRNA vaccine usage, whereas China has close to 0.
It used to be that if you had health issues you simply couldn't buy insurance, period. My former employer failed in the housing collapse, trying to get private "Please feel free to reapply when you have a diagnosis." I'd love to have even a real diagnosis, but I do not expect I ever will.
For most ISPs making IPs ephemeral is the only solution to the scarcity of IP addresses. You don't want IPs allocated to people who have turned off their routers.
2 big differences SARS didn't explode all over the globe and if you got SARS your fate was decided very quickly. Covid can be very mild or even asymptomatic making it easy to miss.
China Is Spying Its Way to Space Dominance
Some states had high risk pools. Limited coverage, limited access, high premiums.
The original idea with insurance providers was that they were more educated than their customers, and since they were paying, they would be incentivized and better capable of negotiating with medical providers.

Of course, this has proven not to be the case. Part of the reason is that insurance providers are legally prohibited from making profits beyond a certain proportion to what they actually pay for medical services. So now, they are actually incentivized for _higher_ medical costs.
I have to wonder how many of our strongly held beliefs can be rendered irrelevant to our own minds by something as mundane as a few micrograms of a chemical.

I also have to wonder how many of those beliefs can only be corrected by something as drastic as a foreign substance acting on it against our will.

In some other universe, the world might become a very different place if the people in power chose to take LSD with an open mind. If so, there would be no "meaning" we could attribute to that radical change except that it was the result of a chemical formula.

It feels like there is something profound about that related to the meaningfulness of all things, but since I haven't taken psychedelics, I guess I am still blind to what it is.
I find it more amusing that someone can think that the could CCP be seriously concerned about the long term wellbeing of the Chinese people. Surely if it disportionately affects older individuals, especially in the light of the demographic crisis China will being facing in not to distant future (and with no social security or widespread private pension schemes and limited immigration it would be reasonable that it will hurt the Chinese people more than those living in the west), culling as a many of them would help increase the average productivity of their 'citizens'?

What I just wrote must sounding disgusting, but let's not forget we're talking about country which until very recently practised forced abortion upon women choose to have more than a single child (pursuing an absurd and nonsensical policy which might imply that the CCP is not the most rational bunch...) and is still sending thousands if not millions of people in to concentration/reeducation camps merely because of their ethnicity and religion.
> have millions of files

Congratulations. I have millions of files on my static sites. So what? Would you recommend a container for each? To what purpose?

> different degrees of functionality

We're still talking static sites. There is no 'functionality', right?
I'm not taking a side on whether or not deaths could've been averted but I would be very skeptical of data coming out of China.
If you are looking for a good site to test it on, try https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html
> For most of american history, "arranged" marriages were the norm

Were they? First-wave feminists made serious headway in challenging marriage norms as early as the 1850s/60s. The language of "soulmate" comes from this period, and was Spiritualist way of rationalizing divorce from your partner for someone you truly loved.
Factorio doesn't say "You'll lose unsaved changes" if you close the game immediately after saving, which is super nice.

The number of games that DO ask this question, immediately after saving, is ridiculously high it's so frustrating.
>>how did China avert the vast majority of equivalent deaths?

Do you really believe they 'averted 'the deaths? or is it more likely they hid the truth. I vote for the latter; they don't have a good track record.
Succession: Bear Hugs and Poison Pills
Blog post I wrote when I was excited about Succession. It turned out surprisingly reminiscent of Twitter's current situation.
I've set it as my primary search engine in Firefox, it looks like there are instructions here about how to do the same in safari: https://kagi.com/faq#default
There are already alternatives to Twitter. Why haven't you ditched it already?
Thanks for the reply! We've had long discussions about all the options (one job + one stay at home, moving to a cheaper area, part time, etc.) but both of us at the end of the day are fairly ambitious and want to have careers. Also, in order to be next to our families (not just parents, but siblings and grandparents) the CoL is pretty high and having 2 incomes is required.

She's not frustrated with needing to work, it's frustration with the sheer number of hours. A more normal job that would allow us to drop off the kids and pick them up together consistently would be great.
Note that only those influenced to buy insurance would show any possible benefit.
> Sun systems looked weird, laggy and just super obscure to me.

Workstations typically came with fast SCSI disks. Once I wanted to find a file after a failed install and used `find`. The search came back immediately, empty. I concluded I was doing something wrong, did `man find` to confirm there wasn't any Sun-specific oddity. Then I tried with `find / -name passwd` because I knew that file existed. Result came back immediately. It was probably caching the whole directory structure in RAM, but the instantaneous response really impressed me back then.

Mouse was laggy, because, IIRC, it communicated at 9600 bps or something like that. Macs and SGIs were much smoother.

> So maybe in 2022 someone could enlighten me about what exactly was so cool about Sun?

The one thing I loved was X and its network transparency. I often run NetScape on a beefier box and it was just like having it running on my workstation. Same with software development and engineering tools. I could reach out to multiple computers (and not only Solaris ones, but any Unix) from my desktop easily.

The same could be said about any other Unix-based workstation with X (NeXT didn't come with it).
Yeah I was talking about this story with my mom over easter, she's old, she worked as a nurse all her life before retirement and her response was very simple, females get brittle bones with age. They might use more kalcium or whatever is required to make bones strong. So their bones are less likely to last, or less likely to preserve DNA.

While males have more of those materials required to make the bones and their DNA last.
tar czvf "create ze vucking file"

tar xzvf "extract ze vucking files"

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18909789
The brain also needs time to "rewire" once it starts accepting more and better input.

"Rotating your eyeball" as a treatment for macular degeneration is a good example. Your brain needs a week or so to "reorient" even though the physical procedure is done in a couple hours.
Then there's the question of whether such bylaws should be legal.
> Do you really believe they 'averted 'the deaths? or is it more likely they hid the truth. I vote for the latter; they don't have a good track record.

They would not be able to hide infection on the level that the US has had it - antibody tests from travelers from China would show it trivially, social media would show it.

The idea that China has secretly had 3 million covid deaths and widespread infection without anybody realizing is a conspiracy theory.
The pointy metal ends on these bend so easily though. I love the concept but that just makes them a liability for daily driver use
Had never heard of it before, but I'll definitely check it out now. Thanks!
> Edit: Also, if Elon is reading this, I'll happily buy 14.9% of twitter, and vote as part of your block. Just pay me enough to cover the sale and taxes, plus 1%.

You might want to speak with a lawyer who is familiar with inchoate crime.

What you publicly proposed to Elon is a crime, since you intend to conceal beneficial ownership of shares.
That's a lot to ask when each user account is free.

You're basically replicating the US Courts Legal System, except those on trial pay 0% taxes. Not viable.

Keep thinking though, we need a hero of an idea to make forward progress on the question of what strategy is best for US-based public companies, and what their role is in showing the world what the gold standard for "freedom of speech" online looks like.
Those are physical bits. It is nowhere close to even a single logical bit that could do stuff like that. They are showing us what they can do. Now someone has to figure out how to turn it into something practical.

I think the current goal is the factorization of 15. There is no reason to suggest insane levels of challenge like 21.
Either would have been a win as far as I’m concerned.
Russian warship: Moskva sinks in Black Sea
> Will I install it again? No.

I'd give it a chance if it came with CDE or OpenWindows.
(1) yes, though would be an expensive troll and (2) no - offer was non-binding and very conditional (due diligence, financing, etc.)
Elon Musk’s paradoxical vision of running Twitter: Less democracy, more freedom
Even New Zealand, an isolated island, gave up the pretence of of zero covid!
How many tanks, fighter jets, SAMs, navy ships, cruise/ballistic missiles has NATO provided to Ukraine?

The way Ukraine fights is not in adherence to some NATO standards
A Boy and His Blob