skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your take on this. My reaction is that you are of course right that this is not affecting everyone equally. Certainly the CCP is not starving out all 26 million people in Shanghai. But I think this is the exact fear most of us have of authoritarian governments, that minority voices get silenced or worse and that justice is not equally distributed.
Texas repeals immigration order that caused border gridlock
> investors cannot commit securities fraud, only executives can.

The very story you're commenting on is an example of a securities fraud scheme (pump and dump) that can be committed by investors.
Response was to that comment :

>>>I have a feeling that Solaris is a bit of a late bloomer.

Meaning it was not late but early.

>Thirty years have passed.

And yet you still use unix based systems....
No, but I'm looking for a law firm that has experience with funded startups
>you know when you use their products as intended you have no privacy

This isn't true. Google's privacy policy is not lax as you suggest it is.
I have a couple of Rotring 800’s that i adore because of the disappearing tip(makes them much more packable!) However I’m the only person I know who has anything not disposable.
I can't tell you for sure, but it feels off if the deal was changed compared to what it was stated as before. But you probably should have pushed a bit harder on them formalizing the STAK agreement earlier. Still, it could be nothing at all and maybe they simply aren't aware that your original deal was a different one, but such things rarely (if ever) happen by accident.

Also: there are ways to use a STAK to screw the stak certificate holders out of their rightful share during a liquidity event so make sure that you know who represents the STAK, ideally a notary public should be assigned as the administrator of the STAK, and not someone in the management. Best of luck!
> It's very well possible that the Twitter board believes that they can achieve higher value for the shareholders than what Elon offered

Who would believe that? They’ve had years to prove it and as they stock market has doubled in value their stock has been cut in half.

Share holders should sue. It’s time to trick their world and either drive the stock price to a few bucks or force then board to do their fiduciary responsibility and sell the company.

It’s a great offer.
I think Fenaughty must have been involved with a much later project: the LISP 2 project at SDC (with III) started in 1963.
because failure is not an option for regimes like the CCP.
Yes she is, but more relevantly for your original concern, her magazine ran some outright neo-phrenology articles a while back. Intellectually she's a clown, but pg and other SV thoughtbubblers take her extremely seriously.
You know what? Not that crazy of an idea.

Amazon is a weirdly plausible competitor to Google. They have a surprisingly robust ad business, and obviously AWS.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/03/amazon-has-a-31-billion-a-ye...
Bird flu data languish in Chinese journals (2004)
A certain philosopher named Occam would suggest that the simplest explanation for nobody finding out so far is that it is three-letter agencies who might be the ultimate funders and data buyers.
Not having value is a value in itself. It takes a crazy amount of effort to be completely neutral.

>that my communication-medium

Twitter is first and foremost a publishing platform, you should not rely on it as a private communication medium. None of the chat apps I know censor stuff, so use them instead.

Use Twitter for public communication if you want, but since it's in the public domain you can't complain too much if there is content moderation.
https://www.tortmuseum.org/liebeck-v-mcdonalds/

>> People did not realize how seriously they could be burned. All McDonald's restaurants served coffee between 180 and 190 degrees. At this temperature, spilled coffee causes third degree burns in less than three seconds. Other restaurants served coffee at 160 degrees, which takes twenty seconds to cause third degree burns. That is usually enough time to wipe away the coffee.

and https://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/products-l...

>> As noted above, the jury found that McDonald's had sold a defective product and had also breached implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. A warranty is like a promise. An implied warranty is something that exists whether or not you have a piece of paper titled "Warranty". An implied warranty of merchantability means that the goods sold conform to the ordinary standards of care and that they are of average grade, quality and value as similar goods sold under similar circumstances. Put more simply, when you buy a cup of coffee at McDonald's, you have a right to expect that it will be pretty much the same as the coffee you could buy at any similar drive-thru. An implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose exists when the retailer, distributor, or manufacturer has reason to know the particular purpose for which the consumer goods are required, and that the buyer is relying on the skill and judgment of the seller to select and furnish suitable goods. In the case of coffee purchased at its drive-thru, McDonald's would know that the buyer of the coffee wanted to drink it and that the buyer is relying on McDonald's to sell coffee that the buyer can drink. When the McDonald's employee hands the customer the cup of coffee, it is as if McDonald's is saying, "I promise this coffee is drinkable and that the cup it is served in is suitable." If the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are breached, or the promise is broken, then the manufacturer, distributor, and/or seller of the product are liable or responsible for the consequences.
> The newly published technique builds on the foundation laid down by optogenetics, a technique first developed at Stanford by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Karl Deisseroth and collaborators that introduces light-sensitive algal proteins into neurons to let researchers turn them on or off in response to different colors of light.

To clarify, they have to introduce a new chemical into the brain for this to work. The researchers of this paper introduced a heat sensitive chemical and that allows them to use IR light.
> Today Rust does not overlap Linux in terms of platform support.

Nit, I believe actually the Rust and Linux platform sets would be considered "overlapping sets" in the mathematical sense :), since neither is a subset of the other.

e.g. Rust platforms include things like the NetBSD Rump Kernel and Redox and I think one would be hard-pressed to claim that Linux supports those as platforms.

https://doc.xuwenliang.com/docs/rust/1423
As near I can tell it is an arbitrary decision of an authoritarian government that is too deep into sunk cost to reverse course.
- lower natural immunity rates because zero COVID had been successful

- lower vaccination rates

- vaccine drives prioritized the young and healthy (the idea being they can handle side effects so this seemed like the best way to achieve herd immunity)

- the newer strains are super infectious and would overwhelm the healthcare system

They don't have a good way out now. They should have used the time they got last year to buy MRNA vaccines, but they did not.

The central government has likely given up on zero COVID but are sticking with those policies for now to "flatten the curve" while this wave takes its course.
>> China tried to actively cover up the infection in Wuhan. News got out, doctors posted on social media

> A simple visit to the Wikipedia article on Covid timeline showed that to be false.

Link to where it shows that to be false? Wikipedia leaving out a detail in a summary is not falsifying evidence.

Also: www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/technology/china-coronavirus-censorship.amp.html
No one's comparing java and C. The phrase "C-derived" here includes, eg., python/php/ruby/javascript/etc. ie., all those languages whose targeted VM is extensible with C.

The idea is that there's a "cluster of C-based ecosystems" of languages whose open-source philosophy, programming culture, etc. "is just fun". In contrast with the JVM ecosystem which, I think, just isnt.
The topic of discussion is corporate governance and finance, and you immediately pivoted to some irrelevant culture war BS.
_Yawn_. They caught a few small-fish bad guys. While I'm glad they're going down (from my limited information on the subject) this pales in comparison to the active harm the SEC perpetrates against the average joe on a daily basis.

I should be able to invest in _whatever I want_ no matter my net worth. It's my goddamn money and they have no right, after taking almost half of it, to then tell me that I can't spend it as I please. The worst part is I'm _paying_ (via taxes) for them to then tell me what I can't do.
> It seems like a big investment and a lot of hard work by a lot of people! It's too bad they were using it to defraud people.

A great deal of the financial industry uses a lot of money and brainpower to play zero or negative-sum games. The more egregious of those negative-sum games are eventually made illegal, and some of the people playing them get punished. But speaking as somebody who used to write software for financial traders, it's a relatively short trip from "zero-sum game that is currently legal" through "negative-sum game that could well be legal" to "negative-sum game where we think we won't get caught".

It's true that one can societally justify a fair bit of that effort by pointing at things like more liquid markets, reduced trading costs, more accurate pricing, and the like. But approximately nobody trading for a living gets into the business because they care about any of those things enough to devote their lives to them. They're there to make money, and things like marketplace sanctions, regulatory investigations, and criminal enforcement are just another part of the cost-benefit analysis.

When I was in the industry floor trading was still the focus. One slow day at the Chicago Board of Trade there was a guy in a polar bear suit walking around the trading pits. One trader turns to another, says, "I'll give you $100 if you punch the polar bear." The second one shrugs, takes the money, walks over, and punches the bear. Turns out the person in the mascot suit was wearing glasses, so they end up with a cut on their face and blood trickling down. It also turns out that the bear was there to raise money for the zoo, and some CBOT bigwig was on the board of the zoo. If I recall rightly, the punching trader was banned for life. The colleague who told me this story just smiled and, referring to the $100 gained, said, "Bad trade."

I'm sure that there are plenty of people in the industry who look at these 10 guys and don't say, "What an outrage against the investors," or "I'm shocked that they'd tarnish the name of our industry that requires public confidence to function", but instead just smile and say, "Bad trade."
You usually have the option to buy newly issued shares pro-rata and at the same valuation as the other buyers, but I've never seen shares that can not be diluted (essentially that would mean automatically issuing and assigning shares to one or more shareholders without the issuing funds being paid and afaik no notary public will sign off on that, shares need to be paid into the proper vehicle).
Hmm, not sure about that. Consider the following (very simplified) example:

(defonce current-count (atom 0))

(defn handle-request [req]
(swap! current-count inc)
(str "Hello " (-> req :params :name) @current-count))

(run-server handle-request :port 8080)

If you do the whole "restart server" process every time you change `handle-request`, you lose the state of `current-count`, but if you instead just change the function and "send" the new one to a already running server, the state of `current-count` is still the same, even when the new function definition is being used.

Now imagine it with more complex state, or with things that require multiple states to do something. Reloading the server each time would mean you have to manipulate the state into the right "shape" each time before you can test your change, while if you can retain your state even after changing the code, you'd avoid that.

This is why I'm still stuck in Clojure and unable to go back to writing code in other languages. The productivity gain is simply too high to throw away by not using Clojure (or other languages that are driven by the same ideas).
I've seen DuckDuckGo ads on network TV.
Python generate images from text like DALLE
> So what's your take?

All I'm saying is that this business isn't a monopoly like search or a near duopoly like ads. The competition is stiff. There are two players who are well ahead of them and the ones behind aren't sitting still. I don't expect any miracles with run of the mill management consulting leadership at the helm.
This definitely isn't true. Anyone lying to you in connection with a sale of securities in return for financial gain is committing securities fraud. According to any reasonable reading of the statute books, or any of hundreds of insider trading cases that do not involve executives.
Light bulbs?!
Has San Francisco lost its spot as the world’s tech capital?
I used to have similar complaints about Java until I sat down and actually read the JVM and language specs and read some JEPs. The truth is, the Java maintainers have made a lot of good design decisions over the years and they’ve been incredibly careful when it comes to trade offs. Generic erasure for instance, was necessary to prevent major backwards compatibility and break the world problems with the massive existing ecosystem of running java programs. Also it’s not an idea that “poisons” other languages. It’d be pretty uneconomical to preserve generics in the runtime representations of any language—c++ doesn’t do this either and it heterogenous approach (opposed to java’s homogenous approach) has its own set of drawbacks (bloated code size, for instance)

In actuality, Java is pretty great and a lot of the pain I experienced using it was not because there was something inherently worse about Java’s design decisions but rather because I had made the (very incorrect) assumption that one could simply port over a lot of the unstated assumptions we make about the semantics of other languages when coding in Java, which isn’t true.
Spoiler alert: other platforms are not in any way more "free speech". Gab for example bans porn, which is both free speech protected by the First Amendment, and allowed on Twitter. TRUTH Social seems to forbid a lot of things, such as depictions of violence, lewd content, libelous/slanderous content and lying (true to their name, I guess?).
Nitric, a Cloud Portability Framework for Code
Did they have large, flashing crossing lights for pedestrians to turn on?
There are a lot of them in Amsterdam, not cheap but usually quite effective, Loyens & Loeff comes to mind and possibly Kennedy & van der Laan.
Thanks for the advice! I agree, I think things like these rarely happen by accident.
This is crazy cool!
I wonder how these miniscule and thin lead sleeves are produced and how they manage to stay within tolerance and even get a rounded edge.
They do, but beware fun fees: I've spent hours of my life disputing a psych evaluation charge (under 5 minutes of a pediatrician asking a kid how they are feeling, without any paternal prompting), which the insurance company claimed it wasn't covered in the free physical. So you go to a supposedly fully covered appointment, and come back home to a bill you have to pay, or argue with.
> isn't the implication that the distance between the two lines is the metric of interest?

That's more or less what D-K are saying, yes. That doesn't necessarily mean it's the best metric to use for understanding what the data is saying.

Also, "distance between the two lines" is misleading because the data is bucketed--on the x axis by quartiles, on the y axis by percentiles. In other words, the actual data is the circles/triangles/squares, not the lines. When put that way, "distance between the lines" looks a lot less like an actual metric and a lot more like an artificial one.
Exactly. Since the original event China has responded to Covid with aggressive ring-fencing. That can't be hidden--while there is room to fudge the numbers a little bit there could not have been a massive cover-up.

Also, what we have been seeing for the last weeks should make it obvious China wasn't hiding it--because we are seeing how China responds when it is there.

Unfortunately, China is stuck in zero-Covid mode when they aren't able to actually accomplish that against the infectiveness of Omicron. It's like the cartoon character flailing trying to grab something while they've already run off the cliff--except they're killing people in the process.
Could you clarify a bit? If you are logged in they store almost everything, as is evidenced by Google takeout.
I wish hackernews had more moderation and could ban people for lying
First, I never said any of this was hidden or in secret. Second, event logs are just one of many places where activity is tracked. Most of them are harmless but many will keep a record of what is being done on the system in a way that isn't obvious to the user of the system. Lastly, installed programs don't need to be builtin\users they can run elevated or in any group, you are assuming only accidentally opened programs are risky?

The subject here is personal use, not corporate use. For example you might torrent a movie and then uninstall the torrent application, files and downloaded content. If you get sued and (i know it is rare) your windows install is submitted as evidence it can be proven that you executed the torrent program, the torrent program transferred so many bytes and that you opened the folder of the torrented content without looking at any file directly related to the torrent app or windows event logs. Or let's say you downloaded content from a site but then cleared your browing history and uninstalled your browser. Thanks to motw the downloaded files on your pc show the sites frol where you downloaded them and the referrer that lead to you visiting the download link. These are only some examples.
Maybe they're both undesirable.
I have used vidir from this collection quite a bit. If you're a vi person, it's makes it quite convenient to use vi/vim for renaming whole directories full of files.
and treat stop lights as stop signs.

There is no info on this in the article, but it seems like a really bad idea.
Excuse me? THis is my company I founded with my own 2 hands.

We used excel for the first year. Trello for the second.

I know what we need.
Poison Pills are rarely exercised, this is a positional move. Unlikely Elon is the only interested party at this point. If the board can use a pill to force a slower buy-out discussion and negotiation it is very much beneficial to shareholders.

Their stock price was over $70 in the trailing 12 months.

Even with Elon's offer they are still worth 10 NFL teams combined.

I can find zero credible evidence to support your position. Please short the stock :)
Surely the simplest explanation would be that no one has found out because they don't actually collect the data.
of course lockdowns would be terrible. Who's arguing that they wouldn't be? Few of the supporters of lockdown would argue otherwise.

You can of course debate whether they were worth the cost, but if so, be explicit about it.
500 errors returned, or timeouts ... they do have servers that control permissions / rate limite / return the object store object ... those servers are either down or slow according to my monitoring
Syntax errors like unbalanced brackets/parenthesis/curly braces? Those should definitely give you "pure-clojure" errors as the parsers can't even read the source at that point. Only time you should be getting JVM stack traces is runtime errors.
Right, bad wording on my part. Thanks for correcting.
a) The poison pill only affects those who are looking to control the company in some way. Which isn't most large investors at all. So I doubt you will find any who will be concerned by this.

b) Twitter's stock price is now $45, peaked at $77 only last year and is profitable. Not sure where you get this ridiculous idea the company is unsellable.

c) There are plenty of free speech competitors to Twitter. None are even remotely successful. Because as Reddit also showed far more people want a moderated experience more than those that don't. And Twitter is a business first and foremost.

d) Musk is offering shareholders a premium as the stock is today. But as I mentioned even just last year it was significantly higher. And so I can't imagine shareholders would have an issue about them turning it down if they believed Twitter was still continuing to head in the right direction as it is now.
The notary that handles the STAK paperwork is an impartial party, you could approach them to ask if they are aware that the deal offered is not the one originally agreed to, the notaries tend to take a very dim view of such tricks and may well act on your behalf.
honestly, b/c it was the first thing to show up on DDG, and my intuition was that it was so beyond dispute that prestige wasn't a necessary credibility signal
Because they are taxed on annual profit, not capital gains. If they sell a stock and buy a different one, there is no profit.

The private analogy is a professional gambler. You don't pay taxes for winnings on each bet. You pay taxes on what you have cashed out at the end of the year.

Tax on individual sales is only a thing for individuals.
Yup. Failure is going to come at a horrendous price--I wouldn't be surprised at a 7-figure death toll. They're desperately clinging to hope even though containment has obviously failed.
It allows some simple links like story X depends on story Y, and displays it in a visually pleasent way.
From what I can see, the Fuchsia kernel is actually quite interesting. I like the foci on (1) capabilities and (2) message passing. It's not the most innovative thing in the known universe - in fact both of those concepts are of pretty late-80s-to-early-90s vintage, from the OOP boom when programmers were misspending their ill-gotten performance gains[0] – but they make a degree of sense. The userspace bits I'm less sure about. Like you say, it seems to be a non-GPL-ed clone of Linux. It's the kind of thing I'd expect of some cheap Chinese company. This kind of fragmentation is emphatically not a good thing for our industry and Google knows it, and I very much hope they don't get away with it, but I suspect its being a clone is exactly why it'll be a very easy transition to force on end-users. Programmers will never in a million years use it on the server side, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law
> in common Internet discussions, there is no fixed meaning of D-K

That's why I focused explicitly on the actual data in the D-K paper and what it actually says.