skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I replied to the original comment that triggered my comment, and after seeing him expecting payment for a quality reply and another saying oxygen is a common constraint I felt the effort wasn't worth it. Your passive aggressive jab at the supposed fragility of my worldview serves as confirmation.
cryiak! wow

He had these really really weird but unique youtube videos years ago, for example

EDIT: this was the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQO-aOdJLiw

also: cows & cows & cows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY
> fate of the company after it has been taken private doesn't matter as far as "fiduciary duty" is concerned

If it goes private. As always, Matt Levine says it better than I can:

"...the financing seems to be made up of cobwebs and phlogiston. But also Musk has joked about taking companies private before, and he generally changes his mind a lot. (He agreed to join Twitter’s board last week! And then changed his mind four days later!) If you are a well-advised professional public company board, it is just catastrophic to imagine that you might say 'okay Elon $54.20 it is' and then he’d say 'ha no I was kidding, psych!' That would be crippling for a public company. Also that is basically what he did to Twitter’s board last weekend!"

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-15/sure-e...
> Fuck google, for reneging on the arrangement after 14+ years.

FWIW, 14 years is a great time to get something for free. Should they have a cheaper family plan? Yes. Should they have grandfathered in existing subscribers for free? Sure, why not? But expecting that they provide a free service, forever seems a bit much.
Unfortunately there are some people who'll harm others for a reasonably small amount of money even if they've already got plenty. I've encountered people who'd do this even if they were comparatively well off.
"I don't like it" != financial distress.

From Twitter's 2021 10K:

"FY 2021 Highlights
Total revenue was $5.08 billion, an increase of 37%, compared to 2020."

2021 net losses were $221M, which is a big improvement on $1.135B in 2020.

Honestly seems like things are really shaping up @ Twitter.
> I'm not aware of BLM having any elected leaders

Who cares? But isn't that even more of a reason not to ban someone? To ban a democratically elected president of the united states. Quite dystopian. To have people supporting it, sad. Also, how many people died due to trump's "riots". How many people died from social media company supported BLM riots? It's infinitely more actually.

> Please let us know if you've found any folks with 80m followers that have been left free to coordinate violence on social media platforms.

Social media platforms itself have. That was my point. They were part of the color revolution propaganda machine a decade ago.

> Schools have libraries, it's not a big difference.

It is a big difference if an elementary school library is for young children. As opposed to one for the general public.

> Well now its you who could've saved us a lot of characters and just said "I'm one of those guys that thinks they're non-ideological, but here's my obvious rightward bias anyways"

Rightward? Hilarious. The only comments I've had flagged here are what people would consider "left leaning" comments. I'm just anti-hypocrite and commmon sense type of guy. The type that the extremists hate.
I haven't ridden through Woodside, CA in a few years, but their ultra-rich residents came to hate the flocks of bicyclists who go through there every weekend (because the scenery is so awesome).

So they pressured the cops to crack down, and on organized rides we were always told "in Woodside, come to a complete stop, and put a foot down on the pavement."

From the headline, that's what I was afraid this was. What a relief.
Christopher Meiklejohn's talks?
>who aren't willing to search for it and self-learn

Don't be condescending. People switching careers don't know all the information is already online. That's what makes predatory boot camps that much worse.
It's an impostor because it doesn't belong in the kernel. Or anywhere else for that matter - look at Firefox sources. It just causes fragmentation and its security is yet to be proven. From my POV, it's just written by people too lazy for C and too ignorant for C++.
You are meant to yield at certain dedicated crossings without lights and you can’t negligently hit someone just because they didn’t use a crossing (jaywalking isn’t a crime either but there are some fast roads where people are not allowed to walk on). And obviously drivers are meant to be courteous towards pedestrians, especially where the space is more shared (eg suburban streets or some country roads), and this would generally mean yielding after some polite eye-contact-based negotiation.
Freedom of speech doesn't actually matter to to someone who mischaracterizes what Wong said so profoundly and misses so many important and useful points he made.
But programming may involve culture fit, so maybe you are hypothetically comfortable working as an older person with 22 year olds, but the rest of the team might not feel the same way.
Udav – Snake game written in TASM x86
You seem to know how it all works. You should be in charge. Just the rest of us what's right & wrong, good & bad.
I really love my staedtler.
This is the fault of interpreters. Interpreters receive the entire file as input, with the shebang line and all. That can easily support the encoding of additional parameters.

In TXR Lisp, I invented a novel way of doing this, which I call the "hash bang null hack".

If you put a NUL character into the hash bang line, then TXR will process arguments after that character. The NUL character is a string terminator, and so the operating system kernel doesn't see it; it thinks that's the end of the hash bang line.

So for instance (^@ represents NUL):

#!/usr/bin/env txr^@arg arg arg

This hack is not necessary, of course; a given language interpreter can do this in any number of ways.
E.g. arguments in a comment in the following line. The convention could be, say, that if the next line also starts with #!, it holds parameters:

#!/usr/bin/env my-language
#!--args to my language

I didn't do it this way because the language doesn't use # comments (so hacking argument recognition into comment processing is out) and I didn't want to complicate the hash bang logic to dealing with two or more lines: everything is handled in the one line and that's it.

Another solution is to rely on env having the BSD -S option, which specifies a string that becomes multiple arguments.

#!/usr/bin/env -S program --option arg

the hash bang mechanism will pass "program --option arg" as a single argument to env, whose -S option will split that into multiple arguments. You might run into a limit on the hash bang header. E.g. if the given operating system reads only, say, 32 bytses of the file (really ancient Unix system), in which it looks for the hash bang line, then you have only that much space to cram into that -S argument.

The -S option implemented in BSD unixes has a lot of bells and whistles: you can use escape characters in it to encode control characters and $ to expand environment variables. E.g. silly example:

#!/usr/bin/env -S $USER/bin/interp

would use every user's own "interp" in their own bin directory to run the program.

-S is not portable; it's not specified in POSIX. Newer versions of GNU Coreutils have it (but not with all the BSD features, I think). If you maintain a programing language, it behooves you to solve this problem for the users, so the only nonstandard thing they rely on is your language, without any collateral nonstandard stuff.
After they've been bought out, the performance of of the company is of no concern to the former shareholders.
The existence of this particular scam is known to the health economics literature.

I’m not sure there’s really a point in the insurers’ denying it.

Here’s a reference to a recent paper:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2612913

The paper itself was published in the Journal of Political Economy.
Is google hurting for cash or resources? No. Are us little guys currently being nickel and dimed until we're nice and emaciated? Yes.

Pandemic.

Inflation.

Rising taxes.

War.

And Google chooses now to start milking us even more. Despite the reality being that it is us, the users, who are the real product.

Google top brass: What a disgusting and merciless bunch. Turns out the goal of "user delight" was just a carrot to trick the engineers to build the machine.
It's been years since I had any connection to the conventional financial sector but I remain shocked by how many participants are involved in the flow of money, most of them fleeting and tangental yet each getting paid for the privilege.

I remember looking at the flow of cash from putting $100 into a 401(k) (US employer retirement plan) to the money actually getting invested. That drawing took up two whiteboards and as a result a few percent never made it into the market.
The real error in my comment is that the company could give an ESOP refresh for the missing percentage.
As someone else mentioned, landlords provide a valuable service to the economy. They take on the risk of property ownership and maintenance etc.

Now, if we look at why the three major religions prohibited money lending with interest, we can see where the true parasitic middlemen are: the money lenders.
If the China Investment Corporation offered $60 billion to take Twitter private would Twitter be forced to entertain the offer?
Checkout https://you.com - it's privacy focussed, ad-free and also supports bangs
I highly recommend adding some oranges to this process. Seedless (like naval oranges) are better for this since they won't clog the drain so much.
Yea but that creates downward pressure in the shares too, so there’s a natural limit. Elon could just keep buying more and the market value of the company won’t change. If it did change I.e. you could issue more shares without changing the value of the asset you could just do that all the time from the standpoint of the company and raise infinite money.

So it’s a question of balance. Twitter can raise the fundamental value of Twitter a little bit but there’s no way they can raise it too much without driving the price down and then just having more shares available at lower prices, so like you could just buy 2 shares and spend the same amount of money.
Psychedelic research is heavily biased by people who have tried it.

Physics research is heavily biased by people who live in reality.

Oncology research is heavily biased by having study participants who have cancer.

Am I missing something?
Multi-lane roundabouts are problematic. If you have to change lanes in a busy roundabout it can be difficult to find a gap or have someone let you over. And if you're on an "inner" lane you will clearly have to cross the outer lane at some point to get off of the roundabout. I'm not talking about roundabouts that have a special lane for people turning right, which is helpful, but roundabouts that have two or more lanes in the main circle.
Cool! I just bought one of these (the shake one) and while checking out I accidentally didn't un-check the "sign me up for your newsletter box". Instead of automatically starting to spam me– they actually sent me a confirmation email asking if I really wanted to sign up for their newsletter– how considerate! Bravo Jet Pens for avoiding that dark pattern.
Hm, that doesn’t sound right, and Wikipedia agrees with my understanding, that an LBO means the buyer borrows money for it:

>> A leveraged buyout (LBO) is one company's acquisition of another company using a significant amount of borrowed money (leverage) to meet the cost of acquisition. The assets of the company being acquired are often used as collateral for the loans, along with the assets of the acquiring company.

Note how the second sentence says that the assets of the purchased company can be part of the arrangement, but the “L” in LBO means the buyer’s borrowing, however they accomplish that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraged_buyout
Show HN: I made a REST API client in JavaScript
You can find the project on GitHub: https://github.com/vixalien/ruhuka. Any ideas are welcome.
> If trading hacked emails wasn't illegal, you'd have legitimate and big businesses trading them.

But there are in fact big infosec businesses trading them. They just brand it as “data leak monitoring” or “darknet intelligence” or whatever. Equifax does this, NortonLifeLock does this as do many others. There are also products aimed specifically for pentesters.

> As someone else mentioned, an 'access device' actually refers to many things, including emails

>”Access device" is defined at 18 U.S.C. § 1029(e)(1). Instead of using the term "credit card," or "debit/credit instrument," the term "access device" is used in the statute and is defined broadly as any "card, plate, code, account number, electronic serial number, mobile identification number, personal identification number, or other telecommunications service, equipment, or instrument identifier, or other means of account access that can be used, alone or in conjunction with another access device, to obtain money, goods, services, or any other thing of value, or that can be used to initiate a transfer of funds...." The only limitation, i.e., "other than a transfer originated solely by paper instrument," excludes activities such as passing forged checks.
The usual next difficulty is that the maximum shebang length is fairly low (truncated at 128 chars, IIRC)
Authoritarian regimes benefit from cultivating fear of death and disease in their people, it makes them more manageable... Similar to not allowing regular people to own guns etc. etc.

Once you become willing to die, to let others die if needed, and to kill, for freedom or other purposes, you're no longer an "easy to manage sheep" ;)
yeah if the durbin exemption disappears, so do a lot of fintechs. It's a crazy big risk given a) there are people pushing to make it disappear and b) it's a total bs exemption in practice.
The CCP is very well known for reporting numbers that make them look good, independent figures don't exist because the CCP wants to control their image. So it's pretty much impossible to trust any statistics on this stuff in China.
The Best Fiction in Recent Times
> since you intend to conceal beneficial ownership of shares

Promising voting rights doesn't change beneficial ownership. Twitter would have precedent, however, to find "conscious parallelism" and thus "a de facto control bloc" between the commenter and Musk, and thus bundle them for purposes of the poison pill's activation [1].

Still, not a crime. Civil dispute under corporate law.

[1] https://www.yalelawjournal.org/comment/unpacking-wolf-packs
I'm curious to see how this holds up without the events of January 6th driving so many ad impressions.
Russia warns US of repercussions if it sends more arms to Ukraine
> The latter claim wouldn't pass an Amazing Randi challenge.

Randi's challenge was for people making claims of genuine supernatural powers, i.e. the mentally ill. I don't see how it's relevant here.

> 100% magic acts are misdirection, trickery, confederates, and dexterity.

I assure you that cold reading has been done for hundreds of years (without foreknowledge, which would be called "hot reading"), and can only suggest reading up on it. Wikipedia has a good overview.
> So it is not only time-based now. (it was said this was for tax reasons)

You're about to find out exactly what terms you are on with the founders.

The easy way to find out if it's really for tax reasons is to find out whether the changes apply to everyone or just the peons. If they won't tell you, you know the answer and you know that they'll lie to you.

FWIW, if there is a legitimate difference between your terms and theirs, it's because real tax reasons apply more strictly to the folks at the top than the bottom. If your terms are worse....
Fully agree.

"collateral damage" just means...why can't I just consume everything for free, as if it's some human right?
> they'll send you a signup link within a week or two

Is it though? I think I've been on the wait list for a few months now.
This argument gets trotted out every time, and it's not only old, it's clearly wrong.

Why is it wrong? Because AAA games are absurdly profitable, even before microtransactions are brought into play. AAA publishers and studios are making billions, with a 'B', of dollars of profit. That's not the sign of a struggling market that's weighed down by inflation and rising costs of production. That's a sign of an exceptionally healthy industry.

Remember, cost only sets the floor of a product's price. And with a near zero duplication cost, those up-front investments are quickly paid back with no practical upper limit to the sales potential.

For example, CDPR's Cyberpunk 2077 cost around $316M (including marketing). It presold, as reported on wikipedia, 8m copies. That means they made their investment back before the game had even released, plus a minimum of $20 profit per each of those 8m pre-orders (remember, $60 is the lowest price paid in a pre-order). And every post-launch sale is pretty much pure profit, thanks to that nearly-free cost of making copies.

Now then, CP2077 had issues which probably ate into the company's profits post-launch... but that initial investment, the one you've pointed out? Paid for the day the game released.
> They were playing the long-game murdering all those leftist governments of Central and South America, I guess.

They were murdering right wing iraqis too. Also, there is a difference between left and woke leftists. Woke leftists hate leftists just as much as they hate everyone else.

> Maybe just give a definition of 'woke'?

What you believe in obviously. The CIA has been running woke ads and celebrating wokeism on their youtube channel and everywhere. Not to mention the FBI, Military, etc. Not sure why you are denying it when they've openly embraced wokeism.
Icahn was claiming that Netflix was undervalued. To be fair, he was also angling for an acquisition. But a bid like that usually has a half-life; the market trends to a good price — and indeed, Netflix doubled in value by mid-2013.

Elon is arguing that Twitter is mismanaged. He already probably pushed them on the edit button, even though they claimed he didn't. If he's right — and Goldman Sachs seems to agree — he could have an easier go of it next year.
Heroku/SalesForce updated their status on https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2413:

"Salesforce continues to investigate this incident in coordination with GitHub and our retained third-party breach vendor. Once we identify how the threat actor gained access to customers' OAuth tokens, we will immediately take appropriate actions."

Sounds like they simply don't know yet how the actor got access and what else was exposed.
I have one of these free accounts and I still haven’t received an email from google about this ending. Is anybody else in the same situation?
You're about to find out who's going to pay for the massive bubble state that the market is in and has been in since 2008. It will be ordinary people.
Haven't seen this channel recommended yet, so checkout Perun.

I found him through the youtube algo, used to be a gaming youtuber but seems to have a day job in defense and started talking about the Ukrainian war. Hour long data dense powerpoints about what's going on over there. Easily my favorite source.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC3ehuUksTyQ7bbjGntmx3Q/vid...
Looks like it's addressed in an update to https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2413

The compromised tokens could provide the threat actor access to customer GitHub repos, but not customer Heroku accounts

While the situation can get worse, this token alone may not be enough...
> The board voted unanimously to adopt the plan.

I thought @jack would be for Elon taking over and that's why he stepped aside a few months ago.
https://twitter.com/cameron/status/1514977953079209985
But coding (literally coding) is a small fraction of a software engineers job.

I hope you came away from your 4 years with the tools to learn & investigate, communicate, design systems, all with a heaping side of general education you might not have otherwise obtained. Not to mention a background in OS, database, programming languages, etc that there’s no possible way to cover in a boot camp. If none of that happened, then you did get ripped off.

Most four year degrees shouldn’t be viewed as jobs programs. Yes, they’ve effectively become that, but that’s a mistake, IMO. Exceptions would be true professional programs (engineering leading to a PE, nursing, etc).
I know that. That's exactly my point.
I'm wondering why tank armor is (appears to be) basically flat, when the AT warheads appear to be based on creating that super-heated jet, optimized for striking a flat surface?

Why not stack a few layers of corrugated steel/ceramic plates to try to split the jet apart?

Basic theory would be to present the projectile with a surface that has drastically different amounts of resistance across the front of the projectile, in the hope of destabilizing it & the jet it creates.

I guess it would make the armor quite thick, but with varying density/composition it may not end up that much heavier?

(And maybe it just wouldn't work ;)
"A car and a bike travelling at the same speed will cause vastly different amounts of harm on impacting the same object."

Theoretically, then the bike should be stopping. Two cars colliding at 15 mph is less dangerous than a bike hitting or being hit by a car at 15 mph. I doubt the stopping distances are that much different (probably 20 vs 30 feet).

"in that case the stop sign should just be a yield sign."

Well, most stop signs could just be yield signs. Looks like they're doing that for bikes. Would be nice if they do that for cars too.
> An ETF isn’t going to “accidentally” exceed 15% ownership of Twitter.

No, but an ETF has a defined investment strategy, and if enough money comes into the ETF, it could potentially trigger this.
> Twitter noted that the rights plan would not prevent the board from accepting an acquisition offer if the board deems it in the best interests of the company and its shareholders.

It's more like an insurance policy, it doesn't mean they're not going to sell if the offer is attractive enough.
The masses are asses. We shouldn’t just do things because the most people want it. Thats called tyranny by the majority.
> Of course it will distort choices and leave some people worse off. If the author can't see that, then they have a serious bias problem. The whole point of the land value tax is to tax land to encourage higher density and higher cost use.

Under our current system we subsidize low value land uses by subsidizing the crap out of infrastructure to expansions of suburban areas zoned for single family homes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI

The only revenue positive portion of nearly any modern american city/town are the few sparse walkable mixed use neighbourhoods and the dense urban core. Policies like a land value tax that push for higher value land uses are necessary to stave off the oncoming wave of municipal bankruptcies America faces.

> Income tax would only provide a disincentive to work if the alternative (assistance programs) is more attractive.

You are thinking in absolute terms and not on the margins. If the marginal income tax beyond a threshold jumps by %10, then even discounting the increasingly marginal value of each additional dollar earned I will value the return on work less when I hit that tax threshold.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1433123220643717120?lang...
In 2016 Elon personally cancelled a bloggers Model X order because said blogger roasted a Tesla event.

I'd say it sounds totally plausible.