skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unwillingness to sell isn’t greed. The landowners aren’t part of the dealflow. There’s no quid pro quo. It’s an arms length transaction.

The reason people hold on to land is that it’s less bother than finding an alternative repository of wealth. Stocks go to $0. Land doesn’t.

And there’s emotional attachment that isn’t there for stocks and bonds. Some people are happy to cash out and see the place the kids were raised paved.

Some aren’t and it would hardly be a surprise if such folks don’t cotton much the sort of change to the land that’s on the table.

Like I said long term.

Go back in time and take that lady a pie after church fifteen years before the developers come town…’out of town developers’ that’s the phrase you’re up against.
So I was looking for the text of the lawsuit, but the search turned up a person who closely matches the description of the plaintiff on LinkedIn (and not the lawsuit). I wish I could read the allegations because just going by her current and past employment, things look a little fishy.

I recently heard, I think on Planet Money, that a lot of places are moving away from ISAs because they have too much trouble collecting on them. People who hit it big afterward end up having remorse that they signed the ISA and try to get out from under. A suspicious part of me wonders whether that's going on here.

To be clear, I'm not saying that these boot camps are generally a good idea. I've been unfavorable about them on here for a while. But, if you do transition into a technical role after going to one, that would seem to be a success story, even if the role isn't a programmer role.
OAuth properties are like jet plane cockpit buttons. For computer science students there should be one semester OAuth course. And in big companies there should be OAuth Expert. That is how much knowledge OAuth requires. If you don't agree with me try using Keycloak. It has EVERYTHING so you don't need to implement.
> Based on subsequent analysis, we believe this API key was obtained by the attacker when they downloaded a set of private npm repositories using a stolen OAuth token from one of the two affected third-party OAuth applications described above.

Does this imply there was unencrypted AWS credentials stored in an NPM repository and/or possibly GitHub? Seems like a bad idea, though I’m sure it’s hard to get off that practice if you’ve been on it for a long time.
>>Even if this is true, it is still just a dark pool, which is trivial to game. One ping is all you need.

If that's true, then you're right. Assuming an effective decentralized dark pool, that is not vulnerable to side-channel attacks, is possible, it is preferrable to the centralized variety that traditional finance uses.

>>Constant-product DEXes

What is a constant-product DEX?
It’s definitely just a stunt… he doesn’t have the money, and said he expects larger shareholders to sign on to the deal… so he can take the company private and do great profit-maximizing ideas like turning their office into a homeless shelter. He’s presented no ideas that would increase twitters profits or market share. What shareholder would sign up for this?
Axie owner says recovering stolen crypto could take two years
Isn't it legal until somebody successfully sues for it to be nulled?

The US legal system is kind of based around this adversarial situation imo.
Same. If I own 10% of a company, how can the board just decide through some mechanism that I now really own like 8% ?
but the ideas hes mentioning seem reasonable
The discrimination against different learning styles is a bit off-putting. Just because some folks can just read and self learn everything doesn't mean everyone can. It also doesn't mean those people aren't capable.

I am not a parent, but I've definitely found as I've gotten older it's harder to self learn sometimes. Having structure and some guidance can make a world of difference.

A good example I had not too long ago was having to go back into Java, something I hadn't written in many many years. Syntactically, I could write basic logic. But I didn't have any feel for how a project should be structured, what sort of libraries exist, and a lot of other things I know implicitly from languages I am working with regularly. I had a friend (who actually happened to be a bootcamp teacher in a previous life) spend a couple hours with me just going through the basics over a screenshare/voice chat. I picked up more in those 2-3 hours than I did in previous 2-3 weeks because I had someone who knew what they were doing, could answer questions, could anticipate what I might be thinking next and could guide me.

A good teacher can be infinitely helpful to learning something, even for someone experienced (I've been writing code for over two decades now). I can't imagine how much more helpful a good teacher could be for someone who is just trying to start learning. We shouldn't be discouraging this style of learning, we should be seeing how to make programming accessible to everyone interested in learning.
This twitter thread was also submitted and discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31039827
The interesting thing about Twitter is that people are banned arbitrarily and politically.

Take the case of Megan Murphy, a woman who is in a lawsuit against Twitter. Rules were added to Twitter that were used as a justification for her ban retroactively:

https://www.dhillonlaw.com/lawsuits/meghan-murphy-twitter/
Good luck with that perspective in life. I'll stick with writing clearly. You stick with writing poorly and flipping out whenever people misunderstand your intentions.
Yeah, if you had the appropriate brain surgery as an infant and took highly specialized drugs to maintain or accelerate your mental functioning, you too could be like Kim Peek.

I like that Frank Herbert imagined that it would be possible and went with it before we had any real proof that it could be, and then he turned out to be right.
I was unclear. While some states did have high-risk pools, other states had "can't turn down" rules much like Obamacare.

Can you identify the "can't turn down" states by looking for the predicted health outcomes of such a policy?
Reminds me of Erlich Bachman in Silicon Valley saying "I say a lot of things".

https://youtu.be/XM7_eqtljUg
They serve ads on DuckDuckGo, though.
Right, though I don't think it is so vague as to be meaningless. The stakeholder / shareholder value debates in corporate governance play on the extremities of this distinction a lot, with the current koan being that what is good for stakeholders is good for shareholders.
> b: You're absolutely expecting a quick short-term gain

To put this in perspective, 20x in 5 years is an 82% CAGR. And five years is far short of the length of an economic cycle. Traditionally, "long term investing" meant across at least one whole business cycle.
Well written. Sad how misunderstanding the function of cage armour
makes the AT warheads more effective. Who'd want to be in a tank? An
armour guy told me they call them "iron coffins". A bit off-topic, but
wrt statistical defences and tanks - I read an old Home Guard manual
about how to stop a tank column using dinner plates. You need a few
anti-tank mines too, which look similar. One of every 200 dinner
plates covered with dirt is an actual AT mine. Infantry sweepers have
to check each one. Another in every 200 dinner plates is booby trapped
with an AP device. Infantry want to check each one really slowly and
carefully.
But that’s the point of parallel. The use case is for when you have N processors and a 10Gb NIC. Each job is CPU bound or concurrent license bound, or some jobs may take longer than others. Parallel allows you to run X jobs simultaneously to keep the CPU or licenses busy.
The article mentions that they were in a technical role before the bootcamp as well.
Alternate title: "How I deliberately messed up and why it's definitely everyone else's fault"
Bag em up @dang
I like to drink like a fish after a long trip. Helps take the edge off and get my body to relax after hours of laughing tears of joy.

Drugs are tools. Know yourself, know what you're taking, and plan accordingly.

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A modern NLP system might help extract user intention from the user input.

Or you could use "chat" where chat actually means pre-fabricated inputs in a simple decision tree.
I’m not based in California. Cyclists going side-by-side in a single-lane (per-direction) is violating the rules.

See https://nybc.net/education/bike-law/2-uncategorised/68-a-sum...
Well that's the problem, is that the incentives for instruction are misaligned and the ramp to excellence are ill-defined.

The boot camps are wrong in teaching rotary, where they might benefit from selective regiments.

Learn to learn as I've heard it put.
They can always do that, by just issuing more shares. In fact, if you buy X shares, the percentage of the company you own could well decline over time. Or increase, in the case of stock buybacks.
One clause I still see is the one where the company owns everything you make in off hours in your own time. It's blatant theft and yet they still try to get away with it.
Musk is offering to buy out all stockholders, so if the sale goes through, he will be the sole owner of Twitter, and all current stock holders will receive cash.

On the other hand, the board can easily say "we don't beleive this deal offered by a person who isn't allowed to be a public officer of a company anymore will ever go through, either because he will retract it or because he will be unable to secure funding; and we beleive attempting the deal will hurt stock prices and profits for current shareholders" and then I agree, it would probably be a slam dunk in court.
People complain about search engines like Google being full of garbage and fake info. DDG takes actions against that and people cry that it’s not fair.

Are they supposed to just let governments astroturf their way to the top with propaganda?
Given that it's not a new mechanism and the amount of money involved, I assume if it wasn't legal this would have been sued into oblivion already.
I like this description of the problem and the suggestion:

> Today on Twitter, as on most social media, justice works in a roughly Stalinist style. The normal penalty is permanent execution. There is no transparent explanation for why an account is executed, before or after the execution. It has simply “violated the Twitter rules.” The public rules are extremely abstract and could theoretically justify almost any execution. The private rulebook by which the secret police, or “Ministry of Trust and Safety,” operates, is of course as secret as everything about the secret police.

> Of course, it is easy to observe that a two-day-old spam account does not deserve a six-month trial, with lawyers, before getting the bullet it needs in the back of the neck. Due process in this context must not be a clone of the IRL judicial system, which is more broken than anyone can possibly imagine.

> And there is a simple solution to the problem of scaling due process: *scale the level of due process to the size of the account*. An account with a million (real) followers might well deserve a six-week public trial, perhaps even with some kind of counsel. The spammer with 20 followers? Any cop can shoot him, as at present, and leave the body by the side of the road as a warning to others.

> There is a use for online Stalinist justice—it is only an injustice when it is disproportional to the user’s investment in the service. When Twitter is your career and any cop can just shoot you, an eerie atmosphere of terror pervades everything.

Source: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-twitter-coup
The industry has changed in the last decade. There’s enough college (and yes, boot camp) grads, and enough scam artists wasting hiring manager’s time, that someone with no history will need some kind of “in”.

The QA route - the modern version of the oft vaunted “start in the mail room and work hard” position - is mostly gone too.
Neither Heroku nor GitHub are addressing the key part of this - if Heroku's Dashboard apps were compromised, and thus access was given to connected GitHub repos for download - were the secrets in the Heroku config vars for the app also visible? That is the nightmare scenario for the affected app's owners.
I think that's not how it works.

Imagine there are 1000 shares and Elon got 150 of them, bought at $50 so he owns 15%. If the board now sells 1000 new shares to people who aren't Elon, he now only owns 7.5%.

It's not that you resell to the board
GitHub: Stolen OAuth User Tokens (Heroku, Travis-CI)
Using sponge to replace a file is equivalent to method 6 at:

https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html

Note the caveats listed there
I’m not aware of them being non-profit. Not that any particular tax status precludes ad spend.

DDG makes revenue from serving ads and participating in affiliates networks.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ad...
>even elec engineers who do a fair bit of coding aren't as well rounded as someone who has a degree in CompSci / Soft Eng.

Goes both ways, mate. I've always been shocked by (even very experienced) CompSci guys' absolute inability to create a simple state machine. Keep shit orthogonal, guys!

Same thing, but to a lesser extent, when it comes to timing constraints.
I don’t think Elon has or ever has had any affinity for Trump. He left his advisor (or something of that nature) spot in the administration quite early on for a reason.
A cool thing rpm(build) does, is that is automatically detects shebangs of packaged files and makes the built package depend on whatever package provides the file the shebang points to.
This obviously cannot work for env shebangs, so you always have to do that find -exec sed dance to replace them with proper ones for software that decides to have env shebangs.

But on Linux we also don't have to fight with a 15 year old bash or "compromising" a system when installing something into /bin. It feels lile OS X genuinely doesn't sound like a good UNIX to administer.
Is anyone interested in creating a Gmail clone service which let's you bring your own domain for free?

That is all I want. I'd even pay a small annual fee, but not $18/user/mo. Fuck google, for reneging on the arrangement after 14+ years.

If I'd known they'd come to behave as if their name was actually Greedle, I'd never have allowed them to become so ubiquitously integrated into my life. It's an abusive relationship, yet there is a fair amount of friction to switch to something else.
> With ever-increasing incidents of workplace violence, Brazil said, the verdict sets a dangerous precedent for employers and employees that unless physical violence occurs, workplace violence is acceptable.

In this case the company forced an employee against his expressed will to be the center of attention of a “party” and triggered his condition.
This IS violence - from the side of the employer.
You can do this natively in every major browser too. You'd have to configure the triggerwords yourself, though.
Two Silicon Valley executives charged with H-1B visa fraud
Covid is endemic now and it was probably obvious from close to the beginning that it would become so. Even if vaccines curb spread a bit and reduce deaths a lot, vaccinated people still get and transmit it.

We should focus on iterating vaccines faster, probably making cocktail-mRNA-vaccines with multiple strains and formulas updated every ~6 months, and helping all countries get access to the best vaccines, like open-source mRNA-vaccine tech and all the others that showed promising (compensate patent holders a couple billions etc.)

We're so incredibly dogmatic in our thinking with this, just like it took >1 year to figure out that most of the time ventilators don't help (those that can be helped can so with only oxygen), we still have this lingering belief that COVID isn't here to stay.

We should accept death as part of life and just iterate faster on things...
Why historians go around in circles
Actually yes, this is often called "dilution", and it's common in companies that are raising money by selling stock. I'm sure there are complicated rules about when it's allowed and how much is allowed, but I don't know what they are.
Yeah exactly, FancyZones feels like a bit of an upgrade over the built-in tiling (eg. with Win+Left/Right). It doesn't quite compare to keyboard-driven TWMs like i3 and bspwm.
Nope. Hot desking is in vogue now so be prepared to hunt for a new seat once in a while.
The board can issue new shares (equivalently, diluting existing shares) if it thinks it is in the interest of the shareholders. That’s clearly what they think of the poison pill, but it’s harder to argue that for the hypothetical you are describing
I guess its not _that_ different than that one time I had 4 VPs of Engineering, for 30 engineers 
 Sounds like an absolute bonkers-fest, thank you for sharing.
Open source doesn't mean anything. They could just have a closed source service read DB/logs and do stuff with the data.
>I have a hard time understanding why there is such a lack of higher-res panel options across the market

There are plenty of options, just most of them aren't cheap, or fitting in targeted price range.

There isn't a lack of high-res panel in supply, but a lack of high-res panel in demand. Or in other words, no-one apart from Apple (not that Apple gave its user a choice, but let's ignore this for a moment ) manage to market Retina or high-res panel and created enough demand to sustain a different upgrade option or SKUs.

This then cycles back, without economy of scale, not just a vendor but the whole industry, high-res panel do not enjoy the unit cost reduction as standardise low -res panel ( or 1080P panel, which isn't really "low-res" ). So the cost of these specific panel are far higher, increasing BOM, increase RSP, etc. etc.

Next question that always comes after this answer is always;

>"But we have higher prices SKUs, it is not like there isn't a demand for current SKUs +$100 / 200"

Yes. But given the option to choose between paying extra $100 / $200, the market tends to flavour for more memory, faster CPU or better GPU. Not higher-res panel.
I mean Okta’s core business is authentication so we’d expect them to do the bare minimum in disclosing security breaches and yet we saw how that went recently.
> We already see standard property tax forcing the elderly out of their homes in many areas.

It's reasonable to offer options to low-income retirees, for example allowing them to defer property tax payments until death. Texas does this, it works alright.

Note that a single family dewlling on .75 acres likely costs the government a lot of money to provide services (plumbing, sewer, electric etc) and is likely already a net debtor to the city/county. This style of development is why American (and Canadian) cities are going broke.
COVID's a pretty good argument against libertarianism; I think this is a pretty ~weak one. Any time you have an industry that's largely non-private, the private parts of it are probably going to be weird.

E.g., private schools tend to cater to the wealthy. But it's not generally true that highly privatized industries cater to the wealthy. Private schools cater to the wealthy because public schools exist, which makes it very difficult for a private school to compete at "lower price points".
I have two Pentel 0.5mm classic black pencils with the teeny weeny erasers under a steel cap. I have used these since high school, so over 40 years.

(I also have a Sharp calculator from the same era that is still working just fine. The Japanese really built things to last in the 80s.)
Even if that was really a law, which it isn’t…

…what if they board believes they are maximizing shareholder value in the medium or long term? What if they sincerely believe Musk would be a fickle CEO, and would make changes to the platform that would harm ad growth?
I really appreciate these reports, because torrentfreak usually includes a list of the sites which were blocked, so I can add them to the list of torrent sites that I visit via unfiltered DNS and VPN proxy.

I had forgotten about YTS until the recent BREIN (.nl) announcement, and I hadn't heard of Fmovies until today.

Circumvention of these measures is so easy that I feel like it's making a haves/have-nots division on the Internet. Those of us with two or more clues are barely inconvenienced, and everyone else is blocked hard.
That’s not the way it works. So of course it sounds illegal because you’ve made up an illegal scenario.

When the board triggers this clause, they may sell shares to existing shareholders at a discount. These are new shares. Companies have every right to sell shares outside of the exchange they’re listed on… and they do that all the time, through employee grants or options, for example.

When raising funds they generally sell new shares on the exchange, because that’s the highest price they can obtain for the share.. but they don’t have to do that.

And yes, in case you didn’t know, companies can sell as many shares as they want.
Poison pill shares are new shares, issued by the company and then sold to existing shareholders (with the exception of anybody who owns more than say, 15%). Since these shares are sold at a discount to the current market price, it is arguable that existing shareholders are benefiting as they now get more shares at a cheaper price, while also screwing over anybody who is trying to get >15%.

Now, you may argue that it is in the best interest of the shareholders to allow the hostile takeover to go through, but it appears that the strict mechanics of the poison pill do not immediately hurt shareholders.
I don’t think it matters at all if it works or not. It shouldn’t be done. It’s basically a violation of basic human rights. I’d like to think even in our worst of times, we’d respect basic human rights…
It wasn’t overly tricky to find the link labeled “The data is clear” in the article.
Seeing how seatbelt laws and restaurant safety permits were used to justify COVID lockdowns shows why anti-libertarian ideology should not be given even an inch. Anti-libertarians will use that inch to take more and more of people's human rights, since in principle, there's no difference in mandating you use a seatbelt, and mandating that you stay in your home for three months.
Sure

you could sue person, much harder to sue newspaper

you could sue someone for a twit if you want to, nothing could stop you
I sold a lot of bitcoin for $20 in 2008, quadrupled my initial investment and felt pretty smart about it.
It's based on a constrained interpretation the business judgement rule [1][2][3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moran_v._Household_Internation....

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unocal_Corp._v._Mesa_Petroleum....
Haven't watched the video yet, but I did just the last couple of weeks buy 2 Uni Kuru Toga pencils from JetPens and am enjoying them immensely.
Sadly you can only portably have one argument in the shebang line to the interpreter. That means that if you wanted to pass an argument to the actual interpreter, you'd not be able to if you use the env trick.
but does that matter? there are more important things such as access to computers & related resources at a young age, hiring for jobs that involve computers, etc. that are biased
The only real measure of success is "customer satisfaction", and I'd dare to say that the majority of the people of Sweden, UK and US are quite satisfied and some would have preferred even less measures to be taken...
Why are we still using filesystems that don't have an "undo" operation, though?

Is the work of programmers less valuable than, say, the work of Google Docs users (where there is an undo operation)?
So, what distro is the current ideal gaming platform? I don't play games often but it would be nice to have my living room media PC running Linux but also be available for occasional game play.
Are there guardrails on this? This comment makes it sound like the board can print their own money.