skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> have a duty to maximize shareholder value

Not to maximize profits. Courts give companies a wide berth in defining shareholder value.
I think in the present climate, the majority of the high profile center-to-left people one would most want to see on the platform, could not afford to risk the social signal of posting there. Things are too polarized, and every move is a signal of which binary side you’re on. There would have to be some very compelling reason to post there that I have not yet been able to imagine. And if only individuals and/or content moves there solely because said individuals/content are unwelcome on Twitter, then it’s just Gab or Parler again. Even the good-faith people who want a “freer” Twitter for everyone (insert your favorite conception of “freer”) don’t want another Gab/Parler.
Leave the source hard-wrapped and format it as Markdown. The resulting HTML will have all the flow you desire.
This is crazy because I am 10 years in and feel exactly the same. I actually just put in my two weeks because I got sick of our scrum team doing cargo cult agile and I’m going to take some time off to reset and then maybe look for a 4 day work week remote job doing architecture mostly solo. If I can’t find my perfect software job I’m going to branch out into something else I can do outside software that I like. Life is too short to be miserable.
Major Insurers Are Scamming Billions from Medicare, Whistle-Blowers Say
Bahamas and Spain, definitely. Turkey, probably, though maybe not.
Using LTSC or using policy changes never truly gets rid of the telemetry/spyware.

The main goal of Windows Ameliorated is to restore privacy, and it does this by removing said spyware on an executable level, not by just simply using registry edits or what have you.

Some people desire or require Windows, but they don't want the included spyware. Windows Ameliorated is for those people.
Don't knock rotating lead till you try it. Seriously, it's like a real time pencil sharpener.
lol it's not hard. people keep saying this. exchanges process insane volume even when taking into account churn volume. There are hundreds of exchanges. The odds are almost 100% you can process anything.
I don't think you can avoid the government ownership of land, at least within the US.

If its not the governments, it still belongs to the natives the government stole it from. The individual's legitimacy comes from the government's claims over the land
> 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.

They could try that but if the STAK is properly administered then the notary public would insist on those new shares being paid in full into the company account. This particular trick is fairly well defended against in NL. But there are other ways in which a STAK certificate holder could be screwed out of their rightful share. The important thing to keep in mind here is that for every certificate there is a corresponding share with all of the right associated with that share, in that sense the situation of a certificate holder is not all that different form the situation that a minority shareholder in a company finds themself in with the major difference being that certificate holders themselves do not get to vote and that someone else gets to vote the block of shares in the STAK. If that person were to act against the interest of the certificate holders in any other capacity then they would open themselves up to a pretty good case for a legal challenge.
You can use `/etc/passwd.new` as a temporary file to avoid the problems you mentioned. In the worst case, you'll have an orphaned passwd.new file, but /etc/passwd is guaranteed to remain intact.
I mean, saying "We are concerned about a hostile takeover attempt by a person who isn't allowed to be an officer of a public company anymore because he has show himself either unwilling or unable to be a fiduciary for stockholders, and we are trying to protect our stockholders from him" seems like a slam dunk in court.
Very neat! It's funny to see this 'old' screen suddenly on my huge modern monitor. It feels like timetravel :)
Not sure what you mean. Someone on urban dictionary defines blogspam as

> A blog where the author paraphrases or copies from the original article/webpage in an attempt to increase his or her own traffic.

Another person as

> loaded with so much foreign material, it refuses to function properly

Since neither of those fit, I guess you mean it more like a random blog that thw owners 'spam' everywhere such as onto link collectors like HN?

Torrentfreak is quite the opposite of that, if that's what you were accusing them of in the first place. One could say that your comment's "headline is outright false"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorrentFreak
from my understanding they've been going downhill for quite some time.
Here were relevant things:

The coffee was turbo-hot--far in excess of standards that exist.

McDonald's had been warned about this before.

The design of the cup had it's own issues.

The woman's initial lawsuit was for perfectly reasonable medical expenses given the horrible nature of the injuries.

And, in response, McDonald's went completely nuclear.

So, when McDonald's lost, THAT'S why they got hammered.

And, even then, the award amount later got reduced, but nobody remembers that.
The whole thing seems like a stunt by Elon. I don't care either way, but it would have been interesting for the board to call Elon's bluff and watch him back out at the last minute.

Elon should really focus on his unfulfilled promises to folks he already took money from, not playing immature games to keep himself on the front page. I don't know what drugs he did with his ex-girlfriend, but they don't appear to have had a positive effect on his well being.
My own experience disagrees. I'm a self-taught engineer (on Python even) and I did have recruiters finding me and passing on my resume when I was first entering the job market ten years ago, and I had hiring managers giving me the shot at the screening (which I passed). I've had a pretty smooth career since then.
The OP called it spyware, not I. I pointed those out as examples of what artifacts windows logs. Bash_history much like your browing history you can clear it and be done with it. But due to the seemingly endless subsystems (new ones get discovered all the time, see my other replies) if you clear security.evtx and your browsing history there are still many reliable (as in court tested) artifacts that can prove you browsed specific sites and ran specific programs.

I don't know how much of this MS collects and anyone who says they do, I would challenge them for evidence because there are many plausibly deniable and benign reasons to extract this information from the host.

I would say at best windows is spyware-friendly.

If I workes for the CCP and was instructed to get a list of people that used Signal so they can be sent for re-education, I would not even look to see if Signal.exe is installed in windows, I would just check prefetch and srum.
Having used the Rotring 800, I can’t imagine why anybody would choose it over a GraphGear 1000. Even without taking the price difference into account.
> But it acts as a public square, in the sense that you need to publish there to meaningfully interact with a significant fraction of the population.

I guess this must be a Your-Mileage-May-Vary situation.

I've never used Twitter as anything more than just (rarely) reading it as a micro-blogging web-page, never published anything on it, never interacted with anyone on it and have always encouraged everyone I know to also avoid using it.

Perhaps if you and others did the same, then we wouldn't need to be having this discussion.

We have to work hard to make sure that the Internet and only the Internet remains the public space, and to never give such power to any entities like Twitter - commercial or otherwise.
A Genius on the Wrong Side of History: Tolstoy’s Conflicts and Contradictions
You can use custom domains, but unfortunately they don't do access/service based subscriptions. Domain docs are at https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058753394
These are super cool, but I have to admit I’ve sworn by BIC 0.5mm mechanical pencils for years. Part of it is that they are so cheap and commonplace, I like that at least for one aspect of my life I don’t rely on some super custom, boutique version of an everyday product.
Yea I also had that idea before, but I didn't want to maintain a bunch of different "next chapter" finder logic.

But I do agree it would be a more reliable way of doing things.
> skills you can take with you to whatever OS you may have chosen or later choose.

Off topic, but this is a really good point.

I'm very happy that much of the software I used when I was on Windows was either open source or cross platform, and currently make a point to use cross platform software as much as possible. I'm happy with Linux now, but want to still be able to change!
> As a trivial example, the board would be entirely entitled to claim that their goal is very long term profit maximization, and that this will result in decades of losses (effectively Amazon's strategy).

Yes, but that's still a profit based motivation. My point was that the board of a for-profit company doesn't have a fiduciary duty to represent non-financial interests of the company or shareholders.

That is, you can't sue the board of a for-profit company because they didn't uphold their fiduciary duty to represent your interest of having a free-speech platform, even if you had made it very clear that to you this is much more important than profits, and even if you owned 100% of shares [well, you can sue, but the case will be quickly thrown out]

Conversely, the board can always claim that they made free speech a priority because they believe that will help drive long term profits, even if shareholders asked them to focus on profits to the detriment of free speech, and even if profits immediately tanked after this decision; and they will likely win in a trial.
Luckily the article links its sources, so we can see that "some individual developers" is one guy on twitter who later said he is unblocked again and claims it was related to sanctions against his former employer. Would be interesting to see if people currently working for the sanctioned banks are affected. Investigative journalism instead of regurgitating blogs and tweets. Maybe i am too harsh, it is good some people translate russian sources.

More interesting is is the side note about GitHub enforcing the crimea sanctions from 2014 (still ongoing) that prohibit, among other things, the export of goods, technology, or services to the Crimea region of Ukraine. It seems that crimea nowadays only has two backbone providers, both routing through russia. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03100247/

Looking at how this could affect civilians in the crimea region it seems their primary problems are ethnic cleansing and oppression of opposition, not access to american services.
To prove it we need a source of that.
I think there's a problem with assuming that basic libretarian thinking is about freedom though. I personally value my and others' freedom to not be murdered over the freedom to murder people. There are an awful lot of unjust laws that can color people's view on acting as a society - but there are also quite necessary forces in there to make sure that people have the ability to live good lives.

My central philosophy in life is basically to strive to have a positive net impact on those around me - and it's why I find that old Franklin quote "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." so problematic - it comes from a good place (basically it can, IMO be read as a scathing indictment of America's response to 9/11) but it gets taken so far overboard so often. Everyone just wants to live, when we're threatened with an existential (for some of us) threat like a pandemic, we need to coordinate an appropriate group response to sanely respond to it. When the threat is minor we can delegate that to the individual and let folks do as they will - but when we're talking about a pandemic group action is required to overcome the issue.

I'm fine seeing wide ranging debates on the political stage over national drug care and the like - but this pandemic is a very serious threat that has killed a lot of Canadians. I don't think it's fair to paint pretty reasonable quarantine restrictions as authoritarian when that word, to so many people, draws up the image of Stalin or Hitler.
Why Was MyFord Touch a Disaster?? (YouTube Video)
Some people require Windows, or prefer to use it over Linux. And some of those don't want the included spyware that comes with it. Windows Ameliorated is for those people.

It's not always as simple as "want privacy? Switch to Linux!". Some people want Windows as well as privacy.
It's pretty easy to fix actually but it's an expense and a visual negative: full body turnstiles triggers by valid ID.
I said this below but I don't think Dodge v. Ford is particularly really plays much into modern case law outside of the judgement rule. To my knowledge, it's never been cited in Delaware (against the board at least).

A case that stands out more to me (being both more modern as well as at the federal level) is Burwell v. Hobby Lobby: "While it is certainly true that a central objective of for-profit corporations is to make money, modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so." in reference to furthering religious goals instead of profit. (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/573/682/#tab-opi...)
Your comment reminds me of this 36 year old paper: http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf

It describes how no technical improvement alone can get an order of magnitude improvement in software development efficiency, so the ways available to increase development by an order of magnitude are learning to use already-built components, shrinking feedback loops so we can be sure we are building the right thing, and growing the profession.
I think these get a lot of traction because of the interesting proposal that, should this go through, the possibility of a future where when one is feeling a little down or a little bored they might pop into their local Walgreens and get a one-night dose of OTC MDMA to liven up the boredom and sadness of their life.

It's an interesting consideration that I think is part of the excitement and buzz these articles generate. I think many people would experiment with psychedelics and other harder drugs if they knew the safety was very high and that it might correlate to other benefits such as overcoming past emotional blockages or looking forward to tomorrow with brighter eyes.

I said all of that to say that I take these articles with a grain of salt. Some of these well-known drugs may very well have amazing positive benefits for a select group of people experiencing a correlated negative existence, but I strongly doubt that any of them will be a panacea for any of the more universal ills, that is to say, I doubt casual sadness or unhappiness will ever have a treatment in pill form. These treatments will most likely be best reserved for the people who have deep and abiding emotional and psychological scars that traditional holistic approaches ("whole-body", not new age woo woo) would be entirely unable to treat.
I hate paying ~3% processing fees every time my invoice gets paid, so I did this
I grew up in Iran and these were very common back in the day. I personally had a very bad reaction to the sound of pencil on a paper and i could only write using these.

Im amazed these aren't common here.
I don't really understand how this "poison pill" is legal. Imagine that you own a stock that can be sold at free market at $10/share. Then the board decides that whoever buys those shares will have to resell them to board members at $1. This means that now the price of those shares drops to $1 and you have lost $9 per share. How this can be legal?
When Is Easter, and Why Doesn't Passover Always Overlap?
Nowadays Chainalysis has done a great job tracking and tainting crypto through all the exchanges.
Depends on the company and how they hire. Yeah, there are many companies that won't even consider you, but that leaves a lot of excellent candidates for others. Our lead developer joined around 6 years ago as a junior with zero prior experience outside his own side projects. (Which isn't to say it would be normal to go from zero to lead in that time period, but to underline how exceptional he is given he was able to do so.) Many of our other top developers over the years have had similarly non-standard backgrounds. Our screening process is definitely unconventional though; I barely consider resumes until well into the process.

I think if you're legitimately smart and dedicated, and put the time in to build knowledge, you'll be able to get a start somewhere. And once you have real work experience, the credential becomes less and less relevant.

FWIW I do find there's value in actual comp sci and software engineering degrees, and I will give those some amount of weight. But as far as bootcamps, if two candidates demonstrate the same level of skill, knowledge, dedication, etc., it makes zero difference to me if one has a boot camp and the other is self taught.
I'd be willing to give it a shot if it's backed by $$$ and a progressive technologist.
> My guess is if this scientist did psychedelics he wouldn't have written this article.

That was my thought too, though that also runs into the author's argument that psychedelic research is heavily biased by people who have tried it. On the other hand, I think people who have not tried psychedelics have never experienced how much of what they think of as objective, rational mind is actually fairly fluid, and how much the referential frame of experience informs and influences what we'd consider objectivity.
Developers are attracted to software engineering because of autonomy.

As it turns out, the industry has figured out how to remove that autonomy in favor of old fashioned management and processes. This includes scrum, meetings, badly implemented code reviews (not everyone is a good reviewer), badly implemented coding standards, ineffective Dilbert driving projects that need inspirational leaders.

It's sad but I have decided to take the path of FIRE and say fuck you to anyone who imposes their will on me without considering alternatives.
> IMO Chapo was banned as an attempt at balance for the misguided banning of /r/The_Donald

FTFY
I feel the same about the GraphGear 1000.

As for erasers - do you recall anything that beats out the Pentel Hi-Polymer block eraser for the overwhelming vast majority of use cases?

I seriously couldn’t gear over just how bad Staedtler block eraser performed when I’d seen so many rave about it. I haven’t tried much other than it & the Pentel when it comes to erasers tho.
I don't think it is selection bias. I keep notes on every interview I conduct, and went back reviewing the bootcamper grads recently.

I would say close to 60% were unsuitable for even junior positions. Their arrogance made them dangerous, and they knew just enough to cause problems.

You can't speedrun a career, and bootcamps sell a lie that you can. Sadly, the people who end up losing out are the people coming out of the other end.

It is also a sad fact, that often, regardless of bootcamper incompetence, you can find a more incompetent manager willing to hire that person and validate their skewed world view.

As you can tell, i'm tired of it. At least uni grads from CS courses know enough to know they know very little.
> In west coast cities [...]

... outside of Berkeley.
Well it's more of a conspiracy theory really. Along with the Aurora aircraft, Area 51 aliens and the like. Just slightly more believable than the rest.

> A displacement hull won't plane no matter how much power you put into the shafts.

I wouldn't be so sure, the main difference between the two is that a planing hull has an angle of attack in regards to the water, so it can generate lift. You can achieve the same by increasing stern trim on a displacement hull.

As for it being flat on the bottom, there are also less stable flat planning hulls that work so that doesn't disqualify it either.
For-profit colleges and coding bootcamps, which inflate success metrics and charge too much. The best argument yet against libertarianism, although a libertarian society would not require so much credentials though.
you should be banned
I'm sorry to hear that, but that kind of thing is not an issue in the UK, or indeed, many parts of the world.
Bailing them out does not mean bailing them out with zero consequences. Regulators have a lot of levers to pull there and should have used that. Splitting them up, taking them over outright, strengthening postal banking, loan forgiveness, banning instruments, they could have easily used the chance to negotiate the banks into making painful compromises that would have greatly benefited society. But they didn't and just gave them free money instead.
Just to clarify, that does make Musk's offer a hostile takeover bid, as is also stated in that link.
I'm continually surprised by the amount of attention that HN gives DDG. They have no unique or interesting technology. The "privacy" claims are all self-attestation.
The jewel-encrusted edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
What do you mean by "play nice"?

I tend to use quickfix lists because I can edit/filter/persist them; so for example I'll have some tests/warnings but won't care about them for the moment but then rerun the command and get the diff and navigate to that.

It's fairly complicated to script the same using the LSP api.
Hot take: there's a thing called unknown-unknowns and it's what separates people with a formal education in the field from everyone else.

Years of experience can make you a competent individual in the subject but 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.

It's possible to pick up on this if you're 'in the club,' it's impossible to notice it if you're not.
I was not raging. Doesn't matter what the reasons are (hard to prove either way), foe the unassuming user there are serious and even fatal implications if removing specific files or clearing history or logs does not have the expected effect. I am aware (I hope everyone else is) that mobile operating systems are magnitudes of order worse.

Your list of complaints is whataboutism and is not directly related to OS privacy expectations and reality.

Linux is better at this because it gives you more control over what is logged and the code is open source.
For comparison, in New Zealand, assuming you are earning NZD180k (well into the top 1%[1]):

Your taxes are about NZD70k in total. About $12k of that goes towards heath[2].

The most expensive family plan (2adults 3kids) to top up your cover (beyond the normal care everyone gets by the state) is NZD700 per month (the major health insurance provider in NZ[3]).

[1] https://www.ird.govt.nz/about-us/tax-statistics/revenue-refu...

[2] https://www.treasury.govt.nz/information-and-services/financ...

[3] https://join.southerncross.co.nz/quote
You might not know, but it’s commonly held not to be practially possible to switch the license of Linux, since its copyright is not owned by a single entity – it is owned in myriads of small portions depending on who wrote that piece. Some of those people have since passed away, their copyrights now being held by their descendants.
not all exchanges do Chainalysis , not all fraud is picked up by it, not all exchanges will act on fraud.
Oh, fair point. We'll add a fine for bikes as well. Thanks for helping us remedy this oversight.
Elon Musk Makes $43B Cash Offer to Buy Twitter