skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can’t take it literally in this sense. Among other things, investors cannot commit securities fraud, only executives can. Als, relatedly, Matt Levine’s take regarding insider trading may be relevant here.
>We try to avoid that kind of crappy reply here on HN.

We try to avoid that kind of crappy comment here too, first look at yourself...maybe?
I could be wrong but I don't think Twitter is a B corp.
Art has been my job since about 2020.

My experience is that, while I can certainly do lovely work with any way of making a mark and enough time, shitty tools will take a lot of time to get decent work, decent tools will take a sensible amount of time relative to how much people are willing to pay me, and power tools - once you've learnt how to use them properly - will let me work a lot faster for the same quality of work.

Pushing single pixels in Paint is like writing assembly language for artists, except we don't even get the benefit of all that time spent coming back as blazingly fast execution. We just had to spend a lot more time than other tools could have let us take.
Musk is trying to buy everyone out because he wants to influence the direction of Twitter. Why not ascribe a similar set of motivations to the other current shareholders? If that is a motivation for them, then shareholder profit is not the only relevant sense of shareholder value.

This isn't an argument for the poison pill clause, but is an answer to the following quoted question. It is funny to see this motivation of most existing shareholders ignored in order to bring into being analogous motivations of another. Especially when Musk's offer for Twitter has been in order to change it promote certain values, but conspicuously, better profits has not been one of those touted values.

> While this might be sad for the company, why is it not in the interests of the shareholders to take the offer?

I will sabotage my own argument somewhat though and say that I believe the economic motive dominates over time and is almost always (in macro and micro) the primary force.
China tried to actively cover up the infection in Wuhan. News got out, doctors posted on social media, video on Reddit showed people dying in the streets.

China's great at suppressing protests, but informationally they're still porous. If millions of Chinese were dying of COVID, we'd know it. If suppressing information about deaths worked as well as you're asserting, they wouldn't have to publicly lock down Shanghai, either.
Patching, Instrumenting and Debugging Linux Kernel Modules
I think the takeaway here is that any language or ecosystem has an unspoken culture, set of habits and norms, set of assumed background knowledge, and general "look and feel" to it that matter to the productivity and overall satisfaction that any given developer will get, based on their personality and past experience. We often ignore these aspects when doing something like picking a language, but they really do make a difference.
This process doesn't create new "money" as far as I can tell. Centralised exchanges can indeed inflate the supply of any crypto-currency by lowering the reserve ratio. But I think the way they pump the coins is mostly by issuing unbacked "stablecoins" and using those to buy crypto-currencies.
What exactly is the relevance of this discussion here? These things are not reciprocal! They just arent!

NATO was not the cause of this conflict. NATO would have stopped this conflict had Ukraine been a member.

NATO is a force of stability.

Russia is waging a war of extermination on Ukraine. Their sin was that they wanted to align with the west. Russia wants to genocide away all nations it consider taints Russian soil, what ever the international borders say.

Either you choose to go along with this (Fine, destroy their cultural identity, go ahead, it's your right. Let them kidnap the children, rape the women and - steal their washing machines?) or you do something to counter the Russian threat.

I presume most would prefer to live in a world that at least attempts to stop genocide.

There are two options here - NATO or nuclear proliferation.

Ukraine war showed that barring obvious superiority in conflict, nuclear threat is the only guarantor of state sovereignty.

Without more nukes, NATO is a necessary guarantor of state sovereignty at each state bordering Russia by providing credible force.

Russia has proved this theory themselves by assaulting every non-NATO country at it's borders.

How could countries like Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia defend themselves without a NATO alliance? Should they get a nuke? Or should they just yield to Russian rape, pillage and annihilation of cultural distinctiveness?

For those who like Star Trek - This is EXACTLY a situation where the Russian states behaves like the Borg. You oppose the Borg. Not say "yeah, you have right to do that because you are ... mean?"

The Russian state also behaves like a fascist villain but that's kind of obvious already.
This is why I usually just use a temporary directory and do a quick

git init .
git add .
git commit -m "wip"

... and proceed from there. So many ways to screw up ad hoc data processing using shell and the above can be a life saver. (Along with committing along the way, ofc.)

EDIT: Doesn't work if you have huuuuge files, obviously... but you should perhaps be using different tools for that anyway.
If Duck really collects user data, the moment this is found out, they’re dead, so for that reason alone, they probably don’t do it. The alternative is that they’re betting everything on nobody ever finding out which sounds crazy.
Available for x86 and SPARC, but not ARM. An ARM port of Solaris would be very interesting.
Compagnies dont organise birthday parties; well intentioned people do. I think you are overreacting.
That isn't true. Here's a video showing how simple it is:

https://streamable.com/yapgz
Indeed, and not that much money either. But even if the longer screw position isn't there it usually is there electrically and you might be able to run a bigger unit anyway by removing the stand-off and using some double sided tape+a tie wrap. Not the most elegant solution but hey, this is hacking :)
So you are saying that children with underlying health conditions are at a higher risk for MIS-C and / or this hepatitis than the rest?
According to this BBC video report, more Shanghai residents are venting their anger and frustration by posting videos on social media. Such videos are normally censored by China's 'Great Firewall'.

The BBC website states: "...the sheer volume of the clips has made it difficult for censors to keep up. Many are also being passed around in private group chats, which has made them harder to catch."

Shanghai lockdown: How angry netizens test China's 'Great Firewall' (video):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-china-61102809
AI Software that manages 22 trillion $ in assets
I’d make them publish their content moderation policies, and have all decisions documented and filtered through those public rules.

The speech is made in public and should be adjudicated in public. Today’s Twitter hides its moderation policies and decisions. Even though they are a private company (albeit publicly traded and the effective public square), this is wrong.
I still see web3 as one of those islands, maybe a continent, but will be walled by the trust method you describe. There is no need to filter the imaginary Internet if an AI can build a whole network on request. So basically the Fake Internet will stay there, polluted, as a relic, until the cost of maintaining it becomes larger than whatever can be exploited from it.
> The SEC knew Elon had the funding

Do you have proof - or even evidence - that Musk had funding, let alone that the SEC knew he had funding, other than Musk's own statements?
I have a Pentel Orenz Nero 0.2mm with such a feature. It is pretty nice, but you will often scratch over the paper with the metal which is definitely a counter argument.
Makes 0.2mm usable though. I think for 0.5mm you don't need it, just get some decent 'lead'.
I lived in Shanghai for 5 years and have many friends and business connects there. I would never, ever want to be seen as carrying water for the CCP--the day they abolished term limits for Xi was the day I started planning my exit.

I've been following this situation for almost a month now and in one sense it's every bit as bad as it looks. An inadequate and inhumane policy being enforced by an out of touch, or perhaps even uncaring, government. Especially galling to me as an American who's seen what we went through in Covid with my country is the claim of "zero Covid deaths" in Shanghai during the last few months.

That said, as far as I can tell it's a very unevenly distributed disaster. If you have Covid and got sent to a quarantine center, yeah you're probably SOL. But on the other hand, my friends who are quarantined and didn't get it are just bored to death, drinking and gaming and working from home, just treading water until this "ends."

Shanghai is nothing if not a big city. 26 million is a LOT of people. Your experience of life, even in the best of times, varies greatly by neighborhood, industry, income level, and more. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, definitely don't buy the CCP propaganda, but equally don't take the (truly grim) videos all over social media as representative of the whole situation. This crisis is unfolding on a bell curve. That's a lesson anyone, in any country, can take away from this, to better consider and critique their own government's response to future disasters.
Their stock dropped along with Facebook and other media platforms the second Apple stopped them from tracking users everywhere. That's without mentioning the crazy overvalue problem such companies already have.
False, except for a naive implementation, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_threshold_theorem

If you look at the theorem, it is definitely sub-exponential in the number of qubits needed to correct for error.
I don't believe in nor really care about his points regarding "free speech" (whatever that even means, considering everyone has a different concept of it).

However I believe the current model of social media being funded by "engagement" has peaked, is hard to grow in a world already saturated by advertising, and is at risk from privacy & pro-consumer legislation slowly being enacted around the world.

I just don't see a future in the current model, yet the social media industry seems to be stuck in this local maximum without an easy way out. A hostile takeover of a large existing player by a risk-taker is the "kick in the butt" that the industry needs. It may go well, it may go wrong, but IMO it's at least worth a try.
How the metaverse (and quantum physics) could prove our universe is a fake
if your analysis produces an effect when fed uniform random data, then yes, no need to perform experiments or studies, because all your results are null. right?

so the hypothesis would be something like "the analysis shows a relationship between the two variables" and the null hypothesis would be something like "the analysis shows a relationship between two uniform random variables" and in this case that null is shown and accepted because no such relationship exists by definition. right? (unless it's like, "they have the same entropy", or something)

i'm very rusty with this stuff, so clarification would be much appreciated!
So if you schedule a visit to a doctor without a specific problem and they give you your yearly shots and do routine tests, and all of that is covered by insurance, what do you call it?
It would also be very difficult to cover up the scale of sickness / death if COVID had run as as it has elsewhere.
Researchers create a magnet made of one molecule
Fascism means cashism!

(Sorry, unable to resist.)
Twitter has the potential to be much higher than its current value. It’s currently at a zero-earnings pricing. I don’t know whether Agrawal will turn it around, but if Elon or somebody like him stepped in, maybe they could clean house and do it. If Twitter employees are freaking out right now, it’s because they have so many people doing stuff that isn’t bringing in money.

I think the board is right to reject the offer. Twitter could be worth more. Twitter in Elon’s control would be a more valuable company.

If I were a shareholder, I’d want them to reject 52.40. Maybe not 92.40. The ideal outcome would be if Elon gets 51% control and I got to remain a shareholder.
From ArsTechnica:

“Even before Friday, Twitter had bylaws that "could have the effect of rendering more difficult, delaying, or preventing an acquisition deemed undesirable by our board of directors," the company said in a February 2022 SEC filing. That includes "a classified board of directors whose members serve staggered three-year terms," and the ability to "authoriz[e] 'blank check' preferred stock, which could be issued by our board of directors without stockholder approval and may contain voting, liquidation, dividend and other rights superior to our common stock."

Sounds like the board can do pretty much anything they want with Twitter’s stock. I find it incredible that a regulated public company can issue abitrary shares with any terms they want.

They made these rules before Friday. but it also sounds like they could have made them today if they wanted to.
Hey I’m on the same page. Doesn’t make any sense to me.
Amazon is probably an exception, and based on Netflix's stated attitude towards "adequate performance" I wouldn't necessarily expect stability there.
Ideally, yes. But democratic countries have a fatal flaw that we don't really have a good solution for, democracy can vote itself out of existence to be replaced with fascism and the only way to reset it that we know about is through war. This is a real problem.
You cannot use `sudo cat` to open a file with root privileges, because `sudo cat > foo` means "open file foo with your current privileges, then run `sudo cat` passing the file to it", and the whole root thing only happens after you already tried and failed to open the file.

I seem to get this wrong roughly once a week.
I know this is a nit, but that is a misrepresentation of what the Great Firewall is (to keep things out of the country) vs. the internal censorship regime that domestic internet services are supposed to provide. In this case, it is the internal censorship apparatus that cannot keep up, not the great firewall failing from letting information in or out of the country.
You wouldn't necessarily need more space, but even if you did US streets are already so wide that you can generally apply road diets to them and still get better trafic flow out of them.
it varies a lot by region in the US.

in NJ, everyone is going about the same speed, but way over the limit. people seem to be pretty good about staying out of the passing lane in light traffic.

in VA, everyone does seem to more or less go the speed limit.

in MD, it's utter chaos. you'll see a minivan going exactly the speed limit in the left lane, people passing it 10-20 mph over the limit, and wild people weaving in and out of exit lanes to pass everyone else at even higher speeds.

that's my experience anyway.
What keys you use for your persistent identity?
I think it still is. I'm going to try to find a source, but I saw an analysis where they measured from a year before the split, the day the split was announced, and the day the split was executed all until one year after the split was executed and the returns on all of them beat the market as a whole.

That being said, holding before the announcement performed the best.
Cat won’t write the file. If you mean `command | sudo cat > file.txt`, that won’t work because the redirection is still happening in the non-root shell. You could do `command | sudo sh -c "cat > file.txt"` but that’s rather verbose.
They lost a nuclear sub during a training exercise due to a faulty weld on a torpedo, I'm not sure why this would be so out of the realm of possibility.
Alright, I went in thinking "come on, how 'overengineered' can a mechanical pencil be?", and by about halfway through I wanted to buy one, and at the end I readily admit that they've managed to find exactly the problems with these things and fix them, way beyond what I would have thought practical. Remarkable:)
Plenty of studies showed lockdowns worked. The long term impact on COVID in vaccinated vs unvaccinated populations has eroded how deadly people perceive COVID. Estimates vary especially around secondary effects like hospitals being overcrowded, but cumulatively lockdowns in the US saved in the low millions of lives.

“The study found that from March through August 2020, implementing widespread lockdowns and other mitigation in the United States potentially saved more lives (866,350 to 1,711,150) than the number of lives potentially lost (57,922 to 245,055) that were attributable to the economic downturn.”

However, don’t take my or anyone else’s word for it. The research is publicly available if you go looking.
Study helps explain how xanthan gum is processed in the gut
Sorry. Couldn't resist ;-)
Ouch. I know my rogue from my rouge, but typing on a phone has a really high error rate for me.
Counterpoint: an ancient Babylonian copper merchant is remembered to this day for being a no-good swindler due to complaints against him recorded in stone tablets [1]. Remembering things is only getting easier with better data storage. I guess you could just move the timeline out to the heat death of the universe, though.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/complaint-tablet-to-ea-nasir
it is also the price of what is currently for sale, most shares of most companies are not actively for sale at their current price.

Every market participant has a buy price and a sell price for one share influenced by their personal opinions and the state of the whole market; each at a different level and trading price is only calculated on actual trades. So all the shareholders that are unwilling to sell for any of the current offers do not influence it.

Yet if you were to buy 100% of the shares then you would eventually have to climb up to their price.
The mspaint parts with shapes could be done in inkscape (which is a fantastic and underrated program), then still transfer to gimp.
That's an insanely good idea. Since behind the scenes, Amazon would know who owns each website that it's crawling, an AWS search database would inherently be better-curated and more trustworthy than anything an external crawler could put together. Having your website on AWS would be crucial for SEO.

Awful for competition and whatnot.
If you want concurrency without trouble, it's hard to beat Clojure.
A TCL Roku example would be the FALD engine. Firmware updates "enhance" the backlight algorithm. One update added it to Game mode.

VRR being added, as I stated, is something Sony has been doing this year.
scihub still shows up!
It always comes down to the perception of how useful you could be. Do you look like you could have valuable connections? Do people look at you and think this person probably has money/smarts/connection/anything else of utility? Maybe you are exotic or good looking enough that they want to associate with you to increase their own standing in their own tribes?
I have to admit that I have never built a large scale system, but with small to medium scale systems I have always ended up tuning GC parameters and looking for stray references. And of course there is always some piece of code that depends on finalizers to close some resource, so not doing enough GC a problem just as much as doing too much of it. In my current project (C#) there's the additional problem that there are situations where GC just isn't allowed but there are some language features that just create objects behind the scenes without any warning. So yes, it's not impossible to achieve but it's a lot more difficult than dealing with reference counting or C++ smart pointers.
That's a hilarious opening question. I just watched an excellent Columbo episode from 1976 on a 10 year old LED screen, willingly, and I didn't even throw up.
"Who does this benefit besides the board?"

the people who run the US/world who depend on censorship to maintain their power
a) That's possible depending on how you quantify ability because average is influenced by outliers.

b) Is that supposed to be a rebuttal or something? I think "do whatever but strict liability if you F up" would be fine even for average and below average drivers. That's mostly how things already work in practice.
Do you have a lawyer? Have you ever had a lawyer look at any of these contracts? That is where I would start.
Twitter has no equity. There's nothing to leverage.
why is the perspective that they are making these investments to secure their economic future against foreign interference less valid than "they are trying to control world affairs"? China has never been interested in pushing its ideology unlike certain actors today. And regardless of how Westerners feel about it, HK is indisputably a domestic issue, and Taiwan arguably so. There's never been any indication of China wanting to project military force abroad. Their stated aims of being a regional force in a multipolar world make much more sense.

I take great issue with Western portrayal of China as an antagonistic threat when it's the West that has done the lion share of provocation, the West that continues to believe it deserves a say in East Asian affairs.
> Wouldn't it be funny if Musk bought Twitter, and simply shut it down, and pissed off on vacation with no contactable number.

I've honestly had the same thought rattling around in my head during this entire spectacle. It'd certainly be the boat interesting outcome.
Dude this rabbit hole goes way deeper than one might think.
Insider trading at coinbase ?: https://app.finclout.io/t/x3p3G27
>not that some altruistic, enlightened billionaire-king is going to save us poor proles

Billionaire-kings already run most of these systems. It's undeniable that these other billionaire-kings are using their platforms to manufacture outrage against the newcomer.

This suggests he is not aligned with the existing power structure.
Not OP but Elon has stated explicitly that all speech legal in the USA, so if I had the choice it would include parties left, right, and center: Occupy Wall Street, the AntiMedia project, Global Revolution Live, President Trump, Milo Yiannopoulus (sp?) Alex Jones, Robert Stacy McCain, Laura Loomer.
> errno: look up errno names and descriptions

I like this. Reminds me of a couple very useful things I've done:

1. Add a -man switch to command line programs. This causes a browser to be opened on the web page for the program. For example:

dmd -man

opens https://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html in your default browser.

2. Fix my text editor to recognize URLs, and when clicking on the URL, open a browser on it. This silly little thing is amazingly useful. I used to keep bookmarks in an html file which I would bring up in a browser and then click on the bookmarks. It's so much easier to just put them in a plain text file as plain text. I also use it for source code, for example the header for code files starts with:

/*
* Takes a token stream from the lexer, and parses it into an abstract syntax tree.
*
* Specification: $(LINK2 https://dlang.org/spec/grammar.html, D Grammar)
*
* Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2020 by The D Language Foundation, All Rights Reserved
* Authors: $(LINK2 http://www.digitalmars.com, Walter Bright)
* License: $(LINK2 http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt, Boost License 1.0)
* Source: $(LINK2 https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/dmd/parse.d, _parse.d)
* Documentation: https://dlang.org/phobos/dmd_parse.html
* Coverage: https://codecov.io/gh/dlang/dmd/src/master/src/dmd/parse.d
*/

and I'll also use URLs in the source code to reference the spec on what the code is implementing, and to refer to closed bug reports that the code fixes.

Very, very handy!
Russian government has always appreciated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat so be careful what you search for.