skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know of any good article on the subject, but I think the red/blue war in America is where you can see some of the most extreme examples of this. A simple illustrative example that comes to mind: A politician on the other side of the aisle makes a gaffe, a journalist amplifies the video/text of their statement, based on their followers' reaction a journalist decides if it's something their followers care about and either writes a piece about it with supporting information about just how wrong they are and takes on it from their followers/colleagues or just ignores it and moves on trying to find more red meat for the political partisans that read them.
And yet, despite your belief that the majority of the investors should/are valuing the stock at >$70, it is trading at ~$45, which should at least provide some evidence that the majority of shareholders--today, not last year--value it at <$55; to me the next question is "exactly who is voting on this: the shareholders or the board members?", but even either way it doesn't seem insane to me that getting a guaranteed 10% increase in your purchase isn't in the best interest of the majority of the shareholders.
> amaze (v.)

> "overwhelm or confound with sudden surprise or wonder," 1580s, back-formation from Middle English amased "stunned, dazed, bewildered," (late 14c.), earlier "stupefied, irrational, foolish" (c. 1200), from Old English amasod, from a- (1), probably used here as an intensive prefix, + *mæs (see maze). Related: Amazed; amazing.

"amazing" never meant "this is of surprisingly high quality and good"
the genetic lottery spares no one
> unless they want to argue with customers

"The price is on the can, though"

https://youtu.be/hWObybWWGW4
This thread is hilarious.

In the cesspit of a social media website, people accuse Twitter of being a social media cesspit.

I've seen people arguing for absolute freedom of speech, except in malicious circumstances, but seem to think that malicious is easy to define.

I've seen people ask if there really are any other alternatives to individuals owning huge wealth. Or people saying that doing immoral things is ok if it's within the law.

I think I've had enough of this site for a while.
> Interesting that you contradict yourself in successive sentences

No, I didn't. You managed to either completely miss my point, or to completely ignore it.

Just in case you didn't ignore it, let me try again. I could care about a proof for the sake of the proof. If that were the case, I probably wouldn't write a program, I'd just write the proof. (Yes, that could be mechanically turned into a program, but I didn't actually do that, because I cared about the proof rather than the program.)

When I write a program, I usually care about it as a program, not as a proof. When I write a GUI, say, I care about how it enables the users to access the rest of the program's features. You can turn that into a proof, and the compiler may in fact do so, but what it proves is something that is really unrelated to what I'm trying to do. The "proof" won't prove anything about usability or human factors or pleasing color scheme or user workflow or efficient use of screen real estate. It will prove something that, from the programming point of view, is completely uninteresting.

So, as I said, I'm not interested in the proof, I'm interested in the program. And, despite the correspondence, they are not the same thing.
I'm far less successful than you but on the same "slow decline" boat.

I still don't know what to do but I sent questions here and on reddit. What I figured out is that I need to find a different set of values that grow, not decline when I grow older, pass 40. I have yet to find anything that fits but hopefully you can find something soon.

Good luck!
Make an original game app that lots of people like playing and bonus if they spend money on it.

Make a service that is just a conglomeration of other services under the hood, hire a ux designer to make it flashy and hip looking, charge monthly.

Trade options with insider information.

Invoice scam cash flush startups.
They already did this with Super Follows.
I think this is a pretty key point- the majority of users haven't been well-served by large-scale compute. I've heard from a number of folks in genomics that all they need is a faster way to invert a "big" matrix- and when they show me the matrix, it's tiny compared to what state of the art supercomputers are working on.
This is not the same as Java, because there the change is transparent, no need for additional types.
You're tired of all the speech used to criticize America?
In a similar situation as yours. Not a magic pill, but I found a couple reads very useful:

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, by
William B. Irvine

The subtle art of not giving a f*ck, by Mark Manson (the book is a lot more interesting than the title suggests)
Any sources to these claims, other than "it feels that way so it is"?
This may help you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_interest
I am not sure Elon can fix Twitter b/c I am not sure Social Networks can be fixed at all.
Yeah, but this is talking about introducing a separate, UTF-8 string type. .NET already has some support for UTF-8, for example ASP.NET and the new Json API uses UTF-8 directly, however the API is just gnarly.
No, that's not at all what happened.

MS offered $44B for Yahoo inclusive of their almost 50% stake in then pre-ipo Alibaba. At the time, Yahoo's investment in Alibaba was valued at more than their entire market cap (negative valuation for Yahoo's domestic operations, or negative value taking into account tax implications of divestiture of these assets, etc).

Yahoo turned down MSFT's offer. Yahoo then spun off its entire company, keeping the name Yahoo with this spin-off subsidiary. The parent company, now named Altiba, retained ownership of the stake in Alibaba. This is where the ~50B valuation remained.

The spin-off company (valued in the negative by the market) was then sold for $4.5B to Verizon. Altiba retained its $56B market cap during this time.

Yahoo, inclusive of Altiba, out-performed MS's offer. It was a far better deal for shareholders to turn down MSFT. The net value to shareholders exceeded $60B.

There were a lot of poorly written articles at the time, which confused the sale of the subsidiary (YHOO) with the previous offer (for both YHOO and what became AABA) so your confusion is understandable. But this perspective is simply wrong.
Harm reduction rather than punitive punishments are better for health outcomes, reducing drug addiction, and society more generally. Sometimes, I wonder how different the world would be if our first impulse was to help rather than to punish.
At the end of the day, there is no substitute for reading a large amount of primary sources and really trying to understand what's going on.
Eh. Maybe but I still have to interview with dozens of companies because you need competing offers, warm ups to calibrate performance, and so forth.

I don’t expect any less than 10 onsites for any job search regardless of tenure.
Drop the therapy and start lifting weights. I'm not kidding.

If the problem is that you feel things are gonna be a slow decline from here, then fight it. Make that your new goal, even if you know it to be a losing battle. It will focus your mind on demonstrable milestones like hitting new deadlift personal best.

Even if you do something else, at the very least recognize that you've gotten to the point where you don't need to focus on the "work" and "money" part of life; as such treat this as an opportunity to focus on something new. After all, we only have a limited time on this earth to experience the things you want to do. This crisis is your mind's way of saying "I haven't done something I wished I had done." It isn't bad, it's just cognitive dissonance. Find the root of that dissonance and do that which would resolve the problems keeping you from finding fulfillment. This process will be emotionally painful but also cathartic.

Best of luck; know that every man has it within them to pull through this and come out the other end happy and fulfilled. So long as you are willing to question everything about why you are the way you currently are, you will eventually seek out the truths you need to proceed.
"Boards have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders."

Xi and the CCP/Chinese Government make a bid to buy Google, for a 20% premium.

They also bid to buy Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft. All for 20% premium.

Should shareholders do 'the right thing' and sell?

Assuming you're not a Twitter shareholder why do you care about investors interests? Why don't you care about your interests?

Why do plebes constantly argue against their own interests?

As a Twitter user, I pretty much don't want Elon Musk involved, and I don't really care too much otherwise.

Every organization has stakeholders: customers, suppliers, financiers (investors and debtors), execs, employees.

If a Union forms, they can take considerable control away from investors.

If debtors come calling, they can take considerable control, away from investors.

'Externalizations' such as issues in the public good, or environmental issues - matter.

Usually, we like to think of those things, in the context of a 'Charter' that highlights those things i.e. some 'Crown/Gov. Corporations', things like the CBC, US Post etc..

When you say 'things that don't matter vs. things that do' - that could be true, or only even true from a certain perspective.

For example, you might think they should not focus on moderation, but instead, advertising. Well, without appropriate moderation, the ship could sink. Also, issues like moderation can be hard and ultimately satisfy nobody, and frankly, might not even be an operational distraction (although it probably is).

Finally - as property of Elon Musk - Twitter will be literally whatever he wants it to be.

Rich People have, throughout history, bought newspapers etc. for the entire purpose of slandering their opponents. The news wasn't even 'real' until just a few generations ago, it was all tabloid.

Elon Musk could will likely censor those who disagree with him and his colleagues, and boost/amplify those who's interests are aligned with him - maybe not as badly as others, but it could be that.

If you're going to take a 'principled stand' on this issue, it's going to have to be one probably of the externalized common good, not so much shareholders.
It sounds to me that you're interpreting that in such a broad way that you could argue that any stock purchases he makes would be in violation of this.
If it was worth it to have enough money to retire? How could it not be? Someone who is not a millionaire when they're 80 is in a very bad situation.
Other than the ability to amaze?
Remote Broswer testing with screenshots from 25 global locations
https://geo-peek.com This website provides screenshots from 25 gepgraphical locations 12 worldover, 12 USA and 5 in europe. Also the advanced screenshots is very useful in verifying IPv6 only availability as well as custom screen resolutions. Checkout the gallery section also for user generated screenshots. There are other similar websites also but this on is totally free and unrestricted in terms of number of screenshots.
Hedge fund "playbooks" are actually pretty safe sometimes.

If you have a hunch that's wrong, and you end up 10% down vs your colleagues, someone will give you a tap on the shoulder and have you escorted from the building. Potentially career ending.
this was an old project back in the mid 2000's where a guy made a webite with a million pixels and sold each pixel at 1 dollar, it soldout
Their margins must have been very high to begin with. Your margins decreasing from 700% to 680% probably doesn't matter too much as long as you aren't strapped with corporate debt from trying to expand relentlessly year over year.
Thank you for responding here. Even a single successful restoration, anecdotal as it is, makes me feel a lot better about the situation. I was honestly wondering if Atlassian was just pushing the date out to soften the eventual backlash when they had to announce data loss.
Not reading that you have kids. If not, that can redirect focus off yourself to something more worthy IF you can maintain SOS as a parent:

S = Selflessness.

0 = Objectivity.

S = Self-awareness.

We tend to feel lost when were aren't challenged or we're hyper focused on ourselves. We tend to feel a level of contentment when we are helping/mentoring others, interacting socially in a positive way, or learning.

Hope that helps.
+ Family 1Password so everyone can securely manage passwords and share logins

+ Network is covered by pihole (and in exchange, plex/jellyfin/etc access works nicely)

+ Smart home stuff is managed by me. Everyone has admin rights but shared terminals (eg kitchen panel) are unpriviledged users.

+ Everyone has a home directory on the homelab they can back up to with as much space as they want (4tb+). I help them set it up if they ask.

+ Haven't done this yet but would like some kind of network level monitoring for threats (viruses, cryptominers, etc)

Things intentionally not done:

+ I don't install anything on folks devices.. at all, but never without their consent and without them having an off switch.

+ We have cams but everyone can turn them off and view recordings. Recordings are kept only for a short timeframe. Cams are all visible/known.

+ I intentionally collect no logs of dns or other stuff. When I do occasionally need to debug an issue, I let everyone know I am flipping on logs for a few minutes.

Empower users, don't control them.
Wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrXf8Qn9pBI

35 seconds in
This is the million dollar home page, more or less.

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
Crime.
Aren’t these a heaven for spiders?
It's not just the "free market" it's human nature; unless presented with an immediate pressing issue, people will not choose the "best option" in many cases. Smoking is a perfect example, and it goes downhill from there.
Taste sensitivity tends to decrease with age. It could be the exact same beverage, and taste different to you because you're 30 years older.
Finding something new to strive for is not a bad idea, but it should be orthogonal to your past interests. Something you have to come in at a relative beginner level. Of course you're never going to be as good at it as people who've been doing it for 20 years plus, but that's OK. Think more in terms of self-development rather than winning a competition with others. I've had some limited success in regaining a positive outlook by diving into programming and networking at a similar age over the past few years, coming from a background of academic benchtop lab researcher who never wrote a line of code (maybe an Excel macro) before.

For a chuckle about the inevitable decline as we age, see this quote from Trainspotting:

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/1200371
Has there ever been a company or industry that absorbs material costs, rather than passing it down to the consumer? This is the ONLY trickle-down that is actually a thing.
That’s still slightly different though. If the bots were just for today’s word, and I were the type of person who likes posting my streaks, I could realistically avoid checking twitter until I’ve solved today’s puzzle. If instead the bots are posting future solutions, it’s much harder to avoid having something spoiled.
The government doesn't mandate beliefs. In this case, the government denies you a platform to spread particular beliefs. It's hard to argue that leaving holocaust denial out of the discourse is losing much of value.
I don't get how the logistics work in a move like this. If you're a shareholder and the board approves the sale are you forced to sell your shares to Elon at the stated price? What if you don't want to sell?

Edit: I also wonder how leveraged positions, especially shorts, get resolved.
Vanguard and Blackrock always votes with management and sadly lot of times with bad management. This is the hidden cost of passive investment. They don't do anything.
yahoo was the goto place for new email accounts. It was the goto place for instant messaging too. It was also in top # for search and other features. And it still is...
Jack wasn't fired.
I think that comparisons to most of the world population are irrelevant. Telling someone who is struggling in a developed country that somewhere across the world many people have it worse - this doesn't help anyone.
weev didn’t just “browse a public url at AT&T”. That is dishonestly reductionist. He noticed the bug and then used it to retrieve and make public the private data of over a hundred thousand people.
> Go to a roulette table, put it all on black. Repeat seven times.

This was my thought initially, but then I remembered that casinos usually declare maximum bets. I'm not sure you can place $640,000 on black in one spin.
I don’t understand what you’re saying here.

I listen to my Apple devices on a knock-off add-on Bluetooth for my car with no issues. I’ve sent audio to a vast variety of non-Apple Bluetooth devices. In fact the only Apple-branded BT device I use are my AirPods.
Yes-ish. Increasing financialization (going hand-in-hand with deindustrialization) seems like a precursor for this. With the difference I suppose that there is a core to banking of lending to the productive industry and allocating resources that is absent in the crypto world entirely. So more accurately maybe it's high finance on steroids
To add to that, it annoys me that it's still not possible (I know an extension exists) to change the default terminal on the right click menu "Open in Terminal"
Does anyone open a restaurant or build a bridge with Bitcoin?
This is not the future; it is history. It happened in 2005:

The Million Dollar Homepage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
If nobody has noticed, Twitter aren’t very good at building software, it’s incredibly buggy what they’ve made, I regularly click on tweets that have a comments count but zero comments. It’s seriously glitchy from the notifications to even writing tweets (the MAX chars counter went crazy for me the other day). Don’t get me started on editing tweets their logic is terrible here that you can never design a UX that doesn’t stop people changing the meaning of their message after the event. Finally the spam is just totally next level and they still have people selling Bitcoin scams under every Elon tweet. Asleep at the wheel.
It also doesn't explain it only breaks a site/application if you perform zero testing before deployment. You have to upgrade your dependencies before an npm package change can affect you.
He probably bought a lot on Wednesday and stuck them in the fridge/freezer for the rest of the week
> And the 99 cents is really tied to their brand; if they break it they get hurt more, so they'll push it as long as they "can" - likely introducing a smaller or larger can at some point.

Coca-Cola had a very similar issue way, way back in the day. I think they were pegged at 5 cents a bottle?

That left them in the even more awkward position of being unable to raise the price without instantly doubling it.
It seems like you have experienced a lot and that the field you are passionate about has nothing left to offer. Just because you’ve reached the top and there’s nowhere left to go, doesn’t mean that there aren’t thousands of interesting opportunities elsewhere. I would love to say that traveling and doing all these new things would be helpful, but at the same time, chasing a checklist will just leave you unsatisfied. Maybe move somewhere else? Meet different people? Live slow and relax?

Other people can give you their advice, but you know yourself best.
I think the point he was making is that change in supply doesn't necessarily lead to a change in price. I don't know if that's what they teach in basic economic s, but it's certainly true.
If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

-Richard Branson
I like the idea of establishing a persistent presence on the net that you manage yourself, where you plant your flag with a hand-built simple static web page, add a few essays, reading lists, pointers to other cool sites, etc, then invite others with like interests to link up. Connecting multiple 'flag' sites like these was one of my favorite ways to discover worthwhile creative content in the early days (as opposed to Web 2.0's automated firehose of spam).

That model of web presence also does a nice job of excluding the www's multitude of trash that's otherwise inescapable these days. Playing once more in sandboxes where assholes are not invited does have a certain appeal.
Jack never struck me as very competent like many of the other tech founders. More like somebody at the right place and time
Enzyme.jl works quite well (but the possibility of using it across languages is appealing).
Obviously "late-stage" is a continuum. Capitalism is always "progressing", and you can draw a line wherever you want and say: "That's it, that's where it crosses the line into what people will no longer tolerate, and something is going to have to change".

While maybe "late-stage" is a newish term, of course the idea itself isn't. Why might we credibly think that what's happening now is really "late-stage" as compared to, e.g. the industrial revolution?

I think you can make a case for it. You can make a case against it as well, but that leaves you arguing essentially "it's been just as bad for a long time, so there's nothing special about now". And at that point, it's a semantic quibble and you've nearly bought into the idea behind the phrase, which is "maybe something is going to have to change".
China provides this law because they already track everything every citizen does. This is a virtue signal from a country gripped by a brutal and oppressive government.
>Now, The Asset Economy presents hard new evidence for a disgusting truth: that wage labor is a scam.

This is, and has been, the truth since forever. There was never an era when you could get rich selling your back. Never. The best you could hope for was comfort. Anyone who says differently is glamorizing a past that they didn't live in.

Pretending that every boomer had a good union job is like pretending every millennial is a tech-bro with a six figure job and RSUs out of college. Younger boomers struggled. There was loads of social strife in the 70s as they came of age. They became adults in a world of massive inflation, war, and a general feeling of everything being awful.

That house they bought so cheap in the 80s came with a mortgage with double digit interest payments. That pension they had was probably gutted at several points by terrible business people. They faced challenges, much like we do. And they had their fair share of wealthy layabouts, much like we do.
If he takes the company private (solo or with other investors), he'll make sure to have the votes to impose the CEO of his choice, with the option to change him/her whenever he pleases. That should be a sine qua non.
Narcissism is a hell of a drug.
Yep but copper does lose ductility when deformed. When put under enough stress to deform it, it "work hardens." This is why thick copper wires break if bent back and forth too much (and hence why we have multi-stranded wires for applications with movement and vibration), and why crush-sealing washers can't be reused. This work hardening can be undone by heating the copper until it gets red hot, but this isn't practical in many applications.