skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you understand Russian - on the "new people, new Russia" https://rutube.ru/video/6a82ce7cc138125d6c9d0f3a47c5e74e/ (by one of the main Russian propagandist who is every day on the state TV) where they also talk about "new blood" being not IT/programmers/entrepreneurs/artists/etc., instead it is those "heroes" of the war "who will break that needs to be broken and will build what needs to be built" . If you ever watched "Man in the High Castle" - that has significant overlap with "The Year 0".
>The poison pill only affects those who are looking to control the company in some way. Which isn't most large investors at all. So I doubt you will find any who will be concerned by this.

That's not the right way to think about it. Anything that scares off ambitious, optimistic activists from buying big stakes, will then suppress the stock value in general, which hurts all shareholders, including the smaller ones.

More broadly, going public is a tradeoff. You potentially give up control to outsiders, in return for greater share value (and the cash infusion). Moves like this go the opposite direction: decrease the potential for outside control, and with it, the upward pressure on the stock's value.
That is certainly an important factor. I think it goes even deeper.

China doesn't recognize human rights as we know them. The collective, represented by state interests (CCP), is above all. Hence any individual right can be sacrificed for the greater good. Aka state interests.

And that's why situations like this shutdown in Shanghai can unfold. It's a deeply philosophical problem that China hasn't resolved, despite ample opportunity to learn the lesson.
Do hearing aids offer this sort of multiband compression? I've heard about hearing aids that act as Bluetooth headphones, so presumably your Apple device could send its unaltered audio over Bluetooth and then the hearing aid's custom programming could handle things from there?
My favorite missing tool of all time is `ack` [0]. It's grep if grep were made now. I use it all the time, and it's the first thing I install on a new system.

It has a basic understanding of common text file structures and also directories, which makes it super powerful.

[0] https://beyondgrep.com
I’ve often used Bluetooth headphones with a physical microphone switch (boom arm up) and there is never any disruption to the audio output.
Don’t wear seatbelts either huh?
You’d probably be better off reporting them under Dodd-Frank whistleblower provisions. These apply not just to insiders reporting fraud, but also independent analysis which

use[s] the publicly available materials to show important insights about the possible securities laws violations that are not apparent from the face of the materials

https://www.sec.gov/page/frequently-asked-questions-whistleb...
At the end of 2017, Congress passed legislation eliminating the health law’s fines for not carrying health insurance, a change that probably guarantees that the I.R.S. letters will remain a one-time experiment.

I still get a form from my employer proving that I had health insurance, so even with a financial penalty there's no reason that the letters can't continue to be sent out to the uninsured to remind them of options.
In ideal world they would produce something else.
That is integer arithmetic, not pointer arithmetic. My understanding of the C memory model that is mentioned in the article (look for PNVI-ae-udi) is that what you are doing is or will be well-defined. I suspect there may still be a few implementations around where the offset you get from integer subtractions has no obvious relation to the offset you would get from pointer subtractions (for two pointers where subtraction is well-defined), but for your example that makes no difference.
I mean, any crunching of the numbers shows that China has effectively averted 3 million dead of their own population due to covid - assuming equal quality of care with the US.

I generally attribute that to the lockdowns, do people have another explanation?
I wouldn't even call what happened with Li Wenliang a coverup. When someone makes a tremendous claim the usual response is to figure they're wrong--it's just in China that also resulted in an official visit telling him to quit scaremongering.

It didn't take long for Beijing to realize he was right, admit the disease was real and reverse the wrist-slap the guy originally got.

I do agree that Covid can cause people to collapse--it's not out of the blue but they don't realize how ill they are.
> Obamacare did away with "preexisting condition", and the mandate was meant to replace it.

The Obamacare "fix" already existed in several states. You believe that such a policy has certain consequence - can you identify those states by looking for that consequence?

Note that pretty much every state had "if you keep your care, you can change providers", so the problem was only for folks who dropped coverage and then wanted back in.

If you have a relevant condition, dropping coverage seems like an odd thing to do.
> I think a fixed-time vesting over 4 years is pretty standard, no additional terms.

This was the intial offering. I agree on most of what you said. The package isn't that interesting (especially with the possbility dilution), the extra vesting requirements seem like it takes away the last bits.
The circumstances are not that different. The people of Afghanistan (by the time I arrived) were trying to defend their homes and communities from Taliban incursion that the US had partially reinvigorated by overthrowing their government (in that it made them worse, not that we created them which is common misinterpretation). The history of Afghanistan puts this kind of stuff pretty plain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom#The...

I do understand there is a wide knowledge gap that HN visitors have about Afghanistan, but please try to understand better.
Yes its 420 bytes, which is why I’m commenting as my fingers played me on my thoughts. Do the same for one writer in C++ and report back on the orders of magnitudes… Cheers!
I run a website that helps people navigate relocation to my area. I mostly write content but occasionally write code for the website. It's a lot more relaxing.

Writing software "when it feels right" is a very different experience. I quite enjoy it.
Censoring my search results is the opposite of what I want in a search engine. I will not be using ddg anymore.
Indeed. A rather curious difference between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin work ethic (and of course I'm painting a picture here, this blunt generalisation is meant only to propose an argument), is that: For the former, your job is who you are - the second question out of anyone's mouth in the UK is 'what do you do?'. Whereas, for the latter, who you are in society determines your job.

Hopefully we can reach beyond both these erroneous socialisations.
> First, we may be moving in to a recession.

Ah, yes. A perfect opportunity to continue spending an incredible sum of money advertising and tracking individuals and their habits in ways they don't want in an effort to increase your overall revenue stream amounts.

How. Just please, someone explain to me how we move passed this part of human/technology interactions. I hate, with every part of my being, this world where - somehow - this _entire discussion_ about ad tracking is normalized. That "the ad industry" is normalized.

When do we get to live in a world where we can stop advertising things? Why can't we just focus our attentions, talents, and capabilities on building things that let people find things _they_ decide they want? Ya know. Like searching for things... quite a concept.

The worst part is this entire website is designed to show people the latest in High Investing, Fast Track technology companies, people sharing their success stories about increasing revenues and streams by X dollars because of hip new tool Z that grabs attention in new horrifying ways..

Just... ew. I used to love technology and science a lot. Working for a decade in this industry and seeing article after article about how X is going to lose Y billions and realizing nothing about the cause or effect of those relationships are things I could ever hope to control in my life has destroyed my will to just be here.

/rant or something.
That was great!

A lot of the conversations I've had about this involve licensing, especially mixing things developed for the government and things developed independently. I once answered a question with "the answer to that question just changed because a room full of people heard you ask it." That is very disconcerting to computer scientists, but not to particle physicists.
Be Less Technical
I considered that before I submitted to try and stick to facts with HN. Here is what's reported elsewhere:

> On Friday, the United States supported Ukraine’s account, with a senior defense official saying that it believes that two Ukrainian Neptune missiles hit the Russian warship in the Black Sea
> Wouldn't Ukrainian army want to show image from their drone after hit?

Why they would? Minor benefits and some important info would leak.

And they likely have many important tasks right now leaving PR for other people.
This is the obvious response and I am confused every time I see an article criticizing these lockdowns. They all seem to be written from the American herd immunity point of view, neglecting that we paved the way to herd immunity with the bodies of a million of our own citizens.
That strategy gives you better margins. It doesn't give you better revenue or profits. The biggest problem Tesla had as a fledgling car company was cash flow, and the solution to that is scale and sales. FSD can be converted to immediate revenue by just charging for it, which is more cash-flow efficient than running a centralized taxi service. They have announced they have a dedicated rideshare vehicle in the works, and it's likely something of that nature was always in the works.
> Elon has several polls over the past month, voted on by literally over 3M people,

Oh sh*t i don't follow him and didn't care about those votes ... should I write a bot to make my voice heard? Is that how it goes? (Or in other words: such a vote has no statistical significance aside from pleasing Musk's ego or whatever is driving him and his need for attention)
If they stick with billboards for advertising, I personally don't mind it. The issue to me is with tracking-based advertising(/anything).
… | sudo tee foo
i think the biggest point is that it's hard to find developers in a special niche even if it allegedly offers productivity gains, this is negated by increased costs.

clojure was cool, I used it mainly for datomic, but the gains really dont justify relying on public slack channels and mailing lists to hire and find devs.

I really see this from an economic point of view. I could be mistaken based on my own experience dealing with clojure and datomic in particular. I'm just not sure the gain is there anymore as other databases built on conventional tech stacks increasingly more or less take away the gains.
The Ten Minute Seder (for parents of small kids) [pdf]
Ask them for a list of all businesses this covers so you can make an informed decision?
heads (lower case h) does much the same thing as Tails but without systemd or non-free software:

''heads is a GNU/Linux liveCD distribution aimed at people who like the aspect of controlling their privacy and anonymity on the Internet. You might have heard of Tails as a similar GNU/Linux distribution. heads was born as an answer to Tails, since Tails is using systemd as an init system and also contains non-free software.

In heads, the init of choice is not systemd. systemd is a huge piece of software that, while being free software, has not been audited for security since its creation. Being big as it is, it is hard to do so, and as time goes, it's becoming even tougher to audit systemd. We do not aim to disrespect or get into the controversy on why systemd is a bad choice. We just do not wish to use it.

Another important thing is that heads uses only free software, while Tails continues using non-free software. Non-free software can not be audited and as such cannot guarantee you security or anonymity.''

https://heads.dyne.org/about.html
> You’re categorically changing the profile of the stock.

Mechanically, it's not much different than an issue of new shares. From Twitter's announcement:

>> each right will entitle its holder [...] to purchase, at the then-current exercise price, additional shares of common stock having a then-current market value of twice the exercise price of the right.

There's no obvious breach of fiduciary duty through this plan. Existing (non-Musk) investors get new shares, but Twitter also raises capital at the current market price.
Google and Bing can already crawl AWS sites just fine. As long as Amazon doesn't provide any first-party search engine, just providing search engine infrastructure, I think it would be a net win for competition.

As it stands, if you want to bootstrap your own search engine, you need to base your search engine on either Google or Bing's index, or perform the herculean task of making your own crawler+indexer+search engine. If Amazon can commoditize the back end, and let AWS-hosted search engines provide differentiators late in the indexing pipeline and on the search/serving side, I think we'd see more niche search engines spring up.
> And of course there is always some piece of code that depends on finalizers to close some resource [...]

I don't think anyone should use finalizers in Java. It's been deprecated since Java 9 and even before that, it was widely considered a bad practice.
I had thought of that too for a while but it seemed like idle power usage was higher in a device like that than in a dedicated router. Maybe I am being nitpicky about that particular aspect.
Cryptocurrency? No, thanks.
* Trigger warning *

Texas Roadhouse CEO developed severe tinnitus after having COVID and took his own life because of it [0]

[0] https://amp.courier-journal.com/amp/4759047001
Under Zelenskiy situation in Donbas was de-escalating. Implementation of Minsk agreement the way Russia wanted it to happen was not on his agenda nor it was supported by majority of Ukrainian electorate. Ukraine is a democracy, whether you like it or not.
Those usually end up either as scripts or pipelines.
It's not just the insurance company in that case though, the doctor's office would have submitted an additional billing code for the appointment (which for something like you describe should probably be treated as fraud).
> Maybe having COVID19 is not a good idea in general, even for children.

Isn't the estimate now that 60% of the EU population had Covid-19 at least once? The WHO estimate in january was that by march at least 50% of the EU would have had Omicron only. Then you add all the other variants on top of that.

I mean: short of locking yourself up forever, you don't really get to decide if you get Covid or not so I don't understand your comment.
Poison pills often have exemptions for passive investors such as ETFs.
> The experiment, made possible by an accident of budgeting, is the first rigorous experiment to find that health coverage leads to fewer deaths,

It, of course, does not prove this. It proves that within this specific set of circumstances, within the specifics of our current health care system, that increasing coverage lead to fewer deaths. You can't just automatically extrapolate that to health coverage in general.
> Bookmarking this to peer at until I internalize the apps. There's even
an Ubuntu package for them.

Ditto. But I will probably forget they exist and go do the same old
silly kludges with subshells and redirections. May I ask if anyone has
a technique for introducing new CL tools into their everyday workflow?

It helps if things have good man, apropos and help responses, but the
problem is not how new tools function, rather remembering that they
exist at all.

Sometimes I think I want a kind of terminal "clippy" that says:

"Looks like you're trying to match using regular expressions, would you
like me to fzf that for you?"

Then again, maybe not.
DDG does run ads just like Bing and Google, so it's just a way for Bing to get more search ad inventory out there.

Once upon a time there were other sites that did the same thing with Google, but eventually Google decided they didn't need third parties to drive search traffic.
"We" didn't kill anybody, they died of a highly transmissible and novel disease for which there was no cure and no vaccine for over a year. There was no possible way that death could have been completely averted. Yes, there were policy choices that could have been made differently, that would have potentially slowed the spread. We implemented many, decided not to implement others, and had a difficult time enforcing the policies we did enact. But using the language of murder when talking this, and arguing using an implied base rate of zero, is hardly good faith.
What Can Africa Learn from the Progress Made by Vietnam?
Other than as part of an overall plan what would be the point? The cost would be the cost of an annual checkup. Other than if you could pay it with pre-tax dollars what would be the point? Insurance is about risk, not about certainty.
I read about a Github issue [1] where someone reports that all websites a user clicks on to DDG servers. Reading the employee's response was eye opening.

They literally do not care if it has a bad look, they just say "we don't collect your personal information."
What??? They are literally admitting to collecting domains in the feed of the Github issue but then just copy and paste their manifesto and expect us to think it's fine. I seriously do not understand this.

[1] https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527
I've used the dotEPUB extension for Chrome now for several years and its generally excellent. Can be config'ed to save to epub or mobi.
I found Kagi[0] from somewhere on HN -- they make pretty strong privacy claims, and are in a closed Beta stage right now (you can give them your email, and they'll send you a signup link within a week or two). They're planning to charge a fixed rate for their search engine once they're out of beta later this year.

So far, it seems to be working really well for me! Results are pretty excellent, and they support the DDG bang queries (like `!g`) if you ever need it

[0] https://kagi.com/
Hmm, not sure I understand what you are saying here. If Elon gets a loan using his Tesla stock as a guarantee, the risk is solely his. If he puts together a consortium to do the purchase, then that group is taking the risk. It doesn't matter though, given the Twitter bylaws, if the Board doesn't want it to happen it won't happen.
How is that California-style? That's the general rule in USA/Canada (not sure about Mexico). Some dense cities like New York and Montreal forbid right-turns on red city-wide, but those are the exception.
I wonder if these guys were on r/wallstreetbets, I am seeing more and more blatant pump-and-dump schemes, this time in claiming "short squeeze" and writing call options that never materialize.
> Except that 99.9% of bans at Facebook, Twitter and the like are completely justified

Gonna need a big citation on that. One of my Facebook accounts got banned because I accidentally left my VPN on. Whilst I take responsibility for the terrible opsec, the fact is people get banned all the time for doing things that are anti-Facebook rather than anti-social (anti each other). I would definitely use a social network that doesn’t feel like a police state.
"I'll give you $100 if you punch the polar bear."

Sounds like a story for a sequel to "Liar's Poker"!
Well, the smart contract, or lack of smart contract allows it, so it must be legal, right?
Are you saying that its acceptable that an energy source is creating large areas of uninhabitable land, as long as it slow enough that people can plan for it?

Quickly moving people from the dangerous area is undesirable, but as I said previously, California did exactly that. It would be interesting to see an estimate on how many died from it so we could make an apple to apple comparison.

When looking at energy sources it is good to look at statistics. Per unit of energy produced, how much land is used. How many lives are lost. How many are maimed or injured.

If we are jumping directly to unacceptable risks, continuing funding Russian military is unacceptable risk to Germany. Continuing burning fossil fuel and causing global warming is unacceptable. Not having enough enough electricity produced to meet demand is unacceptable. Paying more for electricity than the economy can handle is unacceptable. Continuing having nuclear power plants is unacceptable. Solving the unacceptable problems seems to be impossible, and thus some things that are unacceptable will need to be accepted. The question is which one people are willing to stomach. Personally I kind of dislike the idea of funding civilian slaughter and Russian quest for lebensraum.
For a while I knew guys that worked at hedge funds. Their whole thinking was about beating the competition and screwing as many people as they could while not being caught. They openly admitted that the taxpayers were stupid bailing out the industry in 2008 and kind of laughed at it. It’s a terrible industry and it’s shocking we allow them to run the country.
> Also, I am highly confused by China's zero coivd policy. Just by the nature of how viruses work, that seems impossible.

It worked for original SARS, no?
problem is that it's very hard to cash out. monero for instance.
You can, using (unofficial) Kagi for Safari extension.

https://github.com/marcocebrian/kagisearchsafari
Bear in mind nearly all of the people receiving letters should be <65. I quickly skimmed the paper and it seems like the authors don't have enough data to come up with a quality adjusted life-year type of statistic like the NHS uses.
uBlock Origin in advanced mode also supports this (although only scripts/frames/images, not the full uMatrix list).
Lately, almost every conspiracy theory has been proven true. Or a more outrageous conspiracy theory is based on somewhat less aggravating true facts, that are then misconstrued as a more far fetched conspiracy:-)
It's hard. I got mine because MS gave me a free Visual Studio Enterprise subscription, which seems like one of the only ways to get it. But I think that thing runs to $3000/year if you're paying for it.
>So almost $6/share was left on the table.

This is only true if the there is no uncertainty.

If you think the value without the takeover is $30, and it is trading at 48, and buyout is $54, that means the market thinks it 75% likely.

downside -$18, upside +$6 = 75% likely
His net worth is over a quarter trillion dollars. Flipping twitter for profit is very far from a sure thing and seems like a waste of his time.

Why out of everything that he could invest in would he bother with twitter specifically? Whatever his intentions are it seems plausible that this isn't about money.

I get that you don't like him but this attitude of "I am right, you are wrong, and if you disagree you are drunk" is.. not a good look.
Amazon ran A9.com as a search engine from 2004 to 2008.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com#A9.com_search_portal
How many adversaries have the ability to act on that risk? I hate the security defeatism that is rampant across the space. The perfect is the enemy of the good and all that. Unless your threat model includes nation state adversaries (or individuals/orgs with similar levels of skill and funding) explicitly targeting you, worrying about IME/PSP is probably completely unwarranted. Unless I'm unaware of active exploitation campaigns against these systems, in which case I would love to learn more.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I would love to see a world where the entire system is open from hardware on up. Unfortunately I don't know that we'll get there without some substantial shifts in humanity as a whole.