skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or continually roll the debt over, borrowing more money and more money. Then, when you die, your estate can sell the assets to cover the debt, but that avoids taxes.
I assume much of the money was for original content. There's a $100B+ bubble in original streaming content going on right now.
> I give them credit for trying and failing quickly.

They didn't fail, they got a new owner with different brand vision.
I don't entirely disagree with the premise but, knowing that there are companies with money printing machines paying top dollar, rationale talented people will all leave those other industries that don't pay up for ones that do (regardless of whether it is deserved or not). In my experience in other industries, the 80/20 rule applies in that 20 percent of technology employees deliver 80% of the value, but the pay is not well differentiated. In my estimation, many companies could fire half their tech employees, give the rest a big raise and come out more productive.
190M doesn't pass the sniff test for revenue - as 38k/employee probably doesn't pay their average salary (much less overhead, equipment, travel, etc.). This might be their gross profit though?

Here's a source for $1.7B revenue (sounds more reasonable): https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cable-news...

But, your point still stands!
I agree. Not double standards.
I saw "from $199" and thought this looked like an incredible deal. Then realized it was just how the font was rendered, and it was actually "$1199". I'm not quite sure who the market for this is - that is crazy.
What fascinated me when learning both Russian and English cursive is that Russian cursive makes writing in Russian much much faster, whereas English cursive (the one taught in school) just slows you down and is absolutely counterintuitive.. Also, I am yet to meet a person who is not confused by the cursive English G..
>He's too close to those limits already to borrow another $20B.

What are the limits and where is he now? Please tell us.
Conversely, I did not like the old system where I would buy a new phone and get a new wall wart which I would proceed to toss into a drawer (since the old wart still works fine)
Taking a look at a pic of the back the jacks look to be about 3mm apart, which seems fine for most 3.5mm straight jack cables. What I'm betting is that most people don't have 6 3.5mm to 3.5mm cables, given that most boards and interfaces take 1/4"
I can't think of much now that the US relies on for fuel, food, medical, and military equipment that is exclusively made in China. Especially the latter.
> You borrow against your stock, spend that money, and then repay the loan using stock? Without having technically sold the stock?

I know Ken Lay did that exact chain of events a lot to cash money out of Enron before it's bankruptcy.
I don't watch CNN in the same way I read WSJ. CNN is mostly just entertainment watching people argue with some news and information. I don't consider it high-brow at all.

I put it on in the background while I'm doing something else for mindless entertainment. In my experience this is how most people watch CNN. I don't think people sit down to watch it like they do a film. I certainly don't, neither does my family.

I quit subscribing to cable because I was tired of the endless repetitive ads for hair loss pills that came on every 10 minutes. Get rid of that and I'll happily continue consuming their content.
This whole movement is a thinly veiled power play; there is zero intellectual depth to it. The whole thing reduces down to Thiel wanting to place himself and his friends at the top of the hierarchy. The line in the article about replacing the bureaucrats in government with political appointees was pretty telling. I’d assume these goons would sell off the government to the likes of Palantir.

And the tie-in to left wing economics is a complete sham - this ecosystem of “influencers” co-opt communist aesthetics to broaden their appeal. I regrettably looked through socially conservative communist Reddit recently and there was zero talk of economics. All I saw was naked racism and people saying they converted to fundamentalist Islam or became a Trad Cath in order to return to a more traditional way of life.
I though in a scenario where the ballots are in a stockpile and you pick up the top one. If they are secretly numbered, it doesn't matter which one you did pick up: it's just necessary to register who was the first to vote and so on.

This can de done by anyone. Example: the person that is checking your ID before you pick the ballot.
> To say that the US is in any way responsible for Ukraine is to deny ukraine agency

No, it doesn't. This war has highlighted just how simplistic people are in that someone has to be the bad guy and someone has to be the good guy (hint: the US is always the good guy). Any suggestion that more than one party can bear responsibility or blame invites histrionics about victim-blaming.

The US friend zoned Ukraine, basically. The US knew it was never going to happen. Sure, Ukraine should figure that out (which they didn't seem to) but there's enough blame to go around.
Apple ecosystem is contained....so it's easier to just build without looking up.

but.... it's also a catch....you spend more money to develop for apple, so you need money.....hence....you bleed your customers who will 'pay more'....

trusth is.... just as many failures....
Most of the issues you describe sound either trivial or non-issues entirely.

The mixed-endianness of GUIDs sounds annoying, but also easily worked around. It seems worth putting up with for the resiliency offered having the GPT duplicated at the beginning and and end of the disk.

I'm not sure the UEFI system partition has any practical need for anything newer or more complex than FAT. It is a very simple file system for which support is ubiquitous, and is far more capable than an MBR boot sector.

The EFI executable format being derived from Microsoft does not seem like an inherent problem, unless you can point out some meaning limitation it has compared to an alternative. However I do not know enough about binary executable formats to debate the merits of PE over ELF, so I could be missing something.

It seems to me the benefits of UEFI far outweigh the negatives here. And with UEFI now being ubiquitous in consumer and commercial hardware for about a decade now, I do not think a bleeding edge distro like Fedora dropping BIOS/MBR is a huge deal.
Re 4: Musk doesn't avoid the tax, merely delays it.

By the time he has to pay it he'll also have to pay tax on the accumulated interest.

He'll pay the interest AND the tax on the principal AND the interest.
Awareness may have grown, but I'd put money on people at-large not knowing anything about caller ID spoofing, both in terms of its existence, and certainly in terms of its accessibility.
It's true, being a successful information security engineer requires a very diverse understanding of technology and psychology.

Not one person understands all the technology in existence, and no one person ever will.

Also engineers come in different levels of experience. Just because someone doesn't have experience in specific technology doesn't exclude them from being an engineer in a specific field.
If you insist on the portable form-factor, it will be slightly troublesome.

If it's going to sit on a desk and be used all the time, a Behringer 1222USB is $250 when they aren't running a special sale. It has more channels, some usable effects, and you can add an iPad Mini with some synth software to handle the rest of the functionality. So that's half the price, and you get to play with the iPad whenever you aren't making music; or it's about 1/6 the price of the TX-6 without the synth.
Elon Got His Money
If a developer writes a product that others use, I wonder what type of legal fine print we need to include?

For example, if I start my own micro-credit card using this service, I may have my own legal t&a, but I wonder if I need to include Column's as well?
I actually had almost that same experience back in the 90's when I bought my first gaming console with my own money. I bought a PS1, and Final Fantasy 8 with all the money I had save up for months to get, only to find out when I got home that I needed a non-included memory card to actually save my game. My disappointment was immeasurable.

Now technically, you're not required to save the game, and this don't need a memory card in the strictest sense, but the reality is, the console was near useless to me without it.
AWS Aurora Serverless V2
AppleCensorship
number 1 in a pack of losers makes you the biggest loser
I understand the words are still used a lot but it feels very artificial.

The old Romans and Greeks seem to be adored by academia, especially the arts side. I used to do very well at school and they put me in a latin class to prepare me for 'academic greatness'. But I hated it, I just don't want to be learning about a stuffy language that was invented millennia ago. Luckily I was able to drop out a year later and focus on the sciences which I loved. I never needed it at university obviously (for computer science English offers much greater benefits)

I know these languages and cultures have had a great influence on our society and languages now but they were also really primitive people socially (blood games etc). I don't have much respect for them nor for my own middle-ages ancestors. I just wanted to learn about now and the future and don't care how we got there. The classes felt really stuffy to me. And much more tangential than regular history classes.

The same thing with Medicine: Doctors were basically clueless only 200 years ago. Almost all progress we have made in medicine was long after the ancients were long dead. There is no real need to use latin for medicine. It's just the language they use 'because it is'.

Anyway because of this unwanted expedition at school I have more hostile to the ancient languages :) I'm aware my opinion is very polarised.

For what it's worth I have the same with Dutch literature, after I was forced to read 25 'classic' literature pieces for my exam I vowed never to read any Dutch literature again and I never have. I found their works horrible, pompous and contrived. I consider the literature community there basically one big circlejerk of losers. Which is fine by me, they just shouldn't have forced it on me.
The Minecraft modding community is full of this shit. And it’s ten year olds that don’t know any better who have to learn the hard way about this stuff.

I regularly wonder how much it would really cost to host those assets somewhere else that didn’t do that. Or GitHub! Why don’t the devs just move their mods to GitHub!?!?
Just as an aside, whataboutism is not a logical fallacy.
I don’t think that’s the obvious takeaway. The specific chord voicings are complicated, sure, but the complexity he’s talking about are the key changes and unexpected tonal choices. You can’t remove those without fundamentally changing the feeling of the song.

When I was learning the guitar, I frequently would skip passing chords and simplify voicings I didn’t know how to play. As a result, my covers were pretty boring and lacking the impact of the originals. That’s fine for beginners, but a pro musician is going to take pride in either faithfully recreating a cover or intentionally putting their own stylistic spin on it, not just skipping over stuff that’s hard.
I had filevault enabled on every mac I owned for this reason - but now it's not clear to me if I still need to do that with the new macs. Does the current defaults prevent someone from ripping out the drive and reading it or do you still need to turn filevault on?
It seems to me that the most obvious explanation for the decline of SourceForge is that it gave (gives?) too much away free of charge. In this respect, it seems to me that GitHub, Bitbucket, and hosted GitLab are no better.

This is making me stop and think about whether I should use GitHub for my primary open-source project. Will GitHub become the next SourceForge? Is it already happening?

I respect SourceHut's decision to charge all users (at least once it leaves alpha), but GitHub's network effect is strong, and as much as I respect Drew for pushing toward a free software future, I need Windows and Mac CI. Maybe I should set up something self-hosted; I can afford it, at least for now.
So, total noob here in that whole area, but I have a question about fiduciary duty.

The popular understanding seems to be that a companies' board is legally bound to act in the best (financial) interests of the shareholders - and only those. This is why hostile takeovers are a thing at all: If the acquiring company gets the majority of the target's shareholders on board (or becomes the majority), then the target's board of directors is legally bound to accept the takeover, even if it would be harmful to the company (nevermind the company's employees or customers)

How far does this go? If I'm a shareholder of McDonald's, could I sue them because they could have increased profits by lacing their burgers with cocaine but chose not to? (Or say some synthetic drug that's technically legal because it hasn't been banned yet).

If a company could make more profit but is kept from it by some regulation, could I sue them if they didn't try to lobby against that regulation?
My apogee duet sucked. Always had problems being recognized by logic and eventually they stopped providing updates to the software. Got a Motu M4 which is much cheaper and has been worlds better.
But Linux isn't ending support of BIOS, Fedora considered it but won't yet. If Arch Linux decided not to support BIOS, we'd say, "Well they are a bleeding edge distro", but guess what, "Shhhh... so is Fedora."

Old hardware is great. Expecting people to support it forever for free is folly. This is exactly why people pay IBM/RedHat for support.
Payment networks are entirely irrelevant, client side ISP would need to use a port number given it's P2P which seems error prone and prohibitive. Email irrelevant. Browsers not possible given opensource chrome forks / brave.
I'm not saying you should. It was an observation not an accusation.

I honestly don't know what they should do. I was just convinced CNN+ was never going anywhere.
This won't happen because China would also take a hit. TSMC is safe as long as China doesn't have a cutting-edge semiconductor industry that can replace the lost output from the latest nodes.
>The S&P500 is full of zombies? Is this seriously happening? wow. I haven't seen anyone talking about this. What the hell happened?

People have been talking about it[1]; it's just that Elon hasn't so it doesn't end up in the media hype cycle. The S&P 500 is really just the 5 big megacap stocks.

That's what makes this Twitter so weird, as a company it's relatively unremarkable; it's not larger than Snapchat both in terms of marketcap and MAU, but in the media you would think it's the primary competitor to Meta.

Twitter gets a lot of flack about censorship and free speech; but it's by far the most libertarian platform - it still has a chronological timeline! If you had followed Donald Trump on Twitter, you would see all his tweets whenever he tweeted them. If you followed him on Facebook, Facebook would hide most of his posts on your feed! And yet Twitter is the boogeyman, the enemy of free speech.

Twitter the company, and Twitter the boogeyman are two seperate entities. If you read about Twitter from NYT headlines, maybe it makes sense they are government controlled. If you actually spend time on the platform you will find a platform that largely hasn't changed in the past 10 years, but still trying to wrangle it's political influence since the Arab spring days.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/investing/sp-500-tech-stocks/...
I think this is something of a debate on "is it good to get some exercise?" vs "is walking or swimming or weight lifting a better exercise?"

The minimal set of doodles I mentioned is a simplification of the Palmer method, which can itself be thought of as a simplification of the Spencerian method. If one wants to get into penmanship seriously, there are many wonderful rabbit warrens to descend into.

If one is unable to form legible letters at all, in my experience that tends to be more of a fine motor eye-hand coordination thing than anything else, in which case almost any well-chosen set of doodle drills will help significantly.

[edit] also - welcome to HN! I just noticed the green font for your username. I suspect you'll have lots to contribute to this place.
> Sure, they should be able to take loans in order to keep their voting share

Why is that?
No, the cost of business in China isn't rising because of demographics, it's rising because China is no longer an impoverished country. Wages in it have grown massively.
> how about anti-monopoly-power technology?

big tech monopoly power is vital to national security

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31108570
Well, no, not really. The GitHub thread is based on a mis-understanding of what Windows is doing and how Windows AV works. Windows uses a system very similar to those used for spam filters, except for binaries. That system is "reputation". It tries to learn over time to classify software into wanted and malware.

Just like with email, to build binary reputation you need to cooperate by using cryptography. With email you sign your mail using DKIM and publish your DKIM keys in DNS. This lets spam filters associate the mails you send together and learn that a stream of mails, even though they may all be very different, are in fact all "good". With Windows programs you have to sign your software. This lets Windows know that different versions of your program are actually all "good".

Authenticode certificates cost money. QBitTorrent is open source. Unsurprisingly they'd rather not pay for a code signing certificate, so their installers are unsigned. From Windows' perspective every new version resets the clock and is "unknown" because the binaries have different hashes. It then has to start learning reputation all over again. New binaries are described as "potentially unwanted" rather than explicitly as malware because malware is polymorphic, exactly to evade blacklisting, so binaries that haven't accumulated any reputation yet might or might not be malicious. Windows just doesn't know yet. That's why some users report it happens and others don't.

This isn't QBitTorrent's fault exactly but they're experiencing the same problem you'd get if you tried to run a popular mailing list off a site that didn't use SPF or DKIM. You aren't signing, so, you get lumped in with all the other people who don't sign and many of them are malicious.

tl;dr It's got nothing to do with being a BitTorrent client.
I don't believe you can look at that dollar figure alone and decide that.
I have been playing around with nvidia's reopt ...i think they now call it cuopt. Very curious to see solver results accelerated by GPU. The results shared were quite impressive - anyone tired it yet?
There isn't really a good replacement metaphor. As far as I can think of, there's just bad metaphors.

But an important part of demonstrating you're worthy of legislating the internet is talking the talk - demonstrating you know how what the industry is and how the industry operates. A suitable replacement statement which demonstrates a command of the basic ideas would be:

"If we exceed the capacity of our internet backbones, critical services -- as well as consumer services -- will be impacted."

For me, "tubes" was less of a gaffe than referring to an email as an "Internet". The former was a bad metaphor, the latter was a failure of basic layman terminology. It means either you don't know what you're talking about, or you're a bad communicator, and either of those should be disqualifying of your post as the head of a senate committee on internet legislation.
Believing Musk is a visionary genius scarcely seems inconsistent with believing Musk owning Twitter will be advantageous for Musk companies.
Yes, in my experience those are the actual tradeoffs. With swap things slow down and that alerts you to the problem and you can go manually OOM kill the right thing. Without swap the kernel "randomly" kills the wrong thing without fail, often leading to a system that you have to reboot to get back into a sane state, and leading to a small industry of trying to tune the OOM killer to never do that.

Back in my day (which was a long time ago) we did tune the OOM killer in prod to hit only the right processes first (e.g. apache httpd or whatever software processes were deployed on the server) and that would usually lead to self-recovering behavior where one bad request that caused an OOM in one proc would be killed and the server would recover. That was only in prod though where we understood exactly what software ran on which instances.

So, I'd tend to suggest running with little to no swap in prod and tuning the OOM killer because you know what processes are likely to be the issue in prod. While on a desktop/laptop or something its better to have swap because the random workloads you throw at that are going to make tuning the OOM killer impossible.

I appreciate the argument that you should still have some swap in prod for paging under utilized anon memory, but I'd like to see some solid numbers about that vs. running swapless and to weight that against the fiddliness of managing the swap files. I suspect in the majority of cases you're going to see that it doesn't make any difference in actual performance numbers, and that you shouldn't be running so close to the edge that it would matter. But measure for your own situation.

I was also running in a mostly HDD era not SSD so things may have changed. That probably suggests less of a penalty towards swapping though and the right answer for desktop/laptop loads to be using swap to avoid the randomness of the OOM killer. That may lead though to using more swap in prod since it may degrade and recover more gracefully these days instead of the absolute catastrophe that swapping to the HDD was back in the day.
Media Matters didn't doctor Carlson's audio. Are you saying it's fake? His own words plus the agreed facts of the case are pretty damning on their own.
There are millions of them, usually one or more in each mall. The quality can vary depending on how well they've been trained; the more traffic they have the more likely they are to be pretty good.

If you have a broken screen Apple's flat fee for that is honestly very good; but if it is anything more you might as well try the kiosks.
This looks awesome! A few questions:

- Will there be an openapi spec to generate clients in most languages?

- Do you support depositing checks via the dashboard?

- Out of curiosity, what database are you using for high availability?
The end of CNN, maybe. Fox News seems to be doing fine. It's wall-to-wall alternate-reality stuff that turns out to be false or deliberately misrepresented, when I give it even a cursory check, but it's doing fine.
It's a surprisingly big field. Largely divided into:

1. More artistic, commissioned works
2. Wedding calligraphy, envelope addressing
3. Teaching

I principally taught. Was too much of a perfectionist, and would devote more time than was economically viable to commissioned works. Though my art is on a couple wine labels in Napa.

Calligraphers/penman show up in surprising places. The White House employs 3 calligraphers for writing menus, invitations to formal events, etc.
We have been looking for a US banking provider that could handle this. Woo hoo.

In RoW they are called virtual IBANs. Numerous use cases.
If you rent it out, then the house can pay for itself, theoretically
I think majority of older American is 100% aware of that.

I do see how young adults are still not aware of that since they are not valuable target and their info is relatively unknown (no mortgage on their name, no car loans, cell phone number is not old, they never sign up for sweepstakes in Las Vegas, etc.)
> start posting the most grotesque AND offensive things