skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If he tries to sell 21 billion dollars worth of tesla shares, the share price will collapse.

Elon Musk is routinely selling billions of dollars: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/insider-transactions?p=...

* $1,007,908,791 on Dec 28, 2021

* $333,647,031 on Dec 22, 2021

* $594,924,622 on Dec 22, 2021

* $325,723,600 on Dec 21, 2021

* $528,016,861 on Dec 21, 2021

* $738,683,277 on Dec 13, 2021

As long as the trade is small compared to the daily volume, the market impact is limited.
He sold that over two months and the overall market was much stronger then. Also those sales were pretty much required for taxes and thus did not send a negative signal to the market. If he sells large amounts of tsla shares to buy twitter, this will be a negative signal -- any other tesla shareholder can sell tesla shares to buy twitter, and why wouldn't they when the tesla CEO is doing it.

It is still possible that he tries to raise 21 billion by selling stock but I doubt it. First if he actually wanted to do that, he would keep quiet while selling and then come out with the tender offer when he had the cash.
Has the board formally rejected his offer yet? The poison pill only applies to a hostile takeover - i.e. if Elon just starts buying up all the shares in the market. If the board accepts his offer to buy the company, the poison pill does not take effect.
I do have purposeful meetings with customers, when the need arises, and I enjoy those. There are no recurring meetings or standups. It's heaven.
I hope for a future with more physical buttons. Touchscreens et al are great for developers but pretty terrible for large classes of HCI problems.
Elon nailed it here
Your recent comments have broken the site guidelines so badly that I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Designs which depend on a particular colorspace are bad anyway.

I used the proper black background/white text override in my settings for a while, it was a great improvement on the sites where it worked. But it broke too many sites.

Not really sure how we've managed to regress so far on the ideal of having webpages just provide content and letting the browser render it as appropriate. Oh well, readerview it is I guess.
I think the key here is what you mean by using swap. Having a lot of data swapped out is not bad in and of itself - if the machine genuinely isn't using those pages much, then now you have more space available for everything else.

What's bad is a high frequency of moving pages in and out of swap. This is something that can cause your machine to be functionally unavailable. But it is important to note that you can easily trigger somewhat-similar behaviour even with swap disabled, per my previous comment. I've seen machines without swap go functionally unavailable for > 10 minutes when they get low on RAM - with the primary issue being that they were grinding on disk reloading dropped executable pages.

I agree that in low memory situations killing off something ASAP is often the best approach, my main point here is that relying on the Linux OOM killer is not a good way to kill something off ASAP. It kills things off as a last resort after trashing your machine's performance - userspace OOM killers in concert with swap typically give a much better availability profile.
It's disgusting. It should either be neutered like the House of Lords, or keep its position but have its members directly elected. Top 100 candidates get in.

The citizens of overly influential states with tiny populations would easily be placated by the possibility of electing at least one or two actual neo-nazis to the Senate; you could definitely pass it. We would have to accept that both Kim and Kanye would probably be Senators.
If the agent doesn’t sell that stock, can it be proven that he is actually an agent?
The mental model of buying something new/used doesn’t apply same as cars. Unlike a car, the structure is simply an improvement that’s factored into the price of what you’re purchasing — the rights to the physical space itself. Sometimes a lot of the “value” is locked up in the structure, and sometimes the structure is barely functional and most of the value is in the land.
At some point that ratio of the land:improvements values reaches a point where the “used” structure is relatively worthless and gets replaced, the ratio rebalances.
My experience of growing up in the UK in the late 1970s was heavily influenced by road safety drills, which we had in school from age six or even earlier - see [1] The Green Cross Code.

We also had to pass a cycling proficiency test in order to ride our bikes to school, and had to pass swimming tests in order to get in the deep end of the local pool. Maybe there're aren't many formal safety campaigns any more?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Cross_Code
I think it doesn't matter. At the same time...

So once a friend of mine worked at a good will store sorting through donations. And they found a treasure trove of family albums. The person making the donation said that it was from a tenant of theirs who was kicked out or lost the apartment. Anyway, I took the photos and forgot about it. Then when I was digging through the storage, I found them, and decided, what the heck, I'd try to figure out who these belonged to. So I studied all the photos in the albums, and some clippings and receipts, and with a little leg work, figured out who it was, looked them up, and gave them a call, asking if they want their photos back.

They were pretty openly hostile to the inquiry. So I backed off, and threw the albums in the garbage. So, that was that. Maybe I approached the phone call wrong. Or maybe they really didn't want it, or to be bothered. You never know.
Fedora didn't even support UEFI on their cloud images before Fedora 35, released 5 months ago.

https://pagure.io/cloud-sig/issue/309
No, comparing Musk to slavery is probably not an excellent analogy. Jesus Christ
As an Eastern European I don't understand what's wrong with Eastern European forums.
This article is kind of missing the point on why the iPad experience is missing that "Pro" feeling. Yes multitasking could be much improved, but having the iPad locked in to the iOS ecosystem with the AppStore and abstracted/obfuscated file system makes it very difficult to use as a computer replacement, at least for me.
my biggest axe to grind with this company is the outrageous pricetag for everything they sell.

With $100 bags, $700 mini boom boxes, and $15 patches You may as well call it Affluent Engineering.
IIRC I've used the expect command more than once for similar use cases.
I appreciate how you answered this and wish I had replied with as much grace as you did. Thank you for showing a different way to respond.
It's not like there aren't American outcries about how schooling changing decade to decade. But like everything, it's just an outcry from people who worry about the most minor of things that change.
"It’s very likely that English cursive is insufficient to really write the English words"

That is a very, very weird assertion.

In any case, the letters that would get swapped in were 1-for-1 replacements for the English ones, though, so I don't think that's the factor.
It's really none of your business what someone does with their own money.

He could also do much worse.
Must be the first time courts have made the wrong decision then
Given how fast heirs squander their wealth, it may not be worth the government fighting it too much, especially as the side-effects cause all sorts of howling (grandpa dies, dad inherits farm, has to sell it to pay the tax bill).
I actually like what you're saying, but there is a problem here that is larger than whether it is just that Mr. Milken deserves a pardon. The problem is that justice unequally applied is injustice.

So if we are saying, "Everyone convicted of a felony who serves their time and who then rehabilitates themselves should be pardoned," I'm all for it. And in my jurisdiction (Canada), people can apply for Federal pardons, and many receive them. There is a standard way to do it, a standard procedure to follow, and in theory, everyone is treated equally by the system.

The injustice comes in if there is a special fast-track for a pardon one gets by hob-nobbing with your fellow wealthy oligarchs, one of whom is elected President and gives you a personal pardon. That's a bad look that suggests that all felons are equal, but some felons are more equal than others.

Likewise, I am extremely leery of talking about "doing great charity work." Reputation laundering is my preferred term, and again this is not something available to all citizens. Nobody gives a crap if some felon donates $1,000 to a soup kitchen, but donate $1,000,000 and you get called a "philanthropist."

I'm all for charity and doing good works, but I'm not for giving philanthropists anything special in terms of justice that people who can't afford to be philanthropists get.

IMO, the answer is not to burn Milken's pardon, it's to pardon more convicted felons who do their time and then turn their backs on whatever criminal acts they used to commit.
> Most proposals to tax giant piles of wealth in the market look nothing like what you've described

Wealth tax is different and I think it makes more sense compared to unrealized capital gains. But its not true no one is proposing an unrealized capital gains tax

> Biden’s fiscal 2023 budget request released Monday would impose a 20% minimum tax on the unrealized capital gains for households worth at least $100 million.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-28/manchin-p...
You can get their headset for cheap! That's what I did. And also the Playdate, although it's not cheap.
Finding Center of Gravity in Backpack
"In this video, I describe a common problem with the way guitarists cover popular songs by using open chords far too regularly. The trouble with open chords is that they often ignore important melodic and harmonic features. Hence, zombie chords. So dull they sound dead. It's spooooooooky!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEWQNKbXHQk
You don't repay the loan using stock. You repay it with cash from other sources (possibly thrown off by the new investment) or you keep the loan open and continue to pay interest on it.
This is not the argument I was responding to. That was the argument that the platform will lose users, which objectively didn't happen. You are talking about losing advertisers, which is a reasonable theory, but also incorrect. Twitter and Reddit to this day are full of content, e.g. porn, that is absolutely toxic to advertisers, but it doesn't drive advertisers away from the platform as a whole because they have segregated their platforms and allow advertisers to pick and choose where they advertise. An example of this is Google search and Youtube demonetization of controversial videos. Advertisers are certainly an explanation of those policies, but it doesn't explain outright banning content from the platform.
As someone who knows what goes into something like this, this is truly impressive work. Congrats on the launch.
If this is true, why do the cities with the tallest buildings have the highest cost per unit area of housing and commercial real estate, population density and GDP per capita?
There are some things I like, largely the visuals.

But I would like more granular increments on the graphs. The jump from 1 day to 1 month is a bit too big.

Also my basis for comparison is finance.yahoo.com which lets me check things like the current conversion rate for a cryptocurrency to USD. Could those be added here, or is that too far outside the intended data set?

I found the search prioritizes tickers over company names so much so that typing "netfli" doesn't show me Netflix as an option. Only typing the whole name had it turn up.
Great question! Ease of use is an important value proposition for our product. Our AI converts every document to a unified JSON data structure. It comes ready for all document types out of the box and does not require initial training. You can use our website, our integration partners, or our own 1-call simple REST API. We have SDKs in 27 programming languages and libraries.
I was excited to try a "tea" that's native to North America, but unfortunately Yaupon reliably gave me bad headaches. Not sure what it is about it that does that and I'm no stranger to caffeine- I went back to reliable ol' Yerba Mate.
They usually propose some sort of mark-to-market and tax the value, but outside of markets like the stock market, and somewhat the housing market, it can be really really hard to determine the value of something.

Should the 1st tweet NFT be taxed at its last sale price? The recent failed bid price?
Right - but I think when we have these conversations people envision being "forced" to live in something that resembles that central business district, and I want to make it clear to others that at least in the interest circles I run in, this would be considered a bad idea too.

I question whether we should even have cities with 30 million people. That's probably a problem too. People like to point to what appears to be lower c02 emissions, but that's not the only metric that matters. Metrics that I care about would be something like independent farmers per-capita, bikes per-capita, distance of travel for produce, etc.
> This might be a bit confusing as written, because the slash "/" is normally used in roman numerals to indicate secondary chords.

Sorry, that's not something I'd seen. Edited the post to switch to "or".

> The terminology "open chords" is also a bit unusual. The term "open chords" usually refers to chords that use open strings (strings that are not fingered).

Looking some, you're totally right. I'm confused where I picked up the idea that these were called "open"? I think I've seen them written like "G<sub>open</sub>" to indicate that you don't play a 3rd? Calling them "power chords" in a non-rock context sounds off to me, though. Edited the post to call them chords without thirds.
In principle, sure. Why not? Sue him, subpoena the emails/etc and see if you can find some incriminating statements. There is no guarantee of success, but it could work.
TSMC head says drive to onshore chip supply chain is 'unrealistic'
You repay the loan with the next loan because you have $10b in stock but only took out a $10m loan. In the meantime the stock appreciates some more or you have more vested stock.

I guess the risk here would be that the stock goes to 0, you get margin called AND you are now on the hook to pay taxes.
>Which windows package managers build from source? I thought they were all binary package managers.

I think the GP meant downloading random binaries through a web browser, as most people do on Windows. Package managers with hash verification are a million times safer than that.
Thanks for the support! Are there any other documents you would like to challenge our AI with?
What's the quote? If you owe the bank $1m the bank owns you, if you owe the bank $1 billion, you own the bank?
How do you square GitHub Releases and the proliferation of binary downloads there for systems with existing centralized package repositories with #2?
I don’t think it’s possible for him to quietly sell 21B shares. That’s all very public information isn’t it?
> why were those accounts banned?

Twitter is/was a ban happy shithole.

It is absolutely trivial to get banned on Twitter. My favorite example is someone I know getting banned for posting pitbull fatality statistics. They were banned for “racism”. Against dogs.

Twitter needs a top to bottom purge.
AG Pax­ton Files Law­Suit Against Vroom Due to Decep­Tive Trade Practices
He’d have no trouble borrowing money against his assets though. As far as I know, that’s what most billionaires do.
Thanks for your answer which is insightful.
As you explain there is asymmetry in the case of countries that are close to a border of one of the actors (either US or Russia).

So can we expect other similar moves from Russia into countries that are not part of NATO and which have no common frontiers with US?
It's weird that a signature is expected to be in cursive in so many places anyway. It's not like cursive is some unforgeable method whereas as printed writing looks exactly the same no matter who writes it.

Hell, nobody even cares what it says, so my "signature" is just a scribble that is somewhat consistent.
What about repayments?

You still have to pay off your debt to the lender according to the plan set out in the loan agreement, where will these come from?

You haven't crossed the finish line by securing the loan, you cross it by transferring the title to your name and repaying the loan (principal + interests) fully.
Why Web3 Hiring Is Unique
My rebuttal was to this comment, which implied that size was an overriding factor of importance. That comment was a rebuttal to you. So I'm not sure what you even want to argue about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31110766

Please learn how comment threads work.
That's exactly my point. I don't think the people who wanted this or that account banned really thought through what they were saying when they were appealing to the private nature of Twitter's ownership.
> at least at rates less than the applicable capital gains tax

So if you don't sell the stock and thus have no applicable capital gains tax, then you can be loaned NaN dollars?
> It's really none of your business what someone does with their own money.

Then don't you think people shouldn't have so much money that they can literally control society? What a facile stance.
I’m guessing the shareholder rights plan adopted by the board includes a “wolf pack” provision to (mostly) address this scenario and also publicly declaring they’re not colluding with Musk when they are, in fact, secretly colluding would absolutely be fraud.

But an interesting hypothetical: some wealthy benevolent complete stranger who has no ties to Musk whatsoever suddenly purchases 15% in order to trigger the poison pill and allow Musk to buy a huge stake at a discount. I don’t think that would be fraud. (Though I’m really not sure? And there are probably plenty of lawyers who could make a solid argument it is...) And I’m not sure why anyone would ever waste so much money on a random act of kindness(?) for Elon Musk but billionaires have definitely done dumber things with their money just for shits & giggles.
So creating a huge number of low quality pages per domain.

What could possibly go wrong?
Why not downtown metros? Would you prefer to have a poorer group of people who can't live near where they work?
European Parliament Agrees to Standardize Devices Around USB-C
Bors batches PRs, tests the batch, then merges the whole batch at once. It's made to handle high-throughput repos.
So, Apple!
Elon Musk lives in one of them though, si that's not very relevant. You should take it up to your own government if you want to make it happen wherever you live, not be against Musk doing the same
I would think (hope?) that if that were possible, the SEC et al would have sufficient awareness to do all due diligence possible to determine the provenance of the agent in question.

Wait, what am I thinking. I don't need to worry about the SEC... the reputational boost associated with whoever identifies shady behavior first will be huge. Everyone will be bounty-hunting this to death backwards inside out and upside down. It's Twitter and it's umpty billion dollars.
Musk paid the largest tax bill in history last year.
Circling back just to document that this happened not in weeks as I was projecting, but in only 9 days:
https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1517165874372825092

"Ukraine has more tanks available in country than Russia, thanks to European deliveries of Soviet-era T-72 tanks: senior defense official"
am I missing something, or is that a giant paddle power switch that can/will be accidentally pushed downward to off while working?

edit: nope, that's exactly what that is. $1,200 for a mixer you can't use live without duct taping it, I guess. https://teenage.engineering/guides/tx-6#power-on
Check out https://griffin.sh/
I think it can happen, especially because I often prefer smaller commits over bigger ones. But if the commit to be rebased was small understanding the conflict and resolving it is usually not hard. For me resolving conflicts has become mostely routine work, not the kind of horror it was when git reported the first conflicts to me in the beginning many years ago.

There is also a command git rerere that records how you resolved a conflict and lets you do it repeatedly the same way. A colleague has tried it and said it worked nicely (not sure whether it was exactly the case yiu describe). I suspect he spent many hours on learning it and I am not convinced it has paid off for him yet. I haven't had the feeling that I urgently want more automation. I just run my git diff --ours (and occasionally also --theirs) to make sure I don't make stupid mistakes during rebasing. And in the end of course git diff @{u}.
See this is where that libertarian-paradise-town in New Hampshire went wrong: if you put yourself on an island, you are less likely to be overrun by bears.
Apparently it was inspired by similar work done on DragonFlyBSD for select(2), unfortunately I cannot find any details about their implementation.
Given his challenges at running companies without massive handouts & subsidization, he might be a great fit for US politics. Shame that he can’t be president, we deserve him even more than Trump.
Operating leverage goes both ways.

Every subscriber Netflix loses is a direct loss of revenue with little to no change in operating costs.

FANNG is not stable. Crypto is all bespoke/custom so it depends.

Commodities are stable. Nonproductive assets are stable. Think about it like you’re bidding on future expected cash flows. The range of cash flow estimates is enormous for FANNG.
>Now replace Netflix with Tesla and this could be the same case in the automobile market in a 3-5 year span. Market leader because they lead the industry in one element but once that tech (batteries/EV/charging network) is commoditized, the market leader could suffer.

Nobody chooses their streaming service based on the image it projects. Tesla "won" some demographics and that's gonna be hard to shake.
I think you might be underestimating the size of the market for audio interfaces and mixers - but that’s just a feeling mostly based on how many of them are on craigslist at any given moment in my city.

But either way you can’t deny they’re choosing to go high end. They could have scaled down the software features of this by 10-20%, put it in a less “jony ive” case and sold it for $300-600 - but then they would’ve had more competition.
I wonder how Tesla shareholders feel about this situation. It seems like by leveraging with his Tesla shares, he's passing on the risk to everyone who owns Tesla stock. If they have a couple bad quarters or some kind of macro change happens and the price starts going down, Musk gets margin called and has to dump his stock on the market, which could start a spiral of panic-selling or even open Tesla itself to being corporate-raided.
I don't see it either, same firefox, Ubuntu Mate 21.10 X11.
Hi! Griffin co-founder and CEO here. Yes, we're building exactly what Column is building but for the UK. Fun fact - Column's CEO is even an investor in us!
Well, sRGB is sort of perceptually linear. Its roots trace back to a 50s technology compromise between perceptual linearity, color gamut, & encoding cost for CRTs that held up with only minor tweaks until CRTs stopped being widely used.

Maybe a fancier model like oklab would outperform it for this specific case, but only in quality, not performance oklab is more expensive to convert to/from compared to sRGB, which is usually free as your backbuffer and textures are usually sRGB.
As someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about, I'm also wondering how he would be getting around the widely-reported "poison pill", even if he did have $21B more.