skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
simple timers are not eco and not greenwash.

Its actually just as bad as cars.

Fit for purpose is no longer a requirement for sales, but uses less water or uses less electricity is a requirement for sales.
The government probably needs to build a whole new pay schedule for tech workers because they just don’t fit into the General Schedule. This would require an act of congress and I think they are going to have a hard time making the decision to pay government tech workers more than people like the director of the FBI, secretary of defense, senators, etc.
What happens if your development team is hit by a bus?
GRUB can also do this. In fact, I'd be in favour of deprecating GRUB as the default for UEFI on Linux distros as it's a huge codebase (including lots of legacy things) which is overkill for booting a single OS (the Linux kernel itself can be a UEFI application, no bootloader needed) but for this use-case it's perfect as it's essentially its own mini-OS and can handle a wide array of filesystems including LUKS, Linux mdadm RAID, LVM, etc.
In no particular order:

- Why do you think you need a CTO? Why me?

- What is the business plan?

- What's the plan when the current idea fails and we need to change?

- What's the current funding runway?

- Why are you trying to solve this problem?

- What customers do you already have lined-up to pilot the solution?

- What's your plan for further funding if we're not sustainable before the runway runs out?

- What constraints have current investors applied to the business?

- What percentage of the business has been sold to angel/VC investors? How much more can/will be sold as the need arises to fund the business until it's profitable?

- What's the business' exit strategy (be bought, go public, stay private...)?

- Who's already on the team - and why?

- What leeway will I, as CTO, have to make hire/fire decisions for my team(s)?
No, this is an SEC filing not a tweet.
Meta’s Sheryl Sandberg Pressured Daily Mail to Drop Bobby Kotick Reporting
Well, the jury is still out on that. Musk claims funding was secured and he was forced to settle with the SEC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzY_jIJaZwk

Hard to really know the facts, but things may not be as they appear. In this case however, he has filed the SEC docs to verify that funding is secured.
Every other shareholder gets access to the shares. So the effect is: you can buy $420 worth of twitter stock for $210 unless you're elon musk or working in concert with elon musk.

Some poison pills just give the shareholder extra shares -- it's basically a stock split except for the targeted shareholders.
He has a tiny stake and can’t increase it. Therefore Jack has negligible power at this point.
Yes, if he launches a tender the offer goes to the shareholders. He wouldn’t need to build a larger stake himself.
Having access to nearly every paid LWN article on a news aggregator certainly feels like "a way to defeat our attempts to gain subscribers". But others said these links are subscriber-specific so I guess LWN is fine with it if they aren't taking the links down.
Yes. I know very well that this is the justification (and a justification can be invented for anything). Now it is your turn to explain to me how does this fact contradict my statement that the drawback of such paradigm is that it makes it useless as a store of value?

Hint: It doesn't - you just stated a completely separate fact as if it is logically incompatible with the original argument.
Building up destroys the desirability of places. No-one wants to live in cypherpunk environments. See https://www.clemensgritl.com/video
IIRC that's the date his offer to the board expired. And yes also because 420.
Questionable usage of unquestionable
I have found the vast majority of Netflix's original content from the last couple years to be pretty much uniformly awful. I really don't know why I have stayed a subscriber given that I almost never watch it and already have Amazon Prime Video "for free" and also YouTube Premium (which btw is a much, much better value proposition in my book than Netflix at this point). I think it's mostly inertia and the fact that it's not that much money. I suspect many others are in the same boat, and the company is really playing with fire by messing around with big % price increases and password sharing crackdowns. When inertia is your friend, you shouldn't do anything to rock the boat!
Occam's Razor has nothing to do with this, and its improper invocation is fallacious. Literally it means "do not multiply entities beyond necessity"; in practice it's also called the principle of parsimony, meaning that one should not assume a more complicated explanation when a simpler one will do. Positing a connection between Twitter and the US government, without supporting evidence but just because it "makes sense" - is anything but parsimonious. That remains true even if such a connection does eventually turn out to exist. "Do not attribute to malice that which is explained by incompetence" is likely to be the more applicable principle here.
I really like the way you put that into words; the creator of the video clearly has a deep passion for his work.
Which is historically very difficult to prove and enforce.
He should reinstate all accounts that were banned for political or ideological reasons. Or just straight up do a jubilee of all accounts unless they posted illegal content.
Headed downhill into a ravine might make sense if you're looking for water (water flows down, after all).

I'm mildly amused that we have trained ourselves into anti-survival behaviors- head uphill where there is less water, more exposure to elements, etc. (of course, being uphill might make you more visible, but that's assuming anyone is coming anytime immediately soon)
I live in NYC and like it, but there are lots of legit reasons to dislike it.

But it definitely is the most important city in the country, and to think Miami merits being grouped with NYC, LA, SF, DC, and Boston is a joke.
> It is quite common for people with extreme net worth to take loans out against assets instead of selling them.

Especially when selling those assets would require paying capital gains taxes.
If all you want is to donate a couple bucks a month to a charity, just donate a couple bucks a month to the charity
I'm a patron of Kaze, and all I want is to keep seeing amazing N64 romhacks. Though having my name appear in the video credits is kinda nice too.
that story was such a big deal half a year ago to vanishing completely from people's attention
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Elon Musk Considering Tender Offer for Twitter, Says $46.5 Billion Lined Up
I am in new england, electric rates are a lot less here (for now anyway) than CA (if that is where you are), and thus the calculations for you may be better than they are for me.

Its been a few years since I did the math, but last time I was quoted about 60K for a complete system - 60K at 5% dividend (NGG at the time), would give me $3K per year, enough to cover my bill.

AT the end of 20-30 years, a solar system will be worth nothing, or almost nothing, whereas I will still own the same stock in the same company hopefully the stock will have appreciated as well), and will still be covering my electric bill.

This of course makes lots of assumptions: I need to invest in company that will still be around for decades, that electric costs don't go thru the roof during that time, and the dividend doesn't go away etc. - but also would have to make assumptions about how long a solar system would last - its impossible for any of us to see out 30 years, but for the time being, I feel like on a purely financial basis, it didn't make sense for me today.

But trust me, I would love to pay one sunk cost today and not have to pay an electric bill for the next 30+ years, if only I could see that far in the future with some certainty.
I climbed to the top of the plateau in Cape Breton, NS, Canada. They had comm/sat tower there. It made me laugh when I saw big poster saying something like: "guy wires supporting this mast are not from copper so do not cut and steal those".
”that letter was still well-founded at the time”

They had zero proof it was Russian disinformation.

They just made that up despite indications the laptop was in fact authentic.

And they did that right before a Presidential election.

That doesn’t concern you? You feel that the letter was “well founded”? Founded on what? A politically convenient guess?
Or last verse/chorus up-modulation
It's a great channel. I was also fascinated by his rice cooker episode. I had no idea they were so clever, combining thermodynamics and the physics of magnetism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSTNhvDGbYI
Seems fairly similar to lpeg[0] once you go deep diving into its more advanced usages.

…which is one of my “once I get motivated enough” projects to rip the VM out of the lua library and use it standalone as a data conversion pipeline library/command line utility. The (now abandoned) python port started on that route but seems like they gave up after getting it somewhat working.

Probably a bit overkill if all you want to output is AST nodes but might be worth a look.

[0] http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/
"The whiskey tax was repealed in the early 1800s during the Jefferson administration. Historian Carol Berkin argues that the episode, in the long run, strengthened US nationalism because the people appreciated how well Washington handled the rebels without resorting to tyranny."

Let's hope the government maintains it's historical position of not resorting to tyranny and the country grows stronger as a result.
Because fraud requires deception and there’s nothing deceptive about a poison pill that makes the news.
Ahh yes, Theo. Some of his email chains are even more entertaining than the famous LKML ones.
This sort of lifestyle only works in some parts of the country - although, if you're living in a car, you can follow pleasant weather around the country.
Ubuntu 20 Gnome/X11
> So now what? Even if technologists in NC band together to overturn that state law, the municipality still has a 20-year lease with that company.

A company wouldn't let a little thing like contract law stop them from doing what they want, as they did when they overturned the FCC the rule of law is made to be broken.

We could just change the law to make comcast and all isps owned by the government because the the law says so and comcast could do nothing about it. I know its not smart to advocate that we just change the law to steal stuff from others but this is what corporations, do they take wifi paid for by the public and change the law so that its owned by them, why don't we just do this to corporations?

Oh yea because thats socialism.
Understanding Processes for Elixir Developers
New Proof Illuminates the Hidden Structure of Common Equations
He was only talking root and major vs minor. No mention of upper extensions of any kind. So V7 is still V, V13b9 is still V
1. It's different for professors there is legal precedent that their speech is protected while teaching.

2. If a school accepts public funds it capitulates it's private ownership

3. the professor tried to compromise multiple times.

I am usually on the side of the student in these situations. Although I'm not religious I can understand how it's abusive to both sides, but only one side tried to compromise.
Interesting quantitative take studying chord distribution. The basic takeaway seems to be that if you re-phrase a song into a different key you can play a lot with just a few chords (I IV V), and even more with a few others.

While I would agree that you'll be okay playing any major scale in C major (or whatever other major key choose to learn), playing a song in a minor scale on a major scale just doesn't sound quite right. So, I'd double all of the numbers on their final table to account for learning a full set of major and minor chords.
What graphics cards make it unable to boot via UEFI?
As described above, it would be like a stock dividend or split (except for the 15%) - no income, no capital gains, no dilution.

In reality, this poison pill is more complicated - from Matt Levine: "The main mechanism of the pill is that if Musk or anyone else acquires more than 15% of Twitter's stock, then every other Twitter shareholder will have the right to pay $210 to acquire $420 worth of Twitter stock (at then-current market prices)."

He also points out that this is moot except in the highly unlikely event that it is triggered - in which case, someone screwed up really badly.
It's amazing how most people here don't understand the concept of trends. Trends affect everyone subconsciously. And they apply to everything, but especially easily superficial things.

No one is immune to them. They are the driving force behind the design languages changes that periodically update the web. It's not much different from how interior design and clothing change over time.

It's funny because most people are intimately in tune with the fashion of a thousand different things, from shirts to web page buttons to the politics of their social group, but somehow almost completely unaware of these things consciously.

It's because they don't have a strong concept of metacognition or understanding of how belief structures work.
Come on guys, there's already a thread going on OpenBSD 7.1.[1]

Seems to be a trend of increasing duplication recently on HN.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31109046
Question: Why banks do not implement bait/decoy codes for people that are aware they are being part of a scam? Wouldn't this provide them at least more information about the scammer? With all the technology that's available, why is not possible to let the scammer believe that he/she is doing a real transaction but behind scenes they are being monitored/traced? I'm asking out of my ignorance on the subject.
i would perform the tests before merging - rebase the pull request branch on top of master and run the tests, then merge using the --no-ff flag to ensure a merge commit is still entered
"Fortune" is subjective... I find this quite fortunate, to be honest!
Judging by the flat green lawns and lack of trees in most suburbs in New England, I get the impression that a lot of people still feel that way.
> They have about $5 billion in annual revenue

> Most years they lose money

Absolutely grotesque.
The legacy BIOS boot system and MBR format has some real issues that could be improved but this just sounds like an ideological battle against things inspired by Microsoft rather than legitimate technical concerns. As far as I know, despite the things you list having Microsoft roots, they are well-documented and have free/libre implementations so Microsoft influences are not really a problem.

The main problem you have is that convincing manufacturers and proprietary OS makers (including Microsoft) to switch to a hypothetical UEFI replacement free of those issues is going to be an impossible task, while UEFI is already here and while not perfect appears to be better than the legacy BIOS boot system.
LOL no sane person thought the country was going to be taken over by some grandmas and goofy morons...
Courts have traditionally given the board wide leeway to decide what is best. There was the one case (Dodge v. Ford Motor Co) that held otherwise but it's been walked back in recent years.
Entirely separate from the politics around why Musk would want to buy Twitter: I don't understand the world in which this would be a confidence-inspiring maneuver amongst Tesla's shareholders. If my reading is correct, a significant portion of Musk's net worth (in the form of Tesla equity) will now be held up in a perpetual money-bleeding venture.
Fully support this. Hopefully he goes bankrupt.
Has the headline changed? Currently, the headline is "Seizing the Means of Audio Production". There is no class tensions suggested by the title.

Ableton is audio production software, so it's easy to understand the first thoughts going in this direction. Mine did too, though not specific to any one software package. I even imagined "Seizing the Means" to be about some novel way of averaging signals to produce new signals.

Not one thought about antiquated audio distribution formats ever popped into my thoughts from the title. Why one would think reading of the actual article would be required is a wholly other topic on the interpretation of an articles title upon first reading of the title alone.
The best color mixing I've seen in a while is this

https://github.com/scrtwpns/pigment-mixing
This Spencerian example looks like what I learned in U.S. (Northern Utah) schools in the 80's. It doesn't say what it's called other than "Early American Spencerian".

http://www.richimages.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/spencer...
so ... Plex?
Sparrows are easier to differentiate by their vocalizations (mostly). Many have a species-distinct opening to their song.

Different species of sparrow also occupy different habitat, and fill somewhat different ecological niches.

I'm less familiar with rabbit vocalizations. :)
For bugs to be fixed, changes have to be made. If software is unchanged, by definition it will have the original bugs.

It's not always clear if software is actually changed. A changelog is useful in that regard, but you won't get that everywhere. Dated looks is a heuristic for: was build long ago, has had no changes since.

Heuristics aren't proofs of course, but you so rarely get proofs in real life anyway.
> I don't have any kids, so I don't really feel comfortable telling folks how to raise theirs.

Before I had my kids, I was same way. Or maybe even worse. I would bring up statistics and showed my friends with kids that odds of kidnapping are so much lower than many other bad things.

Then I had my kid.

I am not worried about neighbors judging me like some other commenters are. But my perspective has changed a bit. When it is not your kid, it is very easy to make logical decisions based on statistics and probabilities. But when it is your kid, emotions get in the way. You think of worst case scenario.

It is the same reason why many people make money when paper trading but lose when using real money.
1. banks loan elon money

2. elon uses this money to buy twitter
Haha. I actually knew that and have done it, but forgot that it was possible. Thanks.
> At the best of times these routines of habit are just an escape from the stress...

No, not an escape. Amongst the many benefits, exercise, meditation, etc are a means (but not the only means) to quiet the mind and give a pause to thought. They force you to focus on the present moment and not to dwell in the past or future. Humans are incredible prediction machines but generally not all too accurate. Too much time spent thinking about the past and future without balance of the present creates needless suffering. None of this is new and has been known for millennia.
Fx (terminal JSON viewer) rewritten in Go
What an asshole.
> And executable pages / program text, maybe those also never should be swapped out? Is this configurable? This is usually more the behavior I would want on my system.

Aren't they? It's always been my believe that when such pages are reclaimed, they are not swapped out because they can be read back from disk anyway. Don't these pages fall under what the author means by "clean file pages"?
That's assuming the bank actually finds the transaction(s) were fraudulent when they do their "investigation". If they disagree with you and decide it wasn't fraudulent for whatever reason it's quite often a giant pain to argue with them and get it sorted out.
This friend speaks my mind.
> People move to VT to be in nature. To be spread out.

This describes the vast majority of Vermont, but not Burlington. It's not NYC but it's also not Montpelier and it's definitely not Stowe.

Burlington is the "small city" for people who want everything local - local brewers, local farms, co-ops and farmer's markets, etc.

I'm not suggesting that Burlington should build highrises everywhere. I'm suggesting that the building forms that already exist in downtown Burlington - tightly packed 2-4 story buildings - should perhaps continue a little further out. It's possible to have urbanism that isn't Manhattan.

With unchecked suburban sprawl, Burlington is going to become the opposite of what it represents now - generic big box stores and chains.
Correct. But interfering with election proceedings, never mind being encouraged to kill the people charged with finalizing those proceedings, could lend to chaos and give incumbents (who are stocking the chaos) opportunities to seize control -- an effective coup.

Don't confuse tools with crafters.
Why Is Ghislaine Maxwell’s Lawyer Attacking Antitrust Enforcers?
I used to get a call every two months from a service I actually use, to arrange their next delivery. The first thing they ask is for my date of birth and address so I can pass their security checks. Each time, there has been a really awkward silence for a few seconds when my response is "Nope".
I was visiting Boston this past weekend for the marathon. Saw two turkeys on separate days in the Lexington area near Minute Man park. I was really cool for a tourist like me and added to the Thanksgiving/colonial vibe.
Yes! That’s really annoying. I’m pretty sure I watch Netflix less because of that “feature” -- browsing for new shows is just too stressful.

I haven’t unsubscribed yet, but if we wanted to downsize, Netflix would likely be the first to go.
Your comment made me curious, so I looked into my old photos. It seems I was mistaken, it's been a few years. It's not a Whirpool but simple a "WM 25E" ("WM" probably for washing machine). Apparently the same model is also branded as "Elin WM 25E".

This forum thread [1] show the exact PCB that burned out in my machine, I've bought the replacement on ebay back then. There was some motorola µc on it and several run of the mill components, but no adhesive or "goo".

[1]: https://elektrotanya.com/content/elin-wm-25e-q2-keresese#
Wildfires in California not only affect California itself, but neighboring states as well. Last year I drove from CA to CO. The wildfire smoke from California covered all of Nevada and Utah.

I don't know where you live, but if you are in CA, there is a very high chance that you live in a wildland-urban interface zone. About 45% of housing in CA would fall under this category.

These risks aren't limited to people living up in the mountains. A large chunk of the Bay Area is a wildland-urban interface.

All of this to say, preventing wild fires is in everybody's best interest and trying to pass the costs to one group or another will only delay our timeline to address these issues.

Burying power lines is just one part of the solution.
Afaik, he views Twitter as the closest thing we have to a genuine public square on the web, and he thinks it’s poorly managed and ideologically captured. Musk also uses Twitter a lot, so it’s believable that he wants it to be something better than what it currently is.
I also had to adapt my handwriting - halfway through my math degree, my inability to tell symbols apart genuinely started to become a problem. I ended up having to use a horizontal bar on 'z' to tell it apart from '2', and added a loop on the tail of my 'y's to keep them from looking like a wayward 'x', both of which persisted into my normal handwriting.

(And I still swear that my differential equations professor wrote problems that used mu, 'u', 'v', and nu at the same time as a prank on people with bad handwriting.)
The video also addressed that the game shipped with the compiler in debug mode. That alone would have helped.
Borrowing against your shares is like taking out a mortgage on your home. You still get to live in it (dividend + voting rights), and you are still exposed to swings in value. And you can end up underwater.
A dictionary that doesn't capture every nuance, who'd have thunk it?
One-hit wonders code cracked