skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it probably won't be triggered; even Musk would wince at that kind of loss. But that's exactly why we have to wonder, or I do at any rate.

The poison pill seems suspiciously like a free lunch for the board if you only look at the 1st-order effect: Musk is diluted, and loses billions. That right there is enough to stop a rational investor. But it's partially a bluff. The board doesn't hold much stock (except Jack) and the assumption that all the other shareholders will pony up cash to double their exposure is probably wrong. Many will, perhaps most will. But the share price will take a hit, and Musk is free to acquire as much stock as he wants. Maybe he can't get every last share, but he might be able to take control.

Again, I agree with you that it's unlikely to happen, but if there were ever a time to question the conventional wisdom, this is it.
Have you perhaps ever visited Elektroda? :D
Less than 2% of the American public has a subscription to the New York Times. Would you say the nytimes doesn't matter in the realm of US politics?
> Taiwan will be surrounded by half a dozen Chinese aircraft carriers

Every time U.S. aircraft carriers enter a discussion, the reams of developments in anti-ship missile and swarming tactics with aerial or maritime drones (or fast boats) comes up.
Probably because "just like he always does", he is probably lying.

He lies quite a lot about his business intentions and reasoning. It's not surprising that people don't trust him and wonder what the real reason is, since no one believes the reason he's giving (other than uncritical Musk fanboys).
Most English language handwriting has an up-and-to-the-right tilt. Architects will frequently adopt a precisely vertical style but it tends to feel cold and impersonal (or perhaps just unfamiliar as most writing does have a bit of slant to it). I suspect it's a bit like the serif vs sans serif debate. People generally prefer the look of sans serif fonts but they read farther into and retain contents better when the font has serifs (first measured in the 1950's and first discussed broadly in Ogilvy On Advertising, the book that most of Mad Men season one's plot points were based on). Straight up and down seems like it would be best, but for whatever reason hundreds of years of practice have retained that small angle as the preferred style.
Using a privacy-focused VPN like Mullvad is probably the best way to get your different devices distributed over multiple public IPs.

The other general privacy suggestions mentioned like uBlock Origin, Pi-hole / similar, DuckDuckGo, etc are all good as well.
The problem with positions of power is that the most qualified are least likely to want the job.
https://archive.is/h8anC
Why header and payload in the JWT token always starts with eyJ
Column's website says the company is "100% founder and employee owned."

I'm curious about that ownership structure. I'm assuming you're not organized as a worker cooperative, with a "one worker, one vote" structure? Would you be willing to offer any details about the ownership stake of the founders vs. the other employees and what sort of decision making employees' ownership stake entitles them to?
Sorry if I came across that way, I wasn't being sarcastic at all. Series I bonds are essentially risk-free unless you think the US government plans to default within the next 1 year (which is basically the lock-up period). Series I bonds pay a coupon equal to CPI. The current Series I interest rate is 7.11%. It is variable, however, and capped at $10,000 in contributions per year (online). [1]

[1] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_ibonds_gl...
A 1212122 scale doesn't add to 12, and so would not work very well. When you play through a scale, low to high, you generally want to end up back where you started but up an octave.

The main other combinations you see are the same 2212221 pattern, but starting on a different note. For example, if you start on the sixth note, this permutes to 2122122 which we call the (natural) minor scale. We call each of these permutations a "mode".
In my opinion manjaro vs ubuntu in that use case doesn't really make any difference.

What you really need to decide on is desktop environment.

Gnome vs KDE vs Xfce vs budgie vs cinnamon is really the decision you need to make.

If you're comfy with mac, Budgie might be the best way to go.

https://ubuntubudgie.org/ or https://manjaro.org/download/#budgie

I lean more ubuntu though.
> I think if you only have your mortgage as an asset

Your mortgage is a liability, not an asset.
Looks like Paystack is available in South Africa and might be worth checking out if you haven't already :-)

https://paystack.com/za/pricing?localeUpdate=true
As soon as Old Reddit goes, I'm gone. I had to use New Reddit briefly to change some settings in a sub I mod (stupid design choice to not let me change them in Old Reddit), and it was absolutely awful. Looked like a worse Facebook, and, like, just let me read the comments and don't show me other posts halfway through.
> It certainly can feel like that, but it is not true. You are able to do it.

Maybe the phrase "able to do it" is muddling things here...

People can exit a situation because it is no longer serving them well. Maybe the realized they now care less about that goal relative to other things, compared to before. Maybe their needs aren't being met.

Life is dynamic and complex. In general, there is nothing wrong with deciding to not do something anymore

Obviously, specific situations will have many specific factors. People might be disappointed. There may be significant impacts. Perhaps you made a serious commitment. These factors can all be considered. And still, sometimes the right decision is to move on and do something different.
Joe Rogan is far more popular and it’s free.
You paint a very inviting image, that makes a lot of sense - until you realise that low-income, three-story living units often looks more like

https://www.fotocommunity.de/photo/plattenbau-dessau-tobias-...

... which clearly is not what encourages building a community like you imagine.

Before someone comes and says that I picked the worst image I could find ... nope. This is the standard for "affordable multi-story apartment housing" in my rather affluent country. In many parts we actively demolish them because no-one wants to live there (location is often semi-suburban) and because they are breed a social-problem-area.
The Dubious Art of the Dad Joke
The answer is actually "just use OpenBSD". I work for a local ISP and reinstalled all the aging OpenSUSE boxes with OpenBSD almost 5 years ago. Zero issues and peace of mind, because you know your servers can take care of themselves while you're on vacation. (I've started with OpenBSD around version 5.0 and have witnessed a situation where linux had a bug where whole world was running around with hands in the air and the same issue has been either fixed or mitigated in OpenBSD years ago)

Core of the network is still Cisco and Nokia boxes, but all the support/servery stuff runs on OpenBSD - ELK stack, nextcloud servers, db servers, smokeping, nagios, syslog, tacacs, rpki validators, mail relay.s - you name it.

Only exception is backups servers, where we use TrueNAS with ZFS (FreeBSD-based).

I was testing 10gig SFP+ NICs (intel, broadcom) in linux, freebsd and openbsd with iperf3. I was seeing line rate in linux and freebsd and somewhere around 3gbps in OpenBSD. So while linux and freebsd has top performance, OpenBSD's performance with security mitigations enabled by default is good enough(tm) in most cases.

YMMV
Optimistic!

The grid has not responded well, that is history. Fast Charging stations are a huge draw, and home recharging raised the bar for substations everywhere. It will take decades to respond.

Battery advances - well that's a crystal ball I don't care to gaze into.

And company momentum is a myth. Cash flow is king - the day you don't make payroll, you close. It's a markov chain with a terminating condition. Play any markov game long enough and you reach that node and its all over. So a gamble every time.
Isn't that the problem though?

That someone in a mall kiosk is more skilled and authorized to fix a phone than an entire Apple store full of Apple geniuses?

Edit: Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASP) have mall kiosks, for those doubting authorization.
It really isn't if the interest rate is below inflation. If it's below inflation, the mortgage is yielding real-dollar value. That's an asset in my eyes.

It's a calendar spread. Last year, you were buying 2021 dollars for a fixed rate (2.675% APR in my case), but you different vintage dollars over time. You owe 2022 dollars in 2022, and 2031 dollars in 2031. A 2051 dollar is almost certainly going to be worth significantly less than a 2021 dollar.

So you're buying 1 2021 vintage USD, but at the extreme, you're paying it back with 2.2 2050 dollars. If we expect inflation to be an average of say, 3% over that period, each 2021 vintage USD should be worth at least 2.42 2021 vintage dollars. So in this example, you're earning real dollars over this period.
Slightly related is the question "How many different notes do you need in the bass to harmonise any melody?", and the answer was provided by Obrecht in the final section of his Missa Malheur me bat[1] dating from around 1497. The original tune is here[2]. While the section was probably written partly as a joke, it's interesting how you really only need the 1st and 5th scale degrees to cover the majority of the song tune.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLyfr_dQTBc&t=293s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrZKnEXKwn0
To say that the US is in any way responsible for Ukraine is to deny ukraine agency. They are caught between a lion and a bear. They could reject the aid of the lion, but that would throw them into the hands of the bear. They choose to accept US help in their defense, but that makes them vulnerable to US invasion. This is a choice they made, and they bare the consequences. The US in offering that help might have sought to anger russia, but they left it to the ukrainians to decide whether to follow through.

Fundamentally, russia had no interest in allowing ukraine to be an independent country. US aid forestalled an invasion, and made the ultimate invasion a fairer fight, but it wasn't the cause of it.
I'll take the Sherman antitrust law for 300 Alex.
This is both exciting and concerning as an Android user. Hope performance does not suffer.
I believe I saw this exact same scam on another recent Hacker News article. Same premise of "I'm from the bank and you are a victim of fraud and I need to deactivate your Apple pay but I am actually activating my own Apply pay with your card"

Also had a similar title along the lines of "I give presentations on scams and I still got scammed"
Everyone should get a $300m fuck-up as a treat.

It's actually rather mind-blowing that so much money was invested in such a system. How does that possibly make sense? According to this service [0], CNN has an annual revenue of $190m.

Is this some kind of money funneling scheme or an exec's pet project? How do these execs remain so rich after wasting massive amounts of money on projects that seem doomed to fail right from the start? Seeing this makes me wish you could somehow directly short projects of this nature from large companies.

[0] https://www.zippia.com/cnn-careers-17754/revenue/
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/03/bank-warns-customer-of-1200-...

I got some details wrong; in particular, the initial dispute denial was after two months (with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau agreeing with the bank after another two months), and the resolution followed NJ Advance Media contacting BofA.
Congratulations on the launch! I wonder if this kind of business model, where it looks like there is basically "one really rich guy self-funding" for a couple of years, is going to be more common.

That is, just looking at the site, my guess is that building everything from the ground up (core banking stack, acquiring the chartered bank, then all the APIs and tech on top of that) must have taken many years and many, many millions of dollars. And kudos, because the first thing that struck out at me is the documentation looks excellent. Overall, it looks like something where the the team had all the luxury to "do things right from the ground floor", instead of scrambling and making shortcuts before their runway ran out. I just think it would have been very hard to find a VC willing to be patient enough to wait that long with no revenue or customer feedback ("where's your MVP???")
neither of these are remotely close to the tx-6....
Not necessarily, if you find a way to restrict supply chains to allied nations only that you don’t have risk of war with.
The OP-1 is one of those products that makes me want to change my entire lifestyle and personality just so I could possibly justify owning it.

It's just so neat.
Does it even have mic preamps? I would be surprised if you could plug a mic directly into this without a cloud lifter or something.
Funding is secured via multiple strategies that best fits the case. How can you possibly think he does not have funding secured, when in fact he has more options than anyone private citizen in the world right now?

Ludicrous
It's also about the system package manager.

In recent years I've been preferring Fedora's dnf over Ubuntu's apt.
A) someone needing to change image processing behavior on a browser isn’t impossible, is just not possible with a JavaScript library. Lots of different kinds of developers here. B) How workable the current situation is depends on your use case.
iPod.

(Yes the underlying tech exists, but I'm talking about the device itself.)

I think Apple still makes them in some places, though I'm not sure why anybody would buy it today.

But if Apple continues to make them, I suppose there's probably a good reason for that.
On Call Rotation Is Harmful (and Here’s How to Make It Better)
I think it should be customizable: let users pass the number of bits for time, and the number of bits for randomness. Maybe also add fixed bits for partitioning.

128 bits is often an overkill when dealing with single-digit rps.
Yes! Apple is aweful in their Tie-Sales...
Are any of these machine readable? As long as I don't have to transcribe them by hand I would enjoy looking at them!
Unless you are the one implementing color rendering in web browsers, someone else is controlling your experience of color on the web.
Time to discover in what news ways the Gnome team decided to innovate and break my workflows.
> real news like BBC
Indeed, although in those days the hard shadows were due to technical issues (very limited colour depth). Sometimes you even had to swap palettes because they required different sets of the 256 available colours. You would click one program (xv - the picture viewer known as xview was a big candidate as it really needed to tailor its palette to show pictures decently) and all the others screwed up and vice versa.

32 bit full colour with alpha channel is amazing <3 Palettes were such a pain.
Yes and yes!

It's due to the way penmanship was written. Consider the arm position [0] of proper penmanship. The page is at an angle to the left, such that it is similar to the angle of your forearm on the page. Pivoting at the elbow allows you to swing your arm from the left side of the page to the right. The forward slant allows you to always be moving "forwards" as you write across the page.

I hope that was clear. Please feel free to ask clarifying questions if not.

[0] https://archive.org/details/armmovementmetho00zane/page/12/m...
The award for utilitarian and timeless has to go to the Lamy 2000.

The Safari is very good as a starter (though I'm partial to the Pilot Metropolitan or TWSBI Eco for starters). I don't have experience with the Kaweco Sport, though I hear only good things.
"fuel, food, medical, and military equipment" and "exclusively in China" seems like it'd literally bring in the entire dependency graph.
I am a Manjaro user currently but have used other distros in the past, including Ubuntu. Given that, I would obviously recommend Manjaro.

There are a million reasons but, for development, I find the rolling release model far superior. On Ubuntu, especially an LTS release, you are going to find over time that the software versions on your machine are too old. This will lead to installing from source or Flatpak or what have you and then your system is a mess. Worse, it also means that when you eventually move to a newer Ubuntu release, things are likely to break ( more likely at least ). Manjaro means more software updates more frequently and more hassle keeping software at older or stable versions but always up-to-date software and no big system upgrade ever again. For developers, I find the Manjaro model superior.

I also highly recommend looking into Distrobox.

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

Distrobox is Docker but instead of heavy sandboxing, when you are in the container you can see your real home directory, your real device tree, your real process list, and your real Wayland server ( desktop GUI ). This means you can Distrobox into an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS terminal for example and be able to run any software available Ubuntu ( including graphical ) with an experience very much like Ubuntu is installed directly on your machine. Best of both worlds.

Distrobox uses Docker though so you are not going to want to run containers in Distrobox. So the real distro still matters.
I just recently replaced my 2016 iPhone SE with a 13 Mini. While I'm ok not getting another charger, I am not ok with getting a usb-c to lightning cable as I don't have any chargers in my house that have a usb-c port. Fortunately I have plenty of usb-a chargers and lightning cables in the house to fit the bill.

I'm also very tired of apple dragging their feet on putting a usb-c port on the iPhone.
Strangers Rank Their Intelligence | IQ vs First Impressions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAlI0pbMQiM
This is classic AWS in terms of having many abstractions and small components. To be fair, all of the other PaaSes are doing something similar, they're just abstracting it away from the end user.

There are abundant configuration options across ECR + ECS Fargate, but for a basic container with a few environment variables you can use the defaults for almost all of them.

Also, after the initial setup, things like deploying a new version, adding / updating configuration, scaling up, etc are pretty easy to maintain.
If nobody is buying it from the source, how would it have value somewhere else?
I will help you reduce waste, send me all of your extra plugs and cables and I will pay the shipping.
Opinionated hosts and guests is the only path to profitability for cable news. Most people read or listen to their news now; TV is for entertainment.

CNN’s problem is that their “personalities” are absolute snore-fests. Fox’s bread and butter are their hosts but they are doing fine for now (cable will die eventually). In the current post-ironic zeitgeist, audiences are drawn to more transgressive discourse. But Don Lemon can’t make hot takes when his audience is Deloitte managers and urban moms (also he’s terminally unfunny).

The left leaning media has become too safe and staid. I think that’s why left sympathetic people are drawn to the new “left” podcasts like Chapo Trap House
we integrate with FED over some... interesting protocols.

Would love to know more!
Every release of the magazine seems to make the front page. Its not specifically about the never OpenBSD version.
actually, id argue its much more grandiose than just monopolistic activity. If you want to continue doing capitalism, youll need to switch from physical property to imaginary property as the laws of thermodynamics simply do not permit for endless consumption of scarce physical resources.

maximum consumption with minimum production expense has already eclipsed its zenith in the seventies. evermore impoverished consumers seeing longer hours and lower wages were made to establish credit as an extension of their purchasing power. this credit was made mandatory at all levels of capitalist society, including government.

to permit even the idea of piracy would be to undercut capitalisms current waxing pivot to continued survival. its less a drive from the MPAA, and more a common understanding amongst leaders.
so cut out china? now bring onshore everything to allied countries.... still seems like a large portion of the graph..
If you had a signed letter that GS was willing to loan you $43 billion, you'd get taken seriously too. If you want to bid on a house, you'll need a signed letter promising a loan of (house price) on it from a bank to be taken seriously (or cash reserves)
> If that's the goal, why not simply found another social media company built around those values?

Twitter is one of the few social networks that actually has a network. A lot of social media failed because the cold start problem is a very hard problem to solve at this point in the game. Elon probably knows it and I would bet that this is why he is looking to buy an established social network rather than creating a new one.
We already have that, it’s called 4chan.
> there's no such thing as absolutes

Thankfully my head has paradox-absorbing crumple zones.
greater variety is not a thing that would happen (and incidentally, as an electrical engineer, there's plenty of variety already). The hardware used in semiconductor foundries is all made by the same few companies, which is a major reason everyone gets similar advances at the same time- they're all working with the same tools.

The vast majority of variety in product lines comes from who is ordering the chips, not the foundries where they are made. Adding more foundries will not introduce any more different chips, just chips that have subtly different performance or reliability, which is already a nightmare engineers deal with continuously.

China sells the cheapest chips, and companies only buy the cheapest chips. Making more foundries in the EU and Europe will not change that fact. China will have the huge majority of demand. If anything, a reduction in demand will give more power to counterfeiters and raise the floor price you have to pay to avoid them. It won't really impact prices at all (counterfeit chips are almost nonexistent for anything costing more than a couple cents) but it will make life significantly more irritating for people like me.
This change, made seemingly entirely on Theo's whim, has rightfully caused quite some criticism on the mailing lists and on IRC. I'm not sure if it ever crossed his mind exactly how much more fan noise, and how many more megawatt-hours of wasted power (and money spent on electricity bills), this will cause globally for the collective user base. Very poor choice of anti-ecology. It offsets the benefits and the work that has gone into making computers and operating systems power-efficient.
Cursive may well functionally fill the role of social class shibboleth in certain circumstances and specific social environments, but that is very secondary to its highly practical primary function: you can write _much faster_ in cursive than by any other means.

There were no typewriters or computers through almost all of human history. Writing was it. This skill had, and to a large degree even today still has, enormous practical and economic value.

The utility of this ability to efficiently produce text artifacts is vastly higher when one can do so in a manner that is readily legible to others, which requires that one use an approximation of standardized, well-known glyphs. The closer you can produce them, the more differentially legible your written output is to others. It's not merely a coded signal for your elite status.

Even today when many can take notes on a keyboard, writing notes by hand has a well studied secondary practical effect of improving retention and comprehension, as well as being available any time a pencil and paper are at hand. These still work when dropped, when they get wet, when the power is out, or when you forgot to charge them.