skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The webzine mentions the OpenBSD 7.1 release, but is a separate story and a worthy glance into the goings on in the OpenBSD community.
Has it ever not been so? Is it really possible to change it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
> They could easily target some midwestern state, put the headquarters for federal software agency there, find a feeder school, and get employees fed to an agency making a comfortable 6 figures in a low cost of living area.

They have this already: midwestern schools which have affiliations to the military and act as feeder schools for technical people into the military industrial complex.

These people still make more than the GS schedule cap by mid career with TS clearance. It surely doesn't pay faang salaries, but $150-200k with 25% bonus/profit sharing, and totally paid family health care, and <asks someone> 320 hours of pto. Plus, these places often have nice company events, like corporate retreats to nice locales (including family), etc.
Says the guy bullying the country Taiwan.
Can you tell us more about the detailed internal discussions that happened between Musk and N other parties concerning possible funding for taking Tesla private? You seem to be an authority on the subject.
I remember her husband (SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg) had died tragically, had never heard of her dating Kotick but apparently it was well-known [0]. While I’m sure it’s hard to find people in her circle who are also single — having to secretly squelch stories of your boyfriend’s abuse allegations should have been a dealbreaker

[0] https://people.com/human-interest/sheryl-sandberg-bobby-koti...
The problem of the rich not paying taxes because they're stock-rich and use the stock as collateral to take out loans to buy a new yacht could be solved by taxing unrealized gains.

Of course, this tax increase could be offset by also allowing unrealized losses to act as a tax deduction.
It's the mechanics that's expensive. The casing, the beautiful metal knurled knobs, all of the various parts made at very high quality in relatively low numbers.
Yeah it's a depressing reality that a lot of government is uninformed people making uninformed decisions that affect the entire country.
> Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Since when is "the community" roughly analogous to "yuppies" and since when is being a yuppie a bad thing?
There's this:

https://twitter.com/search?lang=en&q=absolutist%20(from%3Ael...
This sounds like an interesting point but I don't understand it. Why is it worse to give a loan against a building for less than the capital gains rate then it is to do so for a public stock. Can you explain or link to an explanation?

Thank you.
Can someone ELI5 margin loans? How is it different than using an asset as collateral?
"To keep the battery healthy, the unit should be charged at least every 6 months. if not used for a long time, it may not charge again."

... it may not charge again? Haven't heard this warning in consumer electronics before.
The issue is monopolies. Whether it is private or public, a monopoly will always provide shit service.
Simple, dumb contrarianism explains a lot of radical political beliefs, esp support for Trump.

Obviously, he got votes from a lot of normal Republicans, but there's a decent segment of support for him where people were apolitical before, but latched on to him out of sheer, immature contrarianism.
Evil maid attacks are real.
Foremost, I don't feel bad for anyone that works at Twitter.

But the scenario that you KNOW is going to happen doesn't seem likely.
And that's just one thing that seemed important to you? )
Look how beautiful and well-designed it is. This is almost beyond Apple-level taste. I would throw money at this company if I had the inclination to get into this kind of hobby :-)

edit: beyond just how it looks and the mechanical properties, I also wonder how much additional value they added during integration. Yes the BOM may sound trivial ("small signal processing FPGA, a bunch of ADC's and a couple DAC's") but IME it's easy to mess this up without a lot of extra attention. Example: my TV is plugged into a DAC which powers standing speakers, and every time I turn it on, there is a discontinuity that blasts a "pop" at maximum volume through the speakers regardless of volume level. Or you could end up with a line level hum if not shielded properly. Etc.
Or a margin call, for Elon Musk if Tesla stock goes down in price, and he will be forced to sell billions in shares to pay for it.

I wonder what Tesla shareholders think about all this ;-)
>I then commented on a chess person with a positive tweet and I was quietly censored.

This is no different than HN's shadowbans but I don't see people complain about free speech on HN to the same frequency on Twitter. Further still, the fact that you are only just now creating an account further reinforces to me that most people don't actually use Twitter and their entire perception of the platform comes from news headlines. Twitter has the least amount of moderation of all the social media giants. Try posting porn on Facebook and seeing how long that lasts.

When you say your tweet was censored, you mean it's no longer on your timeline? If your tweet was deleted Twitter would have sent you an email about it. If you are complaining that that you can't see it in the user's replies, well any large twitter user is going to have many replies, and a message from a new account will likely not make the top of the fold.

>If you're listed on the S&P500, you can't say that's poorly run. Poorly run would never have gotten there.

Enron??? The many dot coms?? Lehman Brothers?? There hasn't been a major stock market correction in nearly 15 years; there are plenty of companies out there that are swimming naked. Twitter management is no stranger to public executive issues with it's board + CEO.
> I refuse to have cameras inside my house…

For any purpose?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1499976967105433600

"Starlink has been told by some governments (not Ukraine) to block Russian news sources. We will not do so unless at gunpoint.

Sorry to be a free speech absolutist."
Starvation was highly scaleable tactic the Nazis used. Just pile people up and let them starve and also freeze to death (another scaleable tactic).

Food shortages could cause this but it would also cause riots/conflict before anything. Lack of heating could also do it. It won’t be an extinction level event, just a culling.

I foresee that before all else. It won’t take much, just sudden infrastructure shocks.
If it was a digital recorder similar to a tascam portastudio I could see it being really awesome as a sort of high end version of the standalone recording system but just an interface seems incredibly overpriced - you can buy compact interfaces already (they’ve been designed for video applications by zoom and tascam) that have quality preamps and great battery life which also function as recorders. It does look nice though. I hope they are able to scale up on their products so they become more affordable because I would really like to but their synth but I am not quite in the experience bracket to justify it but it seems really fun.
Unlike a home a publicly traded stock is supposed to be immediately liquid. I really don’t think the banks should be giving rich people loans against publicly traded stock to facilitate a tax avoidance scheme, these billions of dollars would have been better of being loaned to home buyers.
Small run production with no expense spared of a designer product for niche applications.

Expensive expensive expensive! That case looks like it was milled!
But AWS spend a lot of time selling you lambda over any of these other solutions.

If you have less traffic then you should spend less.

This sounds like they don't have anyone who actually knows what they are doing, or did any form of cost/benefit analysis which will always mean you spend more than you should.
How to move from output to outcome focus with business goals
Trouble with this sort of thing is the subjectivity of 'what chord is this?', taking into account inversions and the like. CMaj7 has C / E / G / B? Who says this isn't Emin6 with the 6th in the bass? It'll depend on the way it's heard and its context within the song, but many approaches can impact this sort of thing.

EDIT: I wrote this without carefully reading the article (oops!). Author does a great job with the "adjustments"...I suspect adjusting to relative minor covers a huge amount of these issues, and the author throws in mixolydian for good measure! There will always be edge cases, secondary dominants, modulations, blah blah blah, but I suspect adjusting to include relative minors handles the vast majority of popular music.
People somehow believe that a 50 kph impact sitting in a vehicle equipped with airbags is a walk in the park.
If I were ever to go back to the Wintel world (or whatever the word is for Windows+AMD), Teenage Engineering's computer is probably the only one my wife would allow in the house:

https://teenage.engineering/products/computer-1
In a way they do already charge as they're only available as part of the Online package (and N64 + Mega Drive are only on the deluxe Online package, whatever that's officially named).

As for why aren't those games sold individually, Nintendo used to do this with the Virtual Console on the Wii U -- which was literally their previous console. I'd wager there wasn't enough money in it to do that again. Or that they feel the Online subscription earns them more money than selling those ROMs individually.

Let's also not forget they've relatively recently launched a range of mini versions of their classic consoles. Granted they're just (IIRC) running emulation on-top of Linux but it still demonstrates that they're aware of this market.

Much as we'd like to assume Nintendo are incompetent because they're not catering to our specific needs, I think the more logical explanation is that us retro gaming nerds are a vocal minority. We love to moan about how much money Nintendo could make but if that were true Nintendo would already be doing it because they had done it previously, recently in fact, and thus already have figures about how popular these features are. And given how successful they are as a business, and how successful they are at milking their IP, they certainly wouldn't pass up the opportunity to sell ROMs if they felt there was a market there. But when you have Switch games selling for £50+, even years after their release, it's hard to disagree with Nintendo's outlook that Switch titles are a bigger source of revenue than re-releasing the same ROMs they've already re-released several times over.
The unfairly banned people have made several platforms, they just never blow up and you don't hear about them. It's like an employee gets fired from target, a well known and established company, so they make their own pseudo target and you're shocked that you've never heard of their small one
Edit: corrected autocorrect miswording
I don't 'solve' it using linear optimization today. I use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing which basically amounts to (1) calculate score based on the dataset (2) randomly change some data that affects the score (3) discard the score if it much worse, keep if slightly better or worse (4) repeat until new score is much better than original score. I allow it to get a little worse over time but if it is much worse, I basically restart from the last-best score.

The nice thing about scoring with SA is that I don't need to think like an operations research student. I just think in code with if/then/else and the number of dimensions don't matter. The code is working fine for now but now the problem is a business requirement to make it MUCH more complex and factor in a whole new set of constraints. SA will straight up not work with it because the scoring itself can take tens of seconds now. So I need to come up with a new 'proper' way, hence my renewed interest in solvers.
Bitcoin Mines Were Airlifted from China to the US
> Musk will give users the ability to choose, modify, and control their own algorithms.

Like he does his existing customers or employees?

I can never understand how some people still have such unbridled optimism about what Elon Musk will do next, given how ample the evidence is that he won't. He has quite a track record to base predictions on.
>I wonder why it's so expensive [...] Wouldn't this product just contain a small signal processing FPGA, a bunch of ADC's and a couple DAC's?

If tech products should cost the sum of their parts then an iPhone 14 Pro and an RTX 3090 should cost about $300. After all, they're just a PCB with some components on them.

You're ignoring the enormous R&D costs (engineering salaries, hardware prototyping, sales, marketing, support, etc.) that must be recouped, while also turning a profit, through the sale of each of these low volume products.

Developing consumer hardware in the west aint cheap, that's why most western brands other than Apple, and a few other high-end niche ones, pulled out of the consumer market.
If employee compensation is 50% RSUs (which have a public value and can be sold immediately once vested, basically making them as good as salary) then what you're saying is Elon might give everyone a 50% pay-cut.

I guess I can only speak for myself at Google which has a similar high percentage of pay as RSUs, but if they suddenly took away everyone's stock grants, nearly everyone would quit.
He has paid huge taxes ($11B worth, the highest tax payment ever) when he converted capital to income last year.

Nobody disputes that it’s a nice idea to make life easier for the poor. The mechanics of how you actually do it are the hard part.
Similar to another recent post: "I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30869427
> And as best I can tell Levine has been wrong on this situation at every step

Perhaps when it comes to the sincerity of Elon's actions, but I'm not aware of when he's been wrong when it comes to Elon's legal options.
A mobile app for entrepreneurs to automate marketing, sell online and handle accounting.
Understood. Much good luck with your raise!
This is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard, from a competition standpoint, from a censorship standpoint, from an innovation standpoint, just... oof.
I think this varies between jurisdictions. I believe it is deductible in the USA, but not here in the People's Republic of Kanuckistan, although there are ways around the limitation, depending on your appetite for the risk of a drawn-out battle with the Canada Revenue Agency.

Up here, home mortgage interest is only deductible if the home is used to generate income, so it does not apply to people who use a home as their primary residence. But what if you have a home office? What if you use it as an AirBnB some of the time?

If you ask a tax accountant whether Canadian home mortage interest is deductible, they will answer "a definite maybe." But it's actually "no" for most people who don't structure their home ownership around qualifying for a deduction.
I need to try OpenBSD on a partition again, I kept running into issues where my display would freeze after 15 minutes. I assume it was because I was trying to watch videos + coupled with using an Nvidia card.

From what I read online, OpenBSD does lack compared to FreeBSD in hardware support
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Bit of an edge use case but I had a backup server that the ssh would only take a password from interactive keyboard wouldn't accept the password argument for scp. Something like this could have fixed the issue, I ended up just going for a different provider that allowed ssh keys.
If social media were about private communication among circles of friends and family, this wouldn't be an issue. Instead it's also some kind of broadcast medium with an opaque curation/boosting system. That's the part that causes most of the trouble, and IMO the fix is to treat tech companies that operate that way as responsible for what they publish, when it's not private communication.

"But that will make them to stop that part of their business entirely, or make it way more expensive and force them to take an actual editorial stance! And their viral-ness will suffer a ton!"

Yes, exactly, that's the point.

They've created this medium, then they decide what to push with it. They should be responsible for that, or else back away from how they're currently operating.
Elon Musk lays out funding for ambitious Twitter takeover
Why do you think Besos bought the Washington Post for what, $200 million... right after AWS got that $600 million CIA web services contract? Notably there are no more "Top Secret America" investigations looking into how the US government feeds money to defense contractors at the WaPo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Secret_America

Is Musk following in Besos steps, or will he really open source the ranking algoritm and increase the character count of posts to paragraph-scale (512-1024 characters)? Time will tell I suppose.
4 is true but doesn’t show how insane of a diff it is. The interest is going to be tiny. It isn’t going to be 3% like what Robinhood charges for any one with at least $2K in Robinhood and $5/mo membership. If Elon is getting sub 1% interest rate. AND he gets to tax deduct that interest. It’s near nothing.
No one is saying Musk literally can't afford to pay taxes. He can borrow against his ownership. But if you have a company that goes from 0 -> 100, and you get taxed 35% on that, and then the company goes from 100 -> 50, you kind of got screwed. That $100 is a made-up number.

Suppose there is a company with 200 shares, half of which you own. The last trade price was $1 per share, meaning you have $100. But you can't necessarily dump your shares for $100 because the $1 was based off the last trade. So on the margin you can sell a share for $1, but you won't necessarily be able to sell all 100 shares for $100.

Imagine you own a home that went from being worth $1 million to $2 million. Did you MAKE $1 million? Should you pay taxes on that delta as soon as the home's value became $2 million? It makes more sense to wait until you sell it and pay taxes on the net you made. Otherwise it's more complicated and you could end up paying taxes on $1 million when you end up selling it for a lot less. You could have a tax credit I guess but you're unlikely to have the IRS cut you a check for the money you paid that turned out to never be actualized.
At least some would identify with the lifestyle, etc you deemed “yuppie”. You understand what you are doing with comments like that, it’s divisive and not productive.

Edit: I won’t edit my comment to better address your comment since you edited after I responded.
Not that I disagree, but I think the majority of sec engs do not deal with telephony or related fraud directly. In companies where fraud with caller ID and responding to it matters, that's often tasked to a fraud team dealing with account takeovers or a user onboarding team that offloads verification to a vendor like Persona -> not a security engineering team.

However, I think it's common knowledge that inbound identifiers like IPs, user agents can be faked and aren't great technical indicators to anchor detections on for longer than an active incident. That intuition should extend to caller ID IMO, if they didn't know it already.
It depends on turbulence, though. If it's a wide uniform flow, there are no vortices to exploit, so the intuitive assumption holds. You need the vortices to work against, and certain configurations will have negative impact, so a fish has to pay attention enough to surge or turn when needed. Throw a dead fish in a turbulent river and it's 100% going to end up far downstream, even though it might take a few upstream jaunts on the way.
Ugh. Makes you wonder how the early hires in his company made out.
at least historically they had a DI/DS scheme (like many mega corps) so theres probably 10s of millions that are "expensed" to a foreign subsidiary to avoid tax.
> Other parties get the _right_ to buy additional new shares at a reduced rate.

This is effectively the same as giving away shares.
The principal of charity is why I suggested you are stawmanning rather than actively trolling. You asked for am explanation and I provided it.

You've never explained how you got to the assumption that anyone here is suggesting "blind faith" in the government. Please go ahead and do that or don't claim you've "explained multiple times."
You are being deliberately vague with your position and relying on ad hominems.

I'll help you. For each of these questions, do you think it's something employees should be told:

1. How many shares are outstanding and what preferences are included in the cap table?
2. What was the valuation at last raise and when did that round close?
3. What's the burn rate and remaining runway?
4. What are the 6/12/18 month plans for the company? What are the biggest risks and opportunities currently facing the company?

> You don't seem to understand the material being presented

Again with the ad hominem.
We run tests on the master branch before we deploy. If tests fail there we find the offending PR and revert it.
It’s common for things with non-swappable batteries but companies might not be so explicit about the need for it. Have a higher end video camera that is same way, have to keep reminding myself to keep it charged up.
Thanks. Yes, DTL's core textual syntax is described with PEG. I make use of the Peggy (https://peggyjs.org/) PEG processor to build up the AST that is used to actually process DTL.

There are C based PEG processors, which I've looked at once or twice also, but I haven't sat down to try to convert it. Mostly out of a desire to get the existing module to work well. A working module for one language is better than a partially working module for multiple. :P
I've worked on two projects in the last six years that used PRs and had a high commit frequency.

Two things had to work or we would have lost all our sanity points (reference to Call of Chthulhu): automated checks of style, building, testing; and small PRs subscribing to the 'do one thing and do it well' approach.

As for the second, it's more doable than you might think - if you decomposed your work well. We decomposed our work at these levels on one project: product, demo capability, epic, task; the other project used feature, epic, task. Typically PRs were at the task level, though sometimes at PR level.

For us this had the added benefit that the developer velocity on these two projects exceeded the velocity of any of the other projects I've been on.

Some other tricks we used were to make sure we rebased our task branches from develop every morning (and if needed after lunch); each task branch had 1 person only working on it; where complexity warranted we created an Epic-### branch for that epic and treated it as a mini-develop for tasks on that epic.
What was your routine?
Personally, I think Musk is having a bit of a laugh. This will never happen. *

Twitter operating income for 12 m/e 31 Dec 2021 was negative. For the q/e 31 Dec 2021 it was $0.167B. Why he thinks Twitter is worth $45b is beyond me. What would Warren Buffett do? Well, he wouldn't buy Twitter, that's for sure.

* Time will tell, of course. I've been wrong before. But the whole thing seems like madness to me.