skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't have to pull the trigger; it's already set up. These triggers never get pulled because it's irrational for a hostile acquirer to play chicken with them; it's like playing chicken with a brick wall.
I've never heard it called "people's key" but a lot of rock and popular music written in the past 50 years was written on guitar where these keys are the easiest to play. I imagine Am/C are easiest on a piano but I am not a very good piano player to begin with.
To be fair to Musk he made a lot of people at TSLA very wealthy when everyone in the valley was complaining how poor the TSLA comp packages were vs how hard the worked. I mean I don't think Elon saw TSLA take this much of a rocket ride but employees did pretty damn well on their stock.
Not blocking Russia doesn't mean he is a free speech absolutist even if he says it.

I know I can read minds.
I just released this script because I hated the default gray color of the taskbar. Ordinarily Windows 8, 10, and 11 restrict the possible accent colors that a user can choose from. This script bypasses those restrictions and sets the accent color to pure black.
Likely, one would need to follow the "donations" to see who's really in charge.
I'm super excited about this product and happy for Tom that he launched it. We've needed a good web app for editing and publishing simple maps for a long time now.

The announcement post is at https://www.placemark.io/post/announcing-placemark
Why does he have to sell a single share?

He routinely takes out loans against his shares to disturbingly high levels.
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Prosumer audio gadgets are a relatively small market, audio interfaces are a slice of that. Audio interfaces that function as mixers are even smaller.

There's been a boon with stream decks the last few years, but the only part of that market that's saturated is the low end. There really are not that many high quality mixers and audio interfaces out there, and they are not really in a small form factor like this.

Not to mention the codec shortage. Making a digital audio board right now sucks.
it's newb bait.

I dont think any seasoned sys admin or dev would use these, let alone polish it up so much.

Most of these can just be solved by keeping commands in a bash history file and recalling them...
Well that's the first time I've ever seen a 1:1 EIZO used in _anything_ marketing related.

That monitor used in their marketing photo is the EV2730Q and it's an absolute beast if you're looking for a balance between horizontal/vertical aspect ratios. Obviously not fantastic for gaming (minus Factorio), but for programming + shell work it's outstanding.
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Payments Systems in the U.S. by Carol Coye Benson is a great starter - it's a mandatory onboarding read at a lot of fintechs
The site linked of the letter appears down or blocked. https://punchbowl.news/wp-content/uploads/Open-Letter-Cyber-...

This seems suspicious.
Huh, I haven't experienced any problems with qBittorrent in Windows.
I'm kinda curious about what would happen if Musk triggered the poison pill. Yeah, his existing stock would be diluted. But... how much? What would it do to the share price?

The poison pill is essentially a gun to the head of all the other shareholders: you're either with us or against us. Help us fight this hostile takeover or get diluted along with Musk. How will people react to that?

Some will jump at the chance to buy discounted shares. Others will be unable or unwilling to buy more, and sell to avoid dilution. But they'll have to sell to people who aren't currently shareholders, because shareholders have a better option. That'll drive the price down, and also reduce the discounted price for shareholders. Will investors that buy in after the poison pill is triggered also get the discounted price? Will existing shareholders wait to buy discounted shares until after the exodus lowers their price?

There are so many feedback loops and non-obvious motivations here. It's possible that Musk could trigger the pill, stand back and watch the stock crater, then buy it cheap. And if the stock does crater, will he then have to compete with other takeover bids?
> Contrasting this, some UEFI implementations are horrifically buggy and largely seem designed to only work with Windows.

UEFI specifications are like Web specifications: they're good to wipe your ass with, but on the Web when the rubber meets the road, the only "standard" that matters is "does it work in Chrome" (in the past, IE). Similarly the only standard that a UEFI implementation need comply with is "does it boot Windows".
slashdotted i'm afraid
Again, first lines of the shareholder rights agreement. This is something the lawyers thought of approximately 3 minutes after poison pills were invented.
>We should name and shame each one until this stops.

Why should it stop? Do you not believe in redemption? Milken has done (and continues to do) a lot of great charity work with his fortune.

Besides, if you look at what Milken was actually convicted of, it's pretty tame, especially by today's standards. And he spent two years in prison for it. What more do you want?
But those are different versions. Just because they worked with -O2 doesn't mean NTSC would.

I'm not just saying this in a theoretical sense either; I've seen much weirder bugs.
It's very similar to buying a house - you don't get the mortgage first, you get a letter of pre-approval that says the bank is ready to give you a mortgage when you actually buy the thing.
openSUSE, Fedora, KDE neon... but not ubuntu!!! LOL

(edit: i know neon is ubuntu lts based!)
Side note, from a usability perspective: G major is arguably the easiest key to play on a guitar, which is used heavily by both popular music and songwriters. The I/IV/V maps to G, C, D, which are all easy open chords to finger, plus Em is also simple (two fingers).

(Many of the other options include either B major or F major in the I/IV/V, and those are considerably more difficult to play)
Over the next week, mark down every time you see the following news:

1. News such as an HN post which is a ... twitter link

2. News in an article or on TV that reverences a ... twitter link

3. Social media referencing a ... twitter link

There's a lot more than appears at first, even if you aren't consuming news on Twitter or Tik Tok a lot of it is being broken there.
I understand how you could have this confusion, but if you're going to offer a correction you should double-check yourself first. You can look it up on wikipedia to check yourself and to copy the URL to post in your comment at the same time, two birds with one stone, and you avoid the embarrassment of being wrong.
Did you just “You’re holding it wrong” me? :)

They could have brilliantly designed their way out of that by making the whole thing ~1.5cm wider (3mm extra five times).

A zoom h6 is a well designed portable battery powered mixer / audio interface with 4 easily accessible inputs and two that might need an adaptor depending on your cabling. It also comes with two high quality microphones, and records without being tethered to another device. For $409
No reason not to believe he'll be the new co-founder of Twitter. Sterling track-record.
3 channels for the price of 6 is still a terrible deal.
Yes, it was terrible when access to information was facilitated by professionals who had a professional belief in providing access to everything for free, and in protecting the identities of people who used them. Better now when what you read can be tracked in realtime. Or changed while you read it. Or deleted, along with all references to it.

edit: the biggest inroads against the academic publishing cartel have been when institutions and their libraries refused to pay.
I'm no expert but in other parts of the thread people are saying that interest is tax deductible. So you sell just enough stock to cover the interest and the capital gains are not taxed because they are offset by the interest deduction.
Are you given a ballot which could be customized for you, or do you simply pick one from a pile?
How we fought Search spam on Google in 2021
Warren Buffett was never going to make Tesla and SpaceX what they are so I don’t see the relevance of the comparison.
TSLA is helping rich people think that they are helping combat climate change, whilst keeping their unsustainable car centric lifestyle.
-ng is a suffix sometimes used for "reboots" of abandoned or poorly maintained software; I believe it stands for "next generation".
> Twitter can offer enormous power in setting a national narrative

I'm always skeptical about this. Twitter is dominated by journalists, celebrities, and tech people. Only about 23% of American adults have twitter accounts. Only 46% of those even open it daily. Of the active users 10% account for ~95% of tweets. Among those, ~70% identify as Democrats, and certainly aren't going to be swayed by Trump getting back on twitter.

It just isn't clear to me that twitter even matters in the realm of US politics. Voters just aren't really there, and when they are they predominantly aren't engaging. When they do, they're mostly democrats tweeting at one-another.
I am not heavy user of stock applications, have seen a few.
1. Its neatly designed. Very clear.
2. I love the social/internet media stuff - I think its importance is especially relevant(and often completely ignored by competition) when it comes to tech stocks.

Looks good overall!
edit: looks great, sorry for understatement
Wait what is a permanently sealed South Dakota trust? And how do I get one of those interesting sounding mechanisms.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31107262
Or he'll trade TSLA shares for TWTR. I can imagine that some investors in TWTR would be happy to take him up on such an offer.
You can get away with self promotion online if you do it in a culturally sensitive way. It is worth learning the conventions in any place you want to post things.

For instance in Hacker News new users frequently don't know that links posted in the text for a submission aren't clickable. If you spent a day looking at the new page you'd do better because you'd see about ten other people make the same mistake.

If you want to submit a link to HN just submit a link. If you want to submit ten links to HN you'd better submit twenty links, ten of which are to somebody else's site! That's the way we do it.

You might say "I want to explain my page" and I'll say it is a lesson I've learned the hard way and occasionally relearn that artifacts have to be able to explain themselves. For instance I make these art objects that have a physical manifestation (stuck on my office door) and a digital manifestation, say

HTTPS://GEN5.INFO/$/WU$.D:TC:42LW1Q/

When I show them to people I find they still don't do a good job of explaining the object ("What are the Invictus games?", "Is there a physical object involved? Where is it? How can I get one?", "Why did you use characters in the URL that cause HN to not light up the URL?") so I go back to the drawing board...
I wish they’d let me give back the ones I have. They can give them out to someone else
On XP you don’t paint into ‘pixel buffers’, you just paint onto the screen. What you paint however is clipped by a mask, defined by clipping regions.

I don’t know for sure what Microsoft used for their themes but it is far more likely they used the mechanism that already existed for arbitrarily shaped windows, the clipping regions, which happen to nicely match what they tried to do with these rounded windows, instead of using bitmaps, which is less efficient and new.
Facebook amplifies, it doesn't create. People link to twitter threads from HN all the time, rarely if ever do they link to FB posts.

Nobody cares about Facebook, even though it's hugely used it's a dead letter.
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If I got to skate on securities fraud over and over I'd be rolling around on the floor pissing myself with laughter too.
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I like intech.studio'a approach better
I don't need to own my OP-1, but I'm glad I do. It makes me happy every time I look at it.
Great website man. Well done
I may be mistaken, but I believe he can achieve $21bn in short exposure to Tesla through swaps and never have to report the "sale" publicly
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The other shareholders don't need to have the money:

"Another, perhaps more practical provision of the pill says that the board can just exchange each right for one share of stock, for free, meaning in essence that the board can double everyone else’s number of shares of Twitter while holding Musk’s constant, without asking anyone to put in more money."
(From a recent Money Stuff.)

It also gives reasons why poison pills were allowed by the Delaware Supreme Court (and not the SEC).
Eh -- it's totally derangement.

Protesting a cause at an innocent persons expense is immature.

It also can escalate into real violence.
i've got an h4n, i played with it yesterday, but i am looking for something with faders and an auxiliary effects loop to mix synths for dawless jamming
His stake will be cut approximately in half. We probably don't have to wonder what happens if the rights agreement is triggered; it won't be (it would be the first time in business history one ever had). Doing so would mostly just be a way of setting billions of dollars literally on fire, out of pique.
> he's not giving up the shares or control of TSLA.

Again, correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like he's financing this prospective purchase of Twitter with loans that are backed in no small part by his stored equity in Tesla. He might not be "giving up" shares, but he's effectively introduced an interested party with the ability to seize those shares to recover any losses.

That's the part that would concern me as a Tesla shareholder.
>A third called the number while I was on hold and assessed it as 'probably fine'

This blows me away. Probably fine? That's the worst possible answer IMO.
Everyone agrees that "free speech" should have limits (e.g, not be free) but nobody agrees on where those limits are.
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I'm glad you noticed the account numbers as pointers concept - we think its pretty cool. I think there's some rad use cases that people will come up with!

Thanks on the typo...deploying now :0
"Sneaky" is an understatement; the download link to adware was more prominent than the download link for the product in the headline (which product was also often afflicted with adware).

I found the article rather thin; I was hoping for some explanation of who made those disastrous decisions, and why.
I doubt we'll go extinct. We lived through a bottleneck where there were only 3,000 to 10,000 people on the planet around 70,000 years ago. And that was when we were technologically irrelevant. Now, with billions of people and good technology, there is next to no way we'd go extinct.
Nice. I learned cursive italic from a different source, but my handwriting looks almost exactly like that sample of Barchowsky Fluent.
Me neither, but it makes total sense now.
What is misinformation? Does just being wrong count, or do you have to prove malicious intent? How do you prove intent? What about things that were correct at one point in time but aren't anymore? What about things discussing or analyzing the misinformation, that by definition requires showing/spreading it?

How about you just let people be free? Some people are stupid. You're never going to stop that. But the paternalistic "just filter it out" nonsense isn't the panacea those in favor of it think it is.
> We are not sending heavy armament to Ukraine for a reason

Unfortunately that is not true anymore [1]. Otherwise I 100% agree with the sentiment of your post.

[1] https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/21-april-pentagon-says-new-800...
Stop using Windows then. Linux is the way.
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Would taxing the loan reset the cost basis, then? Or are you suggesting taxing the same gains twice (or more than twice if someone repeatedly takes out and pays back a loan against the same assets)?

I agree buy, borrow, die is a problem but the “weird” feature of tax law that makes that possible is the step up in basis. (Getting rid of that has its own challenges I’m sure.)
Color printers, yes. https://www.eff.org/issues/printers
> It's fair to give the benefit of the doubt given that Tesla is helping combat climate change and SpaceX is about becoming multi-planetary

I don't think it's reasonable to give the benefit of the doubt to [highly debatable claim] based on uncritically accepting other [highly debatable claims].
>If he tries to sell 21 billion dollars worth of tesla shares, the share price will collapse.

So why didn't the stock price collapsed when he sold $15B in December 2021?

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/teslas-musk-says-he-so...
You may be closer to a portfolio than you think. A portfolio is no more or less than documentation of what you have done. Even if it is just old projects and scripts on old computers, you can still write it up -- Explain the problems you solved, the tech you used, some notes on the success of the solution, screenshots of the UI if possible. Put it all up on a web page and you have a portfolio.

After all, portfolios are just like resumes in that their purpose is to grab the attention of someone to get a conversation started. Focus on telling a story that makes people want to hear more.
SEC already punished him by making him step down as chair of Tesla for 3 years, plus a fine. And I doubt that curtailing anyone’s first amendment rights is a punishment the SEC is legally allowed to enact.

[1]:https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226
We'd still be in WWIII.
Teenage Engineering designed the hardware for Panic Inc (the Mac software devs in Portland). Panic is the company actually making/selling it.
It doesn't cost him anything, because the interest rate on the loan is virtually guaranteed to be less than the appreciation rate of the underlying asset.
To invest or not to invest? Sterling track record indeed.
>they are each three major chords using the first, fourth, and fifth notes of the major scale

I have no idea what any of this means (what is a chord? what is a major chord? what is a note? what is a first/fourth/fifth note? is there a 65th note? what is a scale? what is a major scale? what does it mean that a note is of a scale? what does it mean that a chord uses a note? is there a difference between a chord using a note of a scale and not of a scale?), but it implies to me that music is as complex a subject as physics.
Freespeech is an inherently libertarian believe I don't think it's the libertarians that are trying to ban people for not being politically correct.
Yeah, agreed that this I s an insane price point given that (unless I’m missing something) there’s only one preamp and it only works for an inline headphone mic.
Or at least the peripheral nervous system.
Seriously, I'm so happy someone has done this. I would love it if the new saying was 'Column solves this'
Yeah OpenBSD and Nvidia are not a good combo. Even with Intel or AMD, check the docs to be sure your video hardware is supported.
I keep telling myself that one of these days, they'll migrate the cvs repo to git.
Similar boat minus the last part. Never had a Twitter, but I’ll join as paying member if Elon buys it.
better quality footage of launch: https://twitter.com/KomissarWhipla/status/151683933411201843...

photo in transit: https://t.me/rogozin_do/2437
is the "italic" style slanting deliberate and required?
Is this scenario something that can happen, or am I missing something?

An agent of Elons buys 15% of the stock triggering the poison pill.

The agent declares publicly he is not an agent, has no intention of selling the stock to Elon, has no business with him, etc - Essentially avoiding being lumped with Elon in the same group.

Does Elon now get to buy 85% of Twitter at a discount?
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Curious. How exactly do you reconcile the definition of fascism with your use of it?
It's 500 people on a tiny island demonstrating that 500 people don't need a government to function as a community. They say they can just make agreements between themselves, which is the purpose of the government, to solve that problem at scale. If one of them needs help I'm sure the rest of them would try to help, which is what wellfare is when millions of people are involved.

I'm guessing that if I go there and start a business dumping waste on the island (which would be very profitable for me, it is increasingly costly to get rid of waste in most countries because of the stringent regulations) the people there would have to learn what taxes and regulations are for.
The reason I approached this by chords instead of keys, is that I'm building an electronic instrument. [1] I can set it to play in any key before starting a song, but I'm trying to figure out how I should trigger chords (and what chords I will want to trigger) in the moment.

[1] demo: https://youtu.be/JWj3QP9wsCU
FWIW, I have found scandum's note on pdqsort in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=scandum
the official salary is $174k, but everyone knows the real money is in the kickbacks from your position of power
> Of course it’s the person with a German name parroting this lie

This sort of attack will get you banned here if you keep it up. Didn't we have to warn you about this just recently? Seriously not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: your track record is already beyond the line at which we'd normally ban an account. I'm not going to ban you this time because you've also posted good comments, but it's past time to correct this, so please do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31054808

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30928186

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30608897 (March 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30501710 (Feb 2022)
Academia is not blameless in restricting access to research.
The period between the Arab Spring and Jan, 2021, seems to argue otherwise, no?
Link to the cited paper, instead of a blurb written about the paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.2874
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/spe.28... (PDF)
FX send narrows it down, I think the Mackie ProFX6v3 and the Behringer Flow 8 should do the trick if you want small & cheap. Otherwise the Yamaha AG03/AG06 are decent too.
I was curious about the "largest train station in the world" claim. I figured there would be bigger ones by now in India, say, or China. Sure enough, there are different metrics by which different stations can claim to be the largest. Nagoya Station in Japan, for instance, is the largest in floor area. Shinjuku Station, also in Japan, is the busiest by daily traffic. The Gare Du Nord in Paris is the second busiest by this metric. Apparently Grand Central is the biggest in platform capacity.

Anyway, back to the point.
I think that the characterization of "free speech absolutist" is misleading and facile, and this is reinforced by the idea of testing it with "the most grotesque and offensive things". Very few people are absolutists who would favor a platform that allows everything - kiddy porn and snuff films included.

I think what Musk wants to see is the Overton Window opened up more than it is now, and that's not a bad thing.
It’s funny that Musk explains specifically why he is doing this - just like he always does - but people are so deeply cynical they don’t even realize they are ignoring it and coming up with more Machiavellian explanations.