skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But these points completely undermine the original OP - how can you blame media companies for pushing things that are "against our interests" when market forces overwhelmingly demonstrate that it's what we want?

If the media is showing these "alarmist" or "biased" stories, it's because it's what people want. People don't want honest journalism, otherwise C-SPAN would be the most popular outlet in America.

If you don't want media showing you clickbait and garbage, don't click on it. Simple as that.
Starting in 2018?
I would hope that a security engineer would keep up enough with news about security issues to be aware how easy it is to spoof numbers for calls and texts.
Ah, so it's a reputation/wealth-based thing. That makes sense.

By that logic though -- if you're a billionaire, could you try to buy every profitable company on borrowed money?

Eventually you'd make the money back and since you don't have to pay anything out of pocket, you effectively have $INFINITY dollars to bargain with.
He only owns a few percent and has limited cash to buy more.
Sounds like a good way to cut productivity in half!
The field of computer science is at best 180 years old, and the first compiler is a mere 70 years old. Based on the history of every other field of science it seems safe to assume that the majority of notable algorithms are still undiscovered.

And that's ignoring that "optimal" is a shifting target. What's optimal on a 1960s computer where RAM is as fast as registers may not be optimal on a modern CPU with instruction-level parallelism and RAM that's orders of magnitude slower than registers.
> I told him, the 2FA message literally says to never give this number out to anyone

He was 100% being scammed.
OK now I feel like I need a simulator of all possible eclipses by all possible planetary satellites.
I'm imagining this guy giving advice to someone that includes validating by caller id or something ... scary.
That's because current generation of hardware does not mandate secure boot on x86. I expect that will change once Windows 11 has had a few years to turn the majority of the computers secure-boot capable due to its hardware demands.
I appreciate that the OP calls out his bias towards bank mismanagement and "the system". Scammers (like this one) are using the stereotype to run their scams. Are bank systems often disjointed bureaucracies and less than stellar examples of best practices? Absolutely, but scams are so common now I believe it's time that we accept them as the default conclusion until proven otherwise.
> (including, with respect to the Margin Loan Facility a condition which requires that the borrower thereunder satisfy a maximum loan to value ratio of 20%, which is expected be satisfied by the contributions of a portion of Mr. Musk’s unencumbered shares in Tesla, Inc. to such borrower)

Musk is putting up some of his Tesla stock as collateral on the loans. The effect of this is pretty similar to if Musk had sold his Tesla stock and used the money to buy Twitter, but avoids some of the tax and regulatory consequences of doing that.
I don't understand how that's not financial fraud.
Sounds like Firestore from Firebase would be a good solution for you. It's a database that you can use with just a few lines of JavaScript.
Suggestion for blog-based social media
> You're talking about two different things, which gives credence to my point that 'interviewee doesn't know what they are asking'.

Your position is inconsistent and conceited. If you have actual points, you wouldn't resort to denigrating others.

Especially since you're moving the goal posts, your contribution to this thread is useless. You've swiftly gone from saying employees should scrounge info on funding rounds from the web to admitting employees need to be told info about outstanding equity and valuations.

I hope you're never in a position of hiring for a startup. Anyone with an attitude like yours would chase away quality candidates and only leave clueless rubes behind.

> You'll want to get a sense if the company is healthy, and even 'burn rate' isn't so much the right question, it's probably new customers.

This shows how incredibly uninformed you are. It's easy to acquire many customers by selling $1 for $0.50. It doesn't mean the business is healthy.
No, I do that too. But having seen how it comes out when I'm writing quickly to capture a thought, I can certainly respect the intent of the architectural method. Might try it out just for fun, even if my days of block-printing everything for the sake of it are long behind me.
I work with phishing content on a daily basis, ashamed to say I fell for a scam on a dating app once, but I was careful enough to use a burner credit card, cancelled it right away with no loss to myself. I don't think I can fend off a well planned scam or phish no matter how careful I am. At the end of the day I have to be a normal human being with predictable weaknesses and psychological vulnerabilities. Instead, I try to rely on security controls that don't rely on my psychological hardening.
Didn't Twitter already turn down his offer to buy them?
Doesn’t airplane mode also turn off the WiFi radio? Maybe it depends on the phone. But if it does, how can you use WhatsApp, etc.?
That may have been the case in the past, but today he's just a monster. He had his chance at statesmanship and royally messed it up and the sooner the mad dog is put down the better and then we have to hope that the next dog won't be madder. I wonder if we'll ever see a world where Russia plays nice and stays nice.
Do you provably own quarter of trillion USD of equities? This is exactly what the very stupid people never seem to understand about wealth - net worth is not cash under the mattress (nor on a "Savings" account). Musk (as well as Bezos, Dorsey, etc for that matter) probably has less than a hundredth of a promile of his wealth in cash.

One of the main reasons is that today's cash is in essence a rave-club bracelet - you need it for every day transacitons but as a store of value it is useless to harmful. The whole idea of today's currencies is for the financially illiterate people to get robbed of their savings. You don't become that wealthy by being that stupid.

Edit: I used billion instead of trillion, apologies
Congress, mostly.
Everyone in the US with a cell phone is getting inundated these days with spam texts and calls with fake caller ID. It's almost inconceivable that someone with an American cell phone wouldn't know that phone ID is a lie, which is I think where some of the incredulity from other commenters is coming from. But I believe the author is from the UK, where the spam situation might not be so dire?
I got a call from a bank and they said they wanted to verify my identity. I said, all due respect but you called me. I need to verify your identity. They sounded offended but told me how to continue the discussion when I called back. It was a legitimate call.

I was pretty annoyed that they didn't follow good identity practices by encouraging their customers to trust people who could be scamming them.
For essential services, the government should be paying competitive salaries with the private industry. Contracting rarely makes things cheaper due to all the grift and lack of persistent oversight.
Looks interesting! Do you plan to create an SDK? Or is interfacing with the HTTP API will be the best way to use the app for now?
Security is different from privacy. Dumb phones/feature phones or whatever you call it might not be Secure but they are PRIVATE. The phone application doesn't send everything to google/truecaller/xiaomi/whatever else and your USAGE is not tracked by anyone.
Yah I’m not doubting it is good in Cali, I’m just saying you need to include the opportunity cost if going that route.

I wish the break even was better further north for me.
It's not even that. When you buy a domain, it's not like you get control of the content it used to point to as well. There's nothing for OP to delete.
Another question I got on this. What do you do with merge conflicts between the branches? Do you then provide the system with patches for the merge conflicts somehow, so that it can resolve them as needed?

E.g. when merging A, B and C. C might have no conflict with master or A but it has a conflict with B. Now for the queuing to work A -> B -> C it will have to know somehow how to patch C to fit on top of B.

Maybe B breaks if it is not working after merged into A, and then the queue becomes A -> C -> B (modified), now B probably needs a patch to merge cleanly on C?
Also there are some theories that spiking mTor less frequently is better. Some interesting research being doing on sirtuins and their role in repair of systems as well, especially in a fasted state.
Who is "the company" in an economic system of infinite middlemen?

It would be an interesting way to drive a final stake into the heart of brick and mortar retail; if everything is shipped FROM China for nearly free but shipping TO China costs $25/pound then very rapidly the only way to buy anything will be AliExpress.

Remember, "take back" doesn't mean much. Accepts postal delivery? We already have infrastructure for that.
Ha, didn't track my AMZN stock since I thought they might go down to around 1k early in the pandemic to rebuy some. They never did. Well, trading sideways isn't too bad, so, considering how other tech stocks developed.
Businesses that hold a massive and unfair effective monopoly on communication and information are different from unremarkable coffee shops. And, furthermore, this is not an action that the business is going to take out of their own freewill, it's an action that you want to force on them by some mechanism of public rage, so it's not actually YouTube choosing who they do business with, it's YOU choosing for YouTube who they do business with, but masking it as YouTube's own decisions.

I don't get the obsession with removing dumb online stunts. I can understand calls for censoring violent crimes and even then you don't get to make this decision for other people, censoring unpleasant things doesn't make them go away.

But with dumb online posts the case just completely falls apart. "But he's going to benefit from this" ok so fucking what ? there's a whole class of people who do dumb, dangerous and harmful things for public approval and profit from it, they are called polliticans and celebrities. They routinely do unimaginabley stupid and outrageous things and profit from the publicity that comes with it. How is this any different, except that "online influencer" is a relatively new class of people unlike the other ones?

>There are some protected categories

Appealing to protected groups is the weakest argument you could ever make for "Businesses can censor whoever they like". Protected groups are arbitary and reflects lobbying and political considerations more than any moral truth. Why are some religious groups protected for instance? it's just a bunch of beliefs, they could be as wrong or as dumb as any other set of beliefs right ? they are not immutable characteristics of the people believing them. (not anymore than any other kind of beliefs)

My own personal opinion is that it's stupid to classify people as "Protected" or not, but rather any business that have reasonably-easy-to-find alternatives can do whatever the hell they like, refuse to serve customers based on skin color, gender, favorite programming language, you name it. As long as it's "easy" to find alternatives (by some objective standard the law defines, like "there's is a similar service within a 1-KM radius"), they can do whatever they like.

But for all other businesses who aren't so easy to replace, common sense morality says they should be EXTREMELY curtailed from censoring or denying *anyone* without a very good reason.

Alas, we don't live in my utopia and the laws of this time and place are extremely dumb and discriminating.
Elon Musk unveils $46bn bid for Twitter
No, I don't propose that Fedora not support EFI. I do propose that Red Hat use some of its parent company's clout to push hardware vendors in a more open direction.
It was apparently used to reconnect local cellular networks [1] to the Internet. In such a case, a single antenna scales better than if it is used by only one person. Still, the overall benefit was probably limited, otherwise we would have seen more reports about it.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/txh896/starlink_w...
Ah, how I wish I could go back to the days when I was as optimistic about the world we live in as you are
Trump and Gordon Gekko did this
Each new loan would have increased scrutiny due to the other loans you carry.
The hilarious thing about this is that China is at the same time cracking down hard on its own tech sector for reasons of domestic competition and concentration of power.

So on the one hand you have the country of freedom that must preserve its monopolistic structures and accept the lesser evil to fight the enemies abroad but the communist security state is busy... reigning their giants in?

Probably a good time to quote Sheldon Wolin who thought of the American system as 'inverted totalitarian'

"Inverted totalitarianism reverses things. It is all politics all of the time but politics largely untempered by the political. Party squabbles are occasionally on public display, and there is a frantic and continuous politics among factions of the party, interest groups, competing corporate powers, and rival media concerns. And there is, of course, the culminating moment of national elections when the attention of the nation is required to make a choice of personalities rather than a choice between alternatives. What is absent is the political, the commitment to finding where the common good lies amidst the welter of well-financed, highly organized, single-minded interests rabidly seeking governmental favors and overwhelming the practices of representative government and public administration by a sea of cash"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
Yeah, he definitely comes off as an ass in that thread of Tweets.
That depends on whether you like to see your metal objects glow in the dark.
And still doesn't realize it some time later? (I guess we don't know how much time later).

That would be stunning in it's own way! What a world.
Which other people would get those shares? Would that be considered taxable income for the recipients? If I were a regular shareholder and my shares were diluted without compensation, I'd be pissed...
What pisses me off to no end in Europe is that some banking systems require, in order to do a credit card payment, to provide the online bank account password and online bank account 2fa generated transaction code — requiring that both be entered as part of the payment process on any merchants website. It’s so goddamn stupid I can’t believe this exists. It’s so easy to fake this and use some sort of man in the middle attack to transfer all money away from an account. Plus it teaches ppl that it’s okay to enter one’s online banking credentials one-time generated transaction codes into random websites selling u random crap for 3€…

I don’t understand security researchers. Is it all just a bunch of hooey they sell or what?
Prime is breaking out of Amazon's walled garden to power third-party sites
What would be fraudulent about that? Companies issue & retire shares all the time, for lots of reasons.
It is too long-winded. Could the scam story be a scam itself?
Every browser have a brutalist mode. Just press CTRL+u to see the source code.
Being uninformed does not make one "very stupid".
You could try but it'd probably work out for you about as well as when the hunt brothers tried to buy up all the silver on earth.
It's not reputation based. Musk as requested secured enough loans to pay with cash. His ownership in SpaceX/Tesla is the collateral (as well as his Twitter shares if he buys them).

He has no "infinity" of anything. It's called leverage and it probably maxes out around 60-70% of everything he owns.
> What follows seems like Elon is "paying" for Twitter with... imaginary money.

The vast majority of money is "imaginary" in the sense that it's just liabilities on some bank's balance sheet, AKA bank deposits.

> Why can't anyone do this? I'll promise you a bunch of debt and equity, too.

Anyone can do this. Nothing is stopping you from writing me a note for $1,000,000 and me writing you a note for $1,000,000. This leaves us both a million richer in assets and a million poorer in liabilities. At that point even hinkier stuff can happen like me using your note as collateral on a loan to further expand my balance sheet. The tricky part is getting third parties to accept our IOUs. US Banks have no such trouble thanks to their membership in the Federal Reserve system. This is one major reason why a banking license is such a huge deal.
Yeah but they usually don't do it with the express purpose of screwing over an investor - and when they do, there are consequences (like FB).
According to Russia Russians protesting the war aren't really Russians either. But what Russia thinks is utterly irrelevant, it is no longer connected to objective reality.
Around 90% of wild fires are caused by humans. A few of the recent major fires (the Camp Fire being one of them) were caused by power lines. So there is definitely a major human-cause component here that can be addressed.

I am all for more prescribed burns, but the people in opposition to those burns aren't the people living in the most at-risk areas.
Nobody said he would buy more though
If we're relying on Big Tech for our national security, then we are truly screwed.
The financing is in 3 pools. If each could buy 14% and Musk increases his stake to 14% without triggering the poison pill, that’s 56% in total. If they had 56%, could they immediately gain control? This is getting interesting.
What sort of complete moron would consider the 2008 bank bailout (what I assume you're referring to) as a crime? How is TARP and the repurchasing of toxic bank assets for the stabilization of the US/global financial system, which was fully paid back to the taxpayer with interest, a crime? Unless you think we should've just let the financial system melt into oblivion?

It's this populist rhetoric of people being mad at shit they don't know anything about.
Free will is still a useful abstraction
As a college grad being hired as a CTO, I think it's important to note that you're really being hired as their first developer. Eventually you'll take on the role of technical lead, engineering manager, etc as they grow. But unless you're becoming a co-founder, I wouldn't consider yourself to really be in an executive role deserving executive compensation. You might grow into that, but more likely they'll hire somebody more experienced to replace you as the company grows, possibly keeping you but in a lower role.
Video and demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dejrBf9jW24

Talk: https://youtu.be/2DAlv8aw34Y
I wouldn't use your distros version of OpenJdk. If you want fast updates, you need to be using Azul or some other provider who is dedicated to it.
No, it is just "binance.com". I have seen others use this method of advertising, but in that case they seem to always send traffic to the home page or specific posts/pages. Probing sensitive endpoints like a malicious actor would seem like a strange approach.
It's only one datapoint, but at this very moment a server at work is using a notable amount of swap, 1.5 GiB to be more precise, while functioning perfectly normally.

$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 3.9Gi 1.7Gi 573Mi 180Mi 1.6Gi 1.7Gi
Swap: 4.0Gi 1.5Gi 2.5Gi
It's funny how some people think their signature must be legible, or the wonder if they have to include their middle initial just because the printed version of their name on some document does. I believe a signature can be just about any symbol (although hopefully more complex than the "X" which is legally acceptable) which the signer can reliably re-create.

"The traditional function of a signature is to permanently affix to a document a person's uniquely personal, undeniable self-identification as physical evidence of that person's personal witness and certification of the content of all, or a specified part, of the document."[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature
Sorry, I was responding to the claim that it was disrespectful to read what the previous owner had posted
The function is trying to get the median, which is not defined for an empty set. With this particular implementation, there is an assert for that:

https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun/blob/9b8d85/src/sho...

Unrelated, but from the same section:

> Fixes are trivial, access the nth element only after the call being made. Be careful.

Wouldn't the proper fix to do the nth_element for the larget element first (for those cases that don't do that already) and then adjust the end to be the begin + larger_n for the second nth_element call? Otherwise the second call will check [begin + larger_n, end) again for no reason at all.
When he requests debt from the banks he needs to show that his current owned assets are worth more than his current debt _and_ the new requested debt. They wouldn't loan the hypothetical billionaire infinity dollars, unless the billionaire has infinity dollars in assets that aren't offset by previous debt.
When people are still using kerosene lamps in many parts of the world, many people still being on CFL doesn't surprise me.
Agreed (@dang)
This comes with the assumption that oestrogen variations in humans will affect their sexuality. Being very active in the international trans community, I have witnessed humans with a wide array of oestrogens level and testosterone level.

For example, I know of trans women who maintain a pregnancy level of oestradiol, others who maintain themselves at post menopausal levels and some who do not take oestradiol at all.

Having an analytic mind and access to a huge population, I am always on the lookout for patterns. This is anecdotal but I have not noticed any pattern or relationship between sex hormone level and sexuality.

What I did notice is a relationship between libido and sex hormone levels. To me, that's what this study noticed in animals. I doubt this applies in humans. Contrary to animals, having a high libido will not mean that you will start sexual intercourse with every single mammal you can reach. There is a difference between animals having same sex intercourse and homosexuality in humans.
>It's about 20 years old

Back when Electrolux was a reputable brand.
Tesla has real physical value not like Twitter
Having the fortune of health/time/money is a privilege. Getting the license after meeting the requirements should automatically follow and not be at the whims of privilege.

I do get what you're saying, but there are people using "privilege not a right" literally to mean that someone gets to decide whether the person is worthy beyond some standard criteria.
You're going down a rabbit hole of emotions and stress you don't need in your life. Either

a) find a new domain without the attachments of this one OR

b) buy the domain and do what you want with it.

honestly, you're going to stress yourself out cause whatever you do is not going to be enough. there is a reason people leave emotion out of business.
> That family that was charmed to move to Vermont by the shops on Bank st will end up driving to the nearby big box store in Shelburne instead.

Frankly, I don't think this happens with any frequency.

The thing that makes Burlington so nice is how quiet, clean, and spacious it is. Nobody moves to Burlington expecting it to be NYC. If you try to make Burlington into NYC, you will ruin it.

People move to VT to be in nature. To be spread out. And it's a nice benefit that they can visit a cool, small city every once in a while.