skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, this is the route that literally every popular social media platform goes through if they want to make money. Having an 'absolutist' stance on free speech is only tenable at smaller scales. As your platform scales up and more people join, so does the amount of people posting things that are borderline illegal, chase off advertisers/other users and so forth.

There's a reason why none of the other purported full free speech platforms ever taking off and it's because they end up so odious that advertisers never go near them and the userbase stalls out. Personally I think most of the people that believe full freedom of speech is possible have never been a moderator of even a small social media platform. If you have two users and one of them is harassing, stalking etc another user you eventually have to make a decision which of the two you want to keep around, and it inevitably involves you censoring one of them.
I can see how this would have helped in this case.

As I see it, the distributions are mostly relying on the upstream provisioning of the openJDK project. So if they fix this issue, it shouldn't take long until we see updated packages in all major distributions. This might be a problem specific to the openJDK build process, so a different package source would help in that case.

But as mentioned above, Azul usually doesn't provide out-of-cycle critical fixes without a paid plan. And most people will still use whatever the distribution provides - so this is still an issue regardless of alternative package sources.

And since I assume that many or most running JDK instances actually are coming from the distributions repository rather than an alternative source, and there is literally no outcry regarding the missing packages whatsoever - I fear that there are a lot of vulnerable software systems of people not knowing about it right now.
For Russian tech firms, Putin’s crackdown ended their global ambitions
Linux, x86_64. Getting the same behavior across distros and installations.
Pirate sites like library genesis and schihub are the best thing that happened to academic publishing since the death of libraries.
Where is the integration with the crypto networks? My crypto is programmable and I would love to see my bank have an api as well.
I'm amused how Youtubers sometimes greatly misunderstand their audience.

Stage a fake argument, yeah you'll get away with that.

Stage a plane crash? Every pilot and non pilot is going to be all over your video.
This is a good analogy, but for it to apply to this situation, the house would have to be on property that has oil or lithium deposits. Once you have the property, it pays for itself, like the profits from Twitter would in this case.

If it ends up not being profitable, the bank takes back the house (or Twitter, or more likely the TSLA stock Elon put up as collateral)
So if this has already been exploited in the wild, there'd be no way to ever know, right?
That's true, if his intent is to take it private, he could run it into the ground on purpose.

Hell, maybe that's his intent. What if it turns out that rather than being a free speech absolutist, he thinks social media is destroying the world and the best way to solve that is to crush it out of existence, starting with Twitter.

That wouldn't work, of course, but it would be entertaining.
Not quite. Windows Home automatically enables disk encryption if you sign in with a Microsoft account (and the device has a TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot). But yes, full BitLocker functionality, such as setting up alternative decryption methods (e.g. requiring a PIN or usb key), is only available on Windows Pro and higher.
According to the link:

> The Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States, Belgium, Denmark, and Ireland allow some form of the deduction.

That's six out of roughly 195 countries in the world. Perhaps you live in one of them, but billions don't.
This is where the weird negativity around billionaires taking loans is odd, even as someone who doesn't particularly like Musk. Sure, if their stock holdings keeps increasing in value, they can handle the loans easily and come out ahead on the deal. But that isn't a given, so what is the issue?

Reed Hastings would currently being losing a lot under this scheme.
Sorry but this is just your example being horribly misgenerated/some gamma being applied twice, maybe even thrice. Here is what I generated:

sRGB: https://i.imgur.com/dbn3TM6.png
Lab (linear): https://i.imgur.com/dCXzbF3.png

Please download the images and view in a proper image viewer. For some reason at least on my Windows machine Google Chrome adds horrible color banding to both images.

This is my code:

import imageio
import numpy as np
import colour

quantize_with_dither = lambda im: np.clip(im * (2**8-1) + np.random.uniform(size=im.shape), 0, 2**8-1).astype(np.uint8)

srgb_black = [0, 0, 0]
srgb_white = [1, 1, 1]
srgb_grad = np.linspace(srgb_black, srgb_white, 500) * np.ones((200, 1, 3))
imageio.imwrite("srgb.tif", quantize_with_dither(srgb_grad))

lab_black = colour.XYZ_to_Lab(colour.sRGB_to_XYZ(srgb_black))
lab_white = colour.XYZ_to_Lab(colour.sRGB_to_XYZ(srgb_white))
lab_grad = np.linspace(lab_black, lab_white, 500) * np.ones((200, 1, 3))
lab_grad_in_srgb = colour.XYZ_to_sRGB(colour.Lab_to_XYZ(lab_grad))
imageio.imwrite("lab.tif", quantize_with_dither(lab_grad_in_srgb))

I didn't trust imageio's correct handling of gamma/colorspaces so I just wrote out the raw sRGB coefficients as 8-bit TIFF and used imagemagick to convert to PNG, telling it that the input is in sRGB:

magick convert lab.tif -set colorspace sRGB -depth 8 lab.png
magick convert srgb.tif -set colorspace sRGB -depth 8 srgb.png
This makes no sense.

Must be taking cues from Australia in stupid ways to prevent the best players from playing.
They do. That's why they have a policy that you're not allowed to borrow more more than 25% the value of the stock

> Tesla has a policy in place of letting directors and officers only borrow up to 25% of the value of their stock. And Elon Musk has already pledged about 88 million shares against indebtedness, according to Tesla's 2021 proxy filing. That leaves him with only another 85 million shares to raise debt with.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-twitter...
The effect is still visible when viewing them with one eye.
Is it easy to use?
Looks a bit like their cancelled take on Kanye West's stem player (https://imgur.com/a/ECehY1T), especially those faders on the front.
Correct. No one can deal with all that shit. But it's distributed. You can ignore most of it, or all of it if you want. There are plenty of us autists to overwhelm it.

Sending Flat Earthers off to their own dark corner is how they become entrenched. Leave them in the public square, in broad daylight, so they are exposed to evidence to the contrary. That's how you defeat bad ideas over time.
Surely some identify as yuppies but I think that's immaterial here. Yuppie isn't a slur. It's a colloquial expression for a set of demographics.

You know what's divisive and not productive? Drive-by low effort comments quoting the guidelines and projecting offense on other's behalf.
What about the opposite direction of influence?

Its much more interesting i think because in the end, its a game of who remains in power, the public domain (government, theoretically) or the private domain (large Corp). The Chinese CP decived to crack down on to-big-to-fail, where as we in the west ...
Why would the rulemakers make rules for themselves...
Who is running it now? A Saudi prince and a bunch of other tech oligarchs? Why would Elon be worse than that? How is twitter a democracy now? Did you cry this much when Bezos (the then richest person) bought the Washington Post?

Isn't the fact that twitter is NOT part of our democracy the crying call of the left? "It's not censorship because it's a private company and they can do what they want (as long as they only censor anything I don't agree with)!"

Oh NO, Elon might make twitter a free speech platform where differing views can be expressed!
why don’t the platforms blow up? you’d think if these people are banned based on ideological issues only they would accumulate and thrive on these new platforms
I have such mixed feelings about snap. Logistically it's pretty despicable, and I've heard no shortage of horror stories about shops getting footed a bill for fairly innocuous usage of it. At the same time though, it's probably the best sandboxed app delivery system we have. It literally "just works" wherever I use it. I refuse to install it on any of my personal systems (for much the same reasons I'll never use Flatpak), but my experience with it during both desktop and server use has been... nearly flawless. The only time I've had issues is when a download stalls out and I need to refresh the daemon. Besides that, it's frustratingly good.

I'll take a native package any day of the week, but snap is annoyingly competent at what it does. Particularly for server use: it almost scares me how little I notice the seams...
Some key grafs:

> In 2016 and 2019, Ms. Sandberg contacted the digital edition of the Daily Mail, which was reporting on a story that would have revealed the existence of a temporary restraining order against Mr. Kotick that had been obtained by a former girlfriend in 2014, according to people involved in the article and the campaigns to stop its publication.

> Working with a team that included Facebook and Activision employees as well as paid outside advisers, Ms. Sandberg and Mr. Kotick developed a strategy to persuade the Daily Mail not to report on the restraining order, first when they began dating in 2016 and again around the time they were breaking up in 2019, the people said. Among other concerns, Ms. Sandberg’s legal and public-relations advisers, both inside and outside Facebook, worried that a story would reflect negatively on her reputation as an advocate for women.

> Facebook recently started a review of Ms. Sandberg’s actions and whether she violated the company’s rules, according to people close to her and to Mr. Kotick. The review started after The Wall Street Journal began reporting on the incidents late last year, those people said.

> ...There are conflicting accounts about what Ms. Sandberg said and whether she directly invoked Facebook in her communications with the Mail. Mr. Kotick has told people that Ms. Sandberg threatened the Mail in 2016 by saying that such an article, if published, could damage the news organization’s business relationship with Facebook, according to people familiar with his comments.

> ...People who worked closely with Ms. Sandberg at the time said a direct threat would have been out of character, but that even a phone call from her would have likely been viewed with alarm given Facebook’s influence in the news business. Some executives inside Facebook assert that any intervention by Ms. Sandberg over a news article, no matter her specific words, could well be perceived as a threat, given the social-media giant’s power over web traffic and Ms. Sandberg’s power and influence, according to people with knowledge of these incidents.*
A margin loan is just a loan where securities are the collateral asset.

The major feature of a margin loan versus other types of loans collateralized by assets is that the value of the underlying security (collateral) is tracked and depending on the terms of the margin loan, the lender has the right to issue a "margin call" demanding additional collateral or cash if the underlying securities have declined in value. These rules, called "house requirements," vary from lender to lender.
I know I'm replying to a 2 day old comment now, but I should add that I understand there may be a benefit to using a URL expanding service, in that the connection is not made from your host, so the various endpoints of your URLs won't see your IP address, etc. But the single URL expanding service will see all the URLs you expand and your IP address, etc., so you should trust it as much as any VPN service or ISP. That is to say, you should not trust it at all, until given numerous legal, technical, and reputational guarantees or assurances.
I created an account just to check it out and the signup and initial setup flow is very well done. Nice work.
A physician only impacts the limited patients they see where a developer can impact millions and a team leader can impact many developers who impact millions.

Using common logic we see in the field on why ic should be paid lower than team leaders.
Plus... he has yet to be charged with, let alone convicted of, a crime?
This is also something strange, Musk talks about opening the algorithm but hasn't, as far as I can tell, talked about opening the datasets, models, etc that the algorithm depends on which makes it a bit less useful then it could be. He knows this from his work with Tesla so the lack of clarity is strange to me.
Private companies can still issue RSUs and have internal liquidity events for shareholders.
Is there anything TSLA shareholders might try to protect themselves from this eventuality?

Any sort of hedging strategies we can expect a lot of money to flow into?
I'm assuming they sell just enough stock to pay the interest.

If the interest paid is tax deductible, then the selling of the stock won't result in a tax needing to be paid.
He's said time and time again it's not about the economics.

It's hard to put a price on the propaganda machine and it's network effect.

It's not really about making money with Twitter.

- edit -

@McLaren_Ferrari: I disagree it's a misguided purchase, it makes sense to me from his stated goals.

But maybe you can sell the world's richest man your financial consultant nightclub analogy and save everyone.
https://superuser.com/questions/1517665/laptop-battery-not-c... batteries that go through long periods of disuse often have problems, I would suppose that companies that do not mention this edge case aren't as conscientious as those that do.
That's pretty hilarious, but I think saying offensive things (and offending people at their expense) to own Elon really is some derangement. I am assuming this is a joke.

I don't get why people are so worked up about this. If you see Twitter, as Elon and millions of other people do, as the "public digital town hall", it is not unreasonable to verify people's identities and let them comment whatever they want so long it is legal.

It does not mean that you or anyone have to subscribe or listen to their crap.

If you don't see it that way, do people really not understand how others see that as gatekeeping, controlling, or dangerous? What is the purpose of Twitter than to you - basically television? To tune in and tune out?

Then, open source the algorithms. Do the same people really not want to know why Twitter chose to show you X information? Wild.
Ask HN: Which venture studios have succeeded (and why)?
The venture studio/incubator model (i.e. partners invest time and money to create spin-out NewCos) has been around for ages.

Idealab has been prolific and successful over the past 26 years, but from cursory web searching it seems like there are many other venture studios who are less well known.

Other than Idealab, who is succeeding at spinning out companies that go on to thrive?
Cash is not a store of value, it's a mechanism of exchange. It never has been a store of value.

It's supposed to be safe but if it has zero risk, then it has zero return.

Inflation is a bit like maintaining the pressure in the pipe of the flow of money.

Inflation also has the effect of discounting debt, which means it is good for borrowers, not lenders. Most people are borrowers, in terms of things like house mortgages and other debts. That's a good thing, but you also don't want wages to have to grow too fast with prices.
I don't really see much of this as brutalism. Fully opaque drop shadows just don't make any sense; a brutalist design wouldn't have drop shadows.

For me, the ideal UI brutalism would be black-and-white Macintosh System 6. For web brutalism, I'd generally consider "as little styling as possible; keep close to browser defaults with the changes you need for usability and readability".
Chiming in for HiDPI displays, I have a global 125% scale, so I had to zoom out the browser to 80% to get 1:1 on the rendered images.
Sure, but those kinds of deals are rare, especially absent corruption.

A cursory Wikipedia search shows the baseball team owner referenced above put up significant real estate as collateral.
At one point I wanted to be a UX designer. I'm glad I didn't go that route. If only the focus was on research-backed timeless designs instead of chasing the latest trends.
Lol how many $100B+ market cap businesses decline 60%+ in 6 months? Parent's point is that this is unheard of for an established player and makes stability of FAANG look really bad.
exactly! the gist of it is that they need people from the “other camp” and they need to get into shouting matches to feel like they matter and their crackpot ideas are valuable.
That's the "ill-conceived DevShare" mentioned. From the paper:

> While DevShare was an opt-in service, some projects complained that SourceForge bundled third-party adware in their downloads without their consent.25 Ads were added to project download pages with fake download buttons to trick users into clicking on the ad. Often, clicking on these ads resulted in the download of adware.

> Management focused on ROI; SourceForge was expensive to run and did not have a plan to bring in revenue. This led to the introduction of DevShare, but since management did not understand the open source ethos and the development team was not included in management decisions, DevShare was a major failure. It prioritized ROI over trust and bundled adware with project downloads. Many projects started leaving SourceForge, citing DevShare as a main reason.
Elon Musk Wants Free Speech at Twitter After Years Silencing Critics
why not?

I feel Elon Musk could literally mint NFT of his face and sell them to raise the cash
> If you are stock-rich and you can buy stuff on the collateral for that: normal people can't really do that. Ordinary people have a much harder time buying more stuff than they have the cash for. Or at least on worse terms when they do take out a loan. Being rich is cheaper than being poor. Is it really so awful to change that?

What you are talking about is reputation and it will always be a part of the dynamic. It happens at the poverty level too. In any poor community there are people you trust and people you don't.
workED for Red Hat, per wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Garrett

Right now at Aurora
Wierd the page linked in your discussion has no mention of running in qemu, iBlock and gaming updates. Perhaps they aren't duplicate?

Also, if you're worried about running out of things on the front page, check out the "more" link at the bottom and the "new" link at the top of the page!
A fun test of Musk's commitment to free speech I guess!
confirmed - I foolishly did not include this check, PR sent for the fix, thanks again for mentioning!
"I think it would be fun to run a newspaper." - Citizen Kane
Yes, all the downside falls on the lenders because that's how investing money works. If you can get someone to loan you hundreds of millions, you should (in a purely economic sense) take it because all you can lose is everything you have.
I mentioned that, yes. It's also problematic, particularly on HDD systems. (SSDs are fast enough that it's mostly okay.) This is why I said "Linux's low memory handling is deeply flawed" rather than just "turning off swap fixes everything".
Can't resist mentioning that old joke : "A pop guitarist plays five chords for ten thousand people, a jazz guitarist plays ten thousand chords for five people"
TradingView does not have data like we have. Lets check it.
I think Tesla is extremely overvalued, very curious to see how it plays out
Depends entirely on the situation. If a ten minute hike uphill gives you the ability to make a phone call, it's a pretty reasonable first step.
Wait, What does YATTSOARYO stand for? /s
I'd like to see this thinking applied to John Coltrane's Giant Steps:

https://perfectauthenticcadence.blogspot.com/2016/01/analyzi...

> "By creating this system of cyclical patterns, Coltrane changed the language of jazz and broke the mold of ordinary jazz harmonic progressions in jazz history. (Wernick 23). The use of “Coltrane changes” is still used by jazz composers today, and has become one of the most influential jazz compositional techniques of the last half-century."
Interesting! If Qualcomm means actually WiFI chips from Atheros this could mean good WiFi and good Linux drivers. Atheros has a good reputation, it is just Qualcomms ARM and GPUs drivers which are problem.
In what way is the content awful? I had a subscription 4-5 years ago that I cancelled due to very bad client support, but the content was quite decent. All I hear from people that still have Netflix is that the content is bad, when I ask in what way most people tell it turned very political/PC. One of the most viral pictures in my area a few weeks ago was photoshopped movie poster "A Netflix original" with "Zelens'kjy" as movie name and a black guy with a M16 as the main character. Is this a thing?
How the Great Grief Led to the Great Resignation
For clarity, this post was more creative writing exercise than technical treatise.
The Senate is an anachronism that needs to be disbanded.
Computer Science is neither a science, nor is it about computers. It is an awful name. Computational mathematics would be significantly better.

The worst part is that most people pursuing a computer science degree actually want to learn about software engineering, so most curricula nowadays disappoint both the people that want to become software engineers ("why do I have to learn about formal grammar automata") and those that want to become computational mathematicians ("why do I have to do a course on agile?").
“What is the point of fuck you money if you don’t get to say fuck you?” is the turn of phrase I believe. (Or in the case of Musk, meme lord when you’re not on the factory/star base floor)

Wealth has diminishing returns; he’s just trying to get more value for his exceptional personal wealth (and remember, he plans on dying on Mars, he’s playing a different game than typical billionaires). Status is his drug of choice, Twitter his platform. If you crave validation (Biden admin not mentioning him until recently, people buying ads in time square “say their [Tesla] name”), buy it if it isn’t given freely.

(observations as someone with years of therapy and a scholar of the human psyche)
> You are writing based on the spoken word ... an example

That is intentionally didascalic for the intentional expression of clarity, and it is enclosed in quotes, which do denote a switch. It intentionally describes a process in blocks.

> your posts, which will set off

My dear friend, do you realize that when something is labelled through «common characteristic[s]», that would be the shallow labelling that a machine does? And it is not even Bayesian, because important amounts of texts are written in a way similar to that in which I write - machine learning itself mocks human learning after all. "Maybe" it would be important in this time and age for information accessors to realize that either they put themselves seriously into understanding expressions - or, if they have to break a guinness world record of processed text per time unit (cpr.: "Spedread War and Peace, 'ts about Napoleon in the east"), the one serious approach is to then renounce actual judgement - do it properly or act consequently, knowing that you stopped before the threshold. After all, there are machines for preprocessing - and really they cannot but guess on normalspeak because they are stupid: if you are really intelligent, it's your job to use it (and a duty - "use it or lose it").

You should see even more the absurdity.

Again - the point is very important: rushed prejudice-like labelling ("Cialis - spam") is not appropriate, it's machine-level, and a sign of decadence.