skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is trying to take out a loan here as well. One of the letters included in the story is actually a margin loan commitment from morgan stanley. But that was for only 12.5 billion. This was all he could get against his shares.

It does seem low in comparison with the value of his shares, but banks are well aware of the self reinforcing negative spiral a margin call can have on a share price and will not give out massive margin loans.

My point is that even after he got the maximum loan he could get, and then got the maximum margin loan against his shares, he is still 21 billion short.
> Coming out of the 1940's, where fascism preyed on nostalgia and fear, brutalism brings forward a concept of the future that is both fearless and lacks nostalgia.

Ah, that explains why brutalist buildings look so much like all those concrete bunkers and flak towers that Germany built during the war. It all makes sense now.
Based on my limited experience with pre-revolution Egypt, the answer would be both. A large part of society was tip/bribe based, tourism in particular, and corruption or incompetence is pretty common. The political leadership was also elitist and formed in the image of the British colonial government they replaced.

The president of Egypt and others of that level were likely not more concerned with supporting street-level payoffs over maintaining Egyptian cultural purity. These were military dictators accustomed to commanding something and, more or less, that becoming reality. And they were deeply proud and protective of their cultural identity.
A Large Solar Storm Could Knock Out the Power Grid and the Internet
Aren't TCP and IP a series of tubes ? Asking for a friend.
Gloriously ironic
It does matter. A lot of people live in a bubble in which Twitter’s loudest voices are a reflection of the “common sense”. That is why so many governments monitor it.
Airplane, Multi-engine, Land.

IA seems to mean he is a flight instructor.
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's worth noting that the "4 chords of pop" observation reference in TFA (which is about how few chords you need to learn to be able to make songs) is a bit different than the 4-chord cycle progressions discussed in that Axis of Awesome video (which is about specifically using 4-chord-long progressions that repeat in a cycle) — but it is still a fun thing.

If you do enjoy that, be sure to check out Patricia Taxxon's video on the subject, which is a very worthwhile analysis of that idea. It might be my favorite youtube video in the music theory genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-XSTSnqXxo
In A harmonic minor the III is already a C, you can make it augmented but that is not very common. You generally change the v to a V and keep the VII diminished in both cases where as it is major in the natural minor.
Maybe you are thinking of the constitution of the Confederate states? The articles of confederation predate the civil war by almost 100 years.
I think you read the opposite of my intended message. I work with the best, and we take from, found, and give to all the best companies as well. It's a point of pride that we compete with them ( as a workplace) with much less pay. Fostering a highly technical workforce for the nation and helping commercial space is part of our mission.
What bothers me is that I would absolutely buy this if it was bigger and had 1/4" balanced or stereo TRRS inputs, I actually have a variety of input sources in my home office that gets dual use for work, gaming, and music. But to use this I would need to go XLR to 3.5mm (and no phantom power?) for my voice and amp mics, main out to a Y split 1/4 TRS for speakers, and 1/4" to 3.5mm for a synth. So my desk would be littered with annoying adaptors just to slim down the inputs to fit in those teeny jacks.

A built in channel strip that I can keep setup for my mic (gate, compressor, EQ), plus a metronome for practicing, easy connectivity to my tablet to record myself a bit? Absolutely worth it.

The synth part is a little dumb, but it's TE.
From Matt Levine:

"Musk can launch a tender offer to buy all of Twitter's stock for $54.20 in cash. (Or, of course, some higher number.) The tender offer is a public, binding document filed with the SEC, open to all shareholders, and it will be full of disclosures about his plans and, in particular, his financing. Shareholders will be able to read it and see if he has the money. If it looks like he does, then they will be able to decide if $54.20 is a good enough price. If they think it is, they will be able to tender into his offer, submitting their shares for purchase. He won’t be able to buy them, though, because of the poison pill; the tender offer will be contingent on getting rid of the pill. But if like 90% of shareholders tender into his offer, then that is an important public-relations victory; he can go to the board and say “your shareholders want this deal, let them take it.” And then the board might agree and get rid of the pill, and then the tender offer can close and he can buy the shares."
You don't 'need the lights on.' I have lived in multiple third world countries where outages happen regularly if you have electricity at all. This is a failure of customers to adequately prepare and instead playing the victim because of their failures. People knew for years Texas grid was vulnerable, and it's an exquisite display of Darwin Award for those who didn't prepare for it.

Only a moron doesn't keep some sort of off-grid combustibles and cold weather gear on hand, even if you live in the most southern edge of our nation. The customer is to blame for paying, not capitalism.
That makes one vote, unfortunately, it doesn't matter.

The set of people who vote on tech issues is dwarfed by the set of people who vote based on what "team" the candidate is on. That's simple reality, and it's not changing anytime soon.

If we want real change, we'll have to start paying the large "campaign contributions" that the organizations on the other side pay. It's a horrible thing to say, but that's how the system works.
Brewed yaupon can be more accurately called a tisane, since "tea" describes the infusion of the camellia sinensis plant.
One big difference is that you are constantly paying property taxes on the house, levied as a proportion of its total value, making the mere ownership of it a financial burden. Stock ownership comes with no such burden.

Another is that, should the need arise, stock can be sold at the drop of a hat. It is liquid and fungible so a stock-collateralized loan is seen by banks to be a very safe investment. Houses are not.
I feel like I know this story plot ...
I don't think Musk is the guy that cares about making more money with a business. 20 years ago anybody would have told you that the odds of being successful starting an electric car company or a rocket company are 0.

With Twitter all he seems to care about is the idea, the name, the userbase and some of the technology. I don't think turning $45b into $100b is a top priority, there are easier ways doing that.
The Birth of Tcl
This is what I was referring to. Sure there are infinite other sites but Twitter is where it is being broken and where majority of all the journalists live. It is currently the site with status and clout for important news. Will that change? Always possible but it is the site du jour.
Whataboutism is a logical fallacy and doesn’t address the argument at hand
> Status is his drug of choice

Couldn't he have more noble causes in mind like trying to do the right thing for humanity (e.g. Tesla, SpaceX)? Social media is a cesspool right now, they seem to have a negative impact on democracy and humanity in general, and public social media companies have no incentive to clean themselves up because that will hurt shareholder value in the short term. Buying the company and taking it private will give him the ability to make those hard choices and try to make a social media company that is positive for humanity.
He made an offer in modest excess of the book value for a company that is probably overvalued to begin with. He knows this. The board knows this. Every investor with half a brain knows this.

It makes it impossible for the board to say no without having a good reason. They have a fiduciary duty to examine the offer and determine if it is best for shareholders to cash out at this price. And the answer to that is it probably is because Twitter has never had a good path to long term profitability.

So yes, he is having a laugh. I am sure if they agree he will find the money. He just doesn’t care. He sees a poorly run company that is making decisions against his freedom of speech ethos. It is an easy target.
What about volume? Grand Central has a high ceiling.
Well, goodness. They appear to have reinvented the Baconian cipher. Only what, 417 years late?
> There's nothing inherently Microsoft related about secure boot,

Microsoft is the root of trust for ~100% of OEM secure boot implementations.

Theoretically, you can implement Secure Boot with an alternative root of trust... but you'd have to get the OEMs on board... to the tune of many millions of dollars. Per OEM.

The only alternative is to get users to install their own keys, which is fiddly and technical.

Therefore, for all intents and purposes, Linux on the desktop is only a thing at all because Microsoft deigns to allow it for the time being.
Also irrelevant to the conversation.
The intersection point between simple and useful is this:

- Firmware understands some sort of minimal filesystem and how to talk to a device containing it.

- Firmware has a configuration store that holds a few variables and a device tree.

- Firmware has the ability to load binary images into RAM from the minimal filesystem above.

- On boot, configuration is checked, the kernel and initrd are binary-loaded into RAM, and the firmware jumps to the kernel with a pointer to the commandline, initrd, and device tree.

U-Boot more or less does this and it's beautiful. The bootloader loads your OS and then gets out of the way. No multistage crap or overengineered firmware interfaces.
There's no wrong way to play, but savescumming makes it a different kind of game!

Sadly the AIs (nethackchallenge.com) are not yet good enough to show us what closer to optimal play looks like.
React Native really only describes the UI aspect of the application. The backend code that is needed to access the native device API isn’t exactly the same, and accessing things like a camera aren’t straight forward across all devices. Although you can wrap these methods in interfaces and swap them out across devices, it usually takes an engineer with a good understanding of either android or iOS. This is the reason most people start with only Android, iOS, or Windows first, and the reason large companies have dedicated teams for each platform.
Oh, okay, a funny story about fraud ;).
> 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...

I'm guessing that would be some kind of fraud or at least a securities law violation.
https://moviecode.tumblr.com/
Whatever all this stuff is does look good, but the website doesn't do a good job of explaining what it is, IMO. I know this is because I'm not their target market, but maybe they'd bring me into that market if they did a bit of explaining somewhere on the site of why I might be interested in their gear?
Looks like their alternative data is actually fairly limited. From what I see it's showing off Similarweb page visits here (or some comparable product), Google Trends and scraped job listing metrics. Everything else is just regular financials you'd get from a 10Q.

This is nowhere near the level of alternative data institutional players have, which costs mid-six figures to low-seven figures per major dataset.
Absolutely brilliant!

On a side note, I must wonder about the semiconductor properties of these and other crystals -- could they be made into transistors or IC's like Silicon is?

Could they have any potential future use in 3D printed electronics?

Well, I don't know what the answers to those questions are, or will be -- but it's something I like to think about...

Anyway, the crystals are absolutely beautiful!

Great article!
He wants Twitter as a media asset. Twitter is the new public square. Controlling it means power.
No matter how many years pass, downloading something from SourceForge feels like downloading a sketchy patched executable from a eastern european forum or a game mod from some community managed website.
Let's just cut the bullshit and use sortition for governance.
Totally agree on the ability to vent or show weakness.

Your therapist is the only person you know with no agenda
Matthew left Red Hat 10 years ago. If you're going to "full disclosure" people, you should probably do a better job with the details.
Musk is not supportive of free speech worldwide. Only in the US and Canada, where he knows he can get away with it.
> They should be sentenced to a 15+ year old computer

I bought my computer about 15 years ago, with what at the time was a pretty beefy setup. I still use it for my everyday work because, as it turns out, you don't need much more than 4Gb of RAM to surf the internet.

Due to buggy UEFI support, I cannot reinstall Windows 10 on that PC. If Linux stopped supporting Bios, I'd have to throw it away. But more importantly, this computer has better performance than the computers of many of my relatives in South America.

I wish every developer in the first world had to explain at least once to their nieces that no, Roblox will not work on their Chinese Android tablet with 1Gb of RAM.
sample size of 1, but I'd say 25% of the time I'm downloading a binary release from github, as I don't want to spend the time setting up a specific environment just to compile xyz. I just want the tool/app as a consumer. The other 75% is code I want to incorporate into some project I'm working on as a developer.
Which windows package managers build from source? I thought they were all binary package managers.
I hope everyone has been following along with Matt Levine's excellent newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-20/elon-c...

> This leaves Musk two main options. One is to negotiate with Twitter’s board and try to strike a friendly deal. This might be hard because the board probably wants more money than Musk is willing to pay, and also because there seem to be strategic and personal disagreements between Musk and the board that might make friendly negotiations difficult. “I am not playing the back-and-forth game,” Musk said in his initial proposal; “I have moved straight to the end.” That’s an annoying way to start negotiations.

> His other option is to pressure the board into dropping the pill, and the classic way to do that is with a tender offer plus a proxy fight

>I guess Musk has a third option, which is to do nothing and tweet mean things about Twitter’s board. Honestly a totally respectable option; $40 billion is a lot of money, owning Twitter seems exhausting, and Musk does have several other full-time jobs. A fourth option would be “buy a lot of stock, trigger the poison pill, and unleash absolute mayhem,” which is not totally impossible given that it is Elon Musk.
because selling another $21b of tesla would indicate he has found other more interesting things to do.
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The latest alpha (Canary) build of Discord for Android uses React Native[0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/u4kn2k/alpha_12...
React Native and Flutter is fine if you want to do information app (backed by a backend for most of the work), but as soon as you want to tap into the native capabilities of the device, the difference can become too much. Those toolkits rely on being able to find a common ground between the two ecosystems, and sometimes that can be a hindrance.
I don't. I work in municipal government and if anything the firewall is greater here than it is the private sector because we know all the rules. We handle citizen data in all sort of ways and the police don't get automatic access to it just because we share a boss. There are plenty of good reasons to question who handles your data and how in government, but assuming that they are in league with the police is not one of them.
I do not understand why congresspeople are working on anything but housing right now. Literally zero citizens asked for this.
Depending on your definition, the US already has a digital currency.
Don't people do that all the time and sometimes fail and sometimes succeed? Isn't this why we have competitive products and competing price points for most things?
Maybe do something fancy like X1 and offer a metal card?
CNN+ will shut down at the end of April
> And to the commenters claiming graphology is a thing or that it is in any way useful in sorting candidates for job opportunities

It is useful, just not in a way that many people find acceptable. It is a marker of a particular sort of "elite" education. Your comment that this surfaces a "bunch of rich, but likely average-intelligence" people is true, but it misses the point. It's not meant to reveal intelligence, but whether a person is "one of us" — the right sort, a safe pair a hands, a sound fellow, etc. The decision-makers care much less about intelligence than whether they can be trusted to "do the right thing," which is whatever maintains elites in their position—exactly what these people have been brought up to do by their parents and educated to do by elite institutions.
EU plan for common worldwide phone charger port takes step closer
This is amazing.
Good work!
Never heard of this before now but it looks really fun. Somehow I can't help thinking that just a dash of color might have made it more interesting. But it seems like it keeps things simple. $180 seems really steep for this but they have some kind of hipster edge here. I'm not even completely turned off for $180 for this lo-fi unit.

Since it's called 'playdate' and since it looks kinda retro -- a cable to play head-to-head games like the original Nintendo GameBoy did would be pretty cool.
That's not the Vancouver draft plan map. The draft map plan had no single detached home area at all
> The board can argue that they believe that Musk will run Twitter into the ground

They can’t argue that because it would be completely irrelevant to current shareholders.

They can argue that the long term value is higher than Musk's offer.
I wonder what he would make of _I Am The Walrus_, which uses every note-named major chord (A, B, C, D, E, F and G major).
https://archive.ph/ZEXvF
Something akin to it is common, and the SEC may even require "large shareholders" to file when they've encumbered their shares, but I don't know the details.
> Social media is a cesspool right now, they seem to have a negative impact on democracy and humanity in general, and public social media companies have no incentive to clean themselves up because that will hurt shareholder value in the short term. Buying the company and taking it private will give him the ability to make those hard choices and try to make a social media company that is positive for humanity.

AFAIK, his publicly-stated plan is to not "clean [Twitter] up," but rather turn it into more of an un-moderated cesspool.
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Music theory can get pretty wild, yeah. The main difference to me when comparing it to (for example) physics theory is that it's usually an aesthetic pursuit. As in, studying physics has the end goal of understanding how the universe works, but theorizing about music involves the aesthetic value of the sound -- why and how something "works" (or doesn't), what feelings or emotions are evoked by certain types of sound, and how to apply this to composing new music, or understanding existing music.
Exactly. There are a lot of things to critize about Musk - but it's also undeniable that he has done very impressive and useful things. Lately, dunking on his every move has become somewhat of a folk's sport (or easy clicks for "journalists").
> Do we really want these platforms to have so much unaccountable control over the discourse?

Funny how this is suddenly a problem when Elon tries to buy. I agree in principle, but the bias on display is overwhelming.
CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after launching
The Shitbidder in Chief strikes again!

When will people get tired of his stale shitposts and shenanigans?!

Get a hobby, Elon and seriously consider cutting on Twitter usage, it's frying your brain.
Not to blow the "our government is broken" trumpet too hard, but this is exactly the way the FCC works as well. They instead bring on consultants; the FTEs are lawyers and policy makers.
He could but he doesn't, because he is a narcissist
Unfortunately? How do you expect Ukraine to win without help?
Three chords and the truth. Usually attributed to Harlan Howard [1], an early country music songwriter. A lot of early country music sticks to just I, IV, and V.

[1]: (PDF) https://countrymusichalloffame.org/content/uploads/2019/05/W...
musk buying twitter is not like throwing money into an incinerator

So if the stock price stays above $50 he has not lost any money
It's the algorithm that has helped normalize them by promoting them to a wider audience because they maximize engagement.
> teach someone to get phished and they're phished for the rest of their life

This is a keeper.
Hackerrank filed a DMCA notice against my blog because of a graph search example I had a written and I had 24 hours to full delete it or my blog would be deleted.

As an individual this is so frustrating and if you mission is to support developers Vivek, I'm one developer that had quite the opposite experience.

I frankly am very frustrated by your company and you hiring folks to shakedown developers writing poen blogs or docs. If any company tries to get me to do a hackerrank interview to join I'm going to decline.

https://ravinkumar.com/
Likewise, if someone can’t handle basic things like having empathy there is good chance the rest of their life isn’t all that great. And even being around someone like this can have severe consequences.
Also, FWIW, the anti-pattern (shanghai skyline) is the central business district of one of the most populated cities on earth (30+ million people). It wouldn't make sense to propose buildings anywhere that scale anywhere but a handful of very rich cities.

Even in Shanghai there's plenty of neighborhoods full of life at a human-appropriate scale. Just not at city center.
That's wouldn't really be possible. You'd have to have audio equipment to be interested in an audio interface. Trying to sell outside that market doesn't really make sense.

It would be like trying to convince someone without a camera to buy your camera lens.
Anarcocapitalist and Libertarian frameworks can still have methods of dealing with such problems. At best they have laws, contracts, and private police and you would be sued. At worst, they might shoot you.
Can confirm. In general, Death Valley has no signal. However, when my wife and I biked from saline valley to racetrack valley up the Lippincott road, we kept finding little spots of reasonably strong cell signal - enough that we were able to wait here: 8584JCR4+6C and get enough signal to download a new audiobook.

Our whole time left in DV, we never found any other reliably strong signal.
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