skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They then elect a board of people who will approve whatever they want.

As others have mentioned, Twitter has a staggered board, meaning not all board members are up for election at the same time. Replacing the board would take years in a hostile takeover.

Patrick Boyle did a great video on this which is slightly less relevant now that the board has accepted the offer but still is a reasonable intro to corporate governance:

https://youtu.be/QXxeyOVpnCU
> ... having your soul-sucked through your rear-end!

I laugh-snorted reading that! I am stealing that phrase.
"Staff" is L6 though (at least at Google, afaik).
This is "current politics"

20 years ago, the blame would fall on "big oil", then it was north korea, now russia...

...and in reality, it might have been an angry former employee who just happens to know all the default passwords set everywhere.

Russia basically gains nothing by doing this, except even worse relations with the germans (it's not like the germans will say "oh, the russians hacked us, we better buy their gas now")
The fact that you're being downvoted in favor of a feel-good horseshoe theory about literal objective reality is telling

God damn Southpark Politics
They're an advocacy campaign for a certain set of issues. That always has been ideological, come on. You almost can't find a purer example honestly, it's their entire purpose and the reason they exist.

Which issues they focus on and how definitely does change over time. Maybe you don't like those changes, but they didn't suddenly become something they weren't before.
Not especially. They've been doing it for years with no really severe consequences. It's clearly well short of anyone's red line.
Who has he censored? Please back up your claims with evidence. This isn't Twitter.
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I think that's what the mortgage lenders of today want you to believe since they have cheap cash available through the fed. As long as house prices continue to skyrocket, they could still make money on the foreclosure.
We've been operating in a mode for probably the last 15 years where cyberattacks are simply not treated as acts of war - more like nuisances.

North Korea has been behind a ton of crypto hacks and thefts, and they're simply ignored. The Russians attacked Colonial Pipeline, and they're simply ignored. There's a list as long as my arm. For whatever reason we've decided cyberattacks are not war.
1: yes. you get cash for your shares.
2: the board is representative of the share holders, like your US Congress person. they have a fiduciary responsibility to give the share holders value. the only reasonable way they could blow up this deal is if twitter had an incredible roadmap with a very good path to matching the value or exceeding the value of Elon's offer. no such roadmap exists, apparently.
Does saying "Passenger vehicles account for ~7% of emissions and thus switching to EV's will not make a significant difference" count as disagreeing with science?
Is it really so badly worded that you could complain about a teacher teaching he and she? That’s going to be fun when the trolls start filing lawsuits.
> To what extent should one allow suboptimal solutions, failure or allow employees to do things inefficiently with their “favorite tech stack” (in cases where it does not add business value) ?

All solutions should be put out on the table as business tradeoffs. "It will cost X; we will get Y; we might run into unexpected problem Z". We all need to agree that we want to choose the best solution for the company, we lay out the solutions naked and vulnerable, we pick them apart, and then we make a decision. If we still can't make a decision, we let someone take the sword - potentially making a bad decision in the process - because we agree that forward progress is more important than total consensus. Will we always pick the best solution? No, but hopefully we've come to agreement as to what the pros and cons of each solution. We likely had to make a decision on several shades of grey. Still, we should be held accountable for our decisions regardless of how difficult they were
I'm inclined to agree in that regard. If the economics work out, then it might be worth it. I do think we've run out of time in many ways however.
In constraint, California tax policy incentivizes keeping around crappy old buildings. If keep the old building, Proposition 13 limits how much your tax can go up. If you build a nice new building, the state punishes you but reassessing the value of your property. This can greatly increase your property tax if you have owned the property for a while.
Pretty much. Your tdameritrade account will just update and stick cash into your account and explain what they did in the cost basis tab.
Docs: Monica Gagliano Is “Aware”
Well that's kinda my point, it isn't really clear and seems more like a typical marketing heavy clone tyoe thing, which is off-putting for many
It's called a proxy war.
> Serious cyberattacks on industrial equipment aren’t common and take significant knowledge to prepare, according to security experts.

Nonsense. All it takes is "caring enough to put in a bit of effort to figure out how to do it."

The reason we haven't seen them, historically (and IMO...) is that nobody in the "evil hacker space" has generally been willing to attack actual physical targets directly. Over the past decade or so, we've seen a shift from "Only large, well funded actors attack physical infrastructure" (Stuxnet) to "More and more attacks on things increasingly close to physical infrastructure" (various pipeline attacks, the assorted industrial control system malware toolkits, etc). It's only a matter of time until the actual physical stuff is attacked, and this may or may not qualify - it sounds like the administrative side was attacked, but (perhaps?) not the actual turbines. Yet.

The reality of control systems is just like that of anything else "digital" and "microchip" and "connected to a network" - they're not secure against a wide range of attackers, and the only saving grace is that most of them haven't been targeted by a sufficiently motivated adversary.

We, as a general software ecosystem across a range of disciplines, add complexity faster (in hardware and software) faster than we understand and fix bugs. Shipping new things gets people promoted, "fixing weird old bugs in some poorly understood subsystem" doesn't - even if that archaic subsystem is useful to display (poorly encoded and often wrong) Xerox scans. See one of Apple's recent 0days...

If you want a "secure" system for industrial control, it can't be network connected anymore. Yes, it's convenient, and the tradeoff is that someone can and will hack it, some day. Does it matter? Up to you and your company.

But "air gaps" don't work, "Well, we'll use antivirus..." doesn't seem to matter, and "network connected computers" just suck at anything involving security.
>Replace the entire team with dang.

What is the scalability of dang?

For deeply indebted and cash-flow poor companies like Twitter is about to become (at the surprisingly high--and positive--$1.5B EBITDA, interest is going to erode that by upwards of 60%), is there an equivalent service offering? dang-as-a-service, or "daas", if you will?
Yep, worth noting that there are a number of actual games that use MonoGame / FNA, including low-latency platformers like Celeste. I've actually found games written in these engines to be among the best performing games all around on old hardware.
He seems to understand how to run a few successful companies at this point. So I think your fears are unfounded.
Indeed - you'd know if we were at war with Russia because things would go incredibly well for America for a few days then incredibly poorly for everyone. America is best described as a belligerent in a proxy war. [1]

[A proxy war relationship] usually takes the form of funding, military training, arms, or other forms of material assistance which assist a belligerent party in sustaining its war effort.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_war
On the other hand, basic infrastructure being so unprotected, that a random guy from a random country, possibly even half a planet away, can stop electricity production, is kinda sad.

Yes yes, russia, current year, politics, government actors,... but again... why is it connected to the internet in the first place?
Yeah—when you're shipping weapons for free to one side in a war, plus providing a ton of intel to them from military assets you're operating expressly because of the war, also for free, you're a legitimate target, especially anything related to industrial production (so, including your energy infrastructure). Just because Russia's not decided to shoot at us over it (not because they're nice, but because it would surely make their situation even worse) doesn't mean we're not, effectively, war participants.

I'm not complaining about that, mind, but it's not like it's surprising or unfair that they'd try to hit us in limited ways, if they can.

Day one of the invasion I double checked our backups (ahead of schedule) and security. And the company I'm with isn't at all involved with anything military, nor do we have any particular interest (business-wise) in Ukraine—some kind of mass automated attack still seemed likely enough to be worth a little of my time. I assume CISOs with infrastructure and military orgs were on a war footing before the shooting started. At least, I hope they were.
Sorry but this is utter nonsense.

51% of a company is not some magic ticket that allows you to do basically anything (including screwing the other 49%). It just doesn't work that way. There are certain thresholds that allow you to do more and more things but if you're in control of a company you still have a fiduciary duty to the other shareholders, even small minority shareholders. This is why minority shareholder lawsuits are a thing. This is what makes the entire corporation system work otherwise the 51% would be constantly screwing over the 49%.

Take your example: if you buy 51% of the shares for $50/share and then try and merge at an effective $25/share. Well, that's illegal because you've failed your fiduciary duty to the 49%. You're effectively trying to steal from them.

Also, you can't just acquire 51% of a company. There are rules about that too. There are thresholds here too. IIRC more than 5% and you have to inform the market of taking a large position. More than (IIRC) 10-20% and you have to launch a formal takeover offer. There are rules about how that works too.
There's a handy verge article that explains how to deactivate and stop participating in Twitter. You're more than capable of achieving that yourself.
what you say is true, but I reckon the more expensive the wedding, the more enduring it probably is.

Weddings are a signal. The louder the signal, then the bigger the bet, and thus, the more you have riding on that bet. Weddings are a choice, but they are a choice of sending a strong signal to others. You should not discount the powerful effect it may have over the marriage itself.
Aka a more useful CCTV?
This is something you can do pretty easily with webauthn, but I never thought it as a good idea.
Maybe instead of a "Remeber Me" Function...
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The fish knew exactly what I was going to do, and with their behavior, they told me, “Not only do we know, but this is not good news for us, you’re betraying our relationship of trust, and now we know that you’re not trustworthy anymore.”
Microsoft does it. It's hidden behind one click in the UX, but if you click "Sign in options" on the screen where it asks you for a username to sign into e.g. Outlook, one of the options is to sign in with a WebAuthn credential. Here, Microsoft invokes the WebAuthN API in "discoverable credential" mode (with empty allowCredentials) - if you have multiple online accounts connected to your Windows account, Windows will ask you which of the accounts you want to use and then provide both userid and assertion for that account.
I'm all for growing food in regenerative and no plow agriculture, but from what I understand it won't scale to current population levels. Vertical farming can be intensive in electricity demand and construction materials, yes. However, it can produce more food with less water and fertilizer than traditional industrial farming.
> (Cardiac Ablation).

I've had two ablation's myself. After the 2nd one I suffered a stroke. It had no lasting effects I'm aware of, but that's just luck.

Heightened stroke risk is a well know is a side of ablation's. In the week or two after they are done tend to spin off clots, and that's when mine happened. However, to put that risk into perspective, stroke is also a well known side effect of the thing ablation's treat - arrhythmias. Unlike the risk from ablation's, the risk caused by arrhythmias goes on for life, and goes up as they get worse over time - which they almost inevitably do.
What is with WordPress sites? The "cookie" banner is now 75% of the page and is deceptive in its options, may have to go on the block list
I believe that Bowery is growing tomatoes and strawberries now.
My job title was Assistant Manager while the actual role was that of a Senior Business analyst. Similarly, in another organisation, the title was 'Senior Software engineer'. I was neither senior nor a software engineer but a Data Scientist.

I had to change the title on the resume/job portals. If not, the resume would not get shortlisted for any job opportunities.
why ? Very few states recognize common law marriage. Do you know know otherwise ?
This too is a fact. Those minorities are less competent. Liberals recognize that fact and propose how to fix it. Conservatives say it is genetics and ignore the problem, making it worse. Which of these is racist?
Here are just a few.

Beyond his words, there are huge amounts of convicts who told the police they acted bc Trump's words or even used Trump's words as an argument in court to attempt to show they weren't directly responsible/as culpable. Trump might not punch protestors in the face himself, but his words cause acts of violence.

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Also given the topic twitter lays out specific examples on their platform.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

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The clearing of lafayette square Trump said 'bust some heads' and reports of some blatant attempts to order the military to intervene inappropriately the entire summer.

Trump saying "Seriously. Just knock the hell out of them. I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. There won’t be so much of them because the courts agree with us,"

“when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”

“I’d like to punch him in the face.” to a protester.

A funny gem:
Wanted spikes on his wall that would 'pierce flesh' 'shoot migrants' build an 'alligator moat'.

Like, you can't make that up in a movie it would be too outlandish. Dr evil type contraption that can be easily overcome lol

BLM "“That will never happen with me. I don’t know if I’ll do the fighting myself or if other people will. But that was a disgrace. … I felt badly for him, but it showed that he’s weak.”"

Thugs pissing on and beating homeless people: “I think that would be a shame. I will say, the people that are following me are very passionate. They love this country. They want this country to be great again. But they are very passionate. I will say that,”

infamous "very fine people" (charlottesville)

Lots of reports of his wanting to use the military during the summer with clear tone and political intent. some reports of nebulous rants about doing the same after he lost to try and hold onto power.

"we’d like to get them out a lot faster, and when you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough, I said, please don’t be too nice. Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over, like, don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody. Don’t hit their head. I said, you can take the hand away, okay?"

Gianforte body slam: “Any guy who can do a body-slam ... he’s my guy.” (wish we would have won that race Kathleen is great candidate...)

Lots of campaign rally examples.

“See, the first group, I was nice. ‘Oh, take your time.’ The second group, I was pretty nice. The third group, I’ll be a little more violent. And the fourth group, I’ll say get the hell out of here!”

“You see, in the good old days, law enforcement acted a lot quicker than this. A lot quicker. In the good old days, they’d rip him out of that seat so fast — but today, everybody’s politically correct,”

Another video of Trump saying “Get him the hell out of here! Get him out of here! Throw him out!” to a BLM protestor while a member of the crowd physically beats protester
Types are definitely very useful for complex refactoring. However, I disagree with the author that it wasn’t possible before types. Combining a healthy amount of unit tests along with some integration tests makes complex refactoring totally possible even without types.
It'd almost be like every single website has those problems in the first place. Do you suddenly think he's going to turn off the csam filter?

Those people would still be banned because csam content isn't free speech.
There's apparently more than a few doctors that don't really know about Paxlovid or Evusheld, which isn't exactly encouraging.
> A great deal of complexity of DBMS is in granularity of locks, its escalation/deescalation, and shared use performance.

Agreed.

> My understanding is that SQLite suppprts only system locks

Is this any different than a process blocking on a mutex while another writes to a shared resource? I understand DBMS do it better, but I don't see why it's viewed as a non-starter for SQLite.
"The algorithm" could mean a lot of things. Whatever it means, it probably spans hundreds or even thousands of services. That doesn't mean it cannot be made open-source.

I imagine they'd probably start with documentation and white-papers that communicate "here's how we intend for it to work".

It's seriously unlikely anyone in Twitter knows actually works how any non-trivial algorithm in the company works. To figure THAT out, they could decide to do a company-wide documentation and instrumentation push like they probably would've had to do for GDPR anyway, which is painful and boring and going to take a very long time.

Failing that, they could just say 'the algorithm as it stands is no longer fit for purpose, given part of its core requirement has become that it needs to be transparent and publishable, and presumably legible. We need to make a new one. Publish the core algorithm. We probably won't deploy it in that exact state, it's going to span multi-services and so on, you obviously don't get the data we used to train the models, but we will work backwards from it and here's an open mechanism to measure how true-to-form it actually is'
All this scary long covid stuff seems to directly contradict the current policies of many institutions, such as RTO, removal of mask mandates, giving up on enforcing the 3rd booster, etc. It would be extremely stupid to relax pandemic restrictions if this was a serious threat. Therefore, I have to believe stuff like this is fake news, or at the very least some type of clickbait based on questionable studies. I also had omicron and had a mild fever for 1 day and that's it, no "long covid" from me, so yeah.
Distressed Equity Investment
How the hell did you get that from what i wrote
He's cancelled car orders of journalists: https://medium.com/@salsop/banned-by-tesla-8d1f3249b9fb

He's tried to get a teen to take down a Twitter account that follows his private jet: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-jet-tracking-teen-...

He's fired anyone who disagrees with him: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-elon-musk-ruthlessly-f...

He's fired employees for YouTube videos: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-employee-self-driving-...

He's fired people for walking too close: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-reportedly-terrifi...

He refused to pay severance to the Tesla founder unless he took down a blog post: https://www.wired.com/2009/06/eberhard/

He blocks people on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1279326187559374849?lang...

Sure, he's never censored people the same way he could on Twitter, but he's also never had the chance.
This is going to kill so many people. It's going to happen this time, and soon again, and sooner after that, more and more frequently. This is the climate crisis.

We are doing this intentionally while knowing the consequences. We are not going to stop. Protest doesn't work, advocacy doesn't work, fucking self-immolation doesn't work.

Anyone with a conscience should be considering what will make it stop and how they can contribute to those actions instead.
Electric Sheep will always hold a special place for me.
Sonar for bats and dolphins etcetera. I think illumination from different sources can help resolve the location of objects (using reflections on objects from other sources, or tracking the source itself such as a car with LIDAR).