skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically, to check for insolvency, you need to look at the balance sheet, not the profit & loss statement. But that sounds like some extremely handsome profits.
Why would you think the WSJ editorial writers are likely to be correct in their analysis? I was frankly shocked that a law professor specializing in securities regulation had a hand in it.

The size of the break fee is well within market for transactions of this sizes, and the payment of such fees has been ordered countless times.

Specific performance is indeed not the most favored remedy - monetary damages are preferred - but court can and will order specific performance and other equitable remedies.

> Twitter might be worse off under his ownership at this point, a fate Twitter’s board is legally obligated to try to avoid.

Not anymore baby, we’re in Revlon land. The Twitter board pursued a cash offer, and their sole duty now is to maximize shareholder value.

> There are also other potential buyers for Twitter.

Narrator: There were not.

> But it isn’t Mr. Musk that promised to buy Twitter, but two entities under his control.

Good thing Twitter has third party beneficiary rights to enforce the committed financing provided to those entities.

> Mr. Musk promised to “cause” these entities to consummate the deal, but a court is unlikely to jail him if he shirks or refuses.

I agree with this statement - the Delaware chancery doesn’t want to put him in jail. But he’s caused enormous disruption for Twitter and it’s shareholders, repeatedly breached the merger agreement and has just acted in bad faith through this process. The chancellor may not jail him, but the chancellor will not be impressed by his antics.

> But the shareholders aren’t party to the agreement. Only Twitter Inc. is a party, and it is a separate and distinct legal entity.

Does… he think that the millions of individual investors are supposed to sign public company merger agreements?

> Twitter would have to prove harm, such as lost profits, and that’s an uphill battle.

Twitter has to do no such thing; that’s what the liquidated damages provision is for.

> Breakup fees are supposed to reflect damages caused by a breach of contract. They aren’t supposed to act as a penalty. Given that Twitter isn’t obviously worse off by $1 billion—if at all—a court might balk at imposing such a high fee.

Narrator: The court won’t balk.

> The easy fix is to give shareholders the right to sue for their losses. But either Mr. Musk’s lawyers were too smart for that or Twitter’s weren’t smart enough.

And the Twitter shareholders couldn’t bring a derivative suit… why?

Just poorly informed, specious reasoning and plainly incorrect conclusions. So, yeah, just about par for the course for the WSJ opinion page.
Gen II 1970s era nuclear reactors are still among the safest forms of energy known to humanity. Anti-nuclear sentiment has only prolonged the reign of particulate and carbon emitting fossil and biofuel.

If Chernobyl itself was built today, without the post-accident modifications, and it ran 5 years and then exploded, it'd still be safer than a coal plant running normally.

Fossil/biofuel particulate emissions killing ~8 million people per year is no joke.

https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution
This probably is a reference to Max Weber's "Protestant work ethic" - a classic and interesting read.
this is a genuinely great read. Author does a great job providing examples where context is critical, and explains how the dataset not only has labeling errors, an even deeper problem is how it models language in general.

Since words only have meaning within a context, your model should reflect that somehow.

What wasn't really explored I'm this article was to what quantitative degree context sensitivity matters. The counter examples are great, but how can we measure the relationship between amount of context and labelling accuracy?
Wherever you’re living, stay there! I haven’t seen prices like that at my local McDonald’s for years
"The Best Way To Rob A Bank Is To Own One," by Robert Prasch. Here's a good summary: https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A151201230/AONE?u=googleschol...
If you asked me what I hated most about my job, I would tell you it is Microsoft Teams.

I'm using Teams on three different devices and it's broken in a different way on each of them.

Teams on my phone will randomly stop receiving notifications.

The Teams app on Linux crashes when I try to open a video posted in a meeting on it, and it will also remember that location, so when I re-open it, it immediately dies again. Also I'm pretty sure that in Firefox voice calls were working like a week or two ago, then Microsoft decided that it's not supported again.

The Teams app on Windows lets you select between two different "away" statuses on the tray context menu, but one seems to crash Teams. I may be confusing it with the behavior when I hit the close button on the Teams window, and it just silently crashes: The window disappears but the tray icon stays there like a smug little fucker, pretending Teams is still running until you actually try to click it.

And those examples are just the tip of the iceberg.

Teams is mandated by our parent organization, but people use random other stuff amongst themselves, because Teams just doesn't work. There's some people who set up discord servers for their group, others are using an old slack server the company forgot to shut down, and there's probably people using whatsapp.

Teams is like a mail man who calls in sick every second week, throws letters that he doesn't feel like delivering away, and also tries to make smalltalk for half an hour when all you want him to do is deliver your damn letters.
I use a tall glass with tap water and some dish soap. Dunk them in while I shower, then remove, rinse off with cold water. Afterwards I could use a towel, but actually I tap them dry with a sheet of toilet paper. I THOUGHT that would leave small dust, but surprisingly, does not.

I use cheap, uncoated glasses though and replace them every 3-4 years anyways.
I currently live on a boat. Dealing with captive portal bs from the marine is always a nightmare. You have to buy the correct wifi extender/repeater otherwise you have to connect each device directly to the network.
This ended up being an interesting piece by the end.

The headline and parts of the article suffer a bit from clickbait by conflating the two different ways “revisionist” is used—sometimes to mean revising past precedent with new knowledge, and other times to mean purposely hiding facts about the past (also called negationist history).

Obviously not all history is purposely hiding facts about the past…

But if you ignore that, the author did a good job of explaining how lots of at-one-point accepted history was originally introduced with revisionist/negationist/biased aims. To the point that it’s harder to cleanly separate out all the negationist history than you might think.

So overall an interesting point and a useful reminder of how these interpretations are always in flux. And that that’s okay and healthy.
How Parallel Reality is helping passengers at Detroit Metro Airport [video]
Ah yes ye olde 4 hours of storage quotes from the Li(a)zard People. Hope you don't run into one of those 3 week wind lulls or anything.

Lazard uses the worst possible nuclear builds and ignores the good ones. They ignore China, Korea, Japanese, and Russian builds. In 2006 Japan was churning out ultra-modern ABWR reactors in 36 months (not the old Fukushima kind). Unbelievably cheap and effective. Today, China's Hualong One builds are fully serialized. Yet Lazard keeps on looking at the worst 2 nuclear builds in history and ignoring e.g. the necessary cost of new transmission and overbuilding in order to actually decarbonize at scale with wind solar and gigatonnes of batteries.

Lazard numbers are a farce. Please ignore.
Thank you for the suggestion! Tried out Beware of Darkness and I really enjoyed it, it did remind me of Gentle Giant and Yes in various places!
If so many people are caught for financial crimes, and given the vast sums of money involved and how blatant the crimes often are, how many people do you think are never caught? I think the world of finance is absurdly large, opaque, and basically not policed.
Exactly, there's a threshold at which they'll finally act. Even then, it's just a penalty fee. Which, if you're wealthy, it's basically legal.
I could make some quite obscure Smogon references here, but I will stop myself.
To your first point: Yes, but if Nuclear plants were more common less fossil fuels would be burnt. Hence anti-nuclear sentiment has led to more climate change.

To your second:
3 Mile Island was not an accident that caused significant environmental damage.

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-sec....

Chernobyl was a terrible design that should never have been built.

Fukushima is an example of the dangers. It was however hit by an earthquake 1 magnitude higher than it was designed for and a Tsunami. Given it's location it should have been designed to handle these possibilities.
How come there's no "hi googler here" comments on these types of posts anymore? Did Google become a lot more strict about that type of thing?
I should’ve been clearer. I meant the 10x part. Apologies.
Monthly firmware servicing for a bajillion models (to maintain a level of security) isn't exactly something that the OEMs want to sign up for.

About a web browser, forget it with the current SPI flash sizing that vendors use on PCs. Those are way too small for that.
Clojure mentions Racket's contracts as prior art: https://clojure.org/about/spec
I wish you luck!

I also play the saxophone but … the problem with that one is I live in an apartment building with thin walls and can’t, exactly, bang away like I can on a keyboard with headphones. In either case the music reading is useful.

My mother, a piano teacher herself, would of course just tell me to do more scales but we can make this better with technology now can’t we.
When we talk about "revisionist history", don't we generally think of people with less than honest intentions deliberately trying to force a narrative? Often or usually by sprinkling untruths and non-facts in?

What the article seems to be arguing is that historians without such dishonest intentions are necessarily reinterpreting history in light of the modern era, and are likely including their own and societal biases in their narrative. and there is no real 'objective' history. Is this news? This is the sort of thing I learned in history class as a teenager (albeit in simplified form). Primary sources are valuable but should be put through the filter of partial knowledge of a situation and personal bias. Secondary sources should be looked at with knowledge of the times around them and the potential biases of the author.

It's the intent that's always defined "revisionist" history to me, and the willingness to include things which are not fact-based, or are counterfactual.
Oh really? How did the 13th amendment codify slavery? For some reason I thought that the civil war ended slavery but you must know better. Please explain.
I have glass lenses, but I don't care to find out what happens if ever an airbag explodes into my face.
My experience with Ingress was great when it came out. It made me go out, socialize, meet new people. Stuff like teaming up to hack portals and build ridiculous big triangles that span cities or even continents sometimes needed coordination and was so rewarding when we pulled it off.

But it also felt they didn’t know what to do with Ingress. At some point the max level got hiked up to increase the grind and that was roughly when I stopped

Pokémon Go on the other hand felt much less complex and lost me personally as a player after a couple days
The numbers from the article are:

* $300 million for equivalent solar

* $200-400 million for equivalent onshore wind (they don't mention offshore wind which is more cost effective over it's lifetime)

* $1.5 billion for the SMR

Assuming solar and wind stay the same price for the next decade (which they definitely won't) that's a 4-5x construction price difference. The article didn't mention lifetime, decommissioning or running costs, which is likely a significant difference too.
git didn't really click for me until I learned about patch[0] and had to use it some. I'm not sure if this is entirely correct, but I started thinking of a git repository as a DAG[1] of commits, where each commit is a patch (the changed lines of code) along with some metadata like a message, date, etc. Branches fall out of this as they're just names for specific nodes in the DAG, and thing like rebasing is taking a set of nodes (e.g. commits/patches) and replaying them on top of some other base. This has at least helped me get a grasp on how to get out of various situations.

That all said the best way to learn is to do! Maybe see if there is some bug that came up recently but was working in the past, where 'git bisect' would be a good tool to help you debug. And if the GUI tools work for you on a day-to-day basis, there's nothing wrong sticking with them over the command line. To me developer tools are a second-order thing, you should only use them as much as necessary to help you do your actual work.

[0] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/patch.1.html
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph
And it applies to all games with a server component. It is arguably even worse with MMOs like world of warcraft that have significant patch circles, as it effectively get removed every 1-2 yrs.
GDScript is really really good, for what it’s worth. Or, it integrates with the scene model nicely.
Was that done by the FBI, or by your friendly neighbourhood/state PD?
We're all different, I remember waking up early to run a marathon (something like 5am), being exhausted for the rest of the day, but still struggling to sleep at night around 11pm or so
The funny thing about that case is that she wasn't jailed for securities fraud; she was jailed for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and lying to investigators.

Which fits the theme: the SEC is apparently not particularly great[0] at investigating financial crimes. They're "lucky" that they managed to get Stewart on what are essentially technicalities.

[0] Not even trying to shit on them personally; if the OP is correct that until recently, only two SEC employees had subpoena powers, no wonder they aren't able to pursue everything they should be pursuing.
I am more of a Domino's guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n17B_uFF4cA
>> my dumb ass tries not to show off stuff like that when looking for employment as I want to be weighed on my ability to write awesome code and not weighed on a popularity contest.

I know you likely learned from this, but it's worth repeating especially for people who don't often go looking for jobs.

Getting hired is a sales process. You are the product. It doesn't really matter what you can do - that's probably not what you are selling to the interviewer.

What you are selling is the fact that _you_ (and you alone) are the best choice for the position. That means a combination of skill set and personality.

So specifically, being "popular", or "known", or "admired" in the tech community is a feature, one which is very valuable to potential employers. Being popular means you're (probably) not a dick, and that's worth knowing.

I say this with respect, but there were likely a bunch of folk they interviewed who can write code just as awesome as yours (at least in their eyes). I don't mean that to demean you, but clearly a) it's impossible to determine code awesomeness in an interview - it takes months for awesome code to even surface - and b) there are a _lot_ of people out there writing awesome code.

In Western culture it is considered polite to be modest, but being modest in an interview, or on a CV is a bug, not a feature. You need to sell, and sell hard, every possible accomplishment - without being a dick.

Writing awesome code is not enough. Fitting in with the team (ie demonstrating social skills), having deep knowledge of some framework (enough to contribute, and have those contributions accepted), publishing or presenting at conferences (ability to communicate and articulate), are all huge box ticks in the recruiting process.

Don't. Be. Shy.
Screen sharing works. Screen control (as in, controlling a screen someone else has shared) does not.
Seems most people who do big financial crimes, get away with it. Perhaps they get a slap on the wrist, with a few exceptions like Bernie Madoff.
Article goes on to mention a "300W-solar power farm" (could power a desktop PC for $300M) and that the SMR could power "240,0000 homes".
A defunct project has been categorized as “critical”
The suggestion was made because the delivery service hasn't allocated a driver at the point of the order. It's plausible that someone ordering directly would be in the same position - either you or your partner might eventually go pick it up, or one of a group of friends, etc.
Perpetual license for fixed software version
I love how nuclear is too expensive because it costs billions, but long range power lines, which also costs billions, are somehow a better waste of money.
The SEC being a joke is not an accident but the result of a decades long push for it to be a toothless tiger by conservative lobbyists in both major parties. There never has been enough political support for it to be anything else thanks to that. That doesn't mean it is completely without use. I think they do a fine job of e.g. limiting the amount of damage done via obvious Ponzi schemes.
I enjoy the International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime[1].

[1] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-34111-8
> I don't think I'm good looking, but I am interesting. I talk well with people both online and in person.

If only online dating relied on talking to get a match. Instead it relies on - hmm - your photos to get a match.

Why is this so hard for older men to get? This is a repeated issue on HN. Like you use the app - you realize the photos are the most important thing. Just face it / you’re more physically attractive than you likely realize. Most men in the USA don’t get matches - let alone messages.
Reasons to not use cloud-based automation products
I've never seen more people working with or interested in it. It's becoming more and more useful by the day.
A Public WebTransport Echo Server
>>Why couldn't we have a private crypto currency backed by dollars or euros?

Yes, you can utilize dollar backed and dollar pegged stablecoins, like USDC and DAI, respectively, in privacy-shielding protocols like https://zk.money and https://tornado.cash.

The problem at the moment is that Ethereum has very limited scalability, and privacy-shielded transactions are about five to ten times more compute-intensive than vanilla transactions, making them prohibitively expensive to conduct for most applications.

Ethereum layer 2 solutions that preserve the base layer's decentralization hold the promise to make such transactions viable at scale, but they are still quite immature in their feature set. For example, all of the general computation L2s still rely on a centralized coordinator.
TI Basic was great - as a high-schooler it was much more approachable than Z80 assembly (or trying to figure out the custom gcc for the TI-83).
> But they don't have the 30% gross margin that Tesla does.

Sure, but they'll make it up on volume. Tesla also will have much lower than 30% gross margins in 10 years -but can it catch up with "legacy auto" on volume?
They might if you drop them hard enough, but I've dropped glass lenses numerous times and I've never had them shatter on me. Probably helps to have a sturdy frame with barrel hinges, too: https://shop.shuron.com/shop/sidewinder/
Are you me? currently go to gym 630 then work 8 to 6 then eat and like 3 hours till sleep

Any suggestions?
What repeater worked for you?
It’s in a weird spot as one of the biggest successes in gaming history while also representing one of the biggest fumbles in gaming history.

Pokémon Go with a more aggressive turnaround time could have easily been Fortnite x10.
The Fall of History as a Major–and as a Part of the Humanities
I sympathize with this, after tracking down C++ performance issues (though not going as far as recompiling the compiler).
As an outsider and taking a view over my adult lifetime (25 years), it seems to me the US is relatively tough on white collar crime. That's just my impression obviously. At least in the US there are heavy sentences and cases that are prosecuted seem to stick.
Are there samples of faces by the Google models? The websites don't seem to show any. Though their 20B samples are incredibly impressive.
Reading this when I should be asleep sigh
They looked at the price tags of these reactors vs solar and wind, and chose the lowest number, fine. But I've never heard of a nuclear project coming in at under multiple times its original estimate, and taking a decade or more longer than expected. Has any new nuclear power come online anywhere since Fukushima?
I was about to make a WoW-related comment but because you brought it up I'm going to piggy back off yours.

Pokemon Go battles are just boring. PvP is a combination of reflexes and rock-paper-scissors. When WoW introduced pet battles it was a very obvious knockoff of Pokemon, but it was still actually pretty fun. PVE scenarios like the Celestial Tournament (their version of the Elite 4) could be really challenging and take a lot of planning, where you'd need to go out searching for the right combination of battle pets to win, or maybe just experiment with what you have to make it work. PvP was pretty balanced -- there were still combinations that were overpowered at times but in general what mattered more was the combinations of battle pets because of their diverse movements, where one might be for applying debuffs and another is for doing multi-attacks.

In Pokemon Go pvp is just "what's your counter pokemon to bastiodon / alteria / skarmory / azumarill / galarian skunfisk / etc" and then trying to fake out your opponent by baiting shields or being clever in how you swap pokemon. It's not the worst model but it bothers me how much more fun WoW Pet Battles are when Pokemon was the source material on how it should work.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Memory is designed to be used, and there are plenty of applications that are vying for it. I'd much rather an app use memory optimally, so that I don't have to close it if I'm memory-constrained.
Then don't. You are already spending 40 hours a week learning. That's called full-time for a reason.
Yeah, I can second sleeping on the stomach. I guess I'm lucky, it's never been that bad. I often twitch myself awake immediately after the first time I fall asleep - but it's only ever the first time, and not every night. I've never found a pattern / reason, but it doesn't happen if I'm on my stomach.
Sometimes I mostly "sleep" through it - only wake up enough to notice and then fall right back to sleep, since I'm familiar with it now. But it wakes up my spouse, and startles the cat. :/
It's not at all obvious why you think this question is so obvious that it doesn't require a bit more context.

Why would it?
Uh revving the Yaris is not something likely to disturb you or even attract your attention
If you give the 13th amendment a read, it contains this clause:

> except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted

It does otherwise end slavery, but provides the above loophole for continuing similar practices.
Me too! Calmira, the Q-Basic manual, a trackball, Commander Keen, and tons of a few really worn out floppy disks of shareware.
I imagine because it is cheaper to produce locally, or Manitoba does not have spare capacity. Why do you think they should import from Manitoba?