skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can authorize future share sales well ahead so that you're already prepared. Many companies have consistent authorization to sell into the market when they feel timing is right. It's a common way that BDCs and REITs grow. If the stock is trading well above NAV, selling shares is accretive to shareholders. Buybacks above NAV/fair value are dilutive (which clearly was the case with BBBY)

You can also sell in blocks to private acquirers if anybody bites. But the first approach is better if it's a meme situation (no rational buyer would take a block of shares close to market). Clearly there are many companies that could have and likely still can sell large blocks of shares close to market, NVDA being one example.

"A shelf offering allows a company to register its securities with the SEC but then delay putting them on the market for a period of up to three years. This provides some advantages, as the company can time the release of its securities, ideally aligning the issuance with favorable market conditions. Shelf offerings can also help companies save on the registration process, as they do not have to re-register each time that they release new shares."

from Investopedia

Somehow people confused this all along the way and simply equated "buybacks = good". Its about what value you get for the shares you're buying/selling. That's it. Buying back your shares at a 30x+ earnings multiple is going to be a terrible allocation of capital for most companies in the long run
I think it's a different sort of rabbit hole. If you lean in to the graph-based organization and try to build a mind-map, it can get pretty deep. I had to restrain myself when I found organizing every market segment and competitor in my industry, or every technical topic I'd ever come across.

In Notion I think the rabbit hole is overly-complicated documents. In Obsidian it's going crazy with the graph and volume. That and finding the optimal set of plugins.
That's great! People should be in touch with the foods that they eat, preferably ones that they raise and aren't kept in nightmarish conditions on factory farms.

If people in my completely made up fantasy world eat tons of meat then that's fine too, but I do have a suspicion that many people wouldn't be so fine with doing it. I personally could not, so I don't eat animals.
This is not new. IKEA is continuously redesigning their products and the name does not change. You can buy a billy book case that is fundamentally different than the model that was produced 35 years ago.

Less wood, less metal, more plastic, less material. Cost cutting at every point.

I have a Besta Casefeom 2018 that was made with 1mm wood veneer and it looks decent. The pins where the shelf rest are made from metal and some screws are also metal.

The 2022 version has paper foil printed to look like wood, the pins are plastic, the screws too. IT IS ABSOLUT TRASH! Literally.

The foil is so bad, you will scratch it of accidentally with your fingernails, the plastic screws are one time use only, maybe twice. The pins are bending without any weight on it. I returned it.

They look nearly the same, cost the same as 2018, but they are different. Be warned.
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This is because money is trying to be two things at once - a medium of exchange, and a stable asset - and those are often in conflict.

If I just want to trade my bushel of corn for your chicken, money makes it easier - I exchange my corn for some money, and then I exchange that money for your chicken. I don’t care whether the money is ‘one fricasee’ or ‘ten million gorzebos’ as long as we both agree that’s the number attached to it. You can use something that is a real asset for this, but it actually doesn’t have to have any intrinsic value to be usable for this, as long as everyone agrees to use it.

However, there’s a time element - I can sell my corn, and then keep the money for a while, retaining the power to buy the chicken later. That turns it into a potential asset. During that time, the numbers attached to different items could go up or down - the time element makes arbitrage possible. Even for ‘useless’ assets.

Too much money held as assets can reduce its effectiveness as a medium of exchange - but improving the effectiveness as a medium of exchange can reduce its stability/value as an asset.

Also probably why there is a lot of contention over gold standards etc. - the gold standard improves its value as an asset, while potentially limiting its value as a medium of exchange - so it’s going to depend on which one you prioritize whether you will favor it or not.
Take home tests are often paid and those are the only ones I will do anymore after being burned a few times.

That solves the skin in the game problem.
Windows 95 was the best desktop at that time.
Even if they could get all of the approvals, which they won't, there is no way they are rebuilding that in 2 months. And even if government permits were forthcoming, which -- at this point they're likely grounded for a long time -- they'd likely face residents nearby suing them in court to stop launches.

They F-ed up bigtime. Look, SLS which has 1/2 the power of Starship, launched with a flame diverter, flame trench, AND massive water deluge system and yet it still damaged the mobile launcher.

SpaceX tested the fondag with 50% power, it still destroyed it, and yet they thought a full power launch was going to be ok?

This was reckless and likely sabotaged their prospects for launch until 2024, assuming legal and regulatory challenges don't hamstring them further. The FAA probably feels they lied about the risks and won't be so quick to accept their claims next time.
Yes, so given that all things are equal, are you going to hire the slower person then?

Or are you going to, as I mentioned in sibling comments, give them a take home task that takes two weeks to complete, just to be sure?
It's a classic. Accuse the other side of all the worst things you're doing yourself.
Because the part about is being the hardware is false. This behaviour is entirely part of the OS. It's still bad, especially if the OSS ROM is not making users aware of it (though neither really are the manufacturers: burying this shit in a pages-long policy which the user cannot freely decline does not qualify for GDPR consent either). It's very easy to make android look bad from a privacy point of view, you don't need to make things up to do so.
That’s a fair criticism, but one important distinction is that this develops infrastructure and expertise for purely economically/recreationally motivated projects down the line.

As for economic motivations in the near term, a lot I can think of are indeed still based on public funds, but one important thing about commercial landing being viable is that those publically funded endeavors don’t need to work the bureaucracy engine to get a government launch/can span governmental boundaries. If some US or UAE entity wants a telescope array on the moon, if they have the money for it, they could just pay for a commercial lunar lander. If the DOE wants to test he-3 mining they don’t need to go through congress to get NASA to deliver their payload.
Seriously, EDGE has tons of useless stuff, so much you have to scroll the "..." menu in order to get the the freaking settings, and now a popup is asking me to enable some VPN or something? I didn't ask for a VPN, nor some coupons, nor Microsoft rewards, nor games, it's bloat...
> you won't even know why

Not necessarily. We've frequently been able to determine the cause of unmanned spacecraft failures via telemetry and/or post-failure investigation. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter famously failed because NASA used metric and a vendor did not.
Have you read the whole thing? It says it is not at all clear that this will save lives. It also could cause an eruption.
I so miss the cheap 150x75 cm Linnmon honeycomb tabletop.

Their default desk depth is now a mere 60 cm because everyone aparently use laptops on desks, nowadays. Ugh. Anything with more depth than that -> so much costlier.
Abandoned? You know people own two homes and live in them seasonally w/o them being vandalized? Source: have a summer cabin that's never been rack sacked by vandals.
Do you wanna know how many thousands of dollars my Steam account is worth? My PSN account? My physical video games and media collection? How much money I've spent on streaming services? For your information, I'm one of the idiots who was dumb enough to buy Windows Vista Ultimate. I have the shiny box and discs to prove it.

Not a single person on this website can accuse me of not supporting creators. I do it willingly, even though I don't believe in copyright, because I don't believe in punishing creators for flaws of the system. I do it even though I know deep down I'm getting an inferior product: "pirates" get blu-ray remuxes free while I get shitty ass Netflix video with compression artifacts in 90% black frames.
... says a clickbait YouTuber.
The C# compiler got a ton of new smarts around reference type nullability and almost all of the BCL (.NET standard library) got annotated for it. I don't know when F# will finally pick up all the new compile-time smarts for Nullable Reference Types, but it has been proposed and prototyped, at least [1].

[1] https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/RFCs/FS-10...
It's kind of like when you see a headline that "So and So Has Died" and you think to yourself, "so and so was still alive?"
TIL. I don't know why I assumed otherwise. Perhaps I was thinking of "RNGs" (renewable natural gases), but it seems rather propagandish to even group those (repurposed biofuels) together with natural gases extracted from the earth.
“GPT” may be trademarked soon if OpenAI has its way
This is why it's pretty hard to distinguish [y] from [ʉ] and [ɨ] from [ɯ]. Indeed, as I understand, in many cases the distinction is strictly phonemic, not phonetic.
Your username is awesome. Also what made you go to the US? I am just curious
Show HN: Share a region of your screen on Google Meet (v1.0.4)
Most meeting applications like Google Meet, Discord or similar only allow you the option to select a particular window, tab or screen when sharing your screen. They do not allow you to select an arbitrary region of your screen. This Electron application, using FFMPEG as a back end, provides the facilities through which you can achieve this.
There were 2 other commercial landing that blacked out just before landing must be something they all didn’t take care of or maybe nasa is holding out some secret info
Trump admin was caught scrubbing embarrassing statements from official transcripts, but it's not common
Yeah, to expand Obsidian is almost exactly what you're describing. It's a wiki-like software that works entirely on markdown and data on the file system. Has similar functionality to Notion but feels more like an IDE
Emulated or not, old Turbo Pascal programs would crash on any computer faster than about 200MHz. The initialization code for the CRT module would try to calibrate timing for the Delay function and the division would overflow if the processor was too fast. See https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12111/
There are ways: https://gist.github.com/gboudreau/94bb0c11a6209c82418d01a59d...

Not saying it's a particularly good way, but it's a way.
NSA's Cybersecurity Curriculum
I believe it uses your selected provider. I looked in about:config and saw no URLs when searching for things like "search", "Suggestions" etc.

really the only way to be sure is to fire up wireshark. But I am on a work computer with a TON of crap running that is quite chatty. So i didnt look to verify.

But even on my browser I see this: https://imgur.com/a/odiHIzy

That said, my search provider is Kagi and I also dont see my search quota increment even with search suggestions enabled....
Yes, and we can make it stop existing if we want to. Even without a billion dollar lobbying campaign. It's called civil disobedience. Convince yourself some law is fundamentally flawed and shouldn't exist, make the choice to disobey and accept the consequences.

> Any man who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community on the injustice of the law is at that moment expressing the very highest respect for the law. - Martin Luther King Jr.
I was really hoping for Waterworld.
Christopher Hitchens, the Conservative Marxist
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As if the trend was not clearly visible by windows 10 and carved in stone by windows 11.
I switched from Chrome to Edge 4ish years ago. It was honestly faster, didn’t rev up my laptop fan, and over time they added things like the automatic privacy tooling that I enjoyed.

Now they’re messing up where it matters. The endless promotion of Bing, making it hard to completely remove it from the browser, adding a huge fucking B button. All while ignoring glaring bugs that were making it impossible to use certain sites with Edge while working fine in its sister browsers. Now I’m swapping back to Chrome because this is purely intolerable.

Sometimes software doesn’t need iteration or more features. Sometimes it just needs to work!
I'd argue the point of the exercise isn't to implement an O(1) solution, but to verify that the applicant understands how the logic they're writing actually executes, and is capable of minimizing complexity.

Whether they arrive at an O(1) solution doesn't matter a bit to me. Most of the time, I don't even care if they phrase it in big-O notation - or have even heard the term!

Given the choice between someone who completed the exercise with an O(1) solution in half the allotted time and someone who never wrote a single line of valid code, I'll choose the person who is able to articulate the problem and potential solutions best every time.

It's far easier to search the web and find a "cute solution" than it is to learn how to think about and communicate complexity.
I suspect the victims of phishing that they're referring to aren't running in non-default "Advanced" states
That's the story, but I doubt it.

Show me a query for which DDG has different results than Bing.
Daylight come an' me wan go home.
There are a million e.g. number parsing (image to digit) neural network type programs on GitHub. Go pick one in your preferred language and break it apart, and rebuild it, looking up the concepts behind parts you don't understand. After you finish up with the above, look up 'the xor problem' to see a common practical problem (which creating a network to replicate xor illustrates, rather than is) and you'll be well on your way to a nice fundamental understanding, built from the ground up.

One of the most interesting things about this topic is that the fundamental concepts and implementations are all really simple. It's the fact that it actually works that's mind boggling. In any case, the above is not a months like affair - but like one week of dedicated work.
Trust hasn't mattered for a while. Growth and profit are the pope and king. The "whole model" runs on these companies. They have civilization by the balls, and we have to live with it unless we throw almost every computer advancement from this millenium out.
This highlights the risk of ordinary geothermal, which extracts heat energy by changing the structure of the underlying earth, making it potentially unstable. Like fracking, it is now well known to cause earthquakes [0]. It could be useful for siphoning heat in volcanically active zones, but I wish the risks elsewhere were better known. Fracking has caused widespread structural damage from seismic activity in areas that were previously quiet and we should not see that mistake repeated.

[0] https://news.stanford.edu/2019/05/23/lessons-south-korea-sol...
So there is heat coming up. We tap the top and cool it. That makes the top layer cooler and harder. This allows less heat to escape so if we can not transport all heat away with technical means the heat again builds up. So we have delayed the eruption but how will this affect the size of the eruption?

My experience with leaving pots on the stove where a skin builds at the top would make me anxious if I believed anyone actually tried that on super volcano scale.
Will give this a shot, thanks for the reminder!
In some contexts, vegan and cruelty free blend together; they probably were trying to signal that they do no animal testing while making the product.
What was the allegation?
Sorry, I literally forgot them.
A lookup here refreshed my memory:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...
Please stop spamming these websites with fake content.
I'm not convinced of that interpretation of MM. MM found a signal below the margin of error. I think if they spun the table faster the signal would grow in strength. But subsequent experiments stopped rotating the assembly at all and just relied on the rotation of earth, and thus had even slower rotation and even smaller signals.

But at this point nobody is going to revisit MM, attempting to do so would immediately ruin your scientific reputation.
Yes, but it's better than the utter garbage at Wal Mart and Target (better made; better designed; easier [yes!] to assemble) and better than the fugly furniture at places like Nebraska Furniture Mart (cheaper; isn't trying and failing to make it look like your $200 desk belongs to a fortune 500 executive or your $300 couch is fine leather heirloom-quality furniture; made just as well)

You have to spend quite a bit more to consistently beat it. Or you have to be really into non-trendy (so, no mid-century-modern) used furniture.
Except that Toyota is the king of reliability and IKEA furniture is not even worth moving. Better to trash it and buy new.
If you gave them an Apollo 11-era budget I'm sure they would have done better.
The problem is you can’t discuss consumption without addressing the population. The current economic model simply pushes the rest of world to consume at the unsustainable levels of a North American or European citizen. One of those will have to give.
She touched his arm, seven months later Shatner kissed Nichelle Nichols.
I love my MARKUS but I think I'm currently on my third one. The current one was exchanged during the 10-year warranty period since the gas spring started to leak on my floor.

Not sure what I'll do if this MARKUS gives up the ghost too. They redesigned the MARKUS and dropped the leather option, and the non-leather MARKUS has pitiful armrests.
But why does your parent commenter - a Mac user and web dev - not know this? It should be default or super easy and obvious
"Lack of widely used operations such as popcount for integer types, unicode character operations."

popcount is widely used?
Despite the racism, I have always wondered why a majority of US ‘Top 40 Hits’ were by black artists in the 1960s. Soul, R&B, and Motown were continually at the top of the charts.
The "ultra-rich" and their "pocket puppet" politicians and corporate entities (who cause the "Lion's share" of the problem are the ones who most (and most immediately) need to "lower their standard of living" to combat this particular problem. They ain't gonna do it. Period. Anyone who thinks they will is just as insane as they are… Thus, we're pretty much screwed no matter what the rest of us do. Those who can improve the situation will absolutely not do it. It would cut into their "infinite profits from a finite planet" fantasy.
The economy is in a ‘freight recession,’ with China trade decline continuing
There's a lot of use cases just waiting for a good system that can do at least live speed generation.
Why all the handwringing on this exactly? This data is necessary for product improvements. Seeing it in aggregate improves troubleshooting and tuning to specific operator's networks as well as end-to-end performance analysis.

If the list of data in this article wasn't exposed by Qualcomm, then it's exposed in other ways like via SS7 in certain scenarios or to the OS and apps. Granted, app permissions are at least a user choice but we all know how that works these days. At least Qualcomm's using it to improve their product and not just harvesting for advertisers.

Also, like others have said, this is a shallow blogspam article trying to sell a "secure" phone. Ick.
Yep, adding a toggle is a must-have.
Raised on subcompact Toyotas, this was the only EV that looked like something I wanted. It was also an opportunity to confidently buy a "domestic" car, as an American since my Toyota/Honda superiority complex was all about the engine, not the body. cameron_b's comment about swap kits[0] makes me miss something I didn't even know was going to exist and now won't.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35705208
There's a "zssh" project that wraps an SSH session with ZModem handling, but it would be neat to see a tool like that this didn't require sz and rz installed.

[0] https://zssh.sourceforge.net/
LOL I'm sooooo surprised. /s
I'd even argue it's a prerequisite.

If one doesn't even know how to complete well-defined tasks reasonably quickly, I can't imagine how they would be able to break down complex tasks to these smaller, well-defined tasks, and accurately estimate the expected effort needed.

This sounds almost Dilbert-esque. It seems like a lot of people here want to be a pointy-haired boss (or pointy-haired tech lead)!
The intention behind not showing the full website address is specifically to stop phishing, since it puts the emphasis on the domain name instead of misleading paths. As for the status bar, I don't think anyone would look at it even if it was enabled by default.
there was whole saga even posted on HN about him threatening a former intern who bootstrapped a similar project. Typical god complex.
Notion's strength lies in its ability to combine different types of content in a single, customizable workspace.Trello is a great choice if you want a simple, visual way to manage your tasks and projects. It's particularly well-suited for teams that are focused on task management and want a clear, easy-to-use interface
A rather late place to draw the line, given the sheer exploitive nature the industry has shown itself capable of stooping to these last couple decades.
The Goddess Complex
> To me the screen is the least interesting part of CarPlay, I was fine with my phone screen when I was using bluetooth. It is more important to me that it's a wired digital protocol that matches the car's built-in controls.

For media playback I agree entirely, TBH I still browse podcasts and music on my phone even while using Android Auto because the app is unrestricted on the phone where over AA it severely limits browsing unless I'm stopped.

For me the screen integration is all about navigation. OEM navigation is almost universally terrible, the few that aren't terrible now will be in 5-10 years when the OEM has moved on to their new system and stops supporting the old, and none of them will ever support something like Waze that offers speed trap alerts.
One has cute penguins in the background, both show a pop up dialog trying to get me to do something.

The layout of the results page for two sample search are almost identical.

Actually for "what is a barnacle" I think Bing wins for clarity of results.

When searching for "what dog food is the best", both Bing and Google give me an entire page full of ads before any actual results pop up.

On desktop, Google's "sponsored" marker is more obvious than Bing's, but no wheres near as obvious as it used to be when Google's motto was don't be evil.

Mobile search result ads are aggressively bad with Google, frequently I have to scroll down past a page and a half of ads before I get to actual results.

All in all, users are losing out.
Still would love if desktop terminal emulators would implement the zmodem receiver side, so that you can ssh into some host of your choice and just type "sz" to copy arbitrary files of your choice onto your local system.
It's always so simple when you take the time to break it down..