skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DoorDash Is on an Acquisition Tear!
I'll preamble this by saying that I worked as an early team member at a startup in the on-demand food delivery space. Our team was able to grow the company from its infancy to $1.5B+ in annual GMV, so I'm both close to the space, and passionate about it.

With this in mind, here's my outlook on the acquisitions that DoorDash has been making as of late (ie- Lvl5, Caviar, and Scotty Labs).

Many people have speculation about why these acquisitions were made – some think it's a growth / market play (Caviar), other's think that it's a product dev / integration play (Lvl5).

I think both are right; it's inevitable that DD wants to set up their infrastructure and become as defensible as possible by developing a deeper product before they IPO

But, I truly think the main reason DD has made these acquisitions is a talent play. I think that they have found some really solid people who are smart, and whom they can integrate into their team. So, the quickest way to grow their own team is through acquisition.

This is a subjective opinion, and I could be way off, but I'm interested to hear what others think!
Walmart may have been first with low prices rurally but with Amazon and other online realitors it was only a matter of time.
I posted this to showcase the potential impacts of a subzero rate environment.
The same thing happens in email chains as well.

A good meeting lead can make sure they get everyone's input in a face to face without necessarily putting them on the spot. Sadly those are few and far in between.

I worked with one and they were excellent meetings. They got ideas out, and predicted possible issues better than any other meetings I've been part of.
Biggest ROI the government can get, invest in the fucking IRS. Something like a 1:15 or 1:20 return if I remember correctly.
We have a legacy Django app at work. Coming from Rails and living in the npm eco-system for the past few years, Django to me seems like an anti-pattern framework in a death-spiral.
I remember when you basically had to yell "Committing!" and "Done committing!" to the whole room. Woe be unto those companies that tried to use VSS or CVS with more than a roomful of developers.
If you are lost high in the zone, water is precious. So, lost people would tend to congregate near water, thats a basic survival outcome. The commonality of head wound, across a long time window argues for something which is more likely to persist over long times.

So, I go with yeti favoured a head-shot, and only predated on lonely travellers high near the lake as the least-likely outcome.

Every archeology program made by the BBC says "ritual" so there's that. Maybe blunt force trauma from a long tibetan horn? Or blunt force trauma for playing the long tibetan horn?
Anybody know if this book touches on the more recent features added into Postgresql for Full-Text Search? Hard to tell what's in the contents. Seems like a great resource though.
Muddy Waters pioneered this concept I believe. The reason they need to partner with hedge funds is because building a compelling enough case requires expensive on-the-ground detective work. Their work on Olam is my favorite.

[1] https://www.muddywatersresearch.com/
I first ask people for their NAME. Then I inquire about their JOB, followed by HEALTH and QUEST.
I think it's destined to happen when there is less competition. I don't think of it as punishment, but as prevention. Even if we assume a company was altruistic and kept prices artificially low, the lack of competition would at least prevent a product from getting cheaper faster due to less players innovating... and we wouldn't even be able to measure what we're missing out on.
Thanks to this post, they will be knocking soon. Well done.
"Spend the relevant type of time with the appropriately targeted type of users"
But the ideas don't really stand on their own merit. The reason the poster claims to have gone onto the site at first was for trolling purposes and they used a specific political angle to do so. If you have enough people like this then it becomes easier to convince others that these bad ideas have merit as there will seemingly be many people supporting the ideas.

Basically, you're not dealing with tabula rasa because the trolls seem to favor one side and it tilts the balance.
Yup. The law books are stuffed with well intended laws that simply shifted the incentives in another direction.

The 80/20 rule for insurance companies is a good example - now they have an incentive for prices to go up, not down.
Sputnik virophage
It doesn't matter who is shorting etc

It matters if people are looking to sell the stock. Existing owners can also plummet a stock by selling even if there are no shorts.
> const can be trivially casted away.

Yes, types can be trivially casted away too. That's not a reason to use void* everywhere.
> git revert HEAD~n

You could just revert your revert commit, or check out an earlier revision.
>“They moved their headquarters to Boston last year. My hometown. I don’t appreciate when you’re running a scam in my hometown.”

>The arrogance of that statement alone discredits his whole argument.

What? I had never heard of Citron before five minutes ago, but that's an embarrassingly terrible analysis. Do people trust the advice of this Citron with their own actual money?
> Second, I think there are much better rules than spamming const to attain the same objective

Like?

> you might need more experience to really appreciate that.

Practically a picture perfect appeal to authority.
This really doesn't matter. The fires endanger lives. Some things are more important than money. I should hope you'd realize that.
You say that like it's self-evident, but it isn't. You haven't presented a compelling argument for why absolute privacy in financial transactions matters, let alone is an objective good.

However, my argument isn't just against private, it's also against trustless. Censoring transactions to entities deemed by society as harmful (terrorists, sanctioned entities) is a good thing. This cannot be implemented with a trustless system. If Monero were totally private but had a way of determining if the payees were sanctioned entities, that would be one thing, but it doesn't. Auditability matters. How can you track down the next Enron if you can't see their transactions? How can you follow the flow of stolen money? It's fantasy.

Default-hidden, available on subpoena is the middle ground all law and order societies have deemed to be the right place to draw the line. You need to have a solid basis for why this should be thrown away, and how you plan to address these things.

This feels like a software engineering "this system is too complicated to modify, let's throw it out and start over; thus solving the problem once and for all" type deal.
How is this not wage theft?

It's been a very long time since I've waited tables, but a company keeping tips in this way is (or at least was) in serious violation of US labor laws.
You could do it, but it would take forever.
Here are some starting points for the different technologies involved:

Here's how to make the walking robot:
https://asimo.honda.com/
http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~fer/cmsc828/classes/cse390-05-0...

Here's how to make it look like them:
https://www.creativebloq.com/features/deepfake-examples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9qs6JudXJg

Here's how to make it talk like them:
https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning
I, too, remember this show! Burke was great.
because you get a full house to yourself! You say hypothetical traveller so i take it you dont travel much but when you do. Apart from the space the seterility of hotels gets to you. I only stay in hotels if its a short stay and airbnb checkin time doesnt comply.
People keep talking about "waterfall", but I have not seen real, actual "waterfall" in the last 15 years, anywhere. Last time I've seen it was at Microsoft in early 00s, and even there it wasn't super-strict, people just spent their "planning" time prototyping stuff so as not to have to work as hard when the "design" phase ends.

Moreover, for certain types of work (such as, for instance, building platforms) a forced "design" and specification phase would probably be a net benefit. As they say, "half a year of coding can save you two weeks of planning". Except when you also release your shit to users you can't fix your old design mistakes because everyone depends on them now.
Doesn't seem like that would explain the trauma
You do realize that all vehicles have risks of fire or explosion. In order to make a vehicle with sufficient energy density to be usable for transportation you have to take those risks.

While it's true that Tesla has had a relatively small number of vehicle fires with the Model S and X. To date there has not been a single fire with a Model 3. Even with the Model S and X fires they were far rarer than ICE vehicle fires. It's just that nobody bothers reporting on ICE vehicle fires because they happen all the time. The relative rarity of the Tesla fires is what made them news not a high incident rate.
The fundemental problem with science today is that it needs funding. Funding means vested interests.

If a scientist is trying to game the system, they are doing it to secure future funding. Either they are gaming the system to make the funder look good, or to appeal to a future funder.
Could you give an example of a “lethal” query?
> In other words, it has a kink (i.e. a sharp corner) on ALL points.

x sin(1/x) is continuous and non-differentiable at 0, but I wouldn't say it has a corner there.

A sharp corner to me means a point where the left and right derivatives both exist but are different.
Is this the beginning of banning LinkedIn 3rd-party browser extensions for good?
Ok, but imagine a bug bounty program where you're paid based on how damaging your website is to the product's short term reputation, regardless of whether you've actually disclosed (or even found) anything or substance.
Just to be clear, I understood what you were saying before. I just disagree. I think the right approach is to select trusted experts and let them make the decisions about their fields.

Again, since this is a tech community, let me use that for an analogy. It's a classic problem for non-technical founders to evaluate their technical hires. They aren't qualified.

The right solution is not to find some gameable metric of tech-ness, like LoC/day or Github stars. Instead one uses either direct experience-based trust or some sort of indirect trust, like where you have a technical expert you trust and have that person interview your first tech hires.

Yes, having expert humans make the decisions is imperfect. But it's not like a managerialist approach is either. And the advantage of using expert humans, rather than a gameable metric and managerial control, is that we have centuries of experience in how people go wrong and many good approaches for countering it.
Not open source but more generic in it's approach https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-stop-people-from-hacking-my-...
Why not keep a few hundred dollars in cash in a drawer for when you need it?
I wish they published at least the book index
I think it's one of the best letters of resignation that I've ever seen.

The question it raises for me, though, is where he can go that will have a source of grant money that is sufficiently "safe". I applaud Ethan's adherence to ethics, but I personally don't know that a truly ethical approach is actually possible.

If "one hop" from Epstein is too close, how about two hops --- say, money donated from a foundation that Epstein contributed to? Three hops? Four? What about money coming from people who have associated with Epstein in the past?

For that matter, is it just Epstein, or are their other irredeemable sources as well? I don't suppose Idi Amin has a charitable foundation, but what about money with Nazi ties? What about Saudi money? Israeli? US?

Where does one draw the line? Is it just a matter of what one is personally comfortable being associated with, or is there some coherent principle that can be drawn upon?
I'll note that executives are paid based on how much they can hype a company's short-term reputation, so I think the problem isn't really with the short sellers here.
There have been lots of programs to do that. This one isn't that good. Here's an open source one.[1] And another one.[2]

Doing a room is the same photogrammetry problem, but inside-out. Autodesk had that 10 years ago. The current product for that is ReCap.[3] You can work from drone imagery if necessary.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0PDCp0QF1o

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D0EhSi-vvc

[3] https://www.autodesk.com/products/recap/overview
According to the Wikipedia of the original New York font, the new font is unrelated.
I found the first edition to be quite useful and practical. If you've been around the block once or twice, it can be difficult to find references for material that will extend what you know, give you some additional perspectives on things you already do, and provide a look in how another developer goes about every day tasks to be productive. The first edition did that for me. Good stuff.
I've just tried to avoid the gig economy generally now.

It is all about pushing risk onto "contractors" and customers.
Bit bit where they tweeted "We're going to change this" back in July, and got a bunch of press for it? https://twitter.com/t_xu/status/1153867334685089794

It shouldn't take a month to switch your tipping model to work the way it does for the rest of the industry.
The parent is inferring that Lukas owns a non-insignificant stake of First Solar, a quasi-competitor of Solar City/Telsa, not Walmart themselves.
For those fact-checking this:

https://twitter.com/tapoueh

> PostgreSQL Major Contributor (CREATE EXTENSION, Event Triggers), pgloader, el-get

This is a very bold lie to put on your Twitter, I'm going to go ahead and assume he's not one and the postgres wiki needs to be updated

[EDIT] - I stand corrected, everyone (but me) is right -- He is a contributor, not a committer to the Postgres project, and considered at the very least a major/notable contributor. No one stated that he was a committer but the comment above clarifying that he's not one is correct.
Netflix? Instant iOS upgrades? Unless you’re transferring something bigger than about a gigabyte, the TCP slow start won’t even ramp the connection up to full speed before the download finishes. In this age of AWS there is little point in having that much upload capacity at home. Really, I was just tickled that Comcast would agree to build what’s basically a Metro-E line to my house so I ran with it.
The problem is finance is so unnecessarily complex I have no idea what's going on.
You host a uniquely-configured copy of Dashboard for each web application. It only requires some small changes I can investigate tomorrow that would let you use one copy for multiple applications.
Not at all. “On information and belief” is an extremely low standard.

The standard for Tesla getting damages for accusations which don’t ultimately pan out... that’s pretty high.
I traditionally like using the libraries not the Flask integrations (as in your sqlalchemy example) however I do find myself using Flask Admin and Flask-WTForms, since while they do have downsides and you have to commit to using them, they do a lot for you.

I haven't checked out CherryPy, I should next hobby project.

Gunicorn is awesome, uWSGI is also good and feels more "production" to me.
Didn't Solar City rely on local installation firms?
Postgres's documentation on FTS is actually really excellent, have you looked at it?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/textsearch.html
That's a great point, and an interesting example link for two reasons:

1) Real estate seems like a large market for this technology.

2) The specific space in the link looks like it would photograph well, but the 3D version reminds me that it has low ceilings and a lot of areas with limited natural lighting. i.e. it does a worse job than photographs for the purpose — selling the unit — because you can find the unflattering perspectives.

(Side: the red dot is very confusing as regards browser pointer-lock, and the whole thing seemed very awkward to navigate with a trackpad until I discovered that WASD worked.)
You have to check if a number is zero before you divide by it, you need to check if a number is positive before you take its log, you need to check it a set is measurable before you measure it or integrate over it. I don’t really see how any of these are significantly different.
Transductive Auxiliary Task Self-Training for Neural Multi-Task Models
You might be leaving out that the CEOs in question have already got a huge personal pile of money, and they finally realized they don't need any more, and that if they keep it up there's riots and other bad things in store for them.
Cutting edge unless I am mistaken.
Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
Under diagnosis due to the incentive structure. It makes a lot of sense in this way! I am pretty interested in this, can you send over a message?
Police work. I wouldn't bet on being able to identify any particular individual, but you're always leaking more than you think.
You can disable this OTP mode of the YubiKey with either the "Yubikey Manager" or more advanced "Yubikey Personalization Tool" software. It's unrelated to FIDO U2F. It's the first thing I do with any new key as I find it similarly annoying.. I accidentally tapped it once while working in Adobe Lightroom and it triggered a sequence of actions that went on for 30 seconds that I couldn't undo..
This is a very early unit (#12) and the initial firmware was indeed deafeningly loud. However, the current firmware is whisper quiet, certainly much quieter than the Quad G5 next to it (and the G5 is throttled down), and I also have super-quiet power supplies installed. I find it perfectly liveable.
Too early to say. The "Asian tigers", Korea, Singapore, Japan, etc. had a similar trajectory. If you believe Pikkety, that type of growth levels off at the level of developed countries once catch-up is achieved. Which is not a bad place to end up. There are then stagnation problems. Japan hit that first.

The countries that have hit stagnation, other than the US, tend to build good public infrastructure. This pumps money into the economy, but not through the banks.
The problem with using computable numbers in mathematics is that if you define two numbers x and y according to two different computations, then the question of whether x equals y is itself uncomputable. That doesn’t inherently make math with computable numbers impossible, but it does mean that even when restricting yourself to computable numbers, you will inevitably start working with some uncomputable functions, so the whole thing doesn’t quite work cleanly.
The Great Student-Loan Scam
No, though my impression is it's progressing pretty well, so I think it will get there.
Funnily enough, one of the ingredients in normal vape juice, propylene glycol, has been used as a delivery medium for inhalers (asthma and otherwise) since the 50s.
Finance is necessarily complex.
Sounds like they aren’t vetting them enough, training them enough, or the panels are just hard to install properly.
I primarily use Flask for my research project. It was quick to pick up and honestly, I like a more barebones style - one of the reasons I use Sublime Text over IDEs. Plus Miguel Grinberg's tutorial is fantastic at getting you on your feet (though I'm still sour over changes compared to his original tutorial, more because its made it difficult to onboard new developers).

However, Pyramid's made some of the coolest shirts. http://pylonsproject.storenvy.com/collections/56570-all-prod...
https://eprints.qut.edu.au/26995/
How long have you had it? Have had a USB-C yubikey in my pocket for almost 2 years now with no issues.
This is one of my biggest pain points with hg vs git: Git is actually the one that flat-out prevents me from rebasing most of the time, usually for the most spurious of reasons, whereas hg just lets me choose to auto-rebase most files and pick the ones I'm interested in to manually merge.
Strategy to AWS Adoption
> My connections I cared about simply switched to other forms of communication.

I’ve been trying for years to get people to use XMPP. It worked while GTalk and Messenger used XMPP and worked with it. Nowadays my list contains 0 people.

> Private events, I still find out about.

Some I might, some I might not. And I’d certainly hear about it late and not even be in the discussion about when something happens. Because that happens on FB.

> Reacting to a post is neither taking part in the event nor engaging with the people involved in it. It's this artificial, vicarious interaction that people convince themselves is a valuable addition to their life when in reality it's a fleeting sentence on an infinitely scrolling newsfeed.

You misunderstood me or maybe I expressed myself badly. I mean events where you don’t have a close personal relation to the organizer. A gothic night in a club. The English language meetup. The neighbouring city’s birthday celebrations.

If I stopped using facebook right now, I’d get back less than 5 minutes per day. Unlike so many on HN I never had the problem of somehow being addicted to FB. The site became worse (UX wise) over time and nowadays I don’t even feel slightly compelled to read there.
Being a contributor and having commit access are orthogonal.
They're referring, I believe, to the ownership of FSLR: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FSLR/
And Walton is at 21%:
https://m.marketscreener.com/FIRST-SOLAR-INC-37008/company/
Founder here. I built Juto so that people who want a mobile app for their business can easily get it done themselves.

I've been running an app development agency, and occasionally we'd be asked to build a simple, dedicated app to manage information capture and workflows. These varied in purpose: one was to monitor rare birds, one was a health & safety app for a landscaping firm, another was data capture for a medical clinical trial.

We've piloted the system (self-built dedicated mobile apps) at a few companies in the road freight and construction industries, and built most of their feedback into it.

I'm still coming to grips with how to market this, so any advice is welcome. The best approach so far (which is showing some momentum) seems to be showing it to channel partners who already have vendor relationships with the small-to-medium businesses who would most likely use this.

As a launch special I'm offering a code that will get your business' app into the app stores for a $1 submission fee (and a 14-day free trial for a subscription). Use this code at checkout if you're keen : EPWH-TFF8-UXMN-J6MQ . Valid for the next few days, until I remember to turn it off.

The website is https://ju.to .
Any word on trying to tackle package build verification/reproductibility so users can be guaranteed that the package was built from the source code?

The problems like with rubygems from yesterday and npm a few weeks back would be gone with something like that.
Not really. Its illegal to lie like that and you can get sued for defamation. Plus your reputation is at stake. If I said GE is a fraud then no one believes me. But if Bill ackman calls it a fraud, that turns ears.
I just got more and more frustrated reading the README because I kept thinking this has already been done brilliantly and in multiple languages. It’s called What3Words.
Central banks in Asia are cutting rates to prop up their economies
I said it before on HN and it’s still my impression. Those who say loudly how liberating it is to be off facebook always seem to have had an addiction of some level or another.

Personally the most I read on FB is when I’m on the loo and already checked HackerNews ;)
That's Citron quoting the authors of the GE report...