skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medium of exchange is a bit different.

Successful currencies generally need some price stability, otherwise they are avoided or hoarded, and their use as a medium of exchange vanishes. Historically this would happen with coins minted from precious metals like gold: when the price of gold rose above the face value of the coins, the coins disappeared from circulation.
I literally said to keep trying!

47 years on, most experienced developers seem to agree that SQL is better extended than replaced, but innovations like graph databases and "NoSQL" document stores have been received very well.
Capitalist system does not seem to value scientific research well enough. Risk to reward ratio is very high.
"That's very shallow. This magma is most likely coming from a source of at least eight to 10 kilometres, it could even be 20-plus kilometres," said University of Iceland vulcanologist Thorvaldur Thordarson
The graph approach (e.g. Wikipedia) is pretty much useless without a search engine (e.g. Google) directing you to the first useful node in the graph. When is the last time you just jumped onto the Wikipedia homepage and found your way to the information you wanted?

So once you accept that a graph structure is useless without powerful search behind it, the advantages of the tree approach are more obvious: it provides a basic search mechanism through hierarchy, and still allows for a graph approach (via linking and duplication of content in multiple categories).

Also, maintaining documentation sucks. So there's that...
Oh, S-100 signal voltages are at 8V, and +/- 18V?
I'd agree that goading and memeing shouldn't be considered manipulation on their own, but there's a reasonable number of specific lies being mixed in. There was a big thread on Reddit yesterday purporting to prove that nobody closed their short positions and the real short interest is an order of magnitude higher than commonly believed.
enron/madoff isn't really comparable because there's a mastermind behind both of them. GME? not so much.
Good to know. We use the term "semi truck" because it's more widely used, and we figured that folks might not know the term class 8 truck!
> Because of slowly but steadily improving equipment, training, nutrition, medical treatment.

The simplest predictor is "how many people practice a sport?"

Insofar as fitness for a particular athletic trial follows the central limit theorem, larger samples will open the door to more spectacular outliers. The relationship between total participants and the time it takes for a record to fall shows up in sport after sport.

The other factor is: new PEDs that are forbidden but difficult to detect at a given point in time. These affect some sports more than others. Periodically records in these sports are "reset" through administrative twiddling. For example, every 20 years or so Olympic Weightlifting weight classes get changed, meaning all the old records are essentially obsoleted.
I don't think I've ever seen that attributed to Paul Newman.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/09/poker-patsy/
There’s a massive forgery issue with physical items - Shoes, Fashion Brands, Art.

The benefit of NFT for psychical goods isn’t so much proving who the current owner is as much as it is proving the historical ownership so the authenticity of an item can be ensured. You don’t need a central government for this. For example, as long as you know Nikes address, I can confirm a shoe I want to buy is truly authentic by verifying that address is the original owner.
We add our device downstream of the DPF, so it's entirely complementary.
I'm having a fun time tracking the madness with my sideproject: https://topstonks.com/stocks/GME

Total comment volume on /r/wallstreetbets is up 300% over the last 24 hours
Why write assertions when TS can figure them out for you?

And "tooling/dep bloat" is not a real thing. You point TSC at your code for prod, https://www.npmjs.com/package/ts-node-dev in dev. Frontend is even easier, create-react-app and Next.js and other project tools have TS support built in.
Ask HN: Acquisition Checklist for Founders
I am a solo founder of a bootstrapped saas using a throwaway account for privacy reasons.

I have been approached by the M&A team of a large company and we are working through the details/due diligence of a potential acquisition. It has gotten serious enough that I am starting to get a handle on what I need to do as a founder that is not on the due diligence checklist. For example, I will need to tell my team about this (one item on the checklist), and before I do, I need to (other items on the checklist).

I have great experts helping me on the legal and financial aspects of the deal. I don't have a peers who have been through this, but I know there are HNers who have.

If you have sold your company before, what were the important items on your todo list before and right after an acquisition? Is there something you wish you had done, but didn't think of until later? What are the tasks that I need to do, but the banker/lawyers/brokers/BigCo are not going to add to the list.
Show HN: I made a PHP script for generating XML sitemaps
Interestingly, I think we'd see the same thing in music if there were "records." I'm a musician, as are my kids, so I've observed youth music over the past half century. I think the technical ability of young classical musicians has increased over that time span, rather noticeably. I've brought this up with teachers, and they agree with me.

Kids are expected to play a difficult movement from a major concerto for their college audition -- pieces that were considered to be the domain of a handful of rare prodigies in my generation. I can't tell you how many times I've heard the Tchaikovsky in violin recitals.

Granted, whether this corresponds to an advance in the artistic dimension of music is an open question, one that probably has no objective answer.
Which is a mistake. On X11 the server, window manager and compositor are three separate programs. Both window manager and compositor can individually crash, started, stopped and replaced at runtime without any of the other running X11 client instances affected.
Thanks Tito. We're big fans of AirMiners!
How does verification work? How do you prohibit duplication? If you need a central server for verification then blockchain is pointless.
This is The End of US any space program. Russia has rockets to lift up any cargo. China has factorys for building toys. Russia had best universities of science always. If you dont believe me watch on youtube "The Sputnik effect" movie. One of the best I ever seen about reality in space race.
The Future of Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals: Automation
Company with a Fake Employee for Salespeople
Many years ago I was with a company that had a fake employee name we used for things like telemarketers.

Oh, you need to speak to Bob, would you like me to transfer you to his voicemail?

Voicemails went to /dev/null

Anytime somebody called for that person you knew it was a waste of time salesperson.

Food services? That's Bob. Trucking, speak to Bob.

It was much easier then explaining we didn't have that department, didn't buy their service etc.
Age 94.

I'm really glad he managed to see 90.
I note that you have changed your comment.

> Every year millions of devices are thown away because of this.

There is no evidence of that. iPhones are not thrown away. They are recycled.

> How many phones suffered from supply chain attack last year? Probably zero.

Given the obvious rise in cyberattacks at all levels of sophistication this seems like a very weird comment to make.
I absolutely love this. Congrats on building such an obviously missing problem. The efficiency/productivity obsession in me dances for joy at the idea of this.

The last company I worked at used the "Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations" book as their bible. It was a wonderful way to structure team rituals and review cycles.
As an aside, is anybody else getting spam from Postmates? I gave a tagged email address only to Plex in 2012. They sent me a compromise notice in 2015. It started getting used by spammers in late 2016, with ~4400 spam messages received since then. In the last month or so, Postmates, who I have never used, started spamming that address. I'm now receiving circa one thing from Postmates a day.
Be careful you don't get caught up in nice sounding, unsubstantiated narratives propagated memetically on reddit.
I can't verify this, other than via the stories specifics make it sound believable, and I've had similar experiences elsewhere. I too will never buy a tannoy product again.
The old "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" adage still holds true. But I would be surprised if this particular bubble lasts as long as Madoff's, since the facts are available for everyone to see, unlike Madoff's case.
This sounds pretty awesome! Best wishes!

Any thoughts on using this on freight trains?
Ah, I was hoping it would replace it, so the drivers don't have to stop and burn clean when they do too many short runs.
> and you may get yelled at by an interviewer for "wasting everybody's time."

They had an opportunity to evaluate your resume or CV before inviting you in for an interview. If it was a hard requirement for them, they shouldn't have invited you in for an interview. The only time you're really wasting is the time of the person who is screening resumes.

> Yes, this has happened to me. On the up side I now have a list of a few companies I know I won't work for unless I'm desperate.

I'm sorry that happened to you! What a terrible experience. It's definitely good to keep that list of places you know you should avoid.
I've honestly come to like when services remind me that they couldn't charge my card. It reminds me of the services that I don't use still taking money.
Wrong. I'm speaking from the personal experience of knowing poor people who have been hurt by this practice.

There's no reason this couldn't have been implemented by asking customers for consent. Consent isn't asked because it's not likely to be granted in many cases and they fucking know it.
> Thirty minutes after leaving the recruiter is on the phone to me, screaming at me

I once refused to let a recruiter send my resume to this company because I thought the company was slimey (it looked like they used SEO to trick people who were actually looking for a free government service to use their paid service instead... but it was purposely ambigious they were not affiliated with the government)

The recuriter started getting angry at me, so I made it clear I would not work with someone who didn't respect me, and hung up. A recruiter who views you as simply a product to sell is not worth keeping. There's a million recruiters.
I meet couple of recruiters who insist on me sending them CV as DOC. I tell them that I have carefully typeset my CV in LaTeX in PDF and I am not willing to rewrite it to Word. Usually this is the end of it and they just take my PDF.

I have once been on an interview and interviewer pulled out my CV, obviously horribly mangled in Word. I told him that no, this isn't my CV and that I take too much pride in whatever I make including my CV to make such horribly looking document.

I have once met recruiter who insisted I rewrite my CV to include description of my experience with everything that was listed in the ad. I told them that this is my CV and it already lists a lot of stuff and it doesn't make sense for me to list obvious things (like knowledge of Excel) or things I have no experience with and that in general the CV is about me and not about the ad contents. I got no reply.
Oh nice. It would be really awesome to see a homebrew socket-7 or super socket-7 system. The only thing that comes to mind that's not stupid expensive would be getting a PCB manufacturer to solder a 500 or 700 pin Lattice ECP5(-5G) FPGA to a board for you (the FPGA in single units is like $60). You can use the trellis/nextpnr open source toolchain with those. You'd probably need a 6 or more layer board, which isn't the cheapest thing...

I'd been doing a M68K board with an ice40. I got some 68010's with the intention of implementing an MMU for funzies. Maybe try to boot Linux (sloooowly) on it. Got side tracked with a different project I thought would be more useful for people :)
From the page:

> We sell the carbon dioxide to concrete producers and other end users, and we split that revenue with our customers.
> From the point of view of a worker which gets their profits diluted in dividends payed to shareholders, the very existence of a stock market very much looks like a scam.

Only if the worker doesn't understand that the initial sale of stock raised the money that let the company buy the tools that the worker uses to make the profits. Getting that money without paying dividends looks like a scam where the stock owners are the suckers.
Note that this script is very much incomplete and i would love it if people took a look at it and told me how to improve it or help me improve it by contributing!
I suppose trying this on VirtualBox (Win10 system) could be an exercise in frustration, but I'm tempted...
You may not be able to do a lot of "planning ahead" but when you're there you can look at how people dress and emulate that. In some places it might mean buying tighter fitting clothes than you might wear in the states (some places in Europe a lot of men wear much tighter clothing & style their hair more than the average heterosexual man would in North America), or getting flipflops instead of sneakers or vice versa, seeing what sort of bags people carry. I wouldn't think of the goal as being looking exactly like a local so much as not wearing things that immediately peg you as an outsider, like if the adult men in that area uniformly use shoulder bags or briefcases & you're carrying around a backpack.

It can also have a lot to do with nonverbal and body language–observe how close people stand to one another, how much eye contact if any, whether people greet strangers & if so how, how people queue, etc.. It took me a while when visiting India to learn that people don't stand on line the same as they do in the USA. I put my bag down in an airport line to get out a document, and as the line moved forward, people just started going around me, because I was not immediately moving forward with the line. In the USA this would be considered very rude, but in India (at least in my limited experience) it was considered typical–the line doesn't wait for you, move it or lose it. I got with the program quickly after I learned that.

And this should go without saying but don't display expensive or flashy things (jewelry, cameras, possibly fancy cell phone etc.) in an environment you're not familiar with.
Awesome! Every person on our team has Accelerate on our their desk :) highly recommended read and is a huge part of how we've shaped our product
Impervious may have just launched the first truly decentralized domain extension
Any Feedback on “Software Design for Flexibility” by Hanson and Sussman?
Has anybody read this book? High expectations given that it is a new book written by Sussman, the author of SICP.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-design-flexibility
Here's your billion dollar slack startup.. create a way to get that slack knowledge into your official documentation.
Well, we might want to consider changing the criteria a little bit. No?
Another note about 'internal' investors getting preferential treatment as opposed to outsiders: this is usually a result of SHA conditions and elements in the articles of incorporation that stipulate that in case of a sale or issue of new shares existing shareholders have first right of refusal. That this makes for a less competitive environment is something that everybody seems to take as normal, but after reading this article I'm wondering if it really should be normal or of there are other important reasons why this right always seems to be granted.
Storing “value” in a crypto currency is a concept I will never understand. What value do you store? How can you store value in something that can drop by 20% in a few hours?

It seems to me to be a way to say “put your money there and it will eventually become more”, which is just speculation, and not a store of anything.

Edit: to add to that, how is Bitcoin a store of value if a bear market is >90% lower than a bull market?

That seems to be a meme that people repeat to justify their Bitcoin bet, but I don’t see how that makes sense.
The space key doesn't work in YouTube search on Firefox
This is good advice, but I'm actually a lot more interested in the "four types of documentation" that it links to: https://documentation.divio.com/

That seems like a super useful categorization, and I intend to use it to inform my own efforts going forward - the first thing I noticed when I looked at this typology was that I generally try to write all of these, and probably the primary barrier to utility in the documentation that I write is that I haven't previously had a good sense of how to separate them out.
We interviewed a person a number of years ago now in a similar boat.

We'd asked him how proficient he was with a number of technologies he'd listed on his resume, and he didn't seem to know what any of them were.

Finally, frustrated, we asked him why he'd put these things on his resume. He said "my recruiter told me to". Sigh. I don't know for certain but I believe we didn't work with that recruiter again.
I, for one, appreciate the additional 2MB of storage that gave us. /s
The Richest People in the World in 2021, Visualized
NAT64 is useful to allow IPv4 services to work in an IPv6-only environment. It's nice to only have one stack to administrate, and IPv6 is generally more flexible, but you often need to fall back to IPv4.

NAT64 is more and more used instead of CGNAT (well, it's still CGNAT to an extent), but I don't really see one being advantageous over the other. Only that there are only IPv6 semantics when using NAT64, so stuff like roaming, privacy extensions, etc. works, and you don't have to rely on dual-stack.

I think the big advantage to NAT64 is identifying the pain points (incompatible equipment, applications, etc) in an IPv6-only world. And it really is a clear transition path to IPv6.
> If you believe the employer’s argument that unions aren’t useful and basically just exist to fund their own operations through dues, then it’s analogous to the “light 1% of the wages on fire” scenario.

But why would the company care if all the employees decided to light 1% of wages on fire? I'm sure there are a lot of things employees buy that hurt worker productivity (e.g. alcohol, pot in many states), but beyond jobs that require clean urine tests I don't see big companies like Amazon asking public officials to change traffic light timings around liquor stores to make it less convenient for employees to buy their performance-hindering substances [0].

However, I understand that for someone barely scraping by, in a country that basically went to war with unions and labor, a union can be a very hard sell when they aren't ubiquitous like in many European nations.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/17/22287191/amazon-alabama-w...
I don't think GameStop is a case of this, but I can't help but see the GameStop stock story unfolding with the social media drivers and think of the result of a melding of two specific technologies into a third with horrifying implications for long term financial stability.

First, the research over the last decade into social media persona swarms, where a single operator can program and control a large group of fake social media accounts whose details are created through methods such as Generative Adaptive Networks (GANs), a Machine Learning technique that can learn to produce something new that imitates an original. [1][2][3]

Next, automated algorithmic trading [4], where algorithms determine what and when to buy (increasingly using Machine Learning), which is believed to account for 70-80% of U.S. stock trading.

Last, the melding of the two, where automated traders use automated social media accounts to influence at opportune moments and then take advantage of the temporary dips or surges caused by that influence, possibly causing ripple effect dips or surges that the automated traders can use.

As far as I know, right now this is just an interesting idea for a science fiction story (am planning to write that in the near term now, too). However, the technology to do this exists right now - the problem is one of integration rather than innovation.

[1] https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/2/16/945768/-

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110318/02153313534/us-mi...

[3] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2201350/lots-of--people...

[4] https://www.fool.com/knowledge-center/what-is-algorithmic-tr....

[5] https://therobusttrader.com/what-percentage-of-trading-is-al...
I only saw the top of the article, but a major factor in track right now is the use of an electronic pacer. There will be a ring of lights on the inside line of the track. Stay ahead of the light and you're on record pace.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/10/14/lights-trac...
Some people are crazy enough to get a loan against their Bitcoin. Unless you bank on your ability to pay the loan anyway this is an easy way to lose all your Bitcoin if you end up unemployed during a Bitcoin crash. Some companies require 300% backing in Bitcoin for each dollar you borrow and force you to liquidate at 110%. Paying capital gains is cheap compared to losing 66% of your Bitcoin.
You forget subdivision regulations which will require roads, curbs, a drainage system (lines, catch basins, retention ponds). You'll need an engineer.

You may need a sewer system or, if you install septic tanks, you'll have to go to half-acre lots. You'll have to file a plat in the Recorder's Office, so you can sell lots. You can't do that without planning commission approval.You'll need a surveyor.

Whether the roads are public or private, they still require the same public standards, because fire trucks have to drive on them and, because the county may have to acquire them to maintain so they'll want them to meet a certain standard.

All of these costs have to be paid upfront.

There's more but you soon begin to realize that you can't get 600 lots on 150 acres nor will your costs be limited to $6MM.
What do you think of tradytics? Looks really interesting, though I mainly trade OTC, which I sort of doubt it has much support for.
Edwin from Stripe here. Postmates started using Stripe as an SME, when they were probably smaller than your company. We’ve been scaling alongside them for the past decade, and the auth optimization features mentioned in the post weren’t built for them—they’re built for and used by businesses of all sizes. In fact, Radar’s ML was designed to become better as the network grows—the more card transactions it sees, the more effective it becomes (imagine the fraud data we learn from every Postmates transaction can be applied to your transactions too!). This is one of the principles of Stripe—and it’s our goal to help scale your company’s growth, just like Postmate’s.

That said, could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and we can take another look at the issues you mentioned? (For example, we honor rates for their negotiated term.)
AFAIK the Coca-Cola light doesn't have any sugar, so the usual cane sugar explanation does not apply.
I agree confluence is terrible. The tags thing is kind of OK. Gmail fwiw has a similar problem.
It was for me. A long-ago BA didn't look as good on the resume. Also, my employer paid for it, which is common among federal contractors who can write off payments for courses that "maintain or improve existing job skills".
Massivly good. I will do anything for my privacy
> We should strive towards a more equitable society but we can't let our day to day being defined by it.

Didn't you say "its over for you" previously

> You're at Amazon and probably earning more than most people here

I find that unlikely

> Both scenarios seem favorable for your future

Is it?