skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Year's Biggest IPO 'Coinbase' Drops 15% in Debut (Compared to 100%+ Day-1 pops on IPOs in FY2020) - Indicating That Investors are Still Risk-Off on Speculative SPACs / IPOs Reference r/SPACs - The Year's Bigest IPO ' coinbase' drops 15%. . "Down 15%" as the stock clears 400$ when it was initially priced at 250$ 30. IPOs and SPAC's are both down ~25% in tandem from their ATHs and investor appetite generally still appears^ luke-warm at best. A blowout debut for Coinbase would've been very encouraging as an indicator of an improving risk-appetite which directly impacts SPacs.

Coinbase was given a reference price of $250 per share on the Nasdaq on Tuesday, though no shares traded hands at that price. Reference price is a guess at what it will trade at, but it doesn't mean much. It doesn't even mean that the stock has been trading at. that price; it's simply a guess. The stock opened at $386 for open market trading on Tuesday. The reference price is based on buy-sell orders / price spreads on "private transactions" of the stock. Private companies have stock that people can trade privately, just not on an exchange. This allows for price discovery in a way an IPO does not.

New Constructs CEO David Trainer: I think it's worth closer to $5 billion or $10 billion as opposed to $100 billion. Trainer points out that given the company's dual class structure, co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong will hold 22% of the voting power. Trainer: There is no reason that the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq couldn't also potentially trade crypto. The potential for current rivals to cut transaction fees to zero is also a worry of Trainer. The IPO of crypto exchangeCoinbase on Wednesday has captivated fans of digital currency and investors as they speculate on the potential for a $ 100 billion valuation on the company.

Trainer thinks all of these factors setCoinbase up to let down investors who are expecting eye-popping growth over the next five years. Trainer: "We think everybody that can trade crypto will want to get in and get a piece and you will see a race to the bottom in terms of margins" Getting in late (after early investors) on traditional IPOs are a risky investment. Similar to SPACs, it's not always dependent on whether it's a good company, but whether the valuation is reasonable. Coinbase IPO was a direct listing rather than IPO, so the $250 price was just a reference price, not an actual set price. Valuation is actually lower than that $100 billion estimate at $340/share where it closed. They're also a crypto bank custodian and hold a couple hundred billion $ worth of crypto. If they adopt Gemini and BlockFi's DeFi models they will rival banks for deposits. DeFi has the potential to completely disrupt the banking sector. High single and double digit savings rates smoke permanently low money market accounts. The Empire Spacs Back is on my watchlist as well.

Coinbase is around 100 bil and Bakkt around 2.7 bil. Pltr was pretty flat for like two months too. "Compared to blah blah" yeah expect 100bn to double wake up. It's a direct listing, more lax lockups if at all. 2,600 ($3,600) in Bitcoins.
Doenonenof you points: You can't really blame Firefox for not supporting uMatrix since it isn't developed anymore.
Also we have to ask the question: does DRM like Widevine even work? One could just take a video recording of their Netflix stream using OBS or something similar, and Widevine can't even do anything to counter it.
Sorry for the name mixup; that's the right one, yes.

That project could use more contributors, if anyone is interested.
I would love to believe that would make a difference, but in a hyperpartisan world where many vote based on a handful of ideological allegiances, how many would seriously be moved to change sides over something as small as a little corruption? Or is this something that would be more at the primary level, where it really is more about personality and personal qualities than party?

In any case, the Trump movement's whole response to this kind of thing was a combination of denial and "lol everyone does it", and it seems like that was enough for many in that camp.
Well they aren't legally insiders because... they made the rules.
> My house I bought 12 years ago is now worth double what I paid for it

This is not as strong of a financial case as one might think. AAPL stock I bought less than 2 years ago is now worth more than double what I paid for it. If you don't want to have to pick a winner, the Nasdaq composite doubled in the past 2 years, and if you feel like the Nasdaq is too risky because of 2000 then the SP500 doubled in the past 5. All of the money that you spent up front on that house could have been invested elsewhere instead with better returns.
Already had this tool for over a decade. Why did google took so long to implement it ? Anyways, better late than never.
Well it depends how large you are talking about. With todays internet speeds, anything under 10GB is a less than a few minutes.

I once accidentally locked a production MySQL database with some kind of recursive sub query.

Running queries locally on a copy avoids lock/mutation issues, and I have a snapshot to re-run queries on if I need to go back and see the source of the data.
Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
I've been trying to get a job for over a year now. I've interviewed at Google, Facebook, Dell, Airbnb, Palantir. Too many to list. I've applied to companies from the whoishiring thread every monthly. workatastartup etc. Always ending with ghosting, or a impasive rejection letter. I tried improving my interview skills. Reading Meyers, Knuth etc. books. Reading advice on Reddit etc. But I still always get rejected. I worked at EA (QA on Apex Legends), and IBM (dev) at 18. Quit due to lowpay/no insurance. Got referrals etc. dropped out my freshmen year at a top 40 college. Was on the cyber security team etc. College was too expensive so I had to dropout.

Got a low level customer support role at Amazon. But I only made $15 with no health insurance. Found some flaws within the anti-fraud system at Amazon, and wrote a detailed e-mail to the VP in charge of the anti-fraud system. It was fixed by 1am. Also was concerned about support reps being able to access any customer's data simply by pressing 'bypass' on the security question promt page. I couldn't transfer internally until a year later as well. Would ping your manager each time you apply as well. Have to delete your emails constantly due to only having 1gb email space. Assessment was similar to the one I took for CIA. Cognitive based assessment.

I even got ghosted after a interview for a manual labor job at Home Depot. I tried cold contacting executives at a few companies. Got meeting with SVP at Dell, Cisco etc. was fruitless though. Spoofed number to bypass contact whitelist etc.

I welcome any and all advice that any of y'all could offer. Even if it's brutally candid. I need a job with decent health/dental insurance. Medicaid is useless. I might be homeless soon. I'm scared, and I don't know what to do. I'm afraid that I'll end up like Bill Landreth.

e: dude@member.fsf.org will reply with a different email address.
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When struggling with a persistent issue like this in FF devtools it can still be worth filing an issue on the bugzilla tracker. Worst case, it gets closed as not reproducible. In practice many of these issues will eventually get caught if enough people complain about them and someone manages to dig through all the reports and come up with theories about the issue.

You may get a helpful reply from someone on the team with suggestions on how to troubleshoot it, like enabling specific logging flags or pulling some info out of the console.

I've filed lots of bug reports against Firefox in the past and just because you don't have an isolated reproduction case for a devtools issue, that doesn't mean it can't be fixed.
Yes - We have allowed maintenance windows each day.

That said, we have prototypes of architectures in which we have multiple instances running in the same production environment simultaneously, each with an independent SQLite database and some light-weight replication logic in the application itself. Simple DNS RR or customer-managed LB would be responsible for routing client traffic. There aren't a whole lot of entities that we actually need to synchronously replicate between application servers, so this is far more accessible for us to iterate on than throwing our hands up and jumping to some fully-managed always-on clustered database service and throwing away all of the lessons we've learned with SQLite.
Basing ones argument on points that are clearly made with rose tinted glasses doesn’t make for convincing or constructive debates.

By rose tinted I mean, to name but a few points, Completely ignoring The other nations of bordering the South China Sea and their claims and ignoring Ukraine sovereignty because of historic borders, and ignoring the fact that china literally is creating land to expand their 12nm radius around disputed shoals.

Why did you gloss over all that? It doesn’t feel like an objective assessment when those substantial and important facts are just completely ignored. And bringing up the number of dashes shown on maps while ignoring the actual issues, why!?!?!?

Both for Russia and China, yeah sure viewed with that style of rose tinted glasses then sure you’re right about everything.
Don't be silly. The U.S. is infinitely more corrupt than Nigeria. Forgive me, but there's just no comparison.
I think one of the things people often overlook is the distance between the mic and your mouth. The closer the mic is to the source, the higher the signal-to-noise ratio will be, so the less echo and background noise you'll get. Many smartphone mics will sound very impressive if you hold them around 6-12 inches from your mouth. But you don't really want to do this with your hand, so it's important to get a mic with a nice stand or a form factor that allows you to comfortably place it where you'll get good audio.

Another thing people forget about is the noise canceling and other filters that are applied to your audio by default. If you're in a reasonably quiet place, it's probably reasonable to put "noise canceling" in Zoom on low. This will make your audio less garbled. If you have a really solid audio setup with headphones, you should try turning on "use original sound," which can make your audio really nice (unfortunately not available in Linux).

I highly recommend Fifine's mics. They have a USB condenser mic with a boom arm for $60 (~$35 for just the mic) [1], and a lavalier (lapel) mic for $20 [2]. The audio quality is really quite impressive.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/FIFINE-Microphone-Adjustable-Instrume...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Lavalier-Microphone-Cardioid-Condense...
Yeah we have month-to-month and 0% of our customers use it. Most organizations (and personally I'm the same way) prefer to make as few payments as possible.
If you don't fully understand what happens under the hood with those ORMs and limit yourself to its, well limitations, then somebody is going to have a bad time. And in my experience too, with almost with all (read all that I tried) of them, some queries end up to be way easier to write yourself, and most frequent this is performance/resource issue.
How do you know what cards your relatives in other countries have?
Hey HN,

Tech demos don't get cooler then this one. You can control a Spot robot just using the browser. I am especially excited since it uses a Open Source library I work on https://github.com/pion/webrtc. This Go implementation of WebRTC is built and deployed right to the robot. Then using DataChannels + RTP you can control it from anywhere in the world! You don't need to run servers to bridge the media or get a world routable IP even.

Formant is one of the reasons I love working with WebRTC so much. This is a project that has a chance to save lives. Instead of sending a human into dangerous environment send a robot! Since you can control it from the browser also makes it super easy to use.
I know at work I would never do a monthly bill. Too much reconciliation to do.
Properly implemented cookies will never be obsolete. I use cookies to as a way to keep a user's session authenticated.

3rd party cookies are basically already gone.
Well said. Just block this guy and don't call for the internet police.
It threatens the Apple ecosystem so this is Apple building a moat
If you live perpetually on the internet instead of reality, you will think its satire.

Go around your neighborhood and ask what do people think of Amazons products like Prime with all the shipping advantages and media that comes with it, of amazons return policy, of things like $15 an hour minimum wage, $30/hour of overtime + benefits, and you will find a different story.
I’m not sure why people in this thread keep thinking my comments are jokes. What is causing that? I literally do not use email.
why reinvent the wheel when metafilter has existed with a similar subscription-to-post premise since 1999?
> What you want is for the normal APIs to return Result<R,E> where E=! when panic on OOM and some OOM error otherwise.

That's a fun idea! I haven't seen that proposed before, but it would work well once we have the ability to configure std and alloc.
> The decay of the US government is visible in the crumbling infrastructure, the homeless people on the streets and in tent cities, the trash, the shitty COVID response, the partisan bickering. It has no claim to leadership, it is not inspiring to anyone whether in the US or around the world. It is in crisis and it is a cultural crisis which is very hard to fix.

You're throwing a lot of things out here, but they generally fall under being either (a) subjective, (b) deliberate policy choices by a democratically elected government, or (c) emergent properties of deliberate policy choices by a democratically elected government

Ultimately, if the people of this country don't want government spending on the sick and homeless, then it's not a decaying and illegitimate government, it is a well functioning and legitimate government as decided by a cruel populace.

Not to say the the government is perfectly legitimate, I could write an essay on issues with the way our government is structured and how certain design choices diminish citizen's representation in the government (for example: gerrymandering, first past the post electoral college allocation, and the near-permanence of effectively arbitrary state lines). But even the sum of these do not make our government illegitimate.

> it is a cultural crisis which is very hard to fix

I can agree on that much atleast.
Also, it's too bad this doesn't go before 1980, because I'd love to see how the Mt St Helens eruption affected the landscape around it (I know there are pictures, but google maps makes it feel more hands-on)
Propaganda only goes one way. More power to those on the top.
If it truly represents the people trying to buy your service, it sounds like a great sign. But you should check that there isn't some UX issue causing you to lose customers trying to sign up for the monthly option.

It might also reflect some order flow impediment that affects both paths, but since the annual subscribers are more determined, more of them overcome it.
Same here, but that last 10% of computing needs can complicate things.

Try running two 4k external monitors on a Haswell MBP.

They look about the same, but a Haswell MBP13 (Late 2013) is very much less capable than an Ice Lake MBP13 (2020). Not all of that difference is attributable to the CPU I suppose, but the graphics and thermal throttling under load certainly are.
That means that T. Rexes were approximately as common in North America as wolves currently are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gray_wolf_populations_....
Yes, you cash out the options when the IV spikes when swings up.
Does CDC Mask Mandate for 2-Year-Old Children Make Sense? A Look at the Science
They all paid the tx fees. Therefore, not pollution.
I don't know if that's true. Are the GymKit APIs even available to developers? I assumed it was kept to partners only.
I've lost literal hours zooming along railway lines from the city the suburbs to the country then back to the city.
That appears to have been written prior to systemd-resolved becoming enabled by default on many distros.
Agreed. I remember Google Earth's initial release (called Keyhole at the time I think) as one of the times my mind was genuinely blown by technology. "Holy shit I can zoom in to my front yard!!"

Funny enough I also remember thinking that it was only a matter of time before they changed it to a live feed and we would all have to be more careful about drawing our curtains a little better.
It's a strictly better solution. You don't do it because the standard library doesn't give you tools to do it easily, but if it were the same effort everybody would do it.

After all, Inheritance Is The Base Class of Evil (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bLkxj6EVoM).
The self-similarity (or, fractal nature if you like) of living things at various levels of scale.. it's really beautiful and fascinating.
I get it. I see why people including my wife likes the Apple Watch. I just don't want one. I guess I've reached device capacity for now.

That's especially true when it comes to working out. I have a small slice in the day to workout and I don't want to fiddle with stuff.

It could be that I'm feeling residual frustration from attempting to try Fitness+ on an iPad which I never figured out. I just don't understand why I need a watch to view workout videos. I guess that means I'm not the target market. Thankfully there are good alternatives.
No, it isn't.

RS-485 is an electrical signaling standard, for carrying arbitrary bytes between a transmitter and a receiver. There isn't even any built-in concept of a packet, let alone an addressing scheme. It's no different than RS-232 at all, in that respect.

When compared against RS-232, only the signaling voltage and impedance requirements are different. That, and also RS-485 has no standardized connectors or side-band signals (like CTS/RTS).

Sometimes RS-485 is used half-duplex over a shared differential pair. In situations like that, slave devices are often designed to keep their transmitters disabled unless responding. Sometimes, these setups will have a couple of devices listening for data.

Lots of people implement custom bus protocols _over_ RS-485. But RS-485 by itself has no concept of buses, packets, addressing, channels, slave devices, or master devices. It's just an electrical signaling standard. Nothing more, nothing less.

It's kind of like saying "AM radio-waves are a format for carrying music". Sure, some people transmit music over AM radio. But that doesn't mean that the actual radio waves have any knowledge or accommodation for what they're carrying.
The "pop-less" microphone switch is generally a series R-C pair, where the R is, say, 1 MOhm, and the C a few µF. The switch shorts the R out; the R charges the capacitor to the bias level when unmuted, and so shorting the R produces very little pop. The capacitor then shorts the AC audio component.

XLR switches are easier, just short hot and cold, done. Works with all microphones and doesn't produce a pop, because XLR uses phantom power instead of T-power.
A good point. I was thinking both at different times; Mr. Franklin (IIRC--been a while) was referring to conversation among groups of friends.
What's so fascinating to me about our civilizations that look like fungal colonies on Petri dishes from a cosmic perspective, is that if you zoom in enough you see all sorts of individuals doing and creating all sorts of fascinating things. No one would ever suspect it if they didn't focus in to look. Billions of autonomous individuals, self-aware creating art, innovating technologies, and in general being a fascinating conduit through which the universe becomes aware of itself.
> How much money is enough if you already have $100M and to gain more, you have to manipulate and cheat?

Yeah, that's not a good at any wealth level.

> But even without changing the question, $100M invested in a very low risk manner will generate considerable cash flow (if you regularly take some profits)

Sure. But individual risk appetites vary and at that wealth level you can afford to diversify like crazy - and should in my opinion. I'm not sure what that had to do with anything.
Bigger and bigger risk to build state of the art fabs if TSMC/Samsung are just going to beat you anyways

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_second_law
Whilst it's obviously powerful, I often find myself wishing math used syntax even half as easy to understand as any decent programming language.

I suppose it's a result of being developed on a chalk board, but math seems be value _terseness_ above all else. Rather than a handful of primitives and simple named functions, it's single greek characters and invented symbols. Those kind of shenanigans would never pass a code review, but somehow when we're talking about math they're "elegant" and "powerful".

I call bullshit. Math syntax is bad.
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Yes - it definitely seems like it should be more or a "let's hope we can see both" type thing rather than an "either or type" thing. I think publicizing existing holdings is huge in that it can be done based on existing data sets as unusualwhale has shown and it is something that "we the people" can do, today - perhaps just by sharing this article.

Eradicating politicians doing insider trading is a much longer slog that we are mostly just hoping "those with the power" will enact against their own self interests.
Not Peloton but I have smart bike trainer and familiar with related software (zwift, RGT, tacx etc). My experience: using VR set the way they make them now is extremely uncomfortable on a bike trainer. And yes it will drown headset in sweat and kill it in no time.