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So what's to stop a VC firm from juicing the returns they provide their own limited partners by simply standing up a series of SPACs which they in turn use IPO proceeds to acquire some of their own poorly performing companies that couldn't get acquired or go public on their own, while also enjoying the 20% "promote" that sponsors get?
Is this just another way of measuring head size?
They clearly explained that they don’t consider archival to be a robotic activity when a person clicks “archive this page”. It’s closer to saving a page with Ctrl+S and uploading it to IA.

Removing data from the web in 2021? Hmm… https://web.archive.org/web/20211222032633/https://news.ycom... oops!
I used to think the same thing, but realized I just got older.

I don't know your experience, but we grew up low middle class at best and ate tons of cereal.

Now that I'm older and more affluent, I guess I don't personally know anyone who really eats it anymore. But I also don't really know many kids, either.

I assume it's still selling, supermarkets aren't dumb enough to devote an entire aisle to something nobody is buying.
> Is this how it's like at all large companies?

Pretty much, yes. There are lots of reasons why all that crap that happened to you was necessary, and it's directly a factor of it being a big-ass company. Large systems are inefficient and complex.

> What should I do?

What do you want to do?

Large companies may kill your soul and make you lose all interest in your career, because you are reduced to an ungreased cog in an extremely rickety, rusted, pointless wheel. If you would rather ship cool new stuff quickly, you should quit and go find more engaging work.

But if you have a family and just need to pay the bills, there are much worse things than decades of steady employment. You can also often move laterally throughout the company, play with new technology, or be exposed to new products/services, without having to have actually gotten any real work done. Some people even get side gigs and double up their income. Working in large companies can also teach you more "professional" ways to do work. Working within large orgs is a skill in itself - the problems you describe can often be trivially worked around by building relationships outside your team. Most "restrictions" imposed by "managers" are actually just bullshit politics that you can route around if you learn the reasons for it all.

By the way: if you leave, try to tweak your benefits so that they pay out all the 401K or HSA money at the beginning of the year (front-loading). When you quit you won't have to have waited all year to contribute tax-deferred benefits to your retirement accounts.
You'd think Amazon would make top execs sign non-competes.
> Also what about the "indestructible" plastics in dumpsters

I am not an expert in polymers, and please do correct me if I am wrong: Thermoplastic materials can be reused for some cycles. But thermosets, like formalin which builds chairs and hard materials are essentially one-time use and hard to degrade.
It could also just be an argument for letting people purchase health insurance in healthcare.gov with pre tax income, currently a benefit only for employees employed by employers offering it.

I would even go so far as to limit businesses’ ability to compensate people in cash or equity only. That would help foster far more transparency on what wages really are and help sellers of labor easily compare offers from employers. All tax incentives should be decoupled from employers and offered directly to all taxpayers equally.
hi :) i do eat cereals, i like them.
This is bad news for Cruise employees imo. Less likely to ipo, more likely to be absorbed into gm.
"The majority" doesn't want exactly the same things, they agreed on some thing or two that was prioritary and deserved the vote."

I agree, so I presume that you retract the following?: "A democratic state is elected by the majority, as such, the state should share the same definition as the majority."

"Really? How is that?"

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electoral_systems_by...

Often only a relative majority (higher than any other party but can still be <50%) is needed.

"That is simply not true, the majority just wants that puberty blockers don't be provided to children."

Are you claiming that 100 years ago (and even now in some countries) there wasn't/isn't a majority of people that desires this or other immoral things?

"Didn't understand your last point sorry (non native)"

No worries. I am saying that this law being removed benefits the majority as their communications will be safer.
right now, most of it is coming in as ZSTD with a central index. older stuff was gzip
I think the Air is sort of the exception that proves the rule. Though it's also early and independent verification on production vehicles is still in the future. They're only barely shipping right now.
Ask HN: How do we record the history of today?
How do we record history of today? How do we make sure the medium we use today is enduring like ancient carvings on stones? How do we make sure the language and symbols we use to record history today are still meaningful in the distant future?
> it needs to get reviewed by legal so it doesn't expose us to legal liability

I'd like to understand this. How does a legal team do a code review that ensures a code change doesn't expose the company to legal liability?
Actually this is exactly what Oracle installer did in 93-94 after a jr sysadmin tried to install it from /tmp.
I am making the argument that a company that already has lawyers on retainer for this occasion is not suffering the same harm that someone who does not have a lawyer on retainer does. Similarly, someone who can't afford a lawyer at all is disproportionately likely to be harmed compared to a company that has competent legal staff.

Also, "privacy laws create victims" is--to use your own phrase--a very tortured version of what's going on here. The people affected by this study were threatened with legal action. That is what they are victims of. Regardless of what law was used as an excuse, threatening someone with frivolous legal action is as bad as threatening someone with SWATting.
This is how I personally see the issue but you are nonetheless manufacturing an inconsistent interpretation of someone else's view. To be charitable you need to present the best version of their stance. Unless you happen to know that the source of someone's pro-life stance is because they believe that all life deserves to be protected then you can't declare them inconsistent -- they could just as easily believe that only human life matters which is perfectly consistent.
Yep, I probably should give a bit more context with the links as they don't all confirm the results. I thought it was important to tell both sides of the story.
Great idea. I just registered your house on my favorite blockchain. You can leave any furniture you don't want on your way out. If you feel this is an error, please don't resort to any centralized statist mechanisms to resolve this dispute.

The issue isn't a lack of imagination on the part of skeptics who actually understand the underlying technical mechanisms behind blockchains. It's a lack of understanding by proponents about how the physical world works and how it can and can't be made to relate to digital comstructs.
Ironically, the website is broken when viewed on Safari. Just white blank page. :(
That ikea crib is perfectly executed- I couldn’t come up with a good reason to pay more for something
They have time and a half. That's a federal law not a union stipulation. That's why cereal makers are taking in $120k with overtime.
I enjoyed your comment and agree with all your well put points except one: on the rationals tie with reality.

Having implemented exact real computation to better understand reals, I think of a real number as a kind of machine that generates infinite streams. Operations on them instantiate new machines which query their real operands, computating until there's sufficient information to emit a next term of the stream. When the next term needs an infinite amount of information to decide what to spit out next, it results in an "unproductive" infinite loop.

Rational numbers are interesting, more realistic, because they always terminate. In the real world, measurement tolerances and physical limits means at some point having to extract a rational. When we work with reals we are really only working with rational approximations or symbols with associated properties and relations.

Reals are a powerful and elegant tool to rigorously reason about mathematical spaces and operations on algebraic objects but trying to work with them in reality in their exact form is a fun and visceral lesson on the nature of undecidability. It's hard to go two steps without tripping over a non-terminating loop (such as any operation that starts with an irrational and results in a rational or equality testing in general).

This is an observation on our interface with reality and not on its true nature, which may or may not admit reals (although my non-serious guess is that black holes form whenever you try to do something that requires a proper real number).
That's the funny thing - in the UK the cereal isle isn't a thing any more, it's gotten smaller and smaller and now it's just a few metres of shelving.
Tesla is the only car brand almost not affected by chip shortage. Because they adjust parts super fast. They will beat their production estimate in 2021. Ford service will never come to your home unlike tesla. Their service is far more superior to ford. Yes, if you have non critical issue it will be hard to get an appointment, but it's not tesla's fault. It's monopoly of dealership, and regulations. They not allowed to open as many services as they want.
Biochemist here: I suspect this has more to do with baseline sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous system activity. (I only read the abstract, but I’m surprised they didn’t mention correcting for this.)
Recursive scraping:

1) can consume a lot of storage really fast

2) makes IA a bot rather than a user service

3) is already done on a case by case basis by ArchiveTeam allowing IA to stay away from the previous two problems.
Ask HN: Best Way to 3D Scan?
The last point is the one that I think gets almost zero attention. People talk constantly about how great and fulfilling it is to help bring a child into the world, see it grow, teach it all the things you know, etc. What they actually mean is that it's very gratifying to have kids that are yours and look like you and came from you, because deep down we are all narcissists.

When you start talking about how they could have done literally all of those things by adopting any one of the bajillion kids that need it, most people will openly tell you that they would never consider it and don't feel even slightly hypocritical about it.
Kelloggs is one of those companies where you might know them from cereal, but they actually own a ton of food companies across a wide variety of verticals and just don’t put their logo on the boxes/cans.

Like, if you’re in the US, you’ve likely never heard of Unilever, but you’ve bought a lot of food from them.
It doesn't matter. That doesn't include management, and nobody on the cereal line is pulling in $20 million and throwing off the average.
Funny, I just took one and was considering posting this. It has an amazing effect of focus and relaxation. Seriously, nothing relaxes me like a cold shower it's like nature's Xanax
The rearview mirror itself has a light filter which works in concert with the light filtered by the back window such that the interior of the car does not show up on the mirror, but everything coming through the window is perfectly clear.

So if you were looking at it going "this is too dark" it was probably misunderstanding a feature.

In terms of the amount of space you can see, it is sufficient.. but also the 3D rendering will give you a much better idea of what's behind you than any mirror.
It’s not ineptitude; it’s deliberate, methodical exploitation.
There's no predisposition for them to not succeed at it either on account of them being technical. That's my point, drawing a technical/non-technical dichotomy for who is best suited a priori for management (let alone organizing Christmas parties) is silly, and extremely old fashioned given the broad successes of technical people switching to management at every level from front line to CEO over the last decades.
> That disclaimer appears at the bottom of every project that Google doesn't feel like officially supporting.

Based on my understanding from conversations with Google staff, it's a disclaimer that's required if anyone at Google wants to write "personal" code & release it (under an Open Source license) while employed by Google.

(Unless they choose to undertake a much more paperwork-intensive alternate process with different requirements & implications.)

Personal code is different to code developed for reasons that were directed by Google (which they have no problem saying is unsupported, e.g. any version of Android older than 3 minutes or something :D )--which is why this disclaimer can be seen on such odd non-corporate things as retro-computing related projects.

Of course, sometimes such projects do become something Google wants to use (maybe WUFFS falls into this category)--so I expect we'll see more retro computing support on Stadia any day now... :D
They do respect robots.txt matter of fact, it will remove the website outright and most of its archives will be hidden until that website's robots.txt is offline.

Their documentation about it is rather crap right now, but its in several of their FAQs about it
Online Chess Championship for Incarcerated Individuals Hosted by Cook Cty. Jail
I'm a small-time retail amateur and consider myself conservative with my portfolio (I stock-pick so that may be generous) so take this with a spoonful of salt. But to me, by buying in SPACs, or IPOs for that matter, one is trying to play VC's game. You're buying companies who have yet to prove their business model, who are likely far off from actual profitability - earnings before everything else (EBITDA) doesn't count - and whose valuations have a ton of future growth front-loaded. That may work if you have deep knowledge of a market, it's participants and how $X company fits in, but I suspect most people buying these young stocks don't have any particular knowledge of them. However with that in mind, the main issue to me is that one would be playing that game after actual VCs had the opportunities to play during private rounds.

When cash-burning start-ups raise money on public markets at nose-bleed capitalizations and laughable (non-binding) projections, it begs the questions (1) why it's present investors are unwilling to fund it internally at more reasonable private valuations and (2) if the price they are offering you to pitch in at, on the public market, is optimized for current shareholders or new ones. I'd suspect (1) is because they're either ready to off-load their risk or unwilling to burn/risk more of their own cash and (2) it's obviously at the company's and it's present shareholders advantage. Sometimes it works out great, you'd have done brilliantly by investing in a now thriving company when it went public, but IPOs/SPACs are offering sloppy seconds on speculative companies.

My style is more akin to buying proven cash-cows at reasonable-ish valuations so I'm probably not the target demographic anyway, but I mostly wouldn't consider buying any newly traded company until people who bought the initial offering are in pain. I'll miss out on lots of boats this way, but I'm at peace with that.
Anomalous would be my guess
Yeah, it's a recent development and it may still be in beta. It's definitely a thing though.

* https://blog.paw.cloud/paw-joins-forces-with-rapidapi/

* https://twitter.com/luckymarmot/status/1359541539161190401
One of the biggest issues with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is that it was never designed for a world where Siivagunner[1] exists. On a fundamental level, it was built on the assumption that everyone involved can litigate--which means that the widespread ability to edit, remix, and review things has created some unfortunate exploits and exposed serious oversights in how the DMCA functions.

[1]https://youtu.be/rEcOzjg7vBU
The IBM Watson group have been at the forefront of AI research and generally operate separately from the IBM umbrella. I know a few people in the group, and they are a brilliant bunch.
I get that often. I assume that when there is travel involves (esp air travel) a big piece is exposure to new viruses and bacteria + stress. if you get it even without travel: before your holidays do you have to crunch to get things done before you leave? The stress, reduced sleep could be lowering your immunity.
Elon Musk: Richest Man on Earth
wfme expressed my sentiment well. I don't really know, but if, as you are implying, these tests aren't an assurance of safety, than that point stands even more!
The two program counters were first introduced in the National Bureau of Standards' SWAC computer. The idea was that you would use the second program counter for a subroutine call, and then switch back to the first program counter to return to your original code. I don't think anyone really used the backward counting on the program counter; as far as I can tell, that was a side-effect of all the registers being able to auto-increment or auto-decrement.
It is possible for the union to have negotiated more than 1.5x regular payrate for overtime.
Were you working from home before the pandemic?

The only place I've seen people eat cereal is coworkers at the office (across 3 companies).
It is a huge argument in favor of socialized healthcare.

However, if you want to leave it to "the market", the proper solution to both sides of the equation is that companies should be required by law to pay one "person unit of benefits" for every 40 hours worked (healthcare, vacation, pension/401K) no matter whether those hours are done by 4 people or a single person.

You can either pay it to a person or it goes into a government fund to help cover the people being shortchanged (ie. food stamps and healthcare for WalMart employees).

This would immediately stop all the stupidity around "just under full time hours" as well as "too much overtime".
There is a nice Win9x style theme for GTK+3 that works quite well IME. And the look is quite faithful to the original (with some minimal changes for, e.g. modern headerbars).
Why use NFTs at all? Just sell the originals!
Don’t worry, in my experience the vast majority of infants, while fairly moist, are not particularly flammable.
> They can’t go to classes or prison jobs, and they don’t have tablets or televisions. But they do have radios.

Yet there is clearly at least one television remote in the hero image.

Edit: later in the article

> “They may not all have TV, but most everybody has a radio,” Dickerson told me.
Model Y owner, visibility is definitely not an issue. If you used to drive an F150 maybe, but apart from that is very spacious car. I'm 6'3 and I have 6'4 friend in back of me with no issues. I can also do a camping mode in the car.

This is by far the best car I ever owned. It's nothing even to compare with. My friend bought 2 years old BMW, and I feel like there is a 10 years gap between bmw and tesla.

I guess you just biased against tesla. Check the videos about their car seats on youtube. they are one few companies that don't outsource Car seat production because of ergonomics.
Ask HN: How to manage a project that is deployed to multiple customers?
I have made a web system that first sold to one customer. The system were built purely based on that customer’s requirements. After that, more and more customers are interested, and they also paid for it.Each customer has their own copy of the system and db, hosted on their machine or VM. Most of the functions are the same for all customers. However, each customer has slightly different requirements and logics. For example, customer B wants to check additional parameters when the users click the submit button, but not other customers.

Now my problem is, how can I manage the project version, as most of the functions and codes are the same, and some bug fixes and improvements should be applied to all customers, while individual customer may have their logic, requirement and improvement.

I tired made multiple projects, but applying improvements and bug fixes need duplicate efforts. I also tried manage it in one code base, but the logics become very big and complex to meet individual customer’s needs.
I am now using Git and each customer has its own branch of code, but still applying bug fixes is a headache. I would like to ask is there any good and better approach? Thank you.
The rear visibility came up a lot in reviews early on. After a day or so of driving, it becomes unnoticeable and doesn't actually cause a problem in practice. On top of that, you can turn on all three rear facing cameras while driving for amazing visibility.

I don't use the headrests, but I've found the seats to be amazingly comfortable on long road trips.
One Medical failed to give out Covid-19 vaccines 'equitably'
Too many people glorify staying at one employer for a substantial length of time. What people are doing now is what they should have done long ago: switch jobs if you're not comfortable with your work environment or pay. This also happens to re-calibrate your position in the job market so if you were being underpaid relative to the market you'll get a fair wage by forcing competition among employers.
How does the scoring actually work? The explanation in FAQ was a bit too high level for me to make sense of it.
I have some smallish sculptures of old computers that I'd like to 3D scan so I can make some 3D printable files available to friends / colleagues.

Seems like most of the light-based hardware / software is ok but not great for finer details? These sculptures have a lot of vent and keyboard details that are under a millimeter so not sure that path is going to work?

There seem to be a lot of mail away services which I'm totally down to pay for but would really like to get a recommendation on. I have resin copies of all these sculptures so no preciousness issues there.

Thanks in advance! :^)
Well yes the author quipped about Minecraft, but I can’t be alone in that my job as a PM consists of a lot of email and word processing, tasks that we’re solves decades ago. But somehow Outlook demands millennia worth of 7090’s processing power to show me my email.
+1. My tesla got side-swiped in November. The shop is estimating Mid-February (so probably March) for all parts to ship and labor to be completed.
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In theory, the answer is that reputational risk disincentivizes this behavior. In practice, markets these days are pumped so full of easy money in need of somewhere to go that that seems a fairly remote concern. As to "is this all a game"--while I don't think it's good for society that this is the way things are, the extremely wealthy have been playing finance on easy mode for a while now, and so far there's no sign of that stopping.
Fascinating read. I was struck by this description:

> "The corruption and nepotism that plagued all spheres of life, the attempt to control intellectuals and the populace through a feudal system of privileges based on ideological subservience or personal connections – one where individual worth and talent had little to do with social advancement – created what was perhaps the regime’s gravest crime: the manufacture of mediocrity."

Sounds rather like various spheres of the American economy today, most notably the corporate media outlets, and perhaps in a certain fraction of the leading financial and academic and political institutions as well.