skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also the amount of equity sold by the CFO at the public listing indicated little confidence in the long term prospects.

As you note, since it was a direct listing and not an IPO, there isn't really an analog to many other companies.

My opinion about why they did a direct listing is because institutional investors didn't want to touch it, and that memetail traders (a portmanteau of meme and retail) are undiscerning at any valuation.

The company didn't sell any shares or make any money from the direct listing itself, so that means the only people that could make money or provide any shares for making a market at all would be existing shareholders that have a lot of shares. It's impossible to levy criticism both ways simultaneously, just to smugly pat yourself on the back, but there are other reasons to.

The other benefit of an IPO (to a trader looking for earliest exposure) is the stabilizing bid from the syndicate, a brief period of more legal market manipulation where a consortium props up the price. A significant reason I avoided Coinbase's attempt at a 100 billion dollar direct listing is because there would be no stabilizing bid and retail doesn't have enough capital to simulate one.
The next will be the same as this one, s*tcoins will lose most value, while Bitcoin and Ethereum will retain a reasonable amount of value. The problem is suckers think the altcoins are going to be their ticket to riches. Those that get in early do indeed gain, but those that are late to the scheme end up holding the bag.
You'll also need to consider "alien entity" fees/taxes if you want your "Delaware" corporation to operate in another state, e.g. Texas.
Probably an unpopular opinion here but I think they handled it in a classy way. Severance and assistance with your job search? That’s very nice of them.

Other companies like Meta rescinded too, I’m not sure if they offered severance. Maybe just a generic email?
You're right. We still had to keep changing what we called it, though.
Just submitted your WikiTrivia game - very fun.
I use code search in You just for the layout and the variety of resources I see.

On the other hand, Kagi can show me better results that are better than Google.

You often includes many results in Google search results.

Kagi has results that don't appear on DDG, Google, or You. I checked several times.

After the launch of their FF extension, I made Kagi the default search engine for everything related to work and work-related-play.

I also use Kagi as the default on my phone for some months.

I use You Code because of the layout, honestly.
You got the edit right, thanks yeah. Playing over the what-ifs of how this could have been diffused is painful; And considering how some high profile people against the war in Ukraine had previously committed atrocities is more than a little frustrating - Henry Kissinger and John Bolton come to mind. That being said, it is a, "the milk has already been spilt, lets clean it up" situation. If a monstrous person says the war shouldn't be, that doesn't mean the war should have began. Your points of criticism of the past dickheads can be construed as trying to excuse or divert blame for current atrocities there. It is kind of incendiary, people will just disengage and drop back to insults. General butt naked also comes to mind. The horror of what he did is hard to overstate. In his mind does his current occupation make him a purely self interested hypocrite, a person working to help his community, or both? If their self interest isn't in conflict with the humanism then sometimes it really is both, at least in their view. Focusing on not having had justice for the critics, i.e. vengeance or reparations, feels like it sows doubt in the thread about the good faith intent of your posts. It sucks because this is the kind of thing where communication really helps inform people rather than make them dig in their heels at perceived misinformation. Similarly, the past shit heads being so high profile really detract from getting consensus about the future and understanding the faults of the past.

Age of information, not communication and all that
Except that isn’t how banks work and never has been has it.

The BoE debunked this nonsense years ago and yet you’re still trotting it out? Why?

Bankers are people - they earn the interest and spend it with firms who then pay the banks. Bank Interest is funded by paying the interest.

What that means is interest is simply the wages of bankers who are paid for making collateral discounting decisions.

The central bank pays reserve holders and banks create money out of nothing.

Erodogan has not cut spending nor diverted the import of gold to the import of food and fuels for his population. Or done anything I suggest.

[0]: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
There are a fair amount of good mobile games that are nonviolent with good, resonant stories. As a bonus, touch controls are usually simple enough to pass back and forth. These games are usually smaller; Apple Arcade is a good way to sample many of them without any free-to-play upselling.

A few nice examples of story-rich games on mobile:

Monument Valley, Assemble with Care, Guildlings, Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, Pilgrims, Mutazione
Right, but guns and violence and aggression aren't portrayed as fun things in Disco Elysium. They are portrayed as bad things. I don't understand why people are so caught up on kids games when the OP is looking for games to play themselves OR with their kids. That "or", while not a long word, makes a huge difference.
> You know about dynamic programming right? Well, one of the reasons it was invented is kind of related to what we're talking about right now. There are these things called the bellman equations.

Yes, I've done dynamic programming in competitions. I'm not familiar with bellman equations, and the explanation you provided about convergence, policy functions, etc. went over my head, sorry.

> If you're actually interested in this sort of thing, I suggest checking out the poker research papers by Noam Brown [...] He mentions in the research paper that there was a mistake in another paper where they didn't account for the way subgames influence each other. I see that as the problem here, but I haven't read the other paper, so I don't know if it was the same category of error. Find the paper he referenced, read through it, and see if you're tricked. It is potentially a kind of real world two envelope problem to see if your tools for reasoning about these things is actually helping you to avoid the error in more complicated situations - though, since you disagree with me that this is about handling of imperfect information (or more precisely, the counterfactuals - there is a variant on wikipedia where they removed the probabilites, but counterfactual reasoning still applied to resolve the paradox) maybe you won't see it as related errors.

This sounds really interesting! It was a huge deal in the poker scene when the poker AI developed by Brown and Sandholm defeated pro human players. I read the first few pages of the paper now, but the paper becomes very math-heavy after that. I don't have the necessary background to understand the notation they use. That said, the "mistake" in the way "subgames influence each other" that you referenced, I suspect it was of a far simpler kind - the kind that Brown explains in chapter 2 which he concludes with:

This shows that a player’s optimal strategy in a subgame can depend on the strategies and outcomes in other parts of the game. Thus, one cannot solve a subgame using information about that subgame alone. This is the central challenge of imperfect-information games as opposed to perfect-information games.

Although Brown says "imperfect-information games" here, he actually means a specific type of imperfect-information games: the type where the opponent's strategy is not fixed. We're talking about games where your opponent can change their strategy in order to exploit weaknesses in your strategy. This property was a key requirement of the "coin toss" example game that he provided in chapter 2. If you modified the coin toss game such that the opponent's strategy was fixed, then the situation would change completely. Crucially, Two Envelopes Game is not one of those games where the "opponent" can adapt their strategy according to your strategy. The strategy of the opponent is fixed in Two Envelopes Game. That's why you can solve a single subgame in Two Envelopes game independently of other subgames, even though it's an imperfect-information game. If you are suspectful of this claim, we can verify it by simulations.
>you aren't doing it humanely

not sure how you can do it humanely. what does "humanely" got to do with business decision?
The thing is: even if your company is abroad, if you live in Germany then that constitutes "Permanent Establishment". So that means that Germany considers that the company is in its own juridiction so german laws would apply.

This also should be true about the holding (although I am not sure). You cannot simply have a German holding which contains foreign operating companies and not get involved with German bureaucracy. Logically you should report operations of those foreign companies (thus declaring taxes) in Germany. That would be an even more painful headache ...
How about an email from the executives who made the mistake of driving the company into the ground, who are humanely (or even humanly) resigning, so that you could be paid your salary that they'd promised you?

All the stock that the executives dumped could easily pay the salaries of all the people they screwed. And by resigning, they would open up some nice corner offices for all the people who they hired while fully knowing they were going to need to fire a lot of people soon.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-insiders-dump-nearly...

>Coinbase insiders dump nearly $5 billion in COIN stock shortly after listing

>After an edict to remain "mission focused," Coinbase executives have succeeded in making themselves a fortune.

>Insider activity reports for Coinbase’s COIN stock indicate that multiple early investors and executives sold billions in equity shortly after COIN’s direct listing. While the filings initially indicated that multiple executives sold a high percentage of their stake in the company, a representative for Coinbase told Cointelegraph that the sellers maintain strong ownership positions.

>Data from Capital Market Laboratories and confirmed by filings on Coinbase’s Investor Relations website shows a total of 12,965,079 shares were sold by insiders, worth over $4.6 billion at COIN’s $344.38 per share Friday close.

>Notable transactions include Coinbase CFO Alesia Haas selling some 255,500 shares at a price of $388.73 (though her Form 4 states that she retains options), while CEO Brian Armstrong sold 749,999 shares in three transactions at various prices, netting a total of $291,827,966.

>According to his Form 4 disclosure, after the sale Armstrong retains 300,001 shares worth over $1 billion. In a filing prior to the direct listing however, he was reported to have 36,851,833 shares, indicating that he sold just over 2% of his stake in the company.
Even if the Montana non-at-will provisions kicked in immediately, would it matter?

Non-at-will usually just means that that the company can only discharge people for categories of reasons enumerated in the law. In at-will states the company can terminate for any reason except for reasons that are specifically forbidden by law.

The acceptable reasons to discharge people in a non-at-will jurisdiction is likely to include reducing costs when the business is facing a downturn.
I may very well have used this in college some 30 years ago on a 286 DOS machine.

IIRC I managed to blow the stack with a recursive function 6 calls deep. Shortly after, I got a 486 and installed Linux (gcc worked much better)
The point I was making is, this guy doesn’t work so he can afford to take a vacation. And he certainly doesn’t let other people work for him so that he can sleaze off at the beach. That’s a strawman argument, and I just can’t see how it applies here.
No, that's definitely not what I'm saying. And I also didn't read the original post that way. There are a lot of problems in Ukraine (outside of this war) and they have also done some pretty awful things. Many of the things that go unstated in our media can go some way towards explaining the war, but there's a difference between explaining and justifying. And I increasingly feel that that nuance is being lost in society, which divides us all even further.
Gone Home is a beautiful coming of age game, 1st person, completely story driven, no violence at all, and some 90s nostalgia to go with it.
Yeah, don’t go work for FAANG’s because that increased salary is probably just a ploy to increase profits.
How would linked in even know with any certainty that such a thing happened?

Recruiting may have had nothing to do with Linked in.

I don’t expect them to police other companies this way for me.
LinkedIn (a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation) has the worst "activity feed" algorithm I have ever seen. It is a dopamine-poking, engagement-optimizing mess. So I have very little confidence they would do anything for ethical reasons over money.
Losing everything ... what a nightmare

„Taiwanese Ends His Life After Losing $2 Million Luna Investment„

https://coinquora.com/taiwanese-ends-his-life-after-losing-2...
I bought 15 acres near Mustang Ridge, TX which is close to Austin, TX. Obviously not Europe but I'll comment anyway. I bought land here because ag exemptions in TX are ridiculously beneficial. If you're regularly paying cap gains taxes you can write off a lot of expenses at a loss for the farm, including building roads, building a barn, utilities, animals, fencing, etc. The taxes are way lower with ag land, and I'm planning to build a small bunk house and hire someone for 30-40K/yr + free rent to manage the farm. Planning to have ~30 goats on the farm. I just haven't started operations yet because I'm working with an architect to put together a master farm plan.

I'll do this on the side so I can have a place to stay, food to eat, and a "base" to keep my stuff at. I'll keep traveling in the summers, keep doing software engineering. I'll also have RV spaces to rent out and also for WWOOFers
Already been discussed yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600505

It is no different than been fired I don't understand the noise it is making
Yep, I did exactly the same. Saw the new UI, hated it, reinstalled the previous version and froze it. Still working fine.

apt version tells me the good version is 1:1.1.42.622 (the most recent is 1:1.1.84.716).
It sounds like they are offering severance and etc.

That’s more than most jobs.
Growing tulips isn’t any more of an “investment” than buying tulips… Regardless of whether or not it’s profitable, it’s a speculative endeavour.
The next wirecard?
This is meaningful and deserves more prominent placement. If you’re going to rug pull someone paying out $10k+ certainly takes some of the sting out.

I would love to have an offer rescinded with pay. If the company’s prospects are really that dim I wouldn’t want to join anyway. Getting a cash bonus to go somewhere else is even better.
A thread about async rust
They will probably do both. Bubble companies have been hiring for fun and “growth” for years. According to their website they have 4900+ employees!
> but they've made it abundantly clear they don't care what any of us think.

that's a pretty cynical take. there are definitely some individuals that work on gnome who don't care, but in general I get the sense that gnome does care. just considering it from a practical standpoint, what if they tried to do everything we asked for? there are millions of opinions that are all mutually exclusive, but even if you filtered those out it would still be utter chaos, probably each dev doing what they think is best (remember gnome is largely a volunteer org).

There are definitely things I wish gnome did differently, but I'm really glad to see the focus on making the developer experience better with different language bindings for gtk so one isn't stuck writing gui apps in C (or hacky python), and modernization of the toolkit, etc. I think that will help a lot because there will be a lot more choice.
1) It's not incorrect just because there may be other ways of calculating wealth. 2) It doesn't matter if he's actually 1st, 3rd, or 10th in terms of wealth. Him being literally the richest is not a necessary assumption or premise of the rest of the article.
I bought it at the time, somewhere in the 1990's. No internet and no cell phones at that time. Buying a box with floppies or cd was normal, even for an OS or basic tooling. Open source was out of reach, I didn't even know about the existence of the concept.

It came with a thick book, the reference manual for all C functions. That book alone was worth paying for.

Mix C was not that great, it miscompiled stuff on a regular base. I debugged a problem for a day before finding out the compiler sometimes flat out ignored basic constructions like i++

One day I found out about djgpp, and even it cost me as much as Mix C in phone costs, I never looked back. Quality was so much better. Still used that reference book a long time, though.
Please don't call it "4chan" when it's actually just /pol/. There are lots of 4chan archives, you could probably ask someone for a dump of any board to do this. /vt/ is relatively young so it could be a good fit for this.
At least (unlike bitcoin), holders of this stock have received the odd dividend now and again.
I’ve been surprised at the times companies have wanted me to lie about something, not the lies themselves, but more just how blatant are.

Whatever I don’t usually expect business to be honorable or empathic, but don’t be surprised if I start lying to you too.
Combine your love of coding with landscaping. That's what I'm doing with food now. Twenty years in tech, now I'm doing food and drink marketing - with tech.
It'll happen again. It will just be a new set of coins/tokens, with new promises of new utility, and a new set of gullible people being takem advantage of. The sad part is schemes of the sort damage the image of actual future usefulness of blockchain technology. For now the crypto winter sets in, until the next thaw.
Is this for legal or product reasons or both? It’s hard to tell from the link.
You're free to live in the woods if you don't like the deal. You don't get to use any of society's infrastructure if you don't opt in, though. You won't be taxed, of course, since you can't engage with any economic activity within society. I'm sure you could make a nice commune in the wilderness somewhere. Just don't bring anything from society with you, like tools, clothes, food, livestock, seeds. Good luck out there.
I tear that shit right off. I hate anything between me and the screen. The manufacturer didn't deem it necessary, although they might have profit motives for that.
I 100% agree about the different experience of listening to good/great/amazing albums and the benefits of doing so. It's just that it is a pretty rare experience, particularly these days! A definite downside of our current music situation is that making an album like that is something that is really exceptional, since people rarely listen to music in that manner anymore. However, I wonder if the total number of "holistic" albums are greater now, just because there is far more music being made? :thinking-emoji:

I wore out my Synchronicity tape back in the 80s :) Listened to the album randomly a couple of months ago and it is spooky how the experience re-asserted itself into my being. I just know every nook and cranny of the album.
You should always have other options. You shouldn’t wait until you’re about to be laid off. I can honestly say there isn’t a single day since 2008 (I’ve been working a lot longer) that if the company I was working for laid me off that I wouldn’t be prepared to look for another job the same day.

That means an updated resume, career document of accomplishments and talking points, an active network and “fuck you money” in the bank. If you live in any major city in the US, and are a software developer with experience, you should be making in the upper quintile of income for your area. There is usually no excuse not to have savings.
Can't be sure they did. Perhaps they got a good downpayment and good annual payments and even if it only lasts two years they'll be happy with what they got and just find another sponsor. The LA Lakers don't have a hard time selling naming rights.
Bored Ape Yacht Club and Otherside Metaverse Discord servers have been hacked
Yes, I agree and see now that I made a bad choice of words there.

Correcting it I would rephrase it to say that massive components of society are directly facilitated by the government as one example: (roads -> shipped goods, travel experiences, etc)
Not at all. At the time, only people at universities and major tech companies had access to the net and what little free software existed.

The Borland and Microsoft compilers costs hundreds. Power C was a godsend to impoverished students, and as noted by others, the book alone was worth the price they were charging for the whole package. It was just outstanding.

While I did have access to the net, it was only over a 1200 bps dialup modem. Downloading something like gcc over that took...a while. The alternative was to bring a stack of floppy disks to school, and laboriously split anything big into chunks that would fit on a floppy.

I still remember when a friend of mine who worked for the university computer labs took the trouble of downloading all the floppies (> 20, IIRC) that let you work your way up to having a running version of this weird Finnish thing called "Linux" (the term "distro" didn't exist then). I got him to make me a set, and never looked back.

Even if you did have gcc, at that time it didn't support a lot of the stuff you needed to make professional-level MS-DOS software -- none of the graphics functions to build what passed for a decent UI at the time, no memory models (which sucked, big-time, but you needed to use and understand them), etc.

I still count Power C to be among the wisest purchases I ever made, along with a copy of K&R 1st edition. Between those two, you were golden.

This concludes this edition of crochety grandfather talking about "In my day". :-)
Fair enough, yeah.
For a more nuanced take on the indigestible claim:

https://www.livescience.com/why-humans-cannot-digest-corn.ht...

But yes, No. 2 yellow field corn is a food for humans - just not in its rawest form.
I prefer real world. I do hope all the annoying, self absorbed narcissist type people go and live in metaverse though. Would be awesome to finally live in a selfie free real world, just livin.
Mine's 1.1.58.820 with ui.experience_override="classic" set in Spotify's prefs file.