jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If I could chime in here -

WeWork was way overvalued because they sold themselves to the public as a "tech company" that dabbled in real estate, not a real estate company that dabbled in tech. I mean, they had a lot of the same characteristics (such as crazy revenue growth while operating at a loss), but let's be clear: WeWork isn't a tech company, they're a real estate company in "tech clothes."

To circle this back to the parent comment - I still don't think they'll be profitable after drastically cutting spending. They might be able to keep the company afloat for a little bit. But their spending cuts target parts of the business that aren't under their "core competency" which is leasing office space on a short-term basis. So for example, they ax'd plans for WeLive or WeSchool (or whatever their kindergarten plans were called) as part of their turnaround plan.

WeWork has something like $17B in long-term lease liabilities across major cities in the US (and UK, I believe). They signed these long-term (10+ years I believe) leases with hopes of turning around and leasing them back to freelancers/businesses on a short-term (3-6mo) basis. If the economy slows down and demand for this variable-term space dries up, WeWork will still be on the hook for those $17B leases.
I mean... a good respirator is like $30-40. Significant savings over a Model S, and you're not stuck in the car. But I suppose wearing a mask can be uncomfortable.
I try to keep the brick laying flat on my tile floor for this reason. The tile surface is a reasonably effective and convenient heat sink; moreso than a carpet floor or wood table anyway.

I wish they'd just make these things properly.
> Their opposites, passive investors, will by definition do about average. In aggregate their positions will more or less approximate those of an index fund. Therefore the balance of the universe the active investors must do about average as well.

Am I missing something or is this obviously wrong as a mathematical argument? There could be a group of active investors who do well, a group of passive investors who do poorly, and the average would be in the middle.
> Are they providing their own filtered update channel??

You can even update Windows offline if you want to.[0]

It's quite refreshing to be able to prep a USB stick containing all the updates for a clean install of a certain build of Windows and be able to deploy them without needing to connect to the internet.

[0] https://download.wsusoffline.net/
What is this doing that will supplant a basic database? Why do we use "hardness" to obfuscate meaning?
> The goal of the company is to equally value the customer, environment, and profits. In other words, the model isn't to maximize profit like an investor backed startup, but rather to create a lean, useful piece of software that grows with its users and can sustain itself from every angle from day one.

If the owners are separate from the users, it's not set up for sustainability. If someone other than the users bear the risk of loss and upside of profits, it creates weird incentives whether you want it to or not.

Have you considered running it as a co-op? Every user has an equal stake in costs and profits and an equal voice in decisions. This model literally grows with its users, and it's the only one that does so.

I like this but it sounds like you've chosen the wrong model for running it. If I was going to use something like this (which I would like to, I think, if nothing else to share updates with families/close friends) I would want to own it equally with the other users.
Where was the free press in the lead up to the Iraq war? How would you know of all the 'disappeared'? There very well might be, but just by stating that like a fact, you're repeating something you simply heard in the 'free press', helping spread the narrative. I'm sure there is ideological cleansing there, so is there in any society, especially one under ideological attack. And I'm sure there is way more artillery pointed at North Korea than exists in North Korea.
I've written a blog post on Getting Started at http://www.ahuwanya.net/blog/post/introducing-csharp-pad
I have personal experience with interacting with those in / coming out (temporarily (going out for court) and permanently (being transported to a new facility after 7+ years of Solitary Confinement)) on solitary confinement. We ARE social creatures. We cannot survive on our own (I hypothesize we need Friends, Family and Lovers...if you have Two, you can survive emotionally).

These people are turned into schizophrenics, tattooing their faces, painting walls with feces (if you are offended, please research the effects of solitary confinement).

Solitary confinement inmates go Insane. To what degree, depends on the duration and the person. As a deterrent, it is warranted and probably (no statistical info) effective in the short term. As a long-term "treatment" for rehabilitation, it is NOT effective.

If we are in fact, trying, to rehabilitate criminals into society, solitary confinement just creates a dangerous creature.
Yes, if you assume (M1(p) or not M1(p)) for a specific M1.
What about a hybrid display for portable devices. A transparent OLED panel sitting over an e-ink display. You could have the battery life and readability of e-ink and just turn on the front panel when you needed full color or fast refresh rates such as for video.
crying about a word is reactionary... especially when you are getting offended for other people who haven't asked for your help.
This take is like reacting to the Ford Model T by saying how much energy it uses, how you can't access fuel to put in it, etc. BTC isn't the end-all crypto solution. It's the first attempt. It will continue to evolve and mature into something better like a Ford Fiat you can buy today.

I don't really care about the USA, and I want to be in control of my own money. Maybe from your perspective of being able to control the citizens of a country, USD is better. But from my perspective of protecting my own interests, BTC is a compelling solution.
Thanks for the tip on ammonia plants! Ammonia is one of the top sources of CO2 sold commercially, second to ethanol plants.

I have nothing but respect for what Carbon Engineering has done. In many ways, they opened people's eyes to what's possible when it comes to direct air carbon capture. The more people doing carbon capture, the better - we have 1T tons of CO2 to capture, and we need as many shots on goal as possible to get there!
Or just magnet links.
I'm not an Angular developer. I'm a generalist who uses Angular when necessary. Likewise for every other framework or language you can think of. I don't really give a damn what language/framework I'm using as long as I get paid, except for VB6. You couldn't pay me enough to touch that again.
I am should have mentioned that I use an earmuff at work. I do look dorky but it does help.
I did my part. Cut out parts to use for school. Pictures of Amazon and Congo. Earned that C+! NatGeo is now owned by the Mouse.
I'd never heard of conch, thanks loads for the reference; really useful.
I think this comes with lots of difficulties.

For example should you be evicted from your family farm that you've worked on your whole life when your 80 year old mother dies just because you haven't saved up enough money to buy it on the event of her death.

What if you are a subsistence farmer in Cambodia in the same situation - should you lose your family land to the state on the event of the death of your parents?
At a 'society' level it very much depends on the rich. So Walmart appears to be paying the minimum they possibly can. This massively affects the spending power of this low wealth group. I believe this was something Ford recognised when building the first mass market cars. Without developing a relatively well off lower/middle class, there would not be enough people to buy his product, so he raised the wages of his factory workers.
f << JSON.dump(showings)

avoids adding any new lines (not that it really matters in the case of JSON)
Have you looked at some crowdfunding options, like seedrs, crowdcube or others? Those could work supplementary to 'traditional' investors.
> TBH I am so disillusioned with the project I hope I don't have to work in or around it again.

You're not the first I've heard this from, nor do I suspect the last.

The problem isn't that the code is bad as much as it is that the climate often makes it impossible to fix it. Review queues are weeks or months long. The article makes a good point about the necessary man hours to work on OpenStack. I've seen code removed not because it didn't have a maintainer, but because 200 lines of code didn't have 3-5 full time developers. Insanity persists and money talks.

Looking back, I'd say that OpenStack Nova in the beginning was never this bad. It may not have been the best thing ever, because it wasn't, but no code needs to be terribly great in the beginning. The beginning of a project needs good process more than it needs good code, and OpenStack didn't establish this well enough, early enough.

OpenStack never had a solid, centralized architectural vision. Anyone that attempted to contribute architecturally was essentially ejected. Those that flushed millions into controlling the process and millions more into building adhoc features got their way. I mistakenly advocated early for wrangling control from Rackspace. The increased influence gained by individual contributors was quickly dwarfed by large corporate influences.

I'm still involved with OpenStack, but far less than I had been in the past. Mostly, I prefer to see myself peripherally involved where I might improve the lives of those trapped in that ecosystem, either to help them deal with the pains they've inflicted upon themselves, or to escape them entirely.
from my point of view.

your current car is better than your last. and the next one will be again better. and then at some point you might not even need a "car" (as we understand it now) anymore.

but that is closer linked to technological progress than to increasing wealth.

if i understand above's argument right than the wealth gap has less to do w/ how much people have but (on the longer run) how much chance they have to change it (relatively).
Didn't he get a lot of heat when he was a rubyist because of his rants or something , or maybe I'm mixing things up,in that case never mind.
I would just like to say that the fact that the Electric Sheep guy participated in this comment thread makes me unreasonably happy. :)
Years ago, I experimented with a speech synthesiser for the Commodore 64. You used it the typical Commodore way: open a channel to the device, print command codes to the channel. Something like OPEN 3,12,1: PRINT#3, "H0E1L0O3 W0E4R1L0D0";: CLOSE 3 would be the obvious first step (I'm making up the details, but it gives you the idea). One funny thing was that, if you forgot the semi-colon at the end of the PRINT# command, you got an "nnnn" noise at the end of every statement. Why? Because all ASCII characters had associated sounds with the synthesiser, and the end of line character, which the semi-colon suppresses in a print statement, was mapped to the sound of the letter N.

Decades later, totally different technology, and you brought up that memory. Plus ça change and all that.
Why is the US like this? (I'm from the US). Was it caused by lawyers? Liability laws that allow crazy lawsuits? How can this be avoided in other up-and-coming countries? (I fear it's too late for the US to change course on this). Or is it just an inevitable result of being a rich country founded by lawyers?
Not your IMHO, you mean due to your out-group homogeneity bias. Pilots are generally NOT paid well, and the idea that lawyers and doctors don't have to constantly be retraining is ludicrous. Even actors and CEOs must constantly learn & adapt to maximize their reputation management. APIs are NOTHING compared to the effort of trying to be and stay popular.
Also keep in mind that in most of the world, familial ties are much stronger than in the US.

I am not in the "just say no" category. Instead I am in the "just say yes" category. Then go off, run away, sue for divorce, and then decide what to do. If she can safely return home, do it. If not, then there is the asylum process. Being in the US may provide many more options than being in Pakistan would in this regard.

I say this being conscious that this is a specific situation and the individual involved will have to make the decisions for herself. I also say this as someone who is probably reasonably well known here as reasonably critical of American individualism, but there are times when it can be handy and this might be one.
Python without C extension compatibility would be Python without Numpy, Scipy, scikit-learn, PIL/Pillow, JSON, StringIO

Would we really miss them if Python was then fast enough to do these things natively?
It's basically the company-as-government idea, wherein a company is so big it begins to function like a government, including military operation to further its goals.

Which, tangentially, is the model presented by extreme libertarians as the way of the future and how we can do away with government for good.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll start adding phrase origins to the site.
Probably so. It still doesn't take away from Bitcoin's underlying usefulness.
I'm currently writing a Java-based headless browser, https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver

Beware it's Affero GPL.

It implements most of the Selenium WebDriver APIs. Currently it's a work in progress especially in regard to persistent tracking. But it's capable of addressing many issues raised in the article. As a bonus, for Java users it's a lot faster than GhostDriver at least.

Header ordering: https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver/blob/mas...

DOM objects (user-agent, navigator, Canvas, Date) are addressed by injecting the response content: https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver/blob/mas...

JS Engine: about 1 year newer than PhantomJS. Java ships with Qt5 WebKit.

I'll have some significant updates in the next couple of days surrounding all these issues.
Does "advanced spy tools" just mean "stockpile of unpatched vulnerabilities"? And if so why are "responsible" governments leaving those vulnerabilities extant when they could be used to harm their own citizens. Are we not a target worth protecting?
> Your argument essentially boils down to "words in power mean what people in power say they mean". Your argument essentially boils down to "words in power mean what people in power say they mean". The entire point of law is to create distributed consensus.

No, the point of law is to provide notice of the way the ruler intends to apply power. (Which is, of course, also undermined by lack of clarity in meaning of the law, but in a different way.)

Distributed consensus is the point of democratic government, which is a newer thing than law.
You're supposed to come up with something that feels like work to other people.
Wow I seem to fat finger the flag button a lot. Surprised my flagging privileges have not been revoked (or maybe they silently have). Maybe it makes sense for HN to lower the weight of flags based on the user-agent, since I assume all of these are from me using mobile
IMO FM8 is the best by a mile.

To me, you give up a little in basically sound quality(and that is probably debatable or depends on your taste) for a massively improved programming interface.

You can't go back to a hardware interface after that unless you just want to stick with presets.
What on earth is a "standard English speaker"?
The trading example you mention illustrates how organizations can benefit by allowing people to innovate within the business units, see what works, and implement the successful ideas in a more scalable form.

One of the challenges is whether the person/people who developed the spreadsheet version and the enterprise development team can successfully manage a transition to a formal enterprise project. Sometimes, the people who build these spreadsheets see the job as their domain, and see outsiders as treading on their turf, while the development team is not always sensitive to the ownership issues.
Thanks, hadn't seen the announcement. Looks like a nice deal for the price, 400% hits the sweet spot for range and the jumps aren't too bad.

It's good to hear that there's finally going to be some competition in the high end hub gear space. Even if I don't expect to on the market until my Rohloff breaks down, which might take a while... :-)
People should complain about problems. But it is entirely possible to do so without being derogatory about Indians as a class.

The cultural differences between anywhere and anywhere else may be vast but I don't think they are unbridgeable, provided that both sides first agree to co-operate.
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I think use of a microphone and recording equipment makes a world of difference compared to 'live' singing where you really project your voice.

I mean once I decided to start singing Dean Martin songs during a game of Halo 3 online... and the people on my team kept saying it was brilliant and insisted I continue. (in real life i'm an awful singer, although pitch is not a problem)
I don't think anybody should jump and start writing an e-book purely for monetary purposes. You may be setting yourself up for dissapointment.

If, however, you are looking for a way to establish your name in a given community, gain consulting work, etc. then it may be a good idea.

Even then, I would begin with writing long-form blog posts about the topic as a lead-in to a larger book that you can sell.

I am always suspicious of authors who promote a book where I can't find any other content from the author anywhere online (or even any mention of their name).
I live in Boston.

When I saw Salt in the theater, there's a scene where Evelyn Salt, in disguise, rides in from DC to New York. The audience laughed when they saw her on the BoltBus.
You have any examples of them starting legal action based on their patents?

They have a "patent pledge" not to prosecute if you implement Open Source software, even if it's integrated w/ propretary software to some extent.
http://www.blackboard.com/Company/Patents/Patent-Pledge.aspx

I'd love to know how broad this pledge is based on their actual past actions.
The weird part is that clicking an ad you have no interest in is frowned upon ("click fraud"), but downloading (not necessarily even rendering!) an ad you have no interest in is considered by some to be something bordering on a moral imperative.
I can see "Leap from PHP to Django" as a success, as that has a wider audience than the two others. "Django deployment best practices" sounds like a list of items to check or not check (Have I done Y? Check/Uncheck) , so I would personally not buy "X best practices" because I from experience find best practices after some time of playing with X anyway.
I'm friends with several people who fast for religious reasons. For them that means not eating during the day time, it does not mean starving for days.

That is one definition of fasting, I guess a lot of people are only exposed to the story of Jesus "fasting" for 40 days where he ate nothing at all (if I remember the story right, if I have that wrong please correct me, I don't know the Bible all that well).
I've been working on a series of tutorial to teach designers how to code iOS apps and it's always exciting to see people doing something similar and being very successful.
http://redeye.firstround.com/2007/10/this-year-i-mea.html
Businesses that are using Linux for their desktops are already in a different situation, since corporate updates and lock downs can be managed through a custom apt repository easily anyway.
Terrible idea, but there are examples of it in modern society.

Example: Technician with respirator samples gas levels in giant "empty" natural gas tank, gives OK to welder and steps out of the tank. Welder grabs technician by the arm, escorts him back into the tank and invites him to hang out for a few minutes while he fires up his torch. Technician waves his probe around a few extra times, double checks the display, and crosses his fingers.

I'm sure there's plenty of this sort of thing going on in industry today. Still, probably better not to formalize it.
This is why everyone is speculating about a watch or TV.
Its called leading from the rear, and that is basically what I thought when Greg Abbott (Texas gov) got his, since AFAIK he isn't in any of the identified groups.

https://abc13.com/health/gov-greg-abbott-receives-covid-19-v...

At least when Biden (referenced in the article) got his, he exceeded the age requirements in most states.

The claim that they are doing it to show people its safe is a bit cynical IMHO.
What does “think bigger” even mean here, aside from memes about Bitcoin prices going up? If your competitor is cheaper, more popular, more reliable, and more widely supported, aren’t you just straight up losing?
Seems to have vanished, was put out too early?

OK, can see it now, too. Caches...
> Heck, a lot of what we make way too much money with is basically "just" polishing that.

No one wants to admit it, but 80% of "Enterprise IT" revolves around "CRUD app on top of a database". The other 20% mainly revolves around either running reports off the data in that database or interfacing it with some other system. Been this way for decades.
I was once involved with a young woman in a homeless program which was entirely defeated by this exact "wrong person" attitude.

Get a homeless person an apartment? Great.

But it didn't end there, there was a constant stream of documentation requirements, your employer had to, monthly, sign paperwork about how much you earned (advertise to employers that you are/were homeless). The program punished you for making money and took most of your earnings away to pay for the housing. The program constantly threatened to take away your funding if the paperwork wasn't perfect. The program constantly made mistakes, paid rent late, and generally threatened a vulnerable homeless person with further homelessness.

It was infuriating to experience this through another person. In attempts to help a person, these programs were taking vulnerable people, dangling housing in front of them, and constantly threatening them with taking it away. That is of course exactly the opposite of what you need to do to someone having trouble taking care of themselves, and sadly mirrors the abusive kinds of situation which so often leads people to homelessness.
Perhaps the better way to phrase this is "the day Lightbend deprecates SBT and tells the community to use Mill", but I agree with the sentiment.

Scala needs a new "official stack", hopefully Mill + utest/Munit + scalafmt (with opinionated settings).

Scala 3 + SBT + Scalatest + whatever formatting isn't going to grab folk's attention.
I use the laptop trackpad and it feels incredibly natural, not like I'm fighting the tools at all. Two-finger scrolling, three finger swiping, incredibly convenient.
Using scalac is not a standard use case.

Standard use case is to use sbt (well, or mill, since we're in lihaoyi's thread :D). Sbt starts up slow, but with bloop, or sbtn (native client of sbt), the compilation is really fast (much faster than C++ for example):

$ time sbtc compile
[info] entering *experimental* thin client - BEEP WHIRR
[info] terminate the server with `shutdown`
> compile
[info] compiling 1 Scala source to /home/.../target/scala-2.13/classes ...
[info] compile completed
[success] Total time: 0 s, completed Feb 11, 2021 4:21:51 PM
sbtc compile 0,08s user 0,02s system 21% cpu 0,492 total