skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed the opposite on #2, especially in the last year or so. I've been solving a lot more captchas than I used to. I run Firefox with a lot of privacy focused add ons and I don't stay logged in to Google, I wonder if those have something to do with it.
current KDE. 4.x was a huge mess due to some big ego trying to push his ideas on the world

That really wasn't the reason for KDE 4.X being a huge mess. I find it annoying that people who contribute a lot of their free time and life to a free software project are treated this way.

aseigo was a paid developer on KDE but what he contributed was far more than his paid time. Also he was a contributor before and after his paid development.

KDE was a mess because the Qt3 to Q4 change was a humongous change. KDE to decide to stick with Qt3 or move forward with a huge effort to rewrite the whole stack. And all it had was volunteers.

You underestimate the complexities of that situation and blame it on a single person and that's an unfair oversimplification of the situation.
Market to the Public, Not Your Industry
I couldn't find how many core samples showed this event or how far away they were from each other.

Maybe there was a kind of ice sheet "earthquake", where one layer of ice slid underneath of another sheet, causing a double hit of the 1815 eruption when cored?
Visual Studio is great for developing on Windows software that'll run on Windows or XBox.

Feels like a dead end to me. The ecosystem has colossal inertia, but it's easy to see the lack of future.
I don't know about why anything exists, but it stands to reason for me at least that if there is a non-zero net energy, without any boundary conditions, then it has to expand. That it expanded and cooled down into its current form is coincidental.

Why there is non-zero energy in the first place is, I'll agree, odd. Your idea of it balancing out some negative energy elsewhere is interesting.. Maybe we're just the positive side of a temporary virtual particle in a higher universe-particle "foam" like the quantum foam.
Speciation is likely a slow process and 100 years is not a long time on an evolutionary time frame, so without any numbers backing me up 1 extinction per 100 years background extinction rate without a major event seems reasonable.
The Bankers That Define the Decades: Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase
When people here read these articles, is the platforms-vs-publishers relationship top of mind for you?

I don't really know what headspace I should be in when I open these articles. I generally want to understand the underlying motivations of the publishers. How are y'all feeling?

Let's not limit it to antitrust issues since it's usually been about privacy, free speech, the rest
I for one cannot attest how many backdoors this Ubuntu installation might have, and I doubt everyone has the knowledge to validate their complete FOSS stack.
I'll just go on the record to say that I think WeWork is the biggest deck of cards that is begging for a collapse. I've only been to a handful of locations, but they never seem busy and I'm not sure how they're making rent.

Plus, not to mention, back in my day, when you did a startup and got funding from your rich uncle (not Uncle Rich), you grew your startup from your apartment, and when you outgrew that space, you got a bigger apartment. (ala Silicon Valley style)

I dunno, I can't put my finger on it, but I think this whole thing is a massive game of charades...
Signal switched to FCM about 4 months ago and I've had constant delayed-notifications issues too, usually in the 20 minute range. I can see the problem in Signal itself, the "sent" and "delivered" timestamps will be 20 minutes apart despite be actively doing stuff on my phone -- so the internet connection is there and the phone isn't sleeping. When I actually re-open the Signal app all the notifications flood in at once.

Maybe Google is assuming I don't care about Signal notifications because I don't always "interact" with them right away (I'll leave messages on unread for a bit if I'm busy), but I really wish there was a way to mark Signal and other instant messaging apps as "always high priority". Signal has battery optimizations disabled but that doesn't seem to help.
Or in other words, stop promoting startups to other developers and forums to other forum admins, and promote them to the types of people who'll actually use the thing.

Hacker News, Indie Hackers, programming subreddits, etc are likely not your audience.
>Most viable businesses with a steady revenue stream can afford to rent office space and furnish it on their own

Yes, but do they want to?

My experience is that companies increasingly want to focus on their core competencies and nothing else, especially if the non core areas come with overhead in the form of full time employees. I could easily see non-HQ locations outsourced to a company like WeWork. For a satellite office of 50 people there is hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual overhead that could be drastically slashed by a local provider operating at much vaster scale. Less liability and variability for the employer and the employees likely end up with a better quality work environment.
I hope Librem remains viable. As someone who needs some specific apps for work, I won't be able to switch for practical considerations unless those services work well enough on the device. For example, Slack.

I could carry a second device for personal use, but am unlikely to.
Very sad to see. We should all be doing our part. Sadly many areas don't even have a recycling program or require payment for participation.
For reference, this concern has been addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20149112
CBP database with images of travelers and license plates breached via a subcontractor with access to CBPs network. Updates to follow.

Nothing else in the article.
I'm curious what Regus' take is on WeWork (i.e. strategy).

In other words, did they start a hip new WeWork-killer? Attempt to compete on price? Have special retention marketing campaigns to stave off clients from going to WeWork.
How Gaming on XCloud Compares to Google Stadia, Hands on at E3 2019
>>It isn't yours, because however mandatory it was you paid it to them, and when you give it it ceases to be yours.

It's more than that.

Tax money was never yours to begin with. You owed it to the government by default. The government just allowed it to touch your bank account temporarily before collecting it.
Would you be kind enough to educate the rest of us on what you mean? Local storage must exist on some level so that the images/text/etc can be stored to be viewed.
ProtonMail / Tutanota desktop app ElectronMail gets spell checker supported
The credit score that an agency sells to you won't change, but that's just a tool for them to sell you things like Amazon are selling here, and doesn't reflect the way a lender will look at the credit history, your salary, and the value of anything the loan is secured against to decide whether or not to lend to you.
I wish the hosts file could have an include directive. Since I regularly add or remove entries, the file becomes a mess.
Aion is not at all the "first" Java Blockchain. So what is it?
> which sounds way too good to be true

Based on what?
How much would you be willing to rent "a desk" each month?
All of these examples are almost non-sequiturs because these people operate in a different world altogether compared to the audience the article is supposed to target. They have their own huge things going on and are not waiting to make the front page of HN or any other metric relevant to a small scale user trying to make a name for themselves.

As the other user said I think we need a dose of Occam's razor in there. The posts went to Twitter and Medium because they're the relevant platforms du jour for this sort of famous person announcement. The employee in charge of social just put them there and voilà. I honestly doubt Bezos even gave a single thought to the finer points discussed here.
More like walking up the handicapped ramp because the stairs are covered in oil and slippery.
> Also, "up to 500 times higher" means, the expected rate is less than 1 plant going extinct out of 330,000 species, which sounds way too good to be true.

Speciation does not occur in human timespans. If 3 species of seed bearing plants out of 330,000 went extinct per year, we could expect to live on a barren planet within 110,000 years. This is a very rapid rate, given that plant life has existed for 5,000 times longer than that.
That sort of wishy-washy legal foundation is why people are afraid of the GPL.
1. Rust development is expressly used with Firefox development though. The point is more reasonable libraries with fewer security issues and tighter constraints that is more maintainable.

2. Would be happy with an install / first run option to speciry autocomplete and/or start page options.

3. Agreed, and definitely no such shenanigans in the paid version.

4. Not sure that would be possible, you'd probably at the very least need to log into something (like the VPN service included).
> How did they arrive at the conclusion that this is an "alarming rate"?

It's a subjective description of a factual conclusion of the study. Extinction rates that are "500 times faster than they would naturally [be]" are certainly alarming to me as well.
The problem with that idea is that we haven't cataloged all of the plant and animal species. There are many species that are going extinct before we've even identified them.
Yes it is :)

You have to normalize data taken from various sources of various age and complexity. So you really have to understand the data. You also have to really understand the questions.

I've worked with (and on) lots of these tools and projects; the complexity is never in the frontend, it's dominated by getting the data, getting the data right and into the right format.

If all you want in the end is a good looking dashboard on a website then you might as well build it yourself; because of the cost structure that can even cost less than buying one of the BI frontend tools (there's not a lot of difference in development time, the the BI frontenders are more expensive because they are rarer and the licencing is high).
I agree... why is this a top story on HN? Am I missing anything or is this just:
"Amazon offers a credit card w/ no annual fee... like almost every other company"
Apple Censoring Tibetan Information in China
That's still a credit tracking system, it just tracks negative activities instead of both negative and positive activities.
Personally for ToDo Lists and Tasks I use Taskade [1] which let's you organize structured docs into different project workspaces and makes it easy to track. For more visual tasks and organization, I've been playing around with Mural [2] and it gets the job done but can get chaotic.

Both are cross platform which makes it easy to collaborate on.

[1] https://taskade.com

[2] https://mural.com
I just click randomly on Chrome and get trough .-.
I bought my first big screen TV on Amazon store credit back when I was in college with a typical college student income. 18mo/0% APR is awesome when your credit limit and bank balance is $700.
I think that enforcing strong privacy creates a "herd immunity" similar to how vaccines work. Collecting vast information on individuals allows companies to work in the disinterest of the public.

I also think that services that have become essential to receive public services like email should be regulated as such, with availability and cost guarantees. That's a whole digression on eInfrastructure though....
Normal assets like those you list are cached on download. "Local storage" is a bit more like cookies in that the webmaster can store whatever they like there. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Storage...
How so? You have a file from source A acquired via network, external storage, disc, etc and you want to store it on a ZFS array. If the ram corrupts the file before ZFS can store it, then the destination checksum will not match the source checksum. In reverse, you load the file from ZFS and ram corrupts the data before transit, then the transmitted file's checksum will not match the source's checksum. In either event, a retry will likely solve the issue as its unlikely for the same exact bytes of physical memory to be used over and over again
On the World and It's Complexities
Are you against all captcha then? How do you suggest websites deal with automated spam or other attacks?
That's not a credit card. The credit limit is equal to the deposit you make.
I have never in my career been set into a group of people with semi-random distributions of skill in the relevant task, totally unknown to me at the outset, with no management structure either in place, or available, where we are all nominally peers responsible for equal portions of the task, with the knowledge that the group has no future and its only deliverable (ultimately) is a grade.

The resulting experiences were not all that helpful.

I've worked in almost every conceivable structure since then; with people more skilled than me in some things, less skilled in some things, above me in the org chart, below me, way off to the side, in other companies entirely, in small groups, in large groups, startups, established corporations, heterogeneous skills and fairly homogeneous (as much so as it ever gets, of course). In all those situations, I would have to say for all their pathologies and successes, none of them have ever even slightly resembled my college experience with "group work".

In engineering we are not in the habit of taking 4 people fresh from a job interview, putting them all in a cubicle, providing them no distinction amoungst themselves in responsibility, and handing them a collective task. Any manager worth their salt would take one look at such a "management" structure and instantly tell you how there's virtually no chance of success there. It is so obviously flawed that I really don't see the point of doing it for the purpose of "working in groups". I don't know if "working in groups" is even possible to really test for in the college situation, but it certainly is going to take more work than drawing names from a hat and calling it a day.

I can't think of a way to avoid the fact that there's no way to resolve conflicts because the situation is just too darned symmetric. I don't even mean acrimonious conflicts necessarily, but any difference of opinion no matter how emotional or not. It's not even about simple "authority"; in a real work environment, someone may be the one who is going to own the support, or has years of experience with the relevant systems, or may be junior in other ways but has a ton of experience in this particular thing... in the real world there's almost always some way to resolve these things long before it gets to any sort of real conflict. These artificial groups don't have anything, though. They're set up to explode in exactly the way that so many of us, including me, experienced.

The only symmetry-breaker is "who cares most about the grade" and the totally rational game-theoretic solution is "let them do the work then". What else is there in the general case?
It’s a meaningless metric, as described. I have balances in the tens of thousands on many credit cards, but they’re always paid before interest applies. It’s just an interest free loan for me that offers cash back, ability to dispute payments, and other perks.

What would be interesting is median and mean average of interest accruing credit card debt.
The ones I saw were very busy, and, filled by large corporates that wanted to be hip. I think for them value proposition is that they are able to hire some hipster people who don't want to work in the old buildings and also build some marketing stories around their "labs".

That said, I "worked" in a WeWork for about 6 months and it was just terrible. Tiny offices, lots of visual distractions, lots of noise, many parties. I wouldn't ever do it again.
The whole unicorn bubble seems to be ruthless exploitation of the sunk cost fallacy.
Sounds like a cult to me.

Next business idea. WeX. Just put We in front of every building name and get richer just from branding.
So plants don't go extinct without human intervention?
>Don’t you think it’s bad for a society to have a system that encourages people to get loans?

Not really. Credit fosters growth. It's creating money out of thin air. It allows me to exchange rapid growth right now for interest payments later. If I'm young and want to buy a house, the time advantage of buying now versus buying when I have $100,000 saved in the bank far outweighs the fees and interest payments over time. Same goes for the utility value of a car or the ability to spend on a credit card for expenses incurred to go after a new career opportunity. So long as you have things planned out, credit is a very very good thing.
I agree that the article is interesting.

But article authors don't write headlines, at least not for most organizations. (Just like book authors rarely choose book titles.)

You'll note the author nowhere mentions "real". Quite the opposite, with quotes like "All cuisines in India have adopted the tomato" (just like Italian cuisine has adopted the tomato) and saying "Indian cooking has changed in the past 1,000 years".

Modern Indian cooking is no less "real" than its older traditions.

Unfortunately, 'real' sound very close to the observed issues with 'authentic' as it relates to foods often called "ethnic", meaning "not common to WASP-y homes in the US or UK". See https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/09/472568085/wh... ("Why Hunting Down 'Authentic Ethnic Food' Is A Loaded Proposition") and https://www.eater.com/2019/6/4/18652061/always-be-my-maybe-a... ("‘Always Be My Maybe’ and the Trap of ‘Authentic’ Cooking") for details.

My quip, therefore, was meant to make the reader consider what "real" means for Italy - Italian food with no tomatoes? - and perhaps apply that reconsidered perspective back to India.

But without this wall of text. :(
In college, the best time I had on group projects was when I could pick my group. I was in groups of people with a similar skill level and interest in the topic, and we worked together seamlessly. I learned the most because other group members had ideas that I didn't think of. Since we were all really interested in the subject, we would also go above and beyond the assignment guidelines and turn in work that had challenged us even more.

The worst groups had extreme skill and interest differences. It always took 10x the time to drag the lower-skill person through their part of the project than it took to do the work myself. In the beginning I would spend a lot of time helping the person, but in later projects I would just lay out some interfaces early on, leave the person to figure it out themselves, and reserve enough time before the due date for me to just do their part myself if necessary. I can't imagine that this was fun for them. I think they would have gotten much more out of being on a team with someone at a similar level of skill. They would have had someone to talk problems through with, and would have had some camaraderie around struggling their way through the course. I was never on a team with someone much-much better than me, but I don't think I would have found that fun either.

In the best teams, you are slightly better at some things and slightly worse at others. When these differences become too great, working in a group is no longer helpful. I also feel like the dynamics and incentives in a job differ from the dynamics and incentives of a college group project that you don't really learn any useful social skills either.
plenty of lottery winners get bigger piles of cash, and would be very poor folks to loan money to.
My WeWork has three kinds of clients. The first kind sit in the dedicated desk area, work 10-12 hours/day and rarely leave the space for community events. They're either serious consultants/freelancers or just starting their own startups.

The second kind sit in the shared desk area and basically dick around all day. They attend all the community events and use WeWork as mostly a networking/dating hub. Who they network with, I have no clue.

The third kind are companies with satellite offices in WeWork. GoDaddy works out of my space and has taken over an entire floor. Curiously, these are now the largest client type by far. Three floors in my space were earlier dedicated to independent workers and small startups.

But now, WeWork opened three more floors of space, and of the six floors, four are occupied entirely by large companies.
It's worth mentioning SwiftUI goes beyond the Landmarks app example, and bridges into complex custom UIs as well including shapes and core graphics. This isn't supported well (yet) in react native (and not sure about Flutter).
I can't read the mind of the article's author, but usually in these types of articles about micro-whatever you want to stress how horizontal teams/libraries/ownership is to be avoided, because people "default" to having them, and you have to fight tooth and nail to make them understand it shouldn't be.

But for micro-FEs, there's a few things that, IMO, are unavoidable. A design system implementation (keeping its components as "dumb" as possible, no server api dependencies of any kind, no opinion about frameworks beyond the component technology it uses) is one of them. A few very very core things like authentication is another, as well as how all the routes glue together. There's a few more (nav, service workers, etc).

It should still be avoided unless absolutely impossible to avoid or if the benefits are overwhelming.
No. If you live in a democracy then the tax money is yours. You are the government. You have every right to complain about what they are doing with your money.
A more cynical (and arguably more accurate) answer would be "he didn't".
It becomes an issue because you introduce humans and human emotion into something that is only viable because of the emotional draw that gets people to play. That emotion feels betrayed... feels so the actual facts aren't relevant... then they don't keep playing and the game dries up.
This gets tricky. Yes, some loss-making businesses never turn profitable. But others do (i.e. Amazon). And when it comes to real-estate companies, the rather goofy U.S. tax rules mean that even quite robust companies will engineer huge depreciation losses when they actually are doing fine.

WeWork might still be way overvalued in the private markets. But it could also be a lot healthier than its reported losses.
Then why is there an APR. Does it eventually go from pre-paid to credit? Nothing about this makes sense.
They're called secured cards, and they're very common. My first card was secured, it's a way to get access to a functional credit card (purchase protection, credit reporting, etc) with bad or non-existing credit.
They're signing expensive long term leases and then renting them for the short term at a loss, which is like exactly the opposite of how it's supposed to work.
I'm currently using Galaxy S9 and it is the first phone I decided not to root. I've always rooted my phones since I was introduced to Android, but this time Samsung tied its crucial functionalities with Knox. And Samsung Pay was just too important to me. Too bad more manufacturers are doing this.