skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"“valuation and size today are much more based on our energy and spirituality than it is on a multiple of revenue.”"

Literally valuation based on 'spirituality'.

Not only do I call 'bubble' but also 'BS'.

Very wary of companies leveraging 'morality' in whatever form (esp. all the way up to 'Spirituality'), unless it's somehow deeply authentic (i.e. a company that makes 'green' eqipment can claim 'greeness' that's fine), and are something to be cynical about. I find it kind of repulsive.

My feeling is that WeWork must be the 'high tech startup' opportunity for all those non-tech 'Goop' reader types.

... like the NXVM of startup land.

Tony Robbins of working real estate + SoftBank.

“There are 150 million orphans in the world. We want to solve this problem and give them a new family: the WeWork family.” In L.A., Neumann told his employees that the newly formed We Company would now have three prongs — WeWork, WeLive, and WeGrow — with a single, grandiose mission: “to elevate the world’s consciousness.”

Just beautiful ...

WeWork’s size and scale could put it in a position to help deal with some of the world’s largest problems, like the refugee crisis, saying, “I need to have the biggest valuation I can, because when countries are shooting at each other, I want them to come to me.”

How does anyone take this guy seriously?

In the comments here there seems to be a lack of calling out on the so many of the gob-smacking authoritarian/hypocrisy red-flags going on here.

The guy's line is preaching morality, spirituality and inclusuion ... while doing the opposite i.e. dropping the least productive 20% staff every year? 'All dudes' in charge? (Nothign necessarily wrong there (maybe red flags), but it's definitely hypocritical)

All of the Kabbalah stuff and social preaching at offsites?

'It's like a capitalist Kibbutz' ... this is double-speak.

And that his background doesn't legitimately speak to any of this, i.e. total lack of legitimacy?

The trick to this kind personality is 1) words have no bearing on reality 2) total lack of self-awareness or consideration such that he can come across as 'honest' even when spouting garbage.

Who else could possibly be talking about 'saving the refugees of the world' like this with a straight face?

This guy is the Donald Trump of Vegans.
I've only been to WeWork in London, yes I agree the vibe is a little different. You could argue they're both faking it being hip but WeWork does a slightly more convincing job while Spaces feels bit more corporate.

That said, I found the WeWork in London extremely noisy and tight compared to my current space. It might be just a side effect of real estate prices in respective cities, though.
If you don't have the free cash to place a deposit on a secured credit card, you probably shouldn't be getting a credit card in the first place.
Everywhere, people say they prefer lotteries where there are more prizes with smaller wins, instead of one winner with huge jackpot. But also everywhere, their actual bahaviour is that when there is one big jackpot, they bet more.

And those who arrange lotteries do know their business.
"Know your customer"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
They do threaten it though. They could elevate competitors voices or choose to filter the NYT from results of weigh them lower. I'm sure social media and search both drive a huge amount of NYT traffic. The only time I ever read it is when it's linked here.
There’s a bunch of internatonal companies using wework apparently. My guess would be the same as yours: nice location in the cities, modern looking offices, the brand value, and not having to find a good office manager.

I worked in a recently furnished office two years ago, there was a sizeable effort to make it an attractive work place but it still slightly paled compared to wework in terms of pure office space.
Are they not required to show that information on Credit Reports? I'm only asking because I don't see any of my post-paid subscriptions like my telephone bill or Netflix account which have both been open for 10+ years on any of my 4 credit reports. I can however see that 2 week period in 2006 when a loan I had was sold three times over and each company that touched it said I was a good paying customer despite never having sent me a bill.
Based on what I'd expect the rate to be. I'd expect the rate to be much higher.

Why would I expect that? Because of all the "sky is falling" rhetoric. I don't expect that to mean the sky is falling over the next 10,000 years; I expect it to mean that the sky is falling now.

[Edit: Note that I am not saying that this is good news - just that it is considerably less bad than I expected.]
Also, I've worked with companies a tiny fraction of Netflix who got steep discounts. It's quite possible AWS becomes cost effective when you have millions in yearly spend as leverage. The problem is surviving until you get there.
I wouldn't say "no bearing". But if current trends continued, there wouldn't be much left except people, livestock, pets, crop plants (including trees), insect pests, and microorganisms. And stuff in zoos and botanical gardens.

However, that's unlikely. Well before that, human society and population will likely collapse, due to climate change.
Where did the license plate information come from?
Substitute “experts” with “anyone who has sat in a high end Audi, BMW or Mercedes”

Teslas are fun to drive but awful to sit in.
"We are in a world where moralistic mobs gather on social media and rise like a storm, falling upon newsrooms in an overwhelming blow. This requires immediate counter-measures by publishers, leaving no room for ponderation or meaningful discussions. Twitter is a place for furor, not debate. The most outraged voices tend to define the conversation, and the angry crowd follows in."

This is a significant problem, not just for newsrooms, but for companies and individuals.

Nuance is not permitted in 2019 - this is simply the latest flavor of puritanical outrage that grips humanity. From the Salem witch trials to the Red Scare to the Harry Potter book burnings of the early 2000s, we are now privy to the latest incarnation of something as old as homo sapiens themselves.

The issue now is that the puritanical outrage stretches past the pulpit and Letters to the Editor and directly into your notifications, your DMs, your timeline; broadcast across the world and sending newsrooms and corporations scrambling with half-arsed apologies.
Do you mind FB ads which are pretty smooth experiences?
Does this tie in with recent news about local pushback against cash-free businesses, on social-justice grounds? (Amazon cash-free stores not accessible to poor people without credit cards.)
When the jackpot reached a certain amount, say 500 million, they could switch from a winner takes all to essentially a raffle with 500 winners. I think it would greatly increase the number of tickets purchased when the threshold was met.
1) A month-long interest free loan. That's a nice-to-have.

2) Benefits - purchase protection, extended warranty, return protection, travel insurance, rental car insurance, free checked bag, etc.

3) Earn cash/miles on purchases.

4) Ease-of-use, I don't have to go to the ATM and take out cash. Sure, I can use a debit card, but that's giving someone access to my checking account, with a credit card I'm playing with someone else's money, I don't have to worry about my mortgage bouncing if there's unauthorized charges, for example.

5) Sometimes required when renting a car.
I wonder what the price of a cds is on wework.
Yamaha unveils electric scooter with fast swapping Gogoro batteries
I think he was referring to boring old selective breeding
Don't Kill Math
Not a big fan of solving an organizational issue (how several people can work together on a same project) with a technical solution that adds more complexity and has its own drawbacks (splitting a project into micro services).

Last time I heard in real life about splitting a frontend app into micro services, it was because the team was composed at 80% of junior devs who didn't have a correct git workflow. And they were spending hours fixing git conflicts. "It doesn't work, it will never scale when the team will grow, we should split the app in smaller apps so nobody will work at the same time on the same project".
http://www.sphinx-doc.org/
The "next 10,000 years" is "now", from an evolutionary perspective.
Naturally evolved unknown or little studied species are a rather different proposition to 100 new varieties of well studied apple and wheat etc, created by and for industrial agriculture.

Who knows what chemical and medicinal discoveries we shut ourselves away from as species are dying out. Consider a single poppy species that gave medicine 4 or 5 chemicals that turn out to be the basis of the vast majority of medicine's strong pain relief repertoire.
GP likely isn't talking about lab-grown experimental GMOs, but regular farming. Many if not most of the food we eat is completely unlike it was before humans invented agriculture.
> see Panama disease for bananas for an example

Extinction level blights similar to these are not often found in the natural world. They're only a thing because we (humans) eliminated genetic diversity from crops through grafts and clones. If the plants reproduced naturally its likely that a range of genetically diverse children would have been resistant to the fungus.
Here's an article over the cartoon mentioned here that sparked outrage in April which led to this:

https://nypost.com/2019/04/28/new-york-times-condemned-for-a...
Sometimes referred to as "Battleshort"[1] mode

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort
To be fair the number of people who are able and willing to pay even $200/mo for co-working space is MUCH smaller than the number of people who are able and willing to pay $10/mo. Plenty of people would prefer to pay $10 to sit in someone's apartment for 7 hours, just like every day millions of people pay $5 to sit in a cafe for a couple hours.

This becomes more obvious when you leave the rich tech bubble of SF.
It only works as long as the console is signed into the same account as used on the original hard drive.
> I imagine publishing a dissenting opinion is tantamount to career suicide.

Opinions are not publishable. It is so damaging to propagate the idea that some guys over there have one opinion, and then some other guys have a different opinion, and there's really no way to tell which is correct, and that this is what science is about. Discussions about climate science in the public sphere are politicized, but only because of massive disinformation campaigns by those who stand to profit less if reasonable countermeasures were implemented.

> I think a valid proxy for bias is the relative lack of publications discussing possible benefits of climate change.

We might go extinct but if we don't, it might be pleasant to vacation in the arctic? Is this the sort of scientific claim you have in mind?
I'm not a communist for various reasons but I'm curious what makes you describe it as unjust. Could you elaborate?
Undeniably, yes, it costs more to treat a patient on a per/day basis.

US Federal inmates cost ~$38,000 per year or ~$107/day. (approx based on previous years' info) [0] Just the ambulance ride alone is going cost much more than that. Add in hospital admission and treatment for all those nasty needle shared diseases and maybe an organ failure or two (livers can only put up with so much abuse) and the cost skyrockets.

[0]https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/04/30/2018-09...
> I believe there is a general lack of awareness of what AOSP is without Google services and add-ons on top of it.

That lack of awareness seems to be your own.

> In particular, I have personally had many issues with GPS location for the past fews years. Out-of-the-box, GPS simply does not work without additional non-free software to help it out.

GPS doesn't require Play Services, etc. Play Services provides supplementary network-based location services for providing a coarse, inaccurate location estimate without waiting for a while for a GPS lock. The infrastructure for this is open source and part of AOSP. It has generic, provider-agnostic support for services like supplementary location providers, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, geocoding, etc. Play Services is what provides these on phones with Google Play, but there are alternative implementations used by Amazon and in China.

> Applications that are built to run on stock AOSP are not the 'Snapchats' or 'Instagrams' of the world.

Yet apps like WhatsApp, Facebook's apps, Microsoft's apps, etc. do work without Play Services... despite what you claim. A lot of these mainstream apps do work fine, and there's a large ecosystem of open source apps that are mostly designed to run without Play Services. Providing the Play Services APIs with an alternate implementation and is also certainly possible, although I would prefer a different approach than microG.

How is any of this resolved by moving to a completely different OS with far less privacy and security, none of these mainstream applications you talk about and barely any open source application ecosystem by comparison? I don't get it.
I'm in Philly and the cheapest FiOS I could get is $115/mo after the new member deal expired
==Take stodgy, often scammy, and downright consumer unfriendly industries, add transparency and accessibility to them, and viola - you have a unicorn.==

And, maybe some day, actual profits.
Just a guess, but maybe the CBP takes pictures of the license plate at land border crossings?
This probably true, and there's a company similar to WW in Montreal who did a presentation indicating that as well.

The thing is: there's very little competitive advantage in that.

Having 'cool decor' is less valuable to larger companies, and it's not as though other entities can't duplicate that if they want.

Other, more established firms can inch their way into copying some of WW's mojo, and compete on price, which the CFO's of said companies will appreciate.
You have to start with exactly what you have done, find why people aren't in the loop then start addressing each issue. People make it sound easy, just have the conversation in a public channel, but that isn't so black and white, nor does everyone see the information timely. A lot of conversations also should NOT be done publicly, but the outcome of those discussions should be available at the proper time.

The best way to start solving it is formalize communication a little, don't stop having the conversations that are necessary but make sure people really understand the need to spread the word far and wide. Successful companies always communicate. The "need to know" delusion is a way to kill a small company and destroy your company culture, there are items which have a need to be held close yes, but those should be the rare items not the regular items.

Having worked a lot with remote teams and distributed teams this is my starting point always. Make it part of leadership responsibilities that each exec, manager and team lead is responsible for sharing the information with their team members as a whole within a set time period. When you have a meeting with someone, state clearly at the end of the meeting, what are we communicating and who has the responsibility to communicate it and hold each other accountable to do so. This builds a team and culture that is set around communication, and makes what is communicated more consistent. If two execs have a meeting, the same rule applies to them to get the other execs looped in quickly and then the rest of the team. And when I say set a time period, it should be like 24-48 hours, not longer as the chances of information leaking and being found out start to go up and the team starts loosing trust in the process and leadership.

As for town halls, Q&A's etc, yes, all that is good, but don't overdue it or they become a waste of time and people stop wanting to attend so they start bringing their laptops and working or doing other things instead of paying attention. For a small startup though with < 20-30 people, IMO a monthly town hall with current state and updates is always good thing for the founders to hold and allow people to ask questions. It helps tune the focus and dispel rumor done properly.

There are lots of other ways to help too, but you need to start with the people part of the equation in my experience. Then worry about tools to help make it easier.
I think the major difference between the US and european countries in this regard is due to role of the goverment in society.

A good example is "financiele curatele"[0]. This is a system where people (usually after either massive debt isssues or other issues which result in "mentorschap"[0]) lose their right to make their own financial decisions, and a curator handles the finances for said person until either the debt is repayed or indefinitely (the latter usually happens with untreatable mental illness).

I highly doubt suchs a system exists in the US.

[0] https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/curatele-bewind-en-...
Are you in america or using a vpn that shows as in america?
this system is nearly the same in the Netherlands.
Finally, some clear thinking.
I would think it's from cameras at vehicle border crossings. You can see an example here: https://goo.gl/maps/GRAY5GVnAYLr7aSZ8
Do you have a source for where Valve have the rights to remove DRM on third party games?

Also, PS Plus games are still DRM'ed, and you only have access as long as your subscription is valid.
It does confuse me that these mobs have such power on decision makers at companies and media outlets like this. The interesting thing about Twitter "mobs" is that if you look away from the computer screen or hit the button on the side of your phone, they are suddenly silent and may as well not exist. You can, in fact, log out of Twitter and never log back in again. Most of the time doing so will have zero long term negative impact, since the mob is fickle, trapped in their filter bubbles, and will move onto the next outrage in days if not hours.

The mobs that cause doxing or have credible threats of harm upon on individuals (like job loss or even violence) do in fact wield incredible, terrifying power though.
this is just unacceptable
You're right. California is for the rich. If you grew up in LA and your parents grew up LA, but you can't afford it now, head to Michigan.

Meanwhile new grad with a fancy degree from Northwestern, you can afford the rent, so they get to live in LA.

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I understand what you're saying. While many people would like to live in California, there's only so much room. At the same time I have a hard time swallowing the idea that "These people are addicted to LA" if they grew up there and spent their whole lives there.

The US coasts have not been building enough new housing to keep up with demand [0] for the past several decades. We treat housing like an investment and restrict supply to increase property value to the point that it is difficult for people to find places they can afford to live.

Some people may have to leave the town where they grew up to find somewhere to live and work. Some people may have shown up in LA with unrealistic dreams and should probably leave.

I only ask that you don't discount the role housing policy has played in creating this situation. The issue is more nuanced than "people addicted to California."

[0] - https://www.brookings.edu/research/cost-crowding-or-commutin...
Who could have predicted this would happen?
A large collection of valuable data that was questionably secured was somehow stolen!? Say it ain't so!
> On May 31, 2019, CBP learned that a subcontractor, in violation of CBP policies and without CBP’s authorization or knowledge, had transferred copies of license plate images and traveler images collected by CBP to the subcontractor’s company network

> CBP ... is closely monitoring all CBP work by the subcontractor

What. In the private sector, they'd have been fired and probably legal action levelled against them. The CBP's punishment for this is 'monitoring'? Please tell me I'm reading this wrong...
mind you that, from my experience, Americans think a lot more casually about debt then most Europeans. They seem to want to avoid debt at all costs.
If Hitler Had Won World War Two
That's a sad response. Video game preservation efforts are ongoing for games older than the NES right now, I don't see why that wouldn't be the case in the future for the current generation of consoles.
Sorry, I did mean a pool, but as is pointed out, it's being worked on.
> CBP requires that all contractors and service providers maintain appropriate data integrity

Requires, but how do they enforce it?
This didn't work for me (Brave incognito on a Mac). I have a free subscription through my library, but I do run into the paywall when I search things on my phone in Firefox Focus.

In that case, I just share to Pocket and read there (never a problem, even without an account). I assume they have some sort of deal with Pocket where they share analytics with the publishers in exchange for giving unpaywalled access.
Facebook already made that change a long time ago to emphasize sharing of photos, status updates, etc over news.

NYT, WaPo, WSJ have all done fine while other publications that were founded on the premise of social traffic have gone out of business.

They're destination sites and brands in and of themselves, they don't rely on third party referral traffic.
Crowdstrike IPO in 5 Key Metrics
It's interesting how Prolog has no concept of 'null' as such; just fresh variables whose value we don't know (yet).

No more null pointer exceptions!
Specifics are intentionally hidden, but it seems like the median hourly wage is somewhere around $1-$2.50 an hour.

The labeler side of scale is hosted at "remotasks.com" and they run IP checks to try and ensure that only people from certain countries can sign up to label data. Also a Facebook account is required for signup...
if not pictures, i would say license plate numbers are at least recorded digitally inside of their report.
Both the major us lotteries already do this. Matching all but the last ball wins you a million.
We use two back end carriers and about to add a 3rd. We do not use Comcast or Verizon. Of the ones we do use, you may have heard of one of the carriers, probably not the other. The 3rd, very unlikely. And no, I'm not going to name them.
Is there really much of a difference between the two? A sufficiently large angry only mob is bound to have at least a couple people who are willing to take things too far.
> Suddenly a post or video that's fine legally is blocked/removed because the angry mob is complaining about it with torches and pitchforks.

The standards are indeed bizarre.

You can read a book that lead to the deaths of millions of Jews in Europe, but not a rambling angry meme collection that lead to the deaths of dozens of Muslims in Australia.
He can always own his own platform and still use others'. Just the keep the pedantry going...
Then why comment?

Because I felt like it? I don't see any rule saying that all discussion has to be about the article itself, as opposed to just the headline.
A class action for drudgery needs to be started.
> it gaslights you into thinking you did not solve the challenge correctly, which is plain cruel

That's interesting. Unless you are talking about having to click on more than one "page" of tiles (as illustrated in the video in the OP) guess I don't run into reCAPTCHA often enough to have noticed this phenomenon. Can you elaborate on what you mean by that?
It will never cease to astonish me this lately-fashionable propensity to praise the censorship of information that you do not like.

Do you have any information to back up your assertion that "sites like that kill and injure thousand of people every year"? Or did you just fabricate the claim out of nothing because you wanted to contribute a hyperbolic verse in support of righthink?