skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a believer in WW's business model, but this is an overly-cynical take. We're a company that "started" in WeWork, have our own office now, and in fact moved a different office of ours from a private space in Long Island to a WeWork in Manhattan.

What WeWork offers to small businesses is quite valuable: an instantly-obtainable month-to-month lease, at relatively reasonable rates, with all standard office amenities (most notably Internet access) included. You can decide you need an office for your business on a Monday and have a better office on Tuesday than most of your local peers. Even better, you can quickly scale that office up to completely private offices or down to shared space.

To put it gently, the jury is still out on whether WeWork is charging an amount, given its number of subscribers at each level of service, to make the company profitable. It seems totally fair to predict that it'll turn out to be a house of cards.

It does not, on the other hand, seem fair to suggest that WeWork isn't offering something that people want.
"Hey, would you buy 1 50-billionth of my company for a dollar? Sign this, please. Thanks."

I can probably manage to avoid a down round for a while, but only if I don't run out of cash or accidentally IPO.

(Every month: "Hey, would you buy 1 (1.2x previous valuation)th of my company for a buck? Sign here. Thanks!")

"Revenue is flat but market cap is increasing 20% month over month!"
I think that was jasode's point?
> 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.

VCs are paying the rent silly. It's VCs all the way down.
Ctrl-F "tether"...nope.
I would recommend this article [1] that explains the background of why the cartoon is problematic.

For an analogy: Drawing Trump as a banana eating ape would not raise eyes, while drawing Obama like this undoubtedly would.

[1] https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/285781/sov...
From the article: "The subcontractor's network was then hacked, though CBP said its own systems had not been compromised."

No, actually your system was compromised by allowing the subcontractor to copy the data to another, more insecure network.
Yes, and that's the problem. We breed new subtypes of plants for human consumption.

The problem from a mass extinction of plants is that we don't know what the reverberating effects of those eradications can mean. There are many animal, insect etc species which may be reliant on said plants for primary nutrition which then percolates all the way up the food chain and potentially decimating other animal populations.

It is not hard to imagine the potential side effects of say, the resulting plant extinction resulting in massive bee population losses for example. But that's just one prominent example of what lost biodiversity can potentially cause. This lost biodiversity can then further contribute to the rise of invasive species and the result is a destabilization of multiple biomes which have been relatively stable for a long period of time.
The title of an article I would never have clicked on if it were not referenced via Hacker News...
It doesn't compare because microG isn't an Android "ROM" - you can't compare the two.
> The shop’s Google listing is how most customers find his restaurant, yet, he said, he has no control over how his business is represented. There is no way for him to get rid of the ad next to the Google listing.

So he wants the free traffic but not to pay for it in any way?

Ah, the "i want my cake and to eat it too" argument. A classic
Because noone in IT is competent?
> I’m from The Netherlands, so actually fairly close. I also know France doesn’t have a credit system as described, and wouldnt be surprised if that’s the case for a large part of the EU.

The Netherlands has the Bureau Krediet Registratie, which is pretty similar to the credit ratings in the US. (Arguably, the credit rating system in the US is slightly more forgiving than the BKR, but that's a separate matter - the Netherlands definitely does have this system).

France is actually the outlier for not having one - Germany and Spain both do, for example, as does the UK. And of course Canada, the US, and Australia have similar systems as well.
So many studies make such bald and ridiculous assumptions but never get called out for them. Or the results of "studies" where the methods aren't even public!

Linking to a "study" to validate a point is so easy and trivial. I can find studies that validate any position I need. But having "a study show" makes my argument seem truthful and academic. In that regard, "studies" seem to have a cargo cult where people happy collect and link to them but never bother to validate them.

Did they not bother to actually run the numbers by anyone at all? Did it being a "study" magically make it pure and true?
I looked at Vrumi and the cost is ridiculous!
$20/day/person tops, I go to Hacker Dojo in the Bay area and it's a decent place with good wifi, nothing fancy and its about that much.
Granted, that one is a buzzfeed article so :shrug:?
Seems weak. Media are free to make alternative adtech. Google’s ad system has made them more money though.

And the above would be true even if Google News didn’t exist.

The media has incredibly sloppy thinking about their business model.

What monopoly prevents the post from managing their own ads? They choose not to.
That is cool. Thanks!
You're not really getting a rebate, the extremely high merchant fees in the US are paid by the customers.

While it makes sense for the individual, high fees should be regulated.
Now, I don't cheat. And although I like to think we have some pretty smart people in this message board, it sure is a hell of a lot easier to just be first.
They paid for a bubble (Tableau stock) using another bubble (CRM stock). So all is good in the funny world that we live in.
If that is what he was going for then alright. My bad.
So then? You see the mistake and keep the same view?
So disappointing but I have noticed the same thing.

NYT has dove so deep into identity politics, opinion, agenda, and editorial that it's very hard to imagine their actual legitimate journalistic/reporting division is not being negatively impacted and influenced.
> If you're suggesting Linux did not intend its malloc implement

Linux (the kernel) doesn't have malloc. It's part of the C library, which is a completely separate project. What Linux implements is brk and mmap.
Playing devil's advocate (and this is likely to be downvoted by the "we hate all management" crowd on HN), but the reality is that there isn't exactly a very large pool of people who have experience running/directing multi-billion dollar companies. If you start blacklisting every single C-level that was ever involved in a controversy, the only choices you're going to have for your board of directors are going to be people that have very limited experience making executive decisions.

IME, this is especially the case for security positions like CISOs, where the pool of people with such experience is excruciatingly limited to begin with (and no, a high level engineer/developer does not have the same skillset as a security professional).

There's also something to be said for allowing people to learn from their mistakes. It's obviously higher stakes for an executive, but it's along the same vein as how we don't blacklist-for-life the developers who write vulnerable code.
Easy to say, hard to practice. I often don't verify that the bag of rice I bought with a digital monetary transaction is rice until I use it for the first time, and I don't even check it for biological agents at that time!
Recapcha is absolutely heinous on an iPhone SE. The pictures are way too small and blurry to figure out what they are looking for half the time and it’s really not built well for zooming.
(-cracy words are Greek anyway)
Station B, a platform for programming biology
> Are those considered successful examples?

I'd argue the issue is "successful at what?".

I've done primarily FE for the last several years and the argument I make with my BE peers is that our BE-focused industry focuses on coding for extension, while a well-run FE codes for _replaceability_. Because, for reasons that are NOT limited to a regular rotation of libraries and frameworks, our code will be replaced frequently. Our requirements change so frequently that no amount of extensibility will manage the paradigm shifts.

That's not a BE vs FE issue anymore - Many of these growth-oriented companies and startups are making dramatic changes in tech/approach/offerings and other basic requirements. Being able to pivot quickly is beneficial. Allowing a team to try out something and work out the kinks (while still producing output that can be used in production) before everyone else considers adopting it is really beneficial.

So in the sense of dealing with that reality, in avoiding being the company running on Java 8 or jquery 1 or heavily commited to their SOAP infrastructure or deeply coupled with a UI interface that everyone rolls their eyes at - yes, you can call these cases "successful".

If those issues aren't your biggest issues, if you have a stable collection of offerings and are interested in solving scalability, focusing on extensibility, etc. If you want to have a rigid set of UI standards and have confidence that those are being universally applied...then no, they aren't "successful".

Appropriate tools for the appropriate task. In this case, it's easy to see the result as the failures it contains and not consider the failures it has avoided.
The NYT is pretty known for propaganda. Assuming it is not acting malicious is not a good assumption.
Perhaps if the poor didn’t spend so much on lottery tickets their station might improve? If they know they are playing a losing bet, why keep doing it? And these folks that were winning were hardly hedge-fund managers. If the “poor” wanted to play to win, perhaps they could get everyone on their block to chip in to buy shares just like the old couple did? They could get all of their friends to save what they would have spent in the lottery over the course of the year, put that fund into the “pot” and then win, reinvesting it and repeating the process.

It’s hard to be sympathetic to people that make bad decisions as a habit. For example, if it’s a 1/5,000,000 chance of winning and they still keep playing, that’s on them. The have very little sympathy for losing lottery players. If people choose to spend their money like that, that’s their business, but that doesn’t invite sympathy when it doesn’t work out. It isn’t like they are being defrauded or even cheated. They have access to the same rules of the game and they have access to math just like everyone else.
CBP does more than that.

They have a joint venture with DEA to have fairly comprehensive coverage of interstates. Also, private companies offer LPR services and sharing, not sure if this company did or if that database was breached.
It does both. It is not acceptable in the West to call for someone's death over a cartoon. So more than mocking Islam per se, it is meant to say "We are allowed to do this here".
Stock-ish Android that gets updates is good enough for me. I'm looking forward to wider support of U2F over NFC in general though, I don't keep data on the phone itself.

You can buy a contactless smartcard for $15 each and install this on it https://github.com/tsenger/CCU2F
/e/ is not as "un-googled" as they claim to be:

https://ewwlo.xyz/evil
https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/e-foundation-first-look/
>The real advice is to always be ready to abandon your platform at any moment and move on to a new one should its policies no longer be in your favor.

Okay, but how is this advice useful or practical? You can't build or grow a business without being able to rely on at-least some core tech. It is hard enough having to turn a profit, and make payroll without the additional burden of having to structure an organization where any technology is easily removed, replaced ($) , tested (more $$) and staff re-trained (more $$$) at a moments notice (even more $$$). All that assuming that easy drop-in replacements exist. In my domain (pharma) such a business plan would be the quickest way to bankrupt a company.
I think that many folks don't remember or know about how the word "BI" [business intelligence] was born.

Back in the day corporations paid programmers and consulting companies millions of dollars for the purpose of building out applications with databases upon which to digitize their business processes. This was a great for a couple decades, up until some time in the 90's.

It was at that point that expectations had caught up with digitization and having your battle-axes in accounting/order-entry/supply-chain do their keyboard magic on green-screens just wasn't cutting it. To actually understand what was going on, managers had to ask for specific reports from these people and they were just not in a position to do the reports as well has get their own ever-increasing-shit done. Let alone whatever the hell sales was doing.

For a control-freak in management this just isn't acceptable. They started to find ways to "serve themselves". Eventually someone had the idea to hook the enterprise databases into their own zany spreadsheets. It was amazing. There was such a fountain of knowledge and insight that it made the people who could do that seem like relative geniuses. Almost "intelligent" in their business jobs. Thus, "Business Intelligence" was born.

"Business Intelligence" is the practice of making badly-designed opaque shit from brutal, inscrutable business applications... visible.

Only now are makers of enterprise applications starting to get it (or pretend to get it).
Enforcing Conventional Commits Using Git Hooks
They happen.
>Company, which has every reason to exaggerate, claims it can improve encoding speed by 32.2% against x265 veryslow

"It’ll be interesting to see if we find out more info and are able to test this encoder in the coming months."

>BBC, which has no skin in the game, claims AV1 is less efficient than HEVC

"I would call this test flawed as AV1 has consistently shown to perform better than HEVC."

Every article on AV1 that I have read is like this, except for https://codecs.multimedia.cx/2018/12/why-i-am-sceptical-abou... -- they are always blatantly cheerleading new advancements, like only being 5x slower to decode than VP9 or 10x slower to encode than x265 or whatever. But the advancements are not phrased like that, of course--you are never reminded that the competition continues to clobber AV1 in every aspect but filesize/quality efficiency.
Could you post one of these alleged subtle and multi-layered political cartoons, with a short analysis?
Classic example of marketing to the naive ....
Thanks for the pointer to esolangs.org. Didn't know such a place existed on the internet.

Alchemist looks fun, but only by looking over the Truth Machine page did I understand exactly what it is about.

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Truth-machine
It's interesting that the image used for the article, from the windward side of Oahu, shows only invasive species (or maybe that's the point). Ironically, the biodiversity of plants on the Hawaiian Islands has increased tremendously since the arrival of man. The graphic shows 79 species of plant lost. Anyone that's been to Hawaii knows there are far more than 79 introduced plant species.

I'm not saying this is a good thing by any means, but it's interesting to see that novel forests of invasive species are still maligned even if they contain a greater number of species/area than what was displaced. If anyone is interested in this comment, I can unearth at least one paper that examines these values.

In the end, I suppose we value the total number of different species in existence, and as that number decreases, there is a Great Loss. Yet I do like to mull over why conservationists favor native species that are struggling to survive over the introduced that are flourishing, often at great economic cost to control said invasives.

Note: this comment only considers plant species, which probably makes it very uninformed and bad. Take it with a grain of salt.
Their unit economics are positive, not negative.
Facial Recognition Data Collected by US Customs Agency Hacked
No, but they published something that confirmed their priors, and didn't due their due diligence on it because it confirmed their priors and was the kind of story they wanted to write. They have to be held to account for that.
compile the source for SDL?

or, i also published a VMU emulator (in source) which will build on macos. you can run the cortex-m23 emulator i wrote in it, and then the game in that
I think one of the components that drives the success of AirBNB, the ability to "live" for a couple weeks in, say, a former hermitage just outside Naples or a beachfront condo in the Seychelles, would also be viable for small teams or full time remote workers. Essentially it's just AirBnB but with some additional minimum guaranteed service levels for infrastructure (security, internet, privacy, pricing structured around a minimum 10 day work week block for fixed contract lengths, similar to short term commercial lease terms) for remote workers.

Another consideration is that private homes-as-workspaces can offer some incidental cost savings in the form of things you get with residential zoning like (usually) free parking and a car-based commute that does not follow urban congestion patterns. Say you need to work within 40 minutes of Paris or downtown LA in order to make the odd off-hours mixer or client meeting, but your daily workflow can be conducted entirely within a single dedicated space out in the burbs, priced comparably to the shared desks at a WW location and more comfortable or in a more walkable area than a typical industrial park.
no, the goal is not to make it unhackable because its impossible but to make it really really costly/difficult to be hack.
Want to take over the Java ecosystem? All you need is a MITM
I'm not sure I've heard this before. Do you have any reputable sources on this?
If I called someone about you, what would they say?
From the linked page:

> "The program will continually pick rules at random from the set of applicable rules, until there are no such rules."
Playing loose with the word Linux here. Play along a bit maybe?
Manufactured Recollection
Agree. Just don't see it as malicious
Showing a non-Jewish world leader in a yarmulke put it a bit over the top for me. I think the star of David was fair game because it's a symbol of Israel as a country, but depicting Trump as some sort of crypto-Jew felt like imagery you'd see in Nazi propaganda or an illustrated version of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Ask HN: How could I write the fastest Android app?
It could be just a hello world, but it should be initialized in milliseconds and be lightweight to download (1mb max).
They also make the credit card fee from the merchant!
Uh, using a wheelchair vs walking is a lot less of a personal choice than using Firefox vs Chrome.

Or: people who need a wheelchair are protected by anti-discriminatory laws, while people who prefer not to use Google products aren't.
If we have the rule

2H + O -> H2O

and the universe consists of 3 H and 2 O atoms, then the rule is applicable. After applying the rule our universe will contain 1 H2O, 1 H and 1 O atoms. At this point the rule would not be applicable anymore.

If we have the rule

Alice + Bob + 0Eve -> AliceBob

and the universe contains 1 atom of each Alice, Bob and Eve. Then that rule is not applicable because it requires the universe to contain no atom of type Eve.

>>>

Oh man that is a disappointing definition, the fact that 2H + O can operate with 3H but 0H + O can't is extremely misleading and syntactically inconsistent. I am not certain how it'd be best to define a rule that predicates on an absence of a token but that syntax is terrible.

Also, assuming this language is meant to be chemistry minded I'm sad that there is no support for the grouped sub-quantities that tend to be described... any chemist would probably be confused when O2 wasn't considered equivalent to 2O
I don't think the filing companies are actively making the forms harder to fill out by hand, but the problem is that the IRS has no incentive to minimize the time it takes to file taxes.
Sorry I was unclear and linked to the wrong article, I meant that wapo journo poking around led to DHS & CBP responding on the record. It was one in the line of recent articles about facial recognition that travelers can opt-out of but nobody is sure how exactly you are supposed to do so. The wapo article I linked did attribute The Register info linking Perceptics. Both wapo articles are linked in this tweet: https://twitter.com/geoffreyfowler/status/113817627922244403...

> And on Monday, after I published this column online, Department of Homeland Security officials called me to disclose that photos of travelers were recently taken in a data breach, accessed through the network of one of its subcontractors.
Can someone reply to this comment if they see it in a few weeks and see if it's been working for me? :D
Can I play devils advocate here?

This is, of course, a serious breach and there will and should of course be consequences for the negligent parties

but

I am struggling to see the threat model being faced here.

biometric data is just a username. I flash my face around all day, and am careless as to where I leave my thumbprint.

The loss of so many photos and names is unlikely to have national level consequences (Compare this to say the Office Of Personnel management breach from some years back - that has horrible implications for US National security for decades) and the personal level consequences are ... hard to see

What this does underline is that we are outrageously careless as an industry with our data (comparable to early industrial "pollution" as Schneier points out). And it is not going to get better without a) career and business ending consequences b) new ways to store / secure data c) a new way of thinking about who owns and what is personal data

Personally I think we need a new form of intellectual property (just as we are trying to work out what kind of company FAANG are (not telcos, not newspapers, what is a platform?) we need to ask what is personal data

This comment is presumed under law to be my property, my copyright. I might license that property away (dunno never read HN T&Cs) but it is mine. But google and apple and others will track that I sat down at a certain time and place to write it, my ISP will see when I sent to which servers.

All of that data is also created by my conscious actions - should that data not also be my property. And if need be licensed - and compensated for its use?

And when (if) my data is held - then we should presume that it can be accessed by my agents for my benefit (from spending patterns to heart data). I would argue that Sometimes surveillance can be good for us - but only in ways similar to doctors knowing more about me can be good for me - the entire industry of medicine has individual interests at its heart and took a long time to get there.

We are heading in that direction (perhaps) but till we get there, carelessness will be the cheapest option, surveillance always bent agansit is (by state or other actors). We should rail against this stupid dumb breach, but punishing the "bad guys" is not even the first step on the road.

If I can make a bad analogy - It's not one incident that people got sick from one chef badly cooking chicken - it's we need to look at factory farming and meat consumption and healthy eating and marketing bias as a whole.