skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr This dude, through various financial shenanigans, is loaning himself hundreds of millions of dollars to buy real estate and lease it back to WeWork. He then pays the loans off by issuing shares of We Work stock. Nothing is illegal about this, but it stinks to high heaven. But hey, he doesn't draw a salary as CEO!

From the Company Loans Section:

In May 2013 and February 2014, we issued loans to WE Holdings LLC for $10.4 million (interest rate 0.2% per year; maturity May 30, 2016) and $15.0 million (interest rate 0.2% per year; maturity February 4, 2017), respectively. The loans were collateralized by shares of our capital stock held by We Holdings LLC, and each loan provided us with the option to purchase a number of these shares in full settlement of the applicable loan. We exercised these options in May 2016, purchasing and retiring an aggregate of 8,398,670 shares of our capital stock in full settlement of the loans.

In June 2016, we issued a loan to Adam totaling $7.0 million (interest rate of 0.64% per year; maturity June 14, 2019). In November 2017, Adam repaid the loan in full, including $0.1 million in interest, in cash.

Then from the Properties Leased to The We Company section:

During the years ended December 31, 2016, 2017 and 2018, we made cash payments totaling $3.1 million, $5.6 million and $8.0 million to the [CEO] under these leases.

Sounds like they are straight up loaning the CEO money so he can buy buildings and lease them back to the We Company. Bonkers.

From the Personal Loans section:

Adam currently has a line of credit of up to $500 million with UBS AG, Stamford Branch, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and Credit Suisse AG, New York Branch, of which approximately $380 million principal amount was outstanding as of July 31, 2019. The line of credit is secured by a pledge of approximately [BLANK] shares of our Class B common stock beneficially owned by Adam.

From the WPI Fund and ARK section:

We have entered into operating lease agreements with [the CEO] in which the WPI Fund (or, following the ARK/WPI combination, other real estate acquisition vehicles managed or sponsored by ARK) have an interest, on what we believe to be commercially reasonable terms no less favorable to us than could have been obtained from unaffiliated third parties. During the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2017, no rent expense or cash payments had been recognized by us relating to these agreements as we were not yet occupying any properties owned by these entities and had not paid any rent under these leases. During the year ended December 31, 2018 and the six months ended June 30, 2019, we made cash payments totaling $0.0 million and $0.6 million, respectively, and we recognized

From Personal Real Estate Transactions section:

With respect to the six properties not currently occupied by the Company, in connection with exercising its option to acquire a property in the first year of the management agreement, the ARK Manager and the Company may determine that a subsidiary of the Company should occupy any of such properties to the extent the ARK Manager and the Company agree on terms of any such occupancy agreement.
Akin to - "It always rains on my birthday. It's raining today - it must be my birthday."
Metamagical Themas (Douglas Hofstadter, 1985)
A big thing you're missing is games. I've just looked at my Xbox One:

* Hitman 2 - 104GB

* Elder Scrolls Online - 103GB

* Halo 5 - 99GB

* Forza 7 - 99GB

* Destiny 2 - 89GB

* Quantum Break - 160GB (including episodes which you would otherwise have to stream)

And it's pulling 34GB in updates (two games: 27GB + 7GB) without me even knowing (without explicitly checking). A single game using 10% of my cap is not reasonable IMO.
The Rat Spill
I have found that the best way to educate people on the importance of no government backdoors in encryption is to use the example of TSA approved locks.

Everyone knows when they put a TSA lock on their luggage it does almost nothing to improve the security of their luggage. Any serious criminal has a key to TSA locks.

Adding backdoors is like putting a TSA lock on your bank password. It keeps honest people from seeing it but doesn't do much else.
You don't find OP's wording ironic in light of that fact? I do.
I am not sure that it hides it, it just declaratively represents it.
I guess just index funds
Yes, Implant! I saw him play live earlier this year and absolutely loved it. He has not got old.
> it wouldn't surprise me if it's still seen as a way to signal "This Project is a Big Deal" even at the cost of accessibility.

It also looks really slick when shown on a big wall-mount monitor in the conference room where the Important People gather. I dunno about the Times, but I've seen plenty of places where that carried a lot more weight than usability or accessibility did.

(Sigh.)
Yeah, not an "I need to pay this" issue, but I was talking about tax implications. Whether the money makes a stop in your account is one thing, whether it gets taxed as if it did is another, which I understand it is.
I remember my college library being sort of a refuge and doorway to the world of knowledge without any attached expectation of socialization. I spent my time reading on everything that I found interesting/new (excluding the subjects I was studying for getting my degree). This knowledge didn't directly add to my grades (I think) but really opened my mind to the (pre-internet) world and its past, present and possible future, more so since I never had exposure to this amount of concentrated source of knowledge before.

The difference between that and what we do on internet now is that these were books by authors who spend a good chunk of their lives being authorities on the topics instead of someone dumping their musings on the internet (admittedly not all of which is substandard).

I think this kind of focused consumption (because you have to be physically there) of high quality content in an "aimless" manner is underrated and happening less.
Communication for sure. I think one of the hardest skills to develop is being appropriately critical without coming off like a jerk. This is especially true in remote teams where even the best conferencing solutions can't transmit subtle cues like body language.

I have been going about this by devoting a lot of time (maybe triple what I would intuitively expect) to writing thoughtful comments on code reviews/issues. And, while doing so, thinking through how I would go about the same conversation if it were in person.
He is We.
Not quite. From that link:

> Each time EPA establishes a standard for a contaminant, FDA either adopts it for bottled water or finds that the standard isn’t necessary for bottled water.

> In some cases, standards for bottled water and tap water differ. For example, because lead can leach from pipes as water travels from water utilities to home faucets, EPA has set its limit for lead in tap water at 15 parts per billion (ppb). For bottled water, for which lead pipes aren’t used, the lead limit is set at 5 ppb.

So it could go in either direction though leans toward tight coordination. Enlightening to know there is more scrutiny there.

That aside, the horrible taste alone should be enough to dissuade people with a known safe alternative from drinking bottled water.
And this fact was pointed out on 4chan several days ago
For me, that was like watching a virtuoso video game player (ala missile command)... With a great sound track.
For something that is used a few hours per year the dominant cost is the capital cost, and not the marginal cost (fuel + wear&tear).
>that means you might be happy and placated

Maybe some people do fine with that, even though to some other people perspective they call it illusion.

I don't really care if my happiness is perceived as "illusion" by some other people as long as I my self consider it happy.

as long as these people still allowed to vote, its fine to me. They may vote for "stupid" decision but democracy should still allow for that.
Here's a demonstration I made recently, of best rational approximations: https://shreevatsa.net/fraction/best — much of this Quanta magazine article sets up background on such approximations, so playing with the numbers on this web page may help build some intuition about the problem.

In particular, the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture that has just been proved involves asking about the set of irrational numbers that are approximated to within an error of f(q) for each denominator q, while the webpage above simply finds the best possible approximations for a single fixed irrational number (well, rational…) from the (semi-)convergents of its continued fraction — so any denominator is allowed and the error (for convergents) turns out to be the Dirichlet bound 1/q^2.

(For best results, choose a really large bound on the denominator and only ask for the “bestest” rational approximations. The source code is just a single HTML file and a bunch of plain JavaScript files to do the computation, so if you can improve it, please do so and let me know: https://gitlab.com/svat/web-fraction/tree/master/website .)
Well that and the fact that everything is not OK. But hey, maybe I'm just a contrarian. /shrug
If the government is printing money, not USD.

Rare things, gold, Bitcoin, real estate if you can get it affordable.
I don't wonder that, cash in today's climate is easy to get.

What I wonder is 'How spectacularly will their business implode if a recession starts?'
Planet Money had a good episode on this about a year ago.

Audio -> https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/07/13/628894815/epis...

Transcript -> https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
Same with Azure and AWS
>I guess if his base can't put 2 and 2 together that prices are rising due to his tariffs it almost makes sense.

His base really can't put 2 and 2 together. You seem to think it's obvious that tariffs will cause prices to rise, but you seriously underestimate just how stupid these people are.
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Now we just need the caps to be mandatory with all service advertisements and signups and it almost might make sense.
Euribor is not a rate that central bank lends to other banks, it is a rate commercial banks lend between themselves.

ECB has its own rates (e.g. deposit facility, marginal lending facility for overnight deposits and loans).
Rachmaninoff or "How to terrorize a pianist."
RIVERMorph
http://www.rivermorph.com/
Weird. I use bluetooth headphones while skiing all the time. Never had an issue.
From the article: "The word "Alpha-Kevin" (combination of Alpha male and the given name), as being representative of a particularly unintelligent young person, was, for a time, at the top of the list, which was the subject of a 2015 online poll for the Word of the year (Germany) and, particularly, the youth word of the year."

In your interactions with the other Kevins of Germany, have you encountered any of these Alpha-Kevins? Are they held in particularly high esteem in Kevinish circles?
> Others fill the USB ports on their computers with epoxy.

How do you plug in a mouse or keyboard?
Sure, it's slightly complicated. Some may quibble on my somewhat explicit wording, but under the primary dealer system the Treasury can unequivocally ensure that auctions clear lest designations be stripped. It's hard to articulate how much an auction failure would disturb money markets. Therefore, clearing bond auctions is the highest possible priority of the Treasury and FRBNY and you saw JPM in Dec 18 taking it on the chin to make auctions clear (as there was surprise about the utter lack of foreign interest).

"The FRBNY also expects primary dealers to demonstrate their continued commitment to the market for Treasury securities by bidding meaningfully in all Treasury auctions. If a dealer fails to bid meaningfully in an auction, the FRBNY typically contacts that dealer to remind it of its so-called "underwriting" responsibilities."[1]

[1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/fin-mkts/Documents/...
Based on your argument then, Linux is a business and not created by an open-source community.
In this case I'm entirely upset by the former, and will leave the discussion of potentially inappropriate marketing tactics for another day.

You're right that bandwidth caps aren't my main complaint about ISPs, but overall displeasure with internet service is relevant to the bandwidth cap discussion because bandwidth caps are a feature that contributes to that displeasure.

Fairly or not, I blame ISPs for taking us from "A world where everyone pays $50/mo" to "A world where everyone pays $80/mo". Now they're trying to turn that world into a world where you have the choice between $100/mo and $150/mo. There's a fairness question to be discussed (I personally think it's not unreasonable to have society-wide, fast, affordable, unlimited internet be the default) but there's also a value decrease there that deserves just as much attention as the fairness question. That decrease (and not the fairness issue) is where my frustration is directed.
How can there be a whole psytrance guide without mentioning 1200 micrograms, Infected Mushroom, or Shpongle?

Thank you; I came here to flip this exact table. Especially regarding Infected Mushroom. See also: Astral Projection. harumph. /me goes off to flip some more tables. (More seriously, I do appreciate this site's work to both reveal artists working in the genre and illuminate the sub-genres.)
Maybe this is not the case for Comcast but Netflix deploys edge servers into the data centers of ISP to cache content local to the client. So this should make the data on-net and keeping it inside the ISP's pipes. if this is the case, why would overages be factored in with this traffic? Greed ... count all traffic as traffic on-net and off ?

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
> It doesn't allow tethering though.

How would they even make a distinction? Does Apple comply with carriers in this regard?
I'm in the immediate city suburbs wherein there are some middle to upper-middle class areas with lower income areas right next to them. Interesting thought, but it doesn't play out at least in "my" Walmarts. The Walmart in the lowest income area is the worst in my case. Aisles where there's no order whatsoever and things like a full unopened jug of milk sitting on the shelf (that's warm) like someone just changed their mind, but no employee ever noticed. Perhaps there's something to be made of the fact that this low income area is right next to higher income areas (creates resentment maybe(?)...just spitballing here).
That's a pretty naive assessment. The reason stocks came roaring back was because of Quantitative Easing. There is no guarantee that further new easing could have the same effect. Governments worldwide basically bailed everything out by adding mountains (TRILLIONS) of new debt to replace the debt that vanished by write-offs.

It was all highly unethical to bail out Wall Street at the cost of Main St. Regular people got fucked big time.
Does it have a garbage collector yet?
Quips about the Jordan curve theorem aside, I don't think that's really a meaningful question. It is or it isn't, depending on how you want to model it.

Yield curves are bootstrapped from known bond yields at liquidly-traded tenors (1Y, 2Y, 5Y, 10Y, and short-dated). Those are the heavy black dots in the image. Outside of those tenors the 'true' rate is anyone's guess: you're basically interpolating. Whether that interpolation is continuous is up to you!
One would think it would be a slam dunk high profit business opportunity - come to TX, buy a cheap land, put solar panels and large battery, throw a power cable to the electric grid ... and just relax and watch the Niagara of money flowing into your bank account. It is pretty informative to meditate upon why such business opportunity is just a fantasy incompatible with the current reality.
This is hardly the only possible response to oversubscription, just the one that maximizes short term profits. The customer certainly isn't funding better internet (if it did the government subsidies would have worked), and they certainly aren't getting the advertised service.

So yea, you could frame this in terms of rationality, but since when was rationality the sole basis of ethics, and since when have ethics become irrelevant to human life?
> Why isn't there a builtin way to create a redistributable executable with all my dependencies?

There is and it's called docker.
The other issues could indeed be fixed with something like poetry.
Golden Hope in El Monte Ca California
Not just China, could be any country really.
This reads not as a respectful remembrance of the history of the brutal practice of slavery, but an attempt to suggest slavery is a consequence of capitalism and is thus also evil. That since they are both fundamentally exploitative, today's capitalism, in many ways, causes just as much human suffering as its child, slavery did. The conclusion, whether its stated or not, is that capitalism needs to go, replaced with socialism.

But what every analysis like this fails to recognize is that capitalism doesn't take away the autonomy of the people who have power, they can choose to wield it responsibly or irresponsibly. Changing the system from capitalism to socialism doesn't change the fact that there will be vast disparities in the power, it just changes the system by which people obtain power.

I'm not sure that living "free" under Stalin is necessarily preferable to living a slave in the antebellum south. Of course, both are full of stories of suffering and human misery, and I'm sure both can cite instances where things weren't as bad as we imagine them. But I'm extremely frustrated with rhetoric which cites the latter as evidence that we should move closer to a society like the former.
What the actual heck. Why are startups trying to do schools now? There is no way I'm sending my kid to a company with shareholders. Oh, and it costs $30,000 for your 4 year old to attend preschool. Why must we 'disrupt' anything and everything?

https://wegrow.com/
https://wegrowparents.squarespace.com/
Words? Yes. Actions? That's another story. He's spoken about the open web and such things and then willfully jumps into bed with Google and Facebook, etc.

His "Learn JavaScript deeply" might as well been "Hold onto your ass kids, the rich are about to get richer." That is, WP is no longer a tool of the common people but it's going to be elitist (because that makes my investors happy).

Don't get me wrong. No one is perfect. I simply want to make sure people get to see more of the picture, because there is more to see.
> What is to stop China, Russia, or some other nation state from using it in the US to intercept the communications of lawmakers,

Because NSA can't legally "spy" on US citizens, they would be happy to allow UK, or say NZ, to access those backdoors and record everything US citizens do. Then they just have to find a loophole in how to access that information later. Granted they can probably just redefine what "searching" and "access" means, which do already, but this would open even more loopholes and possibilities.

It's sometimes useful to think of these government agencies not as working for the US citizens but as adversaries who work against our interests.
Dedicated gigabit in a datacenter can be pretty low cost, easily $200 per month or even lower. Local caching servers can reduce bandwidth tenfold. A typical residential fiber infrastructure built in the last decade has planned capacity for decades into the future, there cannot possibly be a congestion on that level yet.
How replaceable are the top candidates in large hiring rounds?
Whether you're right or wrong, status quo still isn't newsworthy.
Are the liquefaction unit's replacement-or-repair costs higher than the value of barrels of liquid gas could generate?

If not what is the timescale to pay itself back?

Would the following alternative work? :

The well delivers barrels filled with oil to the connected world, and thus needs a constant supply of empty oil barrels. Why not fill them with liquid nitrogen (generated at large "economy of scale" liquefaction units at the connected world) and use this to liquefy the gas at the remote well?
Doesn't seem to be. You're referring to the big crunch, but that theory was ~disproven.

Our best bet now is that the universe will expand forever, and the expansion will accelerate. We've yet to determine if the acceleration will accelerate (Big Rip scenario), but it's a possibility.
Flying cars have been functional since the 90s. There are more problems to this concept.

A. Imagine DUIs in widely available flying vehicles.

B. Autopilot is still dogshit. That's the truth.

C. If you're old enough, you'll remember when a commercial airline would be high in the sky and you'd still have to pause talking to someone on the ground. Now, even though they will be quieter, electric and all, but high speed rotors still make noise. Lots of it. Add lots of these in lower altitude. Good bye quiet spaces.

D. Maintaince. Oh my shit, few people properly maintain their ground cars. Wtf do you think is going to happen to a flying car? Difference is, you don't roll to a stop on engine failure. You crash into a home with someone's family in their teaching their toddler to walk.

E. You think those trucks through crowds were bad a while ago? This is borderline democratizing terrorism.

F. Mile per watt is going to be way worse than a car. Itll take way too much energy in comparison. Those power conglomerates are going to want their pound of flesh.
It's been a few years since I had logged into my account. Does Tumblr offer a chronologically ordered feed? I'd consider giving it another go if it works in a way that eschews what's annoying about FB and IG.
My personal preference when working is an Ambient collection fron the Silent Hill series: https://youtu.be/Yxd-X8P-GtY

It is incredibly atmospheric (if a bit "depressing") and helps me embody the patience and clarity needed to produce good work.
My cold water is coming out of the tap a lot warmer than usual, and that's from underground! I'm super interested in bringing back older tech to make us more sustainable and self-sufficient.
If you're into this music, be sure to also check out other interpretations of this piece, such as one by Lugansky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L6CxUpBZlY&t=1291s
I actually appreciate Barr's point. Honestly given the cost of not saving lives that could have been saved, abducted children, potential active shooters, terrorist threats all surrendered for the benefit of me getting end to end encryption to ask my wife what kind of drink she wants me to buy from Starbucks. I, speaking only for myself, find lawful access to such personal messaging, given probable cause of a crime being committed and a warrant signed by a judge, tolerable and reasonable.

I also get the sentiment that people have more of a problem with the idea of government access to private communications than with weakening the encryption to allow it. I see a lot of the conversation being all about privacy, and not about encryption.

In discussion of the latter I don't have a lot to add, but in the former, the courts have decided many times over that law enforcement and the state can access information about you if they have probable cause that you're committing a crime. If you enjoy living in a society governed by laws and don't tend towards libertarian extremes of personal freedom it's something worth accepting and the discussion on the highest level of whether we should or shouldn't do this doesn't even consider this side of the argument, despite it filling up 90% of the user generated discussion about this topic whenever it comes up.
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