skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems there are a lot of red flags here. The entire thing feels like a ponzi scheme to make the founder insanely wealthy - aka no real business here.

E.g. The founder took a near 0% interest loan for 30M in 2006, raised VC capital, than paid it back in 2009 with the inflated share values.
I think most of us around here on HN and "tech people" in general understand that particular set of issues around encryption backdoors.

It seems to me that certain lawmakers and people like Barr either don't put the time in to understand or are willfully ignorant to further their own goals.
Why widely spoken languages have simpler grammar from The Economist
Maybe there’s some “don’t be evil” left at google after all. Good to see.
> Margins like that mean he's buying liquidation.

Not really. https://www.amazon.com/Polyhedral-Dungeons-Dragons-Pathfinde... is selling for $10.98 the same thing you can buy wholesale for $1.50. Of course, you can get it from https://www.krakendice.com/faux-stone-green-jade-dice-set-fo... for the bargain price of $8.95.

https://www.krakendice.com/dice-by-collection/pearl-dice/ is selling sets for $5.95 when the wholesale price is $0.49.

Even after accounting for the cost of shipping, I'm pretty sure these are margins of over 100%.
The Differing Perspectives on CSS-in-JS
> communications of lawmakers, CEOs

> Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. We are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications.

It is AG Barr's suggestion (as far as I can tell from the quote above) that these are not regular consumers so they should get "the real thing". Everyone else would get the "inspectable encryption" version.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_S-1
Qt Quick 3D: A High-Level 3D API for Qt Quick
Doesn't really matter if you're across the globe...
Epstein Conspiracies Show Silicon Valley Is More Powerful Than You Think
The thing that's the most upsetting about this is that our 401k, pension funds, city funds will all end up buying this garbage.
Forget the introvert/extrovert trap that so many comments/articles fall into.

I don't join book clubs precisely because I don't want to commit to reading that material on that schedule. The idea of simply meeting up with friends for an hour to silently read whatever we feel, hey, I like that. I can read LotR or HP again, someone else can read sci-fi or mysteries, and we can chat about that or whatever else. It's a great alternative to reading one and only one book.
There is also the possibility that using less secure communications hardware and software could be exposing individuals and companies to criminal and civil liabilities due to other legal requirements. In the US this is already the situation with regards to handling classified information.

Despite all of the rhetoric and public statements, the legal burden and actual enforcement seems to be going very much the opposite direction in the US and EU. There is good reason to suspect that the monitoring (and centralized censorship) infrastructure built up in other nations could end up producing the opposite desired goals in the long term.
Exactly. An actual strong encryption backdoor would be impractical and/or would be immediately broken and leaked / dead on arrival (the entire crypto community would be motivated, on a personal level, to undermine this). The thing we have to worry about is players like Facebook allowing MITM snooping on behalf of the government without having an actual backdoor, as they have already agreed to do. I think Apple and others would sooner disobey a court order and throw lawyers and money at the problem than snoop for the gov, though, which would be a very good thing. We need to keep pressure on Facebook and keep exposing companies that give in to requests like this.
People are mixing up Walmart's retail practices with their online practices.

Walmart's retail arm will squeeze water from a stone. However, their online division actually works with suppliers since they're still trying to compete with Amazon and eBay.
Would you say they're considered harmful?
Solar and Wind need exponential energy storage growth. Why UPHS is our best hope [pdf]
Lisp is not based on the Lambda Calculus
One of my favorite websites of all time. Glad to see he's working on a new version!
Front end work is just messy, solutions that optimize everything at the same time are rare/non-existent.

When I've run into hitches, stutters, etc, it was when I was doing too much of the rendering myself in Javascript, micromanaging the HTML and CSS. A little load time is better than any amount of jittering or hitching, which give me a headache very fast.

When you make the Javascript do less of the browser's job, work with CSS rather than against it, your code even drifts a little bit toward elegance.

The other thing that has caused it, on reflection, is just too many elements (hundred of thousands or millions) particularly in complex SVG visualizations. If this is your issue, the solutions might include summary statistics, fancy graphics algorithms, or just changing the design.
Flycast: Open-source Dreamcast emulation no longer requires a BIOS
Seems like they are pretty much levered to the hilt. What happens when the current bubble bursts (or even just deflates) and their occupancy rate declines?

Their business model seems to be selling short term leases and buying long term leases. This is all fine and dandy as long as they can find enough buyers for the short term commitments, but the distribution of almost all such strategies tends to be heavily tailed. You basically collect a small but consistent margin and occasionally suffer heavy and unavoidable losses.

That's a perfectly fine strategy if the company can stay solvent during the loss, but this seems far from certain in case of WeWork.
> Because US auctions can't fail - primary dealers need to act as a back stop - you've had firms like JPM and BofA taking on huge amounts of treasuries. This has really clogged the o/n repo market and is beginning to distort bank balance sheets.

I haven't heard about this. Any public reading material?
It seems to be aimed at bringing about a wealth transfer from the investor and management classes to the working classes - if global supply chains are forced to shorten, the value of unskilled labour locally will go up even if the economy as a whole loses.
I hope they start imaging at least parts of the ocean, like the great pacific garbage patch and other areas of particular interest for meteorologists and environmentalists.
Not surprised, they already do this with ebook. You sell your book for $10 or less you get 70%, you sell it for more, you get 30%
The US does not have age limits on stock ownership.
As Paul Krugman says, "What looks like raw ignorance and prejudice is, in fact, raw ignorance and prejudice".
HN Monday: "It's an atrocity when Walmart/Amazon use their monopoly/sony power to force down supplier prices. That's unsustainable, destroys market signals, and hugely disincentivizes the production process for goods."

HN Tuesday: "It's awesome when governments use their monopsony power to force down pharmaceutical prices, that has no downsides except for lower profits for someone who didn't deserve them anyway."
Ironic considering corporations are people.
WriteFreely (or its hosted equivalent, Writeas) is also an excellent option.
> Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. We are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications.

This is very naive. Just assume the scenario where a CEO or politician has a certain fetish that he/she rather would not like to be splattered over the front page of a national news paper. This person is likely going to use his personal email, phone, voice and data applications to indulge in this fetish. If there is a backdoor, it is almost guaranteed China, Russia or any other country will eventually break it and potentially use it for blackmail to get their hands on corporate or national secrets.
It takes over a decade for most major pharmaceuticals to go through all required research and clinical trials before they ever reach the general population.

Costs can easily go past tens of millions of dollars. A 2-4 year copyright period would require new medications to either be prohibitively expensive, or not be researched at all and only the most profitable diseases would ever get looked into.
> This very American attitude of separating "business enterprises" from "consumers", which to me sounds like separating the noble and important from peasants or cattle, is utterly sickening

I'm kind of on the fence about this. My counterargument to your comment is that the iPhone, Google search, global shipping, oil production, etc. could not be created by individuals. These things exist because huge groups of humans organized into things called "businesses".

Protecting businesses is like protecting the economies of states. There are massive effects for lots of people if businesses are not treated well. So yes, businesses get special deals sometimes. Unfortunately, this is a slippery slope, and people often fall down it.

To me, the truth in your comment is that US culture tends to give credit to CEOs for the efforts of all the other people in the organization. And this can be easily conflated with all kinds of other issues like "fines are just things that are illegal for poor people".
Wow real stumper - almost as if Microsoft has a monopoly on their own ecosystem. And Apple. Etc. Etc.
Sure, there will always be some nights in the height of summer where you want some AC. The goal isn't total elimination; it's reduction.

Running AC in the dark night to cool that thermal mass will benefit during the day. Using some energy, but substantially less and at non-peak times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Houston indicates 81 is above the average... and again, thick walls aren't the only available approach. Any approach will involve a collection of different tweaks.
Don't most VCs overvalue most startups by ~100%? This doesn't seem that crazy to me.
It's been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JATO
The primary requirement for a carrier jet is two engines, decent thrust, and enough body rigidity to take landings. The F-22 has all that. The MIG-29 had less, and had a carrier version. Same with the SU-27.
Especially at their scale. A team of 20 could run a Facebook-like experience for 1 million people. Things get much harder after that, but Wework isn't close to the scale where you need more people because things are harder.
Look, paying for 'speed' and data usage isn't that weird.

Your speed tier determines how much of the shared bandwidth you're allowed to consume at any given moment.

Your data tier determines how much total data you're allowed to transfer.

These numbers become related at the edges but in the middle can be picked somewhat independently. Very few people need 24/7 full-tilt internet so it makes sense to buy more point-in-time bandwidth while keeping your data tier low.
Don't you know the Fourth Amendment?:

>The right of large business enterprises to be secure in their employees, locations, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the large business enterprises or things to be seized.
The brake will increase survivability for you; neutral will increase survivability for the other driver. What hurts you is the sudden acceleration from the impact, and the brake will decrease that. What hurts the other driver is the sudden deceleration of impact; your brake will make that a harder stop for him while being in neutral would make it a bit less of a hard stop.
It seems like they need to charge more or operate a leaner operation. Even after excluding marketing and sales expenses, they’re still not profitable. They also apparently have 12k employees, which is way too high.
I mean we all remember what happened to the Grand Exchange right
No, not explicit congestion control, the amount of entropy in what internet plan a user has (outside of a lossy CDMA-type connection) is fairly low. The sender should set window sizes, not assume ISPs should set an IP-level flag. Probes for speeds should be less aggressive since it isn’t unknown how fast a typical connection is.

Not, link, but subnet, since dynamic IPs exist. IP addresses are usually assigned geographically.
Sounds great, what are the problems with its methods?
We need to see more of this so we can transfer wealth from the rich to the poor more effectively and get them to invest in the economy.
A Bloomberg columnist's reaction on Twitter:

"I have only read the related party section in the WeWork IPO filing so far, and I am not kidding that it is THE MOST BANANAS THING I HAVE EVER READ."

https://twitter.com/ShiraOvide/status/1161601877517246464
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is not a great example. The particular section you've linked to is a Classical Chinese poem quoted in the introduction to the novel. The rest of the book is (for the most part) written in Ming Dynasty vernacular Chinese (although it sometimes veers into a quite formal vernacular) and is actually kind of close-ish to formal modern Mandarin.

The 20th century vernacular revolution didn't mean that written Chinese was exclusively Classical Chinese previously. All the famous novels of China (Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, etc) are all written in the vernacular of their time. It is nonetheless true that the overwhelming majority of writing that was not literature was written in Classical Chinese.

As a side note, I would also rate Art of War as fairly readable (for a modern reader) Classical Chinese. Its excerpts are usually assigned at a middle school level in China. So "wasn't really meant to be easily read" feels a bit like a stretch. It is far easier to read (at least for me) than something like the Analects or the Daodejing.

Classical Chinese still influences Chinese written works today. In order to fully understand modern Chinese literature, newspapers, legal documents, essentially anything at a register more formal than everyday Chinese, bits and pieces of Classical Chinese will filter through, to the point that I'd argue most readers of modern Chinese will gain a rudimentary understanding of Classical Chinese from reading the modern Chinese corpus.
Author here,

Yesterday I posted my full research report on this topic. I wanted to also post this short summary presentation which explains this technology.

Here is my post for the full version if anyone would be so kind as to help spread the word.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20690640

Peace, love, and climate stability,
Eric
I doubt the trade war has anything to do with that. That United States has been growing above potential for a long time, and that Europe has been unable to grow for many years, and that China has exhausted it's growth engines, have very little to do with threats of tariffs on a few electronics and grains.
Yes, I would absolutely love to see a GDPR suit against FB for allowing US gov to see some European person's data. Would be tremendous.
Doc Martens’s vegan boot business is thriving
Twitter is the key. Twitter has failed to deliver a sane way to read threads. after all these years I still don't know how to read a conversation. And the whole platform is about conversation ! If Tumblr can get it it right with WP, I won't miss Twitter.
It’s not normal, and neither is WeWork, nor Adam himself. There’s something of a cult around him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20149800
Amazon prices in shipping.

Retail at prices around $10 is all about psychology.
Surely the answer there depends on what's in the intersection - whether you want to roll into it or not.

The answer may well be c) gun it and hope for the best!

WRT the two cars crashing - I would bear in mind that immovable objects are quite uncommon, most highway barriers are compressible. So whilst you might be strictly correct I'd imagine few people crash into completely stationary objects like bridge supports without crash buffers.
You can hold CDs in an IRA; currently Navy Federal is offering a 5-Year CD at 3.50% APY available for IRAs with no maximum purchase amount. [1]

Earlier this year I opened up an IRA with them and I put $100 in a 3.680% APY 40 months CD. I did this because they were matching the first $100 on new IRAs, so I deposited $100 and they deposited $100.

[1] https://www.navyfederal.org/products-services/checking-savin...
Additionally, most of the corporations are cash rich right now and own much more of their own companies allowing them to both dip into those reserves and sell off more of their companies to stay strong through the recession. I'm not worried... he's not worried either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJodqhzqPKQ
I thought the garbage patch is not visible to the naked eye, mostly made up of microscopic particles, and especially not to a satellite with a 3m resolution?
Lets note that we can see what people are paying in other countries for medicine and its less that we in the US pay.

Not to mention there has been some egregious mark ups. Drug companies are highly regulated anyway, and the "free market" is failing, which is why the market price for some generics is increasing.
One more thing.. For quick vetting that this idea is legit:

Here is the original research paper where I source more of my info:

Underground pumped hydroelectric storage Allen, R.D., Doherty, T.J., and Kannberg, L.D., for the Pacific Northwest Laboratory, sponsored by the United States DOE https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6517343
I'm not familiar with that definition. Can you elaborate and/or provide a couple links? tia
Of the two recessions you lived through, both were expected. Many people decried the tech boom. Many people thought there were warning signs pre-2008. The problem was that nobody knew the depth of the 2008 recession.

[1]https://money.cnn.com/2007/02/26/news/economy/greenspan/inde...
[2]https://thinkprogress.org/alan-greenspan-warns-of-coming-rec...
[3]http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article297.html
Be fair, the 'victims' in those two scenarios are vastly dissimilar. Just noticing "force down prices' is a common phrase, is disingenuous.
Around 2013 it was bothering me that the process of typing my question into Google, then clicking on the first result, then scrolling down to the most useful answer took so much time and interaction, to get simple answers of things I just couldn't remember. Let's say I forgot how to concatenate a list of strings in Python and wanted to find out.

So I built http://www.stacksnippet.com/ back then, leveraging Google search results which work well for natural queries and retrieving the StackOverflow answers. The actual answers are listed directly on the search page in a compact format.

After dogfooding this for a while I found that it really is just not that useful. The questions that I had that could be answered in one-liners came in bursts, but the format wasn't great for answering all queries I had.

Not figuring out a good direction where to go with this I abandoned it quickly after building, but it's nice that it's still working, 5 years later (albeit without https).
I routinely compile things on a 1200 MHz UltraSparc IIIi. I'm used to waiting.
That’s an excellent point, thank you. I hadn’t considered that, obviously.
I have a few friends who I just visited in that valley. They bought 40 acres for 5k and are starting to build a straw bale house. We augered a 25ft deep well with brackish water at the bottom in a afternoon.
i was not aware of that. honestly - i have tried to check out the site multiple times but the layout of the conversation is so confusing to me i give up every time.
One of the problems with the regulation debate framed in terms of "more vs. less" is that it's easy to assume increased regulation will fix what you consider bad and preserve what you consider good, or that deregulation will only cut pointless bureaucracy.

It's distressing that the support is for more regulation in general (which can be easily coopted to support stuff like this), rather than specific policies or outcomes.
This graph provides valuable context on changes in engagement over time, relative to key milestones in the company's history. https://twitter.com/somospostpc/status/1161024458460712962
Same here! I might just take the plunge and deploy my next project on OpenBSD. Does anyone know a good host for it? I've only used Vulture in the past.
Time of use rates will even get the residents to do it (precool) themselves.
That's the point: the sympatheticness of the victim is completely irrelevant to the dynamic, yet seems to be enough to treat the cases as different.
A much more interesting way to visualise music is to follow the score, such what Gerubach is doing on his channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/gerubach/videos
It would need to travel faster than light
I‘m imagining that Texas has far wider roads than Europe. Would it be possible to plant street trees or other tall native vegetation to provide shade?
In this context, what is the value of stating these numbers?
This answer is not correct. MITRE is not a staffing agency, but a special purpose entity called a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). The other answer in this thread is better -- a key thing MITRE gets pushback from other entities about is whether or not it is ideally suited to fill some government need, or whether it's just an anticompetitive way of awarding a contract to one body instead of letting it out as the government would normally do.

Those pressures tend to focus and specialize MITRE on issues which require objectivity and high levels of expertise in systems engineering sub-areas. They are most definitely not a staffing agency, although the government can (and sometimes does) misuse them to this effect.
Geodesic dome, cheaper and more durable. As added bonus it protects you from the heat.

One day we will likely dome cities:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_River%27s_City_project
Contrarian voices are amplified.
No one writes, or at least upvotes articles saying "everything is pretty ok."
Just listened to this Bloomberg podcast, where they interviewed Viktor Shvets on the meaning/implications/future of negative interest rates: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-08-09/what-negativ...

> He argues that undermining the ’time value’ of money–or the principle that money available now is worth more than money in the future because you can use it to earn additional money–won’t lead to economic growth. In fact, he says, negative rates are going to end up leading to a rethink of modern capitalism and political society once people realize they have big consequences.