skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The risk factors directly address the questions behind whether taking down 8chan and other sites was related to an upcoming IPO:

> Even if we comply with legal obligations to remove or disable customer content, we may maintain relationships with customers that others find hostile, offensive, or inappropriate. For example, we experienced significant negative publicity in connection with the use of our network by The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi, white supremacist website, around the time of the 2017 protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. We also received negative publicity in connection with the use of our network by 8chan, a forum website that served as inspiration for the recent attacks in El Paso, Texas and Christchurch, New Zealand.

> Following the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, we terminated the account of The Daily Stormer. Similarly, following the events in El Paso, Texas, we terminated the account of 8chan. We received significant adverse feedback for these decisions from those concerned about our ability to pass judgment on our customers and the users of our platform, or to censor them by limiting their access to our products, and we are aware of potential customers who decided not to subscribe to our products because of this.
Double Q-learning can learn from off-policy data. But it's fairly tricky to get all the tuning parameters right. It's a good choice if you can start up 100 or more runs with a range of parameters and pick the one that worked best.
Maybe I'm missing something but the text is nearly identical except to show how forums might provide similar motivations. That's pretty redundant.

HN is pretty strict about low quality content and such, that's not "proving a point" it's just a question of local traditions.

Personal I've little regard for "you're proving my point by down-voting me" kind of arguments, it's always almost self serving and either a question of that user's ignorance about the local forum's policies or they just don't care.
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polylabel looks great, thank you
Maybe because the economy has been doing very well and a eventual downturn is inevitable, which makes this a good time for an IPO?
The point is that trademarks have to be meaningfully defended or they can be lost.

Claiming something as a trademark or registered trademark, particularly something new that doesn't yet have a strong brand associated with it, is one possible element in establishing that defence.

There are others. If you set up a new business selling mobile devices called iTelephones, it will probably not be long before you get contacted by Apple's lawyers, whether or not the term iPhone has an accompanying annotation on their promotional work.
That’s an interesting opinion. What about being publicly traded makes you think they’ll me more incentivized to censor?

Facebook’s performance suggests that playing fast and loose is preferable
We just never started using GCP; we've been using AWS for a long time, but we recently switched from Travis to Azure. Google employs a bunch of Rust programmers, and there's no connection between Firefox and Rust project decision making. (I'm typing this comment from Chrome right now)
Traditionally, many investors invested in companies because the dividend those companies paid out on their shares were enough higher than the interest the investor could get when they put their money in the bank to offset the risk of the shares losing value.

For such investors, there’s no need for share prices to go up.
Yeah, that's why it's the first step in becoming a "public" company.
This comment is on every S1 thread. And every time someone mentions that it is essentially standard copy for all S1s, because you can never guarantee anything on the market.
Completely unrelated: the font that they chose to use in their marketing material looks a lot like San Francisco. I didn't know you could use it for promotional material that wasn't software for Apple's platforms.
Exactly, and the real reason they did it was to cash out.
63 and living in Mexico on $1k a month: I can’t imagine living in U.S. again
I'm not saying it's OK when Apple does it; in fact, I've heavily criticised that in the past. I do think, however, that plays a role in Apple's ability to keep WebKit relevant, so it does have positive side-effects.
Not everybody knows or appreciates the use of a VPN. I don't think yours is enough justification for WeWork for not having built a proper service.
See my comment above. Image processing alone has saved millions of dollars in engineering hours alone.
I did some simulating of the Gompertz and it seems to support my intuition that Calment really is extreme: https://www.gwern.net/Order-statistics#sampling-gompertz-dis...
This is perfect timing considering they made headlines all of last week for banning that one site from their platform. But Google Trends seems to reveal that the banning incident was only 1/4 of the search volume they got for their big service outage on July 2nd:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...

I wonder how the IPO news will compare in terms of global search volume
why would the public have a chance to see the financial status of a privately held company?

alternatively, would you like to share your financial status with the rest of us?
> AI is the biggest fraud of the 21st century.

That's a bit much. ML techniques have large and proven market applications[1]. And there's a bunch of hangers on trying to spin the buzz into a quick buck. This seems like pretty boring, run of the mill fraud to me.

[1] Which, to be fair, tend to all fall within the realm of "do with a cheap computer what an expensive human can do easily", like looking at or listening to things. "Writing software" should have been an obvious cue that they were way beyond the known reach of the technology.
Or we just don't have a union in the first place.
Found that a bit odd as well
Whiteboard interviews would be great if they tested the kind of things that we would do on a whiteboard, namely design and _maybe_ pseudocode. If someone is interviewing for an algorithm job, I'd expect they could write text in boxes that might describe how the algorithm works. If someone is interviewing for a front end position, I'd expect that they could draw some boxes describing the UI, and depending on the underlying technology maybe add the info on the containers and subwindows, or describing the MVC model, or high level actions drawn with arrows that show what gets affected if some button or UI item is pressed or selected. If someone is being hired for a networking job, then I might expect to draw up some boxes that show a topology for some scenario and identify where the security structures might need to be. For a straight-up programming job, maybe I could see drawing flow charts or sequence diagrams or something that might actually be useful to draw out. I would certainly not expect to write code on a whiteboard. That's not what whiteboards are for.
Is this just a risk factor that the SEC applauds or forces?
> As Charlie Munger says, always look at the incentives to understand people's behavior.

Should that include looking at the fact that GE constitutes ~7% of Bronte Capital Management’s portfolio?

I’d want to spin things positively for them too, with that much skin on the line.
One thing I've noticed in fundraising is that many potential investors almost expect you to have some AI-driven solution.

Many don't even know what AI is, and would't be able to sniff out bullshit no mater how much due diligence there's involved. Dumb money is flowing in, as long as you have a great pitch and sleek presentation.
Not really a secret, given that we're an open source project. At the same time, we didn't want to talk about the Azure stuff until we were actually moved over, and the process took a while.
It's legal SOP for IPO's, to protect themselves in the event of lawsuits.

It doesn't "literally say" they won't make money, that's you twisting it that way.
That’s possible if they asked you these questions in the first place, instead of getting the data from somewhere else.
Except something that is not the same for all S1's, is the history of losses.

For a business to really give a positive, something needs to change, otherwise they stay negative.

Edit:

> and we expect we will continue to incur net losses for the foreseeable future

That is not a common statement.
Where is the fraud? Creditors are very aware of the interest rate environment and still chose to make the loans. Are you saying that Wework lied to creditors to obtain the loans? Because that would have to be true for it to be fraud. Investors and executives are allowed to take risks on behalf of the company because it is literally their company.
> Maybe a location in Boulder has community climbing gear and/or a bouldering wall.

I mean, yeah there is a lot of climbing in Boulder, but a MUCH better resource would be a daycare. You'd have line out the door if you had a daycare in Boulder. Childcare costs in CO are crazy high, like ~$40k/year for 2 kids.
I like the handle cum stand, that in itself seems enough of an innovation to base a tablet on. I wonder if a keyboard could be slotted through to make a laptop???
By what process does a state like Wyoming decide to subsidize a particular industry? Because that's what this is, the state of Wyoming subsidizing the tech industry. The USA has apparently decided that all education is just vocational, in service to business, to prepare workers. I guess I'm cool with that, although my own experience with education differs. But what I want to know is how we as a society decide which businesses get the leg up of having an already trained workforce coming out of public schools.

The counterpoint here, where some states (Oklahoma and Kansas come to mind) decide to not subsidize any particular industry. The have such worthless public education that they can't find locally-educated workers who can do fractions, or work a micrometer
That's kinda the opposite side of this issue. No need to worry about it because the generator knows all the names, that listicle is about user-generated input.
an apparatus of justification

when i played counter strike we called it spray and pray

i should call it the portfolio theory of ballistic delivery
https://grumpy.website/post/0SGdYelIi
Yeah, it should be mentioned when you select the default search engine.
I fear the common consumer will default to Google for lack of better understanding of what the other options provide and those consumers are by far the great majority.
At least a door is opened.
That's an important point. But this is not a one-shot game. When they're all sitting around the table, picking a target to "whistleblow" against, 'pick a target that is actually doing something wrong' is probably very high on the list of criteria.

They're going to want to do this again. They need to preserve their brand, "the guy who busted Madoff and wrote a best selling book about it" is a really valuable brand.
This trait is very common in today's world. I'd even argue it's one of the major catalysts for the vitriolic change we've seen in public discourse lately. Those who are the most vocal have a pathological problem with always going to the worst possible outcome, and presuming that's what is going to happen. My late mother was ridden with this.
It's so hard to know what "twitter explodes" even means.

I imagine hundreds of thousands of users could go bonkers about something and it not matter at all. Also 1k users get upset and in the larger world that issue really matters.

I have to work really hard at pruning what I follow on twitter in a constant effort to keep things "on topic" in regard to why I followed some things.
Right, it is strongly in your best interests to be as pessimistic as possible in your disclosures. Even if you expect to turn a profit next year, the market is finicky, and if you don't meet your projections then absent these sorts of S1 disclosures you open yourself to legal liability for misleading investors.
Financial Engineering 101

- borrow some money, use it to buy a company.

- transfer the debt onto the company. Now, somehow, you own the company but paid nothing for it.

- break up the company, sell off the parts, keep the money. The company goes bankrupt and the original lenders get nothing

- repeat. Bizarrely you can keep on doing this over and over again, people will still keep lending you the money!
I scratched my own itch.

I've worked for about ten years as a civil engineer in the water industry; I create computer models of water networks for utilities. The software is expensive, and the UI/UX is terrible, typically of software for large corporations.

Part of building a model is calibrating it against real-life data, to do this you restricting valves or roughen pipes in the model. While a model simulation only takes a fraction of a second, validating results can take a minute or two because of the bad UI/UX.

I create a web app to simulate the water model in your browser and for it to run as you make changes with all the relevant data upfront.

https://calibrate.modelcreate.com/

I had a project with 80 hours set aside for calibration; I completed it all in 8 hours with my app.

I'm testing the market now to see if others would want to use it. If so, then I will look at commercialisation options and see if it's worth developing further. (Sorry for a LinkedIn post below, this is where all the civil engineers hang out, and I've already got some validation on it)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lukepbutler_water-infoworks-e...

Work long enough in an industry, and you will find endless ideas to work on, the only question is will people use them and also pay for it.
So far the CEO has twice bowed to public pressure and unilaterally removed completely legal websites from the service because he perceived hosting them made Cloudflare's brand look bad.

As a publicly traded company the company is now actually accountable (rather than just in his head) to a slice of public opinion and to keep the brand as profitable as possible. That means not providing services for anything controversial.
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> There's a lot of tech "magic" involved in Uber

I agree this is true of Uber, but is it true of WeWork? It seems like the comparison with Uber just makes WeWork look even less like a tech company.
Russia has enough of it's own airplane heroes to be not named after other ones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Aeroflot_Tupolev_Tu-124_N...
What makes this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War different from human war? And other species certainly do destroy their environments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species it's just that we don't consider them morally culpable.
I think the fact that two of the top ~10 happiest days in 2018 were attributed to a Korean pop star's birthday is excellent evidence that people of twitter are not, in fact, good samples of the people of the US.
At GitStart we use a global pool of devs and mentioned that upfront.

We have still deployed a ton of models to improve quality and SLAs, but embrace our human nature upfront.

This is bad faith to the extreme.
this is a normal sentence in every S-1 you care to name.

EXTREMELY SERIOUS WARNING (printed on a separate page, in red letters
on a yellow background): Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich
Gauss, savvy as a half blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William
Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a
Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average
nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near
this document. Please dispose of it as you would any piece of high level
radioactive waste and then arrange with a qualified surgeon to amputate your
arms at the elbows and gouge your eyes from their sockets. This warning is
necessary because once, a hundred years ago, a little old lady in Kentucky
put a hundred dollars into a dry goods company which went belly up and only
returned her ninety nine dollars. Ever since then the government has been on
our asses. If you ignore this warning, read on at your peril you are dead
certain to lose everything you've got and live out your final decades
beating back waves of termites in a Mississippi Delta leper colony.
Still reading? Great. Now that we've scared off the lightweights, let's
get down to business.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: We will raise [some money], then [do some stuff] and
increase shareholder value. Want details? Read on.
I will at some point. Meetings in Redmond are difficult but this should also allow the NWC++ users group to more easily cross paths with Rust.

https://nwcpp.org/
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AI isn't a fraud, which is exactly why there's a problem. A gray area exists that's easy to exploit.
Checkout Beast Academy (https://beastacademy.com/). My 7 year old Daughter loves it!

The lessons are presented as an animated comic book where the characters are cute little monsters learning math concepts. In addition to the online app, there is both a physical version of the Lesson Book and Practice Book for each grade level -- which in turn is sub-divided into 4 parts (eg. 2nd Grade --> 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D).

One point worth bringing up is that this is a product produced by The Art of Problem Solving, which is very much involved in Math Olympiad competition prep. So, the material can get challenging quickly. They are doing basic algebra in the 2nd grade level and in beginning of the 3rd grade level they are doing material that I never saw until HS Geometry.

All of that being said, I find the curriculum design and method of building mathematical intuition and number sense vastly superior to anything I ever experienced myself in school. I studied math in university and work as a Data Scientist and ML Engineer and I am learning from her lessons as well :)

I would recommend beginning with the level 2A regardless of your daughter's existing skills. The first concept that is covered is place value and you spend the bulk of the first book/level rolling this concept over and inspecting it from every conceivable angle. It's hard to overstate how really groking place value is foundational to almost all other math that kids will do in school; Beast Academy does an exceptionally thorough job of covering it.

My daughter thinks it is tons of fun and I don't have to do anything to get her to do the lessons or materials -- she just wants to do it on her own. I should also add that my daughter has never had a negative view of math, so I cannot say with confidence that my N=1 observation will generalize.

Best of luck!
Having the same WPA2-PSK authentication secret does not allow spying over WiFi, unless you are willing to actively spoof the network.
how big is your install base? We've been using Rust since 2017 and have about 5,000 instances of our software installed at about 20 customers
> made it impossible to short IPOs

This isn’t true. It’s more difficult, but not prohibited. Depending on your account size, most banks will also sell you a put or short swap bilaterally.
I know you moderators got profiled by NYT and got free publicity but doesn't mean that this site should be become a traffic generator for NYT fakenews
Rot of journalism ethics at New York Times has turned into leftist plague
https://nypost.com/2019/08/13/rot-of-journalism-ethics-at-ne...
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It’s odd to have these IPOs in the middle of August, in the middle of a super volatile market. I can’t help thinking that there must be a sense of urgency, based on the perception that this is the last opportunity before a bear market and much more modest (realistic?) valuations.
I don't have to concentrate to pee, so I don't see an issue with looking at my phone while I'm standing there
So they feed their AI with food instead of data
Morocco is doing interesting things:

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/02/06/motorsport/morocco-sola...

Store heat in salt for use at night time.

They are really ambitious it seems.

Obviously no longterm storage, but interesting non the less I think.
Computers aren't "just tools", you can use them to stalk people online, harass them, hack into computers, etc, etc. Maybe Dell should be checking your mental history, criminal history before selling you a computer too? Just because you can list all the bad things people can do with any object, doesn't give any credence to your argument.
The reason I don’t store answers to security questions in my database is that it makes it a single point of failure. I want to have some recourse in case my password database is lost or broken into.
It really is funny just how many people learn this the hard way. Almost anything you have an account for can be suspended at the drop of a hat, usually with little or zero recourse against the company. Just about every T&C (the thing that nobody ever reads) states that your account can be suspended or permanently banned at the company's discretion and that you have no right to challenge this. And that's all they'll tell you. Google, Amazon, FB, PayPal, just about any online service. For years and years you can just blend in with the crowd, but the moment you start to stand out for whatever reason, the company tends to conclude that it's easier to completely remove you than deal with whatever the reason is, all to get back to its everyone-the-same list.

I buy my music in DRM-free formats and keep local copies (this is also for convenience, as it means I don't need an internet connection). All of my devices use local accounts and can live without cloud connectivity. It's a lot more work but no single company can lock me out of my media library, no matter how hard they try. I don't pay for Spotify because I want to own my music, not rent it. Movies and TV shows are a lot harder; despite the success of legal MP3 stores, nobody as yet allows purchasing of DRM-free MP4s. So I have to buy and rip DVDs and Blu-Rays, despite not having enough space for them.

It's a sorry state where faceless corporations have so much power over our lives.
It's much easier to avoid and/or remove the camera if it's shining.
I agree with your first points, but...

> Yeah, learning algorithms is a chore and a hassle

> If the interviewer can see that you're able to make yourself do that for the interview, it's a good sign you'll have the discipline to do some of the grunge work...

This doesn't make any sense, unless very, very specific bounds are put on the interview questions beforehand...

Without that, what is a candidate to do? Memorize all known data structures and algorithms?
This seems to be measuring the volume of messages with particular keywords on each day. I think that people wishing "happy birthday/thanksgiving/christmas/Valentine's Day" may not actually mean they are happy. (contrast this with a message saying "we're blessed with a new kid" which may denote actual mood.) Most of these generic messages are automatic greetings for particular days. I am not convinced that this actually measures people's moods on particular days.
> completely legal websites

Are you referring to The Daily Stormer and 8chan?
Rot of journalism ethics at New York Times has turned into leftist plague
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In the 2019 Stack Overflow developer survey, 27.8% of respondents said they encountered whiteboarding as part of their last successful interview process that resulted in a job offer.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#work-_-interv...
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Same. I'm running an NEC E-series. The 'smart' features it has are an honest-to-god serial port for plugging it into automation. It's been a decent display to me.
The only thing I would warn consumers about them is that you generally can't go see them in a showroom, so you've got to take some chances.
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