skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> shameful charity

I suppose that's one way of looking at it. I see it as getting some return of investment for all the taxes I pay. During the course of one year, I pay the state back for the box many times over.

In Finland, there is an option to take an "equivalent" cash grant, but the box is likely better value (if you were going to get all that stuff anyway), because of the big batches the state orders.

I'm sure there are also some who get neither the box nor the grant, all you have to do is to not apply for it.
It's not bullshit. In the 1970s, Lego marketed equally to all kids, but towards the 1990s, they were marketing increasingly towards boys and not girls. You can also see it in the selection of minifigs: originally they were fairly unisex, but as they became more gendered, female ones turned out to be quite rare.

When called on it, instead of making their general line more unisex again, Lego tried introducing lines specifically aimed at girls, with little success until the Friends line.

They're also now introducing more female minifigs in their main lines, which is great.
Sorry, I don't mean that as snark. Many people born after 2000 have known nothing but Gmail as email and are surprised to learn that other email systems/providers exist.
To be honest, that doesn't matter to me. I think that websites who inflict the ad-slingers on their readers are showing great disrespect to and disregard for their readers.
Cars can go at 30mph. Problem solved.
Are you saying that having beer on tap is either unprofessional or not conducive to actual work? Color me shocked!
Dinosaurs is also the story of capitalism
Time for my Old Man Moment: if my years on this earth have taught me anything, it's that most of the time the adults aren't nearly as in control of the situation as we'd like to think. And even if that rare adult realizes the weight of the situation, no one wants to be the one to pull the emergency brake cable when the brick wall looms ahead of us.
Non-citizens are not excluded from the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights; for example, protections around criminal prosecution (the Fifth Amendment) apply to anyone in the U.S., whatever their citizenship. Non-citizen residents also get representation in Congress.
Is there a way to set a reminder to read it again when one of those companies exits/wraps up?
> I got into real trouble a few years ago by speaking my mind to my MD about the latest motivational posters which portrayed our business unit as a machine made of gears and cogs.

"A company..."

"...is like an enormous clock."

"...is like an enormous cl-- yes, precisely!"
The problem is that the (US) government doesn't care about climate changes, so what individual-scale collective action could do is to make them care, in order for that government to start sponsoring engineering mega-projects, which will then have actual impact on the problem.
If the company has not IPO-ed & there are no concrete plans for such an event, then it almost never makes sense to buy your options.
9 out of 10 times, when I ask someone about a woefully unprofitable business model, I get the same answer - seriously, almost every time:

"Yeah but look at Amazon, they had x unprofitable years"

"We're still in the growth phase, our business model relies on scale and market share."
Right, as soon as ads became enabled on mobile I made sure to opt in.
I don't think the parent is deflecting. They're simply trying to imagine by what means the NRA could be considered a terrorist organisation.

Arming people that could potentially hurt others is not the same thing as targeting attacks on civilians for political change.

If you have any ideas you're welcome to contribute them.
The 'notation' level similarly seems to be promoting the use of DSLs, and everything you say here also applies there (maybe I'm jaded, but on more than one occasion, I have had to deal with the consequences of an incomplete DSL that had no real justification, and was clearly developed for egocentric reasons. I have also come across exactly one DSL (not mine) that was both justified and well-done.)

More generally, I agree with the author on the importance of seeing a hierarchy here.
How many of WeWork's customer's are individuals?

I was curious and looked them up a while back, it was EXPENSIVE compared to other options.

I'm not at all sure how many companies filter "We'll pay for an office for you to work at WeWork... but not elsewhere." In fact most remote work that I've seen isn't interested in paying for any local office space... they want to save on that, not spend more / manage it.
It seems to me the heart of this discussion is objective functions -- the goals of parent organizations and emergent 'AIs' being created within their R&D departments. It's not clear that the current goals are coherent, that the funders (governments or FAANG corporations or billionaires) have a clear agenda aside from driving demand for their primary product, which is mostly advertising.

The East India Company knew what it wanted: profits derived from maximizing industries based on colonialist labor and raw materials. But what are the driving forces that will shape and direct AI-enabled industries, today and tomorrow?
This article really makes me wonder why mars is such a focus of space exploration right now, when Venus seems to be a much more interesting target:

- closer (or so I believe, and according to [1])
- more atmosphere to do stuff with
- more natural resources to collect
- more energy to collect

Granted the conditions are rough down there (pressure, temperature), but are they really rougher than those found on Mars. Different, granted, but harder?

Also, depending where you place yourself in the atmosphere, conditions might actually not be that bad.

Is landing a long lasting robot on Venus really harder than doing it on Mars?

[1] https://sciencing.com/mars-venus-closer-earth-4940.html
Right, but what I'm saying is that the study they are citing likely shows the results of parents being given a baby box, not buying one.

I don't think buying vs giving is important per se. I'm just saying that the aggregate data will likely show more benefit from people being given the boxes, as that will have more impact on people of lower means.
It's like the push to keep loot boxes legal by Microsoft and Nintendo. The EU is on the verge of outlawing their use because they encourage kids to gamble. MS and Nintendo hope that if loot boxes reveal their 0.00000001% odds they no longer resemble $5/spin slot machines.
Is an iPhone shitty if you can't use it at all if you don't have cell service?

Is a car shitty if it leaves you stranded due to a known issue?
CircleCI claims their leak happened through a “third-party analytics vendor“. Perhaps that third party was Segment?
> However, I don't get that slow increase of light in the morning that wakes me up gently.

There's a specific type of alarm clock that does that. Philips Wake-up Light (e.g. https://www.usa.philips.com/c-p/HF3520_60/-) is the best known brand but there are others.
Both UPS and FedEx deliveries arrive at my front door in good condition, the delivery drivers bag the packages up if I'm not home and it looks like rain.

USPS consistently rings my doorbell and makes sure packages are handed to me rather than left outside.

Amazon delivered packages have been: thrown from the street; arrive crushed, punctured, or otherwise damaged; left in the driveway; left in the neighbors yard; never ring the doorbell, unless it's after dark, and then they ring and run.

Amazon's last mile service is a complete shit show, impressively worse than the random cut rate last mile delivery services they used when they were trying to force UPS and FedEx to lower prices.
What about people like me, who have a FB account but never really do anything with it?

The only things I use mine for are 1) using FB Messenger (lite) to communicate with some other people who use that, and 2) selling some of my crap on FB Marketplace.
I’m into this thesis but last time I checked for a sizable office they wanted a 2x-3x premium vs comparable long-term lease market rates.

That type of premium felt irresponsible as compared to the possibility of increasing FTEs.

My own gut is they can price at a 1.25x-1.75x vs. market.
Can its network federate? Can you use a single identity across networks?
> Jack Bogle's view was that if the market is 50%+ passive indexed that would be bad news.

According to this source, it already is [0]. HN discussion at the time [1].

[0]: https://qz.com/1623418/index-funds-now-account-for-half-the-...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20020997
Perhaps instead of assuming a position that he didn't actually state and calling him "confused" you could have addressed his larger point that the vocal proponents of climate action alienate large portions of the population by painting them as ignorant or stupid instead of attempting to engage with them.
Two workarounds:

1. Join a startup pre-Series A where the strike price is minimal because there hasn't been a priced equity round yet. Early exercise.

2. Join startups that support Extended Exercise Windows. https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows
What about AI-as-a-service?
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You might say nobody needs it, but they might benefit from it.

As many times as I’ve hated on Slack on HN, my anger is at their bloat and sluggishness and low density UI to do basic text chat. At least I can do basic text chat in an IRC style channel in it.

Desktop Teams is a nightmare of mystery magic UI, I never have any clue where I am in it, where anything else is, how to get to or from stuff or what the chat is doing, it’s super unpleasant.

It’s basically a web browser to SharePoint but with no browser chrome or address bar or navigation hints or breadcrumbs, then the same into a Skype replacement, then a pile of chat channels which aren’t channels and have rolled up chat threads in a list in them, but all of this in one window so you can only do one thing in the UI at any time (I.e. NOT chat to someone and look up some documentation in another window because it only has one window) and Teams honking at you wherever you are with red blobs of attention grabbers and “people are trying to contact you in Teams” dark pattern Facebook bullshit where the mobile teams and desktop teams notify and then emails you.

It’s both completely overwhelming and underwhelming at the same time.
Only for users inside Spain for the moment. One day will be worldwide
It’s not about whether phones can listen in to you l, it’s about whether that’s the only possible explanation for accurate as targeting (it is not)
I don't mind that at all, so long as that replacement is never shared with other entities.
I think you’ve gone astray equating young with prime dating, all you need is like seeking like, and both using FB is probably a good start.
It cost 300k, but I can't imagine there's a huge blackmarket for fencing sea-water salinity monitors and the like, so I doubt stealing it would be worth anyones trouble.
My completely personal experience hints that lots and lots now and more and more every year.
He says this because the kool-aid is flowing and he is financially/emotionally/reputationally incentivized to believe it.
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I'm not sure flight paths really work as a comparison. There's a limited number of routes and flights. Regional airlines tend to have fewer flights and very specific routes.

Office space seems a bit more eclectic.
Is it bad that my first reaction to this headline was "yikes!"
This will be successful, the #1 cheating app will also be the #1 dating app it’s a no brainer
Anecdotes don’t really matter much on this question. What matters is a) what information do you have at the time you quit b) how much capital do you have and c) what is your risk tolerance.

Basically it boils down to your prediction if the stock is going to be worth more than your strike price when it becomes liquid, and if you can tolerate the loss if you predict so and are wrong. Some scenarios this is a very good bet: you were early, your strike price is low, the company has had several valuations well above the strike price, the financials are healthy, and you can absorb the loss if you are wrong. The magnitude of the upside seems like it shouldn’t be a factor, if these are true, if you think the risk adjusted return can beat the market. In most cases where it is sane to exercise your options you’re expecting a multiple return, not a few points, so it basically should be irrelevant how much upside there is in absolute terms, once you’ve determined a full loss is tolerable.
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A comment in this thread shows the area. It's pretty small and would be very easy for someone to drive through without realizing it.
I agree! It seemed like a no-brainer back around 2010 but now with all of the bad press it seems less desirable to put your dating life on Facebook.
Are there weights applied for regional disparities? For instance sped up for American New Englanders and slowed down for American South Easterners?
I have to learn Rust for my new job starting next month. Any recommendations?
The investors themselves aren't blameless in this. It's on them for believing that companies who literally torch money will somehow present them with gold nuggets in return.

It's succeeded for others in the past, but this is very clearly a high-risk field, with the inherent downsides that involved in it.
These feedback loops are in total larger than our emissions, so once we hit them in the coming decades, the global warming would continue increasing for at least a few centuries even if all humans would be dead and make zero emissions.

Hitting zero emissions now (which IMHO is unrealistic) would stop global warming at something like +2C level. Hitting zero emissions in 2050 will still mean a runaway global warming, and fixing that would require some effects that go way beyond zero emissions e.g. large scale carbon sequestration (effectively negative emissions), geoengineering sci-fi or something like that. In 1980 it would have been sufficient to "just" reduce the growth.
Yeah, like, as much as I detest Facebook, if I was looking for a partner... I'd consider using this. It'd be using my social graph of people I know to find people I don't know but who are probably similar or would fit well into my life? I feel like this is likely to be a lot more effective than the old dating app questionnaire.

Definitely a bit nerve-wracking on who can see if you're using it, potentially, since you know, I'd never want people on Facebook to know I'm using a "dating app", but other than that, I actually really like the implementation here.
When the largest accompanying FB news headline is: "Over 400 million Facebook users' phone numbers exposed" this feels like the most poorly timed product launch.
I understand that I am severely limiting my options in tech employment by not moving to SF or NY, but the all-out assault on freedoms prevalent in both regions is a total dealbreaker.
Depends on just how bad the default is but they'd likely go into some kind of managed bankruptcy. Since WeWork doesn't actually own the buildings companies could wind up making deals more directly with the CEO who does own the buildings to at least maintain the space so they'd just lose the other services provided by WeWork and wind up in a more normal relationship with the building owner. Hard to know without it happening because it depends so much on the details of how it happens and the reaction of so many parties.
Not only that, but as much as I like to bad-mount FB, I will say that when I post stuff on FB Marketplace to sell, I never get people saying they want to buy it from me with a cashier's check. There are a lot of flakes, however, but that's the case with CL as well, but I've never run across a scammer, whereas on CL I get scammers all the time with the stupid cashier's check scam.
I think this is an "old people's thinking" perspective. Younger generation are way more open about their dating life than us. They openly talk about their dating life at work or friends group. They don't mind getting matched with a coworker or classmate.
I noticed the Dating tab show up a couple of months ago, so I'm only surprised to learn it wasn't already official.
That would still leave it massively overvalued compared to conventional players like IWG (Regus). Those players also don't have unusual corporate governance concerns.
Dating sucks, but I'm still more uncomfortable with the idea of somebody's initial meeting being reduced to matching algorithms.
Non-citizens are afforded some Constitutional protections. As far as I know, there is a precedent for due process being one of them.
WeWork is not tech company, but somehow they seem to always be discussed in the same way as one.
They address this in the post: write keys are considered public (after all, they appear in JS code on customers’ sites).
> Is it possible that Google does have "control" over the data after broadcast, albeit legal control via contracts with advertisers

I don't actually put much faith in such "control".
They can pull the API plug on their competitors which almost always use Facebook Login?
I think it also would be too complicated for many people to keep track of, and I am sure it would be easy to make a mistake of typing something in the wrong profile!

I certainly wouldn't want my grandma to know I like long walks on the beach!
If you are in the Bay Area, and are interested in Fungi checkout the debut of renowned Mycologist Paul Stamets film called Fantastic Fungi. He will be speaking afterwards as well taking questions.

https://fantasticfungi.com/castro/
I’m still waiting for LinkedIn dating.
From a UK perspective "nanny state" is somewhere pejorative description of a "welfare state" (we don't use 'welfare' to describe payments from the state to individuals or families).
I will comment on the paragraph and the way directories are stored in b-trees, being a separate directiry doesn't have a lot if bearing unless talking about FAT.
> How the fuck can someone be so rude to put a light so bright on

From their POV, they probably think they’re doing the neighborhood a favor. Better lighting tends to reduce crime
To me what ever privacy google talks of doing is and should be taken with a massive Asterisk
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I've never seen them just shatter. They're not indestructible, but I think they never were. More complex bricks are probably a bit more fragile, though.
You are correct, edited to include foreign-based establishment.
Seriously? From what I see in the German version of Facebook, Marketplace is nowhere near "eBay Kleinanzeigen" which is by far the most popular website for things like that. Actually Marketplace is even lower in quality and if you've ever used eBay Kleinanzeigen you know that it's hard to get under that level.
The dutch numbers are from 2009, although somehow they claim to be from 2013.
Some numbers (from other countries) are from 2019 so what they are comparing are the number in 2009 in one country to the number of another country in 2019.
The list is alright but don't put rankings in front of it as it's apples and oranges.
Only while located on US soil (or certain extensions such as US-flagged ships, embassies, military bases, etc...). Outside the US, they're not.
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The cynical view of this would be that a large number of online domestic white people have reached the threshold that had been used to add people to the terrorist watchlist, or that there's an anticipation of pressure in this direction. If incel reddit has to be added to the terrorist watchlist, a lot of people from what are considered very nice families would be getting turned down at the gate.

Nothing has changed in the arguments against the watchlist during the period it has been in existence.
I find sorting by connections per 100 citizens to be significantly more insightful, since that controls for overall population size.

Hong Kong is at the top that way...
Openseamap shows two sperrgebiete in the bay, and one just outside it http://map.openseamap.org/?lang=de
Have they had new ideas? Seems to me they just take existing ones and just execute better and/or leverage their network advantage.
Sorting by "connections/100 people" is interesting. The top appears to be correlated somewhat to oppressive governments but only loosely (Costa Rica?).
> I am shocked by the ignorance here. "Why would Facebook do this? Nobody trusts them, they've run out of ideas, etc."

I agree. The majority of HN users are 0.0001% of FB users and it clearly isn't built for them.

As a response to the quote, FB can do this not only "because they can", but also they are taking on the Match Group family of apps (Tinder, OKC, etc.)

This was inevitable whether the tech crowd or the privacy parade likes it or not.
We keep asking this question around the water cooler at work: Why would you pay the ransom instead of recovering from backups? I know that backups are not as common as they should be, but are these cities that pay the ransom really running without any backups?
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Facebook-the-(news feed/profiles/messenger) are just the most successful applications on Facebook-the-platform. Marketplace and Dating are just continuations of this trend. The strong platform underneath is what makes Facebook successful but conversely, they need these value-adds to keep their platform from crumbling beneath them.
There have to be uncountable numbers of lamps, timers, and home automation solutions that can gradually bring the lights up at sunrise or whenever you'd like to arise. Or if you insist upon the shades being raised as your solution, about five hundred US dollars will get you an automated shade that can be configured. Ikea has some coming out (oh, real soon now, they've said for the past year) that are less expensive, but I don't know how well they block light.
Welcome to college, you can probably get away with cheating
I see where you're coming from. This is exactly why Tinder is so popular.

Just because I go out on a date with someone doesn't mean I want to be friends with them on Facebook.
In a way this arrives extremely late, and minus the secret crush thing it's very much copying Tinder's design. On the other hand I don't see the online dating market collapsing anytime soon.
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Yeah it's a load of assumptions, I'm chalking it more up to a "socially anxious person's thinking" than "old" person's thinking. For many people I think being able to smoothly integrate their existing social life into a dating app is a godsend.
Thank you for making this available. I had the original book which unfortunately went missing between moves. A great book!
All the artists I know use it. That's the only reason I started using it. But then, I hang out with artists, and I work in the arts. Like any city, it's full of every subculture you can imagine. The city I know is not the same as the city you know.
A better analogy would be that ZipCar has a known failure mode that will leave you stranded. And they don't feel the urge to fix it.
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Thanks. Was the “stock-based compensation” a one time side effect of the listing? Or is this an ongoing quarterly cost?
WeWork is already the wildest IPO of the year
This is the same bollocks Softbank played with Uber. Buying secondary shares at X, making a tiny investment at 2X, and then claiming the company is worth 2X. (It wasn't and it isn't.)

"Slashing its valuation in half" means reverting to X, the price around which WeWork last bought back shares. Even this reduced value is likely twice as high as it should be.