skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems a bit as though the model is set up for independent operators and 'Mum & Pop' shops that use Stripe but don't have the business acumen to see the issue.

Or, people who have a good history of selling with Stripe, but, lack the credit rating, history or collateral to use other lenders.

It's a very carefully and cleverly thought out payment model, which leads me to believe they knew exactly which consumer base they were going after.
Yes, it looks like we are. :)
IWG is tiny

This analysis looks very different if you do it not in dollars but in sq ft, or in desks. IWG is much bigger than WeWork, but realistically valued.
A better resource is How To Design Programs. A better title for it would be "How to design recursive algorithms using Scheme".

https://htdp.org/

Every now and again, you need recursion. It doesn't come up too often, simple maps and the occasional reduce handle 95% of tasks. But every once in awhile simple iteration isn't good enough, and you'll be glad you'd gone through HtDP all those years back like I did.
Generating tests from a specification or operations from a schema don't seem to fall into this category.
Index funds do not contribute to the process of price discovery.

As long as a certain fraction of trades are performed by active investors, price discovery will continue to be accurate. Currently, active traders dominate, making up the majority of trades. This fraction could be much smaller than it currently is and still be OK.
> Gosh man, I really mean no offense to you, but I am really glad people I work with are not this open about their viewpoints.

No offense taken whatsoever.

I will note that "open" is not the same thing as "aggressive". I'm not trying to convert anyone, and I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable at work. For one thing, I'm an empathetic person and don't like to think that I've unintentionally offended someone. For another... if someone is working with me, by definition we're contributing toward the same things. Alienating them would harm damage that cooperative action, and I wouldn't be there if I didn't think it was right.

> I would really prefer not to work with anyone who openly and gleefully calls themselves an anarcho-capitalist.

Why? People's actions are what I care about, not their reasons for them.

At a previous employer I was working to increase access to scientific publications and supporting materials to the general public. One of the reasons I think that's important is because much of the work is funded by taxes, and I view it as much worse to use tax dollars for private gain than to use it and at least make the results available to anyone. Several of my coworkers were authoritarian socialists of various stripes. Their reasons for wanting to make that stuff available were wholly different from mine - but we shared a common cause. We'd discuss politics sometimes over beers or after a "crunch time" when we were all in the office at 2am and a bit delirious, but otherwise it just didn't come up.

> without needing to confront that

Ahh, that's the rub. I know I'm an extreme minority politically. I know many of the people I work with and interact with on a daily basis hold positions antithetical to my own. I have zero desire to "confront" that. Discuss it? Sure, if they're open to it. I'm happy to debate if someone wants to do so (and if they're similarly willing to not make it personal), because that's how I arrived at my positions.

Metaphorically, I feel like my positions have been forged over time by repeatedly beaten against the anvil of others' positions. Where they were deformed, they were weak. I modified them and repeated the process. At 35 years old, I feel like my views are fairly rigid - but that doesn't mean they are unchangeable, and it's because I continually do my best to test them and look for weaknesses. To me, a good political discussion is one where I come away with something to think about that I hadn't considered before. A great one would be where an inconsistency in my positions was pointed out to me.

I actively try to avoid this conversations with coworkers, because many people aren't comfortable with them. That's OK. If they change their mind later I'm happy to oblige, but it's not like forcing people to argue politics is something desirable.
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we have found that it is quite accurate and even precise. I can talk to people and generally figure out their MBTI pretty accurately. Each of the attributes are scored numerically and arent binary.

For example in our organization most people are INTs. We have a mix of Ps and Js. The main difference is that Ps tend to be slower to make decisions and Js make decisions much more quickly. Ps are more likely to walk back decisions, where Js are stronger to commit.

We have a few ISTs and they tend to be our most detail oriented people.

We have very few Fs.

We have Es that get their energy from being around people. They are generally the ones that are always up for going out after work and with clients. The ENTJs tend to drive to be leaders. We mainly talk to clients all day. By the end of the day the Is want to go home, the Es are ready to go out with clients.

It is not like a horoscope in that it is based on your preferences determined by answering questions. If you answer them honestly then you can get a reasonable result. Over time people that were borderline can flip, but typically not in multiple areas.

I personally am a classic INTP as are many people I work with. Engineers are commonly INTP and INTJ even though they are a very small percent of the population, they show up at like 70% in our workplace even though they are around 6% of the population.
IWG has 10x the total square feet to rent that We Work has.
>Maybe next time RTA?

I think it's you that has missed the point. Syllables have a very loose correlation to information. So great; we can stream out 39bits worth of syllables / second. In what way does that describe how information dense those syllables are? Context matters here.
That's true, it will still play ads, but obviously non-targeted ads are not as lucrative (an adult watching a Minecraft video doesn't care about toys), therefore, there will still be a non-negligible hit in revenue. If the difference was negligible, why would Google spend so much time developing targeted ads?
Generally code becomes more complicated when you have to run it on multiple cores.

I personally am working on a toy actor library to test if easy but still reasonably efficient parallelization is possible even with heavy communication needs. I see a 2.3x slowdown when I run it on a single core vs the baseline that uses locks but it reaches parity at higher levels of parallelism and congestion when you have 10 million actors each 32 bytes in size running on 4 threads.

As soon as you need to acquire two locks that are only known at runtime it starts to become increasingly difficult to find a solution. It will usually be highly specific to the problem at hand and not generalize at all when the problem changes slightly.

If you limit yourself to only acquiring one lock at a time then generalizing becomes simpler but you now have to implement something very similar to transaction rollback. It isn't the end of the world and it is definitively possible but compared to not worrying about it at all in single threaded code it's a massive headache.
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It's `fork` in particular which is much slower. It has to fiddle with Mach port rights, doesn't do overcommit, etc. And autotools is very fork heavy.

Apple provides posix_spawn which is much much faster. Running /usr/bin/false 1000 times in the fish shell is nearly twice as fast (2.25s to 1.25s) when using posix_spawn instead of fork, on the Mac.

Autotools doesn't use posix_spawn because there's no benefit on Linux, but it is what Apple's frameworks use internally for process launching.
Almost sounds like you have a cultural hero issue? This happens a lot. I think some of it is because people praise people who work extra hard, rather than those who finish their work quickly and well and rarely have to come back to it. Maybe reinforcing good process and looking at things like bug count might help prevent the heroes. Or ask them "how can we make it so next time we don't have to work all night?"

Maybe let the heroes own the solution so that they are still heroes after implementing the thing that fixes everything?

Culture is probably the hardest thing to turn around though. But so important!
That’s called powered steering.
How does this compare to Square Capital? IIRC that business has been around for years. Same with Kabbage (SoftBank-backed).

Point is, I’m pretty sure SMBs have had a lot of options outside of traditional banks for awhile now.
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Perhaps, the NRA has been already declared a domestic terrorist organization by San Francisco. I think everyone wants to avoid TSA agents questioning passengers when the last time they had sexual intercourse was and pulling out a taser and handcuffs if it's too long.
I'm guessing a keen reader of Jane's could know this. Pretty cool intel anyway. I'd love a news media that helped summarize a lot of stuff like this, but alas you have to rely on various blogs. "News" seems more disinfo these days than anything else.
What a fantastic idea. As a new mother, I cannot tell you how nice this would have been to get from the hospital. Luckily, the nurses we had were fantastic, and I had an older sister who gave me many hand me down materials. Some of the materials she gave, I had no idea what to do with, but because I had them, I asked, and they turned out to be extremely helpful. I can only imagine how a box like this could help a less educated, or person with less economic means than I had. Way to go Finland.
Have you given the Wayback Machine a try?
Amin's keynote is relevant here: https://onfconnect2019.sched.com/event/RzZl

The basic form of computing is becoming distributed. More are coming.
Only if the atmosphere was non existent. In practice getting to the surface is free, launching again is the problem. This becomes more pronounced as you simply don’t need to enter orbit. Even if that’s the goal, bouncing off the atmosphere is still useful.
ah! thanks for flagging that, just fixed it.
For some context in case anyone was curious, it seems that approximately 1 in 30 of people worldwide live outside the country of their birth. (Of these, approximately 1 in 10 are forcibly displaced.) Also, "the largest international migratory flow from a single country of origin to a single country of destination is the 12.7 million Mexicans living in the United States"; this flow alone is approximately 1 in 600 people worldwide.

https://lif.blob.core.windows.net/lif/docs/default-source/de...
https://www.un.org/development/desa/publications/internation...
Sure.

Part 1: The US Constitution grants enumerated powers to the US Federal Government. If there is any ambiguity in the Constitution as to whether or not the US Federal government can do something, then the answer is 'they can't.'

Part 2: If you believe the constitution is tyrannical in itself, that future generations owe no allegiance to it, then you logically support secession. Why should anyone be bound by any agreement made in the past, perpetually, without external remediation? Secession is the answer; in order for the Constitution to be valid, it has to be voluntary, and it's not voluntary unless secession is legitimate.
Appreciate the feedback. There was never an intention to mislead. We can see how having a disclaimer upfront improves communication transparency, so we've change the front-page accordingly.
And it sounds like most of the hardware in early batches is exterior hardware that won't be ready, so I almost wonder if it could be upgradeable later (perhaps for free/cheap?) if the internal hardware is all there. But they don't really clarify whether or not that will be the case.
I like your approach very much.
I did the same thing as you.

Effectively what we have here is code allocating memory and handing it to you for care and feeding.

It's not unlike an unwanted gift. For some people this is an important and aggravating dynamic in their lives. I'm sure I've heard people complain about some aunt who "forces" plants or god forbid pets onto hapless relatives.
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You might be interested in our project (https://treenotation.org). Gone are all syntax characters like {}[](), which turn a 1D stream of tokens into an AST. Instead you simply write your source in 2-dimensional notation.

Makes it far easier to build new DSLs. (Evidence: see all the DSLs in GitHub.com/treenotation/jtree/langs)
Again I wonder whether all the tracking BS is necessary. Google, Facebook & Twitter aggregated a huge audience by giving away high-quality products, e.g. search, gmail, maps, etc.

They could make a ton of money selling ad space whether it's privacy-invading or not (indeed, search ads did just that for many years by targeting the search term, not the personal details of the searcher).
Stock grants aren't costless. You have to pay taxes on them (at either the time of grant or time of vest).
Recursion is absolutely easier to understand, period. A big reason for using it is that it's easier to convince ourselves that a recursive solution is correct; it directly gives us the pieces that we need for inductive reasoning. The degree to which a module of code is hard to understand is directly related to the effort required to convince ourselves that it does exactly what it is supposed to, in all cases.

Recursive solutions are hard to come up with for someone whose perspective is biased due to having a background in writing imperative code with iteration. They have already forgotten the difficulties they overcame in acquiring their existing skills.

Someone who learned nothing but recursion (and pure functional programming) will likely struggle with loops, gotos and assignments.
I was referring to the famous quote from Dijkstra:

"The Fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker and Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim."

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...

Nobody is suggesting submarines can think. The actual point that Dijkstra was making is that it matters what the machine is capable of, but it doesn't matter what we call the thing that it does.

If your private definition of intelligence doesn't allow you to apply it to machines, that's irrelevant.
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I think this is a very important thing to prioritize for a DB of this nature. Postgres/RDBMS connections in general are an extreme weak spot for containerized/serverless applications.

DynamoDB/ElasticSearch's approach of not needing to establish/maintain a connection seems like the ideal solution. I think for applications that would utilize your DB, a minor hit to the speed of an individual request is well worth it as compared to being able to scale up the amount of simultaneous requests.
> The populace isn't allowed to own tanks, military fighter jets, bombers, bombs

This really isn't true. Look up Destructive Devices and the sale listings for tanks and jets.
> C doesn't have optional parameters

You are over-nitpicking. It's obvious that the GP meant that you can pass NULL by default if needed.
I wrote a bit about it here:

https://github.com/kay-is/react-from-zero/blob/master/16-adv...
Nah. It's a really shallow analysis to call his statement "pro-taxation and pro-defense spending", and far more of an inaccurate generalization than how the quote's usually used. Franklin was writing to answer the problem of the governor being bribed by the Penns to provide security and veto the taxation, rather than the state using its legitimate authority to tax the Penn's lands and provide that security. The alternative was undermining the integrity of the democratic state, not "refusing to fund it".

Interestingly enough, the context is being used here to invert the meaning of Franklin's beliefs, rather than clarify them.
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Which is completely unrelated to public entities.
Thank you. I added the time to it as well as a couple other conveniences.

WTF looks interesting by the way!
On Matrix it was mentioned that a FAQ that answers questions like that is coming.
If WeWork shuts down or defaults, smart landlords/property managers will take over operations. They're stuck with the space, and WeWork has already done the hard work of getting the short term tenants. Transition the tenants to "leases" directly with the landlord, keep the wifi on, the coffee brewing, and the place clean. In the near term does the tenant care if WeWork is running the place?
Ah, my mistake, I had looked in the security repo, not this one.
Now my main concern with index funds I hold (broad market/large cap) is that I definitely have exposure to businesses (e.g. fossil fuels) that I don't actually want to be invested in.

Anyone have suggestions on the best sustainable ETFs out there?
The N64 lost its console generation and solidified Sony as the market leader, in part because it used cartridges while everyone else used CD-ROMs. Way to choose an example that disproves the very point you were trying to make.

Yes, I realize that. But the point was that poor decision was not enough to kill it, and the N64 was still a commercial success. A lot of gamers even preferred cartridges back then because of they didn't require load time.

As for load times today, most modern games are implemented as scripts and assets for one of the big engines, usually Unreal or Unity. It's hard enough to manage all the assets that go into a modern game; an optimized loader would just make wrangling them all even more difficult.

That's not a real reason to not optimize.
The "source" provided also seems completely irrelevant. Just because I don't click any link after a Google search does not mean that Google doesn't provide value. If anything, it's the opposite.

Google has been providing results right in search, meaning that I no longer need to click a link. I would say 80% of my searches are answered by the knowledge graph and smart answers.
That is only true in a liquid market. I remember plenty of times in 2008 when some stocks went "no bid" and the price plummeted until circuit breakers cut in. Some very blue chip companies got hammered hard back then.

That's the whole concept of why stock traders need to beware the "crowded exit"--if everyone is trying to sell a the same time, the little guy is going to be holding the bag and can't get a fill on his order.

Coincidentally, this is when high frequency trading became lucrative.
I don't think this is correct, the return value is either -1 (an error) or a length is returned.
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Wait, what? The article mentions that the delta-v on the chart is required to go from the surface of Venus to a low Venusian orbit, not the other way around.

I don't see why it would cost the same to go down from orbit to the surface. In fact, I'm pretty sure that a probe in a low Venusian orbit would decay on its own just like they do in low Earth orbit. I really don't see how going from a low Venusian orbit to the surface would be costly.
You nailed it on the last point. It also greatly helps small stores that have highly variable sales. Like with my ebay shop I can go days without selling anything, then have a weekend where I pull a few grand.
I'll take a look at it. For scripting, I'm mainly Python and Julia based, but R is definitely pretty common around here. Thanks for the info.
Though they could afford to eat at MD as well.
Not sure about Finland but some countries have different criteria for a viable baby. Basically if a baby is born too early or too low a weight they are not counted in the statistics. So you you need to also count for these differences.
What's most interesting about this is that, reading between the lines, this is effectively an income share agreement for businesses, capped to the loan amount: you pay back a percentage of your revenues until you hit the cap.

This could be huge, and Stripe is perfectly positioned to execute on this.
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I find it grimly amusing that the posters here expressing variations on the "this is fine" position are making the exact arguments that market boosters were making before/during the mortgage finance crisis in 2007/2008.

The problem with those arguments is the fact that what turns a recession into a depression is demand strikes: when the people with cash lose faith in the integrity of the market, they just take their money off the table and go home. Arbitrage and market correction dynamics cease to function.

The fact that depressions can be caused by collapses in demand as well as in supply was the key insight of Keynes et al. in the 1930's, which is why he argued that the government must have the power to regulate markets and the authority to step in and become the buyer of last resort in the face of an incipient depression.

Keynes' insight was conveniently forgotten by the early 2000's, regulation was resisted, the shadow market grew out of bounds, bailouts and stimulus met political resistance, and the rest is history.

How short the time span of memory is.
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structured repayment of the loan -- fixed fee, dynamic loan term -- is is an interesting way to make it hard to compare against other lenders

You would need to consult an appropriate scholar to be sure, but it could be to be compatible with Islamic finance, which prohibits charging interest. Some banks do mortgages structured around fees rather than interest too.
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This is all fine. I just wouldn't want to see the meme established that safe nonce sizes are somehow detrimental to performance or create too much overhead, which is what the post I'm responding to said.
Harsha from the Stripe Capital team here. We’ve designed the program so that most offers take about 8-12 months to pay back, and therefore the repayment rate would change to reflect that projected duration (which would ultimately impact the APR). The 15% repayment rate you see on the landing page is just an example.

We do think this is a significantly improved overall user experience—it works straight out of your Stripe account. It’s automatic, based on your sales. The cost of the loan is a single fixed fee that adjusts to the loan amount paid over the course of the loan—there is no interest rate or additional fees. The effective APR is dependent on how long it takes to repay the loan.
If it seems like you were paying it back too quickly you should switch most of your sales to another payment provider like PayPal or Square to throttle your Stripe revenue lowering your effective APR until it's compatible with a bank line-of-credit.
Yeah, I don't know about underestimating them, I've been chatting back and forth with our FB account manager regarding our business needs for something in their Ad biz.

Turns out, they can't deliver on this pretty universal feature (even Twitter has it), so huh yeah, let's talk about how great they are again.