skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The GBI would have to decline gradually as your income rose, not all at once, as marginal income tax brackets do now.

By itself it works, but not when combined with other programs.

For example, take someone on 2 different forms of help. Both give $1000 a month, but for every $1 you earn, they decrease benefits by $.50. So each slopes off at 50%.

So a person gets a part time job making $800 a month.

The first program cuts its benefits by half of that value, giving only $600. The second program does the same. Either way they take home $2000, meaning they earn nothing for working part time.

Now, this is a simple scenario and can be fixed by making the decline very gradual in this case. But it shows one immediate problem, this solution doesn't apply at scale. So as long as you have enough sources of benefits the decline still ends up making working not worth it. Adding in taxes and private charity can end up complicating this further but the general result is that it produces local maximums that act like a trap.

Also, if you fix this my making each one decline slower, you end up with it not being as easy to sell because of how high it kicks in. For example, instead of 50% decline, making it a 20% decline. So someone making $4,500 a month still gets $100 in benefits (1000 - .2 * 4500). That can be a hard sell politically regardless of how much benefit it is because it allows people to make the true claim that those earning $4900 a month still benefit from this benefit, despite it being only $20 a month.

There is another complication with marriage and how it impacts this benefit (and if that creates an incentive for or against marrying).

Lastly, even if you do design a system that works well enough, will the public even understand it? Look at how many people, even people who have jobs dealing with money, struggle with tax brackets.

As such, I think it seems much easier to just say everyone gets $1000 (though there are still other questions, such as anything involving children).
Interesting SoftBank fact:

SoftBank accounts for half the outstanding Japanese corporate bonds. https://www.ft.com/content/24c4a8a8-7885-11e9-bbad-7c18c0ea0...
Richard Stallman is giving a talk at Microsoft campus
Here is a decent list of quotes from founders: https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/the-founding-fathers-expl...

Notably...

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.” – Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778

“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” – Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788

I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.” – George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788

“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” – Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” – Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
Try the 'web' link at the top of this page?
curious for things like this more explicitly from workers' perspective, rather than like running a company in general.
After page 20 of your paper are pages of junk that I don't expect you mean to have there (at least in the PDF version).
My company tried slack, Hangouts, and teams. We're standardizing on teams because it's the easiest for non-technical users to understand and use.
Are you aware of that other project called Lift
(A Scala web framework)?

https://www.liftweb.net/
> No boats - not even local fishing boats - are allowed into the area, called Eckernförde Bay, about 70km (44 miles) south of the Danish border.

Do they mean this Eckernförde Bay? https://www.google.com/maps/@54.4733896,9.8473616,800m/data=...

Here? https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:9.973/cent...
I always thought it was named after Mach number because of its speed. Being named after muck couldn't be farther from that.
CRSP's total market indexes, which many of the large total market funds follow. Its interesting to note that his index has historically outperformed the sp500 by like .2% a year too...
One man's "workplace bureaucracy" is another man's "it just works".

To everybody who isn't a software developer and will likely never need Jira integrations and Slackbots, Slack is just another chat app.

For a paid software, Slack needs to win those people over too.
US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypted files from backup
ZipCar seems to be unique (at least among cars I've used) in that you can't open the doors with a dead battery and it seems there's no mechanical backup. As a result the car needed to be towed. Additionally, you seem to be ignoring that the battery may have died because it couldn't find a cellular signal.

And yes, I would have read it if the subheadline was instead something about modern cars that weren't zipcars that causes this to happen, because it's never been possible with a car I've owned and is pretty interesting.
The tech companies going public after the last recession are all like this. They squeeze out as much funding they can from investors and when that dries up or when the investors demand their money back the company dumps their stock on the unsuspecting public and makes money. Most of them don’t make money and have terrible balance sheets but still somehow are “great” “unicorns”. I don’t invest in any one of them.
The problem isn't the business concept; Regus/iwg make money, but it's 100m on 2b.

The problem is that wework is just some combination of shady and awful at business, and there's no reason to think they'll get any better with scale.
I enjoyed that, but the physics content is badly wrong, which leads me to doubt the historical accuracy of the rest of it.

Still, even if not factually correct it was an interesting essay. A post-modern version of pg's essay on Refragmentation.
Except that taxation is relative to income but the services are the same for everybody, and in a single-payer system you can’t be denied insurance based on ”preexisting conditions”. Massive difference.
You don’t have to be able to predict weather to predict climate.

Think of it this way: it’s impossible due to quantum uncertainty to predict the path of a single particle in a gas. Yet out of the chaos, you can still draw out nice mathematical rules like the ideal gas law PV=nRT
This is a follow up on my pet project. Today I integrated it into an app that we're working on and it seems to be working great so far.

I implemented the suggestions and features requested. E.g. setting your own emojis for your custom routes.

If you have any other ideas or inputs let me know. Thanks!
Changes in the Nature of Work (2015)
An important aspect of the big index funds is that they are weighted by market cap. If my lemonade stand IPOs, the market will not value it highly and very little index fund money will flow into it.
Fundamentally, Google's initiative on differential privacy is motivated by a desire to not lose data-based ad targeting while trying to hinder the real solution: Blocking data collection entirely and letting their business fail.

In a world where Google is now hurting content creators and site owners more than it is helping them[1], I see no reason to help Google via differential privacy when outright blocking tracking data is a viable solution.

[1] https://sparktoro.com/blog/less-than-half-of-google-searches...
finding product-market fit & early adopters.
> I wonder if it is because the tobacco industry was fighting a war against the very direct link between smoking and cancer. Ultimately the science proved that smoking is damaging to your body, and that damage is expensive to fix, and the cost is somewhat paid for by society.

It would be great to have scientific evidence on mass gun ownership's effects on health and society, and linkages between gun violence, mental health, and a variety of other factors.

Unfortunately, Congress forbids the federal health research bodies (NIH, CDC, etc.) from funding or studying research into those effects. Congress made that decision because of lobbying pressure by...let me check my notes here...huh, interesting, the NRA.
It's interesting the effect that uber, amazon a gig working have had. Where "traditional jobs^" are created, the immediate expectation is that this will be uberified... More like selling icecream during summer tourist season than working in trucking.

^Traditional in the "standardized job that 5k people do for us."
Vanguard's total stock market fund is Snapchat's #1 mutual fund holder

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SNAP/holders/

AFAIK, most "target date" retirement funds use total market passive investing. Maybe instead of "index investing", I should have said "passive investing".
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No chance to survive

The explanation is here

For Slack has no moat
> A tow truck took us to a lot with reception, where the rental failed to start... Still, cars without reception become vulnerable in a few scenarios... when the vehicle battery dies.

> I shudder to think about limping back to a trailhead with no more water in my backpack, only to find a car that would not start. Or getting locked out and marooned in Death Valley, perhaps with medicine trapped in the car.

Yep, "car died at the trailhead" is hardly a novel or Zipcar-specific problem. I've known plenty of people who camped for few days, packed up at dusk, and found themselves with a dead battery and no one around to jump it. Taking a Zipcar with essential medicine into Death Valley is a scary thought, but it's recklessness in a dangerous place rather than some esoteric flaw of Zipcar.

It's a shame, because there are real issues here. Lacking a physical carkey is a real drawback that means you can't wait in your dead car or open the hood to jump it. Having your car die in the woods because you exceeded your reservation time is bad for the user, the next user, and the company. But the article spins those narrow issues as life-or-death flaws, conflates "dead car" with "Zipcar broke", and puts "Zipcars normally work without service" down in paragraph seven after implying in paragraph two that this is a consistent problem.
Wouldn't something like shazam working on the microphone input by definition be the phone doing something with the input?
The boost clocks generally are sustained values, at least if you have the cooling and power provision to make them so. Most good motherboards for Intel CPUs place no cap on boost duration although one is supported by the chipset. All of the benchmarks of high-end Intel parts like this are done with uncapped boost duration too. Yes, that does make Intel's TDP figures for this 5 GHz all-core boost part effectively meaningless.

AMD's current TDP figures are based the maximum thermal output in what they consider to be real-world applications with boost clocks enabled: https://www.techspot.com/article/1652-things-amd-needs-to-fi... (Their TDP used to be maximum thermal output full stop and the real-world figure used to be called ACP, but they changed it because comparing their TDP with Intel's made their CPUs look really hot.) They also have an actual guaranteed maximum which is higher than, but tied to, their quoted TDP figure. So whilst it's not actual TDP anymore it's still a lot more meaningful than Intel's numbers.
It's the same argument the US south made for keeping and perpetuating slavery.
I'm interested in annotating. What's the requirements and how to apply?
> now officially a climate alarmist organization

What exactly does that mean?

(The BBC report is summarizing a report from the Australian government, and unless it's just lying its level of alarmism will pretty much track those of that report itself. So whether the BBC is "officially a climate alarmist organization", whatever that means, matters less than whether the Australian government is one. Regardless, it would be nice to know what you mean.)
I think one of the biggest problems I faced was honestly managing personal expectations and self-care. While finding PMF etc are hugely important, they're also difficult to do if you're not in the right mindset - meaning not only that you're thinking clearly and intelligently but also creatively. Managing time for exercise, friends and general relaxation proved more difficult for me during crazy startup times than any other job I've had.
Hmm, my information is old. Thanks for the update. I was aware AMD had been better value for money for quite some time, but didn't know they had lost even IPC... big trouble for them. Makes me almost wonder if intel was purposely holding back 10nm until it really needed it. AMD beats on IPC, intel suddenly fixes their garbage?
The list of supported countries does not seem to include any GDPR country.
Ok, then do that instead of trying to subvert it.
What do you mean by "especially advantage for the large numbers, since banks cannot do that" ?

Bitcoin requires a validation cycle or two in order to be certain that your transaction is going to be on the main chain, so it's 10-20 minutes.

For traditional infrastructure, the RTGS (real time gross settlement systems) accessible to banks and large customers handle transactions in seconds. If you're in a treasury department of a company who routinely needs to move large amounts around, doing so nearly instantaneously is absolutely a solved problem.
My personal favorite anecdote: I was out driving in the car with my partner. I said "hey, that guy is riding an electric unicycle", and then starting 4 hours later and lasting for 5 months, facebook showed me ads for electric unicycles.
If you can spend 1 million in year 1 to acquire a customer who pays back 3 million over the next five years, that’s a good investment, but you’ll initially book a loss.

Enterprise sales is expensive, but the contracts are very large and long-term.
Epstein showed a lot of interest in all kinds of scientifically and ethically dubious ideas like eugenics, and he actively prodded people in favor of these ideas at the dinners, parties, and jet rides he hosted.

This was not a case of a guy just writing a check and receding back into the woodwork. (Even if it was, I'd still say "trafficking children to be raped" is a bridge too far on the path of "ethical violations which are sufficient to refuse donations.")
I don’t get their strategy. Why are they patching on to Facebook like this? Would this dating feature not be better strategically in Instagram? Facebook is rotten in the minds of users but IG is not yet.
FB has clearly run out of ideas.
Regis has been around for a lot longer than WeWork and does the same thing for less.

Their offices are also more professional, because they're designed for people to do actual work and not just be look like they're working.
ZipCar should have formally requested that the customer not park cars in that lot, or what have you.

Since the customer needs to use that lot, they would probably stop using ZipCar at that point—but that's better than being banned forever if their life situation changes.
The conservatives will never support addressing climate change honestly, because they are getting too much money from the fossil fuel industries. I mean honestly, that’s like saying, I won’t believe that we are spending too much money on the military until I hear it from Northrop Grumman. So you’re going to be waiting a long time if that’s what you’re waiting for. None of those people care at all about you or your kids or the worlds future. Not one single bit.

You are literally listening to the people who have the greatest conflict of interest on the subject and the least competence in it. It’s no wonder you’re confused.
> That means we won’t create a Facebook Dating profile for your account unless you specifically choose to create one.

Does not specify if they will be data mining my profile for dating-related analytics.

> Your Dating activity, such as people you like or pass on, won’t be shared with anyone outside Dating.

What does 'anyone' mean? Do they refer to other users or do they also close the door to advertisers to show you ads based on who you like?

Also, why is Europe outside of the first launch? Does it have anything to do with GDPR? It's just suspicious.

Each time Facebook comes closer to the Black Mirror version of it...
You have to keep calling the police to get documentation that the landlord can use to evict.
Yeah, we did it ;)
The framers were obviously varied in their opinions and intentions, but some of them were quite clear:

>"To disarm the people...[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them." - George Mason, father of the Bill of Rights

>"What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty .... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins." - Elbridge Gerry, contributor to the Bill of Rights

>"[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist." - Alexander Hamilton

>"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." - Tench Coxe, delegate to the Continental Congress
That's why I always took the key with me, despite the fact that they tell you not to.
Looks like the whole site is down. Anyone save a copy?
What is interesting is that an American company is copying Chinese companies after pulling out of China because they could not compete with the local companies.

Both JD & Taobao/Tmall have their own large shipping empires in China. I suspect that was part of the reason they pulled out. They could not compete using 3rd part shipping companies.

Now they are doing the same thing in their home market.
>Would be interesting to get behind as to why the atmosphere is spinning that crazy

Not an answer, but Venus doesn't have an internally generated magnetic field, so charged particles/solar winds interact with Venus' atmosphere. These interactions between the Solar Winds and atmosphere themselves create a magnetic field which appears different in size/shape than planets like us with internally generated magnetic fields. Again not an answer by any means, just interesting food for thought.
I agree that Skype is an awful UI these days, think that Microsoft ruined it, and don’t know a better one to suggest.

But as an aside, “the cheapest one you can find is horrible” is probably appropriate for what “cheapest” usually translates to in products, and expecting to find one cheaper and better when you can’t find one cheaper at all, seems optimistic.
AWS Stands Behind Elastic Open Distro
I dont recall if it was Apple that did this, but theres trick one can pull with an "open source"codebase thats part of a proprietary product.

One can have said codebase effectively outsource functionality to function calls on closed source libraries.

Google does something similar with android except in that case its moreso coupling functionality to their services:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...
That's the day it was lost
Teach yourself a new habit the same way Google and FB teach you
1. So what about the abuses that came before, which lead these families to have such vast properties and wealth? Those castles weren't built by good will

2. I can only echo the sentiment that I care very little about restitution of former royals, while entire families were dispossessed or wiped out in the same periods of time. Not like anyone cared to return the millions stolen from the Jews during WW2
Tonse – From Zambia to the Google Play Store
The issue with SoftBank is that there is only one possible angle: they corner the market, and sell out to everyone else at a higher price.

This implies that yes, they have to double down.

The only issue is that SoftBank appears to be unaware they need an angle. They are unaware that geometry exists. They are unaware that maths exists. They just seem totally unaware.

In my experience, it is often a complete waste of time to look at someone doing something stupid and think: "They probably know what they are doing".

In 95% of cases, near 100% in financial markets, that person is just an idiot.
I don't understand. What's "Freedom" and how do I, as a US citizen, actually have it?

"Freedom" and "Liberty" are all great, noble words that make for great talking points and sound bites. They're also just sort of vague concepts and opinions more than absolute, specific things. You say this isn't what freedom looks like. If 51% of the population disagrees with you, who's right?

Fact of the matter is, you can't have both "freedom" and "democracy" (or really any government) in any real way. It's all trade offs.

Best bet isn't "freedom" or "liberty" since those are extremes that presumably exist solely in a binary (it's either free, or it's not, no shades of gray) and instead aim for "fair" and "consensus". At least those are possible.
Following your analogy, wouldn't WeWork want to be the economy class of office expenditure, rather than the business class?

One of the points of uncertainty though is whether they can keep up the flashiness, ie, they might be selling business seats at economy prices.
TL;DR: No. (Betteridge's Law-compliant!)

Which matches my experience. Think about why you're leaving - probably for reasons which might help predict the company's future.
Seems to work alright for consumer media in real time, something that monolithic Linux has real issues with.
At the end of the list:

> It will be in Europe by early 2020.
I somewhat agree that identity politics has come to the forefront because class politics has been in retreat since the 70s, but simply because we are increasingly recognizing the importance of class politics, doesn't mean that we shouldn't embrace the liberation of trans folk and other non-class based oppressions.
This would seem to be a huge red flag. The fact that they'd use additional funding to potentially delay an IPO indicates that the IPO may be necessary to raise money for operating expenses rather than just as a vehicle to allow early investors a profitable exit. If they don't get that funding and need to do an IPO at a significantly decreased valuation, they may not have a good short-medium term path to staying solvent.

I think it's premature to predict collapse yet, but it does point toward that possibility of a house of cards falling. It would also help explain why its CEO is so eager to publicly & brazenly self-deal to extract as much value into his own pockets as he can before the collapse. Which ironically, playing into the concerns about corporate governance, could be the tipping point that causes or hastens collapse.
Twitter temporarily disables 'Tweeting via SMS' after CEO gets hacked