skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does not seem to be a viable business so this makes sense.

I think that there was some type of hope that access to IPO funding will allow it to continue to search for a viable business model. This path to possible success seems to be dwindling.

If WeWork needs to have a self-sustaining business model in the near term, it could quickly collapse.

I am not sure but will SoftBank and other wealthy investors continue to fund it in its current state?

How much money does WeWork have in the bank? What is its burn rate? Could its loans get called?

Could WeWork have just months or even weeks to live? Will this failure cause investors to get spooked? They already are somewhat spooked because of Uber and Lyft post IPO performance. Thus we may be on the verge of a shift here.

I think WeWork could be the Lehman Brothers of profitless, over-funded unicorns (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_Brothers )
Express is not a framework. It's a library that just lets you set up routes, and a pretty minimal one at that. Calling express a framework would be like calling the routes.rb file in Rails a framework - it's not. It's a small part of a framework. NodeJS the runtime is great (although the number of deprecated functions in core is depressing). Node the ecosystem is a nightmare.

I'd echo the sentiments of the other developers here. Building a backend or full-stack app in Node is painful at every step of the journey. You're writing basically everything by hand, while using sub-standard orms and route handlers.

I've decided I like React enough to continue using it. But I'll be sticking to Rails for the backend.
> Not a single team (out of 20) was happy with the overall performance (and especially the performance of code search).

Hi! I'm the current PM for our search and as Sid mentioned we've steadily been working to improve that. It's been getting a lot better, but most of the improvements are heavily reliant on also having Elasticsearch enabled. Without that, there's really no way for us to provide a optimal search experience for the amount of data and content there.

If you have any specific search feedback, please feel free to open an issue or reach out to me @phikai on GitLab.
I'm surprised the national guard apparently hasn't trained for combat operations within mainland airspace, I though at least the national guard was an actual defensive force, and not an expeditionary one.
“Spade husbandry” is such a wonderful term!
That's a few thousands employees at best, and not the kind of people that have difficulties finding a job. I don't think anyone is scared.
Taking that at face value, I'd say that "limit drivers doing it 'for fun' in exchange for better pay/protections for drivers doing it to eke out a living" seems like a reasonable trade-off...
This seems like it will affect government and corporate "on-site" contractors more than software-routred cabs.

Unintended Consequences, arriving.
Use LTE and make it fail to the VHF transceiver, seems easy.

Sure the cost is higher, but the cost is for privacy. This would also allow an actual backup system, versus purely VHF.
Stop looking for other people's recipies. This is such an individual thing, 100 different people will probably give you 100 different ways how they did it.

Know what you love to do. Become good at it. Use your skill and passion for that thing to make something that other people who don't have your skill and passion can't do themselves. Become comfortable with the unkown. Stop looking for reassurances by other people. Start enjoying the unkown and thrill of being crazy doing crazy stuff. Have confidence in yourself that when things belly up you can always find something similar to what you gave up before. Have confidence that nothing will ever be the same, and the difference in taking the leap of faith and not is that in the former YOU are deciding when things change, rather then being forced into change when it might not suit you (financial crisis, company restructure, political unrest, whatever.).

Ultimately just-do-it. If you can't just do it, then you might not have what it needs to do it.
A lot of what contractors do in hiring day labor and paying them cash under the table is already illegal. I don't think this bill would change that.
Which is essentially a crapshoot, since there is no way to truly predict which will turn into a unicorn and which one will take 5 years of your life and leave you with worthless options. Ye old game of High Risk vs High Reward.
"versions of Django prior to 2.2."
The next war will be the Communists an there allies vs the free world. And by communists i mean leftist
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seriously? a company making drones? I am wondering where dji got all its IPs, must be stealing from their partners on mars.
That's a pretty disingenuous presentation of Walmart's profit. The margin matters little when referring to them as a very profitable company. They reported $3.6 billion in their most recent quarter[0]. I'm unsure of what kind of world we're living in when $3.6 billion in profit is not very profitable. The prior quarter was $3.8 billion in profit. And another $3.7 billion in Q1 2019.

So ... $11.1 billion in profit so far this year. Sounds very profitable to me.

[0]: https://ycharts.com/companies/WMT/net_income
That sounds insane. Any network other than very basic ones should have physical redudancy, ie. not being in the same duct or even travelling close to eachother. Hell, our local MAN network here does it! Thats in a city with 130k inhabitants, they actually made the network backbone out of redundant rings.

I would hope most telco networks would be somewhat resilient.
In the CSS and HTML example code, you can mouse over each line to get an explanation of what it does. Nice touch.
Yeah it would be a real shame if we lowered the clearance standards. Imagine if our president lowered the standards for say, his son in law, who failed to pass the process for years due to foreign contact conflicts.

Luckily we have rules and standards that no one is above.
> drop support for all versions of Django prior to 2.2

Prior to 2.2, so they encourage keeping support for the Django 2.2 LTS.
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I don't understand why profit margin is being conflated with profits?

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/walmarts-4t...

Indicates Walmart $3.69 billion, or $1.27 per share in the 4th quarter. By comparison Apple made 11.5 Bil in the 2nd quarter last year.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/31/technology/apple-q3-earning...

That doesn't seem like a non-profitable company
I didn’t expect to see a reference to Jeju island in the wild so soon after reading White Chrysanthemum about a comfort woman from Jeju Island.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35691353
SF isn't the whole world. Yes, there is gov't insanity in housing in the US, but bad housing decisions are made across the US' various states and city governments.

Canada, with a much more sensible gov't [0], has similar woes driven by building idiotic high rises.

[0] Govt spending as a fraction of GDP is similar; the suburbs are much higher density than the US; the line at the DMV takes less then 15 minutes; a new passport takes 2 hours to get from when it was requested (clearly I've lived in very many places).
Based on this [0] terms page, it looks like this could be some sort of paid offering with ProtonVPN? Not sure how I feel about this.

[0]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/vpn/
It really depends on the specific use case. It's possible to arrive at a point where you'd get more mileage out of using something like react-admin and custom API views. But, until you arrive at that point, something like Django Admin or Active Admin can get you quite far.
They changed that: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/09/09/apple-adjusts-app-store...
That's a really good point, and related to my sibling comment, one of the other things that makes me uncomfortable about ML models is the mysterious generalizability. Some generalize well, some start spewing nonsense when you move slightly outside of their training zone. Special-purpose models, I think, do quite a bit better than attempted larger generalized models.

For your chess example, if you trained a word2vec model using only a large corpus of text about chess, you very likely wouldn't get the "king - manliness" vector being anything meaningful at all, but you would likely see word associations that are meaningful and also potentially unexpected.
The extremely low barrier to entry for their workforce is a part of their business model, and what by extension forces those of no other choice to subject themselves to it.
Yeah right. So just "googling" means that the kid is a some kind of false prophet right? And pointing to an article that outlines if he didn't submit to a journal his findings nothing happens. How many times there were scandals in the so called "respected journals" for falsifying results and studies? Why don't you go and invent something like his invention, win a science prize and i will give you a hats off for this.
The world of atoms is the same as the world of bits: you really want to control the means of distribution. Uncreative product managers at platform companies target the most successful apps first. You can pick the winners of the evolutionary process, take a skim while you're learning and then copy them with something using private APIs. I don't think that's wrong necessarily but people seem shocked every time it happens to them.
>>Those two things do not compute. How does the amount being paid determine where a person can/cannot work?

For most other jobs, you do two jobs sequentially. So I'm paid minimum wage working 4 hours for Home Depot, then minimum wage working 2 hours for Home Hardware.

But drivers will be logged in to Uber & Lyft etc in parallel. How do you count, calculate, and enforce minimum wage? There's potential for double-dipping here.
Or, if you only calculate minimum wage based on actual driving times, I think that's basically already effectively the case.
I switched over to hooks completely. Its just way faster to write and useContext, useState, useReducer, etc are great easy ways to structure my app. Working with useRef took some getting used to but now that I am used to it I would not go back
so what's the "cost in complexity" here? the complexity would be there whether you went with a a hand-rolled or "zero-cost" version (at least that's the idea), except the "zero-cost" version should require less code and thus be easier to maintain.
If yes, is this not a good a thing? Part-time employees are not significantly different than contractors in terms of benefits owed so it's not a major cost for that use case. And if you're working full-time for somebody, don't you deserve the benefits everybody else gets?
I think in this case many people want being available to drive, as in being in the car with the app running, to count as working.
There was a lot of thought put into those housing blocks. Unfortunately, they invested the hard thought once and then copy/pasted it for the next 1 million units. Then they used bad materials.

On the other hand, the Germans gave them a proper housing crisis to solve :S
>I honestly think the enemy will take out our power stations via malicious code that may already be sitting there waiting to go off right now.

Not so sure. There have been all kind of wars in the past 10-15 years, and they were pretty much conventional. Bombs, armies, attacks, and so on.

No high tech wizardry needed...

Not to mention, why even have things like power stations and other infrastructure reachable over the internet in the first place?
It is the EU's job to do both, but neither is done to the exclusion of the other. We are lucky to have such a privacy-focused federal body which can bring about change effectively. I'm thrilled at the passing of GDPR, for example.
When I run my tests with python -Wa I get a lot of warnings that seem to come from inside Django. Is this caused by my code? How can I silence them?

/home/cody/.virtualenvs/37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py:1030: RemovedInDjango30Warning: Remove the context parameter from MultiSelectField.from_db_value(). Support for it will be removed in Django 3.0.
RemovedInDjango30Warning,
/home/cody/.virtualenvs/37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py:1030: RemovedInDjango30Warning: Remove the context parameter from MultiSelectField.from_db_value(). Support for it will be removed in Django 3.0.
RemovedInDjango30Warning,
> portraits the sense the driver deliberately performed the action.

Agreed, it's more likely that the driver lost control of their vehicle. The car has was not an autonomous vehicle, so it has no agency here: it did not do anything at all.
Some of the drivers that I’ve spoken with have shared that they have no other choice of job.

Though I’m rather annoyed at all this anecdotal data. If the bill is seriously being considered then surely there will be data to clarify what the reality is for the drivers.
dreadful and at the same time I'm almost inspired to imagine what would be a digital superpower structured planet..
I think declarative is a paradigm, a way of thinking and reasoning about code, rather than a means to an end. Declarative code would obviously raise the abstraction level (as it hides implementation details that you produce with imperative code). I don't see how imperative code would hold an equal abstraction power.

As for ADTs and the like, these are very basic features used all over Haskell code, combined with pattern matching. There are much more advanced abstraction concepts that are used all over Haskell libraries.

I'm sure C++ has good facilities for abstraction. However, as it lacks many of the very advanced abstractions that Haskell has, I find it far fetched that C++ could be described as an equally high level language as the likes of Haskell. From what I understand, that's not even the intention of C++ to begin with.

Btw thanks for that reference to Mark Dominus, seems like interesting stuff!
No idea, but nothing really planned out as far as I’m aware.

It’s great to see companies like Github, Stripe and Shopify make major contributions to the community, but having a relationship like Google and Guido have would’ve elevated the community to another level.
Volkswagen is positioning their EV cars so that they are not competing one to one with any Tesla models.

Porsche Taycan will be priced higher than Tesla Model S.

ID.3 is priced below than Tesla Model 3.
>There are various tiers of leaders, each of which gets their own subset of authority. Perhaps the President and Congress gets their own bunkers, but I sincerely doubt mayor X in Y town in Ohio is getting flown out to a mountainside retreat.

So people will do what, attach the mayor?

Not really responsible for the mess, and not really such a big shot to be worth it...
If you get rich from doing so, it seems to be a great business model. Maybe our society shouldn't judge solely based on wealth, but for now that is near enough how success and even good and bad are determined.
>Parts of centralized institutions will be obsolete or further decentralized to better fit local specificities.

I predict something a bit different. ie - Most "centralization" will move to the private sector, and they will become more and more powerful.

Governments will become less and less powerful. Less and less able to check corporate hegemony. More and more decentralized as they weaken and fracture.

Corporations, meanwhile, will consolidate powers. Become more and more independent of weaker decentralized governments that are, naturally, not going to be terribly unified in facing the corporates down.
Its not that he is negotiating that is the issue, its the fact that he is doing it badly. NK wanted to meet with the president of the US in order to gain international recognition for their leader. They got what they wanted in return the US got nothing, and in the mean time NK has produced more nuclear weapons and continued their missile tests. We have also alienated SK our traditional ally.

Regarding Iran, Iran had verifiably held nuclear enrichment to a set level. This was a deal that was working and Trump just pre-emptively left it and re-applied sanctions, and now everyone is mad / surprised that Iran is once again raising its enrichment level. There are essentially no or very limited ongoing negotiations with Iran. The point of the original deal was to prevent a nuclear Iran and it was working. Once Iran gets Nukes the international stage is very different. From an outsider perspective it very much appears that we have stepped back from the deal in order to find a reason to go to war.
The ultimate issue here for Lyft, Uber and such is not contractors vs employees but the amount of subsidy these companies need to give to get people to buy their product. Making people employees is only a big issue for these companies because it further increases the subsidy required to get people to buy.

There’s an old saying that’s its easy to grow fast if you’re selling $2 bills for $1 and the Uber, Lyft, (and WeWorks) and such of the world are simply following that model. The market is finally smelling the BS on this strategy for long established “startups.”

If such companies don’t have a viable path to profitability then the whole 1099 vs W-2 argument is moot.
I agree with you that the class components are bit easier to visualize the flow than hooks.

At first, React hooks look simple and easy. But when i started thinking about setTimeout's, API calls, Re-renders, the flow get's difficult to imagine.
what does he know? isn't he more lawyer than technologist? this reads like rhetoric. aka "we need more power, because computers!"
> To attempt to summarize

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're summarizing the ABC Test. The question here is, what does the new labor bill mean?

Or is it the case that the new labor bill is "just" an embodiment of the ABC Test. If so, please state that clearly. I don't get that right now from your comment.
No, it's a Cloudflare collaboration:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox-private-networ...

https://www.cloudflare.com/mozilla/firefox-private-network-p...
"if there is no sandbox then it's not wasm".

You don't get to decide how an instruction set is used, and a 'low quality sandbox' is not a sandbox.

You've denied facts and continue to make both inexperienced and naieve claims that are dangerous. Not entertaining it further.
There's a list of breaking changes in the release notes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/3.0/#backward...

It seems that there are very few breaking changes in Django 3 that will be relevant for application developers. Third-party packages poking around in Django's internals might have a slightly harder time, but it still seems very managable.
The New York Times ran an article yesterday covering the same topic. I don't have a WSJ subscription, so I don't know if they reference the New York Times article.

"How Apple’s Apps Topped Rivals
in the App Store It Controls", Sept 9, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/09/technology/ap...
Sorry out of topic..how to earn karma in hacker news ??
Kinda. They weren't nearly as well thought out as the Soviet apt. were, and the underlying city planning was incompatible with the design.

After all, if you're transforming your cities into a sea of asphalt and destroying the public transportation systems, how convenient is a housing project with thousands of units and no parking?
I was extremely skeptical of hooks in the beginning after having used class-based lifecycle components for a long time. Overall, I _think_ it's been a net positive but I end up feeling that I'm writing more code at the expense of using well defined constructs (lifecycle methods).

I usually feel like I'm writing too many effects which update state(s) and the lifecycle flow becomes harder to contain mentally, however there are times where I'm like "this is definitely easier or less of a cluster then it use to be".

So I think the jury is still out. In terms of Hook's initial premise of "we're doing this so that developers unfamiliar with class-based OO paradigms can work better/faster", I don't think it added any more clarity or ease-of-use over the class based lifecycle methods tbh.
Releasing all of these drivers in to the general workforce could reduce wage pressure employers are feeling right now. While that might be the more ethical thing to do, no one else is going to benefit besides employers who want cheap employees.
Google describes how to verify Googlebot here:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en

Most other search engine crawlers provide similar methods.
I wish I'd discovered writing ebooks earlier. I enjoy doing it and have completed one, but haven't carved out the time to do another. Earlier in life it would have been far easier to write a number of them, which would likely have led to more career opportunities, if not more "passive" income.
The "we" here is not the US government but the wider anti-war movements that helped push for such acts as the League of Nations and the Washington and London Treaties.
In one of the better examples, someone at a very large tech company told me that one of their major data pipelines had effectively no monitoring in it while it ran, and it took many hours to complete. The monitoring before and after the pipeline was excellent, but they had no visibility while it was running.

He said there were cases where the pipeline had effectively failed early, but continued to run throughout most of the normal run period. If they had some in-pipeline monitoring, they could have intervened earlier and helped it succeed.
I agree.

Climbing to the top of a 5G antena while it is working and hugging will probably get you a few burns.

I also worked for some months with infrared and green laser that were powerful enough to cause eye damage. And if you want a less technological example, with a glass lens you can concentrate sunlight and burn many things.
Anybody doing it for fun is going to be doing it less than 32 hours. So they'd be a part-time employee instead of a contractor. Part-time employees don't get many benefits either.
Seems cool but I don't think I would ever even think about using Twitter to search for jobs?
The person I replied to was talking about intermittent fasting, usually eating within a 6- or 8-hour window. Don't be a dick.

I guess since I never let myself go as much as you did, I'm not allowed to share my experiences?
I use redux and react-saga for more complex flows, sagas translate into generators and make async code flows look almost like synchronous code which is nice.
Hi. Does anyone know how I can join the xlm airdrop? I dont have a keybase account or a github or hacker news account. I created an account for keybase today but they say I am too late and need to connect an account which was registered before the 9th September? Any help please. Thanks.
Britain didn’t try isolationism.